Not only are these fishing sites sneaking past my spam filter, one came worded as an alert that someone was misusing my Ebay account. Of course, I knew it was a fake before I even checked where the URL was going, but man, someone spent a lot of time thinking it up.
I'm not admiring them. I'm not trying to understsnd them. I just look at it like "what an utter waste of a mind."
I think the Greeks had it right. Causes and Effects are two ends of the same line. No matter what you end up trying to do in mucking with the past, the Universe is going to pull a "I meant to do that", and it will turn out that your meddling was the impetous that set events into motion in the first place.
[bamf]Na weil da maches mal ist eine[bamf] temporary disruption to the time-space continuum, it's more like a hiccup [bamf]
quello persist fino a che il sistema non possa radrizzarsi. Pensi esso gradiscono [bamf] an equilibrium reaction.
Besides we would never be able to tell if time was changing around us.
Now what will be funny in 100 years when someone develops the area into something new, and the "Time Capsule" ends up in a landfill, only the books about the Time Capsule will remain.
I guess whoever the George Lucas of the time is will create a holospiel about an archealogist's adventures trying to find the thing.
A funny aside. The commencement speaker at my Wife's "Yeah I got my fscking B.S." cerimony was none other than Chuck Barris.
He had an eloquent speech about common sense. And every time he said "Common Sense" (about 75 times) the extra large funny "I'm a wizard" hat on his head smacked the microphone.
Still, if any comely lasses from the future are seeking DNA samples from a robust and not-unattractive example of an early 21st century homo sapien male, I'd be happy to contribute. In the interest of science, of course.
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Dibs on seconds!;)
Beforehand? It is a time travellers' convention...
Well have you ever tried to get a flight plan through the Department of Chronology? My God, I swear they work in geological time. By the time you identify a decent jump site, historical identity profile, and escape point, you are too old to actually make the trip.
Or if you cut a too many corners, you find yourself stuck years ahead of the date, killing time by trolling websites.
No, because there would only be one time traveler at the convention at a time.
If he/she left an impression that altered history we would get a few bits of wierdness [bamf] wiel Der Zeitungs Bereuf versuchet ein resoluzion vor den [bamf] time paradox. At which point anyone in attendance would have their mind wiped.
But what you could do is slip into an alternate universe which is exactly like ours, only 60 years behind. Once there you could kill Hitler and alter History... but only in THAT copy of the Universe.
While useless to alter history, I do find the technique works well for obtaining quality building materials, and collectables for my Ebay super-store.
Unfortunately they picked a lousy day. The Saturday before Mother's day! Egads, you have to try to find a card, god help you trying to make a phone call.
He does an excellent job of explaining what we already know. The diversity in gaming could fit in a matchbox with room to spare.
What he doesn't explore is why. A distribution channel that favors "safe bets" over radical new concepts. Kinda like the movie industry, cranking out sequel after sequel of the same cliche'd genres.
Now, remove "Apple" and "Macs" and replace the name with some other manufacturer and product line. Hmmm. You can insert just about everyone from HP to Linspire and get the same meaning.
For all your complaints, we are talking about a difference of $100 at most for between Apple's offerings and equivilent products. That's the difference between being a cheapass and buying what you really want in mose cases.
You can, of course, elect NOT to use those features.
Newer versions of the OS employing new technology is not a new thing. I still remember the Holy war between 68k and PowerPC. I remember the hubub over the introduction of OpenTransport. And the Jihad that was the move to OS/X, then 10.2, then 10.3.
Frankly, Mac users are more flexible than you give them credit.
I actually came at it from the other end. I bought some Xservers to replace Gentoo Linux servers handling email and our domain. In the bundle they recommended we purchase an iBook to manage the equipment with.
Now, you will pry my Macs away from me when you can pull them from my cold, dead hands. Seriously, when you have to support 200 users, and you stop having to manually restart MySQL replication to pass directory info, it's a good thing. Being able to tell the helpdesk guys "just create the new account yourself" is nice too.
Now, we still have a pile of Linux boxen for firewalling, dialup servers, and other core functions. So I still am one with the Penguin. In your case, you really aren't abandoning BSD, Darwin is BSD. Your are just switching distros.
As that guy who "reads your email" for a living, the problem isn't your email client. You are either accessing your mail over a slow link, on a slow server, or you REALLY need to cut down on the crap in your mailboxes.
Apple has managed to stay in business for 25 years. They have managed to turn a profit for the last 5 years. This is especially good performance given the nosedive the technology industry has been during the same period.
I dare say they know what they are doing. That's like saying Daimler Benz should drop the price on their high end cars to compete with GM.
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I'm not admiring them. I'm not trying to understsnd them. I just look at it like "what an utter waste of a mind."
You mean Godwin's Law?
[bamf]Na weil da maches mal ist eine[bamf] temporary disruption to the time-space continuum, it's more like a hiccup [bamf] quello persist fino a che il sistema non possa radrizzarsi. Pensi esso gradiscono [bamf] an equilibrium reaction.
Besides we would never be able to tell if time was changing around us.
I guess whoever the George Lucas of the time is will create a holospiel about an archealogist's adventures trying to find the thing.
Are you still biting your nails?
He had an eloquent speech about common sense. And every time he said "Common Sense" (about 75 times) the extra large funny "I'm a wizard" hat on his head smacked the microphone.
Which of course means that the next Insanely Great idea to come swirling down the bowl from Intel will be "Stack based processors".
Just look surprised. [clickity, psychodelic lights] Hey you did!
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Dibs on seconds!
Must not post joke about "Sloppy Seconds"...
Too Late.
Well have you ever tried to get a flight plan through the Department of Chronology? My God, I swear they work in geological time. By the time you identify a decent jump site, historical identity profile, and escape point, you are too old to actually make the trip.
Or if you cut a too many corners, you find yourself stuck years ahead of the date, killing time by trolling websites.
If he/she left an impression that altered history we would get a few bits of wierdness [bamf] wiel Der Zeitungs Bereuf versuchet ein resoluzion vor den [bamf] time paradox. At which point anyone in attendance would have their mind wiped.
But what you could do is slip into an alternate universe which is exactly like ours, only 60 years behind. Once there you could kill Hitler and alter History... but only in THAT copy of the Universe.
While useless to alter history, I do find the technique works well for obtaining quality building materials, and collectables for my Ebay super-store.
Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH anyone?
Hey, do sheep eat rice?
Unfortunately they picked a lousy day. The Saturday before Mother's day! Egads, you have to try to find a card, god help you trying to make a phone call.
Just look surprised.
Well no free, we did pay for them up front, but you get the idea.
What he doesn't explore is why. A distribution channel that favors "safe bets" over radical new concepts. Kinda like the movie industry, cranking out sequel after sequel of the same cliche'd genres.
You are going to be making a lot of radioactive gold, if you don't get the isotope right.
I just haven't trusted Hibernate under windows since my last Viao.
For all your complaints, we are talking about a difference of $100 at most for between Apple's offerings and equivilent products. That's the difference between being a cheapass and buying what you really want in mose cases.
Newer versions of the OS employing new technology is not a new thing. I still remember the Holy war between 68k and PowerPC. I remember the hubub over the introduction of OpenTransport. And the Jihad that was the move to OS/X, then 10.2, then 10.3.
Frankly, Mac users are more flexible than you give them credit.
Now, you will pry my Macs away from me when you can pull them from my cold, dead hands. Seriously, when you have to support 200 users, and you stop having to manually restart MySQL replication to pass directory info, it's a good thing. Being able to tell the helpdesk guys "just create the new account yourself" is nice too.
Now, we still have a pile of Linux boxen for firewalling, dialup servers, and other core functions. So I still am one with the Penguin. In your case, you really aren't abandoning BSD, Darwin is BSD. Your are just switching distros.
-Sean
I dare say they know what they are doing. That's like saying Daimler Benz should drop the price on their high end cars to compete with GM.
They aren't even in the same Market.
I've always suspected the tool that flips screen spanning on in my iBook might have something to do with it.