"We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash."
And what he likely meant was "We also know first hand that Flash is the number one cause of application crashes on the Mac."
Of course you just assumed that Macs come to a grinding halt when the flash apps crash, because hey, that's what he said, isn't it? How about pointing to a reproducible instance of a flash app taking down the OS?
Seriously, who cares? People say "BP did this" and the implication is that the entire organization was devoting it's full will towards maniacally deceiving the public. In all likelihood somebody said, "Put a web page together", and some lackey did so. In the process said lackey thought the picture would look better with more monitors populated with images, and he did that.
Now that somebody spotted it, I'm sure his supervisors are asking him, "What the hell were you thinking?"
I guarantee you nobody higher up made that decision. If they had, they'd have paid to have it done well. This kind of ridiculous nitpicking is just noise. There are thousands of other reasons to be mad at BP - good ones, even.
"The world really, seriously needs to get off its oil-addiction, and I don't think people will be willing to give up the convenience of cheap energy unless it somehow becomes a massively uncool things to use oil in the public imagination."
Calling it "convenience" diminishes it. It's not just a convenience. If we give up cheap energy, we absolutely MUST massively downgrade our lifestyles. I mean, downgrade it to the point of moving huge numbers of people into massive slums. Cheap energy is mandatory for western society to function. Well, cheap energy and massive debt accumulation.
"The world needs to get off its oil addiction" is a mantra I keep hearing. It's not happening any time soon. It's not because people don't know it's a problem. Everybody knows that. But I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that you haven't actually considered the amount of cheap energy that it took for you be able to post on slashdot about how cheap energy is a problem. You know there's a problem intellectually, but you don't even take the single step of using less of it by not wasting it on idle internet forums.
"It's called "climate change" these days. Understand climate change and you will learn why our globe is spinning out of control and life as we know will soon be over."
Just... go fuck a goat, you pessimistic bastard. What we don't need is people who are going to sit around and bitch about how we're all inevitably doomed. Those people (and you specifically) aren't a part of any solution, so yes - go fuck a goat.
My post isn't going to get any more insightful. You can stop reading now. We'll figure out the answers without you, goat fucker.
For real - that's pretty cool. No digs, no anti-MS stuff. I think it's great.
In their hearts I think most anti-MS people on slashdot already acknowledge the fact that they've been out-eviled recently. The day of MS as the root of all IT nastiness has come and gone. They just need to say it out loud.
"Just don't but apple! Simple. Let all the fanbois think they're cool with the 'appulzzzz' and then laugh when their call drops just as they're tellng you how 'great' the iFAIL is."
Careful, let's not scare it away. It's a "stupidicus moronicus", in it's natural habitat. This creature drops into conversations, injects poorly thought-out misspellings of brand names into a text stream, staples "Fail" into it somehow, and moves on.
We're desperately hoping they go extinct, but there's no sign of a decrease in their numbers. We may have to institute a culling season.
"I have an old laptop that dies when you install SP3 on it. I don't know what the issue is, it just hangs after installing SP3. I have installed WinXP from scratch from a variety of install media some w/ SP2 slipstreamed and some without. I have installed XP and then tried to install SP3 before installing any drivers or programs that might be conflicting with it. I have tried everything. For some unknown reason SP3 kills my laptop. makes it just hang to the point where I have to manually power cycle it."
This problem should have been addressed by the manufacturer. Have you taken it up with them?
"that is because you live in a country which bans online gaming... Go place a bet like most of the Star Wars geeks, preferably over US$1000 , and you will see the game becomes extremely exciting."
While I'm pretty sure that's not true (about banned online gaming), and while I'm not a Star Wars geek, your point only reinforces mine - you have to do SOMETHING (like make large wagers) to make watching football worthwhile. In and of itself, it's unbelievably boring.
Maybe the parasite causes sufferers to hallucinate, and so they perceive the sport as vastly more interesting than it really is.
I mean, there's got to be a reason why the world goes bonkers over this dull, mindnumbing event, right?
On the rare occasion I watch this sport I think to myself, "This is what it must feel like to not give a crap about hockey."
Maybe it's because I'm not interested in working out centuries-old military conflicts and the grudges of my ancestors by tossing a bottle into the face of an oppsing fan?
This thread has crystallized what I suspect is the "Slashdot-approved" stance with regards to protecting material. Correct me if I get any of these points wrong.
1. If you want to make a living creating works that exist in a data format (music, books, video) just accept the fact that nobody owes you a dime for your time. If some people choose to drop some money in your hat, that's awesome - but don't count on it.
2. If your music is so great, tour and make money that way. If you get moderately successful locally, each band member might be able to clear $80 a night! Of course you'll need a huge cash infusion (i.e. debt) to start touring big, but I'm sure the banks will be happy to help you with loans for such a riskless endeavour.
3. Always remember - costs like studio time, special effects, actors, musicians, props, sets, insurance, essentially every cost involved in the production of your work magically disconnect from the work itself at the moment it is finalized. A ripped copy of that work has absolutely no moral, legal, or implied connection to any of those costs.
As the entity "Slashdot" I hereby decree that the whole idea of "Professional Artist" is forever banned. You have been demoted to busker.
What you claim I said: "Note that Apple didn't market their device as having higher resolution than a competing device."
Your reply: "Yes they are. That is why they called it "retina display" and said that it was a revolution. Rose tinted retina?"
What I REALLY said: "Note that Apple didn't market their device as having higher resolution than a competing device. They are marketing it as being so high that it no longer matters."
Now, either show me some proof that Apple has said, "The IPhone 4 has better resolution than (insert some competing device)" or go away.
"Where was the news story when the Droid came out, besting Apples then best display on the 3GS (of 163ppi) by 40%
Didn't Droid come out 7 months ago? The only way it would have been a story is if it hadn't been able to top the resolution that the iPhone has had since what... 2007?
Note that Apple didn't market their device as having higher resolution than a competing device. They are marketing it as being so high that it no longer matters.
"Under the terms of the settlement, Twitter will be barred for 20 years from misleading consumers about the extent to which it maintains and protects the security, privacy, and confidentiality of nonpublic consumer information, including the measures it takes to prevent authorized access to information and honor the privacy choices made by consumers."
So in 20 years they'll again be permitted to mislead consumers?
I realize it's time to move on, but I'm still happily running several prosumer audio cards that will probably see their end with my next hardware cycle.
"I understand your point of view, but I look at it like this: soft comfy handcuffs are still handcuffs. It's better to complain about them or avoid them right up front, instead of waiting until they stop you personally from doing something you want to do. Think back to the famous "First they came for the trade unionists..."."
In what way are they handcuffs? There's a way to do literally everything I want to do within the established framework. I have no need of my phone that isn't actually being met.
I won't invoke Godwin's law, but the comparison isn't valid. There are plenty of phones to pick from. Choosing one that has a unified and controlled app distribution system because it offers an excellent end user experience is definitely not participating in any kind of slippery slope scenario.
The appropriate way to complain in this scenario is to buy some other phone. Or, if you're a developer, develop for a platform provided by a company whose policies you prefer.
"I'm not so sure you understand the general public. They don't care. They really don't. They've never once thought "I need to SSH into my box at home to...", or "If only this API were allowed". They read about the things they CAN do and go "cool!" and then they buy it. They hear about some artist that they don't care at all about being censored - and they don't care. They hear about some app they don't care about not being approved - and they don't care. They hear about some app they think would be cool not getting approved - and they're sad for 10 seconds, but they realize they didn't lose anything other than the possibility of an app, which may still become actual, and they move on to caring about things that actually affect their lives in a meaningful way - i.e. not a cell phone or tablet computer manufacturers policies."
I'm not a guy who posts "I agree!". I usually just nod and move on. Your post, however, describes perfectly the point I've tried to make a few times with varying degrees of success.
Slashdot is not the world at large. Here you'll find that small group of people who actually care about the small differences that they feel make Android phones superior. Nobody else gives a crap. I know the differences, and I don't give a crap.
I've been a computer hobbyist for 25 years, a senior systems analyst for the last 13. During the day I enhance and maintain pipeline scheduling and simulation software. I have three systems at home that I tinker with endlessly... and three months ago I bought an iPhone. It's terrific.
Sure it's a walled garden. But it's a pretty great garden. And now that this product is out, I'm even happier in that garden. iRig
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"For instance even though it was only released two months ago the iPad only has half the amount of RAM that the iPhone 4 has and a lot fewer sensors. This means that there will be a large group of applications that will run on the iPhone 4 but will not run on the iPad which will wind up frustrating users to no end."
What makes you think there'll be a "large group of applications" that falls into that category? While I don't have any more of a basis for my conclusion than you do, intuitively I would think the number of apps that will require an iPhone 4 to run will be very small - mostly just high performance games, and very few of those. I'll bet the 3G will still be the lowest common denominator, and the performance target, for at least two more years.
I'm reluctant to classify slots players as "winners". When I look at slot machines I see rats in cages desperately pushing the dispenser in the hopes of getting a food pill. Soemetimes they get a food pill, but more often a little blade comes out and cuts off a piece of the rat.
But we can soften it a bit... they're "people who were awarded a slot machine jackpot".... or, at least were supposed to be awarded one...
"Sadly though, there are a lot more 30-100 year olds out voting for more police power based on media brainwashing than 18-29 year olds who know about the abuses of power, thus those who care about removing abuses of power always get outvoted."
Are you seriously claiming that 18-29 year olds are somehow more in tune to what's "real" in terms of abuse of power than those over 30?
Oh you sad little boy.
I know it must not seem that way from your perspective - that of somebody who only recently got big boy pants and tie shoes - but lots of us over-30 "seniors" are plenty networked.
Besides, some of the greatest abuses of power are perpetrated by gray haired old men.
Probably didn't occur to you that there are plenty of people who were teens in the 60's who can show you actual scars from police brutality. So get on your tricycle and go away. Come back when you've got some experience of the world that doesn't come out of a rectangle on your monitor.
"And I suppose you don't care that the Fair Tax is a ridiculously regressive tax? Because it taxes buying power, it disproportionately effects those who do not save or invest but, instead, live paycheck to paycheck. So, if you're poor and you have to spend all your income on rent and food, the fair tax hits you hardest. If you're rich, and you are able to invest half your income, and you spend the rest, you're only taxed on half your income. Thus, the rich pay a lower real tax rate than the poor. (Add to this the fact that the marginal value of $1 is far less to a rich person than to a poor person to begin with and the system starts to look downright dystopian.)"
Actually, the current system is disproportionate. One person should pay the same tax rate as any other person, regardless of income. That would be proportionate.
A higher income person paying 20% taxes would pay more taxes than a lower income person paying 20% taxes. Making him pay 30% is just robbery.
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"We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash."
And what he likely meant was "We also know first hand that Flash is the number one cause of application crashes on the Mac."
Of course you just assumed that Macs come to a grinding halt when the flash apps crash, because hey, that's what he said, isn't it? How about pointing to a reproducible instance of a flash app taking down the OS?
Seriously, who cares? People say "BP did this" and the implication is that the entire organization was devoting it's full will towards maniacally deceiving the public. In all likelihood somebody said, "Put a web page together", and some lackey did so. In the process said lackey thought the picture would look better with more monitors populated with images, and he did that.
Now that somebody spotted it, I'm sure his supervisors are asking him, "What the hell were you thinking?"
I guarantee you nobody higher up made that decision. If they had, they'd have paid to have it done well. This kind of ridiculous nitpicking is just noise. There are thousands of other reasons to be mad at BP - good ones, even.
"The world really, seriously needs to get off its oil-addiction, and I don't think people will be willing to give up the convenience of cheap energy unless it somehow becomes a massively uncool things to use oil in the public imagination."
Calling it "convenience" diminishes it. It's not just a convenience. If we give up cheap energy, we absolutely MUST massively downgrade our lifestyles. I mean, downgrade it to the point of moving huge numbers of people into massive slums. Cheap energy is mandatory for western society to function. Well, cheap energy and massive debt accumulation.
"The world needs to get off its oil addiction" is a mantra I keep hearing. It's not happening any time soon. It's not because people don't know it's a problem. Everybody knows that. But I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that you haven't actually considered the amount of cheap energy that it took for you be able to post on slashdot about how cheap energy is a problem. You know there's a problem intellectually, but you don't even take the single step of using less of it by not wasting it on idle internet forums.
In that regard you're very typical.
"...that I'm wearing a coffee pot for a cup?"
Okay, either that's one seriously underutilized coffee pot, or you're the greatest man on earth.
"It's called "climate change" these days. Understand climate change and you will learn why our globe is spinning out of control and life as we know will soon be over."
Just... go fuck a goat, you pessimistic bastard. What we don't need is people who are going to sit around and bitch about how we're all inevitably doomed. Those people (and you specifically) aren't a part of any solution, so yes - go fuck a goat.
My post isn't going to get any more insightful. You can stop reading now. We'll figure out the answers without you, goat fucker.
For real - that's pretty cool. No digs, no anti-MS stuff. I think it's great.
In their hearts I think most anti-MS people on slashdot already acknowledge the fact that they've been out-eviled recently. The day of MS as the root of all IT nastiness has come and gone. They just need to say it out loud.
"Everyone I know who has "upgraded" their 3GS to the new iOS4 has regretted it."
Chalk me up as somebody who didn't regret upgrading. I'm not blown away by anything, but it's working fine on my 3GS. I haven't noticed any problems.
"Just don't but apple! Simple. Let all the fanbois think they're cool with the 'appulzzzz' and then laugh when their call drops just as they're tellng you how 'great' the iFAIL is."
Careful, let's not scare it away. It's a "stupidicus moronicus", in it's natural habitat. This creature drops into conversations, injects poorly thought-out misspellings of brand names into a text stream, staples "Fail" into it somehow, and moves on.
We're desperately hoping they go extinct, but there's no sign of a decrease in their numbers. We may have to institute a culling season.
"I have an old laptop that dies when you install SP3 on it. I don't know what the issue is, it just hangs after installing SP3. I have installed WinXP from scratch from a variety of install media some w/ SP2 slipstreamed and some without. I have installed XP and then tried to install SP3 before installing any drivers or programs that might be conflicting with it. I have tried everything. For some unknown reason SP3 kills my laptop. makes it just hang to the point where I have to manually power cycle it."
This problem should have been addressed by the manufacturer. Have you taken it up with them?
"There should be two questions asked before any new language is undertaken:"
Make that 3. Yay for proofreading.
There should be two questions asked before any new language is undertaken:
1 - Does it allow you to do something that couldn't be done before?
2 - If not, does it allow faster development or better performance than an existing technology?
3 - If not, are all alternatives in licensing you don't agree with?
If not... don't... fucking... start. Seriously, we don't need yet another way to do the same crap we've already been doing.
"that is because you live in a country which bans online gaming... Go place a bet like most of the Star Wars geeks, preferably over US$1000 , and you will see the game becomes extremely exciting."
While I'm pretty sure that's not true (about banned online gaming), and while I'm not a Star Wars geek, your point only reinforces mine - you have to do SOMETHING (like make large wagers) to make watching football worthwhile. In and of itself, it's unbelievably boring.
Maybe the parasite causes sufferers to hallucinate, and so they perceive the sport as vastly more interesting than it really is.
I mean, there's got to be a reason why the world goes bonkers over this dull, mindnumbing event, right?
On the rare occasion I watch this sport I think to myself, "This is what it must feel like to not give a crap about hockey."
Maybe it's because I'm not interested in working out centuries-old military conflicts and the grudges of my ancestors by tossing a bottle into the face of an oppsing fan?
This thread has crystallized what I suspect is the "Slashdot-approved" stance with regards to protecting material. Correct me if I get any of these points wrong.
1. If you want to make a living creating works that exist in a data format (music, books, video) just accept the fact that nobody owes you a dime for your time. If some people choose to drop some money in your hat, that's awesome - but don't count on it.
2. If your music is so great, tour and make money that way. If you get moderately successful locally, each band member might be able to clear $80 a night! Of course you'll need a huge cash infusion (i.e. debt) to start touring big, but I'm sure the banks will be happy to help you with loans for such a riskless endeavour.
3. Always remember - costs like studio time, special effects, actors, musicians, props, sets, insurance, essentially every cost involved in the production of your work magically disconnect from the work itself at the moment it is finalized. A ripped copy of that work has absolutely no moral, legal, or implied connection to any of those costs.
As the entity "Slashdot" I hereby decree that the whole idea of "Professional Artist" is forever banned. You have been demoted to busker.
What you claim I said: "Note that Apple didn't market their device as having higher resolution than a competing device."
Your reply: "Yes they are. That is why they called it "retina display" and said that it was a revolution. Rose tinted retina?"
What I REALLY said: "Note that Apple didn't market their device as having higher resolution than a competing device. They are marketing it as being so high that it no longer matters."
Now, either show me some proof that Apple has said, "The IPhone 4 has better resolution than (insert some competing device)" or go away.
"Where was the news story when the Droid came out, besting Apples then best display on the 3GS (of 163ppi) by 40%
Didn't Droid come out 7 months ago? The only way it would have been a story is if it hadn't been able to top the resolution that the iPhone has had since what... 2007?
Note that Apple didn't market their device as having higher resolution than a competing device. They are marketing it as being so high that it no longer matters.
"Under the terms of the settlement, Twitter will be barred for 20 years from misleading consumers about the extent to which it maintains and protects the security, privacy, and confidentiality of nonpublic consumer information, including the measures it takes to prevent authorized access to information and honor the privacy choices made by consumers."
So in 20 years they'll again be permitted to mislead consumers?
I think I need to RTFA. That can't be right.
I realize it's time to move on, but I'm still happily running several prosumer audio cards that will probably see their end with my next hardware cycle.
Gina, Layla, Darla... farewell.
"I understand your point of view, but I look at it like this: soft comfy handcuffs are still handcuffs. It's better to complain about them or avoid them right up front, instead of waiting until they stop you personally from doing something you want to do. Think back to the famous "First they came for the trade unionists ..." ."
In what way are they handcuffs? There's a way to do literally everything I want to do within the established framework. I have no need of my phone that isn't actually being met.
I won't invoke Godwin's law, but the comparison isn't valid. There are plenty of phones to pick from. Choosing one that has a unified and controlled app distribution system because it offers an excellent end user experience is definitely not participating in any kind of slippery slope scenario.
The appropriate way to complain in this scenario is to buy some other phone. Or, if you're a developer, develop for a platform provided by a company whose policies you prefer.
"I'm not so sure you understand the general public. They don't care. They really don't. They've never once thought "I need to SSH into my box at home to...", or "If only this API were allowed". They read about the things they CAN do and go "cool!" and then they buy it. They hear about some artist that they don't care at all about being censored - and they don't care. They hear about some app they don't care about not being approved - and they don't care. They hear about some app they think would be cool not getting approved - and they're sad for 10 seconds, but they realize they didn't lose anything other than the possibility of an app, which may still become actual, and they move on to caring about things that actually affect their lives in a meaningful way - i.e. not a cell phone or tablet computer manufacturers policies."
I'm not a guy who posts "I agree!". I usually just nod and move on. Your post, however, describes perfectly the point I've tried to make a few times with varying degrees of success.
Slashdot is not the world at large. Here you'll find that small group of people who actually care about the small differences that they feel make Android phones superior. Nobody else gives a crap. I know the differences, and I don't give a crap.
I've been a computer hobbyist for 25 years, a senior systems analyst for the last 13. During the day I enhance and maintain pipeline scheduling and simulation software. I have three systems at home that I tinker with endlessly... and three months ago I bought an iPhone. It's terrific.
Sure it's a walled garden. But it's a pretty great garden. And now that this product is out, I'm even happier in that garden. iRig
"For instance even though it was only released two months ago the iPad only has half the amount of RAM that the iPhone 4 has and a lot fewer sensors. This means that there will be a large group of applications that will run on the iPhone 4 but will not run on the iPad which will wind up frustrating users to no end."
What makes you think there'll be a "large group of applications" that falls into that category? While I don't have any more of a basis for my conclusion than you do, intuitively I would think the number of apps that will require an iPhone 4 to run will be very small - mostly just high performance games, and very few of those. I'll bet the 3G will still be the lowest common denominator, and the performance target, for at least two more years.
"The casino's are ripping winners off."
... or, at least were supposed to be awarded one...
I'm reluctant to classify slots players as "winners". When I look at slot machines I see rats in cages desperately pushing the dispenser in the hopes of getting a food pill. Soemetimes they get a food pill, but more often a little blade comes out and cuts off a piece of the rat.
But we can soften it a bit... they're "people who were awarded a slot machine jackpot".
"I HATE when [entity] wants me to pay for something I wont own."
Like, perhaps, a girlfriend/wife does with a certain renewable resource?
"Sadly though, there are a lot more 30-100 year olds out voting for more police power based on media brainwashing than 18-29 year olds who know about the abuses of power, thus those who care about removing abuses of power always get outvoted."
Are you seriously claiming that 18-29 year olds are somehow more in tune to what's "real" in terms of abuse of power than those over 30?
Oh you sad little boy.
I know it must not seem that way from your perspective - that of somebody who only recently got big boy pants and tie shoes - but lots of us over-30 "seniors" are plenty networked.
Besides, some of the greatest abuses of power are perpetrated by gray haired old men.
Probably didn't occur to you that there are plenty of people who were teens in the 60's who can show you actual scars from police brutality. So get on your tricycle and go away. Come back when you've got some experience of the world that doesn't come out of a rectangle on your monitor.
"And I suppose you don't care that the Fair Tax is a ridiculously regressive tax? Because it taxes buying power, it disproportionately effects those who do not save or invest but, instead, live paycheck to paycheck. So, if you're poor and you have to spend all your income on rent and food, the fair tax hits you hardest. If you're rich, and you are able to invest half your income, and you spend the rest, you're only taxed on half your income. Thus, the rich pay a lower real tax rate than the poor. (Add to this the fact that the marginal value of $1 is far less to a rich person than to a poor person to begin with and the system starts to look downright dystopian.)"
Actually, the current system is disproportionate. One person should pay the same tax rate as any other person, regardless of income. That would be proportionate. A higher income person paying 20% taxes would pay more taxes than a lower income person paying 20% taxes. Making him pay 30% is just robbery.