The device flopped, you say? Actually, you say "that revision" of the device flopped. But it wasn't even a revision, since that was the first version ever released. According to Wikipedia, there were 376,000 iPods sold in the first year. Oh yeah, and that was when it was only available to Mac users. Hmm, that doesn't sound like a flop to me, but maybe since I'm so "blindered", I just don't get it!
Oh no, wait, you're just a fucking idiot. And so is the person who gave you a +1.
Considering it was a joke, I don't think it was that big of deal that there was a "mistake." In fact, people might not have gotten the joke if the author had written it like you did.... since it would have been kind of ruined. =/
There's a difference between wanting to have a black desktop and not wanting to look unprofessional by having pictures of your family on your desktop. If you mean that you don't want folder clutter on your desktop, then.... put your shit away! If you mean you don't want some garish photo as your desktop BG... then DON'T USE A PHOTO AS YOUR DESKTOP BG!!!
Jesus Christ, this isn't a hard problem to deal with. The level of whining from people because their one retarded "problem" isn't solved is really unbelievable. Whether your desktop BG is black or not seems like a very arbitrary problem that you're causing yourself. If you want it to be black, then fine, do what you're already doing. But seriously... just stop talking.
I decoded the whole thing up to section 5 and realized that it was boring and I had real things to do today. Anyone decode the whole thing? Here's what I got so far:
Urgent message for you and your groups
Important event will take place
It will happen at the Bletchley Park Codes Breaking Centre
Bletchley Park was the birthplace of the modern computer
I haven't actually used it, but from its description, it sounds like, yeah, actually you *can* change where your window controls are located. And I can only assume that there are other pieces of similar software out there.
And before you say something along the lines of that software not being included with the normal OS, then you're missing the point of OS X entirely, where things aren't a mish-mash disaster of ppl's desktops looking like ugly WinAmp skins, and actually function (gasp!) consistently.
Great example of argumentum ad hominem towards those three, trying to sully their name by implying they quite to make more money. You really are a class act.
I don't quite know why they did anything. But I do know that you don't know what an ad-hominem is.
Actually he does; and in fact, poisoning the well is a form of ad hominem attack:
I can't see how it could save energy. At it's simplest, maglev requires two permanent magnets to provide the "lift" (or technically, the repulsion) and then some motor to provide the forward motion. This requires a motor to provide the forward motion and the lift.
Or put another way, maglev must overcome the friction of the body. This must overcome the friction of the body and the wings.
The only possible energy savings that I see is that the current generation of maglevs use superconducting magnets which require a refrigeration unit to remain magnetic. But (crossing my fingers here) future high temperature superconductors should be able to work at room temperature (i.e., the operational temperature of the train).
I don't claim to actually know what I'm talking about, but from the article:
"...but there's still a lot of wind drag that crops up between the bottom of a maglev train and its track that makes them less efficient (which combined with other problems make maglevs very costly)."
Wow, this guy is an idiot, a troll, and especially a tool. Just a few paragraphs into this "editorial", we can find this lovely gem:
"... has convinced me that Mac users, in the typical hipster fashion, brutally raped the Unix culture, throwing away everything that made it unique because they did not understand it. These Visigoths are the single best case for government mandated licensing for computer programmers."
Wow, really? Brutally Raped? Visigoths? Jesus Christ, I don't even know how to respond. In fact, it's kind of a shame, because for all I know, the author may have some legitimate points. But when he says something so obviously retarded, I can no longer trust what he says afterwards. When will Slashdot allow users to give individual articles scores? I think this one is worth about a -2.
Wow, what a ridiculous piece of slippery slope trolling flamebait. "First they came for the Porn Apps." then becomes "Then they came for the Right-Wing-Bigots."????? When did Apple "come for" anything that wasn't an app, let alone Jews??
This is modded "Troll", but its parent isn't? IMO, the parent is way more of a troll than this.
God forbid someone makes a sarcastic comment in reponse to a tired and idiotic statement about France's surrender in WWII. Hey, since we're at it, how about some more!...
Switzerland doesn't surrender because they're a "neutral" country that profits off of the massacre of Jews!
The British resist because of their geographic isolation from the of the European mainland!
Still, I have trouble believing that the low population density of the US is completely unrelated. According to the statistics posted above, Japan's average speed is 66% higher than the USA's. But after doing a bit of Googling, I found that their population density is 960% higher! Are you really trying to say that average population density of a country is unrelated to its average broadband speed???
I'll grant you that the government-sponsored local monopolies that these companies have are utterly obnoxious and it blows my mind that they're legal, but saying "The Eastern Seaboard has poor broadband" is hardly a precise measurement. And without more specific numbers, how do I know whether the average Japanese (or Latvian or Swedish or whatever) person's connection speed is qualitatively better that mine, here in San Francisco?
What a ridiculous argument. The "average household" philips head screwdriver is probably too big to use on an iPhone anyway! You would still need to buy another screwdriver.
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The device flopped, you say? Actually, you say "that revision" of the device flopped. But it wasn't even a revision, since that was the first version ever released. According to Wikipedia, there were 376,000 iPods sold in the first year. Oh yeah, and that was when it was only available to Mac users. Hmm, that doesn't sound like a flop to me, but maybe since I'm so "blindered", I just don't get it!
Oh no, wait, you're just a fucking idiot. And so is the person who gave you a +1.
Yes. thank you for writing this. It's like no one even bothered checking what the post said. Just inflammatory flamebait.
n/t
Considering it was a joke, I don't think it was that big of deal that there was a "mistake." In fact, people might not have gotten the joke if the author had written it like you did.... since it would have been kind of ruined. =/
Hmm.... yeah..... if you can't even get the company's name right, I'm not really sure if you're gonna get any other information right.
lol, that would be so awesome. "OMG PONEEZ!"
There's a difference between wanting to have a black desktop and not wanting to look unprofessional by having pictures of your family on your desktop. If you mean that you don't want folder clutter on your desktop, then.... put your shit away! If you mean you don't want some garish photo as your desktop BG... then DON'T USE A PHOTO AS YOUR DESKTOP BG!!! Jesus Christ, this isn't a hard problem to deal with. The level of whining from people because their one retarded "problem" isn't solved is really unbelievable. Whether your desktop BG is black or not seems like a very arbitrary problem that you're causing yourself. If you want it to be black, then fine, do what you're already doing. But seriously... just stop talking.
I decoded the whole thing up to section 5 and realized that it was boring and I had real things to do today. Anyone decode the whole thing? Here's what I got so far:
Urgent message for you and your groups
Important event will take place
It will happen at the Bletchley Park Codes Breaking Centre
Bletchley Park was the birthplace of the modern computer
I don't think you understood the parent's comment...
Well, I spent a total of 5 seconds and found this software:
http://unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter
I haven't actually used it, but from its description, it sounds like, yeah, actually you *can* change where your window controls are located. And I can only assume that there are other pieces of similar software out there.
And before you say something along the lines of that software not being included with the normal OS, then you're missing the point of OS X entirely, where things aren't a mish-mash disaster of ppl's desktops looking like ugly WinAmp skins, and actually function (gasp!) consistently.
Um, are you implying that setting a custom desktop background color on OS X is difficult? Because that's what it sounds like you're saying.
And no, it's not hard. Like seriously, you have to be literally retarded if you can't do it.
While not insignificant, I'm not sure that I would consider Apple's $99 fee to be "large"
It doesn't anything about him getting permission to install software on the store's computers.
2/3 * tau * r^3 ?
N/T
Great example of argumentum ad hominem towards those three, trying to sully their name by implying they quite to make more money. You really are a class act.
I don't quite know why they did anything. But I do know that you don't know what an ad-hominem is.
Actually he does; and in fact, poisoning the well is a form of ad hominem attack:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
I can't see how it could save energy. At it's simplest, maglev requires two permanent magnets to provide the "lift" (or technically, the repulsion) and then some motor to provide the forward motion. This requires a motor to provide the forward motion and the lift.
Or put another way, maglev must overcome the friction of the body. This must overcome the friction of the body and the wings.
The only possible energy savings that I see is that the current generation of maglevs use superconducting magnets which require a refrigeration unit to remain magnetic. But (crossing my fingers here) future high temperature superconductors should be able to work at room temperature (i.e., the operational temperature of the train).
I don't claim to actually know what I'm talking about, but from the article: "...but there's still a lot of wind drag that crops up between the bottom of a maglev train and its track that makes them less efficient (which combined with other problems make maglevs very costly)."
Wow, this guy is an idiot, a troll, and especially a tool. Just a few paragraphs into this "editorial", we can find this lovely gem:
"... has convinced me that Mac users, in the typical hipster fashion, brutally raped the Unix culture, throwing away everything that made it unique because they did not understand it. These Visigoths are the single best case for government mandated licensing for computer programmers."
Wow, really? Brutally Raped? Visigoths? Jesus Christ, I don't even know how to respond. In fact, it's kind of a shame, because for all I know, the author may have some legitimate points. But when he says something so obviously retarded, I can no longer trust what he says afterwards. When will Slashdot allow users to give individual articles scores? I think this one is worth about a -2.
Wow, what a ridiculous piece of slippery slope trolling flamebait. "First they came for the Porn Apps." then becomes "Then they came for the Right-Wing-Bigots."????? When did Apple "come for" anything that wasn't an app, let alone Jews??
-1? I thought it was funny. =)
This is modded "Troll", but its parent isn't? IMO, the parent is way more of a troll than this.
God forbid someone makes a sarcastic comment in reponse to a tired and idiotic statement about France's surrender in WWII. Hey, since we're at it, how about some more!...
Switzerland doesn't surrender because they're a "neutral" country that profits off of the massacre of Jews!
The British resist because of their geographic isolation from the of the European mainland!
Wow, the hilarity never stops!
Damn! You beat me to it! Although I couldn't tell if it was a joke or what.
Still, I have trouble believing that the low population density of the US is completely unrelated. According to the statistics posted above, Japan's average speed is 66% higher than the USA's. But after doing a bit of Googling, I found that their population density is 960% higher! Are you really trying to say that average population density of a country is unrelated to its average broadband speed???
I'll grant you that the government-sponsored local monopolies that these companies have are utterly obnoxious and it blows my mind that they're legal, but saying "The Eastern Seaboard has poor broadband" is hardly a precise measurement. And without more specific numbers, how do I know whether the average Japanese (or Latvian or Swedish or whatever) person's connection speed is qualitatively better that mine, here in San Francisco?
Agreed. I love the current Apple keyboards. They did take some getting used to, but doubtfully more than a day.
What a ridiculous argument. The "average household" philips head screwdriver is probably too big to use on an iPhone anyway! You would still need to buy another screwdriver.