1. The Mac wasn't released until 1984. 2. Apple didn't have any stores until 2001.
If any part of your story is even remotely true (rather than a complete fabrication), you probably went to a CompUSA.
So - now you have choices. You can admit your grudge is bogus, you can admit that your story is bogus, or you can continue on with this line of bullshit.
See - look at all the choices Apple has provided for you!
Sounds like we're a bit of birds-of-a-feather as far/. goes. I actually came back to see how quickly I had gotten modded down and check the responses. Like you, I pretty much assume I'm going to get modded negatively in some form and so I don't really care about that anymore. But it's nice to find the occasional rebel in the replies. It's funny how conformist the/. crowd tends to be - in as much as I suspect they tend to think of themselves as the rebels.
Viewing +6 troll/flamebait/offtopic has its downside (turd eating posts being the worst) but it does tend to bring the quality responses up.
I also view -6 insightful, since that tends to be much further off the mark than interesting is.
Okay, point one on this is tagging it (in bold no less) as $1000.00 without a USD or NZD gives the impression that it's USD. So that's misleading. Certainly you caught the sarcasm in the first post. It seemed to me that exchange rate was missing along the way, and - as it turned out - it was.
In one post, you say that iPhones will never be used in hospitals, when in reality, iPhones won't be used at your location in New Zealand until (at a minimum) the price from Vodafone drops significantly.
In another post, however, you say that you weren't talking about mobile computing.
And then in the above post, you reference mobile computing devices.
I'm utterly confused at this point. Please, stop changing the discussion you bastard!
[And to add to my confusion I'm friending you - go figure]
I guess I'm replying for both the GGP and GP now...
Quick tip: you could save some money by buying the phone with Euros or GPB instead of dollars. Or wait until the dollar strengthens - but who knows when that's going to be.
As to the portable thing... if you aren't in the market for portable medical electronics, then why would you even comment on the iPhone?
I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was less than a week turnaround from application to approval for me as an individual. I got my approval on Friday, so obviously I applied recently.
And, as the dev site states, they're having slow turnarounds on processing applications right now because they're still apparently in beta.
You obviously haven't actually ponied up the $99 for development. If you had, you'd realize you have no idea what you're talking about. There's no "OK" from Apple to install apps on your phone as a developer. You can put whatever you want on it.
And here I thought the claim of $1000 iphones would have discredited the OP enough to dispel any ensuing discussion.
Oh. And I work in a hospital too. And we're migrating to iPhones for our data entry and charting systems.
Yeah. That's the ticket. But seriously, just because someone makes claims on the internet doesn't mean they're credible. Glancing through this thread should make that immediately apparent./. reminds me of a story that a friend told me. He was at a party and talking loudly with someone else to be heard above the general din. Finally, he asked (rhetorically) "Why does everyone have to be so loud?!" His friend responded, "Because this room is full of people who all think they're smarter than everyone else."
Ooh. Wait, wait! I screwed up and got myself back to positive karma. I want to get in on this troll hunting!
See, my theory is this. My karma is irrelevant. Utterly, completely irrelevant. Seriously - it's just some stupid number on a website. No bearing on me or life in general.
However, it's nice to have some people go through and mod articles so I don't have to spend time reading everything. Unfortunately, the mod population contains numbers (apparently significant) of people who are utterly unqualified to do so in any reasonable manner.
That's where we come in. By tossing in some posts like this and the above, we burn mod points (a limited resource) of people who are too stupid to use them for their intended purpose. Thus removing morons from the mod pool, at least where it counts. Otherwise these modtards notice the real posts, and that's not helpful.
Hint: sometimes it helps to talk about your turd collection.
Yeah. Everyone knows it. It's one of those scams perpetrated by them. I know for sure, because I get on email on the internets that told me about a guy whose cousin knows this girl who has a friend that does exactly that every day.
I think this illustrates the GPs point. Since typical indoor Cl2 levels tend to be in the PPT range and occupational hazard levels are capped by OSHA at 1 PPM, a 1000 time increase would still trend toward putting you within an "acceptable" limit for long term exposure (1PPM is roughly the exposure you get from going for a swim in a chlorinated pool).
Now, if I had to put up with a 1000-fold increase in whining from my kids for a month, that would be another matter altogether.
Well, I almost have to think that you're not the original AC that started this. Either that, or you are and had to google the answer. Or maybe chilled out.
Anyway, the whole point in that question (since I already knew the answer) was to point out that the initial (and therefore default user) on the Mac is an "admin". If you check the thread, you'll see the AC (you?) said "only retards run as admin on a mac".
That points to an incredible ignorance of the Mac and Unix permissions. And when I called them on that, an AC (same AC?) called me arrogant. After apparently having called anyone with a standard Mac install account a retard.
I can see why you posted that as an AC. Your ignorance is still safely hidden.
You might want to learn a little about Unix, groups, and the permissions structure before you post anything as stupid as that using a slashdot account.
Okay - well - the GP turned itself to flamebait too. That doesn't change my basic objection. Even in the numbers...
Currently (as I write this), the GP is 40% flamebait, 40% insightful, and 10% troll - and yet it shows as Flamebait.
The PP is 30% informative, 20% insightful, and 50% flamebait. And it also shows as Flamebait.
So, 2 out of 5 mods thought the GP was a worthwhile read, and fully half of mods thought the PP was a worthwhile read.
About the only saving grace is that I can +6 filter flamebait, troll, and offtopic. Of course, that also means I get the latest turd-eating update at the front of most threads.
Slashdot modding at it's best. The PP points out that the ARDAgent doesn't work on a fair number of systems and then responds with a reverse paraphrasing of the GP. The PP gets Flamebait. The GP gets insightful. How delicious.
Seriously. Why haven't they corrected the modding system around here? It really wouldn't be terribly difficult. If you could only mod up and the descriptions were merely tags and didn't account for plus or minus, things would be much better. The filtering system would need some changes too - like filtering by % score.
It doesn't work on my Tiger install either having followed all of the same config caveats.
And at best it runs as user level without the ARDAagent escalation.d
Not true. Since the admin group has sudo privileges by default in OSX, simply having the password of someone who is allowed to admin the computer gives you the ability to run as root.
In Linux you have to go out of your way to add users to the/etc/sudoers file.
The fact that I'm replying at all is a testament to the quality of the ACs troll.
I just spent 2 hours getting div transparencies to work with IE 6. The Safari and Firefox portions took a few minutes. Getting it to work in IE6 was a royal pain. To compound the problem, IE6 also doesn't support PNG alpha channels.
With any luck, IE6 will go the way of the dodo bird soon enough and I won't have to worry about it anymore.
This was true when I was in school 20+ years ago. The reason this is deemed news is because it makes people with an axe to grind (i.e. people who are against NCLB) all warm and angry inside.
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You're stunningly full of shit.
1. The Mac wasn't released until 1984.
2. Apple didn't have any stores until 2001.
If any part of your story is even remotely true (rather than a complete fabrication), you probably went to a CompUSA.
So - now you have choices. You can admit your grudge is bogus, you can admit that your story is bogus, or you can continue on with this line of bullshit.
See - look at all the choices Apple has provided for you!
Sounds like we're a bit of birds-of-a-feather as far /. goes. I actually came back to see how quickly I had gotten modded down and check the responses. Like you, I pretty much assume I'm going to get modded negatively in some form and so I don't really care about that anymore. But it's nice to find the occasional rebel in the replies. It's funny how conformist the /. crowd tends to be - in as much as I suspect they tend to think of themselves as the rebels.
Viewing +6 troll/flamebait/offtopic has its downside (turd eating posts being the worst) but it does tend to bring the quality responses up.
I also view -6 insightful, since that tends to be much further off the mark than interesting is.
Which would lead me to be believe that an LCD can deliver less than 12%.
In as much as MS has brought this negativity upon themselves, you're spot on in your observations.
I'm not even sure why I bother with /. anymore except that it's like watching a train wreck. I just can't seem to take my eyes off of it.
Maybe I need to flip through the rule book again, but I'm pretty sure we're against globalization and multinationals around here.
You were winning until you clicked submit.
Okay, point one on this is tagging it (in bold no less) as $1000.00 without a USD or NZD gives the impression that it's USD. So that's misleading. Certainly you caught the sarcasm in the first post. It seemed to me that exchange rate was missing along the way, and - as it turned out - it was.
In one post, you say that iPhones will never be used in hospitals, when in reality, iPhones won't be used at your location in New Zealand until (at a minimum) the price from Vodafone drops significantly.
In another post, however, you say that you weren't talking about mobile computing.
And then in the above post, you reference mobile computing devices.
I'm utterly confused at this point. Please, stop changing the discussion you bastard!
[And to add to my confusion I'm friending you - go figure]
I guess I'm replying for both the GGP and GP now...
Quick tip: you could save some money by buying the phone with Euros or GPB instead of dollars. Or wait until the dollar strengthens - but who knows when that's going to be.
As to the portable thing... if you aren't in the market for portable medical electronics, then why would you even comment on the iPhone?
I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was less than a week turnaround from application to approval for me as an individual. I got my approval on Friday, so obviously I applied recently.
And, as the dev site states, they're having slow turnarounds on processing applications right now because they're still apparently in beta.
You obviously haven't actually ponied up the $99 for development. If you had, you'd realize you have no idea what you're talking about. There's no "OK" from Apple to install apps on your phone as a developer. You can put whatever you want on it.
And here I thought the claim of $1000 iphones would have discredited the OP enough to dispel any ensuing discussion.
Oh. And I work in a hospital too. And we're migrating to iPhones for our data entry and charting systems.
Yeah. That's the ticket. But seriously, just because someone makes claims on the internet doesn't mean they're credible. Glancing through this thread should make that immediately apparent. /. reminds me of a story that a friend told me. He was at a party and talking loudly with someone else to be heard above the general din. Finally, he asked (rhetorically) "Why does everyone have to be so loud?!" His friend responded, "Because this room is full of people who all think they're smarter than everyone else."
Ooh. Wait, wait! I screwed up and got myself back to positive karma. I want to get in on this troll hunting!
See, my theory is this. My karma is irrelevant. Utterly, completely irrelevant. Seriously - it's just some stupid number on a website. No bearing on me or life in general.
However, it's nice to have some people go through and mod articles so I don't have to spend time reading everything. Unfortunately, the mod population contains numbers (apparently significant) of people who are utterly unqualified to do so in any reasonable manner.
That's where we come in. By tossing in some posts like this and the above, we burn mod points (a limited resource) of people who are too stupid to use them for their intended purpose. Thus removing morons from the mod pool, at least where it counts. Otherwise these modtards notice the real posts, and that's not helpful.
Hint: sometimes it helps to talk about your turd collection.
Yeah. Everyone knows it. It's one of those scams perpetrated by them. I know for sure, because I get on email on the internets that told me about a guy whose cousin knows this girl who has a friend that does exactly that every day.
Man I hate them.
I think this illustrates the GPs point. Since typical indoor Cl2 levels tend to be in the PPT range and occupational hazard levels are capped by OSHA at 1 PPM, a 1000 time increase would still trend toward putting you within an "acceptable" limit for long term exposure (1PPM is roughly the exposure you get from going for a swim in a chlorinated pool).
Now, if I had to put up with a 1000-fold increase in whining from my kids for a month, that would be another matter altogether.
Apparently because that would be admitting they really didn't understand the solution given.
Well, I almost have to think that you're not the original AC that started this. Either that, or you are and had to google the answer. Or maybe chilled out.
Anyway, the whole point in that question (since I already knew the answer) was to point out that the initial (and therefore default user) on the Mac is an "admin". If you check the thread, you'll see the AC (you?) said "only retards run as admin on a mac".
That points to an incredible ignorance of the Mac and Unix permissions. And when I called them on that, an AC (same AC?) called me arrogant. After apparently having called anyone with a standard Mac install account a retard.
See where we're going with this?
So explain to me what steps you need to take to run as "admin" on a mac.
I can see why you posted that as an AC. Your ignorance is still safely hidden.
You might want to learn a little about Unix, groups, and the permissions structure before you post anything as stupid as that using a slashdot account.
Okay - well - the GP turned itself to flamebait too. That doesn't change my basic objection. Even in the numbers...
Currently (as I write this), the GP is 40% flamebait, 40% insightful, and 10% troll - and yet it shows as Flamebait.
The PP is 30% informative, 20% insightful, and 50% flamebait. And it also shows as Flamebait.
So, 2 out of 5 mods thought the GP was a worthwhile read, and fully half of mods thought the PP was a worthwhile read.
About the only saving grace is that I can +6 filter flamebait, troll, and offtopic. Of course, that also means I get the latest turd-eating update at the front of most threads.
Slashdot modding at it's best. The PP points out that the ARDAgent doesn't work on a fair number of systems and then responds with a reverse paraphrasing of the GP. The PP gets Flamebait. The GP gets insightful. How delicious.
Seriously. Why haven't they corrected the modding system around here? It really wouldn't be terribly difficult. If you could only mod up and the descriptions were merely tags and didn't account for plus or minus, things would be much better. The filtering system would need some changes too - like filtering by % score.
It doesn't work on my Tiger install either having followed all of the same config caveats.
Not true. Since the admin group has sudo privileges by default in OSX, simply having the password of someone who is allowed to admin the computer gives you the ability to run as root.
In Linux you have to go out of your way to add users to the /etc/sudoers file.
The fact that I'm replying at all is a testament to the quality of the ACs troll.
I just spent 2 hours getting div transparencies to work with IE 6. The Safari and Firefox portions took a few minutes. Getting it to work in IE6 was a royal pain. To compound the problem, IE6 also doesn't support PNG alpha channels.
With any luck, IE6 will go the way of the dodo bird soon enough and I won't have to worry about it anymore.
So, you're saying that it's perfectly logical to expect IE to execute DLLs in my Desktop folder?
To use your vernacular, trying to make this a Windows non-issue smacks of fanboyism.
All I get is this:
8323$ osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"'
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)
This was true when I was in school 20+ years ago. The reason this is deemed news is because it makes people with an axe to grind (i.e. people who are against NCLB) all warm and angry inside.