Would you please stop calling it OS/X? That's just screwy, and demonstrates that you really don't know what you are talking about as do your other threads complaining about the functionality of the system. Mac OS X or, simply, OS X are acceptable. Quit the OS/X stuff.
And yes, your problem is that you expect things to be the same across every OS out there. That's impractical. It also shows you don't know the history of Microsoft and Apple. Apple came up with a lot of this stuff back in the 80s and Microsoft ripped a lot of it off, changing it just enough to not be sued into oblivion. MS became the popular choice, though, so their methods and shortcuts are what others started using over the years. Apple hasn't changed a lot of the OS basics since the beginning of the Macintosh brand. Sure, things have evolved, but a side-by-side of the original Mac and one just off the line will show that Apple has been pretty consistent for over 30 years in the UI department.
But, I get away from my original point: please don't call it OS/X.
You know about Calibre. Have you ever used Calibre? Seriously- it's takes minutes to convert dozens of books and load them on a Kindle. Show stopper? Naw. I say this as a happy user of Calibre and as a Kindle owner. As close to a painless conversion experience as you can get.
You either have a crappy antenna for OTA channels, or you live in a crappy, hilly part of the country. I live in an area where I can pick up over a dozen OTA channels (3 channels of PBS, 2 or 3 NBCs with local news/events, 2 ABC with local news/events, etc. I just have to point the antenna in different directions) The farthest station is 70+ miles away; I would bet you need to replace your antenna to get your "lost" OTA stations back.
Yes, they seldom cooperate, but sometimes the higher ups do share some intelligence with the the lower departments. Have you missed the stories where a lower department was told "be at x place at y time, look for this person and get them for any small infraction of the law, then take them in and invoke any laws you can to get more information to as related to z reason." There have been stories like this on/. for quite a while. It has happened, it continues to happen. The smaller department will get you for some small breaking of the law, then escalate because they were _told_ to look for this small thing the person was doing in order to catch them in the larger crime, all because they higher department "knew" they were up to something (because of the intelligence that the higher authority gathered through, ahem, someone legal means).
Yes, there are pieces of equipment hooked up between the different networks of ISPs. I recently (a week ago) sent my ISP a complaint that a router between them and another large ISP would sometimes start to increase in latency 2x-3x the normal when crossing over to the other ISPs network. They sent me a reply that this issue can't be resolved because the particular piece of hardware that is causing intermediate problems is owned by the military. Now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that military could mean anything, and is most likely monitored or even installed by the NSA. It only makes sense for the NSA to install their own hardware between the different networks of large ISPs, since these are choke points of communication.
As a general rule, people in this "church" are forbid to use the internet (because they might read the truth about their little cult). I doubt they'll be down-modding anything he ever writes since these people, for the most part, never use this series of tubes.
Yeah, and out of everyone I know who played the game (dozens, including me) there are maybe 1 or 2 that continue to play the game (I don't, though I'll pop in from time to time to see if anything has changed). The initial success was great and it sold like hotcakes. The continued success? Not so great because the game is so damn boring. I don't believe I'll be playing D3 in a decade from its release, like I was with D2- partly because the game sucks and mostly because I doubt Blizzard will keep its servers going that long.
I know that, as a community, most of us do not RTFA before posting, but the amount of stupidity on display for this particular article is just amazing. 1) it's BRAKE, not break. 2) it's STEEL, not steal (as in a cable) 3) modern cars do NOT have keys, so you can not simply just turn it to the ACC or OFF position because there is no such thing 4) computers, which most of us love, control almost every function of a modern car, including what gear you are in, whether the engine is running or not, so on and so forth. if the computers are crashed/bugged out/in a loop/one of a million bugs came to the surface, the driver loses control over what the car can and can not do.
I've come to the conclusion that no one on this site can spell correctly AND no one here drives or has even heard of a modern car's features. I have no solution to the spelling part, but for the love of Jebus, watch a car show once in awhile. I suggest Top Gear (the original UK version, not the crappy US version). You will learn a lot about cars from that show, technology-wise. This is a tech site, right? Keep up on current (car) technology, you noobs.
You forget that, in the USA, corporations _are_ people. Therefore they aren't made up of people, because they are their own living and thinking entity.
That's true for employees, because your employer is paying you to make those works. And when you're salaried, there's no difference between "on the clock" and "off the clock".
Say you're a carpenter. You go home after work, go to your garage, and make a cabinet. You made this cabinet with your tools and your time. Say you sell that cabinet. Are you required to give your employer the money you made on that cabinet? Hell no.
This is why I never understood the whole tech sector employer thing of "anything YOU make is OURS."
Yes teachers spend lots of time after hours working, but they do have lots of scheduled time to design tests and lesson plans as well.
I don't know what it was like when you went to school, but in the high school I went to the teachers didn't have much scheduled time to work on such things. You got a half day every couple of months. You got one "free" period most days, but not every day, which was pretty much your lunch break. What scheduled time do you speak of? Both of my parents were teachers. You know what those half days consisted of? Mostly meetings. Again, not much scheduled time to work on lesson plans and the such. Teachers worked on all that stuff at home. Scheduled time my pink behind...
So they made a USB 3.0 flash drive that has a decent amount of space on it, priced it at a multiple more than the competition, and that's it? It doesn't even come with Windows 8, which is the purpose of buying this product. Great story brought to you by/., now advertising products that many will never, ever need (or want)!
I'll agree that swimming in a pool is one of the safer sports you can be in. For the sake of argument, change that pool to the ocean, and all bets are off. People do swim for sport in oceans, so it's a valid argument.
Anyway, taking in a lungful of water and getting pneumonia as a result isn't fun. Missing the wall that you're supposed to turn on and instead going into it head-first isn't fun either. Competitive swimming is hard stuff. You use your entire body to go as fast as you can, sometimes for as long as you can. Anyone who has done sports can tell you that when your body gets really, really run down from the competition you're in, strange things can happen. Misjudgments happen ("where's that wall? shit!" *headcrack*). Tiredness can cause you to not get your head out of the water fully and take in a big old lung of water instead of air. Even a small bit of water in the lungs can lead to sickness.
But I make these points just for the argument. People say swimming is one of the safest things in the world to do, and I have to come up with something that says, no, it's not. But to argue with myself, I had a number of swim team friends in high school and I can't remember anything really bad ever happening to any of them because of swimming. Every other sport had its broken bones, sprains, concussions (back then those didn't matter so much), and the rare ligament tear. Believe me, once you see someone go down with a ACL tear 15 feet away from you, you never want that to happen to yourself.
So what you're saying is.. "I've never heard of it. I'm smart as a whip. If I haven't heard it, it can't be true!" All you had to do was go to Google (heard of it?) and type in "soccer player brain damage" and... well, I won't ruin the surprise for you.
Well, I hope your son never plays soccer beyond the Recreational level. Part of the game is heading the ball, which can travel quite fast. It may be a very light ball compared to other sports, but remember your physics lessons: it doesn't matter what it weighs if it's moving fast enough. Pro soccer players (the linked article is about a pro sport, yeah?) often have brain damage from taking hundreds of shots to the noggin from a ball traveling 60+ mph; and that's the low end of a kick, there are players who can kick for 80+ mph, and a few who claim 90+ mph. I think you're suffering from a condition called "over-protective parent disorder." ALL sports have risk involved. Some more than others, yes, but the two examples you give are also dangerous. ACL/MCL tears and ankle problems (along with the above example) are major parts of soccer. Swimming? Drowning doesn't seem to be very fun- and yes, it does happen.
Really? I've heard people in conversation say just that. They wouldn't take more money because it meant they would have to pay x% more in taxes, so they stuck to the lower amount because in the end, they would have made more. Again, that's just overheard conversations from years of working in restaurants, so I don't know if those people ever did go for a bigger payout or not. I'm sure that if they talked to an accountant they could have figured out how to compensate for the higher tax bracket and make their higher earnings pay more.
You do know you don't need a license to drive, right? I mean, it's legally required, but you don't need to swipe it through a reader to authorize you to a car. All you need is a key and the vehicle it goes to, and you can drive. They could take away a license on the third DUI and a person will still drive around and go anywhere they want, racking up more DUIs.
Oops, typo. it should read: "*anything* that suddenly appears in the vehicle's path, not just humans." They put preview on postings for a reason, I guess I should take advantage of that...
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Would you please stop calling it OS/X? That's just screwy, and demonstrates that you really don't know what you are talking about as do your other threads complaining about the functionality of the system. Mac OS X or, simply, OS X are acceptable. Quit the OS/X stuff.
And yes, your problem is that you expect things to be the same across every OS out there. That's impractical. It also shows you don't know the history of Microsoft and Apple. Apple came up with a lot of this stuff back in the 80s and Microsoft ripped a lot of it off, changing it just enough to not be sued into oblivion. MS became the popular choice, though, so their methods and shortcuts are what others started using over the years. Apple hasn't changed a lot of the OS basics since the beginning of the Macintosh brand. Sure, things have evolved, but a side-by-side of the original Mac and one just off the line will show that Apple has been pretty consistent for over 30 years in the UI department.
But, I get away from my original point: please don't call it OS/X.
You know about Calibre. Have you ever used Calibre? Seriously- it's takes minutes to convert dozens of books and load them on a Kindle. Show stopper? Naw. I say this as a happy user of Calibre and as a Kindle owner. As close to a painless conversion experience as you can get.
You either have a crappy antenna for OTA channels, or you live in a crappy, hilly part of the country. I live in an area where I can pick up over a dozen OTA channels (3 channels of PBS, 2 or 3 NBCs with local news/events, 2 ABC with local news/events, etc. I just have to point the antenna in different directions) The farthest station is 70+ miles away; I would bet you need to replace your antenna to get your "lost" OTA stations back.
Yes, they seldom cooperate, but sometimes the higher ups do share some intelligence with the the lower departments. Have you missed the stories where a lower department was told "be at x place at y time, look for this person and get them for any small infraction of the law, then take them in and invoke any laws you can to get more information to as related to z reason." There have been stories like this on /. for quite a while. It has happened, it continues to happen. The smaller department will get you for some small breaking of the law, then escalate because they were _told_ to look for this small thing the person was doing in order to catch them in the larger crime, all because they higher department "knew" they were up to something (because of the intelligence that the higher authority gathered through, ahem, someone legal means).
qwest was bought out by CenturyTel (now known as CenturyLink). there is no conspiracy theory about what happened to them...
Yes, there are pieces of equipment hooked up between the different networks of ISPs. I recently (a week ago) sent my ISP a complaint that a router between them and another large ISP would sometimes start to increase in latency 2x-3x the normal when crossing over to the other ISPs network. They sent me a reply that this issue can't be resolved because the particular piece of hardware that is causing intermediate problems is owned by the military. Now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that military could mean anything, and is most likely monitored or even installed by the NSA. It only makes sense for the NSA to install their own hardware between the different networks of large ISPs, since these are choke points of communication.
According to the law, corporations are people. I don't agree with that stance, but it's what we live with.
As a general rule, people in this "church" are forbid to use the internet (because they might read the truth about their little cult). I doubt they'll be down-modding anything he ever writes since these people, for the most part, never use this series of tubes.
Oh yeah? Last mile customer here. ~60 USD/month for 1.5/256k. CenturyLink can suck my balls.
uh... do you mean "lynx"? i've never heard of a browser called "links" before. man, that takes me back to some good ol' vax/vms days.
Hack the Gibson!
Mod parent up. Too many people in this forum think that the post is only talking about journalists.
Read the article. It states that the administration believes these same rights also extend to those not in the press.
Yeah, and out of everyone I know who played the game (dozens, including me) there are maybe 1 or 2 that continue to play the game (I don't, though I'll pop in from time to time to see if anything has changed). The initial success was great and it sold like hotcakes. The continued success? Not so great because the game is so damn boring. I don't believe I'll be playing D3 in a decade from its release, like I was with D2- partly because the game sucks and mostly because I doubt Blizzard will keep its servers going that long.
I know that, as a community, most of us do not RTFA before posting, but the amount of stupidity on display for this particular article is just amazing.
1) it's BRAKE, not break.
2) it's STEEL, not steal (as in a cable)
3) modern cars do NOT have keys, so you can not simply just turn it to the ACC or OFF position because there is no such thing
4) computers, which most of us love, control almost every function of a modern car, including what gear you are in, whether the engine is running or not, so on and so forth. if the computers are crashed/bugged out/in a loop/one of a million bugs came to the surface, the driver loses control over what the car can and can not do.
I've come to the conclusion that no one on this site can spell correctly AND no one here drives or has even heard of a modern car's features. I have no solution to the spelling part, but for the love of Jebus, watch a car show once in awhile. I suggest Top Gear (the original UK version, not the crappy US version). You will learn a lot about cars from that show, technology-wise. This is a tech site, right? Keep up on current (car) technology, you noobs.
You forget that, in the USA, corporations _are_ people. Therefore they aren't made up of people, because they are their own living and thinking entity.
That's true for employees, because your employer is paying you to make those works. And when you're salaried, there's no difference between "on the clock" and "off the clock".
Say you're a carpenter. You go home after work, go to your garage, and make a cabinet. You made this cabinet with your tools and your time. Say you sell that cabinet. Are you required to give your employer the money you made on that cabinet? Hell no.
This is why I never understood the whole tech sector employer thing of "anything YOU make is OURS."
Yes teachers spend lots of time after hours working, but they do have lots of scheduled time to design tests and lesson plans as well.
I don't know what it was like when you went to school, but in the high school I went to the teachers didn't have much scheduled time to work on such things. You got a half day every couple of months. You got one "free" period most days, but not every day, which was pretty much your lunch break. What scheduled time do you speak of? Both of my parents were teachers. You know what those half days consisted of? Mostly meetings. Again, not much scheduled time to work on lesson plans and the such. Teachers worked on all that stuff at home. Scheduled time my pink behind...
So they made a USB 3.0 flash drive that has a decent amount of space on it, priced it at a multiple more than the competition, and that's it? It doesn't even come with Windows 8, which is the purpose of buying this product. Great story brought to you by /., now advertising products that many will never, ever need (or want)!
I'll agree that swimming in a pool is one of the safer sports you can be in. For the sake of argument, change that pool to the ocean, and all bets are off. People do swim for sport in oceans, so it's a valid argument.
Anyway, taking in a lungful of water and getting pneumonia as a result isn't fun. Missing the wall that you're supposed to turn on and instead going into it head-first isn't fun either. Competitive swimming is hard stuff. You use your entire body to go as fast as you can, sometimes for as long as you can. Anyone who has done sports can tell you that when your body gets really, really run down from the competition you're in, strange things can happen. Misjudgments happen ("where's that wall? shit!" *headcrack*). Tiredness can cause you to not get your head out of the water fully and take in a big old lung of water instead of air. Even a small bit of water in the lungs can lead to sickness.
But I make these points just for the argument. People say swimming is one of the safest things in the world to do, and I have to come up with something that says, no, it's not. But to argue with myself, I had a number of swim team friends in high school and I can't remember anything really bad ever happening to any of them because of swimming. Every other sport had its broken bones, sprains, concussions (back then those didn't matter so much), and the rare ligament tear. Believe me, once you see someone go down with a ACL tear 15 feet away from you, you never want that to happen to yourself.
So what you're saying is.. "I've never heard of it. I'm smart as a whip. If I haven't heard it, it can't be true!" All you had to do was go to Google (heard of it?) and type in "soccer player brain damage" and... well, I won't ruin the surprise for you.
Well, I hope your son never plays soccer beyond the Recreational level. Part of the game is heading the ball, which can travel quite fast. It may be a very light ball compared to other sports, but remember your physics lessons: it doesn't matter what it weighs if it's moving fast enough. Pro soccer players (the linked article is about a pro sport, yeah?) often have brain damage from taking hundreds of shots to the noggin from a ball traveling 60+ mph; and that's the low end of a kick, there are players who can kick for 80+ mph, and a few who claim 90+ mph.
I think you're suffering from a condition called "over-protective parent disorder." ALL sports have risk involved. Some more than others, yes, but the two examples you give are also dangerous. ACL/MCL tears and ankle problems (along with the above example) are major parts of soccer. Swimming? Drowning doesn't seem to be very fun- and yes, it does happen.
Really? I've heard people in conversation say just that. They wouldn't take more money because it meant they would have to pay x% more in taxes, so they stuck to the lower amount because in the end, they would have made more. Again, that's just overheard conversations from years of working in restaurants, so I don't know if those people ever did go for a bigger payout or not. I'm sure that if they talked to an accountant they could have figured out how to compensate for the higher tax bracket and make their higher earnings pay more.
You do know you don't need a license to drive, right? I mean, it's legally required, but you don't need to swipe it through a reader to authorize you to a car. All you need is a key and the vehicle it goes to, and you can drive. They could take away a license on the third DUI and a person will still drive around and go anywhere they want, racking up more DUIs.
Oops, typo. it should read: "*anything* that suddenly appears in the vehicle's path, not just humans."
They put preview on postings for a reason, I guess I should take advantage of that...