and no, I have never clicked on these adds, not because I'm intelligent, but because I have experience with computers
Assuming that you have no practical experience with the English language:
"add" is commonly associated with "addition".
Example:"I'd like to add my opinion to this discussion".
"ad" is a common contraction for the word "advertisement"
Example""This thread is discussing irritating pop-up ads".
It's always a pisser calling people 14 year-olds (I always love the "live at home" extension to that scathing epithet) while completely missing such an obvious homonym.
My condolences. I'm sure you'll remember next time.
Or avoid posts in threads about math or advertising.
Pick one.
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You're at the VW dealership, and you climb inside the brand new Beetle. And you see this little white thing near the stereo. You ask the dealer what that's all about, he encourages you to play with it. You see that it's filed with literally thousands of songs that you can play in the car's stereo instantly. You ask. He says it's yours with the car.
... and driving out of your VW dealership, you're so busy screwing around adding "I am the Warrior" (Patty Smythe/Scandal) to your "On-The-Go" playlist that you run a red light and plow into a bus full of retarded kids, killing 12.
Bungie's abandoning their promise to release Halo on the Mac first and then selling out to Microsoft is one of the few valid reasons for fanatical Mac people to hate Microsoft.
If Bungie was smart, they'd put it out on the Mac first: Mac people are used to buying *new* games that have been out on other platforms for months/years.
Before you mod me down for the last statement, I hug my TiBook 2x per day.
If a DM stretches the paladin's code to require giving away wealth or bar discretion in combat, then he's got a bias against paladins (or he's stick in 2nd edition.) They essentially just need to be Lawful Good, emphasis on the Good.
A lot of DMs are stuck in 2E. The whole alignment concept is crap [unless you actually enjoy rules lawyering] and should have been tossed.
However, of the above listed games, I recommend solidly buying "Sorcerer" and its two supplements "Sword and Sorcery" and "Sorcerer and Soul" just to read.
Some of the best writing about RPGs as well. I would further the recommendation by suggesting a trip to the Forge:
[ http://www.indie-rpgs.com/ ]
If for no other reason than to read Ron Edwards' writings and ensuing discussion RE:the GNS Model of RPGs. Ron is also the author of the Sorcerer books.
The most fun system I've seen in a long time (it should win an award for coolest character sheet ever) is "Little Fears"
[ http://www.key20.com/kyp1000/index.html ]
The character sheet is available in pdf form at the URL above.
Neo is not a true Kazaa client (not even close...). From your link to versiontracker"
"Neo is a Cocoa "shadow" client for the Kazaa network, meaning that it does not actually connect to the Kazaa servers. Instead, Neo scans through IP ranges looking for Kazaa hosts, indexes their file lists, and stores them locally on your hard drive."
...and it sucks. Makes LimeWire seem blisteringly quick and reliable by comparison.
I've found the best approach at this point is to use Virtual PC and Kazaa Lite.
Direct Connect? Never heard of it. I'll have to check it out. Link[s] would be appreciated.
I installed 10.3 and have been running it for 6 days now.
I was initially concerned about the prospect of a brushed metal UI: I hate the way it looks in the iApps, etc.
I was surprised to see that most of the actual Finder windows don't look like brushed metal nearly as much as I thought they would. If you look at the current pinstriped window motif and imagine it all grey instead of striped, that's what it looks like.
I booted back into 10.2.6 today (I'm running 10.3 on my old "Classic" partition - 4GB) and it feels kind of gaudy in comparison.
In any event, it's really more "Platinum2K" then "Brushed Metal" -- I'm looking forward to the release version.
n. One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
According to the experts my application of the word is correct. Sorry about that.
Let's try another one:
imÂbeÂcile ÂÂ n.
A stupid or silly person; a dolt.
A person whose mental acumen is well below par.
A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
I would have to agree with your underlying assumptions about religion and the definition of the word "zealot" in order to even attempt to engage you in a rational discussion on your ignorance but I don't.
Evidently neither do a couple of dictionaries, but why split hairs when you're raping thousands of years of religious and philosophical theory for the sake of slagging an operating system?
The confidence with which you thump you chest makes you no less of a douchebag.
Then again, this is Slashdot, and I wouldn't expect for characters like Xer or his friends to understand anything other than their own interests, and I wouldn't expect them to respond to anything that challenges that in any way execpt being insulting.
Hi.
This is the Apple section of slashdot.
Posting about FSF in the Apple section:
(a) displays a profound lack of common sense.
(b) Indicates you're a troll.
(c) Proves you are in fact a zealot.
(d) All of the above.
Pick one. Or not. But please... you're annoying strident.
zealot n : a fervent and even militant proponent of something.
Having ethical considerations does not make one a zealot, so please stop being so insulting.
The belief that your ethical considerations are correct and/or superior to others' ethical considerations could be considered to be fervent or militant.
Here in grown-up land, posing the statement that anyone should do anything is called "leading with the chin".
If you are going to lead with the chin, please stop being so sensitive.
All of the broadband discussion has been neato and everything, but I'm interested in what was apparently (to me at least) the basis of the original question, so I'll ask it again:
What are peoples' experiences with local alternative POTS(land-line) carriers?
I've had a nightmare overbilling experience with SBC, and as a result, I'm forced to use Verizon wireless for my "home" phone and HotSpot for my broadband.
What I'd like to know, is there any place that is aggregating this information, in a similar fashion as dslreports.com dslreports.com but for POTS? National would be of obvious use, but I'd settle for any information in the L.A. area.
1. IE for mac was released when Microsoft was trying to kill Netscape. That's finished, they don't need to fight on that front anymore. They don't care about any free browsers now, or AOL's netscape - it became a non-issue since MS doesn't have to fight for browser dominance.
Wrong. That directly contradicts your point #2 about Apple's "small market share". It's also historically inaccurate, but I'll get to that in a minute.
2. Cost cutting measure. Why waste all that money on Mac developent, if it's such a small market share, and even not your primary focus? Besides, you don't earn a dime off Mac IE. Besides, if your competitor can't ofer a product themselves that is up to par, taking away IE will...
3. Just starve apple to death. Stop releasing the apps people are used to, i.g. IE, Office, etc. Killing off a competitor (even a small one) never hurts, right? Apple started relying (to an extent) on Free Software just in time - otherwise things would get real tough for them. By the way, apple, why not invest some more into the development of that software? It'll be paying you back by keeping you in business and keeping your customer-base somewhat intact.
"starve Apple to death?" That's cute. No. Really.
Welcome to 2003, the (approximately) 15th year in a row where people have been predicting Apple's eminent demise. Hasn't happened yet. Isn't going to happen any time soon, but if it makes you feel any better to keep parroting (penguining?) this line, go right ahead.
4. Show the court during any anti-trust trial that they are not really striving for total dominance. Just a 90% one:).
It really boils down to the fact that IE and office for Mac came out during the war for desktop and browser dominance. Now neither of the competitors (Netscape, Mac) are a threat, so the Mac versions of MS software are simply not necessary. Especially the ones that don't earn money. But even the ones that do (e.g. Office) will probably go next.
This is where we bring up the historical inaccuracy part. I'll give you the Cliff Notes:
1. Word and Excel for the Macintosh were, in the olden days of the late 1980s, 2 of Microsoft's largest money makers, back when WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were the dominant Word Processing and Spreadsheet applications on DOS boxes.
2. Microsoft wanted Apple to license the Mac OS to other hardware manufacturers in order to expand market share, so that they could sell more copies of Excel and Word. Apple said no, which is a big part of the reason why Microsoft invested the amount of money that they did in Windows. These discussions took place way back in the late 1980s.
3. Office has a much better ROI from a development standpoint than an OS. The OS is leverage to sell more copies of Office. A large part of what the DOJ has looked at Microsoft for is leveraging the OS in order to make their other products run better than competitors. IE on Windows is a great example of this. [Note: I'm focusing on desktop applications only for simplicity's sake, which is apparently necessary]
Office for Mac isn't going anywhere anytime soon: it's a cash cow for Microsoft and always has been. Microsoft's announcement earlier this year touting Entourage as a Exchange client (2/2003 - not very long ago) is a great example of this: Microsoft gets paid for selling the app, and they get paid again for Exchange CALs.
The only thing that would motivate Microsoft to cut revenue nose to spite market-share face would be if Apple were to move onto the x86 CPU. Then Apple would be a direct competitor.
To say that Mac versions of MS software are not necessary for MS's bottom line is silly and ignorant.
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Assuming that you have no practical experience with the English language: "add" is commonly associated with "addition".
Example:"I'd like to add my opinion to this discussion".
"ad" is a common contraction for the word "advertisement"
Example""This thread is discussing irritating pop-up ads".
It's always a pisser calling people 14 year-olds (I always love the "live at home" extension to that scathing epithet) while completely missing such an obvious homonym.
My condolences. I'm sure you'll remember next time.
Or avoid posts in threads about math or advertising.
Pick one.
So who gets sued -- VW or Apple?
Halo was originally announced for the Mac. MWSF 1998. You could even pre-order Halo for the Mac here
Halo is for all intents and purposes, Marathon IV [/dons flame retardant jump suit].
The original Marathon series is available via the Marathon Aleph One project here
Finally, there's Marathon Resurrection, a Marathon Unreal Tournament mod.
Bungie's abandoning their promise to release Halo on the Mac first and then selling out to Microsoft is one of the few valid reasons for fanatical Mac people to hate Microsoft.
If Bungie was smart, they'd put it out on the Mac first: Mac people are used to buying *new* games that have been out on other platforms for months/years.
Before you mod me down for the last statement, I hug my TiBook 2x per day.
F A N B O I.
I know I was surprised when I read it.
Should make for one hell of a Happy Meal diorama though.
Or shaving your balls.
A lot of DMs are stuck in 2E. The whole alignment concept is crap [unless you actually enjoy rules lawyering] and should have been tossed.
Some of the best writing about RPGs as well. I would further the recommendation by suggesting a trip to the Forge:
[ http://www.indie-rpgs.com/ ]
If for no other reason than to read Ron Edwards' writings and ensuing discussion RE:the GNS Model of RPGs. Ron is also the author of the Sorcerer books.
The most fun system I've seen in a long time (it should win an award for coolest character sheet ever) is "Little Fears"
[ http://www.key20.com/kyp1000/index.html ]
The character sheet is available in pdf form at the URL above.
Not to mention the glut of absolute crap sourcebooks:
"Ovarian Cyst of the Lankhmarian Uber-fungi(tm) - Kobold Proctologist Sourcebook Required"
Any hardbacks published by the larger publishers are going to run at least $30 USD.
Great. I do and I've used it and it sucks in comparison.
I'm basing my *opinion* on usage. The only one of these I haven't tried yet is Direct Connect, which looks encouraging. The rest of these are crap.
Neo is not a true Kazaa client (not even close...). From your link to versiontracker"
"Neo is a Cocoa "shadow" client for the Kazaa network, meaning that it does not actually connect to the Kazaa servers. Instead, Neo scans through IP ranges looking for Kazaa hosts, indexes their file lists, and stores them locally on your hard drive."
I've found the best approach at this point is to use Virtual PC and Kazaa Lite.
Direct Connect? Never heard of it. I'll have to check it out. Link[s] would be appreciated.
The question was "why the hell isn't there Kazaa for the Mac?"
mlMac is a GUI front end to mlDonkey which is eDonkey for the Mac, not Kazaa for the Mac.
I was initially concerned about the prospect of a brushed metal UI: I hate the way it looks in the iApps, etc.
I was surprised to see that most of the actual Finder windows don't look like brushed metal nearly as much as I thought they would. If you look at the current pinstriped window motif and imagine it all grey instead of striped, that's what it looks like.
I booted back into 10.2.6 today (I'm running 10.3 on my old "Classic" partition - 4GB) and it feels kind of gaudy in comparison.
In any event, it's really more "Platinum2K" then "Brushed Metal" -- I'm looking forward to the release version.
zealot \Zeal"ot\, n. [F. z['e]lote, L. zelotes, Gr. ?. See Zeal .] n.
One who is zealous, especially excessively so.
A fanatically committed person.
[Middle English zelote , from Latin zlts, from Greek, from zlos ,zeal .]
Source :The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
n. One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
Source :Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
n : a fervent and even militant proponent of something.
Source :WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
According to the experts my application of the word is correct. Sorry about that.
Let's try another one:
imÂbeÂcile ÂÂ n.
A stupid or silly person; a dolt.
A person whose mental acumen is well below par.
A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
adj. also imÂbeÂcilÂic (mb-slk)
Stupid; silly.
Well below par in mental acumen.
[From obsolete French imbécille, weak, feeble, from Old French, from Latin imbcillusÂ: in-, not; see in-1 + possibly bacillum, staff, diminutive of baculum, rod; see bak- in Indo-European Roots.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
I'll even use it in a sentence for you:
You are an imbecile.
P.S. - A little unsolicited advice. Unless you're Canadian, don't call people buddy. It makes you sound like a condescending prick.
I had my heart set on The Lord Jesus Vader Dumptruck.
Looks like Harry Scrotepole Cannibas Bandaid Fett is out as well.
Luckily there's babelfish: I'm going for Schlag Bumser.
Evidently neither do a couple of dictionaries, but why split hairs when you're raping thousands of years of religious and philosophical theory for the sake of slagging an operating system?
The confidence with which you thump you chest makes you no less of a douchebag.
There. Now I've resorted to name-calling.
I'll bet you're a big Smiths fan too, aren't you?
I'm not a physicist, but I play one on /.
Hi.
This is the Apple section of slashdot.
Posting about FSF in the Apple section:
(a) displays a profound lack of common sense.
(b) Indicates you're a troll.
(c) Proves you are in fact a zealot.
(d) All of the above.
Pick one. Or not. But please... you're annoying strident.
Having ethical considerations does not make one a zealot, so please stop being so insulting.
The belief that your ethical considerations are correct and/or superior to others' ethical considerations could be considered to be fervent or militant.
Here in grown-up land, posing the statement that anyone should do anything is called "leading with the chin".
If you are going to lead with the chin, please stop being so sensitive.
In other words, dial-up is no good without dial tone.
Thanks though...
What are peoples' experiences with local alternative POTS(land-line) carriers?
I've had a nightmare overbilling experience with SBC, and as a result, I'm forced to use Verizon wireless for my "home" phone and HotSpot for my broadband.
What I'd like to know, is there any place that is aggregating this information, in a similar fashion as dslreports.com dslreports.com but for POTS? National would be of obvious use, but I'd settle for any information in the L.A. area.
Only one of us will think it's funny.
Not me.
1. IE for mac was released when Microsoft was trying to kill Netscape. That's finished, they don't need to fight on that front anymore. They don't care about any free browsers now, or AOL's netscape - it became a non-issue since MS doesn't have to fight for browser dominance.
Wrong. That directly contradicts your point #2 about Apple's "small market share". It's also historically inaccurate, but I'll get to that in a minute.
2. Cost cutting measure. Why waste all that money on Mac developent, if it's such a small market share, and even not your primary focus? Besides, you don't earn a dime off Mac IE. Besides, if your competitor can't ofer a product themselves that is up to par, taking away IE will...
3. Just starve apple to death. Stop releasing the apps people are used to, i.g. IE, Office, etc. Killing off a competitor (even a small one) never hurts, right? Apple started relying (to an extent) on Free Software just in time - otherwise things would get real tough for them. By the way, apple, why not invest some more into the development of that software? It'll be paying you back by keeping you in business and keeping your customer-base somewhat intact.
"starve Apple to death?" That's cute. No. Really.
Welcome to 2003, the (approximately) 15th year in a row where people have been predicting Apple's eminent demise. Hasn't happened yet. Isn't going to happen any time soon, but if it makes you feel any better to keep parroting (penguining?) this line, go right ahead.
4. Show the court during any anti-trust trial that they are not really striving for total dominance. Just a 90% one :).
It really boils down to the fact that IE and office for Mac came out during the war for desktop and browser dominance. Now neither of the competitors (Netscape, Mac) are a threat, so the Mac versions of MS software are simply not necessary. Especially the ones that don't earn money. But even the ones that do (e.g. Office) will probably go next.
This is where we bring up the historical inaccuracy part. I'll give you the Cliff Notes:
1. Word and Excel for the Macintosh were, in the olden days of the late 1980s, 2 of Microsoft's largest money makers, back when WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were the dominant Word Processing and Spreadsheet applications on DOS boxes.
2. Microsoft wanted Apple to license the Mac OS to other hardware manufacturers in order to expand market share, so that they could sell more copies of Excel and Word. Apple said no, which is a big part of the reason why Microsoft invested the amount of money that they did in Windows. These discussions took place way back in the late 1980s.
3. Office has a much better ROI from a development standpoint than an OS. The OS is leverage to sell more copies of Office. A large part of what the DOJ has looked at Microsoft for is leveraging the OS in order to make their other products run better than competitors. IE on Windows is a great example of this. [Note: I'm focusing on desktop applications only for simplicity's sake, which is apparently necessary]
Office for Mac isn't going anywhere anytime soon: it's a cash cow for Microsoft and always has been. Microsoft's announcement earlier this year touting Entourage as a Exchange client (2/2003 - not very long ago) is a great example of this: Microsoft gets paid for selling the app, and they get paid again for Exchange CALs.
The only thing that would motivate Microsoft to cut revenue nose to spite market-share face would be if Apple were to move onto the x86 CPU. Then Apple would be a direct competitor.
To say that Mac versions of MS software are not necessary for MS's bottom line is silly and ignorant.
Congratulations!
Sounds like yet another good reason to leave Florida.