I know what you mean. I hate trying to learn from the experience of other people. It's much more efficient for me to make every mistake on my own.
Dude. It's not like the poster listed his Visa number and said "Hey! Use this to spend my money and send what you need!" He was soliciting the experience of other people. One might be so bold as to assume that poster will then exercise CRITICAL THINKING in making his purchasing decision, having gathered sufficient information to make wise choices.
Oh, wait, but that doesn't fit into the model of "everybody except sirmikester is a mindless sheep."
Yeah, because the only reason you could possibly think the iPod is a compact, useful, reasonably priced external hard drive that also plays MP3s is because you're an Apple marketing drone.
Just because it's not the right solution for you doesn't mean that nobody else should like them. Ass.
Er, a useful answer for "What laptop accessories do I need?" does not include "Don't buy a laptop."
If you think that your laptop doesn't operate in a dangerous environment, I'd like to know what color the sky is on your planet. I wouldn't even consider an extended warranty for anything other than a laptop, but for a computer that is going to be on my person almost all the time, it's cheap cheap cheap insurance.
The question is not what PC marketshare overall looks like. The question is what the Palm userbase marketshare looks like. The percentage of Mac users who also use Palms is much greater than the percentage of Mac users versus PC users.
I can't cite a number, but I think that a pretty conservative estimate would be about a third of Palm's current users are Mac users.
Yeah, because changing a bunch of field names in a fucking database would take all of, what? Four minutes?
What a lame excuse. OK, so they're trying to sell out to Microsoft. (How that's a good strategy when Microsoft is their primary competitor, I'll never know. Guess you have to be an MBA to figure that out.) But trying to pretend like rearranging the data fields is why it's oh so hard to make Mac sync work is, well, stupid.
Address Book's inability to sync contact categories killed it for me. I love the idea, but the implementation...lacking.
And Palm Desktop is just fine, IMO. There are a few things I'd like to see, but by and large it's great. Too bad it's not going to continue on OSX.
What a lame excuse. "We're abandoning one of our core markets so we can be more buzzword compliant with our biggest competitor." Trying to out-Microsoft Microsoft is raw idiocy.
No, the poster took a cheap stab at American public schools. It was not germane to the story at hand. I don't have any particular love for the public education system, but thinking that it is somehow responsible for the poster's ignorance is just ridiculous.
If you know how to read, you can learn. If you don't know how to read, don't post to/. It's not that complicated.
I'm VERY well informed, because I love to learn. I don't think I'm at all superior, but I do take issue with people who don't take responsibility for their own shortcomings. (My own are LEGION.)
School's job is not to tell you everything that's ever happened. School's job is to give you the tools you need to find things out. I got those tools. You did not. The fact that we both got an "American" education is irrelevant.
Quit blaming your ignorance on your teachers. Start paying more attention to what they had to work with.
Use the right tool for the job. Or be an inferior craftsman.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both. Penis measuring contests are irrelevant.
"analogue will rule again" indeed. Art has never stopped ruling. Craft has never been more valuable, or flexible, or powerful, or relevant. Your paradigm is broken.
WHO CARES? I don't care if the data I receive is ones and zeroes or an oil painting. Both are useful media. Some are more well suited to certain tasks. Smart people know and understand that the medium is not, in fact, the message. The message is the message, and the author of the message chooses the most appropriate medium.
What, did a digital device kick your dog and steal your lunch money? Come on.
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I know what you mean. I hate trying to learn from the experience of other people. It's much more efficient for me to make every mistake on my own.
Dude. It's not like the poster listed his Visa number and said "Hey! Use this to spend my money and send what you need!" He was soliciting the experience of other people. One might be so bold as to assume that poster will then exercise CRITICAL THINKING in making his purchasing decision, having gathered sufficient information to make wise choices.
Oh, wait, but that doesn't fit into the model of "everybody except sirmikester is a mindless sheep."
Silly me.
Uh, maybe I'd connect an external floppy drive. Utter madness, I know...
Yeah, because the only reason you could possibly think the iPod is a compact, useful, reasonably priced external hard drive that also plays MP3s is because you're an Apple marketing drone.
Just because it's not the right solution for you doesn't mean that nobody else should like them. Ass.
I think you need to invest in a good dictionary. Implant it into your brain.
Whoever told you that spelling doesn't matter was wrong.
Ummm, one answer might be "Because there are more instances of power outlets on Earth than there are of my PC." But maybe I'm crazy.
Er, a useful answer for "What laptop accessories do I need?" does not include "Don't buy a laptop."
If you think that your laptop doesn't operate in a dangerous environment, I'd like to know what color the sky is on your planet. I wouldn't even consider an extended warranty for anything other than a laptop, but for a computer that is going to be on my person almost all the time, it's cheap cheap cheap insurance.
I've never "baugh" anything at all.
The person who told you that spelling doesn't matter was wrong.
I wonder who's responsible for these stupid screen resolution acronyms.
"Wicked Ultra X-Treme Graphics Array"...wow. How l33t.
Yeah. The same press release announced that MS has appointed the Tooth Fairy as the chief technology officer.
Cobalt is PalmOS 6. Your Visor has PalmOS 3.51 (or so). So yeah. You're a caveman. : )
(I love my Visor too!)
OK, if I could get the NotePad app to sync with Stickies, I'd make a Sticky in my pants.
That would be way way way cool.
No, see, Mac users like GOOD user interface.
*dons asbestos unda-wears*
Well there's a really stupid idea.
Microsoft thinks that PDAs should be like teeny desktop computers. They're wrong, which is why their UI sucks so much worse than Palm's.
A PDA is not just a computer with a small screen. It has a different set of tasks. Until now, I thought Palm understood this.
You're ignoring the fact that a disproportionate number of Mac users are also Palm users. (Or, a significant number of Palm users own Macs)
But don't let me get in the way of your rant.
The question is not what PC marketshare overall looks like. The question is what the Palm userbase marketshare looks like. The percentage of Mac users who also use Palms is much greater than the percentage of Mac users versus PC users.
I can't cite a number, but I think that a pretty conservative estimate would be about a third of Palm's current users are Mac users.
Yeah, because changing a bunch of field names in a fucking database would take all of, what? Four minutes?
What a lame excuse. OK, so they're trying to sell out to Microsoft. (How that's a good strategy when Microsoft is their primary competitor, I'll never know. Guess you have to be an MBA to figure that out.) But trying to pretend like rearranging the data fields is why it's oh so hard to make Mac sync work is, well, stupid.
Address Book's inability to sync contact categories killed it for me. I love the idea, but the implementation...lacking.
And Palm Desktop is just fine, IMO. There are a few things I'd like to see, but by and large it's great. Too bad it's not going to continue on OSX.
What a lame excuse. "We're abandoning one of our core markets so we can be more buzzword compliant with our biggest competitor." Trying to out-Microsoft Microsoft is raw idiocy.
No, the poster took a cheap stab at American public schools. It was not germane to the story at hand. I don't have any particular love for the public education system, but thinking that it is somehow responsible for the poster's ignorance is just ridiculous.
/. It's not that complicated.
If you know how to read, you can learn. If you don't know how to read, don't post to
I'm VERY well informed, because I love to learn. I don't think I'm at all superior, but I do take issue with people who don't take responsibility for their own shortcomings. (My own are LEGION.)
Your ex-girlfriend was in Hamlet?! She wins all-time greatest cradle robber EVER.
OK, so make it a line item I can select against. I don't care for professional sports, and I don't like subsidizing other peoples' ESPN jones.
That's fair, right? Let the people who watch the channel bear the usurious prices levied by the professional sports leagues.
I'm curious. What do people use? I like the idea of Address Book and iCal, but there are still a lot of compatibility warts there.
What do MacOS X users prefer?
Just for that, I'm building a gun into a MagLite.
I went to American public schools.
I knew that Russians had put rovers on the moon.
School's job is not to tell you everything that's ever happened. School's job is to give you the tools you need to find things out. I got those tools. You did not. The fact that we both got an "American" education is irrelevant.
Quit blaming your ignorance on your teachers. Start paying more attention to what they had to work with.
Again.
Who cares?
Use the right tool for the job. Or be an inferior craftsman.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both. Penis measuring contests are irrelevant.
"analogue will rule again" indeed. Art has never stopped ruling. Craft has never been more valuable, or flexible, or powerful, or relevant. Your paradigm is broken.
Why oh why is this a meaningful dichotomy?
WHO CARES? I don't care if the data I receive is ones and zeroes or an oil painting. Both are useful media. Some are more well suited to certain tasks. Smart people know and understand that the medium is not, in fact, the message. The message is the message, and the author of the message chooses the most appropriate medium.
What, did a digital device kick your dog and steal your lunch money? Come on.