You're trying to tell me that of the tens of millions of football fans in America, and of the millions of football fans in the New England area, the best team in the NFL wouldn't sell out their entire stadium at $50 per ticket making it impossible for anyone other than camp-out-overnight and compulsive-webpage-reloading fans to get tickets?
You know, putting out every conceivable product possible is how Apple almost went broke in the 90's. Apple can't, and shouldn't, try to capture every segment of the PC market possible. And yes, that sucks for people whose needs aren't met by the products Apple does release.
It's more than powerful enough for that it does. Aside from winning your arbitrary pissing contest, what advantage would there be in using a Conroe or Wolfdale chip instead of a Merom or Penryn?
I'm pretty sure they have thousands of systems in their inventory and distribution channel. The ten full Macs would sell out pretty quickly, and having half a Mac left over accomplishes nothing.
Boy I remember when people said around here that XP was a failure bug ridden piece of crap software that would bankrupt MS because of exploits/viruses/bluescreen.
Whenever I see people trot out this "argument" in defense of Vista, I realize that they never really got the point anyway. XP was a failing, bug-ridden piece of crap, and remained so until at least SP1 if not SP2. Windows 2000 was by far the better system until years after XP's initial release.
Leopard was never intended to maintain the 18-month release cycle, and after three straight releases on an 18-month cycle Apple needed time to let their customers catch up and to work on some deeper things--some of which made it into Leopard, some of which are probably still being worked on for future releases (ZFS support for one). There are reasons you want to leave some time between major releases--say what you will for Vista's delays, but in 2003 and 2004, there were a lot fewer XP users than in 2007. Mac users don't take as long to upgrade because Mac OS X upgrades are usually unequivocal improvements, but you have to leave some time for uptake.
Did it ever occur to you that iPhone runs a customized copy of Leopard? (It does.) Clearly they had the Leopard team finish the iPhone-specific features before they got it ready for Macs.
Did you read the rest of his comment? The reason old EA games took so long to load was copy protection. The reason new EA games take so long to load is bloatware, and in some cases, the three or four screens of ads, copyright notices, logos, etc.
If there's a private, law-abiding person and a private, law-abiding airline who want to do business so that the person can travel, it is not the government's business to interfere without due process.
This isn't relevant to the Trek reboot, of course, because there's no original novels to use as source
No, there are 79 original episodes. And many of them are simply too silly, and we know how they all come out in the end. On the other hand, they could finally make The City on the Edge of Forever the way Harlan Ellison wrote it.
In college football, a "red-shirt freshman" is someone who practices with the team and is in the program, but is ineligible to play for the first year. Since the regulations only allow four years of play, most players aren't good enough yet to reliably play their first year so they stay enrolled for five years, spend the first year in "red-shirt" status, and play the other four. This also gives them more leeway to pass all the classes they need, since they are often recruited for their athletic talent and not so much their ability to successfully undergo the academic rigors of college.
You know, I sort of gathered the total opposite of that from news reports of the Apache being particularly vulnerable, but that doesn't matter much. What does matter is that they're shooting down helicopters, not stealth fighters.
Yes, that's very true, and very besides the point.
Since we were discussing the historical context within which the first stealth aircraft were produced, that is the point. Your quibbling is what's beside the point.
Can you find some actual arguments, or are you just going to insult me some more?
I could very well ask you the same question. My only regret is letting you drag down the level of discourse.
No, you've acted like a catty little bitch. In strategic terms, the US fought WWII offensively, not defensively. The tactics, doctrines, and weaponry the US has deployed during, before, and since that war have been based on attack and maneuver, not defense.
Alright, suppose I deposit a $20 bill at the bank and then write a check for $20. Does my non-debt money magically turn into debt money after I deposit it into the bank?
They were all still imperial possessions rather far from the United States itself. The main point is--don't be a prick about it, nothing you've said undermines the point I was making, and we both know it.
A democracy going to war is an act of the country as a whole
Saying it doesn't make it so. You attack metonymy as an unnecessary abstraction, and yet you keep stating (without any backing arguments) this absurd abstraction which is not only unnecessary, but wrong?
"The White House" and "the Kremlin" are not widely used because they're metonymic - They're widely used because they're colloquial and ubiquitous.
If they're not metonyms then what the hell are they? You don't have a damned idea what you're talking about. You're just arguing this because you want to be a dick.
3 would reduce sales, 4 is a prescription for losing money, 6 is the exact opposite of what most people want, and 7 is a recipe for not making any money at all. Do you honestly think we would be stuck with crappy pop acts if they didn't make money for the record companies? The reason mass media is so awful isn't because of some conspiracy to dumb down the populace--it's because the populace is already dumb enough to want those things.
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You're trying to tell me that of the tens of millions of football fans in America, and of the millions of football fans in the New England area, the best team in the NFL wouldn't sell out their entire stadium at $50 per ticket making it impossible for anyone other than camp-out-overnight and compulsive-webpage-reloading fans to get tickets?
You know, putting out every conceivable product possible is how Apple almost went broke in the 90's. Apple can't, and shouldn't, try to capture every segment of the PC market possible. And yes, that sucks for people whose needs aren't met by the products Apple does release.
It's more than powerful enough for that it does. Aside from winning your arbitrary pissing contest, what advantage would there be in using a Conroe or Wolfdale chip instead of a Merom or Penryn?
I'm pretty sure they have thousands of systems in their inventory and distribution channel. The ten full Macs would sell out pretty quickly, and having half a Mac left over accomplishes nothing.
Whenever I see people trot out this "argument" in defense of Vista, I realize that they never really got the point anyway. XP was a failing, bug-ridden piece of crap, and remained so until at least SP1 if not SP2. Windows 2000 was by far the better system until years after XP's initial release.
Leopard was never intended to maintain the 18-month release cycle, and after three straight releases on an 18-month cycle Apple needed time to let their customers catch up and to work on some deeper things--some of which made it into Leopard, some of which are probably still being worked on for future releases (ZFS support for one). There are reasons you want to leave some time between major releases--say what you will for Vista's delays, but in 2003 and 2004, there were a lot fewer XP users than in 2007. Mac users don't take as long to upgrade because Mac OS X upgrades are usually unequivocal improvements, but you have to leave some time for uptake.
Did it ever occur to you that iPhone runs a customized copy of Leopard? (It does.) Clearly they had the Leopard team finish the iPhone-specific features before they got it ready for Macs.
Speak for yourself! For us Mac users, everything since System 6.0.8 has been slow, buggy, and bloated!
Did you read the rest of his comment? The reason old EA games took so long to load was copy protection. The reason new EA games take so long to load is bloatware, and in some cases, the three or four screens of ads, copyright notices, logos, etc.
I don't think Southwest flies to Alaska, so it's a moot point.
If there's a private, law-abiding person and a private, law-abiding airline who want to do business so that the person can travel, it is not the government's business to interfere without due process.
On the other hand, Battlestar Galactica turned out well. Bionic Woman has potential--at least it's not another police show.
No, there are 79 original episodes. And many of them are simply too silly, and we know how they all come out in the end. On the other hand, they could finally make The City on the Edge of Forever the way Harlan Ellison wrote it.
In college football, a "red-shirt freshman" is someone who practices with the team and is in the program, but is ineligible to play for the first year. Since the regulations only allow four years of play, most players aren't good enough yet to reliably play their first year so they stay enrolled for five years, spend the first year in "red-shirt" status, and play the other four. This also gives them more leeway to pass all the classes they need, since they are often recruited for their athletic talent and not so much their ability to successfully undergo the academic rigors of college.
"Argument by assertion" isn't a valid form of argument--and yes, I know how money is created.
You know, I sort of gathered the total opposite of that from news reports of the Apache being particularly vulnerable, but that doesn't matter much. What does matter is that they're shooting down helicopters, not stealth fighters.
Since we were discussing the historical context within which the first stealth aircraft were produced, that is the point. Your quibbling is what's beside the point.
Can you find some actual arguments, or are you just going to insult me some more?I could very well ask you the same question. My only regret is letting you drag down the level of discourse.
No, you've acted like a catty little bitch. In strategic terms, the US fought WWII offensively, not defensively. The tactics, doctrines, and weaponry the US has deployed during, before, and since that war have been based on attack and maneuver, not defense.
Alright, suppose I deposit a $20 bill at the bank and then write a check for $20. Does my non-debt money magically turn into debt money after I deposit it into the bank?
Clearly you've never seen the dramatic conclusion to this video.
Only if you literally see or hear something, otherwise it isn't a hallucination.
They were all still imperial possessions rather far from the United States itself. The main point is--don't be a prick about it, nothing you've said undermines the point I was making, and we both know it.
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Saying it doesn't make it so. You attack metonymy as an unnecessary abstraction, and yet you keep stating (without any backing arguments) this absurd abstraction which is not only unnecessary, but wrong?
"The White House" and "the Kremlin" are not widely used because they're metonymic - They're widely used because they're colloquial and ubiquitous.If they're not metonyms then what the hell are they? You don't have a damned idea what you're talking about. You're just arguing this because you want to be a dick.
3 would reduce sales, 4 is a prescription for losing money, 6 is the exact opposite of what most people want, and 7 is a recipe for not making any money at all. Do you honestly think we would be stuck with crappy pop acts if they didn't make money for the record companies? The reason mass media is so awful isn't because of some conspiracy to dumb down the populace--it's because the populace is already dumb enough to want those things.