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Hey Likvid, it's me, Joe from work. I need you to come in an hour early tomorrow morning. We've got another ball stuck inside the windmill on hole #7 and some jerk-off dumped dish soap into the "welcome" fountain again. I need you to drain it, scrub it (thoroughly this time) and get it up and running before opening.
- Joe
One thing I noticed when reading Likvid's posts is that apparently FreeBSD on his computer doesn't come with a spelling check nor a grammar check...perhaps he should invest some of that time he has when he comes home from work each day to look up a nice opensource spell checker so he can let us know how much more superior he is to us while using better spelling and punctuation.
Let's see..... school, homework, volunteer work, friends, exercise, making dinner, seeing family.......
I use OSX because I can't do that stuff and don't WANT to do that stuff. I want to use a computer that works without me working. That's what OSX does. If you enjoy tinkering around, bully for you. Most of us don't care.
Ummmmmm, dude? I just installed it on my parent's crippled Compaq (The one that's being replaced by an iMac in a couple weeks) and it works flawlessly. 90% of CPU resources? Maybe on my family's first computer..... the one with a 25 MHz processor and Windows 3.1
Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Folks, Likvid is "guested" (aka., not coming back).
Let's move on.
we...must...flame...
Seriously Rower, if he thinks he can come on our boards, even as a guest, and say dumb stuff, he is just throwing rocks at the hornet's nest.
If you want to flame, make sure to bring plenty of marshmallows, Hershey bars, and graham crackers so we can all gather around and enjoy some smores.
sorry - its been a few years since i got realy dirty in *nix stuff (OSX an' all) and just saw ugly command line stuff - there has to be a better way - <superman theme>Steve Jobs' Apple Corp. to the rescue - 'CLICK' <end theme>
Re: Amusing
The national post is going broke, thats why they are doing all those telemarketing promotions and handing out free subscriptions.
Originally posted by Jagga
This is what I find amusing. Here in Canada, one of the most respected newspapers, The National Post, posted articles of Apple's iTunes for Windows announcement expectation along with Apple's financial results - albeit chopped (not the full results).
Meanwhile on the opposite page they posted an article of M$ and Bill Gates spending $1.4Billion (i think) on a deal with Europes largest cellphone service provider to provide M$ based smartphones & services for them. Of course the usual M$ hooplaw was added, but just a little disdainful remarks of this could lead to standards not being followed. M$ tried to close a research to market smartphones deal here in Canada 1yr ago with Canada's largest cellphone service provider Rogers AT&T Wireless which Rogers' abandoned the deal - not without collecting the duckets first.
This was great to see, since iTunes worked flawlessly, and he highlighted not only iTunes and the iTunes Music Store, but also QuickTime and the video on demand Movie trailers - indeed its been done for years. That's success, that even M$ hasn't enjoyed lately, as well as Dell. COnsidering Video-On-Demand will be huge soon.
Apple just keeps on pushing, woohooo.
The national post is going broke, thats why they are doing all those telemarketing promotions and handing out free subscriptions.
my PC user friend
this is an email from a PC user friend of mine. What would be your response...
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subject: iTunes Blows
Well, I tried to get into iTunes last night and today and it still doesnt work._It gives me a message that iTunes has an internal error and not enough memory is available.
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It is the year 2003.
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this is an email from a PC user friend of mine. What would be your response...
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subject: iTunes Blows
Well, I tried to get into iTunes last night and today and it still doesnt work._It gives me a message that iTunes has an internal error and not enough memory is available.
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It is the year 2003.
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Re: my PC user friend
email him back saying - fine then either a) get a mac b) get a better mac or c) get some memory for your crap a$$ pc
somehow i think he will choose c. but then our pc only has 256 and it runs iT + XPPro fine and fast Celeron 2.78 (2.4 o/c)
On the other hand my DP1G MDD w/768 runs iT+X.2 (5 days for me till X.3)+Safari+FCP+
email him back saying - fine then either a) get a mac b) get a better mac or c) get some memory for your crap a$$ pc
somehow i think he will choose c. but then our pc only has 256 and it runs iT + XPPro fine and fast Celeron 2.78 (2.4 o/c)
On the other hand my DP1G MDD w/768 runs iT+X.2 (5 days for me till X.3)+Safari+FCP+
I loved in the presentation when Steve had announced iTunes for Windows, then he was talking about how he was going to iChat AV with some people, and he was like "I need to use the mac for that one". Everyone at the Apple store was cracking up.
Also, for those who say that Apple hardware is inferior...you do realize that CISC processors can only go so far, and that eventually even Intel will have to move to RISC, right? In fact, it's my understanding that Intel is already hard at work trying to come up with a solution for bridging the gap between CISC and RISC so that eventually all of their chips will be RISC.
Also, for those who say that Apple hardware is inferior...you do realize that CISC processors can only go so far, and that eventually even Intel will have to move to RISC, right? In fact, it's my understanding that Intel is already hard at work trying to come up with a solution for bridging the gap between CISC and RISC so that eventually all of their chips will be RISC.
x86 procs are a combination of RISC and CISC. At least such is true with Intel x86 procs and I assume AMD follows suit.
Story goes that Apple went RISC while x86 procs went CISC, citing that CISC was betetr suited for future use. Then, things changed, as we all know, and computer hardware got a lot cheaper. Thus, the x86 crowd saw no need to continue with only CISC, so they combined the two, forming an evolution that blurred the line between the two. I am not sure if Apple ever followed suit.
AMD has their own, completely different, RISC architecture that converts instructions to and from x86.