Microsoft is finally commiting big-style seppuku, and theres no serious Linux contender to pick up the expected masses of castaways, because Linux desktops have been _already_ gutted. Thanks Apple.
Um, this is an article about WINDOWS. WIN-DOWS. Not OS X.
Just because all the Linux devs. went out and bought MacBooks, saw the OS X UI, and went "This X11 GUI shit looks old and busted now", and tried to out-Eye-Candy Apple (even though OS X itself has seriously toned-down the eye-candy over the years), doesn't somehow make it Apple's fault.
Well, the real issue with this is that, in my experience, the apps and settings are the problem, not Windows itself (depending upon whether you consider the registry to be part of the OS or the user settings). I've found that often times nuking the user profile (which is the most obnoxious part to lose) is what solves the problem, not that Windows binaries are corrupted.
I would say the ratio is closer to 50:50 system:non-system corruption; with the two often working in tandem. But that was my thought, too: Why only refresh HALF the warez?
Their market cap relies on inflated profits - mostly from iPhone and iTab 'luxury' products with monopoly-like profit margins on both.
I don't know about iPhone profits; but in the case of the iPad, at least, Apple's profits can hardly be "monopoly-like", or they would have been soundly trounced price-wise by the many iPad-wannabe competitors. But as anyone with two functioning brain cells knows (sorry if that leaves you out), no one has been able to beat them on price.
Major difference between vanilla 98 and SE was stability. Back then, windows crashed on regular basis, and SE was just extremely solid and could run for days without rebooting, while 98 required restarts every few hours on most systems.
Since OS X 10.0.0, the Finder has been "just another app". The fact that it launches by default (like Explorer.exe in Windows), and doesn't have a Quit/Exit command (just like Explorer.exe) unless it is enabled through a little preference-file trickery, doesn't change the fact that it is just another app.
To say Apple didnt invent the tablet and then point to Microsoft seems indifference to that toy that Apple released so long ago called the Newton... before Palm..
That "toy", like the later "toy" (the iPad), launched entire new breeds of products. So apparently, you are in the minority in dismissing those groundbreaking products (yes there were other "tablets" before the iPad; but none were more than annoyingly cringeworthy).
But of course, like all haters, you are too pusillanimous to subject your Karma to the drubbing it so richly deserves.
Do you have any example of a useful cpu-heavy "background app"? Sorry but alarm clocks and reminder apps only need 0.001 core. Timesharing is fine for them. Even mp3 decoding requires less than 0.1 core nowadays.
I can think of a few foreground apps that would benefit from as many cores as you care to throw at them:
P.S. I can't believe Firefox's spell checker couldn't spell "equipt." I know the more commonly used word ("equipped") has the same meaning and Firefox could spell that version. But, c'mon, gang: "equipt" is two-characters shorter!
"equipt." is the common abbreviation for the word "equipment", not some Newspeak ebonification of "equipped".
Learn to speak the language or GTFO. Just because you're lazy, doesn't mean you get to lay waste to the language.
Now, if half the population starts using "equipt" to mean "equipped", then it will be added to the dictionary.
People usually don't say "We'll miss you" about an ill-person UNTIL they already dead.
Now why don't you go pick on the OTHER fucktard AC that posted this bit of detritus:
But hopefully soon so this stupid cult can finally end.
Whoever posted that deserves nothing less than to have to watch their own loved ones die slowly and painfully.
And before you call me a fanboi, I say that as a human being, not as an Apple fan.
And, as a general observation, Slashdot would be a WHOLE lot more civil and erudite if it would end AC posting. If you aren't willing to stand by your words, then you should fucking keep them to yourself!
Now that Taco's gone, maybe the new editor-in-chief can make that happen.
Blah blah blah. You attack anti-Apple people who are not here, yet you obviously know nothing about the stock markets, and parade around like an Apple fanboy.
The system now is broken. Today's CEO get paid multi-million dollar bonuses win, lose or draw. Someone has to lose, and right now that is the rest of us. Every CEO should be given an agreed goal, and their bonus works both ways. If they achieve it they win their bonus, if they lose they pay out. How much more effective would executives be under this system? It would certainly weed about the bullshit-artists and big talkers.
Yeah, that's what we need: MORE incentive to make corporations more greedy and profit-centered than they already are.
When Carly Fiorina got kicked out of HP, the market cap of HP bounced 3 billion dollars. In other words, the market thought Carly was a drag on HP by 3 billion.
it's stock he can't sell for another 10 years. it's only worth 383 million if the stock price stays where it's at. Just look at GE after jack welch left. MS after bill gates. or almost any other company after an iconic CEO or founder steps down. the stock usually tanks.
usually it's the law of large numbers. you can't grow as fast when you're a huge company
Amazingly, even though "the market" is EXTREMELY jittery right now, Apple's stock only went down by 7%, and in two days is now trading HIGHER than the pre-announcement price.
This reflects the fact that Tim Cook IS the right man for the Job, and in fact, already HAS a proven track record at Apple, since he has run the company twice (or is it three times?) during Jobs' other hiatuses (hiatii?). And Apple and Jobs' have been quite smart by pushing Tim's previous fill-ins out into the limelight. Not only did that signal to everyone that Apple had "a plan" for succession, but also let everyone get to know Tim Cook, and his managerial style.
Fortunately, Jobs' protracted illness has given both he and Apple time to do this right. If Jobs had died in a plane crash or something, and no one had ever heard of Tim, THEN there would have been a bigger drop. But not this way.
Apple's stock isn't going to be "tanking" anytime soon. Now go spread your FUD somewhere else.
How about the Dynabook which could be seen as the inspiration for modern laptops and tablets and was conceptualized in 1968? Apparently Alan Kay called Microsoft's Tablet PC "the first Dynabook-like computer good enough to criticize" rather than anything from Apple.
But the Dynabook (which, believe it or not, inspired Jobs to spearhead the Macintosh project) is less like an iPad than it is like a BlackBerry (sans the "phone" stuff).
That isn't Apple's model. That is the normal way of buying music that Apple only adopted after facing pressure from the community and competition from Amazon and others.
Spin history any way you want. The truth is, Jobs penned his famous "Open Letter" a full year before Amazon opened Amazon MP3. It just took Jobs a little longer to work out the details and hammer out the details, since they had a lot more deals with a lot more labels, already in place.
This is exactly what I need! More DRM'd music stores which most likely won't even have many of the bands I listen to! And not only are these DRM'd in the fact I have to listen to them in a cross-platform player but instead I have to stick to the same brand of phone! Sounds like one great deal to me!
You do realize, of course, that the two biggest music stores, iTunes and Amazon, have not had DRM for years now, right?
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It's not like XP suddenly will 'stop working' no matter what MS wants.
Really? What happens when they turn off WGA for XP?
Microsoft is finally commiting big-style seppuku, and theres no serious Linux contender to pick up the expected masses of castaways, because Linux desktops have been _already_ gutted. Thanks Apple.
Um, this is an article about WINDOWS. WIN-DOWS. Not OS X.
Just because all the Linux devs. went out and bought MacBooks, saw the OS X UI, and went "This X11 GUI shit looks old and busted now", and tried to out-Eye-Candy Apple (even though OS X itself has seriously toned-down the eye-candy over the years), doesn't somehow make it Apple's fault.
Well, the real issue with this is that, in my experience, the apps and settings are the problem, not Windows itself (depending upon whether you consider the registry to be part of the OS or the user settings). I've found that often times nuking the user profile (which is the most obnoxious part to lose) is what solves the problem, not that Windows binaries are corrupted.
I would say the ratio is closer to 50:50 system:non-system corruption; with the two often working in tandem. But that was my thought, too: Why only refresh HALF the warez?
Their market cap relies on inflated profits - mostly from iPhone and iTab 'luxury' products with monopoly-like profit margins on both.
I don't know about iPhone profits; but in the case of the iPad, at least, Apple's profits can hardly be "monopoly-like", or they would have been soundly trounced price-wise by the many iPad-wannabe competitors. But as anyone with two functioning brain cells knows (sorry if that leaves you out), no one has been able to beat them on price.
Major difference between vanilla 98 and SE was stability. Back then, windows crashed on regular basis, and SE was just extremely solid and could run for days without rebooting, while 98 required restarts every few hours on most systems.
Ooh, DAYS!
Since OS X 10.0.0, the Finder has been "just another app". The fact that it launches by default (like Explorer.exe in Windows), and doesn't have a Quit/Exit command (just like Explorer.exe) unless it is enabled through a little preference-file trickery, doesn't change the fact that it is just another app.
To say Apple didnt invent the tablet and then point to Microsoft seems indifference to that toy that Apple released so long ago called the Newton... before Palm..
That "toy", like the later "toy" (the iPad), launched entire new breeds of products. So apparently, you are in the minority in dismissing those groundbreaking products (yes there were other "tablets" before the iPad; but none were more than annoyingly cringeworthy).
But of course, like all haters, you are too pusillanimous to subject your Karma to the drubbing it so richly deserves.
Do you have any example of a useful cpu-heavy "background app"? Sorry but alarm clocks and reminder apps only need 0.001 core. Timesharing is fine for them. Even mp3 decoding requires less than 0.1 core nowadays.
I can think of a few foreground apps that would benefit from as many cores as you care to throw at them:
Multitrack recording apps, like GarageBand.
Video CODEC intensive apps, like iMovie.
You do know that iPhone apps can do quite a lot in the background...[]... right?
Yeah, like sending all your data to Apple without your consent, for example.
You're confusing Apple with Android. Only with Android, all your data gets sent to some entity you have no identity for.
P.S. I can't believe Firefox's spell checker couldn't spell "equipt." I know the more commonly used word ("equipped") has the same meaning and Firefox could spell that version. But, c'mon, gang: "equipt" is two-characters shorter!
"equipt." is the common abbreviation for the word "equipment", not some Newspeak ebonification of "equipped".
Learn to speak the language or GTFO. Just because you're lazy, doesn't mean you get to lay waste to the language.
Now, if half the population starts using "equipt" to mean "equipped", then it will be added to the dictionary.
Or just willing to put up with regular margins, and not 30% on every transaction.
Yeah, because Amazon is SOOOOOO much fair-er to the developers on THEIR app store.
[rollseyes]
Apple insists on a very large profit margin. They can be underpriced by someone with the money to commit to large volume production.
Except for the fact that, in two years, NO ONE has beat the price of the iPad by any significant margin.
If the Amazon tablet sells for $300, it will either be an overblown Kindle, and/or be sold as a loss-leader to sell some "content" service.
No one in the world has Apple's electronic-component buying power right now. And least of all Amazon.
Hey fucktard AC!
People usually don't say "We'll miss you" about an ill-person UNTIL they already dead.
Now why don't you go pick on the OTHER fucktard AC that posted this bit of detritus: But hopefully soon so this stupid cult can finally end.
Whoever posted that deserves nothing less than to have to watch their own loved ones die slowly and painfully.
And before you call me a fanboi, I say that as a human being, not as an Apple fan.
And, as a general observation, Slashdot would be a WHOLE lot more civil and erudite if it would end AC posting. If you aren't willing to stand by your words, then you should fucking keep them to yourself!
Now that Taco's gone, maybe the new editor-in-chief can make that happen.
Wow. I'm sure you meant that it's fortunate that Jobs has had time to hand off responsibility
Yow!
Yes, that's is exactly what I meant. I in no way intended for my words to sound insensitive or cruel. Thanks for allowing me to clarify...
Blah blah blah. You attack anti-Apple people who are not here, yet you obviously know nothing about the stock markets, and parade around like an Apple fanboy.
And you skulk around like an Anonymous Coward.
At least _I_ have the cajones to OWN my words.
Now, STFU, biotch.
The system now is broken. Today's CEO get paid multi-million dollar bonuses win, lose or draw. Someone has to lose, and right now that is the rest of us. Every CEO should be given an agreed goal, and their bonus works both ways. If they achieve it they win their bonus, if they lose they pay out. How much more effective would executives be under this system? It would certainly weed about the bullshit-artists and big talkers.
Yeah, that's what we need: MORE incentive to make corporations more greedy and profit-centered than they already are.
Genius.
It's just like the Grand Canyon is the European name for it, while its proper name, given by Native Americans, is Weemoteeuktuk.
Cultural insensitivity aside, I think Grand Canyon is easier to remember.
Hi all... Hope this company will do the same as under legendary Steve Jobs. We will miss u Steve.
He's NOT DEAD YET!
Damn!
When Carly Fiorina got kicked out of HP, the market cap of HP bounced 3 billion dollars. In other words, the market thought Carly was a drag on HP by 3 billion.
She and her bathroom-spying team, er, WERE.
Good riddance, bitch!
it's stock he can't sell for another 10 years. it's only worth 383 million if the stock price stays where it's at. Just look at GE after jack welch left. MS after bill gates. or almost any other company after an iconic CEO or founder steps down. the stock usually tanks.
usually it's the law of large numbers. you can't grow as fast when you're a huge company
Amazingly, even though "the market" is EXTREMELY jittery right now, Apple's stock only went down by 7%, and in two days is now trading HIGHER than the pre-announcement price.
This reflects the fact that Tim Cook IS the right man for the Job, and in fact, already HAS a proven track record at Apple, since he has run the company twice (or is it three times?) during Jobs' other hiatuses (hiatii?). And Apple and Jobs' have been quite smart by pushing Tim's previous fill-ins out into the limelight. Not only did that signal to everyone that Apple had "a plan" for succession, but also let everyone get to know Tim Cook, and his managerial style.
Fortunately, Jobs' protracted illness has given both he and Apple time to do this right. If Jobs had died in a plane crash or something, and no one had ever heard of Tim, THEN there would have been a bigger drop. But not this way.
Apple's stock isn't going to be "tanking" anytime soon. Now go spread your FUD somewhere else.
doesn't clearly violate the constitution.
Why yes, yes it does.
The State has to show a very strong public policy reason for violating the Constitution like that. "Shouting 'Fire!' in a theatre" kind of "strong".
I'm pretty sure they won't be able to do this.
How about the Dynabook which could be seen as the inspiration for modern laptops and tablets and was conceptualized in 1968? Apparently Alan Kay called Microsoft's Tablet PC "the first Dynabook-like computer good enough to criticize" rather than anything from Apple.
Interesting. While the quote regarding the MS Tablet is true, Alan Kay also called the Macintosh "The first computer good enough to be criticized."
But the Dynabook (which, believe it or not, inspired Jobs to spearhead the Macintosh project) is less like an iPad than it is like a BlackBerry (sans the "phone" stuff).
So now what?
So, A tablet in A movie, that doesn't look like the iPad or Galaxy Tab, is prior art?
A movie is prior art at all? I guess the emphasis is on the word "art", not "prior".
I think that is the sign that there really is no admissible prior art, eh?
That isn't Apple's model. That is the normal way of buying music that Apple only adopted after facing pressure from the community and competition from Amazon and others.
Spin history any way you want. The truth is, Jobs penned his famous "Open Letter" a full year before Amazon opened Amazon MP3. It just took Jobs a little longer to work out the details and hammer out the details, since they had a lot more deals with a lot more labels, already in place.
This is exactly what I need! More DRM'd music stores which most likely won't even have many of the bands I listen to! And not only are these DRM'd in the fact I have to listen to them in a cross-platform player but instead I have to stick to the same brand of phone! Sounds like one great deal to me!
You do realize, of course, that the two biggest music stores, iTunes and Amazon, have not had DRM for years now, right?
Now, go troll somewhere else.