But couldn't they fix the bugs if they just changed the user-agent string to not include "MSIE?"
It's pure speculation on my part, but maybe they are concerned that changing the user-agent string will break existing "subset of browsers only" web-sites.
I mean fuck, I was beat up daily in high school, and all it ever did was make me certain that I would never reciprocate it to others.
These suicidal fucks are no different than the retards that shoot up schools - they're cowards and should be labelled as such.
I think it affected you more than you admit. It sucks that you had to deal with that just as it sucks that people have to deal with fucked up brain chemistry. I don't know the solution, but I'm pretty sure compelling people to kill themselves is not helpful.
Those that chose to vote for him seem willing to ignore the question...
Um, you realize that people are innocent until proven guilty, right? And that the opposition in an election throws mud hoping some will stick. I don't know how to break this to you, but Karl Rove's primary campaign tactic is to generate lies and innuendo. Basically it's the political equivalent of shook and awe. But hey, one of Karl's lies (he's a muslim, no he's a terrorist, no wait, he eats babies!) may be true even though there is no evidence. Therefore, those that vote for the guy you don't like are morally inferior.
Or maybe those that voted for him have a working BS detector, at least in this one instance.
and I am not one of those liberal 'the end justifies the means' types...
I too am I stickler for the rule of law and I've got a major problem with your post and a simple question for you:
Problem: I'm getting REALLY sick of people pretending that those that hold a different philosophy are all slimy connivers while people that profess to hold a similar philosophy are somehow virtuous.
Question: Are you as vocal against conservative 'the end justifies the means' types?
For this reason, I find it cumbersome to use a Mac without at least some sort of programs menu.
I vacillate regarding this. For the most part, I put everything I use often (Aquamac Emacs, Terminal, Browsers, WMWare, Mail, and iTunes) on my dock. I don't really use that many applications on a daily bases. I added my apps folder to the dock, but I don't use it often. I seem to spend more time running UN*X stuff (macports) from the command line.
Conceptually I don't really like the big/Application bucket, but it seems to work OK for me to keep the Finder in list mode and then just about everything is in Command-Shift-A or Command-Shift-U. I do wish that hitting return on a selected app would launch it though.
But... Have they removed that "Big Brotherly" unique ID "feature", that each of the Chrome Beta installations came with, that loudly identified you on the web?
I haven't fired up wireshark to confirm (I'm supposedly working), but I think that is covered under Google Chrome Options -> Under the Hood.
Yeah, not releasing on all three major platforms seems pretty brain-.dmg'ed.
I personally run Mac OS X, work on Linux and only use Windows to test against IE [1], so I understand the frustration. But I find it hard to believe that one can't understand hitting 90% of the market as quickly as possible and them filling in as much of the remaining 10%. It's not brain-damaged, it's pragmatic.
[1] All of this on my Mac using VMware Fusion in unity-mode which is pretty slick. Oh and I also run Chrome and can't wait for the Mac OS X version.
Python is absolutely unusable on real world projects (any project where you aren't the sole developer) due to that indentation crap.
It's fine if you don't like Python and don't want to use it, but to say that it's completely unusable on real world projects is a bit absurd.
And while you may find it hard to read, I think it's obvious because if it looks like code is a block, it is. The main trick to read and follow PEP-8, use a decent editor and write unittests.
Heck I would be happy for a mac port of Microsoft Project.
Have you tried Omni Plan? I've been impressed with their products in general and supposedly it imports and exports to MS Project. Obviously it's not MS project and I have no idea how good the import/export work.
If Apple was serious about security, they would have you make a user account and an admin account. This run as admin by design crap is silly.
I think you are confused about what an "Admin" account is on Mac OS X. It's not really an admin account, but a user that through sudo can temporarily have super-user access. There is no need to create separate account because without an explicit user action, the account has no special privileges. As a matter of fact, there is no root user unless you go out of your way and adding a root user is actually less secure. It's a UN*X thing, not a Mac thing and debian/Ubuntu work exactly the same way.
Um, you realize that Firefox uses the exact same anti-phishing technology, right? If you prefer Firefox, that's great but as far as this particular issue goes the difference is disclosure, not implementation. I like Firefox, but Safari is faster and less of a CPU and memory hog on OS X in my experience. And the integration is better - so I'll stick with Safari (although I skipped 3.2 because of all the crash complaints and I use FF for serious HTML/DOM/JavaScript hacking.)
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(Capt. Picard was far too celibate)
To be fair, Picard just delegated "sleeping with anything referred to as female" to Number One. The job still got done.
You beat me to it. I wonder if it's his white-haired uncle's car. Oh well, I always thought that Red Barchetta deserved a cool sci-fi video. Now after ST comes out I'm sure some one will piece one together...
Did you miss the obvious Anakin Skywalker moment at the very start of the new trailer? I suspect that's what the OP was actually referring to with that quip..:)
The brooding boy-Kirk concerns me a bit, but he didn't seem whinny. God, I just wanted to smack Anakin...
There is a name for a majority (a small majority at that) taking away freedoms of a minority: Tyranny of the majority
I love the "The American People" crap that excludes about 40-60% of the voting population (I'm talking the typical social conservative/social liberal split on issues here.)
BTW - Why do so many people want to do "God's" job, is it/he/she/they freakin' incompetent?
Its all in the contract you sign when you apply to work for these people. So all in all its the employee's fault for not reading.
I think he's referring to a third party that labors to actually create something and then after doing the hard work discovers that someone else, with a lot of lawyers, owns the idea. At least that's how I read the comment.
The media was too busy cheerleading for Obama to actually vet him.
Maybe my bias is in the way, but it seems to me "the media" tried to make a big deal of Rev. Wright, Ayers and ACORN. And they mentioned his teenage drug experimentation and I think for once a majority of the population decided that all of this was nothing but irrelevant noise and unimportant (which is my opinion.)
I am paraphrasing from memory 'cause I'm at work, have a non-perfect memory, and am lazy.
I believe you are referring to the CRA. The CRA was created in the 1970s (Carter, so it must be bad, right?). In the 90's Clinton pushed for allowing for what we would call sub-prime loans. What no one (who likes to blame Democrats/Government/the poor) mentions is that loans given as part of the CRA are not a major problem. Partly because there is at least some oversight of CRA loans and a program requiring some sort of debt counseling for recipients of said loans. Clinton did allow a republican congress (complete with a veto proof majority) to pass bills deregulating the financial markets. Bush has continued the deregulation in fact and furthermore has appointed people who choose not to enforce many regulations - which is essentially defacto deregulation.
Clinton is not innocent, nor are the democrats. The CRA did not cause this mess though. The banking industry campaigned for the ability to make sub-prime loans (the CEO of Countrywide was advising Clinton). The industry willingly made high risk loans using predatory practices because the mortgage brokers got higher commissions for those loans. Then the loans were packaged as low risk investments and sold to the highest bidder. It was unregulated greed gaming the system for everything it was worth. The appointees of Bush (IIRC) changed the acceptable debt ratio for certain financial institutions to 30 - 1. All sorts of crazy financial devices were created that were not regulated (like credit default swaps which were treated like insurance, but completely, and intentionally, unregulated.)
I'm writing this because I personally believe in the CRA, and believe it has done good for the intended communities. I am not a fan of total deregulation and the belief that the "invisible hand" will magically protect us. Democrats are culpable and should be held accountable for their part. But deregulation seems to be a religion among many republican politicians and I think it's reasonable to point out that a central belief and platform of theirs is flawed. Just ask Alan Greenspan.
We don't need "less regulation" or "more regulation", we do need smart regulation.
Frankly, we think you're a bunch of ignorant, violent dicks who managed to actually try to argue that torture is a good thing.
I'm American and I've been appalled at our willingness to circumvent the Geneva convention and habeas corpus. We even ate up the show 24 that was that it constantly pandered to the "ticking time bomb scenario" where you have the good fortune of capturing someone you know has vital information and all you have to do is blow off their kneecap to save millions of lives. I don't blame 24 for our complacency, but I do think it is a reflection of simplistic thinking based on fear and anger.
The most absurd thing about our use of "harsh interrogation techniques" is that they are based on techniques used historically to get people to say whatever you want (as opposed to finding the truth.) Basically after enough sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, "simulated drowning" and a constant state of fear and humiliation anyone will say whatever they think will make it stop.
Barack Obama has not made a huge deal out of it, AFAIK, but I hope will put an end to extraordinary rendition, reinstate habeas corpus and work toward a sensible policy for the treatment of terrorism suspects and combatants so that we can get good intel and look ourselves in the mirror.
What about your statement couldn't be said about an ATM?
Paper trail.
At an ATM you get a receipt. And there is an electronic trail through many systems. And if the bank regularly gets it wrong and it is not corrected then they go out of business and/or someone goes to jail. There are also means to correct errors. And there is (queue evil word) regulation to protect the consumer. A lot more than two words because the two are not the same.
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But couldn't they fix the bugs if they just changed the user-agent string to not include "MSIE?"
It's pure speculation on my part, but maybe they are concerned that changing the user-agent string will break existing "subset of browsers only" web-sites.
I mean fuck, I was beat up daily in high school, and all it ever did was make me certain that I would never reciprocate it to others. These suicidal fucks are no different than the retards that shoot up schools - they're cowards and should be labelled as such.
I think it affected you more than you admit. It sucks that you had to deal with that just as it sucks that people have to deal with fucked up brain chemistry. I don't know the solution, but I'm pretty sure compelling people to kill themselves is not helpful.
Those that chose to vote for him seem willing to ignore the question...
Um, you realize that people are innocent until proven guilty, right? And that the opposition in an election throws mud hoping some will stick. I don't know how to break this to you, but Karl Rove's primary campaign tactic is to generate lies and innuendo. Basically it's the political equivalent of shook and awe. But hey, one of Karl's lies (he's a muslim, no he's a terrorist, no wait, he eats babies!) may be true even though there is no evidence. Therefore, those that vote for the guy you don't like are morally inferior.
Or maybe those that voted for him have a working BS detector, at least in this one instance.
And that, my friend, is why I will not consider him legally elected until the matter of his citizenship is investigated and resolved.
Say hello to your legally elected President Elect.
and I am not one of those liberal 'the end justifies the means' types...
I too am I stickler for the rule of law and I've got a major problem with your post and a simple question for you:
Problem: I'm getting REALLY sick of people pretending that those that hold a different philosophy are all slimy connivers while people that profess to hold a similar philosophy are somehow virtuous.
Question: Are you as vocal against conservative 'the end justifies the means' types?
For this reason, I find it cumbersome to use a Mac without at least some sort of programs menu.
I vacillate regarding this. For the most part, I put everything I use often (Aquamac Emacs, Terminal, Browsers, WMWare, Mail, and iTunes) on my dock. I don't really use that many applications on a daily bases. I added my apps folder to the dock, but I don't use it often. I seem to spend more time running UN*X stuff (macports) from the command line.
Conceptually I don't really like the big /Application bucket, but it seems to work OK for me to keep the Finder in list mode and then just about everything is in Command-Shift-A or Command-Shift-U. I do wish that hitting return on a selected app would launch it though.
But... Have they removed that "Big Brotherly" unique ID "feature", that each of the Chrome Beta installations came with, that loudly identified you on the web?
I haven't fired up wireshark to confirm (I'm supposedly working), but I think that is covered under Google Chrome Options -> Under the Hood.
Um, go ahead and mod me "Whoosh."
Must be too much caffeine...
Yeah, not releasing on all three major platforms seems pretty brain-.dmg'ed.
I personally run Mac OS X, work on Linux and only use Windows to test against IE [1], so I understand the frustration. But I find it hard to believe that one can't understand hitting 90% of the market as quickly as possible and them filling in as much of the remaining 10%. It's not brain-damaged, it's pragmatic.
[1] All of this on my Mac using VMware Fusion in unity-mode which is pretty slick. Oh and I also run Chrome and can't wait for the Mac OS X version.
> Some of us like women like that ;)
Robotic? (Sorry, lack of impulse control...)
notepad.exe
I hope at least notepad++, but if he want to reach across the aisle than we're back to something cross platform...
Python is absolutely unusable on real world projects (any project where you aren't the sole developer) due to that indentation crap.
It's fine if you don't like Python and don't want to use it, but to say that it's completely unusable on real world projects is a bit absurd. And while you may find it hard to read, I think it's obvious because if it looks like code is a block, it is. The main trick to read and follow PEP-8, use a decent editor and write unittests.
Heck I would be happy for a mac port of Microsoft Project.
Have you tried Omni Plan? I've been impressed with their products in general and supposedly it imports and exports to MS Project. Obviously it's not MS project and I have no idea how good the import/export work.
If Apple was serious about security, they would have you make a user account and an admin account. This run as admin by design crap is silly.
I think you are confused about what an "Admin" account is on Mac OS X. It's not really an admin account, but a user that through sudo can temporarily have super-user access. There is no need to create separate account because without an explicit user action, the account has no special privileges. As a matter of fact, there is no root user unless you go out of your way and adding a root user is actually less secure. It's a UN*X thing, not a Mac thing and debian/Ubuntu work exactly the same way.
Just use Firefox and be done with it...
Um, you realize that Firefox uses the exact same anti-phishing technology, right? If you prefer Firefox, that's great but as far as this particular issue goes the difference is disclosure, not implementation. I like Firefox, but Safari is faster and less of a CPU and memory hog on OS X in my experience. And the integration is better - so I'll stick with Safari (although I skipped 3.2 because of all the crash complaints and I use FF for serious HTML/DOM/JavaScript hacking.)
(Capt. Picard was far too celibate)
To be fair, Picard just delegated "sleeping with anything referred to as female" to Number One. The job still got done.
You beat me to it. I wonder if it's his white-haired uncle's car. Oh well, I always thought that Red Barchetta deserved a cool sci-fi video. Now after ST comes out I'm sure some one will piece one together...
Did you miss the obvious Anakin Skywalker moment at the very start of the new trailer? I suspect that's what the OP was actually referring to with that quip.. :)
The brooding boy-Kirk concerns me a bit, but he didn't seem whinny. God, I just wanted to smack Anakin...
There is a name for a majority (a small majority at that) taking away freedoms of a minority: Tyranny of the majority
I love the "The American People" crap that excludes about 40-60% of the voting population (I'm talking the typical social conservative/social liberal split on issues here.)
BTW - Why do so many people want to do "God's" job, is it/he/she/they freakin' incompetent?
Its all in the contract you sign when you apply to work for these people. So all in all its the employee's fault for not reading.
I think he's referring to a third party that labors to actually create something and then after doing the hard work discovers that someone else, with a lot of lawyers, owns the idea. At least that's how I read the comment.
The media was too busy cheerleading for Obama to actually vet him.
Maybe my bias is in the way, but it seems to me "the media" tried to make a big deal of Rev. Wright, Ayers and ACORN. And they mentioned his teenage drug experimentation and I think for once a majority of the population decided that all of this was nothing but irrelevant noise and unimportant (which is my opinion.)
Someone buy the above poster a beer.
Well since flowers didn't work, I guess beer is worth a shot.
I am paraphrasing from memory 'cause I'm at work, have a non-perfect memory, and am lazy.
I believe you are referring to the CRA. The CRA was created in the 1970s (Carter, so it must be bad, right?). In the 90's Clinton pushed for allowing for what we would call sub-prime loans. What no one (who likes to blame Democrats/Government/the poor) mentions is that loans given as part of the CRA are not a major problem. Partly because there is at least some oversight of CRA loans and a program requiring some sort of debt counseling for recipients of said loans. Clinton did allow a republican congress (complete with a veto proof majority) to pass bills deregulating the financial markets. Bush has continued the deregulation in fact and furthermore has appointed people who choose not to enforce many regulations - which is essentially defacto deregulation.
Clinton is not innocent, nor are the democrats. The CRA did not cause this mess though. The banking industry campaigned for the ability to make sub-prime loans (the CEO of Countrywide was advising Clinton). The industry willingly made high risk loans using predatory practices because the mortgage brokers got higher commissions for those loans. Then the loans were packaged as low risk investments and sold to the highest bidder. It was unregulated greed gaming the system for everything it was worth. The appointees of Bush (IIRC) changed the acceptable debt ratio for certain financial institutions to 30 - 1. All sorts of crazy financial devices were created that were not regulated (like credit default swaps which were treated like insurance, but completely, and intentionally, unregulated.)
I'm writing this because I personally believe in the CRA, and believe it has done good for the intended communities. I am not a fan of total deregulation and the belief that the "invisible hand" will magically protect us. Democrats are culpable and should be held accountable for their part. But deregulation seems to be a religion among many republican politicians and I think it's reasonable to point out that a central belief and platform of theirs is flawed. Just ask Alan Greenspan.
We don't need "less regulation" or "more regulation", we do need smart regulation.
Frankly, we think you're a bunch of ignorant, violent dicks who managed to actually try to argue that torture is a good thing.
I'm American and I've been appalled at our willingness to circumvent the Geneva convention and habeas corpus. We even ate up the show 24 that was that it constantly pandered to the "ticking time bomb scenario" where you have the good fortune of capturing someone you know has vital information and all you have to do is blow off their kneecap to save millions of lives. I don't blame 24 for our complacency, but I do think it is a reflection of simplistic thinking based on fear and anger.
The most absurd thing about our use of "harsh interrogation techniques" is that they are based on techniques used historically to get people to say whatever you want (as opposed to finding the truth.) Basically after enough sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, "simulated drowning" and a constant state of fear and humiliation anyone will say whatever they think will make it stop.
Barack Obama has not made a huge deal out of it, AFAIK, but I hope will put an end to extraordinary rendition, reinstate habeas corpus and work toward a sensible policy for the treatment of terrorism suspects and combatants so that we can get good intel and look ourselves in the mirror.
What about your statement couldn't be said about an ATM?
Paper trail.
At an ATM you get a receipt. And there is an electronic trail through many systems. And if the bank regularly gets it wrong and it is not corrected then they go out of business and/or someone goes to jail. There are also means to correct errors. And there is (queue evil word) regulation to protect the consumer. A lot more than two words because the two are not the same.
Linux unfortunately seems to have many issues with the hardware on Macs actually.
It should well under vmware or parallels, assuming running as a guest linux OS works for you.