Actually, Apple don't have a monopoly in the mp3 player market, sure they're the biggest player but there's plenty of competition and innovation outside of the reality distortion field. This is less true in the US but on a global scale the iPod is by no means the only game in town, if you go to a store and ask the sales drone for an mp3 player chances are he won't just show you an iPod and tell you there are no real alternatives.
Now, with Windows for a long time it's been the only game in town, the fact that IE shot up from almost no users to being the number one web browser right after MS started bundling it with Windows is a great example of that.
And for most people the issue with MS and Windows isn't just that they're a monopoly, it's that they've made a habit of abusing this monopoly status to gain an unfair advantage.
Well, I tend mean someone who is at least under the age of 25 when using the term "kid", and someone who is 25 today would have been 16 or so in 1999, so someone who is 21, probably a uni student and thinks he's the best of the best at everything would have been 11 in 1999, just the right age to be playing computer games on daddy's computer because he doesn't have his own computer yet.
Well, considering Windows 1.0 didn't allow overlapping windows and a lot of other things we take for granted in a GUI I'm pretty sure it was just a limitation in the design of the UI.
I'm assuming you're one of those kids who think you're "old school" because you used to play Half-life on daddy's computer in 1999. Because honestly, those are (as others have pointed out) minimized applications, Windows didn't have a task bar until Windows 95.
The Deathstar issue was kind of interesting because everyone was talking about it like all of those Deskstar drives were failing early yet I have two of those drives still operational (although one has not been in use for a couple of years), one of them made some nasty clicking noises every now and then for about a week back in 2001 but after that it's been working just fine although I'm getting a bit cautious about putting anything important on it since it's getting really old.
It's not about falling back to "some wussy, wimpy old self" it's about falling back to being "a real man with integrity and backbone", you just put on a bit more of an asshole exterior when trying to get them to fall for you. You need to act like you seriously doubt that they're worth your time, for some reason a lot of women still haven't figured out that just because a guy behaves like he's too good for them it doesn't say anything about how good he really is.
You can do limited ad-hoc distribution, you can distribute the source code or you can choose to pay them $99 to use the app store. Not ideal but a lot better than how a lot of people think it is.
And that is exactly why I always save the manuals for equipment I buy. Just put them all in a big box in a closet or storage area, at least that way you'll know where to look.
Indeed, things are in many ways better than they used to be but there is a certain amount of nostalgia for me about using software/installers that require you to read the documentation to understand how to use it. IIRC one of the FreeBSD developers had a good comment about their installer on one of the official mailing lists, something about it being unintuitive and from hell yet I actually like it and feel sort of comfortable with the fact that it gives you a lot of freedom and that if you haven't used it before you have to actually think before using it, if you just randomly hit enter and space you'll end up with a mess and most likely you'll fail to install anything useful anywhere.:)
Well, if you don't know how to read your monitor's manual then you could just use "safe" values. Besides, I always assumed this was how we were supposed to keep idiots from using computers...
Amen, I actually get kind of creeped out by modern Linux distro installers because in my mind it should be like it was back when I was first trying out Linux (which was in the Red Hat 5.1 and Slackware 3.x days).
Good thing the FreeBSD and Slackware installers still let you do the install without a GUI and lots of "No you really do want your partitions set up this way" pointers.
16 Mbps ADSL isn't all that fast. Here in.se there are both standard ADSL2+ 24/1 Mbps connections advertised by pretty much all ADSL ISPs as well as Annex M (24/3.5 Mbps) from a few and at least one ISP (Bredbandsbolaget) has begun to offer VDSL2 connections.
Your post was modded funny but my experience with end users has taught me that these days the average user who calls the helpdesk/tech support seems to have at least one desktop and one laptop, a lot of families have 2-3 laptops and a couple of desktops. And somehow at any given time at least three of these machines are non-functional due to various layer 8 problems...
haven't done it for a VERY long time, but the kids these days get it in a gel cap, as far as I've seen.
Most modern acid isn't on blotter, or in a vial. At least the stuff still floating around where I live...
Most LSD in the world is still distributed on blotter and is unadultered, perhaps you hang out with easily tricked teenagers who will eat anything that someone tells them is LSD?
...sounded more like LSA than LSD, or more specifically LSA cut with MDMA. Namely a "body fry" with only minor mental elements.
Ever extracted LSA from Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds yourself? I have and I can tell you that the effect you describe sounds nothing like LSA or LSA + MDMA.
When I started getting off drugs, about 90% of the LSD available started to be replaced with LSA or highly diluted LSD.
Not to attempt to be insulting but when did you "get off drugs"? When you were 15? I have never heard of anyone peddling LSA as LSD although I've heard similar stories of older stoners tricking teenagers into thinking some random cheap and weak drug really was an expensive more rare drug.
Well, I'll give you that Windows 95 was easier than MS-DOS but it was still a PITA for anyone used to doing network configuration on a "real" operating system (Linux/UNIX) since it tried to be user friendly to the point where anyone who knew what he/she was doing would be utterly confused.
That depends on the formula, dosage, and person biology, really. Most of the stuff kids do these days is not true LSD, its generally LSA. It also is generally cut with all sorts of unsavory chemicals, such as ecstasy, heroin, etc...
Sorry but that's bullshit, the effects of LSA and LSD are very different and hardly interchangeable to the point where you could fool somone with any knowledge of LSD into thinking that LSA was LSD.
As for it being cut with other drugs that's even more bullshit, the dosages for both MDMA and Heroin (your examples) are way too high for an effective dose to fit on a piece of blotter or a microdot(which is how LSD is normally distributed).
10) Microsoft Windows 95 was comparatively EASY to network which got a lot of gamers on it. DOS games were a complete pain to configure and sometimes just never worked. Lan parties ruled with Win95.
Please tell me you're kidding. Setting up networking on win9x may have been "easy" if you knew that "Fjärranslutning" in the swedish version was MS code for "PPP/SLIP" and you didn't mind re-installing your network drivers and TCP/IP stack once a month or so when Windows decided to start munching on the files (I'm not saying this just as an end user but also as someone who's had to support the damn POS).
I do the same (unless I'm at work since I've learned that users will gladly lie and distort the truth even when it would benefit them to tell the truth) and occasionally I do wonder if I'm being too trusting. At least by now I've figured out most of the "standard answers" given by women (and the standard answers to questions asked by women;).
I think you either replied to the wrong comment or you're reading something into my comment that isn't there. Of course looks aren't the only thing that counts. (But when it comes to casual sex and picking someone to spend the night with after a night of drinking it matters a hell of a lot more than when women are looking for a long-term partner).
Actually, UNIX used to be for anything "serious" along with VMS (Workstations, minicomputers and general server duties), not just "small time" or "server oriented".
A large part of what happened was that MS managed to gain market share by 1) Widespread piracy and 2) Being not nearly as good as the UNIX systems but also a lot cheaper. Point no. 2 is also why a lot of us who remember the days of MS-DOS, Win 2.x/3.x and other horrors may grudgingly admit that Microsoft's current operating system offerings are usable but still prefer *nix systems, because MS "won" by fighting dirty...
You think $90k per year is little? That's $7,500 per month, the only reason you could consider that to be little in most places is if you fit into the stereotype of an over-consuming suburbanite who owns a McMansion, two new cars, at least three TVs bigger than 32" and so on, you should get what I'm saying here, unless you're an idiot who truly believes that $90k per year "isn't much money at all"...
Ah yes, and one reason so many geeks ignore this seems to be that they're assuming that when females they know say "looks aren't important" and "I think six-pack abs are gross" they actually believe that their female friends aren't being manipulative and essentially playing mind games.
Summary: Most "real geeks" (not "I play video games and call myself a geek") tend to assume people are being honest since they fail to see any logical reason for lying about something like one's preferences when it comes to body type, hairstyles and such...
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Actually, Apple don't have a monopoly in the mp3 player market, sure they're the biggest player but there's plenty of competition and innovation outside of the reality distortion field. This is less true in the US but on a global scale the iPod is by no means the only game in town, if you go to a store and ask the sales drone for an mp3 player chances are he won't just show you an iPod and tell you there are no real alternatives.
Now, with Windows for a long time it's been the only game in town, the fact that IE shot up from almost no users to being the number one web browser right after MS started bundling it with Windows is a great example of that.
And for most people the issue with MS and Windows isn't just that they're a monopoly, it's that they've made a habit of abusing this monopoly status to gain an unfair advantage.
/Mikael
Well, I tend mean someone who is at least under the age of 25 when using the term "kid", and someone who is 25 today would have been 16 or so in 1999, so someone who is 21, probably a uni student and thinks he's the best of the best at everything would have been 11 in 1999, just the right age to be playing computer games on daddy's computer because he doesn't have his own computer yet.
/Mikael
Well, considering Windows 1.0 didn't allow overlapping windows and a lot of other things we take for granted in a GUI I'm pretty sure it was just a limitation in the design of the UI.
/Mikael
I'm assuming you're one of those kids who think you're "old school" because you used to play Half-life on daddy's computer in 1999. Because honestly, those are (as others have pointed out) minimized applications, Windows didn't have a task bar until Windows 95.
/Mikael
The Deathstar issue was kind of interesting because everyone was talking about it like all of those Deskstar drives were failing early yet I have two of those drives still operational (although one has not been in use for a couple of years), one of them made some nasty clicking noises every now and then for about a week back in 2001 but after that it's been working just fine although I'm getting a bit cautious about putting anything important on it since it's getting really old.
/Mikael
It's not about falling back to "some wussy, wimpy old self" it's about falling back to being "a real man with integrity and backbone", you just put on a bit more of an asshole exterior when trying to get them to fall for you. You need to act like you seriously doubt that they're worth your time, for some reason a lot of women still haven't figured out that just because a guy behaves like he's too good for them it doesn't say anything about how good he really is.
/Mikael
Try using Google, "iphone ad-hoc distribution" should give you all the info you need.
/Mikael
Yes we do, once we figure out that we need to pretend to be assholes until they fall for us, then it's ok to be nice...
/Mikael
You can do limited ad-hoc distribution, you can distribute the source code or you can choose to pay them $99 to use the app store. Not ideal but a lot better than how a lot of people think it is.
/Mikael
And that is exactly why I always save the manuals for equipment I buy. Just put them all in a big box in a closet or storage area, at least that way you'll know where to look.
/Mikael
Indeed, things are in many ways better than they used to be but there is a certain amount of nostalgia for me about using software/installers that require you to read the documentation to understand how to use it. IIRC one of the FreeBSD developers had a good comment about their installer on one of the official mailing lists, something about it being unintuitive and from hell yet I actually like it and feel sort of comfortable with the fact that it gives you a lot of freedom and that if you haven't used it before you have to actually think before using it, if you just randomly hit enter and space you'll end up with a mess and most likely you'll fail to install anything useful anywhere. :)
/Mikael
Well, if you don't know how to read your monitor's manual then you could just use "safe" values. Besides, I always assumed this was how we were supposed to keep idiots from using computers...
/Mikael
Amen, I actually get kind of creeped out by modern Linux distro installers because in my mind it should be like it was back when I was first trying out Linux (which was in the Red Hat 5.1 and Slackware 3.x days).
Good thing the FreeBSD and Slackware installers still let you do the install without a GUI and lots of "No you really do want your partitions set up this way" pointers.
/Mikael
16 Mbps ADSL isn't all that fast. Here in .se there are both standard ADSL2+ 24/1 Mbps connections advertised by pretty much all ADSL ISPs as well as Annex M (24/3.5 Mbps) from a few and at least one ISP (Bredbandsbolaget) has begun to offer VDSL2 connections.
/Mikael
Your post was modded funny but my experience with end users has taught me that these days the average user who calls the helpdesk/tech support seems to have at least one desktop and one laptop, a lot of families have 2-3 laptops and a couple of desktops. And somehow at any given time at least three of these machines are non-functional due to various layer 8 problems...
/Mikael
haven't done it for a VERY long time, but the kids these days get it in a gel cap, as far as I've seen.
Most modern acid isn't on blotter, or in a vial. At least the stuff still floating around where I live...
Most LSD in the world is still distributed on blotter and is unadultered, perhaps you hang out with easily tricked teenagers who will eat anything that someone tells them is LSD?
...sounded more like LSA than LSD, or more specifically LSA cut with MDMA. Namely a "body fry" with only minor mental elements.
Ever extracted LSA from Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds yourself? I have and I can tell you that the effect you describe sounds nothing like LSA or LSA + MDMA.
When I started getting off drugs, about 90% of the LSD available started to be replaced with LSA or highly diluted LSD.
Not to attempt to be insulting but when did you "get off drugs"? When you were 15? I have never heard of anyone peddling LSA as LSD although I've heard similar stories of older stoners tricking teenagers into thinking some random cheap and weak drug really was an expensive more rare drug.
/Mikael
No it's not, please don't comment on an issue that you know nothing about.
/Mikael
Well, I'll give you that Windows 95 was easier than MS-DOS but it was still a PITA for anyone used to doing network configuration on a "real" operating system (Linux/UNIX) since it tried to be user friendly to the point where anyone who knew what he/she was doing would be utterly confused.
/Mikael
That depends on the formula, dosage, and person biology, really. Most of the stuff kids do these days is not true LSD, its generally LSA. It also is generally cut with all sorts of unsavory chemicals, such as ecstasy, heroin, etc...
Sorry but that's bullshit, the effects of LSA and LSD are very different and hardly interchangeable to the point where you could fool somone with any knowledge of LSD into thinking that LSA was LSD.
As for it being cut with other drugs that's even more bullshit, the dosages for both MDMA and Heroin (your examples) are way too high for an effective dose to fit on a piece of blotter or a microdot(which is how LSD is normally distributed).
/Mikael
10) Microsoft Windows 95 was comparatively EASY to network which got a lot of gamers on it. DOS games were a complete pain to configure and sometimes just never worked. Lan parties ruled with Win95.
Please tell me you're kidding. Setting up networking on win9x may have been "easy" if you knew that "Fjärranslutning" in the swedish version was MS code for "PPP/SLIP" and you didn't mind re-installing your network drivers and TCP/IP stack once a month or so when Windows decided to start munching on the files (I'm not saying this just as an end user but also as someone who's had to support the damn POS).
/Mikael
I do the same (unless I'm at work since I've learned that users will gladly lie and distort the truth even when it would benefit them to tell the truth) and occasionally I do wonder if I'm being too trusting. At least by now I've figured out most of the "standard answers" given by women (and the standard answers to questions asked by women ;).
/Mikael
I think you either replied to the wrong comment or you're reading something into my comment that isn't there. Of course looks aren't the only thing that counts. (But when it comes to casual sex and picking someone to spend the night with after a night of drinking it matters a hell of a lot more than when women are looking for a long-term partner).
Actually, UNIX used to be for anything "serious" along with VMS (Workstations, minicomputers and general server duties), not just "small time" or "server oriented".
A large part of what happened was that MS managed to gain market share by 1) Widespread piracy and 2) Being not nearly as good as the UNIX systems but also a lot cheaper. Point no. 2 is also why a lot of us who remember the days of MS-DOS, Win 2.x/3.x and other horrors may grudgingly admit that Microsoft's current operating system offerings are usable but still prefer *nix systems, because MS "won" by fighting dirty...
/Mikael
You think $90k per year is little? That's $7,500 per month, the only reason you could consider that to be little in most places is if you fit into the stereotype of an over-consuming suburbanite who owns a McMansion, two new cars, at least three TVs bigger than 32" and so on, you should get what I'm saying here, unless you're an idiot who truly believes that $90k per year "isn't much money at all"...
/Mikael
Ah yes, and one reason so many geeks ignore this seems to be that they're assuming that when females they know say "looks aren't important" and "I think six-pack abs are gross" they actually believe that their female friends aren't being manipulative and essentially playing mind games.
Summary: Most "real geeks" (not "I play video games and call myself a geek") tend to assume people are being honest since they fail to see any logical reason for lying about something like one's preferences when it comes to body type, hairstyles and such...
/Mikael