Okay, the movies were the same thing over and over. I just thought they were boring. The lack of endings on the first two movies was terrible, no form of closure whatsoever. And "THE PRESCIOUS" drove me absolutely nuts.
Yes, I'm so sure they "allow" thier computers to be monitored. I wonder if clicking "I Agree" in any of thier software installations made them become "volunteers". If I was having my computer montiored knowningly, I wouldn't War3z, pirate music, or download pr0n. Well, maybe I'd download pr0n, but sure as hell I wouldn't do anything illegal like use Kazaa, Grokster, etc for music.
KDE sucks, its interface is all ugly. I use Gnome and VI for everything. Hell, I even use OS-X most of the time. It's the TOOL that JUST WORKS. And it's got the most polished interface ever.
Bullshit, companies don't need money, they WANT money. I'm quite sick of everyone trying to make a million dollars for themselves and just saying "FUCK YOU" to everyone else. Look at the "Newman's Own" product line. Every bit of profit for the company goes to non-profit charities. Its the "Companies Need Money" line of thinking that causes jobs to be lost to cheap overseas labor. It's that line of thinking that causes Microsoft to go around getting legislation passed. Its that kind of thinking that got the DMCA passed. People are so fucking greedy anymore it makes me sick. I sacrifice money on my job daily to help out my clients. Sure, I could bring in all the MS software I want to my clients and charge them out the ass for my "support", but I don't. I set them up with cheap recycled computers that save them all tons of money and require almost zero maintainence. I'm also currently trying to get a free wireless network set up for my town to give people some free internet at my expense. I don't have to do this, hell I'm a business. But what the fuck do I need all my extra money for? Why don't the jerk-off RedHat execs take a lil cut for once in thier life, and sacrifice an SUV or two to pay a few developers to continue working on this?
I'm not expecting them to be a Non-Profit. I'd just expect them to do more to give shit back, rather than cutting me and all my RedHat servers off at the knees. Sure my servers don't run thier "enterprise" software, but they're not enterprise servers either. As a small business myself, I know how hard it can be to support everyone. But once you make a promise to people you can't just go and take it back. If I did something like that to my clients, they'd fire me so fast, and hire someone else. Maybe I expected too much from them.
I agree, but now that Novell owns SuSE, we'll see how long that lasts. I'm kinda wierded out by the fact that SuSE is now going to be heavy on Gnome and Mono. Don't get me wrong, Gnome is cool, but I don't think Mono is a good idea. Just wait until Linux becomes all dependant on Mono, and Microshit decides that is the perfect time to sue and shut it all down.
No, its because I placed my trust in that company and they failed me. The people that helped build that company are being fucked right up the ass, and that's what I don't like. It has nothing to do with money. In fact, I pay for plenty of Linux software, I bought a few Linux games and I bought Crossover. And nobody said they are evil, they just suck for cutting us off. Evil would be if they started hiring temp employees, and using overseas labor, things like that.
Call me a troll, but I won't be using this software. I'm sick of RedHat anymore. Thier support is going away for thier Personal users. They're just this big money-groveling corporation now. They've completely dropped support to the people (like me) who've been using them for years. RedHat was built on the average joe user, and now they're taking us Joes and basically telling us to go fuck ourselves. No more updates for RedHat 7.x, the "fedora" project, which they no longer support, and now saying that Linux is only for corporate environments. Souds like all they wanna do is sell thier "corporate server" for $1200 a pop or however overpriced that crap is, and tell all the people who helped make them a successful company to go away.
Hey dipshit, maybe Quickbooks is so easy for your CPA to set up because they've had hours upon hours of training on it. If they had training in the other app, it would be just as easy.
You must be supreme god yuppy guy. Mr. "I don't have time to play around". If you were so goddamn efficent and didn't need computer stuff, then why bother reading slashdot. Why bother going through the comments. If you want to get the news quit wasting your goddamn time posting you're "I'm better than you time-wasting people" crap.
We don't give a fuck how much money you make or could be making. I make just as much money using Linux, since I know what I'm doing. Linux has all the tools that I need to run an efficent, stable server. Fuck most of my server have over 2 years of uptime, and cost less than $500 for hardware. How about that for TCO? Sounds to me like you don't give a fuck about what your clients get, just what you end up with in the end.
You're just a goddamn business machine drone, and have no enthusiasm for what you are doing. Enthusiam is what creates innovation, instead of doing the same systematic bullshit all day long with the same goddamn tools, blah blah blah.
I bet your wife really likes your efficent, get-the-job-done, attitude too. I'm sure you get the job done in no time, cos you don't have time for life or anything else it sounds like.
Yeah well screw you VI and EMACS users, I do hand coding the REAL way. None of this weak-ass text editing stuff. If you want real layout you need to get as serious as me! Why the real hardcore people like me just build a cleanroom, then we take apart our hard drives and encode the binary ASCII codes onto the hard drives with little tiny maginets. It gives you such cleaner ASCII than what those crappy text editors can put out. Plus, I get to chose my text format from the get go, DOS, Mac, UNIX, whatever I want. Hell, I can even mix and match for the best compatability. Lets see your silly text editors do that!
The best spyware is the stuff that you can't un-install. I can't remember the names of this crap. But I remember one toolbar for IE that I was paid to remove. There was no way to get rid of it. Also, HotBar has to be the worst because everyone installs it without knowing just how bad it is. I've seen it cause more problems with the computer than anything else. Since it integrates into Explorer, OE, Outlook, etc, It causes major headaches. Its so poorly written, and pops up advertising all the time I can't stand it. Also, there are those damn, "Free GAMES" that people always install. Those make administration a nightmare.
But the worst software that gets onto a computer has to be any Win32 application. Windows seems to make people lazy, and they seem to forget about things like permissions. Everything you install in Windows requires "Administrator" access, which is what allows all this bullshit software to get installed.
Yeah, all your phone calls brought to you by the number one most untrusted, bandwidth-hogging, spyware installing company, KaZaa! Thats right, download our software free today! It may not have our spyware package in it yet, but just wait until everyone is using it! Our new 'enchanced' version 2.0 will come complete with our enchanced features such as:
SaveNow! This tells you how to save money, even though you weren't going to spend it anyways!
NewDotNet! Yes that's right, you too can be mislead into believing that every web site is linking to one company! But that's not all! We're also including a URL hijacker that sends you to the wrong website!
Seriously though. What do the people at KaZaa think they're going to do to make money? Of course they're going to advertise with it. They may not have it yet, but I don't think the original KaZaa had any spyware in it either, just banner ads. Nothing put out by them will ever be free IMHO.
So there you go. Apple again is non-innovative in thier open source thing.
"Wow, open source is hip, lets pretend to be hip and cool by making some useless fork of our OS open."
Oh yeah Darwin is some real great open source software. Yeah everyone is using it now. I'm not talking OSX i'm talking about the real, open Darwin. How useless is that crap. YAY i've got an OS with shit for software.
Lets contribute bug fixes to Darwin, so that Apple can fix thier fucked up OSX problems and then resell it in a package that I don't get for free. In fact, its so not free that I have to pay for a fucking upgrade. Oh yeah pay $100 for fuckin 10.3, because my original OSX was fucked up in the first place.
Oh yeah Apple contributes a little bit of stuff to KHTML. Wow how generous.
Apple just started this to jump on the bandwagon and use some other peoples stuff. If they could have taken the open stuff and put it in thier os without contributing back they would have. Its all part of thier corporate strategy.
Since Apple is so open, how about the source to the iLife apps?
Apple's 'Open Source' policy is nothing but a corporate front. How about them releasing some code that wasn't already based on an open system.
Oh an BTW, it wasn't just based on FreeBSD, but also netBSD. And who gives a rip if they were out before Linux? Linux was out before OSX so quit blabbing on about nothing. You haven't proven your point and won't prove it because your point is invalid.
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I agree that the iPod is very innovative. They were truely the first to come up with a small portable device that carrys hundreds of songs. In fact, I totally want to buy one. But to call iTunes for Windows an innovation is a bunch of crap. It was only an obvious decision that Apple made. And for the parent to my post to call linux un-innovative is a bunch of crap too. Maybe I was just pissed off about that, and had to flame his ass. I'm just tired of the Mac-is-so-goddamn-supreme attitude of that guy. The arrogance of him saying that the thousands of thousands of linux projects out there aren't innovative just steams me.
Yeah right, Apple hasn't allowed you to view the source code of thier software and send in bug fixes. Thats complete BS.
There's no incompatability at all, why don't you name one. Oh and OK i won't scream Gentoo, I'll scream SuSE, Mandrake, and RedHat, which oh, my 12-year-old sister manages to be able to run and install software on Mandrake just fine. She clicks the package and bam it installs. Most of what she wants to play with doesn't require dependencies, and if you're going to a level of needing something with deps, then whats so hard about downloading a dependant package and installing it. Of course she had to be taught a little bit, but MacOS is no better for installing. I can't count the number of time's I've put a disc in my Grandparetns Mac (which they are extremely confused about) and had it bitch that I don't have version x.xx of some stupid ass extension, or I need a certain kind of mac to do this.
As far as for the average user, Mac offers nothing besides video editing. The average user doesn't have a firewire DV camera, or want to burn DVDs anyways.
I don't think that the 'fucking average user' understands that when you close a window, the program is still running in the background. How the hell is that for usability. "Oh by the way even though you don't see the program it's still running on the computer, thats why when you clicked the icon, you didn't see anything. You have to go to the file menu and say new window." Average user my ass.
You know what else, I don't want to mess around with steering and pushing pedals when I drive either. Fuck I just wanna get in my car and not even talk, just have it read my mind and go automatically where I want to go. Oh right you still have to know certain things. Training and learning is involved in everything, and I don't think computers should be an exception. Now i'm not saying that we force everyone to learn command line, but realize that there is some extent to learn. Just because linux is a little different and people are going to have to learn a few new things (clicking on an RPM).
And since you brought up the average user, which I mentioned nothing of in my original post, why don't I point out that you can't buy dick at an average store for a Mac. There are 400x the products available for the PC. If you're talking the average user, and them not wanting to deal with stuff, then sounds like Winblows is the way to go. Becaue you know what? EVERYTHING is automatic in windows! Automatic virus installations, automatic spyware installations, automatic bugs, and security holes. See the user doesn't even have to deal with installing those. Thats what happens when you give every user Administrative priveleges on a system. So people are going to have to learn a few new things now anyways.
You're ovbiously a moron to say that linux is archaic. It's a unix derivitive you dumbass, just like your prescious little MacOS. And If it weren't for the innovation of Linus to create free and open unicies, then Apple would never have been able to 'innovate' by taking an 'archaic' unix system and calling it thier own.
Yeah thats exactly what puts Microsoft at the top, innovation! Innovation is what makes IE so great! IE is what makes Windows run so superbly! Innovation brought us things like the Office Assistant Paperclip! [ERRRRT]
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!? The reason iTunes has done so well is because they got some good deals with record companies. The reason Microsoft has done so well is because they got some good deals with PC manufacturers. I don't suppose you expect the linux company to go strike some multi-million dollar deals? Oh right, there in NO LINUX COMPANY. It's not about linux being innovative. Linux has produced so many thousands of innovative products. How many companies worldwide have sprouted up thanks to Apple? I haven't heard of many, but think of all the companies that are in existance now thanks to Linux. RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, the list goes on forever. Hell, Apple hasn't done anything for my business. Linux is what's made my business of building routers from old machines possible.
In fact you know what? I have yet to see Apple come up with anything innovative. iLife products? Yeah there's plenty of software like it thats been around for a long time. Building and OS on a UNIX Core? Oh how fucking original, good new innovative idea apple! And iTunes, wow nobody's thought of selling music online before! That's innovative! No Apple was SMART in striking up deals with the right people and using clever marketing to get thier product out to thier market. But Innovative? I think not. Oh yeah lets not forget about thier innovative web browser, oh yeah it's just borrowed from the KDE project. Hmm...
I would just like to say that innovation is when you can set up systems without throwing money down the drain at your software. When you have huge communities ready to support you in an instant and help you with your projects. When you can find a problem with a piece of software, fix it yourself, send it to the authors and have it added in. Now that's real innovation.
Well, since the G5 is a desktop and not a workstation, I don't see why I should use one. When I go to work, I want to use a workstation, and when I get home, I want to use my desktop. OH WAIT THEY'RE THE SAME THING DUMBASS. Go back in your macfanboy hole and quit trying to justify the fact that Apple is constantly marketing a bunch of crap. Now please note, I think that the G5 is a kick ass computer, I just don't believe that first advertising campaign makes it the first machine of its type.
If you had read what I said, you would have realized that I said it 'died off' which means that it slowed down from its trememdous inital selling. I never said it was 'dead'. Often times markets start to die off but it doesn't mean that they are going to die. It just means they slowed down. I didn't slam Apple's service, in fact I used it to point out that the new Napster is never going to survive. I don't understand why everyone is so defensive about Apple.
Sure it's got the name Napster, but Napster died a long time ago. It's never going to come back. The people that own it now don't realize that Napster wasn't popular because of it's name, but because it was FREE. Nobody is going to want to join Napster and have to pay for it. Apple's iTunes was only popular when it first came out. It was a big hype, and it's died off tremendously. There's no way that Napster will ever be as popular as iTunes because it doesn't have the following like Apple did with the Mac crowd.
I think not. Someone had to create this game in the first place. Chances are that these people that created the game aren't really 'qualified' to be teaching people how to kill and whatnot. I think that when game creators come up with an idea for a game, it's an idea that ANYONE could have come up with. Game makers aren't some special elite force that knows how to kill. Maybe they do a little research before hand, but I highly doubt that they are any more expericned at 'going postal' than anybody who plays these games.
Also, wouldn't you think that the game creators would get thier brains tweaked a little bit, considering that they have to actaully CREATE the violence?
Sounds like extortion to me. Kinda like organized crime. Maybe it's time for some Piracy Insurance. In case you decide to pirate music, so you don't get your legs broken.
Who wants to pay a service fee, plus $3.99 for a movie. I don't even need an HDD recorder, and I pay the same thing for an all day movie on Dish Network. I'm sure that cable companies and DirecTV offer the same things. Heck, if you live close enough in town to pick up terrestrial broadcasts, then you probably don't mind the walk or very short drive to the video store. Sounds to me like this is going to go out of business as fast as Circuit City's Divx (not DivX;-) ) movies.
Yeah too bad it's all going to hell. The Patriot Act has already taken away a bunch of our rights. And the Patriot Act II is still being thrown around. People are being scared into giving up thier rights, and as long as they are being told that they'll get more 'security' then everyone is going to keep giving up thier rights. They'd rather live in a secure little perfect world, than a world that is full of limitless possibilities.
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This was supposed to be a troll goddamnit. I must not be all that good at making them.
Okay, the movies were the same thing over and over. I just thought they were boring. The lack of endings on the first two movies was terrible, no form of closure whatsoever. And "THE PRESCIOUS" drove me absolutely nuts.
Yes, I'm so sure they "allow" thier computers to be monitored. I wonder if clicking "I Agree" in any of thier software installations made them become "volunteers". If I was having my computer montiored knowningly, I wouldn't War3z, pirate music, or download pr0n. Well, maybe I'd download pr0n, but sure as hell I wouldn't do anything illegal like use Kazaa, Grokster, etc for music.
KDE sucks, its interface is all ugly. I use Gnome and VI for everything. Hell, I even use OS-X most of the time. It's the TOOL that JUST WORKS. And it's got the most polished interface ever.
Bullshit, companies don't need money, they WANT money. I'm quite sick of everyone trying to make a million dollars for themselves and just saying "FUCK YOU" to everyone else. Look at the "Newman's Own" product line. Every bit of profit for the company goes to non-profit charities. Its the "Companies Need Money" line of thinking that causes jobs to be lost to cheap overseas labor. It's that line of thinking that causes Microsoft to go around getting legislation passed. Its that kind of thinking that got the DMCA passed. People are so fucking greedy anymore it makes me sick. I sacrifice money on my job daily to help out my clients. Sure, I could bring in all the MS software I want to my clients and charge them out the ass for my "support", but I don't. I set them up with cheap recycled computers that save them all tons of money and require almost zero maintainence. I'm also currently trying to get a free wireless network set up for my town to give people some free internet at my expense. I don't have to do this, hell I'm a business. But what the fuck do I need all my extra money for? Why don't the jerk-off RedHat execs take a lil cut for once in thier life, and sacrifice an SUV or two to pay a few developers to continue working on this?
I'm not expecting them to be a Non-Profit. I'd just expect them to do more to give shit back, rather than cutting me and all my RedHat servers off at the knees. Sure my servers don't run thier "enterprise" software, but they're not enterprise servers either. As a small business myself, I know how hard it can be to support everyone. But once you make a promise to people you can't just go and take it back. If I did something like that to my clients, they'd fire me so fast, and hire someone else. Maybe I expected too much from them.
I agree, but now that Novell owns SuSE, we'll see how long that lasts. I'm kinda wierded out by the fact that SuSE is now going to be heavy on Gnome and Mono. Don't get me wrong, Gnome is cool, but I don't think Mono is a good idea. Just wait until Linux becomes all dependant on Mono, and Microshit decides that is the perfect time to sue and shut it all down.
No, its because I placed my trust in that company and they failed me. The people that helped build that company are being fucked right up the ass, and that's what I don't like. It has nothing to do with money. In fact, I pay for plenty of Linux software, I bought a few Linux games and I bought Crossover. And nobody said they are evil, they just suck for cutting us off. Evil would be if they started hiring temp employees, and using overseas labor, things like that.
Call me a troll, but I won't be using this software. I'm sick of RedHat anymore. Thier support is going away for thier Personal users. They're just this big money-groveling corporation now. They've completely dropped support to the people (like me) who've been using them for years. RedHat was built on the average joe user, and now they're taking us Joes and basically telling us to go fuck ourselves. No more updates for RedHat 7.x, the "fedora" project, which they no longer support, and now saying that Linux is only for corporate environments. Souds like all they wanna do is sell thier "corporate server" for $1200 a pop or however overpriced that crap is, and tell all the people who helped make them a successful company to go away.
Hey dipshit, maybe Quickbooks is so easy for your CPA to set up because they've had hours upon hours of training on it. If they had training in the other app, it would be just as easy.
You must be supreme god yuppy guy. Mr. "I don't have time to play around". If you were so goddamn efficent and didn't need computer stuff, then why bother reading slashdot. Why bother going through the comments. If you want to get the news quit wasting your goddamn time posting you're "I'm better than you time-wasting people" crap.
We don't give a fuck how much money you make or could be making. I make just as much money using Linux, since I know what I'm doing. Linux has all the tools that I need to run an efficent, stable server. Fuck most of my server have over 2 years of uptime, and cost less than $500 for hardware. How about that for TCO? Sounds to me like you don't give a fuck about what your clients get, just what you end up with in the end.
You're just a goddamn business machine drone, and have no enthusiasm for what you are doing. Enthusiam is what creates innovation, instead of doing the same systematic bullshit all day long with the same goddamn tools, blah blah blah.
I bet your wife really likes your efficent, get-the-job-done, attitude too. I'm sure you get the job done in no time, cos you don't have time for life or anything else it sounds like.
Yeah well screw you VI and EMACS users, I do hand coding the REAL way. None of this weak-ass text editing stuff. If you want real layout you need to get as serious as me! Why the real hardcore people like me just build a cleanroom, then we take apart our hard drives and encode the binary ASCII codes onto the hard drives with little tiny maginets. It gives you such cleaner ASCII than what those crappy text editors can put out. Plus, I get to chose my text format from the get go, DOS, Mac, UNIX, whatever I want. Hell, I can even mix and match for the best compatability. Lets see your silly text editors do that!
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The best spyware is the stuff that you can't un-install. I can't remember the names of this crap. But I remember one toolbar for IE that I was paid to remove. There was no way to get rid of it. Also, HotBar has to be the worst because everyone installs it without knowing just how bad it is. I've seen it cause more problems with the computer than anything else. Since it integrates into Explorer, OE, Outlook, etc, It causes major headaches. Its so poorly written, and pops up advertising all the time I can't stand it. Also, there are those damn, "Free GAMES" that people always install. Those make administration a nightmare.
But the worst software that gets onto a computer has to be any Win32 application. Windows seems to make people lazy, and they seem to forget about things like permissions. Everything you install in Windows requires "Administrator" access, which is what allows all this bullshit software to get installed.
Yeah, all your phone calls brought to you by the number one most untrusted, bandwidth-hogging, spyware installing company, KaZaa! Thats right, download our software free today! It may not have our spyware package in it yet, but just wait until everyone is using it! Our new 'enchanced' version 2.0 will come complete with our enchanced features such as:
SaveNow! This tells you how to save money, even though you weren't going to spend it anyways!
NewDotNet! Yes that's right, you too can be mislead into believing that every web site is linking to one company! But that's not all! We're also including a URL hijacker that sends you to the wrong website!
Seriously though. What do the people at KaZaa think they're going to do to make money? Of course they're going to advertise with it. They may not have it yet, but I don't think the original KaZaa had any spyware in it either, just banner ads. Nothing put out by them will ever be free IMHO.
So there you go. Apple again is non-innovative in thier open source thing.
"Wow, open source is hip, lets pretend to be hip and cool by making some useless fork of our OS open."
Oh yeah Darwin is some real great open source software. Yeah everyone is using it now. I'm not talking OSX i'm talking about the real, open Darwin. How useless is that crap. YAY i've got an OS with shit for software.
Lets contribute bug fixes to Darwin, so that Apple can fix thier fucked up OSX problems and then resell it in a package that I don't get for free. In fact, its so not free that I have to pay for a fucking upgrade. Oh yeah pay $100 for fuckin 10.3, because my original OSX was fucked up in the first place.
Oh yeah Apple contributes a little bit of stuff to KHTML. Wow how generous.
Apple just started this to jump on the bandwagon and use some other peoples stuff. If they could have taken the open stuff and put it in thier os without contributing back they would have. Its all part of thier corporate strategy.
Since Apple is so open, how about the source to the iLife apps?
Apple's 'Open Source' policy is nothing but a corporate front. How about them releasing some code that wasn't already based on an open system.
Oh an BTW, it wasn't just based on FreeBSD, but also netBSD. And who gives a rip if they were out before Linux? Linux was out before OSX so quit blabbing on about nothing. You haven't proven your point and won't prove it because your point is invalid.
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I agree that the iPod is very innovative. They were truely the first to come up with a small portable device that carrys hundreds of songs. In fact, I totally want to buy one. But to call iTunes for Windows an innovation is a bunch of crap. It was only an obvious decision that Apple made. And for the parent to my post to call linux un-innovative is a bunch of crap too. Maybe I was just pissed off about that, and had to flame his ass. I'm just tired of the Mac-is-so-goddamn-supreme attitude of that guy. The arrogance of him saying that the thousands of thousands of linux projects out there aren't innovative just steams me.
Yeah right, Apple hasn't allowed you to view the source code of thier software and send in bug fixes. Thats complete BS.
There's no incompatability at all, why don't you name one. Oh and OK i won't scream Gentoo, I'll scream SuSE, Mandrake, and RedHat, which oh, my 12-year-old sister manages to be able to run and install software on Mandrake just fine. She clicks the package and bam it installs. Most of what she wants to play with doesn't require dependencies, and if you're going to a level of needing something with deps, then whats so hard about downloading a dependant package and installing it. Of course she had to be taught a little bit, but MacOS is no better for installing. I can't count the number of time's I've put a disc in my Grandparetns Mac (which they are extremely confused about) and had it bitch that I don't have version x.xx of some stupid ass extension, or I need a certain kind of mac to do this.
As far as for the average user, Mac offers nothing besides video editing. The average user doesn't have a firewire DV camera, or want to burn DVDs anyways.
I don't think that the 'fucking average user' understands that when you close a window, the program is still running in the background. How the hell is that for usability. "Oh by the way even though you don't see the program it's still running on the computer, thats why when you clicked the icon, you didn't see anything. You have to go to the file menu and say new window." Average user my ass.
You know what else, I don't want to mess around with steering and pushing pedals when I drive either. Fuck I just wanna get in my car and not even talk, just have it read my mind and go automatically where I want to go. Oh right you still have to know certain things. Training and learning is involved in everything, and I don't think computers should be an exception. Now i'm not saying that we force everyone to learn command line, but realize that there is some extent to learn. Just because linux is a little different and people are going to have to learn a few new things (clicking on an RPM).
And since you brought up the average user, which I mentioned nothing of in my original post, why don't I point out that you can't buy dick at an average store for a Mac. There are 400x the products available for the PC. If you're talking the average user, and them not wanting to deal with stuff, then sounds like Winblows is the way to go. Becaue you know what? EVERYTHING is automatic in windows! Automatic virus installations, automatic spyware installations, automatic bugs, and security holes. See the user doesn't even have to deal with installing those. Thats what happens when you give every user Administrative priveleges on a system. So people are going to have to learn a few new things now anyways.
You're ovbiously a moron to say that linux is archaic. It's a unix derivitive you dumbass, just like your prescious little MacOS. And If it weren't for the innovation of Linus to create free and open unicies, then Apple would never have been able to 'innovate' by taking an 'archaic' unix system and calling it thier own.
Yeah thats exactly what puts Microsoft at the top, innovation! Innovation is what makes IE so great! IE is what makes Windows run so superbly! Innovation brought us things like the Office Assistant Paperclip! [ERRRRT]
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!? The reason iTunes has done so well is because they got some good deals with record companies. The reason Microsoft has done so well is because they got some good deals with PC manufacturers. I don't suppose you expect the linux company to go strike some multi-million dollar deals? Oh right, there in NO LINUX COMPANY. It's not about linux being innovative. Linux has produced so many thousands of innovative products. How many companies worldwide have sprouted up thanks to Apple? I haven't heard of many, but think of all the companies that are in existance now thanks to Linux. RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, the list goes on forever. Hell, Apple hasn't done anything for my business. Linux is what's made my business of building routers from old machines possible.
In fact you know what? I have yet to see Apple come up with anything innovative. iLife products? Yeah there's plenty of software like it thats been around for a long time. Building and OS on a UNIX Core? Oh how fucking original, good new innovative idea apple! And iTunes, wow nobody's thought of selling music online before! That's innovative! No Apple was SMART in striking up deals with the right people and using clever marketing to get thier product out to thier market. But Innovative? I think not. Oh yeah lets not forget about thier innovative web browser, oh yeah it's just borrowed from the KDE project. Hmm...
I would just like to say that innovation is when you can set up systems without throwing money down the drain at your software. When you have huge communities ready to support you in an instant and help you with your projects. When you can find a problem with a piece of software, fix it yourself, send it to the authors and have it added in. Now that's real innovation.
Well, since the G5 is a desktop and not a workstation, I don't see why I should use one. When I go to work, I want to use a workstation, and when I get home, I want to use my desktop. OH WAIT THEY'RE THE SAME THING DUMBASS. Go back in your macfanboy hole and quit trying to justify the fact that Apple is constantly marketing a bunch of crap. Now please note, I think that the G5 is a kick ass computer, I just don't believe that first advertising campaign makes it the first machine of its type.
If you had read what I said, you would have realized that I said it 'died off' which means that it slowed down from its trememdous inital selling. I never said it was 'dead'. Often times markets start to die off but it doesn't mean that they are going to die. It just means they slowed down. I didn't slam Apple's service, in fact I used it to point out that the new Napster is never going to survive. I don't understand why everyone is so defensive about Apple.
Sure it's got the name Napster, but Napster died a long time ago. It's never going to come back. The people that own it now don't realize that Napster wasn't popular because of it's name, but because it was FREE. Nobody is going to want to join Napster and have to pay for it. Apple's iTunes was only popular when it first came out. It was a big hype, and it's died off tremendously. There's no way that Napster will ever be as popular as iTunes because it doesn't have the following like Apple did with the Mac crowd.
I think not. Someone had to create this game in the first place. Chances are that these people that created the game aren't really 'qualified' to be teaching people how to kill and whatnot. I think that when game creators come up with an idea for a game, it's an idea that ANYONE could have come up with. Game makers aren't some special elite force that knows how to kill. Maybe they do a little research before hand, but I highly doubt that they are any more expericned at 'going postal' than anybody who plays these games.
Also, wouldn't you think that the game creators would get thier brains tweaked a little bit, considering that they have to actaully CREATE the violence?
RIAA: Pay up or else!
Sounds like extortion to me. Kinda like organized crime. Maybe it's time for some Piracy Insurance. In case you decide to pirate music, so you don't get your legs broken.
Who wants to pay a service fee, plus $3.99 for a movie. I don't even need an HDD recorder, and I pay the same thing for an all day movie on Dish Network. I'm sure that cable companies and DirecTV offer the same things. Heck, if you live close enough in town to pick up terrestrial broadcasts, then you probably don't mind the walk or very short drive to the video store. Sounds to me like this is going to go out of business as fast as Circuit City's Divx (not DivX ;-) ) movies.
Yeah too bad it's all going to hell. The Patriot Act has already taken away a bunch of our rights. And the Patriot Act II is still being thrown around. People are being scared into giving up thier rights, and as long as they are being told that they'll get more 'security' then everyone is going to keep giving up thier rights. They'd rather live in a secure little perfect world, than a world that is full of limitless possibilities.