I think the iPhone has potential. As a device, it's extremely well-designed. The multitouch interface is certainly something new and could redefine the way people interact with mobile devices. They've clearly put a lot of top-of-the-line hardware into it; the demo Jobs gave of things like Cover Flow on the iTunes portion of it is proof enough of that, and every smartphone -- or product that pretends to be a smartphone, anyway -- should have 802.11 these days.
As a product, ehhhh. Who are they selling to? Certainly not Joe Consumer -- who has $499 to throw away on a 4GB iPod, even if it also happens to be a cellphone and web browser? For $499, I want a device that matches up to what the iPhone ACTUALLY is -- a handheld OS X device. But no, Apple had to go and lock the machine down and give a bunch of phony excuses for it, when all it really comes down to is "Jobs wants to be emperor of 'his' product." So all of the potential that it had as a handheld OS X machine -- the potential that they actually touted with all of the talk about it "running OS X" and "having Cocoa" -- will go to waste. No GNU tools. No open-source software. Bah.
Yeah, look me up in Staten Island, O Ye Who Can't Even Put a Link Together Correctly. See how far that gets you. Don't you know my real name is Jeremy Reimer, I mean Jay Little, I mean Robert Brick, I mean Jessica DeGiorno, I mean Melissa Lederach?;)::kiss kiss:: If you ever meet me you'll Ctrl-Alt-Delete me, right?
Jesus, you are the dimmest bulb I have ever had the displeasure to encounter. You silly ass.
Just give up, APK. You've lost horribly and just keep digging the hole deeper and deeper. And stop pretending to be someone else already; that schtick got old back when you were spamming Ars.
Take a hint from the fact that no one other than you and I have commented on these threads: NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU. YOU ARE COMPLETELY INSIGNIFICANT. YOU DON'T MATTER. The sooner you realize that and let go of your towering ego, the better off you'll be.
In fact, let's talk about something else. How 'bout those Yankees, eh? Remember, opening day is this Monday. I'm pretty psyched for this season; no more Bernie, but Pettitte's looking good. REAL good, if you know what I mean.::wink wink nudge nudge::
Graduate school is where you go to get a Ph.D. or M.S., you silly ass. I love that you actually think you've "caught me" in something. Perhaps you would know this if you weren't a high school dropout.
APK loses again. This is getting really embarrassing for you. You should probably quit your copy and paste routine now before you get laughed off the Internet. Because, you know, everyone's watching.
What do you think this is? Deadwood? This is the internets, you silly little twit. None of this actually MATTERS -- which is the point you completely failed to understand when you took the bait in the first place.
YOU will never learn, I think. You'll be sitting in your rocking chair at the age of 80 and shaking your fist at your computer whenever someone tells you off on some forum somewhere. What a completely pathetic image.
Congratulations, APK, you have officially jumped off the deep end into complete loony-tunes land.
Think about this for a second: You have allowed someone you don't know who matters exactly ZERO to your life to get you so riled up that you're GOING ON GOOGLE IMAGE LOOKING FOR PICTURES OF HIM TO POST ON SLASHDOT.
Damn, you fail at life. Did you suddenly turn white after you posted this and think "oh, Jesus. What the hell did I just do? How did I let him get to me like that??"
I never had to Google you to call you a pathetic loser who is obsessed with his own internet celebrity, whining to a website which is completely indifferent to you about how you're being oppressed. Though I confess I'm mystified that you don't appear to have called for help from all of your sycophants at TPU. "IT'S A KEEPER LOL!"
Come to think of it, this is a lot like when you scoured the web looking for pictures of Jeremy Reimer when he too called you a narcissistic fool. Now Jeremy is a paid reporter for Ars Technica and you're still just a jackass who re-implements grep to search through the registry.
I win again. Please, stalk me some more! Continue to prove me right, you bizarre, self-important waste of space.
Just tuck your tail between your legs and admit you've been beaten. You lost when you replied to my first post that hooked you perfectly, and have continued to lose as I've caused you to continue to waste your time.
I'd forgotten about the price differential between Core (even Core Solo) and something like Dothan. IIRC it's the same chip used in several UMPC-format devices.
Yeah, my MBP has an x1600 w/128MB of RAM and it seems to do quite well. I guess an x1300 would be bare minimum if you really wanted useful 3D.
because some mod was bored and needed to spend his points somewhere. Did you notice how I was later modded up for showing you what a tool you are? Seems you missed that somehow.
I don't deny that I started with you. I saw Russinovich's name and thought, "you know, I bet he'll be reading this, JUST BECAUSE it's Mark Russinovich. I bet he won't be able to resist reading it, and I KNOW he won't be able to resist saying something back if I troll him."
And what do you know? I was right! You pathetic, pathetic loser.
Right. Everyone on Slashdot. Because everyone on Slashdot is reading this thread, right? Everyone is very, very concerned with the fact that poor APK is getting trolled.
You don't have a single original thought in your head, APK. It's really quite amazing. It's like your brain is a finite state machine, going from "show me what you've done" to "you're just a student" to "you don't have a degree in psychology" and back to "show me what you've done" again.
You live such a sad little life. And I am so, so enjoying wasting your time.
ALL the ACs on Slashdot are swarming around me since I starting making fun of that fool Alec Kowalski! I SHOULD REPUDIATE EVERYTHING I SAID IMMEDIATELY!
Wait... hold on. Look at the way "they" write... hey, wait a second. They're all the same person! This guy is trying to make it look like the whole internet is after me by stalking my Slashdot userpage!
WOW! WHAT A COMPLETE LOSER! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
and it becomes more and more apparent with every AC sockpuppet post you make. I love how you suddenly start trying REALLY HARD to change your "voice" for all your sockpuppets right after I note how easy it is to figure out it's really you.
Before, it was trivially easy. Now it's slightly more difficult, but you still use the word "kid" and the phrase "just a student" in the same way. "Top flite" is also a phrase singular to you. I remember, because I was there when you spammed your shit all over Ars years ago.
It's really quite pathetic how you need to fork all these APK child processes in order to make it look like everyone is "behind you." Here's a hint, you silly twit: NO ONE IS PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE EXCHANGES OTHER THAN YOU AND I. It's just delicious, it really is: you start making an effort to disguise yourself right after I note the ease of identifying you and you claim I can't possibly know who you are because I'm not a forensic linguistic analyst.
As you would say, "MAN, THIS IS TOO GOOD, NO SHIT! LOL!"
as usual, APK. Being able to combine mechanical skills, electrical engineering and Windows system administration and networking, it turns out, is not terribly common.
The source is written in C++ and delivers language-neutral and scriptable functionality, including Java(TM) APIs.
This means the application has support for including Java routines to do things, much like VBA does for MS Office. Apparently you can remove this functionality to slim the install down and get it to run faster, too, but you don't have to start the Java runtime every time you start the application. The parent poster was incorrect.
and your sad attempts to tear down someone who couldn't care less about you, APK. You are less than nothing. Do you cry yourself to sleep at night knowing you have accomplished nothing of real value in your life? Do you occasionally get so angry at yourself that you scream in frustration and punch the walls, the pillows, anything you can find?
I know I've affected others' lives in a positive way. I am lucky enough to have many people who love me and to love them in return. But you? You have nothing and no one. When you die, your funeral will be short and witnessed by a few who will shake their heads sadly and say, "Pity he had to go before ever really growing up." Then they will move on, and you will be forgotten.
Your "writing style" is inimical. You couldn't hide it behind a mountain range. It is obvious that no one has "agreed" with you except for your own AC sockpuppets.
I like picking fights with you because I know you cannot ever let anything go. I knew it would be utterly impossible for you to see something posted about you somewhere without your massive ego needing to reply to it with your usual string of self-important bombast. Do you actually presume that I have anything personally invested in calling you a narcissistic twit with an inflated sense of his own internet celebrity? You are a sad little flea, Alec, and worth my time only so long as I derive enjoyment from wasting yours.
Also, regarding my being a "critic" -- the funny thing is that NOT "any idiot" can do that. I don't even consider myself a "critic," but that's beyond the point -- to be a critic of anything, a serious critic, what is required is a broad comparative knowledge of the subject, not having created something in the subject themselves. It is not often, for example, that a film critic is an accomplished filmmaker. They are two different skillsets.
I also note that you're not commenting logged in. Why's that, pray tell?
for you to refrain from putting "APK" at the bottom of that post?
Did you have to backspace over it again and again, each time finding that you couldn't resist typing it?
(Also, for the record, I was a field service engineer for a major photo company's digital minilab equipment for 4 years and got more in compensation per year than you will ever manage to pull down as a salary. Your sad lack of reading comprehension skills will ensure that, my friend.)
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I think the iPhone has potential. As a device, it's extremely well-designed. The multitouch interface is certainly something new and could redefine the way people interact with mobile devices. They've clearly put a lot of top-of-the-line hardware into it; the demo Jobs gave of things like Cover Flow on the iTunes portion of it is proof enough of that, and every smartphone -- or product that pretends to be a smartphone, anyway -- should have 802.11 these days.
:)
As a product, ehhhh. Who are they selling to? Certainly not Joe Consumer -- who has $499 to throw away on a 4GB iPod, even if it also happens to be a cellphone and web browser? For $499, I want a device that matches up to what the iPhone ACTUALLY is -- a handheld OS X device. But no, Apple had to go and lock the machine down and give a bunch of phony excuses for it, when all it really comes down to is "Jobs wants to be emperor of 'his' product." So all of the potential that it had as a handheld OS X machine -- the potential that they actually touted with all of the talk about it "running OS X" and "having Cocoa" -- will go to waste. No GNU tools. No open-source software. Bah.
OK, maybe we agree more than disagree.
Yeah, look me up in Staten Island, O Ye Who Can't Even Put a Link Together Correctly. See how far that gets you. Don't you know my real name is Jeremy Reimer, I mean Jay Little, I mean Robert Brick, I mean Jessica DeGiorno, I mean Melissa Lederach? ;) ::kiss kiss:: If you ever meet me you'll Ctrl-Alt-Delete me, right?
::wink wink nudge nudge::
Jesus, you are the dimmest bulb I have ever had the displeasure to encounter. You silly ass.
Just give up, APK. You've lost horribly and just keep digging the hole deeper and deeper. And stop pretending to be someone else already; that schtick got old back when you were spamming Ars.
Take a hint from the fact that no one other than you and I have commented on these threads: NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU. YOU ARE COMPLETELY INSIGNIFICANT. YOU DON'T MATTER. The sooner you realize that and let go of your towering ego, the better off you'll be.
In fact, let's talk about something else. How 'bout those Yankees, eh? Remember, opening day is this Monday. I'm pretty psyched for this season; no more Bernie, but Pettitte's looking good. REAL good, if you know what I mean.
Graduate school is where you go to get a Ph.D. or M.S., you silly ass. I love that you actually think you've "caught me" in something. Perhaps you would know this if you weren't a high school dropout.
APK loses again. This is getting really embarrassing for you. You should probably quit your copy and paste routine now before you get laughed off the Internet. Because, you know, everyone's watching.
Your ranting actually caused Slashdot to cut the post to a "Read more..." link.
Maybe I'm Jeremy, come back to show everyone what an obsessive little idiot you are.
Or maybe I'm Jay Little.
Maybe I really am a girl, laughing at how you couldn't possibly get any from me.
Well, if you're not APK, my friend, you really need to find yourself another hero, because you sound EXACTLY like him.
Wish I could tell you what I accomplished tonight, but unfortunately that's got to stay under wraps until after we publish.
(Of course, I DON'T wish I could tell you, because that would totally ruin my fun. Can't have that.)
Now lesbians are "mental aberrations and genetic errors?" Intolerance AND stupidity in one package! Man, what a bargain you are.
"Run out of town in shame?"
What do you think this is? Deadwood? This is the internets, you silly little twit. None of this actually MATTERS -- which is the point you completely failed to understand when you took the bait in the first place.
YOU will never learn, I think. You'll be sitting in your rocking chair at the age of 80 and shaking your fist at your computer whenever someone tells you off on some forum somewhere. What a completely pathetic image.
Congratulations, APK, you have officially jumped off the deep end into complete loony-tunes land.
Think about this for a second: You have allowed someone you don't know who matters exactly ZERO to your life to get you so riled up that you're GOING ON GOOGLE IMAGE LOOKING FOR PICTURES OF HIM TO POST ON SLASHDOT.
Damn, you fail at life. Did you suddenly turn white after you posted this and think "oh, Jesus. What the hell did I just do? How did I let him get to me like that??"
I never had to Google you to call you a pathetic loser who is obsessed with his own internet celebrity, whining to a website which is completely indifferent to you about how you're being oppressed. Though I confess I'm mystified that you don't appear to have called for help from all of your sycophants at TPU. "IT'S A KEEPER LOL!"
Come to think of it, this is a lot like when you scoured the web looking for pictures of Jeremy Reimer when he too called you a narcissistic fool. Now Jeremy is a paid reporter for Ars Technica and you're still just a jackass who re-implements grep to search through the registry.
I win again. Please, stalk me some more! Continue to prove me right, you bizarre, self-important waste of space.
There is no factual evidence in that link, Alec, of anything but your own inferiority complex.
A retard AND a misogynist!
Stop trying to pick me up, APK.
that there has yet to be one single post by a logged-in user in support of you.
Now, I'm sure that now that I've said this, you'll create a sockpuppet, but that'll be easy to spot as it will have an extremely high UID.
Just tuck your tail between your legs and admit you've been beaten. You lost when you replied to my first post that hooked you perfectly, and have continued to lose as I've caused you to continue to waste your time.
I'd forgotten about the price differential between Core (even Core Solo) and something like Dothan. IIRC it's the same chip used in several UMPC-format devices.
Yeah, my MBP has an x1600 w/128MB of RAM and it seems to do quite well. I guess an x1300 would be bare minimum if you really wanted useful 3D.
And you clearly are too stupid to realize when you're being trolled, you goddamn Nazi. The only person I "heckle" is you.
because some mod was bored and needed to spend his points somewhere. Did you notice how I was later modded up for showing you what a tool you are? Seems you missed that somehow.
I don't deny that I started with you. I saw Russinovich's name and thought, "you know, I bet he'll be reading this, JUST BECAUSE it's Mark Russinovich. I bet he won't be able to resist reading it, and I KNOW he won't be able to resist saying something back if I troll him."
And what do you know? I was right! You pathetic, pathetic loser.
Another classic APK trope: questioning the poster's manhood.
Hey, dipshit: how do you know I'm MALE? Maybe I SHOULD be acting like a woman because I AM one.
Hm. Hadn't considered that, had you?
And what "faulty logic" did I use?
Right. Everyone on Slashdot. Because everyone on Slashdot is reading this thread, right? Everyone is very, very concerned with the fact that poor APK is getting trolled.
You don't have a single original thought in your head, APK. It's really quite amazing. It's like your brain is a finite state machine, going from "show me what you've done" to "you're just a student" to "you don't have a degree in psychology" and back to "show me what you've done" again.
You live such a sad little life. And I am so, so enjoying wasting your time.
ALL the ACs on Slashdot are swarming around me since I starting making fun of that fool Alec Kowalski! I SHOULD REPUDIATE EVERYTHING I SAID IMMEDIATELY!
Wait... hold on. Look at the way "they" write... hey, wait a second. They're all the same person! This guy is trying to make it look like the whole internet is after me by stalking my Slashdot userpage!
WOW! WHAT A COMPLETE LOSER! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Because you are such a sad, sad little boy who pretends to be an adult.
"lol!"
You sad little fool.
and it becomes more and more apparent with every AC sockpuppet post you make. I love how you suddenly start trying REALLY HARD to change your "voice" for all your sockpuppets right after I note how easy it is to figure out it's really you.
Before, it was trivially easy. Now it's slightly more difficult, but you still use the word "kid" and the phrase "just a student" in the same way. "Top flite" is also a phrase singular to you. I remember, because I was there when you spammed your shit all over Ars years ago.
It's really quite pathetic how you need to fork all these APK child processes in order to make it look like everyone is "behind you." Here's a hint, you silly twit: NO ONE IS PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE EXCHANGES OTHER THAN YOU AND I. It's just delicious, it really is: you start making an effort to disguise yourself right after I note the ease of identifying you and you claim I can't possibly know who you are because I'm not a forensic linguistic analyst.
As you would say, "MAN, THIS IS TOO GOOD, NO SHIT! LOL!"
as usual, APK. Being able to combine mechanical skills, electrical engineering and Windows system administration and networking, it turns out, is not terribly common.
You're wrong again, and I'm right.
http://about.openoffice.org/index.html
The source is written in C++ and delivers language-neutral and scriptable functionality, including Java(TM) APIs.
This means the application has support for including Java routines to do things, much like VBA does for MS Office. Apparently you can remove this functionality to slim the install down and get it to run faster, too, but you don't have to start the Java runtime every time you start the application. The parent poster was incorrect.
Oops! Guess you fucked up again, chuckles!
Give my regards to Osama, you fucking Commie.
and your sad attempts to tear down someone who couldn't care less about you, APK. You are less than nothing. Do you cry yourself to sleep at night knowing you have accomplished nothing of real value in your life? Do you occasionally get so angry at yourself that you scream in frustration and punch the walls, the pillows, anything you can find?
I know I've affected others' lives in a positive way. I am lucky enough to have many people who love me and to love them in return. But you? You have nothing and no one. When you die, your funeral will be short and witnessed by a few who will shake their heads sadly and say, "Pity he had to go before ever really growing up." Then they will move on, and you will be forgotten.
Forever.
Your "writing style" is inimical. You couldn't hide it behind a mountain range. It is obvious that no one has "agreed" with you except for your own AC sockpuppets.
I like picking fights with you because I know you cannot ever let anything go. I knew it would be utterly impossible for you to see something posted about you somewhere without your massive ego needing to reply to it with your usual string of self-important bombast. Do you actually presume that I have anything personally invested in calling you a narcissistic twit with an inflated sense of his own internet celebrity? You are a sad little flea, Alec, and worth my time only so long as I derive enjoyment from wasting yours.
Also, regarding my being a "critic" -- the funny thing is that NOT "any idiot" can do that. I don't even consider myself a "critic," but that's beyond the point -- to be a critic of anything, a serious critic, what is required is a broad comparative knowledge of the subject, not having created something in the subject themselves. It is not often, for example, that a film critic is an accomplished filmmaker. They are two different skillsets.
I also note that you're not commenting logged in. Why's that, pray tell?
for you to refrain from putting "APK" at the bottom of that post?
Did you have to backspace over it again and again, each time finding that you couldn't resist typing it?
(Also, for the record, I was a field service engineer for a major photo company's digital minilab equipment for 4 years and got more in compensation per year than you will ever manage to pull down as a salary. Your sad lack of reading comprehension skills will ensure that, my friend.)