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From what I've read, FireWire (IEEE 1394) is an international standard, but companies must pay royalities to Apple to use it. It's no wonder everyone is pushing USB 2.0. Apple's arrogance continues to this day...yet people continue to defend them. I would think these commercials on a commercial criticism site is FAIR USE, but I guess Apple disagrees. It is ammusing though that back when the media were making the tombstone for Apple, Apple sent me an evangelism CD that had the 1984 commercial on it - they wanted it shown and distributed. Now they don't. How hypocritical. I was a betatester for MacOS 8 and 9, CyberDog, and a number of other products. But several years ago I gave up on Apple...and especially Steve Jobs. Killing the clones was the start, then they released about 20 different model macs all under "iMac" - rev a, rev b, etc. That's supposed to make it simplier for customers? And then they put a laptop keyboard and hockey puck mouse on it, and on the new macs. Apple lost my respect and money a long time ago, and I could care less what they do today.
Hate to burst your bubble, but Genesis is believed by Christians, Muslims, and Jews. There would be no need to include text from the Quran or Talmud to include these groups.
Yet you automatically put a lack of thought into the possibility that the Bible could be true...that it holds the same weight as any unproven scientific theory. It goes both ways.
According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, making the mouse wireless was a great innovation because "Now users can truly use the mouse as a hockey puck. We hinted at this in the previous mouse, but now we are taking that idea to its logical conclusion. Just another way that Apple is thinking different"
As dopey as splattering blood on fur coats, showing animal mutilation pictures to young children, telling people to drink beer over milk (and thus increase domestic violence, drunk driving, etc.), or perhaps going after a circus for elephant abuse even though they have no record of abuse and even built an elephant preserve in Florida. Go figure
I think we should eat all the rats we can find. They are responsible for one of the worst disasters in the history of mankind...the black plague. I say we take our revenge...it's time for rodent genocide.
I'm tired of this veggie movement. Plants cannot move and they cannot defend theirselves. They were here long before animals showed up. Yet all of you cut them down, boil and torture them, and then chew them up in your mouths and send them to your stomoch of hydrochloric acid. When will this plant abuse end??? They just want to peacefully coexist with us...they never did anything to hurt us. And yet we murder millions of plants a year. It's all so sickening.
Um ok this is complete BS. I guess Lions and Tigers sat down after Adam and Eve's fall and said "well, the Earth has gone to hell...let's go eat some meat". If we were not meant to eat meat, then A) we wouldn't be able to (ie poisonous), B) we wouldn't require nutrients and vitamins that are normally found in meat and C) that hamburger wouldn't smell and taste so good. The Bible says all food is created by God and is good, just don't eat carrion or meat sacrified to idols.
McDonalds said that they tried to talk to PETA, but PETA walked away. McDonalds said they use their buying power to influence their producers, and they also inspect all their producers once a year. They also said they hope PETA realizes that their restuarants are private property and that families eating there want to be left alone. To realize just how mentally deranged PETA is, just go look at articles which quote them. They said they realize the butchered animals are graphic, but that children have a positive reaction to them from learning the truth. So there you go, its not ok to eat hamburgers, but its ok to show obscene pictures to children, and harass people at restaurants.
This is all so silly. This article seems to say that Bill Joy agrees with Ted that technology is going to force us all to extinction. Now ignoring the fact that the dinosaurs managed that without ANY technology or doing on their own part, and the fact that Kaczynski used technology to harm people (thus becoming what he hated)...lets look at this. Most of the technology we know of today started with the renaissance..and before that? We had the Dark Ages. Now technology is a step backwards for us? During the Dark Ages, people were getting wiped out by rats, and living in poverty at the hands of lords. The point of this article isn't really about technology, but about psycho-scientists and psycho-inventors who can't consider the ramifications of their actions. It's pretty specific about self-replicating robots who are going to turn on their creators, and nanobugs that will all give us the plague. But this is not new, and it certainly isn't a relevation brought to us by the unabomber. Just watch Terminator and you'll get the same idea. I am very scared when I read about "distinguished scientists" who think that humans are out-dated, and we all need some computer chips wedged in our brains. I've read about them in Wired many times. They say that computers will soon be smarter than us. A computer can do math a hell of a lot better than I can, but I very rarely get GPFs and I can reason pretty well. My computer can't even understand a single sentence I am typing here. Maybe it can one day, but only because we program it to...will it actually be thinking on its own? And what if it can? I can hit the power switch on it, or rip out its CPU...so does that make it a superior life form? And what of humans who made it? I can't believe that some humans think we are worthless. I read about scientists who are experimenting on theirselves. Perhaps we will all be blessed when these individuals screw up and make theirselves towards extinction. It's often pride and arrogance that makes one fall...and these people who think we'll soon engineer our destruction are going to fall. We can't even get a decent home OS that can run reliably and be easy to use. And we'll be reprogramming our brains and creating war bots in the next century? We first explored space in the middle of the last century. And where have we gone since then? They can't even get the Internation Space Station going. There is no way anyone can stop the forward march of technology, except maybe to drop a few nuclear bombs on developed countries. No matter how much Kaczynski wants it to stop...it won't. Technology is not a bad thing...its simply how people use it. You can use cameras to capture and beam information for people, or you can use it to spy on people. We should certainly watch out for bad uses and try to prevent them. But also, we shouldn't think we are so good and mighty that we're going to destroy ourselves in "two generations". And as far as "we" considering these ideas now...I doubt Slashdot is going to change the world. The world will progress down a rather set path...nothing we do on this website is going to change that. (But it's still fun arguing about it)
On Alphas, Compaq is completely committed to Linux, TruUNIX, and OpenVMS. They even write drivers for Linux, etc., and they won't be canceling the Alphas anytime soon since its a good high-end market with lots of $$$
So which Alphas are you using then? You're saying a DS20 is worse than say a 3000-800, or a 2100? For the price and the features, it works pretty well..and a much better deal than the ES and GS series.
When I always see these articles on the net about how ATI will rule the world with its cutting-edge next-generation 3D technology, I never see any mention of the drivers. When I bought the ATI Rage 128 when it came out, it sounded like a good product (especially hardware-wise). But the drivers had significant problems, and ATI went for at least 6 months without updating the drivers, even though they acknowledged problems on their "known bugs" page. I can only think their future 3D cards will be the same. I finally gave up, threw the ATI card away and bought a NVidia TNT2. So what I am saying is that a company's programming talent is just as important as its hardware engineering. Without good drivers, that new 3D card is useless.
This would make it easier for them to spam you. Forget buying mailing lists. They just write a program to send to address 10000, 10001, 10002, 1003, and so on:)
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You didn't seem to look very hard...
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From what I've read, FireWire (IEEE 1394) is an international standard, but companies must pay royalities to Apple to use it. It's no wonder everyone is pushing USB 2.0. Apple's arrogance continues to this day...yet people continue to defend them. I would think these commercials on a commercial criticism site is FAIR USE, but I guess Apple disagrees. It is ammusing though that back when the media were making the tombstone for Apple, Apple sent me an evangelism CD that had the 1984 commercial on it - they wanted it shown and distributed. Now they don't. How hypocritical. I was a betatester for MacOS 8 and 9, CyberDog, and a number of other products. But several years ago I gave up on Apple...and especially Steve Jobs. Killing the clones was the start, then they released about 20 different model macs all under "iMac" - rev a, rev b, etc. That's supposed to make it simplier for customers? And then they put a laptop keyboard and hockey puck mouse on it, and on the new macs. Apple lost my respect and money a long time ago, and I could care less what they do today.
Yes but the Encyclopedia Brittanica is out of date within a year. They want you to buy year books, or buy a whole new set.
The whole point is to provide language translation, not to teach math. 1+1=2 seems to be the same in all languages.
Hate to burst your bubble, but Genesis is believed by Christians, Muslims, and Jews. There would be no need to include text from the Quran or Talmud to include these groups.
Yet you automatically put a lack of thought into the possibility that the Bible could be true...that it holds the same weight as any unproven scientific theory. It goes both ways.
According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, making the mouse wireless was a great innovation because "Now users can truly use the mouse as a hockey puck. We hinted at this in the previous mouse, but now we are taking that idea to its logical conclusion. Just another way that Apple is thinking different"
Oh great, a fully mobile humanoid robot. Now they just need to stick Windows on there and let it go around killing people and terrorizing the city.
As dopey as splattering blood on fur coats, showing animal mutilation pictures to young children, telling people to drink beer over milk (and thus increase domestic violence, drunk driving, etc.), or perhaps going after a circus for elephant abuse even though they have no record of abuse and even built an elephant preserve in Florida. Go figure
I think we should eat all the rats we can find. They are responsible for one of the worst disasters in the history of mankind...the black plague. I say we take our revenge...it's time for rodent genocide.
I'm tired of this veggie movement. Plants cannot move and they cannot defend theirselves. They were here long before animals showed up. Yet all of you cut them down, boil and torture them, and then chew them up in your mouths and send them to your stomoch of hydrochloric acid. When will this plant abuse end??? They just want to peacefully coexist with us...they never did anything to hurt us. And yet we murder millions of plants a year. It's all so sickening.
Um ok this is complete BS. I guess Lions and Tigers sat down after Adam and Eve's fall and said "well, the Earth has gone to hell...let's go eat some meat". If we were not meant to eat meat, then A) we wouldn't be able to (ie poisonous), B) we wouldn't require nutrients and vitamins that are normally found in meat and C) that hamburger wouldn't smell and taste so good. The Bible says all food is created by God and is good, just don't eat carrion or meat sacrified to idols.
McDonalds said that they tried to talk to PETA, but PETA walked away. McDonalds said they use their buying power to influence their producers, and they also inspect all their producers once a year. They also said they hope PETA realizes that their restuarants are private property and that families eating there want to be left alone. To realize just how mentally deranged PETA is, just go look at articles which quote them. They said they realize the butchered animals are graphic, but that children have a positive reaction to them from learning the truth. So there you go, its not ok to eat hamburgers, but its ok to show obscene pictures to children, and harass people at restaurants.
He isn't just the point man for questions and answers...he's the founder and CEO of Apogee. So I guess that tells you what their "official" stance is.
This isn't a big deal - all you gotta do is get a patent for your industrial look. The U.S. Patent Office gives out patents for anything nowadays.
This is all so silly. This article seems to say that Bill Joy agrees with Ted that technology is going to force us all to extinction. Now ignoring the fact that the dinosaurs managed that without ANY technology or doing on their own part, and the fact that Kaczynski used technology to harm people (thus becoming what he hated)...lets look at this. Most of the technology we know of today started with the renaissance..and before that? We had the Dark Ages. Now technology is a step backwards for us? During the Dark Ages, people were getting wiped out by rats, and living in poverty at the hands of lords. The point of this article isn't really about technology, but about psycho-scientists and psycho-inventors who can't consider the ramifications of their actions. It's pretty specific about self-replicating robots who are going to turn on their creators, and nanobugs that will all give us the plague. But this is not new, and it certainly isn't a relevation brought to us by the unabomber. Just watch Terminator and you'll get the same idea. I am very scared when I read about "distinguished scientists" who think that humans are out-dated, and we all need some computer chips wedged in our brains. I've read about them in Wired many times. They say that computers will soon be smarter than us. A computer can do math a hell of a lot better than I can, but I very rarely get GPFs and I can reason pretty well. My computer can't even understand a single sentence I am typing here. Maybe it can one day, but only because we program it to...will it actually be thinking on its own? And what if it can? I can hit the power switch on it, or rip out its CPU...so does that make it a superior life form? And what of humans who made it? I can't believe that some humans think we are worthless. I read about scientists who are experimenting on theirselves. Perhaps we will all be blessed when these individuals screw up and make theirselves towards extinction. It's often pride and arrogance that makes one fall...and these people who think we'll soon engineer our destruction are going to fall. We can't even get a decent home OS that can run reliably and be easy to use. And we'll be reprogramming our brains and creating war bots in the next century? We first explored space in the middle of the last century. And where have we gone since then? They can't even get the Internation Space Station going. There is no way anyone can stop the forward march of technology, except maybe to drop a few nuclear bombs on developed countries. No matter how much Kaczynski wants it to stop...it won't. Technology is not a bad thing...its simply how people use it. You can use cameras to capture and beam information for people, or you can use it to spy on people. We should certainly watch out for bad uses and try to prevent them. But also, we shouldn't think we are so good and mighty that we're going to destroy ourselves in "two generations". And as far as "we" considering these ideas now...I doubt Slashdot is going to change the world. The world will progress down a rather set path...nothing we do on this website is going to change that. (But it's still fun arguing about it)
So how is this any different than a regular PC? And what will these console gamers do when they get a GPF in module kernel.exe?
On Alphas, Compaq is completely committed to Linux, TruUNIX, and OpenVMS. They even write drivers for Linux, etc., and they won't be canceling the Alphas anytime soon since its a good high-end market with lots of $$$
So which Alphas are you using then? You're saying a DS20 is worse than say a 3000-800, or a 2100? For the price and the features, it works pretty well..and a much better deal than the ES and GS series.
When I always see these articles on the net about how ATI will rule the world with its cutting-edge next-generation 3D technology, I never see any mention of the drivers. When I bought the ATI Rage 128 when it came out, it sounded like a good product (especially hardware-wise). But the drivers had significant problems, and ATI went for at least 6 months without updating the drivers, even though they acknowledged problems on their "known bugs" page. I can only think their future 3D cards will be the same. I finally gave up, threw the ATI card away and bought a NVidia TNT2. So what I am saying is that a company's programming talent is just as important as its hardware engineering. Without good drivers, that new 3D card is useless.
This would make it easier for them to spam you. Forget buying mailing lists. They just write a program to send to address 10000, 10001, 10002, 1003, and so on :)