The problem I have with your question is that you are assuming that the facts brought forward that agree with the "extreme" positions are not facts. Facts are facts. Your position should reflect an accurate apraisal of the facts. If a fact corresponds to one side or the other, the way you have phrased the question automatically disqualifies it as an admissible fact. The logic of your question is flawed. Rather than dismiss the evidence brought to bear by the "extremes", you should analyze it for truth and consistency. Then, use that to base your opinion. If your opinion agrees with one side, don't automatically assume you've made a mistake.
Not off topic at all. In fact, you can send an email to an address like that, as long as that IP address is a mail exchanger. Normally, when you send an email to someone@domain.org, there is actually a machine named something like mail.domain.org that handles email. The DNS manages an "MX" record that directs email destined to domain.org to mail.domain.org. However, if domain.org is actually the name of a machine that accepts email, no MX record is needed. By the same token, if 123.123.123.123 is the IP address of your mail server, it will work just fine.
So stop buy their products, already! Buy a Mac. Buy a white-box PC with Linux. Convert your neighbors, friends, co-workers. Hell, buy above items for your friends, neighbors, and co-workers.
Work your way into positions of management within your company where you can make decisions that eliminate MS presence.
Above all, stop looking to the Government for solutions to economic problems. We are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy! Learn to work within the system -- not just bitch about it.
Wait a minute! Stop the presses! I see it now!
Someone at MS saw all the BSD code and had to cover it up somehow, so they reversed engineered the acronym of BSD to mean Blue Screen of Death, just in case anyone should ask.
To be quite honest, there is nothing on commercial TV that I am really interested in anyway. I don't watch public (PBS) either. The only thing I use the tube for now is watching DVD's. If commercial TV died I would even notice.
So what you're saying is, since Intel and AMD keep making processors that consume more and more energy without contributing anything to the accumulation of order in the universe, that they are helping (in their own special way) to destroy us all?
Funny, what you describe as ideal is the normal way Macs work. Applications create windows/documents. What you apparently don't like is the Microsoft MDI model where smaller windows are locked inside a little cage. Word on the Mac works the ways Mac applications should work -- not with the dorky MDI.
Exactly what is "Hispanic"? And don't tell me descendents from Spain because they're not. According to the stupid politically correct US census rules Spaniards are considered "white europeans" -- so go figure.
I would agree with this. This has been biting Apple the same way. Since schools operate on shoestring budgets (except for district fat cats), the Apple computers that the school would buy would rarely be upgraded or maintained. Kids using them would compare them to the PC they had at home and would jump to the (erroneous) conclusion that Mac were slow, etc. They didn't realize that they were using six-year-old systems.
MS creates interoperability? Give me a break. Have you ever heard of Open Standards? There's this little thing called TCP/IP that lets computers from different vendors interoperate just fine, thank you. And MS? Well, they take an open standard like Kerberos and mutate it into Active Directory which doesn't work with anything but MS products. Pull your head out of your Microsoft Certified Shit-Hole.
Agreed. The "free-speech amendment" was designed for political speech criticizing government, etc. bitching about taxes, abuses of government power. Extending that to include unwanted spam about breast implants and penis enlargements? The Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves if they could see how that has gotten twisted.
You are ignoring Apple in all this. Remember Apple has the largest Unix user base right now with OS X. Linux on the desktop is a non-starter vs. OS X. Linux attacking from the server side, Apple attacking from the desktop side, and Microsoft getting squeezed on the Net by AOL. I think you're still right about MS finally getting toppled, but I believe Apple will take over the desktop -- not Linux.
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The problem I have with your question is that you are assuming that the facts brought forward that agree with the "extreme" positions are not facts. Facts are facts. Your position should reflect an accurate apraisal of the facts. If a fact corresponds to one side or the other, the way you have phrased the question automatically disqualifies it as an admissible fact. The logic of your question is flawed. Rather than dismiss the evidence brought to bear by the "extremes", you should analyze it for truth and consistency. Then, use that to base your opinion. If your opinion agrees with one side, don't automatically assume you've made a mistake.
If so, MS will be able to chalk up another "innovation": The first game console to be attacked by viruses.
Not off topic at all. In fact, you can send an email to an address like that, as long as that IP address is a mail exchanger. Normally, when you send an email to someone@domain.org, there is actually a machine named something like mail.domain.org that handles email. The DNS manages an "MX" record that directs email destined to domain.org to mail.domain.org. However, if domain.org is actually the name of a machine that accepts email, no MX record is needed. By the same token, if 123.123.123.123 is the IP address of your mail server, it will work just fine.
So stop buy their products, already! Buy a Mac. Buy a white-box PC with Linux. Convert your neighbors, friends, co-workers. Hell, buy above items for your friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Work your way into positions of management within your company where you can make decisions that eliminate MS presence. Above all, stop looking to the Government for solutions to economic problems. We are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy! Learn to work within the system -- not just bitch about it.
Wait a minute! Stop the presses! I see it now! Someone at MS saw all the BSD code and had to cover it up somehow, so they reversed engineered the acronym of BSD to mean Blue Screen of Death, just in case anyone should ask.
To be quite honest, there is nothing on commercial TV that I am really interested in anyway. I don't watch public (PBS) either. The only thing I use the tube for now is watching DVD's. If commercial TV died I would even notice.
So what you're saying is, since Intel and AMD keep making processors that consume more and more energy without contributing anything to the accumulation of order in the universe, that they are helping (in their own special way) to destroy us all?
Funny, what you describe as ideal is the normal way Macs work. Applications create windows/documents. What you apparently don't like is the Microsoft MDI model where smaller windows are locked inside a little cage. Word on the Mac works the ways Mac applications should work -- not with the dorky MDI.
That behavior is documented in the Apple HIG.
Exactly what is "Hispanic"? And don't tell me descendents from Spain because they're not. According to the stupid politically correct US census rules Spaniards are considered "white europeans" -- so go figure.
What's the word for "friend" in Norwegian (or Elvish for that matter)?
How about penile removal from the ones marketing penile enlargement through spam? That'll learn 'em.
I would agree with this. This has been biting Apple the same way. Since schools operate on shoestring budgets (except for district fat cats), the Apple computers that the school would buy would rarely be upgraded or maintained. Kids using them would compare them to the PC they had at home and would jump to the (erroneous) conclusion that Mac were slow, etc. They didn't realize that they were using six-year-old systems.
MS creates interoperability? Give me a break. Have you ever heard of Open Standards? There's this little thing called TCP/IP that lets computers from different vendors interoperate just fine, thank you. And MS? Well, they take an open standard like Kerberos and mutate it into Active Directory which doesn't work with anything but MS products. Pull your head out of your Microsoft Certified Shit-Hole.
Agreed. The "free-speech amendment" was designed for political speech criticizing government, etc. bitching about taxes, abuses of government power. Extending that to include unwanted spam about breast implants and penis enlargements? The Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves if they could see how that has gotten twisted.
You are ignoring Apple in all this. Remember Apple has the largest Unix user base right now with OS X. Linux on the desktop is a non-starter vs. OS X. Linux attacking from the server side, Apple attacking from the desktop side, and Microsoft getting squeezed on the Net by AOL. I think you're still right about MS finally getting toppled, but I believe Apple will take over the desktop -- not Linux.