I don't think anyone would blame Microsoft for user-installed malware. It's when you get something simply by going to a website, clicking a link, mounting a drive, or even just hooking it up to the internet that can be blamed on lousy code. When malicious nasties get onto OS X by any of the above with no real action on the user's part, then you we can all blame Apple just like we blamed Microsoft. Until then, it's just a PEBKAC issue.
It might have something to do with the iPhone market being insanely lucrative if you play your cards right. Just a hunch. J2ME doesn't run on the iPhone.
I'm wondering if this is just a few ACs trolling the hell out of the place.
Yeah, same here. I don't see how this affects their ability to hire anyone, gay or straight. Prop 8 is bullshit, but this doesn't seem to have any real relation to it.
What I don't get about MKVs is that they take so much bloody horsepower, even in SD. I have a 1.5ghz Mac Mini I use as an HTPC. I've been able to play 480p and even some 720p HD on it with very few issues. However, I got a few SD MKVs. Both would stutter and choke on it. What the hell? Either VLC and MPlayer are very poorly optimized in MKV playback or that codec requires a ludicrous amount of horsepower to run. Quicktime with Perian managed to run it, but it appears there's a bug in Perian which will make the movie run at double speed while the audio remains the same if you watch it long enough. What's the deal? I've played back plenty of standard H.264 files just fine. What makes MKV so special?
So Darl is going to basically sell off most of what the company has to continue a lawsuit he has no hope of winning? What the HELL is wrong with this guy? Worst. CEO. EVAR.
There are third party companies that make docks for Apple laptops. Bookendz is one that I can think of. Sit your laptop in it and two blocks of ports slide in from the sides. They work pretty well, actually.
We had a screwy older lady who had come into the shop several times within a few months to reset the password on her iMac. It came in again, so into the back it went and we reset the password yet again. We brought it back out and found out that no, she didn't want us to reset her account password, she wanted us to reset her Yahoo password! We had to explain that we can't do that for about ten minutes. Ugh.
And a not so fun story:
We sold an older Powermac G4 to an old lady. It was cheaper than new and would do what she wanted it to. The first thing she did was break the modem module, which my boss was gracious enough to go ahead and replace for free with a part from a dead G4. Good service? Well, I guess not, because the crazy old bitch brought it back in claiming that there were all kinds of things wrong with it. She said that someone else's data was still on it, even though it was a university surplus computer that was wiped clean (and then erased again when the OS was put on it) when it was purchased. My boss actually sat down with her for THREE HOURS and went through the entire list. Nothing was wrong with the computer. Later, we found out that she had filed a complaint about us in the Better Business Bureau. Why? She had taken it to another shop to get it "fixed" since we obviously couldn't "fix" it. They charged her $1,000 dollars for the service and, of course, it still wasn't fixed. She wanted US to pay for that. Of course my boss didn't accept those terms. The complaint was later rejected by the BBB. She also mentioned how she'd had very bad luck with several businesses in the area. I hope that shriveled, crazy old cunt has keeled over by now. That boss was one of the coolest, most likable people I've ever met and he was pretty stressed over the whole BBB complaint.
Bullshit, pure and absolute. The iTunes store would have gone NOWHERE with DRM-free tracks because someone else would have picked up DRM'ed tracks and rapidly pushed Apple to the fringe by having mainstream music. The iPod would be nowhere as big. It's either no major music at all or DRM tracks. From a business standpoint, there was no real alternative. Jobs also became the biggest shareholder of Disney through the Pixar acquisition that came years after the iTunes Store went live. Apple has shown that they're perfectly willing to sell DRM-free tracks. It's on the record companies now.
I should also add that this is written by the same tool that advocated FOSS zealots DDoSing Apple Genius bars with questions about the iPhone, DRM, etc, as if low-level support lackeys could control corporate policy. I will agree that DRM sucks, but this guy has already shown himself to be a FOSS loon who does not live in reality, so take it with a grain of salt.
THIS! Defectivebydesign has shown themselves to be just another group of ill-informed asshats. Apple does not have control over whether or not they put DRM on music. The labels do. EMI has DRM-free tracks. So do a lot of indie labels. The other big three would need to greenlight DRM-free tracks for Apple to sell them. This has been known for a long time, but of course DBD chooses to ignore it in favor of sensationalist crap. DRM sucks, but they're blaming the wrong person here. Now, Apple has some DRM crap that's no fun, but they need to stick with stuff that's legit.
Isn't that religious discrimination in the workplace? Seems like a cut and dried case to me. I'm sure the Co$ will lawyer up and try to fight it, but I don't see how they could possibly win this case.
Does it come with a small nuclear reactor and phase change cooling kit so you can actually run the damn thing without having it burst into flame after 10 seconds?
One of the most ridiculous things that I have ever seen was the UFCW paying people minimum wage to picket a non-union store that was paying a higher starting wage than the union store.
Of course they paid them minimum wage. Do you know how much it would have cost for them to hire union labor to picket the store?!?
Really? Because I thought that Stallman really did have lawyers nesting in his beard! Grow a sense of humor.
Then again, that's not a very farfetched notion. That guy could smuggle a good four immigrant families across the border in that huge mass of steel wool hanging off his face.
I'm going to guess that Stallman also demanded that Cisco open source every single thing they ever have made or will make. Now he has let the lawyers loose from their perch in his beard. Sad, really.
And Nick Nerderton's app will probably be kludgy and a pain to use like most FOSS software made by basement coders who can hack the numbers but can't actually design a good UI to save their lives.
What the hell are you smoking? FOSS has huge support on Slashdot! I like the idea of FOSS myself, but nitpicking stuff like this and Stallman bitching constantly that everything isn't purely FOSS don't help anything. The open source community doesn't need loonies like Stallman (and others) to make them look bad. It only makes the rest of the open source guys look like asshats as well. I use some open source, but I also use closed source. You know why? Because I'll pick the best tool to get the job done instead of using some godawful, kludgy piece of software simply because it's free. Stallman demanding so much of the FOSS community actually REMOVES choice by trying to force anything proprietary out of the market (if he had his way).
Tell the FOSS purists/zealots to shut the hell up already. Guess what? You will have to deal with proprietary something-or-other all the time. Get used to it and quit bitching. Your OS is damn near completely free, so stop complaining if that last tiny tidbit isn't completely open. Oh, and quit listening to Stallman. He's a hairy hippie nutcase.
We're talking about mobile devices. You know, small, handheld gizmos that people carry around in one hand all the time...and drop them on the ground, and into toilets, and from moving cars...you get the point. A healthy chunk of mobile device failures are due to user abuse.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) Mosaic was on Macs at the end of 1993.
I don't think anyone would blame Microsoft for user-installed malware. It's when you get something simply by going to a website, clicking a link, mounting a drive, or even just hooking it up to the internet that can be blamed on lousy code. When malicious nasties get onto OS X by any of the above with no real action on the user's part, then you we can all blame Apple just like we blamed Microsoft. Until then, it's just a PEBKAC issue.
It might have something to do with the iPhone market being insanely lucrative if you play your cards right. Just a hunch. J2ME doesn't run on the iPhone.
I'm wondering if this is just a few ACs trolling the hell out of the place.
Yeah, same here. I don't see how this affects their ability to hire anyone, gay or straight. Prop 8 is bullshit, but this doesn't seem to have any real relation to it.
What I don't get about MKVs is that they take so much bloody horsepower, even in SD. I have a 1.5ghz Mac Mini I use as an HTPC. I've been able to play 480p and even some 720p HD on it with very few issues. However, I got a few SD MKVs. Both would stutter and choke on it. What the hell? Either VLC and MPlayer are very poorly optimized in MKV playback or that codec requires a ludicrous amount of horsepower to run. Quicktime with Perian managed to run it, but it appears there's a bug in Perian which will make the movie run at double speed while the audio remains the same if you watch it long enough. What's the deal? I've played back plenty of standard H.264 files just fine. What makes MKV so special?
So Darl is going to basically sell off most of what the company has to continue a lawsuit he has no hope of winning? What the HELL is wrong with this guy? Worst. CEO. EVAR.
There are third party companies that make docks for Apple laptops. Bookendz is one that I can think of. Sit your laptop in it and two blocks of ports slide in from the sides. They work pretty well, actually.
Here's one:
We had a screwy older lady who had come into the shop several times within a few months to reset the password on her iMac. It came in again, so into the back it went and we reset the password yet again. We brought it back out and found out that no, she didn't want us to reset her account password, she wanted us to reset her Yahoo password! We had to explain that we can't do that for about ten minutes. Ugh.
And a not so fun story:
We sold an older Powermac G4 to an old lady. It was cheaper than new and would do what she wanted it to. The first thing she did was break the modem module, which my boss was gracious enough to go ahead and replace for free with a part from a dead G4. Good service? Well, I guess not, because the crazy old bitch brought it back in claiming that there were all kinds of things wrong with it. She said that someone else's data was still on it, even though it was a university surplus computer that was wiped clean (and then erased again when the OS was put on it) when it was purchased. My boss actually sat down with her for THREE HOURS and went through the entire list. Nothing was wrong with the computer. Later, we found out that she had filed a complaint about us in the Better Business Bureau. Why? She had taken it to another shop to get it "fixed" since we obviously couldn't "fix" it. They charged her $1,000 dollars for the service and, of course, it still wasn't fixed. She wanted US to pay for that. Of course my boss didn't accept those terms. The complaint was later rejected by the BBB. She also mentioned how she'd had very bad luck with several businesses in the area. I hope that shriveled, crazy old cunt has keeled over by now. That boss was one of the coolest, most likable people I've ever met and he was pretty stressed over the whole BBB complaint.
Bullshit, pure and absolute. The iTunes store would have gone NOWHERE with DRM-free tracks because someone else would have picked up DRM'ed tracks and rapidly pushed Apple to the fringe by having mainstream music. The iPod would be nowhere as big. It's either no major music at all or DRM tracks. From a business standpoint, there was no real alternative. Jobs also became the biggest shareholder of Disney through the Pixar acquisition that came years after the iTunes Store went live. Apple has shown that they're perfectly willing to sell DRM-free tracks. It's on the record companies now.
I should also add that this is written by the same tool that advocated FOSS zealots DDoSing Apple Genius bars with questions about the iPhone, DRM, etc, as if low-level support lackeys could control corporate policy. I will agree that DRM sucks, but this guy has already shown himself to be a FOSS loon who does not live in reality, so take it with a grain of salt.
THIS! Defectivebydesign has shown themselves to be just another group of ill-informed asshats. Apple does not have control over whether or not they put DRM on music. The labels do. EMI has DRM-free tracks. So do a lot of indie labels. The other big three would need to greenlight DRM-free tracks for Apple to sell them. This has been known for a long time, but of course DBD chooses to ignore it in favor of sensationalist crap. DRM sucks, but they're blaming the wrong person here. Now, Apple has some DRM crap that's no fun, but they need to stick with stuff that's legit.
Isn't that religious discrimination in the workplace? Seems like a cut and dried case to me. I'm sure the Co$ will lawyer up and try to fight it, but I don't see how they could possibly win this case.
Does it come with a small nuclear reactor and phase change cooling kit so you can actually run the damn thing without having it burst into flame after 10 seconds?
One of the most ridiculous things that I have ever seen was the UFCW paying people minimum wage to picket a non-union store that was paying a higher starting wage than the union store.
Of course they paid them minimum wage. Do you know how much it would have cost for them to hire union labor to picket the store?!?
Really? Because I thought that Stallman really did have lawyers nesting in his beard! Grow a sense of humor.
Then again, that's not a very farfetched notion. That guy could smuggle a good four immigrant families across the border in that huge mass of steel wool hanging off his face.
I'm going to guess that Stallman also demanded that Cisco open source every single thing they ever have made or will make. Now he has let the lawyers loose from their perch in his beard. Sad, really.
And Nick Nerderton's app will probably be kludgy and a pain to use like most FOSS software made by basement coders who can hack the numbers but can't actually design a good UI to save their lives.
You'd get better performance buying a single core system from three years ago with a graphics card to match. This is laughable.
What the hell are you smoking? FOSS has huge support on Slashdot! I like the idea of FOSS myself, but nitpicking stuff like this and Stallman bitching constantly that everything isn't purely FOSS don't help anything. The open source community doesn't need loonies like Stallman (and others) to make them look bad. It only makes the rest of the open source guys look like asshats as well. I use some open source, but I also use closed source. You know why? Because I'll pick the best tool to get the job done instead of using some godawful, kludgy piece of software simply because it's free. Stallman demanding so much of the FOSS community actually REMOVES choice by trying to force anything proprietary out of the market (if he had his way).
Tell the FOSS purists/zealots to shut the hell up already. Guess what? You will have to deal with proprietary something-or-other all the time. Get used to it and quit bitching. Your OS is damn near completely free, so stop complaining if that last tiny tidbit isn't completely open. Oh, and quit listening to Stallman. He's a hairy hippie nutcase.
OVERCLOCKED on air to reach 4ghz. I've seen Core 2s do the same thing.
I'm sure that the submitter and the other five people who really want AIX on the desktop will be sorely disappointed for years to come.
We're talking about mobile devices. You know, small, handheld gizmos that people carry around in one hand all the time...and drop them on the ground, and into toilets, and from moving cars...you get the point. A healthy chunk of mobile device failures are due to user abuse.
Ogg/Theora IS porn to the FOSS zealots. Anything at all encoded in said formats gives them a chubby.
Are you kidding? I'd be the guy zombie bombing. I can't tell you how many times I destroyed the Org bank, BMs, and AH.