Yeah, status symbols for hipsters. And scientists, graphic artists, video producers, health care imaging professionals, audio engineers, photographers, radio broadcasters, software engineers, web developers, former VPs of the United States of America, etc. I suppose those folks could use your platform of choice to do their jobs, but they probably don't want to *need* people like you around to keep them patched and semi-secure. Nor do they want to associate with you, what with the food stained shirts, bad haircuts, and poor overall disposition due to your invariable inability to secure a sex partner.
I don't know if Greenpeace does that, or not, but I've always had an odd urge to quit my job and try to get work on a whaling vessel in the hopes that I'd get to witness a Greenpeace ship getting rammed to hell and back. Seawater and a bar of soap would probably do those smelly hippies some good.
Evidently the tard hadn't heard of versiontracker, where literally thousands of OSX compatible freeware, shareware, and commercial apps are categorized, searchable, and waiting to be downloaded. And NeoOffice is NOT an X11 app, the fool.
With 80GB iPods and replacement SATA drives going for about $0.30 per gigabyte, who gives a flying fugg about the 160 versus 256 file size issue, Jimbo? And don't come back at me saying 80GB isn't enough, 15,000 songs will suffice for anyone unless their embarking on a trip to Mars.
How about the ridiculous price of said hardware? I went on Newegg and spec'd out components similar to the "entry-level" $4000 Mac Pro... for about $2000.
I was wondering when the first "but I can build one for $13.45 cheaper" turd would float to the surface. Here's a clue, bud: most people who use this type of hardware (vid editing, 3d, graphics in general) don't get their jollies sourcing components on the net and assembling a machine in their basement. They want to do actual work.
Only on/. (and digg, i suppose) would someone say Apple/OSX "might be a dead end platform before long" while commenting on a post about a university going 100% Mac. With Vista getting panned all over the place along side growing share in the Mac base, you have to either be on serious dope or suffer from mild retardation to put that statement in writing.
Because we want an OS that doesn't require draconian security policies, and that's not windows. Because we want an OS designed with usability as a fundamental requirement, and that's not Linux.
And above all, because we want to spend the majority of our waking hours working with an OS that doesn't suck shit. Is that too much to ask?
Well, obviously you are a special kind of idiot. The kind who thinks it OK that people should have to register and report on any comms they have w/ elected officials. Think about it for a minute. Elected officials work for us, not vice versa.
Dude, the yearly cost for our advocacy toolset alone, sans labor cost, is well over 25k, and I hardly think that's abnormal for entities in industries that are heavily regulated. I think you fail to consider that in targeting a small group of lobbyists, the provision in question would have ensnared a whole lot of innocent bystanders.
No doubt there's a reason for this irrational behaviour.
Yes, it's having the ability to read the bill and understand what the real-world ramifications would be rather than rely on someone else's politically clouded interpretation. I don't give a hoot in hell who was supposed to benefit by the killing of the provision, I just know that the provision itself would have had serious implications on my ability to inform and energize my target audiences. And a company or organization should be able to inform and energize - even to the point of encouraging the public to contact their elected officials - about any topic without being scrutinized by the government. To levy that impediment would be tantamount to censorship, IMHO.
The person on staff at any organization who is responsible for maintaining email lists and crafting messaging is going to make more than 25k per year. So, yes, we do. And so do most companies or organizations that engage in issue advocacy. But that does not mean we should have to submit to a quarterly anal exam just because we want to educate our consumers regarding important issues, and perhaps have them voice concerns to their elected officials.
Company != evil. My employer is an organic foods company. We try to get our consumers to advocate higher food safety regs, better environmental oversight, family farm freindly legislation, etc. These are not evil deeds. But the provision discussed here would have prevented us from communicating with our consumers about these issues unless we had the government giving us a quarterly anal probe. No thanks.
So, you're saying that liberal causes haven't figured out how to use the mail box yet?
Excellent observation. The provision as it was written would have barred companies from encouraging or providing mechanisms for their customers to contact legislators regarding issues of import - unless, of course, said company "registered" with the government and reported all activities and expenditures. And that is a massive free speech problem. Nobody wants to construct a reporting mechanism, legislators know that. It's much easier to simply stop trying to engage in advocacy.
At the end of the day this was an attempt by government to limit the amount of communication they get from the unwashed masses. And to that effort I say, Fuck You Very Much, thank you.
We'll just put you down as the retard who wants to re-describe his problem to customer service over, and over, and over again because he doesn't want his information stored somewhere. You. Dumb. Ass.
A.) I think that you think you know more than you actually do... B.) The iPod has 60+ percent of the market, yet you sneeze at it? That's just crazy. C.) So you would not buy an iPhone for reason x, y, and z. Exactly my point. Apple is not targeting you, the hyperknowledgable consumer who reads tech specs for fun, they are targeting normal people...
Probably not. Which is so self-destructively stupid of Apple.
If features and extensibility were the key to consumer adoption and sales success, then iPod would have failed. You clearly do not understand the fact that success for Apple in the phone market it is not about supporting feature x that 1 in 5000 users would care about, it's about focusing on the totality of the offering and making sure it "just works"
I wonder what would happen if a subscriber didn't update their credit card info once their card expires to let the account lapse.
I actually reported my card lost and had it replaced in order to get rid of an Earthlink DSL account a couple of years ago. Even though I (or anyone else) hadn't lived at the DSL location for 6 mos, and the phone line asociated w/ the acount had been disconnected for the same amount of time, they would not cancel the acount, so I did what I had to do.
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Just call it as I see it. Go back to your cheetos and mountain dew.
Yeah, status symbols for hipsters. And scientists, graphic artists, video producers, health care imaging professionals, audio engineers, photographers, radio broadcasters, software engineers, web developers, former VPs of the United States of America, etc. I suppose those folks could use your platform of choice to do their jobs, but they probably don't want to *need* people like you around to keep them patched and semi-secure. Nor do they want to associate with you, what with the food stained shirts, bad haircuts, and poor overall disposition due to your invariable inability to secure a sex partner.
STFU and go back to your bag of cheetos.
Always first with the wet blanket, aren't you Eugene?
I don't know if Greenpeace does that, or not, but I've always had an odd urge to quit my job and try to get work on a whaling vessel in the hopes that I'd get to witness a Greenpeace ship getting rammed to hell and back. Seawater and a bar of soap would probably do those smelly hippies some good.
Evidently the tard hadn't heard of versiontracker, where literally thousands of OSX compatible freeware, shareware, and commercial apps are categorized, searchable, and waiting to be downloaded. And NeoOffice is NOT an X11 app, the fool.
Ya got me, suggjc, ya got me.... ;)
With 80GB iPods and replacement SATA drives going for about $0.30 per gigabyte, who gives a flying fugg about the 160 versus 256 file size issue, Jimbo? And don't come back at me saying 80GB isn't enough, 15,000 songs will suffice for anyone unless their embarking on a trip to Mars.
Perhaps this will mean the return of the codpiece industry... Check out my metallic codpiece!
I was wondering when the first "but I can build one for $13.45 cheaper" turd would float to the surface. Here's a clue, bud: most people who use this type of hardware (vid editing, 3d, graphics in general) don't get their jollies sourcing components on the net and assembling a machine in their basement. They want to do actual work.
Only on /. (and digg, i suppose) would someone say Apple/OSX "might be a dead end platform before long" while commenting on a post about a university going 100% Mac. With Vista getting panned all over the place along side growing share in the Mac base, you have to either be on serious dope or suffer from mild retardation to put that statement in writing.
Because we want an OS that doesn't require draconian security policies, and that's not windows. Because we want an OS designed with usability as a fundamental requirement, and that's not Linux.
And above all, because we want to spend the majority of our waking hours working with an OS that doesn't suck shit. Is that too much to ask?
I think you need to eat more fiber, man.
Well, obviously you are a special kind of idiot. The kind who thinks it OK that people should have to register and report on any comms they have w/ elected officials. Think about it for a minute. Elected officials work for us, not vice versa.
Dude, the yearly cost for our advocacy toolset alone, sans labor cost, is well over 25k, and I hardly think that's abnormal for entities in industries that are heavily regulated. I think you fail to consider that in targeting a small group of lobbyists, the provision in question would have ensnared a whole lot of innocent bystanders.
Yes, it's having the ability to read the bill and understand what the real-world ramifications would be rather than rely on someone else's politically clouded interpretation. I don't give a hoot in hell who was supposed to benefit by the killing of the provision, I just know that the provision itself would have had serious implications on my ability to inform and energize my target audiences. And a company or organization should be able to inform and energize - even to the point of encouraging the public to contact their elected officials - about any topic without being scrutinized by the government. To levy that impediment would be tantamount to censorship, IMHO.
The person on staff at any organization who is responsible for maintaining email lists and crafting messaging is going to make more than 25k per year. So, yes, we do. And so do most companies or organizations that engage in issue advocacy. But that does not mean we should have to submit to a quarterly anal exam just because we want to educate our consumers regarding important issues, and perhaps have them voice concerns to their elected officials.
Company != evil. My employer is an organic foods company. We try to get our consumers to advocate higher food safety regs, better environmental oversight, family farm freindly legislation, etc. These are not evil deeds. But the provision discussed here would have prevented us from communicating with our consumers about these issues unless we had the government giving us a quarterly anal probe. No thanks.
Excellent observation. The provision as it was written would have barred companies from encouraging or providing mechanisms for their customers to contact legislators regarding issues of import - unless, of course, said company "registered" with the government and reported all activities and expenditures. And that is a massive free speech problem. Nobody wants to construct a reporting mechanism, legislators know that. It's much easier to simply stop trying to engage in advocacy.
At the end of the day this was an attempt by government to limit the amount of communication they get from the unwashed masses. And to that effort I say, Fuck You Very Much, thank you.
Because we all know that with insecure women, trojans are a very good investment...
If the email client is based on Mail.app it will work w/ Exchange.
We'll just put you down as the retard who wants to re-describe his problem to customer service over, and over, and over again because he doesn't want his information stored somewhere. You. Dumb. Ass.
A.) I think that you think you know more than you actually do... B.) The iPod has 60+ percent of the market, yet you sneeze at it? That's just crazy. C.) So you would not buy an iPhone for reason x, y, and z. Exactly my point. Apple is not targeting you, the hyperknowledgable consumer who reads tech specs for fun, they are targeting normal people...
If features and extensibility were the key to consumer adoption and sales success, then iPod would have failed. You clearly do not understand the fact that success for Apple in the phone market it is not about supporting feature x that 1 in 5000 users would care about, it's about focusing on the totality of the offering and making sure it "just works"
I actually reported my card lost and had it replaced in order to get rid of an Earthlink DSL account a couple of years ago. Even though I (or anyone else) hadn't lived at the DSL location for 6 mos, and the phone line asociated w/ the acount had been disconnected for the same amount of time, they would not cancel the acount, so I did what I had to do.
Zed's dead, baby.