Don't forget that you (as far as I know) are buying highly compressed DRMed digital stream with pretty low bitrate.
Note to Apple fanboys: please don't bother with your Jobbs' RDF-induced nonsense about how absolutely fabulous 128kbit AAC is. This is bullshit and we all know it. For your average Britney Spears type cliche pop shit it kinda works, but if you prefer real music you will drown in compression artifacts.
So, the actual question is - why does it cost like a CD, which gives you physical medium, cover art and stuff and a 44.1khz PCM data? iTunes should be way cheaper because you are actually buying a lot less.
For lossless (or at least sufficiently high bitrate, something like 256/320kbps MP3) format, though, I could probably agree with pricing. Does iTunes provide music in such format? If not, iTunes seems like a ridiculously overpriced method of buying albums (not several "hit" songs, but albums for serious listening) of music to me.
Well, it's the same in my book, so I more or less guessed right.;-)
2. That's a bit more extreme than I was trying to communicate.
I know. I commented on grandparent poster's take on my country's internal affairs which usually gets modded up to eleven by same thinking moderators. I read a lot of this post-apocalyptic nonsence here, basically in every thread about Russia, cracks me up every time.
Besides, what other country allows its Presidential candidates to be kidnapped? (Or perhaps allows it's candidates to spin believable stories about kidnapping. You decide.);-)
Heh. And what country allows its military-industrial complex to buy out the president elections and generally pwn the public as it pleases?
I think, it's the same shit everywhere, only the level of general, um, civility differs. We lag for about fifty-sixty years, so our bandits are more rough. Bandits of "first world" countries are more civilized, but the principle stays the same.
Please, don't spoil everything. As a fellow russian, I find this +5 informative posts about white bear mobs walking around here drinking vodka, making botnets from Comcast customers and firing AKA-47's at one another highly amusing.
Anyway, how about making Jul 25 an international anti-spam day? It just writes itself in the calendar, really it does...
I'm sorry for sounding like a jerk in a grandparent post, I've just seen too much horribly misconfigured mail systems, sending shit in HELO and all that. And their beady eyed admins asking me why the fuck is their mail being rejected. Sorry again.
You see, mail systems require a truckload of flexibility because many mail configurations exist and many tasks must be solved. You don't really think that sendmail's flexibility was just a conspiracy of sysadmins to make their job indispensible, right?
Mail in general is not trivial, it's a fact of life, get over it. But it's not really a problem, because any (well, maybe except that twisted thing that is qmail) MTA at this time has very sane and reasonable defaults which require just few tweaks to make it work for typical cases (like local system, network system with direct delivery or smarthost configuration).
If you require advanced functionality - it's there, but you are not required to learn it until you need it. It's not hard. I've seen a 15 year old fucking girl answer three questions of Debian's exim configurator and had her mail working automagically after that. Where is the problem? How easier this can get?
Now, imagine at some point in time you require additional functionality. For example, transport maps, non-trivial delivery agents, content filters to fight spam and viruses, et cetera. It will be right there in your MTA, waiting for you to read relevant page in documentation and enable it. Isn't it nice?
If you had your simple basic non-expandable MTA what would you do? Ditch it and start from scratch with more configurable program? Repeat to fade?
Maybe I didn't understand your original point, I'm not a native speaker, the whole thread was like a month ago, blah blah. But really, the whole thread smells like a non-issue to me.
First, Graffity2 sucks (thank Kodak for this abomination, bleh) but there is hacked Graffity1 for all PalmOS versions (up to and including 5.4.9) if you are willing to fiddle a little bit. Works like a charm on my T5.
Second, I presume that you are an english speaking person. Block recognizer doesn't work at all for my native language (russian) and it hadn't changed at all since PPC2002 up to 2003SE. Well, on my PPC2002 handheld it was also very-very slow, but now WM devices have 600+Mhz processors so it doesn't matter much. I was forced to use keyboard on my Loox718 and, frankly, hated every minute of it.
There are half-assed attempts made by our programmers, but they all cost money and tend to suck ass. I dunno how windows recognizer works for other languages, though.
Last time I played with jails there was no strict resource control and separation, so I don't see this as a commercially viable technology for virtual hosting. Maybe good for service isolation or for friends and such. Anyway, yes, I don't remember previous similar to jail technology, so one cookie for FreeBSD - innovative, OK.
Multi-gigabyte virtual partitions, BTW, may be hosted on COW LVM volumes (under Linux) where only actual differences are stored. Maybe that is innovation of Linux LVM/DM, I didn't play around much with commercial offerings so I can't really compare. I'll withold cookies for the time being.
On Interix and NT: yep, NT was also not very innovative, Cutler just recreated some of his previous work for VMS. But we have changed the subject - anyway, Interix doesn't get any more innovative because of that. They offered more powerful version of already existing (just very basic) POSIX subsystem of NT. No breakthroughs, so no cookies to MS or Interix.
Sibling post have already answered your question on FindFirstChangeNotification() and such, so I'll skip that.
Inotify/dnotify: Filesystem notifications were, for example, in NT for ages, it is OSS playing catchup here.
Xen, etc: Virtualization or paravirtualization is hardly OSS innovation, maybe virtualization on OSS platforms is, e.g. the implementation related ideas, but not the concept. There was virtualization before Xen, you know. Like, for ages.
Interix: You are forgetting, that Interix/OpenNT was also not possible without NT's once beautiful (although, uglified by GDI-related stuff in NT4) kernel design, allowing multiple subsystems. What's easier to write - replacement for NT's standard POSIX subsystem or an operating system for it?
OSX: I really dunno about all that innovation in Darwin, but maybe you are right.
Yeah. I also remember the times, when Microsoft promised to end driver compatibility problems once and for all - WDM should have been compatible from Windows 98 to 2000 and beyond.
And then we usually get separate drivers for 2000, XP (and 2003, if we're lucky), which is basically same OS under different labels. I'm fairly certain that current drivers won't be compatible with Longhorn, just so we would buy new peripherial hardware as well. FUD machine at large, as usual.
Do they plan to integrate their own non-removable instant messenger any time soon?
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Maybe because I'm russian and it was the first hit on Google for me. But I would gladly hear your theory.;-)
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Well, ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.
For example, I actually (please don't stone me) dislike "sleek" hardware design of Apple machines and prefer bare white boxes like IN-WIN's S500T.
They are functional and have solid industrial look of an appliance that gets the job done. They are also pretty well made, so I don't cut my fingers when I build machines. Although, I could agree with you on the pimped out glow-in-the-dark teenage whore cases, they seem pretty much tasteless and fugly to me too.
I dunno about GUI widgets, I'm okay with any widget set just as long as it doesn't jump out from the screen on me - so, for example, Luna is kinda bad, GTK Clearlooks/Industrial or Windows classic look are okay and Aqua is somewhere in between.
What matters more is not the look, but sane UI design guidelines and consistency, which many Windows programs seem to lack (skinned app mania, bleh). It is understandable, though, because (AFAIK) Microsoft itself doesn't seem to have any viable HIG which would be respected at least by Microsoft developers. See Office XP with it's strange out of place menus as an example or WMP which suddenly became skinned. Sometimes I actually miss OS/2 and it's CUA.
Why is the that the same program that receives mail from the outside world is the one that accepts connections from clients. This is silly and contributes to the spam problem.
Maybe that's because mail delivery from MUA and other MTAs are done (sometimes, not always) over one standard protocol - SMTP?
I'm sorry, really, but with this level of understanding you have no business whatsoever in configuring mail servers. Ask your sysadmin to do it for you.
Yeah, but what does your average virgin slashbot really empathises with? Right, that's why she is +4 insightful, and your moderation is 0.:-)
2Grandparent: I've never actually understood these kind of whining "arguments" you showed us.
If you don't like shooters or tactical simulators or whatever - don't play them, it's that simple. Get your latest japanese dating sim (which could be improved with machine learning too, btw) and blow your mind away with all female bondage dominatrix or whatever other sexy scenes you could possibly imagine.
But please, don't dismiss innovation if you don't like the package. It's actually much more degrading than macho oneliners on computer screen.
I have compared 6600GT (asus's TOP modification, that one which is ~10% overclocked) and 6800LE from leadtek just yesterday. I have amd64 3500+, asus A8V (AGP), 1gb ram. Had both cards here and was choosing one which would stay in the end.:-)
Without pipeline unblocking of 6800LE unit and without AA 6600GT was faster - but when I enabled AA, 6600GT promptly crapped out on 4x and lost the lead. Actual performance difference between the cards in the end was small, but 6600GT lost speed on AA like crazy.
After unblocking pipelines (I must admit, I was lucky - only one vertex unit was broken on my chip) 6600GT was totally fucked in the ass by 6800 which was completely expected.
So, without the unblocking trick (which doesn't work on PCI-E, because PCI-E boards have different chip - NV41, not NV40) I would have chosen 6600GT because it's cheaper (at least here in Saint-Petersburg) and performance difference (when using AA, I like AA) is negligible. With the trick the picture is whole lot different, but there is this whole chip lottery thing.
Sorry, no numbers. It's 9 o'clock in the morning and I don't feel like benchmarks. Feel free to question my results.:-)
Nope. Strictly speaking, best bang for the buck (if you're feeling lucky) is 6800LE which pipelines can be software unblocked practically up to 6800GT if you are very lucky and up to vanilla 6800 usually.
Of course, if you are afraid of all this nerdy-hacky shit and don't plan on using anti aliasing and higher levels of anisotropy (128bit memory bus craps out on AA), 6600GT seems like a very nice and reasonably priced card.
Note that I'm only talking about single card systems, not SLI.
You know that you can change fan speed of nvidia cards, right?
Linux and windows drivers from nvidia reduce speed automatically, but if you want better control on linux try nvclock (you'll need CVS version, I think).
I don't hear any more noise from my 6800 geforce than I heard from my previous radeon 9600pro.
First of all, they don't want it to be useful in the long run. They want you to buy new and improved camera next month.
Second of all, several model lines of digital cameras differ highly in features in cost, but all the actual changes are in firmware. So, this would also jeopardize their business model of developing one device and filling all price categories with it.
What time exactly do you "spend" on P2P? You queue the stuff and then wait for an e-mail or other notification that it has been downloaded. It's like 5 minutes to find something on ed2k if it is there.
Or were you speaking about machine time? Who cares about that?
Yeah, everyone and his dog is drooling on desktop machines (like x86 Mac would magically enable OSX to run on their Dell boxes) and forgetting Intel's Xscale processors.
I don't really have a use for a PPC Mac and even less use for a backward incompatible x86 Mac or OSX for that matter, but ARM PDA designed by Apple and designed right could be so sweet.
With current PDA market situation (dominated by Windows Mobile handhelds which are not for everybody and stagnant Palm) they could sell good.
There seems to be a way to make desktop version of Windows 2003 (with some distribution tweaking setup magically starts to look like XP's, but I didn't go much beyond that yet).
Jugding by magical product transformations in NT and 2000 line (lookup information on ProductType and SystemPrefix registry keys) I suppose this can be done.
It's a shame that Microsoft never released desktop counterpart on Windows 2003 codebase, because it performs so much better than stock Windows XP or 2000.
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Meh, substitute iTunes to iTMS in above post. I'm an idiot.
Don't forget that you (as far as I know) are buying highly compressed DRMed digital stream with pretty low bitrate.
Note to Apple fanboys: please don't bother with your Jobbs' RDF-induced nonsense about how absolutely fabulous 128kbit AAC is. This is bullshit and we all know it. For your average Britney Spears type cliche pop shit it kinda works, but if you prefer real music you will drown in compression artifacts.
So, the actual question is - why does it cost like a CD, which gives you physical medium, cover art and stuff and a 44.1khz PCM data? iTunes should be way cheaper because you are actually buying a lot less.
For lossless (or at least sufficiently high bitrate, something like 256/320kbps MP3) format, though, I could probably agree with pricing. Does iTunes provide music in such format? If not, iTunes seems like a ridiculously overpriced method of buying albums (not several "hit" songs, but albums for serious listening) of music to me.
Yep, that's exactly what I was saying. :-)
1. I'm not Russian. My wife is. :-)
Well, it's the same in my book, so I more or less guessed right. ;-)
2. That's a bit more extreme than I was trying to communicate.
I know. I commented on grandparent poster's take on my country's internal affairs which usually gets modded up to eleven by same thinking moderators. I read a lot of this post-apocalyptic nonsence here, basically in every thread about Russia, cracks me up every time.
Besides, what other country allows its Presidential candidates to be kidnapped? (Or perhaps allows it's candidates to spin believable stories about kidnapping. You decide.) ;-)
Heh. And what country allows its military-industrial complex to buy out the president elections and generally pwn the public as it pleases?
I think, it's the same shit everywhere, only the level of general, um, civility differs. We lag for about fifty-sixty years, so our bandits are more rough. Bandits of "first world" countries are more civilized, but the principle stays the same.
Please, don't spoil everything. As a fellow russian, I find this +5 informative posts about white bear mobs walking around here drinking vodka, making botnets from Comcast customers and firing AKA-47's at one another highly amusing.
Anyway, how about making Jul 25 an international anti-spam day? It just writes itself in the calendar, really it does...
I'm sorry for sounding like a jerk in a grandparent post, I've just seen too much horribly misconfigured mail systems, sending shit in HELO and all that. And their beady eyed admins asking me why the fuck is their mail being rejected. Sorry again.
You see, mail systems require a truckload of flexibility because many mail configurations exist and many tasks must be solved. You don't really think that sendmail's flexibility was just a conspiracy of sysadmins to make their job indispensible, right?
Mail in general is not trivial, it's a fact of life, get over it. But it's not really a problem, because any (well, maybe except that twisted thing that is qmail) MTA at this time has very sane and reasonable defaults which require just few tweaks to make it work for typical cases (like local system, network system with direct delivery or smarthost configuration).
If you require advanced functionality - it's there, but you are not required to learn it until you need it. It's not hard. I've seen a 15 year old fucking girl answer three questions of Debian's exim configurator and had her mail working automagically after that. Where is the problem? How easier this can get?
Now, imagine at some point in time you require additional functionality. For example, transport maps, non-trivial delivery agents, content filters to fight spam and viruses, et cetera. It will be right there in your MTA, waiting for you to read relevant page in documentation and enable it. Isn't it nice?
If you had your simple basic non-expandable MTA what would you do? Ditch it and start from scratch with more configurable program? Repeat to fade?
Maybe I didn't understand your original point, I'm not a native speaker, the whole thread was like a month ago, blah blah. But really, the whole thread smells like a non-issue to me.
First, Graffity2 sucks (thank Kodak for this abomination, bleh) but there is hacked Graffity1 for all PalmOS versions (up to and including 5.4.9) if you are willing to fiddle a little bit. Works like a charm on my T5.
Second, I presume that you are an english speaking person. Block recognizer doesn't work at all for my native language (russian) and it hadn't changed at all since PPC2002 up to 2003SE. Well, on my PPC2002 handheld it was also very-very slow, but now WM devices have 600+Mhz processors so it doesn't matter much. I was forced to use keyboard on my Loox718 and, frankly, hated every minute of it.
There are half-assed attempts made by our programmers, but they all cost money and tend to suck ass. I dunno how windows recognizer works for other languages, though.
...you insensitive clod! Try to eat that!
Last time I played with jails there was no strict resource control and separation, so I don't see this as a commercially viable technology for virtual hosting. Maybe good for service isolation or for friends and such. Anyway, yes, I don't remember previous similar to jail technology, so one cookie for FreeBSD - innovative, OK.
Multi-gigabyte virtual partitions, BTW, may be hosted on COW LVM volumes (under Linux) where only actual differences are stored. Maybe that is innovation of Linux LVM/DM, I didn't play around much with commercial offerings so I can't really compare. I'll withold cookies for the time being.
On Interix and NT: yep, NT was also not very innovative, Cutler just recreated some of his previous work for VMS. But we have changed the subject - anyway, Interix doesn't get any more innovative because of that. They offered more powerful version of already existing (just very basic) POSIX subsystem of NT. No breakthroughs, so no cookies to MS or Interix.
Sibling post have already answered your question on FindFirstChangeNotification() and such, so I'll skip that.
Inotify/dnotify: Filesystem notifications were, for example, in NT for ages, it is OSS playing catchup here.
Xen, etc: Virtualization or paravirtualization is hardly OSS innovation, maybe virtualization on OSS platforms is, e.g. the implementation related ideas, but not the concept. There was virtualization before Xen, you know. Like, for ages.
Interix: You are forgetting, that Interix/OpenNT was also not possible without NT's once beautiful (although, uglified by GDI-related stuff in NT4) kernel design, allowing multiple subsystems. What's easier to write - replacement for NT's standard POSIX subsystem or an operating system for it?
OSX: I really dunno about all that innovation in Darwin, but maybe you are right.
I'll add one - Muine music player. Very innovative and easy to use interface, not just blind iTunes copy like *cough* Rhythmbox.
Yeah. I also remember the times, when Microsoft promised to end driver compatibility problems once and for all - WDM should have been compatible from Windows 98 to 2000 and beyond.
And then we usually get separate drivers for 2000, XP (and 2003, if we're lucky), which is basically same OS under different labels. I'm fairly certain that current drivers won't be compatible with Longhorn, just so we would buy new peripherial hardware as well. FUD machine at large, as usual.
Do they plan to integrate their own non-removable instant messenger any time soon?
Maybe because I'm russian and it was the first hit on Google for me. But I would gladly hear your theory. ;-)
Well, ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.
For example, I actually (please don't stone me) dislike "sleek" hardware design of Apple machines and prefer bare white boxes like IN-WIN's S500T.
They are functional and have solid industrial look of an appliance that gets the job done. They are also pretty well made, so I don't cut my fingers when I build machines. Although, I could agree with you on the pimped out glow-in-the-dark teenage whore cases, they seem pretty much tasteless and fugly to me too.
I dunno about GUI widgets, I'm okay with any widget set just as long as it doesn't jump out from the screen on me - so, for example, Luna is kinda bad, GTK Clearlooks/Industrial or Windows classic look are okay and Aqua is somewhere in between.
What matters more is not the look, but sane UI design guidelines and consistency, which many Windows programs seem to lack (skinned app mania, bleh). It is understandable, though, because (AFAIK) Microsoft itself doesn't seem to have any viable HIG which would be respected at least by Microsoft developers. See Office XP with it's strange out of place menus as an example or WMP which suddenly became skinned. Sometimes I actually miss OS/2 and it's CUA.
Why is the that the same program that receives mail from the outside world is the one that accepts connections from clients. This is silly and contributes to the spam problem.
Maybe that's because mail delivery from MUA and other MTAs are done (sometimes, not always) over one standard protocol - SMTP?
I'm sorry, really, but with this level of understanding you have no business whatsoever in configuring mail servers. Ask your sysadmin to do it for you.
99 year old boobies? Thanks, man. Now I have to kick my head repeatedly at the desk to erase this image from my mind.
Yeah, but what does your average virgin slashbot really empathises with? Right, that's why she is +4 insightful, and your moderation is 0. :-)
2Grandparent: I've never actually understood these kind of whining "arguments" you showed us.
If you don't like shooters or tactical simulators or whatever - don't play them, it's that simple. Get your latest japanese dating sim (which could be improved with machine learning too, btw) and blow your mind away with all female bondage dominatrix or whatever other sexy scenes you could possibly imagine.
But please, don't dismiss innovation if you don't like the package. It's actually much more degrading than macho oneliners on computer screen.
I have compared 6600GT (asus's TOP modification, that one which is ~10% overclocked) and 6800LE from leadtek just yesterday. I have amd64 3500+, asus A8V (AGP), 1gb ram. Had both cards here and was choosing one which would stay in the end. :-)
Without pipeline unblocking of 6800LE unit and without AA 6600GT was faster - but when I enabled AA, 6600GT promptly crapped out on 4x and lost the lead. Actual performance difference between the cards in the end was small, but 6600GT lost speed on AA like crazy.
After unblocking pipelines (I must admit, I was lucky - only one vertex unit was broken on my chip) 6600GT was totally fucked in the ass by 6800 which was completely expected.
So, without the unblocking trick (which doesn't work on PCI-E, because PCI-E boards have different chip - NV41, not NV40) I would have chosen 6600GT because it's cheaper (at least here in Saint-Petersburg) and performance difference (when using AA, I like AA) is negligible. With the trick the picture is whole lot different, but there is this whole chip lottery thing.
Sorry, no numbers. It's 9 o'clock in the morning and I don't feel like benchmarks. Feel free to question my results. :-)
Nope. Strictly speaking, best bang for the buck (if you're feeling lucky) is 6800LE which pipelines can be software unblocked practically up to 6800GT if you are very lucky and up to vanilla 6800 usually.
Of course, if you are afraid of all this nerdy-hacky shit and don't plan on using anti aliasing and higher levels of anisotropy (128bit memory bus craps out on AA), 6600GT seems like a very nice and reasonably priced card.
Note that I'm only talking about single card systems, not SLI.
You know that you can change fan speed of nvidia cards, right?
Linux and windows drivers from nvidia reduce speed automatically, but if you want better control on linux try nvclock (you'll need CVS version, I think).
I don't hear any more noise from my 6800 geforce than I heard from my previous radeon 9600pro.
First of all, they don't want it to be useful in the long run. They want you to buy new and improved camera next month.
Second of all, several model lines of digital cameras differ highly in features in cost, but all the actual changes are in firmware. So, this would also jeopardize their business model of developing one device and filling all price categories with it.
Summary: this won't fly.
What time exactly do you "spend" on P2P? You queue the stuff and then wait for an e-mail or other notification that it has been downloaded. It's like 5 minutes to find something on ed2k if it is there.
Or were you speaking about machine time? Who cares about that?
Yeah, everyone and his dog is drooling on desktop machines (like x86 Mac would magically enable OSX to run on their Dell boxes) and forgetting Intel's Xscale processors.
I don't really have a use for a PPC Mac and even less use for a backward incompatible x86 Mac or OSX for that matter, but ARM PDA designed by Apple and designed right could be so sweet.
With current PDA market situation (dominated by Windows Mobile handhelds which are not for everybody and stagnant Palm) they could sell good.
If only Jobbs could overcome his NIH syndrome...
There seems to be a way to make desktop version of Windows 2003 (with some distribution tweaking setup magically starts to look like XP's, but I didn't go much beyond that yet).
Jugding by magical product transformations in NT and 2000 line (lookup information on ProductType and SystemPrefix registry keys) I suppose this can be done.
It's a shame that Microsoft never released desktop counterpart on Windows 2003 codebase, because it performs so much better than stock Windows XP or 2000.