I believe I have just discovered a new rule, similar to goodwins law. At any point that a Christian/atheist flamewar begins in a non religious article, the thread is worthless
I propose we call this the autopr0n.com rule, in honor of myself and rampant crass commercialism.
A) I don't care what it costs: if you are talking cost effectiveness, by all means buy a PC. They are MUCH cheaper.
So are Chevrolet's. I drive an M3. Do M3's suck because they are more expensive than a Cavalier which will get you to the shopping mall just as effectively as my M3?
The Macintosh, Computers for rich effete wankers with too much god damn money on their hands. Although unlike the M3, they aren't actually better then most other kinds of cars, it's just that the users have deluded themselves into thinking so.
Um, like a $1000 iBook which will kick the ass of most equivalent Win laptops? Real overpriced
Yeh right
I just got a sony vaio SR, 2.68 pounds with firewire, a 600mhz CPU, 128 megs of ram for $999.
The cheapest iBook on apples site is $1299 ($300 more) and while the specs are similar it weighs twice as much. I chose my laptop based mostly on size and formfactor. An equvelant thinkpad or the like would run you even less.
Uh huh. That's why ILM has like a thousand Macs? That's why a Mac reached a billion IPS before either AMD or Intel? That's why no graphic designer worth his salt uses anything but a G4 to run PS?
What the fuck does artistic ablity have to do with platform choice? Designing web graphics is hardly a compute-intensive task for most purposes anyway. PS6 runs fine on my 600mhz althon
* - Before anyone starts ripping Apple over tactics like that, let me remind you of the countless times I, as a Mac user, have heard, "Well you'll just have to get a PC if you want to do that!" Let me also remind you of products like certain cable/DSL routers whose firmware is a pain in the ass to upgrade if you don't have a PC handy. I for one think it's high time PC users got a little taste of what Mac users have had to put up with for years.
Well, first we'll have to see if they'll actualy do it. I can't imagine anyone would rip on them for something they've only done in your imagination.
Secondly, if they do PC users would simply buy a diffrent mp3 player, there are dozens on the market, and the vast majority are cheaper then the iPod.
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plus when you install it the quicktime plugin would be installed and set itself up to default for everything just like the way windows media player installs on mac and makes itself the default for every format !
Ug, are you saying that they should do that? FUCK NO. I hate quicktime beacuse it tried to take over my browser settings, even for things like PNG and BMP with it's shitty viewer that can't even save files (don't want people violating copyright now)
In fact, thats the reason I simply did not install quicktime for over a year. Fortunetly that's changed.
Wired the magazine and wirednews and all of wireds online properties are owned by seperate companies. Conde Nast own's the paper mag, and lycos owns the rest.
This article is just ludicrous! It's damn funny. What'll probably happen is that the story will be removed from the front page, like some of/.s other major fuckups. (like when Michel ripped on a distributed project to help cure cancer, because it was being run by a corporation (Intel), without even bothering to contact the people who actually wrote the software.)
I started out liking Katz (read him on hotwired, that's actually how I found slashdot), but he seems to just get stupider and stupider.
While he was mailing me he was simultaneously watching some bootleg porn and downloading the new Britney Spears!
Just so you know, it wasn't the music he was downloading, but Spears' genome. Once he figures out to hook up his C64 to the genetic recombinator he hid in the barn... well, let's just say he won't be needing to download so much porn.
They dropped/will drop soon Kuro5hin because it was not "open source" enough for OSDN anymore. At the same time, slashdot hasn't seen a new wave or focus on open source reporting. In fact, they do the same general interest reporting Kuro5hin does, but with lower article quality.
I have to disagree with this. Kuro5hin hardly ever talks about tech these days, with Just Carnage4life holding out (and he gets a lot of his stories posted here these days)
while it's true slashdot does general and political stories, k5 does them almost exclusively these days.
There have been reports (well one report that I've heard, actually) of a guy who dug up his big-screen TV after the taliban fled Kabul. It may have been a trend, after all it's not like people in the US can't get their hands on drugs despite the hard line our government has taken on them.
Kabul also has electricity and some telephone access. I seriously doubt someone in a village 'suburb' or Kabul would have access to those things.
And yeh, slashdot? (which wasn't very popular in 1996) The Microsoft case (which hadn't started in 1996) the iPod!?
Not always possible to stay in the US.
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The American government prevents this somewhat, by allowing way more student visas then immigration visas. So while it's easy to get into the US to study, it's not always so easy to stay and get a job afterwards. So a lot of people do go back.
After a while the taliban relented and started allowing female doctors to practice again. I guess they realized the problem when their wives and daughters started getting sick...
I don't believe this for a moment. I hope Katz is above simply fabricating something like this, but I have no idea why he would just 'describe' the letter rather then reposting it here so we can all see for ourselves.
And as others mentioned, you can't download movies to a commodore, it just wont happen And he wouldn't have been able to do 'modern' programming on it for a long time. While I have heard reports of video stories and movie theaters opening back up, they're more likely to renting Indian and Pakistani films. Although I'm sure some people go for the American ones as well.
And comments about the iPod and Macs? Yeh, right. This sounds like more of a katzian fantasy to me. How would he even hear about the thing? And why would he want it rather then more reasonable mp3 players. After all, on a pure modem link he isn't going to be able to download movies.
And unless the northern alliance has managed to get DSL installed in the past few days, he isn't going to be downloading movies no matter what computer he has.
Katz if you have an journalistic credibility, post the actual message.
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could someone please explain to me about communist China?
China has really mellowed out since Mao died, and the only thing they try to censor is anti-government stuff. And on top of that china now has it's own pop-culture that while sharing traits with western pop-culture, is largely independent.
China is also gradually becoming more capitalistic.
I suppose sun et.al could buy a ton of 'em and throw them away. But they'd have to publicize it and let everyone know what they were doing, otherwise the numbers would initially just show up as extra marketing data points.
Also, there has to be a huge number of people doing this, like more then 10%, and I doubt that that would happen...
There are plenty of PCs out there that cost less then $300. When I moved out of the house my mom got a $266 PC to replace the one I'd be taking with me. It's not that big a deal
Why put all this money in the hands of microsoft, waste all this time dicking around with hardware, when you can already do those things and more without defeating microsofts 'hacks'?
Only by killing many of it's own people, did the US manage to place a man on the moon and finish the space race
Ok, 3 people died in a tragic accident, but that was on the ground, not in space per se. Those were the only people to die before we had people on the moon.
Also, the EU isn't doing this, france is doing this. Several states (which are responsible for this kind of thing) have had e-govs for quite a while.
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I believe I have just discovered a new rule, similar to goodwins law. At any point that a Christian/atheist flamewar begins in a non religious article, the thread is worthless
I propose we call this the autopr0n.com rule, in honor of myself and rampant crass commercialism.
A) I don't care what it costs: if you are talking cost effectiveness, by all means buy a PC. They are MUCH cheaper.
So are Chevrolet's. I drive an M3. Do M3's suck because they are more expensive than a Cavalier which will get you to the shopping mall just as effectively as my M3?
The Macintosh, Computers for rich effete wankers with too much god damn money on their hands. Although unlike the M3, they aren't actually better then most other kinds of cars, it's just that the users have deluded themselves into thinking so.
Um, like a $1000 iBook which will kick the ass of most equivalent Win laptops? Real overpriced
Yeh right
I just got a sony vaio SR, 2.68 pounds with firewire, a 600mhz CPU, 128 megs of ram for $999.
The cheapest iBook on apples site is $1299 ($300 more) and while the specs are similar it weighs twice as much. I chose my laptop based mostly on size and formfactor. An equvelant thinkpad or the like would run you even less.
Uh huh. That's why ILM has like a thousand Macs? That's why a Mac reached a billion IPS before either AMD or Intel? That's why no graphic designer worth his salt uses anything but a G4 to run PS?
What the fuck does artistic ablity have to do with platform choice? Designing web graphics is hardly a compute-intensive task for most purposes anyway. PS6 runs fine on my 600mhz althon
Blah, fuck you you boring zelot.
I will not rest untill I can boot my PC off of my MP3 player, god damnit!
* - Before anyone starts ripping Apple over tactics like that, let me remind you of the countless times I, as a Mac user, have heard, "Well you'll just have to get a PC if you want to do that!" Let me also remind you of products like certain cable/DSL routers whose firmware is a pain in the ass to upgrade if you don't have a PC handy. I for one think it's high time PC users got a little taste of what Mac users have had to put up with for years.
Well, first we'll have to see if they'll actualy do it. I can't imagine anyone would rip on them for something they've only done in your imagination.
Secondly, if they do PC users would simply buy a diffrent mp3 player, there are dozens on the market, and the vast majority are cheaper then the iPod.
plus when you install it the quicktime plugin would be installed and set itself up to default for everything just like the way windows media player installs on mac and makes itself the default for every format !
Ug, are you saying that they should do that? FUCK NO. I hate quicktime beacuse it tried to take over my browser settings, even for things like PNG and BMP with it's shitty viewer that can't even save files (don't want people violating copyright now)
In fact, thats the reason I simply did not install quicktime for over a year. Fortunetly that's changed.
Wired the magazine and wirednews and all of wireds online properties are owned by seperate companies. Conde Nast own's the paper mag, and lycos owns the rest.
This article is just ludicrous! It's damn funny. What'll probably happen is that the story will be removed from the front page, like some of /.s other major fuckups. (like when Michel ripped on a distributed project to help cure cancer, because it was being run by a corporation (Intel), without even bothering to contact the people who actually wrote the software.)
I started out liking Katz (read him on hotwired, that's actually how I found slashdot), but he seems to just get stupider and stupider.
While he was mailing me he was simultaneously watching some bootleg porn and downloading the new Britney Spears!
Just so you know, it wasn't the music he was downloading, but Spears' genome. Once he figures out to hook up his C64 to the genetic recombinator he hid in the barn... well, let's just say he won't be needing to download so much porn.
I mean, wow. There has been, what, ZERO American war casualties, and a very small amount of civilian destruction,
Actualy, two US servicemen died in a helicopter crash (in pakistan)
They dropped/will drop soon Kuro5hin because it was not "open source" enough for OSDN anymore. At the same time, slashdot hasn't seen a new wave or focus on open source reporting. In fact, they do the same general interest reporting Kuro5hin does, but with lower article quality.
I have to disagree with this. Kuro5hin hardly ever talks about tech these days, with Just Carnage4life holding out (and he gets a lot of his stories posted here these days)
while it's true slashdot does general and political stories, k5 does them almost exclusively these days.
Well, I'm sure you're right about poland, but I was only talking about china, you probably meant to respond to the poster I responded to.
There is neither sand nor oil in afghanistan.
Maybe you should learn something before spouting your ignorant head off.
There have been reports (well one report that I've heard, actually) of a guy who dug up his big-screen TV after the taliban fled Kabul. It may have been a trend, after all it's not like people in the US can't get their hands on drugs despite the hard line our government has taken on them.
Kabul also has electricity and some telephone access. I seriously doubt someone in a village 'suburb' or Kabul would have access to those things.
And yeh, slashdot? (which wasn't very popular in 1996) The Microsoft case (which hadn't started in 1996) the iPod!?
The American government prevents this somewhat, by allowing way more student visas then immigration visas. So while it's easy to get into the US to study, it's not always so easy to stay and get a job afterwards. So a lot of people do go back.
After a while the taliban relented and started allowing female doctors to practice again. I guess they realized the problem when their wives and daughters started getting sick...
I don't believe this for a moment. I hope Katz is above simply fabricating something like this, but I have no idea why he would just 'describe' the letter rather then reposting it here so we can all see for ourselves.
And as others mentioned, you can't download movies to a commodore, it just wont happen And he wouldn't have been able to do 'modern' programming on it for a long time. While I have heard reports of video stories and movie theaters opening back up, they're more likely to renting Indian and Pakistani films. Although I'm sure some people go for the American ones as well.
And comments about the iPod and Macs? Yeh, right. This sounds like more of a katzian fantasy to me. How would he even hear about the thing? And why would he want it rather then more reasonable mp3 players. After all, on a pure modem link he isn't going to be able to download movies.
And unless the northern alliance has managed to get DSL installed in the past few days, he isn't going to be downloading movies no matter what computer he has.
Katz if you have an journalistic credibility, post the actual message.
could someone please explain to me about communist China?
China has really mellowed out since Mao died, and the only thing they try to censor is anti-government stuff. And on top of that china now has it's own pop-culture that while sharing traits with western pop-culture, is largely independent.
China is also gradually becoming more capitalistic.
I suppose sun et.al could buy a ton of 'em and throw them away. But they'd have to publicize it and let everyone know what they were doing, otherwise the numbers would initially just show up as extra marketing data points.
Also, there has to be a huge number of people doing this, like more then 10%, and I doubt that that would happen...
So you change your key length. Which protects your future data, but not the data that they already cracked.
:P
well thats true, but you could just rencript your data every couple of decades
There are two machines there, A playstation 2 dev kit, and an Xbox dev kit. The Xbox dev kit is the one that looks like a PC.
There are plenty of PCs out there that cost less then $300. When I moved out of the house my mom got a $266 PC to replace the one I'd be taking with me. It's not that big a deal
Why put all this money in the hands of microsoft, waste all this time dicking around with hardware, when you can already do those things and more without defeating microsofts 'hacks'?
Only by killing many of it's own people, did the US manage to place a man on the moon and finish the space race
Ok, 3 people died in a tragic accident, but that was on the ground, not in space per se. Those were the only people to die before we had people on the moon.
Also, the EU isn't doing this, france is doing this. Several states (which are responsible for this kind of thing) have had e-govs for quite a while.
But volkswagons are pretty nice these days, esp the ones they sell in the US.