"Gaah. I don't tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own 'insightful' comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not."
Yeah, Linus has an account. So do a lot of other people who now despise this place.
AAC isn't Apple's format. AAC is MPEG-4 audio (aka MP4) and will be used on next-gen formats like Blu-ray for film audio. What is proprietary is Apple's Fairplay DRM scheme that sits on top of AAC.
Great, have fun not having the advantage of auto-filling the music player with specially designed playlists. I can fill my iPod with highest-rated songs, or songs of a certain decade, etc. You're missing the whole point of a metadata-based jukebox application.
It feels weird to me that you feel "limited" by iTunes. I would feel limited having to use the FInder to manually drag-and-drop files to the iPod. I like that iTunes auto-syncs my songs whenever I plug the player in whenever I add new music to iTunes. If I set a rating on my iPod, it will appear in iTunes next time I sync, my playcounts will update, etc. You won't be able to do that in Konquerer or Explorer.
iPods have had recording features for years now. Apple has been adding more functionality to the iPod, but in a subtle and sometimes invisible way. Adding video or a color screen (album artwork, hello) to a portable digital media player is hardly adding the "kitchen sink." A kitchen sink feature is something silly and unrelated, like adding cell phone functionality.
Wow...the comments on Slashdot are widely regarded as the most uninformed tech opinion on the internet. Even Linus Torvalds hates this place! He calls it a "big public wanking session." If you're not even coming here for the news ("News for Nerds?"), that means you're just coming for the broken mod system and the karma whoring?
I can't tell you how many times I've seen +5 comments that were flat-out, 100% wrong about something. But the mods liked what they saw and modded it up. If you try to correct that person, nobody reads you because you've missed that initial reader wave, and you're buried too deeply in the thread tree. So this uninformed (but popular) opinion spreads and spreads, so that you have a culture of misinformation. For instance, witness all the BSOD and Clippy jokes still making the rounds, when BSODs became rare five years ago, and Clippy hasn't been in a default install of Office since Office XP.
Digg will have Slashdot's voluminous amount of comments when it surpasses Slashdot's traffic. I didn't make that part up--traffic stats really do show Digg overtaking Slashdot. A new version of Digg is also under wraps and will be unveiled. Unlike Slashdot, where major updates include new banner ads and a CSS system (instead of actually fixing what's fundamentally broken on the site, such as the mod system or the endless dupe stories), Digg actually keeps itself updated.
I really do not see how having Dell or HP sell computers running OSX will degrade the quality of the OS, but that is just me.
1.) Dell and Gateway sell el cheapo parts that break down in six months so you can come running back to them.
2.) Apple uses their control over hardware to push new initiatives that Dell and others wouldn't touch. For instance, moving to all USB in the original iMac, or including Firewire ports in everything.
How is it news? Vista is only Microsoft's big company gamble in attempting to maintain relevance and revenue after six years of stagnant Windows XP. Along with the hardware upgrade cycle they missed this year, things are looking dour for MSFT.
See Digg.com--where Slashdot gets all its news now. It's like traveling into the future to see Slashdot's stories days from now! But with WAY more each hour, and you vote on what gets posted. According to Alexa.com, Digg will be overtaking Slashdot's traffic within the month.
This place is dead. Corporate-owned, jammed with banner ads, and run by incompetent editors who don't give a CRAP about your input and are two busy posting whiney editorials about getting their nickname taken away in World of Warcraft and expecting preferential treatment because he's CmdrTaco of Slashdot, darnit. Ha, yeah, subscribers know what I'm talking about--try emailing them about a dupe sometime before it hits the front page.
It's time to move on to bigger and better things. Digg looks like it.
"10 percent of computer users are Mac users, but remember, we are the top 10 percent." - Douglas Adams
Although, I believe what the poster was saying that he doesn't want OS X running on cheap computers for anyone to use it, because that would degrade the quality of the operating system and the user experience. Hello, Windows.
Mac and OS X will always be intertwined. That's how Apple does things.
Have fun with your short battery life, lack of games, lack of space, and loss of over $250.:)
PSP sucks, but what sucks worse are its fanboys, who try DESPERATELY to justify their purchase of that dwindling piece of crap (DS has outsold it big time).
Intel got over a decade of marketing mileage out of judging processors by clock speed, to the point that it backed them into a corner when AMD's 2Ghz Athlon chips were beating the poorly designed 3Ghz P4s. It's like the stupid "bits" marketing that drove the game console market in the 90s.
AMD fans now know how Apple-using PowerPC fans have felt for years when some marketing moron pipes up about how their Intel chip is "faster" because it has a bigger number before the Ghz part.
Hi, Dion. I'm a pissed-off web user who's been visiting Slashdot far too long. Terms like "Ajax" just make me really, really angry, and I don't know why. Perhaps it's because it sounds like window cleaner. Mere years ago, this stuff was called dynamic web pages and other friendlier phrases. Can you help me to come to grips with this new wave of crappy, crappy terminology that Slashdot has, for some reason, embraced? "Blog" entries and AJAX are now front page news.
Office 2003 was a flop. Really, all it offered for the end-user was an ugly-ass blue theme to go with Luna. Vista? All its APIs are being backported to XP, making it a--you guessed it--visual redress.
I know it's cool and hip and makes you feel enlightened to go against the grain by pointing out "M$ bashing" on Slashdot. It even gets you modded up.
There's a culture of corporate paranoia at Microsoft, and it's been written about before in books and essays. Everything is seen as a threat, everything requires a drastic response. For instance, Netscape and gave rise to tying Internet Explorer to the Windows shell and offering it for free. At Microsoft, you're always self-critical, and you're always paranoid about losing your market position.
Why is Slashdot so obsessed with cracking OS X to run it on generic x86 machines? So they don't have to pay for OS X? You know it's strictly for warezing up on Bittorrent to screw Apple.
Blame Motorola and they're ugly, hard-to-use phone. It feels like iTunes was just tacked on. Apple was clearly testing the waters, but it's Motorola's phone and they did the hardware design. Apple just provided the software.
What makes Windows susceptible is its poor design. Hello? Blaster rebooting two-thirds of the world's computers? VBScript executable attachments opening by default for years?
You're just trying to look hip and enlightened by "going against the grain," but it's making you look stupid because your position is, frankly, dumb.
Slashdot Mirror
By the way, that's not Linus' account.
I'm not wrong at all.
Linus calling Slashdot a "public wanking session" on the LKML:
"Gaah. I don't tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own 'insightful' comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not."
Yeah, Linus has an account. So do a lot of other people who now despise this place.
AAC isn't Apple's format. AAC is MPEG-4 audio (aka MP4) and will be used on next-gen formats like Blu-ray for film audio. What is proprietary is Apple's Fairplay DRM scheme that sits on top of AAC.
Great, have fun not having the advantage of auto-filling the music player with specially designed playlists. I can fill my iPod with highest-rated songs, or songs of a certain decade, etc. You're missing the whole point of a metadata-based jukebox application.
It feels weird to me that you feel "limited" by iTunes. I would feel limited having to use the FInder to manually drag-and-drop files to the iPod. I like that iTunes auto-syncs my songs whenever I plug the player in whenever I add new music to iTunes. If I set a rating on my iPod, it will appear in iTunes next time I sync, my playcounts will update, etc. You won't be able to do that in Konquerer or Explorer.
iPods have had recording features for years now. Apple has been adding more functionality to the iPod, but in a subtle and sometimes invisible way. Adding video or a color screen (album artwork, hello) to a portable digital media player is hardly adding the "kitchen sink." A kitchen sink feature is something silly and unrelated, like adding cell phone functionality.
Wow...the comments on Slashdot are widely regarded as the most uninformed tech opinion on the internet. Even Linus Torvalds hates this place! He calls it a "big public wanking session." If you're not even coming here for the news ("News for Nerds?"), that means you're just coming for the broken mod system and the karma whoring?
I can't tell you how many times I've seen +5 comments that were flat-out, 100% wrong about something. But the mods liked what they saw and modded it up. If you try to correct that person, nobody reads you because you've missed that initial reader wave, and you're buried too deeply in the thread tree. So this uninformed (but popular) opinion spreads and spreads, so that you have a culture of misinformation. For instance, witness all the BSOD and Clippy jokes still making the rounds, when BSODs became rare five years ago, and Clippy hasn't been in a default install of Office since Office XP.
Digg will have Slashdot's voluminous amount of comments when it surpasses Slashdot's traffic. I didn't make that part up--traffic stats really do show Digg overtaking Slashdot. A new version of Digg is also under wraps and will be unveiled. Unlike Slashdot, where major updates include new banner ads and a CSS system (instead of actually fixing what's fundamentally broken on the site, such as the mod system or the endless dupe stories), Digg actually keeps itself updated.
I really do not see how having Dell or HP sell computers running OSX will degrade the quality of the OS, but that is just me.
1.) Dell and Gateway sell el cheapo parts that break down in six months so you can come running back to them.
2.) Apple uses their control over hardware to push new initiatives that Dell and others wouldn't touch. For instance, moving to all USB in the original iMac, or including Firewire ports in everything.
"the comment system is a joke, and the people on there are immature idiots with nothing relevant to say."
Digg, or Slashdot? Honestly, I can't tell which site you're referring to.
Linus Torvalds himself said "Slashdot is this big public wanking session" where people who don't know what they're talking about come together.
How is it news? Vista is only Microsoft's big company gamble in attempting to maintain relevance and revenue after six years of stagnant Windows XP. Along with the hardware upgrade cycle they missed this year, things are looking dour for MSFT.
Ah. Right. Any attempt to point out how bad this place is gets called a "shill." Your one experience overrules everyone else's.
Good Slashbot.
See Digg.com--where Slashdot gets all its news now. It's like traveling into the future to see Slashdot's stories days from now! But with WAY more each hour, and you vote on what gets posted. According to Alexa.com, Digg will be overtaking Slashdot's traffic within the month.
This place is dead. Corporate-owned, jammed with banner ads, and run by incompetent editors who don't give a CRAP about your input and are two busy posting whiney editorials about getting their nickname taken away in World of Warcraft and expecting preferential treatment because he's CmdrTaco of Slashdot, darnit. Ha, yeah, subscribers know what I'm talking about--try emailing them about a dupe sometime before it hits the front page.
It's time to move on to bigger and better things. Digg looks like it.
"10 percent of computer users are Mac users, but remember, we are the top 10 percent." - Douglas Adams
Although, I believe what the poster was saying that he doesn't want OS X running on cheap computers for anyone to use it, because that would degrade the quality of the operating system and the user experience. Hello, Windows.
Mac and OS X will always be intertwined. That's how Apple does things.
Wow, what a dumbass. Were you under a rock when Nintendo unvieled the new controller and let journalists play Metroid Prime 2 with it?
Another dwindling X-Box fanboy, it seems.
Have fun with your short battery life, lack of games, lack of space, and loss of over $250. :)
PSP sucks, but what sucks worse are its fanboys, who try DESPERATELY to justify their purchase of that dwindling piece of crap (DS has outsold it big time).
Intel got over a decade of marketing mileage out of judging processors by clock speed, to the point that it backed them into a corner when AMD's 2Ghz Athlon chips were beating the poorly designed 3Ghz P4s. It's like the stupid "bits" marketing that drove the game console market in the 90s.
AMD fans now know how Apple-using PowerPC fans have felt for years when some marketing moron pipes up about how their Intel chip is "faster" because it has a bigger number before the Ghz part.
Hi, Dion. I'm a pissed-off web user who's been visiting Slashdot far too long. Terms like "Ajax" just make me really, really angry, and I don't know why. Perhaps it's because it sounds like window cleaner. Mere years ago, this stuff was called dynamic web pages and other friendlier phrases. Can you help me to come to grips with this new wave of crappy, crappy terminology that Slashdot has, for some reason, embraced? "Blog" entries and AJAX are now front page news.
Sincerely,
Overly Critical Guy
Several posts were bizarrely moderated. I think a very angry person got mod points today. :-)
Don't worry, the editors are busy doing nothing about the broken mod system.
Well, actually, Microsoft does.
Office 2003 was a flop. Really, all it offered for the end-user was an ugly-ass blue theme to go with Luna. Vista? All its APIs are being backported to XP, making it a--you guessed it--visual redress.
I know it's cool and hip and makes you feel enlightened to go against the grain by pointing out "M$ bashing" on Slashdot. It even gets you modded up.
There's a culture of corporate paranoia at Microsoft, and it's been written about before in books and essays. Everything is seen as a threat, everything requires a drastic response. For instance, Netscape and gave rise to tying Internet Explorer to the Windows shell and offering it for free. At Microsoft, you're always self-critical, and you're always paranoid about losing your market position.
Why am I an Apple fanboy just for asking?
Why am I a "troll" because you disagree with me?
Why is Slashdot so obsessed with cracking OS X to run it on generic x86 machines? So they don't have to pay for OS X? You know it's strictly for warezing up on Bittorrent to screw Apple.
I'm a dumbass. "they're" should be "their."
Blame Motorola and they're ugly, hard-to-use phone. It feels like iTunes was just tacked on. Apple was clearly testing the waters, but it's Motorola's phone and they did the hardware design. Apple just provided the software.
You deserve your troll rating.
What makes Windows susceptible is its poor design. Hello? Blaster rebooting two-thirds of the world's computers? VBScript executable attachments opening by default for years?
You're just trying to look hip and enlightened by "going against the grain," but it's making you look stupid because your position is, frankly, dumb.