No, I made a legitimate claim that is actually backed up by facts.
If a claim can't be backed up by evidence, its not a fact.
Another poster in this thread, though in disagreement with my implications, also recalls seeing the report to which I referred
So what? A lot more than a couple people have seen Bigfoot, doesn't mean he exists.
I accepted that the cost of actually quoting or linking the report itself was relatively high.
Yeah, its not really worth the time, which I why I suggested you not throw out this yarn as a fact until you *can* quote some evidence.
Why should I waste my time educating you?
Why should we waste our time doing the research to prove your points for you?
My advice to *you*, in response to your unsolicited and naive advice to *me*, is to ask politely when you want something, especially when trying to engage someone in an argument.
Now who's obnoxious? And I don't have to ask you to back up your assertions, politely or otherwise. Thats your job, or else you are just a lazy conspiracy nut. As for being naieve, you aren't by any chance decended from the people who sold shares of the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants and beachfront property in Arizona?
Especially since practically every reply in disagreement has been as obnoxious and nasty as yours.
Make a crazy claim about a large number of people with nothing to back it up, and you're surprised? I would expect derision if I came out and said that Nixon arranged Kennedy's assasination and you were just supposed to take my word for it.
I'm sure some enterprising individuals torched their homes/businesses to collect insurance money. But there's a big difference between a few people committing insurance fraud, and it being the main cause of the fire that destroyed the city, or San Francisco 'stabbing you in the back'.
I'm not that excited about working that hard to dig up the source.
Yeah, spending a lot of time researching stuff to prove something to Some Guys on Slashdot isn't the best way to spend your time. If you aren't a wacked conspiracy theorist, I appologize for sounding hostile, but I would suggest that if you don't have proof that you downgrade the insurance angle to a theory rather than as a provable fact the next time you bring it up in conversation.
Heh. To people who go on moralistic rants about how copyright infringment is morally wrong because the creator/publisher doesn't get any money, I ask: whats the difference between downloading a copy and buying a used one? Either way the publisher sees dick.
Your source for your crazy claim is Some Dude on Some Website? What next, you'll tell us the holocast never happened and the moon landings were a fake?
Do you randomly spaz on people for no reason at all?? This isn't a film school test and you aint no teacher. And as if being able to look back and see who made what changes when wouldn't be useful.
There is no reason to go back to see what the director was right about in the past, because all that matters is what he is right about in the present.
What if A is right now and B is wrong, but in the past B was right and A was wrong?
The newer CPUs are necessary to run the latest spyware and exploits, which could really slow down an older PC.
The OP sounds like a snob. As if spyware doesn't slow down P4's or run on P2's, seriously. But yes, even if you're running "just office", a newer machine will still save you time. Compare how long it takes to launch Powerpoint or Excel on your old machine vs a new one. Or running queries in Access or working with large Powerpoint slides. Or using Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access at the same time.
Yes, increased productivity. Faster processor == less waiting == more productivity. As for your 98 vs XP experince, its a nice annecdote, but thats all it is.
...because you have some seriously screwed up priorities. Take this case for example. Woman gets crushed on a conveyor belt and dies in a factory, because management hid the off switch and a supervisor refused to shut it down. Now, do you think the husbands first thought was, "well, I could sue, but that would mean giving money to laywers. Scratch that!" Would you have thought the same, or, "I'm gonna take these fuckers for ever last cent for killing my wife."
Any class action suit (like the one against the RIAA) results in a check for six dollars (I got one) for the injured party and millions for the lawyers.
WHO CARES! Its that much money out of the hands of people who screwed consumers over and putting it into the hands of those who have not. Give the money to charity, Bill Gates, or some Columbian drug lord. The point of these lawsuites is also to punish the guilty party and so they don't dare do it again. It wasn't "the lawyers got millions and you got six bucks", its "the lawyers got millions, you got six bucks, you will save money off future purchases, and the record industry will be taken to the cleaners if they price fix again".
Get rid of the lawyers, and yeah, there'll be fewer lawyers getting big settlements. Know what'll happen to the money? It'll stay right in the hands of the people who screwed you over, who will quite happily keep screwing you over to make a buck.
The greatest trick in the world was not done by the devil, convincing people he didn't exist. The greatest trick was giving the "common man" the idea that standing up for himself by suing (frequently your only option with little to no government regulation and where corporations have all the rights of individuals and none of the responsibilities) is a bad thing because it might put money in the hands of lawyers. And twits like you have bought it hook, line and sinker.
No, its not. You need time to physically and mentally relax. It doesn't matter if you love your job, you're an average person working regular 80 weeks you will suffer for it eventually.
Why haven't EA employees taken a page from workaday types and formed a Union?
Because techies, when it comes to unions, are usually gullible retards. The greatest trick in the world was not the devil making you think he didn't exist, but propaganda that has convinced the Common Man that standing up for himself is bad, whether it be lawsuits or unions. You'll here crap like "I don't want to join a union because they'll make me pay dues and pay by senority and not work ethic and are corrupt blah blah blah". As if every bad thing that any union official has ever done would automatically happen in your union, anymore than we should ban all business because of Enron.
Should medical experiments also be performed on condemmed prisoners?
I was wondering how many people would take a statement about a microsopic blob of cells and extend it to pathetically ludicrous lengths to apply it to fully grown, living people. At least 4 so far.
Honestly getting beat by the US worked out pretty damn good for Japan and West Germany, theres no reason it can't do the same for Iraq.
Hmm? I think there's quite a few.
Iraq is tribal as fook. Japan and Germany weren't at the time. Iraq is as likely to be the next Yugoslavia as opposed to the next post-war Japan or Germany.
Japan and Germany didn't have the second largest oil reserves after WWII. Not that oil is necessarily the reason why Bush invaded Iraq, but a great many Iraqis see it that way.
Speaking of resentment: Bush was still saying that "torture and rape rooms" were a thing of the past even after the Abu Garib scandle broke. Whoops.
The general tendency of the Bush administration to screw up anything they get their hands on.
It's because they can't as the problem lies not with them but with the software developers.
Oh, I see, its Adobe's fault that Microsoft has so many problems with Windows and IIS. Are you on crack?
BS. Windows is fine...nothing wrong with it. It's like saying that a Volvo isn't safe because you refuse to wear the seatbelt.
A better comparison: Windows is a Pinto. It doesn't matter if you take the precaution of fastening your seat belt, because your gas tank will explode if another car hits you at 10 mph.
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I have a friend with four kids and a year old black lab, and I swear he feeds them a steady diet of sugar and cocaine. Hyper. Anyway, he still uses VHS because the tapes will survive just about anything other than the backseat of a car in summer. Any DVD's he buys he makes copies of, because the kids will manage to trash the disk the second you aren't looking.
why won't the consumer choose a player/store/app that gives them more choice?
Uh, because for the most part there isn't one? You trade AAC for WMA. BFD. And some play Ogg and Flack, also BFD to the average consumer. "Choice" isn't sacred if the choices don't mean anything.
There are now several good players made by different companies and they are getting better every year. On the Windows platform, there are several music apps that many people prefer over iTunes (e.g. Quintessential, Media Jukebox, WinAmp, Windows Media Player).
So? There are other media players for the Mac and other apps that will transfer files to iPods. You sound like my friend who used to say about Mac users, "but what if you want to run more than one operating system on it" when such choices existed.
Jobs isn't down on flash per se; he's down on $200 flash players that give you 512 megabytes when $250 will get you 4 gigabytes. It was more cost effective to go with an even smaller hard drive rather than use CF. Now, if someone were to come out with CF that was superior to a hard drive, there's no reason why they wouldn't switch.
Sort of like all the people that bitched at Jobs for not installing a floppy drive in the Next cube, and then for not installing one in the origional iMac. A lot of people seemed to get the idea that he wasn't for removable storage. Its not that he's against it, just removable storage that sucks ALL ass, i.e. the floppy.
...pointing out that Pudge is a good modern Republican. One who knows that he'll lose his card carrying GOP status if he doesn't engage in blatant double standards and hypocracy on a regular basis. Do you think for a nanosecond that he wouldn't be taking the opposite position if Gore had won by a few hundered votes in 2000 and the Democratic candidate was leading by 42 today? This isn't about statistics or democracy, this is about smearing recounts because the GOP candidate is ahead. Just like 4 years ago.
It's technologically inferiour. It is very limited in what you can do. Each update deliberately breaks functionalit
Blah blah blah. Either come up with some specifics (which I'll debunk anyway) or just admit you're an anti-Apple snob who would blow off an Apple-invented cure for cancer as "just marketing".
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That, and V-chips have been out, for what, just about 10 years now?
No, I made a legitimate claim that is actually backed up by facts.
If a claim can't be backed up by evidence, its not a fact.
Another poster in this thread, though in disagreement with my implications, also recalls seeing the report to which I referred
So what? A lot more than a couple people have seen Bigfoot, doesn't mean he exists.
I accepted that the cost of actually quoting or linking the report itself was relatively high.
Yeah, its not really worth the time, which I why I suggested you not throw out this yarn as a fact until you *can* quote some evidence.
Why should I waste my time educating you?
Why should we waste our time doing the research to prove your points for you?
My advice to *you*, in response to your unsolicited and naive advice to *me*, is to ask politely when you want something, especially when trying to engage someone in an argument.
Now who's obnoxious? And I don't have to ask you to back up your assertions, politely or otherwise. Thats your job, or else you are just a lazy conspiracy nut. As for being naieve, you aren't by any chance decended from the people who sold shares of the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants and beachfront property in Arizona?
Especially since practically every reply in disagreement has been as obnoxious and nasty as yours.
Make a crazy claim about a large number of people with nothing to back it up, and you're surprised? I would expect derision if I came out and said that Nixon arranged Kennedy's assasination and you were just supposed to take my word for it.
I'm sure some enterprising individuals torched their homes/businesses to collect insurance money. But there's a big difference between a few people committing insurance fraud, and it being the main cause of the fire that destroyed the city, or San Francisco 'stabbing you in the back'.
I'm not that excited about working that hard to dig up the source.
Yeah, spending a lot of time researching stuff to prove something to Some Guys on Slashdot isn't the best way to spend your time. If you aren't a wacked conspiracy theorist, I appologize for sounding hostile, but I would suggest that if you don't have proof that you downgrade the insurance angle to a theory rather than as a provable fact the next time you bring it up in conversation.
and end up ordering entire seasons off eBay.
Heh. To people who go on moralistic rants about how copyright infringment is morally wrong because the creator/publisher doesn't get any money, I ask: whats the difference between downloading a copy and buying a used one? Either way the publisher sees dick.
The greatest trick was making the clueless believe that they could stand up against corporations by hiring a lawyer.
Uh, right. If the corps weren't worried about people with lawyers standing up to them, then why are they so hot and bothered for "tort reform"?
And what are you doing in this ancient, deadly boring argument anyway? Got two accounts?
What do you mean, anchient? Go check the dates, its the 6th and the 3rd. And no.
The childish name-calling seems pretty familiar.
Uh huh. Maybe a good 2x4 would knock some sense into you? You're wrong, we're right, and we proved it to you. But you just wont give it up.
Your source for your crazy claim is Some Dude on Some Website? What next, you'll tell us the holocast never happened and the moon landings were a fake?
Did you read the article at all??
Do you randomly spaz on people for no reason at all?? This isn't a film school test and you aint no teacher. And as if being able to look back and see who made what changes when wouldn't be useful.
There is no reason to go back to see what the director was right about in the past, because all that matters is what he is right about in the present.
What if A is right now and B is wrong, but in the past B was right and A was wrong?
The newer CPUs are necessary to run the latest spyware and exploits, which could really slow down an older PC.
The OP sounds like a snob. As if spyware doesn't slow down P4's or run on P2's, seriously. But yes, even if you're running "just office", a newer machine will still save you time. Compare how long it takes to launch Powerpoint or Excel on your old machine vs a new one. Or running queries in Access or working with large Powerpoint slides. Or using Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access at the same time.
Yes, increased productivity. Faster processor == less waiting == more productivity. As for your 98 vs XP experince, its a nice annecdote, but thats all it is.
...because you have some seriously screwed up priorities. Take this case for example. Woman gets crushed on a conveyor belt and dies in a factory, because management hid the off switch and a supervisor refused to shut it down. Now, do you think the husbands first thought was, "well, I could sue, but that would mean giving money to laywers. Scratch that!" Would you have thought the same, or, "I'm gonna take these fuckers for ever last cent for killing my wife."
Any class action suit (like the one against the RIAA) results in a check for six dollars (I got one) for the injured party and millions for the lawyers.
WHO CARES! Its that much money out of the hands of people who screwed consumers over and putting it into the hands of those who have not. Give the money to charity, Bill Gates, or some Columbian drug lord. The point of these lawsuites is also to punish the guilty party and so they don't dare do it again. It wasn't "the lawyers got millions and you got six bucks", its "the lawyers got millions, you got six bucks, you will save money off future purchases, and the record industry will be taken to the cleaners if they price fix again".
Get rid of the lawyers, and yeah, there'll be fewer lawyers getting big settlements. Know what'll happen to the money? It'll stay right in the hands of the people who screwed you over, who will quite happily keep screwing you over to make a buck.
The greatest trick in the world was not done by the devil, convincing people he didn't exist. The greatest trick was giving the "common man" the idea that standing up for himself by suing (frequently your only option with little to no government regulation and where corporations have all the rights of individuals and none of the responsibilities) is a bad thing because it might put money in the hands of lawyers. And twits like you have bought it hook, line and sinker.
That's a common misconception.
No, its not. You need time to physically and mentally relax. It doesn't matter if you love your job, you're an average person working regular 80 weeks you will suffer for it eventually.
Why haven't EA employees taken a page from workaday types and formed a Union?
Because techies, when it comes to unions, are usually gullible retards. The greatest trick in the world was not the devil making you think he didn't exist, but propaganda that has convinced the Common Man that standing up for himself is bad, whether it be lawsuits or unions. You'll here crap like "I don't want to join a union because they'll make me pay dues and pay by senority and not work ethic and are corrupt blah blah blah". As if every bad thing that any union official has ever done would automatically happen in your union, anymore than we should ban all business because of Enron.
Should medical experiments also be performed on condemmed prisoners?
I was wondering how many people would take a statement about a microsopic blob of cells and extend it to pathetically ludicrous lengths to apply it to fully grown, living people. At least 4 so far.
fund an activity which more than half of the population might have a disagreement with?
Given the number of Catholics who have sex before marriage with condoms, I'd say "more than half" is a VAST overstatment.
Honestly getting beat by the US worked out pretty damn good for Japan and West Germany, theres no reason it can't do the same for Iraq.
Hmm? I think there's quite a few.
Iraq is tribal as fook. Japan and Germany weren't at the time. Iraq is as likely to be the next Yugoslavia as opposed to the next post-war Japan or Germany.
Japan and Germany didn't have the second largest oil reserves after WWII. Not that oil is necessarily the reason why Bush invaded Iraq, but a great many Iraqis see it that way.
Speaking of resentment: Bush was still saying that "torture and rape rooms" were a thing of the past even after the Abu Garib scandle broke. Whoops.
The general tendency of the Bush administration to screw up anything they get their hands on.
It's because they can't as the problem lies not with them but with the software developers.
Oh, I see, its Adobe's fault that Microsoft has so many problems with Windows and IIS. Are you on crack?
BS. Windows is fine...nothing wrong with it. It's like saying that a Volvo isn't safe because you refuse to wear the seatbelt.
A better comparison: Windows is a Pinto. It doesn't matter if you take the precaution of fastening your seat belt, because your gas tank will explode if another car hits you at 10 mph.
I have a friend with four kids and a year old black lab, and I swear he feeds them a steady diet of sugar and cocaine. Hyper. Anyway, he still uses VHS because the tapes will survive just about anything other than the backseat of a car in summer. Any DVD's he buys he makes copies of, because the kids will manage to trash the disk the second you aren't looking.
Stop flapping your dick holster then.
Dude, thats awsome. Can I borrow that phrase for common conversation?
Non-pro and non-prosumer sound cards have matured for now.
Sure sure, but they could stand to drop the price. Sound cards seem to be the only peice of technology that dont fall in price, thanks to Creative.
why won't the consumer choose a player/store/app that gives them more choice?
Uh, because for the most part there isn't one? You trade AAC for WMA. BFD. And some play Ogg and Flack, also BFD to the average consumer. "Choice" isn't sacred if the choices don't mean anything.
There are now several good players made by different companies and they are getting better every year. On the Windows platform, there are several music apps that many people prefer over iTunes (e.g. Quintessential, Media Jukebox, WinAmp, Windows Media Player).
So? There are other media players for the Mac and other apps that will transfer files to iPods. You sound like my friend who used to say about Mac users, "but what if you want to run more than one operating system on it" when such choices existed.
Jobs isn't down on flash per se; he's down on $200 flash players that give you 512 megabytes when $250 will get you 4 gigabytes. It was more cost effective to go with an even smaller hard drive rather than use CF. Now, if someone were to come out with CF that was superior to a hard drive, there's no reason why they wouldn't switch.
Sort of like all the people that bitched at Jobs for not installing a floppy drive in the Next cube, and then for not installing one in the origional iMac. A lot of people seemed to get the idea that he wasn't for removable storage. Its not that he's against it, just removable storage that sucks ALL ass, i.e. the floppy.
any admittal of problems is only going to cause negative publicity, lawsuits, etc.
Well, except for the fact that a coverup can add another zero or two to the judgement/settlement...
...pointing out that Pudge is a good modern Republican. One who knows that he'll lose his card carrying GOP status if he doesn't engage in blatant double standards and hypocracy on a regular basis. Do you think for a nanosecond that he wouldn't be taking the opposite position if Gore had won by a few hundered votes in 2000 and the Democratic candidate was leading by 42 today? This isn't about statistics or democracy, this is about smearing recounts because the GOP candidate is ahead. Just like 4 years ago.
Now you may scream at me for that last bit, but I'm affraid it is a simple fact which always sees men in the front line.
That and the fact that society sees men as expendible.
It's technologically inferiour. It is very limited in what you can do. Each update deliberately breaks functionalit
Blah blah blah. Either come up with some specifics (which I'll debunk anyway) or just admit you're an anti-Apple snob who would blow off an Apple-invented cure for cancer as "just marketing".