(Clue to those who missed the sarcasm: If your UID is more than three digits long or so, nobody is impressed... and even then, sometimes not. I kind of wish they would stop displaying them entirely.)
Actually, you are user 608864, while he is user 517789.
On Slashdot, that means he has every right to think of you as a "fucking n00b."
You are to address him, not merely as "ZosX", but as "ZosX-sempai" to properly show him the respect which is due to him. He may in turn choose to apply the "-chan" honorific to your user name, if so inclined.... but cheer up! I'm pretty sure you can still get a four-digit UID over at MacSlash. Then, if he shows up five minutes later, you can mercilessly savage him for his inexperience and ignorance.
The He-Man cartoon was also a thinly-veiled commercial for He-Man toys.
The "moral" segments at the end were added because FCC regulations require that a certain percentage of Saturday morning airtime be dedicated to "educational" broadcasting.
By adding a 2-minute "lesson" to the end of cartoons, the networks manage to avoid having to give up the occasional full half-hour slot to educational programming.
(It's also the reason ABC came up with "Schoolhouse Rock"... it's all about complying with the FCC at the bare minumum requirement without slowing down the marketing train for sugar-laced breakfast cerial.)
Very few ordinary folk own a copy of Reason. Like you said, ReasonStation and other sites like it are for "semi-pro" musicians.
Garage Band 2 comes free with every Macintosh. Damn near every OS X user also owns a copy of Garage Band, even if they are not musicians, DJ's, or recording enthusiasts.
This means that Trent Reznor has just released the bare tracks of a major-label single from a multi-platinum artist to the general consumer! High school kids lucky enough to own a $999 iBook or a $499 mini can now make their own Nine Inch Nails remix, or sample the loops into creations of their own.
This is huge. If it catches on, it could fulfill the prediction Brian Eno once made about popular music eventually becoming user-modifiable constructs. If you can't see what a big deal this is, you are not looking with an open mind.
I do understand, and I'm not responsible to fix anything to your satisfaction.
Actually, you just made it abundantly clear that you don't understand.
The RIAA is not a record label "cartel" at all. It's a trade guild, just as the anonymous coward who kicked this whole debate off pointed out, and "anti-piracy" activity, both legitimate and bullshit, is a very very small part of what they do.
In any case, the RIAA has nothing whatsoever to do with the dispute between Apple Computer and the labels in question.
I agree with the grandparent post. "RIAA" is not a valid shorthand for "The Record Companies."
First of all, the RIAA is an organization which includes labels, artists, engineers, and many others who are connected in one way or another to the recording industry. That little set of preamp-adjusted ports in your dad's stereo that he plugs his turntable into? That is an example of an RIAA standard.
Secondly, the labels have been using "RIAA" as the plaintiff in several unpopular lawsuits for the specific purpose of getting people like you to think "damn RIAA" instead of "damn Sony, RCA, Virgin" when you get upset about your rights being trampled on. That way, folks keep buying their products like good little sheep without realizing who they should really be upset with. When you use "RIAA" as a "shorthand" for the real bad guys, you are helping their cause.
Paris Hilton playes a PSP? So what? When enough wealthy heiresses like play it that Gucci makes a custom game console case, and enough other women play it that Target starts selling Gucci PSP Case knock-offs, that's when you will know the gaming market has genuinely transended the "300 pound guy on the train."
If they sell a $2K box with dual-core CPU's which are over 2 GHz each, that would be just outright sick.
For true hard-core use, the high-end desktop Macs already offer a lot of ! for the $ compared to how they once stacked up against the competition in the Dark Ages between Jobs regimes, but having four G5 processors in one box for two grand... damn. That would raise the bar for everybody on the high end.
The poisoned drinks which the Jim Jones cult drank when they committed mass suicide was made with Flavorade, not Kool-ade.
Still, "drinking the Kool-ade" rolls off the tongue a little better when you are talking about joining the Mac faithful, so I guess the expression is here to stay.
Everybody I know seems to completely hate the add-ons to their phones.
Cameras are no biggie to most people one way or the other, but otherwise it's a parade of dissatisfaction:
- Ringtones and wallpapers are way too expensive. - Phone internet access is a pain in the ass, and also overpriced. - Text messaging should be damn near free, often costs a bundle. - Voice mail services are often a hassle to navigate. - Speakerphones can sometimes only be turned on after the call has begun, making it slightly less useful. - Damn near every phone has it's own custom charger, it's own custom peripheral connector, etc., so every time you change phones you gotta buy everything for it all over again.
It seems to me that there's a HUGE business opportunity here. If just one company would come along to offer a truly standardized GSM phone with one fair price for all services, and totally open access to data services of any kind, they would completely own the US market within two years (the time it would take some of us for our currect contracts to expire.)
As it is, my current plan with T-Mobile is cheap enough, and the Motorola phone I bought for it is okay for most things... but give me the chance to jump ship to somebody who doesn't outright rob their customers over trivial things like ringtones, and I'm there!
I'm using a mini as the center of a high-def HTPC setup, and I intended to script a few things with Applescript. (For example, a script to center the cursor and zoom in using the Universal Access controlls when playing non-anamorphic DVD's so they fill the entire wide-screen projection image.)
However I've decided to wait until I get my mits on Tiger before bothering with it, just so I can use Automator for that kind of stuff.
Because unless you own and controll the market, there is no chance of making money selling operating systems.
Several companies have tried out the monkey bars in the x86 playground, and Microsoft has bullied every last one of them into submission. Only two survivors, really: IBM, who makes money elsewhere, and NeXT, who managed to take over Apple from within after getting bought out.
I think the free widget community is going to come up with some very interesting uses.
What bugs me about that prediction is that Konf has been around a while now. If the "free widget community" (if there is such a thing) was going to come up with some very interesting uses, wouldn't they have done so by now?
So you are saying that the scene in Clerks, when Randall tells Dante about the cousin who broke his neck giving himself a blowjob, and was found dead with "balls on his lips," it would have been somehow funnier if Kevin Smith had cut that scene and simply shown a guy dead in the act of sucking himself off?
"Show don't tell" is not the first rule of film.
The first rule of film is: Entertain the audience.
I was really curious to see the total sales of the Mac mini when these reports came out. Exactly how many of those little suckers did they sell in it's first quarter.
I suspect it did not break any records, or Apple would be crowing about it by now, but it would be fun to see how it did.
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Thank you. You may now clean my boots.
(Clue to those who missed the sarcasm: If your UID is more than three digits long or so, nobody is impressed... and even then, sometimes not. I kind of wish they would stop displaying them entirely.)
no, not new, just not paying attent
... but cheer up! I'm pretty sure you can still get a four-digit UID over at MacSlash. Then, if he shows up five minutes later, you can mercilessly savage him for his inexperience and ignorance.
Actually, you are user 608864, while he is user 517789.
On Slashdot, that means he has every right to think of you as a "fucking n00b."
You are to address him, not merely as "ZosX", but as "ZosX-sempai" to properly show him the respect which is due to him. He may in turn choose to apply the "-chan" honorific to your user name, if so inclined.
Underworld: The Descent of Man?
The He-Man cartoon was also a thinly-veiled commercial for He-Man toys.
The "moral" segments at the end were added because FCC regulations require that a certain percentage of Saturday morning airtime be dedicated to "educational" broadcasting.
By adding a 2-minute "lesson" to the end of cartoons, the networks manage to avoid having to give up the occasional full half-hour slot to educational programming.
(It's also the reason ABC came up with "Schoolhouse Rock"... it's all about complying with the FCC at the bare minumum requirement without slowing down the marketing train for sugar-laced breakfast cerial.)
Except for mine?? it's a G4 1.33ghz i bought last may
In other words, almost a year ago... and about nine months before Garage Band 2 even came out.
Fine. All CURRENT Macs come with it for free. Happy now?
Very few ordinary folk own a copy of Reason. Like you said, ReasonStation and other sites like it are for "semi-pro" musicians.
Garage Band 2 comes free with every Macintosh. Damn near every OS X user also owns a copy of Garage Band, even if they are not musicians, DJ's, or recording enthusiasts.
This means that Trent Reznor has just released the bare tracks of a major-label single from a multi-platinum artist to the general consumer! High school kids lucky enough to own a $999 iBook or a $499 mini can now make their own Nine Inch Nails remix, or sample the loops into creations of their own.
This is huge. If it catches on, it could fulfill the prediction Brian Eno once made about popular music eventually becoming user-modifiable constructs. If you can't see what a big deal this is, you are not looking with an open mind.
I do understand, and I'm not responsible to fix anything to your satisfaction.
Actually, you just made it abundantly clear that you don't understand.
The RIAA is not a record label "cartel" at all. It's a trade guild, just as the anonymous coward who kicked this whole debate off pointed out, and "anti-piracy" activity, both legitimate and bullshit, is a very very small part of what they do.
In any case, the RIAA has nothing whatsoever to do with the dispute between Apple Computer and the labels in question.
I agree with the grandparent post. "RIAA" is not a valid shorthand for "The Record Companies."
First of all, the RIAA is an organization which includes labels, artists, engineers, and many others who are connected in one way or another to the recording industry. That little set of preamp-adjusted ports in your dad's stereo that he plugs his turntable into? That is an example of an RIAA standard.
Secondly, the labels have been using "RIAA" as the plaintiff in several unpopular lawsuits for the specific purpose of getting people like you to think "damn RIAA" instead of "damn Sony, RCA, Virgin" when you get upset about your rights being trampled on. That way, folks keep buying their products like good little sheep without realizing who they should really be upset with. When you use "RIAA" as a "shorthand" for the real bad guys, you are helping their cause.
It's like they decided to do Gothic Lolita night on The Price is Right.
I would totally watch that.
What?
What???
Yeah right, like you wouldn't! Hypocrites.
Game-related clothing?
Shit. Nike just found a new market to enter.
Paris Hilton playes a PSP? So what? When enough wealthy heiresses like play it that Gucci makes a custom game console case, and enough other women play it that Target starts selling Gucci PSP Case knock-offs, that's when you will know the gaming market has genuinely transended the "300 pound guy on the train."
If they sell a $2K box with dual-core CPU's which are over 2 GHz each, that would be just outright sick.
For true hard-core use, the high-end desktop Macs already offer a lot of ! for the $ compared to how they once stacked up against the competition in the Dark Ages between Jobs regimes, but having four G5 processors in one box for two grand... damn. That would raise the bar for everybody on the high end.
Minor point of trivia here:
The poisoned drinks which the Jim Jones cult drank when they committed mass suicide was made with Flavorade, not Kool-ade.
Still, "drinking the Kool-ade" rolls off the tongue a little better when you are talking about joining the Mac faithful, so I guess the expression is here to stay.
Umm... read that conversation again...
"Macs work better, in part, because they don't support every last cheap-assed piece of hardware out there the way Windows does."
"But Linux works great, and they support lots of hardware."
"WTF? Linux fails to properly support a shitload of hardware."
"Um, yeah I guess... but Macs also fail to support a shitload of hardware, so there."
Wow. I guess you sure told them.
Oh? What OS does Red Hat make?
They just sell services for a free one.
Mandriva? Who the fuck is that?
Sun does not sell a consumer-level OS. They sell servers.
Novell? Hahaha! Yeah, they are doing GREAT! Woah, nelly! I bet Steve Balmer trembles in his sleep over the runaway popularity of the Novell OS.
Everybody I know seems to completely hate the add-ons to their phones.
Cameras are no biggie to most people one way or the other, but otherwise it's a parade of dissatisfaction:
- Ringtones and wallpapers are way too expensive.
- Phone internet access is a pain in the ass, and also overpriced.
- Text messaging should be damn near free, often costs a bundle.
- Voice mail services are often a hassle to navigate.
- Speakerphones can sometimes only be turned on after the call has begun, making it slightly less useful.
- Damn near every phone has it's own custom charger, it's own custom peripheral connector, etc., so every time you change phones you gotta buy everything for it all over again.
It seems to me that there's a HUGE business opportunity here. If just one company would come along to offer a truly standardized GSM phone with one fair price for all services, and totally open access to data services of any kind, they would completely own the US market within two years (the time it would take some of us for our currect contracts to expire.)
As it is, my current plan with T-Mobile is cheap enough, and the Motorola phone I bought for it is okay for most things... but give me the chance to jump ship to somebody who doesn't outright rob their customers over trivial things like ringtones, and I'm there!
I'm using a mini as the center of a high-def HTPC setup, and I intended to script a few things with Applescript. (For example, a script to center the cursor and zoom in using the Universal Access controlls when playing non-anamorphic DVD's so they fill the entire wide-screen projection image.)
However I've decided to wait until I get my mits on Tiger before bothering with it, just so I can use Automator for that kind of stuff.
No kidding.
Within a month of the release of Tiger, I expect to see some college kid publish a speed comparison on the net of:
8 $500 minis
vs.
2 $2000 dual-G5 towers
Because unless you own and controll the market, there is no chance of making money selling operating systems.
Several companies have tried out the monkey bars in the x86 playground, and Microsoft has bullied every last one of them into submission. Only two survivors, really: IBM, who makes money elsewhere, and NeXT, who managed to take over Apple from within after getting bought out.
I think the free widget community is going to come up with some very interesting uses.
What bugs me about that prediction is that Konf has been around a while now. If the "free widget community" (if there is such a thing) was going to come up with some very interesting uses, wouldn't they have done so by now?
Let's be ridiculously literal!
:)
Because merely being literal is not funny?
Hey look, I brought the thread full-circle!
So you are saying that the scene in Clerks, when Randall tells Dante about the cousin who broke his neck giving himself a blowjob, and was found dead with "balls on his lips," it would have been somehow funnier if Kevin Smith had cut that scene and simply shown a guy dead in the act of sucking himself off?
"Show don't tell" is not the first rule of film.
The first rule of film is: Entertain the audience.
For you, at this point, perhaps not.
God, I love a straight answer to a straight question. It seems so rare these days.
Going back to the release of Kornfabulator... I'm still waiting for a widget of this sort which is even a tiny bit useful to me ever.
Floating clocks and weather forcasts? WTF?
Is Dashboard/Kornfabulator really anything more than a pretty toy?
I was really curious to see the total sales of the Mac mini when these reports came out. Exactly how many of those little suckers did they sell in it's first quarter.
I suspect it did not break any records, or Apple would be crowing about it by now, but it would be fun to see how it did.
Also of note: Douglas Adams said he was not aware of that fact when he wrote the book.