Somebody has tried to end this confusion by renaming what you call a "real GB" to "GiB", keeping what HD mfgrs call a "GB" to mean 1,000,000,000 bytes. Obviously things aren't any less confusing yet, since most people don't use the new units yet.;-)
Company A gets the business of people who are willing to shell out $200 for a 200 GB HDD. Company A does not get the business who have a budget of less than $200 for their HDD purchase.
Company B get the business of people who are willing to shell out $200 for 200 GB HDD and the business of people who have a smaller budget.
Company A buys company B. The new Company AB sells both 150GB and 200GB drives, so they get money from everybody.
Except, of course, that Company AB is in competition with Company C, which makes a real 150GB drive which costs less to produce than company AB's "150GB" drive because it's not really a 200GB drive with modified firmware. Company C sells their 150GB drive for less, and starts driving company AB's margins down; Company C can keep doing this because their costs are lower.
Re:Man ... it's not that bad on OS X ...
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Apparently, when you drag an application from the/Applications folder to the trash, your per-user preferences and other settings that reside in ~/Library/* don't get taken along, giving you a residual build up of all sorts of things. If you want to get the real scoop on just how easy and clean it is to get rid of programs on Mac OS X, check your ~/Library directory for stuff leftover from programs you thought you removed completely months ago. I'll bet you'll find a lot of stuff you dind't think existed on your HD anymore.
A) This is not rocket science B) It's always been this way C) It's actually a good thing
An application has to save its settings somewhere, and the correct place to save them is inside your home folder (see this post for reasons why). When I delete something, I want only what I deleted to disappear; anything I didn't delete should remain. If I delete an application, other files used by that application that I do not delete do not get deleted.
On Mac OS X, most applications store settings in ~/Library/Preferences/, and some larger apps (e.g. Mozilla) add their own folders in ~/Library or use some of the other folders such as ~/Library/Caches. On classic Mac OS, the equivalent is System Folder:Preferences, other various folders in the System Folder, and a handful of apps store settings in the Documents folder (presumably because multiple users support in Mac OS 9 gives each user their own Documents folder, as well as Preferences). On Linux, most apps create hidden files or directories in your home, such as ~/.mozilla or ~/.mplayer or ~/.pinerc. On Windows, there's C:\Documents and Settings, as well as the disaster that is the Registry.
Now, here's why this is actually a good thing: I can upgrade to a new version of an application without worrying about losing my settings, because I know that when I delete and replace the application, my settings aren't touched. And, when moving to a new computer, I can copy settings for many apps from the old Mac to the new Mac, and have it all work painlessly. I recently bought a laptop, and had just about everything set up exactly the way I wanted it within a few hours.
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How does this make them any better than a "power hungry" monopoly like Microsoft?....basically all I'm saying is that Apple is as money-hungry Microsoft and I don't think they have any more scruples than MS does in getting paid. To think otherwise is foolish...
All publicly-traded corporations are legally required to be money-hungry, and Apple is certainly no exception. However, one of the things that makes them better than Microsoft is that Apple is not a monopoly and does not abuse its position the way Microsoft always has. How many times has Microsoft been found guilty of breaking the law? How does that compare to Apple?
Besides that, Apple makes better quality products.
i have a similar issue, but not with Ethernet (it's either USB or video, I haven't done that much experimenting). And yeah, waking up first is the workaround.
Of course, the screen doesn't come on, so I can't SEE that it's a kernel panic.;-)
Which raises the question: If they saw fit to make dedicated keys for relatively obscure operations like "Print Screen" and "Scroll Lock", why didn't they think to assign one for "Help"?
Because the documentation was printed in the manual.
Macintosh keyboards have a Help key, in lieu of Insert.
(I then showed them how to cut and past the text into a plain ascii text editor, and then back into a new word doc so they would only have to do the mark-up again)
You can also use Edit/Paste Special and select Unformatted Text, which saves you the extra step of using the text editor.
You should see the Italian movie "The Monster" with Roberto Benigni. The main character's goal in life seems to be to never pay for anything. He walks into a supermarket wearing a trenchcoat, begins stuffing his pockets, and also picks things up and plants them on other customers and salespeople. Then he goes through the checkout counter and buys a pack of gum - meanwhile, all the alarms are going off. He walks through the alarm sensor with his trenchcoat bulging, sets it off, holds up his pack of gum and points to it, and the clerk waves him through.
What we resent is the fact that the government or a corporation can track our 'cash'. Credit purchases and check purchases have been tracked for years, but cash was not traceble until now...
I'd just like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that there have always been serial numbers printed on bills, for the purpose of tracking them. An RFID tag would make it easier to do so electronically, but being able to uniquely identify a particular bill is nothing new - in fact, see Where's George?
Having said that, the possibility that someone could scan the contents of my wallet while my wallet is in my pocket is rather disturbing for a number of reasons. If I were carrying $1,000 in twenties, I wouldn't want to advertise that fact to those around me.
"Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law." - Galatians 3:23-25 (NIV)
Thankfully, our legal system puts a lot of emphasis on intent. If he intended to redirect to 'harmless' material, that would be different, but he intended to redirect to porn. If he didn't intend for his domains to be accessed primarily by people misspelling domains of child-oriented web sites, that would be different, but that wasn't the case here.
Elevators doors close faster once someone pushes a floor button. Not the door close button, but a floor button. Try it and find out. If you just stand in an elevator and don't press a floor, it will sit there waiting for someone to get in. This is why I always push a floor button, even if it is already pressed. It has nothing to do with psychological factors.
The Door Close button should have the same effect in that case.
My girlfriend who is Korean can friggen enter SMS messages by using the keypad faster than I can write them with a stylus on my p800; it is both awesome and scary at the same time.
I remember hearing a comment about the effects of using SMS so much in Britain and Japan; someone said teenagers are so used to using their thumb on their phone that the thumb has become their dominant digit, and they use it for things like ringing doorbells etc.
It's the very fact that it was a FELONY to register some domain names.
Sounds to me like registering the domain names wasn't the problem at all - the problem was that he deliberately attempted to redirect children to porn sites, and happened to use domain names he registered to do so. I don't see why there should be any controversy about this.
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Somebody has tried to end this confusion by renaming what you call a "real GB" to "GiB", keeping what HD mfgrs call a "GB" to mean 1,000,000,000 bytes. Obviously things aren't any less confusing yet, since most people don't use the new units yet. ;-)
Company A gets the business of people who are willing to shell out $200 for a 200 GB HDD. Company A does not get the business who have a budget of less than $200 for their HDD purchase.
Company B get the business of people who are willing to shell out $200 for 200 GB HDD and the business of people who have a smaller budget.
Company A buys company B. The new Company AB sells both 150GB and 200GB drives, so they get money from everybody.
Except, of course, that Company AB is in competition with Company C, which makes a real 150GB drive which costs less to produce than company AB's "150GB" drive because it's not really a 200GB drive with modified firmware. Company C sells their 150GB drive for less, and starts driving company AB's margins down; Company C can keep doing this because their costs are lower.
Apparently, when you drag an application from the /Applications folder to the trash, your per-user preferences and other settings that reside in ~/Library/* don't get taken along, giving you a residual build up of all sorts of things. If you want to get the real scoop on just how easy and clean it is to get rid of programs on Mac OS X, check your ~/Library directory for stuff leftover from programs you thought you removed completely months ago. I'll bet you'll find a lot of stuff you dind't think existed on your HD anymore.
A) This is not rocket science
B) It's always been this way
C) It's actually a good thing
An application has to save its settings somewhere, and the correct place to save them is inside your home folder (see this post for reasons why). When I delete something, I want only what I deleted to disappear; anything I didn't delete should remain. If I delete an application, other files used by that application that I do not delete do not get deleted.
On Mac OS X, most applications store settings in ~/Library/Preferences/, and some larger apps (e.g. Mozilla) add their own folders in ~/Library or use some of the other folders such as ~/Library/Caches. On classic Mac OS, the equivalent is System Folder:Preferences, other various folders in the System Folder, and a handful of apps store settings in the Documents folder (presumably because multiple users support in Mac OS 9 gives each user their own Documents folder, as well as Preferences). On Linux, most apps create hidden files or directories in your home, such as ~/.mozilla or ~/.mplayer or ~/.pinerc. On Windows, there's C:\Documents and Settings, as well as the disaster that is the Registry.
Now, here's why this is actually a good thing: I can upgrade to a new version of an application without worrying about losing my settings, because I know that when I delete and replace the application, my settings aren't touched. And, when moving to a new computer, I can copy settings for many apps from the old Mac to the new Mac, and have it all work painlessly. I recently bought a laptop, and had just about everything set up exactly the way I wanted it within a few hours.
How does this make them any better than a "power hungry" monopoly like Microsoft? ....basically all I'm saying is that Apple is as money-hungry Microsoft and I don't think they have any more scruples than MS does in getting paid. To think otherwise is foolish...
All publicly-traded corporations are legally required to be money-hungry, and Apple is certainly no exception. However, one of the things that makes them better than Microsoft is that Apple is not a monopoly and does not abuse its position the way Microsoft always has. How many times has Microsoft been found guilty of breaking the law? How does that compare to Apple?
Besides that, Apple makes better quality products.
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...oh wait.
2) Beetle owner, and now
3) No free iPod.
4) ???
5) Profit!
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Actually it's plaugerism, the art of playing "the very rare musical instrument known as the plaug, or plauger."
;-)
See? I didn't plagiarize that, I cited the source.
i have a similar issue, but not with Ethernet (it's either USB or video, I haven't done that much experimenting). And yeah, waking up first is the workaround.
;-)
Of course, the screen doesn't come on, so I can't SEE that it's a kernel panic.
Which raises the question: If they saw fit to make dedicated keys for relatively obscure operations like "Print Screen" and "Scroll Lock", why didn't they think to assign one for "Help"?
Because the documentation was printed in the manual.
Macintosh keyboards have a Help key, in lieu of Insert.
(I then showed them how to cut and past the text into a plain ascii text editor, and then back into a new word doc so they would only have to do the mark-up again)
You can also use Edit/Paste Special and select Unformatted Text, which saves you the extra step of using the text editor.
I don't want to pay for postage; do you have an e-mail address I could send them to instead?
You should see the Italian movie "The Monster" with Roberto Benigni. The main character's goal in life seems to be to never pay for anything. He walks into a supermarket wearing a trenchcoat, begins stuffing his pockets, and also picks things up and plants them on other customers and salespeople. Then he goes through the checkout counter and buys a pack of gum - meanwhile, all the alarms are going off. He walks through the alarm sensor with his trenchcoat bulging, sets it off, holds up his pack of gum and points to it, and the clerk waves him through.
Maybe he'll try microwaving a roll of pennies next.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that there have always been serial numbers printed on bills, for the purpose of tracking them. An RFID tag would make it easier to do so electronically, but being able to uniquely identify a particular bill is nothing new - in fact, see Where's George?
Having said that, the possibility that someone could scan the contents of my wallet while my wallet is in my pocket is rather disturbing for a number of reasons. If I were carrying $1,000 in twenties, I wouldn't want to advertise that fact to those around me.
"Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law." - Galatians 3:23-25 (NIV)
I enjoyed them all, and towards the end of the trilogy felt like I was about to lose a good friend whom I knew for the last three years.
:-(
Well said. The depressing realization that there won't be another one to look forward to next Christmas...
Thankfully, our legal system puts a lot of emphasis on intent. If he intended to redirect to 'harmless' material, that would be different, but he intended to redirect to porn. If he didn't intend for his domains to be accessed primarily by people misspelling domains of child-oriented web sites, that would be different, but that wasn't the case here.
I'd much rather have OSX on x86 than Windows on PPC. Too bad it'll happen the other way first.
Damn, when will people shut up about this? It's not happening. Ever. Give up already! If you want to run OSX, save up and buy a Mac.
Well, come to think of it, I suppose I often do too just because I can push harder with my thumb, but sometimes my index finger.
Elevators doors close faster once someone pushes a floor button. Not the door close button, but a floor button. Try it and find out. If you just stand in an elevator and don't press a floor, it will sit there waiting for someone to get in. This is why I always push a floor button, even if it is already pressed. It has nothing to do with psychological factors.
The Door Close button should have the same effect in that case.
She stomped off across the road like an enraged frogger, dodging the still flowing traffic.
;-)
That's the nerdiest simile I've seen in awhile.
My girlfriend who is Korean can friggen enter SMS messages by using the keypad faster than I can write them with a stylus on my p800; it is both awesome and scary at the same time.
I remember hearing a comment about the effects of using SMS so much in Britain and Japan; someone said teenagers are so used to using their thumb on their phone that the thumb has become their dominant digit, and they use it for things like ringing doorbells etc.
It's actually SimAnt with no space, and since Google searches are case-insensitive, simant is equivalent.
I've heard of people typing hotmale.com by mistake...
It's the very fact that it was a FELONY to register some domain names.
Sounds to me like registering the domain names wasn't the problem at all - the problem was that he deliberately attempted to redirect children to porn sites, and happened to use domain names he registered to do so. I don't see why there should be any controversy about this.