Halloween came after Samhain but the Celtic culture was wiped out by invading hordes attacking the british isles long before Halloween came into being.
What you posted is a commonly held myth. The only connection between the pagan rituals of europe and halloween is that christians dressed up as demons, ghosts out of fun and to mock the formerly held superstitions of Europeans. Some neo-pagans might think they are "reviving" old paganism but what they believe in bares little resemblance to old pagan religions.
Stop blaming christians for the invading germanic tribes wiping out the celts.
Samhaim had nothing to do with people dressing up like red devils with pitch forks or as witches or the dead.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hallo_sa.htm
Yes, halloween was instituted to make light of various pagan rituals/beliefs.
Bonfires were common among the pagan cultures of northern europe and are not unique to Samhain.
So I have a choice of platforms too? Oh wait. No I don't. I have to use Windows media player running on "windows" to sync my MS certified device (read licensed) with the "Plays for Sure" logo on it. Some stores even require use of IE for windows. Sounds like MS has it's hand in it from end to end with also but with Apple, I would not be forced (if I was a PC user) to use their OS to use iTMS.
I think you have confused yourself by the illusion of choice you think you have with WMA. Al those stores require MS compatible software/hardware from end to end.
Actually, with either that commercial wine implementation or Maconlinux (if you have a PPC machine), you can run iTunes on linux if you wish. There are also hacks you can use to strip to DRM from iTMS songs which will allow you to then sync them with linux software or third-party windows software to your ipod or any ACC compatible player.
I think you are confusing brand awareness with marketshare. One does not automatically translate into another.
There have been various studies that showed Apple was one of the top brand recognized brands even before the iPod came out. Doesn't everyone in the western world remember the "Think different ads" or the switch campaign? Remember the original iMac series?
People have been inundated with Apple ads and product placement in movies and television and yet it did not translate into sales. But it did increase mind share.
I'll give you and example: Sony. Everyone knows who Sony are right? Yet why didn't everyone go out and buy a Sony walkman? Why doesn't everyone have a sony DVD player/TV/Stereo? Why does Apple dominate the Mp3 market instead of Sony?
The answer is not price, not just brand recognition (Who does not know about Creative and their soundcards/gameports?) but rather delivering a product that is easy to use and offers both standard and DRM'ed formats and works on both major commercial platforms (MS and Apple). Finally, it works with the largest/most popular online music store (iTMS).
Here's an idea. We will stop interfering with your elections as soon as you stop passing laws and trying to enforce them outside of your borders. eg. DMCA, Patriot Act.
Thank you. Now what is your opinion on the effect of salt content on the fluid dynamics? Might a sudden drop in the northern or southern atlantic affect the flow of the Gulf stream?
Do you consider the Gulf stream to be one of the main regulating forces controlling the climate of our planet?
If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed various scientific journals talking about the possible effect melting ice might have on the gulf stream long before the "Day After Tomorrow" was written or presented on screen.
Thank you for being a total troll and completely avoiding the main thrust of my post.
You went totally off topic on some diatribe concerning science fiction authors rather than addressing the matter at hand. I just mentioned the film as an aside because the parent post did in an infantile jab at what the grandparent poster wrote.
What about desalination and its effect on fluid dynamics involved in the behavior? Do you have anything to add to that? Are you arguing that the Gulf stream does not have a significant effect on the climate of the northern hemisphere?
Let me guess, you have never travelled out side of the continental united states?
The gulf stream is integral to the climate of: "the British Isles, Scandinavia north western russia including the area surrounding Moscow. Without the Gulf stream countries like Finland would not have the warm summers they do have and the winters would be much colder considering what latitude they are at.
It matters not that there was a big hollywood flick on this thing. They were using some solid science in that film moron.
Regardless of the dramatization by Hollywood, the gulf stream is and extremely important system/engine regulating our planet's climate and desalinization could trigger a disruption of the flow of the gulf stream because fresh water has a different density.
Imagine a liquid trying to move through a liquid with a different density versus a stream flowing within a liquid of approximately the same density.
Now I ask you, would the flow patterns remain the same?
I think you have hit the nail on the head on that one. I used to be part of the "cult of the mac" when I was a PC user trying desperately trying to mac my windows XP more mac-like.
As a mac user now, I really have lost the fanboyish ferver I used to have when I saw a powerbook somewhere.
Now that I have one, It's just a tool for me that I use for my creative pursuits and to communicate with others.
The real mac cultists are the mac voyeurs who admire the mac from afar while staying on the PC.
So you are not a lemming for using windows and continuing to use IE despite the alternatives out there?
Maybe some of use mac users happen to be former windows users who got tired of being a lemming and wanted to work with a "tool" that just works without all the hassle.
The System X cluster contained 1150 machines containing 2 CPUs each which equals 2300 CPUs in total.
You were saying? Not to mention you are comparing an expensive Server CPU with a desktop/workstation CPU.
Why don't we wait for IBM to build a Power 4+ or Power 5 super cluster?
Oh wonderful. Now who is going to support your poorly commented/coded application starts to crumble from bugs/scalability issues?
If you think you will write bug free code, then you are an idiot.
What you would call leeches, I would call responsible "professionals" who stand behind their code and ensure that it is properly documented/supported rather than some hacked together piece of crap with little or no documentation.
Real, usable software requires not Haxor l33t c0d3rz but rather professional programer analysts to implement requirements, systems analysts (to elicit requirements from users/prospective users), usability experts (to ensure the application meets usability standards, QA (to ensure the code is stable and implements the requirements effectively and finally, technical writers to write/and or proof read end user documentation and technical support documents.
Good software needs more than just one "clever guy" my boy. You see, in my book there are the leeches (pirates and users of open source that don't contribute money/time or open source developers who steal an idea a re-implement it verbatim without adding anything new) and there are the non-leeches who develop new and innovative open source or closed source applications which provide real value to paying/donating customers. Good open source pushes the envelop tries to promote an open standard anyone can implement for interoperability.
Funny how all those people, you would call leeches would strive to build something useful and of value might want to get paid a decent wage and be able to pay off their student loans they took out, not to mention raising children, paying the bills and house payments.
If this was true, mac users would be pirating "more" than PC users because their hardware is more expensive right? Funny how it seems to be the other way around.
Interesting. Now who is going to buy this stuff if the geeks are replaced by people working in third-world countries for pennies an hour? What will the geeks do for work to put food on the table, let alone being able to afford the luxury or "cheap" hardware and software?
I guess you utopian GNU people just don't think things through eh?
Btw. What issues would those be? How to feed your family now that you've advocated yourself out of a job?
Ok, people that think it's a good deal should go for it if it's what they are looking for and it meets their needs.
You have to wonder though what quality this stuff is if they can afford to give such large rebates. If they are selling it at a lose, they are putting themselves in a precarious position if their higher margin goods/services start loosing marketshare. If they are not losing money on it, then they have been overcharging for this crap in it really is crappy quality (buyer beware).
Just a thought, no extended warranty can compensate for: lost work in progress, lost jobs/clients and lost time.
If Dell is not making money on these consumer sales, then you have to wonder what would happen to them if say Apple took away some of their profitable corporate niche marketshare. Would they end up in trouble like Gateway did?
Comparing against Dell pricing and calling it "retail" is equally ridiculous. Those prices you quote are their loss leaders to get people hooked on Dell. Dell also does not have resellers to contend with and they often have arbitrary "limited time offer" coupons to artificially lower the cost of their base machine.
Now if you actually started to configure that 469 deal with "firewire" and other features the mac includes and a decent gfx card to match, it ends up costing more. This is known as reeling people in with "bait". That monitor they include is a piece of crap and nobody in their right mind would used that on a daily basis with it's low refresh rates that make even the Emac monitor look bad.
Did you see the low end ibook price? Got anything bad to say about it?
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What you posted is a commonly held myth. The only connection between the pagan rituals of europe and halloween is that christians dressed up as demons, ghosts out of fun and to mock the formerly held superstitions of Europeans. Some neo-pagans might think they are "reviving" old paganism but what they believe in bares little resemblance to old pagan religions.
Stop blaming christians for the invading germanic tribes wiping out the celts.
Samhaim had nothing to do with people dressing up like red devils with pitch forks or as witches or the dead. http://www.religioustolerance.org/hallo_sa.htm Yes, halloween was instituted to make light of various pagan rituals/beliefs.
Bonfires were common among the pagan cultures of northern europe and are not unique to Samhain.
He's using Safari's "check as you type" spell checker function.
It cannot be killed because it's undead.
I think you have confused yourself by the illusion of choice you think you have with WMA. Al those stores require MS compatible software/hardware from end to end.
Actually, with either that commercial wine implementation or Maconlinux (if you have a PPC machine), you can run iTunes on linux if you wish. There are also hacks you can use to strip to DRM from iTMS songs which will allow you to then sync them with linux software or third-party windows software to your ipod or any ACC compatible player.
There have been various studies that showed Apple was one of the top brand recognized brands even before the iPod came out. Doesn't everyone in the western world remember the "Think different ads" or the switch campaign? Remember the original iMac series?
People have been inundated with Apple ads and product placement in movies and television and yet it did not translate into sales. But it did increase mind share.
I'll give you and example: Sony. Everyone knows who Sony are right? Yet why didn't everyone go out and buy a Sony walkman? Why doesn't everyone have a sony DVD player/TV/Stereo? Why does Apple dominate the Mp3 market instead of Sony?
The answer is not price, not just brand recognition (Who does not know about Creative and their soundcards/gameports?) but rather delivering a product that is easy to use and offers both standard and DRM'ed formats and works on both major commercial platforms (MS and Apple). Finally, it works with the largest/most popular online music store (iTMS).
Here's an idea. We will stop interfering with your elections as soon as you stop passing laws and trying to enforce them outside of your borders. eg. DMCA, Patriot Act.
Do you consider the Gulf stream to be one of the main regulating forces controlling the climate of our planet?
If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed various scientific journals talking about the possible effect melting ice might have on the gulf stream long before the "Day After Tomorrow" was written or presented on screen.
You went totally off topic on some diatribe concerning science fiction authors rather than addressing the matter at hand. I just mentioned the film as an aside because the parent post did in an infantile jab at what the grandparent poster wrote.
What about desalination and its effect on fluid dynamics involved in the behavior? Do you have anything to add to that? Are you arguing that the Gulf stream does not have a significant effect on the climate of the northern hemisphere?
The gulf stream is integral to the climate of: "the British Isles, Scandinavia north western russia including the area surrounding Moscow. Without the Gulf stream countries like Finland would not have the warm summers they do have and the winters would be much colder considering what latitude they are at.
It matters not that there was a big hollywood flick on this thing. They were using some solid science in that film moron.
Regardless of the dramatization by Hollywood, the gulf stream is and extremely important system/engine regulating our planet's climate and desalinization could trigger a disruption of the flow of the gulf stream because fresh water has a different density.
Imagine a liquid trying to move through a liquid with a different density versus a stream flowing within a liquid of approximately the same density.
Now I ask you, would the flow patterns remain the same?
As a mac user now, I really have lost the fanboyish ferver I used to have when I saw a powerbook somewhere.
Now that I have one, It's just a tool for me that I use for my creative pursuits and to communicate with others.
The real mac cultists are the mac voyeurs who admire the mac from afar while staying on the PC.
Maybe some of use mac users happen to be former windows users who got tired of being a lemming and wanted to work with a "tool" that just works without all the hassle.
Please enlighten me as to why they are such a good thing if they have no content or are difficult to use.
The System X cluster contained 1150 machines containing 2 CPUs each which equals 2300 CPUs in total. You were saying? Not to mention you are comparing an expensive Server CPU with a desktop/workstation CPU.
Why don't we wait for IBM to build a Power 4+ or Power 5 super cluster?
It has a video out port for display on a TV or LCD projector.
Do you mind if we replace your job or offer to cut your wage to 1/10th of what it is now?
If you think you will write bug free code, then you are an idiot.
What you would call leeches, I would call responsible "professionals" who stand behind their code and ensure that it is properly documented/supported rather than some hacked together piece of crap with little or no documentation.
Real, usable software requires not Haxor l33t c0d3rz but rather professional programer analysts to implement requirements, systems analysts (to elicit requirements from users/prospective users), usability experts (to ensure the application meets usability standards, QA (to ensure the code is stable and implements the requirements effectively and finally, technical writers to write/and or proof read end user documentation and technical support documents.
Good software needs more than just one "clever guy" my boy. You see, in my book there are the leeches (pirates and users of open source that don't contribute money/time or open source developers who steal an idea a re-implement it verbatim without adding anything new) and there are the non-leeches who develop new and innovative open source or closed source applications which provide real value to paying/donating customers. Good open source pushes the envelop tries to promote an open standard anyone can implement for interoperability.
Funny how all those people, you would call leeches would strive to build something useful and of value might want to get paid a decent wage and be able to pay off their student loans they took out, not to mention raising children, paying the bills and house payments.
IIRC, decoders are free but encoders require a paid licence.
WMA, is neither free nor a standard.
Where do you get the idea AAC is from Apple?
If this was true, mac users would be pirating "more" than PC users because their hardware is more expensive right? Funny how it seems to be the other way around.
I guess you utopian GNU people just don't think things through eh?
Btw. What issues would those be? How to feed your family now that you've advocated yourself out of a job?
Really? Tell that to COLSA and VT then. They used the IBM PPC compilers for their cluster software.
You have to wonder though what quality this stuff is if they can afford to give such large rebates. If they are selling it at a lose, they are putting themselves in a precarious position if their higher margin goods/services start loosing marketshare. If they are not losing money on it, then they have been overcharging for this crap in it really is crappy quality (buyer beware).
Just a thought, no extended warranty can compensate for: lost work in progress, lost jobs/clients and lost time.
If Dell is not making money on these consumer sales, then you have to wonder what would happen to them if say Apple took away some of their profitable corporate niche marketshare. Would they end up in trouble like Gateway did?
If you are doing anything CPU intensive, USB based devices will have severely degraded performance compared to Firewire devices.
I suspect those are lose leaders to hook you as a customer and with the hope that they can get you to buy an extended warranty.
Then, look at the "online" apple education store then.
Now if you actually started to configure that 469 deal with "firewire" and other features the mac includes and a decent gfx card to match, it ends up costing more. This is known as reeling people in with "bait". That monitor they include is a piece of crap and nobody in their right mind would used that on a daily basis with it's low refresh rates that make even the Emac monitor look bad.
Did you see the low end ibook price? Got anything bad to say about it?