Their problems aren't Apple's fault, with their "beautiful hardware," and their "joyful software." After all, everything JUST WORKS, right? Right?
As well as or better than most unix installations I've been involved with. About the _only_ thing I've run into is: OS X doesn't like to lose a network connection to something.
Other than that, my iBook has been rock-solid-stable for the last two months I've owned it. That's doing 3d rendering, Snort Log reporting, some games, a ton of music stuff.
Now, I preferr Pinnacle Studio to iMove, but face it, software you pay extra for SHOULD be better.
Now, since I'm up to my armpits in network security, and live every day with well tuned XP, Suse, and OS X boxes, I can honestly say I've had less pain dealing with OS X than I have with the other two major flavors.
The things you're listing are individual cases. Apple's not perfect, they've had problems (ibook logic boards), but they're a damnsight better than the last two new laptops I've dealt with. (Sony and Compaq) One won't take a service pack, and the other required a BIOS flash to work with WiFi...an update I couldn't do at home unless I bought a USB floppy drive.
Now, do ya wanna keep getting militant, or can you realize that there JUST may be something to what you're hearing, seeing as how you must be hearing it ehough to piss ya off?
Yeah, my first M'brot generator was for the Amiga 500 in Highschool. 4 days to render a 320x200x256 image.
Now my ibook (a portable device that runs 5+ hours on a charge) will do 3.5 Gflops with a version that takes advantage of the ALTIVEC instructions onchip.
Fractint on my 3 ghz P4 boggles the mind.
So, now that the Star Wars Special edition has 'updated' my pre-live xbox and patched it, will I still be able to mod it? (I'm assuming my options have been reduced to a modchip rather than a non-destructive hack) I left my original xbox (patched) alone and bought the second one to futz with...Damn you Lucas and Gates!
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Between hearing 'Halo 2 is/isnot the shizznit' and 'George Lucas really screwed up Star Wars' my ears are atarting to bleed.
You guys gotta learn to live and love and let others be. (Yer worse than them damn politicians a few weeks ago)
My name's Matey-O and I approved this message.
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I remember plugging in my brand new ti-99/4a to my parent's spare 19" B&W television....then the excitement of receiving a brand new 9" color telivision after complaining that staring at the B&W TV for any period of time made my vision blurry.
This follows with Parrots too. You can ask polly if he wants a cracker all you want, but it took me just once knocking something off the counter and yelling "GODDAMMIT!" for my African Grey to not only pick up the sound, but the CONTEXT.
He'd take a toy over to the side of his perch, drop it off the side, look at it with a single eye and yell "GODDAMMIT!" at it.
Now, combine an african Grey with twin 2 year old boys and you get some really interesting results.
Collin walks into the room and Iian (parrot) says "Ya OKAY?"....Collin says 'No.' (Kids pick up 'no' REALLY early.)
Alex's favorite word is shoe. Not _just_ shoe, but as a really excited question: SHOE!?!?!
think they coulda named it something better than 'sparse diskimage'? I blew away all my settings (yeah, boo hoo, won't do THAT again) cause the diskimage was roughly the size of the two huge AVI's I just threw away and I wasn't getting my diskspace back after emptying the trashcan.
Name it something like 'Secret Encrypted File' or something...
Imagine... if all sysadmins had CS degrees, the majority of all servers would probably be *NIX based, and Code Red wouldn't have happened.
Speaking as a degreed CE, most CS majors _I've_ run into are good at programming FORTRAN but don't have the first clue in troubleshooting a scsi adapter that's heat-creepd off the motherboard.
That's about as broad-brushed a statement as the one YOU just made.
I fail to see why you'd WANT to dual boot OS X...run the developer Environment.pkg, open a terminal, and you've got a FULL BSD U*ix implementation. Gcc works, X works, port works...
It was pretty cool compiling libpcap and snort and just having it work.
I bought my 12" ibook about two weeks ago ($999 refurb)...I've gotta say I don't feel too put out that I had to pay for the airport extreme card ($70 refurb) as the only real difference was the.2 Ghz bump in proc.
I've had 6 or 7 really intensive things going on (compile, wget, convert shorten to mp3, etc.) and the little ibook just soaks it up and runs with it. I'm loving this thing to DEATH.
I'm finding that each RSS reader I see brings a feature or two I'd like, but none of them do everything right.
-Thunderbird does really well, but the keyboadr shortcuts don't drop down to the view window...want to see the next page? Hit space, see the next RSS feed item. (D'oh!) -Another makes you click the item, then click the preview, when all you really want on some sites is to go from the item to the fill-monty (like Slashdot, for example) -One updates Every Fifteen Minutes...ensuring you'll never get work done. Finish a pile of Rss feeds, Alt-tab over to your application, and it insistently bounces on the app bar telling you you've got more to read!
It's like all of the RSS programmers didn't have any UI background and have to learn all the useability stuff we figgured out in Web Browsers....and Word Processors, and OS's...
A sub-conscious thought bubbled to the top of the stack while I was reading this article:
So what?
And Not even for the same reasons that are being brought up here.
Right now, I've got a DishPVR that sorts through the TWENTYFIVE THOUSAND hours of programming a week (150x24x7)...of which, I'll see maybe 15 hours that I want to see, the part of the year that the programming isn't a rerun.
Otherwise, I get my entertainment off the net, reading books, RSS feeds, The _occasional_ DVD purchase (LOTR), etc.
But the point is: There's SUCH a HUGE firehose of information vying for my time that a portable PVR, or Xbox remote video viewer, or streamed T.V. to my Cellphone just doesn't light my lucky like they want it to.
I predict this is going to be another 'Tablet PC' marketing push. It's a lot of bells and whistles and will amount to a bunch fo companies losing a lot of money.
As a State of Colorado IT person, I can say that the departmental budgets in the state vary widely, from Departments that need the state to provide shared computing resources to large scale independant farms that are patched, firewalled, and ids'd to the hilt.
Of those, the DMV falls somewhere inbetween with a lot of mainframe (virus immune) resources, accessed by a bunch of w/32 (virus exposable) workstations, spread out over a LARGE geographical area, further, they were really hard hit when the tax funds left colorado after the Dot Com and Telco stuff went belly up.
So, it's your usual overworked, understaffed IT department, only more so over the last few days.
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Other than that, my iBook has been rock-solid-stable for the last two months I've owned it. That's doing 3d rendering, Snort Log reporting, some games, a ton of music stuff.
Now, I preferr Pinnacle Studio to iMove, but face it, software you pay extra for SHOULD be better.
Now, since I'm up to my armpits in network security, and live every day with well tuned XP, Suse, and OS X boxes, I can honestly say I've had less pain dealing with OS X than I have with the other two major flavors.
The things you're listing are individual cases. Apple's not perfect, they've had problems (ibook logic boards), but they're a damnsight better than the last two new laptops I've dealt with. (Sony and Compaq) One won't take a service pack, and the other required a BIOS flash to work with WiFi...an update I couldn't do at home unless I bought a USB floppy drive.
Now, do ya wanna keep getting militant, or can you realize that there JUST may be something to what you're hearing, seeing as how you must be hearing it ehough to piss ya off?
Yeah, my first M'brot generator was for the Amiga 500 in Highschool. 4 days to render a 320x200x256 image. Now my ibook (a portable device that runs 5+ hours on a charge) will do 3.5 Gflops with a version that takes advantage of the ALTIVEC instructions onchip. Fractint on my 3 ghz P4 boggles the mind.
So, now that the Star Wars Special edition has 'updated' my pre-live xbox and patched it, will I still be able to mod it? (I'm assuming my options have been reduced to a modchip rather than a non-destructive hack) I left my original xbox (patched) alone and bought the second one to futz with...Damn you Lucas and Gates!
Between hearing 'Halo 2 is/isnot the shizznit' and 'George Lucas really screwed up Star Wars' my ears are atarting to bleed.
You guys gotta learn to live and love and let others be. (Yer worse than them damn politicians a few weeks ago)
My name's Matey-O and I approved this message.
I remember plugging in my brand new ti-99/4a to my parent's spare 19" B&W television....then the excitement of receiving a brand new 9" color telivision after complaining that staring at the B&W TV for any period of time made my vision blurry.
This follows with Parrots too. You can ask polly if he wants a cracker all you want, but it took me just once knocking something off the counter and yelling "GODDAMMIT!" for my African Grey to not only pick up the sound, but the CONTEXT.
He'd take a toy over to the side of his perch, drop it off the side, look at it with a single eye and yell "GODDAMMIT!" at it.
Now, combine an african Grey with twin 2 year old boys and you get some really interesting results.
Collin walks into the room and Iian (parrot) says "Ya OKAY?"....Collin says 'No.' (Kids pick up 'no' REALLY early.)
Alex's favorite word is shoe. Not _just_ shoe, but as a really excited question: SHOE!?!?!
So now, of course, it's Iian's favorite word too.
think they coulda named it something better than 'sparse diskimage'? I blew away all my settings (yeah, boo hoo, won't do THAT again) cause the diskimage was roughly the size of the two huge AVI's I just threw away and I wasn't getting my diskspace back after emptying the trashcan.
Name it something like 'Secret Encrypted File' or something...
There's not as many sex searches cause seeing 30 new people a day getting it more than you are gets depressing after awhile.
Yes, but how did it stack up in Doom3?
That's about as broad-brushed a statement as the one YOU just made.
Which doesn't really matter when viewing movies, cuz this is Slashdot, they WILL NOT want to BUY movies pre-recorded on Sony's proprietary disks.
Does this mean the Parents can see what trouble their kids are gettin into on their date via streaming video on tha Intarweb?
I think Solitare is on channel 4...
You've obviously never gone to Zombocom
whatever. Jusdt because someone makes a great product and has the 'misfortune' to get bought out by M$ doesn't make it any less a great product.
Yeah, I know you want a VNC based solution, but the Microsoft/Citrix remote Desktop Protocol rocks.
Don't think of it that way....instead think of all the two and three year old iBooks on eBay that are STILL worth $550-$700!
I fail to see why you'd WANT to dual boot OS X...run the developer Environment .pkg, open a terminal, and you've got a FULL BSD U*ix implementation. Gcc works, X works, port works...
.2 Ghz bump in proc.
It was pretty cool compiling libpcap and snort and just having it work.
I bought my 12" ibook about two weeks ago ($999 refurb)...I've gotta say I don't feel too put out that I had to pay for the airport extreme card ($70 refurb) as the only real difference was the
I've had 6 or 7 really intensive things going on (compile, wget, convert shorten to mp3, etc.) and the little ibook just soaks it up and runs with it. I'm loving this thing to DEATH.
I'm finding that each RSS reader I see brings a feature or two I'd like, but none of them do everything right.
-Thunderbird does really well, but the keyboadr shortcuts don't drop down to the view window...want to see the next page? Hit space, see the next RSS feed item. (D'oh!)
-Another makes you click the item, then click the preview, when all you really want on some sites is to go from the item to the fill-monty (like Slashdot, for example)
-One updates Every Fifteen Minutes...ensuring you'll never get work done. Finish a pile of Rss feeds, Alt-tab over to your application, and it insistently bounces on the app bar telling you you've got more to read!
It's like all of the RSS programmers didn't have any UI background and have to learn all the useability stuff we figgured out in Web Browsers....and Word Processors, and OS's...
A sub-conscious thought bubbled to the top of the stack while I was reading this article:
So what?
And Not even for the same reasons that are being brought up here.
Right now, I've got a DishPVR that sorts through the TWENTYFIVE THOUSAND hours of programming a week (150x24x7)...of which, I'll see maybe 15 hours that I want to see, the part of the year that the programming isn't a rerun.
Otherwise, I get my entertainment off the net, reading books, RSS feeds, The _occasional_ DVD purchase (LOTR), etc.
But the point is: There's SUCH a HUGE firehose of information vying for my time that a portable PVR, or Xbox remote video viewer, or streamed T.V. to my Cellphone just doesn't light my lucky like they want it to.
I predict this is going to be another 'Tablet PC' marketing push. It's a lot of bells and whistles and will amount to a bunch fo companies losing a lot of money.
I was REALLY PISSED when the Cantina music was interrupted between track 1 and 2 on our 8-track tape.
What?
Hmph. THIS state Government Agency does. (mine) I'll assume others do too, putz.
As a State of Colorado IT person, I can say that the departmental budgets in the state vary widely, from Departments that need the state to provide shared computing resources to large scale independant farms that are patched, firewalled, and ids'd to the hilt.
Of those, the DMV falls somewhere inbetween with a lot of mainframe (virus immune) resources, accessed by a bunch of w/32 (virus exposable) workstations, spread out over a LARGE geographical area, further, they were really hard hit when the tax funds left colorado after the Dot Com and Telco stuff went belly up.
So, it's your usual overworked, understaffed IT department, only more so over the last few days.
Cool! The original quote came from an editorial in Motor Trend...who probably got it from the PDF you list.
check. check. check.
Got 'em. What's next?