Except the fanboy wasn't spouting bullshit: in 2002 the "I have young kids and wouldn't it be great to collect one million digital photos of them and have them everywhere?" meme was all over the Mac scene.
"Here we go again..." does indeed sum up the repetitive cycle of others do it first, Microsoft commoditizes it.
As for your "you shills and shucksters have spread out and taken over the whole site," I've seen FAR more of your pro-Microsoft sympathizers around here lately. Perhaps the the Apple fanboys have to be zealot-like because they are massively outnumbered by the Apple haters.
Pity I can't 127.0.0.1 microsoft-is-good-enough-for-me-don't-rock-my-comf ort-zone.slashdot.org
and got to see the source code of the Little Brick Out program on the Apple ][ - tinkering around with the colors, sizes, blip noises, etc - I've known how much fun it is to see source code, play around with it, and learn by just having fun...
But copying Tiger is far too recent for a 2006 release. Last Avalon demonstration I saw, the audience was still oohing and ahhing over the MS geekgirl's demo of double buffered alpha-channeled windows.
They're still working on the 2001 technology, my friend.
Whatever happened to sending them on their way out the solar system with gold discs in them containing the sounds of Earth and diagrams to show the little green men where to find us?
Oh well, maybe it's just yet another thing George Lucas has to answer for.
Thank you for today's example of Apple fanboy hating curmudgeonliness.
Fanboy or not, he gave useful information: H.264 does indeed have more industry credibility than the list of toy codecs who main use is to swap pirated TV shows on the eDonkey network.
And the fact that you've started to get modded up informative is what gives Slashdot a bad taste in the mouth.
Seriously, this place is looking more like comp.sys.advocacy.* every day...
It browses very fast, it's responsive and it plays back movies fine
No argument that you're happy, but tasks like these require at most a 768 Mhz machine, which is probably what it's stepping down to when the power cord's unplugged.
The article poster is talking about more computationally intensive tasks.
(Browsing these days on almost every computer is limited by the speed of the internet connection, not the computer's CPU performance.)
Apple is a maker of non-free software and of proprietary hardware. In that perspect it is not any better than Microsoft or nvidia.
And yet...
Apple's development tools are free. Visual Studio.NET, last time I checked, had a hefty price tag.
A lot of its multimedia tools are free. There's a long tradition of not-too-polished-but-usable-and-FREE tools emanating from the Apple culture, which started back with the now extinct HyperCard (or further really, since they gave away the source code to Lemonade Stand in about 1979...)
As for supporting the OSS community, the developments to make the Konqueror-descended Safari FAST were contributed back. As a parent poster has mentioned, a lot of Darwin is very useful too.
Compare all this is Microsoft, which has so far open-source an *installer shell* and only that to pay lip-service to a concept that Ballmer & co in fact despise.
You shouldn't feed the trolls, but just in case the parent is genuine in his belief and he's actually used OS X for a minute, he may be influenced by the double-buffered screen redraw and comparing it unfavorably to the flickering redraw done by Windows (pre-Longhorn).
I've noticed a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about play around with the scrollbars and windows and conclude the system is sluggish.
...the "other half" of the portable music equation.
Synching between the computer and the device.
The iTunes+iPod combination is so effortless, it's barely even noticeable: one instant the music's on your computer, the next it's in your hand.
When these devices' FireWire/USB 2.0 synching gets to this effortless state, then maybe we'll start talking "killer." Until then, keep posting the driver links.
Hear that sound? That's the iPod laughing itself to death.
I remember that sound... It was the sound that the Mac made when it had 18% marketshare.
Now it's 2% and whimpering.
All I'm saying is that if you're an Apple supporter (like me), you shouldn't portray hubris. There's every chance that these Microsoft-based devices will have its ass on a plate sooner or later.
Can hardly blame them. Oh look another "iPod killer article."
"So this one's going to kill it for sure, is it? Or maybe this one. Or this. Wake me up when the damn thing's dead, just don't expect me to go to the funeral of every iPod."
I knew people from planet Apple were almost as dedicated as people from planet Penguin, but I didn't think they wanted to destroy poor peace-loving Microsoft and its fledgling earth colony *that* much.
Er, what do you mean I've confused the stories? The Asteroid is for the Mac, right?
Yep, the evil Steve Jobs personally drove up to my door in his Mercedes and threatened physical violence when I bought my Logitech mouse for my G5.
And I'm still suffering from the torture he inflicted when I dared to use the scrollwheel.
I can't imagine what he did to the Mac OS X engineers when he found they'd built full support for multiple buttons and into the OS, or the fact that all their iApps - iTunes, iPhoto - support full functional scrollwheel movements.
Hmm...
Or maybe's it's because Apple's QA people know that best way to have software designed to be easy to use is to not encourage them to use right-click kludges. It is impossible to use a Windows machine without a two button mouse and learning context menus. That is not true of Mac OS X.
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Except the fanboy wasn't spouting bullshit: in 2002 the "I have young kids and wouldn't it be great to collect one million digital photos of them and have them everywhere?" meme was all over the Mac scene.
f ort-zone.slashdot.org
"Here we go again..." does indeed sum up the repetitive cycle of others do it first, Microsoft commoditizes it.
As for your "you shills and shucksters have spread out and taken over the whole site," I've seen FAR more of your pro-Microsoft sympathizers around here lately. Perhaps the the Apple fanboys have to be zealot-like because they are massively outnumbered by the Apple haters.
Pity I can't 127.0.0.1 microsoft-is-good-enough-for-me-don't-rock-my-com
The fifth:
The Freedom To Have Fun.
Ever since (at a single digit age) I typed
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and got to see the source code of the Little Brick Out program on the Apple ][ - tinkering around with the colors, sizes, blip noises, etc - I've known how much fun it is to see source code, play around with it, and learn by just having fun...
Conspiracy theory #640: Microsoft had some money left over from funding SCO to pay for a legal action against iTunes.
Ironic comment #65536: A convicted monopoly accuses another company of being a monopoly for not signing up to its Plays For Sure(TM) program.
Surprised the fanbois haven't modded you Troll!
But copying Tiger is far too recent for a 2006 release. Last Avalon demonstration I saw, the audience was still oohing and ahhing over the MS geekgirl's demo of double buffered alpha-channeled windows.
They're still working on the 2001 technology, my friend.
...with the probes being crashed into things.
Whatever happened to sending them on their way out the solar system with gold discs in them containing the sounds of Earth and diagrams to show the little green men where to find us?
Oh well, maybe it's just yet another thing George Lucas has to answer for.
Thank you for today's example of Apple fanboy hating curmudgeonliness.
Fanboy or not, he gave useful information: H.264 does indeed have more industry credibility than the list of toy codecs who main use is to swap pirated TV shows on the eDonkey network.
And the fact that you've started to get modded up informative is what gives Slashdot a bad taste in the mouth.
Seriously, this place is looking more like comp.sys.advocacy.* every day...
If so, I sure as hell don't want Microsoft providing it.
A colon would have been clearer.
Bill G, is that really you?! So how is the lightning bolt death ray project coming along?
Yes, it had probably been working on one of those canal boats they used to have up there.
It browses very fast, it's responsive and it plays back movies fine
No argument that you're happy, but tasks like these require at most a 768 Mhz machine, which is probably what it's stepping down to when the power cord's unplugged.
The article poster is talking about more computationally intensive tasks.
(Browsing these days on almost every computer is limited by the speed of the internet connection, not the computer's CPU performance.)
Apple clearly doesn't want you to run a FOSS OS on it (otherwise they would have shipped it with one)
Yeah, that's the reason.
Apple is a maker of non-free software and of proprietary hardware. In that perspect it is not any better than Microsoft or nvidia.
And yet...
Apple's development tools are free. Visual Studio .NET, last time I checked, had a hefty price tag.
A lot of its multimedia tools are free. There's a long tradition of not-too-polished-but-usable-and-FREE tools emanating from the Apple culture, which started back with the now extinct HyperCard (or further really, since they gave away the source code to Lemonade Stand in about 1979...)
As for supporting the OSS community, the developments to make the Konqueror-descended Safari FAST were contributed back. As a parent poster has mentioned, a lot of Darwin is very useful too.
Compare all this is Microsoft, which has so far open-source an *installer shell* and only that to pay lip-service to a concept that Ballmer & co in fact despise.
Hmm.
So you're saying that Middle Earth is also located in the part of space known as ZZ9 plural Z alpha?
That makes a lot of sense!
But what if she grabs it off you and goes *further* back to see your past girlfriends...!
You shouldn't feed the trolls, but just in case the parent is genuine in his belief and he's actually used OS X for a minute, he may be influenced by the double-buffered screen redraw and comparing it unfavorably to the flickering redraw done by Windows (pre-Longhorn).
I've noticed a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about play around with the scrollbars and windows and conclude the system is sluggish.
Oh lighten up, Santa Claus. I just summarized the whole of season 3 of Enterprise with entities the /. crowd would be familiar with.
...the "other half" of the portable music equation.
Synching between the computer and the device.
The iTunes+iPod combination is so effortless, it's barely even noticeable: one instant the music's on your computer, the next it's in your hand.
When these devices' FireWire/USB 2.0 synching gets to this effortless state, then maybe we'll start talking "killer." Until then, keep posting the driver links.
Hear that sound? That's the iPod laughing itself to death.
I remember that sound... It was the sound that the Mac made when it had 18% marketshare.
Now it's 2% and whimpering.
All I'm saying is that if you're an Apple supporter (like me), you shouldn't portray hubris. There's every chance that these Microsoft-based devices will have its ass on a plate sooner or later.
Can hardly blame them. Oh look another "iPod killer article."
"So this one's going to kill it for sure, is it? Or maybe this one. Or this. Wake me up when the damn thing's dead, just don't expect me to go to the funeral of every iPod."
But why has the iPod got to be killed anyway?
How about we just send them both into space? Doesn't need to be an asteroid.
I knew people from planet Apple were almost as dedicated as people from planet Penguin, but I didn't think they wanted to destroy poor peace-loving Microsoft and its fledgling earth colony *that* much.
Er, what do you mean I've confused the stories? The Asteroid is for the Mac, right?
" the tracker on one of the BitTorrent sites indicated that more than 2,500 copies of one Tiger version were downloaded."
So I guess now we know how many Microsoft engineers are working on Longhorn...!
Wasn't there a story here this week on the Linux industry being worth $35 billion.
Does that make OSS developers [punches numbers into his non-graphing abacus] 4.5 times more idiotic?
Yep, the evil Steve Jobs personally drove up to my door in his Mercedes and threatened physical violence when I bought my Logitech mouse for my G5.
And I'm still suffering from the torture he inflicted when I dared to use the scrollwheel.
I can't imagine what he did to the Mac OS X engineers when he found they'd built full support for multiple buttons and into the OS, or the fact that all their iApps - iTunes, iPhoto - support full functional scrollwheel movements.
Hmm...
Or maybe's it's because Apple's QA people know that best way to have software designed to be easy to use is to not encourage them to use right-click kludges. It is impossible to use a Windows machine without a two button mouse and learning context menus. That is not true of Mac OS X.