Why? There are already 5000 series drivers in Mac OS X. And it's quite likely that the open source drivers will not be as capable or high performance as the proprietary drivers.
If you still really want open source drivers for some reason, though, these can be used to create drivers for OS X.
That's not how it works. When someone makes a claim, they have to back it up, not the doubters. The audiophiles are making the claim that the more expensive cables create better sound. It's up to them to demonstrate this.
The skeptics make the claim that there's no way the expensive cables can affect the audio quality because the cables are digital. This doesn't require double-blind tests, or really any tests of any type, because you just have to show that the same data makes it out the other end with either cable, which is trivial to do.
No, but this insane Tea Party bullshit is being embraced by the Republican party. The most recent Republican party candidate for Vice President claimed that the Democrats are trying to put into place "death panels". Quit trying to pretend this is some sort of outlier.
The political spectrum in America has shifted so far to the right that pre-80s Republicans and modern-day Democrats are very similar. Eisenhower, Nixon, Theodore Roosevelt, would all be drummed out of the Republican party today for being extreme liberal socialists.
That doesn't make any sense. If cities are subsidizing some of the increased cost of living in the country, then if we just have the rural places pay the actual costs directly, but charge more for food to make up for it, doesn't that basically balance out?
The only difference would be that cities will no longer, by creating artificial cheapness, end up encouraging the sort of behavior that ends up costing them money. So really cities will be potentially saving money in this scenario. Saving money which could go to funding a train system which would further lower the costs for everyone, including country folk, to travel America.
The whole point is that this wasn't designed. Only the initial conditions were designed, and the designers then let them go on their own without any knowledge or comprehension as to how they would progress. The bullshit that is known as "Intelligent Design" is based on the assumption that the end results are too complex to have arisen on their own. In this case, the ability for the soccer players to know how to pass and such would be seen as "too complex" to have arisen by trial and error from a basic initial condition, but this is exactly what happened.
This was not intelligent design. It is, in fact, the very definition of evolution. It's also worth noting that evolution says absolutely nothing about the initial conditions for life, only how it progressed since it began.
1. iPhone has antenna problems 2. All radio phones have antenna problems 3. Papermaster has left Apple
All three facts are correct. No amount of logical reasoning can override reality.
The rumor part of this is that he was sacked for screwing up the antenna. Whether this is true or not can have absolutely zero impact on the reality of the three facts above, even though it may appear to logically conflict with at least one of the above. The reason for this is that people's actions are not necessarily rational or logical. Any chain of thought that assumes this is flawed. Also, the above three are not logical absolutes. The iPhone doesn't have an absolute antenna problem, and not all radio phones have exactly similar antenna problems.
While it's true that ignorance is bliss, the users that think their system is perfect will be in for a rude shock when the first serious, financially-harmful malware hits their system. And I'm sure the same principle applies to a number of Linux users as well. But not all of us can be computer scientists:-)
People have been saying this for ten years now. Even if/when something like that happens it won't be the "rude shock" you make it out to be. What will happen, if it ever happens, is some huge exploit will hit the net, and within a few hours, will hit every news outlet in the known universe (see: "antennagate", which isn't even a real story), and the "ignorance" you are speaking of will instantly vanish. Well, sort of vanish. It won't make people instantly tech savvy, but it will make them aware of security concerns.
But the premise that it's something to put much concern into is highly flawed given the utter failure for something like this to have materialized, in spite of a decade of taunting. It's just not a scenario worth getting worked up over.
That's a load of bull. Nokia, RIM, and especially Google, get plenty of coverage on Slashdot. Just because you find positive Apple stories to be so offensive that you become blind to any other story here doesn't change that.
Did you know when Froyo came out? Did you know when Flash was released as a beta for Android? Did you know whe Google remote-killed some apps? Did you know about HP's slate? New Blackberries? The N900? Firefox on non-Apple phones? Droid Incredible? Droid X? Android phone of the month? Do you see me posting in all those stories about how Apple is better and that Google/RIM/HTC/whoever is crap?
On the plus side, at least you didn't bring up the Amiga this time!
No, what he's saying is that slashdot is full of android fanboys who need to have something negative to say about the iPhone that appeals to more people than "it's not open" does. The fact that every phone on the planet does the exact same thing takes a back seat to promoting the One True philosophy of open source.
By posting that the iPhone 4 works just fine makes you a troll, de facto, as it lays bare the lie that is oh so dear to this crowd.
"Just works" means they don't have to fuck around with their computer to accomplish some task. There is no system that accomplishes this better for most people than Mac OS X running on Apple hardware. Stating that you've had Apple hardware that is "much less reliable than pretty much everything else you own" doesn't change that fact, and the singular of anecdote is not datum.
This one unreliable product has planted the seed of doubt.
Do you have an iPhone 4? Because it's rather interesting that the bulk of those calling it "unreliable" (or defective or flawed or whatever) have never even seen one in person. Apple has a problem here, but it's not with the iPhone 4, it's with the fact that the media latched on to something that affects all phones, exacerbated by a software bug, and created a smoke-and-mirrors shitstorm.
Do you know what Consumer Reports' top rated smartphone is? iPhone 4. Do you know how many people have iPhone 4's? Over 2 million. You'd think if things were really as bad as it seems, people would be returning their iPhone 4's in droves. But they aren't.
Then you got a defective unit. The iPhone 4 gets far better reception than all the previous iPhones, and gets high marks compared with smartphones in general. Congratulations, you're buying a Droid X because you bought into the media circus.
Because the problem isn't what people keep saying it is. It's not "if you touch it here, you will drop the call". It's, "if you touch it here and you have bad reception already, you might drop the call."
Yes, because I'll be using my phone in a shielded lab...
I won't, I'll be using it in the real world, and my iPhone 4 works just great. It gets better reception than any other phone I've had, and that's what matters to me. I don't give a fuck if it "fails" in some contrived circumstance.
As for it "failing", iPhone 4 is Consumer Reports' top rated smartphone.
There are some people who have shit coverage, and can trigger dropped calls at will. But if this was a truly widespread problem, there'd be more noise about it from the over 2 million people who have iPhone 4's, but there isn't. The noise is mostly from the media, Android owners, and the usual Apple-haters. From people who actually have an iPhone 4? not so much.
The only reason that "I wondered if he'd ever seen a computer before" is past-tense in meaning is because you used the word "had", which means past-tense. Because no other word was used to imply time frame, its a valid assumption that the poster meant past, present and future.
Your original post:
"The fastest video card ever made? Is this the last video card ever made or something? I think maybe you meant the fastest video card to date"
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Because that's the way it usually is. I'm not saying it's guaranteed, just likely. And if it's not the case, then awesome.
You've guessed wrong.
Why? There are already 5000 series drivers in Mac OS X. And it's quite likely that the open source drivers will not be as capable or high performance as the proprietary drivers.
If you still really want open source drivers for some reason, though, these can be used to create drivers for OS X.
That's what tariffs are for.
That's not how it works. When someone makes a claim, they have to back it up, not the doubters. The audiophiles are making the claim that the more expensive cables create better sound. It's up to them to demonstrate this.
The skeptics make the claim that there's no way the expensive cables can affect the audio quality because the cables are digital. This doesn't require double-blind tests, or really any tests of any type, because you just have to show that the same data makes it out the other end with either cable, which is trivial to do.
No, but this insane Tea Party bullshit is being embraced by the Republican party. The most recent Republican party candidate for Vice President claimed that the Democrats are trying to put into place "death panels". Quit trying to pretend this is some sort of outlier.
The political spectrum in America has shifted so far to the right that pre-80s Republicans and modern-day Democrats are very similar. Eisenhower, Nixon, Theodore Roosevelt, would all be drummed out of the Republican party today for being extreme liberal socialists.
It goes against the Republican party's values. They only believe in killing people after they've been born.
That doesn't make any sense. If cities are subsidizing some of the increased cost of living in the country, then if we just have the rural places pay the actual costs directly, but charge more for food to make up for it, doesn't that basically balance out?
The only difference would be that cities will no longer, by creating artificial cheapness, end up encouraging the sort of behavior that ends up costing them money. So really cities will be potentially saving money in this scenario. Saving money which could go to funding a train system which would further lower the costs for everyone, including country folk, to travel America.
That's an absurd claim, but perfect circlejerk material for Slashdot. +5 Insightful guaranteed.
I would tag this as "Intelligent Design".
The whole point is that this wasn't designed. Only the initial conditions were designed, and the designers then let them go on their own without any knowledge or comprehension as to how they would progress. The bullshit that is known as "Intelligent Design" is based on the assumption that the end results are too complex to have arisen on their own. In this case, the ability for the soccer players to know how to pass and such would be seen as "too complex" to have arisen by trial and error from a basic initial condition, but this is exactly what happened.
This was not intelligent design. It is, in fact, the very definition of evolution. It's also worth noting that evolution says absolutely nothing about the initial conditions for life, only how it progressed since it began.
I call bullshit through deductive reasoning.
Hmm....
Facts:
1. iPhone has antenna problems
2. All radio phones have antenna problems
3. Papermaster has left Apple
All three facts are correct. No amount of logical reasoning can override reality.
The rumor part of this is that he was sacked for screwing up the antenna. Whether this is true or not can have absolutely zero impact on the reality of the three facts above, even though it may appear to logically conflict with at least one of the above. The reason for this is that people's actions are not necessarily rational or logical. Any chain of thought that assumes this is flawed. Also, the above three are not logical absolutes. The iPhone doesn't have an absolute antenna problem, and not all radio phones have exactly similar antenna problems.
While it's true that ignorance is bliss, the users that think their system is perfect will be in for a rude shock when the first serious, financially-harmful malware hits their system. And I'm sure the same principle applies to a number of Linux users as well. But not all of us can be computer scientists :-)
People have been saying this for ten years now. Even if/when something like that happens it won't be the "rude shock" you make it out to be. What will happen, if it ever happens, is some huge exploit will hit the net, and within a few hours, will hit every news outlet in the known universe (see: "antennagate", which isn't even a real story), and the "ignorance" you are speaking of will instantly vanish. Well, sort of vanish. It won't make people instantly tech savvy, but it will make them aware of security concerns.
But the premise that it's something to put much concern into is highly flawed given the utter failure for something like this to have materialized, in spite of a decade of taunting. It's just not a scenario worth getting worked up over.
That's a load of bull. Nokia, RIM, and especially Google, get plenty of coverage on Slashdot. Just because you find positive Apple stories to be so offensive that you become blind to any other story here doesn't change that.
Did you know when Froyo came out? Did you know when Flash was released as a beta for Android? Did you know whe Google remote-killed some apps? Did you know about HP's slate? New Blackberries? The N900? Firefox on non-Apple phones? Droid Incredible? Droid X? Android phone of the month? Do you see me posting in all those stories about how Apple is better and that Google/RIM/HTC/whoever is crap?
On the plus side, at least you didn't bring up the Amiga this time!
No, what he's saying is that slashdot is full of android fanboys who need to have something negative to say about the iPhone that appeals to more people than "it's not open" does. The fact that every phone on the planet does the exact same thing takes a back seat to promoting the One True philosophy of open source.
By posting that the iPhone 4 works just fine makes you a troll, de facto, as it lays bare the lie that is oh so dear to this crowd.
"Just works" means they don't have to fuck around with their computer to accomplish some task. There is no system that accomplishes this better for most people than Mac OS X running on Apple hardware. Stating that you've had Apple hardware that is "much less reliable than pretty much everything else you own" doesn't change that fact, and the singular of anecdote is not datum.
This one unreliable product has planted the seed of doubt.
Do you have an iPhone 4? Because it's rather interesting that the bulk of those calling it "unreliable" (or defective or flawed or whatever) have never even seen one in person. Apple has a problem here, but it's not with the iPhone 4, it's with the fact that the media latched on to something that affects all phones, exacerbated by a software bug, and created a smoke-and-mirrors shitstorm.
Do you know what Consumer Reports' top rated smartphone is? iPhone 4. Do you know how many people have iPhone 4's? Over 2 million. You'd think if things were really as bad as it seems, people would be returning their iPhone 4's in droves. But they aren't.
Then you got a defective unit. The iPhone 4 gets far better reception than all the previous iPhones, and gets high marks compared with smartphones in general. Congratulations, you're buying a Droid X because you bought into the media circus.
Because the problem isn't what people keep saying it is. It's not "if you touch it here, you will drop the call". It's, "if you touch it here and you have bad reception already, you might drop the call."
Yes, because I'll be using my phone in a shielded lab...
I won't, I'll be using it in the real world, and my iPhone 4 works just great. It gets better reception than any other phone I've had, and that's what matters to me. I don't give a fuck if it "fails" in some contrived circumstance.
As for it "failing", iPhone 4 is Consumer Reports' top rated smartphone.
There are some people who have shit coverage, and can trigger dropped calls at will. But if this was a truly widespread problem, there'd be more noise about it from the over 2 million people who have iPhone 4's, but there isn't. The noise is mostly from the media, Android owners, and the usual Apple-haters. From people who actually have an iPhone 4? not so much.
The only reason that "I wondered if he'd ever seen a computer before" is past-tense in meaning is because you used the word "had", which means past-tense. Because no other word was used to imply time frame, its a valid assumption that the poster meant past, present and future.
Your original post:
"The fastest video card ever made? Is this the last video card ever made or something? I think maybe you meant the fastest video card to date"
I bolded the past tense for you.
If your goal was to show him what sad really is, why, job well done!
I'd expect pretty much any more or less educated person to know the difference
Well, that was your mistake right there.
The facebook users brain activity, more closely resembles that of a women shopping, heroin addict getting a fix, or farmville player harvesting crops.
... or nerds espousing their superiority over people who do things the nerds don't like.
What the difference between a Mac fanboy and a bicycle?
Slap a chain on a bicycle and it doesn't blog endlessly about how being chained up is an improvement.
Then why is it always the Google fanboys who go on and on about the chains?