While Intel's profits may be down, they are still the defacto standard for personal computer CPUs. Apple is a bit-player (no pun intended) in the personal computer market compared to Intel. Intel also makes a lot of money selling CPUs and support components to embedded system companies, which is a market where Apple has no presence. Basically, Intel is almost a zero risk of going bankrupt. If Apple makes a few too many blunders, they may end up going belly-up. That's a risk that investors consider and that affects the stock price.
Unlike Germany and the Nazi party, there was not overwhelming support for slavery in the U.S. Ever hear of the Civil War? The people of the U.S. voluntarily gave up the institution of slavery. Germany was Nazi-run until they were beaten in World War II, so it's not like the German people all got together and voted them out of office!
She (Dragoness Eclectic) did admit to doing a dumb thing. She said:
Several years ago I...was still able to turn on the computer, point-and-click through AOL, and post to my favorite newsgroup
There. She admitted to using AOL to post to newsgroups. She's a braver person than I am. Had I been using AOL, I would have just claimed to be doing something less embarassing at the time -- like pleasuring the dog while listening to N'Sync.
Imagine having the raw horsepower and storage of a Palm combined with the user friendliness of Linux! Let's not forget about the wealth of Linux applications that have been optimized for a Dragonball CPU, a 160x160 grey-scale LCD display, and no keyboard.
Who cares if you can't use standard Palm apps and lose all of the functionality of the Palm as a handheld organizer? It's all worth it when you can enter ls -l with the stylus and watch cryptically named files scroll past (in a smeary, LCD kind of way).
A VCR is a primitive analog recording system used for capturing video at low resolution with significant signal degradation on a rust-impregnated mylar ribbon. It's what people who don't care about engineering choose for time-shifting television programs.
And, yes, Tivo *is* everything. If you don't own one, you would not understand. My VCR has been on a total of one time in the last seven months: When I received a VHS video with my new car.
It's really rewarding to see people get interested in a show where the people with the most engineering know-how win. After all of the portrayals of engineers as "nerds", "geeks", and "losers" by the media, it's a refreshing change.
Unlike Battlebots, women aren't just window-dressing. In fact, Cathy Rogers, who created the show and co-hosts it, it both insightful and intelligent, (not to mention attractive).
If you don't watch it, start. If it's on at inconvenient time, tell your Tivo to record it. If you don't have a Tivo... well, then you are probably not the type of person who would really enjoy the show anyway.
Face it , attacking this guy for pointing out your mistake was an equivalent of me calling you "fuckhead".
Actually, I attacked him for calling me "dummy." I replied by calling him a "loser." "Fuckhead", "idiot", and 'troll' are way beyond what either of us did.
If you have genius-level IQ why are you so defensive about it to the point of this unusual bragging?
Do I sense a little insecurity there?
No. You sense someone who is sick of your name calling (e.g., "idiot")
I am not a coward. I am not hiding behind a keyboard, at least not more than you are.
Do you imply that posting with nick "fmaxwell" is so much more courageous and grown-up like, than posting under the name "GPLwhore"?
No, that is not what I imply at all. I just don't post anything online that I would be unwilling to say to the person's face. Given the overt hostility of your messages, I seriously doubt that you would be so bold in person.
Face it. You screwed up by not reading the article and trying to comment about it.
People do it all the time without getting all defensive about it
If it's no big deal and people do it all of the time, why did your last message accuse me of being a "fuckhead", "idiot", and of "trolling"? First, you cite my not reading the entire article as proof that I am a mentally deficient troll and then it's something people do "all the time." You are not even internally consistent.
No, but I will give meteors credit for wiping out the dinosaurs, creating the Chesapeake Bay, the Tanguska event, and many other cataclysmic changes to the earth. They also might have sparked life on earth, but that's more likely to have been caused by lightning.
I suppose that you believe that everything is controlled by an all-powerful, invisible man who lives in the sky and watches everything that each of us does. Well, I don't believe in that, the tooth fairy, the easter bunny, or anything else for which there is no scientific evidence.
Their problems are, in part, thanks to fucking liberals like you
You said that you don't even want your kids in the same school with blacks, so don't twist the blame towards liberals. Liberals are what make this country great and the more I talk to bigoted, racist, foul-mouthed, right-wing, conserviatives like you, the prouder I am to be a liberal.
It was rich white conservatives who thought slavery was a good idea. You probably still do.
You seem have no objection to black separatist, anti-religious fanatics and leftist (environmental) extremist being able to home-school their children.
Wait. They don't have to. Current public education system is already mostly run by leftist whackos.
You are the one who has zero tolerance toward any other social/religious beliefs systems and consequently, if you were given a power we would surely end up in totalitarian state.
Just reread your responses and ponder a bit over your complete lack of understanding for the concept of freedom.
You are one scary dude.
I have problems with anyone home-schooling their children. Your problem with blacks, echoed here and elsewhere, isn't mine. Given your views, I'm proud to scare you.
Umm, what if the state is a bunch of uneducated, right-wing extremists?
Like the current President? That's why we have balances of power with the Senate, House, and Executive Branch. This ensures that no extremist faction can control the country. That's why, even though Bush is President, abortion is still legal, there is no prayer in public schools, and we can all look at porn online if we want to.
Sorry, giving the state the power to tell everyone what to think is just too dangerous, no matter how benign the government of the moment might be (in your opinion.)
What is too dangerous is children being home-schooled by the Branch Davidians, members of the Heaven's Gate cult, Scientologists, white separatists, and other extremists. Children deserve to be taught by teachers with degrees in education. They deserve to be able to interact with their peers during the school day.
They also deserve the protections offered by public schooling. There is something sick about healthy children being locked up at home and "taught" by their parents with little or no supervision or oversight. If a teacher physically abuses a kid in class, everyone sees it. If a child is being abused at home, many times it is the childs teacher(s) who alert the authorities. What happens when a parent abuses their child that they are "home schooling"? I'm sure that Sybil's mother would have chosen home-schooling if that had been an option.
Let teachers teach science, English, math, and history. If you feel the need to make your child believe in an invisible man that lives in the sky and watches everything that they do, do it after school or on Sunday.
If people like you get to rule this country it would be end of US.
Yeah, sure. So you think that white separatists, religious fanatics, neo-Nazis, and Islamic extremists should be able to home-school their children in your U.S.? Well, not in mine. Children deserve a chance to grow up and lead a normal life -- and to many that are "home-schooled", that chance is denied.
Honestly I don't understand how stupid some of you liberals can be sometimes. Most of you seem to just be intelligent people who hold their own views, but this is pure stupidity. "The right wing extremists are going to home-school a giant army and take over the world with porn filters! Call the ACLU!"
Who said any of that? Don't try to put words in my mouth. My concern isn't for society's safety. It's for the children who might be home-schooled by the same ignorant parents who believe that creationism is science, evolution is not, birth control is something not to be discussed, and sex is evil.
You cite your own home schooling as proof that it works, yet you lack social skills, debating skills, and a good command of the English language. Your (incorrect) comment about me being "stupid" is hilarious when you use non-words like "fanaticist." Rather than debate the points about the parallels between the religious right in this country and the Taliban, you resort to name-calling.
I'd like to see one of you fanaticist (yes, fanaticist) liberals here do as much to ensure your children a good childhood as these right-wing extremist home-schooling censors are doing.
A "good childhood" is one where the child develops social skills through exposure to peers of differing ethnic and social backgrounds. It's one where the child is taught to think rationally and question their own beliefs and those of their parents. Keeping your child at home and out of public schools is no way to give a child a good start.
Just why is it that your parents don't have you in public schools? If they are using textbooks that are mainstream (are they?), then why not have you be taught by professional educators? Why are they not having you attend school with your peers?
By the way, I don't have children. You just reminded me why.
So basically what you want is porn in gas stations, people masturbating in libraries and schools, and everyone to be force-educated by the state.
Even though I am an atheist, I think I'd prefer the "christian extremist" version over your own liberal wet dreams.
Wet dreams? Who was proposing masturbation in libraries and schools? Do you masturbate when reading about breast cancer, venereal disease, abortion, and birth control? Those are topics that are normally filtered out by the "anti-porn" filters installed in libraries. You are a sick puppy!
Yes, I do prefer that the state educate children rather than allowing a bunch of uneducated, right-wing, extremists to "educate" their children.
"An airplane such as a Lockheed Electra, washed into such a groove and wedged there, might quickly be ripped to pieces by the pounding waves, its fragile aluminum structure strewn across the reef flat, leaving only its steel components--engines, engine mounts, landing gear legs, landing gear actuating rods, etc.--behind."
Read the article, dummy.
Why? I have losers like you that waste their time to read the article and summarize it for me.
This is what happens with religious extremists get into power. They legislate their own religious views into law. Imagine what it would be like if the religious right really got power in the U.S.A. There would do exactly what the Taliban is doing. The Meese Commission (under Reagan) bullied convenience stores like 7-11 into not carrying porn (you'll notice that they still sell cigarettes). They want filtering software in all schools and libraries to limit what people can see on the Internet. They label anyone opposed to it as a "radical.". It's only a small step from banning the Internet from schools and libraries and that is something that many "Christians" would support.
Anyone who wants to see what I'm talking about can do a google search on the following set of terms:
I thought that her plane was aluminum-skinned. If so, why would a large, reddish-brown rust spot be evidence of her plane?
These people are determined that her plane is there and they will "see" her plane in every picture of the island that's released. I'm convinced that her plane could be raised from the bottom of the ocean, her skeletal remains still in the pilot's seat, and these kooks would swear it was an imposter and that the real wreckage is somewhere around the island.
Interestingly, someone here pointed out that searches for N'Synch and Ricky Martin yeilded results when artists like Tom Waits were blocked.
Napster is only blocking copyrighted music so those seeking MP3s of N'Sync, Ricky Martin, Britney Spears, etc. will probably have no problem getting them through Napster.
If you want to be an astronaut, do it because you want to go to space, not to appear on the cover of Time magazine, and milk it for the rest of your life on chat shows.
That was unfair. Many of the Gemini and Apollo era astronauts only reluctantly did news conferences and interviews. To this day, Neil Armstrong continues to avoid public appearances.
What is sad is that we no longer view astronauts as heroes. People like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison are more likely to be the role models of the youth of today. It's sad to see that we have devolved into teaching creationism in science class and "CEO" is probably more likely to be cited than "astronaut" as what kids want to be when they grow up.
Next week I will be "borrowing" your SUV b/c I feel that I am justified, I don't have one, I need it and you have too much.
That really exposes the fundamental flaw in your logic: If you "borrow" my SUV, then I do not have it. When a school copies Microsoft Office no one has lost anything. Microsoft has just as many copies as before -- and there is no evidence to show that the school would have purchased those copies if the technology to duplicate them had not existed (and good evidence that they would not have purchased them given how cash-starved they were).
It reminds me of the idiots who claim that each 14-year old kid with a copy of 3D Studio Max cost Kinetix/Autodesk $3,500. As compared to what? All of the 14-year olds that purchased the product? Give me a break! Pirating something you could/would never buy is far different than pirating something to avoid paying for it.
You are an ignorant fuckwad -- but then, that's why you posted as Anonymous Coward at 0 and my non-anonymous post was modded up to 5. Moron.
It's not the user's responsibility to spend his time, money, and phone bill trying to track down where to send a DSL gateway that was left at his house after Telocity yanked his service! Maybe your time is valueless, but other people's time is not. If I had signed up for DSL through Telocity and they yanked it, keeping their friggin' gateway would not even come close to paying for my time and aggravation to find another broadband provider.
And just because you are too much of a dumb-fuck to be able to find a use for a gateway (which you ignorantly refer to as a "modem"), does not mean that everyone is.
Now, pretend you're a man and post with your name rather than Anonymous Coward.
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While Intel's profits may be down, they are still the defacto standard for personal computer CPUs. Apple is a bit-player (no pun intended) in the personal computer market compared to Intel. Intel also makes a lot of money selling CPUs and support components to embedded system companies, which is a market where Apple has no presence. Basically, Intel is almost a zero risk of going bankrupt. If Apple makes a few too many blunders, they may end up going belly-up. That's a risk that investors consider and that affects the stock price.
Unlike Germany and the Nazi party, there was not overwhelming support for slavery in the U.S. Ever hear of the Civil War? The people of the U.S. voluntarily gave up the institution of slavery. Germany was Nazi-run until they were beaten in World War II, so it's not like the German people all got together and voted them out of office!
She (Dragoness Eclectic) did admit to doing a dumb thing. She said:
Several years ago I...was still able to turn on the computer, point-and-click through AOL, and post to my favorite newsgroup
There. She admitted to using AOL to post to newsgroups. She's a braver person than I am. Had I been using AOL, I would have just claimed to be doing something less embarassing at the time -- like pleasuring the dog while listening to N'Sync.
Who cares if you can't use standard Palm apps and lose all of the functionality of the Palm as a handheld organizer? It's all worth it when you can enter ls -l with the stylus and watch cryptically named files scroll past (in a smeary, LCD kind of way).
A VCR is a primitive analog recording system used for capturing video at low resolution with significant signal degradation on a rust-impregnated mylar ribbon. It's what people who don't care about engineering choose for time-shifting television programs.
And, yes, Tivo *is* everything. If you don't own one, you would not understand. My VCR has been on a total of one time in the last seven months: When I received a VHS video with my new car.
AOL had started to work on patenting this some years ago. Unfortunately, their users have yet to complete a successful download. Any time now...
Unlike Battlebots, women aren't just window-dressing. In fact, Cathy Rogers, who created the show and co-hosts it, it both insightful and intelligent, (not to mention attractive).
If you don't watch it, start. If it's on at inconvenient time, tell your Tivo to record it. If you don't have a Tivo... well, then you are probably not the type of person who would really enjoy the show anyway.
Actually, I attacked him for calling me "dummy." I replied by calling him a "loser." "Fuckhead", "idiot", and 'troll' are way beyond what either of us did.
Now the thread is over.
No. You sense someone who is sick of your name calling (e.g., "idiot")
I am not a coward. I am not hiding behind a keyboard, at least not more than you are. Do you imply that posting with nick "fmaxwell" is so much more courageous and grown-up like, than posting under the name "GPLwhore"?
No, that is not what I imply at all. I just don't post anything online that I would be unwilling to say to the person's face. Given the overt hostility of your messages, I seriously doubt that you would be so bold in person.
Face it. You screwed up by not reading the article and trying to comment about it. People do it all the time without getting all defensive about it
If it's no big deal and people do it all of the time, why did your last message accuse me of being a "fuckhead", "idiot", and of "trolling"? First, you cite my not reading the entire article as proof that I am a mentally deficient troll and then it's something people do "all the time." You are not even internally consistent.
No, but I will give meteors credit for wiping out the dinosaurs, creating the Chesapeake Bay, the Tanguska event, and many other cataclysmic changes to the earth. They also might have sparked life on earth, but that's more likely to have been caused by lightning.
I suppose that you believe that everything is controlled by an all-powerful, invisible man who lives in the sky and watches everything that each of us does. Well, I don't believe in that, the tooth fairy, the easter bunny, or anything else for which there is no scientific evidence.
Why be born again when you can just grow up?
You said that you don't even want your kids in the same school with blacks, so don't twist the blame towards liberals. Liberals are what make this country great and the more I talk to bigoted, racist, foul-mouthed, right-wing, conserviatives like you, the prouder I am to be a liberal.
It was rich white conservatives who thought slavery was a good idea. You probably still do.
I have problems with anyone home-schooling their children. Your problem with blacks, echoed here and elsewhere, isn't mine. Given your views, I'm proud to scare you.
Like the current President? That's why we have balances of power with the Senate, House, and Executive Branch. This ensures that no extremist faction can control the country. That's why, even though Bush is President, abortion is still legal, there is no prayer in public schools, and we can all look at porn online if we want to.
Sorry, giving the state the power to tell everyone what to think is just too dangerous, no matter how benign the government of the moment might be (in your opinion.)
What is too dangerous is children being home-schooled by the Branch Davidians, members of the Heaven's Gate cult, Scientologists, white separatists, and other extremists. Children deserve to be taught by teachers with degrees in education. They deserve to be able to interact with their peers during the school day.
They also deserve the protections offered by public schooling. There is something sick about healthy children being locked up at home and "taught" by their parents with little or no supervision or oversight. If a teacher physically abuses a kid in class, everyone sees it. If a child is being abused at home, many times it is the childs teacher(s) who alert the authorities. What happens when a parent abuses their child that they are "home schooling"? I'm sure that Sybil's mother would have chosen home-schooling if that had been an option.
Let teachers teach science, English, math, and history. If you feel the need to make your child believe in an invisible man that lives in the sky and watches everything that they do, do it after school or on Sunday.
Yeah, sure. So you think that white separatists, religious fanatics, neo-Nazis, and Islamic extremists should be able to home-school their children in your U.S.? Well, not in mine. Children deserve a chance to grow up and lead a normal life -- and to many that are "home-schooled", that chance is denied.
Who said any of that? Don't try to put words in my mouth. My concern isn't for society's safety. It's for the children who might be home-schooled by the same ignorant parents who believe that creationism is science, evolution is not, birth control is something not to be discussed, and sex is evil.
You cite your own home schooling as proof that it works, yet you lack social skills, debating skills, and a good command of the English language. Your (incorrect) comment about me being "stupid" is hilarious when you use non-words like "fanaticist." Rather than debate the points about the parallels between the religious right in this country and the Taliban, you resort to name-calling.
I'd like to see one of you fanaticist (yes, fanaticist) liberals here do as much to ensure your children a good childhood as these right-wing extremist home-schooling censors are doing.
A "good childhood" is one where the child develops social skills through exposure to peers of differing ethnic and social backgrounds. It's one where the child is taught to think rationally and question their own beliefs and those of their parents. Keeping your child at home and out of public schools is no way to give a child a good start.
Just why is it that your parents don't have you in public schools? If they are using textbooks that are mainstream (are they?), then why not have you be taught by professional educators? Why are they not having you attend school with your peers?
By the way, I don't have children. You just reminded me why.
Even though I am an atheist, I think I'd prefer the "christian extremist" version over your own liberal wet dreams.
Wet dreams? Who was proposing masturbation in libraries and schools? Do you masturbate when reading about breast cancer, venereal disease, abortion, and birth control? Those are topics that are normally filtered out by the "anti-porn" filters installed in libraries. You are a sick puppy!
Yes, I do prefer that the state educate children rather than allowing a bunch of uneducated, right-wing, extremists to "educate" their children.
Read the article, dummy.
Why? I have losers like you that waste their time to read the article and summarize it for me.
Anyone who wants to see what I'm talking about can do a google search on the following set of terms:
"home schooling" Christian porn ban filtering
And the nut-cases will come out of the woodwork.
These people are determined that her plane is there and they will "see" her plane in every picture of the island that's released. I'm convinced that her plane could be raised from the bottom of the ocean, her skeletal remains still in the pilot's seat, and these kooks would swear it was an imposter and that the real wreckage is somewhere around the island.
That they never have to go up and replace lenses in spy satellites. That proves it to me. ;-)
Napster is only blocking copyrighted music so those seeking MP3s of N'Sync, Ricky Martin, Britney Spears, etc. will probably have no problem getting them through Napster.
That was unfair. Many of the Gemini and Apollo era astronauts only reluctantly did news conferences and interviews. To this day, Neil Armstrong continues to avoid public appearances.
What is sad is that we no longer view astronauts as heroes. People like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison are more likely to be the role models of the youth of today. It's sad to see that we have devolved into teaching creationism in science class and "CEO" is probably more likely to be cited than "astronaut" as what kids want to be when they grow up.
With a name like "Adobe", is it any wonder that they played dirty and engaged in mud-slinging?
That really exposes the fundamental flaw in your logic: If you "borrow" my SUV, then I do not have it. When a school copies Microsoft Office no one has lost anything. Microsoft has just as many copies as before -- and there is no evidence to show that the school would have purchased those copies if the technology to duplicate them had not existed (and good evidence that they would not have purchased them given how cash-starved they were).
It reminds me of the idiots who claim that each 14-year old kid with a copy of 3D Studio Max cost Kinetix/Autodesk $3,500. As compared to what? All of the 14-year olds that purchased the product? Give me a break! Pirating something you could/would never buy is far different than pirating something to avoid paying for it.
It's not the user's responsibility to spend his time, money, and phone bill trying to track down where to send a DSL gateway that was left at his house after Telocity yanked his service! Maybe your time is valueless, but other people's time is not. If I had signed up for DSL through Telocity and they yanked it, keeping their friggin' gateway would not even come close to paying for my time and aggravation to find another broadband provider.
And just because you are too much of a dumb-fuck to be able to find a use for a gateway (which you ignorantly refer to as a "modem"), does not mean that everyone is.
Now, pretend you're a man and post with your name rather than Anonymous Coward.