I'm still wondering about how the 4/5 of Americans who are Christians became an oppressed minority
... because they're a self-selecting group, the prime criterion being guillability and/or stupidity. That's why they think 5 fish can feed 5,000 - historically, christians have never been able to do the math right.
If you were getting drunk in college, then you're not a true geek. Go find some other profession, we don't want you!
Hey - Darl McBride, fine upstanding mormon, posts on slashdot!
Come on, what's the harm with bringing a few brewskis into the classroom? As long as you share with the teacher, its' all good.
Heck, one of my daughters was telling me about how one of HER profs caught another student rolling a joint in class - gave the kid the height of shit - showed him the "proper way" to roll it, one-handed.
If its never enforced, and all of a sudden it's enforced against you alone, its called "constructive dismissal", and illegal.
As far a a dress code - lets see...
[X] Shave my head (to freak out my kids/friends) [X] Ears (when shaving the head didn't get much of a rise [X] Jeans, t-shirts, old runners, ball-cap [X] Beer on the job (only when they REALLY piss me off)
About the only rule is "try not to bring in more than one dog at a time".
If you can do everything they want, they'll let you do everything you want...
On women, any earrings lowers my estimation of them. 2 in each ear, and I'm not very impressed with them. Any more, or other piercings, or even just midriff showing, and I consider them very, very, very much in poor taste. As I said, something that pagans do. Of course, you masochists/pagans like that, but Christians don't.
You say getting the ear pierced is something that pagans do, but christians don't. You obviously haven't read your own fucking bible.
... and people wonder why I call bible-thumpers ignorant superstitious hicks...
Oh, yeah, that's right - women should be subservient to men, because Adam was created first, then Eve. And people should fear god, because the fear of god is the beginning of wisdom.
Grow up. Get laid. It's a lot more fun than prayer.
Yeah, the paper's "broken". the examples of graph manipulation which he used were contrived, to say the least.
So what if the y axis on one graph had ticks every 100 instead of every 50? I read it as a way of making both graphs the same height - it didn't distort the information. the ticks were clearly labeled (50 or 100 per tick).
Seeing as nobody can actually get to the site hosting symphony (bandwidth limit exceeded, poor sod), and how symphony has squat to do with the headline (whether OSX86 is a threat to linux), I really don't know just WHAT to make of the story.
The headline's a dupe, sure enough.
THe content of the article could charitably be rated "off-topic"...
Maybe the editors have today mixed up with Troll Tuesday.
What I want to know is:
How did Apple keep this (the parallel builds) a secret for 5 years?
Since they DID keep it a secret for so long, why release it NOW?
Since Apple IS capable of keeping secrets, were all the other product leaks "managed", and if so, are they going to retract their lawsuits against prior leakers?
It's good. Now go for the bonus round: include at least one of the following -
an obfuscated link to tubgirl or goat.cx
some GNAA stuff
ascii artwork - just cut-n-paste from trolltalk
Some soviet russia old korean natalie portman does you joke
Claiming you work(ed) on it/knew someone who worked on it for the last 5 years at Apple, and pulled some factoids out of thin air, like Dvorak does.
You can either:
[ ] Dupe your dupe post in the current thread [ ] Dupe your dupe post in the dupe article later today [ ] Dupe your dupe post in the dupe story referncing this dupe on Friday [ ] All of the above
Honestly, I don't know why everyone has got their underwear so caught up in a bunch over this. You can still buy a Mini Mac on the cheap, complete with OS...
I think the REALLY interesting part, and nobody's touched on it yet, is that Apple kept a secret for 5 years. Kind of lends credence to the claims that the other product leaks were intentional.
Hopefully the Mad Crapflooder will repost a bunch of interesting comments from other stories in this thread, and it won't be a complete loss of electrons.
Interesting. An advertisment, disguised as an Apple article, disguised as a Linux topic. Interesting.
... and a dupe on top of that.
We discussed this earlier this week when Dvorak trie d to piss on everyone's parade with the same opinion.
It was BS then. Its BS now. All Apple on x86 does is give street cred to the idea of switching away from the Bitch from Redmond. Eveeryone else benefits at that point.
In other news - the sun shines, the earth rotetes, life goes on.
That is a stretch. I guess the minority does most of the comment posting then
Anyone with half a brain knows that when SCOTUS refuses to hear a case, its over. I haven't seen too many posts trying to say Lexmark gets another kick at the can.
And I enjoy those surgery shows on cable TV, but I don't think you'd want me anywhere near your insides with a knife.
So I guess you wouln't try to do a tracheotomy with a pen knife and a ballpoint in an emergency - better to let the poor sod die?
A lot of stuff isn't terribly complicated - mostly practice, practice, practice.
I've got one on my stove (well, its actually one where the numbers flip over every minute - pseudo-digital). Handy to let me know how long the powers been out, so I can compare it to the ones that are "real digital", and have a battery backup.
Now back on topic - a broken Dvorak would be more useful (so would a broken Roland Piquepaille). I know that's not saying much, but the '90s are SO over!
This isn't going to harm Linux at all - it's going to give ALL alternatives to the Bitch from the Redmond tar pits more credibility.
Dvoraks' 15 minutes of fame are over, have been for more than a decade. So are Roland PiquePailles, as time will tell. Two guys, both spending more time self-promoting than actually DOING anything constructuve.
In the case of Apple to Intel, Dvorak being right is like Microsoft marketing - throw enough shit against the wall... some is going to stick. I'm underwhelmed by his prognosticative abilities.
Not everyone is comfortable running javascript on their local machines, so for them, no drop-down menus, no other fancy dhtml. To provide work-somewhat-alike functionality for those users, you either use framesets of you go back to the server for a LOT more stuff every click.
Its a compromise, and a safe one, because if they have javascript disabled, you can't inject the malicious frame.
Not only is it "old news", but it's also inaccurate. There's a big difference between spoofing a site, and actually "placing malicious content on trusted web sites". One is a browser attack, the other a server attack.
So why can't we get a plug-in to spoof primidi org (Roland Piquepaille's whore "technology site"), for those who can't edit their host file. Not all spoofing is necessarily bad, you know.
For those who are wondering about Roland Piquepaille, slashdot, and primidi, here's a do-it-yourself faq by Roland Piquepaille on how to whore your very own site.
Is Microsoft inherently evil? I think Gates would pull a Clinton, and say "Depends on what you mean when you say the word Evil." At least all Clinton did was carpet-munch, not astroturf.
I heard it wasn't an arrest, but that he volunteered to be a defense witness at the Michael Jackson trial. The deal Piquepaille offered was that in return for testimony admitting to being the real owner of Michael's porn mags, he'd get an exclusive interview on primidi.com, complete with pix of Michael's detachable nose collection, and banner ads from Crazy Glue. Or was it 3M duct tape?
The defense lawyers said they'd wait and see - they want to hear back from a rebuttal witness (the goat.cx guy) first, because they think he'd have more credibility with a jury.
First of all you can be legally obligated to perform in a certain way without a "USA law" saying so
What bullshit. Until someone drags you into court and gets a judgment, you are not legally obligated. Morally obligated, yes. Legally obligated, no.
For example, contracts create legal obligations without being recorded in any state or federal laws
Your example of contracts is way off-base, as contract law IS regulated.
There is no law obliging companies to "maximize shareholder value". Even if they put it in their company charter that they declare that as their "mission", it is not legally binding.
Additionally, there are MANY corporations that are not allowed to operate at a profit (non-profits and philanthropics, for example).
You've been reading too much "Enron justification".
What I was saying is, since you have taken the story of Adam and Eve to say that God is at fault for the fall of man, we should assume the story to be true, just as you assumed the story to be true when you said God was at fault.
Not exactly. Nowhere did I say that we should assume the Bible is true - my arguments make it quite obvious we cannot assume it to be true if it contradicts itself, which it does in many places.
One of the examples is the "manufactrers defect" argument - for, even if we assume (for the sake of argument) that there is a God, and he created Adam and Eve, we still are left with the problem that the cause of the supposed "fall" would be the refusal of the creator to educate the created.
The existence of the God of the Bible is dependent upon the Bible account being accurate; it isn't, being self-contradictory in many areas, and provably wrong in others, such as condemning homosexuality as being abnormal behaviour ("abomination before God", "worthy of death", etc) - when we know there are both genetic and environmental factors involved, and that it is a common trait among mammals.
So, since the Bible is demonstrably wrong, as well as immoral in that it condemns certain classes of people, it should be discarded; its helped promulgate ignorance for thousands of years, and still does today, with such stupidity as "intelligent creation", which still doesn't answer the question "who created the creator".
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Come on, what's the harm with bringing a few brewskis into the classroom? As long as you share with the teacher, its' all good.
Heck, one of my daughters was telling me about how one of HER profs caught another student rolling a joint in class - gave the kid the height of shit - showed him the "proper way" to roll it, one-handed.
As far a a dress code - lets see...
If you can do everything they want, they'll let you do everything you want ...
... and people wonder why I call bible-thumpers ignorant superstitious hicks ...
Oh, yeah, that's right - women should be subservient to men, because Adam was created first, then Eve. And people should fear god, because the fear of god is the beginning of wisdom.
Grow up. Get laid. It's a lot more fun than prayer.
So what if the y axis on one graph had ticks every 100 instead of every 50? I read it as a way of making both graphs the same height - it didn't distort the information. the ticks were clearly labeled (50 or 100 per tick).
Seems to understand pretty well what the average /.er is looking for ...
THe content of the article could charitably be rated "off-topic" ...
Maybe the editors have today mixed up with Troll Tuesday.
What I want to know is:
- How did Apple keep this (the parallel builds) a secret for 5 years?
- Since they DID keep it a secret for so long, why release it NOW?
- Since Apple IS capable of keeping secrets, were all the other product leaks "managed", and if so, are they going to retract their lawsuits against prior leakers?
I think THESE are the real "story points" here.- an obfuscated link to tubgirl or goat.cx
- some GNAA stuff
- ascii artwork - just cut-n-paste from trolltalk
- Some soviet russia old korean natalie portman does you joke
- Claiming you work(ed) on it/knew someone who worked on it for the last 5 years at Apple, and pulled some factoids out of thin air, like Dvorak does.
You can either:Honestly, I don't know why everyone has got their underwear so caught up in a bunch over this. You can still buy a Mini Mac on the cheap, complete with OSI think the REALLY interesting part, and nobody's touched on it yet, is that Apple kept a secret for 5 years. Kind of lends credence to the claims that the other product leaks were intentional.
Hopefully the Mad Crapflooder will repost a bunch of interesting comments from other stories in this thread, and it won't be a complete loss of electrons.
We discussed this earlier this week when Dvorak trie d to piss on everyone's parade with the same opinion.
It was BS then. Its BS now. All Apple on x86 does is give street cred to the idea of switching away from the Bitch from Redmond. Eveeryone else benefits at that point.
In other news - the sun shines, the earth rotetes, life goes on.
A lot of stuff isn't terribly complicated - mostly practice, practice, practice.
Now back on topic - a broken Dvorak would be more useful (so would a broken Roland Piquepaille). I know that's not saying much, but the '90s are SO over!
This isn't going to harm Linux at all - it's going to give ALL alternatives to the Bitch from the Redmond tar pits more credibility.
Dvoraks' 15 minutes of fame are over, have been for more than a decade. So are Roland PiquePailles, as time will tell. Two guys, both spending more time self-promoting than actually DOING anything constructuve.
In the case of Apple to Intel, Dvorak being right is like Microsoft marketing - throw enough shit against the wall ... some is going to stick. I'm underwhelmed by his prognosticative abilities.
So, no arguing in other courts that there is an appeal to SCOTUS pending ...
Most of us here "get it". We've been following SCO vs IBM, and snacking on GrokLaw for a few years now, if we didn't have a legal background before.
Its a compromise, and a safe one, because if they have javascript disabled, you can't inject the malicious frame.
For once, the men in dresses get it right! Too bad it takes so long for them to bitch-slap someone.
So why can't we get a plug-in to spoof primidi org (Roland Piquepaille's whore "technology site"), for those who can't edit their host file. Not all spoofing is necessarily bad, you know.
Is Microsoft inherently evil? I think Gates would pull a Clinton, and say "Depends on what you mean when you say the word Evil." At least all Clinton did was carpet-munch, not astroturf.
The defense lawyers said they'd wait and see - they want to hear back from a rebuttal witness (the goat.cx guy) first, because they think he'd have more credibility with a jury.
Right. Today was supposed to be the DUPE of the story.
You're right - normally the editors would get around to posting this on Friday. Guess we'll just have to settle for leftover dupe spamALOT on Friday.
Seriously, I'm putting "127.0.0.1 primidi.com" in my hosts file TODAY.
There is no law obliging companies to "maximize shareholder value". Even if they put it in their company charter that they declare that as their "mission", it is not legally binding.
Additionally, there are MANY corporations that are not allowed to operate at a profit (non-profits and philanthropics, for example).
You've been reading too much "Enron justification".
One of the examples is the "manufactrers defect" argument - for, even if we assume (for the sake of argument) that there is a God, and he created Adam and Eve, we still are left with the problem that the cause of the supposed "fall" would be the refusal of the creator to educate the created.
The existence of the God of the Bible is dependent upon the Bible account being accurate; it isn't, being self-contradictory in many areas, and provably wrong in others, such as condemning homosexuality as being abnormal behaviour ("abomination before God", "worthy of death", etc) - when we know there are both genetic and environmental factors involved, and that it is a common trait among mammals.
So, since the Bible is demonstrably wrong, as well as immoral in that it condemns certain classes of people, it should be discarded; its helped promulgate ignorance for thousands of years, and still does today, with such stupidity as "intelligent creation", which still doesn't answer the question "who created the creator".