I disagree that Apple has somehow taken a downturn in the last few years. Unless you are a frothing rabid GPL advocate or fall into a number of other very small pigeonholes, Apple has been on a 10 year upswing and it's only looking rosier for them. Even with the negative sides with Apple, their focus on the customer is keener than any alternative, especially Google. Ever try to talk to somebody from Google? It's fucking impossible. You are not Google's customer, you are their product.
Other than advertising supported search, email, and other services, all of which are ultimately just vectors for ads, what has Google done for me in my life? Apple was there for me in the 80s with BASIC, in the 90s for Pascal and C, and now with my GNU tools.
I am running software written for OS X 10.0 on a PPC, on my Intel Mac under 10.6 and it works great. If I need to run software going back to the 80s I can, using an older Powerbook that still works great after 15 years, or a slightly newer Powerbook that replaced it 7 years later which of course runs OS X.
I know the fashion is to bash on Apple, but it was possible to run truly ancient code on a Mac until the burial of OS 9. OS X applications are compatible across platforms and backwards compatibility is perfect. There are some Windows 2000 applications that will not work properly with Windows 7, however apps written for OS X Beta which emerged about that time will still run on 10.6.
If you want to see some shitty backward compatibility, try running Tribes 2 for Linux on your modern Linux distro. They have obsoleted so many interfaces and drivers etc, that it can be impossible to run legacy software.
If you are placing your monitoring stations under A/C exhaust vents and in the middle of asphalt parking lots, you can make any year the warmest on record.
This kind of shady business is par for the course. Can't keep those grants rolling in if there is nothing to panic over. Plus these climate prostitutes got their first taste of real power and liked it.
It is clear you never read the CRU leak's actual contents, or are you one of the fucking tools that would have us believe that plain English terms like "hide the decline" are being misinterpreted? Because you fucks aren't fooling anybody with that kind of talk.
It will be decades before the climatology circle is trusted again, if ever. You already lost the entire third world, and Australia, and believe it or not most of the USA. That mindshare in your little fairy tale will never come back.
This is a real, measurable "runaway train" effect for you.
The data from the IPCC and other climate centers can not be trusted, and the CRU leaks show why.
All that gridding and normalization has destroyed the integrity of the original data, which has been "lost" somehow.
Faking science in order to alarm everybody into a panic with tales of doom is what should be punished by death here. Your apparatchiks in the CRu and IPCC and Nasa and many other formerly prestigious climatological centers are fucking busted.
See if we can throw out some numbers, double others, and put our sensors in the middle of parking lots and under A/C vents where it gets really really hot, it turns out the Earth really is getting warmer, and at an alarming pace!
Sorry, Mann and CO deserve to be put in front of a firing squad, like any scientist who thinks it is their duo to fool the public into believing the sky is falling.
Of course Nature doesn't matter. They are interested in protecting their interests, and at this point that means defusing controversy.
A lot of ass fucks who call themselves scientists would have us believe that the scheming and rat bastard behavior evidenced in the Climategate emails isn't what it seems to be, and their plain-english conversations are being misinterpreted.
Sorry, but this is like the Pope clearing a Cardinal of child abuse charges, and then when confronted claiming that it was all just a big misunderstanding.
You can't put the cat back in the bag here buddy. The climatologists of the world will be living under a microscope for decades to come.
Actually, the context is clear form the mails. And there are literally dozens if not hundreds of mails that were leaked that show nefarious activities.
Don't be one of those douche bags that claims that words like hide and massage have different meanings within the climatology jargon.
Considering that I am paying the salaries of many of these slimy fucks, I have every right to bitch and moan.
Creating fake science so you can fool the public into allowing apparatchiks to engage their grand dream is the sort of thing that by all rights should carry the death penalty.
It is good to see that you were too scared to respond other than anonymously. This reinforces my thought that dishonest nut bags like you are actually ashamed.
Pretty much all software for windows is coded on a windows box.
And you can easily write code for OS X without a Mac. I have shitloads of Java apps, Unix command line apps, and even some fucking god-awful Air apps installed, and I doubt any of them were made on a Mac.
Actually in the classic sense, an "operating system" is a system that has what you need to do your daily work. Not just the base layer, but the applications too. When you freshly install Windows it is hardly suitable for everyday work, and is therefore not, in the classic or traditional sense, an operating system because it doesn't really operate yet. It just sits there.
I realize the terminology has changed over time, but there should be some term to denote a system that is suitable for work or play, including all the applications and libraries that are not included by default.
In this sense, any default Linux install is much more of an OS than Windows is, as you are able to use it to do work right off the bat. After all, most of them include the gimp, OO.o, emacs, browsers, calendar, email apps, and so on.
Well if it's slow and buggy and runs like ass then it is performing as expected for a Windows product.
I don't think it is realistic for you to expect to be able to run a Microsoft product with the minimum specs. This has been well known since the Windows 3.0 days.
Maybe scientists would be more respected across the board if they stopped "hiding the decline" and accepting corporate handouts in exchange for favorable studies.
In the old days a scientist would be laughed out of his profession for the sort of activities that are now accept practice, to keep those grant dollars rolling in.
I can barely comprehend the audacity of the climatologists who chair the IPCC, and it looks like the whole world had a peek inside their world of lies and massaged data.
Separate politics and science, stop taking money for favorable studies, and stop pretending that this artificial, commercialized version of science is anything but an aberration, and then we can talk about trust.
Preposterous. That would be like choosing a Droid or Pre or Blackberry over an iPhone. I mean, sure, it happens, but only if you go into the wrong store, or allow yourself to be dazzled by the sales guy.
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We are polite. Just stay out of the tourist trap and megacity hellholes next time you come here.
I never understood why people visit America and then ruin their stay by going to Chicago or New York or LA. Those are all reaver territory!
I disagree that Apple has somehow taken a downturn in the last few years. Unless you are a frothing rabid GPL advocate or fall into a number of other very small pigeonholes, Apple has been on a 10 year upswing and it's only looking rosier for them. Even with the negative sides with Apple, their focus on the customer is keener than any alternative, especially Google. Ever try to talk to somebody from Google? It's fucking impossible. You are not Google's customer, you are their product.
Other than advertising supported search, email, and other services, all of which are ultimately just vectors for ads, what has Google done for me in my life? Apple was there for me in the 80s with BASIC, in the 90s for Pascal and C, and now with my GNU tools.
I am running software written for OS X 10.0 on a PPC, on my Intel Mac under 10.6 and it works great. If I need to run software going back to the 80s I can, using an older Powerbook that still works great after 15 years, or a slightly newer Powerbook that replaced it 7 years later which of course runs OS X.
I know the fashion is to bash on Apple, but it was possible to run truly ancient code on a Mac until the burial of OS 9. OS X applications are compatible across platforms and backwards compatibility is perfect. There are some Windows 2000 applications that will not work properly with Windows 7, however apps written for OS X Beta which emerged about that time will still run on 10.6.
If you want to see some shitty backward compatibility, try running Tribes 2 for Linux on your modern Linux distro. They have obsoleted so many interfaces and drivers etc, that it can be impossible to run legacy software.
Can do? Or theoretically could do if somebody spent the time making a good encoder...
When there is a nice, portable, accelerated ARM version of VP8 then you can claim what you have.
If you are placing your monitoring stations under A/C exhaust vents and in the middle of asphalt parking lots, you can make any year the warmest on record.
This kind of shady business is par for the course. Can't keep those grants rolling in if there is nothing to panic over. Plus these climate prostitutes got their first taste of real power and liked it.
It is clear you never read the CRU leak's actual contents, or are you one of the fucking tools that would have us believe that plain English terms like "hide the decline" are being misinterpreted? Because you fucks aren't fooling anybody with that kind of talk.
It will be decades before the climatology circle is trusted again, if ever. You already lost the entire third world, and Australia, and believe it or not most of the USA. That mindshare in your little fairy tale will never come back.
This is a real, measurable "runaway train" effect for you.
The data from the IPCC and other climate centers can not be trusted, and the CRU leaks show why.
All that gridding and normalization has destroyed the integrity of the original data, which has been "lost" somehow.
Faking science in order to alarm everybody into a panic with tales of doom is what should be punished by death here. Your apparatchiks in the CRu and IPCC and Nasa and many other formerly prestigious climatological centers are fucking busted.
I will reflect a popular warmest meme back at you: "weather is not climate!"
Besides, with the revelations about the cherry picked tree ring data acquisition process contained in the CRU leak, we don't know who to trust.
How about Her Majesty's Navy? Their records show a different trend han the IPCC's do.
I suppose they will redefine the word robust as well now.
Keep hiding that decline, boys. Wouldn't want anybody to realize that we are in a global cooling snap and have been for a decade now.
Dude I just clicked on taobao.com and now my IDS logs are absolutely ablaze with hack attempts from China.
Those guys are really responsive.
Oh Phuc off you Thach.
Thank you sir. As another appdev I appreciate where you are coming from, but I doubly appreciate your attitude and the fact that you shut off the sig.
There is hope for us yet!
Warmists are the ones who were caught with their pants down.
See if we can throw out some numbers, double others, and put our sensors in the middle of parking lots and under A/C vents where it gets really really hot, it turns out the Earth really is getting warmer, and at an alarming pace!
Sorry, Mann and CO deserve to be put in front of a firing squad, like any scientist who thinks it is their duo to fool the public into believing the sky is falling.
Of course Nature doesn't matter. They are interested in protecting their interests, and at this point that means defusing controversy.
A lot of ass fucks who call themselves scientists would have us believe that the scheming and rat bastard behavior evidenced in the Climategate emails isn't what it seems to be, and their plain-english conversations are being misinterpreted.
Sorry, but this is like the Pope clearing a Cardinal of child abuse charges, and then when confronted claiming that it was all just a big misunderstanding.
You can't put the cat back in the bag here buddy. The climatologists of the world will be living under a microscope for decades to come.
Dells have a 1 year warranty. Unless you are willing to pay more than what a new computer costs for support.
Actually, the context is clear form the mails. And there are literally dozens if not hundreds of mails that were leaked that show nefarious activities.
Don't be one of those douche bags that claims that words like hide and massage have different meanings within the climatology jargon.
Considering that I am paying the salaries of many of these slimy fucks, I have every right to bitch and moan.
Creating fake science so you can fool the public into allowing apparatchiks to engage their grand dream is the sort of thing that by all rights should carry the death penalty.
It is good to see that you were too scared to respond other than anonymously. This reinforces my thought that dishonest nut bags like you are actually ashamed.
Pretty much all software for windows is coded on a windows box.
And you can easily write code for OS X without a Mac. I have shitloads of Java apps, Unix command line apps, and even some fucking god-awful Air apps installed, and I doubt any of them were made on a Mac.
If you aren't joking, you must be high on crack.
Actually in the classic sense, an "operating system" is a system that has what you need to do your daily work. Not just the base layer, but the applications too. When you freshly install Windows it is hardly suitable for everyday work, and is therefore not, in the classic or traditional sense, an operating system because it doesn't really operate yet. It just sits there.
I realize the terminology has changed over time, but there should be some term to denote a system that is suitable for work or play, including all the applications and libraries that are not included by default.
In this sense, any default Linux install is much more of an OS than Windows is, as you are able to use it to do work right off the bat. After all, most of them include the gimp, OO.o, emacs, browsers, calendar, email apps, and so on.
Well if it's slow and buggy and runs like ass then it is performing as expected for a Windows product.
I don't think it is realistic for you to expect to be able to run a Microsoft product with the minimum specs. This has been well known since the Windows 3.0 days.
Maybe scientists would be more respected across the board if they stopped "hiding the decline" and accepting corporate handouts in exchange for favorable studies.
In the old days a scientist would be laughed out of his profession for the sort of activities that are now accept practice, to keep those grant dollars rolling in.
I can barely comprehend the audacity of the climatologists who chair the IPCC, and it looks like the whole world had a peek inside their world of lies and massaged data.
Separate politics and science, stop taking money for favorable studies, and stop pretending that this artificial, commercialized version of science is anything but an aberration, and then we can talk about trust.
Preposterous. That would be like choosing a Droid or Pre or Blackberry over an iPhone. I mean, sure, it happens, but only if you go into the wrong store, or allow yourself to be dazzled by the sales guy.
Are you high?
Thanks. I had almost totally forgotten this otherwise totally forgettable aberration of a show.