And whether it's an iBook or a MacBook, it's overpriced. Aside from the overrated Mac OS, neither has any compelling advantage over the inexpensive HP Pavilion.
Does HP offer schools anything like the Apple Mobile Learning Labs? No. Factor in the cost of the cart, wireless base station and laser printer. Next factor in the savings on continually reinstalling the operating system image due to kids browsing to "Comet Cursors" or "Kazaa" type sites.
I use an iMac at home simply because I want to play games or do work on my computer. I don't want the computer getting in the way, or making more work for me.
None of the links work for me. I use Mac OS X, Safari, and I have Windows Media Player installed.
I can't download the movie to show my friends here at work. Instead I have to find a Microsoft Windows XP computer to stream it from the server every time I want to show someone this footage.
If the clips had been produced in a more accessible format, I wouldn't have to leave my $4000 desktop machine just so I can sit in front of a Microsoft Windows XP workstation in a library and pray that the Government-mandated "think of the children" filtering proxy server doesn't classify the movies on the NASA site as not suitable for children or some such nonsense.
Providing service for FOSS can be a money making venture. Yes, expertise will eventually diffuse into the community, eliminating the scarcity - but there is money to be made during that time of diffusion. Until the expertise required to run a High Availability Linux cluster has diffused into the install media (out-of-the-box HA Linux, anyone), there will still be consultants and contractors getting paid to advise people on setting up their clusters, and later providing maintenance for those clusters.
Until the expertise required to add custom features to Firefox has been diffused into end-user tools, there will still be people earning a living by doing the customisation work for the people who want it.
Until the expertise to build an interactive web site has been diffused into end-user tools, there will still be people earning a living building web sites.
Until the creative bent required to produce new and exiting art (such as user interfaces, or even just pictures and stories) becomes available to the untalented amongst us, there will still be people earning their living by contributing their creative talents.
I could go on. The formula is the same: until desirable quantity X has become a commodity, people will still make money by having desirable quantity X.
No, you have to provide a written offer valid for at least three years to provide the source code to whoever requests it for a reasonable fee. Invoice them for whatever it costs you to produce the source distribution media - this would include time and materials, since you wouldn't want to end up losing money if a thousand people asked for source code over the thee year lifespan of the offer.
The GPL is not about making people bankrupt, it's about giving the end users the freedom to modify the programs that they're using.
Ideally you'd package the complete source with/alongside your binary distribution.
I pay on-call rates for people to be available with a 1 hour response time. The statement is quite simple: don't go places where I can't contact you. This includes cinemas as much as it includes secure machine rooms.
There are plenty more things you can do with the time that I'm paying you to be available, which will let you actually be available. Watching movies on your home theater doesn't stop you being available does it? Well... not unless you have rules at home about turning off mobile phones while watching movies. Any person who actually uses their brain would realise that committing to some activity that requires an investment of more time than (1 hour - travel time) will result in a failure to comply to on-call conditions, therefore I will fail to pay.
If the on-call conditions were for a 4 hour response time, I wouldn't give a damn what you do with your time, just make sure you check your phone every couple of hours (eg: just before and just after the movie, perhaps?).
Thanks for totally misrepresenting what I was saying.
If you're on call, why are you at a cinema? If you're on call, you should not be partaking in any activity which prevents you being immediately available - no drinking, no rollercoaster rides in the fun park an hour's drive out of town. Nothing. You're being paid to be available. Go home and do the washing. Vacuum the carpets. Wash the car.
If one of my contractors was out partying or in the cinema while I was paying them on-call rates, I'd dock their pay.
My parents were happy to leave us with babysitters while they went out to the cinema, knowing that if anything went wrong there was the babysitter to help, the neighbours to help, and the police and doctors to help. You can't be around to cope with every emergency that will affect your children. Trust in other people to do the right thing, enjoy your night out, and face the fact that if a life-threatening emergency actually does happen while you're at the cinema, you might not find out about it for two hours.
You can't be on-call for your children 24 hours a day. Good grief!
I'd like to know what the long term effects of this material will be - every action in a human body has a counter-action or regulating action of some type. Production of protein X is regulated by presence of enzyme Y, both of which have a non-trivial effect on production of "unrelated" protein Z.
What happens in rice when these proteins are produced? Does it alter the chemistry of the rice significantly? Does it boost levels of some chemicals that we didn't regard as important up until now? What happens when we introduce these enriched chemicals into the human body? The immediate effect is to increase the rate of absorption of water, but what else will happen without the usual regulators or counter reactions? Are we going to see increases levels of calcification of bone, tumour in brains and damage to optic nerves?
If you boost the caffeine and sugar levels of the body, the body responds by lowering its own energy production. Then the caffeine wears off and the sugar is metabolised, leaving the person feeling tired. If you introduce too much of this milk protein into the body, what similar effect will it have on the human?
What will happen to the rice when these genes mutate? This generation of rice produces human milk proteins, will the next generation produce poison?
This problem was solved years ago - "high speed" lines (9600bps) in my area used to be sold at various "utilization" brackets - if you wanted 10% utilization, you got a cheap rate. If you wanted 90% utilization you paid a lot more.
SQL is an acronym. It's pronounced, "structured query language".
But when I'm wearing my blue wizard hat, I refer to it by the convenient name, "sequel" which is actually a different product, but everyone knows what I'm talking about.
"Ess cue ell" is what management types call it, because they love spelling out acronyms to make themselves sound important.
Licencing under the APL licence for inclusion in Mac OS X means that Apple can contribute their patches back to the OSS community, without being obliged to make their operating system open source.
Before you flaunt the rules, it helps to show that you can follow the rules.
Dashing off a text message replete with abbreviations and symbol mash might indicate thoughtlessness, if sent to someone you barely know.
It is this state of careless abbreviation that commentators will be basing their opinions upon. The onward rush of writers using phonetic spelling, not stopping to check their interpretation against a reference, vexes me - how am I to cope with the punishment of both editing and digesting? For once the words are sorted out, neatly in order with spelling corrected and rough edges polished, where am I to summon the strength to again consume the words that I have spat out, only to find that the argument behind the words is as fractured and disheveled as the words themselves?
Having to re-read words such as "therrow" in their context - literally, "That was therrow. Nice work there!" - to understand that the writer intended to use the word "thorough", is not an effort which I wish to expend. It's no matter that the argument behind the words might bring me to an epiphany - the very work of marshaling the words into some semblance of meaning has left me weary, with no strength to tackle the logic of the argument beneath them.
All this work of correcting an author's spelling and grammar to make it more appealing to my own consumption at a later date leaves me to wonder how much I have tainted the underlying message with my typographical massage. Perhaps there was more meaning associated with a conjunction of terms, which I have blotted out by simply rearranging the sentence to make it readable by my own restricted grammatical sense. Every time a word is corrected or a grammatical kink straightened out, the editor has imparted some of their own bias into the content. Enough editing would ensure that the content no longer disagrees with the editor's point of view - at which juncture the author's meagre work has become wasted by erosion.
To ensure the integrity of your expression, it is important that the reader need not mentally edit the text, lest your message be lost through their coarse editorial control.
To work properly though, Apple would have to ship Mac OS X as follows:
Have an administrator account pre-configured
Require the user to set up a limited user account as their first task with turning on the machine, immediately following the notification about the administrative user (ie: the administrator account is xyz, please enter a password that will be required for performing administrative operations on this computer)
Have/Users on a separate partition which is mounted noexec
Hope that users don't go circumventing these protection measures to run trojans posing as screenshots of 10.5...
But how do you go about educating non-geeks about computer security fifty words or less?
How about... we have a new option (or two) for file systems, one which says to the operating system, "nothing on this volume is supposed to be an application, stuff on this volume is end-user data only!"
We could call it the "No Applications" flag (or NOAPP for short).
Then you could make sure that user's home directories (and in fact, all user-modifiable directories) are on volumes mounted with the NOAPP flag.
Though I guess Unix aficionados would want to used the term "executable" rather than "application"... so we'd have to have a "NOEXEC" flag.
Oh wait...
noexec Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted
file system. This option is useful for a server that has
file systems containing binaries for architectures other
than its own.
Now I just have to find out if Mac OS X honours this for application bundles...
I'd like to ask who is the Chosen Race -- us or the parasites?
You're thinking at too high a level.
The chosen race are genomes. All life is about propagating them, all life depends on them, they are in fact the essence of life. Next time you ask yourself, "what is the meaning of life?" you know the answer - "to propagate the genes that made me."
That story about Moses leading the people to the promised land? That's a meme propagated by the genomes describing their exodus from some great cook-pot in the sky aboard an icy comet, all the way across the barren wasteland of space to this planet, the promised land.
You've heard that throwaway line about the fleas arguing about who owns the dog? Well, this argument about who is the chosen race (of humans) is a hugely inflated inverse version of that joke.
The writer wants to have characters do something while the player is offline. WoW tries to address this with "rested bonus".
What I always thought would be a better idea is to have characters get tired the longer they grind. The first two hours of "work" each day you get 100% XP. After that it's a linear roll off until at 8 hours, you cease to make any XP gains by grinding (still get XP from questing).
Then people would have a dis-incentive for "power levelling" and just go out and enjoy the world and, you know, put the RP back into MMORPG.
The USA's own Department of Defence [sic] tried this. Their attempt at standardisation was called Ada. How many people program in Ada these days? That's right, the fringe minority desperately trying to hold onto their Defence jobs... and the lecturers who taught them.
"We at ACME Corp are going to standardise on concrete cinder blocks as our building material."
Asset = something you can sell for money Wealth = ability to make money Capital = some asset you use to make money Liability = something that costs you money (might be an asset, might be capital)
A wealthy person in my book isn't the guy who just won the lotto and is spending all that money on toys. Wealthy in my book is the guy who has the mowing business and is breaking even on the first three days of the week.
When you should be asking your girlfriend? If that relationship is going to last, don't you think she'd want to be involved in the decision-making process too?
After all, any changes you decide to make to your plans for your life might affect her plans for your life.
Some software written to only run as admin includes, for example, Direct X - which I have never managed to get to work for me in a Limited User account. Always have to upgrade to at least a "Power User" which means I'm allowed to bork system files.
The worst part is, if you don't "come out" and explicitly state that you're a guy playing a female character, you'll end up getting chewed up and spit out of your guild when someone "finds out" that you're a guy in "real life", and they've spent all this time being nice to you (sending you equipment upgrades, running you through BRD and LBRS where noone else wants to go anymore).
People get so attached to those purple-skinned breasts and somehow assume that they're going to get lucky if they be nice to the character ingame. Then they hear you on Team Speak or see your picture on the guild website and get all angsty because they might be "turning gay".
And saying, "no" doesn't help either - "you don't have to run me through BRD for the fifteenth time tonight, go get some sleep" translates to, "I love you and care about you, and I want you to know that soon I want to make sweet love to you." Then when they say, "but I love you" and you say, "um... I'm a guy", that translates to, "I'm a raving homosexual and I am going to abuse you in so many horrible ways, and while I'm at it I'll rip apart the very fabric of your reality and leave you standing naked in the street, both metaphorically and literally."
I've had ongoing problems with headaches, particularly in my temples. I lose focus and get really irritable.
Then I decided on a whim to wear a peaked cap ("baseball cap"). Since then, no headaches.
I suspect my headaches were caused by the position of the lights in my office (two of them are shining light into my eyes from odd angles) and the location of the air conditioning duct (no matter where I sit in my room, I get cold air dumped on my bald head).
You may also want to cut down on the sheer number of hours you spend in front of the computer.
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Does HP offer schools anything like the Apple Mobile Learning Labs? No. Factor in the cost of the cart, wireless base station and laser printer. Next factor in the savings on continually reinstalling the operating system image due to kids browsing to "Comet Cursors" or "Kazaa" type sites.
I use an iMac at home simply because I want to play games or do work on my computer. I don't want the computer getting in the way, or making more work for me.
None of the links work for me. I use Mac OS X, Safari, and I have Windows Media Player installed.
I can't download the movie to show my friends here at work. Instead I have to find a Microsoft Windows XP computer to stream it from the server every time I want to show someone this footage.
If the clips had been produced in a more accessible format, I wouldn't have to leave my $4000 desktop machine just so I can sit in front of a Microsoft Windows XP workstation in a library and pray that the Government-mandated "think of the children" filtering proxy server doesn't classify the movies on the NASA site as not suitable for children or some such nonsense.
Providing service for FOSS can be a money making venture. Yes, expertise will eventually diffuse into the community, eliminating the scarcity - but there is money to be made during that time of diffusion. Until the expertise required to run a High Availability Linux cluster has diffused into the install media (out-of-the-box HA Linux, anyone), there will still be consultants and contractors getting paid to advise people on setting up their clusters, and later providing maintenance for those clusters.
Until the expertise required to add custom features to Firefox has been diffused into end-user tools, there will still be people earning a living by doing the customisation work for the people who want it.
Until the expertise to build an interactive web site has been diffused into end-user tools, there will still be people earning a living building web sites.
Until the creative bent required to produce new and exiting art (such as user interfaces, or even just pictures and stories) becomes available to the untalented amongst us, there will still be people earning their living by contributing their creative talents.
I could go on. The formula is the same: until desirable quantity X has become a commodity, people will still make money by having desirable quantity X.
No, you have to provide a written offer valid for at least three years to provide the source code to whoever requests it for a reasonable fee. Invoice them for whatever it costs you to produce the source distribution media - this would include time and materials, since you wouldn't want to end up losing money if a thousand people asked for source code over the thee year lifespan of the offer.
The GPL is not about making people bankrupt, it's about giving the end users the freedom to modify the programs that they're using.
Ideally you'd package the complete source with/alongside your binary distribution.
I pay on-call rates for people to be available with a 1 hour response time. The statement is quite simple: don't go places where I can't contact you. This includes cinemas as much as it includes secure machine rooms.
There are plenty more things you can do with the time that I'm paying you to be available, which will let you actually be available. Watching movies on your home theater doesn't stop you being available does it? Well... not unless you have rules at home about turning off mobile phones while watching movies. Any person who actually uses their brain would realise that committing to some activity that requires an investment of more time than (1 hour - travel time) will result in a failure to comply to on-call conditions, therefore I will fail to pay.
If the on-call conditions were for a 4 hour response time, I wouldn't give a damn what you do with your time, just make sure you check your phone every couple of hours (eg: just before and just after the movie, perhaps?).
Thanks for totally misrepresenting what I was saying.
If you're on call, why are you at a cinema? If you're on call, you should not be partaking in any activity which prevents you being immediately available - no drinking, no rollercoaster rides in the fun park an hour's drive out of town. Nothing. You're being paid to be available. Go home and do the washing. Vacuum the carpets. Wash the car.
If one of my contractors was out partying or in the cinema while I was paying them on-call rates, I'd dock their pay.
My parents were happy to leave us with babysitters while they went out to the cinema, knowing that if anything went wrong there was the babysitter to help, the neighbours to help, and the police and doctors to help. You can't be around to cope with every emergency that will affect your children. Trust in other people to do the right thing, enjoy your night out, and face the fact that if a life-threatening emergency actually does happen while you're at the cinema, you might not find out about it for two hours.
You can't be on-call for your children 24 hours a day. Good grief!
I'd like to know what the long term effects of this material will be - every action in a human body has a counter-action or regulating action of some type. Production of protein X is regulated by presence of enzyme Y, both of which have a non-trivial effect on production of "unrelated" protein Z.
What happens in rice when these proteins are produced? Does it alter the chemistry of the rice significantly? Does it boost levels of some chemicals that we didn't regard as important up until now? What happens when we introduce these enriched chemicals into the human body? The immediate effect is to increase the rate of absorption of water, but what else will happen without the usual regulators or counter reactions? Are we going to see increases levels of calcification of bone, tumour in brains and damage to optic nerves?
If you boost the caffeine and sugar levels of the body, the body responds by lowering its own energy production. Then the caffeine wears off and the sugar is metabolised, leaving the person feeling tired. If you introduce too much of this milk protein into the body, what similar effect will it have on the human?
What will happen to the rice when these genes mutate? This generation of rice produces human milk proteins, will the next generation produce poison?
This problem was solved years ago - "high speed" lines (9600bps) in my area used to be sold at various "utilization" brackets - if you wanted 10% utilization, you got a cheap rate. If you wanted 90% utilization you paid a lot more.
SQL is an acronym. It's pronounced, "structured query language".
But when I'm wearing my blue wizard hat, I refer to it by the convenient name, "sequel" which is actually a different product, but everyone knows what I'm talking about.
"Ess cue ell" is what management types call it, because they love spelling out acronyms to make themselves sound important.
Licencing under the APL licence for inclusion in Mac OS X means that Apple can contribute their patches back to the OSS community, without being obliged to make their operating system open source.
Before you flaunt the rules, it helps to show that you can follow the rules.
It is this state of careless abbreviation that commentators will be basing their opinions upon. The onward rush of writers using phonetic spelling, not stopping to check their interpretation against a reference, vexes me - how am I to cope with the punishment of both editing and digesting? For once the words are sorted out, neatly in order with spelling corrected and rough edges polished, where am I to summon the strength to again consume the words that I have spat out, only to find that the argument behind the words is as fractured and disheveled as the words themselves?
Having to re-read words such as "therrow" in their context - literally, "That was therrow. Nice work there!" - to understand that the writer intended to use the word "thorough", is not an effort which I wish to expend. It's no matter that the argument behind the words might bring me to an epiphany - the very work of marshaling the words into some semblance of meaning has left me weary, with no strength to tackle the logic of the argument beneath them.
All this work of correcting an author's spelling and grammar to make it more appealing to my own consumption at a later date leaves me to wonder how much I have tainted the underlying message with my typographical massage. Perhaps there was more meaning associated with a conjunction of terms, which I have blotted out by simply rearranging the sentence to make it readable by my own restricted grammatical sense. Every time a word is corrected or a grammatical kink straightened out, the editor has imparted some of their own bias into the content. Enough editing would ensure that the content no longer disagrees with the editor's point of view - at which juncture the author's meagre work has become wasted by erosion.
To ensure the integrity of your expression, it is important that the reader need not mentally edit the text, lest your message be lost through their coarse editorial control.
To work properly though, Apple would have to ship Mac OS X as follows:
But how do you go about educating non-geeks about computer security fifty words or less?
How about... we have a new option (or two) for file systems, one which says to the operating system, "nothing on this volume is supposed to be an application, stuff on this volume is end-user data only!"
We could call it the "No Applications" flag (or NOAPP for short).
Then you could make sure that user's home directories (and in fact, all user-modifiable directories) are on volumes mounted with the NOAPP flag.
Though I guess Unix aficionados would want to used the term "executable" rather than "application"... so we'd have to have a "NOEXEC" flag.
Oh wait...
You're thinking at too high a level.
The chosen race are genomes. All life is about propagating them, all life depends on them, they are in fact the essence of life. Next time you ask yourself, "what is the meaning of life?" you know the answer - "to propagate the genes that made me."
That story about Moses leading the people to the promised land? That's a meme propagated by the genomes describing their exodus from some great cook-pot in the sky aboard an icy comet, all the way across the barren wasteland of space to this planet, the promised land.
You've heard that throwaway line about the fleas arguing about who owns the dog? Well, this argument about who is the chosen race (of humans) is a hugely inflated inverse version of that joke.
The writer wants to have characters do something while the player is offline. WoW tries to address this with "rested bonus".
What I always thought would be a better idea is to have characters get tired the longer they grind. The first two hours of "work" each day you get 100% XP. After that it's a linear roll off until at 8 hours, you cease to make any XP gains by grinding (still get XP from questing).
Then people would have a dis-incentive for "power levelling" and just go out and enjoy the world and, you know, put the RP back into MMORPG.
The USA's own Department of Defence [sic] tried this. Their attempt at standardisation was called Ada. How many people program in Ada these days? That's right, the fringe minority desperately trying to hold onto their Defence jobs... and the lecturers who taught them.
"We at ACME Corp are going to standardise on concrete cinder blocks as our building material."
It's really as simple as that.
Asset = something you can sell for money
Wealth = ability to make money
Capital = some asset you use to make money
Liability = something that costs you money (might be an asset, might be capital)
A wealthy person in my book isn't the guy who just won the lotto and is spending all that money on toys. Wealthy in my book is the guy who has the mowing business and is breaking even on the first three days of the week.
Just stick a fricken "LASER" on the moon!
Boil the oceans until human life ceases to exist, then allow the natural order to return. Agent Smith was right.
When you should be asking your girlfriend? If that relationship is going to last, don't you think she'd want to be involved in the decision-making process too?
After all, any changes you decide to make to your plans for your life might affect her plans for your life.
Some software written to only run as admin includes, for example, Direct X - which I have never managed to get to work for me in a Limited User account. Always have to upgrade to at least a "Power User" which means I'm allowed to bork system files.
I suppose the main concern I have with this system is AOL's idea of "bulk" - will opt-in mailing lists end up being considered bulk traffic?
Yup, gamers aren't geeks anymore. Now any Jo Schmoe of the unwashed masses can get in on the computer game action too.
What is the world coming to, when a sports jock on a sports scholarship plays online games for more hours a week than the guys in the computer club?
Welcome to the In-duh-net.
The worst part is, if you don't "come out" and explicitly state that you're a guy playing a female character, you'll end up getting chewed up and spit out of your guild when someone "finds out" that you're a guy in "real life", and they've spent all this time being nice to you (sending you equipment upgrades, running you through BRD and LBRS where noone else wants to go anymore).
People get so attached to those purple-skinned breasts and somehow assume that they're going to get lucky if they be nice to the character ingame. Then they hear you on Team Speak or see your picture on the guild website and get all angsty because they might be "turning gay".
And saying, "no" doesn't help either - "you don't have to run me through BRD for the fifteenth time tonight, go get some sleep" translates to, "I love you and care about you, and I want you to know that soon I want to make sweet love to you." Then when they say, "but I love you" and you say, "um... I'm a guy", that translates to, "I'm a raving homosexual and I am going to abuse you in so many horrible ways, and while I'm at it I'll rip apart the very fabric of your reality and leave you standing naked in the street, both metaphorically and literally."
Go figure.
It's not ballistic missiles that the US military is worried about. Build a robotic plane big enough to carry a nuke, navigate using GPS.
I've had ongoing problems with headaches, particularly in my temples. I lose focus and get really irritable.
Then I decided on a whim to wear a peaked cap ("baseball cap"). Since then, no headaches.
I suspect my headaches were caused by the position of the lights in my office (two of them are shining light into my eyes from odd angles) and the location of the air conditioning duct (no matter where I sit in my room, I get cold air dumped on my bald head).
You may also want to cut down on the sheer number of hours you spend in front of the computer.