An old Elvis fan said, "It's easy to love a dead man." She was right. It's also easy to overlook the failings of a good (but by no means perfect) OS just because it fell between the marketing cracks (e.g. Amiga).
My point is this: I waited seven years for Apple to get with the 90's and now the 90's are over.
I've given up on Apple as a source of quality OS software. They slept through the Internet revolution, putting out OpenDoc Parts and CyberDog when people just wanted a more stable PPP Config.
I use an SGI Octane at work- a fact that has spoiled me enough to think that a graphical OS should also be rock-solid stable.
I don't plan on buying a new computer, all new apps, and a new OS just to get the stability I get right now with LinuxPPC. And even with the difficulty re-compiling software, it comes with a wider variety of stable software than is currently available for my Mac.
I'm sick of the carrot on the stick. After all this waiting, I'm not even sure I want the carrot (early reviews indicate that it is graphically bloated and slow). I'm sick of word processors that take up 18 megs of RAM. I'm sick of "thinking different" when it feels like "being a sucker."
Yeah-well mine was serialized by the Baltimore Sun
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Well, if we're just pimping our side projects now...
It actually was serialized by the sun (on Sunspot, their web site). It's called The Narcoleptic Dialectic. People who liked Douglas Adams books said they liked it just before they attempted to strangle me.
I see people violating my patent every day and it drives me nuts! I don't think people understand how important patents are to encouraging and rewarding innovation in this country.
We're planning to take all able-bodied persons in America to court in a precedent-setting reverse class-action suit.
I can't fear what I can't run. For PPC 603/604 users, LinuxPPC is their only shot at stability. I refuse to buy a new system every few years because I was enough of a sucker to get a fragile proprietary box in the first place.
Yes, it is good to pull back from the draconian precipice.
But I've often wondered about this: if we have super-cool super-hero Captain America, does Lithuania have Captain Lithuania? And more importantly, does France have Captain France? Would Captain France wear some black & white striped shirt & an aerodynamic beret? Would his main weapon be a day old baguette?
There's a comic book for you. There's danger afoot, Captain France flies in to save the day by staging a preemptive surrender- waving the flag of France (except the red and blue stripes have been changed to white).
Some sites sell their hit logs to slimy info-marketers. Personally, I'm partial to selling souls.
What are motion pictures other than long-form infomercials for movie-related merchandise?
Confident that nothing now can touch him, the CEO of the world's most feared company is now expected to openly act the part of monopolist.
He got a head start toward Carnagyism last year when he donated billions of his lucre to erect educational buildings with his name on them. To complete the picture, he allegedly plans to take to wearing heavy fur coats and beaver hats, bathe for hours in a tub filled with hundred dollar bills, and hire the Pinkertons to keep his employees from unionizing.
After the pall of the antitrust suit has worn off, look for Gates and company to begin acquiring properties with the same vigor as before. Next step: Baltic Avenue.
The filmmakers wanted to take their scifi franchise to the next level, the G. Lucas level. After the initial success, they want to toss out any story or character development and replace it with something that looks a lot like Barney on Steroids. In other words, Trinity comes back to life as a CGI character. Dump all the un-fun references to a human race enslaved by robots and computers. More songs.
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For most small companies, people live in fear of what will happen when the "geek" jumps ship. All those uncompensated weekend hours re-writing the vb code for the database... what now?
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When we say "Anti-Piracy," we really mean "Anti-User."
Most M$ sales, I understand, are from OEM pre-installs. As PC sales decline, they've had to get creative to keep profitability up.
For example, if your HP pavilion comes pre-installed with Works2000, Outlook aparently needs it to forward simple no-attachment messages. To uninstall it (if you no longer have the CD that came with the unit), you need to actually go out and buy the ap you never wanted in the first place.
Is this a common practice- to require the CD to uninstall?
Cut to a scene from The Matrix 2, where we find out who's feeding on the flesh of the living...
Jobs promises a fiscal year while not profitable, at least less suicide-inducing: "Where 2000 was a year of blackness and dispair, 2001 will be one of bleakness and dissapointment."
As soon as you sign up, they begin collecting all kinds of re-saleable information: bidding history, HTTP REF, whether or not your circumcised- stuff like that. It's awful.
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huh? alienses?
bwahahaha, inc.
Wait a minute. I am.
poor widdle me.
$NeXT = $Steve_Jobs * $dead_OS
$OSX = ($Steve_Jobs * $dead_OS) / ($legacy_hardware + $delay + $fear)
today: you win. the ND for free.
I've given up on Apple as a source of quality OS software. They slept through the Internet revolution, putting out OpenDoc Parts and CyberDog when people just wanted a more stable PPP Config.
I use an SGI Octane at work- a fact that has spoiled me enough to think that a graphical OS should also be rock-solid stable.
I don't plan on buying a new computer, all new apps, and a new OS just to get the stability I get right now with LinuxPPC. And even with the difficulty re-compiling software, it comes with a wider variety of stable software than is currently available for my Mac.
I'm sick of the carrot on the stick. After all this waiting, I'm not even sure I want the carrot (early reviews indicate that it is graphically bloated and slow). I'm sick of word processors that take up 18 megs of RAM. I'm sick of "thinking different" when it feels like "being a sucker."
It actually was serialized by the sun (on Sunspot, their web site). It's called The Narcoleptic Dialectic. People who liked Douglas Adams books said they liked it just before they attempted to strangle me.
Today on The Rid: Congressional Friar's Roast of John Ashcroft "A Hoot"
We're planning to take all able-bodied persons in America to court in a precedent-setting reverse class-action suit.
patents R us
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Anyone read Return to RAMA and like it? I did and didn't.
Hi ho.
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But I've often wondered about this: if we have super-cool super-hero Captain America, does Lithuania have Captain Lithuania? And more importantly, does France have Captain France? Would Captain France wear some black & white striped shirt & an aerodynamic beret? Would his main weapon be a day old baguette?
There's a comic book for you. There's danger afoot, Captain France flies in to save the day by staging a preemptive surrender- waving the flag of France (except the red and blue stripes have been changed to white).
"I give up in the name of France!"
www.VivaLaWussbags.com!
Some sites sell their hit logs to slimy info-marketers. Personally, I'm partial to selling souls. What are motion pictures other than long-form infomercials for movie-related merchandise?
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He got a head start toward Carnagyism last year when he donated billions of his lucre to erect educational buildings with his name on them. To complete the picture, he allegedly plans to take to wearing heavy fur coats and beaver hats, bathe for hours in a tub filled with hundred dollar bills, and hire the Pinkertons to keep his employees from unionizing.
After the pall of the antitrust suit has worn off, look for Gates and company to begin acquiring properties with the same vigor as before. Next step: Baltic Avenue.
www.ridiculopathy.com
The filmmakers wanted to take their scifi franchise to the next level, the G. Lucas level. After the initial success, they want to toss out any story or character development and replace it with something that looks a lot like Barney on Steroids. In other words, Trinity comes back to life as a CGI character. Dump all the un-fun references to a human race enslaved by robots and computers. More songs.
Read how a CGI character will be used in Ben Burns' Jazz Part 4
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I wouldn't know what you're talking about.
huh?
[insert inflamatory comment here]
I saw the ads. The TV told me that the G4 pulled so many flops it was a "supah-computer" and there were export restrictions and whatnot on it.
That's how I knew I had to buy that supah-l337 bad boy. The TV would never lie to me. Jeff Goldbloom has no motivation to mislead me.
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For most small companies, people live in fear of what will happen when the "geek" jumps ship. All those uncompensated weekend hours re-writing the vb code for the database... what now? www.ridiculopathy.com
Most M$ sales, I understand, are from OEM pre-installs. As PC sales decline, they've had to get creative to keep profitability up.
For example, if your HP pavilion comes pre-installed with Works2000, Outlook aparently needs it to forward simple no-attachment messages. To uninstall it (if you no longer have the CD that came with the unit), you need to actually go out and buy the ap you never wanted in the first place.
Is this a common practice- to require the CD to uninstall?
Cut to a scene from The Matrix 2, where we find out who's feeding on the flesh of the living...
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