Take a station wagon and a Jeep, mash them together, and you get a vehicle that is too expensive to take into the woods, and is too inefficient and rolls over too often on the road.
There was some blog that I read a couple years back that showed how it was financially cheaper to own both a family car and a Jeep Wrangler, than to own a certain SUV. Can't remember which one. Even if it proved more expensive to own both, the benifits of having the right tool for the job are always worth it.
Not Quite. Standards provide freedom, and therefore encourage higher quality results. How things were done is in a documented and open way, and therefore can be improved upon. The same goes for the Standard Itself, which often lifts all content to a higher level of quality.
Closed systems specifically disallow improvement, therefore locking in whatever level of quality or service they provide.
Kinda like how, if I learned the skill of snake charming, and I worked in an I.T. department, I wouldn't expect any extras in my paycheck.;-)
But if you worked as a flight attendant, it might just come in handy!
Depends on the snake charming school the flight attendant graduated from. If it was the one in India, that's one set of skills that could prove very useful in a very limited range of situations.
If it was the Snake Charming School of Nevada, those skills could prove useful on *every flight*
It's not if the iPhone is running OS X- It's "What IS OS X?"
If you think OS X is the current code base, well, then, it's probably running OS X that's been built from a lot of the current code base, so it's OS X.
If you think OS X is something you can run Adobe Illustrator on without a problem, then it is most certainly Not OS X. Things have changed over the past few years, it used to be that an OS implied a hardware platform, and that's just not the case anymore. Therefore the naming convention no longer accurately describes what's going on.
A few years back I bought the Loki Games port of Descent3 for Linux. That's what it said on the box- Descent3 for Linux. In the box there's a compiled binary that most certainly will not run on non-x86 Linux installs.
Is it Apple's responsibility to say that even if the code is the same, the binaries are different?
Did Steve tell the truth, lie, or mis-lead via omission?
By the way, Intel can and has produced ARM processors in the past, and I'd imagine they will be a major supplier of the ARMs in the iPhones (maybe not initially, but as production ramps up, yes) - is saying that the iPhone has an Intel processor truth, lie, or a similar mis-lead?
It may speed up adoption, but it also helps point out exactly how stupid Vista's Premium Content crap is. People will be ripping their HD-DVDs just so they can watch them without crippling the rest of their machine.
Yes, exactly, by my logic that is what I am saying.
I'm tired of people not taking responsibility for the things they should be responsible for. It's way too acceptable in today's society to just point the finger at someone else, especially if that someone else is a government or large company.
Another responder below mentioned that some areas have been taking out the safety markings on roads. This takes away the crutch and makes drivers responsible for their own actions. It makes them become better drivers, and more aware of what's going on- because they can no longer rely on the rules to save them. Safety items simply create complacency, and complacency will Always create situations where bad things happen.
I found Mac OS X to be relatively stupified in comparison to other OS's that I've used. OS X is pretty and all, but I prefer 'functional' over 'shiny' and I like to really dig into the inner workings of the OS that I use.
I find it's both. It's shiny and pretty, and when you know how to use it it's insanely functional. There are all kinds of key commands that make productivity on OS X far surpass that on XP (for me). There's system wide automatic spellchecking, good window management, and I've yet to mention how wonderful Spotlight is.
Like any OS you're going to have to learn it to get use out of it. If you don't put in the time you're not going to get the result.
As for the digging around in your OS, I've found OS X to be _much_ better than XP. Let's see, I can use bash, or I can use a shell that isn't as useful as the one that came with OS/2. Once again it takes some time to learn the OS X conventions, where files are, what you can change without breaking things horribly, etc. And I'll be the first to admit that Linux is (generally) more hackable. XP fanboys go ahead and flame me, but I think I am right here.
A small company directly disclosed what it was doing and what the consumer should expect in a User Agreement. Nobody read the agreement, what it said was fairly absurd, and as such it's considered to be fraud and the company got closed down and the owner sent to jail.
However, when a large company creates an EULA with some absurd phrases, and puts it somewhere no one will read it, the end users get held accountable for adhering to it. Sony can (and perhaps has) go sue people for ripping their purchased CDs to both their home computer and their work computer, since that's a violation of their CD ELUA. Using that logic, the hordes of people who bought from this guy are the criminals.
People are seeing this as a landmark case for software piracy. I think it's much more than that- it's a landmark case against insane ELUAs, which is something that needs to happen.
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Take a station wagon and a Jeep, mash them together, and you get a vehicle that is too expensive to take into the woods, and is too inefficient and rolls over too often on the road. There was some blog that I read a couple years back that showed how it was financially cheaper to own both a family car and a Jeep Wrangler, than to own a certain SUV. Can't remember which one. Even if it proved more expensive to own both, the benifits of having the right tool for the job are always worth it.
Haha, you're still only +4.
Closed systems specifically disallow improvement, therefore locking in whatever level of quality or service they provide.
Seriously.
If you think OS X is the current code base, well, then, it's probably running OS X that's been built from a lot of the current code base, so it's OS X.
If you think OS X is something you can run Adobe Illustrator on without a problem, then it is most certainly Not OS X. Things have changed over the past few years, it used to be that an OS implied a hardware platform, and that's just not the case anymore. Therefore the naming convention no longer accurately describes what's going on.
A few years back I bought the Loki Games port of Descent3 for Linux. That's what it said on the box- Descent3 for Linux. In the box there's a compiled binary that most certainly will not run on non-x86 Linux installs.
Is it Apple's responsibility to say that even if the code is the same, the binaries are different?
Did Steve tell the truth, lie, or mis-lead via omission?
By the way, Intel can and has produced ARM processors in the past, and I'd imagine they will be a major supplier of the ARMs in the iPhones (maybe not initially, but as production ramps up, yes) - is saying that the iPhone has an Intel processor truth, lie, or a similar mis-lead?
We all know a machine Safe Mode doesn't allow remote management.
Three is a number under ten. Therefore it should be spelled out using letters.
Exactly.
This is exactly why we need a "-1 Meaningless Evangelism" Mod.
There Should be. We need a "+1 Godly" also, and perhaps a "-1 Meaningless Evangelism" to handle all those "My OS Sucks Less than yours" posts.
"Return of the editors. The CB radio effect; too much noise from too many people; will drive more people to moderated lists and newsgroups."
God. Fuck this. It's one thing to let the corporations run America- it's something entirely different to let them run the world.
That picture reminds me of certain enemys in DOOM 1. China's got rockets, all they have to do now is send them to Mars.
It may speed up adoption, but it also helps point out exactly how stupid Vista's Premium Content crap is. People will be ripping their HD-DVDs just so they can watch them without crippling the rest of their machine.
Matt Daemon.
This is starting to sound like Trial By Slashdot.
You'd probably be better off starting a new project.
I'm tired of people not taking responsibility for the things they should be responsible for. It's way too acceptable in today's society to just point the finger at someone else, especially if that someone else is a government or large company.
Another responder below mentioned that some areas have been taking out the safety markings on roads. This takes away the crutch and makes drivers responsible for their own actions. It makes them become better drivers, and more aware of what's going on- because they can no longer rely on the rules to save them. Safety items simply create complacency, and complacency will Always create situations where bad things happen.
People need to take the time to know how to use the things they own.
I find it's both. It's shiny and pretty, and when you know how to use it it's insanely functional. There are all kinds of key commands that make productivity on OS X far surpass that on XP (for me). There's system wide automatic spellchecking, good window management, and I've yet to mention how wonderful Spotlight is.
Like any OS you're going to have to learn it to get use out of it. If you don't put in the time you're not going to get the result.
As for the digging around in your OS, I've found OS X to be _much_ better than XP. Let's see, I can use bash, or I can use a shell that isn't as useful as the one that came with OS/2. Once again it takes some time to learn the OS X conventions, where files are, what you can change without breaking things horribly, etc. And I'll be the first to admit that Linux is (generally) more hackable. XP fanboys go ahead and flame me, but I think I am right here.
. . . and your point is?
By reading this t-shirt you agree to buy the wearer a beer.
A small company directly disclosed what it was doing and what the consumer should expect in a User Agreement. Nobody read the agreement, what it said was fairly absurd, and as such it's considered to be fraud and the company got closed down and the owner sent to jail.
However, when a large company creates an EULA with some absurd phrases, and puts it somewhere no one will read it, the end users get held accountable for adhering to it. Sony can (and perhaps has) go sue people for ripping their purchased CDs to both their home computer and their work computer, since that's a violation of their CD ELUA. Using that logic, the hordes of people who bought from this guy are the criminals.
People are seeing this as a landmark case for software piracy. I think it's much more than that- it's a landmark case against insane ELUAs, which is something that needs to happen.