Why the fuck would you want to use Windows on your Mac in the first place? If you're really that wedded to BeigeMaker Pro 2000, then you should just stay on your PC.
Your purchase of a Mac isn't fooling anyone as to your true nature: linear-thinking dweeb. "Simple as that."
How do you know it doesn't come with an ssh client? Are you psychic? Are you an Apple employee? Or are you just blowing beige turds out your PC user ass?
"Still"? Get real—Apple has never been a computer company. Unlike the rest of the industry, Apple's focus from day one has been on the platform as a holistic experience. That's what Mac users have always known. And it's also why you PC users will never get it.
What the fuck? Every fucking player on the planet plays MPEG-4 audio now, including the Zune. Most mobile phones do as well—certainly the lineups from Motorola, Nokia, and Sony Ericsson. Are you really so blinded by your irrational hatred of Apple that you can't perceive the plainest facts of reality?
FLAC plays fine for me on my Mac regardless of what player I choose (likely thanks to the QuickTime plugin). If I really gave a shit about your filthy "freedom"—i.e., if I found FairPlay cumbersome in the least, which I don't—I'd rerip my music library to AIFF or Apple Lossless and lug those around on my iPod, which plays both formats, by the way.
Really, the iPod platform was much more fun before Apple opened it to you PC-using fucktards. We thought there were schisms in the Mac community before; the arrival of you tasteless party crashers, though, has united us all against the slow of mind and still of soul. You ever wonder why Apple discontinued the "switcher" campaign? It's because they noticed too many of you were actually taking the bait. Drown in beige and die.
Who says you have to recompress the music after you burn it to CD? Just reimport it directly back to AIFF or FLAC. There you go: music, compressed only once, that you can "share" with your six billion best "friends" as much as you like.
Of course, this probably wouldn't occur to a linear-thinking PC user like you. You can thank me for the insight later.
Yeah, because we all know AAC is a proprietary format. The A in AAC stands for Apple, after all, right? Right?
Jesus goddamn Christ, how is it possible for fucktards like you--on Slashdot, no less--to remain so ignorant TEN EVERFUCKING YEARS after the introduction of MPEG-2 Part 7?
You just don't get it, and you never will. I'd feel sorry for you if only every aspect of you weren't such an offense to our aesthetic sensibilities. Choke on beige and die, PC user.
"The users I've switched to Macs (because of their particular job) have a hard enough time dealing with Entourage's so-so Exchange support."
Well, God-fuckin'-damn. If they want so badly to share a "corporate messaging platform" with corporate PC users, maybe you should have just told them to buy PCs.
None of the Mac users I know have any desire to communicate with the types of people who tend to be PC users, let alone corporate PC users with this thing they call a "messaging platform." Not the real Mac users, anyway.
Eh, no. The iPod jumped the sha--excuse me, "hit the big time" when Apple decided to let PC users crash the party, just as ennui was descending upon Mac users who'd been there for years. But with the iPhone, PC users are invited from the start. Without the initial splash from trendsetters, the iPhone is doomed to obscurity on the plus-size denim waistband of that fat mother of five shopping at Wal-Mart.
I know Slashdot is something of a cesspool for the bland, unoriginal masses to congregate and discuss their lack of imagination, but your comment, "lexta2000," really takes the cake. Are you really so crippled in vision that you can't see the potential of multitouch interfaces?
They could be waiting for Leopard's fully resolution-independent UI to announce a high-DPI laptop. This would be the Macworld to do it, I guess.
As a side benefit, this would finally put to rest the silly notion that a Mac's hardware is separable from its software, any more than the mind is separable from the body. It's holistic, I tell ya.
What template? How would I have known about it to make the request?
Certainly I was never informed of any such template before giving up and leaving with a bad taste in my mouth. But if things have changed in the intervening months, I'll be relieved to know Wikipedia's at least trying to become friendlier to potential contributors.
Also, consider: Supposing you actually find the username change request page—I know it's the first time I've ever seen it—how are you supposed to request a change when you're blocked from editing the page? (Insert Matrix reference here.)
Note that (1) "Be sure that you are logged in to the relevant account. For security reasons, bureaucrats will not effect a name change if the request comes from an unauthorized user or an IP address." and (2) Logging into a blocked account, last I knew, prevents you from making any edits or registering a new account for 24 hours.
You can post to your talk page... where your plea for help will remain, ignored, for the rest of eternity.
Look, I'm a big fan of the concept behind Wikipedia, but somewhere along the line, the implementation's gone terribly wrong. Wikipedia's administrators really need to chill out when it comes to throwing out bans like candy. It's as if none of them could even imagine they could ever be mistaken, or that once you've been banned, you have essentially no recourse that doesn't involve crossing your fingers and praying to unseen deities.
No, not too difficult, that is if you spend your entire life being a computer geek. But for the average person whose contributions Wikipedia claims to want, it might not be worth the effort.
Nothing, of course, except for the fact that you can't try to register again for 24 hours after you've been blocked, and in my case the block happened with no warning, and I only learned the reason why after digging in the block log. Also note that I'd made dozens of contributions by this point, in several cases rewriting whole articles.
Wikipedia admins need to learn that this kind of shit tends to piss people off. No wonder you guys are so afflicted by trolls and vandalism.
You need to get out more if you think the issues on which Democrats and Republicans differ are just "small matters." Tell it to victims of multiple sclerosis, or the kid in Baghdad who lost his entire family due to the war and Rumsfeld's misprosecution of it. I think you'll get punched in the face (if not by the former, hopefully the latter).
Good luck trying to register a username if you find yourself on the wrong end of a mistaken block. Neither is there any way to contact anyone who might be of any help--remember, you can't edit talk pages either.
And this is the way things are supposed to work, according to Wikipedia's admins.
Um. Given that anyone can create as many usernames as they like (without even supplying an email address!), so long as the name is Latin-based, how is a username on Wikipedia any less anonymous than an IP address?
It's telling that Wikipedia's conception of "accountability" and "anonymity" are flawed at such a basic level.
What's "anonymous" about a publicly visible IP address? Doesn't registering an account on Wikipedia actually make you more anonymous, not less?
And how about the fact that your administrators block people with non-Western usernames on sight, with no warning and no recourse? Once you're blocked, you can't even try to create another username for 24 hours. I guess we must be vandals and trolls simply because we happened to be born with names in a script unreadable to Western eyes.
Ugh. Apologies, but the mentality surrounding the whole project disgusts me.
Xtorrent may be a nice Mac app, but it's certainly no more elegant and Maclike than the application to which it owes its engine, Transmission. And unlike Xtorrent, Transmission isn't developed by a fuckwad without a cause.
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Why the fuck would you want to use Windows on your Mac in the first place? If you're really that wedded to BeigeMaker Pro 2000, then you should just stay on your PC.
Your purchase of a Mac isn't fooling anyone as to your true nature: linear-thinking dweeb. "Simple as that."
How do you know it doesn't come with an ssh client? Are you psychic? Are you an Apple employee? Or are you just blowing beige turds out your PC user ass?
"Still"? Get real—Apple has never been a computer company. Unlike the rest of the industry, Apple's focus from day one has been on the platform as a holistic experience. That's what Mac users have always known. And it's also why you PC users will never get it.
What the fuck? Every fucking player on the planet plays MPEG-4 audio now, including the Zune. Most mobile phones do as well—certainly the lineups from Motorola, Nokia, and Sony Ericsson. Are you really so blinded by your irrational hatred of Apple that you can't perceive the plainest facts of reality?
I'll take that to mean I hit the bullseye in pegging you as a PC user. That's pretty much all anyone needs to know.
FLAC plays fine for me on my Mac regardless of what player I choose (likely thanks to the QuickTime plugin). If I really gave a shit about your filthy "freedom"—i.e., if I found FairPlay cumbersome in the least, which I don't—I'd rerip my music library to AIFF or Apple Lossless and lug those around on my iPod, which plays both formats, by the way.
Really, the iPod platform was much more fun before Apple opened it to you PC-using fucktards. We thought there were schisms in the Mac community before; the arrival of you tasteless party crashers, though, has united us all against the slow of mind and still of soul. You ever wonder why Apple discontinued the "switcher" campaign? It's because they noticed too many of you were actually taking the bait. Drown in beige and die.
Who says you have to recompress the music after you burn it to CD? Just reimport it directly back to AIFF or FLAC. There you go: music, compressed only once, that you can "share" with your six billion best "friends" as much as you like.
Of course, this probably wouldn't occur to a linear-thinking PC user like you. You can thank me for the insight later.
Yeah, because we all know AAC is a proprietary format. The A in AAC stands for Apple, after all, right? Right?
Jesus goddamn Christ, how is it possible for fucktards like you--on Slashdot, no less--to remain so ignorant TEN EVERFUCKING YEARS after the introduction of MPEG-2 Part 7?
HAHAHAHA! Oh, wow. Clueless.
You just don't get it, and you never will. I'd feel sorry for you if only every aspect of you weren't such an offense to our aesthetic sensibilities. Choke on beige and die, PC user.
"The users I've switched to Macs (because of their particular job) have a hard enough time dealing with Entourage's so-so Exchange support."
Well, God-fuckin'-damn. If they want so badly to share a "corporate messaging platform" with corporate PC users, maybe you should have just told them to buy PCs.
None of the Mac users I know have any desire to communicate with the types of people who tend to be PC users, let alone corporate PC users with this thing they call a "messaging platform." Not the real Mac users, anyway.
Eh, no. The iPod jumped the sha--excuse me, "hit the big time" when Apple decided to let PC users crash the party, just as ennui was descending upon Mac users who'd been there for years. But with the iPhone, PC users are invited from the start. Without the initial splash from trendsetters, the iPhone is doomed to obscurity on the plus-size denim waistband of that fat mother of five shopping at Wal-Mart.
You know it's true.
I know Slashdot is something of a cesspool for the bland, unoriginal masses to congregate and discuss their lack of imagination, but your comment, "lexta2000," really takes the cake. Are you really so crippled in vision that you can't see the potential of multitouch interfaces?
The hell is "Notepad"? Do I smell a PC user in the house?
"Telekom," which means in German exactly what it sounds like in English: in other words, the Ts in AT&T. And Steve thought "Computer" was confusing.
They could be waiting for Leopard's fully resolution-independent UI to announce a high-DPI laptop. This would be the Macworld to do it, I guess.
As a side benefit, this would finally put to rest the silly notion that a Mac's hardware is separable from its software, any more than the mind is separable from the body. It's holistic, I tell ya.
What template? How would I have known about it to make the request?
Certainly I was never informed of any such template before giving up and leaving with a bad taste in my mouth. But if things have changed in the intervening months, I'll be relieved to know Wikipedia's at least trying to become friendlier to potential contributors.
Also, consider: Supposing you actually find the username change request page—I know it's the first time I've ever seen it—how are you supposed to request a change when you're blocked from editing the page? (Insert Matrix reference here.)
Note that (1) "Be sure that you are logged in to the relevant account. For security reasons, bureaucrats will not effect a name change if the request comes from an unauthorized user or an IP address." and (2) Logging into a blocked account, last I knew, prevents you from making any edits or registering a new account for 24 hours.
You can post to your talk page... where your plea for help will remain, ignored, for the rest of eternity.
Look, I'm a big fan of the concept behind Wikipedia, but somewhere along the line, the implementation's gone terribly wrong. Wikipedia's administrators really need to chill out when it comes to throwing out bans like candy. It's as if none of them could even imagine they could ever be mistaken, or that once you've been banned, you have essentially no recourse that doesn't involve crossing your fingers and praying to unseen deities.
No, not too difficult, that is if you spend your entire life being a computer geek. But for the average person whose contributions Wikipedia claims to want, it might not be worth the effort.
Nothing, of course, except for the fact that you can't try to register again for 24 hours after you've been blocked, and in my case the block happened with no warning, and I only learned the reason why after digging in the block log. Also note that I'd made dozens of contributions by this point, in several cases rewriting whole articles.
Wikipedia admins need to learn that this kind of shit tends to piss people off. No wonder you guys are so afflicted by trolls and vandalism.
You need to get out more if you think the issues on which Democrats and Republicans differ are just "small matters." Tell it to victims of multiple sclerosis, or the kid in Baghdad who lost his entire family due to the war and Rumsfeld's misprosecution of it. I think you'll get punched in the face (if not by the former, hopefully the latter).
Good luck trying to register a username if you find yourself on the wrong end of a mistaken block. Neither is there any way to contact anyone who might be of any help--remember, you can't edit talk pages either.
And this is the way things are supposed to work, according to Wikipedia's admins.
Um. Given that anyone can create as many usernames as they like (without even supplying an email address!), so long as the name is Latin-based, how is a username on Wikipedia any less anonymous than an IP address?
It's telling that Wikipedia's conception of "accountability" and "anonymity" are flawed at such a basic level.
What's "anonymous" about a publicly visible IP address? Doesn't registering an account on Wikipedia actually make you more anonymous, not less?
And how about the fact that your administrators block people with non-Western usernames on sight, with no warning and no recourse? Once you're blocked, you can't even try to create another username for 24 hours. I guess we must be vandals and trolls simply because we happened to be born with names in a script unreadable to Western eyes.
Ugh. Apologies, but the mentality surrounding the whole project disgusts me.
Xtorrent may be a nice Mac app, but it's certainly no more elegant and Maclike than the application to which it owes its engine, Transmission. And unlike Xtorrent, Transmission isn't developed by a fuckwad without a cause.