My proposal for "The Windows": 1 can cheap american (sex-in-a-canoe) beer, for ubiquitousness and lack of redeeming qualities 2 shots store-brand whiskey, for the bad taste it leaves in your mouth 1 shot blue curacao, in honor of the BSOD
I'm still working on "The OSX", "The BSD", and "The Solaris".
I'd have to disagree with you there. I've had more than my share of problems with Fink (mostly involving XDarwin and ridiculous dependencies with teTeX), and I finally got fed up and ran 'sudo rm -rf/sw'. Since then I've found Darwinports (http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/), which admittedly is a much younger project and has a smaller list of packages, but it hasn't fucked anything up on my system (yet). Happiness is running ethereal under OSX;)
... aaaand there's your problem: an excess of suck in your daily browsing habits. MSN Chat and Yahoo Chat? They're symptoms of that blight on the Web that is the proliferation of non-Web applications being served over HTTP. There's just no excuse. IRC clients exist for a reason. (Mozilla has one of those, too.) And have you forgotten about that whole "standards" thing that Mozilla (nominally) supports, and IE notably does not?
I think you don't know what you're talking about. I have the aforementioned "upper-end Mac hardware" (dual 800MHz G4) and believe me, OSX doesn't "poke along". I do have basis for comparison; the lone 2GHz Win2k box at work (the rest of the boxes run RedHat) doesn't feel noticeably slower or faster. I may have paid more for mine, but I really do feel that being able to use OS X rather than Windows is totally worth it.
As I recall (from word-for-word memorization of my Mac Secrets 3rd Edition), the story was a little deeper than this. The other two Power Mac models released at the same time as the 7100 were code-named Cold Fusion, of course a famous hoax, and PDM, which Sagan found out stood for "Piltdown Man", another hoax. Obviously he wasn't so happy about the implications of this. Yes, he had lawyers, and yes, the engineers changed the code name. They had a little more subtlety than you give them credit for, though. They gave the 7100 an acronym-- BHA. Draw your own conclusions. I'd tell the story about Apple Computer getting sued by Apple Records, but I get the feeling I'm offtopic enough as is...
Somebody has already said that a large part of the music market evidently wants Britney or N'Sync or what have you. Ok, this is borne up by the statistical evidence: record sales. But "intelligent, thought-provoking..."? That's off the mark too. I want talent. What am I listening to right now? "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins (off an album I actually own, for the record). Ok, perhaps it's intelligent; certainly more so than the average Limp Bizkit tune. But I listen to it because of the melody, actually penned by the lead singer; the drums, with a real person holding the sticks... this song wasn't manufactured. Nor was the Beastie Boys' "Get It Together", or "Quicksand" by Finger Eleven. Is this sort of thing too much to ask? Are the days dead when a band like Green Day or the Stone Temple Pilots could record a great album and be rewarded for their efforts by fans and labels alike? I think not, or at least they can be resurrected. There's a surprising amount of new, good music out there. Don't give up on the recording industry entirely; having just read a biography of Nirvana, 15 years or so ago the recording industry was sucking in a lot of the same ways as it is now. Don't give up hope just yet.
Just slightly off-topic, but CNET doesn't have a "Rant" link so i figured I'd do it here:P
There are times when I really despise the media, and this is one of 'em. CNET apparently doesn't understand, or at least doesn't care to share with it's readers, the difference between cracking a system and subjecting it to a DDoS attack. Yes, supposedly this new software being "tested" will keep your box from being cracked like a raw egg. But it doesn't, as CNET implies, protect said box from DDoS. Basically, the problem is that there are ignorant people writing these articles, and misinforming the public. But what can ya do?
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My proposal for "The Windows":
1 can cheap american (sex-in-a-canoe) beer, for ubiquitousness and lack of redeeming qualities
2 shots store-brand whiskey, for the bad taste it leaves in your mouth
1 shot blue curacao, in honor of the BSOD
I'm still working on "The OSX", "The BSD", and "The Solaris".
I'd have to disagree with you there. I've had more than my share of problems with Fink (mostly involving XDarwin and ridiculous dependencies with teTeX), and I finally got fed up and ran 'sudo rm -rf /sw'. Since then I've found Darwinports (http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/), which admittedly is a much younger project and has a smaller list of packages, but it hasn't fucked anything up on my system (yet). Happiness is running ethereal under OSX ;)
... aaaand there's your problem: an excess of suck in your daily browsing habits. MSN Chat and Yahoo Chat? They're symptoms of that blight on the Web that is the proliferation of non-Web applications being served over HTTP. There's just no excuse. IRC clients exist for a reason. (Mozilla has one of those, too.) And have you forgotten about that whole "standards" thing that Mozilla (nominally) supports, and IE notably does not?
I think you don't know what you're talking about. I have the aforementioned "upper-end Mac hardware" (dual 800MHz G4) and believe me, OSX doesn't "poke along". I do have basis for comparison; the lone 2GHz Win2k box at work (the rest of the boxes run RedHat) doesn't feel noticeably slower or faster. I may have paid more for mine, but I really do feel that being able to use OS X rather than Windows is totally worth it.
As I recall (from word-for-word memorization of my Mac Secrets 3rd Edition), the story was a little deeper than this. The other two Power Mac models released at the same time as the 7100 were code-named Cold Fusion, of course a famous hoax, and PDM, which Sagan found out stood for "Piltdown Man", another hoax. Obviously he wasn't so happy about the implications of this. Yes, he had lawyers, and yes, the engineers changed the code name. They had a little more subtlety than you give them credit for, though. They gave the 7100 an acronym-- BHA. Draw your own conclusions. I'd tell the story about Apple Computer getting sued by Apple Records, but I get the feeling I'm offtopic enough as is...
Somebody has already said that a large part of the music market evidently wants Britney or N'Sync or what have you. Ok, this is borne up by the statistical evidence: record sales. But "intelligent, thought-provoking..."? That's off the mark too. I want talent. What am I listening to right now? "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins (off an album I actually own, for the record). Ok, perhaps it's intelligent; certainly more so than the average Limp Bizkit tune. But I listen to it because of the melody, actually penned by the lead singer; the drums, with a real person holding the sticks... this song wasn't manufactured. Nor was the Beastie Boys' "Get It Together", or "Quicksand" by Finger Eleven. Is this sort of thing too much to ask? Are the days dead when a band like Green Day or the Stone Temple Pilots could record a great album and be rewarded for their efforts by fans and labels alike? I think not, or at least they can be resurrected. There's a surprising amount of new, good music out there. Don't give up on the recording industry entirely; having just read a biography of Nirvana, 15 years or so ago the recording industry was sucking in a lot of the same ways as it is now. Don't give up hope just yet.
Just slightly off-topic, but CNET doesn't have a "Rant" link so i figured I'd do it here :P
There are times when I really despise the media, and this is one of 'em. CNET apparently doesn't understand, or at least doesn't care to share with it's readers, the difference between cracking a system and subjecting it to a DDoS attack. Yes, supposedly this new software being "tested" will keep your box from being cracked like a raw egg. But it doesn't, as CNET implies, protect said box from DDoS. Basically, the problem is that there are ignorant people writing these articles, and misinforming the public. But what can ya do?