Fusion has been "15-20 years away" for something like 30 years now, hasn't it? If it's not something, it's something else. Meanwhile, we have a massive fusion plant in the center of the solar system that's been operating maintenance free for eons and we're barely even exploiting it.
You'll still have noise coming out of the speakers though -- don't forget to add some noise-cancelling earphones for around $100-150. Then you'll really be set.
There are no secrets on library shelves, either, but if the populace never signs out a book and actually reads it, or if they try to read it and can't understand the language, what good does that do them? OSS isn't inherently secure. It has the opportunity to be peer-reviewed and pronounced "secure" by the peer reviewers. And even they can be wrong, if they're not clever enough to spot a hole.
And then, when the insurance companies finally learn how common speeding is, and sees that it's actually no big deal and no indicator of actual risk, and everyone's insurance rates go down while speed limits go up, everyone celebrates Big Brother is Our Brother Day.
It's been scientifically proven that if you save documents with smaller fonts, they take up less space on your hard drive, thereby resulting in a reduction in weight, which allows the laptop to fall slower (in an atmosphere) due to the change in the wind resistant coefficient. Haven't you ever read Dilbert?
I opened up all the documents on my hard drive, changed the fonts from 12pt to 7pt, saved them, so now the machine falls slower. I estimate it's around 9.4 m/s^2 now. I'm going to try again with 5pt fonts if I can get a screen with enough DPI to display it.
Your attitude really scares me. But then, you did say you are from Alabama, so that probably explains a lot of it.
Do you seriously think that a boss like that is someone worth sticking up for? Someone you'd want to follow? Christ, no wonder this country is so fucked up.
I haven't played the game, but what you describe seems silly to me. You *can't* plan a military operation flawlessly to completion. There will always be surprises and developments that are beyond your control. How you deal with THOSE is where I would think the challenge would be found.
I'd rather play a video game about owning a boat. A really good boat that has stuff I can't afford on a real boat. Like warp engines and lasers and hot bridge crew members.
Could there still be a difference in build quality if not design? Maybe the high-end brands are getting the A-grade stuff and the low-end brands are selling the borderline-grade stuff that doesn't score as high at quality inspection time, much like how certain CPUs in a wafer will not clock high enough to sell as a high-end CPU, but if you downclock them they'll work fine as a lower-end model.
Given the amount of problems suffered by the iBook line, I might prefer to pay $125 to be tied to my desk just so that I won't have to worry about the motherboard shorting out and having to ship my iBook back to the mothership for AppleCare service.
I have no real definitive proof of this, but I believe that he probably did say this, or something close to it. Probably though he was taken out of context and was speaking about a particular problem for a particular application of hardware.
Clearly the original specification for the IBM PC did not anticipate that users would want to make use of more than 640k of memory, which is why you have the extended memory kludge for x86 hardware. So *somebody* must have thought 640k was enough for everyone at some point in time, whether they said it out loud in public or not.
The religious right probably isn't up in arms abou this because, it has been prophesied. Therefore it must happen. And in their prophesy, the end result is ultimately good. They are sitting in anticipation of the rapture -- they probably want the RFID tagging to happen faster so the rapture comes sooner.
I could order everything all at once. But then I'm stuck with a $60 1-button mouse that I didn't want.
AND THERE IS STILL NO SOLUTION FOR ME IF I WANT A 2-BUTTON TRACKPAD ON A POWERBOOK. Just to head off your next logical avenue, a mini travel mouse is NOT a trackpad.
I'm done arguing with you. You're too dense to be worth having a discussion with. You're unfortunately about as obstinately stupid as the Apple sales reps that I've talked to about this.
I just went to store.apple.com and priced a G5 dual 2GHz, scrolled down to keyboard and mouse options, and what they have listed is Apple's keyboard and mouse in English and Western Spanish, and Apple's Bluetooth keyboard and mouse in English and Western Spanish. There's no option for "none" and no option for multibutton Kensingtons and Logitechs. If I want one of those, I have to purchase it separately.
That one can evidently purchase a multibutton mouse direct from Apple, but not at the time of original purchase for a new system, makes this all the more aggravating. There's STILL no solution for putting a multibutton trackpad on a PowerBook.
Ergo, your arguments are weak and wholly without merit.
You have no idea what I spend on computers. That's irrelevant, anyway.
But my point is, if I'm going to give someone $3000+ for a system, they'd better give me everything I want.
I'm the customer, if I want it, deliver it or I'll go to someone else who can. I can't go anywhere else for hardware that will run OS X, so I'm stuck getting a 1-button mouse from Apple. I can go out and replace it for $20 with a multi-button mouse, which is trivial compared to the price of the system itself.
But the point is, I shouldn't fucking have to. I should be able to ask for and receive a mouse which has the features I want when I make the purchase. That's a scroll wheel and at least two buttons.
If I'm going to spend 2-3x the cost of a PC, you ought to make damn sure I'm getting what I want, and not what you insist is all I need.
All I can say is, if I spend $3000+ on a computer, I better get whatever the hell I want, especially when there are options out there that are under $1000 that aren't $2000 less good.
Ditch the 1-button mouse already! Seriously. It's a cliched criticism, I know, but that makes it all the more inexcusable. Give us a damn scroll wheel, 2 or 3 button mouse.
Yeah, I can buy one, but I shouldn't have to for what I'm paying. And what about for my Powerbook? $3000 and no means to add a button to the touchpad = annoyed me.
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In 10.5 hours, at my billable rate, it's cheaper to replace the entire system with new hardware.
Fusion has been "15-20 years away" for something like 30 years now, hasn't it? If it's not something, it's something else. Meanwhile, we have a massive fusion plant in the center of the solar system that's been operating maintenance free for eons and we're barely even exploiting it.
You'll still have noise coming out of the speakers though -- don't forget to add some noise-cancelling earphones for around $100-150. Then you'll really be set.
There are no secrets on library shelves, either, but if the populace never signs out a book and actually reads it, or if they try to read it and can't understand the language, what good does that do them? OSS isn't inherently secure. It has the opportunity to be peer-reviewed and pronounced "secure" by the peer reviewers. And even they can be wrong, if they're not clever enough to spot a hole.
And then, when the insurance companies finally learn how common speeding is, and sees that it's actually no big deal and no indicator of actual risk, and everyone's insurance rates go down while speed limits go up, everyone celebrates Big Brother is Our Brother Day.
My video card isn't exactly good by todays standards, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128Mb
Let me know when you want to unload that piece of crap, I'll give it a good home.
It's been scientifically proven that if you save documents with smaller fonts, they take up less space on your hard drive, thereby resulting in a reduction in weight, which allows the laptop to fall slower (in an atmosphere) due to the change in the wind resistant coefficient. Haven't you ever read Dilbert?
I opened up all the documents on my hard drive, changed the fonts from 12pt to 7pt, saved them, so now the machine falls slower. I estimate it's around 9.4 m/s^2 now. I'm going to try again with 5pt fonts if I can get a screen with enough DPI to display it.
Your attitude really scares me. But then, you did say you are from Alabama, so that probably explains a lot of it.
Do you seriously think that a boss like that is someone worth sticking up for? Someone you'd want to follow? Christ, no wonder this country is so fucked up.
I haven't played the game, but what you describe seems silly to me. You *can't* plan a military operation flawlessly to completion. There will always be surprises and developments that are beyond your control. How you deal with THOSE is where I would think the challenge would be found.
I'd rather play a video game about owning a boat. A really good boat that has stuff I can't afford on a real boat. Like warp engines and lasers and hot bridge crew members.
Could there still be a difference in build quality if not design? Maybe the high-end brands are getting the A-grade stuff and the low-end brands are selling the borderline-grade stuff that doesn't score as high at quality inspection time, much like how certain CPUs in a wafer will not clock high enough to sell as a high-end CPU, but if you downclock them they'll work fine as a lower-end model.
Great, thanks for ruining the ending of that movie. Next, I suppose you'll be telling me that Rosebud is his sled.
Given the amount of problems suffered by the iBook line, I might prefer to pay $125 to be tied to my desk just so that I won't have to worry about the motherboard shorting out and having to ship my iBook back to the mothership for AppleCare service.
I have no real definitive proof of this, but I believe that he probably did say this, or something close to it. Probably though he was taken out of context and was speaking about a particular problem for a particular application of hardware.
Clearly the original specification for the IBM PC did not anticipate that users would want to make use of more than 640k of memory, which is why you have the extended memory kludge for x86 hardware. So *somebody* must have thought 640k was enough for everyone at some point in time, whether they said it out loud in public or not.
The religious right probably isn't up in arms abou this because, it has been prophesied. Therefore it must happen. And in their prophesy, the end result is ultimately good. They are sitting in anticipation of the rapture -- they probably want the RFID tagging to happen faster so the rapture comes sooner.
1980's
Bill G: 640k ought to be enough for anybody.
2004:
Bill G: In 10 years, 4.7 GB won't be enough for anybody.
Thing is, this time around I think he's more likely to be right.
Spelling isn't a science, though. One wishes that it was.
fuckyou@youfuckingfuck.com. That's me.
If you ever asked for my email with less than honorable intentions and/or didn't actually need to know it, this is what you got.
I could order everything all at once. But then I'm stuck with a $60 1-button mouse that I didn't want.
AND THERE IS STILL NO SOLUTION FOR ME IF I WANT A 2-BUTTON TRACKPAD ON A POWERBOOK. Just to head off your next logical avenue, a mini travel mouse is NOT a trackpad.
I'm done arguing with you. You're too dense to be worth having a discussion with. You're unfortunately about as obstinately stupid as the Apple sales reps that I've talked to about this.
Green energy? Since we're talking about the East River, maybe we should specify: glowing green is more like it.
I just went to store.apple.com and priced a G5 dual 2GHz, scrolled down to keyboard and mouse options, and what they have listed is Apple's keyboard and mouse in English and Western Spanish, and Apple's Bluetooth keyboard and mouse in English and Western Spanish. There's no option for "none" and no option for multibutton Kensingtons and Logitechs. If I want one of those, I have to purchase it separately.
That one can evidently purchase a multibutton mouse direct from Apple, but not at the time of original purchase for a new system, makes this all the more aggravating. There's STILL no solution for putting a multibutton trackpad on a PowerBook.
Ergo, your arguments are weak and wholly without merit.
You have no idea what I spend on computers. That's irrelevant, anyway.
But my point is, if I'm going to give someone $3000+ for a system, they'd better give me everything I want.
I'm the customer, if I want it, deliver it or I'll go to someone else who can. I can't go anywhere else for hardware that will run OS X, so I'm stuck getting a 1-button mouse from Apple. I can go out and replace it for $20 with a multi-button mouse, which is trivial compared to the price of the system itself.
But the point is, I shouldn't fucking have to. I should be able to ask for and receive a mouse which has the features I want when I make the purchase. That's a scroll wheel and at least two buttons.
If I'm going to spend 2-3x the cost of a PC, you ought to make damn sure I'm getting what I want, and not what you insist is all I need.
All I can say is, if I spend $3000+ on a computer, I better get whatever the hell I want, especially when there are options out there that are under $1000 that aren't $2000 less good.
Ditch the 1-button mouse already! Seriously. It's a cliched criticism, I know, but that makes it all the more inexcusable. Give us a damn scroll wheel, 2 or 3 button mouse.
Yeah, I can buy one, but I shouldn't have to for what I'm paying. And what about for my Powerbook? $3000 and no means to add a button to the touchpad = annoyed me.