On the bright side, this method creates destitute and angry people who have their hostile intentions directed toward the recording industry. Hopefully there won't need to be so many of them created before the natural outcome ensues. Hopefully I won't be the next one.
For some reason, it still blows my mind that it can be cheaper to manufacture a vehicle and then transport it halfway across the world than it could be to manufacture the vehicle locally.
Oh man, that pisses me off so much. Nothing worse than having 4 people in a room gathered around an Xbox, realizing that we can only play games while we hang out if half the people go home and jump online there.
What can I say? I guess I'm bitter and petty for making fun of people who believe the world is 6000 years old, humans just popped into existence, and that things written in a book (by humans) is the mandate of their God. I would have LOVED to find a common ground with them, even as recently as a month or two ago. Tell me where the common ground is when you can't have a discussion including science as a form of evidence, because it refutes what takes place in the bible, and thus you're bad and going to go to Hell for "believing" it. Tell me where the common ground is when you can't have an academic discussion about, say, Job, without them hating you for it. I've tried to understand faith. I've tried to get it myself. I REALLY have. When one is hated because he doesn't happen to share blind faith, then it's hard not to return the favor.
Look at it this way: I'm pretty sure I didn't begin life as a bitter asshole, but I'm there now. What reinforced that behaviour, and why is it directed at the dogmatically religious?
You say evolution, I say the only reason why we can claim it as a 'mistake' is because we can't understand the process by which a loving and benevolent God bestowed such a wonderful and...aHaHahaha! Can't keep a straight face. Nevermind.
On the other hand, they're talking about putting surface to air missiles on top of residential buildings for the Olympics. Eleven years ago, this might have been on the Onion. The world IS kinda crazy right now.
Wow. I can't imagine they'll be able to get the same game out of the Xbox. Both the server and the client require a surprising amount of memory to function well.
Pfft. You GTFO. I faked being a Mac user who hated on fake Mac users before it was cool to fake being a Mac user who hates on fake Mac users. You're just a poseur.
Honestly, I was going for the sneering at users bit, but you raise a valid concern as well. I don't think the users should be judged upon or made to feel bad for using Ubuntu or Fedora (or whatever). I mean, hate the distro or the company providing it, sure, but not the users. Not everyone had the luxury of being able to cut their teeth on $HARDCORE_DISTRO back when they had the time to be able to dedicate to learning it from the command line on up. It's impressive enough that there exist people who make the effort to even try it out.
That's fair. I was mostly responding to the image claiming that all phones looked similar hardware-wise to the iPhone after it was released. I can not try to argue that phone OS was not improved by Apple driving the rest of the market. I find it hard to accept that Apple has claim to being 'hardware developer for the world'.
That's not the point Baloroth was trying to make. The claim was presented that there was no phone that looked like the iPhone prior to the iPhone coming out. That is false.
All your argument suggests is that Apple is better at advertising and marketing.
Oh, and for completeness sake, the Storm came out about a full year after the N810 (which I suppose technically isn't a phone), but RIM didn't end up on the bottom of the dogpile by being early adopters. Probably dismissed the whole "usable phone" thing as a consumer fad and underestimated the desire in the corporate world.
Sixth one from the left, top row looks predominantly rectangular and all touchscreen. I also find it interesting that they have all of the screens lit up on the left hand side, whereas the right hand side are all blacked out. That certainly goes a long way toward making them LOOK more uniform, not that a mac fan site should be slighted for using clever advertising.
Also, iPhone came out on June 29th, 2007. The N810 in October of 2007 and looked pretty similar. You can't tell me the N810 was in reaction to the release of the iPhone. There had to be a good deal of parallel development time there.
Finally, I bring you about to the LG KE850, which was announced in January, 2007. Seems if you run the circuit, everyone was pretty much doing the same thing at the same time. It's almost as if Apple's a marketing company first and a technology company at about the same time everyone else is. Funny how that works.
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On the bright side, this method creates destitute and angry people who have their hostile intentions directed toward the recording industry. Hopefully there won't need to be so many of them created before the natural outcome ensues. Hopefully I won't be the next one.
For some reason, it still blows my mind that it can be cheaper to manufacture a vehicle and then transport it halfway across the world than it could be to manufacture the vehicle locally.
Yours had 'server' in it and didn't involve the chance for the 21st century digital-boys of Slashdot to plug their most recent $CONSUMERTOY.
You might try GateOne. It's much slicker than AjaxTerm. You need a HTML5 WebSockets capable browser, but it's actually responsive.
Link appears broken.
(don't hit me, I'm joking)
Oh man, that pisses me off so much. Nothing worse than having 4 people in a room gathered around an Xbox, realizing that we can only play games while we hang out if half the people go home and jump online there.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is SO prevalent, it's already come up at least 4 times in the discussion. The HORROR!
Life, truly, is a disease for which there is no cure.
I think you're thinking of "It's not unusual".
What can I say? I guess I'm bitter and petty for making fun of people who believe the world is 6000 years old, humans just popped into existence, and that things written in a book (by humans) is the mandate of their God. I would have LOVED to find a common ground with them, even as recently as a month or two ago. Tell me where the common ground is when you can't have a discussion including science as a form of evidence, because it refutes what takes place in the bible, and thus you're bad and going to go to Hell for "believing" it. Tell me where the common ground is when you can't have an academic discussion about, say, Job, without them hating you for it. I've tried to understand faith. I've tried to get it myself. I REALLY have. When one is hated because he doesn't happen to share blind faith, then it's hard not to return the favor.
Look at it this way: I'm pretty sure I didn't begin life as a bitter asshole, but I'm there now. What reinforced that behaviour, and why is it directed at the dogmatically religious?
You say evolution, I say the only reason why we can claim it as a 'mistake' is because we can't understand the process by which a loving and benevolent God bestowed such a wonderful and...aHaHahaha! Can't keep a straight face. Nevermind.
Achievement unlocked:
Falling for the Alanis Morisette troll.
On the other hand, they're talking about putting surface to air missiles on top of residential buildings for the Olympics. Eleven years ago, this might have been on the Onion. The world IS kinda crazy right now.
Wow. I can't imagine they'll be able to get the same game out of the Xbox. Both the server and the client require a surprising amount of memory to function well.
Minecraft.
Yes, I would.
Pfft. You GTFO. I faked being a Mac user who hated on fake Mac users before it was cool to fake being a Mac user who hates on fake Mac users. You're just a poseur.
Honestly, I was going for the sneering at users bit, but you raise a valid concern as well. I don't think the users should be judged upon or made to feel bad for using Ubuntu or Fedora (or whatever). I mean, hate the distro or the company providing it, sure, but not the users. Not everyone had the luxury of being able to cut their teeth on $HARDCORE_DISTRO back when they had the time to be able to dedicate to learning it from the command line on up. It's impressive enough that there exist people who make the effort to even try it out.
And you now know the reason why you will never see the year of Linux on the desktop.
But if you plug your ears and keep screaming about how Unity DOESN'T suck, it actually gets better!
That's fair. I was mostly responding to the image claiming that all phones looked similar hardware-wise to the iPhone after it was released. I can not try to argue that phone OS was not improved by Apple driving the rest of the market. I find it hard to accept that Apple has claim to being 'hardware developer for the world'.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a strawman so clearly before in my life.
http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/beforeandafteriphone.jpg [netdna-cdn.com] Seeing what cell phones looked like prior to, and after the launch of, the iPhone is fairly amazing.
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That's not the point Baloroth was trying to make. The claim was presented that there was no phone that looked like the iPhone prior to the iPhone coming out. That is false.
All your argument suggests is that Apple is better at advertising and marketing.
Oh, and for completeness sake, the Storm came out about a full year after the N810 (which I suppose technically isn't a phone), but RIM didn't end up on the bottom of the dogpile by being early adopters. Probably dismissed the whole "usable phone" thing as a consumer fad and underestimated the desire in the corporate world.
Sixth one from the left, top row looks predominantly rectangular and all touchscreen. I also find it interesting that they have all of the screens lit up on the left hand side, whereas the right hand side are all blacked out. That certainly goes a long way toward making them LOOK more uniform, not that a mac fan site should be slighted for using clever advertising.
Also, iPhone came out on June 29th, 2007. The N810 in October of 2007 and looked pretty similar. You can't tell me the N810 was in reaction to the release of the iPhone. There had to be a good deal of parallel development time there.
Finally, I bring you about to the LG KE850, which was announced in January, 2007. Seems if you run the circuit, everyone was pretty much doing the same thing at the same time. It's almost as if Apple's a marketing company first and a technology company at about the same time everyone else is. Funny how that works.