Except you have no idea what I do on my computers. You just assume that it wouldn't impact me and when you assume "u" make me think you are an ass. I still do work with web servers and I would play around with the startup. I just happen to outsource my web server so I don't have to worry about that stuff.
I can use VLC to play a video and while it's playing I can change the name of the file or move it to another folder. That was the point of the example. The applications don't lose track of where the file exists on the file system. If I tried to do that Windows or Linux (at least before) then I would have to delete them from the application and re-import them again.
Who cares about putting it onto a USB drive or iPhone? I'm talking about playing the music on my computer.
I was in a union job doing IT work for the government. I had a series of term contracts and there's a regulation that says that if you are in the same position under term contracts for three years it automatically gets converted into a permanent position. When I was coming up to my three years they told me that they weren't going to give me the extension because it would convert me to a permanent position. They aren't allowed to do this by law because the work still had to be done. I went to the union and they just said the upper management could do whatever they wanted. There were three of us in that position and my direct manager got into a lot of trouble fighting for us to stay, which we did. The union, which we were paying $40 or $50 a month for exactly that, didn't lift a finger.
One thing that I really like about Mac OS (though I don't know if the other ones support now since it's been a while since I've had to use them) is that you can move files around and the applications still are able to find them.
For example say I get some new MP3s. I don't want them in my Library folder yet since I don't know if I want to keep them so I have a folder that isn't backed up where I shove temporary stuff. I'll put the files there and import them into iTunes. When in iTunes I'll listen to the songs and if I really like them I'll buy them. If I just like the songs enough to keep them then I'll change the information on the songs to how I like them (consistent numbering, add album cover, etc). In the Finder I can then drag the songs over to my Library folder so they get included with my backups. But iTunes doesn't need to be updated. I can still double click on one of those songs and it will play even though I moved it. The same thing applies if I rename a file or one of the folders that it happens to be in. And I can do this while the iTunes is playing the song without any problems at all.
I haven't touched Windows since Windows 7 so I don't know if it has changed but I know that it couldn't do that before. Once you get used to making those changes it's hard to go back.
For me personally I got tired of fighting with Windows trying to get things working. When things go wrong I found it very difficult to get information on what was going wrong. Plus I had to change the way I worked to fit Windows, not have the tool adapt to me. For Linux I was tired of building everything. It's been a while since I've used Linux so I'm sure it's changed. However with the whole systemd thing going on I'm glad I'm out of there. For the most part I'm happy running my Mac and developing on it. Oh there are things that don't work on it and I'm the first one to call Apple out on it. And I definitely think that they are going in the wrong direction. Their apps, especially on the iPhone, are getting less user friendly.
I'm not a typical user. I've got a couple decades experience programming on UNIX/Linux systems from the telecommunications industry to web applications. I've maintained web servers and in my last job I was the system administrator in charge of over 70 Linux servers that were running the web servers for a government web site. In one job my manager had to write up a business case to justify a Linux license for me so he wanted to see how I was using it. (It was the government so everyone else was on Windows.) He was afraid I was going to go on a anti-Windows rant but I just showed him how I broke my work into the virtual desktops and that I was using the tools available with Linux so that I could get my work done. He was quite happy with my demonstration and I got to keep my Linux. It was the best tool for me at the time. The Mac would have worked as well.
Having said that the Mac works the best for me now and I'll be the last person to force it on anyone else. If you want to run Windows or Linux or even OS/2 then go right ahead if that is what works for you. However I do reserve the right to make fun of you.
Bus drivers here do a lot of those things anyways. - I've seen them open the doors before the bus has stopped. I've even seen them have the door open between stops. - Some think that they are driving sports cars and try to stop and start on a dime. Not fun when you are standing on a packed bus. - They will skip stops because the bus in front of them covers most of the same route as them anyways. - Many will roll away from the stop as soon as the last person is on the bus, not seated - In Ottawa only school buses need to stop at railway crossings
I've been on a bus that went through three stops. Two stop signs and a flashing red stop light. And not a rolling stop. He didn't even slow down. I reported the driver to the bus company and the police. The police got back to me in a month and a half to say they left it to the bus company. It's been almost six months and I haven't heard a thing from the bus company.
The train didn't hit the bus. The bus hit the train. There was nothing wrong with the train, the bus, the signals, or the any of the safety equipment. The driver was speeding, wasn't going by the crossing at the normal time, and didn't expect the train. They watered down the report so as not to put all of the blame on the driver. But because of this accident the city is now looking to spend about $500M to have six crossings moved to overpasses/underpasses. Since the collision they've had at least one person there supposedly on look-out for when the trains come by. More often than not you see them sleeping in the car.
Even with the watered down report the drivers were up in arms saying it took so much concentration to drive the buses, especially the double-decker buses like the one involved in the crash. Well if it's so much work to drive a bus then why are the drivers always busy chatting away to the off duty drivers?
Great until the city decides that they don't want them because they supposedly don't save money during the time when diesel prices went through the roof. Personally I don't care because they are much quieter than the normal diesel buses.
A few years ago we had a city bus crash into a passenger train and it killed six people including the driver. Now because the driver was speeding (the report was watered down to deflect some of the blame from the driver) the city is looking at spending $500M to build six overpasses/underpasses There were no accidents before that and in the years after. To get at the scale of the cost it's about the price that it's going to take to prevent our waster water system overflowing into the river when it rains a lot because in the older parts of the city it's combined with the storm water system. I don't think it's a matter of being too cheap. It's very expensive.
Those sites, including Facebook, only say that they want the real name. They value the traffic more than enforcing the policy. The only time Facebook cares about someone not using their real name is when someone else complains.
What could go wrong? So your car gets an update in the middle of the night and when you go to leave in the morning the car won't start. If we've learned anything from Microsoft forcing updates out then there will things will go wrong in some cases. Of course cars are more uniform so there shouldn't be as many problems. However iPhones are standard too and sometimes there's a new iOS version you get a number of people with problems upgrading.
If I use an ad network to serve up ads I'm still responsible for the content that goes out under my site's name. It doesn't matter that I've outsourced it to a third party.
That and when you go to a site there's an HTML pop-up asking you to sign up for an email newsletter. I just got to the fucking site and haven't had a chance to read the article because you've brought this up asking me for my email address. How am I supposed to know if your site is any good if you don't give me the chance to read it first? At that point I go back and try to remember never to go back to that site.
Why can't anyone go to a movie and not buy snacks? Seems like everyone here is complaining about the cost of them so the easy solution would be not to buy them or are you physically incapable of sitting a couple hours without putting food in your mouth? I refuse to pay the concession prices at the theatre and so I go without. It's not that difficult.
If Hollywood ever puts out a movie worth seeing. I've been to one movie in the past two years and that was only because the woman I was seeing at the time wanted to see it.
Since you would be supplying the movie then your friends would supply the meal and snacks for the evening. Getting take out and some drinks would easily cover the cost of the movie as long as they didn't get something cheap like a pizza. No need to try and work around an admission charge.
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Except you have no idea what I do on my computers. You just assume that it wouldn't impact me and when you assume "u" make me think you are an ass. I still do work with web servers and I would play around with the startup. I just happen to outsource my web server so I don't have to worry about that stuff.
I can use VLC to play a video and while it's playing I can change the name of the file or move it to another folder. That was the point of the example. The applications don't lose track of where the file exists on the file system. If I tried to do that Windows or Linux (at least before) then I would have to delete them from the application and re-import them again.
Who cares about putting it onto a USB drive or iPhone? I'm talking about playing the music on my computer.
I was in a union job doing IT work for the government. I had a series of term contracts and there's a regulation that says that if you are in the same position under term contracts for three years it automatically gets converted into a permanent position. When I was coming up to my three years they told me that they weren't going to give me the extension because it would convert me to a permanent position. They aren't allowed to do this by law because the work still had to be done. I went to the union and they just said the upper management could do whatever they wanted. There were three of us in that position and my direct manager got into a lot of trouble fighting for us to stay, which we did. The union, which we were paying $40 or $50 a month for exactly that, didn't lift a finger.
But not longer than two Canadian football fields!
One thing that I really like about Mac OS (though I don't know if the other ones support now since it's been a while since I've had to use them) is that you can move files around and the applications still are able to find them.
For example say I get some new MP3s. I don't want them in my Library folder yet since I don't know if I want to keep them so I have a folder that isn't backed up where I shove temporary stuff. I'll put the files there and import them into iTunes. When in iTunes I'll listen to the songs and if I really like them I'll buy them. If I just like the songs enough to keep them then I'll change the information on the songs to how I like them (consistent numbering, add album cover, etc). In the Finder I can then drag the songs over to my Library folder so they get included with my backups. But iTunes doesn't need to be updated. I can still double click on one of those songs and it will play even though I moved it. The same thing applies if I rename a file or one of the folders that it happens to be in. And I can do this while the iTunes is playing the song without any problems at all.
I haven't touched Windows since Windows 7 so I don't know if it has changed but I know that it couldn't do that before. Once you get used to making those changes it's hard to go back.
For me personally I got tired of fighting with Windows trying to get things working. When things go wrong I found it very difficult to get information on what was going wrong. Plus I had to change the way I worked to fit Windows, not have the tool adapt to me. For Linux I was tired of building everything. It's been a while since I've used Linux so I'm sure it's changed. However with the whole systemd thing going on I'm glad I'm out of there. For the most part I'm happy running my Mac and developing on it. Oh there are things that don't work on it and I'm the first one to call Apple out on it. And I definitely think that they are going in the wrong direction. Their apps, especially on the iPhone, are getting less user friendly.
I'm not a typical user. I've got a couple decades experience programming on UNIX/Linux systems from the telecommunications industry to web applications. I've maintained web servers and in my last job I was the system administrator in charge of over 70 Linux servers that were running the web servers for a government web site. In one job my manager had to write up a business case to justify a Linux license for me so he wanted to see how I was using it. (It was the government so everyone else was on Windows.) He was afraid I was going to go on a anti-Windows rant but I just showed him how I broke my work into the virtual desktops and that I was using the tools available with Linux so that I could get my work done. He was quite happy with my demonstration and I got to keep my Linux. It was the best tool for me at the time. The Mac would have worked as well.
Having said that the Mac works the best for me now and I'll be the last person to force it on anyone else. If you want to run Windows or Linux or even OS/2 then go right ahead if that is what works for you. However I do reserve the right to make fun of you.
Bus drivers here do a lot of those things anyways.
- I've seen them open the doors before the bus has stopped. I've even seen them have the door open between stops.
- Some think that they are driving sports cars and try to stop and start on a dime. Not fun when you are standing on a packed bus.
- They will skip stops because the bus in front of them covers most of the same route as them anyways.
- Many will roll away from the stop as soon as the last person is on the bus, not seated
- In Ottawa only school buses need to stop at railway crossings
I've been on a bus that went through three stops. Two stop signs and a flashing red stop light. And not a rolling stop. He didn't even slow down. I reported the driver to the bus company and the police. The police got back to me in a month and a half to say they left it to the bus company. It's been almost six months and I haven't heard a thing from the bus company.
The train didn't hit the bus. The bus hit the train. There was nothing wrong with the train, the bus, the signals, or the any of the safety equipment. The driver was speeding, wasn't going by the crossing at the normal time, and didn't expect the train. They watered down the report so as not to put all of the blame on the driver. But because of this accident the city is now looking to spend about $500M to have six crossings moved to overpasses/underpasses. Since the collision they've had at least one person there supposedly on look-out for when the trains come by. More often than not you see them sleeping in the car.
Even with the watered down report the drivers were up in arms saying it took so much concentration to drive the buses, especially the double-decker buses like the one involved in the crash. Well if it's so much work to drive a bus then why are the drivers always busy chatting away to the off duty drivers?
Great until the city decides that they don't want them because they supposedly don't save money during the time when diesel prices went through the roof. Personally I don't care because they are much quieter than the normal diesel buses.
A few years ago we had a city bus crash into a passenger train and it killed six people including the driver. Now because the driver was speeding (the report was watered down to deflect some of the blame from the driver) the city is looking at spending $500M to build six overpasses/underpasses There were no accidents before that and in the years after. To get at the scale of the cost it's about the price that it's going to take to prevent our waster water system overflowing into the river when it rains a lot because in the older parts of the city it's combined with the storm water system. I don't think it's a matter of being too cheap. It's very expensive.
Yes because the bad guys are trying to hack the power lines.
You have the illusion of choice?
Maybe they should have used that encryption on the infrastructure instead.
Those sites, including Facebook, only say that they want the real name. They value the traffic more than enforcing the policy. The only time Facebook cares about someone not using their real name is when someone else complains.
What could go wrong? So your car gets an update in the middle of the night and when you go to leave in the morning the car won't start. If we've learned anything from Microsoft forcing updates out then there will things will go wrong in some cases. Of course cars are more uniform so there shouldn't be as many problems. However iPhones are standard too and sometimes there's a new iOS version you get a number of people with problems upgrading.
Yeah, but think of the GDP boost when you have to rebuild all of those cities! /s
I didn't think that was dirt they were slinging around.
I would have thought that they would have evolved into manatees before alligators.
If I use an ad network to serve up ads I'm still responsible for the content that goes out under my site's name. It doesn't matter that I've outsourced it to a third party.
Oh, you got the short version.
Soon to be head in the mud.
That and when you go to a site there's an HTML pop-up asking you to sign up for an email newsletter. I just got to the fucking site and haven't had a chance to read the article because you've brought this up asking me for my email address. How am I supposed to know if your site is any good if you don't give me the chance to read it first? At that point I go back and try to remember never to go back to that site.
Why can't anyone go to a movie and not buy snacks? Seems like everyone here is complaining about the cost of them so the easy solution would be not to buy them or are you physically incapable of sitting a couple hours without putting food in your mouth? I refuse to pay the concession prices at the theatre and so I go without. It's not that difficult.
If Hollywood ever puts out a movie worth seeing. I've been to one movie in the past two years and that was only because the woman I was seeing at the time wanted to see it.
Since you would be supplying the movie then your friends would supply the meal and snacks for the evening. Getting take out and some drinks would easily cover the cost of the movie as long as they didn't get something cheap like a pizza. No need to try and work around an admission charge.