Asians are just about the most racist bunch out there. Take a look at how the Japanese view Koreans if you don't believe me. The Chinese pretty much despise all the other asian races as well.
Yes, yes, I know, the PC groupthink mantra that we should all meekly follow from birth tells us that only nasty, oppressing anglo-saxons can be called racists.
Honestly, the term "racist" has just about become a synonym for "white man" these days.
Sure, they were in competition about 20 years ago.
So what?
Competition is one thing, being totally shafted by an alledged business partner is another. Besides, apple has been a customer of IBM's for many years now. There has been no sign of any bitterness between the two for a long time.
And it looks like I was dead on target when I said that IBM would be looking to ramp up sales of their PPC chips too.
There is no chance that this merger will kill Microsoft as IBM will still continue to distribute MS products
You are right in saying that the defection by IBM from the Wintel market would in no way "kill MS", but then I doubt anybody is seriously suggesting that it would. MS is HUGE afterall. On the other hand, if you had read the article, you would know that IBM are in the process of selling off their PC business. Once they have done that they will have precious little reason to want to continue selling MS products. Consider these points;
1) IBM are one of the most active
Linux-on-server evangalists in
vendorspace.
2) IBM continues to harbour extreme
bitterness over they way they were
shafted by MS during the OS/2 fiasco.
3) IBM surely desire to sell more of
their own PPC chips, which are not
supported by the MS OS, but are
supported by both OS/X & Linux.
Add these things together and I find it hard to imagine that IBM would either need or want to continue selling MS products. They might continue to offer some limited MS Server products with their low-end x86 server range alongside the Linux on PPC that they will be undoubtably pushing, just to maintain a "complete" product range but you can bet your bottom dollar that this will be a shrinking business for them and the sooner it dies the better it will be from their perspective.
A marriage with apple would be VERY attractive to IBM. They could for the most part ditch Microsoft altogether and by doing so build up their own PPC CPU business. Apple would become their defacto PC arm, and with IBM pushing Mac OS/X on PPC into businesses you had better believe that a lot of PHB's would stand up and take that seriously as a viable desktop platform. You have the "business cred" of IBM coupled with the "cool factor" of apple and you have a force to be reckoned with.
Print media is much better than television, because it forces readers to think about what they just read. It empowers readers to go at their own pace... they can go back and reread something to get a clearer picture.
You just took a long, hard pull on your crack pipe before you wrote that, right?
Now, I'm not one to claim that television is anything but a load of assinine, populist bullshit, no sireee bob, but nor am I going to be told that newspapers are any better.
The entire mainstream media dances to the beat of the same drum kiddo. The newspapers push their ill-informed, politically sanitized worldview in the form of badly researched articles that usually contain as many lies and/or ommissions as they do facts.
Television simply repackages this same dreck into soundbite versions for easy consumption by clueless housewives.
If you are reading newspapers and thinking anything other than "what party line are these lying sacks of shit trying to push here" then you are seriously deluded.
Newspapers are the source of most of the crap you see on TV, so how exactly are they any better?
Things the I.T. department hears all the time, the proctologist never does:
hehe, I always wonder where proctologists come from, because who in their right mind would choose a career where you would be constantly required to peer at and finger poke the arseholes of strangers?
Good lord, they must be even more demented than dentists!
Really, if these morons put half the effort that they put into their insane anti-piracy schemes into, say, making movies with decent storylines, they would be currently in the middle of another "golden age of cinema".
But no, what we have is more akin to the "Dark age of DRM"
The same applies to the music industry.
What we have now is an entertainment industry that pumps out mostly crap music and mostly crap movies and then spends the rest of their time cooking up ever more ingenious schemes to try to stop people from consuming their product outside of the strictly controlled circumstances that they choose to let them consume them within.
You want to watch a movie on the train? Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that.
Talk about an object lesson in how to run a business poorly.
Me, I'll be barracking for the Chinese and will always buy a $100 cheap-n-cheerfull chinese made player over a "name brand" chinese made player, and not just because of the extra price either.
Come to think of it, the Chinese probably make better movies too.
There is no such thing as a "Centrino". It is nothing but a marketing label, pure and simple. It applies to any laptop that has a Pentium M AND an intel wireless chip.
Neither of these devices alone are a "Centrino", but if you put them together you can slap a "Centrino inside" sticker on your laptop and sell it to suckers who think it means something.
BFD
If getting your customers to accept a marketing label as if it were a real product can be called a success, then I guess this has been a success for intel.
Everyone may make mistakes from time to time, but it takes a/. mod to really shine in the stupidity
stakes.
hehe
Some dickwad fails to parse "and hundreds of programmers"; said dickwad subsequently laughs derisively at the GP; I accurately call the dickwad an idiot; *I* get modded Troll for pointing out the hard truth.
You just gotta love the babbling-monkey-moderators at Slashdot, eh?
> Jesus christ
Sorry, I'm only Jesus Christ on sundays.
> do you actually believe the dribbel your spouting?
I thought I was trolling actually. I will try harder next time.
elitist:
n : someone who believes in
rule by an elite group
Hmmm, I don't believe I have been advocating "rule by an elite group" at all. No, I most certainly haven't.
What you are doing here is typical of your average liberal "thinker". You are confusing being "elite" with being an "elitist", and I have a free clue for you in that regard. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being an "elite" person. Becoming "elite" is something that worthwhile people should aspire to, really.
Aspiring to be a dumbed down cretin who is addicted to the cathode ray teat and no-talent rap artists is not such an admirable thing I'm afraid.
To your average PC liberal, anybody who is more skilled or accomplished than the foolish rabble that make up the majority of their ranks should be shouted down as being "elitist" and (were you to actually follow their shouted directions) henceforth marginalised by society.
Just because bottom dwelling liberal cry babies have misappropriated the word "elitist" and have tried to pretend that it means "anybody who is not a card carrying member of the pop culture swilling, dumbed down mindless majority" doesn't mean I have to agree with them.
You clueless, politically correct buffoons did the same thing with the word "discriminate". Were I to believe you and your liberal cronies I would think that to discriminate at all is a horribly bad thing and worthy of nothing less than a public hanging at noon.
The fact is that every time you choose Coke over Pepsi, you are discriminating
OMG! The horror, the horror!
Just because you think that 50 Cent is a talented musician and that Lucy Liu resides at the pinnacle of the acting profession doesn't mean I can't look down on you with scorn and heap derision upon your sorry arse if I feel like it.
I suggest you learn to deal with it.
So, how's that for trolling, eh? I thought I did a pretty good job actually.
The actors know on what side their bread is buttered. They want what is best for the studios that pay them and the Democrat machine knows that. They will pander to what the Entertainment Industry wants in turn for favourable red-carpet soundbites from the leading faces in the Hollywood star machine.
And you'd better believe that Puff Daddy wants you to pay 10 bucks to see his latest film appearance just as much as the studio execs do.
"As far as I am concerned, at this point we should all be doing our best to hasten the decline.
Everybod jump on the pendlum and push. It's gotta swing trough it's arc before there will be any relief. The United States of America has to legislate and litigate itself into its role as a backwater far off the information super-highway, before anything here can get fixed."
Amen to that brother! I was rooting for Shrub to win the election for that very reason! He is pretty much despised (and rightly so) down here in Australia, and you'd better believe that the people I told that to reacted with shock and disbelief.
The sooner the U.S. destroys itself, the sooner the rest of us can carry on our lives without being subjected to every base pop media fad to emerge from the rancid American slum-culture de jour.
Just why a middle class Australian would want to emulate the lifestyle of a crack addicted black urban slum dweller eludes me.
California/Hollywood and NYC are arguably the most staunchest of Democrat stronglholds. I'm not even an American and I know that much. If anyone was going to enact laws that are "Entertainment" Industry friendly, it would be a Democrat.
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Oh? Care to point to any anglo-saxon perpetrated genocides in the last, oh, let's say, century or so?
There have been plenty genocide attempts made by slavs, asians, arabs, jews and germanics. in the last century.
Charles, Charles Charles. Man, you forgot to leave your email address.
I sure would like to help out. I could do with whole lot of free money, because my money tree done stopped fruiting last summer.
On the Securia website they clearly state that if you want to perform the test twice you must refresh the page.
It's a pity that Toshibas total piles of crapola though, eh?
Asians are just about the most racist bunch out there. Take a look at how the Japanese view Koreans if you don't believe me. The Chinese pretty much despise all the other asian races as well.
Yes, yes, I know, the PC groupthink mantra that we should all meekly follow from birth tells us that only nasty, oppressing anglo-saxons can be called racists.
Honestly, the term "racist" has just about become a synonym for "white man" these days.
I don't buy it.
Sure, they were in competition about 20 years ago.
So what?
Competition is one thing, being totally shafted by an alledged business partner is another. Besides, apple has been a customer of IBM's for many years now. There has been no sign of any bitterness between the two for a long time.
And it looks like I was dead on target when I said that IBM would be looking to ramp up sales of their PPC chips too.
Is IBM PC sell off preparation for a Power chip attack?
There is no chance that this merger will kill Microsoft as IBM will still continue to distribute MS products
You are right in saying that the defection by IBM from the Wintel market would in no way "kill MS", but then I doubt anybody is seriously suggesting that it would. MS is HUGE afterall. On the other hand, if you had read the article, you would know that IBM are in the process of selling off their PC business. Once they have done that they will have precious little reason to want to continue selling MS products. Consider these points;
1) IBM are one of the most active
Linux-on-server evangalists in
vendorspace.
2) IBM continues to harbour extreme
bitterness over they way they were
shafted by MS during the OS/2 fiasco.
3) IBM surely desire to sell more of
their own PPC chips, which are not
supported by the MS OS, but are
supported by both OS/X & Linux.
Add these things together and I find it hard to imagine that IBM would either need or want to continue selling MS products. They might continue to offer some limited MS Server products with their low-end x86 server range alongside the Linux on PPC that they will be undoubtably pushing, just to maintain a "complete" product range but you can bet your bottom dollar that this will be a shrinking business for them and the sooner it dies the better it will be from their perspective.
A marriage with apple would be VERY attractive to IBM. They could for the most part ditch Microsoft altogether and by doing so build up their own PPC CPU business. Apple would become their defacto PC arm, and with IBM pushing Mac OS/X on PPC into businesses you had better believe that a lot of PHB's would stand up and take that seriously as a viable desktop platform. You have the "business cred" of IBM coupled with the "cool factor" of apple and you have a force to be reckoned with.
All that's on TV these days is news and reality shows. Most of the latter cater to an audience with all the intelligence of a sack of potatos.
And you think that TV news doesn't?
Print media is much better than television, because it forces readers to think about what they just read. It empowers readers to go at their own pace... they can go back and reread something to get a clearer picture.
You just took a long, hard pull on your crack pipe before you wrote that, right?
Now, I'm not one to claim that television is anything but a load of assinine, populist bullshit, no sireee bob, but nor am I going to be told that newspapers are any better.
The entire mainstream media dances to the beat of the same drum kiddo. The newspapers push their ill-informed, politically sanitized worldview in the form of badly researched articles that usually contain as many lies and/or ommissions as they do facts.
Television simply repackages this same dreck into soundbite versions for easy consumption by clueless housewives.
If you are reading newspapers and thinking anything other than "what party line are these lying sacks of shit trying to push here" then you are seriously deluded.
Newspapers are the source of most of the crap you see on TV, so how exactly are they any better?
Excellent point!
Things the I.T. department hears all the time, the proctologist never does:
hehe, I always wonder where proctologists come from, because who in their right mind would choose a career where you would be constantly required to peer at and finger poke the arseholes of strangers?
Good lord, they must be even more demented than dentists!
Really, if these morons put half the effort that they put into their insane anti-piracy schemes into, say, making movies with decent storylines, they would be currently in the middle of another "golden age of cinema".
But no, what we have is more akin to the "Dark age of DRM"
The same applies to the music industry.
What we have now is an entertainment industry that pumps out mostly crap music and mostly crap movies and then spends the rest of their time cooking up ever more ingenious schemes to try to stop people from consuming their product outside of the strictly controlled circumstances that they choose to let them consume them within.
You want to watch a movie on the train? Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that.
Talk about an object lesson in how to run a business poorly.
Me, I'll be barracking for the Chinese and will always buy a $100 cheap-n-cheerfull chinese made player over a "name brand" chinese made player, and not just because of the extra price either.
Come to think of it, the Chinese probably make better movies too.
I'm just damn glad I didn't choose to be a gynecologist really.
Imagine those guys doing side jobs for their families . . .
haha
There is no such thing as a "Centrino". It is nothing but a marketing label, pure and simple. It applies to any laptop that has a Pentium M AND an intel wireless chip.
Neither of these devices alone are a "Centrino", but if you put them together you can slap a "Centrino inside" sticker on your laptop and sell it to suckers who think it means something.
BFD
If getting your customers to accept a marketing label as if it were a real product can be called a success, then I guess this has been a success for intel.
Everyone may make mistakes from time to time, but it takes a /. mod to really shine in the stupidity
stakes.
hehe
Some dickwad fails to parse "and hundreds of programmers"; said dickwad subsequently laughs derisively at the GP; I accurately call the dickwad an idiot; *I* get modded Troll for pointing out the hard truth.
You just gotta love the babbling-monkey-moderators at Slashdot, eh?
kewl. Exactly the specs for my PC. Do you have a 64 or 128 Mb Ti card?
You are an idiot
> Jesus christ Sorry, I'm only Jesus Christ on sundays. > do you actually believe the dribbel your spouting? I thought I was trolling actually. I will try harder next time.
> this elitist crap
Non sequiter;
elitist:
n : someone who believes in
rule by an elite group
Hmmm, I don't believe I have been advocating "rule by an elite group" at all. No, I most certainly haven't.
What you are doing here is typical of your average liberal "thinker". You are confusing being "elite" with being an "elitist", and I have a free clue for you in that regard. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being an "elite" person. Becoming "elite" is something that worthwhile people should aspire to, really.
Aspiring to be a dumbed down cretin who is addicted to the cathode ray teat and no-talent rap artists is not such an admirable thing I'm afraid.
To your average PC liberal, anybody who is more skilled or accomplished than the foolish rabble that make up the majority of their ranks should be shouted down as being "elitist" and (were you to actually follow their shouted directions) henceforth marginalised by society.
Just because bottom dwelling liberal cry babies have misappropriated the word "elitist" and have tried to pretend that it means "anybody who is not a card carrying member of the pop culture swilling, dumbed down mindless majority" doesn't mean I have to agree with them.
You clueless, politically correct buffoons did the same thing with the word "discriminate". Were I to believe you and your liberal cronies I would think that to discriminate at all is a horribly bad thing and worthy of nothing less than a public hanging at noon.
The fact is that every time you choose Coke over Pepsi, you are discriminating
OMG! The horror, the horror!
Just because you think that 50 Cent is a talented musician and that Lucy Liu resides at the pinnacle of the acting profession doesn't mean I can't look down on you with scorn and heap derision upon your sorry arse if I feel like it.
I suggest you learn to deal with it.
So, how's that for trolling, eh? I thought I did a pretty good job actually.
If you have enjoyed a movie with Jennifer Lopez in it then it is indeed "your bad"
The actors know on what side their bread is buttered. They want what is best for the studios that pay them and the Democrat machine knows that. They will pander to what the Entertainment Industry wants in turn for favourable red-carpet soundbites from the leading faces in the Hollywood star machine.
And you'd better believe that Puff Daddy wants you to pay 10 bucks to see his latest film appearance just as much as the studio execs do.
"As far as I am concerned, at this point we should all be doing our best to hasten the decline. Everybod jump on the pendlum and push. It's gotta swing trough it's arc before there will be any relief. The United States of America has to legislate and litigate itself into its role as a backwater far off the information super-highway, before anything here can get fixed."
Amen to that brother! I was rooting for Shrub to win the election for that very reason! He is pretty much despised (and rightly so) down here in Australia, and you'd better believe that the people I told that to reacted with shock and disbelief.
The sooner the U.S. destroys itself, the sooner the rest of us can carry on our lives without being subjected to every base pop media fad to emerge from the rancid American slum-culture de jour.
Just why a middle class Australian would want to emulate the lifestyle of a crack addicted black urban slum dweller eludes me.
For the same reason that Usher sells records and Jennifer Lopez is a "star" I guess.
People are just goddam stupid.
California/Hollywood and NYC are arguably the most staunchest of Democrat stronglholds. I'm not even an American and I know that much. If anyone was going to enact laws that are "Entertainment" Industry friendly, it would be a Democrat.
Sheesh