Posts by JEDIDIAH

Re: Have you tried Win 8 with a mouse

> window move requires an application to respond to a move event before the move happens, resulting in freezing

...which they could refactor by using the BeOS "thread everything" approach or by using the X11 approach of having a separate window manager. Bad apps wet themselves but the rest of the system chugs happily along.

Although that's the PROGRAMMER's interface rather than the USER's interface.

So bringing that up is a big of a red herring.

That's like saying you can't build something like Cinnamon because you went from GNOME2 to GNOME3.

Re: There isn't enough porn in the world.

> Even a hardened downloader would struggle passed 10 - 20 TB?

Take what an American spends on cable. Apply it to spinny media and streaming downloads.

In about 6 years you will pass the 10TB mark.

Re: One reason to buy...

You laugh but I already do this sort of thing with my truck.

Sooner or later, there's bound to be a 1TB one in there. It's just a matter of time. The one that's there now would have been considered science fiction when some of the files on it were originally created.

Cloud? ppppffffffttt!

Re: Brains!

> Probably because it's such old news that no one really cares...

Of course it's "old". It goes all the way back to the first time Apple's name meant something.

IBM triggered something that would marginalize Apple for the next 20 years still seems to still be a menace to Apple despite an apparent surrender. There's more to tech than what a modern feeble attention span can manage to focus on.

Quite Right.

Quite Right.

I have gotten 100MB/s out of my wired GigE network. That was driven by a single big-but-cheap spinny disk.

Your spinny disk is the real bottleneck, not the external storage bus.

Re: i hope the store crashes and burns then i hope the ashes crash as well

Given what generally tends to be in "app stores", that's not much of a tragedy.

RHEL is meant to run kilobuck commercial software with similarly expensive support contracts. They aren't your casual sort of end user thing. Contracts and haggling are involved.

Lack of access to Adware versions of things that are better as user compiled Free Software is not such a tragedy.

Re: well thats a surprise

There is nothing reliable about Windows.

Once you've got things set up so that your box is booting straight into your app, ease and complexity are no longer a factor. You might even be using the exact same app.

Unix tends to be much better at staying in place and is much more maleable beforehand.

Re: Curious...

I have seen exactly ONE media center machine in the wild.

It was being sold by the local uber-geek computer shop. It came with a DVD carousel too. Only time I ever saw that in the wild either. It was an expensive beast that made me glad I opted for a ripper based alternative.

People not knowing about MCE is a little like people not knowing about Archos media players and pre-iPad tablet PCs. You can't blame people for not knowing about that which is not advertised or available in OEM form.

Now that I think about it, it's a tad like Linux. '-p

Re: Strewth,

> it's a matter of opinion. I miss slides, and so do my friends. There's no magic in watching digital photos, all 10 billion of them, on a computer screen. Even as "large" as 27 inch or so.

???

This is 2013. Display them on your telly. Buy an Apple streamer if you have to.

There's really no reason to be limited to a 27 inch monitor anymore.

Re: Thank goodness I don't have kids

I take the other side of the argument. Apple fans like to crow about how Apple products are somehow a sign of wealth and affluence and that competing products are a demonstration of the reverse.

....well if that's really so then these kids should be able to just BUY their own Apple devices.

Then there are hand-me-downs to consider. There are generations of iThings out there now.

Re: And there was me...

Someone has to play the role of the Duke of Milan. Otherwise stuff doesn't get built for lack of funding.

Re: Wounded fanboy

> Gosh, I must have imagined all those Firewire based video cameras that dominated the market from about 1999 to 2009?

Pretty much.

It's 2013 now. If you have to bring up the past and then EXAGGERATE it, then you are only proving my point.

Firewire was already pretty effectively marginalized by 2009 even in video cameras.

Re: Great idea!

Got a router, TV, BluRay player, Cable box, PVR, or PHONE.

Then you already have Linux.

Linux is already quite "mainstream". It just hasn't displaced WinDOS.

Once you ditch legacy WinDOS apps anything is possible. Although chances are that the future vision of this concept will be based on x86 chips because corporations simply can't get over their Windows habit.

Re: @Mark Shuttleworth: Comments Of An Ubuntu User

So you make money by being on the leading edge. You make money selling early access to that. You provide a well tested system. You have the fastest response time with fixes. You provide useful enhancements.

Being the reference platform for Steam should be worth something.

Being the reference platform for Oracle is worth something to Red Hat and Suse.

If you think you can't make money with GPL./Linux then you just aren't cut out for this stuff.

They're still troll-ish.

No. They're just base and crass for other reasons.

Universities are supposed to help improve the state of the art. They aren't supposed to be another form of bridge troll. They're supposed to be the counterpoint to companies that don't do anything without getting their proverbial palms greased.

Academics like to claim to be above such things.

Re: Well there's a surprise

More likely you've got a split between n00bs and power users and both are cost conscious once you get beyond Apple users. Both netbooks and ultrabooks fail to compete against tablets on the lowend and more powerful laptops on the high end.

PC users probably aren't interested in the expensive shiny shiny that an ultrabook represents.

It's almost like PC users remain PC users because they aren't interested in the options Apple offers.

Re: I still don't get…

> I really don't understand the 'war' between Apple device and Linux users.

Apple and Linux representing diametrically opposed design philosophies.

Calling Apple products "Unix derived" ignores most of the defining qualities of Unix. Here it is useful to distinguish between kernels and the user level interfaces. Linux isn't just Linux. It's also GNU. Whereas MacOS is a proprietary interface that's bolted on top. Any kernel could be under there.

It's Linux that has a Unix interface bolted on top of it.

Get beyond that and you have "why not" versus "justify yourself".

If you are the least bit creative, you will find Apple has put barriers in your way and you will find the Apple user community belittling you and what you want to do.

MacOS is not Unix. Neither is PhoneOS.

Re: Never again

This tech hasn't been around long enough to be "time tested". It needs to be handled accordingly. Thus, I always check the end user reviews and see what products may be a bad egg (and avoid those).

At this point, reliability seems to be a bigger problem than speed.

So speed focused reviews are less interesting. At this point I don't care so much whether or not one of these can keep up with on of my spinny disk arrays.

Re: Netflix and alternative platforms...

Prosecute the victim.

If Netflix is just building on Silverlight then there's a good chance that it is their suppliers like Microsoft that are the real patent violators here. Netflix just seems to be using someone else's software. They aren't the real "violator" here.

Re: Hmmm

Such a dual port scheme would also allow you to use expansion products for your Apple devices while also being able to charge your device. You wouldn't be left in a situation where you can't really fully take advantage of all your doodads because you'll run out of power.

Sometimes I wonder if those blindly devoted to Apple do much of anything with their overpriced tokens of conspicuous consumption.

Re: Curious...

It's not just a proprietary format. It's Microsoft's own proprietary format that idiots like you helped them force on the rest of us. Now that we all have data in these formats, Microsoft (and by extension you) are just giving a big f*ck you to all of us.

THIS is why you avoid proprietary formats to begin with.

Crassus Maximus could decide to stop supporting the tools necessary for you to use your own data.

The legacy support issue is quite separate from the question of whether or not MIcrosoft has really given up on vendor lock for newly created documents.

Oh the huge-manate!

What you've described sounds more like old school copyright working as it should.

Copyright terms weren't absurd. New artists weren't shaken down by the old ones that are trying to live off of the labor they did 20 years ago.

It would be far easier to manage "what is owned" if every worthless scrap of paper isn't assumed to be some masterpiece meant for publishing and exploitation.

Pedestrian users with no imagination.

> II beg to differ... many people use PVRs to watch weekly broadcasts at times convenient to them, and then delete them.

....which is still best done with more capacity rather than less. More capacity means that there is a large window between when you record something and when it is likely to be culled to make room for something else. More capacity means that you can go on holiday and not have to worry about your favorite show being there when you return.

Modern TV recordings are BIG and there's no longer an option to tweak quality settings to get more storage out of a small PVR.

Puny PVRs also make it harder to juggle the interests of multiple people on the off chance that you aren't someone that lives alone (family, roommates).