My only issue is codifying YOUR religious beliefs in law.
I'm in favor of cutting the Gordian knot. I think there should be no (not any, zero) State sanctioning or involvement with marriage. No tax breaks (except for children, whose legal guardianship can be established). No tax hikes.
Want survivor benefits? Sign a contract. Want child support if the relationship dissolves? Sign a contract. Want social security benefits? (yeah, right...it's pretty to think...) Sign a contract.
The State should not be in the social engineering business. The State should be performing the minimum possible actions to maintain a civil society, not deciding who is allowed to put which naughty bits where.
You should be free to disapprove of the homosexual lifestyle. Others should be free to practice whatever lifestyle they wish, even though you labor under the misapprehension that they're "wrong" or "deviant".
I don't think it's disingenuous at all. There is NO DIFFERENCE between a Tivo and a computer, apart from the user interface. If the user interface is geared towards recording and watching video, there's no "psychological aversion" to watching programming on a computer.
Apple is taking baby steps. They're not making Huge Revolutionary Steps, because the last company that did that (Tivo) is getting jacked by the content owners and the cable companies. I think Apple's caution is very wise.
Is the current remote/Front Row/iMac combination going to replace Aunt Tillie's VCR? Obviously not.
But, it is a proof-of-concept, and it's easy to imagine Apple adding functionality until it can, and will.
Or maybe I'm wrong and you're right...but I don't think so.
Bummer. I don't know what the heck is going on, because there are three (Three!) Apple stores within a half hour drive of my house, and one's walking distance from work.
Not sure what their deployment strategy is, but Apple sure likes Portland, OR...
I actually used IE on my Mac, because a) Netscape changed their keymapping to something byzantine, and didn't give me the option to change it back, and b) IE was faster and more stable.
Seriously: I never had much problem with Classic. I really liked the UI. In many ways, I prefer it to OSX's UI.
In my experience, Apple's technology has always been excellent. YMMV.
That's too bad. I just took mine into the Apple Store with a faulty hard drive, and (although it's three months out of warranty) they handed me a new one.
I've never owned such an Apple product, and I've had Macs for 15 years. My Performa 6115 had uptimes measured in months. Yeah, yeah, you've got a BSD box that's been up and running since the Jurassic period...whatever. Classic MacOS was plenty stable enough.
I never had an issue with manually allocating RAM to programs. I actually thought that was a feature, not a bug...
And, if your only option here is to talk about MacOS 9 and previous, I think your argument isn't very strong...
If my Treo 650 were made by Apple, it would a) crash less and b) not have idiotic memory management.
I think the Treo is the best smartphone out there, but there are some serious issues I have with the thing. I would welcome Apple's competition in this market, particularly since Palm has now surrendered to Microsoft.
And that only took them, what? Twelve years to fix? I'm certain they'll have made some equally stupid engineering decisions more recently...I'm just talking about the ones that make my daily existence a living hell.
Do some research my ass..NET framework, my ass. Make a decent operating system, you silly twit.
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"I am free to bash, discredit and spread hate and religious intolerance?"
You don't even have to write books. You are free to speak your mind, period. That's a feature, not a bug.
So anybody who writes 'coming of age' tales is a pederast?
"he tends to miss how truly powerful the US Constitution is in our law"
Well, he's not alone there. Most Congressbeasts miss that too.
My only issue is codifying YOUR religious beliefs in law.
I'm in favor of cutting the Gordian knot. I think there should be no (not any, zero) State sanctioning or involvement with marriage. No tax breaks (except for children, whose legal guardianship can be established). No tax hikes.
Want survivor benefits? Sign a contract. Want child support if the relationship dissolves? Sign a contract. Want social security benefits? (yeah, right...it's pretty to think...) Sign a contract.
The State should not be in the social engineering business. The State should be performing the minimum possible actions to maintain a civil society, not deciding who is allowed to put which naughty bits where.
You should be free to disapprove of the homosexual lifestyle. Others should be free to practice whatever lifestyle they wish, even though you labor under the misapprehension that they're "wrong" or "deviant".
Why does it have to be groundbreaking in order to be worthwhile?
I don't think it's disingenuous at all. There is NO DIFFERENCE between a Tivo and a computer, apart from the user interface. If the user interface is geared towards recording and watching video, there's no "psychological aversion" to watching programming on a computer.
Apple is taking baby steps. They're not making Huge Revolutionary Steps, because the last company that did that (Tivo) is getting jacked by the content owners and the cable companies. I think Apple's caution is very wise.
Is the current remote/Front Row/iMac combination going to replace Aunt Tillie's VCR? Obviously not.
But, it is a proof-of-concept, and it's easy to imagine Apple adding functionality until it can, and will.
Or maybe I'm wrong and you're right...but I don't think so.
Everybody says that, but they sure don't seem any more prevalent than any other city I've visited...
Now, there's LOTS of strip clubs, that's for sure...
I think you've got it. Wouldn't it be nice if the FCC did too?
I sure like that Finnish system. I really loathe the way the carriers hold their users hostage.
I still totally fail to understand this psychological aversion. A Tivo is a computer. Do people have a psychological aversion to using Tivos?
Bummer. I don't know what the heck is going on, because there are three (Three!) Apple stores within a half hour drive of my house, and one's walking distance from work.
Not sure what their deployment strategy is, but Apple sure likes Portland, OR...
So? As long as they keep me happy, their labeling scheme is irrelevant to me.
Betcha anything that Apple's just waiting for Cable Card to be widely deployed. No sense putting an RF modulator in your nice digital media center...
"people tend to have a psychological aversion to watching TV on the computer"
Really? A psychological aversion? Where's that in the DSM-IV?
"definitely not the monitor de jure"
I'm pretty sure that "de jure" isn't even the same language as the phrase you're looking for...
I actually used IE on my Mac, because a) Netscape changed their keymapping to something byzantine, and didn't give me the option to change it back, and b) IE was faster and more stable.
Seriously: I never had much problem with Classic. I really liked the UI. In many ways, I prefer it to OSX's UI.
In my experience, Apple's technology has always been excellent. YMMV.
Oooh, yeah, I haven't gotten a cut down like that since, like, fourth grade. I cry. I bleed. I think you're rather pathetic.
ABC is not public television.
That's too bad. I just took mine into the Apple Store with a faulty hard drive, and (although it's three months out of warranty) they handed me a new one.
Did you ask them to fix it?
I've never owned such an Apple product, and I've had Macs for 15 years. My Performa 6115 had uptimes measured in months. Yeah, yeah, you've got a BSD box that's been up and running since the Jurassic period...whatever. Classic MacOS was plenty stable enough.
I never had an issue with manually allocating RAM to programs. I actually thought that was a feature, not a bug...
And, if your only option here is to talk about MacOS 9 and previous, I think your argument isn't very strong...
If my Treo 650 were made by Apple, it would a) crash less and b) not have idiotic memory management.
I think the Treo is the best smartphone out there, but there are some serious issues I have with the thing. I would welcome Apple's competition in this market, particularly since Palm has now surrendered to Microsoft.
Guess I'm smarter than whoever started that rumor, because I'm pretty sure that simple generalizations about smartness are pretty inaccurate.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
And that only took them, what? Twelve years to fix? I'm certain they'll have made some equally stupid engineering decisions more recently...I'm just talking about the ones that make my daily existence a living hell.
.NET framework, my ass. Make a decent operating system, you silly twit.
Do some research my ass.
Wow. I can see how well enlightenment has worked for you.
Thanks, I'll pass.
Do you understand the difference between traveling, and looking at travel books?
The reason to explore space is to find a place to go, not to collect photographs.
"Are you Omnipitent?"
Nope. But neither is Mr. Bush.
"Do you happen to be under the mistaken impression that you are one iota as informed as our president?"
I'm 100% certain that I'm smarter and more honest than he is...