What're you talking about? You can quote the Holy Qaran *or* the Bible in school.
You just can't preach them.
In literature class, they teach Shakespeare all the time. He quotes the Bible quite a bit. I'd go as far as to say the Bible is quoted quite a bit more than the Holy Qaran, especially in Shakespeare, the most-taught dead white guy alive.
Sorry, market cap is an indication of the ability to sell stuff, not the ability to produce good products. In an ideal world, they'd be one and the same, but in an ideal world, communism would work. We don't live in an ideal world, so neither is true.
As far as what Woz contributed: well, first and foremost, he created a floppy drive that could fit in a space smaller than carry-on luggage. In fact, it was smaller than a toaster. And he was able to sell it for less than $1000. You can trace the start of the home computer revolution to his Apple ][ and the small, cheap floppy drive.
I would say Woz was about 10 times more responsible for the computer revolution than Bill Gates, or Microsoft. Gates was a more vicious businessman, and willing to exploit others, even fuck others over; and so his company has a larger market cap.
As far as Gates writing stuff, he was never that great. If you look at the impressive stuff done by Microsoft, Paul Allen was responsible for the heavy lifting up through MS-DOS 3.0. (After he discovered that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer were trying to figure out how to get his shares back should he die of his cancer, he left. See what I mean about fucking others over?)
As far as jumping into philanthropy, Wozniak has been all about philanthropy since day 1. Gates didn't get into philanthropy until after he got married. Until then, he kept getting slammed in the press for being a stingy fucker. After it started affecting his image, he started giving money away, often in the form of, get this, Microsoft software. So, he gets to improve his image, and spread the disease at the same time.
Wozniak is ten times the man, and ten times the geek, that Gates is. Gates is more comparable to Jobs than Woz. Paul Allen was more the Woz equivalent for Microsoft.
Woz is easy to respect, as he not only was one of the primary forces to kick off the home computer revolution, but he's a nice guy. A bit strange, but nice.
Neither Gates nor Woz is really relevant any more. But Woz was and is the better geek, and the better man.
It's all the same God. Makes it even more loony in my opinion.
Since "God" is an abstract metaphysical construct, it's hard to say they are the *same* God. Just as English and Spanish are derived from the same root language but are not the same language, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity worship different Gods. Hell, Christians themselves don't worship the same God. You've got the Loving, Pacifist God of the Quakers, and the Smiteful, Angry God of the modern American Fundamentalists (generally a Baptist offshoot).
Not that it isn't all loony. Not the belief in God: I have great respect for those who believe in God and hold fast to the ethics of their belief. No, the loony part is the fact that any group can claim that/their/ God says it's okay to kill people who hold another belief.
But, we live in a world of casual selfishness. The big selfishnesses seem to come easy.
Oh, I know it wasn't a spacecraft, and that the entire hoopla was based entirely on misdirection and misinformation.
But I have to admit, whoever thought up the whole "alien" angle deserved a promotion. A big one. That was bloody brilliant. And, it's provided pop-culture fodder for half a century. If our government's going to lie to us, I want a *creative* lie, damnit. An *interesting* lie, a fun lie.
The most recent "vast government conspiracy" has to do with GWB and friends hijacking the US Constitution, lying to the world to lead the US into war with Iraq, providing bid-free billion-dollar contracts to close friends, and declaring the Vice-Presidency is outside the law.
There is no way they could keep a secret of this magnitude and cover it up for 60 years.
That's what they *want* you to believe, man. See, it hasn't been a secret, has it? People have *known for years* there was a spacecraft accident near Roswell. But the government has spent so much time putting out so much counter- and counter-counter propaganda, nobody can see the truth through the lies.
That's how the government keeps secrets. *It doesn't.* It puts the truth out there with a bunch of *other* crackpot theories, so that it seems like there's no real conspiracy. Like, "Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK," and "Terrorists flew planes into the twin towers," (actually, this one is true, but *it's not the terrorists they claimed!*), or "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction aimed at some three-year-old girl in New York City," or, "Fluoridation is good for you," or "Santa-- Satan. See the similarity?"
It's all about providing the truth alongside a bunch of crazier-sounding lies, and then making the "official" explanation seem more plausible. It's just that simple.
First, when hardware vendors talk about MS-Windows XP/Vista/2003 Server, they default to the 32-bit version. If they *mean* the 64-bit version, they *specify* the 64-bit version. MS-Windows 64-bit drivers do not necessarily come in the box. And I have yet to see a hardware box that isn't from Apple that doesn't have the "Built for MS-Windows version X" logo.
Second:
Welcome to the club, buddy. As a looooong-time Linux user (13 years now), I'm used to vendors telling my their hardware is "not supported." It's only been over the last few years that most hardware vendors have started loosening up some about Linux support. It'd be nice if the did the same for the *BSDs and OpenSolaris as well, but Linux support is a small victory.
So buck up, kiddo. It'll happen. Your favorite niche operating system may get support from hardware vendors yet.
*I* don't use iTunes, and I can use my iPod just fine. It's a choice, you see. I use Gtkpod, though many other music systems also support the iPod.
The reason Apple uses iTunes rather than just setting it up as a USB drive is simple: the iPod software requires an internal database to know all about the music. Keeping that database up-to-date requires external software that knows how to manage that database. It's just that simple. If Apple made it a USB drive, dolts who didn't know better would complain on the Apple forums that, "I put music on my iPod, but it's not in the playlist!"
There's a lot of reasons I don't use iTunes, but mostly because it's crap. It requires all music on the iPod to be part of its internal system, making management of very large music collections difficult in a multi-OS household. (I have about 1k CDs stored on a central media server, served up to Linux boxes and my PS3 using UPnP, which Apple doesn't properly support in iTunes, damn them.)
So, you see, you *do* have choices.
As far as that goes, I find it funny when MS-Windows users complain that another company is locking them in to proprietary software in some way. In fact, I laugh my ass off.
Sounds like you want a FIC NEO1973. According to Sean Moss-Pultz in his most recent announcement, the consumer model due in Q4 this year will include wifi.
It's almost fully open. As in, everything is open except the AGPS daemon, which you don't need for GPS, just AGPS.
And it'll only be $450, for the phone itself. No contracts required.
What if the "real" world is also just a simulator? Only, what if the "real" world is simulating us, and we're simulating them? Mutual simulation? Where's this Mr. Highandmighty "reality" then? Huh?
Funny thing is, *we're* just nodes in a full geosociopolitical simulation of the earth, for the masters of the *real* earth.
I wonder if, inside the Pentagon's simulator, they're building a simulator. If not, it's not a complete simulation, is it? So it isn't accurate, is it?
The problem isn't pirating, unauthorized sharing, or anything like that.
The problem is that managing the licensing and distribution of music has become unmanageable. Instead of fighting it, musicians such as yourself should be embracing it.
Make your music. *Encourage* people to download it. Pay particular attention to the IP addresses that download your music-- if you see a city near you that seems particularly active, *go there* for a concert. Use the technology to make yourself *more* valuable, not less.
Exposure is the key to success in the music business. The RIAA constituency gets to determine who gets exposure, thereby determining who is successful. Sure, there are occasionally those who are surprisingly popular, but they usually become mega-hits because of exposure after the record label recognizes they are selling well.
The RIAA is not only not your friend, they are actively your enemy. They record labels don't want thousands of bands that sell a total of one billion records. They want one artist who sells a billion records.
Fuck that. Start exposing yourself. (No, not that way! Gah!)
It's a lot more likely to help you than the RIAA is.
A guy walks into a doctor's office. His right eye is bloody and bruised. "Doc," he says, "I've got a problem. Every time I drink cocoa at home, my eye hurts."
The doctor, shocked at the condition of his new patient's eye, runs a gamut of tests, ruling out allergies or other clinical issues. Thinking the issue may be psychosomatic, he sits his patient at a table on which rests a tin of cocoa mix, a thermos of hot water, a cup, and a spoon. He invites the gentleman to mix up the cocoa and take a sip.
The man pours hot water into the cup, and dumps in a couple of heaping spoonfuls of mix, using the spoon to mix vigorously. He then drinks from the cup, and immediately screams. Hastily placing the cup on the table, he clasps his hands to his eye.
"Interesting," the doctor proclaims. "Have you ever considered removing the spoon before drinking?"
(and don't tell me to put Ubuntu on peoples laptops...)
This seems to be a problem of your own making. If you refuse to remove the spoon, you will continue to hurt your eye.
PC hardware companies have one customer: Microsoft.
They have to sell their hardware to Microsoft. Oh, sure Microsoft doesn't pay for it directly-- they get consumers (both free citizens and corporations) to do that for them. However, the hardware companies must please Microsoft if they hope to be able to sell their hardware.
If Microsoft feels they are beset by an upstart operating system, one that does not have the financial or political clout to become "trusted," they may very well demand their suppliers provide the chips in *all* computers, not just high-end secure commercial systems.
So manufacturers may have no real choice in the matter.
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What're you talking about? You can quote the Holy Qaran *or* the Bible in school.
You just can't preach them.
In literature class, they teach Shakespeare all the time. He quotes the Bible quite a bit. I'd go as far as to say the Bible is quoted quite a bit more than the Holy Qaran, especially in Shakespeare, the most-taught dead white guy alive.
I was hoping someone else noticed this. I was going to post, but you saved me the trouble.
Except somebody marked you as "flamebait." So I had to post anyway, since I don't have mode points.
Sorry, market cap is an indication of the ability to sell stuff, not the ability to produce good products. In an ideal world, they'd be one and the same, but in an ideal world, communism would work. We don't live in an ideal world, so neither is true.
As far as what Woz contributed: well, first and foremost, he created a floppy drive that could fit in a space smaller than carry-on luggage. In fact, it was smaller than a toaster. And he was able to sell it for less than $1000. You can trace the start of the home computer revolution to his Apple ][ and the small, cheap floppy drive.
I would say Woz was about 10 times more responsible for the computer revolution than Bill Gates, or Microsoft. Gates was a more vicious businessman, and willing to exploit others, even fuck others over; and so his company has a larger market cap.
As far as Gates writing stuff, he was never that great. If you look at the impressive stuff done by Microsoft, Paul Allen was responsible for the heavy lifting up through MS-DOS 3.0. (After he discovered that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer were trying to figure out how to get his shares back should he die of his cancer, he left. See what I mean about fucking others over?)
As far as jumping into philanthropy, Wozniak has been all about philanthropy since day 1. Gates didn't get into philanthropy until after he got married. Until then, he kept getting slammed in the press for being a stingy fucker. After it started affecting his image, he started giving money away, often in the form of, get this, Microsoft software. So, he gets to improve his image, and spread the disease at the same time.
Wozniak is ten times the man, and ten times the geek, that Gates is. Gates is more comparable to Jobs than Woz. Paul Allen was more the Woz equivalent for Microsoft.
Woz is easy to respect, as he not only was one of the primary forces to kick off the home computer revolution, but he's a nice guy. A bit strange, but nice.
Neither Gates nor Woz is really relevant any more. But Woz was and is the better geek, and the better man.
Smaller screen, higher resolution. True VGA. No camera, but I don't like cell phone cameras.
And it's *open*. All this bitching about the iPhone only working with AT&T, and not being able to do anything with it-- that's all solved.
But you're right. I'm sad it's taken so long.
Not yet.
Bush hasn't yet declared martial law, and set himself up as Emperor. Until we no longer have a ballot box, we don't use the ammo box.
Or something like that. I saw it in a sig around here somewhere.
raise your hand if you ever thought you'd daydream of a world where dan quayle was president.
JESUS!
I can't believe you just said that. And I can't believe I'm actually considering it. And I can't actually believe QUAYLE WOULD'VE BEEN BETTER!
I need to wash my brain.
It's all the same God. Makes it even more loony in my opinion.
/their/ God says it's okay to kill people who hold another belief.
Since "God" is an abstract metaphysical construct, it's hard to say they are the *same* God. Just as English and Spanish are derived from the same root language but are not the same language, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity worship different Gods. Hell, Christians themselves don't worship the same God. You've got the Loving, Pacifist God of the Quakers, and the Smiteful, Angry God of the modern American Fundamentalists (generally a Baptist offshoot).
Not that it isn't all loony. Not the belief in God: I have great respect for those who believe in God and hold fast to the ethics of their belief. No, the loony part is the fact that any group can claim that
But, we live in a world of casual selfishness. The big selfishnesses seem to come easy.
Oh, I know it wasn't a spacecraft, and that the entire hoopla was based entirely on misdirection and misinformation.
But I have to admit, whoever thought up the whole "alien" angle deserved a promotion. A big one. That was bloody brilliant. And, it's provided pop-culture fodder for half a century. If our government's going to lie to us, I want a *creative* lie, damnit. An *interesting* lie, a fun lie.
The most recent "vast government conspiracy" has to do with GWB and friends hijacking the US Constitution, lying to the world to lead the US into war with Iraq, providing bid-free billion-dollar contracts to close friends, and declaring the Vice-Presidency is outside the law.
I mean, who could believe *that*?
Just look at out of control L. Ron Hubbard's little joke has become. Of course, there's no evidence, just his statement.
Even better, just look at what happened with that Jesus dude's little practical joke.
"'Son of God.' I slay me!"
There is no way they could keep a secret of this magnitude and cover it up for 60 years.
That's what they *want* you to believe, man. See, it hasn't been a secret, has it? People have *known for years* there was a spacecraft accident near Roswell. But the government has spent so much time putting out so much counter- and counter-counter propaganda, nobody can see the truth through the lies.
That's how the government keeps secrets. *It doesn't.* It puts the truth out there with a bunch of *other* crackpot theories, so that it seems like there's no real conspiracy. Like, "Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK," and "Terrorists flew planes into the twin towers," (actually, this one is true, but *it's not the terrorists they claimed!*), or "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction aimed at some three-year-old girl in New York City," or, "Fluoridation is good for you," or "Santa-- Satan. See the similarity?"
It's all about providing the truth alongside a bunch of crazier-sounding lies, and then making the "official" explanation seem more plausible. It's just that simple.
Oh, and those aliens looked just like Elvis.
First, when hardware vendors talk about MS-Windows XP/Vista/2003 Server, they default to the 32-bit version. If they *mean* the 64-bit version, they *specify* the 64-bit version. MS-Windows 64-bit drivers do not necessarily come in the box. And I have yet to see a hardware box that isn't from Apple that doesn't have the "Built for MS-Windows version X" logo.
Second:
Welcome to the club, buddy. As a looooong-time Linux user (13 years now), I'm used to vendors telling my their hardware is "not supported." It's only been over the last few years that most hardware vendors have started loosening up some about Linux support. It'd be nice if the did the same for the *BSDs and OpenSolaris as well, but Linux support is a small victory.
So buck up, kiddo. It'll happen. Your favorite niche operating system may get support from hardware vendors yet.
*I* don't use iTunes, and I can use my iPod just fine. It's a choice, you see. I use Gtkpod, though many other music systems also support the iPod.
The reason Apple uses iTunes rather than just setting it up as a USB drive is simple: the iPod software requires an internal database to know all about the music. Keeping that database up-to-date requires external software that knows how to manage that database. It's just that simple. If Apple made it a USB drive, dolts who didn't know better would complain on the Apple forums that, "I put music on my iPod, but it's not in the playlist!"
There's a lot of reasons I don't use iTunes, but mostly because it's crap. It requires all music on the iPod to be part of its internal system, making management of very large music collections difficult in a multi-OS household. (I have about 1k CDs stored on a central media server, served up to Linux boxes and my PS3 using UPnP, which Apple doesn't properly support in iTunes, damn them.)
So, you see, you *do* have choices.
As far as that goes, I find it funny when MS-Windows users complain that another company is locking them in to proprietary software in some way. In fact, I laugh my ass off.
The NEO1973 is arriving July 9th. At least, the early-bird version is, without WiFi. The WiFi, official version arrives in October.
I'm pretty damned happy. I've been waiting a long time.
Sounds like you want a FIC NEO1973. According to Sean Moss-Pultz in his most recent announcement, the consumer model due in Q4 this year will include wifi.
It's almost fully open. As in, everything is open except the AGPS daemon, which you don't need for GPS, just AGPS.
And it'll only be $450, for the phone itself. No contracts required.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of parallel earths!
Inside the gotse.cx guy.
I think I just crossed a line.
What if the "real" world is also just a simulator? Only, what if the "real" world is simulating us, and we're simulating them? Mutual simulation? Where's this Mr. Highandmighty "reality" then? Huh?
Ow. My head hurts. Need... coffee.
Funny thing is, *we're* just nodes in a full geosociopolitical simulation of the earth, for the masters of the *real* earth.
I wonder if, inside the Pentagon's simulator, they're building a simulator. If not, it's not a complete simulation, is it? So it isn't accurate, is it?
Oh, I thought not.
Amateurs.
The problem isn't pirating, unauthorized sharing, or anything like that.
The problem is that managing the licensing and distribution of music has become unmanageable. Instead of fighting it, musicians such as yourself should be embracing it.
Make your music. *Encourage* people to download it. Pay particular attention to the IP addresses that download your music-- if you see a city near you that seems particularly active, *go there* for a concert. Use the technology to make yourself *more* valuable, not less.
Exposure is the key to success in the music business. The RIAA constituency gets to determine who gets exposure, thereby determining who is successful. Sure, there are occasionally those who are surprisingly popular, but they usually become mega-hits because of exposure after the record label recognizes they are selling well.
The RIAA is not only not your friend, they are actively your enemy. They record labels don't want thousands of bands that sell a total of one billion records. They want one artist who sells a billion records.
Fuck that. Start exposing yourself. (No, not that way! Gah!)
It's a lot more likely to help you than the RIAA is.
I'm not sure what bothers me more, hypocrisies or that you have a disturbing attraction to fat male geeks.
Assuming he's a he, he didn't say he *currently* has an S.O. Your assumption of hypocrisy is, dare I say, a little presumptuous.
Yes. I did dare. And I feel better for it.
There's still that fat geek thing, though.
A guy walks into a doctor's office. His right eye is bloody and bruised. "Doc," he says, "I've got a problem. Every time I drink cocoa at home, my eye hurts."
The doctor, shocked at the condition of his new patient's eye, runs a gamut of tests, ruling out allergies or other clinical issues. Thinking the issue may be psychosomatic, he sits his patient at a table on which rests a tin of cocoa mix, a thermos of hot water, a cup, and a spoon. He invites the gentleman to mix up the cocoa and take a sip.
The man pours hot water into the cup, and dumps in a couple of heaping spoonfuls of mix, using the spoon to mix vigorously. He then drinks from the cup, and immediately screams. Hastily placing the cup on the table, he clasps his hands to his eye.
"Interesting," the doctor proclaims. "Have you ever considered removing the spoon before drinking?"
(and don't tell me to put Ubuntu on peoples laptops...)
This seems to be a problem of your own making. If you refuse to remove the spoon, you will continue to hurt your eye.
PC hardware companies have one customer: Microsoft.
They have to sell their hardware to Microsoft. Oh, sure Microsoft doesn't pay for it directly-- they get consumers (both free citizens and corporations) to do that for them. However, the hardware companies must please Microsoft if they hope to be able to sell their hardware.
If Microsoft feels they are beset by an upstart operating system, one that does not have the financial or political clout to become "trusted," they may very well demand their suppliers provide the chips in *all* computers, not just high-end secure commercial systems.
So manufacturers may have no real choice in the matter.
I believe that's called "growing".
I believe they call that, "Flailing."
Like a whale on the beach.
I doubt many scientist would see any competition between the two, it's like comparing mathematics with dance.
Oh, like this?
Intelligent design is nothing more than a philosophy...
I believe this is untrue. Intelligent design is an assertion derived from a metaphysical/ethical text (the Bible), but is itself not a philosophy.
Science, however, *is* a philosophy, specifically an epistemology. That's why you get a PhD after attending Evil Doctor school for 8 years.