"I do believe that if you are a small business owner playing music in your establishment, you are using it in a broadcast TO SELL GOOD AND THUS I SHOULD BE PAID TOO"
What right to make money for their music? If you don't have a product people want to buy, you can't sell it. If you can make money touring, great. If you can't, tough shit. A lot of people are tired of buying CDs.
When are you guys going to realize that most people care about more than a spec sheet? I think the Air sucks too, but it's for wealthy non-technical people to check their e-mail on the couch. If it was for real work, then they would have put a better battery in it, and it would have been heavier and bigger, and then it would just be a really expensive MacBook.
An interface should be intuitive such that someone who has never worked with a computer in their life can walk up and understand what they're doing after a limited amount of time.
Yeah, if you have two programs with identical feature sets but one has a shitty UI, you use the one that is easier. But between two programs used for the same task, lots of people will choose the more difficult one, since a complicated UI is typically correlated with a greater number of features.
I guess if you want your program to be everything to everyone, you want to find a way for novices to do what they need to do and not notice the advanced features, but have those advanced features easily available to the users who want them. This works well for something like a web browser, which typically won't have that many features, but the GP was probably talking about learning curves in general. Notepad has about the easiest UI of any program: you just type, then save. Nobody uses it though, because it doesn't do anything.
ext2 for OS X greyscreens my MacBook if I try to transfer more than ~100 MB at a time. OTOH, the experimental in-Linux HFS+ driver has worked fine (no data loss, but once in a while, I can only write as root. Not such a big problem, since I use that partition for media storage).
Don't say "intellectual property" when you mean "data."
If you really mean what people commonly do when they say IP, then say, "Don't trust any copyrights, patents, trademarks, and/or geographical indicators to an OS..."
UI != skin. I love Rockbox, but it has way too many useless options and crappy button utilization. Just because you can make it look neat doesn't mean it's usable.
I know you're joking, and I'm not an audiophile, but the reason to gold-plate connectors is to prevent corrosion. Gold has crappy electrical properties, so making cables out of gold wouldn't be a good idea.
"why is it legally questionable to require a binary codec file and a player designed to use the codec?"
I think the GP meant that it is of questionable legality for a user to install such a codec on, say, a GNU/Linux machine in contravention of the EULA.
"The fact that OGG isn't supported on either of the two major operating systems or most portable audio players/devices counts pretty strongly against it."
Yeah, if "isn't supported" means "can be played in any number of media players as well as through free extensions to the built-in media frameworks."
I don't know that it will overtake Apple. It seems to me that computers like that could take over the market that Linux geeks say is huge: really cheap Macs. How many times have you heard "I'd buy a Mac if they sold a minitower for under $500"? The main selling points of a Mac are application integration and ease of configuration, and the more people move over to GNU/Linux, the closer it might get to that point. It won't be OS X, but it'll be close enough not to pay $200 more for the real thing.
Are they fucking serious? A mid-sentence page break? In a web article?
IF YOU'RE NOT USING PAPER, YOU CAN PUT PAGE BREAKS WHEREVER YOU WANT. Even between items on the list. Jesus fucking Christ.
I'd prefer if their advertising didn't mandate that an article like this had to be split over two pages, but if it does, they could at least not make it a total pain in the ass to read.
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"I do believe that if you are a small business owner playing music in your establishment, you are using it in a broadcast TO SELL GOOD AND THUS I SHOULD BE PAID TOO"
That's probably because you're a dick.
What right to make money for their music? If you don't have a product people want to buy, you can't sell it. If you can make money touring, great. If you can't, tough shit. A lot of people are tired of buying CDs.
I agree. I don't understand why there is variation among the preferences of a large number of people with completely different needs and budgets.
Go back to Russia.
No wireless, less space than a Nomad.
When are you guys going to realize that most people care about more than a spec sheet? I think the Air sucks too, but it's for wealthy non-technical people to check their e-mail on the couch. If it was for real work, then they would have put a better battery in it, and it would have been heavier and bigger, and then it would just be a really expensive MacBook.
Seems to me open standards ought not to have markup such as "render this like Office 98."
Just sayin'.
I'm pretty sure an iMac supports dual monitors; you just have to shell out $20 for a dongle.
An interface should be intuitive such that someone who has never worked with a computer in their life can walk up and understand what they're doing after a limited amount of time.
Yeah, if you only need to use a program once.
Yeah, if you have two programs with identical feature sets but one has a shitty UI, you use the one that is easier. But between two programs used for the same task, lots of people will choose the more difficult one, since a complicated UI is typically correlated with a greater number of features.
I guess if you want your program to be everything to everyone, you want to find a way for novices to do what they need to do and not notice the advanced features, but have those advanced features easily available to the users who want them. This works well for something like a web browser, which typically won't have that many features, but the GP was probably talking about learning curves in general. Notepad has about the easiest UI of any program: you just type, then save. Nobody uses it though, because it doesn't do anything.
Oh, no!
"rendezvous : less configuration time, works over wire and wireless distances greater than 3cm, is open source."
...is a networking protocol, rather than a device-to-device data transfer protocol.
ext2 for OS X greyscreens my MacBook if I try to transfer more than ~100 MB at a time. OTOH, the experimental in-Linux HFS+ driver has worked fine (no data loss, but once in a while, I can only write as root. Not such a big problem, since I use that partition for media storage).
I guess the rest of us who listen to decent music are screwed.
Definitely true about the minimum of fuzz. Mutt is by far the fuzziest MUA out there.
Don't say "intellectual property" when you mean "data."
If you really mean what people commonly do when they say IP, then say, "Don't trust any copyrights, patents, trademarks, and/or geographical indicators to an OS..."
UI != skin. I love Rockbox, but it has way too many useless options and crappy button utilization. Just because you can make it look neat doesn't mean it's usable.
I know you're joking, and I'm not an audiophile, but the reason to gold-plate connectors is to prevent corrosion. Gold has crappy electrical properties, so making cables out of gold wouldn't be a good idea.
Apple wireless keyboards use bluetooth, which is considerably more secure than the keyboard described in TFA.
"why is it legally questionable to require a binary codec file and a player designed to use the codec?" I think the GP meant that it is of questionable legality for a user to install such a codec on, say, a GNU/Linux machine in contravention of the EULA.
Is a machine made in 2006 no longer modern? Because I bought an iBook G4 back then.
"The fact that OGG isn't supported on either of the two major operating systems or most portable audio players/devices counts pretty strongly against it."
Yeah, if "isn't supported" means "can be played in any number of media players as well as through free extensions to the built-in media frameworks."
Yeah, but that's because you're running 98 and you don't have any network drivers.
What did you do, sudo rm -rf / ?
Ubuntu?
I don't know that it will overtake Apple. It seems to me that computers like that could take over the market that Linux geeks say is huge: really cheap Macs. How many times have you heard "I'd buy a Mac if they sold a minitower for under $500"? The main selling points of a Mac are application integration and ease of configuration, and the more people move over to GNU/Linux, the closer it might get to that point. It won't be OS X, but it'll be close enough not to pay $200 more for the real thing.
Are they fucking serious? A mid-sentence page break? In a web article?
IF YOU'RE NOT USING PAPER, YOU CAN PUT PAGE BREAKS WHEREVER YOU WANT. Even between items on the list. Jesus fucking Christ.
I'd prefer if their advertising didn't mandate that an article like this had to be split over two pages, but if it does, they could at least not make it a total pain in the ass to read.