Alright, I just coined RIC (Real, Important Concerns). Fifteen seconds of blogosphere fame for me.
There are Macs in my house and I like 'em. I've been with OS X since 10.0.0. But the iPad is a big iPhone. If I wanted to enlarge a mobile phone to create a "netpad", I sure wouldn't pick the iPhone. A phone that runs Android would be more interesting to me.
I understand that Mr Jobs wants to build a new market by extending an established market. He's good at doing what he does -- but he makes mistakes. I think using the iPhone OS for the iPad is a mistake. Having a touch screen does not trump having full OS functionality.
For portability, functionality, inputs, interoperability, and even OS alternatives**, a netbook like the Dell Mini 10v beats the Apple iPad all i-silly.
Slashdot needs to create a numbered list of arguments called Slashdot's List Of Same Old Arguments (SLOSOA). Then/.ers can save bandwidth (and lower Taco's bills) by disputing by numerical reference to an argument, just as Mennonites are said to argue by reference chapter and verse in the Bible rather than repeating the words.
To start this New Era in Slashdot efficiency, my reply to your post, Sir, is...
1. Eye contact and conversation with people nearby are becoming too frightening for people. 2. Most of the music being produced formally is crap. 3. The Musical Idolatry Complex is no longer capable of concealing Point 2. 4. Cocaine use is dropping because of Point 3. 5. Wall Street has not been affected by Point 4. 6. DRM is dead. 7. Most people think "more bass" is a substitute for a crappy bitrate, but Point 2 makes this fact moot. 8. "Zune" is a crappy name for a product. 9. Consumers and sheep are not disturbed by the suffering of others. 10. Point 9 is as true for international relations and the slaughterhouse as it is for my ears on the bus in the morning.
It leaves GIMP to be criticized for its windows, its functionality, its name (for pity's sake!), its package dependencies, its age, its youth, and another 50 things by SlashWhiners.
GIMP is an excellent program. Many people use it. If you don't like it, don't use it. That is all.
These increases are very likely to correlate (causally, no less!) to Infection Explorer 8 being pushed hard, leveraging the majority number of computers that have M-Windows installed.
Capitalism is about having or obtaining a large quantity of something at price P, "talking it up" through Marketing or other bovine excrement until people want it, and then setting new price NP > P when they come asking for it.
Or, in clearer Slashdot format:
1) Have a large install base. 2) Push your browser hard onto the install base and set the default page to Bing (just as Google arranged with Mozilla). 3) ???? (bovine excrement) 4) PROFIT!!!
I don't have any time for Dvorak (or other "pundits") but he is right about Microsoft's publicity and media work being haplessly out of touch. I'm a PC... The Wow Starts Now... Gates and Seinfeld... Windows 7 Party... and, of course, any time CEO Steve Ballboy speaks ("Squirt me that... IBM should do hardware...") or is photographed without a bag over his head.
I don't foresee buying Windows 7. Windows XP works just fine. I see no compelling reason to attend any Windows 7 "Support Our Corporation" Party unless Pamela Anderson has accepted to do a striptease.
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How do you like OS X on the DM9?
There, fixed that for me.
Dell Mini 9
That's a small screen for manipulating documentation. How do you OS X on the DM9?
If you already have it installed, iTunes may be a simple solution.
http://lifehacker.com/software/pdf/geek-to-live--organize-your-pdf-library-with-itunes-240447.php
Alright, I just coined RIC (Real, Important Concerns). Fifteen seconds of blogosphere fame for me.
There are Macs in my house and I like 'em. I've been with OS X since 10.0.0. But the iPad is a big iPhone. If I wanted to enlarge a mobile phone to create a "netpad", I sure wouldn't pick the iPhone. A phone that runs Android would be more interesting to me.
I understand that Mr Jobs wants to build a new market by extending an established market. He's good at doing what he does -- but he makes mistakes. I think using the iPhone OS for the iPad is a mistake. Having a touch screen does not trump having full OS functionality.
For portability, functionality, inputs, interoperability, and even OS alternatives**, a netbook like the Dell Mini 10v beats the Apple iPad all i-silly.
**nudge nudge, wink wink
DARPA: if you will put a kill-switch inside politicians, I am ready to send you some money by PayPal.
Slashdot makes me sick. It's just not fair to go digging 14 years prior to the date when Microsoft finally starting taking security seriously.
http://live.gnome.org/Gnote
However, the rest of us really do have to fear what Crackberry users suffering from withdrawal will do with their SUPER THUMBS.
Slashdot needs to create a numbered list of arguments called Slashdot's List Of Same Old Arguments (SLOSOA). Then /.ers can save bandwidth (and lower Taco's bills) by disputing by numerical reference to an argument, just as Mennonites are said to argue by reference chapter and verse in the Bible rather than repeating the words.
To start this New Era in Slashdot efficiency, my reply to your post, Sir, is...
19, 20! It is clear that 22, 28.
And if you don't like it, then 42.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
Search engine plug-in for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12506
Apart from programmers, everyone else in the company can be distracted and make mistakes.
Is that a French billion or an American billion?
1. Eye contact and conversation with people nearby are becoming too frightening for people.
2. Most of the music being produced formally is crap.
3. The Musical Idolatry Complex is no longer capable of concealing Point 2.
4. Cocaine use is dropping because of Point 3.
5. Wall Street has not been affected by Point 4.
6. DRM is dead.
7. Most people think "more bass" is a substitute for a crappy bitrate, but Point 2 makes this fact moot.
8. "Zune" is a crappy name for a product.
9. Consumers and sheep are not disturbed by the suffering of others.
10. Point 9 is as true for international relations and the slaughterhouse as it is for my ears on the bus in the morning.
It's rather obscure in the USA as well, although some god-fearing lawyers have successfully converted tens of thousands... ... of dollars.
(snort!) I agree -- I find the economists most infuriating of all!
Microsoft has (far) more desktop installations but it does not control the Internet. Not in search, not in standards, and not in media delivery.
Microsoft has become an island of broken, undesirable, and also-ran Internet technologies.
It leaves GIMP to be criticized for its windows, its functionality, its name (for pity's sake!), its package dependencies, its age, its youth, and another 50 things by SlashWhiners.
GIMP is an excellent program. Many people use it. If you don't like it, don't use it. That is all.
These increases are very likely to correlate (causally, no less!) to Infection Explorer 8 being pushed hard, leveraging the majority number of computers that have M-Windows installed.
Capitalism is about having or obtaining a large quantity of something at price P, "talking it up" through Marketing or other bovine excrement until people want it, and then setting new price NP > P when they come asking for it.
Or, in clearer Slashdot format:
1) Have a large install base.
2) Push your browser hard onto the install base and set the default page to Bing (just as Google arranged with Mozilla).
3) ???? (bovine excrement)
4) PROFIT!!!
"Get out while you still can, the old High-Tech Industry is dead and the zombie remnant doesn't give a shit about its employees."
There, fixed that for you.
Sir, thank you for a good Huxley quotation (your sig).
It is much easier to patch 700 million PCs than it is to make stupid people smarter.
And we're clearly not doing such a good job of patching 700 million PCs.
There is a problem with the distribution of such women, then. Please send some to Canada.
If you know of anyone else who publicly says she's willing to strip for a cause, please post here.
Better yet, please call her and invite me to your Windows 7 party. (o:
I don't have any time for Dvorak (or other "pundits") but he is right about Microsoft's publicity and media work being haplessly out of touch. I'm a PC... The Wow Starts Now... Gates and Seinfeld... Windows 7 Party... and, of course, any time CEO Steve Ballboy speaks ("Squirt me that... IBM should do hardware...") or is photographed without a bag over his head.
I don't foresee buying Windows 7. Windows XP works just fine. I see no compelling reason to attend any Windows 7 "Support Our Corporation" Party unless Pamela Anderson has accepted to do a striptease.