There are differences between software and the examples you give. If my car bursts into flames because of poor design, the auto maker becomes respobsible. If my water is poisoned, there will be an investigation.
The writers and distributors of software aren't held liable for the damage that whey they created cause. Not closed source (you have read your EULAs, right?) or open source (GNU used to say "with anything free there is no guarantee"). At least with open source someone has the chance to audit the software and fix problems with it.
Come on people, apple is a cool company but you don't have to make excuses for their mistakes.
I can make all of the excuses that I want to make. As a flag waving red blooded American I have First Amendment protected speech, unlike some freedom hating countries like Freedom (formerly known as France).
It sounds like the update may twiddle something on open firmware. It may be uunavoidable, but some digging around on setting the keymapping in OF may save you two reboots (one to OS 9, one to OS X).
I bought a 12" powerbook yesterday, and today they announce a new model...
Every Apple user on the planet knows that you never buy a new computer from Apple right before one of their expos or conferences, precisely because Apple almost always unveils new and upgraded models then. You're an idiot.
For the math lab that I was a TA for, I graded essays by making a grid: rows for student names and columns for each idea that the essay had to hit. Grading became mostly mechanical for me; I cut grading time from 60 hours over a weekend to 20. Not only did it save me time, but it cut down on the number of complaints that students had about inconsistent grading. I still tried to observe grammar and flow, but there were just too many papers to give everyone the attention that they deserved. I think that the software, in conjunction with a person to work with it would be valuable.
Last night a friend called me and said "listen to this song... can you download that song for me?"
"Sure," I replied, "but are you willing to pay one dollar for it?"
"Yes, absolutely, that's cheap." I bought the song on iTunes, put it on a CD for her, and walked it over to her house. In a strict legal sense, I probably just broke the law. However, I'm not planning on listening to the song (chick pop fluff... blech) so her copy will be the only one that is ever played.
Many homeless don't want to be fed and housed. Social programs exist to meet those needs, but are frequently not used because these programs require those who use them to be sober.
Why not put all those millions and millions of dollar in to projects to give them jobs and housing instead?
Many people are homeless because they are drug addicts (I include alcohol in the drug canopy) and do not want jobs and housing. They want their next score.
I feel a little bad when I have to ask the homeless people who sleep on my front porch to find somewhere else, but there are social safety nets there for people who want to work and who want to become sober.
If you want the Unix bits, Yellow Dog Linux with an OS 9 drive for Mac on Linux (similar to Classic in OS X) and Photoshop 5.5 or 6 will work just fine, too.
Ok smartass, consider this. I have $1000 in student loans. So I set up a liability account (to measure the loan) and a cash account (to measure the money given to me by the Feds). But I spent the cash on tuition, so now I have to set up an education expense account and transfer my cash to that.
Compare this to Quicken, where I essentially say "I owe the Feds $1000." If I just want to set up a budget, and begin to figure out what the hell is happening with my money, and oh by the way I'm a writer so the idea of accounting is scary to me (note that I didn't say impossible to understand), and it's clear which I will be more likely to use.
But for most people, this is overkill. They want a computerized check book. They don't want to have to figure out how to get their payroll check to appear in their checking account, they just want it to appear.
I have tried at least three times to set GnuCash to do my accounting. I gave up in frustration every time. If I had reasonable accounting knowlede, and if I had the patience to figure out what direction GnuCash was trying to push me in, I think I could figure it out. You're average user will natually go to Quicken because it gets the job done. I'm not fond of Quicken, but I'm happy with it. Getting GnuCash to a useable stage was just too painful.
GnuCash is a perfect example of the authors trying to "do the right thing" (double-entry accounting) and scaring people away with a non-intuitive interface; a single-entry system would be valuable to most of GnuCash's target audience.
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There are differences between software and the examples you give. If my car bursts into flames because of poor design, the auto maker becomes respobsible. If my water is poisoned, there will be an investigation.
The writers and distributors of software aren't held liable for the damage that whey they created cause. Not closed source (you have read your EULAs, right?) or open source (GNU used to say "with anything free there is no guarantee"). At least with open source someone has the chance to audit the software and fix problems with it.
Come on people, apple is a cool company but you don't have to make excuses for their mistakes.
I can make all of the excuses that I want to make. As a flag waving red blooded American I have First Amendment protected speech, unlike some freedom hating countries like Freedom (formerly known as France).
It sounds like the update may twiddle something on open firmware. It may be uunavoidable, but some digging around on setting the keymapping in OF may save you two reboots (one to OS 9, one to OS X).
Flashing lights? I want a maching that goes "ping!"
Save breath and just say "the Pope shits in the woods!"
Hospitals are notorious breeding grounds for all kinds of nasty bugs; I know, I worked in one for 7 years.
Adds weight to a phrase I always heard my pharmacist father say: "people don't go to hospitals to be cured, they go to hospitals to die."
I bought a 12" powerbook yesterday, and today they announce a new model...
Every Apple user on the planet knows that you never buy a new computer from Apple right before one of their expos or conferences, precisely because Apple almost always unveils new and upgraded models then. You're an idiot.
This is exactly why I use Fed Ex or UPS when ordering things. They can track your packages and they take responsibility when they screw up.
They do? That's news to me. I've had plenty of stuff fsck'ed up by them.
Perhaps the Postal Service could take a lesson?
They don't need to with all of those fat government subsidies.
The organizers always schedule it to be coincident with the annual Perpetual Motion Machine conference.
For the math lab that I was a TA for, I graded essays by making a grid: rows for student names and columns for each idea that the essay had to hit. Grading became mostly mechanical for me; I cut grading time from 60 hours over a weekend to 20. Not only did it save me time, but it cut down on the number of complaints that students had about inconsistent grading. I still tried to observe grammar and flow, but there were just too many papers to give everyone the attention that they deserved. I think that the software, in conjunction with a person to work with it would be valuable.
Cringley wrote "When did we fall so low?" He should ask, "why haven't we been able to climb higher?"
Too bad your site looks like ass. And not the good, firm, round female kind.
Last night a friend called me and said "listen to this song... can you download that song for me?"
"Sure," I replied, "but are you willing to pay one dollar for it?"
"Yes, absolutely, that's cheap." I bought the song on iTunes, put it on a CD for her, and walked it over to her house. In a strict legal sense, I probably just broke the law. However, I'm not planning on listening to the song (chick pop fluff... blech) so her copy will be the only one that is ever played.
I think his Bishop should have a private chat with him about honesty.
Right after the conversation about how well he is carrying out God's work, as evidenced by his generous tithing.
I just downloaded an Apple ][ emulator so I could play the original Lode Runner of my youth that sucked so many hours out of my life.
Yeah, habits learned early die hard.
Make the step up to Angband.
Why? Those Angband hacks can't even figure out how to make a persistent dungeon level.
Many homeless don't want to be fed and housed. Social programs exist to meet those needs, but are frequently not used because these programs require those who use them to be sober.
Why not put all those millions and millions of dollar in to projects to give them jobs and housing instead?
Many people are homeless because they are drug addicts (I include alcohol in the drug canopy) and do not want jobs and housing. They want their next score.
I feel a little bad when I have to ask the homeless people who sleep on my front porch to find somewhere else, but there are social safety nets there for people who want to work and who want to become sober.
If you want the Unix bits, Yellow Dog Linux with an OS 9 drive for Mac on Linux (similar to Classic in OS X) and Photoshop 5.5 or 6 will work just fine, too.
Ok smartass, consider this. I have $1000 in student loans. So I set up a liability account (to measure the loan) and a cash account (to measure the money given to me by the Feds). But I spent the cash on tuition, so now I have to set up an education expense account and transfer my cash to that.
Compare this to Quicken, where I essentially say "I owe the Feds $1000." If I just want to set up a budget, and begin to figure out what the hell is happening with my money, and oh by the way I'm a writer so the idea of accounting is scary to me (note that I didn't say impossible to understand), and it's clear which I will be more likely to use.
But for most people, this is overkill. They want a computerized check book. They don't want to have to figure out how to get their payroll check to appear in their checking account, they just want it to appear.
I have tried at least three times to set GnuCash to do my accounting. I gave up in frustration every time. If I had reasonable accounting knowlede, and if I had the patience to figure out what direction GnuCash was trying to push me in, I think I could figure it out. You're average user will natually go to Quicken because it gets the job done. I'm not fond of Quicken, but I'm happy with it. Getting GnuCash to a useable stage was just too painful.
GnuCash is a perfect example of the authors trying to "do the right thing" (double-entry accounting) and scaring people away with a non-intuitive interface; a single-entry system would be valuable to most of GnuCash's target audience.
... and getting Linux TV-in with sound to work requires the sacrifice of a virgin to the computer gods.
You idiot. Have sex with the virgin first, then sacrifice her to the gods.
For $10 you could have gone to U-Haul and rented a dolly. Mechanical advantages are cool!
Then they came for the guy who referenced the "then they came for" poem, but we hated that guy, so I said nothing
...when will the sheeple awaken?
Many people enjoy being sheep. Some don't. Those who don't have two choices:
1) complain about being a sheep and keep eating the grass,
2) become one of the herders.
What's your choice?