It's two sides of the same coin, you can't win both ways. More hardware to choose from is better, but less hardware to choose from is easier to support. Personally, I'll take the free choice over hardware, rather than be tied down with what Mr. Jobs decides to offer (at an inflated price, usually) at this particular point in time.
Apple doesn't have to deal with hardware issues. Windows and Linux have to try and handle any piece of hardware thrown at them. The hardware Mac OS X has to handle could be counted on one hand, almost.
Has the Police Force stopped murder? No.
Had the Fire Department stopped fires? No. Do the police have a role beyond harrassing innocents? Yes.
Does the fire department do more good than evil? Yes.
Same deal with copy protection on games. Only the people who buy the product legally have to suffer with it [...] The only people they'll really piss off are their customers.
Hear, hear. Copy protection is the reason why I can't play The Battle for Middle-Earth II on my Vista pc, the damn game can't see the legitimate CD through the WinXP compatibility mode.
Has copy protection stopped pirate games? No.
Has DRM stopped downloading? No.
Such measures just punish the folks who actually pay for their content...
"At closest approach, Solar Probe+ will be 7 million km or 9 solar radii from the sun. There, the spacecraft's carbon-composite heat shield must withstand temperatures greater than 1400 degrees C and survive blasts of radiation at levels not experienced by any previous spacecraft."
What, exactly, has Google opened up? As far as I can see fron TFA all that is explained is on a very general level, with no detail what so ever. I can't see Google's competion gaining any significant benefit from this.
That being said, I *always* had a problem getting them into a usable state once they were installed.
True enough, Getting Windows installed isn't even half the work (though until Vista, it took at least 45 - 60 minutes).
Once you had Windows running you'd have a tedious couple of hours installing drivers and updates, and of course every driver you install would require a reboot.
I'm amazed that installing pretty much ANYTHING on Windows still requires a reboot.
Actually a lot of people living in poorer countries would like to help their own country. In fact a lot of the foreign students studying with me (here in Finland) ultimately wish to return to their home countries.
Just 'cause you're a selfish bastard, doesn't mean that everybody else is.
What's more, most of the big corps are eager to get to the up and coming markets of developing nations.
Try to keep in mind [... ] it's not quite like people stealing pizzas from you. Rather, it's akin to you owning a bookstore and people coming in, copying the books, and then leaving.
Thank you! Could people please stop drawing analogies to physical goods? It's starting to get on my nerves...
If I download a pirate copy of 3ds Max will Autodesk have lost $3,500? No, because I don't have $3,500 to spend on 3ds Max anyway.
Good for you. Welcome to Slashdot -- contrary opinions are welcome here.:-)
Thanks for pointing that out, your powers of perception amaze me to no end
However, part of me is sad that the successful context-sensitive use of the previous terms in the industry is being removed for what I consider overly pedantic reasons.
I have to say that you get sad about strange things.
It's a solution in search of a problem
No, I'd call it more of an correction. Just 'cause folks have been using the wrong terminology for 40 years doesn't make it right.
Do a search on Google sometime; it might be educational.
Oh no, I would never go as far as to criticise somebody's religious concepts. OK, maybe I would, but that's not the point. What I was trying to say is that you suck at general knowledge.
There's a reason folks in the Real World use the term "octet"
I take offence at a number issues in your post.
First of all could you please explain to me why I should take somebody who decorates his opinions with emoticons and "Sheesh" seriously?
Secondly, who are these "folks in the Real World" you speak of? This is is pretty much the first time I've seen 'octet' used, in either the real or imitation world.
Thirdly, I'm not about to use a musical ensemble to describe the size of anything.
As for the "40+ years of prior art", this is hardly the first time standards are changed. Many of the SI measurements, for example, have been changed, despite prior usage of other terms and definitions, sometimes going back hundreds of years.
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Could you have put any more links in the summary?
I think someone is pulling a great prank. Just read this section in their FAQ:
Q: "What's underneath the Earth?" aka "What's on the bottom?" aka "What's on the other side?"
A: This is unknown. Some believe it to be just rocks, others believe the Earth rests on the back of four elephants and a turtle.
That's straight of of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
Probably won't make up for all of the difference, but I expect that the US prices don't include sales taxes etc...
I'd call that a broken window fallacy.
What the hell kind of a cube has 12x12x4 dimensions?
No, but you do lose hit points and get knocked down a level.
It's two sides of the same coin, you can't win both ways. More hardware to choose from is better, but less hardware to choose from is easier to support. Personally, I'll take the free choice over hardware, rather than be tied down with what Mr. Jobs decides to offer (at an inflated price, usually) at this particular point in time.
Apple doesn't have to deal with hardware issues. Windows and Linux have to try and handle any piece of hardware thrown at them. The hardware Mac OS X has to handle could be counted on one hand, almost.
I'm afraid not, though I'm still trying to beat something out of EA (literally, I've got one of their support staff tied-up in my basement).
Does the fire department do more good than evil? Yes.
Hear, hear. Copy protection is the reason why I can't play The Battle for Middle-Earth II on my Vista pc, the damn game can't see the legitimate CD through the WinXP compatibility mode.
Has copy protection stopped pirate games? No.
Has DRM stopped downloading? No.
Such measures just punish the folks who actually pay for their content...
RTFA.
"At closest approach, Solar Probe+ will be 7 million km or 9 solar radii from the sun. There, the spacecraft's carbon-composite heat shield must withstand temperatures greater than 1400 degrees C and survive blasts of radiation at levels not experienced by any previous spacecraft."
What about the underpants gnomes?
What, exactly, has Google opened up? As far as I can see fron TFA all that is explained is on a very general level, with no detail what so ever. I can't see Google's competion gaining any significant benefit from this.
Slashdot admins have just received an email from BBC Worldwide requesting the removal of your comment due to certain copyright violations.
You will be hearing from the BBC legal department in due course.
You're likening fighting RIAA lawyers (purely in a figurative sense) to terrorism? In the fourth comment in this thread?
How long until somebody invokes brings up the Hitler and Nazi comparisons? Godwin's law for anybody?
Emphasis mine.
I believe that Einstein wrote more than one letter per year.
True enough, Getting Windows installed isn't even half the work (though until Vista, it took at least 45 - 60 minutes).
Once you had Windows running you'd have a tedious couple of hours installing drivers and updates, and of course every driver you install would require a reboot.
I'm amazed that installing pretty much ANYTHING on Windows still requires a reboot.
Actually a lot of people living in poorer countries would like to help their own country. In fact a lot of the foreign students studying with me (here in Finland) ultimately wish to return to their home countries.
Just 'cause you're a selfish bastard, doesn't mean that everybody else is.
What's more, most of the big corps are eager to get to the up and coming markets of developing nations.
Thank you! Could people please stop drawing analogies to physical goods? It's starting to get on my nerves...
If I download a pirate copy of 3ds Max will Autodesk have lost $3,500? No, because I don't have $3,500 to spend on 3ds Max anyway.
That's easily found out: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.itif.org
I nominate Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame. Ubuntu has done more to promote a desktop Linux than any other distro before.
Good for you. Welcome to Slashdot -- contrary opinions are welcome here. :-)
Thanks for pointing that out, your powers of perception amaze me to no end
However, part of me is sad that the successful context-sensitive use of the previous terms in the industry is being removed for what I consider overly pedantic reasons.I have to say that you get sad about strange things.
It's a solution in search of a problemNo, I'd call it more of an correction. Just 'cause folks have been using the wrong terminology for 40 years doesn't make it right.
Do a search on Google sometime; it might be educational.Educational? I baulk at the thought.
Oh no, I would never go as far as to criticise somebody's religious concepts. OK, maybe I would, but that's not the point. What I was trying to say is that you suck at general knowledge.
I take offence at a number issues in your post.
First of all could you please explain to me why I should take somebody who decorates his opinions with emoticons and "Sheesh" seriously?
Secondly, who are these "folks in the Real World" you speak of? This is is pretty much the first time I've seen 'octet' used, in either the real or imitation world.
Thirdly, I'm not about to use a musical ensemble to describe the size of anything.
As for the "40+ years of prior art", this is hardly the first time standards are changed. Many of the SI measurements, for example, have been changed, despite prior usage of other terms and definitions, sometimes going back hundreds of years.