What else do you use a $999 video card for that's not gaming?
Sure, there are people who use CAD and scientific visualization stuff and all that jazz. I guarantee you: Those four people aren't keeping the market for high-end video cards going.
It's hard for me to understand how you could have a powerful, flexible system that doesn't allow the user to do stuff by clicking on things.
Is there really a substantive difference between downloading a file and saying "Yes, I want to run this" and downloading a file and double clicking on it?
You're absolutely right: Users need to not download harmful things. The OS should, to the largest degree possible, protect them from downloading harmful things.
But, the user must be the boss. If user says "jump!" computer should say "how high?" even if that's a Bad Idea.
I don't know how to reconcile this. I'm certainly not one of the people who (foolishly) think that OSX is impregnable to malware. Unfortunately, there IS a critical security hole in any system, and it's sitting between the keyboard and the chair.
If you think you're getting a cutting-edge computer for $500, you're high.
"Tiger isn't' even a real 64bit OS"
Nobody cares. Making it have more bits will not make things faster. It is indeed helpful for addressing large amounts of memory, and for doing certain kinds of math. There are four people on earth who do that sort of math, and G5's can handle enormous piles of RAM.
" Microsoft can take a tri-core G5 based CPU and put it a Video Game Console"
Where can I buy one of these marvelous tri-core Microsoft game boxes?
I don't even know why I bother. If you don't like Apple, please please please never buy one. Me? I won't buy anything else. I fix PCs all day long. I like coming home to a machine that works. My Powerbook was a killer deal, and I am a happy customer. Is that OK with you?
No, I don't like the choices I've had in any election since I started paying attention to them, so I'm thinking that something might need some work.
I could write for days on the problems with the current system, but it wouldn't do any good.
The solution is a new nation with a new Constitution, incorporating the best ideas we've developed over the last 200 years and discarding the ones that didn't work.
The fact that I cannot vote in a national election without tacitly approving the removal of my civil liberties.
I can vote Republican. They oppose a big whack of the Constitution.
Or I can vote Democrat, who although they only outright oppose the 2nd amendment, they seem pretty willing to roll over for the Republicans on the rest of them.
Neither of these scenarios are acceptable. Third parties are not viable (by design). Hence, my objection.
And as long as the Republicans and the Democrats control the ballot, the Greens, Libertarians, and Reformers will continue to be non-issues in American political life.
The two-party system isn't much better than a one-party system, and I think it's totally unacceptable.
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Hold on.
You've got three computers on a LAN. What's the difference between that and having three consoles on a LAN?
Why can't your wife play games on Yahoo while you're fragging away on your console?
I mean, sure, there are games I like better on PCs than on consoles, but your reasons don't make a lot of sense to me.
What else do you use a $999 video card for that's not gaming?
Sure, there are people who use CAD and scientific visualization stuff and all that jazz. I guarantee you: Those four people aren't keeping the market for high-end video cards going.
It's hard for me to understand how you could have a powerful, flexible system that doesn't allow the user to do stuff by clicking on things.
Is there really a substantive difference between downloading a file and saying "Yes, I want to run this" and downloading a file and double clicking on it?
You're absolutely right: Users need to not download harmful things. The OS should, to the largest degree possible, protect them from downloading harmful things.
But, the user must be the boss. If user says "jump!" computer should say "how high?" even if that's a Bad Idea.
I don't know how to reconcile this. I'm certainly not one of the people who (foolishly) think that OSX is impregnable to malware. Unfortunately, there IS a critical security hole in any system, and it's sitting between the keyboard and the chair.
Could you please explain why? Maybe without shouting?
"What I would like to see is a book that skips all the fluff that we've seen before and goes straight to browser bugs."
That'd be a different book for every instance of the class "we". Unless you've got some kind of hive-mind action going on over there, Locutus.
Three aboard Apollo 1, 14 in the Shuttle accidents...
I'm missing one. Care to fill me in?
How much would taxes have to be raised? $.0000003? I think I can swing that.
If you're the sort of person who bases their own conclusions on what other people think, you're right.
If you're not, you're not.
Everyone is free to speak. Nobody speaks for me, except me. Anybody who says different is spoiling for a fight.
"How is this innovative or cutting edge"
If you think you're getting a cutting-edge computer for $500, you're high.
"Tiger isn't' even a real 64bit OS"
Nobody cares. Making it have more bits will not make things faster. It is indeed helpful for addressing large amounts of memory, and for doing certain kinds of math. There are four people on earth who do that sort of math, and G5's can handle enormous piles of RAM.
" Microsoft can take a tri-core G5 based CPU and put it a Video Game Console"
Where can I buy one of these marvelous tri-core Microsoft game boxes?
I don't even know why I bother. If you don't like Apple, please please please never buy one. Me? I won't buy anything else. I fix PCs all day long. I like coming home to a machine that works. My Powerbook was a killer deal, and I am a happy customer. Is that OK with you?
" built-in FireWire controller is more likely to support this than a PCI card."
That kind of guesswork is exactly why Apple is still in business.
I'll take your word for it, because I haven't the vaguest idea how to measure the performance of an ovvice machine.
Well gosh, I personally know a "spate" of people who have bought minis and are completely satisfied.
If they need more storage space, its' ridiculously easy to add. Or, it works fine right out of the box.
"People seem to be buying these things as fashion accessories"
Do you have anything other than your own prejudices to base this statement on?
No, I don't like the choices I've had in any election since I started paying attention to them, so I'm thinking that something might need some work.
I could write for days on the problems with the current system, but it wouldn't do any good.
The solution is a new nation with a new Constitution, incorporating the best ideas we've developed over the last 200 years and discarding the ones that didn't work.
And that is why I want to get off this rock.
Maybe I'm a chicken, but I'm not investing in any business plan that requires security forces to see threats from miles away.
Mad Max anyone?
"What specifically is your objection anyway?"
The fact that I cannot vote in a national election without tacitly approving the removal of my civil liberties.
I can vote Republican. They oppose a big whack of the Constitution.
Or I can vote Democrat, who although they only outright oppose the 2nd amendment, they seem pretty willing to roll over for the Republicans on the rest of them.
Neither of these scenarios are acceptable. Third parties are not viable (by design). Hence, my objection.
Conversely, getting paid to do it does not absolve you of moral responsibility for your actions.
Right, because the authorities would totally not blow them off or anything.
My Wavebird for GameCube and the new Logitech controller for PS2 are both superb.
So, um, how do you use a WaveBird on an xbox? I'm curious.
Really? Who says?
And as long as the Republicans and the Democrats control the ballot, the Greens, Libertarians, and Reformers will continue to be non-issues in American political life.
The two-party system isn't much better than a one-party system, and I think it's totally unacceptable.
Old fashioned pirates have ships and cannons and eye patches and parrots. I don't have any of those things.
So those who disapprove of the Parties' lock on national politics are neatly disenfranchised, and that's just "too bad" in your book?
Yes, I agree with you, that's exactly what happens. That is precisely the problem.
What does "need" have to do with it? I don't "need" anything other than food, water, air, and the occasional roof over my head.
I'm so far up Maslow's hierarchy of needs, it ain't even funny.