Incorrect. Banks nowadays will charge a non-accountholder.... Umm, not incorrect. I've cashed quite a number of cheques at multiple banks in the area I live in, and have only had one bank (possibly, I still don't remember) that wished to charge me a fee. Even if this isn't true at the bank you went to, or even perhaps in general, it does not make my statement incorrect as it was based on my own personal experience.
Umm, you do know that if you take the cheque you are given as payment to the issuing bank, they will generally cash it for you free of charge.*
i.e. if XYZ company issues me a paycheque drawn on an account at ABC bank I can take it to an ABC bank branch and cash it for free.
This of course may not work with national companies which bank at local/regional banks outside of your area, unless you enjoy road-trips.
*I don't know if it is legally required or not (although at this moment I'm leaning heavily towards not). But aside from one possible exception (I can't remember, honestly), I've never had an issue with being charged for cashing a cheque if it was drawn on account held by that bank.
Everyone who has a moto RAZR (At least the original, and I assume most, if not all, of the revisions) raise your hand.
Now keep your hand raised if you have broken the (outer) screen. What, like 10 people left? Total? Wow nice...
See the outer LCD covering (and perhaps the covering over the camera (not the lens)) is glass. Yes it really is. I've dropped my razr many many times, the case is scuffed up a bit, but the glass is fine. Never has broken, or honestly even scratched. Of course the piece of glass is smaller, but I'd say it was at least a starting point to go on. Glass FTW!
Glass has most often been replaced in consumer devices for cost reasons, not breakage. Look at cars, how many cars have a poly* windshield(yes I know safety glass uses a plastic coating)? Poly* is cheaper to implement in a product, and yes lighter as well. But Glass is the quality standard. Ask anyone who wears glasses if they have had better luck with the latest generations of glass lenses or plastic ones. Glass can and does break, but it takes some effort to do it. Poly* will scratch if you look at it wrong. So they're trading millions of people who will fuck up the face of their iPhone, for a few dozen who might manage to break it's glass. End of story.
I agree we try hard, hell we've spent millions and millions of dollars on tech for just that purpose. So yes blind anti-americanism is total horseshit. However informed anti-americanism does have many compelling cases.
Frankly I think we could generate a lot of good will, stabilize (nearly) an entire continent, and save boat loads of cash in the long run if we stopped burning money in Iraq and on defense (i.e. writing blank checks to Haliburton) and invested not only our money but our time working towards a poverty and disease free Africa.
The middle east has waaaaaaaaay to many problems to fix, and unlike most Africans, they don't *want* us to fix them. I'm pretty sure if we started sending money and medication to Africa we wouldn't make that many enemies. But I bet we would make a lot of friends. In the middle east we should encourage Democracy when and where it happens, and help to stabilize the region how ever we can, but war (or occupation now) really isn't the answer.
Hell send the USACoE over to build some infrastructure (plumbing, power, telephones and maybe even internet) haliburton could even have the contracts. At least we'd be over-paying to do some good. We don't have to blindly throw money at it, that probably will just breed corruption, but if we help elevate EVERY country in Africa in to the 20th (yes I said 20th) century the world would be a much better place.
Errr, could you please note the sentence(s) which follow stating: "So one could argue that we don't try very hard either. Not entirely true, but it could certainly be argued by people with an extremist point of view." I suppose I could/should have said 'hard enough', however the point stands.
Also I could mention Vietnam, where in some cases killing civillians became a sport.
You could also note the next paragraph where I state the attacks we're conducted to make the greatest psychological impact possible. And targeting civilians was a means to that end.
I suppose actually reading the post is hoping a little much for/.;)
Yeah, and dropping bombs from thousands of miles away has NEVER gone wrong for us. We (the great U.S. of A.) have made plenty of mistakes when it comes to killing civilians. 'Collateral damage' is a term well known to both our military, and the people who live in the places within which we have fought wars or 'smart' bombed. So one could argue that we don't try very hard either. Not entirely true, but it could certainly be argued by people with an extremist point of view.
I think the reality is this:
More U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq than civilians died in the attacks on 9/11, but people aren't nearly as upset. Why? Because there was a far greater psychological impact by killing civilians. It obviously made a tremendous impact. I don't think the attackers did it to act as a catalyst for the paranoia and removal of our freedoms. The talking heads that say that are morons. They did it to say: "Hey FUCK YOU!" with a side order of: "and stay the fuck out of our politics too." We've meddled in the middle east for years, and some (woefully extremist) people finally stuck back. It certainly wasn't the moral high ground, and the people who died certainly didn't deserve it, but the U.S. as a whole (more accurately the government, although 'we the people' didn't oppose the foreign policy) probably did deserve to be reminded that the shit we do can come back to bite us in the ass. We act as if we can impose our national will on people who don't want it. We ferociously support Israel, a country summarily created in an area that already had a country and citizens, thank you very much. And we've helped support Iraq, and Afghanistan (among others) when it suited our national interests, and then dropped them like flies when it didn't.
All the while we ignore legitimate crises, like the AIDS crisis in Africa, or genocide in Darfur, instead we meddle in the middle east because after all, they have oil. (I'd say: Lets hope Bush never figures out where diamonds come from, but they're utterly worthless rocks whose value is artificially inflated due to controlled supply.)
They 'hijackers' and their parent organizations were neither heroes nor villains; terrorists or freedom fighters. They had a cause they believed in, a plan to carry out, and they did it. Their methods we're sickening, and I don't support them, however I do understand the reasons. But instead of acting like we had no idea why it could happen to us what we should have done is track down and punish the guilty (America, FUCK YEAH!), then taken a good hard look at our own actions and thought long and hard about the consequences they had.
Wow, that got off topic quickly didn't it. I uhh, I'm also looking forward to the release of $gamefrompost.
What I do with the airwaves/cable that comes into my home is my own damn business as long as I'm not throwing it up on YT or BT. (And even then, as someone mentioned, you would think they would be grateful ANYONE was watching any more). If I want to timeshift, placeshift, or even print out the individual frames, place them on a wooden coffee table, take a digital photo of that, assemble all of those BACK into an mpeg-4 stream and have THAT 'slung' to my laptop in Tokyo, I can do it.
In many cities with baseball teams local and even state taxes helped to pay for the actual fucking stadiums, not to mention the tax breaks, infrastructure, etc. etc. All for what, so some juiced up guy with tiny balls (ahh 'roid nuts) can run 360 fucking feet (in a bloody circle!) for millions and millions of dollars.. And not all at once either, they get rest stops (unless it's a home run, but in which case he's probably jogging).. It's a pansy ass sport. Ticket prices are insane, concessions are worse, and the only thing more mind-numbing than watching it in the stands is watching it on TV.. (Except when the cards and sox finally won the series.. Hey, what the hell, the sox deserved it and I'm in Missouri.. we cheer the cards because our other team fucking sucks)
I'd start watching again if they made it a contact sport, with no equipment changes. If you hit a homer you get to hit the pitcher in his pitching arm with your bat, and he MUST then pitch out the inning. If you steal a base, boot, err, cleat to head (of the baseman). If you run down the catcher at home plate you get to piss on his face mask--while he is wearing it. And the best one, when the ump makes a bullshit call, every player on the team that got screwed gets to line up and kick him in the nuts. Maybe all the fans in the stadium too, after all baseball 2.0 is all about user generated nut kickings.
Better. I can't for the life of me remember the car. I want to say it was a mid-90's low-end dodge, but keep in mind I might be pulling that from a mis-firing brain-cell.
You had to remove the washer tank to access the battery. -- I'll repeat that -- You had to remove the windshield washer tank to JUMP THE CAR. (along with another part if I remember, it wasn't my car I just had to jump it a couple times..)
Now granted they used a handy plastic sort of thumbscrew to attach the tank to it's mount, so it didn't involve tools, but it was still a massive pain in the ass, IN THE DARK!
The vibrate was such that I could hear it across the room, in my (soft and padded) coat pocket.. I actually kind of dug it though, since almost no one else could hear it. People thought I was freaking psychic because I would randomly go get my phone out of my coat and answer it.
I have the alternate complaint. Now-a-days the the vibrate on any of my recent phones is so weak that I can't even feel it in my rear jeans pocket (ahhh slim phones..) unless I'm sitting on it.
Although I had a samsung with a vibrate so powerful (combined with a lightweight plastic phone) that it vibrated off my desk and answered itself when it popped open upon hitting the ground.. My ex was apparently treated to an interesting audio performance involving me and my new girlfriend. Ahh well.
I don't know about you, but I blow my candles OUT when I go to sleep. What the hell are you doing burning candles over-night or when you're not somewhere near the area?
If it happens to someone, it's their own damn fault.
Going to sleep with candles lit.. That's just asking to get crispy-baked in a fire..
In severe cases of child pornography? I doubt it. Depends on where in the U.S. you live, and how much child porn we're talking about. Best case is probably detectives coming in with warrants, taking what they want, and likely you as well. Worst case is the guns..
Remember to idiots an IP address is like a street address. They only understand that 64.233.167.99 is YOU and therefore YOU must have done it. If it happened over your router YOU MUST have known about it, and assisted. You fucking pervert!
I like your idea, and I love your style, but if you were in the US, and someone was hosting a bunch of child porn on a comp connected to your router (they go after people who host it far more frequently than people who just download, although both happens..) a 'friendly chat' is very unlikely.
Oh, and what he said about the media is true. If your job in any way interacts with kids. Or if you have any. You'll be fired, harassed, and have your kids taken away even if they haven't convicted you of anything. Good luck getting a job as anything but a janitor with the accusations out there.. Innocent until proven guilty is for the criminal court system, not the court of public opinion.
I know that most of the crowd around here will be thrilled.. But I do wonder how broad the market actually is for this.. Obviously Linux is growing, and depending on distro becoming more user friendly all the time... The server market is a given, but linux is already doing well there.. 100,000 responses != 100,000 sales.. I'm sure many of the responses were already fans and users.. But that might be counter-acted by people who would buy but didn't comment, or might not even be aware.
The lack of the MS tax will be great, but I have to wonder how many 'regular joes' and 'mom and pops' will try it out. We all know the stories about people setting up their parents with it, but that comes with an implied, and personal support system. And if their Linux Tech Support is anything like their Windows Support the help available may be less than stellar. I sure hope it catches on, even a little competition for MS is a good thing, and introducing people to OSS is fantastic. I also wonder if they'll have the models available at brick and mortar retailers, and if they'll actually push them.
I think the sales figures will be very interesting to watch, especially for non-enterprise customers. The figures I'd be especially interested in would be the people who were happy with their purchase, and the real numbers behind that might be impossible to come by..
Development and implementation, has been slow or nonexistent across the board.. But that doesn't mean it is a failure..
No, ok, I'll grant him that.. But sometimes no matter how useful (or perhaps good) an idea is, it just doesn't happen. Sorry mate..
In the interview he says that it's a bit of a "chicken and the egg" problem, yet while he lists a few minor adopters who have it somewhat deployed, he has no concrete solution to the problem..
Any type of dns security, or verification is certainly interesting, and probably beneficial, but DNS is 25-30 years old, and still works, there just isn't a compelling reason to augment it for most people who deal with keeping DNS servers running...
Dell has honored my warranty on several configurations of laptops with FC5, Ubutnu and even Mac OS X (Yes you can run OS X on a Dell). Including weird hardware problems, like a random short in a mobo connector (Causing the chip with the power/volume buttons and keyboard indicator lights to not function/flicker), hard drive failures, replacement power cables, keyboards, etc.
I'd suggest, if you can waste the time to try dell's browser based "Chat." As of the last time I 'spoke' with them, ALL of their chat folks were based in Texas, they may give you a lot of canned responses (they have to manage several chat's at once) but when I explained what the problem was, and what part I needed, they've always sent it, no questions asked.
I've also never had to lie, even once, about the OS I was running. (Although I usually call OS X a "BSD Variant":)
You must have missed the part where I said "The best definition of native is 'born in'" Wait, here it is:
Besides the most correct definition of 'native' is "born in." In which case anyone born in the U.S. and perhaps *anyone* born in North, Central or South America would be a 'native American.' It's a complete B.S. term. So I guess you can use big words like 'logic' and 'retarded' but are unable to read.
I think by now most of us have realized that the wii isn't a PS3/360 type 'gamers' game console. It doesn't push massive graphics and processing capability over good ole' fun. That isn't to say (lest I anger the fan-boys) that it can't have great 'gamers' games, only that it was designed, priced, and marketed beyond that. The wii is more about having fun than the latest and greatest, and is more appealing to people who aren't traditionally console buyers. Nintendo is trying to increase market share by courting buyers who might not normally be interested, and I don't doubt for a second that it will (at least to some degree) work.
Case in point, my 50 something year-old mother asked me about it just last night (as I was working on her computer). She hasn't played a console since the original NES, which she bought for me when I was 6. She said she thought it looked "fun."
It's a heck of a strategy. Consoles have traditionally been the market of kids/teens, and guys who aren't willing to grow up yet (ok, some girls too) and yes I've been one of them. Nintendo went for the "Console the whole family can play, and even grandma might love" market and it's no big surprise it's paying off.
(Indian referrin to both the country and the politically incorrect former name of native americans.) Indians isn't politically incorrect. Native Americans is a bullshit term. They weren't any more 'native' than the europeans who started coming over. They just crossed the Bering Straight to get here, instead of doing it by boat like Columbus. Maybe "Got here first Americans" would be a more interesting term, not as likely to catch on though.
Besides the most correct definition of 'native' is "born in." In which case anyone born in the U.S. and perhaps *anyone* born in North, Central or South America would be a 'native American.' It's a complete B.S. term.
Oh and most 'native Americans' do not use, and in fact dislike the term. They generally prefer 'Indian' or 'American Indian.' 1 So before you continue on your P.C. crusade to 'help' them with your renaming efforts, you might want to educate yourself on what they prefer to call themselves.
If you men, runs in rosetta than yes, you'd be correct. It's not a universal binary.
If you're on an intel mac, OO probably wouldn't be any slower than MS office. However on a PPC machine, MS office smokes the clumsy mac implementations of OO.
NEVER ADMIT GUILT! (Especially to the OPPOSITIONS LAWYER!!!)
That works in movies and sit-coms. It *MIGHT* have worked if the company itself had contacted you. But to their LAWYER?!? Bad, BAD move. As far as the lawyer is concerned, you just won them their case. Now all they have to do is take you for however much they can get away with.
Remember: not all lawyers are evil, but they certainly aren't out to help you over their *client*.
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Just to avoid further pedants:
The above is my own personal experience, YMMV.
Umm, you do know that if you take the cheque you are given as payment to the issuing bank, they will generally cash it for you free of charge.*
i.e. if XYZ company issues me a paycheque drawn on an account at ABC bank I can take it to an ABC bank branch and cash it for free.
This of course may not work with national companies which bank at local/regional banks outside of your area, unless you enjoy road-trips.
*I don't know if it is legally required or not (although at this moment I'm leaning heavily towards not). But aside from one possible exception (I can't remember, honestly), I've never had an issue with being charged for cashing a cheque if it was drawn on account held by that bank.
Everyone who has a moto RAZR (At least the original, and I assume most, if not all, of the revisions) raise your hand.
Now keep your hand raised if you have broken the (outer) screen. What, like 10 people left? Total? Wow nice...
See the outer LCD covering (and perhaps the covering over the camera (not the lens)) is glass. Yes it really is. I've dropped my razr many many times, the case is scuffed up a bit, but the glass is fine. Never has broken, or honestly even scratched. Of course the piece of glass is smaller, but I'd say it was at least a starting point to go on. Glass FTW!
Glass has most often been replaced in consumer devices for cost reasons, not breakage. Look at cars, how many cars have a poly* windshield(yes I know safety glass uses a plastic coating)? Poly* is cheaper to implement in a product, and yes lighter as well. But Glass is the quality standard. Ask anyone who wears glasses if they have had better luck with the latest generations of glass lenses or plastic ones. Glass can and does break, but it takes some effort to do it. Poly* will scratch if you look at it wrong. So they're trading millions of people who will fuck up the face of their iPhone, for a few dozen who might manage to break it's glass. End of story.
I agree we try hard, hell we've spent millions and millions of dollars on tech for just that purpose. So yes blind anti-americanism is total horseshit. However informed anti-americanism does have many compelling cases.
Frankly I think we could generate a lot of good will, stabilize (nearly) an entire continent, and save boat loads of cash in the long run if we stopped burning money in Iraq and on defense (i.e. writing blank checks to Haliburton) and invested not only our money but our time working towards a poverty and disease free Africa.
The middle east has waaaaaaaaay to many problems to fix, and unlike most Africans, they don't *want* us to fix them. I'm pretty sure if we started sending money and medication to Africa we wouldn't make that many enemies. But I bet we would make a lot of friends. In the middle east we should encourage Democracy when and where it happens, and help to stabilize the region how ever we can, but war (or occupation now) really isn't the answer.
Hell send the USACoE over to build some infrastructure (plumbing, power, telephones and maybe even internet) haliburton could even have the contracts. At least we'd be over-paying to do some good. We don't have to blindly throw money at it, that probably will just breed corruption, but if we help elevate EVERY country in Africa in to the 20th (yes I said 20th) century the world would be a much better place.
Errr, could you please note the sentence(s) which follow stating: "So one could argue that we don't try very hard either. Not entirely true, but it could certainly be argued by people with an extremist point of view." I suppose I could/should have said 'hard enough', however the point stands.
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Also I could mention Vietnam, where in some cases killing civillians became a sport.
You could also note the next paragraph where I state the attacks we're conducted to make the greatest psychological impact possible. And targeting civilians was a means to that end.
I suppose actually reading the post is hoping a little much for
Yeah, and dropping bombs from thousands of miles away has NEVER gone wrong for us. We (the great U.S. of A.) have made plenty of mistakes when it comes to killing civilians. 'Collateral damage' is a term well known to both our military, and the people who live in the places within which we have fought wars or 'smart' bombed. So one could argue that we don't try very hard either. Not entirely true, but it could certainly be argued by people with an extremist point of view.
I think the reality is this:
More U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq than civilians died in the attacks on 9/11, but people aren't nearly as upset. Why? Because there was a far greater psychological impact by killing civilians. It obviously made a tremendous impact. I don't think the attackers did it to act as a catalyst for the paranoia and removal of our freedoms. The talking heads that say that are morons. They did it to say: "Hey FUCK YOU!" with a side order of: "and stay the fuck out of our politics too." We've meddled in the middle east for years, and some (woefully extremist) people finally stuck back. It certainly wasn't the moral high ground, and the people who died certainly didn't deserve it, but the U.S. as a whole (more accurately the government, although 'we the people' didn't oppose the foreign policy) probably did deserve to be reminded that the shit we do can come back to bite us in the ass. We act as if we can impose our national will on people who don't want it. We ferociously support Israel, a country summarily created in an area that already had a country and citizens, thank you very much. And we've helped support Iraq, and Afghanistan (among others) when it suited our national interests, and then dropped them like flies when it didn't.
All the while we ignore legitimate crises, like the AIDS crisis in Africa, or genocide in Darfur, instead we meddle in the middle east because after all, they have oil. (I'd say: Lets hope Bush never figures out where diamonds come from, but they're utterly worthless rocks whose value is artificially inflated due to controlled supply.)
They 'hijackers' and their parent organizations were neither heroes nor villains; terrorists or freedom fighters. They had a cause they believed in, a plan to carry out, and they did it. Their methods we're sickening, and I don't support them, however I do understand the reasons. But instead of acting like we had no idea why it could happen to us what we should have done is track down and punish the guilty (America, FUCK YEAH!), then taken a good hard look at our own actions and thought long and hard about the consequences they had.
Wow, that got off topic quickly didn't it. I uhh, I'm also looking forward to the release of $gamefrompost.
If only my mod points hadn't expired yesterday..
What I do with the airwaves/cable that comes into my home is my own damn business as long as I'm not throwing it up on YT or BT. (And even then, as someone mentioned, you would think they would be grateful ANYONE was watching any more). If I want to timeshift, placeshift, or even print out the individual frames, place them on a wooden coffee table, take a digital photo of that, assemble all of those BACK into an mpeg-4 stream and have THAT 'slung' to my laptop in Tokyo, I can do it.
In many cities with baseball teams local and even state taxes helped to pay for the actual fucking stadiums, not to mention the tax breaks, infrastructure, etc. etc. All for what, so some juiced up guy with tiny balls (ahh 'roid nuts) can run 360 fucking feet (in a bloody circle!) for millions and millions of dollars.. And not all at once either, they get rest stops (unless it's a home run, but in which case he's probably jogging).. It's a pansy ass sport. Ticket prices are insane, concessions are worse, and the only thing more mind-numbing than watching it in the stands is watching it on TV.. (Except when the cards and sox finally won the series.. Hey, what the hell, the sox deserved it and I'm in Missouri.. we cheer the cards because our other team fucking sucks)
I'd start watching again if they made it a contact sport, with no equipment changes. If you hit a homer you get to hit the pitcher in his pitching arm with your bat, and he MUST then pitch out the inning. If you steal a base, boot, err, cleat to head (of the baseman). If you run down the catcher at home plate you get to piss on his face mask--while he is wearing it. And the best one, when the ump makes a bullshit call, every player on the team that got screwed gets to line up and kick him in the nuts. Maybe all the fans in the stadium too, after all baseball 2.0 is all about user generated nut kickings.
Eh. Don't blame Apple, they usually design and program for a far superior operating system. They're just not used to programing for windows..
:)
Of course the real wtf is that you didn't by a shiny new mac to go along with your ipod
Better. I can't for the life of me remember the car. I want to say it was a mid-90's low-end dodge, but keep in mind I might be pulling that from a mis-firing brain-cell.
You had to remove the washer tank to access the battery. -- I'll repeat that -- You had to remove the windshield washer tank to JUMP THE CAR. (along with another part if I remember, it wasn't my car I just had to jump it a couple times..)
Now granted they used a handy plastic sort of thumbscrew to attach the tank to it's mount, so it didn't involve tools, but it was still a massive pain in the ass, IN THE DARK!
I had an old motorola with this 'feature'..
The vibrate was such that I could hear it across the room, in my (soft and padded) coat pocket.. I actually kind of dug it though, since almost no one else could hear it. People thought I was freaking psychic because I would randomly go get my phone out of my coat and answer it.
I have the alternate complaint. Now-a-days the the vibrate on any of my recent phones is so weak that I can't even feel it in my rear jeans pocket (ahhh slim phones..) unless I'm sitting on it.
Although I had a samsung with a vibrate so powerful (combined with a lightweight plastic phone) that it vibrated off my desk and answered itself when it popped open upon hitting the ground.. My ex was apparently treated to an interesting audio performance involving me and my new girlfriend. Ahh well.
Well fuckin' A...
Thank you, why the hell I didn't know that was there, I don't know. But it has resolved one of my larger issues with Finder/OS X...
Now if only I could get get safe sleep (aka hibernate) to work (it won't).. But that's what I get for running OS X on a Dell laptop...
Still better than windows.
Well, I do believe *driving* over it would be the most poetic.
I don't know about you, but I blow my candles OUT when I go to sleep. What the hell are you doing burning candles over-night or when you're not somewhere near the area?
If it happens to someone, it's their own damn fault.
Going to sleep with candles lit.. That's just asking to get crispy-baked in a fire..
NEVER LEAVE FIRE UNATTENDED! Fucking DUH!
In severe cases of child pornography? I doubt it. Depends on where in the U.S. you live, and how much child porn we're talking about. Best case is probably detectives coming in with warrants, taking what they want, and likely you as well. Worst case is the guns..
Remember to idiots an IP address is like a street address. They only understand that 64.233.167.99 is YOU and therefore YOU must have done it. If it happened over your router YOU MUST have known about it, and assisted. You fucking pervert!
I like your idea, and I love your style, but if you were in the US, and someone was hosting a bunch of child porn on a comp connected to your router (they go after people who host it far more frequently than people who just download, although both happens..) a 'friendly chat' is very unlikely.
Oh, and what he said about the media is true. If your job in any way interacts with kids. Or if you have any. You'll be fired, harassed, and have your kids taken away even if they haven't convicted you of anything. Good luck getting a job as anything but a janitor with the accusations out there.. Innocent until proven guilty is for the criminal court system, not the court of public opinion.
I know that most of the crowd around here will be thrilled.. But I do wonder how broad the market actually is for this.. Obviously Linux is growing, and depending on distro becoming more user friendly all the time... The server market is a given, but linux is already doing well there.. 100,000 responses != 100,000 sales.. I'm sure many of the responses were already fans and users.. But that might be counter-acted by people who would buy but didn't comment, or might not even be aware.
The lack of the MS tax will be great, but I have to wonder how many 'regular joes' and 'mom and pops' will try it out. We all know the stories about people setting up their parents with it, but that comes with an implied, and personal support system. And if their Linux Tech Support is anything like their Windows Support the help available may be less than stellar. I sure hope it catches on, even a little competition for MS is a good thing, and introducing people to OSS is fantastic. I also wonder if they'll have the models available at brick and mortar retailers, and if they'll actually push them.
I think the sales figures will be very interesting to watch, especially for non-enterprise customers. The figures I'd be especially interested in would be the people who were happy with their purchase, and the real numbers behind that might be impossible to come by..
Development and implementation, has been slow or nonexistent across the board.. But that doesn't mean it is a failure..
No, ok, I'll grant him that.. But sometimes no matter how useful (or perhaps good) an idea is, it just doesn't happen. Sorry mate..
In the interview he says that it's a bit of a "chicken and the egg" problem, yet while he lists a few minor adopters who have it somewhat deployed, he has no concrete solution to the problem..
Any type of dns security, or verification is certainly interesting, and probably beneficial, but DNS is 25-30 years old, and still works, there just isn't a compelling reason to augment it for most people who deal with keeping DNS servers running...
Actually Safari pulled it up just fine, didn't even suck up a lot of memory to do it. no crashy..
Intel Mac, 10.4.8
Dell has honored my warranty on several configurations of laptops with FC5, Ubutnu and even Mac OS X (Yes you can run OS X on a Dell). Including weird hardware problems, like a random short in a mobo connector (Causing the chip with the power/volume buttons and keyboard indicator lights to not function/flicker), hard drive failures, replacement power cables, keyboards, etc.
:)
I'd suggest, if you can waste the time to try dell's browser based "Chat." As of the last time I 'spoke' with them, ALL of their chat folks were based in Texas, they may give you a lot of canned responses (they have to manage several chat's at once) but when I explained what the problem was, and what part I needed, they've always sent it, no questions asked.
I've also never had to lie, even once, about the OS I was running. (Although I usually call OS X a "BSD Variant"
You must have missed the part where I said "The best definition of native is 'born in'" Wait, here it is: Besides the most correct definition of 'native' is "born in." In which case anyone born in the U.S. and perhaps *anyone* born in North, Central or South America would be a 'native American.' It's a complete B.S. term. So I guess you can use big words like 'logic' and 'retarded' but are unable to read.
I think by now most of us have realized that the wii isn't a PS3/360 type 'gamers' game console. It doesn't push massive graphics and processing capability over good ole' fun. That isn't to say (lest I anger the fan-boys) that it can't have great 'gamers' games, only that it was designed, priced, and marketed beyond that. The wii is more about having fun than the latest and greatest, and is more appealing to people who aren't traditionally console buyers. Nintendo is trying to increase market share by courting buyers who might not normally be interested, and I don't doubt for a second that it will (at least to some degree) work.
Case in point, my 50 something year-old mother asked me about it just last night (as I was working on her computer). She hasn't played a console since the original NES, which she bought for me when I was 6. She said she thought it looked "fun."
It's a heck of a strategy. Consoles have traditionally been the market of kids/teens, and guys who aren't willing to grow up yet (ok, some girls too) and yes I've been one of them. Nintendo went for the "Console the whole family can play, and even grandma might love" market and it's no big surprise it's paying off.
Besides the most correct definition of 'native' is "born in." In which case anyone born in the U.S. and perhaps *anyone* born in North, Central or South America would be a 'native American.' It's a complete B.S. term.
Oh and most 'native Americans' do not use, and in fact dislike the term. They generally prefer 'Indian' or 'American Indian.' 1 So before you continue on your P.C. crusade to 'help' them with your renaming efforts, you might want to educate yourself on what they prefer to call themselves.
1: here or perhaps here.
If you men, runs in rosetta than yes, you'd be correct. It's not a universal binary.
If you're on an intel mac, OO probably wouldn't be any slower than MS office. However on a PPC machine, MS office smokes the clumsy mac implementations of OO.
I sure hope it gets better tho..
Man, no regular lawsuit experience could cause anger like that...
So I guess her divorce lawyer was better than yours eh?
Oh on part of that we agree.
NEVER ADMIT GUILT! (Especially to the OPPOSITIONS LAWYER!!!)
That works in movies and sit-coms. It *MIGHT* have worked if the company itself had contacted you. But to their LAWYER?!? Bad, BAD move. As far as the lawyer is concerned, you just won them their case. Now all they have to do is take you for however much they can get away with.
Remember: not all lawyers are evil, but they certainly aren't out to help you over their *client*.
Yeah. I might also add: run.
Or perhaps (in the immortal words-and voice--of Edie McClurg from Planes, Trains and & Automobiles): You're fucked.