Wow, people will do anything to defend pirates on Slashdot. That's like saying a child predator going out to meet a cop posing as a 13-year-old girl wasn't there to meet a minor, because there was no minor!
It's funny watching Slashdotters suddenly splitting legal hairs over something the MPAA does while disregarding the law when it comes to piracy.
Isn't it funny the way Slashdotters never care about the law over what pirates do, but when it's something the MPAA does, suddenly we're all splitting legal hairs and explaining the law? What about the law that says you can't rip people off by infringing on their copyrights and stealing their stuff? Or do artist rights not matter anymore on Slashdot?
Digg has gotten even worse. It's a pro-piracy haven where they even actively spread piracy tips to help others steal artists' stuff.
I think it's funny the way Slashdot words this. The MPAA was "caught" uploading fake torrents, as if they were doing something wrong when everyone else is illegally pirating their materials.
I don't know why you're saddened. Slashdot is a sensationalist, mainstream "tech" news site. It no longer caters to geeks who know what they're talking about, and it is a haven for misinformed opinion that never correctly predicts anything.
The cat(house) is out of the bag now. This was the news many people that have been following the so-called "war" have been waiting for: which side will the porn industry go with?
And the side they chose was the Internet.
Granted, this is just one production company, however it can be assured that more are to follow.
No, it's not. VHS won because it had a longer running time and could therefore hold feature films. By the time BetaMax was able to support the longer running time, VHS had become the norm. People like storylines, and the porn industry driving VHS' success is a storyline they love to repeat regardless of its lack of truth.
Also, porn is an Internet thing now. It's free. Why would I care either way about HD-DVD or Blu-Ray porn?
Hush! You're ruining the cute little storyline Slashdotters love to tell over and over about how porn drives technology and how it crushed the "superior" Betamax, even though VHS was the superior format with a longer running time (long enough to hold a feature film). As you should know by now, journalism isn't about truth and accuracy. It's about interesting storylines to grab readers.
As for HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray, I always rooted for Blu-Ray because of its superior storage and the fact it uses Java, which pisses off Microsoft. But either way, both formats will lose to digital media. Eventually, 1080p movies will be sold on iTunes, and at that point, nobody will care about Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, just like they're beginning to not care about CDs.
1.) Want to be network administrator. 2.) Want to spend money on yet another computer taking up space in their house.
People already have all their data on their main computer. They just want to stream it out to things and back it up now and then. This is a product searching for demand that's not there, to make it seem like Microsoft is "branching out."
You're forgetting that Apple FUDsters never change their tune. There is always a chorus of "Someone somewhere did this before and there's no market for it!" Then six months later, everyone forgets their criticism and pretends they liked the product all along.
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco on the iPod launch
Don't worry. The very fact Slashdot is posting iPhone FUD means it will be a smashing success, just like the iPod and iPod mini. Expect a ton of "My ugly old phone does everything the iPhone does! Sure, it actually doesn't have a full web browser, touchscreen, random access voicemail, virtual keyboard, iPod functionality with dock connector, etc. etc. etc. But it still does everything!"
Your Treo has accelerometers and a proximity sensor? It has a Dock Connector? It has a full web browser (not some shrunken down "baby browser")? It has a touchscreen interface? It has a virtual keyboard so you don't have to press 7 four times to get an S? It syncs with iTunes?
How many people are going to post ignorant "My phone does all this" claims without thinking it through? No, your phone does NOT do all this.
For Christ's sake, Slashdot claims negative press is "sprouting up all over the Net" and then links to Microsoft shills like Scoble and ZDNet. In fact, many of those guy are linking to the other guys in their articles...it's the same group of people.
You can expect more of these FUD articles in the months to come as frightened cell phone manufacturers try to ramp up negative press about the iPhone. They're afraid of what it can do, and they certainly don't want to lose all those morons paying $2 for a crappy ring tone. I bet the iPhone will even let you play a random song from your iTunes library as the ring tone.
There is just so much at stake here. This is the first "convergence device" that mainstream people are actually giving a shit about.
You know of a phone with a full-sized web browser? Pinch interface for resizing? Random access voicemail? The same ultra-thin form factor? A dock connector?
God, just thinking about the dock connector means I can plug this thing into my car for music, and continue to take phone calls during lunch, AND check my email and surf the web. All in the Subway parking lot.
The fact Slashdot is posting a FUD article pretty much means it will be successful. I still remember the night the iPod mini article was posted, and you all complained it was too expensive, there was no market, nobody would buy it, etc. By year's end, it was the top-selling music player of all time.
But I wouldn't count it out, either. Slashdot has been wrong about a lot of things in the past. There "wasn't a market" for the iPod, either. The fact is, there is no phone like this out there, and a lot of people will want it once they see what it can do. You guys are treating it as just a cell phone when it's really an iPod, cell phone, and miniature Mac in your pocket. It even has the iPod dock connector.
I hereby predict the FUDsters (initiated by cell phone manufacturers frightened of what Apple unveiled on Tuesday) are wrong and that Apple will be highly successful with the iPhone.
48 hours have passed since Steve Jobs's MacWorld keynote and the reality distortion field is beginning to wear off.
You mean the FUD campaign initiated by frightened competitors is flaring up. This story makes it seem like everyone is suddenly deciding not to buy the iPhone after "coming to their senses." Hardly the case. This thing will sell like crazy, and the fact Slashdot is posting a story saying it won't just means it will. Remember the iPod? The iPod mini? Slashdot said they'd fail.
Do you mind explaining this "totally different way" you speak of, and can you clarify how a feature like out-of-order optimization would be a hindrance for a game developer? I'd be particularly interested in how you reconcile your statement that such an optimization is a "road block" for Xbox 360 game developers since Microsoft's 360 compiler performs that very optimization pass during the compilation process specifically because the processor can't do it in hardware. Are you saying Microsoft's compiler is a road block for developers?
I only spent $1000 to run F.E.A.R. at an acceptable framerate on a Radeon X800 XL in an $800 PC I bought that had a single-core AMD processor. And the iMac I have now, it totally screams.
Sounds to me like your dual-core PC in the bedroom blows.
I don't really care how it sounds to you, because you're wrong. The 360's processors have features removed to jack up the clock cycle.
With all that hardware you should be just blowing F.E.A.R. away by a mile using that logic.
And then you extrapolate a strawman and attack it. I didn't say my hardware was the ultimate out there. I just refuted the claim that the 360 was ahead of PCs by pointing out that, as an example, last year's dual-core processors already outperformed the 360. There was nothing revolutionary in the 360's CPU compared to what was available for PCs.
Just look at Oblivion. The 360 version had to have its textures jacked down compared to the PC version, and it still experienced slowdowns. I enjoyed Oblivion at a playable framerate with full texture quality and special effects, thank you very much. And yes, on my dual-core, it blows the 360 version away.
But this was supposed to be a month of Apple bugs. Not third-party bugs.
Why CNet and slashdot chose to report on this particular vulnerability, which to many is the least important in the list, is a mistery to me.
Because journalism is a business, and that means it isn't concerned with relevant truths; it wants "storylines" that will generate interest and therefore revenues. It's a cute storyline for them that the application enhancer used to patch bugs has a bug. Hence, it gets reported and others don't.
Really, though, this is lame. Another third-party bug? Pointing out third-party bugs is great, but this was touted as a month of Apple bugs to point out insecurities that needed to be fixed in Apple software. Widening that to third-party bugs is a little disingenuous and misleading.
At least with Linux you have the GPL that legally forces people to be mutualistic.
But according to Slashdot, copyright is evil and obsolete, and people who violate it are heroes who shouldn't be prosecuted. How do you reconcile that with your statement about the GPL?
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Wow, people will do anything to defend pirates on Slashdot. That's like saying a child predator going out to meet a cop posing as a 13-year-old girl wasn't there to meet a minor, because there was no minor!
It's funny watching Slashdotters suddenly splitting legal hairs over something the MPAA does while disregarding the law when it comes to piracy.
Isn't it funny the way Slashdotters never care about the law over what pirates do, but when it's something the MPAA does, suddenly we're all splitting legal hairs and explaining the law? What about the law that says you can't rip people off by infringing on their copyrights and stealing their stuff? Or do artist rights not matter anymore on Slashdot?
Digg has gotten even worse. It's a pro-piracy haven where they even actively spread piracy tips to help others steal artists' stuff.
I think it's funny the way Slashdot words this. The MPAA was "caught" uploading fake torrents, as if they were doing something wrong when everyone else is illegally pirating their materials.
I don't know why you're saddened. Slashdot is a sensationalist, mainstream "tech" news site. It no longer caters to geeks who know what they're talking about, and it is a haven for misinformed opinion that never correctly predicts anything.
Why can this be assured? What is your evidence?
They've been decided by one production company? Huh?
I love Slashdot's sensationalism, and its obsession with the idea that porn drives all technology (even though BetaMax lost because of running time).
No, it's not. VHS won because it had a longer running time and could therefore hold feature films. By the time BetaMax was able to support the longer running time, VHS had become the norm. People like storylines, and the porn industry driving VHS' success is a storyline they love to repeat regardless of its lack of truth.
Also, porn is an Internet thing now. It's free. Why would I care either way about HD-DVD or Blu-Ray porn?
Hush! You're ruining the cute little storyline Slashdotters love to tell over and over about how porn drives technology and how it crushed the "superior" Betamax, even though VHS was the superior format with a longer running time (long enough to hold a feature film). As you should know by now, journalism isn't about truth and accuracy. It's about interesting storylines to grab readers.
As for HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray, I always rooted for Blu-Ray because of its superior storage and the fact it uses Java, which pisses off Microsoft. But either way, both formats will lose to digital media. Eventually, 1080p movies will be sold on iTunes, and at that point, nobody will care about Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, just like they're beginning to not care about CDs.
Microsoft thinks people:
1.) Want to be network administrator.
2.) Want to spend money on yet another computer taking up space in their house.
People already have all their data on their main computer. They just want to stream it out to things and back it up now and then. This is a product searching for demand that's not there, to make it seem like Microsoft is "branching out."
You're forgetting that Apple FUDsters never change their tune. There is always a chorus of "Someone somewhere did this before and there's no market for it!" Then six months later, everyone forgets their criticism and pretends they liked the product all along.
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco on the iPod launch
Don't worry. The very fact Slashdot is posting iPhone FUD means it will be a smashing success, just like the iPod and iPod mini. Expect a ton of "My ugly old phone does everything the iPhone does! Sure, it actually doesn't have a full web browser, touchscreen, random access voicemail, virtual keyboard, iPod functionality with dock connector, etc. etc. etc. But it still does everything!"
Your Treo has accelerometers and a proximity sensor? It has a Dock Connector? It has a full web browser (not some shrunken down "baby browser")? It has a touchscreen interface? It has a virtual keyboard so you don't have to press 7 four times to get an S? It syncs with iTunes?
How many people are going to post ignorant "My phone does all this" claims without thinking it through? No, your phone does NOT do all this.
For Christ's sake, Slashdot claims negative press is "sprouting up all over the Net" and then links to Microsoft shills like Scoble and ZDNet. In fact, many of those guy are linking to the other guys in their articles...it's the same group of people.
It has a touch interface where you pinch stuff to resize it and shoot through your music list? A full-size web browser? Random access voicemail?
You can expect more of these FUD articles in the months to come as frightened cell phone manufacturers try to ramp up negative press about the iPhone. They're afraid of what it can do, and they certainly don't want to lose all those morons paying $2 for a crappy ring tone. I bet the iPhone will even let you play a random song from your iTunes library as the ring tone.
There is just so much at stake here. This is the first "convergence device" that mainstream people are actually giving a shit about.
You know of a phone with a full-sized web browser? Pinch interface for resizing? Random access voicemail? The same ultra-thin form factor? A dock connector?
God, just thinking about the dock connector means I can plug this thing into my car for music, and continue to take phone calls during lunch, AND check my email and surf the web. All in the Subway parking lot.
The fact Slashdot is posting a FUD article pretty much means it will be successful. I still remember the night the iPod mini article was posted, and you all complained it was too expensive, there was no market, nobody would buy it, etc. By year's end, it was the top-selling music player of all time.
But I wouldn't count it out, either. Slashdot has been wrong about a lot of things in the past. There "wasn't a market" for the iPod, either. The fact is, there is no phone like this out there, and a lot of people will want it once they see what it can do. You guys are treating it as just a cell phone when it's really an iPod, cell phone, and miniature Mac in your pocket. It even has the iPod dock connector.
I hereby predict the FUDsters (initiated by cell phone manufacturers frightened of what Apple unveiled on Tuesday) are wrong and that Apple will be highly successful with the iPhone.
You mean the FUD campaign initiated by frightened competitors is flaring up. This story makes it seem like everyone is suddenly deciding not to buy the iPhone after "coming to their senses." Hardly the case. This thing will sell like crazy, and the fact Slashdot is posting a story saying it won't just means it will. Remember the iPod? The iPod mini? Slashdot said they'd fail.
Ugh, I thought we were rid of the term "AJAX" by now.
Do you mind explaining this "totally different way" you speak of, and can you clarify how a feature like out-of-order optimization would be a hindrance for a game developer? I'd be particularly interested in how you reconcile your statement that such an optimization is a "road block" for Xbox 360 game developers since Microsoft's 360 compiler performs that very optimization pass during the compilation process specifically because the processor can't do it in hardware. Are you saying Microsoft's compiler is a road block for developers?
I don't really care how it sounds to you, because you're wrong. The 360's processors have features removed to jack up the clock cycle.
And then you extrapolate a strawman and attack it. I didn't say my hardware was the ultimate out there. I just refuted the claim that the 360 was ahead of PCs by pointing out that, as an example, last year's dual-core processors already outperformed the 360. There was nothing revolutionary in the 360's CPU compared to what was available for PCs.
Just look at Oblivion. The 360 version had to have its textures jacked down compared to the PC version, and it still experienced slowdowns. I enjoyed Oblivion at a playable framerate with full texture quality and special effects, thank you very much. And yes, on my dual-core, it blows the 360 version away.
In the title, which isn't "Month of Bugs, Some of Which Are In Mac Software."
Because journalism is a business, and that means it isn't concerned with relevant truths; it wants "storylines" that will generate interest and therefore revenues. It's a cute storyline for them that the application enhancer used to patch bugs has a bug. Hence, it gets reported and others don't.
Really, though, this is lame. Another third-party bug? Pointing out third-party bugs is great, but this was touted as a month of Apple bugs to point out insecurities that needed to be fixed in Apple software. Widening that to third-party bugs is a little disingenuous and misleading.
But according to Slashdot, copyright is evil and obsolete, and people who violate it are heroes who shouldn't be prosecuted. How do you reconcile that with your statement about the GPL?