I think Mac needs to be solely focused on 'switchers' (Windows to Mac) and getting major "Windows only" programs working under the most efficient and stable method running natively on Intel chipsets allows. Microsoft is tripping over themselves right now and Apple is positioned to capitalize if they move quickly and compete on price (and number of standard mouse buttons:)
While I don't disagree with your analysis, the other side of the coin, there is another reason why this is news. It is because the MacBook series is actually pretty frickin' awesome, with machinations to be competitive on price with other Intel-based products. This of course leads to the point MacBooks can run Windows XP (for people afraid of change). Its a great laptop for geeks if they can lay down the pretty penny and get a solid build. Also a serious contender for company-issued laptops.. while Windows is a neat trick, OS X+MBPs have great built in security should someone lose it in the field...
If you are in the market it should also be pointed out the later production week models have some improved designs. Otherwise, I'd just keep in eye out on the price point.
Nothing is wrong with libertarianism. But unless you are refering to the deregulation movement (funded by [multinational] corporate beneficiaries) libertarian ideals have long been on the decline (measured in policy successes). Splitting the movement again with more and more parties simply does not make sense.
Good luck, but friend, this is America, a two-party Republic. Unless you aim to be a revolutionary movement, you will have to work within the system if you want measurable success within years, rather than decades.
I'm not sure you understand both terrorism or communism, but today's US culture is much different than even our recent past. I think the Gini coefficient does a pretty good job of expressing this on a graph (esp post-1970s).
Long story short, if you want to change the US, you fundamentally can not be short-sighted over a single issue. Well, actually you could if that issue was overturning Buckley v Valeo which found money equals political (free) speech (w/ minor restrictions). Excising money from politics would certain shift the political climate. But I'm afraid you're a handful of Supreme Court justices short for that endeavour and still subject to some very powerful entities who would strongly oppose. Still, being a single-issue political party is not a particularly effective course of action within a severely limiting two party system. Becoming an interest group (ex. Political Action Committee) would be adapted to the current US political climate. Of course, you'd still be outspent but maybe you will find the perfect coalition.
Sorry I am a wet-blanket, but I tell this because it is the truth and because I want the OSS & IP reform movements to succeed where they can under, you know, reality.
It is a two-party system so good luck with that. Sounds like another faction of the libertarian-leaning ideals.
I'm just stating the plain political realities of living in America today. I commend this parties splash on Slashdot but get real and stop being cook-ie about politics. There are serious problems and we get ourselves distracted over non-sense all the time! If you want to be taken seriously become a interest group.
They don't do so bad the 3rd time around either. Warcraft III is an amazingly well done game. People who liked the other two but don't like the 3rd don't seem to get how fun (and clever) heros can be (or they don't like micro at all)
I belong to a guild that is linked in my post. They play World of Warcraft and I do not. I used to in the beta and early into release. Now however the only way to compete is to do these 40 person raids, which take hours and hours where one person can screw the entire raid up. The loot from each successful raid is bickered over. Every guild has their own system of loot distribution but there is no completely equitable solution. There isn't even an equitable way to determine who gets into a raid. People who are less active are often discriminated against in both of these areas.
In other words, you need to deal with 39 other idiots. You have to put in hours and hours worth of time in hopes a random item will drop that helps you, then you have to hope you recieve said item. Its totally ridiculous and lacks any element of fun.
No big deal I suppose, seeing how I don't play it or pay for it. But the problem is, this is the future of MMORPGs. You can't just login for arbitrary lengths of time and pickup right where you left off. Its a 2nd (or 3rd) job these days to play MMORPGs because it is much more profitable to design games these ways./i'm going to go 'cry more, noob' now
Well regulations on the books and regulations enforced are two completely different things. Enforcement has ebbed which I am sure you are well-aware of. As far as the New Deal, I was not talking about in the regulatory sense. I'm talking about the "land of plenty" sense. The threshold of pain has increased for the middle class over the last 60 years be it the shifting of the tax burden to income tax, to the lack of anti-trust enforcement, to the out of control cost of healthcare. Entertainment prices are just a subset of the problem. But perhaps one the public can actually understand.
But seriously, this article was like 3 years old so I have a feeling most artists already have rejected this Ticketmaster plan as I haven't run into it anecdotally.
Performers aren't going to be very happy their fans are going to be treated on a two track system, which obviously further alienates the regular working class fanbase. I imagine some shows can be bought off with the lure of extra revenue sharing, but I also think most artists recognize the good duty and sense to undermine structural societal shifts of this nature.
Pay attention as arguments and policies designed for 'free'ing the market continue to wither those 80% who are labor-dependent. And by that I mean you without a portfolio that has you set for life. The era of the post-WWII/New Deal is over and the consequences for being you and your children will only grow harsher.
I kid, I kid. This is a great idea. Anyone know if Ticketmaster is a public company? Ack.. I may have just given away my scheme to make it to the other 20%.
And the alternative is blaming the cell phone network for allowing the insurgents to continue to coordinate safely and anonymously? I'm sorry if I hear all the time from "experts" that the Islamists want to go back to the 13th century. Can't we just take them back to the 20th century temporarily for purposes of winning this war?
Meanwhile there goes another $100 billion and XXXX amount of American lives...
And yeah, I think if we are trying to record phone calls (in Iraq - don't confuse this program with the one at home) then we should already have some kind of access to cell phone towers already. You'd hope we'd make some kind of progress like map out the cell towers in the first three years of occupation.
Worst excuse for losing a war ever. Seriously. Turn on their water and electricity and turn off their cell phones. bleh
Honestly, I realize that cell phones are culture changing, but can't we either control them 100% or if not, just keep them shutdown and force locatable landlines to be used instead?
Worst excuse for not winning a war ever. Though, I can't believe it would have been a military decision.
This is kinda the sense I get about our military technology. It is often waaaay too expensive and does not get used effectively. Don't get me wrong there definately are great technologies in use today as well. It is just that overall we spend billions for things we never use or use ineffectively).
Right now it seems technology cannot crush an insurgency in the jungle or in the desert. Political solutions seem much more cost-effective as well.
Our military technology is geared to win wars of aggression versus standing armies. Not whatever we are doing right now (which is something Bush 43 himself was against while running for President in 2000). Of course, more man-power strategically sounds like a military solution. Just not a technology-based solution. But will our budget ever reflect this reality?
Carter was an evangelical who brought that vote out in numbers for the first time, but it was Reagon who truly exploited evangelicals for political gain. Now it seems the exploitation has evolved into a science.
That and/or evangelicals tend to have more kids.
BTW, I still think their are still some people who believe he is a conservative in that 32%.
Is that the mainstream press coverage has mostly covered the Bush lookalike and not the pure political embrassment Bush suffered at the hands of Colbert. Perhaps the educated guess for this strange disconnect would be that the press hosts the event and it would be less noteworthy if the President stopped attending.
I don't understand all the haters of of WC3. The game is superior in many gameplay ways. I understand some people don't like having to micro a little more but cry me a river. Hero management and having a reasonable amount of units you can pay attention seems to involve a lot more skill and strategy (not to mention turtling doesn't draw the game out for dozens of minutes). oh well. Just don't hate on the hero concept simply because you don't "get it"
Give me Starcraft II and a 2nd WC3 expansion. k, thx
Consoles will never dominate first person shooters or real-time strategies. mouse/kb again far superior.
The real advantage consoles have over PC is not development costs (work smarter, not harder), but rather the locked up, committed userbase, and the marketing opportunities are only getting better with technology. Of course, racing, fighting, puzzle, and children's games are also going to find a niche in the console market.
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I think Mac needs to be solely focused on 'switchers' (Windows to Mac) and getting major "Windows only" programs working under the most efficient and stable method running natively on Intel chipsets allows. Microsoft is tripping over themselves right now and Apple is positioned to capitalize if they move quickly and compete on price (and number of standard mouse buttons :)
While I don't disagree with your analysis, the other side of the coin, there is another reason why this is news. It is because the MacBook series is actually pretty frickin' awesome, with machinations to be competitive on price with other Intel-based products. This of course leads to the point MacBooks can run Windows XP (for people afraid of change). Its a great laptop for geeks if they can lay down the pretty penny and get a solid build. Also a serious contender for company-issued laptops.. while Windows is a neat trick, OS X+MBPs have great built in security should someone lose it in the field...
If you are in the market it should also be pointed out the later production week models have some improved designs. Otherwise, I'd just keep in eye out on the price point.
Nothing is wrong with libertarianism. But unless you are refering to the deregulation movement (funded by [multinational] corporate beneficiaries) libertarian ideals have long been on the decline (measured in policy successes). Splitting the movement again with more and more parties simply does not make sense.
Good luck, but friend, this is America, a two-party Republic. Unless you aim to be a revolutionary movement, you will have to work within the system if you want measurable success within years, rather than decades.
I'm not sure you understand both terrorism or communism, but today's US culture is much different than even our recent past. I think the Gini coefficient does a pretty good job of expressing this on a graph (esp post-1970s).
Long story short, if you want to change the US, you fundamentally can not be short-sighted over a single issue. Well, actually you could if that issue was overturning Buckley v Valeo which found money equals political (free) speech (w/ minor restrictions). Excising money from politics would certain shift the political climate. But I'm afraid you're a handful of Supreme Court justices short for that endeavour and still subject to some very powerful entities who would strongly oppose. Still, being a single-issue political party is not a particularly effective course of action within a severely limiting two party system. Becoming an interest group (ex. Political Action Committee) would be adapted to the current US political climate. Of course, you'd still be outspent but maybe you will find the perfect coalition.
Sorry I am a wet-blanket, but I tell this because it is the truth and because I want the OSS & IP reform movements to succeed where they can under, you know, reality.
It is a two-party system so good luck with that. Sounds like another faction of the libertarian-leaning ideals.
I'm just stating the plain political realities of living in America today. I commend this parties splash on Slashdot but get real and stop being cook-ie about politics. There are serious problems and we get ourselves distracted over non-sense all the time! If you want to be taken seriously become a interest group.
As a first employee with a "good" vesting schedule, shouldn't you have turned a profit on the buyout?
They don't do so bad the 3rd time around either. Warcraft III is an amazingly well done game. People who liked the other two but don't like the 3rd don't seem to get how fun (and clever) heros can be (or they don't like micro at all)
I belong to a guild that is linked in my post. They play World of Warcraft and I do not. I used to in the beta and early into release. Now however the only way to compete is to do these 40 person raids, which take hours and hours where one person can screw the entire raid up. The loot from each successful raid is bickered over. Every guild has their own system of loot distribution but there is no completely equitable solution. There isn't even an equitable way to determine who gets into a raid. People who are less active are often discriminated against in both of these areas.
/i'm going to go 'cry more, noob' now
In other words, you need to deal with 39 other idiots. You have to put in hours and hours worth of time in hopes a random item will drop that helps you, then you have to hope you recieve said item. Its totally ridiculous and lacks any element of fun.
No big deal I suppose, seeing how I don't play it or pay for it. But the problem is, this is the future of MMORPGs. You can't just login for arbitrary lengths of time and pickup right where you left off. Its a 2nd (or 3rd) job these days to play MMORPGs because it is much more profitable to design games these ways.
There is a picture of a scorpion linked on this thread
You should have just changed your name to "child_labor" as that would be a more formal description.
Well regulations on the books and regulations enforced are two completely different things. Enforcement has ebbed which I am sure you are well-aware of. As far as the New Deal, I was not talking about in the regulatory sense. I'm talking about the "land of plenty" sense. The threshold of pain has increased for the middle class over the last 60 years be it the shifting of the tax burden to income tax, to the lack of anti-trust enforcement, to the out of control cost of healthcare. Entertainment prices are just a subset of the problem. But perhaps one the public can actually understand.
But seriously, this article was like 3 years old so I have a feeling most artists already have rejected this Ticketmaster plan as I haven't run into it anecdotally.
Performers aren't going to be very happy their fans are going to be treated on a two track system, which obviously further alienates the regular working class fanbase. I imagine some shows can be bought off with the lure of extra revenue sharing, but I also think most artists recognize the good duty and sense to undermine structural societal shifts of this nature.
Pay attention as arguments and policies designed for 'free'ing the market continue to wither those 80% who are labor-dependent. And by that I mean you without a portfolio that has you set for life. The era of the post-WWII/New Deal is over and the consequences for being you and your children will only grow harsher.
I kid, I kid. This is a great idea. Anyone know if Ticketmaster is a public company? Ack.. I may have just given away my scheme to make it to the other 20%.
And the alternative is blaming the cell phone network for allowing the insurgents to continue to coordinate safely and anonymously? I'm sorry if I hear all the time from "experts" that the Islamists want to go back to the 13th century. Can't we just take them back to the 20th century temporarily for purposes of winning this war?
Meanwhile there goes another $100 billion and XXXX amount of American lives...
And yeah, I think if we are trying to record phone calls (in Iraq - don't confuse this program with the one at home) then we should already have some kind of access to cell phone towers already. You'd hope we'd make some kind of progress like map out the cell towers in the first three years of occupation.
Worst excuse for losing a war ever. Seriously. Turn on their water and electricity and turn off their cell phones. bleh
Honestly, I realize that cell phones are culture changing, but can't we either control them 100% or if not, just keep them shutdown and force locatable landlines to be used instead?
Worst excuse for not winning a war ever. Though, I can't believe it would have been a military decision.
This is kinda the sense I get about our military technology. It is often waaaay too expensive and does not get used effectively. Don't get me wrong there definately are great technologies in use today as well. It is just that overall we spend billions for things we never use or use ineffectively).
Right now it seems technology cannot crush an insurgency in the jungle or in the desert. Political solutions seem much more cost-effective as well.
Our military technology is geared to win wars of aggression versus standing armies. Not whatever we are doing right now (which is something Bush 43 himself was against while running for President in 2000). Of course, more man-power strategically sounds like a military solution. Just not a technology-based solution. But will our budget ever reflect this reality?
It depends on your definition of imitate. For example, I don't mind that all consumer cars have four wheels.
Its all about VLC. It sometimes works kinda weird on my mactel but its a pretty good Quicktime replacement.
Carter was an evangelical who brought that vote out in numbers for the first time, but it was Reagon who truly exploited evangelicals for political gain. Now it seems the exploitation has evolved into a science.
That and/or evangelicals tend to have more kids.
BTW, I still think their are still some people who believe he is a conservative in that 32%.
Is that the mainstream press coverage has mostly covered the Bush lookalike and not the pure political embrassment Bush suffered at the hands of Colbert. Perhaps the educated guess for this strange disconnect would be that the press hosts the event and it would be less noteworthy if the President stopped attending.
Why can't they just use hidden html comments or tags to coordinate topics. Slashdot just updated Slashcode to do this after 8 years or something.
Not too long ago, April 1, 2002 Slashdot pulled the following prank:
Slashdot announced that it would start posting advertiser-sponsored news stories, and disable anonymous posting.
Guess only half of that was true.
I don't understand all the haters of of WC3. The game is superior in many gameplay ways. I understand some people don't like having to micro a little more but cry me a river. Hero management and having a reasonable amount of units you can pay attention seems to involve a lot more skill and strategy (not to mention turtling doesn't draw the game out for dozens of minutes). oh well. Just don't hate on the hero concept simply because you don't "get it"
Give me Starcraft II and a 2nd WC3 expansion. k, thx
Consoles will never dominate first person shooters or real-time strategies. mouse/kb again far superior.
The real advantage consoles have over PC is not development costs (work smarter, not harder), but rather the locked up, committed userbase, and the marketing opportunities are only getting better with technology. Of course, racing, fighting, puzzle, and children's games are also going to find a niche in the console market.
And just so happens to be the only country to use more energy and cause more environmental damage per capita than the good ole US of A.
You don't even attempt to mask your jealousy. Nerd athletes are the Xmen of the future. Sorry, Napoleon Dynamites of the world.
ps: this is only a joke if rated funny and a serious warning all should heed if rated anything else.