- May 24, 2005
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Apple shipped iPods carrying computer virus
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elmuchoescadawg
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First solution for this without opening a can of worms. Why have one apple product when you can have 2?
Kazrog
Kazrog, Inc.
joeymusicguy
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victory!??
(im on microsoft's side)
the funniest thing is, both sides can be laughed at for this one, haha
(im on microsoft's side)
the funniest thing is, both sides can be laughed at for this one, haha
kev
Im guybrush threepwood
Kenneth R.
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Loren Littlejohn
Lover of all boobage.
JeffTD
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SocialNumb
Damn Christians!
And virus-free Apple for the win!
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Better solution... Linux on both!
Jeff
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DSS3 said:
SocialNumb said:oh so true don't buy I pod's pc people
Better solution... Linux on both!
Jeff
JeffTD
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I suppose Linux > OS X, if you don't plan on doing anything but web-surfing, chatting, e-mail, and basic word processing.
Jackal_Strain
Sigurd Løberg
DSS3 said:
If that's all you can find to do on Linux, it's time to learn how to use a little thing called a 'software manager'. Both are UNIX-like, and the comment was mainly directed at using PCs and IPods with non-proprietary bullshit, but if installing software without plunking down half a paycheck for one fucking CD is really too complicated, then have it your way.
Jeff
Kazrog
Kazrog, Inc.
JBroll said:
Yeah it's great installing RPMs and whatnot, but ultimately there's nothing out there for professional music production or graphic design on Linux, and I can run any Linux app on my Mac anyway. Linux is a big mess because there's no cohesive standards, just a few loose agreements on certain things here and there. Open Source is something I believe in strongly, but it will never be entirely self-sustaining, and it's not a very good model for a desktop OS.
OS X kills Linux.
everybody's x
My name is Damage
JeffTD
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Kazrog said:
DAWs - a lot of that is a matter of taste, given things that have all that you want to do, and while I am not a professional by any stretch I can't find things I miss in Ardour from time I've spent with Cubase. Graphic design isn't my thing, honestly, but I can say that most of the graphic design people at my school that actually have half a clue what they're doing (including most of the Mac club members I've met) use the GIMP.
Lots of things have cohesive standards, but that doesn't make them very well off just because of it - yeah, Linux isn't perfect, but it does have the 'inventor' still at the top of the pyramid to make sure stuff is going to do what it's supposed to, and it's a hell of a lot more flexible and open-ended than anything else I've used. The 'loose agreements' thing sounds like nonsense - Torvalds is in charge of the kernel, and he's a stickler for proper programming, so 'loose' describes not the core of the system, and for a piece of software to be taken seriously it does need to have much more than a 'loose agreement' to actually make any progress in usage and development.
You'll have to clarify what you mean by 'entirely self-sustaining' - I know plenty of 'desktop users' who have no problems at all with using only OSS software. The only possibly (as a stretch) 'non-open-source' program on my computer is the codec pack, and even a good chunk of that is open-source because it's not reverse-engineering proprietary codecs but using an alternative method of decoding the same files - and yes, it has great performance, and the only codecs I don't have working perfectly are things that are guarded like Area 51 and whose owners have made a point of not doing anything for Linux (which basically comes down to Shockwave - boo-hoo, I can't play those games on CartoonNetwork.com! - and, of all things, Quicktime, which I fucking hate anyway). Open-source was the past, and it will become the future if we can just cut the balls off of Micro$oft and open our heads a little more to fit the concept of free software not being inferior necessarily because it's free.
OS X, and not being able to build one's own Mac with one's own hands, and still having to deal with proprietary nonsense, may be fine for a lot of people, but I want control over everything and I want things to work exactly how I want them, so I don't agree at all with Linux being 'killed'. It's certainly subjective - and don't get me wrong for a second, as I've said before if I ever paid a dime for an operating system again I'd go with one of the UNIX-based Mac OS systems - but there's a big line between having a preference and having the ability to say that one operating system is dead in the water without having serious evidence to back it up and saying that it's not a suitable desktop OS. If you never want to pay for software again, reboot, or have any limits whatsoever on what you can do with a little computer literacy, Linux is a bloody wonderful desktop OS.
Jeff
