And it's attitudes like yours that are the reason why media companies are trying to shove DRM down our throats. "They can't stop me from illegally copying digital works, so I will do it." What response do you expect to that attitude? Do you really expect companies that are making money from the sale of music and movies to just sit back and accept it? Sharing copyrighted material is illegal, and is really no different than books. With a book when you lend it to a friend you no longer posses a copy of it, you are not producing a copy, you are transfering possesion of an existing copy. When you share mp3s, unless you delete the original, you are creating a copy. That's the difference. A better analog to the book metaphor would be giving an mp3 to a friend and then deleting the original from your computer.
No, the definition is "chiefly derogatory information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view." At least that's what Oxford says.
Hrm...you probably could make icons that resembled icons, at least close enough to fool a novice user. I don't think you can make anything in a finder window that would respond to a single click, but I know a lot of people double-click web links, there may be a lot who double click buttons as well. I think I'm going to play around with this to see exactly how far I can get with it.
You may have stumbled onto an undiscovered security issue.
I think they used to be able to do that but it was removed for obvious security reasons a long time ago, I think in the early 10.3 days. This was before I was a Mac user so I'm basically talking out of my ass about something I remember some of my friends talking about.
Safari will warn you when you download a DMG that contains an application, and I don't think a package can auto-install. You actually get a warning if the package needs tries to run a script to determine if it can be installed (since that script could very easily do bad things to your computer). Again, you have user interaction required and steps that should make even the most clueless of users think for a moment about what is going on. I'd say it's a very relevant point.
Show me some documentation of a real Mac OS X virus (not OS 9 or lower, OS X). What do you think would get more attention, yet another Windows virus, or the first Mac OS X virus seen in the wild?
So you've been warning that the end is coming for 20 years now and it still hasn't. This is supposed to be a warning? Mac OS X is not invincible, but it is a good deal stronger than Windows. OS X allows you to work in a non-admin account and still do everything you need to use your computer, even install most applications (the ones that don't need specific installers). If you try to do just about anything you don't have permission to do it asks you for an admin password and runs as admin for that specific function only. Even admin accounts have to type in their password before performing certain tasks. Of course this doesn't prevent the user from typing in their password when a trojan asks for it, but it should make just about any user stop and think for a second about what they're doing.
Guess what, Mac OS X trojans are rare if they even exist, viruses don't exist (virii is not a word), and OS X is advanced.
No it is not indestructable, it just seems that way compared to Windows.
And what year was this? What OS were the Macs running? Was there a Mac admin available or was it a Windows admin who "knew something about Macs"? Also, I'm inclined to call bull shit on the part about Photoshop and Illustrator having different functions available on Windows and Mac.
Well there's also the fact that UNIX systems have an execute bit instead of relying on file name to determine executables. On any UNIX system the user would need to save the file to disk, set the execute bit, and then run it. At that point the user has absolutely no one to blame but themselves. Even at that point the security settings on the average UNIX system would limit the damage to the user's account and not the entire system. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than Windows.
Maybe it's just where I live. FM is incredibly congested in Philadelphia, PA. I don't think I can find a single FM station where I can't hear something and there are a few where I can hear two distinct radio stations. The crap that is being played doesn't help the situation much either.
Good job Microsoft, you beat your self set deadline by a few days. Congratulations! With how serious the WMF exploit was waiting for some arbitrary "patch Tuesday" would have been irresponsible at best.
I believe the lineage is actually BSD -> NeXTStep -> Mac OS X. Apple simply bought NeXT because their previous attempt at a new OS (Copland) had failed. With NeXT they got NeXTStep which was the foundation for OS X (that's why all of the Cocoa classes start with NS). Even with all of this it took two full versions before OS X became useable, 10.0 and 10.1 were dog slow from what I understand. A complete rewrite of any major product from scratch is an extremely daunting task.
The few times I've listened to XM on store demo systems I was not impressed. It wasn't as bad as FM, but it wasn't worth paying for in my opinion. If I'm going to have to pay to listen to music in my car, it should at least sound good.
It looks almost exactly like the previous generation of PowerBooks did, just darker. Also, Apple has split the USB ports for quite some time now, and personally I like it.
Et al. is short for "et alia," which means "and others." "Blockbuster's original market plan (and others as they were Blockbusters original market [p]lan" really doesn't make sense.
I personally have never experienced false late fees from Blockbuster, I just always objected to their practise of undercutting local stores until they drove them out of business and then jacking up their prices once all of the competition was gone. For the video store I worked out (a local crappy one) generally if a customer complained about a late fee it was waived, even when we knew it was justified. Honestly it was easier to waive the fee just to shut them up, it's not like the extra $2 for the store affected any of the employees.
I'd say they did no damage to their reputation by charing late fees before the whole "no more late fees" scam. Every video rental store charges late fees, hell even libraries charge late fees. People simply accept it.
That's not entirely true. A number of franchises never participated in the program, and many that did are cancelling it. Basically they need the late fees as an incentive to get people to return videos and games, without them they were having trouble keeping new releases in stock.
I call bullshit. If you have seen this you have some really shitty DVDs. Do you buy your dvds from a guy on the street outside of a train station by any chance?
irony -- "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result." He finds the fact that the supposedly "rabid coproratists" in America aren't complaining, while the European newspapers are to be contrary to what he expects. Seems pretty dead on if you ask me.
Actually I don't think you even need the bumper sticker. IIRC in PA (and probably other states), if you rear end someone you're at fault, unless you can manage to prove that the other car cut you off. You are responsible for keeping a safe distance between you and the car in front of you.
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And it's attitudes like yours that are the reason why media companies are trying to shove DRM down our throats. "They can't stop me from illegally copying digital works, so I will do it." What response do you expect to that attitude? Do you really expect companies that are making money from the sale of music and movies to just sit back and accept it? Sharing copyrighted material is illegal, and is really no different than books. With a book when you lend it to a friend you no longer posses a copy of it, you are not producing a copy, you are transfering possesion of an existing copy. When you share mp3s, unless you delete the original, you are creating a copy. That's the difference. A better analog to the book metaphor would be giving an mp3 to a friend and then deleting the original from your computer.
Rosetta can handle Altivec. Originally it was listed as unsupported, but right before the new machines were announced Rosetta got Altivec support.
No, the definition is "chiefly derogatory information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view." At least that's what Oxford says.
Hrm...you probably could make icons that resembled icons, at least close enough to fool a novice user. I don't think you can make anything in a finder window that would respond to a single click, but I know a lot of people double-click web links, there may be a lot who double click buttons as well. I think I'm going to play around with this to see exactly how far I can get with it.
You may have stumbled onto an undiscovered security issue.
I think they used to be able to do that but it was removed for obvious security reasons a long time ago, I think in the early 10.3 days. This was before I was a Mac user so I'm basically talking out of my ass about something I remember some of my friends talking about.
Safari will warn you when you download a DMG that contains an application, and I don't think a package can auto-install. You actually get a warning if the package needs tries to run a script to determine if it can be installed (since that script could very easily do bad things to your computer). Again, you have user interaction required and steps that should make even the most clueless of users think for a moment about what is going on. I'd say it's a very relevant point.
Show me some documentation of a real Mac OS X virus (not OS 9 or lower, OS X). What do you think would get more attention, yet another Windows virus, or the first Mac OS X virus seen in the wild?
So you've been warning that the end is coming for 20 years now and it still hasn't. This is supposed to be a warning? Mac OS X is not invincible, but it is a good deal stronger than Windows. OS X allows you to work in a non-admin account and still do everything you need to use your computer, even install most applications (the ones that don't need specific installers). If you try to do just about anything you don't have permission to do it asks you for an admin password and runs as admin for that specific function only. Even admin accounts have to type in their password before performing certain tasks. Of course this doesn't prevent the user from typing in their password when a trojan asks for it, but it should make just about any user stop and think for a second about what they're doing.
Guess what, Mac OS X trojans are rare if they even exist, viruses don't exist (virii is not a word), and OS X is advanced.
No it is not indestructable, it just seems that way compared to Windows.
And what year was this? What OS were the Macs running? Was there a Mac admin available or was it a Windows admin who "knew something about Macs"? Also, I'm inclined to call bull shit on the part about Photoshop and Illustrator having different functions available on Windows and Mac.
Well there's also the fact that UNIX systems have an execute bit instead of relying on file name to determine executables. On any UNIX system the user would need to save the file to disk, set the execute bit, and then run it. At that point the user has absolutely no one to blame but themselves. Even at that point the security settings on the average UNIX system would limit the damage to the user's account and not the entire system. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than Windows.
Maybe it's just where I live. FM is incredibly congested in Philadelphia, PA. I don't think I can find a single FM station where I can't hear something and there are a few where I can hear two distinct radio stations. The crap that is being played doesn't help the situation much either.
Good job Microsoft, you beat your self set deadline by a few days. Congratulations! With how serious the WMF exploit was waiting for some arbitrary "patch Tuesday" would have been irresponsible at best.
I believe the lineage is actually BSD -> NeXTStep -> Mac OS X. Apple simply bought NeXT because their previous attempt at a new OS (Copland) had failed. With NeXT they got NeXTStep which was the foundation for OS X (that's why all of the Cocoa classes start with NS). Even with all of this it took two full versions before OS X became useable, 10.0 and 10.1 were dog slow from what I understand. A complete rewrite of any major product from scratch is an extremely daunting task.
The few times I've listened to XM on store demo systems I was not impressed. It wasn't as bad as FM, but it wasn't worth paying for in my opinion. If I'm going to have to pay to listen to music in my car, it should at least sound good.
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It looks almost exactly like the previous generation of PowerBooks did, just darker. Also, Apple has split the USB ports for quite some time now, and personally I like it.
Et al. is short for "et alia," which means "and others." "Blockbuster's original market plan (and others as they were Blockbusters original market [p]lan" really doesn't make sense.
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I personally have never experienced false late fees from Blockbuster, I just always objected to their practise of undercutting local stores until they drove them out of business and then jacking up their prices once all of the competition was gone. For the video store I worked out (a local crappy one) generally if a customer complained about a late fee it was waived, even when we knew it was justified. Honestly it was easier to waive the fee just to shut them up, it's not like the extra $2 for the store affected any of the employees.
I'd say they did no damage to their reputation by charing late fees before the whole "no more late fees" scam. Every video rental store charges late fees, hell even libraries charge late fees. People simply accept it.
That's not entirely true. A number of franchises never participated in the program, and many that did are cancelling it. Basically they need the late fees as an incentive to get people to return videos and games, without them they were having trouble keeping new releases in stock.
And those bits on the top and bottom were never meant to be shown. The theatrical aspect ratio is correct.
I call bullshit. If you have seen this you have some really shitty DVDs. Do you buy your dvds from a guy on the street outside of a train station by any chance?
irony -- "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result." He finds the fact that the supposedly "rabid coproratists" in America aren't complaining, while the European newspapers are to be contrary to what he expects. Seems pretty dead on if you ask me.
Actually I don't think you even need the bumper sticker. IIRC in PA (and probably other states), if you rear end someone you're at fault, unless you can manage to prove that the other car cut you off. You are responsible for keeping a safe distance between you and the car in front of you.
It's a beta. It's not meant for general use. If there are security problems it's your own damn fault for using it.