what else you expect, when "Unix was a text-driven operating system running on big mainframe computers that could handle various tasks and users simultaneously."
So what? Even if its a case of sour grapes, if that has happened (and I have no reason to believe that it has not happened), then its WRONG.
We all know how valueable domain names are. I thought somebody would have learnt the lesson watching lawsuits after lawsuits on domain names, and would be extra careful while distributing a new list. But no. We continue to let system fuck itself.
>>So why don't you pony up for a real Apple computer to get the real Apple experience?
As I said somewhere else on this discussion, I definitely am interested in ONLY OS X and not a Mac. Why? Because I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I do not have $hitload of money to spend on a shiny uber-cool super-cute hardware. But I am willing to pay for a 99$ OS X to run on my cheap PC, because I can afford 99$ (against somewhere around 500-3000$).
>>Again: those who are actually willing to pay for OS X are willing to pay the so-called `Apple premium' and get a real Apple.
You are wrong, at least in my case. I definitely am ready shell out 99$ for OS X, but I am totally against paying premium from my ass for shiny Mac hardware. Just y'day, talking about Boot Camp with a die hard Apple colleague, I expressed that I am waiting for OS X to dual boot on my relatively cheap Dell Inspiron 5100 along with Suse 10.1 (XP will be obsoleted on my laptop in short future).
I know that I may not be representing the majority, but then, I am not into playing games on a laptop/desktop. And I also know this would not sit will with you, because for a die hard Apple fan, its more about the hardware than the OS/Sowftare - but for me, I would rather work with a good OS and few much better s/w on a cheap hardware than work with shady OS on an uber-cool hardware.
And this is what Kevin Kelly says in his excellent book Out of Control (The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World). Start with small and dumb machines, follow nature and gradually build up the complexity. The efforts of creating one machine which does it all is going to fail.
From TFA:"A Californian judge has thrown out Microsoft subpoenas asking that Oracle and Sun Microsystems hand over documents to support its case against the European Commission."
Most of the 'new' features are not new in the browser market. Most of them are already available with Firefox and Opera and other browsers.
As for the security, we all know how much improvement they have done in that area since Bill Gates' call to revamp IE (and Windows in general) security few years back. Few securities gaps have already been found in IE7 Beta.
I think the damage done by security issues in IE6 and previous versions of IE has started the downhill, and its not gonna be reversed that soon, that easily.
I think I will still stick to using personalized Google News, where I can get local news (if I want to) in more than one ways:
1. By searching for keyword like "South Park, Colorado" 2. Using RSS feed (if available) of local news providers/local news sites
This is infinitely more customizable, and I have control over and access to more local news than getting local news from a predefined list of sources identified by somebody else and NOT ME.
What a better way to further the need of H1-B workers?
"Thanks you very much for the strike. Now you all are fired. Please hand over your knowledge and terminals to Mr. Venkat and his company arriving from India on H1-B this morning to take over you jobs. They have promised not to bitch about how less they get, while agreed to work 60 hours a week without even a lunch break."
.1 is for subwoofer, yes. But IMO, parent was talking about 4 in 4.1 and not.1 .
What he means is that instead of 5 speakers (as in 5.1), if you use only 4 (as in 4.1), you are not using a center channel, which is very important in a surround sound system.
"Five beta testers found deadly glitches in the navigation system of the recently launched self-driven cars. Unfortunately, they are not available for comments anymore."
As you said : "And moderators, use those offtopic mods to steer the discussion towards the subject of the article, not the flavor of the month conspiracy theory about story selection."
The moderators who promote such offtopic comments are the problem here. Some retarded moderator promotes an OT tired against the submitter, and then you get 10s of comment, because its sittting on top of the pile with "+5 interesting", and the story is hijacked.
If the same comment was marked "-1 offtopic", its killed already before it becomes a problem.
Agree that Ruby on Rails has got some traction. But when would it get enough traction to be used as a standard framework for web apps at enterprise level?
I am working in tech division of a financial firm, and I put question to our big app dev group if anybody had worked on RoR for a project - and most people had no idea what I was talking about.
Please note that right now almost everybody in the firm uses java/j2ee - for everything - even for batch processing which can be easily done with simple perl scripts!
Fact still remains the same. Have you compared the sound-quality again? I have, and it still is behind.
IMHO, iPod almost always loses out on features and sound quality compared to some other 'less popular' devices.
At the risk of modded down as troll, let me say that its hard not to notice that Apple/iPod is to DAP what Microsoft/WIndows is to OS. Just because its popular does not make it better. In fact, most of the times, popular is NOT better. And that is because the average user is not a power user.
>>As regards sound quality - that mostly depends on the headphones you use rather than the player.
True. But then, if you listen to different players with the SAME headphones, iRiver scores much better. Check this 'blind' test performed by cNet a while back. See where iPod stands compared to others (esp iRiver).
As for RDS, iRiver scores there, irrespective of RDS, as long as iPod does not have it.
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>>How hard would it be to design devices that would set themselves up in a self-managed mesh network which requires no centre?
You might want to check this out : http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/contents.php - esp chap#2. He talks about sefl-managed 'entities' without any central control.
Its a good read - esp in the light of web2.0 and social networking. So apt.
what else you expect, when "Unix was a text-driven operating system running on big mainframe computers that could handle various tasks and users simultaneously."
'It is a very blue sky kind of thing,' Langer said.
And thats how, my child, the blue sky was patented.
Finally, iPod fanboy gets key to the goldmine which iRiver geeks (and others) have been digging for, er, 2 yrs and more.
Anyway, better late than never.
So what? Even if its a case of sour grapes, if that has happened (and I have no reason to believe that it has not happened), then its WRONG.
We all know how valueable domain names are. I thought somebody would have learnt the lesson watching lawsuits after lawsuits on domain names, and would be extra careful while distributing a new list. But no. We continue to let system fuck itself.
>>So why don't you pony up for a real Apple computer to get the real Apple experience?
As I said somewhere else on this discussion, I definitely am interested in ONLY OS X and not a Mac. Why? Because I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I do not have $hitload of money to spend on a shiny uber-cool super-cute hardware. But I am willing to pay for a 99$ OS X to run on my cheap PC, because I can afford 99$ (against somewhere around 500-3000$).
>>Again: those who are actually willing to pay for OS X are willing to pay the so-called `Apple premium' and get a real Apple.
You are wrong, at least in my case. I definitely am ready shell out 99$ for OS X, but I am totally against paying premium from my ass for shiny Mac hardware. Just y'day, talking about Boot Camp with a die hard Apple colleague, I expressed that I am waiting for OS X to dual boot on my relatively cheap Dell Inspiron 5100 along with Suse 10.1 (XP will be obsoleted on my laptop in short future).
I know that I may not be representing the majority, but then, I am not into playing games on a laptop/desktop. And I also know this would not sit will with you, because for a die hard Apple fan, its more about the hardware than the OS/Sowftare - but for me, I would rather work with a good OS and few much better s/w on a cheap hardware than work with shady OS on an uber-cool hardware.
And this is what Kevin Kelly says in his excellent book Out of Control (The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World). Start with small and dumb machines, follow nature and gradually build up the complexity. The efforts of creating one machine which does it all is going to fail.
From TFA:"A Californian judge has thrown out Microsoft subpoenas asking that Oracle and Sun Microsystems hand over documents to support its case against the European Commission."
What documents are we talking about?
Most of the 'new' features are not new in the browser market. Most of them are already available with Firefox and Opera and other browsers.
As for the security, we all know how much improvement they have done in that area since Bill Gates' call to revamp IE (and Windows in general) security few years back. Few securities gaps have already been found in IE7 Beta.
I think the damage done by security issues in IE6 and previous versions of IE has started the downhill, and its not gonna be reversed that soon, that easily.
Given the fact that the average IE user would not even be aware of the flaw, how would he even know such third party patches even exist?
Most of them are going to be patched only when MS releases the patch, AND they have selected to be updated automatically.
Its a horrible situation.
You mean, er, Editors can Edit stories? OMG!!
>> and it's slow as molassas in February
Try it in May or June. Its usually faster around that time of the year.
I think I will still stick to using personalized Google News, where I can get local news (if I want to) in more than one ways:
1. By searching for keyword like "South Park, Colorado"
2. Using RSS feed (if available) of local news providers/local news sites
This is infinitely more customizable, and I have control over and access to more local news than getting local news from a predefined list of sources identified by somebody else and NOT ME.
What a better way to further the need of H1-B workers?
"Thanks you very much for the strike. Now you all are fired. Please hand over your knowledge and terminals to Mr. Venkat and his company arriving from India on H1-B this morning to take over you jobs. They have promised not to bitch about how less they get, while agreed to work 60 hours a week without even a lunch break."
>>My wife has an iRiver I bought her for her birthday and she's pleased with it, but it's very limited
iRiver, limited? Its supposed to be a power user thing! Any particular model in mind, or just some offhand generic rant?
.1 is for subwoofer, yes. But IMO, parent was talking about 4 in 4.1 and not .1 .
What he means is that instead of 5 speakers (as in 5.1), if you use only 4 (as in 4.1), you are not using a center channel, which is very important in a surround sound system.
"Five beta testers found deadly glitches in the navigation system of the recently launched self-driven cars. Unfortunately, they are not available for comments anymore."
As you said : "And moderators, use those offtopic mods to steer the discussion towards the subject of the article, not the flavor of the month conspiracy theory about story selection."
The moderators who promote such offtopic comments are the problem here. Some retarded moderator promotes an OT tired against the submitter, and then you get 10s of comment, because its sittting on top of the pile with "+5 interesting", and the story is hijacked.
If the same comment was marked "-1 offtopic", its killed already before it becomes a problem.
This is already second story on this product (first here), while it has not yet gone live.
Some great PR work!?
You might find this interesting then : http://techdirt.com/articles/20051216/029251_F.sht ml
Agree that Ruby on Rails has got some traction. But when would it get enough traction to be used as a standard framework for web apps at enterprise level?
I am working in tech division of a financial firm, and I put question to our big app dev group if anybody had worked on RoR for a project - and most people had no idea what I was talking about.
Please note that right now almost everybody in the firm uses java/j2ee - for everything - even for batch processing which can be easily done with simple perl scripts!
this reminds me of Mr. Trump. Just dont know how!
Fact still remains the same. Have you compared the sound-quality again? I have, and it still is behind.
IMHO, iPod almost always loses out on features and sound quality compared to some other 'less popular' devices.
At the risk of modded down as troll, let me say that its hard not to notice that Apple/iPod is to DAP what Microsoft/WIndows is to OS. Just because its popular does not make it better. In fact, most of the times, popular is NOT better. And that is because the average user is not a power user.
>>As regards sound quality - that mostly depends on the headphones you use rather than the player.
True. But then, if you listen to different players with the SAME headphones, iRiver scores much better. Check this 'blind' test performed by cNet a while back. See where iPod stands compared to others (esp iRiver).
As for RDS, iRiver scores there, irrespective of RDS, as long as iPod does not have it.