Before I get flamed for my lack of leet-ness, yes I realize roosterteeth is the group that makes rvb. I still think it'd make more sense to link to rvb directly, instead of a forum post.
If you are gonna link to the rvb video, you could at least figure out that the original place it came from was redvsblue.com. I'm sure a good chunk of/.'ers have seen the rvb switch movie, which is part of what MAKES the joke. If you explain it by linking to the website, it takes away some of the fun./. is all about inside jokes.
You can play a lot of great games on the mac that you just can't find for the PC. Like breakout... super breakout. That puzzle game with the apple logo. Plus, you already know which games are good for the mac, because you played them five or six years ago on the pc.
BTW, I'm typing this on a dual G5 powermac and have been developing into quite the mac zealot lately, but it can still be entertaining to poke fun at the platform. Old habits die hard!!
Only the opinion was part of the quoted text, and therefore that of the article submittor, not timothy. Nice attempt to blame the/. editors though. Even got modded insightful for that troll. Bravo.
And when a windows laptop returns from sleep, a lot of the time things don't work correctly. One of the great things about my ibook is how wifi never chokes up. On my windows xp laptop, I often have to reboot to get wifi to work again. What's nice about the apple sleep, is it actually works the way it's supposed to.
And here I thought it was the pimples, body odor, fat rolls, and complete lack of anything vaguely resembling social skills. Turns out, all along it was the soviet jokes! D'oh!
I need to write a bot that will auto respond to this stupid statement.
Macs have EXCELLENT out of the box support for multi-button mice. In fact, I find their support to be BETTER than that of windows xp.
HOWEVER, apple refuses, and most likely will continue to refuse, to ship a mac which DEFAULTS to shipping with a multi button mouse. The reason for this is very simple. It forces developers to write better UI's. When you know every user is going to have a multiple button mouse, it's very tempting to make normal functionality DEPEND on having multiple buttons, which can make the usage more confusing for a beginner. In the Apple model, you code your program to be able to work well with a single button, then allow the extra buttons to SUPPLEMENT functionality. Rather than depending on a complex interface, you work well with the simplest, and allow the more elaborate one for the advanced users. Why people bash apple for wanting to cater to BOTH markets really boggles my mind.
That being said, I'd kill for a kick ass apple-styled bluetooth multibutton mouse.
To add to the previous comments on the differences between pbook and ibook:
ibook cannot do DVI output, pbook can ibook doesn't support screen spanning out of the box, pbook does ibook cannot run with the lid closed, pbook can
I'm sure I'm leaving out plenty more, but the gist of it is - the ibook is purposefully crippled to make it a consumer-oriented device. The more advanced display options, most useful in a presentation type setting, are reserved for the powerbook, to differentiate it as the "business-class" machine.
Take a look at the ended auction prices of old macs on ebay. You will most likely be surprised at how well macs hold their value. Yes, the apple pricing structure is a bit screwed up, but from an economical standpoint it can make a LOT of sense to buy a mac at a random point in time. Dells drop their value ten seconds after you click the "order" button. Macs can be resold for a decent amount of cash sometimes a couple of YEARS after release. In my opinion, economically it makes a lot more sense to buy a new mac whenever you need one. The money you will lose reselling it is well worth it to have the computer you need at the moment.
Who would buy a Dell computer now, knowing much faster systems will be available in less than a year's time?
This question has really bugged me every time I have heard it since the announcement. I just bought a dual G5 machine and don't regret it at all. I needed a new computer, picked out the one that best suited my needs, and brought it home. It's one thing to wait for a month or two if there's a major revision around the corner, but I see no reason at all to change your purchase decisions based on something that's going to START coming out in a year.
With the ease of x-code's fat binaries, there's very little incentive for a developer to write programs that will only run on intel macs, so why get all bent out of shape about buying a machine now?
Wait, now that you mention it, I'm not going to buy any machine right now, because I'm afraid it might not run Duke Nukem: Forever when it comes out.
That's really what I'm hoping too, but you never know on/. Something about the way that post was worded just made my jaw drop, my eyes roll back in my head, and my bowels empty.
No, seriously. What the fuck? Really... what the FUCK?
Is this a sarcastic jab at hippies? Are you being serious? Trolling? This post makes so little sense it has left my frail geek mind in a state of disarray. It's a lonely, scary place in there right now.
The confusion is a subtle one, and one that tripped me up for a long time when I was studying relativity a few years ago. The crux of it is, you CAN'T define space in terms of any one reference. Spacetime "looks" different from different frames of reference. Much like quantum mechanics, it's incredibly counter-intuitive, and the only way to REALLY believe in it is to be forced to trudge through the math yourself. Unfortunatly, the math for general relativity is even more difficult to understand than the underlying concepts (at least for me it was!).
You're forgetting the most fundamental point of relativity. The term relative should give it away to you. Velocity DOES matter. In the frame of reference of the light, time is distorted relative to that of the frame of reference of the earth, so the light "feels" a different curvature. A straight line is a straight line in your OWN frame of reference. The details of said frame does in fact depend on your speed.
No, you are missing the point. Light DOES get deflected by the sun. There are many physical reasons why this isn't immediately obvious from staring at the sky, but it is very much true. Gravity affects light EXACTLY the same way it affets matter. Both move through spacetime in a straight line. When you look at a galaxy and see gravitational lensing, it is due to the deformation of spacetime. When you look at the starts spinning around the black hole at the center of that galaxy, it is due to deformation of spacetime. There is no seperate gravity for light and a different one for matter. It's all the same.
it is hard to imagine how they would stand to gain more than anyone else in this situation.
Is it? I have a feeling these opposition requests won't exactly entail a trip to your local We The People document prep service to fill out the paperwork. Challenging a patent will probably require a good lawyer and a significant bit of money. Defending a patent from these challenges might also prove to be expensive. NOW do you see how this could benefit a company that has a ton of money, when it's trying to trample all over little companies without much money?
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Before I get flamed for my lack of leet-ness, yes I realize roosterteeth is the group that makes rvb. I still think it'd make more sense to link to rvb directly, instead of a forum post.
If you are gonna link to the rvb video, you could at least figure out that the original place it came from was redvsblue.com. I'm sure a good chunk of /.'ers have seen the rvb switch movie, which is part of what MAKES the joke. If you explain it by linking to the website, it takes away some of the fun. /. is all about inside jokes.
You can play a lot of great games on the mac that you just can't find for the PC. Like breakout... super breakout. That puzzle game with the apple logo. Plus, you already know which games are good for the mac, because you played them five or six years ago on the pc.
BTW, I'm typing this on a dual G5 powermac and have been developing into quite the mac zealot lately, but it can still be entertaining to poke fun at the platform. Old habits die hard!!
Only the opinion was part of the quoted text, and therefore that of the article submittor, not timothy. Nice attempt to blame the /. editors though. Even got modded insightful for that troll. Bravo.
How in the blue fuck is this offtopic? I need to get my hands on whatever these people are smoking.
I'll take a picture of all the drives stacked up on one another on the desk (5 rows, 4 drives tall).
/. geeks want to see is of the drives
With that much porn, I think the last picture
Interesting? Insightful? This is a direct copy and paste from TFA.
And when a windows laptop returns from sleep, a lot of the time things don't work correctly. One of the great things about my ibook is how wifi never chokes up. On my windows xp laptop, I often have to reboot to get wifi to work again. What's nice about the apple sleep, is it actually works the way it's supposed to.
Perhaps I mean what I fucking said.
Perhaps you're an idiot. A text file cannot "phone home".
not funny anymore....
and this is why we don't have girlfriends....
And here I thought it was the pimples, body odor, fat rolls, and complete lack of anything vaguely resembling social skills. Turns out, all along it was the soviet jokes! D'oh!
I need to write a bot that will auto respond to this stupid statement.
Macs have EXCELLENT out of the box support for multi-button mice. In fact, I find their support to be BETTER than that of windows xp.
HOWEVER, apple refuses, and most likely will continue to refuse, to ship a mac which DEFAULTS to shipping with a multi button mouse. The reason for this is very simple. It forces developers to write better UI's. When you know every user is going to have a multiple button mouse, it's very tempting to make normal functionality DEPEND on having multiple buttons, which can make the usage more confusing for a beginner. In the Apple model, you code your program to be able to work well with a single button, then allow the extra buttons to SUPPLEMENT functionality. Rather than depending on a complex interface, you work well with the simplest, and allow the more elaborate one for the advanced users. Why people bash apple for wanting to cater to BOTH markets really boggles my mind.
That being said, I'd kill for a kick ass apple-styled bluetooth multibutton mouse.
To add to the previous comments on the differences between pbook and ibook:
ibook cannot do DVI output, pbook can
ibook doesn't support screen spanning out of the box, pbook does
ibook cannot run with the lid closed, pbook can
I'm sure I'm leaving out plenty more, but the gist of it is - the ibook is purposefully crippled to make it a consumer-oriented device. The more advanced display options, most useful in a presentation type setting, are reserved for the powerbook, to differentiate it as the "business-class" machine.
Take a look at the ended auction prices of old macs on ebay. You will most likely be surprised at how well macs hold their value. Yes, the apple pricing structure is a bit screwed up, but from an economical standpoint it can make a LOT of sense to buy a mac at a random point in time. Dells drop their value ten seconds after you click the "order" button. Macs can be resold for a decent amount of cash sometimes a couple of YEARS after release. In my opinion, economically it makes a lot more sense to buy a new mac whenever you need one. The money you will lose reselling it is well worth it to have the computer you need at the moment.
Who would buy a Dell computer now, knowing much faster systems will be available in less than a year's time?
This question has really bugged me every time I have heard it since the announcement. I just bought a dual G5 machine and don't regret it at all. I needed a new computer, picked out the one that best suited my needs, and brought it home. It's one thing to wait for a month or two if there's a major revision around the corner, but I see no reason at all to change your purchase decisions based on something that's going to START coming out in a year.
With the ease of x-code's fat binaries, there's very little incentive for a developer to write programs that will only run on intel macs, so why get all bent out of shape about buying a machine now?
Wait, now that you mention it, I'm not going to buy any machine right now, because I'm afraid it might not run Duke Nukem: Forever when it comes out.
A gushing speech about how hot Jobs is... hell, I AM a mac user and I'm starting to believe the /. trolls who say mac users are gay.
That's really what I'm hoping too, but you never know on /. Something about the way that post was worded just made my jaw drop, my eyes roll back in my head, and my bowels empty.
What... the... fuck
No, seriously. What the fuck? Really... what the FUCK?
Is this a sarcastic jab at hippies? Are you being serious? Trolling? This post makes so little sense it has left my frail geek mind in a state of disarray. It's a lonely, scary place in there right now.
What the fuck?
NO FAIR! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
The confusion is a subtle one, and one that tripped me up for a long time when I was studying relativity a few years ago. The crux of it is, you CAN'T define space in terms of any one reference. Spacetime "looks" different from different frames of reference. Much like quantum mechanics, it's incredibly counter-intuitive, and the only way to REALLY believe in it is to be forced to trudge through the math yourself. Unfortunatly, the math for general relativity is even more difficult to understand than the underlying concepts (at least for me it was!).
It's a suppository
Dear Lumpy,
Go ahead and fuck the little tramp, we're through!
Sincerely,
Your soon-to-be-ex wife
You're forgetting the most fundamental point of relativity. The term relative should give it away to you. Velocity DOES matter. In the frame of reference of the light, time is distorted relative to that of the frame of reference of the earth, so the light "feels" a different curvature. A straight line is a straight line in your OWN frame of reference. The details of said frame does in fact depend on your speed.
No, you are missing the point. Light DOES get deflected by the sun. There are many physical reasons why this isn't immediately obvious from staring at the sky, but it is very much true. Gravity affects light EXACTLY the same way it affets matter. Both move through spacetime in a straight line. When you look at a galaxy and see gravitational lensing, it is due to the deformation of spacetime. When you look at the starts spinning around the black hole at the center of that galaxy, it is due to deformation of spacetime. There is no seperate gravity for light and a different one for matter. It's all the same.
it is hard to imagine how they would stand to gain more than anyone else in this situation.
Is it? I have a feeling these opposition requests won't exactly entail a trip to your local We The People document prep service to fill out the paperwork. Challenging a patent will probably require a good lawyer and a significant bit of money. Defending a patent from these challenges might also prove to be expensive. NOW do you see how this could benefit a company that has a ton of money, when it's trying to trample all over little companies without much money?
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mushroom mushroom?
OHHH it's a snake