There is another point: so far the amount of scientists and inventors (I'm using the words liberally here) has grown very steeply as the population has grown and as a larger percentage of that population has had the possibility to do science or devote to inventing stuff. Both of those figures have an upper limit, and reaching them means that the "acceleration of the pace of technology" that the last generations have seen could slow down...
This combined with your point might really mean that "progress" might, if not slow down, at least stop its' acceleration.
Rather than thinking of a totally secure way of doing something, it encourages doing something "just secure enough"
Get real, man. There are no totally secure solutions, there are only differing levels of "secure enough". If you think you've designed a totally secure system, you should probably think about it for a little longer...
In most cases I agree with your conclusion though.
Lets see, here are some.NET executables in the PDC03 Longhorn version:
# Help Pane # Migration Wizard # Out Of The Box Experience # Scheduled Jobs # Sound Volume
Man I'm glad that they decided to not include these heavily stressed user-mode components of the operating system as.NET-components -- that would have been so stupid. Maybe they should write them in assembler just to be sure they don't slow the machine to a crawl.
What the hell does market cap have to do with the need to rewrite applications? If they have working code (which can of course be disputed, but you didn't), there's no reason to write it again.
Friendly suggestion for the next time you happen to ask for help in a user forum:
Don't let your anger show. Frustration is understandable, but showing it makes you harder to communicate with. If you want people to help, don't make snide remarks.
Amen. Calendar interoperability and network access is appallingly poor.
Finally there is (at least in theory) an answer: CalDAV. It's big and complex, but there seems to be some real progress in implementing it, just take a look at the interoperability testing events/reports.
Then again, you mentioned Outlook... Just forget everything I said.
Apple understands internet? Maybe. I'd say they've also fully understood that at the moment their customers do not understand and exploits that as fast as it can. The fact that people accept (without any thought) the kind of vertical iLock-in that Apple sells proves it.
It wasn't a scam for you, but it _will_ be a scam for some people. At some point in time there are no people left who want to buy the insurance, but the company (and the "associates") will still keep telling people "Now is the time to get in the business -- you'll make thousands in a couple of days".
You should probably know that you are in a minority here -- most blind tests (actually, all I've encountered) have come to the conclusion that ogg is as good or better than mp3. Then again, if you could hear artifacts with maximum quality ogg, there was almost certainly something wrong with the setup...
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This shows the beauty of scripting systems like AppleScript. They allow you a level of interaction with a system that is hardly seen on Windows, and only vaguely available on UNIX.
Come on, mods! Show your sense of humour and mod that insightful.
Insightful my ass. Those machines might not get any Linux distro on them, but your reasons are just stupid.
If the graphics card isn't up to the job, it doesn't run current games anyway.
If you really think command line is needed to install stuff in a decent newbie-friendly distro, you're... well, out of touch, maybe?
Saying that the program update functionality of a (again, decent) linux distribution is difficult comparing implicitly to windows? You, sir, are delusional.
The games are the only thing I agree with you (I have no experience with widescreens so I'm not commenting on them).
That's a fair question I suppose -- the amount-of-golfers estimates usually include anyone who has played in the last year. Then again, I'm sure MMOG companies inflate their numbers anyway they can....
The most popular MMOGs have a few million players each, and the rest are substantially smaller (source: http://www.mmogchart.com/, and news in the last year).
There are over 30000 golf courses in the world (source: Golf Digest), and I've seen a study saying there are 60 million players ( can't remember where I saw it).
Well, the current ISP contracts are incompatible with this, but I'm not sure the are, or should be, terrified: A plan like this is based on every member having an internet connection -- if the linus model were succesful, it would actually be an incentive for buying an internet connection (value added without any work by the ISP!).
Convincing the ISPs to change their contracts now (before this has had a chance to grow to the point where the value added actually matters) is another matter...
What happened was that the emissions of sulfuric acid were reduced (because of that media coverage). Also, the acid deposition has become more widespread, and more difficult to notice -- the sneaky bastards are building tall smokestacks, so the sulfur travels farther away from the polluter.
That'll work. Just like all the other consumer devices that were marketed as secure -- and were cracked in two days after release. If the key is in the device, it will be known.
These things are very much related. Take a look at the current DRM techniques -- see anything that makes the restriction go away when copyright expires? I haven't.
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This combined with your point might really mean that "progress" might, if not slow down, at least stop its' acceleration.
In most cases I agree with your conclusion though.
What the hell does market cap have to do with the need to rewrite applications? If they have working code (which can of course be disputed, but you didn't), there's no reason to write it again.
Don't let your anger show. Frustration is understandable, but showing it makes you harder to communicate with. If you want people to help, don't make snide remarks.
Finally there is (at least in theory) an answer: CalDAV. It's big and complex, but there seems to be some real progress in implementing it, just take a look at the interoperability testing events/reports.
Then again, you mentioned Outlook... Just forget everything I said.
Apple understands internet? Maybe. I'd say they've also fully understood that at the moment their customers do not understand and exploits that as fast as it can. The fact that people accept (without any thought) the kind of vertical iLock-in that Apple sells proves it.
It wasn't a scam for you, but it _will_ be a scam for some people. At some point in time there are no people left who want to buy the insurance, but the company (and the "associates") will still keep telling people "Now is the time to get in the business -- you'll make thousands in a couple of days".
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Latest Hydrogen audio listening test
Old but respectable: German computer magazine c't listening test
- If the graphics card isn't up to the job, it doesn't run current games anyway.
- If you really think command line is needed to install stuff in a decent newbie-friendly distro, you're... well, out of touch, maybe?
- Saying that the program update functionality of a (again, decent) linux distribution is difficult comparing implicitly to windows? You, sir, are delusional.
The games are the only thing I agree with you (I have no experience with widescreens so I'm not commenting on them).That's a fair question I suppose -- the amount-of-golfers estimates usually include anyone who has played in the last year. Then again, I'm sure MMOG companies inflate their numbers anyway they can....
There are over 30000 golf courses in the world (source: Golf Digest), and I've seen a study saying there are 60 million players ( can't remember where I saw it).
So, still wanna bet?
Convincing the ISPs to change their contracts now (before this has had a chance to grow to the point where the value added actually matters) is another matter...
What happened was that the emissions of sulfuric acid were reduced (because of that media coverage). Also, the acid deposition has become more widespread, and more difficult to notice -- the sneaky bastards are building tall smokestacks, so the sulfur travels farther away from the polluter.
In other words, what are you smoking (and how is this insightful)?
That'll work. Just like all the other consumer devices that were marketed as secure -- and were cracked in two days after release. If the key is in the device, it will be known.
These things are very much related. Take a look at the current DRM techniques -- see anything that makes the restriction go away when copyright expires? I haven't.