Only the ones who remain true to their roots as artistes and models [atspace.com]. Make no mistake, this is a positive development; Apple's actions will separate the aesthetes [atspace.com] with good taste [atspace.com] from the chaff of dull, dutiful [atspace.com] drones [atspace.com].
Whatever, most artists die poor anyway. Go use your mac and die as a Michael Jackson wannabe, I don't care.
Well, here's the problem. Neurosis, wild paranoia, and in fact the entire GNU/Open Source experience, is completely alien to a certain kind of person. Artists [atspace.com], fashion mavens [atspace.com], scientists [atspace.com], and other [atspace.com] creative [atspace.com] personalities [atspace.com] will cut people a little slack for innocent mistakes, thereby demonstrating their sensitive [atspace.com], tasteful [atspace.com] aesthetic [atspace.com]. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty [atspace.com] and truth [atspace.com]; unimaginative squares haven't a prayer.
Dull little people, dutifully performing dull little tasks, should stick to Linux [atspace.com] and Windows [atspace.com]. Staying cool is for different thinkers [atspace.com].
Whatever, just don't dirty my Bentley during your begging (working) hours when you retire with a garage full of overpriced Macs.
And I'm sure successful people choose to be born into stable, wealthy societies rather than in some God-forsaken African nation wracked by famine and war, yes? No luck involved there, huh?
Btw Steve Jobs was abandoned by his birth parents. Stable and wealthy family indeed eh?
As per Amnesty International, China executes the most prisoners every year. Who is number two? The USA, ahead of Iran, Saudi Arabia and a whole host of de facto dictatorships.
Considering the Chinese population is easily 4 times that of the US it is really nothing to be proud of.
Does anyone doubt that, when genetic engineering reaches the point where we can graft human vocal chords to chimps and dolphins, some of them will be plainly more intelligent than many humans?
Never once do I doubt that dolphins are actually singing "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" everyday in the aquarium:)
>Don't be the lead dog if you are afraid of stepping in holes. pioneers get the arrows... there's an infintity of phrases in every language to describe this.
By definition there will always be a pioneer. Is it too much to ask that the companies actually put their products through more rigourous testing?
>Its called the warranty of merchantability. It basicly means that when you buy something, its supposed to do >what its claimed to do, without known hazardous side effects. The Xbox360 may fail this due to the overheating.
Except the Xbox also ships with SOFTWARE, with the software there is a EULA that says there is no warranty or fitness of any kind given!
Don't you mean UNDER-priced? There have been quite a few articles on how they're selling it at a loss.
You believe everything they say don't you?
Like other posters have said, the figures are derived from adding up RETAIL prices of those components that make up the XB360. I doubt very much we will see Bill Gates dicking around at Fry's with a shopping cart loaded with millions of parts.
The actual cost of the whole console would probably be just cost of the CPU + cost of hard drive + cost of memory + $50, and for all that MS is selling to consumers "at a loss" for $400.
Remember, things in China virtually assemble themselves, assembly costs are so low it is literally pennies.
Microsoft also announced Windows Vista will require a Cray supercomputer to run.
Spotted on Windows Vista "Installation Quick Guide"..
Windows Vista Preinstallation checklist, please check that these components are powered and online before beginning installation: 1) Cray Supercomputer 2) 1,000 Terrabyte disk array 3) APC "Cold Fusion" SmartUPS 1,000,000,000
The following optional requirements also need to be met to ensure proper functionality of content protected by Digital Rights Management(tm) Technologies: 1) All your dark fibre are belong to us 2) DirecNeuro(tm) output jack 3) Users require a Microsoft certified brain implant
Thank you, we at Microsoft thank you once again for choosing Microsoft Windows Vista.
I'm curious, do you go around making racist speach? If not you have nothing to worry. You're being paranoid. There are millions of people going in and out of Singapore. I'm sure out of the millions in Singapore, there are thousands who will make some stupid racist comments. Yet you don't often hear of people getting caught for racist remarks. Unless u r that stupid to give a racist free speach in public area. But even if you so, I think you may not be charged with sedition Act but rather disruption of public order- that is if you indeed cause chaos.
If one goes around with racist remarks, he won't be welcomed anywhere anyway.
Just as an informative snippet, Singapore has no opposing political parties. The majority of the opposing politicians are probably in Australia right now as we speak, with warrants out for the arrest back home, and their life assets frozen on Singaporean soil.
have u been to Singapore? how DO YOU KNOW EVERY_THING_IS_ILLEGAL???
Sure, at least chewing gum is a illegal to possess there too, which AFAIK if you are caught with some, you will be charged in court and possess a criminal record.
Good luck finding a decent job, if ever. Bad news travels fast in a small nation too.
Just don't use your liberty at other's expense and you are quite safe.
Similarly you are losing your own personal liberties for a CHANCE to protect that of the community. Not everyone will commit an offence even if it is not made illegal in law, but having it written out in ink and paper does deny many otherwise honest people of doing said acts.
They may also have weird laws but which country doesn't? One man's meat another man's poison. That's all I can say.
Glad you enjoyed your meat, personally I found my 20 years there to be poison, and I am glad to be out of there.
Among the things this guy is persuaded of then is that aliens walk among us already, that the US government knows about it and has apparently enough alien technology in its possession to be able to wage war between galaxies (a pretty amazing feat for one little planet, wouldn't you say? Even with a base on our moon!), while still being able to keep the general population persuaded that we have not made contact.
Damned, the Canadians just foiled our plans! Time to signal back to my mirror in the Cylon headquarters...
LOL, a nuke, that's about as useful in space as a hucking the metal it's made out of at them, it'll be difficult to nuke someone in a vacuum since you know, your kind of depending on particles being able to hit each other. Furthermore, having a really fast ship counts for a lot, here's why, you fire a nuke at their home planet, assuming you can just look up at the stars and decide which one it is, it gets there in a hundred billion years from now, the radioactive isotope your using has gone from multi-gigaton, to less exothermic energy than I dunno water in water.
Why don't we install FTL drives into the warheads then?
>You have to admit though. Those are some decent crash screens. Not unlike the screens you'd see when pulling >out a Atari 2600 game cartridge with the power on. Hey wait, the crashes themselves look better than atari >2600 games. Oh no!
Why didn't they color the crash screen using Microsoft's trademark blue?
And do you have any basis AT ALL for what the origins of life are, mr brainwashed? Why should I believe you? Why not the Norse creation myths? That's the real issue at hand, the human race is growing up, some want to remain children and believe fairy tales, the rest wants to grow up. Like growing up, it hurts to realize the universe doesn't make sense, you're on your own and nobody "up there" exists. Grow up, or let the adults grow up.
It is their choice to remain as God's children, likewise since you believe you have grown up now, it is perfectly acceptable for you to bear full responsibility for your actions when the time comes. Just too bad that even an eternity of hell isn't enough to atone for your misdeeds though.
Slashdot Mirror
>>A keyboard is not a software product.
Does said keyboard has a separate LCD panel and set of keys that allows the user to create Macros?
Or did the user have to insert a CD into his machine to install SOFTWARE that would enable said macro functions?
An apple product over-hyped? NO WAY! Could never happen!
In other news, Steve Jobs calls a press conference explaining that Apple's products are not over hyped...
Only the ones who remain true to their roots as artistes and models [atspace.com]. Make no mistake, this is a positive development; Apple's actions will separate the aesthetes [atspace.com] with good taste [atspace.com] from the chaff of dull, dutiful [atspace.com] drones [atspace.com].
Whatever, most artists die poor anyway. Go use your mac and die as a Michael Jackson wannabe, I don't care.
Well, here's the problem. Neurosis, wild paranoia, and in fact the entire GNU/Open Source experience, is completely alien to a certain kind of person. Artists [atspace.com], fashion mavens [atspace.com], scientists [atspace.com], and other [atspace.com] creative [atspace.com] personalities [atspace.com] will cut people a little slack for innocent mistakes, thereby demonstrating their sensitive [atspace.com], tasteful [atspace.com] aesthetic [atspace.com]. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty [atspace.com] and truth [atspace.com]; unimaginative squares haven't a prayer.
Dull little people, dutifully performing dull little tasks, should stick to Linux [atspace.com] and Windows [atspace.com].
Staying cool is for different thinkers [atspace.com].
Whatever, just don't dirty my Bentley during your begging (working) hours when you retire with a garage full of overpriced Macs.
And I'm sure successful people choose to be born into stable, wealthy societies rather than in some God-forsaken African nation wracked by famine and war, yes? No luck involved there, huh?
Btw Steve Jobs was abandoned by his birth parents. Stable and wealthy family indeed eh?
As per Amnesty International, China executes the most prisoners every year. Who is number two? The USA, ahead of Iran, Saudi Arabia and a whole host of de facto dictatorships.
Considering the Chinese population is easily 4 times that of the US it is really nothing to be proud of.
I am sure per capita the US is numero uno.
Does anyone doubt that, when genetic engineering reaches the point where we can graft human vocal chords to chimps and dolphins, some of them will be plainly more intelligent than many humans?
:)
Never once do I doubt that dolphins are actually singing "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" everyday in the aquarium
>Don't be the lead dog if you are afraid of stepping in holes. pioneers get the arrows... there's an infintity of phrases in every language to describe this.
By definition there will always be a pioneer. Is it too much to ask that the companies actually put their products through more rigourous testing?
>Its called the warranty of merchantability. It basicly means that when you buy something, its supposed to do
>what its claimed to do, without known hazardous side effects. The Xbox360 may fail this due to the overheating.
Except the Xbox also ships with SOFTWARE, with the software there is a EULA that says there is no warranty or fitness of any kind given!
"They also largely eliminated kidnapping-for-ransom because they have a 100% rate of catching criminals in those cases.
They are the numero-uno agency in charge kidnapping cases, and are very very good at it.
Besides, without them criminals could play hopscotch and avoid effecting law enforcement by skipping across state lines."
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
- Benjamin Franklin
I doubt so!
But if every last human being were to visit Singapore that nation will sink into the bottom of the ocean!
> Please explain what "frenge" means.
> Thank you.
Please go and see the nearest brain surgeon for a transplant.
My brain managed to read it as "fringe", I am not sure why yours failed to do that. People make mistakes, typos happen. Big deal.
Rediculous...
That will teach those spelling nazis!
$100,000 is a slap on the wrist
Per violation.
Don't you mean UNDER-priced? There have been quite a few articles on how they're selling it at a loss.
You believe everything they say don't you?
Like other posters have said, the figures are derived from adding up RETAIL prices of those components that make up the XB360. I doubt very much we will see Bill Gates dicking around at Fry's with a shopping cart loaded with millions of parts.
The actual cost of the whole console would probably be just cost of the CPU + cost of hard drive + cost of memory + $50, and for all that MS is selling to consumers "at a loss" for $400.
Remember, things in China virtually assemble themselves, assembly costs are so low it is literally pennies.
Does it work on a Mac?
It'd be great if the blinky lights work with MacOS and Adium
Microsoft also announced Windows Vista will require a Cray supercomputer to run.
Spotted on Windows Vista "Installation Quick Guide"..
Windows Vista Preinstallation checklist, please check that these components are powered and online before beginning installation:
1) Cray Supercomputer
2) 1,000 Terrabyte disk array
3) APC "Cold Fusion" SmartUPS 1,000,000,000
The following optional requirements also need to be met to ensure proper functionality of content protected by Digital Rights Management(tm) Technologies:
1) All your dark fibre are belong to us
2) DirecNeuro(tm) output jack
3) Users require a Microsoft certified brain implant
Thank you, we at Microsoft thank you once again for choosing Microsoft Windows Vista.
The one good question that would be on every /.er's mind is.. are IT professionals considered as "skilled workers"?
I'm curious, do you go around making racist speach? If not you have nothing to worry. You're being paranoid. There are millions of people going in and out of Singapore. I'm sure out of the millions in Singapore, there are thousands who will make some stupid racist comments. Yet you don't often hear of people getting caught for racist remarks. Unless u r that stupid to give a racist free speach in public area. But even if you so, I think you may not be charged with sedition Act but rather disruption of public order- that is if you indeed cause chaos.
If one goes around with racist remarks, he won't be welcomed anywhere anyway.
Just as an informative snippet, Singapore has no opposing political parties. The majority of the opposing politicians are probably in Australia right now as we speak, with warrants out for the arrest back home, and their life assets frozen on Singaporean soil.
have u been to Singapore? how DO YOU KNOW EVERY_THING_IS_ILLEGAL???
Sure, at least chewing gum is a illegal to possess there too, which AFAIK if you are caught with some, you will be charged in court and possess a criminal record.
Good luck finding a decent job, if ever. Bad news travels fast in a small nation too.
Just don't use your liberty at other's expense and you are quite safe.
Similarly you are losing your own personal liberties for a CHANCE to protect that of the community. Not everyone will commit an offence even if it is not made illegal in law, but having it written out in ink and paper does deny many otherwise honest people of doing said acts.
They may also have weird laws but which country doesn't? One man's meat another man's poison. That's all I can say.
Glad you enjoyed your meat, personally I found my 20 years there to be poison, and I am glad to be out of there.
Any rise in temperature must be part of the Grand Design.
Don't sweat it! (e.g. shit happens.)
*flips to end of arcane book*
Hmmm.. it says here in "Revelations" that we are all gonna die!! Oh my Godot!!!
Among the things this guy is persuaded of then is that aliens walk
among us already, that the US government knows about it and has
apparently enough alien technology in its possession to be able to
wage war between galaxies (a pretty amazing feat for one little
planet, wouldn't you say? Even with a base on our moon!), while still
being able to keep the general population persuaded that we have not
made contact.
Damned, the Canadians just foiled our plans! Time to signal back to my mirror in the Cylon headquarters...
LOL, a nuke, that's about as useful in space as a hucking the metal it's made out of at them, it'll be difficult to nuke someone in a vacuum since you know, your kind of depending on particles being able to hit each other. Furthermore, having a really fast ship counts for a lot, here's why, you fire a nuke at their home planet, assuming you can just look up at the stars and decide which one it is, it gets there in a hundred billion years from now, the radioactive isotope your using has gone from multi-gigaton, to less exothermic energy than I dunno water in water.
Why don't we install FTL drives into the warheads then?
>You have to admit though. Those are some decent crash screens. Not unlike the screens you'd see when pulling
>out a Atari 2600 game cartridge with the power on. Hey wait, the crashes themselves look better than atari
>2600 games. Oh no!
Why didn't they color the crash screen using Microsoft's trademark blue?
And do you have any basis AT ALL for what the origins of life are, mr brainwashed? Why should I believe you? Why not the Norse creation myths? That's the real issue at hand, the human race is growing up, some want to remain children and believe fairy tales, the rest wants to grow up. Like growing up, it hurts to realize the universe doesn't make sense, you're on your own and nobody "up there" exists. Grow up, or let the adults grow up.
It is their choice to remain as God's children, likewise since you believe you have grown up now, it is perfectly acceptable for you to bear full responsibility for your actions when the time comes. Just too bad that even an eternity of hell isn't enough to atone for your misdeeds though.