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Never heard of it.
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It's what's-his-name before he put on a fake merkin accent for Sin City.
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Is that before or after the invention of colour other than black-white-and-Red?
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Erotic Mother Goose Tales?
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There once was a quiz on CP,
Managed by a guy known as V,
There was many a copier,
Whose threads couldn't be floppier,
Who went first always counts, don't you see?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Managed by a guy known as V, All lies! I don't know of any V,
I only know of the Legend of MQOTD known as V.
Mark_Wallace wrote: There once was a quiz on CP,
Managed by a guy Legend known as V, V.
There was many a copier,
Whose threads couldn't be floppier,
V. who went first alwaysonly counts, don't you see? FIFY
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CBadger wrote: Managed by a guy Legend known as V, V. <apple-user nose positioning>
1, Doesn't scan.
2. When you have two adjacent punctuation marks (i.e. the "." for the abbreviation and the "," for the EO-verse-L), you pick the one that is most important structurally.
Conclusion: You don't deserve to own an iproduct.
</apple-user nose positioning>
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You don't deserve to own an iproduct. isee, well then iwill just get me the ipatch to help with the isore
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"Pace endlessly and you sound like first worker making a cricket call!"(10)
Quite hard for a Monday, so best of luck.
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Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Stridulant = a noise made by rubbing your legs together.
Pace endlessly = Stride - e
Sounds like you = u
Like first = l
Worker = ant
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Not as hard as I thought then
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Strictly speaking I think it should be stridulate.
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Stridulance is a perfectly cromulent word.
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OK
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I like to embiggen your vocabulary.
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Ha ha
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And woody.
Not tinny, like some words.
Size nine, BTW.
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The challenge for Apple is to slow "Samsung's momentum and capture the booming Chinese mobile market." As significantly, the world is awaiting another innovative product from Apple, which could be perhaps the iWatch wearable computer or something completely unexpected, Interbrand said. The company's reputation has, meanwhile, taken some hits after it was found guilty of conspiring with five large book publishers to fix e-book prices, and faced allegations about worker conditions in China at its supplier Foxconn, and ongoing patent disputes with Samsung. Lesson to learn... Buy Sony
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Not that remarkable, considering the the States of Unitedness tend to always give most value to the most useless.
As a brand, apple is cr@p, because it's based on ponciness and undeserved elitism.
And coca-cola?
Actors, sportsmen, pop-stars, all the most useless of people (if you were starving and freezing to death on a deserted island, whom would you want to be there with you?), are treated like deities.
Cars that are only good for battle conditions, or climbing roadless mountains, are envied.
Etc.
For an example of the converse: people who study hard in the sciences, equipping themselves to make a real difference in the quality of life of everyone, are treated like pariahs.
so Me = !Surprised
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(Seriously, if it is ever possible here)
In what way is Apple "crap" ? (other than anecdotical evidence )
The company releases good products that pleases people, I've not heard massive recalls or huge failures in recent history.
It is true that there were and will be crap Apple products (the towers, the cube, some weird mouse, the newton, some map weirdness... ) but the company continued and worked around those.
The hardware is good and works as expected, the software works as expected (including the inevitable bugs and quirks).
People buy the products, not just the "elite" as someone wrote below, but "moms" and "pops" because it works.
If the product was really crap, then reviews would not be good and the product would not sell.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I didn't say the products (although for every apple product, there are fifty products both cheaper and better -- who in their right mind wants a device with the musical rendition of an ipod, for example?), I said the brand image.
Any image-branding that relies on users of mass-available products feeling that they are somehow part of an elite is so short-termist that it will hit rock bottom with a bang (in apple's case, more than once).
It's stupid and its cr@p because it cannot last.
But that's OK, because the guys at the top and in the marketing departments will still be raking in the dosh; it's only developers who'll get canned.
Now that Mr Popularity has gone, there is no-one who can provide the verbal and visual paper to cover over the cracks, so it's extremely likely that they'll run into yet another ditch, quite soon.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It's stupid and its cr@p because it cannot last.
Meaning what exactly?
For example the analog cell phone that I had about 10 years worked fine, but I believe would be entirely useless now because, at best, only the 911 (emergency) service works on it. So it wouldn't matter if it was built to last 100 years.
But perhaps you mean the culture won't last? So? As with the point above some people buy phones every year so it doesn't matter if the fad next year is some other phone. (And since it is their money they should be allowed to spend it buying a phone every year if they want.)
Mark_Wallace wrote: it's only developers who'll get canned.
Presumably you do in fact work right? It is fact of life that ALL companies will get rid of employees if they can't sell anything. Doesn't matter if the company is 1 year old or 500. If they don't sell then the employees will be gone.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Now that Mr Popularity has gone, there is no-one who can provide the verbal and
visual paper to cover over the cracks, so it's extremely likely that they'll run
into yet another ditch, quite soon.
Which is certainly an emotional appeal and not a logical one. Which suggests that the other rationalizations originate from that rather than an actual analysis of market dynamics.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: although for every apple product, there are fifty products both cheaper and better
Right....
Somewhere along the line you've gotten your panties in a twist about Apple and just can't seem to think clearly.
I grew tired of dealing with Microsoft OS crap and PC hardware issues years ago. After a brief stint with Linux, I switched to Apple and have been very happy. Did it cost a bit more (approx 10%) than similar spec'd WinTel stuff... yes, but its been over 4 years and my iMac still runs perfectly with no end in sight. In my WinTel days, I would have needed to re-install the OS a few times and likely replace several components over that timeframe. I value my time more now than before, so I want a computer that values my time as well. That 10% has been paid for many times over in my opinion.
In my experience Apple users (as a rule) are not elitist, they're just happy with the tools they've chosen while non-Apple users are usually still fighting the tools. If you see that as elitist I suggest the problem is yours.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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