Aren't you special. If you hate iTunes so much, why do you use it? Why get a device thats tied to something you hate so much?
My wife got an ipod touch as a gift. So, short of me saying: No way will I re-install any appple crapware on the computer, we decided a virtual machine would be a fine place for apple to install quicktime, itunes, bonjour and whatever other crap it needs to SYNC A FUCKING OVERHYPED MUSIC PLAYER.
Finally... you're complaining about the number of services running? You know they just idle and are swapped out any time your not syncing, right? Its not like they sit there eating away ram and processing power. I'm sure you have plenty of other retarded services that do the same thing on your Windows machines. Do you bitch about the Windows Error Reporting service too?
Spoken like someone who never had issues with services. Especially when they all start fighting for the same resources. And yes, I do turn off unneeded services because even idle they are eating ram and processing power and if they're not needed, I don't want or need them running.
Also, why would I ever want to add a possible attack vector to my system? Apple software for Windows is written pretty horribly, I have no idea how many holes are lurking in there. Simply, I do not trust Apple as a developer.
Having radio button somewhere that makes your OS vulnerable to _KNOWN_ exploit is really stupid idea.
You can only idiot-proof the OS so much. The end users need to have some responsibility for their actions.
It's like putting a lock on your door and leaving it unlocked. Should the lock manufacturer prevent you from leaving the door unlocked? They can, but then when you have a situation where you need the door always unlocked you're out of luck.
There are situations where you need to run IE and Windows in lower security modes, mostly due to poorly written legacy software. Microsoft can only help you so much, they have been pushing security since NT 3.1, most companies ignored the guidelines, (AOL, Apple, Macromedia/Adobe, EA, Sony and Google to name a few HUGE ones). MS finally got tough with them with Vista and 7. The problem is, now lots of users run out and disable UAC or DEP because some app doesn't play nice with it, or they have to run Everquest as an administrator, because games need admin access for some reason, or older versions of AIM needed to violate DEP, or Google Toolbar wouldn't run in IE7 with high security on. Who's fault is this? MS for not breaking legacy apps, software companies for writing sloppy code, or end users for putting up with this crap?
How is this different from the old Galacticomm "action commands" in the chat rooms?/l You're funny turns into "Joe User laughs out loud 'You're funny'. (Done in 1992) The commands could be customized or turned off as well, also they could change based on the person doing it.
Or how about when developers at my company turned:) into graphics for smileys in realtime web chat (in 1996).
...but how many of us take our comments beyond a Slashdot post?
Since 9/11, Amtrak trips: NYC to Seattle, 4 times. NYC to Ft Worth, 8 times, NYC to ABQ 6 times, NYC to New Orleans twice, NYC to Miami once, and NYC to CHI, lots.
Those are not short trips and I have flown a few times since then, but I usually don't.
The common carrier/public utility thing is what bothers me.
I can't go and run my own fibre around the neighborhood because Verizon and Time Warner have exclusive deals with the city. Personally, I think they should be considered agents of the government and subject to the same restrictions. I'm not sure where the courts would come in on this.
Also, aren't they getting into a fight they don't want to get involved in? The argument being, if they have the ability to monitor forums then they have the ability to monitor any other illegal activities going on.
No, not here and not ever. You can't be ordered to say something, it violates so many basics of the US legal system it's sad to think someone would think otherwise.
For the accounts and message storage system, it's optimized for millions of messages and quick lookups of account info.
It was only talking to a web server, so SMTP and IMAP would have been wasteful overhead, a direct interface with a constantly open connection would have been much quicker. (Also, this was 1997, we were limited)
User to user messages(IM) is just fast email when both users are there and is pretty much regular email when one isn't.
Or, for example, this NNTP/Usenet clone thing called Slashdot. I never understood why developers love to shove message boards into SQL. The accounting system, yes, the messages, no.
I ran a site that did private messages between users, we had 3 choices, SQL database, custom app, or mail server. I suggested using a mail server with a custom interface so could bypass SMTP/IMAP. We went with a custom server instead, It ran rings around SQL and could handle millions of messages with little CPU/disk/network use, but we did have to re-invent some things that were already done had we used a mail server or SQL.
You need to use the best tool for the job at hand.
On the other hand management might request that IT buy a tank and a rocket launcher. Hmmm... I wonder if I could get them to budget a BFG9000.
I did get them to budget a new 90-ohm bedistor for the network stack once. The freaking Webmaster caught on, submitting a request on Apr 1 was a dead giveaway.
PERL is Perl, and not an acronym! Or do you write PERL on your Apple MAC?
Practical Extraction and Report Language?
Yeah, I know, it's written Perl. I write too many reports with too many acronyms to care anymore.
On another note, does the increase in the use of automatic spell checkers make you feel all sad inside? What I mean is, after losing your main hobby and apparently sole purpose in life, I could see you getting depressed.
How many execs do you have in a 20 person company?
I worked in a 15 person company that had a CEO, 4 VP's and 2 high-level managers, too many chiefs, not enough braves. I used to get advice from the CEO about how we should go and rewrite our software in PERL, or PHP, depending on the article he was reading.
If when I flipped up the top of the gear stick on my Aston Martin DB5 there was a little red button there. And just for kicks one night I decided to press that button while I was entertaining the latest of in my series of hot babes and she happened to be shot out of the roof of my car, I would be a little ticked off (and Q would also get an earful).
It's more like you ripped the dashboard out and connected some wires. Low level routines don't just sit there with a big red button, you have to look for them.
It's been a while since I've done any Windows programming, but IIRC, if the cursoron function is available for 3rd party vendors, then someone in Microsoft explicitly exported that function. It didn't just get there by magic. Who is at fault? MS making the function available and not documenting it and then changing it.
It doesn't work that way. It's a low level kernel function, it has to be available as its also used by the mouse pointer control, remote desktop service and the accessibility system.
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Aren't you special. If you hate iTunes so much, why do you use it? Why get a device thats tied to something you hate so much?
My wife got an ipod touch as a gift. So, short of me saying: No way will I re-install any appple crapware on the computer, we decided a virtual machine would be a fine place for apple to install quicktime, itunes, bonjour and whatever other crap it needs to SYNC A FUCKING OVERHYPED MUSIC PLAYER.
Finally ... you're complaining about the number of services running? You know they just idle and are swapped out any time your not syncing, right? Its not like they sit there eating away ram and processing power. I'm sure you have plenty of other retarded services that do the same thing on your Windows machines. Do you bitch about the Windows Error Reporting service too?
Spoken like someone who never had issues with services. Especially when they all start fighting for the same resources. And yes, I do turn off unneeded services because even idle they are eating ram and processing power and if they're not needed, I don't want or need them running.
Also, why would I ever want to add a possible attack vector to my system? Apple software for Windows is written pretty horribly, I have no idea how many holes are lurking in there. Simply, I do not trust Apple as a developer.
So, yes, iTunes sucks, keep it away from me.
Bingo!
Flash and Silverlight won't see the inside of this box unless something huge happens with Google and media distribution.
Itunes for Windows, the realplayer of the late 2000's.
Seriously, to sync an ipod, I need how many running apps and services? And a new network protocol, sure, why not.
Itunes lives in a VM in my house.
Having radio button somewhere that makes your OS vulnerable to _KNOWN_ exploit is really stupid idea.
You can only idiot-proof the OS so much. The end users need to have some responsibility for their actions.
It's like putting a lock on your door and leaving it unlocked. Should the lock manufacturer prevent you from leaving the door unlocked? They can, but then when you have a situation where you need the door always unlocked you're out of luck.
There are situations where you need to run IE and Windows in lower security modes, mostly due to poorly written legacy software. Microsoft can only help you so much, they have been pushing security since NT 3.1, most companies ignored the guidelines, (AOL, Apple, Macromedia/Adobe, EA, Sony and Google to name a few HUGE ones). MS finally got tough with them with Vista and 7. The problem is, now lots of users run out and disable UAC or DEP because some app doesn't play nice with it, or they have to run Everquest as an administrator, because games need admin access for some reason, or older versions of AIM needed to violate DEP, or Google Toolbar wouldn't run in IE7 with high security on. Who's fault is this? MS for not breaking legacy apps, software companies for writing sloppy code, or end users for putting up with this crap?
There was also the license renewal a few years ago, I'm guessing spyglass got a nice amount of money.
I'm guessing it was to get rid of the last bits of Spyglass Mosaic code, so they would stop having to license it.
Each in isolation are fairly innocent. But together, they indicate intent
Intent to do what though? There's no trademark on Nexus. I suggest they rename the phone to Butt-Head Family.
Seriously,
How is this different from the old Galacticomm "action commands" in the chat rooms? /l You're funny turns into "Joe User laughs out loud 'You're funny'. (Done in 1992)
The commands could be customized or turned off as well, also they could change based on the person doing it.
Or how about when developers at my company turned :) into graphics for smileys in realtime web chat (in 1996).
So, what are they trying to patent?
I for one welcome our new 15% state tax rate overlords.
Seriously, a statewide sales tax in NY would either shortchange and ruin NYC services or overcharge and ruin the always-failing upstate economy.
...but how many of us take our comments beyond a Slashdot post?
Since 9/11, Amtrak trips: NYC to Seattle, 4 times. NYC to Ft Worth, 8 times, NYC to ABQ 6 times, NYC to New Orleans twice, NYC to Miami once, and NYC to CHI, lots.
Those are not short trips and I have flown a few times since then, but I usually don't.
I said most.
Usually the planners are the ones who are sitting somewhere far away when the idiot goes on his suicide run.
It takes a special type of retard to blow up people not involved in their "struggle".
(Someone once equated Islamist militants to the KKK, seriously there's not much difference.)
Are you really trying to convince me that they are a bunch of incompetents who just manage to cause a little damage but that is all ?
Most terrorists, like most other criminals, are not smart people. Smart people don't tend to try and blow themselves up.
That's pretty much what I was thinking. The US does love to play spy games.
The common carrier/public utility thing is what bothers me.
I can't go and run my own fibre around the neighborhood because Verizon and Time Warner have exclusive deals with the city. Personally, I think they should be considered agents of the government and subject to the same restrictions. I'm not sure where the courts would come in on this.
Also, aren't they getting into a fight they don't want to get involved in? The argument being, if they have the ability to monitor forums then they have the ability to monitor any other illegal activities going on.
SCUBA is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
So if the cop says,"tell them to ....
No, not here and not ever. You can't be ordered to say something, it violates so many basics of the US legal system it's sad to think someone would think otherwise.
No, like I said before, we wrote a custom server. So we had complete control over every aspect of the system.
For the accounts and message storage system, it's optimized for millions of messages and quick lookups of account info.
It was only talking to a web server, so SMTP and IMAP would have been wasteful overhead, a direct interface with a constantly open connection would have been much quicker. (Also, this was 1997, we were limited)
User to user messages(IM) is just fast email when both users are there and is pretty much regular email when one isn't.
Or, for example, this NNTP/Usenet clone thing called Slashdot. I never understood why developers love to shove message boards into SQL. The accounting system, yes, the messages, no.
I ran a site that did private messages between users, we had 3 choices, SQL database, custom app, or mail server. I suggested using a mail server with a custom interface so could bypass SMTP/IMAP. We went with a custom server instead, It ran rings around SQL and could handle millions of messages with little CPU/disk/network use, but we did have to re-invent some things that were already done had we used a mail server or SQL.
You need to use the best tool for the job at hand.
On the other hand management might request that IT buy a tank and a rocket launcher. Hmmm... I wonder if I could get them to budget a BFG9000.
I did get them to budget a new 90-ohm bedistor for the network stack once. The freaking Webmaster caught on, submitting a request on Apr 1 was a dead giveaway.
It's a backronym. It was Perl first and then later Practical Extraction and Report Language.
Ever wonder why most people laugh at the Slashdot user base? Yeah, it's things like this.
(I blame GNU and their recursive acronym for this silliness.)
PERL is Perl, and not an acronym! Or do you write PERL on your Apple MAC?
Practical Extraction and Report Language?
Yeah, I know, it's written Perl. I write too many reports with too many acronyms to care anymore.
On another note, does the increase in the use of automatic spell checkers make you feel all sad inside? What I mean is, after losing your main hobby and apparently sole purpose in life, I could see you getting depressed.
How many execs do you have in a 20 person company?
I worked in a 15 person company that had a CEO, 4 VP's and 2 high-level managers, too many chiefs, not enough braves. I used to get advice from the CEO about how we should go and rewrite our software in PERL, or PHP, depending on the article he was reading.
They went out of business, obivously.
and telling someone else how to do it
I'm not a lawyer either, but I know enough that Congress can't pass laws restricting speech unless that speech puts people's lives in danger.
Apple's profits don't count.
If when I flipped up the top of the gear stick on my Aston Martin DB5 there was a little red button there. And just for kicks one night I decided to press that button while I was entertaining the latest of in my series of hot babes and she happened to be shot out of the roof of my car, I would be a little ticked off (and Q would also get an earful).
It's more like you ripped the dashboard out and connected some wires. Low level routines don't just sit there with a big red button, you have to look for them.
It's been a while since I've done any Windows programming, but IIRC, if the cursoron function is available for 3rd party vendors, then someone in Microsoft explicitly exported that function. It didn't just get there by magic. Who is at fault? MS making the function available and not documenting it and then changing it.
It doesn't work that way. It's a low level kernel function, it has to be available as its also used by the mouse pointer control, remote desktop service and the accessibility system.