Cool. I don't give a shit, so I won't. And you obviously don't have a principled stand, either, because you clearly demonstrate the moronic belief that people only buy Apple products because they're shiny.
You've already got an operating system. If it's a GUI, it's got some kind of window manager.
Why are we off on this trend of creating window managers *inside* of our applications? The OS should handle this all for you.
I use tabbed browsing in Firefox on Windows, but that's because Windows is a horribly broken OS. On the Mac, which allows you a hotkey to both switch apps, AND to switch windows inside of the app, I let the OS deal with it all for me.
Obviously knows nothing about red light cameras. They trigger when you ENTER an intersection on red.
That said, even though I'm not a red-light runner, I viciously oppose these. Almost nothing good has come of them. Increased accidents, shortened yellow light times, scandals, etc. I used to think only speed cameras were bad, but I've seen the error of my ways.
Am I the only one who noticed this story tagged with "lynx"? Sure. We all know that no browser renders pages faster and with less resource overhead than lynx, but it wasn't one of the browsers being compared.
How can you talk about the "early days of the WWW" without realizing that Netscape Communicator (which you obviously reference when mentioning that "people would be creators and communicators")and other in-browser editors were middle-age for the Internet?
Those days, to me, are when browsers really began to get too bloated.
And I'm still a few years from 30. I wonder what the 30 year-old geezers on here think of your comment.
When I was growing up MSRP on most 8-bit Nintendo games was $65. I remember saving my allowance for Super Mario 3.
My XBox 360 games are $54-$59 for something BRAND NEW. Platinum hits are sometimes $30, as are year-old sports games (competing with the used market, I guess).
That $65 in 1990 dollars would be $101.90 in 2007, according to westegg.com/inflation
But the summary, some comments, and much bitching I hear on the 'tubes is that video games have gotten so expensive "these days."
Fine, argue that they shouldn't cost $60. Or maybe it was okay back then, but prices should have dropped. But don't pretend like they've gone UP.
I agree, but after looking at the pictures, I wonder why it couldn't have been made removable? I almost never remove my laptop battery and would be fine with the arrangement shown, for those rare occasions (battery swap when the old one starts showing it's age, for example).
But the battery isn't exactly a strange/unweildy shape that means a removable battery impossible. On the other hand, Apple's other notebooks (minus the Air) have removable batteries, so it's not like the company's opposed to them in principle.
Just seems strange. Maybe if I saw it in person I'd understand why it would have been difficult to make removable and still retain the same form factor for the laptop.
Unfortunately, it's just not funny. I got bored after reading the first section. It made me smile in a few places but not even an audible chuckle. It just comes off seeing angry, petty, and formulaic.
I mean, the encyclopediadramatica article on Steve Jobs is at least trying, and worthy of a laugh.
If anything, the stats are more skewed by the more-technically-inclined FF users changing their UA so that crappy websites don't break just because they fail to see the magic "IE / Windows" keywords.
Your post, it makes no sense. Have you ever used a GPS receiver? Mine almost *never* loses signal, and in the mountains you get a great signal.
And you somehow think driving in the mountains in Oregon where GPS malfunctions but you're actually in another state is a huge concern? Yet you consider people having to submit receipts and evidence for EVERY TIME THEY DRIVE OUT OF STATE to be a minor inconvenience?
Gotta love it when some dumb shit (even one with a low UID like digitalunity) trolls just so that you have to post citations to back up what is well known by anyone who actually reads the news.
The only thing less fun to drive than a tippy econobox is an under-tired tippy econobox with a few hundred pounds of battery weight tacked on for good measure.
I am sure that friend was not allowed to do a lot of other things. Sorry, you are on call, that means you are not able to go to a restaurant or movie. Tough luck. Talk to you employer for compensation.
Get a life, ass.
It's legal and bothers nobody. If all of a sudden all theaters started jamming phone calls, it would negatively impact a whole crapload of people who use their cell phone/pager responsibly and happen to want to be allowed some entertainment during their time on-call.
You propose creating a negative impact when there was none, just because you're a self-centered prick who likes to assume that on-call people are the ones creating distractions with their cell phones, and without them your life would be a distraction-free paradise.
Also, my hands move faster than I can think sometimes. When words like "there/their/they're" come along, my brain just says "there". Especially in a hurry or under stress, my brain doesn't say "WHOA there buddy. That sound can be spelled more than one way depending on the context".
This is where the amazing skill taught in school called "proofreading" kicks in. Before you click "Submit" you pause, re-read what you've written, think about it for a moment, and correct any mistakes. Conveniently, Slashdot even provides a "Preview" button to make this "proofreading" even easier:)
I don't proofread, but my brain thinks in a grammatically correct manner. I think of concepts, not sounds, so I never have the confusion of typing the wrong 'their'.
However, that does not prevent typos. I actually saw the preview before posting this and I had written "things" instead of "thinks". Common letter combinations and all...
I liked the quotes blaming the fact that "we haven't communicated the value of Vista."
But the biggest one to me was the quote from the dude who fired back about how Vista runs on much more hardware and blah blah blah. That's only a good thing to the few remaining geeks who build/upgrade their own systems yet still use Windows.
They're not viewing the issue from a consumer perspective. The consumer doesn't care how many thousands of video cards and usb-to-serial adapters the OS supports. They want to buy a computer, and use it. It wouldn't matter if Apple sold two computers, one called "Desktop" and one called "Laptop". As long as the OS does what it's supposed to do, and you can run your everyday apps, who cares?
I'm 27 years old (born in 1981). I have never known a time when it was okay to air a commercial where the woman was the incompetent party who was rescued by a man -- it's always the man who is the bumbling idiot.
This probably seems astonishing to people older than me who remember a time when it was the exact opposite. It's probably those people who are creating these commercials:)
Counting the 4 drives currently attached to my Mac Pro, I've had easily 20 hard drives in my past and current home and work machines, and only had one, an IBM Travel(death)Star die in my iBook. Actually it still works but it would make the click of death once a month and hang my box, so finally I replaced it.
Many of my systems had drives run for 5-7 years or more, long past the useful life for the disk size.
However, in college, it seemed like everyone had at least ONE laptop drive. So don't trust them laptops:)
Disk failures are relatively rare, but once you get enough spindles going, you'll start seeing 'em. At work it seems like we replace a drive once a week.
TV is actually an adition like alcohol. Try taking away the bottle from an alcoholic watch his reaction. irst he becomes combative "who the hell, give my that back". Hell do anything to get more. Same happens with TV. Try turning it off and the TV watchers first reaxtive is to be combative, then they try to turn the TV back on. TV adicts will pay anything, even $100+ a month just to watch
What the fuck is wrong with you? Is this a troll? Or is your sarcasm implementation device just broken?
If you take *anything* away from me I'll get pissed at you for TAKING MY SHIT. I pay for TV because I value the programming I get at slightly more than the amount I spend on it. Same for anything else.
"go to any bar and I will almost guarantee that the sound is way too loud and NO ONE is watching/listening."
I'm not a big bar patron but I do go to watch the occasional sporting event. I can guarantee you that the vast majority of the bar is watching and listening during that time.
Or they're managing to carry on their conversation despite the din, and using the audio on the tv to catch their attention. You can chat with your friends, and then when the announcers start yelling, you look up to see the big play. Perfect! Not everyone is so precious and sensitive to loud noises.
what I find is that they are mesmerizing. When I walk into a room with a tv on I feel the pull to look at it, as well as notice that everyone is looking at the tv like it had hyptonized them. It is much like a drug. Turning the tv off is more about breaking it's inevitable grasp on everyone's attention for at least a short time, so people look up and look around once in a while. It's not like you break the tv, it can be turned back on, and probably will be in short order.
I love slashdotters and their hypochondria.
When I want to watch TV, I watch it. When I don't want to, I don't. Life is hard.
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Cool. I don't give a shit, so I won't. And you obviously don't have a principled stand, either, because you clearly demonstrate the moronic belief that people only buy Apple products because they're shiny.
You've already got an operating system. If it's a GUI, it's got some kind of window manager.
Why are we off on this trend of creating window managers *inside* of our applications? The OS should handle this all for you.
I use tabbed browsing in Firefox on Windows, but that's because Windows is a horribly broken OS. On the Mac, which allows you a hotkey to both switch apps, AND to switch windows inside of the app, I let the OS deal with it all for me.
Obviously knows nothing about red light cameras. They trigger when you ENTER an intersection on red.
That said, even though I'm not a red-light runner, I viciously oppose these. Almost nothing good has come of them. Increased accidents, shortened yellow light times, scandals, etc. I used to think only speed cameras were bad, but I've seen the error of my ways.
Am I the only one who noticed this story tagged with "lynx"? Sure. We all know that no browser renders pages faster and with less resource overhead than lynx, but it wasn't one of the browsers being compared.
Slashdot needs a "+5, Whoosh!" mod.
How can you talk about the "early days of the WWW" without realizing that Netscape Communicator (which you obviously reference when mentioning that "people would be creators and communicators")and other in-browser editors were middle-age for the Internet?
Those days, to me, are when browsers really began to get too bloated.
And I'm still a few years from 30. I wonder what the 30 year-old geezers on here think of your comment.
When I was growing up MSRP on most 8-bit Nintendo games was $65. I remember saving my allowance for Super Mario 3.
My XBox 360 games are $54-$59 for something BRAND NEW. Platinum hits are sometimes $30, as are year-old sports games (competing with the used market, I guess).
That $65 in 1990 dollars would be $101.90 in 2007, according to westegg.com/inflation
But the summary, some comments, and much bitching I hear on the 'tubes is that video games have gotten so expensive "these days."
Fine, argue that they shouldn't cost $60. Or maybe it was okay back then, but prices should have dropped. But don't pretend like they've gone UP.
I really want to know how far a stack of paper with this much data would stretch.
I agree, but after looking at the pictures, I wonder why it couldn't have been made removable? I almost never remove my laptop battery and would be fine with the arrangement shown, for those rare occasions (battery swap when the old one starts showing it's age, for example).
But the battery isn't exactly a strange/unweildy shape that means a removable battery impossible. On the other hand, Apple's other notebooks (minus the Air) have removable batteries, so it's not like the company's opposed to them in principle.
Just seems strange. Maybe if I saw it in person I'd understand why it would have been difficult to make removable and still retain the same form factor for the laptop.
Unfortunately, it's just not funny. I got bored after reading the first section. It made me smile in a few places but not even an audible chuckle. It just comes off seeing angry, petty, and formulaic.
I mean, the encyclopediadramatica article on Steve Jobs is at least trying, and worthy of a laugh.
If anything, the stats are more skewed by the more-technically-inclined FF users changing their UA so that crappy websites don't break just because they fail to see the magic "IE / Windows" keywords.
If you drive in Oregon you're already getting screwed.
They outta tack on a sign below the "Welcome to Oregon" sign that says "License and registration, please."
Your post, it makes no sense. Have you ever used a GPS receiver? Mine almost *never* loses signal, and in the mountains you get a great signal.
And you somehow think driving in the mountains in Oregon where GPS malfunctions but you're actually in another state is a huge concern? Yet you consider people having to submit receipts and evidence for EVERY TIME THEY DRIVE OUT OF STATE to be a minor inconvenience?
Gotta love it when some dumb shit (even one with a low UID like digitalunity) trolls just so that you have to post citations to back up what is well known by anyone who actually reads the news.
It's fun to drive
The only thing less fun to drive than a tippy econobox is an under-tired tippy econobox with a few hundred pounds of battery weight tacked on for good measure.
I am sure that friend was not allowed to do a lot of other things. Sorry, you are on call, that means you are not able to go to a restaurant or movie. Tough luck. Talk to you employer for compensation.
Get a life, ass.
It's legal and bothers nobody. If all of a sudden all theaters started jamming phone calls, it would negatively impact a whole crapload of people who use their cell phone/pager responsibly and happen to want to be allowed some entertainment during their time on-call.
You propose creating a negative impact when there was none, just because you're a self-centered prick who likes to assume that on-call people are the ones creating distractions with their cell phones, and without them your life would be a distraction-free paradise.
Also, my hands move faster than I can think sometimes. When words like "there/their/they're" come along, my brain just says "there". Especially in a hurry or under stress, my brain doesn't say "WHOA there buddy. That sound can be spelled more than one way depending on the context".
This is where the amazing skill taught in school called "proofreading" kicks in. Before you click "Submit" you pause, re-read what you've written, think about it for a moment, and correct any mistakes. Conveniently, Slashdot even provides a "Preview" button to make this "proofreading" even easier :)
I don't proofread, but my brain thinks in a grammatically correct manner. I think of concepts, not sounds, so I never have the confusion of typing the wrong 'their'.
However, that does not prevent typos. I actually saw the preview before posting this and I had written "things" instead of "thinks". Common letter combinations and all...
I liked the quotes blaming the fact that "we haven't communicated the value of Vista."
But the biggest one to me was the quote from the dude who fired back about how Vista runs on much more hardware and blah blah blah. That's only a good thing to the few remaining geeks who build/upgrade their own systems yet still use Windows.
They're not viewing the issue from a consumer perspective. The consumer doesn't care how many thousands of video cards and usb-to-serial adapters the OS supports. They want to buy a computer, and use it. It wouldn't matter if Apple sold two computers, one called "Desktop" and one called "Laptop". As long as the OS does what it's supposed to do, and you can run your everyday apps, who cares?
I'm 27 years old (born in 1981). I have never known a time when it was okay to air a commercial where the woman was the incompetent party who was rescued by a man -- it's always the man who is the bumbling idiot.
This probably seems astonishing to people older than me who remember a time when it was the exact opposite. It's probably those people who are creating these commercials :)
Counting the 4 drives currently attached to my Mac Pro, I've had easily 20 hard drives in my past and current home and work machines, and only had one, an IBM Travel(death)Star die in my iBook. Actually it still works but it would make the click of death once a month and hang my box, so finally I replaced it.
Many of my systems had drives run for 5-7 years or more, long past the useful life for the disk size.
However, in college, it seemed like everyone had at least ONE laptop drive. So don't trust them laptops :)
Disk failures are relatively rare, but once you get enough spindles going, you'll start seeing 'em. At work it seems like we replace a drive once a week.
TV is actually an adition like alcohol. Try taking away the bottle from an alcoholic watch his reaction. irst he becomes combative "who the hell, give my that back". Hell do anything to get more. Same happens with TV. Try turning it off and the TV watchers first reaxtive is to be combative, then they try to turn the TV back on. TV adicts will pay anything, even $100+ a month just to watch
What the fuck is wrong with you? Is this a troll? Or is your sarcasm implementation device just broken?
If you take *anything* away from me I'll get pissed at you for TAKING MY SHIT. I pay for TV because I value the programming I get at slightly more than the amount I spend on it. Same for anything else.
"go to any bar and I will almost guarantee that the sound is way too loud and NO ONE is watching/listening."
I'm not a big bar patron but I do go to watch the occasional sporting event. I can guarantee you that the vast majority of the bar is watching and listening during that time.
Or they're managing to carry on their conversation despite the din, and using the audio on the tv to catch their attention. You can chat with your friends, and then when the announcers start yelling, you look up to see the big play. Perfect! Not everyone is so precious and sensitive to loud noises.
what I find is that they are mesmerizing. When I walk into a room with a tv on I feel the pull to look at it, as well as notice that everyone is looking at the tv like it had hyptonized them. It is much like a drug. Turning the tv off is more about breaking it's inevitable grasp on everyone's attention for at least a short time, so people look up and look around once in a while. It's not like you break the tv, it can be turned back on, and probably will be in short order.
I love slashdotters and their hypochondria.
When I want to watch TV, I watch it. When I don't want to, I don't. Life is hard.
bwa ha ha.... my Coffee-B-Gone works!
OK, now THAT little device is definately going to lead to bloodshed. :)
Aha! It seems my Blood-B-Gone plans are coming together nicely!
UGH! Coffee not working yet.
That should have been THE BLIND!
I'll go now...
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. SPEAK LOUDER, I'M DEAF!
Last time I checked, porn was not illegal.