I find that there are only
two or three vital programs that I absolutely must have.
Hm....
Quicken, Photoshop (already addressed though), AntiVirus software, book database, music database (I have over 1500 CDs, and am pretty anal about level of detail), Half Life, Tribes 2....are all I run "regularly". There are, however, a few dozen other games that I don't play regularly (all the I Don't Know Jack series, Risk, Axis & Allies, never finished Alice, never finished either Thief, Black & White just to name the ones that come immediately to mind) which I would hate to just dump. Not to mention the plethora of various utility software like fonts, CD cover/label software (I design CD covers for friends who make their own music, and I have yet to find "standard" templates that "just work" with any of the label sheets available...and wasted hours trying to make my own with no success), etc.
Another obstacle that comes to mind is desk space. I currently have 4 computers hooked up to a KVM switch--Firewall, Solaris box (I work for Sun), Linux box, and PC. Sun provides me with a very nice 21" monitor which I would still want for my Solaris and Linux boxen, and I do need something for the firewall since I don't enable telnet on it at all. Even as small as it is, I would have trouble making room for the iMac, and it's all about monitor and keyboard space since the PC chassis is off in the corner. If the Solaris box could use a USB mouse I could get into a USB KVM and just use two monitors....but there we go spending more money (I'd have to make a damn good case for my employer to hand me a CURRENT machine to use at home, considering how infrequently I really need it and that I only really need it for very restricted purposes).
I suppose if money were no object, I'd just buy the new box, use it for the things I really want it for (which don't particularly overlap with my PC, otherwise I'd be using my PC for them) and get on with life. But unfortunately being able to run i* on an iMac doesn't count as a "must" in my budget priorities.
It's not just pirating software though. I have bought plenty of software--all of the apps I use seriously on a regular basis that require purchase (as opposed to making it optional like Eudora) I have purchased. But now I have a large investment in software, and only Adobe of all those companies is likely to let me transfer my license to a completely different platform. If they even offer the product for the MacOS X platform!
No, if I were to go with a new Mac (as much as I may want to; the i* suite is REALLY compelling to me right now), I'd have to REBUY hundreds of dollars worth of software.
And on top of the cost of the new Mac, that just isn't something I can stomach right now.
William of Baskerville: But what is so alarming about laughter? Jorge de Burgos: Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith, because without fear of the Devil there is no more need of God.
Jorge de Burgos: Laughter is a devilish whim which deforms, uh, the face and makes men look like monkeys. William of Baskerville: Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men. Jorge de Burgos: As is sin. Christ never laughed.
And while TeX of various flavors is not WYSIWYG, there *are* whizzy-wig editors that save to TeX flavors. I haven't tried using one in ages, so I can't make any recommendations, but if editing macros is an impediment to you, you should check it out. TeX results are excellent for publishing as a book as well as generating HTML etc.
I have yet to see the power company, garbage company, or phone company REQUIRE online bill payment. As soon as they do, if they use.NET, I will be suing them. But I don't expect that to come any time soon.
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Did you read the same Katz rant that I did? I didn't see anywhere that he said it was PREFERABLE to have men dying directly. I heard him saying (in typical overblown style) that there were new problems that could arise, as forseen in the works of Orwell and Clarke or otherwise.
Turn down the anti-Katz filter for a second and READ what he said, eh?
You're using a HOME user ISP (uh...@home?? ya know??) for business purposes, and you complain that now you can't use it for business purposes? Maybe you should have invested in a BUSINESS ISP, eh?
"For my next trick, I'll be whining that AOL won't let me run pr0n sites over my dialup."
Something your workplace has done like, say assigning you to work that aggravates your (already known and once accommodated) CTS? Despite your pointing out to them that this is a problem they could avoid?
My opinion of this case is fairly split. On one hand, I agree with the supreme courts strict ruling that "disability" as defined by the ADA constitutes more than "impairment". On the other hand, it seems to me from the case description that the woman's claim is that the employer was UNWILLING to make "appropriate work modification" as you put it for her to continue working for them. In other words, if you believe her side of the story, the employer was definitely behaving unfairly and there should be some remedy available to her. Unfortunately, suing under the ADA is not the appropriate avenue for that remedy, because she was not "disabled" as defined by the statute.
Of course there is the employers side which argues much the same as you do that she simply wasn't showing up for work. Honestly, my impression of auto companies is bad enough that I'm more inclined to believe that they ignored her request for accomodation rather than believe that she simply stopped going to work.
So the question is, given that the ADA is the wrong remedy for this particular situation, what is the right remedy?
You do not appear to be claiming that a & b above are part of the statute. If they are not, I don't see how you can claim they qualify under the statute.
I agree that those things are wrong, but no one yet has cited the where the statute defines "fairly". Quite honestly I would expect such a statute to define "fairly" in a way that was friendly to business, aka allows a and to some extent b (assuming that the original owner of the data reserved the right to send you email of "offers", then the secondary owner would get that as well, whether the offers were the same type or not).
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I absolutely am not defending spammers, but what is "unlawful" or "unfair" about buying personal information in a database as an asset from a liquidated company?
The word is "integration". If I could do all this stuff this easily with my PC I'd be all over it. (See previous apple thread for why I probably won't be getting an iMac any time soon, cool looka and great software notwithstanding).
1) Most expensively, Photoshop. I don't want to have to spend that money again for a new OS, and as far as I can tell I can't just buy an upgrade for Mac.
2) Several games, particularly half-life, Tribes 2, Worms (name your version).
Beyond that, it's not just particular TITLES of software as it specific COPIES of software that I'd have to buy AGAIN despite the fact that the copies I have work just fine. Quicken for starters, but several shareware utilities that I've paid for etc. I guess that goes back to item 1, but while that's one big ticket item, this is many smaller ticket items that end up costing nearly the same amount if not more.
I dunno. The description of going from my digital camcorder to a DVD, from my digital camera to a fairly organized set of photos (without having to come up with my own damn naming/organization scheme) or even a book of photos for $30, really make me drool. If I could get even roughly equivalent apps for my PC, I'd be running for them (feel free to make recommendations:-).
So far my experience trying to do stuff with my camcorder just to get it to VCD has ended up with horrible quality crap, and I have more poorly organized digital pix than I can shake a stick at. Yeah, I can use tools like photoshop or paint shop pro to generate thumbnail pages, but I still have to come up with names for all that crap. If you believe the Apple hype, they have a scheme that lets you sidestep all that. I wish someone would port their software to the PC world. 'cos I ain't switching to a Mac at this late date--too much tied up in my windoze software (same argument goes for Linux btw, feel free to chastise me profusely).
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Hm....
Quicken, Photoshop (already addressed though), AntiVirus software, book database, music database (I have over 1500 CDs, and am pretty anal about level of detail), Half Life, Tribes 2....are all I run "regularly". There are, however, a few dozen other games that I don't play regularly (all the I Don't Know Jack series, Risk, Axis & Allies, never finished Alice, never finished either Thief, Black & White just to name the ones that come immediately to mind) which I would hate to just dump. Not to mention the plethora of various utility software like fonts, CD cover/label software (I design CD covers for friends who make their own music, and I have yet to find "standard" templates that "just work" with any of the label sheets available...and wasted hours trying to make my own with no success), etc.
Another obstacle that comes to mind is desk space. I currently have 4 computers hooked up to a KVM switch--Firewall, Solaris box (I work for Sun), Linux box, and PC. Sun provides me with a very nice 21" monitor which I would still want for my Solaris and Linux boxen, and I do need something for the firewall since I don't enable telnet on it at all. Even as small as it is, I would have trouble making room for the iMac, and it's all about monitor and keyboard space since the PC chassis is off in the corner. If the Solaris box could use a USB mouse I could get into a USB KVM and just use two monitors....but there we go spending more money (I'd have to make a damn good case for my employer to hand me a CURRENT machine to use at home, considering how infrequently I really need it and that I only really need it for very restricted purposes).
I suppose if money were no object, I'd just buy the new box, use it for the things I really want it for (which don't particularly overlap with my PC, otherwise I'd be using my PC for them) and get on with life. But unfortunately being able to run i* on an iMac doesn't count as a "must" in my budget priorities.
(just to clarify, I obviously know that Adobe has MacOS versions)
No, if I were to go with a new Mac (as much as I may want to; the i* suite is REALLY compelling to me right now), I'd have to REBUY hundreds of dollars worth of software.
And on top of the cost of the new Mac, that just isn't something I can stomach right now.
I like Big Butts and I do not lie....
Jorge de Burgos: Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith, because without fear of the Devil there is no more need of God.
Jorge de Burgos: Laughter is a devilish whim which deforms, uh, the face and makes men look like monkeys.
William of Baskerville: Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men.
Jorge de Burgos: As is sin. Christ never laughed.
And while TeX of various flavors is not WYSIWYG, there *are* whizzy-wig editors that save to TeX flavors. I haven't tried using one in ages, so I can't make any recommendations, but if editing macros is an impediment to you, you should check it out. TeX results are excellent for publishing as a book as well as generating HTML etc.
I have yet to see the power company, garbage company, or phone company REQUIRE online bill payment. As soon as they do, if they use .NET, I will be suing them. But I don't expect that to come any time soon.
Turn down the anti-Katz filter for a second and READ what he said, eh?
And if you pronounce 0.13 correctly as "13 hundredths" it's obvious that it's "13 hundredths of a micron" not "of a microns".
Ah hah. Perhaps a better explanation would have avoided confusion. As for karma...didn't need it, and it didn't do me any good. C'est la vie.
Personally I prefer Coyote Linux, which also loads from a floppy.
Puts a whole new spin on Illinois' "bribes for licenses" scandal of the last couple years.
What are the odds it wasn't a druggie, but a SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER?
"For my next trick, I'll be whining that AOL won't let me run pr0n sites over my dialup."
Something your workplace has done like, say assigning you to work that aggravates your (already known and once accommodated) CTS? Despite your pointing out to them that this is a problem they could avoid?
Of course there is the employers side which argues much the same as you do that she simply wasn't showing up for work. Honestly, my impression of auto companies is bad enough that I'm more inclined to believe that they ignored her request for accomodation rather than believe that she simply stopped going to work.
So the question is, given that the ADA is the wrong remedy for this particular situation, what is the right remedy?
It's more than unable to do work, else this woman would have won her claim. That's the whole point of contention that the SC ruled on.
I agree that those things are wrong, but no one yet has cited the where the statute defines "fairly". Quite honestly I would expect such a statute to define "fairly" in a way that was friendly to business, aka allows a and to some extent b (assuming that the original owner of the data reserved the right to send you email of "offers", then the secondary owner would get that as well, whether the offers were the same type or not).
I absolutely am not defending spammers, but what is "unlawful" or "unfair" about buying personal information in a database as an asset from a liquidated company?
Surely you're not saying that goatsex man "speaks" for all of gay america, are you?
So picketing an employer you're unhappy with is illegal then? Hm, that's news to me. Probably to the AFL-CIO et. al. too.
I love my Olympus C-2040 Zoom. Under $400 several months ago, probably better than that now. 2.1 Mpx.
The word is "integration". If I could do all this stuff this easily with my PC I'd be all over it. (See previous apple thread for why I probably won't be getting an iMac any time soon, cool looka and great software notwithstanding).
2) Several games, particularly half-life, Tribes 2, Worms (name your version).
Beyond that, it's not just particular TITLES of software as it specific COPIES of software that I'd have to buy AGAIN despite the fact that the copies I have work just fine. Quicken for starters, but several shareware utilities that I've paid for etc. I guess that goes back to item 1, but while that's one big ticket item, this is many smaller ticket items that end up costing nearly the same amount if not more.
Does that answer your question?
So far my experience trying to do stuff with my camcorder just to get it to VCD has ended up with horrible quality crap, and I have more poorly organized digital pix than I can shake a stick at. Yeah, I can use tools like photoshop or paint shop pro to generate thumbnail pages, but I still have to come up with names for all that crap. If you believe the Apple hype, they have a scheme that lets you sidestep all that. I wish someone would port their software to the PC world. 'cos I ain't switching to a Mac at this late date--too much tied up in my windoze software (same argument goes for Linux btw, feel free to chastise me profusely).