If Apple really want people to switch they should try providing Switch adverts in a format that does not require a Mac to view. If most of the switches are from Linux/Unix users, shouldn't it ring a bell to their marketting department to provide those adverts in a format that can be viewed under those systems?
As someone said, Mac users are probably more interested in the ads than any other group.
Manufactorers have been known to put pheromones in their products. It attracts people (and insects) to it. Perfumes and cosmetics have had them for ages. I wont be surprised if Apple tried that trick also.
It should be relatively easy to prepare a 'potion' so that you can just dip the disk in and freeze the whole process. Once we've reverse engineered what chemical it is.
Name one area appart from market share in which the latest MSWord is better than the latest WordPerfect. I've used both and believe me WordPerfect is a better tool for the job IMO, and I don't mean just legal stuff.
What do you suggest they do then? Vote for the right leader? Who controls the way elections are run? Is it not the same people you want them to get rid of.
Who controls the media that brainwashes the less literate into believing what the rulling party says? Hah Freedom of press? Its a mockery of the real situation. Just because there are elections don't mean there is democracy.
While I agree with you on most of your points. I think the key issue is control. The current leaders have control over every aspect of the lives of the people -- there is no system to check what they do so they don't have to do what the people want. They aren't even afraid of elections because they control it anyway.
In Cameroon for example, rulling party lost the presidential elections in 1992 but they changed the rules overnight and cancelled most of the results that did not favor them, decalred a state of emergency and deployed the millitary (whose generals are close friends of the head of state and whose members have exhorbitant salaries) at every street corner. The opposition protested and the case went to the supreme court ( whose members are all appointed by the head-of-state from the rulling party) and the case was thrown out. One presidential election later, he is still in power and the constitution has been changed to extend is term of office. People have lost interest in the election process because it doesn't change a thing. The is the same situation in many african countries with so-called 'democracies'.
It gets worse if you count money in terms of NEED-EXECESS.
need-excess (%) = 100 x (worth - cost_of_living) / (cost_of_living).
Then the worth of the charitable effort should be calculated as
worth_of_charity = 100 x (charity / cost_of_living) / need_excess
To be truly charitable, you need to make a donation with a worth_of_charity around 10 or above. That means that of all the money you make that you don't really need, 10% of it goes to charity.
Remember cost_of_living is what one would normally expect you to live reasonably on. Not your current cost of living.
For the generous Mr+Mrs Gates, that amounts to worth_of_charity of about 2 which is quite generous. But they could do more without feeling it.
The problem in the 'underdeveloped world' is not financial. It is a problem of INFRASTRUCTURE. The reason why the basic infrastructure of a state is lacking is because of bad+corrupt governments whose leaders benefit from the situation because it ensures their stay in power and their wealth. Donating money or giving loans etc only makes things worse. It only empowers these leaders to continue in their direction.
What we need is regime change. Most of these countries, especially those in Africa have not had the opportuniy to become countries yet. Since the colonial masters left power in the hands of delinquents, most of whom are still in power today (or their relatives/friends are). In those countries were people couldn't take it any more, civil wars have ensued.
Trying to force democracy in such countries is not the way to go either, since the infrastructure to support democracy is lacking (effective independent judiciary, independent military, effective financial institutions, a civil service that is agnostic to the beliefs/origin/political opinions of the peopl). What we need actually is a benevolent despot who will set up all these systems under an iron fist, and then give way to a democracy.
Only then can we start talking about the financial problems if any would exist.
--Treating the symptom of a disease is worse than not treating at all.
and by the same logic the names should change with local right? Have heard of aliases, otherwise what are you doing in a terminal? If you are unix-dumb, stay away from the terminal.
Its a little more than that. There's a lot of envy involved. Back with the introduction of Mandrake 8.0, mandrake changed the default gnome theme to make it look like the default KDE theme. Nobody coughed because KDE is default on Mandrake.
My translation of this is thus:
1. Some KDE militants convinced themselves for a long time that GNOME was doomed to fail. 2. However they still envy the fact that Major Players Like RedHat, Sun, HP etc etc decide to go with GNOME for their systems. 3. They hear rumours about GNOME making strides in advancement but only when RedHat releases Null with a fully integrated GNOME2 setup, including lots of cool configuration tools all based on GNOME2 do they see the bright future for GNOME. 4. In an unconcious attempt to fight back they bring up a conspiracy theory that RedHat has crippled KDE by changing the default look. 5. When that is rebutted, they then say RedHat has replaced their favorite application. 6. Then it is pointed out that their applications are still available, so they cry out "but the About KDE dialog is missing => GPL violated". Unfortunately for them, all credits for the authors are still available. 7. Then they cry out "but the service names have been changed => most apps will break, lots of bugs" yet non of them could explain exactly which services have been changed and how it breaks things.
I wonder what excuse they would come up with now to complain about RedHat. If GNOME did not exist, there would be no problem so the real issue is with GNOME (obviously). So why not fight the battle with GNOME where its supposed to be fought, by merits. Only time will tell.
Could you PLEASE be more specific than above? I'm tired of hear-say. Could you actually name the services and explain how they break things?
Do you have any evidence thay they haven't tested the xft2 included, or that they would release without testing?. I thought (null) was a beta ( translate - for testing purposes)
If it sounds better, then it is better; irrespective of mechanism by which it does that.
According to your argument, one could as well say the athlon is not a better chip wrt the pentium IV because the only reason it performs better at the same clock speed is that it does more instructions per cycle so the benchmarks are flawed;-/
Just because it's in nature/science doesn't mean it's true. I've experienced this politics. Most often you need to be well known in the field to publish to these journals irrespective of how significant/important your results are.
One entry found for expand. Main Entry: expand Pronunciation: ik-'spand Function: verb Etymology: Middle English expaunden, from Latin expandere, from ex- + pandere to spread -- more at FATHOM Date: 15th century transitive senses 1 : to open up : UNFOLD 2 : to increase the extent, number, volume, or scope of : ENLARGE 3 a : to express at length or in greater detail b : to write out in full c : to subject to mathematical expansion intransitive senses 1 : to open out : SPREAD 2 : to increase in extent, number, volume, or scope 3 : to speak or write fully or in detail 4 : to feel generous or optimistic - expandability/-"span-d&-'bi-l&-tE/ noun - expandable/-'span-d&-b&l/ adjective synonyms EXPAND, AMPLIFY, SWELL, DISTEND, INFLATE, DILATE mean to increase in size or volume. EXPAND may apply whether the increase comes from within or without and regardless of manner (as growth, unfolding, addition of parts). AMPLIFY implies the extension or enlargement of something inadequate. SWELL implies gradual expansion beyond a thing's original or normal limits. DISTEND implies outward extension caused by pressure from within. INFLATE implies expanding by introduction of air or something insubstantial and suggests a resulting vulnerability and liability to sudden collapse. DILATE applies especially to expansion of circumference.
Another very crucial word that is almost always taken for granted by scientist and lay-men alike is Infinity. Does anybody know what infinity is really? The concept infinity is an ad-hoc device invented by humanity to hide certain contradictions wih our state of knowledge. The mere definition of infinity implies that there is no 'beyond', yet our current state of understanding does not provide room for boundlessness.
Often scientists talk about how the universe is expanding. The concept of expansion itself demands that a boundary be present. And boundaries demark two regions, one within and one beyond. Yet nobody dares mention what is beyond the universe.
All these contradictions just tell us one thing. Alot has to be undone about our stake of knowledge before we can begin to truely understand.
Our current state of knowledge is similar to the days before Galeleo, when people thought the world was flat and you could reach the end of the world.
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If Apple really want people to switch they should try providing Switch adverts in a format that does not require a Mac to view. If most of the switches are from Linux/Unix users, shouldn't it ring a bell to their marketting department to provide those adverts in a format that can be viewed under those systems?
As someone said, Mac users are probably more interested in the ads than any other group.
Then they should release new drivers that don't require the check, rather than expect users to flash their bios to fix it.
Big blue is still alive and not only kicking but making big strides too.
And please stop using the phrase "Alternative OS", read the memo for an explanation.
"
'Alternatives' are required when we are compelled to use one particular thing or product
"
Manufactorers have been known to put pheromones in their products. It attracts people (and insects) to it. Perfumes and cosmetics have had them for ages. I wont be surprised if Apple tried that trick also.
It should be relatively easy to prepare a 'potion' so that you can just dip the disk in and freeze the whole process. Once we've reverse engineered what chemical it is.
Name one area appart from market share in which the latest MSWord is better than the latest WordPerfect. I've used both and believe me WordPerfect is a better tool for the job IMO, and I don't mean just legal stuff.
What do you suggest they do then? Vote for the right leader? Who controls the way elections are run? Is it not the same people you want them to get rid of.
Who controls the media that brainwashes the less literate into believing what the rulling party says? Hah Freedom of press? Its a mockery of the real situation. Just because there are elections don't mean there is democracy.
While I agree with you on most of your points. I think the key issue is control. The current leaders have control over every aspect of the lives of the people -- there is no system to check what they do so they don't have to do what the people want. They aren't even afraid of elections because they control it anyway.
In Cameroon for example, rulling party lost the presidential elections in 1992 but they changed the rules overnight and cancelled most of the results that did not favor them, decalred a state of emergency and deployed the millitary (whose generals are close friends of the head of state and whose members have exhorbitant salaries) at every street corner.
The opposition protested and the case went to the supreme court ( whose members are all appointed by the head-of-state from the rulling party) and the case was thrown out. One presidential election later, he is still in power and the constitution has been changed to extend is term of office. People have lost interest in the election process because it doesn't change a thing. The is the same situation in many african countries with so-called 'democracies'.
It gets worse if you count money in terms of NEED-EXECESS.
need-excess (%) = 100 x (worth - cost_of_living) / (cost_of_living).
Then the worth of the charitable effort should be calculated as
worth_of_charity = 100 x (charity / cost_of_living) / need_excess
To be truly charitable, you need to make a donation with a worth_of_charity around 10 or above. That means that of all the money you make that you don't really need, 10% of it goes to charity.
Remember cost_of_living is what one would normally expect you to live reasonably on. Not your current cost of living.
For the generous Mr+Mrs Gates, that amounts to worth_of_charity of about 2 which is quite generous. But they could do more without feeling it.
The problem in the 'underdeveloped world' is not financial. It is a problem of INFRASTRUCTURE. The reason why the basic infrastructure of a state is lacking is because of bad+corrupt governments whose leaders benefit from the situation because it ensures their stay in power and their wealth.
Donating money or giving loans etc only makes things worse. It only empowers these leaders to continue in their direction.
What we need is regime change. Most of these countries, especially those in Africa have not had the opportuniy to become countries yet. Since the colonial masters left power in the hands of delinquents, most of whom are still in power today (or their relatives/friends are). In those countries were people couldn't take it any more, civil wars have ensued.
Trying to force democracy in such countries is not the way to go either, since the infrastructure to support democracy is lacking (effective independent judiciary, independent military, effective financial institutions, a civil service that is agnostic to the beliefs/origin/political opinions of the peopl). What we need actually is a benevolent despot who will set up all these systems under an iron fist, and then give way to a democracy.
Only then can we start talking about the financial problems if any would exist.
--Treating the symptom of a disease is worse than not treating at all.
Could this be used in encryption somehow?
It would probably put itself in the trajectory and ask you:
" Pressing the trigger would lead to complete extermination of Clippy(me). Are you sure you want to proceed?" [Yes] [Cancel]
How about:
All your customers are belong to me!
I know the one you mean, I'm currently getting 1M/s from it. It's been open for a while.
and by the same logic the names should change with local right? Have heard of aliases, otherwise what are you doing in a terminal? If you are unix-dumb, stay away from the terminal.
This is authoritiative information from a RH employee not somebody's opinion so moderators mod this as informative not insightful!!
Its a little more than that. There's a lot of envy involved. Back with the introduction of Mandrake 8.0, mandrake changed the default gnome theme to make it look like the default KDE theme. Nobody coughed because KDE is default on Mandrake.
My translation of this is thus:
1. Some KDE militants convinced themselves for a long time that GNOME was doomed to fail.
2. However they still envy the fact that Major Players Like RedHat, Sun, HP etc etc decide to go with GNOME for their systems.
3. They hear rumours about GNOME making strides in advancement but only when RedHat releases Null with a fully integrated GNOME2 setup, including lots of cool configuration tools all based on GNOME2 do they see the bright future for GNOME.
4. In an unconcious attempt to fight back they bring up a conspiracy theory that RedHat has crippled KDE by changing the default look.
5. When that is rebutted, they then say RedHat has replaced their favorite application.
6. Then it is pointed out that their applications are still available, so they cry out "but the About KDE dialog is missing => GPL violated". Unfortunately for them, all credits for the authors are still available.
7. Then they cry out "but the service names have been changed => most apps will break, lots of bugs" yet non of them could explain exactly which services have been changed and how it breaks things.
I wonder what excuse they would come up with now to complain about RedHat. If GNOME did not exist, there would be no problem so the real issue is with GNOME (obviously). So why not fight the battle with GNOME where its supposed to be fought, by merits. Only time will tell.
Could you PLEASE be more specific than above? I'm tired of hear-say. Could you actually name the services and explain how they break things?
Do you have any evidence thay they haven't tested the xft2 included, or that they would release without testing?. I thought (null) was a beta ( translate - for testing purposes)
Get over it!
;-/
If it sounds better, then it is better; irrespective of mechanism by which it does that.
According to your argument, one could as well say the athlon is not a better chip wrt the pentium IV because the only reason it performs better at the same clock speed is that it does more instructions per cycle so the benchmarks are flawed
Please mod parent up!
Just because it's in nature/science doesn't mean it's true. I've experienced this politics. Most often you need to be well known in the field to publish to these journals irrespective of how significant/important your results are.
4.???
5.Profit
On the contrary, I think they just used a crappy compiler on that one, or made some changes that prevented optimization in that case
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=expand
/-"span-d&-'bi-l&-tE/ noun /-'span-d&-b&l/ adjective
One entry found for expand.
Main Entry: expand
Pronunciation: ik-'spand
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English expaunden, from Latin expandere, from ex- + pandere to spread -- more at FATHOM
Date: 15th century
transitive senses
1 : to open up : UNFOLD
2 : to increase the extent, number, volume, or scope of : ENLARGE
3 a : to express at length or in greater detail b : to write out in full c : to subject to mathematical expansion
intransitive senses
1 : to open out : SPREAD
2 : to increase in extent, number, volume, or scope
3 : to speak or write fully or in detail
4 : to feel generous or optimistic
- expandability
- expandable
synonyms EXPAND, AMPLIFY, SWELL, DISTEND, INFLATE, DILATE mean to increase in size or volume. EXPAND may apply whether the increase comes from within or without and regardless of manner (as growth, unfolding, addition of parts). AMPLIFY implies the extension or enlargement of something inadequate. SWELL implies gradual expansion beyond a thing's original or normal limits. DISTEND implies outward extension caused by pressure from within. INFLATE implies expanding by introduction of air or something insubstantial and suggests a resulting vulnerability and liability to sudden collapse. DILATE applies especially to expansion of circumference.
What do you mean by the center of the universe then 'einstein'
I had to double check the date to make sure it wasn't April 1. This should cause some hysteria on the Intel side.
Often scientists talk about how the universe is expanding. The concept of expansion itself demands that a boundary be present. And boundaries demark two regions, one within and one beyond. Yet nobody dares mention what is beyond the universe.
All these contradictions just tell us one thing. Alot has to be undone about our stake of knowledge before we can begin to truely understand.
Our current state of knowledge is similar to the days before Galeleo, when people thought the world was flat and you could reach the end of the world.
My 0.02