The experience of an apple product? You mean the spinning beachball? Or the fact that when using Spaces, the OS will switch to whatever Space it feels like, somewhat arbitrarily, if there is an app running in that space that thinks it has something to tell me? Or the oft-experienced refusal to unlock the screen after accepting the password, beeping at me because I dare try to wake the thing up? That experience? You can keep it - I'll take cold and functional over warm and broken any day when it comes to computers.
I'd love to live in your world, where success is only measured by the failure of others. Seriously, what does saying "and doesn't just buy start-up companies like Google does" add to your point?
Why the first-owner-only warning? Resale would-be purchasers deserve the same warning. Put it in the same place as the airbag warning and prevent its removal.
I'm just gonna throw a big fat NO out here to anyone that thinks documenting WHAT code is doing is a good idea (as opposed to WHY it is doing it)*. If you have a comment to explain WHAT the code is doing, and the code gets changed, how many engineers bother to even read the comment, much less change it? Documenting the WHY allows the implementation to change while still passing on the required information - what is the business reason driving this code?
* - Exceptions are for particularly gnarly code (that can oftentimes serve as a placeholder to get something done - and should generally be of the order of a dozen lines at most) and for code that defies the official word (such as a call to an API whose own documentation states 'X returns an array' but that in reality returns a single datum).
The was a time when battles were fought starting at dawn and ending as the sun went down - to fight during the night (even/ especially with guerilla tactics) was unheard of - it simply wasn't civilized. This led to a number of spectacular defeats at the hand of an enemy who did not share the same philosophy.
I believe the same process applies to terrorists not changing their names to something less conspicuous - it simply doesn't fit with their way of thinking. It's not a matter of being dumb (or not), it just isn't the right thing to do. Perhaps when you live or die on the belief that 72 virgins await you only after you perform the ultimate sacrifice, holding on to your real name is important. Otherwise, the wrong John Smith might get your virgins!
So: you've seen the impact on one kid of shitty parents, and you extrapolate this to all pot use, without a single shred of evidence that pot was actually the problem in this single, isolated case? I salute your faultless logic.
So what about the guy making just below the COL, say someone making $900? Do they net $1250? $1350? If either of these or less what is the incentive to work? If more (from the govt), how is that "fair" to the guy not working, or to the guy earning $1100?
Are those first two items really possible? If so, I'll have my words a la mode, thanks - I really haven't tinkered with OS X in a while, and last time I did I couldn't even get focus-follows-mouse to work.
As far as the battery changing issue goes, the point is I don't have (the level of) control with an OS X macbook that I do with a linux (non-mac) laptop, because I can't change out the battery without tools, which doesn't seem like an unrealistic requirement.
Switch out the window manager.
Re-compile the kernel.
And since this about "an OSX Macbook", not just OSX, replace the battery without using any tools.
I'm more worried that people have forgotten how to clean a chicken or simply grow enough vegetables and plants to survive (should we ever be thrust backwards).
Assuming the means of chicken-rearing or plant cultivation have not been done away with (thanks Monsanto for your terminator genes!), people will re-learn the skills needed to survive.
I never understood why everyone switched to widescreen laptops.
Everyone-the-supplier switched because it was economically unfeasible to support multiple screen aspect ratios - flat-screen TVs were all moving to HD/ Widescream.
Everyone-the-customer switched because, well, try buying a new non-WS laptop when nobody is selling one.
So much for choice.
Whoooaaaaa! I must've missed where 2000 - 2011 never happened. I've run laptop linux with FULL support OOtB for everything you mentioned (well, sans time machine itself) for about a decade now. In fact the only reason I'm not currently running linux is because I can't find a (non-Apple) laptop with a 16x10 aspect ratio screen. Seriously, the supplier who can provide me with one of those will instantly have my $$, because I DON'T WANT A TV WITH A KEYBOARD TYSVM, I actually like to *work* on my laptop, and the vast majority of things I work on are longer than their width.
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The experience of an apple product? You mean the spinning beachball? Or the fact that when using Spaces, the OS will switch to whatever Space it feels like, somewhat arbitrarily, if there is an app running in that space that thinks it has something to tell me? Or the oft-experienced refusal to unlock the screen after accepting the password, beeping at me because I dare try to wake the thing up? That experience? You can keep it - I'll take cold and functional over warm and broken any day when it comes to computers.
GP doesn't know the difference between cue and queue; went halfway.
I'd love to live in your world, where success is only measured by the failure of others. Seriously, what does saying "and doesn't just buy start-up companies like Google does" add to your point?
Why the first-owner-only warning? Resale would-be purchasers deserve the same warning. Put it in the same place as the airbag warning and prevent its removal.
I'm just gonna throw a big fat NO out here to anyone that thinks documenting WHAT code is doing is a good idea (as opposed to WHY it is doing it)*. If you have a comment to explain WHAT the code is doing, and the code gets changed, how many engineers bother to even read the comment, much less change it? Documenting the WHY allows the implementation to change while still passing on the required information - what is the business reason driving this code?
* - Exceptions are for particularly gnarly code (that can oftentimes serve as a placeholder to get something done - and should generally be of the order of a dozen lines at most) and for code that defies the official word (such as a call to an API whose own documentation states 'X returns an array' but that in reality returns a single datum).
Pretty sure any Perl Jedi worthy of the name would know it is correctly capitalised perl or Perl.
Interestingly enough, the DRDD installed an ATM machine that you didn't have to enter a PIN number into to access your cash.
The was a time when battles were fought starting at dawn and ending as the sun went down - to fight during the night (even/ especially with guerilla tactics) was unheard of - it simply wasn't civilized. This led to a number of spectacular defeats at the hand of an enemy who did not share the same philosophy.
I believe the same process applies to terrorists not changing their names to something less conspicuous - it simply doesn't fit with their way of thinking. It's not a matter of being dumb (or not), it just isn't the right thing to do. Perhaps when you live or die on the belief that 72 virgins await you only after you perform the ultimate sacrifice, holding on to your real name is important. Otherwise, the wrong John Smith might get your virgins!
Where the fuck do you work that employees can't be fired?
So: you've seen the impact on one kid of shitty parents, and you extrapolate this to all pot use, without a single shred of evidence that pot was actually the problem in this single, isolated case? I salute your faultless logic.
Hey, while you're gazing into your crystal ball, tell me (privately, of course!) next week's winning lottery numbers. TYESM!
Then the solution is simple: convince the money-makers that they can make MORE from the legalisation of pot than under the status quo.
That would be the GOP. Unless you meant "pro-choice".
I should ... vote for whom? ... Gary Johnson ... has even less support than Huntsman
So you're saying that you won't support Johnson because no-one else does either? That's what we call a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If you use all services (things your tax $$ buy) equally, yes.
So what about the guy making just below the COL, say someone making $900? Do they net $1250? $1350? If either of these or less what is the incentive to work? If more (from the govt), how is that "fair" to the guy not working, or to the guy earning $1100?
No, the question is whether marijuana's purported link to addiction is a valid reason to ban it. The answer to that question is of course no.
Really? You're going with "won't someone think of the children?" ? That's the best troll you can come up with? Pathetic.
Are those first two items really possible? If so, I'll have my words a la mode, thanks - I really haven't tinkered with OS X in a while, and last time I did I couldn't even get focus-follows-mouse to work.
As far as the battery changing issue goes, the point is I don't have (the level of) control with an OS X macbook that I do with a linux (non-mac) laptop, because I can't change out the battery without tools, which doesn't seem like an unrealistic requirement.
Switch out the window manager.
Re-compile the kernel.
And since this about "an OSX Macbook", not just OSX, replace the battery without using any tools.
I'm more worried that people have forgotten how to clean a chicken or simply grow enough vegetables and plants to survive (should we ever be thrust backwards).
Assuming the means of chicken-rearing or plant cultivation have not been done away with (thanks Monsanto for your terminator genes!), people will re-learn the skills needed to survive.
I never understood why everyone switched to widescreen laptops.
Everyone-the-supplier switched because it was economically unfeasible to support multiple screen aspect ratios - flat-screen TVs were all moving to HD/ Widescream.
Everyone-the-customer switched because, well, try buying a new non-WS laptop when nobody is selling one.
So much for choice.
Whoooaaaaa! I must've missed where 2000 - 2011 never happened. I've run laptop linux with FULL support OOtB for everything you mentioned (well, sans time machine itself) for about a decade now. In fact the only reason I'm not currently running linux is because I can't find a (non-Apple) laptop with a 16x10 aspect ratio screen. Seriously, the supplier who can provide me with one of those will instantly have my $$, because I DON'T WANT A TV WITH A KEYBOARD TYSVM, I actually like to *work* on my laptop, and the vast majority of things I work on are longer than their width.
Control.
Maybe he wants dedicated home/ end keys, and the ability to change the battery with ease.