First of all, everybody knows that Mac OS X is actually the dictionary definition of the word "unhackable" (it was the Wikipedia definition, too, until some corn-hole vandalized the entry), so these "kids" are clearly filthy lying scumbags.
1. Lightning strikes can occur on any day, even in the absence of clouds.
2. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm.
If lightning can strike even in the absence of clouds, why should there be a 10 mile limit?
Or is it wrong of me to confabulate thunderstorms and clouds? Perhaps you're suggesting that thunderstorms can take place in the absence of clouds, too.
Also, can somebody handy with Google please quantify for us the number of clear sky strikes versus "traditional" storm-associated strikes? As a corollary, how many of the people struck in clear sky conditions immediately prior to the strike invited some form of higher power to immolate them lest they be lying? (For example, "If I'm not telling the truth may Zeus strike me down on this very spot!")
Mid-next decade? That's extreme. I think you should probably know that people who have standard definition televisions a few years from now will be listed as possible anti-Western fanatics by the database-sharing agreement between the technology and media producers and the World Police. You're taking an awful risk being so long-sighted.
There's a happy medium between the bleeding edge and being a Quaker.
Bless you, members of the home-video bleeding edge, who will muddy your hands during the legendary Format Wars so that we mere home-video mortals can finally decide how to best replace our DVD players in 2009. Thank you.
Please do be sure to post your blow by blow accounts of how you will be beaten within an inch of hope by this process, so that we may make snide comments while we secretly are grateful for your courage to wander into this firestorm of global-scale corporate tiddlywinks.
I find it interesting that whenever someone characterizes Mac users in a certain way ("they're idiots, they're creative, they're $CHARACTERISTIC"), everyone quickly comes up with counter evidence drawn anecdotally from the Mac users they know.
My insight, for whatever it's worth, is this: if something like 2% are computer users use Mac, HOW COME ALL OF YOU KNOW SO MANY MAC USERS?
My theory? The market-share numbers given for Mac usership are bullshit. I don't think they count all of the purchased generic PCs that sit, collecting dust, in somebody's basement, or the machine in the corner of the office that gets used once a year to scan something. If there were some way to measure the market-share of actual ACTIVE COMPUTER USERS, you'd see a much larger percentage (maybe up to %10).
I am not a statistician, but I do not it's pretty damn near impossible to go into a room with a mixed crowd and find only 2% Mac users. Try it sometime. (I have.)
Macs may be a minority, but the idea that they comprise a tiny, tiny minority is a myth, IMO.
I recently put up a blog post entitled, "The Secrets of the Universe, As Released From My Mystic Corn-Hole" and I got practically NO TRAFFIC. What's the deal here?
This tripe gets posted, but my butt-wisdom goes ignored?
It should be obvious to everyone that Slashdot is under the control of the Scientologists.
Despite your incredulity, I can honestly say that I've sat in front of a Windows sytem maybe three or four times in my whole life, and never for more than 10 minutes (and in every case this was to try to help a Windows user whose computer was hopelessly kerfocked, who hoped against reason I could help them somehow).
My industry is standardized on Mac. I use a Mac at home. People I do business with use Macs, except for their administrative keepers who use Windows but I never have contact with their computers.
Why would I ever had had cause to use Windows?
I've also never bought a North American car, despite their ubiquity. My head isn't in the sand -- I just prefer cars that don't suck.
I use Virtual PC all the time to run software that's Windows-only -- like my step-father's boat's navigation software, for instance, or dumb-ass Websites that require Windows/Explorer to access fancy features.
I can see the attraction of a dual-boot solution if the resulting Windows install was more responsive.
I recommend having both OSes on your desktop. It reminds you which one you want to pay for.
I'm a professional Mac user who runs Windows under Virtual PC regularly. Having access to both operating systems strengthens my appreciation of OS X, not the opposite.
I pay for OS X, because it's relatively suck-free. Windows installs grow on trees.
Why would I ditch OS X? If I wanted a free system I'd go back to Linux.
A company I was contracting for flew me down to L.A. two summers ago to pick the minds of Hollywood 3-D talent before engaging in the production of a complex 3-D corporate production up here in Canada.
(The experts I talked to were mostly Canadians themselves. L.A. seems to have more Canadians than Canada.)
At any rate, that's when I heard all about James Cameron's new manga-derived massively budgeted 3-D feature ("Battle Angel", if memory serves), George Lucas' plans to 3-D invigoroate all six of his Star Wars picturers, and learned that Fox has been recording Superbowls and other big, big sporting events in 3-D for a couple of years now, in order to create a library of games for 3-D viewing.
The company I consulted had even developed a high-definition 3-D Steadicam-like unit, and I got to see the test footage they'd shot at a recent football match. The cameraman could literally wander right into the field, with somebody tapping his shoulder whenever he needed to get out of the way of play.
To repeat a 3-D cliche, IT WAS LIKE YOU WERE ACTUALLY THERE, ON THE FIELD.
I have no interest in sports but it was obvious that someone who was into sports would definitely think it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen.
Even evolutionary psychologists, who interpret human behavior in terms of what the brain evolved to do, hold that the work of natural selection in shaping the human mind was completed in the pre-agricultural past, more than 10,000 years ago.
Show me an evolutionary psychologist who claims evolution has been "completed" and I'll show you a journalist who has been hoodwinked by a homeless man with an identity crisis.
I'm off to evolve into something entirely unsuitable for drinking tea.
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Somebody leaked your comment before you posted it.
Won't somebody please think of the -- oh, right.
First of all, everybody knows that Mac OS X is actually the dictionary definition of the word "unhackable" (it was the Wikipedia definition, too, until some corn-hole vandalized the entry), so these "kids" are clearly filthy lying scumbags.
1. Lightning strikes can occur on any day, even in the absence of clouds.
2. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm.
If lightning can strike even in the absence of clouds, why should there be a 10 mile limit?
Or is it wrong of me to confabulate thunderstorms and clouds? Perhaps you're suggesting that thunderstorms can take place in the absence of clouds, too.
Also, can somebody handy with Google please quantify for us the number of clear sky strikes versus "traditional" storm-associated strikes? As a corollary, how many of the people struck in clear sky conditions immediately prior to the strike invited some form of higher power to immolate them lest they be lying? (For example, "If I'm not telling the truth may Zeus strike me down on this very spot!")
Inquiring minds knead to no.
Mid-next decade? That's extreme. I think you should probably know that people who have standard definition televisions a few years from now will be listed as possible anti-Western fanatics by the database-sharing agreement between the technology and media producers and the World Police. You're taking an awful risk being so long-sighted.
There's a happy medium between the bleeding edge and being a Quaker.
Bless you, members of the home-video bleeding edge, who will muddy your hands during the legendary Format Wars so that we mere home-video mortals can finally decide how to best replace our DVD players in 2009. Thank you.
Please do be sure to post your blow by blow accounts of how you will be beaten within an inch of hope by this process, so that we may make snide comments while we secretly are grateful for your courage to wander into this firestorm of global-scale corporate tiddlywinks.
Winner takes all. "Begun, the Format War has."
...Minnows biting your chaps.
Also, can I have a cool stripe running down the leg like Han Solo?
Is this not an appropriate name for this theory, given all the banging going on?
I find it interesting that whenever someone characterizes Mac users in a certain way ("they're idiots, they're creative, they're $CHARACTERISTIC"), everyone quickly comes up with counter evidence drawn anecdotally from the Mac users they know.
My insight, for whatever it's worth, is this: if something like 2% are computer users use Mac, HOW COME ALL OF YOU KNOW SO MANY MAC USERS?
My theory? The market-share numbers given for Mac usership are bullshit. I don't think they count all of the purchased generic PCs that sit, collecting dust, in somebody's basement, or the machine in the corner of the office that gets used once a year to scan something. If there were some way to measure the market-share of actual ACTIVE COMPUTER USERS, you'd see a much larger percentage (maybe up to %10).
I am not a statistician, but I do not it's pretty damn near impossible to go into a room with a mixed crowd and find only 2% Mac users. Try it sometime. (I have.)
Macs may be a minority, but the idea that they comprise a tiny, tiny minority is a myth, IMO.
I recently put up a blog post entitled, "The Secrets of the Universe, As Released From My Mystic Corn-Hole" and I got practically NO TRAFFIC. What's the deal here?
This tripe gets posted, but my butt-wisdom goes ignored?
It should be obvious to everyone that Slashdot is under the control of the Scientologists.
Despite your incredulity, I can honestly say that I've sat in front of a Windows sytem maybe three or four times in my whole life, and never for more than 10 minutes (and in every case this was to try to help a Windows user whose computer was hopelessly kerfocked, who hoped against reason I could help them somehow).
My industry is standardized on Mac. I use a Mac at home. People I do business with use Macs, except for their administrative keepers who use Windows but I never have contact with their computers.
Why would I ever had had cause to use Windows?
I've also never bought a North American car, despite their ubiquity. My head isn't in the sand -- I just prefer cars that don't suck.
Solar Eclipse as viewed by "robo-chick":
O~
"Ooooh! Aaaaaah!"
I use Virtual PC all the time to run software that's Windows-only -- like my step-father's boat's navigation software, for instance, or dumb-ass Websites that require Windows/Explorer to access fancy features. I can see the attraction of a dual-boot solution if the resulting Windows install was more responsive. I recommend having both OSes on your desktop. It reminds you which one you want to pay for.
I'm a professional Mac user who runs Windows under Virtual PC regularly. Having access to both operating systems strengthens my appreciation of OS X, not the opposite.
I pay for OS X, because it's relatively suck-free. Windows installs grow on trees.
Why would I ditch OS X? If I wanted a free system I'd go back to Linux.
...Now ./ is a porn site.
Cool.
+1 Erotic
A company I was contracting for flew me down to L.A. two summers ago to pick the minds of Hollywood 3-D talent before engaging in the production of a complex 3-D corporate production up here in Canada.
(The experts I talked to were mostly Canadians themselves. L.A. seems to have more Canadians than Canada.)
At any rate, that's when I heard all about James Cameron's new manga-derived massively budgeted 3-D feature ("Battle Angel", if memory serves), George Lucas' plans to 3-D invigoroate all six of his Star Wars picturers, and learned that Fox has been recording Superbowls and other big, big sporting events in 3-D for a couple of years now, in order to create a library of games for 3-D viewing.
The company I consulted had even developed a high-definition 3-D Steadicam-like unit, and I got to see the test footage they'd shot at a recent football match. The cameraman could literally wander right into the field, with somebody tapping his shoulder whenever he needed to get out of the way of play.
To repeat a 3-D cliche, IT WAS LIKE YOU WERE ACTUALLY THERE, ON THE FIELD.
I have no interest in sports but it was obvious that someone who was into sports would definitely think it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen.
You've just demonstrated the "broad brush" principle to a T. Nice!
...to resuscitate The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster, I reckon.
The people have a right to know how the series could've been had Lucas any writing chops worth writing home about.
Even evolutionary psychologists, who interpret human behavior in terms of what the brain evolved to do, hold that the work of natural selection in shaping the human mind was completed in the pre-agricultural past, more than 10,000 years ago.
Show me an evolutionary psychologist who claims evolution has been "completed" and I'll show you a journalist who has been hoodwinked by a homeless man with an identity crisis.
I'm off to evolve into something entirely unsuitable for drinking tea.
The poster then promptly disappeared in a puff of logic.
Everyone knows that decentralized efforts never amount to anything. Why take advantage of the long-tail when monolithic models never teeter?
Jazzercise on, Microsoft!
By randomly declaring 1 out of 1000 movies "okay" and the rest "barftastic" accuracy is guaranteed.
Anybody want to buy my AI software which predicts the success rate of career comebacks among humpbacked prostitutes?
Start suing BellSouth for network latency that muddles their own guarantees.
Yahoo: "In our random tests Google was reacheable before our own main page for 7% of Tuesday. I demand recompense -- RECOMPENSE!"
I'm sorry, but you do not see article here.
> READ THE ARTICLE
I'm sorry, but you are not carrying that item.
> BLOODY SLASHDOT
Obviously you were raised by a naughty wizard.
I feel like I keep dodging bullets on these Slashdottings -- like Neo in THE MATRIX except with no sequels.
Thanks for the plug, Simian Farmer. I just posted a new 5,000 word entry, so everything's steaming fresh.