Not to mention:
"Slashdot" should have been capitalized.
"English" should have been capitalized.
"Slashdot", once again, should have been capitalized.
"Possessive" was spelled incorrectly.
"Nazis" should be capitalized.
"Third-grade" should be hyphenated.
"Dropouts" should be considered all one word, or hyphenated.
The main purpose of having an iPod is so that you can display your hipster cred with the white earphones.
If it was just about music and sound quality, cost, music format compatibility, and features, then there are other players that would win hands-down. But Apple has turned those white earphones into a symbol of "cool", and not displaying them negates at least half the reason so many people have them in the first place.
They're not protesting the RIAA because big-label music is crap (although it is).
It would be more like telling McDonald's you were not going to buy their product anymore because the Big Mac had a device which only allowed you to eat it inside the McDonald's and would not allow you to share it with your friends.
No, I've never been particularly taken in by the iPod, and I have never bought one. I have an MP3 player, I love the hell out of it, but it's not an Apple product.
However, the original poster had said, "Apple got its dominate [sic] position by creating a effective and user freindly [sic] UI to a useful and stylish bit of hardware."
Then you said, "Ha ha, yeah, right. I suppose you're going to claim if the ipod was the size, shape, color, and texture of a cinderblock[...]it would still be where it is now."
But clearly that was NOT what was being claimed, and in fact the original poster specifically stated that part (not necessarily all) of Apple's success with the iPod was due to its being useful and stylish.
Well at least it didn't manage to get through every single defense available and crash directly into the headquarters of the most advanced and expensive military on the planet.
Because THAT would have been embarassing.
I have no problem with people who believe in Creationism.
I have a problem with people who insist on calling it "Creation Science", or "Intelligent Design Theory", as if closing your eyes and imagining an invisible, all-seeing, all-powerful man on a cloud is on a level equal to, you know, actual SCIENCE.
It was you or someone like you with whom I had the following conversation with a few years ago. It is a painful memory burned deep within my psyche.
AOL Rep: Thank you for waiting on hold for 53 minutes listening to the same 20 second recording over and over, how may I help you?
ME: I'd like to cancel AOL.
AOL Rep: Okay, no problem*. (*This is a trick)
ME: Great.
AOL Rep: I need to get your screen name.
ME: It's AOLSucks29785. I called myself that because AOLSucks1 through AOLSucks29784 were already taken.
AOL Rep: Do you live at 5022 Pheasant Circle, the white house with the blue shutters and a green Toyota parked in the front? Was you last telephone bill for $36.17? Did you have sex two nights ago for 28 minutes and could stand to put a little bit more fiber in your diet?
ME: [nervously] Uhhh... yeah.
AOL Rep: Okay, I've got you pulled up in our system. For verification purposes, what's your mother's maiden name?
ME: Henderson.
AOL Rep: I'm sorry, that's not correct.
ME: Um, yeah it is.
AOL Rep: Not according to our records. Has it changed recently?
ME: No, it's my mother's goddamn maiden name. It's been the same, like, forever.
AOL Rep: Well that's not what our computer says.
ME: I don't care about that, her maiden name is Henderson!
AOL Rep: Maybe when we first asked you, you told us her middle name instead of her maiden name.
ME: Well, her middle name is Sue.
AOL Rep: Nope, that's not it either. Try it one more time. What's your mother's maiden name?
ME: HENDERSON!
AOL Rep: Well why didn't you say that in the first place? Why did you tell me her maiden name was Williams?
ME: I DIDN'T!!
AOL Rep: Sir, I need you to calm down and speak to me respectfully or I will end this conversation.
ME: Look, I just need to cancel my AOL account. And please, don't waste your time or mine trying to read me that stupid script to get me to stay? Okay? I went through it before. The one where you ask me what I use the Internet for, and I tell you, and then you tell me all the ways that AOL supposedly makes it easier... don't do that. I just want to cancel.
AOL Rep: That's not a problem at all.
ME: Good.
AOL Rep: I would hate if someone used a script on me too.
ME: Well, exactly.
AOL Rep: So may I ask what sorts of things you use the Internet for?
ME: Dammit, you're using the script on me.
AOL Rep: No, sir, I wasn't. I was just making friendly conversation.
ME: I didn't call for friendly conversation, I called to get you to cancel a $30.00 per month bill for dial-up Internet when I can get super-fast high speed Internet for $19.99 per month.
AOL Rep: I bet that makes it really easy to watch movies and music videos online!
ME: I suppose, but --
AOL Rep: Did you know that AOL has a movie and music video service for high-speed internet that --
ME: Are you out of your mind?
AOL Rep: For just a low monthly fee, you can keep AOL and use it with your high-speed Internet!
ME: Why on God's Green Earth would I do that?
AOL Rep: AOL is so easy to use!
ME: I don't need Playskool Internet on my computer. I am capable of using a normal web browser.
AOL Rep: But it's --
ME: Just cancel my damn subscription.
Of course, two months later, what shows up on my credit card? AOL, charging me for their super-cool high-speed internet product that I specifically told them I didn't want. And in closing, I hate you forever.
A random event (gene transcription error, for example) might cause a sheep to have six legs. But natural selection isn't random. If those six legs mean that the animal can't move, it's not going to be able to survive in nature long enough to procreate. So that mutation wouldn't get passed on, and there's not much random about it.
If, however, those two extra legs meant that the sheep could run 50% faster away from predators than the other sheep, that's a trait that's going get passed on until eventually there's a shit-load* of six-legged sheep.
Oh man... that's hilarious. It's like, there's a double meaning, because "Uranus" is a planet in our solar system, but also it sounds a lot like "your anus"! Holy shit, that's funny.
And then "probe" like a space probe that goes to another planet, but also like a "probe" that goes into someone's anus, thus referencing the above hilarity all over again!
This joke is a marvel on all levels and it's amazing that someone has not already thought of it!
But he didn't get $351,000, because they reached a settlement. That implies that he took less than the $351,000 he was suing for. So here's all we can deduce based on logic: He got somewhere between $0 and $350,999.
Oh wait, I'm on Slashdot, and that requires me to end all of my posts with an unintentionally ironic derogatory statement about people who post on Slashdot.
Last night I was almost asleep when I heard a loud crashing noise from downstairs. I went down to see what had happened, and a window was broken. But there was no evidence of what had caused the broken window.
Therefore, I came to the only logical ID conclusion: The window had always been broken, and flying unicorns exist.
And verily I said unto you, 'For those who worshipeth the corporation be not of right mind, for they are the naive. But those who do go forth and corrupteth our hallways of science learning with their talk of ID are also not of right mind, for they knoweth not reality.'
So it is written, so let it be done.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to mention: "Slashdot" should have been capitalized. "English" should have been capitalized. "Slashdot", once again, should have been capitalized. "Possessive" was spelled incorrectly. "Nazis" should be capitalized. "Third-grade" should be hyphenated. "Dropouts" should be considered all one word, or hyphenated.
Which language are YOU speaking?
Hasn't anyone told you?
The main purpose of having an iPod is so that you can display your hipster cred with the white earphones.
If it was just about music and sound quality, cost, music format compatibility, and features, then there are other players that would win hands-down. But Apple has turned those white earphones into a symbol of "cool", and not displaying them negates at least half the reason so many people have them in the first place.
They're not protesting the RIAA because big-label music is crap (although it is).
It would be more like telling McDonald's you were not going to buy their product anymore because the Big Mac had a device which only allowed you to eat it inside the McDonald's and would not allow you to share it with your friends.
No, I've never been particularly taken in by the iPod, and I have never bought one. I have an MP3 player, I love the hell out of it, but it's not an Apple product.
However, the original poster had said, "Apple got its dominate [sic] position by creating a effective and user freindly [sic] UI to a useful and stylish bit of hardware."
Then you said, "Ha ha, yeah, right. I suppose you're going to claim if the ipod was the size, shape, color, and texture of a cinderblock[...]it would still be where it is now."
But clearly that was NOT what was being claimed, and in fact the original poster specifically stated that part (not necessarily all) of Apple's success with the iPod was due to its being useful and stylish.
If it was the size, shape, color, and texture of a cinder block, it wouldn't exactly be "useful and stylish", would it?
Well at least it didn't manage to get through every single defense available and crash directly into the headquarters of the most advanced and expensive military on the planet. Because THAT would have been embarassing.
What good is life without liberty?
Give me liberty or give me death... Live free or die... am I ringing any bells yet?
I have no problem with people who believe in Creationism.
I have a problem with people who insist on calling it "Creation Science", or "Intelligent Design Theory", as if closing your eyes and imagining an invisible, all-seeing, all-powerful man on a cloud is on a level equal to, you know, actual SCIENCE.
I Tivo'd that episode of 24 last night. Did you see it? It was the must-see event of your lifetime.
"Lock"? What is this "lock" you speak of?
We're running a military base here, not some fancy-pants place with locks, fer Chrissakes.
So maybe the merchant didn't steal the drives, maybe he just trade drugs for them. Or bought them off of drug dealers.
In that case, let me get out my wallet.
Dear
[X] Asshat,
The checkmark box letter schtick is worn out and
[X] You're not clever
Therefore,
[X] Suck my ass.
They're not winning our hearts and minds by stealing sensitive military thumb drives and selling them at the bazaar next door.
We'll just call it a wash.
Fuck that repurchasing shit. TAKE IT. You're the goddamned United States military.
Is that before or after they adjust their foam helmets and drool all over themselves?
It was you or someone like you with whom I had the following conversation with a few years ago. It is a painful memory burned deep within my psyche.
AOL Rep: Thank you for waiting on hold for 53 minutes listening to the same 20 second recording over and over, how may I help you?
ME: I'd like to cancel AOL.
AOL Rep: Okay, no problem*. (*This is a trick)
ME: Great.
AOL Rep: I need to get your screen name.
ME: It's AOLSucks29785. I called myself that because AOLSucks1 through AOLSucks29784 were already taken.
AOL Rep: Do you live at 5022 Pheasant Circle, the white house with the blue shutters and a green Toyota parked in the front? Was you last telephone bill for $36.17? Did you have sex two nights ago for 28 minutes and could stand to put a little bit more fiber in your diet?
ME: [nervously] Uhhh... yeah.
AOL Rep: Okay, I've got you pulled up in our system. For verification purposes, what's your mother's maiden name?
ME: Henderson.
AOL Rep: I'm sorry, that's not correct.
ME: Um, yeah it is.
AOL Rep: Not according to our records. Has it changed recently?
ME: No, it's my mother's goddamn maiden name. It's been the same, like, forever.
AOL Rep: Well that's not what our computer says.
ME: I don't care about that, her maiden name is Henderson!
AOL Rep: Maybe when we first asked you, you told us her middle name instead of her maiden name.
ME: Well, her middle name is Sue.
AOL Rep: Nope, that's not it either. Try it one more time. What's your mother's maiden name?
ME: HENDERSON!
AOL Rep: Well why didn't you say that in the first place? Why did you tell me her maiden name was Williams?
ME: I DIDN'T!!
AOL Rep: Sir, I need you to calm down and speak to me respectfully or I will end this conversation.
ME: Look, I just need to cancel my AOL account. And please, don't waste your time or mine trying to read me that stupid script to get me to stay? Okay? I went through it before. The one where you ask me what I use the Internet for, and I tell you, and then you tell me all the ways that AOL supposedly makes it easier... don't do that. I just want to cancel.
AOL Rep: That's not a problem at all.
ME: Good.
AOL Rep: I would hate if someone used a script on me too.
ME: Well, exactly.
AOL Rep: So may I ask what sorts of things you use the Internet for?
ME: Dammit, you're using the script on me.
AOL Rep: No, sir, I wasn't. I was just making friendly conversation.
ME: I didn't call for friendly conversation, I called to get you to cancel a $30.00 per month bill for dial-up Internet when I can get super-fast high speed Internet for $19.99 per month.
AOL Rep: I bet that makes it really easy to watch movies and music videos online!
ME: I suppose, but --
AOL Rep: Did you know that AOL has a movie and music video service for high-speed internet that --
ME: Are you out of your mind?
AOL Rep: For just a low monthly fee, you can keep AOL and use it with your high-speed Internet!
ME: Why on God's Green Earth would I do that?
AOL Rep: AOL is so easy to use!
ME: I don't need Playskool Internet on my computer. I am capable of using a normal web browser.
AOL Rep: But it's --
ME: Just cancel my damn subscription.
Of course, two months later, what shows up on my credit card? AOL, charging me for their super-cool high-speed internet product that I specifically told them I didn't want. And in closing, I hate you forever.
Wait... which part is the rack?
True. I was just saying that if their speed increased by the same percentage as the number of legs...
Depends on how you define random.
A random event (gene transcription error, for example) might cause a sheep to have six legs. But natural selection isn't random. If those six legs mean that the animal can't move, it's not going to be able to survive in nature long enough to procreate. So that mutation wouldn't get passed on, and there's not much random about it.
If, however, those two extra legs meant that the sheep could run 50% faster away from predators than the other sheep, that's a trait that's going get passed on until eventually there's a shit-load* of six-legged sheep.
* Scientific term
ZING! Does your razor-sharp wit know no bounds?
Anal probe... ha, excuse me while I wipe away tears of uproarious laughter.
Oh man... that's hilarious. It's like, there's a double meaning, because "Uranus" is a planet in our solar system, but also it sounds a lot like "your anus"! Holy shit, that's funny.
And then "probe" like a space probe that goes to another planet, but also like a "probe" that goes into someone's anus, thus referencing the above hilarity all over again!
This joke is a marvel on all levels and it's amazing that someone has not already thought of it!
Mod parent up +27 TEH FUnnay!
They sued for $351,000 in damages.
But he didn't get $351,000, because they reached a settlement. That implies that he took less than the $351,000 he was suing for. So here's all we can deduce based on logic: He got somewhere between $0 and $350,999.
Oh wait, I'm on Slashdot, and that requires me to end all of my posts with an unintentionally ironic derogatory statement about people who post on Slashdot.
What caused the big bang?
Last night I was almost asleep when I heard a loud crashing noise from downstairs. I went down to see what had happened, and a window was broken. But there was no evidence of what had caused the broken window.
Therefore, I came to the only logical ID conclusion: The window had always been broken, and flying unicorns exist.
And verily I said unto you, 'For those who worshipeth the corporation be not of right mind, for they are the naive. But those who do go forth and corrupteth our hallways of science learning with their talk of ID are also not of right mind, for they knoweth not reality.'
So it is written, so let it be done.