Apple has been doing nothing but blowing it big time for more than a year now. I'd been an avid Apple fan for over 15 years, until just last year. The last two things I bought from Apple were an iBook 300 and MacOS X beta.
After seeing where Apple was going with OS X Beta, UNIX underpinnings or not, I felt that there simply were NO more advantages to having a Mac.
Now they blow it again, making promises they can't keep. Come on man, OS X wasn't that great to begin with, now they ship a half finished product?? That is sure way to lose even more people like me to Windows and Linux.
This can't be good to get high speed access to the masses. If you can't get cable and Covad goes under, then there may be no real alternative short of expensive ISDN or T1 circuts.
I hope that wireless solutions like Starband and Teledesic can come through to offer a decent performing and priced solution.
I sometimes spend hours after work playing Starcraft/Brood War. Sure I trash talk, taunt and even threaten my opponents. I have even told my opponents to drop dead on more than one occasion.
After reading this article, I am deathly afraid!
I better run home now and delete Starcraft from my hard disk. Then I need to burn the CD's and spread the ashes in a river. Then, I need to call Blizzard and have them remove me from Battle.net servers, but only from a pay phone. I don't want anyone to know that it was me, and I don't want anyone to be able to track me down. I don't want them to take my computers and throw me in jail!!
But seriously, this is just plain dumb. Its a game man, that is all it is.
As a kid, I watched pretty much every contemporary cartoon. You know, GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, Voltron, Tom & Jerry, etc.
Pretty much every cartoon I every watched was violent, but I was taught at a young age to realize the difference between reality and cartoons. So, I never tried to iron my brothers tounge, blow up my brother, etc. I just knew that you didn't do stuff like that.
I think some parents today try to cop-out of responsibility for their kids and they don't teach them the simple lessons that they need. Like for instance "Cartoons and TV is not real".
Teach that one lesson, and stop blaming TV and media for the problems of the world, and we will be a better society for it.
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That was quick. Only 16 comments and the site is down already. (http://www.gri.org/laser)
Anyone have a mirror site up?
Brian
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Apple has been doing nothing but blowing it big time for more than a year now. I'd been an avid Apple fan for over 15 years, until just last year. The last two things I bought from Apple were an iBook 300 and MacOS X beta.
After seeing where Apple was going with OS X Beta, UNIX underpinnings or not, I felt that there simply were NO more advantages to having a Mac.
Now they blow it again, making promises they can't keep. Come on man, OS X wasn't that great to begin with, now they ship a half finished product?? That is sure way to lose even more people like me to Windows and Linux.
Brian http://www.assortedinternet.com
They should have made it come in 5 fruity flavors and called it the iSun. It could have been the "UNIX Workstation for the rest of us".
Brian
http://www.assortedinternet.com
This can't be good to get high speed access to the masses. If you can't get cable and Covad goes under, then there may be no real alternative short of expensive ISDN or T1 circuts.
I hope that wireless solutions like Starband and Teledesic can come through to offer a decent performing and priced solution.
Until then, we wait...
Brian
http://www.assortedinternet.com
I sometimes spend hours after work playing Starcraft/Brood War. Sure I trash talk, taunt and even threaten my opponents. I have even told my opponents to drop dead on more than one occasion.
After reading this article, I am deathly afraid!
I better run home now and delete Starcraft from my hard disk. Then I need to burn the CD's and spread the ashes in a river. Then, I need to call Blizzard and have them remove me from Battle.net servers, but only from a pay phone. I don't want anyone to know that it was me, and I don't want anyone to be able to track me down. I don't want them to take my computers and throw me in jail!!
But seriously, this is just plain dumb. Its a game man, that is all it is.
Did kids get busted in the 50's and 60's for taunting the pitcher in a baseball game?
Brian
http://www.assortedinternet.com
As a kid, I watched pretty much every contemporary cartoon. You know, GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, Voltron, Tom & Jerry, etc.
Pretty much every cartoon I every watched was violent, but I was taught at a young age to realize the difference between reality and cartoons. So, I never tried to iron my brothers tounge, blow up my brother, etc. I just knew that you didn't do stuff like that.
I think some parents today try to cop-out of responsibility for their kids and they don't teach them the simple lessons that they need. Like for instance "Cartoons and TV is not real".
Teach that one lesson, and stop blaming TV and media for the problems of the world, and we will be a better society for it.
Brian
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