So download and compile apache and OpenSSH yourself, there are a number of howto's on the web. You'll get the jump on the Apple installer by a few days.
The Rendezvous/Bonjour/Zeroconf allows you to connect to other computers without having to give them each IP addresses or setup DHCP. All your computers get their own domain name, like G4.local, kitchen.local, etc. You just connect by smb://kitchen.local or afp://G4.local
Windows may sell more copies, but Macs last longer. It was estimated that Macs are over 20% of the market of computers in use, but the current sales numbers are small in comparison to PCs. I know people who still use Mac Classics, how many people still use Windows 3.1?
Applescript has been around since System 7.5 I remember. Apple has had File Synchronization apps for years as well,.Mac is an entirely different beast Quicktime 7 is FREE too! You don't even need the Pro app, there are plenty of free apps that take advantage of the already-unlocked pro features. iChat uses AIM which is also FREE! Mail already has a search toolbar item Safari doesn't have RSS at the moment, and I'd pay for Safari over other RSS apps. VoiceOver, Apple has had speech since the System 7 days, and speech for disabled people since before the first iterations of OS X I think.
Tiger offers a bunch of other features. Access Control Lists, 3-way videoconferencing, Built-in Dictionary (which every OS should be bundled with) and 3D grapher. Tamil language support, parental controls, PDF encryption, 64-bit Virtual Memory, Fine Grain Locking (SMP scalability), etc. You may not care about some of those features, but there are people out there who consider it well worth the upgrade cost. I was surprised to see some geeks in the audience cheer when Access Control Lists was announced as a feature.
Can't they? What did they steal? Don't rehash the myth of Xerox again, they licensed the code legally from Xerox, who was stupid enough to just give it away.
On my way home from the second job I've taken for the extra holiday cash I need, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold is a $50 bill and a $2 bill. That is all of the cash I have on my person. I figure that with a $2 bill, I can get something to eat and not have to worry about people getting pissed at me.
Me: "Hi, I'd like one seven layer burrito please, to go."
Clerk: "Is that it?"
Me: "Yep."
Clerk: "That'll be $1.04, eat here?"
Me: "No, it's to go." [I hate effort duplication.]
At this point I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it kind of funny and says,
Clerk: "Uh, hang on a sec, I'll be right back."
He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within earshot. The following conversation occurs between the two of them.
Clerk: "Hey, you ever see a $2 bill?"
Manager: "No. A what?"
Clerk: "A $2 bill. This guy just gave it to me."
Manager: "Ask for something else, there's no such thing as a $2 bill."
Clerk: "Yeah, thought so."
He comes back to me and says,
Clerk: "We don't take these. Do you have anything else?"
Me: "Just this fifty. You don't take $2 bills? Why?"
Clerk: "I don't know."
Me: "See here where it says legal tender?"
Clerk: "Yeah."
Me: "So, shouldn't you take it?"
Clerk: "Well, hang on a sec."
He goes back to his manager who is watching me like I'm going to shoplift, and
Clerk: "He says I have to take it."
Manager: "Doesn't he have anything else?"
Clerk: "Yeah, a fifty. I'll get it and you can open the safe and get change."
Manager: "I'm not opening the safe with him in here."
Clerk: "What should I do?"
Manager: "Tell him to come back later when he has real money."
Clerk: "I can't tell him that, you tell him."
Manager: "Just tell him."
Clerk: "No way, this is weird, I'm going in back."
The manager approaches me and says,
Manager: "Sorry, we don't take big bills this time of night."
[It was 8:00pm and this particular Taco Bell is in a well-lighted indoor mall with a hundred other stores.]
Me: "Well, here's a two."
Manager: "We don't take those either."
Me: "Why the hell not?"
Manager: "I think you know why."
Me: "No really, tell me, why?"
Manager: "Please leave before I call mall security."
Me: "Excuse me?"
Manager: "Please leave before I call mall security."
Me: "What the hell for?"
Manager: "Please, sir."
Me: "Uh, go ahead, call them."
Manager: "Would you please just leave?"
Me: "No."
Manager: "Fine, have it your way then."
Me: "No, that's Burger King, isn't it?"
At this point he backs away from me and calls mall security on the phone around the corner. I have two people staring at me from the dining area, and I begin laughing out loud, just for effect.
A few minutes later, this 45-year-oldish guy comes in and says at the other end of counter, in a whisper:
Security Guard: "Yeah, Mike, what's up?"
Manager: "This guy is trying to give me some [pause] funny money."
Guard: "Really? What?"
Manager: "Get this, a two dollar bill."
Guard: "Why would a guy fake a $2 bill?" [incredulous]
Manager: "I don't know? He's kinda weird. Says the only other thing he has is a fifty."
Guard: "So, the fifty's fake?"
Manager: "No, the $2 is."
Guard: "Why would he fake a $2 bill?"
Manager: "I don't know. Can you talk to him, and get him out of here?"
Guard: "Yeah..."
Security guard walks over to me and says
Guard: "Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you're trying
Never had popular domestic support? Have you asked any Iraqis or read any polls? There was plenty of support in the Shiite and Kurdish communities, what about all the fluff pieces on joyous dancing Iraqis? It's a shame we let them all down.
Well how do you wish to define it? It's far worse than being locked in a jail cell overnight, it was so bad that the shameful event is still commemorated today. US Representative Matsui was in one, he was a vocal opponent of the practice, a motto of "never again." Fine, it wasn't a concentration camp, but you seem to be blowing off any idea that suffering was involved.
Have you ever been to Europe? They may dislike our government, but they were extremely nice to me and my family the last 2 times I visited, pre and postwar.
As for the Middle east, are you going to treat them All like enemies, so that the ones who don't hate us will have a reason to? Fine, hate the governments there, but hating the people there is only exacerbating the problem. Your whole "the Middle East hates us" is lumping everyone together, and totally ignoring Morocco, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, and UAE. Do THEY hate us? Ok, you are correct in saying you can't boil the whole region down to a simple "they hate us or dont." However, Bahrainis were practically kissing Americans' feet over there pre-war. Yes, some people in the Middle East already hated us, thats par for everyone everywhere. A Muslim could say the same thing, 9/11 is not the reason for Americans hating Arabs and Muslims, many Americans were racist or intolerant before then, it just gave them an excuse.
The Patriot Act has LOTS and LOTS to do with privacy. Isn't that the main reason people are so upset over it? The government can get my medical records, blockbuster rentals, library checkouts, and even my pay-per-view listings if they wanted, under the act. In the end, they would still need some sort of subpoena, but I do not have the right to be notified of this taking place, by the design of the law.
Can you please tell me what parts of the Patriot Act were struck down in court? Also, if the US government was able to successfully go after the mafia for decades, why should they need this new Patriot Act?
In the NSA Director's address to the House and Senate Intelligence committees in 2002 (noted on the site in PDF), he said the following:
What did NSA Know Prior to September 11?
8. So, to the first question: What did NSA know prior to Septmber 11th? Sadly, NSA had no SIGINT suggesting that al-Qa'ida was specifically targeting ew York and Washington D.C., or even that it was planning an attack on U.S. soil. Indeed, NSA had no knowledge before September 11th, that any of the attackers were in the United States.
Doesn't this strike anyone else as funny? What about tha declassified PDB "Bin Laden determined to attack inside US?" Doesn't that contradict the above statement?
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
I don't follow you, are you saying the Tenth Amendment makes Social Security, etc. unconstitutional? The amendment itself is far too vague to work, and I don't even think the concepts are even on the same level. Can you explain?
Also, wouldn't the ninth and tenth amendments also make the Patriot act unconstitutional as well? Privacy is a right sometimes inferred by those amendments, as well as the earlier ones.
Bush could probably go on TV, holding up a closed and bound folder, saying "in this folder, is classified evidence that John Kerry conspired with Osama Bin Laden. I cannot reveal the source of this information, but it is enough that I order him designated an enemy combatant and shipped off to Guantanamo Bay immediately. Oh, and Howard Dean too, he has information as a witness." What could legally prevent him from doing this, or is there any oversight?
Fine, they were "internment camps" and not "concentration camps." People died anyway, despite the nicer name. The idea that it wasn't as bad as a concentration camp has little comfort; It should not have happened in the first place, the fact that it was a rung or two above a concentration camp is hardly a reason not to care.
Your claim that Europe and the Middle East hate the US is wildy broad, overgeneralized, and overall ineffective. First, much of Europe did support the US pre-Iraq invasion. "New Europe" signed on board, as did Spain and UK, Norway, and Sweden, etc. Wait, I forgot Poland. The Middle East has a combination of friendly-yet-totalitarian governments that support the US. Jordan cooperates with the US, with no complaints on the US side that I know of. Syria immediately began sharing its years of intelligence gathered on Al-Qaeda right after 9/11, it led to some big advances in that front. Syria also handed over Saddam Hussein's half-brother, who was a high card on the US' wanted deck; a "big catch" according to US officials. Egypt has been friendly to the US, and Bahrain was quite pro-American before the war (they've been a lot more muted lately). Are you including Kuwait and Qatar when you say that the Middle East hates the US? Kuwait was liberated by the Americans, they backed the war unconditionally. What happened to those cheering crowds of Iraqis who supported the Americans when they went in? Well, the Abu Ghraib scandal became public, and the US later that summer began a bombing campaign in the holy Shiite cities and razed Fallujah. Iraqi bloggers say that all the numerous openly pro-American voices in Iraq went just dead quiet when the Abu Ghraib photos came out; there was just no excuse or apology for them.
Quite simply, treating Europe and the Middle East as if they were already enemies won't cause them to like the US any more. The US can either stop claiming to be the moral high ground (as it denounces other countries, creates human rights dossiers, and tries getting other countries to emulate it), or it should give up its practices of extralegal rendition, Patriot Act spying, "enemy combatant" detention, and using torture to extract information.
It isn't the end of everything, but it makes the Muslim community in America really have a lot more to fear than the average American. The Muslims in NY were not only afraid of terrorist attacks, but also of the US government as well. This isn't some minor complaint, this was over 2000 Muslims being locked up after 9/11, and not charged with a crime. There were mass deportations, and pundits who were calling for internment camps. Michelle Malkin is still on TV today pushing for internment camps in America for Muslims.
Maybe it's no big deal for you, but for Muslims, it's a major source of worry. Look at how badly the Brandon Mayfield case went; a white American Muslim in the Northwest got detained and subject to a huge FBI investigation, because a thumbprint at the Madrid train bombings could have partially matched his, along with 20 other Americans. He was subject to Patriot Act provisions, and had his house searched, his financial and personal records searched, and dots were trying to be connected when they plainly didn't. In the end, the FBI had to let him go and formally apologize after Spain caught the real culprit.
I just went through the whole US Constitution, and I don't see anything "flagrantly unconstitutional" about Social Security, Medicare, or even Campaign finance reform. I did see that the first amendment doesn't restrict itself to only citizens, and that Article VI, Clause 2, states that
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
which tells me that the Geneva Conventions must be obeyed as on the same level as the Constitution.
I thought I was following the Patriot Act in the news pretty well, what portions were struck down in court? AFAIK, I thought the only parts that were going away were the ones that had an expiration date.
That explanation sounds far too obvious. I'm quite sure that when the autofill is set to "Random," it will randomly pick them. The option to fill your iPod with your highest-ranked is not the same as the random option in the iTunes preferences.
The Challenger forced NASA to study ejectable compartements. They concluded that it was infeasable, far too expensive, and wouldn't be very effective. Eject hundreds of people? If the plane is going down, how much time would that have? Can you eject during a botched takeoff/landing?
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So download and compile apache and OpenSSH yourself, there are a number of howto's on the web. You'll get the jump on the Apple installer by a few days.
The Rendezvous/Bonjour/Zeroconf allows you to connect to other computers without having to give them each IP addresses or setup DHCP. All your computers get their own domain name, like G4.local, kitchen.local, etc. You just connect by smb://kitchen.local or afp://G4.local
I was gonna mod the first paragraph +1 Insightful, but your second paragraph -1 Whiner or -1 Flamabait cancelled it out.
Actually, people have been raving about how OS X supports a lot of generic hardware, like Ethernet or USB cards that are automatically recognized.
Windows may sell more copies, but Macs last longer. It was estimated that Macs are over 20% of the market of computers in use, but the current sales numbers are small in comparison to PCs. I know people who still use Mac Classics, how many people still use Windows 3.1?
Applescript has been around since System 7.5 I remember. .Mac is an entirely different beast
Apple has had File Synchronization apps for years as well,
Quicktime 7 is FREE too! You don't even need the Pro app, there are plenty of free apps that take advantage of the already-unlocked pro features.
iChat uses AIM which is also FREE!
Mail already has a search toolbar item
Safari doesn't have RSS at the moment, and I'd pay for Safari over other RSS apps.
VoiceOver, Apple has had speech since the System 7 days, and speech for disabled people since before the first iterations of OS X I think.
Tiger offers a bunch of other features. Access Control Lists, 3-way videoconferencing, Built-in Dictionary (which every OS should be bundled with) and 3D grapher. Tamil language support, parental controls, PDF encryption, 64-bit Virtual Memory, Fine Grain Locking (SMP scalability), etc. You may not care about some of those features, but there are people out there who consider it well worth the upgrade cost. I was surprised to see some geeks in the audience cheer when Access Control Lists was announced as a feature.
Apple paid Xerox to use their technology and licenses. Xerox never complained or took any legal action, because Apple followed their agreement.
I heard Piglet was a codename Apple used somewhere, I forget what for.
Can't they? What did they steal? Don't rehash the myth of Xerox again, they licensed the code legally from Xerox, who was stupid enough to just give it away.
Copyright 1993 Captain Sarcastic (kkoller@nox.cs.du.edu)
On my way home from the second job I've taken for the extra holiday cash I need, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold is a $50 bill and a $2 bill. That is all of the cash I have on my person. I figure that with a $2 bill, I can get something to eat and not have to worry about people getting pissed at me.
At this point I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it kind of funny and says,
He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within earshot. The following conversation occurs between the two of them.
He comes back to me and says,
He goes back to his manager who is watching me like I'm going to shoplift, and
The manager approaches me and says,
At this point he backs away from me and calls mall security on the phone around the corner. I have two people staring at me from the dining area, and I begin laughing out loud, just for effect.
A few minutes later, this 45-year-oldish guy comes in and says at the other end of counter, in a whisper:
Security guard walks over to me and says
Can someone tell me, what's the difference between Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
Never had popular domestic support? Have you asked any Iraqis or read any polls? There was plenty of support in the Shiite and Kurdish communities, what about all the fluff pieces on joyous dancing Iraqis? It's a shame we let them all down.
Well how do you wish to define it? It's far worse than being locked in a jail cell overnight, it was so bad that the shameful event is still commemorated today. US Representative Matsui was in one, he was a vocal opponent of the practice, a motto of "never again." Fine, it wasn't a concentration camp, but you seem to be blowing off any idea that suffering was involved.
Have you ever been to Europe? They may dislike our government, but they were extremely nice to me and my family the last 2 times I visited, pre and postwar.
As for the Middle east, are you going to treat them All like enemies, so that the ones who don't hate us will have a reason to? Fine, hate the governments there, but hating the people there is only exacerbating the problem. Your whole "the Middle East hates us" is lumping everyone together, and totally ignoring Morocco, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, and UAE. Do THEY hate us? Ok, you are correct in saying you can't boil the whole region down to a simple "they hate us or dont." However, Bahrainis were practically kissing Americans' feet over there pre-war. Yes, some people in the Middle East already hated us, thats par for everyone everywhere. A Muslim could say the same thing, 9/11 is not the reason for Americans hating Arabs and Muslims, many Americans were racist or intolerant before then, it just gave them an excuse.
The Patriot Act has LOTS and LOTS to do with privacy. Isn't that the main reason people are so upset over it? The government can get my medical records, blockbuster rentals, library checkouts, and even my pay-per-view listings if they wanted, under the act. In the end, they would still need some sort of subpoena, but I do not have the right to be notified of this taking place, by the design of the law.
Can you please tell me what parts of the Patriot Act were struck down in court? Also, if the US government was able to successfully go after the mafia for decades, why should they need this new Patriot Act?
I don't follow you, are you saying the Tenth Amendment makes Social Security, etc. unconstitutional? The amendment itself is far too vague to work, and I don't even think the concepts are even on the same level. Can you explain?
Also, wouldn't the ninth and tenth amendments also make the Patriot act unconstitutional as well? Privacy is a right sometimes inferred by those amendments, as well as the earlier ones.
Bush could probably go on TV, holding up a closed and bound folder, saying "in this folder, is classified evidence that John Kerry conspired with Osama Bin Laden. I cannot reveal the source of this information, but it is enough that I order him designated an enemy combatant and shipped off to Guantanamo Bay immediately. Oh, and Howard Dean too, he has information as a witness." What could legally prevent him from doing this, or is there any oversight?
Fine, they were "internment camps" and not "concentration camps." People died anyway, despite the nicer name. The idea that it wasn't as bad as a concentration camp has little comfort; It should not have happened in the first place, the fact that it was a rung or two above a concentration camp is hardly a reason not to care.
Your claim that Europe and the Middle East hate the US is wildy broad, overgeneralized, and overall ineffective. First, much of Europe did support the US pre-Iraq invasion. "New Europe" signed on board, as did Spain and UK, Norway, and Sweden, etc. Wait, I forgot Poland. The Middle East has a combination of friendly-yet-totalitarian governments that support the US. Jordan cooperates with the US, with no complaints on the US side that I know of. Syria immediately began sharing its years of intelligence gathered on Al-Qaeda right after 9/11, it led to some big advances in that front. Syria also handed over Saddam Hussein's half-brother, who was a high card on the US' wanted deck; a "big catch" according to US officials. Egypt has been friendly to the US, and Bahrain was quite pro-American before the war (they've been a lot more muted lately). Are you including Kuwait and Qatar when you say that the Middle East hates the US? Kuwait was liberated by the Americans, they backed the war unconditionally. What happened to those cheering crowds of Iraqis who supported the Americans when they went in? Well, the Abu Ghraib scandal became public, and the US later that summer began a bombing campaign in the holy Shiite cities and razed Fallujah. Iraqi bloggers say that all the numerous openly pro-American voices in Iraq went just dead quiet when the Abu Ghraib photos came out; there was just no excuse or apology for them.
Quite simply, treating Europe and the Middle East as if they were already enemies won't cause them to like the US any more. The US can either stop claiming to be the moral high ground (as it denounces other countries, creates human rights dossiers, and tries getting other countries to emulate it), or it should give up its practices of extralegal rendition, Patriot Act spying, "enemy combatant" detention, and using torture to extract information.
It isn't the end of everything, but it makes the Muslim community in America really have a lot more to fear than the average American. The Muslims in NY were not only afraid of terrorist attacks, but also of the US government as well. This isn't some minor complaint, this was over 2000 Muslims being locked up after 9/11, and not charged with a crime. There were mass deportations, and pundits who were calling for internment camps. Michelle Malkin is still on TV today pushing for internment camps in America for Muslims.
Maybe it's no big deal for you, but for Muslims, it's a major source of worry. Look at how badly the Brandon Mayfield case went; a white American Muslim in the Northwest got detained and subject to a huge FBI investigation, because a thumbprint at the Madrid train bombings could have partially matched his, along with 20 other Americans. He was subject to Patriot Act provisions, and had his house searched, his financial and personal records searched, and dots were trying to be connected when they plainly didn't. In the end, the FBI had to let him go and formally apologize after Spain caught the real culprit.
I thought I was following the Patriot Act in the news pretty well, what portions were struck down in court? AFAIK, I thought the only parts that were going away were the ones that had an expiration date.
Ah, you mean the FUD? Did you even read the posts in the article you linked to?
That explanation sounds far too obvious. I'm quite sure that when the autofill is set to "Random," it will randomly pick them. The option to fill your iPod with your highest-ranked is not the same as the random option in the iTunes preferences.
I'm sure they'd disagree with you. What constitues being "Islamic"? Having deserts and camels? :)
The Challenger forced NASA to study ejectable compartements. They concluded that it was infeasable, far too expensive, and wouldn't be very effective. Eject hundreds of people? If the plane is going down, how much time would that have? Can you eject during a botched takeoff/landing?