not to start a religious war of the dirty kind (non-technical zealotry) but just to bring up a point that comes first to mind due to my jewish upbringing. if they were drinking wine 5000 years ago, and in religious ceremonies wine often symolizes happiness (fact, see passover and the 10 plagues recital), could wine be altogether different in its intoxicating nature??
btw, those egyptians invented beer, ya dig.
but don't get me wrong, i used to do LARPG gaming, there's no shame in it, and i admit it freely.
IMHO wouldn't ben & jerry's want the coolest chip possible. after all, how much heat can you dissipate when you're using super high density intergalatic lactic cooling units on your processors , hell, people have used everything else to cool off a cpu
i think that flat file systems are the wave of the future. those pesky hierarchical systems take too much thought to navigate. i mean, all that time sitting around looking into two or three folders, why its much better spent on calling a tech support guy and saying that my files are broken.
dude, there are such things as permissions, even with rendezvous.
it really is no different an idea than a dhcp router
just look at the zeroconf official site to find out the whole scoop. rendezvous is just the Apple brand for the technology they created, like firewire is to ieee 1394.
as for users, there isn't alot of bad things you can say about them that i'll disagree with, but someone will always have a job to teach them how to push the power button and plug in their speakers. however, IMHO more zeroconf would be awful nice to have around.
OMG, should anything that bloated be allowed to see the light of day???
what if someone uses their crappy code in something important one day?? m$ code is better off in the closet where it belongs, this is for our own good . ...
is the new model that the musicians should be embracing. come to our concerts and pay us. pay more to record for yourself. buy an occasional album, a couple of t-shirts and follow the tour for a couple weeks. trade our music to anyone to make sure that they hear us and do the same.
all the sudden you have a following and a few dollars in your pocket for your troubles
i'm not a phish head, but i have been to a show. have plenty of friends who can't live without em. . ..
too bad CC has basically taken over concert promotion in addition to the radio. . ...
The main problem is not that the mass market wants x86 hardware. It's that Microsoft has used its infinite resources to completely obfiscate the advantages of non-Windows platforms.
i agree wholeheartedly with that statement. that is why the x86 compatibility is so important. the foolish paying public is convinced that x86 is so great because it is 10% cheaper than PPC hardware on the desktop.
therefore, to make them swallow the sugar, you throw some medicine on top. it won't be as good as having a mac, but it will be better than WinBlows, and it won't make you phone microsoft when you upgrade.
that's marketing pal, and as you noted, m$ are masters of it. everyone in the tech biz knows that m$ has never had the best technology, or the most reliable, or anything else, but big business was more scared of a directionless Apple in the early nineties. m$ sure had direction, but does anyone want them to continue going there at this point??
MicroSloth, where the hell u think u're goin today?
the difference between the mac and win platforms has gone from a ditch (in which both rested) into a canyon. i support end users on both platforms and can tell you that the mac has moved into a more user friendly, simpler to the uninitiated, than windows.
my main gripe is that windows renames important features at every new OS release. not only that, they change the places to find them. lastly, for the end users, they categorize so many applications poorly, that they can never find those fancy features they pay so much for.
every person i have gotten onto the mac to start with gains a real sense of confidence. they typically need little or no support.
i support a design house's macintoshes, bout a hundred of them, for the "hard stuff" but the worst i've ever seen was someone's machine hanging for 20 minutes at boot because she told it to connect to 5 different office servers at startup, and then left the startup aliases around six months longer than the servers lived there. took fifteen minutes to diagnose and fix. i get called every three or four months, and nobody complains about their machines. that company also has 50 windows users in their accounting and planning division. there are three windows admins around to support them.
bottom line, m$ has made all the right marketing moves, but has sacrificed too much basic functionality to achieve market dominance.
many WIN users i see, only use email, the web and word. they can barely use those because they don't even know how to use a file system, let alone something more fancy.
on the other hand, my 35 year old, never used more than email or cared to spend five minutes concentrating on anything, sorts through his pictures, organizes his mp3s and burns mixes (and owns a massive and purchased music collection), does his net and word stuff, checks email once a month and watches DVDs, and calls me to ask a question when his damn printer is out of paper once a month.
why is this rant important (or hopelessly tangled)?? to prove a point. if apple made an os X for pc, they could trash m$ in just a couple of years.
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A) I would never ever bake my TiBook! omg. just got it last week.
B) before i became addicted to/. i used to work at pizza joints. people become utterly stupid when allowed to be near ovens or think about things that come from them
i can't explain it, but a typical phone call for a pizza went like this. . ... "is this the pizza place" " yes, whaddya want?" "does your cheese pizza come with cheese or is that extra?" (bangs head on counter) "yes, cheese pizza comes with cheese, even has bread and red tomato sauce too, would you like fries on that??"
then there's the WHAT EMPLOYEES THREW IN THE OVEN thing that was funny. people would drop entire trays of food into the bottom, car keys, watches, necklaces and bracelets, glasses, pie paddles (something 4 feet long and idiots can't grab on the way in).
this one takes the cake, better yet, takes the apple fritter.
. . . . . but that by 2006 or 2007, Linux on Intel, or Lintel, would be on 45 percent of new servers.
Lintel, wow. yes people, linux is out of the closet (well, not the server closet, but . ... ). this is the kind of marketing term that needs to be used like crazy. sure, its a bite on WinTel, and it is just the thing to speed adoption
unfortunately, if you're using AMD that would make the platform LAMd. well, take the good with the bad.
its a rough way to guestumate, and for what i do (mainly web development) good enuff. adoption rates, well, it ain't that specific, but not important either. winblows is still the guerilla, and the most important stat is usually which version of IE are the m$ Lusers hittin me with.
i have a red hat web server, imac, tibook (both OS X 10.2.3), powerbook 1400 (mac os 8), 333 mhz red hat box and a NeXT cube. guess you could say i use a little different stuff. that's not to mention the winbox i'm fixin up for a friend of mine right now
my volvo has the same engine my old 4 cylinder mustang had. does that make it a mustang too, no. does that make it a ford, well, pretty much. fortunately, its not all ford ( never Found On Road Dead, well, completely dead).
mac os is much more than bsd-like. and there are other mach based distros of linux and bsd; mklinux comes to mind. yes that's right, mach kernel linux. i've used it, it ain't all that, but it is out there.
and yes, most of em wouldn't care to know the difference between unix and tunics, but those of us that know, appreciate Why the mac is special
yes, that's right. it reads weblogs really nicely and only needs old versions of perl to run:)
funny how site traffic ( 50k + hits per month) provides a very accurate picture of what the world runs on their machines. i get about 30 percent xp, me and 15 win2k and NT then maybe 3 win95, 4-5 mac, and a smattering of different linux and bsd distros. a few people here and there with lynx or even someone on a solaris machine surfin the web. i wouldn't say that linux has more desktop share than apple. servers, yes, more linux servers than apple ones, but not desktop users. just how it is.
i work on everything. this is not zealotry, its just the way it is.
actuallly. when i read through my web logs BSD beats the tar out of Linux hands down. yes, that's right, because the most popular distro of BSD (Mac OS) is on five times as many desktops as Linux.
I happen to serve with Linux, and use Mac on my TiBook and take money from stupid Winblows Lusers to plug in their speakers and setup their outlook virus spreaders. I'm platform agnostic.
But please Mr. AnonyTroll, get the facts straight. If we're all lucky, Debian will win the desktop wars after Apple ports Aqua onto it or someone gets a OSS genius bug up their ass and creates OpenQuartz out of an old next box with post script display.
Until then, at least there's a BSD distro with great app support, a strong community and only minor problems in the grand scheme of things.
i was wondering how far down i'd have to read before someone suggested bluetooth. wouldn't this be an ideal application for it? low power and short range enhance security, cuz none of the wirelessness can work more than 10 meters from the hull.
ok, you're war chalking? better get up really close now, ya hear?
best part, would let the captain synch his Sony Ericcson phone to his target lists each day:)
not true. this year was unusually good for them at the box office, but most of the studio money came from rentals or purchases. this has been true for over a decade.
second, dvds do cost more money these days. not much anymore, but more none the less. also, they have alot more content, which means more money to make overall.
third, the recording industry has live performances and tours, and they make their artists pay extra for their own goods. is true.
fact is, album production costs in the 150k range, involving like 50-60 people approximate the cost of a day or two of movie production.
cds are a ripoff today. a mass production (distribution) model would work far better, if the assholes at the labels could figure it out.
i agree. the labels' dirty practices started seeing light of day over the last ten years. now that they have been completely corporatized, many of the finest acts aren't playing along. pearl jam won't make videos, courtney love, well, when not popping pills, speaks out for a musicians union (would've happened like SAG if they were smart).
on top of that, the music biz really did stop caring about music, or customers.
they forgot why we buy music, and it aint the same reason we buy food or pay rent. it is discretionary spending.
fact is, they could sell ten times as much music by volume for %10 higher revenue than today, and be raking in the cash like the glory years.
that would be called Mass Production, economics 101 here
they are making the mistake of trying to maximize unit profit instead of increase revenues with minimal profit.
in another five years, at this rate, they'll be the book publishing industry.
i give kudos bertelsmann, sending your golden goose to cashed out cows school. to sony for infighting. to time warner for AIMless wandering in search of synergy, and the rest, u suck too. die quickly so something better will arrive, without the legion of attorneys
The average cost of a compact disc, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, the lobbying group which represents recording companies, is $14.21. Many critics say that is expensive when compared with other media, like DVD's, which offer loads of extra features and programming.
To be more blunt. A CD comes with 74 minutes of audio only content, with possibly a little extra photographic or artwork on the case. For the same amount, you can buy a DVD with 90-120 minutes of AV content, plus typically anywhere from 5-20 minutes of extra, behind the scenes, get to know the creative artist footage, interviews, promos, etc.
Bottom LINE. The labels are not providing the same amount of Bang For the Buck value in their products as the studios.
After about 10 paragraphs of that, people decide to go, "I can't take it and instead write about LongHorn's database file system.
yes, lets all write about m$'s quixotic quest to surpass BeOS as the world's finest SQL file system. why, i'll get to the story right after I finish this m$ sql bug launches DDOS attack on the Root servers story.
here's hoping that m$ can duplicate BeOS's success.
well, m$ started out with one goal, to beat IBM. unfortunately, they have gone one better, they have become IBM.
how much vaporware do they have floating around?
doesn't it seem that they have more expertise in changing their product names, than actually making useful software?
is it just me, or has the marketing dept. been on a rampage for three years now?
they have grown to the point where the left hand doesn't want to know what the right is doing (we know/yank what it's doing).
i think its just a matter of time before the m$ bubble bursts at this rate. they are losing sight of reality at a rapid pace these days.
well, at least by the time they release Windows.Net Smart Server Phone 2006 featuring a Hailladium Security chip, the last of the Code Red, Klez and SQL bugs will be worked out. . .
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btw, those egyptians invented beer, ya dig.
but don't get me wrong, i used to do LARPG gaming, there's no shame in it, and i admit it freely.
IMHO wouldn't ben & jerry's want the coolest chip possible. after all, how much heat can you dissipate when you're using super high density intergalatic lactic cooling units on your processors , hell, people have used everything else to cool off a cpu
i think that flat file systems are the wave of the future. those pesky hierarchical systems take too much thought to navigate. i mean, all that time sitting around looking into two or three folders, why its much better spent on calling a tech support guy and saying that my files are broken.
it really is no different an idea than a dhcp router
just look at the zeroconf official site to find out the whole scoop. rendezvous is just the Apple brand for the technology they created, like firewire is to ieee 1394.
as for users, there isn't alot of bad things you can say about them that i'll disagree with, but someone will always have a job to teach them how to push the power button and plug in their speakers. however, IMHO more zeroconf would be awful nice to have around.
what if someone uses their crappy code in something important one day?? m$ code is better off in the closet where it belongs, this is for our own good . . ..
all the sudden you have a following and a few dollars in your pocket for your troubles
i'm not a phish head, but i have been to a show. have plenty of friends who can't live without em. . . .
too bad CC has basically taken over concert promotion in addition to the radio. . . ..
i agree wholeheartedly with that statement. that is why the x86 compatibility is so important. the foolish paying public is convinced that x86 is so great because it is 10% cheaper than PPC hardware on the desktop.
therefore, to make them swallow the sugar, you throw some medicine on top. it won't be as good as having a mac, but it will be better than WinBlows, and it won't make you phone microsoft when you upgrade.
that's marketing pal, and as you noted, m$ are masters of it. everyone in the tech biz knows that m$ has never had the best technology, or the most reliable, or anything else, but big business was more scared of a directionless Apple in the early nineties. m$ sure had direction, but does anyone want them to continue going there at this point??
MicroSloth, where the hell u think u're goin today?
the difference between the mac and win platforms has gone from a ditch (in which both rested) into a canyon. i support end users on both platforms and can tell you that the mac has moved into a more user friendly, simpler to the uninitiated, than windows.
my main gripe is that windows renames important features at every new OS release. not only that, they change the places to find them. lastly, for the end users, they categorize so many applications poorly, that they can never find those fancy features they pay so much for.
every person i have gotten onto the mac to start with gains a real sense of confidence. they typically need little or no support.
i support a design house's macintoshes, bout a hundred of them, for the "hard stuff" but the worst i've ever seen was someone's machine hanging for 20 minutes at boot because she told it to connect to 5 different office servers at startup, and then left the startup aliases around six months longer than the servers lived there. took fifteen minutes to diagnose and fix. i get called every three or four months, and nobody complains about their machines. that company also has 50 windows users in their accounting and planning division. there are three windows admins around to support them.
bottom line, m$ has made all the right marketing moves, but has sacrificed too much basic functionality to achieve market dominance.
many WIN users i see, only use email, the web and word. they can barely use those because they don't even know how to use a file system, let alone something more fancy.
on the other hand, my 35 year old, never used more than email or cared to spend five minutes concentrating on anything, sorts through his pictures, organizes his mp3s and burns mixes (and owns a massive and purchased music collection), does his net and word stuff, checks email once a month and watches DVDs, and calls me to ask a question when his damn printer is out of paper once a month.
why is this rant important (or hopelessly tangled)?? to prove a point. if apple made an os X for pc, they could trash m$ in just a couple of years.
B) before i became addicted to /. i used to work at pizza joints. people become utterly stupid when allowed to be near ovens or think about things that come from them
i can't explain it, but a typical phone call for a pizza went like this. . . .. "is this the pizza place" " yes, whaddya want?" "does your cheese pizza come with cheese or is that extra?" (bangs head on counter) "yes, cheese pizza comes with cheese, even has bread and red tomato sauce too, would you like fries on that??"
then there's the WHAT EMPLOYEES THREW IN THE OVEN thing that was funny. people would drop entire trays of food into the bottom, car keys, watches, necklaces and bracelets, glasses, pie paddles (something 4 feet long and idiots can't grab on the way in).
this one takes the cake, better yet, takes the apple fritter.
Umm, most of us like to format our hard disks, unless u got a better idea . .. .
oh, and chances are it's a FAT 32 partition (seems that many, many portables still use it).
tre cowardly just refers to the fact that you're posting anonymously.
Lintel, wow. yes people, linux is out of the closet (well, not the server closet, but . . .. ). this is the kind of marketing term that needs to be used like crazy. sure, its a bite on WinTel, and it is just the thing to speed adoption
unfortunately, if you're using AMD that would make the platform LAMd. well, take the good with the bad.
its a rough way to guestumate, and for what i do (mainly web development) good enuff. adoption rates, well, it ain't that specific, but not important either. winblows is still the guerilla, and the most important stat is usually which version of IE are the m$ Lusers hittin me with.
i have a red hat web server, imac, tibook (both OS X 10.2.3), powerbook 1400 (mac os 8), 333 mhz red hat box and a NeXT cube. guess you could say i use a little different stuff. that's not to mention the winbox i'm fixin up for a friend of mine right now
mac os is much more than bsd-like. and there are other mach based distros of linux and bsd; mklinux comes to mind. yes that's right, mach kernel linux. i've used it, it ain't all that, but it is out there.
and yes, most of em wouldn't care to know the difference between unix and tunics, but those of us that know, appreciate Why the mac is special
i call it: AWSTATS .
yes, that's right. it reads weblogs really nicely and only needs old versions of perl to run :)
funny how site traffic ( 50k + hits per month) provides a very accurate picture of what the world runs on their machines. i get about 30 percent xp, me and 15 win2k and NT then maybe 3 win95, 4-5 mac, and a smattering of different linux and bsd distros. a few people here and there with lynx or even someone on a solaris machine surfin the web. i wouldn't say that linux has more desktop share than apple. servers, yes, more linux servers than apple ones, but not desktop users. just how it is.
wow, so it IS true. Mac is going x86 to kick the shit out of winblows.
lemme see here. i've been dragging and dropping for how long on mac os???
m$ jokers.
i work on everything. this is not zealotry, its just the way it is.
actuallly. when i read through my web logs BSD beats the tar out of Linux hands down. yes, that's right, because the most popular distro of BSD (Mac OS) is on five times as many desktops as Linux.
I happen to serve with Linux, and use Mac on my TiBook and take money from stupid Winblows Lusers to plug in their speakers and setup their outlook virus spreaders. I'm platform agnostic.
But please Mr. AnonyTroll, get the facts straight. If we're all lucky, Debian will win the desktop wars after Apple ports Aqua onto it or someone gets a OSS genius bug up their ass and creates OpenQuartz out of an old next box with post script display.
Until then, at least there's a BSD distro with great app support, a strong community and only minor problems in the grand scheme of things.
ok, you're war chalking? better get up really close now, ya hear?
best part, would let the captain synch his Sony Ericcson phone to his target lists each day :)
step two: laugh at those poor sysadmins who got caught with pants down
step three: beer
step four: repeat step three, rinse and repeat.
in fact, anyone looking for an imac, with some goodies, just email me. mine's for sale.
please, tell me how your ImacOwulf cluster works.
second, dvds do cost more money these days. not much anymore, but more none the less. also, they have alot more content, which means more money to make overall.
third, the recording industry has live performances and tours, and they make their artists pay extra for their own goods. is true.
fact is, album production costs in the 150k range, involving like 50-60 people approximate the cost of a day or two of movie production.
cds are a ripoff today. a mass production (distribution) model would work far better, if the assholes at the labels could figure it out.
on top of that, the music biz really did stop caring about music, or customers.
they forgot why we buy music, and it aint the same reason we buy food or pay rent. it is discretionary spending.
fact is, they could sell ten times as much music by volume for %10 higher revenue than today, and be raking in the cash like the glory years.
that would be called Mass Production, economics 101 here
they are making the mistake of trying to maximize unit profit instead of increase revenues with minimal profit.
in another five years, at this rate, they'll be the book publishing industry.
i give kudos bertelsmann, sending your golden goose to cashed out cows school. to sony for infighting. to time warner for AIMless wandering in search of synergy, and the rest, u suck too. die quickly so something better will arrive, without the legion of attorneys
To be more blunt. A CD comes with 74 minutes of audio only content, with possibly a little extra photographic or artwork on the case. For the same amount, you can buy a DVD with 90-120 minutes of AV content, plus typically anywhere from 5-20 minutes of extra, behind the scenes, get to know the creative artist footage, interviews, promos, etc.
Bottom LINE. The labels are not providing the same amount of Bang For the Buck value in their products as the studios.
yes, lets all write about m$'s quixotic quest to surpass BeOS as the world's finest SQL file system. why, i'll get to the story right after I finish this m$ sql bug launches DDOS attack on the Root servers story.
here's hoping that m$ can duplicate BeOS's success.
how much vaporware do they have floating around?
doesn't it seem that they have more expertise in changing their product names, than actually making useful software?
is it just me, or has the marketing dept. been on a rampage for three years now?
they have grown to the point where the left hand doesn't want to know what the right is doing (we know /yank what it's doing).
i think its just a matter of time before the m$ bubble bursts at this rate. they are losing sight of reality at a rapid pace these days.
well, at least by the time they release Windows .Net Smart Server Phone 2006 featuring a Hailladium Security chip, the last of the Code Red, Klez and SQL bugs will be worked out. . .