I wish I could moderate my own responses to -1! I don't usually get off on flaimbait like this. Dude said I was an idiot and lemming for applying updates to my personal computer. I'm pretty sure this is exactly the kind of thinking that creates such a hard time for linux.
You know what, furthermore, idiot, my point was that Linux makes it difficult for the everyday computer user to complete ostensibly easy tasks / smoothly TRY OUT new features and updates without hurdles. Personally, I can fix any issues that happen to my linux box (at work or home) with relative ease. This wasn't about me. I mean, I know you can read based on your worthless drivel or a response, so I'm confused at what point you are making here....
Only idiots update their kernels / other stuff on their PERSONAL Linux boxes at home right? You're an idiot if you think that "don't upgrade" is the answer to the issue's of distributions having upgrade problem--not to mention a child for sounding like such an ass.
Apple is saying 1 of 2 things, but I don't know which:
1. We created these products without enterprise in mind, like, at all. BUT, we are pretending that this oversight was actually an unconscious foresight: We meant it to be this was, so, do it our way or don't do it, but just don't complain.
2. Or, although we were aware of the enterprise IT paradigm, we purposefully decided to ignore it and do it the Apple way. Strangely, the apple way seams to be to make enterprise deployment of their products almost impossible.
I am sitting at work using Ubuntu with Unity as we speak. Honestly, I like that I can do everything in 1 or 2 clicks or with the keyboard. I think it's ironic that there is this rally cry to evolve Linux into some more usable and advertise-able OS, yet when someone like Canonical decides to go for full-out evolution, those same people immediately reject it. So it goes...
No. People universally distrust penguins. They are too cocky and pretentious in their little tux's. If only penguins were sweet and juicy like an apple and translucent like a window. Instead we get these little bone and blood filled over-dressed pests that you can't see through at all.
And every major version update still fucks up all my video card configurations (not to mention a bunch of other stuff). Try explaining to your wife over the phone: "Sorry baby, you shouldn't have hit update while I was at work. It's simple, just open up the terminal on the desktop, SSH to the laptop and replace xorg.conf with xorg.conf-backup". Her responding being, "This computer is stupid. Why can't we use windows like normal people?".
Dude, you still vacuum? You know Robots do this now, right? The next time I pick up a floor-vac will be right after I finish balancing my check book (you know, like in the check book) with an abacus.
I walk in to Target... They try to sell me a 40in Sony TV made exclusively for Target. The difference being that it has 3 HDMI instead of 4, crappier speakers, and a couple other minor differences... I look on my phone in the store and I can't find that model, it's only at Target. So what's next? I buy it? No, I look for compatible Sony TV's and buy the non-exclusive off amazon for 100 dollars cheaper. Unless they are going the way of Costco, and selling exclusive products with more features for cheaper (like my Roomba, Keurig, stuff like that), this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Upgrading a car stereo, getting suits tailored, Changing filters in air conditioners, Showering night club stamps off, Changing shoe laces, Singing along with a CD/mp3, Photoshop, Opening a computer... I mean, why would I have the right to root the cell phone/tablet I buy. Imagine if I enabled tethering, the world might end right then and there.
I'm a Software Developer. I started programming when I was 11, so I guess I have 18 years experience (10 Professionally).
Programming certainly uses the brain differently than the average non-programmer is every going to comprehend. I have worked with many fresh-out-of-College programmers, and most of them (not all of them), who hadn't started when they were younger, were way behind where I was freshman year of high-school. Many of my "I'm going to be a programmer" friends who started in College failed, miserably. I remember a good friend of mine, brilliant in Math, was just constantly frustrated like a one-armed man trying to learn to juggle.
Somebody wake me up when I can take a 1 year Rocket Science course. Or, a 1 year MD program.
Didn't Kodak basically say the same thing about the digital camera? How'd that go? My dad worked for Polaroid for most of his life, I know how their "let's make a prediction and go with it" method went. Maybe he is right, until a tablet comes out that makes the PC worthless. If Dell were smart, they should be working on the be-all-end-all tablet, or else they are the next Kodak: too embarrassed to show up to the party.
Relax, pick up your phone, and call a system administrator. There is pretty much no way you are going to set up an unhackable web server unless you know what you are doing. Even sysadmins with 20 years security experience make security mistakes setting up systems (Source: All the huge websites hacked by Anon this year).
Keep your mind on the application and let the sysadmin worry about it's delivery.
3k for a surround sound system decent enough to fully enjoy a movie? Crazy! I would consider myself somewhat of an audiophile and I love my $800 Yamaha system. That's like saying Clicquot is undrinkable; that anything under Cristal is a poop filled flute.
The movie-going model has become broken. Even 10 - 20 years ago going to the movies was amazing. You get to watch something on a huge screen, with amazing sound, without waiting a year for it to come out. If you wanted to do a movie night, but didn't want to go to the movies, you were left with few options in a sub-par 25in tube environment. Basically, you would either rent a movie at a video rental store (remember those?) or get lucky and find something on television. Now, things have completely changed. When me and my wife do movie nights, we can watch it from Netflix Instant, Netflix Mail, Amazon, Vudu, DVR, On Demand (usually not long after the theater release date)--no need to go anywhere. Instead of a little tube tv with crappy speakers, we watch them on a crystal clear large screen hd through a high powered surround sound system. Pause, grab a beer, answer the phone, check my email, get the popcorn out of the microwave, play. Why would anyone ever want to go the movies, especially when they can wait a month for a much easier and more comfortable experience? Piracy isn't the problem, it's that the movie experience has become less rewarding compared with the other options.
Welcome to the future, where text input has become minimalized and marginalized. When half the dictionary has become standardized to 3 letter abbreviations, I don't find it the least bit surprising that spelling and grammar have gone out the window. Maybe this isn't some new symptom of aa illiterate world, but rather the written English word evolving in front of our eyes; the technological revolution.
Apple is the new Microsoft, just another wolf in sheep's clothing: but instead of legions of turd-bombs wearing pocket protectors and IT pagers, they have an army of "hipster" sheep who bleed apple juice koolaid.
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Nope, press the windows key (or whatever it's called) and type in whatever you want.... I don't ever use the mouse.
I wish I could moderate my own responses to -1! I don't usually get off on flaimbait like this. Dude said I was an idiot and lemming for applying updates to my personal computer. I'm pretty sure this is exactly the kind of thinking that creates such a hard time for linux.
You know what, furthermore, idiot, my point was that Linux makes it difficult for the everyday computer user to complete ostensibly easy tasks / smoothly TRY OUT new features and updates without hurdles. Personally, I can fix any issues that happen to my linux box (at work or home) with relative ease. This wasn't about me. I mean, I know you can read based on your worthless drivel or a response, so I'm confused at what point you are making here....
Only idiots update their kernels / other stuff on their PERSONAL Linux boxes at home right? You're an idiot if you think that "don't upgrade" is the answer to the issue's of distributions having upgrade problem--not to mention a child for sounding like such an ass.
While you argue proud in the Windows fan boy playground? Kinda callin' the kettle black here bro pot.
Apple is saying 1 of 2 things, but I don't know which: 1. We created these products without enterprise in mind, like, at all. BUT, we are pretending that this oversight was actually an unconscious foresight: We meant it to be this was, so, do it our way or don't do it, but just don't complain. 2. Or, although we were aware of the enterprise IT paradigm, we purposefully decided to ignore it and do it the Apple way. Strangely, the apple way seams to be to make enterprise deployment of their products almost impossible.
I am sitting at work using Ubuntu with Unity as we speak. Honestly, I like that I can do everything in 1 or 2 clicks or with the keyboard. I think it's ironic that there is this rally cry to evolve Linux into some more usable and advertise-able OS, yet when someone like Canonical decides to go for full-out evolution, those same people immediately reject it. So it goes...
No. People universally distrust penguins. They are too cocky and pretentious in their little tux's. If only penguins were sweet and juicy like an apple and translucent like a window. Instead we get these little bone and blood filled over-dressed pests that you can't see through at all.
And every major version update still fucks up all my video card configurations (not to mention a bunch of other stuff). Try explaining to your wife over the phone: "Sorry baby, you shouldn't have hit update while I was at work. It's simple, just open up the terminal on the desktop, SSH to the laptop and replace xorg.conf with xorg.conf-backup". Her responding being, "This computer is stupid. Why can't we use windows like normal people?".
Explain this to IBM
Dude, you still vacuum? You know Robots do this now, right? The next time I pick up a floor-vac will be right after I finish balancing my check book (you know, like in the check book) with an abacus.
I walk in to Target... They try to sell me a 40in Sony TV made exclusively for Target. The difference being that it has 3 HDMI instead of 4, crappier speakers, and a couple other minor differences... I look on my phone in the store and I can't find that model, it's only at Target. So what's next? I buy it? No, I look for compatible Sony TV's and buy the non-exclusive off amazon for 100 dollars cheaper. Unless they are going the way of Costco, and selling exclusive products with more features for cheaper (like my Roomba, Keurig, stuff like that), this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Upgrading a car stereo, getting suits tailored, Changing filters in air conditioners, Showering night club stamps off, Changing shoe laces, Singing along with a CD/mp3, Photoshop, Opening a computer... I mean, why would I have the right to root the cell phone/tablet I buy. Imagine if I enabled tethering, the world might end right then and there.
I'm a Software Developer. I started programming when I was 11, so I guess I have 18 years experience (10 Professionally). Programming certainly uses the brain differently than the average non-programmer is every going to comprehend. I have worked with many fresh-out-of-College programmers, and most of them (not all of them), who hadn't started when they were younger, were way behind where I was freshman year of high-school. Many of my "I'm going to be a programmer" friends who started in College failed, miserably. I remember a good friend of mine, brilliant in Math, was just constantly frustrated like a one-armed man trying to learn to juggle. Somebody wake me up when I can take a 1 year Rocket Science course. Or, a 1 year MD program.
So... plug in a keyboard. Am I missing something? My PC sucks without a keyboard too.
crap I just wrote this.
Didn't Kodak basically say the same thing about the digital camera? How'd that go? My dad worked for Polaroid for most of his life, I know how their "let's make a prediction and go with it" method went. Maybe he is right, until a tablet comes out that makes the PC worthless. If Dell were smart, they should be working on the be-all-end-all tablet, or else they are the next Kodak: too embarrassed to show up to the party.
Explain this to Sony and Citybank.
Relax, pick up your phone, and call a system administrator. There is pretty much no way you are going to set up an unhackable web server unless you know what you are doing. Even sysadmins with 20 years security experience make security mistakes setting up systems (Source: All the huge websites hacked by Anon this year). Keep your mind on the application and let the sysadmin worry about it's delivery.
3k for a surround sound system decent enough to fully enjoy a movie? Crazy! I would consider myself somewhat of an audiophile and I love my $800 Yamaha system. That's like saying Clicquot is undrinkable; that anything under Cristal is a poop filled flute.
Kevin Smith? I thought he was like cooties; around 16 yrs old it's just not that funny anymore. And yes, I own Chasing Amy / Clerks / Mallrats.
The movie-going model has become broken. Even 10 - 20 years ago going to the movies was amazing. You get to watch something on a huge screen, with amazing sound, without waiting a year for it to come out. If you wanted to do a movie night, but didn't want to go to the movies, you were left with few options in a sub-par 25in tube environment. Basically, you would either rent a movie at a video rental store (remember those?) or get lucky and find something on television. Now, things have completely changed. When me and my wife do movie nights, we can watch it from Netflix Instant, Netflix Mail, Amazon, Vudu, DVR, On Demand (usually not long after the theater release date)--no need to go anywhere. Instead of a little tube tv with crappy speakers, we watch them on a crystal clear large screen hd through a high powered surround sound system. Pause, grab a beer, answer the phone, check my email, get the popcorn out of the microwave, play. Why would anyone ever want to go the movies, especially when they can wait a month for a much easier and more comfortable experience? Piracy isn't the problem, it's that the movie experience has become less rewarding compared with the other options.
Welcome to the future, where text input has become minimalized and marginalized. When half the dictionary has become standardized to 3 letter abbreviations, I don't find it the least bit surprising that spelling and grammar have gone out the window. Maybe this isn't some new symptom of aa illiterate world, but rather the written English word evolving in front of our eyes; the technological revolution.
Apple is the new Microsoft, just another wolf in sheep's clothing: but instead of legions of turd-bombs wearing pocket protectors and IT pagers, they have an army of "hipster" sheep who bleed apple juice koolaid.