Yeah... but what about...Java? Sounds like Microsoft is just reinventing the wheel and integrating it into their browser so that they can control it. The cross platform bit is probably a ploy to help it get wider acceptance before other platforms get killed.
Your post sounds like some errant process (X11, OO.org, the Finder) was taking a lot of CPU, giving the appearance of a "crash". In pretty much any modern OS, a "crash" occurs as a kernel panic; ie the kernel dies, and no process is running. In Windows, it shows up as a BSOD. Your machine didn't crash, it was simply taking a long time to respond. Windows (and any OS, really, besides a realtime OS, or something like BeOS) does this as well. Applications can crash (or lag) on any OS. The OS crashes when the kernel dies.
As far as command option escape being cryptic, wouldn't you say the same thing about alt-ctrl-delete?
Worse, because I got a deal and paid less, he thinks I'm not really an Apple customer/user. In his mind, paying a lot to get in is simply the cost of joining the Apple Union, so to speak. If you didn't pay your dues, you don't really count.
Stay away from morons. Only thing that can be said, really.
The "bomb" hasn't been around for a long time (after the classic Mac OS was deprecated).
As far as the "sad Mac" goes, granted, that is fairly cryptic, but it's also fairly easy to google, as well as being a fairly known problem. In any case, the sad Mac is gone too, with the advent of the newer EFI based Intel Macs.
The points are well taken; every OS can do better in this regard. I think the commercial was simply pointing out that currently, most Macs do it better than Windows.
You are likely running with administrator rights on the machine, which allows you to do whatever you want to do in/Applications.
I think by default, users with admin privs are allowed to do whatever they want within/Applications and their user folder (~ in *nix terms)./bin,/System, etc are more protected, and modification and creation of files in those folders require a sudo.
Where are you getting your information regarding the "real" vs. generic meds? Without some proof, the only way to look at your post is as FUD.
As far as your comparisons of "branded" goods (Oakley and Haynes) vs. so called generics, you're confusing the issue greatly. How about Dell machines vs. an Asus barebones kit + quality add on components? How about a standard Linksys router vs. a Buffalo WHR-G54S with OpenWRT? Hell, what about Windows vs. Linux?
Branded doesn't always mean better, and can often mean "worse" or the same. All the branding ensures is that marketers have paid money to elevate the consumer consciousness about the product.
I'm sure Forbes does see them as victims since most companies do try to "game" the system to screw over the consumer. They are simply catering to their market demographic.:)
For those people on the newer intel based Macs, CS3 brings intel native binaries -- not running Photoshop in "emulation" is likely worth the upgrade price to many professionals.
If the "watermarking" works anything like Macrovision (the technology that causes DVDs to become distorted when viewed throw a VCR's line in/out), it might mean that they are introducing new, perceptible artifacts into the data stream (changing, however infinitesimally the audio stream). If they are able to add the "watermark" without changing the audio at all, it should make little difference pragmatically.
However, the more interesting part of all of this is that if the content is watermarked, it's effectively still DRM, albeit a much, much less restrictive form than most current DRM schemes. The "right" that is being "managed"? Free copying of the file without leaving traces of (potentially damaging) personal information. I'm sure that stripping such a watermark would be a violation of the DMCA (for those of us in the US), or other, similar DRM protection methods enacted into law.
They are about equivalent in file sizes. Of course, FLAC has the edge in being open source, thus being supported on more platforms with less worry about the format being abandoned.
The iPod probably would have used FLAC instead of ALAC had the iPod been powerful enough to decode it on the fly or had been lighter on the CPU and battery. It seems like a waste to invent another format (R&D, support costs) when a free one works just as well (see Apple's usage of KHTML, etc.).
The rumor is that FLAC may be supported in Mac OS X Leopard by default (and presumably in a forthcoming version of Quicktime) -- now the question is whether iTunes will support FLAC metadata (please iTunes devs, if you are reading, do this!).
Regarding the firewall complaint, I looked around a bit, and was informed that Ubuntu already uses iptables, and has no open ports by default. Also, typing in "firewall" into the add/remove app brings up Firestarter. No fuss at all.
Very few people install OSes on their own for their PCs. They generally buy them preinstalled with their computers. The OS X thing is interesting, since after a long period of Apple becoming almost irrelevant outside their own community, they are actually taking some marketshare -- look at college campuses and the many new Macbooks floating around -- there's obviously still an opportunity for other OSes to make it in the market, but consumers want the choice preinstalled on their PCs.
When and if Dell (or another mass market PC vendor) installs Linux on their PCs, we can get a better idea of how Linux can do against the Microsoft monoculture... until then, it's almost a moot point for most users.
Most of your complaints stem from the fact that Linux isn't Windows (big surprise there!) -- it does things differently, but you only notice since you're used to another OS.
Slow booting and no tutorial? You already said that you were using a Live CD. Can you run Windows (officially) in a "live cd" enviornment? Perhaps you should compare the boot times on an Ubuntu install when it's actually installed on your hard drive, like every copy of Windows you have used. No tutorial? The last version of Windows that I can think of that had a tutorial was Windows 3.1 -- and that was a long time ago.
Basic things like "where stuff is in the file system" and "how to install programs"? How many Windows users do you know that dig around in the filesystem anyway -- neither OS is particularly friendly to users in this regard. Most people just stick to the "Start" menu, just like most users will stick to Ubuntu's "Applications" menu. This is probably the wrong audience to ask, but what do you hope to accomplish by digging around in the filesystem of any modern OS? You can't really play with settings, or configure applications; those are mostly tasks that have special areas in the OS. The "how to install programs" is also pretty hilarious -- in my install of Ubuntu, I click on "Applications" and choose "Add/Remove" -- it's a top level menu, for cryin' out loud.
You not being able to use Python to program in is also pretty funny -- you want to program in Python, but you don't want to do a simple google search to find out how it may differ from your Windows way of doing it? I'm sure Windows came with a full Python development kit and runtime libraries, and you didn't have to learn how to do anything -- it was just there and it just worked, right? I typed in "python ubuntu" into google and came up with this as the first result -- now how hard was that?
The same can be said of your firewall complaint -- you may have something here, and in fact, I am going to request that a firewall be listed (or available) in the next version of Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon). But this can also be remedied by simply doing a google search... I found a very nice tutorial that requires no touching of a command line at all, that helps you install Firestarter.
Not detecting your flash drive seems to be an anomaly -- I've had no issues mounting removable media at all.
Perhaps the advice you recieved wasn't the most amazing (but you don't always get great advice from Windows "wizards" either), but if you had simply taken some incentive in learning the new OS instead of expecting it to bend over backwards to allow for your expectations of how your computer to run, you may have found that Linux isn't so hard at all... it's mostly just different.
Note: I use Mac OS X as my main OS, and I am referring to my brother's Ubuntu install in this post -- he prefers Ubuntu over Windows (something that surprised me), and has no issues at all using it. This is coming from someone who has used Windows for probably seven years before even trying Ubuntu, and he was sold after a few weeks.
You sound like the same people that say "Mac OS X is hard" -- when they really mean that it's different, and they don't want to learn how to work differently. I'm sure that if you put a complete newbie in front of Windows and Ubuntu, they would have no issues using either one.
You deserve mod points, since you are absolutely correct. What this site is doing is offering a sneaky workaround for Windows users -- but skirting the problem entirely.
I really hate using it though, because if the webmasters care at all (and are looking at their logs), it just looks like "oh everyone is using IE anyway, who said Firefox is gaining in marketshare?"
You know, the old "Find" command from ye olde Mac days isn't gone, it's a Command-F away, just like always. Spotlight is just in addition to that. If Spotlight doesn't work the way you want, just don't use it.
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Yeah... but what about ...Java? Sounds like Microsoft is just reinventing the wheel and integrating it into their browser so that they can control it. The cross platform bit is probably a ploy to help it get wider acceptance before other platforms get killed.
Your post sounds like some errant process (X11, OO.org, the Finder) was taking a lot of CPU, giving the appearance of a "crash". In pretty much any modern OS, a "crash" occurs as a kernel panic; ie the kernel dies, and no process is running. In Windows, it shows up as a BSOD. Your machine didn't crash, it was simply taking a long time to respond. Windows (and any OS, really, besides a realtime OS, or something like BeOS) does this as well. Applications can crash (or lag) on any OS. The OS crashes when the kernel dies.
As far as command option escape being cryptic, wouldn't you say the same thing about alt-ctrl-delete?
Stay away from morons. Only thing that can be said, really.
From the wikipedia article on sudo:
The "bomb" hasn't been around for a long time (after the classic Mac OS was deprecated).
As far as the "sad Mac" goes, granted, that is fairly cryptic, but it's also fairly easy to google, as well as being a fairly known problem. In any case, the sad Mac is gone too, with the advent of the newer EFI based Intel Macs.
The points are well taken; every OS can do better in this regard. I think the commercial was simply pointing out that currently, most Macs do it better than Windows.
You are likely running with administrator rights on the machine, which allows you to do whatever you want to do in /Applications.
/Applications and their user folder (~ in *nix terms). /bin, /System, etc are more protected, and modification and creation of files in those folders require a sudo.
I think by default, users with admin privs are allowed to do whatever they want within
Where are you getting your information regarding the "real" vs. generic meds? Without some proof, the only way to look at your post is as FUD.
As far as your comparisons of "branded" goods (Oakley and Haynes) vs. so called generics, you're confusing the issue greatly. How about Dell machines vs. an Asus barebones kit + quality add on components? How about a standard Linksys router vs. a Buffalo WHR-G54S with OpenWRT? Hell, what about Windows vs. Linux?
Branded doesn't always mean better, and can often mean "worse" or the same. All the branding ensures is that marketers have paid money to elevate the consumer consciousness about the product.
I'm sure Forbes does see them as victims since most companies do try to "game" the system to screw over the consumer. They are simply catering to their market demographic. :)
Slashdot beat digg to this one... :)
For those people on the newer intel based Macs, CS3 brings intel native binaries -- not running Photoshop in "emulation" is likely worth the upgrade price to many professionals.
If the "watermarking" works anything like Macrovision (the technology that causes DVDs to become distorted when viewed throw a VCR's line in/out), it might mean that they are introducing new, perceptible artifacts into the data stream (changing, however infinitesimally the audio stream). If they are able to add the "watermark" without changing the audio at all, it should make little difference pragmatically.
However, the more interesting part of all of this is that if the content is watermarked, it's effectively still DRM, albeit a much, much less restrictive form than most current DRM schemes. The "right" that is being "managed"? Free copying of the file without leaving traces of (potentially damaging) personal information. I'm sure that stripping such a watermark would be a violation of the DMCA (for those of us in the US), or other, similar DRM protection methods enacted into law.
They are about equivalent in file sizes. Of course, FLAC has the edge in being open source, thus being supported on more platforms with less worry about the format being abandoned.
The iPod probably would have used FLAC instead of ALAC had the iPod been powerful enough to decode it on the fly or had been lighter on the CPU and battery. It seems like a waste to invent another format (R&D, support costs) when a free one works just as well (see Apple's usage of KHTML, etc.).
The rumor is that FLAC may be supported in Mac OS X Leopard by default (and presumably in a forthcoming version of Quicktime) -- now the question is whether iTunes will support FLAC metadata (please iTunes devs, if you are reading, do this!).
He said "track", not "album" or "CD".
That was a really unfunny episode...
Regarding the firewall complaint, I looked around a bit, and was informed that Ubuntu already uses iptables, and has no open ports by default. Also, typing in "firewall" into the add/remove app brings up Firestarter. No fuss at all.
Very few people install OSes on their own for their PCs. They generally buy them preinstalled with their computers. The OS X thing is interesting, since after a long period of Apple becoming almost irrelevant outside their own community, they are actually taking some marketshare -- look at college campuses and the many new Macbooks floating around -- there's obviously still an opportunity for other OSes to make it in the market, but consumers want the choice preinstalled on their PCs.
When and if Dell (or another mass market PC vendor) installs Linux on their PCs, we can get a better idea of how Linux can do against the Microsoft monoculture... until then, it's almost a moot point for most users.
Is it me, or should this post be modded "troll"?
Most of your complaints stem from the fact that Linux isn't Windows (big surprise there!) -- it does things differently, but you only notice since you're used to another OS.
Slow booting and no tutorial? You already said that you were using a Live CD. Can you run Windows (officially) in a "live cd" enviornment? Perhaps you should compare the boot times on an Ubuntu install when it's actually installed on your hard drive, like every copy of Windows you have used. No tutorial? The last version of Windows that I can think of that had a tutorial was Windows 3.1 -- and that was a long time ago.
Basic things like "where stuff is in the file system" and "how to install programs"? How many Windows users do you know that dig around in the filesystem anyway -- neither OS is particularly friendly to users in this regard. Most people just stick to the "Start" menu, just like most users will stick to Ubuntu's "Applications" menu. This is probably the wrong audience to ask, but what do you hope to accomplish by digging around in the filesystem of any modern OS? You can't really play with settings, or configure applications; those are mostly tasks that have special areas in the OS. The "how to install programs" is also pretty hilarious -- in my install of Ubuntu, I click on "Applications" and choose "Add/Remove" -- it's a top level menu, for cryin' out loud.
You not being able to use Python to program in is also pretty funny -- you want to program in Python, but you don't want to do a simple google search to find out how it may differ from your Windows way of doing it? I'm sure Windows came with a full Python development kit and runtime libraries, and you didn't have to learn how to do anything -- it was just there and it just worked, right? I typed in "python ubuntu" into google and came up with this as the first result -- now how hard was that?
The same can be said of your firewall complaint -- you may have something here, and in fact, I am going to request that a firewall be listed (or available) in the next version of Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon). But this can also be remedied by simply doing a google search... I found a very nice tutorial that requires no touching of a command line at all, that helps you install Firestarter.
Not detecting your flash drive seems to be an anomaly -- I've had no issues mounting removable media at all.
Perhaps the advice you recieved wasn't the most amazing (but you don't always get great advice from Windows "wizards" either), but if you had simply taken some incentive in learning the new OS instead of expecting it to bend over backwards to allow for your expectations of how your computer to run, you may have found that Linux isn't so hard at all... it's mostly just different.
Note: I use Mac OS X as my main OS, and I am referring to my brother's Ubuntu install in this post -- he prefers Ubuntu over Windows (something that surprised me), and has no issues at all using it. This is coming from someone who has used Windows for probably seven years before even trying Ubuntu, and he was sold after a few weeks.
You sound like the same people that say "Mac OS X is hard" -- when they really mean that it's different, and they don't want to learn how to work differently. I'm sure that if you put a complete newbie in front of Windows and Ubuntu, they would have no issues using either one.
Really? Do you have any evidence for that?
That still presupposes Windows, locking out Mac and Linux users.
You deserve mod points, since you are absolutely correct. What this site is doing is offering a sneaky workaround for Windows users -- but skirting the problem entirely.
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I really hate using it though, because if the webmasters care at all (and are looking at their logs), it just looks like "oh everyone is using IE anyway, who said Firefox is gaining in marketshare?"
ajaxWrite doesn't support Safari; I'm guessing it doesn't support Konqueror either. Nice to see that they recommend Firefox, however.
You are absolutely correct. This definitely sucks. Have you submitted a bug report to Apple about it?
iPods do not use MPEG-4 SLS, but rather Apple's own propietary format, Apple Lossless.
You know, the old "Find" command from ye olde Mac days isn't gone, it's a Command-F away, just like always. Spotlight is just in addition to that. If Spotlight doesn't work the way you want, just don't use it.