Try it yourself some time. Running windows without admin rights is a nightmare. About 2/3 of my programs won't operate (I'm a software developer) at all. I've fixed almost everyones computers that knows me (I hate being free tech support but anything for a friend) and stupid programs like a damn cat breeding program this one girl had wouldn't run without admin rights (after fixing her computer 3-4 times I tried the No Admin route to no avail).
Until programs run without being admin this whole arguement is pointless.
Not a good option. When a house/condo is deductible (most peoples only tax write off) throwing a way the equivilent on rent is just as stupid if not more so.
A better option is to move farther out of the population center and buy a fuel efficient car or plan your living around mass transit (granted this is more viable in europe, but in large cities it is possible).
30K/year is barely livable in oklahoma. I couldn't imagine in New York or LA. One of my cousins in LA has a condo he bought 10 years ago that is now worth over 900K. Try buying that on a 30K/year salary. Of course I'm in a one income household until my wifes phd is done (in a million years or so).
Or just install it and move on down the road. This happens everywhere. The bigger the corp normally there are more violations. The only place I have ever worked (besides for myself) that had licenses for every piece of software was Arthur Andersen. Pretty funny huh?
amen. I was shocked when i read the review of who voted against this. Why the fuck would anyone approve this? I guess it was because they decided to leave it to the states to decide.
I like OS X. I like JSP and I like PostgreSQL. All available for OS X. I'll need to evaluate pdf form options from web apps but adobe has good tools available (pdf sdk). I run linux for all our firewalls and mail servers but would like an easier solution to manage. I have worked with linux since '95 and am very comfortable with it but my personal preference is to go with OS X Server. Granted I need to do further evaluation but I'm optimistic about the process.
Here's what you currently get with OS X Server (like Linux with a better GUI).
Security hotfixes - Free to all customers through March 31, 2010
If you're running Windows 2000 Server you have till March 31, 2010 to move to whatever OS you choose. I'm personally waiting to evaluate OS X on Intel hardware. I was getting ready to port our web offerings to OS X on PPC/XServes but now I'll just wait until the new offerings hit the market. JSP here I come...
Only Mac apps were universal. All the old PPC apps will run via Rosetta, so they will run, they just won't be "universal binaries". For example, Photoshop isn't a universal binary but it runs fine.
True, however wouldn't you expect a quad 3.6 GHz processor to outperform a Dual 2.7GHz processor? That wouldn't be spectacular at all.
I could forgive the guy but he starts off like an asshat. When researching an article maybe you should know a bit about what you are writing. Like Quad Pentium 4's don't exist and Mac Rumor sites frequently are full of shit (G5 Powerbook out days after WWDC). A Mac fanatic I can see making this mistake (since they probably have only used PPC/68K based systems). For someone ripping Mac users for their zealotry I think it's a stupid ass mistake.
This guy is a moron. He couldn't even go far enough in his research to see that the Pentium 4 Jobs was using was a single core single processor system. The article he references had an error. Pentium 4's don't come in the Quad variety. Xeon's yes P4 no.
I wasn't referring to bad programmers per se. I was commenting on the whole field (like you've done) that if it were treated like building there would be significantly better products and less errors to fix.
I would much rather deal with software bugs than sub-contractors every day of the week. My company uses what are considered reliable subs. I consider them to be very unreliable. It's all perspective.
As long as they have a scene dedicated to jumping a shark I'll go see it. I just started watching the Simpsons again because it is on before Family Guy and it's amazing at how well written it is after all these years. I always expected they'd add a "Poochie" for real. The naming of the Comic Book Guy episode was funny, too bad I forgot his name.
Building houses: Very detailed specifications with standards that have been honed over 30-40 years (family business). Software dev: Requirements that are never actually pinned down.
Building houses: Sub-contractors that get paid based on the job, if they fuck up they fix it for free (or lose a valuable account). Software dev: If it's broke/bug ridden fees are still paid to develop fixes (unless support built into contract which means you're paying more up front in case there are mistakes).
Building houses: Customers understand that if they change their mind when the home is in development the cost gets exponentially bigger as the house nears completion. We get bids for change orders and they sign ammendments to their contract approving changes and paying in advance for said changes. Software dev: Frequently missed requirements necessitate changes in whole sections of code or UI design.
If software development weren't so fluid/dynamic it would probably be much like building houses. However a house hasn't changed that much since the 1950's for the most part where computers & software development were happy to be using punch cards. Plus I wouldn't wish city inspectors on anyone in the software industry. Those who can do, those who can't work for the city and are pissed off about it. I love watching city implemented projects with these so called "experienced engineers" who fuck up and have cost overruns on every project they do. It's a good thing city engineers don't have to make a profit or they'd be out on their asses.
Not to mention these fun possibilities: You get behind on your programming projects because you're doing admin tasks (backups, patches, testing patches/backups, checking logs,...) and your boss who doesn't value the admin side gives you bad reviews on your performance evals.
You become the scapegoat for everything related to system failure. Hardware fails, you didn't do your job. Software patch creates unexpected software failures (this happens more frequently if you use 3rd party tools in addition to MS products), and any other thing that might fall at your feet.
There are many more examples but if your boss/company doesn't value the job of sysadmin you're not going to get any points for the work you do. Especially since he thinks it's 1% of your time. What a crock of shit.
I handled it by just ignoring the dumbfuck boss and finding another job (which is working for myself so yet again I'm the programmer and sysadmin, at least I respect my own work!).
There is no emulation on x86 it is done via fat binaries by building in XCode. If you run OS X on x86 it will be an x86 build not an emulated PPC version, same goes for programs. PPC-only compiled apps won't run on x86 based OS X.
I'm really fucking disappointed in Apple. The G5's were great. Oh well, maybe they are really going after Microsoft and doing what they should have done (decoupled from the architecture) in the mid-80's.
People need assurance that they are doing the correct thing. 12 step programs work the same way a mob mentality does. Sweeping you up into the land of stupidity.
People need to realize they create their own reality (be it real or phantom/faith based) and your choices are your own.
The use of socialism was a clever use of terms to describe the Soviet Untion and the Nazi regime. China can be classified as that as well but socialism is impossible with dictators (USSR, Germany, China, Cuba, North Korea...) so while they call themselves "socalist" the only country that I would say is socalist instead of facist (yes they are all facist dictatorships which is where we are heading in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord) is Sweden. They have problems but the people can actually change the system if they decide it is necessary.
The difference is the people in Sweden actually have power where those in China, Cuba, the former USSR/Germany didn't mean shit.
Pull your fucking head out of your ass and quit believing all the BS propaganda our government puts out there.
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Try it yourself some time. Running windows without admin rights is a nightmare. About 2/3 of my programs won't operate (I'm a software developer) at all. I've fixed almost everyones computers that knows me (I hate being free tech support but anything for a friend) and stupid programs like a damn cat breeding program this one girl had wouldn't run without admin rights (after fixing her computer 3-4 times I tried the No Admin route to no avail).
Until programs run without being admin this whole arguement is pointless.
OS X does it perfectly.
Not a good option. When a house/condo is deductible (most peoples only tax write off) throwing a way the equivilent on rent is just as stupid if not more so.
A better option is to move farther out of the population center and buy a fuel efficient car or plan your living around mass transit (granted this is more viable in europe, but in large cities it is possible).
30K/year is barely livable in oklahoma. I couldn't imagine in New York or LA. One of my cousins in LA has a condo he bought 10 years ago that is now worth over 900K. Try buying that on a 30K/year salary. Of course I'm in a one income household until my wifes phd is done (in a million years or so).
And the problem is? Do you think SAV is free? Not even close.
Or just install it and move on down the road. This happens everywhere. The bigger the corp normally there are more violations. The only place I have ever worked (besides for myself) that had licenses for every piece of software was Arthur Andersen. Pretty funny huh?
amen. I was shocked when i read the review of who voted against this. Why the fuck would anyone approve this? I guess it was because they decided to leave it to the states to decide.
They are erroring on the side of life.
Republicans, hypocrites since 1994 "Contract with America"
You should of replyed to the correct parent.
I think calling it "The David Beckham OS" would have made more sense from a marketing standpoint. For short you could call it BecksOS.
I like OS X. I like JSP and I like PostgreSQL. All available for OS X. I'll need to evaluate pdf form options from web apps but adobe has good tools available (pdf sdk). I run linux for all our firewalls and mail servers but would like an easier solution to manage. I have worked with linux since '95 and am very comfortable with it but my personal preference is to go with OS X Server. Granted I need to do further evaluation but I'm optimistic about the process.
Here's what you currently get with OS X Server (like Linux with a better GUI).
Security hotfixes - Free to all customers through March 31, 2010
If you're running Windows 2000 Server you have till March 31, 2010 to move to whatever OS you choose. I'm personally waiting to evaluate OS X on Intel hardware. I was getting ready to port our web offerings to OS X on PPC/XServes but now I'll just wait until the new offerings hit the market. JSP here I come...
Better off dead. Lane Meyer skiing the K-12. I loved the South Park episode where the kid kept calling stan(?) dursh or whatever. Funny shit.
Only Mac apps were universal. All the old PPC apps will run via Rosetta, so they will run, they just won't be "universal binaries". For example, Photoshop isn't a universal binary but it runs fine.
True, however wouldn't you expect a quad 3.6 GHz processor to outperform a Dual 2.7GHz processor? That wouldn't be spectacular at all.
I could forgive the guy but he starts off like an asshat. When researching an article maybe you should know a bit about what you are writing. Like Quad Pentium 4's don't exist and Mac Rumor sites frequently are full of shit (G5 Powerbook out days after WWDC). A Mac fanatic I can see making this mistake (since they probably have only used PPC/68K based systems). For someone ripping Mac users for their zealotry I think it's a stupid ass mistake.
This guy is a moron. He couldn't even go far enough in his research to see that the Pentium 4 Jobs was using was a single core single processor system. The article he references had an error. Pentium 4's don't come in the Quad variety. Xeon's yes P4 no.
He was referring to Southern Baptists.
I wasn't referring to bad programmers per se. I was commenting on the whole field (like you've done) that if it were treated like building there would be significantly better products and less errors to fix.
I would much rather deal with software bugs than sub-contractors every day of the week. My company uses what are considered reliable subs. I consider them to be very unreliable. It's all perspective.
As long as they have a scene dedicated to jumping a shark I'll go see it. I just started watching the Simpsons again because it is on before Family Guy and it's amazing at how well written it is after all these years. I always expected they'd add a "Poochie" for real. The naming of the Comic Book Guy episode was funny, too bad I forgot his name.
I have a bit of knowledge in this area.
Building houses: Very detailed specifications with standards that have been honed over 30-40 years (family business).
Software dev: Requirements that are never actually pinned down.
Building houses: Sub-contractors that get paid based on the job, if they fuck up they fix it for free (or lose a valuable account).
Software dev: If it's broke/bug ridden fees are still paid to develop fixes (unless support built into contract which means you're paying more up front in case there are mistakes).
Building houses: Customers understand that if they change their mind when the home is in development the cost gets exponentially bigger as the house nears completion. We get bids for change orders and they sign ammendments to their contract approving changes and paying in advance for said changes.
Software dev: Frequently missed requirements necessitate changes in whole sections of code or UI design.
If software development weren't so fluid/dynamic it would probably be much like building houses. However a house hasn't changed that much since the 1950's for the most part where computers & software development were happy to be using punch cards. Plus I wouldn't wish city inspectors on anyone in the software industry. Those who can do, those who can't work for the city and are pissed off about it. I love watching city implemented projects with these so called "experienced engineers" who fuck up and have cost overruns on every project they do. It's a good thing city engineers don't have to make a profit or they'd be out on their asses.
Not to mention these fun possibilities: ...) and your boss who doesn't value the admin side gives you bad reviews on your performance evals.
You get behind on your programming projects because you're doing admin tasks (backups, patches, testing patches/backups, checking logs,
You become the scapegoat for everything related to system failure. Hardware fails, you didn't do your job. Software patch creates unexpected software failures (this happens more frequently if you use 3rd party tools in addition to MS products), and any other thing that might fall at your feet.
There are many more examples but if your boss/company doesn't value the job of sysadmin you're not going to get any points for the work you do. Especially since he thinks it's 1% of your time. What a crock of shit.
I handled it by just ignoring the dumbfuck boss and finding another job (which is working for myself so yet again I'm the programmer and sysadmin, at least I respect my own work!).
Do tell, where do you work? People would like to know!
There is no emulation on x86 it is done via fat binaries by building in XCode. If you run OS X on x86 it will be an x86 build not an emulated PPC version, same goes for programs. PPC-only compiled apps won't run on x86 based OS X.
I'm really fucking disappointed in Apple. The G5's were great. Oh well, maybe they are really going after Microsoft and doing what they should have done (decoupled from the architecture) in the mid-80's.
Jesus saves. Moses invests.
People need assurance that they are doing the correct thing. 12 step programs work the same way a mob mentality does. Sweeping you up into the land of stupidity.
People need to realize they create their own reality (be it real or phantom/faith based) and your choices are your own.
The use of socialism was a clever use of terms to describe the Soviet Untion and the Nazi regime. China can be classified as that as well but socialism is impossible with dictators (USSR, Germany, China, Cuba, North Korea...) so while they call themselves "socalist" the only country that I would say is socalist instead of facist (yes they are all facist dictatorships which is where we are heading in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord) is Sweden. They have problems but the people can actually change the system if they decide it is necessary.
The difference is the people in Sweden actually have power where those in China, Cuba, the former USSR/Germany didn't mean shit.
Pull your fucking head out of your ass and quit believing all the BS propaganda our government puts out there.
If you could put this on your children and it monitored bio-metric info (thus showing if the clothing was taken off) it may help in identifying where your children are in the case of an abdution or any other mishap.