Torrent trackers were forced to shut down through legal action from private organizations, not the government flipping the switch for no reason. They are legally bound to do that because of current legislation, good or bad. You have no damn clue what free speech really is.
Too true. I'm wondering if Billy beefed up security this year to prevent someone from hacking into his home computer during the Blue Hat and putting all his Scheisse videos on a projector for all to see.
I think it was more a goof on Apple's part that it didn't make the list. The 9600 Pro is on there, yet the X600 and 6600 (both faster cards) are missing. It's an omission, nothing more.
Yeah, and why would they seize mounds of crack, or fully auto weapons, or perhaps kiddie porn on computers? This is EVIDENCE OF HIS ILLEGAL ACTIONS, you moron. If his livelihood WAS illegal activity, then he should damn well be deprived of it. Christ.
The microphone ports were made standard a long, long time ago. That iMac was probably the last Mac built with the Plaintalk microphone port, which was indeed a pain in the ass. Is it Apple's fault that nobody has made a better MP3 Jukebox for Mac than iTunes? You can blame that on the market, not Apple.
Pffft. That's nothing. When I lived in Moses Lake, WA, I got my porn on a residential fiber optic 100Mbps symmetrical pipe. I still have my webserver on it at a friend's place.
Except that Bluetooth is fucking SLOW. It's like a USB 1.1 connection. Can you imagine trying to put a few gigs onto an iPod at those speeds? Even 802.11g can't compare to USB 2.0 or Firewire in terms of transfer speeds.
Congratulations on getting all the music in the world onto your hard drive. Seriously, you can't listen to all of that! Scale it back a bit and get a 60GB iPod. You'll never notice the difference. Christ.
Are you kidding? This will be like any other wifi standard. You'll get close to 240Mbps when you're sitting right next to the base station. For every five feet you put between your antenna and the base station, transfer speeds decrease by 75% of the total. The same goes for any obstruction whatsoever that may come between you and the base station, including a atom-thick sheet of gold foil. Wifi blows. I'll stick with wired, thank you very much.
Wrong. 10.4 finalized Apple's APIs and added KPIs (Kernel Programming interfaces), which means that developers no longer have to link directly into the kernel with their kexts. Apple can screw with the kernel all they want now, and they wont break a thing so long as the KPIs still function as they did previously. OS X is finally maturing, and 10.5 is going to kick some serious ass. Backward compatibility wasn't that big of a problem, anyway. It was about a month after 10.4 came out when 99% or so of broken apps (there really weren't that many) had patches and fixes.
You also have to realize that crappy chips like the Celeron more than likely offset this cost. The fastest P4 will cost considerably more. You also get lower yeilds with it, and thus have to crank the price up to ensure that your supplies aren't instantly exhausted. Then you have all of the other endless expenses factored in. It costs a shitload to design and manufacture a new chip, not to mention upgrading chipmaking lines for new techniques such as smaller die sizes.
As viewed from the outside, yes, but you're talking about the diameter of the event horizon. The singularity itself is crushed into an infinitely small point. Thus, our universe couldn't be the interior of a black hole. We'd all be smashed into the same point in space. The matter in the universe is far too spread out to create any kind of event horizon.
You are an imbecile. Apple wasn't suing for patent infringement for some lameass patent on any of these cases. Futurepower and eMachines both created direct iMac knockoffs. Hell, Futurepower's was so close that you could almost consider it an iMac, although they gave utterly stupid excuses like "We use gemstones to name the colors instead of fruit! Floppy drive! Multibutton mouse!" The iMac had become a symbol and trademark for Apple, and the lazy assholes at both companies ripped it off so blatantly as to infringe on it. Both were sued and both of them lost. Serves them right.
Apple sues leaks because of NDA violations, which, the last time I checked, was a perfectly legit reason. They went after Thinksecret because they knowingly posted NDA-violated material.
The domain name is silly, though. I'll grant you that. The Sorenson suit was due to Sorenson trying to duck under the radar, and Apple caught them. It'd be nice to see the Sorenson Video 3 codec get around more, though.
In any case, none of these suits are as retarded as this one from Creative. This is Creative being unable to offer a competitor for the iPod, so they're going to try and sue it away with an utterly fucking retarded software patent that was so broad it could cover almost any GUI. Pull your head from your ass.
Movie revenue is way up, but don't ask me why. The average movie from Hollywood is usually the result of some fuckhat exec eating a script (along with lots of fiber and beans), shitting the whole mess out, and then wiping it all over a film reel. It's truly pathetic. I've had more fun fucking a dead pig than I have watching a lot of the garbage they churn out. Maybe when revenue starts dropping, they'll get a clue and start giving us decent movies again. Then again, maybe not. The record industry still hasn't figured it out.
Depending on where you live. I used to live in Moses Lake, WA, which has 100Mbps residential fiber. It's so fucking SWEET! I live in Ellensburg, WA now with a shitty 3Mbps cable connection. You can tell the difference. Oh well, I put my webserver in a friend's house, and the upload is virtually 100Mbps! As long as I don't saturate the hell out of that pipe, the ISP wont cap it. I only wish I had a better server (350mhz G3 with a 8gig U2 SCSI RAID...).
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Torrent trackers were forced to shut down through legal action from private organizations, not the government flipping the switch for no reason. They are legally bound to do that because of current legislation, good or bad. You have no damn clue what free speech really is.
They should have just called it Windows Clusterfuck Edition.
The Cell uses a POWER-esque ISA. It is compatible with some things, it just runs them like crap if they're not optimized.
Randall Flagg is cackling with glee right now. His plan as almost borne fruit. I'm stocking up on Nozz-a-la and heading for the hills. Who's with me?
I dunno, but this guy needs to be shot and have his business burned to the ground. No, I'm not joking.
Uh, Darwin is Apple's own stuff. They even open sourced it themselves. If I remember correctly, it dates back to the NeXT or Copland/Rhapsody days.
Or maybe it's because Larry Ellison is an even bigger asshole than Steve Jobs...
Too true. I'm wondering if Billy beefed up security this year to prevent someone from hacking into his home computer during the Blue Hat and putting all his Scheisse videos on a projector for all to see.
I think it was more a goof on Apple's part that it didn't make the list. The 9600 Pro is on there, yet the X600 and 6600 (both faster cards) are missing. It's an omission, nothing more.
Not if you send out spam emails to all the other spamlords that show their buddy getting his shit pushed in by Bubba the Mad Dog Rapist in the joint.
Yeah, and why would they seize mounds of crack, or fully auto weapons, or perhaps kiddie porn on computers? This is EVIDENCE OF HIS ILLEGAL ACTIONS, you moron. If his livelihood WAS illegal activity, then he should damn well be deprived of it. Christ.
The microphone ports were made standard a long, long time ago. That iMac was probably the last Mac built with the Plaintalk microphone port, which was indeed a pain in the ass. Is it Apple's fault that nobody has made a better MP3 Jukebox for Mac than iTunes? You can blame that on the market, not Apple.
Pffft. That's nothing. When I lived in Moses Lake, WA, I got my porn on a residential fiber optic 100Mbps symmetrical pipe. I still have my webserver on it at a friend's place.
Except that Bluetooth is fucking SLOW. It's like a USB 1.1 connection. Can you imagine trying to put a few gigs onto an iPod at those speeds? Even 802.11g can't compare to USB 2.0 or Firewire in terms of transfer speeds.
Congratulations on getting all the music in the world onto your hard drive. Seriously, you can't listen to all of that! Scale it back a bit and get a 60GB iPod. You'll never notice the difference. Christ.
"Microsoft is second to none in terms of developing tools that fill a gap" That gap being the cornhole of their poor customers.
Are you kidding? This will be like any other wifi standard. You'll get close to 240Mbps when you're sitting right next to the base station. For every five feet you put between your antenna and the base station, transfer speeds decrease by 75% of the total. The same goes for any obstruction whatsoever that may come between you and the base station, including a atom-thick sheet of gold foil. Wifi blows. I'll stick with wired, thank you very much.
Wrong. 10.4 finalized Apple's APIs and added KPIs (Kernel Programming interfaces), which means that developers no longer have to link directly into the kernel with their kexts. Apple can screw with the kernel all they want now, and they wont break a thing so long as the KPIs still function as they did previously. OS X is finally maturing, and 10.5 is going to kick some serious ass. Backward compatibility wasn't that big of a problem, anyway. It was about a month after 10.4 came out when 99% or so of broken apps (there really weren't that many) had patches and fixes.
You also have to realize that crappy chips like the Celeron more than likely offset this cost. The fastest P4 will cost considerably more. You also get lower yeilds with it, and thus have to crank the price up to ensure that your supplies aren't instantly exhausted. Then you have all of the other endless expenses factored in. It costs a shitload to design and manufacture a new chip, not to mention upgrading chipmaking lines for new techniques such as smaller die sizes.
As viewed from the outside, yes, but you're talking about the diameter of the event horizon. The singularity itself is crushed into an infinitely small point. Thus, our universe couldn't be the interior of a black hole. We'd all be smashed into the same point in space. The matter in the universe is far too spread out to create any kind of event horizon.
You are an imbecile. Apple wasn't suing for patent infringement for some lameass patent on any of these cases. Futurepower and eMachines both created direct iMac knockoffs. Hell, Futurepower's was so close that you could almost consider it an iMac, although they gave utterly stupid excuses like "We use gemstones to name the colors instead of fruit! Floppy drive! Multibutton mouse!" The iMac had become a symbol and trademark for Apple, and the lazy assholes at both companies ripped it off so blatantly as to infringe on it. Both were sued and both of them lost. Serves them right. Apple sues leaks because of NDA violations, which, the last time I checked, was a perfectly legit reason. They went after Thinksecret because they knowingly posted NDA-violated material. The domain name is silly, though. I'll grant you that. The Sorenson suit was due to Sorenson trying to duck under the radar, and Apple caught them. It'd be nice to see the Sorenson Video 3 codec get around more, though. In any case, none of these suits are as retarded as this one from Creative. This is Creative being unable to offer a competitor for the iPod, so they're going to try and sue it away with an utterly fucking retarded software patent that was so broad it could cover almost any GUI. Pull your head from your ass.
Movie revenue is way up, but don't ask me why. The average movie from Hollywood is usually the result of some fuckhat exec eating a script (along with lots of fiber and beans), shitting the whole mess out, and then wiping it all over a film reel. It's truly pathetic. I've had more fun fucking a dead pig than I have watching a lot of the garbage they churn out. Maybe when revenue starts dropping, they'll get a clue and start giving us decent movies again. Then again, maybe not. The record industry still hasn't figured it out.
The way a lot of the SETI competitors see it, they get a bigger e-pecker in return for their number crunching efforts.
I'm just wondering when they can fine AOL for sucking all-around. They can do that to hookers, why not AOHELL?
Depending on where you live. I used to live in Moses Lake, WA, which has 100Mbps residential fiber. It's so fucking SWEET! I live in Ellensburg, WA now with a shitty 3Mbps cable connection. You can tell the difference. Oh well, I put my webserver in a friend's house, and the upload is virtually 100Mbps! As long as I don't saturate the hell out of that pipe, the ISP wont cap it. I only wish I had a better server (350mhz G3 with a 8gig U2 SCSI RAID...).