must be your area. I haven't heard anything close to that magnatude of dumbfuckery. Only the plain-ol' sales fuckyous of pushing highest-priced items down the throats and out the doors. Even this is only one in several cases though. Again, must be your particular area. Unless of course you felt like going to the extremes in order to prove your point (in which case you prove a weak one)
I don't expect my local Comp USA to be there for me outside of a 9pm spare-part emergency anyways. I think anyone who is good at what they do with computers is above retail sales anyways.
~RD
and before anyone suggests importing my old mailboxes, that's not the problem.... they're there under username\library\Mail but are completely empty now!
People pay OUT THE ASS for furnature while owning trees. Craftsmanship, design and ingenuity do not get ZAPPED by new technology. Poeple will still pay a reasonable price to compile a COKE because they like the taste of the secret recipe.
Need more proof? Your neighbor who owns the BMW has no idea where cars come from. She might even think hers comes from the same buildng as your Volvo. But she pays for a new one every 2 years because she likes the driving experience much better.
"The atomic bomb took only three years, from 1942 to 1945."
the A-bomb wasn't exactly a project of finess...
a nano-bot is quite a defferent story
Quoting Neal Stephenson's book The Diamond Age:
"The structures these people worked with seemed painfully bulky to Hackworth..." "An automated design system could always make something work by throwing more atoms at it"
Another reason why it is important to look deeper than your best model or simulation. We can all agree that rubber balls on string only take us so far into understanding. The enxt step is realizing that computer data should be treated the same. We've come a long way since the crystaline spheres model and yet we haven't
I've run into more practicing, devout Catholics who don't think twice about masturbating than i ever have thoss who would feel guilt over something like OS indescretions.
I'm therefore comfortable saying that guilt is the last thing people feel when opening their TiBook and logging in.
All command-line zealots i've been in contact with for more than an hour have been very proficient using their terminal windows. Sometimes even typing faster than the terminal can display the next result ~All OSes, hands-down.
similarly, the best cut and pasters out there have pointer control like a fucking samurai. Including memorizing button locations and activating them before they even get drawn.
i think...
There really are NO fundimental differences between the two types of people in regards to productiveness because:
1. Alot of people demonstrate poor mouse control... we've all been over the shoulder of a user who just can't seem to... hit... that... "OK"... button... without... fucking circling it for a minute or two!!!!!! (that's when you slam ENTER for them)
2. While typing a string more than a few words long, at least ONE typo (all it takes) surfaces every third command given and causes the user to repeat his "super-duper time-saver" command a second time.
3. Using commands in the Terminal requires learning commands! The GUI, even poor ones, can be navigated with minimal intuition...
4. most GUI users use at least two or three keycuts and most command-line users have a dock full of icons ANYWAYS... there are no absolute purists left who operate completely one way for anything other than nostalgia!
back to the UI arguement and we see that people end up good at something and ride it until their task is done.
clippy scares the shit out of me. He represents demonic oppression and the crushing claw of starvation on our people. he stares at me, those big eyes burn my face. OH GOD! He's shapeshifting again! My Soul hurts! Run!
" Intel, AMD, and Motorola/IBM have been playing "catch up" ever since."
it's stretching to say they've been playing "catchup". the Alpha died because it simply had not place in the consumer/small company market. The other companies knew this and made only pithy efforts to stay abreast with the underlying technology.
the London Underground never has an add campaign about customer service. They know they're grumpy, underpaid civil servants who lash out at riders with un-witty insults and onion breath.
I'm not saying Apple has onion breath, but they make mistakes about the vitality of the tech public's will to slander any incoming compaign that's only 80% true. If i were a struggling platform, i'd have my campaigners watch their asses a bit more and i wouldn't play the same games as the industry leaders do. Only the leaders can get away with stretching the truth.
then again, some of the *nix underdogs stretch their personal campaigns just as far... oh well. salute!
i too prefer AMD over Intel because of price and the fact that I almost NEVER need the extra 7-12% performance difference, But i've never HATED Intel. Why do you hate Intel? are you one of those "root for the underdogs who constanly drop the ball" type of people? if so, why?
AMD, as an American competitor, never seems to release a product completely right. It's either poorly timed, poorly cooled or poorly marketed.
i agree with the horrors of the XP interface, MS was never good with widgets.
BUT, any corporation who still uses the "still good because it's never broke" 6-year old legacy programs for the backbone to their internal operations KNOWS that it's ass-rape when MS decides they're going to push everyone into the ever-so crufty future.
P.S. NOBODY should ever "live" with shitty or non-existent drivers... nor should they PAY to.
64-bit Linux distros will do NO good for professionals who make a living off their machines other than simply taking them apart and putting them back together. slash-heads talk freely about swapping OSes like they talk about swapping floppy disks.
anyone keeping pace with industry standards and proprietary formats, evil or not, are subject to sticking with a platform CONSISTANTLY over a period of time. Is this really news?
the people listening to 128kb rips from kazaa don't buy iPods.
it's not very logical, imho. iPods don't usually accompany PC users who ignore/don't care about spy/addware on their machines. The iPod is insignificant to the majority.
The proof will be in the landfills in 5 years... (1 billion $30 CD players along with a trillion mis-burned CD/coasters will out-weigh the iPods in any century)
even the most technical columnists use online searches to save time and to excape having to put redundant work into a piece. Sometimes, though, Google is too quick and dirty and the columnest gets sloppy... no doubt he took a quick glimpse at some web pics from a year ago of the 1st or 2nd gen Ipod stripped nekkid...
i think the difference between having volumes or our entire library with us wherever we go is an upgrade for a great tool.
When i owned a CD player, i only listened to it when i was in the mood for the disc i had in there, i was never the type to carry my CD case with me very many places. I felt like different styles probably 5 times a day or more.
My iPod lets me listen to Dark Side of the Moon right after I get sick of Roni Size, right after i get sick of NOFX, Right after i get sick of George Carlin......... etc.
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must be your area. I haven't heard anything close to that magnatude of dumbfuckery. Only the plain-ol' sales fuckyous of pushing highest-priced items down the throats and out the doors. Even this is only one in several cases though. Again, must be your particular area. Unless of course you felt like going to the extremes in order to prove your point (in which case you prove a weak one)
I don't expect my local Comp USA to be there for me outside of a 9pm spare-part emergency anyways. I think anyone who is good at what they do with computers is above retail sales anyways. ~RD
and before anyone suggests importing my old mailboxes, that's not the problem.... they're there under username\library\Mail but are completely empty now!
my Mail program is completely wiped and reset wtf??? this happen to anyone else?
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People pay OUT THE ASS for furnature while owning trees. Craftsmanship, design and ingenuity do not get ZAPPED by new technology. Poeple will still pay a reasonable price to compile a COKE because they like the taste of the secret recipe.
Need more proof? Your neighbor who owns the BMW has no idea where cars come from. She might even think hers comes from the same buildng as your Volvo. But she pays for a new one every 2 years because she likes the driving experience much better.
"The atomic bomb took only three years, from 1942 to 1945."
the A-bomb wasn't exactly a project of finess...
a nano-bot is quite a defferent story
Quoting Neal Stephenson's book The Diamond Age:
"The structures these people worked with seemed painfully bulky to Hackworth..."
"An automated design system could always make something work by throwing more atoms at it"
Are there individuals who can display immunity to HIV?
Another reason why it is important to look deeper than your best model or simulation. We can all agree that rubber balls on string only take us so far into understanding. The enxt step is realizing that computer data should be treated the same. We've come a long way since the crystaline spheres model and yet we haven't
i'm completely dissapointed with their current controllers.
terribly expensive
terribly limited use
and the FAQ firmly states "we do not support any serial to USB converters. contact your local reseller for a new one"
my god! how do they fuck that one up?
I've run into more practicing, devout Catholics who don't think twice about masturbating than i ever have thoss who would feel guilt over something like OS indescretions.
I'm therefore comfortable saying that guilt is the last thing people feel when opening their TiBook and logging in.
~J
All command-line zealots i've been in contact with for more than an hour have been very proficient using their terminal windows. Sometimes even typing faster than the terminal can display the next result ~All OSes, hands-down.
similarly, the best cut and pasters out there have pointer control like a fucking samurai. Including memorizing button locations and activating them before they even get drawn.
i think...
There really are NO fundimental differences between the two types of people in regards to productiveness because:
1. Alot of people demonstrate poor mouse control... we've all been over the shoulder of a user who just can't seem to... hit... that... "OK"... button... without... fucking circling it for a minute or two!!!!!! (that's when you slam ENTER for them)
2. While typing a string more than a few words long, at least ONE typo (all it takes) surfaces every third command given and causes the user to repeat his "super-duper time-saver" command a second time.
3. Using commands in the Terminal requires learning commands! The GUI, even poor ones, can be navigated with minimal intuition...
4. most GUI users use at least two or three keycuts and most command-line users have a dock full of icons ANYWAYS... there are no absolute purists left who operate completely one way for anything other than nostalgia!
back to the UI arguement and we see that people end up good at something and ride it until their task is done.
clippy scares the shit out of me.
He represents demonic oppression and the crushing claw of starvation on our people.
he stares at me, those big eyes burn my face. OH GOD! He's shapeshifting again! My Soul hurts! Run!
" Intel, AMD, and Motorola/IBM have been playing "catch up" ever since."
it's stretching to say they've been playing "catchup". the Alpha died because it simply had not place in the consumer/small company market. The other companies knew this and made only pithy efforts to stay abreast with the underlying technology.
the London Underground never has an add campaign about customer service. They know they're grumpy, underpaid civil servants who lash out at riders with un-witty insults and onion breath.
I'm not saying Apple has onion breath, but they make mistakes about the vitality of the tech public's will to slander any incoming compaign that's only 80% true. If i were a struggling platform, i'd have my campaigners watch their asses a bit more and i wouldn't play the same games as the industry leaders do. Only the leaders can get away with stretching the truth.
then again, some of the *nix underdogs stretch their personal campaigns just as far... oh well. salute!
i too prefer AMD over Intel because of price and the fact that I almost NEVER need the extra 7-12% performance difference, But i've never HATED Intel. Why do you hate Intel? are you one of those "root for the underdogs who constanly drop the ball" type of people? if so, why?
AMD, as an American competitor, never seems to release a product completely right. It's either poorly timed, poorly cooled or poorly marketed.
you throw words like a child throws crayons...
i agree with the horrors of the XP interface, MS was never good with widgets. BUT, any corporation who still uses the "still good because it's never broke" 6-year old legacy programs for the backbone to their internal operations KNOWS that it's ass-rape when MS decides they're going to push everyone into the ever-so crufty future.
P.S. NOBODY should ever "live" with shitty or non-existent drivers... nor should they PAY to.
64-bit Linux distros will do NO good for professionals who make a living off their machines other than simply taking them apart and putting them back together. slash-heads talk freely about swapping OSes like they talk about swapping floppy disks.
anyone keeping pace with industry standards and proprietary formats, evil or not, are subject to sticking with a platform CONSISTANTLY over a period of time. Is this really news?
Jason was being totally sarchastic.... sorry you missed it
funny, my mouse has both a scroll wheel and a second button. And they've been working for two years.
when will non-users stop commenting on circa 1996 Macs when they feel like they need to raise concern about the current ligitimacy of Apple?
the people listening to 128kb rips from kazaa don't buy iPods.
it's not very logical, imho. iPods don't usually accompany PC users who ignore/don't care about spy/addware on their machines. The iPod is insignificant to the majority.
The proof will be in the landfills in 5 years... (1 billion $30 CD players along with a trillion mis-burned CD/coasters will out-weigh the iPods in any century)
Surprise!
even the most technical columnists use online searches to save time and to excape having to put redundant work into a piece. Sometimes, though, Google is too quick and dirty and the columnest gets sloppy... no doubt he took a quick glimpse at some web pics from a year ago of the 1st or 2nd gen Ipod stripped nekkid...
i think the difference between having volumes or our entire library with us wherever we go is an upgrade for a great tool. When i owned a CD player, i only listened to it when i was in the mood for the disc i had in there, i was never the type to carry my CD case with me very many places. I felt like different styles probably 5 times a day or more. My iPod lets me listen to Dark Side of the Moon right after I get sick of Roni Size, right after i get sick of NOFX, Right after i get sick of George Carlin......... etc.