"The smell" , "Hygene" , etc.
3. Talking like a gay man before you make a point is still another bad idea.
Isn't it about time someone starts to fight against heterophobia? I hate this degrading stereotype that heteros don't care about the smell. Someone please organize a parade or leaflet campaign for Non-Gay Men Who Actually Wash Their Armpits And Change Socks.
*Goes back to watching Minotiry Report and Gladiator DVDs produced by Dreamworks, started and owned majorly by Steven Spielberg
Yeah, and the other one is George Lucas. But even for Coppola, it was not that easy and his company eventually had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. While I enjoy Spielberg and Lucas blockbusters, I don't think cinema should be limited only to this kind of filmmaking and I want guys like Robert Altman to have their chance to get the goddamned Oscar. And yes, for the kind of money Altman gets you can afford a Porsche or 17-inch Apple Powerbook, but you're still too short to be financially independent as a filmmaker. You have to be Lucas, Spielberg or Cameron to have that luxury.
I don't get it. What do you guys expect them to do? Both of the last two Lord of the Rings movies had crystal clear DVD-rips leaked online thanks to those screeners
That's not possible. Screeners usually are far from being crystal clear - the film is often interrupted by a message like "if you rented or purchased this movie, call 800-SOMETHING". I don't understand what exactly are they trying to achieve by banning _screeners_. It cannot be proliferation of pirated crystal clear copies - that's clear like crystal.
I have records from my grandfather that are 80 years old. I can play them on any record player.
Not true. Shellac records from 1920's require a 78-rpm capable turntable with a stylus (needle) able to read old fashioned groove (different than the so-called microgroove used in all contemporary vinyl records). There are companies that sell specialized equipment able to play both types of records (check for further information here, but it is really far, far away from your "any record player".
I have records from my dad that are 40 years old. I can play them on any record player.
In theory - yes. But unless you took really good precaution in storing them, 1960's vinyls are in fact nothing more than black circular objects. There's no music on them anymore.
Apple's current DRM scheme seems fine... until you start to think really long term. What happens in 80 years or even in 20 years.... are you going to have to dig up ancient authorized hardware in order to get the songs to play.
Come on! You use a specialized 78 rpm turntable to play your granpa's records! If you managed to dig up this sort of equipment, findind a decent Mac emulator for your 2040 supermachine will be a snap.
True I can burn a standard CD but CD-Rs only last 4 or 5 years without showing serious signs of degradation...
Of course, in your opinion vinyl and shellac analog records were eternal? They were showing serious signs of degradation after the first time you played them and it was only getting worse and worse with every play, every dust particle, every month etc. Actually, from what you write I reckon you never had a real vinyl LP in your life. You would remember all the pain and hassle if you had.
Apple is afraid of Linux and they in No way want to give creedence to it being an acceptable platform for desktop use.
Yeah, right. That's why they officially allow Terra Soft to sell their hardware with Linux preinstalled. Apple is a hardware vendor. As long as they can charge you $2999 or more for a computer, they don't really care about which OS you choose to run on it. Apple always supported the PPC Linux efforts - first with MKLinux (mind you, an Apple-branded Linux distro!), now with their blessing for Terra Soft.
Well, it is pronounced "Mac Oh Ess Ten, version ten dot three".
Apple has implemented this even into the built-in speech synthesizer. Just highliht the sentence "After all, why would they call the OS "Mac OS X 10.3" if the X really meant ten?" and select "speech" from the "services" menu. The voice will read: "After all, why would they call the Oh Es Mac Oh Es Ten Point Three if the Ex really meant ten". Even the built-in speech synthesizer knows that X in "MacOS X" is ten, but any other X is just Ex!
Like many iPod users, I actually buy much more music than I did previously. New listening device creates new spaces for listening music and thus increases demand. However, I am not rich enough to buy EVERYTHING I want to listen - usually when I enter a store, 4-5 albums catch my interest, but I can afford to walk out only with 2-3 of them. Obviously, I avoid CD's with stickers like "this CD is copy protected". I know the protection is probably easy to bypass, but why should I bother? I just choose the 2-3 albums without the protection. And here's a weird thing - whenever I put back a "copy protected" CD on the store shelf (carrying in my basket the non-protected ones) echo brings me the sounds of a gunshot and a voice shouting "ouch! my foot!" somewhere in the distance.
WASHINGTON, DC. The presidential candidate announced his resignation from the election run when tabloid press published leaked examples of google searches performed from his own laptop computer. The candidate was seeking among others for "sucks horse cock", "fetish personal ads" and "hentai sailor pictures". The spokesperson of google.com claimed no knowledge on how this information leaked from his company, but announced a thorough investigation. The candidate declined from any comments, but his political carreer seems to be over for good.
It's clear from two weeks of testing that Apple's new Power Mac G5 dual 2-GHz machine is the fastest thing the company has ever produced.
Wow! That's really surprising. Nobody could expect that. After all, why the high-end new generation machine should be any faster than the low-end or older generation machines from the same company? This guy really did his homework, it took him only two weeks to discover this oddity.
A man that is intelligent and powerful and literally your owner might appeal to certain types of women. Likewise I doubt any man alive has never dreamed of having a lustful and willing slave girl. Deny it if you want but that relationship is a deep part of human tradition and I doubt it's yet been bred out yet by our 'civilized' behavior.
Civilization is not about denying your instincts. It's about fulfilling your fantasies in a civilized manner. If Jefferson-style sex is what turns you on, just post a personal ad like "An intelligent and powerful man seeks a lustful and willing slave girl" on an appropriate newsgroup, website or magazine. Or maybe consider suggesting some kinky foreplay to your girlfriend. You don't really need to participate in a real misery of an entire race or nation just to get laid.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but I was really scared that 10.2.8 ate my battery life for good. I'm so happy to see the familiar 4h+ is back (battery is about a year old; iBook 800 12").
Uhhhh... let me think... I take the first answer. "Because the media are not owned by the common people but rather by huge multinational corporations" Did I win? Am I a millionaire now?
Bullshit. I'm sick of hearing this lie propagated. The real problem was that the Democrats (and more than a few Republicans) were too spineless to put up a fight in the wake of September 11, and when the Ashcroft submitted the FBI's wish list they just approved it without even reading the fucking thing.
So your point is that the main difference is that the GOP actually has read the bill?;-)
Okay, okay, I'm joking on a serious subject. I should not. Sorry. Couldn't resist. Serious mode back on.
Despite what Fox News would have you believe, there is a fair amount of bipartisan opposition to the Patriot Act (...) In terms of the Dems vs. GOP choice, these parties are still in power because they continue to reflect the views of most Americans.
I agree with every word you say, but this does not contradict my "no difference" statement. Quite contrary - the bipartisan opposition to the Patriot Act proves that there are reasonable people with guts and integrity in BOTH parties. Unfortunately, they are a minority - once again, in BOTH parties. And the fact that the "support our boys fighting terrorists" propaganda appeals to the hearts of the average TV viewer also does not contradict my statement, it justs explains why it is so.
If you think voting for Dean vs. voting for Bush doesn't make a difference, then you're insane.
Some interesting candidates appear in the primaries. Agreed. But even if they actually win the primaries, it does not guarantee the nomination. Let me remind you of the Democratic Party convention in 1968. Hubert Humphrey did not win any primaries - they belonged to Eugene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy. Yet he had the support of the Democratic party bosses and that was all he needed to lead the party against Nixon. Everything can happen before the actual nominations and America has seen it all - a leading candidate can be shot in mysterious circumstances, photos of him and his secret lover can mysteriously leak to tabloids, major financial supporters can suddenly back off etc.
If you're a journalist without integrity, then you're not a journalist, and no respectable publication will hire you. So by maintaining your integrity you're preserving your career.
Right. "I have problems with the FBI" looks really great in any journalist's CV and guarantees that "respectable publications" will queue to hire you.
If you're going to be a journalist, be a journalist, not a stoolie for the feds. If you can't handle that, find another job.
I'm afraid you still don't see where the true danger lies. A journalist facing this sort of dilemma will rather find another topic. If computers are your speciality you don't have to write about Lamo. Why not choose something safer, like what Steve Jobs said in his keynote or what will be implemented in the next Windows release. And this could be what FBI really is after - they are sending a message to the journalist community "guys, stay clear from this or you we will turn you into our informers". And this makes sense - they want to have more "what Steve said in keynote" articles and less "how to bypass security measures in computer network" features.
Remember who supported these fascist laws when you vote.
The problem is that virtually anybody supported them. The PATRIOT Act passed with overwhelming majority - the Senate accepted it almost unanimously (with Sen. Russ Feingold as the only but notable exception), the House okay'd it with 357 to 66. Welcome to the hell of American politics - you can vote either Democrat or Republican which makes no noticeable difference. Or you can vote independent and then you might as well stay home, they probably won't even count your vote. And even if they'll count, it will make no difference whatsoever.
And don't think it was any better in 1980's, 1940's, 1920's or in XIX century. It wasn't, even if Eugene Debbs and guys like him sometimes managed to get the whopping 10 per cent, it still changed exactly nada point zero.
Funny thing you mention that, because I always thought that the Linux community is also a major obstacle Linux has to overcome if anyone wants to think seriously of mainstream acceptance of Linux on desktop. Obviously, Windows community - especially all those guys who mindlessly open EVERYTHING they got attached in mail - is a major obstacle to anyone who wants to claim that Windows can actually be a secure and stable platform. Let us not forget the Playstation community, a great obstacle for anyone who wants to say that console gamers are NOT just a bunch of teenagers with a severe case of attention disorder. Etc. etc.
Communities are often a blessing, but they can also be a pain in the backside. It's normal. But you are not fair saying that:
I'm convinced that Steve Jobs had done good to keep Apple alive, but done poorly with everything else
A selection of some achievements, like (in no particular order): iPod, G5, iBook, mainstream acceptance of wireless technologies (something that still keeps x86 users in a computer equivalent of middle ages), mainstream acceptance of an Unix-based desktop system just proves you're wrong.
And yes, they also update their logo. And yes, they also pull interesting public relations stunts (actually, I agree with you that the Virginia cluster boils down to pure PR). They are a major corporation fighting for survival in a market governed by brands. But does this make my iPod, iBook or iMac less functional?
So, why dont you care about BeOS?
Lack of apps? hm?!
I suppose you are the kind of person that didnt care about Linux 3 years ago.
With all my sympathy towards your general stance, I can't help but pointing out that BeOS actually started its history a year _before_ Linux (for BeOS it's 1990, for Linux it's 1991). Look what progress Linux has made from the historical first post (damn, the very presence of this character string guarantees me a mod down!) made by Linus in 1991 to comp.os.minix (you know, the one with "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.") . And then compare it to the progress made by BeOS from 1990 to the present day. Frankly, I'm not even sure if the word "progress" applies to this case.
You remove eight screws, a piece of metal, and it should click in easily. Albeit it is even easier in an iBook, where you don't even have to deal with screws.
Except the little plastic screw between F5 and F6 that fixes the keyboard (some people have it constantly unfixed; oddly enough, the same people complain about keyboard scratches on the screen). But still, it's a task as sophisticated as opening a beer can.
Truly amazing, how many of you ever thought you would live long enough to see Apple win a contract based on price?
I am typing these very words on a contract won based on price. When I was searching the market for a new laptop with all the qualities I wanted (repeat: ALL, including such factors often omitted by PC users as battery life, general robustness or silence), low-end iBook was actually the CHEAPEST option.
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Itunes = JuK
Really? How well does it handle smart playlist synchronization with your iPod = KPod?
"The smell" , "Hygene" , etc.
3. Talking like a gay man before you make a point is still another bad idea.
Isn't it about time someone starts to fight against heterophobia? I hate this degrading stereotype that heteros don't care about the smell. Someone please organize a parade or leaflet campaign for Non-Gay Men Who Actually Wash Their Armpits And Change Socks.
*Goes back to watching Minotiry Report and Gladiator DVDs produced by Dreamworks, started and owned majorly by Steven Spielberg
Yeah, and the other one is George Lucas. But even for Coppola, it was not that easy and his company eventually had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. While I enjoy Spielberg and Lucas blockbusters, I don't think cinema should be limited only to this kind of filmmaking and I want guys like Robert Altman to have their chance to get the goddamned Oscar. And yes, for the kind of money Altman gets you can afford a Porsche or 17-inch Apple Powerbook, but you're still too short to be financially independent as a filmmaker. You have to be Lucas, Spielberg or Cameron to have that luxury.
I don't get it. What do you guys expect them to do? Both of the last two Lord of the Rings movies had crystal clear DVD-rips leaked online thanks to those screeners
That's not possible. Screeners usually are far from being crystal clear - the film is often interrupted by a message like "if you rented or purchased this movie, call 800-SOMETHING". I don't understand what exactly are they trying to achieve by banning _screeners_. It cannot be proliferation of pirated crystal clear copies - that's clear like crystal.
I have records from my grandfather that are 80 years old. I can play them on any record player.
Not true. Shellac records from 1920's require a 78-rpm capable turntable with a stylus (needle) able to read old fashioned groove (different than the so-called microgroove used in all contemporary vinyl records). There are companies that sell specialized equipment able to play both types of records (check for further information here, but it is really far, far away from your "any record player".
I have records from my dad that are 40 years old. I can play them on any record player.
In theory - yes. But unless you took really good precaution in storing them, 1960's vinyls are in fact nothing more than black circular objects. There's no music on them anymore.
Apple's current DRM scheme seems fine... until you start to think really long term. What happens in 80 years or even in 20 years.... are you going to have to dig up ancient authorized hardware in order to get the songs to play.
Come on! You use a specialized 78 rpm turntable to play your granpa's records! If you managed to dig up this sort of equipment, findind a decent Mac emulator for your 2040 supermachine will be a snap.
True I can burn a standard CD but CD-Rs only last 4 or 5 years without showing serious signs of degradation...
Of course, in your opinion vinyl and shellac analog records were eternal? They were showing serious signs of degradation after the first time you played them and it was only getting worse and worse with every play, every dust particle, every month etc. Actually, from what you write I reckon you never had a real vinyl LP in your life. You would remember all the pain and hassle if you had.
Apple is afraid of Linux and they in No way want to give creedence to it being an acceptable platform for desktop use.
Yeah, right. That's why they officially allow Terra Soft to sell their hardware with Linux preinstalled. Apple is a hardware vendor. As long as they can charge you $2999 or more for a computer, they don't really care about which OS you choose to run on it. Apple always supported the PPC Linux efforts - first with MKLinux (mind you, an Apple-branded Linux distro!), now with their blessing for Terra Soft.
My wife(yes, I have one) & I share a family calendar, but only she can write to it.
Isn't it what marriage is all about?
Well, it is pronounced "Mac Oh Ess Ten, version ten dot three".
Apple has implemented this even into the built-in speech synthesizer. Just highliht the sentence "After all, why would they call the OS "Mac OS X 10.3" if the X really meant ten?" and select "speech" from the "services" menu. The voice will read: "After all, why would they call the Oh Es Mac Oh Es Ten Point Three if the Ex really meant ten". Even the built-in speech synthesizer knows that X in "MacOS X" is ten, but any other X is just Ex!
Like many iPod users, I actually buy much more music than I did previously. New listening device creates new spaces for listening music and thus increases demand. However, I am not rich enough to buy EVERYTHING I want to listen - usually when I enter a store, 4-5 albums catch my interest, but I can afford to walk out only with 2-3 of them. Obviously, I avoid CD's with stickers like "this CD is copy protected". I know the protection is probably easy to bypass, but why should I bother? I just choose the 2-3 albums without the protection. And here's a weird thing - whenever I put back a "copy protected" CD on the store shelf (carrying in my basket the non-protected ones) echo brings me the sounds of a gunshot and a voice shouting "ouch! my foot!" somewhere in the distance.
WASHINGTON, DC. The presidential candidate announced his resignation from the election run when tabloid press published leaked examples of google searches performed from his own laptop computer. The candidate was seeking among others for "sucks horse cock", "fetish personal ads" and "hentai sailor pictures". The spokesperson of google.com claimed no knowledge on how this information leaked from his company, but announced a thorough investigation. The candidate declined from any comments, but his political carreer seems to be over for good.
It's clear from two weeks of testing that Apple's new Power Mac G5 dual 2-GHz machine is the fastest thing the company has ever produced.
Wow! That's really surprising. Nobody could expect that. After all, why the high-end new generation machine should be any faster than the low-end or older generation machines from the same company? This guy really did his homework, it took him only two weeks to discover this oddity.
For that matter is there evidence that the slaves weren't willing partners? (I never have actually studied the topic.)
Please do!
A man that is intelligent and powerful and literally your owner might appeal to certain types of women. Likewise I doubt any man alive has never dreamed of having a lustful and willing slave girl. Deny it if you want but that relationship is a deep part of human tradition and I doubt it's yet been bred out yet by our 'civilized' behavior.
Civilization is not about denying your instincts. It's about fulfilling your fantasies in a civilized manner. If Jefferson-style sex is what turns you on, just post a personal ad like "An intelligent and powerful man seeks a lustful and willing slave girl" on an appropriate newsgroup, website or magazine. Or maybe consider suggesting some kinky foreplay to your girlfriend. You don't really need to participate in a real misery of an entire race or nation just to get laid.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but I was really scared that 10.2.8 ate my battery life for good. I'm so happy to see the familiar 4h+ is back (battery is about a year old; iBook 800 12").
Uhhhh... let me think... I take the first answer. "Because the media are not owned by the common people but rather by huge multinational corporations" Did I win? Am I a millionaire now?
Bullshit. I'm sick of hearing this lie propagated. The real problem was that the Democrats (and more than a few Republicans) were too spineless to put up a fight in the wake of September 11, and when the Ashcroft submitted the FBI's wish list they just approved it without even reading the fucking thing.
;-)
So your point is that the main difference is that the GOP actually has read the bill?
Okay, okay, I'm joking on a serious subject. I should not. Sorry. Couldn't resist. Serious mode back on.
Despite what Fox News would have you believe, there is a fair amount of bipartisan opposition to the Patriot Act (...) In terms of the Dems vs. GOP choice, these parties are still in power because they continue to reflect the views of most Americans.
I agree with every word you say, but this does not contradict my "no difference" statement. Quite contrary - the bipartisan opposition to the Patriot Act proves that there are reasonable people with guts and integrity in BOTH parties. Unfortunately, they are a minority - once again, in BOTH parties. And the fact that the "support our boys fighting terrorists" propaganda appeals to the hearts of the average TV viewer also does not contradict my statement, it justs explains why it is so.
If you think voting for Dean vs. voting for Bush doesn't make a difference, then you're insane.
Some interesting candidates appear in the primaries. Agreed. But even if they actually win the primaries, it does not guarantee the nomination. Let me remind you of the Democratic Party convention in 1968. Hubert Humphrey did not win any primaries - they belonged to Eugene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy. Yet he had the support of the Democratic party bosses and that was all he needed to lead the party against Nixon. Everything can happen before the actual nominations and America has seen it all - a leading candidate can be shot in mysterious circumstances, photos of him and his secret lover can mysteriously leak to tabloids, major financial supporters can suddenly back off etc.
If you're a journalist without integrity, then you're not a journalist, and no respectable publication will hire you. So by maintaining your integrity you're preserving your career.
Right. "I have problems with the FBI" looks really great in any journalist's CV and guarantees that "respectable publications" will queue to hire you.
If you're going to be a journalist, be a journalist, not a stoolie for the feds. If you can't handle that, find another job.
I'm afraid you still don't see where the true danger lies. A journalist facing this sort of dilemma will rather find another topic. If computers are your speciality you don't have to write about Lamo. Why not choose something safer, like what Steve Jobs said in his keynote or what will be implemented in the next Windows release. And this could be what FBI really is after - they are sending a message to the journalist community "guys, stay clear from this or you we will turn you into our informers". And this makes sense - they want to have more "what Steve said in keynote" articles and less "how to bypass security measures in computer network" features.
Don't forget about the 4th Amendment, regarding unreasonable search and seizure.
Why? The Section 213 of the PATRIOT Act can be summarized precisely as "forget the 4th Amendment".
Remember who supported these fascist laws when you vote.
The problem is that virtually anybody supported them. The PATRIOT Act passed with overwhelming majority - the Senate accepted it almost unanimously (with Sen. Russ Feingold as the only but notable exception), the House okay'd it with 357 to 66. Welcome to the hell of American politics - you can vote either Democrat or Republican which makes no noticeable difference. Or you can vote independent and then you might as well stay home, they probably won't even count your vote. And even if they'll count, it will make no difference whatsoever.
And don't think it was any better in 1980's, 1940's, 1920's or in XIX century. It wasn't, even if Eugene Debbs and guys like him sometimes managed to get the whopping 10 per cent, it still changed exactly nada point zero.
Funny thing you mention that, because I always thought that the Linux community is also a major obstacle Linux has to overcome if anyone wants to think seriously of mainstream acceptance of Linux on desktop. Obviously, Windows community - especially all those guys who mindlessly open EVERYTHING they got attached in mail - is a major obstacle to anyone who wants to claim that Windows can actually be a secure and stable platform. Let us not forget the Playstation community, a great obstacle for anyone who wants to say that console gamers are NOT just a bunch of teenagers with a severe case of attention disorder. Etc. etc.
Communities are often a blessing, but they can also be a pain in the backside. It's normal. But you are not fair saying that:
I'm convinced that Steve Jobs had done good to keep Apple alive, but done poorly with everything else
A selection of some achievements, like (in no particular order): iPod, G5, iBook, mainstream acceptance of wireless technologies (something that still keeps x86 users in a computer equivalent of middle ages), mainstream acceptance of an Unix-based desktop system just proves you're wrong.
And yes, they also update their logo. And yes, they also pull interesting public relations stunts (actually, I agree with you that the Virginia cluster boils down to pure PR). They are a major corporation fighting for survival in a market governed by brands. But does this make my iPod, iBook or iMac less functional?
So, why dont you care about BeOS?
Lack of apps? hm?!
I suppose you are the kind of person that didnt care about Linux 3 years ago.
With all my sympathy towards your general stance, I can't help but pointing out that BeOS actually started its history a year _before_ Linux (for BeOS it's 1990, for Linux it's 1991). Look what progress Linux has made from the historical first post (damn, the very presence of this character string guarantees me a mod down!) made by Linus in 1991 to comp.os.minix (you know, the one with "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.") . And then compare it to the progress made by BeOS from 1990 to the present day. Frankly, I'm not even sure if the word "progress" applies to this case.
You remove eight screws, a piece of metal, and it should click in easily. Albeit it is even easier in an iBook, where you don't even have to deal with screws.
Except the little plastic screw between F5 and F6 that fixes the keyboard (some people have it constantly unfixed; oddly enough, the same people complain about keyboard scratches on the screen). But still, it's a task as sophisticated as opening a beer can.
I volunteered time to help get some G5's ready for this baby, and I think my favorite moment was getting the tshirt all volunteers received:
:-)
"Someone shelled out the cash for 1100 G5's and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"
Truly amazing, how many of you ever thought you would live long enough to see Apple win a contract based on price?
I am typing these very words on a contract won based on price. When I was searching the market for a new laptop with all the qualities I wanted (repeat: ALL, including such factors often omitted by PC users as battery life, general robustness or silence), low-end iBook was actually the CHEAPEST option.