As long as they are not disrupting others, I do not see the issue.
The issue is that I'm taxed out the wazoo to pay for the education you're throwing away. I'll remember your attitude the next time I'm asked to vote for a tax hike for schools.
And my teachers never bothered me about it. Why? Because I was not disrupting others. Because I got my work done regardless.
Did you know that it's legal - and often even encouraged - to sign up for more difficult and challenging classes so that you're not wasting everyone's time?
Typically it is advisable to download and run the Combo update installer for these point releases. While Software Update is great for the little things, these bigger updates can cause issues for a variety of reasons if done through Software Update.
I totally disagree with the principle. People buy Macs exactly for the reason that they don't have to put up with weirdnesses like that. If it's no easier to maintain a Mac than a PC or Linux machine, then it loses a huge part of its appeal.
Sorry but if you're skipping a firmware update, and running a major OS update on old firmware, you deserve a headache.
I have a degree in computer science and a lot of field experience hacking around on PCs. One of the cardinal rules you learn early on is to leave working firmware alone. In a nutshell, I don't upgrade it unless I know that it fixes specific problems that I'm having. Now, why should I change that policy for a Mac? Unless they named it something like "Firmware Update To Support 10.5.6", I'd probably leave it alone.
This includes the Barney Cam and even 'formats not previously dealt with.' By way of comparison, the Clinton White House dumped less than a single terabyte into the archives.
2^(8/1.5)=40, so the fact that Bush's term ended 8 years after Clinton's would automatically account for 40% of the increase. Reckoning that digital records are more widely used now than even a decade ago easily takes care of the remainder.
Yeah, 100TB is a lot of data, but no more than expected. The National Archive better gear up for at least 10PB from President Obama, given those two factors alone.
It kinda like companies that "go green" but do it for no other reason than the publicity and goodwill it might generate; are they really still doing such a good thing if their motives are so contrary?
Yes. One philosophical position is that altruism is impossible, and that everything we do is for selfish reasons. Those reasons might be as subtle as the idea that we like the way we feel when we help others and what it says about us.
With that in mind, who cares why Amalgamated Cardboard uses a new "greener" process? Maybe some people on the board are genuinely into environmental issues, and others just want the good PR. As long as they're doing something that benefits everyone, good for them.
LOL! You must be an "American", right? Take the bus. Oh I forgot- There are no buses in America. Including School buses I assume.
Their Montessori school is just outside the city and doesn't have a bus route. I'm not sure what TV shows you've been watching that made you invent the other complaints.
So do I. Your employers may dislike Mr. Beckerman for displaying them as the soulless vampires I believe them to be, but the rest of us think he's doing a good thing.
So it won't give a "rebel" or "macho" image. You realize, SUVs are subjectively better because they are objectively worse!
Ironically, after dropping off the kids at school for the last 4 years, "SUV" means "woman with one kid in the back seat" to me. They're about as anti-macho and anti-rebel as I can possibly imagine short of being painted pink.
I'd love to ride to work, but I can only pick up two of the kids from school at once and they got tired of playing rock-paper-scissors to see who'd have to walk behind.
Get your lazy ass up and work a 40 hour week with your hands on an assembly line and come back here bitching about the UAW...
I wish I could get $75K+ a year in pay and benefits for a job that requires zero previous education and experience. Sure those guys work hard. For the salaries they're bringing down, they oughta.
Americans want cars that are safe and useful. A family of five wants a car that can comfortably haul the family plus a couple of friends plus their stuff.
That's very true, and why we bought a minivan. It gets nearly 30mpg highway and can park in cramped lots. Why anyone would downgrade to a SUV for routine family transportation is beyond me.
Why would I buy (or build) a bigger, heavier, noisier machine with similar performance and price?
Because I've never seen any indication that you can get the same quality per dollar from a laptop. There very well might be a laptop with the same specs as the $750 desktop I just built (although you don't see two many with 6GB of RAM or a PCI-E graphics card or dual SATA-300 hard drives), but I guarantee it'd cost a couple thousand dollars.
It's trite, but true. Size, price, quality: pick two.
Flamebait? No way. I've heard a global estimate of 30,000,000 desktop Linux users versus several billion "hidden" Linux devices, from servers routers to televisions to cell phones. This story is about the 99% of Linux computers that don't have a desktop interface and where such a thing wouldn't even make sense. That's why I said the OP was off-topic - we're not discussing anything remotely related to a GUI or other user interface.
Not even close. My Eee is about the size of a trade paperback and darn nigh indestructible. While it's no substitute for a laptop, neither is a laptop a substitute for it.
But I didn't for one minute think Psion was making these things. I was quite aware that Asus, Elonex, HP, Toshiba, Acer etc were making them.
They were, and apparently sold a lot of them. They might want to again some day and it looks like they've done the legal homework to call them "netBook (r)" to the exclusion of everyone else.
Seems a pretty natural compound of "net" and "notebook" and thus generic.
"Coca-Cola" seems like a pretty natural compound of "coca" and "cola", but good look getting that one invalidated.
"Netbook" is clearly an invented word, even if its etymology is obvious. There are millions of trademarks that you and I haven't heard of that are perfectly valid and legitimate, and it sounds like this is one of them.
it's a sufficiently generic term that they're going to lose their trademark anyway
How do you figure? I'd never heard the word before Intel started tossing it around. It might be generic now, but I imagine that's one of their arguments in the suit.
Don't let the door hit your behind on the way out, potty mouth.
Oh, grow up. I try not to use such language, but my eyes aren't bleeding from reading it. If that put you in a moral panic, I suggest you avoid the rest of the Internet; you may be in for some surprises.
It's only words and if you can get so bent out of shape over words you obviously have not read, you need help.
It's about time they made 20" LCD's with a 1280x1024 resolution for people over the age of 40 who use it as a tool and not a hobby.
Correction: it's time they finally fix Windows so that it works correctly with common hardware. Honestly, that's purely a software bug on their end and it's ludicrous to design intentionally-crippled hardware to compensate for it.
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As long as they are not disrupting others, I do not see the issue.
The issue is that I'm taxed out the wazoo to pay for the education you're throwing away. I'll remember your attitude the next time I'm asked to vote for a tax hike for schools.
And my teachers never bothered me about it. Why? Because I was not disrupting others. Because I got my work done regardless.
Did you know that it's legal - and often even encouraged - to sign up for more difficult and challenging classes so that you're not wasting everyone's time?
Typically it is advisable to download and run the Combo update installer for these point releases. While Software Update is great for the little things, these bigger updates can cause issues for a variety of reasons if done through Software Update.
I totally disagree with the principle. People buy Macs exactly for the reason that they don't have to put up with weirdnesses like that. If it's no easier to maintain a Mac than a PC or Linux machine, then it loses a huge part of its appeal.
(Typed on a Mac; not a hater.)
Sorry but if you're skipping a firmware update, and running a major OS update on old firmware, you deserve a headache.
I have a degree in computer science and a lot of field experience hacking around on PCs. One of the cardinal rules you learn early on is to leave working firmware alone. In a nutshell, I don't upgrade it unless I know that it fixes specific problems that I'm having. Now, why should I change that policy for a Mac? Unless they named it something like "Firmware Update To Support 10.5.6", I'd probably leave it alone.
This includes the Barney Cam and even 'formats not previously dealt with.' By way of comparison, the Clinton White House dumped less than a single terabyte into the archives.
2^(8/1.5)=40, so the fact that Bush's term ended 8 years after Clinton's would automatically account for 40% of the increase. Reckoning that digital records are more widely used now than even a decade ago easily takes care of the remainder.
Yeah, 100TB is a lot of data, but no more than expected. The National Archive better gear up for at least 10PB from President Obama, given those two factors alone.
It kinda like companies that "go green" but do it for no other reason than the publicity and goodwill it might generate; are they really still doing such a good thing if their motives are so contrary?
Yes. One philosophical position is that altruism is impossible, and that everything we do is for selfish reasons. Those reasons might be as subtle as the idea that we like the way we feel when we help others and what it says about us.
With that in mind, who cares why Amalgamated Cardboard uses a new "greener" process? Maybe some people on the board are genuinely into environmental issues, and others just want the good PR. As long as they're doing something that benefits everyone, good for them.
LOL! You must be an "American", right? Take the bus. Oh I forgot- There are no buses in America. Including School buses I assume.
Their Montessori school is just outside the city and doesn't have a bus route. I'm not sure what TV shows you've been watching that made you invent the other complaints.
I smell an ethical conflict of interest.
So do I. Your employers may dislike Mr. Beckerman for displaying them as the soulless vampires I believe them to be, but the rest of us think he's doing a good thing.
I really don't know how to tell you this, but the Element is a minivan, but with features to make suburban dads feel like they're roughing it.
So it won't give a "rebel" or "macho" image. You realize, SUVs are subjectively better because they are objectively worse!
Ironically, after dropping off the kids at school for the last 4 years, "SUV" means "woman with one kid in the back seat" to me. They're about as anti-macho and anti-rebel as I can possibly imagine short of being painted pink.
I'd love to ride to work, but I can only pick up two of the kids from school at once and they got tired of playing rock-paper-scissors to see who'd have to walk behind.
Get your lazy ass up and work a 40 hour week with your hands on an assembly line and come back here bitching about the UAW...
I wish I could get $75K+ a year in pay and benefits for a job that requires zero previous education and experience. Sure those guys work hard. For the salaries they're bringing down, they oughta.
Americans want cars that are safe and useful. A family of five wants a car that can comfortably haul the family plus a couple of friends plus their stuff.
That's very true, and why we bought a minivan. It gets nearly 30mpg highway and can park in cramped lots. Why anyone would downgrade to a SUV for routine family transportation is beyond me.
Health care costs are certainly hurting Detroit, but that's because they're competing against nations which benefit from "socialized medicine".
They have socialized medicine in Indiana and Kentucky, where they build Toyotas?
Why would I buy (or build) a bigger, heavier, noisier machine with similar performance and price?
Because I've never seen any indication that you can get the same quality per dollar from a laptop. There very well might be a laptop with the same specs as the $750 desktop I just built (although you don't see two many with 6GB of RAM or a PCI-E graphics card or dual SATA-300 hard drives), but I guarantee it'd cost a couple thousand dollars.
It's trite, but true. Size, price, quality: pick two.
Flamebait? No way. I've heard a global estimate of 30,000,000 desktop Linux users versus several billion "hidden" Linux devices, from servers routers to televisions to cell phones. This story is about the 99% of Linux computers that don't have a desktop interface and where such a thing wouldn't even make sense. That's why I said the OP was off-topic - we're not discussing anything remotely related to a GUI or other user interface.
Let's agree: "Linux" as implemented by the many distros right now is ugly out of the box!
I've actually never seen Linux, except for a few messages during boot. What's the shape of the invisible system that interfaces with your hardware?
Hint: You're talking about distros. We're talking about a kernel.
It's just a smaller, more modest laptop!
Not even close. My Eee is about the size of a trade paperback and darn nigh indestructible. While it's no substitute for a laptop, neither is a laptop a substitute for it.
Their netbooks were basically overglorified organizers.
Their trademark is filed under "Goods and Services: laptop computers". That doesn't leave much room.
I wonder which pre-installed Linux distro they won't give you the source to.
But I didn't for one minute think Psion was making these things. I was quite aware that Asus, Elonex, HP, Toshiba, Acer etc were making them.
They were, and apparently sold a lot of them. They might want to again some day and it looks like they've done the legal homework to call them "netBook (r)" to the exclusion of everyone else.
Seems a pretty natural compound of "net" and "notebook" and thus generic.
"Coca-Cola" seems like a pretty natural compound of "coca" and "cola", but good look getting that one invalidated.
"Netbook" is clearly an invented word, even if its etymology is obvious. There are millions of trademarks that you and I haven't heard of that are perfectly valid and legitimate, and it sounds like this is one of them.
I heard a lot of people throwing around Ultra-Mobile PC, or UMPC.
Up next: what do you call tiny, flash-based USB drives?
it's a sufficiently generic term that they're going to lose their trademark anyway
How do you figure? I'd never heard the word before Intel started tossing it around. It might be generic now, but I imagine that's one of their arguments in the suit.
Don't let the door hit your behind on the way out, potty mouth.
Oh, grow up. I try not to use such language, but my eyes aren't bleeding from reading it. If that put you in a moral panic, I suggest you avoid the rest of the Internet; you may be in for some surprises.
It's only words and if you can get so bent out of shape over words you obviously have not read, you need help.
Pot, meet kettle.
It's about time they made 20" LCD's with a 1280x1024 resolution for people over the age of 40 who use it as a tool and not a hobby.
Correction: it's time they finally fix Windows so that it works correctly with common hardware. Honestly, that's purely a software bug on their end and it's ludicrous to design intentionally-crippled hardware to compensate for it.