I was reading this in someone elses post and it gives a figure on all the documents http://www.downwinders.com/hanford_hist.html/ 7 billion pages of documents is alot for a group of typists to input into a computer. I just thought you would like a number to go with your thought. That's not to mention a file that was misfiled or lost in transit to where ever they store the documents now(the Hanford site is closed besides the cleanup I think) I would think the pentagon or some other major government facility.
Yes I would agree if someone plays it back in their head and enjoys it, it makes them a sociopath. What the other posters have been trying to point out, at least I think, is that when your put into that situation what your expressing on the outside isn't nessisarily what your expressing on the inside. You joke about it to try and make yourself think it's not a big deal but on the inside it could be eating away at you.
You could think that the only way to get by is to drink or be an ass. Maybe you do it because you don't want people to like you for it because you don't like yourself. Your reading way 2 dimensionally into the human phyche. Making jokes or comments doesn't nessisarily mean your a sociopath it could mean they are dealing with some heavy shit as well. Though some of the comments on here make me think that some people are twits for the sick jokes they have come up with.
I didn't find the headline funny, and I think most of the people here that did probably fit your profile but I wouldn't be suprised to find someone who has done those things and is trying to cope with it outwardly tries to find it funny.
like I said: A) to make them selves think it's excepble B) They want people to think they are a jerk because they feel like one C) They know not what it means D) They are sociopaths(might be the same as C)
I agree that the ipod won on more basis than just it's marketing. It was a good product and a good device, but at the time there were other players out there besides the two that you mentioned. Creative was no longer focusing on the nomad line they were focusing on their zen line. Which at the time was comparible in many ways to the ipod.
Honestly the reason ipod won was because it had a sexy looking design it worked well with few or no bugs and could store 20 gigs of music. The creative counterpart looked ugly could hold 20 gigs of music but wasn't very likable. Now you could pickup a creative product or something from a different manufacture and see how apple has changed the portable music player market. The old players before the ipod looked like walkmans or CD players. Apple became a leader because they had a good looking product that worked, and itunes as well.
The question is why are they still the leaders, the fact that they had the best product for so long maybe? I could look and find different players with simular or more features today than apple has on their portable players and are probably cheaper. That's marketing.
the other thing that confuses me is that she said that if she changed the OS it would void her warranty I used to work at Dell and unless they seriously changed their policies in the last 2 years since I quit I would say bullshit. When I was there they expected the user to open the machine and poke things at times. They also had them do OS reinstalls all the time. It doesn't make sense unless she had some kind of ubunutu support with her warranty contract that they wouldn't honour. It either sounds like the Dell rep screwed up more than once(possible from the people I knew on the phones) or she didn't understand or was too angry to listen.
umm wtf are you smoking the mkv container isn't loosing anything it's a high def format most of my protable players don't even support that. That's more of a failing of the device then the container. If divx puts the container support in their package then hell every device that supports divx that comes out in the future would support mkv. This would make mkv the new standard for divx type high def content. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU. Besides I'm a pirate and all the HD stuff I get is either an ISO or in MKV format. some people use other containers but where I lounge thats one of the main formats for HD.
I'm not sure, we don't know much about this guy do we. What do we know, he was a good enough lawyer to be a partner in a law firm working for google. Also remember that he is a patent lawyer so all of what I know says one of two things.
1) He's an idiot who thought he could make a quick buck off of google and who ever else infringed on his paper thin patent that just seems to be common sense.(I'm not a lawyer but I would argue prior art in the fact that you can touch and feel in a bookstore and it's just another medium to do it)
2) This guy knows what hes doing and there's a reason why he risked his(probably high paying) job to take on this case and this might be one more case of patent abuse.
I wouldn't mod you down as a troll without asking why you think those things? There of course is allot of destruction at Fort McMurray in Northern Canada but there are plans in place for land reclamation and there is allot of oversight. This doesn't mean it doesn't damage the ecosystem in that area while the project is on going it effects the animal life in that area to the point that it is probably going to kill off a large number of birds that migrate to that area and land in the ponds up there.
But I don't think that is what is keeping Canada afloat over say the U.S. Canada has had more regulation on the markets then the United States has. If Canada's economy was propped up by oil sales alone then they would be in much larger trouble. Look at the drop in the price of oil as well as the drop in production in Alberta. Canada is a huge country and it's filled with multiple resources. Saskatchewan is now the province to be in. Right now they have a potash mine, uranium mine, diamond mine (not in full production estimated 2011), and there are oil sands much like in Northern Alberta.
Of course Canada isn't a perfect Country they pretty much fucked up the Native population between the treatment of them in the Residential schools which were only shut down in the 1990's the last one shut down in 1998 which is insane. This treatment of them as basically crippled allot of the people in their communities. They have also had conflicts with the police over logging and allocation of land that have gone badly (there's some good CBC made for TV movies about them). But I would also like to point out that most of this treatment was 5-10 years ago and there have been reconciliation attempts made by government while not being as good as they should be are getting better, as well as treatment programs and other resources available to them such as cheaper post secondary education and housing on the reserves(though I know people who would rather pay for my own house off of a reserve) as well as tax exemption status and many other benefits of the treaties that the Canadian Government try to keep(though not always well).
While I don't doubt your statements as holding truth I also do believe that it doesn't have bearing on this topic as well your statements are flamebait because the situations you describe are not exactly how you portray them in your comments.
My school is not likely to go to FOSS for their OS anytime soon. My district has about 100 different schools I look after 8 of the smaller ones there's about 30 techs that directly look after the schools and another 10-15 that look after the exchange, website, and specialty servers.
In our district we have a central log on server for active directory downtown(with backups of course for load balancing and such). I can tell you we aren't mandated to use windows, we do get some nice licensing deals that help with windows, but people forget there was a time when windows was the OS to use. The school district has been using windows for X amount of time and so when they went to standardize all the schools(so techs could move around to each school with no problems if someone was sick or quit) they went with Microsoft. So the Novell servers were eventually phased out and we are strictly a Microsoft camp now. We have to use office 2007 for share point, we have to use windows for the majority of our educational software. The roll over to FOSS would require a lot of money.
You might ask why it would cost a lot of money it's free software, well you have the cost of retraining some of the techs there were Microsoft certified you have the cost of re-educating the teaching staff(which would take A LOT of money if you know what I mean). Getting OS compatible versions of the educational software would be impossible so we would have to change the software that the teachers use which is more education on their part. So you have a huge expense in switching over and it would probably be 1 year of rolling over computers and servers after 6 months to 1 year of re-education on how these new systems work as well as testing. That's a lot of man power and resources that aren't necessarily in the schools budgets, as well as more than usual downtime.
I would love to be using Linux in my school but I don't think it would be beneficial in the short term and that effects the quality of the students education. If it was one school standing on it's own with one server on site, I don't see any problems with it, but if you basically have thousands of computers connected between sites with fiber then I believe it becomes a big cost and time problem.
It seems like your sitting in the situation where what you do in your school doesn't effect the whole district. This is a good situation to try and roll over to Linux, especially the way you did it. But I hope others realize that it's not always as simple as slowly migrating over.
My district isn't a pro microsoft place just to let you know. I use Ubunutu on my work laptop that the district gives me and I know of at least one other person who uses OSX for work as well. They have no problems with what we do at our schools as long as it doesn't effect everything, there are schools that are running star office for some of their computers.
As for the original article I would point out all of the software for windows that would most likely be free already. Look at Flash, adobe reader(though bloated it is on most desktops in a free version), and then also point out the different governments and educational institutes that are moving towards FOSS such as open office, and Linux to different degrees. I also would have pointed out that the donations to the school aren't illegal so why should FOSS be illegal. I know around here we have a program called computers for schools. They donate computers to the schools, why not say it's similar for FOSS businesses help create some of this software but donate it as they don't need it anymore.
There are some artists that have left the major lables for this reason or other stupid things. I remember a few that left major lables last year, is the one I remember off of the top of my head. this is probably one reason.
another example but the artists might be upset with the RIAA but few are doing anything to stop it. If the fans were to appeal to the major artists of these lables and have them do what reznor did they I think they might get the message or acually slump in sales(because their major money makers are making their own money independantly).
Yes I have and if you have close enough hardware it works pretty good. I didn't run it long and I don't have a mac to compare it to so I do see what your getting at I can't debate the merit of running OSX on none Apple hardware or the disadvantages because I didn't run it long enough to say definitively one way or the other how well it would work. I'm sure you can find some review online. What I thought we were talking about is developers attraction to the system, and I was wondering how it would lock you in as a developer.
I will say this Apple does blackmail you into buying a Mac if you want to use OSX. But I don't think using OSX locks you into something. I mean you aren't limited by having a Mac in anyway as far as I can tell. You can run Linux Unix and Windows on it. They have good virtual software. The only way I could see it locking you in is if you wanted to switch to a different computer from say HP or Lenovo. Then your out of luck running OSx natively legally. Does this lock you in? I guess it locks you into their hardware if you want to run it natively. But that doesn't lock you in as a developer to use some set of tools. It will lock you into that hardware(unless you use a hackintosh but I doubt you want to develop on a hacked together system).
I believe that if you did want to switch to a different OS and do the same development work you could still run OSX in a virtual environment. Just like you could do windows work on OSX in a virtual environment. But lets move past the hardware constraints. I still don't get how the software is locking you into OSX.
You talk about the iPhone but that's a pretty big tangent, your kind of locked into their SDK now on any system so I don't see how it's relevant to being locked into OSX or any other system. Also I haven't heard of software being blocked from running on the iPhone as much as being distributed by them(iPhone app store). They do have a kill switch but so does android, that makes sense if you want to block malicious software from being installed(as long as that's what it's for)
Java can be run on OSX it's one of the reasons it's popular, because of it's cross platform use. Your not limited to the tools they give you, but they do give you some cool tools to use although you don't have to(at least as far as I know). So development isn't going to lock you into something. most language for other systems can be written in a notepad and compiled(some people prefer it). You can run terminal I'm sure you can compile a program for a different system on OSX so why would that lock you in as a developer.
Apple might lock you into the system but how does it lock you in as a developer?
The benefit is that you get an operating system with good support that's known for stability and has good tools on it. If you have a mac you can boot linux OSX and Windows. You also can run all the other systems virtually(you can using vmware in windows and linux as well I believe). Where as if your running it a non apple PC your stuck with running linux and windows nativly your locked into only those two systems(legally).
If anything I wouldn't call what apple does locking you in as much as blackmailing you into buying their hardware.
I would also like to say again I'm not an Apple fanboy I don't own anything made by Apple I run XP, Vista, and Ubuntu on my machines at home. I would say I feel more left out that OSX can only run on Mac hardware.
But this is also why it's more stable if Windows only had to develop drivers for a set piece of hardware I doubt you would get the instability that you do now. Control creates stability but it also creates limitations.
Or we could just cut down on the consumption of everything and not be gluttons and have the similar results.
The point I was trying to make was that going to one extreme isn't going to solve the problem. My point was that we still need to have land for these animals to graze and if we don't have them fenced off they are going to go and run around crops and eat them. How do you know their populations won't increase? Of course they could decrease but changing our system now could have adverse effects on the environment just as much as our involvement when we caged them all up. We would then have animals that were taken(for the most part) from the food chain(farmers tend to protect their animals). Not all bulls are set to graze with the cattle and farmers typically don't have that many bulls on their farms. Breeding is controlled, what happens when it's not?
Or are you saying that we will still keep cattle after we aren't using them for food and reduce their breeding to compensate for the lack of demand for the animals. Which is what you implied by saying incentive to breed & rear them. Because that is a stupid comment to think that a farmer or feed lot owner is going to keep a money drain for no reason at all(besides maybe milk production, but that's only a few different breeds of cattle).
Can you go into more detail as to why I'm an idiot for thinking that making a drastic change might effect the ecosystem? Can you give me some research that says that if we do release all of these animals and don't feed on them that their numbers will decrease? I'm not saying they won't chickens cows and pigs have a lot of predators but I think it's silly to jump to that conclusion.
Reduction in population and a reduction in the amount of food we eat and waste(check the garbage at a fast food restaurant) is a good start. Looking into reduction of animal meat might also be good but I'm just saying you can jump to the other extreme either without looking at what the consequences are.
Also why do you have to be inflammatory about my comments. You didn't really add anything to the conversation except for ignorance and immaturity. Your writing is that of a someone throwing a tantrum because they didn't get their way.
How as a developer is a Mac locking you in? Of course they are control freaks you can't natively run OSX on a typical x86 system sitting around because it has to be their hardware. That doesn't mean that if you have a Mac that you are locked in, you can install windows, Linux and OSX all on the same machine. You can run windows and Linux virtualized in OSX. As someone pointed out OSX is unix 03 certified
So can you explain how it locks you in? Is it locking you into one piece of software is it not letting you run something I'm not aware of? The only think that you get locked in with is that you have to run OSX on a Mac(even then there are hackintoshes). I would really like to know what you mean.
Come to think of it what do you even mean by locking you in?
I'm not sure exactly what your saying but from what i understand your saying we should kill all other animal life because they are eating all of our fruit, vegtables and grains?
Seriously these animals will need to eat either way, why not feed them and care for them and when the time is right eat their ass(rump roast).
better ways would be to cut down on population growth and reduce the excess waste we have(in eating and throwing out food) as well as develop better ways to increase crop yeilds. Also the ability to increase the locations where we can grow crops would be benifitial.
well theres already 2 spocks in the current cannon(parallel dictator spock) why not just say it's a splinter off like the ultimate series of Marvel comics. As long as theres not 50 different universes playing out I think people will be fine.
yes some countries don't have a middle class your either poor and living in a house made out of shipping crates or in a mansion down by the lake with 50 buttlers and a monical in some countries.
You do know that they are trying to reboot the series like BSG did right? I mean starbuck wasn't a chick originally in that series either. They are setting out to change the cannon of the franchise a little bit and frankly I think it needs it. There hasn't been a really good ship and crew story since TNG (voyager was good but it was different than the ship and crew in starfleet).
So yeah they can pretty much do what ever they want, McCoy wasn't on the ship when the TOS started kirk wasn't in the pilot either(kirk and spock both look way too young at this point). Does it bother me, well no, this isn't TOS this is something new it's a remake of the characters and setting with a new plot. It's a reboot think of it like that and let it roll and see if it's a good movie that Roddenberry wouldn't roller over in his grave seeing produced.
I agree that you should not make yourself irreplacable you should have documentation with detailed maps of your network and systems. What the parent was trying to say was that if you leave and no one is there to pick up the slack when your off do they:
A)panic and hide under a desk until you return B)call you in a panic to come fix it or remote in to fix it C)hire a contracter to come and fix the problem temporarily D)not have any problems at all and fire you on your return
Chances are that if your doing a good job and nothing has been deployed in the last while you will end up with D) without the firing. Because thats not a good way to justify your worth. The way you justify your worth is by documenting problems in a ticket system and can show what your doing on a break fix scenario. Show them the projects that your working on and then show them the cost of going with a contractor to do them. Show them how much overtime you spend working on things that need to get done.
If your not doing break fix, updates or implementing new technology or modifying them then you probably arn't needed. If the place goes up in flames while you were gone it either means you didn't do a good job building your infustructure or that some update came out and you weren't managing updates with something like sus or some virus got through your systems. These are good things to show as well as project plans for the future, these are the things that will be accomplished in the future to prevent downtime, this is what will happen if they aren't done and finally this is the cost and time that it takes to implement them.
You shouldn't have to justify your job by how badly things turn when your gone because your job is to prevent them from happing in the first place and having the backups setup for when they will anyways.
TFA states that it was as simple as clicking it off in the advanced settings. The problem here is that it was turned on by default and called a feature.
I get what you're saying but having a healthy debate between people I consider my peers is helpful. There have been times where I've taken a point on a subject and someone has given me a thought that has changed my whole perspective on that subject.
I know that most of the people around here have made their choice and a debate to change someone's mind the day before the election seems moot to most people it might be good to get those thoughts flowing before you make a mindless decision on voting day.
Not that I can vote tomorrow I'm Canadian and made my useless vote already:(
I would contest that Canada is the best place to be but that might be because I'm biased. I think most people would choose their own country as the best place(unless it's war torn or invaded by americans). I even find different places in my own country I would rather live, I wouldn't want to live in a big city(but I live in a decent sized one anyways) and I wouldn't want a province like Alberta(I live here anyways for some reason). Some place like BC or Saskatchewan(where I'm from).
I think most people like where they come from because they grew into that enviroment and don't understand anything else(not that they couldn't eventually come to understand the benifits of a different place I just think it's hard).
yeah but i thought you were innocent until proven guity. Using your logic if I stole 10 bucks from someone it should be assumed that I stole from everyone I ever came in contact with. The only thing that I know of that the RIAA has been able to prove is that they put the files out there to share. There has been no indication how many users have downloaded the files. So they are being fine thousands of dollars for a file that they shared(and might not have been downloaded) for the file to cost say 1000 dollars they would have to have shared it with about 1000 people. now say they could prove that they shared it to 1 person the punitive damages is 1000 percent of the original cost. Now this isn't theft they didn't deprive someone of a physical copy. They might have taken profits away from the record companies but there is not hard evidence of that. So why are the punitive damages so much?
Explain to me how you can get punitive damages in the thousands of dollars for one song when there is no proof of damage to the company and there is no evidence beyond the one download that their investigaters apparently did.
Then you look at it and you might think well this isn't exactly fair. If it's not fair then it could fall into this catagory that the artical was talking about.
If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit.
Another note thats kind of off topic of this article is how are they proving that they are downloading file to their computer. All they have to go on is an IP, that can be spoofed. How does that work?
I totally agree with you, I've worked with touch screens in the past and it sounds like a calibration problem. I've said this before i'm not sure why they have to use a touch screen when a button never has to be calibrated.
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I was reading this in someone elses post and it gives a figure on all the documents http://www.downwinders.com/hanford_hist.html/ 7 billion pages of documents is alot for a group of typists to input into a computer. I just thought you would like a number to go with your thought. That's not to mention a file that was misfiled or lost in transit to where ever they store the documents now(the Hanford site is closed besides the cleanup I think) I would think the pentagon or some other major government facility.
Yes I would agree if someone plays it back in their head and enjoys it, it makes them a sociopath. What the other posters have been trying to point out, at least I think, is that when your put into that situation what your expressing on the outside isn't nessisarily what your expressing on the inside. You joke about it to try and make yourself think it's not a big deal but on the inside it could be eating away at you.
You could think that the only way to get by is to drink or be an ass. Maybe you do it because you don't want people to like you for it because you don't like yourself. Your reading way 2 dimensionally into the human phyche. Making jokes or comments doesn't nessisarily mean your a sociopath it could mean they are dealing with some heavy shit as well. Though some of the comments on here make me think that some people are twits for the sick jokes they have come up with.
I didn't find the headline funny, and I think most of the people here that did probably fit your profile but I wouldn't be suprised to find someone who has done those things and is trying to cope with it outwardly tries to find it funny.
like I said:
A) to make them selves think it's excepble
B) They want people to think they are a jerk because they feel like one
C) They know not what it means
D) They are sociopaths(might be the same as C)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4198360.stm
I agree that the ipod won on more basis than just it's marketing. It was a good product and a good device, but at the time there were other players out there besides the two that you mentioned. Creative was no longer focusing on the nomad line they were focusing on their zen line. Which at the time was comparible in many ways to the ipod.
Honestly the reason ipod won was because it had a sexy looking design it worked well with few or no bugs and could store 20 gigs of music. The creative counterpart looked ugly could hold 20 gigs of music but wasn't very likable. Now you could pickup a creative product or something from a different manufacture and see how apple has changed the portable music player market. The old players before the ipod looked like walkmans or CD players. Apple became a leader because they had a good looking product that worked, and itunes as well.
The question is why are they still the leaders, the fact that they had the best product for so long maybe? I could look and find different players with simular or more features today than apple has on their portable players and are probably cheaper. That's marketing.
the other thing that confuses me is that she said that if she changed the OS it would void her warranty I used to work at Dell and unless they seriously changed their policies in the last 2 years since I quit I would say bullshit. When I was there they expected the user to open the machine and poke things at times. They also had them do OS reinstalls all the time. It doesn't make sense unless she had some kind of ubunutu support with her warranty contract that they wouldn't honour. It either sounds like the Dell rep screwed up more than once(possible from the people I knew on the phones) or she didn't understand or was too angry to listen.
umm wtf are you smoking the mkv container isn't loosing anything it's a high def format most of my protable players don't even support that. That's more of a failing of the device then the container. If divx puts the container support in their package then hell every device that supports divx that comes out in the future would support mkv. This would make mkv the new standard for divx type high def content. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU. Besides I'm a pirate and all the HD stuff I get is either an ISO or in MKV format. some people use other containers but where I lounge thats one of the main formats for HD.
I'm not sure, we don't know much about this guy do we. What do we know, he was a good enough lawyer to be a partner in a law firm working for google. Also remember that he is a patent lawyer so all of what I know says one of two things.
1) He's an idiot who thought he could make a quick buck off of google and who ever else infringed on his paper thin patent that just seems to be common sense.(I'm not a lawyer but I would argue prior art in the fact that you can touch and feel in a bookstore and it's just another medium to do it)
2) This guy knows what hes doing and there's a reason why he risked his(probably high paying) job to take on this case and this might be one more case of patent abuse.
I wouldn't mod you down as a troll without asking why you think those things? There of course is allot of destruction at Fort McMurray in Northern Canada but there are plans in place for land reclamation and there is allot of oversight. This doesn't mean it doesn't damage the ecosystem in that area while the project is on going it effects the animal life in that area to the point that it is probably going to kill off a large number of birds that migrate to that area and land in the ponds up there.
But I don't think that is what is keeping Canada afloat over say the U.S. Canada has had more regulation on the markets then the United States has. If Canada's economy was propped up by oil sales alone then they would be in much larger trouble. Look at the drop in the price of oil as well as the drop in production in Alberta. Canada is a huge country and it's filled with multiple resources. Saskatchewan is now the province to be in. Right now they have a potash mine, uranium mine, diamond mine (not in full production estimated 2011), and there are oil sands much like in Northern Alberta.
Of course Canada isn't a perfect Country they pretty much fucked up the Native population between the treatment of them in the Residential schools which were only shut down in the 1990's the last one shut down in 1998 which is insane. This treatment of them as basically crippled allot of the people in their communities. They have also had conflicts with the police over logging and allocation of land that have gone badly (there's some good CBC made for TV movies about them). But I would also like to point out that most of this treatment was 5-10 years ago and there have been reconciliation attempts made by government while not being as good as they should be are getting better, as well as treatment programs and other resources available to them such as cheaper post secondary education and housing on the reserves(though I know people who would rather pay for my own house off of a reserve) as well as tax exemption status and many other benefits of the treaties that the Canadian Government try to keep(though not always well).
While I don't doubt your statements as holding truth I also do believe that it doesn't have bearing on this topic as well your statements are flamebait because the situations you describe are not exactly how you portray them in your comments.
Are there no RPG's that have a lot of text for he DS?
My school is not likely to go to FOSS for their OS anytime soon. My district has about 100 different schools I look after 8 of the smaller ones there's about 30 techs that directly look after the schools and another 10-15 that look after the exchange, website, and specialty servers.
In our district we have a central log on server for active directory downtown(with backups of course for load balancing and such). I can tell you we aren't mandated to use windows, we do get some nice licensing deals that help with windows, but people forget there was a time when windows was the OS to use. The school district has been using windows for X amount of time and so when they went to standardize all the schools(so techs could move around to each school with no problems if someone was sick or quit) they went with Microsoft. So the Novell servers were eventually phased out and we are strictly a Microsoft camp now. We have to use office 2007 for share point, we have to use windows for the majority of our educational software. The roll over to FOSS would require a lot of money.
You might ask why it would cost a lot of money it's free software, well you have the cost of retraining some of the techs there were Microsoft certified you have the cost of re-educating the teaching staff(which would take A LOT of money if you know what I mean). Getting OS compatible versions of the educational software would be impossible so we would have to change the software that the teachers use which is more education on their part. So you have a huge expense in switching over and it would probably be 1 year of rolling over computers and servers after 6 months to 1 year of re-education on how these new systems work as well as testing. That's a lot of man power and resources that aren't necessarily in the schools budgets, as well as more than usual downtime.
I would love to be using Linux in my school but I don't think it would be beneficial in the short term and that effects the quality of the students education. If it was one school standing on it's own with one server on site, I don't see any problems with it, but if you basically have thousands of computers connected between sites with fiber then I believe it becomes a big cost and time problem.
It seems like your sitting in the situation where what you do in your school doesn't effect the whole district. This is a good situation to try and roll over to Linux, especially the way you did it. But I hope others realize that it's not always as simple as slowly migrating over.
My district isn't a pro microsoft place just to let you know. I use Ubunutu on my work laptop that the district gives me and I know of at least one other person who uses OSX for work as well. They have no problems with what we do at our schools as long as it doesn't effect everything, there are schools that are running star office for some of their computers.
As for the original article I would point out all of the software for windows that would most likely be free already. Look at Flash, adobe reader(though bloated it is on most desktops in a free version), and then also point out the different governments and educational institutes that are moving towards FOSS such as open office, and Linux to different degrees. I also would have pointed out that the donations to the school aren't illegal so why should FOSS be illegal. I know around here we have a program called computers for schools. They donate computers to the schools, why not say it's similar for FOSS businesses help create some of this software but donate it as they don't need it anymore.
There are some artists that have left the major lables for this reason or other stupid things. I remember a few that left major lables last year, is the one I remember off of the top of my head. this is probably one reason.
another example but the artists might be upset with the RIAA but few are doing anything to stop it. If the fans were to appeal to the major artists of these lables and have them do what reznor did they I think they might get the message or acually slump in sales(because their major money makers are making their own money independantly).
Tried running OS X on non-apple Hardware?
Yes I have and if you have close enough hardware it works pretty good. I didn't run it long and I don't have a mac to compare it to so I do see what your getting at I can't debate the merit of running OSX on none Apple hardware or the disadvantages because I didn't run it long enough to say definitively one way or the other how well it would work. I'm sure you can find some review online. What I thought we were talking about is developers attraction to the system, and I was wondering how it would lock you in as a developer.
I will say this Apple does blackmail you into buying a Mac if you want to use OSX. But I don't think using OSX locks you into something. I mean you aren't limited by having a Mac in anyway as far as I can tell. You can run Linux Unix and Windows on it. They have good virtual software. The only way I could see it locking you in is if you wanted to switch to a different computer from say HP or Lenovo. Then your out of luck running OSx natively legally. Does this lock you in? I guess it locks you into their hardware if you want to run it natively. But that doesn't lock you in as a developer to use some set of tools. It will lock you into that hardware(unless you use a hackintosh but I doubt you want to develop on a hacked together system).
I believe that if you did want to switch to a different OS and do the same development work you could still run OSX in a virtual environment. Just like you could do windows work on OSX in a virtual environment. But lets move past the hardware constraints. I still don't get how the software is locking you into OSX.
You talk about the iPhone but that's a pretty big tangent, your kind of locked into their SDK now on any system so I don't see how it's relevant to being locked into OSX or any other system. Also I haven't heard of software being blocked from running on the iPhone as much as being distributed by them(iPhone app store). They do have a kill switch but so does android, that makes sense if you want to block malicious software from being installed(as long as that's what it's for)
Java can be run on OSX it's one of the reasons it's popular, because of it's cross platform use. Your not limited to the tools they give you, but they do give you some cool tools to use although you don't have to(at least as far as I know). So development isn't going to lock you into something. most language for other systems can be written in a notepad and compiled(some people prefer it). You can run terminal I'm sure you can compile a program for a different system on OSX so why would that lock you in as a developer.
Apple might lock you into the system but how does it lock you in as a developer?
The benefit is that you get an operating system with good support that's known for stability and has good tools on it. If you have a mac you can boot linux OSX and Windows. You also can run all the other systems virtually(you can using vmware in windows and linux as well I believe). Where as if your running it a non apple PC your stuck with running linux and windows nativly your locked into only those two systems(legally).
If anything I wouldn't call what apple does locking you in as much as blackmailing you into buying their hardware.
I would also like to say again I'm not an Apple fanboy I don't own anything made by Apple I run XP, Vista, and Ubuntu on my machines at home. I would say I feel more left out that OSX can only run on Mac hardware.
But this is also why it's more stable if Windows only had to develop drivers for a set piece of hardware I doubt you would get the instability that you do now. Control creates stability but it also creates limitations.
Or we could just cut down on the consumption of everything and not be gluttons and have the similar results.
The point I was trying to make was that going to one extreme isn't going to solve the problem. My point was that we still need to have land for these animals to graze and if we don't have them fenced off they are going to go and run around crops and eat them. How do you know their populations won't increase? Of course they could decrease but changing our system now could have adverse effects on the environment just as much as our involvement when we caged them all up. We would then have animals that were taken(for the most part) from the food chain(farmers tend to protect their animals). Not all bulls are set to graze with the cattle and farmers typically don't have that many bulls on their farms. Breeding is controlled, what happens when it's not?
Or are you saying that we will still keep cattle after we aren't using them for food and reduce their breeding to compensate for the lack of demand for the animals. Which is what you implied by saying incentive to breed & rear them. Because that is a stupid comment to think that a farmer or feed lot owner is going to keep a money drain for no reason at all(besides maybe milk production, but that's only a few different breeds of cattle).
Can you go into more detail as to why I'm an idiot for thinking that making a drastic change might effect the ecosystem? Can you give me some research that says that if we do release all of these animals and don't feed on them that their numbers will decrease? I'm not saying they won't chickens cows and pigs have a lot of predators but I think it's silly to jump to that conclusion.
Reduction in population and a reduction in the amount of food we eat and waste(check the garbage at a fast food restaurant) is a good start. Looking into reduction of animal meat might also be good but I'm just saying you can jump to the other extreme either without looking at what the consequences are.
Also why do you have to be inflammatory about my comments. You didn't really add anything to the conversation except for ignorance and immaturity. Your writing is that of a someone throwing a tantrum because they didn't get their way.
How as a developer is a Mac locking you in? Of course they are control freaks you can't natively run OSX on a typical x86 system sitting around because it has to be their hardware. That doesn't mean that if you have a Mac that you are locked in, you can install windows, Linux and OSX all on the same machine. You can run windows and Linux virtualized in OSX. As someone pointed out OSX is unix 03 certified
So can you explain how it locks you in? Is it locking you into one piece of software is it not letting you run something I'm not aware of? The only think that you get locked in with is that you have to run OSX on a Mac(even then there are hackintoshes). I would really like to know what you mean.
Come to think of it what do you even mean by locking you in?
if it helps I don't think your too scientifically minded.
I'm not sure exactly what your saying but from what i understand your saying we should kill all other animal life because they are eating all of our fruit, vegtables and grains?
Seriously these animals will need to eat either way, why not feed them and care for them and when the time is right eat their ass(rump roast).
better ways would be to cut down on population growth and reduce the excess waste we have(in eating and throwing out food) as well as develop better ways to increase crop yeilds. Also the ability to increase the locations where we can grow crops would be benifitial.
well theres already 2 spocks in the current cannon(parallel dictator spock) why not just say it's a splinter off like the ultimate series of Marvel comics. As long as theres not 50 different universes playing out I think people will be fine.
yes some countries don't have a middle class your either poor and living in a house made out of shipping crates or in a mansion down by the lake with 50 buttlers and a monical in some countries.
You do know that they are trying to reboot the series like BSG did right? I mean starbuck wasn't a chick originally in that series either. They are setting out to change the cannon of the franchise a little bit and frankly I think it needs it. There hasn't been a really good ship and crew story since TNG (voyager was good but it was different than the ship and crew in starfleet).
So yeah they can pretty much do what ever they want, McCoy wasn't on the ship when the TOS started kirk wasn't in the pilot either(kirk and spock both look way too young at this point). Does it bother me, well no, this isn't TOS this is something new it's a remake of the characters and setting with a new plot. It's a reboot think of it like that and let it roll and see if it's a good movie that Roddenberry wouldn't roller over in his grave seeing produced.
I agree that you should not make yourself irreplacable you should have documentation with detailed maps of your network and systems. What the parent was trying to say was that if you leave and no one is there to pick up the slack when your off do they:
A)panic and hide under a desk until you return
B)call you in a panic to come fix it or remote in to fix it
C)hire a contracter to come and fix the problem temporarily
D)not have any problems at all and fire you on your return
Chances are that if your doing a good job and nothing has been deployed in the last while you will end up with D) without the firing. Because thats not a good way to justify your worth. The way you justify your worth is by documenting problems in a ticket system and can show what your doing on a break fix scenario. Show them the projects that your working on and then show them the cost of going with a contractor to do them. Show them how much overtime you spend working on things that need to get done.
If your not doing break fix, updates or implementing new technology or modifying them then you probably arn't needed. If the place goes up in flames while you were gone it either means you didn't do a good job building your infustructure or that some update came out and you weren't managing updates with something like sus or some virus got through your systems. These are good things to show as well as project plans for the future, these are the things that will be accomplished in the future to prevent downtime, this is what will happen if they aren't done and finally this is the cost and time that it takes to implement them.
You shouldn't have to justify your job by how badly things turn when your gone because your job is to prevent them from happing in the first place and having the backups setup for when they will anyways.
TFA states that it was as simple as clicking it off in the advanced settings. The problem here is that it was turned on by default and called a feature.
I get what you're saying but having a healthy debate between people I consider my peers is helpful. There have been times where I've taken a point on a subject and someone has given me a thought that has changed my whole perspective on that subject.
I know that most of the people around here have made their choice and a debate to change someone's mind the day before the election seems moot to most people it might be good to get those thoughts flowing before you make a mindless decision on voting day.
Not that I can vote tomorrow I'm Canadian and made my useless vote already :(
it's not just you it's 90% comedy. His sarcasim and tricks are what keep me coming back.
Bloody hilarious. I love how he got the job on the show as being "American"
I would contest that Canada is the best place to be but that might be because I'm biased. I think most people would choose their own country as the best place(unless it's war torn or invaded by americans). I even find different places in my own country I would rather live, I wouldn't want to live in a big city(but I live in a decent sized one anyways) and I wouldn't want a province like Alberta(I live here anyways for some reason). Some place like BC or Saskatchewan(where I'm from).
I think most people like where they come from because they grew into that enviroment and don't understand anything else(not that they couldn't eventually come to understand the benifits of a different place I just think it's hard).
yeah but i thought you were innocent until proven guity. Using your logic if I stole 10 bucks from someone it should be assumed that I stole from everyone I ever came in contact with. The only thing that I know of that the RIAA has been able to prove is that they put the files out there to share. There has been no indication how many users have downloaded the files. So they are being fine thousands of dollars for a file that they shared(and might not have been downloaded) for the file to cost say 1000 dollars they would have to have shared it with about 1000 people. now say they could prove that they shared it to 1 person the punitive damages is 1000 percent of the original cost. Now this isn't theft they didn't deprive someone of a physical copy. They might have taken profits away from the record companies but there is not hard evidence of that. So why are the punitive damages so much?
Explain to me how you can get punitive damages in the thousands of dollars for one song when there is no proof of damage to the company and there is no evidence beyond the one download that their investigaters apparently did.
Then you look at it and you might think well this isn't exactly fair. If it's not fair then it could fall into this catagory that the artical was talking about.
If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit.
Another note thats kind of off topic of this article is how are they proving that they are downloading file to their computer. All they have to go on is an IP, that can be spoofed. How does that work?
I totally agree with you, I've worked with touch screens in the past and it sounds like a calibration problem. I've said this before i'm not sure why they have to use a touch screen when a button never has to be calibrated.