Sure, everyone wants a nice case but really $200 for a case is going a bit overboard.
And are these same idiots who brag how linux systems are SO cheap, and how they same SO much money by running linux, who go out and spend $200 on case?
And another thing, why do these idiots spend $200 bucks on a cooling system when they RARELY get a faster speed than spending that $200 on a faster CPU?
And these same linux idiots who compain that Apple spends SO much money on the case and how the looks do nto matter. That only the OS and performance matters. And then they drop $200 for a case?
$250 for basic system. $100 for a decent CPU. $60 for a HD. $30 for a CD-ROM. $90 for a shitty 15" monitor. Add another $30 for misc equipment like keyboard, mouse, and such.
Now multiply all of that by 3.
For that money you can get an awesome iBook with Airport that you can use ANYWHERE with a net connection.
Why the hell would you want to place 3 or 4 of these small PCs through out the house?
They are still tethered by ethernet, power, and a desk. Geez.
1) linux is built by people with absolutely NO taste. And every shitty Window Manager shows that. And every shitty skin by every non-artist shows that also. This is why linux is not pretty and doesn't have a sense of style. (not to mention every idiot out there trying to make linux look like windows)
2) linux users ENJOY that linux is difficult to use. Oh sure, they brag that linux is an easy install NOW and that Caldera/Red Hat is easy to use/install. Well, guess what. IT ISN'T! With patches and kernel mods coming out all the time linux WILL stay an OS that is made for engineers by engineers. This keeps linux ugly.
Linux users should rally behind OS X. And who really gives a damn if OS X won't run on a P166 rig that costs $200.
You get what you pay for.
Give everyone wool socks and carpet the world.
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Show me ANY 'linux user' with ANY originality or taste. I've seen the linux screen shots. Every damn one of them try to make their desktops look and behave like Windows.
And the ones that don't have TERRIBLE taste. Good Lord I have seen some of the skins these extreme non-artists have done.
And there is NO market for games for this MORONIC OS. Even Carmack said that if any publisher ports a game to linux they do it out of the goodness out their heart. And do you know why? Because every one of you SLACK ASS OPEN SOURCE BASTARDS want everything for free. Linux user = 'I have to see ALL the source code for anything'. Stupid outlook.
Let me clue you fuckers in to something. Revenue is a good thing. Possible income is what fuels development. And NO some poor guy slaving away to write a game does NOT equal your slack ass sending in a patch for a new option to 'ls'.
And let's not forget the retarded OS. Johnny buys a game. Oops, what build is it for? Hmmmmmm. I have to patch my kernel for it to work. Damn. I have to patch my video drivers. Still not working. Hmmm, let me check about patching something else.
Still not working. OH YEAH! That is right. I brag so much about linux running on a P100 that my linux rig is a $200 piece of shit PC.
Run Apache on you POS linux box and be happy.
OH, and to any of your retarded bastards that think you can reverse engineer DirectX to run on linux, guess what. As soon as ANYONE has a halfway working copy, microsoft is gonna change it. Which means any copying of the APIs will be at least 2 versions back.
Some people do NOT want a piece of shit P133 with a shitty 15" monitor and a ton of wires in each room. Sure you can basically the same thing with a cheap ass PC. But you 'Linux biased' idiots get it through your head that no everyone wants a rack and shitty PCs located throughout the house. And I would wager when you 'Linux biased' idiots grow up you may realize that having PCs throughout the house is just stupid.
Please get a sense of style and pick up those damn pizza boxes and vacuum the carpet.
Get get a REAL OS. Go buy a Mac and run OS X.
Who gives a fuck what Linus thinks? Not me.
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Poorly chosen modes can be terrible, and modes in general tend to cause difficulty for beginners. But only a brainwashed UI weenie would say "modes are bad". Do you really think that all of the hackers who find unix and vi to be the most productive work environment are masochists?
Very nice. I say that modes are bad and not only do somehow twist my statement into insult EVERY unix user but you also get that moronic leap of logic modded up. Not bad at all. And you even throw a couple insults my way also. Bravo!
Now, back to the point. Modes are bad. Very bad. And I don't care how adept someone is at avoiding the pitfalls of them. I'll even give you an example.
I used to be a supervisor at UPS. At UPS they study EVERYTHING a driver does. And I mean everything. How to get out of the seat, how to carry the package car keys, how to handle packages, how to stack and organize everything. UPS times everything (by having a person ride with them with a stopwatch. Really.) and they are always looking to shave a second off of anything.
Every once in a while UPS would come out with new procedures that were more efficient and faster. Some drivers would embrace the procedures and some wouldn't. And the reason some drivers wouldn't is because they would claim the new procedures would slow them down. And you know what they were right. And dead wrong at the same time.
Say an act takes 1 minute to complete.
After doing that act over and over a person learns to do that act in 50 seconds.
A new way of doing that act takes 80 seconds, but after practicing for a few weeks it only takes 40 seconds.
Many people refuse to accept the new way because their inital experience with the new act takes longer.
So they base their decision on their initial experience that the new act is 'slower'.
I'll give you another example. I can type (clocked using a typing program ) @ 50-60 words per minute.
I know that if I learn to type 'the correct way' I could probably type over 100 wpm.
But I don't want to type slow for the first few months until I become proficient.
So even though I know I could type better if I chose a different way, I am comfortable and satisified with the way I am typing now.
I don't care how efficient a user is in using an poorly designed interface. When I was in the Marines I learned to clean things very well with a toothbrush. I also learned to dig with my hands in a very efficient manner. This, of course, does not mean that there wasn't a better way or better tools to use. I did the best with what was available.
People will learn to be as efficient as possible in any task using any tool that you give them. Whether it is a bad method or tool.
You like Unix? Cool. You like vi? I don't care. But modes are bad. Just because you have learned to use vi quickly does not mean that modes are good or efficient. It just means that you have learned to use vi quickly.
If you don't care who's responsible, who do you wipe out? If you can't identify all of these "evil bastards", you don't have the ability to wipe them out.
Wrong. I do not care who is specifically responsible. And don't say that I have changed my wording. This is the same as if a gang of 5 murder someone. Unless one of them turns on the others, the DA doesn't care who is the murderer. The DA tries ALL of them for murder. This is the same thing.
And you appear to be one of those people
Wrong again. I understand laws. I agree with the majority of laws. And I have a sense of right and wrong to keep from doing these things. But animals (such as the terrorists) do not. These people only understand force. And we need to deal with the law abiding people and countries of the world one way. And for those countries and those animals that WILL NOT deal with us in a moral and/or legal way we ignore. Until they force us to stop ignoring them.
About Hitler. You are a bit wrong. Sure maybe the treaty brought Hitler to power. But Hitler ONLY started invading and land grabbing when no one stood up to him. Hitler started demanding land, and no one said 'no', he became emboldened. This was the problem.
we even built the caves and bunkers that protected them from Russian carpet bombing (and more recently protected bin Laden's troops from our cruise missiles). This group committed numerous terrorist acts against Russian targets, prompting the invasion.
Ok, we built bunkers, to protect them from carpet bombing, from which they attacked the Soviet Union, then the S.U. invaded? From your words the carpet bombing came first. I find it hard to fault a people from attacking when they are being carpet bombed.
Sorry Charlie. Just because the Palestinians claimed the land does not make it theirs. This would be the same at the US govt giving land the the Jews in South Carolina and some group living in a county there saying that it was theirs. WRONG. The Palestinians have a homeland, Jordan. EVERYONE knows that. And as for the Israeli's kicking the Palestinians ass'es oh well. The Palestinians forced that issue a while back the the Israeli's stood their ground and even puched them back. In a war sometimes you win land and sometimes you lose land. The Palestinians have always lost. But they started the war. And Arafat showed his true colors last year. He was offered MORE than he asked for. And he turned it down. He doesn't want peace and he proved it.
how we execute that vengeance will determine how effective a deterrent it is
Partially true. But you need to realize who we are dealing with. A few decades ago, NO terrorist would attack the USA. After that rat bastard Clinton ignored the dead soldier dragged through Mogadishu, the attack on the US embassies a year or so ago, the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole the terrorist became more and more bold. You can not reason with these people.
The only way to deal with terrorist is to out the fear of God into them. You do this to us and we will wipe out EVERYTHING. Fear and only fear keeps terrorists from attacking. This is all they understand.
As for understanding them, they do this because we are America. We have the best country in the world and our freedom is what they strike at. When I graduated from Parris Island one of the things the Marines pounded into me was that I am a target because I am a Marine. A terrorist would rather kill 1 Marine than 10 Army doggies.
I don't give a damn why terrorist attack. There IS NOTHING the US did to deserve the attack on the WTC and the Pentagon. There is NO REASON to attack civilians like that. The terrorists actions alone show that that he is one twisted fuck that does not deserve to live.
One of my points is that evil exists everywhere and it many different forms. In every one of my examples there were evil acts. And as much as you want to rationalize them, you can't. And you saying that we (the west) created them or we trained them is bullshit.
The bottom line is this. There will always be good people in the world. And these people are the ones that we have a civilization with.
But there will always be evil people in this world. And the ONLY thing these people understand is force. We can talk with them (PLO), we can appease them (Hitler), we can ignore them (Soviet Union), but as long as we only talk to them or 'try to understand them' they will always continue their course of evil.
Why? Because they can.
It is not our fault that these evil people do not understand anything but force. And no, we are not 'dropping to their level' by using force. WE ARE PROTECTING OURSELVES!.
The only way to avoid a fight is to train for a fight. And if someone pops you, you beat the shit out of them and you make an example. This keeps people from fighting you again.
There is a world of difference between being armed to the teeth/protecting yourself and provoking attacks.
I don't give a DAMN who is responsible. Now we have the ability to wipe to earth of all of these evil soulless bastards.
Who many of the fucking liberals don't realize is that these terrorists are evil. You can say that violence begets violence and you can sing 'Kum-by-ya' until the second coming of Christ but the bottom line is that there are evil people in this world and these people DO NOT understand anything but force.
Personally, I think it would be a huge boon to mankind if we could get rid weapons and do things peacefully. But WE aren't making that choice. As long as you have soulless bastards out there who will kill because they can, we need to arm ourselves.
Since the dawn of mankind the aggressor has ALWAYS set the ground rules.
What did the West do to force Hitler to invade Europe?
What did the West do to force the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan?
What did the West do to force Iraq to invade Kuwait?
What did the West do to force the PLO to continually attack Israel? At the last summit, the Isreali PM offered MORE than Arafat wanted and he still turned him down. This is how they hold on to power, by creating enemies and terrorist attacks.
Ronald Reagon put the fear of God into Khaddafi when he bombed him and you noticed that Libya's terrorist activities dropped like a rock.
Decades ago, no terrorist would dare attack the USA. Due to the inactivity of Clinton during the earlier attacks on the WTC, the US embassy a while ago, and the U.S.S. Cole the terrorists become more and more bold.
We should not bring these animals to justice. We should kill them, in their on land, and make a major example of them.
As long as these GOD DAMN liberals continually say 'We need to understand them' , 'We need to end the cycle of violence' this will never end.
The USA did not start this. The USA is not responsible in any way for this. By God, we do need to finish this.
So one rant is wrong but another is right?
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Mr. Pot. Mr. Pot. Mr. Kettle is wating for you at the front desk.
He denounces one "biased propaganda piece' and in turn writes one himself? At least the 'comparison' has numbers and makes some sense.
Look at what he is saying 'Jobs a parady of himself, slow and behind the curve products'. We definately have a unbiased, professional viewpoint here.
And why does he keep calling the system 'fruity'. I got away from calling names when I was 5.
And about 'ability to run four or five of the world's most popular software packages (just don't run them at once)' what does that mean? Not only can I do that on my mac (and run them at the same time) and I can have multiple versions installed on my hard drive and run those whenever I like, on OS 9 or OS X.
As for features, I think USB ports and ' "virus susceptibility" won by the machine that can't execute x86 binary code' are a valid comparison of features. One of the deciding factors in my laptop purchase was that it had 4 usb ports. I have 3 usb items that I alwas use and now I do not need to carry around a powered port. As for the non-x86 feature, that is very valid. When the Army switched it's web servers over to the mac they did it for 3 reasons: 1) The NT servers kept getting hacked and defaced. 2) While it seems funny, non x86 computers can not catch 99% of the world's virus - can't argue that, and 3) no remote shell. While you may thing the last 2 points show something the Mac can not do, it does make it more difficult to break in or exploit a webserver. Can not argue that.
As for using Photoshop, what else do you suggest? Byte magazine used non OS specific software and they came to the same conclusions a few years ago. And they also got cancelled a month or so later. Conspiracy? You need to use software that is HEAVILY optimized for both platforms. The only other application(s) I can think to use would be Office, but does anyone else think that would be fair? Any M$ native application is more of an extension of Windows than a stand alone product. So Photoshop is a fair test.
And it wasn't written 'the G4 is the equal of any P4', it was tested. If you have a disagreement with the tests the WRITE ONE. I think is more funny that you simply look at the numbers printed on the processors and make up your mind there. Apparently you have a bias towards Athlon processors. And by the way, they were not mentioned again in the article because none of the systems used them. It was a system's comparison, not a processor comparison.
One last thing on the Athlon, it seems (I get the feeling) that you really like the Athlon. I bet you have NO problem in the world arguing that the Athlon is a faster chip than the P3/P4, all the while the Athlon has a slower clock speed. HMMMMM? Didn't think so.
You entire last paragraph is intended to insult Apple (though no one insulted you) and brag about all the advances of the processors and mobos. So what? The Photoshop tests showed that with ALL of those advances the Mac still finished first.
Two last points. One, I will grant you that the CORE P4 is probably faster than the CORE G4. But the P4/Athlon have 2 distinct disadvantages. One is the Velocity Engine. Why do you think that the tests always include floating point? The Velocity Engine is BLAZING fast and the P4/Athlon has nothing to compare to it. And the P4/Athlon has to work though windows. And you know that shitty OS can slow anything down to a crawl. And that brings to the comparison - 'The BEST system', not the absolute fastest, not the one with the fastest memory, not the one with the most USB ports, but the best overall.
Two, MHz is not MHz. And clock speeds do NOT determine overall machine speeds. All of those people who scream that the G4 CAN NOT be faster than the P$ are the same people who scream that the Athlon is faster than the P4 even though the Athlon has a slower clock speak. That is hypocrasy.
I have a 99 Corvette Convertible. It has 345 HP. But you know what? If I race against Kenny Bernstein in a 1/4 mile, I'll lose. If I race him for 20 miles I'll win. If I race an F1 formula car on a track I'll lose. If I race him on a city street with traffic I'll win.
Both of those cars have WAY more horsepower than my car does. But my point is that the engine is only ONE factor. The rest of the car, the track, the type of race, and other factors determine the overall performance of each car.
hehe Where is the bragging and arrogance about their OS now? I guess they learned that the OS needs to do a bit more than just spin a teapot. Dumbasses.
OHHHHHHHHH
Someone has an OS than runs nothing and does nothing.
BUT it has all the buzzwords and none of the limitations of current OSes. BIG DEAL. ANYONE can write an OS that does nothing. Geez, you people get excited about anything.
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How dare he even think of critizing open source software or programmers?
And bad management did not kill Be.
ZERO compatibility with EVERYTHING killed Be.
The big reason Be was so fast was because it couldn't do anything.
You 'Let's open source it and that will fix everything' freaks really need to get a handle on things.
'nuff said.
I bet you would be proclaiming it to be the second coming.
Wireless? For an MP3 player? just so you can hear music 150 feet way? How fucking stupid can you be?
Look at what it is.
It has the BEST interface to date.
It connects with FireWire for blazingly fast DLs and NO charging cable! It charges over the FireWire connection.
It works as a FireWire drive so you can carry your files and such with you.
Show me another device that has ALL of the above.
You biased, short-sighted bastard.
Sure, everyone wants a nice case but really $200 for a case is going a bit overboard.
And are these same idiots who brag how linux systems are SO cheap, and how they same SO much money by running linux, who go out and spend $200 on case?
And another thing, why do these idiots spend $200 bucks on a cooling system when they RARELY get a faster speed than spending that $200 on a faster CPU?
And these same linux idiots who compain that Apple spends SO much money on the case and how the looks do nto matter. That only the OS and performance matters. And then they drop $200 for a case?
Idiots.
big deal
$250 for basic system. $100 for a decent CPU. $60 for a HD. $30 for a CD-ROM. $90 for a shitty 15" monitor. Add another $30 for misc equipment like keyboard, mouse, and such.
Now multiply all of that by 3.
For that money you can get an awesome iBook with Airport that you can use ANYWHERE with a net connection.
Why the hell would you want to place 3 or 4 of these small PCs through out the house?
They are still tethered by ethernet, power, and a desk. Geez.
Be did the right thing. (Include sarcastic tone)
Where are they now?
Be was a shitty OS that was fast because it did nothing but spin a teapot.
1) linux is built by people with absolutely NO taste. And every shitty Window Manager shows that. And every shitty skin by every non-artist shows that also. This is why linux is not pretty and doesn't have a sense of style. (not to mention every idiot out there trying to make linux look like windows)
2) linux users ENJOY that linux is difficult to use. Oh sure, they brag that linux is an easy install NOW and that Caldera/Red Hat is easy to use/install. Well, guess what. IT ISN'T! With patches and kernel mods coming out all the time linux WILL stay an OS that is made for engineers by engineers. This keeps linux ugly.
Linux users should rally behind OS X. And who really gives a damn if OS X won't run on a P166 rig that costs $200.
You get what you pay for.
Plenty of electricity.
Give me a fucking break. Who is going to do that?
Show me ANY 'linux user' with ANY originality or taste. I've seen the linux screen shots. Every damn one of them try to make their desktops look and behave like Windows.
And the ones that don't have TERRIBLE taste. Good Lord I have seen some of the skins these extreme non-artists have done.
And there is NO market for games for this MORONIC OS. Even Carmack said that if any publisher ports a game to linux they do it out of the goodness out their heart. And do you know why? Because every one of you SLACK ASS OPEN SOURCE BASTARDS want everything for free. Linux user = 'I have to see ALL the source code for anything'. Stupid outlook.
Let me clue you fuckers in to something. Revenue is a good thing. Possible income is what fuels development. And NO some poor guy slaving away to write a game does NOT equal your slack ass sending in a patch for a new option to 'ls'.
And let's not forget the retarded OS. Johnny buys a game. Oops, what build is it for? Hmmmmmm. I have to patch my kernel for it to work. Damn. I have to patch my video drivers. Still not working. Hmmm, let me check about patching something else.
Still not working. OH YEAH! That is right. I brag so much about linux running on a P100 that my linux rig is a $200 piece of shit PC.
Run Apache on you POS linux box and be happy.
OH, and to any of your retarded bastards that think you can reverse engineer DirectX to run on linux, guess what. As soon as ANYONE has a halfway working copy, microsoft is gonna change it. Which means any copying of the APIs will be at least 2 versions back.
OHHHH what stunning graphics then.
Say it isn't so!
Did the talking and the voice recognitions also.
Some people have nice homes.
Some people do NOT want a piece of shit P133 with a shitty 15" monitor and a ton of wires in each room. Sure you can basically the same thing with a cheap ass PC. But you 'Linux biased' idiots get it through your head that no everyone wants a rack and shitty PCs located throughout the house. And I would wager when you 'Linux biased' idiots grow up you may realize that having PCs throughout the house is just stupid.
Please get a sense of style and pick up those damn pizza boxes and vacuum the carpet.
Get get a REAL OS. Go buy a Mac and run OS X.
I didn't even read the article.
Poorly chosen modes can be terrible, and modes in general tend to cause difficulty for beginners. But only a brainwashed UI weenie would say "modes are bad". Do you really think that all of the hackers who find unix and vi to be the most productive work environment are masochists?
Very nice. I say that modes are bad and not only do somehow twist my statement into insult EVERY unix user but you also get that moronic leap of logic modded up. Not bad at all. And you even throw a couple insults my way also. Bravo!
Now, back to the point. Modes are bad. Very bad. And I don't care how adept someone is at avoiding the pitfalls of them. I'll even give you an example.
I used to be a supervisor at UPS. At UPS they study EVERYTHING a driver does. And I mean everything. How to get out of the seat, how to carry the package car keys, how to handle packages, how to stack and organize everything. UPS times everything (by having a person ride with them with a stopwatch. Really.) and they are always looking to shave a second off of anything.
Every once in a while UPS would come out with new procedures that were more efficient and faster. Some drivers would embrace the procedures and some wouldn't. And the reason some drivers wouldn't is because they would claim the new procedures would slow them down. And you know what they were right. And dead wrong at the same time.
Say an act takes 1 minute to complete.
After doing that act over and over a person learns to do that act in 50 seconds.
A new way of doing that act takes 80 seconds, but after practicing for a few weeks it only takes 40 seconds.
Many people refuse to accept the new way because their inital experience with the new act takes longer.
So they base their decision on their initial experience that the new act is 'slower'.
I'll give you another example. I can type (clocked using a typing program ) @ 50-60 words per minute.
I know that if I learn to type 'the correct way' I could probably type over 100 wpm.
But I don't want to type slow for the first few months until I become proficient.
So even though I know I could type better if I chose a different way, I am comfortable and satisified with the way I am typing now.
I don't care how efficient a user is in using an poorly designed interface. When I was in the Marines I learned to clean things very well with a toothbrush. I also learned to dig with my hands in a very efficient manner. This, of course, does not mean that there wasn't a better way or better tools to use. I did the best with what was available.
People will learn to be as efficient as possible in any task using any tool that you give them. Whether it is a bad method or tool.
You like Unix? Cool. You like vi? I don't care. But modes are bad. Just because you have learned to use vi quickly does not mean that modes are good or efficient. It just means that you have learned to use vi quickly.
Move the mouse up and click the approriate button?
very bad.
Wrong. I do not care who is specifically responsible. And don't say that I have changed my wording. This is the same as if a gang of 5 murder someone. Unless one of them turns on the others, the DA doesn't care who is the murderer. The DA tries ALL of them for murder. This is the same thing.
And you appear to be one of those people
Wrong again. I understand laws. I agree with the majority of laws. And I have a sense of right and wrong to keep from doing these things. But animals (such as the terrorists) do not. These people only understand force. And we need to deal with the law abiding people and countries of the world one way. And for those countries and those animals that WILL NOT deal with us in a moral and/or legal way we ignore. Until they force us to stop ignoring them.
About Hitler. You are a bit wrong. Sure maybe the treaty brought Hitler to power. But Hitler ONLY started invading and land grabbing when no one stood up to him. Hitler started demanding land, and no one said 'no', he became emboldened. This was the problem.
we even built the caves and bunkers that protected them from Russian carpet bombing (and more recently protected bin Laden's troops from our cruise missiles). This group committed numerous terrorist acts against Russian targets, prompting the invasion.
Ok, we built bunkers, to protect them from carpet bombing, from which they attacked the Soviet Union, then the S.U. invaded? From your words the carpet bombing came first. I find it hard to fault a people from attacking when they are being carpet bombed.
Sorry Charlie. Just because the Palestinians claimed the land does not make it theirs. This would be the same at the US govt giving land the the Jews in South Carolina and some group living in a county there saying that it was theirs. WRONG. The Palestinians have a homeland, Jordan. EVERYONE knows that. And as for the Israeli's kicking the Palestinians ass'es oh well. The Palestinians forced that issue a while back the the Israeli's stood their ground and even puched them back. In a war sometimes you win land and sometimes you lose land. The Palestinians have always lost. But they started the war. And Arafat showed his true colors last year. He was offered MORE than he asked for. And he turned it down. He doesn't want peace and he proved it.
how we execute that vengeance will determine how effective a deterrent it is
Partially true. But you need to realize who we are dealing with. A few decades ago, NO terrorist would attack the USA. After that rat bastard Clinton ignored the dead soldier dragged through Mogadishu, the attack on the US embassies a year or so ago, the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole the terrorist became more and more bold. You can not reason with these people.
The only way to deal with terrorist is to out the fear of God into them. You do this to us and we will wipe out EVERYTHING. Fear and only fear keeps terrorists from attacking. This is all they understand.
As for understanding them, they do this because we are America. We have the best country in the world and our freedom is what they strike at. When I graduated from Parris Island one of the things the Marines pounded into me was that I am a target because I am a Marine. A terrorist would rather kill 1 Marine than 10 Army doggies.
I don't give a damn why terrorist attack. There IS NOTHING the US did to deserve the attack on the WTC and the Pentagon. There is NO REASON to attack civilians like that. The terrorists actions alone show that that he is one twisted fuck that does not deserve to live.
One of my points is that evil exists everywhere and it many different forms. In every one of my examples there were evil acts. And as much as you want to rationalize them, you can't. And you saying that we (the west) created them or we trained them is bullshit.
The bottom line is this. There will always be good people in the world. And these people are the ones that we have a civilization with.
But there will always be evil people in this world. And the ONLY thing these people understand is force. We can talk with them (PLO), we can appease them (Hitler), we can ignore them (Soviet Union), but as long as we only talk to them or 'try to understand them' they will always continue their course of evil.
Why? Because they can.
It is not our fault that these evil people do not understand anything but force. And no, we are not 'dropping to their level' by using force. WE ARE PROTECTING OURSELVES!.
The only way to avoid a fight is to train for a fight. And if someone pops you, you beat the shit out of them and you make an example. This keeps people from fighting you again.
There is a world of difference between being armed to the teeth/protecting yourself and provoking attacks.
Who many of the fucking liberals don't realize is that these terrorists are evil. You can say that violence begets violence and you can sing 'Kum-by-ya' until the second coming of Christ but the bottom line is that there are evil people in this world and these people DO NOT understand anything but force.
Personally, I think it would be a huge boon to mankind if we could get rid weapons and do things peacefully. But WE aren't making that choice. As long as you have soulless bastards out there who will kill because they can, we need to arm ourselves.
Since the dawn of mankind the aggressor has ALWAYS set the ground rules.
What did the West do to force Hitler to invade Europe?
What did the West do to force the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan?
What did the West do to force Iraq to invade Kuwait?
What did the West do to force the PLO to continually attack Israel? At the last summit, the Isreali PM offered MORE than Arafat wanted and he still turned him down. This is how they hold on to power, by creating enemies and terrorist attacks.
Ronald Reagon put the fear of God into Khaddafi when he bombed him and you noticed that Libya's terrorist activities dropped like a rock.
Decades ago, no terrorist would dare attack the USA. Due to the inactivity of Clinton during the earlier attacks on the WTC, the US embassy a while ago, and the U.S.S. Cole the terrorists become more and more bold.
We should not bring these animals to justice. We should kill them, in their on land, and make a major example of them.
As long as these GOD DAMN liberals continually say 'We need to understand them' , 'We need to end the cycle of violence' this will never end.
The USA did not start this. The USA is not responsible in any way for this. By God, we do need to finish this.
He denounces one "biased propaganda piece' and in turn writes one himself? At least the 'comparison' has numbers and makes some sense.
Look at what he is saying 'Jobs a parady of himself, slow and behind the curve products'. We definately have a unbiased, professional viewpoint here.
And why does he keep calling the system 'fruity'. I got away from calling names when I was 5.
And about 'ability to run four or five of the world's most popular software packages (just don't run them at once)' what does that mean? Not only can I do that on my mac (and run them at the same time) and I can have multiple versions installed on my hard drive and run those whenever I like, on OS 9 or OS X.
As for features, I think USB ports and ' "virus susceptibility" won by the machine that can't execute x86 binary code' are a valid comparison of features. One of the deciding factors in my laptop purchase was that it had 4 usb ports. I have 3 usb items that I alwas use and now I do not need to carry around a powered port. As for the non-x86 feature, that is very valid. When the Army switched it's web servers over to the mac they did it for 3 reasons: 1) The NT servers kept getting hacked and defaced. 2) While it seems funny, non x86 computers can not catch 99% of the world's virus - can't argue that, and 3) no remote shell. While you may thing the last 2 points show something the Mac can not do, it does make it more difficult to break in or exploit a webserver. Can not argue that.
As for using Photoshop, what else do you suggest? Byte magazine used non OS specific software and they came to the same conclusions a few years ago. And they also got cancelled a month or so later. Conspiracy? You need to use software that is HEAVILY optimized for both platforms. The only other application(s) I can think to use would be Office, but does anyone else think that would be fair? Any M$ native application is more of an extension of Windows than a stand alone product. So Photoshop is a fair test.
And it wasn't written 'the G4 is the equal of any P4', it was tested. If you have a disagreement with the tests the WRITE ONE. I think is more funny that you simply look at the numbers printed on the processors and make up your mind there. Apparently you have a bias towards Athlon processors. And by the way, they were not mentioned again in the article because none of the systems used them. It was a system's comparison, not a processor comparison.
One last thing on the Athlon, it seems (I get the feeling) that you really like the Athlon. I bet you have NO problem in the world arguing that the Athlon is a faster chip than the P3/P4, all the while the Athlon has a slower clock speed. HMMMMM? Didn't think so.
You entire last paragraph is intended to insult Apple (though no one insulted you) and brag about all the advances of the processors and mobos. So what? The Photoshop tests showed that with ALL of those advances the Mac still finished first.
Two last points. One, I will grant you that the CORE P4 is probably faster than the CORE G4. But the P4/Athlon have 2 distinct disadvantages. One is the Velocity Engine. Why do you think that the tests always include floating point? The Velocity Engine is BLAZING fast and the P4/Athlon has nothing to compare to it. And the P4/Athlon has to work though windows. And you know that shitty OS can slow anything down to a crawl. And that brings to the comparison - 'The BEST system', not the absolute fastest, not the one with the fastest memory, not the one with the most USB ports, but the best overall.
Two, MHz is not MHz. And clock speeds do NOT determine overall machine speeds. All of those people who scream that the G4 CAN NOT be faster than the P$ are the same people who scream that the Athlon is faster than the P4 even though the Athlon has a slower clock speak. That is hypocrasy.
I have a 99 Corvette Convertible. It has 345 HP. But you know what? If I race against Kenny Bernstein in a 1/4 mile, I'll lose. If I race him for 20 miles I'll win. If I race an F1 formula car on a track I'll lose. If I race him on a city street with traffic I'll win.
Both of those cars have WAY more horsepower than my car does. But my point is that the engine is only ONE factor. The rest of the car, the track, the type of race, and other factors determine the overall performance of each car.
hehe Where is the bragging and arrogance about their OS now? I guess they learned that the OS needs to do a bit more than just spin a teapot. Dumbasses.
OHHHHHHHHH Someone has an OS than runs nothing and does nothing. BUT it has all the buzzwords and none of the limitations of current OSes. BIG DEAL. ANYONE can write an OS that does nothing. Geez, you people get excited about anything.