LOL. Only on Slashdot are you getting modded down for saying that “Reality does not equal Apple”, and that Apple is not even close to being a monopoly where you use the brand name instead of the real name.
Dear trollerators / Apple fanbois. I hope I meet you face-to-face, some time. Cause I’m go punch you a big “i” in the face! Go ahead. Write me a mail, pussies! I’ll give you and address too meet. And bring your apple-branded toys!
The only thing I thought, when I was done, was: Damn, and I thought this would be sci-fi! But all I got, was fantasy. About intrigues and other nasty character traits. (I hate intrigues & co.) So I was really, really disappointed. To me it was the most disappointing book I ever read. I find it a shame, that it’s called one of the best “sci-fi” books. Some sidenotes about spaceships and it being another planet, does not make it sci-fi. But religious cult fantasy makes it... fantasy! Two genres which should never, ever, ever be merged or mixed up. Ever.
Why would anyone with a healthy mind need someone writing down a “citation”? In case we would not find that person credible, he would still be the only one stating that that citation is credible, in the first place. Which is circular reasoning.
Also, since there are a 11 visible and more invisible hosts, wires, and editable databases between/. and me. Plus even more between you and/.. And our memory also is just a unsharp, twisted model of reality. Well, let’s say: What gave you the idea that anything on the net (or in the “media” in general) would be credible in the first place? I a world, where you just can’t check anything for yourself, credibility depends on trust. Which depends on the ability to uniquely identify someone. Which is not existent on the non-encrypted and non-authenticated Internet.
Yes, somehow the Wikipedia guys think citations add credibility anyway. Because the main idea of Wikipedia is, that everyone is trustworthy to everyone. Which of course is bullshit, as proven by their own efforts to lock it down more and more, to protect against “vandals”. (Untrustworthy people. Untrustworthy to the established group.) But nonetheless, in such a world, one global reality is very near to being possible (apart from physical relativity). Which of course still is relative to that group.
So spare us the citations. They mean nothing, unless you cite someone that we personally trust, and that person verifies your story.:) (Protip: The likeliness of both happening, is next to nil. So don’t bother.:)
And please, please don’t take that as as offense. I don’t mean that you, as a person, would not be credible. I just mean the text on my screen right now. Well... I think you understand.:)
Even if the floor is less round? (Not saying this is the case here. Just pointing out, that ideals can change. Einstein said it best: “Leaving research exclusively in the hands of engineers, we would have perfectly functioning oil lamps, but no electricity.”)
First he uses English, but for the sun he uses the Latin “sol”. I don’t know, but there’s something common to people who do that. And I really don’t like it. I guess it’s, when the only point in using that word, is to make you look as if you were something better, that it disgusts me. Not because it actually has some special meaning (like “lateral’), but just for saying “I’m better than you.”
To me, that sounds like the Judge talking to Lindor, and going “Well, you should just have caved in and payed up! Look, everyone else does it too. Would have been easier.”
The only one who should not be trusted with controlling the device, according to Apple, seems to be the person who “owns” it!;) And that’s OK, because them still buying it anyway, is proof that they love it.
Yeah baby! Spank me! Spank me hard with that DRM! Woohooo!!!;))
But hey, the other way around is so much more useful, since it’s supporting the doctrines of the “censor everything we don’t understand” crowd, right?:/
Also, depression is not a disease. And it never will be. (Buy hey, that’s what you get when you ask “doctors”.) It’s a symptom of something. Which itself can be called a disease.
1. Find all the causes (in case of an active repression, use a really deep therapy). Food, pollution, social stress, genes, etc. 2. Remove/fix the causes, if possible. Or simulate removal so that it’s the same for the brain. (Start of processing.) 3. Re-train associations that went haywire as a result of the bad influence. (Re-learning processing.) 4.... (Be patient!) 5. HEALTH! Only exception: Genetic diseases which can’t be healed YET (but will be, as soon as gene therapy is usable for it). For those you’d of course need “symptom ignorers” (like painkillers) complete replacements (like artificial hearts, etc).
Conclusion: Yeah, just keep ignoring the real causes, and find a scapegoat like “teh Intarnetz! OMGWTFBBQ!!!1!one’.
Sometimes I wonder: When someone would constantly run against a wall, head first, would they blame his headache on the Internet too...?
But... but... optimizing performance in PHP, is like optimizing performance on a tricycle with four-wheel drive and square wheels. ^^ The best optimization for PHP: Move to a real language!;)
(Ex 5-year professional PHP developer here, who actually managed to write properly designed software in it, and therefore knows extremely well what PHP is and can’t do.)
Hey, don’t mod him troll! He’s right with what he meant.
Even though he got H.264 (the patented codec) and x264 (the open implementation) mixed up.
PNG was a problem back then. Since it could not do any animation. Which was important back then. Other than that it did not have any relevant size or transparency improvements is 8 bit mode, and just was too large in 24 bit (lossless) mode.
Also, H.264 factually is the best codec out there right now.
But frankly, I think it will be just like with GIF: NOBODY will care whether it’s patented. We will all say: “Sooo... Do you plan to sue the whole planet?? LOL.” I also think, that MPEG LA knows this, even better than we do. The engineers who designed it, will not get anything from the licenses anyway. They just feel pride when it’s used. Which they deserve.
Please, dude... I know you loooove Apple more like your (non-existing? this is/. after all;) girlfriend. And that’s all good. Do whatever makes your happy. But please keep it down with using the Apple brand name for every type of product out there. Ok?:) I hate to tell you, but: Reality does not equal Apple!;)
You could just as easily have said the factually correct thing: In 6 years time, there’ll be an awful lot of smart phones / mobile computers in the wild.
Frankly, I doubt that even in the US many people will still care about Apple that much in 6 years, when the reality distortion bubble (the one that lets their products look like they could compete) will become its first gaping holes. And that is not meant as as offense. Even though religious people will see it like that anyway. (See Mohammad caricatures.)
Sorry, but it’s long well-know what causes people to get rejected, become bullies, become respected, etc. It all depends on who is drawing others into his sense of reality, and who is drawn in to the sense of reality of others. Four examples: - You are insecure, and you follow others: You are going to get bullied, and not even know it. Because you learn it’s right that that bully always gets a part of your share of something good. You even defend him. Worst case: Hitler-follower. Likely case: “Yes, boss. Yes, boss. Yes, boss.” office drone. - You do not follow others, but are insecure: Others will see that, and because your non-conformance gives them an attack vector, you are definitely going to get bullied. A lot. Your whole life you’ll be the one who always gets the “bad luck”, and you may not even know why. - You follow others, but are very stable in “your” reality: You’ll become someone who believes things, and stands behind them, no matter if they are right or wrong, because you have no own right and wrong. Because whoever you follow said so. And worse: You will drag others into it too. You may end up as a extremist (religious/racist/etc) rally leader, under your guru/politician/Hitler-equivalent. Or a PR guy with no soul. Etc. Normal case: Religious big-party voter, who thinks TV-news-reality is what is right and wrong, and is willing to fight, to protect that reality. - You are very stable in your own reality, and do only follow your own values: You will draw others in, from the very beginning. (All those in the categories above.) And become a leader. Or if you are evil, a bully. In later life you may become the hero of many people. Either in the good sense, or in the Hitler one. Depending on if your own values are good for others, or bad. Also, if your own views are delusional, you may become some kind of religious leader, drawing many people into false values. But you will never be bullied or become the village idiot. Realistically, you will just have a good life and reach your goals.
Conclusion: You control how others react to you. By how you act. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you’re good, and know that you are right, people will naturally start to follow you. (Everybody wants to have a part of that good you give and learn from that (seemingly or really wise) leadership. You don’t need to become a leader. But they will always respect you, and not bully you. There may be upcoming wannabe-leaders who may, because of their own strong reality, want to fight you. But that will not influence your views. Only that of those who follow you and are very weak themselves. (Which are just as easy to turn back again.) But most other people like you, especially later in life, will recognize you as one of theirs. And mostly you will go out of each other’s way, and/or respect you anyway.
And now the good part: The only reason you are what you are today, is because you say so. If you decide to stop being a follower, but become a leader tomorrow... so be it. It will be work, and not be nothing. But only in a fight with yourself, and with those who are used to being able to push you around and command you.
Remember that there is a point to most people not being leaders. A society where everybody is a leader, would not work very well, would it? Just don’t be a bully yourself, if you are one. It will only harm your respect and decimate those who stand behind you.
So if you want to protect your kids from getting bullied, let them have their own opinions and know that they are right or wrong. Independent from others, but not delusional. It’s extremely important as a parent, to acknowledge that your kid was right, and you were wrong, when that is the case. Also when your kid won against you in something (e.g. arguing about something), acknowledge it. There’s an easy way to do that, and keep your respect: Just be proud of them! Just like a kung-
Many million also think that Obama is black Hitler. What’s your point? (Protip: Ad populum.)
I had a task manager, and a mark-button (like shift on the computer) on my phone, back in 2003. How is Apple unable to do it in 2010?? Next you tell me they got no keyboard. Or no camera. Or no removable battery. Or no ability to install whatever you want. Or no real GPS but WiFi triangulation. Oh wait...;)
He also said there is no point in Java. So the iPhone is the only one without Java. Which means, Java apps/games, which are so dominant that they are sometimes not even labeled as Java anymore, will work on every single mobile phone out there... except the iPhone. I’d call that a FAIL. ^
AT is shit, because it can’t predict your intentions. (But hey, most people still don’t acknowledge the concept of “intention”.) Really, go ahead. Play Richard Burns Rally with AT. You will not even remotely have a chance. I didn’t say you can’t use tiptronic, though.
But frankly, real men drive manual continuous transmissions. You know, those that have no gears but are more like a fader, with something like a gear-cone inside.;)
That’s reeealy long ago. Also, most people do not know at all, that they are related. Plus, I find OpenOffice to be a badly-designed sluggishly slow and crappy Office suite. Different than MS Office, but not better or worse.
The reason is, that they both are waaaayyy over their maximum lifespan. They should have had a complete rewrite about 5-10 years ago. Until that is going to happen, they will become more and more the upside-down pyramid of software design, that killed pre-NT Windows with ME.
Or in short: It needs a revolution. (And I’m on to one, actually.)
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.
Yes, but... let’s say... Apple users are especially well-known for using Apple products as e-penises. Of course far from all. But unfortunately the loudest ones are usually the worst, and are seen best. So it’s likely that GP’s experience made it most efficient, to just assume it’s a fanboi. You can judge that as prejudice. But pay attention that you’re not falling into prejudice with that, yourself.;) I just see it as “most likely possibility, based on own experience”, as around here, you even get modded down, for mentioning anything Apple in the same comment with anything bad. Completely irrational. But that’s what fanbois by definition are. No matter if Apple or something else. (If you read this, you are no Apple fanboi.;)
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But now, it contains the answer to life, the universe, and everything! Which makes it clear why it will never need a change again. ^^
Bonus: The dude in the THHGTTG movie, with the British accent, going: “Forty-twoohoooo-ooo???”
Wait... I thought he meant Pocahontas!
LOL. Only on Slashdot are you getting modded down for saying that “Reality does not equal Apple”, and that Apple is not even close to being a monopoly where you use the brand name instead of the real name.
Dear trollerators / Apple fanbois. I hope I meet you face-to-face, some time. Cause I’m go punch you a big “i” in the face!
Go ahead. Write me a mail, pussies! I’ll give you and address too meet. And bring your apple-branded toys!
The only thing I thought, when I was done, was:
Damn, and I thought this would be sci-fi! But all I got, was fantasy. About intrigues and other nasty character traits. (I hate intrigues & co.)
So I was really, really disappointed. To me it was the most disappointing book I ever read.
I find it a shame, that it’s called one of the best “sci-fi” books. Some sidenotes about spaceships and it being another planet, does not make it sci-fi. But religious cult fantasy makes it... fantasy!
Two genres which should never, ever, ever be merged or mixed up. Ever.
Just my two cents.
Why would anyone with a healthy mind need someone writing down a “citation”?
In case we would not find that person credible, he would still be the only one stating that that citation is credible, in the first place.
Which is circular reasoning.
Also, since there are a 11 visible and more invisible hosts, wires, and editable databases between /. and me. Plus even more between you and /.. And our memory also is just a unsharp, twisted model of reality. Well, let’s say: What gave you the idea that anything on the net (or in the “media” in general) would be credible in the first place?
I a world, where you just can’t check anything for yourself, credibility depends on trust. Which depends on the ability to uniquely identify someone. Which is not existent on the non-encrypted and non-authenticated Internet.
Yes, somehow the Wikipedia guys think citations add credibility anyway. Because the main idea of Wikipedia is, that everyone is trustworthy to everyone. Which of course is bullshit, as proven by their own efforts to lock it down more and more, to protect against “vandals”. (Untrustworthy people. Untrustworthy to the established group.) But nonetheless, in such a world, one global reality is very near to being possible (apart from physical relativity). Which of course still is relative to that group.
So spare us the citations. They mean nothing, unless you cite someone that we personally trust, and that person verifies your story. :) :)
(Protip: The likeliness of both happening, is next to nil. So don’t bother.
And please, please don’t take that as as offense. I don’t mean that you, as a person, would not be credible. I just mean the text on my screen right now. Well... I think you understand. :)
Even if the floor is less round? (Not saying this is the case here. Just pointing out, that ideals can change. Einstein said it best: “Leaving research exclusively in the hands of engineers, we would have perfectly functioning oil lamps, but no electricity.”)
First he uses English, but for the sun he uses the Latin “sol”.
I don’t know, but there’s something common to people who do that. And I really don’t like it.
I guess it’s, when the only point in using that word, is to make you look as if you were something better, that it disgusts me.
Not because it actually has some special meaning (like “lateral’), but just for saying “I’m better than you.”
Exactly my though when I read this.
As if they would need even more possibilities to plain out lie to the people.
Dude, maybe this never changes, because everybody just (for whatever fucked-up reason) never mentions it.
I’d at least find another job, who is not a dictator on a control-freak trip.
To me, that sounds like the Judge talking to Lindor, and going “Well, you should just have caved in and payed up! Look, everyone else does it too. Would have been easier.”
What a dick.
Yes, they definitely can. But: Will they win?
And are they willing to live another couple of years in court?
The question is: Secure from whom? ^^
The only one who should not be trusted with controlling the device, according to Apple, seems to be the person who “owns” it! ;)
And that’s OK, because them still buying it anyway, is proof that they love it.
Yeah baby! Spank me! Spank me hard with that DRM! Woohooo!!! ;))
I think mine is more likely.
But hey, the other way around is so much more useful, since it’s supporting the doctrines of the “censor everything we don’t understand” crowd, right? :/
Also, depression is not a disease. And it never will be. (Buy hey, that’s what you get when you ask “doctors”.)
It’s a symptom of something. Which itself can be called a disease.
1. Find all the causes (in case of an active repression, use a really deep therapy). Food, pollution, social stress, genes, etc. ... (Be patient!)
2. Remove/fix the causes, if possible. Or simulate removal so that it’s the same for the brain. (Start of processing.)
3. Re-train associations that went haywire as a result of the bad influence. (Re-learning processing.)
4.
5. HEALTH!
Only exception: Genetic diseases which can’t be healed YET (but will be, as soon as gene therapy is usable for it). For those you’d of course need “symptom ignorers” (like painkillers) complete replacements (like artificial hearts, etc).
Conclusion: Yeah, just keep ignoring the real causes, and find a scapegoat like “teh Intarnetz! OMGWTFBBQ!!!1!one’.
Sometimes I wonder: When someone would constantly run against a wall, head first, would they blame his headache on the Internet too...?
But... but... optimizing performance in PHP, is like optimizing performance on a tricycle with four-wheel drive and square wheels. ^^ ;)
The best optimization for PHP: Move to a real language!
(Ex 5-year professional PHP developer here, who actually managed to write properly designed software in it, and therefore knows extremely well what PHP is and can’t do.)
Hey, don’t mod him troll! He’s right with what he meant.
Even though he got H.264 (the patented codec) and x264 (the open implementation) mixed up.
PNG was a problem back then. Since it could not do any animation. Which was important back then. Other than that it did not have any relevant size or transparency improvements is 8 bit mode, and just was too large in 24 bit (lossless) mode.
Also, H.264 factually is the best codec out there right now.
But frankly, I think it will be just like with GIF: NOBODY will care whether it’s patented. We will all say: “Sooo... Do you plan to sue the whole planet?? LOL.”
I also think, that MPEG LA knows this, even better than we do.
The engineers who designed it, will not get anything from the licenses anyway. They just feel pride when it’s used. Which they deserve.
Please, dude... I know you loooove Apple more like your (non-existing? this is /. after all ;) girlfriend. And that’s all good. Do whatever makes your happy. :) ;)
But please keep it down with using the Apple brand name for every type of product out there. Ok?
I hate to tell you, but: Reality does not equal Apple!
You could just as easily have said the factually correct thing:
In 6 years time, there’ll be an awful lot of smart phones / mobile computers in the wild.
Frankly, I doubt that even in the US many people will still care about Apple that much in 6 years, when the reality distortion bubble (the one that lets their products look like they could compete) will become its first gaping holes.
And that is not meant as as offense. Even though religious people will see it like that anyway. (See Mohammad caricatures.)
Sorry, but it’s long well-know what causes people to get rejected, become bullies, become respected, etc.
It all depends on who is drawing others into his sense of reality, and who is drawn in to the sense of reality of others.
Four examples:
- You are insecure, and you follow others: You are going to get bullied, and not even know it. Because you learn it’s right that that bully always gets a part of your share of something good. You even defend him. Worst case: Hitler-follower. Likely case: “Yes, boss. Yes, boss. Yes, boss.” office drone.
- You do not follow others, but are insecure: Others will see that, and because your non-conformance gives them an attack vector, you are definitely going to get bullied. A lot. Your whole life you’ll be the one who always gets the “bad luck”, and you may not even know why.
- You follow others, but are very stable in “your” reality: You’ll become someone who believes things, and stands behind them, no matter if they are right or wrong, because you have no own right and wrong. Because whoever you follow said so. And worse: You will drag others into it too. You may end up as a extremist (religious/racist/etc) rally leader, under your guru/politician/Hitler-equivalent. Or a PR guy with no soul. Etc. Normal case: Religious big-party voter, who thinks TV-news-reality is what is right and wrong, and is willing to fight, to protect that reality.
- You are very stable in your own reality, and do only follow your own values: You will draw others in, from the very beginning. (All those in the categories above.) And become a leader. Or if you are evil, a bully. In later life you may become the hero of many people. Either in the good sense, or in the Hitler one. Depending on if your own values are good for others, or bad. Also, if your own views are delusional, you may become some kind of religious leader, drawing many people into false values. But you will never be bullied or become the village idiot. Realistically, you will just have a good life and reach your goals.
Conclusion: You control how others react to you. By how you act. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If you’re good, and know that you are right, people will naturally start to follow you. (Everybody wants to have a part of that good you give and learn from that (seemingly or really wise) leadership. You don’t need to become a leader. But they will always respect you, and not bully you.
There may be upcoming wannabe-leaders who may, because of their own strong reality, want to fight you. But that will not influence your views. Only that of those who follow you and are very weak themselves. (Which are just as easy to turn back again.)
But most other people like you, especially later in life, will recognize you as one of theirs. And mostly you will go out of each other’s way, and/or respect you anyway.
And now the good part: The only reason you are what you are today, is because you say so. If you decide to stop being a follower, but become a leader tomorrow... so be it. It will be work, and not be nothing. But only in a fight with yourself, and with those who are used to being able to push you around and command you.
Remember that there is a point to most people not being leaders. A society where everybody is a leader, would not work very well, would it?
Just don’t be a bully yourself, if you are one. It will only harm your respect and decimate those who stand behind you.
So if you want to protect your kids from getting bullied, let them have their own opinions and know that they are right or wrong. Independent from others, but not delusional.
It’s extremely important as a parent, to acknowledge that your kid was right, and you were wrong, when that is the case. Also when your kid won against you in something (e.g. arguing about something), acknowledge it. There’s an easy way to do that, and keep your respect: Just be proud of them! Just like a kung-
Well, they haven’t tried putting it on him yet. Or the headline would read differently.
MC Hammer is to this membrane, like that aquarium is to that phone. :D
Many million also think that Obama is black Hitler. What’s your point? (Protip: Ad populum.)
I had a task manager, and a mark-button (like shift on the computer) on my phone, back in 2003. How is Apple unable to do it in 2010?? ;)
Next you tell me they got no keyboard. Or no camera. Or no removable battery. Or no ability to install whatever you want. Or no real GPS but WiFi triangulation.
Oh wait...
He also said there is no point in Java. So the iPhone is the only one without Java.
Which means, Java apps/games, which are so dominant that they are sometimes not even labeled as Java anymore, will work on every single mobile phone out there... except the iPhone.
I’d call that a FAIL. ^
(Of course the real reason was lock-in.)
AT is shit, because it can’t predict your intentions. (But hey, most people still don’t acknowledge the concept of “intention”.)
Really, go ahead. Play Richard Burns Rally with AT. You will not even remotely have a chance.
I didn’t say you can’t use tiptronic, though.
But frankly, real men drive manual continuous transmissions. You know, those that have no gears but are more like a fader, with something like a gear-cone inside. ;)
That’s reeealy long ago. Also, most people do not know at all, that they are related.
Plus, I find OpenOffice to be a badly-designed sluggishly slow and crappy Office suite. Different than MS Office, but not better or worse.
The reason is, that they both are waaaayyy over their maximum lifespan. They should have had a complete rewrite about 5-10 years ago.
Until that is going to happen, they will become more and more the upside-down pyramid of software design, that killed pre-NT Windows with ME.
Or in short: It needs a revolution. (And I’m on to one, actually.)
Pussy. I am a lawyer, and this is legal advice:
Do what parent poster said. Do whatever 4chan suggests you. If it’s legal, try to avoid it.
P.S.: If you don’t know the saying about what you should believe on the Internet (or in RL btw!), this might go right over your head. ;)
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
Yes, but... let’s say... Apple users are especially well-known for using Apple products as e-penises. ;) ;)
Of course far from all. But unfortunately the loudest ones are usually the worst, and are seen best.
So it’s likely that GP’s experience made it most efficient, to just assume it’s a fanboi.
You can judge that as prejudice. But pay attention that you’re not falling into prejudice with that, yourself.
I just see it as “most likely possibility, based on own experience”, as around here, you even get modded down, for mentioning anything Apple in the same comment with anything bad. Completely irrational. But that’s what fanbois by definition are.
No matter if Apple or something else. (If you read this, you are no Apple fanboi.