If you really want to bitchslap the finder, look up the process number of 'loginwindow' and kill it - this will completely nuke & relaunch the whole GUI, not just the Finder.
Read my prior post where I reported that in 2001, Microsoft sent its developers for intensive security training.
All the security training in the world does you dick if you don't do anything with it. Microsoft's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd priorities have always been adding new features to their products to either take away a compeditors customers or give Microsoft's existing customers a reason to upgrade. This is why we have nightmares like Active X, IE integration into the system, and Personalized Menus.
Microsoft's talk of security being a high priority is just that - a lot of talk.
Did you see the big list of things that are broken by XP's Service Pack 2? Not even a major update, but just a service pack? And with Apple's os's, as long as you stay within Apple's recomendations when developing, your app should be fine. The only real breaks were with the jump from 68k to PowerPC, and when Apple dumped 6,000 API calls with the release of the first OS X. But in both cases an upgrade path was provided, and plenty of notice given. You only really run into trouble if you try to use undocumented, and thus unsupported, parts of the os.
You're forgetting a couple of things: NT4 was as dumb as a bag of hammers when it came to installing hardware, no plug and play, and only had Direct X 3.1 (IIRC). So in those respects 2000 was a big step up for a lot of users. As for XP, the only thing it has over 2000 is instant user switching.
There's a difference between "must have" and "not supported". When OS X was first released, it was only supported on systems that came with USB - i.e. starting with the first iMac. However, it ran on older G3's as well, but IIRC you might have had problems with misc hardware like DVD mpeg accelerators.
Yes. Do you know that he was her legal gaurdian in the event of an accident and thus had every right to make calls in the event of an absense of a will? You know, as the courts have found every step of the way?
Did you know he wouldn't let the parents into the room as she died?
Did you know that the first thing they asked when the husband won a malpratice suit was how much was going to be their share? How would you like it if someone smuggled tv cameras into your wife's hospital room and put her comatose body on national tv?
Did you know he has been married to another woman with and has children?
Did you know he doesn't have to put his whole life on pause because his wife has been brain dead for ten years?
Did you know there is testimony from hospital nurses that he may have tried to kill her, called her a "bitch" as she lay crippled on one occasion?
And you know this is all bullshit?
Did you know he stands to gain millions of dollars from this?
Hey, maybe the father can demand his cut, again, the first thing he does when he walks in the room!
Do you even know what you're talking about?
Yes, while you obviously have your head up your ass. You are wrong, her parents are wrong, he won every single court case while her parents only won continuances. Eat it, you fucking shithead.
Nonsense. Pay more attention the next time you see a magazine or tv ad for the iPod. It is marketed as a music player. Apple's iPod page mentions mp3 twice, halfway down the page, right next to AAC.
You can't selectively call the average user "stupid", yet expect them to sort different formats out.
I didn't do anything of the kind. If an average user buys an iPod, they're obviously not going to have a problem playing songs from the iTunes store, so no problem. If they buy some other player and try signing up for the iTunes store, it will tell them they'll either need iTunes (which they are already using if they are at the store) or an iPod, so again no problem.
You might as well get pissed at Sony because Gameboy games don't work with the PSP. You have no case here.
Vanyel? As in Askeveron or how ever the hell you spell his name?
They're riding the crest of people playing with a new toy right now, but when people figure out all the things they're prevented from doing with "their" purchase, it'll become the next betamax.
Dude...you're talking about DRM here...the very purpose of DRM is to limit what you can do with the 'protected content'. You can replace Apple's DRM with Microsoft's DRM, Sony's, or the Grinch's, and it will still be DRM, and it will still limit what you can do.
Of course, the iPod plays plenty of non-DRM files, like wav's, mp3's and regular aac's, so I don't see what your point is.
Wouldn't that get kind of smelly? Although, I could see how that would work, in the Japanese sequel to the Japanese remake, where he super-glues his hand to his crotch. The young man from Japan would mistakenly grab a live debeaked squid, which would proceed to fasten it's suction cups to his body. Of course, then he could just put pants on and tell everyone that no, he does not in fact have a potato in his pants.
unless you consider the right for a guy to put his brain damaged wife to death a civil liberty.
Moron. Did he want to walk into her hospital room with a shotgun? No, he wanted to carry out her expressed wishes, which were that she did not want to be kept on life-support if she suffered an accident and became brain dead. That is civil liberties, not having Congress try to create special legislation for just one person.
...that supposed banking regulation didn't have anything directly related to drugs. Looks more like a poor attempt to catch organized crime. And who was pushing for this regulation, anyway? Was it Clinton himself or some official in the Executive branch?
Yeah, so that strategy has been working well so far?
That strategy would work great if Democratic campaign managers weren't secretly on Karl Rove's payroll. The Dems should have been able to put a garden rake in the race with George Bush and won by a landslide. Not responding to your oppponents attacks worked SO WELL for Presidents Dukakis and Gore, and yet Kerry's team sat with their heads in the sand while SBVFT neutralized one of his greatest strengths.
This thought process results in a large number of superficial politicians with no meaningful content.
Better to have a superficial politician who nominally agrees with some of your issues, as opposed to allowing one to get elected who takes a hard stance against almost everything you stand for.
It's about choosing the candidate with genuine character, compassion, capability, intellect, and leadership, who also happens to use these characteristics to support important issues you agree with.
The Greens thought they were doing that in 2000. How much have their issues been advanced?
I don't understand why you and people like you are treating this like a religious issue.
Since when is dealing with cold, hard facts religion?
The fervency of the rebuttals
We need frequent rebuttals because there are frequently morons who spout the same crap no matter how many times an urban legend has been put to rest. Like the idiots who blame Clinton for the Ruby Ridge shootings (happened before he took office).
Your sacred hero exaggerated his importance in a television interview.
No, he didn't. Your sacred whipping boy made a perfectly honest claim. Even Vin Cerf has said so. Now, deal with it (again) and drink a nice, warm cup of stfu.
Dude, I was USING the internet before Al Gore was ever got involved!
Dude, you totally missed the point! Again! Here, I'll repeat myself:
All an internet is, is a group of connected networks, and yes the concept was invented decades ago. However, the Internet - note the capitalization - with its petabytes of deta, millions of hosts, educational and consumer access was the work of business, government and higher education. And considering you can't name a government official more involved in the creation of the Internet as it is today than Al Gore, his origional comment was entirely appropirate.
Maybe it didn't have that name, but a TCP/IP network connecting universities and government agencies was already in place. That may not be the internet that we know today, but it was the seed from which it directly grew.
I see, I was wrong, you are in fact prefectly aware that the Internet as it is today did not spring from whole cloth in 1969, but rather it was an evolutionary process. As the government had a lot to do with this, and Al Gore was explicitly talking about his "term of service in the United States Congress", as a government official there is only one possible conclusion. You are unbelievably stupid.
the truth will not change
The truth is something you obviously can't deal with. Your dismissal of Gore doesn't have anything to do with the facts, but rather the fact that you don't like him and, like Tucker Carlson, can't let go of a good talking point, the truth be damned. The Internet has been an evolving beast for decades, and Al Gore certainally "took the initiative" in that process. You are wrong, you have been proven to be wrong, now deal with it.
The internet was already around by the time Algore took the initiative in creating it.
Your statement is one of the least retarded in this thread, but it still misses the point by a dozen miles. All an internet is, is a group of connected networks, and yes the concept was invented decades ago. However, the Internet - note the capitalization - with its petabytes of deta, millions of hosts, educational and consumer access was the work of business, government and higher education. And considering you can't name a government official more involved in the creation of the Internet as it is today than Al Gore, his origional comment was entirely appropirate.
Actually, yeah it is. He was her guardian, and claims she did not want to be kept on life support. The courts have accepted his claim, and since she has no cerebal cortex to speak of, that should be the end of it.
If this isnt the most bit of liberal flamebait ive seen in a while....
Since when is the truth flamebait? How many minimum wage jobs has Dubbya had? How many jobs has he had, period? Before becoming govenor of Texas, how many times did he have to work hard to succeed or worry about his future? Zero and Zero.
Liberals, bush won.
We know this, but since you brought up this subject: have you neocons come to terms with the fact that Gore won more votes nationally, won more votes in Florida, which would have been counted if the statewide recount was finished, and should have been president for the last four years, not Bush?
we have funded study after study to calculate the effects of lead, drugs/alcohol, school breakfast programs and the like on children over the past quarter century +. why are you so opposed to "wasting" a little more time and money (relatively speaking) on studying the effects of violent video games on children?
We have, and those studies are retarded. They compare children at rest to children playing stressful, compeditive video games, and then measuring the level of agression between the two groups. Surprise, the kids playing video games are more agressive. They need to compare video games to other common compedtive, stressful activities kids engage in - sports, board games, etc.
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If you really want to bitchslap the finder, look up the process number of 'loginwindow' and kill it - this will completely nuke & relaunch the whole GUI, not just the Finder.
Read my prior post where I reported that in 2001, Microsoft sent its developers for intensive security training.
All the security training in the world does you dick if you don't do anything with it. Microsoft's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd priorities have always been adding new features to their products to either take away a compeditors customers or give Microsoft's existing customers a reason to upgrade. This is why we have nightmares like Active X, IE integration into the system, and Personalized Menus.
Microsoft's talk of security being a high priority is just that - a lot of talk.
Did you see the big list of things that are broken by XP's Service Pack 2? Not even a major update, but just a service pack? And with Apple's os's, as long as you stay within Apple's recomendations when developing, your app should be fine. The only real breaks were with the jump from 68k to PowerPC, and when Apple dumped 6,000 API calls with the release of the first OS X. But in both cases an upgrade path was provided, and plenty of notice given. You only really run into trouble if you try to use undocumented, and thus unsupported, parts of the os.
You're forgetting a couple of things: NT4 was as dumb as a bag of hammers when it came to installing hardware, no plug and play, and only had Direct X 3.1 (IIRC). So in those respects 2000 was a big step up for a lot of users. As for XP, the only thing it has over 2000 is instant user switching.
There's a difference between "must have" and "not supported". When OS X was first released, it was only supported on systems that came with USB - i.e. starting with the first iMac. However, it ran on older G3's as well, but IIRC you might have had problems with misc hardware like DVD mpeg accelerators.
Do you know what a living will is?
Yes. Do you know that he was her legal gaurdian in the event of an accident and thus had every right to make calls in the event of an absense of a will? You know, as the courts have found every step of the way?
Did you know he wouldn't let the parents into the room as she died?
Did you know that the first thing they asked when the husband won a malpratice suit was how much was going to be their share? How would you like it if someone smuggled tv cameras into your wife's hospital room and put her comatose body on national tv?
Did you know he has been married to another woman with and has children?
Did you know he doesn't have to put his whole life on pause because his wife has been brain dead for ten years?
Did you know there is testimony from hospital nurses that he may have tried to kill her, called her a "bitch" as she lay crippled on one occasion?
And you know this is all bullshit?
Did you know he stands to gain millions of dollars from this?
Hey, maybe the father can demand his cut, again, the first thing he does when he walks in the room!
Do you even know what you're talking about?
Yes, while you obviously have your head up your ass. You are wrong, her parents are wrong, he won every single court case while her parents only won continuances. Eat it, you fucking shithead.
Oh, and I'm so sure no one has ever tried to scam insurance companies either. So what's your point?
The iPod is heavily marketed as an MP3 player
Nonsense. Pay more attention the next time you see a magazine or tv ad for the iPod. It is marketed as a music player. Apple's iPod page mentions mp3 twice, halfway down the page, right next to AAC.
You can't selectively call the average user "stupid", yet expect them to sort different formats out.
I didn't do anything of the kind. If an average user buys an iPod, they're obviously not going to have a problem playing songs from the iTunes store, so no problem. If they buy some other player and try signing up for the iTunes store, it will tell them they'll either need iTunes (which they are already using if they are at the store) or an iPod, so again no problem.
You might as well get pissed at Sony because Gameboy games don't work with the PSP. You have no case here.
Keep the government out of my healthcare and retirement...
Yeah, we like it nice and expensive, and the managing companies to rip us off whenever possible.
So I should be able to download music from iTunes and play it on any MP3 player I have
Newsflash: the iTunes store does not have a single mp3 on it, so expecting the songs to play on your mp3 player would be rather dumb.
A PC can also play a game written 20 years ago using the disks it came on -- can a Mac?
And this is a big selling point to...how many people?
Vanyel? As in Askeveron or how ever the hell you spell his name?
They're riding the crest of people playing with a new toy right now, but when people figure out all the things they're prevented from doing with "their" purchase, it'll become the next betamax.
Dude...you're talking about DRM here...the very purpose of DRM is to limit what you can do with the 'protected content'. You can replace Apple's DRM with Microsoft's DRM, Sony's, or the Grinch's, and it will still be DRM, and it will still limit what you can do.
Of course, the iPod plays plenty of non-DRM files, like wav's, mp3's and regular aac's, so I don't see what your point is.
And your example is flawed because there is a huge debate about wether parents should be able to actually choose the school there children go to.
Where you send your kids is an issue, but not very relevant to the subject of payment.
My parents sent me to private school but they still had to pay taxes in to pay for public schools. I never thought that was fair.
It's fair because they are still indirectly benefitting from those other children being educated as well.
Wouldn't that get kind of smelly? Although, I could see how that would work, in the Japanese sequel to the Japanese remake, where he super-glues his hand to his crotch. The young man from Japan would mistakenly grab a live debeaked squid, which would proceed to fasten it's suction cups to his body. Of course, then he could just put pants on and tell everyone that no, he does not in fact have a potato in his pants.
unless you consider the right for a guy to put his brain damaged wife to death a civil liberty.
Moron. Did he want to walk into her hospital room with a shotgun? No, he wanted to carry out her expressed wishes, which were that she did not want to be kept on life-support if she suffered an accident and became brain dead. That is civil liberties, not having Congress try to create special legislation for just one person.
Father? It is called rape!
No, its called sex. Or do you think only males over the age 18 have functioning sperm?
3 year old girls are not mature enough to even make the choice to have sex, let alone an abortion.
And 13 year old girls are not mature enough to handle having a baby, and should not have that choice forced upon them.
Does this mean that if your 13 year gets in to an accident
We aren't talking about accidents, so your attempt lame Bush-Dukakis slam is irrelevant in the first place.
...that supposed banking regulation didn't have anything directly related to drugs. Looks more like a poor attempt to catch organized crime. And who was pushing for this regulation, anyway? Was it Clinton himself or some official in the Executive branch?
Yeah, so that strategy has been working well so far?
That strategy would work great if Democratic campaign managers weren't secretly on Karl Rove's payroll. The Dems should have been able to put a garden rake in the race with George Bush and won by a landslide. Not responding to your oppponents attacks worked SO WELL for Presidents Dukakis and Gore, and yet Kerry's team sat with their heads in the sand while SBVFT neutralized one of his greatest strengths.
This thought process results in a large number of superficial politicians with no meaningful content.
Better to have a superficial politician who nominally agrees with some of your issues, as opposed to allowing one to get elected who takes a hard stance against almost everything you stand for.
It's about choosing the candidate with genuine character, compassion, capability, intellect, and leadership, who also happens to use these characteristics to support important issues you agree with.
The Greens thought they were doing that in 2000. How much have their issues been advanced?
A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals
*Some* of the disputed votes in some counties, not all. If a full statewide recount had been processed, Gore would have won.
Anything else?
I don't understand why you and people like you are treating this like a religious issue.
Since when is dealing with cold, hard facts religion?
The fervency of the rebuttals
We need frequent rebuttals because there are frequently morons who spout the same crap no matter how many times an urban legend has been put to rest. Like the idiots who blame Clinton for the Ruby Ridge shootings (happened before he took office).
Your sacred hero exaggerated his importance in a television interview.
No, he didn't. Your sacred whipping boy made a perfectly honest claim. Even Vin Cerf has said so. Now, deal with it (again) and drink a nice, warm cup of stfu.
Dude, you totally missed the point! Again! Here, I'll repeat myself:
- All an internet is, is a group of connected networks, and yes the concept was invented decades ago. However, the Internet - note the capitalization - with its petabytes of deta, millions of hosts, educational and consumer access was the work of business, government and higher education. And considering you can't name a government official more involved in the creation of the Internet as it is today than Al Gore, his origional comment was entirely appropirate.
Maybe it didn't have that name, but a TCP/IP network connecting universities and government agencies was already in place. That may not be the internet that we know today, but it was the seed from which it directly grew.I see, I was wrong, you are in fact prefectly aware that the Internet as it is today did not spring from whole cloth in 1969, but rather it was an evolutionary process. As the government had a lot to do with this, and Al Gore was explicitly talking about his "term of service in the United States Congress", as a government official there is only one possible conclusion. You are unbelievably stupid.
the truth will not change
The truth is something you obviously can't deal with. Your dismissal of Gore doesn't have anything to do with the facts, but rather the fact that you don't like him and, like Tucker Carlson, can't let go of a good talking point, the truth be damned. The Internet has been an evolving beast for decades, and Al Gore certainally "took the initiative" in that process. You are wrong, you have been proven to be wrong, now deal with it.
The internet was already around by the time Algore took the initiative in creating it.
Your statement is one of the least retarded in this thread, but it still misses the point by a dozen miles. All an internet is, is a group of connected networks, and yes the concept was invented decades ago. However, the Internet - note the capitalization - with its petabytes of deta, millions of hosts, educational and consumer access was the work of business, government and higher education. And considering you can't name a government official more involved in the creation of the Internet as it is today than Al Gore, his origional comment was entirely appropirate.
This is in no way a simple case.
Actually, yeah it is. He was her guardian, and claims she did not want to be kept on life support. The courts have accepted his claim, and since she has no cerebal cortex to speak of, that should be the end of it.
If this isnt the most bit of liberal flamebait ive seen in a while....
Since when is the truth flamebait? How many minimum wage jobs has Dubbya had? How many jobs has he had, period? Before becoming govenor of Texas, how many times did he have to work hard to succeed or worry about his future? Zero and Zero.
Liberals, bush won.
We know this, but since you brought up this subject: have you neocons come to terms with the fact that Gore won more votes nationally, won more votes in Florida, which would have been counted if the statewide recount was finished, and should have been president for the last four years, not Bush?
we have funded study after study to calculate the effects of lead, drugs/alcohol, school breakfast programs and the like on children over the past quarter century +. why are you so opposed to "wasting" a little more time and money (relatively speaking) on studying the effects of violent video games on children?
We have, and those studies are retarded. They compare children at rest to children playing stressful, compeditive video games, and then measuring the level of agression between the two groups. Surprise, the kids playing video games are more agressive. They need to compare video games to other common compedtive, stressful activities kids engage in - sports, board games, etc.