I agree that "killer" usually refers to just having one unique feature, rather than doing everything better. A "killer app" for example would be something that has people buying the product, even if it has flaws in other areas.
That's why the iPhone is such a market leader now
Evidence? Ipod, yes, Iphone no. And what's the Iphone's killer feature (please - give me the specific feature, none of this vague subjective Just Works or "It does it in a way that's special/better/magic/cool/makes-me-feel-good-inside/not-been-done-before-but-I-can't-tell-you-why"...)?
No one is going to beat Apple on specs. For better or for ill, the company is brilliant at style and presentation and those are huge factors in the iPhone's successes.... A cell phone is a status symbol once again and until a good phone matches the iPhone in that arena, it's not going to kill it.
I don't disagree that it's hard to beat Apple on specs where "specs" equals style and status symbol. But I would suggest that the major companies that routinely sell far more than Apple are already doing a reasonable job of beating them.
Moreover, the iPhone is out NOW and macrumors and other Apple sites are already beginning to rumble with information about the new iPhone software - the iPhone is moving ahead
Well phones had been around for years before the Iphone was released. People had to wait around for extra features such as 3G. I don't see that being a problem for Apple. And hang on a mo - Palm have been in the market for years, far longer than Apple. This is a new phone. How is that any different to Apple releasing new software for their phone? Couldn't we say there's no point them releasing the new Iphone software, because other phones are "out NOW"?
I don't understand - are you assuming that if a company releases its first phone, it will only be as good as other the first phones from other companies, because they have to catch up? This is firstly clearly false (wasn't true for Apple, obviously), and secondly irrelevant (this isn't Palm's first phone).
What I find disturbing is that people consider this to be "the most important product announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show." When as explained in the article, it's something that's as good as a product that's already been on the market for two years.
Indeed - a product that people think is good because it can do what other phones have done for years? It's like the Iphone release all over again;)
We could endlessly debate what we think is better, but the point is that "killer" usually refers to market share, and not what some people on a forum think is best. One might refer to making an Ipod killer, because the Ipod is currently the dominant mp3 player - it doesn't matter whether one thinks the Ipod is good or not. But this isn't true of the Iphone - you could think its the best phone in existence, but one refers to an "X killer" to refer to wiping it out in the market place. If Palm are settling themselves on only comparing themselves to the Iphone's market share, then they're never going to be a major player anyway.
Otherwise, you might as well get people referring to new computers as a potential "Amiga killer", because they like Amigas, and are waiting for something better to come along.
If Palm wants to do so, they're going to have to do everything the iPhone does and do it better.
This is an unfair requirement - the Iphone after all doesn't do everything that every other phone does, after all! Missing features are accepted as "not something I'd need" or hand-waved away as "Grumpy featurism". So the same should be true of the Palm - it's okay to miss features, as not everyone may need every feature. As long as it just works, that's all that matters. It's the double standard - Apple products are okay as long as they have a "cool factor" (your words, not mine), but other products are held to some impossible standard of "must be able to do everything that any other phone can do, and more".
The only reason there's yet to be an Iphone killer is the same reason that there isn't a Nokia killer or a Motorola killer - no phone company is in a dominant position (and certainly not Apple - not even close I'm afraid), and no company has yet to produce a "killer" phone to put them in the dominant position.
The past decade of iPod dominance has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that neither a laundry list of features nor a very appealing price can compete with cool factor and a really nice user experience.
Ipod, yes. We're talking about a different market here.
I am in full agreement. Sure, the Iphone is a nice phone, but it's just one of many. To be fair, the fault is with PC Pro rather than Slashdot who are just quoting this nonsensical statement ("finally matches and even betters the Apple iPhone").
Although in a way, it's a cunning statement - whilst fans would want to accept PC Pro's belief that the Iphone is the Best Phone Ever, they can't agree with this statement without admitting that the Palm is better than the Iphone. For the rest of us, who have been using phones long before the Iphone joined the market late, we'll just ignore the statement and judge the Palm against the market as a whole.
Yes, but the point is you choose to have these multiple email accounts, and divide them up how you wish. There's nothing stopping you doing that with OpenID too.
But imagine if you could only email some people with one email account, and then needed to sign up for another account to email some other people. That's what the situation is like without OpenID - you have no choice how to use your accounts for which people/sites. It's constrained by what servers they happen to be on, and not what you choose.
OpenID is intended to provide for blogs what we have for email. Or think Jabber, for chat. Yes, you might still want to have more than one account, but that's entirely orthogonal to the mess of having to use MSN to talk with some people, and then sign up to AIM to talk to another group.
I use KeePass to manage usernames/passwords. Having a single ID/password isn't any more convenient.
Irrelevant. OpenID is about not having to sign up every single time, which your suggestion does not solve.
If you use OpenID with no delegate, you're dependent on your OpenID provider working, and StackOverflow working. If they use Passport, they're dependent on Passport.com and StackOverflow.com both being working.
The former seems preferable, as with the latter everyone is on a single point of failure (passport.com).
If StackOverflow had their own login, you only have one dependency: itself. Clearly this is the best option if you want to optimize for availability.
I take it you hate Jabber too, and prefer the likes of AIM? Whilst it's true that there is more chance of a server being down, this is still a rather rare issue (what server are you using that is down all the time?) The same criticism applies to using Jabber to talk to someone who might be using MSN, as it requires both MSN and your Jabber server to be working. Obviously that makes it unusable!
Btw, posting to Slashdot requires both Slashdot being up, and your ISP being up. Is it really worth the risk, when the chances of at least one of them not working is obviously so high?
And what really makes me bitter here is that the goal isn't to make their website easier or quicker or more available to use, it's just a political campaign to increase the number of people who use some crappy, poorly-designed, technology. OpenID is too crappy to succeed on its own merits, so now we have website "activists" trying to force its use... that's crummy.
Ah look - you've run out of minor and irrelevant possible criticisms, so it's on to the ad-hominems.
* Evidence that this is part of a political campaign? * If it's poorly-designed, whats your solution to the situation of multiple isolated communities? Or did you prefer the days when you could only email someone if you both had an account on the same BBS? * It's easier and quicker not to need a login for every single forum or blog I want to make a quick (possibly one-off) comment on. You'd know that if you understood what OpenID was intended for. * So because people happen to disagree with you, and want to encourage a new standard they like, they are now "activists"? Yes, they "force" you to follow their rules when you choose to use their website - how oppressed you are. Is Slashdot a "website activist" forcing me to follow the use and terms of their website? If someone chooses to run a Jabber server, or releases software only for Linux, are they being activists?
I never thought I'd see the day on Slashdot when people are saying that we should all use Microsoft, and anyone who believes in open standards, despite their lower popularity, is just a political "activist" forcing their own views onto others.
(oh and there is obviously a difference between Christians and hippies, for starters the fact that Christians actually have a purpose and generally act very sensibly)
What is the purpose of Christians, and what evidence is there that people who believe in chakras do not in general behave sensibly?
None of the things you describe are flaws on OpenID.
Consider, I can use my email account to email anyone I like. According to you, this is a problem, because if my email provider goes down, I can no longer email anyone. According to you, it is better to continually maintain a large number of different email accounts, for emailing various different people.
Well that's just silly. If my email provider goes down, there's nothing stopping me then signing up for a new one. And I can always create a spare one just in case. Same with OpenID. This is still a better system than having to sign up for a new account for every Wiki or forum or blog I want to post to, just as it would be a silly system to create a new email account for every person I want to email "just in case my email provider goes down".
The usability of OpenID is also extremely poor.
I've had no problems with it on LiveJournal, and various other blogging systems. Maybe Yahoo's implementation is poor. It would be like blaming email, because of a bad experience with AOL...
Sure, Microsoft sucks and we all hate them, etc, etc, but at least their Passport/LiveID system actually freakin' WORKS.
That is not an open standard that can be run by anyone, AIUI. OpenID is like Jabber - sure, any company could create a new chat protocol and claim it should be a new standard that everyone adopts, but a system where anyone can run a server is preferred. Just as today's email system is far better than everyone having to use hotmail.
Given how much Jabber, and open standards in general, are liked here on Slashdot, I'm surprised at the dislike and continual misunderstanding of OpenID.
Agreed - and it is not "more clicks" as the reply claims.
Another point is that if you are already logged in to the original website, you'll be logged in via OpenID automatically (although you can set it to still ask you every time, just to be sure - either way, no need to reenter your password).
As soon as I saw this article, I thought "How long before I see people completely misunderstand OpenID yet again".
You implemented it the only way it makes sense.
Yet you seem happy to trust Slashdot with your account details. Why is it some great breach of security if the same account details were used to, say, post to Slashdot, and comment on someone's blog?
Whereby securely means, no user information released.
The only user information you release is the same information you happily provide when you sign up for an account.
I take it you run your own email server, and Jabber server? Can't trust an external company knowing everyone you email, and everyone you chat to, right? Obviously it was much better when Yahoo users couldn't chat to MSN users, and it would be much more secure if you could only email someone if you also had an account at their ISP, right? Because using the same login details to be able to email all your contacts is such a security breach. These new-fangled things like Email and Jabber will never catch on!
Requiring fewer passwords isn't really the main point of OpenID - it's to avoid the hassle of having to sign up for every single trivial service you might want to use.
If I want to comment on a random person's blog, or edit on a Wiki then I can either spend the hassle of signing up (or more likely, not bother), or use OpenID.
How does your Mac keychain help me here?
I'm not sure what you mean by "trust an external site with all my security" - if I trust a website to have an account with them, it's hardly making any different if I trust them also to make a comment to a random other blog or Wiki with that account.
But it seems to me that complaining about AAC because of Apple is analogous to saying "I'm sticking with VHS tapes because not all of us can afford those new Sony DVD players".
Who's complaining? People are just saying that they would prefer mp3, because their hardware doesn't support AAC. In fact, the OP wasn't even complaining - he'd simply say that he'd transcode it.
If you want to compare to DVDs, are you telling me that you ditched your DVD collection and replaced it with Blu-ray as soon as it came out? And do you moan about people who still prefer to buy DVDs?
And it's not like mp3 is obsolete, nor is the comparison to AAC comparable to VHS and DVD. It would be like preferring Mac or Linux software, because your computer can't run Windows - and there are plenty of people around here who do complain about that.
The iMac is like a notebook computer though. You can't really fault a laptop for having no upgrade path and no ability to play the next generation of games.
You can't fault a notebook, because they're notebooks - i.e., small and portable. But I can't take an Imac with me and use it on the train. I mean, if you're saying that the performance of Mac desktops isn't that bad, because it's no worse than laptops, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement when we're talking about desktops...
Yes, but if you don't need PCI cards, don't mind paying the extra for laptop memory/hard disks, don't care about games, and don't care about expandability - why not get a laptop and have something even more portable?
The average laptop is barely expandable at all... yet we see laptop sales dominating the "home user" segment of the market.
Yes, because it has the advantage of being portable. It doesn't logically follow to say that therefore, something that has the disadvantages of the laptops should also be good, when it has none of the advantages!
That is exactly what he did. He stopped zealothing and chose his OS.
He didn't simply happen to say "And now I use OS X", he said "And that's why I use OS X." To be honest I'm not entirely sure what he meant, but it comes across as if OS X is a platform for users whilst other platforms are still populated by rabid fans.
He then followed up with a post saying how great OS X is, and implying that Vista is only good for games, and fails on ease of use.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with a bit of OS advocacy, I enjoy it too and I was an Amiga fan too back in the day - but the point is his OP claimed he had "aged" out of it, which evidently from his posts isn't true.
To put things in perspective, this country is on the verge of banning kitchen knives to try to reduce violent crime
Not to mention possession of pictures of kitchen knives, among other things, if used in pr0n, again in the belief that this will reduce violent crime - only three weeks to go to Dangerous Pictures Day.
And with this ruling, they'll be able to hack into your PC to see if you've got any pics that the Government think you shouldn't...
I see moderation on Apple stories is back on form - if anyone else slagged off a product using terms such as "patheticly ugly, clunky" rather than using evidence, and then threw ad-hominems of "troll", they'd be modded down in an instant.
Since arguing pro-Iphone posts with "Grumpy Featurism" is +4 Insightful, but arguing with pro-Motorola V980 posts as "Grumpy Featurism" is apparently Flamebait:
I get so tired of the grumpy "featurism" of Slashdot posters. The Iphone might do everything and more than what my current phone does... on paper. In truth, that doesn't mean that these things work as well, I can't copy and paste when I'm editing, every time I installed a Java program it didn't work, and even though it had a 2 megapixel camera, it doesn't even have a flash, nor could I work out how to record a video with it.
Dude, seriously, GET OVER IT. Waaaaah! Waaaaah! A company owns a copyright on a character which they are using to generate revenue! Waaaah! It's so unfair! Waaaaaah!
Why not come up with your own lovable and globally adored character that you can place into the public domain, instead of endlessly bitching about it?
Copyright has a limited term. Dude, seriously, GET OVER IT. Waaaaah! Waaaaah! Copyright expires years after you're dead, you might even have to do some new work once a century to generate revenue rather than relying on the work of dead people! Waaaah! It's so unfair! Waaaaaah!
Why don't Disney come up with their own character, instead of clinging onto a character created by people who are long dead, and endlessly bitching about it to the US Government?
If you really, really hate Disney and all the copyright trolls, then why not just boycott the firm and their franchises, instead?
When Disney are lobbying the Government, people who disagree have just as much right to voice their opinion on copyright terms.
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I agree that "killer" usually refers to just having one unique feature, rather than doing everything better. A "killer app" for example would be something that has people buying the product, even if it has flaws in other areas.
That's why the iPhone is such a market leader now
Evidence? Ipod, yes, Iphone no. And what's the Iphone's killer feature (please - give me the specific feature, none of this vague subjective Just Works or "It does it in a way that's special/better/magic/cool/makes-me-feel-good-inside/not-been-done-before-but-I-can't-tell-you-why"...)?
Did Palm claim it was an "Iphone killer"? I only see reference to "phone killer", and the stuff about Iphones may just be PC Pro's take on it.
If you said no one has made a Nokia N95 killer or a Motorola RAZR killer, then that would be a better comparison.
I meant "Motorola phones killer" - i.e., killing the phones they produced, not necessarily the companies.
No one is going to beat Apple on specs. For better or for ill, the company is brilliant at style and presentation and those are huge factors in the iPhone's successes. ... A cell phone is a status symbol once again and until a good phone matches the iPhone in that arena, it's not going to kill it.
I don't disagree that it's hard to beat Apple on specs where "specs" equals style and status symbol. But I would suggest that the major companies that routinely sell far more than Apple are already doing a reasonable job of beating them.
Moreover, the iPhone is out NOW and macrumors and other Apple sites are already beginning to rumble with information about the new iPhone software - the iPhone is moving ahead
Well phones had been around for years before the Iphone was released. People had to wait around for extra features such as 3G. I don't see that being a problem for Apple. And hang on a mo - Palm have been in the market for years, far longer than Apple. This is a new phone. How is that any different to Apple releasing new software for their phone? Couldn't we say there's no point them releasing the new Iphone software, because other phones are "out NOW"?
I don't understand - are you assuming that if a company releases its first phone, it will only be as good as other the first phones from other companies, because they have to catch up? This is firstly clearly false (wasn't true for Apple, obviously), and secondly irrelevant (this isn't Palm's first phone).
But, but ... you could dual-boot it with Windows! Isn't that a good enough solution when you want to run software that's not on your OS?
What I find disturbing is that people consider this to be "the most important product announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show." When as explained in the article, it's something that's as good as a product that's already been on the market for two years.
Indeed - a product that people think is good because it can do what other phones have done for years? It's like the Iphone release all over again ;)
We could endlessly debate what we think is better, but the point is that "killer" usually refers to market share, and not what some people on a forum think is best. One might refer to making an Ipod killer, because the Ipod is currently the dominant mp3 player - it doesn't matter whether one thinks the Ipod is good or not. But this isn't true of the Iphone - you could think its the best phone in existence, but one refers to an "X killer" to refer to wiping it out in the market place. If Palm are settling themselves on only comparing themselves to the Iphone's market share, then they're never going to be a major player anyway.
Otherwise, you might as well get people referring to new computers as a potential "Amiga killer", because they like Amigas, and are waiting for something better to come along.
If Palm wants to do so, they're going to have to do everything the iPhone does and do it better.
This is an unfair requirement - the Iphone after all doesn't do everything that every other phone does, after all! Missing features are accepted as "not something I'd need" or hand-waved away as "Grumpy featurism". So the same should be true of the Palm - it's okay to miss features, as not everyone may need every feature. As long as it just works, that's all that matters. It's the double standard - Apple products are okay as long as they have a "cool factor" (your words, not mine), but other products are held to some impossible standard of "must be able to do everything that any other phone can do, and more".
The only reason there's yet to be an Iphone killer is the same reason that there isn't a Nokia killer or a Motorola killer - no phone company is in a dominant position (and certainly not Apple - not even close I'm afraid), and no company has yet to produce a "killer" phone to put them in the dominant position.
The past decade of iPod dominance has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that neither a laundry list of features nor a very appealing price can compete with cool factor and a really nice user experience.
Ipod, yes. We're talking about a different market here.
I am in full agreement. Sure, the Iphone is a nice phone, but it's just one of many. To be fair, the fault is with PC Pro rather than Slashdot who are just quoting this nonsensical statement ("finally matches and even betters the Apple iPhone").
Although in a way, it's a cunning statement - whilst fans would want to accept PC Pro's belief that the Iphone is the Best Phone Ever, they can't agree with this statement without admitting that the Palm is better than the Iphone. For the rest of us, who have been using phones long before the Iphone joined the market late, we'll just ignore the statement and judge the Palm against the market as a whole.
Yes, but the point is you choose to have these multiple email accounts, and divide them up how you wish. There's nothing stopping you doing that with OpenID too.
But imagine if you could only email some people with one email account, and then needed to sign up for another account to email some other people. That's what the situation is like without OpenID - you have no choice how to use your accounts for which people/sites. It's constrained by what servers they happen to be on, and not what you choose.
OpenID is intended to provide for blogs what we have for email. Or think Jabber, for chat. Yes, you might still want to have more than one account, but that's entirely orthogonal to the mess of having to use MSN to talk with some people, and then sign up to AIM to talk to another group.
I use KeePass to manage usernames/passwords. Having a single ID/password isn't any more convenient.
Irrelevant. OpenID is about not having to sign up every single time, which your suggestion does not solve.
If you use OpenID with no delegate, you're dependent on your OpenID provider working, and StackOverflow working.
If they use Passport, they're dependent on Passport.com and StackOverflow.com both being working.
The former seems preferable, as with the latter everyone is on a single point of failure (passport.com).
If StackOverflow had their own login, you only have one dependency: itself. Clearly this is the best option if you want to optimize for availability.
I take it you hate Jabber too, and prefer the likes of AIM? Whilst it's true that there is more chance of a server being down, this is still a rather rare issue (what server are you using that is down all the time?) The same criticism applies to using Jabber to talk to someone who might be using MSN, as it requires both MSN and your Jabber server to be working. Obviously that makes it unusable!
Btw, posting to Slashdot requires both Slashdot being up, and your ISP being up. Is it really worth the risk, when the chances of at least one of them not working is obviously so high?
And what really makes me bitter here is that the goal isn't to make their website easier or quicker or more available to use, it's just a political campaign to increase the number of people who use some crappy, poorly-designed, technology. OpenID is too crappy to succeed on its own merits, so now we have website "activists" trying to force its use... that's crummy.
Ah look - you've run out of minor and irrelevant possible criticisms, so it's on to the ad-hominems.
* Evidence that this is part of a political campaign?
* If it's poorly-designed, whats your solution to the situation of multiple isolated communities? Or did you prefer the days when you could only email someone if you both had an account on the same BBS?
* It's easier and quicker not to need a login for every single forum or blog I want to make a quick (possibly one-off) comment on. You'd know that if you understood what OpenID was intended for.
* So because people happen to disagree with you, and want to encourage a new standard they like, they are now "activists"? Yes, they "force" you to follow their rules when you choose to use their website - how oppressed you are. Is Slashdot a "website activist" forcing me to follow the use and terms of their website? If someone chooses to run a Jabber server, or releases software only for Linux, are they being activists?
I never thought I'd see the day on Slashdot when people are saying that we should all use Microsoft, and anyone who believes in open standards, despite their lower popularity, is just a political "activist" forcing their own views onto others.
(oh and there is obviously a difference between Christians and hippies, for starters the fact that Christians actually have a purpose and generally act very sensibly)
What is the purpose of Christians, and what evidence is there that people who believe in chakras do not in general behave sensibly?
None of the things you describe are flaws on OpenID.
Consider, I can use my email account to email anyone I like. According to you, this is a problem, because if my email provider goes down, I can no longer email anyone. According to you, it is better to continually maintain a large number of different email accounts, for emailing various different people.
Well that's just silly. If my email provider goes down, there's nothing stopping me then signing up for a new one. And I can always create a spare one just in case. Same with OpenID. This is still a better system than having to sign up for a new account for every Wiki or forum or blog I want to post to, just as it would be a silly system to create a new email account for every person I want to email "just in case my email provider goes down".
The usability of OpenID is also extremely poor.
I've had no problems with it on LiveJournal, and various other blogging systems. Maybe Yahoo's implementation is poor. It would be like blaming email, because of a bad experience with AOL...
Sure, Microsoft sucks and we all hate them, etc, etc, but at least their Passport/LiveID system actually freakin' WORKS.
That is not an open standard that can be run by anyone, AIUI. OpenID is like Jabber - sure, any company could create a new chat protocol and claim it should be a new standard that everyone adopts, but a system where anyone can run a server is preferred. Just as today's email system is far better than everyone having to use hotmail.
Given how much Jabber, and open standards in general, are liked here on Slashdot, I'm surprised at the dislike and continual misunderstanding of OpenID.
As opposed to the original server being slow?
Agreed - and it is not "more clicks" as the reply claims.
Another point is that if you are already logged in to the original website, you'll be logged in via OpenID automatically (although you can set it to still ask you every time, just to be sure - either way, no need to reenter your password).
As soon as I saw this article, I thought "How long before I see people completely misunderstand OpenID yet again".
You implemented it the only way it makes sense.
Yet you seem happy to trust Slashdot with your account details. Why is it some great breach of security if the same account details were used to, say, post to Slashdot, and comment on someone's blog?
Whereby securely means, no user information released.
The only user information you release is the same information you happily provide when you sign up for an account.
I take it you run your own email server, and Jabber server? Can't trust an external company knowing everyone you email, and everyone you chat to, right? Obviously it was much better when Yahoo users couldn't chat to MSN users, and it would be much more secure if you could only email someone if you also had an account at their ISP, right? Because using the same login details to be able to email all your contacts is such a security breach. These new-fangled things like Email and Jabber will never catch on!
Requiring fewer passwords isn't really the main point of OpenID - it's to avoid the hassle of having to sign up for every single trivial service you might want to use.
If I want to comment on a random person's blog, or edit on a Wiki then I can either spend the hassle of signing up (or more likely, not bother), or use OpenID.
How does your Mac keychain help me here?
I'm not sure what you mean by "trust an external site with all my security" - if I trust a website to have an account with them, it's hardly making any different if I trust them also to make a comment to a random other blog or Wiki with that account.
But it seems to me that complaining about AAC because of Apple is analogous to saying "I'm sticking with VHS tapes because not all of us can afford those new Sony DVD players".
Who's complaining? People are just saying that they would prefer mp3, because their hardware doesn't support AAC. In fact, the OP wasn't even complaining - he'd simply say that he'd transcode it.
If you want to compare to DVDs, are you telling me that you ditched your DVD collection and replaced it with Blu-ray as soon as it came out? And do you moan about people who still prefer to buy DVDs?
And it's not like mp3 is obsolete, nor is the comparison to AAC comparable to VHS and DVD. It would be like preferring Mac or Linux software, because your computer can't run Windows - and there are plenty of people around here who do complain about that.
The iMac is like a notebook computer though. You can't really fault a laptop for having no upgrade path and no ability to play the next generation of games.
You can't fault a notebook, because they're notebooks - i.e., small and portable. But I can't take an Imac with me and use it on the train. I mean, if you're saying that the performance of Mac desktops isn't that bad, because it's no worse than laptops, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement when we're talking about desktops...
Yes, but if you don't need PCI cards, don't mind paying the extra for laptop memory/hard disks, don't care about games, and don't care about expandability - why not get a laptop and have something even more portable?
The average laptop is barely expandable at all ... yet we see laptop sales dominating the "home user" segment of the market.
Yes, because it has the advantage of being portable. It doesn't logically follow to say that therefore, something that has the disadvantages of the laptops should also be good, when it has none of the advantages!
That is exactly what he did. He stopped zealothing and chose his OS.
He didn't simply happen to say "And now I use OS X", he said "And that's why I use OS X." To be honest I'm not entirely sure what he meant, but it comes across as if OS X is a platform for users whilst other platforms are still populated by rabid fans.
He then followed up with a post saying how great OS X is, and implying that Vista is only good for games, and fails on ease of use.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with a bit of OS advocacy, I enjoy it too and I was an Amiga fan too back in the day - but the point is his OP claimed he had "aged" out of it, which evidently from his posts isn't true.
To put things in perspective, this country is on the verge of banning kitchen knives to try to reduce violent crime
Not to mention possession of pictures of kitchen knives, among other things, if used in pr0n, again in the belief that this will reduce violent crime - only three weeks to go to Dangerous Pictures Day.
And with this ruling, they'll be able to hack into your PC to see if you've got any pics that the Government think you shouldn't...
A classic - this proves my point:
I see moderation on Apple stories is back on form - if anyone else slagged off a product using terms such as "patheticly ugly, clunky" rather than using evidence, and then threw ad-hominems of "troll", they'd be modded down in an instant.
Since arguing pro-Iphone posts with "Grumpy Featurism" is +4 Insightful, but arguing with pro-Motorola V980 posts as "Grumpy Featurism" is apparently Flamebait:
I get so tired of the grumpy "featurism" of Slashdot posters. The Iphone might do everything and more than what my current phone does... on paper. In truth, that doesn't mean that these things work as well, I can't copy and paste when I'm editing, every time I installed a Java program it didn't work, and even though it had a 2 megapixel camera, it doesn't even have a flash, nor could I work out how to record a video with it.
"Flamebait" is not "I disagree with this post".
I'll ask one more time: where is the evidence for "It also has one of the best UIs on any mobile device."
That any questioning is modded down rather than answered suggest this evidence clearly doesn't exist.
(Hint to abusive mods - discussing the Iphone on an Iphone article is not off-topic.)
I think it tells us something about the state of some of the laws.
Dude, seriously, GET OVER IT. Waaaaah! Waaaaah! A company owns a copyright on a character which they are using to generate revenue! Waaaah! It's so unfair! Waaaaaah!
Why not come up with your own lovable and globally adored character that you can place into the public domain, instead of endlessly bitching about it?
Copyright has a limited term. Dude, seriously, GET OVER IT. Waaaaah! Waaaaah! Copyright expires years after you're dead, you might even have to do some new work once a century to generate revenue rather than relying on the work of dead people! Waaaah! It's so unfair! Waaaaaah!
Why don't Disney come up with their own character, instead of clinging onto a character created by people who are long dead, and endlessly bitching about it to the US Government?
If you really, really hate Disney and all the copyright trolls, then why not just boycott the firm and their franchises, instead?
When Disney are lobbying the Government, people who disagree have just as much right to voice their opinion on copyright terms.