Okay. I can get windows to run. Really, I can. That doesn't mean it isn't a fucking pain in the ass, a terrible user experience, and a waste of resources. Sorry, I have plenty of reasons to get headaches from windows. Not being geeky enough to handle it isn't one them.
I've been a Mac user for 2 years now, although I owned a PC for around 14. I've had more headaches using Mac OSX than I've ever had using Windows.
It's always some stupid little things, but it's something stupid in the OS. Like finder will remember the view settings for each individual folder. I can't tell it to use one default view for every folder, someone on a Mac IRC channel suggested I write a shell script that goes through and changes some file in every folder (some file stores the folders view settings.) There should be an easy way to do that
When I purchased my new MacBook Pro I saw it came with a cool little utility that will copy everything over from my old computer. So I hooked up both computers to my gigabit ethernet switch ready to copy, and then it told me it doesn't support network transfers (!!!) I have to hook up the computers to each other using a firewire cable. I don't happen to have spare firewire cables lying around, although I do have tons and tons of ethernet cables (plus the laptops have built in wireless, it can communicate with the other laptop straight out of the box with nothing extra required.) Same thing with Aperture, I can't backup to network storage only an external drive hooked up via USB or Firewire. I can't imagine why anyone would want to rely on an external drive for a backup mechanism.
The single mouse button is often brought up and people are told "You don't need a second mouse button" although every mac program I've ever used has some right click menu, the standard methods of accessing the method with a single button are holding Ctrl then clicking or holding down the mouse button. The problem is, sometimes that doesn't work (like when finder is dying and you need to restart it, which you can only do through the right click menu) so I have to go find a USB mouse, plug it in, hope it works, and then use that to right click.
In contrast I've never found a problem like the ones listed above in Windows that I can't solve. Even if it requires diving into the registry at least there exists a method. Doing anything sufficiently advanced on a Mac seems impossible (even with the unix backend, a simple task like editing/etc/hosts requires jumping through tons of hoops on the mac just because it's designed to be "easier".)
Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS
Most of the Mac owners I know are normal people. Either students that got an imac laptop from their school, older people who wanted an easy to use computer, or an artist (musician, photographer, graphic designer, etc.) who wanted a powerful machine that wouldn't get infected with a ton of spyware and viruses in a week.
None of the Mac owners I know (besides myself) are very tech savvy, they just know that their iPod works great, their PC is always infected with "viruses" (usually some spyware they installed cause it promised free smileys), and their friend's Mac never has any problems. Personally I didn't buy a Mac just for a different OS. If I want to toy around in something other than Windows, I just go install Linux on whatever old computers are lying around the house. I bought the Mac specifically for Aperture, and Final Cut Pro since I do a lot of photography and video work. I know there exists open source software or expensive Windows software to do that stuff, it's just none of it is as powerful or easy to use as the Mac versions. I don't need Mac OS to have a stable computer, I just like the software that exists for the Mac.
So yes, they are DEFINITELY INCOMPETENT! All IT management in state/government agencies are, and most of the people working for them as well.
The problem isn't true for ALL state/government agencies, the problem is -
I used to work for the State (a very small state)
A friend of mine worked for the FDNY in their IT department, they knew what they were doing. It all depends on where you work and the quality of IT staff available for work in the area.
Doesn't Final Fantasy have FINAL in the title. Just how many sequels can this thing have and still be FINAL. And everytime there is another Final Fantasy made, there is a chance that no talent ass clown Uwe Boll will make a movie out of it.
Doesn't Never Ending Story have NEVER ENDING in the title? Shouldn't we have more sequels to this thing?
I only wish the 120GB HD for 360 didn't cost so freaking much.
So go buy a 120GB SATA laptop drive, that's all it is. You can image the 360 drive to it and you'll have a working 120GB XBox 360 drive for much cheaper than what Microsoft would sell it to you for.
You fail at building a PC. You need a new motherboard and RAM (over a 12 year period those things change.) Plus a CPU that's decent enough to run most games isn't going to cost you $150 if you expect it to run the latest and greatest for the next 6 years. Oh and over a 12 year period I would think you'd need a new version of Windows. $1000 for a gaming computer expected to last for the next 4 years and run the latest games is very reasonable.
I would much rather play a 2 player RPG or better yet, a 10 million player RPG.
For those of us that are social and have friends that come over, we'd much rather have a console for multiplayer games. Have you ever tried to play a two player game on one computer? How about a four player game? I bought Gears of War when it first came out, my friends would come over and we'd play on my 56" TV. Guitar Hero is a popular game when there's a party since it's easy to figure out even if you've never played any games before, and most girls I know would much rather play it than Gears of War. For games like Grand Theft Auto IV we play till we die or complete a mission and pass on the controller.
I hope not to come off as a troll, but seriously, get a decent gaming PC and upgrade your video card every 3-4 years and your processor every 5-7.
I have a better than average gaming PC, yet I can't play GTA IV, Metal Gear Solid 4 or Gran Turismo 5 on it. Not because my computer can't handle the games, it's because these games aren't being developed for the PC. Same is true whenever the next Final Fantasy game comes out. Yes I use my PC for some cross-platform games (like Call of Duty 4), but most games I want just won't be released on the computer. I can hope that some day they might release it on PC but I don't want to wait a year or two to play (especially when everyone else has already bought and got tired of the game, and there's no one left online to play with since they're all busy with the latest console release.)
No doubt. Sony! Give me a reason to buy the PS3 please, I want that blu-ray player.
I find it funny that you ask for a reason to buy the system, then list the reason you want the system.
It's a blu-ray player, it works great as a media center, you can install linux on it, Sony doesn't charge for their online service like XBox... oh and you can play video games on it.
Try and find a computer that can match that. You can't even get the blu-ray drive for the price of the PS3, then you'd need a $300 video card to match the performance and quality in games that the PS3 provides.
I think propaganda and advertising and swearing and lying and empty emotive rhetoric are the means by which a democratic society is subverted, and if they are not dealt with systematically, they will inevitably be a vehicle to bring the entire system crashing down.
*sings* One of these things is not like the others
You have a problem with swearing, that's fine. You're entitled to your own opinion, and if you don't like to swear, then you're free to not do it.
Although I see no basis for your argument that swearing is a form of propaganda (and you provide no argument in your post). The parent post was right in the short response, you gave him nothing to respond to. Claiming that the word "fuck" undermines democracy is not a valid argument unless you care to provide some backing.
Sure, you can try communicating calmly and rationally with people, if you like getting ignored. But if you want results, knock them to the ground, step on their neck, put a gun to their head, and force them to listen.
What's the difference?
The difference is that the later is a far more effective method of getting people to do what you want. Although I wouldn't compare swearing to physical violence. I don't even agree with the statement that you have to swear to get someone's attention.
I'd also like to point out that YOU get offended when someone swears because YOU choose to get offended by the word. If I had just finished a dinner you prepared and I said "Holy shit that was good!" and you were offended, that was your choice to get offended. What's the difference between "Holy shit that was good" and "Wow that was good"? They both carry the same meaning, yet you feel one of them is wrong because there's a swear word in it?
Maybe this quote might help you understand
There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are 7 you can't say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993...to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. "All of you words over here, you seven....baaaad words". That's what they told us, right? "That's a bad word!!" Awwww. No bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.
Swear words are the equivalent to howling in pain or rage. They're degenerate, and they evoke emotional reactions in other people, causing those other peoples thoughts to also degenerate into mindless, primitive emotional reactions, overriding their capacity to reason things through and act effectively.
I hope you're not serious. You realize the word "fuck" is as much a word as is the word "existentialism."
If I was visiting a tribe in Africa where no one spoke English and I went up to the chief with a basket of various gifts, and offered this basket to the chief while smiling and saying in a calm polite voice "I hope you fucking choke on a bucket of cum you worthless pile of shit" the chief would not take offense. He wouldn't know what I said and would only be able to guess that it was something nice, since I said it with a smile, in a calm polite voice, while offering a basket of gifts.
Now, if I went up to the same chief, screaming to the point where my face was red "Hello Sir! I hope you live a long and prosperous life!" He would take great offense to that, he would think I was angry with him.
Swear words are just words, they aren't magical, they don't bring down society. If a 5 year old boy never heard the word "fuck" before, hearing it isn't going to turn him into a mindless degenerate. He's only going to know the meaning of the word based on who said it, the context, and how they said it.
1. Want to force customers to buy new, expensive players instead of minor DSP/Firmware upgrades to existing player designs
How expensive were DVD players when they first came out? What about DVD burners? You think Blu-Ray is going to be expensive forever?
2. Want to force customers to have a difficult time making their own HD media because Blu-Ray writable media and burners are too expensive.
Yes, because we all know if it's expensive technology now it will be expensive technology forever! Just look at the CD-ROM drive, just the other day I saw a 2x CD-ROM drive for $400! It did come with a fancy new SoundBlaster sound card (ISA), which my $3,000 IBM PS/2 lacks, but still, CD-ROM drives are far too expensive for the average person to ever afford. Although the same could be said for computers. [/sarcasm]
3. Believe that by making the size larger that pirates can't figure out how to transcode to a smaller formant before posting on the internet (and that 30G images are too big to download)
Yeah the 30 gig movie file is all padding, and compressing it down to 4 gigs does not degrade the picture or audio quality. Plus with high speed internet being so widely available, and massive hard drives being so cheap, it'd be impossible for pirates to download 30 gig movies.
4. Want to be able to ship many movies on a single disc... but that doesn't seem to be happening
Why would I buy a blu-ray disc for 10 DVD quality movies?
From your post I assume you're either too young to know how the whole system works (new technology = expensive at first) or you don't own a blu-ray player and a TV capable of showing you how nice the image really looks. I watched Lord of the Rings on my PS3 and my 56" TV, this was right after seeing my first blu-ray movie. The difference in quality between DVD and Blu-Ray is incredible. It's something you really have to see with your own eyes. Eventually when blu-ray comes down in price just like every other piece of new technology in history, you'll go down to Walmart and buy a $30 blu-ray player with some discount $5 blu-ray movies and see what all the fuss is about.
"I'm curious how a "motorcycle" that can do 0-60mph in 3 seconds is limited to a top speed of only 75mph."
It's electric, just like the electric car that's "faster than a Ferrari" it's faster accelerating to it's top speed, but the top speed is limited to 60-70MPH.
That's the point of the "Connection error" message. The user never logs into their own account, they just put in the info and it spits out an error, they just assume the error is with the bank or the computer they're on, they don't think they're on a phishing site.
I don't think you get it, this is like a car dealer with two identical cars on the lot, one's an upgrade and costs half as much as the other but to legally buy it you need an older version of the same car. The thing is, the dealer isn't checking if you have the older car so you can buy the cheaper one and save on money.
Mozilla Lab's push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it's running on, and also more hooked into Web services.
So what they're saying is, "We're cloning internet explorer"?
Doesn't Firefox already use up enough memory? Currently Firefox is running on my computer using up nearly 800MB of RAM. I have 3 tabs open and none of them are doing anything intense. I'm glad my computer has 2 gigs of RAM but I bought that for Photoshop not Firefox...
I can't take safe, cheap, and convenient mass transit to work, but instead must own and maintain my own vehicle, pay for insurance, and drive it myself. No napping or catching up on reading on the way to work. Not to mention my greatly increased risk of dying on my commute.
You say that like you could nap or read (or sit) on a NY subway during rush hour. The only thing keeping people from driving to work is the huge amounts of rush hour traffic.
Rather than keeping development in well-maintained cities, we let suburbs and exurbs spraw, eliminating forest and farmland, while we let the cities rot.
America is really big. Really really big. There's plenty of forests and farmland (just go cross country, you'll see what I'm taking about.) Plus, have you read anything about history? Just take a look at the quality of living in NYC before the invention of the car. I'm not trying to say here that the car increased the quality of living, I'm trying to say the cities are far from rotting.
Rather than having a small market close by where I can purchase fresh food frequently, I have to plan a trip to a centralized mega-mart and load up on less healthful prepared and frozen food.
Small stores get food from the same places as the large mega-marts, most of the food at these places probably doesn't grow near you (especially if you live out west in one of the desert states) so it's all shipped in, usually in large trucks cause it's quicker and easier (you don't need train tracks going to every store.) Plus you can always grow your own fresh food if you want (or find a nearby farmers market that's in driving distance.)
Resources are spend building roads instead of convenient and efficient passenger rail service. (Half a day to go 60 miles? WTF? It's only a couple hours from Baltimore to New York City by train - are you waiting half a day for a connection somewhere?)
It takes about 4 hours to drive to Yosemite National Park, CA from San Francisco, CA. It took me 3 days by train and public transportation. I arrived via airplane, got to San Francisco pretty late and the train there stops running to certain stops at 10 (since so few people ride the train that late they don't need to go to all the stations), so I had to stay at a hotel the first night (cost me a $50 cab ride to find one too since they were all booked for some convention.) In the morning of the second day, I took the subway out to the suburbs to catch the amtrak train to some place further into the suburbs where the bus to Yosemite runs. I arrived at the bus stop at around 4PM, they don't run all the way to Yosemite at this time but they do stop at the Yosemite bug, so I ended up having to stay there (it's basically a hostel) for a night (did I mention I'm carrying 75lbs of supplies in two backpacks, most of it is food from NY cause food in Yosemite valley is pretty expensive.) The third day I finally arrived in Yosemite, and it ended up costing well over $200 (especially with the first day staying at a hotel in San Francisco.) With a car the trip would have taken 4 hours and cost no more than $40 of gas.
P.S. my trip from NYC to Albany (where I currently live) takes about 6 hours. It's an hour and a half getting to Grand Central Station from Staten Island, then 30-40 minutes waiting for the next train and it's around 4 hours trip once I'm on the train. With a car it's
I hope never, I don't want to potentially drive through my destination 20 times to get to it. This doesn't create an efficient route, it just creates a guaranteed route. The instructions might be, turn left, turn right, turn left. Now repeat 40 times and you're guaranteed to get to New York from wherever you started.
I often take random road trips out west (I live in NY) with all my stuff to go hiking, biking (put the bikes on a bike rack in the back), climbing. Things that would be impossible to do without my car. Unless I rode my bike across the country (boss wouldn't be happy with me taking off a few months), or shipped everything out west and took a train (which would be incredibly expensive and not worth it.) Plus taking a train I wouldn't get to stop where I want to take photos or explore (I've pulled over to the side of the highway to climb a mountain before) or just look around. I think the car is one of the greatest tools we have. Plus these lights are for truck drivers who are driving all night anyway.
I'd pay $5/mo more if you'd anonymize my use of the internet (in a way I can verify) and if your service terms stated that I was anonymized in very clear language (ie. no legalese loopholes)
You're now giving the ISPs a business model selling you a "service" which should be included with your account...
I'm confused, what I think you're saying is "People follow the rules more easily today because they think god is going to send them to hell"?
Well that doesn't make sense, I would say less people today believe in god than they did before. Although I would go on to say that we're morally better off now than we were back then. We don't stone people to death, we don't chop limbs off thieves, we don't have slavery anymore.
You also seem to assume that people are still afraid of the fire. I don't think that's true anymore, especially considering the church sex scandals. If the clergy isn't afraid of going to hell, then who still is? Plus think of all the religious people who end up cheating on their spouses, although what's morally wrong with having sex with multiple women? According to biblical moral codes it's a sin, but if my wife doesn't care that I have sex with the neighbors wife where's the harm?
I would say that religion was created to keep people in line (they were more easily afraid back then so when you told them they were going to hell for sinning they really believed it.) Although as a moral code for today it's no longer working. Especially considering that the pope just released a new list of sins, and the church is guilty of at least two of them (excessive wealth and widening the gap between the rich and the poor.)
It looks like there's no space left in the case at all. How many hard drives can it hold? How many CD-ROM drives. If I went all out on a computer with quad SLI, and dual quad core CPUs I'm not going to cheap out on hard drives.
I currently have a Lian Li PC-V2000 full tower. Holds something like 12 hard drives and 6 CD-ROMs, I had 8 drives (2.2TB) and 1 CD-ROM. Plus it gives me more than enough room to work with. The only time it's massive size became an issue is when I moved and had to bring the computer into the car and into the office for a few days. The case is under my desk so prettiness isn't much of a factor but when people see it they're impressed (not often you see a case you can sit on while rolling down the street.) I rarely understand these designer PCs, they never look that good, and the designs are almost always dated and old looking in a couple years anyway.
I think it's really just old school photographers that still use that business model. As a photographer I always give the client high quality JPG files, if they want the RAW images I'd give them to them (although for most people they're useless since they don't have the software to read the files.) Although photography isn't my main source of income, I'm a computer programmer and my main goal with my photography is to stop people from being ripped off by big photo chains (Glamour Shots, Picture People, Sears.) Those places bother me as much as the geek squad, they have people with such little knowledge of their skill and they charge a fortune for their services. The only thing keeping these places alive is the exposure, people generally don't like to search for skilled workers so when they see some place that does what they need they go with it.
You seem to be under the impression that if America was in such a bad state to warrant a revolution, all of the current military personal will stay loyal to the government that is oppressing them. Perhaps you don't realize the military is comprised of American citizens who volunteered to fight for their country. I'm almost certain if the American people are forced to revolt, the government would lose most of it's military power. What percentage of Saddam's people do you think are working with the Americans over in Iraq?
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Okay. I can get windows to run. Really, I can. That doesn't mean it isn't a fucking pain in the ass, a terrible user experience, and a waste of resources. Sorry, I have plenty of reasons to get headaches from windows. Not being geeky enough to handle it isn't one them.
/etc/hosts requires jumping through tons of hoops on the mac just because it's designed to be "easier".)
I've been a Mac user for 2 years now, although I owned a PC for around 14. I've had more headaches using Mac OSX than I've ever had using Windows.
It's always some stupid little things, but it's something stupid in the OS. Like finder will remember the view settings for each individual folder. I can't tell it to use one default view for every folder, someone on a Mac IRC channel suggested I write a shell script that goes through and changes some file in every folder (some file stores the folders view settings.) There should be an easy way to do that
When I purchased my new MacBook Pro I saw it came with a cool little utility that will copy everything over from my old computer. So I hooked up both computers to my gigabit ethernet switch ready to copy, and then it told me it doesn't support network transfers (!!!) I have to hook up the computers to each other using a firewire cable. I don't happen to have spare firewire cables lying around, although I do have tons and tons of ethernet cables (plus the laptops have built in wireless, it can communicate with the other laptop straight out of the box with nothing extra required.) Same thing with Aperture, I can't backup to network storage only an external drive hooked up via USB or Firewire. I can't imagine why anyone would want to rely on an external drive for a backup mechanism.
The single mouse button is often brought up and people are told "You don't need a second mouse button" although every mac program I've ever used has some right click menu, the standard methods of accessing the method with a single button are holding Ctrl then clicking or holding down the mouse button. The problem is, sometimes that doesn't work (like when finder is dying and you need to restart it, which you can only do through the right click menu) so I have to go find a USB mouse, plug it in, hope it works, and then use that to right click.
In contrast I've never found a problem like the ones listed above in Windows that I can't solve. Even if it requires diving into the registry at least there exists a method. Doing anything sufficiently advanced on a Mac seems impossible (even with the unix backend, a simple task like editing
Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS
Most of the Mac owners I know are normal people. Either students that got an imac laptop from their school, older people who wanted an easy to use computer, or an artist (musician, photographer, graphic designer, etc.) who wanted a powerful machine that wouldn't get infected with a ton of spyware and viruses in a week.
None of the Mac owners I know (besides myself) are very tech savvy, they just know that their iPod works great, their PC is always infected with "viruses" (usually some spyware they installed cause it promised free smileys), and their friend's Mac never has any problems. Personally I didn't buy a Mac just for a different OS. If I want to toy around in something other than Windows, I just go install Linux on whatever old computers are lying around the house. I bought the Mac specifically for Aperture, and Final Cut Pro since I do a lot of photography and video work. I know there exists open source software or expensive Windows software to do that stuff, it's just none of it is as powerful or easy to use as the Mac versions. I don't need Mac OS to have a stable computer, I just like the software that exists for the Mac.
So yes, they are DEFINITELY INCOMPETENT! All IT management in state/government agencies are, and most of the people working for them as well.
The problem isn't true for ALL state/government agencies, the problem is -
I used to work for the State (a very small state)
A friend of mine worked for the FDNY in their IT department, they knew what they were doing. It all depends on where you work and the quality of IT staff available for work in the area.
Doesn't Final Fantasy have FINAL in the title. Just how many sequels can this thing have and still be FINAL. And everytime there is another Final Fantasy made, there is a chance that no talent ass clown Uwe Boll will make a movie out of it.
Doesn't Never Ending Story have NEVER ENDING in the title? Shouldn't we have more sequels to this thing?
I only wish the 120GB HD for 360 didn't cost so freaking much.
So go buy a 120GB SATA laptop drive, that's all it is. You can image the 360 drive to it and you'll have a working 120GB XBox 360 drive for much cheaper than what Microsoft would sell it to you for.
You fail at math.
You fail at building a PC. You need a new motherboard and RAM (over a 12 year period those things change.) Plus a CPU that's decent enough to run most games isn't going to cost you $150 if you expect it to run the latest and greatest for the next 6 years. Oh and over a 12 year period I would think you'd need a new version of Windows. $1000 for a gaming computer expected to last for the next 4 years and run the latest games is very reasonable.
I would much rather play a 2 player RPG or better yet, a 10 million player RPG.
For those of us that are social and have friends that come over, we'd much rather have a console for multiplayer games. Have you ever tried to play a two player game on one computer? How about a four player game? I bought Gears of War when it first came out, my friends would come over and we'd play on my 56" TV. Guitar Hero is a popular game when there's a party since it's easy to figure out even if you've never played any games before, and most girls I know would much rather play it than Gears of War. For games like Grand Theft Auto IV we play till we die or complete a mission and pass on the controller.
I hope not to come off as a troll, but seriously, get a decent gaming PC and upgrade your video card every 3-4 years and your processor every 5-7.
I have a better than average gaming PC, yet I can't play GTA IV, Metal Gear Solid 4 or Gran Turismo 5 on it. Not because my computer can't handle the games, it's because these games aren't being developed for the PC. Same is true whenever the next Final Fantasy game comes out. Yes I use my PC for some cross-platform games (like Call of Duty 4), but most games I want just won't be released on the computer. I can hope that some day they might release it on PC but I don't want to wait a year or two to play (especially when everyone else has already bought and got tired of the game, and there's no one left online to play with since they're all busy with the latest console release.)
No doubt. Sony! Give me a reason to buy the PS3 please, I want that blu-ray player.
I find it funny that you ask for a reason to buy the system, then list the reason you want the system.
It's a blu-ray player, it works great as a media center, you can install linux on it, Sony doesn't charge for their online service like XBox... oh and you can play video games on it.
Try and find a computer that can match that. You can't even get the blu-ray drive for the price of the PS3, then you'd need a $300 video card to match the performance and quality in games that the PS3 provides.
I think propaganda and advertising and swearing and lying and empty emotive rhetoric are the means by which a democratic society is subverted, and if they are not dealt with systematically, they will inevitably be a vehicle to bring the entire system crashing down.
*sings* One of these things is not like the others
You have a problem with swearing, that's fine. You're entitled to your own opinion, and if you don't like to swear, then you're free to not do it.
Although I see no basis for your argument that swearing is a form of propaganda (and you provide no argument in your post). The parent post was right in the short response, you gave him nothing to respond to. Claiming that the word "fuck" undermines democracy is not a valid argument unless you care to provide some backing.
Sure, you can try communicating calmly and rationally with people, if you like getting ignored. But if you want results, knock them to the ground, step on their neck, put a gun to their head, and force them to listen.
What's the difference?
The difference is that the later is a far more effective method of getting people to do what you want. Although I wouldn't compare swearing to physical violence. I don't even agree with the statement that you have to swear to get someone's attention.
I'd also like to point out that YOU get offended when someone swears because YOU choose to get offended by the word. If I had just finished a dinner you prepared and I said "Holy shit that was good!" and you were offended, that was your choice to get offended. What's the difference between "Holy shit that was good" and "Wow that was good"? They both carry the same meaning, yet you feel one of them is wrong because there's a swear word in it?
Maybe this quote might help you understand
There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are 7 you can't say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993...to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. "All of you words over here, you seven....baaaad words". That's what they told us, right? "That's a bad word!!" Awwww. No bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.
George Carlin
Swear words are the equivalent to howling in pain or rage. They're degenerate, and they evoke emotional reactions in other people, causing those other peoples thoughts to also degenerate into mindless, primitive emotional reactions, overriding their capacity to reason things through and act effectively.
I hope you're not serious. You realize the word "fuck" is as much a word as is the word "existentialism."
If I was visiting a tribe in Africa where no one spoke English and I went up to the chief with a basket of various gifts, and offered this basket to the chief while smiling and saying in a calm polite voice "I hope you fucking choke on a bucket of cum you worthless pile of shit" the chief would not take offense. He wouldn't know what I said and would only be able to guess that it was something nice, since I said it with a smile, in a calm polite voice, while offering a basket of gifts.
Now, if I went up to the same chief, screaming to the point where my face was red "Hello Sir! I hope you live a long and prosperous life!" He would take great offense to that, he would think I was angry with him.
Swear words are just words, they aren't magical, they don't bring down society. If a 5 year old boy never heard the word "fuck" before, hearing it isn't going to turn him into a mindless degenerate. He's only going to know the meaning of the word based on who said it, the context, and how they said it.
1. Want to force customers to buy new, expensive players instead of minor DSP/Firmware upgrades to existing player designs
How expensive were DVD players when they first came out? What about DVD burners? You think Blu-Ray is going to be expensive forever?
2. Want to force customers to have a difficult time making their own HD media because Blu-Ray writable media and burners are too expensive.
Yes, because we all know if it's expensive technology now it will be expensive technology forever! Just look at the CD-ROM drive, just the other day I saw a 2x CD-ROM drive for $400! It did come with a fancy new SoundBlaster sound card (ISA), which my $3,000 IBM PS/2 lacks, but still, CD-ROM drives are far too expensive for the average person to ever afford. Although the same could be said for computers. [/sarcasm]
3. Believe that by making the size larger that pirates can't figure out how to transcode to a smaller formant before posting on the internet (and that 30G images are too big to download)
Yeah the 30 gig movie file is all padding, and compressing it down to 4 gigs does not degrade the picture or audio quality. Plus with high speed internet being so widely available, and massive hard drives being so cheap, it'd be impossible for pirates to download 30 gig movies.
4. Want to be able to ship many movies on a single disc... but that doesn't seem to be happening
Why would I buy a blu-ray disc for 10 DVD quality movies?
From your post I assume you're either too young to know how the whole system works (new technology = expensive at first) or you don't own a blu-ray player and a TV capable of showing you how nice the image really looks. I watched Lord of the Rings on my PS3 and my 56" TV, this was right after seeing my first blu-ray movie. The difference in quality between DVD and Blu-Ray is incredible. It's something you really have to see with your own eyes. Eventually when blu-ray comes down in price just like every other piece of new technology in history, you'll go down to Walmart and buy a $30 blu-ray player with some discount $5 blu-ray movies and see what all the fuss is about.
"I'm curious how a "motorcycle" that can do 0-60mph in 3 seconds is limited to a top speed of only 75mph." It's electric, just like the electric car that's "faster than a Ferrari" it's faster accelerating to it's top speed, but the top speed is limited to 60-70MPH.
That's the point of the "Connection error" message. The user never logs into their own account, they just put in the info and it spits out an error, they just assume the error is with the bank or the computer they're on, they don't think they're on a phishing site.
I don't think you get it, this is like a car dealer with two identical cars on the lot, one's an upgrade and costs half as much as the other but to legally buy it you need an older version of the same car. The thing is, the dealer isn't checking if you have the older car so you can buy the cheaper one and save on money.
Mozilla Lab's push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it's running on, and also more hooked into Web services.
So what they're saying is, "We're cloning internet explorer"?
Doesn't Firefox already use up enough memory? Currently Firefox is running on my computer using up nearly 800MB of RAM. I have 3 tabs open and none of them are doing anything intense. I'm glad my computer has 2 gigs of RAM but I bought that for Photoshop not Firefox...
I can't take safe, cheap, and convenient mass transit to work, but instead must own and maintain my own vehicle, pay for insurance, and drive it myself. No napping or catching up on reading on the way to work. Not to mention my greatly increased risk of dying on my commute.
You say that like you could nap or read (or sit) on a NY subway during rush hour. The only thing keeping people from driving to work is the huge amounts of rush hour traffic.
Rather than keeping development in well-maintained cities, we let suburbs and exurbs spraw, eliminating forest and farmland, while we let the cities rot.
America is really big. Really really big. There's plenty of forests and farmland (just go cross country, you'll see what I'm taking about.) Plus, have you read anything about history? Just take a look at the quality of living in NYC before the invention of the car. I'm not trying to say here that the car increased the quality of living, I'm trying to say the cities are far from rotting.
Rather than having a small market close by where I can purchase fresh food frequently, I have to plan a trip to a centralized mega-mart and load up on less healthful prepared and frozen food.
Small stores get food from the same places as the large mega-marts, most of the food at these places probably doesn't grow near you (especially if you live out west in one of the desert states) so it's all shipped in, usually in large trucks cause it's quicker and easier (you don't need train tracks going to every store.) Plus you can always grow your own fresh food if you want (or find a nearby farmers market that's in driving distance.)
Resources are spend building roads instead of convenient and efficient passenger rail service. (Half a day to go 60 miles? WTF? It's only a couple hours from Baltimore to New York City by train - are you waiting half a day for a connection somewhere?)
It takes about 4 hours to drive to Yosemite National Park, CA from San Francisco, CA. It took me 3 days by train and public transportation. I arrived via airplane, got to San Francisco pretty late and the train there stops running to certain stops at 10 (since so few people ride the train that late they don't need to go to all the stations), so I had to stay at a hotel the first night (cost me a $50 cab ride to find one too since they were all booked for some convention.) In the morning of the second day, I took the subway out to the suburbs to catch the amtrak train to some place further into the suburbs where the bus to Yosemite runs. I arrived at the bus stop at around 4PM, they don't run all the way to Yosemite at this time but they do stop at the Yosemite bug, so I ended up having to stay there (it's basically a hostel) for a night (did I mention I'm carrying 75lbs of supplies in two backpacks, most of it is food from NY cause food in Yosemite valley is pretty expensive.) The third day I finally arrived in Yosemite, and it ended up costing well over $200 (especially with the first day staying at a hotel in San Francisco.) With a car the trip would have taken 4 hours and cost no more than $40 of gas.
P.S. my trip from NYC to Albany (where I currently live) takes about 6 hours. It's an hour and a half getting to Grand Central Station from Staten Island, then 30-40 minutes waiting for the next train and it's around 4 hours trip once I'm on the train. With a car it's
I hope never, I don't want to potentially drive through my destination 20 times to get to it. This doesn't create an efficient route, it just creates a guaranteed route. The instructions might be, turn left, turn right, turn left. Now repeat 40 times and you're guaranteed to get to New York from wherever you started.
I often take random road trips out west (I live in NY) with all my stuff to go hiking, biking (put the bikes on a bike rack in the back), climbing. Things that would be impossible to do without my car. Unless I rode my bike across the country (boss wouldn't be happy with me taking off a few months), or shipped everything out west and took a train (which would be incredibly expensive and not worth it.) Plus taking a train I wouldn't get to stop where I want to take photos or explore (I've pulled over to the side of the highway to climb a mountain before) or just look around. I think the car is one of the greatest tools we have. Plus these lights are for truck drivers who are driving all night anyway.
I'd pay $5/mo more if you'd anonymize my use of the internet (in a way I can verify) and if your service terms stated that I was anonymized in very clear language (ie. no legalese loopholes)
You're now giving the ISPs a business model selling you a "service" which should be included with your account...
I'm confused, what I think you're saying is "People follow the rules more easily today because they think god is going to send them to hell"?
Well that doesn't make sense, I would say less people today believe in god than they did before. Although I would go on to say that we're morally better off now than we were back then. We don't stone people to death, we don't chop limbs off thieves, we don't have slavery anymore.
You also seem to assume that people are still afraid of the fire. I don't think that's true anymore, especially considering the church sex scandals. If the clergy isn't afraid of going to hell, then who still is? Plus think of all the religious people who end up cheating on their spouses, although what's morally wrong with having sex with multiple women? According to biblical moral codes it's a sin, but if my wife doesn't care that I have sex with the neighbors wife where's the harm?
I would say that religion was created to keep people in line (they were more easily afraid back then so when you told them they were going to hell for sinning they really believed it.) Although as a moral code for today it's no longer working. Especially considering that the pope just released a new list of sins, and the church is guilty of at least two of them (excessive wealth and widening the gap between the rich and the poor.)
Well there is Buddhism. As an Atheist I always thought of it as the only religion I could follow as it doesn't force you to believe in a creator.
It looks like there's no space left in the case at all. How many hard drives can it hold? How many CD-ROM drives. If I went all out on a computer with quad SLI, and dual quad core CPUs I'm not going to cheap out on hard drives.
I currently have a Lian Li PC-V2000 full tower. Holds something like 12 hard drives and 6 CD-ROMs, I had 8 drives (2.2TB) and 1 CD-ROM. Plus it gives me more than enough room to work with. The only time it's massive size became an issue is when I moved and had to bring the computer into the car and into the office for a few days. The case is under my desk so prettiness isn't much of a factor but when people see it they're impressed (not often you see a case you can sit on while rolling down the street.) I rarely understand these designer PCs, they never look that good, and the designs are almost always dated and old looking in a couple years anyway.
I think it's really just old school photographers that still use that business model. As a photographer I always give the client high quality JPG files, if they want the RAW images I'd give them to them (although for most people they're useless since they don't have the software to read the files.) Although photography isn't my main source of income, I'm a computer programmer and my main goal with my photography is to stop people from being ripped off by big photo chains (Glamour Shots, Picture People, Sears.) Those places bother me as much as the geek squad, they have people with such little knowledge of their skill and they charge a fortune for their services. The only thing keeping these places alive is the exposure, people generally don't like to search for skilled workers so when they see some place that does what they need they go with it.
You seem to be under the impression that if America was in such a bad state to warrant a revolution, all of the current military personal will stay loyal to the government that is oppressing them. Perhaps you don't realize the military is comprised of American citizens who volunteered to fight for their country. I'm almost certain if the American people are forced to revolt, the government would lose most of it's military power. What percentage of Saddam's people do you think are working with the Americans over in Iraq?