For those incapable of following the train of thought, here it is...
There is no such thing as Windows 7. This is not a new code base, it is not an overhaul of Windows framework. Windows 7 is Vista Service Pack 2. The Windows 7 bullshit coming out of Microsoft's propaganda machine is a concerted and direct effort to bury the name Vista and all the bad press associated with it. That anyone has bought into this crap is astounding. Vista was several years delayed. Now we have hordes of people believing that MS got a new OS out the door in 18 months? Wake up already.
Every day and in many ways, the people who I would imagine are informed and hold reasonably intelligent opinions are those with constant and regular access to the internet. This is not so.
For the record, morons, Apple DOES NOT WANT DRM! The RECORD LABELS choose which tracks get and which tracks don't get DRM and which tracks can only be sold as part of an album. This is NOT IN APPLE'S CONTROL!
Seriously, for fucks sake, get a grip on reality. Apple made deals with the Devil to get the downloadable music market to this point. Stop your retarded and misdirected tracks on the ONLY company that even made it worth the music lablel's time to seriously consider digital downloads a viable business.
"why don't they let more than just iPhone users take advantage of this, dagnabbit?"
For the same reasons all the nerds despise the iPhone: because of it's uniformity right across the board, powerful graphics and CPU and consistent user experience. If you want to debut a powerful application, the iPhone makes the most sense of any platform. And given the fractured nature of every other vendors offerings, why ruin the experiment on crappy inconsistent platforms? Go with the best, someday release for the rest.
It's a kludge. When it's a single piece of unbreakable glass with it's processor etched in and true touch technology, it will be cool. Until then, it's a Big Ass Table sporting a collection of infrared detectors and a projector(!). A kludge.
The kill switch makes sense for Android because it's Google, but it's still Evil for Apple to have a kill switch. Because it's Google, not Apple. And Heaven knows we don't want to deny anyone the ability to hurl righteous indignation at Apple.
The SEC made naked short selling illegal. Hedge funds manipulated stock on a massive scale in just this way, and had no other interest than making the stock move the way it wanted it to move so as to make money. It's galling that the gubment has wait so long to step on obvious quasi-legal schemes to protect investors..
The decisions won't stand, and will amount to nothing. But the Apple bashers can pile on in defiance of logic and reason all they want. If you knowingly crack a device so that it no longer works as intended, and then apply an update from the manufacturer that will undo that crack, what in Odin's name did you expect to happen? This is what you get for having the most technologically sophisticated nation on Earth coupled with a backwards and technologically ignorant populace. Add lawyers and stir.
So no answer is an answer in the affirmative. Thanks for reiterating my point. I guess it never occurred that there is no answer because the question is entirely stupid? SOme people also, and I know this is hard to believe given the current US President, actually wait for the facts to come in before they answer a question.
Thanks for the Fox News update, subtard. Among the other things Apple hasn't denied is reports that Macs eat children or the claim that the iPhone induces bubonic plague.
These features that no one is using. Are these the features that the self proclaimed tech experts squeal about and claim that the iPhone absolutely without a doubt had to have or it wouldn't appeal to consumers? The consumers that aren't using the features they have now?
I daresay a new full sized Ford pickup truck gets better mileage than a 1975 full sized Ford of the same model. You'd be wrong. And not because of your transparent defence of SUVs but because the gains they have made are in single digits, if they have made any at all. SUVs are the worst thing to ever hit the roadways, environmentally and politically.
Maybe they took their cue from Greenpeace. Attack the company that's always the center of tech news in order to piggy back your concepts onto their popularity. Never mind that Microsoft's abuse of it's monopoly has set back the desktop computer about 10 to 15 years, let's accost the company that people actually went out of their way to choose!
Thy name is government. Thanks for the laughs, America. Keep the hypocrisy factory running. You already have God's President, you might as well formalize the division of your legal system into one manipulable side for corporations, and an uncaring inflexible side for the citizenry.
But that's what you get for putting your eggs in the Microsoft basket. Microsoft has held back the development of the PC by at least ten years. If PS2 ports and printers you have to load fonts to wasn't evidence enough, now we have manufacturers just flat out admitting Microsoft is in no position to implement new tech. Pathetic.
2: Can you look at the shit on cable TV news with it's shrill denunciation of everything that isn't White, Christian and Republican and NOT think that maybe a little more balance is something your country needs?
The last 8 years of delusional governance you've suffered is a direct result of an out of whack media kowtowing to the current administration. Balance is something you really should be looking at implementing. When Ann Coulter can get all the airtime she wants but nothing for Noam Chomsky, you've got problems. When is the last time you heard the talking heads actually debate anything, rather than hurl talking points at one another?
Is wrong with your politicians? What, by extension, is wrong with your public? Are you so gripped by that idiotic and irrational fear that you will continue to give up your rights to corporations and their bought and paid for politicians on the lie that what they are doing is in your best interests? Time to wake up, America.
If it's your contention that Microsoft doesn't have legions of raving loon fanboys (we call them Mouse Clicking Solutions Experts) that are completely ignorant of the damage Microsoft has done to personal computing, you are fooling yourself.
If another of your contention is that there are many people on Slashdot who are not emotionally involved in their machines or technology in general, you are delusional.
"It's getting us to think about data centers at a scale that we haven't thought of before... [to create] a mega-data center that Microsoft and only a few others will have."
So we've come this far so that Microsoft can go back to building mainframes, after they made billions on the idea of every person and their dog having reams of processor power and storage space sitting under their desk just so they can get email and spreadsheets from application servers.
How in bloody Hell was this putz ever considered a visionary? Salesman yes. Idea man no. Unless you like bad ideas.
Troll! Score! Is there anyone out there who will actually argue the fact that Microsoft copied it's Windows GUI from Apple? Is there anyone out there who will argue that the taskbar at the bottom of the screen makes sense, when virtually every application you have ever used in your life starts it's menu selections top left, just like absolutely every English speaking person in America accesses information? Laughable.
I can't wait or 2009. Then we can hear two things. One will be all the cool features that we will never hear about again, and the other will be how much better Windows 8 will be...
Seriously, Micrsofties. Don't you feel stupid masturbating in tandem to all the Windows 7 pronouncements when it's clearly Microsoft's ploy to distract everyone from the Chrome Turd of Vista? Doesn't this remind you of anything? Like how Vista was going to fix all the ills of XP? Or how XP was going to fix ME? Do you see a pattern? Microsoft copies so much from Apple, they couldn't resist copying Apple's Copland debacle. But once wasn't good enough. Microsoft made vapourware and integral part of it's business plan, and no one seemed to notice.
How about a requirement to fix Windows and stop pretending their half assed copying of someone else's OS means they are moving ahead? They couldn't even get the taskbar right, sticking it on the bottom. How intuitive!
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There is no such thing as Windows 7. This is not a new code base, it is not an overhaul of Windows framework. Windows 7 is Vista Service Pack 2. The Windows 7 bullshit coming out of Microsoft's propaganda machine is a concerted and direct effort to bury the name Vista and all the bad press associated with it. That anyone has bought into this crap is astounding. Vista was several years delayed. Now we have hordes of people believing that MS got a new OS out the door in 18 months? Wake up already.
Every day and in many ways, the people who I would imagine are informed and hold reasonably intelligent opinions are those with constant and regular access to the internet. This is not so. For the record, morons, Apple DOES NOT WANT DRM! The RECORD LABELS choose which tracks get and which tracks don't get DRM and which tracks can only be sold as part of an album. This is NOT IN APPLE'S CONTROL! Seriously, for fucks sake, get a grip on reality. Apple made deals with the Devil to get the downloadable music market to this point. Stop your retarded and misdirected tracks on the ONLY company that even made it worth the music lablel's time to seriously consider digital downloads a viable business.
For the same reasons all the nerds despise the iPhone: because of it's uniformity right across the board, powerful graphics and CPU and consistent user experience. If you want to debut a powerful application, the iPhone makes the most sense of any platform. And given the fractured nature of every other vendors offerings, why ruin the experiment on crappy inconsistent platforms? Go with the best, someday release for the rest.
Anyone who actually believes Windows 7 isn't just Vista SP3 is just not very bright.
It's a kludge. When it's a single piece of unbreakable glass with it's processor etched in and true touch technology, it will be cool. Until then, it's a Big Ass Table sporting a collection of infrared detectors and a projector(!). A kludge.
The kill switch makes sense for Android because it's Google, but it's still Evil for Apple to have a kill switch. Because it's Google, not Apple. And Heaven knows we don't want to deny anyone the ability to hurl righteous indignation at Apple.
The SEC made naked short selling illegal. Hedge funds manipulated stock on a massive scale in just this way, and had no other interest than making the stock move the way it wanted it to move so as to make money. It's galling that the gubment has wait so long to step on obvious quasi-legal schemes to protect investors..
The decisions won't stand, and will amount to nothing. But the Apple bashers can pile on in defiance of logic and reason all they want. If you knowingly crack a device so that it no longer works as intended, and then apply an update from the manufacturer that will undo that crack, what in Odin's name did you expect to happen? This is what you get for having the most technologically sophisticated nation on Earth coupled with a backwards and technologically ignorant populace. Add lawyers and stir.
Thanks. You are an idiot. That is all.
So no answer is an answer in the affirmative. Thanks for reiterating my point. I guess it never occurred that there is no answer because the question is entirely stupid? SOme people also, and I know this is hard to believe given the current US President, actually wait for the facts to come in before they answer a question.
Thanks for the Fox News update, subtard. Among the other things Apple hasn't denied is reports that Macs eat children or the claim that the iPhone induces bubonic plague.
These features that no one is using. Are these the features that the self proclaimed tech experts squeal about and claim that the iPhone absolutely without a doubt had to have or it wouldn't appeal to consumers? The consumers that aren't using the features they have now?
I daresay a new full sized Ford pickup truck gets better mileage than a 1975 full sized Ford of the same model.
You'd be wrong. And not because of your transparent defence of SUVs but because the gains they have made are in single digits, if they have made any at all. SUVs are the worst thing to ever hit the roadways, environmentally and politically.
Maybe they took their cue from Greenpeace. Attack the company that's always the center of tech news in order to piggy back your concepts onto their popularity. Never mind that Microsoft's abuse of it's monopoly has set back the desktop computer about 10 to 15 years, let's accost the company that people actually went out of their way to choose!
It's not just for lifelong politicians anymore.
Thy name is government. Thanks for the laughs, America. Keep the hypocrisy factory running. You already have God's President, you might as well formalize the division of your legal system into one manipulable side for corporations, and an uncaring inflexible side for the citizenry.
But that's what you get for putting your eggs in the Microsoft basket. Microsoft has held back the development of the PC by at least ten years. If PS2 ports and printers you have to load fonts to wasn't evidence enough, now we have manufacturers just flat out admitting Microsoft is in no position to implement new tech. Pathetic.
1: Are you high?
2: Can you look at the shit on cable TV news with it's shrill denunciation of everything that isn't White, Christian and Republican and NOT think that maybe a little more balance is something your country needs?
The last 8 years of delusional governance you've suffered is a direct result of an out of whack media kowtowing to the current administration. Balance is something you really should be looking at implementing. When Ann Coulter can get all the airtime she wants but nothing for Noam Chomsky, you've got problems. When is the last time you heard the talking heads actually debate anything, rather than hurl talking points at one another?
Is wrong with your politicians? What, by extension, is wrong with your public? Are you so gripped by that idiotic and irrational fear that you will continue to give up your rights to corporations and their bought and paid for politicians on the lie that what they are doing is in your best interests? Time to wake up, America.
If it's your contention that Microsoft doesn't have legions of raving loon fanboys (we call them Mouse Clicking Solutions Experts) that are completely ignorant of the damage Microsoft has done to personal computing, you are fooling yourself. If another of your contention is that there are many people on Slashdot who are not emotionally involved in their machines or technology in general, you are delusional.
So we've come this far so that Microsoft can go back to building mainframes, after they made billions on the idea of every person and their dog having reams of processor power and storage space sitting under their desk just so they can get email and spreadsheets from application servers.
How in bloody Hell was this putz ever considered a visionary? Salesman yes. Idea man no. Unless you like bad ideas.
Blame it on the Microputzes. For all their yakking about other OS supporters being cultists, the Microsftians can't help but adore Dear Leader Gates.
Troll! Score! Is there anyone out there who will actually argue the fact that Microsoft copied it's Windows GUI from Apple? Is there anyone out there who will argue that the taskbar at the bottom of the screen makes sense, when virtually every application you have ever used in your life starts it's menu selections top left, just like absolutely every English speaking person in America accesses information? Laughable.
Seriously, Micrsofties. Don't you feel stupid masturbating in tandem to all the Windows 7 pronouncements when it's clearly Microsoft's ploy to distract everyone from the Chrome Turd of Vista? Doesn't this remind you of anything? Like how Vista was going to fix all the ills of XP? Or how XP was going to fix ME? Do you see a pattern? Microsoft copies so much from Apple, they couldn't resist copying Apple's Copland debacle. But once wasn't good enough. Microsoft made vapourware and integral part of it's business plan, and no one seemed to notice.
How about a requirement to fix Windows and stop pretending their half assed copying of someone else's OS means they are moving ahead? They couldn't even get the taskbar right, sticking it on the bottom. How intuitive!