I dont even own a mac. My point is in how STUPID people sound talking up their little fav platform. All of them have merit to the people that prefer to use them. Yes, I know you dont understand what I just said.
Bite me.
Please. Like fuckin *nix geeks and PC gamer kiddies sound any different. Only the buzzwords change.
Lets examine the PC version:
" My new Canterwood chipset and 3.0C P4 gets me 8 more FPS in CS! " I'll be the envy of my clan now!!!"
" DAMN, I love updating Windows every other day with a new security patch! It shows that Microsoft REALLY CARES about my computers security!"
" I love spending my valuable time endlessly troubleshooting my new winders box I just put together....it's only been 3 months now and I still cant get the RAID to work right...."
" Linux is GREAT! Every time I install a new piece of hardware it takes me 4 days becuase I have to hack the kernel and recompile , but HEY, that's the price of progress, right? "
Stupid lamer. Only a moron would allow themselves to worry about what kind of fuckin computer or operating system OTHER PEOPLE should use. Use whatever YOU like and leave everyone else alone. If they like to make what you consider to be bad choices, thats THEIR bag.
The first thing outa everyones mouth is how she's not really all that attractive. BULLSHIT.
There's not a straight male reader of/. that would kick her out of your bed if she jumped in it. Thats the truth. All you other freaks talking smack about her are bullshitters.
She's damn nice looking, there are better and worse, but she's attractive, stupid comments not withstanding.
then Macintosh. I'll throw away the windows platform in a heartbeat if all this DRM shit means I cant use my machine the way I want to. I would rather pay Apple's Music Store 99 cents a song than have to put up with DRM BS. It looks like to me Apple and MS are getting ready to attack each other again - MS buying Virtual PC was a blocking move, and Apple's Music Store is the only way to innoculate Apple from being held hostage to MS' DRM. Check and Mate.
OH jeez. It's a HYDROGEN two stroke engine. Hydrogen power sources mostly produce water vapor as their main exhaust. There's no pollution like in a engine that uses carbon based fuel. After the Hindenburg, nobody dared to use it anymore.
On the other hand, every time you do the two-stroke, we KNOW what happens in YOUR house.
On a national level, yes, things were worse than now. On a local level, there were THOUSANDS of local radio station owners. What you are talking about is 3 or 4 companies that own half the radio shows in america, in addition to putting ONLY THEIR OWNED SHOWS on those stations. THAT IS NEW. That did not exist in the old days, while they may have used content that only 4 or 5 companies produced, the stations themselves were owned by thousands of different owners. For you to say that the newspapers owned the radio stations en masse is incorrect. They owned some of them, yes. That does not invalidate my point, which is most of the license holders ( provided they where in the game before 1941 ) got their licenses FOR FREE. And you cant do that now. You cant even get a LPFM license anymore.
It's amazing to me that no one has brought up the real pisser in all this. Back in the 20's when radio first started, you could apply for a license for a AM radio station and have it granted FOR FREE. These stations usually grew into media empires of their own. After 15 changes of ownership or whatever all these stations were absorbed like the Borg into the BS we have on the airwaves today.
The point is: They got started for FREE! Today you cant buy a AM radio station license for less than 225K, even in the WORST area, becuase you have to transfer the licenses, they stopped giving new ones years and years ago. It's like legal machine guns, you can buy em sure enuff but becuase you can only get an existing one transferred, it costs megabucks. This is true of all broadcast media: it costs somewhere around 100K to even share ownership of some brokedick AM station in Podunk somewheres. Never mind trying to start a radio or TV station in a actual city somewhere poeple might actually listen to you. And this has happened with the *CURRENT* rules in play.
This is why the internet still thrives. It's he only place left that big business cannot totally co-opt.
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I dont even own a mac. My point is in how STUPID people sound talking up their little fav platform. All of them have merit to the people that prefer to use them. Yes, I know you dont understand what I just said. Bite me.
Please. Like fuckin *nix geeks and PC gamer kiddies sound any different. Only the buzzwords change. Lets examine the PC version: " My new Canterwood chipset and 3.0C P4 gets me 8 more FPS in CS! " I'll be the envy of my clan now!!!" " DAMN, I love updating Windows every other day with a new security patch! It shows that Microsoft REALLY CARES about my computers security!" " I love spending my valuable time endlessly troubleshooting my new winders box I just put together....it's only been 3 months now and I still cant get the RAID to work right...." " Linux is GREAT! Every time I install a new piece of hardware it takes me 4 days becuase I have to hack the kernel and recompile , but HEY, that's the price of progress, right? " Stupid lamer. Only a moron would allow themselves to worry about what kind of fuckin computer or operating system OTHER PEOPLE should use. Use whatever YOU like and leave everyone else alone. If they like to make what you consider to be bad choices, thats THEIR bag.
Actually, that was posted well in advance of this story being on /.
Their next bandwidth bill will be something else agin.....
The first thing outa everyones mouth is how she's not really all that attractive. BULLSHIT. There's not a straight male reader of /. that would kick her out of your bed if she jumped in it. Thats the truth. All you other freaks talking smack about her are bullshitters.
She's damn nice looking, there are better and worse, but she's attractive, stupid comments not withstanding.
then Macintosh. I'll throw away the windows platform in a heartbeat if all this DRM shit means I cant use my machine the way I want to. I would rather pay Apple's Music Store 99 cents a song than have to put up with DRM BS. It looks like to me Apple and MS are getting ready to attack each other again - MS buying Virtual PC was a blocking move, and Apple's Music Store is the only way to innoculate Apple from being held hostage to MS' DRM. Check and Mate.
OH jeez. It's a HYDROGEN two stroke engine. Hydrogen power sources mostly produce water vapor as their main exhaust. There's no pollution like in a engine that uses carbon based fuel. After the Hindenburg, nobody dared to use it anymore. On the other hand, every time you do the two-stroke, we KNOW what happens in YOUR house.
On a national level, yes, things were worse than now. On a local level, there were THOUSANDS of local radio station owners. What you are talking about is 3 or 4 companies that own half the radio shows in america, in addition to putting ONLY THEIR OWNED SHOWS on those stations. THAT IS NEW. That did not exist in the old days, while they may have used content that only 4 or 5 companies produced, the stations themselves were owned by thousands of different owners. For you to say that the newspapers owned the radio stations en masse is incorrect. They owned some of them, yes. That does not invalidate my point, which is most of the license holders ( provided they where in the game before 1941 ) got their licenses FOR FREE. And you cant do that now. You cant even get a LPFM license anymore.
It's amazing to me that no one has brought up the real pisser in all this. Back in the 20's when radio first started, you could apply for a license for a AM radio station and have it granted FOR FREE. These stations usually grew into media empires of their own. After 15 changes of ownership or whatever all these stations were absorbed like the Borg into the BS we have on the airwaves today. The point is: They got started for FREE! Today you cant buy a AM radio station license for less than 225K, even in the WORST area, becuase you have to transfer the licenses, they stopped giving new ones years and years ago. It's like legal machine guns, you can buy em sure enuff but becuase you can only get an existing one transferred, it costs megabucks. This is true of all broadcast media: it costs somewhere around 100K to even share ownership of some brokedick AM station in Podunk somewheres. Never mind trying to start a radio or TV station in a actual city somewhere poeple might actually listen to you. And this has happened with the *CURRENT* rules in play. This is why the internet still thrives. It's he only place left that big business cannot totally co-opt.
sorry every one has to do this at least once