For the record, I tried to submit a different headline, but the buggy, AJAX-ridden story editor wouldn't display the changes I made in the text boxes when I hit Preview. It kept displaying the old text unchanged. I even refreshed the page and tried a different browser. Eventually, I said, "Fuck it" and submitted, hoping it would post the changes.
Did you ignore what I wrote? The MacBook Air is $999 and uses a Core 2 Duo instead of an Atom. The point Apple didn't see in netbooks is that they were cheaply made and underpowered for the tasks they're trying to accomplish with an affordable price. To them, the iPad is a better deal and a better experience. You're free to disagree, but the MacBook Air is still not a netbook.
This is being positioned by Apple as a normal laptop with a unique, ultra-mobile design that will form the basis of their future laptops. I think Steve Jobs was commenting more on the tiny machines that underwent compromises in capability and user experience to become affordable. Many netbooks are a bit of a chore to do the simple tasks they're designed for. Apple believes that the iPad is a better deal for that price range and demographic.
If you think a link to a review is an ad, that suggests you simply don't like Apple and don't want to see them reviewed favorably in any form. What other reason could you possibly have? Otherwise, you would have just not replied to the story out of disinterest. In other words, though you accuse the site of bias, the only bias is from you.
This company's CEO actually said that only people who have something to hide care about privacy. They were caught archiving WiFi network information--not just collecting it, but "accidentally" storing it. Sure, the company that wants to collect and index everything forgot to configure its network scanners and data archivers properly. Android is manipulated and controlled by the carriers who are slapping on unremoable junkware.
It's as if readers of Slashdot are stuck in a 2000 time warp where Google is the benevolent upstart using cheap Linux computers. This is not some friendly open source company--their search engine is as closed source as ever. They offer free services like email and web browsing to get your data indexed for advertising purposes.
I just keep waiting for the backlash to happen. It happened with Apple--every Apple story on Slashdot now gets overrun with haters. Apparently, Google can flat-out tell everyone it doesn't give a shit about privacy, and many Slashdotters don't care.
Dual-core 1.86 Ghz is good enough for what the majority of the population does with computers today, especially for what they would do on a netbook. Performance is a solved problem for mainstream tasks like email and the web.
That's fucking stupid. Every Linux distro can have a centralized repository and installer, but Apple can't?
A Mac App Store doesn't mean they're locking down the Mac. It means good riddance to DMGs. I knew Apple alarmists would pounce on the store, though, and the "you let it" comment from Ron Gilbert is just dumb. Apple does what it wants.
Nothing will change. People here bitched about Blizzard over the Bnetd issue. They bitched about the removal of LAN play in SC2. They threatened to boycott. Nothing happened. SC2 was a huge seller anyway, because gamers are crack-addicted hamsters who never follow through with their forum threats.
So you actually believe the bullshit argument that the contents of your computer's RAM violate the scope of the license and is therefore copyright infringement? No wonder you posted anonymously.
Could you ask your employer if they're ever going to offer LAN play in Battle.net? Multiple professional tournaments have had lag problems.
I didn't draw that conclusion at all. I said that it's a pointless technology and then added that it only works well on big screens. Notice that you didn't dispute this fact at all, because it's verifiably true.
People who use the "fail" meme come off sounding incredibly stupid. Next.
You're actually arguing that Windows and Office aren't bloated and underwhelming and that Apple's interfaces aren't vastly superior? Have you never compared a Windows smartphone to an iPhone?
* Windows has been steadily improving since Bill Gates left the helm. The last vestige of Gates' impact was seen in Office 2007 and Windows Vista, both of which were horrible.
Steadily improving?! The Vista debacle happened under Ballmer. Why do you attribute it to Bill Gates?
* Stability, scalability, usability - name it, it's improved since Gates left and Balmer took over.
Some examples would be nice.
Xbox was a huge fail; Xbox 360, on the other hand (while having been released under Gates and not doing that well during that time) has seen steady improvements over it's long life - and is still considered 'premiere' by many after 5 long years (since when, the PS3 and Wii have been released - to limited impact).
360 has been the same money-loser as the original. Have you forgotten the red ring of death debacle, which happened under Ballmer? You seem to think "steady improvements" is going to keep Microsoft on the edge of technology.
Sharepoint, while it sucks giant donkey cock and is the bane of my existence, has become quite the beast, seemingly being the preferred choice for any sort of corporate extranet deployment/content management system. It is better than most of its competition at substantially lower prices.
"This sucks and I hate it, which means Ballmer is good."
GCC? Stallman didn't even believe in precompiled headers according to a NeXTStep employee, and he refused to add the feature to GCC. His GPL policy regarding linking with GCC is one of the reasons Clang/LLVM has so much support in the first place.
Linus has also done shitty things to hold Linux back, like when he refused and criticized someone's VM scheme...until it was cloned by another kernel developer he was used to working with.
I do not mean to leave liberals out of this: stupid liberals can use the internet to spread stupidity just as effectively as conservatives can. But I've seen nothing with the sheer idiocy-concentrating power of conservapedia or the freepers. That's industrial-grade stupid.
You must not have visited a 9/11 truther website. Absolutely nothing--not even building engineers explaining exactly how it's impossible that controlled detonation brought down the towers--will convince them that 9/11 wasn't a Bush conspiracy.
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For the record, I tried to submit a different headline, but the buggy, AJAX-ridden story editor wouldn't display the changes I made in the text boxes when I hit Preview. It kept displaying the old text unchanged. I even refreshed the page and tried a different browser. Eventually, I said, "Fuck it" and submitted, hoping it would post the changes.
Did you ignore what I wrote? The MacBook Air is $999 and uses a Core 2 Duo instead of an Atom. The point Apple didn't see in netbooks is that they were cheaply made and underpowered for the tasks they're trying to accomplish with an affordable price. To them, the iPad is a better deal and a better experience. You're free to disagree, but the MacBook Air is still not a netbook.
That's correct. A netbook is supposed to be an inexpensive little internet laptop. $1000 is no longer fitting the spirit of the definition.
Netbooks don't cost $999. Nice try.
A $999 netbook? Part of the definition of netbooks is that they're inexpensive.
This is being positioned by Apple as a normal laptop with a unique, ultra-mobile design that will form the basis of their future laptops. I think Steve Jobs was commenting more on the tiny machines that underwent compromises in capability and user experience to become affordable. Many netbooks are a bit of a chore to do the simple tasks they're designed for. Apple believes that the iPad is a better deal for that price range and demographic.
If you think a link to a review is an ad, that suggests you simply don't like Apple and don't want to see them reviewed favorably in any form. What other reason could you possibly have? Otherwise, you would have just not replied to the story out of disinterest. In other words, though you accuse the site of bias, the only bias is from you.
Especially since Google is so much worse yet inexplicably has defenders on Slashdot.
This company's CEO actually said that only people who have something to hide care about privacy. They were caught archiving WiFi network information--not just collecting it, but "accidentally" storing it. Sure, the company that wants to collect and index everything forgot to configure its network scanners and data archivers properly. Android is manipulated and controlled by the carriers who are slapping on unremoable junkware.
It's as if readers of Slashdot are stuck in a 2000 time warp where Google is the benevolent upstart using cheap Linux computers. This is not some friendly open source company--their search engine is as closed source as ever. They offer free services like email and web browsing to get your data indexed for advertising purposes.
I just keep waiting for the backlash to happen. It happened with Apple--every Apple story on Slashdot now gets overrun with haters. Apparently, Google can flat-out tell everyone it doesn't give a shit about privacy, and many Slashdotters don't care.
Linux users yesterday: "We have centralized software repositories with quality control testing and easy installation, and it rocks."
Linux users today: "Apple is locking down the Mac!"
They stay in business by creating the trends in the first place.
This often angers those who feel a need to go against the grain by hating the company.
Dual-core 1.86 Ghz is good enough for what the majority of the population does with computers today, especially for what they would do on a netbook. Performance is a solved problem for mainstream tasks like email and the web.
That's fucking stupid. Every Linux distro can have a centralized repository and installer, but Apple can't?
A Mac App Store doesn't mean they're locking down the Mac. It means good riddance to DMGs. I knew Apple alarmists would pounce on the store, though, and the "you let it" comment from Ron Gilbert is just dumb. Apple does what it wants.
How can we argue with you after all those specific examples you posted?
Just so you know, they can on Safari.
It's easy to do that when you arbitrarily bump up the major version number every six months to "catch up" with Internet Explorer 8.
It's never open source's fault. There's always an excuse blaming something else.
Nothing will change. People here bitched about Blizzard over the Bnetd issue. They bitched about the removal of LAN play in SC2. They threatened to boycott. Nothing happened. SC2 was a huge seller anyway, because gamers are crack-addicted hamsters who never follow through with their forum threats.
So you actually believe the bullshit argument that the contents of your computer's RAM violate the scope of the license and is therefore copyright infringement? No wonder you posted anonymously.
Could you ask your employer if they're ever going to offer LAN play in Battle.net? Multiple professional tournaments have had lag problems.
I didn't draw that conclusion at all. I said that it's a pointless technology and then added that it only works well on big screens. Notice that you didn't dispute this fact at all, because it's verifiably true.
People who use the "fail" meme come off sounding incredibly stupid. Next.
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You're actually arguing that Windows and Office aren't bloated and underwhelming and that Apple's interfaces aren't vastly superior? Have you never compared a Windows smartphone to an iPhone?
Steadily improving?! The Vista debacle happened under Ballmer. Why do you attribute it to Bill Gates?
Some examples would be nice.
360 has been the same money-loser as the original. Have you forgotten the red ring of death debacle, which happened under Ballmer? You seem to think "steady improvements" is going to keep Microsoft on the edge of technology.
"This sucks and I hate it, which means Ballmer is good."
GCC? Stallman didn't even believe in precompiled headers according to a NeXTStep employee, and he refused to add the feature to GCC. His GPL policy regarding linking with GCC is one of the reasons Clang/LLVM has so much support in the first place.
Linus has also done shitty things to hold Linux back, like when he refused and criticized someone's VM scheme...until it was cloned by another kernel developer he was used to working with.
You must not have visited a 9/11 truther website. Absolutely nothing--not even building engineers explaining exactly how it's impossible that controlled detonation brought down the towers--will convince them that 9/11 wasn't a Bush conspiracy.