When Laurie Anderson did a concert in London, they wanted £35 per ticket, just over $50 at the time. I skipped it.
Two years later I saw Laurie Anderson in concert at Harvard. That was about $15.
I strongly suspect that the approx. $40 difference was the fault of the venue, the promoters, the ticket sales agency, and so on.
I skipped the last Peter Gabriel tour because the ticket prices were excessive. Shame, he's incredible live. Another concert I had tickets for was cancelled because they couldn't get enough people to pay the ticket price.
Ultimately, the same thing is happening here as with CDs: the price is being jacked up repeatedly, at well above the rate of inflation. Eventually nobody will be willing to pay it.
No, I'm saying that all they make is Office. Contrary to the spin of the article, working for Microsoft is not going to mean working on exciting new Mac software; it's going to mean churning out another unnecessary revision of Office every 2 years.
Often other groups at Microsoft (the games group, hardware drivers group and even the Windows media group) will come and schedule time in the Mac Lab to test their software on the different hardware configurations.
And since when does the Microsoft games group develop anything for the Mac? Halo was ported by Westlake Interactive and MacSoft, and they dropped the Mac port of Flight Simulator decades ago. So what games are actually written at Microsoft for the Mac?
Drivers? They licensed the code for their Mac mouse drivers from Alessandro Montalcini. Maybe they do a little testing now and again, but most of it is just USB HID anyway. Do Microsoft make any other hardware for the Mac?
Internet Explorer? Oh, sorry, they dropped that too.
The whole thing smells like PR crap designed to make Microsoft look like a major developer of Mac software, when in truth all they really work on these days is Office.
Well, it's surprising how many IMAP systems are still based on mbox. It's a complete disaster as soon as you hit them from Apple Mail, which opens multiple threads at once; or try to do filtering of incoming mail into folders while the user might be updating the same folders.
And then there's the breakage over NFS, the locking problems, the fact that it makes it harder to cluster, and so on.
Pity the moderation system doesn't allow you to describe WHY you moderated something a certain way, other than via the canned options which are often not suitable.
The option I most often want is some sort of "-1 wrong" for an "interesting" post. As in, yes, it's interesting (and hence not overrated on that basis), but it's factually incorrect.
Spin manipulator Thurrott, prefix Paul, operating site winsupersite, suffering severe drug violation. Extent pending. Thurrott subject to immediate arrest. MINDLOCK pending. MINDLOCK pending.
Mercicontrol respectfully submits a 5254, immediate destruction, on the basis of an ECO TR-X 314; totally incurable chemical imbalance with marketshare deteriorating consequences.
You think that ethically they weren't but what you think doesn't dictate what Yahoo! can do or make their actions wrong or right.
On the contrary, within my frame of reference, what I think does determine whether Yahoo! are wrong or right. And since there is no objective observer-independent definition of morality, it is the observer's definition of morality that is of interest.
You appear to feel that if the majority of people think something is right, and it gets supported by law, then it is by definition right. I disagree strongly; for example, torturing innocent people isn't right, even though by your reasoning it's just fine. (People democratically elected Bush, and said they still supported him when the torture came to light.)
Maybe. CSS isn't really copy protection; it's there for region coding. It does not prevent bitwise copying of DVDs. But the misconception that CSS prevents copying is pretty widespread.
Actually, since this is LJ we're talking about, if you're paying for the service it's the same game. They'll ban you on a whim and refuse to refund your money if they feel like it.
If they want to start charging you for the service, I imagine they would at minimum have to provide you with a reasonable amount of time to become aware of the change and accept/consent. More likely, they'd have to get a positive indication of your acceptance in order to begin billing you.
There speaks someone who has never dealt with the LiveJournal Abuse team.
They'll ban you for posting public information, delete your paid-for account, and tell you to get lost. They don't care.
Since the Yahoo! shareholders have allowed them to operate in China and since the US government is happy to allow US companies such as Yahoo! operate in China, both of whom we could consider are aware of the ethical argument against doing so, then by all rational judgement Yahoo! is doing nothing wrong here since both its government and its shareholders have given it a mandate to act as it has.
Maybe you set your personal ethics to match whatever the majority decides, but I don't.
When Yahoo! operates in China, it should comply with Chinese law, no matter how evil it is.
And when IBM operated in Germany, it should have given all possible assistance to the government in the vital work of efficiently rounding up Jews and sending them to death camps, right?
China could also flex its muscle by slowing down shipments, or blockading Taiwan. The entire US high-tech hardware sector would be unable to sell anything. Even those who don't manufacture their goods in China/Taiwan rely on just-in-time manufacturing and Chinese components.
Apple would be unable to sell a single Mac, for example.
This would be an adequate demonstration of power, without destroying the entire US economy.
So according to TFA they're going to sell downloadable content that can be burnt to a regular DVD and hence played in a regular DVD player... but the resulting disc and content is going to be copy-protected?
A lot of the usefulness bonjour (zeroconf/whatever) provides that the user sees must be provided in the applications themselves.
I know, but I'd like at least ssh, ping, traceroute etc. to work.
They all work on OS X, and I don't imagine Apple has written special code for all of them. Instead, they just get the DNS resolver to work for Bonjour addresses as well as regular DNS.
Your memory is slightly incorrect. Netscape 4 added JSSS, JavaScript style sheets. CSS was added as a hack when it became clear that Netscape proprietary technology wasn't going to be able to dictate the future of the web, and it was added by hacking CSS into JSSS internally.
Microsoft, in the mean time, actually implemented the web standards. And breezed past Netscape.
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When Laurie Anderson did a concert in London, they wanted £35 per ticket, just over $50 at the time. I skipped it.
Two years later I saw Laurie Anderson in concert at Harvard. That was about $15.
I strongly suspect that the approx. $40 difference was the fault of the venue, the promoters, the ticket sales agency, and so on.
I skipped the last Peter Gabriel tour because the ticket prices were excessive. Shame, he's incredible live. Another concert I had tickets for was cancelled because they couldn't get enough people to pay the ticket price.
Ultimately, the same thing is happening here as with CDs: the price is being jacked up repeatedly, at well above the rate of inflation. Eventually nobody will be willing to pay it.
No, I'm saying that all they make is Office. Contrary to the spin of the article, working for Microsoft is not going to mean working on exciting new Mac software; it's going to mean churning out another unnecessary revision of Office every 2 years.
The original question asked about IMAP. Therefore POP-only scenarios in which mbox makes sense aren't really relevant.
Yeah, right. The Windows media group have given up on Windows Media Player for the Mac, so what are they testing?
And since when does the Microsoft games group develop anything for the Mac? Halo was ported by Westlake Interactive and MacSoft, and they dropped the Mac port of Flight Simulator decades ago. So what games are actually written at Microsoft for the Mac?
Drivers? They licensed the code for their Mac mouse drivers from Alessandro Montalcini. Maybe they do a little testing now and again, but most of it is just USB HID anyway. Do Microsoft make any other hardware for the Mac?
Internet Explorer? Oh, sorry, they dropped that too.
The whole thing smells like PR crap designed to make Microsoft look like a major developer of Mac software, when in truth all they really work on these days is Office.
Well, it's surprising how many IMAP systems are still based on mbox. It's a complete disaster as soon as you hit them from Apple Mail, which opens multiple threads at once; or try to do filtering of incoming mail into folders while the user might be updating the same folders.
And then there's the breakage over NFS, the locking problems, the fact that it makes it harder to cluster, and so on.
...don't touch mbox format. Whatever software you choose, make sure it uses Maildir.
Pity the moderation system doesn't allow you to describe WHY you moderated something a certain way, other than via the canned options which are often not suitable.
The option I most often want is some sort of "-1 wrong" for an "interesting" post. As in, yes, it's interesting (and hence not overrated on that basis), but it's factually incorrect.
Spin manipulator Thurrott, prefix Paul, operating site winsupersite, suffering severe drug violation. Extent pending. Thurrott subject to immediate arrest. MINDLOCK pending. MINDLOCK pending.
Mercicontrol respectfully submits a 5254, immediate destruction, on the basis of an ECO TR-X 314; totally incurable chemical imbalance with marketshare deteriorating consequences.
On the contrary, within my frame of reference, what I think does determine whether Yahoo! are wrong or right. And since there is no objective observer-independent definition of morality, it is the observer's definition of morality that is of interest.
You appear to feel that if the majority of people think something is right, and it gets supported by law, then it is by definition right. I disagree strongly; for example, torturing innocent people isn't right, even though by your reasoning it's just fine. (People democratically elected Bush, and said they still supported him when the torture came to light.)
Maybe. CSS isn't really copy protection; it's there for region coding. It does not prevent bitwise copying of DVDs. But the misconception that CSS prevents copying is pretty widespread.
Dear dumbass, laws get signed in or vetoed by the President. Consider a civics class yourself.
Bunch of Nintendo fanboys... First motion detecting device I remember was the Le Stick for the 2600.
Actually, since this is LJ we're talking about, if you're paying for the service it's the same game. They'll ban you on a whim and refuse to refund your money if they feel like it.
There speaks someone who has never dealt with the LiveJournal Abuse team.
They'll ban you for posting public information, delete your paid-for account, and tell you to get lost. They don't care.
Maybe you set your personal ethics to match whatever the majority decides, but I don't.
I agree, but we might as well forget about an FCPA-2.0 under the current administration.
And when IBM operated in Germany, it should have given all possible assistance to the government in the vital work of efficiently rounding up Jews and sending them to death camps, right?
China could also flex its muscle by slowing down shipments, or blockading Taiwan. The entire US high-tech hardware sector would be unable to sell anything. Even those who don't manufacture their goods in China/Taiwan rely on just-in-time manufacturing and Chinese components.
Apple would be unable to sell a single Mac, for example.
This would be an adequate demonstration of power, without destroying the entire US economy.
So according to TFA they're going to sell downloadable content that can be burnt to a regular DVD and hence played in a regular DVD player... but the resulting disc and content is going to be copy-protected?
I call bullshit.
To reward the actors and actresses of pr0n, those hard working people who put their asses on the line.
Often literally.
I know, but I'd like at least ssh, ping, traceroute etc. to work.
They all work on OS X, and I don't imagine Apple has written special code for all of them. Instead, they just get the DNS resolver to work for Bonjour addresses as well as regular DNS.
That's what I want to do for Linux.
Your memory is slightly incorrect. Netscape 4 added JSSS, JavaScript style sheets. CSS was added as a hack when it became clear that Netscape proprietary technology wasn't going to be able to dictate the future of the web, and it was added by hacking CSS into JSSS internally.
Microsoft, in the mean time, actually implemented the web standards. And breezed past Netscape.
Take a look at the FOAF XML format. It's a way to provide a feed of social networking info. LiveJournal supports it, I expect other systems do too.
Man, I hate how I never have mod points when a rare truly insightful post crops up.
Has anyone written a simple guide for how to get Bonjour working on Linux?
By "working", I mean I want to be able to telnet machine.local or ping machine.local like I can on OS X...