Did you read the entire article? A number of other countries (unnamed) have also objected to the XXX domain.
And that does...what exactly to change the fact that the U.S. has so far been against it? What if a company wants to open an online adult site where in a country where the age of consent is 17?
It's "here's what you can do, here's the tools to do it, and here's how it can be done - come join us." That is the ultimate goal of Free software, and it can not be accomplished using Mac OS X, no matter how excellent a system OS X is.
Nonsense. Apple has excellent, free developer tools if you want to turn kids on to coding or tinkering. You can make a word processor in a matter of minutes if you want. Expecting kids to start of on Linux is like throwing throwing a book on differential equations at prospective mathathletes rather than starting them on algebra.
Sure, tiny ones. 60 inch HDTV's are a little more than that. A quick look at Best Buy's site reveales a price tag of $3,500 for a 50" plasma or a 62" rear-projection tv.
Game developers are expected to provide warranties, support, and online resources (servers) for games after sale, and they often do even when the users don't have a right to it.
Of course they have a right to it. If I sell 10 copies of a piece of software, it doesn't matter if they are all resold or all retained by the origional buyers: either way, it's 10 copies.
But go to EB Games and they pay you something like $6 for a $60 game, and then sell the used copy for $50.
Yup, that's pretty crappy. It makes me want to go ahead and pay the $60 to make sure I'm getting new materials, but I make sure to do it elsewhere.
...is that they'd rather be tough than effective. It has been demonstrated time and time again that addressing the root causes of crime leads to a far greater reduction than spending the same amount of money on law enforcement alone. But that means some form of social spending, and we can't have that, can we?
Throughout history, this has always been the way. Can't stop people stealing in droves? Make stealing punishable by death. Can't stop people blasphemy? Mak the crime punishable by death!
My history teacher in high school had a story about this, when some European country made pick pocketing an offence punishable by hanging. But where did they end up catching most of the pickpockets? At public hangings! Curious as to why their deterrent wasn't working, one pick pocket was asked why he was pickpocketing at the trial of a pickpocket. He said it was because that's where the people are at.
Amazing, man have a lower life expectancy and have had one for CENTURIES.
And your point is...what exactly? That page is in no way blaming the shorter life span of men on funding inequalities. What they *are* disparaging is the fact that women's health is vastly more well funded than men's health despite the fact that women live, on average, over five years longer than men.
In the U.S., prostate cancer kills about as many men as breast cancer kills women. Yet breast cancer research recieves 3 times as much money. The NIS had at one point (this might have changed) 9 sex-specific publications for women suffering from heart disease, but none for men. This despite the fact that more men than women suffer from it. There are many Offices or Commissions for Women's Health around this country, yet only one state has one for men. We have several Violence Against Women Act's, ignoring the fact that by far the #1 victum of violence is men, and that women commit half of all domestic violence.
You don't honestly think, that even a minority of the prostitutes wouldn't get another job if they could. Its probably one of the most disgusting jobs around.
You don't think there are millions of men in this country who also work disgusting jobs and would also like find other means of employement?
And where has it been proven that he lied? So far this is based on the allegations of a single person...and who's to say a woman working on the project couldn't have donated the eggs anonomously?
I have a wallet with such a sewn in sensor...not (easily) removable. It periodically likes to reactivate itself, which gets very annoying when I go into B&N or Target.
Wow I need to post fast before your crap gets modded any higher.
Interesting comment--considering that they are teaching Intelligent Design alongside Evolutionary Theory.
Except this is a science class, and Intelligent Design is not science.
Your comment seems to indicate that, by teaching ONLY Evolution, that's how we develop Independent Thinking? Tell one side of a story? Somehow, that seems more like indoctrination to me.
As we are talking about science class, there IS only one side to this story. This is part of the strategy of ID'ers: argue and argue and argue, so it appears to the layman that there is an actuall scientific controversy on the issue, and if there's controversy, why not "teach both sides" to "let people make up their minds for themsevles". But their is no scientific controversy between evolution and ID, only a manufactuered political controversy.
And as far as "indoctrination" goes, we have our children go to school to learn, not fill their head with random bs and "let them figure it out for themselves." We don't give holocast-deniers an equal time in histroy class and tell students to "decide for themselves what really happened". The same goes with flat earthers in geology. Otherwise people just start to spew crap out of their mouths.
So . . . I really don't see any upswing in Mac game development, much as I might wish for it.
You forget about the switch to Intel? If Apple has their smarts about them this time, they'll write some development tools that will make it easy to translate DirectX to OpenGL.
In the popular mind, all crimes against property are "theft." The idea is ancient.
Arson and vandalism are crimes against property too, but I doubt many people get them mixed up with theft.
Fine distinctions are for the charge sheet and the courts. There is no hope of winning the propaganda argument against the rights agencies on this level.
I think the average person would understand the distinctions just fine, but the problem is that the government and the press are just mouthpeices for the RIAA and MPAA. Just within the last month I was watching CNN, and the anchor at the time was talking about how CD sales were down, because of piracy. No mention of other factors such as the economy, fewer albums being made, or the end of the bonanza of people upgrading their tape and vinyl collections.
participating directly or indirectly in the theft of copyrighted files
Too bad there has never been a single instance of "theft of copyrighted files" on any P2P network that has ever existed, or the Internet itself for that matter. Now copyright infringement is an entirely different kettle of fish, but I don't see anything in the summary about Grokster being banned from that.
My primary work machine (which costs less than any half decent laptop you can buy) is a desktop class system with 4 GB of ram, 2 CPU's, plenty of fast SATA drive space and a comfortable keyboard and mouse.
So what? You'll be able to get all of that with a Mactel Powerbook if it's a dual core, with the possible exception of the 4 gigs of ram. You can plug your mouse, keyboard and monitor into your laptop just fine...in fact some companies made docks for those periphreals so you could plug them in at the same time. You can buy external RAIDS for Firewire 800, or you can use the gigabit ethernet to connect to a fileserver.
You can't run 3d games in virtual PC... no emulation for a 3D card. So, unless they port BF2 to OS X, which maybe they already have, or plan on, no BF2 for you...
All signs point to the Mactels being able to run Windows XP, remember. Apple isn't likely to prevent XP from booting on a Mactel because they get a hardware sale out of the deal. Gates isn't going to block XP from booting on a Mactel because that's another copy of XP he can sell that might run Microsoft apps.
Not their fault. There's this little transition to Intel chips because of that, maybe you've heard of it?
Apple hardware generally falls apart physically.
Pfft. iBooks have kept running after being run over with a Ford Explorer and being left in an oven. iPod's have survived being dropped from a car at 50 mph. Any more words from your ass on the subject?
If I were a Honda engineer, I'd be pretty insulted right now. If you buy a cheap Civic, you are still buying a good, reliable car. You buy a $300 computer from Dell, you're likely to get a box of crappy parts from their supplier-of-the-week.
A better comparison to Dell is Wal-Mart. They both like foriegn suppliers, and they both have a ruthless eye to the efficiency of the supply chain. Some of Dell's laptops are alright, along with their servers, but pretty much anything else you buy is a total crapshoot.
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Did you read the entire article? A number of other countries (unnamed) have also objected to the XXX domain.
And that does...what exactly to change the fact that the U.S. has so far been against it? What if a company wants to open an online adult site where in a country where the age of consent is 17?
It's "here's what you can do, here's the tools to do it, and here's how it can be done - come join us." That is the ultimate goal of Free software, and it can not be accomplished using Mac OS X, no matter how excellent a system OS X is.
Nonsense. Apple has excellent, free developer tools if you want to turn kids on to coding or tinkering. You can make a word processor in a matter of minutes if you want. Expecting kids to start of on Linux is like throwing throwing a book on differential equations at prospective mathathletes rather than starting them on algebra.
The ACLU has trampled over people's constitutional rights more than any US president I can think of (including the current one).
Suuure they have. And it was Clinton's fault for Ruby Ridge, too.
Silly argument, IMO. There are $500 HDTVs now.
Sure, tiny ones. 60 inch HDTV's are a little more than that. A quick look at Best Buy's site reveales a price tag of $3,500 for a 50" plasma or a 62" rear-projection tv.
Game developers are expected to provide warranties, support, and online resources (servers) for games after sale, and they often do even when the users don't have a right to it.
Of course they have a right to it. If I sell 10 copies of a piece of software, it doesn't matter if they are all resold or all retained by the origional buyers: either way, it's 10 copies.
But go to EB Games and they pay you something like $6 for a $60 game, and then sell the used copy for $50.
Yup, that's pretty crappy. It makes me want to go ahead and pay the $60 to make sure I'm getting new materials, but I make sure to do it elsewhere.
the left-wing slant
Just because something isn't right-wing doesn't make it left-wing. See their arguments on the "biased liberal media" for an example.
Salon just had a nice article on the subject of rehabilitation vs punishment. Most of the meat of the article is on the second page.
And I thought Iranian clerics didn't use the Internet.
...is that they'd rather be tough than effective. It has been demonstrated time and time again that addressing the root causes of crime leads to a far greater reduction than spending the same amount of money on law enforcement alone. But that means some form of social spending, and we can't have that, can we?
Throughout history, this has always been the way. Can't stop people stealing in droves? Make stealing punishable by death. Can't stop people blasphemy? Mak the crime punishable by death!
My history teacher in high school had a story about this, when some European country made pick pocketing an offence punishable by hanging. But where did they end up catching most of the pickpockets? At public hangings! Curious as to why their deterrent wasn't working, one pick pocket was asked why he was pickpocketing at the trial of a pickpocket. He said it was because that's where the people are at.
Amazing, man have a lower life expectancy and have had one for CENTURIES.
And your point is...what exactly? That page is in no way blaming the shorter life span of men on funding inequalities. What they *are* disparaging is the fact that women's health is vastly more well funded than men's health despite the fact that women live, on average, over five years longer than men.
In the U.S., prostate cancer kills about as many men as breast cancer kills women. Yet breast cancer research recieves 3 times as much money. The NIS had at one point (this might have changed) 9 sex-specific publications for women suffering from heart disease, but none for men. This despite the fact that more men than women suffer from it. There are many Offices or Commissions for Women's Health around this country, yet only one state has one for men. We have several Violence Against Women Act's, ignoring the fact that by far the #1 victum of violence is men, and that women commit half of all domestic violence.
You don't honestly think, that even a minority of the prostitutes wouldn't get another job if they could. Its probably one of the most disgusting jobs around.
You don't think there are millions of men in this country who also work disgusting jobs and would also like find other means of employement?
Maybe the fact that
But it's not a fact, it's an allegation made by a single person.
And where has it been proven that he lied? So far this is based on the allegations of a single person...and who's to say a woman working on the project couldn't have donated the eggs anonomously?
I have a wallet with such a sewn in sensor...not (easily) removable. It periodically likes to reactivate itself, which gets very annoying when I go into B&N or Target.
Wow I need to post fast before your crap gets modded any higher.
Interesting comment--considering that they are teaching Intelligent Design alongside Evolutionary Theory.
Except this is a science class, and Intelligent Design is not science.
Your comment seems to indicate that, by teaching ONLY Evolution, that's how we develop Independent Thinking? Tell one side of a story? Somehow, that seems more like indoctrination to me.
As we are talking about science class, there IS only one side to this story. This is part of the strategy of ID'ers: argue and argue and argue, so it appears to the layman that there is an actuall scientific controversy on the issue, and if there's controversy, why not "teach both sides" to "let people make up their minds for themsevles". But their is no scientific controversy between evolution and ID, only a manufactuered political controversy.
And as far as "indoctrination" goes, we have our children go to school to learn, not fill their head with random bs and "let them figure it out for themselves." We don't give holocast-deniers an equal time in histroy class and tell students to "decide for themselves what really happened". The same goes with flat earthers in geology. Otherwise people just start to spew crap out of their mouths.
So . . . I really don't see any upswing in Mac game development, much as I might wish for it.
You forget about the switch to Intel? If Apple has their smarts about them this time, they'll write some development tools that will make it easy to translate DirectX to OpenGL.
On the flip side, PC gaming's been on a rapid decline ever since the most recent generation of consoles.
Declining? I guess you haven't heard of The Sims, Counter-Strike, or World of Warcraft then.
If you think that the only kind of game worth buying is a sequel to an RTS, FPS or MMORPG, then you probably haven't noticed.
What, as opposed to Final Fantasy XXXXVIII? Or the 30th edition of Madden Football?
In the popular mind, all crimes against property are "theft." The idea is ancient.
Arson and vandalism are crimes against property too, but I doubt many people get them mixed up with theft.
Fine distinctions are for the charge sheet and the courts. There is no hope of winning the propaganda argument against the rights agencies on this level.
I think the average person would understand the distinctions just fine, but the problem is that the government and the press are just mouthpeices for the RIAA and MPAA. Just within the last month I was watching CNN, and the anchor at the time was talking about how CD sales were down, because of piracy. No mention of other factors such as the economy, fewer albums being made, or the end of the bonanza of people upgrading their tape and vinyl collections.
participating directly or indirectly in the theft of copyrighted files
Too bad there has never been a single instance of "theft of copyrighted files" on any P2P network that has ever existed, or the Internet itself for that matter. Now copyright infringement is an entirely different kettle of fish, but I don't see anything in the summary about Grokster being banned from that.
Since Apple is moving to Intel, does this mean you'll be able to run Be OS on a Mac again? :)
My primary work machine (which costs less than any half decent laptop you can buy) is a desktop class system with 4 GB of ram, 2 CPU's, plenty of fast SATA drive space and a comfortable keyboard and mouse.
So what? You'll be able to get all of that with a Mactel Powerbook if it's a dual core, with the possible exception of the 4 gigs of ram. You can plug your mouse, keyboard and monitor into your laptop just fine...in fact some companies made docks for those periphreals so you could plug them in at the same time. You can buy external RAIDS for Firewire 800, or you can use the gigabit ethernet to connect to a fileserver.
You can't run 3d games in virtual PC... no emulation for a 3D card.
So, unless they port BF2 to OS X, which maybe they already have, or plan on, no BF2 for you...
All signs point to the Mactels being able to run Windows XP, remember. Apple isn't likely to prevent XP from booting on a Mactel because they get a hardware sale out of the deal. Gates isn't going to block XP from booting on a Mactel because that's another copy of XP he can sell that might run Microsoft apps.
G4 chips are painfully slow.
Not their fault. There's this little transition to Intel chips because of that, maybe you've heard of it?
Apple hardware generally falls apart physically.
Pfft. iBooks have kept running after being run over with a Ford Explorer and being left in an oven. iPod's have survived being dropped from a car at 50 mph. Any more words from your ass on the subject?
iPods are expensive and low on features
No, they're not.
But you're talking about a company that sells 320x240 video
That's the same resolution as an analog TV. And so far they are the only ones doing it.
Apple, high quality?
Yes, they are. Next?
They are the Honda of computer makers
If I were a Honda engineer, I'd be pretty insulted right now. If you buy a cheap Civic, you are still buying a good, reliable car. You buy a $300 computer from Dell, you're likely to get a box of crappy parts from their supplier-of-the-week.
A better comparison to Dell is Wal-Mart. They both like foriegn suppliers, and they both have a ruthless eye to the efficiency of the supply chain. Some of Dell's laptops are alright, along with their servers, but pretty much anything else you buy is a total crapshoot.