Stupidity is being paranoid about your precious "privacy", which in this case nothing more than just whining about nothing. If you don't like it - use something else. I like the feature VERY much, and in fact have found about 40 new albums I wouldn't have found otherwise, and I'm very grateful for this to Apple.
If you have a good earbuds - they may actually improve your hearing. Etymotic ER4P, for example (the ones that I have), provide great noise isolation, so you don't really have to turn your volume all the way up - even on a New York subway train you can enjoy a quiet and pleasant music in those. So in fact, good earbuds can _improve_ your hearing - especially in New York Subway (if someone have ever been on "Union Square" station for 4/5/6 trains will know what I mean;) ), simply because you won't have to hear all that noise and enjoy the music instead.
It would seem that after all these years Microsoft would finally grasp why their Windows sucks so bad: it's mostly about _quality_, not eye candy! It's about ease of use. It's about ergonomics of the interface. The first Beta of the Vista sucked in terms of both. The second one sucks just as much as the first one. It looks pretty on the screenshots but _try to work with it_! All these blurred letters become pretty annoying in about 30 seconds. The location of interface elements is VERY weird to say at least. The interface is cluttered with unnecessary elements and it's often hard to tell whether something in that interface a part of actually _interface_ (that is, something you can interact with - a button, a link or something) or just a pretty picture on the screen. Look at all that screen space wasters! One small phrase - and half a screen empty field with cute gradient around it!
That's what good about Mac OS X interface: it looks cute, and yet it is not cluttered, not overloaded with unnecessary stuff. And while it's clear that Microsoft is trying hard to imitate Mac OS X, they throw everything thay can possibly come up with into the interface, plus a kitchen sink. It seems to me that they simply don't understand the whole concept of simple and yet powerful user interface.
It doesn't matter how many developers were/are working on a project. What matters is _how_ they do it, whether or not there's a thing we normally call 'architecture', or is it just what windows is: a bowl of spaghetti, developed by thousands of developers, without common understanding of the system design.
I won't tell for all open source software, but the examples I've seen are very well designed, which makes them very easy to work on by hundreds of developers without turning into that bowl of spaghetti.
Wooowwww! That's amah-zieeeeng!:) Ever seen Mac OS X?;)
And yes, I've seen the first beta of Vista. Have you ever tried to cook something by just dumping whatever you have in a fridge into a pan? That's what Vista is: its interface is a MESS, virtually impossible to figure out what is what and why. Hopefully it's just because it's beta and frankly, I fail to see anything other than a new interface theme on top of windows xp.
From the interview: "At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at doing something,"
Did Gates just say their products suck or is it just me?
Because if it has - Apple can counter-sue Creative for stealing the idea (and what a perversion they have made of it - look at the ugliest mp3 player in a world called 'Zen'!!!). Besides I remember someone from Creative saying that they basically stole the idea from Apple.
Clicked on the Services. Couldn't find an FTP service there. Oops...;) Oh! Got it! Now it's running! Oops again... What happened to my system? Did somebody just hacked into it? Oh, man!;)
Quartz Extreme is not about just 'fast graphics', it's about offloading the interface drawing off the main CPU and shifting it to the GPU instead, which was specifically designed just for that: Graphics Processing. Besides, I like it when I have no unfinished windows on my screen - when I see just a frame, which I can't even move, minimize whatsoever, which has nothing inside of it at best, or has some traces of other windows that happen to cover it a few seconds ago, that really drives me nuts. That's why I like Quartz Extreme - no unfinished windows.
Aqua is the best interface I've ever seen. In all other systems the first thing I want to do is to modify the interface so it doesn't look so ugly. Not so in MOX: for the past year, ever since I switched to MOX, I've never had the urge to change its interface. NEVER! The only thing that I like to change every now and then is the background picture, but even that is done automagically. I like MOX's unobtrusive interface - clean, uncluttered, easy on eyes, simple and yet, stylish and elegant. Compare that to Windows! Especially the icons! Oh... That would be a blow below the waist, sorry...;)
1) Apparently desire to prevent a user from modifying a.plist file was not on Apple's mind, when they made the decision to store it in a binary form. Perhaps the performance was. But all this is just speculation - nothing really changed from my point of view: I can still go in there and make whatever changes I like. The difference is it is still not concentrated in one big file, which, if damaged, might render your system completely unuseable.
2) To delete the registry keys you need just what you said before - to track what is is the application does to the registry, what keys and branches it creates, so you know what to delete. If the application is forced to keep all preferences in a separate file - then, when you want to un-install it, you don't need to know all that, all you need to know is WHERE your application is, in what subdirectory, and simply delete _just that_ one subdirectory. There are no 'hidden' (unknown) keys left in the system registry! That's all I'm talking about.
Instead, now to completely remove all traces of an application from your system, you have to spend a good deal of time and effort, searching for whatever keys it could have created in the registry, manually, and eradicating them, like pests. Poor and stupid design, IMHO.
1) In Mac OS X user _DON'T HAVE TO_ edit any text files, but he can, if he needed to (the files are all in XML, and there's a pretty nice editor for them as well). 2) If a program can only store its preferences in its own subdirectory - then you don't even need to track what did it to there: once you want to delete it - delete the whole subdirectory, with whatever is stored inside. No cluttering of the system registry with all this garbage. 3) At some point I discovered that about 13 gigabytes of disk space on my hard drive were gone. As I have found out later, it was all consumed by the "System Volume Information" folder, which contained all those "System Restore Points", but the system wouldn't even let me see what's inside - I had to google out some info on how to force the system to let me see what's in that subdirectory - and huray! here's where those 13 gigabytes are! DELETE TO HELL!
...not in the USA. The patent mentioned is not a brainer, in my opinion. Besides DVForge guys offered DLO to manufacture and sell PodBuddy, but they refused. Personally I fail to understand this. And my opinion about the products themselves: I think that PodBuddy is FAR much better than "TransPod", which looks like a soap box to me.
Does it actually _work_? Because it doesn't in Tiger. And anyway, it doesn't really matter: there won't be any new versions of WMP for Mac OS X. If anything, they should have used Real Video, which is supported on all major platforms. But hey, what do we know? Like I said - there's always cbsnews.com, which provides the same free video in RealVideo and... it's better quality (WAY much better), than CNN's.
Yes, it is free now (it was 5 bucks/month before - big deal), but at the same time it's now Windows only - no RealVideo, no Quicktime, just plain dumb Windows Media. Which means no Linux, no Mac OS X... Well, too bad for them - no more watching CNN news online. I for one has long preferred CBSNEWS.com - better video quality and supports RealVideo.
So far the only workable solution is Verizon Wireless Broadband data service - when within 1xEvDO area, I'm often getting up to 1 megabit speed (downloads top 100 kilobytes per second), which is usually only within New York and some nearest New Jersey (and who needs that service in New York, where you can't walk 10 foot without being within somebody else's open wifi spot?;) ). If you live somewhere where you say you live - I wouldn't expect speeds more than that of dial-up, let alone latency significantly shorter than the 600 msecs you're getting with your satellite.
AT&T, by the way, was the worst one of all - slowest speeds, worse coverage.
USPTO does not have any listings for the word "Tiger", registered under the name of these freaks: http://tinyurl.com/clpmw - all they have is "Tiger Direct", that's all. No "Tiger". That means they can go and pound sand. I hope Apple will sue them back.
I'm watching news on www.cbsnews.com in RealVideo and so far - so good: good quality, player is available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux, what else you need?
I don't believe there's another good enough cross-platform format available.
The one important thing is not to use the plug-in format, since it might not work on all platforms and in all browsers.
Just my 2 cents:)
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Stupidity is being paranoid about your precious "privacy", which in this case nothing more than just whining about nothing. If you don't like it - use something else. I like the feature VERY much, and in fact have found about 40 new albums I wouldn't have found otherwise, and I'm very grateful for this to Apple.
It was discovered that some doctors actually know their patients' illnesses and use that information to prescribe medications.
If you have a good earbuds - they may actually improve your hearing. Etymotic ER4P, for example (the ones that I have), provide great noise isolation, so you don't really have to turn your volume all the way up - even on a New York subway train you can enjoy a quiet and pleasant music in those. So in fact, good earbuds can _improve_ your hearing - especially in New York Subway (if someone have ever been on "Union Square" station for 4/5/6 trains will know what I mean ;) ), simply because you won't have to hear all that noise and enjoy the music instead.
I'm just curious: does anybody know how many chairs Mr. Ballmer has in his office?
... why Microsoft software sucks so much that my Hoover looks bleak compared to it! That's why: all PR people are Mac users! I see now! :D
It would seem that after all these years Microsoft would finally grasp why their Windows sucks so bad: it's mostly about _quality_, not eye candy! It's about ease of use. It's about ergonomics of the interface. The first Beta of the Vista sucked in terms of both. The second one sucks just as much as the first one. It looks pretty on the screenshots but _try to work with it_! All these blurred letters become pretty annoying in about 30 seconds. The location of interface elements is VERY weird to say at least. The interface is cluttered with unnecessary elements and it's often hard to tell whether something in that interface a part of actually _interface_ (that is, something you can interact with - a button, a link or something) or just a pretty picture on the screen. Look at all that screen space wasters! One small phrase - and half a screen empty field with cute gradient around it!
That's what good about Mac OS X interface: it looks cute, and yet it is not cluttered, not overloaded with unnecessary stuff. And while it's clear that Microsoft is trying hard to imitate Mac OS X, they throw everything thay can possibly come up with into the interface, plus a kitchen sink. It seems to me that they simply don't understand the whole concept of simple and yet powerful user interface.
It means it'll be doing anything it wants and mostly ignore what you want. And you'll have to deal with it :)
If it is autonomous - shouldn't it charge itself automagically?
Sounds like an infinite loop to me...
If the loosing side is obliged to pay the winning side's legal fees - that'd solve the problem, IMHO.
It doesn't matter how many developers were/are working on a project. What matters is _how_ they do it, whether or not there's a thing we normally call 'architecture', or is it just what windows is: a bowl of spaghetti, developed by thousands of developers, without common understanding of the system design.
I won't tell for all open source software, but the examples I've seen are very well designed, which makes them very easy to work on by hundreds of developers without turning into that bowl of spaghetti.
Wooowwww! That's amah-zieeeeng! :) Ever seen Mac OS X? ;)
And yes, I've seen the first beta of Vista. Have you ever tried to cook something by just dumping whatever you have in a fridge into a pan? That's what Vista is: its interface is a MESS, virtually impossible to figure out what is what and why. Hopefully it's just because it's beta and frankly, I fail to see anything other than a new interface theme on top of windows xp.
From the interview: "At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at doing something," Did Gates just say their products suck or is it just me?
Because if it has - Apple can counter-sue Creative for stealing the idea (and what a perversion they have made of it - look at the ugliest mp3 player in a world called 'Zen'!!!). Besides I remember someone from Creative saying that they basically stole the idea from Apple.
And where do you think those gigabucks came from?
1) Apparently desire to prevent a user from modifying a .plist file was not on Apple's mind, when they made the decision to store it in a binary form. Perhaps the performance was. But all this is just speculation - nothing really changed from my point of view: I can still go in there and make whatever changes I like. The difference is it is still not concentrated in one big file, which, if damaged, might render your system completely unuseable.
2) To delete the registry keys you need just what you said before - to track what is is the application does to the registry, what keys and branches it creates, so you know what to delete. If the application is forced to keep all preferences in a separate file - then, when you want to un-install it, you don't need to know all that, all you need to know is WHERE your application is, in what subdirectory, and simply delete _just that_ one subdirectory. There are no 'hidden' (unknown) keys left in the system registry! That's all I'm talking about.
Instead, now to completely remove all traces of an application from your system, you have to spend a good deal of time and effort, searching for whatever keys it could have created in the registry, manually, and eradicating them, like pests. Poor and stupid design, IMHO.
Just to answer a few of your points:
1) In Mac OS X user _DON'T HAVE TO_ edit any text files, but he can, if he needed to (the files are all in XML, and there's a pretty nice editor for them as well).
2) If a program can only store its preferences in its own subdirectory - then you don't even need to track what did it to there: once you want to delete it - delete the whole subdirectory, with whatever is stored inside. No cluttering of the system registry with all this garbage.
3) At some point I discovered that about 13 gigabytes of disk space on my hard drive were gone. As I have found out later, it was all consumed by the "System Volume Information" folder, which contained all those "System Restore Points", but the system wouldn't even let me see what's inside - I had to google out some info on how to force the system to let me see what's in that subdirectory - and huray! here's where those 13 gigabytes are! DELETE TO HELL!
...not in the USA. The patent mentioned is not a brainer, in my opinion. Besides DVForge guys offered DLO to manufacture and sell PodBuddy, but they refused. Personally I fail to understand this. And my opinion about the products themselves: I think that PodBuddy is FAR much better than "TransPod", which looks like a soap box to me.
Does it actually _work_? Because it doesn't in Tiger. And anyway, it doesn't really matter: there won't be any new versions of WMP for Mac OS X. If anything, they should have used Real Video, which is supported on all major platforms. But hey, what do we know? Like I said - there's always cbsnews.com, which provides the same free video in RealVideo and... it's better quality (WAY much better), than CNN's.
Yes, it is free now (it was 5 bucks/month before - big deal), but at the same time it's now Windows only - no RealVideo, no Quicktime, just plain dumb Windows Media. Which means no Linux, no Mac OS X... Well, too bad for them - no more watching CNN news online. I for one has long preferred CBSNEWS.com - better video quality and supports RealVideo.
So far the only workable solution is Verizon Wireless Broadband data service - when within 1xEvDO area, I'm often getting up to 1 megabit speed (downloads top 100 kilobytes per second), which is usually only within New York and some nearest New Jersey (and who needs that service in New York, where you can't walk 10 foot without being within somebody else's open wifi spot? ;) ). If you live somewhere where you say you live - I wouldn't expect speeds more than that of dial-up, let alone latency significantly shorter than the 600 msecs you're getting with your satellite.
AT&T, by the way, was the worst one of all - slowest speeds, worse coverage.
USPTO does not have any listings for the word "Tiger", registered under the name of these freaks: http://tinyurl.com/clpmw - all they have is "Tiger Direct", that's all. No "Tiger". That means they can go and pound sand. I hope Apple will sue them back.
I'm watching news on www.cbsnews.com in RealVideo and so far - so good: good quality, player is available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux, what else you need? I don't believe there's another good enough cross-platform format available. The one important thing is not to use the plug-in format, since it might not work on all platforms and in all browsers. Just my 2 cents :)