I'll be happy when I get a CLI version of Photoshop!
Seriously, the more I get under the hood with Linux, the more I appreciate the utility of a good CLI. Then again, I date back to the days of DOS and WordPerfect....
I've always wondered what would happen if you just appeared with no papers of any sort - no fingerprints on file, no proof of citizenship or residency, no SS number, no passport.
Suppose you appeared in the middle of Arizona and stated that you are a natural born American citizen, and that you were born at home so there are no records?
What would happen if no-one carried any identification?
Wow. Between the Apple employees, the fanboys, the "gotta stop terrurists" bunch, and the armchair lawyers my head in spinning madly.
I sincerely doubt that an $11.00 an hour clerk at an Apple store has the knowledge and judgement to interpret and apply complex trade sanctions.
I also get the distinct impression that too many of you folks see Iranians as a some kind of homogeneous group - especially ex-pat Iranians. There are a lot of Iranians in North America who hate the current regime with a seething passion, and who would see anyone intending to return to Iran as a supporter of that regime. I'd bet the clerk falls into that group.
Finally let's get real here - There's not likely to be much in an iPad that would represent a big jump on whatever technology Iran is using already. Besides, as has been pointed out, there are likely a hundred other ways that the Iranians would get their hands on Apple products. Like, say, buy them in China?
You likely don't have the knowledge and skills to quickly pack and load a truck like this - stuff will get broken, and you'll be slow.
Better to hire professional moves who can come in, grab the critical stuff, and pack the truck so that nothing gets damaged. Probably stuff like equipment racks can be dollied out in one piece and tied down in the truck - forget pulling individual drives.
Maybe I'm just spoiled by Linux, but it really irritated me that Telus (in Canada) (aka one-third of the oligopoly that controls all cel phones in the country) took months to upgrade my Google branded Nexus S to ICS. Short of rooting the damned thing there wasn't a thing I could do about it.
We've reached a point where phones are becoming computing appliances, and end users shouldn't be held hostage by this sort of nonsense. If a major upgrade is available, I should have the option of installing it now, not when some bean-counter in Toronto decides it can no longer be avoided.
(an) estimated three per cent of Canadians who appear to suffer from acute electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS, a crippling condition characterized by the onset of painful and debilitating symptoms in the presence or perceived presence of cellular, Wi-Fi and radio frequency radiation.
Earlier today, the British Medical Journal published an update on a study of more than 350,000 people that investigated whether there’s a link between cellphones and cancer. The conclusion?
In this update of a large nationwide cohort study of mobile phone use, there were no increased risks of tumours of the central nervous system, providing little evidence for a causal association.
Call me old fashioned, but ten year study of 350,000 people trumps someone who imagines headaches from the WIFI at Starbucks.
Amen to that! I've often thought that there should be some sort of test before you can have kids. Somehow that whole "natural selection" thing doesn't seem to be working.
I continue to be baffled at the "logic" of so many gun nuts.
As I understand it you'll get a government licence to drive a car, register the car with your state, register your HOUSE when you buy it, buy a government licence for your friggin DOG, and another to go hunt ducks, and another to get married (!) but any suggestion that guns should be regulated in the same way as cars makes people go ballistic.
Seems like guns are one of those things that any rational person would want to be licensed and regulated.
(Oh yeah - been around gun collectors, hunters, and guns more than enough to like and appreciate them. Just think a lot of people are awful paranoid.)
Facebook is just building on Google's model, yet somehow they do it in significantly more irritating fashion.
Say what you wish about Google, at least the advertisements they offer up seem to have some relevance to what I want or need. Facebook seems intent on flogging sketchy weight-loss plans, corrugated steel garages, debt-reduction schemes, and criminal pardons. Somehow most of these scream out SHYSTER! BEWARE!
And that's without EVER accepting invitations to whatever Zygna game, poll, friend finder or other nasty thing that some relative has signed up for.
Ultimately for me it comes down to one thing: I generally trust Google, but not Facebook.
I'd say if you've made some obviously boneheaded mistake, something that you should have seen and fixed, then yeah, bite the bullet and fix it for them.
On the other hand, if it's the kind of day to day stuff that comes under the heading of "maintenance" then charge them.
Car analogy: Recall and repair of a manufacturing defect (Manufacturer pays) vs an oil change and brake relining (You pay).
When I was a kid, we would play with the TV fine tuning just to get a glimpse of adult encrypted channels.
Ah. The age of awakening for many a Canadian boy was when they realized that the French TV channels had tits and nudity and sex - something the English channels wouldn't touch.
My experiences exactly. I really wanted to like my Powerbook, but after three years I switched back to Windows, then Linux, where I'm happily ensconced right now.
I disliked the Apple attitude, the assumption that whatever Cupertino wanted was what everyone wanted. The sense of being walled in by the OS in terms of choice, and the repeated experience of finding that the software that I really needed wasn't available for OS X. Or more often, that the freeware or Open Source software that I was used to was now a $50 utility.
Likewise with peripherals and add-on stuff. I don't recall how many power bricks quit on me, but I do know that the Apple replacement was double the price of the PC equivalent.
The fact that you can cajole an Apple into running Windows software in kind of beside the point. You're still paying a significant premium for the privilege.
We're at the point where any laptop on the market will do 99% of what she's likely to need. Unless she has some REALLY specialized needs, anything on the shelf will run the software she wants just fine.
Take her to a store a good selection and let her choose from what's available. If it feels shoddy, skip it. Otherwise any name brand laptop will likely keep her happy.
Probably the only thing I would add is to look at maxing out the RAM - never a bad thing. And, as suggested, lighter is better. For that matter, smaller screen size = less wight and more portability.
You can bet that BSA surveys are rigged to generate the highest numbers possible. After all, if "piracy" was declining they couldn't really insists that all of the draconian laws and penalties were needed.
Cops figured this out decades ago - no matter that crime stats have been falling for ten years, somehow the police always need more people, more equipment, and tougher laws.
Any survey by the BSA - or any group with a vested interest - is automatically suspect.
I'm always amused that every DVD I rent or buy in Canada has stern warnings from police forces in other countries. The day when the RCMP has their own warning before the movie is the day when I'll take it seriously.
Especially since a hell of a lot of those DVDs are pressed in Canada.
Of course the reality is that if you really need that job you have pretty much no option but hand over whatever the boss asks for.
Sure, in theory you could refuse, and when you get fired (or not hired in the first place) in theory you could drag them into court, but in practice the vast majority of working folks can't afford to lose the job in the first place, and can't afford the lawyers in the second.
This would be about as effective as most workplace safety laws - sure you can refuse to do dangerous work, but when there are a hundred people lined up who are prepared to climb on a four story roof with no safety harness you'll find yourself unemployed very fast.
Hate to break it to you, but you - yes YOU grantspassalan - rely on those "laws" every single day. You know, the ones that don't allow your nieghbour to start a lead smelter beside your house, the ones that try to ensure that your drinking water is safe, the ones try to keep your kids from being enlisted by child pornographers.
Or do you mean those crazy ass regulations that say that household current should be 110v AC, gasoline should have a reliable octane level, and your bottle of Tylenol shouldn't include arsenic?
Or do you mean that crazy ass court system that tries and convicts criminals, and that allows you to defend the ownership of your property and ideas, and to defend your reputation from libel?
And yeah, government does have a role in regulating corporations specifically because we've seen time and time again that corporations will not act in the best interests of society as whole, will screw over their customers and clients, and will do pretty nasty stuff someone isn't watching over their shoulder.
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I'll be happy when I get a CLI version of Photoshop!
Seriously, the more I get under the hood with Linux, the more I appreciate the utility of a good CLI. Then again, I date back to the days of DOS and WordPerfect....
Chaitanya Sareen, principal program manager at Microsoft, said the telemetry gathered from Windows 7
Is it just me, or is that a rather frightening comment? Just who is MS watching, and how fine is the detail???
I've always wondered what would happen if you just appeared with no papers of any sort - no fingerprints on file, no proof of citizenship or residency, no SS number, no passport.
Suppose you appeared in the middle of Arizona and stated that you are a natural born American citizen, and that you were born at home so there are no records?
What would happen if no-one carried any identification?
Wow. Between the Apple employees, the fanboys, the "gotta stop terrurists" bunch, and the armchair lawyers my head in spinning madly.
I sincerely doubt that an $11.00 an hour clerk at an Apple store has the knowledge and judgement to interpret and apply complex trade sanctions.
I also get the distinct impression that too many of you folks see Iranians as a some kind of homogeneous group - especially ex-pat Iranians. There are a lot of Iranians in North America who hate the current regime with a seething passion, and who would see anyone intending to return to Iran as a supporter of that regime. I'd bet the clerk falls into that group.
Finally let's get real here - There's not likely to be much in an iPad that would represent a big jump on whatever technology Iran is using already. Besides, as has been pointed out, there are likely a hundred other ways that the Iranians would get their hands on Apple products. Like, say, buy them in China?
You likely don't have the knowledge and skills to quickly pack and load a truck like this - stuff will get broken, and you'll be slow.
Better to hire professional moves who can come in, grab the critical stuff, and pack the truck so that nothing gets damaged. Probably stuff like equipment racks can be dollied out in one piece and tied down in the truck - forget pulling individual drives.
Maybe I'm just spoiled by Linux, but it really irritated me that Telus (in Canada) (aka one-third of the oligopoly that controls all cel phones in the country) took months to upgrade my Google branded Nexus S to ICS. Short of rooting the damned thing there wasn't a thing I could do about it.
We've reached a point where phones are becoming computing appliances, and end users shouldn't be held hostage by this sort of nonsense. If a major upgrade is available, I should have the option of installing it now, not when some bean-counter in Toronto decides it can no longer be avoided.
Versus what science tells us:
Call me old fashioned, but ten year study of 350,000 people trumps someone who imagines headaches from the WIFI at Starbucks.
The history of the anti-gun movement indicates that regulation is a deliberate bridge to confiscation.
When and where? Cite please.
OK, how do marriage and dog licences fit into your overall world view then?
But you're still OK with buying a licence for your dog?
Amen to that! I've often thought that there should be some sort of test before you can have kids. Somehow that whole "natural selection" thing doesn't seem to be working.
I continue to be baffled at the "logic" of so many gun nuts.
As I understand it you'll get a government licence to drive a car, register the car with your state, register your HOUSE when you buy it, buy a government licence for your friggin DOG, and another to go hunt ducks, and another to get married (!) but any suggestion that guns should be regulated in the same way as cars makes people go ballistic.
Seems like guns are one of those things that any rational person would want to be licensed and regulated.
(Oh yeah - been around gun collectors, hunters, and guns more than enough to like and appreciate them. Just think a lot of people are awful paranoid.)
Facebook is just building on Google's model, yet somehow they do it in significantly more irritating fashion.
Say what you wish about Google, at least the advertisements they offer up seem to have some relevance to what I want or need. Facebook seems intent on flogging sketchy weight-loss plans, corrugated steel garages, debt-reduction schemes, and criminal pardons. Somehow most of these scream out SHYSTER! BEWARE!
And that's without EVER accepting invitations to whatever Zygna game, poll, friend finder or other nasty thing that some relative has signed up for.
Ultimately for me it comes down to one thing: I generally trust Google, but not Facebook.
... I'm not sure. Insightful? Funny? Guess it depends on how you view it...
I'd say if you've made some obviously boneheaded mistake, something that you should have seen and fixed, then yeah, bite the bullet and fix it for them.
On the other hand, if it's the kind of day to day stuff that comes under the heading of "maintenance" then charge them.
Car analogy: Recall and repair of a manufacturing defect (Manufacturer pays) vs an oil change and brake relining (You pay).
I abandoned Ubuntu when Unity was foisted on users, moving over to Mint.
With the Maya release (aka Mint 13) they've left behind Gnome for a choice of MATE or Cinnamon. I installed the latter, and I'm liking it a LOT.
Lots of good, simple usability, and a decided lack of annoying flash and gadgetry.
Nonetheless, I'll likely give the new KDE a look.
When I was a kid, we would play with the TV fine tuning just to get a glimpse of adult encrypted channels.
Ah. The age of awakening for many a Canadian boy was when they realized that the French TV channels had tits and nudity and sex - something the English channels wouldn't touch.
Well, in the days before CityTV.
My experiences exactly. I really wanted to like my Powerbook, but after three years I switched back to Windows, then Linux, where I'm happily ensconced right now.
I disliked the Apple attitude, the assumption that whatever Cupertino wanted was what everyone wanted. The sense of being walled in by the OS in terms of choice, and the repeated experience of finding that the software that I really needed wasn't available for OS X. Or more often, that the freeware or Open Source software that I was used to was now a $50 utility.
Likewise with peripherals and add-on stuff. I don't recall how many power bricks quit on me, but I do know that the Apple replacement was double the price of the PC equivalent.
The fact that you can cajole an Apple into running Windows software in kind of beside the point. You're still paying a significant premium for the privilege.
We're at the point where any laptop on the market will do 99% of what she's likely to need. Unless she has some REALLY specialized needs, anything on the shelf will run the software she wants just fine.
Take her to a store a good selection and let her choose from what's available. If it feels shoddy, skip it. Otherwise any name brand laptop will likely keep her happy.
Probably the only thing I would add is to look at maxing out the RAM - never a bad thing. And, as suggested, lighter is better. For that matter, smaller screen size = less wight and more portability.
You can bet that BSA surveys are rigged to generate the highest numbers possible. After all, if "piracy" was declining they couldn't really insists that all of the draconian laws and penalties were needed.
Cops figured this out decades ago - no matter that crime stats have been falling for ten years, somehow the police always need more people, more equipment, and tougher laws.
Any survey by the BSA - or any group with a vested interest - is automatically suspect.
I don't know y'all, feels more like Kudzu to me.....
It's really quite simple. There used to be a saying "If you listen to radio without hearing the commercials, that's like stealing the music."
Every time that you install Linux, that's the same as stealing from Microsoft.
Seriously, it's in the Bible somewhere - Thou Shalt render unto Microsoft (or Apple) what is Microsoft's (or Apples).
I'm always amused that every DVD I rent or buy in Canada has stern warnings from police forces in other countries. The day when the RCMP has their own warning before the movie is the day when I'll take it seriously.
Especially since a hell of a lot of those DVDs are pressed in Canada.
Of course the reality is that if you really need that job you have pretty much no option but hand over whatever the boss asks for.
Sure, in theory you could refuse, and when you get fired (or not hired in the first place) in theory you could drag them into court, but in practice the vast majority of working folks can't afford to lose the job in the first place, and can't afford the lawyers in the second.
This would be about as effective as most workplace safety laws - sure you can refuse to do dangerous work, but when there are a hundred people lined up who are prepared to climb on a four story roof with no safety harness you'll find yourself unemployed very fast.
Hate to break it to you, but you - yes YOU grantspassalan - rely on those "laws" every single day. You know, the ones that don't allow your nieghbour to start a lead smelter beside your house, the ones that try to ensure that your drinking water is safe, the ones try to keep your kids from being enlisted by child pornographers.
Or do you mean those crazy ass regulations that say that household current should be 110v AC, gasoline should have a reliable octane level, and your bottle of Tylenol shouldn't include arsenic?
Or do you mean that crazy ass court system that tries and convicts criminals, and that allows you to defend the ownership of your property and ideas, and to defend your reputation from libel?
And yeah, government does have a role in regulating corporations specifically because we've seen time and time again that corporations will not act in the best interests of society as whole, will screw over their customers and clients, and will do pretty nasty stuff someone isn't watching over their shoulder.