feel sorry for them that the codec and format changes they are implementing to try and get us to buy three copies of the same movie are costing them money? Awww... poor MPAA. I will shed a tear for you next time I think about paying $10 to see a movie while eating my $30 popcorn.
Actually most Americans are just as tired of the limited view our corporations seem to have. Maybe some day American consumers will grow a backbone and force change, or we will start to import better stuff someone else makes and scare them into submission *hint hint*
No actually Windows will happily install a trojan or a virus for you so long as you are using IE, a default part of the OS. And yes, I say OS and not web browser as it is so integrated with the OS M$ has testified to the government it is an essential part and that is why it is so hard to remove when they are found guilty of criminal anti-trust violations.
No manual intervention or passwords required, the browser will just do it, as will the email program, word processor etc etc
I have said this before and I shall say it again... apple does not get their reputation from inventing things... they get it from doing it RIGHT. To compare Time Machine, which integrates with and can be accessed from within applications themselves, or on individual folders to M$s system restore in which you wipe out your system to restore a single file is like saying a Pinto and a Ferrari are the same thing because they both have tires and a gas peddle.
The post I was responding to (which you obviosly didn't take the time to read) was implying Apple users are fanaticly loyal to Apple and only use Apple products. My point, which you obviosly failed to grasp due to your lack of ability to read one post up, was to counter that steriotype with my own setup wich is not uncommon and counter to the implication.
Next time note the meaning of RE: or you will continue to sound like the idiot you claim me to be. Hint to get you started, it means it is referancing something else, not a stand alone statement.
Actually you are ignoring context... at the time of the statement being made it WAS true. No proof has been provided that it was wrong at the time of making it.
Now if you REALLY want to count something you have to download off a porn site and run, then put in your password etc etc as equivilant to something which will install because you recieved (note reading not required) an email or went to a website and never clicked a thing then sure... OS X and Windows are the same... you win, enjoy your fantasy world.
I still contend, and have yet to be proved wrong, that OS X provides me the power to protect myself. No OS will protect you from being stupid. Windows however does not even afford you the opertunity. If and when I am proven wrong in this belief I will change my opinion and take appropriate action.
I am curious what restrictions you found with OS X? This is a serious question as I switched to the OS X platform specifically because I found it more open and usable. I could do half again the work in 3/4 the time as I could on windows and was far less frustrated daily and spent much less time on maintenance and finding things. With Mac Ports any of my favorite Unix utilities were a command away.
That was my experience however... I am curious what restrictions you felt there were that caused you to avoid it and go with the one I found significantly more restrictive?
Well lets see... logitec keyboard and mouse... dell monitor.. Bose speakers... Linksys wireless router... in fact the laptop and OS are only pieces from Apple. Well except my phone, but even that I would change if someone made a better one, it just happens to do exactly what I want, the way I want it to. Same as the logitec keyboard (didn't like apple's) etc etc. Guess my "use the products that do it my way" theory kinda blows yours out of the water.
Guess what DIDN'T let me do things my way? Oh... right... Windows. You should reflect on the words of PCs bodyguard: "you are coming to a sad realization... allow or deny?"
you are right... it is just drivers it won't let you install unless they have been blessed from the high priest of Vista. Oh and even if it does install due to some miracle, it will stop working after 30 minutes if not "approved" such as VMWare ethernet drivers. Just gets better though, when it says "I found a problem would you like it fix it" it tells you the ethernet card, which was working 30 seconds ago, is not supported and the driver won't work.
Perhaps this is because APE and unsanity allow you to do things you WANT to do to the OS (ie theming) that Apple will not let you. I love my Mac but my eyes are highly sensitive to white light (I can't drive without sunglasses) I would not even have been able to use Tiger if shapeshifter had not let me turn it dark. They toned the white down quite a bit with Leopard so I am OK... but soon as shapeshifter will make it dark again, you bet I will re-install it so my eyes are comfortable looking at the screen.
Apple doesn't want me to use it, they need to give me some way to do that from the OS.
I will assume you have actually attempted a windows install, but you obviously have never done a OS X one if you think they are the same.
With a click of an install option when doing a re-install of Tiger (because I was stupid and borked a low level config I couldn't remember what it was or how to fix because I left it for three days, hardly OSs fault, if I remembered I could have simply undone it) I kept all my apps, home directory, personal settings, bookmarks, mail etc perfectly in tact. Re-load OS and bam, good to go. All apps started no need to re-do registry entries or re-install. All my settings for all my apps were there because they installed IN MY HOME DIRECTORY in a clean way etc etc.
Never have I seen Windows recover from an OS level screw up so elegantly. It is simply not capable of it by the design of the registry and apps which sprawl all over the file system.
Nope, unlike Windows us Mac users don't have to re-install apps, just copy them. Apps are self contained directories. The VERY few (read one total during my re-install) that had a system level component I had to re-download and re-install. Using.Mac to backup my mail, bookmarks etc start to finish on the wipe and upgrade was about 3 hours tops. Probably only took that long because I let it check the DVD.
I was back and running with mail, web browser etc all back to normal.
And oddly the week Apple announces Leopard? Sounds a lot like "No no... don't give up on Vista we will fix it in the next version we promise" Didn't we go through this with ME?
So 12 people who knew enough to FIND the DRM and understand this was the issue... the rest gave up due to EA tech support telling them it was their problem? What was THAT number?
Ballmer? You are on/.? I didn't think you an Anonymous Coward though.
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If I could get ahold of an audio recording of the conversation believe me I would have made sure it got to people who would use it by now. Unfortunately no proof means no case:(
If the single Zune sold ever catches on fire I am sure it will be a much bigger news story than this. Fortunately the only MS fanboy that bought one covets it and his self-perceived coolness so much he won't actually risk damaging it by taking it out of the package, hence why he still thinks it is a good product.
Substitute Republican for Democrat in this rant and it is just as true. What is it going to take for people to realize BOTH parties are corrupt and only out for their own interests, not those of the average American?
Follow the money... who is making it... when Dems are in power it is friends of Dems... when Reps are in power it is friends of Reps who are reaping the profits. At what point does the average American's life improve?
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Your argument, as many have pointed out... is based in an ideal fantasy of what our Government should be. Bill Gates may only be allowed to donate a couple grand PERSONALLY, but every non-profit, company etc he exerts enough influence over to dictate policy (i.e. a few hundred more than likely) can EACH give a politician a couple grand. Adds up fast, and making one man happy for that much money is a hell of a lot easier than make lots of people happy for a $10 each (the most a politician can realistically hope to get from any given person). Oh and while your campaign might only get a couple grand... your "Friends of" organization gets a large check as well, several schools in your district all of a sudden get software and/or hardware donations with your name on them etc etc. All perfectly legal.
The second difference is he can do it over and over again whereas the common man is lucky to be capable of donating at that level once. This means while you may get a smile for your $10, Gates can (and will) buy every politician he can based on them voting his way.
Here is where the career politician becomes a VERY bad idea. If you are a politician and will only serve one term... you can take anyone's money who will give it to you, then vote however you like as it won't matter once you are done. You accept money from someone like Gates and he holds it over you all through your term with the threat of no more money next time you run.
I know this for a fact as I worked on a political campaign for a California Senator in college when Microsoft was trying to buy themselves out of antitrust trouble and sat in on the meeting where MS reps offered him a rather substantial bribe if he would help make it go away. They covered it in diplomatic double talk of course but the gist was he agreed to help save their ass they would cover a large portion of his campaign. Something to the tune of 1/6 the money he needed to finish the race, and we were half way. To his credit he told them to shove off, but I doubt very many would.
More recently they tried to buy themselves a standard via politicians. Show me a single person who can create that much influence over the policy of that many countries and I will buy your version.
This is very true... but given my druthers I will support the company which is giving the RIAA enough headaches that they are caving on almost every point just to try and make a competitor.
As several people have mentioned above this is pretty obviously a move by RIAA companies to try and weaken Apple's negotiating power with them. Since Apple was the first to push non DRM music and force the issue of reasonable prices etc I am inclined to help them out a little against the RIAA and not buy from Amazon.
If everyone jumps ships and goes to Amazon you are doing exactly what the RIAA WANTS you to do, and in six months prices will jack up DRM will be back and we are all screwed because no one has the power to stand up to the monopoly. ONLY another monopoly can do it until such time as the RIAA is finally nailed under RICO.
Several companies have tried this (one of which was featured on/. last week) and the music companies will simply not allow them to charge a decent price or do it without DRM.
Missing the point... in order for that to happen peoples retirement funds which are tied up in stocks would have to stagnate which means the fund goes under, or they pull the money out and the company becomes worth nothing.
Mean while we have outrageous home loans because people feel they are entitled to make money off their house in a very short period of time, and if they don't will sell driving prices down and/or not vote for the politicians who want to keep their careers (note this, important, the career politician is a BAD thing as far as all this is concerned) and so people keep doing things to drive home prices up, again to make money.
Those executives get paid by stock holders more or less who are the cause of problem #1, and also #2. The fact people expect to not have to save and instead "invest" a smaller amount and that doing so entitles them to make wads of cash off it is silly. Companies are expected to be worth billions within a year instead of building up over decades as they used to. Everyone wants a Google with $550 stock price after five years.
Mean while these same people pay 1/4 their income in interest to the banks via credit cards, home loans, car loans etc because they couldn't wait another year to buy that big screen TV or buy the house with wood countertops instead of granite. Another large portion goes to pay off the governments debt (100% of your federal income tax in the US goes to pay interest in debt, not provide service).
A debt based economy is doomed to implode if people stop spending for even a week.
After Sept 11th what did the government ask people to do? Serve in the military? Volunteer in their community? No... keep spending. That should tell you something.
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feel sorry for them that the codec and format changes they are implementing to try and get us to buy three copies of the same movie are costing them money? Awww... poor MPAA. I will shed a tear for you next time I think about paying $10 to see a movie while eating my $30 popcorn.
Actually most Americans are just as tired of the limited view our corporations seem to have.
Maybe some day American consumers will grow a backbone and force change, or we will start to import better stuff someone else makes and scare them into submission *hint hint*
No actually Windows will happily install a trojan or a virus for you so long as you are using IE, a default part of the OS. And yes, I say OS and not web browser as it is so integrated with the OS M$ has testified to the government it is an essential part and that is why it is so hard to remove when they are found guilty of criminal anti-trust violations.
No manual intervention or passwords required, the browser will just do it, as will the email program, word processor etc etc
I have said this before and I shall say it again... apple does not get their reputation from inventing things... they get it from doing it RIGHT. To compare Time Machine, which integrates with and can be accessed from within applications themselves, or on individual folders to M$s system restore in which you wipe out your system to restore a single file is like saying a Pinto and a Ferrari are the same thing because they both have tires and a gas peddle.
The post I was responding to (which you obviosly didn't take the time to read) was implying Apple users are fanaticly loyal to Apple and only use Apple products. My point, which you obviosly failed to grasp due to your lack of ability to read one post up, was to counter that steriotype with my own setup wich is not uncommon and counter to the implication.
Next time note the meaning of RE: or you will continue to sound like the idiot you claim me to be.
Hint to get you started, it means it is referancing something else, not a stand alone statement.
Actually you are ignoring context... at the time of the statement being made it WAS true. No proof has been provided that it was wrong at the time of making it.
Now if you REALLY want to count something you have to download off a porn site and run, then put in your password etc etc as equivilant to something which will install because you recieved (note reading not required) an email or went to a website and never clicked a thing then sure... OS X and Windows are the same... you win, enjoy your fantasy world.
I still contend, and have yet to be proved wrong, that OS X provides me the power to protect myself. No OS will protect you from being stupid. Windows however does not even afford you the opertunity. If and when I am proven wrong in this belief I will change my opinion and take appropriate action.
I am curious what restrictions you found with OS X? This is a serious question as I switched to the OS X platform specifically because I found it more open and usable. I could do half again the work in 3/4 the time as I could on windows and was far less frustrated daily and spent much less time on maintenance and finding things. With Mac Ports any of my favorite Unix utilities were a command away.
That was my experience however... I am curious what restrictions you felt there were that caused you to avoid it and go with the one I found significantly more restrictive?
Did you read TFA? Any of the comments at ALL before spouting your stupidity? There is no BSoD.
Well lets see... logitec keyboard and mouse... dell monitor.. Bose speakers... Linksys wireless router... in fact the laptop and OS are only pieces from Apple. Well except my phone, but even that I would change if someone made a better one, it just happens to do exactly what I want, the way I want it to. Same as the logitec keyboard (didn't like apple's) etc etc. Guess my "use the products that do it my way" theory kinda blows yours out of the water.
Guess what DIDN'T let me do things my way? Oh... right... Windows.
You should reflect on the words of PCs bodyguard:
"you are coming to a sad realization... allow or deny?"
you are right... it is just drivers it won't let you install unless they have been blessed from the high priest of Vista. Oh and even if it does install due to some miracle, it will stop working after 30 minutes if not "approved" such as VMWare ethernet drivers. Just gets better though, when it says "I found a problem would you like it fix it" it tells you the ethernet card, which was working 30 seconds ago, is not supported and the driver won't work.
Perhaps this is because APE and unsanity allow you to do things you WANT to do to the OS (ie theming) that Apple will not let you. I love my Mac but my eyes are highly sensitive to white light (I can't drive without sunglasses) I would not even have been able to use Tiger if shapeshifter had not let me turn it dark. They toned the white down quite a bit with Leopard so I am OK... but soon as shapeshifter will make it dark again, you bet I will re-install it so my eyes are comfortable looking at the screen.
Apple doesn't want me to use it, they need to give me some way to do that from the OS.
Except Windows where the OS, GUI and Web Browser are all the same thing :)
I will assume you have actually attempted a windows install, but you obviously have never done a OS X one if you think they are the same.
With a click of an install option when doing a re-install of Tiger (because I was stupid and borked a low level config I couldn't remember what it was or how to fix because I left it for three days, hardly OSs fault, if I remembered I could have simply undone it) I kept all my apps, home directory, personal settings, bookmarks, mail etc perfectly in tact. Re-load OS and bam, good to go. All apps started no need to re-do registry entries or re-install. All my settings for all my apps were there because they installed IN MY HOME DIRECTORY in a clean way etc etc.
Never have I seen Windows recover from an OS level screw up so elegantly. It is simply not capable of it by the design of the registry and apps which sprawl all over the file system.
Nope, unlike Windows us Mac users don't have to re-install apps, just copy them. Apps are self contained directories. The VERY few (read one total during my re-install) that had a system level component I had to re-download and re-install. Using .Mac to backup my mail, bookmarks etc start to finish on the wipe and upgrade was about 3 hours tops. Probably only took that long because I let it check the DVD.
I was back and running with mail, web browser etc all back to normal.
And oddly the week Apple announces Leopard?
Sounds a lot like "No no... don't give up on Vista we will fix it in the next version we promise"
Didn't we go through this with ME?
So 12 people who knew enough to FIND the DRM and understand this was the issue... the rest gave up due to EA tech support telling them it was their problem? What was THAT number?
Ballmer? You are on /.? I didn't think you an Anonymous Coward though.
If I could get ahold of an audio recording of the conversation believe me I would have made sure it got to people who would use it by now. Unfortunately no proof means no case :(
If the single Zune sold ever catches on fire I am sure it will be a much bigger news story than this. Fortunately the only MS fanboy that bought one covets it and his self-perceived coolness so much he won't actually risk damaging it by taking it out of the package, hence why he still thinks it is a good product.
Substitute Republican for Democrat in this rant and it is just as true. What is it going to take for people to realize BOTH parties are corrupt and only out for their own interests, not those of the average American?
Follow the money... who is making it... when Dems are in power it is friends of Dems... when Reps are in power it is friends of Reps who are reaping the profits. At what point does the average American's life improve?
Your argument, as many have pointed out... is based in an ideal fantasy of what our Government should be. Bill Gates may only be allowed to donate a couple grand PERSONALLY, but every non-profit, company etc he exerts enough influence over to dictate policy (i.e. a few hundred more than likely) can EACH give a politician a couple grand. Adds up fast, and making one man happy for that much money is a hell of a lot easier than make lots of people happy for a $10 each (the most a politician can realistically hope to get from any given person). Oh and while your campaign might only get a couple grand... your "Friends of" organization gets a large check as well, several schools in your district all of a sudden get software and/or hardware donations with your name on them etc etc. All perfectly legal.
The second difference is he can do it over and over again whereas the common man is lucky to be capable of donating at that level once. This means while you may get a smile for your $10, Gates can (and will) buy every politician he can based on them voting his way.
Here is where the career politician becomes a VERY bad idea. If you are a politician and will only serve one term... you can take anyone's money who will give it to you, then vote however you like as it won't matter once you are done. You accept money from someone like Gates and he holds it over you all through your term with the threat of no more money next time you run.
I know this for a fact as I worked on a political campaign for a California Senator in college when Microsoft was trying to buy themselves out of antitrust trouble and sat in on the meeting where MS reps offered him a rather substantial bribe if he would help make it go away. They covered it in diplomatic double talk of course but the gist was he agreed to help save their ass they would cover a large portion of his campaign. Something to the tune of 1/6 the money he needed to finish the race, and we were half way. To his credit he told them to shove off, but I doubt very many would.
More recently they tried to buy themselves a standard via politicians. Show me a single person who can create that much influence over the policy of that many countries and I will buy your version.
This is very true... but given my druthers I will support the company which is giving the RIAA enough headaches that they are caving on almost every point just to try and make a competitor.
As several people have mentioned above this is pretty obviously a move by RIAA companies to try and weaken Apple's negotiating power with them. Since Apple was the first to push non DRM music and force the issue of reasonable prices etc I am inclined to help them out a little against the RIAA and not buy from Amazon.
If everyone jumps ships and goes to Amazon you are doing exactly what the RIAA WANTS you to do, and in six months prices will jack up DRM will be back and we are all screwed because no one has the power to stand up to the monopoly. ONLY another monopoly can do it until such time as the RIAA is finally nailed under RICO.
Several companies have tried this (one of which was featured on /. last week) and the music companies will simply not allow them to charge a decent price or do it without DRM.
except that Google says no when asked... Microsoft says yes. I would say that is a vastly different policy.
Missing the point... in order for that to happen peoples retirement funds which are tied up in stocks would have to stagnate which means the fund goes under, or they pull the money out and the company becomes worth nothing.
Mean while we have outrageous home loans because people feel they are entitled to make money off their house in a very short period of time, and if they don't will sell driving prices down and/or not vote for the politicians who want to keep their careers (note this, important, the career politician is a BAD thing as far as all this is concerned) and so people keep doing things to drive home prices up, again to make money.
Those executives get paid by stock holders more or less who are the cause of problem #1, and also #2. The fact people expect to not have to save and instead "invest" a smaller amount and that doing so entitles them to make wads of cash off it is silly. Companies are expected to be worth billions within a year instead of building up over decades as they used to. Everyone wants a Google with $550 stock price after five years.
Mean while these same people pay 1/4 their income in interest to the banks via credit cards, home loans, car loans etc because they couldn't wait another year to buy that big screen TV or buy the house with wood countertops instead of granite. Another large portion goes to pay off the governments debt (100% of your federal income tax in the US goes to pay interest in debt, not provide service).
A debt based economy is doomed to implode if people stop spending for even a week.
After Sept 11th what did the government ask people to do? Serve in the military? Volunteer in their community? No... keep spending. That should tell you something.