Seriously, why does this company keep getting its name into headlines? Who gives a shit what they feel a bunch of components might cost? Come on, shills. This is a do-nothing company that pisses its pants for publicity, and places like the Mac rumors sites and Slashdot lap it up and parrot their squawkings.
It requires no more than a grade-school education to understand that the price to design, manufature, market, support and service a product is greater than the sum of the wholesale cost of its physical components.
Enough.
Take this stupid company with their silly name out back, shoot it, and don't mention it again.
Argh. Please don't say "virii", even ironically. It encourages idiots.
While I agree that saying "virii" makes the OP look like a drooling stupid high-school nerd, mis-using "ironically" (when you probably mean "sarcastically") doesn't make you look so hot either.:)
Sorry, tend to "spell out" acronyms in my head, not "read them out", "FYI=F.Y.I., like F.B.I". Since F is phonetically starts with a vowel, it should have "an" before it, not "a". If I had written out "For Your Information" then you would certainly be correct.
Yes, if you had started your sentence with "For your information" (or even just "FYI"), it would have made sense. To say "as a for your information" is incoherent.
(My bone was not so much with the "'a' vs. 'an'" thing)
Most of my friends who use macs (none of whom are technical, they're all in the design space) just gave up on trying to get their old software to work with the new version and bought all new software. Compare that with Microsoft where althought they're not officially supported, almost all DOS applications will still run. So if you bought some piece of software in 1988 for DOS 3.0 chances are pretty good that it will run on Vista.
That's great, but nobody in the design space is using 1988-era software on the Mac. In fact, nobody in any space, really.
(The thing about conscious vs conscience is a pet peeve of mine, because so many people use it as you did while firmly believing that it is acceptable as a noun, and such usage always grates on me.)
You're right about the bloodthirsty dog pack phenomenon, but I'm not convinced that the Seinfeld/Gates foray achieved anything to counter it. To my view, it simply reinforced the notion of Microsoft being out of touch with popular taste and sensibility, and further evidence that they are wildly trying to do something without a solid understanding of what they're trying to do or how to properly do it (q.v. historical Windows, Zune, etc.)
Now, act III involves the placement of the upcoming Windows 7 in the public conscious, which, surprise, surprise, is getting lots of positive response and sympathy, general good-will and a collective hope that it won't suck.
1. "conscious" is an adjective. Perhaps you mean "conscience".
2. I do not see a logical connection between "acts I and II" and "act III". My understanding is that Windows Vista is widely perceived as garbage, and simply therefore, people bent on Windows will be optimistic about its successor.
Does anyone else find it annoying that Mac users have a tendancy to use the term 'PC' as if it were a synonym for 'Windows'?
Uh... I'm a Mac user, and I've found it annoying for years that Windows users, developers and vendors use the term 'PC' as if it were a synonym for 'Windows'.
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"Nah i think your thinking of swine syphilis, again!"
I think "your" thinking of "you're", again.
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Seriously, why does this company keep getting its name into headlines? Who gives a shit what they feel a bunch of components might cost? Come on, shills. This is a do-nothing company that pisses its pants for publicity, and places like the Mac rumors sites and Slashdot lap it up and parrot their squawkings.
It requires no more than a grade-school education to understand that the price to design, manufature, market, support and service a product is greater than the sum of the wholesale cost of its physical components.
Enough.
Take this stupid company with their silly name out back, shoot it, and don't mention it again.
put together their own Linux distro
Dalai Linux!
space battles filmed in EVE
Heh, "filmed".
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Congratulations; the Amiga and the Mac were already doing that in 1987 (or earlier).
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Why do these "marriage is so harsh" sort of jokes always get moderated as "insightful" rather than "funny" (or "overrated")? Sad.
Why did they add a mini dvi AND a mini display port? Can you attach two monitors to it at the same time now?
Yup.
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By definition, a company can't censor a person.
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Actually, my understanding is that he suffers from Parkinson's syndrome, which is not the same as the disease proper.
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Can I loathe them for shipping Windows 7 with a beta version of their own browser?
How do you know that they will?
get even more complicated and have the user identify an adverb or something
The vast majority of Internet noobs are barely able to cobble together a correct English sentence. How well do you expect that to work?
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That oughtn't rule out painless amputation, lobotomy, or castration.
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Same in Safari. Is this a Mac-only problem?
Argh. Please don't say "virii", even ironically. It encourages idiots.
While I agree that saying "virii" makes the OP look like a drooling stupid high-school nerd, mis-using "ironically" (when you probably mean "sarcastically") doesn't make you look so hot either. :)
Sorry, tend to "spell out" acronyms in my head, not "read them out", "FYI=F.Y.I., like F.B.I". Since F is phonetically starts with a vowel, it should have "an" before it, not "a". If I had written out "For Your Information" then you would certainly be correct.
Yes, if you had started your sentence with "For your information" (or even just "FYI"), it would have made sense. To say "as a for your information" is incoherent.
(My bone was not so much with the "'a' vs. 'an'" thing)
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As an FYI on
"As a for your information on"?
It was a fairly clever sketch, but the first gag for me was the perhaps unintentional joke that Americans don't know how to properly pronounce "Iraq".
That kind of parenting made information a heroine addicted stripper
It made Miss Information into a hero, and also an addicted stripper?
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Most of my friends who use macs (none of whom are technical, they're all in the design space) just gave up on trying to get their old software to work with the new version and bought all new software. Compare that with Microsoft where althought they're not officially supported, almost all DOS applications will still run. So if you bought some piece of software in 1988 for DOS 3.0 chances are pretty good that it will run on Vista.
That's great, but nobody in the design space is using 1988-era software on the Mac. In fact, nobody in any space, really.
(The thing about conscious vs conscience is a pet peeve of mine, because so many people use it as you did while firmly believing that it is acceptable as a noun, and such usage always grates on me.)
You're right about the bloodthirsty dog pack phenomenon, but I'm not convinced that the Seinfeld/Gates foray achieved anything to counter it. To my view, it simply reinforced the notion of Microsoft being out of touch with popular taste and sensibility, and further evidence that they are wildly trying to do something without a solid understanding of what they're trying to do or how to properly do it (q.v. historical Windows, Zune, etc.)
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Now, act III involves the placement of the upcoming Windows 7 in the public conscious, which, surprise, surprise, is getting lots of positive response and sympathy, general good-will and a collective hope that it won't suck.
1. "conscious" is an adjective. Perhaps you mean "conscience".
2. I do not see a logical connection between "acts I and II" and "act III". My understanding is that Windows Vista is widely perceived as garbage, and simply therefore, people bent on Windows will be optimistic about its successor.
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To me it looked as though everything were transcribed from handwritten notes by someone with no command of English.
If you envision all the words printed out onto paper in shoddy penmanship, it is easy to envision similarities between some of those characters.
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That doesn't make things much better! If anyone got exploited there, it would be the kids exploited by an eager beaver prosecutor.
Great choice of words, under the circumstances.
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Frankly, I find printf("output\n"); to be more self-evident than either of the above.
But then, I learned C first.
Does anyone else find it annoying that Mac users have a tendancy to use the term 'PC' as if it were a synonym for 'Windows'?
Uh... I'm a Mac user, and I've found it annoying for years that Windows users, developers and vendors use the term 'PC' as if it were a synonym for 'Windows'.
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He was working at a bowling alley where they keep the pool sticks behind the counter.
Now that's a sort of bowling I've never heard of.
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