The design wasn't flawed, the thought that a ship was unsinkable was.
As long as they accept they face the same dangers of any other cruise ship, I assume it will have similar or better success.
Given the money, size, and importance of it, I assume they'll take extra precautions to make sure the same incident doesn't happen. Also will likely include things like, enough life rafts for everyone.
Yeah, we had the same thing in Vancouver for the 2010.
Bunch of politicians playing tummy sticks with each other over how well they did in getting the olympics here, and how great it will be for the economy.
There was one benefit, a highway got upgraded. We still got the bill though, rather certain we didn't need the olympics to upgrade a highway and still get the bill. Politicians don't make money, they only spend / cost money. Anything political, like the olympics, is not a revenue generating event.
If politicians could make decisions on events that were profitable, they would be CEO's instead.
It helps your city / country on the level of politics which still can have some benefits, help with trade, part of our ability to stay connected to the world and travel freely, but there's the dark side where it just fills select individuals pockets...
Linux isn't consumer friendly. It's not designed for 10d1t users yet.
Or rather more friendly, people who aren't computer savvy who don't care to learn just want to click pretty pictures and make it work.
They can't go to any website on a gnome enabled system and just go click, install random program I have no idea what it does but I think it does what I want. Since everything has to be packed very carefully for automatic installs, many things being installed directly from an app store like ubuntu, it prevents a lot of opportunity for maleware.
Self compiled linux only has the holes you missed, and is only compatible with what you make it compatible with. Mac / Windows can't go that direction as non computer people could no longer use their software.
So at this point I'd like to say it's not the quality of the software, nice try to cover mac. It's the quality of the user / vs quantity. E.G my windows / linux platforms never get any maleware, period.
I'd like to say mac and windows users are about average for the general population. You multiple odds of being infected by number of users, and then you see why windows has more viruses than Mac.
There are some knowledable mac users, and pc users, who will likely never get malware. Makes sense, yea?
I've told many 'smug' mac users that the only reason they're not getting viruses like PC's are is because it's not worth it. No one cares about your myspace profile or your doodle you did this morning.
Major businesses handling credit card information or valuable corporate information is ran on PCs, it has all the financial data and so on, hence the target. As soon as macs become popular and worth while, they'll get viruses too.
All of it is about quantity, and how it's used, for everything. Something becoming poisonous entirely depends on the context a substance is used, the quantity, and how the particular organism reacts to it.
What the heck is this if a white guy walks in the ghetto crap?
If you walk down anywhere, regardless of race, full of drug dealers, it doesn't matter if they're white, black, spanish, asian, or what country, mexican, american, canadian and so on.
If it's full of SHADY people doing BAD things. You might become a target. You can blame any reason you want for why they targetted you, fact is, bad people in bad places do bad things.
This is the crap that is keeping racism alive. People don't simply go 'I was mugged in a shady part of town' People say' I was mugged in the ghetto where the black people are because I'm white"
Same thing with the guy who posted about getting beat up in school. People get beat up in school. I was by white people, and I'm white. So...yeah.
Either way, you sound like a scientologist. I really, really don't think, regardless of what happens to apple, that you would say anything different, ever, like most mac fanboys.
Discussing Mac with most fanboys would have the same effect if I argued with a recording. Which is my fault for pushing play, I bow out.
Please make them all illegal. New competition is causing harm to our business. Customers have other choices are harming our business. New technology is harming our buisness. Our business model that's outdated is no longer valid, please make everything that prevents it from still working illegal.
---- Dear Companies,
Some companies close down, it happens, it's called failing to keep up with the time, failing to adjust your business model to adapt to todays market, a company who may no longer be needed.
We don't hear about blacksmiths filing suits against all forms of machinery which takes work away from them and hurts their business. Fletchers aren't complaining. The list goes on.
Crap ran into a mac fanboy, we know your type, sorry to have offended you.
We'll ignore that with their desktop sales the company went under before, needed a bailout and jobs to come back, because clearly none of that happend and their desktops were enough because of creative alternatives.
More people must use macs in your area because clearly you're just more advanced and creative over there. 90% of the world isn't microsoft. Anyone who uses it is because they don't know better. Flash is dumb. Mac is the future (as it was 40 years ago) Macs don't get viruses, and it's not because no one makes them because businesses worth targeting clearly use them. Linux isn't a creative alternative, only mac is, which is based on linux. Windows is the only choice which is evil unless you want a mac. Macs aren't overpriced for the same hardware that's none apple, they're creatively priced.
Appeased yet?
I'd like to see one, just one person, who uses a mac, who can acknowledge it's disabilities. You know, doesn't act like there's zero cons at all if you get a mac, actually knows it's limitations and draw backs.
I know windows isn't perfect, neither is any distro of linux less you build it yourself to suit a specific need, but why oh why, must every fan boy, plead that Mac shits rainbows, and in the future will shit gold, as always.
You've pointed out that I need to clarify my meanings in a few places here.
Flopped is a relative term. When I say desktops flopped, I mean they were not sufficient enough to keep the company from going under. Some people love them and still do.
Mac growth I believe is primarily on device integration and the social prestige that came with owning an iphone or ipod. That stigma of other mp3 players being inferior stuck after ipods did so well. So when they came out with iphone, you didn't want to be left out. Social prestige is a huge motivator in human society, although many won't admit it and I'm sure they'd sack me for revealing the secret if they could.
So now that they have their iphone, their ipod, well, they need itunes, and all this "intergrates" so well with Mac. So now they're like, well, I should have a mac! It's more prestige!
Hence growth of market.
I do not believe that if you removed all the external devices that apples has developed, that people would continue to see such increases in mac desktop sales.
Their mac only mac everything phillisophy is working.
Great, apples uses their own hardware/software. That's like the developers of os/2 still using os/2. Yeah, when you design it, and can have programmers make whatever propieitary software you need for your business, I'm sure any OS will do.
I'm quite certain that majority of the software that apple uses on macs within apple are not available to the public. I'm sure things like Mac mail, are not in use.
Just as Microsoft doesn't use all of their publicly available software, either.
I'll agree that jobs returning saved apple - but without the bailout, there would be nothing to save. I feel stating that jobs saved apple from tanking/again/ would be an accurate statement.
P.S How many people are running a mac web server with mac office producitivity suites and mac exchange servers with mac everything else in their office space besides apple or anything who deals with graphic/video design etc?
The most successful MARKETING company that is only here because they DID fail and microsoft BAILED THEM OUT.
Then they designed their ipods etc, which apples hardware has always been really nice, and made name for themselves. Mac desktop flopped, the company was going under. Infact, if it was just desktop sales, they would die again. It's their mobility products now with their sleek designs that only keep them alive. (Laptops, ipods, iphone etc)
You don't know why you'd use a mac in a business, so you don't know why you'd write a virus for a mac. (Except if you want to art school, not sure if that's a compliment or an insult, take it either way)
Actually it was a good reply and worth taking note.
Just because 'hurr hurr derpa no free software that does all my taxes for me' isn't what you were hoping for doesn't make it useless.
They were correct. This is highly specialized software for a specific purpose operated based on state/country/province etc. It's not something I recommend trying to cheap out on without doing the work when it comes to the government.
Keep in mind, the question basically asks 'Is there a way, I can stop paying someone else to do my taxes, and do my taxes myself, without paying anyone, but not have to do my taxes myself, and have free software do it for me'
That's like me saying, 'Is there free software that does my job for me but doesn't cost me anything and I still get paid for working' Now, it may sound sarcastic, but if that software existed, I'd definitely be using it.
To sum it up, specializing in government revenue regulations is something unlikely to find for free that does everything related to them for you. There's open source software like, calculators available. Even free spreadsheet software. That's all tech, which makes sense to find open source.
I'd rather them give me an app that scans barcodes and gives me the best deal / price. That way I can also receive their competitors coupons. Oh wait, that exists.
No, I do NOT want EXTRA ways to be BOMBARDED EVERYWHERE I GO WITH UR CHITTY OVERPRICED MERCHANDISE.
It has nothing to do with coupons to save you money, either. If they could be promised a way to advertise fake low prices to you instantly then they would raise the prices and the 'coupon' price would be regular price. They just want a new excuse to throw ads in your face nonstop about their products.
I've worked in stores that put things 'on sale' and their price actually goes up. It also has a false original price too. Maybe when it was brand new it was that prices months ago but it certainly wasn't before the sale.
I'm tired of companies demanding that their old profitable business model remain so throughout all time. Times are changing, they need to change too or go out of business, like any other business with a business model that doesn't work.
Your comparison isn't quite accurate in my opinion.
Dropping a baggie in your gastank would be like someone using your wifi to do something illegal. Same with the other places.
Finding it on your hard drive is something I'd compare more to having it inside your car in the passenger compartment, or a glove box etc. If there was no sign of force entry, then it sounds like you left your car unlocked when you shouldn't have.
And yes, if they found it inside your car like that, you'd be going to jail.
They tried to hide the quality of the channel by simply saying its your personal opinion of the channel, not the value of the channel itself.
So even if you don't like it, imaginary people do. Hence we're giving 28 channels for X amount is a GREAT bargin. Even if you only watch two of them, other people watches the OTHER channels...so we're giving you VALUE.
No. No you're not. You're bundling cheap crap that people don't want in to justify your prices. If you tried to charge 30$ for two channels, you'd suddenly seem 'expensive' for what you get. So you try to hide that and just don't want to be exposed. Tough shit.
I'd love if I could sell people things and force them to buy other crud, but when it comes to physical objects, can't get away with it as much.
"Ah, I see you wish to purchase this TV, well, the TV is decent, medium level TV, and I realize the price is for a higher quality TV, but look, you get this cheap living room set that no one wants to buy, so you're getting a great deal really."
No, no I'm not, because I don't need another living room set, and it's worthless, I couldn't sell it if I tried.
No! You're the genius! Now people can just steal cars of people they don't like, smash into people with it at a parking lightly, and all they have is the license plate! Now your enemies can be sued by random people you pissed off!
You should be aware of the contents of your hard drive though. If your computer gets seized and they find the content on there, I can see you being held responsible.
Travelling the internet is like travelling the world. No one should do it without advice. They should also seek it from a reputable source if they have questions about anything.
If you know nothing about computer security, virus prevention and how to secure your networks, pay a professional to do it. The arguement of 'people shouldn't do that to me' isn't sufficent. People shouldn't do a lot of things, content involving children shouldn't even be available in the first place, and so fourth for anything else. But it's there, people do bad things, you need to know how to protect yourself. Just like when you visit another country, don't go down the dark ally in the shady part of town you know nothing about, you could land in some serious trouble.
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The design wasn't flawed, the thought that a ship was unsinkable was.
As long as they accept they face the same dangers of any other cruise ship, I assume it will have similar or better success.
Given the money, size, and importance of it, I assume they'll take extra precautions to make sure the same incident doesn't happen.
Also will likely include things like, enough life rafts for everyone.
It's to prevent rioters.
It's just a clever play on words, they're not surface to air like you think.
If there's any riots, the missiles will be used to turn that particular surface TO air.
Yeah, we had the same thing in Vancouver for the 2010.
Bunch of politicians playing tummy sticks with each other over how well they did in getting the olympics here, and how great it will be for the economy.
There was one benefit, a highway got upgraded. We still got the bill though, rather certain we didn't need the olympics to upgrade a highway and still get the bill.
Politicians don't make money, they only spend / cost money. Anything political, like the olympics, is not a revenue generating event.
If politicians could make decisions on events that were profitable, they would be CEO's instead.
It helps your city / country on the level of politics which still can have some benefits, help with trade, part of our ability to stay connected to the world and travel freely, but there's the dark side where it just fills select individuals pockets...
Linux isn't consumer friendly. It's not designed for 10d1t users yet.
Or rather more friendly, people who aren't computer savvy who don't care to learn just want to click pretty pictures and make it work.
They can't go to any website on a gnome enabled system and just go click, install random program I have no idea what it does but I think it does what I want.
Since everything has to be packed very carefully for automatic installs, many things being installed directly from an app store like ubuntu, it prevents a lot of opportunity for maleware.
Self compiled linux only has the holes you missed, and is only compatible with what you make it compatible with.
Mac / Windows can't go that direction as non computer people could no longer use their software.
So at this point I'd like to say it's not the quality of the software, nice try to cover mac. It's the quality of the user / vs quantity.
E.G my windows / linux platforms never get any maleware, period.
I'd like to say mac and windows users are about average for the general population. You multiple odds of being infected by number of users, and then you see why windows has more viruses than Mac.
There are some knowledable mac users, and pc users, who will likely never get malware.
Makes sense, yea?
Sometimes you just have to fight smug with smug!
I've frequently pointed it out to people.
I've told many 'smug' mac users that the only reason they're not getting viruses like PC's are is because it's not worth it. No one cares about your myspace profile or your doodle you did this morning.
Major businesses handling credit card information or valuable corporate information is ran on PCs, it has all the financial data and so on, hence the target.
As soon as macs become popular and worth while, they'll get viruses too.
And here we are.
Re: Just because something is not poison to ONE organism does not mean it is not a poison.
That's a poor example. I agree with the rest, but oxygen is technically a poison too, there are organisms that find oxygen toxic.
Like humans for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
All of it is about quantity, and how it's used, for everything. Something becoming poisonous entirely depends on the context a substance is used, the quantity, and how the particular organism reacts to it.
Sun-like is not the same as actual sun.
The heat, volume of light, and radiation is all wrong. Also, are sun is yellow, just so you know.
Great! At that rate, the bulb will pay for itself in 8 years!
What the heck is this if a white guy walks in the ghetto crap?
If you walk down anywhere, regardless of race, full of drug dealers, it doesn't matter if they're white, black, spanish, asian, or what country, mexican, american, canadian and so on.
If it's full of SHADY people doing BAD things. You might become a target. You can blame any reason you want for why they targetted you, fact is, bad people in bad places do bad things.
This is the crap that is keeping racism alive.
People don't simply go 'I was mugged in a shady part of town'
People say' I was mugged in the ghetto where the black people are because I'm white"
Same thing with the guy who posted about getting beat up in school.
People get beat up in school. I was by white people, and I'm white. So...yeah.
Maybe you're different, maybe you're not.
Either way, you sound like a scientologist. I really, really don't think, regardless of what happens to apple, that you would say anything different, ever, like most mac fanboys.
Discussing Mac with most fanboys would have the same effect if I argued with a recording.
Which is my fault for pushing play, I bow out.
Please make them all illegal. New competition is causing harm to our business. Customers have other choices are harming our business.
New technology is harming our buisness. Our business model that's outdated is no longer valid, please make everything that prevents it from still working illegal.
----
Dear Companies,
Some companies close down, it happens, it's called failing to keep up with the time, failing to adjust your business model to adapt to todays market, a company who may no longer be needed.
We don't hear about blacksmiths filing suits against all forms of machinery which takes work away from them and hurts their business.
Fletchers aren't complaining.
The list goes on.
Its time for you to move on.
Crap ran into a mac fanboy, we know your type, sorry to have offended you.
We'll ignore that with their desktop sales the company went under before, needed a bailout and jobs to come back, because clearly none of that happend and their desktops were enough because of creative alternatives.
More people must use macs in your area because clearly you're just more advanced and creative over there.
90% of the world isn't microsoft. Anyone who uses it is because they don't know better.
Flash is dumb.
Mac is the future (as it was 40 years ago)
Macs don't get viruses, and it's not because no one makes them because businesses worth targeting clearly use them.
Linux isn't a creative alternative, only mac is, which is based on linux.
Windows is the only choice which is evil unless you want a mac.
Macs aren't overpriced for the same hardware that's none apple, they're creatively priced.
Appeased yet?
I'd like to see one, just one person, who uses a mac, who can acknowledge it's disabilities.
You know, doesn't act like there's zero cons at all if you get a mac, actually knows it's limitations and draw backs.
I know windows isn't perfect, neither is any distro of linux less you build it yourself to suit a specific need,
but why oh why, must every fan boy, plead that Mac shits rainbows, and in the future will shit gold, as always.
You've pointed out that I need to clarify my meanings in a few places here.
Flopped is a relative term. When I say desktops flopped, I mean they were not sufficient enough to keep the company from going under.
Some people love them and still do.
Mac growth I believe is primarily on device integration and the social prestige that came with owning an iphone or ipod. That stigma of other mp3 players being inferior stuck after ipods did so well. So when they came out with iphone, you didn't want to be left out. Social prestige is a huge motivator in human society, although many won't admit it and I'm sure they'd sack me for revealing the secret if they could.
So now that they have their iphone, their ipod, well, they need itunes, and all this "intergrates" so well with Mac. So now they're like, well, I should have a mac! It's more prestige!
Hence growth of market.
I do not believe that if you removed all the external devices that apples has developed, that people would continue to see such increases in mac desktop sales.
Their mac only mac everything phillisophy is working.
Great, apples uses their own hardware/software. That's like the developers of os/2 still using os/2.
Yeah, when you design it, and can have programmers make whatever propieitary software you need for your business, I'm sure
any OS will do.
I'm quite certain that majority of the software that apple uses on macs within apple are not available to the public. I'm sure things like Mac mail, are not in use.
Just as Microsoft doesn't use all of their publicly available software, either.
I'll agree that jobs returning saved apple - but without the bailout, there would be nothing to save. I feel stating that jobs saved apple from tanking /again/ would be an accurate statement.
P.S How many people are running a mac web server with mac office producitivity suites and mac exchange servers with mac everything else in their office space besides apple or anything who deals with graphic/video design etc?
Yea...
Correction.
The most successful MARKETING company that is only here because they DID fail and microsoft BAILED THEM OUT.
Then they designed their ipods etc, which apples hardware has always been really nice, and made name for themselves.
Mac desktop flopped, the company was going under. Infact, if it was just desktop sales, they would die again.
It's their mobility products now with their sleek designs that only keep them alive. (Laptops, ipods, iphone etc)
You don't know why you'd use a mac in a business, so you don't know why you'd write a virus for a mac.
(Except if you want to art school, not sure if that's a compliment or an insult, take it either way)
My calculator doesn't get viruses either.
It's similar to a mac in many ways.
My calculator is also fkng useless for most day to day IT needs.
Who cares if it can't get a virus.
Actually it was a good reply and worth taking note.
Just because 'hurr hurr derpa no free software that does all my taxes for me' isn't what you were hoping for doesn't make it useless.
They were correct. This is highly specialized software for a specific purpose operated based on state/country/province etc.
It's not something I recommend trying to cheap out on without doing the work when it comes to the government.
Keep in mind, the question basically asks 'Is there a way, I can stop paying someone else to do my taxes, and do my taxes myself, without paying anyone, but not have to do my taxes myself, and have free software do it for me'
That's like me saying, 'Is there free software that does my job for me but doesn't cost me anything and I still get paid for working'
Now, it may sound sarcastic, but if that software existed, I'd definitely be using it.
To sum it up, specializing in government revenue regulations is something unlikely to find for free that does everything related to them for you.
There's open source software like, calculators available. Even free spreadsheet software. That's all tech, which makes sense to find open source.
I'd rather them give me an app that scans barcodes and gives me the best deal / price. That way I can also receive their competitors coupons.
Oh wait, that exists.
No, I do NOT want EXTRA ways to be BOMBARDED EVERYWHERE I GO WITH UR CHITTY OVERPRICED MERCHANDISE.
It has nothing to do with coupons to save you money, either. If they could be promised a way to advertise fake low prices to you instantly then they would raise the prices and the 'coupon' price would be regular price. They just want a new excuse to throw ads in your face nonstop about their products.
I've worked in stores that put things 'on sale' and their price actually goes up. It also has a false original price too. Maybe when it was brand new it was that prices months ago but it certainly wasn't before the sale.
I think they're going to mega QQ all over this.
I'm tired of companies demanding that their old profitable business model remain so throughout all time.
Times are changing, they need to change too or go out of business, like any other business with a business model that doesn't work.
Your comparison isn't quite accurate in my opinion.
Dropping a baggie in your gastank would be like someone using your wifi to do something illegal. Same with the other places.
Finding it on your hard drive is something I'd compare more to having it inside your car in the passenger compartment, or a glove box etc.
If there was no sign of force entry, then it sounds like you left your car unlocked when you shouldn't have.
And yes, if they found it inside your car like that, you'd be going to jail.
They tried to hide the quality of the channel by simply saying its your personal opinion of the channel, not the value of the channel itself.
So even if you don't like it, imaginary people do. Hence we're giving 28 channels for X amount is a GREAT bargin.
Even if you only watch two of them, other people watches the OTHER channels...so we're giving you VALUE.
No. No you're not. You're bundling cheap crap that people don't want in to justify your prices.
If you tried to charge 30$ for two channels, you'd suddenly seem 'expensive' for what you get.
So you try to hide that and just don't want to be exposed.
Tough shit.
I'd love if I could sell people things and force them to buy other crud, but when it comes to physical objects, can't get away with it as much.
"Ah, I see you wish to purchase this TV, well, the TV is decent, medium level TV, and I realize the price is for a higher quality TV, but look, you get this cheap
living room set that no one wants to buy, so you're getting a great deal really."
No, no I'm not, because I don't need another living room set, and it's worthless, I couldn't sell it if I tried.
No! You're the genius! Now people can just steal cars of people they don't like, smash into people with it at a parking lightly, and all they have is the license plate! Now your enemies can be sued by random people you pissed off!
You should be aware of the contents of your hard drive though. If your computer gets seized and they find the content on there, I can see you being held responsible.
Travelling the internet is like travelling the world. No one should do it without advice. They should also seek it from a reputable source if they have questions about anything.
If you know nothing about computer security, virus prevention and how to secure your networks, pay a professional to do it.
The arguement of 'people shouldn't do that to me' isn't sufficent. People shouldn't do a lot of things, content involving children shouldn't even be available in the first
place, and so fourth for anything else. But it's there, people do bad things, you need to know how to protect yourself.
Just like when you visit another country, don't go down the dark ally in the shady part of town you know nothing about, you could land in some serious trouble.
it's actually the law itself if posted anywhere online is used to terrify, intimidate, threaten, if you get prosecuted thats a form of harrasement