Except everyony does their daily work signed on as administrator (by everone I mean the majority of average users).
But they shouldn't. This, too, is the fault of Microsoft. If you design the O/S such that it's difficult or impossible to run apps as a normal user, this is the result. It still indicates a fault in the design of the O/S, not of TCP/IP.
...in the Windows world, iTunes runs rather slow, has limited features... and takes up an inane amount of memory
For what it's worth, I don't find that to be true of iTunes on OS X. Not knowing what you mean by "limited features", I can't address that, but having used iTunes on both Windows and OS X, I can say that OS X is the better environment to run it in. Which shouldn't be surprising to anyone.
This guy was the first big artist to record the soundtrack for a computer game (remember Quake 1?)
I didn't know that. Descent II, which was released in 1996, features music by Skinnypuppy. I suppose they're not "major", but it's interesting to note that Reznor may have started the ball rolling, so to speak.
I don't know about you, but if I'm setting up a "modern" UNIX O/S, I expect all that stuff to be OFF be default. This is on SunOS 5.10 s10_72, so not a release build, but you'd think if they had really rethought their approach to security these things wouldn't be running.
Most of the IT guys I know, who are calling the shots, are Windows only. Mention a Mac and they cringe.
Then do what I do: Don't mention "Mac". Mention "Apple" instead.
For whatever reason, it seems like those of us who have negative reactions to "Macs" (including myself, until recently) don't react as strongly to "Apple". Possibly because of the long-standing tradition of describing the company as an underdog, etc. I can' really explain it.
All I know is it's been easier to talk to Windows guys about buying an Apple server than talking about buying a Mac, even though it's the same thing.
Macs are weird little brown things with built-in monitors. Apples are sleek, trim aluminum and they run OSX. It's bizarre, but it's true in my experience.
IBM is the "evil big brother in disguise"? Please. That just sounds like paranoid ranting. IBM looks to me like one of the only old-way tech companies that is so interested in surviving in the future industry that they're willing to change the way they do business to let that happen.
Instead of doggishly hanging on to an outmoded or obsolescent business model, they are making moves to adapt to the changing climate in IT, and seem to be ahead of the curve doing so.
But I'll tell you what - since I'll agree that IBM has done a few questionable things in the past, how about you agree to wait 20 years with me and see what comes of this before you put on the tinfoil hat?
"Dinosaurs are extinct because they didn't have a space program."
This quote means well, but it's dumbed down to the point of being misleading. A better explanation would be "Dinosaurs are extinct because they were hopelessly incacapable of adapting to climate changes."
Just so. Dinosaurs are really extinct not because they couldn't build spaceships, but because they couldn't make parkas. Or light fires. Or build dwellings. Etc. etc....
Though a global catasrophe could make the Earth uninhabitable to humans, it would have to be a lot more severe than the climactic changes that spelled the doom of the dinosaurs. At least, one would hope.
Most of the best movies I've seen never won an Oscars, most of the best books I've read never won a pulitzer, most of my favorite TV shows don't win Emmys, and most video games I really like won't get 9 stars at EGM or win any votes. It's irrelevant.
I have to agree with this; in fact, one of the books that I will say had the most influence on me was banned in many places. It was Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun, and it dramatically changed the way I viewed human conflict, war, combat, and the military.
These veiws changed again, though - right after my daughter joined the Marines.
I don't think video games are capable of such powerful storytelling, or at the least, haven't been recognized as a medium for such. But they are a young medium, and the potential for interaction is much higher in such a medium than it is even in movies.
Consider the evolution of storytelling; song and poetry, writing and books, radio, television and motion pictures. Perhaps the next step in this evolution can be video games or other computer-driven immersive interaction. We're not there yet, but again, video games (and computers themselves) are relatively new.
It's all well and good to make these things illegal, and it's certainly the first step. Unsolicited bulk email is illegal in the U.S., but my mail server rejected 16,000+ examples of it yesterday. This is typical.
With international borders and unshared laws between countries etc. etc., enforcement of good laws like this one becomes an improbable reality.
IBM is not a traditionally Intel-based house.
Apple used Motorola processors for a long time, but many (soon to be all) of the processors they now use are manufactured by IBM, and were developed jointly with IBM and Motorola.
This marriage is not as mixed as TFGeditor seems to think. The inference in his original post was that IBM was strongly Intel and Apple was strongly Motorola, neither premise is true today, if either ever was. That post attempted to show dissention where there is none. I attempted to illustrate this by pointing out two facts, which I will now recap in detail:
1. IBM makes more money from POWER technology than they do from Intel technology, which, based on the financials you linked, is certainly true. IBM makes money on POWER and its related PowerPC line through the System group AND the Microprocessor group (through sales to Apple and others). You can add in some percentage from Global Services and the software support contracting, since much of this income is predicated on the sale of IBM server hardware, including RS/6000, AS/400, zSeries and ESS SAN technology, and that heavily leverages POWER.
2. IBM and Motorola helped develop the line of microprocessors that Apple now uses. Demonstrably true; the AIM group (Apple, IBM, Motorola) was established to do just that.
As far as your replies to my posts, I'm afraid I've now lost what point you were trying to make.
Compare Personal Systems to the other section on that financial statement you linked - the one that says "Systems Group". That's where all the POWER technology is (excepting the xSeries stuff).
Install one in Arizona, and it'll be right year-round.
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Aye, the Bullometer(TM) went off on this for me, too. From the article text:
Several external 250GB firewire drives are attached to the iMacs, and sitting in the corner are a stack of at least 6 other external drives, all 300GB, brand new, boxed, and just waiting to go online.
To house 9000 songs at average bitrates (as an earlier poster pointed out) he'd need a shade over 4TB of storage. That's 16 250GB drives, which to almost anyone is more than "several".
If this guy was real and as rich as he's made out to be, why wouldn't he have just bought an Xserve with an Xserve RAID?
You have an excellent point, with which I agree - the newer games coming out have a lot more to live up to now that the player base available to them has become sophisticated (and unwilling to accept shoddy anything).
But I don't think the user is being blamed here; at least, that's not what I got from the article. It seemed more to me that the problem is that the game developers must respond in sometimes less-than-ideal ways to cope with market pressures. These pressures do come from the users, but it's not their fault. They're just consumers.
He suggests several ways of reacting in a way that is beneficial for the game as a whole, also; something no MMORPG has been good at (yet).
I played EQ for about four years before recently quitting; and many of the symptoms of decay Mr. Bartle enumerates are easy enough to see, at least in my experience with that game.
I might agree that the iHP bests the iPod in some areas, notably the battery life. I haven't run out of juice given my listening habits so far, but I imagine it could become an issue if my lifestyle were to change dramatically. We shall see.
The formats the iPod supports are the ones I need, so more/different ones are irrelevant to me, as I suspect the iPod formats are to you.
My opinion is the one place the iHP really loses to the iPod, though, is the interface. This is a subjective statement, dependent largely on preference, and so an opinion. YMMV.
I also like the iPod for the end-to-end integration it offers, via iTunes and the iTunes Music Store, but I can't really compare that to the iHP since I don't own one. If it has comparable services, so much the better.
I guess my point is (and I apologize for being so brief in my previous reply, I was just irked) that I don't and cannot consider the iHP superior to the iPod, nor the reverse. They are different, that's all. Vive le concurrence!
If your iHP meets your needs, congratulations. I hereby validate your purchase. My iPod meets my needs, and so your arguments about how iHPs are "better in a lot of ways" simply have no traction with me.
The New Beetle and the Jetta are assembled in Mexico, from parts manufactured all over the world. The Golf and Passat are made in Emden, Germany, again from parts manufactured all over the world.
kevx45 (the grandparent) is either badly misinformed about manufacturing in Mexico or a deliberate troll; the old-style Beetle was a good car and remained one throughout its life, regardless of where it was built.
To reinforce nuggz's point; manufacturing has become very global in nature and will continue to do so. There's no such thing as "Buy [Local/National]" anymore.
Cheaper, longer battery life, lighter, better headphones, more supported file formats etc.
More, eh? Maybe more that you care about, but that's not what you said. The iRivier iHP supports MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, and OGG. That's 5 formats. The iPod plays AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, AIFF, Audible, and WAV; a total of 6.
Right clicking on OS X is kind of pointless (depending on the app, but the OS doesnt require it by any means) and it seems like it was added just to shut windows (l)users up.
"Right-clicking' wasn't added to OS X, it has always been there. A two-button mouse on a Mac will map its right button to Ctrl-Click out of the box, and Ctrl-Click functionality has been in Mac OS for some time now.
In most cases, it opens a context-sensitive menu, just like it does in Windows. The only difference is that with Macintoshes, the default hardware layout doesn't include a dedicated key for this action, you use a key combination.
Some DVDs do exceptionally well after they're released, but a movie is first judged as a success or failure based on how it did at the box office, not on how it does in DVD/Video sales. That's where all the actors get paid; from the box office.
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But they shouldn't. This, too, is the fault of Microsoft. If you design the O/S such that it's difficult or impossible to run apps as a normal user, this is the result. It still indicates a fault in the design of the O/S, not of TCP/IP.
For what it's worth, I don't find that to be true of iTunes on OS X. Not knowing what you mean by "limited features", I can't address that, but having used iTunes on both Windows and OS X, I can say that OS X is the better environment to run it in. Which shouldn't be surprising to anyone.
I didn't know that. Descent II, which was released in 1996, features music by Skinnypuppy. I suppose they're not "major", but it's interesting to note that Reznor may have started the ball rolling, so to speak.
That's nothing! They blurred out fully half of Minneapolis!
Even at standard fonts. The article states "approximately 2 billion lines of code".
Do the math.
(Not that I don't appreciate your humour).
online Jan_07 svc:/network/telnet:default
online Jan_07 svc:/network/ftp:default
online Jan_07 svc:/network/finger:default
online Jan_07 svc:/network/login:rlogin
online Jan_07 svc:/network/rpc/rstat:default
online Jan_07 svc:/network/rpc/rusers:default
online Jan_07 svc:/network/shell:default
I don't know about you, but if I'm setting up a "modern" UNIX O/S, I expect all that stuff to be OFF be default. This is on SunOS 5.10 s10_72, so not a release build, but you'd think if they had really rethought their approach to security these things wouldn't be running.
Then do what I do: Don't mention "Mac". Mention "Apple" instead.
For whatever reason, it seems like those of us who have negative reactions to "Macs" (including myself, until recently) don't react as strongly to "Apple". Possibly because of the long-standing tradition of describing the company as an underdog, etc. I can' really explain it.
All I know is it's been easier to talk to Windows guys about buying an Apple server than talking about buying a Mac, even though it's the same thing.
Macs are weird little brown things with built-in monitors. Apples are sleek, trim aluminum and they run OSX. It's bizarre, but it's true in my experience.
Instead of doggishly hanging on to an outmoded or obsolescent business model, they are making moves to adapt to the changing climate in IT, and seem to be ahead of the curve doing so.
But I'll tell you what - since I'll agree that IBM has done a few questionable things in the past, how about you agree to wait 20 years with me and see what comes of this before you put on the tinfoil hat?
Go2online does that pretty well, too, for those of you who don't have Macs. Sherlock is a wonderful tool, though. =)
I think what Bill meant was that Microsoft is working on these things, but Microsoft's search products don't do that well today.
Care to cite some case law that supports this position?
This quote means well, but it's dumbed down to the point of being misleading. A better explanation would be "Dinosaurs are extinct because they were hopelessly incacapable of adapting to climate changes."
Just so. Dinosaurs are really extinct not because they couldn't build spaceships, but because they couldn't make parkas. Or light fires. Or build dwellings. Etc. etc....
Though a global catasrophe could make the Earth uninhabitable to humans, it would have to be a lot more severe than the climactic changes that spelled the doom of the dinosaurs. At least, one would hope.
I have to agree with this; in fact, one of the books that I will say had the most influence on me was banned in many places. It was Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun, and it dramatically changed the way I viewed human conflict, war, combat, and the military.
These veiws changed again, though - right after my daughter joined the Marines.
I don't think video games are capable of such powerful storytelling, or at the least, haven't been recognized as a medium for such. But they are a young medium, and the potential for interaction is much higher in such a medium than it is even in movies.
Consider the evolution of storytelling; song and poetry, writing and books, radio, television and motion pictures. Perhaps the next step in this evolution can be video games or other computer-driven immersive interaction. We're not there yet, but again, video games (and computers themselves) are relatively new.
They have "Van Dyke" style beards, the popular beard cut of the tech generation. A goatee is a Van Dyke without the mustache; i.e. chin-only whiskers.
How well is the enforcement coming along?
It's all well and good to make these things illegal, and it's certainly the first step. Unsolicited bulk email is illegal in the U.S., but my mail server rejected 16,000+ examples of it yesterday. This is typical.
With international borders and unshared laws between countries etc. etc., enforcement of good laws like this one becomes an improbable reality.
IBM is not a traditionally Intel-based house.
Apple used Motorola processors for a long time, but many (soon to be all) of the processors they now use are manufactured by IBM, and were developed jointly with IBM and Motorola.
This marriage is not as mixed as TFGeditor seems to think. The inference in his original post was that IBM was strongly Intel and Apple was strongly Motorola, neither premise is true today, if either ever was. That post attempted to show dissention where there is none. I attempted to illustrate this by pointing out two facts, which I will now recap in detail:
1. IBM makes more money from POWER technology than they do from Intel technology, which, based on the financials you linked, is certainly true. IBM makes money on POWER and its related PowerPC line through the System group AND the Microprocessor group (through sales to Apple and others). You can add in some percentage from Global Services and the software support contracting, since much of this income is predicated on the sale of IBM server hardware, including RS/6000, AS/400, zSeries and ESS SAN technology, and that heavily leverages POWER.
2. IBM and Motorola helped develop the line of microprocessors that Apple now uses. Demonstrably true; the AIM group (Apple, IBM, Motorola) was established to do just that.
As far as your replies to my posts, I'm afraid I've now lost what point you were trying to make.
Compare Personal Systems to the other section on that financial statement you linked - the one that says "Systems Group". That's where all the POWER technology is (excepting the xSeries stuff).
IBM makes far more money selling POWER-based machines and their other non-Intel hardware than they do selling PCs.
Apple computers now use chips made by IBM; the PowerPC CPU was a joint venture by IBM, Apple, and Motorola.
Several external 250GB firewire drives are attached to the iMacs, and sitting in the corner are a stack of at least 6 other external drives, all 300GB, brand new, boxed, and just waiting to go online.
To house 9000 songs at average bitrates (as an earlier poster pointed out) he'd need a shade over 4TB of storage. That's 16 250GB drives, which to almost anyone is more than "several".
If this guy was real and as rich as he's made out to be, why wouldn't he have just bought an Xserve with an Xserve RAID?
But I don't think the user is being blamed here; at least, that's not what I got from the article. It seemed more to me that the problem is that the game developers must respond in sometimes less-than-ideal ways to cope with market pressures. These pressures do come from the users, but it's not their fault. They're just consumers.
He suggests several ways of reacting in a way that is beneficial for the game as a whole, also; something no MMORPG has been good at (yet).
I played EQ for about four years before recently quitting; and many of the symptoms of decay Mr. Bartle enumerates are easy enough to see, at least in my experience with that game.
The formats the iPod supports are the ones I need, so more/different ones are irrelevant to me, as I suspect the iPod formats are to you.
My opinion is the one place the iHP really loses to the iPod, though, is the interface. This is a subjective statement, dependent largely on preference, and so an opinion. YMMV.
I also like the iPod for the end-to-end integration it offers, via iTunes and the iTunes Music Store, but I can't really compare that to the iHP since I don't own one. If it has comparable services, so much the better.
I guess my point is (and I apologize for being so brief in my previous reply, I was just irked) that I don't and cannot consider the iHP superior to the iPod, nor the reverse. They are different, that's all. Vive le concurrence!
If your iHP meets your needs, congratulations. I hereby validate your purchase. My iPod meets my needs, and so your arguments about how iHPs are "better in a lot of ways" simply have no traction with me.
kevx45 (the grandparent) is either badly misinformed about manufacturing in Mexico or a deliberate troll; the old-style Beetle was a good car and remained one throughout its life, regardless of where it was built.
To reinforce nuggz's point; manufacturing has become very global in nature and will continue to do so. There's no such thing as "Buy [Local/National]" anymore.
More, eh? Maybe more that you care about, but that's not what you said. The iRivier iHP supports MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, and OGG. That's 5 formats. The iPod plays AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, AIFF, Audible, and WAV; a total of 6.
"Right-clicking' wasn't added to OS X, it has always been there. A two-button mouse on a Mac will map its right button to Ctrl-Click out of the box, and Ctrl-Click functionality has been in Mac OS for some time now.
In most cases, it opens a context-sensitive menu, just like it does in Windows. The only difference is that with Macintoshes, the default hardware layout doesn't include a dedicated key for this action, you use a key combination.
CDs don't have theater runs.
Some DVDs do exceptionally well after they're released, but a movie is first judged as a success or failure based on how it did at the box office, not on how it does in DVD/Video sales. That's where all the actors get paid; from the box office.