What you seem to not understand is that Apple is the best at what they do, they are not the best for everyone.
I was exclusively a Mac user from the time I was 14 until I was 21. From 21 through 25 I was mostly a Mac user. Now at 28 I almost never touch a Mac. Apple's machines are no longer the best machines for what I do.
If they were the best at everything, they'd have more than an 8% share of the market.
People pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for Ferraris and Lamborghinis too you know.
Apple is NOT the Ferrari of the computer industry.
They're more like the Lincoln of the industry. More expensive than the "average" computer, of better quality than the "average" computer, but not leaps and bounds beyond everyone else.
Accidently finding such a site "could" get you into alot of trouble.
I have accidentally come across kiddy porn sites as a part of my search for free (consenting adult) porno. Whenever I saw a site that appeared to be located/run from within the US, I called the FBI and reported it.
My goal was two-fold, first I wanted to let the authorities now that these people are out there and if someone ever tried to accuse me of intentionally going to that site, the FBI's records would show that I called them and reported it.
Cracking down on kiddy porn is not an unreasonable restriction on free speech.
In June 1997 I bought a new Mac. Jobs came back during that year and began making changes to Apple. By the time that I was ready for some new hardware, Jobs's changes had been implemented and I was no longer interested in buying Apple hardware.
It seems to me that I could install a functional Linux distibution on the same hardware that the Be geniuses said they were "locked" out of...I guess they just couldn't embrace open source to look at those GPL'd drivers.
Be had made the advances that they did because of information that came directly from Apple. When Apple shut off the flow of information, be chose to go another route, mainly x86, as a result Mac users lost out on another option.
Be was a for profit entity, they had a fiduciary obligation to guard the assets of their shareholders. To incorporate GPLed drivers into the OS would have forced them to open code that they did not wish to open. The GPL is great for linux, but Be OS was not linux.
What killed it? Lack of driver support. (I'm looking at you Linux fanatics)
Don't forget Apple fanatics while you're at it. Remember when Apple's engineers started withholding engineering specs from Be, and as a result Be couldn't write drivers for the new Apple hardware? This decision from Apple came shortly after Apple decided to purchase NeXt and use their assets to build their next OS.
I remember when the original Playstation was at the top of its game there was a memory card maker who made an ENORMOUS card for them. It tricked the PS into thinking that it was 8 different cards. Maybe these MMC cards will do something similar for older devices. Something along the lines of a dip switch come to mind.
Not everything needs to have an end: * loving relationship with parents
It doesn't necessarily end, but it changes. Your relationship with your parents is different at 20 than it was at 5.
* a child's life
It changes. That child becomes an adult.
* virginity
True enough.
facts:
Opinions
1. Good relationships are better than no relationships
This is highly subjective. Perhaps to YOU that is true, but not for everyone.
2. No relationships are better than broken relatinoships
How we define healthy relationships and broken relationships veries from person to person.
I assume this is a glimpse of your own, personal philosophy.
You assume correctly.
Have you opened it up to scrutiny for others to test - or do you just suppose that the conclusions made in your own mind are correct?
Do you base your beliefs upon the approval of others? I do not. If every other human being on the planet were of the opinion that dirt or feces were tasty snacks, would you start eating them because of their opinions? I would not.
To be blunt - it is near the height of ignorance and pride to claim this.
Pride? No doubt about it. Ignorance? Not remotely close.
Many do not have the pleasure or privilege to decide the terms by which they live and die.
And I feel bad for those people, but I have to face life from my perspective.
The fact is, if you have life your way then someone else is not having life their own way.
Possibly.
We ALL have to compromise.
In our public interactions, without question. For example, I'm a smoker, and I respect non-smoking areas because I have no right to dominate those areas. In my private life however, there is no need. My SO understands that I will not accompany her to see the Romantic Comedy Du Jour when we go to the movie theater.
Relationships aren't meant to 'end', except at death.
Why not? Every thing else has a beginning and an end. Childhood, puberty, fertility, adulthood. Why should a relationship be any different.
Bitter rivalry with a once dear friend, breaking up with your wife, etc - none of these things are "good".
Since you raise the issue, these things are neither "good" nor "bad" in and of themselves. Like most other parts of life, they just are.
The fact that you see relationships as a temporary thing is probably a reflection of your no compromise attitude - that's the best you can hope for. And your attitude encourages that which you should fight against.
I live and will die on my own terms. No one else lives in my skin, I don't much care what someone else thinks of what I do in it.
You may call it stubborn, I call it freedom.
LK
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Plugged in the 3M jobbie, changed the config (was one line, in modules.conf IIRC) and it just worked.
Ahhh, the good old days.
BTW what does you sig mean, and what language is that?
If you're an addict, even if it's an addiction to something relatively benign like gaming, it's a problem. If you can't just cut back and keep it under control, the only real solution is to give it up entirely. Alcoholics have been facing this choice for years, and nobody seems to think it's unreasonable.
BS, we're not talking about alcohol or drugs here. We're talking about a man playing games with his friends.
No, you're not being trolled. It was a serious reply.
From this I can only conclude that you have never had a healthy relationship.
I guess that all depends on how you define healthy. I define it to mean that "Both parties are aware of the scope and depth of the relationship and are content through the start, middle and end."
That you seem to think the sole point of a relationship is getting laid further strengthens my suspicion that you've never had a healthy relationship.
I don't believe that it is the sole point, but I'm sure you'll agree that it is often used as a bargaining chip. What happens if you do something that upsets your wife? No intercourse for you that night. Really piss her off? None for a week.
Why don't we try an experiment? You set yourself up with a girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever, then resolve NEVER to compromise.
That's pretty much how I'm currently living.
Make the ground rules clear: You do whatever you want, whenever you want, and if he/she doesn't like it, tough, you'll do what you want anyway.
The pizza hut policy is just ridiculous. That deliveryman could well be dead if not for the 9mm, and yet he lost his job protecting his life, and company property and revenue. The world is a sick place friends.
I used to work delivery for KFC, which is owned by Pepsi, just like Pizza Hut, we were also not permitted to carry firearms while working. However one of our managers pointed out something. The regulation forbade carrying a gun, but not having one inside of our cars and not on our bodies. I was under 21 at that time so I couldn't get a gun permit anyway, but if I were to find myself working delivery today I would carry, regardless of what the company policy was.
In a healthy relationship, you and your SO will give each other time to pursue your own interests, and you'll both sacrifice some personal time for the other.
If the relationship is healthy neither of you should have to sacrifice anything.
You can't be a compulsive gamer and have a healthy relationship.
Perhaps not.
If you have to be gaming all the time, as you say, it's time to grow up.
In short, fuck you and your mother. We are grown ups, the fact that we prefer Counter-Strike to football and budweiser or NASCAR doesnt change that.
And if you can't just do a little, then maybe you should give it up all together.
So in your opinion he should give up something that makes him happy just to keep getting laid regularly?
This double standard makes my blood boil. If this was a mundane woman talking about how her boyfriend gets angry because she spends too much time gardening or knitting people would be telling her to dump him for trying to control her. But since this is a man who wants to play video games, you and people like you are telling him that he has to change, grow up, compromise, sacrifice; things that no one would suggest if he had a different gender & hobby.
There's no getting around it. I hope you work things out for the best.
He didn't ask if you thought he should stop playing. If he does give up gaming entirely, he'll probably resent her for it.
In NYC you still pay the mafia and the teamsters a tax for everything. 12 years ago I was in Manhattan to see Les Miserables and was knocked flat by the fact that it cost $6 for a 6-Pack of Mountain Dew.
I'm only 1 state away, PA, and if I catch a Matinee, a movie only costs me about $5.50.
I'm sure that we've all heard about how alcoholism kills brain cells.
It is because alcohol is metabolized into trinitrotoluene (TNT) and then used as fuel by cells in the brain that causes their death. Think of it like putting racing fuel in your lawnmower.
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What you seem to not understand is that Apple is the best at what they do, they are not the best for everyone.
I was exclusively a Mac user from the time I was 14 until I was 21. From 21 through 25 I was mostly a Mac user. Now at 28 I almost never touch a Mac. Apple's machines are no longer the best machines for what I do.
If they were the best at everything, they'd have more than an 8% share of the market.
LK
People pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for Ferraris and Lamborghinis too you know.
Apple is NOT the Ferrari of the computer industry.
They're more like the Lincoln of the industry. More expensive than the "average" computer, of better quality than the "average" computer, but not leaps and bounds beyond everyone else.
LK
I'm not sure that viewing it is really illegal, I believe that possessing it is illegal.
LK
Accidently finding such a site "could" get you into alot of trouble.
I have accidentally come across kiddy porn sites as a part of my search for free (consenting adult) porno. Whenever I saw a site that appeared to be located/run from within the US, I called the FBI and reported it.
My goal was two-fold, first I wanted to let the authorities now that these people are out there and if someone ever tried to accuse me of intentionally going to that site, the FBI's records would show that I called them and reported it.
Cracking down on kiddy porn is not an unreasonable restriction on free speech.
LK
In June 1997 I bought a new Mac. Jobs came back during that year and began making changes to Apple. By the time that I was ready for some new hardware, Jobs's changes had been implemented and I was no longer interested in buying Apple hardware.
LK
It seems to me that I could install a functional Linux distibution on the same hardware that the Be geniuses said they were "locked" out of...I guess they just couldn't embrace open source to look at those GPL'd drivers.
Be had made the advances that they did because of information that came directly from Apple. When Apple shut off the flow of information, be chose to go another route, mainly x86, as a result Mac users lost out on another option.
Be was a for profit entity, they had a fiduciary obligation to guard the assets of their shareholders. To incorporate GPLed drivers into the OS would have forced them to open code that they did not wish to open. The GPL is great for linux, but Be OS was not linux.
LK
Oddly enough, it's because of Jobs that I haven't bought any new Apple hardware in over 7 years.
LK
What killed it? Lack of driver support. (I'm looking at you Linux fanatics)
Don't forget Apple fanatics while you're at it. Remember when Apple's engineers started withholding engineering specs from Be, and as a result Be couldn't write drivers for the new Apple hardware? This decision from Apple came shortly after Apple decided to purchase NeXt and use their assets to build their next OS.
LK
I remember when the original Playstation was at the top of its game there was a memory card maker who made an ENORMOUS card for them. It tricked the PS into thinking that it was 8 different cards. Maybe these MMC cards will do something similar for older devices. Something along the lines of a dip switch come to mind.
LK
Buddhist huh?
LK
I guess that the oven is passive while the dishwasher is active in performing its task.
LK
What is the difference?
Was there a promiscuous mode for the P3 processor ID?
My motherboard's BIOS allow me to enter any MAC I want for the onboard NIC.
LK
What, like a oven or a dish washer?
Oven? No.
Dish washer? Probably.
LK
But, the article, submitter, sure has a thing, for commas.
Yes, actually, s/he has two things, "Grammar" and "Correct Punctuation".
LK
Not everything needs to have an end:
* loving relationship with parents
It doesn't necessarily end, but it changes. Your relationship with your parents is different at 20 than it was at 5.
* a child's life
It changes. That child becomes an adult.
* virginity
True enough.
facts:
Opinions
1. Good relationships are better than no relationships
This is highly subjective. Perhaps to YOU that is true, but not for everyone.
2. No relationships are better than broken relatinoships
How we define healthy relationships and broken relationships veries from person to person.
I assume this is a glimpse of your own, personal philosophy.
You assume correctly.
Have you opened it up to scrutiny for others to test - or do you just suppose that the conclusions made in your own mind are correct?
Do you base your beliefs upon the approval of others? I do not. If every other human being on the planet were of the opinion that dirt or feces were tasty snacks, would you start eating them because of their opinions? I would not.
To be blunt - it is near the height of ignorance and pride to claim this.
Pride? No doubt about it. Ignorance? Not remotely close.
Many do not have the pleasure or privilege to decide the terms by which they live and die.
And I feel bad for those people, but I have to face life from my perspective.
The fact is, if you have life your way then someone else is not having life their own way.
Possibly.
We ALL have to compromise.
In our public interactions, without question. For example, I'm a smoker, and I respect non-smoking areas because I have no right to dominate those areas. In my private life however, there is no need. My SO understands that I will not accompany her to see the Romantic Comedy Du Jour when we go to the movie theater.
That's just how it is.
LK
I think you read me exactly backwards. better odds and less dependencies = giving up your stuff.
No, I read you right. You are incorrect. Your odds of walking away unharmed are better if you fight back.
LK
Relationships aren't meant to 'end', except at death.
Why not? Every thing else has a beginning and an end. Childhood, puberty, fertility, adulthood. Why should a relationship be any different.
Bitter rivalry with a once dear friend, breaking up with your wife, etc - none of these things are "good".
Since you raise the issue, these things are neither "good" nor "bad" in and of themselves. Like most other parts of life, they just are.
The fact that you see relationships as a temporary thing is probably a reflection of your no compromise attitude - that's the best you can hope for. And your attitude encourages that which you should fight against.
I live and will die on my own terms. No one else lives in my skin, I don't much care what someone else thinks of what I do in it.
You may call it stubborn, I call it freedom.
LK
Plugged in the 3M jobbie, changed the config (was one line, in modules.conf IIRC) and it just worked.
Ahhh, the good old days.
BTW what does you sig mean, and what language is that?
LK
Have you ever even been in a real relationship?
Several.
If you're an addict, even if it's an addiction to something relatively benign like gaming, it's a problem. If you can't just cut back and keep it under control, the only real solution is to give it up entirely. Alcoholics have been facing this choice for years, and nobody seems to think it's unreasonable.
BS, we're not talking about alcohol or drugs here. We're talking about a man playing games with his friends.
LK
I know I'm being trolled here, but...
;-), it's been fantastic.
No, you're not being trolled. It was a serious reply.
From this I can only conclude that you have never had a healthy relationship.
I guess that all depends on how you define healthy. I define it to mean that "Both parties are aware of the scope and depth of the relationship and are content through the start, middle and end."
That you seem to think the sole point of a relationship is getting laid further strengthens my suspicion that you've never had a healthy relationship.
I don't believe that it is the sole point, but I'm sure you'll agree that it is often used as a bargaining chip. What happens if you do something that upsets your wife? No intercourse for you that night. Really piss her off? None for a week.
Why don't we try an experiment? You set yourself up with a girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever, then resolve NEVER to compromise.
That's pretty much how I'm currently living.
Make the ground rules clear: You do whatever you want, whenever you want, and if he/she doesn't like it, tough, you'll do what you want anyway.
I'm still with you here.
Report back later and tell us how it goes.
Since my divorce
LK
The pizza hut policy is just ridiculous. That deliveryman could well be dead if not for the 9mm, and yet he lost his job protecting his life, and company property and revenue. The world is a sick place friends.
I used to work delivery for KFC, which is owned by Pepsi, just like Pizza Hut, we were also not permitted to carry firearms while working. However one of our managers pointed out something. The regulation forbade carrying a gun, but not having one inside of our cars and not on our bodies. I was under 21 at that time so I couldn't get a gun permit anyway, but if I were to find myself working delivery today I would carry, regardless of what the company policy was.
LK
In a healthy relationship, you and your SO will give each other time to pursue your own interests, and you'll both sacrifice some personal time for the other.
If the relationship is healthy neither of you should have to sacrifice anything.
You can't be a compulsive gamer and have a healthy relationship.
Perhaps not.
If you have to be gaming all the time, as you say, it's time to grow up.
In short, fuck you and your mother. We are grown ups, the fact that we prefer Counter-Strike to football and budweiser or NASCAR doesnt change that.
And if you can't just do a little, then maybe you should give it up all together.
So in your opinion he should give up something that makes him happy just to keep getting laid regularly?
This double standard makes my blood boil. If this was a mundane woman talking about how her boyfriend gets angry because she spends too much time gardening or knitting people would be telling her to dump him for trying to control her. But since this is a man who wants to play video games, you and people like you are telling him that he has to change, grow up, compromise, sacrifice; things that no one would suggest if he had a different gender & hobby.
There's no getting around it. I hope you work things out for the best.
He didn't ask if you thought he should stop playing. If he does give up gaming entirely, he'll probably resent her for it.
LK
It isn't a Mafia or Teamsters tax. It's an "I'm living in NYC, the center of the everything" tax.
Only people IN NYC think that it's the center of everything. The rest of us couldn't care less.
LK
In NYC, it's almost double that.
In NYC you still pay the mafia and the teamsters a tax for everything. 12 years ago I was in Manhattan to see Les Miserables and was knocked flat by the fact that it cost $6 for a 6-Pack of Mountain Dew.
I'm only 1 state away, PA, and if I catch a Matinee, a movie only costs me about $5.50.
LK
How's this one for you...
I'm sure that we've all heard about how alcoholism kills brain cells.
It is because alcohol is metabolized into trinitrotoluene (TNT) and then used as fuel by cells in the brain that causes their death. Think of it like putting racing fuel in your lawnmower.
LK