Apple's engineers sat down one day, desinged the cheapest battery in the world that barely met all the requirements
iPod batteries are manufactured by Sony. Sony rates them for "more than 500 charge/discharge cycles". But - as it often happens with the batteries - for a 1% of luckless customers this could be just 100 cycles, while another 1% will be the lucky bastards still getting full 8 hours in 2012 on their '2002 iPod. The former 1% are the guys who complain, but you rarely hear the voice of the remaining 99%.
Minority Report took things in the right direction for the first 2/3rds. But that stupid "echo murder" crap leading upto the happy ending bit it.
The ending is actually ambiguous. In the middle of the story we hear that the culprits put under the "halo" have pleasant dreams. Everything that happens after Tom Cruise receives his halo can be such a dream! What really happened is your choice as a viewer - there is no actual hint into any direction. I'd say it's as phildickian as it gets!
kind of wish there was a version on DVD with the original cut, voice over and all. I didn't remember it being that bad. But perhaps watching it as something other than a teenager would change that.
Not necessarily. Many voice-overs were actually a piece of fine literature, like the final monologue "I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life or the quote replicants were not supposed to have feelings - neither the Blade Runners etc. One should definitely see both versions if he want to call himself proudly a genuine nerd!
I don't think it's that simple. If you read history, you notice striking years of world-wide turmoil like 1848, 1863, 1905, 1968 or 1989. Take the 1968, the most obvious one. Why did the students of Beijing, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, Mexico City and Berkeley take it to the streets the same year? They didn't even fight for similar cases! Don't tell me that every year was like 1968, because it just wasn't.
I'm surprised that Apple actually thought Lithium-Ion batteries were reliable enough to not make them user-replaceable.
These are actually Lithium-polymer batteries, generally said to be more reliable than the old-school Lithium Ions (with liquid electrolyte). And actually Apple is not the only company with this attitude - recent cellphones also have batteries quite cumbersome to replace. I guess it's a matter of design compromises - at some stage you can't make the device smaller and lighter and STILL provide all the latches and screws for an average user to open the case.
It seems that MSN sucks generally. It only gets 2500 hits when you search for "Windows"!
Maybe it's the only 2500 cases when the word "Windows" was used on the Web without anything like "sucks", "destroyed my data", "has yet another virus to worry about" etc?
Realistically, why would you expect a person to even know the difference between a made-for-Mac iPod and a made-for-PC iPod when they both look identical?
A computer game CD looks also pretty identical whether it is the Mac or the Windows version. The only difference is just a logo on the box. The same goes with the iPod. Would you really blame Sony for the fact that you can't run Crash Bandicoot for Playstation on your Windows PC?
iPod requires that you buy additional hardware just to store pictures on it, much less other files. MuVo allows you to store whatever the fuck you want on it right out of the box.
And so does the iPod. You can indeed store whatever the fuck you want on it right out of the box. Mine right now stores a full backup of my home directory, including all the photos of my iPhoto library. You need additional hardware to read the photos directly from memory card. Can your MuVo do it right ot of the box? Errrm, can it do it at all?
The computers built after that were one of a kind - there was no 'standard hardware' or 'standard software' floating around from different vendors.
Not true! There indeed WAS standard hardware - AT&T teletype and Hollerith perforated cards to name the most important ones. When computers ceased to be just a plaything for the scientists and the military - that is in the very early 1950's - the questions of "can I get the output on a typical teletype" or "can I plug my database of Hollerith cards to this" were as important as today's "can I plug it into my local network". The business success of the IBM in 1950's and 1960's was largely due to compatibility of IBM computing solutions with the rest of the IBM office equipment (teletypes, punchcard readers etc.). In fact, that's how the FUD acronym was born ("are you sure the Gizmotronics computer will be compatible with our equimpent? You can't go wrong buying IBM"). Obviously you are right that in late 1930's or 1940's there were no standardized CPU or RAM units, but there were standard data storage and data input/output devices, developed way before the WWII. And the compatibility was a key issue for business customers.
"...let's see what they really mean..."
Yes, I am the only one person in this planet who is able to translate everything into the so-called plain language. I can see thru any ideological bias. I am absolutely objective and rational. In fact, the United Nations Security Council just called in to offer me a job settling the conflicts in Belfast, Middle-East and Africa, but I said in plain language "hell no, I have better things to do. Like posting on Slashdot".
"...[the other side] Zealots..."
Translated into plain language, anyone who has any opinion different than mine is a Zealot. Me? I am not Zealot, my opinions are fully rational. I can defend them in discussion. I am not ashamed to do it. That's why I post anonymously.
"...blah blah..."
I can translate what the other side says, but I don't listen to it and I am unable to reproduce it accurately. After all, it is just "blah blah blah". They are Zealots, remember? Of course I can translate that even without remembering what that was. Don't you trust me? I'm the bloody Translatroll here.
What's really great is the ability to make a playlist of the songs you value for 4 or 5 stars and hadn't listen for - say - month or two, played at random. It's like you browse the radio stations and suddenly discover the one that plays a golden hit you used to love in some old days, but then it was forgotten. I love that feeling and it's great to have it in your pocket.
Much as I think Apple have created an amazing proof of concept in the Apple Music Store I am not convinced it qualifies as an invention..
Then - in your opinion - does the work made on steam engine by James Watt qualifies as an invention? He had many predecessors, too - to begin with, there was Heron of Alexandria in the ancient times, there was Thomas Newcomen and various other constructors in the XVIIth and XVIII century. However, it was Watt who designed an universal engine that eventually everyone wanted to use and that was an inspiration for the modern combustion engine. You seem to assume that you have to be the author of the original idea to be called "inventor". It is simply not true. The greates inventors of our times (Watt, Marconi, Daimler & Benz, Aitken, The Wright Bros) were literally standing on the shoulders of giants, i.e. developing ideas of their predecessors.
Pretty damn hard. If it's so easy, why are there so few really entertaining movies for kids? Why are Shrek and Finding Nemothe exceptions, rather than the rule?
But they are not! Did Pixar has _ever_ released a non-entertaining movie? "Bug's Life?" "Monsters Inc."? "Toy Story(ies)"? What happens when Fox releases an animated ferature? It's the hilarious "Ice Age". What happens when Warner does it? It's the "Iron Giant", a +100 Insigthful look at the maccarthyism and the Golden Age of science-fiction. What happens when the Japanese do an animated feature? It's the stunning "Spirited Away". So who, actually, DO release crappy animated features? The answers is obvious: Disney, the Microsoft of animation.
And yes, I know that Pixar works for Disney, but they are not Disney. They don't even live in the same part of California. And yes, I know that Disney sometimes releases a precious gem like "Lilo & Stich", but even Microsoft has its "Age Of Empires".
I think the general public knows about prison rape but just does not care.
You will care if some overzealous DA will accuse you for someone else's crime and doctor the evidence to ensure his promotion after another "solved case". So far 138 prisoners were released when DNA tests proved they biologically could not make the crimes they were sentenced for. Many of them regained freedom after over ten years in prison and will receive no compensation whatsoever. And these 138 are actually a lucky minority of all the innocent convicts in the USA.
I understand you need to troll, sir, but I strongly disagree that it's not a good thing. The same cultural change happened to the automobile freaks about 80 years ago. In 1910's or 1920's a fan of the automobile was usually someohe who spends entire day in his garage, endlessly tweaking and troubleshooting his self-made machine. Since about 1930's an automobile fan is just a person who likes to drive, who frequently buys a new machine, who is usually knows what new models are to be announced next quarter etc. But it is no longer a person who enjoys spartan interiors and thinks that automatic A/C or heated seats are "feminine". On the contrary, he enjoys everything modern techonogy can offer to make his voyage even more comfortable.
The same thing happened to the computers. My wife is not a computer geek, but she uses the same equipment that I do (after all, I do the shopping;-)). She appreciates the same things I do appreciate - ease-of-use, well-thought interface, robustness. The only difference is that I can always tell the build of the OS we both use and probably she does not even know the version or the proper name, because she just doesn't care.
To say that it's not a good thing is like to say that it's not a good thing that we don't have to start our cars using a manual handle because of the feminine invention of a key-activated electric starter.
Talking about the "Minority Report", I think there is a more appropriate scene about Tom Cruise shopping in Gap. You know, "Welcome Mr. Whoever, are you satisfied with the turtleneck you bought last year". Each BT device has its unique number just like the MAC address of a network card. By storing and tracking these unique ID's they can identify you as the guy who often buys pink translucent dildos and should be alerted about the latest models.
This is like saying that a husband is against the very idea of vacuuming, rather than simply doesn't want to vacuum.
But this particular husband says - for example - that "one of the arguments against vacuuming, pardon, mcrokernels has always been performance" (page 130 of the hardcover edition). There are also other anti-microkernel rants scattered all over the book, but I hope this example is enough. It's not that Linus says "I don't want to do this", he also says that it's the wrong idea.
I'll defend my statement. Take the chapter XII, especially passages "Intellectual Property" and "An End to Control" (pages 204-219 of the hardcover edition). I'd say that Linus says there that yes, you can do something proprietary and maybe even have a temporary success, but in the long run it is The Wrong Way. Or, in Linus' own words, "a bad, short-sighted decision that ends up in disaster or near disaster". For example, Linus cites the European success of the GSM technology and the relative American backwardness on mobile phones as the triumph of open (GSM) versus proprietary (American multiple standards).
This question is sort-of-answered in "his" book "Just For Fun" (actually written together by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond). Linus seems to have almost religious anti-MacOS X stance. He is against anything that is proprietary - and MacOS X still remains proprietary on its most important layer. He is against the very idea of microkernel, so he is against Mach as such. It's funny, because this book is actually written on a Mac notebook, but as David Diamond notes, when Linus was reading his own words for approval, he payed more attention to the whole OS and the machine (and expressing his dislike for both) than to his own words. Probably that's how the silly mistake about "Apache, the most popular commercial Linux version" could have slipped.
writen by the guy who wrote the Resident Evil movie.
Oh no. That's no good news. RE the movie had little in common with the mood of the game. In the classic game you had a single policeman/policewoman, alone in a luxury yet deserted mansion, with grandpa's clock ticking in complete silence. Only then you saw your first zombie and that was really scary. In the movie, you had a team of soldiers in a secret weapons facility and zombies coming up in hordes. And it wasn't scary at all. I doubt if this guy really ever played "Resident Evil". That's why game movies always suck - they are written by guys who never played the actual game, so they think it's so simple, just a busty chick in an ancient tomb and presto.
The major problem is that as the sales guy explained to me, people don't realise a 800mhz G4 is far better than say a 1.5Ghz Pentium
My friend, you shouldn't really believe in EVERYTHING the sales guys tell you. "Selling is what selling sells but only saints from seventh avenue can sell the seventh hell", as Joe Strummer once wrote. In some applications, yes, 800 MHz G4 can match 1.5 GHz Pentium (but not really surpass it). However they are not necessarily the applications Joe Shmoe is mostly interested in. Like games, for example.
The problem is that Mac and Linux are rather like extreme left and extreme right versus the broad middle-of-the-road Windows world. In most cases, Mac philosophy and Linux philosophy are on the extreme opposites, while Windows philosophy tries to balance them (as both Mac and Linux users would agree, their balance is actually the sum of the WORST parts of both worlds).
Take the problem of customization. Linux world is "customize everything, if anything else fails - just by tampering with the source code". . Windows is "Desktop themes? Sure, fine, but don't think we'll allow you to write your own window manager". Mac world is "So you want to have THEMES on your desktop? Well, if you are such a hacker, use hacker tools, you won't get it in your vanilla system".
Take the problem of machine life-cycle. Linux is "An old Pentium 90 your uncle gave your for free? What a fine machine, you can still run the majority of server applications on it". Windows is "An old Pentium II you bought in 1998? Well, just add a new graphics card and change the CPU, and you can still have some play". Mac is "What, a vintage PowerMac 9600? We don't care you added G3/466 and ATI Radeon, you just won't run MacOS X on it because we say NO".
Take the problem of user friendlyness. Linux is "if you are not a rocket scientist, we actually don't want you to run our software". Windows is "anything that Dell Dude could manage". MacOS is "if it's too complicated for Elen Feiss, it's not good. Oh my God, what is that? Two-button mouse? Are you nuts, do you think she can handle THIS?".
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Apple's engineers sat down one day, desinged the cheapest battery in the world that barely met all the requirements
iPod batteries are manufactured by Sony. Sony rates them for "more than 500 charge/discharge cycles". But - as it often happens with the batteries - for a 1% of luckless customers this could be just 100 cycles, while another 1% will be the lucky bastards still getting full 8 hours in 2012 on their '2002 iPod. The former 1% are the guys who complain, but you rarely hear the voice of the remaining 99%.
Minority Report took things in the right direction for the first 2/3rds. But that stupid "echo murder" crap leading upto the happy ending bit it.
The ending is actually ambiguous. In the middle of the story we hear that the culprits put under the "halo" have pleasant dreams. Everything that happens after Tom Cruise receives his halo can be such a dream! What really happened is your choice as a viewer - there is no actual hint into any direction. I'd say it's as phildickian as it gets!
kind of wish there was a version on DVD with the original cut, voice over and all. I didn't remember it being that bad. But perhaps watching it as something other than a teenager would change that.
Not necessarily. Many voice-overs were actually a piece of fine literature, like the final monologue "I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life or the quote replicants were not supposed to have feelings - neither the Blade Runners etc. One should definitely see both versions if he want to call himself proudly a genuine nerd!
I don't think it's that simple. If you read history, you notice striking years of world-wide turmoil like 1848, 1863, 1905, 1968 or 1989. Take the 1968, the most obvious one. Why did the students of Beijing, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, Mexico City and Berkeley take it to the streets the same year? They didn't even fight for similar cases! Don't tell me that every year was like 1968, because it just wasn't.
Now if only someone could explain the relationship between the sunspot cycle and wars and revolutions in the history of mankind, that would be cool...
I'm surprised that Apple actually thought Lithium-Ion batteries were reliable enough to not make them user-replaceable.
These are actually Lithium-polymer batteries, generally said to be more reliable than the old-school Lithium Ions (with liquid electrolyte). And actually Apple is not the only company with this attitude - recent cellphones also have batteries quite cumbersome to replace. I guess it's a matter of design compromises - at some stage you can't make the device smaller and lighter and STILL provide all the latches and screws for an average user to open the case.
It seems that MSN sucks generally. It only gets 2500 hits when you search for "Windows"!
Maybe it's the only 2500 cases when the word "Windows" was used on the Web without anything like "sucks", "destroyed my data", "has yet another virus to worry about" etc?
Realistically, why would you expect a person to even know the difference between a made-for-Mac iPod and a made-for-PC iPod when they both look identical?
A computer game CD looks also pretty identical whether it is the Mac or the Windows version. The only difference is just a logo on the box. The same goes with the iPod. Would you really blame Sony for the fact that you can't run Crash Bandicoot for Playstation on your Windows PC?
iPod requires that you buy additional hardware just to store pictures on it, much less other files. MuVo allows you to store whatever the fuck you want on it right out of the box.
And so does the iPod. You can indeed store whatever the fuck you want on it right out of the box. Mine right now stores a full backup of my home directory, including all the photos of my iPhoto library. You need additional hardware to read the photos directly from memory card. Can your MuVo do it right ot of the box? Errrm, can it do it at all?
The computers built after that were one of a kind - there was no 'standard hardware' or 'standard software' floating around from different vendors.
Not true! There indeed WAS standard hardware - AT&T teletype and Hollerith perforated cards to name the most important ones. When computers ceased to be just a plaything for the scientists and the military - that is in the very early 1950's - the questions of "can I get the output on a typical teletype" or "can I plug my database of Hollerith cards to this" were as important as today's "can I plug it into my local network". The business success of the IBM in 1950's and 1960's was largely due to compatibility of IBM computing solutions with the rest of the IBM office equipment (teletypes, punchcard readers etc.). In fact, that's how the FUD acronym was born ("are you sure the Gizmotronics computer will be compatible with our equimpent? You can't go wrong buying IBM"). Obviously you are right that in late 1930's or 1940's there were no standardized CPU or RAM units, but there were standard data storage and data input/output devices, developed way before the WWII. And the compatibility was a key issue for business customers.
"...let's see what they really mean..."
Yes, I am the only one person in this planet who is able to translate everything into the so-called plain language. I can see thru any ideological bias. I am absolutely objective and rational. In fact, the United Nations Security Council just called in to offer me a job settling the conflicts in Belfast, Middle-East and Africa, but I said in plain language "hell no, I have better things to do. Like posting on Slashdot".
"...[the other side] Zealots..."
Translated into plain language, anyone who has any opinion different than mine is a Zealot. Me? I am not Zealot, my opinions are fully rational. I can defend them in discussion. I am not ashamed to do it. That's why I post anonymously.
"...blah blah..."
I can translate what the other side says, but I don't listen to it and I am unable to reproduce it accurately. After all, it is just "blah blah blah". They are Zealots, remember? Of course I can translate that even without remembering what that was. Don't you trust me? I'm the bloody Translatroll here.
What's really great is the ability to make a playlist of the songs you value for 4 or 5 stars and hadn't listen for - say - month or two, played at random. It's like you browse the radio stations and suddenly discover the one that plays a golden hit you used to love in some old days, but then it was forgotten. I love that feeling and it's great to have it in your pocket.
Much as I think Apple have created an amazing proof of concept in the Apple Music Store I am not convinced it qualifies as an invention..
Then - in your opinion - does the work made on steam engine by James Watt qualifies as an invention? He had many predecessors, too - to begin with, there was Heron of Alexandria in the ancient times, there was Thomas Newcomen and various other constructors in the XVIIth and XVIII century. However, it was Watt who designed an universal engine that eventually everyone wanted to use and that was an inspiration for the modern combustion engine. You seem to assume that you have to be the author of the original idea to be called "inventor". It is simply not true. The greates inventors of our times (Watt, Marconi, Daimler & Benz, Aitken, The Wright Bros) were literally standing on the shoulders of giants, i.e. developing ideas of their predecessors.
Pretty damn hard. If it's so easy, why are there so few really entertaining movies for kids? Why are Shrek and Finding Nemothe exceptions, rather than the rule?
But they are not! Did Pixar has _ever_ released a non-entertaining movie? "Bug's Life?" "Monsters Inc."? "Toy Story(ies)"? What happens when Fox releases an animated ferature? It's the hilarious "Ice Age". What happens when Warner does it? It's the "Iron Giant", a +100 Insigthful look at the maccarthyism and the Golden Age of science-fiction. What happens when the Japanese do an animated feature? It's the stunning "Spirited Away". So who, actually, DO release crappy animated features? The answers is obvious: Disney, the Microsoft of animation.
And yes, I know that Pixar works for Disney, but they are not Disney. They don't even live in the same part of California. And yes, I know that Disney sometimes releases a precious gem like "Lilo & Stich", but even Microsoft has its "Age Of Empires".
The people who will lose their jobs in favor of the free convict labor will certailny appreciate this idea.
I think the general public knows about prison rape but just does not care.
You will care if some overzealous DA will accuse you for someone else's crime and doctor the evidence to ensure his promotion after another "solved case". So far 138 prisoners were released when DNA tests proved they biologically could not make the crimes they were sentenced for. Many of them regained freedom after over ten years in prison and will receive no compensation whatsoever. And these 138 are actually a lucky minority of all the innocent convicts in the USA.
I understand you need to troll, sir, but I strongly disagree that it's not a good thing. The same cultural change happened to the automobile freaks about 80 years ago. In 1910's or 1920's a fan of the automobile was usually someohe who spends entire day in his garage, endlessly tweaking and troubleshooting his self-made machine. Since about 1930's an automobile fan is just a person who likes to drive, who frequently buys a new machine, who is usually knows what new models are to be announced next quarter etc. But it is no longer a person who enjoys spartan interiors and thinks that automatic A/C or heated seats are "feminine". On the contrary, he enjoys everything modern techonogy can offer to make his voyage even more comfortable.
;-)). She appreciates the same things I do appreciate - ease-of-use, well-thought interface, robustness. The only difference is that I can always tell the build of the OS we both use and probably she does not even know the version or the proper name, because she just doesn't care.
The same thing happened to the computers. My wife is not a computer geek, but she uses the same equipment that I do (after all, I do the shopping
To say that it's not a good thing is like to say that it's not a good thing that we don't have to start our cars using a manual handle because of the feminine invention of a key-activated electric starter.
Talking about the "Minority Report", I think there is a more appropriate scene about Tom Cruise shopping in Gap. You know, "Welcome Mr. Whoever, are you satisfied with the turtleneck you bought last year". Each BT device has its unique number just like the MAC address of a network card. By storing and tracking these unique ID's they can identify you as the guy who often buys pink translucent dildos and should be alerted about the latest models.
This is like saying that a husband is against the very idea of vacuuming, rather than simply doesn't want to vacuum.
But this particular husband says - for example - that "one of the arguments against vacuuming, pardon, mcrokernels has always been performance" (page 130 of the hardcover edition). There are also other anti-microkernel rants scattered all over the book, but I hope this example is enough. It's not that Linus says "I don't want to do this", he also says that it's the wrong idea.
I'll defend my statement. Take the chapter XII, especially passages "Intellectual Property" and "An End to Control" (pages 204-219 of the hardcover edition). I'd say that Linus says there that yes, you can do something proprietary and maybe even have a temporary success, but in the long run it is The Wrong Way. Or, in Linus' own words, "a bad, short-sighted decision that ends up in disaster or near disaster". For example, Linus cites the European success of the GSM technology and the relative American backwardness on mobile phones as the triumph of open (GSM) versus proprietary (American multiple standards).
This question is sort-of-answered in "his" book "Just For Fun" (actually written together by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond). Linus seems to have almost religious anti-MacOS X stance. He is against anything that is proprietary - and MacOS X still remains proprietary on its most important layer. He is against the very idea of microkernel, so he is against Mach as such. It's funny, because this book is actually written on a Mac notebook, but as David Diamond notes, when Linus was reading his own words for approval, he payed more attention to the whole OS and the machine (and expressing his dislike for both) than to his own words. Probably that's how the silly mistake about "Apache, the most popular commercial Linux version" could have slipped.
writen by the guy who wrote the Resident Evil movie.
Oh no. That's no good news. RE the movie had little in common with the mood of the game. In the classic game you had a single policeman/policewoman, alone in a luxury yet deserted mansion, with grandpa's clock ticking in complete silence. Only then you saw your first zombie and that was really scary. In the movie, you had a team of soldiers in a secret weapons facility and zombies coming up in hordes. And it wasn't scary at all. I doubt if this guy really ever played "Resident Evil". That's why game movies always suck - they are written by guys who never played the actual game, so they think it's so simple, just a busty chick in an ancient tomb and presto.
The major problem is that as the sales guy explained to me, people don't realise a 800mhz G4 is far better than say a 1.5Ghz Pentium
My friend, you shouldn't really believe in EVERYTHING the sales guys tell you. "Selling is what selling sells but only saints from seventh avenue can sell the seventh hell", as Joe Strummer once wrote. In some applications, yes, 800 MHz G4 can match 1.5 GHz Pentium (but not really surpass it). However they are not necessarily the applications Joe Shmoe is mostly interested in. Like games, for example.
The problem is that Mac and Linux are rather like extreme left and extreme right versus the broad middle-of-the-road Windows world. In most cases, Mac philosophy and Linux philosophy are on the extreme opposites, while Windows philosophy tries to balance them (as both Mac and Linux users would agree, their balance is actually the sum of the WORST parts of both worlds).
Take the problem of customization. Linux world is "customize everything, if anything else fails - just by tampering with the source code". . Windows is "Desktop themes? Sure, fine, but don't think we'll allow you to write your own window manager". Mac world is "So you want to have THEMES on your desktop? Well, if you are such a hacker, use hacker tools, you won't get it in your vanilla system".
Take the problem of machine life-cycle. Linux is "An old Pentium 90 your uncle gave your for free? What a fine machine, you can still run the majority of server applications on it". Windows is "An old Pentium II you bought in 1998? Well, just add a new graphics card and change the CPU, and you can still have some play". Mac is "What, a vintage PowerMac 9600? We don't care you added G3/466 and ATI Radeon, you just won't run MacOS X on it because we say NO".
Take the problem of user friendlyness. Linux is "if you are not a rocket scientist, we actually don't want you to run our software". Windows is "anything that Dell Dude could manage". MacOS is "if it's too complicated for Elen Feiss, it's not good. Oh my God, what is that? Two-button mouse? Are you nuts, do you think she can handle THIS?".
Idealism and dreams lead to greatness.
The problem with dreams and idealism is that the idealists often dream of gulags or gas chambers.