You would do well to note that he said 'In the Soviet Block.' Ie, they were used by the Soviet gov't as propaganda. I think we can all believe that, considering that's what anyone who has ever gotten into space has done.
So I suggest/you/ leave your reactionary rants to more germane topics; commanding conversants to 'shut the fuck up', while certainly demonstrative of a strong, take-no-prisoners American spirit, makes for poor discussion.
You are accusing these folks of being 'bitches' for paying up to $500 and having the batteries just plain die? If I were you, I'd be annoyed that it lasted 1:30 less than advertised, but I wouldn't complain.
However. Your situation is not theirs, and providing your riveting example of abusive use does not weaken the argument that Apple is screwing up here. Unless you want to claim a) that these batteries are not dying, and are the product of a conspiracy, or that b) $100 is an acceptable price for a small battery (or comparable prices for a poorly designed power cable, even while under warranty, I might add - grrr....), you probably should watch who you are namecalling.
What, this is supposed to be/useful/? Aside from the aforementioned lack of context with graphs, the other pictures aren't too helpful either. Here's what I gleaned from a quick look at the site: Arnold Schwarzenegger did something, some guy in a bike helmet did something, a fat dude in a suit sat down.
How this serves as anything other than a mildly interesting diversion is beyond me.
You know, it's funny - I just had pretty much the diametrically opposite experience.
After having been a gentoo/Mdk8.2 user for a long time, I got a 15" Powerbook, and barely even touched my PC laptop for a month. OS X was heaven; everything worked, and it was pretty.
More or less on a lark I decided to re-install Linux and Windows on the laptop. This time I went with Fedora. After installation, nearly everything worked perfectly. I had to dive into XF86Config to get the right resolution, but wifi worked perfectly, and all other devices too. It took me a little while to get all the red hat nonsense out there - no GNOME or KDE for me, thanks - but as soon as I got my windowmanager of choice up - fluxbox, though I actually switched to pekwm and am even MORE pleased - it felt really, really good to have the flexibility of a Linux windowmanager back. Since then I haven't really left my Linux box, and my Powerbook is playing mp3s and serving internet.
My point is this: I have found that not only is Linux ready for the desktop, but there is one element that is light years ahead of Windows OR OSX: the windowmanager. Linux allows for an infinite number of infinitely configurable windowmanagers at the individual user's choice. Sure, a complete n00b might be confused by the concept of a windowmanager, but Linux will never be strengthened by making believe its core concepts don't exist. It wasn't difficult at all to install my windowmanager - install the binary, and then type a line into.xinitrc. And now I have a desktop experience that not only equals, but in fact surpasses that I have with either of my other two OSes.
I actually think the perceived loss here will be greater than the actual one. Not to troll - this isn't a 'Red Hat sucks' post - but in my experiences with the latest two Red Hat distros, there was really nothing that distinguished them greatly from Mandrake. Without a doubt, RH is the industry leader in desktop distros, but I don't necessarily think the community will lose too much in the way of diversity or choice. Then again, Mandrake is sticking ads in its desktop distros now too, aren't they? Maybe this is the beginning of the end of the free corporate desktop distribution?
Only the most insane, irrational zealot would pooh-pooh/all/ forms of copyright. Of course images and designs deserve to be copyrighted - or does anyone find acceptable the ridiculous treatment Bill Watterson's creations have at the hands of profiteering tee-shirt makers?
The community at large has always been more concerned with fair use; you should be able to listen to a song as much as you like, or mod your xbox if you paid for it, and by that same token you should be allowed to display whatever you want on your desktop or your wall. But you can't sell someone else's song for your own profit, and it is equally unethical to steal someone else's image and attempt to make some money off of that.
The mindset I have encountered more than once in high school (both studying and working there) is an ill-placed faith in software. Given the choice between a $20,000 license package for something that purports to be an out-of-the-box cure-all, and that same 20,000 going towards better or more faculty, the heads of the tech dept. always, always go for the software.
It was a joke. 'Enter Sandman' is a famous Metallica song off 'the black album', Metallica, known by many as the album where Metallica turned mainstream. (Don't flame me, please, I love the album!)...And Justice For All and Master of Puppets are earlier Metallica albums.
Even if Windows users don't care about choice, and in fact would prefer a standardized interface, it should matter little to the Linux community. The Linux community thrives by improving its own software (as it is, and will continue doing), not by catering to the needs of those who don't even use it. I applaud any effort to make Linux user interfaces more user-friendly, and will quickly say that there is much work to be done in that regard, but a concerted effort to reduce freedom of choice in an attempt to appeal to Windows users can do nothing but to harm Linux further.
The Linux community should indeed seek to convert users - but it should seek to convert those intelligent enough and (most importantly) willing to put the effort into understanding the operating system. The community itself gains absolutely NOTHING if it gains a thousand users who don't understand Linux, and loses much in the way of support and the average level of competence.
This should not be interpereted as some elitist turning-up of noses towards the unwashed computing masses, but Linux and Windows are very different, and to try and cover up or alter what Linux is in order to make it closer to Windows is suicide.
I think you miss the point; Java is not designed for the sort of speed and efficiency necessary for, say, startup scripts. So, in the context of Java's purpose, those features are not really important. Java is designed for portability and the ease-of-use (from a programmer's standpoint) that comes with the very large amount of memory management that the virtual machine takes care of. Does this result in a larger footprint, and slower operating times? Undoubtedly. But if those things are mission critical, do not program in Java.
The fact of the matter is that for some time - several years, now - the 'low end' of new PCs is still far and away capable of performing any tasks that a user could want, perfectly - except for games and high-powered media applications. It's really those two markets which propel the hardware side at this point.
You'd think a 'technical writer' or 'IT Editor' would be a little more knowledgeable about 'basic computing concepts' like 'disk partitioning' and maybe wouldn't use so many 'extraneous unnecessary quotation marks'.
When I was in high school, several times a week I found myself needing my cell phone to arrange for rides or coordinate plans with my parents. When I didn't have my phone, I was left high and dry, with no communication and no way to get home, more than once.
Are any Mac users crying their eyes out over this one? All my experiences with IE for OSX have been exceedingly unpleasant. It seems to me that Microsoft is just reducing some of the clutter in the market.
This obviously never occured; everyone knows BSD is dying. Therefore, a new release certainly could never have occurred. It's been dying for years, after all.
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You would do well to note that he said 'In the Soviet Block.' Ie, they were used by the Soviet gov't as propaganda. I think we can all believe that, considering that's what anyone who has ever gotten into space has done.
/you/ leave your reactionary rants to more germane topics; commanding conversants to 'shut the fuck up', while certainly demonstrative of a strong, take-no-prisoners American spirit, makes for poor discussion.
So I suggest
Wait, wait, wait.
You are accusing these folks of being 'bitches' for paying up to $500 and having the batteries just plain die? If I were you, I'd be annoyed that it lasted 1:30 less than advertised, but I wouldn't complain.
However. Your situation is not theirs, and providing your riveting example of abusive use does not weaken the argument that Apple is screwing up here. Unless you want to claim a) that these batteries are not dying, and are the product of a conspiracy, or that b) $100 is an acceptable price for a small battery (or comparable prices for a poorly designed power cable, even while under warranty, I might add - grrr....), you probably should watch who you are namecalling.
What, this is supposed to be /useful/? Aside from the aforementioned lack of context with graphs, the other pictures aren't too helpful either. Here's what I gleaned from a quick look at the site: Arnold Schwarzenegger did something, some guy in a bike helmet did something, a fat dude in a suit sat down.
How this serves as anything other than a mildly interesting diversion is beyond me.
You know, it's funny - I just had pretty much the diametrically opposite experience.
.xinitrc. And now I have a desktop experience that not only equals, but in fact surpasses that I have with either of my other two OSes.
After having been a gentoo/Mdk8.2 user for a long time, I got a 15" Powerbook, and barely even touched my PC laptop for a month. OS X was heaven; everything worked, and it was pretty.
More or less on a lark I decided to re-install Linux and Windows on the laptop. This time I went with Fedora. After installation, nearly everything worked perfectly. I had to dive into XF86Config to get the right resolution, but wifi worked perfectly, and all other devices too. It took me a little while to get all the red hat nonsense out there - no GNOME or KDE for me, thanks - but as soon as I got my windowmanager of choice up - fluxbox, though I actually switched to pekwm and am even MORE pleased - it felt really, really good to have the flexibility of a Linux windowmanager back. Since then I haven't really left my Linux box, and my Powerbook is playing mp3s and serving internet.
My point is this: I have found that not only is Linux ready for the desktop, but there is one element that is light years ahead of Windows OR OSX: the windowmanager. Linux allows for an infinite number of infinitely configurable windowmanagers at the individual user's choice. Sure, a complete n00b might be confused by the concept of a windowmanager, but Linux will never be strengthened by making believe its core concepts don't exist. It wasn't difficult at all to install my windowmanager - install the binary, and then type a line into
Now we're /.ing websites that don't even EXIST yet? For chrissake, give them a chance to build the thing before you blow it into oblivion.
Also: Wasn't the whole digital actress/lara croft meme really hip like, 5 years ago?
I actually think the perceived loss here will be greater than the actual one. Not to troll - this isn't a 'Red Hat sucks' post - but in my experiences with the latest two Red Hat distros, there was really nothing that distinguished them greatly from Mandrake. Without a doubt, RH is the industry leader in desktop distros, but I don't necessarily think the community will lose too much in the way of diversity or choice. Then again, Mandrake is sticking ads in its desktop distros now too, aren't they? Maybe this is the beginning of the end of the free corporate desktop distribution?
Don't look at me. I use Gentoo.
no - quidquid in latin means 'whatever'.
Just means he's been stupider, for longer.
--From the guy with a lower UID himself
Only the most insane, irrational zealot would pooh-pooh /all/ forms of copyright. Of course images and designs deserve to be copyrighted - or does anyone find acceptable the ridiculous treatment Bill Watterson's creations have at the hands of profiteering tee-shirt makers?
The community at large has always been more concerned with fair use; you should be able to listen to a song as much as you like, or mod your xbox if you paid for it, and by that same token you should be allowed to display whatever you want on your desktop or your wall. But you can't sell someone else's song for your own profit, and it is equally unethical to steal someone else's image and attempt to make some money off of that.
The mindset I have encountered more than once in high school (both studying and working there) is an ill-placed faith in software. Given the choice between a $20,000 license package for something that purports to be an out-of-the-box cure-all, and that same 20,000 going towards better or more faculty, the heads of the tech dept. always, always go for the software.
It was a joke. 'Enter Sandman' is a famous Metallica song off 'the black album', Metallica, known by many as the album where Metallica turned mainstream. (Don't flame me, please, I love the album!) ...And Justice For All and Master of Puppets are earlier Metallica albums.
Thank you.
Even if Windows users don't care about choice, and in fact would prefer a standardized interface, it should matter little to the Linux community. The Linux community thrives by improving its own software (as it is, and will continue doing), not by catering to the needs of those who don't even use it. I applaud any effort to make Linux user interfaces more user-friendly, and will quickly say that there is much work to be done in that regard, but a concerted effort to reduce freedom of choice in an attempt to appeal to Windows users can do nothing but to harm Linux further.
The Linux community should indeed seek to convert users - but it should seek to convert those intelligent enough and (most importantly) willing to put the effort into understanding the operating system. The community itself gains absolutely NOTHING if it gains a thousand users who don't understand Linux, and loses much in the way of support and the average level of competence.
This should not be interpereted as some elitist turning-up of noses towards the unwashed computing masses, but Linux and Windows are very different, and to try and cover up or alter what Linux is in order to make it closer to Windows is suicide.
I think you miss the point; Java is not designed for the sort of speed and efficiency necessary for, say, startup scripts. So, in the context of Java's purpose, those features are not really important. Java is designed for portability and the ease-of-use (from a programmer's standpoint) that comes with the very large amount of memory management that the virtual machine takes care of. Does this result in a larger footprint, and slower operating times? Undoubtedly. But if those things are mission critical, do not program in Java.
The fact of the matter is that for some time - several years, now - the 'low end' of new PCs is still far and away capable of performing any tasks that a user could want, perfectly - except for games and high-powered media applications. It's really those two markets which propel the hardware side at this point.
You'd think a 'technical writer' or 'IT Editor' would be a little more knowledgeable about 'basic computing concepts' like 'disk partitioning' and maybe wouldn't use so many 'extraneous unnecessary quotation marks'.
When I was in high school, several times a week I found myself needing my cell phone to arrange for rides or coordinate plans with my parents. When I didn't have my phone, I was left high and dry, with no communication and no way to get home, more than once.
Are any Mac users crying their eyes out over this one? All my experiences with IE for OSX have been exceedingly unpleasant. It seems to me that Microsoft is just reducing some of the clutter in the market.
Implying, of course, that a Rubik's cube is more than just a useless piece of plastic to begin with.
This obviously never occured; everyone knows BSD is dying. Therefore, a new release certainly could never have occurred. It's been dying for years, after all.
Why would you choose FAT32 over NTFS? What's the advantage?