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Look at all of the poor wounded posers that have come out to screech at me with the obvious cadre of expected responses.
Yours is the most pathetic of all: a spelling nit pick.
Keep on telling yourself the money was worth it. Clearly you need it.
The main culprit there is Flash and a normal clocked single core is more than adequate for that.
Once again the Lemmings engage in the usual fear mongering and anti-intellectual rhetoric. The bar really isn't that high here. Anyone with a little gumption can manage to put a LiveCD into their system and boot it.
This pointless bit of security theater just adds a little more scaremongering on top of your usual level of scaremongering.
> Overwhelmingly, if you wanted to look like you knew why-the-fuck you ought to be on stage, in front of 8,000 people, you went Mac.
Translation: If you want to look like you've got money to burn, then you show off overpriced Apple products.
The "BMW" comparison is very apt really, including the crap quality.
Seeing is decieving...
20 extra pounds of fat from low fat AND balanced meals.
Sure...
Take away the fat and more fat magically appears around your waistline.
> The weight of the people around you is
When I can no longer afford to insure my family on a 6 figure salary, it becomes my business.
> Who is the government to tell people that they're being irresponsible?
YOU are, when you demand that the government rescues you from the inevitable costs of your self-destructive behavior.
Did you ever see the prices on terminals?
Even dumb terminals were surprisingly expensive. It seems that dedicated thin clients have always been far more expensive than their hardware warranted. This inevitably leads to the obvious cost discussions. You can even see it now on Ars with the new Samsung Chrome box.
The up front costs of dedicated terminal hardware always makes a "real PC" seem like a better option.
It's really quite perverse.
> I am sure the Doctor treating that heart problem thinks they are so dumb.
I had to teach one of these about "right clicking" once.
When it comes to computing they are in fact dumb as rocks and totally helpless. All of their intelligence doesn't come into play because the general attitude of anti-intellectualism that YOU embody discourages it.
Self inflicted and completely avoidable but still real nonetheless.
Except you don't need "the cloud" to achieve any of that.
80s style network computing or 70s style mainframe computing worked the same way.
You really don't need to be dependent on some outside company on the other side of the Internet that doesn't really care about you.
People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.