Do you realize how expensive medical care is? Surgery and MONTHS of hospitalization probably cost (at the least) tens of thousands of dollars. If the US were a sensible country with a proper healthcare system this wouldn't be an issue, but it's not, so there's likely been a sizable financial burden on this family thanks to these kids running into her.
Once again, that's not relevant (though as someone who used to wear holes in his Big Wheels from speeding down hills, I should point out that kids can get quite a bit of steam given the right circumstances). They caused an accident, and can be held financially liable for the consequences (medical bills, etc.). Now, given their age I think their parents should be the ones held responsible, but I didn't write the law.
It doesn't really matter whether or not it was accidental; people still have responsibility for their actions. To use he inevitable car analogy, if I cause an accident in my car I don't get to just shrug my shoulders and say, "well shit, it was just an accident. Why should I pay for the damage?"
Accidents don't mean no responsibility. If I crash my car into yours accidentally I'm still responsible for the damage. Now, since we're talking about a very young kid I think the parents should shoulder the responsibility (much like they would if their dog had run the old lady down) but apparently the law says otherwise.
Even assuming they could enforce this: What if you're behind a NAT? Are they going to try to sue me because my IP accessed 7 different articles after each person in my family accesses a single article as allowed by their terms? Even dozens or hundreds of views from a single IP isn't necessarily illegitimate (could be from a college or company). Clueless is right.
I grew-up with the AmigaOS and the Classic OS (6,7,8), so I'm not yet used to the new Unix-based OS 10
Is it any wonder you think the Mac OS is stuck in the 90's?
Expose can be triggered any number of ways: the Expose keys on your keyboard (or F9 through F11 if you don't use an Apple keyboard), mousing to a hot corner of your choosing, the Expose gestures on the multitouch trackpad, click-and-hold on an app's dock icon (or if you're dragging and dropping something then hovering over its dock icon for a moment will suffice [hit the space bar to activate Expose immediately]). There are probably even more ways I'm not remembering right now...
I see you haven't been to an Ikea in the past year, because there (at least in the LA area) self-checkout IS mandatory (caveat: I haven't been in the past 6 months so possibly by now they've scrapped this abortion of an idea).
What's worse is they made it mandatory basically the moment they rolled it out. It was a shock when I first saw it. Where normally there'd be 3 or 4 normal checkout aisles open, there were 8 "self checkout" machines in groups of 4 each. Each group was staffed by a single person. Since the system was so new every other item people were scanning either came up wrong or didn't register at all, so every four customers had to wait their turn to get attention from a single employee, multiple times per transaction.
It was so bad I just assume they'd scrap it entirely, but they next time I went back about 3 months later it was the same - except instead of one employee per group of 4, they 'fixed' the situation by bumping it up to 3 employees per 4 self-checkouts. Seriously: instead of 3-4 checkout lanes run smoothly by 3-4 employees, they switched to 8 self-checkout lanes run halfassedly by a mixture of customers and 6 employees.
Now, the self-checkout at my local Home Depot runs great, and the company knows well enough that it's never going to get away with regular checkout aisles so there are always a couple available when necessary...
How the hell did this get modded flamebait? I didn't call anyone out nor did I say Macs are inferior without justification. I just said I don't like Apple's policies on their platform basically.
No, you posted something factually incorrect and not surprisingly people are disagreeing with you. You have since tried to correct yourself by saying I should have said "Apple products" not Macs, but that, like the reference to "their platform" above, is still wrong. "No flash" is not an issue with "Apple products" or "their platform" - it is an issue with a certain subset (iOS devices).
If you have an issue with those devices, great, you have a legit argument there. Don't buy them. But don't conflate the Mac with iOS devices, they're two different platforms with different sets of rules.
Bothering your inbox with replies, eh? God forbid people engage in a discussion with you when you post something stupid in a discussion forum like Macs have "no flash at all."
Perhaps they buy them because they're not as wildly misinformed as you are? Macs are not iPhones.
Macs have flash, you aren't forced to use iTunes on a Mac any more than you are on a PC (that said, the Mac version is far less shitty, though it still desperately needs a rewrite as TFA says), and "Quicktime" isn't some add-on cruft like on Windows, but rather is part of the video frameworks of the OS (but as far as playing videos goes, you can use VLC, Mplayer, Plex, whatever the hell you want).
Leaving aside the fact that 5-6 years ago is not 2 years ago (seriously? And even in 2004 the Macbook equivalent [iBook] had 5 hours of battery life), I'd be happy to compare the "identical" specs of this modern Toshiba you keep talking about with a modern Macbook if you'd just give a link. The Toshiba that someone else linked earlier had an AMD processor that cpubenchmarks.net rated at almost 1/3 the speed of the Core 2 Duo in the Macbook, and had slower DDR2 ram vs. the Macbook's DDR3 ram, so I'm assuming that can't be the one you were referring to.
For a college student, the low end Macbook is $900 and comes with a free iPod voucher ($250). That (in addition to things like Gigabit ethernet, lighter and more solid construction, better battery life, iLife suite, freedom from pretty much all viruses and malware, etc.) may not be something that you are at all interested in, but some people do have a legitimate reason to prefer it over a bargain-bin PC despite what you seem to think. I have no problem with people who want to buy a cheap Toshiba if that's what they need and want - but you seem to be dismissing people's opinions as if there's no way that something you don't like could possibly fit their needs better. That's pretty presumptuous.
This was a couple years ago and was purchased from some crap local electronics store - I don't know if that's why, or if they've changed their warranties since, but Toshiba did absolutely refuse to fix it outside of the 90-day window.
Now, I'll happily grant that my story is merely anecdotal anyhow (though your link does say the bargain-bin laptops are less reliable), but even ignoring potential reliability issues there are significant differences beyond "equivalent memory and speed" between a Macbook and a bargain-bin laptop that could easily sway someone in the Macbook's favor (beyond irrational "OMG Apple badge MUSTHAVEIT!" as the op was implying).
Judging by the last $400 Toshiba a friend of mine purchased, it would have been 2" thick, have a whopping 2 hour battery life, and will inexplicably stop booting due to some mystery hardware flaw just outside the generous 90 day warranty window (not to mention it lacked a multitouch gesture-enabled trackpad, more solid case, and a few other things here and there... but since you couldn't be bothered to link your references I can't compare whatever it is you were really looking at). He ended up replacing it with a Macbook Pro and couldn't be happier.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. It said the person must identify themselves to the officer - it does not require that that identification be an ID card. In fact, Nevada's stop-and-identify law, the one the SC ruled on, specifically allows for verbal identification.
Two Nevada statutes were involved in this case. The first, the stop-and-identify statute, Nevada Revised Statutes 171.123, authorizes a police officer to detain any person the officer has reasonable suspicion has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. The statute provides that a person who is detained must identify himself but is not required to answer any other questions asked by the officer. The statute has been interpreted by the Nevada Supreme Court as requiring only that the person state his or her name to the officer, either verbally or by some other means; there is no requirement that the person provide any document to the officer.
Whether or not criminals lie is irrelevant. There is NO REQUIREMENT TO CARRY ID in the US. It would be nonsensical therefore to require anyone detained by police to show an ID card on demand. As it happens, there is no such requirement. You must identify yourself (and giving an officer false information is illegal) but you have absolutely no requirement to show an ID card of any kind.
Your arguments in this thread boil down to "but it's harder for police to do their jobs if they can't ask for ID, so of course they can ask for ID!" No. It's harder for cops to do their jobs if they can't randomly search you or your home/vehicle arbitrarily whenever they want, but the Constitution doesn't exist to make the job of a police officer easier. If you have some evidence that showing an ID card is legally required, please point to it (note you're the one making the positive claim).
Second, the police were AMAZINGLY patient with them. At 2:55 One officer asked a dozen times for their ID and he refuses. That's just wrong, any officer has the right to ask for an ID if they have any reason to do so. If you're just standing there looking "suspicious", a cop can ask for ID. Why? So they can know who the hell you are. If you're innocent and don't have warrants out you have no reason not to say "sure here's my ID".
No. Officers can demand you verbally identify yourself - "I'm Joe Smith" - but cannot demand you show some kind of ID card. Not everyone carries ID around with them everywhere they go, and some people may not even own an ID card (particularly minors or younger people who haven't bothered to get a driver's license).
Driving is an exception, of course, because your driver's license is your proof that you are legally licensed to drive.
Oh, and Arizona of course. You'd damn well better have some kind of papers on you proving you're a citizen, at least until a legal challenge makes its way to the Supreme Court and that dumbass law gets struck down.
Last month, a user posted a forum comment stating, "I am going to tell you the truth about what has been going on with your account." The anonymous user then explained, "let’s say you are a Chinese guy or girl with an iPhone or iPad and you want to get some music, movie or app. How you do you do it? You go to http://www.taobao.com/ The (by far) largest online market in the world and type iTunes in the search bar. Immediately you will be presented with a list of more than 7,000 items.
"You want to save money, so you filter the list to show only items under RMB25.00- (US $3.60) and still you have more than 3,600 offers. So you pick some one at random like, as an example, this one: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=5516054242. You open the online chat and you transfer him RMB22.00 (US $3.20). He ask you in the online chat to provide a new iTunes account name and password, and you comply: User: qiuwge3foe3333@yahoo.com Password: qwer34567
"He asks you to wait 10 minutes online. He has already a number of user accounts under surveillance, so he enters in the iTunes account of his victim, change his/her username and password to the one you provided, and come back to ask you try it and approve the transaction so Taobao.com releases his money. Even if you cant read Chinese you can see very clearly in his item description that this account will not last more than 24 hours (the time for his victim to see the charges mounting and then cancel the credit card).
"He claims that he selects 'his' accounts so you can drain at least US $250.00 from them before they get cancelled. He urges you to be fast and buy and download as fast as you can. Start immediately! Keep the download going on for the full 24 hours! There is no warranties on how long it will last! Because he already changed the username and password, the victim can’t stop you.
More details here though so far there's no explanation of how the accounts are getting hacked.
Perhaps you missed They just see the advantage of working with a bigger community on a few components because it lowers their development costs, nothing more. It seems to me like he's accusing them of mooching, especially given his "impressions" that Apple gives nothing of their own back to the OSS community. Perhaps if his posts were more clear and less counterfactual it would be easier to figure out what he was getting at.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable in the specifics of Apple's open source work, but as far as stuff they've created an open sourced, there's Clang for one. I also believe Apple owns the full rights to CUPS and could if they wanted keep their improvements closed source. I'm sure someone more into Apple's OSS dealings can give you far more examples. Apple has also done an incredible amount of work with Webkit and it is completely absurd to use it to imply they are simply mooching off the community.
Perhaps next time you make a post, you should base it on something more than your impressions?
Not letting people buy 50 at a time somehow increases scarcity?
Stores were selling out on launch day. I would have been pissed if I was the twentieth guy in a 60-person line and was told "Sorry, the first three guys bought 25 each, we're out. (For the record I didn't wait in line for one and I don't even own one.)
They can track your purchases via your credit card, doofus, whereas cash is anonymous. How'd you get modded informative? (Now, if you have multiple CCs perhaps you could work around it, though they may be using the address or phone # tied to the CC account in addition to your name.)
From what I remember, studies of identical twins raised apart show that homosexuality has about 80% heritability, while in fraternal twins (who are just regular siblings but share the environment of the womb) it's about 50%. For regular siblings, the number was far less (I don't remember, 20%?). Sorry, I don't have the studies on hand but they're probably easy to google (I'm on my way out to dinner or I'd try).
That 80% heritability number for identical twins implies genetics and biology account for about that much of the difference, which seems to be exactly the inverse of what dogmatixpsych is claiming. However, I don't claim to understand heritability well, so maybe I'm the one who has it backwards. It's interesting to note that fraternal twins are more likely than regular siblings to both be homosexual - so whatever causes it, it's not just genetics but the environment in the womb (hormones, etc.) as well.
We never got a single patch ahead of time - ever - to even do the testing ourselves.
I stopped reading here. Either you're a slick troll or Adobe is massively fucking incompetent (I'm not sure which might actually be true and it doesn't really matter). You're seriously claiming Adobe doesn't get the same access to pre-release updates that every other Mac developer gets?
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Do you realize how expensive medical care is? Surgery and MONTHS of hospitalization probably cost (at the least) tens of thousands of dollars. If the US were a sensible country with a proper healthcare system this wouldn't be an issue, but it's not, so there's likely been a sizable financial burden on this family thanks to these kids running into her.
Once again, that's not relevant (though as someone who used to wear holes in his Big Wheels from speeding down hills, I should point out that kids can get quite a bit of steam given the right circumstances). They caused an accident, and can be held financially liable for the consequences (medical bills, etc.). Now, given their age I think their parents should be the ones held responsible, but I didn't write the law.
It doesn't really matter whether or not it was accidental; people still have responsibility for their actions. To use he inevitable car analogy, if I cause an accident in my car I don't get to just shrug my shoulders and say, "well shit, it was just an accident. Why should I pay for the damage?"
Accidents don't mean no responsibility. If I crash my car into yours accidentally I'm still responsible for the damage. Now, since we're talking about a very young kid I think the parents should shoulder the responsibility (much like they would if their dog had run the old lady down) but apparently the law says otherwise.
Even assuming they could enforce this: What if you're behind a NAT? Are they going to try to sue me because my IP accessed 7 different articles after each person in my family accesses a single article as allowed by their terms? Even dozens or hundreds of views from a single IP isn't necessarily illegitimate (could be from a college or company). Clueless is right.
I grew-up with the AmigaOS and the Classic OS (6,7,8), so I'm not yet used to the new Unix-based OS 10
Is it any wonder you think the Mac OS is stuck in the 90's?
Expose can be triggered any number of ways: the Expose keys on your keyboard (or F9 through F11 if you don't use an Apple keyboard), mousing to a hot corner of your choosing, the Expose gestures on the multitouch trackpad, click-and-hold on an app's dock icon (or if you're dragging and dropping something then hovering over its dock icon for a moment will suffice [hit the space bar to activate Expose immediately]). There are probably even more ways I'm not remembering right now...
There's only one reason to develop for iOS: you're retarded.
You're retarded.
I see you haven't been to an Ikea in the past year, because there (at least in the LA area) self-checkout IS mandatory (caveat: I haven't been in the past 6 months so possibly by now they've scrapped this abortion of an idea).
What's worse is they made it mandatory basically the moment they rolled it out. It was a shock when I first saw it. Where normally there'd be 3 or 4 normal checkout aisles open, there were 8 "self checkout" machines in groups of 4 each. Each group was staffed by a single person. Since the system was so new every other item people were scanning either came up wrong or didn't register at all, so every four customers had to wait their turn to get attention from a single employee, multiple times per transaction.
It was so bad I just assume they'd scrap it entirely, but they next time I went back about 3 months later it was the same - except instead of one employee per group of 4, they 'fixed' the situation by bumping it up to 3 employees per 4 self-checkouts. Seriously: instead of 3-4 checkout lanes run smoothly by 3-4 employees, they switched to 8 self-checkout lanes run halfassedly by a mixture of customers and 6 employees.
Now, the self-checkout at my local Home Depot runs great, and the company knows well enough that it's never going to get away with regular checkout aisles so there are always a couple available when necessary...
How the hell did this get modded flamebait? I didn't call anyone out nor did I say Macs are inferior without justification. I just said I don't like Apple's policies on their platform basically.
No, you posted something factually incorrect and not surprisingly people are disagreeing with you. You have since tried to correct yourself by saying I should have said "Apple products" not Macs, but that, like the reference to "their platform" above, is still wrong. "No flash" is not an issue with "Apple products" or "their platform" - it is an issue with a certain subset (iOS devices).
If you have an issue with those devices, great, you have a legit argument there. Don't buy them. But don't conflate the Mac with iOS devices, they're two different platforms with different sets of rules.
Bothering your inbox with replies, eh? God forbid people engage in a discussion with you when you post something stupid in a discussion forum like Macs have "no flash at all."
Perhaps they buy them because they're not as wildly misinformed as you are? Macs are not iPhones.
Macs have flash, you aren't forced to use iTunes on a Mac any more than you are on a PC (that said, the Mac version is far less shitty, though it still desperately needs a rewrite as TFA says), and "Quicktime" isn't some add-on cruft like on Windows, but rather is part of the video frameworks of the OS (but as far as playing videos goes, you can use VLC, Mplayer, Plex, whatever the hell you want).
Leaving aside the fact that 5-6 years ago is not 2 years ago (seriously? And even in 2004 the Macbook equivalent [iBook] had 5 hours of battery life), I'd be happy to compare the "identical" specs of this modern Toshiba you keep talking about with a modern Macbook if you'd just give a link. The Toshiba that someone else linked earlier had an AMD processor that cpubenchmarks.net rated at almost 1/3 the speed of the Core 2 Duo in the Macbook, and had slower DDR2 ram vs. the Macbook's DDR3 ram, so I'm assuming that can't be the one you were referring to.
For a college student, the low end Macbook is $900 and comes with a free iPod voucher ($250). That (in addition to things like Gigabit ethernet, lighter and more solid construction, better battery life, iLife suite, freedom from pretty much all viruses and malware, etc.) may not be something that you are at all interested in, but some people do have a legitimate reason to prefer it over a bargain-bin PC despite what you seem to think. I have no problem with people who want to buy a cheap Toshiba if that's what they need and want - but you seem to be dismissing people's opinions as if there's no way that something you don't like could possibly fit their needs better. That's pretty presumptuous.
This was a couple years ago and was purchased from some crap local electronics store - I don't know if that's why, or if they've changed their warranties since, but Toshiba did absolutely refuse to fix it outside of the 90-day window.
Now, I'll happily grant that my story is merely anecdotal anyhow (though your link does say the bargain-bin laptops are less reliable), but even ignoring potential reliability issues there are significant differences beyond "equivalent memory and speed" between a Macbook and a bargain-bin laptop that could easily sway someone in the Macbook's favor (beyond irrational "OMG Apple badge MUSTHAVEIT!" as the op was implying).
Judging by the last $400 Toshiba a friend of mine purchased, it would have been 2" thick, have a whopping 2 hour battery life, and will inexplicably stop booting due to some mystery hardware flaw just outside the generous 90 day warranty window (not to mention it lacked a multitouch gesture-enabled trackpad, more solid case, and a few other things here and there... but since you couldn't be bothered to link your references I can't compare whatever it is you were really looking at). He ended up replacing it with a Macbook Pro and couldn't be happier.
From the cops themselves:
Two Nevada statutes were involved in this case. The first, the stop-and-identify statute, Nevada Revised Statutes 171.123, authorizes a police officer to detain any person the officer has reasonable suspicion has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. The statute provides that a person who is detained must identify himself but is not required to answer any other questions asked by the officer. The statute has been interpreted by the Nevada Supreme Court as requiring only that the person state his or her name to the officer, either verbally or by some other means; there is no requirement that the person provide any document to the officer.
Whether or not criminals lie is irrelevant. There is NO REQUIREMENT TO CARRY ID in the US. It would be nonsensical therefore to require anyone detained by police to show an ID card on demand. As it happens, there is no such requirement. You must identify yourself (and giving an officer false information is illegal) but you have absolutely no requirement to show an ID card of any kind.
Your arguments in this thread boil down to "but it's harder for police to do their jobs if they can't ask for ID, so of course they can ask for ID!" No. It's harder for cops to do their jobs if they can't randomly search you or your home/vehicle arbitrarily whenever they want, but the Constitution doesn't exist to make the job of a police officer easier. If you have some evidence that showing an ID card is legally required, please point to it (note you're the one making the positive claim).
Second, the police were AMAZINGLY patient with them. At 2:55 One officer asked a dozen times for their ID and he refuses. That's just wrong, any officer has the right to ask for an ID if they have any reason to do so. If you're just standing there looking "suspicious", a cop can ask for ID. Why? So they can know who the hell you are. If you're innocent and don't have warrants out you have no reason not to say "sure here's my ID".
No. Officers can demand you verbally identify yourself - "I'm Joe Smith" - but cannot demand you show some kind of ID card. Not everyone carries ID around with them everywhere they go, and some people may not even own an ID card (particularly minors or younger people who haven't bothered to get a driver's license). Driving is an exception, of course, because your driver's license is your proof that you are legally licensed to drive. Oh, and Arizona of course. You'd damn well better have some kind of papers on you proving you're a citizen, at least until a legal challenge makes its way to the Supreme Court and that dumbass law gets struck down.
Last month, a user posted a forum comment stating, "I am going to tell you the truth about what has been going on with your account." The anonymous user then explained, "let’s say you are a Chinese guy or girl with an iPhone or iPad and you want to get some music, movie or app. How you do you do it? You go to http://www.taobao.com/ The (by far) largest online market in the world and type iTunes in the search bar. Immediately you will be presented with a list of more than 7,000 items.
"You want to save money, so you filter the list to show only items under RMB25.00- (US $3.60) and still you have more than 3,600 offers. So you pick some one at random like, as an example, this one: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=5516054242. You open the online chat and you transfer him RMB22.00 (US $3.20). He ask you in the online chat to provide a new iTunes account name and password, and you comply: User: qiuwge3foe3333@yahoo.com Password: qwer34567
"He asks you to wait 10 minutes online. He has already a number of user accounts under surveillance, so he enters in the iTunes account of his victim, change his/her username and password to the one you provided, and come back to ask you try it and approve the transaction so Taobao.com releases his money. Even if you cant read Chinese you can see very clearly in his item description that this account will not last more than 24 hours (the time for his victim to see the charges mounting and then cancel the credit card).
"He claims that he selects 'his' accounts so you can drain at least US $250.00 from them before they get cancelled. He urges you to be fast and buy and download as fast as you can. Start immediately! Keep the download going on for the full 24 hours! There is no warranties on how long it will last! Because he already changed the username and password, the victim can’t stop you.
More details here though so far there's no explanation of how the accounts are getting hacked.
Perhaps you missed They just see the advantage of working with a bigger community on a few components because it lowers their development costs, nothing more. It seems to me like he's accusing them of mooching, especially given his "impressions" that Apple gives nothing of their own back to the OSS community. Perhaps if his posts were more clear and less counterfactual it would be easier to figure out what he was getting at.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable in the specifics of Apple's open source work, but as far as stuff they've created an open sourced, there's Clang for one. I also believe Apple owns the full rights to CUPS and could if they wanted keep their improvements closed source. I'm sure someone more into Apple's OSS dealings can give you far more examples. Apple has also done an incredible amount of work with Webkit and it is completely absurd to use it to imply they are simply mooching off the community.
Perhaps next time you make a post, you should base it on something more than your impressions?
Not letting people buy 50 at a time somehow increases scarcity?
Stores were selling out on launch day. I would have been pissed if I was the twentieth guy in a 60-person line and was told "Sorry, the first three guys bought 25 each, we're out. (For the record I didn't wait in line for one and I don't even own one.)
They can track your purchases via your credit card, doofus, whereas cash is anonymous. How'd you get modded informative? (Now, if you have multiple CCs perhaps you could work around it, though they may be using the address or phone # tied to the CC account in addition to your name.)
From what I remember, studies of identical twins raised apart show that homosexuality has about 80% heritability, while in fraternal twins (who are just regular siblings but share the environment of the womb) it's about 50%. For regular siblings, the number was far less (I don't remember, 20%?). Sorry, I don't have the studies on hand but they're probably easy to google (I'm on my way out to dinner or I'd try).
That 80% heritability number for identical twins implies genetics and biology account for about that much of the difference, which seems to be exactly the inverse of what dogmatixpsych is claiming. However, I don't claim to understand heritability well, so maybe I'm the one who has it backwards. It's interesting to note that fraternal twins are more likely than regular siblings to both be homosexual - so whatever causes it, it's not just genetics but the environment in the womb (hormones, etc.) as well.
What's Apple's excuse?
Seriously? There were two sentences in the post you replied to, and the first already answered your question. How did you get modded up?
We never got a single patch ahead of time - ever - to even do the testing ourselves.
I stopped reading here. Either you're a slick troll or Adobe is massively fucking incompetent (I'm not sure which might actually be true and it doesn't really matter). You're seriously claiming Adobe doesn't get the same access to pre-release updates that every other Mac developer gets?