You're right, actually. Macs aren't PC at all. It's much more PC to get a Windows PC...oh, wait...
You know, when you don't define what an acronym stands for, you can say a lot about what it does or does not apply to, and none of it means anything. Around here, PC usually stands for Personal Computer, a category which clearly includes Macs.
You have a girlfriend and you're still posting to/. on a Friday night?
I sure hope that either you're in California, where it was only 5:35 (not 8:35, like around here) when you posted that...or your girlfriend is in Mexico on the same archaeological dig mine is working on.
None of them really has to be honest. It happens to be the easiest course of action for Apple to be honest, since it requires less action and still shows their products to be superior. Many other vendors (of software, hardware, and all sorts of non-computer-related products, for that matter) make the extra effort to lie because it's necessary in order to make their products look good.
Think about what we could accomplish if that extra effort to make products look good was actually spent on making them be good!
Sure it would. Considering how little time it probably takes to actually execute a search and serve the resulting page, having a max of 11 such processes going at once seems pretty reasonable.
To be fair, though, whoever modded you as Flamebait is insane.
I don't think that's such a great idea. It looks good on the surface, but consider that restaurants use tip money as an excuse to pay waiters below minimum wage. By analogy, the record industry might end up paying the artists even less, taking a bigger cut themselves, figuring that artists who "deserve it" will make that money back in the tips. So, the artist makes the same amount, you get charged more, and the extra money goes to...the record execs.
That's when one should realize to put down the bowl or bud (or both for some)
Considering that the bud is probably in the bowl, it should be both. Or did you mean, "the bottle or bud"?
I think it's time to put down the bowl or bud (sic) when you try to say "alcohol and pot" and end up saying "pot and pot", or the equivalent. At least, that's the indicator I usually use.
That and the old adage, "If you don't even know how to hit it, it's time to...what was I saying?...hey, pass that shit over here, man."
Unfortunately, it's not possible, because you don't need an e-mail address in order to send e-mail. You can send e-mail from any address, at any time, without any sort of authentication. If you knew my address, forging it would be a simple matter of telnetting into an SMTP server and giving it the right info--meaning, my e-mail address as the sender. No password necessary.
I believe that means that spammers needn't even use e-mail addresses that exist, or are valid, or anything, as the sender. I'm not sure about that, though; some SMTP servers may at the very least do a sort of syntax check to make sure it's a valid address.
I STILL have not seen anybody address my original points. I don't think anybody will.
I STILL have not seen points in your original post. The grandparent poster pointed out, correctly, that you didn't back up any of your statements with anything remotely resembling factual or logical evidence.
I'm going home. 3 troll-modded posts in row is a record. OK guys, I've learnt my lesson. You don't like people who don't like Macs. Fine. Bye bye.
Good, we won't have to deal with your drivel.
The problem with open forums is that people expect their opinions to be self-evident. You won't convince us to think how you think until you can show us (a) why you think that way and (b) that it's a more correct way to think. These requirements are not met without evidence and/or logic supporting the claims you make.
Maybe you should read your original post again. You may not have been simply "playing a game" and crafting your comment for the maximum number of responses--but it sure looked like that.
Try writing a comment that (like the one I'm replying to now) actually makes a point and supports it with either links or logical arguments. Complaining about frothing will only go so far when you are also frothing.
It's interesting that you write such a well-defended argument about/. moderation, but the one point you try to make about Macs, even in the better of these two posts, is a baseless assertion:
Mindless frothing and drooling over them or their products is naive, and will lead to disappoint or worse the day they turn around and screw you over.
With the benchmarks and analyses that have been posted about the 970 (if you read/. as avidly as it sounds like you do, you won't need any links), it's not "mindless" to be excited about this leak. These will be damned fast machines. NaÃve, maybe, if we go from here to thinking that AAPL will gain value on the news or that Apple will gain market share, but once again, these will be damned fast machines, and having read what I've read about them, it's not naÃve of me to say so. Apple will most likely not disappoint on this one, seeing as how these specs are straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. And finally, you must provide some explanation for the comment about "the day they turn around and screw you over". The closest I've come to being screwed over by Apple was that they shipped me the wrong graphics card in the machine I bought last August--and since they gave me one $300 more expensive than what I paid, I'm not going to complain.
Point taken. You can't run Windows (well) on a Mac.
Now, if you'll just explain to me why you want so badly to run an operating system widely renowned for its instability and insecurity, you'll have an internally consistent post.
Unfortunately, the games argument doesn't hold water for people who actually want to get work done.
Actually, considering that the "G3" is actually known as the PowerPC 960, whereas the "G4" is a Motorola-made PowerPC 7400-7470, the "G5" seems much more closely related to the G3 than you might expect.
AND I will also be able to partition the hard disk to toss Red Hat 9 on it, providing me with a powerful portable UNIX workstation that supports 3 button functionality RIGHT on its built-in mouse pad...
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You're right, actually. Macs aren't PC at all. It's much more PC to get a Windows PC...oh, wait...
You know, when you don't define what an acronym stands for, you can say a lot about what it does or does not apply to, and none of it means anything. Around here, PC usually stands for Personal Computer, a category which clearly includes Macs.
What's so ironic? The fact that you viewed the page using Windows?
Irony is sort of like goldy or bronzy, except it's made of iron.
You have a girlfriend and you're still posting to /. on a Friday night?
I sure hope that either you're in California, where it was only 5:35 (not 8:35, like around here) when you posted that...or your girlfriend is in Mexico on the same archaeological dig mine is working on.
RTFA. This virus has to be deliberately unzipped and run by the user. It doesn't use any sort of exploits, just social engineering.
I'm sure you could adapt some of the concepts described here to the context of an e-mail virus.
3 Models:
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All models are wrong. Some are useful.
Are those three models wrong? They look right to me.
The distinction is irrelevant to the case. He made an acceptable simplification in order to reach a wider audience.
There is a difference between making sweeping generalizations and making small simplifications so that people can understand the article.
None of them really has to be honest. It happens to be the easiest course of action for Apple to be honest, since it requires less action and still shows their products to be superior. Many other vendors (of software, hardware, and all sorts of non-computer-related products, for that matter) make the extra effort to lie because it's necessary in order to make their products look good.
Think about what we could accomplish if that extra effort to make products look good was actually spent on making them be good!
...and it can be solved with a fire extinguisher.
If you consider the problem to be the fire, use the fire extinguisher as directed.
If you consider the problem to be the kernel panic, bash the computer repeatedly with the fire extinguisher.
Sure it would. Considering how little time it probably takes to actually execute a search and serve the resulting page, having a max of 11 such processes going at once seems pretty reasonable.
To be fair, though, whoever modded you as Flamebait is insane.
Yeah, that's
It appears he got a slight discount. The settlement is to be paid in four installments, the first one $5000, the other three $2333.33 each.
Now, for only $11999.99, paid in four easy installments, you can run a search engine defying the RIAA!!
I don't think that's such a great idea. It looks good on the surface, but consider that restaurants use tip money as an excuse to pay waiters below minimum wage. By analogy, the record industry might end up paying the artists even less, taking a bigger cut themselves, figuring that artists who "deserve it" will make that money back in the tips. So, the artist makes the same amount, you get charged more, and the extra money goes to...the record execs.
That's when one should realize to put down the bowl or bud (or both for some)
Considering that the bud is probably in the bowl, it should be both. Or did you mean, "the bottle or bud"?
I think it's time to put down the bowl or bud (sic) when you try to say "alcohol and pot" and end up saying "pot and pot", or the equivalent. At least, that's the indicator I usually use.
That and the old adage, "If you don't even know how to hit it, it's time to...what was I saying?...hey, pass that shit over here, man."
Unfortunately, it's not possible, because you don't need an e-mail address in order to send e-mail. You can send e-mail from any address, at any time, without any sort of authentication. If you knew my address, forging it would be a simple matter of telnetting into an SMTP server and giving it the right info--meaning, my e-mail address as the sender. No password necessary.
I believe that means that spammers needn't even use e-mail addresses that exist, or are valid, or anything, as the sender. I'm not sure about that, though; some SMTP servers may at the very least do a sort of syntax check to make sure it's a valid address.
...and I've worked, in the past, in an environment where "if it compiles, ship it"
Which versions of Windows did you work on?
I STILL have not seen anybody address my original points. I don't think anybody will.
I STILL have not seen points in your original post. The grandparent poster pointed out, correctly, that you didn't back up any of your statements with anything remotely resembling factual or logical evidence.
I'm going home. 3 troll-modded posts in row is a record. OK guys, I've learnt my lesson. You don't like people who don't like Macs. Fine. Bye bye.
Good, we won't have to deal with your drivel.
The problem with open forums is that people expect their opinions to be self-evident. You won't convince us to think how you think until you can show us (a) why you think that way and (b) that it's a more correct way to think. These requirements are not met without evidence and/or logic supporting the claims you make.
Try writing a comment that (like the one I'm replying to now) actually makes a point and supports it with either links or logical arguments. Complaining about frothing will only go so far when you are also frothing.
It's interesting that you write such a well-defended argument about
With the benchmarks and analyses that have been posted about the 970 (if you read
This got modded "Funny"??
Moderators have a sick sense of humor. I'd have said Interesting, or Insightful, but to laugh at another's plight in so cruel a way...
Point taken. You can't run Windows (well) on a Mac.
Now, if you'll just explain to me why you want so badly to run an operating system widely renowned for its instability and insecurity, you'll have an internally consistent post.
Unfortunately, the games argument doesn't hold water for people who actually want to get work done.
He said that dual processors weren't necessarily cumulative. Read the comment before you reply...but thanks for playing.
Not now, you don't.
Actually, considering that the "G3" is actually known as the PowerPC 960, whereas the "G4" is a Motorola-made PowerPC 7400-7470, the "G5" seems much more closely related to the G3 than you might expect.
AND I will also be able to partition the hard disk to toss Red Hat 9 on it, providing me with a powerful portable UNIX workstation that supports 3 button functionality RIGHT on its built-in mouse pad...
   (Try that with a Mac!)
Okay, I think I will.