i agree with the general sentiment about his culpability, but i am extremely disappointed that he didn't question the conduct of a company so blatant about bait-and-switch nonsense for a exclusive review in the NYT. that would obviously (although not if you were to only go by his words written) be an indictment against any company, with obvious repercussions to their reputation, mindshare, etc.
i'm disappointed he didn't call them on that. he just lists their obvious 'oh, mistaking web designing!; tomorrow it fixed!' bullshit excuses, as if they are legitimate. and no, i don't think it should be left to the reader to 'read between the lines'. he sould have called into question their integrity in light of this, inasmuch as he could honestly and without libel concerns.
there is usually an option for fastboot, or non-thorough checking of memory in the BIOS, and it won't count through all the memory.
it sure felt nice/looked cool for a few days though when i had 512 for the first time.
but windows...argh...just the wrong combination at the wrong time.
it can also be useful for guaranteeing you see posts that are written by persons who you've come to respect for their...humour/knowledge/amusing idiocy, +3Friend shite.
or the opposite for people who you perhaps don't care to waste your time with.
i'd rather pre-moderate certain people, there is no personal like/dislike involved on my part however of the person, pleasure or displeaure that they should know about. i honestly don't give half a shit how they (or you, or anyone) percieve it, certain people post certain things that i want to be more sure of reading, or not.
that, and i like to get drunk and change my friends/foe list to make little bitches cry.
you have a surplus of self esteem though, so i wohiccupn't bother...
they can't sell people content through other developers' music management software.
then, they lose that itunes/ipod tie-in(more like down), and can't use that to sell more iPods, or other hardware that ties into iTunes, which would let them control a majority of the pipeline of media/playback device(s) you use. which means you paid them for the stuff.
to listen to music on the go.
part of the secret to its' success is the integration, but no, people do not pay $300+ because they really really want to manage media files in an enjoyable and integrated manner.
it's about using a portable media player, that's the allure. the integration makes it more alluring.
grew up in germany, spent time in the uk, france, italy, spain, austria, sweden, greece, and some others.
but first of all, how did you just compare the roads of tokyo (parents example) / japan, with the EU?! that's preposterous, there's more variance in the EU then there is between the US and Japan and India.
Europe is practically (by which i mean, size of roads as relates to cars. not the insane petrol prices) US in road style sizing far far far more often than not. the cars are small because for the most part many countries actually know how to build cities, mass transit, and don't fuck themselves (i mean, their car companies didn't fuck them historically) by creating an asinine highway system with suburbs in the middle of fucking nowhere. super high gas prices and an infrastructure that doesn't require huge cars/commutes (well, we don't *need* big cars) lets europe be europe
not only is petrol expensive in japan (cuz there's sooooo much room for refineries on their huge landmass(es i guess. hokkaido is roughly the size of alaska, if i recall...) but their streets actually are smaller, (as parent said) and their city densities higher, and...
oh yeah, incomparable to the US or EU, unless you're pointing out different ends of a spectrum.
another thing to remember in this is that cingular has a history (or at least does now) of not locking their phones down and being complete fuckwads about making you pay 2$ to xfer shit to your phon via network since they disabled all the native capabilities of a phone you BOUGHT and effin own.
if i was apple, i would not even fuck with a carrier that had shades of that, mindset whether or not they said they'd change their ways for the iPhone.
apple knows they have to (and will) win on user experience, there can be no crippling, or even talk of provider extortion for phone based services.
seeing as cingular is the most open (eg, my sony w810, nothing disabled, fully loaded with added stuff, none of it from cingular, or hacked in or d/l from the net (like sprint has to do, pay for inet and d/l shit sent to you from sites) i can completely understand going cingular, any other SIM using provider would just be a joke.
hate to self reply, but i forgot that Cingular also has HSDPA ability (i wanted mp3s instead of 1Mbs access in a area similarly small as EVDO, atm), so i don't have / use it. but it's FAST, and i have used it, and it's sweet.
their SMS does sem to be flakey, i didn't know it was a known issue. guess i can get annoyed at someone else now when i get a no/late SMS reply...
but for their internet service?
i had sprint, for 2 years, 6 months ago (live in socal, SD to Inland Empire regularly) and they charged me 15$ a month for their shitty data service. unlimited, with the proviso that you use for the PHONE only!!! what bullshit, i used mine modem-y anyway, and besides one letter informing me that my usagew was high and gently reminding me that a Business plan is supposed to be used if i need a modem conn. (didn't accuse me or anything tho, and i ignored it anyway) i didn't have a problem, except it's 4KBs trickling shit speeds...
cingular is 20 a month, unlimited, no BS about modems either. they have lesser plans, called MediaNet from like 5$ and up
while sprint loves running those stupid ads (OH NO! MY YELLOW BAR ISN'T D/L'd YET!) their EVDO network is pathetically small in coverage area. just some metros (a decent number, granted) and fringe connecting routes.
cingulars EDGE gives me easy 20KBs about 75-80% of the time (if i have signal, i have inet) and the gprs (i think) slower one thats the remainder nets me from 7-12KBs. i don't like analyze my through speeds hardcore though, all the time.
besides the fact that i'm happy as an afghooey blown fool, listening to 36 chambers/MF Doom (sony w810 walkman)and using my phone right now as a BT modem, and D/L Fl0W (or whatever, RE slamdance article) at 23KBs...
i'm pleased as punch. well, not punch, just pleased as an arcata resident with certified 'back trouble'
oh yeah, and sprint sure tacked on some charges unasked for on some of my lines (had 3) for up to 15 months! (voice dial acually was the worst, decided to just cancel than wait for a credit, they were often adding services mistakenly (4 times in two years) to my bill, and they just sat there as i e-paid...
anyway, rock on cingular, and rock on chicago.
oh , more... yeah, the voice quality is not as great as sprint, sprint had *crystal* clear quality, sometimes, mine isn't the best, but it's good, and not bad or ever terrible.
just remember to d/l opera mini, phone browsers suck such total ass.
oh yeah, similar speeds in PNW, specifically roughly around auburn -> vancouver, i think. it wasn't/my/ phone, but it was cingular mediaNet, and my laptop didn't complain.
From this:
virtual penises harassing someone in a virtual world is not even remotely analogous to a Real Life illegal sexual assault on a person.
You get this:
An extremely charitable reading of your earlier post would be that you think there can be no analogy between what happens in real life and in a virtual world
that would be an extremely deficient understanding, they do sound very similar...
ps. as for your idiotic bloody herring of a question of legal sexual assault, the juxtaposition would seem to be: it is not legal to rape people, and therefore not very comparable to (in game rules) 'legally' swarming a video game representation of someone with cartoon penises.
to compare the two, is disgusting.
in even less important news...
Flying penis interruption is not rape [other]
That's why I called it an analogous situation. [you]
virtual penises harassing someone in a virtual world is not even remotely analogous to a Real Life illegal sexual assault[me]
your response: that i forgot the/. tradition of 'TM' after Real Life. I didn't forget to include the TM, i deprecated that lame shit, just like i deprecated VRML long ago in my projects. so go suck one, google VRML, and don't give me stupid IRL TM/. pointers. Your TM insight was indeed a well put response to my above statement RE: you analogousness lunacy however.
If you didn't give a shit, you wouldn't respond. I guess that makes you self-refuting. [you]
i give a shit about my first posts' point (you seem to think distinguishing the two acts discussed here, not worthy of being a point of debate), what i don't give a shit about is your slashdot pedantry (eg Real Life TM, did you really not comprehend the context? how sad, there was a perfectly serviceable sentence or two to give you more hints, i even put them in a paragraph together so your mind wouldn't wander while reading it and misconstrue it wildly.
all i saw get refuted was your ability to parse a paragraph properly. here it is again.
I also don't give a shit for your/. specific pedantry anyway. Do you own the trademark for real life?
then fuck off.
you forgot to respond to the substance of my post, ass.
I also don't give a shit for your/. specific pedantry anyway. Do you own the trademark for real life?
then fuck off.
and yes, some people get off on being 'assaulted' sexually, and enjoy it for whatever reason. while you could argue that isn't true assault, one could also argue that you agree with the material points of my post since you didn't refute them in any logical manner and agree that
you are an idiot for your 'VRML penis attack is analogous to raping someone' assertion.
yes, i know it wasn't a VRML attack, spare the follow-up pedant act.
i was just calling out the armchair jockeys. i never rep'd state time, read that shit again.
is there some large percentage of uids from folsom up here that i don't know about? majority of parolees? no, i didn't fucking think so. there's no sizeable population of probationers here either, which doesn't even equate to doing time like the former.
any other intent in your message, no, i don't give a fuck.
We've figured out just fine what our prisons are for in the US, NOTHING.
There is not even doublespeak as to the intent of rehabilitation, just because CA's governor (mine) changed the name to include it, it makes no practical difference whatsoever.
If you ask officials what the point is, they will say it is DETERRENCE, not anything else. The only problem with that, is that giving somebody 3 hot meals and a cot for months or years does absolutely *nothing* to deter them from doing it again in the vast majority of cases. maybe for a casual first law breaker, but not for a a criminal who's found a way of life usually through circumstance and or plain poverty. I do not care to argue the reasons for criminality definitions in any case.
Furthermore, i dare everyone who seeks to make judgements on what jails/prisons are like and or for, efficacious or not,
to let us know where and how much time you've spent behind bars, so that we may know how much salt to take with the numerous unfounded assertions i'm sure will pop up in this thread.
only a year, personally. All I left with was various criminal knowledge and know-how that i had not until then possessed, and a ridiculous amount of 'job' offers that would undoubtedly have lead to alot of fast cash, and a sure high risk for going back, but to prison that time.
true though i suppose, the fall of the byzantium i think did come eventually after muslims had taken much of that empire...
considering how 'civilized' cultures with the most strife are the ones who advanced quickest (comparing say western european cultures with more egalitarian ones ie, zhun-twasi in S.Africa/Hopi/Pauite all restricted to local living and trade/etc) it's interesting to think if europe had never made it this far, that early.
knowing how the game goes though, genocide would have happened eventually as a (whenever) newly discovered americas would become an obvious resource grab. i suppose if it didn't happen in the 16th century, it would have happened soon enough.
perhaps we'd be differently configured (US), but my (musing, not rebuttal) musings on what if native peoples to the americas hadn't been crushed, ultimately are just fantasy i think.
"The American Heritage Dictionary defines "McCarthyism" as "the practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence" and "the use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition."
from WikiP. of course, i do know the difference between HUAC and McCarthyism technically, i'm not sure to what GP refers to as to what the brits confirmed (everyone the Sen. accused and slandered turned out to be communists? indeed?)
but McCarthy was a damned UNAMERICAN cunt himself, in my not at all humble opinion, even if he is distinct from HUAC.
hiring the HUACs staff director when he finally did get his own committee with breadth to investigate communists, and his behavior (which was not above the HUACs at all, and in ways, perhaps more ostentatiously worse) throughout his career in the limelight (read about all his lied up war stories sometime, there's a good number of them)...ahem...
i forgot what i was saying...damn commie brain rays...
a caliph ordering a church in jerusalem destroyed and some pilgrims, and their lodgings presumably (the church was allowed to be rebuilt, by his successor),
killing infidels was kind of ok at the time in the east too, they weren't mickey mousing it exactly,
a huge glut of trained warriors who at the time found themselves with nothing to do but 'rape and pillagize' whoever the fuck they wanted (hint: local peasants and whatnot, since the vikings/etc were pacified)
a humongous surge in secular interest in religion, due to the huge simony (selling church offices (bishops, etc), done by non church people) scandal,
eventually emperor Alexuis got roughed up a few times by some thugs, eventually got his hood all but taken (think he claimed byzantium st. crips) and asked his kind of distant friend in the other christian posse (uhm, west st. catholics? i forget) and his homie didn't just send some troops, he rallied a whole motherfucking crusade to retake jerusalem, handed out crosses (or his uhm, underlings did) and promised heaven to those not good enough to survive (don't know about virgins though, think the muslims got them there).
also, war is good for business, especially if you're a emperor or somesuch trying to consolidate power with a bunch of bored, but trained warriors sitting around not being good neighbors.
whewww....boy, wish i had stuck with oversimplifying everything like you, woulda saved me alot of typing...
whoever agrees, disagrees or whatever, i won't be reading your replies after already wasting time with this piece of pedantry.
and now, back to oversimplifying encryptions export rules!!!1131!@1 the good vintage ones!!#@1!!
oh wait, i already passed that one up...
must...learn...to...resist...
"I got a few tunes bought from the iTMS and so far they haven't "infected"
iTMS is not Microsoft Zune, i.e. not what this discussion is talking about. Stating that iTunes files don't infect other music files has nothing to do with anything, it's not a pro or con argument regarding DRM.
it's just non sequitur, Affirming the Consequent, and something like the third time you've spit unrelated statements.
in other news, i bought some squash yesterday, and the broccoli in my fridge still seems to be uninfected, thank God.
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i'm disappointed he didn't call them on that. he just lists their obvious 'oh, mistaking web designing!; tomorrow it fixed!' bullshit excuses, as if they are legitimate.
and no, i don't think it should be left to the reader to 'read between the lines'. he sould have called into question their integrity in light of this, inasmuch as he could honestly and without libel concerns.
it sure felt nice/looked cool for a few days though when i had 512 for the first time.
but windows...argh...just the wrong combination at the wrong time.
or the opposite for people who you perhaps don't care to waste your time with.
i'd rather pre-moderate certain people, there is no personal like/dislike involved on my part however of the person, pleasure or displeaure that they should know about. i honestly don't give half a shit how they (or you, or anyone) percieve it, certain people post certain things that i want to be more sure of reading, or not.
that, and i like to get drunk and change my friends/foe list to make little bitches cry.
you have a surplus of self esteem though, so i wohiccupn't bother...
they can't sell people content through other developers' music management software.
then, they lose that itunes/ipod tie-in(more like down), and can't use that to sell more iPods, or other hardware that ties into iTunes, which would let them control a majority of the pipeline of media/playback device(s) you use. which means you paid them for the stuff.
they lose, potential revenue?
it's about using a portable media player, that's the allure. the integration makes it more alluring.
I'm on the dope!
but first of all, how did you just compare the roads of tokyo (parents example) / japan, with the EU?! that's preposterous, there's more variance in the EU then there is between the US and Japan and India.
Europe is practically (by which i mean, size of roads as relates to cars. not the insane petrol prices) US in road style sizing far far far more often than not. the cars are small because for the most part many countries actually know how to build cities, mass transit, and don't fuck themselves (i mean, their car companies didn't fuck them historically) by creating an asinine highway system with suburbs in the middle of fucking nowhere. super high gas prices and an infrastructure that doesn't require huge cars/commutes (well, we don't *need* big cars) lets europe be europe
not only is petrol expensive in japan (cuz there's sooooo much room for refineries on their huge landmass(es i guess. hokkaido is roughly the size of alaska, if i recall...) but their streets actually are smaller, (as parent said) and their city densities higher, and...
oh yeah, incomparable to the US or EU, unless you're pointing out different ends of a spectrum.
in my opinion.
if i was apple, i would not even fuck with a carrier that had shades of that, mindset whether or not they said they'd change their ways for the iPhone.
apple knows they have to (and will) win on user experience, there can be no crippling, or even talk of provider extortion for phone based services.
seeing as cingular is the most open (eg, my sony w810, nothing disabled, fully loaded with added stuff, none of it from cingular, or hacked in or d/l from the net (like sprint has to do, pay for inet and d/l shit sent to you from sites) i can completely understand going cingular, any other SIM using provider would just be a joke.
fast and sweet. yes.
but for their internet service?
i had sprint, for 2 years, 6 months ago (live in socal, SD to Inland Empire regularly) and they charged me 15$ a month for their shitty data service. unlimited, with the proviso that you use for the PHONE only!!! what bullshit, i used mine modem-y anyway, and besides one letter informing me that my usagew was high and gently reminding me that a Business plan is supposed to be used if i need a modem conn. (didn't accuse me or anything tho, and i ignored it anyway) i didn't have a problem, except it's 4KBs trickling shit speeds...
cingular is 20 a month, unlimited, no BS about modems either. they have lesser plans, called MediaNet from like 5$ and up
while sprint loves running those stupid ads (OH NO! MY YELLOW BAR ISN'T D/L'd YET!) their EVDO network is pathetically small in coverage area. just some metros (a decent number, granted) and fringe connecting routes.
cingulars EDGE gives me easy 20KBs about 75-80% of the time (if i have signal, i have inet) and the gprs (i think) slower one thats the remainder nets me from 7-12KBs. i don't like analyze my through speeds hardcore though, all the time.
besides the fact that i'm happy as an afghooey blown fool, listening to 36 chambers/MF Doom (sony w810 walkman)and using my phone right now as a BT modem, and D/L Fl0W (or whatever, RE slamdance article) at 23KBs...
i'm pleased as punch. well, not punch, just pleased as an arcata resident with certified 'back trouble'
oh yeah, and sprint sure tacked on some charges unasked for on some of my lines (had 3) for up to 15 months! (voice dial acually was the worst, decided to just cancel than wait for a credit, they were often adding services mistakenly (4 times in two years) to my bill, and they just sat there as i e-paid...
anyway, rock on cingular, and rock on chicago.
oh , more. .. yeah, the voice quality is not as great as sprint, sprint had *crystal* clear quality, sometimes, mine isn't the best, but it's good, and not bad or ever terrible.
just remember to d/l opera mini, phone browsers suck such total ass.
oh yeah, similar speeds in PNW, specifically roughly around auburn -> vancouver, i think. it wasn't /my/ phone, but it was cingular mediaNet, and my laptop didn't complain.
You get this:
that would be an extremely deficient understanding, they do sound very similar...
ps. as for your idiotic bloody herring of a question of legal sexual assault, the juxtaposition would seem to be: it is not legal to rape people, and therefore not very comparable to (in game rules) 'legally' swarming a video game representation of someone with cartoon penises.
to compare the two, is disgusting.
in even less important news...
your response: that i forgot thei give a shit about my first posts' point (you seem to think distinguishing the two acts discussed here, not worthy of being a point of debate), what i don't give a shit about is your slashdot pedantry (eg Real Life TM, did you really not comprehend the context? how sad, there was a perfectly serviceable sentence or two to give you more hints, i even put them in a paragraph together so your mind wouldn't wander while reading it and misconstrue it wildly.
all i saw get refuted was your ability to parse a paragraph properly. here it is again.
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i'm out, bye.
I also don't give a shit for your /. specific pedantry anyway. Do you own the trademark for real life?
then fuck off.
and yes, some people get off on being 'assaulted' sexually, and enjoy it for whatever reason. while you could argue that isn't true assault, one could also argue that you agree with the material points of my post since you didn't refute them in any logical manner and agree that
you are an idiot for your 'VRML penis attack is analogous to raping someone' assertion.
yes, i know it wasn't a VRML attack, spare the follow-up pedant act.
virtual penises harassing someone in a virtual world is not even remotely analogous to a Real Life illegal sexual assault on a person.
jesus fucking christ.
the point you're arguing is rather analogous to bullshit, being similar in form and meaning.
is there some large percentage of uids from folsom up here that i don't know about? majority of parolees? no, i didn't fucking think so. there's no sizeable population of probationers here either, which doesn't even equate to doing time like the former.
any other intent in your message, no, i don't give a fuck.
There is not even doublespeak as to the intent of rehabilitation, just because CA's governor (mine) changed the name to include it, it makes no practical difference whatsoever.
If you ask officials what the point is, they will say it is DETERRENCE, not anything else. The only problem with that, is that giving somebody 3 hot meals and a cot for months or years does absolutely *nothing* to deter them from doing it again in the vast majority of cases. maybe for a casual first law breaker, but not for a a criminal who's found a way of life usually through circumstance and or plain poverty. I do not care to argue the reasons for criminality definitions in any case.
Furthermore, i dare everyone who seeks to make judgements on what jails/prisons are like and or for, efficacious or not,
to let us know where and how much time you've spent behind bars, so that we may know how much salt to take with the numerous unfounded assertions i'm sure will pop up in this thread.
only a year, personally. All I left with was various criminal knowledge and know-how that i had not until then possessed, and a ridiculous amount of 'job' offers that would undoubtedly have lead to alot of fast cash, and a sure high risk for going back, but to prison that time.
In closing, Fuck All You armchair jockeys.
true though i suppose, the fall of the byzantium i think did come eventually after muslims had taken much of that empire...
considering how 'civilized' cultures with the most strife are the ones who advanced quickest (comparing say western european cultures with more egalitarian ones ie, zhun-twasi in S.Africa/Hopi/Pauite all restricted to local living and trade/etc) it's interesting to think if europe had never made it this far, that early.
knowing how the game goes though, genocide would have happened eventually as a (whenever) newly discovered americas would become an obvious resource grab. i suppose if it didn't happen in the 16th century, it would have happened soon enough.
perhaps we'd be differently configured (US), but my (musing, not rebuttal) musings on what if native peoples to the americas hadn't been crushed, ultimately are just fantasy i think.
ok, you got me. i replied.
damn dog, i'm not giving him a treat.
from WikiP. of course, i do know the difference between HUAC and McCarthyism technically, i'm not sure to what GP refers to as to what the brits confirmed (everyone the Sen. accused and slandered turned out to be communists? indeed?)
but McCarthy was a damned UNAMERICAN cunt himself, in my not at all humble opinion, even if he is distinct from HUAC.
hiring the HUACs staff director when he finally did get his own committee with breadth to investigate communists, and his behavior (which was not above the HUACs at all, and in ways, perhaps more ostentatiously worse) throughout his career in the limelight (read about all his lied up war stories sometime, there's a good number of them)...ahem...
i forgot what i was saying...damn commie brain rays...
killing infidels was kind of ok at the time in the east too, they weren't mickey mousing it exactly,
a huge glut of trained warriors who at the time found themselves with nothing to do but 'rape and pillagize' whoever the fuck they wanted (hint: local peasants and whatnot, since the vikings/etc were pacified)
a humongous surge in secular interest in religion, due to the huge simony (selling church offices (bishops, etc), done by non church people) scandal,
eventually emperor Alexuis got roughed up a few times by some thugs, eventually got his hood all but taken (think he claimed byzantium st. crips) and asked his kind of distant friend in the other christian posse (uhm, west st. catholics? i forget) and his homie didn't just send some troops, he rallied
a whole motherfucking crusade to retake jerusalem, handed out crosses (or his uhm, underlings did) and promised heaven to those not good enough to survive (don't know about virgins though, think the muslims got them there).
also, war is good for business, especially if you're a emperor or somesuch trying to consolidate power with a bunch of bored, but trained warriors sitting around not being good neighbors.
whewww....boy, wish i had stuck with oversimplifying everything like you, woulda saved me alot of typing...
whoever agrees, disagrees or whatever, i won't be reading your replies after already wasting time with this piece of pedantry.
and now, back to oversimplifying encryptions export rules!!!1131!@1 the good vintage ones!!#@1!!
oh wait, i already passed that one up...
must...learn...to...resist...
iTMS is not Microsoft Zune, i.e. not what this discussion is talking about. Stating that iTunes files don't infect other music files has nothing to do with anything, it's not a pro or con argument regarding DRM.
it's just non sequitur, Affirming the Consequent, and something like the third time you've spit unrelated statements.
in other news, i bought some squash yesterday, and the broccoli in my fridge still seems to be uninfected, thank God.
i know I can't be the only one waiting for them to fix that one...it's quite widespread too...
My new IBM Blade Server makes the best toast!
...begging the question then, do you maybe have a toaster?
I'll leave any 'established Intel model cpu/blade thermal profile jokes'= a toaster anyway, to others...
oops...
work on a CS:Civil Liberties mod was widely reported to have started a few years ago.
personally, i was hoping for more of a DNF release schedule on this title...