Considering that it is not in the license agreement of when I purchased this car, I wouldn't be enforced to it.
If however, I was looking at purchasing a car, and the license agreement said that I had to buy high priced tires, you can bet I wouldn't want to buy that car. If I did for whatever reason buy that car, I would be obligated to hold up my end of the license agreement.
Well now I wouldn't say THAT. I think the more and more Apple pushes that everything must be what they say, the more and more people want to go against that. Which will, of course, lead to cases like THIS, where they try to crack the OS.
And When Apple Cracks down on those people - 2 things will happen.
People will end up purchasing a Mac with OS X from an Apple store, OR
People will end up purchasing a computer and putting a different operating system on it. And if wanted OS X to get away from Windows, maybe they'll hear about Ubuntu instead?
If you don't like the legal situation that comes with the product, then don't buy the product. You can't say "Not just redistribution" - either you follow ALL of the terms of the license, or none at all.
They aren't controlling other manufacturer's boxes though.
I don't know how manufacturer's got the idea of "Hey, I could run OS X on this box..." when Apple never gave them consent to. Its Apple's software, they decide who runs it.
The last thing Apple needs is bad PO saying that OS X got hit by a bad virus because of a vulnerability running on someone elses firmware. Sure, it won't hit any Legit Apple products, but the public will think that Macs are no longer secure.
Which is -EXACTLY- what is happening with the iPhone right now. The iPhone itself has never caught a virus, simply because they control the Apps on it. Now there are dozens of news stories about how iPhones are catching this and that, simply because people are Jailbreaking their iPhones. It's not good for the iPhone, which makes it not good for Apple.
When Apple tries to stop the same thing from happening to their Operating system, I can't blame them in the least.
Yeah, Apple is Apple and I don't have to like the way they do things. I will however support them if someone is encroaching on the way they want to run their business. Cracking an Apple OS to run on a machine that Apple doesn't want to goes against what Apple wants to do with their OS. Yes, I know, they're still making money on an OS copy sold, so they shouldn't bitch, but if they want to thats their business.
Apple wants everything to stay within their box, and they want to have complete and utter control over that box. As long as Apple isn't trying to control whats outside the box - I don't care, but as I see it, OS X is part of their box. In the long run, their strictly closed box might be their downfall. No skin off my back.
Yeah, alot of people don't realize how much better life is without TV. When I moved out for the first time I didn't have the cash for cable, it was something I could live without. After 1 month of no TV I began to realize how much more time I had for things I always wanted to do. I took up sketching, I go stargazing, even started programming side projects.
TV just brings you down, even if you only watch it for an hour, after that hour you feel lazy and you just want to go to bed or play video games. It ends up ruining the whole evening. Without it, I feel obligated to DO something. Usually its absense will help me dedicate that half an hour to chores, and then I will want to do something more creative, like write a song.
Anytime I'm over visitting someone else's place, and they have the TV on, 99% of the time I can't stand what is on there, because its SO trashy. The only channel I would even bother watching now is discovery, for Mythbusters and such.
Of Tivo users skip commercials. I'm sure the other 1% either don't know they have Tivo, don't know how to use Tivo, or watch so much television that their mental capacity to understand the concept of skipping commercials has been severely damaged.
Yes, the system I described only works for specific scenarios where you never end up with fractions of a cent, specifically if he is using a "Currency" Datatype. His example mentioned "Sales" so I naturally assumed that was the case, since no business owner I ever heard of has sold something with a fraction of a penny in the price.
It is however, a cheap hack/workaround that will take you maybe 20 minutes to implement, which is easier then trying to define the fool-proof solution.
If you try to cast bad input into whatever currency you are using it will generally throw an error. Even if the Allow Thousands is enabled when trying to parse your numeric string, it still needs to be formed correctly, meaning a comma MUST be followed by 3 characters. In example, 100,00 is not one hundred thousand, it would throw an error.
Generally, this is only ever a problem when you are dealing with different operating systems - because when you grab data from the backend and put it into the Application Layer, it'll put it in whatever form the Operating system sees fit to display it. So while I may have perfectly structured and accurate data entering my program, ($2,000.00) it will be converted before displaying ($2.000,00) to the new format, which if you plan on doing any handling of this data, you have to be careful.
The chips were then sold to Naval Sea Systems Command, the Washington, D.C., group responsible for maintaining the US Navy's ships and systems, as well as an unnamed vacuum-cleaner manufacturer in the Midwest.
Wait wait wait...
Were the chips sold to both the NSSC and a Vacuum-cleaner manufacturer -
Or is the NSSC responsible for maintaining the US Navy's ships, as well as a Vacuum-cleaner manufacturer?
LoL. I know it shocked me too, I'd hardly consider it the best plan, but it would ensure that Wikipedia stays in its current state of 'relative good' accuracy.
The problem with having a dynamic repository of knowledge is that there are more people who are either jerks, misinformed, or disagree, than there are people who actually KNOW the subject of which is being disputed. As such, the editors leave.
I see 1 of 2 things happening:
A) They impose some more security on the site (as they are doing), driving away some editors but essentially securing data from being deleted.
or
B) They keep their dynamic state, all the good editors leave, and Wikipedia becomes a text only 4chan.org
Lock it down, allow no modifications, and leave it as is. Keep it hosted though.
Honestly, the repository is large enough. If I want to find something on there I can. Anything worth being added can be handled by a small team of admins.
Oh. And of course, make it subscription based. (I kid...)
You've got to handle that problem at the application layer, preferably as soon as possible.
Before converting it to a double or float point or whatever you are using, you have to do some data verification. Similarily, you wouldn't want someone putting in "ABC.75" dollars, because that can't be parsed, you have to handle all those scenarios. A try-catch will work for the obvious ones (like I stated) but there are some simple tips to help with the , and . translation done by the OS's.
All of it is done by handling it while its a string, before it goes to a numeric data class. You check if there are any Comma's. If so, how many characters follow the comma. 2 would be like 1,00 (one dollar) , and 3 would be like 1,000 (one thousand dollars). In no case in English formatting should a comma be followed by any less than 3 characters, and assuming they are inputing their information properly, French users won't have any more than 2.
Similarily, you apply the exact same logic for periods, just vice versa. This will allow your program to determine which standard is being used independant of operating system OS. Once you've nailed that, you can change comma's to decimals or what not depending on which case you are in, and then converting it to your double from there.
You should be able to test it on your own at least a few times, to make sure it works, then it SHOULD work across all OS languages.
The beautiful part about it is that this only needs to be done for Data Input, not Data output, since the OS (should) handles the display of Ints and other numeric Datatypes, when your users go to pull up a workorder - it should display in whatever standard they are using on their computer.
You fail to Recognise that seperators in numbers are completely irrelevant to English Grammar.
Similarily, if I say
"I would like to buy that item for $2.50 please."
That there is a period in the middle of the sentence. It's one thing that has bugged me for a long time. But the point is that Period and comma's are interchangable in math. After all, they are just symbols applied to a concept. I think the best way to describe it would be like saying the same rules for syntax that apply to English do not apply to Spanish or French. Similarily, you can't apply those same rules to Mathematics. They are their own language.
... but people tend to like flashy cool looking things.
There is no greater truth when it comes to applying for a job. When I graduated from my Object Oriented Software Development courses, it was tough to stand out. Specifically, we had graduated just before the university & college students, so we got a head start on the job hunt, but basically the final exam was a weeklong project of building a Travel Agency website from scratch.
Don't get me wrong, I bedazzled the pants off this project, being one of the programmers more familiar with Flash. But when you go to a job interview, and they want to see a piece of your work in action, and all you have is the same travel agency web site that other students are showing around - you don't shine as bright as you'd like.
I kid you not, the day of an interview I had gone in and sat in the waiting room, and moments before I was to go in one of my classmates walked out. A little nerve racking, knowing that someone YOU KNOW is competing for the same job, but I knew I was a better programmer. Problem was - could I show it? Towards the end of the interview my interviewer said these words, "Your web site is fine and all, but I'm looking for something more. Something to show you're really into it."
To which I curved a half smile and replied, "I've started work on a game, if you are interested to try it"
Then I simply don't understand how the Pneumatics function differently then buttons. Will it physically feel like there are more or less buttons on the screen at varying times?
Just make buttons that have a touch screen on them, thus you still have the scroll-ability and versatility of a touch screen, combined with the tacticle feedback of buttons when you want things to function like a button...
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Considering that it is not in the license agreement of when I purchased this car, I wouldn't be enforced to it.
If however, I was looking at purchasing a car, and the license agreement said that I had to buy high priced tires, you can bet I wouldn't want to buy that car. If I did for whatever reason buy that car, I would be obligated to hold up my end of the license agreement.
In the end they are bad for the industry
Well now I wouldn't say THAT. I think the more and more Apple pushes that everything must be what they say, the more and more people want to go against that. Which will, of course, lead to cases like THIS, where they try to crack the OS.
And When Apple Cracks down on those people - 2 things will happen.
People will end up purchasing a Mac with OS X from an Apple store, OR
People will end up purchasing a computer and putting a different operating system on it. And if wanted OS X to get away from Windows, maybe they'll hear about Ubuntu instead?
If you don't like the legal situation that comes with the product, then don't buy the product. You can't say "Not just redistribution" - either you follow ALL of the terms of the license, or none at all.
They aren't controlling other manufacturer's boxes though.
I don't know how manufacturer's got the idea of "Hey, I could run OS X on this box..." when Apple never gave them consent to. Its Apple's software, they decide who runs it.
The last thing Apple needs is bad PO saying that OS X got hit by a bad virus because of a vulnerability running on someone elses firmware. Sure, it won't hit any Legit Apple products, but the public will think that Macs are no longer secure.
Which is -EXACTLY- what is happening with the iPhone right now. The iPhone itself has never caught a virus, simply because they control the Apps on it. Now there are dozens of news stories about how iPhones are catching this and that, simply because people are Jailbreaking their iPhones. It's not good for the iPhone, which makes it not good for Apple.
When Apple tries to stop the same thing from happening to their Operating system, I can't blame them in the least.
I wouldn't call them fools if their business strategy makes them alot money.
I don't like the way they do things either, but all in all, they picked a route - stuck to it - and have generally been flawless in its execution.
As you said, the fools are the ones buying the product, but if its what they want, who am I to argue?
Yeah, Apple is Apple and I don't have to like the way they do things. I will however support them if someone is encroaching on the way they want to run their business. Cracking an Apple OS to run on a machine that Apple doesn't want to goes against what Apple wants to do with their OS. Yes, I know, they're still making money on an OS copy sold, so they shouldn't bitch, but if they want to thats their business.
Apple wants everything to stay within their box, and they want to have complete and utter control over that box. As long as Apple isn't trying to control whats outside the box - I don't care, but as I see it, OS X is part of their box. In the long run, their strictly closed box might be their downfall. No skin off my back.
Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.
Once something is leaked you can take down all the websites you want, but you won't stop P2P Sharing.
Yeah, alot of people don't realize how much better life is without TV. When I moved out for the first time I didn't have the cash for cable, it was something I could live without. After 1 month of no TV I began to realize how much more time I had for things I always wanted to do. I took up sketching, I go stargazing, even started programming side projects.
TV just brings you down, even if you only watch it for an hour, after that hour you feel lazy and you just want to go to bed or play video games. It ends up ruining the whole evening. Without it, I feel obligated to DO something. Usually its absense will help me dedicate that half an hour to chores, and then I will want to do something more creative, like write a song.
Anytime I'm over visitting someone else's place, and they have the TV on, 99% of the time I can't stand what is on there, because its SO trashy. The only channel I would even bother watching now is discovery, for Mythbusters and such.
Of Tivo users skip commercials. I'm sure the other 1% either don't know they have Tivo, don't know how to use Tivo, or watch so much television that their mental capacity to understand the concept of skipping commercials has been severely damaged.
You're just jealous I set the high score.
Yes, the system I described only works for specific scenarios where you never end up with fractions of a cent, specifically if he is using a "Currency" Datatype. His example mentioned "Sales" so I naturally assumed that was the case, since no business owner I ever heard of has sold something with a fraction of a penny in the price.
It is however, a cheap hack/workaround that will take you maybe 20 minutes to implement, which is easier then trying to define the fool-proof solution.
If you try to cast bad input into whatever currency you are using it will generally throw an error. Even if the Allow Thousands is enabled when trying to parse your numeric string, it still needs to be formed correctly, meaning a comma MUST be followed by 3 characters. In example, 100,00 is not one hundred thousand, it would throw an error.
Generally, this is only ever a problem when you are dealing with different operating systems - because when you grab data from the backend and put it into the Application Layer, it'll put it in whatever form the Operating system sees fit to display it. So while I may have perfectly structured and accurate data entering my program, ($2,000.00) it will be converted before displaying ($2.000,00) to the new format, which if you plan on doing any handling of this data, you have to be careful.
The chips were then sold to Naval Sea Systems Command, the Washington, D.C., group responsible for maintaining the US Navy's ships and systems, as well as an unnamed vacuum-cleaner manufacturer in the Midwest.
Wait wait wait...
Were the chips sold to both the NSSC and a Vacuum-cleaner manufacturer -
Or is the NSSC responsible for maintaining the US Navy's ships, as well as a Vacuum-cleaner manufacturer?
I think the ambiguity is amusing.
You thought you could get away with fraud while dealing with the government?
Might as well as try robbing a police station.
I'm not actually sure. But I think so?
Anyways, Wake me up when he tries like... Beijing Capital International to LAX
LoL. I know it shocked me too, I'd hardly consider it the best plan, but it would ensure that Wikipedia stays in its current state of 'relative good' accuracy.
The problem with having a dynamic repository of knowledge is that there are more people who are either jerks, misinformed, or disagree, than there are people who actually KNOW the subject of which is being disputed. As such, the editors leave.
I see 1 of 2 things happening:
A) They impose some more security on the site (as they are doing), driving away some editors but essentially securing data from being deleted.
or
B) They keep their dynamic state, all the good editors leave, and Wikipedia becomes a text only 4chan.org
Lock it down, allow no modifications, and leave it as is. Keep it hosted though.
Honestly, the repository is large enough. If I want to find something on there I can. Anything worth being added can be handled by a small team of admins.
Oh. And of course, make it subscription based. (I kid...)
You've got to handle that problem at the application layer, preferably as soon as possible.
Before converting it to a double or float point or whatever you are using, you have to do some data verification. Similarily, you wouldn't want someone putting in "ABC.75" dollars, because that can't be parsed, you have to handle all those scenarios. A try-catch will work for the obvious ones (like I stated) but there are some simple tips to help with the , and . translation done by the OS's.
All of it is done by handling it while its a string, before it goes to a numeric data class. You check if there are any Comma's. If so, how many characters follow the comma. 2 would be like 1,00 (one dollar) , and 3 would be like 1,000 (one thousand dollars). In no case in English formatting should a comma be followed by any less than 3 characters, and assuming they are inputing their information properly, French users won't have any more than 2.
Similarily, you apply the exact same logic for periods, just vice versa. This will allow your program to determine which standard is being used independant of operating system OS. Once you've nailed that, you can change comma's to decimals or what not depending on which case you are in, and then converting it to your double from there.
You should be able to test it on your own at least a few times, to make sure it works, then it SHOULD work across all OS languages.
The beautiful part about it is that this only needs to be done for Data Input, not Data output, since the OS (should) handles the display of Ints and other numeric Datatypes, when your users go to pull up a workorder - it should display in whatever standard they are using on their computer.
I used my last mod point this morning, now I wish I had saved it. =(
Funny though.
Yeah sorry, SOMEONE put a comma instead of a decimal. Growing trend.
You fail to Recognise that seperators in numbers are completely irrelevant to English Grammar.
Similarily, if I say
"I would like to buy that item for $2.50 please."
That there is a period in the middle of the sentence. It's one thing that has bugged me for a long time. But the point is that Period and comma's are interchangable in math. After all, they are just symbols applied to a concept. I think the best way to describe it would be like saying the same rules for syntax that apply to English do not apply to Spanish or French. Similarily, you can't apply those same rules to Mathematics. They are their own language.
There is no greater truth when it comes to applying for a job. When I graduated from my Object Oriented Software Development courses, it was tough to stand out. Specifically, we had graduated just before the university & college students, so we got a head start on the job hunt, but basically the final exam was a weeklong project of building a Travel Agency website from scratch.
Don't get me wrong, I bedazzled the pants off this project, being one of the programmers more familiar with Flash. But when you go to a job interview, and they want to see a piece of your work in action, and all you have is the same travel agency web site that other students are showing around - you don't shine as bright as you'd like.
I kid you not, the day of an interview I had gone in and sat in the waiting room, and moments before I was to go in one of my classmates walked out. A little nerve racking, knowing that someone YOU KNOW is competing for the same job, but I knew I was a better programmer. Problem was - could I show it? Towards the end of the interview my interviewer said these words, "Your web site is fine and all, but I'm looking for something more. Something to show you're really into it."
To which I curved a half smile and replied, "I've started work on a game, if you are interested to try it"
He was.
He liked.
I got the job.
How many Coffee Shops though?
Then I simply don't understand how the Pneumatics function differently then buttons. Will it physically feel like there are more or less buttons on the screen at varying times?
I can't tell if you missed the meaning of Middle America meaning Middle Class, or if it was part of your joke.
Either way, I'm sure there ARE more Wal-marts in the middle of the states, since the coasts are mostly made up of Starbucks.
Just make buttons that have a touch screen on them, thus you still have the scroll-ability and versatility of a touch screen, combined with the tacticle feedback of buttons when you want things to function like a button...
Or am I completely missing the point?