"Why precisely do people think they need 64-bit applications?"
To get better performance for starters. And before you start telling how 64 bitness does nothing for performance, maybe you should read how 32bit and 64bit x86 differ from each other.
And, of course, the size of the datasets that people handle are going up all the time, so why SHOULDN'T we move to 32bit apps?
"The fact of the matter is that there wasn't a fully working incremental backup solution for OS X and HFS+ until Time Machine."
Last time I used Ubuntu, there wasn't one for it either, does it have one now? And before you mention any of the third-party backup-tools that are available then I would be forced to remind you that there were and are plenty of third-party backup-tools for OS X out there. So what exactly is the difference here?
"For all other UNIXes and Linux, incremental backup has been available, but OS X is so pathetically late to the game."
Backups have been available for OS X as well, so what on earth are you blathering about? Sure, backup-tool might not have been built in to OS X, but it hasn't been built in to Linux either. Sure, there are rsync and others, but you are deluding yourself if you think that rsync alone is enough.
"Yes but he didn't. He says he's a fast safe driver"
According to studies, most drivers think that they are better than average drivers.
"and has never hit any body, ever."
So we should congratulate him for not hitting anyone? Funny, I thought that not hitting anyone is the default. we assume that people don't hit other people with their cars. Congratulating someone for not hitting others, is like congratulating you for managing to put your pants on this morning.
And is your logic here that since he has not hit anyone yet, he should be allowed to drive like a maniac? Only when you hit someone, then you should start obeying the law? Uh, OK...
"Speed doesn't kill, inattentiveness does."
you can be attentive as hell, and still get yourself and/or other killed. That is a FACT.
"I mean really. You are upset about their explanation of the sea boiling off without batting an eye at the time travel part?"
It's called "suspension of disbelief". We can accept things like time travel, or superhero that flies. But we can't really accept things like water that vanishes forever in to thin air (pardon the pun) or the fact that no-one realized that Clark Kent was Superman. A flying superhero is something so strange that we can accept that as part of the story. Same thing with time travel.
well, yeah. Lakes and other bodies of water can evaporate away. But like you said, that water then forms clouds and after a while the water rains down and refills those bodies of water from where the wter gets evaporated from. Sure, the water could go to some other body of water, leaving the original source of water dry. But the thing in the comic was that they wanted to prevent the OCEANS from evaporating. And that begs the questions: If oceans evaporated, what would happen to the water? Well, we aready have the answer, since oceans evaporate away all the time (not entirely, of course). the water just goes back to the oceans after a detour in lakes and rivers. But the comic made it sound like that when water evaporates, it's gone forever. And that's a load of bullshit.
It is the same as how here on our much more boring earth, rain fills our lakes. If a pond or lake doesn't get any rain it will eventually evaporate away, it has to be refilled. I don't think it was meant in the sense of "its filling the lake with something other than what is already there" so much as "this is how these lakes were formed and are maintained".
That reminds me of a one Mandrake the Magician story, where they encountered visitors from the future. They told how in the future people live underground since surface of Earth is scorching hot. They also told how oceans are covered under sheet of glass in order to prevent them from being "vaporized away". When I was 7 years old that seemed like a cool story, but as I got older, I suddenly realized that "that is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard!". Where would it vaporize? To space? Haven't the stripwrites ever heard of water cycle? Maybe we should send them to Titan to observe the effect firsthand?
One - it's open source. The community will fix the code and make it clean as soon as any information about what code is infringing is released.
Well, that would work when we talk about copyrights (the thing SCO was all about). But we are talking about _patents_. Suppose there is code in Linux that does X. Microsoft has patent that covers doing X. How do you "clean" that? The purpose of the code is to do X, and X is patented. Only options would be to either license the patent, or remove the functionality.
If we were talking about copyrights, then the problem might be that Linux does X in similar way as Microsoft does it, in which case Linux-developers can change to code so it does it differently. But that does not work with patents. Copyrights does not cover what you do, it covers how you do it. Patents cover what you do.
Of course, IANAL. If someone can prove me wrong, I'd be happy to hear it.
Well, I'm a Finn and/. was the first place where I heard of this. I then proceeded to read the linked article. So it definitely benefitted me. Should this piece of news be ignored because the article is in Finnish? "Stuff that matter. But only as long as it's in English".
The key here is that as the chairman of the committee he's supposed to work from a neutral point of view. Sure he has his own personal opinion but he's not supposed to let that influence his job as chairman. By taking the role of chairman you are pretty much agreeing to be bound by that.
According to the people who were present during the meeting, he handled the meeting really, really well. He was balanced, and kept the meeting in a tight rein. He also repeatedly underlined the fact that SFS's official stand on the issue will be decided by a vote in that meeting, regardless what the individual members might feel about the issue.
So it was not like the meeting was anti-OOXML. It was fair and balanced. He apparently asked to voice his opinion as a private citizen (a request that was granted) due to pressure from Microsoft. And his opinion was based on facts that Microsoft could not refute.
the committee probably did not even have the authority to let him "step down" from the chairmanship and back up again.
Apparently it did. He asked for a permission, and the permission was granted. If the committee didn't have that authority, why should he be punished for a mistake that others in the committee made?
"They will continue to buy Apple even when better, cheaper, more open alternatives exist."
But are those other players "better"? Different people value different things, and people who buy iPods obviously value things that it offers. Things like good design, small size and good UI. Some people like products from Archos (for example) and for those people they make a better product than Apple does. Who is to say which product is universally superior to the other? Archos-supporeters might say that Archos has a better product since it has a bigger screen and it plays back more formats. Apple-supporters would say that the Archos is clumsier, bigger and heavier than the iPod, and the iPod plays back the formats that matter. How would you go about deciding which product is better than the other? Different people value different things.
Price? iPods are usually a bit more expensive than competing products. But they also FEEL more expensive. Whenever I try out a Creative or Archos or some other player, they feel cheaper and flimsier. They have poorer UI's and they are usually bigger. Yes, it would be a bit cheaper, but using them would be less enjoyable.
As to being "more open"... I don't care. I have bunch of media. I want to get that media on the device. iTunes handles that pretty well. Why should I care how "open" it is? Of course some other people would care for variety of reasons. But their reasons don't apply to me. So why should I change products because some other product is more "open", when that particular feature would not give _me_ any benefits at all?
"Sure... have you got the hard facts to back up your claim that 'bitser' computers are only 2% of the market?"
Well, I routinely see statistics of most popular computers in here. And the big players (HP and Dell) have 20+% each). The segment "other" that includes self-built computers, whiteboxes and big OEM's that are not ranked individually due to too low sales (like Apple) is usually around 5%. So self-built computers have under 5% share, making them a minor player. Yes, many geeks build their own computers. But not all geeks do (I don't do it anymore for example). And geeks themselves are a minority.
Well, we don't have Best Buy or Newegg in Finland. But that doesn't mean that we don't have computer-retailers over here. We have LOTS of other computer-retailers, and the most popular computers are more or less the same as the ones in USA: HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba etc. etc.
If you have hard facts to back up your claim that "market share of Name Brand Computers is also a lot smaller" now would be a good time to present them.
"I made that comment on my blog because that reflects my personal opinion."
Miguel, an honest question: Why is it that your "personal opinion" seems to ALWAYS be "Microsoft and everything they do rocks!"? Seriously? You seem to be the Official Microsoft-fanboy of free software movement. You fell in love with C# and proceeded to push it in to Linux. You fell in love with Silverlight and proceeded to push it in Linux. You fell in love with OOXML and praise it.
Seriously: What is it with your infatuation with Microsoft? Everythig they do seem to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, according to you. IS that really smart thing to do, when we consider all the shenanigans MS has pulled in the past, and continue to pull? Patent-threats? Funding of SCO? Hello?!?!?
[quote]The space is also poor if you're going to be storing those wide screen vids on there[/quote]
Huh? I have been ripping my DVD-collection with HandBrake for use in iPod and AppleTV: And IIRC, the size of your average movie is about... 500 megs. So I could store my entire music-collection (about 1000 songs, a bit over 5GB) on the Touch, sprinkle it with some podcasts, add few pictures in there, and still have space for several movies and/or tv-episodes. Granted, I couldn't fit every single video I owned in there, but why would I want to?
"That's their business model: They make you believe you have a reservation, then you have to go around all the rental places trying to find one."
Jerry: I don't understand, I made a reservation, do you have my reservation?
Agent: Yes, we do, unfortunately we ran out of cars.
Jerry: But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation.
Agent: I know why we have reservations.
Jerry: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them.
"You don't know what reading comprehension level is, do you?"
I do. And I asked you to guess my level of education (which should be easy, according to you). You provided me with a non-answer. I asked you a simple question, and you failed to provide me with a decent answer. You are all talk, and no action. Words is all you have, and when it comes time for action, you fail. Miserably. What a sad, pathetic man you are.
"At this point, I'm making fun of you, and have been for some time."
Good for you. That just goes to prove that you really are an ass. An ass with a gigantic superiority-complex. Good luck on your chosen path.
"If you look carefully, I imagine you'll find this a common theme in your life."
Nope. But, as I said before, I think we are through here. Go pester someone else, buddy.
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"Why precisely do people think they need 64-bit applications?"
To get better performance for starters. And before you start telling how 64 bitness does nothing for performance, maybe you should read how 32bit and 64bit x86 differ from each other.
And, of course, the size of the datasets that people handle are going up all the time, so why SHOULDN'T we move to 32bit apps?
"The fact of the matter is that there wasn't a fully working incremental backup solution for OS X and HFS+ until Time Machine."
Last time I used Ubuntu, there wasn't one for it either, does it have one now? And before you mention any of the third-party backup-tools that are available then I would be forced to remind you that there were and are plenty of third-party backup-tools for OS X out there. So what exactly is the difference here?
"For all other UNIXes and Linux, incremental backup has been available, but OS X is so pathetically late to the game."
Backups have been available for OS X as well, so what on earth are you blathering about? Sure, backup-tool might not have been built in to OS X, but it hasn't been built in to Linux either. Sure, there are rsync and others, but you are deluding yourself if you think that rsync alone is enough.
"Yes but he didn't. He says he's a fast safe driver"
According to studies, most drivers think that they are better than average drivers.
"and has never hit any body, ever."
So we should congratulate him for not hitting anyone? Funny, I thought that not hitting anyone is the default. we assume that people don't hit other people with their cars. Congratulating someone for not hitting others, is like congratulating you for managing to put your pants on this morning.
And is your logic here that since he has not hit anyone yet, he should be allowed to drive like a maniac? Only when you hit someone, then you should start obeying the law? Uh, OK...
"Speed doesn't kill, inattentiveness does."
you can be attentive as hell, and still get yourself and/or other killed. That is a FACT.
"I mean really. You are upset about their explanation of the sea boiling off without batting an eye at the time travel part?"
It's called "suspension of disbelief". We can accept things like time travel, or superhero that flies. But we can't really accept things like water that vanishes forever in to thin air (pardon the pun) or the fact that no-one realized that Clark Kent was Superman. A flying superhero is something so strange that we can accept that as part of the story. Same thing with time travel.
well, yeah. Lakes and other bodies of water can evaporate away. But like you said, that water then forms clouds and after a while the water rains down and refills those bodies of water from where the wter gets evaporated from. Sure, the water could go to some other body of water, leaving the original source of water dry. But the thing in the comic was that they wanted to prevent the OCEANS from evaporating. And that begs the questions: If oceans evaporated, what would happen to the water? Well, we aready have the answer, since oceans evaporate away all the time (not entirely, of course). the water just goes back to the oceans after a detour in lakes and rivers. But the comic made it sound like that when water evaporates, it's gone forever. And that's a load of bullshit.
That reminds me of a one Mandrake the Magician story, where they encountered visitors from the future. They told how in the future people live underground since surface of Earth is scorching hot. They also told how oceans are covered under sheet of glass in order to prevent them from being "vaporized away". When I was 7 years old that seemed like a cool story, but as I got older, I suddenly realized that "that is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard!". Where would it vaporize? To space? Haven't the stripwrites ever heard of water cycle? Maybe we should send them to Titan to observe the effect firsthand?
Stupid magician...
Well, that would work when we talk about copyrights (the thing SCO was all about). But we are talking about _patents_. Suppose there is code in Linux that does X. Microsoft has patent that covers doing X. How do you "clean" that? The purpose of the code is to do X, and X is patented. Only options would be to either license the patent, or remove the functionality.
If we were talking about copyrights, then the problem might be that Linux does X in similar way as Microsoft does it, in which case Linux-developers can change to code so it does it differently. But that does not work with patents. Copyrights does not cover what you do, it covers how you do it. Patents cover what you do.
Of course, IANAL. If someone can prove me wrong, I'd be happy to hear it.
... are listed here. Those wooden knobs are a real bargain! Only $485!
The way it seems to me, is that MS put heavy pressure on the committee to approve OOXML, and he gave his opinion as a response to that pressure.
Well, I'm a Finn and /. was the first place where I heard of this. I then proceeded to read the linked article. So it definitely benefitted me. Should this piece of news be ignored because the article is in Finnish? "Stuff that matter. But only as long as it's in English".
According to the people who were present during the meeting, he handled the meeting really, really well. He was balanced, and kept the meeting in a tight rein. He also repeatedly underlined the fact that SFS's official stand on the issue will be decided by a vote in that meeting, regardless what the individual members might feel about the issue.
So it was not like the meeting was anti-OOXML. It was fair and balanced. He apparently asked to voice his opinion as a private citizen (a request that was granted) due to pressure from Microsoft. And his opinion was based on facts that Microsoft could not refute.
Apparently it did. He asked for a permission, and the permission was granted. If the committee didn't have that authority, why should he be punished for a mistake that others in the committee made?
Who, instead of thinking about Half-Life 2, thought of The Tripods?
Isn't it against the NDA to say that you are/were under an NDA?
"They will continue to buy Apple even when better, cheaper, more open alternatives exist."
But are those other players "better"? Different people value different things, and people who buy iPods obviously value things that it offers. Things like good design, small size and good UI. Some people like products from Archos (for example) and for those people they make a better product than Apple does. Who is to say which product is universally superior to the other? Archos-supporeters might say that Archos has a better product since it has a bigger screen and it plays back more formats. Apple-supporters would say that the Archos is clumsier, bigger and heavier than the iPod, and the iPod plays back the formats that matter. How would you go about deciding which product is better than the other? Different people value different things.
Price? iPods are usually a bit more expensive than competing products. But they also FEEL more expensive. Whenever I try out a Creative or Archos or some other player, they feel cheaper and flimsier. They have poorer UI's and they are usually bigger. Yes, it would be a bit cheaper, but using them would be less enjoyable.
As to being "more open"... I don't care. I have bunch of media. I want to get that media on the device. iTunes handles that pretty well. Why should I care how "open" it is? Of course some other people would care for variety of reasons. But their reasons don't apply to me. So why should I change products because some other product is more "open", when that particular feature would not give _me_ any benefits at all?
"Sure... have you got the hard facts to back up your claim that 'bitser' computers are only 2% of the market?"
Well, I routinely see statistics of most popular computers in here. And the big players (HP and Dell) have 20+% each). The segment "other" that includes self-built computers, whiteboxes and big OEM's that are not ranked individually due to too low sales (like Apple) is usually around 5%. So self-built computers have under 5% share, making them a minor player. Yes, many geeks build their own computers. But not all geeks do (I don't do it anymore for example). And geeks themselves are a minority.
Um, because it makes more sense to go after 98% of the market, instead of going after 2% of the market?
Well, we don't have Best Buy or Newegg in Finland. But that doesn't mean that we don't have computer-retailers over here. We have LOTS of other computer-retailers, and the most popular computers are more or less the same as the ones in USA: HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba etc. etc.
If you have hard facts to back up your claim that "market share of Name Brand Computers is also a lot smaller" now would be a good time to present them.
"But it's not cheaper than just building a PC yourself."
And about 98% of computer-users do not build their own PC's, so why should Apple be interested in that particular subset of users?
Fastest: It's fastest at sucking your bank-account dry
Most powerful: It can wrestle it's admin to the ground and beat it to submission
"I made that comment on my blog because that reflects my personal opinion."
Miguel, an honest question: Why is it that your "personal opinion" seems to ALWAYS be "Microsoft and everything they do rocks!"? Seriously? You seem to be the Official Microsoft-fanboy of free software movement. You fell in love with C# and proceeded to push it in to Linux. You fell in love with Silverlight and proceeded to push it in Linux. You fell in love with OOXML and praise it.
Seriously: What is it with your infatuation with Microsoft? Everythig they do seem to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, according to you. IS that really smart thing to do, when we consider all the shenanigans MS has pulled in the past, and continue to pull? Patent-threats? Funding of SCO? Hello?!?!?
[quote]The space is also poor if you're going to be storing those wide screen vids on there[/quote]
Huh? I have been ripping my DVD-collection with HandBrake for use in iPod and AppleTV: And IIRC, the size of your average movie is about... 500 megs. So I could store my entire music-collection (about 1000 songs, a bit over 5GB) on the Touch, sprinkle it with some podcasts, add few pictures in there, and still have space for several movies and/or tv-episodes. Granted, I couldn't fit every single video I owned in there, but why would I want to?
"You obviously never saw the 2nd Ed rules books and suppliments. Or the rules for systems such as Rolemaster or GURPs."
I think GURPS is pretty easy to read. Now, HarnMaster on the other hand....
D'oH! It seems I was beaten to the punchline by Feepness.
"That's their business model: They make you believe you have a reservation, then you have to go around all the rental places trying to find one."
Jerry: I don't understand, I made a reservation, do you have my reservation?
Agent: Yes, we do, unfortunately we ran out of cars.
Jerry: But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation.
Agent: I know why we have reservations.
Jerry: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them.
"You don't know what reading comprehension level is, do you?"
I do. And I asked you to guess my level of education (which should be easy, according to you). You provided me with a non-answer. I asked you a simple question, and you failed to provide me with a decent answer. You are all talk, and no action. Words is all you have, and when it comes time for action, you fail. Miserably. What a sad, pathetic man you are.
"At this point, I'm making fun of you, and have been for some time."
Good for you. That just goes to prove that you really are an ass. An ass with a gigantic superiority-complex. Good luck on your chosen path.
"If you look carefully, I imagine you'll find this a common theme in your life."
Nope. But, as I said before, I think we are through here. Go pester someone else, buddy.