I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a intel g5 w/2 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' new faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I'm surprised they don't do more with their Military. I think they are counting on their somewhat innocent attitude to bring the US to the rescue should they be forced into a war.
Purists? it's an electric guitar. The instrument is the personification of innovation, and players of that instrument should be the embodiment of the innovators.
Atleast that's how it should be.
I have never, ever, in all my years of being on the internet, bought anything from an ad on a website, or sent through email.
Am I stealing then? As long as I look at the ads?
What about you, as the content provider? Is it moral for you to take money from advertisers when you none of your users will purchase what they are selling?
Initially, with the NES, nintendo limited the amount of games a publisher could put out a year (5, IIRC). Keep in mind this was fresh after the Video Game crash which was caused in part by a flood of shit games for the Atari(E.T. anyone). The 2600 had no lock out and a large (for the time) installed base, so it was almost trivial to start up a studio and pump shit out.
So anyway, in America nintendo limited the amount of games a publisher could release a year, and in theory the publisher would work harder on those games and make them better. In reality the publishers just created more brand names publish under. Konami was to cadilliac as Ultra was to chevrolet. What's worse was when ALready shitty game publisher's made another tier. Then you ended up with shit like the karate kid.
But does that mean that they are censoring Airplanes because Walmart chooses not to sell them and there is no-where else in the small town.
You fuckhead, what does this have to do with airplanes? They sell CDs. They regulate what CDs they sell due to content. Wrap your brain around that.
Fuck you asshole. Seriously, fuck you. You think because you throw some money at the russian mob all of a sudden stealing music becomes moral? Well, sorry asshole, it's not.
You can go on and on about the sketchy legal loopholes that you, an experienced e-lawyer, know all about, but when it comes down to it, you _know_ the artist is getting the same amount of remuneration as he does when someone downloads his stuff off of usenet. And that's Zero.
I don't want to hear any bullshit about how all the RIAA has to do is contact Allofmp3 to get its discount royalties. We both know that allofmp3 is skirting the law. Just because it's for your benefit doesn't make it any better.
The fact that ass hats like you get modded up just show how one sided slashdot really is. Oh shit! Some Big Business takes advantage of the GPL! Oh no! Some blog posts some Apple secrets that required a NDA! To the pitchforks!
Some big business exploits musicians, but I benefit! Awesome!
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a intel g5 w/2 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' new faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
See how silly you sound?
Wait, microsoft didn't invent the OS? Hmm...
There's one within 15 minutes of me, and another one about an hour away.
Um...
Sonics > Rolling Stones > Beatles
I think that if you choose to use the GPL the licensing part of it must mean a lot to you. And very little time is wasted on what means a lot to you.
Give me the CD and forget the MP3s and buy 'em right up.
I guess you don't get it either.
Computer programmers and accountants?
Son, this is called a boner.
I have never, ever, in all my years of being on the internet, bought anything from an ad on a website, or sent through email.
Am I stealing then? As long as I look at the ads?
What about you, as the content provider? Is it moral for you to take money from advertisers when you none of your users will purchase what they are selling?
Initially, with the NES, nintendo limited the amount of games a publisher could put out a year (5, IIRC). Keep in mind this was fresh after the Video Game crash which was caused in part by a flood of shit games for the Atari(E.T. anyone). The 2600 had no lock out and a large (for the time) installed base, so it was almost trivial to start up a studio and pump shit out.
So anyway, in America nintendo limited the amount of games a publisher could release a year, and in theory the publisher would work harder on those games and make them better. In reality the publishers just created more brand names publish under. Konami was to cadilliac as Ultra was to chevrolet. What's worse was when ALready shitty game publisher's made another tier. Then you ended up with shit like the karate kid.
God, how I wish I posted that.
I'm way better at Diplomacy than any FPS.
think about you're breathing
Wow, those are the only two choices? Moron.
FUCK YEAH SEAGATE!
But does that mean that they are censoring Airplanes because Walmart chooses not to sell them and there is no-where else in the small town. You fuckhead, what does this have to do with airplanes? They sell CDs. They regulate what CDs they sell due to content. Wrap your brain around that.
haha oh wow
Upon reading that wikipedia entry it's pretty evident that you, in fact, did not read it.
I don't think he meant for him to be modded funny...
Goodbye speeding tickets!
Hell, if it brakes, I'll give you a new one!
Fuck you asshole. Seriously, fuck you. You think because you throw some money at the russian mob all of a sudden stealing music becomes moral? Well, sorry asshole, it's not.
You can go on and on about the sketchy legal loopholes that you, an experienced e-lawyer, know all about, but when it comes down to it, you _know_ the artist is getting the same amount of remuneration as he does when someone downloads his stuff off of usenet. And that's Zero.
I don't want to hear any bullshit about how all the RIAA has to do is contact Allofmp3 to get its discount royalties. We both know that allofmp3 is skirting the law. Just because it's for your benefit doesn't make it any better.
The fact that ass hats like you get modded up just show how one sided slashdot really is. Oh shit! Some Big Business takes advantage of the GPL! Oh no! Some blog posts some Apple secrets that required a NDA! To the pitchforks!
Some big business exploits musicians, but I benefit! Awesome!
And the challenge for non-geeks: reading a fucking book. No, Harry Potter doesn't count.