Did you get out of the bed on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
Nope. I'm my usual, cheerful self.
Can't believe you wasted your time on that ad hominem rant.
Neither can I. Since I was neither ranting, nor was it ad hominem.
You obviously have no clue why people who own Mac's and actually use them in anger like them so much.
Sure I do. I many people's cases, they use a Mac because it's a good tool. Operative word, TOOL. As for the rest, they've been sucked in by the Jobs Cult's pablum. This is why we get pseudo-nonjustifications like "because it's a Mac".
And you never will until you loose that chip on your shoulder.
If there is a chip on my shoulder, it's quite "loose" already.
I've been working on multi-vendor commercial Unix systems for 16 years,
Goodie for you!
and OSX is as good a Unix implementation as any of them.
Unix-like. Until you can be accurate and truthful about this, your argument is hopelessly flawed.
Not that Apple actually claim it's "Unix".
REALLY? You haven't seen a lot of their materials have you?
I don't see you having kittens about people referring to "Linux" when every distro makes theirs different from the others.
That's because Linux is just the kernel. It that's been acknowledged, pretty much from day one.
Please come back to the battle of words better armed next time.
Or should we just hold hands and sing Kum Ba Yah now?
Let me break it down.
He likes the blingy GUI. Okay. Cool. Good for him. Unfortunately not everyone does.
He doesn't mind relearing his keystroke usages. Great. As before, not everyone is this way.
Ooh. A remote! I understand the merger of technologies and all but some people just want a damn computer. They have a dedicated home entertainment system for...entertainment.
Still spreading the myth that it's Unix. Sorry, all equivocation aside, it's NOT UNIX. It's an ugly hack on BSD. Oh, and restating "Ooh! Pretty!" from #1 makes it okay. Anyhow, 99% of Apple's computer market share don't give a damn about it being *nix-like (save as a sheeplike marketing cudgel to wield against anyone who isn't one of the Jobsian faithful).
Again, still spreading the myth that it's Unix. And now it's a BAD thing. Again, to get the RDF sheep who wouldn't know what to do with a command line if it hit them upside the head.
Wow! You can feel so 'leet and can talk about graphic design as if you actually knew something. While the real graphic designers laugh behind their hands at you! GAG!
Oh. Games are a small weak point. Well, YEAH. Considering that you wind up waiting on games for Mac a lot longer and they're usually bad ports of Wintendo stuff. But, when you're done doing the "graphic designer" posuer thing for the day, you can actually play a lousy port of a top-end game from 5 years ago! How cool is that!
You can drag text off a webpage and it'll create a text file on your desktop. Cool. But that also means you can do it by ACCIDENT. Wow! More clutter when I fat-finger something!
Oh, and you can copy thing things from three places in one action! Wow! You can't do THAT in Windows or Linux! Oh, wait, that's right. YOU CAN! Shit... (RDF-time: (Repeat after me!) You can't do THAT in Windows or Linux!)
And you can right-click and search on embedded keywords. Great! So when I'm too stupid to actually know what a word means, I can have my computer look it up for me. Or if I accidentally fat-finger it, I can run gazillions of useless searches and waste LOTS of time!
Safari is my new favorite browser, even though it's dumb and doesn't do what I want! WHOOPIE!
It's Apple. Ah yes, the true elitist bullshit reason. Sure, they make quality stuff. Unless you're talking about actual PRODUCT. Where they just aren't keeping an eye on quality control. Laptop cases that discolor, incendiary batteries that they didn't adequately safety check (and admittedly, nobody else did either), iPods that ship VIRUS INFECTED, iPod casings that they cheaped out on, and thus are easily damaged, the fact that the iPod is completely disposable once the battery dies, since it's cheaper to buy a new fucking iPod than it is to replace the stupid hardwired battery. Oh yes that just SCREAM quality!
My translation of this: Give me a fucking break. The only reason Apple gets good media reviews is because they'd basically gotten in good with the media. And none of these guys wants to feel like an idiot for "choosing the wrong thing". So they continue to add to the hype, as a form particularly virulent form of buyer's remorse.
"She's just not as picky as I'd like about her methods."
The problem is, when most people say this, by "discerning" or "picky", they automatically assume that THEY would be part of the population favored by such choice...
The temperature of the Antarctic stratosphere causes the severity of the ozone hole to vary from year to year. Colder than average temperatures result in larger and deeper ozone holes, while warmer temperatures lead to smaller ones.
So if it's warmer, the ozone hole gets BETTER?
It's global warming man!
And you obviously don't remember the hoopla made over the fact that Apple and Moto had worked together on the phone.
That's right. Ignore the failures. They never happened and I'm just some loudmouthed boob for pointing them out. So there's no problem here, no, none at all!
All I can say about this is that I'm disgusted. I can't say that idiocy of this kind didn't take place when I was active as a boy, but "I" certainly don't remember being confronted with it. The same thing with the whole homosexuality thing. It just wasn't an issue.
At least it's not a "required" merit badge (necessary for rank advancement of achieving Eagle Scout. There are a host of badges that only VERY small number of boys ever see. Like the guys in my first Eagle Letter who had gotten EVERY available merit badge.
Jeeze. Even the author of the submission isn't beyond his own nuke FUD.
It looks like a frightening idea.....
Congratulations! You have passed your "Nuclear means bad" indoctrination!
Yes, badly managed, a nuclear plant is dangerous as hell.
A properly running modern nuclear plant is orders of magnitude safer and has less impact on the environment (including radiologically) than a coal burning plant.
But hey, don't let the voice of reason stop you from running around screaming "NUKES! OH NOES!"
[Captain Kirk] So Ensign Shortskirt, what was that transmission?
[Ensign Shortskirt] It took a little while to reconstruct the message, but it appears, from the predominance of nude photos, to be an invitation for sex...
[Captain Kirk] Woohoo! Plot a course to the source!
[Ensign Shortskirt] Uhm. Sir, the origin point is Earth, as of about four hundred years ago...
Anyone who believes this ought to take the damn rose-colored glasses off!
The money has to come from SOMEWHERE. And the oil companies sure as fuck aren't going to just eat it. The cost will, eventually, be passed on to the consumer.
Well, that and the anti-nuclear crowd has the general populace absolutely TERRIFIED of nuclear energy. To most people, you say "reactor" and they automatically think of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Never mind that a coal plant has a higher radiation output into the environment than most properly running reactor sites.
The electricity has to be generated somewhere. And if it's a coal/oil-fired plant doing it, all you're doing is shifting production out of the car and into a central point. (Essentially the same argument applies for emissions as well. Also, how many cars pump radioactive byproducts into the atmosphere without any regulation from the NRC?)
With your ass-pull percentage of 20% on the car.
How efficient is a coal/oil power plant?
How much is lost in transmission and stepping conversion? You're trying to compare two completely different end products. It's like comparing an abacus to a TI-89 calculator. Sure, they achieve roughly the same end, but only on a very simplistic level.
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Nope. I'm my usual, cheerful self.
Can't believe you wasted your time on that ad hominem rant.
Neither can I. Since I was neither ranting, nor was it ad hominem.
You obviously have no clue why people who own Mac's and actually use them in anger like them so much.
Sure I do. I many people's cases, they use a Mac because it's a good tool. Operative word, TOOL. As for the rest, they've been sucked in by the Jobs Cult's pablum. This is why we get pseudo-nonjustifications like "because it's a Mac".
And you never will until you loose that chip on your shoulder.
If there is a chip on my shoulder, it's quite "loose" already.
I've been working on multi-vendor commercial Unix systems for 16 years,
Goodie for you!
and OSX is as good a Unix implementation as any of them.
Unix-like. Until you can be accurate and truthful about this, your argument is hopelessly flawed.
Not that Apple actually claim it's "Unix".
REALLY? You haven't seen a lot of their materials have you?
I don't see you having kittens about people referring to "Linux" when every distro makes theirs different from the others.
That's because Linux is just the kernel. It that's been acknowledged, pretty much from day one.
Please come back to the battle of words better armed next time.
Your operative term, "feels".
Or should we just hold hands and sing Kum Ba Yah now?
Let me break it down.
My translation of this: Give me a fucking break. The only reason Apple gets good media reviews is because they'd basically gotten in good with the media. And none of these guys wants to feel like an idiot for "choosing the wrong thing". So they continue to add to the hype, as a form particularly virulent form of buyer's remorse.
"She's just not as picky as I'd like about her methods."
The problem is, when most people say this, by "discerning" or "picky", they automatically assume that THEY would be part of the population favored by such choice...
The temperature of the Antarctic stratosphere causes the severity of the ozone hole to vary from year to year. Colder than average temperatures result in larger and deeper ozone holes, while warmer temperatures lead to smaller ones. So if it's warmer, the ozone hole gets BETTER? It's global warming man!
And you obviously don't remember the hoopla made over the fact that Apple and Moto had worked together on the phone.
That's right. Ignore the failures. They never happened and I'm just some loudmouthed boob for pointing them out. So there's no problem here, no, none at all!
Didn't this already happen?
All I can say about this is that I'm disgusted. I can't say that idiocy of this kind didn't take place when I was active as a boy, but "I" certainly don't remember being confronted with it. The same thing with the whole homosexuality thing. It just wasn't an issue.
At least it's not a "required" merit badge (necessary for rank advancement of achieving Eagle Scout. There are a host of badges that only VERY small number of boys ever see. Like the guys in my first Eagle Letter who had gotten EVERY available merit badge.
What it's doing is exactly what Caffiene already does taken in large quantities.
It gets you wired. If you actually get up and move around to work off that sensation, yeah, you'll burn fat. DUH.
But if you don't, and you just sit around being wired, you won't burn a damn thing. Because the drink is not altering your metabolism.
How amazing!
Jeeze. Even the author of the submission isn't beyond his own nuke FUD.
It looks like a frightening idea.....
Congratulations! You have passed your "Nuclear means bad" indoctrination!
Yes, badly managed, a nuclear plant is dangerous as hell.
A properly running modern nuclear plant is orders of magnitude safer and has less impact on the environment (including radiologically) than a coal burning plant.
But hey, don't let the voice of reason stop you from running around screaming "NUKES! OH NOES!"
As it is, Lightspeed's momentum is nearing that of molecules in an absolute-zero environment.
[Captain Kirk] So Ensign Shortskirt, what was that transmission?
[Ensign Shortskirt] It took a little while to reconstruct the message, but it appears, from the predominance of nude photos, to be an invitation for sex...
[Captain Kirk] Woohoo! Plot a course to the source!
[Ensign Shortskirt] Uhm. Sir, the origin point is Earth, as of about four hundred years ago...
[Captain Kirk] DAMN...IT...I...NEED...TO...GET...LAID!
[Ensign Shortskirt] Your cabin or mine sir?
[Captain Kirk] Mine. Five minutes. Bring friends...
(Beavis) HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
(Butthead) Huh huh huh huh. He's lookin' at your anus Beavis...
(Beavis) SHUT UP BUTTHEAD!
Everything takes longer and costs more.
It's a "Slashdot got the news after everyone else has known about it for * (* = insert "days"/"weeks"/"months"/"years")" joke!
This has been getting screamed about for a couple years now.
Why, all of the sudden is this news?
Nope.
Actually, the US has been able to monitor communications travelling outside the US without a warrant for decades now.
What this bill is ACTUALLY doing is placing restrictions on that power.
BULLSHIT!
Anyone who believes this ought to take the damn rose-colored glasses off!
The money has to come from SOMEWHERE. And the oil companies sure as fuck aren't going to just eat it. The cost will, eventually, be passed on to the consumer.
Well, that and the anti-nuclear crowd has the general populace absolutely TERRIFIED of nuclear energy. To most people, you say "reactor" and they automatically think of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Never mind that a coal plant has a higher radiation output into the environment than most properly running reactor sites.
And I ask again, how much fossil fuel was burned to produce that power?
God I'm so sick of these pie-in-the-sky exaggerations of currently hot technologies as "the future".
All it does is depress the market who sits back, content to wait for "something better", even if it never gets delivered.
Hello? Anyone remember Osborne Computer Corporation? I didn't think so.
Sometimes I wish these buzz-speakers would STFU.
Je ne peux pas installer des jeux vidéo sur la machine.
Luddites pour toujours !
The electricity has to be generated somewhere. And if it's a coal/oil-fired plant doing it, all you're doing is shifting production out of the car and into a central point. (Essentially the same argument applies for emissions as well. Also, how many cars pump radioactive byproducts into the atmosphere without any regulation from the NRC?)
With your ass-pull percentage of 20% on the car.
How efficient is a coal/oil power plant?
How much is lost in transmission and stepping conversion? You're trying to compare two completely different end products. It's like comparing an abacus to a TI-89 calculator. Sure, they achieve roughly the same end, but only on a very simplistic level.
Google still has the manual viewable in "View as HTML" (I know this because I was curious and took a look-see).
When I read the default password, I damn near shit myself laughing.
Then I remember that these are default passwords to CASH DISPENSERS, and I stopped laughing (at least for a second).