So basically, you've come up with a list of recommended ways for the GP to use more computing power. Unlike you, he apparently isn't using his hardware 'to it's full capacity' but you have suggestions.
That in a crux sums up this whole topic. People don't want, nor need, the power that is present in the de-facto standard at present. So they're not gonna upgrade just to upgrade. People like you who apparently feel the need (or occasionally have the need) to squeeze use out of every processor cycle possible aren't going to get to ride along on the cost coattails of the mainstream public. The market has commodified, because the default cheap box is good enough.
Don't get me wrong. It's cool to be elite and everything. I was the first person I knew who had a 80486 with 16 megs of RAM on a machine at home.
I'd love to pay a police, fire, road bill and be able to say fuck off to a lot of the other bills. Arts bill? I'll make my own art. Welfare bill? I'm not on welfare. Where do we sign up?
Where do I buy my FedEx stamps to put on my envelopes. Also, my mail carrier won't deliver to the door anymore because of a previous tenant's dog. What time and on one days does the FedEx letter carrier come by?
The generating stations for large-scale power generators aren't mass produced, either. They are rather large pieces of equipment. Come up with a better argument. Or, just cut your losses and quiet down, okay?
For good reason. The Eagle isn't really an admirable animal at all.
Do you know how the American Indians hunted them? They'd dig a pit, put carrion in the pit and hide beneath it.
Bald Eagles are scavengers, similar to the Buzzard. They'll hunt for their food if they have to, but they prefer to steal food from other birds or scavenge carrion.
Tesla went spankin' screechin' mad by middle age. The stuff he did in the latter half of his life was plain nuts, and that's part of the reason he didn't get much credit. His books of later 'inventions' belong where they're sold, with the cheap occult reprints and the Loch Ness Monster books on the remainder table at the bookstore.
The laugh, though, is that the 'reliable' electricity for this thing is apparently only needed for the hot glue gun. So, uh... I guess do the one-time glue part of assembly on a good day?
What nonsense. We just have more lawyers here in the First World. It isn't a good thing, either.
The FDA acts as a protective agent. The barrier to entry for new medical device startups is staggering, and the existing large Medical Device Manufacturers have a warm cordial relationship with the FDA for that reason. They're quite satisfied to charge the FDA mandated markups.
There is no choice when it comes to open standards. It's a Web developer's responsibility to build HTML5, it's a platform vendor's responsibility to include HTML5, it's a browser maker's responsibility to render HTML5, it's a tool-maker's responsibility to make their tools compliant with HTML5. The spec is not optional. Your website also has to use UTF-8 and TCP/IP and ISO MPEG-4.
Wow. I guess my hand edited HTML with some dashes of PHP in it is just plain immoral. And not only that, obsolete.
I wasn't aware we'd run the HTML5 flag up the pole, and that the infidels were being collected and shut up in a dungeon. I better take my site down fast.
Part of 'moving on' is making the rest of the world around you aware of the shortcomings of Apple's strategy.
I mean, there are millions of less tech people out there who rely on us tech types to advise them and help them make the right choices. We have the right to, and are actually responsible to communicate and discuss and raise our objections to what we see as a bad deal.
That's a rather loose interpretation of 'apps' though. I have an iPod Touch and I like it quite a bit. But you scratch your head sometimes at what gets promoted as an 'app' in the 'Store.'
Because it's such a walled garden, there are separate dedicated Radio Player apps for hundreds and hundreds of radio stations. Each has it's own icon on your screen. So each player is counted as a separate App.
And don't get me going about the dozens of 'Sex Position' apps, or the Fart Apps. There's an app now called JaredAllen that is basically a fan page for the guy.
So there are 185,000+ 'apps' but many of them are tiny little nothings. And there are huge gaps in the library that can't be filled because of how the whole operation is structured.
A better analogy is that people like knowing that there are nine or ten completely separate businesses within a half hour of where they live that they can go to have their car serviced. They aren't locked in to only have service done at the Dealer. In fact, they can even buy the parts themselves to do a lot of the maintenance, if their time is worth less than the money.
I've got MacOS X installed on one of my Apple machines, but NetBSD installed on the rest of them. Their idea of BSD is to paste their cartoon show on top. Sure, the 'goodness' is all down there underneath, but you have to kick the candy-crap's butt to get a robust X session running on it. And PKGSRC is a lot easier to run on it's native platform. I never even bothered trying to get it running on the MacOS. Why would I?
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So basically, you've come up with a list of recommended ways for the GP to use more computing power. Unlike you, he apparently isn't using his hardware 'to it's full capacity' but you have suggestions.
That in a crux sums up this whole topic. People don't want, nor need, the power that is present in the de-facto standard at present. So they're not gonna upgrade just to upgrade. People like you who apparently feel the need (or occasionally have the need) to squeeze use out of every processor cycle possible aren't going to get to ride along on the cost coattails of the mainstream public. The market has commodified, because the default cheap box is good enough.
Don't get me wrong. It's cool to be elite and everything. I was the first person I knew who had a 80486 with 16 megs of RAM on a machine at home.
Hopefully, we'll be able to get on with our lives now.
On Slashdot? When the topic concerns both Microsoft and Open Source??
Don't fool yourself.
Shovel-ready Death Panels?
Sign up for my Facebook group, we're protesting this invasion of our privacy!!
(good god, I hope at least some of the older slashdot denizens see the irony in it)
I'd love to pay a police, fire, road bill and be able to say fuck off to a lot of the other bills. Arts bill? I'll make my own art. Welfare bill? I'm not on welfare. Where do we sign up?
Well, sitting in your chair at your keyboard all puffed up and ornery, I don't think they'll get a chance.
Rage on, net rager.
Where do I buy my FedEx stamps to put on my envelopes. Also, my mail carrier won't deliver to the door anymore because of a previous tenant's dog. What time and on one days does the FedEx letter carrier come by?
The generating stations for large-scale power generators aren't mass produced, either. They are rather large pieces of equipment. Come up with a better argument. Or, just cut your losses and quiet down, okay?
I think you're confusing economic progress with the parallel growth of parasitic government.
whether a scare commodity (fresh water) is better used for making clothes or for drinking.
Or for drowning excess third-world babies.
He meant:
"No Nukes!"
and
"The People United, Will Never Be Defeated!"
and my favorite:
"We Shall Not Be Moved!" (usually sung as the cops cuff people and haul them to the wagon)
The Cape Wind project was literally built 'over Teddy Kennedy's body.' He blocked it his entire life.
Dude's legacy isn't definitively written yet, but it won't be kind.
For good reason. The Eagle isn't really an admirable animal at all.
Do you know how the American Indians hunted them? They'd dig a pit, put carrion in the pit and hide beneath it.
Bald Eagles are scavengers, similar to the Buzzard. They'll hunt for their food if they have to, but they prefer to steal food from other birds or scavenge carrion.
'Fly Like An Eagle. To the Dump'
Edison invented the modern Research and Development lab.
And he was very successful in commercializing his invention.
Tesla went spankin' screechin' mad by middle age. The stuff he did in the latter half of his life was plain nuts, and that's part of the reason he didn't get much credit. His books of later 'inventions' belong where they're sold, with the cheap occult reprints and the Loch Ness Monster books on the remainder table at the bookstore.
The laugh, though, is that the 'reliable' electricity for this thing is apparently only needed for the hot glue gun. So, uh... I guess do the one-time glue part of assembly on a good day?
What nonsense. We just have more lawyers here in the First World. It isn't a good thing, either.
The FDA acts as a protective agent. The barrier to entry for new medical device startups is staggering, and the existing large Medical Device Manufacturers have a warm cordial relationship with the FDA for that reason. They're quite satisfied to charge the FDA mandated markups.
Yes. All Apple knows how to do is sell.
They've known more than that in the past, but they're kinda sorta a sugar water hustle outfit now.
Wow. I guess my hand edited HTML with some dashes of PHP in it is just plain immoral. And not only that, obsolete.
I wasn't aware we'd run the HTML5 flag up the pole, and that the infidels were being collected and shut up in a dungeon. I better take my site down fast.
Part of 'moving on' is making the rest of the world around you aware of the shortcomings of Apple's strategy.
I mean, there are millions of less tech people out there who rely on us tech types to advise them and help them make the right choices. We have the right to, and are actually responsible to communicate and discuss and raise our objections to what we see as a bad deal.
That's a rather loose interpretation of 'apps' though. I have an iPod Touch and I like it quite a bit. But you scratch your head sometimes at what gets promoted as an 'app' in the 'Store.'
Because it's such a walled garden, there are separate dedicated Radio Player apps for hundreds and hundreds of radio stations. Each has it's own icon on your screen. So each player is counted as a separate App.
And don't get me going about the dozens of 'Sex Position' apps, or the Fart Apps. There's an app now called JaredAllen that is basically a fan page for the guy.
So there are 185,000+ 'apps' but many of them are tiny little nothings. And there are huge gaps in the library that can't be filled because of how the whole operation is structured.
A better analogy is that people like knowing that there are nine or ten completely separate businesses within a half hour of where they live that they can go to have their car serviced. They aren't locked in to only have service done at the Dealer. In fact, they can even buy the parts themselves to do a lot of the maintenance, if their time is worth less than the money.
You May Say I'm a Dreamer But I'm Not the Only One
At the very beginning of Apple he was the Eddie Haskell. Woz was the nice fellow.
Don't give Apple too much credit.
I've got MacOS X installed on one of my Apple machines, but NetBSD installed on the rest of them. Their idea of BSD is to paste their cartoon show on top. Sure, the 'goodness' is all down there underneath, but you have to kick the candy-crap's butt to get a robust X session running on it. And PKGSRC is a lot easier to run on it's native platform. I never even bothered trying to get it running on the MacOS. Why would I?