Haha, thank you for that laugh. Perhaps if you weren't trolling you'd realize that Apple fans are also Apple's harshest critics. Every time they do anything everyone jumps all over them, even if it's as mundane as slightly lightening the pinstripes on a menu. Remember the iPod? Almost every mac board out there was screaming about the price and how Apple was retarded for thinking they could sell them.
Who the hell uses the 2.6 kernel in a production setting? I know I don't. In fact, I vastly prefer to admin servers on debian because finding updated packages is typically EASIER than on Redhat without a support contract. Some server admins prefer the slower moving target of debian releases and the ease of backports.org for packages they NEED upgraded.
Yeah I don't really understand it. One time I bought "sweetjesusrapingthevirginmary.com" to see if they'd let me and that went through no problem. Yet I can't buy any domain with fuck in it. Bizarre.
This has been stated in many previous comments but I thought perhaps it'd be useful to state it as simply as possible.
Magnetic forces do no work. This is hard to believe for many people, but any situation where it appears a magnetic force is doing work...it's not. Please see page 207 of your Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics college text.
Hmm, that's a good argument. Perhaps we base our morality on our laws rather than the other way around. How do we decide what is and is not going to tear apart society and legislate accordingly though? For example, do you think anti-trust legislation is appropriate? Stifling competition doesn't really destroy society, it just slows it down a bit. (I realize this example is easily rebutted, but you see where the line gets blurred)
I very much agree with the stagnation of party values and the resulting lack of choices. However, while I am personally pro-choice on abortion, I can see where people can have moral objections to what they view as the murder of babies. If you posit that our opposition to murder is not solely based on religion, then viewing a fetus at conception as a human* would make abortion wrong (to them) on grounds that are not religious.
I just noticed I have deviated largely off our original topic. I guess I just wanted to disagree with the "abortion views are based entirely on religious arguments" part of your post, not the rest of it.:)
* While this is IMO largely a construction of the church, I know people who believe it and have no religious leanings of any kind.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but don't you think any body of laws represents a moral code? Every law legislates morality in some form or another. Killing a man, stealing what he earned, etc are all wrong because we believe them to be morally reprehensible and thus created laws to punish those who do it. Does the belief that gambling is a vice have to be predicated on religion in everyone's mind? It clearly has roots there, but not everyone who opposes its legalization is religious.
Yes, who knows what sinister things Bud will do with information they legally gleaned. Of course legal doesn't necessarily mean moral or right, but in this case I fail to see how Anheuser-Busch is going to violate your rights or do anything with the modicum of information they gather. Hell, I can't even find any info in the article that points to anything about tying a purchase to an individual rather than a store.
Pournelle's comments are interesting, but I'm somewhat skeptical of any commentary about our space program whose author can't even recall how many shuttles there are.
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Yes, hate on all things corporate. Since when was/. about juvenile raging against the machine? Wait, forget I asked that question.
P.S. I especially liked your dig at football with those quotation marks. Did you stay up all night thinking of that?
Just because you've never heard of Warp doesn't mean they aren't significant. Warp has Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, and many other influential electronic bands. They are by no means a two bit operation.
...That tiny placard would clearly take months of engineering time right? Especially if it is just engraved onto a metal plate or something that they already had there. Woo you sure called it. BTW, Spirit was launched in June and Columbia broke up 4 months earlier.
What a shame such "integrity" doesn't actually extend to anything but a very few "unpopular" ads. How many people who complained about this ad were "that guy".
You all know the one I'm talking about. The guy you knew in middle school who hated Macs for no apparent reason. The one who would crow about bad financial reports while you were just trying to eat your Jello. Or maybe it's a "tech" guy you know who can't understand why anyone would use a Mac. "Windows is everywhere, it's clearly better" he'll say. Or "It's good enough, who cares about using anything else, Macs suck".
There is an astounding amount of vitriol between Windows zealots and Apple (and of course Apple zealots and Microsoft). I find it difficult to credit this ad's banishment in the UK to "integrity in advertising". Instead I'd chalk it up to "caving to zealotry" on the part of the politicos.
Dell spends less than 1% of their revenue on R&D. They are not comparable to Apple. Their virtue is in reducing costs without innovation (a needed function, but not necessarily a glamorous one).
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Haha, thank you for that laugh. Perhaps if you weren't trolling you'd realize that Apple fans are also Apple's harshest critics. Every time they do anything everyone jumps all over them, even if it's as mundane as slightly lightening the pinstripes on a menu. Remember the iPod? Almost every mac board out there was screaming about the price and how Apple was retarded for thinking they could sell them.
Who the hell uses the 2.6 kernel in a production setting? I know I don't. In fact, I vastly prefer to admin servers on debian because finding updated packages is typically EASIER than on Redhat without a support contract. Some server admins prefer the slower moving target of debian releases and the ease of backports.org for packages they NEED upgraded.
Yeah I don't really understand it. One time I bought "sweetjesusrapingthevirginmary.com" to see if they'd let me and that went through no problem. Yet I can't buy any domain with fuck in it. Bizarre.
This has been stated in many previous comments but I thought perhaps it'd be useful to state it as simply as possible.
Magnetic forces do no work. This is hard to believe for many people, but any situation where it appears a magnetic force is doing work...it's not. Please see page 207 of your Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics college text.
With 360k a day it would take roughly 8 years to exhaust a gig, not one year.
If only the US government did that when publishing declassified docs. :)
I believe the only digits you need for that are 9, 1, waaah.
Hmm, that's a good argument. Perhaps we base our morality on our laws rather than the other way around. How do we decide what is and is not going to tear apart society and legislate accordingly though? For example, do you think anti-trust legislation is appropriate? Stifling competition doesn't really destroy society, it just slows it down a bit. (I realize this example is easily rebutted, but you see where the line gets blurred)
I very much agree with the stagnation of party values and the resulting lack of choices. However, while I am personally pro-choice on abortion, I can see where people can have moral objections to what they view as the murder of babies. If you posit that our opposition to murder is not solely based on religion, then viewing a fetus at conception as a human* would make abortion wrong (to them) on grounds that are not religious.
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I just noticed I have deviated largely off our original topic. I guess I just wanted to disagree with the "abortion views are based entirely on religious arguments" part of your post, not the rest of it.
* While this is IMO largely a construction of the church, I know people who believe it and have no religious leanings of any kind.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but don't you think any body of laws represents a moral code? Every law legislates morality in some form or another. Killing a man, stealing what he earned, etc are all wrong because we believe them to be morally reprehensible and thus created laws to punish those who do it. Does the belief that gambling is a vice have to be predicated on religion in everyone's mind? It clearly has roots there, but not everyone who opposes its legalization is religious.
You sure about that?
http://www.veridisc.com/explained_works.asp
That used to be a link that explained FairPlay (and didn't seem to describe ANYTHING like a DRM scheme), but now veridisc.com itself is a PORN SITE.
For THIRTY FOUR YEARS of operation of both a Moon base and Mars operations I'd say that's reasonable.
If GTA was an fps I'd agree with you. Instead I have to wonder wtf is wrong with you.
Yes, who knows what sinister things Bud will do with information they legally gleaned. Of course legal doesn't necessarily mean moral or right, but in this case I fail to see how Anheuser-Busch is going to violate your rights or do anything with the modicum of information they gather. Hell, I can't even find any info in the article that points to anything about tying a purchase to an individual rather than a store.
Not quite true. There are 3 PS1 US DDR games, and two PS2 (DDR MAX and MAX2).
Pournelle's comments are interesting, but I'm somewhat skeptical of any commentary about our space program whose author can't even recall how many shuttles there are.
Yes, hate on all things corporate. Since when was /. about juvenile raging against the machine? Wait, forget I asked that question.
P.S. I especially liked your dig at football with those quotation marks. Did you stay up all night thinking of that?
You keep using that word "cool". I do not think it means what you think it means.
Apologies to Rob Reiner for the paraphrasing.
Just because you've never heard of Warp doesn't mean they aren't significant. Warp has Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, and many other influential electronic bands. They are by no means a two bit operation.
...That tiny placard would clearly take months of engineering time right? Especially if it is just engraved onto a metal plate or something that they already had there. Woo you sure called it. BTW, Spirit was launched in June and Columbia broke up 4 months earlier.
Don't hate him because he's Viewtiful.
You can bring one into Cali, they are just banned from being sold there.
So in your world there's no need for a feature freeze to prevent the release date from slipping over and over and over and over?
What a shame such "integrity" doesn't actually extend to anything but a very few "unpopular" ads. How many people who complained about this ad were "that guy".
You all know the one I'm talking about. The guy you knew in middle school who hated Macs for no apparent reason. The one who would crow about bad financial reports while you were just trying to eat your Jello. Or maybe it's a "tech" guy you know who can't understand why anyone would use a Mac. "Windows is everywhere, it's clearly better" he'll say. Or "It's good enough, who cares about using anything else, Macs suck".
There is an astounding amount of vitriol between Windows zealots and Apple (and of course Apple zealots and Microsoft). I find it difficult to credit this ad's banishment in the UK to "integrity in advertising". Instead I'd chalk it up to "caving to zealotry" on the part of the politicos.
Dell spends less than 1% of their revenue on R&D. They are not comparable to Apple. Their virtue is in reducing costs without innovation (a needed function, but not necessarily a glamorous one).