Its like you are talking about Burger King not offering various brands of $900 caviar when none of their customers would buy it anyway.
Uh, no. It's like Burger King won't let you replace the pickle on your burger with a different variety of pickle that you bought yourself for 37 cents. Now go away.
...installing a new motherboard are still pretty geeky things to do and are things most people wouldn't even think of trying. So again there's no big loss here.
See? You just don't get it. It doens't have to be Joe-sixpack that installs the new motherboard when his goes south; he could take it to his local non-Apple computer store and buy a $68 value MB (not that I necessarily reccommend those) if it were an open system. As it is, when it dies, he has to go to Apple to buy a new one from them, at the price they set, without competition, and likely has to have it installed by THEIR techs if he doesn't want to void the warranty on his new MB.
You clearly don't get it; it's not JUST about open-source. I can't run WINDOWS on a Mac without jumping through hoops and likely voiding my warranty. I can't plug my iPod into my friend's computer and expect Good Things to happen. I can't buy a standard ATX MotherBoard when my Mac's MB goes south.
Taking away choice - whether it would have been utilized by all or not - is rarely good for the consumer.
Let's be honest though. With open source you can't just plug it in and it works.
Oh, but sometimes you can - run-from-CD distros and distros that work with most systems (Fedora Core 4) are to the point where this is abssolutely possible.
Regardless, the point is, I can try is I want. I may fail miserably, and waste a month of my life, but I can try. Apple doesn't give me that coice; indeed, they expend a fair amount of effort to make the path of choice a rockier one to walk.
That was the STORE that gave you good service, not Apple. Apple had nothing to do with it. Furthermore, I doubt the store did it out of the goodness of their heart; they probably realized you would have a lgeal case against them if they didn't get you taken care of (14 day return?).
Apple is NOT our friend, and people need to wake up to that fact. The fact that so many pro-open-sourcers here rave about Apple stuff makes me sick with the stench of their hyposcrasy. The systems produced by Apple are as closed as they come, even if they HAVE switched to Intel processors.
With a real computer, I can install any OS I want, without jumping stupid hurdles. With a real MP# player, I can plug it into any PC with a USB port, and my music works.
Apple is all about closed systems, less choice, and DRM. How is this good for the consumer? Slashdrones need a reality check.
As sad/funny/indicative of real life as this is, if you'd been a bit more competent at your own job you wouldn't have had to drive to not fix these problems. For instance, simple 'ping' tests were in order for the latter case, and probably would have quickly revealed the nature of the problem. And don't tell me it's hard to walk a user through pings, because it's not, regardless of the level of ineptitude. Well, no harder than walking lusers through anything else.
Incompetents who don't recognize their own incompetence.
While I agree with your post in sentiment, one make realize that, by definition, incompetents don't recognize their incompetence. If they recognize that they are incompetent then they are actually competent. I refer to this as (just now) infochuck's paradox.
Even you admit that something as small as a power failure caused problems. With a Tivo, when the power comes back on the Tivos running (and even recording) from where it left off.
I admitted no such thing. I said this: no problems "save power failures and a PSU that went south". Yes, when the Power Supply for the computer died, the whole thing became useless. Foprtunately, it's a standard part that I had a replacement for on-hand. I doubt the TiVo would be so easy to get back up-and-running.
Secondly, I never said the power outages 'caused problems'; when the power came back on, the PC came back on, things started working again; I merely indicated that my machines work perfectly, except when the power is out; nothing that plugs into the wall works then; I probably shouldn't have mentioned it, since it's a given, and seems to have you confused.
Uh... no. PC-based solutions are, at best, elegant, fully-functional, efficient and stable. That's what 'at best' means. My MythTV boxen have been running for YEARS with no downtime, no goofs, and no problems save power failures and a PSU that went south.
Dude. Re-read the submmittor's question. Then re-read the OP's comment. Then re-read my reply. You say:
"The whole basis of OOP is re-uiseable code"
And I completely agree - but you HAVE T OSTORE IT SOMEWHERE. And then you have to be able to FIND IT ON YOUR HARD DRIVE before you can reuse it. If it's lost in a home directory somewhere amongst hundreds of other files - some source, some not - you ain't reusin' shit.
He wants to know how/where to store them - on the filesystsm, in a database, in some fancy third-pary code-organization libary, etc; organized by name, subsystem, function, the tier it's typically used in... these kinds of things. The fact that you've not caught on makes me think you aren't a programmer - just an OOP/JAVA fanboi.
What? What does any of this have to do with the question? He didn't ask for the features of OOP; he asked how to store/organize his libraries/modules/classes/headers files/what-have-you. The implication that simply using an OO language - regardles of the exact language or platform - obviates the need for basic file storage and management is ludicrous.
On top of all that, source repositories (I assume that's what you mean by "external databases") aren't primarily intended to help folks oranginze and store things; they're for revision control, so why you bother to bash them is beyond me.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here - though every bone in my body assumes YOU did something screwy, because I have NEVER had this problem - and not imply you're doing something screwy.
Instead I will point this out: the program screwed you over, yes; but not 'the interface'. The interface did what it was supposed to: helped you create a query to get at your data. If the other tiers screwed up, fine. After all Access is mostly crap. Yeah, I said it. It is; but it HAS ITS PLACE, and it's not crap beacuse of the interface; the interface is rather refined, and that was my original/main point.
OMG, I didn't even finish reading the comment before posting my last one. The guy blasts Access for having a 'sucky [blowy] interface and for being 'horrible to use', but he uses SQL Server?!? Dear God, man, a "fine SQL server"?!?!?.
Right - SQL Server should always be used instead of Access. 'Cause everyone always will have an MS-SQL server around on which to host the data.
You know, I'm no Access apologist, but I smell ignorance and FUD:
"is horrible to use, the interface just blows"
Wow. How insightful and informative. "Horrible to use" - could you elaborate? "Interface just blows" - is that a technical term?
I find it quite easy to use, and the interface is very intuiutve. "Create New Database". Wow. That was tough. Enter column names in a table - ick!
Just because YOU don't understand it/don't see/can't see the places where it is simply 'the right tool for the job' doesn't make it so. It just makes YOU a tool.
Dude, if going to the video store is your exercise and social interaction for the day/week/month/year, then Netflix isn't for you.
For the rest of us - people who live in the sticks, or get their exercise/social interaction from other places (like, I dunno, the grocery store, and walking to the mailbox to get the Netflix DVDs), or just have crappy video stores, or have enough stuff going on that they don't want to bother with listening to screaming kids and waiting in line at a video store for their third choice because the ten decent movies they had were out - for *real* people, who don't complain if they can't watch 10 movies a week, Netflix is exactly what it's supposed to be, and has a much better selection than any of their competitions; in short, it rocks.
Google has been censoring results for surfers with IPs in Chinese address space for years now; this is just more of the same, except it's actually been translated into Chinese.
I can understand the media latching on to this, but Slashdot? Oh, wait. I forgot; this is Slashdot.
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Its like you are talking about Burger King not offering various brands of $900 caviar when none of their customers would buy it anyway.
Uh, no. It's like Burger King won't let you replace the pickle on your burger with a different variety of pickle that you bought yourself for 37 cents. Now go away.
...installing a new motherboard are still pretty geeky things to do and are things most people wouldn't even think of trying. So again there's no big loss here.
See? You just don't get it. It doens't have to be Joe-sixpack that installs the new motherboard when his goes south; he could take it to his local non-Apple computer store and buy a $68 value MB (not that I necessarily reccommend those) if it were an open system. As it is, when it dies, he has to go to Apple to buy a new one from them, at the price they set, without competition, and likely has to have it installed by THEIR techs if he doesn't want to void the warranty on his new MB.
Choice = competition = lower prices = better products = consumers better off. It's not complicated.
You clearly don't get it; it's not JUST about open-source. I can't run WINDOWS on a Mac without jumping through hoops and likely voiding my warranty. I can't plug my iPod into my friend's computer and expect Good Things to happen. I can't buy a standard ATX MotherBoard when my Mac's MB goes south.
Taking away choice - whether it would have been utilized by all or not - is rarely good for the consumer.
Mea culpa.
Let's be honest though. With open source you can't just plug it in and it works.
Oh, but sometimes you can - run-from-CD distros and distros that work with most systems (Fedora Core 4) are to the point where this is abssolutely possible.
Regardless, the point is, I can try is I want. I may fail miserably, and waste a month of my life, but I can try. Apple doesn't give me that coice; indeed, they expend a fair amount of effort to make the path of choice a rockier one to walk.
That was the STORE that gave you good service, not Apple. Apple had nothing to do with it. Furthermore, I doubt the store did it out of the goodness of their heart; they probably realized you would have a lgeal case against them if they didn't get you taken care of (14 day return?).
Apple is NOT our friend, and people need to wake up to that fact. The fact that so many pro-open-sourcers here rave about Apple stuff makes me sick with the stench of their hyposcrasy. The systems produced by Apple are as closed as they come, even if they HAVE switched to Intel processors.
With a real computer, I can install any OS I want, without jumping stupid hurdles. With a real MP# player, I can plug it into any PC with a USB port, and my music works.
Apple is all about closed systems, less choice, and DRM. How is this good for the consumer? Slashdrones need a reality check.
As sad/funny/indicative of real life as this is, if you'd been a bit more competent at your own job you wouldn't have had to drive to not fix these problems. For instance, simple 'ping' tests were in order for the latter case, and probably would have quickly revealed the nature of the problem. And don't tell me it's hard to walk a user through pings, because it's not, regardless of the level of ineptitude. Well, no harder than walking lusers through anything else.
I recognize that I am an incompetent astronaut. I also recognize that I am an incompetent heart surgeon.
It's not enough merely to claim incompetence; you have to really believe it. I sense doubt in your voice.
Incompetents who don't recognize their own incompetence.
While I agree with your post in sentiment, one make realize that, by definition, incompetents don't recognize their incompetence. If they recognize that they are incompetent then they are actually competent. I refer to this as (just now) infochuck's paradox.
C'mon, people - it's 2600!
Guess I should change my PIN.
Even you admit that something as small as a power failure caused problems. With a Tivo, when the power comes back on the Tivos running (and even recording) from where it left off.
I admitted no such thing. I said this: no problems "save power failures and a PSU that went south". Yes, when the Power Supply for the computer died, the whole thing became useless. Foprtunately, it's a standard part that I had a replacement for on-hand. I doubt the TiVo would be so easy to get back up-and-running.
Secondly, I never said the power outages 'caused problems'; when the power came back on, the PC came back on, things started working again; I merely indicated that my machines work perfectly, except when the power is out; nothing that plugs into the wall works then; I probably shouldn't have mentioned it, since it's a given, and seems to have you confused.
PC-based soloutions are at best clunky...
Uh... no. PC-based solutions are, at best, elegant, fully-functional, efficient and stable. That's what 'at best' means. My MythTV boxen have been running for YEARS with no downtime, no goofs, and no problems save power failures and a PSU that went south.
A MythTV box will cost more than a TiVo
Yes. The initial outlay for a MythTV box is greater; this is quickly made up for by TiVo's ever-increasing monthly fees and MythTV's lack of any.
MythTV can't seem to figure out that it should delete old ones when the partition is full
It certainly *can* figure it out; it's *you* who can't figure out how to turn on auto-expire.
RTFM.
This is Slashdot. A 'Princess Bride' reference should be perfectly 'gettable'.
Does anyone's words mean what they supposed to mean?
No. Anyone's words does not mean what it supposed to mean.
I don't even know what that means.
...one of my witty, insightful and intelligent comment...
I looked at your past comments. I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.
Dude. Re-read the submmittor's question. Then re-read the OP's comment. Then re-read my reply. You say:
"The whole basis of OOP is re-uiseable code"
And I completely agree - but you HAVE T OSTORE IT SOMEWHERE. And then you have to be able to FIND IT ON YOUR HARD DRIVE before you can reuse it. If it's lost in a home directory somewhere amongst hundreds of other files - some source, some not - you ain't reusin' shit.
He wants to know how/where to store them - on the filesystsm, in a database, in some fancy third-pary code-organization libary, etc; organized by name, subsystem, function, the tier it's typically used in... these kinds of things. The fact that you've not caught on makes me think you aren't a programmer - just an OOP/JAVA fanboi.
What? What does any of this have to do with the question? He didn't ask for the features of OOP; he asked how to store/organize his libraries/modules/classes/headers files/what-have-you. The implication that simply using an OO language - regardles of the exact language or platform - obviates the need for basic file storage and management is ludicrous.
On top of all that, source repositories (I assume that's what you mean by "external databases") aren't primarily intended to help folks oranginze and store things; they're for revision control, so why you bother to bash them is beyond me.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here - though every bone in my body assumes YOU did something screwy, because I have NEVER had this problem - and not imply you're doing something screwy.
Instead I will point this out: the program screwed you over, yes; but not 'the interface'. The interface did what it was supposed to: helped you create a query to get at your data. If the other tiers screwed up, fine. After all Access is mostly crap. Yeah, I said it. It is; but it HAS ITS PLACE, and it's not crap beacuse of the interface; the interface is rather refined, and that was my original/main point.
OMG, I didn't even finish reading the comment before posting my last one. The guy blasts Access for having a 'sucky [blowy] interface and for being 'horrible to use', but he uses SQL Server?!? Dear God, man, a "fine SQL server"?!?!?.
Right - SQL Server should always be used instead of Access. 'Cause everyone always will have an MS-SQL server around on which to host the data.
I can't even go on.
You know, I'm no Access apologist, but I smell ignorance and FUD:
"is horrible to use, the interface just blows"
Wow. How insightful and informative. "Horrible to use" - could you elaborate? "Interface just blows" - is that a technical term?
I find it quite easy to use, and the interface is very intuiutve. "Create New Database". Wow. That was tough. Enter column names in a table - ick!
Just because YOU don't understand it/don't see/can't see the places where it is simply 'the right tool for the job' doesn't make it so. It just makes YOU a tool.
Dude, if going to the video store is your exercise and social interaction for the day/week/month/year, then Netflix isn't for you.
For the rest of us - people who live in the sticks, or get their exercise/social interaction from other places (like, I dunno, the grocery store, and walking to the mailbox to get the Netflix DVDs), or just have crappy video stores, or have enough stuff going on that they don't want to bother with listening to screaming kids and waiting in line at a video store for their third choice because the ten decent movies they had were out - for *real* people, who don't complain if they can't watch 10 movies a week, Netflix is exactly what it's supposed to be, and has a much better selection than any of their competitions; in short, it rocks.
Google has been censoring results for surfers with IPs in Chinese address space for years now; this is just more of the same, except it's actually been translated into Chinese.
I can understand the media latching on to this, but Slashdot? Oh, wait. I forgot; this is Slashdot.