I think Chewie's penis is probably larger than most Ewok females. That could lead to some dates ending very awkwardly, e.g. "Sorry Mr. Bundlefluff, but it appears as though I have impaled your daughter on my engorged Kashyyk love muscle."
I wish I hadn't posted to this thread so I could mod this one down.
I agree with everything you said except for the whole Green Day thing. Why the hell do people still like these talentless losers? See my posts elsewhere in this thread for my feelings on Green Day. Basically it amounts to the fact that after 13+ years they should be a damn sight better than they are, and they haven't done a single thing in their lives that was innovative or original.
I wonder how many Green Day fans have listened to the Descendants... because that's where most of GD's material is ripped off from.
I never said that anyone shouldn't enjoy Green Day. If someone wants to listen to it, that's fine, but don't have any grand delusions about how amazingly talented or innovative they are.
Its like junk food or prime time TV reality shows. It serves a purpose to keep people entertained for a short period of time in between advertising. Now, to respond to some other criticism:
1. Yes, I have listened to American Idiot. Its garbage.
2. mandolins in punk music? there's 2 things wrong with this: a) many REAL punk bands (i.e. pre-1984) used odd instrumentation. The Misfits actually used organs piped through distortion boxes instead of guitars on a few of their earlier tracks from about '79. Steel Pole Bath Tub made heavy use of tape loops and weird effects and time signatures in the late 80s. The list could go on... b) Green Day isn't punk. Punk is not a type of music. Punk WAS a social movement, one that died a loooooooong time ago. Green Day is punk-rock-style music in much the same way that Lean Cuisine serves up "italian style entrees." Most of Green Day's catalogue can be traced directly back to the Descendants anyway.
3. I do like Mogwai and Death Cab for Cutie, haven't heard of the other two, but I'll check 'em out. As far as bands that started in the last 5 years, I honestly haven't been impressed w/ much. Honestly I've been trying to flesh out my jazz collection recently, adding some more Sun Ra and Thelonius Monk and picking up some more Stanely Jordan. Most of the music I've been buying recently are used LPs - they're cheap, they sound great, and I honestly don't think it matters WHEN music is from in the slightest. Any music is new music if you haven't heard it before.
4. Billie Joe Armstrong is a self-important jackass. Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool can play OK, but they play ONE STYLE OK. If you want to hear a rhythm section that absolutely SHREDS, check out Dying Fetus. Neither of the guys from Green Day could play that stuff. If you want something with a little more diversity, try the rhythm section from Tool. I dare you to put Tre Cool in the same room as Danny Carey or Tim Alexander or Mike "Puffy" Bordin and see who wins. For bass players, I'd recommend listening to Trevor Dunn, he actually has a Ph.D. in playing bass. Mark Sandman is another. Or Bill Gould.
5. As far as Metallica goes, you listen to their recent records (i.e. anything from the Black Album forward) in comparison to their early material and then tell me that they are playing to the best of their ability. They aren't, and you know it. They intentionally watered down their music to make it more accessible. THAT is why I personally hate Metallica. Simply because they are selling themselves short and doing it for the cash and aren't even flexing their musical muscles to the best of their ability.
6. YES, I DO SUCK TO LISTEN TO MUSIC WITH. Because most people listen to music for the same reason they watch TV, mindless distraction. I tend to take my music a little more seriously because I value my time on this planet and would rather have my horizons broadened than listen to the recycled crap that record labels are pushing this week.
7. Last, but certainly not least, Green Day has been together for about 13+ years. There's no excuse for them to still suck so dreadfully anymore. They've had PLENTY of time to get better and they haven't. They stagnated and rehashed the same things to keep making money off kids who buy their music at Wal-Mart.
So, in short - like who want, listen to who you want, but don't delude yourself about their musicianship unless you know what the hell you're talking about.
No, you're totally wrong. Green Day has never ONCE done anything that hasn't been done before. Their lyrics are trite, their music is unimaginative, and this whole "concept album" business is BS. They started wearing makeup like those loser sellouts from Metallica and put 4 chords into a song instead of 3, and now everyone thinks their breaking rules. Please. If you want unique and unusual, try Mr. Bungle. Or Naked City. Or Marc Ribot. Or Tom Waits. Or a million other artists that not only have MASTERED THEIR INSTRUMENTS (instead of just getting by with a few chords) and actually have SOMETHING TO SAY (other than the rehashed disaffected youth BS).
I only responded to this because I feel that your opinion illustrates the real problem w/ the RIAA and organisations like it. They have lowered the standards that people have in music, and overshadow truly talented artists w/ a swath of oversaturated advertising... that is the ONLY explanation for calling ANYTHING Green Day does as unique and unusual.
GD's crap wouldn't have been unique or unusual in 1984, let alone 2005.
If you are not dying to play the latest titles you can find many decent games on Macs, but they are pricy. Not true, go to an Apple store. Even the smaller stores have an entire 8 rack shelf dedicated to games, and they really aren't all that pricey.
Mac game typically come out one year after their PC equivalent, cost the same as the PC version when it was first shipped, and don't come down in price very fast. Wrong. Many games now come out simultaneously, and that is getting to the norm more and more, thanks to tech that allows porting of DirectX code to OpenGL easily and quickly. And of course they cost the same as the PC version on first release. These companies have to pay their employees.
It's almost impossible to find games for Macs on shelves even at Apple stores (they usually have a few token ones). You need to buy them online. You've obviously never been to an Apple store. Of course online selection is better - there's no space constraints. Apple store's aren't the size of a Best Buy or a Circuit City. They have a ton of products to cram into a small space. But the game selection is actually quite large, and is given more shelf space than many other, more 'traditional' mac software markets like audio/video production.
Neither Linux or Mac games are a patch on the Windows scene, and that one is being overtaken by consoles at the moment.(/i> Bingo. Anyone who's serious about games needs to buy a console. PCs haven't been at the forefront of gaming for a couple years now. The cost involved in having a super killer PC gaming box far outstrips the performance gains over a console. And if you really have that much time and money to waste just to play games, I implore you, read a book or get another hobby.
See, here's the thing. I love my scroll mouse. I have a really nice Kensington bluetooth mouse w/ 2 buttons and a scrollwheel and its really lovelly. I just sit on the couch and scroll thru my iTunes library on my TV, and all is right with the world.
But more often, I find myself wanting to go page by page rather than line by line (or 3 lines at a time, or whatever). I usually have one hand on the keyboard anyway, and between Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down, I really don't spend as much time scrolling around (move wheel, reposition finger, move wheel again, reposition finger, etc. etc.). I prefer using PU and PD especially on long web pages (like EVERY slashdot article that brings out this pointless Apple vs. PC debate). If I really NEED to go incrementally, then i'll use the scrollbutton. Even though I could accomplish the same task w/ arrow up and arrown down.
So while a scrollwheel is a really nice feature, I don't see it as imperative. There are a million ways to do most things on a computer. Some people will always prefer one way. Others will always prefer the opposive. That's one of the cool things about being human, see? We all work and think and do things in different ways, and that's OK. In fact, I pefer it that way. If we all did things the same way, we'd never have those moments where someone says "Here, let me show you this..." and introduces you to a concept or action that completely revolutionizes the way you work for the better.
I'd rather think that BOTH a single and multi button mouse are useful and necessary, depending on the operator. That's who should really be making the call anway.
I won't bother to rehash the point that you can get a multibutton scroll mouse for five bucks. Or the fact that not assuming a right-click is present forces devs to program their apps more accessibly and well-organized. Or, and here's something that's really interesting: What PC user really has the option of getting their computer with a one-button mouse for simplicity's sake? The one who buys an Apple, that's who.
For the record, I don't use either in day to day writing. If its a professional writing job, I'll use a spell check.
And most professional writers proof and edit their own copy LONG before it winds up in the hands of an editor.
I don't think it is elitist to expect people to be able to weild their own launguage properly. I certainly wouldn't want to have every gun owner out there carrying around a manual that they have to reference every time they reach for their pistol. I would expect them to KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE DOING. I am not elitist, you have just accepted lower standards because it is more convenient for you.
GOOD. I think that grammar check is a lousy feature. Not because it doesn't work, but because it encourages laziness and encourages people to rely on automated helpers rather than learn their native language. If I'm reading something that someone wrote, I want to know that they wrote it THEMSELVES, that they know how to construct sentences and use language effectively and properly. It is important in making hiring decisions as well. If someone comes off great on paper, but can't make conversation on the same level as their augmented written works, then they will be less effective employees.
How is this different than spell check? Dictionaries have always been readily available to double-check your work, and it is much harder to memorize the exact spelling of every word in a language than it is to master the much fewer rules of sentence structure and the like. Also, in speech, spelling doesn't matter, only pronunciation. So as long as you can form sentences correctly and pronounce words correctly, you don't sound like an ass.
Grammar check is contributing to the dumbing down of culture. If we continue to rely on automation to provide us with the basics of communication, communication will begin to break down and fail more and more often...
Speaking as a Monkeyman, I am highly offended by the insinuation that George W. Bush is a Monkeyman, you insensitive clod.
To wit: We Monkeymen are a generally peaceful race, encouraging community growth and prosperity through distribution of resources and responsiblity. Disputes are often solved through rational discussion of all available information and opnion, and in trivial matters, a simple game of rock, leaf, branch will do.
Additionally, Monkeymen are well groomed and rarely taken off guard or out of context, as our cognitive capabilities allow us a great deal of awareness, clear communication, and understanding of our surroundings.
Drug addiction is virutally non-existent in the Monkeyman community, save for the occassional guarana-chewer, and even then, those Monkeymen make excellent banana harvesters.
We have no concrete theological system, which probably contributes to the long-standing peace our race has acheived, and those Monkeymen who do believe in a higher power use their beliefs to foster understanding, compassion, and goodwill without regards to the beliefs of our neighbors, friends, or even mortal enemies from the CrocoSapien camp across the river.
Lastly, Monkeymen realize that our personal opinions of other Monkeypersons' actions are only that - opinion. We do not try to use questionable and subjective criteria such as "moral values" as a reasoning to impose our will on other Monkeymen if their actions have no direct effect on other Monkeymen.
Contrast these qualities with your so-called Monkeyman of Penn. Ave, and I think you'll see that your judgement of Monkeymen is offensive, short-sighted, and uneducated.
I hope that I was able to clear up some misconceptions that many humans have about Monkeymen and our social behavior.
I was getting SOOOOOO sick of that 17MB copy taking 20min. troll. Its good to see the trolls have banded together to stay relevant and on top of the new hardware Apple is releasing. I would hereby like to congratulate all trolls for propogating and expanding upon their repetoire of meaningless and ill-educated flamebait. Truly, being a Mac user wouldn't be nearly as much fun without the raging OS envy evident in these hilarious and thoroughly entertaining posts.
it ain't cheap. took me a LOT of cash and a good amount of time (slowly over 2.5 years) to get it together.
I'm using the Tempo Trio card from Sonnet (ATA 133/FireWire/USB 2.0), a D-Link 10/100 enet card, Radeon 7000 video card (although now you can get the 9200 Mac edition for the same price I paid for the 7000). Got 200GB of internal storage hooked up via the Tempo Trio, and a Pioneer 104 DVD burner. Of course now you can get the 108 for about $120 less than I paid for the 104. So realistically it'll be cheaper for you to supercede my specs than I paid for my upgrades;) At the heart of it all is a G4/800 I got for $300. Now you can get the G4/1000 for $350. I use the EyeTV USB, but now you can get the FireWire versions (much better quality, HD-TV ready). Plus a Kensington bluetooth mouse, and also use a Keyspan Digital Media Remote (I have the 15-key version, now its 17 keys).
XPost Facto is necessary to get Panther running... Toast comes in very handy... Handbrake for DVD ripping, ffmepgX for video re-encoding, VLC for AVI and VCD playback, I use EyeTV as my main media player, iTunes of course, iPhoto of course, and other odds n ends.
A great project that was a lot of fun. And I can turn my nose up at a measly TiVO. Geek bragging rights, WHAT!
The fact that the Linux commumity is so bent on getting iTunes to run on Linux is a testament to how great of a program iTunes is.
Linux users are usually a lot more critical of their software. While a lot of Linux doesn't have the polish or fit 'n' finish of some Windows software, the quality of the code is taken more seriously, as is the functionality of the software. It may not always LOOK pretty, but it is usually very powerful and well written.
There are a lot of programs that try to emulate iTunes, both on Linux and Windows (LTunes anybody?). But it seems that the Linux community would rather see iTunes itself running on Linux than a knock-off. I see this as a 'kudos' to Apple from the Linux community, for producing software so good that linux devs bust their balls to get it working.
I applaud the efforts of Codeweavers and hope that they are able to get full functionality very soon. While I would like to see Apple write a version of iTunes for Linux (in a way legitimizing the platform as a desktop alternative), this is certainly welcome and very impressive.
To everyone involved with this: Awesome job. Keep up the good work. Now if we could just get Apple and linux devs working together on more projects (khtml, for instance) perhaps we'll see a day where Apple software could be run on both Linux and Mac OS X... and maybe Windows later on if they feel like recoding it;)
but if you have a powerbook, its a lot easier. Get bluetooth if its not already built in, pick up the Kensington bluetooth mouse (AWESOME mouse!), buy a $20 adapter to plug your DVI-out into S-VIDEO or Composite Video into the TV, and mouse from the couch.
If you need keyboard input, you can bring up an onscreen keyboard to click on w/ the mouse (via the International pref pane) or just get a bluetooth keyboard.
This way I'm able to use DVD player, iTunes, VLC, iPhoto, etc etc etc on my TV from the comfort of my couch. Add an EyeTV and you don't even need a DVD player, VCR, PVR, etc. Plus, you get full control over file formats, burning, encoding, editing out commercials yadda yadda yadda.
My friends rave about TiVO and I laugh. All you need is the cables to plug your PB into the TV and a bluetooth mouse, and you're set.
I can't tell you how cool it is to pause live TV, Exposé into Safari to check the IMDB or whatever you're curious about, then pick back up. Or adding custom icons to all my South Park epsiodes from their website.
Just as an FYI, there's a company called "coderus ltd" that produces a product called MacDX. It acts as a bridge between DirectX and the Mac OS:
http://www.coderus.com/
So things might not be as hard as they were in the past...
First he says that iPod owners are all theives (which is weird, because most of the music purchased online goes onto iPods), now he's saying its the hardware company's fault that his product is pirated.
Let me set this straight for you, B-man. The reasons for these two phenomenons are VERY similar:
1) People mainly pirate music because almost NO ONE feels that a CD is worth $17. Its price gouging, its unfair, they stifle competion, and the record company fatcats are getting disgustingly wealthy by ripping off artists and the public while pushing a mediocre product.
2) People priate MS software because almost NO ONE feels that their OS is worth $300, and almost NO ONE feels that their Office package is worth $400. Its price gouging, its unfair, they stifle competion, and the coporate heads are getting disgustingly wealthy by ripping off coders and the public while pushing a mediocre product.
Games run just fine on Mac OS X and modern Macs have plenty good hardware for casual gamers (the iMac) or serious gamers (PowerMac G5). Apple even has a website devoted to gaming. Most modern games are released for Mac OS X as well as Windows. Your argument is SOOOOOO 1996.
All they did was install OS X via PearPC on Linux running on the XBox. As far as I know:
1. Linux has been running on the XBox for a while. 2. It has already been demonstrated that PearPC can emu PowerPC on x86 and run Mac OS X (albeit slowly)
All they did was give instrux on how to compile PearPC for the XBox, which any seasoned Linux user could have figured out if they tried. Beyond that, wouldn't this be SLOW AS DIRT?!?! Even on a very fast x86 desktop machine, PearPC crawls like a gimp sloth w/ no hind legs. And wouldn't most XBox-Linux users probably also have a faster x86 PC that they could run OS X thru PearPC on?
I fail to see how this is interesting in the slightest. Maybe I'm jaded, but to me it seems there's nothing new here. Please move along...
Is Bill telling his employees in the Mac Business Unit that all their hard work is going to be for nothing? Is he planning on shutting down the MacBU, an that's why he's saying Mac OS won't be around?
man, that's really f-ed up. Maybe the Windows Office team are getting jealous of how good the Mac version of Office is getting and are planning on burning the MacBU to the ground...
I have to buy special "Macintosh" software, and if I add any third-party product (like memory or disk drives), Apple won't service it, even if I'm paying for the repairs.
OK, name one operating system that doesn't require applications to be written/compiled specifically for it. Name one operating system that you can run Mac, Linux, Windows, Solaris, and OS/2 binaries on natively. Can't think of any? That's what I thought.
And Apple WILL service your machine if you add RAM and hard drives. What you stated is an outright lie. If your 3rd party devices are the cause of your problem however, why should apple fix/replace components that they didn't supply? Are you going to go to Dell when the Crucial memory you bought goes on the fritz?
You, sir, have no idea what you are talking about.
Microsoft includes Mozilla and IE in its default Windows install. This is something we would NEVER expect any other company to do. See the Nissan/Mazda example above. Also, what about people that don't like EITHER, should they also include Opera and Konqueror ports?
Mac OS X installs IE and Safari by default. IE being the dominant browser at the time that Safari was released, it was and still is included so that the end user has a choice.
It just so happened that in the little while that Safari has been available (compared to IE and Netscape, for instance) it has become the #1 browser on Mac OS X.
Trust me, some companies DO offer a choice out-of-the-box that incorporates other companies' solutions. And in this case, the customer's have overwhelmingly shut out IE. I'm willing to bet that if MS included another browser (Firefox or some other lightweight browser w/ tabs and popup blocking built in) it would quickly take marketshare away from IE.
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I think Chewie's penis is probably larger than most Ewok females. That could lead to some dates ending very awkwardly, e.g. "Sorry Mr. Bundlefluff, but it appears as though I have impaled your daughter on my engorged Kashyyk love muscle."
I wish I hadn't posted to this thread so I could mod this one down.
I agree with everything you said except for the whole Green Day thing. Why the hell do people still like these talentless losers? See my posts elsewhere in this thread for my feelings on Green Day. Basically it amounts to the fact that after 13+ years they should be a damn sight better than they are, and they haven't done a single thing in their lives that was innovative or original.
I wonder how many Green Day fans have listened to the Descendants... because that's where most of GD's material is ripped off from.
I never said that anyone shouldn't enjoy Green Day. If someone wants to listen to it, that's fine, but don't have any grand delusions about how amazingly talented or innovative they are.
Its like junk food or prime time TV reality shows. It serves a purpose to keep people entertained for a short period of time in between advertising. Now, to respond to some other criticism:
1. Yes, I have listened to American Idiot. Its garbage.
2. mandolins in punk music? there's 2 things wrong with this: a) many REAL punk bands (i.e. pre-1984) used odd instrumentation. The Misfits actually used organs piped through distortion boxes instead of guitars on a few of their earlier tracks from about '79. Steel Pole Bath Tub made heavy use of tape loops and weird effects and time signatures in the late 80s. The list could go on... b) Green Day isn't punk. Punk is not a type of music. Punk WAS a social movement, one that died a loooooooong time ago. Green Day is punk-rock-style music in much the same way that Lean Cuisine serves up "italian style entrees." Most of Green Day's catalogue can be traced directly back to the Descendants anyway.
3. I do like Mogwai and Death Cab for Cutie, haven't heard of the other two, but I'll check 'em out. As far as bands that started in the last 5 years, I honestly haven't been impressed w/ much. Honestly I've been trying to flesh out my jazz collection recently, adding some more Sun Ra and Thelonius Monk and picking up some more Stanely Jordan. Most of the music I've been buying recently are used LPs - they're cheap, they sound great, and I honestly don't think it matters WHEN music is from in the slightest. Any music is new music if you haven't heard it before.
4. Billie Joe Armstrong is a self-important jackass. Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool can play OK, but they play ONE STYLE OK. If you want to hear a rhythm section that absolutely SHREDS, check out Dying Fetus. Neither of the guys from Green Day could play that stuff. If you want something with a little more diversity, try the rhythm section from Tool. I dare you to put Tre Cool in the same room as Danny Carey or Tim Alexander or Mike "Puffy" Bordin and see who wins. For bass players, I'd recommend listening to Trevor Dunn, he actually has a Ph.D. in playing bass. Mark Sandman is another. Or Bill Gould.
5. As far as Metallica goes, you listen to their recent records (i.e. anything from the Black Album forward) in comparison to their early material and then tell me that they are playing to the best of their ability. They aren't, and you know it. They intentionally watered down their music to make it more accessible. THAT is why I personally hate Metallica. Simply because they are selling themselves short and doing it for the cash and aren't even flexing their musical muscles to the best of their ability.
6. YES, I DO SUCK TO LISTEN TO MUSIC WITH. Because most people listen to music for the same reason they watch TV, mindless distraction. I tend to take my music a little more seriously because I value my time on this planet and would rather have my horizons broadened than listen to the recycled crap that record labels are pushing this week.
7. Last, but certainly not least, Green Day has been together for about 13+ years. There's no excuse for them to still suck so dreadfully anymore. They've had PLENTY of time to get better and they haven't. They stagnated and rehashed the same things to keep making money off kids who buy their music at Wal-Mart.
So, in short - like who want, listen to who you want, but don't delude yourself about their musicianship unless you know what the hell you're talking about.
No, you're totally wrong. Green Day has never ONCE done anything that hasn't been done before. Their lyrics are trite, their music is unimaginative, and this whole "concept album" business is BS. They started wearing makeup like those loser sellouts from Metallica and put 4 chords into a song instead of 3, and now everyone thinks their breaking rules. Please. If you want unique and unusual, try Mr. Bungle. Or Naked City. Or Marc Ribot. Or Tom Waits. Or a million other artists that not only have MASTERED THEIR INSTRUMENTS (instead of just getting by with a few chords) and actually have SOMETHING TO SAY (other than the rehashed disaffected youth BS).
... that is the ONLY explanation for calling ANYTHING Green Day does as unique and unusual.
I only responded to this because I feel that your opinion illustrates the real problem w/ the RIAA and organisations like it. They have lowered the standards that people have in music, and overshadow truly talented artists w/ a swath of oversaturated advertising
GD's crap wouldn't have been unique or unusual in 1984, let alone 2005.
If you are not dying to play the latest titles you can find many decent games on Macs, but they are pricy.
Not true, go to an Apple store. Even the smaller stores have an entire 8 rack shelf dedicated to games, and they really aren't all that pricey.
Mac game typically come out one year after their PC equivalent, cost the same as the PC version when it was first shipped, and don't come down in price very fast.
Wrong. Many games now come out simultaneously, and that is getting to the norm more and more, thanks to tech that allows porting of DirectX code to OpenGL easily and quickly. And of course they cost the same as the PC version on first release. These companies have to pay their employees.
It's almost impossible to find games for Macs on shelves even at Apple stores (they usually have a few token ones). You need to buy them online.
You've obviously never been to an Apple store. Of course online selection is better - there's no space constraints. Apple store's aren't the size of a Best Buy or a Circuit City. They have a ton of products to cram into a small space. But the game selection is actually quite large, and is given more shelf space than many other, more 'traditional' mac software markets like audio/video production.
Neither Linux or Mac games are a patch on the Windows scene, and that one is being overtaken by consoles at the moment.(/i>
Bingo. Anyone who's serious about games needs to buy a console. PCs haven't been at the forefront of gaming for a couple years now. The cost involved in having a super killer PC gaming box far outstrips the performance gains over a console. And if you really have that much time and money to waste just to play games, I implore you, read a book or get another hobby.
See, here's the thing. I love my scroll mouse. I have a really nice Kensington bluetooth mouse w/ 2 buttons and a scrollwheel and its really lovelly. I just sit on the couch and scroll thru my iTunes library on my TV, and all is right with the world.
But more often, I find myself wanting to go page by page rather than line by line (or 3 lines at a time, or whatever). I usually have one hand on the keyboard anyway, and between Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down, I really don't spend as much time scrolling around (move wheel, reposition finger, move wheel again, reposition finger, etc. etc.). I prefer using PU and PD especially on long web pages (like EVERY slashdot article that brings out this pointless Apple vs. PC debate). If I really NEED to go incrementally, then i'll use the scrollbutton. Even though I could accomplish the same task w/ arrow up and arrown down.
So while a scrollwheel is a really nice feature, I don't see it as imperative. There are a million ways to do most things on a computer. Some people will always prefer one way. Others will always prefer the opposive. That's one of the cool things about being human, see? We all work and think and do things in different ways, and that's OK. In fact, I pefer it that way. If we all did things the same way, we'd never have those moments where someone says "Here, let me show you this..." and introduces you to a concept or action that completely revolutionizes the way you work for the better.
I'd rather think that BOTH a single and multi button mouse are useful and necessary, depending on the operator. That's who should really be making the call anway.
I won't bother to rehash the point that you can get a multibutton scroll mouse for five bucks. Or the fact that not assuming a right-click is present forces devs to program their apps more accessibly and well-organized. Or, and here's something that's really interesting: What PC user really has the option of getting their computer with a one-button mouse for simplicity's sake? The one who buys an Apple, that's who.
For the record, I don't use either in day to day writing. If its a professional writing job, I'll use a spell check.
And most professional writers proof and edit their own copy LONG before it winds up in the hands of an editor.
I don't think it is elitist to expect people to be able to weild their own launguage properly. I certainly wouldn't want to have every gun owner out there carrying around a manual that they have to reference every time they reach for their pistol. I would expect them to KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE DOING. I am not elitist, you have just accepted lower standards because it is more convenient for you.
GOOD. I think that grammar check is a lousy feature. Not because it doesn't work, but because it encourages laziness and encourages people to rely on automated helpers rather than learn their native language. If I'm reading something that someone wrote, I want to know that they wrote it THEMSELVES, that they know how to construct sentences and use language effectively and properly. It is important in making hiring decisions as well. If someone comes off great on paper, but can't make conversation on the same level as their augmented written works, then they will be less effective employees.
How is this different than spell check? Dictionaries have always been readily available to double-check your work, and it is much harder to memorize the exact spelling of every word in a language than it is to master the much fewer rules of sentence structure and the like. Also, in speech, spelling doesn't matter, only pronunciation. So as long as you can form sentences correctly and pronounce words correctly, you don't sound like an ass.
Grammar check is contributing to the dumbing down of culture. If we continue to rely on automation to provide us with the basics of communication, communication will begin to break down and fail more and more often...
Speaking as a Monkeyman, I am highly offended by the insinuation that George W. Bush is a Monkeyman, you insensitive clod.
To wit: We Monkeymen are a generally peaceful race, encouraging community growth and prosperity through distribution of resources and responsiblity. Disputes are often solved through rational discussion of all available information and opnion, and in trivial matters, a simple game of rock, leaf, branch will do.
Additionally, Monkeymen are well groomed and rarely taken off guard or out of context, as our cognitive capabilities allow us a great deal of awareness, clear communication, and understanding of our surroundings.
Drug addiction is virutally non-existent in the Monkeyman community, save for the occassional guarana-chewer, and even then, those Monkeymen make excellent banana harvesters.
We have no concrete theological system, which probably contributes to the long-standing peace our race has acheived, and those Monkeymen who do believe in a higher power use their beliefs to foster understanding, compassion, and goodwill without regards to the beliefs of our neighbors, friends, or even mortal enemies from the CrocoSapien camp across the river.
Lastly, Monkeymen realize that our personal opinions of other Monkeypersons' actions are only that - opinion. We do not try to use questionable and subjective criteria such as "moral values" as a reasoning to impose our will on other Monkeymen if their actions have no direct effect on other Monkeymen.
Contrast these qualities with your so-called Monkeyman of Penn. Ave, and I think you'll see that your judgement of Monkeymen is offensive, short-sighted, and uneducated.
I hope that I was able to clear up some misconceptions that many humans have about Monkeymen and our social behavior.
I was getting SOOOOOO sick of that 17MB copy taking 20min. troll. Its good to see the trolls have banded together to stay relevant and on top of the new hardware Apple is releasing. I would hereby like to congratulate all trolls for propogating and expanding upon their repetoire of meaningless and ill-educated flamebait. Truly, being a Mac user wouldn't be nearly as much fun without the raging OS envy evident in these hilarious and thoroughly entertaining posts.
Bravo!
turion
A young, scaly shoot budded off from underground stems.
Now THAT sounds like it could crunch numbers like nothing ever seen before!
GOOD! And I'll also bet $10 that he lets anything that promises to make his penis larger get through as well.
heh.
;) At the heart of it all is a G4/800 I got for $300. Now you can get the G4/1000 for $350. I use the EyeTV USB, but now you can get the FireWire versions (much better quality, HD-TV ready). Plus a Kensington bluetooth mouse, and also use a Keyspan Digital Media Remote (I have the 15-key version, now its 17 keys).
... Toast comes in very handy ... Handbrake for DVD ripping, ffmepgX for video re-encoding, VLC for AVI and VCD playback, I use EyeTV as my main media player, iTunes of course, iPhoto of course, and other odds n ends.
it ain't cheap. took me a LOT of cash and a good amount of time (slowly over 2.5 years) to get it together.
I'm using the Tempo Trio card from Sonnet (ATA 133/FireWire/USB 2.0), a D-Link 10/100 enet card, Radeon 7000 video card (although now you can get the 9200 Mac edition for the same price I paid for the 7000). Got 200GB of internal storage hooked up via the Tempo Trio, and a Pioneer 104 DVD burner. Of course now you can get the 108 for about $120 less than I paid for the 104. So realistically it'll be cheaper for you to supercede my specs than I paid for my upgrades
XPost Facto is necessary to get Panther running
A great project that was a lot of fun. And I can turn my nose up at a measly TiVO. Geek bragging rights, WHAT!
hope this helped!
The fact that the Linux commumity is so bent on getting iTunes to run on Linux is a testament to how great of a program iTunes is.
... and maybe Windows later on if they feel like recoding it ;)
Linux users are usually a lot more critical of their software. While a lot of Linux doesn't have the polish or fit 'n' finish of some Windows software, the quality of the code is taken more seriously, as is the functionality of the software. It may not always LOOK pretty, but it is usually very powerful and well written.
There are a lot of programs that try to emulate iTunes, both on Linux and Windows (LTunes anybody?). But it seems that the Linux community would rather see iTunes itself running on Linux than a knock-off. I see this as a 'kudos' to Apple from the Linux community, for producing software so good that linux devs bust their balls to get it working.
I applaud the efforts of Codeweavers and hope that they are able to get full functionality very soon. While I would like to see Apple write a version of iTunes for Linux (in a way legitimizing the platform as a desktop alternative), this is certainly welcome and very impressive.
To everyone involved with this: Awesome job. Keep up the good work. Now if we could just get Apple and linux devs working together on more projects (khtml, for instance) perhaps we'll see a day where Apple software could be run on both Linux and Mac OS X
but if you have a powerbook, its a lot easier. Get bluetooth if its not already built in, pick up the Kensington bluetooth mouse (AWESOME mouse!), buy a $20 adapter to plug your DVI-out into S-VIDEO or Composite Video into the TV, and mouse from the couch.
If you need keyboard input, you can bring up an onscreen keyboard to click on w/ the mouse (via the International pref pane) or just get a bluetooth keyboard.
This way I'm able to use DVD player, iTunes, VLC, iPhoto, etc etc etc on my TV from the comfort of my couch. Add an EyeTV and you don't even need a DVD player, VCR, PVR, etc. Plus, you get full control over file formats, burning, encoding, editing out commercials yadda yadda yadda.
My friends rave about TiVO and I laugh. All you need is the cables to plug your PB into the TV and a bluetooth mouse, and you're set.
I can't tell you how cool it is to pause live TV, Exposé into Safari to check the IMDB or whatever you're curious about, then pick back up. Or adding custom icons to all my South Park epsiodes from their website.
Try it, you'll LOVE it.
Just as an FYI, there's a company called "coderus ltd" that produces a product called MacDX. It acts as a bridge between DirectX and the Mac OS: ...
http://www.coderus.com/
So things might not be as hard as they were in the past
First he says that iPod owners are all theives (which is weird, because most of the music purchased online goes onto iPods), now he's saying its the hardware company's fault that his product is pirated.
Let me set this straight for you, B-man. The reasons for these two phenomenons are VERY similar:
1) People mainly pirate music because almost NO ONE feels that a CD is worth $17. Its price gouging, its unfair, they stifle competion, and the record company fatcats are getting disgustingly wealthy by ripping off artists and the public while pushing a mediocre product.
2) People priate MS software because almost NO ONE feels that their OS is worth $300, and almost NO ONE feels that their Office package is worth $400. Its price gouging, its unfair, they stifle competion, and the coporate heads are getting disgustingly wealthy by ripping off coders and the public while pushing a mediocre product.
Clear? Good.
Games run just fine on Mac OS X and modern Macs have plenty good hardware for casual gamers (the iMac) or serious gamers (PowerMac G5). Apple even has a website devoted to gaming. Most modern games are released for Mac OS X as well as Windows. Your argument is SOOOOOO 1996.
http://www.apple.com/games
All they did was install OS X via PearPC on Linux running on the XBox. As far as I know:
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1. Linux has been running on the XBox for a while.
2. It has already been demonstrated that PearPC can emu PowerPC on x86 and run Mac OS X (albeit slowly)
All they did was give instrux on how to compile PearPC for the XBox, which any seasoned Linux user could have figured out if they tried. Beyond that, wouldn't this be SLOW AS DIRT?!?! Even on a very fast x86 desktop machine, PearPC crawls like a gimp sloth w/ no hind legs. And wouldn't most XBox-Linux users probably also have a faster x86 PC that they could run OS X thru PearPC on?
I fail to see how this is interesting in the slightest. Maybe I'm jaded, but to me it seems there's nothing new here. Please move along
Is Bill telling his employees in the Mac Business Unit that all their hard work is going to be for nothing? Is he planning on shutting down the MacBU, an that's why he's saying Mac OS won't be around?
man, that's really f-ed up. Maybe the Windows Office team are getting jealous of how good the Mac version of Office is getting and are planning on burning the MacBU to the ground...
You're not my dad!
I have to buy special "Macintosh" software, and if I add any third-party product (like memory or disk drives), Apple won't service it, even if I'm paying for the repairs.
OK, name one operating system that doesn't require applications to be written/compiled specifically for it. Name one operating system that you can run Mac, Linux, Windows, Solaris, and OS/2 binaries on natively. Can't think of any? That's what I thought.
And Apple WILL service your machine if you add RAM and hard drives. What you stated is an outright lie. If your 3rd party devices are the cause of your problem however, why should apple fix/replace components that they didn't supply? Are you going to go to Dell when the Crucial memory you bought goes on the fritz?
You, sir, have no idea what you are talking about.
Mac OS X installs IE and Safari by default. IE being the dominant browser at the time that Safari was released, it was and still is included so that the end user has a choice.
It just so happened that in the little while that Safari has been available (compared to IE and Netscape, for instance) it has become the #1 browser on Mac OS X.
Trust me, some companies DO offer a choice out-of-the-box that incorporates other companies' solutions. And in this case, the customer's have overwhelmingly shut out IE. I'm willing to bet that if MS included another browser (Firefox or some other lightweight browser w/ tabs and popup blocking built in) it would quickly take marketshare away from IE.
Now I can Google up "how to repel sharks" and "how to bandage a half-eaten leg" and "*gurgle*gurgle*how to *gurgle*gurgle* swim"
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all the answers, right at my fingertips