Have you met my neighbours? An amazing collection of assholes.
Between the Swedish sexaganarian dog trainer who encourages her dogs to bark by going AIEEIEIEEEIEEIEEIEE at 8:15 on an otherwise beautiful vancouver island summer morning, or the three new houses that mow their new lawns religiously and all too frequently.
Perhaps the new age musician up the way?
Welcome to America. Neighbour's suck.
(Settle down canadians, I use the term continentally.)
(On-topic, I would certainly sign up for some form of optical upgrade. Built in HUD/iff and zoom. I'd accept goggles if it didn't limit peripheral vision but to just perceive those elements within your sight would be tremendous.
The only reason I ever became a Windows loon was because of games. The only reason I am any good at running a tight Windows ship is because I have to. And, at this point, even Ubuntu or Cedega do not actually save me any effort; thus no switch, only admiration from a comfortable distance.
Microsoft supplies my Operating System. They conned me in to an Xbox 360 (and I'm loving it) so I have to use WMP11 and the Media Center software, but other than that I am the mayor of 3rd-party ville. AVG, Winamp, openoffice, Firefox; all amazingly free and superior. (Hell, ZSnes, Google Earth, Stellarium, full tilt/pokerstars, DIVX...) Bill's question in his open letter, "what hobbyist...?," was answered. Some dude stood up and said, "Uhh, I have the time,". A few thousand other people did too and continue to, Bill just basically underestimated things. (My point: I buy M$ because of these 'hobbyist' developers.)
Let's not forget that despite all the very 'cute' Apple adverts, Microsoft still has perhaps the biggest psychological victory in this "war"; that is, the usurpation of Bungie. It is arguable that Halo was being viewed by Apple as the same platform for gaming success that it has become for M$ and Xbox. Plundering a Quake-killer definitely gained M$ alot of cult karma.
My thesis statement: Gamers = cult. You frankly do not understand the word cult until you have strapped on a headset mic connected to xbox live. I taste vomit.
Just a note. The 360 will do any and all resolutions with a multitude of interchangeable outputs.
As for noise; when playing tv shows or movies off of a media center pc it is much quieter due to decreased cpu and gpu activity and lack of a spinning DVD.
Noise is still an issue, but I do think that the PS3 and 360 are much better ways to spend money and get faux-PVR type experiences by tying in to your now-powerful mid-line dual-core PC.
Besides, a combo of those and a pc nets you anywhere between 5 and 12 cores, depending on how you count cells. Now that's proper horsepower. Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
When I found out Bell Mobility was denying my phone the ability to install Opera Mini, I found Rumkin.com and their uploader utility. I was able to install Opera Mini, which rocks and is a total life-saver.
GMail for phones is also wicked. I have not yet confirmed that my phone picks up the POP3 messages from work I have tied into that GMail account... If so I could practically work from the phone.
Yahoo! Go looks like the next best thing, but is not yet available for my Samsung SPH-A920:(
This phone pretty much does anything you ask of a desktop. But,t he TV clips are pointless, _especially_ hockey. You just can't see the puck and they charge an arm and a leg for the crap.
I wish I wish I could stream internet radio stations.
(On a lighter note, I used some SNES plugin for winamp and the diskwriter plug in to convert the hotel theme song from Earthbound (16-bit SNES) and using rumkin.com got my phone to us it as a ringtone. I work at a hotel, and when they call me it plays the Hotel song from that game.)
I love how some people think this vaccine is automagically a cure and actually safe to inject all women with. I mean, you guys _know_, right? Or are you being told?
Hey, have I got a conspiracy theory for you: Apparently, 19 men spent a few years crawling through Afghani fox-holes and learning the latest box-cutter kung fu. They then all made their way to America, eluding several major civil and Federal authorities tasked with preventing their entry. They then coordinated an attack on airliners, once again evading the FAA, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, the police, and the TSA. They then took over these fully loaded planes with extremely rudimentary and un-threatening weapons.
Pretty crazy, huh?
They then took their modicum of flight training (flight training allegedly done by recent Arab visitors/immigrants) and used it to fly some very complex planes on very precise trajectories exactly into their targets of intention (most of their alleged targets, anyway).
Sorry, I should have specified that I meant a claim of superior Macintosh/OS X speed.
I'm not dogging Linux here, even if I think they are neglecting the one market they need to win if they want a foothold, and that's the tuner/gamer market. (I know I know, huge start up costs and an ugly install base. Quake 3's source is available, and Half-Life's Mod scene shows it is possible to make at least one killer app/game. Free (faster) OS + Free 'the next counter-strike' is what Ubuntu/needs to go mainstream.)
That's not the only thing that IE7 has broken. I bought a new Gateway desktop last week, Core 2 Duo E6300, 2 gigs ram, T.V. Tuner, 256 meg Geforce 7300 LE (Lame Edition), XP Media Center edition.
Within 15 minutes of installing IE7, Media Center stopped working. Every 15 seconds I would get a message that the Media Receiver Service had crashed. It was so weird that I was convinced I had gotten a virus, even though I had locked the system down snugger than a bug within an hour of starting it the first time.
Well, to this day no viruses, spy ware, or any kind of mal-ware have been detected by the quintet of AVG, Norton (Which I re-installed after uninstalling it as the first thing I did to this computer), Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Windows Defender. I also use Security Task Manager to verify my currently running processes.
However, uninstalling IE7 did not help. I then had to uninstall the previous Media Center update and re-install. Then everything worked.
Media Center worked perfectly before IE7, and has worked perfectly since. Even under _extreme_ duress. (2 640X480 windowed instances of Quake 3 running the single player level of DM17, Tuner recording Family Guy, and Media Center serving an episode of Oprah to my mom in the living room via the xbox 360. Yeah, the E6300 does it without complaint, buy one.)
It's pretty ugly when Microsoft is breaking it's own stuff, let alone DEVELOPERS DEVELOPS DEVELOPERS' stuff.
Yeah. Everyone wants to pay more for the same hardware and a total bloat-ware OS.
Which part is the Bloatware? The part that isn't Unix.
Please. Go play with your pussy tech over in the pussy sandbox. Real computers have real tasks to complete. (Which Mac is eminently aware of, which is why they switched to _our_ architecture.)
(And if I hear one more claim of superior speed, I will smack that person with a sock filled with $300.00 in coins representing the extra money they spent to have some douchebag from California over design the plastic thing that holds the real computer.)
In reality, people are waiting for the Core 2 Duo to come down in price, and in conjunctiuon, AMD's offerings.
Consumers are saavy. That's why Macs have no market share.
Buy Gold. Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold. It's up 10% year to date and has no ceiling.
I can not say it enough. It will not go down, and if for some fluke of a reason it does, you can buy lots of discounted gold!
The chinese and arabs are going apeshit on gold. It has completely transcended supply and demand. It is now purely a psychological market, and the price will only climb.
Also, it is WW3 proof, unlike the American Dollar or any stock market. Should the shit hit the fan and international commerce ceases to exist, your gold will still be valuable.
Maybe you're not a survivalist, but Gold is going to be perhaps the most liquid asset you can buy, and you'll have no trouble at all selling it.
The best way to deal with the whole situation is by Rational Anarchism. Basically, I know better than the govt what is right and what is wrong. Therefore, I live by my laws, which in 98% of the cases coincide exactly with whatever descendant of English Common Law I'm mucking about in. (US, Canada)
The Law and I merely disagree on a few points.
The best way to pull this off is to spend the majority of time in a place that has police that respect that. There are plenty of states, and parts of states that are cool with it, as is most of Canada.(And naturally, Mexico.) I've met lots of cops all over North America that will not hassle you much if you are acting peaceably. This also usually means cooperating with them, but acting respectfully but defiantly has allowed me to get away with countless narcotics violations. (And frankly, many liquor and a few trespassing)
I can live with them pouring out my beer or confiscating my pipe, it's the throwing me in jail that is supremely lame.
(Note: I've never been involved with trafficking, nor would I ever have the intention. None of these situations would have looked like that to the cops, and luckily, cops are usually after big fish. To be a Rational Anarchist, one must stay a small fish.)
The class of drug Adderal and Ritalin belong to has another name.
SPEED. They are fucking hard drugs. You want to talk about a gateway drug? Jesus Christ.
America seriously needs to wake the fuck up from its asinine hypocrisy. We have fucking hard liquor advertizing on FUCKING RACE CARS. Every body and their mother is addicted to Caffeine. We are such a drug culture that it's such an absolute joke how much money we spend on the 'war on drugs'.
caffe-ine coca-ine
Big diff, right?
Now the meat of the argument is that I think it should all be legal for adults. My huge problem is the generation of children we have gotten started on speed. We have 10 million teen-age addicts. 10 million kids intimately familiar with the street value of their little bottle of pills.
10 million kids with the taste of speed in their mouths. Does that not scare anyone else?
Haha. Funny you should ask. I've been running a Win98SE install that's over 6 years old now. I have used it daily for those 6 years, and use it to type this message.
It sucked for a while. I didn't know what I was doing, but luckily I knew some people that did. It's possible to reinstall from the options/cabs file, and I've done that a few times to fix catastrophes. (I've been told this is only possible if you configure it this way at original install. This pc is from a canadian manufacturer that no longer exists.)
I've never run full-time anti-virus, I just run scans when it's acting funny. I also use a 3rd party task manager to pwn and quarantine evil unwanted processes. That one program threw all my anti virus and ad-scanning software under a truck.
I also use Hare 1.5.1 to keep my RAM clear. If I am disciplined and don't do anything stupid, I can have unlimited uptime.
However, I do stupid things often enough to have a semi-normal experience.
So, logically, Apple should hire John Carmack to write The-Next-Great-Game-Engine(tm), and just make sure that it's cross-platform and that they can license it to developers on the cheap to write cross-platform games.
I mean, he practically already does it, but Apple could, in a sense, seriously subsidize the price of licensing and make it easy (and most importantly _cheap_) for developers to go Mac. (If He's capable of building such an API. But I do capitalize He for a reason, I suppose...)
Not that I want to see this happen. I hate you Mac Poofs. But, it's a way better idea than selling a million boxes at serious loss to gain a foothold.
I mean come on everyone knows - if you don't excercise then you don't have strength and endurance.
And the computer geek lifestyle leaves little time for excercising. [/blockquote]
The least surprising thing is the hilarious justification of, "We're just too darn smart to exercise'.
Geek lifestyle leaves no time for exercise? There seems to be plenty of time for jacking off and playing video games. Just get off your ass.
If you need to multi-task while you exercise because that's how your brain works, do a sport instead of just exercise. There are plenty of purely recreational leagues everywhere. (Often called beer leagues, which is just about the best part of it)
I recommend baseball for the beginner geek because it is the least stressful as a sport and offers a nice transition. It is also chock full of numbers a geek can spend his day calculating, and believe me your team will appreciate even a novice statistician.
For the intermediate geek I recommend Soccer or a racket sport(even ping pong!), but those don't offer any numbers to fuck around with.
Hockey I recommend for the geek looking move up in sports difficulty, and hockey offers the most variables. Not to mention that Ice Hockey allows you to get a decent workout without sweating. (If you go crazy nuts you'll sweat plenty, but it's very easy to keep your heart rate in its optimal zone without getting too sweaty to go to work.)
Hockey gear is expensive but you can find recreational games without more than leg pads.
It'll also help the geek tendency to be a fucking social troll and retard.
(beer league baseball/softball is by far the best way to go from zero exercise to building healthy habits. Working out is way more fun when you're drunk, just like most things.)
You make a great point, and brings me to a question: What is our definition of 'speed'? Can someone please explain to me what Apple does faster? Do they boot faster? Do they run apps faster? That is really hard to believe, considering the system you could get from Apple for $1500 is going to be dwarfed by the system I could build from scratch with $1500. Does it run photoshop faster? Does it have a better performace/dollar ratio? I don't think anyone with a clue can truly answer these questions in the affirmative while keeping a straight face.
Making fun of the speed of Windows because of the stupidity of the average user does not actually mean it is slower. My hardware running windows will be within 110% of the fastest benchmarked speeds of similair systems. I have a 7 year old Pentium 3-450mhz that has desktop performance (Browsing, productivity apps outside of intensive graphics) rivaling my neighbour's stupid iMac g5.
My 1.4 ghz P4 laptop boots in less than 30 seconds, and it's bloated to death with things I haven't bothered to change. (It's also in German, which hampers me. I left the country when I was 6 so I don't really recall wtf Einstellungen means)
I've asked this question on Slashdot many many times before, just wtf does a Mac do, at a better price/performance ratio than a self-built box? It certainly doesn't run the Adobe suites faster per dollar that's for goddamn sure. The only answer I ever get is "Pretty Boxen" and "It's based on Unix you narb you could never understand cuz you use window$."
Well, if you want *nix just build your own fuckin box. I know that your argument is slightly easier when talking about laptops but since when has performance been the hallmark of mobility?
I say again, what does Apple do FASTER than self-built Windows and *nix boxes? Other than fuckin asinine widgets, that is.
Macs are closer to Appliances than they are to Universal Turing Machines.
Dude, take the notes and then write the goddamn story. We don't want you to just post your briskly jotted down thoughts and abysmal sentence fragments.
Like, did you even go to journalism school? Do you get paid for this shit? Can you give us more than this half-assed effort next time?
Claiming you are doing this for the users' protection just assumes that all of your users are idiots, and if you build a system that repeatedly makes that assumption then eventually all of your users will be idiots, as you will drive the others away.
Sorry, I got distracted for a second. Are we talking about Google or Apple?
Good points, but don't forget Israel has done quite a bit of things to the U.S. and other countries, things that are very plain to find in news and history, that kind of discredits their ability to 'play by the rules', as it were. See Lavon Affair. Google false flag and you'll find even more accusations (I take each with its own grain of salt and some stand to reason and some do not. YMMV), and at this point I am not surprised to see the U.S. move to protect possible assets from such an aggresive foreign government.
This is unrelevant to the ports, which are already run in their capacity by the British and who have always had security and customs provided by the U.S.
This _is_ relevant to the AIPAC rhymes-with-sky scandal, Larry Franklin, and everyone's favorite lobbyist Jack Abrams. This _is_ relevant to George Walker Bush.
Frankly, I'm surprised it took _this long_ for the U.S. and other countries to openly be aggresive in response to Israel's noted aggresive foreign policy.
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Games.
It's a sad lot.
Izzat you, Turner? I said quit fuckin wit' my television!
Git off my lawn!
Have you met my neighbours? An amazing collection of assholes.
Between the Swedish sexaganarian dog trainer who encourages her dogs to bark by going AIEEIEIEEEIEEIEEIEE at 8:15 on an otherwise beautiful vancouver island summer morning, or the three new houses that mow their new lawns religiously and all too frequently.
Perhaps the new age musician up the way?
Welcome to America. Neighbour's suck.
(Settle down canadians, I use the term continentally.)
(On-topic, I would certainly sign up for some form of optical upgrade. Built in HUD/iff and zoom. I'd accept goggles if it didn't limit peripheral vision but to just perceive those elements within your sight would be tremendous.
And the bionic zoom-eye.)
We also ignore the cult of gamers.
DirectX, XBox.
The only reason I ever became a Windows loon was because of games. The only reason I am any good at running a tight Windows ship is because I have to. And, at this point, even Ubuntu or Cedega do not actually save me any effort; thus no switch, only admiration from a comfortable distance.
Microsoft supplies my Operating System. They conned me in to an Xbox 360 (and I'm loving it) so I have to use WMP11 and the Media Center software, but other than that I am the mayor of 3rd-party ville. AVG, Winamp, openoffice, Firefox; all amazingly free and superior. (Hell, ZSnes, Google Earth, Stellarium, full tilt/pokerstars, DIVX...) Bill's question in his open letter, "what hobbyist...?," was answered. Some dude stood up and said, "Uhh, I have the time,". A few thousand other people did too and continue to, Bill just basically underestimated things. (My point: I buy M$ because of these 'hobbyist' developers.)
Let's not forget that despite all the very 'cute' Apple adverts, Microsoft still has perhaps the biggest psychological victory in this "war"; that is, the usurpation of Bungie. It is arguable that Halo was being viewed by Apple as the same platform for gaming success that it has become for M$ and Xbox. Plundering a Quake-killer definitely gained M$ alot of cult karma.
My thesis statement: Gamers = cult. You frankly do not understand the word cult until you have strapped on a headset mic connected to xbox live. I taste vomit.
Just a note. The 360 will do any and all resolutions with a multitude of interchangeable outputs.
As for noise; when playing tv shows or movies off of a media center pc it is much quieter due to decreased cpu and gpu activity and lack of a spinning DVD.
Noise is still an issue, but I do think that the PS3 and 360 are much better ways to spend money and get faux-PVR type experiences by tying in to your now-powerful mid-line dual-core PC.
Besides, a combo of those and a pc nets you anywhere between 5 and 12 cores, depending on how you count cells. Now that's proper horsepower. Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
When I found out Bell Mobility was denying my phone the ability to install Opera Mini, I found Rumkin.com and their uploader utility. I was able to install Opera Mini, which rocks and is a total life-saver.
:(
GMail for phones is also wicked. I have not yet confirmed that my phone picks up the POP3 messages from work I have tied into that GMail account... If so I could practically work from the phone.
Yahoo! Go looks like the next best thing, but is not yet available for my Samsung SPH-A920
This phone pretty much does anything you ask of a desktop. But,t he TV clips are pointless, _especially_ hockey. You just can't see the puck and they charge an arm and a leg for the crap.
I wish I wish I could stream internet radio stations.
(On a lighter note, I used some SNES plugin for winamp and the diskwriter plug in to convert the hotel theme song from Earthbound (16-bit SNES) and using rumkin.com got my phone to us it as a ringtone. I work at a hotel, and when they call me it plays the Hotel song from that game.)
I love how some people think this vaccine is automagically a cure and actually safe to inject all women with. I mean, you guys _know_, right? Or are you being told?
Oh come on. Really? Al Qaeda?
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Hey, have I got a conspiracy theory for you: Apparently, 19 men spent a few years crawling through Afghani fox-holes and learning the latest box-cutter kung fu. They then all made their way to America, eluding several major civil and Federal authorities tasked with preventing their entry. They then coordinated an attack on airliners, once again evading the FAA, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, the police, and the TSA. They then took over these fully loaded planes with extremely rudimentary and un-threatening weapons.
Pretty crazy, huh?
They then took their modicum of flight training (flight training allegedly done by recent Arab visitors/immigrants) and used it to fly some very complex planes on very precise trajectories exactly into their targets of intention (most of their alleged targets, anyway).
Anyways, we were obviously busy with other things. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/archive/archive
Sorry, I should have specified that I meant a claim of superior Macintosh/OS X speed.
I'm not dogging Linux here, even if I think they are neglecting the one market they need to win if they want a foothold, and that's the tuner/gamer market. (I know I know, huge start up costs and an ugly install base. Quake 3's source is available, and Half-Life's Mod scene shows it is possible to make at least one killer app/game. Free (faster) OS + Free 'the next counter-strike' is what Ubuntu/needs to go mainstream.)
That's not the only thing that IE7 has broken. I bought a new Gateway desktop last week, Core 2 Duo E6300, 2 gigs ram, T.V. Tuner, 256 meg Geforce 7300 LE (Lame Edition), XP Media Center edition.
Within 15 minutes of installing IE7, Media Center stopped working. Every 15 seconds I would get a message that the Media Receiver Service had crashed. It was so weird that I was convinced I had gotten a virus, even though I had locked the system down snugger than a bug within an hour of starting it the first time.
Well, to this day no viruses, spy ware, or any kind of mal-ware have been detected by the quintet of AVG, Norton (Which I re-installed after uninstalling it as the first thing I did to this computer), Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Windows Defender. I also use Security Task Manager to verify my currently running processes.
However, uninstalling IE7 did not help. I then had to uninstall the previous Media Center update and re-install. Then everything worked.
Media Center worked perfectly before IE7, and has worked perfectly since. Even under _extreme_ duress. (2 640X480 windowed instances of Quake 3 running the single player level of DM17, Tuner recording Family Guy, and Media Center serving an episode of Oprah to my mom in the living room via the xbox 360. Yeah, the E6300 does it without complaint, buy one.)
It's pretty ugly when Microsoft is breaking it's own stuff, let alone DEVELOPERS DEVELOPS DEVELOPERS' stuff.
Yeah. Everyone wants to pay more for the same hardware and a total bloat-ware OS.
Which part is the Bloatware? The part that isn't Unix.
Please. Go play with your pussy tech over in the pussy sandbox. Real computers have real tasks to complete. (Which Mac is eminently aware of, which is why they switched to _our_ architecture.)
(And if I hear one more claim of superior speed, I will smack that person with a sock filled with $300.00 in coins representing the extra money they spent to have some douchebag from California over design the plastic thing that holds the real computer.)
In reality, people are waiting for the Core 2 Duo to come down in price, and in conjunctiuon, AMD's offerings.
Consumers are saavy. That's why Macs have no market share.
Let me be the first to say: I just dropped an even $1093 in Canadian dollars on a laptop that came with a 256 meg video card.
How on earth does Apple get away with these prices and this ass-tastic hardware?
This entire thread is about a disgusting _abomination_ that should never exist in the first place.
That people are discussing it seriously is even more deleterious to my faith in humanity.
None of this sounds like the most fucked up Pandora's Box to open on our food chain?
Buy Gold. Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold. It's up 10% year to date and has no ceiling.
I can not say it enough. It will not go down, and if for some fluke of a reason it does, you can buy lots of discounted gold!
The chinese and arabs are going apeshit on gold. It has completely transcended supply and demand. It is now purely a psychological market, and the price will only climb.
Also, it is WW3 proof, unlike the American Dollar or any stock market. Should the shit hit the fan and international commerce ceases to exist, your gold will still be valuable.
Maybe you're not a survivalist, but Gold is going to be perhaps the most liquid asset you can buy, and you'll have no trouble at all selling it.
The best way to deal with the whole situation is by Rational Anarchism. Basically, I know better than the govt what is right and what is wrong. Therefore, I live by my laws, which in 98% of the cases coincide exactly with whatever descendant of English Common Law I'm mucking about in. (US, Canada)
The Law and I merely disagree on a few points.
The best way to pull this off is to spend the majority of time in a place that has police that respect that. There are plenty of states, and parts of states that are cool with it, as is most of Canada.(And naturally, Mexico.) I've met lots of cops all over North America that will not hassle you much if you are acting peaceably. This also usually means cooperating with them, but acting respectfully but defiantly has allowed me to get away with countless narcotics violations. (And frankly, many liquor and a few trespassing)
I can live with them pouring out my beer or confiscating my pipe, it's the throwing me in jail that is supremely lame.
(Note: I've never been involved with trafficking, nor would I ever have the intention. None of these situations would have looked like that to the cops, and luckily, cops are usually after big fish. To be a Rational Anarchist, one must stay a small fish.)
The class of drug Adderal and Ritalin belong to has another name.
SPEED. They are fucking hard drugs. You want to talk about a gateway drug? Jesus Christ.
America seriously needs to wake the fuck up from its asinine hypocrisy. We have fucking hard liquor advertizing on FUCKING RACE CARS. Every body and their mother is addicted to Caffeine. We are such a drug culture that it's such an absolute joke how much money we spend on the 'war on drugs'.
caffe-ine
coca-ine
Big diff, right?
Now the meat of the argument is that I think it should all be legal for adults. My huge problem is the generation of children we have gotten started on speed. We have 10 million teen-age addicts. 10 million kids intimately familiar with the street value of their little bottle of pills.
10 million kids with the taste of speed in their mouths. Does that not scare anyone else?
Haha. Funny you should ask. I've been running a Win98SE install that's over 6 years old now. I have used it daily for those 6 years, and use it to type this message.
It sucked for a while. I didn't know what I was doing, but luckily I knew some people that did. It's possible to reinstall from the options/cabs file, and I've done that a few times to fix catastrophes. (I've been told this is only possible if you configure it this way at original install. This pc is from a canadian manufacturer that no longer exists.)
I've never run full-time anti-virus, I just run scans when it's acting funny. I also use a 3rd party task manager to pwn and quarantine evil unwanted processes. That one program threw all my anti virus and ad-scanning software under a truck.
I also use Hare 1.5.1 to keep my RAM clear. If I am disciplined and don't do anything stupid, I can have unlimited uptime.
However, I do stupid things often enough to have a semi-normal experience.
So, logically, Apple should hire John Carmack to write The-Next-Great-Game-Engine(tm), and just make sure that it's cross-platform and that they can license it to developers on the cheap to write cross-platform games.
I mean, he practically already does it, but Apple could, in a sense, seriously subsidize the price of licensing and make it easy (and most importantly _cheap_) for developers to go Mac. (If He's capable of building such an API. But I do capitalize He for a reason, I suppose...)
Not that I want to see this happen. I hate you Mac Poofs. But, it's a way better idea than selling a million boxes at serious loss to gain a foothold.
You stole the words from my mouth Re: Lufthansa.
I was going to say, "Fly on a decent carrier!" No shit you don't get wifi on southwest flights, jesus.
Someone please mod me down for fucking up my tags.
[blockquote] Is it surprising?
No.
I mean come on everyone knows - if you don't excercise then you don't have strength and endurance.
And the computer geek lifestyle leaves little time for excercising.
[/blockquote]
The least surprising thing is the hilarious justification of, "We're just too darn smart to exercise'.
Geek lifestyle leaves no time for exercise? There seems to be plenty of time for jacking off and playing video games. Just get off your ass.
If you need to multi-task while you exercise because that's how your brain works, do a sport instead of just exercise. There are plenty of purely recreational leagues everywhere. (Often called beer leagues, which is just about the best part of it)
I recommend baseball for the beginner geek because it is the least stressful as a sport and offers a nice transition. It is also chock full of numbers a geek can spend his day calculating, and believe me your team will appreciate even a novice statistician.
For the intermediate geek I recommend Soccer or a racket sport(even ping pong!), but those don't offer any numbers to fuck around with.
Hockey I recommend for the geek looking move up in sports difficulty, and hockey offers the most variables. Not to mention that Ice Hockey allows you to get a decent workout without sweating. (If you go crazy nuts you'll sweat plenty, but it's very easy to keep your heart rate in its optimal zone without getting too sweaty to go to work.)
Hockey gear is expensive but you can find recreational games without more than leg pads.
It'll also help the geek tendency to be a fucking social troll and retard.
(beer league baseball/softball is by far the best way to go from zero exercise to building healthy habits. Working out is way more fun when you're drunk, just like most things.)
You make a great point, and brings me to a question: What is our definition of 'speed'? Can someone please explain to me what Apple does faster? Do they boot faster? Do they run apps faster? That is really hard to believe, considering the system you could get from Apple for $1500 is going to be dwarfed by the system I could build from scratch with $1500. Does it run photoshop faster? Does it have a better performace/dollar ratio? I don't think anyone with a clue can truly answer these questions in the affirmative while keeping a straight face.
Making fun of the speed of Windows because of the stupidity of the average user does not actually mean it is slower. My hardware running windows will be within 110% of the fastest benchmarked speeds of similair systems. I have a 7 year old Pentium 3-450mhz that has desktop performance (Browsing, productivity apps outside of intensive graphics) rivaling my neighbour's stupid iMac g5.
My 1.4 ghz P4 laptop boots in less than 30 seconds, and it's bloated to death with things I haven't bothered to change. (It's also in German, which hampers me. I left the country when I was 6 so I don't really recall wtf Einstellungen means)
I've asked this question on Slashdot many many times before, just wtf does a Mac do, at a better price/performance ratio than a self-built box? It certainly doesn't run the Adobe suites faster per dollar that's for goddamn sure. The only answer I ever get is "Pretty Boxen" and "It's based on Unix you narb you could never understand cuz you use window$."
Well, if you want *nix just build your own fuckin box. I know that your argument is slightly easier when talking about laptops but since when has performance been the hallmark of mobility?
I say again, what does Apple do FASTER than self-built Windows and *nix boxes? Other than fuckin asinine widgets, that is.
Macs are closer to Appliances than they are to Universal Turing Machines.
Dude, take the notes and then write the goddamn story. We don't want you to just post your briskly jotted down thoughts and abysmal sentence fragments.
Like, did you even go to journalism school? Do you get paid for this shit? Can you give us more than this half-assed effort next time?
Sorry, I got distracted for a second. Are we talking about Google or Apple?
Good points, but don't forget Israel has done quite a bit of things to the U.S. and other countries, things that are very plain to find in news and history, that kind of discredits their ability to 'play by the rules', as it were. See Lavon Affair. Google false flag and you'll find even more accusations (I take each with its own grain of salt and some stand to reason and some do not. YMMV), and at this point I am not surprised to see the U.S. move to protect possible assets from such an aggresive foreign government.
This is unrelevant to the ports, which are already run in their capacity by the British and who have always had security and customs provided by the U.S.
This _is_ relevant to the AIPAC rhymes-with-sky scandal, Larry Franklin, and everyone's favorite lobbyist Jack Abrams. This _is_ relevant to George Walker Bush.
Frankly, I'm surprised it took _this long_ for the U.S. and other countries to openly be aggresive in response to Israel's noted aggresive foreign policy.