Sure - that's why I use mostly Apple designed hardware and OS (yes, I do) but there are things which are beyond my boundaries of acceptability and there are things written by RMS, which I have read many years ago and I see them materialising in front of my eyes over the course of the time. I shall continue to use Apple equipment and software (at least until I find something better) but I shall take the efforts to disallow any commercial (or non-commercial) entity to take unsolicited control over the devices (including software) I own (or at least I was fooled to believe so).
There are other shortcomings of the iPhone. You could do much better than beating the dead horse of irreplaceable battery, which has been dead long before the first iPhone device hit the shelves. Hint 1: what is the percentage of the mobile phone users which use their phones longer than their batteries live? Hint 2: what is the percentage of those who do, which have a chance to actually buy a new (original) battery when they need it after a couple of years of phone usage? But of course - this is an old Jedi mind trick devised to fool people into thinking: OMG - I really can't replace the battery?? Uh-oh... it's so bad! - even if none of them have ever replaced any phone battery before, and even if in reality the other phones have practically the same "problem": the phones grow old much faster than the batteries these days and even if you want to buy a new battery after three-four years of phone usage , usually you find that the manufacturer does not supply them already for a year or two...
Ever thought of it this way? Now - grab an iPhone, use it for a month (even if you really hate Apple) and come back with the list of real shortcomings - there is plenty of those but you won't find them if you keep babbling about the battery rather than taking the device for a spin.
Now - this is completely different than saying "Django is better because it has this, that and that". If "morgan_greywolf" wrote as you did I wouldn't even bother to reply. Regards,
If more people thought this way, there would be less of this insanity in the marketplace, and manufactures would have to compete by price alone.
Competing on the price alone... how great idea this is. I am sure there would also quickly be a huge number of Mercedes-Benz producers in the market and the brand new SL500 would cost a dime (or maybe two)... no? Why not? It is more or less what you wrote... Ah - you meant it must not be made of paper and must not be the size of 1" x 3" x 2" ?? Why not?! We are competing by price alone!!
How is that news that good P2P download can saturate the bandwidth? And how is the question answered thousands if not millions of times in traffic shaping gateways comes in 2008 again?
... thanked or even awarded him for doing so! Here it was a prank - funny for some, annoying for the others but rising the awareness about basic security aspects and ways (even as obscure as covering IR ports) to prevent the abuse is priceless! This may only do good in the long term. If this little prank becomes well-known around the globe. It may happen that in the future someone with really mean intentions won't put down some truly critical systems with such primitive technique, because the admin recalls what Gizmodo did and "just to be on the safe side" puts a (symbolic) piece of tape over this IR/BlueTooth/whatever port that is not needed for normal operations and nobody would care otherwise!
... that such a request is being issued smells like a big cloud smoke released to cover and justify the decision, which has already been made behind it:-( Such a representative is being *paid* to do the research. Who of you believe that millions (or even thousands) of public comments are going to be read and analysed for the real information? Yes, there is another alternative - she might be plain stupid but I still take it as a second option...
I can get audio files from P2P too - you know? Yet it is enough for me if I get at least the same quality plus good shopping experience (iTS is good) and I don't get stupid restrictions on what I (fairly) do with things I did pay for! Those three make me happily spend a dollar or Euro for a piece.
How many times we heard that already? Let's count - Windows NT, NT4, 2000, XP, XPSP2... I don't count the "consumer" versions here. Every time, again and again, they say they wouldn't upgrade and every time, again and again, the vendor makes them do that sooner rather than later. Do we really need to repeat the same "news" pattern with every major Windows version released??
Might not. I am yet to get a false positive on any of the iPods and computers in use, after a number of years using those. If that's to be done in a similar way - it might be quite unobtrusive. In the end, while Apple is not always and not completely free of bugs and nastiness, hey I'd still rather refrain from drawing a parallel between Apple and Microsoft. IMHO - even if certainly not perfect - Apple is still far from being Microsoft-alike in many areas. Reliability and unobtrusiveness being some of those.
There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty
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There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs with all the difficulties we know but they take them as "normal computer experience" and don't even think it could be any different.
... it's about the content and services they serve. I run a couple of servers for years now and still don't have my own maps.google.com on any of them. I don't predict having it also in ten years to come. Why would I? As for.mac - yes, I could set similar services on my own servers yet it's *cheaper* for me to use.mac than create my own...
... on how to explain to everybody that the level of piracy is too high and that's the reason why I don't bother to make the software really fly... Now, since many people won't even bother to try this being simply afraid of a posible bug/misbehaviour in this "protection scheme" - the sales will drop close to zero and the dev will have a perfect excuse for not doing anything better "because the level of piracy is too high"... Been there, seen that before. Several otherwise good developers already got caught with this mental scheme: if I create an unacceptable protection (either crippling the soft in a way that really makes no sense to even try it, or threatening with damage to users' data) I will get more sales... which of course works the other way around. The problem that in the end they still blame the "level of piracy" for their failure...
I see. It's not that much of a PITA - various explanations on how to do it are available on the web and quite understandable. Following them is a matter of minutes, rather than hours, but of course HMMV.
What do you call "non-native support for Linux"?! Apple laptops run linux _as natively as it goes_ for ages and this doesn't exclude the Intel based machines. I even could setup a triple-boot on an Intel based Mac (vs. all the dual-boots I had in the past). All running "natively" of course
Just introduce some "little improvements and extensions" to the file format that'll make the older version incapable of properly working with the files created or only edited using the newer version. On the second front just deliver as many packages to the businesses along with the IT contracts as possible and the users of the newer version will take great care of persuading the users of the older ones all by themself. Plain and simple... or something has changed?!
Might it be because Apple earned their near-monopoly with the quality of the product while Microsoft did it with the quality of their subethical marketing strategies?
"Apple debunks most of the unsubstantial accusations"... oh, wait - that wouldn't make a headline our beautiful days of excesional sensationalism replacing old-fashioned journalism so quickly.
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Sure - that's why I use mostly Apple designed hardware and OS (yes, I do) but there are things which are beyond my boundaries of acceptability and there are things written by RMS, which I have read many years ago and I see them materialising in front of my eyes over the course of the time. I shall continue to use Apple equipment and software (at least until I find something better) but I shall take the efforts to disallow any commercial (or non-commercial) entity to take unsolicited control over the devices (including software) I own (or at least I was fooled to believe so).
One more thing to tell and remind us whom we can trust... Isn't it just another "didn't I tell you?", which RMS is classy enough not to spell out?
There are other shortcomings of the iPhone. You could do much better than beating the dead horse of irreplaceable battery, which has been dead long before the first iPhone device hit the shelves. Hint 1: what is the percentage of the mobile phone users which use their phones longer than their batteries live? Hint 2: what is the percentage of those who do, which have a chance to actually buy a new (original) battery when they need it after a couple of years of phone usage? But of course - this is an old Jedi mind trick devised to fool people into thinking: OMG - I really can't replace the battery?? Uh-oh... it's so bad! - even if none of them have ever replaced any phone battery before, and even if in reality the other phones have practically the same "problem": the phones grow old much faster than the batteries these days and even if you want to buy a new battery after three-four years of phone usage , usually you find that the manufacturer does not supply them already for a year or two... Ever thought of it this way? Now - grab an iPhone, use it for a month (even if you really hate Apple) and come back with the list of real shortcomings - there is plenty of those but you won't find them if you keep babbling about the battery rather than taking the device for a spin.
that GNU/Linux is not for children...
Now - this is completely different than saying "Django is better because it has this, that and that". If "morgan_greywolf" wrote as you did I wouldn't even bother to reply. Regards,
If more people thought this way, there would be less of this insanity in the marketplace, and manufactures would have to compete by price alone.
Competing on the price alone... how great idea this is. I am sure there would also quickly be a huge number of Mercedes-Benz producers in the market and the brand new SL500 would cost a dime (or maybe two)... no? Why not? It is more or less what you wrote... Ah - you meant it must not be made of paper and must not be the size of 1" x 3" x 2" ?? Why not?! We are competing by price alone!!
Now, could you do us a favour please and out of this list tell us the only point, which Rails doesn't have (yet)?
How is that news that good P2P download can saturate the bandwidth? And how is the question answered thousands if not millions of times in traffic shaping gateways comes in 2008 again?
... shit! That means that we're going to have this crap around if not forever then at least for something like two decades.
... thanked or even awarded him for doing so! Here it was a prank - funny for some, annoying for the others but rising the awareness about basic security aspects and ways (even as obscure as covering IR ports) to prevent the abuse is priceless! This may only do good in the long term. If this little prank becomes well-known around the globe. It may happen that in the future someone with really mean intentions won't put down some truly critical systems with such primitive technique, because the admin recalls what Gizmodo did and "just to be on the safe side" puts a (symbolic) piece of tape over this IR/BlueTooth/whatever port that is not needed for normal operations and nobody would care otherwise!
... that such a request is being issued smells like a big cloud smoke released to cover and justify the decision, which has already been made behind it :-( Such a representative is being *paid* to do the research. Who of you believe that millions (or even thousands) of public comments are going to be read and analysed for the real information? Yes, there is another alternative - she might be plain stupid but I still take it as a second option...
... that MacOS X will receive a better default operating system! Odds are good that it'll be Vista not ZFS though...
I can get audio files from P2P too - you know? Yet it is enough for me if I get at least the same quality plus good shopping experience (iTS is good) and I don't get stupid restrictions on what I (fairly) do with things I did pay for! Those three make me happily spend a dollar or Euro for a piece.
How many times we heard that already? Let's count - Windows NT, NT4, 2000, XP, XPSP2... I don't count the "consumer" versions here. Every time, again and again, they say they wouldn't upgrade and every time, again and again, the vendor makes them do that sooner rather than later. Do we really need to repeat the same "news" pattern with every major Windows version released??
Might not. I am yet to get a false positive on any of the iPods and computers in use, after a number of years using those. If that's to be done in a similar way - it might be quite unobtrusive. In the end, while Apple is not always and not completely free of bugs and nastiness, hey I'd still rather refrain from drawing a parallel between Apple and Microsoft. IMHO - even if certainly not perfect - Apple is still far from being Microsoft-alike in many areas. Reliability and unobtrusiveness being some of those.
There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty
OR
There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs with all the difficulties we know but they take them as "normal computer experience" and don't even think it could be any different.
... it's about the content and services they serve. I run a couple of servers for years now and still don't have my own maps.google.com on any of them. I don't predict having it also in ten years to come. Why would I? As for .mac - yes, I could set similar services on my own servers yet it's *cheaper* for me to use .mac than create my own...
... on how to explain to everybody that the level of piracy is too high and that's the reason why I don't bother to make the software really fly... Now, since many people won't even bother to try this being simply afraid of a posible bug/misbehaviour in this "protection scheme" - the sales will drop close to zero and the dev will have a perfect excuse for not doing anything better "because the level of piracy is too high"... Been there, seen that before. Several otherwise good developers already got caught with this mental scheme: if I create an unacceptable protection (either crippling the soft in a way that really makes no sense to even try it, or threatening with damage to users' data) I will get more sales... which of course works the other way around. The problem that in the end they still blame the "level of piracy" for their failure...
REST in peace!
I see. It's not that much of a PITA - various explanations on how to do it are available on the web and quite understandable. Following them is a matter of minutes, rather than hours, but of course HMMV.
What do you call "non-native support for Linux"?! Apple laptops run linux _as natively as it goes_ for ages and this doesn't exclude the Intel based machines. I even could setup a triple-boot on an Intel based Mac (vs. all the dual-boots I had in the past). All running "natively" of course
Just introduce some "little improvements and extensions" to the file format that'll make the older version incapable of properly working with the files created or only edited using the newer version. On the second front just deliver as many packages to the businesses along with the IT contracts as possible and the users of the newer version will take great care of persuading the users of the older ones all by themself. Plain and simple... or something has changed?!
Might it be because Apple earned their near-monopoly with the quality of the product while Microsoft did it with the quality of their subethical marketing strategies?
Now I only miss the ability to watch the downloaded pr0n with my eyes turned off...
"Apple debunks most of the unsubstantial accusations"... oh, wait - that wouldn't make a headline our beautiful days of excesional sensationalism replacing old-fashioned journalism so quickly.