Funny watching a bunch of geeks arguing advertising, and immediately going to the checklist to decide if the ad is "correct".
These ads are *brilliant* marketing. They are different from most tech advertising, and thus catch the notice of viewers, and make points using language that completely avoids any heavy technological jargon, which in itself adds to the point Apple is trying to make about itself. When I see the Vista ads, I'm bored in about two seconds, they look eerily like classic IBM advertising from the late 90s. (Microsoft has become mid-70s IBM, the irony is extreme).
These ads are mostly for Apple the brand, not OS X or even Mac hardware.
I love these theoretical broadsides. I also would love to see your reaction when the nuke plant 2 miles from your house melts down and the authorities are rousting you out of your house to clear the area. I live in Illinois, the most nuclearized state in the US, so it's not just an armchair discussion to me. So the "special interests" you are talking about are people like me.
The problem with nuclear power is that the worst case is very bad. If the containment fails in a major accident, you'll get a whole lot of coal plants worth of radiation in a hurry. A coal plant, regardless of the failure mode, is unable to permanently radioactively contaminate an area. Something like Chernobyl in a US metro area would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
The power has not proven to be cost effective, either. Com Ed, the distribution arm of Exelon, now is implementing a 20% cost increase, with additional increases planned, despite the primarily nuclear generating capacity it has in its service area. Why? Human factors, primarily, because of the complexity of the technology and the risks posed by major failure. People blame "regulation" on the one hand for making the plants expensive, then with the other extoll the failsafe design demanded by these regulations for preventing the Chernobyl-type disaster. You can't have it both ways.
Therefore the satellite providers are not "competitors".
I think the taxpayer subsidy for the military should also be eliminated so that I don't have to pay for frivolous wars I disagree with. If someone wants to beat down some other country, they should hire one of the many available commercial outfits to do it. The Defense Department is unfairly interfering with the free market for mercenary services.
And the dissenting view. Powerbook 1.33 GHz with 10.4.8. Loaded RC3 against my better judgement when it appeared have been running it since in the hope it cured some of the memory leak nightmare with FF 1.x.x.
It's better on that score, and I have, surprisingly, not had any dumps yet. Running AdBlock Plus, CustomizeGoogle, NoScript, GoogleBar Lite. Slashdot and Ars load for me 'very quickly'. While investigating memory usage, I've had 20 tabs open on the most complex sites I could think of, still no crashes.
This is why I've been running OS X for five years. Back then, I recall that Linux was so much better than the old endless config file hacking days thanks to distros like RedHat and Suse. But OS X Just Worked out of the box. Performance was weak, partly due to the limitations of PPC.
We now are 15 years into the Age of Linux...and Linux *still* has a 'way to go', while OS X has continued to improve and continue to acquire more users.
Been using the 10.1 release on a couple servers at work, been pleased with it. I've been around the mortal coil long enough to remember when SuSe was the distro du jour, and my impression is that it just became unkewl for the kewl kids when Novell bought them. Since I'm old and fat now, and have learned from experience that in the geek world, reinventing the wheel is a way of life, I'm not eager to investigate yet another King of the Distros just to find out it is more or less the same as the last three, only with transparency.
It will be interesting to see if you still are quite pleased with it after your job is moved to Rumania or Turkey when Poland is no longer the least cost provider. The big American holding didn't give a damn about American jobs, it sure isn't going to hesitate with any Polish jobs.
We had Republican gubernatorial administrations for a quarter century until the most recent. So if, as you claim, there are no legitimate elections here, the Democrats apparently have been cheating for the purpose of bringing in Republican administrations for decades. So you have to admit that they at least are evenhanded in cheating on behalf of everyone.
As to Democratic corruption, the last Republican governor, George Ryan, was just sentenced to six years in Federal prison for...corruption. The point is not that both sides engage in this type of behavior, but that it can't be condoned or excused because "everybody does it". It needs to be exposed wherever it occurs by whoever engages in it.
(If you replace "Illinois" with "Chicago" in your post, I think i might be inclined to agree with you, though).
Good points. The famed Google statement (motto seems kind of strong since they never seemed to do anything to actively follow it) is at best a historical anachronism of pre-IPO Google, Inc. Kind of like the framed photos of the "first $1 bill" at the local hot dog stand. Kind of like "Invent", or "Think", or any of a number of dusty relics of corporate history.
Yes...yes he is. We need a Doctorow checkbox now to add him to Dvorak, Jon Katz, and the whole pantheon of self-important blowhards making a living blowing smoke.
Paul Otellini : "AMD has 26% of the market? Well, screw that - if we can't have 75% of the market, we're outta here. Call up Slashdot, let 'em know we're closing the doors tomorrow."
And this (indeed informative) response is why OS X still wins, no matter how many Doctorows want to flog up some cheap publicity. Linux has a hammerlock on the l33t nerd user, no question, but as long as anybody with a real job to finish has to read something like this to get a computer to do what they want it to do - something like say OS X, where I go Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Displays -> (click on resolution I want) in about 5 seconds - will be preferable.
And as an aside, it's beyond ironic that a recommended fix for a Linux b0rkage is to dig out an ancient Win98 boot disk to save the day. I mean, how lame is THAT?
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Funny watching a bunch of geeks arguing advertising, and immediately going to the checklist to decide if the ad is "correct".
These ads are *brilliant* marketing. They are different from most tech advertising, and thus catch the notice of viewers, and make points using language that completely avoids any heavy technological jargon, which in itself adds to the point Apple is trying to make about itself. When I see the Vista ads, I'm bored in about two seconds, they look eerily like classic IBM advertising from the late 90s. (Microsoft has become mid-70s IBM, the irony is extreme).
These ads are mostly for Apple the brand, not OS X or even Mac hardware.
Emacs. 'Nuff said.
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I love these theoretical broadsides. I also would love to see your reaction when the nuke plant 2 miles from your house melts down and the authorities are rousting you out of your house to clear the area. I live in Illinois, the most nuclearized state in the US, so it's not just an armchair discussion to me. So the "special interests" you are talking about are people like me.
The problem with nuclear power is that the worst case is very bad. If the containment fails in a major accident, you'll get a whole lot of coal plants worth of radiation in a hurry. A coal plant, regardless of the failure mode, is unable to permanently radioactively contaminate an area. Something like Chernobyl in a US metro area would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
The power has not proven to be cost effective, either. Com Ed, the distribution arm of Exelon, now is implementing a 20% cost increase, with additional increases planned, despite the primarily nuclear generating capacity it has in its service area. Why? Human factors, primarily, because of the complexity of the technology and the risks posed by major failure. People blame "regulation" on the one hand for making the plants expensive, then with the other extoll the failsafe design demanded by these regulations for preventing the Chernobyl-type disaster. You can't have it both ways.
The vast majority of the virus scanning/blocking software is THIRD PARTY, as is much of the spyware detection software. For your reference:
http://www.symantec.com/
http://www.mcafee.com/
http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt /0,7211,40858,00.html
If only Bernoff could find a rock, or maybe a pile of Zunes big enough to hide his pudgy bulk beneath.....
?? What's wrong with Perforce?
Therefore the satellite providers are not "competitors".
I think the taxpayer subsidy for the military should also be eliminated so that I don't have to pay for frivolous wars I disagree with. If someone wants to beat down some other country, they should hire one of the many available commercial outfits to do it. The Defense Department is unfairly interfering with the free market for mercenary services.
I've been using RC3 since release, and haven't had one crash. So I canceled your vote ;-)
Googlebar Lite, AdBlock Plus, Filterset.G updater, CustomizeGoogle, NoScript; 10.4.8 PPC.
It helps if you supply some info. For all we know, it's the scripting on the porn aggregator you are on that kills it.
My take - noticeably more stable and less leaky than 1.5.0.7 on OS X.
And the dissenting view. Powerbook 1.33 GHz with 10.4.8. Loaded RC3 against my better judgement when it appeared have been running it since in the hope it cured some of the memory leak nightmare with FF 1.x.x.
It's better on that score, and I have, surprisingly, not had any dumps yet. Running AdBlock Plus, CustomizeGoogle, NoScript, GoogleBar Lite. Slashdot and Ars load for me 'very quickly'. While investigating memory usage, I've had 20 tabs open on the most complex sites I could think of, still no crashes.
YMMV.
(No Smoke theme (sob))
Doesn't work if you use the Middle-Button method to close a tab. Doh! Didn't look, might be a logged bug.
This is why I've been running OS X for five years. Back then, I recall that Linux was so much better than the old endless config file hacking days thanks to distros like RedHat and Suse. But OS X Just Worked out of the box. Performance was weak, partly due to the limitations of PPC.
We now are 15 years into the Age of Linux...and Linux *still* has a 'way to go', while OS X has continued to improve and continue to acquire more users.
And possibly piss off the Dreaming God....
Been using the 10.1 release on a couple servers at work, been pleased with it. I've been around the mortal coil long enough to remember when SuSe was the distro du jour, and my impression is that it just became unkewl for the kewl kids when Novell bought them. Since I'm old and fat now, and have learned from experience that in the geek world, reinventing the wheel is a way of life, I'm not eager to investigate yet another King of the Distros just to find out it is more or less the same as the last three, only with transparency.
Any views on how this stacks up vs. Suse 10.x?
It will be interesting to see if you still are quite pleased with it after your job is moved to Rumania or Turkey when Poland is no longer the least cost provider. The big American holding didn't give a damn about American jobs, it sure isn't going to hesitate with any Polish jobs.
Croatia != Texas.
Whoever heard of "Croatian Toast"? Or "Croatian Tea"? Or "Croatian BBQ"?
We had Republican gubernatorial administrations for a quarter century until the most recent. So if, as you claim, there are no legitimate elections here, the Democrats apparently have been cheating for the purpose of bringing in Republican administrations for decades. So you have to admit that they at least are evenhanded in cheating on behalf of everyone.
As to Democratic corruption, the last Republican governor, George Ryan, was just sentenced to six years in Federal prison for...corruption. The point is not that both sides engage in this type of behavior, but that it can't be condoned or excused because "everybody does it". It needs to be exposed wherever it occurs by whoever engages in it.
(If you replace "Illinois" with "Chicago" in your post, I think i might be inclined to agree with you, though).
Good points. The famed Google statement (motto seems kind of strong since they never seemed to do anything to actively follow it) is at best a historical anachronism of pre-IPO Google, Inc. Kind of like the framed photos of the "first $1 bill" at the local hot dog stand. Kind of like "Invent", or "Think", or any of a number of dusty relics of corporate history.
Looks like evolution in action. The least aggressive TDs will survive.
Yes...yes he is. We need a Doctorow checkbox now to add him to Dvorak, Jon Katz, and the whole pantheon of self-important blowhards making a living blowing smoke.
Paul Otellini : "AMD has 26% of the market? Well, screw that - if we can't have 75% of the market, we're outta here. Call up Slashdot, let 'em know we're closing the doors tomorrow."
Loved that movie....
Even for an AC, this gets my vote for dumbest post of the week. Both OT and inane, and extra credit for throwing in Craigslist. Well done!
And this (indeed informative) response is why OS X still wins, no matter how many Doctorows want to flog up some cheap publicity. Linux has a hammerlock on the l33t nerd user, no question, but as long as anybody with a real job to finish has to read something like this to get a computer to do what they want it to do - something like say OS X, where I go Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Displays -> (click on resolution I want) in about 5 seconds - will be preferable.
And as an aside, it's beyond ironic that a recommended fix for a Linux b0rkage is to dig out an ancient Win98 boot disk to save the day. I mean, how lame is THAT?
Switching would be BIG trouble. Not worried yet.