Ok, that clears it all up, since he is an asshole, then the Opteron machines that 'various' small manufacturers have released no longer exist. Poof, magic of an asshole reviewer can do miracles. Geesh.
Go read Charlie's commentary on Apple's announcement of the G5. To sum it up: you could order an Opteron from some small no-name manufacturer at the time of the announcement, and Apple didn't use the bestest best PC SPEC numbers obtained with a highly optimized compilers for the comparisons, therefore Jobs is a sniviling, slimy liar. He also grumples about how Apple was being a PR whore, and that AMD has "considerably more credibility than Apple", ignoring the fact that AMD markets its chips with some made up number, rather than how man megahertz it has. So yes, Charlie White is still an asshole.
BTW, considering market share, wouldn't Apple be considered a 'small manufacturer'? Hmm...
What an ignorant thing to say. Rather than comparing Apple's marketshare against ALL pc manufacturers COMBINED, why not compare Apple to Dell or HP? Not to mention the fact that they're one of the few companies that hasn't lost scads of money since the bubble burst. Saying Apple is a 'small manufacturer' would be like saying Honda has a small marketshare compared to Ford, GM, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, etc etc combined.
Get over it, the G5 is not, and will not be the first 64bit Desktop Computer.
They never said desktop computer, they said personal computer. If you check out the BOXX website, all their systems are built and marketed as either workstations or as rendering nodes. So unless BOXX starts selling to the consumer market by August or Dell throws some Opterons in their Dimension series, Apple will have a perfectly legit claim to have the first 64 bit personal computer.
WindowsXP for Itanium (Both a real 64bit OS, and a real 64bit processor) have been available for over a year now, in fact I think WindowsXP 64, is approaching its two year release date.
In no way could the Itaniums currently be considered for personal computers. But hey, if you want to buy an Itanium for a lot more money that will perform far more slowly than a P4 or an Athlon, be my guest. And I wonder why it would take Microsoft so long to release a 64 bit version of XP, considering they had NT running on Alphas, PowerPC's and I think Sparcs as well.
Apple is SO innovative (with marketing maybe)....
I don't see where the sarcasm applies, since Apple has innovated far more than Linux and Microsoft combined. The only company that could compete with Apple for the title of Most Innovated Computer Company, Ever would be IBM.
The interviewer in question, Charlie White, is an asshole. BOXX is a small manufacturer of Opteron systems and its unlikely that many people have heard of them. If you were talking about a larger company, like HP, Dell, Gateway, hell even Acer, it probably would have been a different story. The best part though, is that the BOXX computers are marketed as graphical workstations, not desktops.
obviously you are new to gaming since "strafe jumping" is actually called "bunny hopping".
To put it in a less flamy manner than the AC below, its obvious that *you* are the one who is new to gaming. Bunny-hopping was a term that got popular after Half-Life was released, especially the Team Fortress Classic and Counter-Strike mods came out, but the technique was called strafe-jumping long before that, mostly in Quake 2.
Most the recall is happening because California has a fetish for voter initiatives, and because some rich Republicans are mounting a good campaign against him. But its pretty stupid in the long run. Next year they could have had a very unpopular govenor to beat up on, letting the GOP recapture some statewide offices that they lost in the last election (they lost all of them) and giving Bush a better chance in the presidential election. If Davis is recalled and a Republican is made govenor, the GOP will be stuck with the states budget crisis and they'll have no whipping boy for '04.
Nice use of the time honored "I'll misconstrue your words so I can make fun of you" shtick that's so popular with polititicians and other assorted assholes.
And by smearing everybody with the "grow up people", since you were posting to everyone instead of any actual "conspiracy theorists", you would fall into the latter of the two categories you mentioned.
I do agree with you that there is a big difference between having them automatically destroyed and having to specifically ask for forms and request them. I also think its interesting that everyone whos replied to your post has gotten modded "overrated" down to -1.:)
Jesus, grow up, people. Not everyone whose service contract has ended is around to ask for their sample to be destroyed.
Well dur, I think Micheal was talking about people who have been discharged or retired, not ones that are no longer "serving" because they're MIA. But nice use of the time honored "I'll rephrase your question so I can make fun of you" shtick that is so popular with politicians and the guys doing PR for the military.
Apple has shown a resonable turn around time on fixing bugs, whereas Microsoft will procrastinate on fixing a vunerability, even after someone has turned it into a virus. That, and to Apple "security" doesn't mean pressuring programmers not to let anyone else but the company know of said vunerability. Finally, Microsoft is a features company while Apple is a *good* features company. By that, I mean Microsoft will throw new features into a product regardless of whether or not they are actually usefull (think MS Bob and personalized menus), whereas Apple actually puts some thought into new versions of their software. That carelessness on MS's part is one reason why they have so many bugs.
As a result "The Burly Man," the sequel to "The Matrix," is a five-hour movie that's been split right down the middle (not especially at the best place, either) to turn it into two 2-1/2 hour movies.
Kill Bill, Tarentino's new movie, is about 3 hours long and is being edited into 2 films.
Twould suck mightily if one of the main characters' face had to be pasted onto a body doulbe because s/he kicked off before the movie was finished.
Kind of like how Gloria Foster, the Oracle, kicked the bucket? I think they must have known her health was declining (died of diabetes complications) as the park scene in Reloaded must have been filmed a loooooong time ago, as she died in Sept 2001. Its too bad, I would have liked to have seen her in more films.
how do you NOT know your kid has a gun, you have to be a moron to not check up on them.
Oh, and how are you going to find that out? Go through their room every night? Strip search them before they leave the house and after they come home every day? Even if you do all of those things, there's no guarantee that a child couldn't hide something in the garage or attic.
Keeping tabs on every second of a kids life is just as bad parenting as letting them do whatever they want.
Hey asshole, why don't you shove the attiude back in said hole, and pull your head out of it while you're at it. Did I insult you? Did I patronize you? Did I say anything politically idological? No, so fuck you!
Now, if its possible for you to have a normal conversation without turning into a complete prick...
Sorry to burst your bubble but not every subject in school is "happy joy game fun". Calculus is fucking boring.
That is a cop out, and a tired one at that. Its an excuse for being lazy. Just because its not the most fun thing you've ever done in your life doesn't mean that it has to be the most boring, especially when its so *easy* to make things better. You don't have to raise teacher salaries, put computers in every classroom, hire minority teachers or whatever else you think a "bleeding heart liberal" would do.
Did you ever watch Mr. Wizard as a kid? Kind of like Bill Nye only he wasn't extremely annoying. Rather than going over the same crap in math class year after year, they could show the students something cool and explain the science behind it. Again, its not going to be the most fun you'll ever have, but its a hell of a lot better to calculate baseball statistics or the temperature at which a hot dog will explode than 12 years of "2 + 5 > 6". Plus I'm sure a teacher would rather do a hot dog project than grade that same "2 + 5 > 6" type problems that he or she has spent their entire careers grading. Lastly, if the point of school is to prepare kids to be adults in the real world, doesn't it make sense to use real world problems?
Same thing for other subjects. Rather than being force fed the same white washed, sugar coated version of American history, tell it as it actually happened, warts and all, its a lot more interesting. In English class, rather than having students spend all their time differentiating between subjects, nouns and verbs, try having them read some literature for a change.
And then there's how information is presented. There are a few different general learning styles, hands on, discussion, and listening. Most people do not learn best from lectures, so why is most information presented that way? Even if you do learn best from lectures, studies have shown that you'll retain more if more than one style is used. Boys especially benefit from hands on instruction. That they usually don't get it is one reason why boys are falling behind girls academically.
The problem with the "if they don't pass the grade, make them repeat it" approach is that its all stick and no carrot. Just take subjects that kids need to know and find ways to make it interesting so they want to know. The kids would learn better, kids and teachers would be happier.
Kids who tend to be the most disrespectful and disruptive just want to have fun and games.
Or they might be very smart people who have ADHD can't physically pay attention in our heavily structured schools.
So be it. They can have fun and games on the streets.
Thats going to be great for parents, neighborhoods, property values and crime rates. But if we can't try to reach out to these kids without being bleeding heart liberals, whats the point, eh?
The kids have to meet the teachers have way, that is they themselves have to take an interest in paying attention, doing the homework and asking questions.
Why should they? Whats in it for them? Not landing in detention or getting in trouble with their parents? As the guy said in Office Space, "sure you can fire me, but that means I'll only do enough not to get fired". Rather than forcing students to learn things they don't care about, figure out how to get them intrested in learning and get them to like success. They'll end up covering the same material either way, but this way they'll be happier as well as learing and retaining more.
You seem to be making a false "all or nothing" argument. Either we need a big army or we let the hordes in. Except, out military could be cut in half from it's present size and we could still take anybody else out there. With all those nice advantages you mentioned previously, our military could be a tenth of its current size and be perfectly adaquate to defend our borders.
You're obviously to young to remember the evil empire speech
Feh. He made a speech, wooo! Anybody can make a speech, just like anyone can do nothing but sit on their ass and drink beer all day long, and yet call themsevles a patriot. There is a slight difference between "you bad commies, you" and "you try to put those missles on Cuba and it will be war".
And if you haven't noticed they all vote Democrat thanks to you're free hand outs and welfare programs.
And yet crackwhores like you bite the hand that feeds them. Sad, really.
Maybe you've never heard of a little incident called World War Two?
Actually I have heard of it, thank you. Maybe you didn't know this, but we were never invaded during that war, and AFAIK neither were Australia and New Zealand.
Alright, lets compare that to Reagans feats. When did he ever get on national television and draw a line in the sand, saying that if the USSR didn't stop what they were doing right now, it would amount to "an act of war?"
You keep voting for the rapists and moral degenerates and we'll keep taking election after election.
Sure buddy, keep smokin that cheap crack. Addicts can vote, too.
There's a difference between locking your door, and having enough weapons and explosives to take out your entire neighboorhood.
Then you say this:
Don't get confused thinking that nobody wants to invade us simply because they haven't tried.
When earlier you said this:
Have you also stopped to consider the fact that a rather large deterrent for anyone invading the US is because the general population is so well armed? That is a nightmare scenario for any urban warfare plans. Also, consider our geography. There are only two possible land-based assault routes: Canada and Mexico. A pure aerial drop "invasion" doesn't work. Where are your supply lines? How do you get more bullets to your troops? A naval invasion is innefective because of satellite coverage. We would see them coming long before they reach the shore.
Excuse me? Aren't you making your point for me (at greater length than I did)? Aren't all of those things you just mentioned excellent reasons for why we *don't* need the most powerful military in the world?
So thoroughly indoctrinated in the mindless drivel of the left, that you spout their own talking points and think that you have insight.
Yeah, what is he thinking? He should shove his head up Ann Coulter's ass for a while so he can give completely irrational rants about how Democrates are traitors for attacking Joe McCarthy, of all people.
Also I firmly believe that teachers should have more recourse in punishing students than kicking them out of class. How about outright failing them?
If somebody is failing the class, either they have a learning disability or they don't care about passing it. If they don't care about passing it to begin with, why would they care more once they've failed it? That's just an incentive to drop out of school.
The problem is that school is looked at as something that kids have to be pushed into whether they like it or not, rather than "hey how can we make this interesting so the kids want to learn"? Also making things difficult is that 95% of the curriculum in K-12 is pure, grade-A crappola.
The only two times we've had hostile forces on US soil happened druing the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Other than that, nada, nothin, zip. Look at Australia and New Zealand, they're democratic countries that don't have huge militaries and somehow they've never been invaded.
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Give me a break...
How about giving you a clue instead?
Ok, that clears it all up, since he is an asshole, then the Opteron machines that 'various' small manufacturers have released no longer exist. Poof, magic of an asshole reviewer can do miracles. Geesh.
Go read Charlie's commentary on Apple's announcement of the G5. To sum it up: you could order an Opteron from some small no-name manufacturer at the time of the announcement, and Apple didn't use the bestest best PC SPEC numbers obtained with a highly optimized compilers for the comparisons, therefore Jobs is a sniviling, slimy liar. He also grumples about how Apple was being a PR whore, and that AMD has "considerably more credibility than Apple", ignoring the fact that AMD markets its chips with some made up number, rather than how man megahertz it has. So yes, Charlie White is still an asshole.
BTW, considering market share, wouldn't Apple be considered a 'small manufacturer'? Hmm...
What an ignorant thing to say. Rather than comparing Apple's marketshare against ALL pc manufacturers COMBINED, why not compare Apple to Dell or HP? Not to mention the fact that they're one of the few companies that hasn't lost scads of money since the bubble burst. Saying Apple is a 'small manufacturer' would be like saying Honda has a small marketshare compared to Ford, GM, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, etc etc combined.
Get over it, the G5 is not, and will not be the first 64bit Desktop Computer.
They never said desktop computer, they said personal computer. If you check out the BOXX website, all their systems are built and marketed as either workstations or as rendering nodes. So unless BOXX starts selling to the consumer market by August or Dell throws some Opterons in their Dimension series, Apple will have a perfectly legit claim to have the first 64 bit personal computer.
WindowsXP for Itanium (Both a real 64bit OS, and a real 64bit processor) have been available for over a year now, in fact I think WindowsXP 64, is approaching its two year release date.
In no way could the Itaniums currently be considered for personal computers. But hey, if you want to buy an Itanium for a lot more money that will perform far more slowly than a P4 or an Athlon, be my guest. And I wonder why it would take Microsoft so long to release a 64 bit version of XP, considering they had NT running on Alphas, PowerPC's and I think Sparcs as well.
Apple is SO innovative (with marketing maybe)....
I don't see where the sarcasm applies, since Apple has innovated far more than Linux and Microsoft combined. The only company that could compete with Apple for the title of Most Innovated Computer Company, Ever would be IBM.
The interviewer in question, Charlie White, is an asshole. BOXX is a small manufacturer of Opteron systems and its unlikely that many people have heard of them. If you were talking about a larger company, like HP, Dell, Gateway, hell even Acer, it probably would have been a different story. The best part though, is that the BOXX computers are marketed as graphical workstations, not desktops.
The Democrats are hoping to turn the Hispanics into a nice cordoned off voting block they can keep dependent on them to pander to, like the blacks.
??? Which is so much worse than the GOP, who seem to have their lips permanently stitched to the cock of the religious right.
obviously you are new to gaming since "strafe jumping" is actually called "bunny hopping".
To put it in a less flamy manner than the AC below, its obvious that *you* are the one who is new to gaming. Bunny-hopping was a term that got popular after Half-Life was released, especially the Team Fortress Classic and Counter-Strike mods came out, but the technique was called strafe-jumping long before that, mostly in Quake 2.
Most the recall is happening because California has a fetish for voter initiatives, and because some rich Republicans are mounting a good campaign against him. But its pretty stupid in the long run. Next year they could have had a very unpopular govenor to beat up on, letting the GOP recapture some statewide offices that they lost in the last election (they lost all of them) and giving Bush a better chance in the presidential election. If Davis is recalled and a Republican is made govenor, the GOP will be stuck with the states budget crisis and they'll have no whipping boy for '04.
Your isp would probably like you more if you replaced the pdf file with a low resolution jpeg.
Nice use of the time honored "I'll misconstrue your words so I can make fun of you" shtick that's so popular with polititicians and other assorted assholes.
And by smearing everybody with the "grow up people", since you were posting to everyone instead of any actual "conspiracy theorists", you would fall into the latter of the two categories you mentioned.
I do agree with you that there is a big difference between having them automatically destroyed and having to specifically ask for forms and request them. I also think its interesting that everyone whos replied to your post has gotten modded "overrated" down to -1. :)
Jesus, grow up, people. Not everyone whose service contract has ended is around to ask for their sample to be destroyed.
Well dur, I think Micheal was talking about people who have been discharged or retired, not ones that are no longer "serving" because they're MIA. But nice use of the time honored "I'll rephrase your question so I can make fun of you" shtick that is so popular with politicians and the guys doing PR for the military.
Apple has shown a resonable turn around time on fixing bugs, whereas Microsoft will procrastinate on fixing a vunerability, even after someone has turned it into a virus. That, and to Apple "security" doesn't mean pressuring programmers not to let anyone else but the company know of said vunerability. Finally, Microsoft is a features company while Apple is a *good* features company. By that, I mean Microsoft will throw new features into a product regardless of whether or not they are actually usefull (think MS Bob and personalized menus), whereas Apple actually puts some thought into new versions of their software. That carelessness on MS's part is one reason why they have so many bugs.
As a result "The Burly Man," the sequel to "The Matrix," is a five-hour movie that's been split right down the middle (not especially at the best place, either) to turn it into two 2-1/2 hour movies.
Kill Bill, Tarentino's new movie, is about 3 hours long and is being edited into 2 films.
Twould suck mightily if one of the main characters' face had to be pasted onto a body doulbe because s/he kicked off before the movie was finished.
Kind of like how Gloria Foster, the Oracle, kicked the bucket? I think they must have known her health was declining (died of diabetes complications) as the park scene in Reloaded must have been filmed a loooooong time ago, as she died in Sept 2001. Its too bad, I would have liked to have seen her in more films.
how do you NOT know your kid has a gun, you have to be a moron to not check up on them.
Oh, and how are you going to find that out? Go through their room every night? Strip search them before they leave the house and after they come home every day? Even if you do all of those things, there's no guarantee that a child couldn't hide something in the garage or attic.
Keeping tabs on every second of a kids life is just as bad parenting as letting them do whatever they want.
Bleeding liberal heart....
Hey asshole, why don't you shove the attiude back in said hole, and pull your head out of it while you're at it. Did I insult you? Did I patronize you? Did I say anything politically idological? No, so fuck you!
Now, if its possible for you to have a normal conversation without turning into a complete prick...
Sorry to burst your bubble but not every subject in school is "happy joy game fun". Calculus is fucking boring.
That is a cop out, and a tired one at that. Its an excuse for being lazy. Just because its not the most fun thing you've ever done in your life doesn't mean that it has to be the most boring, especially when its so *easy* to make things better. You don't have to raise teacher salaries, put computers in every classroom, hire minority teachers or whatever else you think a "bleeding heart liberal" would do.
Did you ever watch Mr. Wizard as a kid? Kind of like Bill Nye only he wasn't extremely annoying. Rather than going over the same crap in math class year after year, they could show the students something cool and explain the science behind it. Again, its not going to be the most fun you'll ever have, but its a hell of a lot better to calculate baseball statistics or the temperature at which a hot dog will explode than 12 years of "2 + 5 > 6". Plus I'm sure a teacher would rather do a hot dog project than grade that same "2 + 5 > 6" type problems that he or she has spent their entire careers grading. Lastly, if the point of school is to prepare kids to be adults in the real world, doesn't it make sense to use real world problems?
Same thing for other subjects. Rather than being force fed the same white washed, sugar coated version of American history, tell it as it actually happened, warts and all, its a lot more interesting. In English class, rather than having students spend all their time differentiating between subjects, nouns and verbs, try having them read some literature for a change.
And then there's how information is presented. There are a few different general learning styles, hands on, discussion, and listening. Most people do not learn best from lectures, so why is most information presented that way? Even if you do learn best from lectures, studies have shown that you'll retain more if more than one style is used. Boys especially benefit from hands on instruction. That they usually don't get it is one reason why boys are falling behind girls academically.
The problem with the "if they don't pass the grade, make them repeat it" approach is that its all stick and no carrot. Just take subjects that kids need to know and find ways to make it interesting so they want to know. The kids would learn better, kids and teachers would be happier.
Kids who tend to be the most disrespectful and disruptive just want to have fun and games.
Or they might be very smart people who have ADHD can't physically pay attention in our heavily structured schools.
So be it. They can have fun and games on the streets.
Thats going to be great for parents, neighborhoods, property values and crime rates. But if we can't try to reach out to these kids without being bleeding heart liberals, whats the point, eh?
The kids have to meet the teachers have way, that is they themselves have to take an interest in paying attention, doing the homework and asking questions.
Why should they? Whats in it for them? Not landing in detention or getting in trouble with their parents? As the guy said in Office Space, "sure you can fire me, but that means I'll only do enough not to get fired". Rather than forcing students to learn things they don't care about, figure out how to get them intrested in learning and get them to like success. They'll end up covering the same material either way, but this way they'll be happier as well as learing and retaining more.
No, he's complaining about people unfairly smearing Reagan, then turns around and smears a whole group of other people. Fucking shithead.
You seem to be making a false "all or nothing" argument. Either we need a big army or we let the hordes in. Except, out military could be cut in half from it's present size and we could still take anybody else out there. With all those nice advantages you mentioned previously, our military could be a tenth of its current size and be perfectly adaquate to defend our borders.
You're obviously to young to remember the evil empire speech
Feh. He made a speech, wooo! Anybody can make a speech, just like anyone can do nothing but sit on their ass and drink beer all day long, and yet call themsevles a patriot. There is a slight difference between "you bad commies, you" and "you try to put those missles on Cuba and it will be war".
And if you haven't noticed they all vote Democrat thanks to you're free hand outs and welfare programs.
And yet crackwhores like you bite the hand that feeds them. Sad, really.
Maybe you've never heard of a little incident called World War Two?
Actually I have heard of it, thank you. Maybe you didn't know this, but we were never invaded during that war, and AFAIK neither were Australia and New Zealand.
You call the missle crisis an accomplishment?
Alright, lets compare that to Reagans feats. When did he ever get on national television and draw a line in the sand, saying that if the USSR didn't stop what they were doing right now, it would amount to "an act of war?"
You keep voting for the rapists and moral degenerates and we'll keep taking election after election.
Sure buddy, keep smokin that cheap crack. Addicts can vote, too.
Does that mean I shouldn't lock my door?
There's a difference between locking your door, and having enough weapons and explosives to take out your entire neighboorhood.
Then you say this:
Don't get confused thinking that nobody wants to invade us simply because they haven't tried.
When earlier you said this:
Have you also stopped to consider the fact that a rather large deterrent for anyone invading the US is because the general population is so well armed? That is a nightmare scenario for any urban warfare plans. Also, consider our geography. There are only two possible land-based assault routes: Canada and Mexico. A pure aerial drop "invasion" doesn't work. Where are your supply lines? How do you get more bullets to your troops? A naval invasion is innefective because of satellite coverage. We would see them coming long before they reach the shore.
Excuse me? Aren't you making your point for me (at greater length than I did)? Aren't all of those things you just mentioned excellent reasons for why we *don't* need the most powerful military in the world?
So thoroughly indoctrinated in the mindless drivel of the left, that you spout their own talking points and think that you have insight.
Yeah, what is he thinking? He should shove his head up Ann Coulter's ass for a while so he can give completely irrational rants about how Democrates are traitors for attacking Joe McCarthy, of all people.
Also I firmly believe that teachers should have more recourse in punishing students than kicking them out of class. How about outright failing them?
If somebody is failing the class, either they have a learning disability or they don't care about passing it. If they don't care about passing it to begin with, why would they care more once they've failed it? That's just an incentive to drop out of school.
The problem is that school is looked at as something that kids have to be pushed into whether they like it or not, rather than "hey how can we make this interesting so the kids want to learn"? Also making things difficult is that 95% of the curriculum in K-12 is pure, grade-A crappola.
Would have been cheaper for the taxpayer to just pay those 18,000 people to sit on their asses.
The only two times we've had hostile forces on US soil happened druing the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Other than that, nada, nothin, zip. Look at Australia and New Zealand, they're democratic countries that don't have huge militaries and somehow they've never been invaded.
Example: North Korea has over twice as many men in its military.
And their military would last how many minutes against ours? Just because you have more enlisted personel doens't mean you have a larger army.