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I mean, why are people still comparing this to a netbook? It's not a netbook.
Maybe because Apple has explicitly stayed out of the netbook market, and the perception we all had was that they felt that this was a better fit to that market. So it's not a netbook, but it's Apple's alternative to a netbook.
You need to think hard about what you mean by your use of the term 'we.' Unless you are the advocate of a huge powerful centralized government that has total control over everything, you have to acknowledge that at least some political power must be delegated down to regional/local jurisdictions. Or are you an advocate of a huge powerful federal government that dictates all? If so, I'm wasting words.
It could also be said that what some people are claiming as 'civil disobedience' is merely greedy cowardace. I mean, downloading music for free sounds like the actions of someone with pretty confortable living conditions, who is just too cheap to make a purchase.
I know it goes against the whole edifice of righteousness that some people have put great labor into constructing, but I'm sorry...
It's not as simple as that. First off, Chomsky has no political power, so he cannot be a totalitarian. He's more of an armchair intellectual than anything else. A textbook example of an 'Ivory Tower Intellectual' so to speak. And his area of expertise is NOT foreign affairs, although he's a true craftsman with rhetoric. (which IS an area of his expertise). He's sort of a Pied Piper of Politics for people in their college years. Which is part of why the GP's response 'go read Chomsky' is such a rich and marvelous response to my query "are you just some college kid ranting?"
(bombing small European countries in the mid-90s etc.) greatly contributed to 9/11,
You know, you're probably right. When the US got involved in the conflict in the balkans and began bombing the Christian Serbs in defense of the Islamic people of the region, it probably just plain PISSED OFF people like Osama Bin Laden.
everyone gets up in arms against any atrocity committed by someone other than the us, but if the Us does something , NO ONE clammers to the UN to stop it.
Can you give us a cite for any of that? I'm already cutting you some slack, because I'm not at the moment challanging earlier comments where you made ridiculous claims with no cites ("millions of innocents slaughtered" etc. etc.)
The price of low end laptops can be gauged, today, by prices at places like WalMart, Target, and Frys. Places which regularly sell laptops in the $400 range.
So where does this '1/8' figure come from? Are you only shopping at the Apple Store? (even they have laptops that are less than 1/8 of $170)
Part of the idea with early PCs and BASIC was that there wasn't much software at all available for the machines. MS/PC-DOS wasn't something you could compile on your own machine, mind you. It was built on minicomputers and 'injected' onto the PCs. There was no 'C' for the PC for quite awhile. There was a Basic compiler, a Pascal compiler, and assembly language.
The PC-DOS 1.0 diskette has a bunch of *.bas programs on it. More than on any later version. And remember, the first few generations of IBM-PC had a cassette interface. A BASIC interpreter ("cassette basic") in ROM will pop up if no disk-based boot media is detected all the way up to the IBM-XT.
I recently dug out and compiled MORTGAGE.BAS from a PC-DOS disk image and turned it into an.exe file using an ancient Quick Basic compiler. It's a nice small fast program for generating an amoritzation schedule.
And the most popular Open Source image manipulation program is probably xv. Which is STILL a nice small usable package. And I remember it as being middle-aged when I first encountered it on a Linux box in 1994.
What is an obscure Mac owner? Someone who collects really obscure Macs, like an SE with a different colored case, or a 20th Anniversary Mac, or a Cube with unique features?
I consider myself an obscure Mac owner because I own a whole bunch of Macs but not a single one capable of running OS 10. I 'collect' things like images of old Mac HDs which get burned to folders on CD-ROMs using a really old version of Toast.
The connector is round. And it's the same connector as on certain Sun boxes (the IPX is one, I believe). So you can use Apple Modem Cables and a nullmodem plug to connect to a headless SparcStation as the console.
Some of the finest Macs ever made use that serial connector, i.e. the SE/30.
It reminds me more of the fat unhappy chicks who would vie to be the 'chatroom moderator' by sucking up (not literally, bleah!!) to the sysop on the old multi-line dialup Chat BBSes before the Web became mainstream.
Many of these people seldom watch 'real time' television. Their PVR 'looks up' the schedule and automatically grabs the show at that time. It's waiting for them on disk when _they_ want to view it.
It isn't like the old days of rotating the 13 position channel knob round and round anymore.
Being as I remember watching 'the Jetsons' in the 1960's on television, I am wondering what kind of young child would claim they are from six years ago.
Apple has never been very good at standing behind anything they've produced more than a few years back. But the US Space Agency is similar in many ways to the US Military. There is ancient stuff still being actively supported. So your comparison to Apple is misdirected.
Wait... you must be a troll, because otherwise you'd be in church right now.
One of the signs that an individual's ideology has become a pathology is when that individual ceases arguing with a real opponent and begins simply ridiculing a parody opponent.
True, but one aspect of the fun is exploring different platforms. The Alphaserver would give you the opportunity to run alien binaries that few others have the capability to run.
I have a SparcServer 1000. It draws a LOT of power when it's up. But it's an 8-cpu machine. Probably overpowered for single thread apps by any modern Pentium based box. But it's history, man.
The orignal Mac was beige, and color wasn't available as a standard option on the Mac for years and years. The IBM CGA display was available almost from the beginning.
But this is really about flustering about and screaming about platforms, huh?
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I mean, why are people still comparing this to a netbook? It's not a netbook.
Maybe because Apple has explicitly stayed out of the netbook market, and the perception we all had was that they felt that this was a better fit to that market. So it's not a netbook, but it's Apple's alternative to a netbook.
You need to think hard about what you mean by your use of the term 'we.' Unless you are the advocate of a huge powerful centralized government that has total control over everything, you have to acknowledge that at least some political power must be delegated down to regional/local jurisdictions. Or are you an advocate of a huge powerful federal government that dictates all? If so, I'm wasting words.
It could also be said that what some people are claiming as 'civil disobedience' is merely greedy cowardace. I mean, downloading music for free sounds like the actions of someone with pretty confortable living conditions, who is just too cheap to make a purchase.
I know it goes against the whole edifice of righteousness that some people have put great labor into constructing, but I'm sorry...
It's not as simple as that. First off, Chomsky has no political power, so he cannot be a totalitarian. He's more of an armchair intellectual than anything else. A textbook example of an 'Ivory Tower Intellectual' so to speak. And his area of expertise is NOT foreign affairs, although he's a true craftsman with rhetoric. (which IS an area of his expertise). He's sort of a Pied Piper of Politics for people in their college years. Which is part of why the GP's response 'go read Chomsky' is such a rich and marvelous response to my query "are you just some college kid ranting?"
He means good pirates who only do nice things.
(bombing small European countries in the mid-90s etc.) greatly contributed to 9/11,
You know, you're probably right. When the US got involved in the conflict in the balkans and began bombing the Christian Serbs in defense of the Islamic people of the region, it probably just plain PISSED OFF people like Osama Bin Laden.
I suppose China could dump all those American dollars
The US is a critical trading partner of China. China would shitcan their own economy by playing those sorts of games.
This is politics.slashdot.org, not apple.slashdot.org, so BMW's don't enter into the discussion at ALL.
everyone gets up in arms against any atrocity committed by someone other than the us, but if the Us does something , NO ONE clammers to the UN to stop it.
Can you give us a cite for any of that? I'm already cutting you some slack, because I'm not at the moment challanging earlier comments where you made ridiculous claims with no cites ("millions of innocents slaughtered" etc. etc.)
So, are you just some college kid ranting?
When were you last in the USA?
It appears that you feel "Open Source" is a buzzword that can be slapped on the front of the name of anything to make it 'cooler' to geeks.
What exactly are you doing here?
"Hmm, costs 1/8th of our low-end laptop
The price of low end laptops can be gauged, today, by prices at places like WalMart, Target, and Frys. Places which regularly sell laptops in the $400 range.
So where does this '1/8' figure come from? Are you only shopping at the Apple Store? (even they have laptops that are less than 1/8 of $170)
Part of the idea with early PCs and BASIC was that there wasn't much software at all available for the machines. MS/PC-DOS wasn't something you could compile on your own machine, mind you. It was built on minicomputers and 'injected' onto the PCs. There was no 'C' for the PC for quite awhile. There was a Basic compiler, a Pascal compiler, and assembly language.
.exe file using an ancient Quick Basic compiler. It's a nice small fast program for generating an amoritzation schedule.
The PC-DOS 1.0 diskette has a bunch of *.bas programs on it. More than on any later version. And remember, the first few generations of IBM-PC had a cassette interface. A BASIC interpreter ("cassette basic") in ROM will pop up if no disk-based boot media is detected all the way up to the IBM-XT.
I recently dug out and compiled MORTGAGE.BAS from a PC-DOS disk image and turned it into an
And the most popular Open Source image manipulation program is probably xv. Which is STILL a nice small usable package. And I remember it as being middle-aged when I first encountered it on a Linux box in 1994.
For a short while, though, the Linux mascot was a Platypus.
But then the penguin-biting-Linus incident happened down in Australia... alas.
Didn't they make the Darwin mascot the platypus, now that I think of it? (long after Linux)
What is an obscure Mac owner? Someone who collects really obscure Macs, like an SE with a different colored case, or a 20th Anniversary Mac, or a Cube with unique features?
I consider myself an obscure Mac owner because I own a whole bunch of Macs but not a single one capable of running OS 10. I 'collect' things like images of old Mac HDs which get burned to folders on CD-ROMs using a really old version of Toast.
OS 8.1 forever!
etc.
The connector is round. And it's the same connector as on certain Sun boxes (the IPX is one, I believe). So you can use Apple Modem Cables and a nullmodem plug to connect to a headless SparcStation as the console.
Some of the finest Macs ever made use that serial connector, i.e. the SE/30.
It reminds me more of the fat unhappy chicks who would vie to be the 'chatroom moderator' by sucking up (not literally, bleah!!) to the sysop on the old multi-line dialup Chat BBSes before the Web became mainstream.
Many of these people seldom watch 'real time' television. Their PVR 'looks up' the schedule and automatically grabs the show at that time. It's waiting for them on disk when _they_ want to view it.
It isn't like the old days of rotating the 13 position channel knob round and round anymore.
You use a TV listing service that forces you to watch ads before you can see the listings?
Being as I remember watching 'the Jetsons' in the 1960's on television, I am wondering what kind of young child would claim they are from six years ago.
Apple has never been very good at standing behind anything they've produced more than a few years back. But the US Space Agency is similar in many ways to the US Military. There is ancient stuff still being actively supported. So your comparison to Apple is misdirected.
Wait... you must be a troll, because otherwise you'd be in church right now.
One of the signs that an individual's ideology has become a pathology is when that individual ceases arguing with a real opponent and begins simply ridiculing a parody opponent.
True, but one aspect of the fun is exploring different platforms. The Alphaserver would give you the opportunity to run alien binaries that few others have the capability to run.
I have a SparcServer 1000. It draws a LOT of power when it's up. But it's an 8-cpu machine. Probably overpowered for single thread apps by any modern Pentium based box. But it's history, man.
The orignal Mac was beige, and color wasn't available as a standard option on the Mac for years and years. The IBM CGA display was available almost from the beginning.
But this is really about flustering about and screaming about platforms, huh?