Culture is the real thing that determines whether or not you can succeed. If high expectations are set for you, you may have some chance of reaching them. If your parents care about education, they will help ensure your sucess. Similarly, you can be sabotaged by people from your own group that sell you short or help perpetuate even greater anti-intellectualism than the usual norm.
The groups that have the most problem actively stigmatize success or anything that might lead to it.
Nope. I just means they've had some experience with recent Apple products. I don't buy into the whole "it's a Unix" propaganda. If you think MacOS 10 is Unix then you don't really understand what Unix is.
It's more than just a scary looking interface.
After actually having experienced Macs for myself, I view Windows as less problematic. While it is a festering pile of poo, it is at least a flexible pile of poo with a user community that won't screech at you like a pod person for pushing boundaries.
Apple is like the opposite of "artistic".
Although my biggest complaint would be the overpriced lame *ss hardware. Only the most expensive and least efficient option will do. No other choice is available.
It's the perfect example of form over function (and thus anti-Unix).
> Ruggedize these things and every lineman, every CCTV installer and every warehouse forklift driver will want them.
There are already highly specialized devices for these people.
They're just "invisible" because they are business machines and most consumers are not aware of something unless it's available at a kiosk at the local mall.
> For one, though you will undoubtedly disagree, they ensured the popularization the PC.
No. IBM associated their monopoly with the PC. Microsoft just took advantage of IBMs good name.
Also, Apple and friends established the microcomputing market. IBM just came in as a johnny-come-lately spoiler.
Ultimately IBMs marketing muscle and Microsoft's subsequent dominance RETARDED the industry and delayed the introduction of better hardware and better operating systems.
Fixating on Apple II misses Macintosh, Atari, Amiga & Acorn.
Compared to the DOS that lurked beneath any Microsoft product leading up to 1995, AppleDOS is not so bad. Even VMS is not so bad.
Once again. You are still left with the problem of a large pool of weapons to steal from.
You are conveniently ignoring that in your rush to use any kind of distorted logic to twist reality to suit your pet agenda.
We have a massive number of heavily armed civilians in this country. You probably gloss over this fact because you have a hardon for the government. They are still there though. They are human and fallible and subject to corruption and error.
Also, whatever industry that remains in place to service these armed civilians will also be a point of explotiation. More guns and ammo floating around.
Then of course there are those inconvenient contraband smugglers that the government can't seem to stop. But they are a different matter.
So disarming the lawful citizens won't really solve the underlying problem of getting rid of guns. There will still be plenty.
Finally. A 1911 used by a soldier is as same as the 1911 used by a civilian. This is actually not a bad thing as that designation often changes.
Clearly you view the idea of a smart gun as a way to game the system and ignore the law and effectively strip citizens of their rights.
If you are willing to do the work, it still makes more sense to buy the physical product. The physical product comes with some actual property rights. Those rights in turn allow for greater availability and lower prices.
One of my more recent acquisitions i something that "expired" from my Netflix queue before I got around to watching it.
Plus you don't usually get to "download" anything. You're forced to stream it in such a way that any that you are always using up whatever bandwidth cap you may have. Then there are platform limitations (Apple and Amazon) with some services.
Anything you "own" can be taken back any time your virtual Landlord decides (Amazon again).
You're also grossly overinflating the utility of current broadband networks. Sneakernet is still far faster and has much greater aggregate bandwidth. "Downloading" is only faster in some limited "low quality" use cases.
Besides. It's 2014. You can buy physical stuff without ever leaving home. if you're really impatient you can get the $4 next day delivery.
Unless you are willing to buy something that is unsafe, unreliable, and uncomfortable you are unlikely to end up with something significantly more efficient than a vehicle with decent cargo capacity.
Then you will end up going to a lot of bother to rent a vehicle you have no idea how to drive really.
Clueless driver + oversized vehicle is not a good combination. Not really something you want to encourage to be on the roads your friends and family travel on.
A lot of people try to define "city" in terms of the planet's glamour destinations and largely ignore everything else including big parts of all of those European countries that are supposed to be nothing but overpriced tenement style high rises.
This is true to a certain extent but the US freight rail networks still need an infusion of fresh money for added infastructure. What we have is being very effectively utilized but we still need more.
Although that's not nearly as sexy as a consumer bullet train that won't be cheap enough to compete against regional commuter airlines.
I was also shocked to see how much cargo truck traffic there is on the Autobahn.
It doesn't matter. Hollywood has still destroyed DVD and BluRay as a video distribution platform. While they have been busy suppressing the very tech that would encourage disk hoarding, streaming has come along and provided a simpler alternative. You could even view torrents as a variation on streaming services. Both involve similar alternate distribution approaches.
Hollywood slit their own throats. While they have been fighting this tech, the likes of Netflix have managed to devalue most of the stuff that people might be inclined to buy.
Rather than spend $60 or $20 on a boxed set, people will just stream stuff from Netflix for a marginal cost of ZERO.
In all of my years of using and seeking products of this kind, I think I have ONCE seen a similar product available for retail. It was an expensive MCE setup that included a disk jukebox.
The industry at large never really supported this concept.
K-scape has always been a product for the 1% sold on the basis of "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it".
Then again, I don't have 50K to blow on my home media setup. I expect you don't either. So what anyone here has to say on the matter is at best conjecture.
No one here is actually capable of being a K-scape user.
> not ONE american car company, chevy, ford,chrysler makes american cars.
That really doesn't matter because as you yourself point out, there are other companies that have their factories here. That's what ultimately matters. Who owns it isn't relevant as much as who is doing the work.
If anything, that just makes American management look bad.
Nope. The original trilogy managed to appeal to a wide swath of the population. It managed to be a cultural phenomenon with a scope so massive it's hard to relate to unless you actually lived through it.
The prequels tried to pander to small children and failed.
The originals treated the idea of being a Flash Gordon knockoff seriously. The prequels not so much.
Much like some Trek suffers from too much Roddenberry, Star Wars suffers from the same effect. An artist that built a success on his vision as distorted by collaborators creates a big steaming pile because no one is willing to say WTF.
...and you idiots whine about the delusions of others.
Unless you are living in some kind of "food desert", your chance of being shot approximates zero. Your open hatred of your fellow voters is about as realistic as people afraid of a zombie apocalypse.
Yup. Except a key is not much added complexity when considering how complex an entire car is.
On the other hand, any locking mechanism for a gun is going to be more complex than the gun itself.
Although the bottom line is that civilians should not be forced into anything that everyone else is not. If the tech is good enough for civilians then it's good enough for a cop or a soldier. If it isn't, then civilians shouldn't have it forced upon them either.
Crooks will just view the police as a convenient reservoir of of more reliable weapons.
if anyone cares about your worthless narcissistic ass, they would have been just as interested in the pre-Internet age. The fact that there is now an on-line encyclopedia really doesn't change anything. The media was quite free to 'slander' you in the past. They just would have done it in print or on TV. Either of those mediums can be propagated worldwide.
Also, anything involving you being incarcerated is not an issue of "privacy". It's a matter of public record and needs to be open and available for public audit.
I am an AV learner too. However I am also impatient. If something can be summed up in a small paragraph then I find video to be an intolerable waste of time. Video is for intractable subjects, not random musings.
Fine. Continue enjoying your outtages. This is exactly what you get for brand fixated mentality. Gimp is but one example. It's the tip of the iceberg. The fanboys always should down anything that isn't Brand X. It doesn't matter what the license is.
For anything you create, the data storage part should be completely transparent to the end users. Something that connects to a database of some kind should handle all the data manipulation they're interested in. The storage mechanism should pretty much run itself as should the application server if you are using that kind of component.
There are plenty of apps that have database backends that don't require a great deal of IT skill to deal with.
They should never have to worry about directly manipulating the data regardless.
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> because one of their biggest financial pillars is the trial lawyers
Only a small minority of lawyers are even allowed to handle these cases.
So using lawyers in general as some kind of bogeyman here shows an extreme level of ignorance and/or an extreme level of contempt for the electorate.
Only the "nerd" contingent of the bar is even allowed to apply for the kind of credential that allows one to practice in this area.
Culture is the real thing that determines whether or not you can succeed. If high expectations are set for you, you may have some chance of reaching them. If your parents care about education, they will help ensure your sucess. Similarly, you can be sabotaged by people from your own group that sell you short or help perpetuate even greater anti-intellectualism than the usual norm.
The groups that have the most problem actively stigmatize success or anything that might lead to it.
Nope. I just means they've had some experience with recent Apple products. I don't buy into the whole "it's a Unix" propaganda. If you think MacOS 10 is Unix then you don't really understand what Unix is.
It's more than just a scary looking interface.
After actually having experienced Macs for myself, I view Windows as less problematic. While it is a festering pile of poo, it is at least a flexible pile of poo with a user community that won't screech at you like a pod person for pushing boundaries.
Apple is like the opposite of "artistic".
Although my biggest complaint would be the overpriced lame *ss hardware. Only the most expensive and least efficient option will do. No other choice is available.
It's the perfect example of form over function (and thus anti-Unix).
> Ruggedize these things and every lineman, every CCTV installer and every warehouse forklift driver will want them.
There are already highly specialized devices for these people.
They're just "invisible" because they are business machines and most consumers are not aware of something unless it's available at a kiosk at the local mall.
> For one, though you will undoubtedly disagree, they ensured the popularization the PC.
No. IBM associated their monopoly with the PC. Microsoft just took advantage of IBMs good name.
Also, Apple and friends established the microcomputing market. IBM just came in as a johnny-come-lately spoiler.
Ultimately IBMs marketing muscle and Microsoft's subsequent dominance RETARDED the industry and delayed the introduction of better hardware and better operating systems.
Fixating on Apple II misses Macintosh, Atari, Amiga & Acorn.
Compared to the DOS that lurked beneath any Microsoft product leading up to 1995, AppleDOS is not so bad. Even VMS is not so bad.
Once again. You are still left with the problem of a large pool of weapons to steal from.
You are conveniently ignoring that in your rush to use any kind of distorted logic to twist reality to suit your pet agenda.
We have a massive number of heavily armed civilians in this country. You probably gloss over this fact because you have a hardon for the government. They are still there though. They are human and fallible and subject to corruption and error.
Also, whatever industry that remains in place to service these armed civilians will also be a point of explotiation. More guns and ammo floating around.
Then of course there are those inconvenient contraband smugglers that the government can't seem to stop. But they are a different matter.
So disarming the lawful citizens won't really solve the underlying problem of getting rid of guns. There will still be plenty.
Finally. A 1911 used by a soldier is as same as the 1911 used by a civilian. This is actually not a bad thing as that designation often changes.
Clearly you view the idea of a smart gun as a way to game the system and ignore the law and effectively strip citizens of their rights.
Nonsense.
If you are willing to do the work, it still makes more sense to buy the physical product. The physical product comes with some actual property rights. Those rights in turn allow for greater availability and lower prices.
One of my more recent acquisitions i something that "expired" from my Netflix queue before I got around to watching it.
Plus you don't usually get to "download" anything. You're forced to stream it in such a way that any that you are always using up whatever bandwidth cap you may have. Then there are platform limitations (Apple and Amazon) with some services.
Anything you "own" can be taken back any time your virtual Landlord decides (Amazon again).
You're also grossly overinflating the utility of current broadband networks. Sneakernet is still far faster and has much greater aggregate bandwidth. "Downloading" is only faster in some limited "low quality" use cases.
Besides. It's 2014. You can buy physical stuff without ever leaving home. if you're really impatient you can get the $4 next day delivery.
This troll just wants to rag on whatever group he wants to dump on. Logic and rationality really have nothing to do with it.
To paraphrase a slogan from the gun lobby:
Lawyers don't sue people, clients do.
If the RIAA is using a lawyer as a bludgeon against you, the perpetrator is not the lawyer. It's the RIAA.
> Isn't any corporation composed on individual humans? Don't those individual humans have any responsibility or culpability for wrong-doing?
No. That's the whole point of a corporation. It insulates individual employees and investors from responsibility.
In that respect, it's more like a rioting mob trying to burn down some Korean grocery than some idyllic Star Trek style hive mind.
Unless you are willing to buy something that is unsafe, unreliable, and uncomfortable you are unlikely to end up with something significantly more efficient than a vehicle with decent cargo capacity.
Then you will end up going to a lot of bother to rent a vehicle you have no idea how to drive really.
Clueless driver + oversized vehicle is not a good combination. Not really something you want to encourage to be on the roads your friends and family travel on.
A lot of people try to define "city" in terms of the planet's glamour destinations and largely ignore everything else including big parts of all of those European countries that are supposed to be nothing but overpriced tenement style high rises.
This is true to a certain extent but the US freight rail networks still need an infusion of fresh money for added infastructure. What we have is being very effectively utilized but we still need more.
Although that's not nearly as sexy as a consumer bullet train that won't be cheap enough to compete against regional commuter airlines.
I was also shocked to see how much cargo truck traffic there is on the Autobahn.
It doesn't matter. Hollywood has still destroyed DVD and BluRay as a video distribution platform. While they have been busy suppressing the very tech that would encourage disk hoarding, streaming has come along and provided a simpler alternative. You could even view torrents as a variation on streaming services. Both involve similar alternate distribution approaches.
Hollywood slit their own throats. While they have been fighting this tech, the likes of Netflix have managed to devalue most of the stuff that people might be inclined to buy.
Rather than spend $60 or $20 on a boxed set, people will just stream stuff from Netflix for a marginal cost of ZERO.
Great job Hollywood.
In all of my years of using and seeking products of this kind, I think I have ONCE seen a similar product available for retail. It was an expensive MCE setup that included a disk jukebox.
The industry at large never really supported this concept.
K-scape has always been a product for the 1% sold on the basis of "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it".
> Kaleidescape makes XBMC look like a pretender.
How exactly?
I don't see it really.
Then again, I don't have 50K to blow on my home media setup. I expect you don't either. So what anyone here has to say on the matter is at best conjecture.
No one here is actually capable of being a K-scape user.
> not ONE american car company, chevy, ford,chrysler makes american cars.
That really doesn't matter because as you yourself point out, there are other companies that have their factories here. That's what ultimately matters. Who owns it isn't relevant as much as who is doing the work.
If anything, that just makes American management look bad.
Nope. The original trilogy managed to appeal to a wide swath of the population. It managed to be a cultural phenomenon with a scope so massive it's hard to relate to unless you actually lived through it.
The prequels tried to pander to small children and failed.
The originals treated the idea of being a Flash Gordon knockoff seriously. The prequels not so much.
Much like some Trek suffers from too much Roddenberry, Star Wars suffers from the same effect. An artist that built a success on his vision as distorted by collaborators creates a big steaming pile because no one is willing to say WTF.
They are not "required".
They are required to be part of a civilized insurance policy.
That's a subtle difference that you're glossing over there.
Companies are "forced" to pay for your triple bypass or lung cancer treatment too.
...and you idiots whine about the delusions of others.
Unless you are living in some kind of "food desert", your chance of being shot approximates zero. Your open hatred of your fellow voters is about as realistic as people afraid of a zombie apocalypse.
Yup. Except a key is not much added complexity when considering how complex an entire car is.
On the other hand, any locking mechanism for a gun is going to be more complex than the gun itself.
Although the bottom line is that civilians should not be forced into anything that everyone else is not. If the tech is good enough for civilians then it's good enough for a cop or a soldier. If it isn't, then civilians shouldn't have it forced upon them either.
Crooks will just view the police as a convenient reservoir of of more reliable weapons.
if anyone cares about your worthless narcissistic ass, they would have been just as interested in the pre-Internet age. The fact that there is now an on-line encyclopedia really doesn't change anything. The media was quite free to 'slander' you in the past. They just would have done it in print or on TV. Either of those mediums can be propagated worldwide.
Also, anything involving you being incarcerated is not an issue of "privacy". It's a matter of public record and needs to be open and available for public audit.
I am an AV learner too. However I am also impatient. If something can be summed up in a small paragraph then I find video to be an intolerable waste of time. Video is for intractable subjects, not random musings.
> Fail. Gimp just doesn't cut it.
Fine. Continue enjoying your outtages. This is exactly what you get for brand fixated mentality. Gimp is but one example. It's the tip of the iceberg. The fanboys always should down anything that isn't Brand X. It doesn't matter what the license is.
For anything you create, the data storage part should be completely transparent to the end users. Something that connects to a database of some kind should handle all the data manipulation they're interested in. The storage mechanism should pretty much run itself as should the application server if you are using that kind of component.
There are plenty of apps that have database backends that don't require a great deal of IT skill to deal with.
They should never have to worry about directly manipulating the data regardless.