I bought the brand new iBook G4 12" in October the week they released them. It's the best computer I've ever own, including my eRacks 1.2Ghz/1GB RAM BSD workstation. I'll never go back to "PC" hardware. I'm hooked and that'st that.
That said, I did get it at a student discount, and bought the low end model (800Mhz, 256MB RAM, combo drive) with only adding the AirPort Extreme card. I'd love to have gotten a PowerBook, but I just don't have the money. However, if i weren't a student, or even had a part time job, i'd probably have financed one.
"hardcore, real ASM/C programmer" is not a real job either. I meant like, carpenter or electrician or an artisan of some sort. I'm going to be a house framer starting this week once Mark calls me back without me having to go intercept him at the pub. That's a real job, ie actually working. an actual position in the proletariat. Plus, I am only 20. I quit school for political reasons and am just loafing around my parents' house adgitating revolution and running An Reabhloid.ORG for the Irish Republican Socialist Movement.
of course no one is going to love being a garbage man. However, it doesn't really take anything to do that job. Any old schmuck can do it, even total retards. However, there are people who would be a doctor for the love of it. No kids want to be a doctor when they grow up to be rich. They want to be a doctor in order that they might help people. They don't start thinking about the money until later. And doctors that are just out for money are called HMO members and are traitors agaisnt humanity.
I read a book on the "masters of deception" many years ago. Phiber Optik became a major hero and roll model for me. I even got kind of good at using the aging telenet network to make free longdistance calls to Europe via global outdials. One of the characters mentioned in the book was also Robert T. Morris, refered to I believe just as 'rtm.' At about this time (i was 12) I started fiddling with FreeBSD, and eventually my uncle gave me a copy of RH Linux. I then started reading a lot of FSF propaganda. I started to confuse RTM and RMS. My fascination with RTM eventually turned itself into a fascination with RMS out of sheer stupidity on my part (hey, i was like 13. what the hell did i know). Then i started to think that RMS was full of it, went back to FreeBSD. Then i got turned on to communism by some fellow Irish Republicans, started to think RMS kickced ass, became as psycho HURD user, realised HURD was a piece of shit and bought a Macintosh. Now I get to be a hypocrit, especially since I am an ex phreak and [ex]decent programmer (i patched the vfat file system driver in the linux kernel once...that was about the height of my career), i've realised that i do infact hate the world wide web and now at the age of 20, after realising that computers are an instrument of fascism and that so-called "socialist" intellectuals and academics are all counter-revolutionary (Lenin, Mao, Chirac), I've quit school to become a carpenter so my fiance and i can move back to Ireland and have a nice country life and shoot loyalists. actually, this story kind of sucks....
Cap'n Crunch provided just as valuable a public service as RMS: showing the falicy of the "exchange value" concept. No one is hurt by making free phone calls with the bluebox just as nobody is hurt by using GNU instead of SUN. software has a use value but should not have an exchange value, meaning it ought to be free, and i do mean also free of charge. I don't like to pay for things. That said, I am using MacOS X 10.3 on an iBook G4 I got at the end of October. But I didn't buy any other software for it. I got free or pirated stuff to fill out what didn't come with this thing. Phone calls also should be free. ther is no reason why they should be paid for. The government should make people do the maintanance on the lines and money should be eliminated.
What kind of buzzword bullshit is "enterprise strength solutions?" back in the 90s i could have sold a god damned spork as an "e-commerce solution" and made $1,000,000,000 in an hour without backing it up. Sure it's not the 90s, but you can't have a "solution" without a problem. Or maybe it is the fact that I do not respect capitalism, corporations, or profit motive and don't give a shit if these peopl get work done bcause they don't make anything useful, just generate more money out of thin air by dealing with other companies that do the same thing.
because people are lazy shits or they would have gotten a real job building things instead of siting on their ass typing shit all day long. the vb macros are already written. they don't want to make them again. that said, i don;t know anyone who uses them. i certainly don't. i don't use macros for anything, except in C and in cofig files. and I don't programme anymore, just run my website and look for work. therefor i do not use macros at all. textedit does what i need for day-to-day stuff. appleworks is fine when i need to make a large sort of document, not that i am writing papers anymore.
I have not come across anything that MS Office can do that another office programme, such as StarOffice or OpenOffice can't do. AppleWorks is a bit crippled. The MacOS X version seems to be exactly like the one that I used to run on my PowerBook 1400c way back when. Is the cause just coverting some of the document formating used in existing.DOC files? Feature wise MS Office has always kind of pissed me off, but document formating was a total sabot in the gears when trying to get my stuff to print off of windows machines at school
Step 1: Overthrow Bush regieme Step 2: Unionize software development Step 3: beat up non-union scabs Step 4: use Union influence to pass laws against outsourcing Step 5: nuke foreign scabs Step 6: ??? Step 7: No more profit!!!!
A) digital watches are for little kids B) if you spent a week in the boyscouts you ought to be able to figure out directions using the hands on a/real/ watch without some pansy-ass digitial compas C) who cares what altitude you're at? if you're a pilot, you ought to have an altimiter in the airplane D) analog watches take craftsmanship which is something which seems to be a lost concept in today's market economy.
and are a detriment to the working class. Call hippies and other dopers a "lumproletariat" -- they are just that: working class non workers. But yes, all capitalism is immoral and unethical and i'd bet my life on it.
the whole damned thing is unconstitutional. anyone who voted for it should be considered a traitor, shot, hung, drawn, and quartered on the National Mall. Fuck the federales.
For instance, everyone on here complains about cut-and-paste in X/Gtk/Qt apps. I can just highlight a section of text and drag it where I want it to go. I can drag it onto the desktop and it saves it as a text file. Same with images -- just drag them onto the desktop and it saves them. Or I can drag them into another application. Expose is much nicer than virtual desktops -- much less frusterating, I think, although there is something to be said for virtual desktops when the varity of work one is doing is greater (one for coding, one for surfing, one for chatting, etc). And everything seems to be much better integrated. The look and feel are uniform, although most 3rd-party and particularly free software are still more stuck on the original Aqua or even Jaguar look-and-feel. I wish that everything would just look the same (I do like the new brushed metal look, particularly with all the applications that come with Panther out-of-the-box, where there isn't even a distinction between the "title bar" (or whatever you call the widget with the resize/minimize/close buttons) and the rest of the window, particularly Safari, iTunes, iChat, et cetera -- all those iApps, though most of the "iLife" shit (iMovie, iPhoto, iEtc.) i uninstalled due to the fact that a) i use my digital cameras with my PC which I put Win2kPro on and gave to my parents, one uses floppy disks, and the other uses mini-cds, neither of which cooperate with a mac with no floppy drive and a pussy-slit combo drive. I suppose I could use them with USB. Then again, I distrust USB (but then one could say "well, why did you buy a mac?" answer: i am lazy these days. I don't code, just run a web page). I am constantly discovering little features that I can't figure out how I ever lived with out. The only thing is they are expensive and endorsed by hippies (and as a non-Utopian, Scientific Republican Socialist, I am against expensive things, money in general, and hippies because they get high and don't do anything useful). Otherwise, I'd say go for it. It's the best computer I've ever owned (tho sometimes I do wish they had kept the Platinum look and feel over this "lickable" "aqualishouse" stuff).
I started out on FreeBSD 2.2.8 when I was 12 years old. I then started running Linux with RedHat 5.0 when it was brand new, went to Slackware, to RedHat 5.2, then to Slackware and FreeBSD 3.0 dualboot. At FreeBSD 3.3 I went fully to FreeBSD and kept on using it (with upgrading) until i bought the new iBook G4 when it came out this past fall. Honestly, while I sometimes still pine (no pun intended) for the days when I had 15 Eterms running and all kinds of Vim and BitchX windows open. Hell, I ran EVERYTHING in terminals -- honestly, I didn't even need to run X. I love OS X 10.3.2 so much, I wouldn't even concider running a PC ever again. Hell, no other OS can even come close to the usability and functionality, atleast for me.
durring the phases before the absolute dissolussion of the state, corperations are eliminated, the masses of capital are eliminated, controll over anything useful in general (factories, resources) are given to common control. there becomes no such thing as "private corporations," only cooperatively owned and run means of production, distribution, and exchange. no one will have enough influence to rally enough people behind them, as without anything much to exchange for service, people will work only for what is good for them, and having someone in charge of them is not.
First I have to get a job so I can pay to eat and have a house. i have to buy a computer. i have to pay to get on the internet. i have to pay for cable. then i have to see commercials. and now i have to see commercials on the internet? fuck that shit. fuck the world. why is it that every time there is a good idea, bad people hijack it in order to shove more cock down our collective throat in order to get more money for people who already have EVERYTHING!? and they use the government to do it. and it doesn't matter -- democrat, republican, finna fail, finna gael, labour, torry... only democratic socialism can save us from this scourge and it scares me.
Don't shop, it only encourages them. RMS and Marx where right. We must stop the bourgeoisie exploiters before we are all slaves again!!!! http://www.AnReabhloid.org THE FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS!!!
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I bought the brand new iBook G4 12" in October the week they released them. It's the best computer I've ever own, including my eRacks 1.2Ghz/1GB RAM BSD workstation.
I'll never go back to "PC" hardware. I'm hooked and that'st that.
That said, I did get it at a student discount, and bought the low end model (800Mhz, 256MB RAM, combo drive) with only adding the AirPort Extreme card. I'd love to have gotten a PowerBook, but I just don't have the money. However, if i weren't a student, or even had a part time job, i'd probably have financed one.
Apple is expensive, but it's worth every cent.
"hardcore, real ASM/C programmer" is not a real job either. I meant like, carpenter or electrician or an artisan of some sort. I'm going to be a house framer starting this week once Mark calls me back without me having to go intercept him at the pub. That's a real job, ie actually working. an actual position in the proletariat. Plus, I am only 20. I quit school for political reasons and am just loafing around my parents' house adgitating revolution and running An Reabhloid.ORG for the Irish Republican Socialist Movement.
of course no one is going to love being a garbage man. However, it doesn't really take anything to do that job. Any old schmuck can do it, even total retards. However, there are people who would be a doctor for the love of it. No kids want to be a doctor when they grow up to be rich. They want to be a doctor in order that they might help people. They don't start thinking about the money until later. And doctors that are just out for money are called HMO members and are traitors agaisnt humanity.
I read a book on the "masters of deception" many years ago. Phiber Optik became a major hero and roll model for me. I even got kind of good at using the aging telenet network to make free longdistance calls to Europe via global outdials. One of the characters mentioned in the book was also Robert T. Morris, refered to I believe just as 'rtm.' At about this time (i was 12) I started fiddling with FreeBSD, and eventually my uncle gave me a copy of RH Linux. I then started reading a lot of FSF propaganda. I started to confuse RTM and RMS. My fascination with RTM eventually turned itself into a fascination with RMS out of sheer stupidity on my part (hey, i was like 13. what the hell did i know). Then i started to think that RMS was full of it, went back to FreeBSD. Then i got turned on to communism by some fellow Irish Republicans, started to think RMS kickced ass, became as psycho HURD user, realised HURD was a piece of shit and bought a Macintosh. Now I get to be a hypocrit, especially since I am an ex phreak and [ex]decent programmer (i patched the vfat file system driver in the linux kernel once...that was about the height of my career), i've realised that i do infact hate the world wide web and now at the age of 20, after realising that computers are an instrument of fascism and that so-called "socialist" intellectuals and academics are all counter-revolutionary (Lenin, Mao, Chirac), I've quit school to become a carpenter so my fiance and i can move back to Ireland and have a nice country life and shoot loyalists. actually, this story kind of sucks....
Cap'n Crunch provided just as valuable a public service as RMS: showing the falicy of the "exchange value" concept. No one is hurt by making free phone calls with the bluebox just as nobody is hurt by using GNU instead of SUN. software has a use value but should not have an exchange value, meaning it ought to be free, and i do mean also free of charge. I don't like to pay for things. That said, I am using MacOS X 10.3 on an iBook G4 I got at the end of October. But I didn't buy any other software for it. I got free or pirated stuff to fill out what didn't come with this thing.
Phone calls also should be free. ther is no reason why they should be paid for. The government should make people do the maintanance on the lines and money should be eliminated.
It's there if you run the X11 server. /. posted that Koffice was ported nativly, but I can't find a download site.
What kind of buzzword bullshit is "enterprise strength solutions?" back in the 90s i could have sold a god damned spork as an "e-commerce solution" and made $1,000,000,000 in an hour without backing it up. Sure it's not the 90s, but you can't have a "solution" without a problem.
Or maybe it is the fact that I do not respect capitalism, corporations, or profit motive and don't give a shit if these peopl get work done bcause they don't make anything useful, just generate more money out of thin air by dealing with other companies that do the same thing.
i /might/ want to do a lot of things, but seeing as how i disrespect mathmatics it's not bloody likely.
because people are lazy shits or they would have gotten a real job building things instead of siting on their ass typing shit all day long. the vb macros are already written. they don't want to make them again.
that said, i don;t know anyone who uses them. i certainly don't. i don't use macros for anything, except in C and in cofig files. and I don't programme anymore, just run my website and look for work. therefor i do not use macros at all. textedit does what i need for day-to-day stuff. appleworks is fine when i need to make a large sort of document, not that i am writing papers anymore.
there are lies, damned lies, and statistics -- Mark Twain
I have not come across anything that MS Office can do that another office programme, such as StarOffice or OpenOffice can't do. AppleWorks is a bit crippled. The MacOS X version seems to be exactly like the one that I used to run on my PowerBook 1400c way back when. .DOC files? Feature wise MS Office has always kind of pissed me off, but document formating was a total sabot in the gears when trying to get my stuff to print off of windows machines at school
Is the cause just coverting some of the document formating used in existing
f.p. too
Step 1: Overthrow Bush regieme
Step 2: Unionize software development
Step 3: beat up non-union scabs
Step 4: use Union influence to pass laws against outsourcing
Step 5: nuke foreign scabs
Step 6: ???
Step 7: No more profit!!!!
A) digital watches are for little kids /real/ watch without some pansy-ass digitial compas
B) if you spent a week in the boyscouts you ought to be able to figure out directions using the hands on a
C) who cares what altitude you're at? if you're a pilot, you ought to have an altimiter in the airplane
D) analog watches take craftsmanship which is something which seems to be a lost concept in today's market economy.
and are a detriment to the working class. Call hippies and other dopers a "lumproletariat" -- they are just that: working class non workers.
But yes, all capitalism is immoral and unethical and i'd bet my life on it.
the whole damned thing is unconstitutional. anyone who voted for it should be considered a traitor, shot, hung, drawn, and quartered on the National Mall. Fuck the federales.
For instance, everyone on here complains about cut-and-paste in X/Gtk/Qt apps. I can just highlight a section of text and drag it where I want it to go. I can drag it onto the desktop and it saves it as a text file. Same with images -- just drag them onto the desktop and it saves them. Or I can drag them into another application.
Expose is much nicer than virtual desktops -- much less frusterating, I think, although there is something to be said for virtual desktops when the varity of work one is doing is greater (one for coding, one for surfing, one for chatting, etc).
And everything seems to be much better integrated. The look and feel are uniform, although most 3rd-party and particularly free software are still more stuck on the original Aqua or even Jaguar look-and-feel. I wish that everything would just look the same (I do like the new brushed metal look, particularly with all the applications that come with Panther out-of-the-box, where there isn't even a distinction between the "title bar" (or whatever you call the widget with the resize/minimize/close buttons) and the rest of the window, particularly Safari, iTunes, iChat, et cetera -- all those iApps, though most of the "iLife" shit (iMovie, iPhoto, iEtc.) i uninstalled due to the fact that a) i use my digital cameras with my PC which I put Win2kPro on and gave to my parents, one uses floppy disks, and the other uses mini-cds, neither of which cooperate with a mac with no floppy drive and a pussy-slit combo drive. I suppose I could use them with USB. Then again, I distrust USB (but then one could say "well, why did you buy a mac?" answer: i am lazy these days. I don't code, just run a web page).
I am constantly discovering little features that I can't figure out how I ever lived with out. The only thing is they are expensive and endorsed by hippies (and as a non-Utopian, Scientific Republican Socialist, I am against expensive things, money in general, and hippies because they get high and don't do anything useful). Otherwise, I'd say go for it. It's the best computer I've ever owned (tho sometimes I do wish they had kept the Platinum look and feel over this "lickable" "aqualishouse" stuff).
I started out on FreeBSD 2.2.8 when I was 12 years old. I then started running Linux with RedHat 5.0 when it was brand new, went to Slackware, to RedHat 5.2, then to Slackware and FreeBSD 3.0 dualboot. At FreeBSD 3.3 I went fully to FreeBSD and kept on using it (with upgrading) until i bought the new iBook G4 when it came out this past fall.
Honestly, while I sometimes still pine (no pun intended) for the days when I had 15 Eterms running and all kinds of Vim and BitchX windows open. Hell, I ran EVERYTHING in terminals -- honestly, I didn't even need to run X. I love OS X 10.3.2 so much, I wouldn't even concider running a PC ever again. Hell, no other OS can even come close to the usability and functionality, atleast for me.
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durring the phases before the absolute dissolussion of the state, corperations are eliminated, the masses of capital are eliminated, controll over anything useful in general (factories, resources) are given to common control. there becomes no such thing as "private corporations," only cooperatively owned and run means of production, distribution, and exchange.
no one will have enough influence to rally enough people behind them, as without anything much to exchange for service, people will work only for what is good for them, and having someone in charge of them is not.
once the state is eliminated, what is there to oppress us that can't be dealt with quickly, swiftly, and with a minimum of confrontation?
First I have to get a job so I can pay to eat and have a house. i have to buy a computer. i have to pay to get on the internet. i have to pay for cable. then i have to see commercials. and now i have to see commercials on the internet? fuck that shit. fuck the world. why is it that every time there is a good idea, bad people hijack it in order to shove more cock down our collective throat in order to get more money for people who already have EVERYTHING!? and they use the government to do it. and it doesn't matter -- democrat, republican, finna fail, finna gael, labour, torry... only democratic socialism can save us from this scourge and it scares me.
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i don't even know what day of the week it is
Don't shop, it only encourages them. RMS and Marx where right. We must stop the bourgeoisie exploiters before we are all slaves again!!!!
http://www.AnReabhloid.org THE FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS!!!
I'm trying to mate with that Darwin platapus in order to make offspring which will carry on the fight.