"NewEgg (and to some degree mWave) is the cheapest place to order all the computer parts you need to build your rig. Good selection, fast service, but what makes NewEgg stand out from all the others is 2 things..."
What makes NewEgg stand out for me is that the last time I went to buy something, the price of the item *in my shopping cart* went up $10 in the length of time it took to type in my credit card. I don't shop there anymore.
"The bits and pieces you cite were things Jobs would have opposed."
The "bits and pieces" are parts of a larger and consistent whole. Apple has made great contributions to open source, and all of it was while Jobs was alive and well. You claim he would have opposed it, but I think the reality proves otherwise. It exists, and if Steve Jobs really 'opposed' something, it wouldn't have happened.
"Apple's been actively rejecting the standards other people use, open or otherwise. There is no HDMI on Mac products, No VGA ports "
You must look at different Apple products than I do... These products support HDMI either directly or with a cheap adapter:
"Products Affected iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010), iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009), iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Air (Late 2010), MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Mid 2010), iMac (27-inch, Late 2009), Mac Pro (Early 2009), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011), Mac mini (Mid 2010), MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)"
Practically every Mac made in the past decade supports VGA with a cheap adapter (usually from a high grade standard DVI connection).
If you're going to be an irrational hater, at least try to get some of your facts right.
"Not on the desktop, which as a PC user is the area most directly relevant to me. It would be nice if Linux was much better than Windows 7, it's just that for most people, it simply isn't."
Moderators may mark this as "Troll" as they see fit - I don't care. Karma to burn and all that.
I agree with this. I've been using 'alternate' OSes since Minix, and if I had to choose I'd use Windows for my desktop before Linux (in reality, I use OS X for my desktop). For practical server applications, I use FreeBSD.
"remember that even the shelf arrangements at supermarkets constitute marketing (brands get into shitfights over who had more shelf-space)"
I think you're making my case for me. So brand marketing controls how much shelf space a product gets *rather than* demand for a product? It's all 'cynical marketing' to me. If I want something I'll look for it (if making something findable is 'marketing', I'd suggest a new name).
"Marketers work in the aggregate using a set of data points."
Since marketing is, by and large, an attempt to sell you stuff you weren't looking for and don't really need, I'm sure it would be unwelcome in Noprivacyville.
"Right, and any reasonably useful hosts file would several orders of magnitude larger and take several seconds to parse on the fastest of machines."
I dunno, once you remove the spam, the seo sites, the scraper farms, and the virus hosts, I bet there's only a few hundred sites that anyone would actually *want* to go to...
"I don't give a damn about their soul, I just want it to point me to the information I am looking for."
This.
Unfortunately, what I am looking for usually has nothing to do with what anyone else is looking for. (if the information is that popular, I probably don't need to look for it, so all this page-rank nonsense is just in my way)
"Perhaps you meant non-commercial streamed video does not require significant License fees."
No, I meant that the streaming of free (non-commercial, whatever) content requires no fees:
"(DENVER, CO, US - 26 August 2010) - MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as "Internet Broadcast AVC Video") during the entire life of this License."
"By using h.264, you pretty much guarantee that *someone* *somewhere* is paying for it. Could you imagine if say, the "David After Dentist" kid had to pay tons and tons of royalties to the MPAA for a video they created simply because they used the h.264 container format? To even conceive such a thing is such bullshit that this should absolutely be a non-issue."
It is already absolutely a non-issue. MPEG LA has made H.264 content royalty-free in perpetuity.
"One of the best things about Chrome is that updates take place silently and promptly without any user intervention"
You like having a rogue process running as root on your machine? I consider it the worst thing about Chrome. The first thing I dig out and kill after I install Chrome is Google Software Update.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I apologize for being redundant.
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Both PGP and S/MIME are end-to-end encrypted. Not very useful for webmail users.
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Slashdotters who know enough to have encrypted such things simply don't send that sort of thing in email.
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"NewEgg (and to some degree mWave) is the cheapest place to order all the computer parts you need to build your rig. Good selection, fast service, but what makes NewEgg stand out from all the others is 2 things..."
What makes NewEgg stand out for me is that the last time I went to buy something, the price of the item *in my shopping cart* went up $10 in the length of time it took to type in my credit card. I don't shop there anymore.
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"The bits and pieces you cite were things Jobs would have opposed."
The "bits and pieces" are parts of a larger and consistent whole. Apple has made great contributions to open source, and all of it was while Jobs was alive and well. You claim he would have opposed it, but I think the reality proves otherwise. It exists, and if Steve Jobs really 'opposed' something, it wouldn't have happened.
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"Every thing they do is so closed and exclusive. They never extended a hand to the open source community."
I'm sorry, you're terribly confused. Or a troll:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
http://www.webkit.org/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/apple-joins-openjdk-to-open-source-mac-os-x-java-technology/
http://alac.macosforge.org/
Etc.
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"It always 'assumes' what I want and it is always wrong!"
Google has become the Clippy of search engines.
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"Apple's been actively rejecting the standards other people use, open or otherwise. There is no HDMI on Mac products, No VGA ports "
You must look at different Apple products than I do... These products support HDMI either directly or with a cheap adapter:
"Products Affected
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010), iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009), iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Air (Late 2010), MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Mid 2010), iMac (27-inch, Late 2009), Mac Pro (Early 2009), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011), Mac mini (Mid 2010), MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)"
Practically every Mac made in the past decade supports VGA with a cheap adapter (usually from a high grade standard DVI connection).
If you're going to be an irrational hater, at least try to get some of your facts right.
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"... and I'll shoot yer ass, too..."
A police officer has different responsibilities than an individual defending himself on the street.
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"Some of us just do a better job of overcoming our subconscious tendencies."
I've never met any of these people.
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"Come on, guys... you hated MS for much less than this."
Your historical information is incomplete. The integration of IE into Windows was the least of Microsofts abuses.
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"THE POLICE HAVE REQUESTED ALL FILES UNDER DIRECTORY TITLE RAND.
'Dump it for them at 300 baud.'"
Niven and Pournelle, Oath of Fealty, 1982.
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The OS X Finder has pre-installed buttons labeled "Today", "Yesterday" and "Past Week".
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"Not on the desktop, which as a PC user is the area most directly relevant to me. It would be nice if Linux was much better than Windows 7, it's just that for most people, it simply isn't."
Moderators may mark this as "Troll" as they see fit - I don't care. Karma to burn and all that.
I agree with this. I've been using 'alternate' OSes since Minix, and if I had to choose I'd use Windows for my desktop before Linux (in reality, I use OS X for my desktop). For practical server applications, I use FreeBSD.
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"However, reading reviews, taking advice from friends, reading the technical specifications of the camera in a magazine, etc. - all MARKETING."
I don't know what definition of marketing you use, but I can tell you that my dictionary doesn't agree. None of those things are marketing to me.
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"remember that even the shelf arrangements at supermarkets constitute marketing (brands get into shitfights over who had more shelf-space)"
I think you're making my case for me. So brand marketing controls how much shelf space a product gets *rather than* demand for a product? It's all 'cynical marketing' to me. If I want something I'll look for it (if making something findable is 'marketing', I'd suggest a new name).
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"Marketers work in the aggregate using a set of data points."
Since marketing is, by and large, an attempt to sell you stuff you weren't looking for and don't really need, I'm sure it would be unwelcome in Noprivacyville.
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"Right, and any reasonably useful hosts file would several orders of magnitude larger and take several seconds to parse on the fastest of machines."
I dunno, once you remove the spam, the seo sites, the scraper farms, and the virus hosts, I bet there's only a few hundred sites that anyone would actually *want* to go to...
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"I don't give a damn about their soul, I just want it to point me to the information I am looking for."
This.
Unfortunately, what I am looking for usually has nothing to do with what anyone else is looking for.
(if the information is that popular, I probably don't need to look for it, so all this page-rank nonsense is just in my way)
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"Every time I search for something these days I get some ridiculous set of non-results due to the fuzzy matching."
This. The one unforgivable sin that Google has been guilty of since day one was taking something given in quotes and screwing with it. Unforgivable.
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"Common myth still spreading around that macs do not have viruses."
Myth? Please point to a current Mac virus.
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"Perhaps you meant non-commercial streamed video does not require significant License fees."
No, I meant that the streaming of free (non-commercial, whatever) content requires no fees:
"(DENVER, CO, US - 26 August 2010) - MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as "Internet Broadcast AVC Video") during the entire life of this License."
also:
http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/blogs/mpeg-la-announces-no-royalties-on-free-internet-videos---ever.html
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"It is already absolutely a non-issue. MPEG LA has made H.264 content royalty-free in perpetuity."
Sorry, I meant to say that free content has been made royalty-free.
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"By using h.264, you pretty much guarantee that *someone* *somewhere* is paying for it. Could you imagine if say, the "David After Dentist" kid had to pay tons and tons of royalties to the MPAA for a video they created simply because they used the h.264 container format? To even conceive such a thing is such bullshit that this should absolutely be a non-issue."
It is already absolutely a non-issue. MPEG LA has made H.264 content royalty-free in perpetuity.
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"One of the best things about Chrome is that updates take place silently and promptly without any user intervention"
You like having a rogue process running as root on your machine? I consider it the worst thing about Chrome. The first thing I dig out and kill after I install Chrome is Google Software Update.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/02/why-googles-sof/
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