Weird. Usually emulation is slower. If you or anyone else has a link, toss it my way -- I'm curious. We all love our Macs, but it'll be good to know about that in case I'm ever asked about it.
It's not a lie to answer no to this question; you 'got it' from your own head, didn't you? Where you get something and where you store something aren't really the same. I store my car in my garage. Did I get my car from my garage? No; I got it from a Volkswagen dealer. If asked where I got my car from, I state the dealership's name. If I answered 'My garage', people would look at me funny and ask if I built it myself like in the Johnny Cash song 'One Piece At A Time'... which I didn't. (I'm not THAT good!)
You pay more at the outset when you buy the machine, but you save quite a bit of money and time when you don't have to deal with Windows' dime-a-dozen swiss-cheese security holes and the incessant viruses/worms/other malware you have to deal with. You also have to buy a lot more software as Apple provides a lot of stuff for free, pre-installed (and gives you real OS install disks in addition to system restore disks, not restore-only like a lot of system makers do lately) and you can buy a productivity suite (iWork) for a lot less than the insane amount of money MS wants for Office. (Sadly, no Aqua-native version of OpenOffice exists yet, though you can get decently-priced/free word processor/text editor apps if you look around a bit).
It is not as inexpensive as a Linux box, but then, you still can't run Photoshop (and there are those of us like me who actually need Photoshop, not the GIMP; fortunately, we university research types are eligible for educational prices, so the cost is reasonable) on Linux.
Macs really are the best choice for a lot of people, but a lot of those same people are too stupid to think of the long-term cost of ownership and only look at up-front numbers, which can be incredibly misleading.
I love my Macs. I support not just the lab I work in (every machine is a Mac except where we got stuck with Windows-only apps, like the controller for the Bio-Rad confocal microscope) but also support the department at large, and encourage people to get Macs. I spend far less time helping those who do have them than I do cleaning malware and spyware off Windows machines.
Unfortunately, if you need to be able to edit PDFs (I do; I just did a pile of edits just a little while ago) you need to buy Acrobat. Fortunately, the educational price for Pro is quite reasonable -- far from the typical Adobe ripoff.
Or, in the case of the OS X version, it's INSIDE the flippin' app package. I have no problem going inside my apps (do this all the time to migrate firefox searchplugins without redownloading them all) but running a search for it (I tried a few weeks ago) won't find it, as it's not in the normal place for Office toolbars. Now, after reading the Mac version of the tip, the goddamn thing is GONE. Deleted it from the Acrobat app package. Beat THAT, you piece of (not overpriced as I got it for the EDU price) crap!
(There's a tiny typo; the domain in question this time is neovi.com).
I also hit them with an FCC complaint and a BBB complaint. I think my next stop is Planetfeedback, with the "allow public viewing" box checked, and maybe sic PF on Aplus.net too...
Oh believe me my bank knows about it (I told them, and faxed them an explicit written order, that no charges from any of my old accounts are to be forwarded on as I am no longer using my old numbers for ANYTHING) but I'm pissed off about the whole thing, and I decided that aplus.net is going to have to deal with that fact.
I sent yet another nastygram to them today (I'm sure they're tired of me, but if they hadn't ripped me off in the first place they wouldn't have brought this on themselves, so tough shit to them).
The domain finally doesn't resolve anymore -- but I'm still bitching at them since my name, and a phone number that is not mine, is still in the whois db. I told them the matter isn't closed until I see a refund on my credit statement and the fake info is gone. In other words, "Put up, cause I'm not shutting up".
Bastards.
Then there's Neovi, Inc., who hit me for four charges of $100 each and has ignored a faxed demand letter, so I followed that up with a copy of the same demand sent to abuse@, webmaster@, postmaster@, and inksales@ neovic.om.
They're officially bastards on my list, too.;)
What is it with fucking asshole companies in San Diego?
The site is so new that it's not listed yet, although I will definitely keep the link around. Thanks for the tip -- I've been complaining to everyone who can do something and no one has yet (no refund yet -- "we're investigating" -- site still online, etc etc etc).
Which the bank will just charge them back on especially since the accout is supposed to have been closed (I'm sending, IN WRITING, a letter stating that NO CHARGES are to be accepted on that account, none of this manually-transfer-charges-to-new-account crap they're doing).
And the post you posted to was an attempt at slashdot humor.;) But if you really want, I can give you the URL.
A site registered and hosted using stolen funds from my credit card is still online following phoned and faxed demands for revocation and refund sent to the registrar/host. Can I somehow use this to send an entire domain to a black hole until the hosting/domain are revoked? It wouldn't be hacking, but it would make me feel a lot better to see the scammers knocked offline. If no one can get to them on google, they can't get any scam income. And what are they going to do -- sue me? That just would result in my slapping them with *criminal* charges as well as a motion for dismissal and a countersuit.
Bill Gates wrote, in his Challenges and Strategy memo of May 16, 1991, that "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can." Microsoft has since filed thousands of patents both in the European Union and in the U.S.... so are you, or aren't you, against patents? The first half of your lipflapping says you're against patents since you think they are destroying the industry. The second half of your waste of breath says that you're patenting everything in sight.
So which is it, fuckface? You can't have it both ways.
I'm a woman, and I can't get anybody I'm interested in to look at me, and two people I know who are married have told me they find me interesting in that way, but are not interested in pursuing anything...
It goes both ways. None of the single GUYS I know will give me a second look! And I can't get rid of the ones that drive me up the wall!
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
They sent two landers, another in 1971, it turns out. Only one succeeded at all -- am not sure which -- but it stopped sending after 30 seconds. I'm not sure what it did send back.
The first manned flight around the Moon was Apollo 8, in December 1968. The closest the Soviets ever came to replicating that feat was a few unmanned Zond craft. The N-1 manned lunar booster never successfully launched -- too many problems with the first stage.
The Russians have also never sent a working lander to Mars -- Mars 6 did land a vehicle in 1973, but it never sent back any useful data. First mission to make it was Viking 1 in 1976. Then Viking 2 that same year, then Pathfinder in 1997, and now we have the rovers.
The House of Representatives has to introduce all bills. The president can only veto, or not, legislation presented to him/her. But the House and Senate can override the veto by an appropriate margin.
Also look up "checks and balances" to see how the different branches are supposed to kick each other in the ass if they get stupid. It used to work real well til the executive branch started getting REALLY stupid (and then whining, when smacked, about "activist judges").
I'm stuck using the 1.0.1 release from that site. I tried grabbing that new version from the page earlier, before coming to this thread, and it refused to recognise any of my installed extensions. They worked on reverting to the previous version.
The nice thing about Firefox is that you can (and should) submit a bug report, and the developers will respond to you and the problem will hopefully be fixed soon. IE? They don't care.
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Duh. Because mommy and daddy pay the phone bill for them, of course.
Weird. Usually emulation is slower. If you or anyone else has a link, toss it my way -- I'm curious. We all love our Macs, but it'll be good to know about that in case I'm ever asked about it.
It's not a lie to answer no to this question; you 'got it' from your own head, didn't you? Where you get something and where you store something aren't really the same. I store my car in my garage. Did I get my car from my garage? No; I got it from a Volkswagen dealer. If asked where I got my car from, I state the dealership's name. If I answered 'My garage', people would look at me funny and ask if I built it myself like in the Johnny Cash song 'One Piece At A Time' ... which I didn't. (I'm not THAT good!)
You pay more at the outset when you buy the machine, but you save quite a bit of money and time when you don't have to deal with Windows' dime-a-dozen swiss-cheese security holes and the incessant viruses/worms/other malware you have to deal with. You also have to buy a lot more software as Apple provides a lot of stuff for free, pre-installed (and gives you real OS install disks in addition to system restore disks, not restore-only like a lot of system makers do lately) and you can buy a productivity suite (iWork) for a lot less than the insane amount of money MS wants for Office. (Sadly, no Aqua-native version of OpenOffice exists yet, though you can get decently-priced/free word processor/text editor apps if you look around a bit).
It is not as inexpensive as a Linux box, but then, you still can't run Photoshop (and there are those of us like me who actually need Photoshop, not the GIMP; fortunately, we university research types are eligible for educational prices, so the cost is reasonable) on Linux.
Macs really are the best choice for a lot of people, but a lot of those same people are too stupid to think of the long-term cost of ownership and only look at up-front numbers, which can be incredibly misleading.
I love my Macs. I support not just the lab I work in (every machine is a Mac except where we got stuck with Windows-only apps, like the controller for the Bio-Rad confocal microscope) but also support the department at large, and encourage people to get Macs. I spend far less time helping those who do have them than I do cleaning malware and spyware off Windows machines.
Unfortunately, if you need to be able to edit PDFs (I do; I just did a pile of edits just a little while ago) you need to buy Acrobat. Fortunately, the educational price for Pro is quite reasonable -- far from the typical Adobe ripoff.
Or, in the case of the OS X version, it's INSIDE the flippin' app package. I have no problem going inside my apps (do this all the time to migrate firefox searchplugins without redownloading them all) but running a search for it (I tried a few weeks ago) won't find it, as it's not in the normal place for Office toolbars. Now, after reading the Mac version of the tip, the goddamn thing is GONE. Deleted it from the Acrobat app package. Beat THAT, you piece of (not overpriced as I got it for the EDU price) crap!
If it helps any (a bit late, I'm sure), I'm a female gamer geek who loves space flight sims, including Wing Commander. But that wasn't me!
(There's a tiny typo; the domain in question this time is neovi.com).
I also hit them with an FCC complaint and a BBB complaint. I think my next stop is Planetfeedback, with the "allow public viewing" box checked, and maybe sic PF on Aplus.net too...
Oh believe me my bank knows about it (I told them, and faxed them an explicit written order, that no charges from any of my old accounts are to be forwarded on as I am no longer using my old numbers for ANYTHING) but I'm pissed off about the whole thing, and I decided that aplus.net is going to have to deal with that fact.
;)
I sent yet another nastygram to them today (I'm sure they're tired of me, but if they hadn't ripped me off in the first place they wouldn't have brought this on themselves, so tough shit to them).
The domain finally doesn't resolve anymore -- but I'm still bitching at them since my name, and a phone number that is not mine, is still in the whois db. I told them the matter isn't closed until I see a refund on my credit statement and the fake info is gone. In other words, "Put up, cause I'm not shutting up".
Bastards.
Then there's Neovi, Inc., who hit me for four charges of $100 each and has ignored a faxed demand letter, so I followed that up with a copy of the same demand sent to abuse@, webmaster@, postmaster@, and inksales@ neovic.om.
They're officially bastards on my list, too.
What is it with fucking asshole companies in San Diego?
The site is so new that it's not listed yet, although I will definitely keep the link around. Thanks for the tip -- I've been complaining to everyone who can do something and no one has yet (no refund yet -- "we're investigating" -- site still online, etc etc etc).
Which the bank will just charge them back on especially since the accout is supposed to have been closed (I'm sending, IN WRITING, a letter stating that NO CHARGES are to be accepted on that account, none of this manually-transfer-charges-to-new-account crap they're doing).
;) But if you really want, I can give you the URL.
And the post you posted to was an attempt at slashdot humor.
A site registered and hosted using stolen funds from my credit card is still online following phoned and faxed demands for revocation and refund sent to the registrar/host. Can I somehow use this to send an entire domain to a black hole until the hosting/domain are revoked? It wouldn't be hacking, but it would make me feel a lot better to see the scammers knocked offline. If no one can get to them on google, they can't get any scam income. And what are they going to do -- sue me? That just would result in my slapping them with *criminal* charges as well as a motion for dismissal and a countersuit.
Bill Gates wrote, in his Challenges and Strategy memo of May 16, 1991, that "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can." Microsoft has since filed thousands of patents both in the European Union and in the U.S. ... so are you, or aren't you, against patents? The first half of your lipflapping says you're against patents since you think they are destroying the industry. The second half of your waste of breath says that you're patenting everything in sight.
So which is it, fuckface? You can't have it both ways.
Ah. Too bad... it would really benefit. Lots of other content managers out there, too, that are decent. We can hope, can't we?
But then, reducing bandwidth usage would be rather ironic for slashdot, eh?
You could write a patch, couldn't you, and submit it to the slashcode project?
I'm a woman, and I can't get anybody I'm interested in to look at me, and two people I know who are married have told me they find me interesting in that way, but are not interested in pursuing anything...
It goes both ways. None of the single GUYS I know will give me a second look! And I can't get rid of the ones that drive me up the wall!
ARRRRG.
-- Text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
They sent two landers, another in 1971, it turns out. Only one succeeded at all -- am not sure which -- but it stopped sending after 30 seconds. I'm not sure what it did send back.
First "once around the moon": Russians IIRC
The first manned flight around the Moon was Apollo 8, in December 1968. The closest the Soviets ever came to replicating that feat was a few unmanned Zond craft. The N-1 manned lunar booster never successfully launched -- too many problems with the first stage.
The Russians have also never sent a working lander to Mars -- Mars 6 did land a vehicle in 1973, but it never sent back any useful data. First mission to make it was Viking 1 in 1976. Then Viking 2 that same year, then Pathfinder in 1997, and now we have the rovers.
Nope, s/he can't. Your searches were right.
The House of Representatives has to introduce all bills. The president can only veto, or not, legislation presented to him/her. But the House and Senate can override the veto by an appropriate margin.
Also look up "checks and balances" to see how the different branches are supposed to kick each other in the ass if they get stupid. It used to work real well til the executive branch started getting REALLY stupid (and then whining, when smacked, about "activist judges").
I didn't get one, odd. Adblock didn't mark anything as blocked, either.
Do a search in Bugzilla, and if you find someone beat you to it, post your sample URLs and then vote for the bug. I've done that before.
Do you have a sample I could look at?
I'm stuck using the 1.0.1 release from that site. I tried grabbing that new version from the page earlier, before coming to this thread, and it refused to recognise any of my installed extensions. They worked on reverting to the previous version.
Has anyone else had this problem?
The nice thing about Firefox is that you can (and should) submit a bug report, and the developers will respond to you and the problem will hopefully be fixed soon. IE? They don't care.
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org is where you go).
You don't get it, do you? Are you really that stupid? This isn't about flying. This is about totalitarian-regime-style secret laws.
I'd call that something VERY worth arguing about.
Get off my planet.