i agree actually with the parent partly but i wil explain.
there are many reasons i love OSX and even apple hardware.
however the mac fanboy mentality is not a myth or a minority phenomenon but SEEMingly a mass delusion. its widespread. the constant comparisons with BMW, the merest hint of relevance on any forum thread quickly gets hijacked into a spiel on "just works" or style and prestige, any deviation form the norm is met with "why?" allegations of unworthy , undeserving wrongheadedness . or hww their time is important bla h blah. see the vitriol at hackers running osx on x86 hardware for instance.[ i od not condone piracy]
to be honest i hate PCs despite owninga few and running linux alongside OSX, runnin g bsd etc on ultrsparc etc etc
or having an artist gf who refuses to buy any apple and only runs gnu/linux and the gimp. i would ditch her but she is hot ; / and i agree with her reasons. [watch adobe/apple nazis decry my her choices and drone on about BMWs getting you there in style or somesuch]
i am aware of deviancy amplification theory in that this vocal minoroty on a mass medium will distort my sense of natural representation within any sample. but i feel its not just apple/linux/MS users its computer users in general think too many of us are insecure fanboy conformists.
lets feel better about ourselves and just realise we all use different things in many weird ways and we are all the better for it . lets share tips and help each other! lets start creating worthwhile stuff while we have the time and ability [and the hardwrae and software] - we are uniquely better placed than any other generation [even iwth in the last ten years of computing!] to create free and non free content and software yet we mostly spend our time writing badly typed posts like this on slashdot!
PS cant the gnu|osx/darwin+coreOS/xnu commuinity do a GNU and fork the last kernal and do a rewrite?
and while they are at it get rid of MACH?
PPS i know its dead hard etc and not veryone can be a tenacious Torvalds with legion army of kernal hackers
i would love to see a rewritten totally FREE xnu-MACH kernel replacement [or maybe even a variant NETBSD/linux/SUNos kernel that would be XNU call-compatible] for osx
the mechnical voice counting the iterations of the broadcast was supposed to sound like those spooky listening stations. man, thats how the pilot episode hooked me! [i dont own a tv but decided to pon up for the boxed ste when it came out]
as a small child my military general grandfather would make me tune the SWradio for him and a few times i would hit a numbers broadcast sometimes on my way and it used ot obsess me.
[no one told me about one time pads and i was only 5]
however the sam toomey and lennard listening station hearing the numbers is also a reference to these wierd outposts.
check out the irdial.org conet project for a list of them
maybe i ts actually suiting the type of business? i remember shopping at boutiques and an atelier's flagship when i was younger [and richer and stupider] and if you did not look like you were the type to buy it was never mentioned... this kind of weird attitude similar to "if you have ot ask you cannot afford it" like if your not already one of us with the right clothes we wont sell you this anyway. weird psychology to justify the purchase of overpriced garments no doubt. increases the deisre factor!
this is probably the web equivalant
"foolish boy! it is vulgar to 'sell' my art over zis internet to a buffoon like you if you were worthy you owuld already be granted its divine priveledge even now! there is no webshop! what is zis, zis thing you refer to as paypal?"
well they can print digital images onto photgraphic paper using lasers quite cheap and easy available from good labs.
however
all teh cgi heavy movies which are "mastered" and digitally cut anyway. are "printed" or copied onto film in this way anyway but it costs huhndreds of thousands [ i cheked years ago] for a whole movie i dount teh costs scales down.
i am interested what satellite do you watch? my parents have like hotbird [on Ku band?] and it all sucks but does their minority language programming. me i am more interested in freeview but i havent got the cash for tv licence let alone to start doing mythtv! so ill eventually ge taround to it when i leave uni! kudos on the sweet setup.
ps lcd monitors capable of 1920* 1200 would you say that is hd ready?
although i want to flame you for relying on proprietary software that would just make me appear ignorant. [ i assure you i am, though]
im sure if the big sip handset people approached skype with developing an alteranative firmware for skype accounts it could happen. its another market segment after all and would also benefit the smart folks at skype. i have feeling the higher end phones mnight be the only ones that could do it with a separate firmware or just an update adidng skype to the codec/ account type list which precludes the average home casual user but maybe not small business which skype is now targetting.
he talks about resouion but the state of the network makes the accuracy range from 100s of yards al te way to around 10 miles. edge fed network and all that
i have always been intrigued by the meta-mega-heatsink concept and recently my attention was captured by this probably well known copper pipe case mod:-
making the copper pipes structurally functional like above and also creating a framework longer than a little more complex than necssary [increasing surface area] and filling themn with water in a design that would naturally cool the computer even under heavy load.
money = power? maybe. alot of money can equate to a little power. and then you want more!
i think the point my well written and erudite friend maybe making and that you are missing is that these people have money. pots of it. they now want that golden hot power. all the time.
and max, i'm still just tas pissed over surface getting cancelled and maybe even threshold [cool idea, i think] and firefly [despite the fact i hate it - its still better than most and still has advertising demographic appeal - so killing it? just unfair and obvious sabotage of any half- decent media being made] .
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karmabomb- thanks i only realised atfer weeks. [maybee hours..] of not coming to slashdot over reddit and [cringe] digg
o/t: why cant i just post as non AC ie as me without switching manually post anon?
i hate to miss out on comments such as the above simply cause of a few jerks and awkward sometimes inaccurate mod system.
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hear, hear.
that is the best idea.
and surface?
threshold?
invasion was deisgned to appeal to women believe it or not. which i liked.
you laos see mo be getting more balls and guts on tv. i am a cinephile and director [wannabe at the momen.i produce small stuff ]
torture, jingoistic foreign policy has consqequences. iraq war - 24
torture, prejudie, modern life, the environment etc. iraq war - lost
governments are evil, families are tenuous - invasion.
surface - all good
threshold.
where are the movies|? smae place they were during vietnam.
actually all the autodeski flame/inferno/combustion stuff is all availble for linux which tv stations use.
i am tired of this motherfucking flood on this motherfucking halo.,
i agree actually with the parent partly but i wil explain.
there are many reasons i love OSX and even apple hardware.
however the mac fanboy mentality is not a myth or a minority phenomenon but SEEMingly a mass delusion. its widespread. the constant comparisons with BMW, the merest hint of relevance on any forum thread quickly gets hijacked into a spiel on "just works" or style and prestige, any deviation form the norm is met with "why?" allegations of unworthy , undeserving wrongheadedness . or hww their time is important bla h blah.
see the vitriol at hackers running osx on x86 hardware for instance.[ i od not condone piracy]
to be honest i hate PCs despite owninga few and running linux alongside OSX, runnin g bsd etc on ultrsparc etc etc
or having an artist gf who refuses to buy any apple and only runs gnu/linux and the gimp. i would ditch her but she is hot ; / and i agree with her reasons. [watch adobe/apple nazis decry my her choices and drone on about BMWs getting you there in style or somesuch]
i am aware of deviancy amplification theory in that this vocal minoroty on a mass medium will distort my sense of natural representation within any sample. but i feel its not just apple/linux/MS users its computer users in general think too many of us are insecure fanboy conformists.
lets feel better about ourselves and just realise we all use different things in many weird ways and we are all the better for it . lets share tips and help each other!
lets start creating worthwhile stuff while we have the time and ability [and the hardwrae and software] - we are uniquely better placed than any other generation [even iwth in the last ten years of computing!] to create free and non free content and software yet we mostly spend our time writing badly typed posts like this on slashdot!
PS cant the gnu|osx/darwin+coreOS/xnu commuinity do a GNU and fork the last kernal and do a rewrite?
and while they are at it get rid of MACH?
PPS i know its dead hard etc and not veryone can be a tenacious Torvalds with legion army of kernal hackers
i would love to see a rewritten totally FREE xnu-MACH kernel replacement [or maybe even a variant NETBSD/linux/SUNos kernel that would be XNU call-compatible] for osx
thanks
the mechnical voice counting the iterations of the broadcast was supposed to sound like those spooky listening stations. man, thats how the pilot episode hooked me! [i dont own a tv but decided to pon up for the boxed ste when it came out]
as a small child my military general grandfather would make me tune the SWradio for him and a few times i would hit a numbers broadcast sometimes on my way and it used ot obsess me.
[no one told me about one time pads and i was only 5]
however the sam toomey and lennard listening station hearing the numbers is also a reference to these wierd outposts.
check out the irdial.org conet project for a list of them
my good man, you are indeed a buffoon!
its usually about approriate technology you can charge for.
cellular? maybe the aggregate effect of 1000 handsets trying to get a signal being too far away from cell tower will be bad, i od not know.
but a few laptops usinga local AP on the plane? fuck all.
zraid
s aves_the_day_ta
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/elowe?entry=zfs_
no more silent data corruption.
very useful for masses of data in large files etc. exactly what professional mac users are wishing for
eyeOS.
http://superjustin.com/?p=98/
and wadget OS
http://www.theartofennui.com/60/wadgetos/
maybe i ts actually suiting the type of business? i remember shopping at boutiques and an atelier's flagship when i was younger [and richer and stupider] and if you did not look like you were the type to buy it was never mentioned... this kind of weird attitude similar to "if you have ot ask you cannot afford it" like if your not already one of us with the right clothes we wont sell you this anyway. weird psychology to justify the purchase of overpriced garments no doubt. increases the deisre factor!
this is probably the web equivalant
"foolish boy! it is vulgar to 'sell' my art over zis internet to a buffoon like you if you were worthy you owuld already be granted its divine priveledge even now! there is no webshop! what is zis, zis thing you refer to as paypal?"
well they can print digital images onto photgraphic paper using lasers quite cheap and easy available from good labs.
however
all teh cgi heavy movies which are "mastered" and digitally cut anyway. are "printed" or copied onto film in this way anyway but it costs huhndreds of thousands [ i cheked years ago] for a whole movie i dount teh costs scales down.
impressive.
i am interested what satellite do you watch? my parents have like hotbird [on Ku band?] and it all sucks but does their minority language programming.
me i am more interested in freeview but i havent got the cash for tv licence let alone to start doing mythtv!
so ill eventually ge taround to it when i leave uni!
kudos on the sweet setup.
ps lcd monitors capable of 1920* 1200 would you say that is hd ready?
right on.
i must protest.
as a person who is consulting for a small design studio, i think you are far too glib.
and your scheme too complex for even one person let alone a small team.
open source and platfomr locking for a bsuiness advnatage are two different things.
its sad.
although i want to flame you for relying on proprietary software that would just make me appear ignorant. [ i assure you i am, though]
im sure if the big sip handset people approached skype with developing an alteranative firmware for skype accounts it could happen. its another market segment after all and would also benefit the smart folks at skype.
i have feeling the higher end phones mnight be the only ones that could do it with a separate firmware or just an update adidng skype to the codec/ account type list which precludes the average home casual user but maybe not small business which skype is now targetting.
skype on your snom 360?
that would be cool
i agree that the parent is misguided but this phenomenon was discovered before lasers were invented. what the hell is wrong with you?
n t
[young's fringes]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experime
he talks about resouion but the state of the network makes the accuracy range from 100s of yards al te way to around 10 miles.
edge fed network and all that
i have always been intrigued by the meta-mega-heatsink concept and recently my attention was captured by this probably well known copper pipe case mod:-
4 ,00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,191593
making the copper pipes structurally functional like above and also creating a framework longer than a little more complex than necssary [increasing surface area] and filling themn with water in a design that would naturally cool the computer even under heavy load.
money = power? maybe. alot of money can equate to a little power. and then you want more!
i think the point my well written and erudite friend maybe making and that you are missing is that these people have money. pots of it. they now want that golden hot power. all the time.
and max, i'm still just tas pissed over surface getting cancelled and maybe even threshold [cool idea, i think] and firefly [despite the fact i hate it - its still better than most and still has advertising demographic appeal - so killing it? just unfair and obvious sabotage of any half- decent media being made] .
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karmabomb- thanks i only realised atfer weeks. [maybee hours..] of not coming to slashdot over reddit and [cringe] digg
o/t: why cant i just post as non AC ie as me without switching manually post anon?
i hate to miss out on comments such as the above simply cause of a few jerks and awkward sometimes inaccurate mod system.
ahh well. time to get a real life
heres hoping!
!!
if i was gonna troll dont you think i woudl post anonymously?
the mods are weird today. i only posted because i ran out of mod points and furthermore, this fud could cripple pre-order takeup.
why the editorial fud?
art lebedev is one of the most prestigious diesgn houses in europe
disappointed.
wow . you really took the tony soprano crack at the end of the fine article summary and ran with it.
analyze this!