I just got my first Mac, an iBook G4, and have been amazed by it so far. the level of integration is astounding. everything Just Works(tm) and also Plays Nice(tm). for example, everything can be voice-controlled, and the voice control actually works and doesn't need training, and when I install a new app ("Firefox") it automagically understand that app.
Having seen the Macworld Keynote, Tiger looks very good. I'm mostly interested in Dashboard. Seems like a good step forward (I love Expose). Spotlight also seems great, though the number of times I actually use a local search is tiny.
Apple keeps getting better and genuinely innovating, whereas MS seems to just buy, rebrand, then move on when it's Good Enough(tm). I'm sorry if that sounds flamebait, but it's The Truth(tm).
because why should a school board single out evolution?
why not stickers on every single book?
quantum theory is a theory... string theory is a theory... general relativity is a theory...
don't pretend that this is as simple as saying something that is true.
it is true that all kinds of people commit crimes. what if I demanded the school board put stickers on books saying "books have been stolen by black people. keep yours safe."?
that is perfectly true. but it's not about truth. truth does not exclude flamebait.
Richard Stallman: I prefer to pronounce it GNU-slash-Linux, or GNU-plus-Linux. The reason is that when you say GNU-Linux it is very much prone to suggest a misleading interpretation. After all, we have GNU Emacs which is the version of Emacs which was developed for GNU. If you say "GNU Linux", people will think it means a version of Linux that was developed for GNU. Which is not the fact.
JA: You're trying to point out instead that it's a combination of the two.
Richard Stallman: Exactly. It's GNU plus Linux together.
JA: Which makes up the GNU+Linux operating system that everyone uses.
except that it totally fucks up formatting. how many times have you tried opening something in write only to be confronted with a total mess? loads!
but then that's MS - anything written in one program, or even version of a program, can only be opened reliably in the exact same program/version. and sometimes not even then.
> Sure... finding aliens will improve our quality of life.
of course it will. the entertainment value of religious fundamentalists' heads exploding will be worth all the effort. and the religious apologists will be amusing too, just like the Iraqi Information Minister was.
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as good as all their charitable things are, they can easily afford it, and more.
and it doesn't remove the fact they are fucking up the IT industry and now keeping society back years, maybe even decades.
plus, true charity is anonymous. it's hardly altruistic (or anything remotely resembling it) when you give a small fraction of your wealth in exchage for having your name or company's name all over stuff. that's called "advertising" or "ego".
>are they going to let themselves be held responsible for damage that they may or may not have had anything to do with?
AFAIK unless you make a deliberate sabotage, dead pixels are entirely a product of manufacturing imperfections. if it were handled so badly as to break transistors (?) then there'd probably be other damage to it as well.
I'm not sure they were the first, I recall a no dead pixel policy being announced by someone a while back but possibly only for a certain product line.
wtf, this has nothing to do with capitalism. and not even the most strongly anti-capitalist people (except the retards that every group has) would make a blanket statement like "profit motive leads to no good end".
grow up.
p.s. glad to see the capitalist propaganda has given you such a strong "consumer" identity. personally, I think of myself as a customer i.e. I only "consume" when it suits me, not just when business ring their Pavlovian bell.
depends on type of "dead". those that have a colour permanently on will be very obvious e.g. constant red pixel.
I saw a LCD TV a while ago in a PC shop. I was amazed by the obviousness of dead pixels it had. not a huge number, but immediately distracting since it was showing a TV programme with constantly changing pictures instead of a static desktop. not the best way to attract customers.
>I would much rather pay a $50 tax on any computer than have the media industries completely destroy or cripple beyond recognition the internet and anything remotely interesting that computers can do.
I prefer the latter, since it would fail and be a wake up call for the public.
I'm getting sick of hearing about him. his story of intelligence being rewarded is nice, but this is complete non-event to anyone who doesn't live in the US and watch Jeopardy.
the first story was fine, the second was bearable, but this is now at least the sixth story about him. he should have his own fucking topic!
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I just got my first Mac, an iBook G4, and have been amazed by it so far. the level of integration is astounding. everything Just Works(tm) and also Plays Nice(tm). for example, everything can be voice-controlled, and the voice control actually works and doesn't need training, and when I install a new app ("Firefox") it automagically understand that app.
Having seen the Macworld Keynote, Tiger looks very good. I'm mostly interested in Dashboard. Seems like a good step forward (I love Expose). Spotlight also seems great, though the number of times I actually use a local search is tiny.
Apple keeps getting better and genuinely innovating, whereas MS seems to just buy, rebrand, then move on when it's Good Enough(tm). I'm sorry if that sounds flamebait, but it's The Truth(tm).
because why should a school board single out evolution?
why not stickers on every single book?
quantum theory is a theory...
string theory is a theory...
general relativity is a theory...
don't pretend that this is as simple as saying something that is true.
it is true that all kinds of people commit crimes. what if I demanded the school board put stickers on books saying "books have been stolen by black people. keep yours safe."?
that is perfectly true. but it's not about truth. truth does not exclude flamebait.
even the trolls aren't touching this story.
is 2D really that dead?
or are all the Apple fans/haters already in the Mac mini story posting "omg this is a dupe!"?
the speed of light is independent of wavelength
>the new Video Content Protection Scheme (VTCS)... VCTS solution is not foolproof...
first_letters(Video Content Protection Scheme) = VCPS
VTCS != VCPS
VCTS != VCPS
VTCS != VCTS
>the fact that you're basically firing non-ionizing radiation at yourself
what part of "non-ionizing" don't you understand?
> that re-digitized HDTV stream will have better quality than direct rip from a DVD.
how?
on this website we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
JA: In talking about GNU Linux...
Richard Stallman: I prefer to pronounce it GNU-slash-Linux, or GNU-plus-Linux. The reason is that when you say GNU-Linux it is very much prone to suggest a misleading interpretation. After all, we have GNU Emacs which is the version of Emacs which was developed for GNU. If you say "GNU Linux", people will think it means a version of Linux that was developed for GNU. Which is not the fact.
JA: You're trying to point out instead that it's a combination of the two.
Richard Stallman: Exactly. It's GNU plus Linux together.
JA: Which makes up the GNU+Linux operating system that everyone uses.
Richard Stallman: Exactly.
what the fuck is &c.?
I've never seen it before, but assume it's a retard-speak version of etc.?
if so, then please STOP IT RIGHT NOW.
this abomination should go no further.
for fuck's sake it doesn't even save on key presses, assuming you need to use shift for &. and you still put the period after the c in.
what the fuck were you thinking?
just say NO to "teh 1337 sp34k".
>It is amazing when its Apple but evil when its Microsoft?
yes. there's a difference between Apple "integrating" things and Microsoft "just locking everyone else out".
except that it totally fucks up formatting. how many times have you tried opening something in write only to be confronted with a total mess? loads!
but then that's MS - anything written in one program, or even version of a program, can only be opened reliably in the exact same program/version. and sometimes not even then.
well as far as I know it kicked off the whole popular public distributed computing thing. SETI@Home was the first one *I* heard of.
> Sure... finding aliens will improve our quality of life.
of course it will. the entertainment value of religious fundamentalists' heads exploding will be worth all the effort. and the religious apologists will be amusing too, just like the Iraqi Information Minister was.
as good as all their charitable things are, they can easily afford it, and more.
and it doesn't remove the fact they are fucking up the IT industry and now keeping society back years, maybe even decades.
plus, true charity is anonymous. it's hardly altruistic (or anything remotely resembling it) when you give a small fraction of your wealth in exchage for having your name or company's name all over stuff. that's called "advertising" or "ego".
who would want to license Doom 3's 4-player engine? no-one.
Quake 3 is the only decent multiplayer engine they have left.
>are they going to let themselves be held responsible for damage that they may or may not have had anything to do with?
AFAIK unless you make a deliberate sabotage, dead pixels are entirely a product of manufacturing imperfections. if it were handled so badly as to break transistors (?) then there'd probably be other damage to it as well.
I'm not sure they were the first, I recall a no dead pixel policy being announced by someone a while back but possibly only for a certain product line.
wtf, this has nothing to do with capitalism. and not even the most strongly anti-capitalist people (except the retards that every group has) would make a blanket statement like "profit motive leads to no good end".
grow up.
p.s. glad to see the capitalist propaganda has given you such a strong "consumer" identity. personally, I think of myself as a customer i.e. I only "consume" when it suits me, not just when business ring their Pavlovian bell.
depends on type of "dead". those that have a colour permanently on will be very obvious e.g. constant red pixel.
I saw a LCD TV a while ago in a PC shop. I was amazed by the obviousness of dead pixels it had. not a huge number, but immediately distracting since it was showing a TV programme with constantly changing pictures instead of a static desktop. not the best way to attract customers.
here in UK I get to make such copies without a tax thanks
>I would much rather pay a $50 tax on any computer than have the media industries completely destroy or cripple beyond recognition the internet and anything remotely interesting that computers can do.
I prefer the latter, since it would fail and be a wake up call for the public.
... vomit in absolute disgust.
Unless of course this completely ligitimises copying c.f. Canada. somehow I doubt it though.
> You only use an if the next word starts with a vowel.
wrong.
consider: an honest person, and sometimes an historic event.
seems possible with the ever-decreasing quality of journalism seen here...
"yeah what 'appened right was this computer-me-thingy went all pear-shaped and these silly buggers Comair went and got themselves 'Done In'..."
I'm getting sick of hearing about him. his story of intelligence being rewarded is nice, but this is complete non-event to anyone who doesn't live in the US and watch Jeopardy.
the first story was fine, the second was bearable, but this is now at least the sixth story about him. he should have his own fucking topic!