Are you on crack? You think anything having to do with Cocoa, OS X, or Apple in general qualifies as a "premiere app development tool"?
Yes, absolutely. Cocoa is the top, #1 application development tool. It beats the pants of everything out there. From stuff like CoreData to the NIB files of serialized interfaces for instant GUI prototyping. Just from Cocoa alone, all my app's text input boxes have free system-wide dictionary look-up, spellchecker, etc.
How many people do you really think use macs as opposed to PCs?
What does this have to do with anything? Not to mention most of those people aren't developers anyway.
It's all in good fun. When you're seeing the guy present such kick-ass products, it's fun to get caught up in it all. People love the guy for it.
Plus, in the engineer/marketing oriented world of the tech industry, it's nice to have a presentation that's got actual personality and excitement. Apple is trying to give you products to use in your daily lives. If people aren't excited about them, Apple would consider them failures.
He's famous because his strict perfectionism helps shape products like the iPod. He also has a way of presenting new technology in a simple way that is meaningful to people. Bill Gates and others present stuff as though they're talking to engineers and marketing droids.
I would think being the CEO of the company putting out the iPod, iMacs, and so on would be famous. Comparing him to Paris Hilton seems quite trollish.
NeXT is at the nexus of modern computing. Its ideas are still unmatched in competitors' products, and most importantly, the Cocoa API in OS X is the updated NeXT API, so it lives on as the premiere app development tool.
What a lame post. That's like saying the Nintendo Entertainment System didn't herald the future of console gaming just because it's not in every bedroom anymore.
You must get so many ladies with such an angry attitude toward a music playing device.
I want to turn this song up. Ok, scroll the wheel. WTF, why the Fuck is my song fast forwarding. Oh shit, I must have clicked twice.
So don't "click twice."
1) Volume controls should have had an up/down toogle. Reusing the same UI for fast forward/rewind and volume control is just retarded. If you disagree with me, try using an iPod in your car sometime ( while being a responsible driver and not staring at your iPod ).
Yeah, I do it every single day. Your idea would mean fumbling for volume up/down buttons.
2) Worst , most scratch screen ever
This doesn't have anything to do with the volume interface. Now you're just ranting.
3) overly expensive.
How so? For the price of a flash drive, you can get a flash-based player.
Now, I realise that slashdot is currently going through an Apple Wack-Off-Athon(tm) at the moment, and insulting apple is taboo.
You're just one of those trendy Apple-bashers who thinks they're so damned enlightened because they're "going against the grain." STICK TO THE MAN, YEAH! THAT'LL SHOW US!
Yet, frankly the iPod is an over hyped POS. If mine wasnt given to me, I would be right pissed off at the money I (didnt) pay for it.
Go to Undernet and visit IRC channel #aaff. Anyone in there? No? Yeah, that's the channel with all the people that care.
You could channel surf with a scroll wheel. Scroll up and down to surf incrementally, or hit Menu and dial in a channel directly using an iPod-like UI.
Apple has already solved all these problems of accessing audio and video, controlling volume, playing and pausing--it was solved with the iPod's wheel interface five years ago.
psst, Apple would probably just add a scroll wheel to the remote, not buttons. No need for Channel Up/Down or Volume Up/Down. It'll behave like an iPod currently does where all that functionality is packed into one clickwheel, making things feel immediately intuitive and reducing interface clutter.
And once again, you miss the point, that Bill Gates was simply referencing IBM's size to downplay competitors Google and Apple, showing that IBM is actually a bigger company than those two. It was just PR talk. You're taking it as a bizarre universal observation on greed in society simply because you hate Bill Gates.
So Bill Gates merely points out that IBM is a larger company, citing examples that illustrate such, and suddenly it's "envious greed" that casts a universal problem with happiness?
Dude...he was just trying to downplay Google and Apple by referencing IBM's size.
Why do people on Slashdot keep bitching about a "format war?" It's called competition in a free market, this freedom of choice thing you guys keep talking about.
The better format--be that image quality, more supported titles, cheaper players, whatever--will win out. That's how it's supposed to be, and that makes it better for consumers because both formats will try to undercut each other, which means cheaper prices and better players.
This service won't go anywhere, and one big reason is that most iPod owners don't buy music through the iTMS anyway. They rip existing CDs or download illegally. The iTMS is just an incentive to keep people using iPods.
Urge won't work with iPods, so it's dead in the water. Windows Media Player is a horrid music jukebox anyway, even despite its new interface rip-offs from iTunes.
Yeah, Microsoft would be interested in letting competitors make iTunes-compatible players so they can destroy Apple. And then comes the WMA format, and blah blah. Bill Gates is just pissed that his company is floundering in digital media, from HD-DVD to WMA.
And since when was it difficult to transfer iTMS songs from one computer to another? I have five machines including my laptop that all have my songs on them. I just copied them over and authorized the computer in iTunes. What's difficult about that?
And for those who will claim iTunes is lock-in, iTunes is the only cross-platform solution. Everyone else supports Windows only, since they're in bed with Microsoft. Microsoft is only interested in extending the Windows platform in the living room. So far, they've been failing miserably. Let them do what they want. Will "Urge" even have TV shows and movies like iTunes?
Here come the defensive explanations, excuses, and random conjecture to desperately shout down a stat showing Linux/Unix topping a vulnerability chart. This happens every time a negative Linux article appears on Slashdot.
Strangely, negative Windows articles don't get questioned.
If you're saying that the large size permits hiding by obsurity, a file system structure to store the data would be the same.
Wrong. With the registry, it's easy to exploit the system via mechanisms like DSO, or discreetly hiding things on startup.
On OS X, for instance, you can see what's starting up in/Library/StartupItems
It's just stupid to create a giant database that stores everything from filetypes to startup items to system configuration. Oh, and have fun when the file corrupts.
Why would someone who didn't care about Apple or South Park choose to click the "Read More" link and actually post a comment?
If "nobody would care," why'd you post? Yes, people care. It's just interesting news that gives some interesting stats about South Park's data storage, and they chose Xserves for it.
If they had chosen Linux servers, would you be bitching?
Einstein is so famous because pop culture made him famous. There were lots of brilliant physicists back then, and there are many today.
Same with Stephen Hawking. He's famous in pop culture today mostly because of his disability, which fits with the media's love of handicapped geniuses (aside from eccentric looking geniuses, like Einstein).
Okay, so you found an ugly-ass aluminum Lian-Li case, suddenly decided Apple's brushed metal PowerMacs were stolen from that design, and now all the sudden Apple "doesn't pioneer shit?" Hell, where do you think that Recycle Bin/Trash can you're using came from? How about those icons and pulldown menus? They weren't from Xerox.
And now I'm an "idiot," too? Can't argue with that kind of research. Clearly, you're just pissed off that I pointed out that Apple didn't steal anything from Lian-Li, and you responded as a typical anti-social, raving Slashdotter.
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Are you on crack? You think anything having to do with Cocoa, OS X, or Apple in general qualifies as a "premiere app development tool"?
Yes, absolutely. Cocoa is the top, #1 application development tool. It beats the pants of everything out there. From stuff like CoreData to the NIB files of serialized interfaces for instant GUI prototyping. Just from Cocoa alone, all my app's text input boxes have free system-wide dictionary look-up, spellchecker, etc.
How many people do you really think use macs as opposed to PCs?
What does this have to do with anything? Not to mention most of those people aren't developers anyway.
Next.
It's all in good fun. When you're seeing the guy present such kick-ass products, it's fun to get caught up in it all. People love the guy for it.
Plus, in the engineer/marketing oriented world of the tech industry, it's nice to have a presentation that's got actual personality and excitement. Apple is trying to give you products to use in your daily lives. If people aren't excited about them, Apple would consider them failures.
He's famous because his strict perfectionism helps shape products like the iPod. He also has a way of presenting new technology in a simple way that is meaningful to people. Bill Gates and others present stuff as though they're talking to engineers and marketing droids.
I would think being the CEO of the company putting out the iPod, iMacs, and so on would be famous. Comparing him to Paris Hilton seems quite trollish.
NeXT is at the nexus of modern computing. Its ideas are still unmatched in competitors' products, and most importantly, the Cocoa API in OS X is the updated NeXT API, so it lives on as the premiere app development tool.
What a lame post. That's like saying the Nintendo Entertainment System didn't herald the future of console gaming just because it's not in every bedroom anymore.
We need more perfectionists like that in this industry. This is an interesting read.
You must get so many ladies with such an angry attitude toward a music playing device.
I want to turn this song up. Ok, scroll the wheel. WTF, why the Fuck is my song fast forwarding. Oh shit, I must have clicked twice.
So don't "click twice."
1) Volume controls should have had an up/down toogle. Reusing the same UI for fast forward/rewind and volume control is just retarded. If you disagree with me, try using an iPod in your car sometime ( while being a responsible driver and not staring at your iPod ).
Yeah, I do it every single day. Your idea would mean fumbling for volume up/down buttons.
2) Worst , most scratch screen ever
This doesn't have anything to do with the volume interface. Now you're just ranting.
3) overly expensive.
How so? For the price of a flash drive, you can get a flash-based player.
Now, I realise that slashdot is currently going through an Apple Wack-Off-Athon(tm) at the moment, and insulting apple is taboo.
You're just one of those trendy Apple-bashers who thinks they're so damned enlightened because they're "going against the grain." STICK TO THE MAN, YEAH! THAT'LL SHOW US!
Yet, frankly the iPod is an over hyped POS. If mine wasnt given to me, I would be right pissed off at the money I (didnt) pay for it.
Go to Undernet and visit IRC channel #aaff. Anyone in there? No? Yeah, that's the channel with all the people that care.
You could channel surf with a scroll wheel. Scroll up and down to surf incrementally, or hit Menu and dial in a channel directly using an iPod-like UI.
Apple has already solved all these problems of accessing audio and video, controlling volume, playing and pausing--it was solved with the iPod's wheel interface five years ago.
Damn, I bet it brings you the chicks, too.
The way Apple already does that on the iPod. The clickwheel and iPod UI.
Power. Play/Pause. Fast forward. Rewind. Control/Menu. Channel up. There, that's six buttons. What are you missing?
Yes, let's think for a moment. What other gadget that Apple makes already packs all that functionality into one famous circular interface? Hmm...
psst, Apple would probably just add a scroll wheel to the remote, not buttons. No need for Channel Up/Down or Volume Up/Down. It'll behave like an iPod currently does where all that functionality is packed into one clickwheel, making things feel immediately intuitive and reducing interface clutter.
Microsoft has a lot of reason to worry.
And once again, you miss the point, that Bill Gates was simply referencing IBM's size to downplay competitors Google and Apple, showing that IBM is actually a bigger company than those two. It was just PR talk. You're taking it as a bizarre universal observation on greed in society simply because you hate Bill Gates.
So Bill Gates merely points out that IBM is a larger company, citing examples that illustrate such, and suddenly it's "envious greed" that casts a universal problem with happiness?
Dude...he was just trying to downplay Google and Apple by referencing IBM's size.
Why do people on Slashdot keep bitching about a "format war?" It's called competition in a free market, this freedom of choice thing you guys keep talking about.
The better format--be that image quality, more supported titles, cheaper players, whatever--will win out. That's how it's supposed to be, and that makes it better for consumers because both formats will try to undercut each other, which means cheaper prices and better players.
Stop bitching about a format war! Welcome it!
This service won't go anywhere, and one big reason is that most iPod owners don't buy music through the iTMS anyway. They rip existing CDs or download illegally. The iTMS is just an incentive to keep people using iPods.
Urge won't work with iPods, so it's dead in the water. Windows Media Player is a horrid music jukebox anyway, even despite its new interface rip-offs from iTunes.
Your post is summed up as, "Even though it had security holes, ActiveX was good." Umm, no.
Yeah, Microsoft would be interested in letting competitors make iTunes-compatible players so they can destroy Apple. And then comes the WMA format, and blah blah. Bill Gates is just pissed that his company is floundering in digital media, from HD-DVD to WMA.
And since when was it difficult to transfer iTMS songs from one computer to another? I have five machines including my laptop that all have my songs on them. I just copied them over and authorized the computer in iTunes. What's difficult about that?
And for those who will claim iTunes is lock-in, iTunes is the only cross-platform solution. Everyone else supports Windows only, since they're in bed with Microsoft. Microsoft is only interested in extending the Windows platform in the living room. So far, they've been failing miserably. Let them do what they want. Will "Urge" even have TV shows and movies like iTunes?
Here come the defensive explanations, excuses, and random conjecture to desperately shout down a stat showing Linux/Unix topping a vulnerability chart. This happens every time a negative Linux article appears on Slashdot.
Strangely, negative Windows articles don't get questioned.
If you're saying that the large size permits hiding by obsurity, a file system structure to store the data would be the same.
/Library/StartupItems
Wrong. With the registry, it's easy to exploit the system via mechanisms like DSO, or discreetly hiding things on startup.
On OS X, for instance, you can see what's starting up in
It's just stupid to create a giant database that stores everything from filetypes to startup items to system configuration. Oh, and have fun when the file corrupts.
NET is designed to work on any and all operating systems.
.NET is the framework, and a lot of it is Windows-dependent. Microsoft hasn't released WinForms for Linux or OS X, have they?
No, it's not; MSIL is.
C#/.NET is Microsoft's little trick to lure Java developers.
Why would someone who didn't care about Apple or South Park choose to click the "Read More" link and actually post a comment?
If "nobody would care," why'd you post? Yes, people care. It's just interesting news that gives some interesting stats about South Park's data storage, and they chose Xserves for it.
If they had chosen Linux servers, would you be bitching?
Virtual folders and metadata indexing. Hardware accelerated desktop composition. I sure hope we see that someday.
I love when people defend the failure that is the Windows registry. Spyware and virus authors want the registry to stick around forever too.
Einstein is so famous because pop culture made him famous. There were lots of brilliant physicists back then, and there are many today.
Same with Stephen Hawking. He's famous in pop culture today mostly because of his disability, which fits with the media's love of handicapped geniuses (aside from eccentric looking geniuses, like Einstein).
Okay, so you found an ugly-ass aluminum Lian-Li case, suddenly decided Apple's brushed metal PowerMacs were stolen from that design, and now all the sudden Apple "doesn't pioneer shit?" Hell, where do you think that Recycle Bin/Trash can you're using came from? How about those icons and pulldown menus? They weren't from Xerox.
And now I'm an "idiot," too? Can't argue with that kind of research. Clearly, you're just pissed off that I pointed out that Apple didn't steal anything from Lian-Li, and you responded as a typical anti-social, raving Slashdotter.
Amusing...next.