This is slashdot, so I'm not surprised you'd be unable to make a conclusion that requires you to think about things in a light other than white or black. I'll spell it out for you. What Apple's good at is not necessarily always coming up with an original idea, but at making an idea or feature actually easy to use. Let me repeat that, so you get it. They're good at making technology easy to use. Got it? What good is a device or application that has every feature you could imagine or want, yet no one understands how to use it, what the feature is, why it matters to them, or how to find it? The current state of user interface on windows and linux is so bad, that Apple probably doesn't even have to try that hard to make something that isn't crap in comparison. So rather than looking down upon every person you feel isn't capable of "dealing" with the complicated windows world, consider most would rather their computers just fucking work.
Hope that helps.
Another big reason is battery life. There's a lot more overhead with bluetooth, a constant connection maintaining protocol, as opposed to an event driven model for IR which only has to use power when it actually wants to send a command. which would you prefer, battery life of a few days/weeks or a few months/years?
As a HUGE stargate fan (who's seen every episode of SG-1 and Atlantis) I have to whole heartedly disagree with you there. Battlestar Galactica's some of the finest acting, storytelling, and graphics I've seen on any show to hit the air waves.
I'm sorry, you must have this website confused with a different one. This is slashdot. People need to actually get wives first for wife swapping to be of interest to them.
For Mac development, the free XCode tools are good, however I would look into CodeWarrior because ObjectiveC, in my opinion, is an antiquated and bastardized attempt at object orientated programming, CodeWarrior offers C++ access to OSX programming API's.
I can tell someone's never done modern development for Mac OS X. At all. First off, obj-c is a MUCH better OOP environment than C++. Check out my tutorial for a whole host of good reasons why. Categories, posing, dynamic method forwarding, delegates instead of subclassing, no confusing static AND dynamic allocation, no multiple inheritance, NO TEMPLATES, amongst many other things that C++ just plain sucks because of. Also, CodeWarrior is a horrible (and expensive) dev environment compared to the free Xcode environment.
I'd agree with most of the things he said, except substitute ruby for python. It's all the great things about that language without the forced indentation, and then some. Ruby on rails is all the rage these days and there's a good reason.
It's not that others have looked at the evidence and came to a conclusion that differs from yours, it's that many intelligent people have looked at the evidence and far more believe that it's possible than not. So really, it's a few people against a mountain of others. A wise man would observe a situation like this and question why he himself disagrees with such a vast majority of people as smart or smarter than himself.
But where's the incentive? Are the managers and big wigs at Microsoft the ones creating the millions of lines of source code or is it the highly skilled engineers of whom they depend upon? I think the disparity between managerial and engineer pay is becoming rediculous. They may coordinate our work efforts and tell us what to do, but without us they wouldn't even be able to market the products they sell and for that we should be getting incentive to innovate and care.
I'm not necessarily trying to defend Apple here, but why are they at fault? Because they provided their customers "faulty" batteries? Apple provided the same lithium ion batteries as every other manufacturer. So because of the natural physical properties of the battery, it's going to diminish in charge capacity over time. There's no secret to this. Apple already remidied the situation: you can get your battery replaced for $50 by Apple. This lawsuit is stupid. I guess I should sue Sony and IBM for providing laptop batteries that fail after 2 years too?
Not when their platform has the feature already built in:) The grand parent poster was clearly joking to anyone who knows, which is why he's marked as +5 Funny. Besides, most mac users on slashdot DON'T complain about lack of platform support. Why else would they be using the platform if they thought it had bad support?
The other week at Xerox, I walked by the ATM in our cafeteria and the ATM had a blue screen of death. I wish to hell my camera phone didn't have such a god awful resolution, but it sure was funny. I felt bad for the poor guy getting money out of it. He told me "It happened right as I told it how much I wanted to take out. I hope it doesn't deduct the money but not give me the cash."
Tell me again why we're using this shitty OS for something as important as an ATM?
Sadly, I know how you feel. My girlfriend seems caught up in the "old way" of doing things when it comes to movies. Her first reaction is to rent, or go to the theater when I repeatedly tell her I can just download the DVD and we can watch it tomorrow. I don't know what it is, but I think girls get some sort of kick out of wasting our money. It makes them feel better or something.
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... Installing quicktime puts some stupid icon in the systray that annoys you every now and then. ...
Found your problem there. You're obviously using windows.
This is slashdot, so I'm not surprised you'd be unable to make a conclusion that requires you to think about things in a light other than white or black. I'll spell it out for you. What Apple's good at is not necessarily always coming up with an original idea, but at making an idea or feature actually easy to use. Let me repeat that, so you get it. They're good at making technology easy to use. Got it? What good is a device or application that has every feature you could imagine or want, yet no one understands how to use it, what the feature is, why it matters to them, or how to find it? The current state of user interface on windows and linux is so bad, that Apple probably doesn't even have to try that hard to make something that isn't crap in comparison. So rather than looking down upon every person you feel isn't capable of "dealing" with the complicated windows world, consider most would rather their computers just fucking work. Hope that helps.
If only there were some alternative operating system / computing platform that had DVD support out of the box and was easy to use.
Oh well... </me goes back to using his macbook pro>
Clearly they don't like their customers. Just look at this illustrated diagram brought to you by Maddox of Sony's relationship with it's fans.
YM for mac recently got updated, and supports MSN.
I'd have to go with the name Banana Phone
Another big reason is battery life. There's a lot more overhead with bluetooth, a constant connection maintaining protocol, as opposed to an event driven model for IR which only has to use power when it actually wants to send a command. which would you prefer, battery life of a few days/weeks or a few months/years?
As a HUGE stargate fan (who's seen every episode of SG-1 and Atlantis) I have to whole heartedly disagree with you there. Battlestar Galactica's some of the finest acting, storytelling, and graphics I've seen on any show to hit the air waves.
I'm sorry, you must have this website confused with a different one. This is slashdot. People need to actually get wives first for wife swapping to be of interest to them.
I'd agree with most of the things he said, except substitute ruby for python. It's all the great things about that language without the forced indentation, and then some. Ruby on rails is all the rage these days and there's a good reason.
Minus all the handy extensions however...
It's not that others have looked at the evidence and came to a conclusion that differs from yours, it's that many intelligent people have looked at the evidence and far more believe that it's possible than not. So really, it's a few people against a mountain of others. A wise man would observe a situation like this and question why he himself disagrees with such a vast majority of people as smart or smarter than himself.
But where's the incentive? Are the managers and big wigs at Microsoft the ones creating the millions of lines of source code or is it the highly skilled engineers of whom they depend upon? I think the disparity between managerial and engineer pay is becoming rediculous. They may coordinate our work efforts and tell us what to do, but without us they wouldn't even be able to market the products they sell and for that we should be getting incentive to innovate and care.
They're not rumors pal, they said it loud and clear at last year's WWDC. Garbage collection is coming.
Did anyone else notice that the battery is SODERED ON. You can't even replace this one if you WANT to (unless you have your own soder kit and all).
I'm not necessarily trying to defend Apple here, but why are they at fault? Because they provided their customers "faulty" batteries? Apple provided the same lithium ion batteries as every other manufacturer. So because of the natural physical properties of the battery, it's going to diminish in charge capacity over time. There's no secret to this. Apple already remidied the situation: you can get your battery replaced for $50 by Apple. This lawsuit is stupid. I guess I should sue Sony and IBM for providing laptop batteries that fail after 2 years too?
In a beowulf cluster?
Not when their platform has the feature already built in :) The grand parent poster was clearly joking to anyone who knows, which is why he's marked as +5 Funny. Besides, most mac users on slashdot DON'T complain about lack of platform support. Why else would they be using the platform if they thought it had bad support?
Sarcasm: A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
The other week at Xerox, I walked by the ATM in our cafeteria and the ATM had a blue screen of death. I wish to hell my camera phone didn't have such a god awful resolution, but it sure was funny. I felt bad for the poor guy getting money out of it. He told me "It happened right as I told it how much I wanted to take out. I hope it doesn't deduct the money but not give me the cash."
Tell me again why we're using this shitty OS for something as important as an ATM?
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Contrast that to the small company I worked for, and my boss actually ASKED ME if we should open source it. It's all about perspective.
I guess you missed that whole Iraq war, WMD, thing?
Sadly, I know how you feel. My girlfriend seems caught up in the "old way" of doing things when it comes to movies. Her first reaction is to rent, or go to the theater when I repeatedly tell her I can just download the DVD and we can watch it tomorrow. I don't know what it is, but I think girls get some sort of kick out of wasting our money. It makes them feel better or something.