Considering my G3 iBook is a pretty kick ass gaming platform (at least for my needs) and is able to play every game out there flawlessly, I doubt a G4 would be worse. At this point the CPUs are barely even being used for gaming. The bottleneck now is the GPU.
I would like to take issue with the following:
"Gays are evil. Jews are evil. Americans are evil"
MOST reasonable Christian denominations recognize that it is the sin that is evil and not the person. The belief is that the person should be loved no matter the sin (Christian attitudes have not relfected this lately hence the misunderstanding, but hey, don't hate them hate their hypocracy). This is connected to the whole forgiveness thing.
I like to think that most reasonable christian denominations would simply teach "Live life as Christ would" and that's it. But many seem to have trouble doing that. Also, while most major religions today recognize that the sin is evil, not the person, they weren't always like that. That was part of my point. Cults are just religions that lack the benefit of centuries of refinement. It probably doesn't help that their wacko leaders are still around, while the catholics' wacko leaders have been dead for 100+ years.
As with most "all religions are evil" people, you base your claims on a few widely known religions and ignore many others.
I never said all religions are evil. Just that they all do the things the poster listed.
Nope. Religions promote a system of beliefs which lead one to believe that certain actions are not appropriate. A cult will ban certain actions with or without reason and use its control structure to punish those who disobey. Some religions do this, not all.
So if I repeatedly have sex young boys, which christian denomination won't punish me within their control structure? (other than the catholic church)
So in other words, the Roman Catholic Church does this. Fine. Not all religions are the Roman Catholic Church or recognize it as any kind of authority. Not all religions have restrictions on information that members can be exposed to. Don't spout off about it if you're not willing to research it.
I wasn't going to give examples for each and every religion in the world. The ones I listed were just examples to show mainstream religions doing the same things cults supposedly do. That was my entire point. That cults are no different than any other church with the exception of being smaller and younger.
Really? If you base your observations solely on the Catholic Church and the Mormon Church, then yes it certainly looks like they're a large money-collecting agency.
I look at any religion like that. The decentralized ones are just like smaller mom&pop stores. Or franchises. Most churches have unpaid clergy. But they don't need to be paid since the church gives them a house, food, transportation, etc. The overall value of which is determined by the amount of collections you can obtain from your parish.
(I will ignore the implication that if Religion=Corporation, Corporation=Religion.)
Why ignore it? I'd argue that it's true. The Enron thing is a nice example. Apple fanatics are another.
My only point with this whole thing is the line between "church" and "cult" is a very very fine one.
Behaviour control - what the cult member can and can't do.
All religions do this. re: Abortion, homosexuality, sex.
Information control - what information the cult members are exposed to.
All religions do this. re: The vault of secret church artifacts the vatican hides in Rome.
Thought control - how to think and attitudes towards the "outside world"
All religions do this. re: Gays are evil. Jews are evil. Americans are evil.
Emotional control - cults manipulate emotions to a remarkable degree in order to control their followers.
All religions do this. re: Uhm...I dunno, look around. It's everywhere.
Religion is just another name for Corporation. Cults are just too small and too early in their development to have the benefit of being based on the words and actions of people long forgotten. For all we know Jesus was considered a cult leader, and if he were around today we'd have the DoJ storm his compound and torch his followers.
As a 7-year Linux user, what are the top 5 things you find superior in OS-X? And don't say GUI.
1.) Applications. Gimp is really amazing. But it's no Photoshop. Audio apps are pathetic with Linux. OS X has Cubase and Logic Audio on their way (hopefully soon.)
2.) Development. Cocoa is pure poetry.
3.) Everything is easy. Want to setup a webpage? Drop HTML files into your ~/Sites/ directory and start up Apache in "System Preferences." My mother could do it. Same goes for FTP and SSH.
4.) System update.
5.) Hardware support. Want to get that wireless card working? Plug it in, you're done. Meanwhile all your friends are busy recompiling their kernals and praying it works.
I wouldn't describe anything I've ever done with unix as "joyful." "interesting" and "eyeopening" would be the words I'd use. Imagine if the next time you installed Linux everything Just Worked. That's how I feel when I use my iBook.
Have you used OS X yet? Saying it's UNIX with "none of the hassle" is hardly icky marketing. In fact, it's probably one of the most honest ad claims in recent years.
Of course after 7 years of Linux I finally found joy in a unix OS. I guess I'm just a weenie.
While I doubt the iPod is driving people to look at Macs, it does give a little extra incentive. If the best mp3 player on the market only works with your platform, it's bound to help sales.
`re up and down when MSNBC was announced that they would skew news in Microsoft's favor. But over the past few years most people have been shocked at how honestly they report on MS and MS competitors.
I also find it disturbing that one of the rank 'n file "M$" kiddies could be rated at +3. Especially when she admits not even reading the article.
That is completely incorrect. The Microsoft Word document format has remained the same since the Office 97 suite. Word 97 can read files saved by Word XP or Word 2000. Their respective feature sets differ, so Word 97 isn't going to pick up on newfangled things like "table styles" that were introduced in later versions. But for plain old text and tables, they are all interoperable.
I'm sorry, but you are incorrect. I'd sent out my resume to about 15 companies before someone informed me it wasn't rendering correctly in Office 97. I'd originally written it in Office 97, but had updated my contact info and a few other little things in Word 2000. It is *mostly* backwards compatible, but not completely. Not in the least. If you need to be sure it displays properly in 97, I suggest you test it before sending it out.
I spent 6 years in college, and they were well spent. I survived the dot-com boom unscathed, never been unemployed one day in my life, and I get to do cool stuff.
I've never been unemployed, consistently gotten good raises and reviews, and am doing some really fun stuff (working in a large datacenter as the sole admin.)
Of course I didn't finish college. I can understand your feelings, tho. I dislike the large rush of peoplel running towards the dotcom world with $$$ in their eyes as much as the next guy. But not everyone who doesn't have a degree is one of them. I didn't feel like I was learning anything useful in college, so I left after the first semester of my junior year. Mostly because in the 3 years I'd been there they had yet to teach me anything I hadn't already taught myself in high school.
Screen resolution is far more important than color
Try messing with graphics for a living, sending the graphics off to the printer, and finding out you've wasted 2 weeks of design work because the color of your laptop was slightly off, and now your boss is firing you.
The Dell ugly? Who buys products based no appearance? Seems mac users do!
People who buy something strictly based on appearance are stupid. However, that's not to say looks shouldn't be factored in. If the iBook has everything I need and is sexy to boot, even better. If I'm car shopping, I would obviously factor the look into my purchase. It may be a BMW under the hood, but I'm not buying if it looks like a Pinto.
Also, there's no question about it, Dells are UGLY.
Weight is that important? Are overweight and out of shape?
It's less about being forced to lug around that extra 1 pound (also, that's 1 extra pound WITHOUT a battery. Add the battery and probably get at least 1-3 more pounds) and more about getting what you need in the sleekest design possible.
Dell has some fast laptops out right now, assuming you only look at the MHZ rating. Of course, most of them probably have significantly slower than 5400RPM drives, speedstepping processors, and sub-par motherboards. Dells (and Compaqs, and Gateways, and anyone else) are slapped together and sent to market asap. No thought is given into usability, or design. It's just "How much can we cram into an acceptable space." Forget about battery life and convience.
Anyway, my point is: Comparing Apple to the commodity PC market is like comparing a Porshe to a Neon.
Now before you accuse me of being a macfanatic, I've been using PCs since 1994. I've always hated Macs, because OS9 and lower were so braindead. I've been using Linux since 1995, and when i saw OSX I was in love. I still love Linux, but I honestly have no need for it any longer. OSX on my desktop, and FreeBSD on my servers.
And finally, after reading through HanzoSans past posts, anyone else get the feeling he might work for Dell? Astroturf maybe?
You could have something like a "paranoid hypochondriac", which would be someone with the illness of seeing illnesses all the time in everyone else. Instead of worrying about themselves being sick all the time, they would worry all the time about other people being sick.
What you're describing sounds like Munchausen by proxy. Munchausen syndrome is when you constantly believe you are sick, and in extreme cases will poison or injure yourself to make people believe you. Munchausen by proxy is similar, except people with it believe others to be sick, and in extreme cases will poison them to make others believe it too. It's not too common, but when it is it's usually a parent believing a child to be sick. There have been cases of a parent becoming so obsessed with it that they poison their own children. The movie The Sixth Sense had a scene regarding this phenomenon, and Law&Order has had several episodes about it (my first exposure to the concept.) The name comes from some german guy who was well known for exaggerating stories about himself.
Yeah, and DeCSS was written so that Linux users could watch DVDs, but the most common use I see are the DivX AVIs floating around the campus network.
How exactly is that a piss-poor excuse? The only excuse we should need is "it does have a valid use." I personally feel crowbars are overrated, and their valid uses are overshadowed by their use as illegal assault weapons. Let's ban those too! In fact, let's ban describing how they work! That'll stop crime!
Elcomsoft has no right to *sell* products whose purpose is to disable Adobe's encryption, esp. when such knowledge was gained through reverse-engineering.
I can't believe you managed to type that with a straight face. Adobe's encryption is ILLEGAL in Russia. Reverse-engineering is LEGAL in both the US and Russia. One of the cited reasons I've seen for writing this software was so blind people could read eBooks. Just because he didn't release the source, doesn't mean he wasn't acting in public interest.
I do agree that this should be taken to civil court, however I don't think Adobe would be in the right. I'm also willing to bet Adobe would agree with me, which would be why they took it to criminal charges.
I use my computer to write music, so I went to see their listing of stable audio software. The only things listed there are a crossfade plugin for xmms, GLAME and a soundfont editor. I've tried GLAME. Listing it as "stable" is a joke. And to top it all off, they have these things listed multiple times in categories they shouldn't be in. I'm fairly certain a soundfont editor doesn't qualify as "sound synthesis".
I want to stress I'm not trying to discredit the GLAME team or any of these software packages. But what good is OSD if it's categories are a mess? I might as well just use freshmeat.
My complaint isn't about corporations. I do understand how they help us. My complaint is about the government's habit of providing more help to corporations than they do to individuals.
Slashdot Mirror
Considering my G3 iBook is a pretty kick ass gaming platform (at least for my needs) and is able to play every game out there flawlessly, I doubt a G4 would be worse. At this point the CPUs are barely even being used for gaming. The bottleneck now is the GPU.
It's not? You can upgrade the video card, the ram, and the harddrive. That's pretty expandable, no?
2) The Apple G4 cube is by no means a gaming system.
My G3 iBook is my gaming system, and works great. I can't imagine the G4 Cube being worse.
3) The Apple G4 cube cannot hold a GeForce 4.
I'm not sure if this is true or not. Given your obvious lack of knowledge about the Cube I'm willing to guess you don't know either.
4) You are a clueless dumbass.
Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, meet Pot.
MOST reasonable Christian denominations recognize that it is the sin that is evil and not the person. The belief is that the person should be loved no matter the sin (Christian attitudes have not relfected this lately hence the misunderstanding, but hey, don't hate them hate their hypocracy). This is connected to the whole forgiveness thing.
I like to think that most reasonable christian denominations would simply teach "Live life as Christ would" and that's it. But many seem to have trouble doing that. Also, while most major religions today recognize that the sin is evil, not the person, they weren't always like that. That was part of my point. Cults are just religions that lack the benefit of centuries of refinement. It probably doesn't help that their wacko leaders are still around, while the catholics' wacko leaders have been dead for 100+ years.
I never said all religions are evil. Just that they all do the things the poster listed.
Nope. Religions promote a system of beliefs which lead one to believe that certain actions are not appropriate. A cult will ban certain actions with or without reason and use its control structure to punish those who disobey. Some religions do this, not all.
So if I repeatedly have sex young boys, which christian denomination won't punish me within their control structure? (other than the catholic church)
So in other words, the Roman Catholic Church does this. Fine. Not all religions are the Roman Catholic Church or recognize it as any kind of authority. Not all religions have restrictions on information that members can be exposed to. Don't spout off about it if you're not willing to research it.
I wasn't going to give examples for each and every religion in the world. The ones I listed were just examples to show mainstream religions doing the same things cults supposedly do. That was my entire point. That cults are no different than any other church with the exception of being smaller and younger.
Really? If you base your observations solely on the Catholic Church and the Mormon Church, then yes it certainly looks like they're a large money-collecting agency.
I look at any religion like that. The decentralized ones are just like smaller mom&pop stores. Or franchises. Most churches have unpaid clergy. But they don't need to be paid since the church gives them a house, food, transportation, etc. The overall value of which is determined by the amount of collections you can obtain from your parish.
(I will ignore the implication that if Religion=Corporation, Corporation=Religion.)
Why ignore it? I'd argue that it's true. The Enron thing is a nice example. Apple fanatics are another.
My only point with this whole thing is the line between "church" and "cult" is a very very fine one.
Exactly.
- Behaviour control - what the cult member can and can't do.
- Information control - what information the cult members are exposed to.
- Thought control - how to think and attitudes towards the "outside world"
- Emotional control - cults manipulate emotions to a remarkable degree in order to control their followers.
Religion is just another name for Corporation. Cults are just too small and too early in their development to have the benefit of being based on the words and actions of people long forgotten. For all we know Jesus was considered a cult leader, and if he were around today we'd have the DoJ storm his compound and torch his followers.All religions do this. re: Abortion, homosexuality, sex.
All religions do this. re: The vault of secret church artifacts the vatican hides in Rome.
All religions do this. re: Gays are evil. Jews are evil. Americans are evil.
All religions do this. re: Uhm...I dunno, look around. It's everywhere.
1.) Applications. Gimp is really amazing. But it's no Photoshop. Audio apps are pathetic with Linux. OS X has Cubase and Logic Audio on their way (hopefully soon.)
2.) Development. Cocoa is pure poetry.
3.) Everything is easy. Want to setup a webpage? Drop HTML files into your ~/Sites/ directory and start up Apache in "System Preferences." My mother could do it. Same goes for FTP and SSH.
4.) System update.
5.) Hardware support. Want to get that wireless card working? Plug it in, you're done. Meanwhile all your friends are busy recompiling their kernals and praying it works.
I wouldn't describe anything I've ever done with unix as "joyful." "interesting" and "eyeopening" would be the words I'd use. Imagine if the next time you installed Linux everything Just Worked. That's how I feel when I use my iBook.
Of course after 7 years of Linux I finally found joy in a unix OS. I guess I'm just a weenie.
Hey! I take offense at th...Oh shiney pretty things!
I can only wish for 99.9% uptime in the bedroom.
I read that and immediately thought "Wow, sounds like my last roommate." Then I look at the userid and guess what...it *IS* my former roommate.
While I doubt the iPod is driving people to look at Macs, it does give a little extra incentive. If the best mp3 player on the market only works with your platform, it's bound to help sales.
WTF. I previewed this post twice before submitting it, and it looked fine.
I also find it disturbing that one of the rank 'n file "M$" kiddies could be rated at +3. Especially when she admits not even reading the article.
yay slashdot.
I'm sorry, but you are incorrect. I'd sent out my resume to about 15 companies before someone informed me it wasn't rendering correctly in Office 97. I'd originally written it in Office 97, but had updated my contact info and a few other little things in Word 2000. It is *mostly* backwards compatible, but not completely. Not in the least. If you need to be sure it displays properly in 97, I suggest you test it before sending it out.
At least you could talk. I was klined within 5 seconds of joining the channel with no reason given.
Seems like a really horrible community around a really redundant project.
Why not get a USB audio device? I have the Audiosport Quattro and it works great. www.edirol.com has some nice cheaper ones as well.
I've never been unemployed, consistently gotten good raises and reviews, and am doing some really fun stuff (working in a large datacenter as the sole admin.)
Of course I didn't finish college. I can understand your feelings, tho. I dislike the large rush of peoplel running towards the dotcom world with $$$ in their eyes as much as the next guy. But not everyone who doesn't have a degree is one of them. I didn't feel like I was learning anything useful in college, so I left after the first semester of my junior year. Mostly because in the 3 years I'd been there they had yet to teach me anything I hadn't already taught myself in high school.
Try messing with graphics for a living, sending the graphics off to the printer, and finding out you've wasted 2 weeks of design work because the color of your laptop was slightly off, and now your boss is firing you.
The Dell ugly? Who buys products based no appearance? Seems mac users do!
People who buy something strictly based on appearance are stupid. However, that's not to say looks shouldn't be factored in. If the iBook has everything I need and is sexy to boot, even better. If I'm car shopping, I would obviously factor the look into my purchase. It may be a BMW under the hood, but I'm not buying if it looks like a Pinto.
Also, there's no question about it, Dells are UGLY.
Weight is that important? Are overweight and out of shape?
It's less about being forced to lug around that extra 1 pound (also, that's 1 extra pound WITHOUT a battery. Add the battery and probably get at least 1-3 more pounds) and more about getting what you need in the sleekest design possible.
Dell has some fast laptops out right now, assuming you only look at the MHZ rating. Of course, most of them probably have significantly slower than 5400RPM drives, speedstepping processors, and sub-par motherboards. Dells (and Compaqs, and Gateways, and anyone else) are slapped together and sent to market asap. No thought is given into usability, or design. It's just "How much can we cram into an acceptable space." Forget about battery life and convience.
Anyway, my point is: Comparing Apple to the commodity PC market is like comparing a Porshe to a Neon.
Now before you accuse me of being a macfanatic, I've been using PCs since 1994. I've always hated Macs, because OS9 and lower were so braindead. I've been using Linux since 1995, and when i saw OSX I was in love. I still love Linux, but I honestly have no need for it any longer. OSX on my desktop, and FreeBSD on my servers.
And finally, after reading through HanzoSans past posts, anyone else get the feeling he might work for Dell? Astroturf maybe?
What you're describing sounds like Munchausen by proxy. Munchausen syndrome is when you constantly believe you are sick, and in extreme cases will poison or injure yourself to make people believe you. Munchausen by proxy is similar, except people with it believe others to be sick, and in extreme cases will poison them to make others believe it too. It's not too common, but when it is it's usually a parent believing a child to be sick. There have been cases of a parent becoming so obsessed with it that they poison their own children. The movie The Sixth Sense had a scene regarding this phenomenon, and Law&Order has had several episodes about it (my first exposure to the concept.) The name comes from some german guy who was well known for exaggerating stories about himself.
Here's a link about it:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Marc_Feld man_2/
c.
How exactly is that a piss-poor excuse? The only excuse we should need is "it does have a valid use." I personally feel crowbars are overrated, and their valid uses are overshadowed by their use as illegal assault weapons. Let's ban those too! In fact, let's ban describing how they work! That'll stop crime!
c.
I can't believe you managed to type that with a straight face. Adobe's encryption is ILLEGAL in Russia. Reverse-engineering is LEGAL in both the US and Russia. One of the cited reasons I've seen for writing this software was so blind people could read eBooks. Just because he didn't release the source, doesn't mean he wasn't acting in public interest.
I do agree that this should be taken to civil court, however I don't think Adobe would be in the right. I'm also willing to bet Adobe would agree with me, which would be why they took it to criminal charges.
c.
I use my computer to write music, so I went to see their listing of stable audio software. The only things listed there are a crossfade plugin for xmms, GLAME and a soundfont editor. I've tried GLAME. Listing it as "stable" is a joke. And to top it all off, they have these things listed multiple times in categories they shouldn't be in. I'm fairly certain a soundfont editor doesn't qualify as "sound synthesis".
I want to stress I'm not trying to discredit the GLAME team or any of these software packages. But what good is OSD if it's categories are a mess? I might as well just use freshmeat.
c.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/20/133222 7&mode=thread
What's up with all the idiots who apparently do nothing all day but reload slashdot and bitch about what a sucky site it is?
I mean, if you're going to bitch about slashdot, at least take the time to do a little research into what you're complaining about.
c.