The most interesting thing about the article is the way these unix hackers are swooning over the Mac usability, the very thing that many such folk have mocked for years. You plug something in. It just works. You unplug it. It still works. You change it all about. It still works.
If only the entire open source movement could have this sort of eye-opening experience, Microsoft would be running scared.
- apparently these compaines crack each other's cards routinely as a part of evaluating each other's security. - the piracy has been rampant for 3 years but no action was taken until now - the actions of NDS can be viewed as legit sevailence. The website that NDS was funding was feeding them inteligence on who was using the web site - the website in question went down some time ago admid accusations that it was spying on it's users and feeding info to NDS. - if NDS really did want to do something like what they are accused of, why would they have the guy distributing the stuff openly on the payroll?
I think it's all bullshit and Vivendi is trying to push up its share price and generally bully its competitor, News Corp, parent of NDS.
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The article says that that the guys made David Gallagher's blog rise in the rankings using bombing, but I still get a TV star when I do a search. If you're not #1 on Google (or at least top 10), does it really matter?
...since they don't don't buy their computers from Apple. they buy them from dustributors. They shouldn't even be complaining about the stores, since any well funded organisation could open stores all over the place. and if they were big enough, they could buy directly from Apple and probably get more stock, ie, the more you turn over, the more important you are, the more timely your supply it.
I'd say the stores complaining are not huge chains. I doubt wether they'd get any more stock if Apple stores didn't exist.
Yeah, right. If you read the transcript of the IRC conversation, Taco says he ignores polls. You'll also note the disclaimer on the polls themselves. As for the comments, I must of seen them beacuse I have time to troll trough hundreds of comments looking for them. Don't you think a story on the front page is the right way to bring up something that effects the whole readership?
Well, I can only speak for myself. I must confess I had one of these things. Sure it was fun for a while. But then I was hooked. I lost my wife. I lost my kids. I lost my self respect.
All I can say is, please, please don't let your loved ones do Speedpass. Sob. Please.
Ask about this before they introduced subscriptions? (Ask Slashot story?) Maybe there would be less constigation about it now. Maybe they might have gotten some useful ideas. There's surely flaws in the current scheme since it requires the people who contribute the most to pay the most. I think they should have unlimited karma accrual (instead of a limit of 50), and that karma should be good for buying pageviews. That would probably be more equitable and probably wiser in the longrun.
I can't do irc, but if someone can be bothered, maybe they could ask about this.
True, but Bluetooth will give you the same thing, but it will be standard and open. Having speedpass sorts of things is fine until you realise you need several to buy all the things you want.
Another scary thing would be if you lost this thing. Where I live there are consumer credit laws which basically say if there is any fraud, the consumer is not liable. This is for all electronic banking credit and debit cards. Now I bet that this dongle would leave you high and dry when some idiot went crazy buying fuel and burgers on your tab.
Yeah looks good but it too fucking expensive. When will Apple learn that it can't foist overpriced distributed computing networks onto unsuspecting countries. Someone should tell them they can get a much cheaper Grid by using PCs and Linux.
Also, I hear it only supports one button mice. Sigh.
Why would anyone use this technology when micropayments and the like can be done using your mobile phone using reverse billing now (you punch in a code to your mobile and an amount gets added to your phone account) and in the future there is bluetooth.
This proprietary, system will shortly float off into oblivion like all the rest.
Exactly. This is why I love my mac. At most times, for most things, it just works. If I want to reconfigure it, it works also. No secret knowledge required. You don't have to be a card carrying unix weenie.
And said weenies love to mock you just becuase you're not familar with an throwback interface full of archane details, largely undocumented, convoluted and anything but intuative. More likely they should be mocked.
Why isn't someone undertaking a port of Aqua to Linux? It is build on top of a Unix system, after all. It wouldn't have to be a perfect copy, maybe just a set of APIs mostly compatible with Carbon APIs.
The advantages of this are: (a) you have sound user interface design for free (b) you have an instant installed base familiar with the user interface (c) you have many applications which can be ported possibly with a minimum of effort.
Something like this would definately put it up Apple. But it does make sense. If people can rush off and build.Net clones, why not do someting actually useful?
I think you have to accept the only reason we have DVD players at all is because these patents exist and are enforceable. Why would any company spend the money to develop product if they couldn't exploit it? This is what patents are for.
My comments were aimed at the people making the decisions. They are the ones who should take responsibility, not people who just do what they are told.
The best way to punish corporate fuckwits is not to impose financial penalties. That can be factored in as an expense and risk factor. These people should be made to live in their own filth. We should show them complete disregard for their lives, just as they have for others.
Why is it that if I kill someone by accident, I'll go to jail (most probably). But if some corporate idiot kills tens or hundreds of people in a cimmunity, he'll still get his bonus?
I won't be truly impressed until I see an a site being served with a turing machine, run manually by a guy drawing dots on a paper looking at a T1 line terminating in a green LED.
The only danger of this is that is may be the first recorded death due to slashdotting.
Exactly. Apple bashing has reached a new low here at Slashdot when the editors take to slashdotting a poor, defenceless Lisa 2. After this trauma it may never serve a page again. It probably won't even boot up. Poor thing.
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Neat keyboard and great for people like me who like to use computers in low or light. I'm always turning on pesky desklamps to find the keyboard.
The lack of tactile feedback is a bummer though. Maybe if it chirped when you hit a key, though that might drive you nuts.
The most interesting thing about the article is the way these unix hackers are swooning over the Mac usability, the very thing that many such folk have mocked for years. You plug something in. It just works. You unplug it. It still works. You change it all about. It still works.
If only the entire open source movement could have this sort of eye-opening experience, Microsoft would be running scared.
There's a couple of points to consider.
- apparently these compaines crack each other's cards routinely as a part of evaluating each other's security.
- the piracy has been rampant for 3 years but no action was taken until now
- the actions of NDS can be viewed as legit sevailence. The website that NDS was funding was feeding them inteligence on who was using the web site
- the website in question went down some time ago admid accusations that it was spying on it's users and feeding info to NDS.
- if NDS really did want to do something like what they are accused of, why would they have the guy distributing the stuff openly on the payroll?
I think it's all bullshit and Vivendi is trying to push up its share price and generally bully its competitor, News Corp, parent of NDS.
The article says that that the guys made David Gallagher's blog rise in the rankings using bombing, but I still get a TV star when I do a search. If you're not #1 on Google (or at least top 10), does it really matter?
...since they don't don't buy their computers from Apple. they buy them from dustributors. They shouldn't even be complaining about the stores, since any well funded organisation could open stores all over the place. and if they were big enough, they could buy directly from Apple and probably get more stock, ie, the more you turn over, the more important you are, the more timely your supply it.
I'd say the stores complaining are not huge chains. I doubt wether they'd get any more stock if Apple stores didn't exist.
It's a link to a story with heaps of (threaded) comments attached. I'd say that the database is getting spanked.
No. That's not a technical term. I just made it up then.
Yeah, right. If you read the transcript of the IRC conversation, Taco says he ignores polls. You'll also note the disclaimer on the polls themselves. As for the comments, I must of seen them beacuse I have time to troll trough hundreds of comments looking for them. Don't you think a story on the front page is the right way to bring up something that effects the whole readership?
Well, I can only speak for myself. I must confess I had one of these things. Sure it was fun for a while. But then I was hooked. I lost my wife. I lost my kids. I lost my self respect.
All I can say is, please, please don't let your loved ones do Speedpass. Sob. Please.
Ask about this before they introduced subscriptions? (Ask Slashot story?) Maybe there would be less constigation about it now. Maybe they might have gotten some useful ideas. There's surely flaws in the current scheme since it requires the people who contribute the most to pay the most. I think they should have unlimited karma accrual (instead of a limit of 50), and that karma should be good for buying pageviews. That would probably be more equitable and probably wiser in the longrun.
I can't do irc, but if someone can be bothered, maybe they could ask about this.
True, but Bluetooth will give you the same thing, but it will be standard and open. Having speedpass sorts of things is fine until you realise you need several to buy all the things you want.
Another scary thing would be if you lost this thing. Where I live there are consumer credit laws which basically say if there is any fraud, the consumer is not liable. This is for all electronic banking credit and debit cards. Now I bet that this dongle would leave you high and dry when some idiot went crazy buying fuel and burgers on your tab.
Don't fret, GSM is slowly gaining ground in the US.
Yeah looks good but it too fucking expensive. When will Apple learn that it can't foist overpriced distributed computing networks onto unsuspecting countries. Someone should tell them they can get a much cheaper Grid by using PCs and Linux.
Also, I hear it only supports one button mice. Sigh.
Why would anyone use this technology when micropayments and the like can be done using your mobile phone using reverse billing now (you punch in a code to your mobile and an amount gets added to your phone account) and in the future there is bluetooth.
This proprietary, system will shortly float off into oblivion like all the rest.
Exactly. This is why I love my mac. At most times, for most things, it just works. If I want to reconfigure it, it works also. No secret knowledge required. You don't have to be a card carrying unix weenie.
And said weenies love to mock you just becuase you're not familar with an throwback interface full of archane details, largely undocumented, convoluted and anything but intuative. More likely they should be mocked.
Why isn't someone undertaking a port of Aqua to Linux? It is build on top of a Unix system, after all. It wouldn't have to be a perfect copy, maybe just a set of APIs mostly compatible with Carbon APIs.
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.Net clones, why not do someting actually useful?
The advantages of this are
(a) you have sound user interface design for free
(b) you have an instant installed base familiar with the user interface
(c) you have many applications which can be ported possibly with a minimum of effort.
Something like this would definately put it up Apple. But it does make sense. If people can rush off and build
It's usually the taco gives the orders in my experience...
Mmmm ... readhead ... do'h!
I don't thing he would be happy about everybody "embracing and extending" her.
I think you have to accept the only reason we have DVD players at all is because these patents exist and are enforceable. Why would any company spend the money to develop product if they couldn't exploit it? This is what patents are for.
My comments were aimed at the people making the decisions. They are the ones who should take responsibility, not people who just do what they are told.
The best way to punish corporate fuckwits is not to impose financial penalties. That can be factored in as an expense and risk factor. These people should be made to live in their own filth. We should show them complete disregard for their lives, just as they have for others.
Why is it that if I kill someone by accident, I'll go to jail (most probably). But if some corporate idiot kills tens or hundreds of people in a cimmunity, he'll still get his bonus?
...fuckwits. They should be made to move to the town they polluted. With their families.
I won't be truly impressed until I see an a site being served with a turing machine, run manually by a guy drawing dots on a paper looking at a T1 line terminating in a green LED.
The only danger of this is that is may be the first recorded death due to slashdotting.
Exactly. Apple bashing has reached a new low here at Slashdot when the editors take to slashdotting a poor, defenceless Lisa 2. After this trauma it may never serve a page again. It probably won't even boot up. Poor thing.
...when I pour my coffee into my laptop keyboard, thats good?