Well, I can't talk about the other people, but for me was due to the player interface. I couldn't care less for the store, and actually there's no iTunes for Linux (and that's a good think) so the so called "integration" is also totally irrelevant for me.
On the other hand you should be allowed what you want with your phone or your computer because you bought the thing.. it's not like you're borrowing it. I know what's best for me, not Steve Jobs.
Well, when Apple mocks PC's for having problems and that most of the Apple fanboys and fangirls are always repeating the mantra that "it just works" specially on talks about free software versus proprietary one, you can't really complain that everyone starts pointing the issues that the Apple platform have.
YMMV but for me Apple and Apple fanboys are starting to get really annoying with their "holier than thou" attitude... And about the "cult of Apple".. c'mon, the queues to buy the iPhone and having the employes cheering the customers.. that really seems a cult to me...
Even though Apple now seems fasionable around this parts (theres no day that at least post doesn't appear about Apple, and i really don't see the point of having posts about new Apple comercials) one thing that seems to be missing is how Apple likes to control what their user base does.
Granted, Mac OSX can be called a real operating system (instead of a glorified window manager like it was in past), and it is even better than Windows (well, that part isn't really that hard to accomplish is it?:-) ). I would even go as far to say that Mac OSX is easier to use then Linux (or other Free Software OS) by the regular user.
Nevertheless this issue with France made clear that Apple doesn't want their products to be used with other products. They go as far as easing interoparability of their systems with other products, but not the other way around. Even accepting the argument that their products give you more freedom of use because you don't loose time configuring a lot of things or trying to understand how they work, this is as long as you work with their products as Apple intended them to be used (and this can even change along time, as the EULA of the iTunes Music store clearly states).
And i find the argument of "stated promoted piracy" laughable, to say the least. I would love to see someone from Apple saying with a straight face that all the iPods out there only carry "legally purchased music"...
One thing is to make things understandable. Another is to try to make you believe that life evolving outside earth will be almoust the same. Come on, even the guys clothes are similar to ours! They wear suits and ties, even the dresses are similar. And "Colonial One" ?? give me a break. This is more then metafore, is a total lack of imagination. Perhaps i've read too much science fiction, but honestly i really can't understand why people are so excited with this new series. Like i said before, the original series was cheesy, but we we're in the seventies, and i was six years old.. At that age you accept a lot:-). Now, in 2006, i would expect to have something a bit more inteligent and not a copycat of the United States in another galaxy. I know that this is an american series and mainly oriented to an american public, but i would expect to have a more "alien" feeling to a series that happens thousands of light-years away from us, in a culture that has 12 centuries and evolved totaly independently from us. At least in the original series they tried that.
The original series was cheesy, granted. But at least they tried to give the idea that human life in other planets would evolve in a somewhat diferent way. At least they tried. In the new series you get the feeling that i passes in earth some years in the future. The clothes are similar, the names are similar (and curiously very english sounding), and even the president's ship is caled colonial one. Colonial One? Come on! What are the chances that human life evolving paralel to earth would be so similar to us like you see in the new series?
I'm not saying that the original series was a masterpiece, and probably i'm more tolerant to it because i saw it when i was six. And yes the special effects in the new series are a lot better, the acting is a lot better (well, Lorne Greene was good), and the script has a lot less holes then the first one. But this new series leaves a taste in your mouth of re-heated food. Something that you eat yesterday, enjoyed but now it just doesn't taste the same.
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Youre right. As far as i know only the media reported that
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Why would there be? It was a possible bomb, probably a plane, probably a passenger plane, that flew into the tower for some unknown reason. With the news that there were about 4 to 6 planes that disaperead, i think that this was more than evidence that something strange was happening
(and there were at least one Palestinian claim, anyway.) That claim was allready proved to be false. Besides the israeli secret services said that "no way. this guys dont have the resources for that).
Anyway, what is the point in making a terrorist attack withouth claiming it?
What is your point? [Air Force One being a target] Well, if they were trying to pull a stunt like that they would need at least:
A really good pilot. Its a lot harder to hit a moving target than an huge building
Be incredibly stupid. What chances does have a comercial airplane againts 3 fighter planes?. In the other hand, if this was indeed an arab terrorist attack they are incredibly stupid, because it was obvious from the first second that this was going to backfire in whoever was responsible for it
Anyway, this whoever was responsible for this, this was a tragedy. The loss of human life, specially inocent civilians, is always a tragedy and monstruous. But, unfortunatly it seems that there are some losses that seem more tragic for the media than others:-(
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As this was a suicide mission it didn't really matter what they left behind!! Only the people in the planes went into a suicide mission... and i dont believe that they pulled this alone
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And was anyone certain this was a terrorist attack until the second plane hit? Well, as far as im concerned, i did suspected of a terrorist attack when the first plane crashed.. Where talking about a plane crashing into an huge building with a trajectory that seemed to predictable..
I would call that [the car with the manuals] a clue. A too easy clue for me.. someone who does prepare this kind of attacks and leaving behind such an clue.. well, it seems too perfect
Are we now supposed to believe that the CIA staged the Russian Of course not.. on the other hand, why should we believe that he isnt still working for his former bosses?
claim of responsibility because it would guarantee retaliation So whats the point in making the attack? To prove that the US was vulnerable? Heck, there was at least a book talking about the huge vulnerabilities in the american airports
The hallmark of conspiracy paranoia is that the easily answered question Well, looking at the fact that this is indeed very handy for some agencies, and that there is a recorded history of almoust all inteligence agencies being involved in conspiracies, its indeed easy to be a bit paranoid.
Now, im not saying that this is indeed a conspiracy, but there are too many doubts unanswered, and too many fingers pointing easily to the usual suspects..
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I am on the verge of thinking that someone wants a war with Irak
Not wanting to seem a conspiracy theory loony, there are a lot of other facts that also doesnt seem to sum up right:
The second plane hitted 18 minutes after the first, and there wasent a fighter plane nowhere in sight
One rented car found with manuals in arab about "How to pilot a commercial plane"? How convenient..
Bin Laden was until some years financed and trained by the CIA
Noone claimed the responsability of this attaks. What's the point in making a terrorist strike withouth any kind of claim? Ok, ok, im lying.. the Japanese Red Army claimed to be the responsibles.. yeah, right
There is word that one of the targets was Air Force One.. Air Force One? Really? The same that is always escorted by 3 fighter planes?
I can be really wrong, but it seems that there is more to this than it mets the eye.
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Well, on the other hand, when christians conquered Lisbon, the stories tell us that there was a river of arab blood making the horses slip.. and im talking about portuguese stories, not arab ones. Or what about that time that king richard lion-heart killed 3 thousand prisoners so they didnt slowed him down?
And dont make me start talking about what the inquisition made here in Portugal and in Spain to the jew community.
Im not a muslim, but from the lessons in history we can easily see who teached religious intolerance to whom
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Well, I can't talk about the other people, but for me was due to the player interface.
I couldn't care less for the store, and actually there's no iTunes for Linux (and that's a good think) so the so called "integration" is also totally irrelevant for me.
On the other hand you should be allowed what you want with your phone or your computer because you bought the thing.. it's not like you're borrowing it. I know what's best for me, not Steve Jobs.
Well, when Apple mocks PC's for having problems and that most of the Apple fanboys and fangirls are always repeating the mantra that "it just works" specially on talks about free software versus proprietary one, you can't really complain that everyone starts pointing the issues that the Apple platform have.
YMMV but for me Apple and Apple fanboys are starting to get really annoying with their "holier than thou" attitude... And
about the "cult of Apple".. c'mon, the queues to buy the iPhone and having the employes cheering the customers.. that really seems a cult to me...
Even though Apple now seems fasionable around this parts (theres no day that at least post doesn't appear about Apple, and i really don't see the point of having posts about new Apple comercials) one thing that seems to be missing is how Apple likes to control what their user base does.
:-) ). I would even go as far to say that Mac OSX is easier to use then Linux (or other Free Software OS) by the regular user.
Granted, Mac OSX can be called a real operating system (instead of a glorified window manager like it was in past), and it is even better than Windows (well, that part isn't really that hard to accomplish is it?
Nevertheless this issue with France made clear that Apple doesn't want their products to be used with other products. They go as far as easing interoparability of their systems with other products, but not the other way around. Even accepting the argument that their products give you more freedom of use because you don't loose time configuring a lot of things or trying to understand how they work, this is as long as you work with their products as Apple intended them to be used (and this can even change along time, as the EULA of the iTunes Music store clearly states).
And i find the argument of "stated promoted piracy" laughable, to say the least. I would love to see someone from Apple saying with a straight face that all the iPods out there only carry "legally purchased music"...
One thing is to make things understandable. Another is to try to make you believe that life evolving outside earth will be almoust the same. Come on, even the guys clothes are similar to ours! They wear suits and ties, even the dresses are similar. And "Colonial One" ?? give me a break. :-).
This is more then metafore, is a total lack of imagination. Perhaps i've read too much science fiction, but honestly i really can't understand why people are so excited with this new series. Like i said before, the original series was cheesy, but we we're in the seventies, and i was six years old.. At that age you accept a lot
Now, in 2006, i would expect to have something a bit more inteligent and not a copycat of the United States in another galaxy. I know that this is an american series and mainly oriented to an american public, but i would expect to have a more "alien" feeling to a series that happens thousands of light-years away from us, in a culture that has 12 centuries and evolved totaly independently from us. At least in the original series they tried that.
The original series was cheesy, granted. But at least they tried to give the idea that human life in other planets would evolve in a somewhat diferent way. At least they tried. In the new series you get the feeling that i passes in earth some years in the future. The clothes are similar, the names are similar (and curiously very english sounding), and even the president's ship is caled colonial one. Colonial One? Come on! What are the chances that human life evolving paralel to earth would be so similar to us like you see in the new series?
I'm not saying that the original series was a masterpiece, and probably i'm more tolerant to it because i saw it when i was six. And yes the special effects in the new series are a lot better, the acting is a lot better (well, Lorne Greene was good), and the script has a lot less holes then the first one. But this new series leaves a taste in your mouth of re-heated food. Something that you eat yesterday, enjoyed but now it just doesn't taste the same.
Youre right. As far as i know only the media reported that
With the news that there were about 4 to 6 planes that disaperead, i think that this was more than evidence that something strange was happening
(and there were at least one Palestinian claim, anyway.)
That claim was allready proved to be false. Besides the israeli secret services said that "no way. this guys dont have the resources for that).
Anyway, what is the point in making a terrorist attack withouth claiming it?
What is your point? [Air Force One being a target]
Well, if they were trying to pull a stunt like that they would need at least:
Anyway, this whoever was responsible for this, this was a tragedy. The loss of human life, specially inocent civilians, is always a tragedy and monstruous. But, unfortunatly it seems that there are some losses that seem more tragic for the media than others
As this was a suicide mission it didn't really matter what they left behind!!
Only the people in the planes went into a suicide mission... and i dont believe that they pulled this alone
And was anyone certain this was a terrorist attack until the second plane hit?
Well, as far as im concerned, i did suspected of a terrorist attack when the first plane crashed.. Where talking about a plane crashing into an huge building with a trajectory that seemed to predictable..
I would call that [the car with the manuals] a clue.
A too easy clue for me.. someone who does prepare this kind of attacks and leaving behind such an clue.. well, it seems too perfect
Are we now supposed to believe that the CIA staged the Russian
Of course not.. on the other hand, why should we believe that he isnt still working for his former bosses?
claim of responsibility because it would guarantee retaliation
So whats the point in making the attack? To prove that the US was vulnerable? Heck, there was at least a book talking about the huge vulnerabilities in the american airports
The hallmark of conspiracy paranoia is that the easily answered question
Well, looking at the fact that this is indeed very handy for some agencies, and that there is a recorded history of almoust all inteligence agencies being involved in conspiracies, its indeed easy to be a bit paranoid.
Now, im not saying that this is indeed a conspiracy, but there are too many doubts unanswered, and too many fingers pointing easily to the usual suspects..
Not wanting to seem a conspiracy theory loony, there are a lot of other facts that also doesnt seem to sum up right:
I can be really wrong, but it seems that there is more to this than it mets the eye.
And dont make me start talking about what the inquisition made here in Portugal and in Spain to the jew community.
Im not a muslim, but from the lessons in history we can easily see who teached religious intolerance to whom