Informative pages on various consumer products that explain where to do 'surgical drilling' on products to disable unwanted features. "A #45 drill penetrating.023mm at the point indicated will disable the sensor without otherwise disturbing the function of your phone."
I already want something like this to wipe out the Accelerometer in my iPod Touch. It's like trying to read the news off the back of a playful otter sometimes when I use it in bed. The screen flips this way and that and Apple gives me NO WAY to disable it.
The Mac platform is mostly over. Apple changed their name awhile back and is no longer Apple Computer. Steve Jobs is now focused on selling sugar water to kids.
The people who buy Photoshop Elements at WalMart are not who Adobe consider their customers. They're the people Adobe consider to be their customers' customers. Photoshop Elements is a toy product they produce for unknown reasons. Professionals buy professional software. Which is almost never sold at places like WalMart. In fact, Photoshop and Adobe's flagship apps could be considered sort of a low-end segment of the market they sell into. Serious design software is quite expensive, has a limited number of seats, and doesn't generally get sold retail.
It's not about reproducing Photoshop functionality per se, but getting the mind share of pro users who consider Photoshop the de facto standard for image processing.
And how do they get the 'mind share of pro users' without reproducing Photoshop functionality? We're talking about a bunch of seasoned professionals here, now. Not a bunch of kids deciding which brand of MP3 player or Cell Phone to buy at a Kiosk at the Mall.
Is it because your "app" wouldn't be as "special" if it is also available for Win7 mobile and Android users?
Bingo. Apple has never been able to successfully compete on a level playing field. They couldn't in the Apple II era (drove the Apple II clones out of the market with legal muscle) and they couldn't in the Mac Clone era. They need to maintain a 'Company Store' environment to hold onto their market.
The NT code base was originally targeted to be cross-platform. I personally have run the x86, Alpha, and PPC variants. Microsoft abandoned that at about the NT 4.0 point. NT 3.51 has a lot of coolness about it that they just walked away from.
But you're right that Microsoft had no particular difficulty writing NT for multiple architectures. Back in that same time period, Apple was throwing millions of dollars down a rathole trying to develop their Next Generation MacOS, an effort they eventually shitcanned when NeXT took over the company and brought in their Unix/Mach conglomerate instead.
Very few computer OSes have been written from scratch successfully. The only one from Apple died a miserable death of obsolescence because it was an ugly baroque single tasking mess.
Jobs needed that time away and Apple needed that time to explore the market and technology.
That's sort of the Fairy Tail rendering by the marketing types.
Apple was about to be shitcanned. The people who owned NeXT saw the opportunity so they bought the company and shitcanned it's pitiful OS instead. Since that time the company has turned into a consumer products company with a little computer sidecar. They've innovated on essentially nothing, just slapping the old MacOS makeup as a layer on top of the NeXT OS, and used some of Job's 'connections' (people he used to sell coke to?) to popularize some consumer-grade media player hardware.
So why is it that "lazy American worker" gets laid off from the Ford plant, then gets a job at the Honda plant and becomes "productive American worker?".
The Honda plant is non-union. There isn't a union stiff interfering any time productivity-improving methods or new equipment is introduced.
That's also another piece of the puzzle. It's hard to stay competitive internationally, when [your employees demand higher/their employees are okay with lower] wages. This issue rose its head when GM & Chrysler started going under, comparing them to companies such as Toyota or Honda.
An expansion on what you are saying is that US Labor views Automation from a completely antagonistic point of view. The Labor Bosses like keeping their membership dumb and busy doing rote tasks. American manufacturers face total opposition to updated methods from a labor force organized against any change or process improvement at all.
Politics is not history. You need to get out and learn a little more.
It might frighten you if you could look outside yourself and see how doctrinaire and almost Stalinist your intellectual approach has become. Look beyond a framework of beliefs, and a set of parody representations of reality, i.e. your view of what the Roman Catholic Church is....
You see, that's the secret angle that hardly anybody gets. It's the tin-foil that matters. All those fools out there wrapping their heads with aluminum foil are tools of the Man.
Have you priced, or even located a readily available source, for tin foil?
On the other hand, this could be an opportunity to educate the public:
"Have you ever heard about this thing called Linux? Sony recently changed the firmware on your PS3 so you can't run it anymore. You can get 20 bux from them. Here's what Linux is....."
A certain number of people will just want the 20 bux, but things like that raise the visibility of something to people. It could result in more people learning there are interesting 'Other' things they can do with a PS3 (and with other hardware they might own.)
What happened to/. ? I started reading around the 200K user ID mark (didn't register for another 600K) and somewhere around 1M it went to trolling hell. It used to be just GNAA trolling and abuse trolls. Now it's flavour-of-the-month trolling. This month, it's cool to hate Apple. You'll get easy mod points. Last month it was Microsoft. Next month... maybe back to Microsoft, or keep flaming Apple? So many choices, so few intelligent comments.
It has always been acceptable on Slashdot to hate Apple.
Richard Stallman used to (still does) have an anti-Macintosh page on his site. Apple targeted the Mac from the get-go as the 'anti-hacker' (in the classic sense of the word) machine.
Apple Computer only gained a partial reprieve from the scorn of the nerds/geeks when the company finally acknowledged they couldn't write a real multi-tasking OS and scrapped the effort, allowing NeXT to take over Apple instead.
There didn't used to be an apple.slashdot.org domain.
And hating Apple isn't a 'fad' that comes and goes. Some of us were listening live to Steve Jobs at the launch of Macintosh, and have never given in an inch to the dude since.
disclaimer: I own an iPod Touch (3g) now. But my newest Mac is a G3. (I'd love to get the iPhone OS toolchain. Can it be installed on a Hacintosh, or does the big hammer come down if they catch you doing that?)
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I envision a new class of Web Sites.
Informative pages on various consumer products that explain where to do 'surgical drilling' on products to disable unwanted features. "A #45 drill penetrating .023mm at the point indicated will disable the sensor without otherwise disturbing the function of your phone."
I already want something like this to wipe out the Accelerometer in my iPod Touch. It's like trying to read the news off the back of a playful otter sometimes when I use it in bed. The screen flips this way and that and Apple gives me NO WAY to disable it.
It's impossible, for the twitch generation, who were raised on an NES.
You appear to be heavily into copulating with people who you have strong disagreements with.
Yes. I know that means you'll say the same to me. Your eloquent language useage will win the debate for you.
You're showing yourself to be ignorant and prejudiced.
Or are you just trolling?
If so, IHBT. I'll try to HAND.
Well, a problem (not the problem) is needless and excessive expense.
Which the GP addresses, and you appear to think is irrelevant.
design shops will move to windows because of it.
Design shops already have moved to Windows.
The Mac platform is mostly over. Apple changed their name awhile back and is no longer Apple Computer. Steve Jobs is now focused on selling sugar water to kids.
The people who buy Photoshop Elements at WalMart are not who Adobe consider their customers. They're the people Adobe consider to be their customers' customers. Photoshop Elements is a toy product they produce for unknown reasons. Professionals buy professional software. Which is almost never sold at places like WalMart. In fact, Photoshop and Adobe's flagship apps could be considered sort of a low-end segment of the market they sell into. Serious design software is quite expensive, has a limited number of seats, and doesn't generally get sold retail.
Java apps only 'look terrible' to the kind of people who get their nails done at a Nail Salon and buy new Living Room furniture every two years.
I mean, let's not prance around like Interior Decorators, okay?
I bet Adobe is quaking in their boots. Apple was able to produce an app better than Photoshop Elements.
Hail the Mighty Apple, who can defeat a crippled version of a competitor's app.
It's not about reproducing Photoshop functionality per se, but getting the mind share of pro users who consider Photoshop the de facto standard for image processing.
And how do they get the 'mind share of pro users' without reproducing Photoshop functionality? We're talking about a bunch of seasoned professionals here, now. Not a bunch of kids deciding which brand of MP3 player or Cell Phone to buy at a Kiosk at the Mall.
Is it because your "app" wouldn't be as "special" if it is also available for Win7 mobile and Android users?
Bingo. Apple has never been able to successfully compete on a level playing field. They couldn't in the Apple II era (drove the Apple II clones out of the market with legal muscle) and they couldn't in the Mac Clone era. They need to maintain a 'Company Store' environment to hold onto their market.
Adobe owns the Photoshop trademark and can slap it on any product they happen to want to.
The NT code base was originally targeted to be cross-platform. I personally have run the x86, Alpha, and PPC variants. Microsoft abandoned that at about the NT 4.0 point. NT 3.51 has a lot of coolness about it that they just walked away from.
But you're right that Microsoft had no particular difficulty writing NT for multiple architectures. Back in that same time period, Apple was throwing millions of dollars down a rathole trying to develop their Next Generation MacOS, an effort they eventually shitcanned when NeXT took over the company and brought in their Unix/Mach conglomerate instead.
Very few computer OSes have been written from scratch successfully. The only one from Apple died a miserable death of obsolescence because it was an ugly baroque single tasking mess.
My SE era Macs don't have stereo sound. They're little bitty boxes with little bitty speakers.
And those are the foundation of the Mac platform.
So you're one of those thousand or so academics who actually bought NeXT hardware?
Cool stuff. But so was the Be Box.
Jobs needed that time away and Apple needed that time to explore the market and technology.
That's sort of the Fairy Tail rendering by the marketing types.
Apple was about to be shitcanned. The people who owned NeXT saw the opportunity so they bought the company and shitcanned it's pitiful OS instead. Since that time the company has turned into a consumer products company with a little computer sidecar. They've innovated on essentially nothing, just slapping the old MacOS makeup as a layer on top of the NeXT OS, and used some of Job's 'connections' (people he used to sell coke to?) to popularize some consumer-grade media player hardware.
So why is it that "lazy American worker" gets laid off from the Ford plant, then gets a job at the Honda plant and becomes "productive American worker?".
The Honda plant is non-union. There isn't a union stiff interfering any time productivity-improving methods or new equipment is introduced.
That's also another piece of the puzzle. It's hard to stay competitive internationally, when [your employees demand higher/their employees are okay with lower] wages. This issue rose its head when GM & Chrysler started going under, comparing them to companies such as Toyota or Honda.
An expansion on what you are saying is that US Labor views Automation from a completely antagonistic point of view. The Labor Bosses like keeping their membership dumb and busy doing rote tasks. American manufacturers face total opposition to updated methods from a labor force organized against any change or process improvement at all.
Politics is not history. You need to get out and learn a little more.
It might frighten you if you could look outside yourself and see how doctrinaire and almost Stalinist your intellectual approach has become. Look beyond a framework of beliefs, and a set of parody representations of reality, i.e. your view of what the Roman Catholic Church is....
You see, that's the secret angle that hardly anybody gets. It's the tin-foil that matters. All those fools out there wrapping their heads with aluminum foil are tools of the Man.
Have you priced, or even located a readily available source, for tin foil?
Everyone except Microsoft uses the file /etc/hosts,
And even Microsoft uses:
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host
(the first part may vary, and there are probably drive-independent ways of specifying it)
On the other hand, this could be an opportunity to educate the public:
"Have you ever heard about this thing called Linux? Sony recently changed the firmware on your PS3 so you can't run it anymore. You can get 20 bux from them. Here's what Linux is....."
A certain number of people will just want the 20 bux, but things like that raise the visibility of something to people. It could result in more people learning there are interesting 'Other' things they can do with a PS3 (and with other hardware they might own.)
I meant that to read:
Richard Stallman used to (still does?)
I wouldn't pretend to represent RMS's opinions here.
It has always been acceptable on Slashdot to hate Apple.
Richard Stallman used to (still does) have an anti-Macintosh page on his site. Apple targeted the Mac from the get-go as the 'anti-hacker' (in the classic sense of the word) machine.
Apple Computer only gained a partial reprieve from the scorn of the nerds/geeks when the company finally acknowledged they couldn't write a real multi-tasking OS and scrapped the effort, allowing NeXT to take over Apple instead.
There didn't used to be an apple.slashdot.org domain.
And hating Apple isn't a 'fad' that comes and goes. Some of us were listening live to Steve Jobs at the launch of Macintosh, and have never given in an inch to the dude since.
Isn't an iPhone part of the Uniform?
disclaimer: I own an iPod Touch (3g) now. But my newest Mac is a G3. (I'd love to get the iPhone OS toolchain. Can it be installed on a Hacintosh, or does the big hammer come down if they catch you doing that?)