Take a look in your house and tell me how many telephones you own that do not require an AC adaptor of some sort. The blackout that hit the North-East back in 2003 really opened my eyes to how dependent we've become on electricity.
No the problem is you are focussed on the technology and not the actual application. Google's Maps and Earth products will evolve into the next generation GPS systems (they already have partnered with VW to bring u such a thing). Just imagine, a nav system with satellite photos:D
Apple is what it is: a talented amoral corporation led by a greedy egotistical amoral CEO. They aren't "Different", they aren't "feeeel-gooood", and they don't care about OSS unless it makes them money.
You say that like "making money" is wrong and amoral. Please show me a publically traded corporation that is not in the business to make money and I'll show you one that has very little shareholders.
This isn't some evil corp that is out clubbing baby seals, burning down rain forests and employing 6yr old children in factories. This is a company that has to date, followed the terms of the licence in question. Because they didn't fly a babysitter tech lead over to walk the KHTML team through the changes, you're trying to make them look like the aforementioned.
Being grateful is a choice entirely up to Apple. If they choose not to, they shouldn't be blamed.
When you shop at a store that is having a bankruptcy sale, and you buy that item for below cost because they need to close shop. You are getting an amazing deal. Do you walk back to the store to show how grateful you are by giving the owner some more money? No. Does the owner bitch and moan that you are some ungrateful SOB getting a great deal at his expense? No.
If you put a price tag on something, then don't cry if it sells for that price. The LGPL is the price tag the KHTML team chose. When someone uses it, you don't complain. If it's enough to cause you grief, then change the terms of the licence.
So why are you all bitching then? If Apple wants to stay on the older base of KHTML and improve that, it's their choice. People bitching that their acid2 mods (haha sounds like some ircii script) don't merge well with their new codebase are asking too much.
It's a problem but it's not one that Apple should be blamed for.
Basically the Apple and KHTML camps are working for different motives. Apple being a corporation works to deadlines in order to sell product and profit. KHTML developers are not, so they have the luxury of rewriting an already working function in order to 'clean it up'.
look around you when you are at work. Count how many people have even the most basic computer hardware knowledge. Then count how many have the free time to spend to reinstall a whole operating system and update all of the patches.
Here is where you make your most important point and the one that the Linux community fails to grasp.
97% of the world's users do not have the comprehension required to do a
emerge
make buildworld
apt-get update
etc and deal with broken dependencies, etc that inevitably happen.
OTOH, OS X System Update works flawlessly. And Apple doesn't put barriers to updating your machine with incessant checks on your serial/cdkey/license/etc. MSFT should realize that it's in their best interest to patch ALL Windows installations and not just legally licenced ones.
Next time, try not to use the terms "...hate YET..." and "78% success rate" in your argument.
"external scanners". So Linux has no problem with those *internal* scanners?;)
Where I come from, 78% doesn't even cut it close. If I run an IT department, I don't want to hear that 22% of my machines are useless because we can't install an OS on them.
I highly doubt that you will find me an assortment of x86 hardware where I have less than a 78% successful installation rate of a Windows OS.
RUP or XP don't do anything to solve the actual problem, that being that requirements change but budget and timelines are rarely updated in a fair manner.
I'd argue that having constant client interaction (XP) actually hinders progress because you give them opportunity to constantly refine (read 'change') the requirements. Hey no problem with me but someone has to associate a cost with this, nothing is free.
The whole XP methodology is fine for reliably delivering systems that the user actually wants but it does nothing to do so in a timely fashion, which is the point of the article.
Housing developers aren't expected to change the foundation and add entire sections to a house after the project has started, without delay. Yet we are expected to perform this magic because the client and management don't equate the bits n bytes in our projects the same as natural resources in any other industry.
Want to know the worst thing a developer can do? Work on some side project to mock something up to impress the boss, demo it and wow them beyond belief. Problem is, you only took a weekend to hack that demo together but the boss doesn't understand that there is no framework in place to extend it, no authentication, no connection to an actual backend/db, no error handling, no logging, no nothing, just a fancy bun with condiments but no hamburger patty inside.
Here's an honest question. Do you really think your computing experience has improved that greatly on your spiffy new 3.4Ghz P4 compared to back when you had a P2 class machine?
IMO it hasn't. You've gone from Win95 to WinXP.
Look at the Apple scene now. OS 9 to OS X, now that's progress.
So the added cost of AppleCare (3yr extended warranty I believe) made you reconsider because it became too expensive. And yet when all the Apple-bashers talk about how cheap a beige box is, they NEVER buy extended warranties.
Speaking of boxes, let me get on my soapbox and address all the bashers.
I can't believe so many people can't figure it out. Sure it costs more than your x86 box. But you wanna know something? You are paying for industrial design AND the computing experience (software). Bitch and whine all you want about how the harddrive, cpu, video card are slower than your custom built beige gamer box, but in the end it's not about FPS, read times and floating point instructions per second, what counts is how well the computer allows you to do what you want to do. IMNSHO, Apple software along with the design of it's computers makes my life easier and that is worth a price premium. All you turd-fuckers can't figure that out and only cry about the price/performance based on hardware merits. Last time I checked, you weren't pushing and popping bits onto the processor, the most critical thing you are seeing/using is the software. Hardware has become a commodity. The value is in the software. Don't believe me? I think the entire OSS movement has made you delusional. Just cuz it's free doesn't mean it has no value. There is a difference between good software and bad. Ignore the entire hardware argument, sit down and ask yourself how much you think OS X and iLife are worth. Honestly, don't fool yourself...give it a fair estimate. Compare it to other similar software and come up with a dollar value. You can tell me that Windows comes preinstalled or Linux is free blah blah blah...but if I offered you the choice for free, which of those 3 OS'es would you run (ignore all technical limitations such as OS X won't run on x86, etc...this is just for argument sake)? OS X right? There, that tells you that you place more value in OS X than the other two. Now then...that $499 seem so bad?
How about the software that comes preinstalled, allowing you to literally open the box, power it up and actually be able to use it? Put that in contrast with the Windows or Linux experience, how much time do you need to spend installing and customizing those boxes before they are actually useable? Even assuming that the stuff you install afterwards is all free, it's still time saved. Ok fry-boy, maybe your time is cheap but mine isn't.
If you bashers insist on comparing it on hardware alone, then move on because there's nothing for you here. You will never think Apple products are affordable. It's funny how many of you bitch that their memory upgrades are a rip-off, so you're not going to make the switch. If you were going into a restaurant to eat a burger but they had an overpriced salad on the menu, would it stop you from eating the burger? The choice is yours. if the overpriced ram is stopping you from buying an Apple, you're lying to yourself because you are only looking for an excuse, you were never going to buy one to begin with.
The WASIA hack for the 300D was amazing in that it enabled alot of crippled functionality available only on the 10D. However, after a few releases the guy who did the hack disappeared. Almost like the Canon Secret Service caught him and sent him to some prison in Siberia.
Does anyone know his whereabouts? I'm wondering if there is more available on the hacked 300D, I just read that a firmware upgrade on their top line 1DSMKII increased the buffer write speed significantly. Something similar for the Rebels would improve the biggest negative this camera has, buffer write speed.
If you live in the USA, you don't see the benefit because your government has abolished such gaming businesses. But rest assured, someone, somewhere does see the benefit of that revenue.
Regardless if it's mob run or there is a corrupt government, it generates wages for the residents local to those businesses. I'm not sure how you think it's going to further repress their community. You sound like the people who refuse to donate money to charities based on the argument that only a small fraction of your dollar actually goes to the needy. Guess what, at least they get something...when you refuse to donate, they get nothing. Why is it hard to believe that there are costs involved in running a charitable org? You don't think those people are actually working as volunteers do you?
It's online gambling. We're not talking about stealing every girl from a village to be a prostitute abroad, or being forced to work as slave labour in a factory. Usually it's call center work and systems admin positions that these people hire for.
I'm willing to bet that you have yet to encounter this bug. If this wasn't posted to/. you probably won't even know about it. Yet here you are crying that the bug "cripples its basic functionality".
I use gmail everyday and I have yet have problems retrieving email. IMO, there is nothing wrong with the basic functionality it is supposed to provide.
In essence, this is a bug and it IS in BETA so live with it.
Almost like saying, I bought this Porsche but because I don't feel like filling it with 94 octane..it's going to run slower. Oh well, I'll just fill it with regular 89 octane.
You own an iBook AND a G5. Don't even try to say you can't afford a 512 stick of ram for $100.
actually read the article and realize that this gives you TV PVR capabilities which no modchip can do. Unless you are using XBox+Xebian+Mythtv for Xbox PLUS Mythtv running on another computer with tv card.
And when do they realize that it wasn't the P2P that committed the actual theft?
If them blame P2P then they might as well blame the Internet. Time to shut down all the routers and nameservers, shut down the entire internet and see how they download songs, movie, stolen games and kiddie porn?
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Poker isn't illegal in the US. There are thousands of US players playing online still.
Take a look in your house and tell me how many telephones you own that do not require an AC adaptor of some sort. The blackout that hit the North-East back in 2003 really opened my eyes to how dependent we've become on electricity.
I installed BootCamp and on reboot all I got on my screen was...
I LILILI
LILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILIL
It's not about being unable to afford to buy an el-cheapo beige box.
I'd like to see you run thru an airpot with 2 laptops and hand carry luggage, thru 40 terminals, to catch a flight.
What about desk space? Do you really want 2 machines/keyboards/etc littering your workspace?
Applications are now being accepted for the Brokeback Guild.
No the problem is you are focussed on the technology and not the actual application. Google's Maps and Earth products will evolve into the next generation GPS systems (they already have partnered with VW to bring u such a thing). Just imagine, a nav system with satellite photos :D
Apple is what it is: a talented amoral corporation led by a greedy egotistical amoral CEO. They aren't "Different", they aren't "feeeel-gooood", and they don't care about OSS unless it makes them money.
You say that like "making money" is wrong and amoral. Please show me a publically traded corporation that is not in the business to make money and I'll show you one that has very little shareholders.
This isn't some evil corp that is out clubbing baby seals, burning down rain forests and employing 6yr old children in factories. This is a company that has to date, followed the terms of the licence in question. Because they didn't fly a babysitter tech lead over to walk the KHTML team through the changes, you're trying to make them look like the aforementioned.
Being grateful is a choice entirely up to Apple. If they choose not to, they shouldn't be blamed.
When you shop at a store that is having a bankruptcy sale, and you buy that item for below cost because they need to close shop. You are getting an amazing deal. Do you walk back to the store to show how grateful you are by giving the owner some more money? No. Does the owner bitch and moan that you are some ungrateful SOB getting a great deal at his expense? No.
If you put a price tag on something, then don't cry if it sells for that price. The LGPL is the price tag the KHTML team chose. When someone uses it, you don't complain. If it's enough to cause you grief, then change the terms of the licence.
So why are you all bitching then? If Apple wants to stay on the older base of KHTML and improve that, it's their choice. People bitching that their acid2 mods (haha sounds like some ircii script) don't merge well with their new codebase are asking too much.
It's a problem but it's not one that Apple should be blamed for.
Basically the Apple and KHTML camps are working for different motives. Apple being a corporation works to deadlines in order to sell product and profit. KHTML developers are not, so they have the luxury of rewriting an already working function in order to 'clean it up'.
look around you when you are at work. Count how many people have even the most basic computer hardware knowledge. Then count how many have the free time to spend to reinstall a whole operating system and update all of the patches.
Here is where you make your most important point and the one that the Linux community fails to grasp.
97% of the world's users do not have the comprehension required to do a
emerge
make buildworld
apt-get update
etc
and deal with broken dependencies, etc that inevitably happen.
OTOH, OS X System Update works flawlessly. And Apple doesn't put barriers to updating your machine with incessant checks on your serial/cdkey/license/etc. MSFT should realize that it's in their best interest to patch ALL Windows installations and not just legally licenced ones.
Next time, try not to use the terms "...hate YET..." and "78% success rate" in your argument.
;)
"external scanners". So Linux has no problem with those *internal* scanners?
Where I come from, 78% doesn't even cut it close. If I run an IT department, I don't want to hear that 22% of my machines are useless because we can't install an OS on them.
I highly doubt that you will find me an assortment of x86 hardware where I have less than a 78% successful installation rate of a Windows OS.
So who's spreading FUD now?
Tell me, was it fun making the movie Conspiracy Theory with Julia Roberts. Is she really a bitch?
RUP or XP don't do anything to solve the actual problem, that being that requirements change but budget and timelines are rarely updated in a fair manner.
I'd argue that having constant client interaction (XP) actually hinders progress because you give them opportunity to constantly refine (read 'change') the requirements. Hey no problem with me but someone has to associate a cost with this, nothing is free.
The whole XP methodology is fine for reliably delivering systems that the user actually wants but it does nothing to do so in a timely fashion, which is the point of the article.
Housing developers aren't expected to change the foundation and add entire sections to a house after the project has started, without delay. Yet we are expected to perform this magic because the client and management don't equate the bits n bytes in our projects the same as natural resources in any other industry.
Want to know the worst thing a developer can do? Work on some side project to mock something up to impress the boss, demo it and wow them beyond belief. Problem is, you only took a weekend to hack that demo together but the boss doesn't understand that there is no framework in place to extend it, no authentication, no connection to an actual backend/db, no error handling, no logging, no nothing, just a fancy bun with condiments but no hamburger patty inside.
Not running OS X on that machine is like putting beef gravy on your veggy burger, just so wrong on every level.
You're bitching because you expected to buy their lowest priced Mac and wanted to run their "Pro" line of software on it. Uh ok.
http://www.apple.com/motion/specs.html
The requirements plainly state that you need a certain videocard to run Motion.
Advances would stop?
Here's an honest question. Do you really think your computing experience has improved that greatly on your spiffy new 3.4Ghz P4 compared to back when you had a P2 class machine?
IMO it hasn't. You've gone from Win95 to WinXP.
Look at the Apple scene now. OS 9 to OS X, now that's progress.
So the added cost of AppleCare (3yr extended warranty I believe) made you reconsider because it became too expensive. And yet when all the Apple-bashers talk about how cheap a beige box is, they NEVER buy extended warranties.
Speaking of boxes, let me get on my soapbox and address all the bashers.
I can't believe so many people can't figure it out. Sure it costs more than your x86 box. But you wanna know something? You are paying for industrial design AND the computing experience (software). Bitch and whine all you want about how the harddrive, cpu, video card are slower than your custom built beige gamer box, but in the end it's not about FPS, read times and floating point instructions per second, what counts is how well the computer allows you to do what you want to do. IMNSHO, Apple software along with the design of it's computers makes my life easier and that is worth a price premium. All you turd-fuckers can't figure that out and only cry about the price/performance based on hardware merits. Last time I checked, you weren't pushing and popping bits onto the processor, the most critical thing you are seeing/using is the software. Hardware has become a commodity. The value is in the software. Don't believe me? I think the entire OSS movement has made you delusional. Just cuz it's free doesn't mean it has no value. There is a difference between good software and bad. Ignore the entire hardware argument, sit down and ask yourself how much you think OS X and iLife are worth. Honestly, don't fool yourself...give it a fair estimate. Compare it to other similar software and come up with a dollar value. You can tell me that Windows comes preinstalled or Linux is free blah blah blah...but if I offered you the choice for free, which of those 3 OS'es would you run (ignore all technical limitations such as OS X won't run on x86, etc...this is just for argument sake)? OS X right? There, that tells you that you place more value in OS X than the other two. Now then...that $499 seem so bad?
How about the software that comes preinstalled, allowing you to literally open the box, power it up and actually be able to use it? Put that in contrast with the Windows or Linux experience, how much time do you need to spend installing and customizing those boxes before they are actually useable? Even assuming that the stuff you install afterwards is all free, it's still time saved. Ok fry-boy, maybe your time is cheap but mine isn't.
If you bashers insist on comparing it on hardware alone, then move on because there's nothing for you here. You will never think Apple products are affordable. It's funny how many of you bitch that their memory upgrades are a rip-off, so you're not going to make the switch. If you were going into a restaurant to eat a burger but they had an overpriced salad on the menu, would it stop you from eating the burger? The choice is yours. if the overpriced ram is stopping you from buying an Apple, you're lying to yourself because you are only looking for an excuse, you were never going to buy one to begin with.
The WASIA hack for the 300D was amazing in that it enabled alot of crippled functionality available only on the 10D. However, after a few releases the guy who did the hack disappeared. Almost like the Canon Secret Service caught him and sent him to some prison in Siberia.
Does anyone know his whereabouts? I'm wondering if there is more available on the hacked 300D, I just read that a firmware upgrade on their top line 1DSMKII increased the buffer write speed significantly. Something similar for the Rebels would improve the biggest negative this camera has, buffer write speed.
If you live in the USA, you don't see the benefit because your government has abolished such gaming businesses. But rest assured, someone, somewhere does see the benefit of that revenue.
Regardless if it's mob run or there is a corrupt government, it generates wages for the residents local to those businesses. I'm not sure how you think it's going to further repress their community. You sound like the people who refuse to donate money to charities based on the argument that only a small fraction of your dollar actually goes to the needy. Guess what, at least they get something...when you refuse to donate, they get nothing. Why is it hard to believe that there are costs involved in running a charitable org? You don't think those people are actually working as volunteers do you?
It's online gambling. We're not talking about stealing every girl from a village to be a prostitute abroad, or being forced to work as slave labour in a factory. Usually it's call center work and systems admin positions that these people hire for.
Quit crying wolf for christ sake!
/. you probably won't even know about it. Yet here you are crying that the bug "cripples its basic functionality".
I'm willing to bet that you have yet to encounter this bug. If this wasn't posted to
I use gmail everyday and I have yet have problems retrieving email. IMO, there is nothing wrong with the basic functionality it is supposed to provide.
In essence, this is a bug and it IS in BETA so live with it.
That is rediculous reasoning.
Almost like saying, I bought this Porsche but because I don't feel like filling it with 94 octane..it's going to run slower. Oh well, I'll just fill it with regular 89 octane.
You own an iBook AND a G5. Don't even try to say you can't afford a 512 stick of ram for $100.
This only turns your XBox into a FRONT-END for your pc running mythvtv that is actually doing the PVR stuff.
actually read the article and realize that this gives you TV PVR capabilities which no modchip can do. Unless you are using XBox+Xebian+Mythtv for Xbox PLUS Mythtv running on another computer with tv card.
And when do they realize that it wasn't the P2P that committed the actual theft?
If them blame P2P then they might as well blame the Internet. Time to shut down all the routers and nameservers, shut down the entire internet and see how they download songs, movie, stolen games and kiddie porn?