Especially since everyone here happily uses Google and Gmail, and they store EVERYTHING INDEFINITELY. Every search you do and every email you write and send, for all time. And every website you visit on the Internet tracks your IP/browser/OS in its logs.
All Apple is doing is sending a search query to the Music Store to give you related albums you might be interested in. It is FUD from competitors. Honestly, what a stupid thing to get paranoid about.
If you install a piece of software and it starts to gathering information about you, it's called spyware even if there's some magic button combination or option that turns it off.
Better not use any web browser then since every major website logs your IP, browser, and OS.
Apple isn't even keeping the data, all they're doing is just searching the store for related purchases while you listen to music. Hell, most of you use Google, and they track every search you do in a cookie, and it's never deleted! Where are the complaints about that? Last time I brought it up, I got modbombed by Google defenders.
Apple was taking your personal information about your personal music being played on your personal computer and sending it back to themselves.
So disable the Mini-Store.
Guess what, Slashdot is tracking every page you visit here, including your browser, OS, and IP address! Using geolocation, they could find out where in the country you are! The horror! In fact, every web server on the Internet has your IP!
EFI has BIOS emulation, so Windows XP should be able to run on a Mac. We'll see what steps are needed to get it installed. You don't even need a bootloader, since EFI replaces bootloaders.
It's gonna happen. But I'm not interested in that--I'm interested in someone taking advantage of the hardware virtualization in the Core Duos and letting me run Windows in a window on an OS X desktop with no performance hit. Screw dual-booting.
It's recommending based on what song is currently playing. What is "wrong" about that?
You may as well freak whenever your CD player app automatically accesses CDDB for the song titles. I can't imagine being that paranoid.
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You're absolutely right. Hey, kids, guess what? Every web server you visit is logging your IP address in their server logs! My god! Even what browser and OS you're using!
iTunes recommending music based on your purchases isn't "malware." If iTunes was actually being malicious, THAT would be malware. All it's doing is recommending albums. What an inflammatory headline to generate page hits. People need to read the definition of what malware actually is.
Uhh, did I miss something? Isn't this what modding, metamodding, friends and foes lists are for? With just five minutes' tweaking,/. gets a lot more readable.
I consider Slashdot's moderation system one of the most broken voting systems on the Internet. You could write the most informative comment anywhere, and it only takes five people with a grudge to send you down to 0, below most people's threshold, so that you likely won't get modded up again.
For some reason, the Slashdot crew ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to change the mod system. It's the worst part of the site. You simply cannot get an accurate rating for a post.
So, why did you modbomb a bunch of people "-1 Offtopic" in the last discussion? Can you really blame us for noticing that ScuttleMonkey always accepts these stories? He can see who the stories are from because he edits the submission to say "Beatles*Beatles writes to tell us..." Can you blame us for saying, wow, this is the twentieth time that has come from ScuttleMonkey? It just defies logic to say every one of those has been a coincidence. If it had been an even distribution of submissions from the various editors accepting his stories, that's one thing. But with the exception of one story, it's always ScuttleMonkey. ALWAYS.
...which was to spam Beatles' site again, thanks to ScuttleMonkey, who exclusively delivers his submissions to the loyal Slashdot readership. But yeah, there's nothing sneaky going on! Promise!!
It's one thing if he was posted evenly amongst the other editors. Okay, fine, they're all getting scammed by him.
But, with the exception of a CmdrTaco article, every other submission from this guy is posted by ScuttleMonkey. Why is that? It's proof they just don't care anymore at this site.
This crap is why people are flocking to Digg.com. Even though the discussions there suck because of no threading (yet), it's not really different from here, and when people are scamming the front page, everyone gangs together and undiggs it to remove it!
That's because Aperture is doing its layer processing in real-time using CoreImage and storing it in an SQLite database through CoreData.
As for the submission: Is digital photo editing finally getting both powerful and easy?
It already was with apps like iPhoto (easy), Photoshop (powerful), and others. Aperture is geared toward professional photographers processing RAW format images. The submitter obviously has no idea what these apps are and what they're for--they're not supposed to be consumer-level photo-editing apps. They're professional photography pre-processing applications.
Does anyone else notice that usually the questions submitted to Ask Slashdot answer their own questions?
1.) This guy says he has vision problems. 2.) Then reveals that he only sleeps five hours a day. 3.) Then reveals over 15 hours are spent staring at one single surface. 4.) Then reveals a doctor has already told him what's going on. 5.) Then asks how he can relieve his eyes and regain his concentration.
For starters, how about sleeping more than five hours a day and not spending 15 hours straight staring at a single surface?
I just see Jobs as one of the few Silicon Valley visionaries who deeply cares about not only how a device functions, but how well it fits into a human's normal daily environment. Like it or not, aesthetic and interface are bound to that. Whereas other companies don't bother spending the resources on six months of design to make a computer on a stand that doesn't wobble when you bump it, Apple holds up the release of their new iMac until it's done.
As for vitriol from Mac users, it's no different from that of rabid Windows users (and GOD do they get bitter) and Linux users. For the most part, Mac users get angry because Macs and OS X are so clearly superior to Windows PCs--which arguably is objectively true--and are frustrated that the American economy and society has come to rely on something so unreliable while remaining uninformed about a world of computing that doesn't involve viruses, spyware, tech support calls, registry edits, defragmentation, spending money on antivirus/registry cleaner/antispyware/firewall/etc. software...you get the picture.
The plagiarism is more amusing considering after Family Guy's cancellation, the Simpsons silently ripped off one of Family Guy's famous episodes by having Homer take over the job of Death just like Peter.
Man, you are obviously enlightened. You quoted "Maynard lyrics" at me! You're so hip, you don't even refer to it by the name of the Tool song, and you refer to the singer by an eponymous first name! You wouldn't be more educated if you had quoted "Trent lyrics" at me too.
You probably don't even know what that song is about. Yes, here I am, reading and posting on the site. And here you are. Meanwhile, my points still stand unrefuted.
Dude, you're criticizing a Slashdot news summary. A summary on Slashdot is supposed to contain a blaring headline that may or may not be accurate followed by a body of text that tells a "story." The story should leave on a goofy "cliffhanger" as a lead-in to comments. In this case, ooh, Burst has had the patents for a decade, ooh, they've made apps! What will happen! Ooh! Cliffhanger! It's all for page hits and ad rates.
self-sustaining buzz has more to do with his fame than whatever started the buzz in the first place.
Yeah, except for the whole iMac/iPod revolution he spearheaded at Apple, which proves he's famous for his results and not this "buzz" you keep referring to. The buzz exists because of results.
Your quote: I would think being the CEO of the company putting out the iPod, iMacs, and so on would be famous further substantiates this hypothesis. If anyone who was the CEO of such a company would be famous, than it is in fact true that Steve's fame is not a result of Steve's actions or attributes.
No, being the CEO of the company putting out the iPod and iMac means you're the guy in charge leading these developments at your company. Particularly in the case of Steve Jobs, who was famously critical of early iPod prototypes and demanded the ability to access any piece of music within three clicks, to cite one famous example. Jobs also put all the NeXT guys in charge and removed a lot of dead weight at the company, as well as slashing the product line to something like six from 20+.
You're really just begging the question, was it something remarkable about Steve that led to these products?
Yes. He spearheaded their creation, promoted Jonathan Ive, and was involved in their development processes. His perfectionism and high standards meant he refused to release anything less than stellar, and he chose the higher-ups and put in charge a lot of guys he had worked with at NeXT as well as gave people like Jonathan Ive free reign with his development budget to spend half a year on things like making an iMac G5 that doesn't wobble when you bump it.
To some extent of course it was, but I think we tend to overstate both the blame and the credit we give to CEOs because it's human nature to want to find a specific, concrete cause for success and failure.
But in the case of Steve Jobs, it's been stated many, many times how involved he is in the design process and how critical he is of things that don't meet his high product standards. To compare the talentless, do-nothing Hilton to the CEO of tech company Apple who helped develop and release the iPod/iMac/etc. is insane.
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Especially since everyone here happily uses Google and Gmail, and they store EVERYTHING INDEFINITELY. Every search you do and every email you write and send, for all time. And every website you visit on the Internet tracks your IP/browser/OS in its logs.
All Apple is doing is sending a search query to the Music Store to give you related albums you might be interested in. It is FUD from competitors. Honestly, what a stupid thing to get paranoid about.
A lot of complains? Who's complaining?
If you install a piece of software and it starts to gathering information about you, it's called spyware even if there's some magic button combination or option that turns it off.
Better not use any web browser then since every major website logs your IP, browser, and OS.
Apple isn't even keeping the data, all they're doing is just searching the store for related purchases while you listen to music. Hell, most of you use Google, and they track every search you do in a cookie, and it's never deleted! Where are the complaints about that? Last time I brought it up, I got modbombed by Google defenders.
Apple was taking your personal information about your personal music being played on your personal computer and sending it back to themselves.
So disable the Mini-Store.
Guess what, Slashdot is tracking every page you visit here, including your browser, OS, and IP address! Using geolocation, they could find out where in the country you are! The horror! In fact, every web server on the Internet has your IP!
EFI has BIOS emulation, so Windows XP should be able to run on a Mac. We'll see what steps are needed to get it installed. You don't even need a bootloader, since EFI replaces bootloaders.
It's gonna happen. But I'm not interested in that--I'm interested in someone taking advantage of the hardware virtualization in the Core Duos and letting me run Windows in a window on an OS X desktop with no performance hit. Screw dual-booting.
It's recommending based on what song is currently playing. What is "wrong" about that?
You may as well freak whenever your CD player app automatically accesses CDDB for the song titles. I can't imagine being that paranoid.
You're absolutely right. Hey, kids, guess what? Every web server you visit is logging your IP address in their server logs! My god! Even what browser and OS you're using!
iTunes recommending music based on your purchases isn't "malware." If iTunes was actually being malicious, THAT would be malware. All it's doing is recommending albums. What an inflammatory headline to generate page hits. People need to read the definition of what malware actually is.
I'm sorry, but "pheed" looks stupid. I like photocasting much better.
Powerbook becomes MacBook Pro, so naturally, the Power Mac will become Mac Pro.
Maybe we could moderate entire articles.
Yeah, it sure would be cool if there was a site that let you do that.
Uhh, did I miss something? Isn't this what modding, metamodding, friends and foes lists are for? With just five minutes' tweaking, /. gets a lot more readable.
I consider Slashdot's moderation system one of the most broken voting systems on the Internet. You could write the most informative comment anywhere, and it only takes five people with a grudge to send you down to 0, below most people's threshold, so that you likely won't get modded up again.
For some reason, the Slashdot crew ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to change the mod system. It's the worst part of the site. You simply cannot get an accurate rating for a post.
So, why did you modbomb a bunch of people "-1 Offtopic" in the last discussion? Can you really blame us for noticing that ScuttleMonkey always accepts these stories? He can see who the stories are from because he edits the submission to say "Beatles*Beatles writes to tell us..." Can you blame us for saying, wow, this is the twentieth time that has come from ScuttleMonkey? It just defies logic to say every one of those has been a coincidence. If it had been an even distribution of submissions from the various editors accepting his stories, that's one thing. But with the exception of one story, it's always ScuttleMonkey. ALWAYS.
That doesn't, I don't know, make you curious?
There's a bigger question--why are you subscribed to this place? Is this spam really worth your money?
...which was to spam Beatles' site again, thanks to ScuttleMonkey, who exclusively delivers his submissions to the loyal Slashdot readership. But yeah, there's nothing sneaky going on! Promise!!
It's one thing if he was posted evenly amongst the other editors. Okay, fine, they're all getting scammed by him.
But, with the exception of a CmdrTaco article, every other submission from this guy is posted by ScuttleMonkey. Why is that? It's proof they just don't care anymore at this site.
This crap is why people are flocking to Digg.com. Even though the discussions there suck because of no threading (yet), it's not really different from here, and when people are scamming the front page, everyone gangs together and undiggs it to remove it!
That's because Aperture is doing its layer processing in real-time using CoreImage and storing it in an SQLite database through CoreData.
As for the submission:
Is digital photo editing finally getting both powerful and easy?
It already was with apps like iPhoto (easy), Photoshop (powerful), and others. Aperture is geared toward professional photographers processing RAW format images. The submitter obviously has no idea what these apps are and what they're for--they're not supposed to be consumer-level photo-editing apps. They're professional photography pre-processing applications.
Does anyone else notice that usually the questions submitted to Ask Slashdot answer their own questions?
1.) This guy says he has vision problems.
2.) Then reveals that he only sleeps five hours a day.
3.) Then reveals over 15 hours are spent staring at one single surface.
4.) Then reveals a doctor has already told him what's going on.
5.) Then asks how he can relieve his eyes and regain his concentration.
For starters, how about sleeping more than five hours a day and not spending 15 hours straight staring at a single surface?
Sin through techno-lust?
I just see Jobs as one of the few Silicon Valley visionaries who deeply cares about not only how a device functions, but how well it fits into a human's normal daily environment. Like it or not, aesthetic and interface are bound to that. Whereas other companies don't bother spending the resources on six months of design to make a computer on a stand that doesn't wobble when you bump it, Apple holds up the release of their new iMac until it's done.
As for vitriol from Mac users, it's no different from that of rabid Windows users (and GOD do they get bitter) and Linux users. For the most part, Mac users get angry because Macs and OS X are so clearly superior to Windows PCs--which arguably is objectively true--and are frustrated that the American economy and society has come to rely on something so unreliable while remaining uninformed about a world of computing that doesn't involve viruses, spyware, tech support calls, registry edits, defragmentation, spending money on antivirus/registry cleaner/antispyware/firewall/etc. software...you get the picture.
The plagiarism is more amusing considering after Family Guy's cancellation, the Simpsons silently ripped off one of Family Guy's famous episodes by having Homer take over the job of Death just like Peter.
After all, where else can you see a stupid bald man getting raped by a panda. Hooray for recent Simpsons quality. Cough.
Media saturation. Some artists try to combat this by staying out of the limelight despite success, like the band Tool.
Man, you are obviously enlightened. You quoted "Maynard lyrics" at me! You're so hip, you don't even refer to it by the name of the Tool song, and you refer to the singer by an eponymous first name! You wouldn't be more educated if you had quoted "Trent lyrics" at me too.
You probably don't even know what that song is about. Yes, here I am, reading and posting on the site. And here you are. Meanwhile, my points still stand unrefuted.
Next.
It's rumored they'll be releasing Cocoa APIs for Windows this year, a resurrection of the old Yellow Box project.
Dude, you're criticizing a Slashdot news summary. A summary on Slashdot is supposed to contain a blaring headline that may or may not be accurate followed by a body of text that tells a "story." The story should leave on a goofy "cliffhanger" as a lead-in to comments. In this case, ooh, Burst has had the patents for a decade, ooh, they've made apps! What will happen! Ooh! Cliffhanger! It's all for page hits and ad rates.
Except for a grammar catcher!
self-sustaining buzz has more to do with his fame than whatever started the buzz in the first place.
Yeah, except for the whole iMac/iPod revolution he spearheaded at Apple, which proves he's famous for his results and not this "buzz" you keep referring to. The buzz exists because of results.
Your quote: I would think being the CEO of the company putting out the iPod, iMacs, and so on would be famous further substantiates this hypothesis. If anyone who was the CEO of such a company would be famous, than it is in fact true that Steve's fame is not a result of Steve's actions or attributes.
No, being the CEO of the company putting out the iPod and iMac means you're the guy in charge leading these developments at your company. Particularly in the case of Steve Jobs, who was famously critical of early iPod prototypes and demanded the ability to access any piece of music within three clicks, to cite one famous example. Jobs also put all the NeXT guys in charge and removed a lot of dead weight at the company, as well as slashing the product line to something like six from 20+.
You're really just begging the question, was it something remarkable about Steve that led to these products?
Yes. He spearheaded their creation, promoted Jonathan Ive, and was involved in their development processes. His perfectionism and high standards meant he refused to release anything less than stellar, and he chose the higher-ups and put in charge a lot of guys he had worked with at NeXT as well as gave people like Jonathan Ive free reign with his development budget to spend half a year on things like making an iMac G5 that doesn't wobble when you bump it.
To some extent of course it was, but I think we tend to overstate both the blame and the credit we give to CEOs because it's human nature to want to find a specific, concrete cause for success and failure.
But in the case of Steve Jobs, it's been stated many, many times how involved he is in the design process and how critical he is of things that don't meet his high product standards. To compare the talentless, do-nothing Hilton to the CEO of tech company Apple who helped develop and release the iPod/iMac/etc. is insane.