(Apple doesn't count; because they have created their own OS).
Not really. They tried to create their own modern OS in the late 90's. Finally after spending many millions on the project, they gave up and allowed themselves to be taken over by NeXT instead. Then they slapped their gui-paint layer on top of UNIX like some fat chick going to the disco slaps pasty makeup on.
Apple's developers don't seem to have the skill-set needed to create a robust multi-tasking OS. They concentrate more on 'style.' One-button mice (yeah, yeah, we know that was in the past.) They're a company of marketers, where trademark-buzz like 'Quicktime' and 'Altivec' are the trump cards.
There are plenty of on-line games where players are prohibited from exchanging the in-game currency and 'items' for real dollars. A lot of people enjoy playing said games. And their accounts are frozen if they are caught exchanging for real $$.
The Wisconsin governor isn't going after trade unionists. That would imply that the people in the unions were tradesmen. No, 'the trades' are less unionized than they have been in the past. The Wisconsin governor is going after featherbedding government bureaucrat and pencil-pusher unions. You know... practically the only kind of union that is still viable in the US right now: the kind that grows like moss on the slow-rolling entity known as government, because of political patronage.
I want the electroshock thing implmented against the tard who decided that 'Chrome' (why did Google up front adopt the 'oooohh shiney thing' meme upfront for their browser??) shouldn't have a Menu bar, and that one shouldn't be available for it. Because, goddamnit, if I want to use keyboard shortcuts I should be able to use keyboard shortcuts.
Sony has always just been the 'reliable brandname' on equipment from a company big and powerful enough to roll in the innovations that other entities have pioneered in. Sony hasn't been innovative since the very early days. Except in the same way that other big borglike entities like Microsoft and Apple can be considered innovative.
This is probably the first time I have ever seen John Perry Barlow mentioned, certainly on Slashdot if not on the entire web, without 'lyricist for the Grateful Dead' appended on as his title.
Is the influence of The Dead diminishing? Or was it simply an oversight on the part of the Slashdot editor.
"Wipe and reload" is the starting point for hardware vendors. Once they get a baseline software install on it from a known configuration, then it is worth spending more than a few seconds diagnosing any hardware problems.
I hope you get it. The vendor's job is not to diagnose and test your poorly implemented software rollout. That is what your in-house IT staff are supposed to be good at.
A Kodak Brownie is a regular 8mm camera. Not Super 8. Super 8 uses a film cassette, whereas regular 8mm used 16mm film with a sprocket on both sides. You turned the reel over to shoot the second side, then at the processor they split the film in half. For inexplicable reasons, Super 8 and Regular 8 film had different sprocket hole sizes, so they are incompatible formats.
Because Regular 8 film was regular 16mm stock and rolled on an open generic film reel, you can probably still get it. Super 8? Probably not.
Are you sure you're not just talking about certain high population density westernized countries?
while government built a network of highways to support the greatest waste of energy ever seen by mankind
Freedom is never a 'waste of energy.' Take your prescribed route to the places where your government allows you to go, if it pleases you. Don't try to force your choice on the rest of us, please.
For OSX its the opposite. For every small task that i want to accomplish, i seem to need to pony up. Every small time programmer tries to make a buck with his little program.
You might want to look into using the NetBSD Package system, called pkgsrc, on on OSX. The NetBSD community is used to porting things around, and the NetBSD package system itself has been ported to run on a lot of different OSes. It's a very source-based packaging system with a robust dependency chain.
Even with buttons that are obviously just electric switches, old people will mash down as hard as they can, as if the force they apply is correlated to the success of the operation.
Sometimes it is. Switches have metal contacts in them. Often there is a wiping action built into the mechanism. And the metal contacts corrode. So the wiping action helps keep the switch functioning properly if the button is pressed vigorously.
This is still the case in many, many electric switches.
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(Apple doesn't count; because they have created their own OS).
Not really. They tried to create their own modern OS in the late 90's. Finally after spending many millions on the project, they gave up and allowed themselves to be taken over by NeXT instead. Then they slapped their gui-paint layer on top of UNIX like some fat chick going to the disco slaps pasty makeup on.
Apple's developers don't seem to have the skill-set needed to create a robust multi-tasking OS. They concentrate more on 'style.' One-button mice (yeah, yeah, we know that was in the past.) They're a company of marketers, where trademark-buzz like 'Quicktime' and 'Altivec' are the trump cards.
As I said: DISinformative. But his post is modded +5 Informative, and mine will be punish-downmodded, of course.
Actually, the opposite is the case.
This is apple.slashdot.org, not the main domain. I wonder if they will ever disclose how much Apple paid to lease the subdomain.
There are plenty of on-line games where players are prohibited from exchanging the in-game currency and 'items' for real dollars. A lot of people enjoy playing said games. And their accounts are frozen if they are caught exchanging for real $$.
The Wisconsin governor isn't going after trade unionists. That would imply that the people in the unions were tradesmen. No, 'the trades' are less unionized than they have been in the past. The Wisconsin governor is going after featherbedding government bureaucrat and pencil-pusher unions. You know... practically the only kind of union that is still viable in the US right now: the kind that grows like moss on the slow-rolling entity known as government, because of political patronage.
Perhaps any system of political economy can work well in the heterogeneous, political stable, small countries of northern Europe.
But pointing at it as an example of a 'success story' for said system of political economy might be putting the cart before the horse.
In order to prove they aren't copying it, Apple should be forced to hand over the iPhone 5 design to Samsung.
This is apple.slashdot.org, not slashdot.org.
How much Apple is paying for the subdomain has not yet been determined.
I want the electroshock thing implmented against the tard who decided that 'Chrome' (why did Google up front adopt the 'oooohh shiney thing' meme upfront for their browser??) shouldn't have a Menu bar, and that one shouldn't be available for it. Because, goddamnit, if I want to use keyboard shortcuts I should be able to use keyboard shortcuts.
Seamonkey is the obvious choice.
I sure as hell know which one would definitely work against a recent malware infection and which one pretends to work.
Well, to be fair, a Windows restore CD (aka an Install CD) would work fairly well against the recent MacOS malware...
I don't need 6 months of browser history saved.
Ah, but Google does.
"Don't be Evil" is a pretty low hurdle to clear, btw.
Sony has always just been the 'reliable brandname' on equipment from a company big and powerful enough to roll in the innovations that other entities have pioneered in. Sony hasn't been innovative since the very early days. Except in the same way that other big borglike entities like Microsoft and Apple can be considered innovative.
This is probably the first time I have ever seen John Perry Barlow mentioned, certainly on Slashdot if not on the entire web, without 'lyricist for the Grateful Dead' appended on as his title.
Is the influence of The Dead diminishing? Or was it simply an oversight on the part of the Slashdot editor.
We're grateful that he's.... well, nevermind.
It encourages people to only get software from the repository that The Steve says they should get software from.
But that's not a problem, generally, because Mac users are trained to know they have to pay for every little anything they install on their system.
Eventually some smart malware creator will create a trojan that has some nominal fee the Mac user has to pay to get the malware.
It'll wipe all Macs from the web in short order.
Canada does not have a bill of rights. They have a Queen.
If you read the article and look at the charts, you'll see they state only percentages and no actual raw numbers to evaluate on our own.
The 'journalist' who wrote the article has an Apple sticker on the bumper of his beemer.
"Wipe and reload" is the starting point for hardware vendors. Once they get a baseline software install on it from a known configuration, then it is worth spending more than a few seconds diagnosing any hardware problems.
I hope you get it. The vendor's job is not to diagnose and test your poorly implemented software rollout. That is what your in-house IT staff are supposed to be good at.
So why the jump in sales?
It's a math trick. 66% of a near zero value just means they sold a dozen extra machines.
A Kodak Brownie is a regular 8mm camera. Not Super 8. Super 8 uses a film cassette, whereas regular 8mm used 16mm film with a sprocket on both sides. You turned the reel over to shoot the second side, then at the processor they split the film in half. For inexplicable reasons, Super 8 and Regular 8 film had different sprocket hole sizes, so they are incompatible formats.
Because Regular 8 film was regular 16mm stock and rolled on an open generic film reel, you can probably still get it. Super 8? Probably not.
"The rest of the world"
Are you sure you're not just talking about certain high population density westernized countries?
Freedom is never a 'waste of energy.' Take your prescribed route to the places where your government allows you to go, if it pleases you. Don't try to force your choice on the rest of us, please.
It's no surprise that the librarians' websites have vigorously disagreed. I imagine you could like to even more of their sites if you wished.
Nice try, Marvin.
For OSX its the opposite. For every small task that i want to accomplish, i seem to need to pony up. Every small time programmer tries to make a buck with his little program.
You might want to look into using the NetBSD Package system, called pkgsrc, on on OSX. The NetBSD community is used to porting things around, and the NetBSD package system itself has been ported to run on a lot of different OSes. It's a very source-based packaging system with a robust dependency chain.
The most valuable tech company in the world that was predicted dead in 1997..
And then it died, and the brand was purchased by NeXT...
Not hardly. Which iPhone app comes with a manual?
No, don't tell us there is a 'help function.' If it exists at all it's hidden under yet another cryptic button on the display.
Even with buttons that are obviously just electric switches, old people will mash down as hard as they can, as if the force they apply is correlated to the success of the operation.
Sometimes it is. Switches have metal contacts in them. Often there is a wiping action built into the mechanism. And the metal contacts corrode. So the wiping action helps keep the switch functioning properly if the button is pressed vigorously.
This is still the case in many, many electric switches.