Er... while I basically agree with what you wrote I'd like to note that if you want to be 100% sure that your shit will steam, antarctica probably is the place to go on this planet.
Hear Steve scream "If'n I ever see another motherfucking chair on this motherfucking plane I'll motherfucking kill those motherfucking chairs, Motherfucker! Let's motherfucking rock!"
See how the Game is cut down to a "G"-Rating.
Hear Steve say: "Oh deary me - there seem to be an awful lot of chairs on this plane. I wonder if they might look more appealing if I arranged them a little different, what do you think, Tonto? Let's do it together."
Who are these people? At one point or another they must have started as "regular" citizens (fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, neighbours -- consumers). When did they change? And why?
A comparative study on criminal and corporate behaviour would probably be rather interesting... especially regarding the point when either subject decided that the interest of their immediate environment was not theirs anymore.
I do not want to insinuate that all corporate lawyers/executives are criminals, far from it. However I'd really like to know at what point (and why) people start making descisions which they would -- perceiveing themselves at the recieving end of -- in all likelyhood reject.
Has this been done? Does anyone have mor information on this subject? I'd be grateful.
Before you call others "retarded" you might want to brush up your reading comprehension skills. GP was talking about removing the harddisk from a G3 iBook, and that is an operation that's not trivial. In fact, having performed said operation myself I'd call it an absolute bitch.
Having said that, I should also note that my general experience with Apple's poducts has been far more positive than the GP's.
"it's too bad he didn't have a flying mokey to release for the gawkers wanting a mac-gasm."
Well, at least there apparently was a collective dev-gasm (if you can trust Ms. Xeni "BoingBoing" Jardin):
"[Mac Pro] be based on intel Xeon chipset. [...] Every Mac Pro will have two of them -- quad Xeons. (much orgasmic ooooohing in audience). 2.1x faster than quad g5. Twice as fast as the machine it replaces. 1.6x faster on specfp floating point. Xcode runs 1.8 times faster on new Mac Pro. Dual 1.33 Ghz front-side buses, delivering 21 GB/s. Memory: up to 16GB memory. Twice as wide as powermac g5 and faster. Less cooling systems, we gain lots of space, so four hard drive bays can fit. (entire audience just came, more orgasmic screams). "
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is - I don't mean that in a small way I mean that in a big way."
My personal recommendation: wait for the Zune to grow... don't panic. When the Zune develops a head: squeeze the Zune for all it's worth and then forget about it. You may try to plaster the Zune over with a layer of FUD, but that will usually only slow down the healing process.
[Rimshot] I'll be here all week. Try the buffet... if you must.
"I've used Apple computers since 1979 and have a Mac tattooed on my right bicep, but this is a deal-breaker."
(from the above link)
Now, I wouldn't call Doctorow exactly an idiot, but rather an extremely tedious, almost insufferable fool who probably hurts the (basicaly good) causes he works for by his buffoonery. And, I'm afraid, he can't write for shit. His novels are nigh-unreadable... but, of course, that's just my personal taste in literary style. YMMV
"So it's possble that now there'll just be standard hardware configurations... say if you have certain parts from 2008 then your PS3 could be considered a PS3-8."
"I knew every chip in Bobby's simulator by heart; it looked like your workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the `Cyberspace Seven', but I'd rebuilt it so many times that you'd have had a hard time finding a square millimetre of factory circuitry in all that silicon."
"Mac sleep mode is legendary for how good it is, and PC sleep mode is notorious for how bad it is..."
Well... since Mac OS X, that is.;) My first "sleepable" Mac was a PowerBook 1400/w Mac OS 8.something, and the "Sleep"-mode sucked really, really bad. Then I bought an iBook, Mac OS 9.2.2: Sleep-mode still sucky big time. Then I installed Mac OS X (10.3) on the same machine, and what can I say? Wakeup? BAM! 3 Seconds and we're back to business. And it even got better with OS X 10.4.
"I don't, nor do I known anyone that does, back up their/home folder daily."
My mom works on a (OS X) Mac (small home office), so far safe as houses as viruses are concerned. Still her machine is backupped (is that actually a word?) on a 7-day-basis, i.e. every day of the week her user-directory is written to a different backup-set on a seperate HD (= 7 different backups, one for each day of the week). Every 3-4 weeks I burn a snapshot of all her data onto DVDs. Why?
It may seem like overkill, but I set things up this way not because I'm scared of the havock a virus might wreak, but because I know that my mother every once in a while f*s up, deletes or otherwise ruins important files, preferably spreadsheets that are extremely painful to reconstruct. Her own files - not system files. And usually she doesn't notice until either 3 days or 3 months later.
I sleep well, she can do whatever she wants, and everyone is happy.
... at least that's my personal experience -- anecdotal & unscientific, but here goes:
I've bought numerous Macs since 1994 (about 50 or so, small graphic-design firm). During this time we've had four real "1st-Generation-Lemons" (one PM 6100/60, two G4/400, and one iBook/500).
In each of the four cases Apple was extremely helpful and fair. Yes, each of those machines did cost me time & nerves (and my coworkers learned many colourful new words), but the way Apple handeled these issues are one of the reasons why I'll stick with Apple for the forseeable future.
"Strange... I still have my 1G Jaz drive (SCSI, I don't think they had other interfaces) and it still works fine. Must have been lucky..."
Ah, the Drives worked fine... but the Cartridges ? Oh boy...
I've got three dead 1GB-JAZ-Disks sitting here, right next to a pile of 40/80 MB SyQuest-Cartridges... wating for the day I personally meet someone from Iomega or SyQuest --- to clobber them with those expensive chunks of now useless hardware.;-)
P.S.: In my attic I've still got a 100MB-SCSI-ZIP-Drive, a 1GIG-SCSI-JAZ-Drive and even an old 80MB-SyQuest-Drive -- all in perfect working order. The only drive I've still got working cartridges for, though, is the 100MB-ZIP-Drive. I guess I was lucky with that one... so far no "Click-of-Death".
"Windows NT4 was pretty crash-prone for me, while OS 8.6 and OS 9 were pretty solid.
Hmmm... of course I enjoyed (at that time) a perfectly administered WinNT-System (fine-tuned to this particular Hardware ("Yellow-Heat" 400MHz-dual-Proc-Boxen with extremely expensive Video Cards (uncompressed Video-In-Out on striped disks as far as I remember) (and the Admin was some kind of a Demi-God -- and a nice guy, too). My Macs (perfectly administered and set up, too) at that time of course couldn't nearly match the PCs regarding Video-In-Out, but where I could seriously compare them was the performance (or rather: stability) during extensive Photoshop/Illustrator-sessions and AfterEffects jobs over many hours (or even days) (i.e.: anything, that was not real-time). I used to clobber those machines with all kinds of extensive graphic jobs... sadly it definitely was the Macs that (on average) would die (freeze) first.
Luckily that's all water under the bridge... I'm back to the Mac almost 100% (since Mac OS X 10.3 and Adobe CS);)
"The original Zip drives were really pretty nice. The SCSI and IDE 100 meg drives were relatively fast too (for the time).
Actually those drives were a gosend... at least when you were working on a Mac in the late 90s. They connected to your SCSI-Port (every Mac had one of those) without too much hassle and were blazingly fast and incredibly reliable --- at least compared to those blasted SyQuest-Monsters: heavy, expensive, unreliable... oh man, how much money I wasted on those dinosaurs... how come they didn't make the list, anyway?.
True, Iomega blew it all later with shabby manufacturing (and those extremely unreliable "JAZ"-Disks (while the Dawn of CD-ROM was finally at the horizon;) ))... but still... at the time... the ZIPs weren't such a bad thing.
P.S.: Iomega might have had the "Click-of-Death", but long before that SyQuest had the "Clank-Schlock-Rack-Shrack-Rack-Rack-Rack-Wheeeee- Schlock-Rack-of-Death" (at about 10 x the price per MB);)
"Sure, the MacOS pre-OS X was pretty unstable, but it was almost always more stable than whatever the current shipping version of Windows was."
Except for the days of Mac OS System 9 and Win NT 4.x
I am a "Mac-Person" -- which is to say: I've always liked Apple's GUI (and underlying concepts) more than Windows; however there were times (roughly 1999-2002) when I actually preferred to work on WinNT/2K-Computers to working on Macs. In those times the NT/2K-machines (at least when running Photoshop, Illustrator and AfterEffects (my line of work)) were rock-solid compared to the Macs of that time.
I'm not disputing your point, just trying to illustrate it.
Yup, that would have been in my Top 10, too. No, make that my Top 3!
I definitely am what you could call an "Apple-Fanperson"... but that stupid Puck-Mouse nearly made me fall from Grace.
The pure f*ing hybris to take an already outdated concept (1-Button-Mouse) and proudly make it even worse... and I was (at that time) working with a lot of children and computer-illiterate persons... no-one "got" the "Puck".
Thank (Deity of your choice) the blasted "Puck" came at a time, when we could easily substitute it for any other (sane) USB-Mouse, but still... whatever Mr. Jobs and Mr. Ives were smoking when they decided on the "Puck"... I hope I'll never come across any of it.
"Type in a sentence you're thinking about. Highlight part of it and bold it. Highlight a different part and hit escape seven times. Do you think that this scenario was tested? "
WTF!? I just did what you suggested and Word showed me a nudie pic of Melinda Gates.
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Er... while I basically agree with what you wrote I'd like to note that if you want to be 100% sure that your shit will steam, antarctica probably is the place to go on this planet.
;)
Yep, a constant source of wonder for me, too.
Who are these people? At one point or another they must have started as "regular" citizens (fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, neighbours -- consumers). When did they change? And why?
A comparative study on criminal and corporate behaviour would probably be rather interesting... especially regarding the point when either subject decided that the interest of their immediate environment was not theirs anymore.
I do not want to insinuate that all corporate lawyers/executives are criminals, far from it. However I'd really like to know at what point (and why) people start making descisions which they would -- perceiveing themselves at the recieving end of -- in all likelyhood reject.
Has this been done? Does anyone have mor information on this subject? I'd be grateful.
If only I had mod-points -- guess whem I would give them to...
Before you call others "retarded" you might want to brush up your reading comprehension skills. GP was talking about removing the harddisk from a G3 iBook , and that is an operation that's not trivial. In fact, having performed said operation myself I'd call it an absolute bitch.
Having said that, I should also note that my general experience with Apple's poducts has been far more positive than the GP's.
(Link).
Steve Jobs on PBS' Triumph of the Nerds:
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is - I don't mean that in a small way I mean that in a big way."
;-)
Oh dear... what to do, what to do?
My personal recommendation: wait for the Zune to grow... don't panic. When the Zune develops a head: squeeze the Zune for all it's worth and then forget about it. You may try to plaster the Zune over with a layer of FUD, but that will usually only slow down the healing process.
[Rimshot] I'll be here all week. Try the buffet... if you must.
(from the above link)
Now, I wouldn't call Doctorow exactly an idiot, but rather an extremely tedious, almost insufferable fool who probably hurts the (basicaly good) causes he works for by his buffoonery. And, I'm afraid, he can't write for shit. His novels are nigh-unreadable... but, of course, that's just my personal taste in literary style. YMMV
... when you first announced that FUTURAMA was comming back (you know, the time when it had to be retracted? ;)
:)
It almost broke my heart --- or, as they say in german: I was himmelhochjauchzend und zu tode betrübt.
But, of course all is forgiven.
"...my ten dollar garbage can,..."
Look, I know that Dell of yours is over a year old, but that's still no reason to call it nasty names.
(from "Burning Chrome" (1982), via jessesworld)
Thank you, and the bill for my new keyboard, nose and 1/2 can of coke is in the mail.
It may seem like overkill, but I set things up this way not because I'm scared of the havock a virus might wreak, but because I know that my mother every once in a while f*s up, deletes or otherwise ruins important files, preferably spreadsheets that are extremely painful to reconstruct. Her own files - not system files. And usually she doesn't notice until either 3 days or 3 months later.
I sleep well, she can do whatever she wants, and everyone is happy.
... at least that's my personal experience -- anecdotal & unscientific, but here goes:
I've bought numerous Macs since 1994 (about 50 or so, small graphic-design firm). During this time we've had four real "1st-Generation-Lemons" (one PM 6100/60, two G4/400, and one iBook/500).
In each of the four cases Apple was extremely helpful and fair. Yes, each of those machines did cost me time & nerves (and my coworkers learned many colourful new words), but the way Apple handeled these issues are one of the reasons why I'll stick with Apple for the forseeable future.
I've got three dead 1GB-JAZ-Disks sitting here, right next to a pile of 40/80 MB SyQuest-Cartridges... wating for the day I personally meet someone from Iomega or SyQuest --- to clobber them with those expensive chunks of now useless hardware.
P.S.: In my attic I've still got a 100MB-SCSI-ZIP-Drive, a 1GIG-SCSI-JAZ-Drive and even an old 80MB-SyQuest-Drive -- all in perfect working order. The only drive I've still got working cartridges for, though, is the 100MB-ZIP-Drive. I guess I was lucky with that one... so far no "Click-of-Death".
Luckily that's all water under the bridge... I'm back to the Mac almost 100% (since Mac OS X 10.3 and Adobe CS)
True, Iomega blew it all later with shabby manufacturing (and those extremely unreliable "JAZ"-Disks (while the Dawn of CD-ROM was finally at the horizon
P.S.: Iomega might have had the "Click-of-Death", but long before that SyQuest had the "Clank-Schlock-Rack-Shrack-Rack-Rack-Rack-Wheeeee
I am a "Mac-Person" -- which is to say: I've always liked Apple's GUI (and underlying concepts) more than Windows; however there were times (roughly 1999-2002) when I actually preferred to work on WinNT/2K-Computers to working on Macs. In those times the NT/2K-machines (at least when running Photoshop, Illustrator and AfterEffects (my line of work)) were rock-solid compared to the Macs of that time.
I'm not disputing your point, just trying to illustrate it.
Yup, that would have been in my Top 10, too. No, make that my Top 3!
I definitely am what you could call an "Apple-Fanperson"... but that stupid Puck-Mouse nearly made me fall from Grace.
The pure f*ing hybris to take an already outdated concept (1-Button-Mouse) and proudly make it even worse... and I was (at that time) working with a lot of children and computer-illiterate persons... no-one "got" the "Puck".
Thank (Deity of your choice) the blasted "Puck" came at a time, when we could easily substitute it for any other (sane) USB-Mouse, but still... whatever Mr. Jobs and Mr. Ives were smoking when they decided on the "Puck"... I hope I'll never come across any of it.