Take a look at iTunes and Safari again, both have parental controls already. If you don't mind the command line, OS X has backup tools. #10 (quick install) doesn't really exist yet.
So yeah, pretty much everything in Vista is already in OS X, except for the rumored collaboration tools.
Yeah, iCal lets you publish your calendar, send people invites, and so on... however, it doesn't do meeting room booking. If that's what you need, you need something more than iCal.
Did it ever occur to you that having no Google at all in China is much worse?
For Google's profits, perhaps.
I fail to see how it would make much difference otherwise. Chinese users would simply use other censored search engines.
Again, the "it would be worse if they had nothing" argument was also used to support apartheid South Africa. "We can't stop selling goods to white South Africa... it would be much worse then!"
I don't think Google should filter anything out. They have to filter out things that the US government tells them to, because they're based in the US. But yes, I think they should have told France and Germany to get bent. If those countries then blocked access to Google, perhaps French and German citizens would have started to pay attention to whether that was the kind of government they wanted.
Continued to provide an uncensored search engine and "don't be evil". If the Chinese government decides to block Google or slow down access to it, that's between the Chinese users and their government.
Similarly, if your ISP blocks your access to my web site, that's your problem to discuss with your ISP. It's not for me to try and appease your ISP so they'll allow you to look at my site.
"The requirements of doing business in China include self-censorship--something that runs counter to Google's most basic values and commitments as a company."
In other words, they know that they have completely sold out their basic values. The rest is just pages of rationalization.
One aspect of English law that I thought existed, is that the people should be protected from the government (particularly from self-incrimination).
The right did exist, emphasis on the past tense. Then in 2000, the RIP Act gave the government the right to force you to hand over all your passwords and encryption keys and incriminate yourself. In addition, you're not allowed to tell anyone that you are under investigation and that your keys have been compromised.
And as of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, they can put you in jail for a month without even charging you with any crime. So any time they feel like it they can jail you and root around (pun intended) on your hard drive for a month, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it, legally speaking.
Summitsoft were working on a PDA cartridge for the DS called Organizer Plus. If they had that for sale and it supported iSync, I'd likely ditch my Palm.
However, I haven't seen anything more than press coverage about the alleged product, so I'm not sure if it actually exists any more. Their web site doesn't even mention it.
There are also rumors that Nintendo is going to license Palm applications and sell them as V-Pocket, and Miyamoto mentioned in an interview that he sees PDA software as a way to expand the system's appeal. No official product announcements yet, though.
So, I'm sticking with my Palm until there's actual shipping product, or Sharp USA decides to start shipping the SL-C series, or someone else ships a decent Linux PDA, or Nokia fixes the handwriting recognition and speed of the 770.
Read the subject. The discussion was *successes*, not quality software that hardly anybody has used. The point about Microsoft is they only make money on Office and the OS. Every other division runs at a loss. If they had some more successes, that would change.
However, barring a miracle, SQL Server will remain a distant third in the database market (after DB2 and Oracle eat 90%), Small Business Accounting will remain a distant third (or worse) in that market (after QuickBooks, Peachtree, Sage, MYOB, etc), and Visual Studio is only used by people so invested in Microsoft that they want to develop more Microsoft-Windows-only software.
I was wondering if there were some examples of things (a) I'd heard about, (b) Microsoft had made money from, and (c) Microsoft had gained a sizeable fraction of the market with. You know, real successes.
Does your DVD player have a Faroudja upscaler? If not, you should upgrade.
Also, remember that people with 1080i 50"+ sets are a tiny, tiny fraction of the market, not one that will be able to keep an entire new format afloat.
Basically, my question is, why do people bother if their personal infromation is stored in a computer somewhere? [...] I personally don't have a problem if a someone knows who many times I day I shit, what kind of tea I buy, what party I vote, etc. so I have real trouble comprehending this strange fear... Elaborate, but don't mod down!
So, why don't you put your address and phone number in your.signature then?
When East Germany rejoined the West, stress and suicide rates shot up to match the values in West Germany. It's worth researching and reading about. It's an interesting case because it basically involved no variables other than political system; the populations were otherwise identical.
Is freedom worth the stress, mental illness and suicides? Interesting question.
The problem is, I'm not going to buy DVD-Audio discs if I have to buy the same thing again for my iPod, and particularly not if they're more expensive than the already-overpriced CDs.
Hence I haven't even bothered buying the extra cables I'd need to actually listen to DVD-Audio.
And I'm someone picky enough about sound quality to use a headphone amp with my iPod, and encode with LAME --alt-preset standard. The average person is just never going to give a crap.
I've got a 32" HDTV and an HDCP-capable DVD player which upconverts.
A 480p signal on a well-encoded DVD basically looks just as good as a 720p HD signal. In a double-blind test I could probably work out which was which given time, but I'm a picky photography enthusiast. The average person isn't going to notice any difference at all.
What's more, DVD resolution is already capable of showing limitations in the source material, such as film grain and lack of sharpness from use of wide aperture lenses. I doubt people are going to spend thousands of dollars to see film grain in higher resolution.
In fact, even though I'm picky, I consider DVD with a good upscaler entirely adequate. I wouldn't be an early adopter of Blu-Ray, even if it had no DRM; my all-region MPEG-4 capable DVD player is entirely too convenient.
If you try to find the article now you get this text [...]
Not true. You only get that text if you go to the location the article was previously at. If you try to find the article via Time's own search engine, it's silently omitted. I know this because I tried it.
An even better one is to replace "Thank you very much" with "Fuck you very much" in exactly the same tone of voice. Most people won't even notice, and if they do they'll think they misheard and you can "correct" yourself when you say it again.
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I had a Kinetic. I loved it, but it broke after just over a year. I got it repaired, about a year later it broke again.
So, I switched to a Casio G-Shock titanium solar.
Take a look at iTunes and Safari again, both have parental controls already. If you don't mind the command line, OS X has backup tools. #10 (quick install) doesn't really exist yet.
So yeah, pretty much everything in Vista is already in OS X, except for the rumored collaboration tools.
Yeah, iCal lets you publish your calendar, send people invites, and so on... however, it doesn't do meeting room booking. If that's what you need, you need something more than iCal.
For Google's profits, perhaps.
I fail to see how it would make much difference otherwise. Chinese users would simply use other censored search engines.
Again, the "it would be worse if they had nothing" argument was also used to support apartheid South Africa. "We can't stop selling goods to white South Africa... it would be much worse then!"
I don't think Google should filter anything out. They have to filter out things that the US government tells them to, because they're based in the US. But yes, I think they should have told France and Germany to get bent. If those countries then blocked access to Google, perhaps French and German citizens would have started to pay attention to whether that was the kind of government they wanted.
Continued to provide an uncensored search engine and "don't be evil". If the Chinese government decides to block Google or slow down access to it, that's between the Chinese users and their government.
Similarly, if your ISP blocks your access to my web site, that's your problem to discuss with your ISP. It's not for me to try and appease your ISP so they'll allow you to look at my site.
Uh, Tiananmen Square? Remember?
Oh, that's easy. Modern agriculture is totally dependent on oil. Read The Oil We Eat , originally published in Harper's.
In other words, they know that they have completely sold out their basic values. The rest is just pages of rationalization.
On my Debian system, Opera's page loading speed just blows away Firefox. It's so obvious it's not even worth measuring.
The right did exist, emphasis on the past tense. Then in 2000, the RIP Act gave the government the right to force you to hand over all your passwords and encryption keys and incriminate yourself. In addition, you're not allowed to tell anyone that you are under investigation and that your keys have been compromised.
And as of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, they can put you in jail for a month without even charging you with any crime. So any time they feel like it they can jail you and root around (pun intended) on your hard drive for a month, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it, legally speaking.
Summitsoft were working on a PDA cartridge for the DS called Organizer Plus. If they had that for sale and it supported iSync, I'd likely ditch my Palm.
However, I haven't seen anything more than press coverage about the alleged product, so I'm not sure if it actually exists any more. Their web site doesn't even mention it.
There are also rumors that Nintendo is going to license Palm applications and sell them as V-Pocket, and Miyamoto mentioned in an interview that he sees PDA software as a way to expand the system's appeal. No official product announcements yet, though.
So, I'm sticking with my Palm until there's actual shipping product, or Sharp USA decides to start shipping the SL-C series, or someone else ships a decent Linux PDA, or Nokia fixes the handwriting recognition and speed of the 770.
Read the subject. The discussion was *successes*, not quality software that hardly anybody has used. The point about Microsoft is they only make money on Office and the OS. Every other division runs at a loss. If they had some more successes, that would change.
However, barring a miracle, SQL Server will remain a distant third in the database market (after DB2 and Oracle eat 90%), Small Business Accounting will remain a distant third (or worse) in that market (after QuickBooks, Peachtree, Sage, MYOB, etc), and Visual Studio is only used by people so invested in Microsoft that they want to develop more Microsoft-Windows-only software.
I was wondering if there were some examples of things (a) I'd heard about, (b) Microsoft had made money from, and (c) Microsoft had gained a sizeable fraction of the market with. You know, real successes.
So those are making a profit now, are they?
Apparently you can't see the difference between doing something for food, and doing it for fun. Moron.
Name three?
Does your DVD player have a Faroudja upscaler? If not, you should upgrade.
Also, remember that people with 1080i 50"+ sets are a tiny, tiny fraction of the market, not one that will be able to keep an entire new format afloat.
So, why don't you put your address and phone number in your .signature then?
Yes, but they're in favor of bloodsports, so what's the problem?
When East Germany rejoined the West, stress and suicide rates shot up to match the values in West Germany. It's worth researching and reading about. It's an interesting case because it basically involved no variables other than political system; the populations were otherwise identical.
Is freedom worth the stress, mental illness and suicides? Interesting question.
They're typically on the outside of the house. Bloody ugly, but there you go...
I have DVD-Audio capability on my DVD player.
The problem is, I'm not going to buy DVD-Audio discs if I have to buy the same thing again for my iPod, and particularly not if they're more expensive than the already-overpriced CDs.
Hence I haven't even bothered buying the extra cables I'd need to actually listen to DVD-Audio.
And I'm someone picky enough about sound quality to use a headphone amp with my iPod, and encode with LAME --alt-preset standard. The average person is just never going to give a crap.
I've got a 32" HDTV and an HDCP-capable DVD player which upconverts.
A 480p signal on a well-encoded DVD basically looks just as good as a 720p HD signal. In a double-blind test I could probably work out which was which given time, but I'm a picky photography enthusiast. The average person isn't going to notice any difference at all.
What's more, DVD resolution is already capable of showing limitations in the source material, such as film grain and lack of sharpness from use of wide aperture lenses. I doubt people are going to spend thousands of dollars to see film grain in higher resolution.
In fact, even though I'm picky, I consider DVD with a good upscaler entirely adequate. I wouldn't be an early adopter of Blu-Ray, even if it had no DRM; my all-region MPEG-4 capable DVD player is entirely too convenient.
Not true. You only get that text if you go to the location the article was previously at. If you try to find the article via Time's own search engine, it's silently omitted. I know this because I tried it.
An even better one is to replace "Thank you very much" with "Fuck you very much" in exactly the same tone of voice. Most people won't even notice, and if they do they'll think they misheard and you can "correct" yourself when you say it again.