Re:Katz writes about things without having 2 clues
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Selfish Society
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Work hard, my ass. I've worked far harder than most people around me to get where I am, and it's still nowhere near as hard as regular folks have to work to get even half as much. Get real.
Heh. Congratulations. This is the first post I've read here that I can relate to in the slightest.
See, I grew up on a dairy farm. I happen to think that all these whiners who think 100-hour weeks sitting on your fat ass in a nice climate-controlled office are a big deal really, really, ought to spend a few months on a farm to somewhat get the flavor of what serious working is like.
And what's *really* scary is that I had tractors, electricity, running water, and all the mod cons, and I _still_ think I had it hard. Now, my grandfather who quite literally carved the farm out of the forest with none of those... now HE had to REALLY work hard. And that was less than 100 years ago.
*stretch* Yeah... when you think about it a bit, life really is pretty fucking good.
I don't care whether or not you happen to like the fact that I'm saying it, but when everyone and their mother starting listing their web addresses at the bottom of TV commercials and when AOL adoped the flat rate fee for access is when the signal to noise ratio went in the crapper.
*sigh* you SO miss the point.
The S/N ratio "went in the crapper" around 1984. The absurdity is that you think it wasn't already there in the early 90's. Do you get it now?
Maybe this will be good for us over all. Without the attention of the clueless newbies we can hold onto (at least for a moment) that feeling that we had when the internet was OURS. Before the great boom of 1995-1997.
*snort*
Listen, whippersnapper, those of us that were here before gopher, never mind the web, when commercial use was illegal, the entire Usenet feed was less than single groups are today, and we could know personally a measurable percentage of people with permanent mail addresses, might be able to say that with a straight face.
You, on the other hand, are a dilettante and poseur, and your ignorant twaddle borders between the amusing and annoying. It would definitely be amusing if it wasn't apparently in earnest...
[Moderators: This is damn well too on topic. It's people like him with no historical perspective who cause the problems with the Internet like the one we are discussing in this thread.]
Wasn't Pismo the PBook they released that has firewire? I'm pretty sure the Pismo codename had to do with the newer black Pbooks.
That's the majority of conventional wisdom, as alluded to above... and Apple subtly encourages, to the extent of doctoring technotes on the PB 1999 Series, to keep attention deflected from the REAL Pismo. Some people have posted the truth, including the oft-maligned Ryan Meader, but they are generally not believed.
Here's a not-so-subtle hint: If you want to know what Pismo styling is like, check out the power adapter on the PB 1999s. Funky, eh? Now imagine a 3/4" 3.5 lb. PB like that. Mmmmmm. Sluuuuurp;)
What's coming, it's speculated, is some form of subnotebook or tablet.
That space is for Pismo, which is not the 1999 Powerbook G3 as everyone thinks. It's a superslim notebook enclosure, all curvy and sexy but pretty much what you'd imagine the Elle MacPherson version of the PBG3 would look like. About the only nifty innovation is that there's speakers in little forward-pointing 'ears' on either side of the screen that give this sucker really remarkable sound for a portable.
Actually, it was supposed to be introduced in Japan this spring, the Japanese being the kind to have a collective orgasm at the sight of this thing. Heat problems have put Pismo on indefinite hold until a suitably cool processor can be found, since of COURSE they couldn't POSSIBLY compromise on the design. That would be like SO not Apple:)
I keep asking myself how the mac, with its limited install base, keeps developers?
Perhaps you could intersperse that by asking your obviously cretinous self how Ferrari, with its limited install base, keeps parts suppliers?
I wonder why people spend so much time doing mac ports of software instead of *bsd and linux ports.
Well, personally, it's because I get $125/hr (and could probably get more if I insisted on it) for doing Mac ports and nobody's offering me that for *bsd and linux ports. But perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places. Illuminate me if so.
Anyone out there a Mac developer?
Since Inside Mac was photcopies delivered in 3-ring binders, baby. You don't get more old school than that.
Is it just an easy port?
Depends how well-factored the code is, like any other port pretty much. In general it's not terribly difficult.
Re:Bravo! We need to question our assumptions!
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If you provided comprehensive Usenet posting indexes in V-Twin, er, Apple Information Access Toolkit, format -- you would have the entire Mac Evangelism Strike Force bowing to you. I would pay a significant amount to have those indexes mailed to me quarterly. So would many, many, other Mac users I don't doubt.
Whole new services might even appear where people pay fixed fees to 'professional bidders' who would take care of the whole bidding process for them. This would appeal to people who just want to buy stuff, and would create a whole new career.
Errrr... you mean the way stock exchanges and commodity markets work right now, for instance?
It looks to me like you're predicting that once we disintermediate everything we're going to find it's TOO DAMN MUCH HASSLE to live without the dissed intermediaries and we're going to reintermediate right back.
I think I'm with you on that, actually. Now, how can we make an IPO out of this?
Please point out a relevant passage where Jesus suggests that persecution and murder were OK if the person wasn't a Christian.
Well, here's one passage where He explicitly says that's exactly the kind of shit He intends to stir up. Vicious motherfucker, isn't He?
Matthew 10
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Sorry to say it, but I will always view Apple computers as cut-rate, yes anestheically pleasing, computers. Cut-rate in the means that it just will never been quite as good as something you could spend less to build...
The trailer-park hotrodder says the same thing about his homebuilt dragster. You know what? Doesn't stop people buying Miatas.
Pretty much any computer out there is good enough right now to handle 85% of what any consumer level user would ever conceive of doing with it. In two years this will be 100%. Therefore style will become the competitive advantage for the vast majority of the market.
To go back to the car metaphor, everyone here is like the blacksmith-cum-artisans of the early days, used to performance being a matter of some concern in one's choice of car, sagely congratulating each other on their wisdom in denigrating that silly assembly-line thing that idiot Ford was thinking he could make something of.
I take my family Christmas dinners as an example. Computers had never been mentioned up until the last two years. In both of the last two the grande dames of clan Curylo have gone on at length about their new iMacs and how they got the drapes to match and found the right color for the seat cushion and yadayadayada.
You laugh, yes. But these are consumers and that is the future of the consumer computer market. Deal.
A "supercomputer" with only 64MBytes of RAM! Wow, I wonder what other nifty words the PR department will try to use to describe the cube,
Actually, that's not a PR department invention. Remember the tank ads on the G4 introduction? The G4 chip was, honest to God, classified as a "supercomputer" for export purposes.
Not that Apple PR isn't loosely connected to reality often, but in this case, no, it wasn't Apple that made up "supercomputer":)
could we encrypt our own movies to be played in a normal DVD player?
No. To do oneoff DVD-Videos you need something like the Pioneer DVD-R machines, which were running between $5-15K last I checked.
DVD-RAMs are phase change devices with 2.6 GB per side. There are Typ1 and Typ2. Typ1 you cannot take aout auf the catridge, but Typ2 you can take out and play with DVD-ROMs (e.g. 8253 from Panasonic). But you cannot play them in DVD-Video consumer players.
DVD+RW is a mutually incompatible phase change device, there are mutterings about it possibly being compatible with DVD-Video. We shall see.
I'm almost positive he's on advisory boards for both nVidia and 3dfx, and maybe even Apple.
Well, there's no advisory board as such for Apple, but it was Carmack's personal evangelism that convinced Jobs to dump QuickDraw3D and go with OpenGL, to name his most obvious influence. You can rest assured that what he has to say is at least considered seriously by Steve J., which is Apple for all practical purposes.
When Apple was almost gone, Microsoft saved them by releasing the only piece of quality software for the system: Excel.
Um. Actually, Excel was released for MacOS first, when MSFT was still a comparatively minor player. Windows 1.0 was written for the express purpose of being able to run Excel on DOS.
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Work hard, my ass. I've worked far harder than most people around me to get where I am, and it's still nowhere near as hard as regular folks have to work to get even half as much. Get real.
... now HE had to REALLY work hard. And that was less than 100 years ago.
... when you think about it a bit, life really is pretty fucking good.
Heh. Congratulations. This is the first post I've read here that I can relate to in the slightest.
See, I grew up on a dairy farm. I happen to think that all these whiners who think 100-hour weeks sitting on your fat ass in a nice climate-controlled office are a big deal really, really, ought to spend a few months on a farm to somewhat get the flavor of what serious working is like.
And what's *really* scary is that I had tractors, electricity, running water, and all the mod cons, and I _still_ think I had it hard. Now, my grandfather who quite literally carved the farm out of the forest with none of those
*stretch* Yeah
www.destinympe.com
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and 1st post too
why, if the trailer is such an embarassment for the producers, as is evidenced by its swift denunciation and retraction, did it get shown to ANYBODY?
This is a daily rush of the trailer. The sequences in it don't have the current (final?) CGI fx.
I don't care whether or not you happen to like the fact that I'm saying it, but when everyone and their mother starting listing their web addresses at the bottom of TV commercials and when AOL adoped the flat rate fee for access is when the signal to noise ratio went in the crapper.
*sigh* you SO miss the point.
The S/N ratio "went in the crapper" around 1984. The absurdity is that you think it wasn't already there in the early 90's. Do you get it now?
Maybe this will be good for us over all. Without the attention of the clueless newbies we can hold onto (at least for a moment) that feeling that we had when the internet was OURS. Before the great boom of 1995-1997.
*snort*
Listen, whippersnapper, those of us that were here before gopher, never mind the web, when commercial use was illegal, the entire Usenet feed was less than single groups are today, and we could know personally a measurable percentage of people with permanent mail addresses, might be able to say that with a straight face.
You, on the other hand, are a dilettante and poseur, and your ignorant twaddle borders between the amusing and annoying. It would definitely be amusing if it wasn't apparently in earnest...
[Moderators: This is damn well too on topic. It's people like him with no historical perspective who cause the problems with the Internet like the one we are discussing in this thread.]
When is *BSD going to get as easy to install as Linux?
In early 2001.
Wasn't Pismo the PBook they released that has firewire? I'm pretty sure the Pismo codename had to do with the newer black Pbooks.
... and Apple subtly encourages, to the extent of doctoring technotes on the PB 1999 Series, to keep attention deflected from the REAL Pismo. Some people have posted the truth, including the oft-maligned Ryan Meader, but they are generally not believed.
;)
That's the majority of conventional wisdom, as alluded to above
Here's a not-so-subtle hint: If you want to know what Pismo styling is like, check out the power adapter on the PB 1999s. Funky, eh? Now imagine a 3/4" 3.5 lb. PB like that. Mmmmmm. Sluuuuurp
What's coming, it's speculated, is some form of subnotebook or tablet.
:)
:)
That space is for Pismo, which is not the 1999 Powerbook G3 as everyone thinks. It's a superslim notebook enclosure, all curvy and sexy but pretty much what you'd imagine the Elle MacPherson version of the PBG3 would look like. About the only nifty innovation is that there's speakers in little forward-pointing 'ears' on either side of the screen that give this sucker really remarkable sound for a portable.
I'm eagerly anticipating this... watch Seybold very, very, carefully
Actually, it was supposed to be introduced in Japan this spring, the Japanese being the kind to have a collective orgasm at the sight of this thing. Heat problems have put Pismo on indefinite hold until a suitably cool processor can be found, since of COURSE they couldn't POSSIBLY compromise on the design. That would be like SO not Apple
I keep asking myself how the mac, with its limited install base, keeps developers?
Perhaps you could intersperse that by asking your obviously cretinous self how Ferrari, with its limited install base, keeps parts suppliers?
I wonder why people spend so much time doing mac ports of software instead of *bsd and linux ports.
Well, personally, it's because I get $125/hr (and could probably get more if I insisted on it) for doing Mac ports and nobody's offering me that for *bsd and linux ports. But perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places. Illuminate me if so.
Anyone out there a Mac developer?
Since Inside Mac was photcopies delivered in 3-ring binders, baby. You don't get more old school than that.
Is it just an easy port?
Depends how well-factored the code is, like any other port pretty much. In general it's not terribly difficult.
Question everything!
Why should I?
why not write the history of the axe?
/. is for computers, and this site is for axes, silly.
Because
This will give dolphins a HELL of a headache...
1st post!
If you provided comprehensive Usenet posting indexes in V-Twin, er, Apple Information Access Toolkit, format -- you would have the entire Mac Evangelism Strike Force bowing to you. I would pay a significant amount to have those indexes mailed to me quarterly. So would many, many, other Mac users I don't doubt.
What
Whole new services might even appear where people pay fixed fees to 'professional bidders' who would take care of the whole bidding process for them. This would appeal to people who just want to buy stuff, and would create a whole new career.
... you mean the way stock exchanges and commodity markets work right now, for instance?
Errrr
It looks to me like you're predicting that once we disintermediate everything we're going to find it's TOO DAMN MUCH HASSLE to live without the dissed intermediaries and we're going to reintermediate right back.
I think I'm with you on that, actually. Now, how can we make an IPO out of this?
Please point out a relevant passage where Jesus suggests that persecution and murder were OK if the person wasn't a Christian.
Well, here's one passage where He explicitly says that's exactly the kind of shit He intends to stir up. Vicious motherfucker, isn't He?
Matthew 10
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
I do indeed decide what CDs to get by sampling off Napster.
However, then I get the gf to borrow one from HMV where she works and run off a copy for home, copy for work, and copy for the car...
I wonder when the RIAA is going to realize what Astarte CD-Copy is for...
Sorry to say it, but I will always view Apple computers as cut-rate, yes anestheically pleasing, computers. Cut-rate in the means that it just will never been quite as good as something you could spend less to build...
The trailer-park hotrodder says the same thing about his homebuilt dragster. You know what? Doesn't stop people buying Miatas.
Pretty much any computer out there is good enough right now to handle 85% of what any consumer level user would ever conceive of doing with it. In two years this will be 100%. Therefore style will become the competitive advantage for the vast majority of the market.
To go back to the car metaphor, everyone here is like the blacksmith-cum-artisans of the early days, used to performance being a matter of some concern in one's choice of car, sagely congratulating each other on their wisdom in denigrating that silly assembly-line thing that idiot Ford was thinking he could make something of.
I take my family Christmas dinners as an example. Computers had never been mentioned up until the last two years. In both of the last two the grande dames of clan Curylo have gone on at length about their new iMacs and how they got the drapes to match and found the right color for the seat cushion and yadayadayada.
You laugh, yes. But these are consumers and that is the future of the consumer computer market. Deal.
So, can you suggest a country in which communism failed that did well under a capitalist system?
Hmmmmmmm... consider the post WWII development of:
East Germany/West Germany.
North Korea/South Korea.
China/Taiwan.
Just how many would you LIKE?
I bought a 380 meg in 1993 at Sams Club for about $380.
5 meg. $2795. 1979.
Beat THAT, dilettante poseur.
A "supercomputer" with only 64MBytes of RAM! Wow, I wonder what other nifty words the PR department will try to use to describe the cube,
:)
Actually, that's not a PR department invention. Remember the tank ads on the G4 introduction? The G4 chip was, honest to God, classified as a "supercomputer" for export purposes.
Not that Apple PR isn't loosely connected to reality often, but in this case, no, it wasn't Apple that made up "supercomputer"
could we encrypt our own movies to be played in a normal DVD player?
No. To do oneoff DVD-Videos you need something like the Pioneer DVD-R machines, which were running between $5-15K last I checked.
DVD-RAMs are phase change devices with 2.6 GB per side. There are Typ1 and Typ2. Typ1 you cannot take aout auf the catridge, but Typ2 you can take out and play with DVD-ROMs (e.g. 8253 from Panasonic). But you cannot play them in DVD-Video consumer players.
DVD+RW is a mutually incompatible phase change device, there are mutterings about it possibly being compatible with DVD-Video. We shall see.
Fuckin' "standards", eh?
I'm almost positive he's on advisory boards for both nVidia and 3dfx, and maybe even Apple.
Well, there's no advisory board as such for Apple, but it was Carmack's personal evangelism that convinced Jobs to dump QuickDraw3D and go with OpenGL, to name his most obvious influence. You can rest assured that what he has to say is at least considered seriously by Steve J., which is Apple for all practical purposes.
What Rosen (Heidi Rosen, RIAA head bitch)
No, no, no.
Heidi Roizen is the SOFTBANK head bitch.
You're thinking of Hilary Rosen, similar to the U.S. First Bitch.
I have no problem at all with my sexual identity, thanks.
Unless you count the pathetic need to inflict your non-problematicness with it upon us, who -- to coin a phrase -- really couldn't give a shit.
When Apple was almost gone, Microsoft saved them by releasing the only piece of quality software for the system: Excel.
;)
Um. Actually, Excel was released for MacOS first, when MSFT was still a comparatively minor player. Windows 1.0 was written for the express purpose of being able to run Excel on DOS.
Other than that, nice work