Indeed. The assumption is that diagnosing a problem is something only some sort of "technician" would want to do. Providing feedback to the "user" is just a waste of time because everything is going to "just work" for them, and they would be too stupid to understand what is going on anyway. There's no attempt to actually engage the user in the process they are trying to achieve with the machine. Speaking of wifi, Vista does this too now I see. You select a network and say "connect" and it says "nope, couldn't connect, too bad". Gives you no useful feedback on what was wrong. Of course, with Vista it's pretty obvious what is wrong.. Microsoft. Every time I use that piece of shit I'm like "well no shit you can't connect Bill, you didn't prompt me for the WEP or WPA key for this SSID that I've never connected to before." Then begins the 40 minute search for the appropriate bullshit to get me to the dialog that lets me enter a key and the long standing argument with Bill over whether he wants an ascii passphrase or a hexadecimal key. Oh, and don't forget to uncheck the box that says "get key automatically" when it is pretty fucking obvious that I don't want that because I just entered a key. Fucker. As for Linux, I won't bother telling you the pain I went through to get WPA2 to work. In the end I had a shell script that I would run from my home directory every time I booted the machine. I've since done away with that because I installed a Ubuntu update one day, rebooted and it managed to not fuck up my wifi settings from then on. But I still have a shell script that I run every time I want to switch to external monitor because X.org is just fucking horrid at detecting external monitors.
I'm telling you all this to say that I am not biased against Apple.. they just have their particular quirks, like Microsoft and Ubuntu do.. and if we all were to do more user testing we'd learn a thing or two and make life not be so fucking hard.
Choosing File > Library > Import Playlists allows you to import playlists and other data files into iTunes. Note that this functions differently than the Import CD button, which allows you to import songs from audio CDs into your library. The Import CD button is present in the lower right corner of the iTunes window only when you have an audio CD selected on the left side of the iTunes window.
The problem comes when you put in a CD and it doesn't come up on the left side of the iTunes window. It has to automatically detect that it is an audio CD before you get any audio import options. If it fails to do that you get nothing and there's no way to diagnose the problem.
Fire up itunes, grab your collection of 200 CDs, now start building your library. If you have ever done this then you would have experienced the "Why the fuck won't this CD import?" problem.. you will also experience the "Why doesn't it name the tracks for this CD?" problem and at least three other problems that I've blocked out of my memory.
So, for that one, I think you're just being a fanboi. As for the wifi, yeah, maybe you haven't experienced the exact same thing as me. So what? The point of the discussion was that IF you have a problem with wifi (or anything else on a Mac) there's just no way to figure out what the fuck is going on. The "just works" mentality gets in the way when shit doesn't "just work". How do I diagnose this issue? You don't, you're a Mac user.
I dunno what argument you're trying to make. Vista is failing specifically because it is change for the sake of "you pay now". People are like "XP works for me, I've gotten used to it" and that's a problem for Ubuntu, Apple, and even Microsoft.
Well, they're just examples.. but that's the overall theme that pisses so many users off with Apple products. The assumption is that you couldn't possibly diagnose what the issue is, so they don't give you any tools to work with to do so. Error messages scare the users, let's not even show them. Everything should just work, so why provide a manual way to do it? Note that I'm not saying Linux or Windows are *better*. They're fucking stupid in completely different ways.
I'll give my classic example (still not fixed), in iTunes:
Insert a CD It should "just work" and start ripping the CD, but it doesn't. Look for an error message.. there is none. Search the menus, look for a button, nope, there's no way to actually *tell* iTunes that you want it to rip the CD. etc.
I've had similar experiences with wireless.
"Do you have wireless here?" "Sure do." "Umm.. I don't see it." "Well, it's there, it's called NETGEAR." "Yeah, it's not coming up. I'd tell you why, but when I click on the little wifi icon it does nothing."
And that's why I say:
It "just works" until it "just doesn't" and then you're "just fucked".
Sigh, that's not what you said. What you said was "attempting to unfairly profit from somebody else's hard work".. so you've given one example, a terrible one at that btw, how about you define your terms.. cause all you're coming across as is another slashtard who thinks copyright is a natural right.
Sadly Linux COULD be a solution for many more people but they seem to be so used to Windows that they can't even figure out how to use something else.
Uh huh. Yet people happily figure out how to use Macs. Ok, well, maybe not happily. Why do they do it?
marketing and brand loyalty blindness
Bingo. When Ubuntu started up I really got the feeling that Shuttleworth got that it wasn't about technology... sure, an OS has to do a certain amount of "stuff" before people can use it, but that's the easy part. Getting people to try something new isn't about how great the new thing is, it's about style and bullshit. Using a Mac is no easier than using a PC.. in fact, the vast majority of people find it so much harder because they're not familiar with Macs.. but go out into the street and ask a dozen people and they'll say that oh yes, those Macs are so much easier to use than PCs.. that lovely Mr Jobs told them so.
Presumably by nanotechnology you mean molecular manufacturing.. and that should hardly be on that list because it hasn't happened yet. The list is about shit that happened but fizzed. If an assembler was created tomorrow (and it could happen if Merkle pulls his finger out) and the entire fucking materials world didn't change in under 12 months, I'd be entirely surprised and put it at #1 on this list.
Hacker assholes are often not risking anything by rming people who piss them off. They have an established base of zombies to attack from, so you're not going to track them. If they could be caught, they would have been already. Of course, if they're just script kiddies then you probably got owned cause your servers weren't patched. So good fucking luck getting any evidence to use against them.
"As the report says "The ADF's primary operational environment is a vast area. We need to have comprehensive situational awareness and an ability to operate within this environment with decisive military effect, if required." This means that Australia must have a fairly comprehensive set of space-based assets, not just communications and imaging satellites but eventually, at a minimum, GPS augmentation and electronic intelligence gathering spacecraft."
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Indeed. The assumption is that diagnosing a problem is something only some sort of "technician" would want to do. Providing feedback to the "user" is just a waste of time because everything is going to "just work" for them, and they would be too stupid to understand what is going on anyway. There's no attempt to actually engage the user in the process they are trying to achieve with the machine. Speaking of wifi, Vista does this too now I see. You select a network and say "connect" and it says "nope, couldn't connect, too bad". Gives you no useful feedback on what was wrong. Of course, with Vista it's pretty obvious what is wrong.. Microsoft. Every time I use that piece of shit I'm like "well no shit you can't connect Bill, you didn't prompt me for the WEP or WPA key for this SSID that I've never connected to before." Then begins the 40 minute search for the appropriate bullshit to get me to the dialog that lets me enter a key and the long standing argument with Bill over whether he wants an ascii passphrase or a hexadecimal key. Oh, and don't forget to uncheck the box that says "get key automatically" when it is pretty fucking obvious that I don't want that because I just entered a key. Fucker. As for Linux, I won't bother telling you the pain I went through to get WPA2 to work. In the end I had a shell script that I would run from my home directory every time I booted the machine. I've since done away with that because I installed a Ubuntu update one day, rebooted and it managed to not fuck up my wifi settings from then on. But I still have a shell script that I run every time I want to switch to external monitor because X.org is just fucking horrid at detecting external monitors.
I'm telling you all this to say that I am not biased against Apple.. they just have their particular quirks, like Microsoft and Ubuntu do.. and if we all were to do more user testing we'd learn a thing or two and make life not be so fucking hard.
Oh yeah, from that page it specifically says:
Choosing File > Library > Import Playlists allows you to import playlists and other data files into iTunes. Note that this functions differently than the Import CD button, which allows you to import songs from audio CDs into your library. The Import CD button is present in the lower right corner of the iTunes window only when you have an audio CD selected on the left side of the iTunes window.
The problem comes when you put in a CD and it doesn't come up on the left side of the iTunes window. It has to automatically detect that it is an audio CD before you get any audio import options. If it fails to do that you get nothing and there's no way to diagnose the problem.
Do Mac users not know how to make screenshots? Cause, ya know, nothing says "STFU" like a screenshot.
Fire up itunes, grab your collection of 200 CDs, now start building your library. If you have ever done this then you would have experienced the "Why the fuck won't this CD import?" problem.. you will also experience the "Why doesn't it name the tracks for this CD?" problem and at least three other problems that I've blocked out of my memory.
So, for that one, I think you're just being a fanboi. As for the wifi, yeah, maybe you haven't experienced the exact same thing as me. So what? The point of the discussion was that IF you have a problem with wifi (or anything else on a Mac) there's just no way to figure out what the fuck is going on. The "just works" mentality gets in the way when shit doesn't "just work". How do I diagnose this issue? You don't, you're a Mac user.
I dunno what argument you're trying to make. Vista is failing specifically because it is change for the sake of "you pay now". People are like "XP works for me, I've gotten used to it" and that's a problem for Ubuntu, Apple, and even Microsoft.
Well, they're just examples.. but that's the overall theme that pisses so many users off with Apple products. The assumption is that you couldn't possibly diagnose what the issue is, so they don't give you any tools to work with to do so. Error messages scare the users, let's not even show them. Everything should just work, so why provide a manual way to do it? Note that I'm not saying Linux or Windows are *better*. They're fucking stupid in completely different ways.
I'll give my classic example (still not fixed), in iTunes:
Insert a CD
It should "just work" and start ripping the CD, but it doesn't.
Look for an error message.. there is none.
Search the menus, look for a button, nope, there's no way to actually *tell* iTunes that you want it to rip the CD.
etc.
I've had similar experiences with wireless.
"Do you have wireless here?"
"Sure do."
"Umm.. I don't see it."
"Well, it's there, it's called NETGEAR."
"Yeah, it's not coming up. I'd tell you why, but when I click on the little wifi icon it does nothing."
And that's why I say:
It "just works" until it "just doesn't" and then you're "just fucked".
umm.. maybe if your cousin looked like Daisy Duke.
Sigh, that's not what you said. What you said was "attempting to unfairly profit from somebody else's hard work" .. so you've given one example, a terrible one at that btw, how about you define your terms.. cause all you're coming across as is another slashtard who thinks copyright is a natural right.
Meh. I was specifically using the terminology of Apple's marketing because I was talking about marketing.
For fuck sake.
'cept it wasn't Ubuntu that shipped on any of those netbooks.
it is intended to limit truly corrupt practices, like attempting to unfairly profit from somebody else's hard work.
So taking something from the public domain and publishing it, thus causing it to not fall into obscurity is corrupt? How do you figure?
Sadly Linux COULD be a solution for many more people but they seem to be so used to Windows that they can't even figure out how to use something else.
Uh huh. Yet people happily figure out how to use Macs. Ok, well, maybe not happily. Why do they do it?
marketing and brand loyalty blindness
Bingo. When Ubuntu started up I really got the feeling that Shuttleworth got that it wasn't about technology... sure, an OS has to do a certain amount of "stuff" before people can use it, but that's the easy part. Getting people to try something new isn't about how great the new thing is, it's about style and bullshit. Using a Mac is no easier than using a PC.. in fact, the vast majority of people find it so much harder because they're not familiar with Macs.. but go out into the street and ask a dozen people and they'll say that oh yes, those Macs are so much easier to use than PCs.. that lovely Mr Jobs told them so.
Dell has been offering systems with Ubuntu preinstalled for two years now.
Ya, and the incredible impact of this holy grail of Linux has been.......
That's what they should have put on this list :)
Presumably by nanotechnology you mean molecular manufacturing.. and that should hardly be on that list because it hasn't happened yet. The list is about shit that happened but fizzed. If an assembler was created tomorrow (and it could happen if Merkle pulls his finger out) and the entire fucking materials world didn't change in under 12 months, I'd be entirely surprised and put it at #1 on this list.
What is with "developed" countries and the corruption of copyright?
Umm.. copyright = corruption.
"Hey, can you make me a law where I'm the only one who can do [commercially interesting activity]?"
Corruption.
Crashes Firefox on results.
Talk about FAIL.
What services? Where? What is their name? Fucking urban legend bullshit.
If anyone can actually do this, they aint advertising the fact. So clearly it isn't available to people who have lost their backups or whatever.
Hacker assholes are often not risking anything by rming people who piss them off. They have an established base of zombies to attack from, so you're not going to track them. If they could be caught, they would have been already. Of course, if they're just script kiddies then you probably got owned cause your servers weren't patched. So good fucking luck getting any evidence to use against them.
Unless you have overwritten the area on the physical disk that contained the data, multiple times, the data can still be recovered.
How about once? With zeros.
http://16systems.com/zero.php
If you can retrieve you data from a drive after it has been dd'd with /dev/zero, you might be able to win this prize.
If you happen to be in the situation described, chances are you're fucked.
Oh, I don't disagree.. but if they said "write to [address] and we'll mail you a CD" that would be sufficient for the GPL.
Yup, that's all the GPL says they have to do.
In fact, providing a web form is being generous.. they could accept requests only by dead tree.
We basically just beg the americans for everything at the moment. If they cut off our surveillance imaging we just don't have any options.
Glad you asked.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1369/1
"As the report says "The ADF's primary operational environment is a vast area. We need to have comprehensive situational awareness and an ability to operate within this environment with decisive military effect, if required." This means that Australia must have a fairly comprehensive set of space-based assets, not just communications and imaging satellites but eventually, at a minimum, GPS augmentation and electronic intelligence gathering spacecraft."