Christianity, and especially Islam would be seen as completely psychotic if they were not several thousand years of tradition surrounding these religions, and countless reforms to make them remain relevant in our technologically advanced world. "Several" thousand years would seem to overstate the matter. Muhammad was born around 570, and we apparently date the Gregorian calendar beginning with some guy in year 0 or something, around 2008 years ago.
A world-spanning religion based on ancient Egyptian religion, now that would be millennia.
Do you have any information to actually back this up or are you just making things up? Why in your view is the operation "shady"? Well, changing address three times in a week after you receive national publicity has a certain eau de fraud about it.
Maybe brilliant. Something that refolded lots of proteins in your body would probably be lethal.
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Hate to break it to you, but that ADM3's a "dumb" terminal (aah, memories of mainframes...). Good luck running a program on it without some serious iron attached.
Nah. The quotes intensify the meaning and also delimit the phrase involved. It would be ambiguous otherwise whether the writer is referring to the proposition that such people should run the country, or to the dubious proposition that the people referred to are truly an "intellectual elite" (either because they aren't or because the idea of an intellectual elite itself is wack).
Oh, and since you are bringing up what you believe is an important error in punctuation, it is traditional for a person in my position to point out that you mis-punctuated your last sentence, since the apostrophe implies that either the quote marks are in a condition of owning something or that some letters have been left out, neither of which is the case. (Leaving out the comma before "right" is merely an affectation for expression's sake and within bounds, imo.)
It is also traditional for a person in my position is make some similar error to the one I'm criteeking, only more boneheded.
Actually there is a definition of how long a sample has to be to infringe copyright because the RIAA took various hip-hop stars to court claiming infringement on beats they'd lifted. Good luck with that. There's no such thing, which is why the lawyers are having such a field day. Try looking up a list of copyright myths, you're on it.
Let me be clear here. They can code up operating systems that contain date-based expiration code all they want. So can anyone else. But when they try to prevent developers from modifying the OS so that it doesn't expire or from installing a homebrew OS, that's unethical. And when have they done either of those things? Have there been assassinations? Does the iPhone give hackers electric shocks? I think we would have heard by now if that were true.
The beta firmware expired (and was replaced by Apple even before your remarks). If you (I speak hypothetically, since your confusion makes it unlikely that you actually do any iPhone coding) want to reverse engineer and hack the firmware, go right ahead, just don't expect Apple to welcome you with candy, flowers and toppled statues of Jobs. If you brick it, you're on your own.
I started reading a Douglas Rushkoff book, think it was Cyberia, had an interesting see-through plastic cover. In the first chapter, among other misfacts, he refers to "Xerox Park". About that point I realized I would have to read slow and verify everything before trusting it as actually true. I had better things to do, so it's been in a box for ten years.
My guess is the fact-checking budget was used for the fancy cover.
Lossless audio is going to involve some large file sizes, and with that, comes increased costs--bandwidth ain't free, and storage/delivery of these files is not going to be cheap or easy. I was downloading some FLAC files from the Avant Garde Project, and the next day Clearwire cut my broadband to less than dialup speed. It appears that Clearwire broadband is best thought of in terms of potential -- you could use it, but if you did they would take it away.
Your contention that your OS is secure because you don't see people attacking you is patently ridiculous. That only proves that you're not a prime target. It's just like presidential candidates claiming the PATRIOT act has prevented terrorism; we haven't been attacked so it must be working, right!? The primary security characteristic of a Mac is that it's a low market share OS, so it's not targeted as often. I think your first statement is largely true (though sadly misinformed as to what is patentable). But I run 10.4 and I get intrusion attempts all the time in my logs, so there's a counterexample. And besides, how would J Random Intruder know whether IP 145.65.24.x is running Windows, Linux, or OS X? True, there might be some telltale aspects to what the machine returns in response to a probe, but that doesn't seem to be deterring 66.230.200.228, 203.218.198.69, 61.75.4.188, or 69.108.102.11 (to pluck a few at random) from repeated intrusion attempts.
As for third-party viewers, how many people use those? Sure, I and others use kpdf on KDE, and others use evince on GNOME, and some people might use a free viewer on Windows (I don't know which are available on that platform), but what percentage of PDF users does this constitute? A very small one. The vast majority of people use Windows as we all know, and the vast majority of PDF users use Adobe Acrobat (available on all platforms); that's just the way it is. Well, OS X comes with Preview, which is mostly a PDF viewer. So not many people need Acrobat Reader out of the box, except for those who need extra features.
This will probably just increase the number of people using software to block programs "phoning home". (Little Snitch, on OS X.) I didn't bother with ad-blocking in Firefox until those freakin' intrusive Flash ads started showing up; now they're gone, along with the rest. Advertising is an arms race.
Yeah, I had a neighbor who has Comcast (broadband only, no cable or phone) who maxes out his bandwidth 24-7 with no trouble. I signed up with Clearwire, where what you're allowed changes from location to location and day to day, and customer "service" is arbitrary and punitive. An email titled "IMMEDIATE RESPONSE REQUIRED - SERVICE INTERRUPTION IMMINENT" isn't much of a warning if they interrupt the service BEFORE sending it...
Same with Clearwire. When they don't traffic-shape (and who knows, maybe spoof, like Comcast), they cut your bandwidth to dialup speeds without warning, a bargain at $40/month. Their customer service could more accurately be called customer punishment. STAY AWAY.
Right-click menus are ubiquitous throughout the OS
Those are "context menus", not "right-click menus", and may be activated by control-click, click-and-hold, and right-click... the first two operations are designed around a single mouse button, and the third was only made standard this century. You're saying that contextual menus aren't evidence of non-single-button thinking because they're available via a single button as well. I'm saying that even before OS X ("this century," roughly) there were multi-button mice that could be used with the OS-supplied second-click behavior, hence the OS wasn't simply a single-button design. (Would Windows be a single-button design by your definition? It apparently would if there was other behavior (eg, a modifier key) that brought up a second-button menu.) It's merely a difference in conceptual emphasis, or else a willfully idiosyncratic definition for purposes of winning an argument. You decide.
All apple computers now ship with two button mice, and have for a while.
But the user interface is defined in terms of a single button mouse. That's completely untrue. Right-click menus are ubiquitous throughout the OS and nearly all apps, in fact programs like InDesign are difficult to use without a second mouse button. And Control-click menus were around back in OS 9, if not 8.
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A world-spanning religion based on ancient Egyptian religion, now that would be millennia.
Adenosine triphosphate is people!
I wish there was a +1 Sardonic mod.
Maybe brilliant. Something that refolded lots of proteins in your body would probably be lethal.
Hate to break it to you, but that ADM3's a "dumb" terminal (aah, memories of mainframes...). Good luck running a program on it without some serious iron attached.
$250's pretty cheap for a diamond-encrusted case.
Whoosh.
Nah. The quotes intensify the meaning and also delimit the phrase involved. It would be ambiguous otherwise whether the writer is referring to the proposition that such people should run the country, or to the dubious proposition that the people referred to are truly an "intellectual elite" (either because they aren't or because the idea of an intellectual elite itself is wack).
Oh, and since you are bringing up what you believe is an important error in punctuation, it is traditional for a person in my position to point out that you mis-punctuated your last sentence, since the apostrophe implies that either the quote marks are in a condition of owning something or that some letters have been left out, neither of which is the case. (Leaving out the comma before "right" is merely an affectation for expression's sake and within bounds, imo.)
It is also traditional for a person in my position is make some similar error to the one I'm criteeking, only more boneheded.
I can't believe it -- am I really the first person to think of this story and wonder if they'd make a USB key to unlock Linux, too?
The beta firmware expired (and was replaced by Apple even before your remarks). If you (I speak hypothetically, since your confusion makes it unlikely that you actually do any iPhone coding) want to reverse engineer and hack the firmware, go right ahead, just don't expect Apple to welcome you with candy, flowers and toppled statues of Jobs. If you brick it, you're on your own.
Works for redirection services like TinyURL, eh? That's not problem solved, that's problem whuh?
... and he'd not heard of Xerox PARC, either....
I started reading a Douglas Rushkoff book, think it was Cyberia, had an interesting see-through plastic cover. In the first chapter, among other misfacts, he refers to "Xerox Park". About that point I realized I would have to read slow and verify everything before trusting it as actually true. I had better things to do, so it's been in a box for ten years.My guess is the fact-checking budget was used for the fancy cover.
Not to worry. I was thinking the same thing. And it wasn't like your reply was fact-free spew or insulting.
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/. mindshare barrier...
I guess The IT Crowd hasn't yet cracked the
This will probably just increase the number of people using software to block programs "phoning home". (Little Snitch, on OS X.) I didn't bother with ad-blocking in Firefox until those freakin' intrusive Flash ads started showing up; now they're gone, along with the rest. Advertising is an arms race.
I've got 11,000 songs in my library. No sign of choking yet.
I don't buy songs from the iTMS, so everything I have is (non-DRM) mp3.
Now, it's true that I can't control my iPod telepathically. I guess that would make it "crippled" by some definitions, so you're right.
Just wait. We're making great strides in that direction.
Yeah, I had a neighbor who has Comcast (broadband only, no cable or phone) who maxes out his bandwidth 24-7 with no trouble. I signed up with Clearwire, where what you're allowed changes from location to location and day to day, and customer "service" is arbitrary and punitive. An email titled "IMMEDIATE RESPONSE REQUIRED - SERVICE INTERRUPTION IMMINENT" isn't much of a warning if they interrupt the service BEFORE sending it...
Same with Clearwire. When they don't traffic-shape (and who knows, maybe spoof, like Comcast), they cut your bandwidth to dialup speeds without warning, a bargain at $40/month. Their customer service could more accurately be called customer punishment. STAY AWAY.
Those are "context menus", not "right-click menus", and may be activated by control-click, click-and-hold, and right-click... the first two operations are designed around a single mouse button, and the third was only made standard this century. You're saying that contextual menus aren't evidence of non-single-button thinking because they're available via a single button as well. I'm saying that even before OS X ("this century," roughly) there were multi-button mice that could be used with the OS-supplied second-click behavior, hence the OS wasn't simply a single-button design. (Would Windows be a single-button design by your definition? It apparently would if there was other behavior (eg, a modifier key) that brought up a second-button menu.) It's merely a difference in conceptual emphasis, or else a willfully idiosyncratic definition for purposes of winning an argument. You decide.
But the user interface is defined in terms of a single button mouse. That's completely untrue. Right-click menus are ubiquitous throughout the OS and nearly all apps, in fact programs like InDesign are difficult to use without a second mouse button. And Control-click menus were around back in OS 9, if not 8.