I'm comparing Linux computer share in the consumer market vs OS X. If you're going to count Android as Linux, then don't forget iOS is OS X derived as much as Android is Linux derived.
So lets just add iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, and Apple TVs to the OS X market share then.
How do you like your new Apple toilet paper? Hope its not too scratchy? The new Apple socks and underwear ok for you?
They're so much less mature than their grandparents' generation - who were blowing up outhouses with sticks of dynamite and drag racing their '57 Chevy's instead.
Constantly checking a phone when in the presence of company not only shows impatience and addiction, but is fucking rude. It's like telling everybody in your presence that they're boring and not worth listening to.
As somebody a little older than the rest of the shithead kids he's in college with, I see it all the time - grown-ass young adults rocking back and forth in their seats, fidgeting, totally unfit for social interaction. If those kids were in grade school when I was, they would have been labeled retarded and put in a special classroom with padded walls. Young punk kids, in their faggotty androgynous skinny jeans, who now get medals just for showing up to the event, have been proven hopeless at courtship due to their incessant masturbating to a grossly cartoonish idea of what real women should look like.
Real life is going to eat you fuckers alive, and I'm gonna point and laugh at each and every one of you.
-- Ethanol-fueled
I tried to read your whole rant, but honestly it was so boring I kept messing with my coolio Samsung Android phone instead. It's probably because I'm only in my 40's and haven't learned to control my attention yet - maybe when I hit my 50's.
It's as bad as sock-hops, Elvis Presley's dancing, VCR's, Atari games, color television, and carbonated sodas - each of which nearly "destroyed America's youth" at some point in the past 70 years.
But, of course, not quite as bad as Dungeons and Dragons and books about Hobbits. NOTHING could be THAT dangerous to America's youth.
It's as bad as sock-hops, Elvis Presley's dancing, VCR's, Atari games, color television, and carbonated sodas - each of which nearly "destroyed America's youth" at some point in the past 70 years.
Offer the Lebanese hacker an extra $1,000 or so for documented evidence of the competitor hiring him for the DDoS. Let the attack carry on unabated. Sue the competitor for tortious interference, and ask the judge for a massive amount of punitive damages. Get paid about 1000X the amount you lost due to the DDoS attack.
SUSE is a big company with an army of engineers and a big stable of products. They are some of the biggest contributors to numerous projects, such as KDE, LibreOffice, and make a lot of commits to kernel development. If they really decide to support ARM architecture, they should bring a lot to the table.
Also, the openSUSE implementation of KDE Plasma Netbook environment is a fast desktop with low graphics requirements. Combined with the SUSE GUI config tools (YAST2), you would have a zippy yet robust distro running on ARM without the need to dive into CLI for every modification. This could be useful for small screens, virtual keyboard arrangements, etc.
And quite obviously not being able to charge the battery on a mobile phone makes the whole thing quite useless.
Reminds me of the scene in Book of Eli where he gets his iPod trickle-charged from the crazy old dude in the electronics shop.
Would the N900 charge if you turned the phone off after you had installed Gentoo, or still not?
Thus, I abhor Mozilla's decision to try and compete with Chrome in terms of cutting the interface
Only takes a few clicks to put the interface right back to where you like it. I'm beginning to enjoy the Chrome-like interface, after about 6 months of disliking it. As far as interface, FF has a big advantage out of the box with the drop-down-awesome-bar.
I'm having the opposite experience - recent updates to FF are running faster and with less memory usage than Chrome on my laptop. Previously, I had relegated FF to third tier browser for about the past year due to its overall sluggishness, but now its back to being the browser of choice.
Microsoft sees this and uses the Apple battle plan because somehow they always survive.
I might be wrong, but I somehow recall MS buying $150 million worth of Apple stock in '97 to help keep the company afloat. Am I wrong on this? I recall it very clearly, so I'm pretty sure there was a significant MS investment in Apple at that time. I think it was tied to putting MS Office on the Macintosh. I thought at the time that MS needed Apple as a competitor due to all the anti-trust investigations?
And did IBM and/or Motorola throw some money into Apple in the '90's related to the Power PC project? Once again, I may be wrong, and I'm having trouble finding sources.
I'm not saying Apple isn't a capable company - clearly they are by modern standards. I just don't know if the "somehow they always survive" statement is completely true standing by itself. Maybe "somehow they always survive - even if they needed a little help from their friends/competitors"?
I'm not trying to say that all euthanasias are a malicious murder. This is not a religious rant. I'm saying that historically (and in modern times as well), this is a VERY slippery slope to go down. "Euthanasia" has been used far too often as a device to grab property and money from a person by simply murdering them. There's a great movie on the subject that just came out this year - "Bernie" - about a "justifiable" murder of an elderly woman in Carthage, Texas in which her money and property were used for the good of the local community after she was "done away with".
Except Godwin proposed ALL online discussions would devolve into a conversation about Hitler and the Nazi's. THIS discussion is about EXACTLY what the Nazi's used as their primary tool to steal property and money from massive numbers of their own populace - euthanasia.
It's the primary teaching hospital attached to Harvard Medical School. So, it's considered a big deal in some circles. I'm sure some would tell you that it may not exactly live up to its billing in all cases.
Even if the DailyFail was being truthful, they shaved what a couple days of misery off the end of a life. Sounds wrong, but not quite so horrible. If I end up in that condition I hope someone is so generous.
Any life intentionally taken without consent is murder. Pure and simple.
Choosing to kill yourself and killing others is quite different. If you cannot see that you are beyond help.
Exactly how it was sold to the German people. Clinging to dogmatic beliefs about euthenasia won't save you from the wolves who would gladly use it against you to grab your property - precisely what the Nazi's were using it for.
Germans needed the "right to die", and were given "mercy killings" beginning with the parent-approved (and Hitler-approved) death of blind, limbless, convulsing infant Gerhard Kretschmar in July, 1939. How easily we forget that this led to 300,000 "mercy killings" of physically disabled and psychiatric patients (including thousands of children and elderly nursing home residents). The patients were selected by their kindly physicians and psychiatrists for death, and this program was actually the precursor to the mass killings of the Jewish concentration camp prisoners. I highly recommend that you DO NOT read the fascinating chapter on the Nazi killing of disabled children, "The Geranium in the Window", in Fredric Wertham's omnibus review of human violence, "A Sign for Cain" (http://www.amazon.com/Sign-Cain-Exploration-Human-Violence/dp/0026259702). It will give you nightmares for decades.
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I'm comparing Linux computer share in the consumer market vs OS X. If you're going to count Android as Linux, then don't forget iOS is OS X derived as much as Android is Linux derived.
So lets just add iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, and Apple TVs to the OS X market share then.
How do you like your new Apple toilet paper? Hope its not too scratchy? The new Apple socks and underwear ok for you?
They're so much less mature than their grandparents' generation - who were blowing up outhouses with sticks of dynamite and drag racing their '57 Chevy's instead.
Constantly checking a phone when in the presence of company not only shows impatience and addiction, but is fucking rude. It's like telling everybody in your presence that they're boring and not worth listening to.
As somebody a little older than the rest of the shithead kids he's in college with, I see it all the time - grown-ass young adults rocking back and forth in their seats, fidgeting, totally unfit for social interaction. If those kids were in grade school when I was, they would have been labeled retarded and put in a special classroom with padded walls. Young punk kids, in their faggotty androgynous skinny jeans, who now get medals just for showing up to the event, have been proven hopeless at courtship due to their incessant masturbating to a grossly cartoonish idea of what real women should look like.
Real life is going to eat you fuckers alive, and I'm gonna point and laugh at each and every one of you.
-- Ethanol-fueled
I tried to read your whole rant, but honestly it was so boring I kept messing with my coolio Samsung Android phone instead. It's probably because I'm only in my 40's and haven't learned to control my attention yet - maybe when I hit my 50's.
This is almost as bad as rock & roll music.
It's as bad as sock-hops, Elvis Presley's dancing, VCR's, Atari games, color television, and carbonated sodas - each of which nearly "destroyed America's youth" at some point in the past 70 years.
But, of course, not quite as bad as Dungeons and Dragons and books about Hobbits. NOTHING could be THAT dangerous to America's youth.
This is almost as bad as rock & roll music.
It's as bad as sock-hops, Elvis Presley's dancing, VCR's, Atari games, color television, and carbonated sodas - each of which nearly "destroyed America's youth" at some point in the past 70 years.
Offer the Lebanese hacker an extra $1,000 or so for documented evidence of the competitor hiring him for the DDoS. Let the attack carry on unabated. Sue the competitor for tortious interference, and ask the judge for a massive amount of punitive damages. Get paid about 1000X the amount you lost due to the DDoS attack.
Get some old lady fined $1,000,000 for hacking and maybe people will figure out that they should secure it or turn it off.
Yeah, that's real workable. Courts love to hammer those old ladies.
Harder than a Liam Neeson roundhouse kick to the face. Ahhh - best "woosh" of the week. Made my day.
He's the one with the wallet that says "Bad Mutherfu..." Oh wait. Sorry, wrong guy. I always get Brian and Jules mixed up for some reason.
Apparently you did.
SUSE is a big company with an army of engineers and a big stable of products. They are some of the biggest contributors to numerous projects, such as KDE, LibreOffice, and make a lot of commits to kernel development. If they really decide to support ARM architecture, they should bring a lot to the table.
Also, the openSUSE implementation of KDE Plasma Netbook environment is a fast desktop with low graphics requirements. Combined with the SUSE GUI config tools (YAST2), you would have a zippy yet robust distro running on ARM without the need to dive into CLI for every modification. This could be useful for small screens, virtual keyboard arrangements, etc.
And quite obviously not being able to charge the battery on a mobile phone makes the whole thing quite useless.
Reminds me of the scene in Book of Eli where he gets his iPod trickle-charged from the crazy old dude in the electronics shop. Would the N900 charge if you turned the phone off after you had installed Gentoo, or still not?
Thus, I abhor Mozilla's decision to try and compete with Chrome in terms of cutting the interface
Only takes a few clicks to put the interface right back to where you like it. I'm beginning to enjoy the Chrome-like interface, after about 6 months of disliking it. As far as interface, FF has a big advantage out of the box with the drop-down-awesome-bar.
I'm having the opposite experience - recent updates to FF are running faster and with less memory usage than Chrome on my laptop. Previously, I had relegated FF to third tier browser for about the past year due to its overall sluggishness, but now its back to being the browser of choice.
Microsoft sees this and uses the Apple battle plan because somehow they always survive.
I might be wrong, but I somehow recall MS buying $150 million worth of Apple stock in '97 to help keep the company afloat. Am I wrong on this? I recall it very clearly, so I'm pretty sure there was a significant MS investment in Apple at that time. I think it was tied to putting MS Office on the Macintosh. I thought at the time that MS needed Apple as a competitor due to all the anti-trust investigations? And did IBM and/or Motorola throw some money into Apple in the '90's related to the Power PC project? Once again, I may be wrong, and I'm having trouble finding sources. I'm not saying Apple isn't a capable company - clearly they are by modern standards. I just don't know if the "somehow they always survive" statement is completely true standing by itself. Maybe "somehow they always survive - even if they needed a little help from their friends/competitors"?
and, don't forget, it will "squirt"...
... from the Xune-pad "squircle" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune_Pad
The iShyt.
Catchy, edgy name.
That one will have deeper brown tones.
The case will be a pleasant earthy-brown color.
I'm not trying to say that all euthanasias are a malicious murder. This is not a religious rant. I'm saying that historically (and in modern times as well), this is a VERY slippery slope to go down. "Euthanasia" has been used far too often as a device to grab property and money from a person by simply murdering them. There's a great movie on the subject that just came out this year - "Bernie" - about a "justifiable" murder of an elderly woman in Carthage, Texas in which her money and property were used for the good of the local community after she was "done away with".
Except Godwin proposed ALL online discussions would devolve into a conversation about Hitler and the Nazi's. THIS discussion is about EXACTLY what the Nazi's used as their primary tool to steal property and money from massive numbers of their own populace - euthanasia.
It's the primary teaching hospital attached to Harvard Medical School. So, it's considered a big deal in some circles. I'm sure some would tell you that it may not exactly live up to its billing in all cases.
Even if the DailyFail was being truthful, they shaved what a couple days of misery off the end of a life. Sounds wrong, but not quite so horrible. If I end up in that condition I hope someone is so generous.
Any life intentionally taken without consent is murder. Pure and simple.
Choosing to kill yourself and killing others is quite different. If you cannot see that you are beyond help.
Exactly how it was sold to the German people. Clinging to dogmatic beliefs about euthenasia won't save you from the wolves who would gladly use it against you to grab your property - precisely what the Nazi's were using it for.
Or this wonderful tidbit from just 2 summers ago: "Almost half of Belgium's euthanasia nurses admit to killing without consent": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285423/Half-Belgiums-euthanasia-nurses-admit-killing-consent.html
Germans needed the "right to die", and were given "mercy killings" beginning with the parent-approved (and Hitler-approved) death of blind, limbless, convulsing infant Gerhard Kretschmar in July, 1939. How easily we forget that this led to 300,000 "mercy killings" of physically disabled and psychiatric patients (including thousands of children and elderly nursing home residents). The patients were selected by their kindly physicians and psychiatrists for death, and this program was actually the precursor to the mass killings of the Jewish concentration camp prisoners. I highly recommend that you DO NOT read the fascinating chapter on the Nazi killing of disabled children, "The Geranium in the Window", in Fredric Wertham's omnibus review of human violence, "A Sign for Cain" (http://www.amazon.com/Sign-Cain-Exploration-Human-Violence/dp/0026259702). It will give you nightmares for decades.