And that Linux box will run iMovie, GarageBand, iTunes, Microsot Office, require no command-line knowledge, and work out of the box with most major peripherals without having to download or install any drivers, right?
Right?
*crickets*
I love linux. I do. I reccomend it constantly. But the truth is, it isn't there yet for most people.
> It's not like Microsoft needs Apple software to work on Windows.
I'm willing to bet that every day, more and more people find that the app they used most often other than a web browser is iTunes. As iTunes gets even more popular, and more people expect and demand iTunes on their computer, this will change mighty quickly.
It'd be a real hoot if Apple wound up writing the killer app for Windows...
I guess you don't value other people's time. Time spent cleaning up their profile. Bandwidth wasted on this stupid little look-at-me script.
Punishment more than suits the offense. If you don't want to be inconvenienced and have your time taken from you by the legal system, don't inconvenience other people and steal their time.
I'm sure the original architects, users, and maintainers of the WWW in the government and educational realms felt the exact same way about the.COM moniker being created in order to open the floodgate of commercialism into their tiny, intellectual ecosystem. And they were right for thinking so. They probably had more reason to be upset about THAT change than ANYONE has to be upset about THIS change.
Adding.XXX on top of.COM is like going to a guy with 90% burns all over his body and holding his hand over a lighter. Yeah, sure you may do a LITTLE damage, but in comparison to what's already been done its meaningless.
The 'net was raped when corporations were allowed to turn it into a vast wasteland of advertising, marketing, and surveillance.
Adding a designated porn area is just the natural progression of things.
Ah, yes, THANK YOU, so much, you WONDERFUL RELIGIOUS PERSON, for TOLERATING us HEATHENS. Yes, we are cowards, and JESUS would certainly agree that you must have BALLS in this world. And the way you BEGRUDGINGLY admit that we are all part of the same RELIGIOUS FAMILY (as opposed to all being equal members of the same species)... MY, WHAT A MODEL CHRISTIAN YOU ARE!
Stupid moderators. This wasn't a troll, its a truthful response to a question posed by another user. I'm sorry if you are some self-serving wannabe techno-geek punk rocker, but you have to admit, the Sex Pistols kinda fucked punk up for everyone else.
It's called "Never Mind The Bollocks" and it is the album responsible for turning the punk lifestyle into a social fad and fashion, and served only to discredit any positive ideas the punk movement had at the time.
I do love that album, but you really have to look at what it did culturally to both the mainstream and the underground that it eventually destroyed.
And, interestingly enough, 30 years later they took that material out on tour for the simple purpose of making money, reflected in the tour's name: The Filthy Lucre Tour. To quote Jello Biafra, they got back together to make money singing songs about how bad the good old days were.
Can we please PLEASE PLEASE stop posting stories from these ridiculous nincompoops? NOTHING they say ever has any merit, its ALWAYS just to drive ad revenue, and ALL of us have better things to do than read these socially retarded jackasses' hair-brained theories.
Slashdot editors, I beg you - if the words Dvorak, Cringley, or Enderle appear in a submission, can you pretty please just delete it?
1. Unclear, unjustified war in a sovereign nation - Check. 2. National obsession with dance at the expense of expanded consciousness - Check. 3. Horrific fashion - Check. 4. Youth culture co-opted by advertising - Check. 5. Government stomping all over personal liberty - Check.
Sorry, dude, you're too late. The Seventies are back in force.
I've never heard a man called a hero for sleeping around. And the women who don't like being called sluts can do something about it: stop sleeping around. People who sleep around are sluts, men and women alike. Deal with it, slut.
Wow, that sounds so easy to use, manage, and deploy across a large-scale environment. Not.
Thanks for providing a great example of how much better Mac OS X is in this regard. By laying out all the steps it takes to have the same functionality as Mac OS X, you revealed the insanely complex, unintuitive, cumbersome, and time-wasting procedure of dealing with UAC in Vista.
You rock. I love when Windows fanboys inadvertendly support my case without even realizing it.
>Nor have I experienced any tremendous suffering (beyond what is expected with PC use)
That is the problem. Microsoft has conditioned you to expect suffering. This is unacceptable.
If you take a step back and read what you have written, you probably put forth the most compelling argument AGAINST Microsoft - that they have lowered the collective standards of computing to the point where people think its OK to get viruses and spyware and think its just 'part of using a PC.' Which, of course, it isn't, unless you happen to be using Windows.
How much bloody knowledge do you need to click the 'there are new updates' taskbar icon (Kubuntu)? Not much. Installing MythTV (which many people may want to do), however, is another matter entirely.
No... Can't really think of many people who even want to mess with those (even though they have it available to them). You're right. We shouldn't give people the ability to learn how to edit movies, record music, author DVDs, etc. Personal expression is overrated. We should take the content we're given and like it.... Like what? Video recording button in a word processor file open dialog? Now, that's just retarded. There is however an audio recording function built into the Mac version of Word so you can record the lecture as you take notes...
Did you really just call a stranger's grandmother a retard?
Way to make a point and have yourself taken seriously, jackass.
Do you get invited ANYWHERE? Or are you just a fucking buzzkill everywhere you go, sulking in the corner thinking about how superior you are to all the other people having fun?
The people that have the knowledge and time to upgrade their kernels and individual system compoents, will. And they will run Linux.
The other 99.9 percent just want something that works that they don't have to fiddle with and is also rock-solid stable and comes w/ incredible media creation apps built in and integrated into every major part of the OS.
Go to the Apple Stores. They are there, ready for purchase, and absolutely smokin'. You wouldn't believe what kind of performance GarageBand has on these things. Haven't tried Logic, as I'm not that advanced musically, but I must say this:
The new Mac laptops are the best thing to happen to musicians since Tascam released the PortaStudio. Period. What other laptop comes pre-installed w/ multitrack audio recording software with built in amp modeling, software instruments, a huge loop library, and optical audio in and out through either FireWire or TOSlink?
Mobile muscians especially should be creaming their jeans over this. Just make sure you get a rugged case. Remember folks, the laws of physics still apply, and metal does dent.
The quote in the summary sounds like the beginning of those first-person porn stories you find in Hustler.
Welll, not necessarily YOU, the reader, but a generalized statement that one could, if one were so inclined, find such lurid tales in the pages of magazines such as Hustler. But one is not necessarily you. Although, you may be one and not even know it.
But that's besides the point. The quote in the summary sounds like the beginning of those first-person porn stories you find in Hustler.
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You are absolutely right.
And that Linux box will run iMovie, GarageBand, iTunes, Microsot Office, require no command-line knowledge, and work out of the box with most major peripherals without having to download or install any drivers, right?
Right?
*crickets*
I love linux. I do. I reccomend it constantly. But the truth is, it isn't there yet for most people.
> It's not like Microsoft needs Apple software to work on Windows.
...
I'm willing to bet that every day, more and more people find that the app they used most often other than a web browser is iTunes. As iTunes gets even more popular, and more people expect and demand iTunes on their computer, this will change mighty quickly.
It'd be a real hoot if Apple wound up writing the killer app for Windows
[partial sarcasm]
All I have to do is ask a girl about American Idol.
If they know any information at all about the winners, contestants, etc., they're off my list.
So far its working out great - I don't have to listen to some mindless tart babble about unimportant bullshit before I f*ck them.
Now if I could just get around having to pay them afterwards.
[/sarcasm]
I guess you don't value other people's time. Time spent cleaning up their profile. Bandwidth wasted on this stupid little look-at-me script.
Punishment more than suits the offense. If you don't want to be inconvenienced and have your time taken from you by the legal system, don't inconvenience other people and steal their time.
Simple formula.
I'm sure the original architects, users, and maintainers of the WWW in the government and educational realms felt the exact same way about the .COM moniker being created in order to open the floodgate of commercialism into their tiny, intellectual ecosystem. And they were right for thinking so. They probably had more reason to be upset about THAT change than ANYONE has to be upset about THIS change.
.XXX on top of .COM is like going to a guy with 90% burns all over his body and holding his hand over a lighter. Yeah, sure you may do a LITTLE damage, but in comparison to what's already been done its meaningless.
Adding
The 'net was raped when corporations were allowed to turn it into a vast wasteland of advertising, marketing, and surveillance.
Adding a designated porn area is just the natural progression of things.
Ah, yes, THANK YOU, so much, you WONDERFUL RELIGIOUS PERSON, for TOLERATING us HEATHENS. Yes, we are cowards, and JESUS would certainly agree that you must have BALLS in this world. And the way you BEGRUDGINGLY admit that we are all part of the same RELIGIOUS FAMILY (as opposed to all being equal members of the same species) ... MY, WHAT A MODEL CHRISTIAN YOU ARE!
Christianity is stupid. Give up.
Nothing makes good music like artificial deadlines and random user-submitted samples of irrelevant chord progressions.
Can't wait to hear all the craptastic whiny love songs and pseudo-rebellious angst-rock.
I gotta stop reading and posting at slashdot within 10 minutes of waking up. Cuz i'm a crabby bastard.
Stupid moderators. This wasn't a troll, its a truthful response to a question posed by another user. I'm sorry if you are some self-serving wannabe techno-geek punk rocker, but you have to admit, the Sex Pistols kinda fucked punk up for everyone else.
You realize its a Beta, right?
I mean, you know, software that's not done yet? Might have some warts or missing functionality? Beta, as in "not the final product."
So, you downloaded BETA software for free, and are complaining of instability and missing functionality?
What, are you retarded?
What, are you retarded?
It's called "Never Mind The Bollocks" and it is the album responsible for turning the punk lifestyle into a social fad and fashion, and served only to discredit any positive ideas the punk movement had at the time.
I do love that album, but you really have to look at what it did culturally to both the mainstream and the underground that it eventually destroyed.
And, interestingly enough, 30 years later they took that material out on tour for the simple purpose of making money, reflected in the tour's name: The Filthy Lucre Tour. To quote Jello Biafra, they got back together to make money singing songs about how bad the good old days were.
So, there's your example.
Can we please PLEASE PLEASE stop posting stories from these ridiculous nincompoops? NOTHING they say ever has any merit, its ALWAYS just to drive ad revenue, and ALL of us have better things to do than read these socially retarded jackasses' hair-brained theories.
Slashdot editors, I beg you - if the words Dvorak, Cringley, or Enderle appear in a submission, can you pretty please just delete it?
1. Unclear, unjustified war in a sovereign nation - Check.
2. National obsession with dance at the expense of expanded consciousness - Check.
3. Horrific fashion - Check.
4. Youth culture co-opted by advertising - Check.
5. Government stomping all over personal liberty - Check.
Sorry, dude, you're too late. The Seventies are back in force.
I've never heard a man called a hero for sleeping around. And the women who don't like being called sluts can do something about it: stop sleeping around. People who sleep around are sluts, men and women alike. Deal with it, slut.
Would you care to show how that long-winded explanation is simple?
Wow, that sounds so easy to use, manage, and deploy across a large-scale environment. Not.
Thanks for providing a great example of how much better Mac OS X is in this regard. By laying out all the steps it takes to have the same functionality as Mac OS X, you revealed the insanely complex, unintuitive, cumbersome, and time-wasting procedure of dealing with UAC in Vista.
You rock. I love when Windows fanboys inadvertendly support my case without even realizing it.
Put down the rolled up Benjamin. Get help. And clean off all those goddamn razor blades.
>Nor have I experienced any tremendous suffering (beyond what is expected with PC use)
That is the problem. Microsoft has conditioned you to expect suffering. This is unacceptable.
If you take a step back and read what you have written, you probably put forth the most compelling argument AGAINST Microsoft - that they have lowered the collective standards of computing to the point where people think its OK to get viruses and spyware and think its just 'part of using a PC.' Which, of course, it isn't, unless you happen to be using Windows.
>... there's this little mobile CPU called the "core duo" which would be great for a very powerful, very small and very quiet as a multimedia system.
exactly!
I had no idea that telescopes had nationality or ethnicity. I just sorta thought they were tools.
How much bloody knowledge do you need to click the 'there are new updates' taskbar icon (Kubuntu)?
... Like what? Video recording button in a word processor file open dialog? ...
Not much. Installing MythTV (which many people may want to do), however, is another matter entirely.
No... Can't really think of many people who even want to mess with those (even though they have it available to them).
You're right. We shouldn't give people the ability to learn how to edit movies, record music, author DVDs, etc. Personal expression is overrated. We should take the content we're given and like it.
Now, that's just retarded. There is however an audio recording function built into the Mac version of Word so you can record the lecture as you take notes
Seriously, do you think before you respond?
Did you really just call a stranger's grandmother a retard?
Way to make a point and have yourself taken seriously, jackass.
Do you get invited ANYWHERE? Or are you just a fucking buzzkill everywhere you go, sulking in the corner thinking about how superior you are to all the other people having fun?
The people that have the knowledge and time to upgrade their kernels and individual system compoents, will. And they will run Linux.
The other 99.9 percent just want something that works that they don't have to fiddle with and is also rock-solid stable and comes w/ incredible media creation apps built in and integrated into every major part of the OS.
Go to the Apple Stores. They are there, ready for purchase, and absolutely smokin'. You wouldn't believe what kind of performance GarageBand has on these things. Haven't tried Logic, as I'm not that advanced musically, but I must say this:
The new Mac laptops are the best thing to happen to musicians since Tascam released the PortaStudio. Period. What other laptop comes pre-installed w/ multitrack audio recording software with built in amp modeling, software instruments, a huge loop library, and optical audio in and out through either FireWire or TOSlink?
Mobile muscians especially should be creaming their jeans over this. Just make sure you get a rugged case. Remember folks, the laws of physics still apply, and metal does dent.
TSIA
The quote in the summary sounds like the beginning of those first-person porn stories you find in Hustler.
Welll, not necessarily YOU, the reader, but a generalized statement that one could, if one were so inclined, find such lurid tales in the pages of magazines such as Hustler. But one is not necessarily you. Although, you may be one and not even know it.
But that's besides the point. The quote in the summary sounds like the beginning of those first-person porn stories you find in Hustler.