it's odd that you claim she has a 6-month old PowerBook, as there ain't no such animal.
Sorry, it was 6 months old when I met her. So she purchased it in May 2006. Almost a year, but I experienced system errors starting in Dec. And it's an iBook G4, not a powerbook, so NYAH!;-P
Maybe I'm wrong about the TiBook, but they've looooong since abandoned Ti, if my senses serve me correctly. I was ranting, but I was referring to the "God uses Titanium" meme. God doesn't use titanium, he's for some reason switched to aluminum. And I know there aren't powerbooks anymore, but they have MacBooks running in a nominally different chassis. Made out of alumnium, AFAIK. Since I can't find any fucking mention of Titanium anywhere, and companies don't usually dump an expensive metal into a product without telling you.
I'm not even going to get into the so-called superiority of Windows NT and 2000
I'm referring to the technical merits of each platform, not the superiority of NT and 2000. There's the shared multitasking thing that Apple clung to far too long. There's networking capabilities. There's enterprise viability. There's the fact that starting at NT, MS had a serviceable server OS.
And it's not true that "Mac people" displace our hatred of Windows onto the hardware. And sorry, I meant "Mac zealots." All Mac people be advised, "Mac people"!="All Mac People."
We can hate crap hardware (the stuff trotted out to show how Macs cost too much) all on its own, thank you very much. Do you hate crap hardware when Apple sells it to you? Do you hate poor people who can't afford expensive, quality hardware? If you want to compare hardware, compare something I build to a Mac, or compare VAIOs to Macs (though you won't get a price difference, Sony's raping you as well).
Many of us (myself included) are 100% all about the superior software. That's where it's at for sure. I never wanted to come off sounding like I think the Mac isn't far better than the current state of Windows (cue wretching), but I just have a problem with the Gospel According to Steve. And the fact that some Mac people categorically accept what Apple says--in press releases, no less--as fact. I applaud Apple's ability to go stable with ideas harvested from the OSS community before the OSS project is stable. I also applaud them for all the cool shit they've come up with on their own.
The relative evils of hardware/software tie-in are only small by virtue of Apple's lack of market dominance, though. And I laugh when people compare the stability of a $350 walmart Windows PC to a $1000 Mac, as if the Walmart hardware isn't the crap that fell off the truck to begin with.
*arrfdsd*...MUST...stop....ranting...
Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid. HAHAHA... I love your sig. Very on-topic.;-)
That's a great way to ensure getting some poontang from your GF.
It's worked so far. But then, I'm totally #@\/\/+. We've actually stopped talking about Macs, because she gets emotional. I do my duty, though. Deprogramming someone's hard work. I mean, how many times do you think I had the Since-the-Intel-switch-it's-essentially-the-same-h ardware-with-a-different-MoBo-firmware conversation. A lot.
A lot. Plus the There-was-only-one-brief-run-of-Titanium-Powerbook s-now-they're-all-aluminum conversation took a while. And this is all born out of the fact that she bitches about windows when she doesn't really know much about it, and her father's experience with windows is being at the mercy of a sysadmin. I think Macs are great. I don't think Steve Jobs is Jesus. I actually try to look at the whole deal objectively.
And objectively, I object to statements such as: Mac is and always has been superior to Windows in every way. (why not just read a side by side run-down of the OSes) The hardware is better. (they've been saying their processors were superior and that set them apart, now they say that the processor is the same, which is somehow "innovative." What happened to the superior processor? Also search for known issues with Mac hardware)
Plus, Mac people displace their hatred of Windows onto the hardware. It's like Lenny Bruce's bit about confusing the person with the institution. It doesn't make any sense. And you can hardly beat the sense into people like that.
There are already several people running Windows, Linux, and BSD on a dual quad-core setup. They just don't have to pay a premium for specialty molded plastic. Or spend $299 on 2 sticks of 512MB DDR2. Or $329 for an unnamed brand of 500GB SATA 3GB/s drive. -Nathan
As a longtime mac user, I must admit that it feels inordinately good to say that.;-)
As long as you're not one of those guys that equates PC=Windows, won't admit that Microsoft had decent multitasking before mac, Windows NT and 2000 were stellar compared to contemporaries, and thinkpads have superior (for a laptop, this means more durable) hardware. God, I run into some of the weirdest Mac theologians. They will say things that are false, and documented as such, and you can tell them that you're a fucking computer technician that is NOT in fact brainwashed by Microsoft, and you run Linux at home, and you work on Macs and have owned a Mac, and they will resort to faith-based statements.
I always give my girlfriend shit when something bad happens on her mac, I say, "That doesn't happen on PCs." And now her 6-month old Powerbook is slowly crapping out, and as it dies, I will be vindicated. Ahhhh, sweet vindication. -Nathan
I had one. It was OK. Sure as shit wasn't one of the 50 best tech products of all time though. Voodoo1? The first Geforce cards? Maybe.
I think--barring the soundblaster comment, which is very insightful--that it's on the list because of it's place in time. I would say that possibly an earlier 3dfx card would be a more apt selection. But then, wasn't the voodoo3 the first decent accelerator with 2d/3d? IIRC. I don't know. The voodoos were the shit briefly before the TNT2, and they still had a corner on a certain aspect of the market.
I'm surprised the NVIDIA is still on top. Now that AMD owns ATI, I'm interested to see what happens.
Come on now. At least they try to maintain backward compatibility
This maybe a chicken/egg thing, but I think that the consensus has been until recently that Linux is NOT ready for the desktop. So it's been devs making progress, learning from their mistakes, and rebuilding from the bottom up if needs be. And, if someone really really needs backwards compatibility, nothing's stopping anyone from installing Debian 2.0 and spending a few minutes scripting and walking away from your box while the shit compiles away. Or just keep running the same system you've been running for 30 years. Windows you HAVE to upgrade constantly and consistently. With Linux, if you have a system that works, then by god use it already. It's a different paradigm.
Now that linux is nearing desktop ready, the bigger projects are getting more and more feature-stable and internally consistent. Yes, it takes a while for people to agree, but choice IS good. If you HATE choice (fucking choice-hating America-bashers), use Windows.:-P
Sounds like brainwashed red staters chanting "we're fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them here"
Ahem. Fucking please compare us to communists, not republicans. The OSS community is functionally the only working anarchist society, enabled by the fact that people who know enough to care do in fact care.
the executable works unmodified on Win9X, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, AND WINE fer Chrissake Blows a big fat hole in the categoric assumption that all OSS projects are disorganized and poorly planned. (the WINE part). And also, straight up C is, AFAIK, THE programming language, right? Not to belittle poor pything and perl, but isn't just about everything written in C? Don't YOU write most everything in C?
If you want Linux to ever be viable as anything but a basic Internet kiosk, you need to take this issue seriously. Like, say, if you want to be able to work on Linux or write software for it at you job.
Try buying Red Hat. Or, alternately, write software for YOUR Linux platform, and then hire some real sysadmins. No, no, wait. Hire the sysadmins first.
Oh, by the way, this is that 3D glitz shit, not an office suite. It was on the floor before Aero, it's already more extensible, and in 6 months it will be more stable and I will laugh hard until I feel sick, and then I will stop laughing.
Thank you. No hard feelings. Watch the Washington video, it will change your life.
Yes, because he should let someone who _isn't_ a doctor cut things out of him.
That's one interpretation. Most people use enough discretion with other random people, so I qualified my statement for greater clarity. People tend to be blinded by credentials, and think that the certified know enough to be right 100% of the time. I'm suggesting that people investigate anything that anyone suggests that involves the removal of anything:
gallbladder thyroid your left arm your child's foreskin (fucking 50% of males born currently in the US, and only 3% in the UK). am I the only person who thinks this is weird?)
But if you're looking to have something removed, I'll be right over with the scissors. I'm very inexpensive!:-)
Woke up this morning and it seemed to me, that every night turns out to be A little more like Bukowski. And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read. But God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an asshole? God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an asshole?
Well we sat on the edge of the river, the crowd screamed, "Sacrifice the liver!" If God takes life, he's an Indian giver. So tell me now why, you'll tell me never. Who would wanna be? Who would wanna be such a control freak? Well who would wanna be? Who would wanna be such a control freak?
Well see what you wanna see. You should see it all. Well take what you want from me. You deserve it all. Nine times out of ten our hearts just get dissolved. Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall.
But one time out of ten, everything is perfect for us all. Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall. Here we go!
If God controls the land and disease, keeps a watchful eye on me, If he's really so damn mighty, my problem is I can't see, well who would wanna be? Who would wanna be such a control freak? Well who would wanna be? Who would wanna be such a control freak?
Evil home stereo, what good songs do you know? Evil me, oh yeah I know, what good curves can you throw?
Well all that icing and all that cake, I can't make it to your wedding, but I'm sure I'll be at your wake. You were talk, talk, talk, talkin' in circles that day, when you get to the point make sure that I'm still awake, OK?
Went to bed and didn't see why every day turns out to be a little bit more like Bukowski. And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read. But God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an asshole?
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You should try wearing a larger pair of horizontally polarized sunglasses on top of a normal pair of vertically polarized sunglasses.
Why would a typical Dell customer who isn't interested in Vista, be interested in Linux ?
I think typical is a rough concept. But you can run Ubuntu on $300 hardware. Not so with Vista. Linux is virus-free, unlike Vista. As an incentive, I tell my clients that if they buy a Linux PC, I charge $35/hour rather than the $60/hour I charge with MS products.
No, actually the article directly implies that human treatment will come out of this:
You read the articles?!! What kind of sick fuck are you, anyway?
On an actual point, though, Mr. Boyden just states that this SORT of thing could be used in The Future. Look: "In the future, controlling the activity patterns of neurons may enable very specific treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases, with few or no side effects,"
See? No mention of actually using what they're making. My girlfriend's a geologist, and she's constantly pissed off at the media's treatment and communication of scientific discovery, because it makes normal people believe things that aren't really true. That's where I learned how to read with discretion. Before I just indexed the words like Google, and gave word counts.;-)
I do like the idea of a variably sized beowulf cluster running a floating number of package (LAMP) servers. Get more clients? Add more VLAMPs. Things slowing down? Add more hardware.
I started getting aroused as I read your post. This is highly disturbing.
And how many hundreds of indie bands are complete shit? Giving a short list that are good doesn't refute that most of them aren't.
GP said that indie bands are shit, and "But good luck finding them before the labels snap them up." I gave a short list of counterexamples to TWO of his assumptions, the tip of the iceberg, to indicate that he's just not knowledgeable/smokes crack. How many hundreds of bands, period, are complete shit? There are fewer mainstream bands than indie bands, so there's actually more good AND bad in the indie scene.
It's like people who tell you that you can't trust the internet, only because they can't tell that Bill Gates actually ISN'T going to give them money for forwarding this email. Or like people who are still stuck on the Beatles because "there's no good music nowadays." I bet there's some sort of analogy about cars I could make, too. But I won't. So there.
You're counter arguement is unconvincing because most signed bands are shit too.
That's exactly what I'm saying. GP said that most indie bands were shit, so I was pointing out both some good music that refuted his point a, and a very small portion of some of the most detestable "music" that I have ever heard, to refute hit point b. GP implies that a band gets signed because it's good, and not because it's agreeable to being exploited. Why don't you make your own list? I'm sure that if every slashdotter who cared spent 5 minutes writing down good indie bands and 5 minutes writing down bad mainstream music, or as I usually call it, "mainstream music," we'd have huge lists on both sides.
The burden of proof is not on me to provide a complete list. I'm just pointing out that GP doesn't pay any meaningful attention to the music scene, which allows him to say stupid things like he said. It seems like you completely agree with me, however, and just disagree with how I said it.
I'm normally quite cynical about "average Joes" trying to turn themselves into celebrities on the Internet.
Well, yeah, me too. But Ze Frank was around for YEARS making funny little video clips, cool flash animations, etc. before I ever heard his speak. I just found out about The Show on Valentine's day (Googe, anyone?), and I'm mega depressed that it exists no more.
I guess I mean that Ze is not an average man, he's a super man. Or no, he's not a celebrity. Or something. Plus, who's NOT an average joe (besides, of course, Orlando Bloom, because that man is sexy)?
But the problem is that most indie "artists" are still independent because they make crap music. Yeah, there are a few really good ones in there. But good luck finding them before the labels snap them up.
You just like pop music, dude. Looky:
Modest Mouse (indie from 1994-2001) Built to Spill Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Mano Negra (their good stuff was before the major) Gogol Bordello Pavement The Pixies the Dead Kennedys NOFX (good until Heavy Petting Zoo)...[a loooong list of punk bands]... Frank Black has not been snatched up The Breeders The Smoking Popes
and the inverse: Nickelback Creed Fergie (need I say more?)
You are on bad crack. If anyone wants to contribute to my lists, please do.
But if I do that am I then not just like Lucas, re-writing an existing finished story to suit my needs?
I think the big problem people have is he changed everything, then everyone said it's worse, and then he said "Fuck you, I'm the decider." And that was that. Plus, it IS worse. If he made GOOD decisions rather than BAD, there would be a different discussion. Take Tchakovsky's Romeo and Juliet piece: He reworked it 10 years later, and since it was BETTER, people chose the BETTER one as the definitive version.
If the definitive version of the originals weren't the originals themselves, people wouldn't bitch.
2. The vast majority of users don't understand that the hardware is separate from the OS. They can't comprehend that another OS will actually run on their hardware. PHB's included.
I am going to avoid the phrase "all Apple's fault," but I notice how they have ALWAYS equated PC with Microsoft. Which is patently fucking absurd on many many levels. They rarely qualify their statement (eg, "Windows PC"). Since they don't qualify their statements, all statements of superiority are bunk/bull(ocks/shit).
I talk to Apple cultists, and they say "PCs..." and then proceed to describe Windows. Even after I point out that, hey, I run Linux on a PC. And it's "better" than OS X (quotes denote the figurative, not the emphatic). They even talk about hardware as if there's any competition whatsoever between PCs and Macs. It's a completely different market.
And while I'm ranting, Apple lies and distorts the truth equally to Microsoft, which means they do it as much as they can/need to derive maximum benefit.
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it's odd that you claim she has a 6-month old PowerBook, as there ain't no such animal.
;-P
Sorry, it was 6 months old when I met her. So she purchased it in May 2006. Almost a year, but I experienced system errors starting in Dec. And it's an iBook G4, not a powerbook, so NYAH!
Maybe I'm wrong about the TiBook, but they've looooong since abandoned Ti, if my senses serve me correctly. I was ranting, but I was referring to the "God uses Titanium" meme. God doesn't use titanium, he's for some reason switched to aluminum. And I know there aren't powerbooks anymore, but they have MacBooks running in a nominally different chassis. Made out of alumnium, AFAIK. Since I can't find any fucking mention of Titanium anywhere, and companies don't usually dump an expensive metal into a product without telling you.
I'm not even going to get into the so-called superiority of Windows NT and 2000
I'm referring to the technical merits of each platform, not the superiority of NT and 2000. There's the shared multitasking thing that Apple clung to far too long. There's networking capabilities. There's enterprise viability. There's the fact that starting at NT, MS had a serviceable server OS.
And it's not true that "Mac people" displace our hatred of Windows onto the hardware.
And sorry, I meant "Mac zealots." All Mac people be advised, "Mac people"!="All Mac People."
We can hate crap hardware (the stuff trotted out to show how Macs cost too much) all on its own, thank you very much.
Do you hate crap hardware when Apple sells it to you? Do you hate poor people who can't afford expensive, quality hardware? If you want to compare hardware, compare something I build to a Mac, or compare VAIOs to Macs (though you won't get a price difference, Sony's raping you as well).
Many of us (myself included) are 100% all about the superior software.
;-)
That's where it's at for sure. I never wanted to come off sounding like I think the Mac isn't far better than the current state of Windows (cue wretching), but I just have a problem with the Gospel According to Steve. And the fact that some Mac people categorically accept what Apple says--in press releases, no less--as fact. I applaud Apple's ability to go stable with ideas harvested from the OSS community before the OSS project is stable. I also applaud them for all the cool shit they've come up with on their own.
The relative evils of hardware/software tie-in are only small by virtue of Apple's lack of market dominance, though. And I laugh when people compare the stability of a $350 walmart Windows PC to a $1000 Mac, as if the Walmart hardware isn't the crap that fell off the truck to begin with.
*arrfdsd*...MUST...stop....ranting...
Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid.
HAHAHA... I love your sig. Very on-topic.
That's a great way to ensure getting some poontang from your GF.
h ardware-with-a-different-MoBo-firmware conversation. A lot.
k s-now-they're-all-aluminum conversation took a while. And this is all born out of the fact that she bitches about windows when she doesn't really know much about it, and her father's experience with windows is being at the mercy of a sysadmin. I think Macs are great. I don't think Steve Jobs is Jesus. I actually try to look at the whole deal objectively.
It's worked so far. But then, I'm totally #@\/\/+. We've actually stopped talking about Macs, because she gets emotional. I do my duty, though. Deprogramming someone's hard work. I mean, how many times do you think I had the Since-the-Intel-switch-it's-essentially-the-same-
A lot. Plus the There-was-only-one-brief-run-of-Titanium-Powerboo
And objectively, I object to statements such as:
Mac is and always has been superior to Windows in every way. (why not just read a side by side run-down of the OSes)
The hardware is better. (they've been saying their processors were superior and that set them apart, now they say that the processor is the same, which is somehow "innovative." What happened to the superior processor? Also search for known issues with Mac hardware)
Plus, Mac people displace their hatred of Windows onto the hardware. It's like Lenny Bruce's bit about confusing the person with the institution. It doesn't make any sense. And you can hardly beat the sense into people like that.
I could go on, but I've ranted enough.
You sound like the PC version of the Mac guys you gripe about. :)
:-)
It's only revenge, my friend. And I only do it out of spite.
look:
http://www.sharbor.com/products/TYNN5450004.html
There are already several people running Windows, Linux, and BSD on a dual quad-core setup. They just don't have to pay a premium for specialty molded plastic. Or spend $299 on 2 sticks of 512MB DDR2. Or $329 for an unnamed brand of 500GB SATA 3GB/s drive.
-Nathan
As a longtime mac user, I must admit that it feels inordinately good to say that.;-)
As long as you're not one of those guys that equates PC=Windows, won't admit that Microsoft had decent multitasking before mac, Windows NT and 2000 were stellar compared to contemporaries, and thinkpads have superior (for a laptop, this means more durable) hardware. God, I run into some of the weirdest Mac theologians. They will say things that are false, and documented as such, and you can tell them that you're a fucking computer technician that is NOT in fact brainwashed by Microsoft, and you run Linux at home, and you work on Macs and have owned a Mac, and they will resort to faith-based statements.
I always give my girlfriend shit when something bad happens on her mac, I say, "That doesn't happen on PCs." And now her 6-month old Powerbook is slowly crapping out, and as it dies, I will be vindicated. Ahhhh, sweet vindication.
-Nathan
I had one. It was OK. Sure as shit wasn't one of the 50 best tech products of all time though. Voodoo1? The first Geforce cards? Maybe.
I think--barring the soundblaster comment, which is very insightful--that it's on the list because of it's place in time. I would say that possibly an earlier 3dfx card would be a more apt selection. But then, wasn't the voodoo3 the first decent accelerator with 2d/3d? IIRC. I don't know. The voodoos were the shit briefly before the TNT2, and they still had a corner on a certain aspect of the market.
I'm surprised the NVIDIA is still on top. Now that AMD owns ATI, I'm interested to see what happens.
Come on now. At least they try to maintain backward compatibility
:-P
This maybe a chicken/egg thing, but I think that the consensus has been until recently that Linux is NOT ready for the desktop. So it's been devs making progress, learning from their mistakes, and rebuilding from the bottom up if needs be. And, if someone really really needs backwards compatibility, nothing's stopping anyone from installing Debian 2.0 and spending a few minutes scripting and walking away from your box while the shit compiles away. Or just keep running the same system you've been running for 30 years. Windows you HAVE to upgrade constantly and consistently. With Linux, if you have a system that works, then by god use it already. It's a different paradigm.
Now that linux is nearing desktop ready, the bigger projects are getting more and more feature-stable and internally consistent. Yes, it takes a while for people to agree, but choice IS good. If you HATE choice (fucking choice-hating America-bashers), use Windows.
Sounds like brainwashed red staters chanting "we're fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them here"
Ahem. Fucking please compare us to communists, not republicans. The OSS community is functionally the only working anarchist society, enabled by the fact that people who know enough to care do in fact care.
the executable works unmodified on Win9X, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, AND WINE fer Chrissake
Blows a big fat hole in the categoric assumption that all OSS projects are disorganized and poorly planned. (the WINE part). And also, straight up C is, AFAIK, THE programming language, right? Not to belittle poor pything and perl, but isn't just about everything written in C? Don't YOU write most everything in C?
If you want Linux to ever be viable as anything but a basic Internet kiosk, you need to take this issue seriously. Like, say, if you want to be able to work on Linux or write software for it at you job.
Try buying Red Hat. Or, alternately, write software for YOUR Linux platform, and then hire some real sysadmins. No, no, wait. Hire the sysadmins first.
Oh, by the way, this is that 3D glitz shit, not an office suite. It was on the floor before Aero, it's already more extensible, and in 6 months it will be more stable and I will laugh hard until I feel sick, and then I will stop laughing.
Thank you. No hard feelings. Watch the Washington video, it will change your life.
Yes, because he should let someone who _isn't_ a doctor cut things out of him.
:-)
That's one interpretation. Most people use enough discretion with other random people, so I qualified my statement for greater clarity. People tend to be blinded by credentials, and think that the certified know enough to be right 100% of the time. I'm suggesting that people investigate anything that anyone suggests that involves the removal of anything:
gallbladder
thyroid
your left arm
your child's foreskin (fucking 50% of males born currently in the US, and only 3% in the UK). am I the only person who thinks this is weird?)
But if you're looking to have something removed, I'll be right over with the scissors. I'm very inexpensive!
Did I mention I've got a kidney stone?
;-)
Is there a Mod +1 Needs Sympathy?
Ouch. I hear that it helps to eat watermelon with seeds and everything. And vicodin helps, too, I hear.
Good luck. Don't let anybody cut anything out of you. By "anybody" I mean "doctors"
But NBC says wikipedia can't be trusted! Now I know I have to watch TV if I want to know things.
Woke up this morning and it seemed to me,
that every night turns out to be
A little more like Bukowski.
And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read.
But God who'd wanna be?
God who'd wanna be such an asshole?
God who'd wanna be?
God who'd wanna be such an asshole?
Well we sat on the edge of the river,
the crowd screamed, "Sacrifice the liver!"
If God takes life, he's an Indian giver.
So tell me now why, you'll tell me never.
Who would wanna be?
Who would wanna be such a control freak?
Well who would wanna be?
Who would wanna be such a control freak?
Well see what you wanna see. You should see it all.
Well take what you want from me. You deserve it all.
Nine times out of ten our hearts just get dissolved.
Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall.
But one time out of ten, everything is perfect for us all.
Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall.
Here we go!
If God controls the land and disease,
keeps a watchful eye on me,
If he's really so damn mighty,
my problem is I can't see,
well who would wanna be?
Who would wanna be such a control freak?
Well who would wanna be?
Who would wanna be such a control freak?
Evil home stereo, what good songs do you know?
Evil me, oh yeah I know, what good curves can you throw?
Well all that icing and all that cake,
I can't make it to your wedding, but I'm sure I'll be at your wake.
You were talk, talk, talk, talkin' in circles that day,
when you get to the point make sure that I'm still awake, OK?
Went to bed and didn't see
why every day turns out to be
a little bit more like Bukowski.
And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read.
But God who'd wanna be?
God who'd wanna be such an asshole?
You should try wearing a larger pair of horizontally polarized sunglasses on top of a normal pair of vertically polarized sunglasses.
CMDRTACO, COWBOYNEAL CRUSHED BY 18-WHEELER
Why would a typical Dell customer who isn't interested in Vista, be interested in Linux ?
:-)
I think typical is a rough concept. But you can run Ubuntu on $300 hardware. Not so with Vista. Linux is virus-free, unlike Vista. As an incentive, I tell my clients that if they buy a Linux PC, I charge $35/hour rather than the $60/hour I charge with MS products.
And, as others stated, marketing.
Plenty of reasons.
No, actually the article directly implies that human treatment will come out of this:
;-)
You read the articles?!! What kind of sick fuck are you, anyway?
On an actual point, though, Mr. Boyden just states that this SORT of thing could be used in The Future. Look: "In the future, controlling the activity patterns of neurons may enable very specific treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases, with few or no side effects,"
See? No mention of actually using what they're making. My girlfriend's a geologist, and she's constantly pissed off at the media's treatment and communication of scientific discovery, because it makes normal people believe things that aren't really true. That's where I learned how to read with discretion. Before I just indexed the words like Google, and gave word counts.
I do like the idea of a variably sized beowulf cluster running a floating number of package (LAMP) servers. Get more clients? Add more VLAMPs. Things slowing down? Add more hardware.
I started getting aroused as I read your post. This is highly disturbing.
And how many hundreds of indie bands are complete shit? Giving a short list that are good doesn't refute that most of them aren't.
GP said that indie bands are shit, and "But good luck finding them before the labels snap them up." I gave a short list of counterexamples to TWO of his assumptions, the tip of the iceberg, to indicate that he's just not knowledgeable/smokes crack. How many hundreds of bands, period, are complete shit? There are fewer mainstream bands than indie bands, so there's actually more good AND bad in the indie scene.
It's like people who tell you that you can't trust the internet, only because they can't tell that Bill Gates actually ISN'T going to give them money for forwarding this email. Or like people who are still stuck on the Beatles because "there's no good music nowadays." I bet there's some sort of analogy about cars I could make, too. But I won't. So there.
You're counter arguement is unconvincing because most signed bands are shit too.
That's exactly what I'm saying. GP said that most indie bands were shit, so I was pointing out both some good music that refuted his point a, and a very small portion of some of the most detestable "music" that I have ever heard, to refute hit point b. GP implies that a band gets signed because it's good, and not because it's agreeable to being exploited. Why don't you make your own list? I'm sure that if every slashdotter who cared spent 5 minutes writing down good indie bands and 5 minutes writing down bad mainstream music, or as I usually call it, "mainstream music," we'd have huge lists on both sides.
The burden of proof is not on me to provide a complete list. I'm just pointing out that GP doesn't pay any meaningful attention to the music scene, which allows him to say stupid things like he said. It seems like you completely agree with me, however, and just disagree with how I said it.
I'm normally quite cynical about "average Joes" trying to turn themselves into celebrities on the Internet.
Well, yeah, me too. But Ze Frank was around for YEARS making funny little video clips, cool flash animations, etc. before I ever heard his speak. I just found out about The Show on Valentine's day (Googe, anyone?), and I'm mega depressed that it exists no more.
I guess I mean that Ze is not an average man, he's a super man. Or no, he's not a celebrity. Or something. Plus, who's NOT an average joe (besides, of course, Orlando Bloom, because that man is sexy)?
it is my department's roll is to develop
You should really check out that spell-check feature. It doesn't seem to be working. *grin*
-Nathan
But the problem is that most indie "artists" are still independent because they make crap music. Yeah, there are a few really good ones in there. But good luck finding them before the labels snap them up.
...[a loooong list of punk bands]...
You just like pop music, dude. Looky:
Modest Mouse (indie from 1994-2001)
Built to Spill
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Mano Negra (their good stuff was before the major)
Gogol Bordello
Pavement
The Pixies
the Dead Kennedys
NOFX (good until Heavy Petting Zoo)
Frank Black has not been snatched up
The Breeders
The Smoking Popes
and the inverse:
Nickelback
Creed
Fergie
(need I say more?)
You are on bad crack. If anyone wants to contribute to my lists, please do.
As the IBM guy points out in the hearing (online over at Groklaw, of course) the error values are in alphabetic order with increasing integer values.
And since Microsoft owns the copyright on alphanumeric ordering, and THEY back SCO, IBM's wrong. Right? RIGHT?!!!
Watch SCOX soar. I'm buying some SCOX right now. It's even pleasing to say. SCOX, SCOX, SCOX.
But if I do that am I then not just like Lucas, re-writing an existing finished story to suit my needs?
I think the big problem people have is he changed everything, then everyone said it's worse, and then he said "Fuck you, I'm the decider." And that was that. Plus, it IS worse. If he made GOOD decisions rather than BAD, there would be a different discussion. Take Tchakovsky's Romeo and Juliet piece: He reworked it 10 years later, and since it was BETTER, people chose the BETTER one as the definitive version.
If the definitive version of the originals weren't the originals themselves, people wouldn't bitch.
2. The vast majority of users don't understand that the hardware is separate from the OS. They can't comprehend that another OS will actually run on their hardware. PHB's included.
I am going to avoid the phrase "all Apple's fault," but I notice how they have ALWAYS equated PC with Microsoft. Which is patently fucking absurd on many many levels. They rarely qualify their statement (eg, "Windows PC"). Since they don't qualify their statements, all statements of superiority are bunk/bull(ocks/shit).
I talk to Apple cultists, and they say "PCs..." and then proceed to describe Windows. Even after I point out that, hey, I run Linux on a PC. And it's "better" than OS X (quotes denote the figurative, not the emphatic). They even talk about hardware as if there's any competition whatsoever between PCs and Macs. It's a completely different market.
And while I'm ranting, Apple lies and distorts the truth equally to Microsoft, which means they do it as much as they can/need to derive maximum benefit.
Bleah!
"rhetoric": a label used by the intellectually dishonest to dismiss valid points which they are incapable of countering.
Now, I'm no poly-tician, but that there's rhetoric, ain't it?