i actually still use my blueberry G3 ibook as well. I have never had to upgrade. The new BTI optimized batteries get you almost 5 hrs actually, even when using airport (wifi). Considering it is a 7 year old computer and i've seen no need ot buy a new ibook, i think that says a lot. If you use xpostfacto you can install Tiger on it as well if you want it (yay! spotlight!).
this is also available for free in video (WMV) where he also talks about E3 and the Wii's similarity to apple's approch and also compares media center PC and Front Row.
burning bush? i said mocking or criticizing the president not violent stuff. If a person threatens violence against the president, that illegal. Its been like that long before bush was president and good thing too. I'm sure there are plenty of people who were arrested for talking of killing/hurting clinton.
"Poor people are willing to fight but they have no desire to die. They are in the military for the money and mostly due to shady recruitment tactics. It's strange that other countries are as free as we are but don't need to take all these precautionary measures."
I know a lot of college students in ROTC. I know many people who are hardly poor who join the military (look at Jusitce scalia's son who's in iraq). There are familites with a military tradition. There are also peopel who enlist who need the money. I know a few vets from Iraq who are now using their GI bill benefits to go through college. They probably wouldn't have gone to college otherwise.
The key point is not that they have desire to die. In fact, I'm pretty sure no one wants to die (the exception being the suicidal ones who need help). The thing is no one is forced to join. There is a war going on, everyone knows they could die, but there are still volunteers willing to join.
who is talking about Nazi germany? who even mentioned WWII? Of course i know Europeans fought in WWII even the French fought after their surrender. I dont know where in my post you think i have even implied that. You just violated Godwin's law but I won't hold it against you. Lets ignore you said that.
I am not talking about Europeans 60 years ago. As the post i repiled to mentioned, we are talking about people today. Notice he sayd "anymore" i.e. we are talking about today as opposed to before. People today, esp in the west grow up with a lot of privileges and wealth. In europe (by europe, i mean europe excluding the UK), they have grown soft and are not willing to fight. They dont even spend money on their own defense and are almost entirely dependent on the US military presence (and NATO) to protect them. It has been this way since WWII. Even in recent years when there is a problem in Europe (Bosnia, kosovo etc) America has to step in because europe is not willing to and not capable of fixing its own problems.
I think the cartoon riots woke a lot of people up. Most people in europe still need to realize there is a war going on and whether they like it or not, they are smack dead in the middle of it. We are fighting for freedom. The war on terror is a euphamism we all know what the war is really about. Eveyone knows it is a war with Islamic fascism, I'm not going to hide behind a PC fig leaf term like "war on terror".
Seriously, look at Rushidie, Theo van gough (i dont particularly care for his filsm BTW) and the cartoon riots. Do you really want to be afraid for your life the next time you decide to criticize Islam? How about exercisig your first ammendment rights in general? not feaful of the govenment but of shadowy groups that enforce an islamic code. what about the next time you drink some wine or beer? holding hands with your significant other (if you are a liberal, you do know what they do to homosexuals in the middle east, outisde of israel right?) At this point you will equate Bush to nazis and say he is the same thing. Do this, name one person who has been killed or imprisoned for mocking Bush. How about Jesus? do you see people getting killed for making the Da vinci code movie? imagine if that were about mohammed? If the US were really a totalitarrian state like some people claim, there wouldn't be mass protests against the war, it would be like a real dictatorship like china where everyone would be jailed and killed. This news story would never even be in headlines if the reporters were fearfulf or their lives.
"His quote has to be seen in that context. These days nobody seems to want to die for freedom anymore and hence the freedom is taken away piecemeal...
Look, I'm not even American, but I do think I understand the historical context. I think that Benjamin Franklin was indeed a wise man and I am only a pinko-commie-euro-bastard. "
Considering the US military is a all volunteer service and every single american soldier in Iraq and Afgnaistan as well as all over the world volunteered to join the military knowing the risks, i think you don't understand the US at all. The US is not europe, people here actually are willing to fight and die.
But seriously, what is the point of privacy (and if this is true, they are just collecting anonymous data) if you are dead. I think most people see stuff like what happened in London and the cartoon riots and realize the alternative is much worse.
"There is another first-person swordfighting game, Maken X for the Dreamcast, and great as it was, its problem was that no control pad could ever have the precision for a "real" swordfight."
personally, i will stick with daikatana and superfly johnson. thank you very much.
my point is often times innovation involves taking preexisting tech and implementing it in a new way. The key operator here being new. Computers are built upon abstraction. You depend on underlying principles to implement more complex things. Look at something like java. It is clearly innovative (esp when it came out) but it is really a collection of a lot of tech that works well together.
"Look at the Mac... these days hardware wise it's pretty much a PC in a white case. About as boring and uninventive as you can get. MacOS X looks nice but is just an evolution (or mashup) of existing systems. Its primary innovation was a focus on eyecandy. The most innovative feature I can think of in a Mac is Expose. The real innovation in operating systems takes place in things like Plan9, Singularity etc."
before apple what color were all computers? beige and maybe if you are lucky, black. That was the rule. How many computers came standard with a GUI in the 80s before apple's? More recently, a unix based desktop OS your mom can use? How about a GL acclerated desktop? a major commercial open source OS with full driver support? how many unix laptops could you buy? did you see people in starbucks running BSD made so simple they didnt even know it?
regarding innovation, have you even used a mac or an ipod? before the ipod, no one put tiny HDDs on mp3 players. There were HDD based players that were huge and tiny flash players. No one bothered integrating an mp3 player with a desktop based magement system that actually works. Itunes does more than sync your mp3s, it maintains ratings and play counts, album art, lyrics and syncs that with your ipod as well. Listen to a song on the ipod and rate it high and it will show up as such on your dekstop. How about the itunes music store. Are you telling me that was done before? with flat pricing? integrating with your ipod?
sure there are copy cats now, but when they first came out with the ipod, tons of people here were saying it would be a failure (or it was "lame"). Do you remember the surprise when the music store came out? these were all risks becasue they were not doen before.
Lets not even get into iLife. go use a mac before saying there is nothing innovative. Just because you've never used it does not mean it does not exist.
my first two points stand though. the Ps3-- is not guranteed to produce the same output as a Ps3. Look at the king king xbox 360 game and the problems with HD and SD tvs and you get some idea of where this is going. What is the point of a console if there is variation in hardware.
1. without HDMI your bluray player might just be a expensive DVD player 2. without HDMI there is a visual difference between Ps3-- and Ps3 in games that need to use 1080p. There may even be games in the future that you can't play right, who knows. 3. without memory card support the Ps3-- has backwards compatibility but you have to reply everything. 4. whouth wifi, the PSP viewer trick will not work (at least wirelessly)
5. unlike the 360, you cant add (that we know of) the missing features to the PS3--
at least a core 360 could be upgraded. the 500 Ps3 is severely crippled and with no HDMI, the games dont even look the same. Imagine spending 500 on console and realizing you cant play all the game the same and you cant just add a part anf upgrade like you can with a 360 core system.
what happened to the boomerang? oh yeah nintendo came out with a real next gen controller and sony copied it. I think this is a good example of why companies like nintendo and apple are so careful about trade secrets. If the ps3 launched with what it had before nintento shoed the wii controller, it would still be a boomerang.
Yikes! $600 console. RIP sony, even FFXIII won`t get me to dish out that much. I feel sorry for people who live in places like the UK. The usual mark up must be even worse over there.
Given the number 1 and number 2 OSes are XP and OSX, I wonder why he didn't mention the huge bloated kernel in OSX and jumped straight to linux. Oh right.
I once had to explain to a linux kid that i didn't care about having the "freedom" of recompiling my kernel and optimizing modules on OSX. He didn't seem to understand. The original argument for monolitic kernels was basically that you would have better performance as a result of fewer context stwitches (1/2 that of a micro kernel) going from kernel level to user level. I think OSX has shown that micro kernels are possible today.
Oh wait, Xnu is not a true micro kernel and neither is linux a true monolithic kernel. before people get into flame wars about mono vs monolithic, I think it is a good idea to realize that both thechnologies have their advantages and disadvantages. there is a reason why a hybrid kernel is used. be thankful that you can use modules in linux without recompiling all the time
oh you mean like titanic (pg-13) had so little nudity. And my favorite, 16 candles (lots of American pie type nudity in the shower scene) has a pg rating?
americans work more and are richer too. I think asia (HK, singapore, japan etc etc) have a similar or even more intensive work culture. There is a reason why some countires are on top and others are stagnating.
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i actually still use my blueberry G3 ibook as well. I have never had to upgrade. The new BTI optimized batteries get you almost 5 hrs actually, even when using airport (wifi). Considering it is a 7 year old computer and i've seen no need ot buy a new ibook, i think that says a lot. If you use xpostfacto you can install Tiger on it as well if you want it (yay! spotlight!).
this is also available for free in video (WMV) where he also talks about E3 and the Wii's similarity to apple's approch and also compares media center PC and Front Row.
huh? show me a quote where Jessie Helms talks of hurting or killing clinton.
burning bush? i said mocking or criticizing the president not violent stuff. If a person threatens violence against the president, that illegal. Its been like that long before bush was president and good thing too. I'm sure there are plenty of people who were arrested for talking of killing/hurting clinton.
"Poor people are willing to fight but they have no desire to die. They are in the military for the money and mostly due to shady recruitment tactics. It's strange that other countries are as free as we are but don't need to take all these precautionary measures."
I know a lot of college students in ROTC. I know many people who are hardly poor who join the military (look at Jusitce scalia's son who's in iraq). There are familites with a military tradition. There are also peopel who enlist who need the money. I know a few vets from Iraq who are now using their GI bill benefits to go through college. They probably wouldn't have gone to college otherwise.
The key point is not that they have desire to die. In fact, I'm pretty sure no one wants to die (the exception being the suicidal ones who need help). The thing is no one is forced to join. There is a war going on, everyone knows they could die, but there are still volunteers willing to join.
who is talking about Nazi germany? who even mentioned WWII? Of course i know Europeans fought in WWII even the French fought after their surrender. I dont know where in my post you think i have even implied that. You just violated Godwin's law but I won't hold it against you. Lets ignore you said that.
I am not talking about Europeans 60 years ago. As the post i repiled to mentioned, we are talking about people today. Notice he sayd "anymore" i.e. we are talking about today as opposed to before. People today, esp in the west grow up with a lot of privileges and wealth. In europe (by europe, i mean europe excluding the UK), they have grown soft and are not willing to fight. They dont even spend money on their own defense and are almost entirely dependent on the US military presence (and NATO) to protect them. It has been this way since WWII. Even in recent years when there is a problem in Europe (Bosnia, kosovo etc) America has to step in because europe is not willing to and not capable of fixing its own problems.
I think the cartoon riots woke a lot of people up. Most people in europe still need to realize there is a war going on and whether they like it or not, they are smack dead in the middle of it. We are fighting for freedom. The war on terror is a euphamism we all know what the war is really about. Eveyone knows it is a war with Islamic fascism, I'm not going to hide behind a PC fig leaf term like "war on terror".
Seriously, look at Rushidie, Theo van gough (i dont particularly care for his filsm BTW) and the cartoon riots. Do you really want to be afraid for your life the next time you decide to criticize Islam? How about exercisig your first ammendment rights in general? not feaful of the govenment but of shadowy groups that enforce an islamic code. what about the next time you drink some wine or beer? holding hands with your significant other (if you are a liberal, you do know what they do to homosexuals in the middle east, outisde of israel right?)
At this point you will equate Bush to nazis and say he is the same thing. Do this, name one person who has been killed or imprisoned for mocking Bush. How about Jesus? do you see people getting killed for making the Da vinci code movie? imagine if that were about mohammed? If the US were really a totalitarrian state like some people claim, there wouldn't be mass protests against the war, it would be like a real dictatorship like china where everyone would be jailed and killed. This news story would never even be in headlines if the reporters were fearfulf or their lives.
"His quote has to be seen in that context. These days nobody seems to want to die for freedom anymore and hence the freedom is taken away piecemeal...
Look, I'm not even American, but I do think I understand the historical context. I think that Benjamin Franklin was indeed a wise man and I am only a pinko-commie-euro-bastard.
"
Considering the US military is a all volunteer service and every single american soldier in Iraq and Afgnaistan as well as all over the world volunteered to join the military knowing the risks, i think you don't understand the US at all. The US is not europe, people here actually are willing to fight and die.
because franklin is always right!
But seriously, what is the point of privacy (and if this is true, they are just collecting anonymous data) if you are dead. I think most people see stuff like what happened in London and the cartoon riots and realize the alternative is much worse.
"There is another first-person swordfighting game, Maken X for the Dreamcast, and great as it was, its problem was that no control pad could ever have the precision for a "real" swordfight."
personally, i will stick with daikatana and superfly johnson. thank you very much.
my point is often times innovation involves taking preexisting tech and implementing it in a new way. The key operator here being new. Computers are built upon abstraction. You depend on underlying principles to implement more complex things. Look at something like java. It is clearly innovative (esp when it came out) but it is really a collection of a lot of tech that works well together.
"Look at the Mac ... these days hardware wise it's pretty much a PC in a white case. About as boring and uninventive as you can get. MacOS X looks nice but is just an evolution (or mashup) of existing systems. Its primary innovation was a focus on eyecandy. The most innovative feature I can think of in a Mac is Expose. The real innovation in operating systems takes place in things like Plan9, Singularity etc."
before apple what color were all computers? beige and maybe if you are lucky, black. That was the rule.
How many computers came standard with a GUI in the 80s before apple's? More recently, a unix based desktop OS your mom can use? How about a GL acclerated desktop? a major commercial open source OS with full driver support? how many unix laptops could you buy? did you see people in starbucks running BSD made so simple they didnt even know it?
regarding innovation, have you even used a mac or an ipod? before the ipod, no one put tiny HDDs on mp3 players. There were HDD based players that were huge and tiny flash players. No one bothered integrating an mp3 player with a desktop based magement system that actually works. Itunes does more than sync your mp3s, it maintains ratings and play counts, album art, lyrics and syncs that with your ipod as well. Listen to a song on the ipod and rate it high and it will show up as such on your dekstop.
How about the itunes music store. Are you telling me that was done before? with flat pricing? integrating with your ipod?
sure there are copy cats now, but when they first came out with the ipod, tons of people here were saying it would be a failure (or it was "lame"). Do you remember the surprise when the music store came out? these were all risks becasue they were not doen before.
Lets not even get into iLife. go use a mac before saying there is nothing innovative. Just because you've never used it does not mean it does not exist.
where did they say that the HDD is removable?
my first two points stand though. the Ps3-- is not guranteed to produce the same output as a Ps3. Look at the king king xbox 360 game and the problems with HD and SD tvs and you get some idea of where this is going. What is the point of a console if there is variation in hardware.
troll? hello? Eazel made natilus and went under immediatly after 1.0 was released.
It was made by a company that tried to make money while still giving it out for free. It went under (i wonder why).
Correct, but my point still stands,
1. without HDMI your bluray player might just be a expensive DVD player
2. without HDMI there is a visual difference between Ps3-- and Ps3 in games that need to use 1080p. There may even be games in the future that you can't play right, who knows.
3. without memory card support the Ps3-- has backwards compatibility but you have to reply everything.
4. whouth wifi, the PSP viewer trick will not work (at least wirelessly)
5. unlike the 360, you cant add (that we know of) the missing features to the PS3--
in other news, halo 3 is up on bungie.net but i guess that is not surprising.
gamespot has live video of each event for free
at least a core 360 could be upgraded. the 500 Ps3 is severely crippled and with no HDMI, the games dont even look the same. Imagine spending 500 on console and realizing you cant play all the game the same and you cant just add a part anf upgrade like you can with a 360 core system.
what happened to the boomerang? oh yeah nintendo came out with a real next gen controller and sony copied it. I think this is a good example of why companies like nintendo and apple are so careful about trade secrets. If the ps3 launched with what it had before nintento shoed the wii controller, it would still be a boomerang.
Yikes! $600 console. RIP sony, even FFXIII won`t get me to dish out that much. I feel sorry for people who live in places like the UK. The usual mark up must be even worse over there.
Given the number 1 and number 2 OSes are XP and OSX, I wonder why he didn't mention the huge bloated kernel in OSX and jumped straight to linux. Oh right.
I once had to explain to a linux kid that i didn't care about having the "freedom" of recompiling my kernel and optimizing modules on OSX. He didn't seem to understand. The original argument for monolitic kernels was basically that you would have better performance as a result of fewer context stwitches (1/2 that of a micro kernel) going from kernel level to user level. I think OSX has shown that micro kernels are possible today.
Oh wait, Xnu is not a true micro kernel and neither is linux a true monolithic kernel. before people get into flame wars about mono vs monolithic, I think it is a good idea to realize that both thechnologies have their advantages and disadvantages. there is a reason why a hybrid kernel is used. be thankful that you can use modules in linux without recompiling all the time
oh you mean like titanic (pg-13) had so little nudity. And my favorite, 16 candles (lots of American pie type nudity in the shower scene) has a pg rating?
are you talking about asians? I was talking about two distincly different groups with differnt food and cultures which have similar work ethic.
no, no! it is GNU/Vista you have to give credit where credit is due! BTW that is pronounced Guh nu slash Vista
americans work more and are richer too. I think asia (HK, singapore, japan etc etc) have a similar or even more intensive work culture. There is a reason why some countires are on top and others are stagnating.
"There's proof-of-concept "viruses" out there that work without a sudo login so it's not even a debatable point."
some links please. I have yet to see one that does not prompt me for a pasdsword.