The Associated Press? The same lunkheads that were pushing Mac FUD less than a week ago about Mac Viruses? The tech group at that pile of generic newpaper filler has to be worse than the Register UK.
Mmmmmmmeh!
Here's some more headlines from the AP, Macs have windows - just like Windows! Atari - they're back - and they're in France!! Microsoft announces Longhorn! Sony PS2 winning customers - can the PS3 be far behind? E3 - what's THAT all about?
I'd have to say - why bother. If I'm not mistaken the audience that would download it has P2P'ed them to death, and it'd be too little too late.
Unless they remaster everything - which they're proportedly doing - but the restirctions they're trying to lay down make the recent "big 4" vs iTunes look like a cakewalk.
The only reason the price per barrel is high now is because the waste fodder to fuel it was jacked up by the providers. A few nice govt mandates would fix that - for instance - start running a clean hog / cattle / chicken plant and stop fouling the water, or get taxed to the max.
Oil from the ground is going away yes - and about time the tankers stopped sailing too.
It's the last one under the posted name of David H. and it reads:
---
"Aaron,
Thanks for sharing your story of Best Buy door nazis. I was also a victim of this today, the Best Buy security refuse to let me leave the store unless I showed him my receipt and PHYSICALLY BLOCKED ME FROM LEAVING. Told him I did not have to present a receipt and asked for a manager... showed the manager my police ID... and told him that the next time anyone does that, they'll be in handcuffs for violation of California Penal Code section 236, False Imprisonment. I recommend all your readers do the same. They have no legal right to force you to show a receipt.
In retrospect, I should of called the police and said that I was being held against my will... and that I wanted the security guard to be arrested.
I smell a class action soon...."
--
I'm a crappy linker when pretending to be busy at work at the final hour of a friday (hey - I'm gonna put in 2 hours this weekend to make up for it - hey - creative grooves can't be forced in the art-asset biz - stop hounding me! Quitit!)
Garbage in - Garbage - out / action - reaction. If the store weren't already well known for being utterly paranoid to the point of illegally holding people all the time - including police men who have nearly had store managers arrested - I'd almost agree with you.
Otherwise this goes into the "fuck them if they can't take a joke" column. Face it - some people just can't. Were they damaging anything? Did they assualt anyone? There's a lot of worse things happening on a daily basis to give a shit about. Seriously.
Kind of expensive to buy a new set to just fix the Greedo thing, and perhaps restore the nipple.
I'm actually glad that the Ewok dance number was removed in Jedi - I still think they were worse than Jar-Jar (DOUBLE BLASPHEMY), so I must be one of a handful that likes the remakes for the most part. (BURN THE BLASPHEMER!)
And this batshitloonball considers himself an editor?
"After you've already been overcharged for a Mac, you need to spend another hundred dollars or so buying Windows, just for the privilege of tainting the Apple core with Microsoft's OS. "
Which doesn't really jive with MacMall and other vendor's offers of free Windows XP bundles / pre-installations. http://www.macmall.com/
Considering recent popular press about Bloggers and their lack of fact checking - and considering PCmall / Macmall ADVERTISES in PCWORLD - the lazy cunt wouldn't have to even miss his fucking Bagel Break checking this shit out.
Must be nice to collect a check for all that sweat on his brow. PAH!
Also his name calling is oh-so professional....par for the course for a cocksucking leach of other people's oxygen whose ballsack has been gnawed off from a ferrit with rabies.
(note: author's language degrades from minutes elapsed between smoke breaks)
I did that - TWICE - all of the aftermarket ram caused full on freezes and were ordered specifically to 1.6 g5 specs.
Yank them out back to Apple's ram - purring like a kitten. The LONG threat that ran for more than 3 years at apple's support forums pretty much boiled it down to memory or video cards. I swapped the video card while trading out memory pairs and it didn't help. The first 1.6 and 1.8's were just flakey in that regard - as were some of the dual chip systems but those were isolated to power supply issues. But boy were they freeze happy.
I didn't isolate it until I had a perfect crash set of steps in a photoshop file that would trigger it.
Apple removed the long-running g5 freezes thread from their support RT. It won't be long till I make my tinfoil hat I guess...
Seriously though, until a year later after I stripped out all of my aftermarket RAM (which worked fine in every other beast I have) did I notice that my first-gen g5 1.6 only likes Apple's insanely great-ly priced RAM - which means if I want to get it back up to where I had it - I'd need to spend 4 TIMES what I spent in the initial upgrade. At some dot-com event in SF, someone confirmed the RAM type that Apple used (Samsung? - something with an "s"), and of course it was the top-shelf stuff with some odd specs.
For the cost of the memory I can nearly get an intel mac-mini so I'm craigslisting the g5 with the caviat, that it's Ram tastes are expensive unless you can put up with freezes or don't use power-apps too much (friends never got it to freeze - but I could do it in less than an hour with photoshop, flash MX and final cut pro).
Perhaps someone with video skills can overdub the apple freeze spots with a g5-centric script.
Well sonofagun - Apple's running Windows viri ads on their website and tv this week. By qwinkydink! What a coincidence. Think someone in Redmond got a leak-tape early and went into dammage control.
Naw - they're too smart for spite FUD. Too - too - smart.
Because as a contractor I can't afford to make sloppy choices with my computers. Sony got caught. Who else is thinking "what a great idea" out there? How long before they make it run on both machines? Why even bother tempting fate?
I say - great going CD industry - you just made yourself into a typhoid mary persona-non-grata. The chance of getting hit by a future DRM is slim I know - but why would I gamble with client-data like that? Just another preventive measure - and I have a legal alt.
Plus I'm not going to reward a business that would be so blattently hostile to their customers. Lawsuits are one thing - hell that's good business for lawyers. That's never going away. But outright sabotage? - count me out. The CD business just got too risky for the average consumer, and - just - isn't - worth it. I mean would you buy a gun that might blow up in your face by design? Would you continue to buy them if a manufacturer admitted to building them but said "sorry" to a few state D.A.s? - but never gave any indication they wouldn't do it again?
I call it reduced-risk and moving onto something else more important in life.
Yes it's amazing how screwed I am. I buy music for a simple price, download it, and can run off as many CDs as I want to send it to multiple CPUs and players.
That's how I use the product - and Apple in it's latest move - is keeping said product as unchanged as possible. If you're going to troll for legal scare-BS why not take a look at the legal agreements on any of the products YOU think are so great?
Oh - and here's a spiffy hint - the blather of a legal department is just that until it's challenged in a court of law. There's a lot of sloppy agreements and licenses out there that have nothing in the way of precident. For all intensive purposes - they're merely legal "wish-lists".
Hey - I got a great idea - perhaps the "free the world from Apple DRM - before it kills us all crowd" could use a good screw? I'm guessing I'm onto something. All anti-DRM activists to Las Vegas for prostitutes! Not only help Nevada's economy but perhaps Slashdot would actually lose some redundant clutter. This is utterly impossible of course - but I can always dream.
After the Sony DRM debacle, I've ruled out CD-based media altogether.
Say what you will about Apple DRM, but at least it's honest - and doesn't attempt to sabotage my CPUs. Good to know my pricing hasn't gone haywire in the near-term. For those who think that variable pricing is the way to go (except for whole albums) check out the raging success story that is google video. They're pay model is so - easy to understand - and easy to work with - no one I know is using it.
I'd say that's a ringing endorsement for keeping it simple.
My sarcasm would seem to be too subtle - going to have to work on that.
Also there's a typo - I meant XP. Windows NT was waaaaay more robust in it's day in fact I still miss Windows 2000 when I'm stuck in front of a Dell from time to time...
Even an Associated Press article, it makes you wonder what gains Microsoft would possibly have for putting it on the front door of MSNBC.
I mean with Vista being such a slam-dunk, why would they need to engage in FUD?
Granted - Apple has warnings of running windows on their boot-camp page and what fun awaits the end user so the reported denial is obviously massive from Cuppertino and that would create a massive pile of denial from the Apple-user community no doubt.
God bless the press for keeping everyone informed of the latest threat to Mac OSX users, and to the homeland security department for keeping those colors coming. I guess I'll have to keep vigilant - albiet productive - while my neighbors reinstall windows every couple of months from all the malware slowdowns. Also special thanks for the heads-up Semantech, you're doing a great job keeping the windows world safe for NT users. Your service is no-doubt going to be needed on the Mac and boy will we be thankful.
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re:"Also, ignore Amazon"
Also - ignore that man behind the curtain - pay them no mind - my version of reality is bright and shiney! OMG! Ponies!
re: who cares" guys who are driving lousy cars and getting no pussy - which is just about 90% of Slashdot readers. That's a MARKET BABY!
" It happened with the PS2 and original Xbox as well, remember? Or is your memory that short?"
I paid 299.00 for my ps2 on launch day - Sony Metereon SF. Poor little FUD. The haters do like using it don't they?
100 more than microsoft's most expensive model? Gee a parousal at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B43OY4/ref=cm _lm_fullview_prod_1/002-0494354-3012017?_encoding= UTF8&v=glance&n=468642 indicates a price of 570.00. 30 dollars seems a tad closer than 100.
FUD? Oh yes. Lotsa FUD.
The Associated Press? The same lunkheads that were pushing Mac FUD less than a week ago about Mac Viruses? The tech group at that pile of generic newpaper filler has to be worse than the Register UK.
Mmmmmmmeh!
Here's some more headlines from the AP, Macs have windows - just like Windows! Atari - they're back - and they're in France!! Microsoft announces Longhorn! Sony PS2 winning customers - can the PS3 be far behind? E3 - what's THAT all about?
I'd have to say - why bother. If I'm not mistaken the audience that would download it has P2P'ed them to death, and it'd be too little too late.
Unless they remaster everything - which they're proportedly doing - but the restirctions they're trying to lay down make the recent "big 4" vs iTunes look like a cakewalk.
TDP mothafuckas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerizat ion
The only reason the price per barrel is high now is because the waste fodder to fuel it was jacked up by the providers. A few nice govt mandates would fix that - for instance - start running a clean hog / cattle / chicken plant and stop fouling the water, or get taxed to the max.
Oil from the ground is going away yes - and about time the tankers stopped sailing too.
Lessie - it was a blog link with boingboing.net from a number of months ago, cross your fingers....
Google - rocks!
http://www.die.net/musings/bestbuy/
and the policeman was under the comments:
http://www.die.net/musings/bestbuy/
It's the last one under the posted name of David H. and it reads:
---
"Aaron,
Thanks for sharing your story of Best Buy door nazis. I was also a victim
of this today, the Best Buy security refuse to let me leave the store unless
I showed him my receipt and PHYSICALLY BLOCKED ME FROM LEAVING. Told him I
did not have to present a receipt and asked for a manager... showed the
manager my police ID... and told him that the next time anyone does that,
they'll be in handcuffs for violation of California Penal Code section 236,
False Imprisonment. I recommend all your readers do the same. They have no
legal right to force you to show a receipt.
In retrospect, I should of called the police and said that I was being held
against my will... and that I wanted the security guard to be arrested.
I smell a class action soon...."
--
I'm a crappy linker when pretending to be busy at work at the final hour of a friday (hey - I'm gonna put in 2 hours this weekend to make up for it - hey - creative grooves can't be forced in the art-asset biz - stop hounding me! Quitit!)
I think if you branded a penis with anything - the screaming part would be pretty much taken for granted.
Garbage in - Garbage - out / action - reaction. If the store weren't already well known for being utterly paranoid to the point of illegally holding people all the time - including police men who have nearly had store managers arrested - I'd almost agree with you.
Otherwise this goes into the "fuck them if they can't take a joke" column. Face it - some people just can't. Were they damaging anything? Did they assualt anyone? There's a lot of worse things happening on a daily basis to give a shit about. Seriously.
disclaimer - parent troll was in regards to the pc magazine editor cum-nitwit, not this thread.
I'd like to see his plumbing. I'm still trying to figure out the ground clearance on that thing with the fuel tank it would have.
Kind of expensive to buy a new set to just fix the Greedo thing, and perhaps restore the nipple.
I'm actually glad that the Ewok dance number was removed in Jedi - I still think they were worse than Jar-Jar (DOUBLE BLASPHEMY), so I must be one of a handful that likes the remakes for the most part. (BURN THE BLASPHEMER!)
There's vendors that will do it for you:
http://www.macmall.com/
This also knocks off the added-cost argument from the parent troll. I'll probably go this route on my next mac mini.
And this batshitloonball considers himself an editor?
"After you've already been overcharged for a Mac, you need to spend another hundred dollars or so buying Windows, just for the privilege of tainting the Apple core with Microsoft's OS. "
Which doesn't really jive with MacMall and other vendor's offers of free Windows XP bundles / pre-installations. http://www.macmall.com/
Considering recent popular press about Bloggers and their lack of fact checking - and considering PCmall / Macmall ADVERTISES in PCWORLD - the lazy cunt wouldn't have to even miss his fucking Bagel Break checking this shit out.
Must be nice to collect a check for all that sweat on his brow. PAH!
Also his name calling is oh-so professional....par for the course for a cocksucking leach of other people's oxygen whose ballsack has been gnawed off from a ferrit with rabies.
(note: author's language degrades from minutes elapsed between smoke breaks)
I did that - TWICE - all of the aftermarket ram caused full on freezes and were ordered specifically to 1.6 g5 specs.
Yank them out back to Apple's ram - purring like a kitten. The LONG threat that ran for more than 3 years at apple's support forums pretty much boiled it down to memory or video cards. I swapped the video card while trading out memory pairs and it didn't help. The first 1.6 and 1.8's were just flakey in that regard - as were some of the dual chip systems but those were isolated to power supply issues. But boy were they freeze happy.
I didn't isolate it until I had a perfect crash set of steps in a photoshop file that would trigger it.
People also talk alot about AIDS and the war in Iraq. PR coup there too?
I'm amazed how someone could extrapolate "free" from "help the economy". Our proud schools at work - wave that fucking flag.
Apple removed the long-running g5 freezes thread from their support RT. It won't be long till I make my tinfoil hat I guess...
Seriously though, until a year later after I stripped out all of my aftermarket RAM (which worked fine in every other beast I have) did I notice that my first-gen g5 1.6 only likes Apple's insanely great-ly priced RAM - which means if I want to get it back up to where I had it - I'd need to spend 4 TIMES what I spent in the initial upgrade. At some dot-com event in SF, someone confirmed the RAM type that Apple used (Samsung? - something with an "s"), and of course it was the top-shelf stuff with some odd specs.
For the cost of the memory I can nearly get an intel mac-mini so I'm craigslisting the g5 with the caviat, that it's Ram tastes are expensive unless you can put up with freezes or don't use power-apps too much (friends never got it to freeze - but I could do it in less than an hour with photoshop, flash MX and final cut pro).
Perhaps someone with video skills can overdub the apple freeze spots with a g5-centric script.
Well sonofagun - Apple's running Windows viri ads on their website and tv this week. By qwinkydink! What a coincidence. Think someone in Redmond got a leak-tape early and went into dammage control.
Naw - they're too smart for spite FUD. Too - too - smart.
re:"why"
Because as a contractor I can't afford to make sloppy choices with my computers. Sony got caught. Who else is thinking "what a great idea" out there? How long before they make it run on both machines? Why even bother tempting fate?
I say - great going CD industry - you just made yourself into a typhoid mary persona-non-grata. The chance of getting hit by a future DRM is slim I know - but why would I gamble with client-data like that? Just another preventive measure - and I have a legal alt.
Plus I'm not going to reward a business that would be so blattently hostile to their customers. Lawsuits are one thing - hell that's good business for lawyers. That's never going away. But outright sabotage? - count me out. The CD business just got too risky for the average consumer, and - just - isn't - worth it. I mean would you buy a gun that might blow up in your face by design? Would you continue to buy them if a manufacturer admitted to building them but said "sorry" to a few state D.A.s? - but never gave any indication they wouldn't do it again?
I call it reduced-risk and moving onto something else more important in life.
Yes it's amazing how screwed I am. I buy music for a simple price, download it, and can run off as many CDs as I want to send it to multiple CPUs and players.
That's how I use the product - and Apple in it's latest move - is keeping said product as unchanged as possible. If you're going to troll for legal scare-BS why not take a look at the legal agreements on any of the products YOU think are so great?
Oh - and here's a spiffy hint - the blather of a legal department is just that until it's challenged in a court of law. There's a lot of sloppy agreements and licenses out there that have nothing in the way of precident. For all intensive purposes - they're merely legal "wish-lists".
Hey - I got a great idea - perhaps the "free the world from Apple DRM - before it kills us all crowd" could use a good screw? I'm guessing I'm onto something. All anti-DRM activists to Las Vegas for prostitutes! Not only help Nevada's economy but perhaps Slashdot would actually lose some redundant clutter. This is utterly impossible of course - but I can always dream.
After the Sony DRM debacle, I've ruled out CD-based media altogether.
Say what you will about Apple DRM, but at least it's honest - and doesn't attempt to sabotage my CPUs. Good to know my pricing hasn't gone haywire in the near-term. For those who think that variable pricing is the way to go (except for whole albums) check out the raging success story that is google video. They're pay model is so - easy to understand - and easy to work with - no one I know is using it.
I'd say that's a ringing endorsement for keeping it simple.
My sarcasm would seem to be too subtle - going to have to work on that.
Also there's a typo - I meant XP. Windows NT was waaaaay more robust in it's day in fact I still miss Windows 2000 when I'm stuck in front of a Dell from time to time...
Even an Associated Press article, it makes you wonder what gains Microsoft would possibly have for putting it on the front door of MSNBC.
I mean with Vista being such a slam-dunk, why would they need to engage in FUD?
Granted - Apple has warnings of running windows on their boot-camp page and what fun awaits the end user so the reported denial is obviously massive from Cuppertino and that would create a massive pile of denial from the Apple-user community no doubt.
God bless the press for keeping everyone informed of the latest threat to Mac OSX users, and to the homeland security department for keeping those colors coming. I guess I'll have to keep vigilant - albiet productive - while my neighbors reinstall windows every couple of months from all the malware slowdowns. Also special thanks for the heads-up Semantech, you're doing a great job keeping the windows world safe for NT users. Your service is no-doubt going to be needed on the Mac and boy will we be thankful.
Just about the time hell freezes over.