the show was good when it was driven by character exposition, not by one-liners and guest stars. (how many famous people were on the show but not as themselves?) now that it's all about homer being an idiot... it's not the same. i still watch, though.
and i think my ten favorite episodes are all pre-1996, and are written by john swartzwelder and conan o'brien.
1. get over one-click. it's not the end of the world. that shouldn't stop you from "evangelizing," which by the way is NOT what apple needs -- no offense, but it's not religion, it's computing.
2. you didn't really read the article,did you?
3. how is this all the bodily damage you say it is? please explain it. just crying won't convince anyone (except the other anti-apple folks in this forum). back it up.
i just wish the Powers That Be would stop posting apple-related stories. nobody really reads the damn article -- they just start flaming cupertino. then somebody comes along about 10o posts in to say that, wait a minute, whatever was alleged isn't really what apple is doing.
by that point we've all wasted too much time on something silly. apple, katz... it's all the same.
what fantasy world do you live in? the NPR that i listen (and contribute financially) to is incredibly "liberal" politically and socially. same thing for CNN, NBC, nytimes.com... they're all biased.
this myth of "objectivity" hurts news reporting. nobody is unbiased. it's not possible to lack a point of view. the key to news is understanding the reporting agency's perspective and filter accordingly.
that's how i can listen to rush limbaugh AND subscribe to the nation at the same time.
"you had an extra comma in the 23rd paragraph! what a moron! i can't believe slashdot lets this guy post! he doesn't know anything about linux!"
one day, i hope katz writes about macintosh -- good things, mainly -- so that the heads of thousands of slashdot readers will explode all at once.
he's a good writer with good points. people pick on him for the silliest of reasons. it debases the dialogue on this page when people start flaming him. i am rather disappointed by the intelligence and maturity of some of the posters here.
yeah, i own 2 macs (six if you count the ones in the closet that i'm collecting) and i too read/.... and i think the problem with stories like these: people are so rabidl anti-apple that if jobs and co. came out with a cure for cancer, they'd be flamed.
apple can do nothing right to most readers of this page. i'm tired of reading the rantings. maybe i'll go over to macslash and see if they do a better job of it...
ah yes, you are correct: it's partly a function of having to relearn everything. but it's also because the classic mac OS (god love it) is so damn simple. it was easy for me, as a production/design person all by myself, to crank out three magazines a month with no IT help whatsoever. we had an eight-mac network set up, all with personal filesharing (cheap company) and it worked just fine.
there is no mystery to using a mac. they just work. installation and removal of apps? simple. where are fonts stored and how do they work with ATM? easy as pie.
this, i think, is why macs are so dominant in this industry. it's because the people using them just want to get their work done. windows, for all its other advantages, still can't touch the classic mac OS in this.
oh, i must disagree with the statement that "if you like tim burton movies, you liked mars attacks." i love tim burton movies and mars attacks was a piece of... well, it wasn't very good. if it was a comedy, i missed all the funny parts. he tried too hard, and with nicholson, he was paying homage to kubrick and "dr. strangelove," but it didn't work. only pam grier makes the movie worth watching...
sorry for the harsh subject... but i'm a mac consultant. i need to have OS X down cold by the time it comes out "for real," so i ordered it and a new iMac at the same time, for purposes of testing the OS.
i spent about $1600, which isn't all that much for a system that will last at least 3-4 years. so perhaps apple's plan is to get some customers to buy new hardware to run the new OS (apple gets most of its revenue from hardware, remember). i think i'm living proof that's true. and it helps us all -- i remember the whining when win95 came out.
related story: my then-employer upgraded to POP/SMTP mail. we had a server in-house and had to install quickmail pro on all the desktops. they all accepted it except for two old 386's. my boss just screamed at our consultants because they couldn't get TCP/IP to work under win3.1.
i always thought he was a bit of a moron to get so angry. asking older technology to do what new technology does is folly.
one can be penny-wise and pound-foolish, and i fear the logic behind this rant is a good example. i hope everyone just ignores it.
not necessarily true... i'm a Mac consultant (stop giggling) and i've found that even when people do understand how the OS works, they don't want to take the time to fix it. my former CEO and i had a big argument about this right before i left my last job to go out on my own; he said it wasn't worth his time to know this stuff, and even if he did (and he did), his time was better spent doing other work. i grudgingly agreed with him on that one.
anyway, he's got a good point. inanimate objects cannot want anything... people want things to be free. or better put, people want the things that they want to be free.
not true. starr subpoeaned her book purchases for a very simple reason: she said she'd purchased some books for president clinton that were related to their sexual liaisons and starr was looking for corroboration, in case (as had happened before) clinton denied ever seeing such a book.
it was a very legitimate query. people got freaked out because they heard starr was looking into her purchases and assumed it was part of his "reckless" investigation.
the disclaimer doesn't mean anything in a court of law. rob could put a note at the bottom saying "all slashdot posters must give andover.net 10 percent of their monthly pay" and it would be as legally meaningful as what's currently there.
it's long-established precedent, in both supreme court cases and common law history, that you cannot be protected from the law, or that you cannot give away your protections, just because you agree to terms that might violate the law in the first place.
i'm not saying microsoft has any sort of case here, but the disclaimer isn't worth the pixels it's printed on. remember the katz book controversy? he was in the right, and the same logic applies.
blah blah blah Macs are dead blah blah blah Linux rules blah blah blah they're just toys blah blah blah Mine is the most tumescent system of all time...
man, the anti-mac postings on here sound suspiciously like homophobic rants by men who are too insecure in their manliness. i'm about done with/.
dude, what the hell do you do for a living? it's certainly not editing, because your comments are silly, nitpicking ones -- and some are just plain wrong. you shouldn't be allowed within 500 feet of an editing position. to paraphrase myself (if such a thing is even possible): as an editor, you're a great dancer. i don't post comments about issues i don't understand on./ and maybe you ought to do the same.
and then i quit reading. i'm not on/. all the time -- i like to see what's being discussed and maybe jump in -- but i'm a hell of a lot less likely to do so if i think i'm going to be called an idiot. think before you type. i agree with what russ had to say, but cripes people, you don't have to belittle someone to embiggen yourself. - paul
so i got my sister the simpsons books for christmas, and as i was looking them over, i noticed that, yes, there weren't as many week-to-week quality episodes, but... surprisingly, it's not all that bad. there might be the occasional groaner, but from seasons, say, seven-present, there are a LOT of classic episodes. those who complain about it are stuck in the past. "worst episode ever." "but --" "worst episode."
oh yeah. i used to be a journalist -- a real one, not a TV person. we suck to date. (wait... that sounds funny) and FWIW, i've only met male techies at the lower levels of companies, but mainly met female CIOs. they're too old for me, but at my level, i work with men, mostly. i wonder how we get so many female bigshots; i would think the troops in real-life training for such jobs would, well, move into such jobs.
this is one of the best arguments i've ever seen made about OS's. in the end, it's just your preference. i use macs because they're easier to use. i don't mind the flat learning curve; i do very much mind the steep one linux has presented me. at the end of the day, i can get more of my work done on a mac. so that's what i use.
if you use windows, *nix or a tandy T-1000, as long as your platform is the best for you to get your job done, good for you. use it, be proud and don't insult other people because they think different(ly) than you do.
right on brother (or sister). the register is a much more informative site, and i don't have to worry about morons posting crap, either, though said crap is fun to read.
Slashdot Mirror
the show was good when it was driven by character exposition, not by one-liners and guest stars. (how many famous people were on the show but not as themselves?) now that it's all about homer being an idiot ... it's not the same. i still watch, though.
and i think my ten favorite episodes are all pre-1996, and are written by john swartzwelder and conan o'brien.
umm ...
1. get over one-click. it's not the end of the world. that shouldn't stop you from "evangelizing," which by the way is NOT what apple needs -- no offense, but it's not religion, it's computing.
2. you didn't really read the article,did you?
3. how is this all the bodily damage you say it is? please explain it. just crying won't convince anyone (except the other anti-apple folks in this forum). back it up.
i just wish the Powers That Be would stop posting apple-related stories. nobody really reads the damn article -- they just start flaming cupertino. then somebody comes along about 10o posts in to say that, wait a minute, whatever was alleged isn't really what apple is doing.
... it's all the same.
by that point we've all wasted too much time on something silly. apple, katz
my proposal: no more apple topics.
NPR unbiased?
... they're all biased.
what fantasy world do you live in? the NPR that i listen (and contribute financially) to is incredibly "liberal" politically and socially. same thing for CNN, NBC, nytimes.com
this myth of "objectivity" hurts news reporting. nobody is unbiased. it's not possible to lack a point of view. the key to news is understanding the reporting agency's perspective and filter accordingly.
that's how i can listen to rush limbaugh AND subscribe to the nation at the same time.
"i'm in love!"
"no, wait -- it's a stroke!"
"you had an extra comma in the 23rd paragraph! what a moron! i can't believe slashdot lets this guy post! he doesn't know anything about linux!"
one day, i hope katz writes about macintosh -- good things, mainly -- so that the heads of thousands of slashdot readers will explode all at once.
he's a good writer with good points. people pick on him for the silliest of reasons. it debases the dialogue on this page when people start flaming him. i am rather disappointed by the intelligence and maturity of some of the posters here.
yeah, i own 2 macs (six if you count the ones in the closet that i'm collecting) and i too read /. ... and i think the problem with stories like these: people are so rabidl anti-apple that if jobs and co. came out with a cure for cancer, they'd be flamed.
...
apple can do nothing right to most readers of this page. i'm tired of reading the rantings. maybe i'll go over to macslash and see if they do a better job of it
ah yes, you are correct: it's partly a function of having to relearn everything. but it's also because the classic mac OS (god love it) is so damn simple. it was easy for me, as a production/design person all by myself, to crank out three magazines a month with no IT help whatsoever. we had an eight-mac network set up, all with personal filesharing (cheap company) and it worked just fine.
there is no mystery to using a mac. they just work. installation and removal of apps? simple. where are fonts stored and how do they work with ATM? easy as pie.
this, i think, is why macs are so dominant in this industry. it's because the people using them just want to get their work done. windows, for all its other advantages, still can't touch the classic mac OS in this.
oh, i must disagree with the statement that "if you like tim burton movies, you liked mars attacks." i love tim burton movies and mars attacks was a piece of ... well, it wasn't very good. if it was a comedy, i missed all the funny parts. he tried too hard, and with nicholson, he was paying homage to kubrick and "dr. strangelove," but it didn't work. only pam grier makes the movie worth watching ...
sorry for the harsh subject ... but i'm a mac consultant. i need to have OS X down cold by the time it comes out "for real," so i ordered it and a new iMac at the same time, for purposes of testing the OS.
i spent about $1600, which isn't all that much for a system that will last at least 3-4 years. so perhaps apple's plan is to get some customers to buy new hardware to run the new OS (apple gets most of its revenue from hardware, remember). i think i'm living proof that's true. and it helps us all -- i remember the whining when win95 came out.
related story: my then-employer upgraded to POP/SMTP mail. we had a server in-house and had to install quickmail pro on all the desktops. they all accepted it except for two old 386's. my boss just screamed at our consultants because they couldn't get TCP/IP to work under win3.1.
i always thought he was a bit of a moron to get so angry. asking older technology to do what new technology does is folly.
one can be penny-wise and pound-foolish, and i fear the logic behind this rant is a good example. i hope everyone just ignores it.
not necessarily true ... i'm a Mac consultant (stop giggling) and i've found that even when people do understand how the OS works, they don't want to take the time to fix it. my former CEO and i had a big argument about this right before i left my last job to go out on my own; he said it wasn't worth his time to know this stuff, and even if he did (and he did), his time was better spent doing other work. i grudgingly agreed with him on that one.
if so, i'm calling my mom ...
... people want things to be free. or better put, people want the things that they want to be free.
anyway, he's got a good point. inanimate objects cannot want anything
not true. starr subpoeaned her book purchases for a very simple reason: she said she'd purchased some books for president clinton that were related to their sexual liaisons and starr was looking for corroboration, in case (as had happened before) clinton denied ever seeing such a book.
it was a very legitimate query. people got freaked out because they heard starr was looking into her purchases and assumed it was part of his "reckless" investigation.
11. Anything, even if it's vaporware, about Apple.
the disclaimer doesn't mean anything in a court of law. rob could put a note at the bottom saying "all slashdot posters must give andover.net 10 percent of their monthly pay" and it would be as legally meaningful as what's currently there.
it's long-established precedent, in both supreme court cases and common law history, that you cannot be protected from the law, or that you cannot give away your protections, just because you agree to terms that might violate the law in the first place.
i'm not saying microsoft has any sort of case here, but the disclaimer isn't worth the pixels it's printed on. remember the katz book controversy? he was in the right, and the same logic applies.
typical /. poster:
...
/.
blah blah blah Macs are dead blah blah blah Linux rules blah blah blah they're just toys blah blah blah Mine is the most tumescent system of all time
man, the anti-mac postings on here sound suspiciously like homophobic rants by men who are too insecure in their manliness. i'm about done with
"Here's to you, to all those who have obtained a copy of the BeOS and ..."
..."
hmmm. "here's to the dreamers
BE: think different!
see? even i, a former editor, make mistakes. it should have read: /." not "on ./" ...
"i don't post comments about issues i don't understand on
shit.
dude, what the hell do you do for a living? it's certainly not editing, because your comments are silly, nitpicking ones -- and some are just plain wrong. you shouldn't be allowed within 500 feet of an editing position. ./ and maybe you ought to do the same.
to paraphrase myself (if such a thing is even possible): as an editor, you're a great dancer. i don't post comments about issues i don't understand on
in the immortal words of homer j. simpson, "let the bears pay the bear tax. i pay the homer tax."
"Jon, the problem ... is that idiots like you"
/. all the time -- i like to see what's being discussed and maybe jump in -- but i'm a hell of a lot less likely to do so if i think i'm going to be called an idiot.
and then i quit reading. i'm not on
think before you type. i agree with what russ had to say, but cripes people, you don't have to belittle someone to embiggen yourself.
- paul
so i got my sister the simpsons books for christmas, and as i was looking them over, i noticed that, yes, there weren't as many week-to-week quality episodes, but ...
surprisingly, it's not all that bad. there might be the occasional groaner, but from seasons, say, seven-present, there are a LOT of classic episodes.
those who complain about it are stuck in the past.
"worst episode ever."
"but --"
"worst episode."
oh yeah. i used to be a journalist -- a real one, not a TV person. we suck to date. (wait ... that sounds funny) and FWIW, i've only met male techies at the lower levels of companies, but mainly met female CIOs. they're too old for me, but at my level, i work with men, mostly. i wonder how we get so many female bigshots; i would think the troops in real-life training for such jobs would, well, move into such jobs.
this is one of the best arguments i've ever seen made about OS's. in the end, it's just your preference. i use macs because they're easier to use. i don't mind the flat learning curve; i do very much mind the steep one linux has presented me. at the end of the day, i can get more of my work done on a mac. so that's what i use.
if you use windows, *nix or a tandy T-1000, as long as your platform is the best for you to get your job done, good for you. use it, be proud and don't insult other people because they think different(ly) than you do.
right on brother (or sister). the register is a much more informative site, and i don't have to worry about morons posting crap, either, though said crap is fun to read.