I'm in the same camp. Used Gentoo and have more or less switched to FreeBSD for all my servers and for one desktop. BSD, at the time anyway, deteched external drives easier and it was strange that pretty much everything "just worked."
However, when it didn't "just work" is actually where I found FreeBSD to have the greatest advantage over any Linux distro. FreeBSD is just FreeBSD and so when you look at the handbook it always applies. In particular, if you do your installation from ports, things are pretty consistent and that's a really nice change.
Admittedly, my main work machine is a PowerBook G4, but that doesn't change the fact that I greatly enjoy using FreeBSD.
I didn't write it in this post, but I haven't purchased a copy since the THX remastered VHS came out just before the whole "Special Edition" fiasco. I only purchased those since my other copies were the ones my mom got me in the early 80s which had been watched WAY too many times by my little bother and me.
I refused to buy the Special Editions. It looks like it's paying off for me too. (However, I still thought someone needed to properly translate the PR.)
Thank you so much. I was about to write something because, deep down, I loathe 2ed. It's the reason I didn't role play and thought table top gaming sucked for a long time. The mechanics were a kludge, plain and simple.
THAC0 anyone? The GP is complaining about stacking modifiers but thinks a system with THAC0 was a GOOD idea? You needed a table for like... everything. And the non-linear advancement of attributes? Well let's see here... the jump from 16 to 17 != 17 to 18. (Oh yes and let's not forget the weird ass 18/00 - 18/99, none of which are as burly as 19. And then 25 isn't 25% buffer than 20... it's a cloud giant compared to an orc or something.)
Half the problems he complains about have nothing to do with anything but power leveler characters... something that happens in any game. Ever play White Wolf Games? Power level characters are easy to deal with. Either DM yourself or make sure you have a DM that nips the problem at the bud. I usually play with the same crew, but new plays always get "the chat."
And if you really wanna fore role playing... roll for stats flat out and let them go from there. It really just depends on how you want the game to go.
2ed. had a lot of good fiction with it and a rich background but the implementation sucked balls. This is what Shadowrun (not a very good system either, but better) and White Wolf got me into gaming.
No. He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil.
Seriously, this isn't about good in the least. Let me do some translating here. From TFA:
"Over the years, a truly countless number of fans have told us that they would love to see and own the original version that they remember experiencing in theaters," said Jim Ward, President of LucasArts and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd. "We returned to the Lucasfilm Archives to search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD. This is something that we're very excited to be able to give to fans in response to their continuing enthusiasm for Star Wars."
Like all PR machines, there's a certain amount of fudging that goes on, let me translate:
"Over the years, a throng of vicious purists have told us that the so called 'improvements' suck balls. What they want to see is the original before we did more damage than repair. There was also a large number of nerds stationed outside George's house chanting, 'Han Shot First.'" said Jim Ward, President of LucasArts and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd. "Pretty much, all we have to do is take the last VHS release before the special editions and prime it for DVD release. However, don't make the mistake that we're being altruistic to our fans in any way. The fact is, many of these weak willed nerds broke down and bought the first DVD release and now that their failure is complete, we can sock it to them with yet another release. George loves cash, what can we say? We double charge the weak and now even milk the cash out of the purists that were holding out."
I haven't purchased a new copy since the THX remastered VHS tapes that came out just before the "special editions." I'm glad I held out too. (Although the amount I've historically spent on action figures probably counterbalances any imagined savings.)
There was a lot I liked about the special editions. The updated space scenes and basically everything in background of Bespin was nice. I even liked the updated wampa monster. But seriously, why go to all that trouble of adding some awful new musical number in Jabba's palace and not even fix up the lightsabers in the first battle between Kenobi and Vader? It seemed so random.
For every step forward there were two steps back. The Yani style Ewok song at the end and the new singers in Jabba's palace about did me in. And of course, the Greedo thing. Not only did it suck thematically, the action implementation sucked. The first shot looked so... I dunno. The scene was all bad. I haven't watched the DVD version, but I can't imagine they made it much better. The Jabba scene in IV, while cute, was totally unecessary and really never looked right or fit.
The few parts I did see of the new DVD release were enough to turn me off. Boba Fett had this cool menacing voice. What did they replace it with? "G'day mate! I'm Boba Fett and today we're gonna be tracking the WILD HAN SOLO! He's a slippery little bugger, but he's no match for THE BOUNTY HUNTER!" I realize it was the voice from the dude that played Jango Fett but the voice over... I mean... you might as well have neutered Boba Fett.
I wish I had the ability to cut my own with what I did like from the special edition with the original. Maybe I can with these DVDs.
I haven't watched the originals since I saw the special editions in the theater. I'm gonna scoop these bad boys up pretty much as soon as they're available. It's a good day.
My email address is listed. Use it. (Yours isn't or I would have simply sent you something!) And it's not true that you can never leave the system. You can.
I find our direction worse than the Nazis. At least they were pretty up front about being imperialist dogs and were also clear in their party name. National Socialists. Freedom was never their message. In those regards, at least they were being up front.
In America we still think we're a free people and actually go bomb the fuck out of foreign countries to have our corporations rebuild them with open ended contracts in the name of "liberating" another nation. Every encroachment on our own liberty or the sovereign rights of another nation is given the name "liberty."
We have more people in prison, per capita, than any European nation. We've got more laws and more bullshit than we were ever meant to. Our state governments become more and more useless every day since the Federal Goverment continues to centralize everything. I can't use my fucking toilet without it complying with umpteen federal regulations.
60 years ago my grandfather could simply go out and start a business almost completely devoid of any state or federal compliance. Now? $25,000 and a minor law degree later (or hire an attorney and accountant) and I can start a business in debt! Oh happy day!
This country is a joke. And as for it being the only superpower... maybe we've all forgotten about that big fucking country across the Pacific. Let's see here... Shina? Kina? Keena? Wait... wait... I know this one. It's that country that pretty much controls world manufacturing right now. It makes like... everything. China! That's it! I knew I'd remember.
When the dollar plumits further and we have nothing but service jobs in this country... trust me... the days of the USA being considered a superpower will be over. Our own corruption, generational greed, over taxing, over regulation and and good old hubris are about to eat us alive. Beasts like this cannot sustain forever.
2. The Constitution doesn't provide for this in much the way it doesn't provide for Social Security. However, like all bad things (such as SS) it will begin as voluntary and just become a de facto requirement. SSNs aren't REQUIRED to live and work in the USA if you're not an alien worker. I know, I don't have one. However, try actually living a reasonable life once you've "opted out" of the system.
4. It's not that we have an evil government now? Have you ever watched an IRS related "trial?" If the general practice and corruption of the US government doesn't qualify as evil, I'd love to know what does.
The people who want to put RFID in ID cards aren't foolish. They aren't people who "don't realize where this slippery slope leads." They know. That's why they're evil.
I swear, it's like it's getting to the point where you can't buy or sell without these fucking numbers and cards.
This is exactly what I was thinking. 2006 will be remembered among geeks as the year of shitty names.
The MacBook I can see though. They want "Mac" in the name, whatever.
However, didn't they have a panel of like... I dunno... SOMEONE that looked at this and thought it was as bad of an idea as everyone here seems to? I never cease to find myself awe struck over this kind of crap. Don't these people get paid tons of cash NOT to make blatantly retarded decisions?
(Seriously though, I liked your posts. You seen even more strange in that you're in the SF area and an NRA member. Anyway, my email is displayed, unlike yours. You should use it! And now that this story isn't sitting on the front page I don't mind posting something this shameless.)
Or a Social Security Number for that matter. A few decades ago this is the same number that was "not to be used for identification purposes."
The errosion of liberty is a slow process, but it happens and it's planned.
If course, if 10% of the population... hell... 5% of the population just said "no" to government, that would be that. No one will though and the few of us that do will... well... be denounced as quacks until it's too late.
Honestly, it's a convenience thing anymore. I'm not a big fan of wireless keyboards/mice and I'd want to stay wired. Plus two printers. Plus my external drives. You're right though, a USB hub would solve this.
However, if there was some sort of a mini station so that when I got home and connected my laptop to that gave me: power, wired ethernet, sound, all my USB devices and my other display, it would be nice. If you're someone who moves a lot, it's a lot nicer to plug into one station rather than have to plug a bunch of crap in every single time you want to hook up. Even eith everything on a USB hub, without a station I have 5 individual connections to make. If they're going into a docking station I can keep them better organized.
I know there are plenty of port replicators out there for the PowerBook right now though. They pretty much do the trick.
Of course the docking station a client of mine just got for his HP is more obnoxious and inconvenient than just plugging everything in.
Virtualization, not dual booting, is actually what I'm looking forward to. Games may be all the rage around here, but for use lowly web devs, being able to run: Firefox (OS X, Linux, Windows), Safari, Konqueror, Opera (OS X, Linux, Windows) and IE 6 & 7 (well, whenever it rears its ugly head) on the same machine with no rebooting... that will be excellent.
I use my Mac most of the time. (12" PowerBook) However, to take a look at the world in IE 6 I have to go to another machine. By the time the Intel model I want is available, Parrallels should be ready to go and I'll have everything I want right at my finger tips.
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CrossOver Office is, more or less, commercial WINE and in my experience it was much more stable and easier to set up. It's a non-issue now though since I don't run Linux on a desktop anymore.
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I dunno why I haven't seen anyone comment on this but, I think many of us Mac using web developers should be loving this. Not so much the dual boot, but the virtualization end of this. The ONE app that I've been lacking on a Mac (and when I was running Linux) is IE 6 and soon enough IE 7 (whenever they decide to release it).
When I was running Linux, CrossOver Office actually did a pretty good job of running IE 6 so long as there was no JavaScript involved. Now I can have IE 6 (as well as the Windows versions of FireFox and Opera) to test. Hell, if this virtualization stuff lets me run Ubuntu or something in another window, I can test all the most common (and not so common) browers from one machine. That's just sweet.
As soon as a 12" Intel PowerBook is available, I'm buying!
For the most part, I find dual booting unpractical... except for video games which is the only thing that kept my old Linux machine dual booting. I don't knnow about most people but I'm not IMimg, checking email or coding anything while playing Counter-Strike or whatever.
Mind you, WoW is pretty much the only thing I play right now, but being able to play Dawn of War every now and then wouldn't be bad either.
"But Vista will be using the 3d card for the UI, the first OS to do so. Look for all OSes to follow in the years to come, as 3d functionality/efficiency improves while 2d functionality is largely static."
Okay, the GP was a jackass and you illustrated that pretty well, you're way wrong here. Vista isn't even close to the first the be using the 3D card for the GUI. I couldn't tell you who was first, but I can say that OS X already does this and has for quite a long time.
And x.org already has acceletation via OpenGL that takes advantage of the GPU when drawing a GUI. (Dropshadows and transparency come to mind.) It's been a while since I've been using a Linux distro for desktop work (6 - 8 months) but last time I used one I was messing around with dropshadows and such. (I dunno if anyone has integrated it into a window manager yet, but it's there.)
And your response indicates that you're either an extreme newbie to reading English in that you obviously missed the what he was saying or YOU'RE the extreme newbie Windows and have never seen what many of us have dealt with.
Can you tell me how to shut off the automounter service under windows?
And while you're at it, why don't you go through your Win2k machine right now and start stopping services and see how many the computer will say, "No, ain't gonna stop. I don't care if you're an admin."
Jackass. He didn't say it was impossible to kill a service in general. He said that often the machine would respond with "Access Denied" which it shouldn't to an admin, period.
This crap happens all the time. It happened in NT4. It happened in 2000. It happens in XP.
When I'm root on a *nix system, about the only thing that will tell me to suck it is a hardware problem. (For instance and HD read error. Sometimes you can't even kill the service reliably.)
"Access Denied" is something I should NEVER see when running as an admin.
It "absolutely smokes any other Mac broswer in terms of performance?" I'm sorry, have you ever actually used a Mac? Camino is significantly faster than Firefox, more stable and integrated much better, but it certainly doesn't "smoke" Safari. Don't get me wrong, it's my Gecko browser of choice on the Mac, but it doesn't "smoke" Safari by any stretch of the imagination.
I think the 360 comparison is dead on. iTunes music is specifically created to play on iTunes and iPods. Take a game that's on multiple systems like Prince of Persia. It isn't specifically designed to play on one system, only a particular port is. All the music is still available from buying regular old CDs or through other online music vendors.
You might as well say it's okay for a company that only sells tape decks to be able to sue another company that's producing CD players for being monopolistic. Was Sony ever sued over minidisc? Should they have been? No.
These are the kinds of lawsuits which waste everyone's time and clog the system up for the legitimate ones that come down the pike. It's so stupid.
"Sure you can burn it to CD, and then re-rip to mp3, but I think that's really missing the point. The vast majority of consumers just aren't going to go through all that hassle."
I want to put a '85 Chevy 350 in my '83 Toyota 4x4 for offroading. It's not an easy thing to do and I have to go through a lot of hassle and adaptation to get it to work. Can Chevy be sued for a monopoly on their own engines? No. It's stupid.
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I'm in the same camp. Used Gentoo and have more or less switched to FreeBSD for all my servers and for one desktop. BSD, at the time anyway, deteched external drives easier and it was strange that pretty much everything "just worked."
However, when it didn't "just work" is actually where I found FreeBSD to have the greatest advantage over any Linux distro. FreeBSD is just FreeBSD and so when you look at the handbook it always applies. In particular, if you do your installation from ports, things are pretty consistent and that's a really nice change.
Admittedly, my main work machine is a PowerBook G4, but that doesn't change the fact that I greatly enjoy using FreeBSD.
I didn't write it in this post, but I haven't purchased a copy since the THX remastered VHS came out just before the whole "Special Edition" fiasco. I only purchased those since my other copies were the ones my mom got me in the early 80s which had been watched WAY too many times by my little bother and me.
I refused to buy the Special Editions. It looks like it's paying off for me too. (However, I still thought someone needed to properly translate the PR.)
Thank you so much. I was about to write something because, deep down, I loathe 2ed. It's the reason I didn't role play and thought table top gaming sucked for a long time. The mechanics were a kludge, plain and simple.
THAC0 anyone? The GP is complaining about stacking modifiers but thinks a system with THAC0 was a GOOD idea? You needed a table for like... everything. And the non-linear advancement of attributes? Well let's see here... the jump from 16 to 17 != 17 to 18. (Oh yes and let's not forget the weird ass 18/00 - 18/99, none of which are as burly as 19. And then 25 isn't 25% buffer than 20... it's a cloud giant compared to an orc or something.)
Half the problems he complains about have nothing to do with anything but power leveler characters... something that happens in any game. Ever play White Wolf Games? Power level characters are easy to deal with. Either DM yourself or make sure you have a DM that nips the problem at the bud. I usually play with the same crew, but new plays always get "the chat."
And if you really wanna fore role playing... roll for stats flat out and let them go from there. It really just depends on how you want the game to go.
2ed. had a lot of good fiction with it and a rich background but the implementation sucked balls. This is what Shadowrun (not a very good system either, but better) and White Wolf got me into gaming.
Subject pretty much says it all.
No. He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil.
Seriously, this isn't about good in the least. Let me do some translating here. From TFA:
"Over the years, a truly countless number of fans have told us that they would love to see and own the original version that they remember experiencing in theaters," said Jim Ward, President of LucasArts and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd. "We returned to the Lucasfilm Archives to search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD. This is something that we're very excited to be able to give to fans in response to their continuing enthusiasm for Star Wars."
Like all PR machines, there's a certain amount of fudging that goes on, let me translate:
"Over the years, a throng of vicious purists have told us that the so called 'improvements' suck balls. What they want to see is the original before we did more damage than repair. There was also a large number of nerds stationed outside George's house chanting, 'Han Shot First.'" said Jim Ward, President of LucasArts and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd. "Pretty much, all we have to do is take the last VHS release before the special editions and prime it for DVD release. However, don't make the mistake that we're being altruistic to our fans in any way. The fact is, many of these weak willed nerds broke down and bought the first DVD release and now that their failure is complete, we can sock it to them with yet another release. George loves cash, what can we say? We double charge the weak and now even milk the cash out of the purists that were holding out."
Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.
I haven't purchased a new copy since the THX remastered VHS tapes that came out just before the "special editions." I'm glad I held out too. (Although the amount I've historically spent on action figures probably counterbalances any imagined savings.)
There was a lot I liked about the special editions. The updated space scenes and basically everything in background of Bespin was nice. I even liked the updated wampa monster. But seriously, why go to all that trouble of adding some awful new musical number in Jabba's palace and not even fix up the lightsabers in the first battle between Kenobi and Vader? It seemed so random.
For every step forward there were two steps back. The Yani style Ewok song at the end and the new singers in Jabba's palace about did me in. And of course, the Greedo thing. Not only did it suck thematically, the action implementation sucked. The first shot looked so... I dunno. The scene was all bad. I haven't watched the DVD version, but I can't imagine they made it much better. The Jabba scene in IV, while cute, was totally unecessary and really never looked right or fit.
The few parts I did see of the new DVD release were enough to turn me off. Boba Fett had this cool menacing voice. What did they replace it with? "G'day mate! I'm Boba Fett and today we're gonna be tracking the WILD HAN SOLO! He's a slippery little bugger, but he's no match for THE BOUNTY HUNTER!" I realize it was the voice from the dude that played Jango Fett but the voice over... I mean... you might as well have neutered Boba Fett.
I wish I had the ability to cut my own with what I did like from the special edition with the original. Maybe I can with these DVDs.
I haven't watched the originals since I saw the special editions in the theater. I'm gonna scoop these bad boys up pretty much as soon as they're available. It's a good day.
My email address is listed. Use it. (Yours isn't or I would have simply sent you something!) And it's not true that you can never leave the system. You can.
I find our direction worse than the Nazis. At least they were pretty up front about being imperialist dogs and were also clear in their party name. National Socialists. Freedom was never their message. In those regards, at least they were being up front.
In America we still think we're a free people and actually go bomb the fuck out of foreign countries to have our corporations rebuild them with open ended contracts in the name of "liberating" another nation. Every encroachment on our own liberty or the sovereign rights of another nation is given the name "liberty."
We have more people in prison, per capita, than any European nation. We've got more laws and more bullshit than we were ever meant to. Our state governments become more and more useless every day since the Federal Goverment continues to centralize everything. I can't use my fucking toilet without it complying with umpteen federal regulations.
60 years ago my grandfather could simply go out and start a business almost completely devoid of any state or federal compliance. Now? $25,000 and a minor law degree later (or hire an attorney and accountant) and I can start a business in debt! Oh happy day!
This country is a joke. And as for it being the only superpower... maybe we've all forgotten about that big fucking country across the Pacific. Let's see here... Shina? Kina? Keena? Wait... wait... I know this one. It's that country that pretty much controls world manufacturing right now. It makes like... everything. China! That's it! I knew I'd remember.
When the dollar plumits further and we have nothing but service jobs in this country... trust me... the days of the USA being considered a superpower will be over. Our own corruption, generational greed, over taxing, over regulation and and good old hubris are about to eat us alive. Beasts like this cannot sustain forever.
2. The Constitution doesn't provide for this in much the way it doesn't provide for Social Security. However, like all bad things (such as SS) it will begin as voluntary and just become a de facto requirement. SSNs aren't REQUIRED to live and work in the USA if you're not an alien worker. I know, I don't have one. However, try actually living a reasonable life once you've "opted out" of the system.
4. It's not that we have an evil government now? Have you ever watched an IRS related "trial?" If the general practice and corruption of the US government doesn't qualify as evil, I'd love to know what does.
The people who want to put RFID in ID cards aren't foolish. They aren't people who "don't realize where this slippery slope leads." They know. That's why they're evil.
I swear, it's like it's getting to the point where you can't buy or sell without these fucking numbers and cards.
This is exactly what I was thinking. 2006 will be remembered among geeks as the year of shitty names.
The MacBook I can see though. They want "Mac" in the name, whatever.
However, didn't they have a panel of like... I dunno... SOMEONE that looked at this and thought it was as bad of an idea as everyone here seems to? I never cease to find myself awe struck over this kind of crap. Don't these people get paid tons of cash NOT to make blatantly retarded decisions?
You should provide evidence to back that up!
(Seriously though, I liked your posts. You seen even more strange in that you're in the SF area and an NRA member. Anyway, my email is displayed, unlike yours. You should use it! And now that this story isn't sitting on the front page I don't mind posting something this shameless.)
A political female on a nerd site. I don't even know who I am anymore.
Or a Social Security Number for that matter. A few decades ago this is the same number that was "not to be used for identification purposes."
The errosion of liberty is a slow process, but it happens and it's planned.
If course, if 10% of the population... hell... 5% of the population just said "no" to government, that would be that. No one will though and the few of us that do will... well... be denounced as quacks until it's too late.
Honestly, it's a convenience thing anymore. I'm not a big fan of wireless keyboards/mice and I'd want to stay wired. Plus two printers. Plus my external drives. You're right though, a USB hub would solve this.
However, if there was some sort of a mini station so that when I got home and connected my laptop to that gave me: power, wired ethernet, sound, all my USB devices and my other display, it would be nice. If you're someone who moves a lot, it's a lot nicer to plug into one station rather than have to plug a bunch of crap in every single time you want to hook up. Even eith everything on a USB hub, without a station I have 5 individual connections to make. If they're going into a docking station I can keep them better organized.
I know there are plenty of port replicators out there for the PowerBook right now though. They pretty much do the trick.
Of course the docking station a client of mine just got for his HP is more obnoxious and inconvenient than just plugging everything in.
They already do. Who do you think pays to get people elected anymore?
Virtualization, not dual booting, is actually what I'm looking forward to. Games may be all the rage around here, but for use lowly web devs, being able to run: Firefox (OS X, Linux, Windows), Safari, Konqueror, Opera (OS X, Linux, Windows) and IE 6 & 7 (well, whenever it rears its ugly head) on the same machine with no rebooting... that will be excellent. I use my Mac most of the time. (12" PowerBook) However, to take a look at the world in IE 6 I have to go to another machine. By the time the Intel model I want is available, Parrallels should be ready to go and I'll have everything I want right at my finger tips.
CrossOver Office is, more or less, commercial WINE and in my experience it was much more stable and easier to set up. It's a non-issue now though since I don't run Linux on a desktop anymore.
I dunno why I haven't seen anyone comment on this but, I think many of us Mac using web developers should be loving this. Not so much the dual boot, but the virtualization end of this. The ONE app that I've been lacking on a Mac (and when I was running Linux) is IE 6 and soon enough IE 7 (whenever they decide to release it).
When I was running Linux, CrossOver Office actually did a pretty good job of running IE 6 so long as there was no JavaScript involved. Now I can have IE 6 (as well as the Windows versions of FireFox and Opera) to test. Hell, if this virtualization stuff lets me run Ubuntu or something in another window, I can test all the most common (and not so common) browers from one machine. That's just sweet.
As soon as a 12" Intel PowerBook is available, I'm buying!
You forgot the most important part.
Apple will get additional advertising!
For the most part, I find dual booting unpractical... except for video games which is the only thing that kept my old Linux machine dual booting. I don't knnow about most people but I'm not IMimg, checking email or coding anything while playing Counter-Strike or whatever. Mind you, WoW is pretty much the only thing I play right now, but being able to play Dawn of War every now and then wouldn't be bad either.
"But Vista will be using the 3d card for the UI, the first OS to do so. Look for all OSes to follow in the years to come, as 3d functionality/efficiency improves while 2d functionality is largely static."
Okay, the GP was a jackass and you illustrated that pretty well, you're way wrong here. Vista isn't even close to the first the be using the 3D card for the GUI. I couldn't tell you who was first, but I can say that OS X already does this and has for quite a long time.
And x.org already has acceletation via OpenGL that takes advantage of the GPU when drawing a GUI. (Dropshadows and transparency come to mind.) It's been a while since I've been using a Linux distro for desktop work (6 - 8 months) but last time I used one I was messing around with dropshadows and such. (I dunno if anyone has integrated it into a window manager yet, but it's there.)
And your response indicates that you're either an extreme newbie to reading English in that you obviously missed the what he was saying or YOU'RE the extreme newbie Windows and have never seen what many of us have dealt with.
Can you tell me how to shut off the automounter service under windows?
And while you're at it, why don't you go through your Win2k machine right now and start stopping services and see how many the computer will say, "No, ain't gonna stop. I don't care if you're an admin."
Jackass. He didn't say it was impossible to kill a service in general. He said that often the machine would respond with "Access Denied" which it shouldn't to an admin, period.
This crap happens all the time. It happened in NT4. It happened in 2000. It happens in XP.
When I'm root on a *nix system, about the only thing that will tell me to suck it is a hardware problem. (For instance and HD read error. Sometimes you can't even kill the service reliably.)
"Access Denied" is something I should NEVER see when running as an admin.
It "absolutely smokes any other Mac broswer in terms of performance?" I'm sorry, have you ever actually used a Mac? Camino is significantly faster than Firefox, more stable and integrated much better, but it certainly doesn't "smoke" Safari. Don't get me wrong, it's my Gecko browser of choice on the Mac, but it doesn't "smoke" Safari by any stretch of the imagination.
I think the 360 comparison is dead on. iTunes music is specifically created to play on iTunes and iPods. Take a game that's on multiple systems like Prince of Persia. It isn't specifically designed to play on one system, only a particular port is. All the music is still available from buying regular old CDs or through other online music vendors. You might as well say it's okay for a company that only sells tape decks to be able to sue another company that's producing CD players for being monopolistic. Was Sony ever sued over minidisc? Should they have been? No. These are the kinds of lawsuits which waste everyone's time and clog the system up for the legitimate ones that come down the pike. It's so stupid. "Sure you can burn it to CD, and then re-rip to mp3, but I think that's really missing the point. The vast majority of consumers just aren't going to go through all that hassle." I want to put a '85 Chevy 350 in my '83 Toyota 4x4 for offroading. It's not an easy thing to do and I have to go through a lot of hassle and adaptation to get it to work. Can Chevy be sued for a monopoly on their own engines? No. It's stupid.