I agree. Sixty years ago the heroes of France were "Resistance" against a Nazi invader. Today the heroes of Iraq are the "Resistance" against a Nazi invader.
I think those words come to mind because you are so used to hearing them. Try to tax yourself and investigate the real history of South East Asia and Central America. Not the crap you are spoon fed by the American propoganda machine. Yes there used to be two propoganda machines, the Russian and the American... now we just have the American. You wont find just a few thousand bodies in the countries America has "touched" you will find the horror that is USA external policy.
You need the tag "Suckled by CNN and FOX".
Sadam never tortured and murdered "a large percentage" of his population. A few thousand here and there. Bush and your terrorist orginisation the CIA torture a thousand here and thousand there... and then kill a million here and a million there... just go and investigate the real history of the last century.
Damn your igorant! Your not a one dimentional coward afterall!
The way USA controls the election results is with money. In many REAL democracies around the world there is a spending cap on election spendind by all parties. USA does not follow world thinking on democracy, barely having anything resembling a democracy itself.
I will not explain to you pathetically mentally equipped individual that no legitimate government in the world (USA is not legitamate) claims that an election under an occupation is free and fair.
Forced registration was 80%... but again you show your ignorance as I did not say at all that registrations were 40%. I clearly said that the votes from regitered voters were 40%
Go home and marry your cousin.
The cowaard part of your handle explains a lot about who you are mate.
What Amrericas news is not telling you is that there is no real government in Iraq. There was voting. But the voting was under 50% of the voting public. All the facts you have been told are falsehoods. Iraqis were forced to register for the election just to receive food aid or to see any doctor. They then used those numbers for propiganda saying tat the number of registrations was the number of people voting. In reality the voter turnout was around 40%... thats 40% of registered voters, not 40% of people who were elegeble to register to vote. The election was months ago... they have only elected a few of the cabinet positions. They have released some yankee propaganda that they now have a govenment, but that happened after they elected only 50% of the government positions and after three of the only four Sunnis so run for office quit completely their positions... only 24 hours before the propagannda release that they had a fair government... the Sunnis quit because they claimed there was no free government because it was being controlled by the American Overlords. Now finally, with 30% of the country not represented at all, and the other two thirds having only an American run puppet government, the elected officials hav e only three or four months bwfore the government is dissolved because it was never ment to be a real government, their one and only task was to create a constitution for the real elections (still controlled by American overlords) at the end of this year. I ask you one question. Where is the democrocy you coward?
As one editor in one of Americas non radical press a month ago admited that this sounds like a conspiricy theory, but the US government themselves have only offered a weaker conspiricy theory themselves to prove they were under attack from BinLaden and Sadam. The question was posed... Do you beleive one conspiricy theory or the other conspiricy theory?
I agree.
Time to remove the adverts from the slimey company Tigerdirect or we will have to assume that all slashdot advertisers are second rate companies.
Apple Trademarked Apple in a new industry. A small industry at the time.
IBM is short for International Business Machines... I see this as a worse abuse of trademarking.
Microsoft have Windows, a trademark they regestered after Windows was already a gineric term and used in the acronum WIMP (Windows, Icons, Mouse Pointer).
Microsoft have Word, a trademark they regestered after the term Word Processor was a standard term for word processors.
Microsoft have Office, a trademark applied for after the term Office Software was used in the industry to cover software used in the office.
Microsoft have Publisher, a trademark they applied for after the term Desktop Publishing(er) was a standard industry term.
Do I need to continue? i don't think Apple have always been 100% fair or right in its legal dealings, but this time they have solid ground.
My first question is, will this kill the iPod, or will Apple get angry and release the iPod Phone which could kill off Nokia?
I do not see any use for Cel Phones. I have never had one and will never buy one. I value my privacy too much for that. I do not own an iPod, but maybe one day if I desperatly need portable music the iPod will be my music device of choice.
Well the figures I have seen is that worldwide the XBox comes the distant third.
So the Gamecube came third in USA... that doesnt mean the rest of the world fell for Microsofts advertising.
I agree. Apple seems to me to have an edge in creating cutting edge replacements for Adobe products. I am surprised as a new Mac convert just how easy all Aplles interfaces are, and how much power you control with these simple interfaces.
I am a graphic professional that just switched my office to OSX. I hate Adobe. I hate Adobe products.
I for one have been waiting anxiously for the new core image and video technology from Tiger. I saw the demo online and have been wetting myself ever since.
Die Adobe Die!
Uhm, what does Macromedia have to do with print/press? All of their product portfolio is aimed at online. Adobe has products both for traditional printing (InDesign, FrameMaker, Illustrator, etc.), purely online (Go Live), and products that straddle the two worlds (Acrobat). Macromedia is all about online.
You did not mention freehand which some of us prefer over Illustrator. You also have no idea how people use the macromedia tools for print. I myself have been using Flash for graphic creation for printed documents for more than four years.
Am I the only person that thinks the new Battlestar Galactica is by far the worst sci fi program in history?
All they have done is take a post 9/11 GI movie, extend it, and add robots.
I stopped watching after the first five episodes.
It often degenerates into FUD. Like one of the most common ones I hear for why to switch to Linux is that Windows crashes all the time. Well, ok, maybe for that Linux user it did, I don't know, but for me it doesn't. It basically never crashes, even app crashes are pretty rare.
I personally do not like either Windows or Linux. But my point is that if Windows is so stable on your machine then I have to ask if you have petitioned Microsoft to halt all development of Longhorn? If XP is stable on all machines, and you are so happy with it, then you and all other people using Microsoft OS's do not want the complexity of Unix features being built into Longhorn.
If it aint broke, Why is Microsoft fixing it?
I have my own company making CD based software titles. You would be surprised how easy it is to create a CD or DVD and send it off for printing. It is also cheap.
You could identify a target audience and advertise directly to them. This is a cheap way to het an income started.
You could get people like myself (I am an animator who used to work for some very identifyable studios, and I have always wanted to create a killer music video) to help with a video.
If you contact iTunes and other stores you can get onto their "Long Tail".
There may not be a net based MTV lookalike yet, but one day online video streaming will catch on and one of the big costs is content. If bands like you offer free use of videos then online MTV type shows will find it easier to startup, and you get some great "airtime".
Then one last tip is to try to get on the charts in a small market. Many countries are great, but for one example, UB40 made it in New Zealand with its first single, before leveraging that success to promote themselves in the UK.
Steve Jobs anounced Spotlight when he was ready to release the Tiger Beta. It takes years to produce such a feature.
Jobs was probably working on Spotlight when Gates was trying to own the internet.
So you have to own up to one of two things. If Jobs can produce such a large OS upgrade in a year, then either Microsoft is incompetently slow at programming OS upgrades (since he anounced it in 03, and it probably wont see the light of day until 07, yet as you sugest Jobs and crew can produce the feature and others in 12 months), or Gates did not "invent" the search feature.
In New Zealand a bunch of researchers invented a less painful way of taking blood samples that was needleless.
The first application was to test New Zealand Olympic athletes daily for optimal performance. This of course could not be done on a daily basis if it caused scarring or bruising. It was in use on human athletes for a year before the Athens Olympics.
There is a fundamental flaw in the logic of this essay. It is not uncommon. In fact it seems to be the overriding opinion of Open Source advocates. They are happy to explain how Microsoft and others have denied that Open Source would have any effect on their system, but with their backs turned the Open Source alternative has become a rottweiller and has bitten them on the behind. These Open Source advocates have now convinced themselves that the world will now ignore Solaris if they ignore Solaris. They, like Microsoft before them, have not figured that the users are not happy with the way they do things. Arrogance abounds in the Open Source community. There is a growing list of end users who are not listened to on bug reports, who are unhappy with interfaces. Interfaces should never be designed by programmers. Programmers use different thought processes than everyone else so seldom create an intuitive experience for the "average joe".
I should also point out that the author missed the dirty little secret of the Open Source community. He pointed out the dirty little tricks of the capitalists. The dirtiest little trick is when comapanies like Microsoft claim they are more secure than Linux (correctly or incorrectly) the programmers around the edge of Linux set out to prove that Windows is less secure by creating virii that exploits holes in the Windows security.
Linus Torvalds is no better to many now than Bill Gates. Both have surrounded themselves with adoring sicophants. Neither has any idea that they are, or have become unpopular. Their Operating systems are not having 100% acceptance by all who try them. There are even defections from within the fold as programmers become disillusioned with the heirarchy within the Open Source community.
Well he may or may not take AMD advertising, but he has weighted the results at least in part toward Intel CPUs.
I have not built a machine in some time so I can't say for all the results, but when AMD was shipping the first of the 1.3 Ghz Athlons the standard ram was DDR266. I still use the ram I bought at that time (Over 5 gig for various machines) and at that time Rambus ram was twice the price and as rare as hens teeth.
Why does Tom use SD ram on the AMD chips in this test for some time after DDR was standard? And why does he use Rambus memory on the Intel chips as soon as they support it?
I get more reliable charts by staring at the streaks I leave on my used toilet tisssue.`
A Brittish satellite found evidence of water on Mars three weeks before Mars Rover found its own evidence of water.
NASA has a policy of stealing the glory of every advance in tech. Take the Scram-jet. An Australian professor invented it a decade before NASA "reinvented" it. The Australian scram-jet had a successful flight before the NASA scram-jet as well.
What I have found generally is that x86 architecture appeals to kiddies.
x86 has some real strengths, but it has many flaws. Teens don't recognise the flaws because of two factors. The most obvious is they don't have the experience yet to do any due dilligence. The second is the biggest problem. Teens don't have a lot of spare cash. You can follow this logic back to before the 1950's when teens would buy model T fords and similar for little money and try to upgrade the performace with hacks. A cut down Model T could not compare with a new car, but it WAS a lot cheaper. Of course you could not upgrade a new car in the 50's by bolting in a new engine. You could however allways upgrade the Model T with bigger and better engines... and other parts. The new car was already at the top of the game.
So now we have a lot of teens with a lot of spare time and with little money. They look at Macs and decide they are rubbish because they don't have the cash to buy a good one. They believe they can get better performance by getting a cheap box and then spend the next year regularly crashing it while they try new overclocks on the GPU or CPU, or RAM or fan speed... Like the teens from the 50's they will grow up for the greater part. They will realise (here is the due dilligence part) that their time is worth more than the small increase in price. These are the ones that will buy a Mac, or another all in one system that is fast and "RELIABLE" out of the box. There will be others that will be like the old 50 year old car fanatics today who will continue to paint up their boxes, and tweak their timings until the day they die.
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Just don't read the fine print.
It is made by Disney. Of course it will be a tradgedy!
I agree. Sixty years ago the heroes of France were "Resistance" against a Nazi invader. Today the heroes of Iraq are the "Resistance" against a Nazi invader.
I think those words come to mind because you are so used to hearing them.
Try to tax yourself and investigate the real history of South East Asia and Central America. Not the crap you are spoon fed by the American propoganda machine. Yes there used to be two propoganda machines, the Russian and the American... now we just have the American.
You wont find just a few thousand bodies in the countries America has "touched" you will find the horror that is USA external policy.
You need the tag "Suckled by CNN and FOX". Sadam never tortured and murdered "a large percentage" of his population. A few thousand here and there. Bush and your terrorist orginisation the CIA torture a thousand here and thousand there... and then kill a million here and a million there... just go and investigate the real history of the last century.
Damn your igorant! Your not a one dimentional coward afterall!
The way USA controls the election results is with money. In many REAL democracies around the world there is a spending cap on election spendind by all parties. USA does not follow world thinking on democracy, barely having anything resembling a democracy itself.
I will not explain to you pathetically mentally equipped individual that no legitimate government in the world (USA is not legitamate) claims that an election under an occupation is free and fair.
Forced registration was 80%... but again you show your ignorance as I did not say at all that registrations were 40%. I clearly said that the votes from regitered voters were 40%
Go home and marry your cousin.
The cowaard part of your handle explains a lot about who you are mate. What Amrericas news is not telling you is that there is no real government in Iraq. There was voting. But the voting was under 50% of the voting public. All the facts you have been told are falsehoods. Iraqis were forced to register for the election just to receive food aid or to see any doctor. They then used those numbers for propiganda saying tat the number of registrations was the number of people voting. In reality the voter turnout was around 40%... thats 40% of registered voters, not 40% of people who were elegeble to register to vote.
The election was months ago... they have only elected a few of the cabinet positions. They have released some yankee propaganda that they now have a govenment, but that happened after they elected only 50% of the government positions and after three of the only four Sunnis so run for office quit completely their positions... only 24 hours before the propagannda release that they had a fair government... the Sunnis quit because they claimed there was no free government because it was being controlled by the American Overlords.
Now finally, with 30% of the country not represented at all, and the other two thirds having only an American run puppet government, the elected officials hav e only three or four months bwfore the government is dissolved because it was never ment to be a real government, their one and only task was to create a constitution for the real elections (still controlled by American overlords) at the end of this year.
I ask you one question. Where is the democrocy you coward?
As one editor in one of Americas non radical press a month ago admited that this sounds like a conspiricy theory, but the US government themselves have only offered a weaker conspiricy theory themselves to prove they were under attack from BinLaden and Sadam. The question was posed... Do you beleive one conspiricy theory or the other conspiricy theory?
I agree. Time to remove the adverts from the slimey company Tigerdirect or we will have to assume that all slashdot advertisers are second rate companies.
Apple Trademarked Apple in a new industry. A small industry at the time. IBM is short for International Business Machines... I see this as a worse abuse of trademarking. Microsoft have Windows, a trademark they regestered after Windows was already a gineric term and used in the acronum WIMP (Windows, Icons, Mouse Pointer). Microsoft have Word, a trademark they regestered after the term Word Processor was a standard term for word processors. Microsoft have Office, a trademark applied for after the term Office Software was used in the industry to cover software used in the office. Microsoft have Publisher, a trademark they applied for after the term Desktop Publishing(er) was a standard industry term. Do I need to continue? i don't think Apple have always been 100% fair or right in its legal dealings, but this time they have solid ground.
My first question is, will this kill the iPod, or will Apple get angry and release the iPod Phone which could kill off Nokia? I do not see any use for Cel Phones. I have never had one and will never buy one. I value my privacy too much for that. I do not own an iPod, but maybe one day if I desperatly need portable music the iPod will be my music device of choice.
Well the figures I have seen is that worldwide the XBox comes the distant third. So the Gamecube came third in USA... that doesnt mean the rest of the world fell for Microsofts advertising.
I agree. Apple seems to me to have an edge in creating cutting edge replacements for Adobe products. I am surprised as a new Mac convert just how easy all Aplles interfaces are, and how much power you control with these simple interfaces.
I am a graphic professional that just switched my office to OSX. I hate Adobe. I hate Adobe products. I for one have been waiting anxiously for the new core image and video technology from Tiger. I saw the demo online and have been wetting myself ever since. Die Adobe Die!
Uhm, what does Macromedia have to do with print/press? All of their product portfolio is aimed at online. Adobe has products both for traditional printing (InDesign, FrameMaker, Illustrator, etc.), purely online (Go Live), and products that straddle the two worlds (Acrobat). Macromedia is all about online.
You did not mention freehand which some of us prefer over Illustrator. You also have no idea how people use the macromedia tools for print. I myself have been using Flash for graphic creation for printed documents for more than four years.
Am I the only person that thinks the new Battlestar Galactica is by far the worst sci fi program in history?
All they have done is take a post 9/11 GI movie, extend it, and add robots.
I stopped watching after the first five episodes.
I have my own company making CD based software titles. You would be surprised how easy it is to create a CD or DVD and send it off for printing. It is also cheap. You could identify a target audience and advertise directly to them. This is a cheap way to het an income started. You could get people like myself (I am an animator who used to work for some very identifyable studios, and I have always wanted to create a killer music video) to help with a video. If you contact iTunes and other stores you can get onto their "Long Tail". There may not be a net based MTV lookalike yet, but one day online video streaming will catch on and one of the big costs is content. If bands like you offer free use of videos then online MTV type shows will find it easier to startup, and you get some great "airtime". Then one last tip is to try to get on the charts in a small market. Many countries are great, but for one example, UB40 made it in New Zealand with its first single, before leveraging that success to promote themselves in the UK.
Steve Jobs anounced Spotlight when he was ready to release the Tiger Beta. It takes years to produce such a feature. Jobs was probably working on Spotlight when Gates was trying to own the internet. So you have to own up to one of two things. If Jobs can produce such a large OS upgrade in a year, then either Microsoft is incompetently slow at programming OS upgrades (since he anounced it in 03, and it probably wont see the light of day until 07, yet as you sugest Jobs and crew can produce the feature and others in 12 months), or Gates did not "invent" the search feature.
In New Zealand a bunch of researchers invented a less painful way of taking blood samples that was needleless. The first application was to test New Zealand Olympic athletes daily for optimal performance. This of course could not be done on a daily basis if it caused scarring or bruising. It was in use on human athletes for a year before the Athens Olympics.
There is a fundamental flaw in the logic of this essay. It is not uncommon. In fact it seems to be the overriding opinion of Open Source advocates. They are happy to explain how Microsoft and others have denied that Open Source would have any effect on their system, but with their backs turned the Open Source alternative has become a rottweiller and has bitten them on the behind. These Open Source advocates have now convinced themselves that the world will now ignore Solaris if they ignore Solaris. They, like Microsoft before them, have not figured that the users are not happy with the way they do things. Arrogance abounds in the Open Source community. There is a growing list of end users who are not listened to on bug reports, who are unhappy with interfaces. Interfaces should never be designed by programmers. Programmers use different thought processes than everyone else so seldom create an intuitive experience for the "average joe".
I should also point out that the author missed the dirty little secret of the Open Source community. He pointed out the dirty little tricks of the capitalists. The dirtiest little trick is when comapanies like Microsoft claim they are more secure than Linux (correctly or incorrectly) the programmers around the edge of Linux set out to prove that Windows is less secure by creating virii that exploits holes in the Windows security.
Linus Torvalds is no better to many now than Bill Gates. Both have surrounded themselves with adoring sicophants. Neither has any idea that they are, or have become unpopular. Their Operating systems are not having 100% acceptance by all who try them. There are even defections from within the fold as programmers become disillusioned with the heirarchy within the Open Source community.
Well he may or may not take AMD advertising, but he has weighted the results at least in part toward Intel CPUs. I have not built a machine in some time so I can't say for all the results, but when AMD was shipping the first of the 1.3 Ghz Athlons the standard ram was DDR266. I still use the ram I bought at that time (Over 5 gig for various machines) and at that time Rambus ram was twice the price and as rare as hens teeth. Why does Tom use SD ram on the AMD chips in this test for some time after DDR was standard? And why does he use Rambus memory on the Intel chips as soon as they support it? I get more reliable charts by staring at the streaks I leave on my used toilet tisssue.`
A Brittish satellite found evidence of water on Mars three weeks before Mars Rover found its own evidence of water. NASA has a policy of stealing the glory of every advance in tech. Take the Scram-jet. An Australian professor invented it a decade before NASA "reinvented" it. The Australian scram-jet had a successful flight before the NASA scram-jet as well.
What I have found generally is that x86 architecture appeals to kiddies. x86 has some real strengths, but it has many flaws. Teens don't recognise the flaws because of two factors. The most obvious is they don't have the experience yet to do any due dilligence. The second is the biggest problem. Teens don't have a lot of spare cash. You can follow this logic back to before the 1950's when teens would buy model T fords and similar for little money and try to upgrade the performace with hacks. A cut down Model T could not compare with a new car, but it WAS a lot cheaper. Of course you could not upgrade a new car in the 50's by bolting in a new engine. You could however allways upgrade the Model T with bigger and better engines... and other parts. The new car was already at the top of the game. So now we have a lot of teens with a lot of spare time and with little money. They look at Macs and decide they are rubbish because they don't have the cash to buy a good one. They believe they can get better performance by getting a cheap box and then spend the next year regularly crashing it while they try new overclocks on the GPU or CPU, or RAM or fan speed... Like the teens from the 50's they will grow up for the greater part. They will realise (here is the due dilligence part) that their time is worth more than the small increase in price. These are the ones that will buy a Mac, or another all in one system that is fast and "RELIABLE" out of the box. There will be others that will be like the old 50 year old car fanatics today who will continue to paint up their boxes, and tweak their timings until the day they die.