but now that he's gone people are actually comparing him to Edison or Tesla in their grief. It's embarrassing to those of us with a brain.
Why? Pure technology is never everything. Making good user interfaces and good usability takes intelligence and knowledge. This is the same kind of elitist "what I do is much more harder and requires more intelligence than what others do" bullshit. It's on the edge of narcissism.
Your product or technology might be hundreds of times better than the competitors, but it still needs to have good usability and all the other things. This is the same thing about marketing - even if your product is in every way superior to others, it doesn't help if no one knows about it.
These are the two things geeks seem to ignore and just act like they're better than anyone else.
There are actually tons of porn sites that work with iPhone, and all the usual webmaster scripts support it. If you search for mobile porn and go to such site, it will give iPhone version of the site with HTML5 video.
I didn't know Steve Jobs was Buddhist. That seriously improves his image a lot, as Buddhism is the only religion that can be taken seriously and isn't about judging and killing other people in the name of some imaginary person. Buddha himself has lived and told people to think things with their own brains instead of following some stupid book.
It's interesting that persons promoting freedom want to restrict what other people do. This is also why I like BSD license more than GPL. It is truly free software license, while GPL tries to restrict what people can do with software and code. On top of that they don't seem to understand that usability and UI's matter A LOT. Face it, interfaces and user experience has always been horrible with FOSS software. Ubuntu has tried to fix that with Linux, but it's still far from Mac OSX or even Windows. Even I hate that interface. This is why companies have actual persons working solely on interfaces, user experience and usability - it's an important thing. With FOSS software the author just throwns in together quickly, with some menu items or buttons sometimes just as a placeholder that do nothing!
I'm not exactly fan of Apple, but Richard Stallman has no merits to basically say he's glad Steve Jobs is dead. Apart from the fact that it is completely stupid thing to say, he just seems jealous that people like Jobs' products and ideas better. The fact is, apart from the a few geeks, people in the real world really don't care about his views or what he is trying to promote.
When people, even some geeks, think about Apple's products they just think they can go to a store and buy a device that will work straight away and is guaranteed to have some quality. They don't want to mess around with the system. Running only free software really does not concern them and never will. It would be good if Stallman and other FOSS fanatics understood that and stop acting like jerks, because that will only have negative effect on their image.
Seriously, what was he thinking? Now people will think of Linux geeks as those lunatics who are happy to see people die.
The comparison is just fine. The original argument is that if you're just copying something, then it can't be stealing or theft because in those cases you actually lose the item. In identity theft you do not lose it, so according to pirates identity theft also is just harmless copying.
And still this was only some analysis by some analysis company, which obviously wanted to do some marketing towards them. They, or we for that matter, have no idea if Amazon is actually selling it at a loss of $10. They most likely have got a good deal for the parts too, being a huge company and shipping millions of Kindles.
It's just sad that now a days every piece of story is taken as absolute truth.
No, they only "need" to be classified if a country constantly tries to force their views and politics down everyone else's throats (US and Christian "crusades", I'm looking at you!). It just shows that these secrets are used for evil and bad things, for murdering people.
If you worry that some nuclear designs leak out, what about not creating them in the first place? Their only purpose is to mass kill thousands of people. And US is still the ONLY country in the history to even use nuclear weapons against another country. It's such a fucking huge hypocrisy. "Protecting from evil countries" while US itself is the root of evil and has always been. But what more can you expect from a country made of Christians and their beliefs in some imaginary god in the sky.
Maybe I'm being too harsh on US though, as it's clear this has roots all the way back to ancient European beliefs, Rome and Christianity. At least Buddhism teaches real things, real values and there's no imaginary persons, as Buddha himself has actually lived. And he said to think and evaluate things with your own brains, instead of following some stupid book.
Well guess what, you can still use traditional desktop and desktop apps with Windows 8! Metro is just GUI for tablets and those who want to use it on computer.
.NET and C# pretty much took over Java. Sure, Java supports more platforms, but it's resource and memory hog, insecure (there's tons of Java exploits out there but none for.NET!) and Java development is light years behind.NET and C#.
On the other.NET is really lightweight, fast and C# as a language is fast and easy, while it still allows to do a lot of powerful things. You also get access to some devices that Java doesn't support and comprehensive libraries like XNA. If you wanted to make a game, you could code for all Windows, Linux (Mono, even if its sometimes lagging behind on new features), Windows Phone 7 and Xbox360 all at once. Also, Visual Studio is much better development IDE than any other.
World doesn't have enough total bandwidth to provide everyone with guaranteed 100Mbps. Overselling and calculating from usage meters is the only way to deliver faster speeds to everyone. Otherwise we would be stuck at 128kbps. Even that is probably too much 24/7 guaranteed to everyone, it would be more like 48kbps if even that.
They all do it because it's the only feasible way to do business as an home customer ISP. Just think how many customers someone like Verizon has and think if there is enough bandwidth to provide them all with 100Mbps guaranteed. No, there isn't. Home users for the most part don't need that much bandwidth 24/7, but they have a need to peak at such speeds momentarily. However, they all do it at mostly different times so it works out.
I rather take 100Mbps burstable bandwidth to home than 128kbps guaranteed. But whatever floats your boat.
Except for the services part, Windows memory management has been improving a lot with each version. It made a huge difference when they let the OS decide more intelligently where to put resources not in use to.
Most people who don't really understand memory management will just look at the processes and start bitching how much memory each program uses, or how Windows shows there isn't any memory available (while in fact it's just used for caching things). They're only half-intelligent, which hurts them even more than not knowing at all. The fact is, non used memory goes to waste. Every time there's memory that's free, well, it's just wasting it. It's much better approach that OS tries to use it all intelligently.
This same pattern of stupid comments can be seen in browser comparisons too. It's always full of people going "omg Firefox/Opera/IE is using this much memory!" while it shows that they don't understand what is really happening. The browser and OS reserves that memory because it speeds up things. If the memory is needed elsewhere, it can and will free it up. That's something that seems to be really hard for people to understand, as the same thing always happens in every browser story or story about memory management.
Which is far from cheap, even less so as technology in this area has been advancing really fast the recent 20 years and they've had to do it several times. It costs several thousands to bring those cables to just one building and even more in cities as you need to open up the streets. They are making it as an investment, hoping to get it back in subscription fees within several or more years. It's hard from artificial charges.
The overage charges aren't supposed to make them lots of money, it's supposed to keep heavy bandwidth users in control so that the rest of the network doesn't suffer. Also, it doesn't matter how much it actually costs to the ISPs at that point. Nowhere they say it costs them $2.50/GB, but that's the price they're billing from you if you use over something like 250GB a month, which most people won't. They're free to do so. You're also free to choose your provider. However, don't bitch if there are no providers that sell you at the price you want.
Note that sometimes just upgrading their network doesn't work. There is a limited amount of bandwidth available between ISPs and from city to city and to and from overseas. It costs billions to lay down new such cables in the bottom of the atlantic. When your ISP is the size of major ISP's, they just don't have the possibility to offer everyone dedicated bandwidth. It has to be shared.
If they have a need to control the amount of bandwidth some heavy users use on their network, then that's the best way to go about it. Or in fact, they could either offer overage fees or severely limit your bandwidth. However, they have saw the need to do it make sure the rest of the customers aren't affected. Those torrenting and using full 100Mbps home line 24/7 are just leeches that are bringing down the network quality for rest of the customers.
Of course, if you don't agree you can always go start your ISP. Seems like you'd make a fortune since you've suddenly found so easy and cheap way to do.
It's not only infrastructure. Not even starting at wages for workers and other recurring costs, ISP's have to pay each other to buy bandwidth from them. Only the tier 1 ISP's can get away with peering without extra costs.
On top of that, their payment model isn't $0.xx/GB of transfer, it's $xxxx per Gbps of bandwidth. If ISP buys too much bandwidth, it means it will sit there without being used, or it may be used in peak times and be just sitting there the rest ~20 hours of day.
Also, it requires there to be actual connectivity available - for example, my country as a whole has something like 30Gbps in/out. Still they're selling 100Mbps for customers to use. It's perfectly sure that if everyone would use that 100Mbps at once to download content off the country, it would not be enough. However, it works out because home users rarely need that kind of bandwidth 24/7.
If you want dedicated bandwidth that is guaranteed, then buy it. Just be willing to pay over $1000 a month for your 100Mbps line. This isn't new to anyone - it's the same in server hosting world too, but there it's more clearly marked if the bandwidth is shared or dedicated as it matters more and some people actually have real need and are willing to pay up to that $1000 a month for it. With home users, no one would do that.
Before Google Apps Engine had an edge with its free plans, but why would anyone seriously use it now when there are much more capable Amazon cloud and Microsoft Azure available? Those two are also Apple's choice for their iCloud, while Google's services are missing from that list.
There's practically nothing that Google offers that others don't (except for the price before), and they're still missing huge amount of stuff that their competitors offer, like htis addition of SQL just now tells. For example, Azure integrates beautifully with Visual Studio, Eclipse and other development tools so that platform is just great to develop with. Amazon on the other hand offers different services for different needs - you get the file hosting platform that scales extremely well, and then there's the traditional platform with databases, ability to run code and so on.. There's just nothing that Google Apps Engine offers, while still missing a lot what competitors cloud services have.
The moderation system seriously needs thinking and redone. It's constantly abused on Slashdot, up to the point where it really has started to annoy people. All the stories are filled with slashdot groupthink comments and it's always clear what kind of comments will be modded up and which down. This especially comes up within certain subjects - anything anti-piracy will get modded to -1, as does anything that says good things about Microsoft.
This really ruins the comment system as one is supposed to only have certain mindset and he is supposed to do all the same comments over and over again. Then there is the other mod abuse what happens when someone sees a comment he really doesn't like, so he goes on personal war against the poster and downmods all his comments from his comment profile, causing him bad karma and inability to post. Moderation system needs some serious work.
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Yes, there's actually two hierarchies in Buddhism. I'm not talking about the Buddhism near India, but in South East Asia like Thailand.
but now that he's gone people are actually comparing him to Edison or Tesla in their grief. It's embarrassing to those of us with a brain.
Why? Pure technology is never everything. Making good user interfaces and good usability takes intelligence and knowledge. This is the same kind of elitist "what I do is much more harder and requires more intelligence than what others do" bullshit. It's on the edge of narcissism.
Your product or technology might be hundreds of times better than the competitors, but it still needs to have good usability and all the other things. This is the same thing about marketing - even if your product is in every way superior to others, it doesn't help if no one knows about it.
These are the two things geeks seem to ignore and just act like they're better than anyone else.
There are actually tons of porn sites that work with iPhone, and all the usual webmaster scripts support it. If you search for mobile porn and go to such site, it will give iPhone version of the site with HTML5 video.
Yes, because protecting the devices from malware and bad apps by only allowing purchases via app store is equivalent to slavery.
AlJazeera has revolutions all over the place? Wait, what? You do know AlJazeera is also USA/European TV channel?
I didn't know Steve Jobs was Buddhist. That seriously improves his image a lot, as Buddhism is the only religion that can be taken seriously and isn't about judging and killing other people in the name of some imaginary person. Buddha himself has lived and told people to think things with their own brains instead of following some stupid book.
It's interesting that persons promoting freedom want to restrict what other people do. This is also why I like BSD license more than GPL. It is truly free software license, while GPL tries to restrict what people can do with software and code. On top of that they don't seem to understand that usability and UI's matter A LOT. Face it, interfaces and user experience has always been horrible with FOSS software. Ubuntu has tried to fix that with Linux, but it's still far from Mac OSX or even Windows. Even I hate that interface. This is why companies have actual persons working solely on interfaces, user experience and usability - it's an important thing. With FOSS software the author just throwns in together quickly, with some menu items or buttons sometimes just as a placeholder that do nothing!
I'm not exactly fan of Apple, but Richard Stallman has no merits to basically say he's glad Steve Jobs is dead. Apart from the fact that it is completely stupid thing to say, he just seems jealous that people like Jobs' products and ideas better. The fact is, apart from the a few geeks, people in the real world really don't care about his views or what he is trying to promote.
When people, even some geeks, think about Apple's products they just think they can go to a store and buy a device that will work straight away and is guaranteed to have some quality. They don't want to mess around with the system. Running only free software really does not concern them and never will. It would be good if Stallman and other FOSS fanatics understood that and stop acting like jerks, because that will only have negative effect on their image.
Seriously, what was he thinking? Now people will think of Linux geeks as those lunatics who are happy to see people die.
The comparison is just fine. The original argument is that if you're just copying something, then it can't be stealing or theft because in those cases you actually lose the item. In identity theft you do not lose it, so according to pirates identity theft also is just harmless copying.
So? Both you and the seller have agreed to it.
It's not stealing, it's just making a copy. The original person still has his/her identity left.
And still this was only some analysis by some analysis company, which obviously wanted to do some marketing towards them. They, or we for that matter, have no idea if Amazon is actually selling it at a loss of $10. They most likely have got a good deal for the parts too, being a huge company and shipping millions of Kindles.
It's just sad that now a days every piece of story is taken as absolute truth.
No, they only "need" to be classified if a country constantly tries to force their views and politics down everyone else's throats (US and Christian "crusades", I'm looking at you!). It just shows that these secrets are used for evil and bad things, for murdering people.
If you worry that some nuclear designs leak out, what about not creating them in the first place? Their only purpose is to mass kill thousands of people. And US is still the ONLY country in the history to even use nuclear weapons against another country. It's such a fucking huge hypocrisy. "Protecting from evil countries" while US itself is the root of evil and has always been. But what more can you expect from a country made of Christians and their beliefs in some imaginary god in the sky.
Maybe I'm being too harsh on US though, as it's clear this has roots all the way back to ancient European beliefs, Rome and Christianity. At least Buddhism teaches real things, real values and there's no imaginary persons, as Buddha himself has actually lived. And he said to think and evaluate things with your own brains, instead of following some stupid book.
Well guess what, you can still use traditional desktop and desktop apps with Windows 8! Metro is just GUI for tablets and those who want to use it on computer.
Exactly. Metro is just GUI. In fact, you can use .NET languages to develop for it. Even the article doesn't talk anything about Metro. wtf submitter?
.NET and C# pretty much took over Java. Sure, Java supports more platforms, but it's resource and memory hog, insecure (there's tons of Java exploits out there but none for .NET!) and Java development is light years behind .NET and C#.
.NET is really lightweight, fast and C# as a language is fast and easy, while it still allows to do a lot of powerful things. You also get access to some devices that Java doesn't support and comprehensive libraries like XNA. If you wanted to make a game, you could code for all Windows, Linux (Mono, even if its sometimes lagging behind on new features), Windows Phone 7 and Xbox360 all at once. Also, Visual Studio is much better development IDE than any other.
On the other
World doesn't have enough total bandwidth to provide everyone with guaranteed 100Mbps. Overselling and calculating from usage meters is the only way to deliver faster speeds to everyone. Otherwise we would be stuck at 128kbps. Even that is probably too much 24/7 guaranteed to everyone, it would be more like 48kbps if even that.
Yeah, because gaming inside virtual machine works so well.
They all do it because it's the only feasible way to do business as an home customer ISP. Just think how many customers someone like Verizon has and think if there is enough bandwidth to provide them all with 100Mbps guaranteed. No, there isn't. Home users for the most part don't need that much bandwidth 24/7, but they have a need to peak at such speeds momentarily. However, they all do it at mostly different times so it works out.
I rather take 100Mbps burstable bandwidth to home than 128kbps guaranteed. But whatever floats your boat.
Except for the services part, Windows memory management has been improving a lot with each version. It made a huge difference when they let the OS decide more intelligently where to put resources not in use to.
Most people who don't really understand memory management will just look at the processes and start bitching how much memory each program uses, or how Windows shows there isn't any memory available (while in fact it's just used for caching things). They're only half-intelligent, which hurts them even more than not knowing at all. The fact is, non used memory goes to waste. Every time there's memory that's free, well, it's just wasting it. It's much better approach that OS tries to use it all intelligently.
This same pattern of stupid comments can be seen in browser comparisons too. It's always full of people going "omg Firefox/Opera/IE is using this much memory!" while it shows that they don't understand what is really happening. The browser and OS reserves that memory because it speeds up things. If the memory is needed elsewhere, it can and will free it up. That's something that seems to be really hard for people to understand, as the same thing always happens in every browser story or story about memory management.
Which is far from cheap, even less so as technology in this area has been advancing really fast the recent 20 years and they've had to do it several times. It costs several thousands to bring those cables to just one building and even more in cities as you need to open up the streets. They are making it as an investment, hoping to get it back in subscription fees within several or more years. It's hard from artificial charges.
The overage charges aren't supposed to make them lots of money, it's supposed to keep heavy bandwidth users in control so that the rest of the network doesn't suffer. Also, it doesn't matter how much it actually costs to the ISPs at that point. Nowhere they say it costs them $2.50/GB, but that's the price they're billing from you if you use over something like 250GB a month, which most people won't. They're free to do so. You're also free to choose your provider. However, don't bitch if there are no providers that sell you at the price you want.
Note that sometimes just upgrading their network doesn't work. There is a limited amount of bandwidth available between ISPs and from city to city and to and from overseas. It costs billions to lay down new such cables in the bottom of the atlantic. When your ISP is the size of major ISP's, they just don't have the possibility to offer everyone dedicated bandwidth. It has to be shared.
If they have a need to control the amount of bandwidth some heavy users use on their network, then that's the best way to go about it. Or in fact, they could either offer overage fees or severely limit your bandwidth. However, they have saw the need to do it make sure the rest of the customers aren't affected. Those torrenting and using full 100Mbps home line 24/7 are just leeches that are bringing down the network quality for rest of the customers.
Of course, if you don't agree you can always go start your ISP. Seems like you'd make a fortune since you've suddenly found so easy and cheap way to do.
I'm sure they would provide you bandwidth at that price if you moved living inside server farm and one of the large peer exchanges.
It's not only infrastructure. Not even starting at wages for workers and other recurring costs, ISP's have to pay each other to buy bandwidth from them. Only the tier 1 ISP's can get away with peering without extra costs.
On top of that, their payment model isn't $0.xx/GB of transfer, it's $xxxx per Gbps of bandwidth. If ISP buys too much bandwidth, it means it will sit there without being used, or it may be used in peak times and be just sitting there the rest ~20 hours of day.
Also, it requires there to be actual connectivity available - for example, my country as a whole has something like 30Gbps in/out. Still they're selling 100Mbps for customers to use. It's perfectly sure that if everyone would use that 100Mbps at once to download content off the country, it would not be enough. However, it works out because home users rarely need that kind of bandwidth 24/7.
If you want dedicated bandwidth that is guaranteed, then buy it. Just be willing to pay over $1000 a month for your 100Mbps line. This isn't new to anyone - it's the same in server hosting world too, but there it's more clearly marked if the bandwidth is shared or dedicated as it matters more and some people actually have real need and are willing to pay up to that $1000 a month for it. With home users, no one would do that.
Before Google Apps Engine had an edge with its free plans, but why would anyone seriously use it now when there are much more capable Amazon cloud and Microsoft Azure available? Those two are also Apple's choice for their iCloud, while Google's services are missing from that list.
There's practically nothing that Google offers that others don't (except for the price before), and they're still missing huge amount of stuff that their competitors offer, like htis addition of SQL just now tells. For example, Azure integrates beautifully with Visual Studio, Eclipse and other development tools so that platform is just great to develop with. Amazon on the other hand offers different services for different needs - you get the file hosting platform that scales extremely well, and then there's the traditional platform with databases, ability to run code and so on.. There's just nothing that Google Apps Engine offers, while still missing a lot what competitors cloud services have.
The moderation system seriously needs thinking and redone. It's constantly abused on Slashdot, up to the point where it really has started to annoy people. All the stories are filled with slashdot groupthink comments and it's always clear what kind of comments will be modded up and which down. This especially comes up within certain subjects - anything anti-piracy will get modded to -1, as does anything that says good things about Microsoft.
This really ruins the comment system as one is supposed to only have certain mindset and he is supposed to do all the same comments over and over again. Then there is the other mod abuse what happens when someone sees a comment he really doesn't like, so he goes on personal war against the poster and downmods all his comments from his comment profile, causing him bad karma and inability to post. Moderation system needs some serious work.