“When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it. We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ "
What the hell? How does DDOSing credit card services and trying to bring down Amazon not contradict this belief? If they believe so much in freedom of speech, then they would support the actions of companies who chose not to support Wikileaks.
Seeing people bash Apple for adopting USB is one of the weirdest criticisms I've seen of Apple yet. USB was an agnostic standard, and adopting USB gave Apple access to all the same devices PC users would be using. Before then, Apple used its own proprietary standard. Apparently, Apple gets bashed if they use their own proprietary standard, and they get bashed if they use a platform-agnostic industry standard.
That's a fantasy. Its not like Mac drove the PC market. (especially at that particular point in time.) And the pc market switched to USB on its own time frame, and held onto the legacy ports until there was really no one using them.
iMacs were a hit. Apple's adoption of USB spurred device manufacturers to support the standard, which led to USB support for PCs. OEMs may have continued to ship legacy ports for a ridiculously long time, but that doesn't change the fact that USB became a supported option. Windows 98 Second Edition specifically improved its USB support for PCs, and there were USB PCI cards for machines that had no native ports.
If this is such a continuing ordeal in your life, don't buy anymore new laptops that require new adapters. I know, that would take away your ability to blame someone, but I think you'll be happier.
No, there isn't, and you have zero evidence to back this claim. What connector transition has Apple made since USB? It's been USB since the late 1990s, with additional Firewire on the high-end machines.
Go back to bed, your government is in control! I'm sure we can trust the same politicians who want your internet habits retained for a year to be neutral and unbiased in "net neutrality," and we can believe in their objectivity in investigating Google, who has close ties with the Obama administration.
Government is the answer for everything. It is never corrupt or mismanaged, and when it does something wrong, it is easily punished.
64% speed boost? Text-based AJAX content is going to be even more imperceptibly faster, wow!
All this optimization work on a subpar language like JavaScript just to display text that much faster. It's admirable but ultimately not as important as people make it out to be.
Microsoft didn't "bail out Apple." Microsoft was being sued by Apple for getting caught stealing QuickTime code in Video For Windows. As part of a settlement deal, Microsoft was required to buy non-voting stock in Apple and ship Office for Mac for a number of years.
That some people spin it as a benevolent act on Microsoft's part is an interesting twist of the truth considering it was Apple who had Microsoft by the balls.
Yeah, let's ignore the whole NeXTStep/iMac/iPod/iPhone/iPad era, shall we? Jobs was interested in creating appliance devices, while Wozniak wanted to continue making geeky, build-your-own-computer kits.
He was referring to the way that, instead of fully running in the background, apps submit specialized blocks of background code (using the blocks extension Apple added to C) to be run by the OS. Apps can continue to do specialized tasks in the background, such as playing music, without fully running in the background and slowing down the phone.
Nobody was pretending anything was "new"--that's your own invention. No wonder you post anonymously.
People still worry about RAM? Unused memory is wasted memory. I also dispute the claim that Chromium is only using 40MB of memory on your system.
That's just great (not). My Windows XP doesn't have the newer codecs built in.
So install them. Your original argument was that you preferred having a "lightweight browser" in which you installed plug-ins to augment functionality. How is that different from installing system-wide codecs and allowing the browser to use them?
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“When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it. We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ "
What the hell? How does DDOSing credit card services and trying to bring down Amazon not contradict this belief? If they believe so much in freedom of speech, then they would support the actions of companies who chose not to support Wikileaks.
Seeing people bash Apple for adopting USB is one of the weirdest criticisms I've seen of Apple yet. USB was an agnostic standard, and adopting USB gave Apple access to all the same devices PC users would be using. Before then, Apple used its own proprietary standard. Apparently, Apple gets bashed if they use their own proprietary standard, and they get bashed if they use a platform-agnostic industry standard.
iMacs were a hit. Apple's adoption of USB spurred device manufacturers to support the standard, which led to USB support for PCs. OEMs may have continued to ship legacy ports for a ridiculously long time, but that doesn't change the fact that USB became a supported option. Windows 98 Second Edition specifically improved its USB support for PCs, and there were USB PCI cards for machines that had no native ports.
If this is such a continuing ordeal in your life, don't buy anymore new laptops that require new adapters. I know, that would take away your ability to blame someone, but I think you'll be happier.
No, there isn't, and you have zero evidence to back this claim. What connector transition has Apple made since USB? It's been USB since the late 1990s, with additional Firewire on the high-end machines.
Nobody "forced" you to buy anything. I can't believe you're actually still angry over Apple adopting USB almost 14 years ago.
Which forced device manufacturers to support the new standard and led to USB adoption throughout the rest of the industry.
When Apple does something, everyone else tends to follow, so I don't know what you're referring to.
You mean that standard that's been in use in almost all camcorders, external audio units, and other high-end devices for the last ten years?
Go back to bed, your government is in control! I'm sure we can trust the same politicians who want your internet habits retained for a year to be neutral and unbiased in "net neutrality," and we can believe in their objectivity in investigating Google, who has close ties with the Obama administration.
Government is the answer for everything. It is never corrupt or mismanaged, and when it does something wrong, it is easily punished.
64% speed boost? Text-based AJAX content is going to be even more imperceptibly faster, wow!
All this optimization work on a subpar language like JavaScript just to display text that much faster. It's admirable but ultimately not as important as people make it out to be.
Yes, let's recreate ActiveX from the 90s because it worked out so well.
What? Yes you can. Don't buy an iPhone.
So how is restricting yourself to an official marketplace different from having one iOS store? You're arguing in favor of a walled garden!
I love how Slashdot bashed Windows for over a decade about its malware, but when malware happens to a Linux-based OS, it's deemed a "non-story."
And yet, despite having vastly more apps than Android, it doesn't.
You just don't like it because you can't actually refute it. The track records speaks for itself compared to Android.
Microsoft didn't "bail out Apple." Microsoft was being sued by Apple for getting caught stealing QuickTime code in Video For Windows. As part of a settlement deal, Microsoft was required to buy non-voting stock in Apple and ship Office for Mac for a number of years.
That some people spin it as a benevolent act on Microsoft's part is an interesting twist of the truth considering it was Apple who had Microsoft by the balls.
Yeah, let's ignore the whole NeXTStep/iMac/iPod/iPhone/iPad era, shall we? Jobs was interested in creating appliance devices, while Wozniak wanted to continue making geeky, build-your-own-computer kits.
He was referring to the way that, instead of fully running in the background, apps submit specialized blocks of background code (using the blocks extension Apple added to C) to be run by the OS. Apps can continue to do specialized tasks in the background, such as playing music, without fully running in the background and slowing down the phone.
Nobody was pretending anything was "new"--that's your own invention. No wonder you post anonymously.
He never "pretended to invent multitasking." Holy shit is there a flood of anonymous anti-Apple trolls in this article, even more than usual.
Looks like someone forgot to check the "Post anonymously" box.
He didn't resign.
"This is to be handled through Google Checkout."
Who uses that?
Some would say the same about Linux.
This is a total fabrication.
People still worry about RAM? Unused memory is wasted memory. I also dispute the claim that Chromium is only using 40MB of memory on your system.
So install them. Your original argument was that you preferred having a "lightweight browser" in which you installed plug-ins to augment functionality. How is that different from installing system-wide codecs and allowing the browser to use them?
Better tell Google. Chrome ships with built-in MP3 and AAC support.