Wow, clearly you've been reading a different Slashdot all these years. You're right. I'm responsible for why every technology site on the internet is filled with whiny 13-year-olds. I can't believe you found me out.
Did you know that border collies are my favorite strain of dog? Oh wait, does that sound absolutely retarded? Yeah, I suppose it does.
The article even says breed. It's not totally inaccurate in this context, but strain generally refers to microorganisms. Why do/. submitters insist on making themselves look like jackasses by trying to sound smart?
You know, I really hate it when people use postal abbreviations on anything other than addresses. Reading the headline for this, I had no clue what MA was until I read the digest below. That's not a huge chore or anything, but the fact remains that it would have been much clearer from the beginning if they had just abbreviaed it Mass., which is the normally accepted abbreviation. I'm willing to be flexible on stuff like this, but these postal abbreviations were never meant to be used in the context of a paragraph or even sentence of text. Imagine if it was PA... Pennsylvania? Port Authority? Palestinian Authority? Mass. is obvious. Pa. is correct for AP style and others, and Penn. is almost unmistakable in context.
Am I being too pedantic?
Is this like being different for the sake of being different? If it's based on IE, it's still garbage. Use Firefox or Opera. If you really want IE with tabs, just use the IE Tab Firefox extension and set it to work for every page. That way you get a shitty rendering engine AND good karma.
Relevant is relative. If you're on MySpace, chances are good that there's something there that you want to find. I should probably make the point that the name search is the one thing on MySpace that does function well. This search engine bidding war isn't so much to serve the users better as it is to make some easy money.
MySpace has got to be an absolute nightmare for any search crawler to dig through. The markup on all the pages is absolutely horrible. Maybe a partnership with Google could help convince them that their pages are built for 1996, not 2006, which is extremely sad for a site that's only been around for two years. Structural markup would make it a lot easier to find the relevant info.
12" is definitely dead. There's a black MacBook now for people who want to pay a lot of extra money for what was always essentially just an iBook in a different color.
The graphics chip is kind of a bummer, but let's face facts, anybody serious about gaming wasn't holding out for the MacBook. It's more than enough for what people actually want this for.
$200 more for black and 20 gigs of HD space is a total ripoff. This is clearly an experiment by Apple to see exactly what they can get away with. I'm all for paying the "Apple premium," but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay a "color premium."
Those glossy screens look nice, but between the crazy glare and the fact that they seem like fingerprint magnets, I don't know if I'd want one. I'd be happier if that was an option, and not standard.
All in all, it's a nice machine. I'm not buying one, but my sister is going to college in the fall, and I can tell my parents to buy it for her. I'm sick of being asked if they should just get her a G4 model. Yeah, that would be really killer four or five years from now.
I hate to see The Beatles lose, but let's face facts: If you could possibly confuse the two, you're likely too dumb to appreciate The Beatles' music and too stupid to figure out how to turn on a computer.
Next time you have someone asking you questions about Linux not knowing whether they should try, you can just direct them to this article."
Oh, if only I could get back the time I've spent explaining Linux to neighbors and grandmothers! I've thrown away my life! I'll never get those preciouos 43 seconds back!
You're an idiot. Clearly these ads show the Mac and PC as two guys who have differences, yet get along. There's a playful tone to the ads. It's not a "hate campaign." Did you just make that up?
What did you really want Apple to say? "Macs are great, but if you don't want one, it's totally cool with us if you buy a Windows PC too, because Internet Explorer runs great on them!"
Apple can talk until they're red in the face about how great their own product is, but there are clearly still a lot of misconceptions about them. The only way to really drive home the fact that they do some things better and lack the problems that abound on PCs is to put the two side-by-side. You're right that people don't react well to negative ad campaigns (there's no such thing as a hate campaign), and that's precisely why Apple has struck an extremely delicate balance in these ads.
The Mac guy doesn't come out and call the PC guy a piece of shit idiot who can't install Firefox and Ad-Aware to save his life. It's a friendly dialogue with upbeat music, far from the deep voices and forboding music of negative political ads.
How the fuck is it misleading? Even to 99% of Linux users, "PC" means "Windows PC." I don't think Apple is really aiming to sway any Linux users with an pitch that clearly is targeted toward your average Windows user.
Maybe it's because there's no better way to file this, but this seems to be less "Your Rights Online" and more "Your Rights in the Real World." Just an observation.
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Wow, clearly you've been reading a different Slashdot all these years. You're right. I'm responsible for why every technology site on the internet is filled with whiny 13-year-olds. I can't believe you found me out.
Extra! Extra! Slashdot travels back in time to retrieve everybody else's headlines from last friday! Read all about it!
Did you know that border collies are my favorite strain of dog? Oh wait, does that sound absolutely retarded? Yeah, I suppose it does. The article even says breed. It's not totally inaccurate in this context, but strain generally refers to microorganisms. Why do /. submitters insist on making themselves look like jackasses by trying to sound smart?
Standardized for addressing envelopes and packages, NOT writing anything else.
You know, I really hate it when people use postal abbreviations on anything other than addresses. Reading the headline for this, I had no clue what MA was until I read the digest below. That's not a huge chore or anything, but the fact remains that it would have been much clearer from the beginning if they had just abbreviaed it Mass., which is the normally accepted abbreviation. I'm willing to be flexible on stuff like this, but these postal abbreviations were never meant to be used in the context of a paragraph or even sentence of text. Imagine if it was PA... Pennsylvania? Port Authority? Palestinian Authority? Mass. is obvious. Pa. is correct for AP style and others, and Penn. is almost unmistakable in context. Am I being too pedantic?
Is it too fucking hard to write out the word "with?"
Yes, you will literally reach enlightenment if you use Firefox. That's what I was implying. I hope that wasn't lost on anybody.
Is this like being different for the sake of being different? If it's based on IE, it's still garbage. Use Firefox or Opera. If you really want IE with tabs, just use the IE Tab Firefox extension and set it to work for every page. That way you get a shitty rendering engine AND good karma.
Good to see I'm finally getting some results around here!
So are they rats or mice? Headline says mice, summary says rats. They're not the same thing. Think before you write!
Relevant is relative. If you're on MySpace, chances are good that there's something there that you want to find. I should probably make the point that the name search is the one thing on MySpace that does function well. This search engine bidding war isn't so much to serve the users better as it is to make some easy money.
Very true. When the revolution comes, MySpace will be a handy list of who goes up against the wall.
MySpace has got to be an absolute nightmare for any search crawler to dig through. The markup on all the pages is absolutely horrible. Maybe a partnership with Google could help convince them that their pages are built for 1996, not 2006, which is extremely sad for a site that's only been around for two years. Structural markup would make it a lot easier to find the relevant info.
It's sad to see how much of a whore Mike McCurry has become.
12" is definitely dead. There's a black MacBook now for people who want to pay a lot of extra money for what was always essentially just an iBook in a different color.
The MacBook page says the family is now complete. See a 12" MBP? Yeah, me neither.
The graphics chip is kind of a bummer, but let's face facts, anybody serious about gaming wasn't holding out for the MacBook. It's more than enough for what people actually want this for. $200 more for black and 20 gigs of HD space is a total ripoff. This is clearly an experiment by Apple to see exactly what they can get away with. I'm all for paying the "Apple premium," but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay a "color premium." Those glossy screens look nice, but between the crazy glare and the fact that they seem like fingerprint magnets, I don't know if I'd want one. I'd be happier if that was an option, and not standard. All in all, it's a nice machine. I'm not buying one, but my sister is going to college in the fall, and I can tell my parents to buy it for her. I'm sick of being asked if they should just get her a G4 model. Yeah, that would be really killer four or five years from now.
Notice that I never said anyone had to be a genius to appreciate it either!
I hate to see The Beatles lose, but let's face facts: If you could possibly confuse the two, you're likely too dumb to appreciate The Beatles' music and too stupid to figure out how to turn on a computer.
Next time you have someone asking you questions about Linux not knowing whether they should try, you can just direct them to this article."
Oh, if only I could get back the time I've spent explaining Linux to neighbors and grandmothers! I've thrown away my life! I'll never get those preciouos 43 seconds back!
You're an idiot. Clearly these ads show the Mac and PC as two guys who have differences, yet get along. There's a playful tone to the ads. It's not a "hate campaign." Did you just make that up?
What did you really want Apple to say? "Macs are great, but if you don't want one, it's totally cool with us if you buy a Windows PC too, because Internet Explorer runs great on them!"
Apple can talk until they're red in the face about how great their own product is, but there are clearly still a lot of misconceptions about them. The only way to really drive home the fact that they do some things better and lack the problems that abound on PCs is to put the two side-by-side. You're right that people don't react well to negative ad campaigns (there's no such thing as a hate campaign), and that's precisely why Apple has struck an extremely delicate balance in these ads.
The Mac guy doesn't come out and call the PC guy a piece of shit idiot who can't install Firefox and Ad-Aware to save his life. It's a friendly dialogue with upbeat music, far from the deep voices and forboding music of negative political ads.
How the fuck is it misleading? Even to 99% of Linux users, "PC" means "Windows PC." I don't think Apple is really aiming to sway any Linux users with an pitch that clearly is targeted toward your average Windows user.
"complex visual systems" not "complex, visual systems"
Maybe it's because there's no better way to file this, but this seems to be less "Your Rights Online" and more "Your Rights in the Real World." Just an observation.
This summary confused the hell out of me. Please, if you're not funny, stop the attempts at humor. It only makes you look like a jackass.