A third consequence will hopefully be less dependence on a mouse. Touchpads and clits work differently, and you can't, for instance, go instantaneously from one corner of the screen to the other. GUI apps will change to reduce mouse movements, both by placing clicky functions closer together (slashdot designers, do you read this?), and providing more keyboard shortcuts, like in the old days.
I would guess that you either have a lousy trackpad, or not enough practice using one. I have a full-sized mouse plugged into my laptop, but I still find myself using the trackpad instead. I can throw the pointer diagonally across the screen in one stroke, and, click, drag, hit targets, and scroll just as effectively with the pad as I can with the mouse. Of course, I've been using notebooks from this same manufacturer as my primary systems for nine years now, so I've got the practice.
It is so ridiculous. There is no way taxpayer money should be used to purchase something as ridiculously overpriced as a bulk load of MacBooks (a few for school use, fine). This school board needs some serious management changes if they're greenlighting this sort of purchase when there are much cheaper options. Yeah. They should buy commodity PC laptops, and hire a dozen full-time IT stooges to go around to the schools and clean the scumware off of them each week.
That way, instead of wasting taxpayer money on equipment, they'll be providing jobs as IT stooges.
I also find it odd that so many americans find the very idea (of workers gathering together to form a stronger position for bargaining with employers) somehow offensive. It seems in the US that the party with more power (the employer) should be allowed to tread all over the weaker individuals in society (employees) because every last one of you is going to be that guy next
I don't know how things work in the UK, but if workers are being mistreated in the US, they doesn't lead an organizing drive and unionize. They either leave and find a better job, or (if the offense was egregious enough) sue the ever loving crap out of thier employer.
If it does come down to electing representatives to collectively improve working conditions, then it's done at the political level, not in some union hall. Yes, unions in the US are so ineffectual and corrupt that even government is more responsive.
People in the US have watched as union industries like railroads, steel, airlines, and now the auto industry have sunk under their own weight. Their workers picket and protest, demanding more and more right up until the point that the company goes bankrupt and they're laid off. And you wonder why we don't embrace unions?
If the small Government crowd had their way the post office would still be the Pony Express. Let's see you get a letter acorss the country in a week for less than 50 cents. UPS and FedX can't - they get $5 for the smallest item. So much for off loading services to business!
Who do you think operates the trucks and planes that move USPS shipments from station (post office) to station under contract?
The USPS just prints stamps, sorts, and pays letter carriers. The rest is contracted out, and the Big Two handle huge portions of it.
How are they going to find that correlation if they fail to record it?
Okay, let my try to explain it agian.
- On some date, your kid got a vaccine. Records were made of that occurrence and that date.
- On date soon after, your kid was brought in with a case of hives. Records were made of this occurrence on this date, too.
See? That's it. That's all it takes. If there is a correlation to be made, then there will be thousands of other kids with this same sequence of events in their medical records.
Anyone doing research would just have to 1. Identify the frequency of hives that occur among kids within a week/two week/month period of an MMR shot in a given population.
2. Compare that to a baseline of hives among kids in a similar period when they didn't just get their MMR shot.
All you need to establish correlation here are the dates and events. If there's any correlation to be made, then percentage 1 will be a bigger number than percentage 2.
What you're proposing (looking for cases where a parent or someone else noted an MMR followed by hives) suffers from a Confirmation Bias. You're looking for what you want to find. It would be meaningless, because there's nothing to compare it to. (What's more, it would ignore cases where nobody noticed the proximity of the two events.)
I did find it strange that the NHS is not interested in recording such incidents so that they can do proper statistical analysis and find any real links that exist.
Because such self-reported anecdotes are not relevant in a proper statistical analysis.
If there were a correlation to be found, then the epidemiologists would be able to find it just based on the fact that a significant number of children came in with cases of hives shortly after coming in for their MMRs. Your records would support that, based simply on the objective facts that you had the MMR on date x, and came down with hives on date x+n. That's all the evidence your son's case can provide.
Your armchair analysis on a sample size of one is not evidence, and has no place in a medical record.
Yes, there are fewer than a dozen OSX.* malware variatns for which definitions exist, and most of them are essentially never seen in the wild...but that's infintely more than none.
It depends somewhat on your geographic location, but these days the breakdown is something like
IE - 70-80 % Firefox 15-20 % Safari - 3-7 %
Opera - 1% or less With some others thrown in.
Opera is a fine and often innovative browser, but its share of the market is negligible. Luckily, it's standards support is good, so it works with the same pages that Firefox and Safari work on.
Being the premier browser on a gaming platform doesn't do much for market penetration.
Could someone please explain this to me, why does Americans see the need to constantly surround themselves with US flags?
Well, most of us don't. I'm not sure what would give you the impression that we do. I can't seem to find one anywhere in the building, or within sight of my window. I could probably find one in front of the Federal Government complex down the road, but then, you'd expect that.
As for the handful of Americans who do display the Stars and Stripes, I imagine they're actually proud of their country. It may shock you that A) anyone could be that proud of any country, or B) Americans could be that proud of the United States, but it is definitely true of some people.
Basically, it's a piece of software which downloads Apple's official update, applies a patch to break Apple's fix and then upgrades a user's Leopard installation.
Devs share alot in common with/. ers. We hate being closed in HATE IT. We like options. With a mac base you fuck yourself for cross-platform options. Java. Qt. Ruby. PHP, Python. Perl. PHP.
Mono? Even that.
You fuck yourself for installed base. Well, yes, anybody who doesn't develop for Win32 is fucked there. That's why virtualization and dual-booting exist.
You fuck yourself on freedom MANYMANY times over. Freedom? What, to be massively ignorant?
You fuck yourself on dev tools, libraries and compilers of all sorts. The standard C compiler is GCC. You may have heard of it. Intel's C compiler is also available. For Java, there's javac. What else do you need? GNU Pascal? Check. Absoft's Fortran? Go nuts.
Libraries? Name your language, they're all there...well, except for the Win32-specific ones, but we've covered that.
Tools? Eclipse, JDeveloper, JBuilder, NetBeans, Vim, emacs, a variety of OS X-only editors (BBEdit, Smultron, TextMate, SubEthaEdit) and Apple's own XCode. Even ColdFusion, if you lean that way.
And you support an OS that maintains an iron grip over the computer and what goes on it. Please.
Why don't i just shoot myself in the foot some more? That's the most intelligent thing you've said so far....
But at the same time, companies will rush into the space formed by LEGO losing their trademark, build cheap bricks, outcompete LEGO, LEGO will go out of business, and then we'll be stuck with lots of cheap imitators who aren't making the beautiful stuff LEGO created, and that could end up destroying exactly what makes LEGO worthwhile.
Why do you Lego fanboys insist on defending the company's business model? Can't you see that competition from cut-rate competitors is always a good thing, always, without question? Intellectual property laws are evil!
From your source (which happens to be a tort lawyer's website):
Before trial, McDonald's gave the opposing lawyer its operations and training manual, which says its coffee must be brewed at 195 to 205 degrees and held at 180 to 190 degrees for optimal taste.
That was the center of their case. The plaintiff brought in "experts" that claimed this was too hot, and introduced some evidence that supposedly showed that competitors sold cooler coffee.
The fact (actual scientific fact, not legal fact) of the matter is, coffee should be brewed at around 200F and served at about 180F to properly dissolve the essences that make coffee taste like coffee. There's an ANSI standard (ANSI CM-1-1986) that says so. Industrial coffee machines (like the ones that McDonalds and practically everyone else uses) are designed to work at that temperature, because of the standard and because that's what makes the best coffee.
An interesting consequence of that temperature is that it does severe damage to human skin. However it is perfectly reasonable to assume that coffee would be at that temperature, and totally unreasonable to sue and claim that that temperature was unusually hot.
The only negligent thing McDonalds did was hire a defense lawyer who failed to discover and introduce basic documented evidence.
In order for America to turn into a dictatorship, civil unrest must be quashed by those in power. The obvious agent to perform that would be the military. It would be quite easy for the military to corral an unarmed populace with tear gas and riot gear. It would be nearly impossible, though, to convince many service members to start shooting at armed citizens that look and speak just like them, in their own country. Soldiers/etc have a hard enough time dealing with killing dehumanized enemies in foreign countries. Orders to kill Joe the Plumber would result in a quick mutiny.
Totally wrong.
Riot gear is effective against rioters: people intent on causing a disruption for disruption's sake. Rioters aren't serious, they just want to have fun smashing windows and throwing rocks, so they're relatively easy to break up. Tomorrow's headline: DRUNKEN MOB DISPERSED BY POLICE.
Actual true-believer "civil disobedience" protestors, though, aren't going to let a few firehoses or a little tear gas get in the way of their cause. They'll take the beatings and become martyrs. Tomorrow's headline: DEMONSTRATORS ATTACKED, BEATEN BY POLICE.
Last we come to, armed resistance. Soldiers do not have any problem whatsoever killing people who also have guns. That's exactly what they're trained to do. Put a gun in Joe the Plumber's hands, and he becomes Jose the Insurgent. Jose the Insurgent, heir to Waco and Ruby Ridge and Ted Kaczynski and all the other domestic terrorists. Tomorrows headline: TERRORISTS KILLED IN STANDOFF.
I live in an area with a high Hispanic population, and coincidentally have a Spanish last name. I've been on the DNC list for years, but I get all kinds of telemarketers trying to scam me in Spanish. (It's pretty obvious that these are not legitimate nonprofits or companies. They hang up on me once they find out I speak English.) Blocked CID, of course, so it's hard to report them.
They're counting on the fact that most of their Spanish-speaking targets are either unaware of the DNC and other laws, or more likely are illegal and thus afraid to report them to the Feds.
And that's ignoring the peole who are "Conductiing a survey about your telephone service" or "Conducting a survey about how you recieve television"
"Apple does not want to litigate the "monopoly" argument; Psystar does not want to litigate "Breech of OS-X EULA"."
Totally backwards.
Legally speaking, EULAs are pretty dicey. They're contracts, and contracts can be thrown out in all sorts of situations where they conflict with signatories' (and I use that term extremely loosely here) statutory rights. So this is a weak position for Apple; hence all of the copyright and trademark claims that Apple also included.
On the contrary, Pystar's claim that Apple has a "monopoly" on Apple products is even more unfounded. How long have we been hearing that Apple has a (pick your number less than 10)% market share? Does anyone seriously contend that Apple is able to bully its competitors because of its ownership of MacOSX?
- Release it as a beta, and never let it out (Charge for the "beta.") - Use the year as the version - Use a chemical element or gemstone as the version - Use an animal as the version. - Use two random consonants. - Periodically drop the most significant digit
A quick look at NASA's ASRS database shows 9 entries concerning potential interference from portable electronic devices. So this isn't just an academic concern.
Sorry, but nine anecdotal reports out of thousands of flights per day is absolutely an academic concern. Heck, UFO collisions pose more of a threat than that.
Absolutely, passengers should obey the flight crew, because it's the law. But investigators should not trust flight crew's diagnosis when they say that the altimeter seemed to respond whenever a passenger pressed the number 3 on his BlackBerry.
Not many people change color with age. What does that have to do with anything?
Statistically, blacks (in white-majority societies) gays, and even women have higher incidence of psychological problems. All of these represent genetic predisposition to mental health issues, but none of them is considered a disease, in and of itself. Same with baldness.
For that matter, being bald, like being white, increases the likelihood of skin cancer. But neither is a disease.
Where the battery (according to shopblackberry.com, the manufacturer's official store) is $79.99, with free shipping.
In other words, the price is the same, except that RIM ships the battery to your door, whereas Apple charges $6 to collect your phone, install it, and ship it back.
(Other BB devices can be much cheaper, however, but shipping may be extra.)
The problem was largely with the Windows version of iTunes, as well as the Music Store, which uses non-standard windows. But basic accessibility is built into OS X (they tell me its a little more clunky than the screen-readers for Windows, but it is free and built-in)
Turn it on in the Universal Access pane. Try using it; you'll probably give up in frustration after about five minutes. Makes you appreciate having good eyesight.
My point, of course, was that complaining about "backspace" being a typewriter function by citing "delete" as a better choice overlooks that "enter" is a better choice than "return" by similar reasoning.
More than half the time I hit that key, it's to insert a carriage return/newline in a text document, not to confirm input. Since most people (especially mac users) don't use command lines these days, I'd say it's probably at least as appropriate to call it "return" as it is to call it "enter".
Backspace, on the other hand, never does what its name suggests (on a computer.) Thats what the left-arrow key does.
With the failure rate so low, it's responding to hysteria.
The fatal event rate for shuttle flights is about 2%. Half of those were caused by a known design problem for which there is no implemented solution.
You can bet that if SSBNs were that unreliable, they would either be shadowed constantly by rescue craft, or never launched in the first place absent a national emergency.
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I would guess that you either have a lousy trackpad, or not enough practice using one. I have a full-sized mouse plugged into my laptop, but I still find myself using the trackpad instead. I can throw the pointer diagonally across the screen in one stroke, and, click, drag, hit targets, and scroll just as effectively with the pad as I can with the mouse. Of course, I've been using notebooks from this same manufacturer as my primary systems for nine years now, so I've got the practice.
Creative Zen MP3 player
Supports Microsoft PlaysForSure.
Dell, and Fujitsu laptops
On which you run nothing but Linux, of course.
Samsung i760 cellphone
Windows Mobile AND Verizon Wireless. Way to go!
Way to go, you're really striking a blow for standards-based, interoperable devices!
It is so ridiculous. There is no way taxpayer money should be used to purchase something as ridiculously overpriced as a bulk load of MacBooks (a few for school use, fine). This school board needs some serious management changes if they're greenlighting this sort of purchase when there are much cheaper options.
Yeah. They should buy commodity PC laptops, and hire a dozen full-time IT stooges to go around to the schools and clean the scumware off of them each week.
That way, instead of wasting taxpayer money on equipment, they'll be providing jobs as IT stooges.
I don't know how things work in the UK, but if workers are being mistreated in the US, they doesn't lead an organizing drive and unionize. They either leave and find a better job, or (if the offense was egregious enough) sue the ever loving crap out of thier employer.
If it does come down to electing representatives to collectively improve working conditions, then it's done at the political level, not in some union hall. Yes, unions in the US are so ineffectual and corrupt that even government is more responsive.
People in the US have watched as union industries like railroads, steel, airlines, and now the auto industry have sunk under their own weight. Their workers picket and protest, demanding more and more right up until the point that the company goes bankrupt and they're laid off. And you wonder why we don't embrace unions?
Who do you think operates the trucks and planes that move USPS shipments from station (post office) to station under contract?
The USPS just prints stamps, sorts, and pays letter carriers. The rest is contracted out, and the Big Two handle huge portions of it.
How are they going to find that correlation if they fail to record it?
Okay, let my try to explain it agian.
- On some date, your kid got a vaccine. Records were made of that occurrence and that date.
- On date soon after, your kid was brought in with a case of hives. Records were made of this occurrence on this date, too.
See? That's it. That's all it takes. If there is a correlation to be made, then there will be thousands of other kids with this same sequence of events in their medical records.
Anyone doing research would just have to
1. Identify the frequency of hives that occur among kids within a week/two week/month period of an MMR shot in a given population.
2. Compare that to a baseline of hives among kids in a similar period when they didn't just get their MMR shot.
All you need to establish correlation here are the dates and events. If there's any correlation to be made, then percentage 1 will be a bigger number than percentage 2.
What you're proposing (looking for cases where a parent or someone else noted an MMR followed by hives) suffers from a Confirmation Bias. You're looking for what you want to find. It would be meaningless, because there's nothing to compare it to. (What's more, it would ignore cases where nobody noticed the proximity of the two events.)
Because such self-reported anecdotes are not relevant in a proper statistical analysis.
If there were a correlation to be found, then the epidemiologists would be able to find it just based on the fact that a significant number of children came in with cases of hives shortly after coming in for their MMRs. Your records would support that, based simply on the objective facts that you had the MMR on date x, and came down with hives on date x+n. That's all the evidence your son's case can provide.
Your armchair analysis on a sample size of one is not evidence, and has no place in a medical record.
Nice post, but you have one MAJOR fallacy included.
Wrong. Totally wrong.
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/threatexplorer/azlisting.jsp?azid=O
Yes, there are fewer than a dozen OSX.* malware variatns for which definitions exist, and most of them are essentially never seen in the wild...but that's infintely more than none.
It depends somewhat on your geographic location, but these days the breakdown is something like
IE - 70-80 %
Firefox 15-20 %
Safari - 3-7 %
Opera - 1% or less
With some others thrown in.
Opera is a fine and often innovative browser, but its share of the market is negligible. Luckily, it's standards support is good, so it works with the same pages that Firefox and Safari work on.
Being the premier browser on a gaming platform doesn't do much for market penetration.
Well, most of us don't. I'm not sure what would give you the impression that we do. I can't seem to find one anywhere in the building, or within sight of my window. I could probably find one in front of the Federal Government complex down the road, but then, you'd expect that.
As for the handful of Americans who do display the Stars and Stripes, I imagine they're actually proud of their country. It may shock you that A) anyone could be that proud of any country, or B) Americans could be that proud of the United States, but it is definitely true of some people.
Psystar is not modifying the OS. Check the details! They are not running a cracked or modified version of OSX on their systems.
SOURCE: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Psystar-Xserve-Apple,5734.html
Devs share alot in common with /. ers. We hate being closed in HATE IT. We like options. With a mac base you fuck yourself for cross-platform options.
Java. Qt. Ruby. PHP, Python. Perl. PHP.
Mono? Even that.
You fuck yourself for installed base.
Well, yes, anybody who doesn't develop for Win32 is fucked there. That's why virtualization and dual-booting exist.
You fuck yourself on freedom MANYMANY times over.
Freedom? What, to be massively ignorant?
You fuck yourself on dev tools, libraries and compilers of all sorts.
The standard C compiler is GCC. You may have heard of it.
Intel's C compiler is also available. For Java, there's javac. What else do you need? GNU Pascal? Check. Absoft's Fortran? Go nuts.
Libraries? Name your language, they're all there...well, except for the Win32-specific ones, but we've covered that.
Tools? Eclipse, JDeveloper, JBuilder, NetBeans, Vim, emacs, a variety of OS X-only editors (BBEdit, Smultron, TextMate, SubEthaEdit) and Apple's own XCode. Even ColdFusion, if you lean that way.
And you support an OS that maintains an iron grip over the computer and what goes on it.
Please.
Why don't i just shoot myself in the foot some more?
That's the most intelligent thing you've said so far....
Why do you Lego fanboys insist on defending the company's business model? Can't you see that competition from cut-rate competitors is always a good thing, always, without question? Intellectual property laws are evil!
From your source (which happens to be a tort lawyer's website):
That was the center of their case. The plaintiff brought in "experts" that claimed this was too hot, and introduced some evidence that supposedly showed that competitors sold cooler coffee.
The fact (actual scientific fact, not legal fact) of the matter is, coffee should be brewed at around 200F and served at about 180F to properly dissolve the essences that make coffee taste like coffee. There's an ANSI standard (ANSI CM-1-1986) that says so. Industrial coffee machines (like the ones that McDonalds and practically everyone else uses) are designed to work at that temperature, because of the standard and because that's what makes the best coffee.
An interesting consequence of that temperature is that it does severe damage to human skin. However it is perfectly reasonable to assume that coffee would be at that temperature, and totally unreasonable to sue and claim that that temperature was unusually hot.
The only negligent thing McDonalds did was hire a defense lawyer who failed to discover and introduce basic documented evidence.
Totally wrong.
Riot gear is effective against rioters: people intent on causing a disruption for disruption's sake. Rioters aren't serious, they just want to have fun smashing windows and throwing rocks, so they're relatively easy to break up. Tomorrow's headline: DRUNKEN MOB DISPERSED BY POLICE.
Actual true-believer "civil disobedience" protestors, though, aren't going to let a few firehoses or a little tear gas get in the way of their cause. They'll take the beatings and become martyrs. Tomorrow's headline: DEMONSTRATORS ATTACKED, BEATEN BY POLICE.
Last we come to, armed resistance. Soldiers do not have any problem whatsoever killing people who also have guns. That's exactly what they're trained to do. Put a gun in Joe the Plumber's hands, and he becomes Jose the Insurgent. Jose the Insurgent, heir to Waco and Ruby Ridge and Ted Kaczynski and all the other domestic terrorists.
Tomorrows headline: TERRORISTS KILLED IN STANDOFF.
I live in an area with a high Hispanic population, and coincidentally have a Spanish last name. I've been on the DNC list for years, but I get all kinds of telemarketers trying to scam me in Spanish. (It's pretty obvious that these are not legitimate nonprofits or companies. They hang up on me once they find out I speak English.) Blocked CID, of course, so it's hard to report them.
They're counting on the fact that most of their Spanish-speaking targets are either unaware of the DNC and other laws, or more likely are illegal and thus afraid to report them to the Feds.
And that's ignoring the peole who are "Conductiing a survey about your telephone service" or "Conducting a survey about how you recieve television"
Totally backwards.
Legally speaking, EULAs are pretty dicey. They're contracts, and contracts can be thrown out in all sorts of situations where they conflict with signatories' (and I use that term extremely loosely here) statutory rights. So this is a weak position for Apple; hence all of the copyright and trademark claims that Apple also included.
On the contrary, Pystar's claim that Apple has a "monopoly" on Apple products is even more unfounded. How long have we been hearing that Apple has a (pick your number less than 10)% market share? Does anyone seriously contend that Apple is able to bully its competitors because of its ownership of MacOSX?
- Release it as a beta, and never let it out (Charge for the "beta.")
- Use the year as the version
- Use a chemical element or gemstone as the version
- Use an animal as the version.
- Use two random consonants.
- Periodically drop the most significant digit
Sorry, but nine anecdotal reports out of thousands of flights per day is absolutely an academic concern. Heck, UFO collisions pose more of a threat than that.
Absolutely, passengers should obey the flight crew, because it's the law. But investigators should not trust flight crew's diagnosis when they say that the altimeter seemed to respond whenever a passenger pressed the number 3 on his BlackBerry.
Not many people change color with age.
What does that have to do with anything?
Statistically, blacks (in white-majority societies) gays, and even women have higher incidence of psychological problems. All of these represent genetic predisposition to mental health issues, but none of them is considered a disease, in and of itself. Same with baldness.
For that matter, being bald, like being white, increases the likelihood of skin cancer. But neither is a disease.
Where the battery (according to shopblackberry.com, the manufacturer's official store) is $79.99, with free shipping.
In other words, the price is the same, except that RIM ships the battery to your door, whereas Apple charges $6 to collect your phone, install it, and ship it back.
(Other BB devices can be much cheaper, however, but shipping may be extra.)
It is extremely easy to get them to just parrot responses and then try to change the subject in completely random directions.
So, they'd be good Slashdotters, then?
How many of us are bots, anyway...?
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Accessibility/Reference/AccessibilityLowlevel/index.html
The problem was largely with the Windows version of iTunes, as well as the Music Store, which uses non-standard windows. But basic accessibility is built into OS X (they tell me its a little more clunky than the screen-readers for Windows, but it is free and built-in)
Turn it on in the Universal Access pane. Try using it; you'll probably give up in frustration after about five minutes. Makes you appreciate having good eyesight.
More than half the time I hit that key, it's to insert a carriage return/newline in a text document, not to confirm input. Since most people (especially mac users) don't use command lines these days, I'd say it's probably at least as appropriate to call it "return" as it is to call it "enter".
Backspace, on the other hand, never does what its name suggests (on a computer.) Thats what the left-arrow key does.
With the failure rate so low, it's responding to hysteria.
The fatal event rate for shuttle flights is about 2%. Half of those were caused by a known design problem for which there is no implemented solution.
You can bet that if SSBNs were that unreliable, they would either be shadowed constantly by rescue craft, or never launched in the first place absent a national emergency.