"I find it INCREDIBLY selfish that anyone would risk their babies health just so that a man isn't involved in anyway. but that's just the kind of nonsense i've come to expect from certain man hating rug munching factions."
Who says any of this comes from any efforts by lesbians, or as you put it in such a finely bigotted manner, "certain man hating rug munching factions"?
"i personally think sexual preference is NOT hardwired though it does stem from prepubescent experiences. your just confusing 2 issues here."
That would certainly be a view consistent with your demonstrated homophobia.
"If this has a genetic basis (almost certain) then the genetic offspring of two such women is very likely to feel the same way. A female-only subculture is almost certainly on the way."
Not necessarily so. Even if there is a genetic basis in homosexuality, it is not implied that the offspring of two homosexuals will "very likely" be homosexual. Besides, so what?
Homosexuality/heterosexuality isn't and either/or thing. Even if such a procedure were developed and effective, it would be unlikely to reach widespread use and even more unlikely to have any meaningful impact on the balance of sexual orientation. Even if it did, there would be absolutely nothing wrong with that result.
"The depressing thing is, as a man I can't really think of why we should be allowed to stick around."
Since when is human reproduction about strengthening the gene pool, and since when are your "gay friends" inherently unable to reproduce naturally? Procedures that enable otherwise infertile couples, ones that exist now, violate that, not anything that allows gay couples to conceive. If I wanted kids, I wouldn't even need to reproduce at all, I could adopt.
Your comment is not only inane, it is offensive to gays regardless of your halfassed disclaimer. Since strengthening the gene pool is apparently key to you, do us all a favor and have yourself and your malfunctioning brain sterilized.
The experience the iPhone offers isn't that great. The standard is low.
Smartphones, of which the iPhone barely qualifies, all suck and the iPhone is best of breed only because it sucks marginally less than everything else. It is not especially stable, not easier to use, and not particularly high in functionality. It's easy to imagine a device thoroughly better than the iPhone, though apparently harder to deliver than it seems like it should be. It's time for a clever company, which Google may very well be, to finally offer a smartphone worth having.
Google IS the technology company---they need a partner that is good at distribution. The problem with Dell isn't that they are a bad match, it's that they are ruthless and tend to put their partners under.
Hard to imagine how they could possibly afford to offer a few minutes of voice calling if a handful of bytes of text messaging is so inherently expensive.
Your explanation is so transparently bullshit it's hard to believe so many fall for it. Compare the total traffic for a single SMS to a 1 minute voice call and then justify the rates they charge.
Who cares what someone who packs his computer with toiletries thinks?
Thinness is the ultimate measure only because Steve Jobs said so. Being slightly thinner than most while still having a full sized screen and keyboard does not make it an ultra-portable. Neither does a custom CPU package or an undesirable hard drive form factor.
It all depends on what your definition of "it" is. Keep in mind that Apple is the sole authority for such common words as demonstrated by their claims of "first", "fastest", "smallest", and most recently "thinnest". If you cannot understand that Apple controls the language then their products are clearly not for you.;-)
"If it was how you said it was, they wouldn't, full stop."
You are mistaken, full stop.
"Expensive? Depends on your point of comparison."
Yes, and we know how creative fanboys can be with their points of comparison. Outright lying is not beyond them.
"A few discoloured iBooks, a couple of scratched iPod nano screens because of careless owners..."
Hardly a few or a couple.
"My 1G nano was perfectly readable over 2 years after getting it, and it never had a protective case or that much care lavished on it."
There's that lying thing. My 1G nano was scratched the first time it was inserted into the provided sleeve. Any fool can see right through your obvious bias as anyone who knows anything about the 1G nano knows how easily it scratched.
He answered that. It's matters the least in every way.
Claiming the thinnest laptop, which they could only do with qualifications, is something that Apple did only because they could, not because it offered anything of substance in exchange for the functional trade-offs the machine makes.
We all know that the MBA's specs are totally different than the ones you quoted and that Apple would never lie about their claimed 5 hour battery life, right? Totally different market indeed!
The MBA's market is the affluent poser who would sacrifice everything (for he needs nothing) in order to run the latest prestige product. Lenovo's market is the real ultralight user.
"...it's not as if switching to an unsigned integer relieves you of any problems, other than that it increases the 2^31-1 limit to a 2^32-1 limit.)
The player should be thankful that the only consequence is they can't receive more gold from other players, rather than finding they have a _VERY_ negative amount of gold (less than zero)."
Way to contradict yourself in successive sentences.
Look at it another way, using signed integers to represent unsigned quantities provides absolutely no benefit yet cuts the range of representable values in half. It is useless and indicates laziness or ignorance on the programmer's part.
"Every single interface since IDE and SCSI have been non-native."
What a nonsense statement.
"That's what Integrated Drive Electronics means."
No, the "integrated" in "IDE" referred to the ST-506 task file being integrated into the drive. "Non-native" means there's translation hardware that converts one interface to another. There is no standard drive interface below IDE/SCSI/SATA/SAS today. Those ARE the native interfaces.
"The controller no longer sends native commands like 'move disk head' and 'read bytes' it sends abstract commands like 'read block 1406.'"
That definition of a drive interface is arbitrary, meaningless and irrelevant. Firewire drives are implemented typically using IDE drives and translator boards. They are therefore non-native.
"It is no harder to build a device that accepts FireWire commands directly and translates them in to native commands than it is to build one that understands SCSI or SATA."
That's beside the point. There are no such drives.
"Most current FireWire drives go via SCSI or ATA because there is a much bigger demand for ATA drives than FireWire, but FireWire commands are almost identical to SCSI commands so such a drive could easily be built."
Again, irrelevant. All firewire drives are non-native. SATA is a more efficient protocol that Firewire/SCSI anyway.
Explain why, in a time where schools care so little about the education they provide and so much about their legal liabilities, they should be inserting themselves into such matters. I'd like schools to teach their curriculum, not take over ownership of the parents' responsibilities. Faculty should butt out of the students' private lives.
"Obviously faculty and administration should have absolutely no interest in getting to know their students."
They aren't getting to know their students by doing this, they're prying into young people's lives when they have no business. It's not at all clear to me that faculty SHOULD get to know their students outside the classroom.
Frankly, I think such faculty should be disciplined, not the students. What this amounts to is vigilantism and self-appointed morality enforcement, but at least we got to know you're a pedophile.
"Don't forget, it's not just the concept that's patented, but the implementation."
You can't patent a concept at all, you can only patent an implementation. Your claims define how broad your implementation is.
"But to think that a patent can't be valid and innovative just because someone has a similar product is a fallacy; it could be done in an entirely different way."
The only people who think that know nothing about the patent system.
iTunes sucks equally on the mac. It frequently grinds my quad MacPro to an absolute halt and has to be forcably killed. Not that it changes anything you said, but I don't think Apple went out of their way to make iTunes worse on Windows.
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"I find it INCREDIBLY selfish that anyone would risk their babies health just so that a man isn't involved in anyway. but that's just the kind of nonsense i've come to expect from certain man hating rug munching factions."
Who says any of this comes from any efforts by lesbians, or as you put it in such a finely bigotted manner, "certain man hating rug munching factions"?
"i personally think sexual preference is NOT hardwired though it does stem from prepubescent experiences. your just confusing 2 issues here."
That would certainly be a view consistent with your demonstrated homophobia.
"If this has a genetic basis (almost certain) then the genetic offspring of two such women is very likely to feel the same way. A female-only subculture is almost certainly on the way."
Not necessarily so. Even if there is a genetic basis in homosexuality, it is not implied that the offspring of two homosexuals will "very likely" be homosexual. Besides, so what?
Homosexuality/heterosexuality isn't and either/or thing. Even if such a procedure were developed and effective, it would be unlikely to reach widespread use and even more unlikely to have any meaningful impact on the balance of sexual orientation. Even if it did, there would be absolutely nothing wrong with that result.
"The depressing thing is, as a man I can't really think of why we should be allowed to stick around."
I can. No need to be stupid.
Since when is human reproduction about strengthening the gene pool, and since when are your "gay friends" inherently unable to reproduce naturally? Procedures that enable otherwise infertile couples, ones that exist now, violate that, not anything that allows gay couples to conceive. If I wanted kids, I wouldn't even need to reproduce at all, I could adopt.
Your comment is not only inane, it is offensive to gays regardless of your halfassed disclaimer. Since strengthening the gene pool is apparently key to you, do us all a favor and have yourself and your malfunctioning brain sterilized.
The experience the iPhone offers isn't that great. The standard is low.
Smartphones, of which the iPhone barely qualifies, all suck and the iPhone is best of breed only because it sucks marginally less than everything else. It is not especially stable, not easier to use, and not particularly high in functionality. It's easy to imagine a device thoroughly better than the iPhone, though apparently harder to deliver than it seems like it should be. It's time for a clever company, which Google may very well be, to finally offer a smartphone worth having.
Except that bluetooth can't go 3Mbps and if WiFi were available to his "iPod" then his laptop could have used that directly.
This is all a bunch of nonsense.
Google IS the technology company---they need a partner that is good at distribution. The problem with Dell isn't that they are a bad match, it's that they are ruthless and tend to put their partners under.
Hard to imagine how they could possibly afford to offer a few minutes of voice calling if a handful of bytes of text messaging is so inherently expensive.
Your explanation is so transparently bullshit it's hard to believe so many fall for it. Compare the total traffic for a single SMS to a 1 minute voice call and then justify the rates they charge.
Who cares what someone who packs his computer with toiletries thinks?
Thinness is the ultimate measure only because Steve Jobs said so. Being slightly thinner than most while still having a full sized screen and keyboard does not make it an ultra-portable. Neither does a custom CPU package or an undesirable hard drive form factor.
20 years behind? What platform are you referring to from 1988 that is equal to or better than Windows today?
At this time 20 years ago we finally got OS/2 1.0. No GUI at all in that version.
It all depends on what your definition of "it" is. Keep in mind that Apple is the sole authority for such common words as demonstrated by their claims of "first", "fastest", "smallest", and most recently "thinnest". If you cannot understand that Apple controls the language then their products are clearly not for you. ;-)
"If it was how you said it was, they wouldn't, full stop."
You are mistaken, full stop.
"Expensive? Depends on your point of comparison."
Yes, and we know how creative fanboys can be with their points of comparison. Outright lying is not beyond them.
"A few discoloured iBooks, a couple of scratched iPod nano screens because of careless owners..."
Hardly a few or a couple.
"My 1G nano was perfectly readable over 2 years after getting it, and it never had a protective case or that much care lavished on it."
There's that lying thing. My 1G nano was scratched the first time it was inserted into the provided sleeve. Any fool can see right through your obvious bias as anyone who knows anything about the 1G nano knows how easily it scratched.
Toll road collections are the kings of inefficiency. There's plenty of reason not to pay for roads by the trip.
You may need to study up on what RAID 0 is (among other things).
"...so why not thinness?"
He answered that. It's matters the least in every way.
Claiming the thinnest laptop, which they could only do with qualifications, is something that Apple did only because they could, not because it offered anything of substance in exchange for the functional trade-offs the machine makes.
We all know that the MBA's specs are totally different than the ones you quoted and that Apple would never lie about their claimed 5 hour battery life, right? Totally different market indeed!
The MBA's market is the affluent poser who would sacrifice everything (for he needs nothing) in order to run the latest prestige product. Lenovo's market is the real ultralight user.
"...it's not as if switching to an unsigned integer relieves you of any problems, other than that it increases the 2^31-1 limit to a 2^32-1 limit.)
The player should be thankful that the only consequence is they can't receive more gold from other players, rather than finding they have a _VERY_ negative amount of gold (less than zero)."
Way to contradict yourself in successive sentences.
Look at it another way, using signed integers to represent unsigned quantities provides absolutely no benefit yet cuts the range of representable values in half. It is useless and indicates laziness or ignorance on the programmer's part.
"Every single interface since IDE and SCSI have been non-native."
What a nonsense statement.
"That's what Integrated Drive Electronics means."
No, the "integrated" in "IDE" referred to the ST-506 task file being integrated into the drive. "Non-native" means there's translation hardware that converts one interface to another. There is no standard drive interface below IDE/SCSI/SATA/SAS today. Those ARE the native interfaces.
"The controller no longer sends native commands like 'move disk head' and 'read bytes' it sends abstract commands like 'read block 1406.'"
That definition of a drive interface is arbitrary, meaningless and irrelevant. Firewire drives are implemented typically using IDE drives and translator boards. They are therefore non-native.
"It is no harder to build a device that accepts FireWire commands directly and translates them in to native commands than it is to build one that understands SCSI or SATA."
That's beside the point. There are no such drives.
"Most current FireWire drives go via SCSI or ATA because there is a much bigger demand for ATA drives than FireWire, but FireWire commands are almost identical to SCSI commands so such a drive could easily be built."
Again, irrelevant. All firewire drives are non-native. SATA is a more efficient protocol that Firewire/SCSI anyway.
Explain why, in a time where schools care so little about the education they provide and so much about their legal liabilities, they should be inserting themselves into such matters. I'd like schools to teach their curriculum, not take over ownership of the parents' responsibilities. Faculty should butt out of the students' private lives.
"Obviously faculty and administration should have absolutely no interest in getting to know their students."
They aren't getting to know their students by doing this, they're prying into young people's lives when they have no business. It's not at all clear to me that faculty SHOULD get to know their students outside the classroom.
Frankly, I think such faculty should be disciplined, not the students. What this amounts to is vigilantism and self-appointed morality enforcement, but at least we got to know you're a pedophile.
"Intel attempts to subvert efforts to get computers to children."
Not at all, they offered an alternative computer for the children.
"For about twice the price. Which means half the number of units."
Where did the article say half the number of units?
"Well, no. They just dont like kids quite as much as they like money."
Same could be said for you. Where's your money for the children's computers? Intel contributed cash to the OLPC effort.
"This will go on their permanent record and get weighed in for future purchases."
Considering the intellect you've demonstrated, I'm sure your permanent record is a grave threat to Intel.
Why would you imagine that? Have you seen or do you suspect any Apple product infringing on such IP?
"Don't forget, it's not just the concept that's patented, but the implementation."
You can't patent a concept at all, you can only patent an implementation. Your claims define how broad your implementation is.
"But to think that a patent can't be valid and innovative just because someone has a similar product is a fallacy; it could be done in an entirely different way."
The only people who think that know nothing about the patent system.
Love to see an example of that. LCD main displays in notebooks are barely 15 years old and color ones not even that.
I guess if you're going to say something stupid it might as well be really stupid.
iTunes sucks equally on the mac. It frequently grinds my quad MacPro to an absolute halt and has to be forcably killed. Not that it changes anything you said, but I don't think Apple went out of their way to make iTunes worse on Windows.
"Interest is calculated as a rate over time..."
Since when? Thay may be typical but it isn't a requirement. Interest is, after all, the incentive for the lender, nothing more.