Your previous claim about $1000, however, was absurd... So put up or shut up already.
I agree with everything you say. I clearly struck a nerve; such was not my intention. Still, I stand by the wording in my original post, and I humbly refer you to this definition for hyperbole, a tool people sometimes use to make a point. I must need more practice at using that tool, or maybe I should begin employing the <hyperbole> tag.
Or maybe you can do a little research and stop spreading that ridiculous FUD about how expensive Apple machines are.
Oh, put your penis back in your pants, tough guy. I was just making a point: Apple's ahead of the game technologically, and they always have been, AND they tend to cost more than the commoditized PC compatible.
Funny, all the people I know with Windows boxes have had them in 'the shop' countless times to be cleaned of spyware and the like, have had to spend money on more RAM so they'll run at a resonable pace while loaded down with spyware, and have had to buy antivirus, a firewall, spyware removers, and subscriptions to those services.
Gotta say I agree, especially regarding spyware. That's stuff I can take care of myself (indeed, I make money from spyware removal in my side consulting business). But don't you think lack of spyware on Macs is generally a result of the platform having fewer users than Windows? If Mac had the market/mindshare that MS has, it would be the target for spyware programmers. (Same true for Linux of course.)
Anyway, you're appropriately discussing Total Cost of Ownership, something most home computer buyers should --- but don't --- consider.
I've been hearing this for years: "My Mac was able to do [blank] years before Windows did it, and it still does it better than windows for a mere $1,000 more than your silly little white box."
...this film will suck because the Wachowskis are hacks, living it large off one good film (albeit one with an obvious and portentious, pretentious dialofue carried by its special effects).
Maybe not. The Wachowskis are big comic book fans. In the introduction to their own comic book
Doc Frankenstein they wrote:
"Comics, more than film, give us an appreciation for the different ways that words and pictures can be used to tell a story... The comic book is superior to film in our opinion because of the excessive compromises that must be made every single day on a film set."
May not change your mind about them or their movies, but I liked what they had to say.
Stan Lee is the first to say he loves science, but never understood it. Thus was born strange powers from radioactive spiders, gamma rays, and cosmic rays. A fairly nifty comicbook-verse explanation of why all the various radation didn't kill its subjects was suggested in
Earth X by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, and John Paul Leon.
It seems to me that both the strongest and the weakest link in this chain is the person or people who know the source's identity. Why bother messing with all the technology when it's still going to come down to putting a reporter on the stand and demanding information? In the end it comes down to (as the article suggests) the level of civil disobedience the reporter wants to exercise.
Sounds like he finally got the bounces that were coming to him.
Indeed. A bit chilling that he was beaten to death. The murderer could simply have used a gun, but instead took the time and effort to club the guy to death. If that's not a warning to others, I don't know what is.
i've been using ipcop in various locations for a while and it's been working well. it's a linux distro that runs fine on my old Pentium I. AFAIK it only supports 3 to 4 networks (internal, external, DMZ, and one other), which may be a limitation for some. I haven't upgraded to the latest version yet, but even so it's proven robust and easy to manage for me. http://www.ipcop.org
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I agree with everything you say. I clearly struck a nerve; such was not my intention. Still, I stand by the wording in my original post, and I humbly refer you to this definition for hyperbole, a tool people sometimes use to make a point. I must need more practice at using that tool, or maybe I should begin employing the <hyperbole> tag.
Oh, put your penis back in your pants, tough guy. I was just making a point: Apple's ahead of the game technologically, and they always have been, AND they tend to cost more than the commoditized PC compatible.
Gotta say I agree, especially regarding spyware. That's stuff I can take care of myself (indeed, I make money from spyware removal in my side consulting business). But don't you think lack of spyware on Macs is generally a result of the platform having fewer users than Windows? If Mac had the market/mindshare that MS has, it would be the target for spyware programmers. (Same true for Linux of course.)
Anyway, you're appropriately discussing Total Cost of Ownership, something most home computer buyers should --- but don't --- consider.
I've been hearing this for years: "My Mac was able to do [blank] years before Windows did it, and it still does it better than windows for a mere $1,000 more than your silly little white box."
Mac does do it better, IMHO, just not cheaper.
Maybe not. The Wachowskis are big comic book fans. In the introduction to their own comic book Doc Frankenstein they wrote:
May not change your mind about them or their movies, but I liked what they had to say.I don't know if he's commented on it since, but Michael Swaine made a small but amusing prediction that this might happen waaay back in the April 1993 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal. Here's a link to the Google cache version since the original wasn't coming up for me.
I like the possibilities for new slang, like maybe "hacking my arm up" would mean loading linux and sshd on the chip.
Stan Lee is the first to say he loves science, but never understood it. Thus was born strange powers from radioactive spiders, gamma rays, and cosmic rays. A fairly nifty comicbook-verse explanation of why all the various radation didn't kill its subjects was suggested in Earth X by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, and John Paul Leon.
Ah, HA! So that's who's to blame for mediocrity in the top 40 these past few years: the file swappers!
It seems to me that both the strongest and the weakest link in this chain is the person or people who know the source's identity. Why bother messing with all the technology when it's still going to come down to putting a reporter on the stand and demanding information? In the end it comes down to (as the article suggests) the level of civil disobedience the reporter wants to exercise.
geeksta sleeping == "napsta"
It certainly adds another facet to why they hate music sharing so much --- they're unable to control what we put on our mp3 players.
Indeed. A bit chilling that he was beaten to death. The murderer could simply have used a gun, but instead took the time and effort to club the guy to death. If that's not a warning to others, I don't know what is.
i've been using ipcop in various locations for a while and it's been working well. it's a linux distro that runs fine on my old Pentium I. AFAIK it only supports 3 to 4 networks (internal, external, DMZ, and one other), which may be a limitation for some. I haven't upgraded to the latest version yet, but even so it's proven robust and easy to manage for me. http://www.ipcop.org