It's as if Stephenson began a torrid, years-long relationship with an unabridged thesaurus. Either that, or his publisher started paying by the word.
Or maybe Stephen R. Donaldson has been using the Neal Stephenson persona all along, and the mask has finally slipped. Or maybe I need to stop smoking catnip. Seriously, though, if you think the Stephenson abuses his thesaurus, check out Donaldson's "Thomas Covenant" books.
Stephenson's detractors are just pissy because Stephenson stops right after the climax and doesn't bother with a denouement. They're like women who complain that the guy just leaves them after he's gotten his rocks off, and doesn't stick around to cuddle so they can pick the pimples on his ass while he's dozing.
Because you touch yourself at night. Seriously, man, this is Apple we're talking about, not fucking Burger King. The slogan is "think different", not "have it your way".
What do you mean, crappy? I'm a size queen when it comes to desktop displays, but I've been using a Macbook as my primary computer ever since it came out, and I've been perfectly comfortable with the 13.3" 1280x800 screen.
I was a selfish bastard before I started reading philosophy, and it wasn't the post-modern stuff that justified my selfishness, but a nineteenth-century German by the name of Max Stirner.
Again, I am not concerned about society. After all, society is not concerned about me unless it wants something from me. Why should I grant society any higher regard than it grants me?
At this point, it's becoming so difficult to tell the reasonable Christians from the willfully ignorant and irrational ones that I'm tempted to say, "Slay them all. God will know His own."
As an atheist, I must say that I have never concerned myself with whether or not my disbelief is good for 'society'. My only concern is whether or not my disbelief is good for me.
if you were using public airwaves for it, you couldn't sit there and lie for like, 3 hours straight.
You still can if you're the President and you're giving the State of the Union address. If the President ever actually told the truth during one of those addresses, his speech would consist of, "The United States is in deep shit, and it's our fault."
Here's more proof that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats give a damn about the Bill of Rights. The Republicans are wiping their asses on the Fourth Amendment, and now the Democrats want to wipe their asses on the First. But they still take turns wiping santorum off their dicks with the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
Nice question-- comes off a little like, "I think your work is useless. What do you have to say in response?"
I could apologize, or I could explain that I had rewritten the question five times to try to avoid coming off that way, but I just don't give a shit today.
Yes, I think that WINE is useless to me. I'm not knocking WINE; others have found uses for it that never occured to me. I, however, never had a reason to bother with WINE. I don't run Windows apps at home. I never wanted to. I don't bother with PC gaming, either.
I see your point concerning users who don't have a legit copy of Windows and don't want to use a bootleg, but if you want good 3D, wouldn't you be better off dual-booting?
When I first started using GNU/Linux in 1999, I knew that if I wanted to run Windows apps, the best way to go about it was to dual-boot. Now, it appears that the most convenient way to run Windows apps is to run Windows in a virtual machine. Since both dual-booting and virtualization appear to be more convenient ways to run Windows apps than WINE, where does WINE fit in?
I got through it by fighting the school and my parents every step of the way, and by refusing to do anything that either of them could not force me to do. However, thirteen years of uncompromising defiance isn't within every child's reach.
Liberty is too much responsibility for you? Liberty is too much responsibility for most Americans, who went to government-run public schools and were taught to trust and obey authority. They started out as real boys and girls, and now they're nothing but puppets.
Lee Harvey Oswald brought down a President with nothing but a bolt-action rifle. The insurgents in Iraq do most of their damage not with AK-47s, but with IEDs. Also, the US military will probably pussyfoot as much as possible in the event of a rebellion. If they clamp down too hard, then nobody has a reason to refuse to fight.
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Sorry, but I grew up in Juniper. As far as I'm concerned, money has no provenance.
I thought it was awesome, but I play the keyboards in a ELP tribute band called "Excessive, Loud, and Pretentious".
It's as if Stephenson began a torrid, years-long relationship with an unabridged thesaurus. Either that, or his publisher started paying by the word.
Or maybe Stephen R. Donaldson has been using the Neal Stephenson persona all along, and the mask has finally slipped. Or maybe I need to stop smoking catnip. Seriously, though, if you think the Stephenson abuses his thesaurus, check out Donaldson's "Thomas Covenant" books.
Stephenson's detractors are just pissy because Stephenson stops right after the climax and doesn't bother with a denouement. They're like women who complain that the guy just leaves them after he's gotten his rocks off, and doesn't stick around to cuddle so they can pick the pimples on his ass while he's dozing.
Dude, the fork already happened. What do you think PAX and GDC are for?
Because you touch yourself at night. Seriously, man, this is Apple we're talking about, not fucking Burger King. The slogan is "think different", not "have it your way".
Don't get me started on why I can't get a Macbook in black at the same price as the ivory (to replace my Powerbook G4)
I'm sure the jump in hard drive space from 160GB to 250GB has nothing to do with it.
What do you mean, crappy? I'm a size queen when it comes to desktop displays, but I've been using a Macbook as my primary computer ever since it came out, and I've been perfectly comfortable with the 13.3" 1280x800 screen.
Thanks, but I've already read Ayn Rand. I'm currently working on reading Proust, Sartre, and Camus in the original French.
I was a selfish bastard before I started reading philosophy, and it wasn't the post-modern stuff that justified my selfishness, but a nineteenth-century German by the name of Max Stirner.
Again, I am not concerned about society. After all, society is not concerned about me unless it wants something from me. Why should I grant society any higher regard than it grants me?
At this point, it's becoming so difficult to tell the reasonable Christians from the willfully ignorant and irrational ones that I'm tempted to say, "Slay them all. God will know His own."
So is Objectivism, but that doesn't mean that either is good or useful philosophy.
As an atheist, I must say that I have never concerned myself with whether or not my disbelief is good for 'society'. My only concern is whether or not my disbelief is good for me.
if you were using public airwaves for it, you couldn't sit there and lie for like, 3 hours straight.
You still can if you're the President and you're giving the State of the Union address. If the President ever actually told the truth during one of those addresses, his speech would consist of, "The United States is in deep shit, and it's our fault."
Here's more proof that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats give a damn about the Bill of Rights. The Republicans are wiping their asses on the Fourth Amendment, and now the Democrats want to wipe their asses on the First. But they still take turns wiping santorum off their dicks with the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
Nice question-- comes off a little like, "I think your work is useless. What do you have to say in response?"
I could apologize, or I could explain that I had rewritten the question five times to try to avoid coming off that way, but I just don't give a shit today.
Yes, I think that WINE is useless to me. I'm not knocking WINE; others have found uses for it that never occured to me. I, however, never had a reason to bother with WINE. I don't run Windows apps at home. I never wanted to. I don't bother with PC gaming, either.
You're right. I hadn't thought about that.
I do my gaming on consoles, so my mileage definitely varies. :)
I see your point concerning users who don't have a legit copy of Windows and don't want to use a bootleg, but if you want good 3D, wouldn't you be better off dual-booting?
When I first started using GNU/Linux in 1999, I knew that if I wanted to run Windows apps, the best way to go about it was to dual-boot. Now, it appears that the most convenient way to run Windows apps is to run Windows in a virtual machine. Since both dual-booting and virtualization appear to be more convenient ways to run Windows apps than WINE, where does WINE fit in?
I got through it by fighting the school and my parents every step of the way, and by refusing to do anything that either of them could not force me to do. However, thirteen years of uncompromising defiance isn't within every child's reach.
Lee Harvey Oswald brought down a President with nothing but a bolt-action rifle. The insurgents in Iraq do most of their damage not with AK-47s, but with IEDs. Also, the US military will probably pussyfoot as much as possible in the event of a rebellion. If they clamp down too hard, then nobody has a reason to refuse to fight.
That's what backups are for. :)
Why would a sandbox for Mail, Safari, etc. be necessary if the user isn't running these applications with root privileges?