I wonder why people think that. When is Hollywood going to stop treating people like they're stupid? I know it's popular to think that everybody except yourself is a mouth breathing idiot, but we really need to get past that.
People are smart. Treat them that way. They'll like it, and buy stuff from you.
If and when Linux gets any momentum on consumer desktops it may be in Apple's interest to serve that market.
Right now that "market" consists of a bunch of Linux geeks who will picket Apple's doorstep because iTunes isn't open source/uses the wrong window manager/took away their lollypop/peed in their Cheerios.
Why should Apple even bother? Where is the win? What advantage would they garner?
Either I didn't make myself clear, or you didn't understand.
DSL, no matter who I get it from, is unacceptably slow. I used it for a while, and I was doing VERY WELL to get 128 down. Upstream? Fuhgeddaboutit. 64k MAYBE.
The quality of my DSL is bad. It's been bad for four years. The telco DOES NOT CARE, because they're a monopoly and they face no competition, save from the cable company which (luckily for me) does not suck.
If the cable company starts sucking, I have no options. "Buy a T1" is not a viable option, since frankly I don't have the expertise to run it efficiently and profitably as a co-op. Nor do I have any desire to do so.
I would like to be a consumer, choosing from a variety of competitively priced home broadband solutions. That is simply not the case in my area, therefore, in my area, the market is not free.
Fair enough. I watched this movie with some friends, and with my dad, and with my friend's dad. Both of the gentlemen from a previous generation seemed to remember this movie being good, but on watching it again, there was just no there there.
I really don't get it. What was appealing about the film? Two generic cops, chasing a generic McGuffin, having generic car chases...
I mean, maybe I'm jaded, (and, more to the point, maybe I've seen all the cop movies for which French Connection was the prototype) but that movie has nothing on (say) Ronin, which gives you TWO of the greatest car chases in cinema history for your movie dollar.
You're kidding, right? I was surprised...by HOW BIG A TURD THAT MOVIE WAS.
Would you please explain to me, in small words, why people think that was a good movie? I keep thinking I missed something...and then I think "Oh yeah! I missed the part when the movie DIDN'T SUCK!".
Yeah, because business desktops and engineering workstations are right in the middle of iTunes' target audience.
Get over it. Apple is not going to do your bidding. There will be a Linux client if and when Apple percieves that to be in their interest. Right now, it's not.
I am SO GLAD I'm not as big of a fanboy as you are.
Starship Troopers wrecked its source material. Lord of the Rings did not. I can still read the books and love them, and I can still enjoy the vision Jackson gave me.
On one of the aerial shots pulling into Edoras' Great Hall, the smoke is going into the chimneys, and the flags are blowing backwards. The shot was obviously done as a pull-out, and it was reversed to become a pull-in. It looked really weird to me until I figured out what was going on.
Look, if there were a monopoly on cars, and you said "Well, tough! The market says that there's a monopoly, so I guess you need to go buy a train!", I'd laugh at you.
This is the same thing.
There is no free market. The market forces are not at work. So, therefore, telling consumers "Suck it up! Pay more money to the phone company, and like it." is not acceptable.
First, let me say that I'm a "Kick the tires, light the fires, let's go fly!" sort of guy. I don't know a hell of a lot about the weirdo drive ideas that are being developed right now.
However, I'm given to understand that the ionized fuel is accelerated by a magnetic field, and thrown out the back of the space ship. The premise is exactly the same as a rocket engine: By throwing mass out the back end, you are accelerated forward. Conservation of momentum is at work, yo.
As far as how the ions are extracted, I'm not sure. Electricity is involved. I'll hunt around and see if I can find anything, and I'll post it here.
Yes, I do. However, my parent's poster was lamenting lack of knowledge of a specific and (for purposes of a WHOLE LOT of discussions) trivial fact.
That's not to say that General Yeager's accomplishment is trivial...far from it. Watching The Right Stuff was one thing that motivated me to start learning about the science and art of aviation. However, to somebody without a particular interest in aviation, that is not a useful or important fact.
Concepts and timelines and gestalt are far more important than dates and facts. My favourite history teachers understood this, and taught that way.
I don't know the name of the first doctor to perform any number of amazingly useful surgeries. I don't think that makes me any less well-educated (particularly since I am totally confident I could find that data anytime I felt I needed it).
The information is readily available for anybody with an interest. School shouldn't be about filling your head with facts, but about encouraging you to study things that you're interested in.
For me, that's airplanes. For other people, maybe musical theater. It's all good.
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Er, I've seen RotK twice.
Sauron never appeared.
What are you talking about?
I liked them both, for different reasons. I really enjoyed comparing and contrasting the two approaches to the story.
I just about wet myself on both, when the little girl came to talk to the ex-husband, right there towards the end.
Y'all know what I'm talking about.
Skeeved. Me. Out.
In that case, I malign it for its evil hellspawn children.
Scratch that. Evil hellspawn would make a good movie. Boring car chases are just...boring.
Bathe her, and bring her to me.
OK, forget about bathing. I'll put up with it.
Yeah, because if you can't get a job, it's a good idea to lie.
Fuck that.
You and the other four like-minded Linux users do not justify the tremendous expense of porting QuickTime.
Where is Apple's interest in supporting Linux users? There aren't enough of them who buy lots of music to be worthwhile...
Gosh. When the movie poster says:
Tom Cruise
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Last Samurai
I wonder why people think that. When is Hollywood going to stop treating people like they're stupid? I know it's popular to think that everybody except yourself is a mouth breathing idiot, but we really need to get past that.
People are smart. Treat them that way. They'll like it, and buy stuff from you.
What does that have to do with Apple's interests?
If and when Linux gets any momentum on consumer desktops it may be in Apple's interest to serve that market.
Right now that "market" consists of a bunch of Linux geeks who will picket Apple's doorstep because iTunes isn't open source/uses the wrong window manager/took away their lollypop/peed in their Cheerios.
Why should Apple even bother? Where is the win? What advantage would they garner?
Either I didn't make myself clear, or you didn't understand.
DSL, no matter who I get it from, is unacceptably slow. I used it for a while, and I was doing VERY WELL to get 128 down. Upstream? Fuhgeddaboutit. 64k MAYBE.
The quality of my DSL is bad. It's been bad for four years. The telco DOES NOT CARE, because they're a monopoly and they face no competition, save from the cable company which (luckily for me) does not suck.
If the cable company starts sucking, I have no options. "Buy a T1" is not a viable option, since frankly I don't have the expertise to run it efficiently and profitably as a co-op. Nor do I have any desire to do so.
I would like to be a consumer, choosing from a variety of competitively priced home broadband solutions. That is simply not the case in my area, therefore, in my area, the market is not free.
Fair enough. I watched this movie with some friends, and with my dad, and with my friend's dad. Both of the gentlemen from a previous generation seemed to remember this movie being good, but on watching it again, there was just no there there.
I really don't get it. What was appealing about the film? Two generic cops, chasing a generic McGuffin, having generic car chases...
I mean, maybe I'm jaded, (and, more to the point, maybe I've seen all the cop movies for which French Connection was the prototype) but that movie has nothing on (say) Ronin, which gives you TWO of the greatest car chases in cinema history for your movie dollar.
And that hot Irish chick.
The French Connection?
You're kidding, right? I was surprised...by HOW BIG A TURD THAT MOVIE WAS.
Would you please explain to me, in small words, why people think that was a good movie? I keep thinking I missed something...and then I think "Oh yeah! I missed the part when the movie DIDN'T SUCK!".
And there was NO car chase in that damn flick.
Yeah, because business desktops and engineering workstations are right in the middle of iTunes' target audience.
Get over it. Apple is not going to do your bidding. There will be a Linux client if and when Apple percieves that to be in their interest. Right now, it's not.
I am SO GLAD I'm not as big of a fanboy as you are.
Starship Troopers wrecked its source material. Lord of the Rings did not. I can still read the books and love them, and I can still enjoy the vision Jackson gave me.
On one of the aerial shots pulling into Edoras' Great Hall, the smoke is going into the chimneys, and the flags are blowing backwards. The shot was obviously done as a pull-out, and it was reversed to become a pull-in. It looked really weird to me until I figured out what was going on.
Look, if there were a monopoly on cars, and you said "Well, tough! The market says that there's a monopoly, so I guess you need to go buy a train!", I'd laugh at you.
This is the same thing.
There is no free market. The market forces are not at work. So, therefore, telling consumers "Suck it up! Pay more money to the phone company, and like it." is not acceptable.
First, let me say that I'm a "Kick the tires, light the fires, let's go fly!" sort of guy. I don't know a hell of a lot about the weirdo drive ideas that are being developed right now.
However, I'm given to understand that the ionized fuel is accelerated by a magnetic field, and thrown out the back of the space ship. The premise is exactly the same as a rocket engine: By throwing mass out the back end, you are accelerated forward. Conservation of momentum is at work, yo.
As far as how the ions are extracted, I'm not sure. Electricity is involved. I'll hunt around and see if I can find anything, and I'll post it here.
What, exactly, was offensive about the post? The poster wasn't rude or snarky, just ignorant.
Can't tell you how many things I'm ignorant about. Those are the things I like to ask questions about.
Yes, I do. However, my parent's poster was lamenting lack of knowledge of a specific and (for purposes of a WHOLE LOT of discussions) trivial fact.
That's not to say that General Yeager's accomplishment is trivial...far from it. Watching The Right Stuff was one thing that motivated me to start learning about the science and art of aviation. However, to somebody without a particular interest in aviation, that is not a useful or important fact.
Concepts and timelines and gestalt are far more important than dates and facts. My favourite history teachers understood this, and taught that way.
Then the teachers, and the administrators, and the parents, aren't doing their job. It's as simple as that.
It's the first step. See the Mercury Redstone rocket launches.
I happen to believe it's stuck in black projects we don't know about yet.
But, it amounts to the same thing.
You're not too far wrong. It's a weird lookin' bird. : )
The Wrights didn't patent an invention. Their patent was interpreted to cover any method of controlling the lateral stability of an aircraft.
Even if somebody used a totally different, fundamentally better mechanism for accomplishing that aim, they were successfully sued by the Wrights.
That's bad.
I don't know the name of the first doctor to perform any number of amazingly useful surgeries. I don't think that makes me any less well-educated (particularly since I am totally confident I could find that data anytime I felt I needed it).
The information is readily available for anybody with an interest. School shouldn't be about filling your head with facts, but about encouraging you to study things that you're interested in.
For me, that's airplanes. For other people, maybe musical theater. It's all good.
Can I help you?