TV is so overrated, Runco overhead projection with B&W 801's upfront and 805's in the rear with Krell driving the whole thing. Oh sure this is a few years old and I am sure that there are newer things out there but for now this is fine........
Testify brother! And actually this car seems to help with the SUV problem since these features might make it more popular with those that might otherwise buy SUV's. I understand the desire for an SUV but I sure hate not being able to see around them on the road, and there are sure a lot of people driving them that seem unskilled with the larger mass.......go Dodge. Seems strange that these guys have been leading the way in design for the last ten years but someone's got to do it. Kinda makes me remember those halycon days of the early 70's when MOPAR was king......
and uhh, yea, embedded Linux to boot, yay Open Source!
Not to mention the fact that you will need half a gig of RAM to run all that eye candy. Then of course there is the "Steve Jobs Butt Tax" where he will get you for more money some way. Either through the hardware breaking down one day out of Apple's anemic one year warranty (unless you let them blackmail you with their AppleCare) or by putting out a new OS upgrade a few months later and charging you another 80/100 bucks(80 with that 20 dollar discount coupon that you get with your system). Let's not forgot that everything that you buy leaves legacy items behind.
My PC has a 3 year warranty, less problems, cost half as much, and is cheaper to upgrade than my unstable G3 and broken Apple Monitor that I just paid $325 to fix after it broke a month out of warranty. (there is no Apple Care for just a monitor, and at premium prices why should I have to buy it). (I fixed it because the new monitors are for G4's only according to Apple's site).
Yep, OS X and Apple hardware is just money down the drain. Now, Redhat 7, easy to install, configure and run, now that's an OS!
"Please, please work on OS X and help us to finally ship this turkey, errr I mean this genius product! I'll be good, I 'll change the ASPL! Please, my stock isn't worth shit at this point and I need your support. Err, I mean I am very interested in supporting the Open Source Community, what's good for Apple is good for all (especially my portfolio). HELP!""
This goes much deeper than their products dying out of warranty, (which for the premium price they charge I shouldn't have to pay extra for Applecare). This is the third problem I have had with these guys and all I get is lame excuses and their customer service saying that they know that basically they suck as a complany. Their business practices as a whole suck. It's one reason that their stock is dying, part of the reason that their sales are slack is that the customer loyalty that they used to enjoy has pounded out of the behinds of those who have tired of Jobs dick. Why pay more when they just suck you dry? My NT box has been stable as a rock for a year now and in the last year my G3 is constantly crashing. The Ultra10 at work is more stable than either. But when I make my next purchase you can bet it won't be Apple and Steve Jobs can bet his ass that I will influence as many as possible to make their next purchase a PC.
Since I see no story to respond too, I will just engage in my usual Apple Bashing. Besides being fucked over on my hardware and OS purchase (and when I called their Customer Service they said that they had hired extra agents to handle all those who were as gypped and pissed off as I was) they offered no satisfaction, only the usual "Bend over Steve Jobs is driving". Now that my Apple monitor is one month out of warranty it blows up and I have to pay to get this product, that I paid a premium price for, serviced or replaced. If I need to replace it you can bet it won't be an Apple monitor either, nor will I ever be buying an Apple anything ever again.
I do however, acknowledge that I probably deserve whatever abuse I get from Slashdot readers regarding purchasing anything from Apple in the first place.
I have found that Solaris does like old equipment. I was doing an install at work and found that the only video card that I could get to work was a Diamond 2MB Stealth PCI. Solaris don't like no fancy new stuff. I can't even imagine the pain that something THAT new, like that chipset must of caused......
I don't know what prisons you are talking about, but here in America prison is a place for those that BROKE THE LAW. Whether you serve time/how much and in what kind of facility is dependent on the nature of your crime. Yes, I agree that we way overuse this here in Amerikkka for drug users.
Prison is also a deterrent to let others no that their actions are unacceptable. Hopefully this guy will get the full sentence to let spammers know that people are sick of it.
Spammers however not only are resource thieves but send offensive email into family boxes. They are also time thieves since so many of us play merry-go-round with multiple mail boxes to avoid spam. We spend time setting up filters and getting new boxes and worrying about who we can mail from our home account. We spend time going out to a hotmail account to email some business to make sure that we get no spam at home. People on Slashdot add all sorts of wacky stuff in posting their email addresses to make sure that the addresses don't get harvested.
All this adds up and is maddening and sickening. This guy in effect not only stole and committed forgery, but assaulted a million people.
I can't believe that my humorous post about the joys of giving hard drugs at Christmas (inspired by the recent spate of Bay area articles that portrays the dot.com world as full of junkies) was mod'ed down as "troll". And your utterly offensive sexist idiocy gets mod'ed up to 4 for "Funny"!
Man, everybody here must be a buncha white, pathetic fat, socially inept losers with no sense of humor whose only exposure to women is porn on the internet.
Since they are:
1.Intel QA using Win2000
2. The guy at TomsHardware playing Quake on Win98
3. The R&D guy at Rambus using NT
I don't think they've been informed.....
Not sure what you're talking about here other than the usual Windows bashing. The jillion or so Win installs that I have done are pretty much push button, push button, push button, "give me the CD so I can install your drivers". The linux installs that I have done (RH and Suse) were far more complex than that. Hell I think installing Solaris on Sun was easier (though installing Solaris7 on Intel is a bitch due to hardware compatibility issues which it looks like linux has its own with the P4).
At this point I am still more comfortable with Solaris than linux and I agree with the poster above, there is a steep learning curve here. Of course if I had used linux at work instead of Solaris then it would probably be reversed but I would still say a Win install is tons easier....
From what I hear the P4 ain't so great so I don't know what the big deal with this story is....
I have an Athlon/Asus combo with Suse 6.4 installed and it works like a charm so maybe this is distro specific and not the chip... the old Red Hat installed lilo on my dual boot/dual HD (with NT) system a while back (5.0 maybe) thereby cutting me off from getting to the NT drive and there was no documentation on lilo in the manual and so after some time researching I found out that I had to fdisk the MBR. I wasn't happy about that experience. I looked at a Suse manual which documented the fact that one should be very careful with lilo and I bought their package and have been happy ever since.
Matbe you didn't get the point you dickhead. Not everybody is a java fucking engineer, certainly not the people who work tech support. I have to say that with an attitude like yours I sure wouldn't hire your stupid ass at any company where I worked. I get so sick of arrogant idiots who don't seem to realize that there are people in the world who aren't like them. Sure maybe you won't bleed for those people but man, I sure don't envy those who work around you. The generalities of the "one week for every ten grand" takes into account that for every person swinging a huge resume like yours there are many who aren't. Duh.
Thanks for the link! I love those froggies with their oh so convoluted ways! Though I would like to think that if one (meaning the person you responded to) were to wave around a bombastic po-mo philosopher's name you would know what you were talking about. He missed the point (whatever his was). I think one cool thing about living in France would be to pick up a French copy of Derrida's "Glas" for cheap. Not to mention using the time to learn another language so that you could start reading your fave euro philosophers in the language that they wrote in.
Now this is the way to get linux on every "desktop".......excuse me while I log onto my Ultra 10 and surf with HotJava so to speak....
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Has anyone here considered that fact that famine is a symptom of overpopulation? There are just too damn many people on this planet as it is. We seem to think that all people in all areas, primitive or not, should lead the same sort of lives that we lead and that we should lead them there. Let nature takes its course. When there are too many deer in a forest , they overgraze and the weaker starve off. Considering the size of the population I think that we ought to leave well enough alone. Don't blame the food blame our idiotic tendency to play God when we should be examining these things from a more macro point of view. These things have effects that are world wide and should be considered as such. There are only a finite amount of resources, where do we want to spend it?
I was talking about your refutation of anyone's value judgments. I was engaging your point that there is a "problem" with critics and the idea of their irrelevancy. I was trying to point out that this is a perhaps necessary evil from your point of view considering your fear that leads you to the "anything goes" school of thinking. The part of Kant that I was referring to specifically (sense I was referring to C. of J. and not C of P.R.) was the idea of sophistication as a process through which we can gain deeper insight into artistic works. This fights the leveling that occurs with the "all opinions are equal" crowd.
As to the irrelevancy, well, people like to read reviews of works. I think that your worries trivialize this and while you worry about absolutism your relativistic tendencies could lead to a coercion wherein dialogue or assertions are not permissable.
While Socrates did say that "The one thing that I do know is that I don't know", he was more than happy to open the floor for more blathering about whatever. I leave the scope of value judgments for those that want to engage in the dialogue to decide. You seem to want to preempt that.
I would say that you come off as some overeducated crank who hates critics but your taste in movies leads me to believe otherwise.
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best!"-Iggy Pop with the Stooges.
The problem with your statement is that if you want to take the shoulder shrugging "It's just a matter of opinion" stance than what happens to dialogue? Since this wasn't a massive tome but a review, there isn't time to not approach it without the "Belief in the universality of values" that you attack. What's the guy supposed to do, give us his entire theory of film? He stated that "here are movies that I think suck" at the outset, which should give us a pretty good idea of where he is coming from. If you disagree, that is your choice but to argue with the method would seem to say that nobody is allowed to say anything because there is no consensus.
If I see a review of something I look for cues that tell me if the reviewer is on the same page as me or not. In this case the reviewer thought that movies that I thought sucked also sucked, and he leveled criticisms that are my views as well. If he had done the opposite, I would have figured out that he was some subnormal who likes any sci-fi, stupid or not, and I still would of gotten something out of the review. This second, stupid reviewer would of praised the movie, called shower scenes the best part and I would know to go nowhere near the theatre.
I still get something out of the review either way. Yes, I know that this means that I have to approach the review with a modicum of critical thinking myself, but the world can be tough that way. The problem with most mainstream reviewing these days is that too many are afraid to step on the toes of the companies that produce movies or music or books and so we get a ton of "good" reviews or mediocre reviews that hesitate to say something sucks.
Perhaps you should read Kant's "Critique of Judgment" for a some insight into those value judgments that you circularly refute yet engage in yourself.......
Well check out what's happening down in Chile for the third world benefit reaping of industrialization. They are burning up from increasingly deadly sunburn and skin cancer as they sit under the hole in the ozone layer down there. Schools let kids with fair skin outside only 6 minutes a day and tanning lotion companies do sales pitches in the schools to sell their oh, so necessary products. (note to self, buy shares in Coppertone).
Napster has no right to distribute music on major labels while eBay does. Since eBay has the right to sell used CD's that means that is is a legal service. That bootleg material makes it onto eBay is true, but it's hard to police what is bootleg material and what is not, since it is not eBay that puts the recordings for sale but individuals. This is what makes it different than a brick and mortar store. So the individual is the responsible one with the liability here. eBay has a stated policy against bootlegs and I dealt with someone there once, who told me that he had been kicked off eBay for selling duped video recordings of live concerts, so they do attempt to enforce it. Napster is much more intimately connected with it's dealings which have no legal basis. Perhaps they will get one someday but the court battles to sell used CD's give eBay a right to sell. I am not against Napster in any way but feel that it should be noted that these are not the same sort of dealings.
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best" - Iggy Pop and the Stooges.
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They acknowledged this.
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best!- Iggy Pop with the Stooges.
TV is so overrated, Runco overhead projection with B&W 801's upfront and 805's in the rear with Krell driving the whole thing. Oh sure this is a few years old and I am sure that there are newer things out there but for now this is fine........
and uhh, yea, embedded Linux to boot, yay Open Source!
My PC has a 3 year warranty, less problems, cost half as much, and is cheaper to upgrade than my unstable G3 and broken Apple Monitor that I just paid $325 to fix after it broke a month out of warranty. (there is no Apple Care for just a monitor, and at premium prices why should I have to buy it). (I fixed it because the new monitors are for G4's only according to Apple's site).
Yep, OS X and Apple hardware is just money down the drain. Now, Redhat 7, easy to install, configure and run, now that's an OS!
"Please, please work on OS X and help us to finally ship this turkey, errr I mean this genius product! I'll be good, I 'll change the ASPL! Please, my stock isn't worth shit at this point and I need your support. Err, I mean I am very interested in supporting the Open Source Community, what's good for Apple is good for all (especially my portfolio). HELP!""
This goes much deeper than their products dying out of warranty, (which for the premium price they charge I shouldn't have to pay extra for Applecare). This is the third problem I have had with these guys and all I get is lame excuses and their customer service saying that they know that basically they suck as a complany. Their business practices as a whole suck. It's one reason that their stock is dying, part of the reason that their sales are slack is that the customer loyalty that they used to enjoy has pounded out of the behinds of those who have tired of Jobs dick. Why pay more when they just suck you dry? My NT box has been stable as a rock for a year now and in the last year my G3 is constantly crashing. The Ultra10 at work is more stable than either. But when I make my next purchase you can bet it won't be Apple and Steve Jobs can bet his ass that I will influence as many as possible to make their next purchase a PC.
I do however, acknowledge that I probably deserve whatever abuse I get from Slashdot readers regarding purchasing anything from Apple in the first place.
This shows how tough they were, I doubt that I could watch Requiem for a Dream over and over......
I have found that Solaris does like old equipment. I was doing an install at work and found that the only video card that I could get to work was a Diamond 2MB Stealth PCI. Solaris don't like no fancy new stuff. I can't even imagine the pain that something THAT new, like that chipset must of caused......
Prison is also a deterrent to let others no that their actions are unacceptable. Hopefully this guy will get the full sentence to let spammers know that people are sick of it.
Spammers however not only are resource thieves but send offensive email into family boxes. They are also time thieves since so many of us play merry-go-round with multiple mail boxes to avoid spam. We spend time setting up filters and getting new boxes and worrying about who we can mail from our home account. We spend time going out to a hotmail account to email some business to make sure that we get no spam at home. People on Slashdot add all sorts of wacky stuff in posting their email addresses to make sure that the addresses don't get harvested.
All this adds up and is maddening and sickening. This guy in effect not only stole and committed forgery, but assaulted a million people.
I say, get a rope!
'scuse me, I have an axe to grind and I need to go post.....
Man, everybody here must be a buncha white, pathetic fat, socially inept losers with no sense of humor whose only exposure to women is porn on the internet.
Get a clue and get a life please!
Since they are: 1.Intel QA using Win2000 2. The guy at TomsHardware playing Quake on Win98 3. The R&D guy at Rambus using NT I don't think they've been informed.....
At this point I am still more comfortable with Solaris than linux and I agree with the poster above, there is a steep learning curve here. Of course if I had used linux at work instead of Solaris then it would probably be reversed but I would still say a Win install is tons easier....
From what I hear the P4 ain't so great so I don't know what the big deal with this story is....
I have an Athlon/Asus combo with Suse 6.4 installed and it works like a charm so maybe this is distro specific and not the chip... the old Red Hat installed lilo on my dual boot/dual HD (with NT) system a while back (5.0 maybe) thereby cutting me off from getting to the NT drive and there was no documentation on lilo in the manual and so after some time researching I found out that I had to fdisk the MBR. I wasn't happy about that experience. I looked at a Suse manual which documented the fact that one should be very careful with lilo and I bought their package and have been happy ever since.
I thought the credits rolling at the end was the best part of the movie....
Matbe you didn't get the point you dickhead. Not everybody is a java fucking engineer, certainly not the people who work tech support. I have to say that with an attitude like yours I sure wouldn't hire your stupid ass at any company where I worked. I get so sick of arrogant idiots who don't seem to realize that there are people in the world who aren't like them. Sure maybe you won't bleed for those people but man, I sure don't envy those who work around you. The generalities of the "one week for every ten grand" takes into account that for every person swinging a huge resume like yours there are many who aren't. Duh.
Thanks for the link! I love those froggies with their oh so convoluted ways! Though I would like to think that if one (meaning the person you responded to) were to wave around a bombastic po-mo philosopher's name you would know what you were talking about. He missed the point (whatever his was). I think one cool thing about living in France would be to pick up a French copy of Derrida's "Glas" for cheap. Not to mention using the time to learn another language so that you could start reading your fave euro philosophers in the language that they wrote in.
I have to say that I recently downloaded version 3.0 and it kicks ass all over version 1.02.....
Now this is the way to get linux on every "desktop".......excuse me while I log onto my Ultra 10 and surf with HotJava so to speak....
Has anyone here considered that fact that famine is a symptom of overpopulation? There are just too damn many people on this planet as it is. We seem to think that all people in all areas, primitive or not, should lead the same sort of lives that we lead and that we should lead them there. Let nature takes its course. When there are too many deer in a forest , they overgraze and the weaker starve off. Considering the size of the population I think that we ought to leave well enough alone. Don't blame the food blame our idiotic tendency to play God when we should be examining these things from a more macro point of view. These things have effects that are world wide and should be considered as such. There are only a finite amount of resources, where do we want to spend it?
As to the irrelevancy, well, people like to read reviews of works. I think that your worries trivialize this and while you worry about absolutism your relativistic tendencies could lead to a coercion wherein dialogue or assertions are not permissable.
While Socrates did say that "The one thing that I do know is that I don't know", he was more than happy to open the floor for more blathering about whatever. I leave the scope of value judgments for those that want to engage in the dialogue to decide. You seem to want to preempt that.
I would say that you come off as some overeducated crank who hates critics but your taste in movies leads me to believe otherwise.
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best!"-Iggy Pop with the Stooges.
If I see a review of something I look for cues that tell me if the reviewer is on the same page as me or not. In this case the reviewer thought that movies that I thought sucked also sucked, and he leveled criticisms that are my views as well. If he had done the opposite, I would have figured out that he was some subnormal who likes any sci-fi, stupid or not, and I still would of gotten something out of the review. This second, stupid reviewer would of praised the movie, called shower scenes the best part and I would know to go nowhere near the theatre.
I still get something out of the review either way. Yes, I know that this means that I have to approach the review with a modicum of critical thinking myself, but the world can be tough that way. The problem with most mainstream reviewing these days is that too many are afraid to step on the toes of the companies that produce movies or music or books and so we get a ton of "good" reviews or mediocre reviews that hesitate to say something sucks.
Perhaps you should read Kant's "Critique of Judgment" for a some insight into those value judgments that you circularly refute yet engage in yourself.......
Well check out what's happening down in Chile for the third world benefit reaping of industrialization. They are burning up from increasingly deadly sunburn and skin cancer as they sit under the hole in the ozone layer down there. Schools let kids with fair skin outside only 6 minutes a day and tanning lotion companies do sales pitches in the schools to sell their oh, so necessary products. (note to self, buy shares in Coppertone).
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best" - Iggy Pop and the Stooges.