"Good grief. That will only make things worse. We already have two sides who spend more time on the fact that they hate each other than they do on coming up with anything useful. How does worsening one of the sides make anything better?"
It does not make anything better it stops the republicans from raping the democrats. If you are being raped you don't think about which collage you are going to in order to have a better future. You simply want to do everything you can to stop the rapist. Yes that means being violent, gross, mean, all those things you hate about yourself but it's a matter of survival.
Once the democrats can stop their daily raping then they can think of how to build a better future. Until then we better bite, kick, yell, scream, and kick them in the nuts till they stop.
"Who knows? People might actually like that and start voting for them."
History shows again and again that negative advertising works. Sorry to break the news to you but americans will never vote for a nice guy or a smart guy. They want somebody who can only think in black and white and is willing to kill people. More people you kill the more votes you get.
"What's patriotic about creating a movie with a some truth, a few lies, and some deliberate deception? "
People are upset at moore because he is using the same tactics as fox news, rush limbaugh, bill oreilly, george bush, dick cheney etc. Those people have an agenda and work tightly together to distort reality to push their won agenda. Moore has decided to counteract that agenda using they exact same tactics.
Using the whole truth (presuming it's even knowable) would accomplish nothing. It would be waste of money and time. I am glad moore did what he did we really needed an antidote to the right wing hate machine in this country. If that means creating a left wing hate machine I am all for it. As Bush said "we didn't start this war but we will fight it and we will prevail". You cant fight evil with kindness, you can't turn the other cheek, you can't lay down and let the republicans rape you whenever they want. You have to fight back.
"So you get access to something that the majority of Mac users wont even use."
I care about it that's why I chose it over windows. Other people may care about other things but that's not really my concern is it?
"Not that fair to compare something that hasn't even released to something that has been out for a few years. Now say what you want with your Tiger VS Longhorn comparisons, but atleast wait until the final products are out before you do so."
At this pace there might be two versions of macos before longhorn hits the market. There is no question apple is developing at a faster rate then MS at this point. Even if longhorn leapfrogs the mac it will only be for six months, then the next version of the mac will pull ahead again.
Actually Macs are a developers dream. They come with Xcode and a gui builder bundled for free. Xcode is a pretty good IDE and the next version (tiger) will be even better. The interface builder is awsome. They also let you program in java and objective-C. Using pyobjc you can even do python development. On top of all that they provide you with a very rich API that takes care of all the hard work.
What they have done now is to make it even easier for ordinary people to write little applets.
If you are kid learning to program I can't think of a better platform for you to learn on.
Given that both OS have their quirks, given that they both work just about equally well, Mac OS X is still better because it allows you access to the BSD layer. As an added bonus you also get X-11. In other words you get to run all the Mac software and all the nix software you have come to love.
Having said that I do think that OS-X is much better then XP. Expose alone is enough to give it the edge over windows. Once tiger comes out it won't even be close.
Class actions exist to punish companies not to reward the people who wewre fucked by the companies. As for big corporations they are not likely to sue other big companies over stuff like this, it would set a bad precedent.
Your analogy is meaningless. A more correct analogy might be a builder building a house that does not meet the building code and is unwilling to fix it so that it does. In that case it's perfectly OK to sue the builder.
To think of it another way the windows on your house work as intended and comply with all regulations that govern windows. They also meet strict federal regulations that govern buildings.
It does come by default (tty switching anyway). The rest of it is a couple of tweaks away.
I don't know about windows but you have to turn it on in MacOsX so it doesn't come on by default there either. Is it enabled by default on windows?
Even if MS beat apple to this one the score is still 1000 to 1. Nothing to crow about. These days most real innovation is happening on the open source projects. Most of the rest happens at apple. MS may steal ideas from open source and implement them faster then apple once in a while but most of the time Apple beats them to it.
Lately Apple has embraced open source software and are actively helping them innovate. That's the reason I am typing this on a powerbook and not a dell.
I repeat myself because you repeat yourself. You make it sound like fast user switching was invented by MS or something I didn't want to let that bit of FUD stand.
I was able to fast user switch long before XP came out on linux. I configured my system to make sure anybody coming along did not have access to all the terminals I was using. It's not hard at all.
It's highly unusual. It sticks out like a sore thumb and demands a second look.
If it was nothing nobody would be curious about it.
With this administration you don't need to go far to find malfeasance or shenanigans. 9/11 was the biggest failure of intelligence in the history of our country and not one person was found responsible nor did one person lose their jobs because of it. If that's not malfeasance I don't know what is.
Since when does that make him an automatic liberal?
"And Michael Moore is certainly grotesquely fat."
Which has nothing to do with anything he says, the books he writes, or the movies he makes. Hitchens doesn't seem to know how to attack his ideas so he attacks his weight.
BTW I don't know if there is anything more grotesque then hitchens sweaty pockmarked face. The man is Butt Ugly.
Bah! Drop java, c# and objective C. Move on to something truly lightweight like python or ruby. Python + zope3 now there is a lightweight container to crow about.
Hitchens is not a liberal. He has never been one. He will never be one. He HATES liberals, he especially hates bill clinton but he tends to pour most of his vitriol towards moore whom he always calls fat and smelly.
He is also pro war, he said oil was an excellent reason to wage war and invade and occupy iraq. To him all the worlds resources belong to the US. We have the right to take over any natural resource if we need it bad enough.
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"Good grief. That will only make things worse. We already have two sides who spend more time on the fact that they hate each other than they do on coming up with anything useful. How does worsening one of the sides make anything better?"
It does not make anything better it stops the republicans from raping the democrats. If you are being raped you don't think about which collage you are going to in order to have a better future. You simply want to do everything you can to stop the rapist. Yes that means being violent, gross, mean, all those things you hate about yourself but it's a matter of survival.
Once the democrats can stop their daily raping then they can think of how to build a better future. Until then we better bite, kick, yell, scream, and kick them in the nuts till they stop.
"Who knows? People might actually like that and start voting for them."
History shows again and again that negative advertising works. Sorry to break the news to you but americans will never vote for a nice guy or a smart guy. They want somebody who can only think in black and white and is willing to kill people. More people you kill the more votes you get.
Regarding #18:
There is footage in the movie of bush administration saying that saddam is toothless, contained and not a problem.
"What's patriotic about creating a movie with a some truth, a few lies, and some deliberate deception? "
People are upset at moore because he is using the same tactics as fox news, rush limbaugh, bill oreilly, george bush, dick cheney etc. Those people have an agenda and work tightly together to distort reality to push their won agenda. Moore has decided to counteract that agenda using they exact same tactics.
Using the whole truth (presuming it's even knowable) would accomplish nothing. It would be waste of money and time. I am glad moore did what he did we really needed an antidote to the right wing hate machine in this country. If that means creating a left wing hate machine I am all for it. As Bush said "we didn't start this war but we will fight it and we will prevail". You cant fight evil with kindness, you can't turn the other cheek, you can't lay down and let the republicans rape you whenever they want. You have to fight back.
"So you get access to something that the majority of Mac users wont even use."
I care about it that's why I chose it over windows. Other people may care about other things but that's not really my concern is it?
"Not that fair to compare something that hasn't even released to something that has been out for a few years. Now say what you want with your Tiger VS Longhorn comparisons, but atleast wait until the final products are out before you do so."
At this pace there might be two versions of macos before longhorn hits the market. There is no question apple is developing at a faster rate then MS at this point. Even if longhorn leapfrogs the mac it will only be for six months, then the next version of the mac will pull ahead again.
"Why is HTML+JavaScript _better_ than Interface Builder + Objective C? "
Just because most people already know javascript. Objective C is easy to learn if you already know C but that does not help your typical web designer.
Actually Macs are a developers dream. They come with Xcode and a gui builder bundled for free. Xcode is a pretty good IDE and the next version (tiger) will be even better. The interface builder is awsome. They also let you program in java and objective-C. Using pyobjc you can even do python development. On top of all that they provide you with a very rich API that takes care of all the hard work.
What they have done now is to make it even easier for ordinary people to write little applets.
If you are kid learning to program I can't think of a better platform for you to learn on.
Be tried that, it didn't work. You can't compete with MS on the intel market, it's not even worth trying.
Apple skimmed the cream off of next and be. By my rough calculations they probably employ 50% of the smartest geeks in America.
Given that both OS have their quirks, given that they both work just about equally well, Mac OS X is still better because it allows you access to the BSD layer. As an added bonus you also get X-11. In other words you get to run all the Mac software and all the nix software you have come to love.
Having said that I do think that OS-X is much better then XP. Expose alone is enough to give it the edge over windows. Once tiger comes out it won't even be close.
Also increased 64 bit-ness.
Dashboard will allow just about anybody to write little applets using html and javascript. That's the cool part not the virtual desktop.
The API is open. You can write your own plug in for spotlight so that it can index your file types.
Class actions exist to punish companies not to reward the people who wewre fucked by the companies. As for big corporations they are not likely to sue other big companies over stuff like this, it would set a bad precedent.
Wow. If the only people that truly need windows are the photoshop and CAD people we have already succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.
Your analogy is meaningless. A more correct analogy might be a builder building a house that does not meet the building code and is unwilling to fix it so that it does. In that case it's perfectly OK to sue the builder.
To think of it another way the windows on your house work as intended and comply with all regulations that govern windows. They also meet strict federal regulations that govern buildings.
Windows on your PC does none of the above.
If blind zealotry is not admirable overextending an analogy in the act of sycophantism is downright ugly.
It does come by default (tty switching anyway). The rest of it is a couple of tweaks away.
I don't know about windows but you have to turn it on in MacOsX so it doesn't come on by default there either. Is it enabled by default on windows?
Even if MS beat apple to this one the score is still 1000 to 1. Nothing to crow about. These days most real innovation is happening on the open source projects. Most of the rest happens at apple. MS may steal ideas from open source and implement them faster then apple once in a while but most of the time Apple beats them to it.
Lately Apple has embraced open source software and are actively helping them innovate. That's the reason I am typing this on a powerbook and not a dell.
I repeat myself because you repeat yourself. You make it sound like fast user switching was invented by MS or something I didn't want to let that bit of FUD stand.
I was able to fast user switch long before XP came out on linux. I configured my system to make sure anybody coming along did not have access to all the terminals I was using. It's not hard at all.
It's highly unusual. It sticks out like a sore thumb and demands a second look.
If it was nothing nobody would be curious about it.
With this administration you don't need to go far to find malfeasance or shenanigans. 9/11 was the biggest failure of intelligence in the history of our country and not one person was found responsible nor did one person lose their jobs because of it. If that's not malfeasance I don't know what is.
I had fast user switching in linux. Pressing control Fx key allowed me to log in as different users on different terminals. It worked great.
"He's written for the Nation since '82"
Since when does that make him an automatic liberal?
"And Michael Moore is certainly grotesquely fat."
Which has nothing to do with anything he says, the books he writes, or the movies he makes. Hitchens doesn't seem to know how to attack his ideas so he attacks his weight.
BTW I don't know if there is anything more grotesque then hitchens sweaty pockmarked face. The man is Butt Ugly.
Think of it this way.
One more revenue stream for MS has dried up. Dying is contagious!.
Either way time to crack open a beer and celebrate.
Bah! Drop java, c# and objective C. Move on to something truly lightweight like python or ruby. Python + zope3 now there is a lightweight container to crow about.
Hardly collage students, hardly any old people. The Bin Ladens and the bushes have always enjoyed a close relationship. Just google for it.
Hitchens is not a liberal. He has never been one. He will never be one. He HATES liberals, he especially hates bill clinton but he tends to pour most of his vitriol towards moore whom he always calls fat and smelly.
He is also pro war, he said oil was an excellent reason to wage war and invade and occupy iraq. To him all the worlds resources belong to the US. We have the right to take over any natural resource if we need it bad enough.