If MS did this, the/. crowd would scream bloody murder (hell, they have... and y'all have.) But you know Apple apologists are going to have some reason why this is OK for them to do, and try to make it out like Apple is still the good guy, no matter what.
This sucks, plain and simple. I would like to think that it has to be wrong, but I don't take anything for granted any more, especially since I was told yesterday that the broken latch on my PB is "normal wear and tear" and not covered by my AppleCare. Grr.....
Don't forget, though, that there really wasn't anything wrong with the Firestone tyres. Ford stupidly told customers to run at absurdly low pressures to improve the stability of a badly-designed vehicle, and since the tyres were being used out of spec, they failed. Everyone knows blowouts are caused by running on soft tyres (or they should).
That's not quite true. Ford had them run at low tire pressures to smooth out the ride and it was when the owners let it slip lower that the problems occurred. Ford just removed the margin of error.
When you learn how to program, and read such topics as "stenography" you won't be such a fucking idiot.
And when you become functionally literate and learn how to comprehend what you read, you'll find out all about "steganography." Or do you want him to become a secretary, you putz?
I am not the only computer user at home, so I can't nix Windows. I installed Mandrake 9.1 on my brand new computer, and Lilo corrupted the MBR so bad that it didn't even load - it just showed a sequence of 9s. I had to boot from a floppy and do a fdisk/mbr to restore the MBR, what put me back on a Windows-only enviroment. I have installed several times Red Hat and Conectiva, and this sort of thing had never happened to me. I am going to submit a bug to Mandrake and go back to Red Hat 8.
I had that happen to me, too. I just booted the CD again and told it to repair the boot loader. It did, and Mandrake has been great ever since. WAYYY more elegant (also way newer) than the Caldera 3.1 it replaced.
Seriously though, you're probably right, the majority of the songs that are being downloaded are on Billboard. After all, Billboard measures popularity. There are more people likely to download the catchy song they heard on the radio today, than people trying to download some obscure King Crimson song that a friend told them was cool.
To me, that is where iTMS shines. The only songs I've purchased since the store opened (Mac owner here) are more obscure things that a) I'd never hear on the radio (not that I listen to it anyway) or b) would never buy the album to get said song. For instance, the last song I bought was Five for Fighting's "The Beautiful" from the We Were Soldiers soundtrack.
I was surprised that a single CPU Opteron could be in the same performance ballpark as a dual CPU G5. Does the Opteron do more per clock cycle than the G5? Are applications not taking advantage of the second processor? Is there some other performance bottleneck, such as the memory subsystem? I look forward to finding out....
Out of the apps listed, the only one that takes advantage of 2 cpu's is Photoshop, and that's only for some operations. Premiere is especially noted for its threaded suckiness on the Mac.
"This is what happens when you try to fight the peer-to-peer revolution," said Jason Schultz, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "You either ban the technology completely or censor people's access to content."
When universities start to make decisions about what students can read, watch and listen to, they are changing the nature of student research and thought, Schultz said.
"It's essentially turning interactive computing into television. This has huge implications for academic freedom," he said.
Give me a break. Since when is P2P = student research and thought? That's sophistry. Their stance on p2p makes me regret giving them money. Good thing they do other good deeds that compensate.
When a company is already sending you 3-4 spams a day, every day, it's not like alerting them to an active account is going to make them send more.
Yeah, then they sell it to others. If they're "ethical" you don't get any more spam from THEM, but you get more from their aliases and the other spamzoids they sell it to. "Hey, this guy just clicked unsubscribe. That means he opted in!"
That's kind of a lame comparison with a lame set of requirements: has to run on both Linux and Windows.
My Bayesian of choice, SpamSieve, is directly hooked into my POP program, Mailsmith 2 on OS X. It sucks all the mail from all the accounts down, transparently adds an isSpam or isNotSpam property to the email and then Mailsmith dumps it into the spam folder if it is, or deals according with them if not.
After going through maybe 20k messages, I've had one false positive (good mail marked as spam and that was very early on its training) and running an overall rate of 97.5% including when it was being trained.
Bah to "Windows or Linux only." Even Apple Mail seems to be a better solution than what was previewed. A web interface? Give me a break.
but my point was that SCSI was *standard* on the IIgs, whereas on most (non-Apple) computers it was still an option.
No, it wasn't. You had to add either an Apple High Speed SCSI card or a RAMFast. SCSI was standard on the Mac SE which came out at roughty the same time.
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Thanks but nothing's ready, yet.
I use the Zaurus ROMv3 for which there is no solution.
Bummer. Guess it's obvious I don't have one. Oh well, I tried; I just knew that I'd tripped across something recently.
What I still cannot do (I used to be able to do it under Linux) :
Synchronize my Zaurus to the Address Book and the Datebook
Dude, you might want to check out http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/~kdurbin/zlinks.html . Lots of good resources for MacZaurus folk.
If MS did this, the /. crowd would scream bloody murder (hell, they have... and y'all have.) But you know Apple apologists are going to have some reason why this is OK for them to do, and try to make it out like Apple is still the good guy, no matter what.
This sucks, plain and simple. I would like to think that it has to be wrong, but I don't take anything for granted any more, especially since I was told yesterday that the broken latch on my PB is "normal wear and tear" and not covered by my AppleCare. Grr.....
Don't forget, though, that there really wasn't anything wrong with the Firestone tyres. Ford stupidly told customers to run at absurdly low pressures to improve the stability of a badly-designed vehicle, and since the tyres were being used out of spec, they failed. Everyone knows blowouts are caused by running on soft tyres (or they should).
That's not quite true. Ford had them run at low tire pressures to smooth out the ride and it was when the owners let it slip lower that the problems occurred. Ford just removed the margin of error.
Watch it, before the ABA sues you!
ME is still supported
Look at the requirements for Office 2003: Win2k and XP only.
When you learn how to program, and read such topics as "stenography" you won't be such a fucking idiot.
And when you become functionally literate and learn how to comprehend what you read, you'll find out all about "steganography." Or do you want him to become a secretary, you putz?
I am not the only computer user at home, so I can't nix Windows. I installed Mandrake 9.1 on my brand new computer, and Lilo corrupted the MBR so bad that it didn't even load - it just showed a sequence of 9s. I had to boot from a floppy and do a fdisk /mbr to restore the MBR, what put me back on a Windows-only enviroment. I have installed several times Red Hat and Conectiva, and this sort of thing had never happened to me. I am going to submit a bug to Mandrake and go back to Red Hat 8.
I had that happen to me, too. I just booted the CD again and told it to repair the boot loader. It did, and Mandrake has been great ever since. WAYYY more elegant (also way newer) than the Caldera 3.1 it replaced.
Does it come with a SCO license?
Who could choose between lawyers and politicians. Hmm, most politicians are lawyers. Hmmm......
Seriously though, you're probably right, the majority of the songs that are being downloaded are on Billboard. After all, Billboard measures popularity. There are more people likely to download the catchy song they heard on the radio today, than people trying to download some obscure King Crimson song that a friend told them was cool.
To me, that is where iTMS shines. The only songs I've purchased since the store opened (Mac owner here) are more obscure things that a) I'd never hear on the radio (not that I listen to it anyway) or b) would never buy the album to get said song. For instance, the last song I bought was Five for Fighting's "The Beautiful" from the We Were Soldiers soundtrack.
If Microsoft isn't even supporting them why should Apple? Let's be real here.
"We have to. We invented personal computing. "
Apple must not have received that revisionist memo.
Sooner or later people got used to IE, realized they didn't need 2 browsers, and got rid of the easier one to uninstall.
Err, don't you mean the one they could uninstall?
I was surprised that a single CPU Opteron could be in the same performance ballpark as a dual CPU G5. Does the Opteron do more per clock cycle than the G5? Are applications not taking advantage of the second processor? Is there some other performance bottleneck, such as the memory subsystem? I look forward to finding out....
Out of the apps listed, the only one that takes advantage of 2 cpu's is Photoshop, and that's only for some operations.
Premiere is especially noted for its threaded suckiness on the Mac.
"This is what happens when you try to fight the peer-to-peer revolution," said Jason Schultz, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "You either ban the technology completely or censor people's access to content."
When universities start to make decisions about what students can read, watch and listen to, they are changing the nature of student research and thought, Schultz said.
"It's essentially turning interactive computing into television. This has huge implications for academic freedom," he said.
Give me a break. Since when is P2P = student research and thought? That's sophistry.
Their stance on p2p makes me regret giving them money. Good thing they do other good deeds that compensate.
That's how Apple dramatically cut the boot time between 10.1 and Jaguwire.
Might be new for linux, but it's hardly a revelation or innovation.
It wasn't including speakers with it that got them sued the first time, it was the synthesizer that was included in the IIGS.
When a company is already sending you 3-4 spams a day, every day, it's not like alerting them to an active account is going to make them send more.
Yeah, then they sell it to others. If they're "ethical" you don't get any more spam from THEM, but you get more from their aliases and the other spamzoids they sell it to.
"Hey, this guy just clicked unsubscribe. That means he opted in!"
.. and for the record, anyone who has run OS X would know better than to say "login to a text console".
:-)
Cause, like... there isn't one.
Ahh, err, instead of typing in your password in the box next time, enter a username of...>console. Then come back here and do a mea culpa.
That's kind of a lame comparison with a lame set of requirements: has to run on both Linux and Windows.
My Bayesian of choice, SpamSieve, is directly hooked into my POP program, Mailsmith 2 on OS X. It sucks all the mail from all the accounts down, transparently adds an isSpam or isNotSpam property to the email and then Mailsmith dumps it into the spam folder if it is, or deals according with them if not.
After going through maybe 20k messages, I've had one false positive (good mail marked as spam and that was very early on its training) and running an overall rate of 97.5% including when it was being trained.
Bah to "Windows or Linux only." Even Apple Mail seems to be a better solution than what was previewed. A web interface? Give me a break.
No, it wasn't. You had to add either an Apple High Speed SCSI card or a RAMFast. SCSI was standard on the Mac SE which came out at roughty the same time.
Depends upon if he's in his DeLorean or not!
Colnel Kurtz, you mean?
Actually, it's a well-below average troll. Doesn't even rank on the troll-o-meter.