As Snopes says, 90% of that dialogue (including the basic premise of a user not realizing that computers need power) is real. Since it's funnier when embellished, I posted it that way, but the point is just as valid.
Some users are very smart people who are immensely knowledgeable about other subjects. And some users are morons. Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee:
"Ridge Hall computer assistant; may I help you?" "Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect." "What sort of trouble?" "Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away." "Went away?" "They disappeared." "Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?" "Nothing." "Nothing?" "It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type." "Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?" "How do I tell?" "Can you see the C: prompt on the screen?" "What's a sea-prompt?" "Never mind. Can you move the cursor around on the screen?" "There isn't any cursor: I told you, it won't accept anything I type." "Does your monitor have a power indicator?" "What's a monitor?" "It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on?" "I don't know." "Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that?" "Yes, I think so." "Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it's plugged into the wall." ".......Yes, it is." "When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one?" "No." "Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable." "....... Okay, here it is." "Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely into the back of your computer." "I can't reach." "Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is?" "No." "Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?" "Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle - it's because it's dark." "Dark?" "Yes -the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window." "Well, turn on the office light then." "I can't." "No? Why not?" "Because there's a power outage." "A power... A power outage? Aha, Okay, we've got it licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff your computer came in?" "Well, yes, I keep them in the closet." "Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from." "Really? Is it that bad?" "Yes, I'm afraid it is." "Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?" "Tell them you're too fucking stupid to own a computer."
Multi-button mice worked under OS 9 (and 8 also, IIRC). And it's certainly to work exclusively with a keyboard in Windows or OS 9 (not convenient, but not difficult either).
Slashdot didn't steal this from MacSlash any more than CBS "steals" news from ABC. Something happened, both sites report on it. The article submitters are two different people who wrote two different summaries. What the fuck are you ranting about?
No, it doesn't count because its API is not similar enough to Cocoa to make it useful as a porting tool (unlike WINE). It's incomplete, ugly, and has a tiny installed base. No commercial app vendor would use it. However, as I said, that's irrelevent because no major commercial apps use Carbon in the first place.
I know that. All major commercial apps use Carbon at the moment, so I chose to discuss Carbon. Even if Flash used Cocoa, it wouldn't make a difference - there is no Cocoa implementation for Linux (GNUSTEP doesn't count). But, since it doesn't, the point is moot.
I wonder if the existence of MacOS X being unix based has any role in this kind of decision
For what is, unfortunately, probably not the last time, OS X being UNIX has nothing whatsoever with how easy it is or isn'tto port a Mac program to Linux. Mac apps are written for (in this case) the Carbon API, which is a continuation of the Mac Classic API. It has no resemblance at all to any API available on any non-OSX UNIX platform. It is, in fact, probably more difficult to port a program from OS X than from Windows, because there is no WINE equivilent for Carbon, and the APIs of popular widgets sets are closer to Win32 than to Carbon.
That's their point. They are going to work to get Flash working well in WINE, hopefully on the same level that Office works with Crossover (which is really WINE). WINE can work damn well, it just usually doesn't, unless it's been tuned for a specific app, or the app's been tuned to it.
No, it's fairly obvious that it was prewritten. That's possibly why it was posted AC, to avoide the appearence of karma whoring. It's still damn funny, and quite true.
Keyword: "small sample". You prove nothing. There are many OSS projects that have died, and there are many, likely more, commercial apps that have died. The existance of living commercial apps is irrelevent.
They are problems with your distribution. You didn't get "Linux" on that CD, you got "Red Hat Linux" or "Mandrake Linux" or "Debian GNU/Linux". Linux is just a kernel, not a full operating environment. Windows is both, and therefore IE bugs are problems with Windows just as much as Mozilla bugs are problems with SuSE.
Some people like to be able to choose at listening time what music to listen to. While you can't do that while jogging, an iPod Mini lets you carry around a substantial collection while still being usable for exercise. For some people, it fills a niche that would otherwise require a flash-based player and a full-sized iPod.
And, as Apple markets it for jogging use and provides a one-year warrenty, it wouldn't seem they're too concerned about hard drive problems caused by excessive shakage.
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There is none currently, aside from Theora, which is still in alpha. The lest evil streaming video solution at the moment is probably Quicktime/MPEG4.
XBox, being a regular x86 system, has just about any DB you want to throw on it, including Postgres, MySQL, Firebird, DB2, and even Oracle.
Oops, I meant Cocoa. All major commercial apps use Carbon.
AFAIK, Ian Holm isn't a knight, therefore the parent must have been referring to McKellen.
That fact that you noticed only a few out of many hundreds of CG enhancements show just how good a job Weta did.
As Snopes says, 90% of that dialogue (including the basic premise of a user not realizing that computers need power) is real. Since it's funnier when embellished, I posted it that way, but the point is just as valid.
It wasn't Brave New World or an H2G2 book. I think it was a Ray Bradbury short story, but I can't find it anywhere...
Some users are very smart people who are immensely knowledgeable about other subjects. And some users are morons. Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee:
"Ridge Hall computer assistant; may I help you?"
"Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect."
"What sort of trouble?"
"Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away."
"Went away?"
"They disappeared."
"Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type."
"Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?"
"How do I tell?"
"Can you see the C: prompt on the screen?"
"What's a sea-prompt?"
"Never mind. Can you move the cursor around on the screen?"
"There isn't any cursor: I told you, it won't accept anything I type."
"Does your monitor have a power indicator?"
"What's a monitor?"
"It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on?"
"I don't know."
"Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that?"
"Yes, I think so."
"Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it's plugged into the wall."
".......Yes, it is."
"When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one?"
"No."
"Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable."
"....... Okay, here it is."
"Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely into the back of your computer."
"I can't reach."
"Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is?"
"No."
"Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?"
"Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle - it's because it's dark."
"Dark?"
"Yes -the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window."
"Well, turn on the office light then."
"I can't."
"No? Why not?"
"Because there's a power outage."
"A power... A power outage? Aha, Okay, we've got it licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff your computer came in?"
"Well, yes, I keep them in the closet."
"Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from."
"Really? Is it that bad?"
"Yes, I'm afraid it is."
"Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?"
"Tell them you're too fucking stupid to own a computer."
Multi-button mice worked under OS 9 (and 8 also, IIRC). And it's certainly to work exclusively with a keyboard in Windows or OS 9 (not convenient, but not difficult either).
Slashdot didn't steal this from MacSlash any more than CBS "steals" news from ABC. Something happened, both sites report on it. The article submitters are two different people who wrote two different summaries. What the fuck are you ranting about?
No.
No, it doesn't count because its API is not similar enough to Cocoa to make it useful as a porting tool (unlike WINE). It's incomplete, ugly, and has a tiny installed base. No commercial app vendor would use it. However, as I said, that's irrelevent because no major commercial apps use Carbon in the first place.
I know that. All major commercial apps use Carbon at the moment, so I chose to discuss Carbon. Even if Flash used Cocoa, it wouldn't make a difference - there is no Cocoa implementation for Linux (GNUSTEP doesn't count). But, since it doesn't, the point is moot.
The Flash plugin is already available for Linux.
For what is, unfortunately, probably not the last time, OS X being UNIX has nothing whatsoever with how easy it is or isn'tto port a Mac program to Linux. Mac apps are written for (in this case) the Carbon API, which is a continuation of the Mac Classic API. It has no resemblance at all to any API available on any non-OSX UNIX platform. It is, in fact, probably more difficult to port a program from OS X than from Windows, because there is no WINE equivilent for Carbon, and the APIs of popular widgets sets are closer to Win32 than to Carbon.
That's their point. They are going to work to get Flash working well in WINE, hopefully on the same level that Office works with Crossover (which is really WINE). WINE can work damn well, it just usually doesn't, unless it's been tuned for a specific app, or the app's been tuned to it.
No, it's fairly obvious that it was prewritten. That's possibly why it was posted AC, to avoide the appearence of karma whoring. It's still damn funny, and quite true.
That's what dual processors are for. :-)
There are also gotos in the Linux kernel source. That means nothing. Gotos are not necessarily bad, they just often are.
4x ROT-13 is actually one thousand times as secure as 2x ROT-13.
Keyword: "small sample". You prove nothing. There are many OSS projects that have died, and there are many, likely more, commercial apps that have died. The existance of living commercial apps is irrelevent.
A base Debian install is actually closer to 50MB, IIRC.
They are problems with your distribution. You didn't get "Linux" on that CD, you got "Red Hat Linux" or "Mandrake Linux" or "Debian GNU/Linux". Linux is just a kernel, not a full operating environment. Windows is both, and therefore IE bugs are problems with Windows just as much as Mozilla bugs are problems with SuSE.
And, as Apple markets it for jogging use and provides a one-year warrenty, it wouldn't seem they're too concerned about hard drive problems caused by excessive shakage.
The iPod is 6.1 cubic inches, and the iPod Mini is 3.6. That's a little more than half the size, a far cry from "0.4 inches smaller".