Yay! you've supported your point by the 1 in 5000 users here that don't know Office has been avaiable for Macs for years. Does this make MACs more relevant? Or just support the Microsoft platform, and feed the monster.
Mac User 1: "Coke sucks! Screw them!" Mac User 2: "Yeah I only buy iCoke! That will show them!" Bill Gates: [Grins]
Apparently Slashdot editors, themselves being unable to intelligently filter articles, have found it difficult to differentiate between robots and humans.
Perhaps the first signs of Skynet taking over is not the rise of android intelligence, but the deterioration of human intelligence! We are all doomed!
So our current C02 levels were caused by climate changes that never happened 900 years ago? Causation can never be proven, but that doesn't mean we should bury our heads for 9 decades and see if you're right.
And you clearly don't address the significant drop in pirates, and this near perfect negative correlation with global warming..... Have you ever even SEEN a real pirate? Eh? Have you?
Hey did I miss the memo where "Balls" moved to outrank "Nipple" in the international naughty word list?
And if you're talking about someone showing nipples, AND having balls, AND those balls being grabbed, well my friend, you've already well crossed the line into.... something not quite normal.
"ATI's products tend to be miserably supported" Oh tell me more, NVIDIA fanboy! Tell me a opposing tale of the wonderful NVIDIA happy land, with a gumdrop house on lollipop lane!
"A single image on one of those pages could require more RAM than what the entire program is consuming. That's way, way off." Not if you READ the article and use MB.
"Opera actually consumes LESS ram with 6 pages loaded than when it first starts up!" All the others increased in footprint. I'm sure Opera must have another thread holding this data.
"Can you really see the difference between 155 fps and 187 fps?" "253 fps out of Quake 4"
There are settings above 800x600 NoAA NoAF. Once you raise the quality and resolution, that's when all this new hardware matters. And what's with the insinuation that caring about the speed of your rig means you don't have a life? I suppose guys that rebuild their engines to get more HP have no life too?
You can have hobbies and a life, it's called balance. Are you perhaps completely pussy whipped?
What about the simple and clear (~1) coorelation between number of users per OS and number of virus/malware/spyware/etc. targeting that OS. It's easy to tout your security numbers when you're 2% of the market........because GM cars are stolen 100000x more than Fiats in North America, is a Fiat more secure than a GM?
Now that I think of it, this entire article and the entire Windows vs. Macs argument is purely pirates and global warming. Once again evidence that His noodly appendage touches all facets of our lives. Repent!
Sure you can't disprove "love thy neighbour", but there are more concrete precepts: Jesus, his life, the Deciples, etc. that could be possibly disproved. What if we found his grave? Or evidence that he was just a normal guy with big ideas, lived, married, had kids and died like a normal person. Wouldn't that disprove just a few precepts?
And sure you can't disprove an omnipotent being that by definition is unobseravble. So I can also say that man was created by a giant blue bunny in a polka dot hat, but science can show that my theory is not very likely. Does that fact that my bunny theory cannot be disproved give it any merit? NO.
Hawking is about as American as Pamela Anderson, Cptn. Kirk, Kiefer, Linda Envalgelista, The Band, Phil Hartman, Monty Hall (oh yes!), Peter Jennings, Steve Nash and of course Robert Young (this IS/. after all). 0%.
This sad, and common American denial comes from the incompability of thinking you're the best in the world, while the best in the world aren't all from your country.
Where does everyone think the billions of dollars of crap they buy from Walmart comes from, well paid Amercian workers?
Apple is just doing what they must to meet the low prices demanded by customers. If you don't like "sweatshop" labour, stop shopping at Walmart and don't bitch when you start paying more for EVERYTHING. If you don't want to pay more, go back to supporting sweatshop manufacturing in develpoing countries, and STFU!
Articles like this really make we wonder if Joe P. American has any fucking clue what is happening in the world.
Uh its the RIGHT counter to their claim that the economy suffers because of pirated software. After all, how productive would the millions of people using copies of Windows be if they had no operating system (albeit ignoring free alternatives).
Your argument although true, says nothing to thier economic argument.
If the price of stealing software (risk of prosecution) is smaller than the price of actually buying the software, then people will choose the lesser of the two costs. Software is just too expensive, and in our world of software oligopolies/monopolies, people have few competative choices.
The only alternative when competition is stifled? STEAL THE SOFTWARE.
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Yay! you've supported your point by the 1 in 5000 users here that don't know Office has been avaiable for Macs for years. Does this make MACs more relevant? Or just support the Microsoft platform, and feed the monster.
Mac User 1: "Coke sucks! Screw them!"
Mac User 2: "Yeah I only buy iCoke! That will show them!"
Bill Gates: [Grins]
Testify!
The sky is falling, pigs are flying, and the market leader is irrelevant?
Who writes this shit? Or worse, posts it as news.
I don't think anyone missed the joke, except dshultz. Now if he could just remove both feet and hands from his mouth.
"Quasi appears capable of holding intelligent conversations."
I sure hope so, as Quasi's voice is a HUMAN speaking into a mic behind the kiosk!!!!
Video here
Apparently Slashdot editors, themselves being unable to intelligently filter articles, have found it difficult to differentiate between robots and humans.
Perhaps the first signs of Skynet taking over is not the rise of android intelligence, but the deterioration of human intelligence! We are all doomed!
Batteries? This this goes through 4 AA's like shots of tequila.
It's a pot reference, you insensitive crack and opium junkies!
So our current C02 levels were caused by climate changes that never happened 900 years ago?
Causation can never be proven, but that doesn't mean we should bury our heads for 9 decades and see if you're right.
And you clearly don't address the significant drop in pirates, and this near perfect negative correlation with global warming..... Have you ever even SEEN a real pirate? Eh? Have you?
Proof here!
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" (c. 6th century BC)
All this robot talk is making my dual spherical wheels itchy.
A Bob Dylan reference on Slashdot? I feel like Data finding his long lost android Hippe brother... If I could feel.
Oh nevermind.
Hey did I miss the memo where "Balls" moved to outrank "Nipple" in the international naughty word list?
And if you're talking about someone showing nipples, AND having balls, AND those balls being grabbed, well my friend, you've already well crossed the line into.... something not quite normal.
"When Ballbot is not in operation, it stands in place on three retractable legs."
A huge ball with THREE retractable appendages. Don't leave this robot at home with your GF.
Even with the AC, misspelling, that is quite funny.
"ATI's products tend to be miserably supported"
Oh tell me more, NVIDIA fanboy! Tell me a opposing tale of the wonderful NVIDIA happy land, with a gumdrop house on lollipop lane!
From TFA
"Memory Usage in MB Loading Six Tabs"
"A single image on one of those pages could require more RAM than what the entire program is consuming. That's way, way off."
Not if you READ the article and use MB.
"Opera actually consumes LESS ram with 6 pages loaded than when it first starts up!"
All the others increased in footprint. I'm sure Opera must have another thread holding this data.
"Can you really see the difference between 155 fps and 187 fps?"
"253 fps out of Quake 4"
There are settings above 800x600 NoAA NoAF.
Once you raise the quality and resolution, that's when all this new hardware matters. And what's with the insinuation that caring about the speed of your rig means you don't have a life? I suppose guys that rebuild their engines to get more HP have no life too?
You can have hobbies and a life, it's called balance. Are you perhaps completely pussy whipped?
"I want a secure, fast, technically elegant, standards supporting browser with a flexible extension system."
.0005% market segment and say:
Stand up, load and proud with the rest of your
"I'm statistically irrelevant! Listen to meeeeeeeeeeeee!"
What about the simple and clear (~1) coorelation between number of users per OS and number of virus/malware/spyware/etc. targeting that OS. It's easy to tout your security numbers when you're 2% of the market. .......because GM cars are stolen 100000x more than Fiats in North America, is a Fiat more secure than a GM?
Now that I think of it, this entire article and the entire Windows vs. Macs argument is purely pirates and global warming. Once again evidence that His noodly appendage touches all facets of our lives. Repent!
Alas, I have seen the noodle and it is good. From this day forth I will walk in the light of the starchy one.
Thank you kind Sir.
Sure you can't disprove "love thy neighbour", but there are more concrete precepts: Jesus, his life, the Deciples, etc. that could be possibly disproved.
What if we found his grave? Or evidence that he was just a normal guy with big ideas, lived, married, had kids and died like a normal person.
Wouldn't that disprove just a few precepts?
And sure you can't disprove an omnipotent being that by definition is unobseravble. So I can also say that man was created by a giant blue bunny in a polka dot hat, but science can show that my theory is not very likely. Does that fact that my bunny theory cannot be disproved give it any merit? NO.
Hawking is about as American as Pamela Anderson, Cptn. Kirk, Kiefer, Linda Envalgelista, The Band, Phil Hartman, Monty Hall (oh yes!), Peter Jennings, Steve Nash and of course Robert Young (this IS /. after all). 0%.
This sad, and common American denial comes from the incompability of thinking you're the best in the world, while the best in the world aren't all from your country.
Now, troll me down bitches.
No one expects the papal inquisition!
Where does everyone think the billions of dollars of crap they buy from Walmart comes from, well paid Amercian workers?
Apple is just doing what they must to meet the low prices demanded by customers.
If you don't like "sweatshop" labour, stop shopping at Walmart and don't bitch when you start paying more for EVERYTHING.
If you don't want to pay more, go back to supporting sweatshop manufacturing in develpoing countries, and STFU!
Articles like this really make we wonder if Joe P. American has any fucking clue what is happening in the world.
Uh its the RIGHT counter to their claim that the economy suffers because of pirated software. After all, how productive would the millions of people using copies of Windows be if they had no operating system (albeit ignoring free alternatives).
Your argument although true, says nothing to thier economic argument.
If the price of stealing software (risk of prosecution) is smaller than the price of actually buying the software, then people will choose the lesser of the two costs. Software is just too expensive, and in our world of software oligopolies/monopolies, people have few competative choices.
The only alternative when competition is stifled? STEAL THE SOFTWARE.