This is so amazingly wrong that it's hard to believe someone typed it.
The whole point of owning shares in a company is to get dividends (i.e., cash payouts) for your investment. The silly idea that the company will keep growing so much that the stock price will go up indefinitely is bent, and is the reason so many dotcoms died.
In MSoftian:
"R&D" means "we just saw someone else demoing something neat."
"Alpha" means "here's the Director mockup running on a Mac."
"Beta" means "well, we got it working, sorta."
"Golden Master" means "hey, it runs, if we leave out some features."
"Release" means "ready for the newest Nimda variant to run on it!"
If someone made all of the two-button mice, maybe. But since there's approximately 10^9-1 companies that make two-button mice, the major reason they're "cheaper" is that the cheap ones are really cheap. I have one-button Mac mice that are five years old and still working quite nicely. I have two-button mice that lasted six months before something went wrong. I also have a two-button scroll mouse from Logitech that I got for $30 that's very nice.
"Economies of scale" only works for single products, not all similar products...
Richard Garriott wrote the "kill everyone in town" bit into the game on purpose. His idea was that by the time you could do that, you could win the game anyway if you really wanted to. It was like the "drop a coin in a corner of the town, get a dagger" routine that let you build up cash a little at a time if you needed the money that bad. Completely intentional. I was there (and can be seen in the game as Chad the Mad).
Here's the current address of the folks who have been doing this: The current pages don't have the same info, but they've been getting info in and out of nerves for a long time now:
Apparently, that "patch" only works some of the time. As others have pointed out, if you have URL Forwarding active, Code Red just blasts right through that "fix."
His complaint is about a page showing that a Mac, set up more or less like a PC with about the same performance is about the same price. And his major gripe is that they use Photoshop for a performance comparison. Never mind that Photoshop is pretty representative, and that other software tends to show about the same level of performance (some faster, some slower).
The best part is about the mention of the TechTV comparison. During the MWNY keynote, the live TechTV commentators were bitching and moaning about how the Mac and the PC were set up differently (they weren't), that the Mac had more RAM (it didn't), et cetera. So the TechTV folks decided to run their own comparison, to justify their comments.
The Mac, of course, won. So now the rest of the Wintel droids are out screaming that the comparison isn't valid, for... well, for no particular reason. If the PC had won, it would have been valid, of course.
For years now, the Mac/PC speed bakeoffs have been funny. Remember, Photoshop is a valid comparison until the PC loses. Then it's databases, until the Mac wins. Then it's Office. Then it's 3-D rendering. Then it's on down the list, until the PC nuts get really desperate, and the Quake framerates start geting pulled out of the basement...
If a few pounds of plutonium were any sort of problem, we'd already be dead. They blew so many *tons* of plutonium (and worse) into the air in the 1950s that we'd have died off before SDI was even a dream...
One of the early demos of "Windows 95" was rolling right along, when there was a short power failure backstage, taking out the computers (but not the projectors). When the machines were brought back up, you saw a Happy Mac, instead of anything W95-related. Turns out the "W95 demo" was Director running on a Mac.
There was an Office macro worm a while back that altered Excel spreadsheets somewhat at random. There have also been versions that tweaked Word documents.
Internet *and* BBS, thankyouverymuch...
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I was online a lot during the Hacker Crackdown year, as well as being a regular visitor to the SJG BBS by plain old modem. As a former employee, I liked to keep up with things. When the Feds hit SJG, I was spending up to eight hours a day online (at 2400 baud, for the most part - builds patience). One day, the Secret Service raided SJG and Took The Computers Away, and I was, of course, a bit freaked out. So the following Saturday, I got up to watch cartoons and play with the computer. I booted up the old Apple, logged on, and got ready for some Usenetting.
There was a knock at the door. Looking through the peephole, I saw two young men in dark suits, carrying briefcases. "Oh, crap!"
Visions of search, seizure, and other fun things in my mind, I opened the door. One of the men spoke. "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior?"
The reason Car Wars didn't come out on computer to begin with was that it was designed in 1980/1981, when an Apple II was $2000 or so, and not that many people had them. When the Origin version came out a few years later, it wasn't as detailed as the paper version.
If Microsoft spent as much time and money in making a better product instead of adding half-assed "features" to their existing operating systems, nobody would complain. Instead, we get version after version of insecure, buggy Windows, with even more buggy applications slapped on top.
Whee.
3700 feet? Wimps. How about a mile?
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Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a building once, for Chicago. It was called "The Illinois." One mile high. Big, triangular cross sections, lotsa steel, featuring a "tap root" style of construction. Of course, he did suggest things like nuclear-powered elevators, but it was 1957. It was only designed to house 45,000, but hey, a MILE high...
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This is so amazingly wrong that it's hard to believe someone typed it.
The whole point of owning shares in a company is to get dividends (i.e., cash payouts) for your investment. The silly idea that the company will keep growing so much that the stock price will go up indefinitely is bent, and is the reason so many dotcoms died.
Meep. Meepmeepmeep. MeepMEEEP! Meepmeepmeep.
In MSoftian:
"R&D" means "we just saw someone else demoing something neat."
"Alpha" means "here's the Director mockup running on a Mac."
"Beta" means "well, we got it working, sorta."
"Golden Master" means "hey, it runs, if we leave out some features."
"Release" means "ready for the newest Nimda variant to run on it!"
"...unleash the pointed sticks!"
Apple would sure gain a lot more from QuickTime being the official standard. HP probably has some printing-oriented stuff.
Dragging buttons around to customize an app is over a decade old. MS just appropriated it from Apple before Apple put it in OS X.
If someone made all of the two-button mice, maybe. But since there's approximately 10^9-1 companies that make two-button mice, the major reason they're "cheaper" is that the cheap ones are really cheap. I have one-button Mac mice that are five years old and still working quite nicely. I have two-button mice that lasted six months before something went wrong. I also have a two-button scroll mouse from Logitech that I got for $30 that's very nice.
"Economies of scale" only works for single products, not all similar products...
The Russians do have some UAVs, and there's a chance it was one of theirs.
Richard Garriott wrote the "kill everyone in town" bit into the game on purpose. His idea was that by the time you could do that, you could win the game anyway if you really wanted to. It was like the "drop a coin in a corner of the town, get a dagger" routine that let you build up cash a little at a time if you needed the money that bad. Completely intentional. I was there (and can be seen in the game as Chad the Mad).
Here's the current address of the folks who have been doing this: The current pages don't have the same info, but they've been getting info in and out of nerves for a long time now:
http://www.cnns.org/
...who keeps a house in Texas.
A group of researchers in Texas did the same thing with mouse neurons about twelve years ago.
Apparently, that "patch" only works some of the time. As others have pointed out, if you have URL Forwarding active, Code Red just blasts right through that "fix."
...IS about four times as important as a floppy drive. He was nice to give the PCs a half-point for the floppy at all.
What are you going to compain about next? The Mac's lack of a parallel port so we can use godawful slow Zip drives and printers?
His complaint is about a page showing that a Mac, set up more or less like a PC with about the same performance is about the same price. And his major gripe is that they use Photoshop for a performance comparison. Never mind that Photoshop is pretty representative, and that other software tends to show about the same level of performance (some faster, some slower).
The best part is about the mention of the TechTV comparison. During the MWNY keynote, the live TechTV commentators were bitching and moaning about how the Mac and the PC were set up differently (they weren't), that the Mac had more RAM (it didn't), et cetera. So the TechTV folks decided to run their own comparison, to justify their comments.
The Mac, of course, won. So now the rest of the Wintel droids are out screaming that the comparison isn't valid, for... well, for no particular reason. If the PC had won, it would have been valid, of course.
For years now, the Mac/PC speed bakeoffs have been funny. Remember, Photoshop is a valid comparison until the PC loses. Then it's databases, until the Mac wins. Then it's Office. Then it's 3-D rendering. Then it's on down the list, until the PC nuts get really desperate, and the Quake framerates start geting pulled out of the basement...
My cable modem has had its DATA light pinging since yesterday. Solid. Between OS X and OS 9, I've had no real problems...
If a few pounds of plutonium were any sort of problem, we'd already be dead. They blew so many *tons* of plutonium (and worse) into the air in the 1950s that we'd have died off before SDI was even a dream...
One of the early demos of "Windows 95" was rolling right along, when there was a short power failure backstage, taking out the computers (but not the projectors). When the machines were brought back up, you saw a Happy Mac, instead of anything W95-related. Turns out the "W95 demo" was Director running on a Mac.
There was an Office macro worm a while back that altered Excel spreadsheets somewhat at random. There have also been versions that tweaked Word documents.
I was online a lot during the Hacker Crackdown year, as well as being a regular visitor to the SJG BBS by plain old modem. As a former employee, I liked to keep up with things. When the Feds hit SJG, I was spending up to eight hours a day online (at 2400 baud, for the most part - builds patience). One day, the Secret Service raided SJG and Took The Computers Away, and I was, of course, a bit freaked out. So the following Saturday, I got up to watch cartoons and play with the computer. I booted up the old Apple, logged on, and got ready for some Usenetting.
There was a knock at the door. Looking through the peephole, I saw two young men in dark suits, carrying briefcases. "Oh, crap!"
Visions of search, seizure, and other fun things in my mind, I opened the door. One of the men spoke. "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior?"
The reason Car Wars didn't come out on computer to begin with was that it was designed in 1980/1981, when an Apple II was $2000 or so, and not that many people had them. When the Origin version came out a few years later, it wasn't as detailed as the paper version.
*cough*
If Microsoft spent as much time and money in making a better product instead of adding half-assed "features" to their existing operating systems, nobody would complain. Instead, we get version after version of insecure, buggy Windows, with even more buggy applications slapped on top.
Whee.
Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a building once, for Chicago. It was called "The Illinois." One mile high. Big, triangular cross sections, lotsa steel, featuring a "tap root" style of construction. Of course, he did suggest things like nuclear-powered elevators, but it was 1957. It was only designed to house 45,000, but hey, a MILE high...
What were they, elevators to the moon? 500 fps is about 340 miles per hour... Maybe you meant 500 feet per minute?