No offense, but your Macs ought to be using Camino instead.
I understand the desire for a consistent software package, but Camino is a LOT nicer than Firefox on the Mac. (Not that Firefox is particularly bad, but Camino is really that good.)
Or, as a friend of mine pointed out, people were cashing in on their $70/share stock.
CBS Marketwatch claims "dissapointment" that "only" 4.5 million iPods were sold last quarter.
Yeah, since when is 4.5 million "only?" Especially when it represents a 6x increase relative to the year-ago quarter? Wall Street is a bunch of raving idiots.
No matter. I'll hang onto my stock and watch it start climbing like mad again when Apple announces their Q1 2005 results in mid-March on the back of market share numbers unseen since the Sculley days.
I'd be happy to add you to the Apple Death Knell Count, though, if that's what you're predicting:-p
So you're admitting that the three percent figure was pulled completely out of your ass? Or are you claiming that Mac OS market share is "alot [sic]" more than three percent?
You mean like how they completely retooled to make a Mac version?
More like Intuit does whatever they want, customers be damned. (We Mac users can't get a usable version of Quicken to save our lives, despite the fact that their CEO is on Apple's board of directors.)
If you don't itemize, you can only take the standard deduction, which is fairly large. In order to take most "deductions" (including a deduction for tax preparation expenses, or charitable donations), the total of all such deductions must exceed the standard deduction. This only rarely happens.
So before you try to deduct the cost of said software, check with your tax professional. You probably can't.
Thank you, AC. I was going to point out that this had NEVER been a problem on OS X at all.
The real root of this issue is that Windows was not designed from the ground up to be a multi-user OS, and the atrocious hacking that Redmond has done to make it one has given us the security nightmare that we have now. Yes, Mozilla could have done something about it, but without the privilege nightmare that is individual XP "Users," this wouldn't have been an issue in the first place!
The difference here -- and I'm speaking as a chemist who knows what he's talking about -- is that the non-infringing uses of P2P software are legion, and the medical and industrial uses of meth are virtually nil.
The difference being, as several others have pointed out, that meth is harmful, and P2P is not, unless its users CHOOSE to break the law.
It's about like the gun analogy. P2P doesn't violate copyright. People with P2P apps violate copyright. Just because something CAN be used to break the law doesn't mean it WILL be, and should therefore be banned.
No offence, but if you're flying instruments on a visual approach at night, something is wrong with your flying. You should be looking out at the airport and continuing to scan your instruments just like you would during day VFR.
If you're in IMC, that's something different entirely, but you just basically said that you weren't.
Unless the Indian companies backing this project take a very hard-line anti-spam and anti-virus stance (anyone know what the market penetration of Windows vs. Linux/BSD/MacOS is in India?), I can see this turning into a giant clusterfuck for the rest of the Internet.
You think the American zombie botnets are bad, wait 'till there are a couple hundred thousand Indian Windoze boxen all on 2-meg symmetric connections. This has the potential to bring an entire country to its knees if the virus authors co-ordinate properly and the Indian users are just as clueless as their American counterparts.
Of course, if Linux/BSD/MacOS is significantly more popular there than Windows is, you can probably ignore most of this cynicism.
And after that, you went back to Wikipedia's page on Ichiyo and fixed everything, right?
Because if you didn't, you have absolutely NO GROUNDS on which to complain. You have the proper information, you know how to fix it, yet you haven't.
It just really irks me when people cite anecdotal evidence that Wikipedia is useless and then, even though they KNOW specifically what's incorrect, they LEAVE IT THAT WAY.
It's like saying, "Gee, [city] sure is a dirty place because I saw some litter on the sidewalk. I didn't bother picking it up, because I don't live there, and it's not my problem, but [city] sure is dirty!" Get off your high horse and do something to help the world for once.
The Atlantic coasts are VASTLY more prepared for such a catastrophe.
For starters, a far lower proportion of the inhabitants are living essentially on the beach, and the ones that are live in far sturdier buildings. Infrastructure in Europe and North America is far superior, and advance warning and evacuations could be effected far more efficiently. Witness the US attempts to contact Sri Lankan and other officials: they knew about the earthquake as soon as it happened, and they TRIED to warn people, but they couldn't get through to them. That wouldn't be a problem following an impact in the northern half of the Atlantic (which, in all other respects, seems to be about the worst possible case).
Because it's very likely that anyone stupid enough to do this and get caught is never going to amount to enough for there to BE any way to financially punish him.
I mean, when all a guy can do is get a minimum-wage job at Mickey D's, it isn't like taking half his paycheck has much benefit for the government...
It's called asset seizure, and the Feds and locals have been doing it for years. Basically, if you commit a crime like this, ANYTHING YOU OWN that could potentially have been used in the commission of the crime, whether or not it WAS used, can be seized by the authorities. Where do you think a lot of semi-urban police departments get a lot of their operating budget? Drug busts net ENORMOUS amounts of property that can be re-sold to fund the department.
And as far as I'm concerned, if the guy had $50m in pirated software that he was distributing/selling/whatever, he deserves it. He's no better than a coke dealer.
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No offense, but your Macs ought to be using Camino instead.
I understand the desire for a consistent software package, but Camino is a LOT nicer than Firefox on the Mac. (Not that Firefox is particularly bad, but Camino is really that good.)
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Get iCab and your validation problems will be (somewhat) solved.
Admittedly, iCab's validation is less than perfect, but if you know what errors to ignore, it's very useful in a pinch.
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Or, as a friend of mine pointed out, people were cashing in on their $70/share stock.
:-p
CBS Marketwatch claims "dissapointment" that "only" 4.5 million iPods were sold last quarter.
Yeah, since when is 4.5 million "only?" Especially when it represents a 6x increase relative to the year-ago quarter? Wall Street is a bunch of raving idiots.
No matter. I'll hang onto my stock and watch it start climbing like mad again when Apple announces their Q1 2005 results in mid-March on the back of market share numbers unseen since the Sculley days.
I'd be happy to add you to the Apple Death Knell Count, though, if that's what you're predicting
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He might want to consider either staying in the US, or looking for a nearby country without extradition to France, then...
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So you're admitting that the three percent figure was pulled completely out of your ass? Or are you claiming that Mac OS market share is "alot [sic]" more than three percent?
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You mean like how they completely retooled to make a Mac version?
More like Intuit does whatever they want, customers be damned. (We Mac users can't get a usable version of Quicken to save our lives, despite the fact that their CEO is on Apple's board of directors.)
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Only if you itemize, which most people don't.
If you don't itemize, you can only take the standard deduction, which is fairly large. In order to take most "deductions" (including a deduction for tax preparation expenses, or charitable donations), the total of all such deductions must exceed the standard deduction. This only rarely happens.
So before you try to deduct the cost of said software, check with your tax professional. You probably can't.
IANATPBMMI. (IANA tax pro, but my mother is.)
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It's running inside X11 on OS X.
But yes, it's running on OS X.
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Not that I'm endorsing what he's done, but he's wasting a golden opportunity to turn this into a question of the validity of click-through licencing.
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Care to get the satellite coordinates from your IT folks?
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You can e-mail me (I have a dish) if you'd rather not post it on
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Thank you, AC. I was going to point out that this had NEVER been a problem on OS X at all.
The real root of this issue is that Windows was not designed from the ground up to be a multi-user OS, and the atrocious hacking that Redmond has done to make it one has given us the security nightmare that we have now. Yes, Mozilla could have done something about it, but without the privilege nightmare that is individual XP "Users," this wouldn't have been an issue in the first place!
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The difference here -- and I'm speaking as a chemist who knows what he's talking about -- is that the non-infringing uses of P2P software are legion, and the medical and industrial uses of meth are virtually nil.
Controlled Substances Act information for further perusal, in case you're interested.
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Aright, maybe I wasn't clear... ;)
:)
*Using* meth is inherently harmful.
Using P2P is not.
That better?
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The difference being, as several others have pointed out, that meth is harmful, and P2P is not, unless its users CHOOSE to break the law.
It's about like the gun analogy. P2P doesn't violate copyright. People with P2P apps violate copyright. Just because something CAN be used to break the law doesn't mean it WILL be, and should therefore be banned.
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They should use some format that can be exported and then saved onto any player or transfered elsewhere.
Hello, McFly!
They already do.
It's called AAC.
It's an open specification. Anyone is free to offer music for download in AAC format.
They don't, because the RIAA and the labels have said that the only way they'll approve music downloads is if DRM is involved.
*Sigh.* I've said this before, but you have a fairly new UID, so maybe you didn't see this the LAST time it came up.
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When I first read that, I saw
and I thought, "Gee, that would have to be a really damn impressive LCD!"
Then I thought, "Wow, a girl on Slashdot! Who would consider becoming a cyborg!"
Then I realised my subconscious was just teasing me.
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...in Soviet Russia.
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No offence, but if you're flying instruments on a visual approach at night, something is wrong with your flying. You should be looking out at the airport and continuing to scan your instruments just like you would during day VFR.
If you're in IMC, that's something different entirely, but you just basically said that you weren't.
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Unless the Indian companies backing this project take a very hard-line anti-spam and anti-virus stance (anyone know what the market penetration of Windows vs. Linux/BSD/MacOS is in India?), I can see this turning into a giant clusterfuck for the rest of the Internet.
You think the American zombie botnets are bad, wait 'till there are a couple hundred thousand Indian Windoze boxen all on 2-meg symmetric connections. This has the potential to bring an entire country to its knees if the virus authors co-ordinate properly and the Indian users are just as clueless as their American counterparts.
Of course, if Linux/BSD/MacOS is significantly more popular there than Windows is, you can probably ignore most of this cynicism.
p
And after that, you went back to Wikipedia's page on Ichiyo and fixed everything, right?
Because if you didn't, you have absolutely NO GROUNDS on which to complain. You have the proper information, you know how to fix it, yet you haven't.
It just really irks me when people cite anecdotal evidence that Wikipedia is useless and then, even though they KNOW specifically what's incorrect, they LEAVE IT THAT WAY.
It's like saying, "Gee, [city] sure is a dirty place because I saw some litter on the sidewalk. I didn't bother picking it up, because I don't live there, and it's not my problem, but [city] sure is dirty!" Get off your high horse and do something to help the world for once.
p
The Atlantic coasts are VASTLY more prepared for such a catastrophe.
For starters, a far lower proportion of the inhabitants are living essentially on the beach, and the ones that are live in far sturdier buildings. Infrastructure in Europe and North America is far superior, and advance warning and evacuations could be effected far more efficiently. Witness the US attempts to contact Sri Lankan and other officials: they knew about the earthquake as soon as it happened, and they TRIED to warn people, but they couldn't get through to them. That wouldn't be a problem following an impact in the northern half of the Atlantic (which, in all other respects, seems to be about the worst possible case).
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You think a coke dealer sitting on cocaine "with a street value of $50m" is really going to get $50m for that coke?
No, he's going to get about a million for it, and the other $49m comes into play further down the food chain.
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why not financially punish non-violent criminals?
Because it's very likely that anyone stupid enough to do this and get caught is never going to amount to enough for there to BE any way to financially punish him.
I mean, when all a guy can do is get a minimum-wage job at Mickey D's, it isn't like taking half his paycheck has much benefit for the government...
p
It's called asset seizure, and the Feds and locals have been doing it for years. Basically, if you commit a crime like this, ANYTHING YOU OWN that could potentially have been used in the commission of the crime, whether or not it WAS used, can be seized by the authorities. Where do you think a lot of semi-urban police departments get a lot of their operating budget? Drug busts net ENORMOUS amounts of property that can be re-sold to fund the department.
And as far as I'm concerned, if the guy had $50m in pirated software that he was distributing/selling/whatever, he deserves it. He's no better than a coke dealer.
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Boy, that was insightful.
So were yours.
(That sarcasm is free of charge, by the way.)
Honestly, though, did you ever take the time to read the FAQ?
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