Why have them in 1998? (tho I remember seeing them on every new PC I looked at in 1996, well before 1998). This was before the digital camera and thumb drive boom that made them necessary.
Because on the hardware side, manufactuers could spend the extra cash and add a USB port, making the device compatible with most PC's released in the last couple years, or stick with parallel and serial and have compatibility with just about every PC on the planet. Hmmm. And on the software side, Windows didn't support USB. Any more questions?
Not really. Why mess with this newfangled USB when they could keep making parallel and serial devices, compatible with just about any PC on the planet.
When a lie is repeated often enough people will take it as fact.
Speak for yourself, buddy. Sure, USB had been out for a couple of years before Apple jumped on the bandwagon - but that is completely irrelevant. At the time, manufacuters in the cut-throat peripheral industry could spend the extra cash to add a USB port to their devices - or just stick with serial and parallel interfaces, available on just about every PC in existance. Guess which one they choose.
Then Apple released the USB only iMac, creating a whole new crop of consumers who would need new periphreals. Manufactuers could now make USB devices compatible with this captive market, and just about every PC made in the last couple years.
Intel invented USB, but Apple is the one who got the ball rolling, and that's a fact.
1394 (firewire when not using Apple's name) was an abandoned technology
Talk about making shit up.
Firewire would have come about without any Apple involvement because digital video needed the technology. Without Sony, however, it wouldn't exist.
Hardly. There was always composite out, and later USB 2.0, although inferior to Firewire.
They were small potatoes for IBM, what makes you think they're hot shit with Intel?
Oh, hardly. That's just IBM's cover story for their perennially shitty fab process. IBM was hyping up their 970 blade servers, so it's not like the 970 was a custom chip. Also note how comparisons between 970 orders and cell orders use multi year projections for the cell, assuming that the PS3 will be as sucessfull as the PS2, vs a single year of Apple sales. Methinks we'll be seeing the same line with Sony in 2-4 years time.
And all that it says about the legal system is that somebody being sued by an obsessive crackpot did the math and decided that paying him $20K to STFU made much more economic sense than fighting it out in court. It was a smart move
It may have been the cheap move, but not the principled one, which is what they should have done. Bar associations are supposed to uphold the integrity of the profession, and when they let a loon like Thompson roam free they do everyone a great disservice.
Last time I checked, there were still plenty of Palestinians living in Israel.
And last time I checked, there were plenty of blacks living in the South during Jim Crow, and plenty of blacks living in South Africa during aparthied. Your point?
And, to my knowledge, Israel hasn't taken the Dome of the Rock of the Church of the Holy Sepluchre (which they easily could have).
And so far they haven't dropped any nukes on the refugee camps, either. Somebody give them a medal.
They have, in fact, on several occasions now, bulldozed their OWN settlements as good-faith gestures to Palestinians who simply spit on them in return.
I'm sorry, but the correct spelling of "good-faith" in this instance would be "bullshit". Palistinians have an old saying - Israelis negociate with other Israelis over the fate of Palistinians. Palstinians have larger families than the Israelis do, so the Israeli government was faced with either outright aparthied, or Israel democratically becomming a majority Muslim nation. They chose instead to enjage in good old-fashioned gerrymandering and carve off a few chuncks lf land (that they were illegally building settlements on anyway) with large Palistinian populations to prevent the latter situation from happening.
Sharon's unilatteral pullout wasn't throwing Palistinians a bone, it was just a self-serving action to maintain a Jewish majority.
Seems to me that that's exactly what many Palestinians are trying to do. Their grandfathers lived on Israeli land, so they think they have some right to it, even if they were born elsewhere. As I said in a previous post, my ancestors lost the Civil War and were penalized for it. That doesn't mean I hate Yanks and demand restoration of Southern honour or whatever. I've got my own life in my own town, why should I be killing innocents for something that happened to my granddad?
Wow, talk about having a sense of perspective being your mortal enemy. Jews hadn't had a state in southwest Asia for a couple thousand years. The Civil War happened 140 years ago - you'd have to talk to your grandfather's grandfather to find someone who lived through it. The formation of Israel happened less than 60 years ago - there are still plenty of Palistinians alive today who still have keys to the homes they were forced out of.
The last "we offered them everything they wanted" rhetoric from the US ignored the fact that the solution didn't give Palestine back most of it's confiscated land, left Israel with control over strategic assets (like all of Palestine's water)
Yup. Which is also hypocritical of them, as they launched an attack to stop some Arab states from reducing by 35% the amount of water Irael could take from the Jordan river.
If we treat them like any other country, we should recognize their right to wage war against Israel to reclaim land stolen from them during the formation of Israel and the during 1967 war, which was started by Israel. If we start giving them $3 billion a year in military and economic aid and allow them to develop and possess nuclear weapons, like we have Israel, they wont have any need to put suicide bombers on buses anymore.
I cheered for Israel when they went to get their kidnapped soldiers back
Except that Israelis kidnap Palistinians all the time...only they call it "arresting". Sort of like how Hezbollah launching qassam rockets is "terrorism" but the IDF dropping cluster bombs on Lebanon is "appropriate military action".
I just purchased a Lapinator and hope that will help when it arrives.
I looked at the site, and it looks like it works by insulating the heat from your laptop from your legs. The problem is that it could also keep the heat in the laptop rather than allowing it to dissapate through the bottom of the machine, making your already hot MBP even hotter. They claim otherwise, but I'd feel a lot more (mentally) comfortable by using something like this, which sits underneath the laptop like the Lapinator but has 3 USB powered fans to exaust the heat.
Men need to learn to step up and take responsibility for themselves and women need to make the men commit to the relationship before kids are even a possibility.
No responsibility for women, eh? You know, the ones who initiate 80% of divorces, the ones who get child custody the majority of the time when it's disputed, and the ones who can choose to keep a fetus or not?
The man has all the choice in the world about whether to have sex with a woman in the first place. If you don't want to pay for the consequences of your actions, perhaps you should act more carefully.
Except that the exact same thing could be said to the woman: you made the choice to have sex, now deal with the consequences. But she doesn't. She has rights. She has choices. Men only have no rights, no choices, only responsibilities.
Who is or isn't beholden to what parts of a contract (or whatever one party claims as such) is resolved in a court of law in case of doubt.
And that's why EULA's are worthless - a party in a contract can't enforce new, previously hidden terms AFTER the sale has already been made. First Sale Doctrine, and all that.
The government went after porn studios that had hired Traci Lords after it came out that she was a minor when they were filmed. The charges were dismissed when the defense pointed out that she obtained a passport stating she was a minor. If the government gave her an incorrect ID, how can you prosecute the studio's for believing the government?
I don't believe the US government lied to its allies about WMD's.
They lied to everybody. And by "they" I mean the Bush Administration.
I do believe that the CIA, MI6, and all several other intelligence agencies said they believed WMD's were in place and a threat.
Nope. With the possible exception of MI6, they were drug kicking and screaming into this mess by the neocons in the executive branch.
If you (and the world) seriously believe that Bush *lied* before the war, you need to also attack the other countries that believed there were WMD's
"Other countries" pretty much consists of Britan. And while much of the world was surprised that Saddam didn't have a few squirreled away, it wouldn't have made much of a difference if he had - because the Bush line was that Saddam was such an imminent threat that could not wait for sanctions or diplomacy and had to take him out now. That is what the war was sold on, not the possibility that he might have a couple SCUD missles with mustard gas warheads hidden under a sand dune somewhere.
I admit it. I still say that we're better off than we would have been with Kerry, but it's always possible that's not true.
Huh? Possible? An American voter asking if they might have been better off voting for Kerry in 2004 is like Miramax asking if they might have been better off if they hadn't passed up the chance to make Lord of the Rings, after Peter Jackson made Time Warner a couple billion dollars.
The US is now visibly being torn apart by its dual-party system.
Um, no. You have just as much corruption, and a lot more gridlock, in a multiparty system. What is tearing this country apart is the fact that the Democrats and the media have been almost completely unable to stand up to the GOP's propoganda machine.
You get the same thing with movies, too. You get people who are all nostalgic for the "golden age" of Hollywood, except they forget crappy movies and crappy big budget popcorn movies were made in the 50's now. The problem is they compare the crap from today to the good stuff to yesteryear. Biodome to Casablanca. Alfred Hitchcock to Michael Bay. But they forget Ed Wood.
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Why have them in 1998? (tho I remember seeing them on every new PC I looked at in 1996, well before 1998). This was before the digital camera and thumb drive boom that made them necessary.
Because on the hardware side, manufactuers could spend the extra cash and add a USB port, making the device compatible with most PC's released in the last couple years, or stick with parallel and serial and have compatibility with just about every PC on the planet. Hmmm. And on the software side, Windows didn't support USB. Any more questions?
They were making them anyway
Not really. Why mess with this newfangled USB when they could keep making parallel and serial devices, compatible with just about any PC on the planet.
Even FW 400 is much faster than USB 2, despite the lower clock speed. I don't get why it hasn't trumped it in the market
Because of ignorant opinion's like the parent's, for one.
I suppose you're also pissed that they no longer ship with modems nor 5.25" floppy drives as well.
When a lie is repeated often enough people will take it as fact.
Speak for yourself, buddy. Sure, USB had been out for a couple of years before Apple jumped on the bandwagon - but that is completely irrelevant. At the time, manufacuters in the cut-throat peripheral industry could spend the extra cash to add a USB port to their devices - or just stick with serial and parallel interfaces, available on just about every PC in existance. Guess which one they choose.
Then Apple released the USB only iMac, creating a whole new crop of consumers who would need new periphreals. Manufactuers could now make USB devices compatible with this captive market, and just about every PC made in the last couple years.
Intel invented USB, but Apple is the one who got the ball rolling, and that's a fact.
1394 (firewire when not using Apple's name) was an abandoned technology
Talk about making shit up.
Firewire would have come about without any Apple involvement because digital video needed the technology. Without Sony, however, it wouldn't exist.
Hardly. There was always composite out, and later USB 2.0, although inferior to Firewire.
They were small potatoes for IBM, what makes you think they're hot shit with Intel?
Oh, hardly. That's just IBM's cover story for their perennially shitty fab process. IBM was hyping up their 970 blade servers, so it's not like the 970 was a custom chip. Also note how comparisons between 970 orders and cell orders use multi year projections for the cell, assuming that the PS3 will be as sucessfull as the PS2, vs a single year of Apple sales. Methinks we'll be seeing the same line with Sony in 2-4 years time.
And all that it says about the legal system is that somebody being sued by an obsessive crackpot did the math and decided that paying him $20K to STFU made much more economic sense than fighting it out in court. It was a smart move
It may have been the cheap move, but not the principled one, which is what they should have done. Bar associations are supposed to uphold the integrity of the profession, and when they let a loon like Thompson roam free they do everyone a great disservice.
So this post was flamebait but the parent's "well that just makes you an idiot, plain and simple" was not? You know, which I was quoting?
Last time I checked, there were still plenty of Palestinians living in Israel.
And last time I checked, there were plenty of blacks living in the South during Jim Crow, and plenty of blacks living in South Africa during aparthied. Your point?
And, to my knowledge, Israel hasn't taken the Dome of the Rock of the Church of the Holy Sepluchre (which they easily could have).
And so far they haven't dropped any nukes on the refugee camps, either. Somebody give them a medal.
They have, in fact, on several occasions now, bulldozed their OWN settlements as good-faith gestures to Palestinians who simply spit on them in return.
I'm sorry, but the correct spelling of "good-faith" in this instance would be "bullshit". Palistinians have an old saying - Israelis negociate with other Israelis over the fate of Palistinians. Palstinians have larger families than the Israelis do, so the Israeli government was faced with either outright aparthied, or Israel democratically becomming a majority Muslim nation. They chose instead to enjage in good old-fashioned gerrymandering and carve off a few chuncks lf land (that they were illegally building settlements on anyway) with large Palistinian populations to prevent the latter situation from happening.
Sharon's unilatteral pullout wasn't throwing Palistinians a bone, it was just a self-serving action to maintain a Jewish majority.
Seems to me that that's exactly what many Palestinians are trying to do. Their grandfathers lived on Israeli land, so they think they have some right to it, even if they were born elsewhere. As I said in a previous post, my ancestors lost the Civil War and were penalized for it. That doesn't mean I hate Yanks and demand restoration of Southern honour or whatever. I've got my own life in my own town, why should I be killing innocents for something that happened to my granddad?
Wow, talk about having a sense of perspective being your mortal enemy. Jews hadn't had a state in southwest Asia for a couple thousand years. The Civil War happened 140 years ago - you'd have to talk to your grandfather's grandfather to find someone who lived through it. The formation of Israel happened less than 60 years ago - there are still plenty of Palistinians alive today who still have keys to the homes they were forced out of.
The last "we offered them everything they wanted" rhetoric from the US ignored the fact that the solution didn't give Palestine back most of it's confiscated land, left Israel with control over strategic assets (like all of Palestine's water)
Yup. Which is also hypocritical of them, as they launched an attack to stop some Arab states from reducing by 35% the amount of water Irael could take from the Jordan river.
If by kidnapped, you mean confirmed hezbollah terrorists who were arrested, tried, and put in jail, then yes, they were kidnapped.
Minus the trials, sure. Oh, and also minus the "arresting", since Israel seizing people is just as much kidnapping as what Hezbollah did.
Well, if we treat them like any other country
If we treat them like any other country, we should recognize their right to wage war against Israel to reclaim land stolen from them during the formation of Israel and the during 1967 war, which was started by Israel. If we start giving them $3 billion a year in military and economic aid and allow them to develop and possess nuclear weapons, like we have Israel, they wont have any need to put suicide bombers on buses anymore.
I cheered for Israel when they went to get their kidnapped soldiers back
Except that Israelis kidnap Palistinians all the time...only they call it "arresting". Sort of like how Hezbollah launching qassam rockets is "terrorism" but the IDF dropping cluster bombs on Lebanon is "appropriate military action".
people act as if bush matters long term, he will be a footnote president in 10 years at most.
Right, just like WWII was a "footnote" by 1957. Not. Saying that makes you an idiot, plain and simple.
I just purchased a Lapinator and hope that will help when it arrives.
I looked at the site, and it looks like it works by insulating the heat from your laptop from your legs. The problem is that it could also keep the heat in the laptop rather than allowing it to dissapate through the bottom of the machine, making your already hot MBP even hotter. They claim otherwise, but I'd feel a lot more (mentally) comfortable by using something like this, which sits underneath the laptop like the Lapinator but has 3 USB powered fans to exaust the heat.
Men need to learn to step up and take responsibility for themselves and women need to make the men commit to the relationship before kids are even a possibility.
No responsibility for women, eh? You know, the ones who initiate 80% of divorces, the ones who get child custody the majority of the time when it's disputed, and the ones who can choose to keep a fetus or not?
The man has all the choice in the world about whether to have sex with a woman in the first place. If you don't want to pay for the consequences of your actions, perhaps you should act more carefully.
Except that the exact same thing could be said to the woman: you made the choice to have sex, now deal with the consequences. But she doesn't. She has rights. She has choices. Men only have no rights, no choices, only responsibilities.
Who is or isn't beholden to what parts of a contract (or whatever one party claims as such) is resolved in a court of law in case of doubt.
And that's why EULA's are worthless - a party in a contract can't enforce new, previously hidden terms AFTER the sale has already been made. First Sale Doctrine, and all that.
The government went after porn studios that had hired Traci Lords after it came out that she was a minor when they were filmed. The charges were dismissed when the defense pointed out that she obtained a passport stating she was a minor. If the government gave her an incorrect ID, how can you prosecute the studio's for believing the government?
Only when it suits them, and they won't grant you the same freedom.
"Grant" me? I'm about as beholden to demands in a EULA as I am to listen to Pat Robertson's demands of Americans on the 700 Club.
Too bad EULA's aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Companies will ignore their own EULA's - see Windows Refund Day for an example.
I don't believe the US government lied to its allies about WMD's.
They lied to everybody. And by "they" I mean the Bush Administration.
I do believe that the CIA, MI6, and all several other intelligence agencies said they believed WMD's were in place and a threat.
Nope. With the possible exception of MI6, they were drug kicking and screaming into this mess by the neocons in the executive branch.
If you (and the world) seriously believe that Bush *lied* before the war, you need to also attack the other countries that believed there were WMD's
"Other countries" pretty much consists of Britan. And while much of the world was surprised that Saddam didn't have a few squirreled away, it wouldn't have made much of a difference if he had - because the Bush line was that Saddam was such an imminent threat that could not wait for sanctions or diplomacy and had to take him out now. That is what the war was sold on, not the possibility that he might have a couple SCUD missles with mustard gas warheads hidden under a sand dune somewhere.
I admit it. I still say that we're better off than we would have been with Kerry, but it's always possible that's not true.
Huh? Possible? An American voter asking if they might have been better off voting for Kerry in 2004 is like Miramax asking if they might have been better off if they hadn't passed up the chance to make Lord of the Rings, after Peter Jackson made Time Warner a couple billion dollars.
The US is now visibly being torn apart by its dual-party system.
Um, no. You have just as much corruption, and a lot more gridlock, in a multiparty system. What is tearing this country apart is the fact that the Democrats and the media have been almost completely unable to stand up to the GOP's propoganda machine.
You get the same thing with movies, too. You get people who are all nostalgic for the "golden age" of Hollywood, except they forget crappy movies and crappy big budget popcorn movies were made in the 50's now. The problem is they compare the crap from today to the good stuff to yesteryear. Biodome to Casablanca. Alfred Hitchcock to Michael Bay. But they forget Ed Wood.