A common claim. Unfortunately it's wrong. Athlon XP doesn't really run any hotter than Pentium 4 does for example. In fact, you coulöd say that XP runs cooler than P4 does.
Well, considering the average P4 makes desktop fusion a reality, that's not saying much, is it? =)
At least when I lose my job, I'll have a president bent on creating a job for me, instead of a president bent on servicing his own privates.
Shyeah, right. Unless you're a CEO, the Shrub couldn't give a shit about you. And if you are a CEO, don't you have better things to do than troll/., like raiding your employees' 401ks to fund your new vacation home perhaps?
Hmmm... Almost makes me want to start playing CS again, I'd go on as John Ashcroft and say I was making a list of all the people that complained about your behavior and adding it to the "Unamerican" pile.
Griefers are the guys that play games just to fuck up someone else's experience.
There are many varieties of griefer, including the spawn camper who hangs out at spawn points waiting for you to pop after dying and then kills your unarmed/unprepared respawn. Usually taunting you as they do so with such gems as "I pwn j00 lololol"
Then there are the people who take pleasure in killing newbs that can't put up a decent fight or getting a bunch of friends and ganging up on more capable players 20 to 1.
There are plenty of other examples, but you get the general idea...
Yeah, I agree, 7 is pretty damn solid on the PC. I think they did a huge fork of the code, seeing as they had to carbonize it for OS X anyway so they did a lot of optomizing for Windows as well.
Whatever the reason, it's appreciated, There have been situations when a Mac wasn't accessible and I had to use Illustrator and/or Photoshop on a PC. They were much better than they used to be. The difference is barely noticable now.
I agree that Apple should think about making the two button mouse standard, but doubt it will happen as long as the monomaniacal genius Jobs is in charge.
Feh, I say keep the one-button mouse standard just so we can watch the PC zealots whip themselves into a frenzy over it. It's always fun to watch. Meanwhile, anyone with half a brain has long since switched it out and gotten on with their lives.
Inflammatory remarks aside, empirical data is pretty hard to argue with.
Eh, data in the platform wars is rarely empirical...
Frankly, I'm surprised; I always thought that Adobe software was optimized for Motorola processors and then ported to run on x86 architecture.
Well, there's another thing I've been wildly wrong about for years...
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Adobe's been running their own specialized codebase for each platform for at least the last few years. Of course, I could also be wrong...
Hey lookie! I've got Karma to burn! I reply to anonymous dipshits without the balls to post with their own IDs!
If it is, I would venture to guess that it is found on less than 5% of PCs. The rest have eject buttons. (talk about intuitive).
Look again, genius, they usually have both.
Count the numbers of buttons on the mice. This design flaw on Apple's part is one of the things that makes Apple's OS's seem rudimentary and harder to use.
Again, only if you're (a) a moron or (b) smart enough to know better but too cheap to buy your own replacement mouse. Which category do you fall under?
If they aren't even lit on most machines, does this non-fact on your part make you the moron?
Again, take a look at most machines released by vendors (not cobbled together in your basement) and you'll see those cute little light-up buttons. I guess that makes you the moron.
It is more like bad design (where it matters). Sure, the colors get copied by George Foreman grills, but there are the Apple's basic ergornomic failures that PC's are thankfully slow to copy, such as single-button mouse and bent paperclip in a hole media eject system.
Back under the bridge with you, you old troll. The one-button mouse straw man is older than your mom and the paperclip eject scheme is on PC hardware as well.
Other Apple "firsts" do get copied, and the results are unfortunate. PC's used to have large obviously-labelled power buttons. Now they have followed Apple's lead and made this difficult so that yanking the power cable out the back is the quickest way to power down.
You're obviously a moron if you can't find the well-lit power buttons on most of todays machines. I guess that explains the low quality of your trolling skills...
She was averse to all branding, with the only exception being Hello Kitty and other cutesy Japanese things. We're talking about a girl who sanded the logo off the button on her pants.
She reacted more to some brands then others, (including the 'new' Michelin man, not just the old one) but all brands bothered her.
Beg to differ here, but re-read that first chapter when she hits Tokyo. It's not so much the brand, but the contextualization of the brand. "Whole seas of Burberry have no effect on her, nor Mont Blanc Nor even Gucci"
His new book seems saturated with brand name dropping. I couldn't stand it.
Then, perhaps you missed part of the book's central conceit. Cayce Pollard's life essentially revolved around brand names and their applications.
He's trying to create an atmosphere with niche products (read iCube). And in a few years it is just going to look silly.
I don't follow your logic there, how does the use of "niche products" predict how silly the book will look in time? This is conjecture on your part at best. Hell, there's a lot of things he mentions in the book that go unbranded that are still very useful to the small group of people that know about them. (The Gyrotonic machine she uses in the beginning, for instance, has worked wonders on my ex)
Remember, just because a product is a "niche" product, doesn't mean it lacks impact. The cube, as do most Apple products has a bit of a devout following, much like the footageheads themselves. If anything, Gibson's using those "niche products" to mirror some of the trends in the characters in the book.
Gotta disagree there. It wasn't every Trademark she had a problem with, just certain ones that she found derivative or just plain wrong. Exapmles of this are seen in her revulsion to Tommy Hilfiger, (One I share, and for much the same reasons she cited in the narrative) and the original Michelin Man, not the "more neutered" newer version.
She had no problems with using her friend's cube or Boone's Tibook either, it seemed.
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A common claim. Unfortunately it's wrong. Athlon XP doesn't really run any hotter than Pentium 4 does for example. In fact, you coulöd say that XP runs cooler than P4 does.
Well, considering the average P4 makes desktop
fusion a reality, that's not saying much, is it? =)
System Shock 2 was definatly the best first person single player game ever.
Second best. Marathon rocks just a tad bit more...
Read the Gaiman story on the Matrix site. He basically came
up with that very explanation before the first movie even
came out.
It's a great read too, probably one of the better side stories
I've seen.
At least when I lose my job, I'll have a president bent on creating a job for me, instead of a president bent on servicing his own privates.
Shyeah, right. Unless you're a CEO, the Shrub
couldn't give a shit about you. And if you are
a CEO, don't you have better things to do than
troll
your new vacation home perhaps?
Methinks the AC doth protest too much..
"For some in the beleaguered music industry - which has seen compact disc sales plummet in recent years due to rampant piracy"
Couldn't also be the fact that CDs are still damn
expensive and the recent mainstream music scene has
sucked, could it? Nah, let's blame the pirates!
Still in all, how interested would MS have been if
L'il Stevie hadn't made public his intent to hook up
with a Universal?
How else would they get people to rationalize buying
all their new Centrino crap?
Ok, how about Boutros Boutros-Ghali then?
Hmmm... Almost makes me want to start playing CS
again, I'd go on as John Ashcroft and say I was
making a list of all the people that complained
about your behavior and adding it to the "Unamerican" pile.
Griefers are the guys that play games just to fuck up
someone else's experience.
There are many varieties of griefer, including the
spawn camper who hangs out at spawn points waiting
for you to pop after dying and then kills your
unarmed/unprepared respawn. Usually taunting you
as they do so with such gems as "I pwn j00 lololol"
Then there are the people who take pleasure in
killing newbs that can't put up a decent fight or
getting a bunch of friends and ganging up on more
capable players 20 to 1.
There are plenty of other examples, but you get
the general idea...
Hell, I wish I HAD a senator (I live in D.C.)
Heh, you've got all the senators! "You will never
find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy..." =)
Yeah, I agree, 7 is pretty damn solid on the PC. I
think they did a huge fork of the code, seeing as
they had to carbonize it for OS X anyway so they did
a lot of optomizing for Windows as well.
Whatever the reason, it's appreciated, There have
been situations when a Mac wasn't accessible and I
had to use Illustrator and/or Photoshop on a PC.
They were much better than they used to be. The
difference is barely noticable now.
I agree that Apple should think about making the two button mouse standard, but doubt it will happen as long as the monomaniacal genius Jobs is in charge.
Feh, I say keep the one-button mouse standard just
so we can watch the PC zealots whip themselves into
a frenzy over it. It's always fun to watch. Meanwhile,
anyone with half a brain has long since switched it
out and gotten on with their lives.
Inflammatory remarks aside, empirical data is pretty hard to argue with.
Eh, data in the platform wars is rarely empirical...
Frankly, I'm surprised; I always thought that Adobe software was optimized for Motorola processors and then ported to run on x86 architecture.
Well, there's another thing I've been wildly wrong about for years...
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Adobe's been running their
own specialized codebase for each platform for at
least the last few years. Of course, I could also
be wrong...
Your use of the term, "PC supremacy" pretty much
lumps you in the zealot category too, Johnboy...
Oh, and change your underwear.
Cracker ass cracka!
No, I've always found Microsoft products tend to
leave a bad aftertaste...
Hey lookie! I've got Karma to burn! I reply to
anonymous dipshits without the balls to post with
their own IDs!
If it is, I would venture to guess that it is found on less than 5% of PCs. The rest have eject buttons. (talk about intuitive).
Look again, genius, they usually have both.
Count the numbers of buttons on the mice. This design flaw on Apple's part is one of the things that makes Apple's OS's seem rudimentary and harder to use.
Again, only if you're (a) a moron or (b) smart
enough to know better but too cheap to buy your
own replacement mouse. Which category do you
fall under?
If they aren't even lit on most machines, does this non-fact on your part make you the moron?
Again, take a look at most machines released by
vendors (not cobbled together in your basement)
and you'll see those cute little light-up buttons.
I guess that makes you the moron.
It is more like bad design (where it matters). Sure, the colors get copied by George Foreman grills, but there are the Apple's basic ergornomic failures that PC's are thankfully slow to copy, such as single-button mouse and bent paperclip in a hole media eject system.
Back under the bridge with you, you old troll.
The one-button mouse straw man is older than your
mom and the paperclip eject scheme is on PC
hardware as well.
Other Apple "firsts" do get copied, and the results are unfortunate. PC's used to have large obviously-labelled power buttons. Now they have followed Apple's lead and made this difficult so that yanking the power cable out the back is the quickest way to power down.
You're obviously a moron if you can't find the
well-lit power buttons on most of todays machines.
I guess that explains the low quality of your
trolling skills...
Quantity doesn't always mean quality.
Funny, I've been saying that about Microsoft
products for years every time one of you turfers
brings up the 95% marketshare thing...
I guess that rule doesn't apply to MS, huh?
A hollow voice says, "fool"...
And now all Fox is good for is "When Animals Attack"
and the Simpsons
She was averse to all branding, with the only exception being Hello Kitty and other cutesy Japanese things. We're talking about a girl who sanded the logo off the button on her pants.
She reacted more to some brands then others, (including the 'new' Michelin man, not just the old one) but all brands bothered her.
Beg to differ here, but re-read that first chapter
when she hits Tokyo. It's not so much the brand,
but the contextualization of the brand. "Whole
seas of Burberry have no effect on her, nor
Mont Blanc Nor even Gucci"
His new book seems saturated with brand name dropping. I couldn't stand it.
Then, perhaps you missed part of the book's central
conceit. Cayce Pollard's life essentially revolved
around brand names and their applications.
He's trying to create an atmosphere with niche products (read iCube). And in a few years it is just going to look silly.
I don't follow your logic there, how does the use
of "niche products" predict how silly the book
will look in time? This is conjecture on your part
at best. Hell, there's a lot of things he mentions
in the book that go unbranded that are still very
useful to the small group of people that know
about them. (The Gyrotonic machine she uses in the
beginning, for instance, has worked wonders on
my ex)
Remember, just because a product is a "niche"
product, doesn't mean it lacks impact. The cube,
as do most Apple products has a bit of a devout
following, much like the footageheads themselves.
If anything, Gibson's using those "niche products"
to mirror some of the trends in the characters in
the book.
Gotta disagree there. It wasn't every Trademark she
had a problem with, just certain ones that she found
derivative or just plain wrong. Exapmles of this
are seen in her revulsion to Tommy Hilfiger, (One I
share, and for much the same reasons she cited in
the narrative) and the original Michelin Man, not
the "more neutered" newer version.
She had no problems with using her friend's cube or
Boone's Tibook either, it seemed.