You should have seen ESPN tonight- the comment section on an article about the Miami Heat rallying for the kid who got killed turned into a complete race war. It was ugly.
Oh Christ, here we go again... Who the fuck cares how much something costs unless you're buying it. If I want to go off and blow $10K on 1MB of Apple RAM, why the hell do you care? And why do Apple fans need to go around justifying their purchases. Everyone just stop the dick waving. If you're talking about business purchases, fine. For personal use, no one cares if you can build an awesome system that is 30X better than an Apple for $5, or if the Apple will take your system out to dinner and spank it that night over a pile biscuits./rant
I remember a story about one of the first vendor shows the Amiga crew went to. They had a ton of custom chips handwired together, sitting under the table, and they said they just prayed that no one would accidentally kick the boxes. Truly the wild west days of the personal desktop computer scene. I'm glad I was (just) old enough to understand what was going on then. But you're correct, we probably won't see something like that again, until we do.
Exactly. Amiga OS made the Amiga the Amiga (that was powerfully redundant). I still got my 1000 stored away with a big box full of discs... good times, good times.
It will be quicker and easier that way. Blame people, the sun, Apple, Microsoft, China, FSM, Cthulhu, whatever. Everyone has an opinion, with some set of science to back them up for whatever. At this point it is just tiring to listen to endless rounds of "people are at fault," "no they're not!," "yes they are!" and on and on. Guess what- shit happens, yet we always have to make it about ourselves. Even if humans are causing warming, the proposed solutions are shit. No, I don't have any better ideas, but I sure as shit wouldn't dump $500 million on a piece of shit solar plant that failed a year or 2 later, then paid to retrain all the workers.
I was kind of wondering the same thing- "That said, the cables will still have to be laid hundreds of meters below the surface to avoid the tails of roving icebergs." I thought all ocean cables were put on the seabed floor, which generally are fairly deep.
From the various complaints I've read on the internet, either the Apple system fails somehow in the first year or just keeps chugging along. Yes, I've also heard several complaints when something died in the 13th month. Just change it; a few $10,000s won't matter much to you, Apple.
"The only thing we really need petrofuels for is non-tiny aircraft, and in the short term, non-huge boats." Can I assume that you are relying on non-carbon energy sources to provide the electricity?
You just made me think of a new market to explore- iPad hats! Put a little fabric on it, and you can walk around with it and talk on it just like a phone! Maybe have a waterproof accessory, too.
How is this Apple's fault? They don't run the network. And if you're dumb enough to think that a new device has magical properties on your service plan, you deserve what you get.
"Apple is doing worse than attacking Linux. They're attacking the concept of open computing itself, Microsoft's greediest ambitions in the past are better than the world Apple is seeking to create, and to a large extent has succeeded in creating - tablets and phones are just about entirely closed now, and it's creeping into Windows 8 and MacOS."
Has Apple made open computing illegal? No? Ah, Apple just happens to be more popular than open computing alternatives. My God, how evil! How dare they make something that is popular but goes against your ethics! Grow up smarty pants, if open computing was so great, I think someone would have taken that up and ran with it. It's just not as good as what people want. If people want open tablets and phones, there's always Android. And they call Mac Fanbois crazy.
Double nope. The gov doesn't need to tell the US it's the best in the world. We used to be and we knew it, now we're just riding down the downhill slope to crap.
You don't need to be root to install a program. Some programs need an Adminstrator-like account, but it's not root. In OS X's security pane you can essentially shut off root from user access. Non-admins, i.e. normal users, can install most programs.
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You should have seen ESPN tonight- the comment section on an article about the Miami Heat rallying for the kid who got killed turned into a complete race war. It was ugly.
Here's a question- How do you prove that they did get rid of your data after 5 years? Somehow I doubt that security files ever get truly destroyed.
Oh Christ, here we go again... /rant
Who the fuck cares how much something costs unless you're buying it. If I want to go off and blow $10K on 1MB of Apple RAM, why the hell do you care?
And why do Apple fans need to go around justifying their purchases.
Everyone just stop the dick waving. If you're talking about business purchases, fine. For personal use, no one cares if you can build an awesome system that is 30X better than an Apple for $5, or if the Apple will take your system out to dinner and spank it that night over a pile biscuits.
Yeah, wasn't it called the Orange Card or something like that? IIRC, it was just a tad too pricey for me to get one.
I remember a story about one of the first vendor shows the Amiga crew went to. They had a ton of custom chips handwired together, sitting under the table, and they said they just prayed that no one would accidentally kick the boxes. Truly the wild west days of the personal desktop computer scene. I'm glad I was (just) old enough to understand what was going on then. But you're correct, we probably won't see something like that again, until we do.
Exactly. Amiga OS made the Amiga the Amiga (that was powerfully redundant). I still got my 1000 stored away with a big box full of discs... good times, good times.
RFC 1149 to the rescue! Though they really should be using RFC 2549.
Figures, they're surrendering before it even becomes an issue.
It will be quicker and easier that way. Blame people, the sun, Apple, Microsoft, China, FSM, Cthulhu, whatever. Everyone has an opinion, with some set of science to back them up for whatever. At this point it is just tiring to listen to endless rounds of "people are at fault," "no they're not!," "yes they are!" and on and on.
Guess what- shit happens, yet we always have to make it about ourselves. Even if humans are causing warming, the proposed solutions are shit. No, I don't have any better ideas, but I sure as shit wouldn't dump $500 million on a piece of shit solar plant that failed a year or 2 later, then paid to retrain all the workers.
My wife is still pissed Tennant left.
If the 0.1bps is faster than light, what is the practical real-time bandwidth?
I was kind of wondering the same thing-
"That said, the cables will still have to be laid hundreds of meters below the surface to avoid the tails of roving icebergs."
I thought all ocean cables were put on the seabed floor, which generally are fairly deep.
From the various complaints I've read on the internet, either the Apple system fails somehow in the first year or just keeps chugging along. Yes, I've also heard several complaints when something died in the 13th month. Just change it; a few $10,000s won't matter much to you, Apple.
Fact: People who say "Fact" without a citation are basically dumbasses.
Citation- http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fGlRS0W7KWE/TtqB-4V0ufI/AAAAAAAAcx0/4IjuHRIZp3g/s1600/dumbass.jpg
"The only thing we really need petrofuels for is non-tiny aircraft, and in the short term, non-huge boats."
Can I assume that you are relying on non-carbon energy sources to provide the electricity?
They are popular in hospital for nurses. (According to some of my friends in the healthcare biz)
You just made me think of a new market to explore- iPad hats! Put a little fabric on it, and you can walk around with it and talk on it just like a phone! Maybe have a waterproof accessory, too.
How is this Apple's fault? They don't run the network. And if you're dumb enough to think that a new device has magical properties on your service plan, you deserve what you get.
"Apple is doing worse than attacking Linux. They're attacking the concept of open computing itself, Microsoft's greediest ambitions in the past are better than the world Apple is seeking to create, and to a large extent has succeeded in creating - tablets and phones are just about entirely closed now, and it's creeping into Windows 8 and MacOS."
Has Apple made open computing illegal? No? Ah, Apple just happens to be more popular than open computing alternatives. My God, how evil! How dare they make something that is popular but goes against your ethics! Grow up smarty pants, if open computing was so great, I think someone would have taken that up and ran with it. It's just not as good as what people want. If people want open tablets and phones, there's always Android.
And they call Mac Fanbois crazy.
Which ones? The ones under indictment or dead or the new ones?
Bet you thought you were clever here, eh?
I wonder why my cuckoo clock just went off?
Double nope. The gov doesn't need to tell the US it's the best in the world. We used to be and we knew it, now we're just riding down the downhill slope to crap.
Just to silence all the trolls? Please?
You don't need to be root to install a program. Some programs need an Adminstrator-like account, but it's not root. In OS X's security pane you can essentially shut off root from user access. Non-admins, i.e. normal users, can install most programs.
It's called a pillow.