I agree that changing the spelling would be pretty fruitless at this point. However, I do think that the rules for punctuation should be simplified and made more logical. You can hand the same short story and hand it to ten different english profs and they will each mark up the punctuation differently. It's retarded. At least with spelling, there's clear rules for what spelling to use. No such rules exist for punctuation.
Ken Lay was a piece of shit. I couldn't care less if he blew sunshine up the ass of people who worked around him to make them think he was a great guy. Personally, I'm deeply saddened that the thieving fuck won't rot in jail the rest of his life like he fucking deserves. Of course, a better sentence would have been to put him in a room for 30 minutes with all the people he fucked over but that's of no avail now either. If it were up to me, I'd open a monument on his grave that invites people to come piss on it.
Oh, and anyone who respected Ken Lay deserves to get pissed on too.
"Hardly. Any reported hardware problem with Apple hardware makes it onto the Slashdot front page within a matter of days. People complain about the Macbooks overheating ALL THE TIME. Dell can have far worse problems with their hardware, but it takes a laptop battery exploding and starting on fire before it's news here. You will still get modded down if you troll, however, which makes me think what's really going on is you guys miss the days when any factually challenged, Dvorak type quip would get you an automatic +5 Informative."
Yep but you can't mod parent level posts so your point is invalid. Also, with PC hardware it's a different ball of wax entirely since there are thousands of possible combinations. Consequently, if Samsung builds a bum hard drive it effects everyone (not necessarily just Windows machines). There's no PC manufacturer to point fingers at. Consequently, your comparison is apples to oranges (no pun intended). There is also no inherent sense of quality except with very specific PC brands. Nobody gives a shit if an e-machines boxes regularly die after one year because they are cheap pieces of shit. Apple always tries to pitch the quality of their products so they have an obligation to deliver.
"No, they aren't. The only place you'll find DRM is on the iTMS store, which nobody forces you to use. There is no product activation, and not even a serial number unless you are buying OS X Server."
Lock-in can come in more than just DRM form. For example, Apple has no intention for you to run OSX on non-Apple hardware. If you want OSX, you better buy from them as far as they are concerned. Of course hackers will continuously try to get around this limitation but the point is still valid. I can assure you that people would be even more pissed about a totally Apple dominated world than they are about Microsoft dominated world because Jobs is even a bigger cock than Gates (hard to imagine, I know).
Thanks, but I'll take the flexibility I have right now. Enjoy your closed, Jobs run, world.
lol...careful. Saying *anything* negative about Apple on/. can be hazardous to your karma. I'm a windows user and personally build my own PC's. I don't see why any geek would buy pre-built systems when you can build your own with better parts for the same or cheaper price but hey, that's/. for you. In any event, my PC's don't break. I confidently would put them up against any Apple product for a realibility test.
The other thing I don't get is how the rabid Apple fanbase on this site which ordinarily is extremely anti-DRM seems to not even notice that Apple is all about DRM, lock-in, and every other negative thing you can think of that comes with it. Un-fucking-believable. Personally, I hope Apple continues to succeed even more and kick Windows ass. I'm really looking forward to the day when all these idiots realise how much Jobs is ass fucking them with lock-in. The backlash will be something to remember.:)
I would help them because they are in MY country. That is an appropriate place to take action. I've stated over and over again we should stay out of the business of other countries. What's so hard to understand??
You can decide what's ok in your own country. You can think what you want about the policies of other countries as well. The difference is that it's ok to take action in your country to make changes. Taking action against another nation is another matter entirely.
Excellent. So we should be the World Police? Hey, I know...how about we adopt the Team America World Police theme song, "America, fuck yeah!". Sorry but just because you think they're assholes doesn't mean it's right to fuck with them. There are lots of people who think we're a bunch of assholes too (Al Queda anyone?). Do you want them fucking with our country?
Sorry but it's arrogance. I don't think it's cool that they've been beating up on poor Tibet but it's not our fight. Life isn't fair and it's not our job to save the world from injustice (or our perceived sense of it).
As long as America has the attitude that you have, and I think most Americans do, we will have big problems with the rest of the world.
1) Churchill practically begged us to go to war with the Nazi's. Even though we thought he was a cool dude, we still didn't do jack shit until the japanese ass raped us at Pear Harbor.
2) The Chinese government is not comitting genocide to my knowledge.
3) We didn't do shit for Rwanda or Darfur. I guess that makes us immoral?
4) The Tutsis did ask for help (from Europe too). They wanted U.N. intervention.
5) The Sudan is a total clusterfuck. It's a religious war and the government doesn't seem to give a shit. They refuse to ask for help. We have honored their request to stay out of it (as we should).
Finally, who are you (or anyone) to decide what's moral?
It's all pretty pointless since in the U.S. since we can't keep out illegal aliens, drugs, or pretty much anything else because our borders are too large. So making guns illegal (rights aside) achieves nothing. The criminals will always be able to get them if they want them (and they do). The only thing we can hope to do is try and educate people on proper gun ownership. Unfortunately, there are no requirements whatsoever for knowing anything about proper gun handling (thanks to the NRA). That said, the NRA does provide classes on responible gun ownership. They don't want to make it a requirement because they believe any gun control at all leads down a slippery slope of more and more legislation that eventually takes away our right to have a gun.
I would like the NRA (being a gun owner and all) if they weren't so paranoid about the loss of rights. Of course, the current administration is rapidly destroying other rights we have so maybe the NRA has the right idea afterall.
Wait, the iGun is obsolete. Introducing the iGun Pequeña. We're very excited about this. It's a quarter the size of the original and holds 100 cartidges and can fire 1,000,000 rounds before running out of ammo.
While the OP wants to cause enough distress that the people revolt, I also want to leave them be but it's because I think it's none of our fucking business. It's their country and they can do what they want (or not do anything at all). It's the interventionist attitudes of this country that cause most of the world to hate our fucking guts.
If the Chinese people start an uprising and ask for help, that's a different story althogether. Barring that, stay out of their fucking business. I'm pretty sure you don't want Chinese people telling you how your country should work. Why would you think they would want anything different? Arrogance.
You're right, CDs are mostly crap these days (especially anything produced for the BMG music club). However, SACD kicks ass and is definitely superior to vinyl. You haven't lived until you've heard the SACD version of Dark Side of the Moon.
The downside is that there just isn't enough SACDs available. I can actually get a better selection of music from vinyl. And I mean freshly minted vinly -- not collectables. It's really sad but too be expected since Sony came up with it and they fuck up every format they come up with.
It sounded better for about a half dozen plays. After that is just gets more and more sucky. For me to be happy with vinyl, I would have to replace each record every year. That's kinda pricey (especially for what they charge for vinyl now).
Yes, I shouldn't "stick it to them". Afterall, they are suffering so much. Poor babies. Life's hard when you can only own four Ferraris instead of five.
Are you fucking serious? What the fuck does fairness have to do with it? Is life fair? Is it fair that I pay more taxes as a percentage than they do? I don't fucking think so.
There are lots of people in this world who deserve some sympathy but I hardly think the rich qualify. I don't think we should fuck them over but I'm not going to fight for them either. They have enough money and lawyers to do that for themselves. And if they pay a little more than we do, that's about as fair as this world will ever get.
What makes double taxation wrong in this case given that a) this only effects the wealthy, b) the wealthy pay less taxes as a percentage than the middle class, c) the guy who owns the shit is dead? Seriously, why do you give a fuck?
If you don't think Bush is doing everything in his power to move the U.S. toward fascism, then YOU are the one who's blissfully ignorant. You need to seriously pay attention to what's going on in this fucking country. (and no...I'm not a liberal or democrat)
Oh boy, thank God ol' Dave Shroeder is once again here to come to Apple's aid. You are the biggest dumbass fanboi I think I've ever seen, and I've seen A LOT of them. Does Jobs plant one up your ass now and then to keep that shit-stream that comes out your mouth flowing?
But of course I'm wrong, right Dave? I mean, who could possibly think that FORCED overtime, 15 hour days, 7 days a week isn't that bad? Of course Apple has NO control over this whatsoever, right Dave?
Dave, when your sorry fucking ass is willing to go over there and work even a single week in their environment, then you can come and spew your dogmatic Apple bullshit. Until then, shut your stupid fuck hole of a mouth up. You are the most brainwashed, ignorant sonofabitch I've ever seen on these forums and that's saying something.
Not everything comes from China but thanks to "globalization" most everything made that has electronics or mechanical parts has some parts of it that were either manufactured or processed, in some way, in China. Net effect: you're supporting the Chinese regime.
In cases like clothing where you might find find alternatives from other countries, most of those other countries are no better than China and exploit their workers just like China does.
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What takes the seamlessness away for me is that fact that you can't run 3D games with it. So, I still have to install BootCamp if I want to play.
Try it. :)
Doesn't matter since your sound will be out of synch and the whole thing will look like shit. There are much better ways to skin this cat.
I agree that changing the spelling would be pretty fruitless at this point. However, I do think that the rules for punctuation should be simplified and made more logical. You can hand the same short story and hand it to ten different english profs and they will each mark up the punctuation differently. It's retarded. At least with spelling, there's clear rules for what spelling to use. No such rules exist for punctuation.
We are also substantially smell and hearing challenged, but you probably already knew that.
Ken Lay was a piece of shit. I couldn't care less if he blew sunshine up the ass of people who worked around him to make them think he was a great guy. Personally, I'm deeply saddened that the thieving fuck won't rot in jail the rest of his life like he fucking deserves. Of course, a better sentence would have been to put him in a room for 30 minutes with all the people he fucked over but that's of no avail now either. If it were up to me, I'd open a monument on his grave that invites people to come piss on it.
:)
Oh, and anyone who respected Ken Lay deserves to get pissed on too.
*anxiously awaits to get modded down*
"Hardly. Any reported hardware problem with Apple hardware makes it onto the Slashdot front page within a matter of days. People complain about the Macbooks overheating ALL THE TIME. Dell can have far worse problems with their hardware, but it takes a laptop battery exploding and starting on fire before it's news here. You will still get modded down if you troll, however, which makes me think what's really going on is you guys miss the days when any factually challenged, Dvorak type quip would get you an automatic +5 Informative."
Yep but you can't mod parent level posts so your point is invalid. Also, with PC hardware it's a different ball of wax entirely since there are thousands of possible combinations. Consequently, if Samsung builds a bum hard drive it effects everyone (not necessarily just Windows machines). There's no PC manufacturer to point fingers at. Consequently, your comparison is apples to oranges (no pun intended). There is also no inherent sense of quality except with very specific PC brands. Nobody gives a shit if an e-machines boxes regularly die after one year because they are cheap pieces of shit. Apple always tries to pitch the quality of their products so they have an obligation to deliver.
"No, they aren't. The only place you'll find DRM is on the iTMS store, which nobody forces you to use. There is no product activation, and not even a serial number unless you are buying OS X Server."
Lock-in can come in more than just DRM form. For example, Apple has no intention for you to run OSX on non-Apple hardware. If you want OSX, you better buy from them as far as they are concerned. Of course hackers will continuously try to get around this limitation but the point is still valid. I can assure you that people would be even more pissed about a totally Apple dominated world than they are about Microsoft dominated world because Jobs is even a bigger cock than Gates (hard to imagine, I know).
Thanks, but I'll take the flexibility I have right now. Enjoy your closed, Jobs run, world.
lol...careful. Saying *anything* negative about Apple on /. can be hazardous to your karma. I'm a windows user and personally build my own PC's. I don't see why any geek would buy pre-built systems when you can build your own with better parts for the same or cheaper price but hey, that's /. for you. In any event, my PC's don't break. I confidently would put them up against any Apple product for a realibility test.
:)
The other thing I don't get is how the rabid Apple fanbase on this site which ordinarily is extremely anti-DRM seems to not even notice that Apple is all about DRM, lock-in, and every other negative thing you can think of that comes with it. Un-fucking-believable. Personally, I hope Apple continues to succeed even more and kick Windows ass. I'm really looking forward to the day when all these idiots realise how much Jobs is ass fucking them with lock-in. The backlash will be something to remember.
You still don't get it.
I would help them because they are in MY country. That is an appropriate place to take action. I've stated over and over again we should stay out of the business of other countries. What's so hard to understand??
" If you saw a person being led down a street with a gun to their back would you assume they don't need help because they aren't asking for it?"
Sure because THEY ARE IN MY COUNTRY.
Let me clarify...
You can decide what's ok in your own country. You can think what you want about the policies of other countries as well. The difference is that it's ok to take action in your country to make changes. Taking action against another nation is another matter entirely.
You can talk shit about them all you want. Intervening is an entirely different matter.
Excellent. So we should be the World Police? Hey, I know...how about we adopt the Team America World Police theme song, "America, fuck yeah!". Sorry but just because you think they're assholes doesn't mean it's right to fuck with them. There are lots of people who think we're a bunch of assholes too (Al Queda anyone?). Do you want them fucking with our country?
Sorry but it's arrogance. I don't think it's cool that they've been beating up on poor Tibet but it's not our fight. Life isn't fair and it's not our job to save the world from injustice (or our perceived sense of it).
As long as America has the attitude that you have, and I think most Americans do, we will have big problems with the rest of the world.
You need to study history more.
1) Churchill practically begged us to go to war with the Nazi's. Even though we thought he was a cool dude, we still didn't do jack shit until the japanese ass raped us at Pear Harbor.
2) The Chinese government is not comitting genocide to my knowledge.
3) We didn't do shit for Rwanda or Darfur. I guess that makes us immoral?
4) The Tutsis did ask for help (from Europe too). They wanted U.N. intervention.
5) The Sudan is a total clusterfuck. It's a religious war and the government doesn't seem to give a shit. They refuse to ask for help. We have honored their request to stay out of it (as we should).
Finally, who are you (or anyone) to decide what's moral?
It's all pretty pointless since in the U.S. since we can't keep out illegal aliens, drugs, or pretty much anything else because our borders are too large. So making guns illegal (rights aside) achieves nothing. The criminals will always be able to get them if they want them (and they do). The only thing we can hope to do is try and educate people on proper gun ownership. Unfortunately, there are no requirements whatsoever for knowing anything about proper gun handling (thanks to the NRA). That said, the NRA does provide classes on responible gun ownership. They don't want to make it a requirement because they believe any gun control at all leads down a slippery slope of more and more legislation that eventually takes away our right to have a gun.
I would like the NRA (being a gun owner and all) if they weren't so paranoid about the loss of rights. Of course, the current administration is rapidly destroying other rights we have so maybe the NRA has the right idea afterall.
Wait, the iGun is obsolete. Introducing the iGun Pequeña. We're very excited about this. It's a quarter the size of the original and holds 100 cartidges and can fire 1,000,000 rounds before running out of ammo.
While the OP wants to cause enough distress that the people revolt, I also want to leave them be but it's because I think it's none of our fucking business. It's their country and they can do what they want (or not do anything at all). It's the interventionist attitudes of this country that cause most of the world to hate our fucking guts.
If the Chinese people start an uprising and ask for help, that's a different story althogether. Barring that, stay out of their fucking business. I'm pretty sure you don't want Chinese people telling you how your country should work. Why would you think they would want anything different? Arrogance.
You're right, CDs are mostly crap these days (especially anything produced for the BMG music club). However, SACD kicks ass and is definitely superior to vinyl. You haven't lived until you've heard the SACD version of Dark Side of the Moon.
The downside is that there just isn't enough SACDs available. I can actually get a better selection of music from vinyl. And I mean freshly minted vinly -- not collectables. It's really sad but too be expected since Sony came up with it and they fuck up every format they come up with.
It sounded better for about a half dozen plays. After that is just gets more and more sucky. For me to be happy with vinyl, I would have to replace each record every year. That's kinda pricey (especially for what they charge for vinyl now).
Yes, I shouldn't "stick it to them". Afterall, they are suffering so much. Poor babies. Life's hard when you can only own four Ferraris instead of five.
Are you fucking serious? What the fuck does fairness have to do with it? Is life fair? Is it fair that I pay more taxes as a percentage than they do? I don't fucking think so.
There are lots of people in this world who deserve some sympathy but I hardly think the rich qualify. I don't think we should fuck them over but I'm not going to fight for them either. They have enough money and lawyers to do that for themselves. And if they pay a little more than we do, that's about as fair as this world will ever get.
What makes double taxation wrong in this case given that a) this only effects the wealthy, b) the wealthy pay less taxes as a percentage than the middle class, c) the guy who owns the shit is dead? Seriously, why do you give a fuck?
If you don't think Bush is doing everything in his power to move the U.S. toward fascism, then YOU are the one who's blissfully ignorant. You need to seriously pay attention to what's going on in this fucking country. (and no...I'm not a liberal or democrat)
You forgot to mention that subsequent varieties will also be equipped with powerful "lasers" on their heads.
Oh boy, thank God ol' Dave Shroeder is once again here to come to Apple's aid. You are the biggest dumbass fanboi I think I've ever seen, and I've seen A LOT of them. Does Jobs plant one up your ass now and then to keep that shit-stream that comes out your mouth flowing?
But of course I'm wrong, right Dave? I mean, who could possibly think that FORCED overtime, 15 hour days, 7 days a week isn't that bad? Of course Apple has NO control over this whatsoever, right Dave?
Dave, when your sorry fucking ass is willing to go over there and work even a single week in their environment, then you can come and spew your dogmatic Apple bullshit. Until then, shut your stupid fuck hole of a mouth up. You are the most brainwashed, ignorant sonofabitch I've ever seen on these forums and that's saying something.
Sorry but it's just not that simple.
Not everything comes from China but thanks to "globalization" most everything made that has electronics or mechanical parts has some parts of it that were either manufactured or processed, in some way, in China. Net effect: you're supporting the Chinese regime.
In cases like clothing where you might find find alternatives from other countries, most of those other countries are no better than China and exploit their workers just like China does.