The cameras are there to make money silly, not for safety. If everyone started going the speed limit, they'd just keep lowering the limit until revenue targets were met.
The speed you should drive to be safe is very rarely the speed limit. In some areas it's faster and in some slower. Weather and traffic are huge factors.
The cameras take that judgement out of the hands of those that are present and put it in the hands of those that want to make money rather than encourage safety and efficient flow of traffic. Weather and traffic are ignored.
If you don't trust the people who are operating a motor vehicle to behave in a safe manner, quit giving licenses to the incompetent. That's the system that works in places like Germany, where cars drive faster and have less accidents.
In other news, quit trying to limit the freedom of others because you're scared. Folks like you are wrecking what used to be a free and prosperous nation.
They upgraded the display, the processor, the camera, the antenna, all while keeping battery life, price and (near as makes no difference) size and weight.
What did you want exactly, a free flying car with your purchase of two?
Even if there's no law on the books, you STILL shouldn't be a dick. Why does there need to be a law for folks to act like competent operators of their vehicles?
Do we need a law that you shouldn't drive your car from the back seat? Or wearing stilts? This isn't a legal issue, it's a "don't-be-a-dick" issue.
By "universal law," I meant that it's a custom that's common the world over, whenever roads have marked lanes. A similar example would be that if you are approaching a section of road that's too small for two vehicles and another car is already coming along that stretch, you pull to the side and wait for them to go through. Some states and nations might have an actual law on the books for this, but even if you're in one that doesn't, you should still not do it. Some states don't prohibit driving when too tired, but you shouldn't do that either.
I suppose it's my bad for saying "law" when I meant "convention."
Essentially, highway works out better if there's a gradient in car speed, and that happens when folks move over after passing. I acknowledge that only MOST, but not ALL nations and states have actually spelled out that you should do these things, but non-assholes who are capable drivers will move over whether the law explicitly requires it or not. Just because it make sense.
There are folks that are scared to change lanes, so they just get on the freeway, merge to the leftmost and stay there until they exit. Those people should probably not be driving. To be a bit more charitable, I guess we should say that they should just stay off of freeways.
Some folks might be capable of moving over, but just lane-block to be dicks. Because they want to be vigilante speed limit enforcers or something. If that's the sort of thing that knocks your socks off, go for it I guess, but it won't make me respect you.
TLDR: If at any point you're on a freeway that isn't in a traffic jam, and it's POSSIBLE for someone to be passing you on the right-hand side, you're wrong. From California, to Maine, from Canada to Siberia. Except in commonwealth islands where the exact same story goes but it's the left-hand side. =) You're treating this as a legal issue. While in most places it is, the overarching situation is that this is actually a don't-be-a-dick issue.
Heh, my last two companies (~15 person startup and ~200 person tech company) have had something like 2 physical servers between them. Everything else in the cloud.
SMB should be in the cloud, because Amazon/Rackspace/etc will be better than any sysadmins that they could otherwise afford. The only orgs that really should be running their own datacenters are the guys that 1) could do better or 2) need to do so for specific privacy/governance/regulatory reasons.
Erm, different states have different language, but it's a universal rule of the road that if you're on a freeway, you move over as far to the right as you can, unless you're passing someone. Likewise, you should always pass on the left, not on the right. It should be pretty obvious why this is the case: slower traffic stays on the right, and faster traffic on the left. If you are on the left and aren't passing anyone, you're messing up the gradiant.
In some states and countries, you'll actually get pulled over for your incorrect lane use. In other states (such as California), the cops will generally let you go unless you're doing something else wrong also.
You explicitly stated that left lanes as passing lanes wasn't convention or law anywhere. You are incorrect on both counts. DK indeed.
On a personal note, assholes who camp the left lane(s) are a huge pet peeve of mine. You guys are basically road blocks. You encourage other drivers to weave and reduce the flow of traffic. Enough of you together and you can create a bottleneck even on a road that would otherwise have bandwidth for far more cars. Pass, then move right, for all of us!
I smoke, drink, and eat some godawful crap, I'm nearly 30 and I still run up and down stairs two at a time like a ten year old. Because rather than all this pretentious exercise, I go out and play in the mud once a week like god intended!
This fitness freak thing is really getting old. People don't avoid the gym because they are lazy, they avoid it because they DONT WANT TO BE LIKE YOU!
You know what's getting just as old as fitness freaks? Smug bike riders! I say that as a guy that bikes to work...
I also play competitive sport, which means I'm interested in things that will help me beat the guy next to me. Taking the stairs two at a time isn't an indication that I'm fit... it's a WARM UP. HIIT is hard. It's uncomfortable. OTOH, it works, and you feel great afterwards. More importantly, when the chips are down and you need to get to a spot before your opponent does, you'll be glad you put the effort in. Letting others in on those facts doesn't make one a douche, it makes one an educator.
Riding a bike is awesome. If you don't care about sport or fitness performance, that's fine. Preferences are preferences. That doesn't mean you have to trash others. Fuck you and your smug holier-than-thou attitude.
lol at "only a six cylinder engine." That produces 400 HP at the crank in the newest C2S. With an engine over the rear wheels for traction. Listen, when Porsche says a car can do 0-60 in 4.6 seconds, they're being *conservative*. With warm tires and a good driver, car magazines have repeatedly *beaten* the factory posted specs. A normally aspirated 911 can definitely pull 4.5-5s 0-60, depending on the particular model, the tires, the weather, etc.
The turbo just takes you from "great" to "insane."
It's almost like people buy Apple because they don't want to have to think.. it's safe.
To the extent that that's true, what if it isn't that they don't want to think, it's that they don't want to think... about bullshit product specs? Android phones advertise like muscle cars. Instead of HP, torque, 1/4 mile and 0-60 you get Ghz, core count, RAM, etc. Not ever car buyer cares about that stuff and that goes for computers too. When my mother is out to get a device, she wants something that will work, that will keep working, that looks nice, and that she can use. Apple's a known quantity there. Android might be or might not, but she'd have to do a ton of research to find out what to get and wouldn't end up with anything that, on her points of interest, was any better.
Imagine a world in which you had something else to do that interested you enough that you couldn't read every post that came out of Engadget. Say you had 2 hours to pick out your next computer or phone instead of an unbounded amount of time actively or passively researching on the internet. You too might go with something "safe."
Of course, there are plenty of folks who do think about computers, do do the research and STILL get Apple gear. I'm one of them, and you just insulted me. That's okay though, I'm used to it.
You'll do well in life to remember that every sentence that begins with "you people." is followed by something stupid.
There's a set of people in the world that thinks Google has a monopoly. You have no evidence that GP is a member of that set. You're just making a sweeping generalization. There's team A that agrees with you and team B that doesn't and you've classified GP as Team B and therefore he holds all the other disagreeable opinions that you've seen. That's faulty reasoning.
Even if it weren't, Google's monopoly is in search and mail. GP already acknowledged that. GPs point was that, apart from search and mail, Google hasn't really had any hits. The claim that search and mail are monopolies doesn't conflict with that. Now, GP might be wrong in that Google does have other hits such as Android, but that's not the argument that you were making.
The present Google operation is so engineer-centric that they're afraid to even decide what color blue they should use [stopdesign.com] without submitting it to the Cloud for arbitration. The point isn't that the Cloud would give you a bad result, but that their internal groupthink is so strong that they can't even tolerate individual decision-making.
Yes, pity the poor Designer. In the good old days they'd let you push your Brilliant Designs out on the world whenever you wanted. Now they make you prove it isn't going to screw things up with some A/B testing first. Oh, what a world.
Thanks for making us engineers look friendly there mr doom.
Companies like Apple are quite happy to take advantage of the great conditions here, but give absolutely nothing back. Those conditions won't be around for the next generation as a result.
If they don't do it voluntarily, slap a 15% tax on overseas production and give that money to the poor and unemployed. It would be more efficient if they did the right thing by choice, but if they don't, we should obtain the effect by force.
Did it ever dawn on you that the "poor and unemployed" are living in China? Or are Chinese, in your worldview, not people too?
What? Apple store will be a reason for their downfall? Apple stores make more money per square foot than basically anything in retail. You'd as soon convince me that slot machine's will be the downfall of Las Vegas.
The iPhone was an innovation. Just because others had made crappy ones first doesn't change that. For so many devices, Apple didn't make the first in the category, they made the first in the category that didn't suck. The "not sucking" part is the product of thousands of tiny innovations, or perhaps more accurately the innovative combination of thousands of little things.
Listen, haters gonna hate, don't let me get in your way. Just don't mistake your hate for, you know, a rational assessment of Apple's strengths or weaknesses.
How is Haiti a capitalist paradise? Paradise for a capitalist is a stable state capable of providing working infrastructure, rule of law and the protection of private property and contracts. Haiti has none of that stuff.
oof... Your first argument would support having the menu bar on every monitor (IMHO a good idea), not at the top of the app (IMHO a terrible idea for the "small target" reasons cited by the grandparent). You can configure global shortcuts if you want - there's a system pref for that. Depending on what you're doing though, a tool like Quicksilver might be more useful, or Automator. The one button mouse thing is a ten-year old argument which was stupid then. Apple correctly realized that the right button was pretty undiscovered by most users, so they required that their UIs be built to not require one. Of course the Windows folk couldn't figure out how to get by without one, so now you can configure Apple mice to sense one button or two. The laptops allow for two-finger click being "right," which is way handier than two button trackpads in Windows land. And I'm a lefty, so it's all backwards for me, you insensitive clod! And that, in just this comment alone, you've wasted more TIME (capital TIME, cuz this is serious business!!!111!!!(one)!1!) than a lifetime of page animations...
As much as I like the eye candy newer GUIs provide, I miss the old days when you had to be smart to use a computer. Sigh...
Unfortunately, computing is going to be like TV - if you want to maximize profit, you cater to the lowest common denominator. Hopefully Linux will continue to be Team Discovery Channel.
Yeah, it sucks whenever the proles get involved, doesn't it? Linux is way too Fisher Price though... I'm still miffed that they gave computers screens. REAL obnoxious, elitist, arrogant internet commentators would never have accepted that waste of processor time. LED's and a switch board should be enough. If you can't figure that out, you shouldn't be allowed to use a computer.
And don't even get me started on cars with air bags or traction control!
streaming is good FOR THEM. physical media is better FOR ME.
Lol, you wonder what's good for normal people? Having the movie we want in 5 minutes rather than 2 days! Streaming is convenient, so it will win.
As for DRM, what's the difference between streaming and physical media? It's all data. What makes DVD or Blueray easier or harder to hack than a streaming API?
As for quality, I guess that'll come with time, but I think you'd be surprised at how few people care. This is a geek forum, so the "audiophile" dweebs are over-represented based on the rest of the population. Picture a family huddled around a TV that they bought at Wal-Mart with sound coming out of its built-in speakers. The quality of their experience is probably more dependent on the behavior of their children than 1080p + 7.1-ness of their stream.
When did we as consumers decide to forgo quality over convenience?
Um... always? How long has there been McDonald's? Why do we use MP3 and AAC instead lossless formats that are larger and harder to store? It seems like a pretty universal rule that most folks are pretty happy with an 80% solution that's easier or cheaper.
I'm not saying there won't be a place for audio snobs to listen to their 7.1 with their golden cables while they sip from 80 dollar bottles of scotch and chortle at the vulgar taste of the masses. It's just that you'll have to be prepared to be an exception rather than the rule.
Ugh. Sandboxing isn't removing root. That's not what that means and even if it was, Macs use sudo instead of a "normal" root user, and this doesn't remove that. Sandboxing is a good idea - you don't WANT arbitrary programs accessing arbitrary data. Your comment inaccurately describes a problem that is in fact actually a solution to something that you don't understand. Your message was brought to us by the letters F, U and D.
Fact is, most people don't need a keyboard 98% of the time, because they aren't entering information, they are consuming it.
Isn't that the problem? These corporation want to turn the internet into just another passive experience, like television or radio. All of the iTards out there are happy to go along with it, because as "creative" as they think they are, they're really just consumers with a credit line. Walled gardens stifle innovation by removing the power to creative from the hands of the individual and placing it solely in the palms of a select few groups. That's bad for everyone, whether they're willing to acknowledge it or not.
You're projecting. YOU think YOU'RE creative, because you found a funny name (iTard) to call folks who have different preferences than you.
The fact is that nearly every movie you've ever seen, your wedding photos (if you were un-iTarded enough to convince a woman to marry you), and a good share of the web applications you use on a daily basis were created by Apple users.
As a computer guy, you can't figure out how someone could create without a keyboard. A quick googling will yield songs, drawings, photo shoots and music videos produced on Android and iOS devices. And you're creative enough to come up with iTard, but not creative enough to have noticed all the iPad cases with built-in bluetooth keyboards. You know, for the only TRUE creatives, the asshat keyboard warriors such as yourself.
If this is a fair example of your product, when it comes to online commentary, my preference would be for you to "consume" more and "create" less. If you know what I mean.
I have no idea why you got modded up so high but the points you make are sure as hell ridiculous. Theres so many uses for PCs, can you do photoshop on an iPhone, No? wonder why.. Can you code on an iPhone? No? wonder why.. The PC isn't going anywhere buddy, these people predicted the death of the TV because people watch moves on their phones, simply NOT true, and retarded at the same time.
Most people don't use their computers for photoshop or coding. They use them for... watching movies. And reading emails. And browsing the net. They sure can do those things on a phone.
There are a lot of computers out there. Almost all of them could be replaced by Android or iOS tablets or phones. Not all, but most.
For the average non-expert user, that replacement would be a net improvement in the user experience.
Finally, you can code and edit photos on an iPhone, heck - an iPad with SSH and a bluetooth keyboard actually isn't even half bad (I use a laptop anyway, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't work). It's a moot point though, because that's not a need that most users have.
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The cameras are there to make money silly, not for safety. If everyone started going the speed limit, they'd just keep lowering the limit until revenue targets were met.
The speed you should drive to be safe is very rarely the speed limit. In some areas it's faster and in some slower. Weather and traffic are huge factors.
The cameras take that judgement out of the hands of those that are present and put it in the hands of those that want to make money rather than encourage safety and efficient flow of traffic. Weather and traffic are ignored.
If you don't trust the people who are operating a motor vehicle to behave in a safe manner, quit giving licenses to the incompetent. That's the system that works in places like Germany, where cars drive faster and have less accidents.
In other news, quit trying to limit the freedom of others because you're scared. Folks like you are wrecking what used to be a free and prosperous nation.
They upgraded the display, the processor, the camera, the antenna, all while keeping battery life, price and (near as makes no difference) size and weight.
What did you want exactly, a free flying car with your purchase of two?
Even if there's no law on the books, you STILL shouldn't be a dick. Why does there need to be a law for folks to act like competent operators of their vehicles?
Do we need a law that you shouldn't drive your car from the back seat? Or wearing stilts? This isn't a legal issue, it's a "don't-be-a-dick" issue.
By "universal law," I meant that it's a custom that's common the world over, whenever roads have marked lanes. A similar example would be that if you are approaching a section of road that's too small for two vehicles and another car is already coming along that stretch, you pull to the side and wait for them to go through. Some states and nations might have an actual law on the books for this, but even if you're in one that doesn't, you should still not do it. Some states don't prohibit driving when too tired, but you shouldn't do that either.
I suppose it's my bad for saying "law" when I meant "convention."
Essentially, highway works out better if there's a gradient in car speed, and that happens when folks move over after passing. I acknowledge that only MOST, but not ALL nations and states have actually spelled out that you should do these things, but non-assholes who are capable drivers will move over whether the law explicitly requires it or not. Just because it make sense.
There are folks that are scared to change lanes, so they just get on the freeway, merge to the leftmost and stay there until they exit. Those people should probably not be driving. To be a bit more charitable, I guess we should say that they should just stay off of freeways.
Some folks might be capable of moving over, but just lane-block to be dicks. Because they want to be vigilante speed limit enforcers or something. If that's the sort of thing that knocks your socks off, go for it I guess, but it won't make me respect you.
TLDR: If at any point you're on a freeway that isn't in a traffic jam, and it's POSSIBLE for someone to be passing you on the right-hand side, you're wrong. From California, to Maine, from Canada to Siberia. Except in commonwealth islands where the exact same story goes but it's the left-hand side. =) You're treating this as a legal issue. While in most places it is, the overarching situation is that this is actually a don't-be-a-dick issue.
HTH.
Heh, my last two companies (~15 person startup and ~200 person tech company) have had something like 2 physical servers between them. Everything else in the cloud. SMB should be in the cloud, because Amazon/Rackspace/etc will be better than any sysadmins that they could otherwise afford. The only orgs that really should be running their own datacenters are the guys that 1) could do better or 2) need to do so for specific privacy/governance/regulatory reasons.
Erm, different states have different language, but it's a universal rule of the road that if you're on a freeway, you move over as far to the right as you can, unless you're passing someone. Likewise, you should always pass on the left, not on the right. It should be pretty obvious why this is the case: slower traffic stays on the right, and faster traffic on the left. If you are on the left and aren't passing anyone, you're messing up the gradiant.
In some states and countries, you'll actually get pulled over for your incorrect lane use. In other states (such as California), the cops will generally let you go unless you're doing something else wrong also.
You explicitly stated that left lanes as passing lanes wasn't convention or law anywhere. You are incorrect on both counts. DK indeed.
On a personal note, assholes who camp the left lane(s) are a huge pet peeve of mine. You guys are basically road blocks. You encourage other drivers to weave and reduce the flow of traffic. Enough of you together and you can create a bottleneck even on a road that would otherwise have bandwidth for far more cars. Pass, then move right, for all of us!
Ride a BIKE
I smoke, drink, and eat some godawful crap, I'm nearly 30 and I still run up and down stairs two at a time like a ten year old. Because rather than all this pretentious exercise, I go out and play in the mud once a week like god intended!
This fitness freak thing is really getting old. People don't avoid the gym because they are lazy, they avoid it because they DONT WANT TO BE LIKE YOU!
You know what's getting just as old as fitness freaks? Smug bike riders! I say that as a guy that bikes to work...
I also play competitive sport, which means I'm interested in things that will help me beat the guy next to me. Taking the stairs two at a time isn't an indication that I'm fit... it's a WARM UP. HIIT is hard. It's uncomfortable. OTOH, it works, and you feel great afterwards. More importantly, when the chips are down and you need to get to a spot before your opponent does, you'll be glad you put the effort in. Letting others in on those facts doesn't make one a douche, it makes one an educator.
Riding a bike is awesome. If you don't care about sport or fitness performance, that's fine. Preferences are preferences. That doesn't mean you have to trash others. Fuck you and your smug holier-than-thou attitude.
lol at "only a six cylinder engine." That produces 400 HP at the crank in the newest C2S. With an engine over the rear wheels for traction. Listen, when Porsche says a car can do 0-60 in 4.6 seconds, they're being *conservative*. With warm tires and a good driver, car magazines have repeatedly *beaten* the factory posted specs. A normally aspirated 911 can definitely pull 4.5-5s 0-60, depending on the particular model, the tires, the weather, etc.
The turbo just takes you from "great" to "insane."
Hold it up and say "remind me to do the laundry when I get home." Maybe you don't care about that, but I find it awesome.
It's almost like people buy Apple because they don't want to have to think .. it's safe.
To the extent that that's true, what if it isn't that they don't want to think, it's that they don't want to think... about bullshit product specs? Android phones advertise like muscle cars. Instead of HP, torque, 1/4 mile and 0-60 you get Ghz, core count, RAM, etc. Not ever car buyer cares about that stuff and that goes for computers too. When my mother is out to get a device, she wants something that will work, that will keep working, that looks nice, and that she can use. Apple's a known quantity there. Android might be or might not, but she'd have to do a ton of research to find out what to get and wouldn't end up with anything that, on her points of interest, was any better.
Imagine a world in which you had something else to do that interested you enough that you couldn't read every post that came out of Engadget. Say you had 2 hours to pick out your next computer or phone instead of an unbounded amount of time actively or passively researching on the internet. You too might go with something "safe."
Of course, there are plenty of folks who do think about computers, do do the research and STILL get Apple gear. I'm one of them, and you just insulted me. That's okay though, I'm used to it.
You'll do well in life to remember that every sentence that begins with "you people." is followed by something stupid.
There's a set of people in the world that thinks Google has a monopoly. You have no evidence that GP is a member of that set. You're just making a sweeping generalization. There's team A that agrees with you and team B that doesn't and you've classified GP as Team B and therefore he holds all the other disagreeable opinions that you've seen. That's faulty reasoning.
Even if it weren't, Google's monopoly is in search and mail. GP already acknowledged that. GPs point was that, apart from search and mail, Google hasn't really had any hits. The claim that search and mail are monopolies doesn't conflict with that. Now, GP might be wrong in that Google does have other hits such as Android, but that's not the argument that you were making.
Yes, pity the poor Designer. In the good old days they'd let you push your Brilliant Designs out on the world whenever you wanted. Now they make you prove it isn't going to screw things up with some A/B testing first. Oh, what a world.
Thanks for making us engineers look friendly there mr doom.
Companies like Apple are quite happy to take advantage of the great conditions here, but give absolutely nothing back. Those conditions won't be around for the next generation as a result.
They give us phones back. And taxes.
If they don't do it voluntarily, slap a 15% tax on overseas production and give that money to the poor and unemployed. It would be more efficient if they did the right thing by choice, but if they don't, we should obtain the effect by force.
Did it ever dawn on you that the "poor and unemployed" are living in China? Or are Chinese, in your worldview, not people too?
What? Apple store will be a reason for their downfall? Apple stores make more money per square foot than basically anything in retail. You'd as soon convince me that slot machine's will be the downfall of Las Vegas.
The iPhone was an innovation. Just because others had made crappy ones first doesn't change that. For so many devices, Apple didn't make the first in the category, they made the first in the category that didn't suck. The "not sucking" part is the product of thousands of tiny innovations, or perhaps more accurately the innovative combination of thousands of little things.
Listen, haters gonna hate, don't let me get in your way. Just don't mistake your hate for, you know, a rational assessment of Apple's strengths or weaknesses.
How is Haiti a capitalist paradise? Paradise for a capitalist is a stable state capable of providing working infrastructure, rule of law and the protection of private property and contracts. Haiti has none of that stuff.
oof... Your first argument would support having the menu bar on every monitor (IMHO a good idea), not at the top of the app (IMHO a terrible idea for the "small target" reasons cited by the grandparent). You can configure global shortcuts if you want - there's a system pref for that. Depending on what you're doing though, a tool like Quicksilver might be more useful, or Automator. The one button mouse thing is a ten-year old argument which was stupid then. Apple correctly realized that the right button was pretty undiscovered by most users, so they required that their UIs be built to not require one. Of course the Windows folk couldn't figure out how to get by without one, so now you can configure Apple mice to sense one button or two. The laptops allow for two-finger click being "right," which is way handier than two button trackpads in Windows land. And I'm a lefty, so it's all backwards for me, you insensitive clod! And that, in just this comment alone, you've wasted more TIME (capital TIME, cuz this is serious business!!!111!!!(one)!1!) than a lifetime of page animations...
Hater's gotta hate, I guess.
As much as I like the eye candy newer GUIs provide, I miss the old days when you had to be smart to use a computer. Sigh...
Unfortunately, computing is going to be like TV - if you want to maximize profit, you cater to the lowest common denominator. Hopefully Linux will continue to be Team Discovery Channel.
Yeah, it sucks whenever the proles get involved, doesn't it? Linux is way too Fisher Price though... I'm still miffed that they gave computers screens. REAL obnoxious, elitist, arrogant internet commentators would never have accepted that waste of processor time. LED's and a switch board should be enough. If you can't figure that out, you shouldn't be allowed to use a computer.
And don't even get me started on cars with air bags or traction control!
oh noes... not CHEMICALS! That sounds pretty evil to me. On the other hand.... [Citation Needed]...
streaming is good FOR THEM. physical media is better FOR ME.
Lol, you wonder what's good for normal people? Having the movie we want in 5 minutes rather than 2 days! Streaming is convenient, so it will win.
As for DRM, what's the difference between streaming and physical media? It's all data. What makes DVD or Blueray easier or harder to hack than a streaming API?
As for quality, I guess that'll come with time, but I think you'd be surprised at how few people care. This is a geek forum, so the "audiophile" dweebs are over-represented based on the rest of the population. Picture a family huddled around a TV that they bought at Wal-Mart with sound coming out of its built-in speakers. The quality of their experience is probably more dependent on the behavior of their children than 1080p + 7.1-ness of their stream.
When did we as consumers decide to forgo quality over convenience?
Um... always? How long has there been McDonald's? Why do we use MP3 and AAC instead lossless formats that are larger and harder to store? It seems like a pretty universal rule that most folks are pretty happy with an 80% solution that's easier or cheaper.
I'm not saying there won't be a place for audio snobs to listen to their 7.1 with their golden cables while they sip from 80 dollar bottles of scotch and chortle at the vulgar taste of the masses. It's just that you'll have to be prepared to be an exception rather than the rule.
Ugh. Sandboxing isn't removing root. That's not what that means and even if it was, Macs use sudo instead of a "normal" root user, and this doesn't remove that. Sandboxing is a good idea - you don't WANT arbitrary programs accessing arbitrary data. Your comment inaccurately describes a problem that is in fact actually a solution to something that you don't understand. Your message was brought to us by the letters F, U and D.
lol, is that really your understanding of sudo? Quite the security expert you are.
Fact is, most people don't need a keyboard 98% of the time, because they aren't entering information, they are consuming it.
Isn't that the problem? These corporation want to turn the internet into just another passive experience, like television or radio. All of the iTards out there are happy to go along with it, because as "creative" as they think they are, they're really just consumers with a credit line. Walled gardens stifle innovation by removing the power to creative from the hands of the individual and placing it solely in the palms of a select few groups. That's bad for everyone, whether they're willing to acknowledge it or not.
You're projecting. YOU think YOU'RE creative, because you found a funny name (iTard) to call folks who have different preferences than you.
The fact is that nearly every movie you've ever seen, your wedding photos (if you were un-iTarded enough to convince a woman to marry you), and a good share of the web applications you use on a daily basis were created by Apple users.
As a computer guy, you can't figure out how someone could create without a keyboard. A quick googling will yield songs, drawings, photo shoots and music videos produced on Android and iOS devices. And you're creative enough to come up with iTard, but not creative enough to have noticed all the iPad cases with built-in bluetooth keyboards. You know, for the only TRUE creatives, the asshat keyboard warriors such as yourself.
If this is a fair example of your product, when it comes to online commentary, my preference would be for you to "consume" more and "create" less. If you know what I mean.
I have no idea why you got modded up so high but the points you make are sure as hell ridiculous. Theres so many uses for PCs, can you do photoshop on an iPhone, No? wonder why.. Can you code on an iPhone? No? wonder why.. The PC isn't going anywhere buddy, these people predicted the death of the TV because people watch moves on their phones, simply NOT true, and retarded at the same time.
Most people don't use their computers for photoshop or coding. They use them for... watching movies. And reading emails. And browsing the net. They sure can do those things on a phone.
There are a lot of computers out there. Almost all of them could be replaced by Android or iOS tablets or phones. Not all, but most.
For the average non-expert user, that replacement would be a net improvement in the user experience.
Finally, you can code and edit photos on an iPhone, heck - an iPad with SSH and a bluetooth keyboard actually isn't even half bad (I use a laptop anyway, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't work). It's a moot point though, because that's not a need that most users have.