Natural selection my fried, natural selection. It seems to me that the world is increasingly full of idiots. When I was a kid, idiots took themselves out of the gene pool. If you were too stupid to figure out how to ride a bike safely and fell and cracked your skull while trying to jump your bike off of a bridge and into incoming traffic, you died and you and your idiotic genes were taken out of the gene pool. Today those idiots, with their helmets and pads, can survive and reproduce. We need to stop with the whole nanny state business. As far as I'm concerned as long as an act can only adversely affects the person or persons who are performing it then it should be completely and totally legal. You want to ride your motor cycle without a helmet? Be my guest! Feel like driving without a seat belt? Have at it! Think it would be fun to sky dive without the proper training? Here's the parachute!
Look, I agree, this was a bad decision by Carter. But someone should remind you that you can't blame Carter and his party for why this is still in effect - they're long out of power!
Oh yes you can. You can blame Carter and his party and all of the other tree huggers for demagoging the issue so much as to make the majority of Americans think that nuclear energy is "bad". It doesn't take much to scare the average American into doing something stupid and counter-productive. See Iraq.
As others have pointed out, the Chinese goverment has a majority stake in the company. While that doesn't make it 100% owned by the Chinese goverment, they have enough of a stake in the company that people ought to be aware of it.
Climate change was occurring long before our species arrived here, has been occurring ever since, and will continue to occur long after we're gone. Are we contributing to it? Yes. Does it really matter in the end? No. There are forces at work here that are a lot bigger and lot more powerful than we are. Ultimately, our species is time limited on this planet anyway. Weather it is a large asteroid, nukes, the environment or the dieing sun, something is going to make this planet uninhabitable at some point. Let's spend less time fighting with each other and more time figuring out how we can get our species off of this lovely little rock and onto the next one because that's our only hope for survival in the end.
I'll never understand the intelligent design versus evolution debate. The two seem to me to have nothing to do with one another. Evolution is a valid scientific theory based on physical evidence and intelligent design is more of a philosophy that really can't be proven one way or another. Further, they aren't mutually exclusive. If there is a God, why couldn't he/she/it have used evolution as the means to design life? Clearly, if there is a God that's exactly how he/she/it went about it.
Each and every country was "third world" status at some point in time. There's a reason the "developed" world became "developed" and it all starts with the rule of law, security, stability, a free market economy and, in most cases, democracy. If you really want to help you should be less focused on cheap laptops and more focused on what I've just listed. It reminds me of the old adage: "Catch a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime". If we can encourage the rule of law, security, stability, a free market economy and get these nations on a path toward democracy then all of this will be a moot point because they'll either be building their own laptops or have the means to buy them. Don't treat the symptoms, cure the disease.
Hello, McFly, anybody home? At $8.00+ a pop per person for a ticket and about another $15 to $20 for food and drinks only to have to sit in a crowded room with idiots on their cell phones, large groups of annoying teenagers, retards who bring their crying infants and old women explaining things scene by scene to their deaf husbands, do you wonder why consumers are increasingly staying home?
Going to see a movie is about more than just the movie, it's about the experience and as it stands now in most theaters, the experience sucks. There's an awesome theater about a half hour away with huge seats spaced far enough apart where you can order good food (not just pop corn and candy) and alcoholic beverages. If I'm going to spend a small fortune to go see a show it'll be in a place like that. Otherwise I'm hitting the second run theater a month after the show comes out or catching it on DVD 6 months later.
It boils down to prices versus experience. If I'm going to be in a crowded theater with seats close together and have to put up with all of the other crap I mentioned above, then it better be for a reasonable price. I don't mind paying more, but it better be in a theater that provides an experience that justifies the price.
It's a shame too because I used to love going to the movies but now I reserve it for the big budget, special effects laded summer popcorn flicks. Those spectacles were made to be enjoyed on the big screen and I'm willing to tolerate the crap some of the time.
This is a market which can turn upside down in a second.
I would take it a step further. I would say it's a market that can, and will, turn upside down at some point. Google keeps expanding and, IMHO, keeps taking their eye off the prize. I'm increasingly having to go deeper and deeper into the search results to find the information I'm looking for and that doesn't bode well. That's exactly why I started using Google in the first place, to find what I was looking for and find it quickly. If some other search engine comes along that does it better, I'll switch in a heartbeat and I know I'm not alone. If I was, Google wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is now because almost every Windows user would stick with the MSN search that IE defaults to. I would argue that people don't use Google because it's Google, people use Google because it works. They are a website, not an OS, and unlike Microsoft people can and will change if somebody comes along that does it better.
They're changing features that work great now (tabbed browsing) and adding a whole bunch of features that the vast majority of end users really don't care much about (new data storage layer for bookmarks and history, extended search plugin format, updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions). How Microsoft-esque...
Amen brother. It's probably the same idiot in every thread. Why run Windows on a Mac? Oh, I don't know, perhaps it's because the vast majority of desktops are running Windows and thus the vast majority of applications available run on Windows and there simply are some applications that aren't available on a Mac that you may need to run and for some of those applicaitons (and games) running them via some kind of emulation software just doesn't cut it. What a bunch of tools.
Now the question in my mind is will this have any affect on the new intel-mac sales
I don't know but as soon as the method is posted on the web and is verfied by the community I'll be ordering an Intel iMac. I can't wait to be able to run OS X on a Mac with the ability to boot into Windows for Half Life 2 and Counter-Strike.
I hope everybody who dragged this guy's reputation through the mud offers him a huge apology! Maybe it's just because I'm growing older, but the older I get the more cynical I feel like people are becoming. Maybe it's always been this way and when I was a kid I either didn't notice or just shrugged it off....
In 5 years there will still be people who are homeless in America, there will still be people who don't have access to health care in America, there will still be people who go hungry in America, there will still be people who can not get a good education in America, Social Security will still be headed toward bankruptcy, Medicare and Medicaid will still be headed toward bankruptcy, the nation debt will be larger than what it is today, the budget will not be balanced and we'll still be in Iraq... but hey... if Republicans are still in power we will be protected from gay marriage and we'll save $100 dollars a year in taxes and if Democrats are in power we'll all have access to the Internet. Excuse me if I sit the next few elections out. Both parties are a fucking joke....
The CD would come roaring back to life if there was a "best of" version of each CD that contained the best 5 - 7 songs and the CD cost no more than $8.00. The problem is quantity versus quality. If a CD costs $10 - $17 bucks, 25% of the tracks are good, 25% are ok and the rest is crap it's just not worth it. I'd rather cherry pick the good stuff off of iTunes. I'd prefer to own a hard copy on a pressed CD for backup purposes, but I'm not just not willing to pay the difference if 50% of the music on the CD is filler. Remove the filler, sell the good stuff at a reasonable price and you'll have plenty of buyers.
Here, here. I'm the same way. I bought my first Mac a few months back (a Mini) to see what all the hype surrounding OS X was about. I love it and if I could, I'd never go back to Windows but I still want a PC that can run Windows for gaming and I need a PC that can run some Windows only applications when I'm working from home.
I've been waiting for someone to figure out how to dual boot Windows and OS X on an Intel Mac since they were first announced. It would be the perfect solution for someone like me as I could finally do everythign that I want to do on a single box. As soon as someone figures out how to do it and it's independently verified then I'll be on the horn with Apple ordering an iMac.
I think it's the number one thing holding a lot of would be switchers back. The Mac fanboys will never understand it but I think most other sane Slashdot readers probably can.
Microsoft's big problem was that Apple was turning out new versions of OS X faster than Microsoft could copy the features in them. Now that there's a longer break between release, Microsoft can launch Windows Tiger... er Vista....
It may come as a shock but Sergey Brin and Larry Page don't own the universe and while they may be masters of search they aren't masters of Wall Street. You do what the Street expects or your stock price pays the price. Ultimately, they'll give in. Almost every "outsider" makes the transistion to an insider when the door opens, no matter their initial intensions.
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Natural selection my fried, natural selection. It seems to me that the world is increasingly full of idiots. When I was a kid, idiots took themselves out of the gene pool. If you were too stupid to figure out how to ride a bike safely and fell and cracked your skull while trying to jump your bike off of a bridge and into incoming traffic, you died and you and your idiotic genes were taken out of the gene pool. Today those idiots, with their helmets and pads, can survive and reproduce. We need to stop with the whole nanny state business. As far as I'm concerned as long as an act can only adversely affects the person or persons who are performing it then it should be completely and totally legal. You want to ride your motor cycle without a helmet? Be my guest! Feel like driving without a seat belt? Have at it! Think it would be fun to sky dive without the proper training? Here's the parachute!
Douche bag ...
As others have pointed out, the Chinese goverment has a majority stake in the company. While that doesn't make it 100% owned by the Chinese goverment, they have enough of a stake in the company that people ought to be aware of it.
Climate change was occurring long before our species arrived here, has been occurring ever since, and will continue to occur long after we're gone. Are we contributing to it? Yes. Does it really matter in the end? No. There are forces at work here that are a lot bigger and lot more powerful than we are. Ultimately, our species is time limited on this planet anyway. Weather it is a large asteroid, nukes, the environment or the dieing sun, something is going to make this planet uninhabitable at some point. Let's spend less time fighting with each other and more time figuring out how we can get our species off of this lovely little rock and onto the next one because that's our only hope for survival in the end.
Repeat after me: Apple is a hardware company. Douchebag ...
I'll never understand the intelligent design versus evolution debate. The two seem to me to have nothing to do with one another. Evolution is a valid scientific theory based on physical evidence and intelligent design is more of a philosophy that really can't be proven one way or another. Further, they aren't mutually exclusive. If there is a God, why couldn't he/she/it have used evolution as the means to design life? Clearly, if there is a God that's exactly how he/she/it went about it.
Each and every country was "third world" status at some point in time. There's a reason the "developed" world became "developed" and it all starts with the rule of law, security, stability, a free market economy and, in most cases, democracy. If you really want to help you should be less focused on cheap laptops and more focused on what I've just listed. It reminds me of the old adage: "Catch a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime". If we can encourage the rule of law, security, stability, a free market economy and get these nations on a path toward democracy then all of this will be a moot point because they'll either be building their own laptops or have the means to buy them. Don't treat the symptoms, cure the disease.
Hello, McFly, anybody home? At $8.00+ a pop per person for a ticket and about another $15 to $20 for food and drinks only to have to sit in a crowded room with idiots on their cell phones, large groups of annoying teenagers, retards who bring their crying infants and old women explaining things scene by scene to their deaf husbands, do you wonder why consumers are increasingly staying home?
Going to see a movie is about more than just the movie, it's about the experience and as it stands now in most theaters, the experience sucks. There's an awesome theater about a half hour away with huge seats spaced far enough apart where you can order good food (not just pop corn and candy) and alcoholic beverages. If I'm going to spend a small fortune to go see a show it'll be in a place like that. Otherwise I'm hitting the second run theater a month after the show comes out or catching it on DVD 6 months later.
It boils down to prices versus experience. If I'm going to be in a crowded theater with seats close together and have to put up with all of the other crap I mentioned above, then it better be for a reasonable price. I don't mind paying more, but it better be in a theater that provides an experience that justifies the price.
It's a shame too because I used to love going to the movies but now I reserve it for the big budget, special effects laded summer popcorn flicks. Those spectacles were made to be enjoyed on the big screen and I'm willing to tolerate the crap some of the time.
Here's how the MPAA defines "own": We own your ass ... bend over.
I would take it a step further. I would say it's a market that can, and will, turn upside down at some point. Google keeps expanding and, IMHO, keeps taking their eye off the prize. I'm increasingly having to go deeper and deeper into the search results to find the information I'm looking for and that doesn't bode well. That's exactly why I started using Google in the first place, to find what I was looking for and find it quickly. If some other search engine comes along that does it better, I'll switch in a heartbeat and I know I'm not alone. If I was, Google wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is now because almost every Windows user would stick with the MSN search that IE defaults to. I would argue that people don't use Google because it's Google, people use Google because it works. They are a website, not an OS, and unlike Microsoft people can and will change if somebody comes along that does it better.
They're changing features that work great now (tabbed browsing) and adding a whole bunch of features that the vast majority of end users really don't care much about (new data storage layer for bookmarks and history, extended search plugin format, updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions). How Microsoft-esque...
Amen brother. It's probably the same idiot in every thread. Why run Windows on a Mac? Oh, I don't know, perhaps it's because the vast majority of desktops are running Windows and thus the vast majority of applications available run on Windows and there simply are some applications that aren't available on a Mac that you may need to run and for some of those applicaitons (and games) running them via some kind of emulation software just doesn't cut it. What a bunch of tools.
I don't know but as soon as the method is posted on the web and is verfied by the community I'll be ordering an Intel iMac. I can't wait to be able to run OS X on a Mac with the ability to boot into Windows for Half Life 2 and Counter-Strike.
I hope everybody who dragged this guy's reputation through the mud offers him a huge apology! Maybe it's just because I'm growing older, but the older I get the more cynical I feel like people are becoming. Maybe it's always been this way and when I was a kid I either didn't notice or just shrugged it off....
In 5 years there will still be people who are homeless in America, there will still be people who don't have access to health care in America, there will still be people who go hungry in America, there will still be people who can not get a good education in America, Social Security will still be headed toward bankruptcy, Medicare and Medicaid will still be headed toward bankruptcy, the nation debt will be larger than what it is today, the budget will not be balanced and we'll still be in Iraq ... but hey ... if Republicans are still in power we will be protected from gay marriage and we'll save $100 dollars a year in taxes and if Democrats are in power we'll all have access to the Internet. Excuse me if I sit the next few elections out. Both parties are a fucking joke....
The CD would come roaring back to life if there was a "best of" version of each CD that contained the best 5 - 7 songs and the CD cost no more than $8.00. The problem is quantity versus quality. If a CD costs $10 - $17 bucks, 25% of the tracks are good, 25% are ok and the rest is crap it's just not worth it. I'd rather cherry pick the good stuff off of iTunes. I'd prefer to own a hard copy on a pressed CD for backup purposes, but I'm not just not willing to pay the difference if 50% of the music on the CD is filler. Remove the filler, sell the good stuff at a reasonable price and you'll have plenty of buyers.
Here, here. I'm the same way. I bought my first Mac a few months back (a Mini) to see what all the hype surrounding OS X was about. I love it and if I could, I'd never go back to Windows but I still want a PC that can run Windows for gaming and I need a PC that can run some Windows only applications when I'm working from home.
I've been waiting for someone to figure out how to dual boot Windows and OS X on an Intel Mac since they were first announced. It would be the perfect solution for someone like me as I could finally do everythign that I want to do on a single box. As soon as someone figures out how to do it and it's independently verified then I'll be on the horn with Apple ordering an iMac.
I think it's the number one thing holding a lot of would be switchers back. The Mac fanboys will never understand it but I think most other sane Slashdot readers probably can.
Rumors of any Linux desktop distribution "catching on" in any meaningful way have, unfortunately, been greatly exaggerated.
Microsoft's big problem was that Apple was turning out new versions of OS X faster than Microsoft could copy the features in them. Now that there's a longer break between release, Microsoft can launch Windows Tiger ... er Vista ....
Nope. Just look at the comments in any article about Google or Appple.
Amen, brother. Amen....
It may come as a shock but Sergey Brin and Larry Page don't own the universe and while they may be masters of search they aren't masters of Wall Street. You do what the Street expects or your stock price pays the price. Ultimately, they'll give in. Almost every "outsider" makes the transistion to an insider when the door opens, no matter their initial intensions.
I think they all have has 2 USB ports but I know for sure that at least one model does.
They only "fail dismaly in practice" because you disagree with the result. The voting majority, however, for the most part are fine with it.