Paid Subscribers to Slashdot are getting their money's worth today! Same story twice. Even the editors of the National Enquirer are laughing at you now. Pathetic editorial quality.
Now get your lips off the bong and actually research a story before its posted, because Slashdot is becoming the editorial equivilent of the stock price of whatever VA's name is today, Harware? Linux? Software?
Thier new iCal is step one towards an Exchange replacement. It supports vCal, can share calendars online and hopefully in the near future, Exchange calendars. Apple's new system wide Address Book (w/ LDAP) and nice Mail application along with iCal can replicate majority of the Exchange functionality.
1) Inkwell -- Turn that cheap Wacom Graphire into a real input device for text. Works like a charm -- better than the Newton ever did.
2) Universal Access -- So what if you got all your eyeballs, ears and arms, doesn't mean you can't take advantage of the amazing Universal Access controls in Mac OS X. Apple's Text to Speech technology rules. Now my Mac talks to me when certain events occur, "Mutha Fucka! E-Mail Server Down!", "Some asshole is NMAPn' me!!!". I can also hilight text and have the Mac read it to me with a simple keystroke.
You can fit a heck of a lot of text files on a floppy, even with Word. Personaly, I think she makes some good points, and it's a little sad to see geeks ripping her up based on her religion of all things.
Fine. I take back all my statements. Astrid the Priestess is a freakin' rocket scientist because she makes the valid point that the floppy is a far more efficient and durable storage medium than the CD-RW. How foolish could I be?
By the tone of your previous comment, you seem to imply that only a text editor can create files under 1.4 MB and that a modern office suite such as AppleWorks will bloat a 30 KB sermon into a 2 MB file.
Not being able to fit a sermon onto a floppy? Please. I don't think even Microsoft Word could bloat a sermon into more than 1.4 MB
I will type this slowly so you can get my point, "The Floppy is dead" and its continued promotion is a disservice to the public. It is not a cost effecient storage medium, takes up a ridculous amount of space for its storage ability and environmentally unsound. A 20 cent 700mb CD is far more efficient than a 5 cent 1.5mb Floppy. The only group that still believes in this tech are the floppy manufacturers and their marketing departments.
And why not? They're considerably cheaper than CDs, and they make a lot more sense if you only have a 30k file that you need to backup or take/send somewhere.
I am now buying CDs for around 20 cents a pop (and probably spending too much) so I really don't see the cost saving of a floppy that holds 1.5mb versus a CD that holds 700mb. And what program besides a text editor makes a 30k file?
Did you even read the complete article? Did she ever mention wanting to store MP3s on floppy?
That is a size example of how most file formats today are bigger than what a floppy can hold.
Remember, just because something isn't useful to you doesn't mean it isn't useful to someone else.
Yet Salon is promoting this woman as the "common man" in the article which doesn't sit well with your point. Most users have dropped the floppy.
What you are saying might be true for Linux hobbyists, but it doesn't apply to corporates who might be considering a Unix desktop, especially one to unify their former Mac and Windows users. Only one of those groups is willing to spend money on an operating system. Apple could well enjoy much greater success than Sun [sun.com] on the desktop of non-technical users.
Wasn't O'Reilly's comments directed towards current Linux users not future ones? If they are thinking about Linux/UNIX they must be Windows users, so why advertise to a Linux user that has moved from Windows? The investment has been made. Get them before they make the wrong switch.
Sounds like Astrid the Priestess needs to pray to God she gets some freaking brains. She's still using Floppies for God's sake! I can't even fit one MP3 on a floppy these days. She reports that she uses "Disk Utility" often -- something smells real fishy--is Gates religious?
O'Reilly also makes an interesting point that UNIX/Linux users, rather than Windows users, would be the best target niche for Apple's "switch" campaign.
Just from the whining posts of "OS X is cool but Apple is a big, mean, evil proprietary hardware manufacturer", you can see that O'Reilly is completely wrong in suggesting Linux users are a perfect niche target. Apple should focus their ads 100% towards Windows users--people that expect to pay for what they use. There is no point going after the Linux folks. The attitude of "if its not free its evil" is not one you are going to change with white backgrounded commercials. Plus why would you focus on 1% of desktop users instead of 95%?
Unless Steve Jobs wants to lay prostrate in front of Linus and RMS and wail, "I am not worthy, I am not worthy!", there isn't an ad that is going to convert a hard core (masochistic) Linux desktop users.
"You can take my P2P software if you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!!!"
I would to remind everyone that it is the 10 year aniversary of Ruby Ridge.
The U.S. Government can and will take your P2P software away if it wants and if you resist...you are dead!!!
BLAM! Oops! That fancy MP3 player looked like a gun to me.
I've got your challange right here...
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I challange comment posters to post only Haiku in this discussion;)
I challenge the editors of Slashdot to quit posting crap like this. There is more going on in the world of SPAM prevention than the stupidity of adding Haikus to e-mail messages (great waste of bandwidth).
Maybe it passed by the editor's eyes that Apple has registered the trademark 'Junkyard' and has installed "sophisticated built-in junk mail filtering" into Mac OS X 10.2. Rumor is that Apple will be adding junk mail filtering software in their Mac OS X Server OS. Junkyard is the product name for this technology that is going to be added/tagged on to Mac OS X Server's version of Sendmail. If it is like Rendezvous, it will be open source and available to the Open Source Community.
This government has bowed to corporate interests at every turn. I'd be happy to see a list of cases where individual freedom was held in higher esteem than corporate interests.
The US Government is the biggest barrier to individual freedom in this country not Corporate interests. If you don't like the policies of a corporation, you can avoid the company and cease to do business with them. You can't avoid the long reach of Congress. They rule at the other end of a barrel of a gun.
This is yet another side effect of the US's desire to remain an economic superpower.
America's status as an "Economic Superpower" is not due to American Government policies but due to the American worker. American's are the most productive work force in the world. No Government program or law can enhance that productivity only limit it.
It has changed from a Representative Democracy to a colossal beauracratic corporation. Perhaps we should call it The United States of America Inc.?
Please read a history book on America. The United States is not and never was a "Representative Democracy". The United States is a "Constitutional Republic". Perhaps we can call your post, "The United Collection of Uninformed Dumbassed Opinions, Inc."
As someone who was in NYC on 9/11 and lives next to what was the World Trade Center, let me give you some advice. Nothing, not one thing, is comparable to that atrocity. The people that used to occupied the empty apartments around me would completely disagree with you comparing Microsoft to Al Qaeda. That is, if they were STILL ALIVE, jerk...
Those God damn AOL CDs that junk up my mailbox. You would think that 1 a day would be enough. But no! Everyday its seems that I have 5 of those tin can CD cases stuffed into my small apartment mailbox which causes the mailman to terrible things to the Time/Warner magazines, that I subscribe too, in order to get them in there. The bills I don't mind.
I would rather a pop-up ad any day of the week. I can always close them with a click of the mouse. But those damn CD cases ruined my latest issue of Time Magazine, so I completely missed out on the hype being generated by Bruce Springsteen cashing in on the deaths of 2,832 people with his latest CD and how wonderful of a human being he is, according to the editors of Time. Because of Steve Case and his God damn CDs, I missed on loving 'The Boss' even more.
If you sent this around in e-mail, people would believe it these days. I am sure my mom would send this to me hoping I wasn't doing the same thing. There are so many plain BS stories going on with these "corporate scandals".
Guys from Adelphia Cable and WorldCom have done the TV perp walk and bet you can't name them without a Google search. However, the most infamous and well known "corporate crook", Ken Lay, is walking around away from the cameras. Wasn't the Senate going to get medieval on Enron?
You can rant and rave about your shiny new toy all you like, the fact is, we don't care. The Mac is proprietary, and that's not the way forward. You're finding this out the hard way with the 10.2 upgrade price and dotMac. Quit the shills, it annoys us people who really do want to get things done.
Gee, someone is having a fit today!!! I guess I would be upset too if I had to boot into Windows to get any work done...
Just hoping that codeweavers (www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/) is acquired by RH/deb etc., so that we can handle M$ apps without booting into the M$ env (for free).
Jeez, Mac OS X doesn't have to boot into a M$ env to handle M$ apps. We either use the real thing or just boot Windows within Mac OS X. And if we are feeling really unproductive, we can also boot Linux x86 within Mac OS X.
Linux? it has been ready for the corperate desktop for over a year now. anyone that says different is full of crap and doesn't know what they are talking about...
Bullshit! First, it appears your copy of Linux isn't even ready for spell checking. As someone that maintains a "Corporate Desktop" environment, I can tell you Linux is not ready and not even close. A pipe dream of yours.
As much as I hate Microsoft Windows, it is blows Linux off the map when it comes to corporate desktop computing. When I have problems, I have access to the latest, professional information instead of working with a HOWTO that some guy wrote three years ago after doing copious amounts of bong hits in his college dorm or trying to dissect information from a mailing list involved in a flame war over a memory pointer. You cannot plop the average corporate drone in front of a Linux Desktop machine and expect immediate productivity. You might get away doing that with Mac OS X since everyone and their mother has copied the original Mac OS GUI. Cost is not a factor if the employees are able to generate more income using the computer than the cost of the computer, software, training and electricity that it uses. Even if the operating system, hardware and software is free, if the employee cannot get work done, that is an expensive computer to the employer. While there are many software packages available for Linux, none of them have the polish and quality of the typical Windows package available. Almost good enough is not good enough. And we could go on and on about the limitations of Linux on the desktop in a corporate environment but Slashdot has a finite level of storage.
Don't let your zealotry cloud your judgement. Linux is ready for the Corporate Environment, not on the desktop but in the server closet serving and protecting those Windows Desktops.
So instead of effeciencies, we plunder the hardware stash and make a UI that uses all your HW to death.
Isn't the biggest bitch about Apple that the "hardware is not as fast as x86"? So with that argument, it would appear that Quartz is "efficient".
Too bad the bulk of machines I see running OSX (iBooks, mostly the 12in variety) dont have the hardware to really do Quartz Extreme.
What? Quartz Extreme does not blunder hardware for performance. It just takes advantage of the capabilities of modern video cards with 16 megs of memory or more. And the current crop of iBooks (12" included) does have the capability to take advantage of Quartz Extreme.
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Now get your lips off the bong and actually research a story before its posted, because Slashdot is becoming the editorial equivilent of the stock price of whatever VA's name is today, Harware? Linux? Software?
Thier new iCal is step one towards an Exchange replacement. It supports vCal, can share calendars online and hopefully in the near future, Exchange calendars. Apple's new system wide Address Book (w/ LDAP) and nice Mail application along with iCal can replicate majority of the Exchange functionality.
2) Universal Access -- So what if you got all your eyeballs, ears and arms, doesn't mean you can't take advantage of the amazing Universal Access controls in Mac OS X. Apple's Text to Speech technology rules. Now my Mac talks to me when certain events occur, "Mutha Fucka! E-Mail Server Down!", "Some asshole is NMAPn' me!!!". I can also hilight text and have the Mac read it to me with a simple keystroke.
Why bother? I concede. The Floppy is the ultimate storage device. Death to the CD-RW, your efficiency is suspect!
Fine. I take back all my statements. Astrid the Priestess is a freakin' rocket scientist because she makes the valid point that the floppy is a far more efficient and durable storage medium than the CD-RW. How foolish could I be?
I will type this slowly so you can get my point, "The Floppy is dead" and its continued promotion is a disservice to the public. It is not a cost effecient storage medium, takes up a ridculous amount of space for its storage ability and environmentally unsound. A 20 cent 700mb CD is far more efficient than a 5 cent 1.5mb Floppy. The only group that still believes in this tech are the floppy manufacturers and their marketing departments.
If Astrid is having problems with floppies, God forbid you put her in front on nano or vi! AppleWorks is more of her speed.
I am now buying CDs for around 20 cents a pop (and probably spending too much) so I really don't see the cost saving of a floppy that holds 1.5mb versus a CD that holds 700mb. And what program besides a text editor makes a 30k file?
Did you even read the complete article? Did she ever mention wanting to store MP3s on floppy?
That is a size example of how most file formats today are bigger than what a floppy can hold.
Remember, just because something isn't useful to you doesn't mean it isn't useful to someone else.
Yet Salon is promoting this woman as the "common man" in the article which doesn't sit well with your point. Most users have dropped the floppy.
Wasn't O'Reilly's comments directed towards current Linux users not future ones? If they are thinking about Linux/UNIX they must be Windows users, so why advertise to a Linux user that has moved from Windows? The investment has been made. Get them before they make the wrong switch.
Sounds like Astrid the Priestess needs to pray to God she gets some freaking brains. She's still using Floppies for God's sake! I can't even fit one MP3 on a floppy these days. She reports that she uses "Disk Utility" often -- something smells real fishy--is Gates religious?
Just from the whining posts of "OS X is cool but Apple is a big, mean, evil proprietary hardware manufacturer", you can see that O'Reilly is completely wrong in suggesting Linux users are a perfect niche target. Apple should focus their ads 100% towards Windows users--people that expect to pay for what they use. There is no point going after the Linux folks. The attitude of "if its not free its evil" is not one you are going to change with white backgrounded commercials. Plus why would you focus on 1% of desktop users instead of 95%?
Unless Steve Jobs wants to lay prostrate in front of Linus and RMS and wail, "I am not worthy, I am not worthy!", there isn't an ad that is going to convert a hard core (masochistic) Linux desktop users.
I would to remind everyone that it is the 10 year aniversary of Ruby Ridge. The U.S. Government can and will take your P2P software away if it wants and if you resist...you are dead!!!
I challenge the editors of Slashdot to quit posting crap like this. There is more going on in the world of SPAM prevention than the stupidity of adding Haikus to e-mail messages (great waste of bandwidth).
Maybe it passed by the editor's eyes that Apple has registered the trademark 'Junkyard' and has installed "sophisticated built-in junk mail filtering" into Mac OS X 10.2. Rumor is that Apple will be adding junk mail filtering software in their Mac OS X Server OS. Junkyard is the product name for this technology that is going to be added/tagged on to Mac OS X Server's version of Sendmail. If it is like Rendezvous, it will be open source and available to the Open Source Community.
Like iFuckin' care...
If you build it, they will come...
Why would I want to run Solaris x86 over Linux or BSD? I have used Solaris on Sun boxen but never have touched it on the x86.
The US Government is the biggest barrier to individual freedom in this country not Corporate interests. If you don't like the policies of a corporation, you can avoid the company and cease to do business with them. You can't avoid the long reach of Congress. They rule at the other end of a barrel of a gun.
This is yet another side effect of the US's desire to remain an economic superpower.
America's status as an "Economic Superpower" is not due to American Government policies but due to the American worker. American's are the most productive work force in the world. No Government program or law can enhance that productivity only limit it.
It has changed from a Representative Democracy to a colossal beauracratic corporation. Perhaps we should call it The United States of America Inc.?
Please read a history book on America. The United States is not and never was a "Representative Democracy". The United States is a "Constitutional Republic". Perhaps we can call your post, "The United Collection of Uninformed Dumbassed Opinions, Inc."
As someone who was in NYC on 9/11 and lives next to what was the World Trade Center, let me give you some advice. Nothing, not one thing, is comparable to that atrocity. The people that used to occupied the empty apartments around me would completely disagree with you comparing Microsoft to Al Qaeda. That is, if they were STILL ALIVE, jerk...
Good idea!!!
I would rather a pop-up ad any day of the week. I can always close them with a click of the mouse. But those damn CD cases ruined my latest issue of Time Magazine, so I completely missed out on the hype being generated by Bruce Springsteen cashing in on the deaths of 2,832 people with his latest CD and how wonderful of a human being he is, according to the editors of Time. Because of Steve Case and his God damn CDs, I missed on loving 'The Boss' even more.
Damn!
Guys from Adelphia Cable and WorldCom have done the TV perp walk and bet you can't name them without a Google search. However, the most infamous and well known "corporate crook", Ken Lay, is walking around away from the cameras. Wasn't the Senate going to get medieval on Enron?
What happened?
No need for this. Lawyers are already taking care of this problem.
When you outlaw mods, only outlaws will have mods...
Gee, someone is having a fit today!!! I guess I would be upset too if I had to boot into Windows to get any work done...
Worst. Rant. Ever!
Jeez, Mac OS X doesn't have to boot into a M$ env to handle M$ apps. We either use the real thing or just boot Windows within Mac OS X. And if we are feeling really unproductive, we can also boot Linux x86 within Mac OS X.
Bullshit! First, it appears your copy of Linux isn't even ready for spell checking. As someone that maintains a "Corporate Desktop" environment, I can tell you Linux is not ready and not even close. A pipe dream of yours.
As much as I hate Microsoft Windows, it is blows Linux off the map when it comes to corporate desktop computing. When I have problems, I have access to the latest, professional information instead of working with a HOWTO that some guy wrote three years ago after doing copious amounts of bong hits in his college dorm or trying to dissect information from a mailing list involved in a flame war over a memory pointer. You cannot plop the average corporate drone in front of a Linux Desktop machine and expect immediate productivity. You might get away doing that with Mac OS X since everyone and their mother has copied the original Mac OS GUI. Cost is not a factor if the employees are able to generate more income using the computer than the cost of the computer, software, training and electricity that it uses. Even if the operating system, hardware and software is free, if the employee cannot get work done, that is an expensive computer to the employer. While there are many software packages available for Linux, none of them have the polish and quality of the typical Windows package available. Almost good enough is not good enough. And we could go on and on about the limitations of Linux on the desktop in a corporate environment but Slashdot has a finite level of storage.
Don't let your zealotry cloud your judgement. Linux is ready for the Corporate Environment, not on the desktop but in the server closet serving and protecting those Windows Desktops.
Isn't the biggest bitch about Apple that the "hardware is not as fast as x86"? So with that argument, it would appear that Quartz is "efficient".
Too bad the bulk of machines I see running OSX (iBooks, mostly the 12in variety) dont have the hardware to really do Quartz Extreme.
What? Quartz Extreme does not blunder hardware for performance. It just takes advantage of the capabilities of modern video cards with 16 megs of memory or more. And the current crop of iBooks (12" included) does have the capability to take advantage of Quartz Extreme.
Next time review the specs...