Everything else is a kludge with imaginary technical (and otherwise) support and weak-or-broken-to-the-point-of-amusing interfaces.
In fact, in these days of disposable electronics on all frontiers, I don't understand at all why going through two iPods over several years is reason or cause to 'take your business elsewhere,' unless you're just pouting over the same thing that two hundred and eleventy trillion other people deal with daily.
I'm also on my third iPod, and having tried other players (I was a pre-order customer for the very first portable mp3 player), I wouldn't touch anything else with a ten-foot pole.
I'm sorry, but what has happened to Slashdot? I've been here since nearly the beginning, and I've noticed a sharp decline in the quality of the submissions, but quite the opposite trend in VOLUME of them. I used to regularly read stimulating, interesting stories from all over geekdom, and now sometimes I feel like any story that sounds remotely tabloid-worthy -- as long as it has the word 'Game,' 'Microsoft,' or 'Apple,' in the title -- makes it right up front.
The caps lock has a use for plenty of people. In fact, I use it also, and a helluvalot more often than NUMLOCK or SCROLL LOCK or PAUSE/BREAK. Why not spend your time trying to improve the keyboard hunting down keys that are actually useless.
Go SCSI. It's pretty amazing that there are so many people out there whose only exposure to SCSI has been a mention in a textbook or having read about it, considering it was the standard for performance for so long. The speed and reliability is definitely better than SATA and as you well know, price isn't much of an issue when the RAID fails is it?
I never use pay phones (maybe you guys should start using AT&T+Nokia - my phone always works) and I think we all know who paid for that ten-cent increase in the price of pay phones. It sure wasn't we loyal mobile users. I'm sorry, but I have always had this creeping feeling that pay phones were only there to gouge the poor.
Stanislaw Lem and his influence
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It is very refreshing to read about Stanislaw Lem, as he is very obscure while at the same time is certainly one of the most important and influential science fiction writers of all time.
In the review, the author doesn't mention that much of Lem's work makes a powerful allegorical statement about our technological society, usually criticising it. This explains many strange turns of events and symbols in his work.
Also, another masterful work by Lem is 'Return from the Stars,' where an astronaut returns from a long mission to find the world changed permanently - the will to explore has been bred out of Earth's citizens. I loved that book.
On another note, I think it's shocking that to this day I still hear talk about:
1. The price of Macs. You can scan this very list to see that it's really not an issue anymore for what you get. I think that people might just be irritated that even a low-end mac is a high-performance machine compared to a less expensive piecemeal Intel box.
2. The availability of software. In the old days, the argument was that critical apps weren't available and so the machines are fully proprietary. This is of course absolutely the opposite now. Most of the things you *can't* get now are shareware or small-scale development items. Kinda like DOS compatibility with Windows right now.
3. The quality of the operating system. The normal Mac OS has stunk for a while. But the Unix in Mac OS X has been well proven in the last ten years (since NeXT).
Here's the post I found:
Posted By: Holt Sorenson
Date: 15-Sep-200011:26p.m.
At the 2000 Usenix Technical Conference, Wilfredo Sanchez of Apple gave a presentation on The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments. The paper can be found at: http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/papers/USENIX_2 000/
An audio recording of the presentation of this paper at USENIX 2000, including the Q&A session, is available Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast at: http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_play_stream.html?st ream_id=332
During the questions period, he was asked if GNU tools would ship with OS X. He said that they would not because in an e-mail discussion with RMS, RMS insisted that OS X would have to be GPL'd if Apple included GNU tools.
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Of course what you really want is an iPod.
Everything else is a kludge with imaginary technical (and otherwise) support and weak-or-broken-to-the-point-of-amusing interfaces.
In fact, in these days of disposable electronics on all frontiers, I don't understand at all why going through two iPods over several years is reason or cause to 'take your business elsewhere,' unless you're just pouting over the same thing that two hundred and eleventy trillion other people deal with daily.
I'm also on my third iPod, and having tried other players (I was a pre-order customer for the very first portable mp3 player), I wouldn't touch anything else with a ten-foot pole.
I'm sorry, but what has happened to Slashdot? I've been here since nearly the beginning, and I've noticed a sharp decline in the quality of the submissions, but quite the opposite trend in VOLUME of them. I used to regularly read stimulating, interesting stories from all over geekdom, and now sometimes I feel like any story that sounds remotely tabloid-worthy -- as long as it has the word 'Game,' 'Microsoft,' or 'Apple,' in the title -- makes it right up front.
Obviously this is not worth reading.
Juicy
The caps lock has a use for plenty of people. In fact, I use it also, and a helluvalot more often than NUMLOCK or SCROLL LOCK or PAUSE/BREAK. Why not spend your time trying to improve the keyboard hunting down keys that are actually useless.
Go SCSI. It's pretty amazing that there are so many people out there whose only exposure to SCSI has been a mention in a textbook or having read about it, considering it was the standard for performance for so long. The speed and reliability is definitely better than SATA and as you well know, price isn't much of an issue when the RAID fails is it?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
What could be better than a page where you learn a little tidbit about the universe every day and usually see a new pretty picture?
The Astronomy Picture of the Day has been my default Home Page since I started checking it in 1995.
Horrible. Sacreligious. That's not even the first Mac, it's a plus, and he crammed PC components into it!
It's a terrifying bad drug trip. What was he thinking?
I never use pay phones (maybe you guys should start using AT&T+Nokia - my phone always works) and I think we all know who paid for that ten-cent increase in the price of pay phones. It sure wasn't we loyal mobile users. I'm sorry, but I have always had this creeping feeling that pay phones were only there to gouge the poor.
It is very refreshing to read about Stanislaw Lem, as he is very obscure while at the same time is certainly one of the most important and influential science fiction writers of all time.
In the review, the author doesn't mention that much of Lem's work makes a powerful allegorical statement about our technological society, usually criticising it. This explains many strange turns of events and symbols in his work.
Also, another masterful work by Lem is 'Return from the Stars,' where an astronaut returns from a long mission to find the world changed permanently - the will to explore has been bred out of Earth's citizens. I loved that book.
I found this in a post from Holt Sorenson on MacWorld.
Why gnu tools weren't included
On another note, I think it's shocking that to this day I still hear talk about:
1. The price of Macs. You can scan this very list to see that it's really not an issue anymore for what you get. I think that people might just be irritated that even a low-end mac is a high-performance machine compared to a less expensive piecemeal Intel box.
2. The availability of software. In the old days, the argument was that critical apps weren't available and so the machines are fully proprietary. This is of course absolutely the opposite now. Most of the things you *can't* get now are shareware or small-scale development items. Kinda like DOS compatibility with Windows right now.
3. The quality of the operating system. The normal Mac OS has stunk for a while. But the Unix in Mac OS X has been well proven in the last ten years (since NeXT).
Here's the post I found:
Posted By: Holt Sorenson Date: 15-Sep-200011:26p.m.
At the 2000 Usenix Technical Conference, Wilfredo Sanchez of Apple gave a presentation on The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments. The paper can be found at: http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/papers/USENIX_2 000/
An audio recording of the presentation of this paper at USENIX 2000, including the Q&A session, is available Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast at: http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_play_stream.html?st ream_id=332
During the questions period, he was asked if GNU tools would ship with OS X. He said that they would not because in an e-mail discussion with RMS, RMS insisted that OS X would have to be GPL'd if Apple included GNU tools.