So if Apple releases a G4 laptop, it'll basically destroy any x86 ones. Here's hoping Motorola gets their act together. I'd rather have IBM help out, though.
If you made White Entertainment TV, or a White Student Union(like in school), or tried to get a White History Month, people would be calling you the most racist piece of shit ever.
But when blacks do it it's about pride. What bullshit.
Fighting for our rights to get Affirmative Action on TV. You know, all those poor minorities watch TV and they get so depressed(at least according to Jesse Jackson) because there are no people of their race in starring roles.
So what do we do? Threaten to sue. Threaten a boycott. Good work guys, TV companies really don't have the right to put out the shows they want.
You know there was this article a few days back about the show "The West Wing" and the producer or whatever was so happy that they got blacks and other minorities in some parts(at the last minute because of NAACP pressure).
It was hysterical, the guy was like "You don't see any blacks yet, but guess what? You haven't met the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and you haven't met the National Security Adviser, and you haven't met etc. etc. Guess what? They're almost all minorities!"
I was like, too bad for those white men who had the jobs for those roles before the NAACP came in. It's too bad that they had to be fired, but I guess they deserved it since they're white and male.
... and I'm a member of the white middle-class and really have nothing in my ethnicity that would make me the topic of insults.
It just pisses me off.
It's like last year I had a class and the teacher was asking what everyone was(e.g. German, Irish, Italian, etc.). I guess I have some French, German, etc. I haven't ever really cared.
I doubt in France they ask you if you're English or German if your ancestors have lived in the country for 200 years.
Do Americans have a problem just being Americans? I can understand people who grew up in another country, or whose parents did saying they're Swedish American or whatever. But if you have ancestors that have fought in the civil war, I think you've been here long enough. You are American, like it or not.
And I agree with the other poster that not all blacks come from Africa, and if you come from Jamaica you probably wouldn't like being called African American. And if you are a white from South Africa, you wouldn't be called African American.
So basically it's just YA way of describing someone who's skin is a dark brown to black color. So why not just say black? And I really wish whoever the hell chooses these things(probably our friends at the NAACP) would settle on one.
I mean, what was so bad with "Negro"? Now it sounds like some dirty word, but AFAIK it just means black in some other language(I know it does in Spanish). MLK called blacks Negros in his speeches. But no, now it's demeaning.
But now no one will ever be able to use that word again. So why don't they just find one they like and say this is the pc term now, and keep it.
That's why Sherlock on the MacOS is great. You can search using tons of engines, and w/o the ads(you have to go in and delete them yourself, but it's not hard).
The worst thing about this whole mess is that at Slashdot, where I would expect people to care most about stories like this, but there have only been 29 comments.
It shows you how shit like this gets passed: everyone is so apathetic that no one fights it.
If it has an LCD screen(which actually is vey possible, Apple didn't spend $100 million of Samsung for nothing), then is it still going to be an AIO(all-in-one?).
I know a lot of the people they market the iMac to like the fact that there are very few wires. But most AIOs w/ LCD screens look ugly(e.g. Monorail), though there are nice ones(e.g. 20th anniversary Mac).
Other features: Airport is almost definite. FireWire is almost definite. DVD is very likely. New colors are a must.
Other things: it should have an AGP slot. It doesn't need PCI, but just an AGP slot would be very nice so the iMac users can upgrade to a better video card(I feel sad for those poor iMac users stuck with a Rage Pro, I hope they all get the Voodoo2 upgrade).
Another rumor is that iMacs will have 350MHz G4s. That would be sweet, but unlikely IMHO.
I also hope iMac II has:
much bigger HD at least 64 megs of RAM drop the modem, have it as an option
I was sorta waiting for a story to bring this up in, and another poster reminded me.
We all(or most, some of you may not be old enough) get to vote in Nov. 2000 for Presidential and lots of other canidates. The hope would be that we don't have to re-elect someone who supports crap like this.
But when I look around at the presidential scene, I don't really see even 1 canidate from the major parties that I like. Anyone else have Democrat or Republican they like, or a canidate from another party?
The only ideas I've seen from what I get fed by the mainstream press that interest me at all are those of the reform party. Jesse Ventura has been on TV a bunch of times basically saying that the government should stay out of social issues. That is a big "+" in my book. Of course, the guy also sounds pretty unintelligent(maybe he's not good on TV).
The article is right where it talks about how subjective the ratings are. I think that at least the MPAA has been good about taking each one case by case.
For instance, "Saving Private Ryan", and IIRC Shindler's List also, would probably have been rated NC-17 if they were different movies(in terms of what they were depicting). However, Saving Private Ryan was not showing violence for the sake of violence, it was realistic. Same with th nudity in Schindler's List.
Because of that, the MPAA gave Spielberg a break, and put on R ratings(it was also because the films could be viewed as educational, and an NC-17 would've made sure no kids could see the movies).
What sucks is that we've got people like Bauer and people like Lieberman and Gore promoting this bullshit. It seems the only thing Democrats and Republicans agree on is that we should have less freedom.
I have an IBM PC 350(or something like that, it has 350 in it) at work, and it's running NT 4 and boy does that thing suck. What speed is that? BTW, it has 144MB of RAM.
Robert Morgan is so full of shit his eyes turned brown. I can't even describe how bad that guy is, but it's so easy to tell just by reading the BS he puts out on MacWeek.com.
He always tries to make people think he's cool. He'll say something like: "something big is coming at MacWorld, unfortunetely I can't tell you what it is, but you'll like it".
His predictions are like the ones from Nostradamus. The only times he makes something you can check, it's wrong.
He's been saying how there's gonna be a big Apple-Disney merger of partnership or something. You know what it culminated in? There's a Disney channel on QT TV. What a fucking loser.
BTW, there are illegal copies of Mac OS 9 circulating in EfNet #macfilez. Just don't get b6:)
That's a more general link to the PowerMac forum, where lots of people are complaining
http://www.maccentral.com/forum/
Is a forum on MacCentral.com, where I have put up lots of comments about this problem, and other users have also been talking about it.
http://www.macintouch.com/bg3upgrade.html
Is a link to a Macintouch area where user e-mails are posted.
What it comes down to is that Blue G3 owners(like me) are extremely mad. We have been hearing daily about the amazing things some developers are going to be doing w/ the G4 and AltiVec and we want in.
Apple got a lot of the early buyers(like me) to install a ROM update that was advertised as improving PCI performance(and probably did) that disabled G4 support. Apple did not tell us this and still has not admitted it.
Many Blue G3 owners have already said they will never buy a Mac again, others are looking at legal alternatives(class action suit because Apple removed a feature that was in our machines when we bought them w/o our knowledge).
Basically, Apple is in deep shit. If they don't know it by now, they've gotta be brain dead.
Apple had better put out an explanation and a fix real fast.
The G4 sawtooth machines can actually take 2GB of RAM, but the MacOS can only handle up to 1.5GB, so they list the max as 1.5gig. But if you put LinuxPPC on there, you could probably go to the full 2 gigs. Woohoo.
MacOS X better support more than 1.5GB, because soon everyone will need more to run Unreal 3 or whatever.
Slashdot Mirror
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Stop screwing up our probes. They won't be able to see you anyway.
I knew I couldn't get italics to just be on one word, I suck that much. Shoulda used preview :(
If you like BackStreet Boys, you're already a menace to society.
You can substitute out BackStreet Boys and put in any other "minute made band".
Anyone who doesn't listen to that crap has at least one thing going for them.
So if Apple releases a G4 laptop, it'll basically destroy any x86 ones. Here's hoping Motorola gets their act together. I'd rather have IBM help out, though.
If you made White Entertainment TV, or a White Student Union(like in school), or tried to get a White History Month, people would be calling you the most racist piece of shit ever.
But when blacks do it it's about pride. What bullshit.
Fighting for our rights to get Affirmative Action on TV. You know, all those poor minorities watch TV and they get so depressed(at least according to Jesse Jackson) because there are no people of their race in starring roles.
So what do we do? Threaten to sue. Threaten a boycott. Good work guys, TV companies really don't have the right to put out the shows they want.
You know there was this article a few days back about the show "The West Wing" and the producer or whatever was so happy that they got blacks and other minorities in some parts(at the last minute because of NAACP pressure).
It was hysterical, the guy was like "You don't see any blacks yet, but guess what? You haven't met the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and you haven't met the National Security Adviser, and you haven't met etc. etc. Guess what? They're almost all minorities!"
I was like, too bad for those white men who had the jobs for those roles before the NAACP came in. It's too bad that they had to be fired, but I guess they deserved it since they're white and male.
... and I'm a member of the white middle-class and really have nothing in my ethnicity that would make me the topic of insults.
It just pisses me off.
It's like last year I had a class and the teacher was asking what everyone was(e.g. German, Irish, Italian, etc.). I guess I have some French, German, etc. I haven't ever really cared.
I doubt in France they ask you if you're English or German if your ancestors have lived in the country for 200 years.
Do Americans have a problem just being Americans? I can understand people who grew up in another country, or whose parents did saying they're Swedish American or whatever. But if you have ancestors that have fought in the civil war, I think you've been here long enough. You are American, like it or not.
And I agree with the other poster that not all blacks come from Africa, and if you come from Jamaica you probably wouldn't like being called African American. And if you are a white from South Africa, you wouldn't be called African American.
So basically it's just YA way of describing someone who's skin is a dark brown to black color. So why not just say black? And I really wish whoever the hell chooses these things(probably our friends at the NAACP) would settle on one.
I mean, what was so bad with "Negro"? Now it sounds like some dirty word, but AFAIK it just means black in some other language(I know it does in Spanish). MLK called blacks Negros in his speeches. But no, now it's demeaning.
But now no one will ever be able to use that word again. So why don't they just find one they like and say this is the pc term now, and keep it.
That's why Sherlock on the MacOS is great. You can search using tons of engines, and w/o the ads(you have to go in and delete them yourself, but it's not hard).
The worst thing about this whole mess is that at Slashdot, where I would expect people to care most about stories like this, but there have only been 29 comments.
It shows you how shit like this gets passed: everyone is so apathetic that no one fights it.
There is a short story, but the novel is better(the short story basically just cuts out 90% of the book).
I have bronchitis or something and you made me laugh so hard I had a coughing fit and almost threw up
Wouldn't "Funny" be a better reason for moderating this up? Unless, of course, the moderator believes in storks...
Don't they have bacteria that consume oil? I'm pretty sure I've heard of it.
What do you think those 400MHz, non-AGP ones are? Those are the Yikes models AppleInsider talked about.
The Sawtooth ones aren't going to ship until October or later. I think Appleinsider was pretty close.
but if this won't be out for a year, how can you say Nintendo released it already?
If it has an LCD screen(which actually is vey possible, Apple didn't spend $100 million of Samsung for nothing), then is it still going to be an AIO(all-in-one?).
I know a lot of the people they market the iMac to like the fact that there are very few wires. But most AIOs w/ LCD screens look ugly(e.g. Monorail), though there are nice ones(e.g. 20th anniversary Mac).
Other features:
Airport is almost definite.
FireWire is almost definite.
DVD is very likely.
New colors are a must.
Other things: it should have an AGP slot. It doesn't need PCI, but just an AGP slot would be very nice so the iMac users can upgrade to a better video card(I feel sad for those poor iMac users stuck with a Rage Pro, I hope they all get the Voodoo2 upgrade).
Another rumor is that iMacs will have 350MHz G4s. That would be sweet, but unlikely IMHO.
I also hope iMac II has:
much bigger HD
at least 64 megs of RAM
drop the modem, have it as an option
Apple would never do that in a million years. Independent developers w/ Darwin OTOH....
I was sorta waiting for a story to bring this up in, and another poster reminded me.
We all(or most, some of you may not be old enough) get to vote in Nov. 2000 for Presidential and lots of other canidates. The hope would be that we don't have to re-elect someone who supports crap like this.
But when I look around at the presidential scene, I don't really see even 1 canidate from the major parties that I like. Anyone else have Democrat or Republican they like, or a canidate from another party?
The only ideas I've seen from what I get fed by the mainstream press that interest me at all are those of the reform party. Jesse Ventura has been on TV a bunch of times basically saying that the government should stay out of social issues. That is a big "+" in my book. Of course, the guy also sounds pretty unintelligent(maybe he's not good on TV).
The article is right where it talks about how subjective the ratings are. I think that at least the MPAA has been good about taking each one case by case.
For instance, "Saving Private Ryan", and IIRC Shindler's List also, would probably have been rated NC-17 if they were different movies(in terms of what they were depicting). However, Saving Private Ryan was not showing violence for the sake of violence, it was realistic. Same with th nudity in Schindler's List.
Because of that, the MPAA gave Spielberg a break, and put on R ratings(it was also because the films could be viewed as educational, and an NC-17 would've made sure no kids could see the movies).
What sucks is that we've got people like Bauer and people like Lieberman and Gore promoting this bullshit. It seems the only thing Democrats and Republicans agree on is that we should have less freedom.
Fuck you very much, guys.
I have an IBM PC 350(or something like that, it has 350 in it) at work, and it's running NT 4 and boy does that thing suck. What speed is that? BTW, it has 144MB of RAM.
Robert Morgan is so full of shit his eyes turned brown. I can't even describe how bad that guy is, but it's so easy to tell just by reading the BS he puts out on MacWeek.com.
:)
He always tries to make people think he's cool. He'll say something like: "something big is coming at MacWorld, unfortunetely I can't tell you what it is, but you'll like it".
His predictions are like the ones from Nostradamus. The only times he makes something you can check, it's wrong.
He's been saying how there's gonna be a big Apple-Disney merger of partnership or something. You know what it culminated in? There's a Disney channel on QT TV. What a fucking loser.
BTW, there are illegal copies of Mac OS 9 circulating in EfNet #macfilez. Just don't get b6
http://discuss.info.apple.com/boards/powermac.nsf/ ccb088a1de6aac738525631c0067846b/79720ab 376a518ed862567e00068b29d?OpenDocument
s f/by+Topic?OpenView
is a thread on an Apple message board, where supposedly Apple will post the info about whether they'll fix the ROM.
http://discuss.info.apple.com/boards/powermac.n
That's a more general link to the PowerMac forum, where lots of people are complaining
http://www.maccentral.com/forum/
Is a forum on MacCentral.com, where I have put up lots of comments about this problem, and other users have also been talking about it.
http://www.macintouch.com/bg3upgrade.html
Is a link to a Macintouch area where user e-mails are posted.
What it comes down to is that Blue G3 owners(like me) are extremely mad. We have been hearing daily about the amazing things some developers are going to be doing w/ the G4 and AltiVec and we want in.
Apple got a lot of the early buyers(like me) to install a ROM update that was advertised as improving PCI performance(and probably did) that disabled G4 support. Apple did not tell us this and still has not admitted it.
Many Blue G3 owners have already said they will never buy a Mac again, others are looking at legal alternatives(class action suit because Apple removed a feature that was in our machines when we bought them w/o our knowledge).
Basically, Apple is in deep shit. If they don't know it by now, they've gotta be brain dead.
Apple had better put out an explanation and a fix real fast.
The G4 sawtooth machines can actually take 2GB of RAM, but the MacOS can only handle up to 1.5GB, so they list the max as 1.5gig. But if you put LinuxPPC on there, you could probably go to the full 2 gigs. Woohoo.
MacOS X better support more than 1.5GB, because soon everyone will need more to run Unreal 3 or whatever.