Wasn't it announced *ahead of time* that the upgrade would brick unlocked phones?
That sure sounds like premeditation to me.
Complete bullshit. What Apple said was that if you hacked your iPhone, it might be broken by future updates. They also noted that hacking your iPhone would void the warranty. If you hack your DVD player so that it makes coffee in addition to playing DVDs, then try to install a firmware update, are you going to blame the hardware manufacturer when the firmware bricks your DVD player? Same difference.
but then again, half of all lawyers graduate in the bottom half of their class
Is this true??? We must do something to improve the quality of lawyers!
The solution is obvious. Shoot all the lawyers that finish in the bottom half of their class. Oh wait, then the second quarter of the class would now be in the bottom half. I guess we'll have to shoot them too....
The bicycle as a commuter vehicle works only under ideal conditions and only for the young and fit. You won't be taking a bicycle into Buffalo, NY in mid-winter. You won't be taking a bicycle into Houston, TX in mid-summer.
Bollocks. Go visit the Netherlands. Or Seattle for that matter. Lots of old people commuting on bicycles in the Netherlands, and it rains a hell of a lot there. It doesn't freeze there, but there are plenty of places in the US that bicycle commuting would be viable if we had the infrastructure for it (which isn't that expensive compared to the alternatives).
Now, if only MS had removed all functionality used by fewer than 10% of its customers.
Then likely somebody would have argued that usability studies supported it, and that those less-used features were still available because those 10% of their customers who use those features surely know how to code C#, right?
Unless you're just making words up; in which case, you can habblefra for all I care... I don't think you're as educated as you think you are. It's Latin:
de jure - according to rightful entitlement or claim; by right.
No. What he admitted was that he was not as good as Jobs at making cool user interfaces. There's a slight difference there.
But only slight. Every user interface that comes out of Apple is personally approved and nitpicked by Jobs down to the smallest detail. Gates recognizes his deficiency, so he doesn't create interfaces himself because he knows they would suck. Instead, some Microsoft committee of random employees and unrelated execs each change a separate part of the interface, so it sucks.
I loved that part. They were asking Steve what type of device he carries, and one moderator surmised he carries a MacBook Pro. Then Steve interjects, "Yeah. Well, and an iPhone."
Female moderator: You have one?
Steve: I do.
Female moderator (anticipation obvious in her voice): Right here?
Steve: Yes.
The male moderator butted in quickly, but you could almost hear the female moderator wanting to ask, "Oooh! Can I see it?"
BTW, does Bill Gates remind anybody else here of the the character Ben from Lost, or is it just me?
Good God, 34%?!?!?! Jeez, I have to ask, why on Earth of you still buying them? If I knew of ANY product with that high a defect rate, I wouldn't buy it on a dare.
A product that can survive 66% of the time against the misuse and purposeful abuse of middle school students isn't too bad. 34% failure in an accounting firm would be another thing. Do you remember what being in middle school/junior high was like?
And the funny (or sad?) thing is that this is only "necessary" in Windows because of all the crap that Windows can get infected with. Neither Linux nor OSX needed to implement the ctrl-alt-del scheme.
OS X uses Command-Option-Escape, which can be activated easily with a thumb and middle finger of the same hand. I don't have to use it often, but things to hang in any OS. Force Quit issues a kill command to the offending application.
I'm with #7. I love GNOME. The Mac UI confuses me. If I'm working inside a window near the bottom of my screen, it is a waste to move the mouse all the way to the top. Why can't I have my menus be near where I'm working?
Because it doesn't make sense. Give me the Mac OS and you take the menus in the application windows. I guarantee I'll get the menu item I want faster than you can on a consistent basis. That's because I'm only searching for a menu item in two dimensions. I just slam the cursor to the top and then I only have to move left or right to find my target. With the tiny menu in the application window, you have to hit your target on both the x and y axes, either going really slow or overshooting on both.
Accuracy? We'll have none of that! In short, they discontinued the study because using BMI as a measure for obesity is plain stupid, and it took them this long to figure that out.
Anyway, long story longer...I know online is giving stores a run...but I think as long as there's people dropping $10k on speakers (the cost of the system I heard today for JUST speakers...double or triple it to include everything else), I don't think CDs are going anywhere.
Hah! Replace "CDs" with "vinyl", and this is exactly what audiophiles were saying before CDs were around. Here's a hint. Audiophiles have absolutely no effect on what direction the consumer electronics and music industries take.
The proportion of people that can tell 128 kbit AAC from CD audio is pretty small. The subset of those who have the equipment and environment to discern that difference is smaller yet. The subset of those who give enough of a shit to change their buying patterns is really, really miniscule.
IANANS (guess...) but I do find it very agreeable that it is odd that strength of an aneastaesia (yeah, it's misspelled) is proportional to its solubility in lipids if the inner workings of nerves are driven by electricity.
So you're willing to accept this on something as coincidental as the strength of a drug being proportional to its lipid-solubility? Wow.
Every cell in your body is encapsulated by a cell membrane that is essentially two layers of lipids. It's not a real revelation that many drugs' effectiveness is enhanced by lipid-solubility.
Is he saying OS X doesn't tell when you that the USB connectivity is working? That seems like a quite big disadvantage here.
I don't know. I can't remember the last time I plugged anything into the USB port that didn't work fine. If I really want to know the nuts and bolts of my USB devices, I run the program called "USB Prober" which will give me more information than a pop-up bubble does in Windows, including hardware addresses and names, kernel extensions, and can output a timed log of all USB devices used on the system to a text file, all from a graphical UI. How does Windows do this?
It does more than Adding and Removing programs. That's why the name was changed. It's a center for managing your applications, like upgrading and repairing them. Duh!
Ugh. For those applications that don't upgrade themselves, upgrading on Mac OS is just dragging and dropping the application into the application folder. Upgrade done. You have to "repair" your applications?
At least they aren't calling their network center something unintuitive as an "airport".
No, if I want to know what my IP address is, I run the application called "Network Utility". It doesn't get any more intuitive than that. It gives you your network information, transfer stats, network hardware, does ping, traceroute, finger, whois, and port scans. The "Airport Admin Utility" does exactly what it says--administers Airport hardware. Nothing else.
You may have your reasons for disliking Mac OS, but at least refrain from making up reasons to dislike it.
Apple still hasn't really figured out how to handle a mouse with more than one button despite having it thrust upon them by moving to a BSD foundation.
Apple computers have had handled multi-button mice fine for years. Context sensitive right click menus work as you would expect them to, and in many places much better than on Windows. Scroll wheels work exactly as you would expect them to. Middle click works the same in Firefox as it does in Windows.
OSX does do some pretty non-standard things itself. For example, try inserting a CD or other removeable media into your mac and then copying the file to your computer. Most people who have ever used a linux box, windows box, or *even* an Amiga for chrissake will drag the file off the CD and onto their hard-drive or desktop. Then they toss the CD because the data is on their machine now. If you do that in OSX and you'll find the link you just made now leads nowhere because OSX *didn't* copy the bloody file, it only linked to it. No other OS I've used does this, and it's bloody counterintuitive. What were they thinking?
Patently untrue. It copies the file to the desktop (or wherever you drag it) from the removable media. I just did it with a DVD-R right before writing this. I can't imagine where you could ever have gotten the idea it only links to the file rather than copying, so I'm obliged to assume you're just making shit up.
A blind person can "shoot" a rifle-shaped block of wood by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their liar companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and tell them "Oh yeah, you totally got that one."
You left out the part where the "companion" loads the gun with nothing. Then when the blind hunter, prompted by his companion, pulls the trigger, the companion yells "Bang!" really loudly.
Wouldn't be the first time we've used a toxin in non-toxic ways. Botox (botulism toxin), anyone? I'm sure it hurts like hell if you're *stung* with the toxin, but has no such effect when ingested. (or something).
Wow, talk about being completely off-base. Botulinum toxin is never transmitted through bites or stings. You either get it from dirty wounds or from ingesting it in contaminated food. And it doesn't sting. The way it kills is that it paralyzes you, including the muscles you use for breathing.
Yet the Rodin Museum has to advertise like crazy to get people in the door, and Green Day sells out in seconds.
Does this mean that Green Day is better than Rodin? No.
Rodin's been dead for close to a century. Wait until the Green Day members have all been dead a hundred years, then see how quickly their concerts sell out then!
Well, IANAL, but here's how Texans would look at it. Keep in mind I live in California now, but I grew up in Texas. There's definitely a difference in culture. A stranger who refused to identify himself or present any sort of documentation that he any right on my property is found loitering outside my house examining various parts of the house. When asked to leave, he pretends to leave, then comes back and starts "casing" my house again. When asked to identify himself, he refuses to do so, then pretends to leave again. A short while later he is found outside my house AGAIN, looking at accesses, windows, lines of sight.
A more cautious approach would be to call the police, but this man could probably be viewed as a burglar at the least and potential violent criminal. Would you feel comfortable in the safety of your family and children after incidents like these? I doubt there are many juries in Texas that would prosecute you for at least firing a warning shot, and you'd probably get away with shooting the SOB after repeated warnings to leave the property.
What does your weird example have to do with this case?
In Texas, if he repeatedly trespasses when asked to leave with no proof that he had any right to be there, we'd just shoot him. And we'd be within our rights, too. The guy was a burglar until proven otherwise.
From a societal standpoint, Type I DM is much worse than Type II simply from the fact that Type I kills children and young adults in the prime of life. Type II is largely a disease of the middle-aged and elderly who have far fewer working years ahead of them.
How will they stop people just ripping off some of the templates from MS Office, obfuscating them slightly, and then submitting them?
Because the designers at Microsoft Office are horrid, and their presentation templates look like ass. Even if submitted and accepted, they shouldn't win anything.
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This guy seems to think it's not all that important.
Try looking up du jour.
Unless you're just making words up; in which case, you can habblefra for all I care... I don't think you're as educated as you think you are. It's Latin:
de jure - according to rightful entitlement or claim; by right.
Like I said, just a slight difference.
Female moderator: You have one?
Steve: I do.
Female moderator (anticipation obvious in her voice): Right here?
Steve: Yes.
The male moderator butted in quickly, but you could almost hear the female moderator wanting to ask, "Oooh! Can I see it?"
BTW, does Bill Gates remind anybody else here of the the character Ben from Lost, or is it just me?
Accuracy? We'll have none of that! In short, they discontinued the study because using BMI as a measure for obesity is plain stupid, and it took them this long to figure that out.
Hah! Replace "CDs" with "vinyl", and this is exactly what audiophiles were saying before CDs were around. Here's a hint. Audiophiles have absolutely no effect on what direction the consumer electronics and music industries take.
The proportion of people that can tell 128 kbit AAC from CD audio is pretty small. The subset of those who have the equipment and environment to discern that difference is smaller yet. The subset of those who give enough of a shit to change their buying patterns is really, really miniscule.
Every cell in your body is encapsulated by a cell membrane that is essentially two layers of lipids. It's not a real revelation that many drugs' effectiveness is enhanced by lipid-solubility.
Wow, talk about being completely off-base. Botulinum toxin is never transmitted through bites or stings. You either get it from dirty wounds or from ingesting it in contaminated food. And it doesn't sting. The way it kills is that it paralyzes you, including the muscles you use for breathing.
Does this mean that Green Day is better than Rodin? No.
Rodin's been dead for close to a century. Wait until the Green Day members have all been dead a hundred years, then see how quickly their concerts sell out then!A more cautious approach would be to call the police, but this man could probably be viewed as a burglar at the least and potential violent criminal. Would you feel comfortable in the safety of your family and children after incidents like these? I doubt there are many juries in Texas that would prosecute you for at least firing a warning shot, and you'd probably get away with shooting the SOB after repeated warnings to leave the property.
What does your weird example have to do with this case?
In Texas, if he repeatedly trespasses when asked to leave with no proof that he had any right to be there, we'd just shoot him. And we'd be within our rights, too. The guy was a burglar until proven otherwise.
From a societal standpoint, Type I DM is much worse than Type II simply from the fact that Type I kills children and young adults in the prime of life. Type II is largely a disease of the middle-aged and elderly who have far fewer working years ahead of them.