Apple has always been really good at getting customers to move forward, by dropping legacy systems. You might not like it, but it generally turns out for the best. If Apple hadn't done the USB switch, we'd likely still be stuck with floppies, parallel printers and scanners, and miscellaneous serial devices.
But Apple's serial connectors were neither proprietary nor crap. They were RS-422, with a DIN standard connector. It was much easier to deal with serial connections on a Macintosh than on anything else at the time.
ADB was an Apple-developed standard, much better than PS/2 or AT keyboard connections, and much better than PS/2 mouse connections. One port, daisy chainable, and you could put a mouse, keyboard, graphics tablet, and trackball on the same port at the same time. They weren't supposed to be hot-pluggable, but unlike PS/2, hot plugging worked. And Apple wasn't the only manufacturer to use it.
GeoPort was just an extension to the RS-422 ports, and non-GeoPort devices worked just fine in those ports.
Why would you plug your mouse into the computer on an iMac? The keyboard had two USB ports, you plug your mouse in one, leaving you one free port on the computer and one on the keyboard.
Apple has made some dick moves, this wasn't one of them.
There was no appeal, the trial judge set aside the jury verdict by granting a motion for dismissal that was filed and apparently not considered before the jury ruled.
Since there wasn't an appeal, there is no precedent either way. The verdict can sort of be looked at, but legally it's pretty irrelevant. The US Attorney could have appealed, but didn't. I'd make a guess that was because the trial judge had ruled the law used against Lori Drew was unconstitutional, which isn't that common at the trial level and frequently means that law doesn't have much of a chance in an appeals court. They probably didn't want to risk setting a precedent that would cost them a bullying tool...
Actually, in most cities the storm drains aren't connected to the sewage system, they're separate pipes that usually drain unfiltered to a nearby body of water like a river.
Seriously, look at his record. He's done nothing at all that would hurt his corporate support base.
I voted for Obama. I'll end up voting for him again. But it's not because there aren't better choices out there, it's because while the Democrats spend most of their effort kissing up to their corporate masters, the Republicans are pure fascist/corporatists, who would reduce our people to the level of the Chinese people in a heartbeat, purely for profit.
And under our current electoral system, third parties don't have a chance.
Seriously, I can't understand how you could possibly think someone else's phone call is any different than someone else having a conversation with someone sitting beside them.
If you're at a theatre, you've got a legitimate gripe, because you shouldn't be talking to the person beside you. If you're in a place where conversation is normal, it doesn't matter if the conversation is with someone in the room or someone across the country.
There's nothing "left-wing" about modern China. It's not communist, it's not socialist. It's turned into a modern fascist-corporatist state.
Public health care is nearly as bad as in the US. The Gini coefficient is in the same range as the US.
If you want to see what happens when the left actually gets power, take a look at the Scandinavian countries - you get public health, a much more even distribution of wealth, and quite a bit of personal freedom. In other words, not China.
From the numbers I just saw, if we did tax the top 1% at 100% of their income, it would cover the entire federal budget, nobody else would have to pay any tax at all.
Obviously it's a bad idea to tax them at 100%, but I don't think a 90% tax rate for them is unreasonable, and it's insane that we're not taxing them at at least the 70% rate that was standard for the wealthy in the '70s.
And no, "austerity" won't be demanded by our creditors. We've got an ace up our sleeve that Ireland, Greece, and Italy don't have. Those debts are in dollars, and we control the printing presses. If they stop being nice, the pieces of paper they've got will be worthless.
As far as "gunpoint" goes - are you completely out of your mind? Can you think of a conceivable scenario where the US is actually invaded anytime in the next 50 years? I'll help you out here - there isn't one. I'm not a fan of the giant military, and it's a great place to start cutting the budget, but that's unlikely to happen, and as you'll recall there's exactly one superpower these days. No other country could even get enough troops here alive to invade.
There's a model that would work, probably quite well if it were ever attempted:
Essential services that are natural monopolies, things like water, electricity, natural gas, roads, rail, last-mile telecom - provided by the government, no corporate involvement at all.
Health care, because it should be an equal-access right for all, and everyone will need it at some point, also provided by the government.
Essentials like food and housing - provided privately, but with price controls and regulations to prevent monopolies from ever occurring.
Other large businesses - heavy government oversight, with no hesitation to break up a company that is approaching a market-dominating position.
Small businesses - largely unregulated, things like a maximum workweek, minimum wage, safety regulations for dangerous work, and minimum paid time off enforced, pollution controlled, but otherwise left alone unless they grow into large businesses.
My solution has been tried, in my country. It results in very reliable power, at a more reasonable price than what people in nearby states pay, because they're paying for corporate profits.
Liberals are strongly in favor of personal freedom.
And Chavez is not a dictator - yet. He's pushing in that direction, but he was popularly elected, and is still operating under a constitutional framework. He's done quite a few good things for Venezuela, but he's started turning down the dark path of too much power.
PwnageTool has a very easy unlock option for the 1st gen iPhone, just check the box as you're configuring the jailbroken firmware. I think the version you want is 3.1.5, easily available on Pirate Bay (which is the official release location).
For later iPhones, it's simple enough to run UltraSn0w and unlock once you've jailbroken.
(I'm assuming from the tone of your post that you may well already know all of this, but GP appears to have no understanding of the ease of the process.)
Except that Apple IS legally obligated to honor the warranty on any jailbroken device, unless the jailbreak itself caused the failure, at least in the US. They may claim otherwise, but Magnuson-Moss overrides their claim.
There's nothing misleading about it. Windoze 7 is just windoze NT 6.1 - a service pack for Vista (NT6.0), which as we all know is a failed attempt to rewrite XP (NT 5.1), which is just a facelift of 2000 (NT5.0), which is a marginal improvement on NT. It's not a new product, it's an incremental change to a bad operating system released in 1993.
Office 2010 is yet another bloat addition to their same old office product that's demonstrably a worse product than when Excel and Word were introduced in 1985 and powerpoint in 1987 on the Macintosh. The current user interface on windoze is garbage, it would benefit greatly from bringing back menus. It's somewhat better on the Mac, but it really needs a serious bloat trimdown.
So no implication that they aren't introducing new products is needed - you can just go ahead and say it. They aren't introducing any relevant new products, and haven't for a very long time.
You should consider some anger management classes to try to overcome some of what you seem to think is "discipline".
You're clearly unbalanced, and I can't help but think that your band director helped to contribute to that. I suspect you also had abusive parents, and possibly other abusive teachers.
And no, kids don't ever need "a good spanking", there's no such thing as a good spanking. It's assault and battery. It's been shown in numerous studies that hitting children leads to antisocial and violent behavior, and that children who are spanked are more likely to be violent criminals.
No calculator nearby at a restaurant with the power out? That's why you think we should waste time on basic arithmetic? It's 2010, every waitress and waiter in the restaurant has a cell phone, and every one of those has a calculator. And depending on the restaurant, they may not be allowed to sell you a drink without the computer running anyway, because it'll screw up the inventory and cashflow tracking system. I find it hard to believe you've experienced anything like that in the last few years.
And the carpenter isn't going to get it right doing the same problem in his head any more than he would with a calculator, he has to understand the problem. Time wasted on basic arithmetic won't solve that issue either.
I don't understand your conclusion that it wouldn't have helped your education to be able to finish faster, especially since you had the desire to read everything you could find. If you used the saved time reading, it would have helped your education to have had a word processor.
As for dead tree v. pixels, I'm a big fan of pixels. A backlit screen is much easier on my eyes than paper. (Yes, I HATE Kindles, they're just as hard on my eyes as books.)
Actually, first thing REQUIRE calculators starting early in elementary school.
We don't make a carpenter learn to put in a nail using a rock before we hand him a nail gun, and we shouldn't be teaching children with the assumption that they have to do things without the appropriate tools either. We should be teaching how the tool works, but once very basic addition and subtraction have been covered to explain the process, a student should NEVER be without a calculator.
Ban teaching multiplication tables. That will free up quite a bit of time for more advanced math.
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Apple has always been really good at getting customers to move forward, by dropping legacy systems. You might not like it, but it generally turns out for the best. If Apple hadn't done the USB switch, we'd likely still be stuck with floppies, parallel printers and scanners, and miscellaneous serial devices.
But Apple's serial connectors were neither proprietary nor crap. They were RS-422, with a DIN standard connector. It was much easier to deal with serial connections on a Macintosh than on anything else at the time.
ADB was an Apple-developed standard, much better than PS/2 or AT keyboard connections, and much better than PS/2 mouse connections. One port, daisy chainable, and you could put a mouse, keyboard, graphics tablet, and trackball on the same port at the same time. They weren't supposed to be hot-pluggable, but unlike PS/2, hot plugging worked. And Apple wasn't the only manufacturer to use it.
GeoPort was just an extension to the RS-422 ports, and non-GeoPort devices worked just fine in those ports.
Why would you plug your mouse into the computer on an iMac? The keyboard had two USB ports, you plug your mouse in one, leaving you one free port on the computer and one on the keyboard.
Apple has made some dick moves, this wasn't one of them.
There was no appeal, the trial judge set aside the jury verdict by granting a motion for dismissal that was filed and apparently not considered before the jury ruled.
Since there wasn't an appeal, there is no precedent either way. The verdict can sort of be looked at, but legally it's pretty irrelevant. The US Attorney could have appealed, but didn't. I'd make a guess that was because the trial judge had ruled the law used against Lori Drew was unconstitutional, which isn't that common at the trial level and frequently means that law doesn't have much of a chance in an appeals court. They probably didn't want to risk setting a precedent that would cost them a bullying tool...
Actually, in most cities the storm drains aren't connected to the sewage system, they're separate pipes that usually drain unfiltered to a nearby body of water like a river.
He got noticed early on by corporate supporters?
Seriously, look at his record. He's done nothing at all that would hurt his corporate support base.
I voted for Obama. I'll end up voting for him again. But it's not because there aren't better choices out there, it's because while the Democrats spend most of their effort kissing up to their corporate masters, the Republicans are pure fascist/corporatists, who would reduce our people to the level of the Chinese people in a heartbeat, purely for profit.
And under our current electoral system, third parties don't have a chance.
In every way.
That thing is a nightmare.
But the iPhone can use a Bluetooth wireless keyboard now - as I just discovered the other day.
And once it's jailbroken, the iPhone isn't really a problem, it's a small unix box with a cell phone installed.
Get over it.
Seriously, I can't understand how you could possibly think someone else's phone call is any different than someone else having a conversation with someone sitting beside them.
If you're at a theatre, you've got a legitimate gripe, because you shouldn't be talking to the person beside you. If you're in a place where conversation is normal, it doesn't matter if the conversation is with someone in the room or someone across the country.
Again, get over it.
The government is supposed to be a safety net. Doesn't matter if it's state or federal, the job has to be done by the government.
There's nothing "left-wing" about modern China. It's not communist, it's not socialist. It's turned into a modern fascist-corporatist state.
Public health care is nearly as bad as in the US. The Gini coefficient is in the same range as the US.
If you want to see what happens when the left actually gets power, take a look at the Scandinavian countries - you get public health, a much more even distribution of wealth, and quite a bit of personal freedom. In other words, not China.
Where do you come up with this nonsense?
A married couple with 2 dependents and wages of $43,999 taking only the standard deduction would have been hit with a tax bill of $783 for 2009.
That's a lot more than zero.
From the numbers I just saw, if we did tax the top 1% at 100% of their income, it would cover the entire federal budget, nobody else would have to pay any tax at all.
Obviously it's a bad idea to tax them at 100%, but I don't think a 90% tax rate for them is unreasonable, and it's insane that we're not taxing them at at least the 70% rate that was standard for the wealthy in the '70s.
And no, "austerity" won't be demanded by our creditors. We've got an ace up our sleeve that Ireland, Greece, and Italy don't have. Those debts are in dollars, and we control the printing presses. If they stop being nice, the pieces of paper they've got will be worthless.
As far as "gunpoint" goes - are you completely out of your mind? Can you think of a conceivable scenario where the US is actually invaded anytime in the next 50 years? I'll help you out here - there isn't one. I'm not a fan of the giant military, and it's a great place to start cutting the budget, but that's unlikely to happen, and as you'll recall there's exactly one superpower these days. No other country could even get enough troops here alive to invade.
Of course it makes sense.
Somebody has to read those, and it's a way to force you to be concise.
There's a model that would work, probably quite well if it were ever attempted:
Essential services that are natural monopolies, things like water, electricity, natural gas, roads, rail, last-mile telecom - provided by the government, no corporate involvement at all.
Health care, because it should be an equal-access right for all, and everyone will need it at some point, also provided by the government.
Essentials like food and housing - provided privately, but with price controls and regulations to prevent monopolies from ever occurring.
Other large businesses - heavy government oversight, with no hesitation to break up a company that is approaching a market-dominating position.
Small businesses - largely unregulated, things like a maximum workweek, minimum wage, safety regulations for dangerous work, and minimum paid time off enforced, pollution controlled, but otherwise left alone unless they grow into large businesses.
Pretty badly when the corporatists started buying the elections.
They've even managed to convince most of the voters to go against their own interests, in favor of the wealthiest segments of society.
My solution has been tried, in my country. It results in very reliable power, at a more reasonable price than what people in nearby states pay, because they're paying for corporate profits.
No, the solution is MORE regulation, not less.
The rates need to be regulated, and the private companies need to be taken over by nonprofit public organizations.
Every time deregulation is tried, consumers get shafted.
Liberals do not justify dictators.
Liberals are strongly in favor of personal freedom.
And Chavez is not a dictator - yet. He's pushing in that direction, but he was popularly elected, and is still operating under a constitutional framework. He's done quite a few good things for Venezuela, but he's started turning down the dark path of too much power.
And you can.
PwnageTool has a very easy unlock option for the 1st gen iPhone, just check the box as you're configuring the jailbroken firmware. I think the version you want is 3.1.5, easily available on Pirate Bay (which is the official release location).
For later iPhones, it's simple enough to run UltraSn0w and unlock once you've jailbroken.
(I'm assuming from the tone of your post that you may well already know all of this, but GP appears to have no understanding of the ease of the process.)
Except that Apple IS legally obligated to honor the warranty on any jailbroken device, unless the jailbreak itself caused the failure, at least in the US. They may claim otherwise, but Magnuson-Moss overrides their claim.
There's nothing misleading about it. Windoze 7 is just windoze NT 6.1 - a service pack for Vista (NT6.0), which as we all know is a failed attempt to rewrite XP (NT 5.1), which is just a facelift of 2000 (NT5.0), which is a marginal improvement on NT. It's not a new product, it's an incremental change to a bad operating system released in 1993.
Office 2010 is yet another bloat addition to their same old office product that's demonstrably a worse product than when Excel and Word were introduced in 1985 and powerpoint in 1987 on the Macintosh. The current user interface on windoze is garbage, it would benefit greatly from bringing back menus. It's somewhat better on the Mac, but it really needs a serious bloat trimdown.
So no implication that they aren't introducing new products is needed - you can just go ahead and say it. They aren't introducing any relevant new products, and haven't for a very long time.
You should consider some anger management classes to try to overcome some of what you seem to think is "discipline".
You're clearly unbalanced, and I can't help but think that your band director helped to contribute to that. I suspect you also had abusive parents, and possibly other abusive teachers.
And no, kids don't ever need "a good spanking", there's no such thing as a good spanking. It's assault and battery. It's been shown in numerous studies that hitting children leads to antisocial and violent behavior, and that children who are spanked are more likely to be violent criminals.
No calculator nearby at a restaurant with the power out? That's why you think we should waste time on basic arithmetic? It's 2010, every waitress and waiter in the restaurant has a cell phone, and every one of those has a calculator. And depending on the restaurant, they may not be allowed to sell you a drink without the computer running anyway, because it'll screw up the inventory and cashflow tracking system. I find it hard to believe you've experienced anything like that in the last few years.
And the carpenter isn't going to get it right doing the same problem in his head any more than he would with a calculator, he has to understand the problem. Time wasted on basic arithmetic won't solve that issue either.
I don't understand your conclusion that it wouldn't have helped your education to be able to finish faster, especially since you had the desire to read everything you could find. If you used the saved time reading, it would have helped your education to have had a word processor.
As for dead tree v. pixels, I'm a big fan of pixels. A backlit screen is much easier on my eyes than paper. (Yes, I HATE Kindles, they're just as hard on my eyes as books.)
You call it discipline, I call it assault and battery.
Teachers or parents who hit children should do prison time.
Actually, first thing REQUIRE calculators starting early in elementary school.
We don't make a carpenter learn to put in a nail using a rock before we hand him a nail gun, and we shouldn't be teaching children with the assumption that they have to do things without the appropriate tools either. We should be teaching how the tool works, but once very basic addition and subtraction have been covered to explain the process, a student should NEVER be without a calculator.
Ban teaching multiplication tables. That will free up quite a bit of time for more advanced math.