Sure if you're a game junkie who's got to play every game released every year then yeah, there aren't nearly enough Mac games to get you off.
On the other hand there aren't usually more than a handful of good games that show up in any given year in my humble opinion and most of them make it to the Mac.
Interesting. I like Blizzard titles in general (they could have kept Warcrap 3 to themselves though IMO) but pretty much everything I've ever touched from Microsoft was about as much fun as a dog turd on a stick. "Microsoft" on the box gets an instant pass from me.
Don't get me wrong, I completely see your point and the similarity is obvious. I'm just wondering which CD buyer out there is going to be able to thump the crap out of the RIAA to the degree that IBM is going to pummel SCO.
I disagree with you and think that letting the guilty go free as compensation for the police violating their rights is a bad idea. There should be a way to not "throw the baby out with the bathwater" so to speak. If the police violate his rights in the process of getting to the truth then yes, the police should be punished for doing this. The information they gathered should not be completely discounted though.
Had he been allowed to go free due to some manner of rights violation associated with their using this data against him I guess the next time he decided to go for a spin at "60" miles per hour you wouldn't mind if he did it on your street?
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...and just out of curiosity what does the price of the Dell product come to when you throw in some storage? 2.5T of storage to be exact.
Thought so.
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No he's not proving how much Apple sucks and is a rip-off. He's proving that he's talking about things he does not have a complete grasp on and nothing more.
You're talking about parts. Cool parts of course but still parts. I'm not saying that people don't post all kinds of stuff about what new chipset is coming out or what kind of kick ass video card ATI or Nvidia just let fly. Quite the contrary and nobody is going to win many arguments trying to sell the Macs as cutting edge.
I'm saying that considering the smallish number of Apple computers out there they generate far more buzz than any PC maker could ever hope to create. Nothing more.
And with all those great features you've mentioned the spreadsheet doesn't seem to come together any faster. The percentage of people who actually have a driving need for the kinds of power that high end PC's are capable of might be even smaller than the number of Apple customers this year. By the time those features are all standard in the PowerMac there just might be a need for the average computer buyer to have them.
Of course if it's available then cool, sign me up too but it's not like my PIII 800 is deathly slow.
Man I hope you come back and read this because that's something that I see every single time an Apple story hits/. Out comes a story and before the "First Post" jerkoffs or "In Soviet Russia" guys can even get their keyboards going you've got 5 posts from Anonymous Coward making comments about Macs being gay.
I'd like to see (and I know there's no way in hell it will happen) for Jobs to roll out some insane, no-fucking-way-it's-possible 5GHz PowerMacs in all aluminum cases (and serious, sculpted, cool as all get out looking aluminum cases, not this crap the Wintel pussies go crazy over).
I'd just love to see it. I know it won't happen but I'd love to see the posts after something like that.
Your right. People watch the parts and not the machine but some of those same parts are in Apple computers as well as PC's so then I guess Apple gets whatever benefits come from that attention as well as the attention the generate themselves.
I wouldn't doubt that there's more speculation about those parts than there is about Apple computers since the Wintel world is so much larger than the Apple one. Relative to their size however Apple does make a hell of a lot of noise considering the relatively modest number of products they sell and how few of them are in fact cutting edge. Like I said they have this down to an art form now.
I haven't looked but do you get an equal number of PC rumour sites if you go Googling for that?
If not then you've got to ask yourself why is it that so many people care about what may or may not be coming along next from Apple and so few give the proverbial rats ass about the next offering from HP, Dell, or eMachines.
Apple seems to have perfected getting attention to an art. You can love them or hate them but almost nobody ignores them. That kind of PR is priceless.
In another article on MacWhispers site (I believe) they mention information they've come across that appears to indicate a new enclosure will be used for the next PowerMac.
Long on the tooth the current one is however it's still far more attractive (to me at least) than anything available on the PC side. In my opinion at least the mirrored drive door model was a mistake and the previous Quicksilver was the best looking of the bunch.
The current one looks like someone gave a Quicksilver to some PC case-mod monkeys and they didn't know what to do with it so they glued a mirror to the front. It's the first one that looks like it's trying to be cool and the first one to (kind of) fail at it.
Agreed but I feel that simply doesn't do enough to solve the problem. The penalty for single handedly slowing the progress of all mankind so you can make a buck should be higher.
It should also be applied more often and preferably televised. I happen to have a patent by the way on a method for televising such an event in a manner which.....
I grew up in that same generation. We covered it in great detail and then left it behind. Unlike most of the people posting about this topic though I've got exceptional handwriting. I made a point of developing it over the years. That and a buck will get me coffee at McDonalds.
I think you have that sentence wrong about it being ugly, useless, and difficult to read. It should be "Cursive is beautiful, useless, and difficult to read."
You're right about everything else though. The grammer most of all.
You're right about everything
I hav absolutely no idea. And I'd like to come forward and say right up front that this post of mine deserves NOTHING in moderation. It's not insightful in the least and not even a touch underrated (yet someone saw fit to moderate it that way).
MTV has been shit since about 8 minutes past the moment it was "born". Some brief period of time after the IDEA for MTV was formed it started going downhill and it hit rock bottom a long, long time ago.
Yep, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Thinking about things like this keep me warm at night. Every once in a while I get to read about someone getting exactly what they deserve. Yum.
I've encountered many Mac users and infinitely more Windows users in the last ten years and there is no comparison. Clearly more idiots are using Windows than MacOS.
Niether group (when speaking of just the users) knows shit about computers though. Mac users generally seem to be more willing to conceed that they don't know anything about computers and are at least smart enough to go with something they can deal with.
Every shaved ape that ever edited a batch file or entered "safe mode" though thinks he's a "computer expert". Microsoft products breed users who think they know what they are doing.
Oh Yeah? Well MY system has been upgraded piecemeal since it was an AMD 386/DX 40! Back then I was rocking along with a Conner 120MB hard drive (more space then I would ever need) and 4MB of RAM.
Seriously. The only thing left is the floppy drive which might not even work anymore (It's been a long time since I put a disk in there) but it's really cool and that ugly dark taupe color so I hang on to it.
Works with what you've got? Tell that to the video card that refused to work with it.
BeOS was a tad less "BYOB" than that. Still I guess you're right in principal. Simply the fact that it's x86 means that it's got a much better chance than AmigaOS.
Why should he get informed? He didn't say that no new systems come from Europe did he? He merely stated (and was fairly accurate in saying so) that the old systems go to Europe to die.
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Absolutely correct. I don't know anyone other than a few friends parents that use the mouse that their computer shipped with.
Oh come on man. It's not that bad.
Sure if you're a game junkie who's got to play every game released every year then yeah, there aren't nearly enough Mac games to get you off.
On the other hand there aren't usually more than a handful of good games that show up in any given year in my humble opinion and most of them make it to the Mac.
Interesting. I like Blizzard titles in general (they could have kept Warcrap 3 to themselves though IMO) but pretty much everything I've ever touched from Microsoft was about as much fun as a dog turd on a stick. "Microsoft" on the box gets an instant pass from me.
Don't get me wrong, I completely see your point and the similarity is obvious. I'm just wondering which CD buyer out there is going to be able to thump the crap out of the RIAA to the degree that IBM is going to pummel SCO.
When that person steps forward I'll be smiling.
You are certainly welcome to feel that way.
I disagree with you and think that letting the guilty go free as compensation for the police violating their rights is a bad idea. There should be a way to not "throw the baby out with the bathwater" so to speak. If the police violate his rights in the process of getting to the truth then yes, the police should be punished for doing this. The information they gathered should not be completely discounted though.
Had he been allowed to go free due to some manner of rights violation associated with their using this data against him I guess the next time he decided to go for a spin at "60" miles per hour you wouldn't mind if he did it on your street?
Right, it was a midichlorian thing.
...and just out of curiosity what does the price of the Dell product come to when you throw in some storage? 2.5T of storage to be exact.
Thought so.
No he's not proving how much Apple sucks and is a rip-off. He's proving that he's talking about things he does not have a complete grasp on and nothing more.
You're talking about parts. Cool parts of course but still parts. I'm not saying that people don't post all kinds of stuff about what new chipset is coming out or what kind of kick ass video card ATI or Nvidia just let fly. Quite the contrary and nobody is going to win many arguments trying to sell the Macs as cutting edge.
I'm saying that considering the smallish number of Apple computers out there they generate far more buzz than any PC maker could ever hope to create. Nothing more.
And with all those great features you've mentioned the spreadsheet doesn't seem to come together any faster. The percentage of people who actually have a driving need for the kinds of power that high end PC's are capable of might be even smaller than the number of Apple customers this year. By the time those features are all standard in the PowerMac there just might be a need for the average computer buyer to have them.
Of course if it's available then cool, sign me up too but it's not like my PIII 800 is deathly slow.
Man I hope you come back and read this because that's something that I see every single time an Apple story hits /. Out comes a story and before the "First Post" jerkoffs or "In Soviet Russia" guys can even get their keyboards going you've got 5 posts from Anonymous Coward making comments about Macs being gay.
I'd like to see (and I know there's no way in hell it will happen) for Jobs to roll out some insane, no-fucking-way-it's-possible 5GHz PowerMacs in all aluminum cases (and serious, sculpted, cool as all get out looking aluminum cases, not this crap the Wintel pussies go crazy over).
I'd just love to see it. I know it won't happen but I'd love to see the posts after something like that.
Your right. People watch the parts and not the machine but some of those same parts are in Apple computers as well as PC's so then I guess Apple gets whatever benefits come from that attention as well as the attention the generate themselves.
I wouldn't doubt that there's more speculation about those parts than there is about Apple computers since the Wintel world is so much larger than the Apple one. Relative to their size however Apple does make a hell of a lot of noise considering the relatively modest number of products they sell and how few of them are in fact cutting edge. Like I said they have this down to an art form now.
Fucking Rightous Sig and I'm stealing it as we speak.
Bickity-Bam! That shits mine!
I haven't looked but do you get an equal number of PC rumour sites if you go Googling for that?
If not then you've got to ask yourself why is it that so many people care about what may or may not be coming along next from Apple and so few give the proverbial rats ass about the next offering from HP, Dell, or eMachines.
Apple seems to have perfected getting attention to an art. You can love them or hate them but almost nobody ignores them. That kind of PR is priceless.
In another article on MacWhispers site (I believe) they mention information they've come across that appears to indicate a new enclosure will be used for the next PowerMac.
Long on the tooth the current one is however it's still far more attractive (to me at least) than anything available on the PC side. In my opinion at least the mirrored drive door model was a mistake and the previous Quicksilver was the best looking of the bunch.
The current one looks like someone gave a Quicksilver to some PC case-mod monkeys and they didn't know what to do with it so they glued a mirror to the front. It's the first one that looks like it's trying to be cool and the first one to (kind of) fail at it.
Agreed but I feel that simply doesn't do enough to solve the problem. The penalty for single handedly slowing the progress of all mankind so you can make a buck should be higher.
It should also be applied more often and preferably televised. I happen to have a patent by the way on a method for televising such an event in a manner which.....
Most was. Done properly it's nice to look at. Not worth much aside from a rare "you've got nice handwriting" comment though.
It doesn't really matter in 2003. I'd trade those positive comments gladly for 10-15 more words per minute on my typing speed.
I grew up in that same generation. We covered it in great detail and then left it behind. Unlike most of the people posting about this topic though I've got exceptional handwriting. I made a point of developing it over the years. That and a buck will get me coffee at McDonalds.
I think you have that sentence wrong about it being ugly, useless, and difficult to read. It should be "Cursive is beautiful, useless, and difficult to read."
You're right about everything else though. The grammer most of all.
You're right about everything
I hav absolutely no idea. And I'd like to come forward and say right up front that this post of mine deserves NOTHING in moderation. It's not insightful in the least and not even a touch underrated (yet someone saw fit to moderate it that way).
The moderation system here completely baffles me.
MTV has been shit since about 8 minutes past the moment it was "born". Some brief period of time after the IDEA for MTV was formed it started going downhill and it hit rock bottom a long, long time ago.
Yep, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Thinking about things like this keep me warm at night. Every once in a while I get to read about someone getting exactly what they deserve. Yum.
I've encountered many Mac users and infinitely more Windows users in the last ten years and there is no comparison. Clearly more idiots are using Windows than MacOS.
Niether group (when speaking of just the users) knows shit about computers though. Mac users generally seem to be more willing to conceed that they don't know anything about computers and are at least smart enough to go with something they can deal with.
Every shaved ape that ever edited a batch file or entered "safe mode" though thinks he's a "computer expert". Microsoft products breed users who think they know what they are doing.
Oh Yeah? Well MY system has been upgraded piecemeal since it was an AMD 386/DX 40! Back then I was rocking along with a Conner 120MB hard drive (more space then I would ever need) and 4MB of RAM.
Seriously. The only thing left is the floppy drive which might not even work anymore (It's been a long time since I put a disk in there) but it's really cool and that ugly dark taupe color so I hang on to it.
Works with what you've got? Tell that to the video card that refused to work with it.
BeOS was a tad less "BYOB" than that. Still I guess you're right in principal. Simply the fact that it's x86 means that it's got a much better chance than AmigaOS.
Dude, if I had some mod points right now you'd be getting a plus 1, Funny. "the poster child for zombie OS'es" is priceless and soooo true.
Why should he get informed? He didn't say that no new systems come from Europe did he? He merely stated (and was fairly accurate in saying so) that the old systems go to Europe to die.