As long as you don't include its toughest competition, the XBOX 360 is doing batshit-awesome !...until you realise that MS has burned through FIVE BEELION DOLLLLLARS to get to this point.
That's some great return on investment thar MS, yepm.
[note: I am aware that there is an Outlook client for MacOS, but it's functionality is quite limited]
If you're referring to Microsoft Entourage, its functionality and usefulness are at least on a par with those of Outlook. I still prefer Outlook all things considered, but Entourage is in no way a limited-functionality Exchange client. It's powerful.
All the alpha geeks at my workplace use Macs. Every important (geeky) meeting I go to now is a boardroom table covered in Macbooks with an occasional Inspiron or Vaio somewhere.
The (store) that closed last week had a sign on the door that said
"to all the people that download music, if you think you are only hurting big companies you are wrong. There are two working people with families who no longer have jobs because of music piracy."
Did anyone post a reply sign saying "Boo fucking hoo. You think the world owes you a job at a record store?"?
In terms of "hours played", my Dreamcast is the clear winner in my household console collection. Even today, Soul Calibur is the pinnacle of the 3d fighting-game genre.
I'm an immigrant to Australia -- I've lived here for going on eight years -- and Australia is the most racist place I've ever been in my life. Racism is everywhere here, you can't deny it.
I would be VERY surprised if that were to happen. One of the main reasons that Apple is able to guarantee ease of use and "it-just-works" simplicity is that it has total control over the hardware on which the OS runs. Every "I just installed Vista and now my Creative/Nvidia/whatever device doesn't work and I can't find drivers and the vendor doesn't give a fuck" story is evidence of Apple's smarts. That shit doesn't happen with OS X, precisely because you CAN'T install it on any old hardware.
Well, having the country run by religious nutcases who believe there's no need to learn about science because an invisible superhero made everything can't help.
Your clients apparently argue that Mr. Merchant's failure to respond to "settlement" demands justifies their lawsuit without other basis on which a finding of probable cause to sue could be claimed. You devoted the bulk of your letter advocating that position. As you know, however, that posture is repugnant to both Rule 408, Fed.Rul.Evid. and California Evidence Code 1152 and 1154.
The Evidence Code sections are quite clear: settlement negotiations of all kinds may not be used to prove the validity of any claim or defense. Mr. Merchant has and had no more duty to respond to attempts to "sell" him one of your clients' boilerplate, non-negotiable $3750 settlements than he has to return cold calls from pushy life insurance salespeople. If your client (and your law firm?) are seeking probable cause shelter in a settlement negotiations house of straw (as suggested by your March 23 letter), all of you should consider the prevailing winds of the Evidence Code before making yourselves too comfortable. Straw will burn.
Your client (sic) take the position that my middle-aged, conservative clients should speculate regarding the identity of persons your clients' claim used their AOL account to download pornographic-lyric gangsta rap tracks as predicate to possible case resolution. In an age of Wintel-virus created bot-farms, spoofs, and easily cracked WEP encrypted wireless home networks (among other easy hacks), the only tech-savvy response to such a request is, "You've got to be kidding." The extensive press that has been generated over computer security (and the insecurity of Windows XP and its predecessors) underscores the complete absence of facts on which probable cause to sue my clients could be established and your clients' willingness (even insistence) that others be implicated in Big Music's speculative, "driftnet" litigation tactics. Sorry: Mr. Merchant cannot and will not expose himself to still more litigation by speculating.
When I got my first Intel Mac last year, one of the first things I did was install Ubuntu on it because I wanted something familiar and, of course, just because I could. Within two weeks I'd deleted it and was using OS X exclusively. Once you've seen what a truly user-friendly interface on UNIX is like, even the slickest Linux GUI feels clunky.
Let's be clear on what the Apple TV unit is: a very big Ipod video with wifi and no screen of its own. It can play back content purchased through the Itunes store or ripped from source media on a separate computer and copied on to the Apple TV unit. You can't watch broadcast TV; you can't record broadcast TV; you can't watch DVD discs or Blu-Ray discs or HD-DVD discs.
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And what, Apple lets you virtualize OS X?
I'm pretty sure it does. You can install OS X in as many VMs as you want.
They just have to be running on Apple hardware.
rapper DMX uses lyrics such as "what these bitches want from a nigga", and "I fuck with these hoes from a distance"
Is he singing about female college students representing their school when he does it?
The ABC is Australia's equivalent of PBS.
Can someone please provide a definition of "evil" that has any meaning at all? Seriously.
As long as you don't include its toughest competition, the XBOX 360 is doing batshit-awesome !
That's some great return on investment thar MS, yepm.
For Glub's sake, someone mod parent up :)
[note: I am aware that there is an Outlook client for MacOS, but it's functionality is quite limited]
If you're referring to Microsoft Entourage, its functionality and usefulness are at least on a par with those of Outlook. I still prefer Outlook all things considered, but Entourage is in no way a limited-functionality Exchange client. It's powerful.
At what point did the man with the gun force you to purchase, install, and run World of Warcraft?
What's that you say? You bought the game of your own free will and could stop playing it at any time? I never would have guessed.
American evil is GOODER than dirty stinkin' gook evil.
All the alpha geeks at my workplace use Macs. Every important (geeky) meeting I go to now is a boardroom table covered in Macbooks with an occasional Inspiron or Vaio somewhere.
The (store) that closed last week had a sign on the door that said
"to all the people that download music, if you think you are only hurting big companies you are wrong. There are two working people with families who no longer have jobs because of music piracy."
Did anyone post a reply sign saying "Boo fucking hoo. You think the world owes you a job at a record store?"?
In terms of "hours played", my Dreamcast is the clear winner in my household console collection. Even today, Soul Calibur is the pinnacle of the 3d fighting-game genre.
I'm an immigrant to Australia -- I've lived here for going on eight years -- and Australia is the most racist place I've ever been in my life. Racism is everywhere here, you can't deny it.
Huh? Care to elaborate?
And yet only 7% of members of the National Academy of Sciences believe in God.
I wonder how long it will be before scientists have to wear armbands so they can be identified by good, honest, God-fearing Americans.
All the alpha geeks at my workplace run UNIX workstations.
We all have Macs.
I would be VERY surprised if that were to happen. One of the main reasons that Apple is able to guarantee ease of use and "it-just-works" simplicity is that it has total control over the hardware on which the OS runs. Every "I just installed Vista and now my Creative/Nvidia/whatever device doesn't work and I can't find drivers and the vendor doesn't give a fuck" story is evidence of Apple's smarts. That shit doesn't happen with OS X, precisely because you CAN'T install it on any old hardware.
Unlike Yahoo, Google doesn't need to offer unlimited space. You see, unlike Yahoo, Google has spam filtering that actually WORKS.
Well, having the country run by religious nutcases who believe there's no need to learn about science because an invisible superhero made everything can't help.
From the letter:
Your clients apparently argue that Mr. Merchant's failure to respond to "settlement" demands justifies their lawsuit without other basis on which a finding of probable cause to sue could be claimed. You devoted the bulk of your letter advocating that position. As you know, however, that posture is repugnant to both Rule 408, Fed.Rul.Evid. and California Evidence Code 1152 and 1154.
The Evidence Code sections are quite clear: settlement negotiations of all kinds may not be used to prove the validity of any claim or defense. Mr. Merchant has and had no more duty to respond to attempts to "sell" him one of your clients' boilerplate, non-negotiable $3750 settlements than he has to return cold calls from pushy life insurance salespeople. If your client (and your law firm?) are seeking probable cause shelter in a settlement negotiations house of straw (as suggested by your March 23 letter), all of you should consider the prevailing winds of the Evidence Code before making yourselves too comfortable. Straw will burn.
Your client (sic) take the position that my middle-aged, conservative clients should speculate regarding the identity of persons your clients' claim used their AOL account to download pornographic-lyric gangsta rap tracks as predicate to possible case resolution. In an age of Wintel-virus created bot-farms, spoofs, and easily cracked WEP encrypted wireless home networks (among other easy hacks), the only tech-savvy response to such a request is, "You've got to be kidding." The extensive press that has been generated over computer security (and the insecurity of Windows XP and its predecessors) underscores the complete absence of facts on which probable cause to sue my clients could be established and your clients' willingness (even insistence) that others be implicated in Big Music's speculative, "driftnet" litigation tactics. Sorry: Mr. Merchant cannot and will not expose himself to still more litigation by speculating.
That's a whole lot of ownage right there.
The Internet was always a war zone. Then the corporations started turning it into a shopping mall. Now we're taking it back.
Diebold is after two things: to find out HOW the criteria were evaluated and to appeal the contract award.
Dear Diebold,
Sorry, telling you HOW would reveal valuable trade secrets.
ESAD.
HAND,
MASS.
I would recommend trying Kubuntu
It was Kubuntu I used until I got a Mac, and it was Kubuntu I deleted.
When I got my first Intel Mac last year, one of the first things I did was install Ubuntu on it because I wanted something familiar and, of course, just because I could. Within two weeks I'd deleted it and was using OS X exclusively. Once you've seen what a truly user-friendly interface on UNIX is like, even the slickest Linux GUI feels clunky.
Let's be clear on what the Apple TV unit is: a very big Ipod video with wifi and no screen of its own. It can play back content purchased through the Itunes store or ripped from source media on a separate computer and copied on to the Apple TV unit. You can't watch broadcast TV; you can't record broadcast TV; you can't watch DVD discs or Blu-Ray discs or HD-DVD discs.