"I don't want to ruin the environment, but if it comes down to choosing between the environment and impressing chicks, I gotta go with the chicks.
How about the fact that some of us happen to weigh 200 pounds or more. I weigh 210 pounds or so, if I'm in a car with a friend who happens to be in the same weight class as me, I want to be able to get off of the entrance ramp and ONTO the freeway before that 18 wheeler turns us into pudding.
How about when I need to pickup or deliver 4-8 computers as a part of my job? Vehicles with ROOM inside of them are nice.
You eco-whackos must really hate guys like me. I drive an SUV with a V6 engine and a sports car with a V8. If I nail the gas pedal I can almost watch the the needle fall on the fuel guage.
At what point do you deem that the "greater good" outweighs the rights of the individual person? Will you support a tax on fatty foods in order to bring down health care insurance costs?
How about we force people to wear body armor, helmets, and knee pads to leave their house, accidental injuries and deaths would drop substantially.
No, I don't. I do however think that Apple royally screwed a lot of their loyal base with the hardware changes of the iMac and G3/4.
So we should continue to manufacture 386's today just because they do enough to let some people work.
No, but since the PII/3/Athlon still use the x86 ISA there is no reson to worry. When Apple made the transition from m68k to PPC, they at least had the decency to write a 68k emulator into the OS.
If you don't mind taking it in the pooper from Apple, all the better for you. They're not going to get any more of MY money.
You know you obviously don't have any patience, money, time, or idea of what sells to the consumer.
So a shiny turd is more marketable than a dull diamond in your mind?
Also they don't give a crap about you.
I've noticed. That's why they'll get no more of my money.
If I were you I wouldn't complain a bit.
They love people like you in jail. Anal rape again? No problem, you'll find the silver lining.
With users like you we would be using parallel ports well into 2020.
What reason is there not to? Parallel is good for many things. Fine, you'll get no arguement that USB is better, as long as there is a segment of the user base who wants/needs it, it's fucked up to cut them off.
You certainly can't boot MacOS off a floppy anymore, so they are useless.
Is booting the only thing that floppys are good for? I just transported my research paper to and from school multiple times per week on a 1.44 meg floppy. I got a B in that class, so I guess the floppy isn't all that useless after all.
I personally prefer my nice brand-new cruft-free mac to nursing along a constantly upgraded PC or mac.
That says a lot more about you than it does about the hardware.
Most businesses don't survive when they believe their customers are morons.
Do you work in retail? If you did you'd know that MANY people out there are. I'd say that it's a minority of all customers, but they're still out there.
Why should you have to click some things twice and other things once?
One click in the finder to select an icon. Sometimes you want to open an app or a document, sometimes you just want to select them to move them or to get info. In a web browser why would you want to click more than once?
If the MacOS was modern, the user's wouldn't have to worry about application memory when they hid the app, it would swap to disk and essentially be completely gone the way he wanted.
It should only be swapped to disk if that memory was needed by another program, not just because it's hidden.
Well, I am rather sick of the Mac bashing coming from those who think they know computers. All these geeks out there talking about how dumb iMacs and Cubes are because it can't do x y and z.
How about some bashing from a former Mac zealot? Steve Jobs really needs to lay off of the acid. The trippy colors and goofy cases REALLY annoy me. Overnight Apple decides to dump compatibility with "old" hardware. No serial, No SCSI, No Comm Slots, and No ADB, just USB, and fire wire. What about those of us who have several thousand dollars invested in our old peripherals that still work great? They tell us "You can get a USB to X adapter..." Fuck you! I bought all of this stuff to work with my mac. So, in order to upgrade I'll have to spend 2 grand minimum to get a decent machine AND you want me to spend MORE money? No thanks. I suffered through the hard times with Apples. When I was 15 I remember going to an electronics boutique and seeing 4 mac titles while there were hundreds of dos/win titles.
I'm seriously considering selling off all of my Mac hardware(4 Machines and lotsa goodies) and going to x86-Linux/*BSD as my main OS. I'm tired of being fucked over by Apple.
Linux isn't a "my mom could use it" OS yet, not by a long shot.
What OS is? Mac OS? Hardly. I sell macs for a living and you wouldn't believe some of the morons who come in to buy them. People who can't understand that you don't have to double click on links and buttons in Netscape... I've got another customer, who is a pretty decent guy, who can't understand why hiding an application doesn't free up the memory that it's using.
I personally am offended by the recent influx of clueless morons who want to own a computer now because "everyone else has one". 17 years ago when I started to use and program computers, we were "nerds", now all of the "cool" people ask us for advice.
It's too sad that we have to rely on technology for things that are developed naturally in a good environment.
We build automobiles, elevators, and escalators so that we don't have to do as much physical work. Well, we start to get fat and die from heart disease so what is our fix? Jog or bike down to your local gym and use the stairmaster and treadmill to keep in shape.
absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.
You're wasting your cliché on the wrong guy. I happen to believe in a supreme being. Do I have proof? No. Do I have evidence? I think so.
However, basing the belief that there can be no life elsewhere in the universe upon te contents of a book that the vast majority of humanity regards as a work of fiction is laughable.
More overhead though. Where do you draw the line? Larger files? Larger access, search, and sort times result when you go with extremely long or variable length name fields. I don't know about you, but I'd rather get my bill on time and at a lower price than have some yahoo with a 30 character name be happy with the way his account statement looks.
Have you ever seen God? How then can you be so sure of his existance?
Faith? Based upon what? Some priest/minister/pastor's say so?
Or based upon evidence from your life experiences?
Why is your belief any more valid that someone else's? The beliefs of the Dogon people specificly include visitors from another part of the universe, they knew of Sirius B thousands of years before any human eye had ever caught sight of it. One could make a much better case for the validity of their religion over that of MANY others.
Keep your religious arguments confined to your bible school class.
If Darwinism is simply "Survival of the fittest" then every species that we've made extinct was less fit than us. However, what if we cause our own extinction by killing off too many other species?
At this adult store that I was browsing through once, I saw the box of a porno video that was done with one of those tiny medical cameras. Apparently one could watch a coital act from the other side.
I can't say that I'd find it terribly erotic to watch some guy pounding a chick's cervix from.5 inches away.
They have always been the last out to market for each generation, but always put out a Technologically superior product.
Always last to market?
If memory serves correctly Nintendo beat Sega to the US market with an 8 bit system by about 2 months. Nintendo was just in time for the Christmas rush of that year. It took Sega YEARS to make up for it. Even though the Master System was technologically superior to the NES, the NEW got a HUGE boost that year.
Why should he have to change his friggin *NAME* just because some computers don't like it?
Not because some computers don't like it, because his name is ASSHOLE! Imagine getting attendance called in grade school..."Ass um, ah, Asshole, Samuel?" "Present".
If you had to endure a lifetime of humiliation like that, would YOU want to pass that name and that humiliation on to your kids?
You obviously don't understand how computers work.
ROFL, that was a good one.
You apparently have never studied data structures. I'm going to assume that the database app is coded in C/C++. That in mind, names are likely to be stored as NULL terminated strings.
It would be easy program the system to read the bitstream for my name until it hits a stop bit.
Since we're dealing with characters and files instead of serial communications, I'd wager that they use a NULL instead of a stop bit.
To speed database access it is likely that everyone's name records (first and last) are the same size. You can jump from customer #2333412's name to customer#2334542's name by just doing pointer arithmatic. So if you're name is Dean, I'd expect the record to list your name as Dean00000000000. So that Dean, Bob, Mohammed, Newt, whatever is stored in the same space. Last names would be no different. To maximize the speed of accessing the database, it's best to keep all records to the same size. Beyond that, there must be an arbitrary limit. What's reasonable? 10, 15, 30 characters? That's not my call to make. You have to balance access speed, media costs, and memory requirements against some people being sensitive because their unusually long name gets truncated.
It's not like you can go down to office depot and pick up some extra memory for your RS6000 because you need an extra gigabyte of it to manage all of those unused zeros that you now have because you extended the length of your name data fields.
If seeing your entire name on the bill is that important to you, fine. I'll just stick to whomever gives me the best prices and service.
People have used their names to get attention for years. Remember that gay rights activist who heckled president Clinton back in 1993 or so?
He had his name legally changed to "Luke Sissyfag". You wouldn't believe how funny it was to hear Phil Donahue have a conversation with the man "So, Luke, uh Mr. Sissyfag.....um ah, well, what do you think about this?"
If I wanted to change my name to Harry Cockenballs, I'd expect people not to like it. I'd expect it to be blocked. However it is pure idiocy when the rules of these systems are so inflexible that they can't be overridden by a supervisor.
If my name was Michael Dick, or Bruce Butt I'd be upset if I couldn't make use of it in my email address.
I don't think that it's unreasonable for a company to do business in such a way that they assume that the vast majority of people's names will fit into a certain length character field.
If your name being truncated means that my bill is lower because the company doesn't have to pay for specialty printing equipment, I'm sorry but it's not worth making 20 people "feel better" about something if you have to gouge 20000 people to do so.
I don't know if this is true or if it was just company lore, but when I worked at Computer City almost 4 years ago my boss told me about how a cashier was nearly fired for giving a computer city discount card to someone with the name of "Samuel Asshole". The company's computers in Texas were designed to flag fraudulent names, well "Samuel Asshole" apparantly set off bells and whistles as well. The cashier was found and pulled aside by his/her manager and grilled about the "Asshole" customer. This cashied swore up and down that "Samuel Asshole" was the guy's name, as a part of the company's investigation the telephone number given by the customer was called and a man claiming to be Mr. Asshole answered. He was asked to come in to the store because this cashier was about to be fired for pulling such a prank. He came in and produced a driver's license in the name os "Samuel Asshole"
If this story is true, it can't be the first time something like this happened to this man. Why not just change the name?
Not all cassettes and CDs are identical. There are some that have different songs or intros. For some you have to buy both the CD and the cassette to get everything.
If you've got a cable modem or dsl you can download an MP3 in 30 seconds, why spend 5 minutes or more to rip and encode the song when you can download it?
I bought the Linux for Dummies book about 2 years ago, when it came bundled with RedHat 5.0. I was a relative newbie to linux. I'd installed it and played with it for about a month when I decided that I needed some help.
That book helped me draw the necessary mental connections to relate my DOS knowledge to linux.
The CLI's complexity faded away in a matter of a few days.
Linux For Dummies isn't the same as "Electronic devices for Dummies". We all were linux newbies at some point, but many of us had been using computers for years before then.
What about those of us who bought the CD or the cassette(Or both) but still want to be able to listen to the music without searching through stacks and stacks of CD?
I can name several albums that I bought bot the cassette and the CD of but still wanted to make some MP3s of.
I can't presume to tell you who to vote for. I know who I'm voting for. I find it laughable that you can see no difference between the two major candidates.
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So you've been using computers 17 years and still work retail?
Yes. I started using computers in grade school.
I have to pay tuition somehow.
LK
"I don't want to ruin the environment, but if it comes down to choosing between the environment and impressing chicks, I gotta go with the chicks.
How about the fact that some of us happen to weigh 200 pounds or more. I weigh 210 pounds or so, if I'm in a car with a friend who happens to be in the same weight class as me, I want to be able to get off of the entrance ramp and ONTO the freeway before that 18 wheeler turns us into pudding.
How about when I need to pickup or deliver 4-8 computers as a part of my job? Vehicles with ROOM inside of them are nice.
LK
You eco-whackos must really hate guys like me. I drive an SUV with a V6 engine and a sports car with a V8. If I nail the gas pedal I can almost watch the the needle fall on the fuel guage.
At what point do you deem that the "greater good" outweighs the rights of the individual person? Will you support a tax on fatty foods in order to bring down health care insurance costs?
How about we force people to wear body armor, helmets, and knee pads to leave their house, accidental injuries and deaths would drop substantially.
How far is too far?
LK
You think PPC's are really that bad.
No, I don't. I do however think that Apple royally screwed a lot of their loyal base with the hardware changes of the iMac and G3/4.
So we should continue to manufacture 386's today just because they do enough to let some people work.
No, but since the PII/3/Athlon still use the x86 ISA there is no reson to worry. When Apple made the transition from m68k to PPC, they at least had the decency to write a 68k emulator into the OS.
If you don't mind taking it in the pooper from Apple, all the better for you. They're not going to get any more of MY money.
LK
You know you obviously don't have any patience, money, time, or idea of what sells to the consumer.
So a shiny turd is more marketable than a dull diamond in your mind?
Also they don't give a crap about you.
I've noticed. That's why they'll get no more of my money.
If I were you I wouldn't complain a bit.
They love people like you in jail. Anal rape again? No problem, you'll find the silver lining.
With users like you we would be using parallel ports well into 2020.
What reason is there not to? Parallel is good for many things. Fine, you'll get no arguement that USB is better, as long as there is a segment of the user base who wants/needs it, it's fucked up to cut them off.
You certainly can't boot MacOS off a floppy anymore, so they are useless.
Is booting the only thing that floppys are good for? I just transported my research paper to and from school multiple times per week on a 1.44 meg floppy. I got a B in that class, so I guess the floppy isn't all that useless after all.
I personally prefer my nice brand-new cruft-free mac to nursing along a constantly upgraded PC or mac.
That says a lot more about you than it does about the hardware.
LK
Most businesses don't survive when they believe their customers are morons.
Do you work in retail? If you did you'd know that MANY people out there are. I'd say that it's a minority of all customers, but they're still out there.
Why should you have to click some things twice and other things once?
One click in the finder to select an icon. Sometimes you want to open an app or a document, sometimes you just want to select them to move them or to get info. In a web browser why would you want to click more than once?
If the MacOS was modern, the user's wouldn't have to worry about application memory when they hid the app, it would swap to disk and essentially be completely gone the way he wanted.
It should only be swapped to disk if that memory was needed by another program, not just because it's hidden.
LK
Well, I am rather sick of the Mac bashing coming from those who think they know computers. All these geeks out there talking about how dumb iMacs and Cubes are because it can't do x y and z.
How about some bashing from a former Mac zealot? Steve Jobs really needs to lay off of the acid. The trippy colors and goofy cases REALLY annoy me. Overnight Apple decides to dump compatibility with "old" hardware. No serial, No SCSI, No Comm Slots, and No ADB, just USB, and fire wire. What about those of us who have several thousand dollars invested in our old peripherals that still work great? They tell us "You can get a USB to X adapter..." Fuck you! I bought all of this stuff to work with my mac. So, in order to upgrade I'll have to spend 2 grand minimum to get a decent machine AND you want me to spend MORE money? No thanks. I suffered through the hard times with Apples. When I was 15 I remember going to an electronics boutique and seeing 4 mac titles while there were hundreds of dos/win titles.
I'm seriously considering selling off all of my Mac hardware(4 Machines and lotsa goodies) and going to x86-Linux/*BSD as my main OS. I'm tired of being fucked over by Apple.
Linux isn't a "my mom could use it" OS yet, not by a long shot.
What OS is? Mac OS? Hardly. I sell macs for a living and you wouldn't believe some of the morons who come in to buy them. People who can't understand that you don't have to double click on links and buttons in Netscape... I've got another customer, who is a pretty decent guy, who can't understand why hiding an application doesn't free up the memory that it's using.
I personally am offended by the recent influx of clueless morons who want to own a computer now because "everyone else has one". 17 years ago when I started to use and program computers, we were "nerds", now all of the "cool" people ask us for advice.
LK
It's too sad that we have to rely on technology for things that are developed naturally in a good environment.
We build automobiles, elevators, and escalators so that we don't have to do as much physical work. Well, we start to get fat and die from heart disease so what is our fix? Jog or bike down to your local gym and use the stairmaster and treadmill to keep in shape.
LK
absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.
You're wasting your cliché on the wrong guy. I happen to believe in a supreme being. Do I have proof? No. Do I have evidence? I think so.
However, basing the belief that there can be no life elsewhere in the universe upon te contents of a book that the vast majority of humanity regards as a work of fiction is laughable.
LK
More overhead though. Where do you draw the line? Larger files? Larger access, search, and sort times result when you go with extremely long or variable length name fields. I don't know about you, but I'd rather get my bill on time and at a lower price than have some yahoo with a 30 character name be happy with the way his account statement looks.
LK
Have you ever seen God? How then can you be so sure of his existance?
Faith? Based upon what? Some priest/minister/pastor's say so?
Or based upon evidence from your life experiences?
Why is your belief any more valid that someone else's? The beliefs of the Dogon people specificly include visitors from another part of the universe, they knew of Sirius B thousands of years before any human eye had ever caught sight of it. One could make a much better case for the validity of their religion over that of MANY others.
Keep your religious arguments confined to your bible school class.
LK
If Darwinism is simply "Survival of the fittest" then every species that we've made extinct was less fit than us. However, what if we cause our own extinction by killing off too many other species?
Would that mean that we're so fit as to be unfit?
LK
At this adult store that I was browsing through once, I saw the box of a porno video that was done with one of those tiny medical cameras. Apparently one could watch a coital act from the other side.
.5 inches away.
I can't say that I'd find it terribly erotic to watch some guy pounding a chick's cervix from
But, to each his own.
LK
They have always been the last out to market for each generation, but always put out a Technologically superior product.
Always last to market?
If memory serves correctly Nintendo beat Sega to the US market with an 8 bit system by about 2 months. Nintendo was just in time for the Christmas rush of that year. It took Sega YEARS to make up for it. Even though the Master System was technologically superior to the NES, the NEW got a HUGE boost that year.
LK
this is first going to be used by the adult entertainment industry.
Remember the first DVDs you saw on display at your local computer show? I'd bet that they were all pornos.
This is going to be used to make a new level of disgustingly graphic porno.
"New from 'Wet Spot' entertainment a new exclusive, 'Inside Ron Jeremy's ballsack", it's sure to educate while it entertains"
LK
A buddy of mine went to high school with someone named Harold Dick. Harry Dick is obviously what they called him.
I went to high school with a girl named Anita Seaman, while I'm at it there was an Anita Johnson as well.
LK
Why should he have to change his friggin *NAME* just because some computers don't like it?
Not because some computers don't like it, because his name is ASSHOLE! Imagine getting attendance called in grade school..."Ass um, ah, Asshole, Samuel?" "Present".
If you had to endure a lifetime of humiliation like that, would YOU want to pass that name and that humiliation on to your kids?
LK
You obviously don't understand how computers work.
ROFL, that was a good one.
You apparently have never studied data structures. I'm going to assume that the database app is coded in C/C++. That in mind, names are likely to be stored as NULL terminated strings.
It would be easy program the system to read the bitstream for my name until it hits a stop bit.
Since we're dealing with characters and files instead of serial communications, I'd wager that they use a NULL instead of a stop bit.
To speed database access it is likely that everyone's name records (first and last) are the same size. You can jump from customer #2333412's name to customer#2334542's name by just doing pointer arithmatic. So if you're name is Dean, I'd expect the record to list your name as Dean00000000000. So that Dean, Bob, Mohammed, Newt, whatever is stored in the same space. Last names would be no different. To maximize the speed of accessing the database, it's best to keep all records to the same size. Beyond that, there must be an arbitrary limit. What's reasonable? 10, 15, 30 characters? That's not my call to make. You have to balance access speed, media costs, and memory requirements against some people being sensitive because their unusually long name gets truncated.
It's not like you can go down to office depot and pick up some extra memory for your RS6000 because you need an extra gigabyte of it to manage all of those unused zeros that you now have because you extended the length of your name data fields.
If seeing your entire name on the bill is that important to you, fine. I'll just stick to whomever gives me the best prices and service.
LK
People have used their names to get attention for years. Remember that gay rights activist who heckled president Clinton back in 1993 or so?
He had his name legally changed to "Luke Sissyfag". You wouldn't believe how funny it was to hear Phil Donahue have a conversation with the man "So, Luke, uh Mr. Sissyfag.....um ah, well, what do you think about this?"
If I wanted to change my name to Harry Cockenballs, I'd expect people not to like it. I'd expect it to be blocked. However it is pure idiocy when the rules of these systems are so inflexible that they can't be overridden by a supervisor.
If my name was Michael Dick, or Bruce Butt I'd be upset if I couldn't make use of it in my email address.
BTW I do know a cop named Bruce Butt.
LK
I don't think that it's unreasonable for a company to do business in such a way that they assume that the vast majority of people's names will fit into a certain length character field.
If your name being truncated means that my bill is lower because the company doesn't have to pay for specialty printing equipment, I'm sorry but it's not worth making 20 people "feel better" about something if you have to gouge 20000 people to do so.
LK
I don't know if this is true or if it was just company lore, but when I worked at Computer City almost 4 years ago my boss told me about how a cashier was nearly fired for giving a computer city discount card to someone with the name of "Samuel Asshole". The company's computers in Texas were designed to flag fraudulent names, well "Samuel Asshole" apparantly set off bells and whistles as well. The cashier was found and pulled aside by his/her manager and grilled about the "Asshole" customer. This cashied swore up and down that "Samuel Asshole" was the guy's name, as a part of the company's investigation the telephone number given by the customer was called and a man claiming to be Mr. Asshole answered. He was asked to come in to the store because this cashier was about to be fired for pulling such a prank. He came in and produced a driver's license in the name os "Samuel Asshole"
If this story is true, it can't be the first time something like this happened to this man. Why not just change the name?
Remember that SNL skit about "Asswipe Jones"?
LK
Not all cassettes and CDs are identical. There are some that have different songs or intros. For some you have to buy both the CD and the cassette to get everything.
If you've got a cable modem or dsl you can download an MP3 in 30 seconds, why spend 5 minutes or more to rip and encode the song when you can download it?
LK
I bought the Linux for Dummies book about 2 years ago, when it came bundled with RedHat 5.0. I was a relative newbie to linux. I'd installed it and played with it for about a month when I decided that I needed some help.
That book helped me draw the necessary mental connections to relate my DOS knowledge to linux.
The CLI's complexity faded away in a matter of a few days.
Linux For Dummies isn't the same as "Electronic devices for Dummies". We all were linux newbies at some point, but many of us had been using computers for years before then.
LK
What about those of us who bought the CD or the cassette(Or both) but still want to be able to listen to the music without searching through stacks and stacks of CD?
I can name several albums that I bought bot the cassette and the CD of but still wanted to make some MP3s of.
LK
I can't presume to tell you who to vote for. I know who I'm voting for. I find it laughable that you can see no difference between the two major candidates.
LK