You and people like you already know these things, as does everyone else! I picked your post randomly from the slew of identical rants about how $x.xx can buy you such and such a pile of components at newegg.com.
If you have a bone to pick with Apple, write them an email. We don't care! And no, Slashdot is not a self-congratulatory Mac lover's circle jerk -- its a whiney bitchfest because of posts like yours. Thanks!
No, the pile of pieces can be assembled in under a few hours BY THE SMALL MINORITY OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE INTEREST IN AND SKILL TO DO SO. How much would you charge someone who you don't know to put that system together and support it for a year? Why is that cost not in your list?
What is the point of your post? If having a commodity-parts Windows or Linux box is so awesome, then go do that and shut the hell up. Everyone and their damn grandma knows that you can have a computer made of commodity parts. You are not breaking news to anyone, you're just being an annoying douche.
Yes, I know picturing me as a Steve Jobs worshiper with blinders on helps you feel superior. I don't give a DAMN what you think, I'm just sick of these dumb posts littering EVERY SINGLE story that mentions Apple. Get over it already. Apple's business model is clearly not changing.
What is it with the anti-Apple trolls on this site comparing a pile of pieces to an assembled, supported, turnkey system? Even for those of us who can deal with cobbling these pieces together and managing the support for them, it is not an equivalent comparison. Apple is not selling a pile of separate pieces, why is that so hard to understand?
Mod me flamebait all you want, the Drupal-vs-Joomla "there can be only one" pissing contest is for babies. If you can't see that these two packages target completely different sets of needs, and that they are co-existing just fine, pull your head out.
1. Download all the data previously hosted by journalspace.com from the Google cache.
2. Wait for the Google cache to expire.
3. ???
4. Profit!
The question being, does #3 begin with grabbing a % of journalspace.com's previous users, or selling the data back to journalspace.com? There's also the little problem of getting their user account data back. Hmm...the idiocy of this situation boggles the mind.
Lots and lots of users, I daresay well over a majority, think the ribbon is a big ugly waste of space and even less intuitive than the old menus. Get over it. Looking at Windows 7, it's clearly falling on deaf ears in Redmond, so those of you that think the ribbon is so awesome should be happy. Soon you will be living in Ribbonia.
If they had done that without obscuring an equal amount of useful features that were previously perfectly accessible, like oh say Print, then maybe it would have been worth it. I'm glad you like it, but roughly 100% of users I've talked to find the new design utterly infuriating. And it's not just a matter of getting used to it, I'd say.
The talent MS has for causing human suffering through user interface is truly breathtaking. Then again, these are the cursed ones who gave birth to the demon clippy, so who's surprised?
I think PostgreSQL has suffered because people don't know how the hell to pronounce the damn name. You can't recommend or adopt a piece of software if you are too embarrassed to say its name.
Of course, the other side of that coin is Drizzle. Easy to pronounce, but WTF?
Just to add to the fire, MacFuse and ext2/3 can't mount read/write, at least not on 10.4 or 10.5. Ntfs-3g seems to work okay. And there's no autorun in OS X.
Cross-platform filesysteming is not in good shape.
Uh...isn't the point that you can run any OS you want on Mac hardware? Isn't that what makes them good development machines? If the paging system or AFS is torture, just boot frickin Windows.
These flamebait articles are so tiring.
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You and people like you already know these things, as does everyone else! I picked your post randomly from the slew of identical rants about how $x.xx can buy you such and such a pile of components at newegg.com.
If you have a bone to pick with Apple, write them an email. We don't care! And no, Slashdot is not a self-congratulatory Mac lover's circle jerk -- its a whiney bitchfest because of posts like yours. Thanks!
No, the pile of pieces can be assembled in under a few hours BY THE SMALL MINORITY OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE INTEREST IN AND SKILL TO DO SO. How much would you charge someone who you don't know to put that system together and support it for a year? Why is that cost not in your list?
What is the point of your post? If having a commodity-parts Windows or Linux box is so awesome, then go do that and shut the hell up. Everyone and their damn grandma knows that you can have a computer made of commodity parts. You are not breaking news to anyone, you're just being an annoying douche.
Yes, I know picturing me as a Steve Jobs worshiper with blinders on helps you feel superior. I don't give a DAMN what you think, I'm just sick of these dumb posts littering EVERY SINGLE story that mentions Apple. Get over it already. Apple's business model is clearly not changing.
What is it with the anti-Apple trolls on this site comparing a pile of pieces to an assembled, supported, turnkey system? Even for those of us who can deal with cobbling these pieces together and managing the support for them, it is not an equivalent comparison. Apple is not selling a pile of separate pieces, why is that so hard to understand?
This is a whole new beast -- a dupe that refers to the dupage within the dupe! A recursive dupe.
Gnarly.
Mod me flamebait all you want, the Drupal-vs-Joomla "there can be only one" pissing contest is for babies. If you can't see that these two packages target completely different sets of needs, and that they are co-existing just fine, pull your head out.
cue the joomla-sucks-drupal-rocks trolls in 3...2...1...
Absolutely true. I personally know a restaurant owner in San Francisco that complains about these suggestive calls.
Yelp = crap.
Children are starving in Japan? I don't get it.
m/(ba|c|tc|k)?sh/
Except various stuff contained in a website -- i.e. content.
Dude, working at Blockbuster doesn't count.
Nonsense. It's like mixing up "to" and "from". It's not unclear at all, and we don't need new terms.
Dear lord, must we really suffer summaries on /. that confuse the difference between uploading and downloading??
Something tells me they nuked the drives. Just a hunch.
Well, here's a business plan:
1. Download all the data previously hosted by journalspace.com from the Google cache.
2. Wait for the Google cache to expire.
3. ???
4. Profit!
The question being, does #3 begin with grabbing a % of journalspace.com's previous users, or selling the data back to journalspace.com? There's also the little problem of getting their user account data back. Hmm...the idiocy of this situation boggles the mind.
Lots and lots of users, I daresay well over a majority, think the ribbon is a big ugly waste of space and even less intuitive than the old menus. Get over it. Looking at Windows 7, it's clearly falling on deaf ears in Redmond, so those of you that think the ribbon is so awesome should be happy. Soon you will be living in Ribbonia.
You're obviously not answering the IT phone for a building full of users that have to use Office 2007. I'm happy for you.
Yeah, that's perfectly obvious, a big glowing yellow MS logo orb for print. Nobody could figure that old File menu out.
If they had done that without obscuring an equal amount of useful features that were previously perfectly accessible, like oh say Print, then maybe it would have been worth it. I'm glad you like it, but roughly 100% of users I've talked to find the new design utterly infuriating. And it's not just a matter of getting used to it, I'd say.
The talent MS has for causing human suffering through user interface is truly breathtaking. Then again, these are the cursed ones who gave birth to the demon clippy, so who's surprised?
I think PostgreSQL has suffered because people don't know how the hell to pronounce the damn name. You can't recommend or adopt a piece of software if you are too embarrassed to say its name.
Of course, the other side of that coin is Drizzle. Easy to pronounce, but WTF?
Just to add to the fire, MacFuse and ext2/3 can't mount read/write, at least not on 10.4 or 10.5. Ntfs-3g seems to work okay. And there's no autorun in OS X.
Cross-platform filesysteming is not in good shape.
Uh...isn't the point that you can run any OS you want on Mac hardware? Isn't that what makes them good development machines? If the paging system or AFS is torture, just boot frickin Windows. These flamebait articles are so tiring.
BS, he's black. We're all interracial.
Isn't that the "Profit!"?
Where's the "???"