Remember that the House of Representatives has basically two states: *Financing reelection *Running for reelection.
Do you think the House wants a housecleaning?
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Some of us just don't like Windows much -- though I personally use Mac and Windows both...as well as Linux, though due to reliability issues and the presence of a good version of Word I use the Mac for all my school stuff.
Though I will confess that I do tell others to get a Mac -- though mainly when they complain about their Windows PCs. Then they'll shut up about Windows, I have enough trouble with Windows on my Windows boxes at home, but also have a geek reputation and therefore have to take up some of the aspects of the Rabid Mac Zealot (but not the tattoos!) in order to sort of get people not wanting me to fix their Windows machines. I'll still help them to the best of my ability, just mention the Mac while I do it -- and that position may change if and when Longhorn starts turning up, because I'm probably not going to be getting too familiar with it. Plus, I like my friends to not have as many computer problems -- the actual emotion at the heart of the much-touted "evangelism." Yeah, you heard it here; plain old altruism for your friends' nerves, spouses, and pocketbooks, of the sort that has existed since time immemorial, is the reason some people tell others to get a Macintosh.
The actual Mac lifestyle, if there is one, is actually the lifestyle of there not being a Mac lifestyle, but rather just a state of not having to worry so much about whether the computer will work (unless it's particularly old, of course). As has been said in this thread, there's actually a bigger problem with the need for a Windows lifestyle...and has been recounted, the Windows zealots who will treat those who choose to use a Mac as pariah.
There are those who go to conferences to see Steve Jobs and stuff, and if it were convenient for me to see Jobs I'd probably do it for much the same reason I'd go see Clinton -- an interesting speaker discoursing on an interesting topic, worth attending for the sheer oratorical value of it. Cicero and Clay are dead, someone's gotta fill their shoes.
But you know, I think I've just wasted a lot of time yammering -- let me check MacRumors;)
Really no different than pro baseball fandom -- even the biggest Mac fans don't come close to the biggest Cubs fans, and I suppose you'll go criticise them for obsessing over the Tribune Company?
I think most of that is in the 2DA files, and the rest could be scrubbed out -- noone else's trademarks are hardcoded as far as I know, this stuff's too old for patents, I don't know of any trade secrets, and the copyrights can be scrubbed out. Might take someone at Bioware a day or two to scrub and upload the.tgz, but it'd be a very affordable public relations stunt.
Actually, I am an AT&T Wireless customer (got in because I always liked AT&T long distance), and I have some coverage issues, but their antenna is on my college campus so I never have a problem at school...though my handset is no good so I am as likely as not to just use a land line for anything of value.
I seriously wish they'd open-source a version of the Biowae Infinity Engine (used for Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment) ala Doom, since it seems that the commercial viability of the engine is gone. Can we say native Shadows of Amn executable on Linux?
Bear in mind that this is an SBC (i.e. Southwestern Bell) and BellSouth joint venture buying a former subsidiary of AT&T.
Also bear in mind that the RBOCs have been whittled down by merger to those two, Verizon, and Qwest. How much longer until this becoimes three, or two, or even one, if the feds think that the cell phone companies are the "competition"?
The first two versions are slower than 802.11b, and the highest is slower than 802.11g, so it makes more sense just to use AirPort Extreme and/or Express, or another similar WDS-based Wireless-G system, than to string a bunch of Ethernet cable, unless you want very fast connecctions between your computers, because this isn't going to be faster than 802.11g, which is a lot easier to set up, and wireless will be faster by the time this is.
I wonder how much longer it'll be before Qwest rolls this out in Omaha...though Cox just recently bumped my cable connection by a megabit and just about everything's plenty fast.
if it reduces the risk of getting the wrong set of dentures. I have some problems with RFID in passports (due to the possibility of thieves and terrorists abroad getting hold of a sensitive scanner and figuring out who's an American) but using RFID in the dental prosthetic production process makes perfect sense, as long as nothing dangerous leaks out of the prosthesis because of such.
Payphones oftentimes have decent mics and need no batteries.
And moreover 800 numbers can be quite costly on a cell compared to a pay phone (where in my experience they are sometimes free!).
Well, pointing out that a superuser can run a script to install malware -- and might be tricked into doing so, theoretically (a trojan horse) -- doesn't produce enough FUD. I wouldn't be overly surprised if whoever put out this alert is taking money from Microsoft.
The thing about the Apple stores is that somehow they're actually profitable -- but of course, I'm certain that if one were losing money they'd just look at the guest count and rightly rationalize it as an advertising expense -- anyone who goes into or even walks buy an Apple store sees the products, even if they go home to order them online. Only damn problem is that at the Chicago one I almost slammed into the back of the bloody glass staircase on the way out. They should put a product table behind those staircases, or some sort of display inside the stairs to both show stuff and keep people from tuning out the stairs.
As for Sony, I haven't seen any of their retail stores but I can imagine a Sony owned and operated store being a relatively good way to demo and buy Sony products, particularly the A/V stuff though I can imagine a few Vaios walking out the door as well. Speaking of which, they'd better be able to keep shrinkage under control -- the main advantage of the Gateway store was that it was really just a showroom (no pretense of or attempt at being a point of acquisition for big-ticket items until the end) and you couldn't do much harm with shoplifting -- of course, keeping anything of value behind the counter is almost as good as making people order.
What makes the line in Julius Caesar sort of funny is that it, in an English play, is a Latin paraphrase of something likely originally stated in Greek.
The people who think Microsoft will go broke next year are the same sort of people who think Apple will go broke next year -- they don't seem to get the idea of "debt free, making money, and billions in the bank." Heck, even if they left operating systems they could make a good deal off the Xbox and Office for Mac.
They're trying to capture the evangelism often seen among Mac users (and TiVo users, and customers of other brands with high loyalty), by which they suggest the product to their friends who could benefit. What the hip-e folks don't get is that except with the new TiVo reward system or whatnot, there usually isn't a kickback involved in word-of-mouth brand evangelism -- usually just a desire to help those who could benefit.
NT4 did come to PowerPC Reference Platform, and nobody cared. If it came to New World Mac or compatible, some people might dual boot it, if and only if there were some software -- but it's probably easier in the long run for companies to just port (our outsource the porting of) the software to Mac OS X, which in my experience is the best OS out there at this time. As far as PowerPC architecture in general, it's got some advantages over i386, but on the other hand, I'm not sure if they're worth having to either recompile everything or use emulation -- which would probably result in something kind of like Virtual PC for Mac (which is mainly for stuff like Access and can't run games too well, evidently).
XP MCE has always looked to me like MythTV for people who are too rich and/or lazy to geek Linux or TiVo for Paul Thurrott or the Microsoft-zealot balding IT man at your school or workplace. A good thing to have, but with TiVo To Go around the corner to handle the DVD burning thing, is there any real advantage over TiVo? If you are using it like a TV (sitting at a distance) you won't be too comfortable using Word, particularly if you are using a standard-def or any small TV as your monitor, and there's no reason in particular to have Windows except MAYBE the games, and those would only be advantageous if you have a rather well-sized screen (e.g. a plasma).
TiVo may have a fee, but the box is cheap and when it dies you can just get a new one and the fee remains the same -- and if the fee is really a problem, get Lifetime. I think you can get Lifetime and a DVD-burning TiVo for less than a decent MCE box and you don't have to get antivirus, because it's a highly secure embedded Linux distro.
Legal issues? Don't make me laugh. You can do the recording part with line-out/line-in, this just makes it more convenient (with scheduling) and adds pause/rewind
I still use my Palm Tungsten C. Why? I like my cheap AT&T Wireless service on a cheapo cell phone -- though sometimes the antenna on the phone is lousy. I don't want to have to pay outrageous amounts for data services when anywhere I'd want to get online has free WiFi anyway.
And besides, cellular pisses me off far too much to at this time be mixed into something as reliable (as long as I don't use the web browser -- but that's why whe have PSSH and Unix boxes for the/. fix). The hardware is uncomfortable, the service is unreliable, and dammit, show me a cell phone with a decent mic on it.
The ancient Athenians actually used raffle voting for their elected offices -- in a direct democracy system, it's actually a good way to fill positions.
...is that everything will basically be Unix by then. Yes, even Windows, if it still exists as such. Hey, even Apple is using BSD anymore -- the handwriting is on the wall for nonstandard systems like Palm OS...and Windows... in anything bigger than a basic cell phone, as embedded Linux in such devices as TiVo becomes more commonplace.
But on a more article-based note, as has already been said, it seems that the OS comment is a basic "*BSD is dying" troll.
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Remember that the House of Representatives has basically two states:
*Financing reelection
*Running for reelection.
Do you think the House wants a housecleaning?
Some of us just don't like Windows much -- though I personally use Mac and Windows both...as well as Linux, though due to reliability issues and the presence of a good version of Word I use the Mac for all my school stuff.
;)
Though I will confess that I do tell others to get a Mac -- though mainly when they complain about their Windows PCs. Then they'll shut up about Windows, I have enough trouble with Windows on my Windows boxes at home, but also have a geek reputation and therefore have to take up some of the aspects of the Rabid Mac Zealot (but not the tattoos!) in order to sort of get people not wanting me to fix their Windows machines. I'll still help them to the best of my ability, just mention the Mac while I do it -- and that position may change if and when Longhorn starts turning up, because I'm probably not going to be getting too familiar with it. Plus, I like my friends to not have as many computer problems -- the actual emotion at the heart of the much-touted "evangelism." Yeah, you heard it here; plain old altruism for your friends' nerves, spouses, and pocketbooks, of the sort that has existed since time immemorial, is the reason some people tell others to get a Macintosh.
The actual Mac lifestyle, if there is one, is actually the lifestyle of there not being a Mac lifestyle, but rather just a state of not having to worry so much about whether the computer will work (unless it's particularly old, of course). As has been said in this thread, there's actually a bigger problem with the need for a Windows lifestyle...and has been recounted, the Windows zealots who will treat those who choose to use a Mac as pariah.
There are those who go to conferences to see Steve Jobs and stuff, and if it were convenient for me to see Jobs I'd probably do it for much the same reason I'd go see Clinton -- an interesting speaker discoursing on an interesting topic, worth attending for the sheer oratorical value of it. Cicero and Clay are dead, someone's gotta fill their shoes.
But you know, I think I've just wasted a lot of time yammering -- let me check MacRumors
Really no different than pro baseball fandom -- even the biggest Mac fans don't come close to the biggest Cubs fans, and I suppose you'll go criticise them for obsessing over the Tribune Company?
Customs isn't the part of DHS that handles terrorism -- they're the part that handles contraband like Rubik's Cube knockoffs. And Spanish hams.
Since July or August of 2003, longer if you include the beta.
I think most of that is in the 2DA files, and the rest could be scrubbed out -- noone else's trademarks are hardcoded as far as I know, this stuff's too old for patents, I don't know of any trade secrets, and the copyrights can be scrubbed out. Might take someone at Bioware a day or two to scrub and upload the .tgz, but it'd be a very affordable public relations stunt.
Actually, I am an AT&T Wireless customer (got in because I always liked AT&T long distance), and I have some coverage issues, but their antenna is on my college campus so I never have a problem at school...though my handset is no good so I am as likely as not to just use a land line for anything of value.
I seriously wish they'd open-source a version of the Biowae Infinity Engine (used for Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment) ala Doom, since it seems that the commercial viability of the engine is gone. Can we say native Shadows of Amn executable on Linux?
Cingular confirms it, competition is dying :)
Bear in mind that this is an SBC (i.e. Southwestern Bell) and BellSouth joint venture buying a former subsidiary of AT&T.
Also bear in mind that the RBOCs have been whittled down by merger to those two, Verizon, and Qwest. How much longer until this becoimes three, or two, or even one, if the feds think that the cell phone companies are the "competition"?
The first two versions are slower than 802.11b, and the highest is slower than 802.11g, so it makes more sense just to use AirPort Extreme and/or Express, or another similar WDS-based Wireless-G system, than to string a bunch of Ethernet cable, unless you want very fast connecctions between your computers, because this isn't going to be faster than 802.11g, which is a lot easier to set up, and wireless will be faster by the time this is.
I wonder how much longer it'll be before Qwest rolls this out in Omaha...though Cox just recently bumped my cable connection by a megabit and just about everything's plenty fast.
if it reduces the risk of getting the wrong set of dentures. I have some problems with RFID in passports (due to the possibility of thieves and terrorists abroad getting hold of a sensitive scanner and figuring out who's an American) but using RFID in the dental prosthetic production process makes perfect sense, as long as nothing dangerous leaks out of the prosthesis because of such.
Payphones oftentimes have decent mics and need no batteries. And moreover 800 numbers can be quite costly on a cell compared to a pay phone (where in my experience they are sometimes free!).
Well, pointing out that a superuser can run a script to install malware -- and might be tricked into doing so, theoretically (a trojan horse) -- doesn't produce enough FUD. I wouldn't be overly surprised if whoever put out this alert is taking money from Microsoft.
The thing about the Apple stores is that somehow they're actually profitable -- but of course, I'm certain that if one were losing money they'd just look at the guest count and rightly rationalize it as an advertising expense -- anyone who goes into or even walks buy an Apple store sees the products, even if they go home to order them online. Only damn problem is that at the Chicago one I almost slammed into the back of the bloody glass staircase on the way out. They should put a product table behind those staircases, or some sort of display inside the stairs to both show stuff and keep people from tuning out the stairs.
As for Sony, I haven't seen any of their retail stores but I can imagine a Sony owned and operated store being a relatively good way to demo and buy Sony products, particularly the A/V stuff though I can imagine a few Vaios walking out the door as well. Speaking of which, they'd better be able to keep shrinkage under control -- the main advantage of the Gateway store was that it was really just a showroom (no pretense of or attempt at being a point of acquisition for big-ticket items until the end) and you couldn't do much harm with shoplifting -- of course, keeping anything of value behind the counter is almost as good as making people order.
What makes the line in Julius Caesar sort of funny is that it, in an English play, is a Latin paraphrase of something likely originally stated in Greek.
The people who think Microsoft will go broke next year are the same sort of people who think Apple will go broke next year -- they don't seem to get the idea of "debt free, making money, and billions in the bank." Heck, even if they left operating systems they could make a good deal off the Xbox and Office for Mac.
They're trying to capture the evangelism often seen among Mac users (and TiVo users, and customers of other brands with high loyalty), by which they suggest the product to their friends who could benefit. What the hip-e folks don't get is that except with the new TiVo reward system or whatnot, there usually isn't a kickback involved in word-of-mouth brand evangelism -- usually just a desire to help those who could benefit.
NT4 did come to PowerPC Reference Platform, and nobody cared. If it came to New World Mac or compatible, some people might dual boot it, if and only if there were some software -- but it's probably easier in the long run for companies to just port (our outsource the porting of) the software to Mac OS X, which in my experience is the best OS out there at this time. As far as PowerPC architecture in general, it's got some advantages over i386, but on the other hand, I'm not sure if they're worth having to either recompile everything or use emulation -- which would probably result in something kind of like Virtual PC for Mac (which is mainly for stuff like Access and can't run games too well, evidently).
XP MCE has always looked to me like MythTV for people who are too rich and/or lazy to geek Linux or TiVo for Paul Thurrott or the Microsoft-zealot balding IT man at your school or workplace. A good thing to have, but with TiVo To Go around the corner to handle the DVD burning thing, is there any real advantage over TiVo? If you are using it like a TV (sitting at a distance) you won't be too comfortable using Word, particularly if you are using a standard-def or any small TV as your monitor, and there's no reason in particular to have Windows except MAYBE the games, and those would only be advantageous if you have a rather well-sized screen (e.g. a plasma).
TiVo may have a fee, but the box is cheap and when it dies you can just get a new one and the fee remains the same -- and if the fee is really a problem, get Lifetime. I think you can get Lifetime and a DVD-burning TiVo for less than a decent MCE box and you don't have to get antivirus, because it's a highly secure embedded Linux distro.
Legal issues? Don't make me laugh. You can do the recording part with line-out/line-in, this just makes it more convenient (with scheduling) and adds pause/rewind
I still use my Palm Tungsten C. Why? I like my cheap AT&T Wireless service on a cheapo cell phone -- though sometimes the antenna on the phone is lousy. I don't want to have to pay outrageous amounts for data services when anywhere I'd want to get online has free WiFi anyway.
/. fix). The hardware is uncomfortable, the service is unreliable, and dammit, show me a cell phone with a decent mic on it.
And besides, cellular pisses me off far too much to at this time be mixed into something as reliable (as long as I don't use the web browser -- but that's why whe have PSSH and Unix boxes for the
Did going down to the sea to pick up some salt help Gandhi's cause? Sometimes acts of civil disobedience don't have direct results.
And anyways, if the CPD keeps refusing to allow the papers to be served, I believe the duty of serving the papers devolves to federal marshals.
The ancient Athenians actually used raffle voting for their elected offices -- in a direct democracy system, it's actually a good way to fill positions.
...is that everything will basically be Unix by then. Yes, even Windows, if it still exists as such. Hey, even Apple is using BSD anymore -- the handwriting is on the wall for nonstandard systems like Palm OS ...and Windows... in anything bigger than a basic cell phone, as embedded Linux in such devices as TiVo becomes more commonplace.
But on a more article-based note, as has already been said, it seems that the OS comment is a basic "*BSD is dying" troll.
I think Lincoln's second inaugural may have come after the Gettysburg Address, and it was clearly written by the same guy -- Honest Abe.