The author sold the rights off for a chunk of cash knowing full well at the time that she had no creative control over the content of the movies and then turns around and bitches about how the producers screwed up the stories finishing her rant with an admonishment about responsibility.
How about her own responsibility back when she was looking to sell the rights? All she saw was dollar signs. Why couldn't she have refused to sell the rights? It sounds like she wants to have her cake and eat it, too.
Dude, the Porsche 911 Turbo is an entire package, a complete experience. People who simply want to "keep up" with the competition don't buy these things. And I doubt the $30,000 Eclipse statement. Maybe you can seriously tune an import to outrun a 911 Turbo on a drag strip, but I sure as hell wouldn't pick the Eclipse as my starting point (Supra maybe?) and I'm betting it would cost quite a bit more than just $30,000. And I'm just talking building it here. Putting enough horsepower through a stock drivetrain to get an Eclipse to do 0 to 60 mph in roughly 4.2 seconds would more than likely put enough stress on things to break an axle, wear your diff. out prematurely, etc. You're going to end up with one repair bill after another or an endless upgrade cycle as you keep replacing stock items to handle the massive power increases. And you still don't have a complete package that was designed to work together. Just a hodgepodge of upgrades that maybe do what you want them to do. Then, we can talk about the suspensions and handling characteristics of the two cars. By all accounts (major car mags), the newest 911 Turbos are some of the easiest and safest cars to drive at speeds of 150+ mph. They're effortless and quick in every gear. Cruising along in sixth on the freeway and want to pass that semi? Who needs to downshift??? Plus, there's always the exclusivity factor and styling differences between the two. While many people like the Eclipse styling-wise (I don't - can't stand the bump in the hood), which would you rather take your date in to the prom or drive away in from your wedding or just peal out of the parking lot in after work on a Friday? Now, the Porsche will probably cost you more in speeding tickets. I'll give you that. But let's not kid ourselves about the Eclipse with a few bolt on parts here folks. Maybe if all we're comparing between the two is how fast they do a quarter mile, but even then I'm guessing it'd cost you a bit more than $30,000 to build up an Eclipse.
This is news? Has anyone actually been buying Apple CRTs lately? Apple has sold some of the absolute lowest quality CRTs, especially the 17 inchers and that one 15 inch model, of any company in the past 5 years. No Mac user in their right mind would have purchased one of those butt ugly Apple displays and risk getting yet another in a string of shitty, not to mention overpriced, Apple branded sorriest excuses for a Trinitron that I have ever seen. That's the whole reason for their proprietary monitor connection, to convince people they are getting a better deal when buying an ugly Apple monitor as opposed to Sony or Mitsubishi. Wow, just one cord! Buy a freakin' iMac if you're afraid of cords!!! Anyway, remember years ago when you always needed an adapter for a non-apple monitor? They moved to a standard plug around the same time they were having mucho quality issues with their monitors. Now, they're moving back towards a proprietary connection again. Any other Mac users get the sense that Apple never stops talking out of both sides of their mouth??? "We're open, we like standards... here's another proprietary (monitor) connection. Let me take away your nice standard SCSI and give you firewire", which at the time nobody made shit for - and they still don't. It's all IDE to FireWire converters. "Here's an easy to open, easy to upgrade case, and a CPU on a daughtercard that uses a ZIF socket. But don't you dare try to upgrade it... for we want you to buy a whole new Mac! Why here's a new Mac now! It's the same basic motherboard as your model, but it ships with a G4 installed. All you need is another $3,000!!!"
That's right folks... I'm just a bitter B&W G3 user who is still pissed about the firmware upgrade, disguised as a performance/stability enhancement, that disabled G4 support on my motherboard. Sure, there are workarounds from the upgrade companies, but jesus it would be nice to see Apple publicly admit this mistake (if you want to be real forgiving and call it that - I consider it more outright hostility towards your customers) and issue a new firmware upgrade that takes away any restrictions. An isolated incident you say? Forgive and forget you say? Right. I laughed my ass off when I heard of that recent firmware upgrade for their newest products that disabled a ton of third party memory. These are concious decisions, folks! Deja vu. How about giving people a choice and asking them if they wish to continue using memory that is possibly out of spec? Possibly being the operative word since most of that memory was, in fact, fine. Luckily, I haven't purchased a new Mac since my B&W, otherwise I coulda got screwed again. Of course, that's for our own good... trust them, they're Apple. They know what's best. Yeah, I trust Apple about as much as I would trust politicians to operate without adult (taxpayer/voter) supervision.
Question Authority. Question Apple. They're no better than Microsoft or the IBM of yesteryear... they're just not as powerful.
Actually, the difference between Apple and Microsoft is that Apple feels free to fuck you because they think you love them. Apple therefore alienates anyone and everyone. Microsoft doesn't want to fuck you over, because they know you already hate them.
And isn't apologizing just to apologize just another form of posturing? Don't do it if you don't mean it and the U.S. obviously wouldn't mean it.
I personally think they should have sent a Seal team in the first night to get them out. Then, they could have bombed the shit out of that airbase and sent Clinton over to lie (one of his talents) to the Chinese about it and say it didn't have anything to do with the U.S. Maybe he could even hold a few fund raisers (another of his specialties) over there to help with those tax cuts that Big Business Bush wants to shove through the U.S. Congress. How's that sound???
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A hacker conference at the Mistake on the Lake? What is this world coming to...
The author sold the rights off for a chunk of cash knowing full well at the time that she had no creative control over the content of the movies and then turns around and bitches about how the producers screwed up the stories finishing her rant with an admonishment about responsibility.
How about her own responsibility back when she was looking to sell the rights? All she saw was dollar signs. Why couldn't she have refused to sell the rights? It sounds like she wants to have her cake and eat it, too.
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Who cares if SecureDigital cards are evil? The Palm's also accept MultiMediaCards...
Some of us, however, like to turn corners, too.
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That's right folks... I'm just a bitter B&W G3 user who is still pissed about the firmware upgrade, disguised as a performance/stability enhancement, that disabled G4 support on my motherboard. Sure, there are workarounds from the upgrade companies, but jesus it would be nice to see Apple publicly admit this mistake (if you want to be real forgiving and call it that - I consider it more outright hostility towards your customers) and issue a new firmware upgrade that takes away any restrictions. An isolated incident you say? Forgive and forget you say? Right. I laughed my ass off when I heard of that recent firmware upgrade for their newest products that disabled a ton of third party memory. These are concious decisions, folks! Deja vu. How about giving people a choice and asking them if they wish to continue using memory that is possibly out of spec? Possibly being the operative word since most of that memory was, in fact, fine. Luckily, I haven't purchased a new Mac since my B&W, otherwise I coulda got screwed again. Of course, that's for our own good... trust them, they're Apple. They know what's best. Yeah, I trust Apple about as much as I would trust politicians to operate without adult (taxpayer/voter) supervision.
Question Authority. Question Apple. They're no better than Microsoft or the IBM of yesteryear... they're just not as powerful.
Actually, the difference between Apple and Microsoft is that Apple feels free to fuck you because they think you love them. Apple therefore alienates anyone and everyone. Microsoft doesn't want to fuck you over, because they know you already hate them.
Kindergarten teachers are the root of all evil.
And isn't apologizing just to apologize just another form of posturing? Don't do it if you don't mean it and the U.S. obviously wouldn't mean it.
I personally think they should have sent a Seal team in the first night to get them out. Then, they could have bombed the shit out of that airbase and sent Clinton over to lie (one of his talents) to the Chinese about it and say it didn't have anything to do with the U.S. Maybe he could even hold a few fund raisers (another of his specialties) over there to help with those tax cuts that Big Business Bush wants to shove through the U.S. Congress. How's that sound???
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