Oh please, B5 was so much better than DS9 on continuity, creativity, and acting that you don't need to result to old, weak, delusional "they copied B5!!!" crap. Because if you want to go there, you can also bitch about how B5 copied DS9, from having the same actor who played an admiral on DS9 involved in a conspiracy against the government, come on B5 to play a general involved in a conspiracy against the government, to hiring famous Trek actors like Andreas Kostulas and Majel Barrett, or having a small, secret, butt kicking ship.
In the face of overwhelming evidence both technological and descriptive that Mac OS X is an evolution of Unix and not Unix itself
A silly argument, since there is no "Unix itself", and there hasn't been one for a very long time. All UNIX is today, is a set of specifications and a trademark. That's all. Solaris, AIX, HPux and IRIX are all wildly different beasts, and yet they're all UNIX.
I'm not sure why you would say it's "not Unix".
Because Unix sucks. Seriously, Unix is just terrible in a lot of big, important ways.
Nonsense. Just because it sucked is no reason it can't be improved...just look at all the problems there were with the old Mac operating systems, and yet "Mac OS" is still the first part of the name for current products. Yes, fixing this stuff will no doubt cause it to be out of official specs, but Apple was never interested in being official to begin with.
Did you read the vulnerabilities fixed in this patch?
All it says is that the bluetooth file sharing service is on by default - so the person would need an account on your machine for acess - not that any smoe can walk past your computer with another bluetooth device and read all your files. Yawn.
In TNG every tangle the enterprise had it incurred serious damage and often needed repairs at space dock.
That's because unless he was fighting Borg, Picard was a pansy assed Quaker when it came to fighting. He'd keep trying to negociate with the Romulans/Cardassians/whomever or whoever was determined to blow up his ship. He wouldn't fire back until the shields were down to 50%, and then he'd only fire a couple of timid shots at their weapons systems. How many times in TNG did he ever say "fire at will, Mr. Worf?" Sisko and Kirk would eat Picard for lunch in a fight. Hell, even Janeway would kick his ass.
only the most rabid Trek fans have enjoyed anything from DS9 on.
I beg to differ. DS9 had some truly great episodes, and was the first Trek to actually have story arcs, and what happened today might actually make a difference in what happens tomorrow. It didn't turn into a space soap opera until the last couple of seasons, and then yes, it was utter shite. But there was some good in with the bad.
An iPod tax that goes to the musician's guild is at least as legit as a smoker's tax that pays for books.
Not in the slightest. If you buy and smoke cigarettes, there will be at least one person inhaling carcinogens. If you buy an iPod, there is no guarantee that it will be used for playing or storing copyright infringing data.
You sound like the old movie buffs who bitch about how movies are crap to how they "used to be", except they are comparing Stuff That Sucks To Stuff That's Good - they're comparing Casablanca to Biodome, Hitchcock to Micheal Bay.
This same argument is used against Canadaian healthcare - comparing the problems it has to the best the U.S. system has to offer, but that is a poor comparison. How about talking about patients who were denied treatments by their HMO's and suffered for it.
Not to be a troll, but can someone tell me specifically what bugs everyone is always talking about? Currently running Windows XP sp2 at home and work, my computers have not crashed once this year...not frozen, not blue screened, nothing.
So you are saying Microsoft doesn't need to do bug fixing, because XP is okay to use after FOUR YEARS of bug fixing? Did you think about this for two seconds before you posted? It's taken Microsoft two service packs and hundereds of updates to get Windows XP to be moderatly secure, and you don't think that's a sign that they need to do more testing?
You obviously need a reminder. Reformat your box with a fresh install of XP, and don't patch it. Leave it on the Internet without a firewall for a week, and then see if you still think that a testing period would be a waste of time.
1) Apple only announced the April 29th launch date publicly on April 12, 2005. That's critical in asking "Why only now?" -- there was nothing imminent prior to that.
The ship date is irrelevant. The name for this release has been used by Apple for almost a year now, so pretending that TigerDirect has only had a few weeks to respond is nonsense.
Apple won the Tiger trademark by agreeing to limit its use to computer operating software.
Then what's the problem? There is just one Apple product with the name Tiger: an operating system.
Tiger makes a good case that Apple is using the Tiger mark more broadly that it is entitled, to venture into other sales areas than just operating systems
And they're doing this how, exactly? They're selling almost exactly the same accessories in the Apple Store today as they were on April 11th. They sold accessories last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. They're advertizing to get you to go to the Apple Store to buy Tiger, not to go to some Tiger website and buy Apple products.
If I were in TigerDirect's shoes, I'd similarly be upset.
And if you were in Tiger's shoes, would have you have waited oportunistically until the day before launch to file your suit?
And how long until you realized that you were checking out a GUY most of the time (ie her stunt double - look it up).
I hated that movie, if only for the fight scenes where the director aprantly thought he'd get fired if he didn't have 4 different cuts a second. Even with the hair, I had to check for the boobs (this is in pre-dominatrix outfit) to try and figure out which one was the chick and which was the guy. This explains a lot: they were both guys!
It's funny how the description of this practice is a lot more colorful when it's about Microsoft.
No, what's really funny is how this comment get's posted just about every time Apple get's mentioned, and every time you guys think you are so clever and insightful for pointing this out.
...for some interesting tidbits. A good mix of "wtf were they doing considering Ashton Kutcher for Batman?", and "dammit! why couldn't they talk Viggo Mortensen into playing Ra's Al Ghul?"
But the funniest one was a drunk crashed into the Batmobile while they were filming in Chicago, and he claimed he ran into it because he was afraid it was an alien spacecraft.
And by that, I mean the 1966 Adam West origional. So I also liked Forever because of campy stuff like the Batmobile going up the side of a building, and swinging the safe being stolen by Two Face back into the building. Batman & Robin was just so bad it was funny. Catwoman, however, was just bad enough to be horrible, but not so bad as to be funny at the same time. That movie needs the MS3K treatment to be tolerable to watch.
they complained that it managed their music for them. They insisted that they would rather name and sort each of 20,000 tiny files themselves, with all the obsessive focus of an autistic kid counting paper clips. It was freaky.
Freaky, smeaky. What if we don't want our music organized souly by artist, all in one giant folder? What if we ripped our music without the "compilation" tag, or before it existed, and don't want our 20 soundtrack albums divied up into 200 seperate folders, since iTunes organizes by artist? Do you know what a giant pain in the ass this is when you're trying to back up your music? What if you also want to access your music library from computers without iTunes, and want your library first organized by genre, or decade?
That makes three of us, then.:) I found one of the Amber books in my parents library, cruized through the rest in a week, and was pissed when I found out he was dead, after reading the last one.
Right, and Apple went through how many CEO's after Jobs was outted? And how much success did those CEO's have in directing the company? Sure there are others who could run the company as capably, but it's not as easy as you make it sound. "Marketing level alone" indeed.
Fact: there is a world of difference between reading a magazine article that you read for two minutes and then throw away, and buying a book that you will read for several hours and keep for years.
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If by "implied" you mean "beaten over the head with hints because I have no imagination", then yes.
and basically copied the story-arc formula of B5
Oh please, B5 was so much better than DS9 on continuity, creativity, and acting that you don't need to result to old, weak, delusional "they copied B5!!!" crap. Because if you want to go there, you can also bitch about how B5 copied DS9, from having the same actor who played an admiral on DS9 involved in a conspiracy against the government, come on B5 to play a general involved in a conspiracy against the government, to hiring famous Trek actors like Andreas Kostulas and Majel Barrett, or having a small, secret, butt kicking ship.
A silly argument, since there is no "Unix itself", and there hasn't been one for a very long time. All UNIX is today, is a set of specifications and a trademark. That's all. Solaris, AIX, HPux and IRIX are all wildly different beasts, and yet they're all UNIX.
Because Unix sucks. Seriously, Unix is just terrible in a lot of big, important ways.
Nonsense. Just because it sucked is no reason it can't be improved...just look at all the problems there were with the old Mac operating systems, and yet "Mac OS" is still the first part of the name for current products. Yes, fixing this stuff will no doubt cause it to be out of official specs, but Apple was never interested in being official to begin with.
Did you read the vulnerabilities fixed in this patch?
All it says is that the bluetooth file sharing service is on by default - so the person would need an account on your machine for acess - not that any smoe can walk past your computer with another bluetooth device and read all your files. Yawn.
That was the 60's, man. They were pushing it just to have an interracial kiss...they weren't about to have on screen shagging. It was implied.
In TNG every tangle the enterprise had it incurred serious damage and often needed repairs at space dock.
That's because unless he was fighting Borg, Picard was a pansy assed Quaker when it came to fighting. He'd keep trying to negociate with the Romulans/Cardassians/whomever or whoever was determined to blow up his ship. He wouldn't fire back until the shields were down to 50%, and then he'd only fire a couple of timid shots at their weapons systems. How many times in TNG did he ever say "fire at will, Mr. Worf?" Sisko and Kirk would eat Picard for lunch in a fight. Hell, even Janeway would kick his ass.
only the most rabid Trek fans have enjoyed anything from DS9 on.
I beg to differ. DS9 had some truly great episodes, and was the first Trek to actually have story arcs, and what happened today might actually make a difference in what happens tomorrow. It didn't turn into a space soap opera until the last couple of seasons, and then yes, it was utter shite. But there was some good in with the bad.
An iPod tax that goes to the musician's guild is at least as legit as a smoker's tax that pays for books.
Not in the slightest. If you buy and smoke cigarettes, there will be at least one person inhaling carcinogens. If you buy an iPod, there is no guarantee that it will be used for playing or storing copyright infringing data.
You sound like the old movie buffs who bitch about how movies are crap to how they "used to be", except they are comparing Stuff That Sucks To Stuff That's Good - they're comparing Casablanca to Biodome, Hitchcock to Micheal Bay.
This same argument is used against Canadaian healthcare - comparing the problems it has to the best the U.S. system has to offer, but that is a poor comparison. How about talking about patients who were denied treatments by their HMO's and suffered for it.
Not to be a troll, but can someone tell me specifically what bugs everyone is always talking about? Currently running Windows XP sp2 at home and work, my computers have not crashed once this year...not frozen, not blue screened, nothing.
So you are saying Microsoft doesn't need to do bug fixing, because XP is okay to use after FOUR YEARS of bug fixing? Did you think about this for two seconds before you posted? It's taken Microsoft two service packs and hundereds of updates to get Windows XP to be moderatly secure, and you don't think that's a sign that they need to do more testing?
You obviously need a reminder. Reformat your box with a fresh install of XP, and don't patch it. Leave it on the Internet without a firewall for a week, and then see if you still think that a testing period would be a waste of time.
Put an un-patched Fedora Core box on an open internet connection and you will be (silently) hosting warez sites and IRC bots within minutes.
No, you wont. Any more nonsense?
You don't like the story, yet you see fit to go to the comments and bitch about it. If you don't like it, just skip to the next one. Duhhhhhhhhh.
1) Apple only announced the April 29th launch date publicly on April 12, 2005. That's critical in asking "Why only now?" -- there was nothing imminent prior to that.
The ship date is irrelevant. The name for this release has been used by Apple for almost a year now, so pretending that TigerDirect has only had a few weeks to respond is nonsense.
Apple won the Tiger trademark by agreeing to limit its use to computer operating software.
Then what's the problem? There is just one Apple product with the name Tiger: an operating system.
Tiger makes a good case that Apple is using the Tiger mark more broadly that it is entitled, to venture into other sales areas than just operating systems
And they're doing this how, exactly? They're selling almost exactly the same accessories in the Apple Store today as they were on April 11th. They sold accessories last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. They're advertizing to get you to go to the Apple Store to buy Tiger, not to go to some Tiger website and buy Apple products.
If I were in TigerDirect's shoes, I'd similarly be upset.
And if you were in Tiger's shoes, would have you have waited oportunistically until the day before launch to file your suit?
And how long until you realized that you were checking out a GUY most of the time (ie her stunt double - look it up).
I hated that movie, if only for the fight scenes where the director aprantly thought he'd get fired if he didn't have 4 different cuts a second. Even with the hair, I had to check for the boobs (this is in pre-dominatrix outfit) to try and figure out which one was the chick and which was the guy. This explains a lot: they were both guys!
It's funny how the description of this practice is a lot more colorful when it's about Microsoft.
No, what's really funny is how this comment get's posted just about every time Apple get's mentioned, and every time you guys think you are so clever and insightful for pointing this out.
The more clean-cut and all-American you look, the more jumpy she's going to be.
:)
Just tell her that Christian Bale is from Wales, then.
...for some interesting tidbits. A good mix of "wtf were they doing considering Ashton Kutcher for Batman?", and "dammit! why couldn't they talk Viggo Mortensen into playing Ra's Al Ghul?"
But the funniest one was a drunk crashed into the Batmobile while they were filming in Chicago, and he claimed he ran into it because he was afraid it was an alien spacecraft.
And by that, I mean the 1966 Adam West origional. So I also liked Forever because of campy stuff like the Batmobile going up the side of a building, and swinging the safe being stolen by Two Face back into the building. Batman & Robin was just so bad it was funny. Catwoman, however, was just bad enough to be horrible, but not so bad as to be funny at the same time. That movie needs the MS3K treatment to be tolerable to watch.
they complained that it managed their music for them. They insisted that they would rather name and sort each of 20,000 tiny files themselves, with all the obsessive focus of an autistic kid counting paper clips. It was freaky.
Freaky, smeaky. What if we don't want our music organized souly by artist, all in one giant folder? What if we ripped our music without the "compilation" tag, or before it existed, and don't want our 20 soundtrack albums divied up into 200 seperate folders, since iTunes organizes by artist? Do you know what a giant pain in the ass this is when you're trying to back up your music? What if you also want to access your music library from computers without iTunes, and want your library first organized by genre, or decade?
Oh? And how fast was your 286 at resizing a thousand photos at a pop?
Wow, nice to see another Zelazny reader on /.
:) I found one of the Amber books in my parents library, cruized through the rest in a week, and was pissed when I found out he was dead, after reading the last one.
That makes three of us, then.
Right, and Apple went through how many CEO's after Jobs was outted? And how much success did those CEO's have in directing the company? Sure there are others who could run the company as capably, but it's not as easy as you make it sound. "Marketing level alone" indeed.
And if they consider that book a slap in the face, why should they help the company make a profit on their other books?
Huh? ALL the books? ok so the issue is this one book is offensive to Jobs and therfore apple.
Not "huh?" Duh. Someone slaps you in the face with one product, why should you help them make money with their other products?
A better correction:
Fact: there is a world of difference between reading a magazine article that you read for two minutes and then throw away, and buying a book that you will read for several hours and keep for years.
Try comparing apples to apples.