No, there are two words to explain that: Other OS. Check out this table (slightly outdated, it's a year old or so) by console hacker Michael Steil (or watch him talk about it on any of his talks). Every console post-PS2 was hacked for homebrew, and then those hacks were abused for piracy. The PS3 comes with homebrew, therefore there is little motivation to crack the native system. Pro-piracy people are rarely good hackers, and need homebrew to piggyback on. In fact, the reason the PS3 was recently attacked was neither homebrew nor piracy; instead, geohot attacked it solely as an ego boost and to get media coverage (note how he hasn't even tried to develop a useful application for his exploit, such as GPU access under Linux).
Blu-ray is a minor inconvenience. There are a myriad potential ways of copying PS3 games that don't involve blu-ray discs.
Sony are shooting themselves in the foot by removing Other OS, and pissing off legitimate customers on top of it.
This is just plain BS. Piracy on modern consoles (at least in the case of the Xbox 360 and Wii) involve bypassing the DVD drive's built in security check. This really has nothing to do with homebrew and you can, in fact, run homebrew on either system without modifying the DVD drive to accept pirated discs. So your statement that pro-piracy people are a) rarely good hackers and b) are piggybacking on homebrew is complete crap.
Get your facts straight before commenting on something you obviously know nothing about.
I use a Mac, because Linux is completely useless on the desktop (unless you like wasting your time with getting things done) and I don't get Windows.
But whatever will happen, there are always people hating or overloving one system. Something I never get.
A real computer is one that you can plug hardware into and have it work.
A real computer is one where you aren't forced into using outdated modalities in the OS.
Now... the Mac hardware falls into the category of a real computer, except for the fact that it's overpriced, but the software is definitely NOT in that category as of yet. At least Apple got it right when they moved to standard hardware.
The fact is,/. has always disliked Macs, simply because they are laughable little toys. They've improved recently with the move to x86,
No, they were improved sufficiently to not be "laughable little toy" when they moved to a BSD unix. OS X is very popular with many programmers because it gives them the full power of unix.
They're also popular with computer illiterates because they Just Work. It's a bit of an odd combination (especially considering the main (and more successful) competitor offers neither unixy power nor Just Workingness), but it's very effective.
The move to BSD and x86 is synonymous as far as I know and it is to what I was referring.
The "It just works" campaign is complete bullshit. Scan back in my post history and you'll see me document lots of cases of my foray into the OSX world and how all sorts of crap "Just doesn't work" on OSX but magically works on Linux and Windows. As of 10.5 it was still a laughable little toy. Perhaps it's changed since then.
You're just another rabid Apple hater, one of so many. You'd prefer not to wait for the crime before you give the sentence.
Give what sentence? I've lived through what Apple has done since it's birth and I've seen what it's done to markets and platforms it controls. Why do you think they would suddenly be so different now? There's no reason for them to be suddenly all sunshine and light - they do what they do to maximize their profits. If they could get away with the OSX App store and closing it off, they would.
As a point of fact, I am not a rabid Apple hater. I dislike a lot of Apples stuff because I've used it and found it to be severely lacking. OSX is junk for getting real work done - I know because I tried for over 6 months. Maybe it's better now, but as of 10.5 it was trash when it came to compatibility and so much of the user space modality is out of date and actively hostile to the user as to make the OS a shiny toy and nothing more.
I swear half the accounts on/. these days were purchased recently from eBay. There's such a lack of clarity in posts, such a lack of thinking that it makes me wonder. Or was it always this bad and I never noticed?
Well, at least we know that your account with an 800k mark wasn't purchased from eBay, you're the original idiot who created it!
The fact is,/. has always disliked Macs, simply because they are laughable little toys. They've improved recently with the move to x86, but they are still a computer with training wheels for people who can't figure out a real computer. It's ok that you are in that category, we don't look down upon you because of it, we just laugh at you when you rail against the fact that you aren't able to play with the big boys so you throw a tantrum when someone talks bad about your $2500 albatross you purchased.
I have OS X running on a whitebox - next question. Just because they officially discourage it, doesn't mean it is not possible. They don;t even make it difficult. The install DVD is not encrypted, has no serial numbers, does not phone home, does not need online activation. While it technically infringes the licence to do so, it is not hard to do.
Dayy-um! You Apple fanbois are deluded! Because it's hacked/hackable to work on a whitebox somehow equates to the company supporting it or making it an open system. So by this logic, the iPhone is an open platform as well, because it can be jailbroken. Whoa... whatever!
"Every product locked down" - this is just nonsense. While OS X itself features closed source components, just because this is the case doesn't mean it cannot be open. Open and open source are not the same thing. OS X features a multitude of open protocols, codecs, standards and features that are designed to make it play well with other operating systems, as well as a continued commitment to open source projects that it includes and bases large parts of its systems on - CUPS, Webkit, libdispatch, OpenGL, OpenAL, GCC etc etc, just to name a couple.
Because they have appropriated open source software for their own use and are making a profit on it, while at the same time closing off parts of it and making it impossible to write drivers for or boot on white box systems somehow makes them open? It's the exact OPPOSITE of open. They are only as "open" as they have to be to keep customers. I'm not faulting them for taking open source software and making a viable business out of it, in fact I commend them for such and have absolutely no problem with it. What I do have a problem with is people such as your self that try to then claim that they are somehow open and "good" when they are purely out for profit and any way they can squeeze more profit out of their customers is a good thing.
If they were truly open, why not sell OSX for any whitebox? Because they don't want to - they want to keep a CLOSED SYSTEM. I mean, duh. Come on, can you really not see this? They want to maintain control over the entire environment, this is diametrically opposed to an "open" system.
If Apple wanted to lock people into an App Store for OS X they would have done so already - they will do what works for them in a business sense, nothing more, nothing less.
No, they wouldn't have. As I already posted, if they thought they could get away with it, they would have... but if they tried it, their meager share of the OS market would dwindle to numbers not even worth tracking. The only reason they do NOT have a locked in environment, as I've already said, is because they don't have the power to force users into this. They have/had that power with the iPhone and look what they've done with it. You are insane to think they wouldn't love to do the same with the entire Mac line if they could somehow convince their users to do it... but it would leave too much to be desired at this point, since there is already a huge ecosystem built around a quasi-open standard that is the Windows environment. Trying to cut that off at the knees would be suicide for OSX.
It is a fallacy to suggest that because the iPhone business model was successful for Apple that they would try and shoehorn that onto the Mac business model.
I don't suggest any such thing. I'm saying they don't have the muscle to make it happen, and the iPhone is a perfect example of why they should NEVER be given that muscle.
You might as well say that now that Xbox live and the 360 are so well entrenched that MS will be moving that business model onto Windows.
Moving what business model to windows? You mean... oh I don't know... Games for Windows Live? So... like, you mean moving the console model to Windows, which is EXACTLY what they have done/are in the process of doing? Are you trying to make my case or yours? Because you're succeeding very well in the former and failing miserably in the latter.
Because the OS on the Zune is so free and easy to modify.
Apple has a closed environment on the iPad/iPhone/iPod line, the rest of the hardware contains an OS that is just as open (more so in some respects) than Windows. A software platform that it continues to develop and open up. You don't need to jailbreak an OS X box.
There is nothing to suggest Apple are moving "us" towards closed environments. If the iPad doesn't work for you - don't buy it.
Whaaaaaa? Are you in some strange bizzaro world where Apple isn't the embodiment of a closed system?
The rest of the hardware contains an OS that is just as open ? What the hell are you talking about? Tried to boot OSX on a whitebox yet? Apparently not or you'd see how ludicrous your statement is.
There's nothing to suggest that Apple is moving "us" (why is "us" in quotes?) towards a closed environment? You mean other than the fact that every product they have is locked down and closed off? You are deluded if you think Apple wouldn't love to lock OSX users into an App store - the only reason they haven't is because Windows would regain most of the customers lost to OSX if that happened. Apple is way too far behind in the OS arena to try to dictate terms to it's users, whereas they are/were far enough ahead with the iPod/iPhone to dictate whatever the hell they wanted. The whole iPod/iPhone environment is a perfect example of exactly what Apple would do if it had the power to do so - and it's also a perfect example of why Apple should never be given enough marketshare to accomplish anything like it.
IIRC, tablets run more-or-less normal versions of Windows XP so the admin rights were built into the account to begin with! There was no need to get "root" because it was enabled by default.
Undoubtedly, there will be tons of apple haters in this discussion who are sick of hearing about ipad because it's not open, proprietary, etc. The community understands your arguments. Bashing apple while trying to compare them to microsoft just undermines your credibility and the valid point you are trying to make.
You are absolutely right... comparing it to Windows/Microsoft is redundant. the iPad sucks all on it's own; It doesn't need assistance in the suck department by being compared to other tablets. It's just a super sized iPhone for a hamfisted idiot (there's a lot of them out there) - and all the limitations of the iPhone without much to benefit it except a larger screen.
They've never "integrated" anything into their OS just to take out competition. Never made proprietary extensions to standards and patented them so no-one else can inter-operate with them. Never changed interfaces to standard libraries causing old programs to not work so people have to buy the latest Microsoft product. Never removed features through software updates. Never came up with crappy new APIs just to force people to upgrade other programs when they update this one program over here. Never bought out competition and destroyed all the source code and copies of the program not sold to consumers. Never stole other company's source code and integrated it into their own. Of course the original Xbox used a standard USB interface. No control over add-on hardware for the Xbox360.
Again, it's anti-competitive, not anti-consumer. We aren't talking about anti-competitive behavior, we are talking about anti-consumer behavior. There's a distinct difference. The effect on the consumer may be similar or even identical but they are two entirely different things that affect your day to day life.
As a programmer, I am sick and tired of the anti-consumer crap Microsoft is constantly pulling. Have you ever had an update to the OS that has broken some functionality to software that you use and Microsoft blames it on the developer? Chances are that company programmed it according to the Microsoft recommendation, just Microsoft went and changed that recommendation, sometimes not providing any officially supported way of doing it anymore.
So let me get this straight... MS should somehow continue to support legacy products and methodologies for time immemorial? It's called technological progress, get used to it.
One example is out web site creates Excel files. The official supported method of doing this was to use the Excel Interop object. Then Microsoft came out with a patch to Windows Server 2003 that didn't allow this to work anymore unless you turned off a whole bunch of security and that wasn't recommended. After that patch there was no official way to do what we were doing, but we had been doing it the official, supported, recommended Microsoft way before the patch.
So again, MS should support this particular method you refer to in lieu of security? Thanks, but no, I'd rather have security than an aging way of creating Exec files or whatever it is you are referring to.
I'm not saying MS has it right, and I'm not even saying they aren't evil. But they aren't Sony evil; That's all I'm saying.
Sony, on the other hand - you want to use an SD card in our device? FUCK YOU! You MUST buy our shitty MemoryStick if you want portable media. That's the difference.
Actually, the PS3 reads SD cards, uses a standard replaceable SATA hard drive, features standard USB ports and Bluetooth connectivity, can use standard USB or Bluetooth keyboards, mice, microphones and webcams, and conversely allows you to use Sony's original hardware on a PC if you want to. It was the xbox that forced you to buy Microsoft's extremely overpriced hard drives until the April firmware update.
Yeah, NOW. The only reason the PS3 has so many standard compliant parts now is because literally for the last decade they had been getting their asses kicked left and right by standards compliant products that Sony tried to duplicate with their proprietary crap.
MS? Not Anti-consumer? The same MS who threatened Toshiba if they shipped a BeOS box in the 90's?
Not anti-consumer, anti-competition. There's a difference.
The same MS who wants 80 bucks for 802.11g on their gaming console(Much less any other feature that didn't come out of the box)?
Hmm, I will give you that one.
The same MS who decides once you install NT/XP/Vista/7 that your bootloader goes byebye?
Once again, anti-competition, not anti-consumer. Does NT/XP/Vista/7 refuse to run when you replace the bootloader with Grub? No?
Was it Sony that released an OS that could be rootkitted by a music CD?
Wait... is this serious? Are you seriously using this as an example? If you are serious, let me answer you: No, it wasn't Sony that released an OS that could be root kitted by a music CD (Because it was shitty programming, not anti-consumer) - it WAS FUCKING SONY THAT RELEASED THE ROOTKIT. WTF? Seriously? It's more anti-consumer to somehow release buggy software that has the unintentional consequence of being able to be root kitted than to be the ACTUAL COMPANY that ROOT KITS the OS?! Seriously?
I guess he head to study that for the theory test, it's still fresh in his mind and he hasn't had time to develop bad habits. He's no less qualified than you or me.
So somehow he's no less qualified, even though he has no experience to speak of? Wow... I guess that means I'm qualified to give a presentation on Arctic Salmon and their mating habits then! Oh wait... no I'm not, because I haven't had any experience in that area.
How so? Say I've got my left hand at the three o'clock position. I can go about 75 degrees left and maybe 180 right from there. Not much when it's about a 1000 lock to lock. You really think having my other hand ready to take over and assist hinders my ability to steer?
Absolutely. Have you tried to hold your hands at 10 & 2 on a wheel for an hour straight? How about two? What about three? Four? Five? Alternating your hands will give your active hand the muscle control needed to control the vehicle in a safe manner. Trying to keep both hands on the wheel for any length of time is counterproductive.
Let's look at a professional. Seems to me he takes his hand off to shift and as soon as he's finished he puts it back right away.
Holy crap, you found a professional driver... on a RACE COURSE! Whoa! Amazing! Because driving on the track is EXACTLY like driving in the city... or, or... it's EXACTLY like driving on the highway for 6 hours in a virtually straight line! YEAH! Of course! Christ.
If I could find the video I saw years ago, I would love to show you a race driver that is actually driving a clover leaf in his personal car... he's got one hand on the wheel and he's fumbling around in the glove box and then with his tape deck (it's an old video) while literally skidding around the clover leaf. So no, we aren't talking about professional drivers on race courses here - that's something entirely different. I figured that would be obvious enough to not have to mention that, but apparently some people can't quite grasp the concept that the track is different than the road.
Mod parent up. I've recently passed my driving test and, just before I took it, I was nearly hit by a woman who skipped a red light whilst texting. She would have hit the driver's door and I'd be dead. She would be fine. The only thing that saved me was that I'd come out onto the main road slower than I should have; she'd missed the green by a good 10 seconds.
Seriously, anyone who talks or texts whilst driving is a danger. Not only are you distracted, you are NOT in full control of your car as you have only one hand on the wheel.
Seriously... you just passed your driving test and you somehow think you're qualified to comment on who and what is safe while driving and what isn't? Really?
Just because your high school driving instructor tells you something doesn't mean they know what they are talking about. They are just some random faculty member who got suckered into the job - or if you took a "professional" course aimed at kids, you were told exactly what is best for you to hear at your level of driving, not what's true in day to day life - basically you're told what won't get the company sued when you wreck mom and dads SUV.
Having two hands on the wheel under most driving conditions is redundant most of the time. Under certain conditions, it would even lessen your control over the vehicle. For those conditions where two hands on the wheel are beneficial, you'll know the situations when you're in them, probably because you'll be white-knuckling the wheel the first few times they happen to you.
Texting while driving is generally a douche move - especially if you have an iPhone or any similar phone without a keypad (a full keyboard doesn't count) - however texting on a T9 without looking at your phone offers just as much distraction as a radio or talking on the phone. Now, I would entertain the argument that talking on the phone causes a level of distraction that might be unacceptable under some conditions (such as heavy traffic / city driving) but doing so on the highway does not cause a level of distraction that is significantly more dangerous than a host of other actions people perform while driving.
As for talking on the phone, that is entirely dependent on the person - some people are apparently incapable of prioritizing outside stimuli properly - those are the people who are dangerous while talking on the phone - for the rest of the people who have properly functioning prioritization centers in their brain, talking on the phone is no more a hazard than the radio. Sadly, it seems many people on the road these days have a malfunctioning prioritization system.
Either way, your blanket statements just reek of inexperience.
We continue to buy their products in the hopes of catching them hard in something bad, and then using the past predatory practices recorded in court cases and what not to utterly destroy Sony once and for all.
Use their greed to bury them, basically.
Hey man, good luck with that! Enjoy your overpriced, crappy, crippled product in the meantime.
Really? More evil than DeBeers, Walmart, Halliburton, Xe/Blackwater, GM, Whole Foods, Microsoft and Verizon(or $telco_here)?
Taking away Linux support is worse than blood diamonds, worker exploitation, war profiteering, building unsafe cars, soaking the general consumer, releasing Windows/IE/Microsoft BOB/SkiFree or whatever the hell telcos have done this week?
Really? evil?
Perhaps you'd like to re-read my original post. I said one of the worst - they are right along side those companies you listed, yet.
However, no, Microsoft is not in that category. MS may suck, but they are not anti consumer in the way Sony is. MS is pro-profit and who cares about the consumer (to a degree) - whereas Sony actively and in a hostile manner targets the consumer. They do NOT want you to copy media or use their products in a way they do not intend, they do NOT want you to use products that are not Sony. Microsoft, on the other hand doesn't care, they just want your money. If that means you use Windows on a Mac, they don't care, so long as you buy Windows. Want to use Adobe products along side your MS products? No problem.
Sony, on the other hand - you want to use an SD card in our device? FUCK YOU! You MUST buy our shitty MemoryStick if you want portable media. That's the difference.
And taking away Linux support isn't worse than anything, I think it's a good thing. Sony should take away every single bit of functionality from every single product they have. Then, maybe, some people will finally realize what a shithole of a company Sony is and refuse to ever buy their products again.
I haven't purchased a Sony product since the last century and I am happy to say I have prevented several tens of thousands of dollars, if not more than $100,000 from being spent on Sony products through friends and family asking me for recommendations on products. It may be a drop in the bucket to the bottom line of Sony, but at least I'm doing my part... unlike the rest of these fucks up in arms over Sony doing what Sony does and removing consumer rights unilaterally and often against the law.
And for the record, no I don't buy diamonds (DeBeers aside, they are a scam to begin with), I don't shop at Walmart, I don't think I use/buy anything related to Halliburton, Xe/Blackwater, and I never buy American cars anymore because they are such garbage, I do shop at Whole Foods (What's the problem there? I'll Google that after this), I already addressed Microsoft and I would never patronize Verizon from all the horror stories I've heard; Their phones are total crippled junk anyway. Besides, Sony is worse than any $telco_here you can possibly name.
Seriously... why is this even an issue? Why do you assholes that have a problem with this continue to buy Sony products?
Sony has shown, time and again, that they care not one whit about their customers. They will screw them in any possible way they can to make more money out of them. They have no regard for their customers, their customers privacy, their customers equipment, etc... You dumb bastards that bought a PS3 deserve everything you get, because you KNEW ahead of time that Sony was one of the worst, most evil companies out there. There were already countless and recent examples of their total disregard for anything consumer rights related and yet you went ahead and bought yet ANOTHER Sony product.
Yes, you get exactly what you deserve and there should be no sympathy for you idiots. If you keep putting your hand into a crocodiles mouth and then wonder why your hand got bitten off, even after the guy next to you lost his whole arm and hundreds of thousands of people are screaming at you not to do it, then you are just stupid and Darwin needs to pay you a visit. In this case, you are just stupid for supporting Sony and Electronic Darwin needs to pay you a visit.
In my experience, it's rare for SQL Servers to be CPU bound, they're almost invariably IO bound, and having more cores won't help you when your disks are the bottleneck. I could see excitement over lowering per-machine costs for something like a renderfarm, but it doesn't seem likely to materialize for Databases.
This is why I came in here to say... There's been some rare instances where my single core machines running DB backends and what have you (yeah they are getting long in the tooth) have run up against a CPU wall... but that's few and far between and a quad core would solve that completely for a long time to come. Almost always, though, when a problem crops up it's the drive(s) that are going mad trying to play catchup while the CPU sits almost idle with brief spurts of activity.
I wouldn't mind it being a camera, just for the simple fact that then I could video conference and have it look like I'm actually looking at the person, instead of the screen BELOW (or above) the camera.
It would be a great ad campaign... just a black and white screen and the words slowly fade in: "When you stare into the monitor the monitor stares back at you."
Then a picture of the monitor and in the background the crushed carcasses of all the other monitors competing with it.
I heard about this story a few days ago via Twitter. Apparently, the father heard something outside and took his gun with him to investigate. It turned out to be nothing so he went back to sleep, but not before putting his loaded gun on the coffee table. Wait, I think that needs more emphasis: HE PUT HIS LOADED GUN ON THE COFFEE TABLE.
The next day, the 3 year old was playing, saw the gun, thought it was a game controller and shot himself. Now I'm not a gun owner and I've never even held a gun, much less fired it, but even I know this much about gun safety:
You never leave a gun (especially a loaded gun) someplace where a child can get it!!!!
Why didn't the dad simply put it away? "He was tired" isn't a valid answer. As a parent, I've had plenty of times when I've been tired, but I don't leave weapons lying around when I am. (And having had someone prowling about my house at 2am, I can tell you you tend to get very alert, very fast.) As a parent, your child's safety and well-being is priority #1, even above your own. Losing 10 minutes of sleep while you put the gun away is nothing compared to the risk of your child discovering the loaded gun the next morning before you remember about it.
I think the more poignant issue here is why would you leave a loaded weapon ON THE COFFEE TABLE when there's a potential intruder about. Why leave your "home defense weapon" in a place where A) You can't get to it when you might need it most and B) Where someone in the house would be able to get it BEFORE YOU COULD. What's the point of having a gun at all if you leave it out for the hypothetical bad guys to get at and use against you. The father is an idiot all the way around.
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Really? A toddler pulling the trigger of a.380? A toddler?
I smell bullshit.
This was exactly what I was thinking first thing. How the hell can a 3 year old manipulate the multi-pound trigger pull of a hand gun? Their little fingers are even unlikely to reach from the back of the handgrip to the trigger, much less be able to squeeze it.
The only thing I can figure, if this isn't a load a bullshit, is that the pistol was already cocked, making the trigger pull substantially less difficult, and the reason the kid died instead of shooting a hole in the TV was because he was just dicking around with the pistol instead of actually trying to play the game with it... so perhaps had it on the table and squeezed it while already cocked with his thumb and pointed at him.
It just seems like a fantastic series of events to get to that point, especially if the mother "was only a few feet away."
So what, exactly, does that have to do with buying an Android based phone? Buying one will still solve that problem as well as solve a number of other problems not mentioned in this thread.
I got the exact same message a couple of weeks ago when I tried to log in to ADC. Here's a screenshot: http://tomasf.se/other/appleid.jpg
I'm not a jailbreaker, though, so either Apple made a mistake in my case, or this has nothing to do with jailbreaking. Now to figure out how to resolve this...:-/
It's pretty easy to resolve. Buy an Android phone.
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No, there are two words to explain that: Other OS. Check out this table (slightly outdated, it's a year old or so) by console hacker Michael Steil (or watch him talk about it on any of his talks). Every console post-PS2 was hacked for homebrew, and then those hacks were abused for piracy. The PS3 comes with homebrew, therefore there is little motivation to crack the native system. Pro-piracy people are rarely good hackers, and need homebrew to piggyback on. In fact, the reason the PS3 was recently attacked was neither homebrew nor piracy; instead, geohot attacked it solely as an ego boost and to get media coverage (note how he hasn't even tried to develop a useful application for his exploit, such as GPU access under Linux).
Blu-ray is a minor inconvenience. There are a myriad potential ways of copying PS3 games that don't involve blu-ray discs.
Sony are shooting themselves in the foot by removing Other OS, and pissing off legitimate customers on top of it.
This is just plain BS. Piracy on modern consoles (at least in the case of the Xbox 360 and Wii) involve bypassing the DVD drive's built in security check. This really has nothing to do with homebrew and you can, in fact, run homebrew on either system without modifying the DVD drive to accept pirated discs. So your statement that pro-piracy people are a) rarely good hackers and b) are piggybacking on homebrew is complete crap.
Get your facts straight before commenting on something you obviously know nothing about.
So whats a real computer than? Linux? or Windows?
I use a Mac, because Linux is completely useless on the desktop (unless you like wasting your time with getting things done) and I don't get Windows.
But whatever will happen, there are always people hating or overloving one system. Something I never get.
A real computer is one that you can plug hardware into and have it work.
A real computer is one where you aren't forced into using outdated modalities in the OS.
Now... the Mac hardware falls into the category of a real computer, except for the fact that it's overpriced, but the software is definitely NOT in that category as of yet. At least Apple got it right when they moved to standard hardware.
The fact is, /. has always disliked Macs, simply because they are laughable little toys. They've improved recently with the move to x86,
No, they were improved sufficiently to not be "laughable little toy" when they moved to a BSD unix. OS X is very popular with many programmers because it gives them the full power of unix.
They're also popular with computer illiterates because they Just Work. It's a bit of an odd combination (especially considering the main (and more successful) competitor offers neither unixy power nor Just Workingness), but it's very effective.
The move to BSD and x86 is synonymous as far as I know and it is to what I was referring.
The "It just works" campaign is complete bullshit. Scan back in my post history and you'll see me document lots of cases of my foray into the OSX world and how all sorts of crap "Just doesn't work" on OSX but magically works on Linux and Windows. As of 10.5 it was still a laughable little toy. Perhaps it's changed since then.
Far more open than windows.
Really? Because I'm not seeing the option to compile it and allow it to run on any hardware I want. Can you direct me to that part of the source code?
You're just another rabid Apple hater, one of so many. You'd prefer not to wait for the crime before you give the sentence.
Give what sentence? I've lived through what Apple has done since it's birth and I've seen what it's done to markets and platforms it controls. Why do you think they would suddenly be so different now? There's no reason for them to be suddenly all sunshine and light - they do what they do to maximize their profits. If they could get away with the OSX App store and closing it off, they would.
As a point of fact, I am not a rabid Apple hater. I dislike a lot of Apples stuff because I've used it and found it to be severely lacking. OSX is junk for getting real work done - I know because I tried for over 6 months. Maybe it's better now, but as of 10.5 it was trash when it came to compatibility and so much of the user space modality is out of date and actively hostile to the user as to make the OS a shiny toy and nothing more.
I swear half the accounts on /. these days were purchased recently from eBay. There's such a lack of clarity in posts, such a lack of thinking that it makes me wonder. Or was it always this bad and I never noticed?
Well, at least we know that your account with an 800k mark wasn't purchased from eBay, you're the original idiot who created it!
The fact is, /. has always disliked Macs, simply because they are laughable little toys. They've improved recently with the move to x86, but they are still a computer with training wheels for people who can't figure out a real computer. It's ok that you are in that category, we don't look down upon you because of it, we just laugh at you when you rail against the fact that you aren't able to play with the big boys so you throw a tantrum when someone talks bad about your $2500 albatross you purchased.
I have OS X running on a whitebox - next question. Just because they officially discourage it, doesn't mean it is not possible. They don;t even make it difficult. The install DVD is not encrypted, has no serial numbers, does not phone home, does not need online activation. While it technically infringes the licence to do so, it is not hard to do.
Dayy-um! You Apple fanbois are deluded! Because it's hacked/hackable to work on a whitebox somehow equates to the company supporting it or making it an open system. So by this logic, the iPhone is an open platform as well, because it can be jailbroken. Whoa... whatever!
"Every product locked down" - this is just nonsense. While OS X itself features closed source components, just because this is the case doesn't mean it cannot be open. Open and open source are not the same thing. OS X features a multitude of open protocols, codecs, standards and features that are designed to make it play well with other operating systems, as well as a continued commitment to open source projects that it includes and bases large parts of its systems on - CUPS, Webkit, libdispatch, OpenGL, OpenAL, GCC etc etc, just to name a couple.
Because they have appropriated open source software for their own use and are making a profit on it, while at the same time closing off parts of it and making it impossible to write drivers for or boot on white box systems somehow makes them open? It's the exact OPPOSITE of open. They are only as "open" as they have to be to keep customers. I'm not faulting them for taking open source software and making a viable business out of it, in fact I commend them for such and have absolutely no problem with it. What I do have a problem with is people such as your self that try to then claim that they are somehow open and "good" when they are purely out for profit and any way they can squeeze more profit out of their customers is a good thing.
If they were truly open, why not sell OSX for any whitebox? Because they don't want to - they want to keep a CLOSED SYSTEM. I mean, duh. Come on, can you really not see this? They want to maintain control over the entire environment, this is diametrically opposed to an "open" system.
If Apple wanted to lock people into an App Store for OS X they would have done so already - they will do what works for them in a business sense, nothing more, nothing less.
No, they wouldn't have. As I already posted, if they thought they could get away with it, they would have ... but if they tried it, their meager share of the OS market would dwindle to numbers not even worth tracking. The only reason they do NOT have a locked in environment, as I've already said, is because they don't have the power to force users into this. They have/had that power with the iPhone and look what they've done with it. You are insane to think they wouldn't love to do the same with the entire Mac line if they could somehow convince their users to do it... but it would leave too much to be desired at this point, since there is already a huge ecosystem built around a quasi-open standard that is the Windows environment. Trying to cut that off at the knees would be suicide for OSX.
It is a fallacy to suggest that because the iPhone business model was successful for Apple that they would try and shoehorn that onto the Mac business model.
I don't suggest any such thing. I'm saying they don't have the muscle to make it happen, and the iPhone is a perfect example of why they should NEVER be given that muscle.
You might as well say that now that Xbox live and the 360 are so well entrenched that MS will be moving that business model onto Windows.
Moving what business model to windows? You mean... oh I don't know ... Games for Windows Live? So... like, you mean moving the console model to Windows, which is EXACTLY what they have done/are in the process of doing? Are you trying to make my case or yours? Because you're succeeding very well in the former and failing miserably in the latter.
Because the OS on the Zune is so free and easy to modify.
Apple has a closed environment on the iPad/iPhone/iPod line, the rest of the hardware contains an OS that is just as open (more so in some respects) than Windows. A software platform that it continues to develop and open up. You don't need to jailbreak an OS X box.
There is nothing to suggest Apple are moving "us" towards closed environments. If the iPad doesn't work for you - don't buy it.
Whaaaaaa? Are you in some strange bizzaro world where Apple isn't the embodiment of a closed system?
The rest of the hardware contains an OS that is just as open ? What the hell are you talking about? Tried to boot OSX on a whitebox yet? Apparently not or you'd see how ludicrous your statement is.
There's nothing to suggest that Apple is moving "us" (why is "us" in quotes?) towards a closed environment? You mean other than the fact that every product they have is locked down and closed off? You are deluded if you think Apple wouldn't love to lock OSX users into an App store - the only reason they haven't is because Windows would regain most of the customers lost to OSX if that happened. Apple is way too far behind in the OS arena to try to dictate terms to it's users, whereas they are/were far enough ahead with the iPod/iPhone to dictate whatever the hell they wanted. The whole iPod/iPhone environment is a perfect example of exactly what Apple would do if it had the power to do so - and it's also a perfect example of why Apple should never be given enough marketshare to accomplish anything like it.
IIRC, tablets run more-or-less normal versions of Windows XP so the admin rights were built into the account to begin with! There was no need to get "root" because it was enabled by default.
Undoubtedly, there will be tons of apple haters in this discussion who are sick of hearing about ipad because it's not open, proprietary, etc. The community understands your arguments. Bashing apple while trying to compare them to microsoft just undermines your credibility and the valid point you are trying to make.
You are absolutely right... comparing it to Windows/Microsoft is redundant. the iPad sucks all on it's own; It doesn't need assistance in the suck department by being compared to other tablets. It's just a super sized iPhone for a hamfisted idiot (there's a lot of them out there) - and all the limitations of the iPhone without much to benefit it except a larger screen.
Try to get outside apps running on a kindle.
The Kindle is an e-book reader, not a tablet PC.
They've never "integrated" anything into their OS just to take out competition. Never made proprietary extensions to standards and patented them so no-one else can inter-operate with them. Never changed interfaces to standard libraries causing old programs to not work so people have to buy the latest Microsoft product. Never removed features through software updates. Never came up with crappy new APIs just to force people to upgrade other programs when they update this one program over here. Never bought out competition and destroyed all the source code and copies of the program not sold to consumers. Never stole other company's source code and integrated it into their own. Of course the original Xbox used a standard USB interface. No control over add-on hardware for the Xbox360.
Again, it's anti-competitive, not anti-consumer. We aren't talking about anti-competitive behavior, we are talking about anti-consumer behavior. There's a distinct difference. The effect on the consumer may be similar or even identical but they are two entirely different things that affect your day to day life.
As a programmer, I am sick and tired of the anti-consumer crap Microsoft is constantly pulling. Have you ever had an update to the OS that has broken some functionality to software that you use and Microsoft blames it on the developer? Chances are that company programmed it according to the Microsoft recommendation, just Microsoft went and changed that recommendation, sometimes not providing any officially supported way of doing it anymore.
So let me get this straight... MS should somehow continue to support legacy products and methodologies for time immemorial? It's called technological progress, get used to it.
One example is out web site creates Excel files. The official supported method of doing this was to use the Excel Interop object. Then Microsoft came out with a patch to Windows Server 2003 that didn't allow this to work anymore unless you turned off a whole bunch of security and that wasn't recommended. After that patch there was no official way to do what we were doing, but we had been doing it the official, supported, recommended Microsoft way before the patch.
So again, MS should support this particular method you refer to in lieu of security? Thanks, but no, I'd rather have security than an aging way of creating Exec files or whatever it is you are referring to.
I'm not saying MS has it right, and I'm not even saying they aren't evil. But they aren't Sony evil; That's all I'm saying.
Sony, on the other hand - you want to use an SD card in our device? FUCK YOU! You MUST buy our shitty MemoryStick if you want portable media. That's the difference.
Actually, the PS3 reads SD cards, uses a standard replaceable SATA hard drive, features standard USB ports and Bluetooth connectivity, can use standard USB or Bluetooth keyboards, mice, microphones and webcams, and conversely allows you to use Sony's original hardware on a PC if you want to. It was the xbox that forced you to buy Microsoft's extremely overpriced hard drives until the April firmware update.
Yeah, NOW. The only reason the PS3 has so many standard compliant parts now is because literally for the last decade they had been getting their asses kicked left and right by standards compliant products that Sony tried to duplicate with their proprietary crap.
MS? Not Anti-consumer? The same MS who threatened Toshiba if they shipped a BeOS box in the 90's?
Not anti-consumer, anti-competition. There's a difference.
The same MS who wants 80 bucks for 802.11g on their gaming console(Much less any other feature that didn't come out of the box)?
Hmm, I will give you that one.
The same MS who decides once you install NT/XP/Vista/7 that your bootloader goes byebye?
Once again, anti-competition, not anti-consumer. Does NT/XP/Vista/7 refuse to run when you replace the bootloader with Grub? No?
Was it Sony that released an OS that could be rootkitted by a music CD?
Wait... is this serious? Are you seriously using this as an example? If you are serious, let me answer you: No, it wasn't Sony that released an OS that could be root kitted by a music CD (Because it was shitty programming, not anti-consumer) - it WAS FUCKING SONY THAT RELEASED THE ROOTKIT. WTF? Seriously? It's more anti-consumer to somehow release buggy software that has the unintentional consequence of being able to be root kitted than to be the ACTUAL COMPANY that ROOT KITS the OS?! Seriously?
I guess he head to study that for the theory test, it's still fresh in his mind and he hasn't had time to develop bad habits. He's no less qualified than you or me.
So somehow he's no less qualified, even though he has no experience to speak of? Wow... I guess that means I'm qualified to give a presentation on Arctic Salmon and their mating habits then! Oh wait... no I'm not, because I haven't had any experience in that area.
How so? Say I've got my left hand at the three o'clock position. I can go about 75 degrees left and maybe 180 right from there. Not much when it's about a 1000 lock to lock. You really think having my other hand ready to take over and assist hinders my ability to steer?
Absolutely. Have you tried to hold your hands at 10 & 2 on a wheel for an hour straight? How about two? What about three? Four? Five? Alternating your hands will give your active hand the muscle control needed to control the vehicle in a safe manner. Trying to keep both hands on the wheel for any length of time is counterproductive.
Let's look at a professional. Seems to me he takes his hand off to shift and as soon as he's finished he puts it back right away.
Holy crap, you found a professional driver... on a RACE COURSE! Whoa! Amazing! Because driving on the track is EXACTLY like driving in the city... or, or... it's EXACTLY like driving on the highway for 6 hours in a virtually straight line! YEAH! Of course! Christ.
If I could find the video I saw years ago, I would love to show you a race driver that is actually driving a clover leaf in his personal car... he's got one hand on the wheel and he's fumbling around in the glove box and then with his tape deck (it's an old video) while literally skidding around the clover leaf. So no, we aren't talking about professional drivers on race courses here - that's something entirely different. I figured that would be obvious enough to not have to mention that, but apparently some people can't quite grasp the concept that the track is different than the road.
Mod parent up. I've recently passed my driving test and, just before I took it, I was nearly hit by a woman who skipped a red light whilst texting. She would have hit the driver's door and I'd be dead. She would be fine. The only thing that saved me was that I'd come out onto the main road slower than I should have; she'd missed the green by a good 10 seconds.
Seriously, anyone who talks or texts whilst driving is a danger. Not only are you distracted, you are NOT in full control of your car as you have only one hand on the wheel.
Seriously... you just passed your driving test and you somehow think you're qualified to comment on who and what is safe while driving and what isn't? Really?
Just because your high school driving instructor tells you something doesn't mean they know what they are talking about. They are just some random faculty member who got suckered into the job - or if you took a "professional" course aimed at kids, you were told exactly what is best for you to hear at your level of driving, not what's true in day to day life - basically you're told what won't get the company sued when you wreck mom and dads SUV.
Having two hands on the wheel under most driving conditions is redundant most of the time. Under certain conditions, it would even lessen your control over the vehicle. For those conditions where two hands on the wheel are beneficial, you'll know the situations when you're in them, probably because you'll be white-knuckling the wheel the first few times they happen to you.
Texting while driving is generally a douche move - especially if you have an iPhone or any similar phone without a keypad (a full keyboard doesn't count) - however texting on a T9 without looking at your phone offers just as much distraction as a radio or talking on the phone. Now, I would entertain the argument that talking on the phone causes a level of distraction that might be unacceptable under some conditions (such as heavy traffic / city driving) but doing so on the highway does not cause a level of distraction that is significantly more dangerous than a host of other actions people perform while driving.
As for talking on the phone, that is entirely dependent on the person - some people are apparently incapable of prioritizing outside stimuli properly - those are the people who are dangerous while talking on the phone - for the rest of the people who have properly functioning prioritization centers in their brain, talking on the phone is no more a hazard than the radio. Sadly, it seems many people on the road these days have a malfunctioning prioritization system.
Either way, your blanket statements just reek of inexperience.
We continue to buy their products in the hopes of catching them hard in something bad, and then using the past predatory practices recorded in court cases and what not to utterly destroy Sony once and for all.
Use their greed to bury them, basically.
Hey man, good luck with that! Enjoy your overpriced, crappy, crippled product in the meantime.
Really? More evil than DeBeers, Walmart, Halliburton, Xe/Blackwater, GM, Whole Foods, Microsoft and Verizon(or $telco_here)?
Taking away Linux support is worse than blood diamonds, worker exploitation, war profiteering, building unsafe cars, soaking the general consumer, releasing Windows/IE/Microsoft BOB/SkiFree or whatever the hell telcos have done this week?
Really? evil?
Perhaps you'd like to re-read my original post. I said one of the worst - they are right along side those companies you listed, yet.
However, no, Microsoft is not in that category. MS may suck, but they are not anti consumer in the way Sony is. MS is pro-profit and who cares about the consumer (to a degree) - whereas Sony actively and in a hostile manner targets the consumer. They do NOT want you to copy media or use their products in a way they do not intend, they do NOT want you to use products that are not Sony. Microsoft, on the other hand doesn't care, they just want your money. If that means you use Windows on a Mac, they don't care, so long as you buy Windows. Want to use Adobe products along side your MS products? No problem.
Sony, on the other hand - you want to use an SD card in our device? FUCK YOU! You MUST buy our shitty MemoryStick if you want portable media. That's the difference.
And taking away Linux support isn't worse than anything, I think it's a good thing. Sony should take away every single bit of functionality from every single product they have. Then, maybe, some people will finally realize what a shithole of a company Sony is and refuse to ever buy their products again.
I haven't purchased a Sony product since the last century and I am happy to say I have prevented several tens of thousands of dollars, if not more than $100,000 from being spent on Sony products through friends and family asking me for recommendations on products. It may be a drop in the bucket to the bottom line of Sony, but at least I'm doing my part... unlike the rest of these fucks up in arms over Sony doing what Sony does and removing consumer rights unilaterally and often against the law.
And for the record, no I don't buy diamonds (DeBeers aside, they are a scam to begin with), I don't shop at Walmart, I don't think I use/buy anything related to Halliburton, Xe/Blackwater, and I never buy American cars anymore because they are such garbage, I do shop at Whole Foods (What's the problem there? I'll Google that after this), I already addressed Microsoft and I would never patronize Verizon from all the horror stories I've heard; Their phones are total crippled junk anyway. Besides, Sony is worse than any $telco_here you can possibly name.
Seriously... why is this even an issue? Why do you assholes that have a problem with this continue to buy Sony products?
Sony has shown, time and again, that they care not one whit about their customers. They will screw them in any possible way they can to make more money out of them. They have no regard for their customers, their customers privacy, their customers equipment, etc... You dumb bastards that bought a PS3 deserve everything you get, because you KNEW ahead of time that Sony was one of the worst, most evil companies out there. There were already countless and recent examples of their total disregard for anything consumer rights related and yet you went ahead and bought yet ANOTHER Sony product.
Yes, you get exactly what you deserve and there should be no sympathy for you idiots. If you keep putting your hand into a crocodiles mouth and then wonder why your hand got bitten off, even after the guy next to you lost his whole arm and hundreds of thousands of people are screaming at you not to do it, then you are just stupid and Darwin needs to pay you a visit. In this case, you are just stupid for supporting Sony and Electronic Darwin needs to pay you a visit.
In my experience, it's rare for SQL Servers to be CPU bound, they're almost invariably IO bound, and having more cores won't help you when your disks are the bottleneck. I could see excitement over lowering per-machine costs for something like a renderfarm, but it doesn't seem likely to materialize for Databases.
This is why I came in here to say... There's been some rare instances where my single core machines running DB backends and what have you (yeah they are getting long in the tooth) have run up against a CPU wall... but that's few and far between and a quad core would solve that completely for a long time to come. Almost always, though, when a problem crops up it's the drive(s) that are going mad trying to play catchup while the CPU sits almost idle with brief spurts of activity.
I wouldn't mind it being a camera, just for the simple fact that then I could video conference and have it look like I'm actually looking at the person, instead of the screen BELOW (or above) the camera.
So is the first Nietzsche 30" Hi-Color Monitor?
It would be a great ad campaign... just a black and white screen and the words slowly fade in: "When you stare into the monitor the monitor stares back at you."
Then a picture of the monitor and in the background the crushed carcasses of all the other monitors competing with it.
My hobby is watching porn and masturbating.
Go 'way! I'm 'batin!
I heard about this story a few days ago via Twitter. Apparently, the father heard something outside and took his gun with him to investigate. It turned out to be nothing so he went back to sleep, but not before putting his loaded gun on the coffee table. Wait, I think that needs more emphasis: HE PUT HIS LOADED GUN ON THE COFFEE TABLE.
The next day, the 3 year old was playing, saw the gun, thought it was a game controller and shot himself. Now I'm not a gun owner and I've never even held a gun, much less fired it, but even I know this much about gun safety:
You never leave a gun (especially a loaded gun) someplace where a child can get it!!!!
Why didn't the dad simply put it away? "He was tired" isn't a valid answer. As a parent, I've had plenty of times when I've been tired, but I don't leave weapons lying around when I am. (And having had someone prowling about my house at 2am, I can tell you you tend to get very alert, very fast.) As a parent, your child's safety and well-being is priority #1, even above your own. Losing 10 minutes of sleep while you put the gun away is nothing compared to the risk of your child discovering the loaded gun the next morning before you remember about it.
I think the more poignant issue here is why would you leave a loaded weapon ON THE COFFEE TABLE when there's a potential intruder about. Why leave your "home defense weapon" in a place where A) You can't get to it when you might need it most and B) Where someone in the house would be able to get it BEFORE YOU COULD. What's the point of having a gun at all if you leave it out for the hypothetical bad guys to get at and use against you. The father is an idiot all the way around.
Really? A toddler pulling the trigger of a .380? A toddler?
I smell bullshit.
This was exactly what I was thinking first thing. How the hell can a 3 year old manipulate the multi-pound trigger pull of a hand gun? Their little fingers are even unlikely to reach from the back of the handgrip to the trigger, much less be able to squeeze it.
The only thing I can figure, if this isn't a load a bullshit, is that the pistol was already cocked, making the trigger pull substantially less difficult, and the reason the kid died instead of shooting a hole in the TV was because he was just dicking around with the pistol instead of actually trying to play the game with it... so perhaps had it on the table and squeezed it while already cocked with his thumb and pointed at him.
It just seems like a fantastic series of events to get to that point, especially if the mother "was only a few feet away."
Really? Wow, so Google doesn't lock people out of accounts that have had too many bad login attempts?
Because that is exactly what has happened here; nothing sinister.
So what, exactly, does that have to do with buying an Android based phone? Buying one will still solve that problem as well as solve a number of other problems not mentioned in this thread.
Regardless, the solution is still valid.
I got the exact same message a couple of weeks ago when I tried to log in to ADC. Here's a screenshot: http://tomasf.se/other/appleid.jpg
I'm not a jailbreaker, though, so either Apple made a mistake in my case, or this has nothing to do with jailbreaking. Now to figure out how to resolve this... :-/
It's pretty easy to resolve. Buy an Android phone.