Bingo - thats the reason I dont go there anymore. They are Intel fanboyz from way back and by experience I come to expect nothing but bias from them. Good catch.
I believe that mind-share is a lot more important than market share. Right now, really ever since the introduction of the G5, Apple has a growing mind share that manifests itself in one simple truth: Apple is not a JOKE anymore. Even those that dont buy mac know this.
A year ago, macs were viewed as computers for the cultists. Now, macs are the uber cool computers on the market. They got that way by growing mindshare; putting out a computer (the G5) so far ahead of where they were that even Apple haters had to admit that Apple had a machine that equaled anything in the PC world.
And now, even faster ones are less than a week away.
Yes, Macs cost more. But I've not heard once the truth that Macs are at minimum able to hold their value around 4 times longer when it comes time to sell. I bought a new Quicksilver model 733 when intro'ed, didnt like it compared to my PC ( at the time, OS X was 10.1 and slow as cold honey dripping out of a jar) but I sold it on ebay combined with some software and games for exactly $125.00 less than I paid for it, after using it for 13 months!
You cant do that with *any* PC made, with the possible exception of something like a Alienware 51. And buy then, youre up in the price range of a Dual G5 anyways.
I love my Dual 1.8 and OS X 10.3 blows away Windows XP in any area I look except for games, and my homebrew Barton 2500+ @ 2366 Mhz takes care of them. Windows is now nothing more than a game console to me now.
Assuming you are telling the truth about your claim of running pirated XP - it's a real pity that the only way you can think of "getting back" at Microsoft is to continue to use one of their products, even if you didnt pay for it.
Why not use a Linux distro, or even OS X, and be microsoft free while making your dollars go to a company ( like Apple ) who opposes the monopoly?
Oh, thats right - I forgot - guys like you NEVER pay for software. And a new G5 is way beyond your means. Pity.
Why do you claim that Apple is having trouble moving to 64 bits in OS X? Apple is probably farther along than Microsoft is - and there's no story that you can point to to back that claim up, sez me.
Besides, who the hell cares what Sun and SGI has ever done *on the desktop?* I get the same reaction to that as I do to all the endless bleatings I had to endure when Apple claimed the G5 was the first 64 bit chip and every all-knowing idiot screamed "WHAT ABOUT THE DEC ALPHA?" Right. Like the Alpha was found on SO MANY desktops back in the day. RIGHT.:/
The fact is that Apple's finally got their shit together after years of suffering at the hands of Motorola. and they are making the best personal computer made today. Just accept the new reality - I know it's hard, but you'll find a new target to bash on.
Yeah, thats great and all......but something has to change in the interface and imput dept. for that to mean anything at all.
I think the usefullness of our methods of getting input into a computer ( think keyboard, think mouse ) are incredibly behind the times. Who is going to lead the music input and speech input wars? Thats what I wanna know.
it's about time computer makers started worrying less about how many Ghz they can wring out and start bringing us some actual advancements in technology that MEAN something. Like being able to converse with your computer as freely as with another person, and the resulting 100X gain in productivity that would result.
It seems to be a/. point of view that anything outside of the Linux arena is a waste of time in some manner. If these folks want to try to revive BeOS, what business is it of yours, and why go on about it?
There's 3 things BeOS had going for it - lighting fast GUI responsiveness, excellent handling of both audio and video media, and a way before it's time journaling FS that allowed you to yank the AC plug out of the wall with no data corruption. I daresay only one of these has been implemented on *nix ( the FS ) and the other two are still MIA. Until you open source guys get linux up to the same speed in the other 2 areas that they are concerned with, dont bother asking why they are working on OpenBeOS. They are doing it becuase even after 5 years not one operating system made compares in those 2 areas.
And in general, pissing on other peoples parades shows insecurity about what you are doing. Let em alone.
This is mostly related to the parent post, but not the topic. I got a G4 733 Quicksilver right after they came out in 2000, and quickly learned that Mr. Job's Reality Distortion Field had ensnared me. The machine was pretty but dog ass slow, OS X was slower and the machine really lagged behind my home made PC. I used it for a while and then sold it on ebay after about a year. I sold it for exactly 125 bucks less than I had paid for it, after getting a year's use out of it.
Name me ONE wintel based PC you can buy ( not build, buy ) use it for a year, and sell it for damn near what you paid for it? You cant. PC's are like new cars, half their value goes out the window the second they are yours.
So much for cost arguments.
As far as the iPod battery goes, I dont have one, but I personally would not be pissed if my battery lasted only 18 months. I dont see anyone complaining that their new cam, even with the best rechargables money can buy, only get 80 shots before charge time. They just accept it.
I got the idea when a local high school started their own radio station. It was at this point that I realized that EVERY other station MUST be taking money for air time because this new station was just so refreshing. I mean, they were playing R&B followed by classic rock followed by obscure alternative (unsigned stuff).
Well, you just described commercial radio circa 1965. The fact that you cant find radio like that today has almost zero to do with the RIAA and a lot more to do with the fact that local ownership in radio today is at it's lowest point in history. Almost every major market radio station in the country in owned by 3 media corporations: Clear Channel, Viacom, or Infinity Broadcasting.
These 3 corporations, backed by never ending radio "consultants" that do focus group research, play the same genre based formats in every city in the USA. Thats why a rock station in Fairbanks, Alaska plays and sounds the same as one in Key West, Florida.
The RIAA has a role to play, but they are not responsible for the sorry state of the radio business. Total domination of the entire business by 3 companies and their hired lackeys are.
Well, no matter what you think of Apple, the ITMS is a leader of the pack by a large margin, and nothing breeds respect like success. Jobs has more than once warned the other players jumping on the bandwagon that the ITMS was being use as a trojan horse to sell iPods, and if it were not for that fact, they wouldnt be making a dime.
Since all the other players dont have anything to sell after the fact, they probably are gonna lose money with the suits taking such a huge chunk of it.
10 years from now when Apple gets the iVMS
(Internet Video & Music Store) going over everyone's new FTTH 100MB and you can have tens of thousands of films on yer desktop for 99 cents ( or whatever )on top of the music you have now, thank Apple. They made it possible.
And I have no doubt that if S. Jobs is still running Apple, they'll be the only ones to get it right, just like ITMS.
Yes, quite right. I have a rule when it comes to music - RIAA be damned - that if the artist in question is dead, the music is good to go. If the artist is alive, I'll give the sample 30 second clips on ITMS a listen. If I like 1 song, I buy that song. If I like more than 4 or 5 on the CD I'll go buy the CD.
Copyrights should last as long as the persons that made the product live. After that, who gives a shit? Only the money grubbing corporations. Musicians as short a time ago as the 1950's USED to make their money thru touring and the sale of merchandise AT THEIR OWN SHOWS. Combine this with copyright for the life of the maker and they will make a better living than 99% of the people that buy their works.
I agree with the above poster 199.4%.
And of course, no one has said yet that any system can be 100% protected from worms, virii, and trojans the same way they were in the old days.
No net connection, no remote access, no chance of getting anything unless the attacker is in a same space.
There some computer systems that simply dont need net access, but have it anyway just because in 2003 it's the norm to have some box in the chain that does.
If they really wanted to make systems safe they can isolate any machine that does not need to be networked, and there are lots of machines and job functions that dont need to be. But we've all forgotten the not so distant past, when no one had a net connection. Rememeber the cheapest network protocol? SneakerNet!
Go look for Clutter. It grabs the cover art from Amazon.com as you play your songs in iTunes and dowloads the images to your Clutter window. You can then drag it off onto your desktop and play yer songs by clicking on the album cover.
The selected album appears in the clutter window and you can select and go thru any song on it. Very cool, and the closest thing right now to having the old vinyl covers around you as you play music - I have no doubt it will be expanded at some point to include liner notes and such. It's too good an idea to not develop further.
Boy, you got the updates and patches part right. None of our customers care if their systems are patched or not - they just want us to put em in the police car / truck / ambulance and have them work. Computers are not things to futz with to these poeple, they are used as tools and nothing more.
I would say that 35% of our mobile unit customers, and by that I mean folks running police 911 systems in police cars, are still running Windows 95 A with RadCom software thats so old it wont run on Windows 98SE!!!! A certain unnamed police dept in upstate NY is running 233MMX Pentiums with 16 MB of RAM! They wont upgrade, they say they dont need to.
Do you feel safer now knowing our state & local governments are investing in technology? I know I do!
No, becuase his answer was 10 times better than yours, just like OS X is 10 times the operating system DebianGNU/Linux is. Not a troll, it's the stone truth.
If all of you free op systems guys would unite behind Apple and OS X on the desktop and put all your efforts into making *nix the absolute server OS of all time THEN you would make Microsoft sweat bullets. OS X on the desktop and a unified ( yeah I know, thats a running joke ) Linux Server that kicks anything from MS in the ass - imagine that.
oh yeah, thats right - Apple's hardware is too pricey too slow the gay computer etc etc etc...even though OS X is the holy grail, you cant accept it becuase it's not free.
What you seek is right in front of your nose, but you wont take it becuase you're too proud. If half of you guys would buy a G5 or iBook you would do a lot more to hurt MS and dilute it's power than yet another linus distro. How about Apple with a 30% market share? Think that would'nt grab ole Billy Boy's attention?
Yeah, mod this a troll. I dont care. It's real.
I thinks it's premature to build a few test SDRAM cells and then magically announce they are going to build chips using that tech in possibly less than 1 year and 1 month. It's far more likely they will not meet that target, given the real hurdles of fully implementing that process to overcome. A few SDRAM cells does not a P5(6?) make.
Also, someone is not telling the truth.
"The 65-nanometer chips will not include the IBM-touted silicon-on-insulator technology, either. "We have not seen any significant performance advantages with SOI," Bohr said."
Well, who is it? IBM and AMD are going with it. Who's wrong, Intel or IBM/AMD? I'd like to know.
But it seems to me to be rather premature announcement, supposing these chips will be out when Intel says they will be. I think Intel is starting to feel the heat from quarters they didnt expect, like AMD and Apple via the good graces of IBM. Athlon 64 looks like a winner and so does the IBM made G5. IBM and AMD both have great looking roadmaps for the future.
This smells like a another smear piece by Intel to me, kinda like paper launching the P4 Emergency Edition on AMD's rollout day for the Athlon 64.
When countries no longer protect their industries and at the same time allow unfettered importing and exporting between countries, this is what happens. Capitalism will always seek the lowest cost labor at the expense of workers. Funny thing is, until this started affecting poeple in the tech arena nobody much cared. After all, they could still buy shirts at Walmart for 5 bucks.
But then, they got laid off becuase their tech support got outsourced to India. Now they HAVE to buy the 5 dollar shirt.
What I want to know is: How do all these business owners think they will sell their expensive wares when everyone is back to making 7 dollars a hour?
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· Score: 4, Funny
If you get any fingerprints, scratches, etc on yer disks they are not going to burn anywheres close to the rated drive speed anyways. Most poeple dont get the benefit of higher speed burns becuase they are slobbish:)
Id like to see two ratings for burnable media. Something like 8X when new and clean, 2X when smeared with grape jam and peanut butter or somethin.:D
I'm 40, and still enjoy Battlefield 1942/Desert Combat. I really dont care to play anything else. When I was younger I played every single quality FPS I could get my hands on. Doom, Quake I, Some of the quality DOS based games like Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, too. ( which was awesome for it's time )
As time goes by, gaming is less and less important to me, the same way that building my own machine and futzing around with op systems is. Been there, done that, over and over. Now I just want a machine that gets out of my way and makes it easy to do things. Had a Mac but sold it becuase it was DOG ASS slow compared to my Windows box. Now that the G5 is out I'm thinking about the Mac again. It was really easy to do quality digital photography on the Mac.
I'd rather have a computer that helps me in other area of life instead of just being a hobby into and of itself these days.
I call bullshit. This guy is feeling powerless over his life, and violence is the court of last resort for the powerless. That's why the War on Terrorism is so flawed an idea - tomorrow, they may point the gun at you becuase you're the threat, you, with your old fashioned ideas about individual freedom and liberty.
Such ideas are imcompatable with 2003 USA as we find it. One or the other must die. Which side to you want to choose to win, the government of the likes of Dick Cheney and the neo-cons, or the common citizens? Im on the little guys side - Dick Cheney is already rich and powerful.
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Bingo - thats the reason I dont go there anymore. They are Intel fanboyz from way back and by experience I come to expect nothing but bias from them. Good catch.
A year ago, macs were viewed as computers for the cultists. Now, macs are the uber cool computers on the market. They got that way by growing mindshare; putting out a computer (the G5) so far ahead of where they were that even Apple haters had to admit that Apple had a machine that equaled anything in the PC world.
And now, even faster ones are less than a week away.
You cant do that with *any* PC made, with the possible exception of something like a Alienware 51. And buy then, youre up in the price range of a Dual G5 anyways.
I love my Dual 1.8 and OS X 10.3 blows away Windows XP in any area I look except for games, and my homebrew Barton 2500+ @ 2366 Mhz takes care of them. Windows is now nothing more than a game console to me now.
Why not use a Linux distro, or even OS X, and be microsoft free while making your dollars go to a company ( like Apple ) who opposes the monopoly?
Oh, thats right - I forgot - guys like you NEVER pay for software. And a new G5 is way beyond your means. Pity.
Besides, who the hell cares what Sun and SGI has ever done *on the desktop?* I get the same reaction to that as I do to all the endless bleatings I had to endure when Apple claimed the G5 was the first 64 bit chip and every all-knowing idiot screamed "WHAT ABOUT THE DEC ALPHA?" Right. Like the Alpha was found on SO MANY desktops back in the day. RIGHT. :/
The fact is that Apple's finally got their shit together after years of suffering at the hands of Motorola. and they are making the best personal computer made today. Just accept the new reality - I know it's hard, but you'll find a new target to bash on.
Yeah, thats great and all......but something has to change in the interface and imput dept. for that to mean anything at all. I think the usefullness of our methods of getting input into a computer ( think keyboard, think mouse ) are incredibly behind the times. Who is going to lead the music input and speech input wars? Thats what I wanna know. it's about time computer makers started worrying less about how many Ghz they can wring out and start bringing us some actual advancements in technology that MEAN something. Like being able to converse with your computer as freely as with another person, and the resulting 100X gain in productivity that would result.
It seems to be a /. point of view that anything outside of the Linux arena is a waste of time in some manner. If these folks want to try to revive BeOS, what business is it of yours, and why go on about it?
There's 3 things BeOS had going for it - lighting fast GUI responsiveness, excellent handling of both audio and video media, and a way before it's time journaling FS that allowed you to yank the AC plug out of the wall with no data corruption. I daresay only one of these has been implemented on *nix ( the FS ) and the other two are still MIA. Until you open source guys get linux up to the same speed in the other 2 areas that they are concerned with, dont bother asking why they are working on OpenBeOS. They are doing it becuase even after 5 years not one operating system made compares in those 2 areas.
And in general, pissing on other peoples parades shows insecurity about what you are doing. Let em alone.
Name me ONE wintel based PC you can buy ( not build, buy ) use it for a year, and sell it for damn near what you paid for it? You cant. PC's are like new cars, half their value goes out the window the second they are yours.
So much for cost arguments.
As far as the iPod battery goes, I dont have one, but I personally would not be pissed if my battery lasted only 18 months. I dont see anyone complaining that their new cam, even with the best rechargables money can buy, only get 80 shots before charge time. They just accept it.
Well, you just described commercial radio circa 1965. The fact that you cant find radio like that today has almost zero to do with the RIAA and a lot more to do with the fact that local ownership in radio today is at it's lowest point in history. Almost every major market radio station in the country in owned by 3 media corporations: Clear Channel, Viacom, or Infinity Broadcasting.
These 3 corporations, backed by never ending radio "consultants" that do focus group research, play the same genre based formats in every city in the USA. Thats why a rock station in Fairbanks, Alaska plays and sounds the same as one in Key West, Florida.
The RIAA has a role to play, but they are not responsible for the sorry state of the radio business. Total domination of the entire business by 3 companies and their hired lackeys are.
/. ed already, 30 seconds after the post. (sigh)
Since all the other players dont have anything to sell after the fact, they probably are gonna lose money with the suits taking such a huge chunk of it.
10 years from now when Apple gets the iVMS (Internet Video & Music Store) going over everyone's new FTTH 100MB and you can have tens of thousands of films on yer desktop for 99 cents ( or whatever )on top of the music you have now, thank Apple. They made it possible.
And I have no doubt that if S. Jobs is still running Apple, they'll be the only ones to get it right, just like ITMS.
Copyrights should last as long as the persons that made the product live. After that, who gives a shit? Only the money grubbing corporations. Musicians as short a time ago as the 1950's USED to make their money thru touring and the sale of merchandise AT THEIR OWN SHOWS. Combine this with copyright for the life of the maker and they will make a better living than 99% of the people that buy their works.
There some computer systems that simply dont need net access, but have it anyway just because in 2003 it's the norm to have some box in the chain that does.
If they really wanted to make systems safe they can isolate any machine that does not need to be networked, and there are lots of machines and job functions that dont need to be. But we've all forgotten the not so distant past, when no one had a net connection. Rememeber the cheapest network protocol? SneakerNet!
Go look for Clutter. It grabs the cover art from Amazon.com as you play your songs in iTunes and dowloads the images to your Clutter window. You can then drag it off onto your desktop and play yer songs by clicking on the album cover. The selected album appears in the clutter window and you can select and go thru any song on it. Very cool, and the closest thing right now to having the old vinyl covers around you as you play music - I have no doubt it will be expanded at some point to include liner notes and such. It's too good an idea to not develop further.
So, they are having a DDos attack, and then /. comes along and gives em a SDDos attack. Talk about kicking some one when they're down.....
Boy, you got the updates and patches part right. None of our customers care if their systems are patched or not - they just want us to put em in the police car / truck / ambulance and have them work. Computers are not things to futz with to these poeple, they are used as tools and nothing more. I would say that 35% of our mobile unit customers, and by that I mean folks running police 911 systems in police cars, are still running Windows 95 A with RadCom software thats so old it wont run on Windows 98SE!!!! A certain unnamed police dept in upstate NY is running 233MMX Pentiums with 16 MB of RAM! They wont upgrade, they say they dont need to. Do you feel safer now knowing our state & local governments are investing in technology? I know I do!
No, becuase his answer was 10 times better than yours, just like OS X is 10 times the operating system DebianGNU/Linux is. Not a troll, it's the stone truth. If all of you free op systems guys would unite behind Apple and OS X on the desktop and put all your efforts into making *nix the absolute server OS of all time THEN you would make Microsoft sweat bullets. OS X on the desktop and a unified ( yeah I know, thats a running joke ) Linux Server that kicks anything from MS in the ass - imagine that. oh yeah, thats right - Apple's hardware is too pricey too slow the gay computer etc etc etc...even though OS X is the holy grail, you cant accept it becuase it's not free. What you seek is right in front of your nose, but you wont take it becuase you're too proud. If half of you guys would buy a G5 or iBook you would do a lot more to hurt MS and dilute it's power than yet another linus distro. How about Apple with a 30% market share? Think that would'nt grab ole Billy Boy's attention? Yeah, mod this a troll. I dont care. It's real.
Its about time somebody didnt just roll over and play dead. Sic em.
I think that sentence says Moore about their alcohol consumption than anything else.
Also, someone is not telling the truth.
"The 65-nanometer chips will not include the IBM-touted silicon-on-insulator technology, either. "We have not seen any significant performance advantages with SOI," Bohr said."
Well, who is it? IBM and AMD are going with it. Who's wrong, Intel or IBM/AMD? I'd like to know.
This smells like a another smear piece by Intel to me, kinda like paper launching the P4 Emergency Edition on AMD's rollout day for the Athlon 64.
Boo. Hiss.
But then, they got laid off becuase their tech support got outsourced to India. Now they HAVE to buy the 5 dollar shirt.
What I want to know is: How do all these business owners think they will sell their expensive wares when everyone is back to making 7 dollars a hour?
Id like to see two ratings for burnable media. Something like 8X when new and clean, 2X when smeared with grape jam and peanut butter or somethin. :D
As time goes by, gaming is less and less important to me, the same way that building my own machine and futzing around with op systems is. Been there, done that, over and over. Now I just want a machine that gets out of my way and makes it easy to do things. Had a Mac but sold it becuase it was DOG ASS slow compared to my Windows box. Now that the G5 is out I'm thinking about the Mac again. It was really easy to do quality digital photography on the Mac.
I'd rather have a computer that helps me in other area of life instead of just being a hobby into and of itself these days.
I call bullshit. This guy is feeling powerless over his life, and violence is the court of last resort for the powerless. That's why the War on Terrorism is so flawed an idea - tomorrow, they may point the gun at you becuase you're the threat, you, with your old fashioned ideas about individual freedom and liberty. Such ideas are imcompatable with 2003 USA as we find it. One or the other must die. Which side to you want to choose to win, the government of the likes of Dick Cheney and the neo-cons, or the common citizens? Im on the little guys side - Dick Cheney is already rich and powerful.