There's the real humor: What are the chances these guys will be gotten by real pirates? It's still a big problem in the southern Asian seas. "Arrrr, gimme all yer CD-Rs." "Aye matie, but we'rrrrre pirates too." "No ye arrrrrn't, yerrrrr just geeks. Well tanned geeks. Arrrrr."
I don't know about you, but I get my towels from a towel licensing firm. I'm only allowed to use them for a restricted set of purposes, but I get the benefit of regular maintenance updates and, um, patches.
I'm just glad to finally see the convergence of software and floating piracy. I, for one, will proudly say 'arr' every time I use a bit of pirated software. (On my friend's computer, that is!)
Or he could just stfu and pay for it. It's not like he has any legitimate reason to expect free software from a company that's trying to stay in business.
Like the guy at Wolfram Research? Or the fellows from the University of Sydney? Or the president of Takara Co.? How about the executives of the companies awarded in the Economics category? Did you bother reading the article or are you just another annoying knee-jerk "I don't get it, but I must be paying for it, God, it's awful, the humanity!" people?
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There's a difference between having a different opinion (I have major issues with Linux and free software people) and just being lame. As far as I can tell, you fall into the latter category.
The difference is between 'countable' and 'uncountable' nouns. Other examples are lettuce, cabbage, and water.
The distinction becomes real when it's time to distinguish between what I call continuously and discreetly quantified nouns. Water is one example. Mass is another. It becomes important when you want to express the less/fewer amount. I can have more lettuce and more cars, but I have to have less cabbage and fewer telephones. Less telephones is incorrect.
For $100 less, you could get a G4 iMac which has similar footprint details, comes with twice the drive space, same RAM, same optical media drive, and gets you the sexiness of Mac OS X.
I haven't seen power consumption numbers, but over the life of the PC, it's quite possible that the machine will save the difference in lower energy costs. Just switching to an LCD on a desktop makes a significant difference in power consumption.
Eh? What is 'it' and how does the existence of other operating systems that don't do DRM make Mac OS X more like the other guy? I honestly can't understand what you're trying to say.
What I was trying to say is that Mac OS X is a competitor to Windows (the other guy.) Mac OS X doesn't have DRM, so it lets you use your computer more than does Windows.
"Either Apple doesn't know what one hand is doing while the other isn't looking, or we're a bunch of really fickle damn people."
I'm with the latter. It' amazing. This thread, because it's vaguely pro-freedom (or pro-stealing) will have roughly 200 "Apple rules, I wish it ran on Intel, I'd buy OS X today" people. Yesterday's thread, because, despite being a giant non-issue, seemed to be about controlling people or limiting something, resulted in 500 "Apple sucks, they're just another monopoly. Kill them and bury them next to M$" posts.
Fickle fickle fickle. You know how it works? You pick a side and cast your lot with it. I picked Linux a few years ago, saw what I was missing, and returned to the Apple fold. Either make up your mind and commit or just stop bitching. That's how I see it. If you like Linux, do your best to make it better and promote it. Why do you care what Apple does? If you like Macs, say "ha, I don't have to worry about dumb MS licensing and crap" and be happy making iMovies and burning DVDs. That's really all there is to it.
It's clearly a scam. An evil, all-encompassing plot to inconvenience and dupe _you_. You've figured it out. Knock on the left wall in your room. It's hollow! That's where the secret Apple-Intel Inc. cameras and recording devices are hidden.
Besides, my MAC is kept on my network card and doesn't have an Intel chip anywhere near there.
I'll continue thinking I'm free and that you're a bozo.
I've never bought a battery-powered Apple product that doesn't come with batteries:-)
And they've done things right for a while. Like USB. And FireWire.
But what it comes down to is that they're a company that has to make money. This is a really good way to make money. The other guys don't let you use your computer. Mac OS X does. Ta daa!
(Offtopic rant: I've noticed that all of the non-Apple-lovers call it "OS X" while most people who like Apple call it "Mac OS X." I find that amusing. Despite all the things about toy computers that people have said for fifteen years, it's still a Mac.)
I don't see non-corporate entities producing microprocessors or MP3 players. It doesn't matter what every non-corporate entity is thinking, when it comes down to someone wanting to buy a computer they're allowed to use. Who cares why the other guys are doing it, they're doing it. End of story.
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You'd know if you read the article. He wrote "The Design of Everyday Things," a seminal work on usability and design.
Besides, who the f**k are you and why should anyone care if you don't knnow who he is?
Unknown? It's a Bayonet Neill Concelman, British Naval Connector, or Bayonet Nut Connector. Check out this for details.
Further evidence that pirate jokes are among the funniest things in the world.
:-)
Though they're CD-arrrrrrs.
Somebody has a really thin skin. Do you behave like that toward everyone?
There's the real humor: What are the chances these guys will be gotten by real pirates? It's still a big problem in the southern Asian seas. "Arrrr, gimme all yer CD-Rs." "Aye matie, but we'rrrrre pirates too." "No ye arrrrrn't, yerrrrr just geeks. Well tanned geeks. Arrrrr."
I don't know about you, but I get my towels from a towel licensing firm. I'm only allowed to use them for a restricted set of purposes, but I get the benefit of regular maintenance updates and, um, patches.
Keep whistling that tune until you're keelhauled and your copies of Photoshop and Windows XP are thrown over the gunwales.
Marque. But kudos for knowing the word!
I'm just glad to finally see the convergence of software and floating piracy. I, for one, will proudly say 'arr' every time I use a bit of pirated software. (On my friend's computer, that is!)
Arrrrr!
Or he could just stfu and pay for it. It's not like he has any legitimate reason to expect free software from a company that's trying to stay in business.
Very good, brother Anderson. Have a glass of Kool-Aid.
Tell me you're joking. _Please_ tell me this is a hilarious joke that's just an iota subtler than shows up on my radar.
Surely 60 fields/sec, you mean.
Yes, but it's still _glueing_cold_cathode_tubes_to_the_front_door.
Like the guy at Wolfram Research? Or the fellows from the University of Sydney? Or the president of Takara Co.? How about the executives of the companies awarded in the Economics category? Did you bother reading the article or are you just another annoying knee-jerk "I don't get it, but I must be paying for it, God, it's awful, the humanity!" people?
There's a difference between having a different opinion (I have major issues with Linux and free software people) and just being lame. As far as I can tell, you fall into the latter category.
True geeks will reject it even if it is free. It's morally wrong to support a camera that doesn't adhere to... ...sorry, wrong generic geek argument.
The difference is between 'countable' and 'uncountable' nouns. Other examples are lettuce, cabbage, and water.
The distinction becomes real when it's time to distinguish between what I call continuously and discreetly quantified nouns. Water is one example. Mass is another. It becomes important when you want to express the less/fewer amount. I can have more lettuce and more cars, but I have to have less cabbage and fewer telephones. Less telephones is incorrect.
Grammar!
You should experience a NeXT cube with two full-height drives and a B&W MegaPixel monitor. The thing is literally a heat chimney.
For $100 less, you could get a G4 iMac which has similar footprint details, comes with twice the drive space, same RAM, same optical media drive, and gets you the sexiness of Mac OS X.
I haven't seen power consumption numbers, but over the life of the PC, it's quite possible that the machine will save the difference in lower energy costs. Just switching to an LCD on a desktop makes a significant difference in power consumption.
Eh? What is 'it' and how does the existence of other operating systems that don't do DRM make Mac OS X more like the other guy? I honestly can't understand what you're trying to say.
What I was trying to say is that Mac OS X is a competitor to Windows (the other guy.) Mac OS X doesn't have DRM, so it lets you use your computer more than does Windows.
"Either Apple doesn't know what one hand is doing while the other isn't looking, or we're a bunch of really fickle damn people."
I'm with the latter. It' amazing. This thread, because it's vaguely pro-freedom (or pro-stealing) will have roughly 200 "Apple rules, I wish it ran on Intel, I'd buy OS X today" people. Yesterday's thread, because, despite being a giant non-issue, seemed to be about controlling people or limiting something, resulted in 500 "Apple sucks, they're just another monopoly. Kill them and bury them next to M$" posts.
Fickle fickle fickle. You know how it works? You pick a side and cast your lot with it. I picked Linux a few years ago, saw what I was missing, and returned to the Apple fold. Either make up your mind and commit or just stop bitching. That's how I see it. If you like Linux, do your best to make it better and promote it. Why do you care what Apple does? If you like Macs, say "ha, I don't have to worry about dumb MS licensing and crap" and be happy making iMovies and burning DVDs. That's really all there is to it.
It's clearly a scam. An evil, all-encompassing plot to inconvenience and dupe _you_. You've figured it out. Knock on the left wall in your room. It's hollow! That's where the secret Apple-Intel Inc. cameras and recording devices are hidden.
Besides, my MAC is kept on my network card and doesn't have an Intel chip anywhere near there.
I'll continue thinking I'm free and that you're a bozo.
I've never bought a battery-powered Apple product that doesn't come with batteries :-)
And they've done things right for a while. Like USB. And FireWire.
But what it comes down to is that they're a company that has to make money. This is a really good way to make money. The other guys don't let you use your computer. Mac OS X does. Ta daa!
(Offtopic rant: I've noticed that all of the non-Apple-lovers call it "OS X" while most people who like Apple call it "Mac OS X." I find that amusing. Despite all the things about toy computers that people have said for fifteen years, it's still a Mac.)
I don't see non-corporate entities producing microprocessors or MP3 players. It doesn't matter what every non-corporate entity is thinking, when it comes down to someone wanting to buy a computer they're allowed to use. Who cares why the other guys are doing it, they're doing it. End of story.