I'm with you. The/. introduction seems to have been written by an ex-politician's speachwriter. It used lots of colorful words but, in the end, I still had no clue what the program did or who it was for. Sounds exciting though. Heck, I'll vote for 'em!!!
From seeing the effects of letting kids mostly learn what they want...
While there's no doubt that kids will soak up information like a sponge if they're interested in it, I, on the other hand, don't wanting us turning out a bunch of idiot savants who have no concept of history, can't find the U.S. on the map, can't add without a calculator, don't understand economics or how their government works, have no exposure to the arts and sciences, and can't, like, you know, communicate anything.
Go visit a country where the kids understand that they HAVE to learn, and will do ANYTHING to get that chance, and compare them to our kids who turn their backs on their opportunities. After all, who needs to study to be a sports/rock/movie star?
Would you rather find a nice safe spot to store a ton of nuclear waste, or strip-mine the landscape to get the equivilent mega-tons of coal, the burning of which also sends mega-tons of CO2 and sulfer into the air?
And actually, most of the nuclear waste can be eliminated by reprocessing, but that's another issue...
If you follow Cringely, you'll note that built-in wireless is a required piece of the puzzle needed to turn the mini into an inexpensive home computer/DVR/"iMovie" base station, broadcasting to AV-enabled AirPorts.
Funny. You're forgetting that Apple makes cool industial strength software AND hardware, and the gestalt of the two is greater than the whole.
I was in a computer store the other day looking at notebooks and was quite literally afraid to type on a flimsy plastic Sony notebook that was sitting out. It easily could have been a scam in the "you-break-it-you-buy-it" category.
Because now you don't need the staff to track hundreds, or thousands, or millions of people. It can be automated, the data compiled and logged, with cross-correlations examined and deviations reported.
Private Message for: Tommy Black from SMS corporate (HR dept)
You may want to follow up on that last notice, as we've terminated your employment due to your overly long bathroom breaks. You may need that free supply.
Yes! In fact, you just know that your SSN, DLN, credit card and checking account numbers have been whispering to you, "Set us free... tell everyone about us... set us free..."
What I suspect will actually happen here is that the game companies will require you to have "virtual" PC or some such installed so the Windows games will run unchanged on the Mac. Of course, if you can just dual-boot the system into Windows (which has been implied as possible), then you can play anything, ported or not.
Apple has abandoned SCSI and the floppy without any advance notice. Regardless of the merits of this decision, it wasn't very pleasant for those with an investment in SCSI hardware or floppies.
From my perspective, Apple didn't abandon SCSI, the market did. SCSI was a terrible standard, with a good four or five different connectors, the need and provision for a limited number of "coded" switch settings, and it had the most arcane termination issues. With cheap ATA controllers at the low end for internal drives, and FW and USB for external options, it was time for SCSI to leave the consumer arena. Heck, it probably cost millions in support calls.
And with SATA RAIDs, SANs, and fibre channel controllers at the very high end, it's time for it to die completely.
Adobe Premiere has no free alternative for what I do...
So what? Pinacle and ulead have $99 and under software that does video editing, but you choose not to pay for them either. There's also shareware stuff that costs less, and should be suitable since, as you yourself point out, you're not a professional.
But you don't support them either. Why is it that I think if there WAS a FOSS video editor... wait... let's do a search... yep, lot's of OSS solutions. Face it. You have alternatives, but prefer to steal and rationalize the fact away. "I don't use it... much."
They should be recruited from our high schools and they will know what to do with space.
With a high school education? When half those students can't even find the United States on a world map?
What do they do when (assuming) they get back from Mars? Land and ask for directions?
Seriously, show me the high school students with the math, physics, astrophysics, biological, chemical, and electronics backgrounds that can do the job. Hell, you need a college degree just for the Air Force to even consider you as a pilot, much less the astronaut program.
On the flip side, you're talking about 3,000 people dead vs. 295,734,134 potentially without rights. We're supposed to disenfranchise 300M people just so you feel safe?
Not to diminish 9/11, but there are in excess of 40,000 deaths due to car accidents every year. What do we need to do there so you're "safe", ban automobiles? Better that, I suppose, than ending up under a ton of rubber and steel...
You sound like someone who's desperately afraid of change.
And just to return the favor, you sound like a common, garden-variety anarchist, forever ranting against the "system", and always advocating the destruction of that which he's unable to understand, to be replaced by a uptopian... something, that he's always not quite able to elucidate.
Your argument, and I quote, "...but they are derelict in their duties if they do not do everything in their power to make obscene amounts of money for their "tremendously rich" stockholders." implies that the "tremendously rich" are the only reason corporations exist. As I pointed out, the public at large has a majority interest, and eliminating such ownership reduces their participation in the matter and in the process. "Ad hominem", indeed.
Your idea of reducing excesses by eliminating "for-profit" corporations smacks of throwing out the baby with the bath water -- and dismantling the bathroom while you're at it. State-owned, no-profit companies certainly sustained the Soviet Union's economy, did they not? All those people with that extra incentive to innovate and work hard, knowing that in doing so they would be rewarded.
As to the stats, Google your own research and add up your own numbers for a change.
...do everything in their power to make obscene amounts of money for their "tremendously rich" stockholders.
Spoken like a true idiot. All stockholders are not "tremendously rich". In fact, the public at large owns about 60% of all the stocks in this country in direct ownership, mutual funds, retirement funds, and pension funds. Then add in insurance companies who invest premiums to have the money to pay claims... and banks who invest savings to pay interest and make loans... and...
I'd say you get the idea, but I'm pretty sure you don't.
So let's do away with savings accounts, mutual funds, pension funds, health, life, home, and car insurance, and all those other things made possible by stockholder ownership in those nasty, greedy, hateful corporations. Hell, half the U.S. population won't mind having their savings and retirement accounts wiped away.
Sorry, but both sides work the system just as often as they can. A liberal might be pro-choice in terms of abortion, and then turn around and demand that gun-control laws be passed.
In both cases, conseratives banning abortions, or liberals banning guns, each firmly believes that it's something you shouldn't be allowed to decide for yourself.
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I'm with you. The /. introduction seems to have been written by an ex-politician's speachwriter. It used lots of colorful words but, in the end, I still had no clue what the program did or who it was for. Sounds exciting though. Heck, I'll vote for 'em!!!
While there's no doubt that kids will soak up information like a sponge if they're interested in it, I, on the other hand, don't wanting us turning out a bunch of idiot savants who have no concept of history, can't find the U.S. on the map, can't add without a calculator, don't understand economics or how their government works, have no exposure to the arts and sciences, and can't, like, you know, communicate anything.
Go visit a country where the kids understand that they HAVE to learn, and will do ANYTHING to get that chance, and compare them to our kids who turn their backs on their opportunities. After all, who needs to study to be a sports/rock/movie star?
And actually, most of the nuclear waste can be eliminated by reprocessing, but that's another issue...
The problem is that we've now gone from NIMBY to BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone)!
If you follow Cringely, you'll note that built-in wireless is a required piece of the puzzle needed to turn the mini into an inexpensive home computer/DVR/"iMovie" base station, broadcasting to AV-enabled AirPorts.
And how many people buy games vs. the number of people who require a professional grade image editing tool?
Funny. You're forgetting that Apple makes cool industial strength software AND hardware, and the gestalt of the two is greater than the whole.
I was in a computer store the other day looking at notebooks and was quite literally afraid to type on a flimsy plastic Sony notebook that was sitting out. It easily could have been a scam in the "you-break-it-you-buy-it" category.
Because now you don't need the staff to track hundreds, or thousands, or millions of people. It can be automated, the data compiled and logged, with cross-correlations examined and deviations reported.
You may want to follow up on that last notice, as we've terminated your employment due to your overly long bathroom breaks. You may need that free supply.
Yes! In fact, you just know that your SSN, DLN, credit card and checking account numbers have been whispering to you, "Set us free... tell everyone about us... set us free..."
That information wants to be free! Do it now!
What I suspect will actually happen here is that the game companies will require you to have "virtual" PC or some such installed so the Windows games will run unchanged on the Mac. Of course, if you can just dual-boot the system into Windows (which has been implied as possible), then you can play anything, ported or not.
From my perspective, Apple didn't abandon SCSI, the market did. SCSI was a terrible standard, with a good four or five different connectors, the need and provision for a limited number of "coded" switch settings, and it had the most arcane termination issues. With cheap ATA controllers at the low end for internal drives, and FW and USB for external options, it was time for SCSI to leave the consumer arena. Heck, it probably cost millions in support calls.
And with SATA RAIDs, SANs, and fibre channel controllers at the very high end, it's time for it to die completely.
And don't even get me started on the floppy!
Yeah, you can do that... if your company is as slimy and as greedy as most here assume all corporations are.
Some, thank goodness, at least try to act civilized...
So what? Pinacle and ulead have $99 and under software that does video editing, but you choose not to pay for them either. There's also shareware stuff that costs less, and should be suitable since, as you yourself point out, you're not a professional.
But you don't support them either. Why is it that I think if there WAS a FOSS video editor... wait... let's do a search... yep, lot's of OSS solutions. Face it. You have alternatives, but prefer to steal and rationalize the fact away. "I don't use it... much."
With a high school education? When half those students can't even find the United States on a world map?
What do they do when (assuming) they get back from Mars? Land and ask for directions?
Seriously, show me the high school students with the math, physics, astrophysics, biological, chemical, and electronics backgrounds that can do the job. Hell, you need a college degree just for the Air Force to even consider you as a pilot, much less the astronaut program.
Not to diminish 9/11, but there are in excess of 40,000 deaths due to car accidents every year. What do we need to do there so you're "safe", ban automobiles? Better that, I suppose, than ending up under a ton of rubber and steel...
And just to return the favor, you sound like a common, garden-variety anarchist, forever ranting against the "system", and always advocating the destruction of that which he's unable to understand, to be replaced by a uptopian... something, that he's always not quite able to elucidate.
Your idea of reducing excesses by eliminating "for-profit" corporations smacks of throwing out the baby with the bath water -- and dismantling the bathroom while you're at it. State-owned, no-profit companies certainly sustained the Soviet Union's economy, did they not? All those people with that extra incentive to innovate and work hard, knowing that in doing so they would be rewarded.
As to the stats, Google your own research and add up your own numbers for a change.
Spoken like a true idiot. All stockholders are not "tremendously rich". In fact, the public at large owns about 60% of all the stocks in this country in direct ownership, mutual funds, retirement funds, and pension funds. Then add in insurance companies who invest premiums to have the money to pay claims... and banks who invest savings to pay interest and make loans... and...
I'd say you get the idea, but I'm pretty sure you don't.
So let's do away with savings accounts, mutual funds, pension funds, health, life, home, and car insurance, and all those other things made possible by stockholder ownership in those nasty, greedy, hateful corporations. Hell, half the U.S. population won't mind having their savings and retirement accounts wiped away.
Will they?
Idiot.
I know just what you mean. They're almost as bad as the "all corporations are evil" conspiracy theorists...
In both cases, conseratives banning abortions, or liberals banning guns, each firmly believes that it's something you shouldn't be allowed to decide for yourself.
Only on Windows. On a Mac, the back of each window has a white glowing Apple logo.
Proof, anyone?
Who's building the infrastructure (lines, repeaters, etc.) to move the signal from the community dish to each home?
Sounds like a great conversation starter to me...