Malcolm X took the surname "X" to replace his slave name, and pronounced it like the letter (or, if you will, variable) X. Apple created Mac OS 9, and decided to refer to the subsequent version (the tenth version) as Mac OS X to save space and confuse thousands of readers like yourself.
Because the X refers to a version number, pronounce it as "ten." Don't confuse it with a horribly obfuscated windowing system or a variable you might use in algebra class. Don't you dare.
You should know better, Mr. Coward, than to complain about "cheerleaders" coming out to defend the OS of their choice on Slashdot. Oh, and it's "Steve Jobs's," not "Steve Job's." Bow down, face towards Cupertino, and imitate the Macintosh startup sound fifty times.
Don't you have something better to do than troll my comments? All I'm trying to do here is point out how I'm more knowledgeable than everyone else in this thread even though I don't even own a Mac, and you have the audacity to question me. Shame on you.
No need for righteous Unix-centric babbling. As any good Mac zealot could tell you, "mak oh es ten" is the correct way to pronounce the name of the operating system. After all, what comes after 9? X!
Apple never made a grape G3 tower. The only G3 towers they made were beige or Blue and White, hence the color specification.
Really, though, the phrase "revision 1 Blue and White G3" sounds a lot clearer than descriptions like "Asus A7V with a Duron 700 @ 1050 with 128MB Kingston PC133 SDRAM and a Voodoo5 5500 running with FSB oc'ed to 150 and a Golden Orb and a..." that often come up in hardware-oriented newsgroups and chat rooms.
Besides, at least the reviewer managed to color-coordinate his tower and monitor. Give him a little credit.
That's not true. Bill Gates is one of the most prolific authors in history. His visions are leading the Internet down a new path -- not one of command-line numbskullery, but one where the User Experience is king and the user's wishes are second to no one.
As a secular Jew (happy new year!) myself, I have to wonder what a "Jewish atheist" is. It seems like that choice of religion would raise an awful lot of Null Pointer Exceptions.
I mean, if you got so pissed off in Hebrew school at the religious doctrine and the spoiled JAP's, just come out and say so. Lord (oh, sorry) knows I do.
See that word between "Important" and "People" in your title bar there? See it? T, E, C, H. That spells "Tech." Nelson Mandela is not a tech person, so he doesn't get on the list.
Read the fucking headlines before you start ranting.
This is a list of the most important tech people. Without the obvious Al Gore reference, most world leaders have had minimal influence over technology.
Not everyone here reads the articles -- but please, read the headlines!
So just because Bill Gates outranked Linus Torvalds, this list is "pretty useless"? Why do I suspect that if Linus was ranked higher than Gates, Slashdot would be holding a rallying cry and citing it as a sign that Linux really is the greatest achievement in the history of the world?
If hotel prices actually were to increase in Vegas, it's probably because all of the dot-com millionaires could afford them anyway.
Truth is, during COMDEX recently, it was reported that the (ahem) "escort" industry was reaching new levels of (ahem) "utilization." Turns out there are some things that just don't come naturally to geeks.
Actually, the reason why Iomega was so eager to help you out with your click-of-death problem was because they faced a class-action lawsuit from customers about it. Turns out that if you had called earlier, Iomega wouldn't have offered to replace the drive.
How do I know so much about how Iomega sucks? I bought their stock. I recommend you don't do the same.
It would still come as a plain cheese pizza by default, but you could get a third-party add-on (a la Litestep, 98lite, etc) that would remove the cheese and make it acceptable to those who can't or don't eat dairy products.
Yes, I know it's a bad analogy (although the Gallup people used it too) but still it means that Bill Gates is a likable figure. He does things like donating lots of software to charities to score both PR points and tax breaks, and appearing in poor rural India with the prophetic statement that "Health is more important than technology" to keep his image healthy.
(Of course, when I say "he" I mean "his crack team of publicists, speech writers, and image consultants.")
Have you ever tried to use StarOffice? It's enormous, takes forever to load the whole damn office suite so you can open one document, and the whole UI is just a poor rip of Microsoft Office.
At least MS Office on Windows has the good graces to hook itself into your OS, rather than slapping another windowing environment on top of it. An office of any substantial size would have incredible problems migrating from MS Office to StarOffice. I could even see people bringing in their MS Office CD's from their home computers just so they don't have to use that bloated sack of shit that is StarOffice.
You could build your own computer and save money, or you could pay Dell and get a computer that works out of the box. I like building computers myself -- it gives me a great knowledge of how the hardware works inside -- but companies like Dell and Compaq also provide support for these machines.
If you built your system with an Iomega Zip drive and called Iomega for tech support, they charge you $14.95 per incident even as a home user. The tech guys won't even talk to you until they get a credit card number from you, although they don't charge if it turns out to be a hardware problem. Many other component manufacturers are the same, but you should feel lucky if you get a plan like Iomega's -- a lot of smaller merchants won't give you tech support at all, unless you call Taiwan and speak Chinese.
I've been going through a nightmare trying to get a Toshiba CD-ROM to spin up on a Promise controller attached to an Asus motherboard. There's no single point of accountability, and I've wound up buying a new CD-ROM and controller card only to find that they don't solve the problem. Usenet discussions and chat rooms have proven useless. Buying from a company like Dell or Compaq gives the end-user the convenience of one central point for support.
It's cute that you _think_ that Microsoft is despised by the public, but in fact that's not true. When the Microsoft ruling was first handed down, a survey by the Gallup Poll showed that people actually liked Microsoft. 69% of respondents had a positive view of Bill Gates, making him more likeable than either of the two presidential candidates.
What's most important about this case, however, is how few people outside of the whiny geek contingent actually care about the issue. In the poll mentioned earlier, a sizeable number of people responding to the poll were undecided. Most people who use Microsoft products are sometimes annoyed by the crashing and the cost of upgrading systems, but these are the same people who have used AOL for three years despite all of its technical problems. (The reasons for both cases: "everyone uses it, so there can't be something better" and "I already know how to use this, and I don't want to learn something new.")
In fact, according to the Gallup poll once again, the trend is increasing in favor of Microsoft. Try to convert a Microsoft lifer to Linux. The second he/she gets a link to a Windows Media Player or QuickTime movie, a cute EXE attachment like a video greeting card, or a Microsoft Office document for StarOffice to slowly beat to death, you'll have some 'splaining to do.
I believe that AOL/AIM names must start with a letter. Unless people start making names like "l2345678" (note JonKatz-style lowercase 'L' in place of '1') to spoof people, it won't be a problem.
AOL has already started putting (obvious) ads into ICQ. For an ad-free combination of all four of the messengers you named, try Everybuddy for Linux. Pretty decent.
Soon enough, IM'ing will be unified in some way. Remember around 10 years ago, when business people had five different e-mail addresses (AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.) on their business cards? Same deal with IM'ing now. After all, Prodigy used to be the Only Game In Town in terms of modeming for home users, and look what happened to them.
Yeah, really. I hate it when people start to talk to me. It feels all icky and social. I'd prefer just to crawl into my little corner of the world, surrounded by blinking lights and little boxes that behave exactly as I tell them to.
AIM and ICQ names/numbers are quite disposable -- if you want to get someone out of your hair, just create a new account and tell all your friends to message you on it instead. I personally have one ICQ number and as many as 4 AIM names (I've only ever used 2, but the other 2 never expired). I have known people who used upwards of 20 names in their lifetimes, plus more that I didn't know about.
Please, don't believe the hype surrounding the enormous user bases. Many people have an AIM and ICQ account specifically _because_ the two services aren't seamlessly integrated just yet.
I'm all for CMU pride, but did you say it doesn't get as cold in the winter as Boston? Today's the last day of summer, and already Boston is expected to be over 10 degrees (Fahrenheit) warmer than Pittsburgh. But that's okay, because I'll be inside scoring free stuff from big corporations at the Technical Opportunities Conference before '212. So nyah.
And I thought CMU was so geek-friendly because we had Mystery Science Theater 3000's MIKE NELSON here on Monday, and Ralph Nader next Tuesday. Come on our, guys! We need you for Geek Week!
It's the same version. All Palm V's, Vx's, IIIxe's, and IIIc's being sold come with OS 3.5 preinstalled. This upgrade is targeted towards users like myself with older, but still flash-upgradeable, models.
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Malcolm X took the surname "X" to replace his slave name, and pronounced it like the letter (or, if you will, variable) X. Apple created Mac OS 9, and decided to refer to the subsequent version (the tenth version) as Mac OS X to save space and confuse thousands of readers like yourself.
Because the X refers to a version number, pronounce it as "ten." Don't confuse it with a horribly obfuscated windowing system or a variable you might use in algebra class. Don't you dare.
You should know better, Mr. Coward, than to complain about "cheerleaders" coming out to defend the OS of their choice on Slashdot. Oh, and it's "Steve Jobs's," not "Steve Job's." Bow down, face towards Cupertino, and imitate the Macintosh startup sound fifty times.
Don't you have something better to do than troll my comments? All I'm trying to do here is point out how I'm more knowledgeable than everyone else in this thread even though I don't even own a Mac, and you have the audacity to question me. Shame on you.
No need for righteous Unix-centric babbling. As any good Mac zealot could tell you, "mak oh es ten" is the correct way to pronounce the name of the operating system. After all, what comes after 9? X!
Apple never made a grape G3 tower. The only G3 towers they made were beige or Blue and White, hence the color specification.
..." that often come up in hardware-oriented newsgroups and chat rooms.
Really, though, the phrase "revision 1 Blue and White G3" sounds a lot clearer than descriptions like "Asus A7V with a Duron 700 @ 1050 with 128MB Kingston PC133 SDRAM and a Voodoo5 5500 running with FSB oc'ed to 150 and a Golden Orb and a
Besides, at least the reviewer managed to color-coordinate his tower and monitor. Give him a little credit.
That's not true. Bill Gates is one of the most prolific authors in history. His visions are leading the Internet down a new path -- not one of command-line numbskullery, but one where the User Experience is king and the user's wishes are second to no one.
Won't you join in?
As a secular Jew (happy new year!) myself, I have to wonder what a "Jewish atheist" is. It seems like that choice of religion would raise an awful lot of Null Pointer Exceptions.
I mean, if you got so pissed off in Hebrew school at the religious doctrine and the spoiled JAP's, just come out and say so. Lord (oh, sorry) knows I do.
See that word between "Important" and "People" in your title bar there? See it? T, E, C, H. That spells "Tech." Nelson Mandela is not a tech person, so he doesn't get on the list.
Read the fucking headlines before you start ranting.
This is a list of the most important tech people. Without the obvious Al Gore reference, most world leaders have had minimal influence over technology.
Not everyone here reads the articles -- but please, read the headlines!
So just because Bill Gates outranked Linus Torvalds, this list is "pretty useless"? Why do I suspect that if Linus was ranked higher than Gates, Slashdot would be holding a rallying cry and citing it as a sign that Linux really is the greatest achievement in the history of the world?
If hotel prices actually were to increase in Vegas, it's probably because all of the dot-com millionaires could afford them anyway.
Truth is, during COMDEX recently, it was reported that the (ahem) "escort" industry was reaching new levels of (ahem) "utilization." Turns out there are some things that just don't come naturally to geeks.
Actually, the reason why Iomega was so eager to help you out with your click-of-death problem was because they faced a class-action lawsuit from customers about it. Turns out that if you had called earlier, Iomega wouldn't have offered to replace the drive.
How do I know so much about how Iomega sucks? I bought their stock. I recommend you don't do the same.
Oh really? Most of the QuickTime movies I see use some sort of proprietary codec (*cough*Sorenson*cough*) that hasn't been ported to Linux just yet.
It would still come as a plain cheese pizza by default, but you could get a third-party add-on (a la Litestep, 98lite, etc) that would remove the cheese and make it acceptable to those who can't or don't eat dairy products.
Yes, I know it's a bad analogy (although the Gallup people used it too) but still it means that Bill Gates is a likable figure. He does things like donating lots of software to charities to score both PR points and tax breaks, and appearing in poor rural India with the prophetic statement that "Health is more important than technology" to keep his image healthy.
(Of course, when I say "he" I mean "his crack team of publicists, speech writers, and image consultants.")
Have you ever tried to use StarOffice? It's enormous, takes forever to load the whole damn office suite so you can open one document, and the whole UI is just a poor rip of Microsoft Office.
At least MS Office on Windows has the good graces to hook itself into your OS, rather than slapping another windowing environment on top of it. An office of any substantial size would have incredible problems migrating from MS Office to StarOffice. I could even see people bringing in their MS Office CD's from their home computers just so they don't have to use that bloated sack of shit that is StarOffice.
You could build your own computer and save money, or you could pay Dell and get a computer that works out of the box. I like building computers myself -- it gives me a great knowledge of how the hardware works inside -- but companies like Dell and Compaq also provide support for these machines.
If you built your system with an Iomega Zip drive and called Iomega for tech support, they charge you $14.95 per incident even as a home user. The tech guys won't even talk to you until they get a credit card number from you, although they don't charge if it turns out to be a hardware problem. Many other component manufacturers are the same, but you should feel lucky if you get a plan like Iomega's -- a lot of smaller merchants won't give you tech support at all, unless you call Taiwan and speak Chinese.
I've been going through a nightmare trying to get a Toshiba CD-ROM to spin up on a Promise controller attached to an Asus motherboard. There's no single point of accountability, and I've wound up buying a new CD-ROM and controller card only to find that they don't solve the problem. Usenet discussions and chat rooms have proven useless. Buying from a company like Dell or Compaq gives the end-user the convenience of one central point for support.
It's cute that you _think_ that Microsoft is despised by the public, but in fact that's not true. When the Microsoft ruling was first handed down, a survey by the Gallup Poll showed that people actually liked Microsoft. 69% of respondents had a positive view of Bill Gates, making him more likeable than either of the two presidential candidates.
What's most important about this case, however, is how few people outside of the whiny geek contingent actually care about the issue. In the poll mentioned earlier, a sizeable number of people responding to the poll were undecided. Most people who use Microsoft products are sometimes annoyed by the crashing and the cost of upgrading systems, but these are the same people who have used AOL for three years despite all of its technical problems. (The reasons for both cases: "everyone uses it, so there can't be something better" and "I already know how to use this, and I don't want to learn something new.")
In fact, according to the Gallup poll once again, the trend is increasing in favor of Microsoft. Try to convert a Microsoft lifer to Linux. The second he/she gets a link to a Windows Media Player or QuickTime movie, a cute EXE attachment like a video greeting card, or a Microsoft Office document for StarOffice to slowly beat to death, you'll have some 'splaining to do.
Yeah, and we all know how reliable IRC can be. Some IRC networks, particularly the more popular ones, make AOL look stable.
I believe that AOL/AIM names must start with a letter. Unless people start making names like "l2345678" (note JonKatz-style lowercase 'L' in place of '1') to spoof people, it won't be a problem.
AOL has already started putting (obvious) ads into ICQ. For an ad-free combination of all four of the messengers you named, try Everybuddy for Linux. Pretty decent.
Soon enough, IM'ing will be unified in some way. Remember around 10 years ago, when business people had five different e-mail addresses (AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.) on their business cards? Same deal with IM'ing now. After all, Prodigy used to be the Only Game In Town in terms of modeming for home users, and look what happened to them.
Yeah, really. I hate it when people start to talk to me. It feels all icky and social. I'd prefer just to crawl into my little corner of the world, surrounded by blinking lights and little boxes that behave exactly as I tell them to.
AIM and ICQ names/numbers are quite disposable -- if you want to get someone out of your hair, just create a new account and tell all your friends to message you on it instead. I personally have one ICQ number and as many as 4 AIM names (I've only ever used 2, but the other 2 never expired). I have known people who used upwards of 20 names in their lifetimes, plus more that I didn't know about.
Please, don't believe the hype surrounding the enormous user bases. Many people have an AIM and ICQ account specifically _because_ the two services aren't seamlessly integrated just yet.
I'm all for CMU pride, but did you say it doesn't get as cold in the winter as Boston? Today's the last day of summer, and already Boston is expected to be over 10 degrees (Fahrenheit) warmer than Pittsburgh. But that's okay, because I'll be inside scoring free stuff from big corporations at the Technical Opportunities Conference before '212. So nyah.
And I thought CMU was so geek-friendly because we had Mystery Science Theater 3000's MIKE NELSON here on Monday, and Ralph Nader next Tuesday. Come on our, guys! We need you for Geek Week!
It's the same version. All Palm V's, Vx's, IIIxe's, and IIIc's being sold come with OS 3.5 preinstalled. This upgrade is targeted towards users like myself with older, but still flash-upgradeable, models.