Three Unix for the Deamon-kings under the earth,
Seven for the Penguin-lords in their caves of ice,
Nine for the miscilanious kernels doomed to outdate,
One for the White Lord on his white throne
In the Land of Apple where the highlights cast.
One Unix to rule them all, One Unix to find them,
One Unix to bring them all and in the hipsterness bind them
In the Land of Apple where the highlights cast.
Look, iTunes is probably one of apple's biggest programs (not for any apparent reason). If they don't have enough dev teams to make it up to date on the 2 systems they support, then they should ether get more devs or get rid of windows support. But the last will never happen, because they want to control the DRM infected media market, and they can't do that without iTunes working on windows.
Stop trying to blame other people for apple's products not being up to par. No one forced them to support windows, they just seen dollar signs and jumped at it.
...Just because you don't like it doesn't make it something else. It's still the same law being broken as when you download some movie or song. Not to say that this is right or the others wrong, there is a difference, but it's still not "stealing". Only way someone can steal an image is if they sneak up to you and grab your drawing. And no, depriving you of possible profits is not theft, ether; theres a whole lot of things it maybe, though.
Please, don't argue with double standards. It makes us all look bad.
Doubleclick seems to be (have been?) the biggest ad agency online, second to google. While it probably is not useful to them, it WOULD have been useful to MS or Yahoo. If you really think their only reason for buying them was to spy on you and are not just trolling, you need a reality check.
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I think that this guy is overlooking a few things to make an anti-male statement.
I am male and am interested in engineering, computers and math. Why? Not because I am trying to impress people, but because that's my skill. I am good at fixing things and seeing how things are supposed to work and like to do that. If I wanted to impress people I'd become a jock, not a nerd. I do what I do because I like it.
On the other hand, most women I have seen dislike their jobs and do them just to make money. They are mainly interested in social activity for pleasure, while men tend to be interested in accomplishments in their jobs (be it working for a company or just trying to do something no one else has).
Therefore, it's understandable why men would stick to a field they like, even if it is inferior, where women would go to something else just because it pays more and expects less. They already don't care what they do.
Then again, I only got this from observations, and I have seen many exceptions, this just seems to be the norm.
Probably just an effect of the memory leak in "humanity()". Don't worry, the garbage collection function "meteor->collide(earth)" will be called eventually to fix it.
And we all know that a small, (what is it, 4%?) of the computer users in the world is going to force a total adoption of that hardware. Like I said, both AMD and Intel make 64 bit and dual core, but how many programs are optimized for ether? Not many. Apple changes nothing.
And the reason they get it first is because they have a deal and Macs are a smaller target for testing and demand. Intel could easily fill much of the demand for a CPU on macs, but not so easily on PCs, so they just wait until they can fill demand, to avoid having a fissile due to lack of units.
It's a bad move on intel's part. Many common programs don't even make full use of multi-core, extended instruction sets and 64-bit. If they are relying on something exotic to put them ahead... it just isn't going to work out, unless they think up a method to run un-edited code optimized for their exotic architectures.
"I see the "culture of mixups" as a path of laziness and sloth. People "borrowing" and plagarizing when they are too lazy to make something original."
Spoken like someone who never produced anything creative. All art (well, all anything) is based on something "borrowed". If I make a scifi movie, I am going to be borrow from all past scifi, even if I don't directly make a ship called enterprise commanded by a bald guy who likes Shakespeare. You would find it very hard to make something without "borrowing" anything.
The only difference is the amount of "borrowing", and I don't see that as a clear line to get my underware knoted over.
...who read this as a single organism living for 100 million years without having sex? First part said "wow", second part made me feel like I had been out-geeked...
Have you used linux in the last 5 years? Save slackware, every distro I have seen had a GUI app that did at least those things, some better than others, but all did most to some extent. SAX worked the best from what I seen (much better than windows)... but I didn't go very far with ubuntu, so I can't say about that. Fedora kind of has lame GUI config tools... but fedora isn't grandma's linux, ether.
Thanks for showing how much your bias has blinded you, but that's not the case.
Both sides I would say have equal percentages of people following "just because". You have on the right the bigoted, religious, militaristic types that are trained from a young age to be that way. Then you have on the left you have artsy, bleeding heart type people who think it's "cool" to be left-wing and jump on board.
Both sets are equally brainwashed, though at least in the fake-left's case they still have to stand out to some people (parents, church etc) while the right doesn't have to, but that is minimal.
The simple answer is... no. Competitive games are what companies make now, because they are one of those things that keeps paying and paying and paying with little input.
WOW isn't popular because it's fun. It isn't. It's popular because people get sucked in and have to become "the best" even though that is physically impossible, and while you try to do that impossible, you pay your game tax monthly... most MMOs are like this, but it's not limited to them.
Compare to a good RTS- it takes planning, good design, debugging, balancing and it's a one-time payoff (not counting expansions). Even FPS is falling out of favor because it isn't the cash cow it was compared to "gotta be the best" games, though most that exist now have elements of that in them, like BF2.
Actually you are right in A WAY. There was a time when you got killed for being an atheist (or not of the approved god, even). So naturally, humans were bread to follow religion. The atheists rising up now are the ones who are "drop outs" from the system; mutations.
Does religion improve your survival? Only in a religious civilization.
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Three Unix for the Deamon-kings under the earth,
Seven for the Penguin-lords in their caves of ice,
Nine for the miscilanious kernels doomed to outdate,
One for the White Lord on his white throne
In the Land of Apple where the highlights cast.
One Unix to rule them all, One Unix to find them,
One Unix to bring them all and in the hipsterness bind them
In the Land of Apple where the highlights cast.
How the hell did this get insightful?
Look, iTunes is probably one of apple's biggest programs (not for any apparent reason). If they don't have enough dev teams to make it up to date on the 2 systems they support, then they should ether get more devs or get rid of windows support. But the last will never happen, because they want to control the DRM infected media market, and they can't do that without iTunes working on windows.
Stop trying to blame other people for apple's products not being up to par. No one forced them to support windows, they just seen dollar signs and jumped at it.
...Just because you don't like it doesn't make it something else. It's still the same law being broken as when you download some movie or song. Not to say that this is right or the others wrong, there is a difference, but it's still not "stealing". Only way someone can steal an image is if they sneak up to you and grab your drawing. And no, depriving you of possible profits is not theft, ether; theres a whole lot of things it maybe, though.
Please, don't argue with double standards. It makes us all look bad.
Doubleclick seems to be (have been?) the biggest ad agency online, second to google. While it probably is not useful to them, it WOULD have been useful to MS or Yahoo. If you really think their only reason for buying them was to spy on you and are not just trolling, you need a reality check.
I think that this guy is overlooking a few things to make an anti-male statement.
I am male and am interested in engineering, computers and math. Why? Not because I am trying to impress people, but because that's my skill. I am good at fixing things and seeing how things are supposed to work and like to do that. If I wanted to impress people I'd become a jock, not a nerd. I do what I do because I like it.
On the other hand, most women I have seen dislike their jobs and do them just to make money. They are mainly interested in social activity for pleasure, while men tend to be interested in accomplishments in their jobs (be it working for a company or just trying to do something no one else has).
Therefore, it's understandable why men would stick to a field they like, even if it is inferior, where women would go to something else just because it pays more and expects less. They already don't care what they do.
Then again, I only got this from observations, and I have seen many exceptions, this just seems to be the norm.
"Maybe they (and SONY) should fire their board and create a Slashdot forum to run the company. We could hardly do a worse job!"
I'm not sure about that, I'd have to see the specs on the Cowboyneal 64 4800+ first.
Or they just used "patent pending" as a synonym for "good" without even realizing the phrase has a meaning, like so many people these days.
Probably just an effect of the memory leak in "humanity()". Don't worry, the garbage collection function "meteor->collide(earth)" will be called eventually to fix it.
You need to read a history book if you really think you are being clever.
And we all know that a small, (what is it, 4%?) of the computer users in the world is going to force a total adoption of that hardware. Like I said, both AMD and Intel make 64 bit and dual core, but how many programs are optimized for ether? Not many. Apple changes nothing.
And the reason they get it first is because they have a deal and Macs are a smaller target for testing and demand. Intel could easily fill much of the demand for a CPU on macs, but not so easily on PCs, so they just wait until they can fill demand, to avoid having a fissile due to lack of units.
Bill Gates had beans today. Nothing for you to see here, move along.
It's a bad move on intel's part. Many common programs don't even make full use of multi-core, extended instruction sets and 64-bit. If they are relying on something exotic to put them ahead... it just isn't going to work out, unless they think up a method to run un-edited code optimized for their exotic architectures.
Just 100 years ago there wasn't any reason to be up at night. Still it's not something life and death and unlikely to improve/reduce reproduction.
When people can no long have any type of life without being awake 24/7, THEN we will see a change.
When you have the choice of demons vs. fundamentalists, the car can be the deciding factor of rapture'in vs. not...
"I see the "culture of mixups" as a path of laziness and sloth. People "borrowing" and plagarizing when they are too lazy to make something original."
Spoken like someone who never produced anything creative. All art (well, all anything) is based on something "borrowed". If I make a scifi movie, I am going to be borrow from all past scifi, even if I don't directly make a ship called enterprise commanded by a bald guy who likes Shakespeare. You would find it very hard to make something without "borrowing" anything.
The only difference is the amount of "borrowing", and I don't see that as a clear line to get my underware knoted over.
...who read this as a single organism living for 100 million years without having sex? First part said "wow", second part made me feel like I had been out-geeked...
Gah, the less-than symbol didn't come out, stupid me for not remembering to use the HTML code.
The reason it's news is because the RIAA uses the "poor artist" appeal to emotion so much. Poor artist parallelized guy.
The RIAA doesn't want that. Personally *I* don't want that (I think I would start buying CDs from Mexico if that happened).
The RIAA doesn't want it because then they CAN'T complain. They LIKE to complain. In fact I'd dare say that's why they exist.
The user doesn't want it for obvious reasons.
Perhaps Canada's *IAA is simply not quite as evil, or more shortsighted, or maybe the government is just less in the pocket of companies.
And grandma has multiple monitors? I am a 3d engineer and I only use 1! Stop looking for things to complain about...
Have you used linux in the last 5 years? Save slackware, every distro I have seen had a GUI app that did at least those things, some better than others, but all did most to some extent. SAX worked the best from what I seen (much better than windows)... but I didn't go very far with ubuntu, so I can't say about that. Fedora kind of has lame GUI config tools... but fedora isn't grandma's linux, ether.
Thanks for showing how much your bias has blinded you, but that's not the case.
Both sides I would say have equal percentages of people following "just because". You have on the right the bigoted, religious, militaristic types that are trained from a young age to be that way. Then you have on the left you have artsy, bleeding heart type people who think it's "cool" to be left-wing and jump on board.
Both sets are equally brainwashed, though at least in the fake-left's case they still have to stand out to some people (parents, church etc) while the right doesn't have to, but that is minimal.
"Maybe they should also build a Stupid Idiot planet and go there themselves."
It would be more cost effective to just make a Not-Stupid-Idiot planet since it would be a whole lot smaller.
The simple answer is... no. Competitive games are what companies make now, because they are one of those things that keeps paying and paying and paying with little input.
WOW isn't popular because it's fun. It isn't. It's popular because people get sucked in and have to become "the best" even though that is physically impossible, and while you try to do that impossible, you pay your game tax monthly... most MMOs are like this, but it's not limited to them.
Compare to a good RTS- it takes planning, good design, debugging, balancing and it's a one-time payoff (not counting expansions). Even FPS is falling out of favor because it isn't the cash cow it was compared to "gotta be the best" games, though most that exist now have elements of that in them, like BF2.
Actually you are right in A WAY. There was a time when you got killed for being an atheist (or not of the approved god, even). So naturally, humans were bread to follow religion. The atheists rising up now are the ones who are "drop outs" from the system; mutations.
Does religion improve your survival? Only in a religious civilization.