Easily solved: do your emulating in javascript! I'll get you started. Here's an Apple BASIC interpretor in javascript. Here's a C64 emulator in javascript. And here's an NES emulator in javascript!
As much as I don't like Apple, you're comparing the wrong things. You can also install whatever you want on the Apple computers you buy. You can even install Windows on the Mac now.
With the new Windows Phone 7 phones, there's probably going to be an app store and no sideloading, just like the iPhone. And because of that I have an Android phone instead.
I do all of my "real work" on Linux systems, but my desktop and laptop are Macs because for most needs, it just works and I get a full bash shell and unix OS when needed. Yes, I pay a premium for that shiny hardware, but for me it's worth it not to have to deal with finding device drivers or re-compiling kernels, and it's nice to be able to view all forms of media, too.
Ever since Ubuntu came out, I've never had to recompile a kernel or find device drivers myself. I can still view any media I want, have a bash shell, and have a unix-like OS. I was amazed at how the Ubuntu installation found all drivers (even wireless!) for my wife's HP laptop with a Broadcom wireless chip (and that was 3 years ago on a fairly new laptop).
Mom: Oh yeah, right there! Dad: You like that? *phone rings* Dad: Who the hell keeps calling us? kidgenius (704962): Hey guys! I'm outside your house! Dad: OMG! Can't u leave us alone for at least 30 minutes???
Berkshire Hathaway also doesn't pay dividends. Are you saying that Berkshire Hathaway stock owners are all speculators despite the fact that Buffet refuses to split that stock so that his "investors" can save money on brokerage fees?
Or you can get an Android phone. My Aria, despite the lack of "unknown sources" option, can still load other apps via the SDK. And the SDK is free too.
Or genetically engineer people who are resistant to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, or hypertension (and their sequelae, which BTW accounts for nearly half of health care spending in the USA). But that's not going to happen because society doesn't have the balls to accept that yet.
I disagree. Look what IBM can do with their mainframes. These things can run code written 40+ years ago on modern hardware without breaking anything (usually).
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Next you're going to tell me KaZaA hasn't shut down either.
Oh, that's where you and your friends get to drink, smoke, and turn into donkeys and then escape and get swallowed by a big whale.
Easily solved: do your emulating in javascript! I'll get you started. Here's an Apple BASIC interpretor in javascript. Here's a C64 emulator in javascript. And here's an NES emulator in javascript!
Have you tried Halo 3 on legendary? It took me a week to finish while I was unemployed.
That's funny dammit. Mod funny!
A brain is a brain, huh? Tell that to the kid kid with trisomy 21, fragile X, or numerous other genetic disease that cause brain malformations.
And we've always been at war with eastasia.
Really? I thought they were due to assassinations of archdukes and such.
As much as I don't like Apple, you're comparing the wrong things. You can also install whatever you want on the Apple computers you buy. You can even install Windows on the Mac now.
With the new Windows Phone 7 phones, there's probably going to be an app store and no sideloading, just like the iPhone. And because of that I have an Android phone instead.
I guess geeks don't like VMS then since Dave Cutler, the main guy associated with VMS development, went to MS and oversaw development of Windows NT.
Ever since Ubuntu came out, I've never had to recompile a kernel or find device drivers myself. I can still view any media I want, have a bash shell, and have a unix-like OS. I was amazed at how the Ubuntu installation found all drivers (even wireless!) for my wife's HP laptop with a Broadcom wireless chip (and that was 3 years ago on a fairly new laptop).
Mom: Oh yeah, right there!
Dad: You like that?
*phone rings*
Dad: Who the hell keeps calling us?
kidgenius (704962): Hey guys! I'm outside your house!
Dad: OMG! Can't u leave us alone for at least 30 minutes???
What's the big deal? You still can't directly use Verzon's network on the iPad.
And money has no value beyond what we, as a society, attribute it. What's your point?
Berkshire Hathaway also doesn't pay dividends. Are you saying that Berkshire Hathaway stock owners are all speculators despite the fact that Buffet refuses to split that stock so that his "investors" can save money on brokerage fees?
"Plastic" is derived from the Greek word meaning "to shape". So it's fine that brains have plasticity.
Or you can get an Android phone. My Aria, despite the lack of "unknown sources" option, can still load other apps via the SDK. And the SDK is free too.
As has been posted in another patent story, it's the claims that matters, not the title.
I wonder why they don't just make a fork of OpenBSD?
Or genetically engineer people who are resistant to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, or hypertension (and their sequelae, which BTW accounts for nearly half of health care spending in the USA). But that's not going to happen because society doesn't have the balls to accept that yet.
Well, everyone has a price. What's yours?
Truthiness was not coined by him as it was already a valid, albeit obsolete, word. He just attached a new definition to it.
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I disagree. Look what IBM can do with their mainframes. These things can run code written 40+ years ago on modern hardware without breaking anything (usually).
There was no Video Home System when the moon landings happened. There was reel to reel tape, and cinescope, but no VHS until 1976.
It's a faaaaaaaaake!