People buy them because there are still those of us who, when it comes to our own money, would rather spend 10-15% extra on quality and style that will last for years (I have a Mac Plus which still works!) than buy something ugly and "good enough."
I too was impressed with the environmental elements of the movie, i.e., the mountains, the factory, the village, the markings. The "bad guys" did actually speak Bosnian, (or Serbian, or Serbo-Croatian, depending more on political views than linguistics) and I completely ignored the subtitles (which were mostly accurate). I even tried to place the lake and other features in my mind. The road signs, the markings in the post office and shopping center in Hac were *very* correct. I too stayed thru the credits to see where it was filmed, only to be surprised when it said "filmed in Slovak Republic."
In hind-sight, this shouldn't have been such a surprise, considering that one thing immediately obvious to any native ex-Yugoslavian is that the main "Bosnian" characters, despite their speaking in Bosnian, were *not* native speakers. The tracker guy was, I believe, Russian, and the commander was Czec/Slovak.
But overall, excellent recreation of Bosnia in a war-year's December. The plot is another story...
It looked so much like the former Yugoslavia to me that I stayed to watch the credits. I wanted to see where it was actually filmed.
They don't tell you to turn them off until they "secure the cabin for takeoff."
As a frequent flier (or is it flyer), I can attest that the specific announcement is that "the cellular phone use is permitted while the aircraft is parked at the gate with the forward boarding door open." At least that's what Delta's flight attendants' standard announcement is.
Apple dictates what they deem is fit for an OS interface,
Well, yes. Apple says "We make this hardware and we also make this OS to go with it because we deem it one product and we think this is the best OS for it. Just because some people hacked around our boot code and made another OS to bypass ours, doesn't mean that we're gonna give in and separate our product into two."
Their product, their perogative. Welcome to capitalism, here's your towel.
Oh, please. You would be buying a product bundle from one manufacturer that essentially includes two products: the machine and the OS. The manufacturer chooses to sell one of its product (the machine) only with the OS included. You don't want the OS? Either get the "bundle" and eat the cost of the OS (all of $99 anyway), or don't buy the bundle at all. In this case, there is no multi-vendor bundle being forced on you. To paraphrase another poster, if you buy a Ferrari and replace its engine with a Ford's, don't expect a refund on the V-12.
MS wasn't allowed to buy Intuit because they have a product, MS Money, which is a direct competitor to Intuit's main product, Quicken. That would be in direct violation of anti-trust laws.
In this case, I am not aware of an MS product which is in direct competition (at least on the same level) with Visio (then again, I'm not that current on the MS product line, either).
How 'bout this: we already say "hey, I've got 128 megs of RAM" or "that's a 2 gig drive." So instead of changing decimal prefixes to something silly sounding, why don't we just "officialize" the current jargon like so: 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes 1 meg = 1024 * 1024 bytes 1 gig = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes
Ok, so we may need to revisit kilo and tera, but I like this better....
Actually, for a while now you can't really boot a Mac off a floppy: the Finder and the System File (the least you need for booting) won't fit on a floppy (actually not even just one will). But they boot quite nicely off the CD....
Actually, in this case, you would put the question mark outside of the quotes, because it chages the meaning of hte quote.
Just one of many exceptions to a rule. Having had to learn English as a foreign language, I have come to realize that English has many rules, but almost more exceptions.
BUT, I say, if one is to learn and use a language, then one might as well use it properly, just as any other tool. After all, you wouldn't go changing C or Perl syntax just because "it doesn't make sense."
Geez, and you believe everything you read at ZDNet... No, this is not true. According to today's MacNN.com, Corel is not in negotiations with Adobe regarding a takeover, nor it has any knowledge if such intentions exist.
It is laws and mindset like these that have contributed to the degeneration of the human gene pool.
In the "animal kingdom," if you will, no one is protecting you from your own stupidity. You're dumb enough to go play with the wolf, you die. Too bad, your dumbness genes don't get a chance to propagate. Sorry if that sounds cruel, but that's the way it is.
However, we have too many damn laws and regulations whose basic purpose is to protect people from their own stupidity *and* give them a legal recourse to blame someone else and extract legal damages. If you're dumb enough to put an opened cup of hot coffee next to your crotch in a moving vehicle, you get your privates burned. Don't go suing the people who sold you the coffee (and make them put stupid warning labels, like 'coffee is served hot'). Certainly, we should protect people from someone *else's* idiocy, but please, don't limit me just because someone else is stupid. Things like drinking age and speed limit also fall into this category (and ultimately do not achieve their original purpose anyway, which is to prevent those not mature enough from drinking or driving at a safe speed). You cannot legislate common sense. Of course the coffee is served hot. Of course you shouldn't put the plastic bag over your head. Of course you should take the plastic wrapper off your frozen pizza before putting it in the oven.
What would be a lot more effective and beneficial to the human species as a whole is education. Teach your kids how to drink responsibly, how fast to drive without killing themselves, not to put hot beverages between their legs in a moving vehicle. Use thngs for what they are meant for. Legal software is obviously no substitute for a real lawyer. Certain simple things, like wills and powers-of-attorney, which are pretty much boiler-plate documents, can be taken care of by software. Class action suit against a large corporation would obviously require a lawyer (more than one, even).
Education, not legislation, is the way to a better world.
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It's just you...
Um, that's Columbia to you, thankyouverymuch.
>We live in such interesting times!
Isn't that a Chinese curse? "May you live in interesting times...."
I think you have him mistaken for Strom Thurmond...
Aleks, DammitIjustLiveHere
FireWire 1 is 400 Mbps, FireWire 2 is 800 Mbps.
People buy them because there are still those of us who, when it comes to our own money, would rather spend 10-15% extra on quality and style that will last for years (I have a Mac Plus which still works!) than buy something ugly and "good enough."
I too was impressed with the environmental elements of the movie, i.e., the mountains, the factory, the village, the markings. The "bad guys" did actually speak Bosnian, (or Serbian, or Serbo-Croatian, depending more on political views than linguistics) and I completely ignored the subtitles (which were mostly accurate). I even tried to place the lake and other features in my mind. The road signs, the markings in the post office and shopping center in Hac were *very* correct. I too stayed thru the credits to see where it was filmed, only to be surprised when it said "filmed in Slovak Republic."
In hind-sight, this shouldn't have been such a surprise, considering that one thing immediately obvious to any native ex-Yugoslavian is that the main "Bosnian" characters, despite their speaking in Bosnian, were *not* native speakers. The tracker guy was, I believe, Russian, and the commander was Czec/Slovak.
But overall, excellent recreation of Bosnia in a war-year's December. The plot is another story...
It looked so much like the former Yugoslavia to me that I stayed to watch the credits. I wanted to see where it was actually filmed.
>Why cant they come up with something original!?
Worked too long with Micro$oft?
OK, I know... I just couldn't resist.
As a frequent flier (or is it flyer), I can attest that the specific announcement is that "the cellular phone use is permitted while the aircraft is parked at the gate with the forward boarding door open." At least that's what Delta's flight attendants' standard announcement is.
Yeah, I'm picky. So sue me.....
Well, yes. Apple says "We make this hardware and we also make this OS to go with it because we deem it one product and we think this is the best OS for it. Just because some people hacked around our boot code and made another OS to bypass ours, doesn't mean that we're gonna give in and separate our product into two."
Their product, their perogative. Welcome to capitalism, here's your towel.
Oh, please. You would be buying a product bundle from one manufacturer that essentially includes two products: the machine and the OS. The manufacturer chooses to sell one of its product (the machine) only with the OS included. You don't want the OS? Either get the "bundle" and eat the cost of the OS (all of $99 anyway), or don't buy the bundle at all. In this case, there is no multi-vendor bundle being forced on you. To paraphrase another poster, if you buy a Ferrari and replace its engine with a Ford's, don't expect a refund on the V-12.
Aleks
MS wasn't allowed to buy Intuit because they have a product, MS Money, which is a direct competitor to Intuit's main product, Quicken. That would be in direct violation of anti-trust laws.
In this case, I am not aware of an MS product which is in direct competition (at least on the same level) with Visio (then again, I'm not that current on the MS product line, either).
Aleks
Did anyone try to say this out loud?
Apple Cinema Display
Apple Cinema
apple cinnamon
Heh.... language is fun.....
How 'bout this: we already say "hey, I've got 128 megs of RAM" or "that's a 2 gig drive." So instead of changing decimal prefixes to something silly sounding, why don't we just "officialize" the current jargon like so:
1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes
1 meg = 1024 * 1024 bytes
1 gig = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes
Ok, so we may need to revisit kilo and tera, but I like this better....
Actually, for a while now you can't really boot a Mac off a floppy: the Finder and the System File (the least you need for booting) won't fit on a floppy (actually not even just one will). But they boot quite nicely off the CD....
Maybe not a boat per se, but a (star)ship perhaps?
*grin*
Well, it's all about who's controlling the diamond production. After all, we have to make sure that our "moral" obligations are placed correctly...
>they are supporting open source as long as they can make any money of it.
Uh-uh. And Netscape, IBM, Oracle, Informix et al. are just doing it out of their great philantropic ideals....?
Get real--these are companies whose primary purpose of existence is to make money and make their shareholders happy.
But as long as they benefit OS movement in the process, we're all happy.
And please, spend more than 5 minutes working on a Mac before you bash it.
>Did bob really say, "hello?"
Actually, in this case, you would put the question mark outside of the quotes, because it chages the meaning of hte quote.
Just one of many exceptions to a rule. Having had to learn English as a foreign language, I have come to realize that English has many rules, but almost more exceptions.
BUT, I say, if one is to learn and use a language, then one might as well use it properly, just as any other tool. After all, you wouldn't go changing C or Perl syntax just because "it doesn't make sense."
Heh, I'd pay at least what I'd get for my Windows refund to see that.... :-)
Aleks
Geez, and you believe everything you read at ZDNet... No, this is not true. According to today's MacNN.com, Corel is not in negotiations with Adobe regarding a takeover, nor it has any knowledge if such intentions exist.
So does anyone know if this means that PPC users can start R4-->R5 upgrade? This is what we've all been waiting for, right?
Gee, just can't wait to reformat/reinstall....
Interestingly enough, the guy bashes Europeans as unable to come up with a decent computer (um, CERN, Linux, hello?) and his domain is europa.com.
Heh.
It is laws and mindset like these that have contributed to the degeneration of the human gene pool.
In the "animal kingdom," if you will, no one is protecting you from your own stupidity. You're dumb enough to go play with the wolf, you die. Too bad, your dumbness genes don't get a chance to propagate. Sorry if that sounds cruel, but that's the way it is.
However, we have too many damn laws and regulations whose basic purpose is to protect people from their own stupidity *and* give them a legal recourse to blame someone else and extract legal damages. If you're dumb enough to put an opened cup of hot coffee next to your crotch in a moving vehicle, you get your privates burned. Don't go suing the people who sold you the coffee (and make them put stupid warning labels, like 'coffee is served hot'). Certainly, we should protect people from someone *else's* idiocy, but please, don't limit me just because someone else is stupid. Things like drinking age and speed limit also fall into this category (and ultimately do not achieve their original purpose anyway, which is to prevent those not mature enough from drinking or driving at a safe speed). You cannot legislate common sense. Of course the coffee is served hot. Of course you shouldn't put the plastic bag over your head. Of course you should take the plastic wrapper off your frozen pizza before putting it in the oven.
What would be a lot more effective and beneficial to the human species as a whole is education. Teach your kids how to drink responsibly, how fast to drive without killing themselves, not to put hot beverages between their legs in a moving vehicle. Use thngs for what they are meant for. Legal software is obviously no substitute for a real lawyer. Certain simple things, like wills and powers-of-attorney, which are pretty much boiler-plate documents, can be taken care of by software. Class action suit against a large corporation would obviously require a lawyer (more than one, even).
Education, not legislation, is the way to a better world.
As a matter of fact, Scott Adams is a long-time Mac user. If I remember correctly, he has a PowerMac 8500 in his home studio.
That and a cat.