I agree with a lot of what you said, but I'm not sure that Linux was the reason why Apple reinvented Mac OS. If you read the famous Steve Jobs bio by Isaacson, the whole upgrade was something of a dire need in order to compete with Microsoft. They were looking at BeOS or NeXT, after failing miserably with some internal projects. In the end, NeXT won the deal, and since NeXT itself used a Mach Unix kernel at its core, it was only logical they were going to choose BSD to build Mac OS X on.
But as far as ome other stuff where Linux was clearly the motivation, remember how Windows 7 copied KDE's taskbar.
The other issue is that the US govt should not be taxing money earned overseas. Same deal with US nationals living in another country and still getting taxed. Especially when 25% of the federal budget is used to finance the waste of money that is the DoD. Germany has the best tank in the world, makes one the best service rifles (G36), also one of the best diesel-electric submarines and manages to spend only about 1.3% of its GDP in the process.
If I know a person in real life I don't need to Google anything, I just ask them, and if cannot ask them I shouldn't be asking for answers in Google since it is none of my business. People have a right to privacy, even from their friends. Being a friend does not entitle you to know everything about your friend.
Now if we are talking about online only friends, I think the most acceptable thing to do is just read whatever they have in their Facebook profile, pictures, etc. That is information people wanted to share with their friends to begin with. But as I said, if you just want to know more, just ask. I have always been a straightforward kind of guy and the most trouble I have gotten into so far is by talking to friends who were fighting with each other and getting asked to choose sides.
Agreed, a very intelligent post right there. I think China will slowly rise because they were destined to be a world power. They were a very powerful country when Japan and Korea were still backward civilizations. Only thru their defeat in the 1860s and what they call the century of humiliation is what I believe kept China down. Now that their political system is stable again and managed to unify the country, they will only keep rising. Some of those cloners making electronics are becoming wiser and creating their own brands too.
But those kind of abuses don't happen in Saudi Arabia or other regional allies, right? I don't believe in freedom of the press in the US any more than I believe freedom of the press in China. All of them have a thing in common, find something that will truly hurt the system and they will find a way to block it. For the US that means zero coverage on other presidential candidates (yes, there are a couple of them), always rewriting news from foreign "hostile" sources from a very biased perspective, etc, etc. For China it is kind of funny, it is as if nothing ever happens in the world except the Daiyu islands issue and the rest is peace and love. So media have their uses, but you really have to step down from that moral high ground when you talk about something that is controlled by 5 or 6 media conglomerates.
Assuming they are building a bomb that is. A lot of people seems to take that for granted these days. There still is no proof whatsoever and based on the whole WMD fiasco. I find myself believing the opposite of what the U.S. govt is saying.
What power vacuum? Do you truly believe that the world is going to end if the US military suddenly disappears? A lot of those deals with the bases were done by using force (Germany, Japan, Philippines, Cuba), sometimes outright corruption of local elites or in the case of Colombia, by manipulating small countries so they get a free trade agreement in exchange for American bases. In the case of Colombia, after the base was granted, they still had to wait several years and beg the US to honor their part of the deal. If you are ok with the Empire mentality then by all means enjoy it, just like the British did when they were slapping the Chinese, the Indians and pretty much everybody else in the face. Just don't act surprised when the rest of the world starts to hate you and try to do you harm in any way they can.
You have got to be kidding, Israel has constantly threatened Iran for something we don't know it's real, and based on previous attempts to manipulate public opinion with WMDs, it is more likely that the whole thing is just an excuse for war against a sworn enemy.
Countries have friends and foes. Iran and Israel just happen to hate each other a lot. So just get over it, you can't go on killing everybody you don't like or that says bad things about you. Even if Iran does what Israel is preaching all along, attacking another state with nuclear weapons, almost every country on Earth would either cut off diplomatic relations or declare war immediately.
That the article questions his integrity doesn't mean anything. I have read lots of articles questioning Obama's birth certificate and when you just want to smear somebody, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on.
First, all Chinese companies have links with government, now Russian companies have links with their government. And they want you to believe that there is some sort of plot behind this. It's like talking crap about Google or Microsoft because they work with (not for) the government. I really thought we were over this propaganda bs, but as long as the Pentagon needs funding, we will always need to create new enemies.
You can install Kaspersky Internet Security on that Windows machine, it works wonders and it has a game mode like most quality antivirus software that won't annoy you with firewall warnings and such. I would actually recommend that you get a mac mini for the kid, but since new games do come out and you never know what's going to run on what, macs can be limited because of available gaming software.
Sticking with their OS is what's hurting Blackberry so much, so I don't think that was much of a choice either. The truth is that the mobile landscape got competitive as hell after Apple released the iPhone and the major tectonic shift that ensued was too much for big traditional companies like Nokia, Motorola and Sony/Ericsson to handle. LG and Samsung were smarter and switched to Android. So as crappy as the decision to play along with MSFT is, it was kind of like the only choice they had. That argument about the ovi ecosystem being great and whatnot is a complete lie. My brother had a E62 and he liked his Nokia phones, eventually buying the newer models. I remember him showing me the ovi store and I remember when we compared that to the iOS App Store on my iPhone 3G. The difference was so great that it was pointless to discuss the merits of the two.
So Nokia had a rough ride, and they are stuck with Microsoft now whether they like it or not. The release of Windows 8 for PCs and Windows 8 for Mobile should help them quite a bit, since Nokia could be the top quality phone maker for Windows while you have HTC and others pumping out the cheap and intermediate models.
Microsoft is a software (and now hardware supposedly) company that I would rather avoid but the reality is that they are very good at one thing, making you need their products one way or the other, even if sometimes their quality is inferior to other stuff out there. It has happened time and time again throughout their history. Right now I'm stuck using Windows because of videogames and I can use other OSes for everything else. I had an XBox360 that died on me, something I have never experienced with a console, and after hearing that the PS3 multiplayer gaming was free of monthly charges I switched. Now I have to say I miss the damn Xbox360 controller, especially to play first-person shooters because of the triggers, the grip and the extremely nice sticks. Same deal with Visual Studio. Same deal with Office. I have tried liking other stuff like LibreOffice, Xcode, the PS3 and desktop Linux among others and have only found success with Safari, Mail and OS X in general. This is the reason why I predict that eventually Microsoft will take over the extremely guarded approach of Apple and the fragmentation and some design issues of Android.
The real issue is apps with malicious design intentions... like ones that track your activity for advertising.
Pretty much like Google right? I bet that they wouldn't mind to report back to HQ to see what people are using on their phones when they don't use the Play Store.
Oh and you can enjoy Blu-ray on any Mac with external drives. For the dual graphics cards you have to use a Mac Pro and buy the dual cards from ATI. They didn't need USB 3 when they had Firewire which is great, that's why it was more of an afterthought.
If you are shopping for a new computer and choosing between PCs and Macs I still maintain that you should compare both the software and the hardware. They are not similar by a long shot and if the features of the whole Mac package is not worthy to you then by all means save money and get a new PC.
Retina is the first consumer level display that managed to move the industry forward. Now you see all new phones and tablets with high resolution displays. I could say that there were computers back in the 1950s, would that be reason to toss aside the significant value of the personal computer when it was introduced?
Maybe to you they are. Everybody is entitled to a different opinion, more so a guy who owns a gazillion of Apple shares. Hell I don't own Apple stock and I'm pretty fond of their products because of the attention to details. But if I get to talk with somebody from Samsung or Google, I would be far more interested in asking stuff about where they see the industry going, new products, etc. instead of bashing them for whatever I don't like about their respective companies.
You get a chance to exchange words with somebody like Steve Wozniak and all you can do is ramble like this? If you are a fandroid enjoy your phone and be happy, and stop making a fool out of yourself in the process.
Are you aware you were comparing Apples with Pears? Seriously, if you want a Mac it's because you are going to use OSX, and I don't know about you but I got used to iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, Mail, Notes and even Safari real quickly. Not to mention that iTunes runs very smoothly on Mac, which was kind of expected I guess.
Besides they tend to include premium features before PC vendors, like the Retina displays and Thunderbolt connections, which I tell you, they are awesome when you have a 2 TB drive connected for movies, etc
I agree with the RAM claim, what Apple charges for RAM is totally absurd. I have bought Macs mostly the web store but I have always managed to upgrade them myself, even if it is a pain in the ass to do so.
Apple might not be the cheapest manufacturer around but they sure make some fine laptops and I would gladly replace mine with another "overpriced" one. It is the attention to the little details that matter to me, like the trackpad being truly awesome, no bloatware, the integrated PDF printer, no need to install antivirus that slows down stuff, the only computers that come with OS X, great design, etc. When you buy a Mac you buy the hardware AND the software. Sure, the PC is cheaper but at least in my case, the experience does not compare to Mac OS X.
I should have said Microsoft starting with Windows 95 or Win32 API. I just finished playing Dark Reign on a Windows 7 64-bit machine, a game which still has the message Return to Windows 95 on the Exit screen. I know not all applications work, but I have had to endure a cold turkey kind of change too often with the Mac. First from PowerPC to Intel, and now just the 64-bit OS breaking a lot of old stuff. At least with Microsoft the major shift was from DOS to Win95.
I agree that the boss fights are a joke, but I hope you agree with me that the general hack and slash is way better in Diablo 3 than it is in Torchlight. Case in point: Barbarian vs. Engineer.
I would end up paying for Torchlight just to support those guys, since they are the original team. But the graphics style reminds me a lot of Battlefield Heroes which I don't find too appealing. The most cartoony I can go is with WoW, and after playing Guild Wars 2 even that pales in comparison. So I truly mean it when I say that if you make me pick one of the two, DRM and all I would choose Diablo 3.
"I find whenever I'm on a mac I can't find shit, spending 20 minutes trying to find it, and usually end up having to open up terminal to make a change because I know linux/unix systems significantly better."
It's not my problem you don't remember what you write.
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I agree with a lot of what you said, but I'm not sure that Linux was the reason why Apple reinvented Mac OS. If you read the famous Steve Jobs bio by Isaacson, the whole upgrade was something of a dire need in order to compete with Microsoft. They were looking at BeOS or NeXT, after failing miserably with some internal projects. In the end, NeXT won the deal, and since NeXT itself used a Mach Unix kernel at its core, it was only logical they were going to choose BSD to build Mac OS X on.
But as far as ome other stuff where Linux was clearly the motivation, remember how Windows 7 copied KDE's taskbar.
The other issue is that the US govt should not be taxing money earned overseas. Same deal with US nationals living in another country and still getting taxed. Especially when 25% of the federal budget is used to finance the waste of money that is the DoD. Germany has the best tank in the world, makes one the best service rifles (G36), also one of the best diesel-electric submarines and manages to spend only about 1.3% of its GDP in the process.
Totally agree.
If I know a person in real life I don't need to Google anything, I just ask them, and if cannot ask them I shouldn't be asking for answers in Google since it is none of my business. People have a right to privacy, even from their friends. Being a friend does not entitle you to know everything about your friend.
Now if we are talking about online only friends, I think the most acceptable thing to do is just read whatever they have in their Facebook profile, pictures, etc. That is information people wanted to share with their friends to begin with. But as I said, if you just want to know more, just ask. I have always been a straightforward kind of guy and the most trouble I have gotten into so far is by talking to friends who were fighting with each other and getting asked to choose sides.
Agreed, a very intelligent post right there. I think China will slowly rise because they were destined to be a world power. They were a very powerful country when Japan and Korea were still backward civilizations. Only thru their defeat in the 1860s and what they call the century of humiliation is what I believe kept China down. Now that their political system is stable again and managed to unify the country, they will only keep rising. Some of those cloners making electronics are becoming wiser and creating their own brands too.
So as you said, we'll have to wait and see.
But those kind of abuses don't happen in Saudi Arabia or other regional allies, right? I don't believe in freedom of the press in the US any more than I believe freedom of the press in China. All of them have a thing in common, find something that will truly hurt the system and they will find a way to block it. For the US that means zero coverage on other presidential candidates (yes, there are a couple of them), always rewriting news from foreign "hostile" sources from a very biased perspective, etc, etc. For China it is kind of funny, it is as if nothing ever happens in the world except the Daiyu islands issue and the rest is peace and love. So media have their uses, but you really have to step down from that moral high ground when you talk about something that is controlled by 5 or 6 media conglomerates.
Assuming they are building a bomb that is. A lot of people seems to take that for granted these days. There still is no proof whatsoever and based on the whole WMD fiasco. I find myself believing the opposite of what the U.S. govt is saying.
What power vacuum? Do you truly believe that the world is going to end if the US military suddenly disappears? A lot of those deals with the bases were done by using force (Germany, Japan, Philippines, Cuba), sometimes outright corruption of local elites or in the case of Colombia, by manipulating small countries so they get a free trade agreement in exchange for American bases. In the case of Colombia, after the base was granted, they still had to wait several years and beg the US to honor their part of the deal. If you are ok with the Empire mentality then by all means enjoy it, just like the British did when they were slapping the Chinese, the Indians and pretty much everybody else in the face. Just don't act surprised when the rest of the world starts to hate you and try to do you harm in any way they can.
Or maybe they are not developing nuclear weapons. Yeah, too weird to consider that right?
You have got to be kidding, Israel has constantly threatened Iran for something we don't know it's real, and based on previous attempts to manipulate public opinion with WMDs, it is more likely that the whole thing is just an excuse for war against a sworn enemy.
Countries have friends and foes. Iran and Israel just happen to hate each other a lot. So just get over it, you can't go on killing everybody you don't like or that says bad things about you. Even if Iran does what Israel is preaching all along, attacking another state with nuclear weapons, almost every country on Earth would either cut off diplomatic relations or declare war immediately.
That the article questions his integrity doesn't mean anything. I have read lots of articles questioning Obama's birth certificate and when you just want to smear somebody, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on.
First, all Chinese companies have links with government, now Russian companies have links with their government. And they want you to believe that there is some sort of plot behind this. It's like talking crap about Google or Microsoft because they work with (not for) the government. I really thought we were over this propaganda bs, but as long as the Pentagon needs funding, we will always need to create new enemies.
You can install Kaspersky Internet Security on that Windows machine, it works wonders and it has a game mode like most quality antivirus software that won't annoy you with firewall warnings and such. I would actually recommend that you get a mac mini for the kid, but since new games do come out and you never know what's going to run on what, macs can be limited because of available gaming software.
Sticking with their OS is what's hurting Blackberry so much, so I don't think that was much of a choice either. The truth is that the mobile landscape got competitive as hell after Apple released the iPhone and the major tectonic shift that ensued was too much for big traditional companies like Nokia, Motorola and Sony/Ericsson to handle. LG and Samsung were smarter and switched to Android. So as crappy as the decision to play along with MSFT is, it was kind of like the only choice they had. That argument about the ovi ecosystem being great and whatnot is a complete lie. My brother had a E62 and he liked his Nokia phones, eventually buying the newer models. I remember him showing me the ovi store and I remember when we compared that to the iOS App Store on my iPhone 3G. The difference was so great that it was pointless to discuss the merits of the two.
So Nokia had a rough ride, and they are stuck with Microsoft now whether they like it or not. The release of Windows 8 for PCs and Windows 8 for Mobile should help them quite a bit, since Nokia could be the top quality phone maker for Windows while you have HTC and others pumping out the cheap and intermediate models.
Microsoft is a software (and now hardware supposedly) company that I would rather avoid but the reality is that they are very good at one thing, making you need their products one way or the other, even if sometimes their quality is inferior to other stuff out there. It has happened time and time again throughout their history. Right now I'm stuck using Windows because of videogames and I can use other OSes for everything else. I had an XBox360 that died on me, something I have never experienced with a console, and after hearing that the PS3 multiplayer gaming was free of monthly charges I switched. Now I have to say I miss the damn Xbox360 controller, especially to play first-person shooters because of the triggers, the grip and the extremely nice sticks. Same deal with Visual Studio. Same deal with Office. I have tried liking other stuff like LibreOffice, Xcode, the PS3 and desktop Linux among others and have only found success with Safari, Mail and OS X in general. This is the reason why I predict that eventually Microsoft will take over the extremely guarded approach of Apple and the fragmentation and some design issues of Android.
The real issue is apps with malicious design intentions ... like ones that track your activity for advertising.
Pretty much like Google right? I bet that they wouldn't mind to report back to HQ to see what people are using on their phones when they don't use the Play Store.
Oh and you can enjoy Blu-ray on any Mac with external drives. For the dual graphics cards you have to use a Mac Pro and buy the dual cards from ATI. They didn't need USB 3 when they had Firewire which is great, that's why it was more of an afterthought.
If you are shopping for a new computer and choosing between PCs and Macs I still maintain that you should compare both the software and the hardware. They are not similar by a long shot and if the features of the whole Mac package is not worthy to you then by all means save money and get a new PC.
Retina is the first consumer level display that managed to move the industry forward. Now you see all new phones and tablets with high resolution displays. I could say that there were computers back in the 1950s, would that be reason to toss aside the significant value of the personal computer when it was introduced?
Maybe to you they are. Everybody is entitled to a different opinion, more so a guy who owns a gazillion of Apple shares. Hell I don't own Apple stock and I'm pretty fond of their products because of the attention to details. But if I get to talk with somebody from Samsung or Google, I would be far more interested in asking stuff about where they see the industry going, new products, etc. instead of bashing them for whatever I don't like about their respective companies.
You get a chance to exchange words with somebody like Steve Wozniak and all you can do is ramble like this? If you are a fandroid enjoy your phone and be happy, and stop making a fool out of yourself in the process.
Are you aware you were comparing Apples with Pears? Seriously, if you want a Mac it's because you are going to use OSX, and I don't know about you but I got used to iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, Mail, Notes and even Safari real quickly. Not to mention that iTunes runs very smoothly on Mac, which was kind of expected I guess.
Besides they tend to include premium features before PC vendors, like the Retina displays and Thunderbolt connections, which I tell you, they are awesome when you have a 2 TB drive connected for movies, etc
I agree with the RAM claim, what Apple charges for RAM is totally absurd. I have bought Macs mostly the web store but I have always managed to upgrade them myself, even if it is a pain in the ass to do so.
Apple might not be the cheapest manufacturer around but they sure make some fine laptops and I would gladly replace mine with another "overpriced" one. It is the attention to the little details that matter to me, like the trackpad being truly awesome, no bloatware, the integrated PDF printer, no need to install antivirus that slows down stuff, the only computers that come with OS X, great design, etc. When you buy a Mac you buy the hardware AND the software. Sure, the PC is cheaper but at least in my case, the experience does not compare to Mac OS X.
I should have said Microsoft starting with Windows 95 or Win32 API. I just finished playing Dark Reign on a Windows 7 64-bit machine, a game which still has the message Return to Windows 95 on the Exit screen. I know not all applications work, but I have had to endure a cold turkey kind of change too often with the Mac. First from PowerPC to Intel, and now just the 64-bit OS breaking a lot of old stuff. At least with Microsoft the major shift was from DOS to Win95.
Dude you just made my day with PearPC. Going to try to install it right away. Now where were those Mac recovery CDs?
I agree that the boss fights are a joke, but I hope you agree with me that the general hack and slash is way better in Diablo 3 than it is in Torchlight. Case in point: Barbarian vs. Engineer.
I would end up paying for Torchlight just to support those guys, since they are the original team. But the graphics style reminds me a lot of Battlefield Heroes which I don't find too appealing. The most cartoony I can go is with WoW, and after playing Guild Wars 2 even that pales in comparison. So I truly mean it when I say that if you make me pick one of the two, DRM and all I would choose Diablo 3.
"I find whenever I'm on a mac I can't find shit, spending 20 minutes trying to find it, and usually end up having to open up terminal to make a change because I know linux/unix systems significantly better."
It's not my problem you don't remember what you write.