He would be more than "somewhat rude" if he released after 5 days. If you re-read what you posted, you'll see that the policy is that 5 days is an okay length of time to open communication. It explicitly states however, that 5 days is not the time given for a fix:
"Q. I'm a software maintainer, and I can't possibly fix the problem in 5 days.... A. You don't have to. If you (re)read the above, you have 5 days to establish communication. Provided you cooperate with the researcher and keep them 'in the loop', they should provide you [Apple] with whatever time necessary to resolve the ISSUE (within fair reason)."
I don't own anything made by Apple, so I'm hardly an Apple zealot, it might be a tricky problem to resolve, and to test thoroughly, in which case 48 days is not excessive. I'd guess it's still apple's fault though... if they had explained to Cysgod that they were a) actively working on it and took it very seriously but b) it was a hard problem and could they have more time.... he'd probably have said yes.
(of course this may have happened - we only have one side of the story;-)
Liv Tyler will stand still and move her lips to dialogue generated by a totally unconvincing speech synthesizer,
I just watched the "featurettes" bit on FOTR last night, and it certainly seems like Liv Tyler said the elvish herself. They had two linguistic coaches on set to make sure everyone was pronouncing it correctly!
I know it's a joke, but still - I was damn impressed (and a little alarmed) at the effort that had gone into getting imaginary lanuages spoken authentically (especially when I think of "basher's" cockney accent in Ocean's Eleven... which is so bad it comes out the other side, and is actually a work of genius)
This is going to be my last post on this thread... which by the way has been unusually thoughtful and polite, so cheers guys!
I guess my final point is this: most western military forces undoubtedly use more ammo practising to fight than fighting (at least recently... if we include the last century and two world wars, probably it isn't so clear cut). Nevertheless, the reason they practice so much is to be able to kill efficiently when necessary. So I'm not terribly interested in the fraction of bullets expended by the US army on targets compared to people... the intent is the same. And whilst you're right - almost anything can be used as a weapon - personally I'd much rather face someone armed with a baseball bat or a knife than an uzi! The point is (and I guess you don't agree), that in my opinion guns were created as weapons first and foremost.. Do the majority of people with guns in america use them for target practice, or do they keep them in their bedside table as protection? If it's the latter, then clearly most guns are being bought and sold as weapons.
And as for britain, everything you say is true. It would be interesting however, to know what fraction of those guns were bought legally in other countries.
Okay, I will concede that the original creator of a device has little to do with how it is used now... but surely you must see that comparing cars and p2p apps to guns is stretching it a bit? p2p apps don't kill. Cars kill in accidents. Guns are WEAPONS. Furthermore I absolutely do not accept that 99.999999% of guns are used for target practice. I would guess (can't find figures to back it up) that most guns (or a very large fraction of them) are owned by the military, or by para-military groups.
Guns were not invented for target shooting. That is obvious.
I own an air rifle and use it to do target shooting. There's no denying it isn't as accurate as "proper" gun, but it'd also be EXTREMELY hard to kill anyone with it.
Again, I think that a guns PRIMARY purpose, is to kill otherwise it would not need to be so powerful.
If your primary concern is saving lives, you'd be better off in getting all cars banned- they kill 4-5 times as many people each year as guns.
It's funny how anti-gunners never really seem to be concerned about saving lives, rather only about banning guns.
That's ridiculous! Cars PRIMARY purpose is to transport people and goods. They kill by accident.
Guns PRIMARY purpose is to kill people or to kill animals. (if it was about target practice, then you could use paintballs etc... okay they're not as accurate, but can't that add to the skill)
There is no sane comparison between the two, (particularly since, in my opinion, you can make a case that western society could continue without private gun ownership - there are many countries where it does - but it couldn't survive without cars)
I don't know too much about this subject, but he said that "the Israeli ecconomy is entirely dependent on the US" (which may or may not be true), and you replied about US aid. These are not the same thing! The US aid could be zero and yet the Israeli economy could still be dependent on the US.
(And incidentally if the aid is several percent of Israels GDP then I don't see how you can say "only!!!" That's a vast amount of money.)
Er. If I don't care about what the value of the mass of the sun is, I think you can safely assume that I care even less about weight/mass pedantry!;-) Anyway, I think heavy and massive are close enough....
Yeah, I bet they slipped the sun a few back-handers so it'd put on the biggest show in history.
I mean it's OBVIOUSLY a conspiracy between a few trillion tons* of hydrogen and some scientists to cheat the taxpayers out of money! The nerve of these stars sometimes....
* I have no idea how heavy the sun actually is (and I don't particularly care)
Did you read the article? It would have been much worse than "self-detonating in a starbucks".
Quoting from the article:"If Guy Fawkes had succeeded with his gunpowder plot he would have devastated much of London as well as blowing the palace of Westminster sky-high."
Bear in mind that even if only a few thousand people died in the initial explosion (there were hundreds of MPs in westminster, plus all the support staff) that there weren't firemen in the same sense as we have now. There would probably have been a fire sweeping london, like Great Fire of 1666: "On Sunday morning, the 2nd September 1666, the destruction of medieval London began. Within 5 days the city which Shakespeare had known was destroyed by fire. An area of one and a half miles by half a mile lay in ashes; 373 acres inside the city walls and 63 acres outside, 87 churches destroyed (including St. Paul's Cathedral) and 13,200 houses." source
That fire started in a bakery. I think that Guy Fawkes could have done pretty well too.
No this is the main point of linux IN YOUR OPINION. I work at CERN the world's largest physics laboratory (and the home of the web blah blah blah), and an enormous number of people are moving to macs, from laptops running windows AND linux. And I'll be following them as soon as I can afford it (my last machine was a vaio running linux).
Don't get me wrong, I'll keep my big box at home running KDE, and I'll keep playing with code, but for day-to-day computing I want an OS that is stable, has the powerful tools of unix, and is attractive to look at and use. This used to be linux/KDE but now is OSX. Whether you agree or not, YOU don't get it if you think that OSX is not threat to linux on the desktop, because I'm not alone in this respect!
I admit that the current crop of communist nations limit personal choice... but you do realise that this isn't an inherent feature of communism right? Communism (IMHO) is unworkable because it takes little account of human selfishness and greed, but it is the evil ideology that people sometimes make it out to be. It's fundamental ethos is about sharing, and taking care of all... which is a pretty worthy notion, just (IMO) unrealistic.
But who says we should be artificially poor? That's like saying... why worry about credit card bills now? Let's just spend spend spend and it'll be okay in the end.... we'll probably win the lottery or something
The point is new technology MIGHT provide solutions, and obviously we should develop it... I'm certainly not suggesting that we "hunker down and fear the future", not would most sensible people. However it's also sensible to act cautiously when we KNOW that polluting our environment, and squandering our resources, have possible bad outcomes, and we have no guarantee that there is a solution in sight. I refer you back to my lottery example.
The correct path (IMHO) is not to be some technophobic luddite, yearning for a golden agricultural era (that doubtless didn't seem so golden to those living through it!) but neither is it to bury ones head in the sand, and assume all will be okay.
They don't care about cramping people's style. They care about "the Earth". People don't matter.
I'm not sure who you're talking about when you write things like this, but I think that in general you're completely and utterly wrong: perhaps "they're" just worrying about their descendants as well.. Maybe "they" think that saying "well it won't affect ME, so I can pollute as much as I want" is a pretty selfish, and shitty attitude to have?
I'm not sure I agree. Going into space is dangerous... coming back is dangerous. Noone claims that this is 100% safe. 99% would be pretty good in fact, so if there is an accident it doesn't necessarily mean that they're incompetent. They could just be very, very unlucky.
we need to get the word to legitimate customers to educate them about the situation
And do what exactly? What do the legitimate customers do with this "valuable information" that you're going to provide them? Not buy HL2? Hardly? Use their 733t coding skillz to protect themselves from cheaters? The linked article talks about people getting their computers cracked because of this... come on! Get a grip!
Your post implicitly assumes that the "X11 worldview" (whatever that might be) is the right one. X is very, very old. It's extremely good at it's core tasks, but to say a GUI toolkit shouldn't improve and extend on X is (IMHO) nuts.
Personally I use Konqeror exclusively, but it's set to identify itself as IE (I've encountered several sites that complain otherwise).
You've got to be careful with these stats - it might be that it's easier to change browser ID in konqueror, or mentioned more prominently in documentation or something... Finally, gecko based browsers work on windows, which is going to instantly bump up their percentage.
Think before you open your pedantic mouth and say something f*cking stupid.
now where's a html tab when you need one?;-)
Honestly calm down - okay people are nit-picking a bit, but still, you screwed up... why not just admit it, make a joke about it.... and then track them down and kill them like the dogs they are? That's what I usually do.
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"Q. I'm a software maintainer, and I can't possibly fix the problem in 5 days....
A. You don't have to. If you (re)read the above, you have 5 days to establish communication. Provided you cooperate with the researcher and keep them 'in the loop', they should provide you [Apple] with whatever time necessary to resolve the ISSUE (within fair reason)."
I don't own anything made by Apple, so I'm hardly an Apple zealot, it might be a tricky problem to resolve, and to test thoroughly, in which case 48 days is not excessive. I'd guess it's still apple's fault though
(of course this may have happened - we only have one side of the story
I just watched the "featurettes" bit on FOTR last night, and it certainly seems like Liv Tyler said the elvish herself. They had two linguistic coaches on set to make sure everyone was pronouncing it correctly!
I know it's a joke, but still - I was damn impressed (and a little alarmed) at the effort that had gone into getting imaginary lanuages spoken authentically (especially when I think of "basher's" cockney accent in Ocean's Eleven
I guess my final point is this: most western military forces undoubtedly use more ammo practising to fight than fighting (at least recently
And as for britain, everything you say is true. It would be interesting however, to know what fraction of those guns were bought legally in other countries.
Okay, I will concede that the original creator of a device has little to do with how it is used now... but surely you must see that comparing cars and p2p apps to guns is stretching it a bit? p2p apps don't kill. Cars kill in accidents. Guns are WEAPONS. Furthermore I absolutely do not accept that 99.999999% of guns are used for target practice. I would guess (can't find figures to back it up) that most guns (or a very large fraction of them) are owned by the military, or by para-military groups.
Hmm. Not in my experience in the UK. Also, CERN (the biggest physics laboratory in the world) uses RH.
I own an air rifle and use it to do target shooting. There's no denying it isn't as accurate as "proper" gun, but it'd also be EXTREMELY hard to kill anyone with it.
Again, I think that a guns PRIMARY purpose, is to kill otherwise it would not need to be so powerful.
That's ridiculous! Cars PRIMARY purpose is to transport people and goods. They kill by accident.
Guns PRIMARY purpose is to kill people or to kill animals. (if it was about target practice, then you could use paintballs etc... okay they're not as accurate, but can't that add to the skill)
There is no sane comparison between the two, (particularly since, in my opinion, you can make a case that western society could continue without private gun ownership - there are many countries where it does - but it couldn't survive without cars)
Or the manx tt, a motorbike race on normal roads around an island.
And of course, any WRC rally has sections on normal roads.
Note to mod who rated that a troll: it's a joke!
(And incidentally if the aid is several percent of Israels GDP then I don't see how you can say "only!!!" That's a vast amount of money.)
I agree. I've not used OsX so maybe CD burning is well-implemented there, but k3b is excellent, and way better than anything I've used on windows.
Er. If I don't care about what the value of the mass of the sun is, I think you can safely assume that I care even less about weight/mass pedantry! ;-) Anyway, I think heavy and massive are close enough....
It's something to do with anti-GM protests in New Zealand as I recall. It was pretty recent, so have a search if you're interested.
I mean it's OBVIOUSLY a conspiracy between a few trillion tons* of hydrogen and some scientists to cheat the taxpayers out of money! The nerve of these stars sometimes....
* I have no idea how heavy the sun actually is (and I don't particularly care)
Quoting from the article
Bear in mind that even if only a few thousand people died in the initial explosion (there were hundreds of MPs in westminster, plus all the support staff) that there weren't firemen in the same sense as we have now. There would probably have been a fire sweeping london, like Great Fire of 1666:
"On Sunday morning, the 2nd September 1666, the destruction of medieval London began. Within 5 days the city which Shakespeare had known was destroyed by fire. An area of one and a half miles by half a mile lay in ashes; 373 acres inside the city walls and 63 acres outside, 87 churches destroyed (including St. Paul's Cathedral) and 13,200 houses." source
That fire started in a bakery. I think that Guy Fawkes could have done pretty well too.
Don't get me wrong, I'll keep my big box at home running KDE, and I'll keep playing with code, but for day-to-day computing I want an OS that is stable, has the powerful tools of unix, and is attractive to look at and use. This used to be linux/KDE but now is OSX. Whether you agree or not, YOU don't get it if you think that OSX is not threat to linux on the desktop, because I'm not alone in this respect!
I admit that the current crop of communist nations limit personal choice ... but you do realise that this isn't an inherent feature of communism right? Communism (IMHO) is unworkable because it takes little account of human selfishness and greed, but it is the evil ideology that people sometimes make it out to be. It's fundamental ethos is about sharing, and taking care of all ... which is a pretty worthy notion, just (IMO) unrealistic.
The point is new technology MIGHT provide solutions, and obviously we should develop it
The correct path (IMHO) is not to be some technophobic luddite, yearning for a golden agricultural era (that doubtless didn't seem so golden to those living through it!) but neither is it to bury ones head in the sand, and assume all will be okay.
They don't care about cramping people's style. They care about "the Earth". People don't matter.
I'm not sure who you're talking about when you write things like this, but I think that in general you're completely and utterly wrong: perhaps "they're" just worrying about their descendants as well.. Maybe "they" think that saying "well it won't affect ME, so I can pollute as much as I want" is a pretty selfish, and shitty attitude to have?
I'm not sure I agree. Going into space is dangerous ... coming back is dangerous. Noone claims that this is 100% safe. 99% would be pretty good in fact, so if there is an accident it doesn't necessarily mean that they're incompetent. They could just be very, very unlucky.
And do what exactly? What do the legitimate customers do with this "valuable information" that you're going to provide them? Not buy HL2? Hardly? Use their 733t coding skillz to protect themselves from cheaters? The linked article talks about people getting their computers cracked because of this
Your post implicitly assumes that the "X11 worldview" (whatever that might be) is the right one. X is very, very old. It's extremely good at it's core tasks, but to say a GUI toolkit shouldn't improve and extend on X is (IMHO) nuts.
You've got to be careful with these stats - it might be that it's easier to change browser ID in konqueror, or mentioned more prominently in documentation or something ... Finally, gecko based browsers work on windows, which is going to instantly bump up their percentage.
Should have previewed
now where's a html tab when you need one?
Honestly calm down - okay people are nit-picking a bit, but still, you screwed up