I see you got your naivete karma bonus going there. (Although I can't see how, you used the f-word here.) Your comparison is inaccurate because you cannot compare a living, breathing person to an abstract entity such as a corporation. The two are very different things. I don't think Jobs et al deliberately try to screw over the world. At the same time, realize that no corporation is founded to better the world. They are founded to make money. After all, materialism is the American way. Individually evaluated, every company has a list of things its done right and wrong. It just happens that Apple is the flavor of the month around here.
Face it: if this story were about Microsoft, you'd all be crying about how evil it is. Watch me get moderated into oblivion for pointing this out.
One of our major bottlenecks at work is when we need to do text searches. We partition the tables to decrease the response time, but no amount of indexing will help when you're doing a substring search. Does MySQL have anything useful with regard to improving our scenario? Or should we look at other products? I'd like to get a much faster response time than we currently have, but we need to support a fairly hefty amount of data (more than 500 million records...).
Sun touts their "network is the computer" BS every six months or so under a new banner, and they are received with healthy skepticism each time, because, well it hasn't happened in the past ten years. However you throw Google into the mix, and all of the sudden the idea is now a very valid one, and will save us all from the perils of having control of our own machine. This makes sense how?
I suppose it is asking too much to require fanboys to actually construct arguments that make sense, however.
As much as MS is decried for being arrogant, Google now seems to be doing the same thing. Statements like "we'll topple Microsoft because they don't understand us" and the implication that, "we're the new Microsoft, the dominant player" point to a culture of corporate hubris. That is a dangerous thing, although I suppose it is inevitable when their stock price is as inflated as it is.
I believe the term is "cognitive dissonance," and it refers to the mental agony of having to reconcile a "good" company is doing "bad" things. It doesn't seem to occur when a "bad" company does "good" things, because one can point out that they could have done more good, and thus avoid the entire issue. It is completely naive to paint companies as "good" or "evil," but I'm afraid the most highly moderated posts (thus, what people want to read and probably what they believe) tend toward an overly simple worldview of "M$ = BAD, GOOGLE = GOOD."
Nice retort, but I must say it is rather cruel to shove this whole 'reality' thing into people's faces, especially on a site like this one. They might even discover there's more to life than the licensing scheme of their chosen operating system!
Also, its a thinly veiled attack on the Slashdot hivemind's justification for all P2P technology. They point out that because a technology can be used for good, that it should exist; even if most users are using it for not-always-good purposes.
Assuming this does what it advertises, I don't see how this poses a problem. Everyone knows that P2P is mostly used for swapping music by independent artists, as well as large, legal files such as Linux distributions. It isn't a problem to tag these files appropriately.
Exactly. Your mind will start to follow suit and you won't even think in terms of profanity any more, which will further extricate it from your vocabulary. I find most avid users of profanity usually have a very poor vocabulary, anyway. It is hard to distinguish when they are actually angry, and when they are merely slightly annoyed because they drop the f-bomb every other word. Oh well, their loss.:)
What the hell? There are people struggling to survive, who have lost almost everything in their lives, and somehow we're supposed to be up in arms over the fact that you have to use Internet Explorer to access the FEMA site. Never mind the fact that most people who would be filing don't even have computers right now! I despise how people take advantage of disasters so they can further their own petty agendas and point fingers elsewhere.
Really, there is more to life than your choice in an operating system, and events such as this one should be more than a sufficient reminder.
What sort of facts do you have to back up your Vista comment? I'm looking for screenshots or direct quotes that show that media files are DRM'd in the OS, not conjectures.
Maybe I'm terribly uninformed, but if ASUS stuff is considered "cheap," what is a quality motherboard manufacturer? Just because one can purchase it at Best Buy doesn't not reflect upon its quality as a product.
Nice attempt at a karma-whore with the meme, but every platform has a bit of a learning curve as one becomes acquainted with the way things are done. Your 'argument' can also be applied to KDE, which has quite a few applications already developed for it.
Precisely. I love the idea of Linux - a free OS one can tinker around with for its own sake. I'm not a fan of the implementation. I had to mount a USB key at work, so I naively thought I could list the contents of/dev. Nope! It goes on and on and on, *despite* the fact that 99% of the devices in there aren't even mounted. Really, how is this useful? And then someone mentioned, "oh, you can't just cd into a device listed under/dev, either." Then WHY is it listed under there?
The problem is, Linux is essentially the *best* that the hobbyist community has to offer right now, and for some reason people take it personally when you say, "well, it isn't good enough." UNIX is not the end-all-be-all of operating systems. I want to like Linux, but it needs to lose its heritage, because it is needlessly archaic.
Gotta love the attitudes of users as well. An earlier comment mentions how someone can't get their WiFi card to work, and at least two people replied, "and you call yourself a power user! Ha!" Thanks for the encouragement.
We need an operating system that inherits the best qualities of Linux, OS X, and Windows, but is started from scratch.
The whole next-gen console war is so overblown. Every company takes themselves so seriously and resorts to insulting each other like a group of jealous seventh grade girls fighting over boy band members. Somehow, I get the feeling that these consoles are not going to revolutionize the living room and provide a fully synergistic entertainment experience like they all claim to be doing. I guess the console market has always been a bit juvenile (recall the Genesis' "blast processing" claims). I guess since I am much older now, I see these squabbles as mere publicity stunts.
AOL Instant Messenger's Terms of Use forbid use of third party clients from connecting to the network. How come whenever AOL tries to lock out third party clients it is evil, but when Google does it, it's okay? Both are terms of service violations.
Grandparent hit it head on: enough fawning over Google.
"bin" is a horrible name. There is no need to have such unnecessarily short names. "Programs" would do just fine. "Documents and Settings" is too long, perhaps just "Users" would be fine.
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I see you got your naivete karma bonus going there. (Although I can't see how, you used the f-word here.) Your comparison is inaccurate because you cannot compare a living, breathing person to an abstract entity such as a corporation. The two are very different things. I don't think Jobs et al deliberately try to screw over the world. At the same time, realize that no corporation is founded to better the world. They are founded to make money. After all, materialism is the American way. Individually evaluated, every company has a list of things its done right and wrong. It just happens that Apple is the flavor of the month around here.
Face it: if this story were about Microsoft, you'd all be crying about how evil it is. Watch me get moderated into oblivion for pointing this out.
One of our major bottlenecks at work is when we need to do text searches. We partition the tables to decrease the response time, but no amount of indexing will help when you're doing a substring search. Does MySQL have anything useful with regard to improving our scenario? Or should we look at other products? I'd like to get a much faster response time than we currently have, but we need to support a fairly hefty amount of data (more than 500 million records...).
Sun touts their "network is the computer" BS every six months or so under a new banner, and they are received with healthy skepticism each time, because, well it hasn't happened in the past ten years. However you throw Google into the mix, and all of the sudden the idea is now a very valid one, and will save us all from the perils of having control of our own machine. This makes sense how?
I suppose it is asking too much to require fanboys to actually construct arguments that make sense, however.
As much as MS is decried for being arrogant, Google now seems to be doing the same thing. Statements like "we'll topple Microsoft because they don't understand us" and the implication that, "we're the new Microsoft, the dominant player" point to a culture of corporate hubris. That is a dangerous thing, although I suppose it is inevitable when their stock price is as inflated as it is.
I believe the term is "cognitive dissonance," and it refers to the mental agony of having to reconcile a "good" company is doing "bad" things. It doesn't seem to occur when a "bad" company does "good" things, because one can point out that they could have done more good, and thus avoid the entire issue. It is completely naive to paint companies as "good" or "evil," but I'm afraid the most highly moderated posts (thus, what people want to read and probably what they believe) tend toward an overly simple worldview of "M$ = BAD, GOOGLE = GOOD."
Nice retort, but I must say it is rather cruel to shove this whole 'reality' thing into people's faces, especially on a site like this one. They might even discover there's more to life than the licensing scheme of their chosen operating system!
Also, its a thinly veiled attack on the Slashdot hivemind's justification for all P2P technology. They point out that because a technology can be used for good, that it should exist; even if most users are using it for not-always-good purposes.
Assuming this does what it advertises, I don't see how this poses a problem. Everyone knows that P2P is mostly used for swapping music by independent artists, as well as large, legal files such as Linux distributions. It isn't a problem to tag these files appropriately.
Exactly. Your mind will start to follow suit and you won't even think in terms of profanity any more, which will further extricate it from your vocabulary. I find most avid users of profanity usually have a very poor vocabulary, anyway. It is hard to distinguish when they are actually angry, and when they are merely slightly annoyed because they drop the f-bomb every other word. Oh well, their loss. :)
What the hell? There are people struggling to survive, who have lost almost everything in their lives, and somehow we're supposed to be up in arms over the fact that you have to use Internet Explorer to access the FEMA site. Never mind the fact that most people who would be filing don't even have computers right now! I despise how people take advantage of disasters so they can further their own petty agendas and point fingers elsewhere.
Really, there is more to life than your choice in an operating system, and events such as this one should be more than a sufficient reminder.
What sort of facts do you have to back up your Vista comment? I'm looking for screenshots or direct quotes that show that media files are DRM'd in the OS, not conjectures.
Sounds like the hasty generalization fallacy to me.
Maybe I'm terribly uninformed, but if ASUS stuff is considered "cheap," what is a quality motherboard manufacturer? Just because one can purchase it at Best Buy doesn't not reflect upon its quality as a product.
Don't confuse personality types for groupthink. It is incredibly stupid to change one's opinions of something based upon who is doing it.
Nice attempt at a karma-whore with the meme, but every platform has a bit of a learning curve as one becomes acquainted with the way things are done. Your 'argument' can also be applied to KDE, which has quite a few applications already developed for it.
Precisely. I love the idea of Linux - a free OS one can tinker around with for its own sake. I'm not a fan of the implementation. I had to mount a USB key at work, so I naively thought I could list the contents of /dev. Nope! It goes on and on and on, *despite* the fact that 99% of the devices in there aren't even mounted. Really, how is this useful? And then someone mentioned, "oh, you can't just cd into a device listed under /dev, either." Then WHY is it listed under there?
The problem is, Linux is essentially the *best* that the hobbyist community has to offer right now, and for some reason people take it personally when you say, "well, it isn't good enough." UNIX is not the end-all-be-all of operating systems. I want to like Linux, but it needs to lose its heritage, because it is needlessly archaic.
Gotta love the attitudes of users as well. An earlier comment mentions how someone can't get their WiFi card to work, and at least two people replied, "and you call yourself a power user! Ha!" Thanks for the encouragement.
We need an operating system that inherits the best qualities of Linux, OS X, and Windows, but is started from scratch.
Frankly, I'm too easily bored by the rote style of play that MMORPGs tout. You practically need a second computer so you don't become bored.
And we're just now getting stored procedures! Welcome to ten years ago!
Nah, just more proof that Linux is a religion all its own.
It is because I poked fun at Java. Had I made a similar comment about C#, it would be modded up insightful most likely.
Maybe it is because the link posted is about as useful as Java is. :)
The whole next-gen console war is so overblown. Every company takes themselves so seriously and resorts to insulting each other like a group of jealous seventh grade girls fighting over boy band members. Somehow, I get the feeling that these consoles are not going to revolutionize the living room and provide a fully synergistic entertainment experience like they all claim to be doing. I guess the console market has always been a bit juvenile (recall the Genesis' "blast processing" claims). I guess since I am much older now, I see these squabbles as mere publicity stunts.
AOL Instant Messenger's Terms of Use forbid use of third party clients from connecting to the network. How come whenever AOL tries to lock out third party clients it is evil, but when Google does it, it's okay? Both are terms of service violations.
Grandparent hit it head on: enough fawning over Google.
"bin" is a horrible name. There is no need to have such unnecessarily short names. "Programs" would do just fine. "Documents and Settings" is too long, perhaps just "Users" would be fine.
This is Apple we're talking about, they can do no wrong.