I agree wholeheartedly about the price. I have a 20gb iPod and it sparked a debate at lunch today about the cost. I agree that the iPod Mini is overpriced. I was making the argument that for an extra $50 you might as well get the 10gb model.
Much to my suprise Apple upped the specs to 15gb for the intro model. I agree, the iPod mini is overpriced.
I don't however agree with punching Jobs in the face.
Go to Apple's website and watch the 1984 Commercial in the "20 Years of Macintosh" section. You can see an iPod on the hip of the woman throwing the hammer. I recommend watching the highest resolution and checking each frame. You'll see it.
Now that LEGO will no longer be producing movie tie-in sets those STAR WARS packs are looking a little more lucrative. Yes... Nothing cooler than LEGO Obiwan chopping of the hand of some LEGO guy in the bar of my LEGO city. To Toys R' Us. Away!
Man I'm glad pirate copies of Musica de los 70's y 80's have been taken off the streets. Thanks RIAA! Now excuse me while I fill my iPod with CDs checked out from my local library.
I switched to Mac to stop dealing with all the things that annoyed me about my Windows systems. Of these annoyances Real Player was one of the most frustrating.
To put it another way using childhood stereotypes:
.rm/.ram files are cooties
Real Player is a girl
Girls with cooties are icky.
I own a lot of gaming consoles... 26 in fact. But theres one that I drag everywhere with me. Its my good old NES. Out of all the consoles I have that one is the epitome of what gaming should be. Easy to pick up, fun to play, and games that are challenging to this day.
Newer consoles fail to impress me with their whacked out specs. There are a few games that impress me. Example: Sega's Rez for PS2 is amazing yet horribly underated. Most of these ingenious titles fall wayside to the plunger of Madden and GTA3 (+clones).::Sigh::
When you think about it memory chips and potato chips have a lot in common.
Electronic chips get smaller in size the more manufacturers work on them while the memory gets bigger. Potato chips get smaller in size while you eat your way to the bottom of the bag and your thighs get bigger.
I feel no pity for this guy. It is absolutely ridiculous that people with money to throw around foolishly try to get so much more. This boils down to greed.
My first computer experience is on an Apple II but that was at school...
My friend who had cooties (a girl) had an Atari 400 sitting in her room that was never used. I used to sit there and just punch in words just to see what would happen.
Odd that now both of those experiences now accurately describe my current computer use. Randomly inserting words into my Apple with XCode seeing what will happen.
Morpheus: **its going to hit the fan. The fan an obvious metaphor for Zion.
Neo: Woah.
Morpheus: But we've known that since the first movie.
...a few minutes later...
Zion is being attacked. The next hour and a half consists of: Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
Shooting the wall.
Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
"Accidental Friendly Fire." (The guy owed me a few bucks.)
Shooting robots.
Shooting bigger robots.
Neo: I know how to save Zion. I have to login to the kernal and see if he'll grant me root/admin privileges.
LOGIN: Neo
PASSWORD: trinitywaseasy
(Neo clicks Apple > Restart.)
The End!
Honestly I don't care about "High Resolution" trailers and other propoganda if the actual content is crap.
I use Linux because I don't like the color blue (wink wink). I like wearing red hats.
I use Mac OS X 10.3 because I can write full interoperability accross most programs with AppleScript in a matter of minutes.
I use it because the developer tools are free with open source.
Virus... worm... malicious pop ups... on my Mac? I have a hard time beleiving it even if I see it.
I use it because I don't give a damn about DRM. There is ALWAYS a way around the gate. In my estimate this whole DRM lockdown planned with Longhorn is going to hurt you when people can't use their computer for what they want.
Linux and Mac OS X will always be something Windows can never be... and that is a good thing.
Switched to Linux/Mac OS X in May. - Ken
For those of you who actually still play KOF faithfully (like me) this is an outrage! KOF has always been about flair and tradition which is why this game is still released stateside.
Remember when the Mortal Kombat sparked the whole violence in videogames debacle? The Sega Genesis Mortal Kombat was the first game to realistically (umm... 16bits was realistic back then...) portray violence and capture media attention. Though the premise of killing was no different than say Smash TV or NARC for NES. It was just looked more realistic and not cartoony.
There's so much more violence in other videogames, so much more sex, and so much more other crap that underage gamers are exposed to. Leave the majority (males 16-25) who legitimately buy KOF for its substance out of your violence and sex in videogames Hindenburg.
CowboyNeal X for x86 has been free forever and doesn't get any coverage. I remember the first time I did that hefty install of 1.23mb from a double sided DVD. Ahh... memories...
Hallo hallo.
I am an RA (we call them Community Advisors) at UW-Oshkosh. Recently a large number of my residents came to me complaining that their AIM accounts had some sort of profile virus. They asked me if I had the same thing and because I run OS X the answer was no.
This is the third major outbreak of a virus on campus just this semester, and it hits the cheap Dells and Gateways running Windows hard. And yet I and the other Mac user on my floor remain unnafected.
After using Windows for years I came to the conclusion that part of the Windows experience built into the OS is the feeling of complete frustration. There are so many popups, viruses, incompatiblities and security holes in Windows it makes me want to vomit. My old Win98SE machine would drive me nuts every day and I would put up with it.
I want a machine that works and ever since I switched to OS X in May I've done TWO painless security updates. With my old machine I was patching and patching and patching.
OS X isn't without its flaws. Afterall it was programmed by humans who are far from flawless. (Imagine if Jesus programmed an OS... always stable, always compatible, etc...) Just because there are minor flaws here and there doesn't mean the operating system as a whole is inferior to any other operating system.
This whole article comparing NUMEROUS Windows flaws to one OS X security hole... come on now.
Slashdot Mirror
"Does the size, cost, and functionality of this unit make my wang look big or small?"
Much to my suprise Apple upped the specs to 15gb for the intro model. I agree, the iPod mini is overpriced.
I don't however agree with punching Jobs in the face.
Go to Apple's website and watch the 1984 Commercial in the "20 Years of Macintosh" section. You can see an iPod on the hip of the woman throwing the hammer. I recommend watching the highest resolution and checking each frame. You'll see it.
Now that LEGO will no longer be producing movie tie-in sets those STAR WARS packs are looking a little more lucrative. Yes... Nothing cooler than LEGO Obiwan chopping of the hand of some LEGO guy in the bar of my LEGO city. To Toys R' Us. Away!
Man I'm glad pirate copies of Musica de los 70's y 80's have been taken off the streets. Thanks RIAA! Now excuse me while I fill my iPod with CDs checked out from my local library.
To put it another way using childhood stereotypes:
Real Player is a girl
Girls with cooties are icky.
stable
easy to use
gorgeous
well rounded
interesting Kind of sounds like the perfect boyfriend/girlfriend. But remember, we're talking about software here... :P
And for $700 you can snag a nice G3 iBook off eBay. I did.
I love my overrated 20gb iPod that holds all 7 days of my music. - Ken
I own a lot of gaming consoles... 26 in fact. But theres one that I drag everywhere with me. Its my good old NES. Out of all the consoles I have that one is the epitome of what gaming should be. Easy to pick up, fun to play, and games that are challenging to this day.
::Sigh::
Newer consoles fail to impress me with their whacked out specs. There are a few games that impress me. Example: Sega's Rez for PS2 is amazing yet horribly underated. Most of these ingenious titles fall wayside to the plunger of Madden and GTA3 (+clones).
When you think about it memory chips and potato chips have a lot in common.
Electronic chips get smaller in size the more manufacturers work on them while the memory gets bigger. Potato chips get smaller in size while you eat your way to the bottom of the bag and your thighs get bigger.
Mmmmm... potato chips...
I feel no pity for this guy. It is absolutely ridiculous that people with money to throw around foolishly try to get so much more. This boils down to greed.
The best technology related present I ever got was a Mac. Thanks Momma.
but a similar page found here www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/ pioneers2g.html
My friend who had cooties (a girl) had an Atari 400 sitting in her room that was never used. I used to sit there and just punch in words just to see what would happen.
Odd that now both of those experiences now accurately describe my current computer use. Randomly inserting words into my Apple with XCode seeing what will happen.
Neo: Woah.
Morpheus: But we've known that since the first movie.
Zion is being attacked. The next hour and a half consists of:
Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
Shooting the wall.
Shooting robots.
Shooting robots.
"Accidental Friendly Fire." (The guy owed me a few bucks.)
Shooting robots.
Shooting bigger robots.
Neo: I know how to save Zion. I have to login to the kernal and see if he'll grant me root/admin privileges.
LOGIN: Neo
PASSWORD: trinitywaseasy
(Neo clicks Apple > Restart.)
The End!
Honestly I don't care about "High Resolution" trailers and other propoganda if the actual content is crap.
Dear Microsoft:
I use Linux because I don't like the color blue (wink wink). I like wearing red hats.
I use Mac OS X 10.3 because I can write full interoperability accross most programs with AppleScript in a matter of minutes.
I use it because the developer tools are free with open source.
Virus... worm... malicious pop ups... on my Mac? I have a hard time beleiving it even if I see it.
I use it because I don't give a damn about DRM. There is ALWAYS a way around the gate. In my estimate this whole DRM lockdown planned with Longhorn is going to hurt you when people can't use their computer for what they want.
Linux and Mac OS X will always be something Windows can never be... and that is a good thing.
Switched to Linux/Mac OS X in May. - Ken
Yay free iTunes!
For those of you who actually still play KOF faithfully (like me) this is an outrage! KOF has always been about flair and tradition which is why this game is still released stateside.
Remember when the Mortal Kombat sparked the whole violence in videogames debacle? The Sega Genesis Mortal Kombat was the first game to realistically (umm... 16bits was realistic back then...) portray violence and capture media attention. Though the premise of killing was no different than say Smash TV or NARC for NES. It was just looked more realistic and not cartoony.
There's so much more violence in other videogames, so much more sex, and so much more other crap that underage gamers are exposed to. Leave the majority (males 16-25) who legitimately buy KOF for its substance out of your violence and sex in videogames Hindenburg.
Don't censor The King of Fighters!
CowboyNeal X for x86 has been free forever and doesn't get any coverage. I remember the first time I did that hefty install of 1.23mb from a double sided DVD. Ahh... memories...
Hallo hallo. I am an RA (we call them Community Advisors) at UW-Oshkosh. Recently a large number of my residents came to me complaining that their AIM accounts had some sort of profile virus. They asked me if I had the same thing and because I run OS X the answer was no. This is the third major outbreak of a virus on campus just this semester, and it hits the cheap Dells and Gateways running Windows hard. And yet I and the other Mac user on my floor remain unnafected. After using Windows for years I came to the conclusion that part of the Windows experience built into the OS is the feeling of complete frustration. There are so many popups, viruses, incompatiblities and security holes in Windows it makes me want to vomit. My old Win98SE machine would drive me nuts every day and I would put up with it. I want a machine that works and ever since I switched to OS X in May I've done TWO painless security updates. With my old machine I was patching and patching and patching. OS X isn't without its flaws. Afterall it was programmed by humans who are far from flawless. (Imagine if Jesus programmed an OS... always stable, always compatible, etc...) Just because there are minor flaws here and there doesn't mean the operating system as a whole is inferior to any other operating system. This whole article comparing NUMEROUS Windows flaws to one OS X security hole... come on now.