On the perceived results. If you think that the world is run by people who know absolutely everything you're naive. If you think the world is run by people who know what they're running, etc. People who don't know will see this and pretend they do (which I wasn't doing, by the way, hence my disclaimer "I don't know a damn thing about any of this".)
The world runs on vague numbers and hyperbole, especially in management.
Also see my response above. I am not pretending to know anything about this. All I see is a face of better performance, and although I am not so idiotic as to think that is the whole story (contrary to your opinion) there are many people who do.
Fair enough, flexibility is a concern too for a lot of people. I also agree about reliability. Windows with.net is all very well, good that it came out on top in speed, but I like Windows (cue idiocy) and even I would say it's not exactly something I would be happy to leave on for 6 months straight.
I can only see.net having the advantage purely on speed, but that's something that people also need. No point taking a Skoda to an F1 race, even if it will make it around without failing.
I will admit to a lot of that going right over my head though, interesting as it was.
Well my brother has a cousin who's dad knows this guy who lives with a girl who goes out with another girl who occasionally goes into a games shop to a drink from the machine, and SHE said that SONY IS BUYING NINTENDO!?!??!!?
I'm actually wondering how the wonderful non-biased folk here at/. are going to interpret these results.
I don't know a damn thing about any of this but it says to me from a layman's point of view that invidually maintained and installed components are just not as efficient as a completely integrated suite of applications, and this is exactly how the ignorant bosses of knowledgeable admins will see it. Though I was interested to see the rise in the use of OSS in the workplace.
I could have gone down the whole "OSS SUX" route but that's a flamewar I'm not starting.
Out of the 16 stories on the front page when I looked, 13 of the authors managed to report what happened without their own opinion tacked on the end.
As you've so adequately demonstrated, there is nothing to stop you from commenting on your own story, so why have it in the summary? You can just as easily as everyone else 'get discussion going' by posting a comment after the story is posted. The only reason you would put it somewhere else is because you want your opinion to stand out, and that is inherently against the whole point of discussion: that everyone's viewpoint should have equal standing when first voiced. It is only by discourse that ideas should gain and lose merit.
Anyway, if the story is as newsworthy as you claim it to be, then dialog is perfectly capable of starting on its own.
It's not there to educate people, it's there as an assistant to educators (word processing, slideshows, etc.)
Surprisingly enough, most people are aware that Microsoft Office can't educate kids on it's own, just like guns can't kill people unless someone pulls the trigger.
The first I in IFPI means International. Who says they only have American lawyers? Simple reasoning would state that from the name they have a lot of different lawyers in different countries and that they have the resources to be good ones.
TFA was an interesting read, but nothing on their thoughts on the memory issues and plug-in problems, and certainly nothing on Opera or other browsers, which are trying to leech market share from Firefox like Firefox are from Microsoft.
Firefox 2.0 is going to have to be a lot more efficiently coded in order to keep interest in it. There will always be a hardcore of 'FIREFOX FREE OPEN-SOURCE YAR', but there are also people like me that use the browser that actually works best, and for me Firefox is a lumbering oaf and IE is a security nightmare.
Hardly. The batteries are small, expensive and easy to lose.
And yet bigger than Zen Micro batteries, and they cost about 10 quid. 20 dollars to you. BANK-BREAKING!
If something "goes wrong" during your warranty Apple will replace it.
Except they don't count most things as 'going wrong'. You'd better have a problem or you're paying out. That is from a friend's personal experience, and she'll never buy an iPod again.
14-20 hours is a full days use for most of the population, and unless you're backpacking it will see you to a spot where you can recharge.
Unless you forget. Or you actually are backpacking or camping. Or any other of the host of reasons why you might not make it back to somewhere with a power-socket and understanding electricity bill payers. Why cut off the option on the grounds that it's not common?
Not everyone goes back to the same house every night, and therefore not everyone can charge their iPod every night.
It's not just looks, adding a removeable battery is going to make the unit larger and less durable, unless you make it larger still.
Wow. How much do Apple pay you again? Removable batteries are the same size as non-removable ones. Because, you know, they're made out of the same thing. The only difference is exposed terminals at one end instead of directly connected wiring.
Right, which is why they have 90% of the market. Not.
That part of the post was opinion. You've done pretty badly at answering the factual parts of what I said, what made you think you had the right to argue my opinion with me? No, wait, you didn't. Great! Yes, looks are a matter of opinion, which is exactly why I was stopping anyone from trying to argue it with me.
Whether he has that money or not, the point still stands: if you're unable to buy something, it doesn't make stealing it any more morally correct. If you don't want to borrow tracked money (the paranoia there is remarkable), then you don't buy it. Or, you know, we in England have these things called 'debit cards'. Then you don't have to borrow anything. It's still tracked, but what isn't? If you think that paying cash means that you can't be traced, then you're seriously naive.
Having a built in battery that get's 14-20 hours per charge is much more convenient, yes.
Also much more convenient than that, is having a built-in battery that gets 14-20 hours charge, that you can replace yourself if it goes wrong. Or even the novelty of being able to have several batteries spare if you run out of charge on the move.
Also before some whiny bastard says it, don't give me that 'nice form-factor' bullshit, the Creative Jukebox Zen Micro and many other MP3 players look just as good as an iPod IMHO and manage to have a replaceable rechargable battery.
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What are you basing this belief upon?
On the perceived results. If you think that the world is run by people who know absolutely everything you're naive. If you think the world is run by people who know what they're running, etc. People who don't know will see this and pretend they do (which I wasn't doing, by the way, hence my disclaimer "I don't know a damn thing about any of this".)
The world runs on vague numbers and hyperbole, especially in management.
Also see my response above. I am not pretending to know anything about this. All I see is a face of better performance, and although I am not so idiotic as to think that is the whole story (contrary to your opinion) there are many people who do.
Fair enough, flexibility is a concern too for a lot of people. I also agree about reliability. Windows with .net is all very well, good that it came out on top in speed, but I like Windows (cue idiocy) and even I would say it's not exactly something I would be happy to leave on for 6 months straight.
.net having the advantage purely on speed, but that's something that people also need. No point taking a Skoda to an F1 race, even if it will make it around without failing.
I can only see
I will admit to a lot of that going right over my head though, interesting as it was.
Well my brother has a cousin who's dad knows this guy who lives with a girl who goes out with another girl who occasionally goes into a games shop to a drink from the machine, and SHE said that SONY IS BUYING NINTENDO!?!??!!?
In other words, no.
I'm actually wondering how the wonderful non-biased folk here at /. are going to interpret these results.
I don't know a damn thing about any of this but it says to me from a layman's point of view that invidually maintained and installed components are just not as efficient as a completely integrated suite of applications, and this is exactly how the ignorant bosses of knowledgeable admins will see it. Though I was interested to see the rise in the use of OSS in the workplace.
I could have gone down the whole "OSS SUX" route but that's a flamewar I'm not starting.
(Today.)
I'll bite, if only to inform you that the first 3 links out of 4 of your 'proof' were not vaporware at all, not even at the time.
Nice try.
Out of the 16 stories on the front page when I looked, 13 of the authors managed to report what happened without their own opinion tacked on the end.
As you've so adequately demonstrated, there is nothing to stop you from commenting on your own story, so why have it in the summary? You can just as easily as everyone else 'get discussion going' by posting a comment after the story is posted. The only reason you would put it somewhere else is because you want your opinion to stand out, and that is inherently against the whole point of discussion: that everyone's viewpoint should have equal standing when first voiced. It is only by discourse that ideas should gain and lose merit.
Anyway, if the story is as newsworthy as you claim it to be, then dialog is perfectly capable of starting on its own.
I was going to deign your comment with a good response, but I'm just going to go ahead and assume it was either a joke, sarcasm or possibly both.
"Sounds intriguing, but one has to wonder if it will be plagued by internecine feuding, punditry, and political manipulation"
/. stories in the summary. Let us make up our own damn minds.
No... you provide the facts, we provide the opinion. That's how this works.
I wish people would stop trying to put their own spin on
It's not there to educate people, it's there as an assistant to educators (word processing, slideshows, etc.)
Surprisingly enough, most people are aware that Microsoft Office can't educate kids on it's own, just like guns can't kill people unless someone pulls the trigger.
Not the best assumption.
The first I in IFPI means International. Who says they only have American lawyers? Simple reasoning would state that from the name they have a lot of different lawyers in different countries and that they have the resources to be good ones.
That's not a thought. That's a confirmation that they are thinking.
*raises hand also*
But let's be honest, you'd have to do something like that just to understand patent law, let alone review it.
I agree with you entirely.
TFA was an interesting read, but nothing on their thoughts on the memory issues and plug-in problems, and certainly nothing on Opera or other browsers, which are trying to leech market share from Firefox like Firefox are from Microsoft.
Firefox 2.0 is going to have to be a lot more efficiently coded in order to keep interest in it. There will always be a hardcore of 'FIREFOX FREE OPEN-SOURCE YAR', but there are also people like me that use the browser that actually works best, and for me Firefox is a lumbering oaf and IE is a security nightmare.
Because companies based in America have better lawyers?
That's seriously the only reason I can think of.
How wrong can you be?
/. actually do any research at all...
I just finished Oblivion and guess what? ATI Radeon 9800XT.
But then again, since when did anyone commenting on
Read a dictionary.
A locksmith is someone who makes/repairs locks, not someone who can use a key.
Oh, and what the AC said too. Grow up.
Are those first hand or second routers?
Are they good quality routers that are under guarantee?
Many different things to consider other than just cost.
Yay, spelling nazi to the rescue!
It's "viruses", not "virii". Virus is not a noun in latin and has no plural. "Virii" is the plural of vir, and means a lot of men.
No, really.
I hate myself for posting this.
Hardly. The batteries are small, expensive and easy to lose.
And yet bigger than Zen Micro batteries, and they cost about 10 quid. 20 dollars to you. BANK-BREAKING!
If something "goes wrong" during your warranty Apple will replace it.
Except they don't count most things as 'going wrong'. You'd better have a problem or you're paying out. That is from a friend's personal experience, and she'll never buy an iPod again.
14-20 hours is a full days use for most of the population, and unless you're backpacking it will see you to a spot where you can recharge.
Unless you forget. Or you actually are backpacking or camping. Or any other of the host of reasons why you might not make it back to somewhere with a power-socket and understanding electricity bill payers. Why cut off the option on the grounds that it's not common?
Not everyone goes back to the same house every night, and therefore not everyone can charge their iPod every night.
It's not just looks, adding a removeable battery is going to make the unit larger and less durable, unless you make it larger still.
Wow. How much do Apple pay you again? Removable batteries are the same size as non-removable ones. Because, you know, they're made out of the same thing. The only difference is exposed terminals at one end instead of directly connected wiring.
Right, which is why they have 90% of the market. Not.
That part of the post was opinion. You've done pretty badly at answering the factual parts of what I said, what made you think you had the right to argue my opinion with me? No, wait, you didn't. Great! Yes, looks are a matter of opinion, which is exactly why I was stopping anyone from trying to argue it with me.
He's stupid? Takes one to know one, as they say.
Whether he has that money or not, the point still stands: if you're unable to buy something, it doesn't make stealing it any more morally correct. If you don't want to borrow tracked money (the paranoia there is remarkable), then you don't buy it. Or, you know, we in England have these things called 'debit cards'. Then you don't have to borrow anything. It's still tracked, but what isn't? If you think that paying cash means that you can't be traced, then you're seriously naive.
Having a built in battery that get's 14-20 hours per charge is much more convenient, yes.
Also much more convenient than that, is having a built-in battery that gets 14-20 hours charge, that you can replace yourself if it goes wrong. Or even the novelty of being able to have several batteries spare if you run out of charge on the move.
Also before some whiny bastard says it, don't give me that 'nice form-factor' bullshit, the Creative Jukebox Zen Micro and many other MP3 players look just as good as an iPod IMHO and manage to have a replaceable rechargable battery.
Whether 'this problems' happens with other equipment is totally irrelevant.
You're quite right, it shouldn't happen with ANY product. You can't defend Apple on the basis of 'Well, everyone else's does it so it must be OK!'
'Well Saddam killed a lot of Iraqis to maintain stability! So it MUST be fine for us to do it too!'
Two-tone perception disease strikes again! You know, there is a middle ground to these things.
Because there's nothing confusing about having 3 different sets of laws at all.
AFAIK they do that to stop people using the demo executable to make a no-CD crack, so that the 'l33t h4x0r' never has access to an unprotected EXE.
Not going to get into a StarForce discussion though because it ends up with me wanting to blow up Russia.