I havent seen the episode you describe but usually their math is fairly accurate if unlikely. It would never happen in real life but they do have someone who knows their stuff telling them what things are called and what algorithms are used. If the formula you're using is sound, but the values you're plugging into the variables are random numbers you've pulled out of your ass, what's the point?
Last i heard service companies ( unless they explicitly have a contract with you stating otherwise ) aren't liable for your data other the 'best effort', so i don't see how that applies.
If she had sensitive data on there, she should have pulled the HD first. Sux to be her. 1) They're not liable for destroying your data. For example, if you bring your laptop in for service and they reformat the hard drive, you can't sue them for losing the only copy you had of your wedding photos. This is completely different than losing track of your data and allowing it to fall into untrusted hands.
2) Removing the hard drive is exactly the kind of procedure that people are paying service centers like this to perform. Sure, pulling the hard drive out is an easy thing for you the Slashdotter, but the accountant has better things to do with his time than learning the difference between 3.5" SATA and 2.5" IDE. Just like preparing taxes is an easy thing for the accountant, but you might pay him to do yours because you have better things to do with your time than figuring out what percentage of your gas bill can be deducted as a business expense for your home office.
So, if someone has a job that pays poorly while they're alive, but subsequently becomes high-paying after their death, should their employer be forced to pay their surviving family the difference ? Someone getting paid an agreed-upon wage to perform a task for a certain amount of time isn't the same as someone producing a creative work which may or may not sell. If someone is paying you a salary to create something for them, then they own the copyright, not you.
Why should "work for copyright" be rewarded so much more generously than any other type of work ? Apparently you missed the part where I said we're offering content creators too much reward, and this is an issue which can be debated further.
Nope, the XP MCE installer seems like it should be a superset of XP Pro (it says "XP Professional" on the screen during install, and if you enter a Pro serial number it will install Pro I believe) but XP MCE can't join a domain or save SMB passwords any more than XP Home can.
Solitaire? Solitaire is an application, and there are plenty of other applications that people use on a daily basis that are approximately as resource-intensive as Solitaire.
Hmm, as I read this I thought - I right click a menu some where, some time... Now I realise where - The Start menu in Windows allows right - clicking to bring up another menu depending on context.
I use this all the time to create shortcuts.
Yep, that's it. It's occasionally handy for deleting items from the Start Menu as well (e.g. apps that failed to uninstall properly, so you've deleted them by hand), and for going to Properties so you can click Find Target. Mac OS X doesn't have a start menu though, so the only equivalent I can think of is the Recent Items lists. I don't believe it has ever occurred to me that right-clicking something in Recent Items could be useful.
Oh, Spotlight is similar, and there I can see how right-clicking might be nice. The workaround is to click Show All first.
Press Command-Tab to bring up the app switcher. Press it again and see how the reticle moves to the right. While you STILL have the app switcher open, press Command-Tilde and see how it moves to the left. Command-Tab brings it up and moves to the right. After it is open, Command-Tilde moves it to the left. This way you can quickly select the app you want. My apologies. I was unaware of that feature, and thought you were talking about the other use of Cmd-` (which I called Cmd-Tilde only to be consistent with the original post).
One thing is certain: the choice to have many editions of Vista differentiated sometimes by key features is causing Microsoft quite a bit of trouble. Had Microsoft enabled or disabled features like Aero Glass based on a machine's capabilities rather than the version of the OS in use, this suit would have likely been avoided. Interesting. To be sure, Microsoft has faced criticism for its confusing number of editions. Here's a quick rundown:
Home Basic - cannot join a domain and does not include Media Center; equivalent to XP Home Edition
Home Premium - cannot join a domain but does include Media Center; equivalent to XP Media Center Edition
Business - can join a domain but does not include Media Center; equivalent to XP Professional Edition
Ultimate - can join a domain and includes Media Center; no XP equivalent exists
Home Basic also does not include the Aero Glass UI, tablet PC support, Mobility Center, Meeting Space, SideShow, or Scheduled Backup. In addition to the ability to join a domain, Business and Ultimate include Complete PC Backup and Restore, Fax and Scan, Remote Desktop, and the ability to save your password when connecting to an SMB share. That's right, in Home Basic/Premium, the "save password" checkbox on the authentication dialog is missing (and command-line alternatives are broken). Finally, only Ultimate Edition includes BitLocker drive encryption.
I can understand why they might want to have two editions of the OS: Home and Professional, like they had originally with XP. The networking capabilities of Business/Ultimate really are integrated into the OS and can't be added on by a separate package. Plenty of small business users need these features, but they order new PCs for their employees without realizing which flavor of Windows is included, so they wind up buying an extra copy at retail, which makes Microsoft more money. It's evil, but from a business perspective it makes sense.
However, apart from Media Center, the features of Home Premium over Home Basic are things nobody would ever pay extra for. It makes absolutely no sense to me that Media Center should require its own OS version. Media Center should be a separate product, just as Microsoft Office is a separate product. Advertise PCs that bundle it as having "Windows Vista Home Edition with Media Center" instead of "Windows Vista Home Premium Edition". Let customers who bought PCs without Media Center go buy it, just like customers who bought PCs without Office can go buy it. Media Center is something that a lot of people do see value in and are willing to pay for. Let them do that.
If I get rich off my work (probability: imperceptible), I'll leave the dough to my wife and daughter (who both happen to be younger and healthier than me, and thus likely to survive me). I feel the same way about patent. If an inventor wants to monetize his invention, he should either develop it himself or license it to a company to develop. When he dies, it should become public domain. If I create something, and it sells well enough during my lifetime to make me rich, I can let my family inherit that wealth when I die. The potential for this to happen encourages me to create it in the first place.
If I create something, and it doesn't sell well during my lifetime but does begin to sell well as soon as I've gotten hit by a bus, I can let my family inherit the copyright so that they can collect the money I would have gotten if I'd lived longer. The potential for this to happen encourages me to create it in the first place, especially if I'm old and don't think I'll live to collect royalties myself.
The point isn't just to pay the person who created the work as a reward for their efforts. The point is to offer them an incentive (the promise that they or their children or grandchildren will be paid if the work is successful) in advance, before they've decided whether to invest the time and/or money required to create the work in the first place. Are we (society) offering them too much (is the term of copyright too long)? Yes, and we can debate that issue, but let's not misunderstand the purpose.
Command-Tilde makes the app switcher run the other way and is easy to hit. Are you retarded? Command-Tilde is a completely different action; it switches between windows within the current application, and Command-Shift-Tilde goes backwards.
Yes, but Cmd-Shift-Tab is an awkward combination to actually press. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want them to change it, but it's a difficult combination to hit.
I cant stand how simple things in my version of OSX (not the current version) wont let me cut files on the desktop, Copying files from the Edit menu was only added a few years ago; I almost never use it.
how rightclicking in the mac version of Firefox doesnt work on bookmarks, as in "delete" "open in new tab" etc, and thats just accepted, Right-clicking a bookmark in the bookmark bar works perfectly fine. Right-clicking in a menu to bring up another menu is weird behavior that doesn't work anywhere; it has nothing to do with Firefox. Sticky menus (menus that stay open after a single click) weren't even supported until Mac OS 8.5, if I recall correctly, and what you're trying to do wouldn't even make sense without that.
So if sticky menus could be added, maybe your crazy menus-on-menus thing will be added someday. But today is not that day.
all these simple windows things are just impossible in OSX. And the ads actually mock windows! These are simple things, that are just a few lines of code away from being fixed no doubt, and yet dont work at all. Mac OS X is not Windows. We don't want it to be Windows. Try it for awhile, and if you don't like it, either hack your way around what you perceive to be deficiencies, or switch back to what you're happy with.
- Open a folder in a listview should be one button (i.e. enter, which currenty goes to rename, really??) not Command-O - Screenshotting needs to be waaaay easier (i.e. single key rather than shift-command-3 or whatever) Both of these go back DECADES.
Do not take away my quick renaming keystroke.
I agree that Command-O is cumbersome, but were you aware that Command-Down arrow works too? I find this easier, and it's perfectly logical if you also use Command-Up arrow frequently.
Screenshotting isn't a single button, because there are several ways to do it. They are:
Cmd-Shift-3: take a snapshot of the entire screen and save it to a PNG file on the desktop
Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-3: take a snapshot of the entire screen and copy it to the clipboard
Cmd-Shift-4, then drag a box: take a snapshot of a particular area of the screen and save it to a PNG file on the desktop
Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-4, then drag a box: take a snapshot of a particular area of the screen and copy it to the clipboard
Cmd-Shift-4, then spacebar, then click: take a snapshot of a single window and save it to a PNG file on the desktop
Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-4, then spacebar, then click: take a snapshot of a single window and copy it to the clipboard
Open/Utilities/Grab for additional options like taking a snapshot of the entire screen after a time delay and saving the result in different formats
I agree that these are not intuitive, but it's what we've been using for years, and I certainly don't want to dedicate any extra buttons on the keyboard to something most people never use. Besides, as someone else pointed out, you can remap a different keyboard shortcut in System Preferences if you don't like the default.
The parent isn't asking for a new way to organize his windows so he can switch between groups of related tasks. He's asking for a quick way to get whatever's in front of him out of the way so he can see what's underneath it. Spaces doesn't do this, Exposé doesn't do this (unless what you want to see is the Desktop, which Exposé does very well), and minimizing to the Dock doesn't do this (because once you minimize, you have to do something completely different in order to get your window back, distracting you from the task at hand).
I've learned to adjust the way I work around this deficiency of OSX's window manager, so I hardly ever miss it anymore. But since I never double-click to minimize, and I do still remember how frequently I used WindowShade in OS9, I'd love to see it come back.
Covad DSL (resold by a number of companies, but limited to 512k and never cheaper than $100/month) Just to clarify, Covad DSL isn't "resold" in the way most people probably think of. Covad operates the DSL connection between your house and your ISP of choice (essentially leasing your phone line from the local telephone company to do so), so Covad sets the speed of your connection, but every other aspect of your service really does come from the ISP you choose: the connection to the Internet, the terms of service, IP address allocation, port blocking, whether you use PPPoE or not, tech support/customer service/billing, etc. etc. If SBC can offer you 6Mbps DSL, Covad should be able to do the same, unless for some reason Covad doesn't have the appropriate equipment in your CO.
Of course, just because SBC is advertising 6Mbps doesn't mean they can actually set up 6Mbps DSL at your house. Your phone line might just suck. But if SBC can do 6Mbps, Covad should be able to do 6Mbps.
By the way, SpeakEasy (an ISP that uses Covad) is offering 6Mbps DSL for $50/month. I'm not affiliated with either company in any way, but several years ago I worked for an ISP that sold DSL service provided by Covad (as well as by various phone companies), so I know something about how it works.
If the FISC was merely rubber-stamping whatever the U.S. Government wanted to do, then how could its oversight prevent government from protecting the American People? How come this deserves the "Troll" mod it got? Maybe they thought I was spreading FUD, because I was too lazy to provide references. So here we go, from the 2008 State of the Union address:
On the home front, we will continue to take every lawful and effective measure to protect our country. This is our most solemn duty. We are grateful that there has not been another attack on our soil since 9/11. This is not for the lack of desire or effort on the part of the enemy. In the past six years, we've stopped numerous attacks, including a plot to fly a plane into the tallest building in Los Angeles and another to blow up passenger jets bound for America over the Atlantic. Dedicated men and women in our government toil day and night to stop the terrorists from carrying out their plans. These good citizens are saving American lives, and everyone in this chamber owes them our thanks.
And we owe them something more: We owe them the tools they need to keep our people safe. And one of the most important tools we can give them is the ability to monitor terrorist communications. To protect America, we need to know who the terrorists are talking to, what they are saying, and what they're planning. Last year, Congress passed legislation to help us do that. Unfortunately, Congress set the legislation to expire on February the 1st. That means if you don't act by Friday, our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger. Congress must ensure the flow of vital intelligence is not disrupted. Congress must pass liability protection for companies believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend America. We've had ample time for debate. The time to act is now. The legislation Bush alluded to that Congress passed last year was the Protect America Act of 2007, which was extended by 15 days after Bush made his speech. Here is the White House's summary of the Protect America Act as of August 2007; notice in particular the clause granting immunity to third parties from being sued for giving private data about US citizens to the government.
The FISC is generally regarded as a rubber stamp; it approved over 4,000 surveillance requests in 2005 and 2006[PDF], rejecting none. Bush has been warning Congress that this same rubber stamp will prevent the government from being able to stop potential terrorist attacks, urging them to extend an unconstitutional law that grants the executive branch permission to bypass the rubber stamp.
While I agree that seeing 50 identical items all from the same seller is ridiculous, I usually skip anything that doesn't have a Buy it Now option, because I don't have the patience to wait around for a week to see what the price has gone up to. If the auction is ending very soon, I might bid, but Buy it Now is mostly what I use.
I understand that this means it's not an auction. But I don't want an auction, I just want to buy stuff, and eBay has the sellers.
Your 'solution' is trivial to crack. The problem here is that these questions have all been answered online a million times. Math problems are the easiest- try googling "3 + two", "three plus 2", or even "four times two to the third power". Every time, the solution is sitting there on the top of the front page. Or my personal favorite.
Slashdot Mirror
It would never happen in real life but they do have someone who knows their stuff telling them what things are called and what algorithms are used. If the formula you're using is sound, but the values you're plugging into the variables are random numbers you've pulled out of your ass, what's the point?
If she had sensitive data on there, she should have pulled the HD first. Sux to be her. 1) They're not liable for destroying your data. For example, if you bring your laptop in for service and they reformat the hard drive, you can't sue them for losing the only copy you had of your wedding photos. This is completely different than losing track of your data and allowing it to fall into untrusted hands.
2) Removing the hard drive is exactly the kind of procedure that people are paying service centers like this to perform. Sure, pulling the hard drive out is an easy thing for you the Slashdotter, but the accountant has better things to do with his time than learning the difference between 3.5" SATA and 2.5" IDE. Just like preparing taxes is an easy thing for the accountant, but you might pay him to do yours because you have better things to do with your time than figuring out what percentage of your gas bill can be deducted as a business expense for your home office.
Nope, the XP MCE installer seems like it should be a superset of XP Pro (it says "XP Professional" on the screen during install, and if you enter a Pro serial number it will install Pro I believe) but XP MCE can't join a domain or save SMB passwords any more than XP Home can.
I've heard this too - Microsoft did not upgrade their desktop PCs to Vista any sooner than other companies.
I use this all the time to create shortcuts.
Yep, that's it. It's occasionally handy for deleting items from the Start Menu as well (e.g. apps that failed to uninstall properly, so you've deleted them by hand), and for going to Properties so you can click Find Target. Mac OS X doesn't have a start menu though, so the only equivalent I can think of is the Recent Items lists. I don't believe it has ever occurred to me that right-clicking something in Recent Items could be useful.Oh, Spotlight is similar, and there I can see how right-clicking might be nice. The workaround is to click Show All first.
Press Command-Tab to bring up the app switcher. Press it again and see how the reticle moves to the right.
While you STILL have the app switcher open, press Command-Tilde and see how it moves to the left.
Command-Tab brings it up and moves to the right. After it is open, Command-Tilde moves it to the left. This way you can quickly select the app you want. My apologies. I was unaware of that feature, and thought you were talking about the other use of Cmd-` (which I called Cmd-Tilde only to be consistent with the original post).
Home Basic also does not include the Aero Glass UI, tablet PC support, Mobility Center, Meeting Space, SideShow, or Scheduled Backup. In addition to the ability to join a domain, Business and Ultimate include Complete PC Backup and Restore, Fax and Scan, Remote Desktop, and the ability to save your password when connecting to an SMB share. That's right, in Home Basic/Premium, the "save password" checkbox on the authentication dialog is missing (and command-line alternatives are broken). Finally, only Ultimate Edition includes BitLocker drive encryption.
I can understand why they might want to have two editions of the OS: Home and Professional, like they had originally with XP. The networking capabilities of Business/Ultimate really are integrated into the OS and can't be added on by a separate package. Plenty of small business users need these features, but they order new PCs for their employees without realizing which flavor of Windows is included, so they wind up buying an extra copy at retail, which makes Microsoft more money. It's evil, but from a business perspective it makes sense.
However, apart from Media Center, the features of Home Premium over Home Basic are things nobody would ever pay extra for. It makes absolutely no sense to me that Media Center should require its own OS version. Media Center should be a separate product, just as Microsoft Office is a separate product. Advertise PCs that bundle it as having "Windows Vista Home Edition with Media Center" instead of "Windows Vista Home Premium Edition". Let customers who bought PCs without Media Center go buy it, just like customers who bought PCs without Office can go buy it. Media Center is something that a lot of people do see value in and are willing to pay for. Let them do that.
If I create something, and it doesn't sell well during my lifetime but does begin to sell well as soon as I've gotten hit by a bus, I can let my family inherit the copyright so that they can collect the money I would have gotten if I'd lived longer. The potential for this to happen encourages me to create it in the first place, especially if I'm old and don't think I'll live to collect royalties myself.
The point isn't just to pay the person who created the work as a reward for their efforts. The point is to offer them an incentive (the promise that they or their children or grandchildren will be paid if the work is successful) in advance, before they've decided whether to invest the time and/or money required to create the work in the first place. Are we (society) offering them too much (is the term of copyright too long)? Yes, and we can debate that issue, but let's not misunderstand the purpose.
Yes, but Cmd-Shift-Tab is an awkward combination to actually press. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want them to change it, but it's a difficult combination to hit.
So if sticky menus could be added, maybe your crazy menus-on-menus thing will be added someday. But today is not that day. all these simple windows things are just impossible in OSX. And the ads actually mock windows! These are simple things, that are just a few lines of code away from being fixed no doubt, and yet dont work at all. Mac OS X is not Windows. We don't want it to be Windows. Try it for awhile, and if you don't like it, either hack your way around what you perceive to be deficiencies, or switch back to what you're happy with.
- Screenshotting needs to be waaaay easier (i.e. single key rather than shift-command-3 or whatever) Both of these go back DECADES.
Do not take away my quick renaming keystroke.
I agree that Command-O is cumbersome, but were you aware that Command-Down arrow works too? I find this easier, and it's perfectly logical if you also use Command-Up arrow frequently.
Screenshotting isn't a single button, because there are several ways to do it. They are:
I agree that these are not intuitive, but it's what we've been using for years, and I certainly don't want to dedicate any extra buttons on the keyboard to something most people never use. Besides, as someone else pointed out, you can remap a different keyboard shortcut in System Preferences if you don't like the default.
Clearly, you don't get it.
The parent isn't asking for a new way to organize his windows so he can switch between groups of related tasks. He's asking for a quick way to get whatever's in front of him out of the way so he can see what's underneath it. Spaces doesn't do this, Exposé doesn't do this (unless what you want to see is the Desktop, which Exposé does very well), and minimizing to the Dock doesn't do this (because once you minimize, you have to do something completely different in order to get your window back, distracting you from the task at hand).
I've learned to adjust the way I work around this deficiency of OSX's window manager, so I hardly ever miss it anymore. But since I never double-click to minimize, and I do still remember how frequently I used WindowShade in OS9, I'd love to see it come back.
I certainly hadn't noticed. You guys must be new here! (As you can see from my UID, I've been around for awhile.)
That was fantastic; more people should see it. :-)
Can you explain to me, then, exactly what the roles of Big Dog Productions and Conaco are, and how they differ from that of Worldwide Pants?
Aha, that makes sense then! Thanks for clearing that up.
Sucks to be you (or anyone else living more than 15,000 feet from their central office).
Of course, just because SBC is advertising 6Mbps doesn't mean they can actually set up 6Mbps DSL at your house. Your phone line might just suck. But if SBC can do 6Mbps, Covad should be able to do 6Mbps.
By the way, SpeakEasy (an ISP that uses Covad) is offering 6Mbps DSL for $50/month. I'm not affiliated with either company in any way, but several years ago I worked for an ISP that sold DSL service provided by Covad (as well as by various phone companies), so I know something about how it works.
And we owe them something more: We owe them the tools they need to keep our people safe. And one of the most important tools we can give them is the ability to monitor terrorist communications. To protect America, we need to know who the terrorists are talking to, what they are saying, and what they're planning. Last year, Congress passed legislation to help us do that. Unfortunately, Congress set the legislation to expire on February the 1st. That means if you don't act by Friday, our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger. Congress must ensure the flow of vital intelligence is not disrupted. Congress must pass liability protection for companies believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend America. We've had ample time for debate. The time to act is now. The legislation Bush alluded to that Congress passed last year was the Protect America Act of 2007, which was extended by 15 days after Bush made his speech. Here is the White House's summary of the Protect America Act as of August 2007; notice in particular the clause granting immunity to third parties from being sued for giving private data about US citizens to the government.
Still think I'm trolling?
While I agree that seeing 50 identical items all from the same seller is ridiculous, I usually skip anything that doesn't have a Buy it Now option, because I don't have the patience to wait around for a week to see what the price has gone up to. If the auction is ending very soon, I might bid, but Buy it Now is mostly what I use.
I understand that this means it's not an auction. But I don't want an auction, I just want to buy stuff, and eBay has the sellers.