Besides, Mac OS X is not "free as in speech." Want to take a look inside the Quartz Compositor? Sorry, you're SOL
And you're using semantics to back up a losing argument. I said, "essentially free". But to play your game, take a look around, speech ain't exactly free lately either.
too bad she seemed obsessed w/ snapping the neck of little babies
Actually, the way I interpreted it, that was one of her most humane moments. She killed the baby to save it from the coming Cylon attack. Fucked up? Hell yeah, but definitely sympathetic in a psychotic sort of way.
One night, I was roving mars with it, when all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and all my telemetry just disappeared! All of it. And it was a good rover!
Not the Moon. All the WMDs are on Mars, being hoarded by none other than that terrorist mastermind Marvin! It's only a matter of time before Powell shows up at the UN with another powerpoint presentation to plead his case for immediate mobilization to Mars so we can stop this madman before his capability results in the smoking gun of an Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator mushroom cloud in one of our cities.
We will fight the Martians on Mars so that the average citizen can be safe here at home!
Some of us travel internationally. My shortest flight in my 150k butt-in-seat miles this year is 11 hours. I guess I'm in the niche
You should also be sleeping some of that time. Not that I'm apologizing for Apple here, cause yeah 11+hours of battery life would be nice. But come on, I fly to Tokyo regularly and I sleep at least half of that 15 hour flight. And hey, there's always the lovely selection of onboard music the airline pumps in. =)
Nor does everyone have the same needs as you. Most of the people I see with iPods are commuters on the subway, where weight and the ability to slip it into a pocket definitely do come in handy.
And aesthetics aside, the techTV link says the sound isn't quite as good. Though that assessment, like the one about its looks is purely subjective.
Oh, definitely. He was tougher on them in the past, during times in which they admittedly deserved it. But even then, he wasn't one of the "write-an-article-predicting-Apple's demise-becau se-everyone-else-is", types. He knows what works for him and what doesn't and has no problems saying so.
Mossberg's always liked Macs. Sure, he's had gripes before, all of them pretty much justifiable, but he's always been one of those straight-shooters that's been able to see around the "Apple is dying" bullshit a lot of his peers loved to spew.
I haven't used either app, but they seem to both be a bit like the standard multiple desktop implementations in X-windows. If that's the case, Expose is different.
It basically shrinks all your open windows to tiles and splays them out across the desktop, giving you their names as you mouse over them. It also allows you to pull up just application windows or just pushes all the windows out of the way to show you your desktop. (Kinda like the show desktop command in 'doze)
I dunno, I'd say his familiarity with the OS would help. He's one of those Mac users that's fairly vocal about what he thinks sucks about the platform. I'd rather have him write the review than someone who's got either no knowledge of the system and its precursors.
And Harry Knowles shouldn't write reviews of anything for anybody.
No, the Mac fans aren't complaining, but the X86 fanboys seem to be coming out of the woodwork to crow about how their hardware is better yet again. Kinda sad actually. And they call Mac users zealots...
I agree it's still a great thing that they get this kind of performance out of off the shelf hardware. Even better is the fact that they'll squeeze more performance and efficiency out of it once they tweak it properly and get all the bottlenecks taken care of.
You can dance around the issue all you want with sarcastic rhetoric, but it doesn't change the fact that Slashdot is biased. Do you think they ever report the myraid of holes reported in my sig? No. But they'll make an entire article out of a speculative article that doesn't actually prove anything.
You're just as biased in favor of Microsoft, so what's your point?
Actually the fact that a site like the one in your sig exists is a plus, not a detraction from linux. Microsoft's central repository for the myriad of holes in its OSes is out there too, they don't report every single one of the holes on that page either. (Most of them sure, but I patched a whole lot more holes on some of clients machines this week than were mentioned on slashdot.)
As far as dancing around issues goes, your posting history shows a bit of a Fred Astaire routine as well...
Good point, but in my defense, the only thing I use windows for is games and as the occasional compatibility testbed for pushing stuff I've done on the unwashed masses. I lose data there, no big. The macs are backed up all the time though.
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Besides, Mac OS X is not "free as in speech." Want to take a look inside the Quartz Compositor? Sorry, you're SOL
And you're using semantics to back up a losing argument. I said, "essentially free". But to play your game, take a look around, speech ain't exactly free lately either.
Its free, it works, and you are used to it.
Yeah, but if you've already shelled out the cash for a Mac, the version of OS X that came on it was essentially free too. Your point's kinda moot.
Not the hose again!
too bad she seemed obsessed w/ snapping the neck of little babies
Actually, the way I interpreted it, that was one of her most humane moments. She killed the baby to save it from the coming Cylon attack. Fucked up? Hell yeah, but definitely sympathetic in a psychotic sort of way.
Is she related at all to Linda Park, who plays the comms officer in Enterprise?
No, Park's just a fairly common Korean name. I know like eight different people named Park, only two of 'em are related.
Even if I didn't dig the hell out of the mini, I'd watch the series for more Grace Park. =D
Nanobot Five is alive! No disassemble!
We can do that with OS X as well. I've refused to install several upgrades. So yeah, that last point's a bit moot.
Good to know we're on the same page though...
One night, I was roving mars with it, when all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and all my telemetry just disappeared! All of it. And it was a good rover!
Not the Moon. All the WMDs are on Mars, being hoarded by none other than that terrorist mastermind Marvin! It's only a matter of time before Powell shows up at the UN with another powerpoint presentation to plead his case for immediate mobilization to Mars so we can stop this madman before his capability results in the smoking gun of an Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator mushroom cloud in one of our cities.
We will fight the Martians on Mars so that the average citizen can be safe here at home!
Bush's was 1206.
And this simply proves that the guy he paid to take the test
for him was kinda smart and/or good at taking tests.
Next factoid?
Some of us travel internationally. My shortest flight in my 150k butt-in-seat miles this year is 11 hours. I guess I'm in the niche
You should also be sleeping some of that time. Not that I'm
apologizing for Apple here, cause yeah 11+hours of
battery life would be nice. But come on, I fly to Tokyo
regularly and I sleep at least half of that 15 hour flight.
And hey, there's always the lovely selection of onboard
music the airline pumps in. =)
Nor does everyone have the same needs as you. Most of the
people I see with iPods are commuters on the subway,
where weight and the ability to slip it into a pocket
definitely do come in handy.
And aesthetics aside, the techTV link says the sound isn't
quite as good. Though that assessment, like the one about
its looks is purely subjective.
Oh, definitely. He was tougher on them in the past, duringu se-everyone-else-is", types. He knows what
times in which they admittedly deserved it. But even then,
he wasn't one of the "write-an-article-predicting-Apple's
demise-beca
works for him and what doesn't and has no problems saying so.
Mossberg's always liked Macs. Sure, he's had gripes before,
all of them pretty much justifiable, but he's always been one
of those straight-shooters that's been able to see around
the "Apple is dying" bullshit a lot of his peers loved to spew.
Enderle, is that you? Didn't your mom tell you to stop trolling on /.?
I haven't used either app, but they seem to both be
a bit like the standard multiple desktop implementations
in X-windows. If that's the case, Expose is different.
It basically shrinks all your open windows to tiles
and splays them out across the desktop, giving you
their names as you mouse over them. It also allows
you to pull up just application windows or just
pushes all the windows out of the way to show you
your desktop. (Kinda like the show desktop command
in 'doze)
I dunno, I'd say his familiarity with the OS would
help. He's one of those Mac users that's fairly
vocal about what he thinks sucks about the platform.
I'd rather have him write the review than someone
who's got either no knowledge of the system and its
precursors.
And Harry Knowles shouldn't write reviews of anything
for anybody.
Since Pogue has been writing tech books for years,
I'd say he's fairly well qualified to write a review of the OS.
And for the most part, he's dead on. Expose has changed
the way I work, that feature alone is worth the upgrade cost for me.
But there's no Office 2000 for Mac. Oh, the confusion
That's because it joined the Nation of Islam, threw off its slave name and became Office X.
No, the Mac fans aren't complaining, but the X86 fanboys
seem to be coming out of the woodwork to crow about how
their hardware is better yet again. Kinda sad actually. And
they call Mac users zealots...
I agree it's still a great thing that they get this kind of
performance out of off the shelf hardware. Even better is
the fact that they'll squeeze more performance and efficiency
out of it once they tweak it properly and get all the
bottlenecks taken care of.
Not to be confused of course, with extracting the Michael...
You can dance around the issue all you want with sarcastic rhetoric, but it doesn't change the fact that Slashdot is biased. Do you think they ever report the myraid of holes reported in my sig? No. But they'll make an entire article out of a speculative article that doesn't actually prove anything.
You're just as biased in favor of Microsoft, so what's your point?
Actually the fact that a site like the one in your sig exists is
a plus, not a detraction from linux. Microsoft's central
repository for the myriad of holes in its OSes is out there
too, they don't report every single one of the holes on that
page either. (Most of them sure, but I patched a whole lot
more holes on some of clients machines this week than
were mentioned on slashdot.)
As far as dancing around issues goes, your posting history
shows a bit of a Fred Astaire routine as well...
Good point, but in my defense, the only thing I use windows for is games and as the occasional compatibility testbed for pushing stuff I've done on the unwashed masses. I lose data there, no big. The macs are backed up all the time though.
"Welcome to the Win2k KB828035 Setup Wizard...
Before you install this update, we reccomend that you:
- Update your system repair disk
_ Back up your system
- Close all open programs"
Now, I can see closing all open progams, but backing up my system before installing an update? Microsoft, quality is job one.