I can plainly see that you did not reply at all, hence I'm not replying to your non-reply.
But you should not go to not read this other non-post. It does not explain the non-notion I wasn't not using.
And finally, you really shouldn't reat what the author didn't have to not say about herself on her non-site. ... That's amazing, rarely is a rebuttal on slashdot so dominating and cynical at the same time.
I don't know why i'm responding to an AC. Get a user account you coward. Anyways, that blog is pathetic. These guys are so mad that they might actually make a reasonable browser for the Macintosh at long last. And their true intentions come out. ...Nonetheless, FireFox is slower than Safari, crashes more often, and still doesn't support the KeyChain on Mac OS X. Why not? Why is FireFox so mediocre? Those are great metrics for measuring how good Firefox is, except I don't know the last time I have had Firefox crash (on Linux or Windows). This guy's world apparently only consists of OS X. Which is what, 3% of the desktop market? Less if measured on monthly sales over the last several years.
Get real dude; but have fun reinterpreting this from Steve Jobs wanting the non IE market to an Apple Secret Plan. I like how all of a sudden this guy reinterprets the picture in the presentation to something closer to his view of what the Apple Secret Plan is. Do you really think Safari can have 24% of the browser market by 2008? Seriously?
More importantly, how is a blog credible with an entry titled: A Picture is Worth 1000 Morons" What about the flameworthy text from the first paragraph: I never cease to be amazed at how smart people can be so fraking stupid. Take John Lilly, Mozilla's chief operating officer. This little piss ant thorn in my side was handed a gift on a silver platter by Steve Jobs at WWDC, but he's too stupid and arrogant to read the tea leaves that Jobs spread out on the table before him.
So you're not Apple's target audience for Safari on Windows anyway. what part of this picture and this picture is everyone having such a hard time comprehending? Apple's target audience, is all the users that don't use IE. Steve Jobs has clearly shown this.
Here's what I'm referencing. Jobs says: "Well we dream big. We would love for Safari's marketshare to grow substantially. That's what we'd love." Steve Jobs doesn't just want Safari available so people can test their websites quickly at their same Windows box, he want's all of the market share from Opera/Firefox/etc. If his graph would've shown market share eaten up from IE there wouldn't even be these discussions going on, but instead what we see is an inside look into Steve's view on how he wants the market to change.
At this point the idiotic posts replying to what you said aren't going to change. Just ignore them, occasionally slashdot is inundated by the unwashed masses. Only a spaz on meth would not have been able to follow the thread of conversation.
Absolutely! Someone who ties his self-image to a motorcycle he went into the shop and bought is every bit as pathetic as some nerd who does the same with electronics or entertainment industry products. I'd be less likely to tell the biker that to his face... There is no need to tell it to their face. Being a harley customer, is more about that juvenile need to be rebellious. These people are grown up, have some money, but need to escape. There is no need to say anything to them. Personally, I just chuckle to my self and go about my way. (BTW: bikes scare me; i'm pretty sure i'd kill myself. i would rather build a kit car, at least it has four wheels.)
When it comes to the discussions on apple.slashdot.com you are better off just disregarding them entirely. That is the position I have come to, apple fanboys are the one scenario where the slashdot moderation system fails at. They are far too fanatical, and in too great of numbers. The funny thing is that they almost all are saying the same thing, ahh the benefits of a reality distortion field. I hear apple has the new improved iRDF on sale for $399, but its in black now!
I've noticed what I think is something of the prodding anti-fanboy. They just say extreme lame statements that piss off others, while discrediting the organization they supposedly love. Consider: A GM fan, posting unrealistic comments in support of Ford, in order to stir up hatred toward Ford. Usually they go unnoticed, but sometimes they go too far, or sound too cynical, and their malicious intent comes through. I think these are the real posts to fight back against, and usually the Slashdot moderators do well, but on the posts where their true intent doesn't get recognized they can slip through the system and cause a raucous.
For me, at least, the big problem with Michael Moore is that he knowingly distorts the truth to get his message across. He is an end-justifies-the-means sort of person who is very hard to trust. Great comment, this is the hardest thing to get past. After all, he is the person who has done all of the research to produce his documentary; for Moore to disregard facts and tell half truths is sad.
No, I think some things are worth speaking of in an absolute manner; China covering up its suppression of a revolt is one. If it keeps hiding this information it will be forgotten, and when Chinese people do hear about something in 40 years they won't believe it and write it off as a rumor or a lie. Freedom is not an ideal we can give up on.
Question: Should we pay road tax on fuel oil used to heat homes or used in equipment that doesn't go on roads (e.g. excavators or tugboats)? No. Everyone benefits from our modern infrastructure. There should just be a typical sales tax on all of these different fuels. Use be damned. And if this 'bio-diesel' this guy uses is gifted to him from a restaurant then there should obviously be no problem. It's not like this guy doesn't pay for his vege-fuel. He pays for equipment, he pays for additives (this shit aint straight vegetable oil), and he still has a legal vehicle.
There's better ways to fund roads than with a fuel tax. With modern electric vehicles, home grown biodiesel, solar vehicles, hybrid vehicles, 'cars for two' and others we will have to figure out better ways to fund our road infrastructure. And GPS/tracking isn't necessary - the people have to speak out against this though or it WILL happen.
I don't know where you got this idea, but "the most hardcore libertarians" are anarchocapitalists, and do not want any government at all. That's because 'most hardcore libertarians' have enough weaponry to arm a local militia. If there were more people like that I am wondering if we would really need a common defense provided for the government. By the way, we cannot forget that the government is the people, or at least it used to be.
I sort of feel like this is telling us stuff we ought to know anyway. That is what I thought, especially with an organization(s) that has such awesome potential to become corrupted. Though it is entirely likely they already are... $60 Billion, are you kidding me?
No CEO is worth the $20 million buyout to get his ass out the door. Every engineer, sales person, assembly line worker is worth at least double what they get. These people make smart decisions every day that help the company improve process or save money. They just don't get proper recognition, whereas the @#$!ing CEO knows how to blow his own horn and annoy everyone. I wish they would charge the CEO $20 million when they fuck up drastically, it seems only fair.
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle I love your sig. that's one of my favorite Chappelle skits.
And if you feel like firing back with the usual Linux fanboy "I think Amarok is better..." BS don't bother. You are wrong. Actually, mr anonymous, you are wrong. Amarok is clearly not going for your average section of the user base. It has the usual open source "more features is better than a smaller but useful and coherent set of rock solid ones" It's a very elegant program with many features, and is not meant to just be iTunes. If you think iTunes is all anyone needs your are as blinded as any of the Linux fanboys. (Disclaimer: I have used iTunes and Amarok and I personally don't use either.)
You talk like the Constitution is able to limit government's power somehow. I guess you haven't been paying attention, because that hasn't been true for some time now.We must continue to talk about it, because complacency is not an option.
Yes, but at least in the case of Creationism, there doesn't seem to be any racist intent (unless I am very misinformed about what Creationism is all about). Actually, in the case of Judeo/Christian (and I think Muslim too) Creationism, all humans come from one man and one woman. So basically there can and should be absolutely no racist intent at all.
Also: as a Christian, I do not believe that this perception of Christianity in the US being balls out for removing Evolution from the schools is correct. I think that most Christians in the US have no problem with Evolution. As a scientific theory it is very valid, and extremely useful. (BTW: I called it a theory because that is what it is; I realize this type of thing is very hard to prove/disprove so do not take offense.) There _are_ those that do not want to believe in Evolution, and regrettably they are a vocal minority. All that aside, I agree with others in that saying the Holocaust didn't happen is not at all similar to being a proponent of ID/Creationism.
If I have a choice between plain stupidity, and racist hateful stupidity, isn't the first option less harmful? Not always, but plain stupidity can so easily lead to so much more.
Indeed that is exactly what I meant. GP's parser needs work. Have you written a compiler lately? (cue music to the tune...but no one wants to drive a ford.)
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According to dictionary.com "Cynical suggests a disbelief in the sincerity of human motives", so both words work.
I can plainly see that you did not reply at all, hence I'm not replying to your non-reply.
But you should not go to not read this other non-post. It does not explain the non-notion I wasn't not using.
And finally, you really shouldn't reat what the author didn't have to not say about herself on her non-site.
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That's amazing, rarely is a rebuttal on slashdot so dominating and cynical at the same time.
Or looking at the top 10 tracks at last.fm! haha. Ooh, apparently Oasis has a new song called Wonderwall, I should do a review on it!
I don't know why i'm responding to an AC. Get a user account you coward. Anyways, that blog is pathetic.
...Nonetheless, FireFox is slower than Safari, crashes more often, and still doesn't support the KeyChain on Mac OS X. Why not? Why is FireFox so mediocre?
These guys are so mad that they might actually make a reasonable browser for the Macintosh at long last.
And their true intentions come out.
Those are great metrics for measuring how good Firefox is, except I don't know the last time I have had Firefox crash (on Linux or Windows). This guy's world apparently only consists of OS X. Which is what, 3% of the desktop market? Less if measured on monthly sales over the last several years.
Get real dude; but have fun reinterpreting this from Steve Jobs wanting the non IE market to an Apple Secret Plan. I like how all of a sudden this guy reinterprets the picture in the presentation to something closer to his view of what the Apple Secret Plan is. Do you really think Safari can have 24% of the browser market by 2008? Seriously?
More importantly, how is a blog credible with an entry titled: A Picture is Worth 1000 Morons" What about the flameworthy text from the first paragraph: I never cease to be amazed at how smart people can be so fraking stupid. Take John Lilly, Mozilla's chief operating officer. This little piss ant thorn in my side was handed a gift on a silver platter by Steve Jobs at WWDC, but he's too stupid and arrogant to read the tea leaves that Jobs spread out on the table before him.
So you're not Apple's target audience for Safari on Windows anyway.
what part of this picture and this picture is everyone having such a hard time comprehending? Apple's target audience, is all the users that don't use IE. Steve Jobs has clearly shown this.
Here's what I'm referencing. Jobs says: "Well we dream big. We would love for Safari's marketshare to grow substantially. That's what we'd love." Steve Jobs doesn't just want Safari available so people can test their websites quickly at their same Windows box, he want's all of the market share from Opera/Firefox/etc. If his graph would've shown market share eaten up from IE there wouldn't even be these discussions going on, but instead what we see is an inside look into Steve's view on how he wants the market to change.
At this point the idiotic posts replying to what you said aren't going to change. Just ignore them, occasionally slashdot is inundated by the unwashed masses. Only a spaz on meth would not have been able to follow the thread of conversation.
Absolutely! Someone who ties his self-image to a motorcycle he went into the shop and bought is every bit as pathetic as some nerd who does the same with electronics or entertainment industry products. I'd be less likely to tell the biker that to his face...
There is no need to tell it to their face. Being a harley customer, is more about that juvenile need to be rebellious. These people are grown up, have some money, but need to escape. There is no need to say anything to them. Personally, I just chuckle to my self and go about my way. (BTW: bikes scare me; i'm pretty sure i'd kill myself. i would rather build a kit car, at least it has four wheels.)
When it comes to the discussions on apple.slashdot.com you are better off just disregarding them entirely. That is the position I have come to, apple fanboys are the one scenario where the slashdot moderation system fails at. They are far too fanatical, and in too great of numbers. The funny thing is that they almost all are saying the same thing, ahh the benefits of a reality distortion field. I hear apple has the new improved iRDF on sale for $399, but its in black now!
I've noticed what I think is something of the prodding anti-fanboy. They just say extreme lame statements that piss off others, while discrediting the organization they supposedly love. Consider: A GM fan, posting unrealistic comments in support of Ford, in order to stir up hatred toward Ford. Usually they go unnoticed, but sometimes they go too far, or sound too cynical, and their malicious intent comes through. I think these are the real posts to fight back against, and usually the Slashdot moderators do well, but on the posts where their true intent doesn't get recognized they can slip through the system and cause a raucous.
For me, at least, the big problem with Michael Moore is that he knowingly distorts the truth to get his message across. He is an end-justifies-the-means sort of person who is very hard to trust.
Great comment, this is the hardest thing to get past. After all, he is the person who has done all of the research to produce his documentary; for Moore to disregard facts and tell half truths is sad.
No, I think some things are worth speaking of in an absolute manner; China covering up its suppression of a revolt is one. If it keeps hiding this information it will be forgotten, and when Chinese people do hear about something in 40 years they won't believe it and write it off as a rumor or a lie. Freedom is not an ideal we can give up on.
Question: Should we pay road tax on fuel oil used to heat homes or used in equipment that doesn't go on roads (e.g. excavators or tugboats)?
No. Everyone benefits from our modern infrastructure. There should just be a typical sales tax on all of these different fuels. Use be damned. And if this 'bio-diesel' this guy uses is gifted to him from a restaurant then there should obviously be no problem. It's not like this guy doesn't pay for his vege-fuel. He pays for equipment, he pays for additives (this shit aint straight vegetable oil), and he still has a legal vehicle.
There's better ways to fund roads than with a fuel tax. With modern electric vehicles, home grown biodiesel, solar vehicles, hybrid vehicles, 'cars for two' and others we will have to figure out better ways to fund our road infrastructure. And GPS/tracking isn't necessary - the people have to speak out against this though or it WILL happen.
I don't know where you got this idea, but "the most hardcore libertarians" are anarchocapitalists, and do not want any government at all.
That's because 'most hardcore libertarians' have enough weaponry to arm a local militia. If there were more people like that I am wondering if we would really need a common defense provided for the government. By the way, we cannot forget that the government is the people, or at least it used to be.
they might as well stuff it into granny gear...
I'm not sure many people on this site know what that means.
I am out of mod points, but that is a great post.
I sort of feel like this is telling us stuff we ought to know anyway. ... $60 Billion, are you kidding me?
That is what I thought, especially with an organization(s) that has such awesome potential to become corrupted. Though it is entirely likely they already are
No CEO is worth the $20 million buyout to get his ass out the door. Every engineer, sales person, assembly line worker is worth at least double what they get. These people make smart decisions every day that help the company improve process or save money. They just don't get proper recognition, whereas the @#$!ing CEO knows how to blow his own horn and annoy everyone. I wish they would charge the CEO $20 million when they fuck up drastically, it seems only fair.
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
I love your sig. that's one of my favorite Chappelle skits.
And if you feel like firing back with the usual Linux fanboy "I think Amarok is better..." BS don't bother. You are wrong.
Actually, mr anonymous, you are wrong. Amarok is clearly not going for your average section of the user base.
It has the usual open source "more features is better than a smaller but useful and coherent set of rock solid ones"
It's a very elegant program with many features, and is not meant to just be iTunes. If you think iTunes is all anyone needs your are as blinded as any of the Linux fanboys. (Disclaimer: I have used iTunes and Amarok and I personally don't use either.)
Is the only way to level up as a hobbit to just sit around, tend your garden, eat six meals a day, and be ... generally boring?
You talk like the Constitution is able to limit government's power somehow. I guess you haven't been paying attention, because that hasn't been true for some time now.We must continue to talk about it, because complacency is not an option.
You lose all credibility by being an Anonymous Coward. Perhaps you should look beyond the modern organized church and read the Gospel of Mark.
Yes, but at least in the case of Creationism, there doesn't seem to be any racist intent (unless I am very misinformed about what Creationism is all about).
Actually, in the case of Judeo/Christian (and I think Muslim too) Creationism, all humans come from one man and one woman. So basically there can and should be absolutely no racist intent at all.
Also: as a Christian, I do not believe that this perception of Christianity in the US being balls out for removing Evolution from the schools is correct. I think that most Christians in the US have no problem with Evolution. As a scientific theory it is very valid, and extremely useful. (BTW: I called it a theory because that is what it is; I realize this type of thing is very hard to prove/disprove so do not take offense.) There _are_ those that do not want to believe in Evolution, and regrettably they are a vocal minority. All that aside, I agree with others in that saying the Holocaust didn't happen is not at all similar to being a proponent of ID/Creationism.
If I have a choice between plain stupidity, and racist hateful stupidity, isn't the first option less harmful?
Not always, but plain stupidity can so easily lead to so much more.
Indeed that is exactly what I meant. GP's parser needs work. ...but no one wants to drive a ford.)
Have you written a compiler lately? (cue music to the tune
Excellent post.