4 isntcae Y dnot tehy certae A cpachta lkie tihs? Google was able to decipher a significant portion of that:
Did you mean: 4 isntcae Y not they create A cpachta like this? And considering how long it took me to decipher "isntcae" myself, I don't think your idea would really work that well.
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What happens if the machine and/or it's supply of electricity fails. All someone who wants to disrupt the election needs to do is switch the power off. That's why we're talking about using paper ballots. They can be machine-counted for convenience and speed, but manually counted if anything goes wrong.
Touch screen systems should be available to fill out paper ballots for you, because they're easier to use, can flag errors before you cast your ballot, can offer more interactive information about candidates and issues, and can easily support a non-visual interface and multiple languages. If there's a problem, though, it should be possible to fill out paper ballots by hand.
Two different machines, each with an alternative: one to fill out the ballot, and one to count it. It's not that complicated.
I know he's a mormon and all but there is not going to be a woman and certainly not a black guy in the whitehouse. So I'd advice the slashdotters to just vote for this mormon because it's their best shot at having a secular president. Of course it's not my call, just an advice. Uhh, I think you're confused, dude...
Actually that's not clear at all, since FairPlay doesn't "interfere" with anything.
FairPlay-encrypted AACs are one of the formats the iPod can natively play. Unencrypted AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless files are other formats the iPod can natively play.
So, do they mean they've gotten a license from Apple to encrypt their own files with FairPlay DRM? Or do they mean they've reverse-engineered FairPlay so that they are able to sell FairPlay-encrypted AAC files without Apple's blessing? Or do they mean they're offering a hack for the iPod's firmware that will add support for their own DRM format? Or do they mean they're selling unencrypted files?
If they mean they've gotten a license, I'll be very surprised. I can't see how it would be in Apple's interest, at this point, to license FairPlay to other companies*.
If they mean they've reverse-engineered FairPlay, Real tried that already, and Apple sued and got them to stop. I can't see how this time around would be any different.
If they mean they're offering a firmware hack, I can't see how they could possibly support every model of iPod out there, and Apple definitely won't be pleased. Since this would undoubtedly void Apple's warranty, I could see a lawsuit coming from this.
If they mean they're selling non-DRM files, why wouldn't they just say that?
Something's fishy here.
* Option #1 isn't in Apple's interests, because Steve Jobs wants to strongarm the industry into going with option #4, which will be best for everyone, including Apple. By licensing FairPlay, Apple would lose the ability to do this.
Generally on OSX, dragging a file within the same volume will move it; dragging to a different volume will copy. Hold the Command key to force a move to another volume (this is new in OSX). Hold the Option key to force a copy within the same filesystem (Option-drag duplicates things in lots of other places too). Hold both to create an alias.
Burn folders are a weird exception. Dragging to them will create aliases, but the original file (not the alias) will be burned.
As another poster pointed out, the pointer icon changes to indicate what will happen. When copying you get a big green (+) and when making a shortcut you get a curved arrow.
Note that the default behavior will never result in you dragging a file to a USB drive, only to discover later that you've only made a shortcut. On Mac OS 9, each volume had its own desktop, and dragging a file from a removable disk to the desktop would move the file to the desktop of that disk, not copy it to the desktop of the hard drive. As a result, users would drag files from a floppy disk to the desktop, then eject the disk, and the file would disappear, only to reappear again when the disk was reinserted. This no longer happens on Mac OS X.
For your wired LAN needs, I suggest getting an AirPort Express and configuring it in bridging mode. There's no power cord needed, so it's easier to bring with you than other wireless routers, in addition to being much smaller.
Unfortunately it doesn't support 802.11n yet. Hopefully there will be a new version released soon, but 802.11g is fine for Internet access.
Two things tell me the grandparent is lying. 1- They own all of this high-end Mac hardware, but have never heard of "Force quit". 2- The comment on viruses is a dead giveaway. That post was troll. No, the comment on viruses is perfectly legitimate - Macs could definitely get them, if there were any. Well, maybe not technically viruses, but certainly malware.
Great, you're suggesting spending even more money on Apple because of the fault issues. I'm suggesting factoring AppleCare into the price when deciding to buy an Apple product.
My own experience has been terrible. Losing computers for months, returning them claiming there was no issue, reinstalling the OS but not actually fixing the hardware issues. I've had it all. I think you're the first person I've heard of with that kind of a track record. Weird.
I don't want to sound like a troll... But I honestly find OS X (10.4 series and earlier.. I have barely played with 10.5), I notice the applications don't multi task and are as responsive as compared to Windows XP SP2, variation of Linux on the same hardware - I don't consider OS X 'normally very responsive'. Even after a crash. If I wasn't clear, I only meant that the responsiveness of other running apps when one app is hung with a spinning rainbow cursor. For example, if Safari hangs, Mail is still perfectly responsive while Safari is sitting there doing nothing. I will concede that the OS as a whole is pretty slow in terms of UI responsiveness, but a single broken app doesn't generally affect the rest of the system.
It kept doing high pitch whistling noises (no updates or programs that were supposed to address this issue, never fixed it), the wireless card didn't work on 10.4.9 (worked in 10.4.5, so I had to keep OS X at that version, if I didn't, I'd be sacrificing wireless capability - this issue is common enough to be on the Apple forums). Sent to Apple many times, they reinstalled the OS, didn't fix the wireless, they sent it back a few times claiming there was no problem, when it quite obviously did. Never did fix the high pitch whistling. I don't have much experience with shipping things back to Apple directly; I normally take broken Macs to the service counter at a local third-party retail store. If it comes back and the problem isn't fixed, I can test it right there in front of their service tech, and not accept it if it's not fixed. If you're shipping the machine to Apple, you wouldn't have this option, so I can see how these problems might occur. That's unfortunate.
I did have an issue with a bad hard drive in my iBook; the first time I took it in, they wouldn't replace it because they couldn't reproduce the problem - but neither could I. It would occasionally act up for months before I finally was able to get Apple on the phone while the problem was occurring and let them hear the sound it was making over the phone. Finally Apple replaced the hard drive, but the new one still had the same issue, it just didn't do it as much. A year later the new drive suddenly died completely, out of warranty. I installed a new hard drive myself, and so far no issues. This machine is four years old, and the only issues I've had were the flakey hard drive (I won't buy Fujitsu hard drives now) and a stuck latch (promptly fixed under warranty).
I've been a Mac faithful for about 15 years. I have owned every high-end apple laptop since the G3 Wall Street. The reason I have owned every high end laptop is that one of them always seems to have a major problem a year into using it. It could be a bad hard drive, motherboard, screen problems, or an OS upgrade that doesn't upgrade well and kills my system so many times, that I say f'it and get a new machine. I definitely recommend the AppleCare extended warranty. Yes, if it breaks, it's a pain to be without your computer for awhile while it's being fixed, but my experience with Apple's service has been excellent. All computers have a chance of something breaking; Apple computers are only slightly more likely to break than others.
If it's not a machine going down, it's the lovely hanging mac. Some app has a problem, and you get the endless rainbow of death, or better yet, a frozen screen. Now all OS' have issues, and I have always loved my Mac(s), but the time has come for me to part ways with Apple (well, except for my iPhone). That's very peculiar. Of course a crashed app can give you the spinning rainbow, but that happens to me on Vista all the time too (minus the spinning rainbow). A frozen screen shouldn't happen; Mac OS X is normally VERY responsive when an app has crashed. If the nature of the crash is that the app is using gobs of memory and the OS is swapping like crazy, then yeah, the whole thing's gonna grind to a halt, but that'll happen on Linux too.
I guess the reason is their PC vs Mac ads. Yup, that is the MAIN reason. When these first came out, they made me incredibly angry due to the fact that Apple gave insinuations that the Mac never crashes, or freezes (this constantly happened to me with 10.4 and my machine died when upgrading to Leopard). I'm surprised that you would switch to Windows because of a TV ad campaign. Or comments about how the Mac is impervious to viruses (which we all know by know is not the case). No, Macs are not impervious to viruses, but right now, Macs don't get viruses. This will change, but until it does, we might as well enjoy it.
Apple just took a bunch of stereotypes about Mac and PCs (many of which are completely wrong), and threw them in a commercial, even though most of the stuff they were saying was complete BS. Apparently your experience differs from that of most people. I'm not sure why.
So I am done now. I am moving on and sold my dead MacBook Pro and am in the process of selling my G5 tower, and will now be using Windows newest piece of crap... Vista. Wait a second, your MBP is still covered under warranty, but you'd rather sell it and switch to a PC than let Apple fix it for free? That disturbs me.
So long Mac news, how I loved thee, but I can't take the smug anymore. Is it really Apple and their products, or Mac news sites and their fans, that you're trying to get away from? The two are hardly synonymous.
For example, the new software for the iPod touch is a $20 download. This is the same software that's a free update for the iPhone. No it isn't. The new iPhone software adds a few new features to existing applications. The new iPod touch software adds completely new applications that had not previously been available at all. iPhone users get the location-aware update to Maps for free, but iPod touch users didn't have Maps at all.
I'm a Protestant-leaning Christian, but definitely not of the Evangelical nature. Sadly, most of my friends and family are still under the sway of the madness called the modern Evangelical movement. I'm curious how you would define Protestant and Evangelical. These are used as blanket terms that aren't usually given clearly defined meanings, so I'm wondering where you're drawing the line.
What scientific research would you propose to test the "theory" of creationism? Evolution can be studied by examining DNA progression, fossil records, etc. Creationism is studied by examining fossil records, etc. Take a look at ICR, CRS, and CMI.
Atheism is not a religion, it's just the lack of belief in deities. It is the default position. I respectfully disagree. Atheism is not the default position, you've just been indoctrinated to believe that your own belief is the default, and to believe anything else requires some kind of deliberate effort.
That means a lot of people stand to lose a lot of money. There are megachurches and religious organizations that have a lot of money, but most churches are small and perpetually struggling financially. I'm not saying there aren't people who are motivated by money and power, but the vast majority of Christians are not. This really isn't about money.
Even believers cherry pick what they want to believe in the Bible; I don't know many Christians who believe that the Earth is the center of the universe, for instance. The Bible uses casual language to describe the sun rising and setting while the earth stands still not because it's trying to explain astrophysics, but because we live on the earth and naturally think in geocentric terms. We still speak of sunrise and sunset, even though we know the sun isn't really moving up in the morning and down in the evening.
Here's an example of one place where the Bible mentions the sun moving. This is clearly poetry; anyone who thinks this passage was meant to be taken literally should have their head examined.
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,
which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion,
like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
It rises at one end of the heavens
and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is hidden from its heat. - Psalm 19:1-6 (NIV)
If you want to pick an example of modern Christians choosing which parts of the Bible to ignore, you should at least browse through Leviticus.
<span class='pitch: x-high; pitch: -moz-chipmunk'>if there's an open standard, you gotta use it</span> pitch: -moz-chipmunk doesn't sound like an open standard to me, it sounds like a proprietary extension to an open standard. And I don't believe 'single quotes' are valid HTML syntax. And I think you meant "style" rather than "class", and you omitted the trailing semicolon (I don't remember if that's legal in CSS or not, but it's surely bad practice). Not to mention having two "pitch" properties.
If you're gonna be pedantic, you'd better do it properly!:-P
Replying to undo a mis-clicked moderation... Appreciated. It'd be nice if there were a better way to confirm those, that wouldn't be more difficult to use. It used to be that you had to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to confirm moderations, which was obnoxious.
Here's an idea! Once you make a selection, use JavaScript to add a "cancel" button, and start a 30-second timer. If you click the button within 30 seconds, it aborts the timer and restores the moderation menu. If the timer expires, it submits the moderation via AJAX and displays a confirmation message just like it does now. If you attempt to leave the page before the timer expires, a confirm() box could ask whether you want to submit your moderations at that time.
It's not perfect, but maybe better than what we have now, while still also being better than what we had before?
We share almost entirely the same genome. Hell, we even share many of the same endogenous retroviral insertions as our closest relatives; the great apes, at the same bloody loci in the genome. If you have some alternate explanation besides common descent, then I'd love to hear it. If God came up with a good design for the great apes, why not reuse His own material when creating humans? When I write code, I frequently dig back into old projects and copy&paste stuff I'd written before.
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I only read it for the articles.
Touch screen systems should be available to fill out paper ballots for you, because they're easier to use, can flag errors before you cast your ballot, can offer more interactive information about candidates and issues, and can easily support a non-visual interface and multiple languages. If there's a problem, though, it should be possible to fill out paper ballots by hand.
Two different machines, each with an alternative: one to fill out the ballot, and one to count it. It's not that complicated.
"Who Let The Dogs Out" ...and whatever else he thinks might be popular with the electorate.
Actually that's not clear at all, since FairPlay doesn't "interfere" with anything.
FairPlay-encrypted AACs are one of the formats the iPod can natively play. Unencrypted AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless files are other formats the iPod can natively play.
So, do they mean they've gotten a license from Apple to encrypt their own files with FairPlay DRM? Or do they mean they've reverse-engineered FairPlay so that they are able to sell FairPlay-encrypted AAC files without Apple's blessing? Or do they mean they're offering a hack for the iPod's firmware that will add support for their own DRM format? Or do they mean they're selling unencrypted files?
If they mean they've gotten a license, I'll be very surprised. I can't see how it would be in Apple's interest, at this point, to license FairPlay to other companies*.
If they mean they've reverse-engineered FairPlay, Real tried that already, and Apple sued and got them to stop. I can't see how this time around would be any different.
If they mean they're offering a firmware hack, I can't see how they could possibly support every model of iPod out there, and Apple definitely won't be pleased. Since this would undoubtedly void Apple's warranty, I could see a lawsuit coming from this.
If they mean they're selling non-DRM files, why wouldn't they just say that?
Something's fishy here.
* Option #1 isn't in Apple's interests, because Steve Jobs wants to strongarm the industry into going with option #4, which will be best for everyone, including Apple. By licensing FairPlay, Apple would lose the ability to do this.
Generally on OSX, dragging a file within the same volume will move it; dragging to a different volume will copy. Hold the Command key to force a move to another volume (this is new in OSX). Hold the Option key to force a copy within the same filesystem (Option-drag duplicates things in lots of other places too). Hold both to create an alias.
Burn folders are a weird exception. Dragging to them will create aliases, but the original file (not the alias) will be burned.
As another poster pointed out, the pointer icon changes to indicate what will happen. When copying you get a big green (+) and when making a shortcut you get a curved arrow.
Note that the default behavior will never result in you dragging a file to a USB drive, only to discover later that you've only made a shortcut. On Mac OS 9, each volume had its own desktop, and dragging a file from a removable disk to the desktop would move the file to the desktop of that disk, not copy it to the desktop of the hard drive. As a result, users would drag files from a floppy disk to the desktop, then eject the disk, and the file would disappear, only to reappear again when the disk was reinserted. This no longer happens on Mac OS X.
In case you missed the reference.
For your wired LAN needs, I suggest getting an AirPort Express and configuring it in bridging mode. There's no power cord needed, so it's easier to bring with you than other wireless routers, in addition to being much smaller.
Unfortunately it doesn't support 802.11n yet. Hopefully there will be a new version released soon, but 802.11g is fine for Internet access.
No.
I did have an issue with a bad hard drive in my iBook; the first time I took it in, they wouldn't replace it because they couldn't reproduce the problem - but neither could I. It would occasionally act up for months before I finally was able to get Apple on the phone while the problem was occurring and let them hear the sound it was making over the phone. Finally Apple replaced the hard drive, but the new one still had the same issue, it just didn't do it as much. A year later the new drive suddenly died completely, out of warranty. I installed a new hard drive myself, and so far no issues. This machine is four years old, and the only issues I've had were the flakey hard drive (I won't buy Fujitsu hard drives now) and a stuck latch (promptly fixed under warranty).
Surely agnosticism would be the true default?
Here's an example of one place where the Bible mentions the sun moving. This is clearly poetry; anyone who thinks this passage was meant to be taken literally should have their head examined. For the director of music. A psalm of David.
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,
which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion,
like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
It rises at one end of the heavens
and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is hidden from its heat. - Psalm 19:1-6 (NIV)
If you want to pick an example of modern Christians choosing which parts of the Bible to ignore, you should at least browse through Leviticus.
It's my understanding that in certain parts of the country, "y'all" is singular, with the plural form being "all y'all".
Get off my lawn!
That would be amazing...
If you're gonna be pedantic, you'd better do it properly!
Here's an idea! Once you make a selection, use JavaScript to add a "cancel" button, and start a 30-second timer. If you click the button within 30 seconds, it aborts the timer and restores the moderation menu. If the timer expires, it submits the moderation via AJAX and displays a confirmation message just like it does now. If you attempt to leave the page before the timer expires, a confirm() box could ask whether you want to submit your moderations at that time.
It's not perfect, but maybe better than what we have now, while still also being better than what we had before?
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<voice type="chipmunk">Shut up and let him have his fun.</voice>