... the whole Apple culture/worldview/aura is very L. Ron Hubbardesque.
Hubbard was a hateful, psychotic douchebag. Surely a closer comparison to Hubbard is Ellison at Oracle, versus Jobs at Apple.
I get the controlling, the secrecy, the clique -- all true for both Scientology and Appledom. But to compare the virility of the "illness" I say Apple is like a cold sore caught from a kiss (costs something, but worth it), Oracle is like herpes (one pays for life and there is no cure) and Scientology is like ebola (one bleeds [cash] til one dies)
Nice story "Chips & Dips"
Slashdot (really just a rebranded "Chips & Dips") can't resist pulling an acronym out of the mists of time
Seriously, not that hard to say "Russia's Federal Security Service (aka FSB) wants..."
The 1980's called and said they wanted their Cold War propaganda back
This is not a bad strategy for Microsoft but I don't think the stated reason makes any sense.
I guess Mr. Mundie can't say "Microsoft is a flat-flippered, bloated, beached, dead whale of an organization and we cannot expect to catch our more nimble competitors." At least he can't say that and keep his job.
Instead of Microsoft trying to be "cool" - which they are genetically incapable of - they should go after a market where a hugely overpriced competitor could be undercut. I'm thinking Oracle business applications could be undercut without too much effort. Microsoft sort of has their own server software stack - they just need to cobble together some business junkware that runs on it then sell it at a tenth the cost of Oracle's junkware. Then it's "Hello Mister Massive Sales! W00t!"
MS already has a lot of the pieces, they just need to bundle it altogether, call it a "solution" and run it in the cloud:)
How do you know the McAfee home page is not one giant honeypot? After all they know hackers will be going after them.
That's what I'd do if I were them...
Never attribute to competence that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
[ Krugman's Razor ]
Why do you have lawns then?
Having lawns in places that would need a lawn to be watered is a braindead idea.
Not that much trouble really, a small matter of building a system to distrubute water -- think municipal water supply. Or would thinking be too much trouble?
Jesus, we've descended to the point where a minor engineering problem elicits meh, why bother?
Jeopardy! is the game where an answer is given and the contestant must supply a question...
Once their AI is sufficiently good at it, they're obviously planning to give it the answer 42.
Obviously we're getting close to the end of the run for the Earth 2.0 simulation
We tried to warn you all, but oh dear... So sad it's come to this
So long, so long, so long, and thanks for all the fish
Apple users are some of the most loyal on the planet...
... Apple users... insist the device just works flawlessly and that they've never had a problem.
As a loyal Apple customer enjoying my flawless devices, this is what I got out of your post.
Why would anyone mod you troll?
I'm sure the Republicans aren't just using this to get some of their NH political juice back. And if they got some back, I'm sure they wouldn't reconsider the merits of the system.
I'm also sure the Democrats will wholeheartedly support allowing voters to have more choice, even at the expense of some of their own newfound political juice in NH.
Yes, I'm being totally serious. No, reeeeallllyyyyy
... created an effective duopoly, one that still persists today in many markets. In such a situation, the free market cannot function, and government regulation is required to prevent abuses.
This is the part that the Libertarian loudmouths ignore. There is no market. Their magical invisible hand that solves all problems just turns into a choking fist when you have too few competitors.
The only sane solutions are government owned pipes (think water/sewer) or highly regulated privately owned pipes (think electricity/gas).
I like my local city utility monopoly. I like my power and gas monopolies. I despise all two of my choices from the Net duopoly camp.
Every city knows they have to "do" sewer/water/trash. Every state knows they have to "do" power and gas - even if it's just to set up a framework for local co-ops. Wish some state was willing and able to "do" Internet and fight off the corporate douchebags. Maybe next generation...
So, if you wish to call for regulation, you should consider the regulation that's already in place. Why is it inadequate? And how is your proposal immunised against the same problems? Because you will not be the first person to suggest regulation - those who came before you had similar ideals, and despite their good intentions, they created the current mess.
What regulation? What can my carrier currently do or not do with my content? Is traffic shaping okay? Can this or that ISP throttle and or choke my Netflix streaming? When they start doing it who do I call to complain?
Ever flip on a light switch? I do it all the time and it works pretty good. There's a highly regulated monopoly that works okay. How did regulation of old school utilities turn out okay despite the involvement of government? Can we look at that success and apply it to the ISPs? When the power company wants more money they have to present to a board that checks the numbers. Not perfect, but what is? When my ISP wants more money they just change their name and say we now have an X in our name and your bill is going to go up X dollars! Isn't that GREAT!!!
And before we talk about stifled innovation, I'll consider real innovation and not some imagined future innovation. The rest of the world has innovation, we don't, and we're currently ever so not regulated...
Your ISP is going to scale back or cancel any rollout of faster service or they will lower everyone's speeds or they will charge everyone more money.
That sounds an awful lot like the Net we already have.
What will it be like after regulation? I'll have to let some federal bureaucrat touch my junk so I can be cleared to download torrentz of people touching each other's junk. Sounds kinky. I'm down with it, right down on it. W00t!
You're commenting psuedo-authoritatively on an American case on an American website - why ever would anyone think you're not British? I mean American?!?
I fail to detect any obvious clues from this thread that you're British. Perhaps your true colours are centred on some other postings?
Okay, you're spelling and grammers are swell, that's a clue your not American, but come on, you could have also been Jamaican or Canadian.
Canada FTW!
Where might one find your article? Would be interested in what kind of Apple setup you have
As for the vitriol tossed your way, I'd say the zealots from any camp are quite tiresome. Perhaps some fellow open-source friends/colleagues felt betrayed? Their problem...
A professional knows the value of using the right tool for the job at hand. Some tools transcend utility and become inspiring in and of themselves. It has to be experienced, and by someone who can appreciate it. The haters know they're missing out on something - it fuels more hating...
I'm amazed that so many ordinary Americans will actually pony up for superior products. Perhaps there is still hope for a better future? [nah, crazy talk]
CA is where terminal software goes to die
The business model is:
1) Buy products that are circling the drain
2) Flog said products to the clueless
3) Promise a big party at CA World
4) PROFIT!!!
We have assloads of CA shiteware, our clueless managers just love going to CA World every year. Last year's keynote was that Avatar guy, w00t!
...how much does Janet Napolitano get per machine?
Doesn't work like that. Not yet.
What she will get is a high-paying job somewhere in the security-theater industry after making them all rich. Lots of examples of this, my favorite was the Sainted Ronald Reagan getting a $2 million payment from the Japanese, but only after he was officially no longer part of the government.
Domo arigato, Ronster. Thanks for the voluntary "quotas" you got for us. Here's a Scooby snack for ya! Here's two million of 'em!
... can't let NASA just select any old rocket manufacturer or we'll end up in cement shoes at the bottom of the ocean.
Cement shoes: yes
Bottom of the ocean: no
Oceans have enough problems with pollution already. Our Great Salt Lake would be a perfectly fine dumping ground for bottom-heavy congress-critters. And the GSL is already so polluted that adding waste even as toxic as Oril Hatch wouldn't make an appreciable difference.
... I loved the walkman because it was small. I loved the iPod because it was small, I love my iPhone because it is small, and I love the small size of the iPad.
So if normal guys love large trucks because they compensate, and you appently love small things, then that must mean, umm, "Oh! Hello sailor!!!"
While I'm not an A/V genius, I've been quite successful/content with my LG BD570 player. No it's not the total geek-out experience but it does Netflix, Vudu, YouTube,.avi,.mp4 - rarely refuses to play anything I've downloaded. If it does, I transcode with VLC and life goes on.
It streams from my NAS hanging off of Airport router, streams off of various Win XP and Win7 boxes. Does it all wirelessly (player is wireless, Win boxes are wireless)
User interface is adequate - not up to Apple's standards but good enough for the likes of me.
And most importantly, the hardware has a slick look and no noise (no HDD). Generates a fair amount of heat...
competition. right. like the raging competition between ISPs in America? because, obviously, we have the most competitive system so we have the fastest pipes on the planet, right?
and the airlines provide free drinks, free meals, and treat you like a person, right?
how do clueless, bend-over-and-rape-me-mr-ceo types always get modded up? for spewing clueless libertarian claptrap? bleh
Slashdot Mirror
Comcast Exec: [logs into service] hmm, why does my home thermostat read 666?
... the whole Apple culture/worldview/aura is very L. Ron Hubbardesque.
Hubbard was a hateful, psychotic douchebag. Surely a closer comparison to Hubbard is Ellison at Oracle, versus Jobs at Apple.
I get the controlling, the secrecy, the clique -- all true for both Scientology and Appledom. But to compare the virility of the "illness" I say Apple is like a cold sore caught from a kiss (costs something, but worth it), Oracle is like herpes (one pays for life and there is no cure) and Scientology is like ebola (one bleeds [cash] til one dies)
Nice story "Chips & Dips"
Slashdot (really just a rebranded "Chips & Dips") can't resist pulling an acronym out of the mists of time
Seriously, not that hard to say "Russia's Federal Security Service (aka FSB) wants..."
The 1980's called and said they wanted their Cold War propaganda back
I guess Mr. Mundie can't say "Microsoft is a flat-flippered, bloated, beached, dead whale of an organization and we cannot expect to catch our more nimble competitors." At least he can't say that and keep his job.
Instead of Microsoft trying to be "cool" - which they are genetically incapable of - they should go after a market where a hugely overpriced competitor could be undercut. I'm thinking Oracle business applications could be undercut without too much effort. Microsoft sort of has their own server software stack - they just need to cobble together some business junkware that runs on it then sell it at a tenth the cost of Oracle's junkware. Then it's "Hello Mister Massive Sales! W00t!"
MS already has a lot of the pieces, they just need to bundle it altogether, call it a "solution" and run it in the cloud :)
How do you know the McAfee home page is not one giant honeypot? After all they know hackers will be going after them. That's what I'd do if I were them...
Never attribute to competence that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. [ Krugman's Razor ]
Why do you have lawns then? Having lawns in places that would need a lawn to be watered is a braindead idea.
Not that much trouble really, a small matter of building a system to distrubute water -- think municipal water supply. Or would thinking be too much trouble?
Jesus, we've descended to the point where a minor engineering problem elicits meh, why bother?
Idiocracy
Jeopardy! is the game where an answer is given and the contestant must supply a question...
Once their AI is sufficiently good at it, they're obviously planning to give it the answer 42.
Obviously we're getting close to the end of the run for the Earth 2.0 simulation
We tried to warn you all, but oh dear... So sad it's come to this
So long, so long, so long, and thanks for all the fish
-z dolphins-
If I had to pick a day when a bunch of nerds would be home with nothing to do but watch a computer compete on a game show...
"what is Valentine's Day, Alex?"
Apple users are some of the most loyal on the planet...
... Apple users ... insist the device just works flawlessly and that they've never had a problem.
As a loyal Apple customer enjoying my flawless devices, this is what I got out of your post.
Why would anyone mod you troll?
I'm sure the Republicans aren't just using this to get some of their NH political juice back. And if they got some back, I'm sure they wouldn't reconsider the merits of the system.
I'm also sure the Democrats will wholeheartedly support allowing voters to have more choice, even at the expense of some of their own newfound political juice in NH.
Yes, I'm being totally serious. No, reeeeallllyyyyy
nice one Heisenberg
not sure if that joke's funny, or not
I was dragged into helping to recover the Stanford SAIL-DART archives from the 1970s
So very cool. Just read this Rolling Stone Article associated with SAIL - frak me rotten.
Death of newspapers and music stores predicted in 1972 - swoops my hair back.
I knew frakking around with LISP was mild altering, but I didn't know it lead to prescience and precognitive ability. Woof
... created an effective duopoly, one that still persists today in many markets. In such a situation, the free market cannot function, and government regulation is required to prevent abuses.
This is the part that the Libertarian loudmouths ignore. There is no market. Their magical invisible hand that solves all problems just turns into a choking fist when you have too few competitors.
The only sane solutions are government owned pipes (think water/sewer) or highly regulated privately owned pipes (think electricity/gas).
I like my local city utility monopoly. I like my power and gas monopolies. I despise all two of my choices from the Net duopoly camp.
Every city knows they have to "do" sewer/water/trash. Every state knows they have to "do" power and gas - even if it's just to set up a framework for local co-ops. Wish some state was willing and able to "do" Internet and fight off the corporate douchebags. Maybe next generation...
So, if you wish to call for regulation, you should consider the regulation that's already in place. Why is it inadequate? And how is your proposal immunised against the same problems? Because you will not be the first person to suggest regulation - those who came before you had similar ideals, and despite their good intentions, they created the current mess.
What regulation? What can my carrier currently do or not do with my content? Is traffic shaping okay? Can this or that ISP throttle and or choke my Netflix streaming? When they start doing it who do I call to complain?
Ever flip on a light switch? I do it all the time and it works pretty good. There's a highly regulated monopoly that works okay. How did regulation of old school utilities turn out okay despite the involvement of government? Can we look at that success and apply it to the ISPs? When the power company wants more money they have to present to a board that checks the numbers. Not perfect, but what is? When my ISP wants more money they just change their name and say we now have an X in our name and your bill is going to go up X dollars! Isn't that GREAT!!!
And before we talk about stifled innovation, I'll consider real innovation and not some imagined future innovation. The rest of the world has innovation, we don't, and we're currently ever so not regulated...
Your ISP is going to scale back or cancel any rollout of faster service or they will lower everyone's speeds or they will charge everyone more money.
That sounds an awful lot like the Net we already have.
What will it be like after regulation? I'll have to let some federal bureaucrat touch my junk so I can be cleared to download torrentz of people touching each other's junk. Sounds kinky. I'm down with it, right down on it. W00t!
You're commenting psuedo-authoritatively on an American case on an American website - why ever would anyone think you're not British? I mean American?!?
I fail to detect any obvious clues from this thread that you're British. Perhaps your true colours are centred on some other postings?
Okay, you're spelling and grammers are swell, that's a clue your not American, but come on, you could have also been Jamaican or Canadian.
Canada FTW!
As for the vitriol tossed your way, I'd say the zealots from any camp are quite tiresome. Perhaps some fellow open-source friends/colleagues felt betrayed? Their problem...
A professional knows the value of using the right tool for the job at hand. Some tools transcend utility and become inspiring in and of themselves. It has to be experienced, and by someone who can appreciate it. The haters know they're missing out on something - it fuels more hating...
I'm amazed that so many ordinary Americans will actually pony up for superior products. Perhaps there is still hope for a better future? [nah, crazy talk]
CA is where terminal software goes to die
The business model is:
1) Buy products that are circling the drain
2) Flog said products to the clueless
3) Promise a big party at CA World
4) PROFIT!!!
We have assloads of CA shiteware, our clueless managers just love going to CA World every year. Last year's keynote was that Avatar guy, w00t!
...how much does Janet Napolitano get per machine?
Doesn't work like that. Not yet.
What she will get is a high-paying job somewhere in the security-theater industry after making them all rich. Lots of examples of this, my favorite was the Sainted Ronald Reagan getting a $2 million payment from the Japanese, but only after he was officially no longer part of the government.
Domo arigato, Ronster. Thanks for the voluntary "quotas" you got for us. Here's a Scooby snack for ya! Here's two million of 'em!
Back when Wernher Von Braun created the Saturn 5...
Sounds like we need to go back to outsourcing our rocket science to Germany...
... can't let NASA just select any old rocket manufacturer or we'll end up in cement shoes at the bottom of the ocean.
Cement shoes: yes
Bottom of the ocean: no
Oceans have enough problems with pollution already. Our Great Salt Lake would be a perfectly fine dumping ground for bottom-heavy congress-critters. And the GSL is already so polluted that adding waste even as toxic as Oril Hatch wouldn't make an appreciable difference.
Just trying be environmental!
... I loved the walkman because it was small. I loved the iPod because it was small, I love my iPhone because it is small, and I love the small size of the iPad.
So if normal guys love large trucks because they compensate, and you appently love small things, then that must mean, umm, "Oh! Hello sailor!!!"
It streams from my NAS hanging off of Airport router, streams off of various Win XP and Win7 boxes. Does it all wirelessly (player is wireless, Win boxes are wireless)
User interface is adequate - not up to Apple's standards but good enough for the likes of me.
And most importantly, the hardware has a slick look and no noise (no HDD). Generates a fair amount of heat...
Just my $0.02
The alternative is a format called PDF/A...
I'm sticking with the current Adobe-approved PDF/U
and the airlines provide free drinks, free meals, and treat you like a person, right?
how do clueless, bend-over-and-rape-me-mr-ceo types always get modded up? for spewing clueless libertarian claptrap? bleh