One of the defining characteristics of a fanboy is being irrational And you fit that to a tee. You whine endlessly about something that you don't even have to do once for almost all apps, and once for almost all others takes you about 5 seconds.
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Damn, wrong book.
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
But thank god, it's only okay to murder infidels when god first tells you to do so.
"As for suicide bombing, it's totally irrelevant. You're talking about a minority of extremists."
You know...for such a 'minority' of muslims....you sure can see a lot of them in the streets of the middle east, cheering suicide bombers, jumping and flaying about, with guns in hand in the streets on the tv.
Remember the huge crowd tearing down the statue of Saddam Hussein after the fall of Baghdad? About 50 people around the actual statue, a couple more spread around the huge square.
American Evangelicals don't go suicide bombing anyone that disagrees with their point of view. They also don't call for the execution of cartoonists that portray Jesus disrespectfully... Yeah, they hide at home while the bombs they planted go off. And they only tell people they will burn in hell if they stand in line to watch "The Last Temptation of Christ".
What I'm saying is that the fanboys' perception is that whatever is current is the absolute perfection. Take OS 9 for instance, where you had to set manually the amount of memory an application could use. If you brought up that setting memory is an oddly unfriendly characteristic for an OS that aims to be user friendly, you'd get a reply along the lines of "Lets see, I select the app, "get info"-->Memory and then set the amount. What's hard about that?" As has been told to you then, 99.99% of apps never needed setting memory even once. Of course you never had used a Mac.
Errm, sorry I must have missed your postings where you complained that hundreds of programs were only supported under Red Hat but not SUSE - isn't it great you can hide your Red Hat fanboism under the guise of a honest anti-Microsoft stance?
The music labels already don't care very much for Apple and its iPod + iTunes monopoly. They are losing control of paid distribution (never mind P2P) to their new gatekeeper and key master, Steve Jobs. The following quote is excerpted from an article posted earlier today, How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong ...
The labels have already locked themselves into Steve's golden iHandcuffs with DRM on the iPod + iTunes platform with fixed price songs so they will be very careful before they give over even more power to Apple to run their business, or what is left of it anyway. I do not see them agreeing to a monthly subscription for the entire iTunes catalogs, such a move would signal complete and utter desperation on the part of the music labels. You know, your point would be so much more convincing if this wasn't actually an idea Universal is trying to sell to Apple.
Who would have thought: It isn't "Apple is in discussions with the big music companies about an 'all you can eat' model for buying music", it's actually "Apple Will Listen to Universal's Music Subscription Pitch" (and not kick them flat out ).
There is nothing wrong in having or acquiring a monopoly as long as you didn't do anything anticompetitive/illegal to acquire it or to have it.
Apple would be maintaining their monopoly by making the 'all you can eat' deal iPod-only. Wait a second, are you saying that Apple should speak for all makers of MP3 players, and force them to pay some sum to the music industry, else they are abusing their monopoly? Or is your point that Apple should be forced to make their products less perfect (which you probably claim anyway) just so others get a "fair chance"?
Explain in your analogyhow Toyota are leveraging a monopoly in one area to suppress competition in another.
(I am now figuring that you are vexatiously misunderstanding the issue, or are honestly not ever going to be able to figure it out- I quit!) Gees, his point is that YOU haven't shown were Apple is leveraging a monopoly in one area to suppress competition in another. If the seller of the MP3 player of your choice doesn't provide you with such a deal, that isn't fucking Apple's fault.
All the record labels have to do is allow other media players to have the same priviledge. If I went out and bought a Creative Zen, then it too should be able to download unlimited music and not be locked down by Steve Jobs ^H^H^H^H^HApple. Sure, if Creative made a similar agreement with the music labels - but then you want Apple to pay the money so you can download the music for free, right?
Apple is primarily a hardware company and makes most of its money selling hardware like the iPod, iPhone, computers, etc. They created the iTunes store to spur more sales of hardware while forgoing any real profits from selling the music Then look at it the other way: licensing FairPlay to other music stores would boost hardware sales, but Apple refuses to do that too, and in fact has gone out of their way to prevent Real from selling DRM'd music for use on iPods. So you're point is that Apple is a Monopoly, but if they stopped being one, they would sell even more iPods.
Pondering this issue, Stanford management science professor Robert Sutton discussed Jobs in his bestselling 2007 book, "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't." "As soon as people heard I was writing a book on assholes, they would come up to me and start telling a Steve Jobs story," says Sutton. "The degree to which people in Silicon Valley are afraid of Jobs is unbelievable. He made people feel terrible; he made people cry. But he was almost always right, and even when he was wrong, it was so creative it was still amazing." Says Palo Alto venture capitalist Jean-Louis Gasse, a former Apple executive who once worked with Jobs: "Democracies don't make great products. You need a competent tyrant.
"My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be."
Well, yes and no: Apple is more a hardware packager than maker, since it now just takes utterly standard components and puts them together. At one point it used unusual chips, had its own peripheral standard, etc., so Apple has taken many of the suggestions from others and conformed itself more to standard PCs. The few non-utterly standard components Apple had in their Macs always were there because the alternatives were either worse or more expensive. ADB - compared to DIN-plug keyboards and serial mouse interfaces? "Unusual" chips vs. dozens of chips in PCs (later replaced by only a couple of chips called "chip-sets", which amazingly did the same Apple (and others) did before with their "unusual" chips).
And I know they're Mac users because no matter where I sit, they always make sure I can see the little logo.
Well, the logo is on the back of the screen. And assuming that most computer users tend to look at the screen when they use it, the logo is (by default) facing the rest of the world. Uhh, you Mac people, stop confusing me with your creative "logic".
The Microsoft logo cause some people to unexpectedly turn blue and die. Fortunately, a new device that induced a specially provided electric shock (ALTernate ConTroLed DELivery) would be immediately required to revive them. Oh, come on - for some versions now they just turn into new-borns automatically by default.
at lest that $300 dell uses desktop parts unlike the $600 mini. And for $600 you can get a dell that is a lot better and it has slots to add video and other cards to it. So you still have to add a video card to a $600 Dell. What a deal.
Well, isn't it odd that you can remember him not saying anything about protecting the timid, yet still make up him saying something about "Apple would fight attempts to unlock the iPhone"? We all but you must have missed that part of his speech.
Yeah it makes Apple more money, but it's not better for the consumer. So why does the consumer continue to support Apple's garbage products? Because Apple's garbage products are better than the garbage products you want them to use.
In fact, I would argue the opposite of what the joke implied. Rigid patent enforcement across the board, particularly in places foolish enough to criminalise patent violations, will force us to address the stifling effects of patents on innovation, technology, and the resultant economic effects. I fail to see how the umpteenth MP3 player without any new features is innovative.
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Damn, wrong book.
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
But thank god, it's only okay to murder infidels when god first tells you to do so.
You know...for such a 'minority' of muslims....you sure can see a lot of them in the streets of the middle east, cheering suicide bombers, jumping and flaying about, with guns in hand in the streets on the tv.
Remember the huge crowd tearing down the statue of Saddam Hussein after the fall of Baghdad? About 50 people around the actual statue, a couple more spread around the huge square.What I'm saying is that the fanboys' perception is that whatever is current is the absolute perfection. Take OS 9 for instance, where you had to set manually the amount of memory an application could use. If you brought up that setting memory is an oddly unfriendly characteristic for an OS that aims to be user friendly, you'd get a reply along the lines of "Lets see, I select the app, "get info"-->Memory and then set the amount. What's hard about that?"
As has been told to you then, 99.99% of apps never needed setting memory even once. Of course you never had used a Mac.
You got rabies shots after a Vampire bite? Your doctor must be a Windows user.
Errm, sorry I must have missed your postings where you complained that hundreds of programs were only supported under Red Hat but not SUSE - isn't it great you can hide your Red Hat fanboism under the guise of a honest anti-Microsoft stance?
The labels have already locked themselves into Steve's golden iHandcuffs with DRM on the iPod + iTunes platform with fixed price songs so they will be very careful before they give over even more power to Apple to run their business, or what is left of it anyway. I do not see them agreeing to a monthly subscription for the entire iTunes catalogs, such a move would signal complete and utter desperation on the part of the music labels. You know, your point would be so much more convincing if this wasn't actually an idea Universal is trying to sell to Apple.
Who would have thought: It isn't "Apple is in discussions with the big music companies about an 'all you can eat' model for buying music", it's actually "Apple Will Listen to Universal's Music Subscription Pitch" (and not kick them flat out ).
(I am now figuring that you are vexatiously misunderstanding the issue, or are honestly not ever going to be able to figure it out- I quit!) Gees, his point is that YOU haven't shown were Apple is leveraging a monopoly in one area to suppress competition in another. If the seller of the MP3 player of your choice doesn't provide you with such a deal, that isn't fucking Apple's fault.
Well, the logo is on the back of the screen. And assuming that most computer users tend to look at the screen when they use it, the logo is (by default) facing the rest of the world. Uhh, you Mac people, stop confusing me with your creative "logic".
Well, isn't it odd that you can remember him not saying anything about protecting the timid, yet still make up him saying something about "Apple would fight attempts to unlock the iPhone"? We all but you must have missed that part of his speech.
However, the lesson of the Holocaust is that Jews are not simply going to die this time.
The Arabs don't quite seem to get that.
The "Arabs" got the lesson that "if you bomb enough people, you get your country" directly from the creation of Israel.
Israelis OTOH don't seem to get that killing more and more Palestinian civilians doesn't make the terrorists go away.
And if you happen to have a friend in the German police force, you're going to get an awesome Christmas gift from them next year!
Why would a 10 months old Chinese MP3 player be an "awesome" gift?