What you call a walled-garden is just a trading platform.
OK then,
Where is the alternate trading platform where I can get the things Apple wont sell me...
Still waiting....
BTW, Jailbreaking is not good enough, it needs to "just work" right out of the box.
You can try to call it a trading platform all you want but you're only fooling yourself because in reality iTunes is vendor lock in that forces you to be in Apple's walled garden by removing features if you try to disobey. It is a restriction despite your attempt to gloss it over.
I shouln't have to waste time importing and transcoding media I want to consume on the go, I should just be able to copy it straight to the device and have done with.
Field SGT: WTF command, that drone just killed half my unit. Drone Operator: Uh, hit the windows key by mistake. Field SGT: GTFO N00b. Drone Operator: STFU, my score is still higher then yours. Field SGT: Commander, Request ban 4 Drone Operator 4 TKing.
Drone Operator ===> Field SGT.
but right now mining + free trade is keeping our economy chugging along pretty well
Like the free trade agreement that prevents us from exporting beef to the Americas.
I think you need to read up on what those free trade agreements entail. They're pretty one sided (and not on Oz's favour), The US trade agreement in particular specifically prevents a lot of exports and shoe horns more then a few US laws on us without even asking our permission.
Also the mining companies need to pull their heads and arses into line, they dig up our nation at _our_ pleasure. I'm looking at you Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest.
If I had a gmail account for all my work related email, then that may be a different story, but unfortunately, I have to stick to the couple of email clients that I am allowed to use at work,
It's important to note, Gmail does not use folders. Instead you tag emails with various titles and the search engine indexes them.
I dont use folders on outlook because it does remove emails from a view and some folders are not searched by default (yes I use searches rather then folders on Outlook). To be frank I'm not sure why MS or anyone else has not copied Gmails idea of allowing users to tag emails with easily indexed labels rather then using the old folder system.
Nor have the foreign car makers been "doing it for years".
My 1997 Honda Civic VTI uses 7 litres per 100 KM's, that's about 14.2 KM per litre.
There are 4 litres in a gallon. so that's 56.8 KM per gallon.
Now convert that into your archaic distance measurement, 56.8 / 1.6 = 35.5 mpg. So a Japanese car manufacturer has been doing it for at least 14 years.
I assume you are referring to the App Store and the walled garden approach? Non-computer people place very little value on having an open ecosystem. If you are not a programmer you won't be writing your own apps so having an open system is worth very little.
Actually, you're wrong.
Non-computer people take an open ecosystem for granted.
You think no-one cares because they dont know, in reality no-one cares because they assume it will always be there for them. "Locked down" is one of the biggest reasons I hear for people leaving Iphone, you'll find a lot of people will miss the freedom they have come to expect on their computers when you take it away. This is why Android has outsold Iphone in half the time that Iphone has been released.
I disagree. It is useful information, that tells us that we may need to be slightly wary of the article - did the article poster sign up for a slashdot account just so they could post an article from their own blog? On the other hand, if someone has posted many articles in the past, from that we can deduce that they're probably not an astroturfer, but instead a real actual slashdot regular.
In that case, we should start issuing other warnings like "Mr Derp, a well known Derp fanboy has submitted this article lavishly praising Derp".
Or we can just scrap this ridiculous idea of warning labels and judge submissions using reason and common sense.
I agreed with everything you said, even about the trolls...but you can't be serious about removing members or making the site invite only. The moderation system does a fine job of silencing dumb comments.
Indeed,
Perhaps we should remove anyone with a UID above 99,999.
The moderation system does a fine job of silencing dumb comments.
Heh. Go visit one of the smartphone threads sme time.
Yep, the apple trolls dont get modded down nearly enough.
But apart from fanboy moderation (which has gotten a lot better in recent months) the mod system is working well, not 100% but better then 95% of moderation systems on the internet.
You and I are of one mind on this. If you do it skillfully, you can even be a dick and it will work. Sometimes it's necessary to be a bit of a dick when you're dealing with incredibly thick-headed people who do not cherish reason. It serves a purpose.
As long as you do it eloquently.:)
If the parent your replying to is obviously a complete and total mongoloid and this is readily evident to everyone you've actually got a good chance of being modded up by going off at them.
When they changed the meta-moderation system I stopped meta-moderating. I'd be surprised if I were the only one that stopped. The older system of an up or down vote was a lot easier to do, without actually spending huge amounts of time, it's just too hard to figure out what the moderation should have been.
You dont actually have to pick a reason, but it's better if you do.
The way I treat meta moderation is "how would I mod this if I had mod points" rather then trying to guess the way other people modded it.
They could also provide an easier way of reporting abuses of mod points.
An easier way to report abuses, will lead to abuses of that.
Some people get modded down fairly.
My only complaint about moderation is fanboy mods. This is most prevalent with the "cultists" but I see it happen with the "Hippy's" too (BTW, I lump myself in with the Hippy (Linux) crowd). The group supports each other, modding up posts to +5 insightful that should be modded into oblivion simply because they agree with the troll. I refer specifically to post that are nothing more then baseless, scathing attacks on the other side (Android, MS, Apple et al.).
Tbf, a large number leveraged flash and acrobat reader. Flash is not installed by default on Macs any more (though is likely to be installed as there's no alternative), acrobat reader is not installed, and is unlikely to be installed due to the existence of preview, and safari's native pdf rendering.
No, they'll just get Mac users the same way 90% of windows Malware is installed.
Social engineering.
"Install free Muppets/Hello Kitty/Naked Katy Perry screensaver" /mac user clicks
Oh Hai, I'm a Mac Virus.
There is no technological defence for stupidity, pretending a platform automagically protects you from yourself is stupid, convincing others this is true to other people makes one the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots.
To further besmirch the image of the average iPhone/iPad user, let's have a café where they can appear to be casually hanging out, before going someplace or doing something incredibly important, but for now can spare $20 for a cuppa and a scone.
This is Apple we're talking about A iCuppa will cost at least $25 (A$58) and the scone would require an upgrade to the iCuppa Pro at no less then $35 (A$136). Not to mention the $9.99 hourly fee for being allowed to enter the iStore seating program and the Apple care warranty in case you burn yourself.
I have the unfortunate distinction of owning a 17" MBP. Wasn't my idea, but part of my job is mobile app dev, and I needed a new laptop anyway, so I let my boss buy me the dumb thing. Every goddamned turtleneck-wearing cockmongler has to bless me with a rant about how they love their Mac.
You dont have to own a Mac to get that.
Two weeks ago I was sitting in an outdoor bar in the Philippines with my Asus laptop just fucking around on the internet minding my own business when a turtleneck-wearing cockmongler came up to me, leaned on my shoulder and started professing how much he loved his Mac.
Now this is outdoors in the Philippines so there are two problems with leaning over me,
1. It's hotter and more humid then the devils arse so close personal contact is not preferable due to the exchange of sweat and possibly other bodily fluids.
2. I like petite Asian girls that close, not middle age western men.
After I explained that my Asus was cost half as much as a Mac and could play the games I wanted to play he burst into rage saying nothing ever goes wrong with a Mac, meanwhile it had Kernel Paniced due to the heat and humidity (Mac's have terrible cooling), my lappy's fan was working overtime so his had no chance and there went his reliability argument.
Yeah. I'm sure a bunch of opinionated nerds hanging around an Apple store telling the ladies why they're wasting their money and trying to push Android on them will get them all sorts of boo-tay.
Good plan,
Only one problem though, we wont find any chicks at an Apple store, only gay men.
Someday the UX fad will go away and stop making things more 'usable' and 'discoverable'
One day people will realise UX is a marketing term that has nothing to do with real HMI/HCI.
User Experience is entirely subjective and based on bias, this means if you have the wrong "user experience" that can easily be blamed on your biases and misconceptions rather then the products deficiencies. This makes it ideal for marketing but completely useless for testing as the results can be changed to say whatever you want them to.
However I dont think this day is near, on a weekly basis I'm still explaining to someone that the TV ad's are lying to them and they have trouble believing it.
The data actually makes a lot of sense: Windows 7 gave user's the ability to pin program icons to the taskbar even when they're not running.
Windows XP had this. It's called the quickstart menu and you could drag and drop items to it the same as one does on 7.
Also it isn't practical to have 15 programs on the task bar and most people will have that many programs. I've got well over 60 on my gaming box and over 25 on my work PC. I have my 5 most commonly used programs, but I still open the task bar when I need to access MS Word or Visio.
I do the same thing with the shopper discount cards. The whole thing is bullshit. If you look at the discounted prices you can readily see how much value they assign to your purchasing history. If they didn't they would just set the discount price as the regular price and be done with it.
They definitely wouldn't be offering discounts in order to get you to shop there every week.
Your theory is pants on head retarded.
Stores offer discounts to garner customer loyalty and regular purchases. It's about keeping you going back there by cutting their margin for people who spend more money over time. Occams Razor at work, be careful with it, it's sharp and if you believe your theory, you'll likely cut yourself.
Stores already gather statistics on what products are sold... when they're sold.
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What you call a walled-garden is just a trading platform.
OK then, Where is the alternate trading platform where I can get the things Apple wont sell me...
Still waiting....
BTW, Jailbreaking is not good enough, it needs to "just work" right out of the box.
You can try to call it a trading platform all you want but you're only fooling yourself because in reality iTunes is vendor lock in that forces you to be in Apple's walled garden by removing features if you try to disobey. It is a restriction despite your attempt to gloss it over.
import favorite pr0n flicks into iTunes
Why do people think this shit is acceptable?
I agree,
I shouln't have to waste time importing and transcoding media I want to consume on the go, I should just be able to copy it straight to the device and have done with.
1a Just get the pron directly. Site, torrent, USB, CIFS/NFS share, whaterver.
There are no other steps.
You fail.
In Australia we speak British English (of course you know that because you actually read the wikipedia article you copy/pasted, didn't you).
We dont Harbor anything, that's a spelling error.
P.S. Just to confuse you, labour and Labor are both correct spellings with different meanings in Australian and British English.
Don't worry writers, Jeffery Archer, Dan Brown, and Tom Clancy have been successfully using this AI for years...
Lies, We all know Dan Brown writes his novels by throwing up onto a typewriter.
Digital warfare style.
Field SGT: WTF command, that drone just killed half my unit.
Drone Operator: Uh, hit the windows key by mistake.
Field SGT: GTFO N00b.
Drone Operator: STFU, my score is still higher then yours.
Field SGT: Commander, Request ban 4 Drone Operator 4 TKing.
Drone Operator ===> Field SGT.
Like the free trade agreement that prevents us from exporting beef to the Americas.
I think you need to read up on what those free trade agreements entail. They're pretty one sided (and not on Oz's favour), The US trade agreement in particular specifically prevents a lot of exports and shoe horns more then a few US laws on us without even asking our permission.
Also the mining companies need to pull their heads and arses into line, they dig up our nation at _our_ pleasure. I'm looking at you Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest.
...Message from White House...
Australia found to harbor terrorists. Military action advised.
Headline from 2012
US Forces Fail to Stop Koala Drop Bear Insurgency in Australia.
Fear the drop bear.
P.S. it's harbour
It's important to note, Gmail does not use folders. Instead you tag emails with various titles and the search engine indexes them.
I dont use folders on outlook because it does remove emails from a view and some folders are not searched by default (yes I use searches rather then folders on Outlook). To be frank I'm not sure why MS or anyone else has not copied Gmails idea of allowing users to tag emails with easily indexed labels rather then using the old folder system.
Nor have the foreign car makers been "doing it for years".
My 1997 Honda Civic VTI uses 7 litres per 100 KM's, that's about 14.2 KM per litre.
There are 4 litres in a gallon. so that's 56.8 KM per gallon.
Now convert that into your archaic distance measurement, 56.8 / 1.6 = 35.5 mpg. So a Japanese car manufacturer has been doing it for at least 14 years.
I assume you are referring to the App Store and the walled garden approach? Non-computer people place very little value on having an open ecosystem. If you are not a programmer you won't be writing your own apps so having an open system is worth very little.
Actually, you're wrong.
Non-computer people take an open ecosystem for granted.
You think no-one cares because they dont know, in reality no-one cares because they assume it will always be there for them. "Locked down" is one of the biggest reasons I hear for people leaving Iphone, you'll find a lot of people will miss the freedom they have come to expect on their computers when you take it away. This is why Android has outsold Iphone in half the time that Iphone has been released.
I disagree. It is useful information, that tells us that we may need to be slightly wary of the article - did the article poster sign up for a slashdot account just so they could post an article from their own blog? On the other hand, if someone has posted many articles in the past, from that we can deduce that they're probably not an astroturfer, but instead a real actual slashdot regular.
In that case, we should start issuing other warnings like "Mr Derp, a well known Derp fanboy has submitted this article lavishly praising Derp".
Or we can just scrap this ridiculous idea of warning labels and judge submissions using reason and common sense.
I agreed with everything you said, even about the trolls...but you can't be serious about removing members or making the site invite only. The moderation system does a fine job of silencing dumb comments.
Indeed,
Perhaps we should remove anyone with a UID above 99,999.
The moderation system does a fine job of silencing dumb comments.
Heh. Go visit one of the smartphone threads sme time.
Yep, the apple trolls dont get modded down nearly enough.
But apart from fanboy moderation (which has gotten a lot better in recent months) the mod system is working well, not 100% but better then 95% of moderation systems on the internet.
As long as you do it eloquently. :)
If the parent your replying to is obviously a complete and total mongoloid and this is readily evident to everyone you've actually got a good chance of being modded up by going off at them.
When they changed the meta-moderation system I stopped meta-moderating. I'd be surprised if I were the only one that stopped. The older system of an up or down vote was a lot easier to do, without actually spending huge amounts of time, it's just too hard to figure out what the moderation should have been.
You dont actually have to pick a reason, but it's better if you do. The way I treat meta moderation is "how would I mod this if I had mod points" rather then trying to guess the way other people modded it.
They could also provide an easier way of reporting abuses of mod points.
An easier way to report abuses, will lead to abuses of that.
Some people get modded down fairly.
My only complaint about moderation is fanboy mods. This is most prevalent with the "cultists" but I see it happen with the "Hippy's" too (BTW, I lump myself in with the Hippy (Linux) crowd). The group supports each other, modding up posts to +5 insightful that should be modded into oblivion simply because they agree with the troll. I refer specifically to post that are nothing more then baseless, scathing attacks on the other side (Android, MS, Apple et al.).
So you can hit your data cap in just hours now! WooHoo!
Reading the small print, 300 Mbps fibre will only be available in one or two select suburbs (read: the richest) and wont expand beyond that.
First the News of the World, and now this.
Gosh, I didn't think they had it in them to shoot Rupert Murdoch into the sun.
That was the original plan, then we switched vendors and had to fire him into the Dell.
Tbf, a large number leveraged flash and acrobat reader. Flash is not installed by default on Macs any more (though is likely to be installed as there's no alternative), acrobat reader is not installed, and is unlikely to be installed due to the existence of preview, and safari's native pdf rendering.
No, they'll just get Mac users the same way 90% of windows Malware is installed.
/mac user clicks
Social engineering.
"Install free Muppets/Hello Kitty/Naked Katy Perry screensaver"
Oh Hai, I'm a Mac Virus.
There is no technological defence for stupidity, pretending a platform automagically protects you from yourself is stupid, convincing others this is true to other people makes one the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots.
To further besmirch the image of the average iPhone/iPad user, let's have a café where they can appear to be casually hanging out, before going someplace or doing something incredibly important, but for now can spare $20 for a cuppa and a scone.
This is Apple we're talking about A iCuppa will cost at least $25 (A$58) and the scone would require an upgrade to the iCuppa Pro at no less then $35 (A$136). Not to mention the $9.99 hourly fee for being allowed to enter the iStore seating program and the Apple care warranty in case you burn yourself.
You dont have to own a Mac to get that.
Two weeks ago I was sitting in an outdoor bar in the Philippines with my Asus laptop just fucking around on the internet minding my own business when a turtleneck-wearing cockmongler came up to me, leaned on my shoulder and started professing how much he loved his Mac.
Now this is outdoors in the Philippines so there are two problems with leaning over me,
1. It's hotter and more humid then the devils arse so close personal contact is not preferable due to the exchange of sweat and possibly other bodily fluids.
2. I like petite Asian girls that close, not middle age western men.
After I explained that my Asus was cost half as much as a Mac and could play the games I wanted to play he burst into rage saying nothing ever goes wrong with a Mac, meanwhile it had Kernel Paniced due to the heat and humidity (Mac's have terrible cooling), my lappy's fan was working overtime so his had no chance and there went his reliability argument.
Yeah. I'm sure a bunch of opinionated nerds hanging around an Apple store telling the ladies why they're wasting their money and trying to push Android on them will get them all sorts of boo-tay.
Good plan,
Only one problem though, we wont find any chicks at an Apple store, only gay men.
Someday the UX fad will go away and stop making things more 'usable' and 'discoverable'
One day people will realise UX is a marketing term that has nothing to do with real HMI/HCI.
User Experience is entirely subjective and based on bias, this means if you have the wrong "user experience" that can easily be blamed on your biases and misconceptions rather then the products deficiencies. This makes it ideal for marketing but completely useless for testing as the results can be changed to say whatever you want them to.
However I dont think this day is near, on a weekly basis I'm still explaining to someone that the TV ad's are lying to them and they have trouble believing it.
Windows XP had this. It's called the quickstart menu and you could drag and drop items to it the same as one does on 7.
Also it isn't practical to have 15 programs on the task bar and most people will have that many programs. I've got well over 60 on my gaming box and over 25 on my work PC. I have my 5 most commonly used programs, but I still open the task bar when I need to access MS Word or Visio.
They definitely wouldn't be offering discounts in order to get you to shop there every week.
Your theory is pants on head retarded.
Stores offer discounts to garner customer loyalty and regular purchases. It's about keeping you going back there by cutting their margin for people who spend more money over time. Occams Razor at work, be careful with it, it's sharp and if you believe your theory, you'll likely cut yourself.
Stores already gather statistics on what products are sold... when they're sold.