That's illegal in this country: it'd written write across the front of every denomination of Federal Reserve Note: "Good for all debts, public and private".
If that's the case, then it shouldn't be too hard for you to find an example of someone - anyone - who has been fined or imprisoned for breaking this "law."
I have yet to see anyone provide such an example in the umpteen times this issue has come up. Unless you know of one, then you should probably accept that it is indeed a myth that it's illegal to refuse cash.
Well, that depends. Have you given me a good yet? If so, I'm in debt to you -- and you have to accept cash. Or if you don't, well, I can say "it's this or nothing", give you a letter to that effect, and walk away if you don't pay me.
Debt simply means "money owed." If you agreed to buy the goods, and I delivered the goods already, then a debt exists until you pay me. Until that point, the transaction is not complete and you don't own the goods.
But that still doesn't mean I have to accept cash, that's not what "legal tender" means. Do you owe money on credit cards? That certainly counts as "debt." Try sending the creditor cash and see what they say.
> YOU CAN NOT REFUSE LEGAL TENDER. That is a stone cold law from the 1800's.
Of course you can. "Legal tender" simply means that it is a legally acceptable form of payment, not that you must accept it.
I can demand live chickens and jelly beans as payment if I feel like it, and you waving cash in my face while threatening to call the police can't make any difference.
"Wait a minute... that scruffy beard... those suspenders... that smug expression... you're one of those condescending UNIX computer users, aren't you!":)
And to the other repsonder, there are indeed Application, Presentation and Session layers, but they're commonly grouped into, and thought of as one since they all live on top of TCP.
Check again. The very concept of a session layer comes from the OSI model. It's only considered "grouped" in TCP/IP because of comparison after the fact. Layers are intended to separate, and if the separation is not enforced (and it isn't enforced in TCP/IP) then there is no such layer.
Old Macs had a flaw (yes, I said it) where holding down the mouse button would freeze the rest of the computer.
Including the network stack.
We noticed this because when the rest of the office would play MP3s from our graphics guy's Mac's shared folder, everyone's audio would randomly and simultaneously drop out.
On the flip side, I can testify that when I used to play MP3s using SoundApp on Mac OS 8 - 9, I never ever once had the audio drop out on me, no matter what else I was doing at the time.
This is something I can't say for Mac OS X with QuickTime and iTunes.
> Wow, the e-paper he is holding in that picture has a full 4,096 shades of brown.
Hey, even 4,096 shades of brown is better than black and white... oops, sorry; I meant dark gray and light gray.:)
Not usually - although I know someone who got a Core Solo Mac Mini at a clearance sale for $300.
I can't believe you're complaining about this. Don't you remember what computers used to cost? For what you get, even the most expensive Mac is CHEAP compared to yesteryear. My Power Mac 7500 cost $2700 in 1995, and an extra $300 for 8MB more RAM. That was with a 1GB hard drive, which was huge a the time.
Yeah, they must have had a few of them over at Xerox to produce the ideas Woz was cloning.
The Steve's couldn't even CLONE the Star's OS and office package without Bill's help.
Thank you for demonstrating that you have no clue what Wozniak did and didn't do.
Without both of them there would be no Apple, but Jobs would have gone on to find some other venture. He was pretty much guaranteed to be successful.
I'm not so sure about that. The stories from early Apple employees describe Jobs then as driven by vision, but also as stubborn, single-minded, short-tempered, tactless, and abusive. I don't think he had the people skills to successfully lead a 'normal' company.
After he left Apple, he had to start over at NeXT and learn how to work with people rather than simply dictate to them. I think he learned to be a lot more careful and actually listen to his engineers. Some of his decisions about the design of the original Mac almost killed it, but some original thinking behind Steve's back turned it around. He still seems to suffer from the belief that Apple can tell you what you need, instead of asking you.
- Set your location in the Apple menu to "Automatic" if it's on something else
- Open your Utilities folder
- Open Keychain Access
- If there's no keychain drawer on the right, click "Show Keychains" in the upper right
- Select the System keychain
- Click on the 'Unlock' button
- Select the Airport network password in the keychain items (main window) and click 'Delete'
- Click on the 'Lock' button and quit Keychain Access
This was true for the DOS shells, but not for NT. NT's evolution under Dave Cutler was designed as a pretty close workalike of VMS, and was originally a microkernal design.
Well, leaving aside the point whether Windows was "born" only once or "born again" in NT, I would argue that NT was indeed born as a single-user OS. It may have followed VMS's user-space model, but the inability to have multiple users logged in simultaneously and running arbitrary programs would disqualify it.
But if you say "I use OS X because it has more applications and better development environments", it's reasonable to point out that the statement following "because" is not necessarily factually true.
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> By Federal law refusal to accept legal tender for any debt voids that debt.
Can you give us a link to that law, please? TIA!
Really? You send bank notes through the mail? That's rather, uh, unusual.
I used to send checks until I started paying electronically through my bank's web site.
If that's the case, then it shouldn't be too hard for you to find an example of someone - anyone - who has been fined or imprisoned for breaking this "law."
I have yet to see anyone provide such an example in the umpteen times this issue has come up. Unless you know of one, then you should probably accept that it is indeed a myth that it's illegal to refuse cash.
Debt simply means "money owed." If you agreed to buy the goods, and I delivered the goods already, then a debt exists until you pay me. Until that point, the transaction is not complete and you don't own the goods.
But that still doesn't mean I have to accept cash, that's not what "legal tender" means. Do you owe money on credit cards? That certainly counts as "debt." Try sending the creditor cash and see what they say.
> YOU CAN NOT REFUSE LEGAL TENDER. That is a stone cold law from the 1800's.
Of course you can. "Legal tender" simply means that it is a legally acceptable form of payment, not that you must accept it.
I can demand live chickens and jelly beans as payment if I feel like it, and you waving cash in my face while threatening to call the police can't make any difference.
"Wait a minute... that scruffy beard... those suspenders... that smug expression... you're one of those condescending UNIX computer users, aren't you!" :)
> You're wasting your time. He's just a troll.
:)
Ah, thanks. But I'm reading Slashdot - I was wasting time already!
Check again. The very concept of a session layer comes from the OSI model. It's only considered "grouped" in TCP/IP because of comparison after the fact. Layers are intended to separate, and if the separation is not enforced (and it isn't enforced in TCP/IP) then there is no such layer.
> I hate "UP TO"...the most meaningless phrase in American Marketing.
So, it would be safe to say you've had it "up to here" with the phrase...?
> You really dont know the difference between the session and data link layers in the tcp/ip model, or that there even are layers, do you?
The TCP/IP model doesn't have a "session" layer - you're thinking of OSI.
Mod parent 'funny'!
Oh, wait...
On the flip side, I can testify that when I used to play MP3s using SoundApp on Mac OS 8 - 9, I never ever once had the audio drop out on me, no matter what else I was doing at the time.
This is something I can't say for Mac OS X with QuickTime and iTunes.
"Impossible, sir - they're in Johnson's underwear!"
> Wow, the e-paper he is holding in that picture has a full 4,096 shades of brown. Hey, even 4,096 shades of brown is better than black and white... oops, sorry; I meant dark gray and light gray. :)
No, try again. Third time's the charm? :)
> I would give far more credit to the Altair 8800 and Forrest Mims if there had to be somebody to really point at.
Why? Mims was long gone from MITS when the Altair was introduced.
> Bottom line, I have $300, can I buy a new Mac?
Not usually - although I know someone who got a Core Solo Mac Mini at a clearance sale for $300.
I can't believe you're complaining about this. Don't you remember what computers used to cost? For what you get, even the most expensive Mac is CHEAP compared to yesteryear. My Power Mac 7500 cost $2700 in 1995, and an extra $300 for 8MB more RAM. That was with a 1GB hard drive, which was huge a the time.
IIRC, making and selling blue boxes was perfectly legal, but using them was not.
That phenomenon is hardly unique to the open-source world. A lot of estimates say that 75% of all commercial software projects never ship.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/1527257&tid=218
Thank you for demonstrating that you have no clue what Wozniak did and didn't do.
I'm not so sure about that. The stories from early Apple employees describe Jobs then as driven by vision, but also as stubborn, single-minded, short-tempered, tactless, and abusive. I don't think he had the people skills to successfully lead a 'normal' company.
After he left Apple, he had to start over at NeXT and learn how to work with people rather than simply dictate to them. I think he learned to be a lot more careful and actually listen to his engineers. Some of his decisions about the design of the original Mac almost killed it, but some original thinking behind Steve's back turned it around. He still seems to suffer from the belief that Apple can tell you what you need, instead of asking you.
Try this:
- Set your location in the Apple menu to "Automatic" if it's on something else
- Open your Utilities folder
- Open Keychain Access
- If there's no keychain drawer on the right, click "Show Keychains" in the upper right
- Select the System keychain
- Click on the 'Unlock' button
- Select the Airport network password in the keychain items (main window) and click 'Delete'
- Click on the 'Lock' button and quit Keychain Access
See if that does the trick!
No. 'Better' is a comparative form of 'good', and calling something 'good' involves a value judgment.
You can't factually verify whether something is objectively 'good' or not. Even the selection of the criteria is subjective.
'More' is factual. 'Better' is opinion. Just FYI.