You forgot the G4 Cube. I never meant to suggest that Apple does everything perfectly, merely that they never strive for mediocrity. They never try to release a product that will just be OK. Doesn't mean they're always successful.
There were programs years before iTunes that you could rip, mix and burn with. Free ones on top of that.
Not that anybody had ever actually heard of. iTunes was actually developed by another company and then bought by Apple - but I had never heard of it at the time. There may have been similar apps available. Do any of them still exist (that have been around since before iTunes)? What are they called? Could they easily manage a 5,000-song library?
Do you think Firefox was the first browser with tabs too?
No, I imagine that was Opera. Safari 1.0 didn't support tabs either.
The data generated on the iPhone OS platform must become an increasing priority for Apple and we believe the company has the resources to develop its own products in both maps and search in the next five years
Why must it become an increasing priority for Apple? Because it's a high priority for other popular companies, and Apple needs to catch up to Google and Microsoft if it wants to remain trendy? Because raking in cash hand over fist from the sale of shiny new hardware isn't adequate; they need to start datamining too?
Traditionally, Apple has entered markets where the existing offerings sucked ass. When Apple introduced the Macintosh, WYSIWYG text editing was unheard of. When Apple introduced iTunes, nobody had a single app that could "Rip, Mix, Burn." When Apple introduced the iPod, existing portable MP3 players were difficult to use. When Apple introduced the iTunes Store, existing online music stores used cumbersome and intrusive DRM that wasn't Mac-compatible. When Apple introduced the iPhone, most people didn't browse the web on their cell phone, not because it was impossible, but because it was so awkward that it wasn't worth the effort. When Apple introduced Safari, it's because the best browser for the Mac at that point was Internet Explorer, which was already at the end of its life. When Apple introduced Keynote, it's because the visual presentations that Steve Jobs likes to do just can't be done in PowerPoint.
If Apple thinks they can do something that's so far above and beyond the capabilities of Google Search and Google Maps, they'll do it. If Apple thinks they can do something that sort of approaches the usability of Google's offerings and might be an adequate alternative, but isn't really mind-blowing and revolutionary, there's no way in hell.
... were it not for the fact that SQLite is at least two orders of magnitude slower than any other database, including ones written by first year comp sci students.
But if MythTV takes twice as many milliseconds to read a channel listing, it really doesn't matter. Nobody's suggesting that SQLite can replace a real database server in all cases, but performance and scalability are completely unimportant in some applications.
I had no idea such an allergy was possible in 21st century America. I figured anybody with a corn allergy would have simply died of unexplained natural causes early in childhood. Congrats to your brother for still being alive.
Steve Jobs has always been against DRM. Apple didn't create FairPlay to lock out other portable music players, Apple created FairPlay to appease the record labels. Ironically, the only reason the record labels have acquiesced on this is that they became afraid of Apple's near-monopoly position, and saw selling non-DRM'd music (including via competitors like Amazon) as the only way they could weaken Apple's stranglehold on the market (they tried to sell DRM'd music through other companies, but nobody wanted it because it didn't work with the iPod).
What the GP poster was referring to was an officially-sanctioned method to burn DRM'd tracks to audio CD, then re-rip them and encode to a non-DRM'd format, thus incurring a reduction in quality due to the use of lossy compression. There are other ways of achieving that goal without going through the hassle of actually burning a CD, but that's not the same as removing the DRM. There was one app that really did remove the DRM from iTunes Store purchased music, but Apple broke it in the next release of iTunes and it was never heard from again.
Yes, Apple isn't playing nice - but it's NOT the same, because nobody HAS to use Apple's stuff. People buy Apple's products because they WANT to, not because they're locked in. Apple has the dominant position in some markets (portable music players, downloadable music store) but not in others (personal computers, smartphones). In the markets where Apple has a dominant position, they didn't get there by abusing their power to force out the competition; they got there by making something consumers wanted to use more than the competition.
Is there lock-in? Sure, but Apple's efforts in these areas have been aimed squarely at Apple's own products, not at Apple's competitors. Apple doesn't pay its partners not to do business with its competitors, for example.
So yes, we're unhappy when Apple does unfriendly things... but Apple has earned the right to do unfriendly things, and you are free to not use their products. The situation with Microsoft is not the same.
It's one thing if the products are nearly indistinguishable to most people (eg. a Coca-cola employee choosing Coke over Pepsi). Fine, do the "loyal" thing.
You're suggesting, then, that there's more of a difference between the iPhone and a Windows Mobile phone than there is between Coca-Cola and Pepsi?
You're probably right, but I don't think it's a universal truth that should be taken for granted.
There should be no errors. Period. Your program should not allow errors.
I agree: errors should not be allowed. That's why, when the user does something dumb, instead of allowing an error to occur, you should display a message on the screen alerting the user to the problem and informing them of how to fix it, so that an error doesn't occur.
and let out a big screech followed by the sound of glass breaking and it saying "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"
This is almost exactly what several models of Macintosh computers do upon failing POST. You can trigger it manually by pressing the debug button at just the right time after turning on the power. The sound I'm referring to specifically is this one, played at maximum volume.
First you have to realize we have an irrational fear of "ZOMG CP!!!11!!1" secondly, it would actually -help- the real problem (children being abused) to distribute CP for free. Why? Because CP is so restricted people pay a lot of money to the people who are abusing the children which they use to abuse more children. If you can stop them at the source, they have no money, no market and it dries up. But of course, we don't see the rational side of things. If I see a picture of someone dead, or injured do they die again or are injured again? No, it happened once. Same thing with CP.
The issue is a bit more complicated than that, sorry. You're making the assumption that the people who produce child pornography are doing so for financial reasons, and that if they can't find anyone to buy it, they'll stop abusing children. Somehow I don't think that's true. We're living in the age of YouTube; it's not like producing a video is a prohibitively expensive proposition these days.
Take a good long hard look at the source of the propaganda you so enthusiastically spout and tell me with a straight face that the originators actually give a toss about your personal continued existence.
The crazy thing is, the originators have managed convince the people that the people themselves are the source. At Obama's climate summit thingie last week, several Republicans insisted that resistance to the Democrats' health care reform plans didn't originate with the Republicans; it originated with the American people, and the Republicans are just doing the will of the people in opposing whatever the Democrats are trying to do.
That's some skillful political craftsmanship right there.
Proverbs 31:6-7 (NIV): Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
That is, does one expect them to actually follow the rules? No. The ASCC is a whitewash given that it has no real ability to exact meaningful punishments.
Those are about 133,000 jobs on the wrong side of the US and Western Europe - where they might actually respect the law for once.
Apple has threatened to terminate its business relationship with these companies. If the companies fail to satisfy Apple, and Apple makes good on its threat, I'd call that a meaningful punishment.
If Apple stop doing business with a company that won't ensure a safe working environment for its employees, will the root of the problem get fixed? No, of course not, not right away. Apple will switch to another company, and the first company will have one less (rather large) customer. But they'll be able to find other customers, perhaps who are less scrupulous, and the employees will still have unsafe working conditions.
Or maybe, they won't be able to find other customers. Or the other customers they find, will have similar policies in place. Maybe the owners of the company will realize that if they want to continue to attract Western business, they need to make some changes - not due to respect for their employees, but because they need to pass these inspections in order to keep their customers happy.
...and used Microsoft's influence with NetSol to make it happen. You don't think NetSol makes a regular practice of this kind of stuff, do you?
Actually that's precisely what's so troubling about this incident. If NetSol is regularly shutting down and locking domains in response to DMCA notices, we wouldn't necessarily know about it until it happens to a high-profile site like Cryptome. I don't want my own site to be one of the ones that silently disappears.
I've only ever received one DMCA takedown notice. I decided it really wasn't worth fighting over (and certainly not worth paying for counsel), so I took down that site. Probably a good idea anyway. But if the same thing should happen for something that's actually important, is this what I can expect if I refuse to take it down?
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You forgot the G4 Cube. I never meant to suggest that Apple does everything perfectly, merely that they never strive for mediocrity. They never try to release a product that will just be OK. Doesn't mean they're always successful.
There were programs years before iTunes that you could rip, mix and burn with. Free ones on top of that.
Not that anybody had ever actually heard of. iTunes was actually developed by another company and then bought by Apple - but I had never heard of it at the time. There may have been similar apps available. Do any of them still exist (that have been around since before iTunes)? What are they called? Could they easily manage a 5,000-song library?
Do you think Firefox was the first browser with tabs too?
No, I imagine that was Opera. Safari 1.0 didn't support tabs either.
I too drop MP3s onto QuickTime Player when I just want to listen to them once.
The data generated on the iPhone OS platform must become an increasing priority for Apple and we believe the company has the resources to develop its own products in both maps and search in the next five years
Why must it become an increasing priority for Apple? Because it's a high priority for other popular companies, and Apple needs to catch up to Google and Microsoft if it wants to remain trendy? Because raking in cash hand over fist from the sale of shiny new hardware isn't adequate; they need to start datamining too?
Traditionally, Apple has entered markets where the existing offerings sucked ass. When Apple introduced the Macintosh, WYSIWYG text editing was unheard of. When Apple introduced iTunes, nobody had a single app that could "Rip, Mix, Burn." When Apple introduced the iPod, existing portable MP3 players were difficult to use. When Apple introduced the iTunes Store, existing online music stores used cumbersome and intrusive DRM that wasn't Mac-compatible. When Apple introduced the iPhone, most people didn't browse the web on their cell phone, not because it was impossible, but because it was so awkward that it wasn't worth the effort. When Apple introduced Safari, it's because the best browser for the Mac at that point was Internet Explorer, which was already at the end of its life. When Apple introduced Keynote, it's because the visual presentations that Steve Jobs likes to do just can't be done in PowerPoint.
If Apple thinks they can do something that's so far above and beyond the capabilities of Google Search and Google Maps, they'll do it. If Apple thinks they can do something that sort of approaches the usability of Google's offerings and might be an adequate alternative, but isn't really mind-blowing and revolutionary, there's no way in hell.
What to vegan zombies eat? ...
GRRRAAAAAAINS....
I'm also not paying attention now. 20x? Seriously?
Quite right, I was apparently not paying much attention. However, I believe my point is sound.
Remember, XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, use more!
... were it not for the fact that SQLite is at least two orders of magnitude slower than any other database, including ones written by first year comp sci students.
But if MythTV takes twice as many milliseconds to read a channel listing, it really doesn't matter. Nobody's suggesting that SQLite can replace a real database server in all cases, but performance and scalability are completely unimportant in some applications.
If the GAO never found any problems like this, then I'd call them redundant, sure.
I had no idea such an allergy was possible in 21st century America. I figured anybody with a corn allergy would have simply died of unexplained natural causes early in childhood. Congrats to your brother for still being alive.
For that matter when a copy or move fails in Explorer, why can't I simply resume it once I've fixed whatever the problem is.
Are you still running XP? They fixed that in Vista.
Thanks; somehow I was unaware of Requiem. (JHymn is what I was referring to.)
Steve Jobs has always been against DRM. Apple didn't create FairPlay to lock out other portable music players, Apple created FairPlay to appease the record labels. Ironically, the only reason the record labels have acquiesced on this is that they became afraid of Apple's near-monopoly position, and saw selling non-DRM'd music (including via competitors like Amazon) as the only way they could weaken Apple's stranglehold on the market (they tried to sell DRM'd music through other companies, but nobody wanted it because it didn't work with the iPod).
What the GP poster was referring to was an officially-sanctioned method to burn DRM'd tracks to audio CD, then re-rip them and encode to a non-DRM'd format, thus incurring a reduction in quality due to the use of lossy compression. There are other ways of achieving that goal without going through the hassle of actually burning a CD, but that's not the same as removing the DRM. There was one app that really did remove the DRM from iTunes Store purchased music, but Apple broke it in the next release of iTunes and it was never heard from again.
Yes, Apple isn't playing nice - but it's NOT the same, because nobody HAS to use Apple's stuff. People buy Apple's products because they WANT to, not because they're locked in. Apple has the dominant position in some markets (portable music players, downloadable music store) but not in others (personal computers, smartphones). In the markets where Apple has a dominant position, they didn't get there by abusing their power to force out the competition; they got there by making something consumers wanted to use more than the competition.
Is there lock-in? Sure, but Apple's efforts in these areas have been aimed squarely at Apple's own products, not at Apple's competitors. Apple doesn't pay its partners not to do business with its competitors, for example.
So yes, we're unhappy when Apple does unfriendly things... but Apple has earned the right to do unfriendly things, and you are free to not use their products. The situation with Microsoft is not the same.
It's one thing if the products are nearly indistinguishable to most people (eg. a Coca-cola employee choosing Coke over Pepsi). Fine, do the "loyal" thing.
You're suggesting, then, that there's more of a difference between the iPhone and a Windows Mobile phone than there is between Coca-Cola and Pepsi?
You're probably right, but I don't think it's a universal truth that should be taken for granted.
We only call them lobbyists when they initiate the conversation. When the Congressman approaches them first, we call them consultants.
"Something must be done! This is something, therefore it must be done!"
There should be no errors. Period. Your program should not allow errors.
I agree: errors should not be allowed. That's why, when the user does something dumb, instead of allowing an error to occur, you should display a message on the screen alerting the user to the problem and informing them of how to fix it, so that an error doesn't occur.
Come on, seriously?
and let out a big screech followed by the sound of glass breaking and it saying "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"
This is almost exactly what several models of Macintosh computers do upon failing POST. You can trigger it manually by pressing the debug button at just the right time after turning on the power. The sound I'm referring to specifically is this one, played at maximum volume.
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First you have to realize we have an irrational fear of "ZOMG CP!!!11!!1" secondly, it would actually -help- the real problem (children being abused) to distribute CP for free. Why? Because CP is so restricted people pay a lot of money to the people who are abusing the children which they use to abuse more children. If you can stop them at the source, they have no money, no market and it dries up. But of course, we don't see the rational side of things. If I see a picture of someone dead, or injured do they die again or are injured again? No, it happened once. Same thing with CP.
The issue is a bit more complicated than that, sorry. You're making the assumption that the people who produce child pornography are doing so for financial reasons, and that if they can't find anyone to buy it, they'll stop abusing children. Somehow I don't think that's true. We're living in the age of YouTube; it's not like producing a video is a prohibitively expensive proposition these days.
Take a good long hard look at the source of the propaganda you so enthusiastically spout and tell me with a straight face that the originators actually give a toss about your personal continued existence.
The crazy thing is, the originators have managed convince the people that the people themselves are the source. At Obama's climate summit thingie last week, several Republicans insisted that resistance to the Democrats' health care reform plans didn't originate with the Republicans; it originated with the American people, and the Republicans are just doing the will of the people in opposing whatever the Democrats are trying to do.
That's some skillful political craftsmanship right there.
Proverbs 31:6-7 (NIV): Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
That is, does one expect them to actually follow the rules? No. The ASCC is a whitewash given that it has no real ability to exact meaningful punishments.
Those are about 133,000 jobs on the wrong side of the US and Western Europe - where they might actually respect the law for once.
Apple has threatened to terminate its business relationship with these companies. If the companies fail to satisfy Apple, and Apple makes good on its threat, I'd call that a meaningful punishment.
If Apple stop doing business with a company that won't ensure a safe working environment for its employees, will the root of the problem get fixed? No, of course not, not right away. Apple will switch to another company, and the first company will have one less (rather large) customer. But they'll be able to find other customers, perhaps who are less scrupulous, and the employees will still have unsafe working conditions.
Or maybe, they won't be able to find other customers. Or the other customers they find, will have similar policies in place. Maybe the owners of the company will realize that if they want to continue to attract Western business, they need to make some changes - not due to respect for their employees, but because they need to pass these inspections in order to keep their customers happy.
...and used Microsoft's influence with NetSol to make it happen. You don't think NetSol makes a regular practice of this kind of stuff, do you?
Actually that's precisely what's so troubling about this incident. If NetSol is regularly shutting down and locking domains in response to DMCA notices, we wouldn't necessarily know about it until it happens to a high-profile site like Cryptome. I don't want my own site to be one of the ones that silently disappears.
I've only ever received one DMCA takedown notice. I decided it really wasn't worth fighting over (and certainly not worth paying for counsel), so I took down that site. Probably a good idea anyway. But if the same thing should happen for something that's actually important, is this what I can expect if I refuse to take it down?