exactly, they tried to force people to use a Mac with iPod 1 being mac only, but they quickly changed thier tune when they realised they would miss out on big bucks with out windows support.
And even now, although my iPod has Disk Mode enabled, I can't use it on a PC without additional FS drivers, as I can't use a PC-formatted iPod on a Mac.
You must be one of those fanboy's
my 15" widescreen with a dual core intel cpu and 2 gigs of ram. Is effectively the same as the 15" widescreen with a dual core intel cpu and 2 gigs of ram.
You are right, it doesn't come in white, but performance wise it is neck and neck.
CPUs and RAM aside, screens differ in quality a great deal. So do all the nifty little details — sound, keyboard, design... I am not an Apple fanboy (if anything, I'm a Gentoo zealot), but I've bought a MacBook Pro and I will probably keep buying Apple's products — for tha hardware, if nothing else. It's nice, it's good, it's functional. I could sing praises to MacBook's keyboard alone; if I only had the time to reproduce the complete layout on Linux...
I've worked laptops comparable to my MacBook. But again, I still find reason enough to go with Apple and install Linux on it in my free time.
It's wouldn't OR couldn't. For example, I would love to have a copy of Photshop CS 3. It is $650. I could afford that but would never spend that much money on it (i.e. I wouldn't ever buy it at that price). So, if I pirate it they have not lost a sale to me.
Furthermore, if you pirate it, you become proficient with it. So you give them mindshare.
So if you ever decide to use this software professionally, you will buy it. And you won't even consider purchasing anything else.
The software industry, in part, understands this and therefore does little to suppress home piracy of professional software. And that is why Windows was easy to pirate until it got to nearly every computer: now that you depend on it, we'll make you buy it.
Kind of like drug dealers — it's all free until you get hooked.
Indeed, strict enforcement of anti-piracy measures would really benefit F/OSS development, not the big companies.
It's not clear if sending one person to another world will ever cost less resources than what's needed to sustain that person on Earth for a lifetime.
Sending two persons to another world at once would cost less than sending them separately.
It is a matter of building a big enough ship. And of not only removing those persons from Earth, but all their future population as well.
if you really think there are too many people in the world, then why not shoot yourself right now and stop contributing to the problem? That would only get rid of one person. It would be far more effective to shoot many other people.
Getting shot in the process would make it a killer.
It's interesting because it could be a much more natural one, although the "training required" bit is problematic but we can probably expect that to get better.
As any tool, it needs to be trained with to use properly.
Most of our computer troubles are PEBKAC, i.e. untrained users.
"Easy to use" doesn't have to mean (and shouldn't be supposed to mean) "easy to use the very first time you use it with no training whatsoever". That's intuitive.
Notepad is intuitive; vi is easy to use. Once you learn to use it, of course.
You're not a subscriber either. Are you blocking ads? Because if you are, you truly aren't supporting the site, while ACs actually do support the site by actually viewing the ads.
I do not declaim how much I hate fucking parasites. Thus I may point out other people's hypocrisy without being noticeably hypocritical myself.
Exactly. This is business. Kudos to Walmart for even trying to sell Linux PCs. They realized it was not a viable business decision and moved on.
They only stopped selling them in stores, which sounds to me they will still offer them online.
It seems it was not that much of a non-viable business decision; it merely suffered from anomalies.
Low-end Linux PCs are a rather non-standard item, and my best guess is that most people who'd bought them were geeks who'd wanted a cheap Linux toy. Or to give a computer-illiterate family member a low-end computer.
And they bought them online.
Thus there was a significant disproportion in the numbers of sales — most units were sold online, so of course the execs deemed the online market more profitable for this kind of article. That may prove to be a misguided long-term decision, but it makes perfect sense in short term.
The typical attack was in line with "You're an EE - You should know about energy. If there's no heaven [reincarnation/ghosts/whatever], what happens to a person's energy after they die."
In a similar vein, my mother once got suckered by some guys "cleaning up the electrical radiation" in our house.
They had some kind of electric field detector which went berserk when they got it near my jacket (my mobile phone was in it), and they talked about how much computers radiate... when I told them it was a Faraday cage and that I studied EE (which I've dropped out of since), they said "See? Then you know what we're talking about!"
Yeah, guys, I know. And you're so full of it.
I just love bovine coprologists.
The one thing I find so great about administrating Linux for my family is the ability to solve issues over the phone with a few select command line instructions.
Instructing my father to add another DSL provider to a laptop consisted of "type 'sudo pppoe-config'" (I think; there was a bit of tab-completion there) and a few cp and ln lines, along with the instructions on how to select either one.
He may have failed to understand most of it (I explained him what each step did, but I don't know how much he found relevant at the time), but it was over quickly and reliably; doing the same through a GUI you don't even see is much harder.
Perhaps if you'd told them Vista moved the security model of Windows into the 20th century, they might have seen more value in an upgrade?
Perhaps if you then told them that the 20th century has been over for nearly a decade, they might ponder on why older versions of Windows have a 19th century security model.
I wonder how many little sites built by IE-centric coders are going to need a lot of work in order to function well with IE8. <brokenwindow>Well, at least Microsoft is keeping the said coders in business.</brokenwindow>
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And even now, although my iPod has Disk Mode enabled, I can't use it on a PC without additional FS drivers, as I can't use a PC-formatted iPod on a Mac.
This kind of lock-in is quite annoying.
CPUs and RAM aside, screens differ in quality a great deal. So do all the nifty little details — sound, keyboard, design... I am not an Apple fanboy (if anything, I'm a Gentoo zealot), but I've bought a MacBook Pro and I will probably keep buying Apple's products — for tha hardware, if nothing else. It's nice, it's good, it's functional. I could sing praises to MacBook's keyboard alone; if I only had the time to reproduce the complete layout on Linux...
I've worked laptops comparable to my MacBook. But again, I still find reason enough to go with Apple and install Linux on it in my free time.
Furthermore, if you pirate it, you become proficient with it. So you give them mindshare.
So if you ever decide to use this software professionally, you will buy it. And you won't even consider purchasing anything else.
The software industry, in part, understands this and therefore does little to suppress home piracy of professional software. And that is why Windows was easy to pirate until it got to nearly every computer: now that you depend on it, we'll make you buy it.
Kind of like drug dealers — it's all free until you get hooked.
Indeed, strict enforcement of anti-piracy measures would really benefit F/OSS development, not the big companies.
See? It even makes your butt look smaller!
you seem to be inferring that feature-wise, IE7 is better then FF3. Care to elaborate?
Damn. And I'd just mistakenly moderated that post up. Undoing.
Sending two persons to another world at once would cost less than sending them separately.
It is a matter of building a big enough ship. And of not only removing those persons from Earth, but all their future population as well.
Getting shot in the process would make it a killer.
But not in Visual Basic.
Nothing makes sense in Visual Basic.
As any tool, it needs to be trained with to use properly.
Most of our computer troubles are PEBKAC, i.e. untrained users.
"Easy to use" doesn't have to mean (and shouldn't be supposed to mean) "easy to use the very first time you use it with no training whatsoever". That's intuitive.
Notepad is intuitive; vi is easy to use. Once you learn to use it, of course.
I do not declaim how much I hate fucking parasites. Thus I may point out other people's hypocrisy without being noticeably hypocritical myself.
I hate parasites like you that refuse to pay for what they use.
(Same AC)
You must really hate yourself, for you don't appear to be a subscriber here on /.
the "ravages of online piracy" excuse is for years when they knowingly put out complete garbage and don't want to own up to it.
No... you see, all this anti-piracy legislation and activism seems to be getting Results.
Therefore, they will do more in the same vein.
Ah.
GIGO, as always.
They only stopped selling them in stores, which sounds to me they will still offer them online.
It seems it was not that much of a non-viable business decision; it merely suffered from anomalies.
Low-end Linux PCs are a rather non-standard item, and my best guess is that most people who'd bought them were geeks who'd wanted a cheap Linux toy. Or to give a computer-illiterate family member a low-end computer.
And they bought them online.
Thus there was a significant disproportion in the numbers of sales — most units were sold online, so of course the execs deemed the online market more profitable for this kind of article. That may prove to be a misguided long-term decision, but it makes perfect sense in short term.
In a similar vein, my mother once got suckered by some guys "cleaning up the electrical radiation" in our house.
They had some kind of electric field detector which went berserk when they got it near my jacket (my mobile phone was in it), and they talked about how much computers radiate... when I told them it was a Faraday cage and that I studied EE (which I've dropped out of since), they said "See? Then you know what we're talking about!"
Yeah, guys, I know. And you're so full of it.
I just love bovine coprologists.
The one thing I find so great about administrating Linux for my family is the ability to solve issues over the phone with a few select command line instructions.
Instructing my father to add another DSL provider to a laptop consisted of "type 'sudo pppoe-config'" (I think; there was a bit of tab-completion there) and a few cp and ln lines, along with the instructions on how to select either one. He may have failed to understand most of it (I explained him what each step did, but I don't know how much he found relevant at the time), but it was over quickly and reliably; doing the same through a GUI you don't even see is much harder.
Perhaps if you then told them that the 20th century has been over for nearly a decade, they might ponder on why older versions of Windows have a 19th century security model.
What we need is a list of known good registrars and a set of instructions how to escape bad ones.
It's base 10, and intended to be wrong, to allow the punchline of "I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong about the universe".
What, base 13 isn't fundamentally wrong enough for your tastes, huh?
If by "standards compliant" you mean "compliant to the standards up to year 2004", then yes, that sounds about right.
It is much higher than "more standard than IE6".
Already been done - still old news - http://defcon5.biz/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=921
I have had an activated copy of SP1 on my laptop since the 7th of Feb
Wow. They keep getting quicker... Soon they'll be cracking Microsoft's protection schemes before Microsoft gets the chance to implement them.
Ah. So it will just have to be cracked again.
Wasn't it 640K?
Oh, wait...