I wonder how long it will be until Rush is hooked on conotoxin. Any guesses?
(BTW, in case you don't get this, you may not be alone. I'm not even sure "Rush Limbaugh" is still on the air - anyone know for sure?)
He died of AIDS, I think.
My mom bought a IIci right before the demise of System 6 so I got to spend some quality time with it before 7 came out and I did the upgrade on her system. She still used that machine to do actual work including illustrator and photoshop until just a few years ago, upgraded all the way to 40/500:D Trust me, the whole thing blew up a HELL of a lot less under System 6. Did it have all the nifty features? Assuredly not. But frankly, they weren't really needed, either. Stability was much more important and Apple utterly failed to provide it. System 8 was much better, and 9 better still... OK, but if you compare Apple's offerings of the period vs. the competition of the period, MacOS 9 is not as good as Win2K whereas System 7 beats the hell out of DOS 6.0 which it was competing against.
However, you aren't the first person I've heard say they preferred System 6 over System 7.
I'll spare you a snide comment and instead ask politely "Are you from a country that uses PAL as its TV broadcast standard?".
Maybe he is, but then he still would be wrong. I live in a "PAL country" (Germany) and we had an old BW TV at home until the late 80s or so. It had no problem showing the color TV channels in black and white (until it finally broke). Maybe he lives in a country that uses SECAM? (France, former soviet block)
In the US the color broadcasts were (still are, for analog) backwards compatible with b&w TVs. You could watch the color broadcasts, in b&w, on a b&w TV. They should do the same thing and make digital backwards compatible with the current NTSC standard.
I just hope that in the US we don't start seeing tax dollars go to handouts to provide assistance to people who supposedly can't afford a brand new TV set. I keep hearing that there WILL be some type of government assistance to get new digital to analog converters. I keep hearing this in the news. Sorry I don't have a link handy. But, it really wouldn't surprise me if the television companies pushed for this kind of hand out. Otherwise, they are potentially losing viewers. Also, I would think such a handout would generate lots of public interest in HDTV and would increase viewership. This would benefit the TV companies.
Plus, they'd be asking Congress to give out money and hey, it isn't their money, so they probably figure why not?
System 7 was a huge step backwards in reliability from system 6. It added improved multitasking abilities but frankly the difference to the user was not huge as compared to the multifinder in 6. It added truetype fonts but everyone who actually needed scalable fonts was using postscript with ATM already. System 7 was a huge boondoggle and probably did more to send people away from the mac than anything else anyone has ever done. You make a good argument. When I bought my first Mac it came with System 7.0.1, so I really can't argue system 6 vs. system 7.
If 9 is the kool-aid, then 7 is a sawed-off double-barreled shotgun in your mouth spraying your brains across the ceiling. System 7 was very good for the time when it was released.
Apple doesn't have to fake grass roots support - they have an actual real cult following. (Even if some people think we Mac Fanboys are a bit looney sometimes.)
Cult following... how appropriate. The rest of us are waiting for you all to drink the kool-aid or eat the pudding or whatever.
I think you're thinking of John Glenn. McCain is the Vietnam POW. I bet the guys who held him captive are happy to hear about this. Think about it - he's doing more to destroy american freedom than the viet cong ever could do.
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Dude, I said that as a joke and I hate Led Zepplin.
McCain vs. Hillary would be a true clash of the titan political whores. I don't even think it would be a contest. Hillary would totally lose that one in a landslide. Mark my words - she might get the democratic nomination, but I don't see how she could possibly win the general election.
I could have posted this because not only do I feel the exact same way as this guy, I agree with every point he makes and ALSO my first MP3 player was a Diamond Rio 500. And I currently own 1 iPod - a 20GB 2nd Gen. I bought this iPod before iPods were cool, before the iTunes Music Store, before iTunes for Windows. I remember people asking me what it was. I'd buy a new iPod, but the one I have works really well and I prefer the firewire port on it to the dock port on the new ones.
Frankly, I was very surprised that the iPod became such a major hit because Apple had made a lot of similar products over the years that weren't successful. (Newton, QuickTake cameras, etc.) But one thing I did know when I bought my iPod was that Apple would get the software right. They almost always get the software right.
So a company advertising its product is worthy of anger? What a bizarre outlet. Why does it deserve a strong emotion? I find ignoring it works just as well and expends less energy. Lots of people here aren't angry. They just think this ad campaign is stupid. And some people are probably saddened because Sony used to be a great company and also Sony could do better than this.
Such a thin line separates a brilliant marketing strategy from a shitty one
If I was in a bar and some guy walked in, announced he was from Beer Company X, then handed over a case for the bartender to distribute for free with his blessing, I'd thank him kindly and certainly try his product. I might even become a customer. I believe that thin line is called "honesty". In the first guy's example, he would feel like he had been deceived. In your example, you wouldn't feel deceived and also you'd be glad to have a free beer. Now, the bar owner might not be so happy that people are handing out free beer in his bar (i.e. no one is buying beer and he isn't making money).
Apple doesn't have to fake grass roots support - they have an actual real cult following. (Even if some people think we Mac Fanboys are a bit looney sometimes.)
No, fake grass roots campaigns are deceptive and in every case I'm aware of are done by companies that are so uncool that it makes my face hurt. And it isn't that I'm particularly outraged by this campaign, but it does make the PSP seem kind of lame.
Make your player truly affordable for a full time college student working a full time job, give me the ability to easily take all the songs I buy to any device, any media I wanna take them to, and we'll talk.In the meantime, I'll buy CDs from my local indie record store, and do with them as I see fit. If you are happy buying CDs, why would you want to switch to DRM?
To even have 40 GBs of FairPlay music, you'd need to buy around $10,000 of iTunes songs. Who the fuck has done that? During one of Steve Jobs keynotes, he was giving a status report on the iTunes store. He said that one person had purchased $23,000 worth of music from the iTunes store. This was the person (account) that had purchased the most number of songs. So, not everyone buys that much, but clearly someone does.
I've always wanted to know which assholes become developers for these companies. Somewhere out there some talented hackers are getting paid to screw up peoples systems. Very unethical! I've been offered jobs that I thought were unethical (some like what we are talking about.) I wasn't interested.
Torture doesn't work? You do not support it? Your child is kidnapped by two individuals. One is captured. He will not talk. You are placed in a soundproof room with the kidnapper and one #2 pencil. Sharpened. You are grasping at straws. Even in this situation, I would not torture the person. I would, however, implore him to divulge the whereabouts of my child.
I need to restart all the time. I dual boot OSX and XP. Would be great if start ups were 5 seconds like wake from sleep is. This is a good point indeed. I have some test systems at work with multiple versions of OSes and different configurations installed. I have to reboot to switch between partitions. For example, testing with pre-release operating systems, etc. So, faster boots would be better for me. Even better would be if the computer could start up correctly when the switchbox is set to a different computer. The machines seem to not start up correctly if they are not "switched in" during boot. Irritating.
Sleep works amazingly well on my G4 powerbook and osx. Its the only computer that I've owned that I can repeatedly put to sleep and expect to 'wake up'.
Sleep worked perfectly well and reliably on my PowerBook 160 running System 7 in 1993. In fact, I'd have to say that it worked just about as good as it does now.
How can you possibly "execute" the law (do you mean enforce the law?) without interpreting it? Anytime you read something and come to an understanding of what it means, you are interpreting what you read. Interpretation is the processes of deriving meaning from language.
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(BTW, in case you don't get this, you may not be alone. I'm not even sure "Rush Limbaugh" is still on the air - anyone know for sure?)
He died of AIDS, I think.
However, you aren't the first person I've heard say they preferred System 6 over System 7.
Maybe he is, but then he still would be wrong. I live in a "PAL country" (Germany) and we had an old BW TV at home until the late 80s or so. It had no problem showing the color TV channels in black and white (until it finally broke). Maybe he lives in a country that uses SECAM? (France, former soviet block)
Plus, they'd be asking Congress to give out money and hey, it isn't their money, so they probably figure why not?
Cult following... how appropriate. The rest of us are waiting for you all to drink the kool-aid or eat the pudding or whatever.
You missed it - we all bought copies of MacOS 9.And apparently lots of people like it too. It is a throwback to the internet that used-to-be.
Dude, I said that as a joke and I hate Led Zepplin.
(I like the Descendents.)
I could have posted this because not only do I feel the exact same way as this guy, I agree with every point he makes and ALSO my first MP3 player was a Diamond Rio 500. And I currently own 1 iPod - a 20GB 2nd Gen. I bought this iPod before iPods were cool, before the iTunes Music Store, before iTunes for Windows. I remember people asking me what it was. I'd buy a new iPod, but the one I have works really well and I prefer the firewire port on it to the dock port on the new ones.
Frankly, I was very surprised that the iPod became such a major hit because Apple had made a lot of similar products over the years that weren't successful. (Newton, QuickTake cameras, etc.) But one thing I did know when I bought my iPod was that Apple would get the software right. They almost always get the software right.
If I was in a bar and some guy walked in, announced he was from Beer Company X, then handed over a case for the bartender to distribute for free with his blessing, I'd thank him kindly and certainly try his product. I might even become a customer. I believe that thin line is called "honesty". In the first guy's example, he would feel like he had been deceived. In your example, you wouldn't feel deceived and also you'd be glad to have a free beer. Now, the bar owner might not be so happy that people are handing out free beer in his bar (i.e. no one is buying beer and he isn't making money).
Apple doesn't have to fake grass roots support - they have an actual real cult following. (Even if some people think we Mac Fanboys are a bit looney sometimes.)
No, fake grass roots campaigns are deceptive and in every case I'm aware of are done by companies that are so uncool that it makes my face hurt. And it isn't that I'm particularly outraged by this campaign, but it does make the PSP seem kind of lame.
No, you just THINK those records don't have "weak tracks" because you have such horrible taste in music.
Your child is kidnapped by two individuals. One is captured. He will not talk. You are placed in a soundproof room with the kidnapper and one #2 pencil. Sharpened. You are grasping at straws. Even in this situation, I would not torture the person. I would, however, implore him to divulge the whereabouts of my child.
Sleep worked perfectly well and reliably on my PowerBook 160 running System 7 in 1993. In fact, I'd have to say that it worked just about as good as it does now.
How can you possibly "execute" the law (do you mean enforce the law?) without interpreting it? Anytime you read something and come to an understanding of what it means, you are interpreting what you read. Interpretation is the processes of deriving meaning from language.