I lost the capacity to write English the first time she bit it. I lost the capacity to speak Latin the first time she licked it. I fucked her last week. I'm lost.
"If your ex-husband, who was earning $45k per year, looses his job but now collects 30% of that in unemployment, and your alimony was calculated at 67% of his net salary while employed, what differential (minus child-support) must now be applied in order that he may loose his other testical?"
The link in the summary is a news report that links to the site itself. The site itself is http://random.irb.hr/, is easily accessed directly, and requires a registration.
Well, I'm an atheist (and not the only jewish person who is) but like another potser here I find it incredibly ironic what gentiles have done with our mythology.
Where your argument falls apart is your construal of "most people's needs". If you had put forward the thesis that your target for evaluation was the casual user who wanted a computer for basic daily computer needs (some WP, some email, web browsing) than the idea of "overkill" of course makes sense because the Mac Pro is a professional's tool for professional uses. As for the Mac that targets the "typical user" you infer in the conclusion -- well, the issues you raise of upgradability, exandibility, and professional applications, (or Unix apps and their availablity, functionality, etc) -- are moot for this user -- yet in the openeing you appeared to be evaluating a Mac Mini (!) from the standpoint of a Power/Professional user(!!). You yourself are confusing audiences for these products in unfolding your own arguments. You are confusing your own arguments in the balance of the review in fact. WHAT are you reviewing and WHO for? Please decide before you start typing.
And your entire argument of little or no freeware, that's just daft. Aside from the Unix/X11 apps, there are thousands of Mac OS X native freeware apps that fill nearly ever niche. I know that in thirty days of searching it's hard to find them all (easier if you are looking for something specific rather than saying 'where's the freeware?') and not surprising you didn't find them (although a little search of VersionTracker would have clued you in) -- but that's a very different matter than saying there are none.
This strikes me as one of those reviews where some communication with an actual professional Mac user could have made all the difference. Reminds me of a review of the Mini I read when it first came out, from a PC user who'd heard that MS Office ran on Macs, inserted his PC-version CD install disk, and had it fail. As he had (or utilized) no other resource than his assumptions, he wrote (and published) that the claim of Office running on Mac's was false.
Yours is not journalism, but anecdote, and not well-informed for the weight of the conclusions it posits.
And of course, you remember the Pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin's "The West Wing" where "New York" (as an adjective) was christian conservative code for "Jewish" and an index of a character's anti-semitism.
No, not "just..". Even if it wasn't a phone, it would be a good product. A widescreen Video iPod. An internet device with full browser (in the palm of my hand) that can work even when you're not in WiFi-land. A text message applicance. And as for phone (if you want to add that in) it's a phone with a better addresbook/voicemail interface than anything out there.
For me, the fact I can take calls on it is just a bonus.
...ahh, thank you. I should have looked it up first. I knew, after all, it was't Malaysia... hehe.
Thinking even more about the China/Microsoft thing -- it's creepy, no? "Embrace, extend, and extinguish...". Yikes. They make the Soviets look like Canadians.
"China is to nations what Microsoft is to corporations..." Interesting thought -- and makes valid points about both China and Microsoft.
This story recalled for me William Gibson's description (in a Wired article a few years ago) of Indonesia (I think it was) as "Disneyland with the Death Penalty". To which this story brings new meaning. China is Microsoft with Tanks.... -- nice slogan.
"How do you greet an overlord in Chinese" you ask? "Welcome to Wal Mart!"
"...there has always been censorship of personal correspondence from war zones..."
Yes, and what makes this newsworthy is, this has nothing in particular to do with war zones or war-zone operations, or personal correspondence per se. This has to do with overall OPSEC, as the document states (you should read it), as regards any public, written communication by anyone in the Army, at any time, or by civilians who work for the DOD, or by people who work for companies that do business with the Army. Anywhere. At any time. A bit of a difference there.
This new adjustment in their campaign is a refinement designed to bring the Vista Marketing program into greater conformance with the law that states a software product's marketing must substantially resemble the product itself. Compare for example the marketing of Apple (sleek, even snobbish, original, highly creative, and very effective) and Linux (homegrown, word-of-mouth, technically substantial and in-the-trenches results-based factology). Despite their best efforts, MS has yet to achieve in marketing the stunning combination of convolution, deception, irrelevance and ineptitude that their OS embodies. But they're working on it.
"Or Steve (Ballmer) is trying his own hand at inducing a Reality Distortion Field..."
If that's true, we should, considering it's a Microsoft product, be both unconcerned for its impact on the simple, common verities of our daily lives and worry very much about the underlying infrastructure of Space-Time....
Isn't the idea of an "office" document a fiction? The idea that these disparate representations or methods of manipulating data (spreadsheets, publications, A/V presentations) should (or even could) be subsumed within a common file format is rather boffy. The whole paradigm is derivative of the way applications that fulfill these functions have been bundled. If MS had dubbed their flagship application product "MS Adminstrative Assistant" we'd all be referring to to a common format for 'Administrative Assistant' documents. I still don't buy this model...We took the wrong fork in the road some miles back. Is it too late to ask for the RIGHT directions?
"Some of that may be for caches which would be released if an application requested more RAM. The OS might as well make use of it to reduce latency of other tasks whilst nothing else wants the RAM."
And what idiot was in charge of that code? Could we have a name, or just a mail-stop?
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I lost the capacity to write English the first time she bit it. I lost the capacity to speak Latin the first time she licked it. I fucked her last week. I'm lost.
In return for which specification, your approbation will be accepted lip-wise at a point (at the tip 'o my) choosing.... he. meh.
"If your ex-husband, who was earning $45k per year, looses his job but now collects 30% of that in unemployment, and your alimony was calculated at 67% of his net salary while employed, what differential (minus child-support) must now be applied in order that he may loose his other testical?"
The link in the summary is a news report that links to the site itself. The site itself is http://random.irb.hr/, is easily accessed directly, and requires a registration.
"...and a nice Chianti..."
Why do you assume Leopard ever had ZFS?
Well, I'm an atheist (and not the only jewish person who is) but like another potser here I find it incredibly ironic what gentiles have done with our mythology.
Yes, I thought so, though I thought it humorous to misread it as his speed -- an interesting image :).
Now if I can find one to run over the boob who moderated my little joke a 'Troll'....does this word no longer have a specific meaning?
"Not saying I believe this, just reiterating what I have heard."
That's quite alright -- that's pretty much what passes for religious belief the past few centuries.
I notice they're not closed for Jewish holidays. As a jewish person, I always find that interesting.
"He tried to drive over the barrier at a very shallow angle. It would have been no problem if he came at it from 45 to 90."
Is that in degrees, radians, or miles per hour?
Where your argument falls apart is your construal of "most people's needs". If you had put forward the thesis that your target for evaluation was the casual user who wanted a computer for basic daily computer needs (some WP, some email, web browsing) than the idea of "overkill" of course makes sense because the Mac Pro is a professional's tool for professional uses. As for the Mac that targets the "typical user" you infer in the conclusion -- well, the issues you raise of upgradability, exandibility, and professional applications, (or Unix apps and their availablity, functionality, etc) -- are moot for this user -- yet in the openeing you appeared to be evaluating a Mac Mini (!) from the standpoint of a Power/Professional user(!!). You yourself are confusing audiences for these products in unfolding your own arguments. You are confusing your own arguments in the balance of the review in fact. WHAT are you reviewing and WHO for? Please decide before you start typing.
And your entire argument of little or no freeware, that's just daft. Aside from the Unix/X11 apps, there are thousands of Mac OS X native freeware apps that fill nearly ever niche. I know that in thirty days of searching it's hard to find them all (easier if you are looking for something specific rather than saying 'where's the freeware?') and not surprising you didn't find them (although a little search of VersionTracker would have clued you in) -- but that's a very different matter than saying there are none.
This strikes me as one of those reviews where some communication with an actual professional Mac user could have made all the difference. Reminds me of a review of the Mini I read when it first came out, from a PC user who'd heard that MS Office ran on Macs, inserted his PC-version CD install disk, and had it fail. As he had (or utilized) no other resource than his assumptions, he wrote (and published) that the claim of Office running on Mac's was false.
Yours is not journalism, but anecdote, and not well-informed for the weight of the conclusions it posits.
And of course, you remember the Pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin's "The West Wing" where "New York" (as an adjective) was christian conservative code for "Jewish" and an index of a character's anti-semitism.
No, not "just..". Even if it wasn't a phone, it would be a good product. A widescreen Video iPod. An internet device with full browser (in the palm of my hand) that can work even when you're not in WiFi-land. A text message applicance. And as for phone (if you want to add that in) it's a phone with a better addresbook/voicemail interface than anything out there. For me, the fact I can take calls on it is just a bonus.
MS products always exhibit a rounding error.
If it's pink that inflames your passions I doubt you'll be spawning....
Unless you're referring to those odd neighbors of my relatives in the Hamptons, I think you mean "Hamsters"....
...ahh, thank you. I should have looked it up first. I knew, after all, it was't Malaysia... hehe.
Thinking even more about the China/Microsoft thing -- it's creepy, no? "Embrace, extend, and extinguish...". Yikes. They make the Soviets look like Canadians.
This story recalled for me William Gibson's description (in a Wired article a few years ago) of Indonesia (I think it was) as "Disneyland with the Death Penalty". To which this story brings new meaning. China is Microsoft with Tanks.... -- nice slogan.
"How do you greet an overlord in Chinese" you ask? "Welcome to Wal Mart!"
Yes, and what makes this newsworthy is, this has nothing in particular to do with war zones or war-zone operations, or personal correspondence per se. This has to do with overall OPSEC, as the document states (you should read it), as regards any public, written communication by anyone in the Army, at any time, or by civilians who work for the DOD, or by people who work for companies that do business with the Army. Anywhere. At any time. A bit of a difference there.
This new adjustment in their campaign is a refinement designed to bring the Vista Marketing program into greater conformance with the law that states a software product's marketing must substantially resemble the product itself. Compare for example the marketing of Apple (sleek, even snobbish, original, highly creative, and very effective) and Linux (homegrown, word-of-mouth, technically substantial and in-the-trenches results-based factology). Despite their best efforts, MS has yet to achieve in marketing the stunning combination of convolution, deception, irrelevance and ineptitude that their OS embodies. But they're working on it.
..I had mod points five minutes ago, used 'em, and then I came across this. Hear hear! 2 honorary mods up for the grandparent.
If that's true, we should, considering it's a Microsoft product, be both unconcerned for its impact on the simple, common verities of our daily lives and worry very much about the underlying infrastructure of Space-Time....
Isn't the idea of an "office" document a fiction? The idea that these disparate representations or methods of manipulating data (spreadsheets, publications, A/V presentations) should (or even could) be subsumed within a common file format is rather boffy. The whole paradigm is derivative of the way applications that fulfill these functions have been bundled. If MS had dubbed their flagship application product "MS Adminstrative Assistant" we'd all be referring to to a common format for 'Administrative Assistant' documents. I still don't buy this model...We took the wrong fork in the road some miles back. Is it too late to ask for the RIGHT directions?
"Some of that may be for caches which would be released if an application requested more RAM. The OS might as well make use of it to reduce latency of other tasks whilst nothing else wants the RAM."
And what idiot was in charge of that code? Could we have a name, or just a mail-stop?