And what exactly does "the system of government that is in place from Islam" mean? Do you expect the Pakistani or Saudi leaders (which the people overwhelmingly oppose) to go after a movement they themselves created and financed? You have a dangerously simplistic view
Simplistic? Maybe. Dangerous? no, not really. I'm used to the Rule of Law, not necessarily the 'Sharia Law' or whatever the non-sensationalized titles are of some of the area.
As foreign is it for them to think of seeing Brittany Spears flash her crotch while getting out of the car is as foreign to me as recent events like this being even remotely acceptable in 'polite society'. We'd run out of movie stars/music stars pretty fast here.
That's the fundamental issue here. We have divergent cultures at each others throat, possibly one more so than the other in that my view western society allows a lot to happen without trying to impose their will unconditionally while it appears that the Islamic groups view themselves as the superior, and the only acceptable option is anyone who is not islamic is a second class citizen, while the women are even lower.
And there are things a western society would not tolerate on the other side, at least I'd hope not. The killing of a daughter to preserve honor is one of those things that pops up from time to time that I can't exactly idly sit by and go 'eh, it's their religion'.
So yeah, it's a horrendously complex subject, and one that right now neither side is willing to even broach because as another reply to my comment put it we have our evil gestapo killing them (blackwater, what not) and they are just trying to save themselves from our government run amok, or, if you read too much into what I said it's just a damn american trying to provide democracy at the end of a gun.
Personally, I'm probably fairly libertarian about this. i'll admit that at the very start Ron Paul said a few things about middle east policy that made a lot of sense to me, until I discovered a rather psychotic underbelly that he also views. I like Barack because he at least wants to attempt to start a dialog with them, but at the other side of that coin we've really screwed up Iraq and we can't just walk out. We do, and more are going to die, and more are going to hate us. How do you fix something that hosed up? Staying forever isn't an option either, which seems to be the republican platform on the surface, but underneath they're a bit stronger in that they want to get out, but not until the folks their can stand up and survive a day. However, I don't like the christian religious right's forcing of their beliefs via legislation any more than I would agree to any islamic version as well.
But thanks to the two party system of government I either get religious right social policy i cannot support but with a reasonable way to get Iraq solved (with some major exceptions, like mercenaries. that's what blackwater is, none of this two-speak security speak) on one side, which i don't like, or a 'mayday mayday mayday' with a more social policy aspect I can agree with (to some extent, political correctness has been taken to all new extremes)
So yeah, it's a big ass mess, and solving all of it is no quick fix. It could take decades, or we could be glowing cinders. I would like a leader who won't let us the glowing cinder route. I'd like someone who could be willing to say 'nice kitty' with the other guy, but at the same time an overwhelming big stick and not be afraid to use it.
all valid points, I was responding to one simple topic though, not saying that the united states was any better and you've cited some good examples of similar content, but at the same time it's the morning and I've not had some coffee so I'm lazy search wise. But there are people like Real Time with Bill Mahr is one of those that I like to follow.
Unfortunately, when you have an aggressive mentality vs. a passive mentality. That is what is playing out in our politics. One side does anything to win, the other side is to scared of their own shadow to make a principled stand. Least that's how I see it.
And look at yourself? You've turned an online petition into a reason to rail against an entire religion! I bet you get upset when people use a few bad priests to condemn an entire religion, but you are so eager to condemn Islam based on the actions of a few extremists who are generally agreed to ignoring the basic tenets of their own religion to bring about their own political goals.
I think you read into what he said. He said he wasn't sure, as he hasn't read their holy book. However, in general it seems to attract more nutjobs than your usual contingent of religious folks.
I mean, Baptists had a person or two blow up abortion clinics is about the closes we have, and usually no one was there except somebody with bad luck, and most good christians were 'meh' but the government those christians elected hunted him down, found him, tried and convicted him. nobody said 'eh, he was doing gods work' and let him go.
Meanwhile, we have a 'folk hero' who took down two buildings killing a few thousand people, and the system of government that is in place from Islam went 'meh' and isn't hunting his ass down to prosecute, and arrest him for murder. You have people celebrating in the streets, you have all sorts of 'support' in general of the activities.
It's hard to be impartial, but to me it seems that while yeah maybe a good chunk of the Islamic followers aren't bloodthirsty monsters, the people they put in front of the cameras for the rest of the world are, and scream prepare to die infidel whenever they get the chance.
Congrats, you should start selling on eBay. I'd buy.
Here we have to show ID, can't buy more than 12 pills worth at a time, and are limited to a certain number of grams. i did the math trying to figure out and with the aleve I found that worked it was 3 boxes. That is if my cold medicated sinus infected brain did the math right.
We used to buy sudafed in bulk. For my nasal cavities that stuff is mana from heaven, works every time. It was amazing when we got the 'improved' formula one. I didn't notice the box because my wife picked them up for me, but I took one, and within 30 min I was feeling worse. checking the pulse I went from my average of 72 to 95 and stayed there for about six hours. Head never cleared.
no I have to show ID sign for it, and can't buy more than 12 pills worth at a time, or if I did my math right three boxes in a month which was about 7 days worth of pills. I got the sinus infection before hitting the third box so I didn't run into the limit.
Look, I know it's cool to fight the drugs, and that meth seems to be evil from what I've seen, dunno, haven't tried it.
But speaking as an asthmatic allergy sufferer, and someone who gets some really crappy colds every year making good old sudafed a bitch to find/get/procure. That new Sudafed crap elevates my heart rate by over 20 bpm and doesn't clear my head. You feel like you're ordering donkey porn when you go in and try to buy something that has it, and most vendors don't.
For the record, Aleve has a 12 hour decongestant that is the evil good old sudafed in it. After suffering for three days with every other stupid cold pill on the shelf took one of those, and was fine for 12 hours.
Of course, it was too late and I got a sinus infection so I had that joy to go through.
But this is just stupid. I'm ok with you putting it behind a counter so a meth head doesn't come in and clear the shelf, stealing it all. but the limits on the amount make it rought if you have a >3 day long cold sometimes.
I prefer the asimov version. You pick someone, have a super computer ask em a bunch of questions for their opinion. use that opinion to set policy for the next four years, call it a day.
If we swapped 'Christianity' for 'personal moral principles' would you still say it? If yes, do you think a president should have no moral compass or strong sense of principles of their own? If no, then what is the problem when moral principles stem from religious belief?
well, the only problem I have with Huckabee that while he espouses that in his statements you end up looking at his 'personal' life with his 'personal' morals and his family, who supposedly should 'learn' from those teaching has a kid who was caught torturing small animals for fun.
So if that's what you learn from his 'personal morals' why on earth would I want to elect someone based on that? He apparently can't apply them very well. Who knows, maybe there was a line in the bible I missed in all my years of catholic school that said it was just cool to get a small animal and torture it because thinking it funny was christian.
No major republican points that out as a problem, but when President Clinton screwed around with an intern it was the world was ending.
Speaking as an independent here who votes where the real issues lie. I'm one of the few that doesn't think that when the candidate says something stupid like 'my favorite book is the bible' I should immediately vote for them. Just like I don't go running for the other side when they do something deemed 'liberal'.
I want a good administrator, I want someone who can manage a bunch of whiney ass cry babies that one one hand want everything solved for them, and on the other everything given to them on a silver platter.
But while I'm dreaming, I'd like a McCain/Obama presidential/VP ticket just to watch the 20% of the population that is either the vocal 'right' or vocal 'left' head explode and let the rest of us that just wants some basic services/to be left alone/protected from the bogey man without it stealing our rights left to figure itout.
Depending on your role, and the direction IT seems to be heading, that's not so true anymore.
In 2003 I took a new position with the compnay, lots of responsibilty, what not, not a people manager.
Now, in 2007, my W2 is 30% less than 2003.
Why? Well over the last four years the company bonus structure changed, salary increases were flattened/removed, bonuses were then raised to high clip levels of 'attainment' that you had no control over, so when that attainment isn't met, the bonus suffers, then if you didn't get a perfect performance review you were ineligible for bonuses/raise chances.
Oh and btw, at this company even before the reviews are done, the manager already knows how mandy great, good, and medicore ratings he'll have, because by groupthink you can't have a great team, you only have one or two great people, some good ones, and a bunch of medicore people. Oh how do you get to be 'great'? You work 15 hours a day. Start at 7AM, and quit at 11PM.
Meanwhile, my commute hasn't changed, still about 45 miles, gas has gone from $1.09 a gallon to $3.14 a gallon, my water is 2x more expensive because we're in a drought so to fix the low water problems the city wants to 50% increase the rates across the board - the kicker being get this - because their computer system needs 18 months to be able to create a tiered billing structure for people that use more than 25 gallons per day per person per household.
Oh did I mention our insurance has covered less and cost more? We're slowly being forced from the traditional co-pay / medication covered to a certain point system to a HSA and you're responsible for the first $1900 of all expenses.
Meanwhile, unionized workers I know have seen 4 - 7% pay raises every year, have a clear, their health plans aren't being diminished but costs are going up with the industry.
Doesn't sound so bad when you add up the pros or cons. Because in my non-unionized world it's the assholes that never do work and everyone else scrambles to cover for that seem to get moved up in the world.
Apple Matters is one of those sites that isn't quite the same Apple Tinted Glasses as some of the others. they have called Apple to task a number of times to some extremes that as a semi-fanboy annoy me. enough to have me quit reading as regularly as I used too.
That being said I think 'killing' is a bit of a strong statement. To me what Apple is/isn't doing is not 'killing' it's 'building a better product'.
Don't get me wrong please, I do like linux and have used it for years. But for me, on my home computer where I sit and goof off and do stuff in the evenings Linux and Windows both 'got in my way' of doing what I wanted to. What I mean is with Linux, I'd have to do something, tweak something, change something every once in a while (a day or so) when I wanted to try something out.
Windows wasn't as high maintenance in changes, but at the same time seems to suffer from this effect of 'blow it away every few months and its faster' when you add/remove lots of programs, or load lots of individual programs. The constant 'update drivers' rig-a-ma-roll i seemed to go through for games and such was annoying as well.
Doesn't seem to happen as much to me on Mac OS X. I use my machine mainly for photography related stuff. yes, I know of gimp, and I tried it. It was several years ago now but converting my RAW files out of my Canon D60 needed a command line tool - which in of itself was an awesome reverse engineer effort and I applaud the guy who did most of the RAW decoding work. However it was just tiresome for me. At the time I installed/configured/troubleshot all sorts of systems on Linux/Windows/Novell during the day and by the time I got home for my own personal stuff I didn't want to spend the next 8 hours of my day working on it.
personally my ideal operating system has and open core, based on standards, but the stuff that runs on it can be closed up and I'll pay for it.
The car analogy below misses that I think, it's a bit of a dichotomy more than a simple 'car' when it comes to the system, OS, and the choices that Apple makes regarding their hardware vs. the flexibility of open architecture. There are always open/closed pros and cons, I think the reason mac OS X runs so well is they have to develop it for about four platforms, tops. No new video cards every day, no new memory access methods (FSB changes) no new gee whiz widget. You get 15 things to choose from, that's it, end of the day. You want to do more, we don't care but we're not going to bend over backwards to make jim bob's mouse work, we have two choices. Wired & wireless...
Personally, I go with wireless, and learn how to make it work. I don't bother finding the newest 50 button gadget to replace it with because I feel powerful when I left click and it works 100% of the time;) (a joke about mighty mouse and it's intermittent left clickability for those that don't know)
I'm sure it was part of the agreement to get the books in electronic format in the first place was that you couldn't sell, or re-transfer the license. It's just the publishers wet dream to close up the used book stores/libraries around the world so if you want to read it, you gotta pay full price each time you want it.
Well, I'd believe that if it was doing it the hour before when I was running Tiger but the crap and stuff only happened post leopard install, and it was a clean install.
I have a Mac Pro 2.66Ghz with the AT 1900XL and 4GB of memory with the ADC 23"
There appears to be some flaw(s) in the ATI device driver for leopard that is causing me two issues
1) Randomly there is garbage lines of rainbow crap on the screen. it sticks to where it is, like if i'm on a web page and scrol the page up and down to 'redraw' it it doesn't redraw it, and the crap stays there.
2) Anything that plays on the graphics card will blow up, it's just a matter of time. It can be 20 min, or 20 hours, but if you're doing anything fun (Armagedtron, EVE Online, anything video game like) the machine panics, sometimes it knows it panics, sometime it dies. Symptoms can be 'locked up' in place, the screen goes black. The lock up is of varying intensity. I normally have music playing and sometimes the song keeps playing until it finishes, others it gets stuck and you have the last 1s or so in a repeat loop until you turn the system off.
Every time after I physically turn the machine off, I have to turn it on, turn it off again, and then turn it on again before it'll boot.
Other than that weird thing, no issues. And Photoshop or Lightroom do not crash the system, just the games.
However, so far, with past implementations the e-book cost as much as the real live paper version. So they convert all that cost of manufacturing into profit, not into a lower price for the consumer.
Not sure if it will change with these, but when I experimented with eBooks on my Palm Pilot about 5 or more years ago with peanut press that was what you found.
Right now the packet shaping is happening at a consumer level, not at a backbone level. just because jim bob the file sharer in New York City gets his cable company to shape the local traffic so they don't have to buy a bigger link to their cable network.
L3, and all the backbone providers aren't shaping crap.
That being said, the UN handles the phones don't they? Somehow that's worked.
While yeah, I do get a littly snippy when my tax money was used to create the internet, at what point does it go from an interesting curiosity to a global information network? I'm sure the same thing happened to people with the telephony infrastructure when that started rolling out and they were dropping cables across the ocean floor in the mid 20th century.
Having to work in Brazil as a hardware vendor you should be aware of something. As a country if about 40% of the item in question is not made in Brazil it is subject to a 40% tariff if I remember correctly. This encourages most companies to create manufacturing facilities that assemble at least 40% of the item in question in Brazil somewhere, creating jobs.
It gets interesting when you're building a server, you can ship in the memory, the hard drive, etc, but then you have to make sure the mechanical, or the board is made there otherwise if they have a lot of memory in the one system you skew it out of the 40% made in Brazil requirement and are subject to the high tariff.
Not saying this is what happened in Cisco, but it could explain why the fine/penalty is where it is. It oculd be as simple as they shipped in a single large router/switch. doesn't take much equipment at Cisco's prices with a 40% tariff to get that high fast.
With the low UID being the high dollar figure. It figures that the one thing you couldn't really but is the 'geek cred' to say you 'found the place first'
Now those with disposable income that buy all the game systems that ship, along with every iPod, and a beowulf cluster of each new computer can throw their money at some real geek cred too!
I stand corrected. Tseng labs, wow, haven't heard that name in a while I remember when some of their cards came out, they were hot stuff. Didn't know they ever made an EISA version of those.
Neither of the technologies he listed were PCI. VESA came out in the late 80s/early 90s, as did EISA. to the best of my knowledge EISA was never used on video cards unless it was highly specialized. they went from the VESA local bus, to PCI, to AGP and its various speeds, to PCI-E x16.
I think one of the points of confusion here seems to be that most people don't realize that while something is built into a motherboard it doesn't have some magical interface that makes the bits fly differently than if it was in a slot. I think that is what is attempted to be said by the multiple posts this comment has generated
I got bored and one site recommended filing a FCC complaint so I did, saying that they wouldn't unlock my phones after 90 days of service like their other phones.
I got a call from the office of the president for AT&T. Unfortunately I was downstairs celebrating my daughters birthday so haven't been able to talk to them to see what happens, but I was pretty dang surprised.
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And what exactly does "the system of government that is in place from Islam" mean? Do you expect the Pakistani or Saudi leaders (which the people overwhelmingly oppose) to go after a movement they themselves created and financed? You have a dangerously simplistic view
Simplistic? Maybe. Dangerous? no, not really. I'm used to the Rule of Law, not necessarily the 'Sharia Law' or whatever the non-sensationalized titles are of some of the area.
As foreign is it for them to think of seeing Brittany Spears flash her crotch while getting out of the car is as foreign to me as recent events like this being even remotely acceptable in 'polite society'. We'd run out of movie stars/music stars pretty fast here.
That's the fundamental issue here. We have divergent cultures at each others throat, possibly one more so than the other in that my view western society allows a lot to happen without trying to impose their will unconditionally while it appears that the Islamic groups view themselves as the superior, and the only acceptable option is anyone who is not islamic is a second class citizen, while the women are even lower.
And there are things a western society would not tolerate on the other side, at least I'd hope not. The killing of a daughter to preserve honor is one of those things that pops up from time to time that I can't exactly idly sit by and go 'eh, it's their religion'.
So yeah, it's a horrendously complex subject, and one that right now neither side is willing to even broach because as another reply to my comment put it we have our evil gestapo killing them (blackwater, what not) and they are just trying to save themselves from our government run amok, or, if you read too much into what I said it's just a damn american trying to provide democracy at the end of a gun.
Personally, I'm probably fairly libertarian about this. i'll admit that at the very start Ron Paul said a few things about middle east policy that made a lot of sense to me, until I discovered a rather psychotic underbelly that he also views. I like Barack because he at least wants to attempt to start a dialog with them, but at the other side of that coin we've really screwed up Iraq and we can't just walk out. We do, and more are going to die, and more are going to hate us. How do you fix something that hosed up? Staying forever isn't an option either, which seems to be the republican platform on the surface, but underneath they're a bit stronger in that they want to get out, but not until the folks their can stand up and survive a day. However, I don't like the christian religious right's forcing of their beliefs via legislation any more than I would agree to any islamic version as well.
But thanks to the two party system of government I either get religious right social policy i cannot support but with a reasonable way to get Iraq solved (with some major exceptions, like mercenaries. that's what blackwater is, none of this two-speak security speak) on one side, which i don't like, or a 'mayday mayday mayday' with a more social policy aspect I can agree with (to some extent, political correctness has been taken to all new extremes)
So yeah, it's a big ass mess, and solving all of it is no quick fix. It could take decades, or we could be glowing cinders. I would like a leader who won't let us the glowing cinder route. I'd like someone who could be willing to say 'nice kitty' with the other guy, but at the same time an overwhelming big stick and not be afraid to use it.
According to the guys at 'Top Gear' Hillary for President is more than enough
all valid points, I was responding to one simple topic though, not saying that the united states was any better and you've cited some good examples of similar content, but at the same time it's the morning and I've not had some coffee so I'm lazy search wise. But there are people like Real Time with Bill Mahr is one of those that I like to follow.
Unfortunately, when you have an aggressive mentality vs. a passive mentality. That is what is playing out in our politics. One side does anything to win, the other side is to scared of their own shadow to make a principled stand. Least that's how I see it.
And look at yourself? You've turned an online petition into a reason to rail against an entire religion! I bet you get upset when people use a few bad priests to condemn an entire religion, but you are so eager to condemn Islam based on the actions of a few extremists who are generally agreed to ignoring the basic tenets of their own religion to bring about their own political goals.
I think you read into what he said. He said he wasn't sure, as he hasn't read their holy book. However, in general it seems to attract more nutjobs than your usual contingent of religious folks.
I mean, Baptists had a person or two blow up abortion clinics is about the closes we have, and usually no one was there except somebody with bad luck, and most good christians were 'meh' but the government those christians elected hunted him down, found him, tried and convicted him. nobody said 'eh, he was doing gods work' and let him go.
Meanwhile, we have a 'folk hero' who took down two buildings killing a few thousand people, and the system of government that is in place from Islam went 'meh' and isn't hunting his ass down to prosecute, and arrest him for murder. You have people celebrating in the streets, you have all sorts of 'support' in general of the activities.
It's hard to be impartial, but to me it seems that while yeah maybe a good chunk of the Islamic followers aren't bloodthirsty monsters, the people they put in front of the cameras for the rest of the world are, and scream prepare to die infidel whenever they get the chance.
Congrats, you should start selling on eBay. I'd buy.
Here we have to show ID, can't buy more than 12 pills worth at a time, and are limited to a certain number of grams. i did the math trying to figure out and with the aleve I found that worked it was 3 boxes. That is if my cold medicated sinus infected brain did the math right.
We used to buy sudafed in bulk. For my nasal cavities that stuff is mana from heaven, works every time. It was amazing when we got the 'improved' formula one. I didn't notice the box because my wife picked them up for me, but I took one, and within 30 min I was feeling worse. checking the pulse I went from my average of 72 to 95 and stayed there for about six hours. Head never cleared.
no I have to show ID sign for it, and can't buy more than 12 pills worth at a time, or if I did my math right three boxes in a month which was about 7 days worth of pills. I got the sinus infection before hitting the third box so I didn't run into the limit.
Look, I know it's cool to fight the drugs, and that meth seems to be evil from what I've seen, dunno, haven't tried it.
But speaking as an asthmatic allergy sufferer, and someone who gets some really crappy colds every year making good old sudafed a bitch to find/get/procure. That new Sudafed crap elevates my heart rate by over 20 bpm and doesn't clear my head. You feel like you're ordering donkey porn when you go in and try to buy something that has it, and most vendors don't.
For the record, Aleve has a 12 hour decongestant that is the evil good old sudafed in it. After suffering for three days with every other stupid cold pill on the shelf took one of those, and was fine for 12 hours.
Of course, it was too late and I got a sinus infection so I had that joy to go through.
But this is just stupid. I'm ok with you putting it behind a counter so a meth head doesn't come in and clear the shelf, stealing it all. but the limits on the amount make it rought if you have a >3 day long cold sometimes.
fair enough, I'm sure every child doesn't make decisions that their parents are proud of.
However I've often found it's a form of a cry for help/attention instead.
I prefer the asimov version. You pick someone, have a super computer ask em a bunch of questions for their opinion. use that opinion to set policy for the next four years, call it a day.
well, the only problem I have with Huckabee that while he espouses that in his statements you end up looking at his 'personal' life with his 'personal' morals and his family, who supposedly should 'learn' from those teaching has a kid who was caught torturing small animals for fun.
So if that's what you learn from his 'personal morals' why on earth would I want to elect someone based on that? He apparently can't apply them very well. Who knows, maybe there was a line in the bible I missed in all my years of catholic school that said it was just cool to get a small animal and torture it because thinking it funny was christian.
No major republican points that out as a problem, but when President Clinton screwed around with an intern it was the world was ending.
Speaking as an independent here who votes where the real issues lie. I'm one of the few that doesn't think that when the candidate says something stupid like 'my favorite book is the bible' I should immediately vote for them. Just like I don't go running for the other side when they do something deemed 'liberal'.
I want a good administrator, I want someone who can manage a bunch of whiney ass cry babies that one one hand want everything solved for them, and on the other everything given to them on a silver platter.
But while I'm dreaming, I'd like a McCain/Obama presidential/VP ticket just to watch the 20% of the population that is either the vocal 'right' or vocal 'left' head explode and let the rest of us that just wants some basic services/to be left alone/protected from the bogey man without it stealing our rights left to figure itout.
Warcraft brand, not World of Warcraft.
Warcraft came out in 1994, Warcraft 2 was out in '97 I think it was, and then of course there was Warcraft 3 in the early '00s
I used to think that.
HOwever I'm not sure I do anymore.
Depending on your role, and the direction IT seems to be heading, that's not so true anymore.
In 2003 I took a new position with the compnay, lots of responsibilty, what not, not a people manager.
Now, in 2007, my W2 is 30% less than 2003.
Why? Well over the last four years the company bonus structure changed, salary increases were flattened/removed, bonuses were then raised to high clip levels of 'attainment' that you had no control over, so when that attainment isn't met, the bonus suffers, then if you didn't get a perfect performance review you were ineligible for bonuses/raise chances.
Oh and btw, at this company even before the reviews are done, the manager already knows how mandy great, good, and medicore ratings he'll have, because by groupthink you can't have a great team, you only have one or two great people, some good ones, and a bunch of medicore people. Oh how do you get to be 'great'? You work 15 hours a day. Start at 7AM, and quit at 11PM.
Meanwhile, my commute hasn't changed, still about 45 miles, gas has gone from $1.09 a gallon to $3.14 a gallon, my water is 2x more expensive because we're in a drought so to fix the low water problems the city wants to 50% increase the rates across the board - the kicker being get this - because their computer system needs 18 months to be able to create a tiered billing structure for people that use more than 25 gallons per day per person per household.
Oh did I mention our insurance has covered less and cost more? We're slowly being forced from the traditional co-pay / medication covered to a certain point system to a HSA and you're responsible for the first $1900 of all expenses.
Meanwhile, unionized workers I know have seen 4 - 7% pay raises every year, have a clear, their health plans aren't being diminished but costs are going up with the industry.
Doesn't sound so bad when you add up the pros or cons. Because in my non-unionized world it's the assholes that never do work and everyone else scrambles to cover for that seem to get moved up in the world.
Apple Matters is one of those sites that isn't quite the same Apple Tinted Glasses as some of the others. they have called Apple to task a number of times to some extremes that as a semi-fanboy annoy me. enough to have me quit reading as regularly as I used too.
;) (a joke about mighty mouse and it's intermittent left clickability for those that don't know)
That being said I think 'killing' is a bit of a strong statement. To me what Apple is/isn't doing is not 'killing' it's 'building a better product'.
Don't get me wrong please, I do like linux and have used it for years. But for me, on my home computer where I sit and goof off and do stuff in the evenings Linux and Windows both 'got in my way' of doing what I wanted to. What I mean is with Linux, I'd have to do something, tweak something, change something every once in a while (a day or so) when I wanted to try something out.
Windows wasn't as high maintenance in changes, but at the same time seems to suffer from this effect of 'blow it away every few months and its faster' when you add/remove lots of programs, or load lots of individual programs. The constant 'update drivers' rig-a-ma-roll i seemed to go through for games and such was annoying as well.
Doesn't seem to happen as much to me on Mac OS X. I use my machine mainly for photography related stuff. yes, I know of gimp, and I tried it. It was several years ago now but converting my RAW files out of my Canon D60 needed a command line tool - which in of itself was an awesome reverse engineer effort and I applaud the guy who did most of the RAW decoding work. However it was just tiresome for me. At the time I installed/configured/troubleshot all sorts of systems on Linux/Windows/Novell during the day and by the time I got home for my own personal stuff I didn't want to spend the next 8 hours of my day working on it.
personally my ideal operating system has and open core, based on standards, but the stuff that runs on it can be closed up and I'll pay for it.
The car analogy below misses that I think, it's a bit of a dichotomy more than a simple 'car' when it comes to the system, OS, and the choices that Apple makes regarding their hardware vs. the flexibility of open architecture. There are always open/closed pros and cons, I think the reason mac OS X runs so well is they have to develop it for about four platforms, tops. No new video cards every day, no new memory access methods (FSB changes) no new gee whiz widget. You get 15 things to choose from, that's it, end of the day. You want to do more, we don't care but we're not going to bend over backwards to make jim bob's mouse work, we have two choices. Wired & wireless...
Personally, I go with wireless, and learn how to make it work. I don't bother finding the newest 50 button gadget to replace it with because I feel powerful when I left click and it works 100% of the time
EVE is a place where scamming is almost encouraged short of a few exceptions.
It's amazing how often people fall for it.
Some are as simple as:
Hey, I'd like to join your corp
Really? what ship do you a fly
a
you have to give it to the corp, contract it to me and we'll let you join.
OK
Sucka!
and there is nothing the person who was just dumb enough to give a ship to someone recourse wise, as designed.
Now you scam a character, and you have a paper trail, they'll reverse it, but pretty much anything is fair game.
While watching Idiocracy it was hard not to wonder if I was watching a documentary from the future or a work of fiction.
The problem with evolution is it just takes too long.
I'm sure it was part of the agreement to get the books in electronic format in the first place was that you couldn't sell, or re-transfer the license. It's just the publishers wet dream to close up the used book stores/libraries around the world so if you want to read it, you gotta pay full price each time you want it.
Well, I'd believe that if it was doing it the hour before when I was running Tiger but the crap and stuff only happened post leopard install, and it was a clean install.
I have a Mac Pro 2.66Ghz with the AT 1900XL and 4GB of memory with the ADC 23"
There appears to be some flaw(s) in the ATI device driver for leopard that is causing me two issues
1) Randomly there is garbage lines of rainbow crap on the screen. it sticks to where it is, like if i'm on a web page and scrol the page up and down to 'redraw' it it doesn't redraw it, and the crap stays there.
2) Anything that plays on the graphics card will blow up, it's just a matter of time. It can be 20 min, or 20 hours, but if you're doing anything fun (Armagedtron, EVE Online, anything video game like) the machine panics, sometimes it knows it panics, sometime it dies. Symptoms can be 'locked up' in place, the screen goes black. The lock up is of varying intensity. I normally have music playing and sometimes the song keeps playing until it finishes, others it gets stuck and you have the last 1s or so in a repeat loop until you turn the system off.
Every time after I physically turn the machine off, I have to turn it on, turn it off again, and then turn it on again before it'll boot.
Other than that weird thing, no issues. And Photoshop or Lightroom do not crash the system, just the games.
However, so far, with past implementations the e-book cost as much as the real live paper version. So they convert all that cost of manufacturing into profit, not into a lower price for the consumer.
Not sure if it will change with these, but when I experimented with eBooks on my Palm Pilot about 5 or more years ago with peanut press that was what you found.
Right now the packet shaping is happening at a consumer level, not at a backbone level. just because jim bob the file sharer in New York City gets his cable company to shape the local traffic so they don't have to buy a bigger link to their cable network.
L3, and all the backbone providers aren't shaping crap.
That being said, the UN handles the phones don't they? Somehow that's worked.
While yeah, I do get a littly snippy when my tax money was used to create the internet, at what point does it go from an interesting curiosity to a global information network? I'm sure the same thing happened to people with the telephony infrastructure when that started rolling out and they were dropping cables across the ocean floor in the mid 20th century.
Having to work in Brazil as a hardware vendor you should be aware of something. As a country if about 40% of the item in question is not made in Brazil it is subject to a 40% tariff if I remember correctly. This encourages most companies to create manufacturing facilities that assemble at least 40% of the item in question in Brazil somewhere, creating jobs.
It gets interesting when you're building a server, you can ship in the memory, the hard drive, etc, but then you have to make sure the mechanical, or the board is made there otherwise if they have a lot of memory in the one system you skew it out of the 40% made in Brazil requirement and are subject to the high tariff.
Not saying this is what happened in Cisco, but it could explain why the fine/penalty is where it is. It oculd be as simple as they shipped in a single large router/switch. doesn't take much equipment at Cisco's prices with a 40% tariff to get that high fast.
With the low UID being the high dollar figure. It figures that the one thing you couldn't really but is the 'geek cred' to say you 'found the place first'
Now those with disposable income that buy all the game systems that ship, along with every iPod, and a beowulf cluster of each new computer can throw their money at some real geek cred too!
I stand corrected. Tseng labs, wow, haven't heard that name in a while I remember when some of their cards came out, they were hot stuff. Didn't know they ever made an EISA version of those.
Neither of the technologies he listed were PCI. VESA came out in the late 80s/early 90s, as did EISA. to the best of my knowledge EISA was never used on video cards unless it was highly specialized. they went from the VESA local bus, to PCI, to AGP and its various speeds, to PCI-E x16.
I think one of the points of confusion here seems to be that most people don't realize that while something is built into a motherboard it doesn't have some magical interface that makes the bits fly differently than if it was in a slot. I think that is what is attempted to be said by the multiple posts this comment has generated
I got bored and one site recommended filing a FCC complaint so I did, saying that they wouldn't unlock my phones after 90 days of service like their other phones.
I got a call from the office of the president for AT&T. Unfortunately I was downstairs celebrating my daughters birthday so haven't been able to talk to them to see what happens, but I was pretty dang surprised.