For people who say that Windows or Linux users are just as bad, I can give you an example of why this isn't true.
Back when I was single a few years back, I was on several dating sites. I saw MANY profiles of women* who specifically said you "must be a Mac lover" or "must not be a Windows user" to date them. I never saw one that said you must use Windows or Linux, or that you must not use a Mac.
So if you're trying to find a life partner based on the type of OS they use, yeah, you're a religious fanatic about it.
*not sure about the men, I was only looking for women.
It's weird that anybody gives a shit about vi vs emacs--it's obvious that unless you use an exclusive feature, they're essentially the same, modal vs modeless is nothing more than a preference
The main reason I DON'T use Chrome is because I LIKE having my 12+ most-used sites in a drop-down URL bar, like every other major browser has. I don't want to click on pictures.
Having to open a new tab, then having to figure out which of the 8 (only 8) pictures corresponds with the web site I am trying to get, then clicking it, is WAY more complicated. And sites that use similar color schemes are hard to tell apart at first glance in the little picture.
Google, some of us are text-based (CLI forever) people, not picture-based people. That's the main problem I have with the OS-X interface, icons with no words under them, dammit!
Here on/. people complain about companies that "lock" you into their ecosystem. (Hi, Apple!) But you willingly let yourself be locked into the **AA ecosystem.
Back in the day we weren't totally dependent on being entertained by moving pictures on a screen. Most of the time we made our own entertainment.
I still live that way. I watch a one or two Netflix movies or TV shows a week, go to the real movies about once every couple months. TV is a bunch of crap, if it's good I'll Netflix it later. I have LOTS of time to create things, build things, walk the dogs, hang out with friends and family. I wish I had musical talent so I could play an instrument, but no luck there. If I had to totally give up the moving pictures on the screen, I could do it. Sometimes weeks go by when I don't sit in front of the TV. Sometimes I go days where I don't even sit in front of a computer. Okay, that's rare, but it happens. But I try to limit my browsing every day so I can actually go live my life, and then generally only when taking a break at work (Hi!).
Think of all the things you could do if you weren't so concerned with being entertained by moving pictures on a screen all the time. Think of the **AA pockets you will not be lining if you choose to make your entertainment, or how many artists you will help if you choose to see more live entertainment instead. How much time do you spend watching TV shows and movies? If it's more than 10% of your waking hours, you are wasting your life.
When your mom, your dog, your wife, your husband, your sister, your brother, your friend, your cat, your dad, etc. dies, how much time could you have spent with them that you spent watching TV instead?
Face it, the fact that you are complaining about this issue shows that the **AA already has you by the balls. Don't give them a chance to squeeze, just get out of the grip. Life is short. Go out and live it.
No. But if gasoline powered cars did not exist and someone invented them today, there is NO WAY they would be approved.
"You want people to zip around at high speeds while carrying ten to twenty gallons of a highly volatile petroleum distillate? With CHILDREN in the car and by the roads? You know this 'gasoline' stuff is extremely flammable, you even use its explosive power to move your vehicle! Are you NUTS?"
I used to think the same thing. But then I found how easy it was to deploy servers in the cloud and still charge my customers the same do-re-mi for hardware, bandwidth and support.
Wow, you just gave me a flashback to my youth. I hadn't thought of light-proof film changing bags for 25 years or more. Now I'm wondering where my old 8mm cameras are.
I'm not sure GloFo (AMD) wanted the business, though.
I have friends at Freescale and all were VERY happy when Apple went to Intel. Apple bargains with their suppliers like Wal-Mart does. Short-term contracts,cut the price to the bone. Freescale decided it was no longer worth developing and manufacturing CPUs for Apple with minimal returns. I imagine the situation with Samsung is the same.
Intel is probably currently the only mfr that can supply at a price Apple wants to pay and still make a high enough ASP to show a profit on it. And they are big enough to not be pushed around by Apple. Not that Samsung isn't, but Samsung doesn't really give a rat's ass about Apple.
When Apple switched to Intel chips a few years back, I remembered all the venom spewed toward Intel by all my Apple-obsessed friends over the previous 20 years.
Now they cherish their Intel chips. But they still bash MS. Why, I got an Outlook e-mail from one of my Apple friends just yesterday, sending me a Powerpoint presentation he had made on his Mac, with a funny joke about how lame MS is.
I had no problem opening it in OpenOffice on my AMD-powered CentOS box.
I believe the USPS DID have a plan to set up "official" USPS e-mail addresses for people back in the 1990's.
I think it was the brilliant plan of charging people $0.15 per e-mail that did them in.
If they had just done a free service and charged advertisers (who provide the bulk of their revenue anyway) they could have preempted gmail, yahoo, hotmail...
Apple had acknowledged to Congress last year only that "cell tower and Wi-Fi access point information" is "intermittently" collected and "transmitted to Apple" every 12 hours.
I seem to remember dozens of people saying "It's just on your phone, it's not like Apple is collecting the data" in the previous thread about this.
Yet Apple has even said they are collecting it.
I don't mind anyone being a fainboi, just be honest about it.
I work in manufacturing. We have HUNDREDS of very expensive machines ($100K - $2M cost each) that are controlled by PCs running everything from Windows 98 to NT to XP. In fact, I think there may even be some tools that still have Win3.11 interfaces. I think the majority are still using NT 4.0.
They still chug along. It's getting more expensive to get some replacement parts that work, but it's still cheaper and easier than having the tool control software and drivers completely re-written for a new OS.
I doubt my experience with this is even remotely unique in the manufacturing world. Tools are expensive and tend to stay around for a LONG time.
You can do the same thing by smearing a thin layer of ripe banana on graphite-coated paper. Nearly.5 watts per square meter. All you need is paper, a fat pencil and a bunch of ripe bananas.
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For people who say that Windows or Linux users are just as bad, I can give you an example of why this isn't true.
Back when I was single a few years back, I was on several dating sites. I saw MANY profiles of women* who specifically said you "must be a Mac lover" or "must not be a Windows user" to date them. I never saw one that said you must use Windows or Linux, or that you must not use a Mac.
So if you're trying to find a life partner based on the type of OS they use, yeah, you're a religious fanatic about it.
*not sure about the men, I was only looking for women.
It's weird that anybody gives a shit about vi vs emacs--it's obvious that unless you use an exclusive feature, they're essentially the same, modal vs modeless is nothing more than a preference
DIE HERETIC!
The main reason I DON'T use Chrome is because I LIKE having my 12+ most-used sites in a drop-down URL bar, like every other major browser has. I don't want to click on pictures.
Having to open a new tab, then having to figure out which of the 8 (only 8) pictures corresponds with the web site I am trying to get, then clicking it, is WAY more complicated. And sites that use similar color schemes are hard to tell apart at first glance in the little picture.
Google, some of us are text-based (CLI forever) people, not picture-based people. That's the main problem I have with the OS-X interface, icons with no words under them, dammit!
Here on /. people complain about companies that "lock" you into their ecosystem. (Hi, Apple!) But you willingly let yourself be locked into the **AA ecosystem.
Back in the day we weren't totally dependent on being entertained by moving pictures on a screen. Most of the time we made our own entertainment.
I still live that way. I watch a one or two Netflix movies or TV shows a week, go to the real movies about once every couple months. TV is a bunch of crap, if it's good I'll Netflix it later. I have LOTS of time to create things, build things, walk the dogs, hang out with friends and family. I wish I had musical talent so I could play an instrument, but no luck there. If I had to totally give up the moving pictures on the screen, I could do it. Sometimes weeks go by when I don't sit in front of the TV. Sometimes I go days where I don't even sit in front of a computer. Okay, that's rare, but it happens. But I try to limit my browsing every day so I can actually go live my life, and then generally only when taking a break at work (Hi!).
Think of all the things you could do if you weren't so concerned with being entertained by moving pictures on a screen all the time. Think of the **AA pockets you will not be lining if you choose to make your entertainment, or how many artists you will help if you choose to see more live entertainment instead. How much time do you spend watching TV shows and movies? If it's more than 10% of your waking hours, you are wasting your life.
When your mom, your dog, your wife, your husband, your sister, your brother, your friend, your cat, your dad, etc. dies, how much time could you have spent with them that you spent watching TV instead?
Face it, the fact that you are complaining about this issue shows that the **AA already has you by the balls. Don't give them a chance to squeeze, just get out of the grip. Life is short. Go out and live it.
When my father retired from NASA, he had to wait two years before he could work for anyone who did any business with NASA.
Apparently this sort of thing doesn't apply to political appointees.
LBJ much?
No. But if gasoline powered cars did not exist and someone invented them today, there is NO WAY they would be approved.
"You want people to zip around at high speeds while carrying ten to twenty gallons of a highly volatile petroleum distillate? With CHILDREN in the car and by the roads? You know this 'gasoline' stuff is extremely flammable, you even use its explosive power to move your vehicle! Are you NUTS?"
DENIED.
I hope the satellite doesn't get Marooned Off Vesta.
120 - 110 = 10.
The neighbor kid still uses her GPS to get home from college. She's made the trip at least a dozen times.
It's about 120 miles. Maybe 3 turns. It's on the same major highway as the high school that she went to, just 110 miles further down the road.
I often wonder if she could do it without the GPS.
I used to think the same thing. But then I found how easy it was to deploy servers in the cloud and still charge my customers the same do-re-mi for hardware, bandwidth and support.
Heh.
Tweezers and a very small light proof bag.
Wow, you just gave me a flashback to my youth. I hadn't thought of light-proof film changing bags for 25 years or more. Now I'm wondering where my old 8mm cameras are.
I'm not sure GloFo (AMD) wanted the business, though.
I have friends at Freescale and all were VERY happy when Apple went to Intel. Apple bargains with their suppliers like Wal-Mart does. Short-term contracts,cut the price to the bone. Freescale decided it was no longer worth developing and manufacturing CPUs for Apple with minimal returns. I imagine the situation with Samsung is the same.
Intel is probably currently the only mfr that can supply at a price Apple wants to pay and still make a high enough ASP to show a profit on it. And they are big enough to not be pushed around by Apple. Not that Samsung isn't, but Samsung doesn't really give a rat's ass about Apple.
When Apple switched to Intel chips a few years back, I remembered all the venom spewed toward Intel by all my Apple-obsessed friends over the previous 20 years.
Now they cherish their Intel chips. But they still bash MS. Why, I got an Outlook e-mail from one of my Apple friends just yesterday, sending me a Powerpoint presentation he had made on his Mac, with a funny joke about how lame MS is.
I had no problem opening it in OpenOffice on my AMD-powered CentOS box.
That's it, I'm not going to check the tire pressure with my mouth any more.
Beige will always be the color of electronics!!
I believe the USPS DID have a plan to set up "official" USPS e-mail addresses for people back in the 1990's.
I think it was the brilliant plan of charging people $0.15 per e-mail that did them in.
If they had just done a free service and charged advertisers (who provide the bulk of their revenue anyway) they could have preempted gmail, yahoo, hotmail...
Apple had acknowledged to Congress last year only that "cell tower and Wi-Fi access point information" is "intermittently" collected and "transmitted to Apple" every 12 hours.
I seem to remember dozens of people saying "It's just on your phone, it's not like Apple is collecting the data" in the previous thread about this.
Yet Apple has even said they are collecting it.
I don't mind anyone being a fainboi, just be honest about it.
Heh. Every tablet I have ever seen is a smudge-fest.
I work in manufacturing. We have HUNDREDS of very expensive machines ($100K - $2M cost each) that are controlled by PCs running everything from Windows 98 to NT to XP. In fact, I think there may even be some tools that still have Win3.11 interfaces. I think the majority are still using NT 4.0.
They still chug along. It's getting more expensive to get some replacement parts that work, but it's still cheaper and easier than having the tool control software and drivers completely re-written for a new OS.
I doubt my experience with this is even remotely unique in the manufacturing world. Tools are expensive and tend to stay around for a LONG time.
Many people don't want to spend thousands to re-buy their entire movie collection at a higher price.
Especially when DVD looks almost as good as BR from across the living room on the 40 inch HDTV.
From third-grade science-fair pinhole camera to photojournalist and Superman's friend. The story you never knew.
You can do the same thing by smearing a thin layer of ripe banana on graphite-coated paper. Nearly .5 watts per square meter.
All you need is paper, a fat pencil and a bunch of ripe bananas.
The most popular e-readers in Europe:
http://www.pocketbook-usa.com/products/
A little pricier, but a good selection of products.
Tom Sawyer takes a refreshing sip of Coca-cola as he rafts down the Mississippi.
You may want to check up on your Twain, amigo. Huck Finn rafted down the Mississippi.
-damn, I'm a literature nazi
And since when do women have a right to not have their behinds or cleavage photographed while they bend over to pick something up in public?
I mean, anyone can see it...