A post complaining of unfair moderation being unfairly moderated? Heh. Slashdot moderators at their most corrupt. But of course, I wouldn't expect a post breaking the unspoken "Apple Worship Rule" to remain alive longer than an hour without a downmod. Dishonest Apple salesmen like you seem to rule this site. Congratulations on your part in destroying the free market through deception.
Censorship through moderation? Certainly. Moderator bias is rampant, and Taco and friends are powerless (or unwilling) to stop it. My post doesn't deserve this. Neither of them do. A common sales pitch for potential geek switchers (ie. all of Slashdot) is that if they don't like OS X, they can always run their beloved Linux. Well, they can, but the sales droids are leaving quite a bit out, such as the fact that Linux on PPC is definitely a port. There is a noticeable lack of software (you can always port it from x86 yourself, I suppose), but worse, most of your Apple hardware is unsupported, NOT because Linux coders are less skilled (as another post in this thread implies), but because of a lack of documentation and Apple-designed roadblocks to Linux PPC progress. If you can accept that Apple has become a greedy corrupt multinational who isn't "Apple" but for the name only, then fine. Apple ain't "Apple" no more. Your astroturfing is the ultimate proof of that. The "Old Apple" would never have stood for it, let alone encouraged it. The "New Apple" is corrupt, as are the "moderators for hire" such as yourself.
To save the name "Apple", you've killed the company that made the name mean something.
Sad to say, I love some aspects of the Apple hardware, but I won't be buying another portable from them until they ditch Broadcom. Their choice of Broadcom wireless cards ensures that we'll never get linux wireless working on them, and I can buy numerous other brands of laptop which are more linux-friendly.
I've sent Apple numerous (polite) emails explaining that their choice of Broadcom over more "open" vendors is costing them sales, but they (as always) never responded, and I was left thinking my "feedback" emails just went to/dev/null.
I suppose they view Linux as competition and don't want to make it any easier to "switch"; what they're not getting is that they can't control the ever-increasing mob of linux users the way they can control Mac users. If they don't want to give linux users the specs we want, we'll go to the competition. With Mac OS X, there IS no competition, and so OS X users have no leverage to demand better. Apple should decide whether they want Linux users using their hardware (and the resulting money) or whether having total control of their platform and product is more important to them. They can't have it both ways.
In the meantime, I'm looking at alternatives in the x86 world, and they're looking pretty good.
If it's GPLed, we'd just fix it. Java's closed and therefore unfixable by us. If MS made a linux distro, we'd just take the MS GUI and drop in our stock kernel, etc. and end up with something even grandma could love.
Microsoft can't "Microsoft" something that they don't completely control.
having your XBox Live account's ability to play Halo 2 crippled as we can and we will ban your gamertags from access to vital parts of Halo 2's online experience.
Fine. Goodbye. Threatening customers en masse is yet another reason to ditch these guys in favor of systems where they don't act like Saddam Hussein all the time. Better yet, find an open-source and distributed gaming network. I don't even have an XBox or Halo, but I'm as pissed off as I can be at their mouth-frothing, scattergun, -1, Troll threats. Why would I ever sign up with these DICKS if they can start pulling the plug on you at their whim? Next they'll pull your plug for dissing their game on your blog. Then they'll pull your plug for using bad language during the game. Then they'll pull your plug for using a.45 LongSlide with Laser Sight when a Phased-plasma rifle in the forty watt range is obviously the best choice.
It's their right to be raging assholes, it's my right never to buy their product because of it. Piracy sucks, but wiretapping your customers sucks worse. Looks like Big Brother is alive and well and (why am I surprised) works for Microsoft.
Mac users keep their hardware longer because Apple is much slower to introduce upgrades: once or twice a year at most. Last I checked, it averaged about 9 months for a ~200 Mhz upgrade in chips.
Basically, there's no reason to upgrade because the new Macs aren't any better than the old ones. I bought a PowerBook in April and it's STILL the top of the line. I'm sure I'll still be using it five years from now, because the new Apples will only be 30% faster. Conversely, if you buy a Dell today you'll be pissed off in two months when Dell's offering computers 30% faster for the same price you paid today. Apple is stagnating.
This wouldn't be allowed in the PC world, where competition forces upgrades and improvements nearly daily.
And really, MOST of the parts Apple uses are the same as PC vendors. They're not any higher quality. That's typical urban legend dishonest marketing BS.
I didn't realize I could buy a Dell from HP or IBM?
You can buy an X86 computer that runs Windows or Linux from MULTIPLE vendors. How many companies sell PPC computers that run Mac OS X?
If you buy a Mac, you ARE locked in to one vendor. If you buy a Dell, you can EASILY migrate your apps to the hardware of IBM, Toshiba, HP, whatever. Show me five different hardware companies I can price shop at who can run OS X applications. I'll easily show you five companies I can buy hardware from to run my companies' PC apps.
Small World! Your articles were the only worthwhile thing in Lambda. I've still got an issue or two lying around due to your Libertarianesque prose. You helped shape and define a lot of young minds, mine was one of them. Thanks, bro.
Now, I'd better get to reading your site; philosophically, I've wandered off a bit during the last 10 years or so and am only now making a comeback....
I remember cutting out articles from my University newspaper by a guy named Gordon Gekko, whose political column was called "Enter Stage Right". Are you that same guy?
Al Franken's Bush Is The Love Child Of Hitler and Tokyo Rose or Jim Hightower's Bush Kidnapped The Linbergh Baby or MoveOn.org's Bush Enjoys Raping Kittens, Small Children ad
Do you know how disappointed I was when I went to amazon.com with VISA card in hand, only to find you made this stuff up?
What's worse is that Slashdot has a Republican topic, a Democrat topic, but no Libertarian topic. I wrote a letter to Taco, hopefully he'll make one (Statue of Liberty would be nice).
p.s. Keep the faith. I like your blog.
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One, just because Apple CLAIMS they have 25 million Mac users doesn't make it true. They may have SOLD 25 million Macs, but I know a couple of people who have four or five of them, which throws off their numbers slightly. I'd need a link to verify what exactly they're claiming. Until I see a link, that's just a fluff number.
Two, *I'm* not "spreading false ideas"; if you have a problem, take it up with Merrill Lynch. But it would be prudent to believe them before you believe Apple's self-serving "impartial estimates".
I was an AC Mac troll for years, and I know that whenever someone volunteers the alibi, "I'm a Windows XP Professional user who hasn't seen a Macintosh since Grade School", while simultaneously propping up Apple that hard, HE'S A MAC ZEALOT. I know because I did it. Your alibi can't disguise the pseudo-religious anger of your troll, and your AC status serves to prevent us from digging up past posts to prove your bias. But you obviously take this personally; readers should ask themselves WHY?
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A post complaining of unfair moderation being unfairly moderated? Heh. Slashdot moderators at their most corrupt. But of course, I wouldn't expect a post breaking the unspoken "Apple Worship Rule" to remain alive longer than an hour without a downmod. Dishonest Apple salesmen like you seem to rule this site. Congratulations on your part in destroying the free market through deception.
Censorship through moderation? Certainly. Moderator bias is rampant, and Taco and friends are powerless (or unwilling) to stop it. My post doesn't deserve this. Neither of them do. A common sales pitch for potential geek switchers (ie. all of Slashdot) is that if they don't like OS X, they can always run their beloved Linux. Well, they can, but the sales droids are leaving quite a bit out, such as the fact that Linux on PPC is definitely a port. There is a noticeable lack of software (you can always port it from x86 yourself, I suppose), but worse, most of your Apple hardware is unsupported, NOT because Linux coders are less skilled (as another post in this thread implies), but because of a lack of documentation and Apple-designed roadblocks to Linux PPC progress. If you can accept that Apple has become a greedy corrupt multinational who isn't "Apple" but for the name only, then fine. Apple ain't "Apple" no more. Your astroturfing is the ultimate proof of that. The "Old Apple" would never have stood for it, let alone encouraged it. The "New Apple" is corrupt, as are the "moderators for hire" such as yourself.
To save the name "Apple", you've killed the company that made the name mean something.
.... about the X-Box.
It's very inexpensive, and as far as I know, it's the most hacked system out there.
Apple releases new iBooks -- with Broadcom wireless cards.
I say I won't buy an iBook BECAUSE they have Broadcom wireless cards and are therefore a bad choice for linux users.
Seems ontopic to me. Unless debating the pros and cons of a new product is a BAD THING now.
Sad to say, I love some aspects of the Apple hardware, but I won't be buying another portable from them until they ditch Broadcom. Their choice of Broadcom wireless cards ensures that we'll never get linux wireless working on them, and I can buy numerous other brands of laptop which are more linux-friendly.
/dev/null.
I've sent Apple numerous (polite) emails explaining that their choice of Broadcom over more "open" vendors is costing them sales, but they (as always) never responded, and I was left thinking my "feedback" emails just went to
I suppose they view Linux as competition and don't want to make it any easier to "switch"; what they're not getting is that they can't control the ever-increasing mob of linux users the way they can control Mac users. If they don't want to give linux users the specs we want, we'll go to the competition. With Mac OS X, there IS no competition, and so OS X users have no leverage to demand better. Apple should decide whether they want Linux users using their hardware (and the resulting money) or whether having total control of their platform and product is more important to them. They can't have it both ways.
In the meantime, I'm looking at alternatives in the x86 world, and they're looking pretty good.
If it's GPLed, we'd just fix it. Java's closed and therefore unfixable by us. If MS made a linux distro, we'd just take the MS GUI and drop in our stock kernel, etc. and end up with something even grandma could love.
Microsoft can't "Microsoft" something that they don't completely control.
Mod up! +5, Creepy
having your XBox Live account's ability to play Halo 2 crippled as we can and we will ban your gamertags from access to vital parts of Halo 2's online experience.
.45 LongSlide with Laser Sight when a Phased-plasma rifle in the forty watt range is obviously the best choice.
Fine. Goodbye. Threatening customers en masse is yet another reason to ditch these guys in favor of systems where they don't act like Saddam Hussein all the time. Better yet, find an open-source and distributed gaming network. I don't even have an XBox or Halo, but I'm as pissed off as I can be at their mouth-frothing, scattergun, -1, Troll threats. Why would I ever sign up with these DICKS if they can start pulling the plug on you at their whim? Next they'll pull your plug for dissing their game on your blog. Then they'll pull your plug for using bad language during the game. Then they'll pull your plug for using a
It's their right to be raging assholes, it's my right never to buy their product because of it. Piracy sucks, but wiretapping your customers sucks worse. Looks like Big Brother is alive and well and (why am I surprised) works for Microsoft.
In the new version, Kerry shot first.
Mac users keep their hardware longer because Apple is much slower to introduce upgrades: once or twice a year at most. Last I checked, it averaged about 9 months for a ~200 Mhz upgrade in chips.
Basically, there's no reason to upgrade because the new Macs aren't any better than the old ones. I bought a PowerBook in April and it's STILL the top of the line. I'm sure I'll still be using it five years from now, because the new Apples will only be 30% faster. Conversely, if you buy a Dell today you'll be pissed off in two months when Dell's offering computers 30% faster for the same price you paid today. Apple is stagnating.
This wouldn't be allowed in the PC world, where competition forces upgrades and improvements nearly daily.
And really, MOST of the parts Apple uses are the same as PC vendors. They're not any higher quality. That's typical urban legend dishonest marketing BS.
Link?
I didn't realize I could buy a Dell from HP or IBM?
You can buy an X86 computer that runs Windows or Linux from MULTIPLE vendors. How many companies sell PPC computers that run Mac OS X?
If you buy a Mac, you ARE locked in to one vendor. If you buy a Dell, you can EASILY migrate your apps to the hardware of IBM, Toshiba, HP, whatever. Show me five different hardware companies I can price shop at who can run OS X applications. I'll easily show you five companies I can buy hardware from to run my companies' PC apps.
... I'm glad to see freedom is alive SOMEWHERE.
Sad that the only useful thing they've done is hit "undo" on themselves.
Now if only they'd take it a step or two further...
Small World! Your articles were the only worthwhile thing in Lambda. I've still got an issue or two lying around due to your Libertarianesque prose. You helped shape and define a lot of young minds, mine was one of them. Thanks, bro.
Now, I'd better get to reading your site; philosophically, I've wandered off a bit during the last 10 years or so and am only now making a comeback....
I remember cutting out articles from my University newspaper by a guy named Gordon Gekko, whose political column was called "Enter Stage Right". Are you that same guy?
Al Franken's Bush Is The Love Child Of Hitler and Tokyo Rose or Jim Hightower's Bush Kidnapped The Linbergh Baby or MoveOn.org's Bush Enjoys Raping Kittens, Small Children ad
Do you know how disappointed I was when I went to amazon.com with VISA card in hand, only to find you made this stuff up?
It looks like...
All your base belong to Taco!
What's worse is that Slashdot has a Republican topic, a Democrat topic, but no Libertarian topic. I wrote a letter to Taco, hopefully he'll make one (Statue of Liberty would be nice).
p.s. Keep the faith. I like your blog.
... but I locked my copy in my dad's safe and now I can't remember the combination.
Yes, but for a different reason.
Kirk: Mirror... Destroyed... Must Warn Others!
Spock: Strangely, the mirror appears to have been demolished.
Scotty: I can't do miracles, dammit! She's crackin' up! I'm gettin' 404s!
Bones: She's gone, Jim.
I just hopped over and searched for Resident Evil 2, and lo and behold, I got anime porn pictures down the right side!
Yes, Google has just been erased from my memorybanks thanks to this killer feature.
One, just because Apple CLAIMS they have 25 million Mac users doesn't make it true. They may have SOLD 25 million Macs, but I know a couple of people who have four or five of them, which throws off their numbers slightly. I'd need a link to verify what exactly they're claiming. Until I see a link, that's just a fluff number.
Two, *I'm* not "spreading false ideas"; if you have a problem, take it up with Merrill Lynch. But it would be prudent to believe them before you believe Apple's self-serving "impartial estimates".
I was an AC Mac troll for years, and I know that whenever someone volunteers the alibi, "I'm a Windows XP Professional user who hasn't seen a Macintosh since Grade School", while simultaneously propping up Apple that hard, HE'S A MAC ZEALOT. I know because I did it. Your alibi can't disguise the pseudo-religious anger of your troll, and your AC status serves to prevent us from digging up past posts to prove your bias. But you obviously take this personally; readers should ask themselves WHY?