Well, for those ISPs that say it, they typically advertise "unlimited internet" - and then follow that up with limits in the fine print - which they know nobody reads.
The "unlimited" claim is a lie, and some CEOs need to spend some jail time over it.
Entire design life cycle - in terms of the iMac, Jobs, and Ive - means the design of the plastics.
The computer inside was an obvious choice, and I saw it at the time for what it really was - a corporate network terminal, with new colorful plastic.
Ive did an interesting and chancy thing with the new plastics for it, but it was in no way a revolutionary piece of tech. This thing was supposed to be the machine you use at work, complete with Apple Platinum plastics. (yes, the Apples we call "beige" now were NOT beige, they age to beige. They shipped as Apple Platinum, a light silvery gray color.
You know, I've never understood why people get upset about cell phones in restaurants.
In a theater, it should be obvious why cell phone use in inappropriate - it's also inappropriate to have a conversation with someone seated with you.
But having a conversation in a restaurant is appropriate and in fact something that happens all the time. It therefore logically follows that having a conversation using a cell phone would be appropriate as well, unless it would require you to ignore someone who was physically there with you.
If you've been aquitted, that's it. It's over, there is no retrial for the same crime. If you want to scream "Hah! Double jeopardy pWNS j00!", then you can. You're a free man, there will never be a retrial for that crime.
What you sometimes see happening in such cases is the DA gets pissed, and goes looking for other charges that weren't filed in the original case, and trying you on those.
Just answering the phone probably costs them $20-$30
Now that Apple has moved support to India, I think you mean it costs them 800-1300 Rupees.
-Kurt
Maybe this is WHY they opend a support center in India. "How can I help you? Oh, you installed Windows on your Mac. I don't know anything about supporting that, let me transfer you to our experts."... (heavy accent) "Hello? How may I be helping you today? First, let us check that you have plugged in the power cable. All right. Let us now check that you have turned your computer on. This is a common mistake...."
Well, I'm pretty happy with my 11 year old Chevy. 250k miles and no major engine work (it did pop a transmission, but I'm not a gentle driver, and the first one made it about 180k miles - way better than my old Toyota transmission - had to have that one rebuilt about every 80k miles, and it took 3 motors to get it to 230k miles.
And I'm really cross-platform. I use Mac OS and Linux. I know enough about windoze to fix it if I have to - but I'd rather not touch that steaming piece of shit. I'm certainly not going to boot it on my Macs. It only gets to run in a virtual machine - ever.
The thing is, if the organization is big enough to have written custom activex, they're big enough to rewrite them in something standards-based, and at this point they've had plenty of warning that this would happen, and plenty of time to re-write away from the M$ crap.
I've got even less sympathy for them getting rooted from it than from "mom" getting rooted.
You know, my receiver remote has 62 buttons, and most of those have multiple functions.
I suppose you could fit those functions into multiple layers of menus, but why would you want to? It's just too convenient to have the buttons.
That's actually the problem I have with the Apple remote - I'd program its functions into another remote, and never touch it again. (I don't have one yet, but it looks like my next Mac will most likely have one.)
Sounds like he's creating a self-fulfilling prophecy - grading down laptop users. It's too bad that his students are probably never going to be able to prove it.
Seriously - banning laptops from class is just a luddite professor on a power trip anyway. It's good to see he was at least put in his place on that one.
(Yeah, I'm biased. I had a real struggle with professors when I was using a laptop in class in the early '90s - even with a documented handwriting disability.)
While I agree that the Social Security tax is insanely regressive, the way to fix it is to merge it into standard income taxes. Let's make it a REAL national retirement plan for the poor and middle class, and use the money from the insanely wealthy to do it.
You see, the wealthy benefit much more from the protection of government than the poor and middle classes. They should have to pay more. And the top 5% of earners should have to pay MORE than 54.36% of taxes.
And I'm sorry, the "Fair Tax" concept WOULD be a gift to the weathy. Only a tax on wealth can be fair.
Neither of those are a reform, they're a gift to the wealthy disguised as fairness.
What we really need is a truly progressive income tax, on a sliding scale based on income, with as few holes as possible and a concerted effort to plug any that pop up.
I'd say a sliding scale from 0% to 95% would be about right. A person making less than $15k/yr would pay 0%, bill gates would pay 95%, and everybody else would pay somewhere in between.
I think that's a miscalculation. People know what "no support" means. It wouldn't hurt Apple at all, and would probably help, with the free publicity from the "gotta build my own box" set.
And anyway, without some hacking, Mac OS X would require an EFI logic board to boot out of the box - it wouldn't work on crappy old hardware, only new legacy-free stuff.
And I think even Joe Sixpack knows that if you have to get a third party hack to make your OS boot, the company is not going to support you.
What you own is a ~5" circle-shaped piece of plastic WITH A PIECE OF SOFTWARE ON IT and a cardboard box.
The "license" is invalid unless you agreed to it BEFORE you paid for the software. After you've paid for the software, any post-sale "license" is entirely at your discretion to accept.
That's why the GPL can be valid (it only grants additional rights) and a "eula" can be invalid (it attempts to remove rights already granted by purchase).
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Well, for those ISPs that say it, they typically advertise "unlimited internet" - and then follow that up with limits in the fine print - which they know nobody reads.
The "unlimited" claim is a lie, and some CEOs need to spend some jail time over it.
Would you really want the risk associated with letting windoze see your OS X partitions?
Sounds like a good way to lose data...
I wonder, though... if you really wanted this, would MacDrive work?
Investigative journalism is not now, has not ever been, and will never be a "preposterous parasitic business model".
It's flat out good citizenship, and it IS a first amendment issue.
The trade secret laws are unconstitutional.
Entire design life cycle - in terms of the iMac, Jobs, and Ive - means the design of the plastics.
The computer inside was an obvious choice, and I saw it at the time for what it really was - a corporate network terminal, with new colorful plastic.
Ive did an interesting and chancy thing with the new plastics for it, but it was in no way a revolutionary piece of tech. This thing was supposed to be the machine you use at work, complete with Apple Platinum plastics. (yes, the Apples we call "beige" now were NOT beige, they age to beige. They shipped as Apple Platinum, a light silvery gray color.
Says you.
I could only stand about 30 seconds of it.
I think "grating" would be a good word.
You know, I've never understood why people get upset about cell phones in restaurants.
In a theater, it should be obvious why cell phone use in inappropriate - it's also inappropriate to have a conversation with someone seated with you.
But having a conversation in a restaurant is appropriate and in fact something that happens all the time. It therefore logically follows that having a conversation using a cell phone would be appropriate as well, unless it would require you to ignore someone who was physically there with you.
You are, in fact, incorrect.
If you've been aquitted, that's it. It's over, there is no retrial for the same crime. If you want to scream "Hah! Double jeopardy pWNS j00!", then you can. You're a free man, there will never be a retrial for that crime.
What you sometimes see happening in such cases is the DA gets pissed, and goes looking for other charges that weren't filed in the original case, and trying you on those.
Gerald Ford faling down is still funny, and he didn't work for M$.
So, no, we're not going to let it go. We will probably be making Ballmer chair jokes when he's dead.
Just because things are worse somewhere else, doesn't mean they aren't bad here.
You know, you probably shouldn't make generalizations on here about there being "no" anything.
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After all, some bored jerk will come along with a link or two to prove you wrong.
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Just answering the phone probably costs them $20-$30
... (heavy accent) "Hello? How may I be helping you today? First, let us check that you have plugged in the power cable. All right. Let us now check that you have turned your computer on. This is a common mistake...."
Now that Apple has moved support to India, I think you mean it costs them 800-1300 Rupees.
-Kurt
Maybe this is WHY they opend a support center in India. "How can I help you? Oh, you installed Windows on your Mac. I don't know anything about supporting that, let me transfer you to our experts."
Frustrated, the customer hangs up....
OK, I'll go there then.
Kerry got robbed, and America got robbed. The vote fraud in 2004 is the only reason we've got Shrubbie in the White House now.
And Al Gore WON in 2000. We shouldn't have had this moron in the first place.
Well, I'm pretty happy with my 11 year old Chevy. 250k miles and no major engine work (it did pop a transmission, but I'm not a gentle driver, and the first one made it about 180k miles - way better than my old Toyota transmission - had to have that one rebuilt about every 80k miles, and it took 3 motors to get it to 230k miles.
And I'm really cross-platform. I use Mac OS and Linux. I know enough about windoze to fix it if I have to - but I'd rather not touch that steaming piece of shit. I'm certainly not going to boot it on my Macs. It only gets to run in a virtual machine - ever.
The thing is, if the organization is big enough to have written custom activex, they're big enough to rewrite them in something standards-based, and at this point they've had plenty of warning that this would happen, and plenty of time to re-write away from the M$ crap.
I've got even less sympathy for them getting rooted from it than from "mom" getting rooted.
You know, my receiver remote has 62 buttons, and most of those have multiple functions.
I suppose you could fit those functions into multiple layers of menus, but why would you want to? It's just too convenient to have the buttons.
That's actually the problem I have with the Apple remote - I'd program its functions into another remote, and never touch it again. (I don't have one yet, but it looks like my next Mac will most likely have one.)
Sounds like he's creating a self-fulfilling prophecy - grading down laptop users. It's too bad that his students are probably never going to be able to prove it.
Seriously - banning laptops from class is just a luddite professor on a power trip anyway. It's good to see he was at least put in his place on that one.
(Yeah, I'm biased. I had a real struggle with professors when I was using a laptop in class in the early '90s - even with a documented handwriting disability.)
Mac OS X asks your permission before it joins an unsecure network.
While I agree that the Social Security tax is insanely regressive, the way to fix it is to merge it into standard income taxes. Let's make it a REAL national retirement plan for the poor and middle class, and use the money from the insanely wealthy to do it.
It would be more fair.
You see, the wealthy benefit much more from the protection of government than the poor and middle classes. They should have to pay more. And the top 5% of earners should have to pay MORE than 54.36% of taxes.
And I'm sorry, the "Fair Tax" concept WOULD be a gift to the weathy. Only a tax on wealth can be fair.
Neither of those are a reform, they're a gift to the wealthy disguised as fairness.
What we really need is a truly progressive income tax, on a sliding scale based on income, with as few holes as possible and a concerted effort to plug any that pop up.
I'd say a sliding scale from 0% to 95% would be about right. A person making less than $15k/yr would pay 0%, bill gates would pay 95%, and everybody else would pay somewhere in between.
That would be a truly fair system.
I think that's a miscalculation. People know what "no support" means. It wouldn't hurt Apple at all, and would probably help, with the free publicity from the "gotta build my own box" set.
And anyway, without some hacking, Mac OS X would require an EFI logic board to boot out of the box - it wouldn't work on crappy old hardware, only new legacy-free stuff.
And I think even Joe Sixpack knows that if you have to get a third party hack to make your OS boot, the company is not going to support you.
Now THAT was funny.
It's been a while since I've seen anybody pretend to fall for that ancient troll.
I would say that if you write software, you should be free not to release the source, as long as you don't distribute the executable.
But I would like to see it mandatory that if an executable is distributed, the source must also be released - and at no extra charge.
Think of it as the cost of doing business.
No, incorrect, wrong.
What you own is a ~5" circle-shaped piece of plastic WITH A PIECE OF SOFTWARE ON IT and a cardboard box.
The "license" is invalid unless you agreed to it BEFORE you paid for the software. After you've paid for the software, any post-sale "license" is entirely at your discretion to accept.
That's why the GPL can be valid (it only grants additional rights) and a "eula" can be invalid (it attempts to remove rights already granted by purchase).
Software companies can repeat this until the end of time, but that doesn't make it true.
If I go to a store and buy a box with software in it, I've bought the software. I haven't bought the right to use it, I've bought it.
The right to use it is inherently included with my purchase of the software.