The Macintosh is a combination of great hardware, software and support all working together. When you have a problem with Mac OS X or your Macintosh, you pick up the phone and call Apple. Or you walk into an Apple store and ask a genius. Can you do that with Pystar? Hardly.
First of all, please put quotation marks around "genius." Secondly, for such "great" hardware, Macs sure tend to have design flaws; I've owned two and both were glitchy throughout their lifespan, and both eventually broke down for good (which I've never had a PC do; I have a 20+ year old PC that last time I checked still works). As for the support, the only way you can get reasonable support is to pay for it, which is a lousy thing to do to your customers. And they definitely overcharge for their computers, which they give you very few choices when configuring. There is no real reason to not provide a discrete graphics cards in the mac minis, for example.
The only thing Apple does really well are the aesthetics, and their operating system, and even that's only a recent thing (pre-X MacOSes were almost as bad as Windows).
If you looking for a similar experience, hold a hair dryer (on low heat) about 3 inches from your ear.:)
Unfortunately I think they're using the same asus case I ordered for a media center PC I wanted to put together. That just sucks, I need to find something quiet.
Does the submitter of this story understand the distinction between free as in beer, and free as in speech?
Can we move past that metaphor? It's a really, really, really dumb one. It doesn't really make sense; if it were to work at all it would have to be changed to "free as in beer which happens to be free for some unspecified reason."
There was the last case I helped with (civil, not criminal) for them (I was the *tech guy* who ran the powerpoint display) where we were representing a homeless man who's throat had been torn out (yes, he uses the same voice box similar to the tracheotomy having smokers) who was sueing the police for medical damages (he had been sleeping under a tree when they were chasing a criminal(not him) and as far as the cop dog was concerned, he *looked* guilty, don't believe that crap about the cop dog following a scent, these are the dogs trained to attack and disengage on a word (shedard dogs)
I actually was involved (peripherally) in a few police dog bite/civil rights violations cases, and from what I understand police dogs are trained to go after people who put out a fear scent, which during police chases is typically the suspect.
Something I've never understood is why so many people I know try to get out of jury duty. It seems like something that would be fascinating to do.
I would love to be on a jury, but I was never called (and never was sure enough of my schedule being free to volunteer). Now that I'm a lawyer the chances of me successfully making it onto one are remote. Oh well.
I'm sure being able to charge for your travel time and expenses had nothing to do with their preference to fly. No siree...
Trust me, for the vast majority of lawyers, especially ones successful enough to land high profile clients, the jet lag isn't worth it. And any halfway successful firm has more business they can handle at any given time, they don't need to rack up hours by flying to Saudi Arabia, they can just work on domestic stuff.
Except the kids were sent to stay with their grandmother. In Russia. Funny how that worked out.
I think that's because the grandmother actually, you know, lives in Russia. Or do you think there is something strange about giving children into their grandmother's custody when neither of the parents are able to take care of them.
Not only that, but his attorney is NOT a criminal defense attorney. Reiser insisted this guy represent him, even tho the lawyer did not want to. At the very end, he tried to have a mistrial declared because his lawyer was no good.
Huh? Where did you get that? His attorney is an extremely experienced criminal defense attorney.
Most defendants don't even testify, so there's no opportunity to plead the fifth at trial. And don't plead the fifth if you're arrested, that's basically telling the cops you did whatever it is they've arrested you for. Just ask for a lawyer.
Is it possible that the submitter doesn't even know about keyloggers, passive listening devices (for phones), compromised encryption binaries, vulnerabilities in protocols, etc?
Don't forget the FBI just seizing their computers and just looking at everything in their inbox and sent folder.
Ok. The whole article is spun towards Hans, but how in the hell is this piece of information not relevant?
Under most rules of evidence (I don't know too much about California law), the question isn't whether it's relevance, but whether it's relevance outweighs any unfairly prejudicial effect. Just because someone confesses to something doesn't mean they did it. If it were that easy to derail a trial, if you're arrested for murder have your friend "confess" to murdering a bunch of people, bring it up in court, get acquitted, and then see your friend acquitted because he made up the story.
IANAL, so could someone explain to me how it makes any sense that he was found guilty of first degree murder when no one can even prove that Nina is dead? Maybe a lesser charge such as manslaughter, but I think that the fact that the prosecution cannot definitely say that she is dead should be enough for reasonable doubt.
You have to convince the jury that the murder happened, and just because you don't have a body doesn't mean a jury can't find beyond a reasonable doubt that a murder took place, if the circumstantial evidence is strong enough.
So are all the people who've posted on slashdot how it had to be a hoax, and anyone who paid money for a pre-order was an idiot, are they going to admit they were wrong?
Your follow up better illustrated your opinion. I actually prefer LotR as well and think it is a much better crafted piece of literature, but I love the Hobbit. It was a fun read and a great introduction to the series for me at age 7. I reread it every so often and I give that book to all of my friends when they have their first child. I still love the book.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the Hobbit; I think it's an excellent book. I just think as a piece of literature LotR is better, and I do find something wrong with his writing style, which I think is too cutesy even for children. It's possible to write great children's literature without being overly precious.
Opinion. Plain and simple opinion with no critical thought.
Pure flamebait. I disagree with you so there must be no legitimate reasons why I feel the way I do? And of course it's an opinion, it's a statement about the relative merits of two different works of literature, what exactly else would it be?
There are several problems with the Hobbit that Lord of the Rings did not have; writing for children requires a different skillset, one that Tolkien didn't really have. Note the clumsy use of the omniscient narrator (such as the overly cutesy way in which the narrator addresses the reader) and the way he tried stuffing too many things into it without giving them the space they deserved.
I'm somewhat surprised you find the character development in the Hobbit anything special. The only character we get any insight into is Bilbo; Gandalf pops in and out and is fairly two-dimensional, the dwarves are completely flat, and everyone else gets so little time to do anything almost nothing is shown of their character at all. And in regards to Bilbo's character development, Tolkien violated what is one of the most important rules a writer should follow: show, don't tell. Instead of constantly telling us what Bilbo was thinking or feeling it would have been more effective to actually show us through the story.
Now he did this in LotR as well, but when you're talking about an epic narrative, with dozens of characters, that style of writing comes off as more natural.
The film industry is difficult to break into, and that difficulty is heightened if you're not from the US.
I think that's a misleading statement; the difficult of breaking into the US film market may be more difficult if you're not from the US; but a US director would probably even have more trouble breaking into a non-US film industry. And considering how many directors are foreign-born I think the odds are a lot more fair than you give credit for.
So Craigslist became popular enough to affect eBay's bottom line and that warrants a lawsuit. No mention even of patent infringement or anything legally relevant. Just, "They took 10% of our business so we're suing." IANAL, but I'm thinking this falls under frivolous.
This has nothing to do with Craigslist taking ebay's business, it's about Craigslist's executives taking possibly illegal actions to disadvantage a minority shareholder.
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The Macintosh is a combination of great hardware, software and support all working together. When you have a problem with Mac OS X or your Macintosh, you pick up the phone and call Apple. Or you walk into an Apple store and ask a genius. Can you do that with Pystar? Hardly.
First of all, please put quotation marks around "genius." Secondly, for such "great" hardware, Macs sure tend to have design flaws; I've owned two and both were glitchy throughout their lifespan, and both eventually broke down for good (which I've never had a PC do; I have a 20+ year old PC that last time I checked still works). As for the support, the only way you can get reasonable support is to pay for it, which is a lousy thing to do to your customers. And they definitely overcharge for their computers, which they give you very few choices when configuring. There is no real reason to not provide a discrete graphics cards in the mac minis, for example.
The only thing Apple does really well are the aesthetics, and their operating system, and even that's only a recent thing (pre-X MacOSes were almost as bad as Windows).
This is a first-generation product. It's not polished at all.
So a buggy and flawed first generation system? They're not just cloning the hardware, they're cloning Apple's development model too!
If you looking for a similar experience, hold a hair dryer (on low heat) about 3 inches from your ear. :)
Unfortunately I think they're using the same asus case I ordered for a media center PC I wanted to put together. That just sucks, I need to find something quiet.
Does the submitter of this story understand the distinction between free as in beer, and free as in speech?
Can we move past that metaphor? It's a really, really, really dumb one. It doesn't really make sense; if it were to work at all it would have to be changed to "free as in beer which happens to be free for some unspecified reason."
There was the last case I helped with (civil, not criminal) for them (I was the *tech guy* who ran the powerpoint display) where we were representing a homeless man who's throat had been torn out (yes, he uses the same voice box similar to the tracheotomy having smokers) who was sueing the police for medical damages (he had been sleeping under a tree when they were chasing a criminal(not him) and as far as the cop dog was concerned, he *looked* guilty, don't believe that crap about the cop dog following a scent, these are the dogs trained to attack and disengage on a word (shedard dogs)
I actually was involved (peripherally) in a few police dog bite/civil rights violations cases, and from what I understand police dogs are trained to go after people who put out a fear scent, which during police chases is typically the suspect.
Most everyone agrees that the verdict would have been different if Hans hadn't testified, or just hadn't be so freakin' weird.
His own lawyer said that his testimony made no difference with the verdict.
Something I've never understood is why so many people I know try to get out of jury duty. It seems like something that would be fascinating to do.
I would love to be on a jury, but I was never called (and never was sure enough of my schedule being free to volunteer). Now that I'm a lawyer the chances of me successfully making it onto one are remote. Oh well.
I'm sure being able to charge for your travel time and expenses had nothing to do with their preference to fly. No siree...
Trust me, for the vast majority of lawyers, especially ones successful enough to land high profile clients, the jet lag isn't worth it. And any halfway successful firm has more business they can handle at any given time, they don't need to rack up hours by flying to Saudi Arabia, they can just work on domestic stuff.
Except the kids were sent to stay with their grandmother. In Russia. Funny how that worked out.
I think that's because the grandmother actually, you know, lives in Russia. Or do you think there is something strange about giving children into their grandmother's custody when neither of the parents are able to take care of them.
Lawyers. There's so much more money to be made from appeals. For both sides. They know this. It's all a have.
Uhhh...huh? For "both sides"? The prosecutors don't make money on appeals.
Not only that, but his attorney is NOT a criminal defense attorney. Reiser insisted this guy represent him, even tho the lawyer did not want to. At the very end, he tried to have a mistrial declared because his lawyer was no good.
Huh? Where did you get that? His attorney is an extremely experienced criminal defense attorney.
plead the Fifth
Most defendants don't even testify, so there's no opportunity to plead the fifth at trial. And don't plead the fifth if you're arrested, that's basically telling the cops you did whatever it is they've arrested you for. Just ask for a lawyer.
Is it possible that the submitter doesn't even know about keyloggers, passive listening devices (for phones), compromised encryption binaries, vulnerabilities in protocols, etc?
Don't forget the FBI just seizing their computers and just looking at everything in their inbox and sent folder.
Ok. The whole article is spun towards Hans, but how in the hell is this piece of information not relevant?
Under most rules of evidence (I don't know too much about California law), the question isn't whether it's relevance, but whether it's relevance outweighs any unfairly prejudicial effect. Just because someone confesses to something doesn't mean they did it. If it were that easy to derail a trial, if you're arrested for murder have your friend "confess" to murdering a bunch of people, bring it up in court, get acquitted, and then see your friend acquitted because he made up the story.
IANAL, so could someone explain to me how it makes any sense that he was found guilty of first degree murder when no one can even prove that Nina is dead? Maybe a lesser charge such as manslaughter, but I think that the fact that the prosecution cannot definitely say that she is dead should be enough for reasonable doubt.
You have to convince the jury that the murder happened, and just because you don't have a body doesn't mean a jury can't find beyond a reasonable doubt that a murder took place, if the circumstantial evidence is strong enough.
So are all the people who've posted on slashdot how it had to be a hoax, and anyone who paid money for a pre-order was an idiot, are they going to admit they were wrong?
Or else what?
Possible contempt charges against certain officials I'd think. Which they'll ignore. The real fun is going to happen when this president leaves office, and all those who participated in various illegal acts are still on the hook, but without anyone in the executive branch willing to protect them. I honestly think a lot of them are Monica Goodling types, naive flunkies who don't realize that their actions could have very personal consequences to them individually down the road.
Your follow up better illustrated your opinion. I actually prefer LotR as well and think it is a much better crafted piece of literature, but I love the Hobbit. It was a fun read and a great introduction to the series for me at age 7. I reread it every so often and I give that book to all of my friends when they have their first child. I still love the book.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the Hobbit; I think it's an excellent book. I just think as a piece of literature LotR is better, and I do find something wrong with his writing style, which I think is too cutesy even for children. It's possible to write great children's literature without being overly precious.
Opinion. Plain and simple opinion with no critical thought.
Pure flamebait. I disagree with you so there must be no legitimate reasons why I feel the way I do? And of course it's an opinion, it's a statement about the relative merits of two different works of literature, what exactly else would it be?
There are several problems with the Hobbit that Lord of the Rings did not have; writing for children requires a different skillset, one that Tolkien didn't really have. Note the clumsy use of the omniscient narrator (such as the overly cutesy way in which the narrator addresses the reader) and the way he tried stuffing too many things into it without giving them the space they deserved.
I'm somewhat surprised you find the character development in the Hobbit anything special. The only character we get any insight into is Bilbo; Gandalf pops in and out and is fairly two-dimensional, the dwarves are completely flat, and everyone else gets so little time to do anything almost nothing is shown of their character at all. And in regards to Bilbo's character development, Tolkien violated what is one of the most important rules a writer should follow: show, don't tell. Instead of constantly telling us what Bilbo was thinking or feeling it would have been more effective to actually show us through the story.
Now he did this in LotR as well, but when you're talking about an epic narrative, with dozens of characters, that style of writing comes off as more natural.
Politicians love to say one thing and then pay for another.
And voters want more expensive services but refuse to pay higher taxes to pay for them. Bad combo.
The film industry is difficult to break into, and that difficulty is heightened if you're not from the US.
I think that's a misleading statement; the difficult of breaking into the US film market may be more difficult if you're not from the US; but a US director would probably even have more trouble breaking into a non-US film industry. And considering how many directors are foreign-born I think the odds are a lot more fair than you give credit for.
The fact that largely the same people are involved makes this a pretty reasonable assumption, no?
The problem is the source material isn't as strong. The Hobbit isn't nearly as good as LotR.
Remember when MS invented symbolic links back in 2002? Good times...
So Craigslist became popular enough to affect eBay's bottom line and that warrants a lawsuit. No mention even of patent infringement or anything legally relevant. Just, "They took 10% of our business so we're suing." IANAL, but I'm thinking this falls under frivolous.
This has nothing to do with Craigslist taking ebay's business, it's about Craigslist's executives taking possibly illegal actions to disadvantage a minority shareholder.
The man is a walking tax writeoff for movie studios.
I thought they closed that tax loophole. Any German lawyers want to chime in here?