So you are the target demographic for the rash of hideously ugly American concept cars that have besmirched auto shows for the last ten years! I wondered who the hell it was.
As an curious observer of your seemingly incomprehensible taste, I note the following observations about you:
1. You think morbid obesity is indicative of proper nutrition.
2. You are still concerned about Communism for some reason. Perhaps you stopped following politics after Reagan lost.
3. You think larger wheel diameter improves handling. You probably ride one of those old bicycles with the huge front wheel.
4. You prefer not to use soap.
5. You think that foreign countries do not have mountains. Actually, the largest mountains in the world are not in the USA. They are in southern Asia.
6. You are physically challenged to the point of exhaustion when operating a motor vehicle.
7. You may be going deaf, as you seem to prefer keeping your bitchy, nagging hausfrau(s) close to your right ear.
8. You believe everything is bigger in America. Please refer to point #5 above.
9. You are opposed to the notion of progress in science.
BONUS: You seem to have forgotten about the following -- Ferrari F40, F50, 355, 360, 550.
I think you have succesfully proven nothing. Thanks for trying. If you built that contraption, do you honestly think that each component maufacturer is going to warrant their piece? No, IAAL, and I can tell you that a common exception for warranty coverage is "combination with other devices", believe it or not.
Will your jury-rigged, Rube Golberg-esque mousetrap have DVD authoring? Will it have an integrated tool for ripping, managing and burning CD's that is remotely as elegant as iTunes? Will your heap of wires and ugly beige tincans be able to run FinalCut Pro?
Didn't think so. You can probably heat your apartment with that furnace-like bucket-o-bolts and run exciting *nux programs all day and night long. Seriously, your box might be a good server, but it doesn't interest me at all.
1. Seemingly interminable wait while the redundant (albeit proximate) contextual menu loads and (finally) appears.
2. Scrolling. Also redundant and not terribly accurate either. I never use it.
Is it just me or are both these features available via a single mouse button?
I have used a three button ThinkPad for two years now and never, ever hit the damn scroll button. I'm not kidding about the right-click, either. The damn thing takes so long to appear, I often wonder if it's doing anything at all. It sucks.
As long as I can remember, my dream computer has cost about 10 grand. I'm glad it's still true. Also, look at that configuation. That's a kickass box, dude.
The GPL is so hopelessly mired in ambiguity that it will never hold water in court. Believe it or not, there's a reason lawyers get paid big bucks.
I find it ironic that the anti-lawyer types that take contracts into their own hands generally resort to obfuscated, archaic and logically incoherent drafting.
The GPL is a document written by people "playing lawyer." It will never serve its purpose after a challenge in the courts.
"Quiet enjoyment" is a term of art under the law. I'll let you look it up yourself. I'd suggest Black's Law Dictionary, or a google search. UCITA (that evil, bad law) implies a warranty of quiet enjoyment for software consumers. Smart vendors (like Apple) disclaim that warranty because it is not in their best interest to grant it to you. It's not like Apple's the only one, y'know.
BTW, your comment is the equivalent of a lawyer looking at some code and saying "Hey, look how stupid this coder is, he said '==' instead of just '='."
...Read the "Some People" manifesto? What kind of non-sequitor crap are they spewing? It's sad when artists take intellectual stands, but end up sounding like anti-intellectuals. Some People should STFU.
I seem to recall that there was a machine designed to actually consume morons in the USA. The theory being that this machine would live in a big stone building and hunt the morons down. Once it found them, it would tie them up, and slowly eat them from the inside out, using their decomposing wallets as fuel.
IIRC, that machine was called something like the "Civil Justice System" or something.
I can't think of any greater success story than IBM's personal computer business. Come to think of it, I can't think of any product more innovative than Windows. Oh! I forgot to mention that I am a moron.
How romantic! I'm swooning in my Teva's. Hurry, pour me another half-caf soy latte before pass out from excitement about pool halls and internet cafes.
Seattlites are so provincial. They have a talent for priding themselves on very unremarkable things with an earnestness and arrogance previously reserved for the French.
You call that tin can propped in the midst of that cow pasture a monolith? Come visit me in New York City sometime. I'll show you some monoliths.
Almost every single hosting or ISP vendor requires to submit to an "Acceptable Use Policy" that is as vague and open-ended as the quoted language. I bet at least 80% of the people reading this post have ISP's that can delete their accounts at the ISP's sole discretion. If you are a business customer, you are probably going to have to pay a termination penalty of 50% of the fees remaining under the contract.
Those screenshots are pitifully bad. Not only are they small and low-res, but they look like they were taken with a coolpix ten feet away from a crummy, warped 1980's-era monitor. What a POS.
Also, that is not a good motion blur effect. It just echoes the image with decreasing transparencies. Quake is the worst game to demo this effect on, too. Those of us who live for driving games want motion blur bad. You just can't get the effect of going 200+ MPH without it. This 3dfx crap wouldn't help much, but a photoshop quality motion blur effect on a driving game would really be cool.
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So you are the target demographic for the rash of hideously ugly American concept cars that have besmirched auto shows for the last ten years! I wondered who the hell it was.
As an curious observer of your seemingly incomprehensible taste, I note the following observations about you:
1. You think morbid obesity is indicative of proper nutrition.
2. You are still concerned about Communism for some reason. Perhaps you stopped following politics after Reagan lost.
3. You think larger wheel diameter improves handling. You probably ride one of those old bicycles with the huge front wheel.
4. You prefer not to use soap.
5. You think that foreign countries do not have mountains. Actually, the largest mountains in the world are not in the USA. They are in southern Asia.
6. You are physically challenged to the point of exhaustion when operating a motor vehicle.
7. You may be going deaf, as you seem to prefer keeping your bitchy, nagging hausfrau(s) close to your right ear.
8. You believe everything is bigger in America. Please refer to point #5 above.
9. You are opposed to the notion of progress in science.
BONUS: You seem to have forgotten about the following -- Ferrari F40, F50, 355, 360, 550.
I think you have succesfully proven nothing. Thanks for trying. If you built that contraption, do you honestly think that each component maufacturer is going to warrant their piece? No, IAAL, and I can tell you that a common exception for warranty coverage is "combination with other devices", believe it or not.
Will your jury-rigged, Rube Golberg-esque mousetrap have DVD authoring? Will it have an integrated tool for ripping, managing and burning CD's that is remotely as elegant as iTunes? Will your heap of wires and ugly beige tincans be able to run FinalCut Pro?
Didn't think so. You can probably heat your apartment with that furnace-like bucket-o-bolts and run exciting *nux programs all day and night long. Seriously, your box might be a good server, but it doesn't interest me at all.
More like two and a half months.
Your points are undoubtedly valid. I cannot argue with that.
Interesting. Thanks for the info. I'll try your suggestions.
Ok, ok. It's 95 on a 333 PII. I guess it's just me and this crummy laptop that my office gives me. It's the only Windoze box I use, thank god.
1. Seemingly interminable wait while the redundant (albeit proximate) contextual menu loads and (finally) appears.
2. Scrolling. Also redundant and not terribly accurate either. I never use it.
Is it just me or are both these features available via a single mouse button?
I have used a three button ThinkPad for two years now and never, ever hit the damn scroll button. I'm not kidding about the right-click, either. The damn thing takes so long to appear, I often wonder if it's doing anything at all. It sucks.
As long as I can remember, my dream computer has cost about 10 grand. I'm glad it's still true. Also, look at that configuation. That's a kickass box, dude.
The GPL is so hopelessly mired in ambiguity that it will never hold water in court. Believe it or not, there's a reason lawyers get paid big bucks.
I find it ironic that the anti-lawyer types that take contracts into their own hands generally resort to obfuscated, archaic and logically incoherent drafting.
The GPL is a document written by people "playing lawyer." It will never serve its purpose after a challenge in the courts.
That's why Apple wrote its own contract, dude.
"Quiet enjoyment" is a term of art under the law. I'll let you look it up yourself. I'd suggest Black's Law Dictionary, or a google search. UCITA (that evil, bad law) implies a warranty of quiet enjoyment for software consumers. Smart vendors (like Apple) disclaim that warranty because it is not in their best interest to grant it to you. It's not like Apple's the only one, y'know.
BTW, your comment is the equivalent of a lawyer looking at some code and saying "Hey, look how stupid this coder is, he said '==' instead of just '='."
Aren't you glad I straightened that out for you?
On the other hand, Apple's agreement probably is.
...Read the "Some People" manifesto? What kind of non-sequitor crap are they spewing? It's sad when artists take intellectual stands, but end up sounding like anti-intellectuals. Some People should STFU.
I seem to recall that there was a machine designed to actually consume morons in the USA. The theory being that this machine would live in a big stone building and hunt the morons down. Once it found them, it would tie them up, and slowly eat them from the inside out, using their decomposing wallets as fuel. IIRC, that machine was called something like the "Civil Justice System" or something.
I can't think of any greater success story than IBM's personal computer business. Come to think of it, I can't think of any product more innovative than Windows. Oh! I forgot to mention that I am a moron.
My Ford Festiva drives in a straight line and turns corners, too. It has a gas pedal and brakes. So tell me, why do I need a Ferrari?
...the fiduciary duty to shareholders? It might help explain "greed Steve Jobs", dumbass.
You'll have the option of dual 733mhz G4's soon enough!
No need to self-depricate. I just discovered that they are one in the same yesterday. BTW, I like your nick.
How romantic! I'm swooning in my Teva's. Hurry, pour me another half-caf soy latte before pass out from excitement about pool halls and internet cafes.
It's also a collection of notes played in a particular sequence at certain intervals. Is he supposed to mention that as well?
Seattlites are so provincial. They have a talent for priding themselves on very unremarkable things with an earnestness and arrogance previously reserved for the French.
You call that tin can propped in the midst of that cow pasture a monolith? Come visit me in New York City sometime. I'll show you some monoliths.
Especially when you discover that they're a national ISP as well as a cafe. Oh well.
Almost every single hosting or ISP vendor requires to submit to an "Acceptable Use Policy" that is as vague and open-ended as the quoted language. I bet at least 80% of the people reading this post have ISP's that can delete their accounts at the ISP's sole discretion. If you are a business customer, you are probably going to have to pay a termination penalty of 50% of the fees remaining under the contract.
Qwest, Global Crossing, UUNet, Digex...all of them.
Those screenshots are pitifully bad. Not only are they small and low-res, but they look like they were taken with a coolpix ten feet away from a crummy, warped 1980's-era monitor. What a POS.
Also, that is not a good motion blur effect. It just echoes the image with decreasing transparencies. Quake is the worst game to demo this effect on, too. Those of us who live for driving games want motion blur bad. You just can't get the effect of going 200+ MPH without it. This 3dfx crap wouldn't help much, but a photoshop quality motion blur effect on a driving game would really be cool.