Well, there goes AOL and Internet explorer. Along with it go crappy pay to view websites like the New York Times and Gamespot. The internet will go totally underground, so it'll be even easier to find Warez and dog-on-pig porn. Free at last!
I've got a 1 Ghz PowerBook (and no I'm not doing bait and switch) that's actually slower then the new Mac Minis and it ran faster then my girlfriends HP with a 2.5 Ghz processor, 40GB HD, CDRW, 15" CRT, 128 MB ATI Radeon 9500. And not just web browsing and making documents... I also play WoW.
I'd say a MythTV build is anything but simple. I'm not much of a linux guru, so the installing was a royal pain in my ass. Then, after I got it installed, it was even more of a pain (we're talking uber-royal here) to get the sound synced properly.
Well, wasn't that what was happening back in Jesus' time? You had the religious leaders condemning anyone and everyone. Jesus came along and said, "You're all screwed up and need help. If you loved me, you'd try not to do anything to make me sad, but hey, I understand nobody's perfect...except for me."
Expected troll: Something along the line of "yeah, those fictional characters rock." (Although Jesus's existance and history have been backed by many sources. The only disparate part is whether or not he was ressurected.)
Take that a step further, if Microsoft went after you and your buddies for having illegal copies of Windows (yeah, I know that makes about 1/2 of us) you'd get angry at M$.
This is even softer, since I think we'd all agree that leaking beta software is not near as harsh as leaking production software. Don't get me wrong here. I completely agree that Apple should be able to force the issue a little here, but my opinion does seem biased.
Sincerely,
A Mac Zealot and Noted Hypocrite
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How's Halo 2 working on your PC? What about Gran Turismo 4? You argue that there are more games for Windows then Mac, so you should buy a PC. Using that logic, go buy a PS2 or an XBox. They've got FAR more games then PC's, and they also have the ability to read your email and surf the web, so why use Windows?
I have to reply to this just to say that I didn't write it, cause it seems like my story word for word.
I originally got a Mac because (as you said) they simply have the best laptops out there. The common Mac complaint (and yes, I've said it) is that they don't do gaming. Well, I wasn't getting a laptop for gaming, so I got a Mac.
From there, I just fell in love with the operating system. Turns out stability is a pretty cool feature, not to mention for some reason my 1Ghz 12" PowerBook performs the standard tasks (web browsing, email, document editing, iTunes) far faster then my Athlon XP 2100+. (And I don't want to hear the argument, "Of course iTunes performs better. It was made by Apple." Notice that's not the only application that I mentioned.)
Well, if you read "Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" or listened to the lecture, you'd know why.
Knuth explains that in the future, there won't be people who solely specialize in one area. You're going to have people who specialize in two areas, so that you have a network of information. Being a computer scientist, when I want to learn about something I know nothing about,say auto repair, I want to talk to someone who's an expert in auto repair AND computer science. Then they can hopefully give me some background on auto repair from a computer science perspective.
This is why listening to Knuth about religion is a great idea. His passion is Computer Science. He also has dedicated a lot of time in studying religion, so he can give you an explaination that you'd understand, using a computer scientist's mindset, as to what he believes.
It's basically taking language a step further. If you only speak English, even though you're an expert in said field, you're not going to seek out information from someone who only speaks Chinese. Taking that thought just a little further, being a mathematically minded computer scientist, you prolly wouldn't want to have to get an artistic explaination of what somebody believed.
I don't know about you, but if it's gonna take me an hour to download the song that I want, after taking 15 minutes to find it on P2P, of course, I'd much rather pay the dollar.
Granted, the time/ease of P2P is only slightly worse then iTunes (and generally only worth about $.25 of my time) but at a certain point you've got to be willing to just pay instead of do it yourself. That's how the fast food industry thrives. You could make it yourself, but they do it faster, and for a price you're willing to cope with for the ease it brings.
Apple has already got people hooked on iTunes. Until a "better" service/program comes out, people will continue to use iTunes. And when they want to play their music on the go, they'll get an iPod. (or an iPod Shuffle if you want something portable)
Apple has simply done with the music industry what they've already done with their computers. They've made software that's so good that it's almost (and is, in my case) worth it to pay more for hardware that will work with said software.
If you RTFA (I know that's hard for you), you'll also notice that they intend to sue eBay:
eBay, uBID, Yahoo and other Internet Auction Websites do not give it a formal name, but if you desire to bid there, you have to register as a user by submitting a valid credit card information, for verifying your identity, address etc (infringing US Patent 6665797, claim 21). Of course, the credit card is not charged.
FYI, eBay was created in 1995. The patent was filed in 1998.
When I got my job, I had an ergonomic evaluation. The guy who gave it to me swears by these things. However, I was unable (and unwilling) to get one of these attached to my keyboard because I use a natural keyboard.
Note: The chair I'm sitting in hurts my back like no other, so I don't really have a lot of faith in the guy.
Look how many copies of the Grand Theft Auto series have sold. Last year, 5.1 million copies of GTA: San Andreas sold. If even 1% of those people reacted violently as a result, we still should have seen 51,000 instances of video games causing violent behavior.
These studies are just going to end up showing that "some people are freaking crazy."
Apple sued to subpoena. They're not trying to make the guys broke. They're just trying to find out who leaked this information so that they can find the individual(s) that broke the NDA and fire them... out of a cannon...into the sun.
I'm tired of all this bitching about lossy compression being horrible and blah blah blah. Personally, when it all comes down to things, I'd appreciate a higher quantity of music then quality. Yes, I've listened to 96kb/s mp3 on an auditorium sound system. You can tell. 128, again, definately if you're blaring it in an auditorium. However most people buy these tiny little audio players that they want to put their music on, to listen to at work, in their car, or at the gym. I personally put them on my laptop. Now having a 60 GB hard drive, I actually have the space to put my 8000 MP3/AAC files on my laptop. With lossless, you don't have that luxury.
...but since you're such a hard nose, you probably don't even bother with running music through a computer anyway. Still using those LP's are you?
The main reason that this will never happen is that Apple actually enjoys selling their hardware. While they're competing with the PC market, why would they give the PC market their biggest advantage? (a far better OS) Ask any Mac user, if OS X was available on a P4 for 1/2 the price of your standard Power Mac config, which would you buy?
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Well, there goes AOL and Internet explorer. Along with it go crappy pay to view websites like the New York Times and Gamespot. The internet will go totally underground, so it'll be even easier to find Warez and dog-on-pig porn. Free at last!
Don't be crazy! You know you can't play games on a mac.
Man do I wish this was real. Maybe it could just take random quotes from bash.org and insert them as comments in my code.
Oooh! Brb... spending time at work writing code to insert random bash.org comments in commercial applications.
Actually, yes.
I've got a 1 Ghz PowerBook (and no I'm not doing bait and switch) that's actually slower then the new Mac Minis and it ran faster then my girlfriends HP with a 2.5 Ghz processor, 40GB HD, CDRW, 15" CRT, 128 MB ATI Radeon 9500. And not just web browsing and making documents... I also play WoW.
did hillary really just say "diss?"
I'd say a MythTV build is anything but simple. I'm not much of a linux guru, so the installing was a royal pain in my ass. Then, after I got it installed, it was even more of a pain (we're talking uber-royal here) to get the sound synced properly.
Well, wasn't that what was happening back in Jesus' time? You had the religious leaders condemning anyone and everyone. Jesus came along and said, "You're all screwed up and need help. If you loved me, you'd try not to do anything to make me sad, but hey, I understand nobody's perfect ...except for me."
Expected troll:
Something along the line of "yeah, those fictional characters rock." (Although Jesus's existance and history have been backed by many sources. The only disparate part is whether or not he was ressurected.)
Take that a step further, if Microsoft went after you and your buddies for having illegal copies of Windows (yeah, I know that makes about 1/2 of us) you'd get angry at M$.
This is even softer, since I think we'd all agree that leaking beta software is not near as harsh as leaking production software. Don't get me wrong here. I completely agree that Apple should be able to force the issue a little here, but my opinion does seem biased.
Sincerely,
A Mac Zealot and Noted Hypocrite
So I'm an asshole...
How's Halo 2 working on your PC? What about Gran Turismo 4? You argue that there are more games for Windows then Mac, so you should buy a PC. Using that logic, go buy a PS2 or an XBox. They've got FAR more games then PC's, and they also have the ability to read your email and surf the web, so why use Windows?
I have to reply to this just to say that I didn't write it, cause it seems like my story word for word.
I originally got a Mac because (as you said) they simply have the best laptops out there. The common Mac complaint (and yes, I've said it) is that they don't do gaming. Well, I wasn't getting a laptop for gaming, so I got a Mac.
From there, I just fell in love with the operating system. Turns out stability is a pretty cool feature, not to mention for some reason my 1Ghz 12" PowerBook performs the standard tasks (web browsing, email, document editing, iTunes) far faster then my Athlon XP 2100+. (And I don't want to hear the argument, "Of course iTunes performs better. It was made by Apple." Notice that's not the only application that I mentioned.)
Well, if you read "Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" or listened to the lecture, you'd know why.
Knuth explains that in the future, there won't be people who solely specialize in one area. You're going to have people who specialize in two areas, so that you have a network of information. Being a computer scientist, when I want to learn about something I know nothing about,say auto repair, I want to talk to someone who's an expert in auto repair AND computer science. Then they can hopefully give me some background on auto repair from a computer science perspective.
This is why listening to Knuth about religion is a great idea. His passion is Computer Science. He also has dedicated a lot of time in studying religion, so he can give you an explaination that you'd understand, using a computer scientist's mindset, as to what he believes.
It's basically taking language a step further. If you only speak English, even though you're an expert in said field, you're not going to seek out information from someone who only speaks Chinese. Taking that thought just a little further, being a mathematically minded computer scientist, you prolly wouldn't want to have to get an artistic explaination of what somebody believed.
I don't know about you, but if it's gonna take me an hour to download the song that I want, after taking 15 minutes to find it on P2P, of course, I'd much rather pay the dollar.
Granted, the time/ease of P2P is only slightly worse then iTunes (and generally only worth about $.25 of my time) but at a certain point you've got to be willing to just pay instead of do it yourself. That's how the fast food industry thrives. You could make it yourself, but they do it faster, and for a price you're willing to cope with for the ease it brings.
Apple has already got people hooked on iTunes. Until a "better" service/program comes out, people will continue to use iTunes. And when they want to play their music on the go, they'll get an iPod. (or an iPod Shuffle if you want something portable)
Apple has simply done with the music industry what they've already done with their computers. They've made software that's so good that it's almost (and is, in my case) worth it to pay more for hardware that will work with said software.
You could go with another science degree: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, or Math and work at a national lab.
If you don't actually like programming and you want to be a project lead, go with the MBA.
If you want to go towards hardware development, maybe linguistics would be a good area of study.
Number of copies of GTA San Andreas sold in 2004: 5.1 Million
Number of incidence of violence related to GTA: umm... let's say there were as many as 100.
That's 0.001%. No stastician would say that there could be ANY correlation with a number like that.
When I got my job, I had an ergonomic evaluation. The guy who gave it to me swears by these things. However, I was unable (and unwilling) to get one of these attached to my keyboard because I use a natural keyboard.
Note: The chair I'm sitting in hurts my back like no other, so I don't really have a lot of faith in the guy.
Look how many copies of the Grand Theft Auto series have sold. Last year, 5.1 million copies of GTA: San Andreas sold. If even 1% of those people reacted violently as a result, we still should have seen 51,000 instances of video games causing violent behavior.
/rant
These studies are just going to end up showing that "some people are freaking crazy."
Except people have even been known to side with Microsoft when they're right
Apple sued to subpoena. They're not trying to make the guys broke. They're just trying to find out who leaked this information so that they can find the individual(s) that broke the NDA and fire them... out of a cannon ...into the sun.
Maybe you need a slight lesson in Storage 101.
...but since you're such a hard nose, you probably don't even bother with running music through a computer anyway. Still using those LP's are you?
I'm tired of all this bitching about lossy compression being horrible and blah blah blah. Personally, when it all comes down to things, I'd appreciate a higher quantity of music then quality. Yes, I've listened to 96kb/s mp3 on an auditorium sound system. You can tell. 128, again, definately if you're blaring it in an auditorium. However most people buy these tiny little audio players that they want to put their music on, to listen to at work, in their car, or at the gym. I personally put them on my laptop. Now having a 60 GB hard drive, I actually have the space to put my 8000 MP3/AAC files on my laptop. With lossless, you don't have that luxury.
Reminds me of some paperwork that I had to fill out. "Have you ever abused alcohol?"
"Hell no! I use it for it's intended purpose... to get drunk."
Irish beer? No way!
They also play their golf entirely sober.
The main reason that this will never happen is that Apple actually enjoys selling their hardware. While they're competing with the PC market, why would they give the PC market their biggest advantage? (a far better OS) Ask any Mac user, if OS X was available on a P4 for 1/2 the price of your standard Power Mac config, which would you buy?