Thank God it's $2,000 for one of those damn things. The intense, blinding blue LEDs are annoying enough so I can't imagine just how annoying a blue laser would be. At least the pricing keeps the average jackass from pointing a Blue Death Ray laser at my eyes at a concert, sports event, or while I'm driving.
Too bad I can't do anything about how managers will spend their bonus money...(and I know a couple who would love to do their damn Powerpoints with this thing...)
That's like saying "all Democrats are baby-killing, dope addicted satanic homosexual communists." Don't buy into that kind of Us vs. Them absolutionist thinking.
There are alot of Republicans who are moderates--in fact, you should thank them for voting Democrat this election. While it's unfortunate the the ultra Right wing came to power, it isn't fair to generalize like that. In fact, that kind of tone is just as bigoted as you claim Republicans are. Rise above that.
Just because it's politically correct to bash Republicans doesn't mean it's right. Don't become what you say you hate.
I hope that the backlash that brought the Democrats to their new power doesn't radically swing things to the left. That's not any better than the "Bushies"--just different.
History's Lesson about "Getting Netscaped" by Microsoft:
Netscape went "poof" (mostly because it sucked anyway). IE was actually better for a while there but it still lacked something so this created a "market" for Firefox. Microsoft's security patches come out long after exploits are found. I doubt their security software will be any different. A new version of Windows means lots of new holes to find--a 3rd party AV product will probably always be the best way to shore up MS's vain attempts to secure their OS.
Even so, the kind of expoits out there right now are very scary. I just found a client's computer with a pretty nasty root kit on it--very difficult to detect even by scanning the disk on a clean machine.
Microsoft is a very ponderous and bulky corporation that is trying to diversify into as many markets as it can just to keep in the black every quarter. They are too big to have the agility they need to stay on top of security. They tried to sell us on their commitment to security but the security problems are as bad as ever--if not worse.
People are getting fed up with this sort of thing. Just like with IE, I think people will try Windows Defender (or whatever they're branding it) but eventually turn to another solution as they're doing with Firefox.
MS is a big shark that takes very messy bites out of everything thing. There isn't enough room in the tank for another big shark but the little remoras and scavangers that ride along with the MS will do very well to dine on the big chunks that Mr. Softy leaves behind.
Inventors: Bowers; Robert T (Cupertino, CA), Ko; Steve (San Francisco, CA) Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc. (Cupertino, CA) Appl. No.: 10/304,291 Filed: November 25, 2002
Maybe I don't know how to read these legal eagle documents and stuff, but it seems like this was filed some time ago. I don't think this has much bearing to 10.5 when this was filed when 10.2 was fresh on the shelves.
Ok, I'm about o go off on Greenpeace and all the wanna-be idealist hippies out there...just skip this or mod me down for my lack of tact, flamebaiting, or going off-top but this needs to be said:
Let me just say that most people aren't really serious about being "green." If they were, they'd just STOP being consumer whores altogether. However, being green is en vogue and cool. Why? Because all of the efforts and publicity stunts done by Greenpeace and their compadres are nothing more than fertilizer for the "green marketing" corporate marketing spin doctors come up with to sell more products that aren't really any better for the environment than before. If you're "green," congratulations; you're now a front-and-center marketing demographic. All that marketing plays up to your green sympathies and they guilt you into buying anything with a "green" sticker the've re-branded just for you.
Greenpeace activists seem to think that they're making a difference but I don't think they are anything more than unemployed idealists who hate authority. I don't mean to sound like a Philistine Republican but, c'mon--you people look like a bunch of kooks. Organizations that do all kinds of crazy stunts (that are oftentimes, ironically, hazardous to the environment) lose their message in the medium.
Apple's new "green" marketing plan is nothing more than damage control. They know that most consumers don't truly care and that a "green" sticker on the box makes them feel better about their purchase.
Even if my Macs and my iPod are full of poisons and environmental hazards, it's ultimately up to me, the consumer, to dispose them properly or have them recycled. That's really the problem--people who throw shit away that shouldn't be in the landfill.
I finished "TFA" and was impressed with the writing. It was full of all kinds of quotes, facts, etc. I was impressed with the quality of the article as opposed to the slop put out by mainstream media (my wife reads the New Yorker but I just browse for the cartoons).
Then I was reading what someone posted with rebuttals from the egg-heads they interviewed crying foul--evidently, their words were twisted into convenient quotes to support the thesis of the article--which seemed to be that Perelman is a nice guy and Yao is an unethical bastard.
I was very disappointed but not surprised that journalists do this. Several times, I have been interviewed by newspaper writers for small and large cities. On each occassion, the quotes were grossly inaccurate or fictional altogether.
I've always suspected that "journalists" usually already have the story written and they're just out to find convenient quotes to prove their theories "correct."
I disagree. You're globalizing you own aesthetic sensibilities--which are obviously quite pedestrian. There's nothing wrong with putting function over form, but you assume that everyone else should be happy with a drab little box. You might be one of those people that drive weird-ass looking vehicles like the Pontiac "Aztec" or a Honda "Element" because it had the features you like--depsite the fact that most other think it looks weird or even ugly.
Sure, Apple does put alot of effort into the industrial design and the "fashion" of it--but that's proven to be important to more and more consumers and Apple is capitalizing on that. The iPod was a bigger success than anyone thought it would be but it's hardly taken over the entire company. If anything, it's helped Apple support their computer habit. I prefer the iPod over ANY of the competitors because it meets needs AND I like the way it looks and feels.
Even MS is jumping on the ideas of "fashion" aesthetics. They've gone so far as to send out recommended color and design strategies to OEM companies for accessorizing Vista.
Anyway, I think your point is a bit on but more in the sense that it's hyperbole.
It would probably suck anyway. With Parallels, VMWare coming, and BootCamp, MS still sells box copies of Windows (well, to "honest" people anyway). MS wins either way and now they don't have to waste their time programming a product that's already dead. Now those guys can go help those poor Vista bastards catch up.
Very funny that they (MS) made the announcement the same time VMWare made theirs.
I've been reading through the thread and everyone is adding their two cents about how this law is so stupid, infringes upon free speech, and how unenforceable it is.
All that is definitely true--but I think we're overlooking something very subtle about this sort of legislation: traction for prosecution.
Sure, no one will be able to enforce this but prosecuting attorneys can stick it to somebody who might have been busted for something else or doing pretty much what the law says it's protecting against.
It's kind of in the same "Catch 22" category as the law against not paying taxes for money earned selling illegal drugs, etc. It might not be enforced all the time, but it's icing on the cake for sentencing time.
Law makers aren't always as dumb as we think they are.
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That "one line of code" will keep your machine from booting thus saving you and the environment.
Thank God it's $2,000 for one of those damn things. The intense, blinding blue LEDs are annoying enough so I can't imagine just how annoying a blue laser would be. At least the pricing keeps the average jackass from pointing a Blue Death Ray laser at my eyes at a concert, sports event, or while I'm driving.
Too bad I can't do anything about how managers will spend their bonus money...(and I know a couple who would love to do their damn Powerpoints with this thing...)
Such are the perils of bi-partisan governments. Too bad it goes down this way.
However, it would seem that the voters in this election did, indeed, say no to the Republican's agenda. Can't say I'm sad about it either.
Don't buy into my strange word-isms. :)
I meant to say absolutist.
That's like saying "all Democrats are baby-killing, dope addicted satanic homosexual communists." Don't buy into that kind of Us vs. Them absolutionist thinking.
There are alot of Republicans who are moderates--in fact, you should thank them for voting Democrat this election. While it's unfortunate the the ultra Right wing came to power, it isn't fair to generalize like that. In fact, that kind of tone is just as bigoted as you claim Republicans are. Rise above that.
Just because it's politically correct to bash Republicans doesn't mean it's right. Don't become what you say you hate.
I hope that the backlash that brought the Democrats to their new power doesn't radically swing things to the left. That's not any better than the "Bushies"--just different.
I'm hoping for a balance we can all live with.
History's Lesson about "Getting Netscaped" by Microsoft:
Netscape went "poof" (mostly because it sucked anyway). IE was actually better for a while there but it still lacked something so this created a "market" for Firefox. Microsoft's security patches come out long after exploits are found. I doubt their security software will be any different. A new version of Windows means lots of new holes to find--a 3rd party AV product will probably always be the best way to shore up MS's vain attempts to secure their OS.
Even so, the kind of expoits out there right now are very scary. I just found a client's computer with a pretty nasty root kit on it--very difficult to detect even by scanning the disk on a clean machine.
Microsoft is a very ponderous and bulky corporation that is trying to diversify into as many markets as it can just to keep in the black every quarter. They are too big to have the agility they need to stay on top of security. They tried to sell us on their commitment to security but the security problems are as bad as ever--if not worse.
People are getting fed up with this sort of thing. Just like with IE, I think people will try Windows Defender (or whatever they're branding it) but eventually turn to another solution as they're doing with Firefox.
MS is a big shark that takes very messy bites out of everything thing. There isn't enough room in the tank for another big shark but the little remoras and scavangers that ride along with the MS will do very well to dine on the big chunks that Mr. Softy leaves behind.
Dammit, can we just lay to rest the whole "vi vs. emacs" thing already? :-D
You mean I can get 4+ hours of infantile poopy jokes and lesbian fetish fantasies for free?
I already get that with Slashdot and Fark!
From TFA:
Inventors: Bowers; Robert T (Cupertino, CA), Ko; Steve (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Appl. No.: 10/304,291
Filed: November 25, 2002
Maybe I don't know how to read these legal eagle documents and stuff, but it seems like this was filed some time ago. I don't think this has much bearing to 10.5 when this was filed when 10.2 was fresh on the shelves.
If your cube mate can't stop his damn hiccups, a size 10.5 shoe can be used in lieu of a finger...
Ok, I'm about o go off on Greenpeace and all the wanna-be idealist hippies out there...just skip this or mod me down for my lack of tact, flamebaiting, or going off-top but this needs to be said:
Let me just say that most people aren't really serious about being "green." If they were, they'd just STOP being consumer whores altogether. However, being green is en vogue and cool. Why? Because all of the efforts and publicity stunts done by Greenpeace and their compadres are nothing more than fertilizer for the "green marketing" corporate marketing spin doctors come up with to sell more products that aren't really any better for the environment than before. If you're "green," congratulations; you're now a front-and-center marketing demographic. All that marketing plays up to your green sympathies and they guilt you into buying anything with a "green" sticker the've re-branded just for you.
Greenpeace activists seem to think that they're making a difference but I don't think they are anything more than unemployed idealists who hate authority. I don't mean to sound like a Philistine Republican but, c'mon--you people look like a bunch of kooks. Organizations that do all kinds of crazy stunts (that are oftentimes, ironically, hazardous to the environment) lose their message in the medium.
Apple's new "green" marketing plan is nothing more than damage control. They know that most consumers don't truly care and that a "green" sticker on the box makes them feel better about their purchase.
Even if my Macs and my iPod are full of poisons and environmental hazards, it's ultimately up to me, the consumer, to dispose them properly or have them recycled. That's really the problem--people who throw shit away that shouldn't be in the landfill.
Troll? Bah! Moderator swine!
I'm very confused about the choice of brown for a color. Does the shiney brown mean that Microsoft has pioneered a break-through for turd polish?
Wow...given what I've seen of Vista, Microsoft is wise to beef up their help desk like that! :)
I have an evil idea: what if someone very craftily forged similar e-mail firings to the heartless managers who thought up this idea?
That might be fun, eh?
It's Windows only, eh? That's not a problem because those poor bastards need it more badly than the Mac/*Nix crowd anyways...
Of course, you can always just fire up your botnet and leave someone else's footprints...that's what all the kids are doing.
I finished "TFA" and was impressed with the writing. It was full of all kinds of quotes, facts, etc. I was impressed with the quality of the article as opposed to the slop put out by mainstream media (my wife reads the New Yorker but I just browse for the cartoons).
Then I was reading what someone posted with rebuttals from the egg-heads they interviewed crying foul--evidently, their words were twisted into convenient quotes to support the thesis of the article--which seemed to be that Perelman is a nice guy and Yao is an unethical bastard.
I was very disappointed but not surprised that journalists do this. Several times, I have been interviewed by newspaper writers for small and large cities. On each occassion, the quotes were grossly inaccurate or fictional altogether.
I've always suspected that "journalists" usually already have the story written and they're just out to find convenient quotes to prove their theories "correct."
I disagree. You're globalizing you own aesthetic sensibilities--which are obviously quite pedestrian. There's nothing wrong with putting function over form, but you assume that everyone else should be happy with a drab little box. You might be one of those people that drive weird-ass looking vehicles like the Pontiac "Aztec" or a Honda "Element" because it had the features you like--depsite the fact that most other think it looks weird or even ugly.
Sure, Apple does put alot of effort into the industrial design and the "fashion" of it--but that's proven to be important to more and more consumers and Apple is capitalizing on that. The iPod was a bigger success than anyone thought it would be but it's hardly taken over the entire company. If anything, it's helped Apple support their computer habit. I prefer the iPod over ANY of the competitors because it meets needs AND I like the way it looks and feels.
Even MS is jumping on the ideas of "fashion" aesthetics. They've gone so far as to send out recommended color and design strategies to OEM companies for accessorizing Vista.
Anyway, I think your point is a bit on but more in the sense that it's hyperbole.
It would probably suck anyway. With Parallels, VMWare coming, and BootCamp, MS still sells box copies of Windows (well, to "honest" people anyway). MS wins either way and now they don't have to waste their time programming a product that's already dead. Now those guys can go help those poor Vista bastards catch up.
Very funny that they (MS) made the announcement the same time VMWare made theirs.
The saddest thing is that you'd think a PR firm could do so much better than that shite video.
I've been reading through the thread and everyone is adding their two cents about how this law is so stupid, infringes upon free speech, and how unenforceable it is.
All that is definitely true--but I think we're overlooking something very subtle about this sort of legislation: traction for prosecution.
Sure, no one will be able to enforce this but prosecuting attorneys can stick it to somebody who might have been busted for something else or doing pretty much what the law says it's protecting against.
It's kind of in the same "Catch 22" category as the law against not paying taxes for money earned selling illegal drugs, etc. It might not be enforced all the time, but it's icing on the cake for sentencing time.
Law makers aren't always as dumb as we think they are.
Dammit. The MPAA/RIAA is trolling slashdot again...
If my kid were going to school on the computer, the first thing I'd do on my home router/firewall is block the following addresses:
myspace.com
youtube.com
slashdot.org
Maybe not...then I don't know what *I* would. My wife would probably start thinking I had more "free" time or something...
When flaming linux fanboys like you quit bitching about Apple and Windows, Slashdot will probably just go away.
When they run out of big cats, they plan on using the following:
10.6 Ocelot
10.7 Manx
10.8 Tabby
10.9 Calico