They can create a $299 box with TV-out that has a discrete graphics controller built in, but they can't put one into one SINGLE model of Mac Mini? Wow.
This is both sixteen kinds of lame and sixteen kinds of awesome.
Lame because it shows Apple's massive, needless markup.
Awesome because, hey - $299 Mac with TV-out AND discrete graphics!
Of course, there is the teensy matter of the 256MB of non-upgradeable RAM, but what do you expect for $299?:) How much does everybody wanna bet that Apple scraped and scraped away at OS X to make sure it could run in as little RAM as possible? Why? Because they wanted to make sure that if anyone found a way to run "real" OS X on it, it would be close to useless because of the small amount of RAM. Sigh.
You are so incredibly predictable, but now you're getting boring, using the same old tropes you always have -- responding to graduate education with "boy," claiming hundreds of conquests with your 3" dong, and pointing again and again to your silly Delphi software as evidence of your uebermanhood.
Can't you get some new material, you poor, twisted fool? Come on. Keep me entertained over here!
I simply adore your hierarchy of human beings that is based on what kind of and how much software they've developed. Wonderful.
Are you STILL clinging to the TPU forums? I suppose there are enough passive little sycophants there to jerk you off that you just can't resist hanging out there, can you?
Not that it matters, but I happen to be a graduate student in computer engineering, and expect two papers I've submitted to be published within the next two months. What do YOU know about low-power reconfigurable computing using nanotechnology, "Iron Man?"
Also, in point of fact (it's personal note time!), I actually just broke up with my girlfriend tonight. It just wasn't working out -- she's 4 hours away from me driving and in the end, despite how attracted we were to each other, we just didn't have that much in common. Sad, but it happens.
Nevertheless, I suspect that over the next couple of weeks I'll still get about 4X more tail than you do, since you must be a true social maladjust in person.
You seem to be fairly knowledgeable about bugs and features in 7.04. Do you know (or does anyone else?) how tablet PC support has been evolving in Ubuntu lately? I haven't found a single distro that has good application support for tablets. The requisite input driver for xorg is there and usually works, but the apps are shite.
What is desperately needed is something like Windows Journal. There is Xournal, Gournal and Jarnal, but all three have no "print PDF to journal" feature (which is really what makes this kind of application most useful) and I believe both of the first two have no typed text support. Jarnal is based on Java (ew) and, stereotypically, is desperately slow.
I have a Toshiba Portege M205-S810 that has been begging me for some Linux lovin', but without application support it's rather worthless to run Linux on it.
why it is that you are the only person I (or anyone else I know) have ever had this kind of "conversation" with.
Could it be that you are a singularly sociopathic individual who simply cannot abide any insult to his ego, no matter how slight and how much the person's opinion shouldn't matter to you one whit?
Why do you have so much trouble with this, Alec? Don't you realize that I don't affect your life in ANY significant way whatsoever? Why did you even have to take the bait in the beginning?
Because the longer I go without answering it, the more of your time I get to waste, and the more I get to laugh at you, obviously.
If I had written any useful software (and I'm not saying I have or haven't), I CERTAINLY wouldn't tell you about it, because that would completely ruin my fun.
You're still incredibly narcissistic, btw. Please call your parents tonight and tell them how much you love them and need them to love you back. You really will feel better, I swear.
P.S. It can't be a "fight" if one party is swinging away in a blind rage and the other one is sitting back laughing at the other's inability to resist charging a waving red cloak.
You managed to find ONE POST about you in ONE PLACE on the Internet. I put out the bait and you chomped onto it like a hungry piranha.
I think to be "stalking" someone you have to actively track them down, Alec. This was about as passive as it gets.
And the best part? I know that you will keep this up as long as I do because you can never, EVER give up having the last word. It's hilarious. You are the most reliable infinite-supply lulzcow on any of the internets.
I can't decide what I love more -- your bombastic language or the way you pretend to be a third party in every post you write about yourself.
I knew you wouldn't be able to resist. It never ever fails. I'm convinced I could troll you on a Russian forum about opera and you would STILL find it and HAVE to say something.
But I wonder how long it will be before "APK" aka "AlecStaar" comes out of his rathole to talk about how Mark is a witless academic who can't possibly know more than he does, since he's the author of ZDNet-approved APKTools 2007+++++++ 99.8.10101022 SR6.
The definition of "begging the question" has essentially changed (or been appended to) because people think it sounds erudite and want to use it when it makes no sense.
No, instead you were referring to the dogcow. FUCK MOOF.
What does "OS X integration" MEAN? It's a BROWSER, you silly little freak. How much "integration" do you want? Camino is buggy and shitty and none of Firefox's plugins for for it.
I've already achieved complete and total victory over you for knowing Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-4-Space when you didn't. You've lost. Just slit your wrists and die, emo kid. And remember, it's down the street, not across the block!
Learn to use your Mac like a real nerd or go home. If you don't always have a Terminal window open, you've already failed.
As long as they don't try to remove reading from the curriculum, I think this is a great idea. Kids need to be required to read, and as they move up in grade levels, to read faster while retaining the same amount of content.
so you're more criticizing the practice in general than MySpace as a target.
Fair enough. What is the proper way to go about getting big vendors like this to fix their security holes, then? If someone with a generally white-hat motivation doesn't do it, someone less benevolent will eventually.
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:) How much does everybody wanna bet that Apple scraped and scraped away at OS X to make sure it could run in as little RAM as possible? Why? Because they wanted to make sure that if anyone found a way to run "real" OS X on it, it would be close to useless because of the small amount of RAM. Sigh.
Lemme get this straight.
They can create a $299 box with TV-out that has a discrete graphics controller built in, but they can't put one into one SINGLE model of Mac Mini? Wow.
This is both sixteen kinds of lame and sixteen kinds of awesome.
Lame because it shows Apple's massive, needless markup.
Awesome because, hey - $299 Mac with TV-out AND discrete graphics!
Of course, there is the teensy matter of the 256MB of non-upgradeable RAM, but what do you expect for $299?
The Java runtime has to load also
Wait, this is still true? I thought that OO.org hasn't been Java-based since before v1.1.
Did you pass your grammar classes in elementary school, APK?
WHY do you keep pretending to be someone else?
And why DOES MySpace suck so much?
for your interpretation of the law?
You are so incredibly predictable, but now you're getting boring, using the same old tropes you always have -- responding to graduate education with "boy," claiming hundreds of conquests with your 3" dong, and pointing again and again to your silly Delphi software as evidence of your uebermanhood.
Can't you get some new material, you poor, twisted fool? Come on. Keep me entertained over here!
I simply adore your hierarchy of human beings that is based on what kind of and how much software they've developed. Wonderful.
Are you STILL clinging to the TPU forums? I suppose there are enough passive little sycophants there to jerk you off that you just can't resist hanging out there, can you?
Not that it matters, but I happen to be a graduate student in computer engineering, and expect two papers I've submitted to be published within the next two months. What do YOU know about low-power reconfigurable computing using nanotechnology, "Iron Man?"
Also, in point of fact (it's personal note time!), I actually just broke up with my girlfriend tonight. It just wasn't working out -- she's 4 hours away from me driving and in the end, despite how attracted we were to each other, we just didn't have that much in common. Sad, but it happens.
Nevertheless, I suspect that over the next couple of weeks I'll still get about 4X more tail than you do, since you must be a true social maladjust in person.
How completely unsurprising, coming from an arrogant narcissist completely cocksure (so to speak) of his own brilliance.
You seem to be fairly knowledgeable about bugs and features in 7.04. Do you know (or does anyone else?) how tablet PC support has been evolving in Ubuntu lately? I haven't found a single distro that has good application support for tablets. The requisite input driver for xorg is there and usually works, but the apps are shite.
What is desperately needed is something like Windows Journal. There is Xournal, Gournal and Jarnal, but all three have no "print PDF to journal" feature (which is really what makes this kind of application most useful) and I believe both of the first two have no typed text support. Jarnal is based on Java (ew) and, stereotypically, is desperately slow.
I have a Toshiba Portege M205-S810 that has been begging me for some Linux lovin', but without application support it's rather worthless to run Linux on it.
why it is that you are the only person I (or anyone else I know) have ever had this kind of "conversation" with.
Could it be that you are a singularly sociopathic individual who simply cannot abide any insult to his ego, no matter how slight and how much the person's opinion shouldn't matter to you one whit?
Why do you have so much trouble with this, Alec? Don't you realize that I don't affect your life in ANY significant way whatsoever? Why did you even have to take the bait in the beginning?
Because the longer I go without answering it, the more of your time I get to waste, and the more I get to laugh at you, obviously.
If I had written any useful software (and I'm not saying I have or haven't), I CERTAINLY wouldn't tell you about it, because that would completely ruin my fun.
You're still incredibly narcissistic, btw. Please call your parents tonight and tell them how much you love them and need them to love you back. You really will feel better, I swear.
I love trolling you. It's hysterical.
P.S. It can't be a "fight" if one party is swinging away in a blind rage and the other one is sitting back laughing at the other's inability to resist charging a waving red cloak.
You managed to find ONE POST about you in ONE PLACE on the Internet. I put out the bait and you chomped onto it like a hungry piranha.
I think to be "stalking" someone you have to actively track them down, Alec. This was about as passive as it gets.
And the best part? I know that you will keep this up as long as I do because you can never, EVER give up having the last word. It's hilarious. You are the most reliable infinite-supply lulzcow on any of the internets.
I can't decide what I love more -- your bombastic language or the way you pretend to be a third party in every post you write about yourself.
I CAN'T GET ENOUGH! MORE! PLEASE!
Did you ever reconcile with your parents, APK? I promise they love you, you just have to give mom and dad a big hug.
Good luck with your profound case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Now you're going to reply to everything I say! BRILLIANT!
Why don't you go get yourself banned at Ars again? I could use the lulz.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I knew you wouldn't be able to resist. It never ever fails. I'm convinced I could troll you on a Russian forum about opera and you would STILL find it and HAVE to say something.
Yes, Gentoo is not recommended for beginners. That said, if you are computer-literate, going with Gentoo can be informative and interesting.
But I wonder how long it will be before "APK" aka "AlecStaar" comes out of his rathole to talk about how Mark is a witless academic who can't possibly know more than he does, since he's the author of ZDNet-approved APKTools 2007+++++++ 99.8.10101022 SR6.
The definition of "begging the question" has essentially changed (or been appended to) because people think it sounds erudite and want to use it when it makes no sense.
You can't win, my friend.
I thought you were misspelling "Claris."
No, instead you were referring to the dogcow. FUCK MOOF.
What does "OS X integration" MEAN? It's a BROWSER, you silly little freak. How much "integration" do you want? Camino is buggy and shitty and none of Firefox's plugins for for it.
I've already achieved complete and total victory over you for knowing Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-4-Space when you didn't. You've lost. Just slit your wrists and die, emo kid. And remember, it's down the street, not across the block!
Learn to use your Mac like a real nerd or go home. If you don't always have a Terminal window open, you've already failed.
GNAA 4 LYFE
Ubuntu is terminally easy to use.
Firefox IS a decent Mac application. Actually, it's an excellent Mac application.
Command-Control-Shift-4-Space is way better than either one of those.
No one uses Clarus when we have the opportunity to use the NeoOffice beta, which is awesome.
If any of those kids have been using Macs for more than 4 years I will EAT MY FUCKING MACBOOK PRO.
And anything OS X 10.2 sucked nads. Welcome to the real world, asshole.
I haven't been friends with him in ages. Is it because I'm friends with people that ARE?
As long as they don't try to remove reading from the curriculum, I think this is a great idea. Kids need to be required to read, and as they move up in grade levels, to read faster while retaining the same amount of content.
so you're more criticizing the practice in general than MySpace as a target.
Fair enough. What is the proper way to go about getting big vendors like this to fix their security holes, then? If someone with a generally white-hat motivation doesn't do it, someone less benevolent will eventually.
I have karma to burn, and retarded AC trolls are convenient for venting bile and practicing your e-hate skills.