The truly annoying thing is that these damn SP2 delays are keeping the Mac community from getting VPC 7 which is G5 compatible. I could care less about running Windows, but getting an x86 Linux VM running on a dual 2GHz G5 would be nice. Since VPC 6 isn't G5 compatible, the best machine I have to run it on is my old 800MHz FP iMac.
I knew this sort of crap was going to occur the day heard that MS bought Connectix Virtual Machine Technology and therefore VPC.
From the article: Under this model, pre-release singles or very popular artists might cost $1.50 or more per song, average tracks might stay at 99 cents, and back catalog and other promotional songs or albums could drop even lower, for example.
This from the label execs, among others. The same labels that never engage in any sort of price fixing. And then I read something like this article, and I, of course, see that the labels are doing the right thing.
Man, I thought the Mac users were biased, but this guy has got his tongue so far up Microsoft's collective ass, you can barely see the swoosh on his Nikes. His site even . . . Jebus.
He even thinks Palladium will be a good thing, and not at all a tool to control users, or spy on their computers, or enforce a Microsoft vision on computing on the world.
But never mind all that. The fact that Apple puts out a major evolution to Mac OS X every year or so (thus far), means that Apple only has, what, three more revisions before we really see Longhorn hit the streets? [sarcasm] Gee, Apple will never be able to keep up. [/sarcasm] And by then, Linux will probably be on even more desktop systems than it is today. Longhorn is a ghost, a phantom to frighten little children.
All I want is a smart roadster. It's got EU4 emissions, so it *should* be legal here (it can't possibly be worse than an Excursion), and gets well better than 40 mpg (over 50 in some cases). It's not going to go 215mph like these 959s, but when, exactly, are those 959s going to be driven anywhere near that fast? Really. I want to know. So I can lay down some caltraps or something.
Anyway, not bloody likely I'll ever see one here. Unless I buy one in Mexico and bring it home.
some enhancements to Microsoft's operating systems - which usually either amounts to further cadging of features in other OSs or further restrictions on what you are allowed to do with your computer
On immigration status: I may (proabably will) be wrong, but I suspect that it has something to do with whether or not said student is legally permitted to remain in the States. If an immigrant child is here to get an education, and he or she has dropped out (or is likely to drop out), then, frankly, I'm glad someone is keeping an eye on things, and potentially notifying the INS.
I spent a year studying in Wales, and I had several hoops to jump through to remain in the country legally (Student Visa, proof that I was taking classes, etc.). While I was there, I was eligible for medical treatment under the NHS (still have my cards somewhere), and could avail myself of other services.
If a student is here on a visa, and is supposed to be taking classes and further is availing him- or herself of our (rather more limited) tax-supported services (including public schools), I'd want to be damn sure that person is in class.
No, it has little or nothing to do with quality of education. In fact, it's likely the immigrant student won't even stay in the country to repay his education via becoming a productive member of the US work force.
Indeed. Please do. Get that Wintel hardware closer in price to Macintosh (ABM? Macorola?) hardware. Eliminate one more whiner's barrier to Mac OS X adoption.
would you choose a shitty car that broke all the fucking time and didn't use a normal steering wheel, a standard gear lever, or a wheel-mounted stalk for a turn indicator, but you were provided with the wiring diagrams and a box of cheap wrenches ?
One wonders what misinformed MS schill moderated this as Insightful.
What's worse, is that this foaming rant could just as well be applied to Windows as the intended Linux:
shitty car: bloated install
broke all the fucking time: crashes regulary
didn't use a normal steering wheel, etc.: proprietary code, only major OS not using UNIX in some fashion, file formats a mutating mystery.
provided with the wiring diagrams and a box of cheap wrenches: incomplete access to APIs (if you think a wiring diagram is enough to work on a car, you probably also trust Jiffy Lube to change your oil), substandard repair functionality (scan disk is a joke compared to fsck)
Besides, if I want the Toyota (reliable, versatile, easy to use) of computers, I'll buy (another) Mac. Well, OK, that's more like a Lexus.
Oh, and for the record: giving money to MS is always worse. Sure, it's not all peaches and cream hiring more government workers, but, hey, lesser of two evils. If someone asked, "What's worse, giving money to Microsoft or Saddam Hussein?", it'd still be giving money to MS.
Well, sure, given enough iterations, anyone can make a quality product. In general, however, MS's tactics have been to either purchase a company with a quality product and then plaster "Microsoft" all over it, or release a shoddy product and make users pay for upgrades, which has the added effect of lowering a user's expectations of what makes a quality product. If Windows XP was released as a fresh, new product, then I might agree. As it stands, XP is the lastest iteration of NT, covered in eye candy, and preparing the user for imminent DRM deployment. It sure looks like a higher quality product than the other Windows versions that came before it, but compared to many other operating systems, it's not. I even know plenty of die-hard Windows users who still use 98SE, considering it to be the epitome of Windows developement, all before being too shoddy, and all after being too bloated.
Microsoft's quality products are still basically Word and Excel. They were developed and introduced back in the days when MS still had to worry about competition, and were all the better for it (they also benefitted heavily from the Mac OS's GUI). They have arguably gotten worse with recent iterations (creeping featurism, deliberate format incompatibility).
No, no, it's just easier to assume everything Microsoft does is evil or has an evil ulterior motive. That way, you're not dissappointed when it turns out to be the case. Plus, someday, we might all be pleasantly surprised when MS finally exceeds our expectations, which are, admittedly, pretty low.
Kent: With our utter annihilation imminent, our federal
government has snapped into action. We go live now via
satellite to the floor of the United States congress.
Speaker: Then it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to
evacuate the town of Springfield in the great state of -- Congressman: Wait a minute, I want to tack on a rider to that bill: $30
million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.
Speaker: All in favor of the amended Springfield-slash-pervert bill?
[everyone boos]
Speaker: Bill defeated. [bangs gavel]
Kent: I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply
doesn't work.
Fleh. Pay Microsoft a heap of money for the server plus whatever per seat costs plus probably whatever per mobile costs as well, so that the company can pester me even more by expecting me to answer my emails on my corporate leash, er, um, I mean, cell phone.
I'd check the link myself, but it seems to crash Mozilla. Go fig.
I'd say the fact this moron uses, as a reference link to external information, the haxial idiocy, pretty much eliminates any credibility this guy had.
Oh, and right on BOXX's homepage, it says Workstation. And speed? In fact, the fastest Opteron you can get is 1.8GHz. So, again, this guy is an idiot. And if he wants to spend about $1000 more (yes, that's right, check the dual 2GHz G5 against the dual 1.8GHz BOXX with similar specs) on his system, then he's fallen into the same trap that all us deluded Mac users have evidently fallen prey to: quality costs money. Perhaps it's the fact that a G5 costs $1000 less that makes it "not a workstation"? Hmmm? 'Praps? And anyway, it's an Opteron. If that's what the G5 is competing agains, why is AMD bothering to make the Athlon64, which they freely admit is their desktop 64-bit processor? Let's see what these Opteron systems do against, say, a Power4.
It's also so very nice of him to blindly trust AMD. Surely, they have nothing to gain by claiming that they have the fastest processor, oh no. And AMD naming their chips with blatantly misleading numbers, well, that's not marketing at all, is it? How can this Wintel court jester say that AMD has more or less credibility than Apple?
And here it is, the crowning turd on the dung heap: "But then, there's credibility, which some people believe is everything." Though, evidently, not this delusional puppet, because he has none.
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Woo! Vote Nixon's Head! Vote Nixon's Head!
I knew this sort of crap was going to occur the day heard that MS bought Connectix Virtual Machine Technology and therefore VPC.
"The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of innocents everywhere."
At least, it should.
It doesn't pay to think at work.
KArdvark would be a cool name for a solitaire game. Too bad it's now trademarked.
Perhaps this is the first step on the road to air-cars? First one with a flying Delorean wins.
This from the label execs, among others. The same labels that never engage in any sort of price fixing. And then I read something like this article, and I, of course, see that the labels are doing the right thing.
No, I don't trust the labels on pricing any more.
He even thinks Palladium will be a good thing, and not at all a tool to control users, or spy on their computers, or enforce a Microsoft vision on computing on the world.
But never mind all that. The fact that Apple puts out a major evolution to Mac OS X every year or so (thus far), means that Apple only has, what, three more revisions before we really see Longhorn hit the streets? [sarcasm] Gee, Apple will never be able to keep up. [/sarcasm] And by then, Linux will probably be on even more desktop systems than it is today. Longhorn is a ghost, a phantom to frighten little children.
Anyway, not bloody likely I'll ever see one here. Unless I buy one in Mexico and bring it home.
Damage Microsoft? Not even the federal government is able to damage Microsoft.
If you want to teach kids what "the most popular OS" will be doing when they get out of school, teach them Mac OS today.
So it can be saved and get into heaven. Oh, you mean world.
- a robot that could attend conferences in your behalf and allow you to communicate via video and audio applications - Asimo with a video camera.
- a software package that translates the sign language into readable English - A U-Force with a modified OCS.
- e-mailable identification documents - PGP signatures.
- some enhancements to Microsoft's operating systems - which usually either amounts to further cadging of features in other OSs or further restrictions on what you are allowed to do with your computer
$40 billion and this is the best they can do?I spent a year studying in Wales, and I had several hoops to jump through to remain in the country legally (Student Visa, proof that I was taking classes, etc.). While I was there, I was eligible for medical treatment under the NHS (still have my cards somewhere), and could avail myself of other services.
If a student is here on a visa, and is supposed to be taking classes and further is availing him- or herself of our (rather more limited) tax-supported services (including public schools), I'd want to be damn sure that person is in class.
No, it has little or nothing to do with quality of education. In fact, it's likely the immigrant student won't even stay in the country to repay his education via becoming a productive member of the US work force.
Indeed. Please do. Get that Wintel hardware closer in price to Macintosh (ABM? Macorola?) hardware. Eliminate one more whiner's barrier to Mac OS X adoption.
Allow me to introduce you to hyperbole, defined as "an exaggeration or extravagant statement used as a figure of speech."
One wonders what misinformed MS schill moderated this as Insightful.
What's worse, is that this foaming rant could just as well be applied to Windows as the intended Linux:
- shitty car: bloated install
- broke all the fucking time: crashes regulary
- didn't use a normal steering wheel, etc.: proprietary code, only major OS not using UNIX in some fashion, file formats a mutating mystery.
- provided with the wiring diagrams and a box of cheap wrenches: incomplete access to APIs (if you think a wiring diagram is enough to work on a car, you probably also trust Jiffy Lube to change your oil), substandard repair functionality (scan disk is a joke compared to fsck)
Besides, if I want the Toyota (reliable, versatile, easy to use) of computers, I'll buy (another) Mac. Well, OK, that's more like a Lexus.Oh, and for the record: giving money to MS is always worse. Sure, it's not all peaches and cream hiring more government workers, but, hey, lesser of two evils. If someone asked, "What's worse, giving money to Microsoft or Saddam Hussein?", it'd still be giving money to MS.
Microsoft's quality products are still basically Word and Excel. They were developed and introduced back in the days when MS still had to worry about competition, and were all the better for it (they also benefitted heavily from the Mac OS's GUI). They have arguably gotten worse with recent iterations (creeping featurism, deliberate format incompatibility).
Who said anything about XP? Damn, you Windows users are getting almost as paranoid as the Mac users.
No, no, it's just easier to assume everything Microsoft does is evil or has an evil ulterior motive. That way, you're not dissappointed when it turns out to be the case. Plus, someday, we might all be pleasantly surprised when MS finally exceeds our expectations, which are, admittedly, pretty low.
Kent: With our utter annihilation imminent, our federal
government has snapped into action. We go live now via
satellite to the floor of the United States congress.
Speaker: Then it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to
evacuate the town of Springfield in the great state of --
Congressman: Wait a minute, I want to tack on a rider to that bill: $30
million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.
Speaker: All in favor of the amended Springfield-slash-pervert bill?
[everyone boos]
Speaker: Bill defeated. [bangs gavel]
Kent: I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply
doesn't work.
I'd check the link myself, but it seems to crash Mozilla. Go fig.
Is there a moderation for Astroturf?
To drop the macho facade for a moment, I've enjoyed Ms. Wilson's style since USA Network's La Femme Nikita. Besides, she's got "It".
What's this then? Romanes eunt domus. People called Romanes they go the house?
Oh, and right on BOXX's homepage, it says Workstation. And speed? In fact, the fastest Opteron you can get is 1.8GHz. So, again, this guy is an idiot. And if he wants to spend about $1000 more (yes, that's right, check the dual 2GHz G5 against the dual 1.8GHz BOXX with similar specs) on his system, then he's fallen into the same trap that all us deluded Mac users have evidently fallen prey to: quality costs money. Perhaps it's the fact that a G5 costs $1000 less that makes it "not a workstation"? Hmmm? 'Praps? And anyway, it's an Opteron. If that's what the G5 is competing agains, why is AMD bothering to make the Athlon64, which they freely admit is their desktop 64-bit processor? Let's see what these Opteron systems do against, say, a Power4.
It's also so very nice of him to blindly trust AMD. Surely, they have nothing to gain by claiming that they have the fastest processor, oh no. And AMD naming their chips with blatantly misleading numbers, well, that's not marketing at all, is it? How can this Wintel court jester say that AMD has more or less credibility than Apple?
And here it is, the crowning turd on the dung heap: "But then, there's credibility, which some people believe is everything." Though, evidently, not this delusional puppet, because he has none.