Remember the days of Bill Gates as a Borg on every Microsoft story here? Remember the days of MS being written as "M$"? Remember the days of every geek worth their salt on Slashdot loathed Microsoft? My my, times have changed. I for one, welcome it.
I was a major Amiga evangelist back then. But unfortunately, Commodore didn't really know what it had and screwed it all up. They kept trying to shoehorn it into being a "business" computer or something like that, instead of playing up on it's strengths over DOS and the dreadful Macs at the time.
And ultimately, what made the Amiga great was also it's downfall, as it's special chips (Agnes, Paula, Denise etc) couldn't really scale to a new architecture.
No, this isn't true. People use the iPad everyday to create, write, paint (yes, other than Draw Something), create all kinds of music with the myriad of music apps and synths and drum machines etc et. It's not a consumption device. It's just a device. People use it in different ways. Shocking, I know...but people use things in different ways than you.
Is it better than a laptop? In some ways yes, in some ways no. Is a laptop better? Again, in some ways yes, in some ways no. Can some people live with the iPad alone? Very much so. My wife has been using computers now for 25 years, she hasn't touched her desktop since getting her iPad. Seriously, she does everything on it. Write, do email, do her banking, read, edit PDF files, log into her work computer via SSH and works in a terminal. If she needs to type something long, out comes the bluetooth keyboard and she types away, then when she finished she puts it away and it goes back to just being a tablet.
Full disclosure, I personally couldn't work this way. I'm kind of set-in-my-ways with my desktop and even a laptop feels cramped. But I recognize that my way isn't the only way.
But let's get back to the "consumption device" thing people throw out there about tablets, and the iPad specifically. I've shown this isn't true for some people. People that don't let others tell them what to do or haven't heard you can't create on it. But lets assume I didn't say that and just go along with you, and others, and say it IS only for consumption. What's wrong with that? Why is this weird insult directed at this device? Do people say that about...I don't know...the Microsoft Xbox360? "Oh, it's just for consumption and watching movies and playing games...not for creating anything". If not, why not? Are DVD players and big screen TV's get this thrown at them too? What about the opposite? "Oh, that guitar is only for creating, you can't consume anything on it".
Okay, I've stepped over into silly-land, but hopefully you get my point.
many people have complications of vaccines. This year a Redskins cheerleader was paralyzed after getting the flu shot.
I know, last year I wore a blue hat all flu season and I didn't get the flu at all...therefore blue hats prevent the flu. I have a friend that also wore a blue hat and they didn't get the flu either.
I know someone that got the flu shot and got into a fender-bender a week later. Therefore the flu shot makes you lose control of your car!
Um...compromised it with vaccine injections eh? Methinks you need to study up on how this all works or you wouldn't have made such a statement.
100,000 people die from FDA approved drugs a year. Okay, where'd you pull that little factoid out of? Notice you give no context in that? Hey, like this "1 million people die in hospitals each year"....does this mean Hospitals kill people? Is there a vaccine for that?
Is there a vaccine for conspiracy minded Luddites also? We really need that. Also, tell Jenny McCarthy I said hey!
I have to agree. I'm on a Macbook Pro now and using Snow Leopard with it's 64-bit Safari. Everyone is saying how fast and quick Safari is...along with Chrome, but the simple fact is both of these browsers don't have Adblock so they're actually SLOWER than Firefox with Adblock because they all have to load in those ads.
Maybe Safari and Chrome are fast on a test....but in real world situations without adblock, they're slow.
There's an Oscar that's awarded each year to 5 original screenplays. "Pan's Labyrinth", "WALL-E" and "In Bruges" were all nominated for it as are many others. Original movies are out there...but they're buried under the reboots, remakes, based-on-the-popular-comic, sequels and all the others.
You know what, I'm boycotting any movie from now on that's "based" on anything. Be it a book or a comic or a TV Show or video game or a "reboot" of an old movie series or remake of an old movie or whatever. Give me something original.
Come on...I'd take a "Pan's Labyrinth" or "In Bruges" or "WALL-E" over a "Transformers 1 or 2" or "Batman _____(insert verb here)" or "Warcraft: The Movie".
Symantec Exec to board members:"Holy underwear! Free Antivirus! From Microsoft! We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
Like the time we went over to Shelbyville during the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldn't get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, you couldn't get those...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Child pornography is a subset of the term obscenity (at least, if you're a healthy individual it is).
Although drawing a naked baby being raped by guys in rabbit suits might not involve any children who once or ever will exist, it's still obscene. Lots of laws exist to prevent that level of obscenity. There are lots of reasons why it's obscene. Let's not get into that debate though, there's Wikipedia if we need to look up basic definitions.
You brought up an mental image though when describing the scene. Should I go turn myself into the police for imagining a photo of that and not a drawing?
Seriously, shouldn't what you just wrote be considered "obscene" if we're going to label a drawing of it "obscene"? If so, then the editors of Slashdot have a legal obligation to remove all reference to your post.
No, not really. I just peruse the want-ads when I'm reading the newspaper and see there is a lot of job opportunities for Trucking and Health Care.
But I'm amused that everyone here assumed that is what I was doing. I'll admit that what I wrote made it seem like I was looking for IT jobs in my area in the paper, but that's simply not true.
Seriously....I look in the paper and it's filled with ads for drivers. That and health care professionals. And as I would rather stick a pencil in my eye than work in health care, I figure my misanthropic ways would be better shifted toward driving.
I'm 46 and have to basically totally switch careers as there are just aren't any jobs in my profession anymore. It's over saturated. I hardly ever see an ad for IT or anything related in my area. As scary as it sounds, changing directions even this far into life may not be a bad idea.
Even with fuel prices sky-high, trucking will be with us for a while as lets face it....everything within your eyesight right now reading these words was all delivered or transported some way via a truck (unless you're looking out your window at a tree or something).
Wait, since when is copyright violations punishable by prison?
I could see this going to civil court and this guy being sued. But prison? Was he actually getting money for these? Or was it just sharing over the internet for free?
Again, how did this go from a civil matter to a criminal one?
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Remember the days of Bill Gates as a Borg on every Microsoft story here? Remember the days of MS being written as "M$"? Remember the days of every geek worth their salt on Slashdot loathed Microsoft? My my, times have changed. I for one, welcome it.
And now THIS will be the year of LInux on the desktop!
I was a major Amiga evangelist back then. But unfortunately, Commodore didn't really know what it had and screwed it all up. They kept trying to shoehorn it into being a "business" computer or something like that, instead of playing up on it's strengths over DOS and the dreadful Macs at the time.
And ultimately, what made the Amiga great was also it's downfall, as it's special chips (Agnes, Paula, Denise etc) couldn't really scale to a new architecture.
No, this isn't true. People use the iPad everyday to create, write, paint (yes, other than Draw Something), create all kinds of music with the myriad of music apps and synths and drum machines etc et. It's not a consumption device. It's just a device. People use it in different ways. Shocking, I know...but people use things in different ways than you.
Is it better than a laptop? In some ways yes, in some ways no. Is a laptop better? Again, in some ways yes, in some ways no. Can some people live with the iPad alone? Very much so. My wife has been using computers now for 25 years, she hasn't touched her desktop since getting her iPad. Seriously, she does everything on it. Write, do email, do her banking, read, edit PDF files, log into her work computer via SSH and works in a terminal. If she needs to type something long, out comes the bluetooth keyboard and she types away, then when she finished she puts it away and it goes back to just being a tablet.
Full disclosure, I personally couldn't work this way. I'm kind of set-in-my-ways with my desktop and even a laptop feels cramped. But I recognize that my way isn't the only way.
But let's get back to the "consumption device" thing people throw out there about tablets, and the iPad specifically. I've shown this isn't true for some people. People that don't let others tell them what to do or haven't heard you can't create on it. But lets assume I didn't say that and just go along with you, and others, and say it IS only for consumption. What's wrong with that? Why is this weird insult directed at this device? Do people say that about...I don't know...the Microsoft Xbox360? "Oh, it's just for consumption and watching movies and playing games...not for creating anything". If not, why not? Are DVD players and big screen TV's get this thrown at them too? What about the opposite? "Oh, that guitar is only for creating, you can't consume anything on it".
Okay, I've stepped over into silly-land, but hopefully you get my point.
many people have complications of vaccines. This year a Redskins cheerleader was paralyzed after getting the flu shot.
I know, last year I wore a blue hat all flu season and I didn't get the flu at all...therefore blue hats prevent the flu. I have a friend that also wore a blue hat and they didn't get the flu either.
I know someone that got the flu shot and got into a fender-bender a week later. Therefore the flu shot makes you lose control of your car!
Um...compromised it with vaccine injections eh? Methinks you need to study up on how this all works or you wouldn't have made such a statement.
100,000 people die from FDA approved drugs a year. Okay, where'd you pull that little factoid out of? Notice you give no context in that? Hey, like this "1 million people die in hospitals each year"....does this mean Hospitals kill people? Is there a vaccine for that?
Is there a vaccine for conspiracy minded Luddites also? We really need that. Also, tell Jenny McCarthy I said hey!
I have to agree. I'm on a Macbook Pro now and using Snow Leopard with it's 64-bit Safari. Everyone is saying how fast and quick Safari is...along with Chrome, but the simple fact is both of these browsers don't have Adblock so they're actually SLOWER than Firefox with Adblock because they all have to load in those ads.
Maybe Safari and Chrome are fast on a test....but in real world situations without adblock, they're slow.
There's an Oscar that's awarded each year to 5 original screenplays. "Pan's Labyrinth", "WALL-E" and "In Bruges" were all nominated for it as are many others. Original movies are out there...but they're buried under the reboots, remakes, based-on-the-popular-comic, sequels and all the others.
You know what, I'm boycotting any movie from now on that's "based" on anything. Be it a book or a comic or a TV Show or video game or a "reboot" of an old movie series or remake of an old movie or whatever. Give me something original.
Come on...I'd take a "Pan's Labyrinth" or "In Bruges" or "WALL-E" over a "Transformers 1 or 2" or "Batman _____(insert verb here)" or "Warcraft: The Movie".
Give me a fabric that mimics the skin of a cuttlefish and I'll be impressed!
BTW, PBS's Nova just had a special on the cuttlefish...amazing creatures.
Symantec Exec to board members: "Holy underwear! Free Antivirus! From Microsoft! We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
Like the time we went over to Shelbyville during the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldn't get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, you couldn't get those...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The only thing annoying about this day is all the idiots with no sense of humor saying "make it stop" or "isn't this day over yet".
Seriously, remove the sticks that are up your asses and lighten the hell up.
Child pornography is a subset of the term obscenity (at least, if you're a healthy individual it is).
Although drawing a naked baby being raped by guys in rabbit suits might not involve any children who once or ever will exist, it's still obscene. Lots of laws exist to prevent that level of obscenity. There are lots of reasons why it's obscene. Let's not get into that debate though, there's Wikipedia if we need to look up basic definitions.
You brought up an mental image though when describing the scene. Should I go turn myself into the police for imagining a photo of that and not a drawing?
Seriously, shouldn't what you just wrote be considered "obscene" if we're going to label a drawing of it "obscene"? If so, then the editors of Slashdot have a legal obligation to remove all reference to your post.
Seriously, the guy is delusional. Insane. A nutter. Crazy. Over the rainbow. Bars in the window. Truly gone fishing. Out to lunch.
He's apeshit mad, barmy, batty, berserk, bonkers, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, dingy, dippy, erratic, flaky, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, fruity, idiotic, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nutty as fruitcake, of unsound mind, out of his tree, psycho, he's round the bend, a schizo, a screwball, he has a screw loose, silly, touched, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unzipped, wacky.
(yes, much was copied and pasted from thesaurus.com)
It's always about censorship and blocking and denial. That's all I hear now coming out of Australia.
That's too bad. Was thinking of going there on vacation. Guess I'll go spend my money elsewhere.
Not sure I understand what they're doing. They're not being sued by anyone so they're going to court to sue to make sure no one sues them?
LOL, WUT?
We're talking about computers here. This isn't a religion. This isn't anything life altering or anything like that. These are computers.
Where does the "Just because you have your head so far up Steve Jobs's arse" vitriol come from?
Come on...
Oh, and look, they have all the alt.* forums there too!
So, unless the entire Usenet network gets taken offline..which is unlikely, then no, it's far from dead.
No, not really. I just peruse the want-ads when I'm reading the newspaper and see there is a lot of job opportunities for Trucking and Health Care.
But I'm amused that everyone here assumed that is what I was doing. I'll admit that what I wrote made it seem like I was looking for IT jobs in my area in the paper, but that's simply not true.
Seriously....I look in the paper and it's filled with ads for drivers. That and health care professionals. And as I would rather stick a pencil in my eye than work in health care, I figure my misanthropic ways would be better shifted toward driving.
I'm 46 and have to basically totally switch careers as there are just aren't any jobs in my profession anymore. It's over saturated. I hardly ever see an ad for IT or anything related in my area. As scary as it sounds, changing directions even this far into life may not be a bad idea.
Even with fuel prices sky-high, trucking will be with us for a while as lets face it....everything within your eyesight right now reading these words was all delivered or transported some way via a truck (unless you're looking out your window at a tree or something).
Exactly. They don't give out a "deadline" and have always stated that it will be done when it's done.
Yes, it may be frustrating to people waiting for a Blizzard game, but at least they don't pull this crap.
Wait, since when is copyright violations punishable by prison?
I could see this going to civil court and this guy being sued. But prison? Was he actually getting money for these? Or was it just sharing over the internet for free?
Again, how did this go from a civil matter to a criminal one?
No, now...FINALLY....he can get a Macbook Pro running OS X and not have to feel guilty about it.
COOL! Maybe I can FINALLY play World of Warcraft on my Mac!