If the ads aren't too intrusive. Right now, I'm reading Slashdot with a ThinGeek ad at the top. If the ads weren't in the way and if there weren't forced delays to make me look at or click ads I'd be willing to give it a try.
Anyone who took at job at AOL within the last 12-15 years knows how hated the company is. They know how there are legions of people hoping and praying that their employer goes belly up. Since these people shouldn't be surprised to know that the sentiment is out there, I doubt that many of them will frequent Slashdot and those who do should have come to expect it by now.
It was Street Fighter Street Fighter II Street Fighter II Champion Edition Street Fighter II Turbo Super Street Fighter II Super Street Fighter II Turbo Street Fighter Alpha Street Fighter Alpha 2 Street Fighter Alpha 3
I'm going to stop there because the Street Fighter III series never held my interest.
That's not the same thing as selling 12% of all computers.
From the above linked article.
Mac sales were up 12 percent compared with last year, during what was considered a poor quarter for the PC market. Apple said 75 percent of all Macs sold during the period used Intel's chips.
Given that their market share of notebooks is doubling, it appears to work.
Taiwanese PC maker Acer also continued to gain PC market share on growth that outpaced all other top vendors, IDC said. Gateway shined as its growth topped 15 percent for the second quarter, while Dell remained the PC market leader and gained global market share despite facing tough competition.
Apple's not dead. Apple's not dying. Apple's not taking over the computing world either.
On a case by case basis, maybe. These people will not make the switch in numbers large enough to make any real difference. Apple lost the war for the desktop. It sucks. I know. I used to be a Mac lover too.
I disagree. If you're going to be doing what most of the Joe Sixpacks in the world do, a Mac Mini would seem to be your ideal machine. If Joe doesn't get it immediately he might well after the first couple of times he has to take his Dell special in and pay someone $80/hour to clean spyware and viruses off it.
Joe Sixpack is going to keep using the machine with viruses and spyware until it's too unusable. At that point, he'll plunk down $299 for a new Dell and start the process all over again.
I had nearly given up on getting a response. One more post and this would have dropped off of my user page.
You: I tell my kids that beer is bad.
Me: Beer isn't bad, it's just not for kids.
I tell children that beer can be bad for both kids and adults and that when they're adults they can decide for themselves.
Why do you want to tell the kid it's bad when you wouldn't tell and adult the same thing?
Because most children aren't capable of grasping the all to adult concepts that are a part of sexuality. I'm not talking about adolescents who are experiencing sexual feelings of their own. I'm talking about prepubescent children.
The whole point of this legislation was to try to give parents more control over whether their kids play these games without banning them from having their own money or watching them every second of the day.
The whole point of our opposition is that people are supposed to raise their own fucking kids. When I was a kid, there were things that I wasn't allowed to do. Know what? I didn't fucking do them! Why? Because my parents let me know what was expected of me and what the consequences would be if I misbehaved.
If these kids won't obey their parents' directives not to buy or play the games, then maybe these kids are not responsible enough to have wads of cash lying about.
This is a way for parents without spines to get away with being pussies when it comes to their kids. "Sorry little Johnny, you can't buy that game because it's against the law." What's wrong with "You can't have that game because I SAID SO!"?
Your argument is well thought out and excellently articulated. I disagree nonetheless.
Apple has carved out a nice niche market. The days are gone when Apple can increase market share in any meaningful way.
That battle is over. Unless Apple wants to become a commodity PC builder and start selling windows boxes, people who don't want a Mac aren't going to buy one.
Sure, now you can run Windows on one but that means that in addition to buying already more expensive hardware you have to buy a standalone copy of the OS. I just don't see Joe Sixpack shelling out for that.
Never in your life have you been accused of being racist for the sole purpose of belittling you and make you an enemy in the public eye.
I have been accused of being an anti-semite. Oddly enough, I've never been accused by a Jewish person though.
I'll tell you what, we white fuckers step pretty fucking carefully cause of the bullshit pulled by the extorsionists the likes of Cochran.
Johnnie Cochran is dead. OJ was acquitted, get over it.
Black Panthers, those who followed Malcom X, Tupac, etc., all were cashing in on the racism card.
Cashing in? The Black Panther Party got its start BECAUSE of racist police, several unarmed men shot dead tends to upset some people. Malcolm X's father was lynched.
I already know the first words out of your mouth are going to be
Made up your mind already huh? That, sir is the clearest example of pre judice.
But don't even try to play it off as if poor and/or minority people never deserve to be arrested, or that crime rates really are higher in poorer sections of towns, and that current black "culture" is towards self-destructive, violent behavior, completely eschewing education in light of acquiring "hos" and "ice".
Even if all of that is true, I STILL don't deserve the kind of treatment that I've recieved from coward cops over the years.
Unless you have evidence or reason to believe that I am involved in some kind of illegal activity, don't bother me. That's not unreasonable, but it doesn't happen that way. I have been pulled over for DWB, several times. I have been stopped while walking down the sidewalk for no reason other than the police just wanted to know who I was. I have been threatened by the police, Sgt. CJ Hartman, formerly of the North Versailles PA Police Dept once said to me "I don't care if you've done anything or not, there's a book 'this thick' and I'll find something in it to nail you on."
So, don't demean my intelligence or belittle my experiences by blaming me for the misconduct of others.
But racism doesn't count when it's against white people, right?
Being that white people are the majority of the electorate, official conduct on the part of elected officials (police chiefs, city councilmen, etc) and their subordinates isn't racism when it's directed against white people.
It's abusive, it's corrupt, it's dishonerable but it's not racism.
the officer(s) involved are subject to some sort of corrective action.
Some sort? They should be subjected to dismissal and incarceration.
This is, however, NOT representative of a "police state" or anything like what some in the original article went on about.
What this does represent is that for the first time, middle-class white America is subjected to the same kinds of abuses that poor and/or minority comminunities have been for decades.
early onset Parkinson's disease, one of the several disorders doctors and medical scientists are now fairly sure that they can treat with embryonic stem cells, based on results from overseas
If it shows so much promise, why then don't you and all of the people who agree with you invest your own money in it. After all, if it's such a no-brainer then you'll all become incredibly rich and will be able to fund other types of research that you believe in.
If that's true then why doesn't he work to outlaw all ECS research ("murder"), instead of letting it happen with private funding? He's caught between his own rhetoric and a hard place.
It's because he's the president, not a king. He can't unilaterraly declare something illegal. It must be voted upon by the House and Senate. It should be quite clear that he doesn't have the votes.
Yeah, except for that one nation called Pakistan. Oh and Iran in 10 years if we let them.
Pakistan isn't in the middle east. Pakistan is in asia.
Except for that country called Iran. Yeah, they signed it, but they certainly haven't lived up to the treaty.
Iran is developing a nuclear power program. Can you produce any evidence that they are doing anything else?
You know I was intending of going line by line on your commentary, but it's obvious from your first two "points" that you did not intend to add a well-researched comment to this discussion and I know better ways of spending a Sunday afternoon than exposing trolls.
With the exception of the last item, those are taken verbatim from an Orlando Sentinal article.
In all seriousness, a PSA in the middle east saying "We're buddies with, not run by, Israel" would really be nice at some point.
Let's play a trivia game, at the end let's see if you understand why the US is equated with Israel in middle eastern circles.
Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? Answer: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to return to
their homes, farms and businesses?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it con- fiscated?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship in international waters, killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. vetoes?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country did the United States invade because "U.N. Security Council resolutions must be obeyed?"
A: Iraq.(Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
- All except the last item were taken from Charley Reese's Orlando Sentinal editorial.
Israel is a bad friend and the US shouldn't be so closely aligned with it.
Hard work is the best opportunity that one has for success, but success is never guaranteed by hard work.
I know people who were poor, or at least middle class and worked their asses off and became what most of us would call "rich". I also know people who were poor, and worked their asses of and are still poor.
Basically, life isn't fair but complaining about it won't improve your station.
Couldn't match a Mac of course, but coulda been a contender.
The Mac is the pinnacle of "could have been" technological innovation. It was leaps and bounds ahead of the competition in it's day, but many things worked together to keep it from becoming the dominant personal computer on the market.
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If the ads aren't too intrusive. Right now, I'm reading Slashdot with a ThinGeek ad at the top. If the ads weren't in the way and if there weren't forced delays to make me look at or click ads I'd be willing to give it a try.
LK
Anyone who took at job at AOL within the last 12-15 years knows how hated the company is. They know how there are legions of people hoping and praying that their employer goes belly up. Since these people shouldn't be surprised to know that the sentiment is out there, I doubt that many of them will frequent Slashdot and those who do should have come to expect it by now.
LK
You forgot the original Street Fighter.
It was
Street Fighter
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II Champion Edition
Street Fighter II Turbo
Super Street Fighter II
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Street Fighter Alpha
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 3
I'm going to stop there because the Street Fighter III series never held my interest.
LK
Either you don't understand percentages or you're lying.
Mac sales are up 12% from a year ago.
That's not the same thing as selling 12% of all computers.
From the above linked article.
Given that their market share of notebooks is doubling, it appears to work.
It's NOT doubling.
Stop with the FUD.
From another article.
Apple's not dead. Apple's not dying. Apple's not taking over the computing world either.
LK
On a case by case basis, maybe. These people will not make the switch in numbers large enough to make any real difference. Apple lost the war for the desktop. It sucks. I know. I used to be a Mac lover too.
LK
I disagree. If you're going to be doing what most of the Joe Sixpacks in the world do, a Mac Mini would seem to be your ideal machine. If Joe doesn't get it immediately he might well after the first couple of times he has to take his Dell special in and pay someone $80/hour to clean spyware and viruses off it.
Joe Sixpack is going to keep using the machine with viruses and spyware until it's too unusable. At that point, he'll plunk down $299 for a new Dell and start the process all over again.
LK
I had nearly given up on getting a response. One more post and this would have dropped off of my user page.
You: I tell my kids that beer is bad.
Me: Beer isn't bad, it's just not for kids.
I tell children that beer can be bad for both kids and adults and that when they're adults they can decide for themselves.
Why do you want to tell the kid it's bad when you wouldn't tell and adult the same thing?
Because most children aren't capable of grasping the all to adult concepts that are a part of sexuality. I'm not talking about adolescents who are experiencing sexual feelings of their own. I'm talking about prepubescent children.
LK
The whole point of this legislation was to try to give parents more control over whether their kids play these games without banning them from having their own money or watching them every second of the day.
The whole point of our opposition is that people are supposed to raise their own fucking kids. When I was a kid, there were things that I wasn't allowed to do. Know what? I didn't fucking do them! Why? Because my parents let me know what was expected of me and what the consequences would be if I misbehaved.
If these kids won't obey their parents' directives not to buy or play the games, then maybe these kids are not responsible enough to have wads of cash lying about.
This is a way for parents without spines to get away with being pussies when it comes to their kids. "Sorry little Johnny, you can't buy that game because it's against the law." What's wrong with "You can't have that game because I SAID SO!"?
LK
Your argument is well thought out and excellently articulated. I disagree nonetheless.
Apple has carved out a nice niche market. The days are gone when Apple can increase market share in any meaningful way.
That battle is over. Unless Apple wants to become a commodity PC builder and start selling windows boxes, people who don't want a Mac aren't going to buy one.
Sure, now you can run Windows on one but that means that in addition to buying already more expensive hardware you have to buy a standalone copy of the OS. I just don't see Joe Sixpack shelling out for that.
LK
Never in your life have you been accused of being racist for the sole purpose of belittling you and make you an enemy in the public eye.
I have been accused of being an anti-semite. Oddly enough, I've never been accused by a Jewish person though.
I'll tell you what, we white fuckers step pretty fucking carefully cause of the bullshit pulled by the extorsionists the likes of Cochran.
Johnnie Cochran is dead. OJ was acquitted, get over it.
Black Panthers, those who followed Malcom X, Tupac, etc., all were cashing in on the racism card.
Cashing in? The Black Panther Party got its start BECAUSE of racist police, several unarmed men shot dead tends to upset some people. Malcolm X's father was lynched.
I already know the first words out of your mouth are going to be
Made up your mind already huh? That, sir is the clearest example of pre judice.
LK
But don't even try to play it off as if poor and/or minority people never deserve to be arrested, or that crime rates really are higher in poorer sections of towns, and that current black "culture" is towards self-destructive, violent behavior, completely eschewing education in light of acquiring "hos" and "ice".
Even if all of that is true, I STILL don't deserve the kind of treatment that I've recieved from coward cops over the years.
Unless you have evidence or reason to believe that I am involved in some kind of illegal activity, don't bother me. That's not unreasonable, but it doesn't happen that way. I have been pulled over for DWB, several times. I have been stopped while walking down the sidewalk for no reason other than the police just wanted to know who I was. I have been threatened by the police, Sgt. CJ Hartman, formerly of the North Versailles PA Police Dept once said to me "I don't care if you've done anything or not, there's a book 'this thick' and I'll find something in it to nail you on."
So, don't demean my intelligence or belittle my experiences by blaming me for the misconduct of others.
But racism doesn't count when it's against white people, right?
Being that white people are the majority of the electorate, official conduct on the part of elected officials (police chiefs, city councilmen, etc) and their subordinates isn't racism when it's directed against white people.
It's abusive, it's corrupt, it's dishonerable but it's not racism.
LK
Reprimand? There should be dismissals and incarcerations for these type of infractions.
LK
the officer(s) involved are subject to some sort of corrective action.
Some sort? They should be subjected to dismissal and incarceration.
This is, however, NOT representative of a "police state" or anything like what some in the original article went on about.
What this does represent is that for the first time, middle-class white America is subjected to the same kinds of abuses that poor and/or minority comminunities have been for decades.
That's what's new here. That's what's different.
LK
early onset Parkinson's disease, one of the several disorders doctors and medical scientists are now fairly sure that they can treat with embryonic stem cells, based on results from overseas
If it shows so much promise, why then don't you and all of the people who agree with you invest your own money in it. After all, if it's such a no-brainer then you'll all become incredibly rich and will be able to fund other types of research that you believe in.
If that's true then why doesn't he work to outlaw all ECS research ("murder"), instead of letting it happen with private funding? He's caught between his own rhetoric and a hard place.
It's because he's the president, not a king. He can't unilaterraly declare something illegal. It must be voted upon by the House and Senate. It should be quite clear that he doesn't have the votes.
LK
Yeah, except for that one nation called Pakistan. Oh and Iran in 10 years if we let them.
Pakistan isn't in the middle east. Pakistan is in asia.
Except for that country called Iran. Yeah, they signed it, but they certainly haven't lived up to the treaty.
Iran is developing a nuclear power program. Can you produce any evidence that they are doing anything else?
You know I was intending of going line by line on your commentary, but it's obvious from your first two "points" that you did not intend to add a well-researched comment to this discussion and I know better ways of spending a Sunday afternoon than exposing trolls.
With the exception of the last item, those are taken verbatim from an Orlando Sentinal article.
LK
As it stands the Victoria police can arest anyone at anytime under the charge of "Drunk and Disorderly" with no evidence and no soberiety test.
In the US, it's "disorderly conduct" that the police use as their catch-all charge if they want to fuck with you.
LK
In all seriousness, a PSA in the middle east saying "We're buddies with, not run by, Israel" would really be nice at some point.
Let's play a trivia game, at the end let's see if you understand why the US is equated with Israel in middle eastern circles.
Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?
Answer: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to return to
their homes, farms and businesses?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it con- fiscated?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship in international waters, killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. vetoes?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country did the United States invade because "U.N. Security Council resolutions must be obeyed?"
A: Iraq.(Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
-
All except the last item were taken from Charley Reese's Orlando Sentinal editorial.
Israel is a bad friend and the US shouldn't be so closely aligned with it.
LK
That was done in 1984, the real question is can it find the correct Sarah Connor on the first try. It's been 22 years for goodness' sake.
LK
You pretty much have to a) be a cop or b) know a cop.
And/or be very wealthy and/or influential.
LK
Someone should be fired.
Bullets should never be stored in a place where just anyone can pick them up and walk around with them.
LK
Hard work is the best opportunity that one has for success, but success is never guaranteed by hard work.
I know people who were poor, or at least middle class and worked their asses off and became what most of us would call "rich". I also know people who were poor, and worked their asses of and are still poor.
Basically, life isn't fair but complaining about it won't improve your station.
LK
Use BNC, it doesn't have the bandwidth for Cat 5.
Besides, cats eat guinea pigs.
LK
Couldn't match a Mac of course, but coulda been a contender.
The Mac is the pinnacle of "could have been" technological innovation. It was leaps and bounds ahead of the competition in it's day, but many things worked together to keep it from becoming the dominant personal computer on the market.
LK
Am thinkink that someone with a lot of pull is ownink shares in TPM vendors.
I still have a copy of the Bnetd source code lying around, if you're interested.
LK