I'd agree with you except for the fact that I don't. I use, at alternate steps, a Sprint wireless modem and the built-in wireless NIC. I've never had trouble with either that was directly attributable to OS X.
This is clearly a YMMV case. Sorry to hear you're one of those guys outside of the Bell Curve.
I started using Linux - Mandrake - back in '94 or '95, and was one of the first people to crank it up at Motorola Schaumburg. I used it wherever I could and when it made sense - and tried to use it even when it _didn't_ make sense. Tried convincing just about _everyone_ that Linux was better than Windows; people started looking at me like I was some sort of zealot - "He must've drank the kool-aid." When Apple announced it would port OS X to a 'NIX kernel, I thought, "Uh oh. The coolness and functionality of 'NIX with the pretty interface and simple usability of the Mac. Linux is going to be in trouble."
I now have around six Mac machines, and have converted quite a few family members and friends to OS X - primarily because I got tired of supporting their Windows habit. In the past year or two, I haven't used Linux except to support one client who has plans to migrate from it, though not to OS X, sometime "real soon now."
I still like Linux - more power to you guys - but OS X does what I need easily and prettily. I don't have to muck around trying to get things to work; they just do. Even if the cost is greater for the Mac platform, it's a better fit for me, and Linux will have to do something very radical to convince me I need to use it, again.
Interesting question: if Cheney is "guarding" Bush, and the aforementioned shotgun held by Cheney "goes off," would Cheney then become POTUS? Or would he likely be charged with something preventing him from becoming POTUS?
Off the top of my head, I can think of one peaceful application: reducing the homeless population. Sure, ya just line 'em up and let 'er rip. As mentioned above, "BBQ!"
Their raw drives are Ok - I buy nothing -but- Seagate bare drives, mostly because of the warranty.
But, yeah, these Free Agent Pros suck. We bought two 750 GB units, expecting to use them with Solaris. They show up as 150 GB devices, if that. Maybe they're internally RAID'd, like a few Maxtor devices. Unless I'm missing something, this is just not right. I just formatted two bare 500 GB drives in el cheapo external enclosures yesterday, and they work just fine. If I could take the drives out of the Free Agent cases without destroying the case, I would.
The Free Agent Pros are now sitting in their boxes, waiting for some other use to come up - something not related to Solaris. The drives seem to work with Mac & Windows, though.
Your tale (tail, get it? sorry...) reminded me of the first BASIC program I tried to run on a TRS-80 CoCo, or some such. I spent who knows how long typing it in - never really having typed anything, at that tender age - and then just sat and watched it do nothing. And do nothing. And a bit more of nothing. Until I got tired of waiting and turned off the machine - tossing all of the typing I'd done. Then, just after I turned it back on - naturally... - I noticed where the manual said, "Now type 'run' and press 'enter' to execute the program."
> Please explain how detaining people not connected to those crimes helps fighting the criminals.
Easy. If everyone's locked up, no one can cause any trouble, right? I thought that was the Republican goal. Lock everyone up. It's the only way to protect our Freedom.
> Please explain why you can mistreat people just because they aren't U.S. citizens.
Hey, we're Americans. We can do whatever the fudge we want. What are you, some sort of terrorist-loving Liberal?
I'm still not sold on the benefit of state-required certifications, but I do like the idea of a central reporting agency. That might actually be better, if it could be fairly implemented. Much like credit reporting agencies - not that they're fairly implemented, but the concept, in general. I'd like to know what other folks thought of Joe Fix-it, but it's somewhat hard to find that out without doing some investigative work. Almost seems like an opportunity for some enterprising individual to set up such a registry.
I can't count how many college graduates I know - in the tech field - that could be certified as nincompoops. I've come across doctors who were absolutely horrible at what they were supposed to do. Right now, we're working with Sun "experts" - these were guys sent to us by Sun themselves - who have made such a mess of our project that it will take more effort to get the project back on track than it would have to do it ourselves from the outset (which I suggested, but that's neither here nor there, now). Are all lawyers automatically perfect because they pass the bar? Hardly.
On the other hand, I've come across folks who were NOT college educated, or board certified, or automotive industry "approved" who knew what they were doing and provided a level of satisfaction that their customers or clients or friends had no right to expect.
Bottom line? Another level of state-sponsored certification guarantees nothing if the person holding the cert is fundamentally worthless. Past performance is probably the best indicator of future capability. Caveat emptor - always has been, always will be.
Part of Vista's failure is the hardware requirements for what amounts to window dressing. There were no additional hardware requirements for OS 10.5. True, some older Macs were left behind, but it's not quite the same thing. The majority of Mac owners who upgraded did not have to run out and buy new hardware to enjoy the full benefits of 10.5.
Also, this seems to be a case of YMMV. I upgraded to 10.5.1, after using 10.5.0 from day 0, and, aside from X server - functional, but flaky - it works just fine. This is my primary machine, and there's nothing I can't run now that I couldn't run before. I can't even recall an unplanned reboot. Is it perfect? Nah - nothing is. But I've no complaints.
If you're serious, then I call bullshit. Ignorance is simply the lack of knowledge. Once you learn about $topic, then you're no longer ignorant, by definition.
Ergo, you are born as ignorant as you'll ever be. Barring some sort of catastrophic retardation - and, yes, I've seen your posts above regarding the one daughter, but even she can learn things, I presume - or brain stem-related accident, or stroke, etc., one can assume that even a PHB can alleviate his or her ignorance, simply by looking $topic up.
"Intelligence" has to be defined before I can call BS on that, too. Or not.
Your reply tells me that you a) can't understand simple English, and b) like to twist things around in ways they weren't meant. Essentially, you're a pig. I'm not going to bother teaching you to sing.
Land "stolen"? Land taken in a defensive war does not qualify as "stolen" in my book. When you get your ass handed to you - especially by a smaller guy - in a fight you started, you don't have the right to ask for your dignity back. Oh, and you won't hear it in the popular press, but a lot of "stolen" land was actually sold freely by Arabs to Jewish folks.
And, ya know, the "refugee" problem could be solved right-quick if the other Arab countries gave a damn about the plight of said refugees. Israel is about the size of New Jersey, and shrinking, because of continued - wasted - concessions. Any one of those larger Arab countries in the region could spare enough land to give the refugees a place to live. But, according to Arab logic, it's better to keep these people as refugees, placing international pressure on Israel to keep bending over backward - maybe they'll eventually create a mobius strip? - creating generation after generation of Arabs hostile to the mere existence of Israel, than to actually fix the problem.
This is far from a wholesale endorsement of Israel; they're not perfect, either. But, a quick question - in which country would you rather live: Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Syria? You're less likely to have your lifeless body dragged through the streets, while your murderers dance around with your blood literally on their hands, in Israel than in any of the other countries.
Right now, there aren't any; our Congress has its collective head up its arse and a spine made of Jell-O, so Bush & Co. are pretty much free to use the Constitution as toilet paper. And, if you look at it from his point of view, why not? After all, it's "just a G-D piece of paper."
I noticed something along these lines last week with the Iraqi war protest marches in various cities across the country. If I hadn't seen it on msn.com, I wouldn't have known about it. Neither cnn.com nor fox.com had anything about it. Convenient little "oversights" like this _are_ scary. What _else_ aren't we being told? And so much for "liberal media."
I think as it relates to private party agreements, that's Ok; you're free to say No. But as it relates to the government, it's a different ballgame altogether.
Perhaps you should research this one a bit before you trot it out, again. McDonald's was not sued for "hot" coffee. Hot coffee will not cause the kinds of burns this woman suffered - eg. melt your skin. It's easy to say this woman was just a whiner and McDonald's - and, by extension, the rest of us - got robbed, but that's the path of ignorance.
Frankly, I appreciate these articles and the follow-up discussion. We're not going to find a somewhat balanced discussion on, say, Fox, or any of the major news outlets. They have their own agendas.
And, if you don't like reading these articles when they come up, Cmdr Taco isn't barking orders at you to clicky-click on the link. You _can_ ignore these, ya know.
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I'd agree with you except for the fact that I don't. I use, at alternate steps, a Sprint wireless modem and the built-in wireless NIC. I've never had trouble with either that was directly attributable to OS X.
This is clearly a YMMV case. Sorry to hear you're one of those guys outside of the Bell Curve.
I started using Linux - Mandrake - back in '94 or '95, and was one of the first people to crank it up at Motorola Schaumburg. I used it wherever I could and when it made sense - and tried to use it even when it _didn't_ make sense. Tried convincing just about _everyone_ that Linux was better than Windows; people started looking at me like I was some sort of zealot - "He must've drank the kool-aid." When Apple announced it would port OS X to a 'NIX kernel, I thought, "Uh oh. The coolness and functionality of 'NIX with the pretty interface and simple usability of the Mac. Linux is going to be in trouble."
I now have around six Mac machines, and have converted quite a few family members and friends to OS X - primarily because I got tired of supporting their Windows habit. In the past year or two, I haven't used Linux except to support one client who has plans to migrate from it, though not to OS X, sometime "real soon now."
I still like Linux - more power to you guys - but OS X does what I need easily and prettily. I don't have to muck around trying to get things to work; they just do. Even if the cost is greater for the Mac platform, it's a better fit for me, and Linux will have to do something very radical to convince me I need to use it, again.
Interesting question: if Cheney is "guarding" Bush, and the aforementioned shotgun held by Cheney "goes off," would Cheney then become POTUS? Or would he likely be charged with something preventing him from becoming POTUS?
Either way - it's all good...
Off the top of my head, I can think of one peaceful application: reducing the homeless population. Sure, ya just line 'em up and let 'er rip. As mentioned above, "BBQ!"
Their raw drives are Ok - I buy nothing -but- Seagate bare drives, mostly because of the warranty.
But, yeah, these Free Agent Pros suck. We bought two 750 GB units, expecting to use them with Solaris. They show up as 150 GB devices, if that. Maybe they're internally RAID'd, like a few Maxtor devices. Unless I'm missing something, this is just not right. I just formatted two bare 500 GB drives in el cheapo external enclosures yesterday, and they work just fine. If I could take the drives out of the Free Agent cases without destroying the case, I would.
The Free Agent Pros are now sitting in their boxes, waiting for some other use to come up - something not related to Solaris. The drives seem to work with Mac & Windows, though.
Your tale (tail, get it? sorry...) reminded me of the first BASIC program I tried to run on a TRS-80 CoCo, or some such. I spent who knows how long typing it in - never really having typed anything, at that tender age - and then just sat and watched it do nothing. And do nothing. And a bit more of nothing. Until I got tired of waiting and turned off the machine - tossing all of the typing I'd done. Then, just after I turned it back on - naturally... - I noticed where the manual said, "Now type 'run' and press 'enter' to execute the program."
Eh. You live, you learn...
+1 Lame - replying to my own reply
/sarcasm tag after the last line. Apparently the filter ate it, much like the homework-eating dog...
There's a missing
> Please explain how detaining people not connected to those crimes helps fighting the criminals.
Easy. If everyone's locked up, no one can cause any trouble, right? I thought that was the Republican goal. Lock everyone up. It's the only way to protect our Freedom.
> Please explain why you can mistreat people just because they aren't U.S. citizens.
Hey, we're Americans. We can do whatever the fudge we want. What are you, some sort of terrorist-loving Liberal?
I'm still not sold on the benefit of state-required certifications, but I do like the idea of a central reporting agency. That might actually be better, if it could be fairly implemented. Much like credit reporting agencies - not that they're fairly implemented, but the concept, in general. I'd like to know what other folks thought of Joe Fix-it, but it's somewhat hard to find that out without doing some investigative work. Almost seems like an opportunity for some enterprising individual to set up such a registry.
I can't count how many college graduates I know - in the tech field - that could be certified as nincompoops. I've come across doctors who were absolutely horrible at what they were supposed to do. Right now, we're working with Sun "experts" - these were guys sent to us by Sun themselves - who have made such a mess of our project that it will take more effort to get the project back on track than it would have to do it ourselves from the outset (which I suggested, but that's neither here nor there, now). Are all lawyers automatically perfect because they pass the bar? Hardly.
On the other hand, I've come across folks who were NOT college educated, or board certified, or automotive industry "approved" who knew what they were doing and provided a level of satisfaction that their customers or clients or friends had no right to expect.
Bottom line? Another level of state-sponsored certification guarantees nothing if the person holding the cert is fundamentally worthless. Past performance is probably the best indicator of future capability. Caveat emptor - always has been, always will be.
> You can't 'win' this kind of argument.
Sure you can: Kill 'em all - let God sort 'em out.
Part of Vista's failure is the hardware requirements for what amounts to window dressing. There were no additional hardware requirements for OS 10.5. True, some older Macs were left behind, but it's not quite the same thing. The majority of Mac owners who upgraded did not have to run out and buy new hardware to enjoy the full benefits of 10.5.
Also, this seems to be a case of YMMV. I upgraded to 10.5.1, after using 10.5.0 from day 0, and, aside from X server - functional, but flaky - it works just fine. This is my primary machine, and there's nothing I can't run now that I couldn't run before. I can't even recall an unplanned reboot. Is it perfect? Nah - nothing is. But I've no complaints.
If you're serious, then I call bullshit. Ignorance is simply the lack of knowledge. Once you learn about $topic, then you're no longer ignorant, by definition.
Ergo, you are born as ignorant as you'll ever be. Barring some sort of catastrophic retardation - and, yes, I've seen your posts above regarding the one daughter, but even she can learn things, I presume - or brain stem-related accident, or stroke, etc., one can assume that even a PHB can alleviate his or her ignorance, simply by looking $topic up.
"Intelligence" has to be defined before I can call BS on that, too. Or not.
Your reply tells me that you a) can't understand simple English, and b) like to twist things around in ways they weren't meant. Essentially, you're a pig. I'm not going to bother teaching you to sing.
Land "stolen"? Land taken in a defensive war does not qualify as "stolen" in my book. When you get your ass handed to you - especially by a smaller guy - in a fight you started, you don't have the right to ask for your dignity back. Oh, and you won't hear it in the popular press, but a lot of "stolen" land was actually sold freely by Arabs to Jewish folks.
And, ya know, the "refugee" problem could be solved right-quick if the other Arab countries gave a damn about the plight of said refugees. Israel is about the size of New Jersey, and shrinking, because of continued - wasted - concessions. Any one of those larger Arab countries in the region could spare enough land to give the refugees a place to live. But, according to Arab logic, it's better to keep these people as refugees, placing international pressure on Israel to keep bending over backward - maybe they'll eventually create a mobius strip? - creating generation after generation of Arabs hostile to the mere existence of Israel, than to actually fix the problem.
This is far from a wholesale endorsement of Israel; they're not perfect, either. But, a quick question - in which country would you rather live: Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Syria? You're less likely to have your lifeless body dragged through the streets, while your murderers dance around with your blood literally on their hands, in Israel than in any of the other countries.
And, no, I'm not Jewish.
> Remember when pople used to give their life for our freedom? Why are we now giving our freedom for our life?
I though it was something like, "If we give up all of our freedoms to safeguard our Freedom, what Freedom do we have left to protect?"
I wondered whether I was the only one who thought that...
I am referring to _our_ US Congress, and I _do_ use the word "arse," if I'm replying to an Englishman.
And while I don't lie, cheat or steal, I won't argue the "ass" part. Yep, I admit it.
I thought it was simply the manifestation of the fact that minors have almost no rights. Aren't they more like chattel than people?
It's simple: consequences.
Right now, there aren't any; our Congress has its collective head up its arse and a spine made of Jell-O, so Bush & Co. are pretty much free to use the Constitution as toilet paper. And, if you look at it from his point of view, why not? After all, it's "just a G-D piece of paper."
I noticed something along these lines last week with the Iraqi war protest marches in various cities across the country. If I hadn't seen it on msn.com, I wouldn't have known about it. Neither cnn.com nor fox.com had anything about it. Convenient little "oversights" like this _are_ scary. What _else_ aren't we being told? And so much for "liberal media."
I think as it relates to private party agreements, that's Ok; you're free to say No. But as it relates to the government, it's a different ballgame altogether.
Hey, don't insult all of those otherwise nice, poo-flinging monkeys, you insensitive clod.
Perhaps you should research this one a bit before you trot it out, again. McDonald's was not sued for "hot" coffee. Hot coffee will not cause the kinds of burns this woman suffered - eg. melt your skin. It's easy to say this woman was just a whiner and McDonald's - and, by extension, the rest of us - got robbed, but that's the path of ignorance.
Frankly, I appreciate these articles and the follow-up discussion. We're not going to find a somewhat balanced discussion on, say, Fox, or any of the major news outlets. They have their own agendas.
And, if you don't like reading these articles when they come up, Cmdr Taco isn't barking orders at you to clicky-click on the link. You _can_ ignore these, ya know.