...the more important your data is to you, the more backup copies in physically distinct locations you make of it.
The only exception to the rule is Apple, who are perfect in every way, never make a single mistake and are deserving of 100% of your unremitting trust. You never need to backup anything that Apple hold on your behalf.
I suggest that you need to think more carefully about context, rather than trying to desparately grope for some reasoning behind your rabid fanboi-ism.
It is one thing to have sat down and watched an entire episode of "24" and recall that you saw a Cisco phone in it - indeed, I even recall seeing an Apple logo or two on one of their laptops. (Incidentally, had Cisco paid for placement but Apple hadn't, don't you think that would have caused a bit of a stink somewhere along the line?)
However, having your attention drawn to a placement in a YouTube video called "Hawaii Five-0 Product Placement" is not contextually the same thing and therefore an unfair comparison. In other words, had I seen the entire Hawaii Five-O episode and then been asked questions about the intrusiveness of any product placement, it would be fair to expect that I, and many people, would give different responses than watching the actual clip directly.
Don't bother with the name-calling from your end either - it doesn't stick & how it reflects on you is entirely your own business, not mine.
I believe Cisco paid heavily to have their products placed in "24". I wasn't aware of the plot being compromised because there happened to a visible Cisco logo when Jack Bauer was talking on a phone.
You are a fanboi, you are trying to argue semantics where there are none.
I take the view that if you need to advertise a product at me then that's because the product isn't able to sell enough by volume on its own merits - either because its too expensive, crap or whatever the reason.
In which case, even if your advert did make me think about buying it, to satisfy my own suspicious nature I'd need to do a considerable amount of research into it anway, consider it too much bother to do that research and therefore just not buy it.
If you've ever done desktop support for your friends and family, count up the times you've had to go in and clean up a rooted, malware-laden mess on Windows, either by running a full, time-consuming, malware scan and removal, or just doing a reformat and reinstall. Now do the same thing for your OS X user friends.
I have no OS X using friends, period. The nearest I've ever got was one friend who was given a Mac by his boss (because the boss was given it by a client and never used it) and he took it out the box, played with it for a half-hour, didn't like it and put it back in the box.
Yes, you're in the US and OS X penetration is higher - but here in Europe, and as someone who has worked in the IT, telecoms & security industry for 25+ years, I think I've actually seen, or know of, about 5 people who use desktop or laptop Macs.
Can your intellect not grasp the concept that just maybe there are people out here who have a reasonable amount of money and live comfortably *BECAUSE* they don't waste their money on every overpriced thing that's thrown at them in advertising?
If anything, your comment just demonstrates that Apple's marketing of their overpriced devices as status symbols actually works for insecure feeble-minded people who feel the need to be members of an exclusive little club.
How can Apple have "stolen" what was never there in the first place?
In the USA, Macs have about 8% of the desktop market, in Europe it's much less - I'm not sure what the Linux penetration is, probably less, but despite using predominantly Linux on my desktops. I don't care anyway. I use what's appropriate for the task I need to do, sometimes even Windows, I don't need approval from my peers or have a desire to ram what I use down everyone else's throats.
Incidentally, before crowing about UNIX, I wonder how many of you Apple people ever venture to the command line and actually embrace the power of the UNIX that you are running? How many of you know how to create powerful custom automisation scripts using Perl, or indeed commands like sed? awk?
Most of you take UNIX to mean "not Windows" just so you have a reason to feel a bit exclusive without having to spend any time learning the power of a UNIX system like those of us who *REALLY* know UNIX do.
... for example, in a homosexual porn movie where a rich young man is being fisted by a Steve Jobs lookalike, then Apple product placement would be entirely appropriate.
So is any laptop/desktop/netbook running Windows or Linux - both will do so at about half the cost and if you feel like running up an emulator to play a few retrogames when the movie is done, you can do that also.
So your point is precisely what? That the iPad is a great multimedia device but so locked down you can't always do what you want to do with it, despite its premium price?
Apple are able to do what they are doing now because of three things that happened in the past:
1. Around 1983, BSD UNIX came out with the TCP/IP suite of utilities that meant it was possible to step away from propriety mainframe network protocols to open networking standards that anyone could build into their operating systems - thus was the Internet born.
2. Much as I hate to admit it, it was clever Microsoft marketing that made a "PC in every home" viable with Windows - they alone are responsible for transforming the business PC into a home multimedia, gaming & application platform. Plus Windows was open enough such that anybody who wanted to write a commercial or free application on it could do so.
3. Whilst there may never ever be a "victory" for Linux on the desktop, when Linus Torvalds released it in 1991 he showed that a single kernel combined with a suite of free software could be made to work on anything from big server platforms to small embedded devices - it was that fact alone that opened the world to the concept of small but powerful computing platforms, before that it was a world of propriety embedded operating systems that didn't work together.
At some point in the near future it may be possible to add a step 4. to the above and credit Apple with something innovative but all they've really done so far is taked ideas from all of the above and packaged it in neat little devices that a lot of people seem to like. Unfortunately, unlike the three above (TCP/IP as an suite of open network utilities, Windows on a PC as a relatively open development platform, and Linux as a very open scaleable development platform) Apple is tying in its locked-down products with its paid for or subscription services, and already the number of Android devices out there exceeds the number running IOS.
Yes, the iPad maybe the first *USABLE* tablet but its biggest downfall may well be the fact that most people don't care about what operating systems a platform runs, only what it can do for them - and the fact is that if you put a locked-down platform against an open one, then fairly rapidly the number of applications on the open one is going to exceed the number on the closed one.
The fact is that people with lots of money can go out and buy any gadget they want but most of the world is going to stick with a single PC in their home until something else comes out that can do all a PC does for a similar price as what a PC does - and even iPad users admit that an iPad is not a PC replacement.
The tablet and smartphone war is really just in its opening salvos today - Apple may have got there first but for the same reason that Windows has never been technically the best operating system, it was cheap and it did most things that most people wanted.
Yep - except I won't touch Apple anything with a barge-pole...
Sorry, Apple TV is far too locked down for my liking, Linux is my first choice for anything these days and anything it can't do then I'm okay with running Windows XP occasionally as cover.
But Sony, Apple and anyone else who makes locked-down crap can go to hell.
...despite being the sort of geek who really doesn't care what a computing device looks like, I will never buy one of these things until they put it in a proper boring rectangular case that I can stack somewhere neatly.
Insecure people who need the approval of their peers or the constant desire to impress others can buy Apple, but personally I don't need a set-top box to be a conversation point at dinner parties - I need it to be able to fit in as small a place as possible with all my other gear.
It's a shame because otherwise it's a reasonable specification that's fairly open & at a good price...
A few years ago, my wife was caught supposedly speeding at 40mph in a 30mph limit by a static camera.
When she was sent the forms to fill in to pay the fine (we're in the UK, the Police like to mug honest drivers politely before taking them to court), we asked for copies of the photos and, when they arrived, my wife was convinced that the timestamp on the photos was out by about 30 minutes, even though there was a statement with the letters stating when the cameras had last been calibrated.
As it happens, she had been coming back from a hospital appointment on the other side of town when she was caught, it was an easy task to get the consultant she had seen to write a short letter stating when her appointment had started & finished - this, in effect, proved the time on the camera was wrong & therefore brought the camera callibration into question.
Despite writing back to the police and sending them copies of the consultant's letter, the police still issued a summons for her to appear in court and we were prepared to fight it - but three days before the court appearance, we received a letter from the police stating that they were dropping the case.
It's more about having your wits about you and checking EVERYTHING before automatically paying up.
Nokia sat on their backsides for far too long thinking that it was good enough just to be mobile phone company, rather than looking at the wider picture with smartphones and preparing to compete with Apple and Android. They did nothing with Symbian to give it a similar interface to iOS and Android.
Obviously, they couldn't use iOS on their smartphones, had they picked Android then the Nokia name would have been lost amongst the myriad of other companies making Android phones.
So there was Microsoft looking for a mobile phone manufacturer for Windows Mobile, and Nokia needing a mobile OS that didn't lump them in with the masses - it's been reported that 1500 Nokia employees walked out of their offices in Oulu and Tampere when the Windows Mobile announcement was made.
It will be interesting to see if they manage to capture market share in the next few years or not - personally, the pair of them are still are far lesser evil than Apple's proprietary lock-in mentality so let's hope they take a big chunk from the iPhone market.
The main reason for going higher than 16 bit, 44.1 khz is when you want to manipulate the audio, for example mixing, pitching and applying various effects.
Thanks for the information. I'll remember that the next time I want some incompetent unshaven knobhead with a couple of turntables and stoned off his face on "E" to give me his "mix" of a classic Jethro Tull album or two.
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...most creative types make the media we consume, from tv, movies, magazines, newspapers, online videos, pamplets... just about anything.
Don't be an idiot, please! That's about the same as me buying a paintbrush, some paints and an easel and calling myself an artist.
...the more important your data is to you, the more backup copies in physically distinct locations you make of it.
The only exception to the rule is Apple, who are perfect in every way, never make a single mistake and are deserving of 100% of your unremitting trust. You never need to backup anything that Apple hold on your behalf.
I suggest that you need to think more carefully about context, rather than trying to desparately grope for some reasoning behind your rabid fanboi-ism.
It is one thing to have sat down and watched an entire episode of "24" and recall that you saw a Cisco phone in it - indeed, I even recall seeing an Apple logo or two on one of their laptops. (Incidentally, had Cisco paid for placement but Apple hadn't, don't you think that would have caused a bit of a stink somewhere along the line?)
However, having your attention drawn to a placement in a YouTube video called "Hawaii Five-0 Product Placement" is not contextually the same thing and therefore an unfair comparison. In other words, had I seen the entire Hawaii Five-O episode and then been asked questions about the intrusiveness of any product placement, it would be fair to expect that I, and many people, would give different responses than watching the actual clip directly.
Don't bother with the name-calling from your end either - it doesn't stick & how it reflects on you is entirely your own business, not mine.
I believe Cisco paid heavily to have their products placed in "24". I wasn't aware of the plot being compromised because there happened to a visible Cisco logo when Jack Bauer was talking on a phone.
You are a fanboi, you are trying to argue semantics where there are none.
Just become old & cynical like me.
I take the view that if you need to advertise a product at me then that's because the product isn't able to sell enough by volume on its own merits - either because its too expensive, crap or whatever the reason.
In which case, even if your advert did make me think about buying it, to satisfy my own suspicious nature I'd need to do a considerable amount of research into it anway, consider it too much bother to do that research and therefore just not buy it.
SSSHHH!
First rule of Usenet Club is don't talk about Usenet Club.
If you've ever done desktop support for your friends and family, count up the times you've had to go in and clean up a rooted, malware-laden mess on Windows, either by running a full, time-consuming, malware scan and removal, or just doing a reformat and reinstall. Now do the same thing for your OS X user friends.
I have no OS X using friends, period. The nearest I've ever got was one friend who was given a Mac by his boss (because the boss was given it by a client and never used it) and he took it out the box, played with it for a half-hour, didn't like it and put it back in the box.
Yes, you're in the US and OS X penetration is higher - but here in Europe, and as someone who has worked in the IT, telecoms & security industry for 25+ years, I think I've actually seen, or know of, about 5 people who use desktop or laptop Macs.
So, where the plot or set dressing requires computers or phones, they will often be Apples.
And this differs from product placement precisely how?
Was this the same Apple computer that was capable of dealing with an impossible IP address?
Can your intellect not grasp the concept that just maybe there are people out here who have a reasonable amount of money and live comfortably *BECAUSE* they don't waste their money on every overpriced thing that's thrown at them in advertising?
If anything, your comment just demonstrates that Apple's marketing of their overpriced devices as status symbols actually works for insecure feeble-minded people who feel the need to be members of an exclusive little club.
How can Apple have "stolen" what was never there in the first place?
In the USA, Macs have about 8% of the desktop market, in Europe it's much less - I'm not sure what the Linux penetration is, probably less, but despite using predominantly Linux on my desktops. I don't care anyway. I use what's appropriate for the task I need to do, sometimes even Windows, I don't need approval from my peers or have a desire to ram what I use down everyone else's throats.
Incidentally, before crowing about UNIX, I wonder how many of you Apple people ever venture to the command line and actually embrace the power of the UNIX that you are running? How many of you know how to create powerful custom automisation scripts using Perl, or indeed commands like sed? awk?
Most of you take UNIX to mean "not Windows" just so you have a reason to feel a bit exclusive without having to spend any time learning the power of a UNIX system like those of us who *REALLY* know UNIX do.
... for example, in a homosexual porn movie where a rich young man is being fisted by a Steve Jobs lookalike, then Apple product placement would be entirely appropriate.
So is any laptop/desktop/netbook running Windows or Linux - both will do so at about half the cost and if you feel like running up an emulator to play a few retrogames when the movie is done, you can do that also.
So your point is precisely what? That the iPad is a great multimedia device but so locked down you can't always do what you want to do with it, despite its premium price?
Personally, I think Safari should be lumped in with "Other" because usage of it on Windows is so insignificant.
Do they ever get to use one for two years?
The fanbois are normally creaming their knickers & queueing up outside stores overnight to by the latest yearly upgrades...
Apple are able to do what they are doing now because of three things that happened in the past:
1. Around 1983, BSD UNIX came out with the TCP/IP suite of utilities that meant it was possible to step away from propriety mainframe network protocols to open networking standards that anyone could build into their operating systems - thus was the Internet born.
2. Much as I hate to admit it, it was clever Microsoft marketing that made a "PC in every home" viable with Windows - they alone are responsible for transforming the business PC into a home multimedia, gaming & application platform. Plus Windows was open enough such that anybody who wanted to write a commercial or free application on it could do so.
3. Whilst there may never ever be a "victory" for Linux on the desktop, when Linus Torvalds released it in 1991 he showed that a single kernel combined with a suite of free software could be made to work on anything from big server platforms to small embedded devices - it was that fact alone that opened the world to the concept of small but powerful computing platforms, before that it was a world of propriety embedded operating systems that didn't work together.
At some point in the near future it may be possible to add a step 4. to the above and credit Apple with something innovative but all they've really done so far is taked ideas from all of the above and packaged it in neat little devices that a lot of people seem to like. Unfortunately, unlike the three above (TCP/IP as an suite of open network utilities, Windows on a PC as a relatively open development platform, and Linux as a very open scaleable development platform) Apple is tying in its locked-down products with its paid for or subscription services, and already the number of Android devices out there exceeds the number running IOS.
Yes, the iPad maybe the first *USABLE* tablet but its biggest downfall may well be the fact that most people don't care about what operating systems a platform runs, only what it can do for them - and the fact is that if you put a locked-down platform against an open one, then fairly rapidly the number of applications on the open one is going to exceed the number on the closed one.
The fact is that people with lots of money can go out and buy any gadget they want but most of the world is going to stick with a single PC in their home until something else comes out that can do all a PC does for a similar price as what a PC does - and even iPad users admit that an iPad is not a PC replacement.
The tablet and smartphone war is really just in its opening salvos today - Apple may have got there first but for the same reason that Windows has never been technically the best operating system, it was cheap and it did most things that most people wanted.
Yep - except I won't touch Apple anything with a barge-pole...
Sorry, Apple TV is far too locked down for my liking, Linux is my first choice for anything these days and anything it can't do then I'm okay with running Windows XP occasionally as cover.
But Sony, Apple and anyone else who makes locked-down crap can go to hell.
...despite being the sort of geek who really doesn't care what a computing device looks like, I will never buy one of these things until they put it in a proper boring rectangular case that I can stack somewhere neatly.
Insecure people who need the approval of their peers or the constant desire to impress others can buy Apple, but personally I don't need a set-top box to be a conversation point at dinner parties - I need it to be able to fit in as small a place as possible with all my other gear.
It's a shame because otherwise it's a reasonable specification that's fairly open & at a good price...
A few years ago, my wife was caught supposedly speeding at 40mph in a 30mph limit by a static camera.
When she was sent the forms to fill in to pay the fine (we're in the UK, the Police like to mug honest drivers politely before taking them to court), we asked for copies of the photos and, when they arrived, my wife was convinced that the timestamp on the photos was out by about 30 minutes, even though there was a statement with the letters stating when the cameras had last been calibrated.
As it happens, she had been coming back from a hospital appointment on the other side of town when she was caught, it was an easy task to get the consultant she had seen to write a short letter stating when her appointment had started & finished - this, in effect, proved the time on the camera was wrong & therefore brought the camera callibration into question.
Despite writing back to the police and sending them copies of the consultant's letter, the police still issued a summons for her to appear in court and we were prepared to fight it - but three days before the court appearance, we received a letter from the police stating that they were dropping the case.
It's more about having your wits about you and checking EVERYTHING before automatically paying up.
Ah, another raging fanboi.
I heard you lot go round in gangs.
There's no way I can argue with a raging fanboi but...
I also think that it is absurd in 2011 to deride the presence of a GUI on a server.
I said "eye candy" not "GUI".
So do try to keep up!
...anyone who's posting damning Sony comments on here from a Mac, iPhone or other locked-down Apple device is a hypocrite.
I'm typing this from Linux, so I'm allowed to wear open-toed sandals, not shave most days and hate Stony and Snapple.
Nokia sat on their backsides for far too long thinking that it was good enough just to be mobile phone company, rather than looking at the wider picture with smartphones and preparing to compete with Apple and Android. They did nothing with Symbian to give it a similar interface to iOS and Android.
Obviously, they couldn't use iOS on their smartphones, had they picked Android then the Nokia name would have been lost amongst the myriad of other companies making Android phones.
So there was Microsoft looking for a mobile phone manufacturer for Windows Mobile, and Nokia needing a mobile OS that didn't lump them in with the masses - it's been reported that 1500 Nokia employees walked out of their offices in Oulu and Tampere when the Windows Mobile announcement was made.
It will be interesting to see if they manage to capture market share in the next few years or not - personally, the pair of them are still are far lesser evil than Apple's proprietary lock-in mentality so let's hope they take a big chunk from the iPhone market.
There would be little point. OS X is just BSD with some pretty eye candy - and you don't need pretty eye candy on a server.
The main reason for going higher than 16 bit, 44.1 khz is when you want to manipulate the audio, for example mixing, pitching and applying various effects.
Thanks for the information. I'll remember that the next time I want some incompetent unshaven knobhead with a couple of turntables and stoned off his face on "E" to give me his "mix" of a classic Jethro Tull album or two.