Walls that face onto public property are not owned by the public, the public merely has the right to paint it any color they want, and no, "duly appointed officials" don't get to decide that, we do.
WTF are you talking about?
You're telling me that if I purchase a building that faces a public area (your choice: a park, a street, a vacant lot, etc), then you have the right to spray paint my building if you don't like the looks of it? Are you smoking crack?
Tell you what, you come paint my building and I'll have you busted for vandalism so fast your little tagger head will spin.
Possibly. An exploit may have been discovered between the time I download the ISO and the time I was able to run apt-get upgrade on the newly installed system. I burned my Woody CDs over a year ago, but used them most recently just a few weeks ago for a new system.
I believe your first question was covered by Users needing corporate e-mail access most likely can via SMTPS or a VPN if their IT department knows what they are doing.
SMTPS should probably apply to your second question as well.
Unlike say, Linux, right? Oh wait, my Debian machine had such gems as the much-exploited SunRPC (port 111) running after even a minimal base installation.
Of course they can sue you, it was your internet connection that was used. You take responsibility for what happens with your internet connection when you decide to allow the world at-large to use it. The burden of proof would be on you to show that you personally weren't responsible for it.
Likewise, when someone decides to spam over your open wireless network, Speakeasy will quite likely cancel your service for allowing it to happen, whether you personally were the one spamming or not.
I really like what a company formerly known as NeXT has done with some of their products. Their software for pictures and music both have a "Library". From there you can drag songs or pictures into "Playlists" (music) or "Albums" (photos).
As a fairly recent "switcher", that's one thing I absolutely cannot stand about OS X. I've spent more time searching out a better.mp3 player and image viewer than I care to recall. The main reason for my problem is that my images and.mp3s all live on Samba shares on my Linux fileserver and are already organized in a logical and easy-to-navigate way. Then iPhoto and iTunes come along and want to fuck it all up by dumping all these distinct subdirectories into one general "library" (or "album"), making it slow to load and impossible to find anything.
My GF, a life-long mac user, tells me to give up and just go with it, that it'll be less painful in the long run. I'm far too obsessive-compulsive for that though.
Just because you might find something offensive, does not make it illegal.
True, but I think the original poster's point is that there are already laws in place against making pornography available to minors. Why wouldn't porn spam fall into the same catagory as those "Anal Gang Bang Vol III", etc, DVDs?
But can I also batch-change genres, album titles, etc?
Additionally, I avoid using iTunes whenever possible due to it's completely stupid way of creating "music libraries" instead of just letting me browse the local and network filesystems, where I already have everything organized the way I want it (I have the same problem with iPhoto as well).
Wouldn't putting "Various Artists" in the Artist: field of your ID3 tag and "Artist / Song Title" in the Title: field fix that? Then you could search by artist for Various Artists, then through the album/compilation titles.
I hope that will work ok, as I'm about to buy an iPod and I've already got my.mp3 collection organized that way.
You just proved the original poster's point. Apple doesn't compete in the low-end market. The eMac is their token inexpensive machine but it's not a good representative of their product line.
Try comparing high-end Apples and Dells, particularly laptops, and get back to me.
The web is finally starting to reach a point (after many, many years of frustration) where everyone is using the same standard and most users have capable web browsers.
Blame the software manufacturers for that. The W3C recommendations that the browser authors are just now catching up to are mostly between three (XHTML, introduced in 2000) and seven (CSS1, introduced in 1996) years old. Since then, the W3C and others have been coming up with newer, even better stuff. Take a look at XHTML 2.0 and CSS3, there's some seriously cool stuff there (but only if you're at all interested in web development, I suppose). Or would you rather everyone just sit around and wait while lazy and/or short sighted browser developers/companies take their time implementing things they should have implemented years ago?
Now I'm no car expert, but I'm pretty sure a Mini can't be considered a "sports car" by any reasonable standard.
Also note that that's three cars for two people, not one. Hell, my GF and I currently own three cars and we're definitely not rich (it's really only because I just bought a new (used, actually) car and am in the process of selling my old one).
for some definitions of roughly, such as "My laptop roughtly cost as much as my car".
I wish my car was that cheap, I wouldn't still be making payments on it. Anyway, when I say roughly, I mean almost exactly. My old Dell laptop at the time of purchase: ~$2,800. The G5 Powerbook I'm going to buy as soon as it's available: ~$2,800. Of course my current iBook was only $500, but I got a hell of a deal on that:)
Most people concerned with cost don't care how it looks, within reason.
I'm not so much concerned with cost, but rather, like you said, the cost/benefit ratio. Looks are fairly important for something I'm going to be carrying around with me and looking at all the time. I'll pay a little extra for something that's not as bulky and ugly as my Dell (but really, I won't be paying any more at all).
You could have just as easily said, "doesn't offer the benefits of X".
If you do have a problem within the first 90 days (I believe), then it will most likely be covered by the warranty.
One year, not 90 days.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that applecare lasts for three years after you purchase it. So would it may be smart to wait until the last minute to buy the extended warranty.
Apple Care lasts three years after the computer's purchase date. You can buy it any time within the first year, but it will expire at the same time regardless. The only reason to buy it after buying the computer is if you want to save a little money on your initial purchase and pay the extra amount later.
I'm buying a Powerbook for general use precisely because I do care about cost/benefit ratios. A Powerbook is roughly equivilant in price to a comparably equipped Dell laptop, PLUS I get lighter, nicer looking hardware PLUS a Unix-based OS that doesn't require dealing with X. I'd say I'm coming out ahead.
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Yes, millions upon millions of communion wafers ("This is my body...")
Walls that face onto public property are not owned by the public, the public merely has the right to paint it any color they want, and no, "duly appointed officials" don't get to decide that, we do.
WTF are you talking about?
You're telling me that if I purchase a building that faces a public area (your choice: a park, a street, a vacant lot, etc), then you have the right to spray paint my building if you don't like the looks of it? Are you smoking crack?
Tell you what, you come paint my building and I'll have you busted for vandalism so fast your little tagger head will spin.
Jesus, kids these days.
Possibly. An exploit may have been discovered between the time I download the ISO and the time I was able to run apt-get upgrade on the newly installed system. I burned my Woody CDs over a year ago, but used them most recently just a few weeks ago for a new system.
I believe your first question was covered by Users needing corporate e-mail access most likely can via SMTPS or a VPN if their IT department knows what they are doing.
SMTPS should probably apply to your second question as well.
You should be happy about being made to use SFTP instead of regular send-passwords-in-plain-text FTP.
Unlike say, Linux, right? Oh wait, my Debian machine had such gems as the much-exploited SunRPC (port 111) running after even a minimal base installation.
Of course they can sue you, it was your internet connection that was used. You take responsibility for what happens with your internet connection when you decide to allow the world at-large to use it. The burden of proof would be on you to show that you personally weren't responsible for it.
Likewise, when someone decides to spam over your open wireless network, Speakeasy will quite likely cancel your service for allowing it to happen, whether you personally were the one spamming or not.
I really like what a company formerly known as NeXT has done with some of their products. Their software for pictures and music both have a "Library". From there you can drag songs or pictures into "Playlists" (music) or "Albums" (photos).
.mp3 player and image viewer than I care to recall. The main reason for my problem is that my images and .mp3s all live on Samba shares on my Linux fileserver and are already organized in a logical and easy-to-navigate way. Then iPhoto and iTunes come along and want to fuck it all up by dumping all these distinct subdirectories into one general "library" (or "album"), making it slow to load and impossible to find anything.
As a fairly recent "switcher", that's one thing I absolutely cannot stand about OS X. I've spent more time searching out a better
My GF, a life-long mac user, tells me to give up and just go with it, that it'll be less painful in the long run. I'm far too obsessive-compulsive for that though.
If his wife reads Slashdot, chances are he wouldn't have to hide his hardware purchases from her.
Just because you might find something offensive, does not make it illegal.
True, but I think the original poster's point is that there are already laws in place against making pornography available to minors. Why wouldn't porn spam fall into the same catagory as those "Anal Gang Bang Vol III", etc, DVDs?
But can I also batch-change genres, album titles, etc?
Additionally, I avoid using iTunes whenever possible due to it's completely stupid way of creating "music libraries" instead of just letting me browse the local and network filesystems, where I already have everything organized the way I want it (I have the same problem with iPhoto as well).
Actually yes, ID3X. I just installed it yesterday, in fact. It won't do you much good unless you're running OS X though :)
Wouldn't putting "Various Artists" in the Artist: field of your ID3 tag and "Artist / Song Title" in the Title: field fix that? Then you could search by artist for Various Artists, then through the album/compilation titles.
.mp3 collection organized that way.
I hope that will work ok, as I'm about to buy an iPod and I've already got my
You just proved the original poster's point. Apple doesn't compete in the low-end market. The eMac is their token inexpensive machine but it's not a good representative of their product line.
Try comparing high-end Apples and Dells, particularly laptops, and get back to me.
It would be similar to the United States attempting to annex Cuba by extending the border a further 90 miles south.
Not a bad idea, actually. We could finally start smoking their cigars again!
The web is finally starting to reach a point (after many, many years of frustration) where everyone is using the same standard and most users have capable web browsers.
Blame the software manufacturers for that. The W3C recommendations that the browser authors are just now catching up to are mostly between three (XHTML, introduced in 2000) and seven (CSS1, introduced in 1996) years old. Since then, the W3C and others have been coming up with newer, even better stuff. Take a look at XHTML 2.0 and CSS3, there's some seriously cool stuff there (but only if you're at all interested in web development, I suppose). Or would you rather everyone just sit around and wait while lazy and/or short sighted browser developers/companies take their time implementing things they should have implemented years ago?
Do you really believe that e-mail address harvesters will follow the robots.txt guidelines? If so, I've got a bridge I've been looking to unload...
I'm not PMZ but the Motley Fool has a pretty good car buying guide.
Now I'm no car expert, but I'm pretty sure a Mini can't be considered a "sports car" by any reasonable standard.
Also note that that's three cars for two people, not one. Hell, my GF and I currently own three cars and we're definitely not rich (it's really only because I just bought a new (used, actually) car and am in the process of selling my old one).
for some definitions of roughly, such as "My laptop roughtly cost as much as my car".
:)
I wish my car was that cheap, I wouldn't still be making payments on it. Anyway, when I say roughly, I mean almost exactly. My old Dell laptop at the time of purchase: ~$2,800. The G5 Powerbook I'm going to buy as soon as it's available: ~$2,800. Of course my current iBook was only $500, but I got a hell of a deal on that
Most people concerned with cost don't care how it looks, within reason.
I'm not so much concerned with cost, but rather, like you said, the cost/benefit ratio. Looks are fairly important for something I'm going to be carrying around with me and looking at all the time. I'll pay a little extra for something that's not as bulky and ugly as my Dell (but really, I won't be paying any more at all).
You could have just as easily said, "doesn't offer the benefits of X".
Ahh, but it does.
If you do have a problem within the first 90 days (I believe), then it will most likely be covered by the warranty.
One year, not 90 days.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that applecare lasts for three years after you purchase it. So would it may be smart to wait until the last minute to buy the extended warranty.
Apple Care lasts three years after the computer's purchase date. You can buy it any time within the first year, but it will expire at the same time regardless. The only reason to buy it after buying the computer is if you want to save a little money on your initial purchase and pay the extra amount later.
Nice troll.
I'm buying a Powerbook for general use precisely because I do care about cost/benefit ratios. A Powerbook is roughly equivilant in price to a comparably equipped Dell laptop, PLUS I get lighter, nicer looking hardware PLUS a Unix-based OS that doesn't require dealing with X. I'd say I'm coming out ahead.
Yep. It came with OS X installed on it :)