What I think -- I think Americans should, for patriotic reasons (having nothing to do with children's morality), strongly support copyright and IP. What about starting resource wars for patriotic reasons?
And let the market work out as it may. You have to choose between supporting IP and letting the market work it out. At the risk of nearly saying "information wants to be free": value is related to scarcity.
Fair point. It might be the case that I am a little biased, as one of the engineers working on the project is a friend of mine. He would be the first to admit that the greatest engineering challenge is to dissipate enough power from the system to stop it getting thrashed into pieces. If your local pier is anything like mine, the businesses probably did not prioritise the highest of engineering standards. Perhaps it would be more useful to compare the Pelamis with a ship. Yes, it needs occasional repair; no, putting it out to sea is not a waste of time.
Consequently nothing built on the surface or shore of the ocean can exist indefinitely even as that term is typically used by people, which is to say "around longer than me".
Coastlines have been around for a LOT longer than you. Go take a long walk off a short pier, remembering to marvel at the fact it hasn't yet washed away.
Apple's package creation software, by default, makes packages that require an administrator password to install. I don't even know whether it can be made to create packages installed only for the local user other than through the command line.
APPLE IS TRAINING ITS USERS TO TYPE THEIR ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORDS AT THE DROP OF A HAT
Building your operating system on a more secure foundation makes no difference if you don't understand the basics.
Broken glass for breakfast? Oh, unthinkable luxury! We had to cut off our own tongues with cheesewire, before we were even born, and block up our ears with tarmac, so that the viruses could live in our cerebellums unhindered by human language, and every ten seconds our machine masters would electrocute us to stimulate mutation. What we would have given for a bit of a beating to give some colour to the day!
How many people are going to carry around earbuds to listen to music?
You're absolutely right. Let alone a whole device containing batteries and digital storage. Apple is completely doomed to failure if they try to sell something like that.
Where do the earbuds go when you have to answer the phone?
Um, in your ears, perhaps? Imagine if... the earbuds themselves... could bring the sounds of the conversation to your eardrums! Let alone other useful things like, say, gently muting the music and playing you the ringtone...
You can't expect people to listen to a 5 minute song and relax while holding the phone up to their ears right? Or do you now need two bluetooth ear pieces? I think the whole idea is silly.
That's because you have completely failed to apply any lateral thinking whatsoever.
Unfortunately, Apple's continued failure to change their installer so that the user can choose a user install rather than a system-wide one (which, having cleverly designed things so that the system library layout is mirrored in each user's home directory, should be really easy) means that users are being trained to type the administrator password whenever they use an installer.
I think that this is a shocking omission, and it may one day lead to a class-action lawsuit against Apple.
Well, my blog is consistently reporting 54% Firefox browser, so it has to mean that FF is now ruling 54% of the browser share?
With all else being equal: yes. Of course, all else is rarely equal. Even Google have biased data (because Safari and Firefox have Google search boxes built into them).
If this is coming from a Mac user, I am glad I have chose Linux instead.
This, however, is a much more severe case of idiocy than a sampling error.
OSX doesn't do anything Linux can't, it's just got more polish. People tend to forget this while they're masturbaring over screenshots.
Any Turing-equivalent machine can do anything any other Turing-equivalent machine can. You wouldn't claim that all women are functionally equivalent for the purpose of being masturbated over, would you?!
Depends on your jurisdiction. Here in the UK, I think we're not technically allowed to keep recorded shows indefinitely (or show them to more than N people).
Good point, well made. But for me, the cost of an iPod has never justified its utility -- I pretty much always carry my laptop so many of the ways in which an iPod could be useful are already taken care of, and my phone acts as an MP3 player (which could do podcast video if I wanted it) for when I'm on the move.
So, having one window metal brushed, one gray silver one white and few others is my imagination?
I do concede this point, I'm not sure why I didn't see what you were referring to.
Most of the rest of what you wrote continues to be simply assertion ("Any OS", "Yes true"), missing the point ("Fitt's law does not apply here", "Mail.app... is worthless", "Some of us don't have 5 windows only"), or outright fiction ("OS X chooser").
Admittedly, though, the X11 keyboard setup can be a bit tricky to get right... but the same can be true of Cygwin and many Linux distros.
> Worst dual monitor setup support ever (while I agree that both monitors are working, note that I use always 2 24" WS monitors. Now imagine my mouse milleage when I want to access menu. And I could go on and on).
Not true. Accelerate your mouse pointer properly, and read up about Fitt's law sometime.
> Consuming astronomical ammount of RAM.
Relative to which modern OS?
> Trashing all over the network drives with AppleDouble, AppleShare, etc.
Not true. You obviously aren't talking about OS X. Things have changed, you know, since the Bad Old Days of Macs.
> Damn 0.5s time lag on mouse events.
Not true.
> No configurable WM. Windows don't have that either, but at least they pose sensible defaults.
First sentence true. Second sentence straw man.
> Best mailer one could come up with OSX is still only Thunderbird.
Not true.
> I'm still waiting to succesfully run at least most of the movies (MPlayer and VLC are working best, but still with a lot of crashing). Can do that on both, Windows and Linux.
Not true. Do you know what 'most' means?
> Too many window themes, but there's no one default theme.
Not true.
> Stupid network chooser.
Not true. I really would advise you to try OS X before you make judgements against Macs based on OS 9.
> No decent crossplatform compatible Office suite. MS Office would still account as the best Office suite on OSX, but I refuse to use.doc or.xls.
Not true (You can use StarOffice or OpenOffice or whatever you like).
> Damn ICal can't connect to most iCal servers.
Not true.
> No virtual desktops. Windows lacks this one too. I know I could install the shareware or freeware implementation. But unfortunatelly implementation sucks for the same reasons why Windows Virtual desktops you install with ATI suck.
Doesn't matter -- anything you can do with virtual desktops you can do with application switching and exposé.
> THE... WORST... TERMINAL... EVER. Yeah, I tried iTerm and all other terminals. Few of them could come to the state of actualy being usable if people have really low terminal needs
Not true. If you like xterm, Eterm, etc., just use them. Virtually all X11 software runs fine on OS X.
I have no direct experience of either, but I did hear a podcast interview with Will Shipley whose wrote the code for scanning barcodes in Delicious Library, and he said that it all had to be re-written for the integrated 'iSights' because they were fixed-focus.
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Fair point. It might be the case that I am a little biased, as one of the engineers working on the project is a friend of mine. He would be the first to admit that the greatest engineering challenge is to dissipate enough power from the system to stop it getting thrashed into pieces. If your local pier is anything like mine, the businesses probably did not prioritise the highest of engineering standards. Perhaps it would be more useful to compare the Pelamis with a ship. Yes, it needs occasional repair; no, putting it out to sea is not a waste of time.
Apple's package creation software, by default, makes packages that require an administrator password to install. I don't even know whether it can be made to create packages installed only for the local user other than through the command line.
APPLE IS TRAINING ITS USERS TO TYPE THEIR ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORDS AT THE DROP OF A HAT
Building your operating system on a more secure foundation makes no difference if you don't understand the basics.
Half to thousands of artists, and half to a few fatcats? Sounds about right.
I think your logic might be faulty. How does the tax from three Zunes square payment for every iPod user to download Universal songs without paying?
Broken glass for breakfast? Oh, unthinkable luxury! We had to cut off our own tongues with cheesewire, before we were even born, and block up our ears with tarmac, so that the viruses could live in our cerebellums unhindered by human language, and every ten seconds our machine masters would electrocute us to stimulate mutation. What we would have given for a bit of a beating to give some colour to the day!
You're absolutely right. Let alone a whole device containing batteries and digital storage. Apple is completely doomed to failure if they try to sell something like that.
Um, in your ears, perhaps? Imagine if... the earbuds themselves... could bring the sounds of the conversation to your eardrums! Let alone other useful things like, say, gently muting the music and playing you the ringtone...
That's because you have completely failed to apply any lateral thinking whatsoever.
Unfortunately, Apple's continued failure to change their installer so that the user can choose a user install rather than a system-wide one (which, having cleverly designed things so that the system library layout is mirrored in each user's home directory, should be really easy) means that users are being trained to type the administrator password whenever they use an installer.
I think that this is a shocking omission, and it may one day lead to a class-action lawsuit against Apple.
With all else being equal: yes. Of course, all else is rarely equal. Even Google have biased data (because Safari and Firefox have Google search boxes built into them).
This, however, is a much more severe case of idiocy than a sampling error.
Do you have a source for that claim?
IANAS (I Am Not A Statistician) but I can assure you of one thing: neither are you.
Depends on your jurisdiction. Here in the UK, I think we're not technically allowed to keep recorded shows indefinitely (or show them to more than N people).
Good point, well made. But for me, the cost of an iPod has never justified its utility -- I pretty much always carry my laptop so many of the ways in which an iPod could be useful are already taken care of, and my phone acts as an MP3 player (which could do podcast video if I wanted it) for when I'm on the move.
You must be beloved of marketing types! Personally, I don't try to find a use for things; I try to find things for a use.
Most of the rest of what you wrote continues to be simply assertion ("Any OS", "Yes true"), missing the point ("Fitt's law does not apply here", "Mail.app... is worthless", "Some of us don't have 5 windows only"), or outright fiction ("OS X chooser").
Admittedly, though, the X11 keyboard setup can be a bit tricky to get right... but the same can be true of Cygwin and many Linux distros.
I'd probably start by pointing out she's a four-year-old. An ad hominem attack, if you will.
> Worst dual monitor setup support ever (while I agree that both monitors are working, note that I use always 2 24" WS monitors. Now imagine my mouse milleage when I want to access menu. And I could go on and on).
Not true. Accelerate your mouse pointer properly, and read up about Fitt's law sometime.
> Consuming astronomical ammount of RAM.
Relative to which modern OS?
> Trashing all over the network drives with AppleDouble, AppleShare, etc.
Not true. You obviously aren't talking about OS X. Things have changed, you know, since the Bad Old Days of Macs.
> Damn 0.5s time lag on mouse events.
Not true.
> No configurable WM. Windows don't have that either, but at least they pose sensible defaults.
First sentence true. Second sentence straw man.
> Best mailer one could come up with OSX is still only Thunderbird.
Not true.
> I'm still waiting to succesfully run at least most of the movies (MPlayer and VLC are working best, but still with a lot of crashing). Can do that on both, Windows and Linux.
Not true. Do you know what 'most' means?
> Too many window themes, but there's no one default theme.
Not true.
> Stupid network chooser.
Not true. I really would advise you to try OS X before you make judgements against Macs based on OS 9.
> No decent crossplatform compatible Office suite. MS Office would still account as the best Office suite on OSX, but I refuse to use
Not true (You can use StarOffice or OpenOffice or whatever you like).
> Damn ICal can't connect to most iCal servers.
Not true.
> No virtual desktops. Windows lacks this one too. I know I could install the shareware or freeware implementation. But unfortunatelly implementation sucks for the same reasons why Windows Virtual desktops you install with ATI suck.
Doesn't matter -- anything you can do with virtual desktops you can do with application switching and exposé.
> THE... WORST... TERMINAL... EVER. Yeah, I tried iTerm and all other terminals. Few of them could come to the state of actualy being usable if people have really low terminal needs
Not true. If you like xterm, Eterm, etc., just use them. Virtually all X11 software runs fine on OS X.
Thanks for troll^H^H^H^H^Hplaying.
I have no direct experience of either, but I did hear a podcast interview with Will Shipley whose wrote the code for scanning barcodes in Delicious Library, and he said that it all had to be re-written for the integrated 'iSights' because they were fixed-focus.
We choose to turn on all the dark fibre in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.