The fact that it's being modded insightful is proof that what he said is true. A huge percentage of Slashdotters will usually think similarly just like a lot of Mac users think the same way.
Although... after using a Mac for about 3 years (started on CoCo2, through MS-DOS up to Windows XP before that), I've realized that I developed an intolerance for badly written software (doesn't matter if it's a bad GUI or non-intuitive steps or something else).
If you're used to driving in a crap car, you don't really understand why some people pay for a BMW. But try driving around for 3 years in one, and you won't want to go back to your old crappy car.
"But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months." "Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything." "But the plans were on display..." "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them." "That's the display department." "With a flashlight." "Ah, well, the lights had probably gone." "So had the stairs." "But look, you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display on the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'" - Douglas Adams
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You may hate Acrobat Reader, but don't shun PDFs because of it.
I'm on OS X, and PDFs are just another standard file format recognized by the OS, just like PNGs and MP3s.
I guess you probably never had rabbits, because shit is about all they can do.
They took our jobs!
(with apologies to the South Park creators)
The fact that it's being modded insightful is proof that what he said is true. A huge percentage of Slashdotters will usually think similarly just like a lot of Mac users think the same way.
Although... after using a Mac for about 3 years (started on CoCo2, through MS-DOS up to Windows XP before that), I've realized that I developed an intolerance for badly written software (doesn't matter if it's a bad GUI or non-intuitive steps or something else).
If you're used to driving in a crap car, you don't really understand why some people pay for a BMW. But try driving around for 3 years in one, and you won't want to go back to your old crappy car.
And even if you move out, you'll move back to the basement again in two weeks for the same reason as the first time without remembering it.
As an example, I'm supposed to be receiving 5 million dollars in about two weeks from a guy in Nigeria!!!
So? All they have to implement a "sleep during the day" mode just like a real bat, which will recharge its batteries.
Wow! I have to become left-handed ASAP then!
Because, of course, as OS X marketshare increase, its security will weaken... Oh wait that doesn't make any sense.
Well... if you stand on your head while looking at that list, Apple becomes #1.
Gimme a break, gimme a break. Break me off a piece of that three-six-ty.
There is also the possibility that the computer might discover exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here. The end is near!
Or should I say the reboot?
"But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display on the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"
- Douglas Adams
Obligatory VG Cats comic strip.
What about the environmental cost and cash cost of a battery compared to a tank for compressed air?
Unless someone gets off their asses and finally makes something out of those ultra-capacitors, batteries are too expensive and too slow to charge.
Just because your energy source *could* be a polluting one doesn't mean that it *has* to be.
Your compressed air could come from an electric pump powered by solar panels, wind mills or hydro-electricity.
Say what you want, but at least those are a lot less polluting than having to drill/mine, transport, clean up and burn gasoline/coal.
I don't know about time warp, but alternate universe perhaps? Why would Microsoft make fun of themselves? Is this a new marketing tactic?
What is this "fresh air" and "little sun" that you are talking about? Is it available on Amazon or eBay?
So, you have an IBM Model M keyboard then?
And why would people on Mac OS X want a PDF viewer for?
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. - Douglas Adams
Actually.... here's a 3rd-party iPhone/iPod touch stylus.
Just say you're holding out for the official SDK.
2mm steel plate? Geeze no wonder that bugger is so heavy!
:p
Mine works just fine after more than 23 years! And I bet I could crush a Gameboy with it!