How's this for a different perspective: Bloat can be good (talking about memory use here).
There are always engineering/design tradoffs. One tradeoff has always been keeping the memory footprint small vs. speed.
Wouln't it be nice if Photoshop didn't have to rely on a scratch disk for operations.
Wouldn't it be nice for Photoshop and other apps to be able to keep more levels of "undo" in RAM instead of having to cache intermediate steps on a drive or not having them available at all.
Your browser could cache more data in RAM instead of on the drive.
There are many ways that additonal address space can be used to benefit the user. If a developer elects to use those resourses to make their application faster, more robust, more portable, easier to maintain, or save development resources, isn't that a good thing?
First a question, is that bandwidth guaranteed? For video capture you don't want any dropped frames.
For processing video there are operations that are limited by how fast you can read in the file, not by real-time bandwidth.
As for needing >4 GB RAM, wouldn't it be nice to perform operations and view the results without having to buffer to a drive (which can slow the process) in the event you want to undo it anyway?
Of course I'm just an amature making home-movies nobody else wants to see into home-DVDs and VCDs that pretty much nobody else wants to see.
Of course they should be replaced. My father, now 70, was sure he'd see the end of cars rolling on wheels. Isn't it time we got those anti-gravity powered hovercraft going?
No, they wouldn't. The whole idea behind "the period" is to get rid of unnecessary material so the cycle can start again. To that end, you don't want to stop the "bleeding" (which is what these bandages do) so much as simply prevent the discharge that does occur from making a mess. Two completely different objectives.
For more info, I'll simply refer the reader to any physiology textbook. For info on what happens if you do too good a job at preventing nature from taking its course, look up toxic shock syndrome.
Who cares about the watch, give me that smart refrigerator magnet. Just think of the possibliities.
It could communicate with your SPOT Socks (SPOcks?) to determine your current weight and display it along with how much its gone up or down since the last time you were in the refrigerator.
Being our friend who takes care of us, MS will of course have added code so the magnet will tell the refrigerator to lock the door if our current weight is above the last recorded weight. Locking out growing kids will be fixed in a later release.
While I'm standing there waiting to lose weight, I can buy and sell stocks based on the reliable info displayed on the refrigerator maget, because I know microelectronics receiving data via RF work so flawlessly when glued to the back of a big magnet.
No, but watch out for the DMCA if you try to remove the watch from your wrist, or, heaven forbid, put directions for removing the watch on your web site.
And no, don't even think about linking to web sites with directions on how to remove the watch.
That's pretty much the point. Once you get past the CPU and MB, there really is no such thing as "Mac hardware", its the exact same hardware you use on a PC (drives, scanners, printers, cameras...).
Studios don't prosecute (at least not yet). DA's prosecute. You can turn him in yourself, an official representative of the MPAA or RIAA doesn't have to be the one to do it.
Why would the studios have to pursue it? They have nothing to do with it. Its not like the authorities stopped pursuing Skylarov when Adobe stopped pursuing him.
What would happen with murder prosecutions if only the victim could press the case?
I've seen a lot of discussion on wether or not Perens will be arrested. If someone really wanted to bring this to a head, and if you're present and see him commit a crime, you have the right to perform a citizen's arrest. Let's make full use of our right while we still have them.
If there are plenty of witnesses who saw the crime committed (more than enough evidence to convict), I don't see how the DA could weasel out of prosecuting.
The beachball problem is typically an application problem, not an OS problem. For example, I'll bet you have no problem switching to and using another app, but as soon as you switch back to "that app", you see tha ball again.
The reason? That app has a process that hasn't finished and can't do anything else until its done. Usually happens with apps that run in a single thread. The OS is just nice enough to throw up the beach ball to let you know that app is busy because the application wasn't written to handle anything else until its done.
You forgot to mention that most of us aren't allowed to "protect" our property in a manner that can cause damage to thief and non-thief alike. For example, the city won't allow me to run a high-power electrical fence around my yard, even if I do have a warning sign. Of course any real thief would have some insulated wire cutters. Its only the neighbors' kids that have to worry.
Of course this is pretty much taken care of if you simply say that you can only circumvent for fair use. Most of us don't have a "fair use" for nuclear weapons, despite what some may think.
I remember when the first upgrade to Mac OS X was leaked prior to release. I was shocked by the number of people who were clamoring to download it from "anonymous" sources so they could be the first to try it out.
I can only hope that at least some of them paused when a dialog box popped up asking them to authenticate themselves as an admin user (as all OSX upgraded do).
The difference is that if your typing is as bad as mine, the GUI user is done downloading while I'm still trying to figure out which of the 5 filenames had the typo. Heck, even without typos, 5 clicks and an enter (or click) is faster than typing 5 filenames and an enter.
Besides, depending on what you're using, it isn't always as clear that the "dog isn't running" when using a command line.
Besides that, simple folk like me are mesmerized by animated dogs and progress bars/indicators.
OTOH, wether I buy a Volvo or a Ford, I can drive on the same roads, buy the same gas/oil/fuzzy dice.
How about if I change your line to:
Volvo: Buy CD from any manufacturer and play it. MSCar: Buy CD from any other manufacturer, you have to replace the CD drive, which will cause the car to malfunction (It's integrated with the chime that tells you the lights are still on, the horn, and of course the computer that controls the air/fuel mix).
It has vague references to possibly using your resources, but isn't clear about anything.
For example, if I say "yes" will I be able to determine how much drive space/CPU time/network bandwidth it will use, or does it decide for me? Will I even be able to determine how much of these resources its using? Will I be able to turn it off when I want to?
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How's this for a different perspective: Bloat can be good (talking about memory use here).
There are always engineering/design tradoffs. One tradeoff has always been keeping the memory footprint small vs. speed.
Wouln't it be nice if Photoshop didn't have to rely on a scratch disk for operations.
Wouldn't it be nice for Photoshop and other apps to be able to keep more levels of "undo" in RAM instead of having to cache intermediate steps on a drive or not having them available at all.
Your browser could cache more data in RAM instead of on the drive.
There are many ways that additonal address space can be used to benefit the user. If a developer elects to use those resourses to make their application faster, more robust, more portable, easier to maintain, or save development resources, isn't that a good thing?
First a question, is that bandwidth guaranteed? For video capture you don't want any dropped frames.
For processing video there are operations that are limited by how fast you can read in the file, not by real-time bandwidth.
As for needing >4 GB RAM, wouldn't it be nice to perform operations and view the results without having to buffer to a drive (which can slow the process) in the event you want to undo it anyway?
Of course I'm just an amature making home-movies nobody else wants to see into home-DVDs and VCDs that pretty much nobody else wants to see.
Of course they should be replaced. My father, now 70, was sure he'd see the end of cars rolling on wheels. Isn't it time we got those anti-gravity powered hovercraft going?
No, they wouldn't. The whole idea behind "the period" is to get rid of unnecessary material so the cycle can start again. To that end, you don't want to stop the "bleeding" (which is what these bandages do) so much as simply prevent the discharge that does occur from making a mess. Two completely different objectives.
For more info, I'll simply refer the reader to any physiology textbook. For info on what happens if you do too good a job at preventing nature from taking its course, look up toxic shock syndrome.
Or maybe some of us lamers can't get past the first level anyway, so the free demo is all we'll ever need.
Who cares about the watch, give me that smart refrigerator magnet. Just think of the possibliities.
It could communicate with your SPOT Socks (SPOcks?) to determine your current weight and display it along with how much its gone up or down since the last time you were in the refrigerator.
Being our friend who takes care of us, MS will of course have added code so the magnet will tell the refrigerator to lock the door if our current weight is above the last recorded weight. Locking out growing kids will be fixed in a later release.
While I'm standing there waiting to lose weight, I can buy and sell stocks based on the reliable info displayed on the refrigerator maget, because I know microelectronics receiving data via RF work so flawlessly when glued to the back of a big magnet.
Isn't technology so liberating?
No, but watch out for the DMCA if you try to remove the watch from your wrist, or, heaven forbid, put directions for removing the watch on your web site.
And no, don't even think about linking to web sites with directions on how to remove the watch.
"Since when is a Palm handheld Mac hardware?"
That's pretty much the point. Once you get past the CPU and MB, there really is no such thing as "Mac hardware", its the exact same hardware you use on a PC (drives, scanners, printers, cameras...).
OK, I'm officially sounding like a broken record.
Studios don't prosecute (at least not yet). DA's prosecute. You can turn him in yourself, an official representative of the MPAA or RIAA doesn't have to be the one to do it.
Why would the studios have to pursue it? They have nothing to do with it. Its not like the authorities stopped pursuing Skylarov when Adobe stopped pursuing him.
What would happen with murder prosecutions if only the victim could press the case?
...or just rewrite the agreement on the package, then open.
I've seen a lot of discussion on wether or not Perens will be arrested. If someone really wanted to bring this to a head, and if you're present and see him commit a crime, you have the right to perform a citizen's arrest. Let's make full use of our right while we still have them.
If there are plenty of witnesses who saw the crime committed (more than enough evidence to convict), I don't see how the DA could weasel out of prosecuting.
The beachball problem is typically an application problem, not an OS problem. For example, I'll bet you have no problem switching to and using another app, but as soon as you switch back to "that app", you see tha ball again.
The reason? That app has a process that hasn't finished and can't do anything else until its done. Usually happens with apps that run in a single thread. The OS is just nice enough to throw up the beach ball to let you know that app is busy because the application wasn't written to handle anything else until its done.
Care to provide any evidence for any other new OS being adopted faster?
What percentage of Windows users are running XP?
You forgot to mention that most of us aren't allowed to "protect" our property in a manner that can cause damage to thief and non-thief alike. For example, the city won't allow me to run a high-power electrical fence around my yard, even if I do have a warning sign. Of course any real thief would have some insulated wire cutters. Its only the neighbors' kids that have to worry.
"I think the idea behind the copy-protection isn't to prevent copying completely, but rather to make it more difficult."
That's right. Trivial for the pirates, makes life more difficult for the paying users.
Of course this is pretty much taken care of if you simply say that you can only circumvent for fair use. Most of us don't have a "fair use" for nuclear weapons, despite what some may think.
Yeah, just look at what that bacteria already did to life on Mars!
Or maybe I've just been watching too much SciFi.
I remember when the first upgrade to Mac OS X was leaked prior to release. I was shocked by the number of people who were clamoring to download it from "anonymous" sources so they could be the first to try it out.
I can only hope that at least some of them paused when a dialog box popped up asking them to authenticate themselves as an admin user (as all OSX upgraded do).
The difference is that if your typing is as bad as mine, the GUI user is done downloading while I'm still trying to figure out which of the 5 filenames had the typo. Heck, even without typos, 5 clicks and an enter (or click) is faster than typing 5 filenames and an enter.
Besides, depending on what you're using, it isn't always as clear that the "dog isn't running" when using a command line.
Besides that, simple folk like me are mesmerized by animated dogs and progress bars/indicators.
OTOH, wether I buy a Volvo or a Ford, I can drive on the same roads, buy the same gas/oil/fuzzy dice.
How about if I change your line to:
Volvo: Buy CD from any manufacturer and play it.
MSCar: Buy CD from any other manufacturer, you have to replace the CD drive, which will cause the car to malfunction (It's integrated with the chime that tells you the lights are still on, the horn, and of course the computer that controls the air/fuel mix).
Where does it "clearly mention this feature"?
It has vague references to possibly using your resources, but isn't clear about anything.
For example, if I say "yes" will I be able to determine how much drive space/CPU time/network bandwidth it will use, or does it decide for me? Will I even be able to determine how much of these resources its using? Will I be able to turn it off when I want to?
This is all far from clear.
Something constructive?
Like storing and serving up banner ads and pr0n?
Wow. After reading that, this geek is ready to switch to Windows.
-Sorry, the daemon made me say that.
LOL
I guess it does give some insight into what "the moderators" are thinking.