They seem to base their decision making soley upon:
a) eye candy c) if it works with an ipod b) their friends mom had one and she's an artist.
I've yet to see anything unique come out of Apple besides the ability to turn an unprecedented number of people into clueless technophiles with untreatable pebkac.
Dunno. Are you assuming the 'hash' [0] is not encrypted personal info (eg: HDSLN,CSID)?
> "They can't really get any personal info anyway..." Remember: 60 Billion can get around an awful lot of laws; foreign and domestic. legal and political.
Apple had a unique product all their own prior to converting to x86 hardware. Given the cash injection from Microsoft [0] a number of years ago, and the recent windows support [1] on the mac, Apple isn't that unique. You just end up running Windows on Apple hardware - so what? The only thing I can see happening is that the software industry is going to be considering Microsoft alternatives for the first time in over a decade. If that's all that comes out of it, I'm all for it.
actually, OTFWS they claim the intent is to fix the alleged infringements* rather than raise legal hell. The patent system is a friggin mess and I wouldn't be surprised if there are patent infringements in both operating systems. A lot of Discovery from both sides, case would drag on for years with little resolution. The one with the most money would win. That's how M$ wants it.
[*] "If Linux developers are made aware of the code, then the code can be omitted and Linux can re-write necessary aspects of the kernel or operating system. This is a fairly simple request and common courtesy. "
IIRC some states require sales tax to be paid on out of state purchases where sales tax was not collected at the time of sale. Seems to me this includes ebay and newegg et al.
I wonder if removing the battery would solve all these dell fire hazaards. Laptops make good linux firewalls, dont consume a lot of power and have built in power failover (battery). Maybe I'll stick with old pentium Thinkpads.
The part I dont like is people continue to support these tactics by using/patronizing the products/places that are directly responsible to taking away their choice and alternative. Wise up people. You may one day wake up to find you have no options left.
>Cue up the jokes about how he shouldn't have automated his sailboat using Windows. Now facing the Blue Wave of Death.
Captains log 8:13am * Nice weather, perfect day for sailing. Easy trip. Good time to upgrade sailboat using Windows today.
Captains log 8:57am * Started Vista install on dock but it said "monitor revoked". Must need to upgrade to HD monitor. Cool, this old 20.1" LCD is a relic anyway. Off to Best Buy!
Captains log 10:17am * Those guys at Best Buy are so helpful! They noticed I didn't have an HDMI video card and hooked me up with one that would work with Vista! It even works with the new DirectX 10, so that's cool. Just get the install restarted and we'll weigh anchor!!
Captains log 11:43am * Install started out good but but died and box wont power up with every boot. Called those helpful people at Best Buy and they said I need to run the box down to Geek Squad. Be back in about 40 mins!
Captains log 2:32pm * This must be some video card. They tech at Geek Squad said the GPU pulls 300 watts by itself, so my old power supply couldn't keep everything running. They put a 9000 watt shiny new power supply in it and boy did that sucker take off! Weeee! Time to weigh anchor!
Captains log 3:12pm * Install started good again, but keeps freezing up when partitioning. Tech at Geek Squad said I should have about 1.5 gigs at least for the GPS software. Ok, one last trip to Best Buy and we can finally get sailing!!
Captains log 3:57pm * Installer is running again and going good. Going to unhook anchor and take off. Won't have any GPS for now, but I think I can wing it by eye for a while. Everything should be installed shortly and we'll be up and sailing!!
Captains log 4:25pm * Still no GPS (restarted install) but it sure feels good to be out at sea again! I think I could probably wing this whole trip without it anyway.
Captains log 5:30pm * Wow Aero sure looks sweet!! Just a little more configuring and we'll have some GPS to guide us back at nightfall. Getting some weird error message that says "Operation completed succesfully" but the dialog is titled as an Error message with a big red X on it. Weird. Oh well, it will be fixed in the next service pack.
Captains log 7:16pm * Restarted install a couple times after getting a message that boot.exe was no longer working, but all is well now! Even have the GPS software running, well kind of, a blue screen comes up saying "Restricted Content" any time I ease the boat in a North West direction.
Captains log 9:36pm * Getting dark, should have made it to Farallon Islands by this time but nothing in sight. Hmm... I see a few lights from passing ships way off in the distance, but getting fewer and fewer. Sea is getting a bit rougher too. Think I'll check weather.com to see if storms are coming in.
Captains log 9:40pm * Opened Internet Explorer, and got an error message saying my firewall was turned off. I went to control panel to check it and another message came up that said "due to an unidentified problem, windows cannot display windows firewall settings". I tried getting to weather.com anyway and all of a sudden the screen filled up with popups. Going to try and download spybot S&D. Must have a glitch.
Captains log 1:10am * Well that's that. Everything looked to be cleaning up nicely (1200 infections) until the GPS software displayed a picture of somebody bent over stretching their asshole. God that was gross. The whole friggin works went overboard. That 9000 watt power supply went off like a Roman Candle when it hit the water! Heh.. that really felt good. Getting out the damn compass and sextant if I can find them....
Captains log 1:30am * According to map, compass and sextant I am somewhere off the tip of the Baja peninsula. Explains what the border patrol plane was doing this far north last time the GPS software was "working"... uhh.. wtf... looks like a big Blue Wave coming...
We are terribly limited by our own ignorance. We barely have an understanding of space travel, dark matter, string theory, time-and-space and many other things. I recall reading something once that said people in the early 20th century believed the human body would shake apart if we traveling faster than 25mph. The knowledge and intelligence of an alien civilization could be so far beyond our comprehension and knowledge that it's almost futile to even speculate. Right now, we think nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, however it wasn't too long ago people also believed the world was flat. I guess we can only make assumptions based on our current knowledge levels, but we must also take into account that there may be ways of doing things that we've simply not discovered yet, or cannot comprehend.
Last summer, I was contacted by a large cellular phone service provider interested in interviewing me for my Unix background (they apparently got my name through a former co-worker). A two hour phone interview was scheduled in which they informed me they were interested in interviewing me for a software development position. I told them I was more of a Unix admin than a hardcore code guru, but they were satisfied enough with the verbal interview to schedule a 6 hour on location interview. That was the last I ever heard of it. Three months later, a completely different recruiter called me asking me if I was interested in the same position, unaware that I had already interviewed for it. It's been kind of creepy. Had they followed up with some professional feedback after the 6 hour interview, I may have considered another go at it. It's very unlikely that I would consider working for them now however.
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I'm sure this calls for a goatse pic somehow.
They seem to base their decision making soley upon:
a) eye candy
c) if it works with an ipod
b) their friends mom had one and she's an artist.
I've yet to see anything unique come out of Apple besides the ability to turn an unprecedented number of people into clueless technophiles with untreatable pebkac.
Dunno. Are you assuming the 'hash' [0] is not encrypted personal info (eg: HDSLN,CSID)?
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> "They can't really get any personal info anyway..."
Remember: 60 Billion can get around an awful lot of laws; foreign and domestic. legal and political.
[0] - http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wgahp5.p
I wonder how it feels to take out that cellphone while the driver is weaving around her lane yapping.y Id=4599106
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor
Apple had a unique product all their own prior to converting to x86 hardware. Given the cash injection from Microsoft [0] a number of years ago, and the recent windows support [1] on the mac, Apple isn't that unique. You just end up running Windows on Apple hardware - so what? The only thing I can see happening is that the software industry is going to be considering Microsoft alternatives for the first time in over a decade. If that's all that comes out of it, I'm all for it.
[0] http://news.com.com/2100-1001-202143.html
[1] http://onmac.net/
http://www.macwindows.com/
"the FDA that it is no longer getting the funds needed to do the research required for the desired level of food safety."
They could find everything they need to know without spending a buck. Some of it will be useful. Of course, they may as well carpool with the USPTO.
"Microsoft has decided that Vista will work only with..." This is the core of the entire problem.
actually, OTFWS they claim the intent is to fix the alleged infringements* rather than raise legal hell. The patent system is a friggin mess and I wouldn't be surprised if there are patent infringements in both operating systems. A lot of Discovery from both sides, case would drag on for years with little resolution. The one with the most money would win. That's how M$ wants it.
[*] "If Linux developers are made aware of the code, then the code can be omitted and Linux can re-write necessary aspects of the kernel or operating system. This is a fairly simple request and common courtesy. "
IIRC some states require sales tax to be paid on out of state purchases where sales tax was not collected at the time of sale. Seems to me this includes ebay and newegg et al.
on the contrary, this wet dream can give you infections.
I hear they smell really good when you get a sunburn too.
or lynx. :)
No flash, no popups, no pics, no spyware. Just text.
I wonder what it's like to load a bone in space.
I wonder if removing the battery would solve all these dell fire hazaards. Laptops make good linux firewalls, dont consume a lot of power and have built in power failover (battery). Maybe I'll stick with old pentium Thinkpads.
The part I dont like is people continue to support these tactics by using/patronizing the products/places that are directly responsible to taking away their choice and alternative. Wise up people. You may one day wake up to find you have no options left.
It's what the data segment of your app looks like when you accidentally dump it to vga video memory.
Crap... where's the undo button for Xchat?
>Cue up the jokes about how he shouldn't have automated his sailboat using Windows. Now facing the Blue Wave of Death.
Captains log 8:13am
* Nice weather, perfect day for sailing. Easy trip. Good time to upgrade sailboat using Windows today.
Captains log 8:57am
* Started Vista install on dock but it said "monitor revoked". Must need to upgrade to HD monitor. Cool, this old 20.1" LCD is a relic anyway. Off to Best Buy!
Captains log 10:17am
* Those guys at Best Buy are so helpful! They noticed I didn't have an HDMI video card and hooked me up with one that would work with Vista! It even works with the new DirectX 10, so that's cool. Just get the install restarted and we'll weigh anchor!!
Captains log 11:43am
* Install started out good but but died and box wont power up with every boot. Called those helpful people at Best Buy and they said I need to run the box down to Geek Squad. Be back in about 40 mins!
Captains log 2:32pm
* This must be some video card. They tech at Geek Squad said the GPU pulls 300 watts by itself, so my old power supply couldn't keep everything running. They put a 9000 watt shiny new power supply in it and boy did that sucker take off! Weeee! Time to weigh anchor!
Captains log 3:12pm
* Install started good again, but keeps freezing up when partitioning. Tech at Geek Squad said I should have about 1.5 gigs at least for the GPS software. Ok, one last trip to Best Buy and we can finally get sailing!!
Captains log 3:57pm
* Installer is running again and going good. Going to unhook anchor and take off. Won't have any GPS for now, but I think I can wing it by eye for a while. Everything should be installed shortly and we'll be up and sailing!!
Captains log 4:25pm
* Still no GPS (restarted install) but it sure feels good to be out at sea again! I think I could probably wing this whole trip without it anyway.
Captains log 5:30pm
* Wow Aero sure looks sweet!! Just a little more configuring and we'll have some GPS to guide us back at nightfall. Getting some weird error message that says "Operation completed succesfully" but the dialog is titled as an Error message with a big red X on it. Weird. Oh well, it will be fixed in the next service pack.
Captains log 7:16pm
* Restarted install a couple times after getting a message that boot.exe was no longer working, but all is well now! Even have the GPS software running, well kind of, a blue screen comes up saying "Restricted Content" any time I ease the boat in a North West direction.
Captains log 9:36pm
* Getting dark, should have made it to Farallon Islands by this time but nothing in sight. Hmm... I see a few lights from passing ships way off in the distance, but getting fewer and fewer. Sea is getting a bit rougher too. Think I'll check weather.com to see if storms are coming in.
Captains log 9:40pm
* Opened Internet Explorer, and got an error message saying my firewall was turned off. I went to control panel to check it and another message came up that said "due to an unidentified problem, windows cannot display windows firewall settings". I tried getting to weather.com anyway and all of a sudden the screen filled up with popups. Going to try and download spybot S&D. Must have a glitch.
Captains log 1:10am
* Well that's that. Everything looked to be cleaning up nicely (1200 infections) until the GPS software displayed a picture of somebody bent over stretching their asshole. God that was gross. The whole friggin works went overboard. That 9000 watt power supply went off like a Roman Candle when it hit the water! Heh.. that really felt good. Getting out the damn compass and sextant if I can find them....
Captains log 1:30am
* According to map, compass and sextant I am somewhere off the tip of the Baja peninsula. Explains what the border patrol plane was doing this far north last time the GPS software was "working"... uhh.. wtf... looks like a big Blue Wave coming...
whew.. for a minute there I thought that was a link to goatse
Disaster? That depends on which side of the lockin you are on.
We are terribly limited by our own ignorance. We barely have an understanding of space travel, dark matter, string theory, time-and-space and many other things. I recall reading something once that said people in the early 20th century believed the human body would shake apart if we traveling faster than 25mph. The knowledge and intelligence of an alien civilization could be so far beyond our comprehension and knowledge that it's almost futile to even speculate. Right now, we think nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, however it wasn't too long ago people also believed the world was flat. I guess we can only make assumptions based on our current knowledge levels, but we must also take into account that there may be ways of doing things that we've simply not discovered yet, or cannot comprehend.
Last summer, I was contacted by a large cellular phone service provider interested in interviewing me for my Unix background (they apparently got my name through a former co-worker). A two hour phone interview was scheduled in which they informed me they were interested in interviewing me for a software development position. I told them I was more of a Unix admin than a hardcore code guru, but they were satisfied enough with the verbal interview to schedule a 6 hour on location interview. That was the last I ever heard of it. Three months later, a completely different recruiter called me asking me if I was interested in the same position, unaware that I had already interviewed for it. It's been kind of creepy. Had they followed up with some professional feedback after the 6 hour interview, I may have considered another go at it. It's very unlikely that I would consider working for them now however.
Depending on the legitimacy of this chart
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