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The Nation of Macintosh?
Devon Avenger writes "A new short British film has been released according to this article at Wired depicting a cult of Macintosh fanatics who are organised in a manner reminiscent of the Nation of Islam."
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First iPost!
Life is like a sewer; what you get out of it depends on what you put into it...
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Fly-on-the-wall documentary, is it?
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I am a Karma Library.
And yet still they don't release Quicken for OS X in the UK. And so still this British wannabee Mac fanatic can't bring himself to buy one...
Please Intuit. Please release it. Please...
Cheers,
Ian
Can you imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these?
Never mind the crude, racist, anti-Islamic propaganda here on Slashdot; the US-led "crusade" against so-called "terrorism" has been dealt another crippling blow on the Pacific Rim.
Face it, we can't win. We can't deny justice, and the harder we try, the more stern justice will be delivered to us in turn. The Islamic resistance movements of the world are profoundly moral and decent organizations. They kill only those civilians belonging to criminal races, nations, or religions. Once again, they have demonstrated their willingness to defend themselves. Once again, no power on Earth can stop them.
Our only hope is to admit the obvious rightness of their cause, to abandon our imperialistic "globalism" forever, and to work for racial justice in the world as a junior partner to the brave men who have conducted such brilliant self-defense operations in Zamboanga, Bali, NYC, and elsewhere.
You gonna back up that slander about steve jobs?
Or is this just more anti-apple bigotry?
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23
Genetic Algorithms are, essentially, nothing more than powerful general design tools which mimic Darwinism by setting up a population of artificial 'organisms' and allowing them to evolve based on selection pressures defined by the user and/or creator.
This is one technique that Apple has fully embraced and extended to their microprocessor partners, specifically IBM and Motorola. These two integrated circuit 'outfits' compete with new GAs and improved conductor materials as they both vye for the new big contract from Apple Computers.
How does it work, though?
Well, to produce a chip design with components arranged in an optimal manner using GAs, the computer engineers create an initial population of chip patterns which have randomly arranged components.
From here on out, they use simple D-latches for fast data storage (as seen in the internal storage units of most modern microprocessors) and improve upon the pattern repeatedly until one design outlasts them all, and wins the 'prize' as the next chipset basis for the latest G4, G5, G6, et cetera.
Many industry experts see this as a truly revolutionary engineering practice, but still others are a bit more weary to accept it as a standard manufacturing process.
I've yet to decide my own personal opinion, but it's interesting regardless.....
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5
Troll? I thought it was at least interesting if not insightful. Wait right there while I get my metamoderating stick....
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
so can call the US government evil thugs, but can't point out the zealotry here?
When a post like the above one gets moderated down to 0, "Overrated" and "troll" when clearly it isn't a troll (And the actual troll in this thread- who calls mac users the worst kind of zeolots gets modded up to 5) then there is no incentive to not post AC.
The purpose of moderation is to enhance good posts-- not to punish people who think differently from you.
Of course, I should have expected it, after all, I was pointing out how bigots mistreat mac fans, and what do I get? mistreatement at the hands of bigots.
As far as I'm concerned, slashdot has outlived its usefulness. I think I will keep reading the headlines, but I will stop participating in the forums. The system is broken, and the level of discourse is not high enough often enough to make it worth my while. This latter bit being BECAUSE the moderation system is a popularity contest.
Since you have rated this post (And other long detailed technical posts I've made) at zero because you didn't like what they said-- and not been caught in metamoderation-- then there is no reason whatsoever not to post as an AC.
And thus, I leave slashdot.
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23
equals the character assisination of the lady from the microsoft switch article.
Malcolm X was killed by Nation of Islam people cause he left their cultish group. The other day people went overboard in assisination the character and personal preference of the MS lady who left being the mac user for 8 years to using MS WIndows.
There were more than 1200 Slashdot Posts, 99.9% attacking the lady personal choice and some even making nit picking at the instructions of switching from mac to pc that she gave. But there was nothing like that from the apple switchs of people going from MS to OSX or linux to OSX .
I have a feeling most of those posts were from the same mac zealot people who get overly zealous and frustrated and therefore react in the same way as the nation of islam people did when malcolm X "betrayed" their group.
(a little old skool Violent Femmes for ya)
Yeah man, I'm with you. On all fronts. I frequently am upset at the moderation (hey, they're monkeys on a keyboard.)
Its to the point where I know that If I say something pithy I'll get modded up to +5 funny, however if I try to bring real depth I'm redundant, troll, flamebait, etc.
I'm also with you cuz I have a powermac 7200 dual booting into linux.
but the conclusion? You find a web of people who have something to say- you click 'em as yr friend (little green ball/blue ball) and you establish your own meta-slashdot. And you read their journals.
The rest of this slashdot is idiots who don't read the article and post simply to see their posts in a public forum, first posts with goatse links, and player-haters.
Slashdot sucks. make your own slashdot.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Typical Slashdot moderator being a DWEEB.
This IS funny you crackhead !!!
Here and here I got modded -1 troll because I don't kiss Steve Jobs ass.
Oh, you're real tough there, AC.
It is quite unfortunate that most people are so completely ignorant or processor design. That is one of my sticking points.
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23
The nation of islam has engaged in terrorism in the past.
Its amazing how often ignorance becomse justification for calling someone stupid.
Your ignorance of history does not make me stupid, stupid.
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23