That's a bogus argument. Virtual size is absolutely unimportant as far as the performance is concerned. You have a fixed amount of memory in the system and if Firefox takes up a lot of real memory, other parts of the system will feel the pain. The fact that the *real* memory usage of FF 3.0 is low means that it is not being greedy about using system resources. Every process has the full VM size to play with, so looking at the VM size doesn't really tell you much about what effect that process will have on the rest of the system.
Jeremy did not point out that DRM cannot work even if the encryption keys are protected. It is still possible for one hacker/pirate to make the content available. I elaborate this a bit on my blog post: http://gymnasmata.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/drm-is- broken/.
If Steve Jobs is so eager to provide DRM-free music, why does Apple slap on DRM on even indie music and labels that don't mind selling DRM-free music. All music that sells on eMusic is DRM-free and yet the same music is DRM-infected on iTunes. Perhaps Mr. Jobs would try explaining that. It's all very fine to say that they are being forced to put DRM when they benefit from it themselves by creating a vendor lock-in.
Most people I know including me don't buy stuff from Apple, which means they are unlikely to have any album art. Sure, you could've assigned album art to the music you had ripped, but most people are too lazy. Apple wants to know about the music that you didn't buy off of iTMS. Et, voila!
The last time Apple did an iTunes upgrade, they added a minibrowser mode which would basically call home and tell Apple what you were listening to, so that the store would give you recommendations. There was a big hue and cry about the privacy concerns, so Apple changed that to be off by default, instead of on by default.
With iTunes 7, Apple will now let you get the artwork for your entire music collection, even if it wasn't bought from iTMS. This means that Apple has now given you a reason to willingly tell them about your entire music collection, effectively letting them get the information they want about your musical tastes. Very smart!
Hopefully they will realise that 60GB is more than enough for 99% of the population[1]...[1] Or bump up the RAM a lot so I can listen to apple lossless music without killing the battery life. Although even with lossless encoding my music collection could probably fit on a 40GB drive.
But.. but.. 640KB of RAM should be enough for everyone, right?!
Exactly. What they could do is provide a Gaim-like client that will let you connect to all other services, except through their own Jabber translation servers, and then provide "value-added" services like VoIP with a Google account to get people to switch over from their existing MSN or AOL accounts.
I got one yesterday mostly because I thought the design was intriguing, and I wanted to replace my current IBM mouse which didn't quite fit into the aesthetics of my iMac setup.
I like the idea of having a "zero-button" mouse. The wheel has enough tactile feedback to make it comfortable. However, I found that the wheel was a little bit too small, and you have to put some pressure on it to make it register the roll. If you have slightly sweaty hands, like mine usually are, you'll find yourself touching the surface of the mouse while you're trying to scroll, which causes enough friction to make the scrolling a little jumpy and uncomfortable. The "pinch" buttons are pretty hard to press, but I suppose I might get used to them. The aural feedback for the scroll wheel and the pinch buttons is nicely implemented. It isn't annoying at all, and I think it is helpful too.
Another annoying thing is that you cannot right click unless you have your finger off the left side, which takes some getting used to.
All in all, I'm not totally happy with the Mighty Mouse but I still like it enough to keep it.
maybe some people don't want bluetooth. for my desktop machine i have no problem with a wire. i would rather deal with that than needlessly waste batteries.
Amen to that. I was thinking of getting the BT mouse, but I realised I had little use for it on my desktop. The fact that the mouse connects nicely into the keyboard makes the wire clutter a moot point IMHO. Also it's nicer not having to deal with replacing batteries and also doing without some extra radiation, even if it is small.
I wonder if the clicks have tactile feedback? They say that the mouse has a speaker which will create the sound of a click, but without the tactile feedback of clicking, it just won't feel right. The whole sound hack seems as cheesy as digital cameras making the fake shutter sound when taking a photo.
Personally, given my experiences with linux so far, if it were up to me I'd concentrate more on building a GUI where you can change the monitor resolution to the resolution you want when you want it on arbitrary systems, without having to ever edit a file named "XF86Config".
Your prayers have been answered. Now you don't need to edit XF86Config. Editing xorg.conf works pretty well!
I wouldn't call it easy. The last time I tried to figure out, I had to contact the IT department, who told me that a remote printer with an lpd queue has to be configured by choosing the local printer option. How is calling a remote printer a local printer intuitive or easy?
That isn't very different from writing distributed applications based on CORBA or DCOM. Once you have a good infrastructure (i.e., API) in place, backed by a quick and reliable network protocol and a network that can handle all the data flowing through, developing applications should not be so hard.
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That's a bogus argument. Virtual size is absolutely unimportant as far as the performance is concerned. You have a fixed amount of memory in the system and if Firefox takes up a lot of real memory, other parts of the system will feel the pain. The fact that the *real* memory usage of FF 3.0 is low means that it is not being greedy about using system resources. Every process has the full VM size to play with, so looking at the VM size doesn't really tell you much about what effect that process will have on the rest of the system.
Jeremy did not point out that DRM cannot work even if the encryption keys are protected. It is still possible for one hacker/pirate to make the content available. I elaborate this a bit on my blog post: http://gymnasmata.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/drm-is- broken/.
I read this article a few days ago. I blogged about it http://gymnasmata.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/point-c ounterpoint-understanding-the-linux-community/. I agree with some points that Mr. Hughes makes but I think his viewpoint is largely misguided. I'm a fairly technical Linux user but I am not a Linux zealot by any means.
If Steve Jobs is so eager to provide DRM-free music, why does Apple slap on DRM on even indie music and labels that don't mind selling DRM-free music. All music that sells on eMusic is DRM-free and yet the same music is DRM-infected on iTunes. Perhaps Mr. Jobs would try explaining that. It's all very fine to say that they are being forced to put DRM when they benefit from it themselves by creating a vendor lock-in.
Most people I know including me don't buy stuff from Apple, which means they are unlikely to have any album art. Sure, you could've assigned album art to the music you had ripped, but most people are too lazy. Apple wants to know about the music that you didn't buy off of iTMS. Et, voila!
The last time Apple did an iTunes upgrade, they added a minibrowser mode which would basically call home and tell Apple what you were listening to, so that the store would give you recommendations. There was a big hue and cry about the privacy concerns, so Apple changed that to be off by default, instead of on by default.
With iTunes 7, Apple will now let you get the artwork for your entire music collection, even if it wasn't bought from iTMS. This means that Apple has now given you a reason to willingly tell them about your entire music collection, effectively letting them get the information they want about your musical tastes. Very smart!
They would... except that they're not accessible..
Hopefully they will realise that 60GB is more than enough for 99% of the population[1] ...[1] Or bump up the RAM a lot so I can listen to apple lossless music without killing the battery life. Although even with lossless encoding my music collection could probably fit on a 40GB drive.
But.. but.. 640KB of RAM should be enough for everyone, right?!
Actually it will: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000577056585/
Exactly. What they could do is provide a Gaim-like client that will let you connect to all other services, except through their own Jabber translation servers, and then provide "value-added" services like VoIP with a Google account to get people to switch over from their existing MSN or AOL accounts.
What possible ads could you serve to: "WTFOMGLOL!!!111oneone!11"?
I like the idea of having a "zero-button" mouse. The wheel has enough tactile feedback to make it comfortable. However, I found that the wheel was a little bit too small, and you have to put some pressure on it to make it register the roll. If you have slightly sweaty hands, like mine usually are, you'll find yourself touching the surface of the mouse while you're trying to scroll, which causes enough friction to make the scrolling a little jumpy and uncomfortable. The "pinch" buttons are pretty hard to press, but I suppose I might get used to them. The aural feedback for the scroll wheel and the pinch buttons is nicely implemented. It isn't annoying at all, and I think it is helpful too.
Another annoying thing is that you cannot right click unless you have your finger off the left side, which takes some getting used to.
All in all, I'm not totally happy with the Mighty Mouse but I still like it enough to keep it.
Amen to that. I was thinking of getting the BT mouse, but I realised I had little use for it on my desktop. The fact that the mouse connects nicely into the keyboard makes the wire clutter a moot point IMHO. Also it's nicer not having to deal with replacing batteries and also doing without some extra radiation, even if it is small.
Does anyone remember this?
I wonder if the clicks have tactile feedback? They say that the mouse has a speaker which will create the sound of a click, but without the tactile feedback of clicking, it just won't feel right. The whole sound hack seems as cheesy as digital cameras making the fake shutter sound when taking a photo.
Personally, given my experiences with linux so far, if it were up to me I'd concentrate more on building a GUI where you can change the monitor resolution to the resolution you want when you want it on arbitrary systems, without having to ever edit a file named "XF86Config".
Your prayers have been answered. Now you don't need to edit XF86Config. Editing xorg.conf works pretty well!
I'm a BLACK geek, you insensitive clod!
Look at this: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts.html, scroll down to "It takes requests."
I did some research on worms in school. Here's a report, and here's a presentation.
Perhaps you are unaware of this. Apple doesn't seem to be immune to crappy hardware. That said, I'm waiting for the iMac update to buy a new iMac.
Nope, hard links is two names (directory entries) pointing to the same inode. They have the same inode number. The name is not a part of the inode.
I wouldn't call it easy. The last time I tried to figure out, I had to contact the IT department, who told me that a remote printer with an lpd queue has to be configured by choosing the local printer option. How is calling a remote printer a local printer intuitive or easy?
It's G-A-N-D-H-I, not G-H-A-N-D-I. You got it right once, but got it wrong twice.
That isn't very different from writing distributed applications based on CORBA or DCOM. Once you have a good infrastructure (i.e., API) in place, backed by a quick and reliable network protocol and a network that can handle all the data flowing through, developing applications should not be so hard.
Homophobia is so gay!