Yes, that must be it. Either that or the fact that they assume that everybody thinks in the same narrow paradigms and shoehorn everything into them under the guise of 'usability.' The fact that Apple keyboards eschew Home and End buttons is more than enough to frustrate me to the point of aneurysm, let alone the "Dock," network share navigation... the list goes on and on. Give me *box and Thunar any day of the week. I stopped having to have mommy hold my hand in public I was 5 years old; I don't deserve to have a computer do the same to me so many years later.
The Jobs hagiography and cult-like behavior surrounding Apple products from my generation ("millennials") is disturbing. If I had a nickel for the number of times that I asked somebody to click the Start button only to be met with the response "Where's that? Oh, sorry... I use a Mac at home" I'd be a billionaire. Which is more believable: that you don't know the location of a UI element that's been an institution SINCE THE DAY YOU POPPED OUT OF YOUR MOTHER THAT EXISTS ON A PLATFORM WITH GREATER THAN 90% MARKET PENETRATION or that you're not-so-subtly objecting to the hyperbolic pain and anguish that is the necessity of using Windows NT in a corporate environment?
Apple's shit is just as uniquely stinky as every other tech vendor's. Their error messages are even more garbage and cryptic than Windows (ever try connecting to a CIFS-shared printer on OS X?). OS X apps crash with the same degree of regularity as Windows. And on top of all of this their UI is downright abhorrent and unapologetically dedicated to what some focus group leader perceives to be the LCD of computer users. OS X is the only desktop environment I've struggled to grok after having used at least a dozen different ones with some degree of regularity in my lifetime. Nothing about Apple at this point distinguishes it from the myriad of other offerings in the consumer IT world except for their Flavor-Aid, "Genius Bars," and pricing model.
Jobs created a monster that's far greater of a threat to our freedom than M$. I can't help but think that we'd have been better off had NeXT succeeded and he hadn't had the smug satisfaction of returning to Apple and riding it up from its lowest point in history.
Don Draper is busy writing copy for these vulnerabilities. Seriously, why are pathetic neckbeards the world over so obsessed with making these cute vulnerability names and logos? Since when did a security vulnerability need branding? I guess a CVE ID is unwieldly but when will the madness end? Is the next one going to be called FailPwn1012?
This book is nothing more than a collection of blog posts substantiated by comments made thereupon by embittered men. While I agree with many (but not all) of the author's postulations I simply couldn't finish the book because it felt more like poorly-researched propaganda than actual discourse. I'm firmly on one side of the fence on this debate but this particular tome does the exact opposite of help the cause. It's nothing more than apologist polemic that serves only to validate your thoughts on the topic one way or another... hardly what I'd call good writing.
Just REM it out of your AUTOEXEC.BAT, flip the power clunker... er, switch, then flip it back on. Problem solved! Nobody will be able to h4x0r your beige box ever again!...oh, sorry. I saw.SYS and thought we were stuck in 1996 AD.
Have we learned nothing from history? We need giant wave-breaking robots piloted by a pair of unlikely heroes to stop the tsunamis. Preferably with giant extendable swords to cut the breakers down to size.
I'm sick of all of this Leftist hogwash about needing laws for things to work safely and well. As a staunch Libertarian I view any and all regulation as a poor attempt by the government (or, in this case, the intellectual elite) to subjugate the masses. Robot or meatsack, we've all been endowed with rights. Nobody has any right to mandate how my domestic servantbot will interact with my coffeebot!
First came API standards, now this. When will the madness end, Obama?
I actually bought one of these laptops used on fleaBay two years ago. I'm currently running Arch and Fluxbox (yeah yeah I know...) on it and it's snappy as hell. Takes all of 2 seconds for my desktop to come up, and I've dropped the thing on concrete from four feet up TWICE and it still works flawlessly (besides a few dings here and there). It runs everything I throw at it fairly flawlessly, but then again I don't game or do anything like that.
How is what I said delusional? Windows RT was/is a flop, the world's largest PC gaming platform is moving to Linux, and Windows Phone still has a single-digit market share. Meanwhile Microsoft has been partnering with Xamarin and making contributions to the Linux kernel... admittedly all of these moves have arguably been to futher adoption of their own (semi) proprietary products, but they're still demonstrating some kind of commitment to platforms other than their own.
No need for an ad-hominem attack.
Seems like it might be part of a soft-sell strategy to Android diehards. Microsoft has been opening up a lot to the FOSS community in the past few years and this makes at least a bit of sense. Modify the OS to have tight integration with relevant MS services while still allowing installation of apps from the Android marketplace... Then make money back on SkyDrive subscriptions or whatever the heck they're trying to push on people now.
Even if Amazon is just pretending to be relevant in this regard at least they can claim a successful business model. I used to use eBay religiously (even for new goods) until I got Amazon Prime and realized that the subscription fee and price premium for new goods was well worth the lack of hassle with slow shipping, bad listings, and PayPal's godawful dispute resolution.
Whenever I think of eBay I think of the Clinton administration.
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Yes, that must be it. Either that or the fact that they assume that everybody thinks in the same narrow paradigms and shoehorn everything into them under the guise of 'usability.' The fact that Apple keyboards eschew Home and End buttons is more than enough to frustrate me to the point of aneurysm, let alone the "Dock," network share navigation... the list goes on and on. Give me *box and Thunar any day of the week. I stopped having to have mommy hold my hand in public I was 5 years old; I don't deserve to have a computer do the same to me so many years later.
EMBARCE! EXTNED! EXTNIGUISH!
The Jobs hagiography and cult-like behavior surrounding Apple products from my generation ("millennials") is disturbing. If I had a nickel for the number of times that I asked somebody to click the Start button only to be met with the response "Where's that? Oh, sorry... I use a Mac at home" I'd be a billionaire. Which is more believable: that you don't know the location of a UI element that's been an institution SINCE THE DAY YOU POPPED OUT OF YOUR MOTHER THAT EXISTS ON A PLATFORM WITH GREATER THAN 90% MARKET PENETRATION or that you're not-so-subtly objecting to the hyperbolic pain and anguish that is the necessity of using Windows NT in a corporate environment? Apple's shit is just as uniquely stinky as every other tech vendor's. Their error messages are even more garbage and cryptic than Windows (ever try connecting to a CIFS-shared printer on OS X?). OS X apps crash with the same degree of regularity as Windows. And on top of all of this their UI is downright abhorrent and unapologetically dedicated to what some focus group leader perceives to be the LCD of computer users. OS X is the only desktop environment I've struggled to grok after having used at least a dozen different ones with some degree of regularity in my lifetime. Nothing about Apple at this point distinguishes it from the myriad of other offerings in the consumer IT world except for their Flavor-Aid, "Genius Bars," and pricing model. Jobs created a monster that's far greater of a threat to our freedom than M$. I can't help but think that we'd have been better off had NeXT succeeded and he hadn't had the smug satisfaction of returning to Apple and riding it up from its lowest point in history.
Don Draper is busy writing copy for these vulnerabilities. Seriously, why are pathetic neckbeards the world over so obsessed with making these cute vulnerability names and logos? Since when did a security vulnerability need branding? I guess a CVE ID is unwieldly but when will the madness end? Is the next one going to be called FailPwn1012?
This book is nothing more than a collection of blog posts substantiated by comments made thereupon by embittered men. While I agree with many (but not all) of the author's postulations I simply couldn't finish the book because it felt more like poorly-researched propaganda than actual discourse. I'm firmly on one side of the fence on this debate but this particular tome does the exact opposite of help the cause. It's nothing more than apologist polemic that serves only to validate your thoughts on the topic one way or another... hardly what I'd call good writing.
Just REM it out of your AUTOEXEC.BAT, flip the power clunker... er, switch, then flip it back on. Problem solved! Nobody will be able to h4x0r your beige box ever again! ...oh, sorry. I saw .SYS and thought we were stuck in 1996 AD.
Have we learned nothing from history? We need giant wave-breaking robots piloted by a pair of unlikely heroes to stop the tsunamis. Preferably with giant extendable swords to cut the breakers down to size.
I'm sick of all of this Leftist hogwash about needing laws for things to work safely and well. As a staunch Libertarian I view any and all regulation as a poor attempt by the government (or, in this case, the intellectual elite) to subjugate the masses. Robot or meatsack, we've all been endowed with rights. Nobody has any right to mandate how my domestic servantbot will interact with my coffeebot! First came API standards, now this. When will the madness end, Obama?
I actually bought one of these laptops used on fleaBay two years ago. I'm currently running Arch and Fluxbox (yeah yeah I know...) on it and it's snappy as hell. Takes all of 2 seconds for my desktop to come up, and I've dropped the thing on concrete from four feet up TWICE and it still works flawlessly (besides a few dings here and there). It runs everything I throw at it fairly flawlessly, but then again I don't game or do anything like that.
How is what I said delusional? Windows RT was/is a flop, the world's largest PC gaming platform is moving to Linux, and Windows Phone still has a single-digit market share. Meanwhile Microsoft has been partnering with Xamarin and making contributions to the Linux kernel... admittedly all of these moves have arguably been to futher adoption of their own (semi) proprietary products, but they're still demonstrating some kind of commitment to platforms other than their own. No need for an ad-hominem attack.
Seems like it might be part of a soft-sell strategy to Android diehards. Microsoft has been opening up a lot to the FOSS community in the past few years and this makes at least a bit of sense. Modify the OS to have tight integration with relevant MS services while still allowing installation of apps from the Android marketplace... Then make money back on SkyDrive subscriptions or whatever the heck they're trying to push on people now.
Even if Amazon is just pretending to be relevant in this regard at least they can claim a successful business model. I used to use eBay religiously (even for new goods) until I got Amazon Prime and realized that the subscription fee and price premium for new goods was well worth the lack of hassle with slow shipping, bad listings, and PayPal's godawful dispute resolution. Whenever I think of eBay I think of the Clinton administration.