Um, if you read TFA, you might have noticed that this is recommendations for people who are clueless about a computer. Yes, you can run a reasonably safe Windows PC. The issue is not whether or not it's possible to do so, the issue is whether it's better to leave such a setup in the hands of the non-savvy, or just get them a Mac.
Um... iTunes does realize this. As an indie fan, who typically listens to most of the bands he likes more than anyone else on Audioscrobbler (not because I listen a lot, but because few others listen to them at all) I can say, honestly, that I find about half of the albums I want on iTunes music store. They could use more selection, always, but I'd say they're doing rather well getting ahold of less-popular music.
So 'censorship' is a buzz-word now too, is it? Though I am typically opposed to it, I know that not all censorship is equal. For example, you might consider a movie theater near me to be censoring content, because they don't buy Paramount movies in objection to the way Paramount treats smaller operations. By your logic, they should be paying the premium Paramount wants to charge so that they won't be 'censoring' it. I don't see a huge difference here. Wiley did something Apple found objectionable, so Apple stopped carrying their products. This sort of thing happens all the time in the business world, and it's not a particularly unsavory practice. Though it may not be best for the shareholders, Apple is both in its legal and moral rights in its action.
It's morally neutral to publish an unauthorized biography if the person or their estate do not object. However, if there are objections from the person or their estate (more so the person than the estate) then it is indeed morally wrong to publish it, unless it reveals important information that the public needs to know. I'm not saying it should be illegal (though immoral, I do consider it protected speech unless it's libelous) I am merely saying that it is not moral. Ergo, the reaction is not surprising, nor is it unwarranted.
Stop it. Seriously. Stop with the "it's bad, but it's Apple, so everyone thinks it's okay" BS. It was old years ago, and is even older today. To reiterate, to those who keep bringing this up:
No.
Again: no.
Contrary to what some people seem to believe, your average high-karma Slashdot poster is not an idiot. Frankly, this is getting downright irritating. Bad things involving Apple keep occurring, so you people have to come out of the woodworks and say that people are only supporting Apple because they're Apple, when really, the vast majority of these 'Apple supporters' are just looking at the situation with circumspection. Got that? Just in case that was unclear, that means they're reading TFA, thinking about it, considering the situation and its angles, then replying, rather than giving a knee-jerk reaction like the 'If it were Microsoft...' people. It typically has nothing to do with the fact that it's Apple--we're dead serious when we say we'd support Microsoft/Gates if it were them instead of Apple/Jobs--and everything to do with the facts surrounding the situation.
Fact: Wiley was asked not to publish the book.
Fact: The biography was unauthorized, which is legal, but not really that morally okay, especially when the biography is about someone who's still alive.
Fact: Jobs could not have made Apple stop selling Wiley's products without support from a majority of the Board.
Fact: Apple is not preventing the publishing of the book, they are expressing objection to it by not selling the publisher's materials in their stores.
Fact: A corporation has the right to choose what it wants to sell, and whom to obtain their products from.
Fact: Again, you can walk into Borders or Barnes and Noble or whatever, or search Amazon.com, and still get Wiley's books, including the unauthorized biography of Jobs.
Was it perhaps rash of Apple to do this? Yeah, I think so. Was it a horrible, evil thing for Apple to do? Not really, no. I can understand Jobs and Apple's unhappiness with an unauthorized biography about Jobs. I'd not like someone writing about me and including intimate details without my permission, regardless of what kind of light I'd be put in. I couldn't stop them from doing it, but would it really be wrong of me to object to my fullest ability?
Train Wreck nothing. If we are going to refer to unreleased software as a trainwreck, then what the hell are we going to call Windows ME?
A train that caught fire during construction, melted, and set the surrounding city ablaze?
Where have you been? Actual parenting is not in vogue! These days, parents have more important things to do than actually raise their kids, like driving their SUVs to Starbucks and talking on their cellphone-of-the-week, so as to assure everyone at Starbucks that They Are Trendy, thus giving their lives meaning.
Um... the menu bar is one of the best things about Mac OS (and OS X). It's quite easy to move the mouse vertically when needed (the key-command system is intuitive, and makes it so one rarely needs to use the menu bar anyhow) and having the menu items always in the same place makes quite a lot of sense, as one quickly gets used to the needed mouse-movements to use it, and one needn't worry about missing when trying to click menu items. This is coming from someone who used Windows for years, and who also uses X11 reasonably often. I'm quite familiar with menus-in-windows UIs, and they just don't come close to the menus-at-the-top UI of Mac OS/OS X.
Indeed. I've a low innate metabolic rate, but I've been in far better shape than most thin people, yet I was still overweight. Being overweight (unless it gets to the point where it causes significant strain) is not really unhealthy. The truth is, poor diet and exercise tend to cause fatness and health problems. The fatness itself, however, does not cause health problems. Eating healthy foods and getting lots of exercise, one can still be overweight and healthy.
No. I have an iPod, and it plays DRM-free MP3s just fine, thanks. Admittedly, Ogg Vorbis support would be nice, but I still don't have to use iTunes. As for music stores, if Apple doesn't want to support WMA and MS's DRM, that's their decision, and if you want a player that will play those files, by all means, get one. No one is forcing you to use iTunes or get an iPod, and this isn't a Microsoft Windows sort of case--you can still get pretty much any music that would be available on pieces of circular plastic that are compatible with a whole lot of things.
Technically, it started with Netscape, then moved on to Mozilla. At the end of 2001, some Mac OS X developers came along and decided to create a stand-alone browser for OS X based on Mozilla, without the extras like the HTML editor, IRC client, email client, etc. This browser was first released as Chimera in the beginning of 2002. Chimera steadily got more and more popular under OS X, and ended up being _the_ browser for OS X users until Apple finally released Safari. After the success of Chimera in its first few months, Phoenix was conceived as, effectively, an attempt to combine the simplicity of Chimera with the cross-platform capability and UI of the main Mozilla browser. In other words, Phoenix didn't just pop up out of the blue, it had an inspiration that (sadly) most people seem to have forgotten.
Yes, I am using what Chimera became (Camino), and yes, perhaps I am a bit of a fanboy of it. It's an extremely solid browser, and despite its popularity waning due to Safari, it's still being developed, and I'm happy with its progress.
This news bugs me, as an AIM user. I've been using Jabber since I found it about a year ago, and I've loved it, I just haven't loved the fact that so few of my friends use it. Considering this, though, I forsee a potential mass-migration to Jabber. It would be the sensible thing to do, though from my experience, it probably won't be what people do.:/
...I, as someone who absolutely despises Microsoft Corp., would completely support them on this issue. Please stop whining about how people are supporting this because it's Apple. We're not, we're supporting it because we actually paid attention to what's going on here.
Journalistic sources are _only_ protected if they're blowing the whistle on wrongful things of public interest. In other words, if a plastics company is secretly dumping toxic waste in the Mississippi River, and an employee leaks this information to the press, they're protected. However, this is a case of someone releasing trade secrets to the public--including Apple's competitors--before the information was ready to be released.
Um... this isn't about whistleblowers. Leaking what the next Big Thing from Apple will be isn't whistleblowing, it's just violation of NDA, and leaking of trade secrets.
Now, if Apple were to, say, use Mexican immigrants for slave labor to assemble their machines, or a high-up was embezzling funds, and an employee leaked that information, that would be whistle-blowing, as it would be a wrongdoing that the public should know about.
As a leftie, I can state with full confidence that using my right hand to operate a mouse is not at all difficult, and I feel sorry for right-handers, as using my favored hand for more imporntant things seems more natural.
The formatting issues are the fault of Windows. A text document created on a mac will look fine on pretty much any OS... except Windows, while text document created on Windows may look like shit on OS X... and every other operating system that isn't Windows.
And one really shouldn't send documents cut and pasted into emails, because you will run into formatting issues depending on what mail client you use, and what you use to send the mail, and so on. Attach it as a.rtf or.doc file, and it'll work fine on OS X and Windows.
Er... decoding WMA is well and good, but any online music store that uses WMA is most likely also using Microsoft's DRM, which I'm pretty sure the shuffle _can't_ deal with.
Uh... I take it you didn't notice the little checkboxes next to the updates? And how you can highlight an update, select one of the menu options (forgot which) and disable the update of that piece of software?
I hadn't even thought of that, but yes, we would likely screw something up with too many of them, as we would be leeching energy from one of the most important systems in the atmosphere. There's a lot of energy up there, but removing even small amounts might have pretty adverse effects.
2)Fileplanet World of Warcraft final stress test fiasco.
Fileplanet offered a subscription-only WoW final stress test download that was by no means wait-free, as many users had to wait an excess of 24 hours to be able to download, and once they were able to download, it was a ripping-fast average rate of 3k/s.
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Um, if you read TFA, you might have noticed that this is recommendations for people who are clueless about a computer. Yes, you can run a reasonably safe Windows PC. The issue is not whether or not it's possible to do so, the issue is whether it's better to leave such a setup in the hands of the non-savvy, or just get them a Mac.
I hadn't seen it. It... made me cry. I've gone from 'moderately interested' to 'I MUST HAVE THIS GAME.'
The difference is (hopefully) they won't face a lawsuit for using the name "Bonjour."
Um... iTunes does realize this. As an indie fan, who typically listens to most of the bands he likes more than anyone else on Audioscrobbler (not because I listen a lot, but because few others listen to them at all) I can say, honestly, that I find about half of the albums I want on iTunes music store. They could use more selection, always, but I'd say they're doing rather well getting ahold of less-popular music.
So 'censorship' is a buzz-word now too, is it? Though I am typically opposed to it, I know that not all censorship is equal. For example, you might consider a movie theater near me to be censoring content, because they don't buy Paramount movies in objection to the way Paramount treats smaller operations. By your logic, they should be paying the premium Paramount wants to charge so that they won't be 'censoring' it. I don't see a huge difference here. Wiley did something Apple found objectionable, so Apple stopped carrying their products. This sort of thing happens all the time in the business world, and it's not a particularly unsavory practice. Though it may not be best for the shareholders, Apple is both in its legal and moral rights in its action.
It's morally neutral to publish an unauthorized biography if the person or their estate do not object. However, if there are objections from the person or their estate (more so the person than the estate) then it is indeed morally wrong to publish it, unless it reveals important information that the public needs to know. I'm not saying it should be illegal (though immoral, I do consider it protected speech unless it's libelous) I am merely saying that it is not moral. Ergo, the reaction is not surprising, nor is it unwarranted.
Stop it. Seriously. Stop with the "it's bad, but it's Apple, so everyone thinks it's okay" BS. It was old years ago, and is even older today. To reiterate, to those who keep bringing this up:
No.
Again: no.
Contrary to what some people seem to believe, your average high-karma Slashdot poster is not an idiot. Frankly, this is getting downright irritating. Bad things involving Apple keep occurring, so you people have to come out of the woodworks and say that people are only supporting Apple because they're Apple, when really, the vast majority of these 'Apple supporters' are just looking at the situation with circumspection. Got that? Just in case that was unclear, that means they're reading TFA, thinking about it, considering the situation and its angles, then replying, rather than giving a knee-jerk reaction like the 'If it were Microsoft...' people. It typically has nothing to do with the fact that it's Apple--we're dead serious when we say we'd support Microsoft/Gates if it were them instead of Apple/Jobs--and everything to do with the facts surrounding the situation.
Fact: Wiley was asked not to publish the book.
Fact: The biography was unauthorized, which is legal, but not really that morally okay, especially when the biography is about someone who's still alive.
Fact: Jobs could not have made Apple stop selling Wiley's products without support from a majority of the Board.
Fact: Apple is not preventing the publishing of the book, they are expressing objection to it by not selling the publisher's materials in their stores.
Fact: A corporation has the right to choose what it wants to sell, and whom to obtain their products from.
Fact: Again, you can walk into Borders or Barnes and Noble or whatever, or search Amazon.com, and still get Wiley's books, including the unauthorized biography of Jobs.
Was it perhaps rash of Apple to do this? Yeah, I think so. Was it a horrible, evil thing for Apple to do? Not really, no. I can understand Jobs and Apple's unhappiness with an unauthorized biography about Jobs. I'd not like someone writing about me and including intimate details without my permission, regardless of what kind of light I'd be put in. I couldn't stop them from doing it, but would it really be wrong of me to object to my fullest ability?
Train Wreck nothing. If we are going to refer to unreleased software as a trainwreck, then what the hell are we going to call Windows ME? A train that caught fire during construction, melted, and set the surrounding city ablaze?
Where have you been? Actual parenting is not in vogue! These days, parents have more important things to do than actually raise their kids, like driving their SUVs to Starbucks and talking on their cellphone-of-the-week, so as to assure everyone at Starbucks that They Are Trendy, thus giving their lives meaning.
Um... the menu bar is one of the best things about Mac OS (and OS X). It's quite easy to move the mouse vertically when needed (the key-command system is intuitive, and makes it so one rarely needs to use the menu bar anyhow) and having the menu items always in the same place makes quite a lot of sense, as one quickly gets used to the needed mouse-movements to use it, and one needn't worry about missing when trying to click menu items. This is coming from someone who used Windows for years, and who also uses X11 reasonably often. I'm quite familiar with menus-in-windows UIs, and they just don't come close to the menus-at-the-top UI of Mac OS/OS X.
Indeed. I've a low innate metabolic rate, but I've been in far better shape than most thin people, yet I was still overweight. Being overweight (unless it gets to the point where it causes significant strain) is not really unhealthy. The truth is, poor diet and exercise tend to cause fatness and health problems. The fatness itself, however, does not cause health problems. Eating healthy foods and getting lots of exercise, one can still be overweight and healthy.
No. I have an iPod, and it plays DRM-free MP3s just fine, thanks. Admittedly, Ogg Vorbis support would be nice, but I still don't have to use iTunes. As for music stores, if Apple doesn't want to support WMA and MS's DRM, that's their decision, and if you want a player that will play those files, by all means, get one. No one is forcing you to use iTunes or get an iPod, and this isn't a Microsoft Windows sort of case--you can still get pretty much any music that would be available on pieces of circular plastic that are compatible with a whole lot of things.
Technically, it started with Netscape, then moved on to Mozilla. At the end of 2001, some Mac OS X developers came along and decided to create a stand-alone browser for OS X based on Mozilla, without the extras like the HTML editor, IRC client, email client, etc. This browser was first released as Chimera in the beginning of 2002. Chimera steadily got more and more popular under OS X, and ended up being _the_ browser for OS X users until Apple finally released Safari. After the success of Chimera in its first few months, Phoenix was conceived as, effectively, an attempt to combine the simplicity of Chimera with the cross-platform capability and UI of the main Mozilla browser. In other words, Phoenix didn't just pop up out of the blue, it had an inspiration that (sadly) most people seem to have forgotten.
Yes, I am using what Chimera became (Camino), and yes, perhaps I am a bit of a fanboy of it. It's an extremely solid browser, and despite its popularity waning due to Safari, it's still being developed, and I'm happy with its progress.
"Google Surrenders to France"?
Link to Jabber.org just in case folks need it.
:/
This news bugs me, as an AIM user. I've been using Jabber since I found it about a year ago, and I've loved it, I just haven't loved the fact that so few of my friends use it. Considering this, though, I forsee a potential mass-migration to Jabber. It would be the sensible thing to do, though from my experience, it probably won't be what people do.
...I, as someone who absolutely despises Microsoft Corp., would completely support them on this issue. Please stop whining about how people are supporting this because it's Apple. We're not, we're supporting it because we actually paid attention to what's going on here.
Journalistic sources are _only_ protected if they're blowing the whistle on wrongful things of public interest. In other words, if a plastics company is secretly dumping toxic waste in the Mississippi River, and an employee leaks this information to the press, they're protected. However, this is a case of someone releasing trade secrets to the public--including Apple's competitors--before the information was ready to be released.
Um... this isn't about whistleblowers. Leaking what the next Big Thing from Apple will be isn't whistleblowing, it's just violation of NDA, and leaking of trade secrets.
Now, if Apple were to, say, use Mexican immigrants for slave labor to assemble their machines, or a high-up was embezzling funds, and an employee leaked that information, that would be whistle-blowing, as it would be a wrongdoing that the public should know about.
As a leftie, I can state with full confidence that using my right hand to operate a mouse is not at all difficult, and I feel sorry for right-handers, as using my favored hand for more imporntant things seems more natural.
The formatting issues are the fault of Windows. A text document created on a mac will look fine on pretty much any OS... except Windows, while text document created on Windows may look like shit on OS X... and every other operating system that isn't Windows. And one really shouldn't send documents cut and pasted into emails, because you will run into formatting issues depending on what mail client you use, and what you use to send the mail, and so on. Attach it as a .rtf or .doc file, and it'll work fine on OS X and Windows.
Er... decoding WMA is well and good, but any online music store that uses WMA is most likely also using Microsoft's DRM, which I'm pretty sure the shuffle _can't_ deal with.
You mean like Firefox.exe?
Perl coders have bigger e-penises. Duh. :P
Uh... I take it you didn't notice the little checkboxes next to the updates? And how you can highlight an update, select one of the menu options (forgot which) and disable the update of that piece of software?
I hadn't even thought of that, but yes, we would likely screw something up with too many of them, as we would be leeching energy from one of the most important systems in the atmosphere. There's a lot of energy up there, but removing even small amounts might have pretty adverse effects.
2)Fileplanet World of Warcraft final stress test fiasco.
Fileplanet offered a subscription-only WoW final stress test download that was by no means wait-free, as many users had to wait an excess of 24 hours to be able to download, and once they were able to download, it was a ripping-fast average rate of 3k/s.
1)Gamespy/Fileplanet still exists.