Dude, If you're into that, I'm not interested in arguing the point, any more than I'd waste time telling an anorexic that she isn't fat. I'll just tell you the same thing I'd tell anyone else in your shoes: get some serious professional help.
So, if the government put all these people up on the web with a picture, name, and address, just like the anti-abortionists do with abortion doctors, you're perfectly fine with that, not murder at all?
WTF?
I'm used to people on/. trotting out straw men, but you really take the cake. Got any other fantasies to spin about my political positions?
Sun is circling the drain, and he's a very big part of why that's happening. Moody's just downgraded their bonds to junk status, their stock is under four bucks (it started to crash right about the time they made him a VP), and all Jon has to say is nonsense like "Apple should use Solaris" and "The PC is a dinosaur".
Sun has been worthless ever since they started up the Java Hype Machine.
The sort who have to resort to forcing their twisted idea of religious beliefs on others because they have no better purpose in life.
In my experience, most proslytutes, (whether they're bible-thumpers, scientologits, victimhood fetishists, commies, radfems, or any other flavor of zealot), know that their position is fundamentally irrational, so they seek validation by shoving their beliefs down the throats of others.
Sorry, I was off by a couple of months. It'll be a billion Real Soon Now, since the rate is accellerating.
It's clear the labels have made a heck of a lot of money by now on music they don't even have to physically replicate, distribute, etc., and they're making more all the time.
I think the big story here is how much money they get from the back-catalog now, that they weren't getting before. Most of the songs I've bought from the iTMS is over ten years old, and not particularly easy to find in a record store.
He sounds to me like an excellent example of the perils of inherited wealth. Not many rich kids will create a company like Federal Express. Many of them will just piss away the family fortune, or worse still, go into politics.
Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
Aren't they already getting the majority, like, I don't know, maybe 90% of the iTMS sales
Apple doesn't release those figures, but most analysts believe it's about 70%. So, with iTMS having hit the billion-song mark, the recording companies have been paid around $700 million.
He inherited the Seagram fortune, sold its $9 Billion stock of Dupont to buy MCA, for the sole purpose of becoming a media mogul.
What an interesting coincindence. The stupidest customer I ever had to deal with (some twenty years ago, thank goodness) worked for Seagram Latin America.
Let's give the man the benefit of the doubt: maybe he was drunk?
Apple is also very reluctant to make any promises about future products. The last time it happened was when Jobs believed IBM, and promised a 3Ghz G5 a year after the G5 shipped. You can bet he won't do that again in this decade.
Well, Apple "started from scratch" for the most part. I would hope they have a clean code base.
They do now. It sounds like MS has just gone through the same trauma that Apple with the the "Copland" project. I was sure they'd have to throw the beast out and start over at some point, and it sounds like they almost did that. Unfortunately, they re-started from an earlier NT codebase, which would have been like Apple starting from System 7.5.
I'm expecting Longwind to suck in just about the same ways that NT always did. It will be unstable and unsecurable.
Ahem OpenStep was a joined effort of Sun and Next Systems...
Not exactly. NeXT tossed NeXTSTEP over the wall to Sun, who promptly botched it. Did you ever see OpenStep on Solaris? Let me tell you, it was not a pretty sight.
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Yes.
-jcr
A lot of people feel that we should extend the line that runs only a few blocks into one that spans the city. I happen to be one of these people.
Then by all means, invest your own money to do so.
-jcr
What makes you think I'm upset?
-jcr
For their witty advertising and engineering prowess of course!
Dude, I'd mod that funny if I had the points..
-jcr
Oh, ye of little proof!
Your mythology is precisely as valid as this mythology. That will not change, no matter how much of snit you work yourself into.
-jcr
Not at all
Dude, If you're into that, I'm not interested in arguing the point, any more than I'd waste time telling an anorexic that she isn't fat. I'll just tell you the same thing I'd tell anyone else in your shoes: get some serious professional help.
-jcr
Why is it "obviously unhealthy"?
You're kidding, right?
-jcr
Are all fetishes pathologies or just the ones you don't like?
I wouldn't know. I was discussing a particular fetish which is obviously unhealthy.
If a guy is turned on by nurse uniforms, is that a pathology? How about school uniforms?
I think you should be asking your shrink, not me.
-jcr
How do you precisely know they seek validation?
I don't know it precisely. If I cared, I'd investigate more rigorously, but why bother?
All religious types are offering "truth" that cannot be validated or refuted by science.
That would explain why I don't take them seriously.
. Technically speaking, you can't tell someone any particular religion is untrue and be intellectually honest doing it.
I don't put much effort into disabusing people of their mythological beliefs. It's tedious and not very satisfying.
-jcr
So, if the government put all these people up on the web with a picture, name, and address, just like the anti-abortionists do with abortion doctors, you're perfectly fine with that, not murder at all?
/. trotting out straw men, but you really take the cake. Got any other fantasies to spin about my political positions?
WTF?
I'm used to people on
-jcr
Sun are still hoping that the network computer becomes popular before they have to file for bankruptcy.
Even if it does, why would anyone buy it from Sun?
-jcr
...what Jon Schwartz has to say?
Sun is circling the drain, and he's a very big part of why that's happening. Moody's just downgraded their bonds to junk status, their stock is under four bucks (it started to crash right about the time they made him a VP), and all Jon has to say is nonsense like "Apple should use Solaris" and "The PC is a dinosaur".
Sun has been worthless ever since they started up the Java Hype Machine.
-jcr
What does this have to do with free speech? I see no allegation that the US government has tried to shut him up.
-jcr
Isn't this the sort of thing the Taliban did - only to a more restrictive degree?
Umm, NO.
The Taliban murdered people who didn't toe the puritanical line. That's an entirely different ballgame.
-jcr
Ok, i'll admit it that it has distrubed me that golden showers is now like a mainstream thing.
It's not a mainstream thing. A scat fetish is a pathology, just like it always was.
It's just something that a bunch of the pornographers get off on. Those guys are like Microsoft: they have no taste.
-jcr
Funny you should mention Salt Lake City, considering the history of the Mormon Church.
After all, they were driven out of Illinois because their neighbors considered polygamy a perversion.
-jcr
The sort who have to resort to forcing their twisted idea of religious beliefs on others because they have no better purpose in life.
In my experience, most proslytutes, (whether they're bible-thumpers, scientologits, victimhood fetishists, commies, radfems, or any other flavor of zealot), know that their position is fundamentally irrational, so they seek validation by shoving their beliefs down the throats of others.
-jcr
It's not a billion songs yet.
Sorry, I was off by a couple of months. It'll be a billion Real Soon Now, since the rate is accellerating.
It's clear the labels have made a heck of a lot of money by now on music they don't even have to physically replicate, distribute, etc., and they're making more all the time.
I think the big story here is how much money they get from the back-catalog now, that they weren't getting before. Most of the songs I've bought from the iTMS is over ten years old, and not particularly easy to find in a record store.
-jcr
the guy sounds like a complete fucking idiot.
He sounds to me like an excellent example of the perils of inherited wealth. Not many rich kids will create a company like Federal Express. Many of them will just piss away the family fortune, or worse still, go into politics.
Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
-jcr
Aren't they already getting the majority, like, I don't know, maybe 90% of the iTMS sales
Apple doesn't release those figures, but most analysts believe it's about 70%. So, with iTMS having hit the billion-song mark, the recording companies have been paid around $700 million.
-jcr
He inherited the Seagram fortune, sold its $9 Billion stock of Dupont to buy MCA, for the sole purpose of becoming a media mogul.
What an interesting coincindence. The stupidest customer I ever had to deal with (some twenty years ago, thank goodness) worked for Seagram Latin America.
Let's give the man the benefit of the doubt: maybe he was drunk?
-jcr
Apple is also very reluctant to make any promises about future products. The last time it happened was when Jobs believed IBM, and promised a 3Ghz G5 a year after the G5 shipped. You can bet he won't do that again in this decade.
-jcr
Well, Apple "started from scratch" for the most part. I would hope they have a clean code base.
They do now. It sounds like MS has just gone through the same trauma that Apple with the the "Copland" project. I was sure they'd have to throw the beast out and start over at some point, and it sounds like they almost did that. Unfortunately, they re-started from an earlier NT codebase, which would have been like Apple starting from System 7.5.
I'm expecting Longwind to suck in just about the same ways that NT always did. It will be unstable and unsecurable.
-jcr
Everything Microsoft has done since before the days of Windows 3 has smacked of design-by-committee
I'd say more like design-by-implementors-in-isolation.
-jcr
Ahem OpenStep was a joined effort of Sun and Next Systems...
Not exactly. NeXT tossed NeXTSTEP over the wall to Sun, who promptly botched it. Did you ever see OpenStep on Solaris? Let me tell you, it was not a pretty sight.
-jcr