....much better to lie there on your face with a dozen guns in your back and a dozen high school dropouts screaming "pedophile" at you. THAT'S the key to effective law enforcement.
Typically, my discovery tends to run along the lines of this:
"My computer pops up this error message when I log in," says mother-in-law. "That's letting you know that the anti-virus and anti-malware software I installed needed to be updated two months ago." "Well now it won't let me access my Facebook." "Your machine is cursed with viruses that have corrupted your system software." "Can you fix it?" "Probably...I'm busy these days, but maybe I can get by there this week." (two days later, from the library on Facebook) "Sorry you haven't gotten my critical Charles Stanley updates in your e-mails. My son-in-law said he was coming by two days ago but I haven't seen him. Guess I'll just continue to go to the library to spam you."
It's more like showing them that computers don't have to be virus-laden pieces of shit to access their Facebook and e-mail. I, on the other hand, don't find the Mac limiting in the least, and in fact, I find it liberating in that I find myself free of bruises from beating my head against a wall.
Since I (finally) convinced my parents to buy a MacBook to replace their aging piece of lard Dell laptop and Compaq desktops, they have had zero difficulties. I've been to fix my mother-in-law's craptacular PC a dozen times.
I've decided to let people know I'll recommend, purchase, configure and maintain their Macs, but I won't touch a Windows PC.
All that is true. However, some people simply do not need to own computers. Hate to say it, but if you've made it the first 65 years of your life without one, you're probably going to be okay for the next 20.
Going through this transition right now. Mother-in-law backs me into a corner about her stupid antique computer and her bottom-of-the-line Time Warner cable modem. I agree to come get rid of all her virii, save her data and make sure the "Facebook on her computer" is okay. Don't get there in the next two days, and suddenly my slackness becomes a matter of public discussion in mass emails and Facebook postings emanating from the County Library.
I'm done. I'll advise you on the purchase of the Mac, set it up and check it when you have problems. I will no longer fight Windows 98, XP or Vista, and I will no longer recommend the installation of Microsoft Office on Macs, given the alternatives.
Done. There are businesses for this, and I'm not one of them. I've got hackintoshes to build, not Windows idiot boxes to fix.
Indeed, I have found that it's quite possible to obtain some pretty nice equipment through the cultivation of certain relationships in an MMORPG setting.
Artisan Prostitute?
I suppose if the developers made a few slight mods and additions, you could have Artisan Motherhood, and you could raise children that had the full run of Shattrath City or whatever. The sky's the limit.
It's interesting the kinds of interactions that take place in a virtual game environment like the World of Warcraft, where things can progress without the constraints of consequences. When the death, money and biology are fake, people tend, I think, to be more violent, more generous and, yes, more sexual.
If Blizzard actually took pains to represent human sexual interaction with any degree of visual realism, people would probably never leave their homes.
You don't think there's something wrong with a foreign corporation requesting a court order to find out who might have read something online so they can sue those people for having read that thing?
I can go ahead and guarantee you that it will play better with my Mac upstairs than my PS3 does when it comes to streaming media to my TV/surround setup. That alone justifies $99, so I don't have to climb up into my loft to restart the streaming server twice a day.
Apple's stuff just works, and just works together. That's what keeps people coming back.
I'm really starting to think some of you have sentences like your first one on a macro, and it's easier to just claim that something Apple makes is failed and overpriced than to observe reality and comment upon it.
The AppleTV is $99 freaking dollars and makes an effective iOS device for your TV, streams your stuff from your home LAN and will, when Apple's cloud initiatives play out, provide a cheap, easy-to-use interface to the music, movies, shows, books and everything that Apple will be pushing through its store. As a casual gamer, I'm considering getting rid of my PS3 altogether, since 90 percent of what I use it for the AppleTV can do, and I don't have to worry about Sony suing me if I hold my mouth the wrong way while I play. Yes, it's unnecessary, but what isn't in this sector?
I'd say it's a little early yet to be calling the AppleTV a "failed" product...its potential hasn't even nearly been realized.
...that the Internet is about to split in three. Google land, Apple land and Microsoft land, together with a few ancillary service providers like Facebook, Netflix and Twitter.
Slashdot Mirror
THAT'S what they'd do with the technology? Eliminate the wall switch?
Some solutions go looking for a problem, I suppose.
...you have hit upon the core issue. Police work would be a lot easier if not for free public wi-fi...
Dude sold a deputy a sawed-off shotgun. As far as I remember, there was no automatic weaponry involved on the part of the Weavers.
....much better to lie there on your face with a dozen guns in your back and a dozen high school dropouts screaming "pedophile" at you. THAT'S the key to effective law enforcement.
...that's what I'm doing with my home entertainment setup, now that my PS3 doesn't work anymore.
Seriously, Sony...just give it up. Open up your system and get to work on the PS4.
It's not a crime to be an ass.
Typically, my discovery tends to run along the lines of this:
"My computer pops up this error message when I log in," says mother-in-law.
"That's letting you know that the anti-virus and anti-malware software I installed needed to be updated two months ago."
"Well now it won't let me access my Facebook."
"Your machine is cursed with viruses that have corrupted your system software."
"Can you fix it?"
"Probably...I'm busy these days, but maybe I can get by there this week."
(two days later, from the library on Facebook)
"Sorry you haven't gotten my critical Charles Stanley updates in your e-mails. My son-in-law said he was coming by two days ago but I haven't seen him. Guess I'll just continue to go to the library to spam you."
It's more like showing them that computers don't have to be virus-laden pieces of shit to access their Facebook and e-mail. I, on the other hand, don't find the Mac limiting in the least, and in fact, I find it liberating in that I find myself free of bruises from beating my head against a wall.
Since I (finally) convinced my parents to buy a MacBook to replace their aging piece of lard Dell laptop and Compaq desktops, they have had zero difficulties. I've been to fix my mother-in-law's craptacular PC a dozen times.
I've decided to let people know I'll recommend, purchase, configure and maintain their Macs, but I won't touch a Windows PC.
All that is true. However, some people simply do not need to own computers. Hate to say it, but if you've made it the first 65 years of your life without one, you're probably going to be okay for the next 20.
Going through this transition right now. Mother-in-law backs me into a corner about her stupid antique computer and her bottom-of-the-line Time Warner cable modem. I agree to come get rid of all her virii, save her data and make sure the "Facebook on her computer" is okay. Don't get there in the next two days, and suddenly my slackness becomes a matter of public discussion in mass emails and Facebook postings emanating from the County Library.
I'm done. I'll advise you on the purchase of the Mac, set it up and check it when you have problems. I will no longer fight Windows 98, XP or Vista, and I will no longer recommend the installation of Microsoft Office on Macs, given the alternatives.
Done. There are businesses for this, and I'm not one of them. I've got hackintoshes to build, not Windows idiot boxes to fix.
I'd say that it pretty quickly becomes evident what kind of maturity level you're dealing with...
Indeed, I have found that it's quite possible to obtain some pretty nice equipment through the cultivation of certain relationships in an MMORPG setting.
Artisan Prostitute?
I suppose if the developers made a few slight mods and additions, you could have Artisan Motherhood, and you could raise children that had the full run of Shattrath City or whatever. The sky's the limit.
It's interesting the kinds of interactions that take place in a virtual game environment like the World of Warcraft, where things can progress without the constraints of consequences. When the death, money and biology are fake, people tend, I think, to be more violent, more generous and, yes, more sexual.
If Blizzard actually took pains to represent human sexual interaction with any degree of visual realism, people would probably never leave their homes.
That argument never made any sense anyway. If it did, Apache would receive the greater attention from the mal-intentioned than IIS, by far.
The whole "there aren't viruses on the Mac because nobody cares about that platform" argument goes right along with it.
...warns about the use of The Google.
Brothers in arms.
Just as long as you're not under any illusions that that thing you paid hundreds of dollars of your money to bring home from the store is yours...
This shouldn't even be POSSIBLE by mistake. They should need a court order for each one.
Apple certainly wouldn't sue you for watching a YouTube video of somebody else showing you how to run Windoze 7 on your Mac.
Whatever Hotz did or didn't do is immaterial to the people that stood to be sued for having WATCHED HIS VIDEO ON YOUTUBE.
You don't think there's something wrong with a foreign corporation requesting a court order to find out who might have read something online so they can sue those people for having read that thing?
There hasn't (yet) been a very compelling reason to purchase an AppleTV. There will be soon.
I can go ahead and guarantee you that it will play better with my Mac upstairs than my PS3 does when it comes to streaming media to my TV/surround setup. That alone justifies $99, so I don't have to climb up into my loft to restart the streaming server twice a day.
Apple's stuff just works, and just works together. That's what keeps people coming back.
I'm really starting to think some of you have sentences like your first one on a macro, and it's easier to just claim that something Apple makes is failed and overpriced than to observe reality and comment upon it.
The AppleTV is $99 freaking dollars and makes an effective iOS device for your TV, streams your stuff from your home LAN and will, when Apple's cloud initiatives play out, provide a cheap, easy-to-use interface to the music, movies, shows, books and everything that Apple will be pushing through its store. As a casual gamer, I'm considering getting rid of my PS3 altogether, since 90 percent of what I use it for the AppleTV can do, and I don't have to worry about Sony suing me if I hold my mouth the wrong way while I play. Yes, it's unnecessary, but what isn't in this sector?
I'd say it's a little early yet to be calling the AppleTV a "failed" product...its potential hasn't even nearly been realized.
...that the Internet is about to split in three. Google land, Apple land and Microsoft land, together with a few ancillary service providers like Facebook, Netflix and Twitter.