What does the RIAA have to do with this? Are Slashdotters so desperate to bash the RIAA in every single article ever posted that they'll randomly throw them in when they have nothing to do with the story, which is about record stores?
Anything to make pirates feel better about their illegal/immoral behavior, I guess. "I'm not ripping off artists, I'm ripping off the evil RIAA! See, that makes it okay. Time for me to meet my bash-RIAA quota for today."
Yeah, uh, why would Sony BMG's UK arm distribute to stores if it's already being given away for free? That's just wasted money on distribution costs.
Man, Slashdot is really stretching to bash the music industry these days. Anything to make P2P music pirates feel better about their illegal/immoral antics, I guess. "I'm not ripping off artists, I'm ripping off the evil music industry! See, record stores don't like that an album is being given a way for free by a multi-millionaire because it will affect their sales! The nerve of those guys trying to run a business."
Hush with your crazy logic! This is Slashdot, where everything is black and white. Don't you see that a multi-millionaire giving something away for free is proof that artists don't need record labels? Let's get back to portraying record companies in a bad light in order to indirectly justify P2P piracy.
Also, Apple doesn't really want to make it too easy for people to run Windows and Windows apps - just when they really need to.
I don't think Apple gives a shit. If you bought their hardware, they're happy. The OS X platform is Apple's way of being able to deliver value such as iLife that they don't trust Microsoft to deliver on their own (and they haven't), but if you're still willing to buy Apple hardware even though you're using Windows on it, Apple wants you as a customer.
Similarly, Mac OS X is used by far fewer people than XP.
Microsoft's IIS is used less than Apache yet IIS has more security vulnerabilities. Hear that sound? It's this usual anti-Apple canard crumbling into dust.
Macs have had far more known vulnerabilities than Vista, and even than XP in recent years. That's an objective fact. A fact that can't be changed by how much Steve Jobs coolaid you drink.
Absolutely, completely 100% false. Put down the MSDN marketing brochure and breathe the free air.
Linux and Mac fanboys approach from a position of advocate with high standards, trying to get people to try something they believe is superior to what everyone else is using. Microsoft fanboys, however, seem hell-bent on obsessing over market share numbers and strutting over how big Microsoft is. Quality versus quantity.
IT'S AN IPHONE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM. IT'S AN IPHONE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM. IT'S AN IPHONE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM.
Goddamn tech journalists and their ratings-driven "story templates." People are reading way to much into this. Safari for Windows is an iPhone development platform, not picking a fight.
"Consensus" is the opposite of science. It's a word thrown around by certain environmentalist politicians who are out making money off of speaking engagements. You know, certain politicians who were in the White House for eight years but did nothing about the very warming they claim increased during that period.
I very seriously believe that the current global warming hysteria will die down by next year and be looked back on with laughter, just like the various political hysterias of the past such as global cooling, losing the rainforests, running out of landfill space, and all the other very public environmentalist trends that didn't turn out to be the doom-and-gloom they claimed it to be at the time. There's just something bizarre about, for instance, Denver planning several environmentalist initiatives to allow the government to run your life at the very same time it's hitting record low snow temperatures.
The global averaged temperature record shows a rise of less than a tenth of a degree. I find it very sad that so many people sit around the water cooler talking about "carbon credits," hybrid cars, mercury bulbs, and other completely ineffective but expensive solutions to a problem that hasn't been proven to exist. It's a trend they've had shoved down their throats due to a non-skeptical news media that always follows a template of impending natural disaster, since news media is a business and needs ratings.
But perhaps saddest of all is the way "scientific consensus"--which isn't true--is the excuse used to run Al Gore's political and inaccurate documentary in schools. There was a report about how one kid had seen it a total of four times in various classes at his school. Many of these kids are being scared into believing what the extreme environmentalists are saying, and they will grow up with an incorrect and non-questioning worldview about the environment. I should know, I was indoctrinated to believe we were losing all our trees, landfill space, and that recycling was the only way to save our planet. I even watched "Captain Planet" on Saturday mornings. Then I grew up and saw that none of what I believed was true, there was no impending danger, and our planet will keep on truckin' like it always has.
Environmental fears are, therefore, a tool used by some folks to make people 1.) feel guilty for the successes of their country and for their own existence, and 2.) make people accept higher taxes and expensive environmental programs that make the government larger and more powerful.
Intel needs to develop new processor technologies to significantly increase native performance rather than just adding more cores.
I'm sure they would have done that already if they could. The problem with more powerful processors is the amount of power they use. By using multiple cores of slightly less powerful chips, you get more performance with less power usage.
I find Windows fonts to be very difficult to read after long periods of time, while the accuracy of Apple's rendering means fonts always look like you're "reading a book." I guess if you're okay with hackish font rendering, there's nothing that's going to change your mind. I always laugh when I see an underline lowercase 'g' that has no lower part beneath the line, because it's cut off to fit into the pixel grid.
Apple renders fonts to match the accuracy of the glyphs so that they resemble what they would look like in print, important for desktop publishing. Windows happily renders fonts inaccurately so that they're 1-pixel thin and packed into a pixel grid.
Why couldn't you develop on Firefox or IE? And if it's not, if it's Safari-only, how is that any different than IE-only websites that everyone hates?
The iPhone runs Safari, so you'll want to test your iPhone apps in the exact same browser. You want everything to be exactly the same, right down to the look and spacing of the fonts, which is why Safari for Windows includes its own font rendering.
If administrators really wanted a special day to prepare for aggregate patches, they could accumulate released patches for themselves and do their own massive update on their own designated special day. They don't need Microsoft to schedule one for them. Some vulnerabilities are important enough that admins might purposely want to violate their schedule and install the fix, and admins should be given the choice to do that. Microsoft should release patches as soon as they're available and leave the install schedules up to the admins--it's their job.
It's not so much that Apple wants developers to test their websites in Safari as much as it is they want to give Windows developers a WebKit platform in which to test web apps, since apps will be running in Safari on the iPhone.
What people in general have to realise is that the government should not mandate what is a social responsibility.
Unfortunately, many folks run on emotions, and politicians are happy to cater to their votes by declaring that the government will give them a quick solution to their problems. It's easier to declare that the government should force your agenda on everyone rather than trying to persuade the public that your views are correct. Not only does it make people dependent on the government to tell them how to live, it makes the government bigger and more powerful. The ultimate conclusion is fascism, and it'll happen so fast that people's heads will spin trying to figure out at what point along the way it came to be such. For crying out loud, they're considering banning microwave popcorn in Seattle because of some fire alarms going off in public places. What the fuck is the government doing wasting its time with that? It's up to the business owners to deal with it. Cue the requisite rant on smoking bans as well.
The reason it's easy for them is that people in power want more power. This is Euro-socialist, nanny-government silliness. A government shouldn't be stepping in to regulate content that is up to the public to regulate for themselves.
It astounds me that Apple flips the bird to all of the Windows UI conventions for marketing purposes and nobody seems to care.
I feel the same way with every new version of Office.
Everything from their own anti-aliasing algorithm for text, their own custom widgets, to windows that you can only resize from the right corner. Of course, many legit Windows applications do the same thing, but it seems highly hypocritical of Apple to say, "you should stick to conventions when designing UIs" and then hardcode their own ideas in when developing on another platform.
Safari has to include OS X's font rendering and UI because it's what will be used on the iPhone. Safari for Windows is a development platform for iPhone web apps, developers will need Safari to look and feel exactly as it will on the OS X version of Safari that's running on the phone.
As for the look of the fonts, Apple's rendering attempts to portray the font as accurately as possible, which is important for their desktop publishing audience. You're used to what Windows does, which packs every line into the pixel grid so that it's thin and inaccurate. When you see what Times New Roman is actually supposed to look like on a screen, you think it's "blurry" because you've been staring at the 1-pixel wide, hackish typography of Microsoft's rendering for so many years.
I personally prefer Urge for music, but that is because I am a subscription person. It is nice to reload my 30gb Zen every other day with a new set of 15,000 songs for $15 a month.
Oh, good god, you're such a WMA whore. Meanwhile, iTunes remains the #1 music management software on the planet, and it must eat you up inside. As for WMP11, it's a total piece of ugly crap that tries to rip off everything in iTunes, even down to the left-side source list and the upper-right search field with the magnifying glass and everything. Hell, the rest of Vista is the exact same rip-off.
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What does the RIAA have to do with this? Are Slashdotters so desperate to bash the RIAA in every single article ever posted that they'll randomly throw them in when they have nothing to do with the story, which is about record stores?
Anything to make pirates feel better about their illegal/immoral behavior, I guess. "I'm not ripping off artists, I'm ripping off the evil RIAA! See, that makes it okay. Time for me to meet my bash-RIAA quota for today."
Yeah, uh, why would Sony BMG's UK arm distribute to stores if it's already being given away for free? That's just wasted money on distribution costs.
Man, Slashdot is really stretching to bash the music industry these days. Anything to make P2P music pirates feel better about their illegal/immoral antics, I guess. "I'm not ripping off artists, I'm ripping off the evil music industry! See, record stores don't like that an album is being given a way for free by a multi-millionaire because it will affect their sales! The nerve of those guys trying to run a business."
Hush with your crazy logic! This is Slashdot, where everything is black and white. Don't you see that a multi-millionaire giving something away for free is proof that artists don't need record labels? Let's get back to portraying record companies in a bad light in order to indirectly justify P2P piracy.
$20 says you never do, and that if you ever do check out his music, it will be through illegal/immoral piracy off a P2P network.
I don't think Apple gives a shit. If you bought their hardware, they're happy. The OS X platform is Apple's way of being able to deliver value such as iLife that they don't trust Microsoft to deliver on their own (and they haven't), but if you're still willing to buy Apple hardware even though you're using Windows on it, Apple wants you as a customer.
Microsoft's IIS is used less than Apache yet IIS has more security vulnerabilities. Hear that sound? It's this usual anti-Apple canard crumbling into dust.
Absolutely, completely 100% false. Put down the MSDN marketing brochure and breathe the free air.
Uh, right, because the innocent DNC never tries to lie about anything or spin positive news into negative.
Linux and Mac fanboys approach from a position of advocate with high standards, trying to get people to try something they believe is superior to what everyone else is using. Microsoft fanboys, however, seem hell-bent on obsessing over market share numbers and strutting over how big Microsoft is. Quality versus quantity.
IT'S AN IPHONE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM.
IT'S AN IPHONE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM.
IT'S AN IPHONE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM.
Goddamn tech journalists and their ratings-driven "story templates." People are reading way to much into this. Safari for Windows is an iPhone development platform, not picking a fight.
"Consensus" is the opposite of science. It's a word thrown around by certain environmentalist politicians who are out making money off of speaking engagements. You know, certain politicians who were in the White House for eight years but did nothing about the very warming they claim increased during that period.
I very seriously believe that the current global warming hysteria will die down by next year and be looked back on with laughter, just like the various political hysterias of the past such as global cooling, losing the rainforests, running out of landfill space, and all the other very public environmentalist trends that didn't turn out to be the doom-and-gloom they claimed it to be at the time. There's just something bizarre about, for instance, Denver planning several environmentalist initiatives to allow the government to run your life at the very same time it's hitting record low snow temperatures.
The global averaged temperature record shows a rise of less than a tenth of a degree. I find it very sad that so many people sit around the water cooler talking about "carbon credits," hybrid cars, mercury bulbs, and other completely ineffective but expensive solutions to a problem that hasn't been proven to exist. It's a trend they've had shoved down their throats due to a non-skeptical news media that always follows a template of impending natural disaster, since news media is a business and needs ratings.
But perhaps saddest of all is the way "scientific consensus"--which isn't true--is the excuse used to run Al Gore's political and inaccurate documentary in schools. There was a report about how one kid had seen it a total of four times in various classes at his school. Many of these kids are being scared into believing what the extreme environmentalists are saying, and they will grow up with an incorrect and non-questioning worldview about the environment. I should know, I was indoctrinated to believe we were losing all our trees, landfill space, and that recycling was the only way to save our planet. I even watched "Captain Planet" on Saturday mornings. Then I grew up and saw that none of what I believed was true, there was no impending danger, and our planet will keep on truckin' like it always has.
Environmental fears are, therefore, a tool used by some folks to make people 1.) feel guilty for the successes of their country and for their own existence, and 2.) make people accept higher taxes and expensive environmental programs that make the government larger and more powerful.
I'm sure they would have done that already if they could. The problem with more powerful processors is the amount of power they use. By using multiple cores of slightly less powerful chips, you get more performance with less power usage.
Your operating system will automatically manage what needs physical memory and what needs to be paged to disk, so what's the problem?
I find Windows fonts to be very difficult to read after long periods of time, while the accuracy of Apple's rendering means fonts always look like you're "reading a book." I guess if you're okay with hackish font rendering, there's nothing that's going to change your mind. I always laugh when I see an underline lowercase 'g' that has no lower part beneath the line, because it's cut off to fit into the pixel grid.
I find Windows fonts very hard on the eyes, so readability is subjective.
Apple renders fonts to match the accuracy of the glyphs so that they resemble what they would look like in print, important for desktop publishing. Windows happily renders fonts inaccurately so that they're 1-pixel thin and packed into a pixel grid.
What disaster? The one invented in a Slashdot story? There's a big, blue world outside of the place, covered in green, leafy things.
The iPhone runs Safari, so you'll want to test your iPhone apps in the exact same browser. You want everything to be exactly the same, right down to the look and spacing of the fonts, which is why Safari for Windows includes its own font rendering.
If administrators really wanted a special day to prepare for aggregate patches, they could accumulate released patches for themselves and do their own massive update on their own designated special day. They don't need Microsoft to schedule one for them. Some vulnerabilities are important enough that admins might purposely want to violate their schedule and install the fix, and admins should be given the choice to do that. Microsoft should release patches as soon as they're available and leave the install schedules up to the admins--it's their job.
It's not so much that Apple wants developers to test their websites in Safari as much as it is they want to give Windows developers a WebKit platform in which to test web apps, since apps will be running in Safari on the iPhone.
Unfortunately, many folks run on emotions, and politicians are happy to cater to their votes by declaring that the government will give them a quick solution to their problems. It's easier to declare that the government should force your agenda on everyone rather than trying to persuade the public that your views are correct. Not only does it make people dependent on the government to tell them how to live, it makes the government bigger and more powerful. The ultimate conclusion is fascism, and it'll happen so fast that people's heads will spin trying to figure out at what point along the way it came to be such. For crying out loud, they're considering banning microwave popcorn in Seattle because of some fire alarms going off in public places. What the fuck is the government doing wasting its time with that? It's up to the business owners to deal with it. Cue the requisite rant on smoking bans as well.
The reason it's easy for them is that people in power want more power. This is Euro-socialist, nanny-government silliness. A government shouldn't be stepping in to regulate content that is up to the public to regulate for themselves.
I feel the same way with every new version of Office.
Safari has to include OS X's font rendering and UI because it's what will be used on the iPhone. Safari for Windows is a development platform for iPhone web apps, developers will need Safari to look and feel exactly as it will on the OS X version of Safari that's running on the phone.
As for the look of the fonts, Apple's rendering attempts to portray the font as accurately as possible, which is important for their desktop publishing audience. You're used to what Windows does, which packs every line into the pixel grid so that it's thin and inaccurate. When you see what Times New Roman is actually supposed to look like on a screen, you think it's "blurry" because you've been staring at the 1-pixel wide, hackish typography of Microsoft's rendering for so many years.
Oh, good god, you're such a WMA whore. Meanwhile, iTunes remains the #1 music management software on the planet, and it must eat you up inside. As for WMP11, it's a total piece of ugly crap that tries to rip off everything in iTunes, even down to the left-side source list and the upper-right search field with the magnifying glass and everything. Hell, the rest of Vista is the exact same rip-off.
Except that it didn't happen before Firefox, and it wouldn't matter if it did because we had Mozilla back then. Gecko never got a "complete rewrite."
Dave Hyatt.