I disagree. Are you afraid to cross the street? No? Oh, therefore you're just going to charge across without excercising caution, right? No, no you're not.
Being fearless doesn't mean you're a berserker. Being fearless gives you that extra degree of self control. It's the coward that loses self control in the face of danger.
Apple is simply meeting a niche demand for stylish computers that are almost as good a price/performance value as competing PCs...
I'm going to have to argue with you on a technical point here. I disagree with your price/performance point. It's well known in educated circles that Apple sells inferior hardware, but due to its aggressively proprietary nature there is no competition to compare it to. The 'quality' of Apple components is just marketing hype.
...one of those Linux freaks who thinks they have a right to get everything for free...
I realise that us Linux users may be an 'eclectic' group of individuals using a fringe (and increasingly marginalised) OS, but there's no reason to call us freaks. And what's this about wanting everything for free? The TPL clearly states you can sell your software for whatever price you want. Obviously Red Hat users don't fall into your little generalisation.
Yes, it's true that most geeks like yourself like to explore and tinker, and that's suitable when you're a small child or when you're in an academic environment.
When it comes to putting bread on the table - something that geeks are intrinsicly poor at - I'd rather be a suit. What the geek culture fails to recognise is that there is a time and a place for this sort of thing, and this behavior is useless in the work environment. That's why the entire dot-com bubble burst, remember?
... but these are the guys you can catch outright without creating new laws that restrict our rights.
Yes, and there is a reason for that, which is that copyright laws were originally created with these sort of operations in mind. Copyright law was designed, in part, to stop others from profiting from your material (sans agreement).
What we are suffering from today is a perversion of copyright; the notion of intellectual property, which has been regarded (legally) as actual property, and so we come to the absurd situation where someone can be considered to have 'stolen' intellectual property (and thus harmed the owner) without:
depriving the owner of the property
profiting from the property
Thus when entities such as the RIAA assert that 'theft' of intellectual property is costing them money, they are asserting that the following process is taking place:
We are subject to Michael's assinine editorial comments. Just to lay everybody's fears to rest (ha) there will be no such army, because none of the soldiers would respect the chain of command. What a jackass.
My life would be so much better if I thought these "in soviet russia" things were funny.
My life would also be so much better if my moderator points were given to me to mod these things down.
I know, these are grave times my friend, between profit jokes, beowulf clusters, in soviet russia, all your base, cmdrtaco, Michael, and Jon Katz everybody's lives must be in shambles!
Here's a tip: turn off the computer, put up your hands, and walk away slowly. You'll thank me someday.
Good point but I think this enables wireless to take a necessary step forward. Using the T.V. part of spectrum will allow transmissions through media that would previously have blocked the signal and they will no longer suffer from being a highly directional signal.
Personally I don't understand why nVidia is not going to be releasing Linux drivers with their GeForce FX. Granted, nobody who runs Linux buys games that could make use of their card, but it still seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot with this.
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... 2^9 C magnetic field C? Aren't magnetic fields measured in Teslas?
Not to mention that L & M are consecutive letters in the alphabet.
That says nothing about its magnetic properties. How many teslas does it produce?
Sorry.
Please make this illegal art.
Wouldn't you be cynical if you had never been laid and still live in your parents' basement?
I disagree. Are you afraid to cross the street? No? Oh, therefore you're just going to charge across without excercising caution, right? No, no you're not.
Being fearless doesn't mean you're a berserker. Being fearless gives you that extra degree of self control. It's the coward that loses self control in the face of danger.
Entitled to, yes in the sense that they are able to have one, but not everyone is justified in having the opinion that they do.
The metric system may be 'new fangled' but it's superior to the imperial system in every conceivable way.
Probably because at 120 MPH you need to add 176 feet to the rollercoaster for every imperial second you want to add to the ride.
We are not any closer to a cure for stupidity.
When it comes to putting bread on the table - something that geeks are intrinsicly poor at - I'd rather be a suit. What the geek culture fails to recognise is that there is a time and a place for this sort of thing, and this behavior is useless in the work environment. That's why the entire dot-com bubble burst, remember?
Pink slips, my manager gave me one but I refused to wear it for him. A guy's got to draw the line somewhere.
What we are suffering from today is a perversion of copyright; the notion of intellectual property, which has been regarded (legally) as actual property, and so we come to the absurd situation where someone can be considered to have 'stolen' intellectual property (and thus harmed the owner) without:
Thus when entities such as the RIAA assert that 'theft' of intellectual property is costing them money, they are asserting that the following process is taking place:
We are subject to Michael's assinine editorial comments. Just to lay everybody's fears to rest (ha) there will be no such army, because none of the soldiers would respect the chain of command. What a jackass.
Here's a tip: turn off the computer, put up your hands, and walk away slowly. You'll thank me someday.
At least if MS purchases them they can once again become profitable (and successful) companies.
Good point but I think this enables wireless to take a necessary step forward. Using the T.V. part of spectrum will allow transmissions through media that would previously have blocked the signal and they will no longer suffer from being a highly directional signal.
A two year warranty is good nowadays. I would take a well made, old fashioned, IDE drive over a modern fuckjitsu drive any day.
Interplay. Fallout, Fallout II. Those pansies at Square couldn't even hold a candle to the makers of Fallout.
But I think Slashdot could become a major supplier of hot air for these guys.
Who hell still uses this dinosaur anyhow?
Personally I don't understand why nVidia is not going to be releasing Linux drivers with their GeForce FX. Granted, nobody who runs Linux buys games that could make use of their card, but it still seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot with this.
About the same time that ogg vorbis becomes popular and Linux becomes the operating system of choice.