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Look, I realize people want high end product at low end prices... But seriously. Apple does their own R&D and makes sure that their OS actually works with the hardware they're selling you. Those two factors alone should more than make up for the price difference. That argument is some tired shit. Seriously... get a job, or pick up a cheaper hobby.
Let's see if this guy's kung fu can survive a few rounds against international superhacker "bitchchecker". Just have him email his IP address to bitchchecker@madskillz.com... (Please allow for a lengthy response time, as bitchchecker is probably busy rebooting his machine for the 75th time today.)
I feel your pain. I once got even with our Ad Execs by telling them their new laptops had Facial Attribute Recognition Technology Software (FARTS)... They had to put the tip of their nose on the middle of the screen after entering their passwords, and then hit 'enter'... After about two weeks, I told them that I disabled that feature because it was overkill. Sadly, for the gene pool anway, they had been following my instructions. The cave people should be nicer to the space people. I reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllllly wish I had videotaped them logging on...
"This is kind of like Washington going after people that go across to Oregon to shop."
New York does this... Here, in western NY, people often go to Erie, PA to shop for big ticket items to save on sales tax. People began getting letters in the mail from the state after their license plates were spotted in PA shopping centers. Though it's never happened to me, there has apparently been an attempt to collect tax money from them. They also would like to collect taxes from anyone who buys cigarettes and gas on Indian reservations. This state is a mess.
Some of you may not like Apple's system, but without it, the record companies would have (A) been spending all this time trying to stop downloadable music entirely, or (B) setting up something even more restrictive. Apple isn't responsible for selling you music that will play on any other player. Just like Toyota doesn't have to make sure that their seats will fit properly into a Chevy truck.
That said, I think it would be cool of Apple to port iTunes and Quicktime to Linux... But they don't owe anyone that. Apple offers a decent compromise between the two extremes, if you just can't tolerate it, don't buy from them.
Trust me... that meme will have long, healthy, and annoying life here in the north 40 on slashdot. It will still be wrong, but it won't be dying anytime soon.
Right On. I have been a photographer for 20 years, and the painters claimed it was "mechanical" and therefore not art... By the time they accepted photography as art, I had moved on to computer generated art... or, more accurately, computer assisted art. Now, they argue that if it's digital, it isn't art. Here's the thing, you turpentine huffers... It doesn't matter how the image got there. They image is there to either specifically say something, or provoke you to think or say something. That's it. With enough practice, we could become photorealistic painters. Rather than photographing elements for a digital piece, we could paint them in individually... Sometimes an interesting idea or image does not stay central in our minds long enough to do that painting... So, we shoot it, import it, manipulate it, and move on. I'm not saying that digital is better any more than you could say that watercolor is better than sculpture. I'm just saying that art is so subjective, that bitching about the tools is pointless. The merits of the piece are largely independent from the medium, unless you've achieved some sort of guiness feat by building a 60 foot sculpture out of toothpicks or something... The use of a computer in the Aaron project did not seem to help them a bit... The piece on the front page looks like my ironing board threw up a partially digested six pound bag of skittles into a box fan. If that's the case, it falls into a slightly different category, called "perormance art". So either way, it's art of some kind I guess...
I just saw this link to a website that has the sort of info you're looking for... The title was "New Apple IT Pro Section" on a website called "slashdot".
Not everyone in upstate NY hates the city. But there is a lack of love going in BOTH directions here. For starters, we have cheap and plentiful hydroelectric power here that various politicians have been trying to divert to NYC (and Quebec) for a long time, so the effect on the power grid is not quite what you think. There is a lot more money available to public projects in NYC from foundations and corporate sponsors than what's available for us out here. Shipping infrastructure? Those trucks and trains don't magically float over us, we're affected by it, and participate in it. Where do you suppose the food that's getting shipped comes from? Not too many farms on Bowery. There are also a hell of a lot of factories out here. It's not just a privelege for us to sell you our food... It's a benefit to you that it's available nearby. The communications infrastructure is pretty decentralized, unless you're talking about the corporate headquarters... I work for Time Warner, we're pretty spread out. Many companies who are headquartered in NYC enjoy the benefits of using us as the last cheap american labor... keeping their profits local. While you're enjoying your safer streets, please keep in mind that many of your "less desirables" are routinely shipped out here to go to college as an alternative to jail. Our crime rates are on the rise, and a large percentage of our larger drug arrests are suspects whose addresses are listed as one of the five burroughs. You know how annoying it is when you're trying to get on FDR in the middle of the night and there's a work crew blocking the ramp? Well, at least your roads are getting repaired. How about libraries? Erie county (Buffalo) just narrowly avoided having all of their public libraries closed due to lack of funding.
New York needs to get its shit together and start behaving like a whole state. I spend as much time in NYC as I possibly can, IMHO it truly is the greatest city in the known universe... Every resident of this state died a little bit on 9/11, so I doubt any of us would be unmoved at the thought of 22 million fellow New Yorkers dying for any reason. For starters, it might help if people in the city would not act like we're hillbillies suckling at the teats of your cultural elite. Without hesitation, your freeloading fellow New Yorkers out here volunteerd an awful lot of human, financial, and material support after 9/11... and in the event of a killer tsunami, bet your ass we'd do it again. The only people fucking up this state are the morons we keep electing to run it. Keep in mind these are the same retards that will be responsible for coming up with contingency plans for a disaster situation... How safe does that make you feel? You won't be dying slowly from second hand smoke in a bar... but you may be instantly wiped out by a 150 foot tall wall of water.
The water cannot be stopped. It would be arrogant and incredibly stupid to think otherwise. What we can do, is try to predict it and have a way to move as many people as possible to safety as quickly as we can.
I agree. I work in the cable unit, and I've met many refugees that left AOL to become our IT people after the merger. Where their grubby paws tend to really mess things up is on the average desktops that the people who actually pull the oars for the slave ship have to use for their day to day work. Thankfully, I've managed to keep all of their creepy remote software off of my production machines... Unfortunately, our plant department has not been so lucky. It's not so much that they can barely keep the machines free of viruses and the like... It's more about the way they can slow people's work down to a crawl by doing weird things like reassigning IP addresses for every printer on the network without telling anyone. Our internal email is so unreliable, that many of us use additional screen names from our Road Runner accounts!
Maybe it's less about incompetence than it is about creating job security... It's hard for me to say, but I don't think having that sort of crew could be good. More importantly, AOL/TW really can't afford too many more public embarassments. Competition is stiff, many of our brands are laughed at, internal morale is at its lowest point in the ten years I've been here... We need a win pretty bad at this point, so I hope they execute this thing well.
As an employee of The Death Star... errrr... Time Warner, I think it's safe to say that the only way this thing will work, is if they outsource their IT jobs. If the clowns running it now are the ones they rely on to keep it up and running right, it will die a quick embarrasing death. I mean, these are guys who remotely access everyone's computers at night and remove printer drivers for the printers they shipped us... Or disable all of the audio hardware on laptops used for presentations... Then they get all peeved when their phones start ringing. I realize that's a small issue, as long as it's not your printer, but it's indicative of the sharpness of the tools in our shed.
I have to go now... there are some men here to escort me to the re-education chamber for speaking out about our hard working, highly skilled IT workers.
Is it possible that more IE users click on ads because they A) still pop up, and B) Look like actual Windows messages to the [ahem] average user? Just a thought...
" Yes yes... lets start fires in the jungles of columbia"
They tend to burn down the jungles in order to grow their "crops"...
"Is it really so bad that people who like cocaine use it?"
You don't know many addicts, do you? I live in a town that's currently experiencing a very large boost in the popularity of coke. This is not a positive thing. It's a drain on our law enforcement resources, and not just from possession busts... It's a drain on the lives of those that are now hooked on it... It's a factor in people's safety...etc.
"Wouldn't it be better to decrease its effect on their wallets so they don't need to resort to crime?"
When the CIA allegedly sold cheap crack in poor neighborhoods, people called it attempted genocide. Granted, cheaper coke would wipe out plenty of stupid yuppies, but genocide is genocide, no matter who's doing it.
Look, reasonable people can debate the legality of pot. The jury is still sort of out on its pros/cons, but pot doesn't kill people. It doesn't make them violent. It doesn't drive people to rob anyone.Coke has too many obvious negatives to even consider making it legal. If you want to raise money for education, try ending corporate welfare. That alone should free up enough money to help with education. Then loosen the rules of engagement so we can actually go after the coke subs. All you're left with after that are the pot subs... which tend to be the kind that you ask for extra cheese on.
I live in western New York... south of Buffalo. My provider is Dobson/Cellular One. Coverage here isn't spectacular, but even if I'm within a couple hundred yards of a tower, my Nokia 3650 is sketchy.Even in NYC, where I'm assuming coverage is good, service was goofy.
Could it be the slow strangulation of bandwidth available for digital to make more room for GSM?
Maybe it's the steel plate in my head blocking the signal when I face in a certain direction...
I don't know a lot about the tech behind cell service. I just want a phone that works.
To the developers at Nokia: I have an iPod. I do not need my phone to play music. However, I do need it to make phonecalls... Sometimes I'm not sitting right next to the tower, so see if you can improve the range/reception before you worry about adding a whistle to that plow.
You'll have my sympathy when a cop beats the shit out of you and tosses you in a cell with rapists and muggers becuase he found a cigarette in your shoe...
I live in New York state... That nightmarish possibility is probably not far off.
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Reed Fucking Flemming. Hell yes.
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[bitchchecker] why do you kick me
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Copied and pasted from the article, fuckface.
Look, I realize people want high end product at low end prices... But seriously. Apple does their own R&D and makes sure that their OS actually works with the hardware they're selling you. Those two factors alone should more than make up for the price difference. That argument is some tired shit. Seriously... get a job, or pick up a cheaper hobby.
They really are copying Apple.
Let's see if this guy's kung fu can survive a few rounds against international superhacker "bitchchecker". Just have him email his IP address to bitchchecker@madskillz.com... (Please allow for a lengthy response time, as bitchchecker is probably busy rebooting his machine for the 75th time today.)
I feel your pain. I once got even with our Ad Execs by telling them their new laptops had Facial Attribute Recognition Technology Software (FARTS)... They had to put the tip of their nose on the middle of the screen after entering their passwords, and then hit 'enter'... After about two weeks, I told them that I disabled that feature because it was overkill. Sadly, for the gene pool anway, they had been following my instructions. The cave people should be nicer to the space people. I reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllllly wish I had videotaped them logging on...
Oh sure... Now they want to get tough on the Nazis...
Hell yes. Tim Horton is my co-pilot.
New York does this... Here, in western NY, people often go to Erie, PA to shop for big ticket items to save on sales tax. People began getting letters in the mail from the state after their license plates were spotted in PA shopping centers. Though it's never happened to me, there has apparently been an attempt to collect tax money from them. They also would like to collect taxes from anyone who buys cigarettes and gas on Indian reservations. This state is a mess.
Some of you may not like Apple's system, but without it, the record companies would have (A) been spending all this time trying to stop downloadable music entirely, or (B) setting up something even more restrictive. Apple isn't responsible for selling you music that will play on any other player. Just like Toyota doesn't have to make sure that their seats will fit properly into a Chevy truck.
That said, I think it would be cool of Apple to port iTunes and Quicktime to Linux... But they don't owe anyone that. Apple offers a decent compromise between the two extremes, if you just can't tolerate it, don't buy from them.
Trust me... that meme will have long, healthy, and annoying life here in the north 40 on slashdot. It will still be wrong, but it won't be dying anytime soon.
Right On. I have been a photographer for 20 years, and the painters claimed it was "mechanical" and therefore not art... By the time they accepted photography as art, I had moved on to computer generated art... or, more accurately, computer assisted art. Now, they argue that if it's digital, it isn't art. Here's the thing, you turpentine huffers... It doesn't matter how the image got there. They image is there to either specifically say something, or provoke you to think or say something. That's it. With enough practice, we could become photorealistic painters. Rather than photographing elements for a digital piece, we could paint them in individually... Sometimes an interesting idea or image does not stay central in our minds long enough to do that painting... So, we shoot it, import it, manipulate it, and move on. I'm not saying that digital is better any more than you could say that watercolor is better than sculpture. I'm just saying that art is so subjective, that bitching about the tools is pointless. The merits of the piece are largely independent from the medium, unless you've achieved some sort of guiness feat by building a 60 foot sculpture out of toothpicks or something... The use of a computer in the Aaron project did not seem to help them a bit... The piece on the front page looks like my ironing board threw up a partially digested six pound bag of skittles into a box fan. If that's the case, it falls into a slightly different category, called "perormance art". So either way, it's art of some kind I guess...
Can a Dremel hammer in a nail?
Sorry. Had to.
New York needs to get its shit together and start behaving like a whole state. I spend as much time in NYC as I possibly can, IMHO it truly is the greatest city in the known universe... Every resident of this state died a little bit on 9/11, so I doubt any of us would be unmoved at the thought of 22 million fellow New Yorkers dying for any reason. For starters, it might help if people in the city would not act like we're hillbillies suckling at the teats of your cultural elite. Without hesitation, your freeloading fellow New Yorkers out here volunteerd an awful lot of human, financial, and material support after 9/11... and in the event of a killer tsunami, bet your ass we'd do it again. The only people fucking up this state are the morons we keep electing to run it. Keep in mind these are the same retards that will be responsible for coming up with contingency plans for a disaster situation... How safe does that make you feel? You won't be dying slowly from second hand smoke in a bar... but you may be instantly wiped out by a 150 foot tall wall of water.
The water cannot be stopped. It would be arrogant and incredibly stupid to think otherwise. What we can do, is try to predict it and have a way to move as many people as possible to safety as quickly as we can.
Maybe it's less about incompetence than it is about creating job security... It's hard for me to say, but I don't think having that sort of crew could be good. More importantly, AOL/TW really can't afford too many more public embarassments. Competition is stiff, many of our brands are laughed at, internal morale is at its lowest point in the ten years I've been here... We need a win pretty bad at this point, so I hope they execute this thing well.
I have to go now... there are some men here to escort me to the re-education chamber for speaking out about our hard working, highly skilled IT workers.
That's nNot nNice... mMaybe he sStutterrs.
Is it possible that more IE users click on ads because they A) still pop up, and B) Look like actual Windows messages to the [ahem] average user? Just a thought...
Microsoft Indexing Service you say? Hey. that's great... How do I run that in OSX?
They tend to burn down the jungles in order to grow their "crops"...
"Is it really so bad that people who like cocaine use it?"
You don't know many addicts, do you? I live in a town that's currently experiencing a very large boost in the popularity of coke. This is not a positive thing. It's a drain on our law enforcement resources, and not just from possession busts... It's a drain on the lives of those that are now hooked on it... It's a factor in people's safety...etc.
"Wouldn't it be better to decrease its effect on their wallets so they don't need to resort to crime?"
When the CIA allegedly sold cheap crack in poor neighborhoods, people called it attempted genocide. Granted, cheaper coke would wipe out plenty of stupid yuppies, but genocide is genocide, no matter who's doing it.
Look, reasonable people can debate the legality of pot. The jury is still sort of out on its pros/cons, but pot doesn't kill people. It doesn't make them violent. It doesn't drive people to rob anyone.Coke has too many obvious negatives to even consider making it legal. If you want to raise money for education, try ending corporate welfare. That alone should free up enough money to help with education. Then loosen the rules of engagement so we can actually go after the coke subs. All you're left with after that are the pot subs... which tend to be the kind that you ask for extra cheese on.
Could it be the slow strangulation of bandwidth available for digital to make more room for GSM?
Maybe it's the steel plate in my head blocking the signal when I face in a certain direction...
I don't know a lot about the tech behind cell service. I just want a phone that works.
To the developers at Nokia: I have an iPod. I do not need my phone to play music. However, I do need it to make phonecalls... Sometimes I'm not sitting right next to the tower, so see if you can improve the range/reception before you worry about adding a whistle to that plow.
The feature-creep that our phones are experiencing is a distraction from what we really want... phones that work well.
I live in New York state... That nightmarish possibility is probably not far off.
Geez, I smoke, and I've always considered myself a suave motherfucker whether I'm lit up or not...