Make all the BSOD/reboot jokes you like, but I'm excited by Microsoft Surface.
I'm a die-hard Apple fan, and I *really* want to see something like the Surface from them. I'm hoping that Microsoft will be successful enough to spur them into making a tablet (just like I'm hoping that Android Marketplace will be successful enough to encourage Apple to be less draconian with their App Store policies).
It's fairly typical of people who use neither a Mac nor an iPhone to say that it's no better than the alternatives.
It's fairly untypical of people who use either a Mac or and iPhone to say that it's no better than the alternatives.
I know you're not an iPhone user (because you said so) and I'd bet you're not a Mac user (because I've never met a Mac user who thinks there's a substantial amount of really great Windows software).
In other words, your lack of experience is compounded by your ignorance.
And I could re-write the Gmail interface from scratch in a week too, provided I had nothing better to do with my time (maybe without an IE6 stylesheet, but even Google forces IE6 users to go into an outdated interface). It's a matter of playing to your own strengths. Google's so damn big that they overcomplicate a lot of things, Gmail included. I won't hold that against them as I live in Gmail.
You wouldn't live in GMail if it had been written in a week. Have you ever even seen the back-end code for a sizable web app, let alone written it?
And that's the idiot devs at Apple, for spurning the HUGE market of J2ME for platform control.
I'm sure your experience at running a multi-million dollar business that competes with Microsoft tells a different story, but Apple are quite happy making a hardware-software combo that looks and feels rather better than your average Java app.
I'd have thought that "slave trade" would be what the RIAA would like you to think is equivalent to what you're doing to the poor, struggling artists.
And when some new-fangled power (such as the internet) comes along and starts trying to ride roughshod over the way things have always been done -- i.e., trying to cut the music industry out of its rightful share of the money -- that would be colonialism.
You forgot to mention terrorists. Selling pirate DVDs is one of the main income sources for terrorists. If you pirate DVDs you might as well be killing your own family, or raping children or whatever it is that terrorists do on the weekend.
These people are just as greedy as the ISP's they complain about. They want a huge "dedicated" pipe, but have others subsidize it.
No, they don't. They want the bandwidth that was advertised when they made their decision about whom to pay for internet provision. If ISPs are not prepared to provide that bandwidth at that price, let them be honest about it.
What's really sad is that so many of us think that way, not because IP laws are ridiculous in and of themselves, but because the term of copyright has been stretched to ridiculous lengths.
Apple's Mail works just as well as the Gmail interface because it also recognizes the conversations.
Mail.app's threaded view isn't a patch on GMail's. Firstly, it doesn't show you the whole conversation in which you can expand and collapse particular messages. Secondly, it doesn't have that fantastic "show/hide quoted text" feature (which also contributes to the way that the preview sentence in the collapsed message view is usually the next sentence in the thread, rather than a quotation of the previous one).
I'm not 100% certain, but I think you'll find that gcc has shipped with all versions of Mac OS X. In fact, Windows is the only modern system I know of that DOESN'T ship with a C compiler.
While I don't have a Mac handy to confirm this, a quick Google suggests that OS X does not include GCC [tech-recipes.com]. Rather, it's included with XCode [apple.com], which is a free download from Apple, much like the free version of Visual Studio from Microsoft.
It's somewhere in between. XCode comes on the Leopard DVD, but is not installed by default.
"Coincidental cohesion is when parts of a module are grouped arbitrarily (at random); the parts have no significant relationship (e.g. a module of frequently used functions)."
Certainly these two stories did not appear together entirely at random. It's temporal cohesion, at worst!
Well... (again, playing devil's advocate with Stallman in the role of the devil) it has produced an operating system, it's just running with an interim kernel at the moment.
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Data mining whatever you upload tells them what kind of thing you both might want to buy.
Why would you ever buy porn when you can get so much of it for free?
Loosing a few gb of music won't kill you for example.
Unless of course you loose it into your own face with a trebuchet. Or perchance did you mean "lose"?
Oedipus, is that you?
Hell, if my brother went off the rails, threatening the future of the whole family, I'd have a word with him, too.
Make all the BSOD/reboot jokes you like, but I'm excited by Microsoft Surface.
I'm a die-hard Apple fan, and I *really* want to see something like the Surface from them. I'm hoping that Microsoft will be successful enough to spur them into making a tablet (just like I'm hoping that Android Marketplace will be successful enough to encourage Apple to be less draconian with their App Store policies).
It's fairly typical of people who use neither a Mac nor an iPhone to say that it's no better than the alternatives.
It's fairly untypical of people who use either a Mac or and iPhone to say that it's no better than the alternatives.
I know you're not an iPhone user (because you said so) and I'd bet you're not a Mac user (because I've never met a Mac user who thinks there's a substantial amount of really great Windows software).
In other words, your lack of experience is compounded by your ignorance.
And I could re-write the Gmail interface from scratch in a week too, provided I had nothing better to do with my time (maybe without an IE6 stylesheet, but even Google forces IE6 users to go into an outdated interface). It's a matter of playing to your own strengths. Google's so damn big that they overcomplicate a lot of things, Gmail included. I won't hold that against them as I live in Gmail.
You wouldn't live in GMail if it had been written in a week. Have you ever even seen the back-end code for a sizable web app, let alone written it?
And that's the idiot devs at Apple, for spurning the HUGE market of J2ME for platform control.
I'm sure your experience at running a multi-million dollar business that competes with Microsoft tells a different story, but Apple are quite happy making a hardware-software combo that looks and feels rather better than your average Java app.
P.S.: Arrest, try, convict, and sentence the world's most dangerous person.
P.S.: Arrest, try, convict, and sentence the world's most dangerous person.
Fixed that for ya.
Why? What's the stereotype?
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Maybe I haven't kept up, but I'm not aware of malware in the wild that would cause your computer to download the latest Backstreet Boys CD.
Maybe that's because it hasn't needed to exist until now?
I'd have thought that "slave trade" would be what the RIAA would like you to think is equivalent to what you're doing to the poor, struggling artists.
And when some new-fangled power (such as the internet) comes along and starts trying to ride roughshod over the way things have always been done -- i.e., trying to cut the music industry out of its rightful share of the money -- that would be colonialism.
You forgot to mention terrorists. Selling pirate DVDs is one of the main income sources for terrorists. If you pirate DVDs you might as well be killing your own family, or raping children or whatever it is that terrorists do on the weekend.
obviously to cast Apple laptops in a bad light.
No pun intended?
These people are just as greedy as the ISP's they complain about. They want a huge "dedicated" pipe, but have others subsidize it.
No, they don't. They want the bandwidth that was advertised when they made their decision about whom to pay for internet provision. If ISPs are not prepared to provide that bandwidth at that price, let them be honest about it.
What's really sad is that so many of us think that way, not because IP laws are ridiculous in and of themselves, but because the term of copyright has been stretched to ridiculous lengths.
I think what he meant was:
The reason that most people who switched to and stayed with GMail in the first place back in 2004 and 2005 did so was the interface.
Apple's Mail works just as well as the Gmail interface because it also recognizes the conversations.
Mail.app's threaded view isn't a patch on GMail's. Firstly, it doesn't show you the whole conversation in which you can expand and collapse particular messages. Secondly, it doesn't have that fantastic "show/hide quoted text" feature (which also contributes to the way that the preview sentence in the collapsed message view is usually the next sentence in the thread, rather than a quotation of the previous one).
I very much welcome Offline GMail.
While this feature isn't for those well versed in POP3 and IMAP
It most certainly is. GMail's web client has, in my opinion, a better threaded view than any desktop client in existence.
I'm not 100% certain, but I think you'll find that gcc has shipped with all versions of Mac OS X. In fact, Windows is the only modern system I know of that DOESN'T ship with a C compiler.
While I don't have a Mac handy to confirm this, a quick Google suggests that OS X does not include GCC [tech-recipes.com]. Rather, it's included with XCode [apple.com], which is a free download from Apple, much like the free version of Visual Studio from Microsoft.
It's somewhere in between. XCode comes on the Leopard DVD, but is not installed by default.
Bacteria are not as simple as you might think, they carry out some quite complex tasks.
Indeed, but nothing like as complex as reproducing a human being.
From the link you posted:
"Coincidental cohesion is when parts of a module are grouped arbitrarily (at random); the parts have no significant relationship (e.g. a module of frequently used functions)."
Certainly these two stories did not appear together entirely at random. It's temporal cohesion, at worst!
Well... (again, playing devil's advocate with Stallman in the role of the devil) it has produced an operating system, it's just running with an interim kernel at the moment.
To this, RMS would say that if it weren't for the GNU components, most other OSes wouldn't have been "produced" either...