Think about it. If you buy music from the iTunes Music Store, Apple already knows what you've purchased and probably has a good idea about your listening habits.
Inroverts tend to be introspective. That's a given and even redundant. Perhaps we should consider the mental health issues involved, such as manic-depressive, overt depression, OCD, or whatever the flavor of the day. A lot of the people afflicted with these disorders exhibit the very same "symptoms" of either genius or psychotic behavior.
Sorry, but this is an issue very close to someone in my family.
Thank god for AC posting. Oh. Wait.
I'm not saying that I fall into either category. I certainly do not. I just wonder how mental "afflictions," be they either good or bad as perceived by the collective reflect upon the development and current state of our society.
Who's in charge and how many medications are they taking to keep whatever balance their doctors seem to think is real?
there is a real issue with decreasing tax revenues
Perhaps those in politricks should stop looking at the rest of us with their dollar signs in their eyes, trying top squeeze every last nickel out of us, and better manage the revenue they're already collecting. Better yet, they should take a hint from the corporate world and try to do more with less expenditures. Oh wait. There isn't any incentive.
A while back, for about a week in a row I was getting a phone call about the same time of day from a number I didn't recognize. I never answered the call and the caller never left a message. I finally get fed up and traced the number back to some organization I had never heard of: Customer Care Alliance. The company sounded like some marketing firm to me, so I turned them in to the do not call list.
Speaking of seconds, the Google page rendered almost instantly on my G4 iBook with OS 10.4.2 and Firefox 1.0.6. I could have gone for a cup of coffee (if I drank coffee) by the time the MS page finally rendered. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, but the MS page took a rrrreeeeaaaallllyyyy lllloooonnnngggg ttttiiiimmmmeeee to finally show up. Besides, the MS page wanted to set a cookie, which I quickly declined, whereas the Google page did not.
Don't give them any ideas. Besides if marketers claiming ownership of cookies fails to work out, we'll all have to start accepting license agreements for web sites before getting to content. At that point, we're screwed. I know I don't read EULAs.
Hey, no problem with the idiot thing. I'm a big kid and can take it. Besides, this is slashdot. I take everything with a grain of salt. Thanks for the opposing view, though. Discourse is good.
Even though the character she plays isn't my type, I believe that I would most definitely not kick Mila Kunis out of bed for eating crackers.
Capitalist, indeed. The US is a socialist country, it's just that the handouts go to the wealthy.
Bzzt. Wrong answer. In the U.S. we have this thing called wellfare, which involves handing great piles of cash to millions of lazy ass people who don't want to do anything except squeeze out a load of babies to get more money from the system and leech off of those who work hard for a living.
I wish the fuckers would get their hands out of my wallet. I have my own family to take care of. I should not be forced by my government to take care of somebody else's family.
Sorry for the rant, but that subject really gets me going.
I'm grabbing my gun (if I had one) and going to the wellfare office. BRB.
Why is this a war? I think that whole characterization is ridiculous and has been for use.
Apple is successful. Microsoft is successful. Linux is successful. Sure, some are more successful than others but really, grow up people. This whole "my penis, er, OS is bigger, better, and more successful than your OS" is childish. That's the sort of rhetoric one hears in the schoolyard.
Just use the OS that works for you and move along.
I don't know whether it is true, but macslash is reporting that Java 5 is not included in Tiger and that it will be available for download at a later date.
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Lisa: "I've created Lutherans!"
SiO2
Think about it. If you buy music from the iTunes Music Store, Apple already knows what you've purchased and probably has a good idea about your listening habits.
Nothing to see here.
SiO2
The older powerbooks were pretty bullet proof.
Were they, now? I think you're forgetting about the PowerBook 5300.
http://guides.macrumors.com/Powerbook_5300
Those things were dogs.
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I think I'll wait for the abridged audio book version...as read by Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.
SiO2
Inroverts tend to be introspective. That's a given and even redundant. Perhaps we should consider the mental health issues involved, such as manic-depressive, overt depression, OCD, or whatever the flavor of the day. A lot of the people afflicted with these disorders exhibit the very same "symptoms" of either genius or psychotic behavior.
Sorry, but this is an issue very close to someone in my family.
Thank god for AC posting. Oh. Wait.
I'm not saying that I fall into either category. I certainly do not. I just wonder how mental "afflictions," be they either good or bad as perceived by the collective reflect upon the development and current state of our society.
Who's in charge and how many medications are they taking to keep whatever balance their doctors seem to think is real?
SiO2
Okay. I'll bite.
We can't have progress without a solid foundation of knowledge upon which to build.
SiO2
there is a real issue with decreasing tax revenues
Perhaps those in politricks should stop looking at the rest of us with their dollar signs in their eyes, trying top squeeze every last nickel out of us, and better manage the revenue they're already collecting. Better yet, they should take a hint from the corporate world and try to do more with less expenditures. Oh wait. There isn't any incentive.
SiO2
Uh. Funny story.
A while back, for about a week in a row I was getting a phone call about the same time of day from a number I didn't recognize. I never answered the call and the caller never left a message. I finally get fed up and traced the number back to some organization I had never heard of: Customer Care Alliance. The company sounded like some marketing firm to me, so I turned them in to the do not call list.
Yep, I'm feeling like an idiot right about now.
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You're obviously in the print industry.
CMYK
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As Bob Metcalfe noted recently, *nix is 60's technology. Let's move on, kids.
SiO2
Charity, when compelled through coersion or threat, is just a nice word for slavery
I think the word extortion is more appropriate than slavery.
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I can't believe I'm about to type this, but it's late Friday afternoon, my mind is squishy from the work week, and I can't resist the urge. Here goes.
/ducks
In the next few decades we'll be hearing about how only old people in South Korea read slashdot.
SiO2
Speaking of seconds, the Google page rendered almost instantly on my G4 iBook with OS 10.4.2 and Firefox 1.0.6. I could have gone for a cup of coffee (if I drank coffee) by the time the MS page finally rendered. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, but the MS page took a rrrreeeeaaaallllyyyy lllloooonnnngggg ttttiiiimmmmeeee to finally show up. Besides, the MS page wanted to set a cookie, which I quickly declined, whereas the Google page did not.
YMMV
SiO2
Don't give them any ideas. Besides if marketers claiming ownership of cookies fails to work out, we'll all have to start accepting license agreements for web sites before getting to content. At that point, we're screwed. I know I don't read EULAs.
Oops.
SiO2
"We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style." --Tom Stoppard
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"Oh, I concur."
Cut to Carl holding a word of the day card, which reads "conquer".
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I want my articles written good.
You really meant to say that you want your articles written well.
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Really? You know him personally? What's he like? Is he really like the brash dictatorial visionary, the enfant terrible, we read about in the media?
Have you been to his house? What's it like? Is he really a vegan or does he sit down to dinner for a steak still on the bone?
Ya, I'm being an ass.
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Hey, no problem with the idiot thing. I'm a big kid and can take it. Besides, this is slashdot. I take everything with a grain of salt. Thanks for the opposing view, though. Discourse is good.
Even though the character she plays isn't my type, I believe that I would most definitely not kick Mila Kunis out of bed for eating crackers.
SiO2
I apologize in advance and take this with a bit of levity.
You're Hyde from "That 70s Show," right?
SiO2
Capitalist, indeed. The US is a socialist country, it's just that the handouts go to the wealthy.
Bzzt. Wrong answer. In the U.S. we have this thing called wellfare, which involves handing great piles of cash to millions of lazy ass people who don't want to do anything except squeeze out a load of babies to get more money from the system and leech off of those who work hard for a living.
I wish the fuckers would get their hands out of my wallet. I have my own family to take care of. I should not be forced by my government to take care of somebody else's family.
Sorry for the rant, but that subject really gets me going.
I'm grabbing my gun (if I had one) and going to the wellfare office. BRB.
SiO2
Apple: Ground Rules for the Windows vs. Mac War
Why is this a war? I think that whole characterization is ridiculous and has been for use.
Apple is successful. Microsoft is successful. Linux is successful. Sure, some are more successful than others but really, grow up people. This whole "my penis, er, OS is bigger, better, and more successful than your OS" is childish. That's the sort of rhetoric one hears in the schoolyard.
Just use the OS that works for you and move along.
SiO2
Pictures, huh?
Yep. I can use Photoshop, too. Er, I mean GIMP, you sensitive! ; )
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Especially when we already have a federally issued and regulated ID called a passport!!!
Don't forget about the federally issued social security number, which as far as I know you can only get if you're a citizen of the U.S.
SiO2
I don't know whether it is true, but macslash is reporting that Java 5 is not included in Tiger and that it will be available for download at a later date.
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