GarageBand *IS* a clone -- of Acid Pro on Windows. Apple even headhunted a few of the Acid developers to work on GB and Soundtrack, and GB has compatibility with the very popular and fairly open Acid format, but of course, Acid users are locked out of the GB format.
...he concludes that his experience... shows that... Linux still has some huge, gaping holes--holes that Windows plugged almost a decade ago.
Nice to know Microsoft's plugged at least ONE of their 68,000+ holes.
By the way, I have used Knoppix on at least 15 different systems (at work and home) and it's detected EVERY sound card perfectly, even the ones Windows 2000 needed me to search for drivers online for. Unless he's trying to set up a recording studio with 150 channels of high-def audio, Knoppix works perfectly "out of the box."
As an Apple user, I have to agree with everything said in this article. I've experienced bad build quality from Apple first hand, on more than one occasion -- including the infamous paint-peeling TiBook, multiple bad RAM fiascos (Apple's own RAM installed at purchase time, not aftermarket RAM installed by me), BAD heat problems, and, most recently, the dead-after-3-weeks-iPod Mini.
I'd like to see a link too, please. You've been modded up from zero to +5, Informative with no corroborating evidence whatsoever.
I went from +4, Insightful, down to the current -1, Flamebait, with no "Insightful" mods registering as ever having been given. They've disappeared. Looks like the editors really are on the take. Sad that Apple would stoop that low, but I have to assume it's them, given that history is being rewritten in their favour.
I run Windows, Linux, and OS X, and have never gotten a virus on ANY of these.
If you have a legal copy of Windows and update it regularly, and run Mozilla instead of IE and OE, you'll be fine. The situation is even better on OSX, and even better than that on Linux, with Debian automatically upgrading security fixes daily for me, and really really fast response times from the Linux guys putting out patches.
If you're not a newbie or a fool, you likely won't get viruses on ANY system.
Huh? What in particular are you talking about? No x86 based hackers expect ANYTHING from Apple. Give out the source code and the open source guys will do the rest for x86. If it's closed source, like 99% of Apple's stuff, HOW is anyone but Apple supposed to port it? And Apple's got a very closed and secretive culture, they don't usually "port" anything unless it's a product they bought that was already running on another OS, or they need it as leverage in order to establish dominance so they can hopefully control a standard.
If you mean Apple's extra KHTML code, the whining is probably because Apple didn't submit it in standard patch format like everyone else or something like that. But you don't hear the K guys complaining, you hear Slashdot idiots complaining. The K guys, from what I hear, are grateful and hope Apple gets MORE into open-source. And so do I.
Well, Apple currently dominates the MP3 market (although the marketshare numbers seem radically different on every site I go to), and the iPod isn't really a *viciously* closed system. There's a *chance* that Apple would be a benevolent dictator if their OS/hardware had a huge marketshare, but it's hard to say -- their Legal Department makes Hitler look like Gandhi.
In short: I use a Mac because I'm too stupid and lazy to handle Linux without falling back to closed source stuff sometimes, but I PRAY that Linux wins the desktop. Because they won't win unless they have everything Windows and OS X have PLUS MORE. Which they will, eventually. And then all those low UID guys here will actually be cool, because they'll be able to say "I knew Linux when..."
Having darwin open source has sealed the fate of the core part of the OS. If Apple die ; the OS will live.
Darwin is NOT the OS. Nobody CARES if Darwin lives. I've used it, it's crap -- without Aqua. Aqua is what makes OS X great. Unless Aqua lives, it's meaningless.
Apple isn't really a hardware company any more; their hardware is usually a year behind and a thousand dollars more than the PC side. I know, I use it. Even the G5 speed tests were proven to be "biased". They ARE a software company; without OS X and iLife, nobody would be buying their hardware. Go on the Mac forums, you'll be surprised how many mac users say they want OS X on a Sony Vaio or Sager, Clevo, or IBM Computer.
And if you're in the market for a laptop, I'd think about this: Doc Searls mentioned that IBM is planning on releasing G5 Thinkpads that will come with Linux pre-installed, and all the drivers and everything included and running sweet. It will be released (supposedly) this year.
That's because 90% of the open source coders are on x86. The ports are not usually done by the main coder, but by Mac-using programmers who usually can't do much more than compile the code and fix a few of the big errors.
So, you guys buy a digital camera from Wal-Mart and then document yourselves vandalizing CDs, in-store displays, and music preview hardware... Does Downhill Battle do anything of value, or is it all just lame anti-RIAA posturing?
Vandalizing? They put STICKERS on the CDs. Your vague wording makes it sound like they smashed the place up with baseball bats. This is more along the line of civil disobedience, and does no real harm to the product, as the cellophane is removed when you get the CD home anyway.
If you really want to, there is software out there for Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux that allows you to record to hard drive *any* sound stream being played on your computer. I can ALREADY download free previews and keep them. This just does it differently.
And I think Apple will try to kill this project because the Apple Legal Department makes their money by selling Apple shares short, and so they spend their lives trying to be complete.. well, lemme just say "A" isn't only for "Apple". If they have a chance to be A... they will. The programmers at Apple are cool, the suits are not. Defend the coders and their work, not the suits and theirs.
And this little nothing app doesn't cement DRM's inevitability, use Google and you'll find the stream capturing software I've talked about. One app doesn't cement anything. If anything, this is a warning that there are talented people who are willing to take down *whatever* DRM corporations throw at them. The corporations should just give up. If they lowered their CD prices down to a reasonable (less than 600% markup) level, people would BUY instead of STEAL. And if the RIAA really does push up the iTMS prices, iTMS will fail and disappear like Newton and the Cube, because if the terms are unacceptable, the masses will remember that Piracy Just Works(TM).
I really notice the speed difference -- I know this online script is really basic gui-wise, but it's very very very noticeably faster than the regular iTMS.
Okay, I guess I shouldn't try to be funny before I've had my first cup of coffee of the day. Or until the mods have, one or the other.
IT WAS A JOKE. But here's the explanation for you lesser beings in easy to understand fourth grade english: The article is talking about search engines spying on people. My JOKE is that I've bookmarked every porn site already (ha ha!) so I'm not worried, because I no longer NEED a search engine.
It was a joke. -1, Unfunny, perhaps, but not offtopic. THIS post is offtopic. See how bad moderation creates crap posts?
Come to think of it, here's an idea for a cool app: a P2P bookmark swap app with a ratings system like iTunes. No corporate shills, just people rating sites.
Of course, this idea will get modded down pretty darn fast once the Slashdot editors figure out what rating they'd get...
If you've been on the internet more than 6 months and you don't have at least 3000 porn sites *bookmarked*, you should have your net privileges taken away.
The only time I'd have to use a Search Engine is if I turned gay or something.
Exactly. First people want more efficient vehicles, then they want their GPS readouts to actually be correct, then they want to know the truth, then they want honest government. Therefore, improvement is treason.
Just say NO! to improvement that will destroy our comfortable and crooked way of inefficient life.
Yup, I introduced my grandma to spam, viruses, a trojan horse that allowed some kid to pop up gay porn on her screen and open and shut her CD tray, a continuously quitting internet connection, and finally, the Blue Screen of Death... Windows eventually gave my grandma a heart attack.
How do you sleep at night, Bill Gates? Oh, yeah, that's right. On a bed of money.
But then again, now that Grandma's dead, so do I. Thanks, Bill! Now I know why everyone buys your stuff!
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GarageBand *IS* a clone -- of Acid Pro on Windows. Apple even headhunted a few of the Acid developers to work on GB and Soundtrack, and GB has compatibility with the very popular and fairly open Acid format, but of course, Acid users are locked out of the GB format.
...he concludes that his experience... shows that... Linux still has some huge, gaping holes--holes that Windows plugged almost a decade ago.
Nice to know Microsoft's plugged at least ONE of their 68,000+ holes.
By the way, I have used Knoppix on at least 15 different systems (at work and home) and it's detected EVERY sound card perfectly, even the ones Windows 2000 needed me to search for drivers online for. Unless he's trying to set up a recording studio with 150 channels of high-def audio, Knoppix works perfectly "out of the box."
Apple's designs are fine, but its build quality is poor
As an Apple user, I have to agree with everything said in this article. I've experienced bad build quality from Apple first hand, on more than one occasion -- including the infamous paint-peeling TiBook, multiple bad RAM fiascos (Apple's own RAM installed at purchase time, not aftermarket RAM installed by me), BAD heat problems, and, most recently, the dead-after-3-weeks-iPod Mini.
Why do I think this wouldn't have happened with a company whose name begins with M and ends with -onopoly.
Because Microsoft doesn't make PCs?
I'd like to see a link too, please. You've been modded up from zero to +5, Informative with no corroborating evidence whatsoever.
I went from +4, Insightful, down to the current -1, Flamebait, with no "Insightful" mods registering as ever having been given. They've disappeared. Looks like the editors really are on the take. Sad that Apple would stoop that low, but I have to assume it's them, given that history is being rewritten in their favour.
Have fun with viruses. LOL.
I run Windows, Linux, and OS X, and have never gotten a virus on ANY of these.
If you have a legal copy of Windows and update it regularly, and run Mozilla instead of IE and OE, you'll be fine. The situation is even better on OSX, and even better than that on Linux, with Debian automatically upgrading security fixes daily for me, and really really fast response times from the Linux guys putting out patches.
If you're not a newbie or a fool, you likely won't get viruses on ANY system.
Hmmm. I missed the part where i actually SAID ANY OF THAT.
Huh? What in particular are you talking about? No x86 based hackers expect ANYTHING from Apple. Give out the source code and the open source guys will do the rest for x86. If it's closed source, like 99% of Apple's stuff, HOW is anyone but Apple supposed to port it? And Apple's got a very closed and secretive culture, they don't usually "port" anything unless it's a product they bought that was already running on another OS, or they need it as leverage in order to establish dominance so they can hopefully control a standard.
If you mean Apple's extra KHTML code, the whining is probably because Apple didn't submit it in standard patch format like everyone else or something like that. But you don't hear the K guys complaining, you hear Slashdot idiots complaining. The K guys, from what I hear, are grateful and hope Apple gets MORE into open-source. And so do I.
Well, Apple currently dominates the MP3 market (although the marketshare numbers seem radically different on every site I go to), and the iPod isn't really a *viciously* closed system. There's a *chance* that Apple would be a benevolent dictator if their OS/hardware had a huge marketshare, but it's hard to say -- their Legal Department makes Hitler look like Gandhi.
In short: I use a Mac because I'm too stupid and lazy to handle Linux without falling back to closed source stuff sometimes, but I PRAY that Linux wins the desktop. Because they won't win unless they have everything Windows and OS X have PLUS MORE. Which they will, eventually. And then all those low UID guys here will actually be cool, because they'll be able to say "I knew Linux when..."
And Watson?
Having darwin open source has sealed the fate of the core part of the OS. If Apple die ; the OS will live.
Darwin is NOT the OS. Nobody CARES if Darwin lives. I've used it, it's crap -- without Aqua. Aqua is what makes OS X great. Unless Aqua lives, it's meaningless.
Apple isn't really a hardware company any more; their hardware is usually a year behind and a thousand dollars more than the PC side. I know, I use it. Even the G5 speed tests were proven to be "biased". They ARE a software company; without OS X and iLife, nobody would be buying their hardware. Go on the Mac forums, you'll be surprised how many mac users say they want OS X on a Sony Vaio or Sager, Clevo, or IBM Computer.
And if you're in the market for a laptop, I'd think about this: Doc Searls mentioned that IBM is planning on releasing G5 Thinkpads that will come with Linux pre-installed, and all the drivers and everything included and running sweet. It will be released (supposedly) this year.
True. And they arrested Rosa Parks for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white man.
Prove it. Give a link from the KDE guys confirming this.
That's because 90% of the open source coders are on x86. The ports are not usually done by the main coder, but by Mac-using programmers who usually can't do much more than compile the code and fix a few of the big errors.
So, you guys buy a digital camera from Wal-Mart and then document yourselves vandalizing CDs, in-store displays, and music preview hardware... Does Downhill Battle do anything of value, or is it all just lame anti-RIAA posturing?
Vandalizing? They put STICKERS on the CDs. Your vague wording makes it sound like they smashed the place up with baseball bats. This is more along the line of civil disobedience, and does no real harm to the product, as the cellophane is removed when you get the CD home anyway.
If you really want to, there is software out there for Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux that allows you to record to hard drive *any* sound stream being played on your computer. I can ALREADY download free previews and keep them. This just does it differently.
And I think Apple will try to kill this project because the Apple Legal Department makes their money by selling Apple shares short, and so they spend their lives trying to be complete.. well, lemme just say "A" isn't only for "Apple". If they have a chance to be A... they will. The programmers at Apple are cool, the suits are not. Defend the coders and their work, not the suits and theirs.
And this little nothing app doesn't cement DRM's inevitability, use Google and you'll find the stream capturing software I've talked about. One app doesn't cement anything. If anything, this is a warning that there are talented people who are willing to take down *whatever* DRM corporations throw at them. The corporations should just give up. If they lowered their CD prices down to a reasonable (less than 600% markup) level, people would BUY instead of STEAL. And if the RIAA really does push up the iTMS prices, iTMS will fail and disappear like Newton and the Cube, because if the terms are unacceptable, the masses will remember that Piracy Just Works(TM).
I really notice the speed difference -- I know this online script is really basic gui-wise, but it's very very very noticeably faster than the regular iTMS.
Okay, I guess I shouldn't try to be funny before I've had my first cup of coffee of the day. Or until the mods have, one or the other.
IT WAS A JOKE. But here's the explanation for you lesser beings in easy to understand fourth grade english: The article is talking about search engines spying on people. My JOKE is that I've bookmarked every porn site already (ha ha!) so I'm not worried, because I no longer NEED a search engine.
It was a joke. -1, Unfunny, perhaps, but not offtopic. THIS post is offtopic. See how bad moderation creates crap posts?
Come to think of it, here's an idea for a cool app: a P2P bookmark swap app with a ratings system like iTunes. No corporate shills, just people rating sites.
Of course, this idea will get modded down pretty darn fast once the Slashdot editors figure out what rating they'd get...
If you've been on the internet more than 6 months and you don't have at least 3000 porn sites *bookmarked*, you should have your net privileges taken away.
The only time I'd have to use a Search Engine is if I turned gay or something.
iTunes actually only shuffles the songs the first time, then always plays them in the same shuffled order.
How do you make iTunes reshuffle each time through?
i'm sure, if given the chance, you would love to sleep on that same bed of money.
I don't care WHAT Bill Gates' bed is made out of; you'll NEVER catch me spooning another man.
having money isn't a crime.
Depends how you get it. How many convictions does his company have against it again? 300+? He breaks the law every day.
Exactly. First people want more efficient vehicles, then they want their GPS readouts to actually be correct, then they want to know the truth, then they want honest government. Therefore, improvement is treason.
Just say NO! to improvement that will destroy our comfortable and crooked way of inefficient life.
Yup, I introduced my grandma to spam, viruses, a trojan horse that allowed some kid to pop up gay porn on her screen and open and shut her CD tray, a continuously quitting internet connection, and finally, the Blue Screen of Death... Windows eventually gave my grandma a heart attack.
How do you sleep at night, Bill Gates? Oh, yeah, that's right. On a bed of money.
But then again, now that Grandma's dead, so do I. Thanks, Bill! Now I know why everyone buys your stuff!