Well, they're going to be brainwashed anyway, that's unavoidable - and some delusions are quite useful ("it'll turn out well in the end" is a good example). I don't care much about religion; an unconditional assertion that $DEITY exists is not much worse than an unconditional assertion that Free Software is superior to everything else. What I don't like is when they want to make the rest of the world think like they do, for example by officially redefining science.
We're talking about America, the land where people sue McDonalds for making hot coffee and Coca Cola for not monitoring each and every of their customers for unusual blood sugar levels. The land where people claim in court that a snack turned them into a murderer.
No matter how unrealistic the case, someone will try it and some lawyer will represent him.
Probably the most famous person who was blinded by a chemical weapon in WWI was Adolf Hitler. Might have contributed to his nastiness...
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Yeah, I love gentoo. Installing software under Gentoo Linux (emerge package) is even easier than doing so under OS X (find package on the 'net, download it, open the image, drag application to appropriate folder) most of the time. Now if only Gentoo OS X would be that far...
I don't try donating blood anymore because I know it doesn't work - my blood pressure is too low; if I go there all that happens is that I get my blood pressue measured and then offered a free meal (me, not the pressure). Which sucks, as I have blood type O negative, making my blood universally usable.
What makes this even worse is that by donating blood I might make money which, apart from spending it for my personal entertainment, I could give to Child's Play (which I wanted to do since Tycho and Gabe started it).:/
Ah yes, Col. Twopointseven. I served with him in e'Nam under General Protectionfault. Yeah, those were the times. Just me, Col. Twopointseven and Private Member. Twopointseven came from Int, Maine - whenever he got the chance he'd go and bicker about the town of Void, Maine, which apparently seemed to be inhabitated only by strange people who'd regularly turn blue and crash somewhere. Apart from that Twopointseven wasn't very communicative - he didn't care much about Smalltalk or the nice Java Private Member sometimes brewed, but he did like the sea and sometimes he told us that he wanted to become a great constructor. Well, over there in the jungle his chances to do that were exactly NULL. Perhaps it was a pointer showing him that he shouldn't run atfer FALSE hopes or something... Yeah, you become philosophical like that when you're sitting in a dank shack on the wrong side of the globe, smoking your last #imported cigs while the Apaches are taking off.
Why not just fork the kernel? I do think that binary drivers will weaken Linux but if you really want them you can take the kernel sources and make your own fork. BSD ain't dead yet, no matter what Netcraft says. Most distros will either pick their favourite kernel (mostly commercial distros) or just support both (mostly free distros). As a Gentoo user I don't care much if we get a new Gentoo for the BinaryLinux kernel - hell, we already have Gentoo for OS X.
I remember such a "fork". I'm a member of a pretty large German community. We have a network of websites (mostly gaming related) and a huge forum connecting them. About one year ago the founder and owner of most of the sites decided that Final Fantasy XI was more important that the community. We didn't see him for about six months, then he came back and got into a huge argument with the other administrators. The result: Some of the sites had to change their names, domains and designs as he has decided that we can't use them anymore.
This has hit the community pretty hard as the sites responsible for most of the user influx had to relocate (and the forum itself as well), resulting in a decreasing number of new menbers.
Never underestimate the power of a brand. If lots of people know OSWD.org that doesn't mean lots of people know OSWD.net. Also, once you change the domain you have lots of dangling links, especially if you managed to get your name in the press in the past.
Sometimes forking is the only way out, but it does hurt the community.
On TV (yes, not the most reliable source of information, I know, but after all it was one of the scientists working at GEO600 speaking) I've heard that these things pick up a lot of noise - they measure the waves on the nearby shore, cars driving on the streets nearby... From what I've heard half of the work there is actually just sifting through the data trying to filter out the noise, which is why they're now shooting up pseudo-satellites to do the job.
1.) Install VMWare
2.) Set up a VM
3.) Make a snapshot
4.) Install Googlefox
5.) Revert to the snapshot
6.) Repeat steps 4 and 5 a few hundred times
7.) Profit!
Oh, come on! ICANN not hear this stupid argument about whether the Internet should belong to US or EU take it anymore. Do Not Say anything! The Root of the problem is that people won't shut up about it. We don't need to get TLD for the 404th time.
I meant 33,000. I merely was't up-to-date on Apple's offerings. The 11,000/Powermac figure comes from a few months ago when Apple didn't offer more than 8 gigs of RAM.
As for work... During the lecture-free time I am looking for jobs (during the semesters I don't have time to work). The job center has my data and they usually send me between zero and two offerings between semesters. If I'm lucky I might just get a job, but you can't take that for granted.
I could afford a Mac mini, but I decided against it as I'd get more bang for my buck by upgrading my Linux box to the cheapest Athlon 64 model, which should serve me for another two years. If I ever decide to get a secondary computer (besides the iBook) it probably will be a Mac mini.
Yes, but until the first Mactels come out, "Intel" will do as a synonym for "IBM compatible" - although the latter cetainly is more correct. Most desktop Intels I know aren't even using Intel chips (apart from a few people who do video editing everyone I know uses AMD).
Note that in the time you assembled your computer you could have bought three top-of-the-line G5 Macs. That makes about 33.000 Euros. For the same to be true for me I'd have to spend twelve years and six months building that PC, assuming that I don't spend any money on anything else.
I work on a tight budget (well, I'm a student) which means that I usually only upgrade when a certain component becomes so old that $NEW_PROGRAM will not run on it. Then I buy stuff that's about two generations behind the cutting edge. Upgradability is important because I can't afford to spend much more than 250 Euros on a single upgrade. Buying a new computer once a single component becomes outdated is out of the question.
Concerning your questions: (1) All the time. As a CS student there isn't much I can do without the computer. (2) Not as much as I used to when I was a gamer.
The Mac certainly is an option (my university is 100% Unix and we even have a Mac room filled with 20" iMacs *drool*), but everything besides the Mac mini is too expensive to be adopted as a desktop. For now I stick with a Linux box running on yesterday's hardware.
Yup, there are some new ones that are silent, small and/or light - and I've seen an Intel book that looked like the iBook's little brother, downright sexy. There are some good ones, but sadly they tend to be too expensive for a poor CS student and most of the Intels I see are of the huge/noisy/ugly type, probably because most people around me are poor CS students themselves. Point in case: I know a couple of guys with iBooks but only one PowerBook owner.
mac has always been about people who dont care enough about computers to want to swap around parts, or learn how they work.
I do. I would never buy an Intel box because I prefer building it from the parts myself. But I like Macs. Not only do they have style (which by itself is not a reason to buy them), they also come with an extremely great operating system. On the desktop I'd probably pick the Intel box, simply because of the computer's easy upgradability, but I'd never buy an Intel notebook. Most of them are heavy, loud, huge and ugly - not to forget the lousy *nix compatibility. The ones that aren't are expensive. iBooks are pretty cheap and come with a Unix with a great window manager. And it's as modifiable as many Intel notebooks - hardly.
Especially as there are other induction tags that work like RFID - but with a maximum range of a few centimeters, making it extremely hard to have J. Random Blackat read them out without sticking a scanner into your pocket. I have an induction dongle on my keychain that allows me access to my university's computer pool and a card with which I pay for food. Both have a range of about 2 cm max.
Damn, when the BSA visited me they told me they were the Badass Superheroes of America! I mean, superheroes wouldn't lie when they tell you that the Mozilla Foundation was founded by Doctor Nefarious, would they? They also told me about how OpenOffice.org is an evil trojan developed by The Haxxor (a being half man, half computer, half counterstrike kiddie) that would eventually turn me into a mindless zombie. I was so glad when they installed their special monitoring software that enabled their supercomputer at the Billcave to remotely scan my system for evil software. It even came with a talking office clip.
It's good that there still are superheroes like the BSA valiantly protecting us from Doctor Nefarious and the like. People can sleep in peace, knowing that Badass Superheroes are out there protecting them. I know I do.
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Well, they're going to be brainwashed anyway, that's unavoidable - and some delusions are quite useful ("it'll turn out well in the end" is a good example). I don't care much about religion; an unconditional assertion that $DEITY exists is not much worse than an unconditional assertion that Free Software is superior to everything else. What I don't like is when they want to make the rest of the world think like they do, for example by officially redefining science.
We're talking about America, the land where people sue McDonalds for making hot coffee and Coca Cola for not monitoring each and every of their customers for unusual blood sugar levels. The land where people claim in court that a snack turned them into a murderer.
No matter how unrealistic the case, someone will try it and some lawyer will represent him.
Argh, I forgot a word... He was temporarily blinded.
Probably the most famous person who was blinded by a chemical weapon in WWI was Adolf Hitler. Might have contributed to his nastiness...
Yeah, I love gentoo. Installing software under Gentoo Linux (emerge package) is even easier than doing so under OS X (find package on the 'net, download it, open the image, drag application to appropriate folder) most of the time. Now if only Gentoo OS X would be that far...
I don't try donating blood anymore because I know it doesn't work - my blood pressure is too low; if I go there all that happens is that I get my blood pressue measured and then offered a free meal (me, not the pressure). Which sucks, as I have blood type O negative, making my blood universally usable. :/
What makes this even worse is that by donating blood I might make money which, apart from spending it for my personal entertainment, I could give to Child's Play (which I wanted to do since Tycho and Gabe started it).
Ah yes, Col. Twopointseven. I served with him in e'Nam under General Protectionfault. Yeah, those were the times. Just me, Col. Twopointseven and Private Member. Twopointseven came from Int, Maine - whenever he got the chance he'd go and bicker about the town of Void, Maine, which apparently seemed to be inhabitated only by strange people who'd regularly turn blue and crash somewhere. Apart from that Twopointseven wasn't very communicative - he didn't care much about Smalltalk or the nice Java Private Member sometimes brewed, but he did like the sea and sometimes he told us that he wanted to become a great constructor. Well, over there in the jungle his chances to do that were exactly NULL. Perhaps it was a pointer showing him that he shouldn't run atfer FALSE hopes or something... Yeah, you become philosophical like that when you're sitting in a dank shack on the wrong side of the globe, smoking your last #imported cigs while the Apaches are taking off.
Why not just fork the kernel? I do think that binary drivers will weaken Linux but if you really want them you can take the kernel sources and make your own fork. BSD ain't dead yet, no matter what Netcraft says. Most distros will either pick their favourite kernel (mostly commercial distros) or just support both (mostly free distros). As a Gentoo user I don't care much if we get a new Gentoo for the BinaryLinux kernel - hell, we already have Gentoo for OS X.
Cool, where's the torrent?
If I ever meet you I'll CTRL-ALT-DEL you.
What, that means that also English and German not the same syntax have? That can I hardly believe!
Amazing discovery: Syntax is language-specific. News at 11.
He must be new here...
I remember such a "fork". I'm a member of a pretty large German community. We have a network of websites (mostly gaming related) and a huge forum connecting them. About one year ago the founder and owner of most of the sites decided that Final Fantasy XI was more important that the community. We didn't see him for about six months, then he came back and got into a huge argument with the other administrators. The result: Some of the sites had to change their names, domains and designs as he has decided that we can't use them anymore.
This has hit the community pretty hard as the sites responsible for most of the user influx had to relocate (and the forum itself as well), resulting in a decreasing number of new menbers.
Never underestimate the power of a brand. If lots of people know OSWD.org that doesn't mean lots of people know OSWD.net. Also, once you change the domain you have lots of dangling links, especially if you managed to get your name in the press in the past.
Sometimes forking is the only way out, but it does hurt the community.
On TV (yes, not the most reliable source of information, I know, but after all it was one of the scientists working at GEO600 speaking) I've heard that these things pick up a lot of noise - they measure the waves on the nearby shore, cars driving on the streets nearby... From what I've heard half of the work there is actually just sifting through the data trying to filter out the noise, which is why they're now shooting up pseudo-satellites to do the job.
Next time someone posts "Einstein says", please have a source. Dead men can't refute so called 'quotes.'
"Yes."
-- Albert Einstein
(I'm pretty sure that he said "yes" at least once in his life.)
1.) Install VMWare
2.) Set up a VM
3.) Make a snapshot
4.) Install Googlefox
5.) Revert to the snapshot
6.) Repeat steps 4 and 5 a few hundred times
7.) Profit!
Oh, come on! ICANN not hear this stupid argument about whether the Internet should belong to US or EU take it anymore. Do Not Say anything! The Root of the problem is that people won't shut up about it. We don't need to get TLD for the 404th time.
I meant 33,000. I merely was't up-to-date on Apple's offerings. The 11,000 /Powermac figure comes from a few months ago when Apple didn't offer more than 8 gigs of RAM.
As for work... During the lecture-free time I am looking for jobs (during the semesters I don't have time to work). The job center has my data and they usually send me between zero and two offerings between semesters. If I'm lucky I might just get a job, but you can't take that for granted.
I could afford a Mac mini, but I decided against it as I'd get more bang for my buck by upgrading my Linux box to the cheapest Athlon 64 model, which should serve me for another two years. If I ever decide to get a secondary computer (besides the iBook) it probably will be a Mac mini.
Yes, but until the first Mactels come out, "Intel" will do as a synonym for "IBM compatible" - although the latter cetainly is more correct. Most desktop Intels I know aren't even using Intel chips (apart from a few people who do video editing everyone I know uses AMD).
Note that in the time you assembled your computer you could have bought three top-of-the-line G5 Macs. That makes about 33.000 Euros. For the same to be true for me I'd have to spend twelve years and six months building that PC, assuming that I don't spend any money on anything else.
I work on a tight budget (well, I'm a student) which means that I usually only upgrade when a certain component becomes so old that $NEW_PROGRAM will not run on it. Then I buy stuff that's about two generations behind the cutting edge. Upgradability is important because I can't afford to spend much more than 250 Euros on a single upgrade. Buying a new computer once a single component becomes outdated is out of the question.
Concerning your questions: (1) All the time. As a CS student there isn't much I can do without the computer. (2) Not as much as I used to when I was a gamer.
The Mac certainly is an option (my university is 100% Unix and we even have a Mac room filled with 20" iMacs *drool*), but everything besides the Mac mini is too expensive to be adopted as a desktop. For now I stick with a Linux box running on yesterday's hardware.
Yup, there are some new ones that are silent, small and/or light - and I've seen an Intel book that looked like the iBook's little brother, downright sexy. There are some good ones, but sadly they tend to be too expensive for a poor CS student and most of the Intels I see are of the huge/noisy/ugly type, probably because most people around me are poor CS students themselves. Point in case: I know a couple of guys with iBooks but only one PowerBook owner.
At least I haven't been modded Insightful.
mac has always been about people who dont care enough about computers to want to swap around parts, or learn how they work.
I do. I would never buy an Intel box because I prefer building it from the parts myself. But I like Macs. Not only do they have style (which by itself is not a reason to buy them), they also come with an extremely great operating system. On the desktop I'd probably pick the Intel box, simply because of the computer's easy upgradability, but I'd never buy an Intel notebook. Most of them are heavy, loud, huge and ugly - not to forget the lousy *nix compatibility. The ones that aren't are expensive. iBooks are pretty cheap and come with a Unix with a great window manager. And it's as modifiable as many Intel notebooks - hardly.
Someone call Netcraft, we need confirmation!
Especially as there are other induction tags that work like RFID - but with a maximum range of a few centimeters, making it extremely hard to have J. Random Blackat read them out without sticking a scanner into your pocket. I have an induction dongle on my keychain that allows me access to my university's computer pool and a card with which I pay for food. Both have a range of about 2 cm max.
Damn, when the BSA visited me they told me they were the Badass Superheroes of America! I mean, superheroes wouldn't lie when they tell you that the Mozilla Foundation was founded by Doctor Nefarious, would they? They also told me about how OpenOffice.org is an evil trojan developed by The Haxxor (a being half man, half computer, half counterstrike kiddie) that would eventually turn me into a mindless zombie. I was so glad when they installed their special monitoring software that enabled their supercomputer at the Billcave to remotely scan my system for evil software. It even came with a talking office clip.
It's good that there still are superheroes like the BSA valiantly protecting us from Doctor Nefarious and the like. People can sleep in peace, knowing that Badass Superheroes are out there protecting them. I know I do.