I completely agree with you. But that still doesn't mean I can replace Office on the ibook I use for work. I'd LIKE to be in a MS-free world, and we're certainly getting there, but we ain't there yet.
There is NO WAY IN HELL NeoOffice/J or OpenOffice replace the MS office suite. No matter what people claim, they still break plenty of office docs that get emailed to me, and forget about replacing powerpoint. Apple's Keynote does a pretty good job but isn't anywhere near as feature-filled as powerpoint. I try to use alternate software as much as possible, but I keep a copy of MS office installed too.
And there's still the occasional app I run on my windows box at home that just doesn't have a replacement on OS X. I love my mac, but we're a long way from a M$-free world.
Maybe the GP wasn't talking about it being unnatural to eat meat, but rather that the animals were far from natural. Pumped full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides... genetically engineered and who-knows-what else.
Typical knee-jerk anti-vegetarian sentiment. For the record, I love meat, but I'd much rather eat a free-roaming deer that was shot in the wild than a cow that grew up in a pen too small to turn around.
My favorite line was always the one where he said "you already know which games are good on the mac because you played them on the pc five or six years ago"
As a mac user, I'm glad I like my games on a TV and without a keyboard!
I think the main difference between a remote controlled start switch and wifi is the fact that most kids with a computer already have the equipment neccesary to screw with the wifi. You'd either have to go buy, or build, a specialized device to mess with a normal remote start. To mess with wifi, all you need to do is start googling.
I agree that all the precautions you mentioned are good steps, but unless music is ALL I'm using the carputer for, I'd rather use something other than linux.
Except when you have a hunk of dry ice, you see fog coming off of it, for the exact same reason you described seeing "normal" steam. The cold of the dry ice condenses water vapor already in the air. At least, when you live somewhere humid like I do, you almost always see steam coming off dry ice.
Yeah, but everything you're talking about is someone stealing the car. What about the smartass kid who lives next door and doesn't want to get caught spraypainting bridges, so he gets his antisocial kicks other ways, like screwing with my car? When there's basically no chance of getting caught, no way to prove he did it, what's gonna stop the computer savvy dick down the street from screwing with the car from the comfort of his parents' basement for his own amusement?
The driver's side window is a whole lot more difficult to penetrate silently while sitting around the corner at a cafe pretending to check your email.
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Yeah because I really want a wifi enabled computer able to start my car... because we all know wifi is SO secure. And we all know SSH is IMPOSSIBLE to penetrate, right?
I'm sorry, but I don't want to have to worry if my car has the latest patches.
That's actually a really good analogy, albeit not for the reason you think. Many lexus owners have a sense of smug superiority that makes anyone who drives the car look bad, when in fact many people who own a lexus just enjoy driving a nice luxury car. Unfortunately one vocal group of lexus-driving assholes makes you immediately think anyone in a lexus is a prick.
Sort of like how on/. people assume anyone who has anything nice to say about apple is a zealot.
no fanboy here... i play my xbox much more often than i play my gamecube.
Did nintendo make mistakes? Of course. Did they lose developers? Yes?
Would they still be number 1 even if they hadn't done those things? NOPE!
MS and Sony cater to the more mature audience... this was a market that didn't really exist when nintendo was on top. Nintendo is doing what they always did - make good games for kids. They simple chose to stay within the market they liked, instead of moving into the new ones as they developed. If market research people separated out video games into the late teen and young adult category, versus the younger child category, nintendo would still rule the kiddie games by a landslide. In fact, the only thing that's hurting nintendo in the kiddie game market is the fact that parents let their kids play inappropriate games, and so the kids want to move past the kiddie games at a younger age.
They aren't the flagships. They sold a shitload of consoles, but they weren't the ones nintendo pushed. Nintendo pushes things like pikmen, mario sunshine, stuff like that. Yes, nintendo has an M rating available for games. Yes, nintendo does allow a few mature games to be released. But they still don't have anything like GTA, and they still dont make the main selling point of their console be the "kill people" games.
The "downfall" of nintendo was more due to their willingness to have a goal for the company OTHER than being "number 1". Nintendo has always been about the kiddie games, and the market isn't there. You would never see Halo (or any other FPS) as a flagship game for the big N. You would be hard-pressed to even be allowed to license GTA for the nintendo. Their company goals are just plain different.
Nintendo is a profitable company... maybe not as profitable as they could be if they were at the top of the market, but they are still making money. Sometimes being the best isn't always the goal. Sometimes making the most money isn't always the goal. Nintendo makes fun games that you can feel comfortable putting in front of your kids, and a lot of them are even fun for adults too. The market isn't driven by kids anymore, though, it's driven by teens and young adults, and they mostly want splattering blood and dead hookers.
Not that I'm bashing dead hookers.... well actually I do bash dead hookers, with a baseball bat, or a double sided dildo I picked up in the shower of the police station... but there's room for more than one type of game maker in the market.
If nintendo is going through such a downfall, why are they still making way more money than you or I will ever see?
Maybe because my tax dollars subsidized the construction of that infrastructure? Maybe because land owned by the government was used to put up the poles for that infrastructure? Maybe because the government told me I had to let the telecoms dig a trench through my front yard to lay cables? There's nothing wrong with letting a company profit from infrastructure they built... but when that infrastructure was largely supported by the government, then the government has the choice of whether it wants to let others use the wires. If the telecoms don't like it, the government can always deny them the priveledge to use public land to run cables.
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I completely agree with you. But that still doesn't mean I can replace Office on the ibook I use for work. I'd LIKE to be in a MS-free world, and we're certainly getting there, but we ain't there yet.
Yeah but the difference is, no one emails me attachments in OO format
Disclaimer: I use OS X, and openoffice.
There is NO WAY IN HELL NeoOffice/J or OpenOffice replace the MS office suite. No matter what people claim, they still break plenty of office docs that get emailed to me, and forget about replacing powerpoint. Apple's Keynote does a pretty good job but isn't anywhere near as feature-filled as powerpoint. I try to use alternate software as much as possible, but I keep a copy of MS office installed too.
And there's still the occasional app I run on my windows box at home that just doesn't have a replacement on OS X. I love my mac, but we're a long way from a M$-free world.
Fat chance! Everyone knows the moon landing was faked.
Maybe the GP wasn't talking about it being unnatural to eat meat, but rather that the animals were far from natural. Pumped full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides... genetically engineered and who-knows-what else.
Typical knee-jerk anti-vegetarian sentiment. For the record, I love meat, but I'd much rather eat a free-roaming deer that was shot in the wild than a cow that grew up in a pen too small to turn around.
Not a bad deal? For 400 bucks it should at least come with fucking wifi.
I was thinking the same thing.. I wasn't sure if he was advocating cutting off Oz, or Georgia.
heh... I'm starting to think the /. catch phrase should be changed to "News for Google. Stuff that Appleinsider covered yesterday."
And this coming from a mac user.
My favorite line was always the one where he said "you already know which games are good on the mac because you played them on the pc five or six years ago"
As a mac user, I'm glad I like my games on a TV and without a keyboard!
Since we're duping movies we've seen before, I might as well point out the funniest Switch parody I've ever seen... http://www.roosterteeth.com/archive/download.php?i d=499
In recent tiimes, the quality of articles here has gone down. You could even say slashdot has jumped the
I think the main difference between a remote controlled start switch and wifi is the fact that most kids with a computer already have the equipment neccesary to screw with the wifi. You'd either have to go buy, or build, a specialized device to mess with a normal remote start. To mess with wifi, all you need to do is start googling.
I agree that all the precautions you mentioned are good steps, but unless music is ALL I'm using the carputer for, I'd rather use something other than linux.
Except when you have a hunk of dry ice, you see fog coming off of it, for the exact same reason you described seeing "normal" steam. The cold of the dry ice condenses water vapor already in the air. At least, when you live somewhere humid like I do, you almost always see steam coming off dry ice.
Yeah, but everything you're talking about is someone stealing the car. What about the smartass kid who lives next door and doesn't want to get caught spraypainting bridges, so he gets his antisocial kicks other ways, like screwing with my car? When there's basically no chance of getting caught, no way to prove he did it, what's gonna stop the computer savvy dick down the street from screwing with the car from the comfort of his parents' basement for his own amusement?
The driver's side window is a whole lot more difficult to penetrate silently while sitting around the corner at a cafe pretending to check your email.
Yeah because I really want a wifi enabled computer able to start my car... because we all know wifi is SO secure. And we all know SSH is IMPOSSIBLE to penetrate, right?
I'm sorry, but I don't want to have to worry if my car has the latest patches.
Man, that must be some good crack. More stable isotopes makes for a more stable system? Huh?
That's actually a really good analogy, albeit not for the reason you think. Many lexus owners have a sense of smug superiority that makes anyone who drives the car look bad, when in fact many people who own a lexus just enjoy driving a nice luxury car. Unfortunately one vocal group of lexus-driving assholes makes you immediately think anyone in a lexus is a prick.
/. people assume anyone who has anything nice to say about apple is a zealot.
Sort of like how on
no fanboy here... i play my xbox much more often than i play my gamecube.
Did nintendo make mistakes? Of course. Did they lose developers? Yes?
Would they still be number 1 even if they hadn't done those things? NOPE!
MS and Sony cater to the more mature audience... this was a market that didn't really exist when nintendo was on top. Nintendo is doing what they always did - make good games for kids. They simple chose to stay within the market they liked, instead of moving into the new ones as they developed. If market research people separated out video games into the late teen and young adult category, versus the younger child category, nintendo would still rule the kiddie games by a landslide. In fact, the only thing that's hurting nintendo in the kiddie game market is the fact that parents let their kids play inappropriate games, and so the kids want to move past the kiddie games at a younger age.
They aren't the flagships. They sold a shitload of consoles, but they weren't the ones nintendo pushed. Nintendo pushes things like pikmen, mario sunshine, stuff like that. Yes, nintendo has an M rating available for games. Yes, nintendo does allow a few mature games to be released. But they still don't have anything like GTA, and they still dont make the main selling point of their console be the "kill people" games.
The "downfall" of nintendo was more due to their willingness to have a goal for the company OTHER than being "number 1". Nintendo has always been about the kiddie games, and the market isn't there. You would never see Halo (or any other FPS) as a flagship game for the big N. You would be hard-pressed to even be allowed to license GTA for the nintendo. Their company goals are just plain different.
Nintendo is a profitable company... maybe not as profitable as they could be if they were at the top of the market, but they are still making money. Sometimes being the best isn't always the goal. Sometimes making the most money isn't always the goal. Nintendo makes fun games that you can feel comfortable putting in front of your kids, and a lot of them are even fun for adults too. The market isn't driven by kids anymore, though, it's driven by teens and young adults, and they mostly want splattering blood and dead hookers.
Not that I'm bashing dead hookers.... well actually I do bash dead hookers, with a baseball bat, or a double sided dildo I picked up in the shower of the police station... but there's room for more than one type of game maker in the market.
If nintendo is going through such a downfall, why are they still making way more money than you or I will ever see?
As long as they keep approving devices which violate the laws of thermodynamics, I will be able to sleep well at night.
It's not... I think the cable companies should be held to the same standards as the phone companies, not the other way around.
Maybe because my tax dollars subsidized the construction of that infrastructure? Maybe because land owned by the government was used to put up the poles for that infrastructure? Maybe because the government told me I had to let the telecoms dig a trench through my front yard to lay cables? There's nothing wrong with letting a company profit from infrastructure they built... but when that infrastructure was largely supported by the government, then the government has the choice of whether it wants to let others use the wires. If the telecoms don't like it, the government can always deny them the priveledge to use public land to run cables.
Good news! It's a suppository!