twice now I have had my workflow disrupted because of
hardware failure and it isn't just a matter of copying the files to pick up where I left off. [...] That is why I will be choosing to run Linux on Apple hardware.
You're nuts. That's tantamount to "My Ford Pinto kept exploding when it got rear ended, so I changed brands of gasoline."
You can prove anything with analogy...
If there are hardware issues with your machine, the choice of OS won't make much difference.
anyway... you're right, if I have hardware problems in the future, and choose to replace my current iBook with something else, my OS won't be an issue. Why? Well... wait....here it comes...
because my OS will run on any hardware.
Further, the point is that it is the same os/desktop environment I run on my desktop. Perhaps you don't value the consistency, I do. Perhaps you value apple hardware enough to repalce your desktops with Apple machines, I don't
I'll pop you off an email when I get ready to sell the exploding iBooks though, wouldn't want em geting into the hands of someone who might not appreciate em.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Apple love-in
I'm posting this on my PC(running debian). Next to me is my 12" ibook, open in OS/X. It is my third iBook, the previous two died within a year, the last one within six months. Accross the table sits two more iBooks belonging to my girlfriend, the new 12" and her old one that died within two years and has problems since she got it.
Now, my second iBook is going in for repair and Apple will no doubt repair it. And, after a lot of complaining and griping, Apple agreed to fix my girlfriend's first iBook, and for all my trouble, they're shipping me a free battery.
So, one might ask, why bother buying a third iBook. I assure you, it was not because I love the hardware, I think iBooks are cheap pieces of shit. It is because it takes too long to switch platforms and I needed to pick up right where I left off with my projects. Yes, I could move the software development to linux and get everything working, but that takes time, and time is not what I have. So, in order to keep things flowing smoothly when my second ibook died, I bought a third. Yes I could have had it repaired but Apple wouldn't repair it while it was flaking out, only when it completely died. I needed more predictablility than that, I cannot afford the time lost to random lockups spread out over weeks while I wait for the product to fail completely.
So, now to the point. I refuse, long term, to commit to ANY OS that runs on only one hardware platform. I am making the transition to 100% free unix. That is why I will be running linux on my iBooks. When it comes time to replace them, if my opinion on Apple hardware has changed I can buy another Apple, else, I can buy any PC laptop I like and my user experience will be the same. If I'm using a PC on my desktop, and an Apple laptop, it won't matter, because all of my documents, and projects will move seamlessly between the two.
OS/X is nice, and when I first got it I was an evangelist. However, twice now I have had my workflow disrupted because of hardware failure and it isn't just a matter of copying the files to pick up where I left off. I do a lot of work on my laptop but since Apple hardware has proven itself to be so flaky, I need to be able to have a duplicate environment on my desktop PC at home. I can either switch to an Apple desktop, or switch my laptop to linux. I prefer the latter choice as the experience of being dependant on Apple hardware as left almost as bad a taste in my mouth as when I was dependant on Microsoft software.
As soon as my desktop is stable, not in terms of reliablity, but in terms of providing everthing I need to comfortably do my work, I will be duplicating the environment on my iBook.
Linux is more work than OS/X, but I can run it on just about any hardware available.
That is why I will be choosing to run Linux on Apple hardware.
For the most part, I don't care. In most situations discussed here it is simply annoying. However, over the last two years in school I have not taken a single exam without being distracted by a cell phone going off. This is more than just annoying, it is disruptive to my concentration and is completely inappropriate. There is no legitamate reason for you to potentially disrupt a classroom full of people because a call "might" be important, or frankly, even an emergency.
I don't care how important you think the call is. If you are too busy to take exams without interruption from the outside world, then perhaps you should reconsider whether it is the right time for you to go to school.
As far as I'm concerned this IS a problem that simply demanding politeness won't solve as, in general, people are self centered assholes. I would love to see the professor just snatch the offenders paper and write a big fat F across the top, you would only have to do that once or twice and people would remember to turn the damn things off.
Since, however, most professors don't have sufficient balls for that, we need another solution. Clearly, this has been recognized by those who make the pocket jammers. Do I think it's a better solution ? No, it's invasive, but I won't be surprised if the proliferation of these devices continues to the point that they create their own significant problem.
Perhaps as a society we should have learned something from what happened to email. How many more good mediums of communication are going to be destroyed by those who cannot balance their need to communicate with the needs of others.
Yawn, the althernative is that you only have, on average, 26,300 days period and wasting any of them thinking about (a nonexistent) eternity is just that, a waste.
To claim that it's unacceptable to be a christian in most of the western world today, certainly in the US, is just absurd. George W proclaims it on a regular basis and talks about god as if the existence of god, in particular, his god, is a forgone conclusion.
And for christ sake stop whining about the Romans. Christianity has so much blook on its hands that, imnsho, it has no room to whine about a two millenia old power struggle.
I sincerely regret that I won't live to see the day that humanity finally outgrows religion.
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because my OS will run on any hardware.
Further, the point is that it is the same os/desktop environment I run on my desktop. Perhaps you don't value the consistency, I do. Perhaps you value apple hardware enough to repalce your desktops with Apple machines, I don't
I'll pop you off an email when I get ready to sell the exploding iBooks though, wouldn't want em geting into the hands of someone who might not appreciate em.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Apple love-in
Confessions of an EX-Evangelist
I'm posting this on my PC(running debian). Next to me is my 12" ibook, open in OS/X. It is my third iBook, the previous two died within a year, the last one within six months. Accross the table sits two more iBooks belonging to my girlfriend, the new 12" and her old one that died within two years and has problems since she got it.
Now, my second iBook is going in for repair and Apple will no doubt repair it. And, after a lot of complaining and griping, Apple agreed to fix my girlfriend's first iBook, and for all my trouble, they're shipping me a free battery.
So, one might ask, why bother buying a third iBook. I assure you, it was not because I love the hardware, I think iBooks are cheap pieces of shit. It is because it takes too long to switch platforms and I needed to pick up right where I left off with my projects. Yes, I could move the software development to linux and get everything working, but that takes time, and time is not what I have. So, in order to keep things flowing smoothly when my second ibook died, I bought a third. Yes I could have had it repaired but Apple wouldn't repair it while it was flaking out, only when it completely died. I needed more predictablility than that, I cannot afford the time lost to random lockups spread out over weeks while I wait for the product to fail completely.
So, now to the point. I refuse, long term, to commit to ANY OS that runs on only one hardware platform. I am making the transition to 100% free unix. That is why I will be running linux on my iBooks. When it comes time to replace them, if my opinion on Apple hardware has changed I can buy another Apple, else, I can buy any PC laptop I like and my user experience will be the same. If I'm using a PC on my desktop, and an Apple laptop, it won't matter, because all of my documents, and projects will move seamlessly between the two.
OS/X is nice, and when I first got it I was an evangelist. However, twice now I have had my workflow disrupted because of hardware failure and it isn't just a matter of copying the files to pick up where I left off. I do a lot of work on my laptop but since Apple hardware has proven itself to be so flaky, I need to be able to have a duplicate environment on my desktop PC at home. I can either switch to an Apple desktop, or switch my laptop to linux. I prefer the latter choice as the experience of being dependant on Apple hardware as left almost as bad a taste in my mouth as when I was dependant on Microsoft software.
As soon as my desktop is stable, not in terms of reliablity, but in terms of providing everthing I need to comfortably do my work, I will be duplicating the environment on my iBook.
Linux is more work than OS/X, but I can run it on just about any hardware available.
That is why I will be choosing to run Linux on Apple hardware.
For the most part, I don't care. In most situations discussed here it is simply annoying. However, over the last two years in school I have not taken a single exam without being distracted by a cell phone going off. This is more than just annoying, it is disruptive to my concentration and is completely inappropriate. There is no legitamate reason for you to potentially disrupt a classroom full of people because a call "might" be important, or frankly, even an emergency.
I don't care how important you think the call is. If you are too busy to take exams without interruption from the outside world, then perhaps you should reconsider whether it is the right time for you to go to school.
As far as I'm concerned this IS a problem that simply demanding politeness won't solve as, in general, people are self centered assholes. I would love to see the professor just snatch the offenders paper and write a big fat F across the top, you would only have to do that once or twice and people would remember to turn the damn things off.
Since, however, most professors don't have sufficient balls for that, we need another solution. Clearly, this has been recognized by those who make the pocket jammers. Do I think it's a better solution ? No, it's invasive, but I won't be surprised if the proliferation of these devices continues to the point that they create their own significant problem.
Perhaps as a society we should have learned something from what happened to email. How many more good mediums of communication are going to be destroyed by those who cannot balance their need to communicate with the needs of others.
bah!
Yawn, the althernative is that you only have, on average, 26,300 days period and wasting any of them thinking about (a nonexistent) eternity is just that, a waste.
To claim that it's unacceptable to be a christian in most of the western world today, certainly in the US, is just absurd. George W proclaims it on a regular basis and talks about god as if the existence of god, in particular, his god, is a forgone conclusion.
And for christ sake stop whining about the Romans. Christianity has so much blook on its hands that, imnsho, it has no room to whine about a two millenia old power struggle.
I sincerely regret that I won't live to see the day that humanity finally outgrows religion.