The problem is, you guys are grasping at straws these says. Back a couple years ago, this doom and gloom about Apple and about how everyone hates them was warrented, they were almost out of business, these days it's a bit harder to swallow.
Apple is very soon(perhaps within 2 weeks, perhaps not until January) going to move to the G4 in at least some machines. This will be an awesome processor, and AltiVec looks kick-ass. It's looking even better now that Moto, maker of AltiVec, bought Metrowerks, maker of the most popular Mac compiler, because the current version(IIRC) has built in AltiVec support, meaning you check a box and the compiler automatically optimizes for AltiVec. You can look for more speed increases once Moto engineers give some input.
Apple also has MacOS X Server, no more CGI bug, looks to be a very good system for a 1.0(1.0.2 now). If Apple continues w/ X Server it should devlop nicely and maybe Apple can get some of the server market, esp. if multicore, multiprocessor G4s come out.
Apple has released Darwin 0.3, which, no matter what some of you say, is a Good Thing(TM). All you people bitch all the time about having companies release source, and then you get pissed when Apple won't make the source so open that they go out of business. You're taking this Marxist stuff a bit far I think.
IBM has a CHRP motherboard design for companies to make PowerPC machines that should run LinuxPPC(and hopefully BeOS also).
Apple will be releasing MacOS 9 probably in early October. Thisis yet another big upgrade, whereas Windows seems to have stagnated horribly. Think about it: 2 years ago Mac users were still using Mac OS 7.6. Go find a machine w/ 7.6 and compare it to 8.6 and in a month or so to 9.0. Apple has come a long way.
And finally, sometime early next year Apple will release Mac OS X(pronounced 10, I hate it when people say when will OS X 2.0 be out. It won't you fools, it will be OS 11). This is what Mac users have been waiting for for about 7 years now, and this isn't going to be another Copland(everyone shut up about that after OS X Server came out pretty much on time).
And where is MS in all of this? Hmm, had Apple even bought NeXt back when MS first started hyping NT 5? Apple has come a long, long way since those dark days of '97, and I wish some of you would have a little perspective. Apple is still improving, still selling lots of machines, and still being different.
You Linux users may snicker at the translucent iMacs, but the fact is that Apple is back leading the way.
1) Apple releases cool looking/colored machines, PC makers follow. 2) Apple drops floppy, PC 2001 spec has no floppy 3) Apple picks up USB, late even, but sparks interest because iMac users needed USB stuff, whereas PC users didn't. Apple was the only one willing to take a chance on USB. 4) Firewire, Apple played a big part in it's conception, was one of the first to put it in machines, and now it sounds like almost all PCs will be going to it. (BTW, Apple's new Universal Motherboard Architecture, which will be used in the iBook, the next iMac, the next minitower(Sawtooth) and PowerBook, has AGP and FireWire built in).
Yes, there are still problems with Apple, but some of you guys just don't know when to let up. Apple is like a chain smoker taking away a cigarette at a time and all the time you guys are railing on them for the number they're still smoking. I say shut the fuck up already.
And as to the eOne, I am sorry you guys but it is a POS ripoff. I think the NY Times called the color "sue me blue". eMachines knew exactly the risks it was taking, they didn't come up with the idea for a translucent blue all-in-one, and they damn well know it. There were lots of things they could've done, but they didn't. Instead of being creative they chose to ripoff an existing product, well if they get sued that's just what's coming to them.
You're right, that second statement makes no sense. Mac users are in fact viciously loyal. Mac users loyalty has in fact saved Apple when they were in the shit hole(more than once).
I'm not sure exactly when they plan to get people up there(there's a timeline, but I don't know how current it is) , but they have a mailing list and will have a chat on Saturday go to:
irc.superchat.org #luna 4 PM CDT Saturday August 22(the one coming up)
I'll try to remember to go there and ask them about the current status of their plans.
Has anyone else noticed that about 85% of the amazing new things coming out of the industry are from IBM. I don't know where they recruit for R&D, but it must be good.
If all the things IBM has been talking about inventing come out within the next ten years computers are going to kick about 100x more ass than they do today.
Too bad Microsoft can't use all it's money to actually make good stuff instead of the loads of shit it pours out. MS probably spends half their R&D money making MSN Messenger work w/ AIM. There's innovation for ya Justive Dept.
The theory that God created Earth last Tusday, made it look old and implanted our memories. And you stupid scientists can't disprove it can you? You know what that mean: it's right, and my website and national campaign to get last Tuesdayism put into schools in every field of science will soon help to open the minds of our youth!
Then we can all glorify God, since there is no point to life other than worshiping Him for creating evil humans and then punishing us for being evil(I'm sure glad he does that). He must be praised for his goodness.
Only when everyone in our godless society speaks from the book of last Tuesdayism will we be saved by the allmighty lord Christ Jesus! Halleluyah brothers, halleluyah!
I really don't give a damn what the laws say. I agree that abortion early in a pregnancy isn't murder, and at some point we're not able to determine quite yet, it is murder. At 38 weeks, it's murder, is it at 21? 22? 23? I don't know, but we should find out what we think of as human, and find out when the baby becomes human.
But back to US laws. If US laws said that shooting doctors that perform abortions wasn't murder, does that make it true? Not in my opinion. I driving at 56 wrong at 55 right? My opinion is that there is a right and wrong that is above the letter of the law, and no matter what the law says, murder is murder and wrong is wrong.
Just another point, you say an abortion isn't a murder now, so say back in 1972(or whenever Roe v. Wade took place), the week before abortion was made legal, a woman had one. You would say that's murder. But if she waiting a week and had it after the case was over, would it then not be murder? It's silly when you think about it like that.
I might not like all of their ideas, but I like enough of them that I might vote for them if the other choice is Bush or Gore(I don't know much about Bradley).
The problem is how the hell this party will get on the ballot. I doubt they'll be able to. If not, I'll probably wind up voting for some other 3rd party, since I am sick to death almost everyone in the big two.
I wish I had those old episodes, if I were you I'd make copies and sell them on E-Bay(if it's not illegal). You could probably make a lot of money. Actually, it probably is illegal.
I can't believe this has happened. Sci-Fi has so much shit on their channel that I can't believe they dump a show because of low ratings. I do not care who picks it up: AMC, PBS, anyone, as long as I can get the channel where I live.
We Slashdotters should make an effort to save this show. There is so much crap on TV. Every year networks pump out show after show after show of the same stupid sitcoms. We don't need that many. But the most original show on TV right now gets cancelled.
Anyway, my feeling is that there's gotta be enough rabid fans out there who love MST3K for it to be worthwhile for some network to pick it up.
On a related note, what the hell is happening to the Comedy Central episodes? Is Comedy gonna show re-runs? Or will they sell them? We can't let them just keep those episodes in a storage room somewhere, they're a national treasure:)
Here's an idea Microsoft: if you want people to try to crack your server, why don't you have it running more than 10% of the time. I've tried to get to that thing about 10 times from the day it was put up to now, and have been able to once.
Although it may not be their fault, Weather Underground reports that it's cloudy, and showers are likely, thats probably the reason.
Your machines may be over-priced and may not be state of the art, but at least you aren't MS. OS 9 will be out soon, with new features that people will actually want to have, it will be $100 no matter what, whether you want to upgrade or not. And you actually can upgrade, you don't have to do a clean install.
OS X is coming, OS X Server is hear and all the people who said Apple couldn't deliver shut up real fast.
Apple has finally got it right in the OS dept. They're churning out new versions of the old MacOS nice and quick, and every one is faster and more stable than the last. And at the same time they're building the OS that some Mac users have been waiting for for 7+ years now.
Also, when Apple does bug-fixes, they don't charge $99 for them. OS 8 was $99, 8.1 had bugfixes and HFS+ support - it was free. 8.5 was $99, 8.5.1 - bugfix - free. 8.6 fixed bugs and improved support for games - it was free. At least Apple understands that they shouldn't make us pay because they did something wrong the first time around.
Yeah, that would be smart of IBM. Except for the fact that IBM has it's own HDs, and probably would want consumers to keep buying them. This is a big breakthough, and IBM had every right to publicize it.
What are you talking about? How is it not yet news? Just because they aren't shipping them doesn't mean it isn't news. I guess if scientists said that a comet was going to destroy Earth in two months, that wouldn't be news either. It'd only be news after the comet had hit.
Access speed for storage is very important, and is quickly becoming the bottleneck w/ new computers. If IBM found a way to totally eliminate that bottleneck, I consider that to be big new indeed.
Do you remember the Dec 31, 1999 almost core meltown in the Scottish reactor? Power lost to the reactor, backup generators failed, everyone off duty because of the holiday--a coupla guys had to push the cadmium rods by hand... owww!
Wow, you are awesome! Could you tell me how to remember things that happen(ed) 5 months from now? That is so cool.
From my understanding, smallpox does not really exist anymore.
It'd be great if that were the case. But an article written by Richard Preston(I think), author of The Hot Zone(a good book), in NYT Magazine makes me think otherwise.
Unfortunetely, I can't remember which issue it was in, if anyone knows, post it. But suffice it to say that not only to places like Russia have it, it's possible or even likely that terrorist groups have it also. In fact Osama bin Laden's name was mentioned in the article.
Anyway, it's a good article and if I ever heard of a case of smallpox hitting somwhere on Earth I think I'd go hide in the woods for a long time.(I hope I can still go in the woods after seeeing BWP) The way the disease kills is horrible.
When being weirded-out at night, sleep during the day and move at night.
I don't see how that would help much. Either way your in the woods with something scary. I think I'd rather be in the tent, at least you have some protection(at least you think you do). A lot of why this is scary is imagining yourself in that situation. If you were there, do you really think you'd want to hike at night? I wouldn't.
And the real world anology is correct. and I hate real world. All this stupid arguing got annoying after a while.
You have no idea what you're talking about. The Real World and Road Rules are so bad that I cannot sit through a half hour of either. It is just painful. The people are all incredibly stupid, and then they keep having these sorta philosphical/teenage angst/damnit I hate you all for pathetic reasons type discussions. I can't understand how anyone can want to watch that crap.
Blair Witch, OTOH, was convincing and scary. You could see the people getting more and more tense and scared, and screaming at each other, and doing things that real people would do in those situations. Having breakdowns and going from physical violence to insane laughter to apologizing was utterly convincing.
That was an awesome movie. The only problem I had was that the camera shook too much and I had motion sickness. But even though I would have rather they held the camera steadier, I think that the shaking added to my uneasiness about the whole movie, which may have been what the film makers were trying to do.
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The problem is, you guys are grasping at straws these says. Back a couple years ago, this doom and gloom about Apple and about how everyone hates them was warrented, they were almost out of business, these days it's a bit harder to swallow.
Apple is very soon(perhaps within 2 weeks, perhaps not until January) going to move to the G4 in at least some machines. This will be an awesome processor, and AltiVec looks kick-ass. It's looking even better now that Moto, maker of AltiVec, bought Metrowerks, maker of the most popular Mac compiler, because the current version(IIRC) has built in AltiVec support, meaning you check a box and the compiler automatically optimizes for AltiVec. You can look for more speed increases once Moto engineers give some input.
Apple also has MacOS X Server, no more CGI bug, looks to be a very good system for a 1.0(1.0.2 now). If Apple continues w/ X Server it should devlop nicely and maybe Apple can get some of the server market, esp. if multicore, multiprocessor G4s come out.
Apple has released Darwin 0.3, which, no matter what some of you say, is a Good Thing(TM). All you people bitch all the time about having companies release source, and then you get pissed when Apple won't make the source so open that they go out of business. You're taking this Marxist stuff a bit far I think.
IBM has a CHRP motherboard design for companies to make PowerPC machines that should run LinuxPPC(and hopefully BeOS also).
Apple will be releasing MacOS 9 probably in early October. Thisis yet another big upgrade, whereas Windows seems to have stagnated horribly. Think about it: 2 years ago Mac users were still using Mac OS 7.6. Go find a machine w/ 7.6 and compare it to 8.6 and in a month or so to 9.0. Apple has come a long way.
And finally, sometime early next year Apple will release Mac OS X(pronounced 10, I hate it when people say when will OS X 2.0 be out. It won't you fools, it will be OS 11). This is what Mac users have been waiting for for about 7 years now, and this isn't going to be another Copland(everyone shut up about that after OS X Server came out pretty much on time).
And where is MS in all of this? Hmm, had Apple even bought NeXt back when MS first started hyping NT 5? Apple has come a long, long way since those dark days of '97, and I wish some of you would have a little perspective. Apple is still improving, still selling lots of machines, and still being different.
You Linux users may snicker at the translucent iMacs, but the fact is that Apple is back leading the way.
1) Apple releases cool looking/colored machines, PC makers follow.
2) Apple drops floppy, PC 2001 spec has no floppy
3) Apple picks up USB, late even, but sparks interest because iMac users needed USB stuff, whereas PC users didn't. Apple was the only one willing to take a chance on USB.
4) Firewire, Apple played a big part in it's conception, was one of the first to put it in machines, and now it sounds like almost all PCs will be going to it. (BTW, Apple's new Universal Motherboard Architecture, which will be used in the iBook, the next iMac, the next minitower(Sawtooth) and PowerBook, has AGP and FireWire built in).
Yes, there are still problems with Apple, but some of you guys just don't know when to let up. Apple is like a chain smoker taking away a cigarette at a time and all the time you guys are railing on them for the number they're still smoking. I say shut the fuck up already.
And as to the eOne, I am sorry you guys but it is a POS ripoff. I think the NY Times called the color "sue me blue". eMachines knew exactly the risks it was taking, they didn't come up with the idea for a translucent blue all-in-one, and they damn well know it. There were lots of things they could've done, but they didn't. Instead of being creative they chose to ripoff an existing product, well if they get sued that's just what's coming to them.
You're right, that second statement makes no sense. Mac users are in fact viciously loyal. Mac users loyalty has in fact saved Apple when they were in the shit hole(more than once).
http://www.asi.org/
I'm not sure exactly when they plan to get people up there(there's a timeline, but I don't know how current it is) , but they have a mailing list and will have a chat on Saturday
go to:
irc.superchat.org
#luna
4 PM CDT Saturday August 22(the one coming up)
I'll try to remember to go there and ask them about the current status of their plans.
We could go on forever, just make a short post responding to this asking about content. It'll be fun, really...
Has anyone else noticed that about 85% of the amazing new things coming out of the industry are from IBM. I don't know where they recruit for R&D, but it must be good.
If all the things IBM has been talking about inventing come out within the next ten years computers are going to kick about 100x more ass than they do today.
Too bad Microsoft can't use all it's money to actually make good stuff instead of the loads of shit it pours out. MS probably spends half their R&D money making MSN Messenger work w/ AIM. There's innovation for ya Justive Dept.
I will personally beat the shit out of Jean-Louise Gasse for lying through this fucking teeth for so long while cashing his checks from Intel.
Looks like a reply to this comment got sucked into a black hole.
is not intended to be used that many times in a paragraph :)
The theory that God created Earth last Tusday, made it look old and implanted our memories. And you stupid scientists can't disprove it can you? You know what that mean: it's right, and my website and national campaign to get last Tuesdayism put into schools in every field of science will soon help to open the minds of our youth!
Then we can all glorify God, since there is no point to life other than worshiping Him for creating evil humans and then punishing us for being evil(I'm sure glad he does that). He must be praised for his goodness.
Only when everyone in our godless society speaks from the book of last Tuesdayism will we be saved by the allmighty lord Christ Jesus! Halleluyah brothers, halleluyah!
I really don't give a damn what the laws say. I agree that abortion early in a pregnancy isn't murder, and at some point we're not able to determine quite yet, it is murder. At 38 weeks, it's murder, is it at 21? 22? 23? I don't know, but we should find out what we think of as human, and find out when the baby becomes human.
But back to US laws. If US laws said that shooting doctors that perform abortions wasn't murder, does that make it true? Not in my opinion. I driving at 56 wrong at 55 right? My opinion is that there is a right and wrong that is above the letter of the law, and no matter what the law says, murder is murder and wrong is wrong.
Just another point, you say an abortion isn't a murder now, so say back in 1972(or whenever Roe v. Wade took place), the week before abortion was made legal, a woman had one. You would say that's murder. But if she waiting a week and had it after the case was over, would it then not be murder? It's silly when you think about it like that.
Seriously, is anyone here gonna buy a HD measured in gibibytes? Sounds like something a kid would talk about.
"Yeah, I got a 50 gibi HD yesterday"
Or maybe you'd say 50 gib. Are these people BeeGees fans or something?
I might not like all of their ideas, but I like enough of them that I might vote for them if the other choice is Bush or Gore(I don't know much about Bradley).
The problem is how the hell this party will get on the ballot. I doubt they'll be able to. If not, I'll probably wind up voting for some other 3rd party, since I am sick to death almost everyone in the big two.
I also loved that at the end it's supposed to be a positive note that he's left in solid gold.
I'd like to get on the list.
I wish I had those old episodes, if I were you I'd make copies and sell them on E-Bay(if it's not illegal). You could probably make a lot of money. Actually, it probably is illegal.
I can't believe this has happened. Sci-Fi has so much shit on their channel that I can't believe they dump a show because of low ratings. I do not care who picks it up: AMC, PBS, anyone, as long as I can get the channel where I live.
:)
We Slashdotters should make an effort to save this show. There is so much crap on TV. Every year networks pump out show after show after show of the same stupid sitcoms. We don't need that many. But the most original show on TV right now gets cancelled.
Anyway, my feeling is that there's gotta be enough rabid fans out there who love MST3K for it to be worthwhile for some network to pick it up.
On a related note, what the hell is happening to the Comedy Central episodes? Is Comedy gonna show re-runs? Or will they sell them? We can't let them just keep those episodes in a storage room somewhere, they're a national treasure
Here's an idea Microsoft: if you want people to try to crack your server, why don't you have it running more than 10% of the time. I've tried to get to that thing about 10 times from the day it was put up to now, and have been able to once.
Although it may not be their fault, Weather Underground reports that it's cloudy, and showers are likely, thats probably the reason.
Your machines may be over-priced and may not be state of the art, but at least you aren't MS. OS 9 will be out soon, with new features that people will actually want to have, it will be $100 no matter what, whether you want to upgrade or not. And you actually can upgrade, you don't have to do a clean install.
OS X is coming, OS X Server is hear and all the people who said Apple couldn't deliver shut up real fast.
Apple has finally got it right in the OS dept. They're churning out new versions of the old MacOS nice and quick, and every one is faster and more stable than the last. And at the same time they're building the OS that some Mac users have been waiting for for 7+ years now.
Also, when Apple does bug-fixes, they don't charge $99 for them. OS 8 was $99, 8.1 had bugfixes and HFS+ support - it was free. 8.5 was $99, 8.5.1 - bugfix - free. 8.6 fixed bugs and improved support for games - it was free. At least Apple understands that they shouldn't make us pay because they did something wrong the first time around.
Yeah, that would be smart of IBM. Except for the fact that IBM has it's own HDs, and probably would want consumers to keep buying them. This is a big breakthough, and IBM had every right to publicize it.
What are you talking about? How is it not yet news? Just because they aren't shipping them doesn't mean it isn't news. I guess if scientists said that a comet was going to destroy Earth in two months, that wouldn't be news either. It'd only be news after the comet had hit.
Access speed for storage is very important, and is quickly becoming the bottleneck w/ new computers. If IBM found a way to totally eliminate that bottleneck, I consider that to be big new indeed.
Do you remember the Dec 31, 1999 almost core meltown in the Scottish reactor? Power lost to the reactor, backup generators failed, everyone off duty because of the holiday--a coupla guys had to push the cadmium rods by hand... owww!
Wow, you are awesome! Could you tell me how to remember things that happen(ed) 5 months from now? That is so cool.
Nintendo is going to use a G3(300MHz, IIRC)
From my understanding, smallpox does not really exist anymore.
It'd be great if that were the case. But an article written by Richard Preston(I think), author of The Hot Zone(a good book), in NYT Magazine makes me think otherwise.
Unfortunetely, I can't remember which issue it was in, if anyone knows, post it. But suffice it to say that not only to places like Russia have it, it's possible or even likely that terrorist groups have it also. In fact Osama bin Laden's name was mentioned in the article.
Anyway, it's a good article and if I ever heard of a case of smallpox hitting somwhere on Earth I think I'd go hide in the woods for a long time.(I hope I can still go in the woods after seeeing BWP) The way the disease kills is horrible.
When being weirded-out at night, sleep during the day and move at night.
I don't see how that would help much. Either way your in the woods with something scary. I think I'd rather be in the tent, at least you have some protection(at least you think you do). A lot of why this is scary is imagining yourself in that situation. If you were there, do you really think you'd want to hike at night? I wouldn't.
And the real world anology is correct. and I hate real world. All this stupid arguing got annoying after a while.
You have no idea what you're talking about. The Real World and Road Rules are so bad that I cannot sit through a half hour of either. It is just painful. The people are all incredibly stupid, and then they keep having these sorta philosphical/teenage angst/damnit I hate you all for pathetic reasons type discussions. I can't understand how anyone can want to watch that crap.
Blair Witch, OTOH, was convincing and scary. You could see the people getting more and more tense and scared, and screaming at each other, and doing things that real people would do in those situations. Having breakdowns and going from physical violence to insane laughter to apologizing was utterly convincing.
That was an awesome movie. The only problem I had was that the camera shook too much and I had motion sickness. But even though I would have rather they held the camera steadier, I think that the shaking added to my uneasiness about the whole movie, which may have been what the film makers were trying to do.