#15 Date display - Should be an option to go next to the clock, howeve, I've never found this frustrating. You can click on the clock to seet he date, or you can just leave ical running. This would be an easy and non-invasive change for apple though, so why not.
#14 Widgets on the desktop - This never occurred to me as something I'd want to do. Widgets have their purpose, and that purpose is to be on a separate screen for me to use if I need it; I don't want widgets cluttering my desktop like applications. For that matter, I hardly use widgets anyway.
#13 Context menus - Don't see the problem... not explained very well
#12 Dock application window behavior - Sounds more like pining for windows like behavior. The dock is simple and straightforward, adding a bunch of contextual features to it would only complicate things fo rthe end user. I can get to any open window in a second by using expose, or hitting the minimized icon.
#11 - window management. Matter of opinion; the simplicity of the current interface leads to less stressful use overall; I don't have any reason to drag windows from all four corners.
#10 Accessing applications - Uhh, what's your point? The dock is for things you wnat to keep handy. If it's something you want rarely, you open a finder window, click "Applications" And launch what you want,no different than the start menu in windows. Or you use spotlight to find it in seconds. Or you use quicksilver to launch it immediately.
#9 Backspace and delete keys - Agreed, totally.
#8 Printer setup. Never found it confusing unless you are trying ot attach to printers shared out of Active Directory tha trequire authenticatiohn, that took a bit of digging.
#7 inconsistant user interface. Maybe it's just me, but hte fact that they use slightly different color schemes and textures doesn't reall make the user interface inconsistant. Keyboard shorcuts rae consistant, mouse clicks are consistant, menu positioning is constant... it's pretty darn consistant if you ask me.
#6 Not sure why it's annoying.. it doesn't dim if you are watching video or anything... it does dim to save you lots of battery power if you aren't currently using hte machine.
#5/4/3 Finder - Yes, absolutely, finder needs help.
#2 Cut in finder - probably should be fixed, but not a big deal. Finder errs on the side of caution and doens't wnat you to automatically delete files by accident when you meant to copy them.
Now I'm not trying to be an apple apologist here believe it or not, but many of these are really stretching it and not things that many mac users would actually want changed, or that would even be good for apple in the long rum.
You are correct, but that's an example of the tragedy of the commons.
I know driving my car pollutes the world unnecessarily, but I also know that my car is only one of millions, and that any difference I make by driving or not is really inconsequential, so I continue to drive.
If your staff can do their weekly work in 20 hours a week, you are irresonsibly under-utilizing them and don't understand the value of your employees.
As a matter of professional integrity, you should take those 20 extra hours and do more projects, produce more, do better documentation, do things people remember. You should deliver your projects earlier, and do more work than those around you.
Why, even if you aren't staying there? It's a small world. You never know when your current supervisor/manager/whatever, or another employee is someday the person on the other end of an interview, or in a position to recommend hiring at a nother job. Respect is everything.
The kind of situation you describe works fine when people are driven and responsible; it falls apart when poeple just want ot do the bare mimimum they are asked, then forget about work. The occasional break because work was completed ahead of schedule is fine.. but if everyone is only working at half capacity, you have either a motivational problem, a management problem, or both.
However, had the owner of the ram been a publicly traded company, had you been a minority shareholder, and had the board of said company sold the aforemtioned ram (which I forgot to mention is the corporation's only assett) way below market value to seal a quick deal, you, as a sharholder, might have a case that they were in breach of their duties costing you and other shareholders millions of dollars.
As far as I can tell, Mr. Dicks has not been charged under the wire act, but under a specific piece of legislation from Louisiana that specifically bans gambling out of state using telecommunications services.
The wire act is federal, and mentions "Phones"... leaving a bit of a grey area when it comes to the Internet.
So far not many details have been released, so it's all speculation at this point.
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Yeah, sinister, just like making web designers put WORDS on their web pages, all in an effort to catalog them!
I think this is more due to a lack of decent backup software than anything else. Backups in windows always seem to be a pain.
I prefer backup by disk image. This is easier on the mac:
1) Plug in external firewire drive (or USB if you like) 2) User SuperDuper to do a differential backup clone my hard drive to the firewire drive.
Should my HD fail:
- I can boot off the external drive and use it exactly as if it were the internal one.
- I can clone the external drive back to the new laptop drive when I get it
Should the laptop die or be stolen
- I can obtain a new mac and immediately boot off the backup and work from there
- I can clone the image to the new drive when I have time.
This is interesting.. all these factors you speak of (gravity, wind).. imagine how accurate a sniper could be if they could learn to accurately guage for, and compensate for these things!
Professional sharpshooters can knock the dits out of playing cards at quite a distance... hitting a scope is about the same thing.
Odds are if one professional sniper could make the shot, the other one could too, conditions being the same for both (same time, same place).
Though I would agree from a technical point of view, I can't agree in reality. This is their subdomain, they are free to treat it how they wish.
This only applies to their subdomain,.CM. They control it outright.. they are free to assume whatever they want about it. It is not for you or me to tell them how to use it.
My point was that you can't intentionally pirate material and get around being charged by routing packets in some weird way, or distributing the work. If, in the end, your intent, and result, was to copy that material, and that can be proven.. the mumbo-jumbo won't save you.
It is your intent that matters, not the physical mechanism.
By using bittorrent, you are helping others download the material, plain and simple. Whether it is done by one person or broken into chunks and done by a million people, you are still doing the same thing.
Please don't try to rationalize the legality of copyright violation based on technical mumbo jumbo... just stand up and admit you think copying the stuff is okay.
Well.. you've had it for almost a decade already... and yet you haven't turned into a crazed gambling addict.. strange, eh?
Regarding "many sites are there to rip you off".. can you please elaborate? They certainly exist.. but do you have any figures to back up how many shady thiefs there are out there -vs- normal gambling operations?
Actually, Mohawk Internet Technologies (Aptly named MIT) is only a hosting provider for online gaming operations... they don't operate the online casinos themselves.
- There are responsible gambling acts/policies/etc in various places, whereby people can voluntarily have themselves blacklisted, and the casinos MUST honor this. Online casinos are starting to do this as well. - Online casinos have deposit limits, daily/weekly/monthly. You can of course contact them to have these increased.. but it usually requires some paperwork, and has to be very deliberate on your part.
- Morality issues really ahve no place in the onlien gambling debate. They DO have a place in a a debate about gambling in general.. but when discussing online gambling, keep in mind that people DO have access to gambling... online gambling has been dead easy for the last 7 years or so, yet we don't see a widespread pandemic and financial ruin.. no more than we do with casinos everywhere.
Okay.. I'll give examples. Note I didn't say they HAVE to be publicly traded.. I said they ARE publicly traded. It's the internet.. you have to decide who and where you send your money, just like any other business. Pick someone who doesn't look likely to rip you off.
- 25 people CAN run an online casino. My point is that many of the online casinos/sportsbooks/poker sites you see out there now are actually owned by sizeable public companies... not little mom & pop shops.
All 3 of these are publicly traded, and I'm fairly certain have over a thousand employees globally.
Regarding advertising... it's absolutely not confined to the net. Look for billboards in major US centers for sportsbook.com, bodog.com, betonsports.com, etc. (I know LA and Vegas for sure) Airline magazines, sports magazines, superbowl parties, racing sponsorships, blimps, etc. Sportsbook.com (Sportingbet PLC) sponsored the miami Indy race a couple years back. TV shows on network television... full sponsorships by celebrities (which aren't cheap).
Foreign Country Standards: Right you are, you absolutely can't trust a foreign government to stand up for you, the customer. Guess what, though... operations that screw their customers over? They go broke. They don't last. You don't get hundreds of thousands of customers sticking around for years because you rip them off. You also don't get it by fudging your reports to the London stock exchange. None of the above mentioned companies would be anywhere if they simply tried to rip off their customers.. you don't NEED to rip them off, the house already makes a solid profit doing regular gambling.
Gambling addiction is very real, absolutely. I've seen lives destroyed by it.. but having seen both sides of the fence.. regulation boils down to money and control.... and only the perception of protection. People can gamble in many ways, all over the US. Online gambling is just one more method that can be used. Let's face it.. people gamble.. always have, always will. That won't change, and the internet isn't going to go away.
I'm not arguing for the morality of gambling.... but it's regulated based on the massive amounts of money it draws for those in power for gambling.. not for puritan reasons. Whether the operation is offshore or across the street, or licensed and in-state, you can destroy your life just as easily.. the government won't stop you.
Now, would you rather nobody discussed child pornography? Would you rather have NO insight into what these sickos, who are always there as a percentage of our society as far back as we can tell, are thinking?
There is no such thing as unbiased and neutral.. no matter how hard you try. If the paedophiles want to state their bit, fine, let them. It won't change the fact that what they do is unacceptable to the majority of society in this day and age.
And then how does the reserve get the money out of the country and to the offshore casinos?
If this were workable solution, it would already be happening... US banks blocking gaming transactions against credit cards is already a huge pain for offshore casinos.
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#15 Date display - Should be an option to go next to the clock, howeve, I've never found this frustrating. You can click on the clock to seet he date, or you can just leave ical running. This would be an easy and non-invasive change for apple though, so why not.
#14 Widgets on the desktop - This never occurred to me as something I'd want to do. Widgets have their purpose, and that purpose is to be on a separate screen for me to use if I need it; I don't want widgets cluttering my desktop like applications. For that matter, I hardly use widgets anyway.
#13 Context menus - Don't see the problem... not explained very well
#12 Dock application window behavior - Sounds more like pining for windows like behavior. The dock is simple and straightforward, adding a bunch of contextual features to it would only complicate things fo rthe end user. I can get to any open window in a second by using expose, or hitting the minimized icon.
#11 - window management. Matter of opinion; the simplicity of the current interface leads to less stressful use overall; I don't have any reason to drag windows from all four corners.
#10 Accessing applications - Uhh, what's your point? The dock is for things you wnat to keep handy. If it's something you want rarely, you open a finder window, click "Applications" And launch what you want,no different than the start menu in windows. Or you use spotlight to find it in seconds. Or you use quicksilver to launch it immediately.
#9 Backspace and delete keys - Agreed, totally.
#8 Printer setup. Never found it confusing unless you are trying ot attach to printers shared out of Active Directory tha trequire authenticatiohn, that took a bit of digging.
#7 inconsistant user interface. Maybe it's just me, but hte fact that they use slightly different color schemes and textures doesn't reall make the user interface inconsistant. Keyboard shorcuts rae consistant, mouse clicks are consistant, menu positioning is constant... it's pretty darn consistant if you ask me.
#6 Not sure why it's annoying.. it doesn't dim if you are watching video or anything... it does dim to save you lots of battery power if you aren't currently using hte machine.
#5/4/3 Finder - Yes, absolutely, finder needs help.
#2 Cut in finder - probably should be fixed, but not a big deal. Finder errs on the side of caution and doens't wnat you to automatically delete files by accident when you meant to copy them.
Now I'm not trying to be an apple apologist here believe it or not, but many of these are really stretching it and not things that many mac users would actually want changed, or that would even be good for apple in the long rum.
Many homeowners associations are indeed afraid of housing values being hurt.. but generallly, if you live in that neighborhood, so do you.
You are correct, but that's an example of the tragedy of the commons.
I know driving my car pollutes the world unnecessarily, but I also know that my car is only one of millions, and that any difference I make by driving or not is really inconsequential, so I continue to drive.
If your staff can do their weekly work in 20 hours a week, you are irresonsibly under-utilizing them and don't understand the value of your employees.
As a matter of professional integrity, you should take those 20 extra hours and do more projects, produce more, do better documentation, do things people remember. You should deliver your projects earlier, and do more work than those around you.
Why, even if you aren't staying there? It's a small world. You never know when your current supervisor/manager/whatever, or another employee is someday the person on the other end of an interview, or in a position to recommend hiring at a nother job. Respect is everything.
The kind of situation you describe works fine when people are driven and responsible; it falls apart when poeple just want ot do the bare mimimum they are asked, then forget about work. The occasional break because work was completed ahead of schedule is fine.. but if everyone is only working at half capacity, you have either a motivational problem, a management problem, or both.
If you aren't happy with your salary, renegotiate or get a new job.
If you are happy with it, you have no reason to go poking around other people's private business.
Even so, robots.txt is not a privacy guarantee, it's only a friendly suggestion.
Yup, that's your fault.
However, had the owner of the ram been a publicly traded company, had you been a minority shareholder, and had the board of said company sold the aforemtioned ram (which I forgot to mention is the corporation's only assett) way below market value to seal a quick deal, you, as a sharholder, might have a case that they were in breach of their duties costing you and other shareholders millions of dollars.
The thing is, even if the GPL is not legally binding... what else gives D-Link the right to distributed copyrighted works of others? Answer: Nothing
I had an excellent sense of direction back in B.C....
Then I moved to Costa Rica, and my internal direction finder is toast.
I know my way around, but I always think of west as east and south as north... no matter how much I visualize which way I'm really facing.
At sundown or sunrise this is not the case, but other times, yep.
Gecko's feet are the van-der-waals forces.. a different thing, unless I'm mistaken.
As far as I can tell, Mr. Dicks has not been charged under the wire act, but under a specific piece of legislation from Louisiana that specifically bans gambling out of state using telecommunications services.
The wire act is federal, and mentions "Phones"... leaving a bit of a grey area when it comes to the Internet.
So far not many details have been released, so it's all speculation at this point.
Yeah, sinister, just like making web designers put WORDS on their web pages, all in an effort to catalog them!
I think this is more due to a lack of decent backup software than anything else. Backups in windows always seem to be a pain.
I prefer backup by disk image. This is easier on the mac:
1) Plug in external firewire drive (or USB if you like)
2) User SuperDuper to do a differential backup clone my hard drive to the firewire drive.
Should my HD fail:
- I can boot off the external drive and use it exactly as if it were the internal one.
- I can clone the external drive back to the new laptop drive when I get it
Should the laptop die or be stolen
- I can obtain a new mac and immediately boot off the backup and work from there
- I can clone the image to the new drive when I have time.
This is interesting.. all these factors you speak of (gravity, wind).. imagine how accurate a sniper could be if they could learn to accurately guage for, and compensate for these things!
Professional sharpshooters can knock the dits out of playing cards at quite a distance... hitting a scope is about the same thing.
Odds are if one professional sniper could make the shot, the other one could too, conditions being the same for both (same time, same place).
It's a list of personal computers.. the next was a workstation.
Though I would agree from a technical point of view, I can't agree in reality. This is their subdomain, they are free to treat it how they wish.
.CM. They control it outright.. they are free to assume whatever they want about it. It is not for you or me to tell them how to use it.
This only applies to their subdomain,
I agree with you completely.
My point was that you can't intentionally pirate material and get around being charged by routing packets in some weird way, or distributing the work. If, in the end, your intent, and result, was to copy that material, and that can be proven.. the mumbo-jumbo won't save you.
It is your intent that matters, not the physical mechanism.
By using bittorrent, you are helping others download the material, plain and simple.
Whether it is done by one person or broken into chunks and done by a million people, you are still doing the same thing.
Please don't try to rationalize the legality of copyright violation based on technical mumbo jumbo... just stand up and admit you think copying the stuff is okay.
Do you really need 24/7 access to gambling?
Well.. you've had it for almost a decade already... and yet you haven't turned into a crazed gambling addict.. strange, eh?
Regarding "many sites are there to rip you off".. can you please elaborate? They certainly exist.. but do you have any figures to back up how many shady thiefs there are out there -vs- normal gambling operations?
Actually, Mohawk Internet Technologies (Aptly named MIT) is only a hosting provider for online gaming operations... they don't operate the online casinos themselves.
- There are responsible gambling acts/policies/etc in various places, whereby people can voluntarily have themselves blacklisted, and the casinos MUST honor this. Online casinos are starting to do this as well.
- Online casinos have deposit limits, daily/weekly/monthly. You can of course contact them to have these increased.. but it usually requires some paperwork, and has to be very deliberate on your part.
- Morality issues really ahve no place in the onlien gambling debate. They DO have a place in a a debate about gambling in general.. but when discussing online gambling, keep in mind that people DO have access to gambling... online gambling has been dead easy for the last 7 years or so, yet we don't see a widespread pandemic and financial ruin.. no more than we do with casinos everywhere.
Okay.. I'll give examples. Note I didn't say they HAVE to be publicly traded.. I said they ARE publicly traded. It's the internet.. you have to decide who and where you send your money, just like any other business. Pick someone who doesn't look likely to rip you off.
- 25 people CAN run an online casino. My point is that many of the online casinos/sportsbooks/poker sites you see out there now are actually owned by sizeable public companies... not little mom & pop shops.
All 3 of these are publicly traded, and I'm fairly certain have over a thousand employees globally.
1) SportingBet PLC http://www.sportingbetplc.com/
2) PartyGaming PLC http://www.partygaming.com/
3) BetOnSports http://www.betonsports.com/
Regarding advertising... it's absolutely not confined to the net. Look for billboards in major US centers for sportsbook.com, bodog.com, betonsports.com, etc. (I know LA and Vegas for sure) Airline magazines, sports magazines, superbowl parties, racing sponsorships, blimps, etc. Sportsbook.com (Sportingbet PLC) sponsored the miami Indy race a couple years back. TV shows on network television... full sponsorships by celebrities (which aren't cheap).
Foreign Country Standards: Right you are, you absolutely can't trust a foreign government to stand up for you, the customer. Guess what, though... operations that screw their customers over? They go broke. They don't last. You don't get hundreds of thousands of customers sticking around for years because you rip them off. You also don't get it by fudging your reports to the London stock exchange. None of the above mentioned companies would be anywhere if they simply tried to rip off their customers.. you don't NEED to rip them off, the house already makes a solid profit doing regular gambling.
Gambling addiction is very real, absolutely. I've seen lives destroyed by it.. but having seen both sides of the fence.. regulation boils down to money and control.... and only the perception of protection. People can gamble in many ways, all over the US. Online gambling is just one more method that can be used. Let's face it.. people gamble.. always have, always will. That won't change, and the internet isn't going to go away.
I'm not arguing for the morality of gambling.... but it's regulated based on the massive amounts of money it draws for those in power for gambling.. not for puritan reasons. Whether the operation is offshore or across the street, or licensed and in-state, you can destroy your life just as easily.. the government won't stop you.
Now, would you rather nobody discussed child pornography? Would you rather have NO insight into what these sickos, who are always there as a percentage of our society as far back as we can tell, are thinking?
There is no such thing as unbiased and neutral.. no matter how hard you try. If the paedophiles want to state their bit, fine, let them. It won't change the fact that what they do is unacceptable to the majority of society in this day and age.
And then how does the reserve get the money out of the country and to the offshore casinos?
If this were workable solution, it would already be happening... US banks blocking gaming transactions against credit cards is already a huge pain for offshore casinos.