I wonder whether a class action defamation lawsuit against the media companies would work. When they make blanket allegations that anyone seen carrying an iPod is guilty of committing a crime doesn't that impugne the integrity of anyone in the street with white headphones?
I'd stuck it out with Linux since making the trek to my University with a bag full of floppies and downloading Slackware 0.97 or something like that, years and years ago. I trashed Windows to install a real operating system and scoffed at the Mac.
But recently, I got tired of Linux. The endless quest for a better desktop or a more compatible distribution. You've just upgraded? Congratulations, now go and recompile all your multi-media apps (like DVD playing). Want to plug in a device that's been on the market for a couple of years but no one in kernel land has? Good luck and plug it into your partner's mac to use instead.
For me the final straw was buying a G4 iPod, and deliberately setting up a Windows machine so that I could make sure it was formatted VFAT rather than HFS so that it would definitely be able to be used with my Linux system. And viola, it too didn't work! So, goodbye Linux, hello Mac. Sold my Linux custom-built workstation for $500 AU, bought an eMac, and have never looked back. I'm more productive, significantly more compatible with any device I want to buy and the interface is about... oh... 10 years in front of Gnome and 5 years ahead of KDE.
I still use Linux, I think it's a great server platform, but for the desktop, nah. I'm even going to be buying myself a bright shiny new 17" PowerBook soon out of my own money rather than continue to use Linux as my laptop OS for work.
Mac OS X - what Linux could have been, and what Solaris should have been.
Having used both dvorak and qwerty + microsoft ergo style keyboards and still suffered really badly with RSI, I can't suggest anything other than the Kinesis Contoured ergo keyboard; takes a while getting used to but once you are, it's fast and more comfortable than anything else. It took me 4 days of typing to get back up to 110wpm.
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Entirely stupid scenario. Here's the solution: stop acting like a team of 15yo sex craved virgins and start acting like real adults.
Problem solved.
Try exchanging even private messages using the term 'xtube'. Yes, they censor.
I wonder whether a class action defamation lawsuit against the media companies would work. When they make blanket allegations that anyone seen carrying an iPod is guilty of committing a crime doesn't that impugne the integrity of anyone in the street with white headphones?
I'd stuck it out with Linux since making the trek to my University with a bag full of floppies and downloading Slackware 0.97 or something like that, years and years ago. I trashed Windows to install a real operating system and scoffed at the Mac.
... oh ... 10 years in front of Gnome and 5 years ahead of KDE.
But recently, I got tired of Linux. The endless quest for a better desktop or a more compatible distribution. You've just upgraded? Congratulations, now go and recompile all your multi-media apps (like DVD playing). Want to plug in a device that's been on the market for a couple of years but no one in kernel land has? Good luck and plug it into your partner's mac to use instead.
For me the final straw was buying a G4 iPod, and deliberately setting up a Windows machine so that I could make sure it was formatted VFAT rather than HFS so that it would definitely be able to be used with my Linux system. And viola, it too didn't work! So, goodbye Linux, hello Mac. Sold my Linux custom-built workstation for $500 AU, bought an eMac, and have never looked back. I'm more productive, significantly more compatible with any device I want to buy and the interface is about
I still use Linux, I think it's a great server platform, but for the desktop, nah. I'm even going to be buying myself a bright shiny new 17" PowerBook soon out of my own money rather than continue to use Linux as my laptop OS for work.
Mac OS X - what Linux could have been, and what Solaris should have been.
Having used both dvorak and qwerty + microsoft ergo style keyboards and still suffered really badly with RSI, I can't suggest anything other than the Kinesis Contoured ergo keyboard; takes a while getting used to but once you are, it's fast and more comfortable than anything else. It took me 4 days of typing to get back up to 110wpm.