So... its not possible for a private citizen to violate another's civil rights? Or is this just that part of the 4th Amendment that only applies to the government?
Considering 70% of the cost of a real book is wrapped up in printing and distribution, costs that are effectively zeroed once digital (not completely, but effectively) you're absolutely right. Its the same thing publishers of newspapers are trying to pull... they want a windfall by desiring to charge the same subscription prices as with physical periodicals. If publishers were even remotely intelligent, they'd be pushing customers away from physical books towards digital by offering massive incentive, namely, drastically reduced prices. Even if ebooks were priced 50% of the retail cost of physical books publishers stand to make much more profits with ebooks. It is indiciative of a fundamental misunderstanding of the profitablity of new technology by old school fossils continuing to promote those broken and dying business models.
Is there a simple device that will let her easily play some games?
Yes, as a matter of fact indeed there is. I believe your grandmother may refer colloquially to this simple but rare device as "grandson with deck of cards."
Apple is still ludicrously overpriced in most of the products it sells.
This characterization is ludicrous. Time and again, matched feature for feature, Apple's hw comes within $60-$100 of similarly matched hw. You can get the proc they use in a box for half as much, but you'll be missing all sorts of things Apple provides at their prices. About the only thing you are correct on is Apple's extra RAM prices, which admittedly don't seem to make much sense... however, not all RAM is the same. The RAM Apple provides will be spec-ed higher, have less data corruption, will fail less, and if it does fail, they support it under warranty and AppleCare. But no one will beat you up for getting the cheaper RAM and installing yourself, and it doesn't void warranty to do so.
I was about to post this. Should be reported as a bug as 'its' is far more common than 'it's.' But something tells me eventually spellcheck is going to be using the Siri backend for additional accuracy in spellcheck and added grammar checking.
You, sir, with your complete misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the market, sound like you could be the next CEO of HP. Congratulations, and have a happy bankruptcy.
You're comparing apples and oranges. But, sure, I believe with Thunderbolt you can run 3 extra monitors for awesome gaming. But Mac isn't really used much for a gaming platform. And fancy tvtuners work fine on USB now, even if the actual tuners are completely worthless in the US, because cable providers no longer just use a simple descrambler... that settop tuner box you are forced to use is actually a linux machine, and you are required to use that tuner (unless you're receiving signal over the air instead of cable). Whatever expansion the lack of PCI slots removes is easily mitigated by USB/fw800/Thunderbolt. Also, the box you describe sounds like an ugly, unweildy, dust collector, and not the first thing someone sees and immediately envies when they walk in the room... unlike the iMac... which sort of is an attention whore, comparitively.
You're kidding, right? I've tried this mouse thing on the desktop, and it sucks. Give me a command line interface any day - it's much more precise, especially for doing simple things like moving files around.
These two departments may not design products, but they create and maintain vital lines of communication between the company, its customers, and the press.
Bob Slydell: What would you say ya do here?
Tom Smykowski: Well look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
make so little financial sense Apple will stop suing others
I take it you didn't see the 60 minutes interview with Walter Isaacson. Apple doesn't care about the money. They have $50 billion. In cash. This has absolutely nothing to do with money.
I wouldn't know where to begin. The similarities are superficial and the differences are critical. Just off the top of my head, the way start up scripts are handled... and the location of same.
What does this mean for anti-trust precedents set against Microsoft?
Nothing. Apple is not a monopoly, anti-trust doesn't apply, they can do whatever they want until they reach, whatever, 90% market saturation. Also, what you and the summary suggest, only allowing Mac AppStore installations, will never happen.
Having just checked the redhat ftp sever, your rep is wrong. There is nothing stpping you, not even a licensing issue, from downloading and running RHEL. Its the support that isn't free, and if I'm not mistaken, anything downloaded from the redhat ftp server is specifically unsupported. As another poster pointed out, the major issue running RHEL without support is, basically, the lack of patches or updates.
know the conventions have been around for a long time, but I think at a certain level it makes sense to start fresh and come up with a new standard that actually makes sense, and not just stick with old conventions because they're hard to change.
I don't have a problem with this. But lets at least change the name, not keep calling it Linux if it no longer looks anything like what it was, even if it still uses the same kernel.
There is nothing exoteric or baffling with the filesytem of Linux.
You are mostly correct. There is a single detail that is baffling about the filesystem of Linux: Why is it different from UNIX? Much is the same... but why was there any divergence whatsoever? IMO, this delayed Linux acceptance in the server space by about 5 years... long enough for the grey beards to start moving on and the young whips, unaware of how things should be placed, who didn't know any better because they were never exposed to any real UNIX, to fill those positions. And the next generation is going to be screwed because of the detachment of the past from the present.... that's where I see this insane suggestion coming from "hey... this doesn't make sense to me... let's change it," without bothering to investigate why things are the way they are.
Now, reorganizing the system so the files are arranged in a more logical fashion? That is great and something I have been waiting for 15 years!
No... it isn't a good idea, because its already in arranged in a logical fashion. See some of the excellent comments above (but below the file compression crap) for historical explanations of why stuff is where it is. Did you really think just because it wasn't instantly understandable without explanation that it wasn't well thought out? No... it was seriously well thought out for decades before Linux existed.
What makes Linux great is how similar it is to UNIX, but free, yet it does everything Windows does, usually within weeks of a new MS "feature" (aka breaking things Linux previously fixed). What makes Linux crap is what is different about it from UNIX.
It is a crap idea to take something misunderstood and try to "fix" it by making it "simpler," when that effort will only serve to make things more confusing ("oh, its like this in this distro, but this distro is different, and this distro is similar, but also different").
while OS/X has a misguided attempt to put writable data into the application directory
I don't think this is necessarily the way to do things in OS X, its just that some developers do this, some applications do this, and you're right... its misguided... and its weird. But its also not all that common as many developers are very smart.
Calling them, current UNIX/Linux filesystem hierarcy, "arcane", baffles me.
How anyone could refer to the UNIX and Linux filesystem hierarchy in the same breath as one and the same baffles me. They are quite different... and idk what caused linux in its early days to depart from the canonical UNIX placement of things. It was unnecessary.
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still... isn't it a little ridiculous what it takes to turn a $2500 computer into a $200 TV/DVR?
So... its not possible for a private citizen to violate another's civil rights? Or is this just that part of the 4th Amendment that only applies to the government?
Considering 70% of the cost of a real book is wrapped up in printing and distribution, costs that are effectively zeroed once digital (not completely, but effectively) you're absolutely right. Its the same thing publishers of newspapers are trying to pull... they want a windfall by desiring to charge the same subscription prices as with physical periodicals. If publishers were even remotely intelligent, they'd be pushing customers away from physical books towards digital by offering massive incentive, namely, drastically reduced prices. Even if ebooks were priced 50% of the retail cost of physical books publishers stand to make much more profits with ebooks. It is indiciative of a fundamental misunderstanding of the profitablity of new technology by old school fossils continuing to promote those broken and dying business models.
Is there a simple device that will let her easily play some games?
Yes, as a matter of fact indeed there is. I believe your grandmother may refer colloquially to this simple but rare device as "grandson with deck of cards."
Now, hang your head in shame you selfish bastard.
hmm... I wonder if Apple's FindMyiPhone feature could be considered an illegal search and a violation of the 4th A. rights of the iPhone thief
Apple is still ludicrously overpriced in most of the products it sells.
This characterization is ludicrous. Time and again, matched feature for feature, Apple's hw comes within $60-$100 of similarly matched hw. You can get the proc they use in a box for half as much, but you'll be missing all sorts of things Apple provides at their prices. About the only thing you are correct on is Apple's extra RAM prices, which admittedly don't seem to make much sense... however, not all RAM is the same. The RAM Apple provides will be spec-ed higher, have less data corruption, will fail less, and if it does fail, they support it under warranty and AppleCare. But no one will beat you up for getting the cheaper RAM and installing yourself, and it doesn't void warranty to do so.
Turn in your grammar nazi credentials, you are wildly incorrect.
its == possesive pronoun
it's == contraction for "it is" or "it has"
I was about to post this. Should be reported as a bug as 'its' is far more common than 'it's.' But something tells me eventually spellcheck is going to be using the Siri backend for additional accuracy in spellcheck and added grammar checking.
You, sir, with your complete misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the market, sound like you could be the next CEO of HP. Congratulations, and have a happy bankruptcy.
You're comparing apples and oranges. But, sure, I believe with Thunderbolt you can run 3 extra monitors for awesome gaming. But Mac isn't really used much for a gaming platform. And fancy tvtuners work fine on USB now, even if the actual tuners are completely worthless in the US, because cable providers no longer just use a simple descrambler... that settop tuner box you are forced to use is actually a linux machine, and you are required to use that tuner (unless you're receiving signal over the air instead of cable). Whatever expansion the lack of PCI slots removes is easily mitigated by USB/fw800/Thunderbolt. Also, the box you describe sounds like an ugly, unweildy, dust collector, and not the first thing someone sees and immediately envies when they walk in the room... unlike the iMac... which sort of is an attention whore, comparitively.
You're kidding, right? I've tried this mouse thing on the desktop, and it sucks. Give me a command line interface any day - it's much more precise, especially for doing simple things like moving files around.
Office Space?
These two departments may not design products, but they create and maintain vital lines of communication between the company, its customers, and the press.
Bob Slydell: What would you say ya do here?
Tom Smykowski: Well look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
Generally, I agree... but VirtualBox is only a few features away from competing.
At *HOME*, I run VBox on my OpenSolaris box... four SATA drives in Raid-Z2... phpVirtualBox to manage...
I admire your pluck. And I cried when it left, but OpenSolaris is dead. Long live OpenIndiana.
make so little financial sense Apple will stop suing others
I take it you didn't see the 60 minutes interview with Walter Isaacson. Apple doesn't care about the money. They have $50 billion. In cash. This has absolutely nothing to do with money.
They pelted us with rocks and garbage.
I wouldn't know where to begin. The similarities are superficial and the differences are critical. Just off the top of my head, the way start up scripts are handled... and the location of same.
Perhaps its time to get your vision checked, as they are not even remotely similar. xml files are files. The Windows Registry is a database.
What does this mean for anti-trust precedents set against Microsoft?
Nothing. Apple is not a monopoly, anti-trust doesn't apply, they can do whatever they want until they reach, whatever, 90% market saturation. Also, what you and the summary suggest, only allowing Mac AppStore installations, will never happen.
Having just checked the redhat ftp sever, your rep is wrong. There is nothing stpping you, not even a licensing issue, from downloading and running RHEL. Its the support that isn't free, and if I'm not mistaken, anything downloaded from the redhat ftp server is specifically unsupported. As another poster pointed out, the major issue running RHEL without support is, basically, the lack of patches or updates.
know the conventions have been around for a long time, but I think at a certain level it makes sense to start fresh and come up with a new standard that actually makes sense, and not just stick with old conventions because they're hard to change.
I don't have a problem with this. But lets at least change the name, not keep calling it Linux if it no longer looks anything like what it was, even if it still uses the same kernel.
There is nothing exoteric or baffling with the filesytem of Linux.
You are mostly correct. There is a single detail that is baffling about the filesystem of Linux: Why is it different from UNIX? Much is the same... but why was there any divergence whatsoever? IMO, this delayed Linux acceptance in the server space by about 5 years... long enough for the grey beards to start moving on and the young whips, unaware of how things should be placed, who didn't know any better because they were never exposed to any real UNIX, to fill those positions. And the next generation is going to be screwed because of the detachment of the past from the present.... that's where I see this insane suggestion coming from "hey... this doesn't make sense to me... let's change it," without bothering to investigate why things are the way they are.
Now, reorganizing the system so the files are arranged in a more logical fashion? That is great and something I have been waiting for 15 years!
No... it isn't a good idea, because its already in arranged in a logical fashion. See some of the excellent comments above (but below the file compression crap) for historical explanations of why stuff is where it is. Did you really think just because it wasn't instantly understandable without explanation that it wasn't well thought out? No... it was seriously well thought out for decades before Linux existed.
What makes Linux great is how similar it is to UNIX, but free, yet it does everything Windows does, usually within weeks of a new MS "feature" (aka breaking things Linux previously fixed). What makes Linux crap is what is different about it from UNIX.
It is a crap idea to take something misunderstood and try to "fix" it by making it "simpler," when that effort will only serve to make things more confusing ("oh, its like this in this distro, but this distro is different, and this distro is similar, but also different").
sure... and what Linux really needs is a registry. Then its transformation to the Dark Side will be complete.
while OS/X has a misguided attempt to put writable data into the application directory
I don't think this is necessarily the way to do things in OS X, its just that some developers do this, some applications do this, and you're right... its misguided... and its weird. But its also not all that common as many developers are very smart.
Calling them, current UNIX/Linux filesystem hierarcy, "arcane", baffles me.
How anyone could refer to the UNIX and Linux filesystem hierarchy in the same breath as one and the same baffles me. They are quite different... and idk what caused linux in its early days to depart from the canonical UNIX placement of things. It was unnecessary.