You forgot to mention: "Never buy Apple RAM". Ever. Never. Don't do it.
I also forgot to mention: inhaling and exhaling air will keep you alive. Somethings seem so obvious, you forget that some people don't actually know these things.
maybe national security takes precedence over the 22nd ammendment, also.
I believe that you have no idea how prophetic you are. I personally believe something is likely to happen before a new president is sworn in. The current one is looking for any well timed reason to usurp democracy yet again. A well timed attack or international event would give him the opportunity and motive to declare a national emergency and forestall a change of administration. I'm almost prepared to take bets on this, and I'm certainly going to point to these predictions when I am shown to be correct. And before you type your tin foil hat joke, remember that declaring a state of emergency is a one man operation and does not require conspiracy or collusion, so a tin foil hat provides no protection from a power hungry president. A president just needs to properly cultivate a state of fear (which we have) and declare his emergency.
I have to be honest I'd rather avoid the inherent Apple lock-in and use Ubuntu instead.
Apple is simply hardware, just like AMD and Intel is simply hardware. Its also good hardware, for the most part. You have to know how to buy apple products to get the most bang for your buck, such as buying the right product at the right point in its life cycle. But, if you do a component-by-component comparison, you'll see that most of the time they simply assemble the some of the best components and integrate them very well in most versions of most of their products. Because all of the components are integrated in several of their products (mac mini, imac, macbookpro, macbook), you are locked into the hardware, in a sense--unless, like me, you have the brains and guts to disassemble them and replace what you want. However, because of the switch to intel microprocessors, it is now impossible to claim that you are locked into any operating system. Bootcamp proves this. So these days its nothing but a hardware issue. Of course I run OS X on mac hardware for obvious reasons, but apple doesn't force me to do this. I think this is something mac haters do not want to acknowledge (I'm not accusing you of hating, but your quote epitomizes a common misconception).
I also think that the most zealous fanboy mac users are probably the ones that mistakenly bought the worst mac hardware (first generation MBP, the total and complete POS Cube, etc) and now need reason to justify their purchase: faith. Of course faith is used to justify a lot of mistakes, such as the Iraq War, George Bush, and one's purchasing Windows Vista. Faith is also the reason a lot of people have strong feelings against OSS. They have paid money for a product that could have easily been substituted by a free alternative, so they adopt a religious zealotry about the superiority of commercial products when one suggests they could have had a free alternative.
Why do I use vim? Well, for that other religious reason, I guess: I don't know any better. Switch to emacs? NEVER!
I couldn't help noticing how Mac fanatics kept on touting their superior OS, until OS X came along, which fixed all of these problems that they never acknowledged having before
I've spent 10 years being and hanging with devoted mac users, and you are patently wrong. Ask any one with any knowledge and they can name the good versions and the bad ones. 7.5.2-->primo. 8.1-->shit. 8.5-->good. 9.x-->shit. Sherlock? sure to lock up your system. Etc.
Why did I switch from windows to mac over 10 years ago? The answer was and is all about administration. In a mac, if you had problems, you could turn off "extensions", and as long as you didn't patch your system files irresponsibly, you could get it to boot and have an opportunity to debug everything. If you had a problem in windows with a dll file, you either did a clean install or you had to live with whatever regrettable quirk you had. Nowadays, you can be an expert OS X administrator easily if you already know Linux. Windows is not like this. Windows knowledge is specific to windows. So macs still make more sense from an administrative point of view. And I continue to run them because of their administrative transparency and also because I can run some essential tools on them (for me), such as dozens of OSS programs as well as Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, and Endnote. When the equivalents for these latter two come available for linux, I'll probably slowly phase out the 4 macs I own. Until then, I get the best of everything: administration and usability. This sounds like an advertisement, but its true.
Now I think I'll go tweak my plone site running on the built in apache server running on my mac box. I'll ssh in using the built in ssh client onto the built in ssh daemon. When I'm there, I'll use the built in vim to edit the files. I'm glad all of these tools ar available from my favorite shell, which is built in and which I shall not name to protect myself from religious persecution.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks as if you have to click a powerpoint attachment for this to work. So the attacker is posing as the clueless secretary or retarded bureaucrat of the organization?--Because those are the chronic ignoramuses who sends me that kind of.doc,.ppt,.xls crap. Maybe its about time one of our TLAs spread the word to democracy loving NGOs in oppressive regimes: don't click on any microsoft attachments, ever, period. If its that important, bounce the message and tell them to convert it to PDF, preferably with a snide little comment so they at least have unpleasant associations next time they do it.
It takes public works programs and bribing industry to relocate to keep these people from starving to death.
One thing has always bothered me about arguments like this: how did they get there in the first place? Didn't their parents need to eat? What did they eat? Why would their parents not have starved to death? When I was about 5, I saw all those starving kids in Africa and said to myself "In one generation, no more problem." There is still a problem. I think I understand it now, though: corruption and evil take food away that was once there. You are proposing that corruption puts it back. Is this really the answer?
Id have called in the buses, and shipped everyone off property to be safe right away.
And then the snipers would shoot them as they were packed like sardines into the busses. Me, I would pull one of 50 cards with random "evacuation plans" out of a hat and did what it said on the card. I'd include an "ignore the bomb threat" card in there as well.
My theory is that at least some of the so-called night people are just like me: They're too intensive, too driven and too interested in things to let go of the day
My theory is that you are just not tired.
I used to hear my mom say "there are just not enough hours in the day". I didn't really get that as a kid. I used to think it was because she wanted more time to do the things she needed to get done. Now I think it is because it would have given her more hours to become tired. The only way I've ever found to shorten my clock is to work out as hard as possible. This would make me tired to go to bed. Problem is that I am now pushing 40 and if I work out that hard, I end up aggravating some injury I got doing athletics as a youth. I'd rather be sleep deprived than limp or need a brace. Cackling along in a brace up to your knee is horribly annoying.
My wife is just like old people. She will literally pass out at 10 pm while I shake her trying to keep her awake. This is not narcolepsy, because she pops up at the ass-crack of dawn every day. After 1 week of "freestyle sleep" she will be waking up about 2 hours earlier. This is genetic. "Discipline", as you call it, is the discipline to go ahead and get up on 4 hours. I'm loosing that as I get older, that's for sure. Fortunately, all that discipline I've shown through the years has put me in a position to go ahead and cash in and let the clock drift as it may a lot of the time.
I firmly disbelieve in the thought that you can be "disciplined" about going to sleep. I have ran that experiment hundreds of times. If you are not sleepy, you can't go to sleep, it doesn't matter how disciplined you are. Its not pushups or a two mile run. In fact, its exactly the opposite.
Yes we are. Some of us don't think clearly until after the sun has been down a few hours. Some of us have been that way since we were six despite the fact that we were raised by dads who kept us on a military time clock--and it didn't make one damn bit of difference, because we could invert the clock in one day by staying up until morning.
I have a theory: morning people have a 22 hour internal clock. I have a 28 hour internal clock. When I was a kid, I used to think it was "insomnia", but its not, because insomnia means that you can't sleep. I can sleep just dandy--about 20 hours after I get up. If I get six full hours, I'm wired like a jack russell terrier for a long long time. So I have to live about 6 days out of the week dead tired (4-5 hours of sleep) so that I have any hope of getting those 4 or 5 hours. One day of 6-7 and I need to be up 20 hours to compensate. My clock gets advanced two or three hours sleeping (god forbid) 8, and I spend the week working it back. Friends, this is not fun. Its also not choice, because if I could trade my 28 hour clock for a 22 hour clock (like my wife has) I would in a heartbeat. I'd use those other 2 hours for sleep. 10 hours of sleep per day--that would rule.
If you study sleep--dig yourself into that theory above. You have some big papers coming your way, I guarantee you.
Only when I got to be an adult did I realize that morning people aren't "faking it". Get this: they are really rather happy its morning! All that "good morning" stuff--its sincere to them. And you have to lie and say "good morning" right back to them or they won't understand you.
Also, when I used to drive 17 hours straight (which I've done more than a few times) I couldn't wait for it to turn night so it wouldn't be so hard to stay up. Dylight is hell when a true night person wants to stay awake. If a blue light simulates that and intrudes on my precious darkness, I don't want any part of it.
Indeed, it looks as if you are not a scientist. A good scientist doesn't judge the importance of knowledge, only the quality of the work behind it and hence the validity of the conclusions one may draw from it. I'd be curious to know exactly what you do for a living so that I may judge whether your efforts are worthless.
The first time I saw what you (supposedly) have to do to read from a file in Java, it pegged my OMGWTF meter.
The idea is that you could encapsulate all that complexity inside a method inside a class--instantiate that class inside a class that has a "main()" and then put the whole thing in a module. You call all of that method with the correct parameters in an instance of another class created and instantiated the same way. You then jar it up as bytecode and then run it on the JVM--making sure your users are running the right versions of the JVM.
his point is that the feeling that you are invincible
That was the point he was trying to make. The point he actually did make was that being stupid is a huge security risk. Unfortunately, AV can't cure stupidity, it can only give you the feeling that you are invincible...
Say it isn't so. Everyone knows macs are just as cheap as PCs!
Macs include a full featured OS (there is no "OS X Home Edition", so they probably aren't including that in the numbers. How much money does it take to get a windows box to the same capabilities of a mac? Perhaps the average PC is less capable. Do you have to upgrade to windows vista super premium, or whatever to have capabilities equivalent to OS X? How about Antivirus? It isn't needed for macs just like it isn't needed for linux. This is an additional cost probably not being considered. How about the cost of upgrading your system after you have been erroneously told your system is "Vista Capable"? How about comparable hardware? How about the quality of bundled software? I guess you were modded as funny, so you were just kidding, but in the remote case you actually believe what you are writing, a clear picture will require more than just 2 numbers.
Also, I run macs because I have done feature-feature comparisons on the hardware side, and have found that you do at least as well dollar for dollar with Macs. For instance Dell XPS One: $1300. Similar features on an iMac: $1200-$1400. On the standard features, it looks like macs have 1GB of memory but the Dell has 2. But then again, video is integrated and uses shared memory on the dell, but not on the mac. So details like this wash out. Also, these numbers don't include the cost of AV for the Dell. Of course you are saying that you would go to pricewatch and piece your system together, etc, but that would put you in a tiny segment of the market which doesn't contribute much to the numbers you quote.
I'm paid to have crazy ideas. I surf the web for inspiration. Slashdot is part of that. Slashdot also provides me with opportunity to practice my prose, for which I am paid pretty good bread. Sometimes I lie in bed for hours on end sifting through ideas. That's paid time and I love it. I guess you would call those hours in bed as my "work period". Heck, I don't know. What I do know is that I love to get up with a crazy idea, go try it out, and then confirm once again that I'm brilliant. Then when I have big crazy ideas, I go talk to people and convince them to help me with my crazy ideas and then we publish them in journals. I love to see myself get cited. I'm in my 30s. My employer is smart to let me do whatever I want as long as I keep the craziness coming. Its great to be me. I'm glad I'm not a working stiff who gets told what to do and dutifully performs his tasks. That would suck pretty hard. I think I remember doing that in college to pay the rent. Yeah, now I remember, that sucked.
"Privacy" as discussed here is about protecting privacy from the government, to whom we pay taxes and who might imprison us, prosecute us, or target us for our beliefs, words, or affiliations. Privacy from the general public is a different issue. Please argue that issue elsewhere as it confuses (and is probably intentionally meant to confuse) the real issue of privacy with regards to the government. If you still don't understand, I'll repeat it in bold face: "Privacy" as discussed here is about protecting privacy from the government.
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I also forgot to mention: inhaling and exhaling air will keep you alive. Somethings seem so obvious, you forget that some people don't actually know these things.
I believe that you have no idea how prophetic you are. I personally believe something is likely to happen before a new president is sworn in. The current one is looking for any well timed reason to usurp democracy yet again. A well timed attack or international event would give him the opportunity and motive to declare a national emergency and forestall a change of administration. I'm almost prepared to take bets on this, and I'm certainly going to point to these predictions when I am shown to be correct. And before you type your tin foil hat joke, remember that declaring a state of emergency is a one man operation and does not require conspiracy or collusion, so a tin foil hat provides no protection from a power hungry president. A president just needs to properly cultivate a state of fear (which we have) and declare his emergency.
I hope I will be shown to be wrong.
Apple is simply hardware, just like AMD and Intel is simply hardware. Its also good hardware, for the most part. You have to know how to buy apple products to get the most bang for your buck, such as buying the right product at the right point in its life cycle. But, if you do a component-by-component comparison, you'll see that most of the time they simply assemble the some of the best components and integrate them very well in most versions of most of their products. Because all of the components are integrated in several of their products (mac mini, imac, macbookpro, macbook), you are locked into the hardware, in a sense--unless, like me, you have the brains and guts to disassemble them and replace what you want. However, because of the switch to intel microprocessors, it is now impossible to claim that you are locked into any operating system. Bootcamp proves this. So these days its nothing but a hardware issue. Of course I run OS X on mac hardware for obvious reasons, but apple doesn't force me to do this. I think this is something mac haters do not want to acknowledge (I'm not accusing you of hating, but your quote epitomizes a common misconception).
I also think that the most zealous fanboy mac users are probably the ones that mistakenly bought the worst mac hardware (first generation MBP, the total and complete POS Cube, etc) and now need reason to justify their purchase: faith. Of course faith is used to justify a lot of mistakes, such as the Iraq War, George Bush, and one's purchasing Windows Vista. Faith is also the reason a lot of people have strong feelings against OSS. They have paid money for a product that could have easily been substituted by a free alternative, so they adopt a religious zealotry about the superiority of commercial products when one suggests they could have had a free alternative.
Why do I use vim? Well, for that other religious reason, I guess: I don't know any better. Switch to emacs? NEVER!
I've spent 10 years being and hanging with devoted mac users, and you are patently wrong. Ask any one with any knowledge and they can name the good versions and the bad ones. 7.5.2-->primo. 8.1-->shit. 8.5-->good. 9.x-->shit. Sherlock? sure to lock up your system. Etc.
Why did I switch from windows to mac over 10 years ago? The answer was and is all about administration. In a mac, if you had problems, you could turn off "extensions", and as long as you didn't patch your system files irresponsibly, you could get it to boot and have an opportunity to debug everything. If you had a problem in windows with a dll file, you either did a clean install or you had to live with whatever regrettable quirk you had. Nowadays, you can be an expert OS X administrator easily if you already know Linux. Windows is not like this. Windows knowledge is specific to windows. So macs still make more sense from an administrative point of view. And I continue to run them because of their administrative transparency and also because I can run some essential tools on them (for me), such as dozens of OSS programs as well as Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, and Endnote. When the equivalents for these latter two come available for linux, I'll probably slowly phase out the 4 macs I own. Until then, I get the best of everything: administration and usability. This sounds like an advertisement, but its true.
Now I think I'll go tweak my plone site running on the built in apache server running on my mac box. I'll ssh in using the built in ssh client onto the built in ssh daemon. When I'm there, I'll use the built in vim to edit the files. I'm glad all of these tools ar available from my favorite shell, which is built in and which I shall not name to protect myself from religious persecution.
Oh crap--pdf exploits. That's messed up. Ok, new rule--tell them to convert to ascii.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks as if you have to click a powerpoint attachment for this to work. So the attacker is posing as the clueless secretary or retarded bureaucrat of the organization?--Because those are the chronic ignoramuses who sends me that kind of .doc, .ppt, .xls crap. Maybe its about time one of our TLAs spread the word to democracy loving NGOs in oppressive regimes: don't click on any microsoft attachments, ever, period. If its that important, bounce the message and tell them to convert it to PDF, preferably with a snide little comment so they at least have unpleasant associations next time they do it.
Is if they could figure out the reasons behind a similar type of disparity in the chirality of naturally occurring amino acids.
One thing has always bothered me about arguments like this: how did they get there in the first place? Didn't their parents need to eat? What did they eat? Why would their parents not have starved to death? When I was about 5, I saw all those starving kids in Africa and said to myself "In one generation, no more problem." There is still a problem. I think I understand it now, though: corruption and evil take food away that was once there. You are proposing that corruption puts it back. Is this really the answer?
And then the snipers would shoot them as they were packed like sardines into the busses. Me, I would pull one of 50 cards with random "evacuation plans" out of a hat and did what it said on the card. I'd include an "ignore the bomb threat" card in there as well.
My theory is that you are just not tired.
I used to hear my mom say "there are just not enough hours in the day". I didn't really get that as a kid. I used to think it was because she wanted more time to do the things she needed to get done. Now I think it is because it would have given her more hours to become tired. The only way I've ever found to shorten my clock is to work out as hard as possible. This would make me tired to go to bed. Problem is that I am now pushing 40 and if I work out that hard, I end up aggravating some injury I got doing athletics as a youth. I'd rather be sleep deprived than limp or need a brace. Cackling along in a brace up to your knee is horribly annoying.
My wife is just like old people. She will literally pass out at 10 pm while I shake her trying to keep her awake. This is not narcolepsy, because she pops up at the ass-crack of dawn every day. After 1 week of "freestyle sleep" she will be waking up about 2 hours earlier. This is genetic. "Discipline", as you call it, is the discipline to go ahead and get up on 4 hours. I'm loosing that as I get older, that's for sure. Fortunately, all that discipline I've shown through the years has put me in a position to go ahead and cash in and let the clock drift as it may a lot of the time.
I firmly disbelieve in the thought that you can be "disciplined" about going to sleep. I have ran that experiment hundreds of times. If you are not sleepy, you can't go to sleep, it doesn't matter how disciplined you are. Its not pushups or a two mile run. In fact, its exactly the opposite.
Yes we are. Some of us don't think clearly until after the sun has been down a few hours. Some of us have been that way since we were six despite the fact that we were raised by dads who kept us on a military time clock--and it didn't make one damn bit of difference, because we could invert the clock in one day by staying up until morning.
I have a theory: morning people have a 22 hour internal clock. I have a 28 hour internal clock. When I was a kid, I used to think it was "insomnia", but its not, because insomnia means that you can't sleep. I can sleep just dandy--about 20 hours after I get up. If I get six full hours, I'm wired like a jack russell terrier for a long long time. So I have to live about 6 days out of the week dead tired (4-5 hours of sleep) so that I have any hope of getting those 4 or 5 hours. One day of 6-7 and I need to be up 20 hours to compensate. My clock gets advanced two or three hours sleeping (god forbid) 8, and I spend the week working it back. Friends, this is not fun. Its also not choice, because if I could trade my 28 hour clock for a 22 hour clock (like my wife has) I would in a heartbeat. I'd use those other 2 hours for sleep. 10 hours of sleep per day--that would rule.
If you study sleep--dig yourself into that theory above. You have some big papers coming your way, I guarantee you.
Only when I got to be an adult did I realize that morning people aren't "faking it". Get this: they are really rather happy its morning! All that "good morning" stuff--its sincere to them. And you have to lie and say "good morning" right back to them or they won't understand you.
Also, when I used to drive 17 hours straight (which I've done more than a few times) I couldn't wait for it to turn night so it wouldn't be so hard to stay up. Dylight is hell when a true night person wants to stay awake. If a blue light simulates that and intrudes on my precious darkness, I don't want any part of it.
And the diffuse cloud of warm exhaust? This can't hide behind a tree.
No, everyone knows that they drop little batteries on the floor. If you don't believe me, see Woody Allen's "Sleeper".
Yeah, because I left my IR goggles on my bunk.
Indeed, it looks as if you are not a scientist. A good scientist doesn't judge the importance of knowledge, only the quality of the work behind it and hence the validity of the conclusions one may draw from it. I'd be curious to know exactly what you do for a living so that I may judge whether your efforts are worthless.
The idea is that you could encapsulate all that complexity inside a method inside a class--instantiate that class inside a class that has a "main()" and then put the whole thing in a module. You call all of that method with the correct parameters in an instance of another class created and instantiated the same way. You then jar it up as bytecode and then run it on the JVM--making sure your users are running the right versions of the JVM.
On second thought, OMGWTF?
That was the point he was trying to make. The point he actually did make was that being stupid is a huge security risk. Unfortunately, AV can't cure stupidity, it can only give you the feeling that you are invincible...
Macs include a full featured OS (there is no "OS X Home Edition", so they probably aren't including that in the numbers. How much money does it take to get a windows box to the same capabilities of a mac? Perhaps the average PC is less capable. Do you have to upgrade to windows vista super premium, or whatever to have capabilities equivalent to OS X? How about Antivirus? It isn't needed for macs just like it isn't needed for linux. This is an additional cost probably not being considered. How about the cost of upgrading your system after you have been erroneously told your system is "Vista Capable"? How about comparable hardware? How about the quality of bundled software? I guess you were modded as funny, so you were just kidding, but in the remote case you actually believe what you are writing, a clear picture will require more than just 2 numbers.
Also, I run macs because I have done feature-feature comparisons on the hardware side, and have found that you do at least as well dollar for dollar with Macs. For instance Dell XPS One: $1300. Similar features on an iMac: $1200-$1400. On the standard features, it looks like macs have 1GB of memory but the Dell has 2. But then again, video is integrated and uses shared memory on the dell, but not on the mac. So details like this wash out. Also, these numbers don't include the cost of AV for the Dell. Of course you are saying that you would go to pricewatch and piece your system together, etc, but that would put you in a tiny segment of the market which doesn't contribute much to the numbers you quote.
I'm paid to have crazy ideas. I surf the web for inspiration. Slashdot is part of that. Slashdot also provides me with opportunity to practice my prose, for which I am paid pretty good bread. Sometimes I lie in bed for hours on end sifting through ideas. That's paid time and I love it. I guess you would call those hours in bed as my "work period". Heck, I don't know. What I do know is that I love to get up with a crazy idea, go try it out, and then confirm once again that I'm brilliant. Then when I have big crazy ideas, I go talk to people and convince them to help me with my crazy ideas and then we publish them in journals. I love to see myself get cited. I'm in my 30s. My employer is smart to let me do whatever I want as long as I keep the craziness coming. Its great to be me. I'm glad I'm not a working stiff who gets told what to do and dutifully performs his tasks. That would suck pretty hard. I think I remember doing that in college to pay the rent. Yeah, now I remember, that sucked.
And here I thought it was David Bekham.
I don't know if this is the best, but it certainly is scariest.
If my government made me implant an rfid in myself, I'd dig it out with a bottle of vodka and a pocket knife.
"Privacy" as discussed here is about protecting privacy from the government, to whom we pay taxes and who might imprison us, prosecute us, or target us for our beliefs, words, or affiliations. Privacy from the general public is a different issue. Please argue that issue elsewhere as it confuses (and is probably intentionally meant to confuse) the real issue of privacy with regards to the government. If you still don't understand, I'll repeat it in bold face: "Privacy" as discussed here is about protecting privacy from the government.
Don't play or be dumb and confuse the issues.
Um...you forgot the father and the son: ±sqrt(-1).
Your point is taken, but aren't belly rolls revered there?