Forgot to mention to that it's probably all about greed. I suspect this is really about not wanting to lose a cut of his profits. Remember all those B.S. excuses about not wanting to deliver his game to Steam users? The service which is basically the anti-MS?

Yea. Profit.

Shut up Notch. Seriously. Just shut up.

Notch is simply very skilled at being able troll the internet and being an attention whore. You all think he is the fabled developer of Minecraft. No, he's just the world's best indie PR person.

He needs to desperately draw attention to himself via the game press who eats it up to maintain relevant so he can milk more out of the one game he's ever made, if at all (didn't someone else do all the main stuff of the game?).

I just laugh, because remember that tweet he made about not being as open because people will mis-read. So it's ok if it generates more press towards your $30 *indie* game, but not good if it negatively affects your name and brand.

So I re-iterate, just shut up notch.

I wonder if it will even matter anymore?

With everyone willingly giving up everything to go into walled gardens, and the obvious superiority of native code applications*, is HTML5 a dead end?

Discuss! (ha)

* Not saying that pretty much all apps on smartphones I've used aren't buggy, featureless, poorly designed piece of shit--they are--so much so. And I love the openness of using web sites and never having to need to update my software. I love it. I'm just saying they have the *potential*.

You know, that's a good point. Never thought about that.

But then I thought, it isn't true. I saw it with a few of my friends, but the reality is this: they just connect to WiFi access points instead. It's just different usage patterns.

For example, they use their smartphones all the time. They just use WiFi in their house. When they leave, they connect to work's. Or they connect at Starbucks when they sit down for coffee. Or when they go out for lunch they connect to the place's WiFi. And this is most of the world. Regardless of what tech sites and the carriers want you to think, not everyone has $100/mo cell bills with data plans. Even iPhone users.

You are celebrating an evil company who makes inferior products, has cult people constantly justify that and spout BS vitriol about the superiority to others? Way to go man! (read:sarcasm).

They're are a ton of companies in our history that went to shit. Even Apple itself. Gee, I don't know, remember when it went *bankrupt* in 1997?

Amen to that. You are spot on. That's why I just ignore Apple articles most of the time. You know they're just plant stories. Don't ever expect actual news or critical reporting on it. Or even any depth. Or even a slightly critical sentence on one annoying detail. The articles just repeat memes over and over and over. I was just reading some article the other day, it was really good. The guy actually spoke of a few features that he didn't like. *Actually* mentioned the features. And I was like "oh yea, now I remember why I never bought a Mac back in the day. Brain dead design functions and lack of features--just think of QT for Windows, ugh." Even though I am constantly unconsciously swayed by their supposed "perfect" hardware that is so sexy, that is repeated EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. by supposed tech sites.

I wonder what people think about their beloved Mac when they have all these problems that come to rise? When they get a spinning beachball or finder crashed once a week? Do they get pissed or rationalize it like usual cultists?

And as for the stock, I know what u mean. It's going up so high because institutional people are buying it because retail people are suckers and think "OMG OMG apple forever!" They flat-out know that the people are idiots and will continue to buy. But then when the musical chairs drop, they'll act like institutional investors: they'll have no problem walking away and taking their profit. But the retail investor will hold on "because it's Apple!". Problem is, when institutional sells, stocks drop, because just a few institutions holds more shares than all the retail investors in the country. So all those fanboys will be left with nothing. Can't say they don't deserve it though.

And it also doesn't help that institutional investors read the WSJ, and we all know that they're a shill with the resident "Walt Moss-Puppet."

Wow. You brought back some memories. Been a long time since I heard dBase and WordStar. I miss WordStar *sniff*.

But you completely illustrated my entire point. You were a user of Word 97 and like most people probably never learned anything more. Used none of the new features. None of the new tools or used the new workflow of the new Offices that made things easier, faster, etc. The revamped ribbon in 2010 for example made discovery awesome. I've been using Word/Excel professionally for years and even then I discovered new shit I never even knew existed, thanks to the ribbon. Or pivottable reports. So much freaking better. Could Word 97 even do PivotTables?

So you gave your hand right in the beginning. You even said all you do is databases.

Now, who in their right mind uses Access for DB's anyway? Everyone has known that Access is just "thrown in" and not to be used since us normal users got to use Linux and therefore PostgreSQL or MySQL. There is legacy stuff and enterprise installations, such as what you do at work. Dude, don't yell at me. Blame your work and or IT managers for *ever* choosing a choice that no one ever makes sanely and has known about for 15 years.

Let's take a step back here. I've been using Linux since 1995. Since Slackware v 2 IIRC. So you can fool most of the Apple sheep on here with ur BS, but not me. I was configuring apache servers and Sendmail servers since well, forever.

Apple has rudimentary BSD userland tools. It was just based on a BSD kernel and to show the press "UNIX!" they put some userland shit around it to make you feel all fuzzy. Compare that userland to FreeBSD today or a full distro of say CentOS or Debian. If you're doing anything heavy "UNIX-like" or using anything POSIX related, or want anything better than god awful fink and want up-to-date and featureful UNIX apps from a good package manager like apt or yum, you use a real distro.

There is no shame in dual-booting. Just don't pretend that OSX is the better choice.

Wait, why am I even arguing? I'm realizing the futility of typing this post out as I do it.

You're just the idiot.

I've haven't experience the pain of loading Adobe apps in a while ha. But again, once it's loaded, why would you ever close it? And since you mention lightroom, surely your workstation has 24-32GB of RAM in it at least. You eat up all your RAM and your box bogs down because it's running constantly from swap?

Though that is good to know about closing many tabs in web browsers. I never had that problem, but I am always opening and closing my browser completely because of security (other sites read what you have open, or malicious software places overlays on your logins, etc) or just plan want to avoid memory leaks from browsers.

Did you read my post at all? You missed the entire point. I never reboot. Only when I have to reboot for patches. So this point is moot.

So don't.

It's simple. Spend the $120 for the home and student perpetual and stop whining.

It amazes me that people are such boneheads. Have people actually used Office 2010 or are they still armchair quarterbacks spouting BS because they used Word 95 back in the day? Libre is awesome, no doubt, but let's not pretend it's even in the same league as office. Libre is comparable to Office 97, maybe.

Are you people seriously bitching about spending $120 on one of the most featureful, useful, advanced, and complex pieces of software today? And MS isn't Apple, they support their stuff. So you can spend $120 and skip each one, so in effect you are spending $120 every SIX years! People have no problem spending ridiculous amounts of money on other shit, but "OH NO! I don't want to spend $20 per year on the world's most useful software GRRR!"

Idiots.

How is it for data analysis and modeling? Specifically how does Libre compare to Excel with Pivot Tables, charts, etc.? The Libre documentation PDF is awesome and extensive (like 400 pages!) but mentions no word of Pivot Tables.

As a side note, I disagree with you on cut-and-paste. I bought a spectacular book, can't remmeber the name, it's like Office Inside and Out, by Ed Bott who has been around since forever. Read up on Excel. Excel 2010 is pretty amazing and you'll see how awesome it's clipboard system rocks.

And obligatory Yea yea "use SPSS like u should" for data modeling. But businesses don't give a crap. In the real world, we use Excel.

Oh my god. If I have to read one more BS Apple story like this on the internet, I'm going to go nuts.

Apple lovers must be stopped. They're driving ad revenue and hits to all these *retarded* articles. They keep writing them because people keep clicking on them. STOP IT people!

Maybe I should just follow "if u can't beat em, join em." I should just post "Using an iPhone gives you crabs" or "iPhone as valuable as cream of wheat" and watch the money roll in.

I just laugh. Remember that new screw hoax? They said "they just make it too easy."

They provide bug fixes. Not updates. 3GS and 4 won't get all the goodness of iOS 6. Let's not pretend they are still getting an update.

Also don't forget Google didn't need to provide a lot of updates (notice i didn't say bugfixes) because it had features that iOS lacked for ages, like the newly touted turn-by-turns directions, Google-earth ripoff, poor man's version of cloud functionality as opposed to badass Google's implementation, etc.

You are correct in theory. And I agree with you.

But in reality: people buy from whomever has the most/best marketing.

They buy Apple because they saw some hipster douche on TV ripping on a silly nerd, or because they have a hipster douche friend who shouts to get an iPhone every day at their friend, or because a girl thinks "it looks cute" and then proceeds to put a Burberry case and bedazzles on it.