She was not 'sick', she was a typical member of the parasitic consumer society in which she lives
Okay, look. A 4'10" woman hits 250 pounds, it's conceivable that she just doesn't get to the gym and maybe likes her bon-bons a little too much, but this woman was way over 400 pounds. You don't just get like that from Twinkies and soap operas. Clearly there had to have been some kind of nasty metabolic problem involved. Could she have maybe fended off such a syndrome with an active lifestyle? Perhaps, but for all we know the same forces which were making her prone to obesity were also sapping her will to do much about it. Once that woman reached the point that she spent an entire day or two on that couch, somebody should have addressed the problem with both medical and psychiatric care. Six years of just sitting there? Unable to even get up for the bathroom??? That ain't right.
By the way (only slightly off the topic)... It's easy for somebody who never struggled with their weight to accuse fat people of some moral shortcoming, never mind that they themselves don't always lead perfectly healthy lives either. I know plenty of rail-thin people who couldn't run to the end of the block and back, while I know other people who are overweight yet can easily run five miles and enjoy it. Body shape may be a very visible metric of whether somebody is in good physical condition or not, and whether they have a good sense of discipline about taking care of themselves... but it's far from the most accurate indicator.
Sorry, but the topic at hand is current performance, and the fact is that Apple is having a much better year than Dell. Sorry if it ruins your day to hear that.
This is yet another switch that breaks binary compatibility. The first m68k-to-ppc was briliant, the pef-to-mach was not so briliant and the ppc-to-x86 is going to suck.
Thank you for coming back from three years in the future and letting us all know how the transition went. We were all wondering about that. Frankly, it's surprising news, because from our perspective it looks likely to be one of the most smooth archetechture migrations in the history of computing.
If only there was something Apple could do now to avoid the fate you witnessed first-hand when you were living in 2008. Perhaps if they made it possible for developers to ship dual-binary versions of their product with little more hassle than checking a box in Apple's compiler program or something...
I think it has been proven to the satisfaction of the scientific community that it is impossible to correct somebody else's grammar in a web forum without making one of your own while you are at it.
It has also been demonstrated that English is a convoluted and stupid language, and deserves every ounce of abuse it receives.
I'd previously been an advocate of this since it is my current opinion that I will never buy Apple's overpriced, proprietary hardware BUT...... you will buy overpriced, proprietary hardware if it says "DELL" on the front with that slanty "E"?
The more I use my Dell Latitude in the office, the more I appreciate how much my iBook is worth every penny I spent on it. YMMV, obviously.
If I am going to buy a laptop, I want full access to all of its functionality. That is why I have a Thinkpad.
The moment you said "That is why I have a Thinkpad" you suddenly reminded me of the woman in Clerks talking about the importance of having a satisfying job."
Rather than repeat what she said, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to cue it up on the DVD.
They only want to take away the bad rights, most notably the right to a limited government of specifically enumerated powers. Of course, "they" includes Democrats and Republicans on that count.
Unlike the knee-jerk partisan response to my post just before yours, you've hit the nail pretty much on the head. A lot of so-called progressives in the Republican Party (and even some of the so-called conservatives) are gleefully eroding our rights right along side some (not all) of the Democrats.
it really seems funny to me how all Intels bashers (aka. Mac fans) suddenly became Intel enthusiasts
There were Intel Bashers because Pentium technology (the P4 in particular) was pathetic compared to AMD and PPC offerings of the time.
Some of these people are becoming Intel cheerleaders because 1) Intel managed to surpass the performance of the G5, and has closed the gap a bit on AMD. 2) Early reports of the chips expected to come out of Intel around Q3 of next year are remarkable.
"Mac fans" are actually rather split on the subject. Those who acknowledged that PC's were generally faster machines most of the time for most tasks could not be happier with the Intel switch. Those who rambled endlessly about "the Megahertz myth" (even after x86 chips were clearly lapping the G5) are still sore about it, and hoping that Jobs will change his mind about dropping PPC sometime between now and 2007.
This isn't about trashing McCain Feingold, it's about preserving an idividual's freedom of speech within the political process.
That's too bad, because the more I look at it, the more convinced I become that it's not possible to preserve an individual's freedom of speech without first trashing McCain/Feingold.
Upholding Campaign Finance law was the second-biggest mistake of the Supreme Court in the last ten years. The first, obviously, was their brain-dead Emminent Domain ruling. Why is it that the so-called "progressives" in American politics seem to be the ones in the biggest hurry to take my rights away?
Ah, there's the Why, a loophole for Campaign Finance law.
Which calls to attention the fact that all attempts to protect unrestricted political speech will create loopholes in Campaign Finance law, because the purpose of Campaign Finance law is the restriction of free political speech.
The Frist Amendment is dead. McCain/Feingold now decides what you can say and how you can say it.
Fuck gun control. Campaign Finance law should be enemy number one to all libertarian crackpots (like me) who believe that freedom is the best trait America has going for it.
Are these percentages better indicators of OS market share than actual purchase levels which don't take into account pre-existing machines already in use?
Except the "power converters" line made me laugh in a way in which it was supposed to. It was funny to hear Luke whine to his uncle like any other teenage farm kid trying to get out of doing chores.
"Nooooooo" still makes me laugh at the expense of what was supposed to be a moment of high drama.
Asperger's is NOT a social disease. It may (or may not) hinder your ability to develop social skills, but it's essentially a mild form of autism.
It's also not much of a problem for most of the millions of people who have it. Bill Gates is almost definitely an Asperger's case, and last time I checked, he's done alright for himself.
The thought going through the head of every person at a gaming convention:
"Oh my god! Everybody here is a total nerd except me!!!"
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you even know what the abbreviation "AD&D" stands for, you are already a nerd. Denial is not healthy. Accept. You will be a happier person for it.
A "defining work" is only a "masterpiece" if it defines you as a master.
Therefore, it would have to be good on some level or another. Otherwise, it would define you as a no-talent hack and therefore be a "no-talent hack piece."
Also, Lucas's masterpiece was the original trilogy, not the tripe he cranked out recently.... unless you view all six films as a single body of work. Personally, I can't bring myself to do so, as each film of the original trilogy was probably the best movie that came out it its year*, and while the slightly-flawed I and III were fun little romps, II was perhaps the worst movie I have ever sat all the way through (yes, even worse than "Dungeons and Dragons") and none of them measured up to the "event" hype of people waxing nostalgic for the overnight lines outside the Chinese Theater for the opening of "Empire."
*Even if Jedi was not as good as the first two, it was still a hell of a lot more entertaining than "Terms of Endearment", the Oscar winner in 1983.
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She was not 'sick', she was a typical member of the parasitic consumer society in which she lives
Okay, look. A 4'10" woman hits 250 pounds, it's conceivable that she just doesn't get to the gym and maybe likes her bon-bons a little too much, but this woman was way over 400 pounds. You don't just get like that from Twinkies and soap operas. Clearly there had to have been some kind of nasty metabolic problem involved. Could she have maybe fended off such a syndrome with an active lifestyle? Perhaps, but for all we know the same forces which were making her prone to obesity were also sapping her will to do much about it. Once that woman reached the point that she spent an entire day or two on that couch, somebody should have addressed the problem with both medical and psychiatric care. Six years of just sitting there? Unable to even get up for the bathroom??? That ain't right.
By the way (only slightly off the topic)... It's easy for somebody who never struggled with their weight to accuse fat people of some moral shortcoming, never mind that they themselves don't always lead perfectly healthy lives either. I know plenty of rail-thin people who couldn't run to the end of the block and back, while I know other people who are overweight yet can easily run five miles and enjoy it. Body shape may be a very visible metric of whether somebody is in good physical condition or not, and whether they have a good sense of discipline about taking care of themselves... but it's far from the most accurate indicator.
For an extra $500, could I get the same collection without any of the Voyager episodes?
i'm sure you read TFA, but maybe you missed the part where the the powerbook line will only have 15 and 17 inch models?
I'm sure you read the entire parent post, but maybe you missed the part where he said he's looking forward to the next apple subnotebook.
Sorry, but the topic at hand is current performance, and the fact is that Apple is having a much better year than Dell. Sorry if it ruins your day to hear that.
This is yet another switch that breaks binary compatibility. The first m68k-to-ppc was briliant, the pef-to-mach was not so briliant and the ppc-to-x86 is going to suck.
Thank you for coming back from three years in the future and letting us all know how the transition went. We were all wondering about that. Frankly, it's surprising news, because from our perspective it looks likely to be one of the most smooth archetechture migrations in the history of computing.
If only there was something Apple could do now to avoid the fate you witnessed first-hand when you were living in 2008. Perhaps if they made it possible for developers to ship dual-binary versions of their product with little more hassle than checking a box in Apple's compiler program or something...
I think it has been proven to the satisfaction of the scientific community that it is impossible to correct somebody else's grammar in a web forum without making one of your own while you are at it.
It has also been demonstrated that English is a convoluted and stupid language, and deserves every ounce of abuse it receives.
The article is contrasting Apple TODAY with Dell's FUD from eight years ago, hence the headline, "What A Difference Eight Years Can Make."
Stop being so obtuse.
Try following the thread. The gp was equating margin with ROI. Two different concepts entirely.
Yes, but both are concepts which favor AAPL over DELL at the moment.
You conveniently use a 1-year chart.
Because we are discussing recent performance. RTFA.
I'd previously been an advocate of this since it is my current opinion that I will never buy Apple's overpriced, proprietary hardware BUT... ... you will buy overpriced, proprietary hardware if it says "DELL" on the front with that slanty "E"?
The more I use my Dell Latitude in the office, the more I appreciate how much my iBook is worth every penny I spent on it. YMMV, obviously.
All nouns can be verbed.
Chill.
(See? That was another one!)
Oh, you want to talk about ROI? Let's look at how the value of Apple's share has moved in contrast with Dell and their ilk:
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pwned.
As a wise man once said to me about allowing investors in my company, "Would your rather have all of a grape or a slice of watermelon?"
If your slice of the watermelon is smaller than a grape, his advice is useless.
If I am going to buy a laptop, I want full access to all of its functionality. That is why I have a Thinkpad.
The moment you said "That is why I have a Thinkpad" you suddenly reminded me of the woman in Clerks talking about the importance of having a satisfying job."
Rather than repeat what she said, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to cue it up on the DVD.
They only want to take away the bad rights, most notably the right to a limited government of specifically enumerated powers. Of course, "they" includes Democrats and Republicans on that count.
Unlike the knee-jerk partisan response to my post just before yours, you've hit the nail pretty much on the head. A lot of so-called progressives in the Republican Party (and even some of the so-called conservatives) are gleefully eroding our rights right along side some (not all) of the Democrats.
it really seems funny to me how all Intels bashers (aka. Mac fans) suddenly became Intel enthusiasts
There were Intel Bashers because Pentium technology (the P4 in particular) was pathetic compared to AMD and PPC offerings of the time.
Some of these people are becoming Intel cheerleaders because 1) Intel managed to surpass the performance of the G5, and has closed the gap a bit on AMD. 2) Early reports of the chips expected to come out of Intel around Q3 of next year are remarkable.
"Mac fans" are actually rather split on the subject. Those who acknowledged that PC's were generally faster machines most of the time for most tasks could not be happier with the Intel switch. Those who rambled endlessly about "the Megahertz myth" (even after x86 chips were clearly lapping the G5) are still sore about it, and hoping that Jobs will change his mind about dropping PPC sometime between now and 2007.
This isn't about trashing McCain Feingold, it's about preserving an idividual's freedom of speech within the political process.
That's too bad, because the more I look at it, the more convinced I become that it's not possible to preserve an individual's freedom of speech without first trashing McCain/Feingold.
Upholding Campaign Finance law was the second-biggest mistake of the Supreme Court in the last ten years. The first, obviously, was their brain-dead Emminent Domain ruling. Why is it that the so-called "progressives" in American politics seem to be the ones in the biggest hurry to take my rights away?
Ah, there's the Why, a loophole for Campaign Finance law.
Which calls to attention the fact that all attempts to protect unrestricted political speech will create loopholes in Campaign Finance law, because the purpose of Campaign Finance law is the restriction of free political speech.
The Frist Amendment is dead. McCain/Feingold now decides what you can say and how you can say it.
Fuck gun control. Campaign Finance law should be enemy number one to all libertarian crackpots (like me) who believe that freedom is the best trait America has going for it.
We may as well just cancel civilisation, it's clearly a failed experiment.
Some people insist that it was a mistake to come down from the trees in the first place.
Are these percentages better indicators of OS market share than actual purchase levels which don't take into account pre-existing machines already in use?
No.
Except the "power converters" line made me laugh in a way in which it was supposed to. It was funny to hear Luke whine to his uncle like any other teenage farm kid trying to get out of doing chores.
"Nooooooo" still makes me laugh at the expense of what was supposed to be a moment of high drama.
The sequel was, surprisingly, not as bad as the first one.
Well, that's hardly surprising. It would take George Lucas to make a worse film than the first D&D movie.
If you think that's horror, I've got one more post-Halloween spook for you:
A Sequel.
Asperger's is NOT a social disease. It may (or may not) hinder your ability to develop social skills, but it's essentially a mild form of autism.
It's also not much of a problem for most of the millions of people who have it. Bill Gates is almost definitely an Asperger's case, and last time I checked, he's done alright for himself.
The thought going through the head of every person at a gaming convention:
"Oh my god! Everybody here is a total nerd except me!!!"
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you even know what the abbreviation "AD&D" stands for, you are already a nerd. Denial is not healthy. Accept. You will be a happier person for it.
A "defining work" is only a "masterpiece" if it defines you as a master.
... unless you view all six films as a single body of work. Personally, I can't bring myself to do so, as each film of the original trilogy was probably the best movie that came out it its year*, and while the slightly-flawed I and III were fun little romps, II was perhaps the worst movie I have ever sat all the way through (yes, even worse than "Dungeons and Dragons") and none of them measured up to the "event" hype of people waxing nostalgic for the overnight lines outside the Chinese Theater for the opening of "Empire."
Therefore, it would have to be good on some level or another. Otherwise, it would define you as a no-talent hack and therefore be a "no-talent hack piece."
Also, Lucas's masterpiece was the original trilogy, not the tripe he cranked out recently.
*Even if Jedi was not as good as the first two, it was still a hell of a lot more entertaining than "Terms of Endearment", the Oscar winner in 1983.