Here are the parts of Capitalism that I don't understand: - unsafe products - unhealthy products - unsustainable processes - suppression of the truth about unsafe products - exploitation of the poor and the uninformed - outsourcing (abandonment of the community) - tax evasion - consumerism - competition that puts profits before people - profitable relationship with war
But then if you accept the premise that People Don't Matter, all the above makes perfect sense.
Wine is one of the most useful open source projects if you are a BSD or Linux user and there is at least one M-Windows application that you can't replace.
In my case, I run the Oxford English Dictionary under Wine.
Passengers are not the only worry for airport security. For most of modern US history, passengers have posed little concern. At the same time, the US has had many international enemies.
Airports are full of security holes. Other freight handling systems are full of security holes. "Appearing" to do things to improve security is a political strategy.
The USA is not more secure. But government is much, much bigger... and has more power than a supposed democracy should give it.
Now, understand - there is always someone inconvenienced. I'm not talking about a perfect system. I'm literally asking, does the average American (or Brit, etc.) really feel that they've lost something specific?
Sir, I suspect that one of the reasons why you don't hear an answer is that some of your interlocutors are frozen in disbelief.
Although the USA may try valiantly, not everyone who displeases the government can be incarcerated. People think Guantanamo is bad; the US prison system is a systemic Guantanamo fit to burst with the highest percentage of incarceration in the world.
Do all the people who are not incarcerated have any reason to be concerned? If the government is above the law and there is no law to protect them, the only protection they have is their sleepy ignorance of their vulnerability.
You would call their sleepy ignorance proof that they have no cause for worry. Coincidentally, there's a group of men in the White House who agree with you.
The catastrophic loss of ecological diversity may be just around the corner but the human equivalent has already happened and with a tiny fraction of the fanfare.
There have been many catastrophic losses of biodiversity on the planet and there will certainly be more before the Earth becomes barren.
I don't agree that the loss of societal habits, misconceptions and bugbears ("human culture") can be equated. These things may be dear to people but they are mostly rubbish.
This could be put to immediate use in the USA, where much bad legislation needs to be repealed and they need to attract fewer blockheads to a career in politics.
It has no real meaning these days - ask RMS if you don't believe me. Whatever the point you're making, I think would rather believe you than listen to RMS.
Pointing out MS FUD is like taking home the drunkest, ugliest girl in the bar. Yah, you did it, but no one is impressed. But if she forces you to move out of the basement, your parents will be thrilled.
I will never understand why someone would buy a $2000 iMac and negate the entire reason for purchasing from Apple -- to run Mac OS X. The word "never" is a reliable marker for silly thinking.
OS X is not the sole reason for buying Apple hardware. Some Apple hardware is very nice. The Mac Mini is a great little computer, period; I run Linux and Windows on mine. I have never owned an iMac, but I assume that the Intel generation hardware offers no obstacles (except Apple Bluetooth for non-XP Windows).
Although I like OS X and think it's better than Windows, it isn't perfect. The Finder in OS X leaves.DS_STORE droppings everywhere. Network browsing is annoying. I use the OS X Finder enough that these two problems make Ubuntu my desktop OS of choice.
has taken a novel approach [...] They've opened a public forum [..] and are interested in anyone and everyone's expertise, experience and ideas Confounded new-fangled thinking! If close-minded, autocratic decision-making that immediately dismissed everyone's expertise, experience and ideas was good enough for Grandpa, it's good enough for me.
Mac: And I'm a Mac. PC, who are all those people smacking you in the head and rifling your pockets?
PC: [Sigh] Those are viruses and worms. Even though I scream "DENY! DENY!" as loudly as I can, they keep smacking me in the head and rifling my pockets. You know how it is.
Mac: Actually, I don't. You see, with a Mac...
[One of the worms moves sinisterly toward the Mac. A man in a black suit appears suddenly from the right and collars the worm, shaking it roughly.]
Man In Black Suit: Listen, woim. If you takes one more step taword da Mac kid, I'm gonna whack you and yer whole family, see?
Worm: Uh... uh... I'm just a proof of concept.
MIBS: Concept shmoncept. Not only will I whack you and yer family, I'm going to hack yer blog so bad it'll look like AintItCool.com.
Worm: [panics, runs away, screaming]
MIBS: [Claps hands as though rubbing dirt off. As he leaves to the right, Mac slips him a small paper sack.] Tanks, kid.
Mac: As I was saying, with a Mac, there are no viruses.
I have a "Small Form Factor" toaster box that is from BioStar. It's the same sort of thing as the Shuttle. It is a little noisier than I prefer.
The truly SFF, quiet computer that I have also been using for over a year is a Mac Mini. If you don't need one of those high-wattage video cards, the Mini is fast and about 1/6th the size of any of these "toaster" boxen. (I have the Mini sitting ~on top~ of the SFF PC, along with a USB 2.0 external hub.)
You can also drop a Core 2 Duo CPU into the Mini. (The current models are Core Duo.) The upgrade path for my SFF PC isn't as good.
For those of us who don't want "gaming" graphics and want a quiet computer to run OS X, Linux, or Windows, I don't see many options better than the Mac Mini.
Please note: I am not Steve Jobs. If I were, I surely would have said, "Boom. There it is," at least once in this post.
I've seen older Linux iterations that make me want to cry I think your crying is a personality trait. The default Text Editor in Ubuntu is Gedit. It's easily better than any "advanced" default text editor that Windows has ever provided.
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Here are the parts of Capitalism that I don't understand:
- unsafe products
- unhealthy products
- unsustainable processes
- suppression of the truth about unsafe products
- exploitation of the poor and the uninformed
- outsourcing (abandonment of the community)
- tax evasion
- consumerism
- competition that puts profits before people
- profitable relationship with war
But then if you accept the premise that People Don't Matter, all the above makes perfect sense.
Wine is one of the most useful open source projects if you are a BSD or Linux user and there is at least one M-Windows application that you can't replace.
In my case, I run the Oxford English Dictionary under Wine.
Sir, people have been wondering what Bob Dylan has been talking about for over 40 years.
I'm interested in knowing more about how you are booting from flash while mirroring to disk. Would you explain?
And guess what! In another startling innovation, the documentation really ~is~ bum-wipe.
This is more money impudently squandered.
Passengers are not the only worry for airport security. For most of modern US history, passengers have posed little concern. At the same time, the US has had many international enemies.
Airports are full of security holes. Other freight handling systems are full of security holes. "Appearing" to do things to improve security is a political strategy.
The USA is not more secure. But government is much, much bigger... and has more power than a supposed democracy should give it.
Sir, somewhere in the fully-indexed and data-mined future, your descendants will be publicly shamed and ridiculed because of your post.
I suppose they'll have no choice but to flee to deeper waters.
Too dear for me. Anyway, AMD is like Bambi in Intel's Core 2 Duo headlights right now.
I am unfortunately quite sure that the US government has ENABLED itself to throw dissenters in prison.
Whether it throws them all in prison depends on how much prison space the USA can afford to rent from the "Coalition Of The Willing" around the world.
Then you have no eyes. Or, possibly, a much larger organ normally situated directly behind them.
Sir, I suspect that one of the reasons why you don't hear an answer is that some of your interlocutors are frozen in disbelief.
Although the USA may try valiantly, not everyone who displeases the government can be incarcerated. People think Guantanamo is bad; the US prison system is a systemic Guantanamo fit to burst with the highest percentage of incarceration in the world.
Do all the people who are not incarcerated have any reason to be concerned? If the government is above the law and there is no law to protect them, the only protection they have is their sleepy ignorance of their vulnerability.
You would call their sleepy ignorance proof that they have no cause for worry. Coincidentally, there's a group of men in the White House who agree with you.
There have been many catastrophic losses of biodiversity on the planet and there will certainly be more before the Earth becomes barren.
I don't agree that the loss of societal habits, misconceptions and bugbears ("human culture") can be equated. These things may be dear to people but they are mostly rubbish.
This could be put to immediate use in the USA, where much bad legislation needs to be repealed and they need to attract fewer blockheads to a career in politics.
OS X is not the sole reason for buying Apple hardware. Some Apple hardware is very nice. The Mac Mini is a great little computer, period; I run Linux and Windows on mine. I have never owned an iMac, but I assume that the Intel generation hardware offers no obstacles (except Apple Bluetooth for non-XP Windows).
Although I like OS X and think it's better than Windows, it isn't perfect. The Finder in OS X leaves
PC: Hi, I'm a PC.
Mac: And I'm a Mac. PC, who are all those people smacking you in the head and rifling your pockets?
PC: [Sigh] Those are viruses and worms. Even though I scream "DENY! DENY!" as loudly as I can, they keep smacking me in the head and rifling my pockets. You know how it is.
Mac: Actually, I don't. You see, with a Mac...
[One of the worms moves sinisterly toward the Mac. A man in a black suit appears suddenly from the right and collars the worm, shaking it roughly.]
Man In Black Suit: Listen, woim. If you takes one more step taword da Mac kid, I'm gonna whack you and yer whole family, see?
Worm: Uh... uh... I'm just a proof of concept.
MIBS: Concept shmoncept. Not only will I whack you and yer family, I'm going to hack yer blog so bad it'll look like AintItCool.com.
Worm: [panics, runs away, screaming]
MIBS: [Claps hands as though rubbing dirt off. As he leaves to the right, Mac slips him a small paper sack.] Tanks, kid.
Mac: As I was saying, with a Mac, there are no viruses.
I have a "Small Form Factor" toaster box that is from BioStar. It's the same sort of thing as the Shuttle. It is a little noisier than I prefer.
The truly SFF, quiet computer that I have also been using for over a year is a Mac Mini. If you don't need one of those high-wattage video cards, the Mini is fast and about 1/6th the size of any of these "toaster" boxen. (I have the Mini sitting ~on top~ of the SFF PC, along with a USB 2.0 external hub.)
You can also drop a Core 2 Duo CPU into the Mini. (The current models are Core Duo.) The upgrade path for my SFF PC isn't as good.
For those of us who don't want "gaming" graphics and want a quiet computer to run OS X, Linux, or Windows, I don't see many options better than the Mac Mini.
Please note: I am not Steve Jobs. If I were, I surely would have said, "Boom. There it is," at least once in this post.
Once installed inside an Apple case, Intel CPUs are immediately protected by the Jobsian Reality Distortion Field (JRDF).
Install Intel in a PC, you've got problems.
Install Intel in a Mac and... Boom! No problems.
And you want an iPhone.
This is Slashdot. We know what you would pay money for.
But until you move out of your parents' basement, pr0n-to-pr0n networks and VLC will have to suffice.
What would these "unfair advantages set long ago" be, in your opinion?
I condemn many things that the USA has done but they have done good things too. In what country of immaculate ethical history do you abide, Sir?
I hear that one of the perqs at Philip Morris is free smokes for the whole family.
To the true geek, it's all Impulse Power.
Move along, there's no warping to see here.