you know the world is coming to and end when the best golfer is black, the best rapper is white, Apple uses x86, and Republicans control White House, Senate, and House of Reps
and to deposit money you have to mail them the check? or deposit at another bank's ATM and sincerely hope that the bank of the foreign (not ncessarily outside country) ATM will credit you account.
but all other finances, internet banking is definitely cheaper and better rates, but for checking, I'm still more comfortable having a branch to visit, and knowing that I'm depositing into an ATM machine owned by my bank.
> DON'T ask the geeks here at/. they'll bog you down with arguments that have nothing to do with your reality;-)
Totally agreed. They will claim KDE and Gnome is the holy grail of desktop computing. Sorry to disappoint you, but it's a far cry from Aqua. KDE and Gnome still requires the console for more than trivial tasks. Aqua, on the other hand, manages to hide the BSD-beast that's doing the crunch work.
as a point of reference, I majored in CompSci, and have used a variety of Win, Mac, Unix/Linux.
Windows - Grandma-usable GUI, and grandma-crashable kernel
Unix/Linux - Super powerful, and only gurus can appreciate its GUI. Most the Linux desktops I've seen are covered with - (1) a web browser, (2) xmms, (3) a huge console.
> The A380 and 747, or at least planes like them, will always have a place on long flights, like New York City to Los Angeles or NYC to London, but remember that most air traffic isn't like that.
Nearly every major city in Asia works on the hub system, because there are few "minor" cities around - Tokyo, Hong Kong,Singapore, Taipei, Shanghai, Bangkok, to name a few. The 747/777 thrives in intra-Asian traffic, and so will the A380.
Actually Concorde MAKES SENSE to use the turbojet. The Tu-144 try to use the turbofan, and turns out to be ultra-fuel-inefficient in supersonic speeds.
I would love the concept of hundreds or even thousands of HD content. But time warner can't even give me 15 without the "HDXtra" package that's another $9 a month.
With HD "supposedly" defined to be 16:9, I sincerely despise all those major networks - CBS ABC and NBC that broadcost most of their HD content in 4:3. Only Discover and PBS has true 16:9 HD around the clock.
Watching Olympics opening ceremony on HD is simply gorgeous. The only thing I need now is CNN HD.
I can personally testify to that. A while ago people in my organization figured:
why ask all the analyst to learn tough SQL and memorize the whole data schema, when in fact, the MIS reporting team can take a monthly extract of the DB and load them into nicely formatted Excel pivot tables?
2 problems:
1. The spreadsheets have grown to 200MB each. 2. Any single error in those spreadsheets will affect every single analst, cuz everyone's ad-hoc projects depend on that one single spreadsheet's accuracy and integrity. not a smart way to make multi-million business decisions upon.
search: we're talking full metadata real-time indexing, instead of a full FS search
scripting: end-user friendly scripting. u can't expect a Common Joe to write VBScript or Applescript or Perl
info display panel: we're talking the equivalent of konfabulator. why launch a full-blown web-browser for something as small as unit conversion or dictionary lookup?
64-bit support: neither XP nor previous macos have 64-bit support on the end-user desktop level. And no, sorry, WinNT for Alpha doesn't count as a Common Joe OS.
with all the negative news regarding CS/IT jobs easily outsourcable to India and other countries for 1/3 the salary, the post-dot-com economy, and the recent survey showing that ugrad CS majors are earning fewer than ChemE and EE, what's the incentive?
When i entered college in Sept 2000, nearly half my peers declared a CS or EE major. By late 01 / early 02, 75% of those "declarations" were wiped clean and replaced the traditional fields - medical, legal, and finance.
According to your theory, we can NEVER assign any statistics, since each of the 290 million people who live in USA are different.
If everyone thinks like you, nothing can be statistically forecasted.
In the real world, nothing is truly homogeneous. But we can make assumptions of common attributes between individuals among a population such that statistics can be drawn meaningfully.
In the credit card industry, banks spend millions to run analyses on millions of cardholders because statistically there's a predictive pattern of customer behavior, even though each cardholder has a unique financial situation as well as financial self-discipline.
Religions are supposed to be preaching love, peace, and treating everyone equally under the supreme-power's eyes (God, Allah, or whoever). But look at Christianity and Islam - they've been preaching hatred all these years using the treat of "excommunication" if their followers don't comply:
A few hundreds back, both religions were preaching "crusade" - i.e. war - i.e. the LACK of peace
A few decades back, both religions were preaching against women's rights - i.e. despising femminism and female pastors - i.e. the LACK of love
Today, both religions are preaching against gay rights - i.e. discrimination on marriage, spousal benefits, and the whole 9 yards - i.e. the LACK of equality
The religious right claims the bulk of major channels to be part of the "liberal media," when in fact, the more religion they learn from church, the more hatred propaganda they spread.
As a gay person myself, I withdrew my religious faith 2 years back.
- Give me the 25 most frequently played songs by either Spears, Beyonce, or Aguilera, added in the past 6 months, that are longer than 3 mins but shorter than 5.
Bam you have the list. And auto-updates as you add new songs and as time moves on.
Now imagine the same thing for the entire OS.
Smart Mailbox, Smart folders.
Even though Windows 98 has a really weak "Find" too, I use it everyday at work by dumping all my documents in "My Documents", and use search to find the file I want instead of going through folders, and scrolling hundreds of files.
Even real-work programmers can't memorize RegEx syntax other than the fundamental few, let alone trying to a typical end-user to understand anything more than the wildcard *
RegEx can be offered as a powerful option for Spotlight, but Spotlight must also be powerful while doing simple searches in order for any end-user to embrace it.
> Privacy is for the weak, it's for a species that can't face the reality of its own behavior, and cannot deal with information be it personal, business, academic, potentially dangerous (i.e. nuclear power versus building nuclear bombs), etc, in a responsible manner.
Privacy (or trade secrets for that matter) is the reason why commercial software companies aren't collapsing at all. If all software is free and open source, then:
1. The programmer has no reason to innovate other than pride and respect among peers. There's no monetary compensation UNTIL a company recognizes his work, and hires him.
2. The programmer has no reason to work against deadlines because they set their own.
3. The programmer has no reason to produce 100% bug-free code because they're completely not held accountable if business-critical functions fail due to the bugs.
4. The programmer has no reason to guarantee user-support since they the programmer can abandon the project anytime and move on to a newer one.
The Linux model worked because they have a great leader - Torvalds. And you can commercial vendors like RedHat who can provide support to customers. But it doesn't work for a vast majority of open-source projects, and I'm referring to a significant number of projects listed on SourceForge that are abandoned because the programmer no longer has time to improve it.
> A drug company sits on a study that says their drug kills people, and some internal scientist leaks it to the press? Under this decision, the journalist who publishes it either must rat out the scientist or go to jail.
Emm....not really. A scientist who leaks such information is in the "public's interest" and therefore IS protected by free speech, similar to whistler-blower protections. You're drawing an incorrect analogy here.
> NO - It is the COMPANY's responsibility to ensure the data isn't leaked in the first place.
No company (including Apple) has the ability to BIG-BROTHER-type monitoring over all the people who have access to internal information. That's why NDAs were created in the first place. If you leak against a NDA, you're violating a contract, period.
Legal documents that require participants to remain silent are not protected by free-speech. If you insist on leaking, don't sign it. If you agree to NDA, and you purposely leak it, the NDA issuer has every right to pursue litigation.
This is not about large or small company. It's not about Apple or Enron. An NDA is an NDA, and it's legally binding.
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XBox 360 using IBM PowerPC, Apple MacOS X using Intel x86, California having a Republican governor.........
you know the world is coming to and end when the best golfer is black, the best rapper is white, Apple uses x86, and Republicans control White House, Senate, and House of Reps
and to deposit money you have to mail them the check? or deposit at another bank's ATM and sincerely hope that the bank of the foreign (not ncessarily outside country) ATM will credit you account.
but all other finances, internet banking is definitely cheaper and better rates, but for checking, I'm still more comfortable having a branch to visit, and knowing that I'm depositing into an ATM machine owned by my bank.
waiting for my copy to arrive by 430...i can't wait to try out Spotlight and Dashboard =)
btw first post?
> DON'T ask the geeks here at /. they'll bog you down with arguments that have nothing to do with your reality ;-)
Totally agreed. They will claim KDE and Gnome is the holy grail of desktop computing. Sorry to disappoint you, but it's a far cry from Aqua. KDE and Gnome still requires the console for more than trivial tasks. Aqua, on the other hand, manages to hide the BSD-beast that's doing the crunch work.
as a point of reference, I majored in CompSci, and have used a variety of Win, Mac, Unix/Linux.
Windows - Grandma-usable GUI, and grandma-crashable kernel
Unix/Linux - Super powerful, and only gurus can appreciate its GUI. Most the Linux desktops I've seen are covered with - (1) a web browser, (2) xmms, (3) a huge console.
Mac - best of both worlds
> Reality Distortion Field.
I believe that's formally known as "Microsoft Ad Campaign."
CBS ABC and NBC during non-prime time broadcasts at HD (you can see channels 704 is much nicer than 4), but it's 4:3 with black-bars on both sides.
> The A380 and 747, or at least planes like them, will always have a place on long flights, like New York City to Los Angeles or NYC to London, but remember that most air traffic isn't like that.
,Singapore, Taipei, Shanghai, Bangkok, to name a few. The 747/777 thrives in intra-Asian traffic, and so will the A380.
Nearly every major city in Asia works on the hub system, because there are few "minor" cities around - Tokyo, Hong Kong
Asian passengers travel on $80 tickets on 747s.
Actually Concorde MAKES SENSE to use the turbojet. The Tu-144 try to use the turbofan, and turns out to be ultra-fuel-inefficient in supersonic speeds.
that depends on how you classify the An225.
I would love the concept of hundreds or even thousands of HD content. But time warner can't even give me 15 without the "HDXtra" package that's another $9 a month.
With HD "supposedly" defined to be 16:9, I sincerely despise all those major networks - CBS ABC and NBC that broadcost most of their HD content in 4:3. Only Discover and PBS has true 16:9 HD around the clock.
Watching Olympics opening ceremony on HD is simply gorgeous. The only thing I need now is CNN HD.
I can personally testify to that. A while ago people in my organization figured:
:
why ask all the analyst to learn tough SQL and memorize the whole data schema, when in fact, the MIS reporting team can take a monthly extract of the DB and load them into nicely formatted Excel pivot tables?
2 problems
1. The spreadsheets have grown to 200MB each.
2. Any single error in those spreadsheets will affect every single analst, cuz everyone's ad-hoc projects depend on that one single spreadsheet's accuracy and integrity. not a smart way to make multi-million business decisions upon.
search: we're talking full metadata real-time indexing, instead of a full FS search
scripting: end-user friendly scripting. u can't expect a Common Joe to write VBScript or Applescript or Perl
info display panel: we're talking the equivalent of konfabulator. why launch a full-blown web-browser for something as small as unit conversion or dictionary lookup?
64-bit support: neither XP nor previous macos have 64-bit support on the end-user desktop level. And no, sorry, WinNT for Alpha doesn't count as a Common Joe OS.
with all the negative news regarding CS/IT jobs easily outsourcable to India and other countries for 1/3 the salary, the post-dot-com economy, and the recent survey showing that ugrad CS majors are earning fewer than ChemE and EE, what's the incentive?
When i entered college in Sept 2000, nearly half my peers declared a CS or EE major. By late 01 / early 02, 75% of those "declarations" were wiped clean and replaced the traditional fields - medical, legal, and finance.
According to your theory, we can NEVER assign any statistics, since each of the 290 million people who live in USA are different.
If everyone thinks like you, nothing can be statistically forecasted.
In the real world, nothing is truly homogeneous. But we can make assumptions of common attributes between individuals among a population such that statistics can be drawn meaningfully.
In the credit card industry, banks spend millions to run analyses on millions of cardholders because statistically there's a predictive pattern of customer behavior, even though each cardholder has a unique financial situation as well as financial self-discipline.
who dumped the foster kids? straight couples.
who has 50% divorce rate in USA? straight couples.
before you talk about how gays are inappropriate to be foster parents, fix the problems of straight couples.
by the way, if YOU'RE married yourself, goodluck, you have a 50% chance of getting a divorce statistically.
Religions are supposed to be preaching love, peace, and treating everyone equally under the supreme-power's eyes (God, Allah, or whoever). But look at Christianity and Islam - they've been preaching hatred all these years using the treat of "excommunication" if their followers don't comply :
A few hundreds back, both religions were preaching "crusade" - i.e. war - i.e. the LACK of peace
A few decades back, both religions were preaching against women's rights - i.e. despising femminism and female pastors - i.e. the LACK of love
Today, both religions are preaching against gay rights - i.e. discrimination on marriage, spousal benefits, and the whole 9 yards - i.e. the LACK of equality
The religious right claims the bulk of major channels to be part of the "liberal media," when in fact, the more religion they learn from church, the more hatred propaganda they spread.
As a gay person myself, I withdrew my religious faith 2 years back.
Ever tried Smart Playlists in iTunes ?
- Give me the 25 most frequently played songs by either Spears, Beyonce, or Aguilera, added in the past 6 months, that are longer than 3 mins but shorter than 5.
Bam you have the list. And auto-updates as you add new songs and as time moves on.
Now imagine the same thing for the entire OS.
Smart Mailbox, Smart folders.
Even though Windows 98 has a really weak "Find" too, I use it everyday at work by dumping all my documents in "My Documents", and use search to find the file I want instead of going through folders, and scrolling hundreds of files.
Even real-work programmers can't memorize RegEx syntax other than the fundamental few, let alone trying to a typical end-user to understand anything more than the wildcard *
RegEx can be offered as a powerful option for Spotlight, but Spotlight must also be powerful while doing simple searches in order for any end-user to embrace it.
isn't the whole point of a hash is that it's computationally-infeasible to create a file that that H(new file)=H(original).
if this technology is true, it'll completely undermine the safety of today's unix passwords, which are stored in clear text of their hash.
> Privacy is for the weak, it's for a species that can't face the reality of its own behavior, and cannot deal with information be it personal, business, academic, potentially dangerous (i.e. nuclear power versus building nuclear bombs), etc, in a responsible manner.
:
Privacy (or trade secrets for that matter) is the reason why commercial software companies aren't collapsing at all. If all software is free and open source, then
1. The programmer has no reason to innovate other than pride and respect among peers. There's no monetary compensation UNTIL a company recognizes his work, and hires him.
2. The programmer has no reason to work against deadlines because they set their own.
3. The programmer has no reason to produce 100% bug-free code because they're completely not held accountable if business-critical functions fail due to the bugs.
4. The programmer has no reason to guarantee user-support since they the programmer can abandon the project anytime and move on to a newer one.
The Linux model worked because they have a great leader - Torvalds. And you can commercial vendors like RedHat who can provide support to customers. But it doesn't work for a vast majority of open-source projects, and I'm referring to a significant number of projects listed on SourceForge that are abandoned because the programmer no longer has time to improve it.
> A drug company sits on a study that says their drug kills people, and some internal scientist leaks it to the press? Under this decision, the journalist who publishes it either must rat out the scientist or go to jail.
Emm....not really. A scientist who leaks such information is in the "public's interest" and therefore IS protected by free speech, similar to whistler-blower protections. You're drawing an incorrect analogy here.
> NO - It is the COMPANY's responsibility to ensure the data isn't leaked in the first place.
No company (including Apple) has the ability to BIG-BROTHER-type monitoring over all the people who have access to internal information. That's why NDAs were created in the first place. If you leak against a NDA, you're violating a contract, period.
Legal documents that require participants to remain silent are not protected by free-speech. If you insist on leaking, don't sign it. If you agree to NDA, and you purposely leak it, the NDA issuer has every right to pursue litigation.
This is not about large or small company. It's not about Apple or Enron. An NDA is an NDA, and it's legally binding.
Free speech protection is not about EVERY speech.
Try Turkey's *old* Lira - TRL -
1 USD = 1.35million TRL
so 350,000TRL = 26 cents
a couple of April Fools laughs is good, but to submit 10 stories of the same ridiculous nature is rather immature