No sir, I do not need to see a counselor for my dislike of apple. For other issues, perhaps, but for disliking a corporation who is constantly intent on removing your rights to your property after you pay for it, to remove your freedoms and limit what you can use your devises for, that is not some petty crap, that is a serious issue.
I mean, if steve jobs ran for president, and applied his business philosophy to governing, we would be living in a place with less freedom than soviet russia. It is disgusting, it is a shame, and the sale of apple products is a scam at best and organized crime at worst. When you say "you can have this awesome thing that does all this stuff for 800" and then somebody bus it, just to find out that they cannot open it, they don't actually own it, just a crappy license, they aren't allowed to use it for activities the company you bought it for doesn't like, etc, it is terrible. It is like selling razors but saying "you can and will be arrested for using them for anything but shaving facial and leg hair, shaving of the genitals with this razor is punishable by..." and having a thing that injects flesh eating bacteria into your skin if you misuse their produce, or it just blows up when used for something other than its strictly "approved" activities. Anyone who hates freedom that much does not deserve to operate in a free country, especially when they so actively and so viciously pursue the destruction of liberty.
I have solder, a soldering iron, a knife, and a standard set of jewlers screwdrivers that was like 5 bucks at a garage sale. I should have to go buy the specialists kit to be able to have access to my technology. The point is it is a clear attempt to limit your abilities and freedoms of your use of your technology, and frankly that is disgusting irregardless.
The experience of modularity, customization, freedom. If I were sold a house with a room I was not allowed to enter, and was sued for entering, I would absolutely not buy the house. It would be a travesty. I see electronics the same way. If it is my electronic, I'll be damned if I have to give up the freedom to use it as I please. The 3 mac labs, the 8 macs in the library and ancient macs in some classrooms at my high school, years ago, were in constant need of fixing. Sometimes they even crippled the rest of the schools network.
And it is not hyperbole. I honestly want freedom and ownership of my devices, I don't want some jack ass in a suit at some company deciding what I am, and am not allowed to do with something I paid and inordinately large sum of money for. If you don't understand that, then you will never understand what it means to be free, to yearn for freedom, and to love oneself and have all the options you deserve open to you.
So what, not have specialized hardware tools makes you incapable of reparing, cleaning, and being careful with a product???? What a douche-bag. I built my computer from parts, and I frequently clean and repair three others that I own, I have done extensive repairs to the on/off button of my palm t/x, which has always been problematic, and I have done a lot of work on my laptop, all without breaking anything. Do I own a stupid fucking 5 point screw driver? Of course not. Also, go learn math dumbass.
lol, well-rehearsed talking points? What a conspiracy theorist. We are not all out to get your and your lovebird. We simply don't like being raped up the ass every second of the day to enjoy their sub-par experience, ugly as hell graphics, difficult as hell to repair, upgrade, change system in any way. Their user experience is only superior if you are turned on by shiny surfaces that glare in even minimum sunlight, bright colors, and the total inability to enjoy their products without worrying about the cost of repairing it putting you out of a home.
Really? because Apple has given me problems, and I don't even own any of their hardware. I thought about buying an apple computer instead of this one, but I wasn't ready to pay 5x as much for the same thing. This computer has an i7 920, 12 gb of ram in 2 triple channel kits, 2 nVidia GTS 250s SLI, 250gb fast hard drive and a 1 tb slower one, and all the trimmings. It cost me $1200 dollars. The same thing from apple would cost you at least $6000 if you are lucky. I consider that a fundamental, irreversable, disgusting abuse of customers that is terrible, and the blame goes nowhere but to apple. When I had to use apple computers in my high school, they were never able to connect to the school network properly due to apple shit, despite a team of people that spent months strait trying to work it out. Then their computers don't run any relevant software, like AutoCad, Inventor, Revit, etc. and have terrible UI issues. If you need to edit system settings or have control over your own property, then good fucking luck if it is an Apple.
As far as I am concerned, everything about Apple technology is so fundamentally cruel and sickening, if not broken and twisted, that their company is permanently on my Do Not Purchase list. When you treat your customers like criminals just because they won't pour out hundreds of dollars every month for upgrades, proprietary software in app stores, taking them to specialty repair shops, etc, then you are not in the right business. If anything, Apple should start building prisons. It is right up their proverbial alley.
Its not about calling you an idiot, its about trying to force you to pay them to repair their shitty devices and trying to stop you from doing it yourself. It is the Apple way to shit on consumers faces, lock them out of their own devices and software, and yet some douche-bags still love them for some stupid reason.
It is only an own goal to us sir, they will profit from it, as they always do, because the average person doesn't have a clue. Microsoft will continue to grow more evil, and do more stupid and terrible things that make their products devalued to the technically knowledgeable like you and me, but they will still profit from it as if they were not nearly as evil as they are.
Personally, I think it is disgusting and terrible to be so evil, I mean, they can profit without being so evil, they don't need to totally eliminate all freedom to actually use their products. Frankly it should be illegal to control the use of sold devices in such a way. Make so called "product licensing" illegal. Technically you only own the product so long as you don't violate its terms and conditions. Thats not ownership, thats like selling somebody a car and saying if they drive it more than twice a week you will take it back from them and punch them in the face with no compensation.
Google may track you, but you have some control over how much data they collect on you, and they don't have a history of using that data for evil. Sony has become so evil in how they operate the PS3 market that it is absolutely disgusting, and definitely illegal, although they will never see the consequences (reducing functionality of a sold product, which is about 10 kinds of advertising fraud). Microsoft has a very creepy intent to just crawl into everything you do and collect information on you that you don't want them to, and they dig much deeper into your hardware and your control over it than I am comfortable with, but sadly I use a very large range of software for the kind of work I do, so my primary super-home-computer is a windows beast, but I strip down the functionality of the BS microsoft puts in there to the best of my ability.
As for phones, I have kept totally out of that market. Right now all I have is a cheap brick with tracfone, such a brick I can't even find a place that sells them this shitty anymore.
Is microsoft becoming more evil by the day? At least they could never possibly catch up to Apple's stream of pure evil. If you can't buy something and do whatever the fuck you want with it, as long as that whatever doesn't hurt other people, then it is a ripoff, a scam, a dirty lie, a DRM infested horses shit-hole at best, and extremely evil at worst. Go android.
Its not really as learned as you would think. We have built in natural likes and dislikes. For example, sour and bitter are generally disliked, cheeses are mostly acquired tastes, because they are forms of rotten milk, and we have been naturally discouraged from eating rotten foods by evolution, as are other things that pose a potential threat to human survival. Bugs, carrying a great deal of diseases, are generally also in that group. Although I have acquired a taste for many cheeses, you wouldn't catch me eating moldy cheese (like blue cheese). You also would catch me eating bugs.
Also, I was referring to the fact that if you want to get the meat from bugs and use them in any kind of meat product besides rotten bugs, it requires some level of post processing, to isolate the meat and remove harmful exoskeletons and waste organs. In those terms, you get a lot more meat for a lot less work with a cow than a cricket.
Yea, its a big shame that nearly all of our representatives are corrupt and work for big business and because that leads to the concentration of wealth, against the average person. Hell, it would be great if we could trust our elected officials to actually do what is best for the nation
I very much agree, also, tortured meat has a tendency to be far more damaged, and damaged meat tastes terrible, cooks terrible, and just sucks compared to healthy meat. Hell, for a while whenever I tried to buy chicken wings I found that they were always broken and bruised, and it was obvious that the chicken it had come from had been absolutely tortured, and it was nasty. Well treated meat tastes better, and there is no reason to torture animals, unless you happen to be a sadistic freak, which really makes no sense at all.
Also, the post processing of insect meat to get it in a form fit to sell to a consumer is absolutely mind bogglingly energy intensive and absolutely a waste at every level. Plus insects taste absolutely terrible.
The premise behind 'green' is efficiency. Cutting waste out of our processes and finding ways to free ourselves from reliance on people who want to kill us. Sure, the crazy vegetarians and vegans that take it way too far have added green ideology to their rollout, but they have been crazy for far longer than they have been green. Any engineer worth their weight in anything embraces the concepts of efficiency. A design is not perfect when you can add nothing more, but when you can take nothing more away after all.
Thats why we have a republic, the founding fathers came to the same conclusion, only they never imagined days when every vote for a representative would be based upon their positions like it was. Elections used to be about the character and leadership experience of those involved. We live in a much different world now.
And for this one, very simply educating the public and strengthening the rights protected by constitution by an enormous factor would certainly help the situation.
I would say that explanation is a lot more logical. Also, whenever I see a girl crying I feel naturally implored to attempt to comfort her in any way possible.
If it costs that much, you are doing it wrong. A good engineering team should be able to make something work very well for only a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
Is common practice everywhere "why buy a 5 dollar alarm when we can force some engineer to watch figures for days on end?" Gosh people hate engineers for no reason.
This above post should be put into a plaque and put on every wall in every classroom in America. People need to learn this, depserately. DRM practices are the most disgusting thing in the computer world, and can do immesurable harm to our society and its progress, and to freedom at large, when so much of our modern freedom is based on the internet.
Actually that is dead wrong. Out of the past 7 games I played, I purchased 3. The three I paid for did not work, the the rest I pirated (including the original three legal versions that DRM caused not to work right) all of which worked perfectly, and were quite fun.
I bought an i7 920 the black friday before last. According to my calculations, it was the processor at which the price curve changed places, beyond 920 the price grew way faster than is sensible, and below it the price increase was way too little for the price increase. For something like 250 bucks I got a processor that runs virtually anything I want with ease, and I run engineering applications and rendering software, such as autodesk inventor 2011, matlab, and the adobe CS5. Although I also run two nVidia GTS 250 SLI. The whole computer cost less than 1200 bucks, I run three monitors and have 12 gb of RAM.
To be honest, I would very much like it if Intel would come out with a new line of processors, with a logarithmic core set, and an even ratio to number of processors and processing power. Like 1 huge processor, 2 large ones, 4 big ones, 8 regular ones, 16 small ones, 32 slightly small ones, 64 very small ones, 128 tiny ones, 256 minuscule processors. With the ability to shut down parts of it and bring them back up based on need. And definitely one that DOES NOT have DRM built in. Because of these "sandy bridge" processors, I will never buy another intel product. They can be sure of that.
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No sir, I do not need to see a counselor for my dislike of apple. For other issues, perhaps, but for disliking a corporation who is constantly intent on removing your rights to your property after you pay for it, to remove your freedoms and limit what you can use your devises for, that is not some petty crap, that is a serious issue.
I mean, if steve jobs ran for president, and applied his business philosophy to governing, we would be living in a place with less freedom than soviet russia. It is disgusting, it is a shame, and the sale of apple products is a scam at best and organized crime at worst. When you say "you can have this awesome thing that does all this stuff for 800" and then somebody bus it, just to find out that they cannot open it, they don't actually own it, just a crappy license, they aren't allowed to use it for activities the company you bought it for doesn't like, etc, it is terrible. It is like selling razors but saying "you can and will be arrested for using them for anything but shaving facial and leg hair, shaving of the genitals with this razor is punishable by ..." and having a thing that injects flesh eating bacteria into your skin if you misuse their produce, or it just blows up when used for something other than its strictly "approved" activities. Anyone who hates freedom that much does not deserve to operate in a free country, especially when they so actively and so viciously pursue the destruction of liberty.
I have solder, a soldering iron, a knife, and a standard set of jewlers screwdrivers that was like 5 bucks at a garage sale. I should have to go buy the specialists kit to be able to have access to my technology. The point is it is a clear attempt to limit your abilities and freedoms of your use of your technology, and frankly that is disgusting irregardless.
The experience of modularity, customization, freedom. If I were sold a house with a room I was not allowed to enter, and was sued for entering, I would absolutely not buy the house. It would be a travesty. I see electronics the same way. If it is my electronic, I'll be damned if I have to give up the freedom to use it as I please. The 3 mac labs, the 8 macs in the library and ancient macs in some classrooms at my high school, years ago, were in constant need of fixing. Sometimes they even crippled the rest of the schools network.
And it is not hyperbole. I honestly want freedom and ownership of my devices, I don't want some jack ass in a suit at some company deciding what I am, and am not allowed to do with something I paid and inordinately large sum of money for. If you don't understand that, then you will never understand what it means to be free, to yearn for freedom, and to love oneself and have all the options you deserve open to you.
So what, not have specialized hardware tools makes you incapable of reparing, cleaning, and being careful with a product???? What a douche-bag. I built my computer from parts, and I frequently clean and repair three others that I own, I have done extensive repairs to the on/off button of my palm t/x, which has always been problematic, and I have done a lot of work on my laptop, all without breaking anything. Do I own a stupid fucking 5 point screw driver? Of course not. Also, go learn math dumbass.
lol, well-rehearsed talking points? What a conspiracy theorist. We are not all out to get your and your lovebird. We simply don't like being raped up the ass every second of the day to enjoy their sub-par experience, ugly as hell graphics, difficult as hell to repair, upgrade, change system in any way. Their user experience is only superior if you are turned on by shiny surfaces that glare in even minimum sunlight, bright colors, and the total inability to enjoy their products without worrying about the cost of repairing it putting you out of a home.
Really? because Apple has given me problems, and I don't even own any of their hardware. I thought about buying an apple computer instead of this one, but I wasn't ready to pay 5x as much for the same thing. This computer has an i7 920, 12 gb of ram in 2 triple channel kits, 2 nVidia GTS 250s SLI, 250gb fast hard drive and a 1 tb slower one, and all the trimmings. It cost me $1200 dollars. The same thing from apple would cost you at least $6000 if you are lucky. I consider that a fundamental, irreversable, disgusting abuse of customers that is terrible, and the blame goes nowhere but to apple. When I had to use apple computers in my high school, they were never able to connect to the school network properly due to apple shit, despite a team of people that spent months strait trying to work it out. Then their computers don't run any relevant software, like AutoCad, Inventor, Revit, etc. and have terrible UI issues. If you need to edit system settings or have control over your own property, then good fucking luck if it is an Apple.
As far as I am concerned, everything about Apple technology is so fundamentally cruel and sickening, if not broken and twisted, that their company is permanently on my Do Not Purchase list. When you treat your customers like criminals just because they won't pour out hundreds of dollars every month for upgrades, proprietary software in app stores, taking them to specialty repair shops, etc, then you are not in the right business. If anything, Apple should start building prisons. It is right up their proverbial alley.
Its not about calling you an idiot, its about trying to force you to pay them to repair their shitty devices and trying to stop you from doing it yourself. It is the Apple way to shit on consumers faces, lock them out of their own devices and software, and yet some douche-bags still love them for some stupid reason.
... That programmers have deep pockets?
It is only an own goal to us sir, they will profit from it, as they always do, because the average person doesn't have a clue. Microsoft will continue to grow more evil, and do more stupid and terrible things that make their products devalued to the technically knowledgeable like you and me, but they will still profit from it as if they were not nearly as evil as they are.
Personally, I think it is disgusting and terrible to be so evil, I mean, they can profit without being so evil, they don't need to totally eliminate all freedom to actually use their products. Frankly it should be illegal to control the use of sold devices in such a way. Make so called "product licensing" illegal. Technically you only own the product so long as you don't violate its terms and conditions. Thats not ownership, thats like selling somebody a car and saying if they drive it more than twice a week you will take it back from them and punch them in the face with no compensation.
Google may track you, but you have some control over how much data they collect on you, and they don't have a history of using that data for evil. Sony has become so evil in how they operate the PS3 market that it is absolutely disgusting, and definitely illegal, although they will never see the consequences (reducing functionality of a sold product, which is about 10 kinds of advertising fraud). Microsoft has a very creepy intent to just crawl into everything you do and collect information on you that you don't want them to, and they dig much deeper into your hardware and your control over it than I am comfortable with, but sadly I use a very large range of software for the kind of work I do, so my primary super-home-computer is a windows beast, but I strip down the functionality of the BS microsoft puts in there to the best of my ability.
As for phones, I have kept totally out of that market. Right now all I have is a cheap brick with tracfone, such a brick I can't even find a place that sells them this shitty anymore.
Is microsoft becoming more evil by the day? At least they could never possibly catch up to Apple's stream of pure evil. If you can't buy something and do whatever the fuck you want with it, as long as that whatever doesn't hurt other people, then it is a ripoff, a scam, a dirty lie, a DRM infested horses shit-hole at best, and extremely evil at worst. Go android.
3-5 mb idle use????? If it is using ANYTHING that isn't directed by the user, it is too much. What a worthless load of shit.
Its not really as learned as you would think. We have built in natural likes and dislikes. For example, sour and bitter are generally disliked, cheeses are mostly acquired tastes, because they are forms of rotten milk, and we have been naturally discouraged from eating rotten foods by evolution, as are other things that pose a potential threat to human survival. Bugs, carrying a great deal of diseases, are generally also in that group. Although I have acquired a taste for many cheeses, you wouldn't catch me eating moldy cheese (like blue cheese). You also would catch me eating bugs.
Also, I was referring to the fact that if you want to get the meat from bugs and use them in any kind of meat product besides rotten bugs, it requires some level of post processing, to isolate the meat and remove harmful exoskeletons and waste organs. In those terms, you get a lot more meat for a lot less work with a cow than a cricket.
Yea, its a big shame that nearly all of our representatives are corrupt and work for big business and because that leads to the concentration of wealth, against the average person. Hell, it would be great if we could trust our elected officials to actually do what is best for the nation
I very much agree, also, tortured meat has a tendency to be far more damaged, and damaged meat tastes terrible, cooks terrible, and just sucks compared to healthy meat. Hell, for a while whenever I tried to buy chicken wings I found that they were always broken and bruised, and it was obvious that the chicken it had come from had been absolutely tortured, and it was nasty. Well treated meat tastes better, and there is no reason to torture animals, unless you happen to be a sadistic freak, which really makes no sense at all.
Also, the post processing of insect meat to get it in a form fit to sell to a consumer is absolutely mind bogglingly energy intensive and absolutely a waste at every level. Plus insects taste absolutely terrible.
The premise behind 'green' is efficiency. Cutting waste out of our processes and finding ways to free ourselves from reliance on people who want to kill us. Sure, the crazy vegetarians and vegans that take it way too far have added green ideology to their rollout, but they have been crazy for far longer than they have been green. Any engineer worth their weight in anything embraces the concepts of efficiency. A design is not perfect when you can add nothing more, but when you can take nothing more away after all.
Thats why we have a republic, the founding fathers came to the same conclusion, only they never imagined days when every vote for a representative would be based upon their positions like it was. Elections used to be about the character and leadership experience of those involved. We live in a much different world now.
And for this one, very simply educating the public and strengthening the rights protected by constitution by an enormous factor would certainly help the situation.
I would say that explanation is a lot more logical. Also, whenever I see a girl crying I feel naturally implored to attempt to comfort her in any way possible.
If it costs that much, you are doing it wrong. A good engineering team should be able to make something work very well for only a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
Yea, but you would think they would make the awesome processor I speak of to please the high end crowd.
Is common practice everywhere "why buy a 5 dollar alarm when we can force some engineer to watch figures for days on end?" Gosh people hate engineers for no reason.
This above post should be put into a plaque and put on every wall in every classroom in America. People need to learn this, depserately. DRM practices are the most disgusting thing in the computer world, and can do immesurable harm to our society and its progress, and to freedom at large, when so much of our modern freedom is based on the internet.
Actually that is dead wrong. Out of the past 7 games I played, I purchased 3. The three I paid for did not work, the the rest I pirated (including the original three legal versions that DRM caused not to work right) all of which worked perfectly, and were quite fun.
And EVERYBODY ELSE who likes technology, freedom, logic, creativity, new things, quality art, etc. You're a dumbass. And also a troll.
I bought an i7 920 the black friday before last. According to my calculations, it was the processor at which the price curve changed places, beyond 920 the price grew way faster than is sensible, and below it the price increase was way too little for the price increase. For something like 250 bucks I got a processor that runs virtually anything I want with ease, and I run engineering applications and rendering software, such as autodesk inventor 2011, matlab, and the adobe CS5. Although I also run two nVidia GTS 250 SLI. The whole computer cost less than 1200 bucks, I run three monitors and have 12 gb of RAM.
To be honest, I would very much like it if Intel would come out with a new line of processors, with a logarithmic core set, and an even ratio to number of processors and processing power. Like 1 huge processor, 2 large ones, 4 big ones, 8 regular ones, 16 small ones, 32 slightly small ones, 64 very small ones, 128 tiny ones, 256 minuscule processors. With the ability to shut down parts of it and bring them back up based on need. And definitely one that DOES NOT have DRM built in. Because of these "sandy bridge" processors, I will never buy another intel product. They can be sure of that.