The more we look around at nature, the more intelligent we find that it is. However, the more time I spend looking around at humanity, the dumber I find that we are.
Yes, it is amazing how cheap you can create something when you don't have to spend much on research costs, and steal other peoples ideas. This is the other side of the patent problem - would we have so much investment if somebody on the other side of the world can simply steal the idea? (this is what they do today, but they have problems trying to sell these devices in the US)
And just think, what sort of horrendous hardware protection on devices would we see to prevent other companies from stealing ideas - a plastic box that explodes when you open it?
Heh, sure they can keep it in. Just don't stop me and surely most people from doing what they want to do, and watch the movie. They could go straight into the movie, and you have to press the menu button to get to the bonus stuff, or a second disc is good.
Yeah, it is called the 'grass is greener on the other side syndrome'. If you see so much marketing towards teenagers, you have got to stop reading teen magazines and watching lizzy macguire on tv.
Or you can just stop being a fool, and open your eyes.
Bonus stuff on a DVD just annoys me. When I get a movie, I just want to watch the movie. I have no interest in how it was made, or feel like hearing the cast and crew talk themselves up. Now, with a DVD, I just want to stick it into the machine, and the movie starts playing - but no, I get all this crap instead, telling me not to pirate and dolby sound commercials, etc... Then, when it is finished, I have to tell it to play the bloody movie - why doesn't it just play it straight away - ridiculous.
Of course blu-ray is a flop. They haven't sold one single disc. They haven't even sold any blu-ray players. People don't know whether to buy the disc first or the player first. It is the basic chicken-egg disaster all over again, and you know what happened in that situation. Do you call that a success??
What this concept is trying to do, is to stop poverty at different levels, and in different ways. Can't you really see that. I mean it is certainly important to ensure that people are not starving to death, and have clean water and good shelter. But we are trying to avoid the situation where we are constantly saving people, and trying to encourage these countries to support all of their people. One way to do this is improve the lives for those people who are just under the poverty line, but not quite starving yet.
You miss the point. People aren't replacing their cameras with these phones. When you see people going travelling, they aren't leaving their old camera at home and just taking their mobile! This has been my experience, and I live in a very tourist friendly city.
Maybe this will change in the next few years with better camera addons to phones, like the sony-ericcson cybershot phones, but I am not so sure. These are more like specialist phones.
Yes, it really seems that you gave up on Apple - since you made a web page and felt the need to post it on Slashdot.
After reading your page, it seems you were upset because Apple didn't take over the world. And because Apple made some questionable business decisions. And because 10 years after you bought your first mac it broke.
You are getting upset about the wrong things. You need to consider how the mac works for you. You seem to be making decisions for all the wrong reasons. Because you didn't want a 80386 - why do you care what CPU the machine uses??
BTW, I have not owned a mac for about 10 years, but not because of any of these silly reasons.
You are actually winning. What will you be able to do different with a new monitor?? Reclaim desk space - for what? So you can have more rubbish on the desk. More screen real estate - believe me, you don't even notice it when you are actually working/playing games.
Yes, this chap sounds like a believable fellow. If he is anything like the upstanding script children that I have had the pleasure of talking too, not a word comes out of his mouth without being absolute gospel.
I really must comend you amazing non-gulibility, and I will be sure to only use Microsoft products from this point on.
Video stores were about 50/50 Beta/VHS. There were other manufacturers selling Beta decks. And Beta still had far better video quality--maybe you couldn't see it on lousy US NTSC TVs, but on PAL systems it was very obvious.
This is not true at all, and if you could see it, then you are imagining things. The difference was really negligible. Unless you are comparing the professional Beta format...
A thinkpad, surely the greatest laptops around. Sure they are now owned by Lenovo, but how many people know that little fact? And they probably still command a lot of respect.
As to Dell and Gateway, well, just goes to show you that most people are idiots.
1) criticize the United States for using it's intelligence resources to protect itself from a corporation operating out of Communist China.
I too wonder about the people on slashdot who get upset about this. This seems like a reasonable thing to do. Spying on other countries has been going on for a long time, simply because having that extra bit of information is so useful. Not log after that, counter-intelligence was invented to try to stop spying, and that is all they are doing here.
2) criticize the US for not using intelligence resources "_enough_" to protect its ports/borders/etc.
Criticism is valid, there is nothing wrong with that. Many people believe that the US is focusing on the wrong areas. I don't think this is a wrong area, but there is nothing wrong with asking people int he government to justify why they are doing something.
3) criticize the US for using intelligence resource "_too_much_" by wire-tapping potential terrorists.
Come on...Potential terrorists is pretty much everyone. The problem with this is that it breeds mistrust and paranoia. There were rules against this for a reason. The government would love to know everything that its population is doing at all times, but this environment is not a good place to live.
I thought that by talking about Ballmers babies, they were referring to Microsoft Employees. I was actually shocked that he was really talking about his kids. Who cares about his kids (apart from him of course).
This would be much better if he had banned people at Microsoft from using ipods and google - I wonder what their actuall position on this is.
Why even release a new console then? Why not stick to the old one, maybe upgrade it somehow... I know, make it smaller (works for Playstation). Add in new controls for it.
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I call BS. I just went to the local tip, and there wasn't any athlons around. Only these crappy Pentium 1s. Us poor have our pride, you know!
Yes, that was it. If you too could just restrain yourself from impulse buying, you will amass a fortune of many billions. Brilliant.
Nothing to do with hard work or spending money wisely. Stop buying things - that will magically generate money.
In fact, this purchase alone will guarantee Bill another $10 million or so.. somehow.
Agreed. I was quite partial to Yuengling when I was in the US last year.
Didn't know that lawyers wore kilts?
The more we look around at nature, the more intelligent we find that it is. However, the more time I spend looking around at humanity, the dumber I find that we are.
I used to destroy ants with my brothers basketball. He never could figure out what that funny smell was.
Not quite sure why they annoyed me so much.
Yes, it is amazing how cheap you can create something when you don't have to spend much on research costs, and steal other peoples ideas. This is the other side of the patent problem - would we have so much investment if somebody on the other side of the world can simply steal the idea? (this is what they do today, but they have problems trying to sell these devices in the US)
And just think, what sort of horrendous hardware protection on devices would we see to prevent other companies from stealing ideas - a plastic box that explodes when you open it?
Yeah, well we will work on solving that little problem on the journey. It is amazing how hard people work under that sort of pressure.
American beer that your robot fetched is like having sex at the beach - Fucking close to water.
Heh, sure they can keep it in. Just don't stop me and surely most people from doing what they want to do, and watch the movie. They could go straight into the movie, and you have to press the menu button to get to the bonus stuff, or a second disc is good.
Yeah, it is called the 'grass is greener on the other side syndrome'. If you see so much marketing towards teenagers, you have got to stop reading teen magazines and watching lizzy macguire on tv.
Or you can just stop being a fool, and open your eyes.
Bonus stuff on a DVD just annoys me. When I get a movie, I just want to watch the movie. I have no interest in how it was made, or feel like hearing the cast and crew talk themselves up. Now, with a DVD, I just want to stick it into the machine, and the movie starts playing - but no, I get all this crap instead, telling me not to pirate and dolby sound commercials, etc... Then, when it is finished, I have to tell it to play the bloody movie - why doesn't it just play it straight away - ridiculous.
Of course blu-ray is a flop. They haven't sold one single disc. They haven't even sold any blu-ray players. People don't know whether to buy the disc first or the player first. It is the basic chicken-egg disaster all over again, and you know what happened in that situation. Do you call that a success??
What this concept is trying to do, is to stop poverty at different levels, and in different ways. Can't you really see that. I mean it is certainly important to ensure that people are not starving to death, and have clean water and good shelter. But we are trying to avoid the situation where we are constantly saving people, and trying to encourage these countries to support all of their people. One way to do this is improve the lives for those people who are just under the poverty line, but not quite starving yet.
You miss the point. People aren't replacing their cameras with these phones. When you see people going travelling, they aren't leaving their old camera at home and just taking their mobile! This has been my experience, and I live in a very tourist friendly city.
Maybe this will change in the next few years with better camera addons to phones, like the sony-ericcson cybershot phones, but I am not so sure. These are more like specialist phones.
Yes, it really seems that you gave up on Apple - since you made a web page and felt the need to post it on Slashdot.
After reading your page, it seems you were upset because Apple didn't take over the world. And because Apple made some questionable business decisions. And because 10 years after you bought your first mac it broke.
You are getting upset about the wrong things. You need to consider how the mac works for you. You seem to be making decisions for all the wrong reasons. Because you didn't want a 80386 - why do you care what CPU the machine uses??
BTW, I have not owned a mac for about 10 years, but not because of any of these silly reasons.
You are actually winning. What will you be able to do different with a new monitor?? Reclaim desk space - for what? So you can have more rubbish on the desk. More screen real estate - believe me, you don't even notice it when you are actually working/playing games.
Yes, this chap sounds like a believable fellow. If he is anything like the upstanding script children that I have had the pleasure of talking too, not a word comes out of his mouth without being absolute gospel.
I really must comend you amazing non-gulibility, and I will be sure to only use Microsoft products from this point on.
Thanks you kind sir. (Idiot!)
Video stores were about 50/50 Beta/VHS. There were other manufacturers selling Beta decks. And Beta still had far better video quality--maybe you couldn't see it on lousy US NTSC TVs, but on PAL systems it was very obvious.
This is not true at all, and if you could see it, then you are imagining things. The difference was really negligible. Unless you are comparing the professional Beta format...
A thinkpad, surely the greatest laptops around. Sure they are now owned by Lenovo, but how many people know that little fact? And they probably still command a lot of respect.
As to Dell and Gateway, well, just goes to show you that most people are idiots.
1) criticize the United States for using it's intelligence resources to protect itself from a corporation operating out of Communist China.
I too wonder about the people on slashdot who get upset about this. This seems like a reasonable thing to do. Spying on other countries has been going on for a long time, simply because having that extra bit of information is so useful. Not log after that, counter-intelligence was invented to try to stop spying, and that is all they are doing here.
2) criticize the US for not using intelligence resources "_enough_" to protect its ports/borders/etc.
Criticism is valid, there is nothing wrong with that. Many people believe that the US is focusing on the wrong areas. I don't think this is a wrong area, but there is nothing wrong with asking people int he government to justify why they are doing something.
3) criticize the US for using intelligence resource "_too_much_" by wire-tapping potential terrorists.
Come on...Potential terrorists is pretty much everyone. The problem with this is that it breeds mistrust and paranoia. There were rules against this for a reason. The government would love to know everything that its population is doing at all times, but this environment is not a good place to live.
I thought that by talking about Ballmers babies, they were referring to Microsoft Employees. I was actually shocked that he was really talking about his kids. Who cares about his kids (apart from him of course).
This would be much better if he had banned people at Microsoft from using ipods and google - I wonder what their actuall position on this is.
Why even release a new console then? Why not stick to the old one, maybe upgrade it somehow... I know, make it smaller (works for Playstation). Add in new controls for it.
I believe that he sent many an email to the FBI, but hasn't heard anything back yet.
Wow, haven't heard that one before. You are so damn clever... I genreflect in your approximate direction.