If you had a child who, after seeing this ad, decided to run out and take off in your SUV, and was able to get away with it, there are problems with your parenting so deep and serious that it doesn't matter how many commercials you manage to have banned; your kids are fucked.
responsible parenting has gone somewhere; in the process, it also grabbed hold of some of our liberties and took off with them.
Oh yeah I forgot, Jobs wants to make sure that he can sell overpriced hardware!
This is just not true--at least not anymore. The price of any Apple Computer is completely in line with an equivalently equipped Dell, Gateway, etc. Sometimes, the price of the "PC" is even higher. True, Apple does not have a computer that competes with a $300-something dollar Dell price-wise; however, Dell's computers that do compete with Apple's computers feature wise are often more expensive than the Mac offering. Sometime ago, Apple sold hardware that could reasonably be called overpriced. Now it's just a troll to say so.
The rest of your argument is fallacious as well. Apple does not force consumers to buy a new Mac to run a new version of OS X. The most recent version of OS X runs just fine on Macs that are 5+ years old. Conversely, the RIAA want you to re-buy all of your music every 5-10 years when it becomes available in a different format. What Apple does is not even comparable.
Yeah, but you want to fuck it up for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? You think those guys and their staffs should work for free to keep you entertained?
No, but i also wasn't aware that entire episodes were being posted on YouTube. Wait, they're not. a 3 minute clip of a show isn't going to hurt Viacom's bottom line any more than someone skipping the commercials on their TiVo.
No one ever thinks he or she is being evil (except for cartoonish supervillains and goth teenagers). Someone thought having another patent in MS's portfolio would be a good thing (from his/her perspective); if this person knew about the the BlueJ origins and still thought, "hey, we should patent this!" it's not because they were also thinking, "because that would make us even more evil! Muwahahaha!" but because they saw having another patent as being a good thing. inside the culture at MS, adding to the overall value of the company is likely seen as a higher good than not abusing the broken patent system.
from the vantage point of/., though, it is an honest mistake at best, or yet another example of an immoral unethical action by an evil corporation, at worst. maybe it was only that MS got caught with their hand in the cookie jar that this retraction has occurred. i hope, like you, that it was an honest mistake resulting from the multiple layers of bureaucracy that occur in a corporation as large as MS.
all of this is not to say that there is not such thing as evil, just that, even when everyone else in the world can agree that someone is evil, that evil person will not think that of him/herself that way.
are you saying that Mac users are unemployed? and thus crave employment the way zombies in the movies crave brains? i mean, most Mac users i know have jobs, usually pretty good ones.
or maybe it's the stereotype of the mac user as the artsy humanities student who has no job prospects. but, so many/.ers seem to use macs.
i guess there's some geeky reference in there that i just don't see...
History is history, not "reality." The events of WWII are distant and abstracted enough that we can participate in a simulation of that violence in a more or less detached manner. Even games based on more modern wars are distant enough from the typical gaming audience. i refer you to the article on/. not too long ago about Iraqi gamers who no longer play war games, as it reminds them too much of the real world; American gamers, for the most part, don't know what war is like, and i imagine more than a few come home with no desire to play war games (though i'm sure more than a few come back with PSD and the like, and use such games as a way of coping).
Moreover, in a "war" game, the other people are the enemy, they "deserve" to die, or, at the very least, they have to die to defend your country, preserve your own life, etc. The people shot at Columbine were innocent victims of two adolescents' uncontrolled rage at society. A lot of people cannot fit their heads around Klebold and Harris's motivation for their rampage, and so cannot get into the character. For something similar, consider a video game based on a horror film: are you playing the part of the teenager trying to escape or are you playing the role of the killer? Though i don't know for certain that no game exists that puts you in the shoes of Freddy or Jason or Michael Myers, i'd be willing to wager that such a game is by far the exception.
For those few who can understand the motivations of those two, let's hope that they play this game and it helps them to deal with their own issues in a more positive and constructive manner.
does anybody else feel that the mention of terrorists in this article is just absofuckinglutely retarded? that anyone, for even an instant, seriously entertained the notion that any terrorist group has both the capacity and wherewithal to take out something in LEO, UNDETECTED, is beyond idiotic.
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One could argue that Christine did demonstrate a further misapplication of judgement, as she told no one where she was going and had only one companion to climb in a remote region of a foreign nation. It wasn't just the extreme sport nature of her death, there were those additional factors which the o.p. pointed out, which, some would, including myself, say merits a Darwin Award being presented to her.
A research team at the Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin managed to breed three transgenic pigs by injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs. Xinhua quoted Professor Liu Zhonghua as saying. 'The mouth, trotters and tongue of the pigs are green under ultraviolet light'."
what really happened is that kermit finally knocked up miss piggy.
someone else already addressed this above in a different thread, but i'll rehash. any flu viruses that do not have the M2 gene being targeted propagate very, very poorly. the M2 gene is strongly selected for because of this. those flu viruses that do not have this M2 will not be able to spread efficiently enough to pose any threat. at least, that's the idea.
as yet another someone pointed out, though, this is being reported by what is perhaps a not-very-reputible newspaper.
they did think of this. it's right there in the article, in fact. the vaccine targets the M2 gene, which has changed very little in the last 100 years. despite all the mutations that have taken place in the flu virus in the last 100 years, the M2 gene has not changed. that's what makes it a good spot upon which to target a vaccine.
True, but Enron was so much more than messing with stock options. it was a financial shell game, shifting the company's debt from one dummy corporation to the next in order to create the illusion of profitability.
The problem is with the clause introduced by the subordinating conjunction "while." The implication of the while (in this context) is that there is an unspoken "regardless" or "nonetheless" with the independent clause. What if the sentence read like this: "While company representatives have said that Apple CEO Steve Jobs did not murder those underage thai prostitutes, Jobs has hired the services of an attorney."
so, do you see now how the sentence could be interpreted as implying Jobs' guilt?
the only movie i can think of where computers played an important role that got them really close to right is you've got mail.
maybe it's not a "computer movie," per se, but computers were an important plot element, and the use that was made of them was very close to real life.
also, i second someone's earlier mention of office space.
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If you had a child who, after seeing this ad, decided to run out and take off in your SUV, and was able to get away with it, there are problems with your parenting so deep and serious that it doesn't matter how many commercials you manage to have banned; your kids are fucked.
responsible parenting has gone somewhere; in the process, it also grabbed hold of some of our liberties and took off with them.
Voltran.
Oh yeah I forgot, Jobs wants to make sure that he can sell overpriced hardware!
This is just not true--at least not anymore. The price of any Apple Computer is completely in line with an equivalently equipped Dell, Gateway, etc. Sometimes, the price of the "PC" is even higher. True, Apple does not have a computer that competes with a $300-something dollar Dell price-wise; however, Dell's computers that do compete with Apple's computers feature wise are often more expensive than the Mac offering. Sometime ago, Apple sold hardware that could reasonably be called overpriced. Now it's just a troll to say so.
The rest of your argument is fallacious as well. Apple does not force consumers to buy a new Mac to run a new version of OS X. The most recent version of OS X runs just fine on Macs that are 5+ years old. Conversely, the RIAA want you to re-buy all of your music every 5-10 years when it becomes available in a different format. What Apple does is not even comparable.
what about the MacMini? It's headless and much less expensive than the Mac Pro.
fucking it up for the rest of us since 1971 (or 2005, depending on how you want to judge these things).
No one ever thinks he or she is being evil (except for cartoonish supervillains and goth teenagers). Someone thought having another patent in MS's portfolio would be a good thing (from his/her perspective); if this person knew about the the BlueJ origins and still thought, "hey, we should patent this!" it's not because they were also thinking, "because that would make us even more evil! Muwahahaha!" but because they saw having another patent as being a good thing. inside the culture at MS, adding to the overall value of the company is likely seen as a higher good than not abusing the broken patent system.
/., though, it is an honest mistake at best, or yet another example of an immoral unethical action by an evil corporation, at worst. maybe it was only that MS got caught with their hand in the cookie jar that this retraction has occurred. i hope, like you, that it was an honest mistake resulting from the multiple layers of bureaucracy that occur in a corporation as large as MS.
from the vantage point of
all of this is not to say that there is not such thing as evil, just that, even when everyone else in the world can agree that someone is evil, that evil person will not think that of him/herself that way.
Uhh, wasn't guitar hero originally developed by a company in the Boston area?
wow, look what i found via one little google search: from the boston globe website
also, see the numerous other replies linking the website of the people on whom the article was reporting.
uhh, yeah, umm, you see, i was trying to be funny. i guess i should have inserted a in there to make it more obvious.
are you saying that Mac users are unemployed? and thus crave employment the way zombies in the movies crave brains? i mean, most Mac users i know have jobs, usually pretty good ones.
/.ers seem to use macs.
or maybe it's the stereotype of the mac user as the artsy humanities student who has no job prospects. but, so many
i guess there's some geeky reference in there that i just don't see...
They can team up with "Weird" Al.
Lrrr: This is ancient Earth's most foolish program. Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?
Ndnda: Perhaps they are saving that for sweeps.
This isn't news. No truism is 100% true.
including that one?
History is history, not "reality." The events of WWII are distant and abstracted enough that we can participate in a simulation of that violence in a more or less detached manner. Even games based on more modern wars are distant enough from the typical gaming audience. i refer you to the article on /. not too long ago about Iraqi gamers who no longer play war games, as it reminds them too much of the real world; American gamers, for the most part, don't know what war is like, and i imagine more than a few come home with no desire to play war games (though i'm sure more than a few come back with PSD and the like, and use such games as a way of coping).
Moreover, in a "war" game, the other people are the enemy, they "deserve" to die, or, at the very least, they have to die to defend your country, preserve your own life, etc. The people shot at Columbine were innocent victims of two adolescents' uncontrolled rage at society. A lot of people cannot fit their heads around Klebold and Harris's motivation for their rampage, and so cannot get into the character. For something similar, consider a video game based on a horror film: are you playing the part of the teenager trying to escape or are you playing the role of the killer? Though i don't know for certain that no game exists that puts you in the shoes of Freddy or Jason or Michael Myers, i'd be willing to wager that such a game is by far the exception.
For those few who can understand the motivations of those two, let's hope that they play this game and it helps them to deal with their own issues in a more positive and constructive manner.
does anybody else feel that the mention of terrorists in this article is just absofuckinglutely retarded? that anyone, for even an instant, seriously entertained the notion that any terrorist group has both the capacity and wherewithal to take out something in LEO, UNDETECTED, is beyond idiotic.
we must be living in the bizarro universe.
MacPhone.
i think that it would be a fair name. it runs OS X, so it's almost a Mac already.
Maybe they could call it something based on the name Newton.
NewtonPhone?
iNewton?
iPhoNewton?
Umm...i think they should just call it the MacPhone.
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One could argue that Christine did demonstrate a further misapplication of judgement, as she told no one where she was going and had only one companion to climb in a remote region of a foreign nation. It wasn't just the extreme sport nature of her death, there were those additional factors which the o.p. pointed out, which, some would, including myself, say merits a Darwin Award being presented to her.
A research team at the Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin managed to breed three transgenic pigs by injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs. Xinhua quoted Professor Liu Zhonghua as saying. 'The mouth, trotters and tongue of the pigs are green under ultraviolet light'."
what really happened is that kermit finally knocked up miss piggy.
someone else already addressed this above in a different thread, but i'll rehash. any flu viruses that do not have the M2 gene being targeted propagate very, very poorly. the M2 gene is strongly selected for because of this. those flu viruses that do not have this M2 will not be able to spread efficiently enough to pose any threat. at least, that's the idea.
as yet another someone pointed out, though, this is being reported by what is perhaps a not-very-reputible newspaper.
they did think of this. it's right there in the article, in fact. the vaccine targets the M2 gene, which has changed very little in the last 100 years. despite all the mutations that have taken place in the flu virus in the last 100 years, the M2 gene has not changed. that's what makes it a good spot upon which to target a vaccine.
well, there's that one guy who likes to rape penguins.
True, but Enron was so much more than messing with stock options. it was a financial shell game, shifting the company's debt from one dummy corporation to the next in order to create the illusion of profitability.
The problem is with the clause introduced by the subordinating conjunction "while." The implication of the while (in this context) is that there is an unspoken "regardless" or "nonetheless" with the independent clause. What if the sentence read like this: "While company representatives have said that Apple CEO Steve Jobs did not murder those underage thai prostitutes, Jobs has hired the services of an attorney."
so, do you see now how the sentence could be interpreted as implying Jobs' guilt?
the only movie i can think of where computers played an important role that got them really close to right is you've got mail.
maybe it's not a "computer movie," per se, but computers were an important plot element, and the use that was made of them was very close to real life.
also, i second someone's earlier mention of office space.