Double post - accidentally hit anonymous! I done gone can't use slashdot! This zealot rant is mine!
Errm, have you even seen a mac? They are the shiny ones with the apples on.
Here, let me help:
iLife and iWork are clever things called BUNDLES. They are multiple programs in one package (kinda like bundle-kde, and they don't prompt to install the dependencies, and don't keep changing the ver of your automake:D )
Mac OS is the Operating System
Mac OS includes
Mail (for: Mail!)
iChat (for: Chat!)
Safari (yeah, got them there:D)
Dashboard (like, a dashboardy thing that pops down over your screen when you press F12 (some kind of excuse for lack of virtual desktops...)
Spotlight (Search)
Automator (Macro language)
Sync (Synchronisation)
iLife includes
iPhoto (sorting Photos)
iMovie (editing movies)
iDVD (mastering DVDs)
GarageBand (music editing, kinda different name again)
I know you meant that number facetiously, but a quick search of my main XP box at work shows 1472 ".exe" files and another roughly 2000 somewhat-executable files (assorted scripts, dlls, and other extensions generally considered unsafe to allow your email program to open). Of those, oddly enough, over half begin with "w" or "m"
And if I do a search of my linux box for files with +x, I find a whole load, many with the same name which do different things (grep versions...) and many that only work if i launch them from a set directory. Also many components of applications and scripts that if I just run em, will break stuff.
Now. lets take a look at the install mechanisms. You usually install windows programs from a CD, which autoruns if you are a beginner, or download them from a website. Both make pretty icons with sensible names. For windows components, you download them from the MS website, which has in-depth descriptions.
Now. Lets download Linux components (I tried: kubuntu). Load up adept. Find a load of packages called k*, x*, lib* *-dev *-shlib *-doc. They have very short, un helpful descriptions. Most of these are of the form "KExampleProg - ExampleProgram for KDE" (look at the games ones - they are mostly 'game for system' and the like. These are useless. You can't search for useful packages and THERE ARE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of them. Windows does not have this problem.
Linux is written by computer programmers, not computer end users, and it still suffers for it.
You can tell you've drunk too much, when you knock your glass over, and so can't drink any more!
So, you drink too much with the tall glasses faster than small ones, as you keep knocking the damn thing over after fewer drinks. And it's less stable, so you can easily drunkenly put it slightly off the edge of the table. Hence you drink less, and the person with the small glass appears to drink more, just cos they can still lift and replace their glass.
Yeah, I agree entirely - except that isn't the point I'm making at all. This is a Music Piracy winners and losers.
Apple are a Peer-to-Peer and File sharing Loser this year as they severely crippled the Peer to Peer file sharing ability in their iTunes application, removing a good way of getting music on campus networks. They saw a possible loss of revenue and plugged the hole in their app.
However, they are Piracy Winners. Most people I know do not buy iPods to use them with Peer to Peer networks - they use them to store their music and copies of their friends' music. A good percentage of my friends who have them would have no idea what P2P is. However, I'm fairly sure I know no-one who has a wholly legal music collection on their iPod ( apart from me, of course:D ). Does anyone on here know someone with an iPod with only legal music on it?? Thats roughly £/$11000 for my 60gig iPod... (buying at 99 cents a track). Only the most dedicated music fan has this much music - I'm sure most iPod owners do not legally own even a third of this much music.
iTunes used to have sharing built in. This was crippled in later versions (limited to 5 connections a day) as it was exploited to illegally copy music. Which was a shame, as it was easily the best all in one music buying/pirating/burning/managing/playing/memory-ea ting app for the Mac.
This is the "music piracy" winners and losers of 2005, not File-Sharing/P2P.
File Sharing is the big loser until people realise it has more applications than copying music (which I have nothing against btw).
Apple Computer haven't got much to do with File-Sharing and P2P - their one real link to it is that they recently crippled the File-Sharing in iTunes - surely this makes them a loser for P2P? They've virtually withdrawn from it due to people copying music illegally using their app! Their only victory is people can use their stylish, desirable players to play their warezed music, and that is nothing new. They are also a winner as all the zealot fans like me still buy all their shinies despite the DRM.
Microsoft also aren't mentioned - I'm sure they were experimenting using P2P to send software updates? Don't know what happened to that, anyway
> Are you suggesting that the American flag is a bad design? Because it has been copied by about 20 countries.
what like:
Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq??
No, sadly I don't think so - I had my iPod stolen, which was etched with my name and e-mail address. Unless it is a dumb crack-head criminal who tries to ebay it and not sell through classified ads.
I'd guess most thieves don't individually look through places and only take the most expensive non-identifiable stuff, they get everything that looks valuable, put it in a bag and run away.
If it gets stolen, It'll be sold for a fraction of its value. The person who buys it will most likely either scrape the etching off, and not take it to be serviced. They'll know it is stolen as it will be really cheap.
My Powerbook G4 with one slow PPC (1.5 Ghz) can get the performance of a 400 Mhz intel Celery (with all of the instructions).
The product? Micro$oft Virtual PC:)
They bought this at about the time the XBox 360 was going to be a PPC - so I'm sure they use it. This would give them a nice virtual Pentium III, and don't both consoles use some special version of DirectX? the sys calls could be reimplemented for the (much more powerful!) new graphics card in the 360.
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Double post - accidentally hit anonymous! I done gone can't use slashdot! This zealot rant is mine!
Errm, have you even seen a mac? They are the shiny ones with the apples on.
Here, let me help:iLife and iWork are clever things called BUNDLES. They are multiple programs in one package (kinda like bundle-kde, and they don't prompt to install the dependencies, and don't keep changing the ver of your automake
Mac OS is the Operating System
Mac OS includes
Mail (for: Mail!)
iChat (for: Chat!)
Safari (yeah, got them there
Dashboard (like, a dashboardy thing that pops down over your screen when you press F12 (some kind of excuse for lack of virtual desktops...)
Spotlight (Search)
Automator (Macro language)
Sync (Synchronisation)
iLife includes
iPhoto (sorting Photos)
iMovie (editing movies)
iDVD (mastering DVDs)
GarageBand (music editing, kinda different name again)
iWork is
Keynote (for Presentation - Keynote speech geddit??)
Pages (word processor)
These names seem obvious to me.
Almost everyone who has a Linux Distro knows what is on their system...
Oh really??? Then tell me what ALL the files in /usr/local/bin/ do then?? can you do that?? didn't think so.
I know you meant that number facetiously, but a quick search of my main XP box at work shows 1472 ".exe" files and another roughly 2000 somewhat-executable files (assorted scripts, dlls, and other extensions generally considered unsafe to allow your email program to open). Of those, oddly enough, over half begin with "w" or "m"
And if I do a search of my linux box for files with +x, I find a whole load, many with the same name which do different things (grep versions...) and many that only work if i launch them from a set directory. Also many components of applications and scripts that if I just run em, will break stuff.
Now. lets take a look at the install mechanisms. You usually install windows programs from a CD, which autoruns if you are a beginner, or download them from a website. Both make pretty icons with sensible names. For windows components, you download them from the MS website, which has in-depth descriptions.
Now. Lets download Linux components (I tried: kubuntu). Load up adept. Find a load of packages called k*, x*, lib* *-dev *-shlib *-doc. They have very short, un helpful descriptions. Most of these are of the form "KExampleProg - ExampleProgram for KDE" (look at the games ones - they are mostly 'game for system' and the like. These are useless. You can't search for useful packages and THERE ARE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of them. Windows does not have this problem.
Linux is written by computer programmers, not computer end users, and it still suffers for it.
You can tell you've drunk too much, when you knock your glass over, and so can't drink any more!
So, you drink too much with the tall glasses faster than small ones, as you keep knocking the damn thing over after fewer drinks. And it's less stable, so you can easily drunkenly put it slightly off the edge of the table. Hence you drink less, and the person with the small glass appears to drink more, just cos they can still lift and replace their glass.
Simple, really.
Yeah, I agree entirely - except that isn't the point I'm making at all. This is a Music Piracy winners and losers.
Apple are a Peer-to-Peer and File sharing Loser this year as they severely crippled the Peer to Peer file sharing ability in their iTunes application, removing a good way of getting music on campus networks. They saw a possible loss of revenue and plugged the hole in their app.
However, they are Piracy Winners. Most people I know do not buy iPods to use them with Peer to Peer networks - they use them to store their music and copies of their friends' music. A good percentage of my friends who have them would have no idea what P2P is. However, I'm fairly sure I know no-one who has a wholly legal music collection on their iPod ( apart from me, of course :D ). Does anyone on here know someone with an iPod with only legal music on it?? Thats roughly £/$11000 for my 60gig iPod... (buying at 99 cents a track). Only the most dedicated music fan has this much music - I'm sure most iPod owners do not legally own even a third of this much music.
iTunes used to have sharing built in. This was crippled in later versions (limited to 5 connections a day) as it was exploited to illegally copy music. Which was a shame, as it was easily the best all in one music buying/pirating/burning/managing/playing/memory-ea ting app for the Mac.
This is the "music piracy" winners and losers of 2005, not File-Sharing/P2P.
File Sharing is the big loser until people realise it has more applications than copying music (which I have nothing against btw).
Apple Computer haven't got much to do with File-Sharing and P2P - their one real link to it is that they recently crippled the File-Sharing in iTunes - surely this makes them a loser for P2P? They've virtually withdrawn from it due to people copying music illegally using their app! Their only victory is people can use their stylish, desirable players to play their warezed music, and that is nothing new. They are also a winner as all the zealot fans like me still buy all their shinies despite the DRM.
Microsoft also aren't mentioned - I'm sure they were experimenting using P2P to send software updates? Don't know what happened to that, anyway
Merry Christmas to you all, too
> Are you suggesting that the American flag is a bad design? Because it has been copied by about 20 countries. what like: Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq??
No, sadly I don't think so - I had my iPod stolen, which was etched with my name and e-mail address. Unless it is a dumb crack-head criminal who tries to ebay it and not sell through classified ads.
I'd guess most thieves don't individually look through places and only take the most expensive non-identifiable stuff, they get everything that looks valuable, put it in a bag and run away.
If it gets stolen, It'll be sold for a fraction of its value. The person who buys it will most likely either scrape the etching off, and not take it to be serviced. They'll know it is stolen as it will be really cheap.
The etching is a cool idea, anyway!
Errm, nope.
:)
My Powerbook G4 with one slow PPC (1.5 Ghz) can get the performance of a 400 Mhz intel Celery (with all of the instructions).
The product? Micro$oft Virtual PC
They bought this at about the time the XBox 360 was going to be a PPC - so I'm sure they use it. This would give them a nice virtual Pentium III, and don't both consoles use some special version of DirectX? the sys calls could be reimplemented for the (much more powerful!) new graphics card in the 360.