Apple charges more because they can. It's really that simple.
There is no monopoly in this market. Apple has a huge market-share because people want to buy iPods. If there is one thing Apple does well, it's marketing.
Have to love the/-shit mentality of throwing things out without have the slightest clue.
Linus did not abandon BK because of his issues with it. He abandoned it because he was tired of fighting with zealots over what was primarily a personal choice. Linus never required a kernel developer to adopt BK. In fact, Alan Cox never used it, even when he was in Morton's position of the stable release maintainer.
How is it "spying" when all the data collected is submited to AOL by the users to be used as search terms? They aren't recording anything not sent to them on purpose by the users. That's like saying it's spying to save emails people send you.
But I know, it's trendy to bash AOL for the hell of it.
Or you might just be a clueless fuck that posts on slashdot. Trademarks can be lost if they are not defended from generic use. No one is disputing that Google holds the trademark for the word google when used to refer to Internet search engines. That's precisely the point: they hold the mark and they have to defend it. That's the law in the US for companies wishing to retain exclusive use to a trademark.
"-Make programs have an.EXE extension to execute! No more.SCRs, for example. They're getting worse rather than better about this; I downloaded the AOL antivirus to try it out (OT rant about it follows) and the download had a.MSI extension. It confused me for a minute; is this like.ISO when it's really not an ISO but you have to rename it to get through the firewall? No, it just ran, and installed AOL's software."
Every GUI OS understands the concept of file -> application mappings. Most use file extenstions as one method of performing the mapping. MSIs are mapped to the Microsoft Installer application. There's nothing malacious or secret going on there. Or are you really stupid enough to open notepad and using the menu to open a text file instead of just double-clicking the file directly?
"Yeah, popularity is a great guide to correctness (*windows vs linux*). "
Do your parents realize they've raised one of the most stupid people on Earth? You should do them a favor and detonate some TNT strapped to your chest.
The only way to demonstrate to these terrorists that what they do is illegal and barbaric is to simply have them shot out of hand. The modern government is the worst terrorist and tyrant possible, and we all let it just happen. It's really time to demonstrate the intent of the 2nd ammendment and simple remove those in office by removing their heads.
"I've had the IIS management tools screw themselves up - or perhaps screw IIS up? - to the point where I had to reinstall the system in order to use them. You simply don't run into a situation like that on Linux. At worst you wipe out some directories and reinstall the software, and that's only if you're excessively confused. "
If you really had to reinstall the system, the issue was clearly PEBKAC. I love shit-heads like you on slashdot that think Windows is worse because they are completely, 100% ignorant of how Windows works and should be administered.
"Or maybe it will leave it in the hands of the next stupid slobbering village idiot which the americans chose to elect as their leader. And maybe then, he won't just kill a certain TLD because he doesn't happen to like nekkid women. Maybe then he'll cut a country or two off the Internets because they're "evil".
I don't trust the ICANN, but frankly, I trust the US government even less."
I hate Bush as much as any sane person, but you are really a fucked-up retard. The US Government has no more say in whether ICANN approves a TLD than any other country's government.
"The "average user" tends to not use any programs that didn't come with the computer."
You are a fucked up retard. Which is average for an anti-Windows slashdot shit poster. Even my mother uses programs that did not come with the computer, and she has to ask how to perform simple actions over and over all the time. I wouldn't expect her to be able to move a file around when she can barely copy and paste text. But she still uses applications that didn't come with the PC.
"Do you think being on an international call during a time of war should somehow be protected from surveillance?"
The United States is not legally at war with anyone.
George Bush is in the middle of a personal war against the people of Afganistan and Iraq. In some respects, he's the most dangerous terrorist in the world because he has the US Army at his beck and call, and Iraq proves that he is not above fabricating evidence to start a skirmish that claims 50000+ civilian deaths.
"Issue 1: SUSE Enterprise Linux: i ran this at home as a file and web server. even there it performs very very slowly, i can't imagine it as an enterprise server. In the article they say its the closest to a pure LAMP stack one can get. Clearly nonsense as it is deemed to have proprietary software on board. I've recently replaced it with debian sarge, performing the exact same tasks. harder to configure? no, it just doesn't have GUI tools to configure it. eWeek labs clearly don't have anyone who knows anything about linux or they wouldn't have used SLES."
You are a fuck. Pure and simple. A Linux super-bigot and a fucked-up individual that the world could do without.
And you're ignorant.
Ford uses SLES for all its Linux servers. Ford is classified as an enterprise. You are classified as an ignorant fuck. How many enterprises use SLES and how many use Debian anything?
AD supports much more than just NIS and LDAP, plus it can be replicated and cached to handle temporary network failures. It allows for setting and propogating authentication, authorization and machine policies. It allows for query and updates through LDAP, but also through several other protocols. Third-party tools can integrate into it to provide and manage data that takes full advantage of replication for free.
I'm not an AD admin, so I'm probably not doing a good job of explaining why it's not just LDAP+NIS. Also, AD can provide kerberos authentication for Unix clients. How many Windows clients can be configured to use NIS? How many Windows clients exist versus Unix clients?
Do you approve of putting down a rabid dog so it doesn't hurt people?
If so, why do you not approve of putting down murderers and other torturers that purposely and knowingly harm others? It's not a penalty or punishment, it's god-damned common sense.
Instead of watching TV, I read books (and re-read books) or I play online computer games, in which I can interact with other people. I don't play single-player games.
I don't think TV is a monster. I just think it's an utter waste of time when there are more interesting things to do. And most anything is more interesting than TV.
"...Bill Cosby dines and parties with all the other rich asshats and nobody cares."
You probably didn't really mean anything other than Bill Cosby proves that even a "black" can make it in America, but there is a negative tone that I'd like to comment on.
Bill Cosby is well-known for telling blacks to shut-up, stop whining, and do something with their lives. He doesn't hold with the "poor us" attitude that is so prevalent amongst those that are fighting for equality. He isn't blind or naieve, but he's not a whiner and he believes that blacks have to change themselves and not be given favors or preferential treatment just because they are black.
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Apple charges more because they can. It's really that simple.
There is no monopoly in this market. Apple has a huge market-share because people want to buy iPods. If there is one thing Apple does well, it's marketing.
Have to love the /-shit mentality of throwing things out without have the slightest clue.
Linus did not abandon BK because of his issues with it. He abandoned it because he was tired of fighting with zealots over what was primarily a personal choice. Linus never required a kernel developer to adopt BK. In fact, Alan Cox never used it, even when he was in Morton's position of the stable release maintainer.
How is it "spying" when all the data collected is submited to AOL by the users to be used as search terms? They aren't recording anything not sent to them on purpose by the users. That's like saying it's spying to save emails people send you.
But I know, it's trendy to bash AOL for the hell of it.
Or you might just be a clueless fuck that posts on slashdot. Trademarks can be lost if they are not defended from generic use. No one is disputing that Google holds the trademark for the word google when used to refer to Internet search engines. That's precisely the point: they hold the mark and they have to defend it. That's the law in the US for companies wishing to retain exclusive use to a trademark.
The API is public. Go implement DirectX on another platform.
Yes, I realize you're just a slash-shit that can't resist taking a stab at Microsoft.
"-Make programs have an .EXE extension to execute! No more .SCRs, for example. They're getting worse rather than better about this; I downloaded the AOL antivirus to try it out (OT rant about it follows) and the download had a .MSI extension. It confused me for a minute; is this like .ISO when it's really not an ISO but you have to rename it to get through the firewall? No, it just ran, and installed AOL's software."
Every GUI OS understands the concept of file -> application mappings. Most use file extenstions as one method of performing the mapping. MSIs are mapped to the Microsoft Installer application. There's nothing malacious or secret going on there. Or are you really stupid enough to open notepad and using the menu to open a text file instead of just double-clicking the file directly?
And maybe you shouldn't be a shithead. There's nothing wrong with being poor.
"If using an iPod causes a fatal automobile accident, will some victim of such an accident eventually try to sue Apple?"
Victims of fatal accidents are dead. Even in the US, they won't be suing anyone.
"Yeah, popularity is a great guide to correctness (*windows vs linux*). "
Do your parents realize they've raised one of the most stupid people on Earth? You should do them a favor and detonate some TNT strapped to your chest.
The only way to demonstrate to these terrorists that what they do is illegal and barbaric is to simply have them shot out of hand. The modern government is the worst terrorist and tyrant possible, and we all let it just happen. It's really time to demonstrate the intent of the 2nd ammendment and simple remove those in office by removing their heads.
"I've had the IIS management tools screw themselves up - or perhaps screw IIS up? - to the point where I had to reinstall the system in order to use them. You simply don't run into a situation like that on Linux. At worst you wipe out some directories and reinstall the software, and that's only if you're excessively confused. "
If you really had to reinstall the system, the issue was clearly PEBKAC. I love shit-heads like you on slashdot that think Windows is worse because they are completely, 100% ignorant of how Windows works and should be administered.
"Or maybe it will leave it in the hands of the next stupid slobbering village idiot which the americans chose to elect as their leader. And maybe then, he won't just kill a certain TLD because he doesn't happen to like nekkid women. Maybe then he'll cut a country or two off the Internets because they're "evil".
I don't trust the ICANN, but frankly, I trust the US government even less."
I hate Bush as much as any sane person, but you are really a fucked-up retard. The US Government has no more say in whether ICANN approves a TLD than any other country's government.
"The "average user" tends to not use any programs that didn't come with the computer."
You are a fucked up retard. Which is average for an anti-Windows slashdot shit poster. Even my mother uses programs that did not come with the computer, and she has to ask how to perform simple actions over and over all the time. I wouldn't expect her to be able to move a file around when she can barely copy and paste text. But she still uses applications that didn't come with the PC.
For once, I really wish I had mod points. That pun has to be the best ever on slashdot.
"If you were right then people would have got rid of their crashing, malware prone MS desktops years ago."
See, for most people, this version of Windows simply does not exist. You really have to step out of the Windows ME world and visit reality some day.
"Do you think being on an international call during a time of war should somehow be protected from surveillance?"
The United States is not legally at war with anyone.
George Bush is in the middle of a personal war against the people of Afganistan and Iraq. In some respects, he's the most dangerous terrorist in the world because he has the US Army at his beck and call, and Iraq proves that he is not above fabricating evidence to start a skirmish that claims 50000+ civilian deaths.
"Issue 1: SUSE Enterprise Linux: i ran this at home as a file and web server. even there it performs very very slowly, i can't imagine it as an enterprise server. In the article they say its the closest to a pure LAMP stack one can get. Clearly nonsense as it is deemed to have proprietary software on board. I've recently replaced it with debian sarge, performing the exact same tasks. harder to configure? no, it just doesn't have GUI tools to configure it. eWeek labs clearly don't have anyone who knows anything about linux or they wouldn't have used SLES."
You are a fuck. Pure and simple. A Linux super-bigot and a fucked-up individual that the world could do without.
And you're ignorant.
Ford uses SLES for all its Linux servers. Ford is classified as an enterprise. You are classified as an ignorant fuck. How many enterprises use SLES and how many use Debian anything?
AD supports much more than just NIS and LDAP, plus it can be replicated and cached to handle temporary network failures. It allows for setting and propogating authentication, authorization and machine policies. It allows for query and updates through LDAP, but also through several other protocols. Third-party tools can integrate into it to provide and manage data that takes full advantage of replication for free.
I'm not an AD admin, so I'm probably not doing a good job of explaining why it's not just LDAP+NIS. Also, AD can provide kerberos authentication for Unix clients. How many Windows clients can be configured to use NIS? How many Windows clients exist versus Unix clients?
Do you approve of putting down a rabid dog so it doesn't hurt people?
If so, why do you not approve of putting down murderers and other torturers that purposely and knowingly harm others? It's not a penalty or punishment, it's god-damned common sense.
Only stupid people are against the death penalty.
"I think a company has every right to try and protect their main source of revenue from being circumvented by 3rd party products."
They have a right to try. However, they don't have a right to succeed, despite attempts to purchase legistlation from the US Congress.
Instead of watching TV, I read books (and re-read books) or I play online computer games, in which I can interact with other people. I don't play single-player games.
I don't think TV is a monster. I just think it's an utter waste of time when there are more interesting things to do. And most anything is more interesting than TV.
"...Bill Cosby dines and parties with all the other rich asshats and nobody cares."
You probably didn't really mean anything other than Bill Cosby proves that even a "black" can make it in America, but there is a negative tone that I'd like to comment on.
Bill Cosby is well-known for telling blacks to shut-up, stop whining, and do something with their lives. He doesn't hold with the "poor us" attitude that is so prevalent amongst those that are fighting for equality. He isn't blind or naieve, but he's not a whiner and he believes that blacks have to change themselves and not be given favors or preferential treatment just because they are black.
"Remember, terrorists that work on "our" side are called "freedom fighters"."
I always thought they were called US Military Personel.
"Thank you Ralph Brown."
That's a hell of a lot scarier than the sig in question. I loved that book, btw. The library never did get their copy back, as I recall...
Ford Motor Co.
You might have heard about them. 130k+ computer users on Outlook/Exchange. I don't remember email ever being down due to software problems.