Geeks don't tend to just get negative for no reason whatsoever.
LOL thanks I needed that laugh. Please do go on believing your opinions are objectively better, though. It's lovely to see that level of arrogance justified.
Let me get this straight. You've just called me arrogant for suggesting that geeks are generally rational and have reasons for being negative? You don't see the irony of being so arrogant as to call others irrational in the same breath and anonymously to boot? And what's worse people mode this trolling up?
You like linux (presumably), you hate Apple. Great, now come up with reasons.
Just like any assumption it'll make an ass out of you and m. I'm not trying to pick teams. I have different issues with each modern OS.
Linux is way too unfriendly and hodge podge and decades of telling people to RTFM but not writing one has taken it's toll. Plus all the infighting and bickering means diversity but no cohesiveness.
MacOS is closed and while there's software for it the variety is much less than it might otherwise be. It is overpriced and restrictive.
Windows seems to change the UI on a whim at every release and there's been little new offered since Windows XP. Backward compatibility is better than average (or was until 64 bit), software variety is excellent, but crashes and buginess can make it hell to use.
iOS is a heavily restricted gimmicky OS, but in a lot of areas it is consistent. However the price - dealing with Apple lockin, having to use iTunes to download etc. - is horrific
Android has a lot of development and tools but the core is Linux and Java so it inherits a lot of baggage and there's a lot missing that should be part of the OS (like a decent searchable calendar). The bugs take a good experience and make it unpleasant at times,. Capability added by the apps is enormous and OSS community really does shine. Privacy is as big an issue as with Apple with the phone requiring it be connected to a Gmail account for calendar and contacts to work.
People really need to quit being fans and start using their goddamn brains for a change. No wonder companies can behave as badly as the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft and still have fans. People have their brains in neutral or reverse.
I don't buy it. The idea that the geeks of Slashdot don't know about Apple's restrictions in advance, or are somehow incapable of evaluating the technical merits of products based on their specifications and only realize some technical inferiority after their purchase just doesn't wash. The average consumer, maybe; geeks, no. Not any deserving of the description.
You think geeks are born knowing about Apple products? They have to learn somehow. Usually by getting burnt.
I came across my first product at age 8. An Apple IIe. Soon after it was sold to my parents by a sanctimonious Apple salesman who was trying to get rid of the overpriced end of life gear, Apple closed distribution of the software and I had to go an hour and a half across town by car to get any. I guess I should have known better, huh? I mean I was 8, you utter tool. I may be a geek but I'm no genius and I make mistakes. By the time I'd worked out my mistake it was too late.
Made the mistake of getting iPods for my wife and I at the height of the fad. Learnt very quickly that I'd made a mistake. One scratched from the outset with Apple accepting no returns despite that contravening local law. The other has a click wheel that never quite worked right.
Apple gear is excrement. It doesn't just work, unless your definition of work is make money for the shareholder.
Geeks don't tend to just get negative for no reason whatsoever.
Dumbest comment I've seen on Slashdot in years? Could be.
Geeks have a "general negative outlook" towards Apple because they think everything should be a nerd playground with dozens of impressive-sounding technical specs. Slashdot thought the original iPod would fail, it thought the iPod mini would fail, and it thought the iPad would fail. When those didn't fail, they adopted their usual cross-armed, grumbling position in the corner of the room, talking spitefully about the "sheeple" happy with their shiny Apple products. They think they're too cool for the room to use such things.
I love how you end your post with an ominous statement about Apple's motives without posting any supporting evidence. How is open sourcing ALAC a profit-driven decision? Competing music players can now adopt ALAC. You're going to have write something a little more persuasive.
What a bunch of horse excrement. If you want the most idiotic of idiotic comments look no further than your own.
- I didn't realise Slashdot was an entity with a collective consciousness that made predictions on the future. I think you'll find there is a wide variety of people with a wide variety of outlooks.
- Impressive technical specs translate to capability. That is certainly what I look for in a product. If it locks me out of doing the things I want to do, I don't buy it. It has nothing to do with being cool, though it is absolutely true that Apple products are superficial overpriced junk fit for the mentally challenged. I've seen an 18 month old use an iphone. That is why it's popular. Intelligent adults can handle more complexity than that in exchange for capability. They don't need their hand held every step of the way and they don't need to live in a playpen (walled garden my foot, playpen is much more apt)
- If I were to supply any kind of evidence of Apple's motives, rather than take it on board, you'd only find further cause to be insulting. Plenty has been said by many people. I do not need to write a novel to post a comment here.
- Your lack of imagination and understanding of how opening a non-core technology might lead to profits proves you have neither the knowledge or intelligence to comment on business practices in general. There are many ways it can do this - from confusing the competition, to allowing you to claim superior implementation due to experience with the tech, to foisting garbage technology on competitors that they then waste time and effort implementing increasing their costs.
Now go back to thinking you're stylish with your overpriced underspec'd restricted piece of garbage product.
is because you [I'm guessing] are 23 years old and you aren't happy with your life. You want to belong to a club and you want a villain; the club you've chosen is "righteously indignant nerd" and predictably you've chosen Apple as your bad guy.
You're off by decades, and I have always been bored by nightclubs. But don't let reality get in the way of your Apple (I'm guessing) fanboism.
Geeks are biggest fanboys on the planet. They get mad and everything, reason or not.
You may not like or agree with their reasons, but they have reasons. Dismissing them out of hand and making them sound like mental patients reflects on you, not them.
Sadly I'm sure most people here will go on and on about how it's not FLAC, and whatever. For once, just at least appreciate that Apple is continuing to throw some interesting things out to the OSS crowd instead of deciding to nitpick it to death. If you don't want to use it, thats fine. Just really tired of the nitpickery and general negative outlook geeks around here tend to have. Cheer up for once:-)
The reason geeks have a "general negative outlook" towards Apple is that they have been bitten by artificial restrictions imposed on their devices by Apple, or have overpaid for what they later realised were technically inferior products. Geeks don't tend to just get negative for no reason whatsoever. Do not make the mistake of thinking Apple has done this for the common good. They have their reasons and their reasons ultimately have to do with their profits.
"But as much as I hate Facebook lately, i can't see how you can expect their security system to prevent others from sending your mother email." You're seriously suggesting that they shouldn't bother with national and international level data protection laws because it might be a bit tricky? Wow.
Explain to me how on earth international data protection laws require Facebook to prevent random fishing attacks that use databases gathered from a wide variety of sources, and infrastructure that Facebook does not control? If Facebook lost, leaked or sold the data, I can see the problem and they should be held accountable. If someone got hold of your name and email address elsewhere and sent you a message that looked like it came from Facebook, it's not just "a bit tricky". I don't see what they can do.
Just saying, if they really want to protect their users, they can do some regular expressions voodoo on their messaging system. If Gmail can recognise phishing and spam, why can't Facebook?
Okay if you're talking about messages within Facebook I see what you're saying. I don't get anything significant fhrough Facebook itself. What I do see is lots of fishing spam in my email that purports to be from Facebook but isn't. Not much they can do about SMTP mail.
Numerous pages I've liked incessantly spew spam at me, my mother keeps getting messages from "facebook security" or some variation thereof, asking her to confirm her password.
I'm not aware of any security system that can prevent external sites from spamming their users. Of course it doesn't help if a company plays fast and loose with your privacy allowing attackers to discover the user base and target them. But as much as I hate Facebook lately, i can't see how you can expect their security system to prevent others from sending your mother email. There are many much more legitimate concerns with Facebook to address, so let's not get into irrationalities and hysterics about things we can't expect them to fix.
Did you hear what he said? He's proud his company has disallowed legitimate ownership of the software in a country to prevent piracy in that country??? I'd say more apt terms are "face palm" or perhaps "face plant".
Our software company has already black-banned China. We flatly refuse to license any product in China due to IP concerns./we know this wont stop them from copying it. It is a deterrant.
So it's a piracy deterent to make the only way to get your product piracy?
You don't even see the stupidity do you? Stop drinking the cool-aid. It's toxic.
With that said, gift cards are silly because it ties you to a specific store and you end up spending more than the amount on the card. Plus, it's another card to carry around, keep track of, and lose.
Which explains why they're advertised so heavily by the people who issue them.
The only practical advantage of giving a gift card seems to be that it is more socially acceptable. But frankly if someone I give cash and a printed card/note is offended that's their problem - I simply won't give them any more gifts.
I'm trying to remember, but the limitation your mentioning - didn't they apply to Borders while they were under receivership?
I think it was a way of allowing gift card holders to realise at least partial value rather than deny all of them.
Both Angus & Robertson and Dymocks did this. I would be unsurprised if Borders followed. Meanwhile if people had given hand written notes plus cash they receiver of the gift would never have lost out.
Nope. You can cry "Marketing!" all you want, but nothing you said explains why they were able to get those fans in the first place. They got them by having solid, well engineered products that did what their customers wanted. And they continued to keep them by having solid, well engineered products that did what their customers wanted. They might not do everything everybody wants right away, but that means they aren't wasting resources half-assedly implementing features that only a handful of people want.
BULLSHIT. They got them by engineering shiny cool looking gadgets with no substance. My experience with CrApple gear has been nothing but bad. They are flimsy products that break easily and only allow you to do things "the Apple way" and if you don't agree you're ridiculed or ignored. That "handful of people" just made Android the leading phone OS despite all it's flaws. Android isn't great but it's superior to iTurd. And how many resources were wasted locking the iPhone down only to have it jailbroken repeatedly?
Print your own home made cards and give cash. That way you're not giving the gift of an expiring piece of plastic or paper which may or may not be honoured depending on how the company that issued it is traded. Gift cards are for suckers...err I mean unsecured creditors.
Here in Australia when a couple of the big retail book chains got into trouble they just decided to not honour gift cards or honour only if you bought matching value, and they severely curtailed the time for which the cards were valid. I didn't get bitten but that was because I always knew such BS was possible. Any time I get a gift card I try to spend it immediately.
I'm going to patent scratching my arse, breathing, drinking liquid and showering. Then you'll all have to pay up! Is my comment childish? Of course, just like the real patent system. How the fuck does this shit fly in the real world? How do It's plain to see in the last few decades we've gone from a vibrant growing society to a society in decline. We deserve it. Collectively we've become retarded. Supposedly intelligent learned people are supporting this stupidity as a way to protect innovation and reward innovators. They completely ignore the reality that this does not work AT ALL in the modern world.
Dodgem cars? Really? I think you pretty much proved his point. If you don't get why some people like fast cars, fine. I'm not sure why the superior attitude is necessary.
And hint: there's more to enjoying a sports car than the speed. It's the acceleration that counts.
You can't accelerate like that on a public street without being a fucking menace. End of story. I actually do think speed can be fun. Is it worth the risk to yourself and others to do it in an uncontrolled and selfish manner? FUCK NO. Is it worth spending money you don't have to do. FUCK NO.
History is littered with the wreckage of companies that decided to change direction, diverting resources from existing customers to look for fresh fields. Apple somehow managed to do it several times to great success.
Look around at the idiotic fanboism. That is exactly how they managed to do it. They managed to market their brand so well that if Apple put out an iTurd all their fans would bemoan the days before the enlightenment when they had to live with their own inferior excrement, while others would deny turds existed before Apple made one. Once they managed that, they were trading on reputation - it doesn't matter what they're selling. It is unfortunate for them that so much of what has been called a "reality distortion field" was focused around Jobs the man. If they aren't able to maintain it in the post-Jobs era, they're sunk. The products are at best mediocre, oversimplified, inflexible and prescriptive compared to the competition. If they are forced to compete on merit Windows/Linux and Android will have them for breakfast.
Cue the Apple haters who can't stand an Apple story on the front page of Slashdot. They've been bitching and moaning all week.
I've never seen so many stories about a single company here before. If you want a goddamn site to discuss Apple find one or otherwise be honest by renaming this site to iSlashdot at which point I'll stop coming here.
Steve Jobs invented NOTHING. To be hailed as a genius that changed the world on the sweat of others who actually did is insulting and disrespectful to them, never mind that it's a blatant falsehood. To be praised when the inventors of C and Lisp die all but forgotten by the world at large within a couple of weeks of his death is infuriating to anyone who gives a damn about credit where it is due.
I'm very happy with Windows 7 now. Microsoft always moves everything between releases, and it always sucks having to (so pointlessly) learn where everyhting is again, and where the geek-friendly(er) UI settings are scattered, but now that I'm equally comfortable with both: Win7 is worlds better for everything except the file manager - somehow that has gotten worse in every release since 3.1.
Ah the irony. I like the file manager very much. Grouping and searching is much improved as is the logic when prompting to overwrite files when copying. Speaking of copying, errors are no longer fatal, you can often retry once you've closed that file that can't be overwritten etc.
It's everything else, which you don't seem to mind, that I hate. First thing I do is turn off UAC. Control panel is an abomination and you better learn to search for the right keywords. Security settings and UI settings are more scattered than ever. Lots of quirks and annoyances for very little gain.
Everywhere I look it seems that large astronomical instruments are being shut down. Here in Australia I've learnt that the Parkes Radio Telescope is in imminent danger, and one scientific institution gave away a 1m telescope to an amateur so that it would no longer need to be funded. Clearly science funding in general and astronomy funding in particular is in crisis with such instruments, that took decades to realize, being dumped unceremoniously. The usual excuse is the economy but the truth is that there have been darker days. While amateur equipment has gotten remarkably capable and affordable it's not going to replace world class instruments any time soon. What do you think can be done about funding, so that the next couple of generations can continue to make discoveries?
As a basic transportation appliance for moving a standard family unit with accessories and groceries from point A to point B, the Ferrari sucks ass. The Corolla provides 1000x the value for that purpose.
For recreational driving, having fun, going fast, showing off, the Ferrari wins. Some people will never appreciate any of those things and struggle to rationalize why anyone would ever waste money on a sports car. Finding nothing in their own psychological inventory, they project feelings and motivations familiar to them, such as issues of "inadequacy", particularly sexual inadequacy. ("He has that fancy car to compensate for his small penis, ha ha!") Such projections reveal at best a lack of experience, perspective, and imagination; at worst a small-minded pettiness brought on by envy that someone else would have the means to waste so much money on such a frivolity.
If I want to have "fun" driving, I go and play with dodgem cars or go-karts. I don't spend $100k on a toy car. In any case you can't have the sort of fun driving that you need a Ferrari for without either breaking the law or going to a race track.
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Geeks don't tend to just get negative for no reason whatsoever.
LOL thanks I needed that laugh. Please do go on believing your opinions are objectively better, though. It's lovely to see that level of arrogance justified.
Let me get this straight. You've just called me arrogant for suggesting that geeks are generally rational and have reasons for being negative? You don't see the irony of being so arrogant as to call others irrational in the same breath and anonymously to boot? And what's worse people mode this trolling up?
You like linux (presumably), you hate Apple. Great, now come up with reasons.
Just like any assumption it'll make an ass out of you and m. I'm not trying to pick teams. I have different issues with each modern OS.
Linux is way too unfriendly and hodge podge and decades of telling people to RTFM but not writing one has taken it's toll. Plus all the infighting and bickering means diversity but no cohesiveness.
MacOS is closed and while there's software for it the variety is much less than it might otherwise be. It is overpriced and restrictive.
Windows seems to change the UI on a whim at every release and there's been little new offered since Windows XP. Backward compatibility is better than average (or was until 64 bit), software variety is excellent, but crashes and buginess can make it hell to use.
iOS is a heavily restricted gimmicky OS, but in a lot of areas it is consistent. However the price - dealing with Apple lockin, having to use iTunes to download etc. - is horrific
Android has a lot of development and tools but the core is Linux and Java so it inherits a lot of baggage and there's a lot missing that should be part of the OS (like a decent searchable calendar). The bugs take a good experience and make it unpleasant at times,. Capability added by the apps is enormous and OSS community really does shine. Privacy is as big an issue as with Apple with the phone requiring it be connected to a Gmail account for calendar and contacts to work.
People really need to quit being fans and start using their goddamn brains for a change. No wonder companies can behave as badly as the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft and still have fans. People have their brains in neutral or reverse.
I don't buy it. The idea that the geeks of Slashdot don't know about Apple's restrictions in advance, or are somehow incapable of evaluating the technical merits of products based on their specifications and only realize some technical inferiority after their purchase just doesn't wash. The average consumer, maybe; geeks, no. Not any deserving of the description.
You think geeks are born knowing about Apple products? They have to learn somehow. Usually by getting burnt.
I came across my first product at age 8. An Apple IIe. Soon after it was sold to my parents by a sanctimonious Apple salesman who was trying to get rid of the overpriced end of life gear, Apple closed distribution of the software and I had to go an hour and a half across town by car to get any. I guess I should have known better, huh? I mean I was 8, you utter tool. I may be a geek but I'm no genius and I make mistakes. By the time I'd worked out my mistake it was too late.
Made the mistake of getting iPods for my wife and I at the height of the fad. Learnt very quickly that I'd made a mistake. One scratched from the outset with Apple accepting no returns despite that contravening local law. The other has a click wheel that never quite worked right.
Apple gear is excrement. It doesn't just work, unless your definition of work is make money for the shareholder.
Dumbest comment I've seen on Slashdot in years? Could be.
Geeks have a "general negative outlook" towards Apple because they think everything should be a nerd playground with dozens of impressive-sounding technical specs. Slashdot thought the original iPod would fail, it thought the iPod mini would fail, and it thought the iPad would fail. When those didn't fail, they adopted their usual cross-armed, grumbling position in the corner of the room, talking spitefully about the "sheeple" happy with their shiny Apple products. They think they're too cool for the room to use such things.
I love how you end your post with an ominous statement about Apple's motives without posting any supporting evidence. How is open sourcing ALAC a profit-driven decision? Competing music players can now adopt ALAC. You're going to have write something a little more persuasive.
What a bunch of horse excrement. If you want the most idiotic of idiotic comments look no further than your own.
- I didn't realise Slashdot was an entity with a collective consciousness that made predictions on the future. I think you'll find there is a wide variety of people with a wide variety of outlooks.
- Impressive technical specs translate to capability. That is certainly what I look for in a product. If it locks me out of doing the things I want to do, I don't buy it. It has nothing to do with being cool, though it is absolutely true that Apple products are superficial overpriced junk fit for the mentally challenged. I've seen an 18 month old use an iphone. That is why it's popular. Intelligent adults can handle more complexity than that in exchange for capability. They don't need their hand held every step of the way and they don't need to live in a playpen (walled garden my foot, playpen is much more apt)
- If I were to supply any kind of evidence of Apple's motives, rather than take it on board, you'd only find further cause to be insulting. Plenty has been said by many people. I do not need to write a novel to post a comment here.
- Your lack of imagination and understanding of how opening a non-core technology might lead to profits proves you have neither the knowledge or intelligence to comment on business practices in general. There are many ways it can do this - from confusing the competition, to allowing you to claim superior implementation due to experience with the tech, to foisting garbage technology on competitors that they then waste time and effort implementing increasing their costs.
Now go back to thinking you're stylish with your overpriced underspec'd restricted piece of garbage product.
is because you [I'm guessing] are 23 years old and you aren't happy with your life. You want to belong to a club and you want a villain; the club you've chosen is "righteously indignant nerd" and predictably you've chosen Apple as your bad guy.
You're off by decades, and I have always been bored by nightclubs. But don't let reality get in the way of your Apple (I'm guessing) fanboism.
Geeks are biggest fanboys on the planet. They get mad and everything, reason or not.
You may not like or agree with their reasons, but they have reasons. Dismissing them out of hand and making them sound like mental patients reflects on you, not them.
Sadly I'm sure most people here will go on and on about how it's not FLAC, and whatever. For once, just at least appreciate that Apple is continuing to throw some interesting things out to the OSS crowd instead of deciding to nitpick it to death. If you don't want to use it, thats fine. Just really tired of the nitpickery and general negative outlook geeks around here tend to have. Cheer up for once :-)
The reason geeks have a "general negative outlook" towards Apple is that they have been bitten by artificial restrictions imposed on their devices by Apple, or have overpaid for what they later realised were technically inferior products. Geeks don't tend to just get negative for no reason whatsoever. Do not make the mistake of thinking Apple has done this for the common good. They have their reasons and their reasons ultimately have to do with their profits.
"But as much as I hate Facebook lately, i can't see how you can expect their security system to prevent others from sending your mother email."
You're seriously suggesting that they shouldn't bother with national and international level data protection laws because it might be a bit tricky? Wow.
Explain to me how on earth international data protection laws require Facebook to prevent random fishing attacks that use databases gathered from a wide variety of sources, and infrastructure that Facebook does not control? If Facebook lost, leaked or sold the data, I can see the problem and they should be held accountable. If someone got hold of your name and email address elsewhere and sent you a message that looked like it came from Facebook, it's not just "a bit tricky". I don't see what they can do.
Just saying, if they really want to protect their users, they can do some regular expressions voodoo on their messaging system. If Gmail can recognise phishing and spam, why can't Facebook?
Okay if you're talking about messages within Facebook I see what you're saying. I don't get anything significant fhrough Facebook itself. What I do see is lots of fishing spam in my email that purports to be from Facebook but isn't. Not much they can do about SMTP mail.
It has not detected any of the Zynga games at all.
What you really need is a filter for stupid, but I'm afraid there's no such animal.
Numerous pages I've liked incessantly spew spam at me, my mother keeps getting messages from "facebook security" or some variation thereof, asking her to confirm her password.
I'm not aware of any security system that can prevent external sites from spamming their users. Of course it doesn't help if a company plays fast and loose with your privacy allowing attackers to discover the user base and target them. But as much as I hate Facebook lately, i can't see how you can expect their security system to prevent others from sending your mother email. There are many much more legitimate concerns with Facebook to address, so let's not get into irrationalities and hysterics about things we can't expect them to fix.
Black-banned?
I understand the term "black-balled."
I also understand the term "banned"
But "black-banned?" Please define.
Did you hear what he said? He's proud his company has disallowed legitimate ownership of the software in a country to prevent piracy in that country??? I'd say more apt terms are "face palm" or perhaps "face plant".
Our software company has already black-banned China. We flatly refuse to license any product in China due to IP concerns. /we know this wont stop them from copying it. It is a deterrant.
So it's a piracy deterent to make the only way to get your product piracy?
You don't even see the stupidity do you? Stop drinking the cool-aid. It's toxic.
Which explains why they're advertised so heavily by the people who issue them.
The only practical advantage of giving a gift card seems to be that it is more socially acceptable. But frankly if someone I give cash and a printed card/note is offended that's their problem - I simply won't give them any more gifts.
I'm trying to remember, but the limitation your mentioning - didn't they apply to Borders while they were under receivership?
I think it was a way of allowing gift card holders to realise at least partial value rather than deny all of them.
Both Angus & Robertson and Dymocks did this. I would be unsurprised if Borders followed. Meanwhile if people had given hand written notes plus cash they receiver of the gift would never have lost out.
Nope. You can cry "Marketing!" all you want, but nothing you said explains why they were able to get those fans in the first place. They got them by having solid, well engineered products that did what their customers wanted. And they continued to keep them by having solid, well engineered products that did what their customers wanted. They might not do everything everybody wants right away, but that means they aren't wasting resources half-assedly implementing features that only a handful of people want.
BULLSHIT. They got them by engineering shiny cool looking gadgets with no substance. My experience with CrApple gear has been nothing but bad. They are flimsy products that break easily and only allow you to do things "the Apple way" and if you don't agree you're ridiculed or ignored. That "handful of people" just made Android the leading phone OS despite all it's flaws. Android isn't great but it's superior to iTurd. And how many resources were wasted locking the iPhone down only to have it jailbroken repeatedly?
Print your own home made cards and give cash. That way you're not giving the gift of an expiring piece of plastic or paper which may or may not be honoured depending on how the company that issued it is traded. Gift cards are for suckers...err I mean unsecured creditors.
Here in Australia when a couple of the big retail book chains got into trouble they just decided to not honour gift cards or honour only if you bought matching value, and they severely curtailed the time for which the cards were valid. I didn't get bitten but that was because I always knew such BS was possible. Any time I get a gift card I try to spend it immediately.
Gift cards are a scam and should be made illegal.
I'm going to patent scratching my arse, breathing, drinking liquid and showering. Then you'll all have to pay up! Is my comment childish? Of course, just like the real patent system. How the fuck does this shit fly in the real world? How do It's plain to see in the last few decades we've gone from a vibrant growing society to a society in decline. We deserve it. Collectively we've become retarded. Supposedly intelligent learned people are supporting this stupidity as a way to protect innovation and reward innovators. They completely ignore the reality that this does not work AT ALL in the modern world.
Dodgem cars? Really? I think you pretty much proved his point. If you don't get why some people like fast cars, fine. I'm not sure why the superior attitude is necessary.
And hint: there's more to enjoying a sports car than the speed. It's the acceleration that counts.
You can't accelerate like that on a public street without being a fucking menace. End of story. I actually do think speed can be fun. Is it worth the risk to yourself and others to do it in an uncontrolled and selfish manner? FUCK NO. Is it worth spending money you don't have to do. FUCK NO.
He is credited in 317 Apple patents so far. He is principle inventor or designer on 33 of them.
He's credited with ending world hunger, curing AIDS and cancer, turning water into wine and walking on water too. Doesn't make it true.
History is littered with the wreckage of companies that decided to change direction, diverting resources from existing customers to look for fresh fields. Apple somehow managed to do it several times to great success.
Look around at the idiotic fanboism. That is exactly how they managed to do it. They managed to market their brand so well that if Apple put out an iTurd all their fans would bemoan the days before the enlightenment when they had to live with their own inferior excrement, while others would deny turds existed before Apple made one. Once they managed that, they were trading on reputation - it doesn't matter what they're selling. It is unfortunate for them that so much of what has been called a "reality distortion field" was focused around Jobs the man. If they aren't able to maintain it in the post-Jobs era, they're sunk. The products are at best mediocre, oversimplified, inflexible and prescriptive compared to the competition. If they are forced to compete on merit Windows/Linux and Android will have them for breakfast.
Cue the Apple haters who can't stand an Apple story on the front page of Slashdot. They've been bitching and moaning all week.
I've never seen so many stories about a single company here before. If you want a goddamn site to discuss Apple find one or otherwise be honest by renaming this site to iSlashdot at which point I'll stop coming here.
Steve Jobs invented NOTHING. To be hailed as a genius that changed the world on the sweat of others who actually did is insulting and disrespectful to them, never mind that it's a blatant falsehood. To be praised when the inventors of C and Lisp die all but forgotten by the world at large within a couple of weeks of his death is infuriating to anyone who gives a damn about credit where it is due.
I'm very happy with Windows 7 now. Microsoft always moves everything between releases, and it always sucks having to (so pointlessly) learn where everyhting is again, and where the geek-friendly(er) UI settings are scattered, but now that I'm equally comfortable with both: Win7 is worlds better for everything except the file manager - somehow that has gotten worse in every release since 3.1.
Ah the irony. I like the file manager very much. Grouping and searching is much improved as is the logic when prompting to overwrite files when copying. Speaking of copying, errors are no longer fatal, you can often retry once you've closed that file that can't be overwritten etc.
It's everything else, which you don't seem to mind, that I hate. First thing I do is turn off UAC. Control panel is an abomination and you better learn to search for the right keywords. Security settings and UI settings are more scattered than ever. Lots of quirks and annoyances for very little gain.
Everywhere I look it seems that large astronomical instruments are being shut down. Here in Australia I've learnt that the Parkes Radio Telescope is in imminent danger, and one scientific institution gave away a 1m telescope to an amateur so that it would no longer need to be funded. Clearly science funding in general and astronomy funding in particular is in crisis with such instruments, that took decades to realize, being dumped unceremoniously. The usual excuse is the economy but the truth is that there have been darker days. While amateur equipment has gotten remarkably capable and affordable it's not going to replace world class instruments any time soon. What do you think can be done about funding, so that the next couple of generations can continue to make discoveries?
As a basic transportation appliance for moving a standard family unit with accessories and groceries from point A to point B, the Ferrari sucks ass. The Corolla provides 1000x the value for that purpose.
For recreational driving, having fun, going fast, showing off, the Ferrari wins. Some people will never appreciate any of those things and struggle to rationalize why anyone would ever waste money on a sports car. Finding nothing in their own psychological inventory, they project feelings and motivations familiar to them, such as issues of "inadequacy", particularly sexual inadequacy. ("He has that fancy car to compensate for his small penis, ha ha!") Such projections reveal at best a lack of experience, perspective, and imagination; at worst a small-minded pettiness brought on by envy that someone else would have the means to waste so much money on such a frivolity.
If I want to have "fun" driving, I go and play with dodgem cars or go-karts. I don't spend $100k on a toy car. In any case you can't have the sort of fun driving that you need a Ferrari for without either breaking the law or going to a race track.