I found the whole article to be fairly useless, many of those "failures" were recycled in to more popular ideas or were just ahead of their time. As others have stated, it takes less effort to tear down than build up and anyone who doubts Apple's role as key to change in the personal computing realm is living in denial. What's that old saying about breaking a few eggs to make an omelet?
I know you are CEO of your mom's basement, but in the real world your shit attitude won't carry you far. A clear sign you still live in your mom's basement and read Fuckedcompany everyday, only an FC douche-bag still uses the term fucktard.
I hate to reply to my own post, but who moderated this as FlameBait? Does Steve Ballmer have an account? Does someone who reads/. find something redeeming about IE? Shouldn't there be some kind of remote qualification to have mod points, like not being afflicted with extensive mental retardation?
Clearly the "browser war" is back on and Internet Explorer is clearly the loser of the bunch. With so many great choices like FireFox, Opera, Safari for OS X and now an offering from Google (as well as assorted and high quality offerings from assorted OSS projects) maybe it is time to admit that the browser is not part of the OS, pull IE out and at the same time reduce your security issues significantly? If you like this idea please feel free to use it without giving me any credit, the extra time off for I.T. staffers everywhere will be thanks enough.
Well here is one you can help me with as well.... phuck yew! Nothing worse than a non-contributing AC with a bad attitude. While yes, the spelling errors are lame and I didn't notice that the "check spelling as you type" was turned off that is hardly call for you to be such as azz whole! Damn, there goes that spelling problem again.
NEC LCD1735 NXM w/ DVI cable, Logitech Z3i 2.1 Speakers, Apple Pro Keyboard (wired), Apple Pro Wireless Mouse, D-Link DL-524 Router/WAP, Epson Stylus C80 printer on D-Link 301U ethernet printer server
Everything opens quickly, usually one bounce on the dock and it's up and usable. I have spent a good deal of time moving my vacation photos (about 800-900) and music (about 3400 tracks) to their repsective apps. Both iTunes and iPhoto still snap right open and are usable pretty quickly, although obviously startup scans of large libraries take a few seconds. Application perfromance is great, very smooth and pretty much what I expect of OS X. Pages and KeyNote are very responsive and stable, PhotoShop Elements 2.0 is the only lagard, as it is on any system.
A big improvement for me is not having to turn off eye candy and little features to maintain performance. This is my third Mac, I've gone from an iMac G3 700 Snow w/Jag to an iBook G4 800 w/Panther to the mini I am currently running. For the first time I don't have to turn off dock animation or magnification, find a hack around transparency or turn off font smoothing to avoid those occaissional chops that would happen to my other Macs. Finder is smooth and responsive and outside of the occaisional delay with iDisk synching is vastly improved from Jag and even my earlier Panther experiences.
Browsing my network, mapping drives on my Wintel box and even remote managing my DVR is perfection. I have the AE/BT option. AE immediately finds my Dlink DL-524 and works with it's WPA-PSK settings with no hassle. The Apple wireless mouse was found on first boot and OS X shows you a little 2 step pictogram so the OS can pair the device before it is even compeltely launched. BT performance is overall about the same, although it does not ship with the 1.2 firmware upgrade, which definitely made for smoother mouse tracking. Pairing with my Nokia 3650 is still a little wonky, but this appears to be my phone at fault as it pairs poorly with anything.
The size is truly impressive and you have to see it in relation to the rest of your hardware to really appreciate it. It runs virtually silent all the time, even under moderate load the fan barely kicks up. The fan is a rotary blower similair to the ones in the new iMacs, although obviously a much lower profile and slighlty different form factor. It does kick up during gaming, and while it makes more noise, it is more of a whoosh of air than anything mechanical or clicky. I think most of the noise is due to the shape of the exhaust vents more than the blower. At higher speeds you can definitely feel it moving some air, so I feel pretty confident the mini gets adequate air flow.
I am the only one home right now at 7:45a.m., there is very little ambient or background noise to be heard currently, it is probably as close as my place gets to 100% silent and I can barely hear the mini at all, the fan is a whisper at best. I can here thee clock on the wall 20 feet away clicking more than I can hear the mini's fan.
The hard drive is quiet, I rarely even here it seek. In fact, hard drive noise is so rare when I do hear it I tend to notice it. Hard drive performance has so far proven to be pretty decent, it honestly doesn't feel slow or he
since last Thursday and it has so far exceeeded my expectations in every way. I contacted Apple last night and they are refunding the price difference to reflect the price drops, I cannot complain. Of course if those prices would have been lower initially I might have ordered more upgrades, but overall I can say this has been an excellent experience with Apple again.
of $300 for XP Pro the smart consumer will either take a serious look at Linux or put that $300 toward a Mac mini. And of course the third option likely for many users is to find a way to circumvent the system and get the patches from elsewhere.
All I really see is MS further alienating current legit customers and slightly inconveniencing crooked ones.
I wish I had mod points because you sir, hit the nail on the head. The last thing MS wants is an IBM unfettered with no direct accountability to MS. As long as MS can flog IBM with OEM pricing policies they are Bill's bitch!
starting to become a fantasy on every commute when Crazy Taxi came out for the DreamCast. I looked at every traffic jam as an exercise in planning the best route, including a jaunt down the ravine behind my workplace to "drop off passengers" faster at work each morning.
failed to mention Valve's many double dealings (with both thier partners and the fans) or what the long term implications of Steam are? Everyone cried about DRM on music but the game publishers get to walk right in?
Or how about more specifics on how all these mergers are going to limit the number of good games we will see in lieue of sequels? Of course we didn't see any of this because there really isn't a legitimate gaming press to speak of, one of the many reasons so many gaming publications (a fact the article actually managed to mention) keep disappearing, they are filled with unreliable information, much of it seeded by game publisher PR departments and kick backs.
"industry" when a title that will cost me $200 a year to play is GOTY? It's truly a big business now, which explains why so much marginal content fills the shelves and innovative games get ignored.
You do miss the point then, MS will basically kill off the other anti-spyware vendors, limiting choice. Mergers by a handful of companies limit choice.
But to the issue at hand, the real problem is that MS needs to fix the leaky software, not offer my removal tools. Removal tools, as you noted, are plentiful, I want prevention within the OS.
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a new version on InstallShield for virus and malware authors? I bet they are excited...
I found the whole article to be fairly useless, many of those "failures" were recycled in to more popular ideas or were just ahead of their time. As others have stated, it takes less effort to tear down than build up and anyone who doubts Apple's role as key to change in the personal computing realm is living in denial. What's that old saying about breaking a few eggs to make an omelet?
I know you are CEO of your mom's basement, but in the real world your shit attitude won't carry you far. A clear sign you still live in your mom's basement and read Fuckedcompany everyday, only an FC douche-bag still uses the term fucktard.
I hate to reply to my own post, but who moderated this as FlameBait? Does Steve Ballmer have an account? Does someone who reads /. find something redeeming about IE? Shouldn't there be some kind of remote qualification to have mod points, like not being afflicted with extensive mental retardation?
Yea, feeling a little optimistic tonight.
Clearly the "browser war" is back on and Internet Explorer is clearly the loser of the bunch. With so many great choices like FireFox, Opera, Safari for OS X and now an offering from Google (as well as assorted and high quality offerings from assorted OSS projects) maybe it is time to admit that the browser is not part of the OS, pull IE out and at the same time reduce your security issues significantly? If you like this idea please feel free to use it without giving me any credit, the extra time off for I.T. staffers everywhere will be thanks enough.
Well here is one you can help me with as well.... phuck yew! Nothing worse than a non-contributing AC with a bad attitude. While yes, the spelling errors are lame and I didn't notice that the "check spelling as you type" was turned off that is hardly call for you to be such as azz whole! Damn, there goes that spelling problem again.
I've had my mini since last Thursday so I thought I would post my thoughts for anyone who might be interested....
Overall the mini is outstanding, right now my list of stuff I run frequently includes....
Safari
FireFox
Mail
iBlog
Pages
KeyNote
iTunes
iPhoto
PhotoShop Elements 2.0
iSync
Transmit 2.0
CandyBar
Diablo II
and to a lesser extent...
iMovie
GarageBand 2
Chess
MacJanitor
CockTail
Specs:
G4 1.42 / 80GB HDD / 512MB RAM / DVD/CD +/-RW combo drive / AE + BT
NEC LCD1735 NXM w/ DVI cable, Logitech Z3i 2.1 Speakers, Apple Pro Keyboard (wired), Apple Pro Wireless Mouse, D-Link DL-524 Router/WAP, Epson Stylus C80 printer on D-Link 301U ethernet printer server
Everything opens quickly, usually one bounce on the dock and it's up and usable. I have spent a good deal of time moving my vacation photos (about 800-900) and music (about 3400 tracks) to their repsective apps. Both iTunes and iPhoto still snap right open and are usable pretty quickly, although obviously startup scans of large libraries take a few seconds. Application perfromance is great, very smooth and pretty much what I expect of OS X. Pages and KeyNote are very responsive and stable, PhotoShop Elements 2.0 is the only lagard, as it is on any system.
A big improvement for me is not having to turn off eye candy and little features to maintain performance. This is my third Mac, I've gone from an iMac G3 700 Snow w/Jag to an iBook G4 800 w/Panther to the mini I am currently running. For the first time I don't have to turn off dock animation or magnification, find a hack around transparency or turn off font smoothing to avoid those occaissional chops that would happen to my other Macs. Finder is smooth and responsive and outside of the occaisional delay with iDisk synching is vastly improved from Jag and even my earlier Panther experiences.
Browsing my network, mapping drives on my Wintel box and even remote managing my DVR is perfection. I have the AE/BT option. AE immediately finds my Dlink DL-524 and works with it's WPA-PSK settings with no hassle. The Apple wireless mouse was found on first boot and OS X shows you a little 2 step pictogram so the OS can pair the device before it is even compeltely launched. BT performance is overall about the same, although it does not ship with the 1.2 firmware upgrade, which definitely made for smoother mouse tracking. Pairing with my Nokia 3650 is still a little wonky, but this appears to be my phone at fault as it pairs poorly with anything.
The size is truly impressive and you have to see it in relation to the rest of your hardware to really appreciate it. It runs virtually silent all the time, even under moderate load the fan barely kicks up. The fan is a rotary blower similair to the ones in the new iMacs, although obviously a much lower profile and slighlty different form factor. It does kick up during gaming, and while it makes more noise, it is more of a whoosh of air than anything mechanical or clicky. I think most of the noise is due to the shape of the exhaust vents more than the blower. At higher speeds you can definitely feel it moving some air, so I feel pretty confident the mini gets adequate air flow.
I am the only one home right now at 7:45a.m., there is very little ambient or background noise to be heard currently, it is probably as close as my place gets to 100% silent and I can barely hear the mini at all, the fan is a whisper at best. I can here thee clock on the wall 20 feet away clicking more than I can hear the mini's fan.
The hard drive is quiet, I rarely even here it seek. In fact, hard drive noise is so rare when I do hear it I tend to notice it. Hard drive performance has so far proven to be pretty decent, it honestly doesn't feel slow or he
Actualy they do offer a version without iTunes but you have to really scan the page to find the link, I agree that is annoying.
Notice how yesterday Bill donates $750 mil and today they crack down on piracey? Related? You be the judge?
since last Thursday and it has so far exceeeded my expectations in every way. I contacted Apple last night and they are refunding the price difference to reflect the price drops, I cannot complain. Of course if those prices would have been lower initially I might have ordered more upgrades, but overall I can say this has been an excellent experience with Apple again.
All I really see is MS further alienating current legit customers and slightly inconveniencing crooked ones.
I wish I had mod points because you sir, hit the nail on the head. The last thing MS wants is an IBM unfettered with no direct accountability to MS. As long as MS can flog IBM with OEM pricing policies they are Bill's bitch!
And this is an awesome repsonse, you AC posting smacktard, F U!
my dad, mom, in-laws, aunts, uncles and every boss I have ever had. These results surprise NO ONE!
I just don't use Windows or Internet Explorer, problem solved.[/sarcasm]
Please, and I say this because I care, get over yourself, the sooner the better.
WooHoo, I bet Steve Jobs is relieved, now that YOU think Apple is doing it right he can relax!
starting to become a fantasy on every commute when Crazy Taxi came out for the DreamCast. I looked at every traffic jam as an exercise in planning the best route, including a jaunt down the ravine behind my workplace to "drop off passengers" faster at work each morning.
Valve has lied to the fans and their business partners at every turn, F Valve!
Very true, but the gaming press, as it stands, has ignored these implications. And judging from most gaming forums the majority of gamers are as well.
Or how about more specifics on how all these mergers are going to limit the number of good games we will see in lieue of sequels? Of course we didn't see any of this because there really isn't a legitimate gaming press to speak of, one of the many reasons so many gaming publications (a fact the article actually managed to mention) keep disappearing, they are filled with unreliable information, much of it seeded by game publisher PR departments and kick backs.
"industry" when a title that will cost me $200 a year to play is GOTY? It's truly a big business now, which explains why so much marginal content fills the shelves and innovative games get ignored.
But to the issue at hand, the real problem is that MS needs to fix the leaky software, not offer my removal tools. Removal tools, as you noted, are plentiful, I want prevention within the OS.
Is that you Steve Ballmer, I should have guessed by your username?