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by zimbabwe 17y ago
First point: Just to clarify, you're calling Bacon a talentless hack? Bacon, the master of nightmarish imagery? Second point: Define meaningful . Philosophy, science, photography, painting, all are essentially ways of passing time before
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's unnecessary. I personally think that between an iPod touch and a Macbook, there's no issue with the currently-existing portable market. I use an iPod to read and write and browse the Internet without any complaints. For $500 especially
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Fair enough. Certainly for me, a tilted bowl of fruit that defies logic is more interesting than a boring bowl of fruit. It still doesn't fascinate me incredibly , but it at least adds something worth thinking about. I'm not that well-vers
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
So people who do good work are never interesting? Or people with fascinating ideas never learn to polish them? I'm confused.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Wired is writing a kneejerk review. I don't trust their criticisms just as I don't trust their compliments. They simply haven't had the JooJoo for long enough. If you're only posting to be a cunt, there's no reason to be posting at all. You
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It certainly shows that he's got a good sense of perspective re: drawing bodies. And that's the suggestion Paul's making, right?, that Cezanne makes stupid goofy mistakes. The sketch here is just a sketch, but it shows he knows his shit.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Wait, what does the Kindle have to do with anything? I remember journalists loving the Kindle when it came out. There was a slight backlash months after the original sold out, but it's been very positively received by everybody but Hacker N
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Chill out, bro. You're reading way into this. As for this tablet thing. Every person whose sources I trust have said the Apple tablet will be announced in early 2010. They've been saying early 2010 since late 2008, so I think I'm assuming
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I won't downvote you, but you're accusing a bunch of people of upvoting that comment just because it was already upvoted, then insulting those people, then sneering at them and calling them stupid. If your goal is really to reprimand the co
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Yeah, Paul is talking up his ass. Afraid I don't know enough about programmers or painters to spout names, but in any other artistic medium you've got a mix of all types. I'll use film as my example because film's a medium in which you have
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The emphasized part is a quote. It just happens to be a long blocky quote, so it looks merely like a bold post.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You need to understand that this is entirely a subjective opinion. There are forms of art where accuracy is prized, but in any kind of modern art, any rule can be broken if the result is interesting. Are you saying you like none of Picasso'
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I was. James Joyce not being a writer till 32? The man wrote the "best" novel of all time. Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky in three days? Hot damn, perhaps my own situation isn't so bad.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Oh man. That actually looks pretty neat. I've got some anal dislikes, but they've removed almost all of the things that were red flags for me. I'm just hoping they nativized the Mac version; I'd love to have a fourth major browser for tinke
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Fake Steve Jobs: Orwell versus Huxley (comic repost with added tech commentary)(fakesteve.blogspot.com)
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
If Bezos wanted to fuck around with his apology, he'd have used more cushiony words. "Stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles" doesn't allow for much leeway with how he views Amazon's actions here. He's saying str
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Just to be certain, have all of you read Lockhart's Lament? Because it argues the case for teaching math more beautifully than I can. http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
*its, not it's. :-) Windows 7 isn't mindblowing. I actually dislike a lot about it. Microsoft doesn't have a clue regarding their design. That said, when you plug in a mouse it works without complaining. My point was that the specific gripe
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Hardware in terms of ram, graphics card, hard disk: Not in a distinguishable way. Hardware in terms of firm design, usability, compactness, and aesthetic: I can't think of anything that comes close to Apple's design. I can barely think of c
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
There's a chance Ubuntu is better than the years-old operating system. I've had Ubuntu driver issues with all three of my attempted installs, but if I hadn't had those issues I might prefer it to Windows XP for some things. That said, Windo
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Apple's market cap is around Google's, according to Newsweek. They make a pretty awesome profit on every product they sell.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'll confirm product quality. It's just that right when the economy exploded there were a lot of people who were pretty snarky towards Apple, sneering at a company that dared make an expensive product. In fact, I spent this week on prog.red
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I can confirm this. In high school I hated math, planned on getting an English major, because the English teachers were so good. Previously, in middle school I hated critical analysis of books, but because my math teacher was so good I was
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm astounded at how recession-proof Apple has made itself seem. I was hoping they'd survive without too many bruises, but it seems as if the recession is boosting their sales, if anything.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Rest in peace, Frank McCourt. I missed Angela's Ashes, but Teacher Man looks like it would be worth the read. What a great reminder of what a good teacher is capable of.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I didn't say it was zero sum. I like Posterous quite a lot.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm going to have to try it out and see if it inspires me, but you win the first test, which is that this is a very, very sexy app.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I actually suffer a lot from misery that's woman-related, sometimes for months and years after something happens. Possibly that's because I'm fairly young, but also possibly it depends on the type of person and you aren't as affected as I a
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Thanks!
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That makes sense. Thanks for qualifying!

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