Yes, I agree that the original score is largely playable by modern performers and modern instruments. However, performances using period instruments and pacing are now more popular than ever.
Witness with success of Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, and English Baroque Soloists. http://www.monteverdi.co.uk/ In fact, any classical music fans should be able to recall that his recording of the Beethoven Symphonies with Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique using period intruments was hailed as a landmark recording and won numerous prizes.
"Also found in a secret flat part of the belt buckle are those certain photos he took of Robin that he does not ever want anyone to find, but he can't bring himself to destroy them."
That's true as well.
See here http://www.superdickery.com/seduction/5.html (safe for work). Be sure to click on the "Next" links for more examples that reveal the true relationships between Batman and Robin (and Superman too)!
It is not easy to convince people who have been ripped off* that they got ripped off. This is coming from a Mac user too!
It is clear that you have not used a PC in a while also. For example, to install memory you have to remove a plastic side panel AND the fan assembly? Why would you be proud of that? On my PC, which just happens to be a Dell, you slide open the side panel (yes, no screwdriver), install the memory (yes, no need to move anything), and slide the panel back. Done.
* What gave you away was the purchase of Cinema Display. Other manufacturers use the exact same panel, put in more features, and sells it for 1/3 less. Mac users may hate Dell but go the the Macnn forums and you will find Dell LCDs one of the most, if not the most, popular monitors for a Mac.
No, you still do not get it. What you see as $14 stock price now was $28 pre-split then. So the price is still ~3x ($28 2003 -> $80 2005) and your profit ~2x.
Everything is split adjusted.
"[Spotlight] Which Apple is already shipping in Tiger"
Please. Apple has only been talking about Spotlight for the last 12 months? While the feature is in Tiger, the product is not on the shelf at this moment which to me makes it virtually the same status as Longhorn (albeit it will be untrue in 14 days but I have a point and am getting to it).
In the last 12 months, there have been numerous advances in the field of desktop search (disclaimer: I am in the search field). Lookout was acquired by Microsoft and now part of MSN. Google released its Desktop Search beta. X1's technology was licensed by Yahoo. Quicksilver ws the de facto champ in search for OS X prior to Spotlight and does a great job. Numerous start-ups and search engines are coming up with promising and powerful ideas.
So if anything, Apple is not an innovator in this game but is late to it as well.
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People need to stop being so paranoid about water cooling.
According to Appleinsider.com, Delphi's estimated MTBF (meantime between failure) for these liquid cooling CPU units is only 2 to 2.5 years. This is a primary driver for Apple to wanting to move to cooler PowerPC chips so that they can avoid having liquid coolers and avoiding having to fix these water-cooling unit en masse starting in 2006.
Do you like graphic ads or do you like Google to go through your e-mails header, content, etc and find out your mother recently passed waway and you need funeral service and here are a few funeral homes in your area?
2 - If you want someone to check your ID when you sign your card, please hand it to the cashier with your credit card.
I do not think you are getting the point. I can offer my ID to the cashier all I want until the pigs can fly but that is not the point. You think a thief would offer his (or her) ID? I want the cashier to voluntarily want to check my ID for transaction greater than a certain monetary amount.
Personally, I sign the back of my credit card normally but was arguing as a devil's advocate. However, this conversation has now made me want to sign "This card is stolen!" on my high purchase CC to see that that gets a response.
Statement: "Apple is shipping 1394b (FireWire 800) on almost all of its products, save some of the "consumer" oriented products."
Fact: Firewire is only available in PowerMac and two models of Powerbook (15" and 17"). It is not available in the rest of Apple's products (iBook, iMac, eMac, Mini, iPod, peripherals (e.g. iSight), and software, obviously).
Statement: "FireWire 400 is faster in all benchmarks than USB 2.0"
There are some benchmarks showing that USB2 has higher burst rate than FW400 but I will grant you that FW400 is the better performer overall.
This still does not explain/excuse the poor performance of Apple's implementation. USB2 implementation in windows (~30 MB/s) is nearly twice as fast as Apple's (~18 MB/s)! See Barefeat, a Mac benchmark review site: http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html.
The guy has a detailed breakdown of the accuracy of statements made in F911. See here If I recall, Moore had an award if you can prove a statement made in F911 was inaccurate.
So your accusing Moore of not caring about accurate and cares only about getting attention and make money would be about as accurate as my saying you are a fat lonely geek who only works to make money and to post and get attention on Slashdot.:)
Actually, I do have a problem with what you are doing.
Yahoo! toolbar takes two clicks to disable in IE and does not require you to uninstall it. It is not a mal/ad/spyware. Yahoo!'s anti-spy is integrated into the toolbar and nowhere else. Lastly, it also allows one to search video, local, etc without having to go to Yahoo first. All things that Google do not provide and could be beneficial to the end users.
Yet, you do what a geek elitist would do: replacing it with a tool that you consider to be better for everyone else.
You said it yourself that google is there to help the user find information whereas the yahoo toolbar is not. That is what I am challenging you on. Yahoo! too helps user find the information in addition to providing access to its services, except that you disagree thus you force your view unto others. Bravo. What's next?
You should also delete their AOL account since AOL is for noobs.
Also, remove the Solitaire and all the other games because they are not productive to work.
After that, uninstall Microsoft Office and install OpenOffice.
I mean it is not like Yahoo! Search (based on Altavista and Inktomi's algorhithm) returns relevant result or anything. Or that Yahoo! Plus e-mail users get 2GB of storage or that Yahoo! Music (Launch) is the biggest music site on the net.
>[begin BeOS whoring] >BeOS did that back in the 90's. And it Worked, and it was Good. >[end BeOS whoring]
[begin office supply whoring] Manila folders did that back in the 50's-80's. And it Worked, and it was Good too. [end office supply whoring]
Seriously, back in the '90s, I did not get 100 e-mails a day, I did not have 30 GB of music file and 100 GB of video file, and I now have tons of doc, xls, pdfs, qif, etc that I did not have back then.
You cannot always compare new to old technology much less to a dead OS.
> www.apple.com was up, reachable, and quick during the ENTIRE keynote (snip) I know for an absolute fact that www.apple.com was reachable at what I would consider its "normal" performance during the entire keynote.
Are you sure?
Here are tons of people, myself included, telling you that Apple.com was not reachable. And here is you - one guy who got in but knows "for an absolute fact" that the site was good. Should we believe one person's experience or what the rest of the us actually experienced?
I know this is common for Slashdot readers but next time, please try to be less arrogant.
That is only because you have not owned a PocketPC or otherwise you would have know that the friggin' transparent cover that cost 10 cents to make is on every iPaq owner's wish list!
As Jeff Foxworthy the country comedian might say, you might be a redneck if you think the Asus S-presso Deluxe (S1-P111) looks better than Apple's industrial design!
I could never accept that Slate had genuine editorial independence from Microsoft.
Can you accept that OSS/GPL/Linux/OS X users can form indepent opinions about OSS/GPL/Linux/OS X or Microsoft?
Another factual correction: Newsweek is not own by Microsoft. And rather than throwing baseless accusation on how Newsweek is influenced by Microsoft? Any evidence?
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Witness with success of Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, and English Baroque Soloists. http://www.monteverdi.co.uk/ In fact, any classical music fans should be able to recall that his recording of the Beethoven Symphonies with Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique using period intruments was hailed as a landmark recording and won numerous prizes.
That's true as well.
See here http://www.superdickery.com/seduction/5.html (safe for work). Be sure to click on the "Next" links for more examples that reveal the true relationships between Batman and Robin (and Superman too)!
It is not easy to convince people who have been ripped off* that they got ripped off. This is coming from a Mac user too!
It is clear that you have not used a PC in a while also. For example, to install memory you have to remove a plastic side panel AND the fan assembly? Why would you be proud of that? On my PC, which just happens to be a Dell, you slide open the side panel (yes, no screwdriver), install the memory (yes, no need to move anything), and slide the panel back. Done.
* What gave you away was the purchase of Cinema Display. Other manufacturers use the exact same panel, put in more features, and sells it for 1/3 less. Mac users may hate Dell but go the the Macnn forums and you will find Dell LCDs one of the most, if not the most, popular monitors for a Mac.
What's to prevent people from asking their neighbor: "Hey, what's the current connection code/SSID/key?"
tempus rerum imperator = Time Commands All Things
Contact e-mail address also has a plus sign: labs+webaccelerator@google.com
No, you still do not get it. What you see as $14 stock price now was $28 pre-split then. So the price is still ~3x ($28 2003 -> $80 2005) and your profit ~2x. Everything is split adjusted.
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt icle.jhtml?articleID=160900911
Please. Apple has only been talking about Spotlight for the last 12 months? While the feature is in Tiger, the product is not on the shelf at this moment which to me makes it virtually the same status as Longhorn (albeit it will be untrue in 14 days but I have a point and am getting to it).
In the last 12 months, there have been numerous advances in the field of desktop search (disclaimer: I am in the search field). Lookout was acquired by Microsoft and now part of MSN. Google released its Desktop Search beta. X1's technology was licensed by Yahoo. Quicksilver ws the de facto champ in search for OS X prior to Spotlight and does a great job. Numerous start-ups and search engines are coming up with promising and powerful ideas.
So if anything, Apple is not an innovator in this game but is late to it as well.
According to Appleinsider.com, Delphi's estimated MTBF (meantime between failure) for these liquid cooling CPU units is only 2 to 2.5 years. This is a primary driver for Apple to wanting to move to cooler PowerPC chips so that they can avoid having liquid coolers and avoiding having to fix these water-cooling unit en masse starting in 2006.
Do you like graphic ads or do you like Google to go through your e-mails header, content, etc and find out your mother recently passed waway and you need funeral service and here are a few funeral homes in your area?
I do not think you are getting the point. I can offer my ID to the cashier all I want until the pigs can fly but that is not the point. You think a thief would offer his (or her) ID? I want the cashier to voluntarily want to check my ID for transaction greater than a certain monetary amount.
Personally, I sign the back of my credit card normally but was arguing as a devil's advocate. However, this conversation has now made me want to sign "This card is stolen!" on my high purchase CC to see that that gets a response.
What, you don't think those giving Nick trade scerets demanded anonymity whether or not it was offered by Nick?
Fact: Firewire is only available in PowerMac and two models of Powerbook (15" and 17"). It is not available in the rest of Apple's products (iBook, iMac, eMac, Mini, iPod, peripherals (e.g. iSight), and software, obviously).
Statement: "FireWire 400 is faster in all benchmarks than USB 2.0"
There are some benchmarks showing that USB2 has higher burst rate than FW400 but I will grant you that FW400 is the better performer overall.
This still does not explain/excuse the poor performance of Apple's implementation. USB2 implementation in windows (~30 MB/s) is nearly twice as fast as Apple's (~18 MB/s)! See Barefeat, a Mac benchmark review site: http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html.
So your accusing Moore of not caring about accurate and cares only about getting attention and make money would be about as accurate as my saying you are a fat lonely geek who only works to make money and to post and get attention on Slashdot. :)
Yahoo! toolbar takes two clicks to disable in IE and does not require you to uninstall it. It is not a mal/ad/spyware. Yahoo!'s anti-spy is integrated into the toolbar and nowhere else. Lastly, it also allows one to search video, local, etc without having to go to Yahoo first. All things that Google do not provide and could be beneficial to the end users.
Yet, you do what a geek elitist would do: replacing it with a tool that you consider to be better for everyone else.
You said it yourself that google is there to help the user find information whereas the yahoo toolbar is not. That is what I am challenging you on. Yahoo! too helps user find the information in addition to providing access to its services, except that you disagree thus you force your view unto others. Bravo. What's next?
Also, remove the Solitaire and all the other games because they are not productive to work.
After that, uninstall Microsoft Office and install OpenOffice.
I mean it is not like Yahoo! Search (based on Altavista and Inktomi's algorhithm) returns relevant result or anything. Or that Yahoo! Plus e-mail users get 2GB of storage or that Yahoo! Music (Launch) is the biggest music site on the net.
So it is safe to say that Ben Goodger left Firefox for google in January of this year to help build (insert name of Google browser) for Google?
I do not know enough about Firefox's developement process but how much (or little) has Hyatt being contributing since July 2004?
Mod parent up....
>[begin BeOS whoring]
>BeOS did that back in the 90's. And it Worked, and it was Good.
>[end BeOS whoring]
[begin office supply whoring]
Manila folders did that back in the 50's-80's. And it Worked, and it was Good too.
[end office supply whoring]
Seriously, back in the '90s, I did not get 100 e-mails a day, I did not have 30 GB of music file and 100 GB of video file, and I now have tons of doc, xls, pdfs, qif, etc that I did not have back then.
You cannot always compare new to old technology much less to a dead OS.
Are you sure?
Here are tons of people, myself included, telling you that Apple.com was not reachable. And here is you - one guy who got in but knows "for an absolute fact" that the site was good. Should we believe one person's experience or what the rest of the us actually experienced?
I know this is common for Slashdot readers but next time, please try to be less arrogant.
CUL8R.
That is only because you have not owned a PocketPC or otherwise you would have know that the friggin' transparent cover that cost 10 cents to make is on every iPaq owner's wish list!
Are you are not applying the 5 security updates Apple released in the last 5 months (9/07, 9/16, 9/30, 10/27, 12/2) that requires a reboot then?
Oh, you also used the trademark phrase of "snappy" and "my insert-name-of-mac-no-matter-how-old-and-slow-it-i s Mac is still fast as greased pig."
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a zealot on our hands!
P.S. - I love OS X and Apple. I just hate zealots (Apple/linux/Windows).
You don't happen to have one of these do you?
Can you accept that OSS/GPL/Linux/OS X users can form indepent opinions about OSS/GPL/Linux/OS X or Microsoft?
Another factual correction: Newsweek is not own by Microsoft. And rather than throwing baseless accusation on how Newsweek is influenced by Microsoft? Any evidence?