But, a lot of people consider Mac OS X to be worth a significant premium over Windows XP.
You mean like - Mac owners?
A lot more people (myself included) find it to be an uneeded expense for little gain. Breaking free of the PC hype here for a moment - I've been "blue screen/pop up/adware infested " free for years. To me it's a lot of FUD. Windows machines do get nailed - like my dad's did a few years back - a bit of education, and he's been free of those problems as well.
So this "headless Mac" is still overpriced for its performance potential. Heck - I can get a laptop nowadays for the same price.
Only 200,000 players at one time? How does this compare with say Doom 3 sales, and the amount of folks like myself that are playing solo with no desire to join online? Are there less than 200,000 folks worldwide playing at one time? Or is this another article that is trying to convince me I need to pay for a game that I need to rent monthly to play online?
Actually I was planning on suing GM because I bought some gasoline, and now I have to buy a car to use it!
Err, you can buy a ford to use the gas, or you can buy a jeep to use the gas, or you can buy a volvo to use the gas.
The lawsuit is based on him buying the gas that's been specially formulated to only work with the chevy trailblazer. I don't agree with the lawsuit per se, just as I don't agree with Apple going after the website because of the sub 500 mac.
It does cost a real loss of real income to intellectual property rights holders.
Does it? I used to dabble in the scene - as a result I have liscenced copies of Photoshop and a dozen other chunk change products. Had I not taken the time to get to use Photoshop - I never would of paid the pricetag to try it. It's too much money to throw away in case you can't use it or can't get over the learning curve.
When Napster was running strong - I bought two or three cds a week at Best Buy. In the past two years I've purchased exactly two cds. they are from an Indy band that I heard playing music at an art fair (you might like them http://www.patchouli.net/). I refuse to listen to the radio from all the stupid advertising and the rehash of whatever one hit wonders they have rotating.
The point I'm trying to make is that what I did when I did it garnered sales from me since I got to pick out what was best for me. By not having that option, I just don't go out and get them. Did they lose sales from me? No, not when I was doing it - Because I eventually ponied up the cash. Are they losing sales now? I'm shure photoshop CS is probably worth the money - but since I can't work with it for a bit to find out - I'll just stick with the legit 6.0 copy I have. Same for the music, I'm sure there a few bands out there I would purchase cd's from - till then? I think I'll just order another cd from Patchouli.
I don't care about those - any Microsoft savvy person like myself waits for the second service pack before upgrading.
I stayed on 95 until 98se, I stayed on 98se until sp2 for win 2k, and I did the same for XP.
No exploits, No "Blue Screens", and a stable machine - that's an aside tho - you made a statement - I refuted it. Right out of the box WinXP sp2 works stable, and during the load and first month's operations - no exploits.
Ahh, thank you for the explanation. I try to avoid being snarky unless I note snarkiness. Keeps others from doing as I did and thinking you were flamebaiting.
After actually reading the article in the lancet - the only ones that have their "Head up your ass these last few months, eh? " are the ones who quote the 100,000 dead. The methods used for sampling and extrapolation have a error range of 8,000 to 100,000 - Yet - I don't see anyone using the low range number when quoting the article. And gosh knows we can't be intellectually honest in our quest to demonize the war in Iraq.
I know this'll get modded as flamebait or something - but I encourage you to read the actual article before blindly accepting the 100,000 dead quote.
Here's a quote from it Evidence suggests that the mortality rate was higher across Iraq after the war than before, even excluding Falluja. We estimate that there were 98000 extra deaths (95% CI 8000-194 000) during the post-war period in the 97% of Iraq represented by all the clusters except Falluja. In our Falluja sample, we recorded 53 deaths when only 14 were expected under the national pre-war rate. This indicates a point estimate of about 200000 excess deaths in the 3% of Iraq represented by this cluster. However, the uncertainty in this value is substantial and implies additional deaths above those measured in the rest of the country.
LOL - I quit working security to become a programmer - dealing with people is easy - Beat the crap out of them, cuff them, and have them hauled away and charged. That got boring.
But keep that attittude - please - It's intolerance like yours that's getting smokers nailed to the wall - "In your face" smokingg has led to the banning of smoking in public places, with limitations on hour far from a door you can be. Years and years of telling people allergic to second hand smoke to "shove it" and "be tolerant of my habit" has led to the demise of the practice. My parents smoke, My brothers smoke, they are courteous smokers that do not smoke around non smokers. They are in the minority, and I look forward to the day that folks that tell me to be tolerant of something I'm allergic to sit and maon and cry - when the only place they can smoke is in the privacy of their home.
Absolutely it should be legal in the privacy of your own home.
But in public, in a car, or anywhere the smoke can reach me? No way.
I found out I was allergic to second hand smoke after I stopped working in a casino. I had all the over the counter medications for allergies just to stop the inflamed nasel passages, the stuffed up nose, the sinus headaches. As soon as I lived in a smoke free zone, and worked in a smoke free zone - ALL of that went away. I haven't taken a sudafed since. The sad part about it is that my parents and my brother smoke cigarretes - so it's painful to visit their homes with the clouds wafting along.
And the reason I mention smoking in cars is that if your window is open, and my window is open - I can smell that smoke from two cars away. I shouldn't have to.
And yeah, the idiots with the heavey doses of cologne/perfume should be horsewhipped as well.
If given these points I'd vote for Bush 1) We are at war. Yes we are, and despite what the media is portraying - we are winning. Look at the recent lancet article to show how badly we are being lied to - they say 100,000 more Iraqui deaths in Iraq - yet if you read it - It says 8 thousand to 100,000 extrapolated off of a shoddy system. Yet how many Kerry supporters are out trumpeting the number, like that other nonsensical 200 billion dollar number?
2) World opinion of the US is at an all time low. And? I care why? 3) At least one Supreme Court justice will be replaced in the next 4 years.Seeing as I would like a strict interpretationalist rather than a litmus Roe V Wade justice in there... 4) The world is watching these elections. And the world is taking our still jobs, and our tech jobs, and soon out textil jobs...
Keep two tabs open in firefox - If everyone slastdots Darl's site at the same time they slasdot other sites - the slashdot effect will keep that server a crater.
I know you can give me hundreds of theories and discussions on how man is causing global warming on earth - I just want one explanation on how we're making pluto warm as well.
The distance from the sun has some play ofsetting the thinner atmosphere.
I've not seen one climatologist advance an opinion that warming trends "May" be influenced by either the region of space we are traveling thru, or the suns effect on the earth as a warming indicator. I've only seen one climatologist explain that warming is influenced mainly by water vapor in the air, with the gasses being a fraction of a tiny percentage.
And I don't rely on any one source for my info - rather - I read as much as I can and make my own decisions.
Global Warming is Happening, however, Man has nothing to do with it.
Now local effects - We are causing great damage, California especially - How could people think they could build all that into a vally and not get nailed with smog and pollution?
Err - climatologists get paid for studying the climate. They get paid more if there's a "crisis" in the climate. More funds for more equiptment, more pay. Bigger Crisis gets Bigger pay - Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Now - I just want the climatologists to explain why Mars and Pluto are heating globally as well.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/071103/wor_11p lu to.shtml
Slashdot Mirror
But, a lot of people consider Mac OS X to be worth a significant premium over Windows XP.
You mean like - Mac owners?
A lot more people (myself included) find it to be an uneeded expense for little gain. Breaking free of the PC hype here for a moment - I've been "blue screen/pop up/adware infested " free for years. To me it's a lot of FUD. Windows machines do get nailed - like my dad's did a few years back - a bit of education, and he's been free of those problems as well.
So this "headless Mac" is still overpriced for its performance potential. Heck - I can get a laptop nowadays for the same price.
Only 200,000 players at one time? How does this compare with say Doom 3 sales, and the amount of folks like myself that are playing solo with no desire to join online? Are there less than 200,000 folks worldwide playing at one time? Or is this another article that is trying to convince me I need to pay for a game that I need to rent monthly to play online?
Actually I was planning on suing GM because I bought some gasoline, and now I have to buy a car to use it!
Err, you can buy a ford to use the gas, or you can buy a jeep to use the gas, or you can buy a volvo to use the gas.
The lawsuit is based on him buying the gas that's been specially formulated to only work with the chevy trailblazer. I don't agree with the lawsuit per se, just as I don't agree with Apple going after the website because of the sub 500 mac.
It does cost a real loss of real income to intellectual property rights holders.
Does it? I used to dabble in the scene - as a result I have liscenced copies of Photoshop and a dozen other chunk change products. Had I not taken the time to get to use Photoshop - I never would of paid the pricetag to try it. It's too much money to throw away in case you can't use it or can't get over the learning curve.
When Napster was running strong - I bought two or three cds a week at Best Buy. In the past two years I've purchased exactly two cds. they are from an Indy band that I heard playing music at an art fair (you might like them http://www.patchouli.net/). I refuse to listen to the radio from all the stupid advertising and the rehash of whatever one hit wonders they have rotating.
The point I'm trying to make is that what I did when I did it garnered sales from me since I got to pick out what was best for me. By not having that option, I just don't go out and get them. Did they lose sales from me? No, not when I was doing it - Because I eventually ponied up the cash. Are they losing sales now? I'm shure photoshop CS is probably worth the money - but since I can't work with it for a bit to find out - I'll just stick with the legit 6.0 copy I have. Same for the music, I'm sure there a few bands out there I would purchase cd's from - till then? I think I'll just order another cd from Patchouli.
I don't care about those - any Microsoft savvy person like myself waits for the second service pack before upgrading.
I stayed on 95 until 98se, I stayed on 98se until sp2 for win 2k, and I did the same for XP.
No exploits, No "Blue Screens", and a stable machine - that's an aside tho - you made a statement - I refuted it. Right out of the box WinXP sp2 works stable, and during the load and first month's operations - no exploits.
Can you say the same for your Windows machine?
Yes. I loaded windows xp sp2 In November.
Worked right out of the box, is stable, and patched - no adaware or viruses.
Ahh, thank you for the explanation. I try to avoid being snarky unless I note snarkiness. Keeps others from doing as I did and thinking you were flamebaiting.
//salutes and falls over sideways
Carry on!
Head up your ass these last few months, eh?
After actually reading the article in the lancet - the only ones that have their "Head up your ass these last few months, eh? " are the ones who quote the 100,000 dead. The methods used for sampling and extrapolation have a error range of 8,000 to 100,000 - Yet - I don't see anyone using the low range number when quoting the article. And gosh knows we can't be intellectually honest in our quest to demonize the war in Iraq.
I know this'll get modded as flamebait or something - but I encourage you to read the actual article before blindly accepting the 100,000 dead quote.
Here's a quote from it Evidence suggests that the mortality rate was higher across Iraq after the war than before, even excluding Falluja. We estimate that there were 98000 extra deaths (95% CI 8000-194 000) during the post-war period in the 97% of Iraq represented by all the clusters except Falluja. In our Falluja sample, we recorded 53 deaths when only 14 were expected under the national pre-war rate. This indicates a point estimate of about 200000 excess deaths in the 3% of Iraq represented by this cluster. However, the uncertainty in this value is substantial and implies additional deaths above those measured in the rest of the country.
So mod away - I just wanted to clear this up.
This is, in fact, one of the BEST applications of Flash I've ever seen
Mayhaps - but it wasn't reason enough for me to install the plug-in to see it. And at work, I'm not even given the option to load flash.
Since there was not html article accompanying it It was a wasted click for me.
LOL - I quit working security to become a programmer - dealing with people is easy - Beat the crap out of them, cuff them, and have them hauled away and charged. That got boring.
But keep that attittude - please - It's intolerance like yours that's getting smokers nailed to the wall - "In your face" smokingg has led to the banning of smoking in public places, with limitations on hour far from a door you can be. Years and years of telling people allergic to second hand smoke to "shove it" and "be tolerant of my habit" has led to the demise of the practice. My parents smoke, My brothers smoke, they are courteous smokers that do not smoke around non smokers. They are in the minority, and I look forward to the day that folks that tell me to be tolerant of something I'm allergic to sit and maon and cry - when the only place they can smoke is in the privacy of their home.
Fine. they did it with seatbelts - do it with windows.
That still does not address the simple fact that a smokers actions impact mine, while no actions of mine impact the smoker.
Feel free to smoke in a place and time where you do not affect me. Your rights to smoke however, end where my rights to breathe clean air begin.
Absolutely it should be legal in the privacy of your own home.
But in public, in a car, or anywhere the smoke can reach me? No way.
I found out I was allergic to second hand smoke after I stopped working in a casino. I had all the over the counter medications for allergies just to stop the inflamed nasel passages, the stuffed up nose, the sinus headaches. As soon as I lived in a smoke free zone, and worked in a smoke free zone - ALL of that went away. I haven't taken a sudafed since. The sad part about it is that my parents and my brother smoke cigarretes - so it's painful to visit their homes with the clouds wafting along.
And the reason I mention smoking in cars is that if your window is open, and my window is open - I can smell that smoke from two cars away. I shouldn't have to.
And yeah, the idiots with the heavey doses of cologne/perfume should be horsewhipped as well.
"Browsing a web page" can cause you to lose the machine to a malicious hacker.
What - they just discovered Gator?
And immediately thought
There's nothing to see here - Move along"
Yeah, but saying that it helped get "Funny" modpoints is a sure way to keep yourself from being modded.
Gosh - i was awarded a -1 flamebait
But of course, the person calling me a 'tard didn't.
So much for personal opinions..
If given these points I'd vote for Bush
...
1) We are at war.
Yes we are, and despite what the media is portraying - we are winning. Look at the recent lancet article to show how badly we are being lied to - they say 100,000 more Iraqui deaths in Iraq - yet if you read it - It says 8 thousand to 100,000 extrapolated off of a shoddy system. Yet how many Kerry supporters are out trumpeting the number, like that other nonsensical 200 billion dollar number?
2) World opinion of the US is at an all time low.
And? I care why?
3) At least one Supreme Court justice will be replaced in the next 4 years.Seeing as I would like a strict interpretationalist rather than a litmus Roe V Wade justice in there
4) The world is watching these elections.
And the world is taking our still jobs, and our tech jobs, and soon out textil jobs...
Keep two tabs open in firefox - If everyone slastdots Darl's site at the same time they slasdot other sites - the slashdot effect will keep that server a crater.
Great - Now - Why is mars warming?
& pa ge=1
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98168
http://www.charleston.net/stories/071103/wor_11plu to.shtml
Great - So why is pluto warming then?
I know you can give me hundreds of theories and discussions on how man is causing global warming on earth - I just want one explanation on how we're making pluto warm as well.
The distance from the sun has some play ofsetting the thinner atmosphere.
I've not seen one climatologist advance an opinion that warming trends "May" be influenced by either the region of space we are traveling thru, or the suns effect on the earth as a warming indicator. I've only seen one climatologist explain that warming is influenced mainly by water vapor in the air, with the gasses being a fraction of a tiny percentage.
And I don't rely on any one source for my info - rather - I read as much as I can and make my own decisions.
Global Warming is Happening, however, Man has nothing to do with it.
Now local effects - We are causing great damage, California especially - How could people think they could build all that into a vally and not get nailed with smog and pollution?
If we don't believe climatologists
p lu to.shtml
Err - climatologists get paid for studying the climate. They get paid more if there's a "crisis" in the climate. More funds for more equiptment, more pay. Bigger Crisis gets Bigger pay - Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Now - I just want the climatologists to explain why Mars and Pluto are heating globally as well.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/071103/wor_11
(before modding me flamebait - read the article)
No, they just make laws that force you to vote instead.
at least they didn't replace Alec Guiness.
At least not yet....
That's in the next release...