I saw the name of a famous person and expected something insightful. Wow, what a lame, simplistic argument. That is not genius-- some of it is wrong, and most of it is dumb.
Does this mean the hundreds of desktops in my school's computer lab will be replaced with iPads? Or maybe it means the computer labs will cease to exist because they are unnecessary? The line outside the lab today says otherwise.
I agree too. Unison is the killer app for people who do serious work on more than one computer. I only recently started using Openvpn, and I am impressed with its ability to keep connections going-- I configured it once, and everything works automatically. Unison, Openvpn, Openssh, GNU Screen, Vim, TeX, R, Git, Debian... my God, I'm an elitist snob:)
Fool, no one is saying "tax the hell out of the biggest corporations"-- just bring them back to where they were before the unnecessary tax cut. Cutting costs, firing workers, and freezing salaries will happen regardless.
Could we stop saying "test the GPL"? If the GPL does not hold, then copyrights and contracts don't hold. You can't kill the GPL without killing more onerous EULAs, and as we all know, that will never happen.
Will it help? I doubt it will hurt, since most people don't know it. I'll probably buy $10,000 of Apple hardware over my lifetime. This would be zero it it weren't Unix.
Except... Mac OS X is Unix. The are commands and interfaces required for the Unix branding. So lockdown is hard, unless Apple drops Unix, which means I'll just have to install Debian on my MacBook Pro. I like Apple laptops for 10 reasons, Unix and the battery life, and I can't have one without the other.
Maybe you should teach. As you suggest, it's trivial to get tenure. You would be set for life. Well??? Or maybe, just maybe, you don't consider the work desirable enough for the pay and benefits.
You gave a bunch of links which require wading through hundreds of lame arguments, including 100 different people proudly proclaiming "RAID is not a backup solution". Nobody wants to read that shit.
Putting RAID inside the drive doesn't buy as much (from a Redundancy perspective) as putting multiple drives into the same space does.
But it sure does kill roaches..., and that's something, isn't it?
No. But really, it depends on your needs. For me, it's battery life, weight, and UNIX (and no, Cygwin on Windows is not what I want, and even today it takes a few wasted minutes to fine tune). My $1000 black Macbook (student discount) gets about 5 hours, and I don't recall a laptop for significantly less money with this battery life. Weight is important, and having Unixisms (I love the Terminal App) is a plus, but mostly I like the Mac because it doesn't have annoyances to be constantly worked around (like Windows).
Given all this, I would buy the $1200 Macbook Pro mostly for the battery life. Would I buy a Windows computer with a 10 hour battery for $1200? Probably not, because the similarities would end there.
I see this all the time at my college. Older students come back to school, take calculus for a few weeks and drop it. A semester which should have been spent on prerequisites is wasted. Instead of jumping into calculus now (you did get your "butt kicked" 20 years ago), take a precalculus class at a community college. If there is no inexpensive community college in your area, just find a large lecture hall precalculus class at a university and hide in the back. Homeless people do this all the time without being detected:)
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What about Ben & Jerry's? Their ice cream is delicious!
I saw the name of a famous person and expected something insightful. Wow, what a lame, simplistic argument. That is not genius-- some of it is wrong, and most of it is dumb.
They charge 99 cents for the iPhone because iPhone users are more likely to spend money. Siriously.
From the beginning, the half-smirking explicit intent of the majority of the alt.* hierarchy was "megabytes of copyright violations."
This is not at all true. Ignorant people shouldn't make up shit.
Does this mean the hundreds of desktops in my school's computer lab will be replaced with iPads? Or maybe it means the computer labs will cease to exist because they are unnecessary? The line outside the lab today says otherwise.
I agree too. Unison is the killer app for people who do serious work on more than one computer. I only recently started using Openvpn, and I am impressed with its ability to keep connections going-- I configured it once, and everything works automatically. Unison, Openvpn, Openssh, GNU Screen, Vim, TeX, R, Git, Debian... my God, I'm an elitist snob :)
Civil penalties? If Google were an individual doing the same, there would definitely be criminal charges. Everyone knows this.
So what did you use a few years ago, when your 2D and 3D acceleration were slower than the open drivers are today?
Indeed. Netflix only recently started streaming the Star Trek series. I simply can not cancel right now.
The Apple Time Warp alters one's perception of time.
Fool, no one is saying "tax the hell out of the biggest corporations"-- just bring them back to where they were before the unnecessary tax cut. Cutting costs, firing workers, and freezing salaries will happen regardless.
Could we stop saying "test the GPL"? If the GPL does not hold, then copyrights and contracts don't hold. You can't kill the GPL without killing more onerous EULAs, and as we all know, that will never happen.
No. GrandPa Going to Pickup Unicorns. Unicorns will power the next generation series.
I used to live in Torrence, CA. It was really fun living there, even though the place doesn't exist.
Will it help? I doubt it will hurt, since most people don't know it. I'll probably buy $10,000 of Apple hardware over my lifetime. This would be zero it it weren't Unix.
Except... Mac OS X is Unix. The are commands and interfaces required for the Unix branding. So lockdown is hard, unless Apple drops Unix, which means I'll just have to install Debian on my MacBook Pro. I like Apple laptops for 10 reasons, Unix and the battery life, and I can't have one without the other.
Actually, I heard they were considering using characters from Toy Story for OS XI.
But didn't they just recently update the Macbook Pro in April? (6 months ago)
Are you the guy driving around L.A. with the XEMACS license plate?
Maybe you should teach. As you suggest, it's trivial to get tenure. You would be set for life. Well??? Or maybe, just maybe, you don't consider the work desirable enough for the pay and benefits.
You gave a bunch of links which require wading through hundreds of lame arguments, including 100 different people proudly proclaiming "RAID is not a backup solution". Nobody wants to read that shit.
like expired domain names.
Putting RAID inside the drive doesn't buy as much (from a Redundancy perspective) as putting multiple drives into the same space does.
But it sure does kill roaches..., and that's something, isn't it?
No. But really, it depends on your needs. For me, it's battery life, weight, and UNIX (and no, Cygwin on Windows is not what I want, and even today it takes a few wasted minutes to fine tune). My $1000 black Macbook (student discount) gets about 5 hours, and I don't recall a laptop for significantly less money with this battery life. Weight is important, and having Unixisms (I love the Terminal App) is a plus, but mostly I like the Mac because it doesn't have annoyances to be constantly worked around (like Windows). Given all this, I would buy the $1200 Macbook Pro mostly for the battery life. Would I buy a Windows computer with a 10 hour battery for $1200? Probably not, because the similarities would end there.
I see this all the time at my college. Older students come back to school, take calculus for a few weeks and drop it. A semester which should have been spent on prerequisites is wasted. Instead of jumping into calculus now (you did get your "butt kicked" 20 years ago), take a precalculus class at a community college. If there is no inexpensive community college in your area, just find a large lecture hall precalculus class at a university and hide in the back. Homeless people do this all the time without being detected :)