Teacher hating very often fits into that same way of thinking.
Business and government are similar in that they are all staffed and run by people (that is, greedy grafty nasty people). They are different in that we elect our government people and there is some oversight of the work and the results - sometimes late, and sometimes shoddy, but the oversight is there.. A business on the other hand, involves no community decision, is run as a dictatorship and there is minimal oversight (less and less every day since the 80's).
I'm not anti-business, just honest. The problems come from the people, not the organizational method. The organizational method is supposed to be a way of compensating for the problems while minimizing the bad side-effects.
Being anti-gov't or anti-teacher is just a way of parroting something you heard from someone else -- it's not a legitimate position to argue from.
(Trying not to repeat others' comments in mine...)
I know you're self-branding as a Ubunutu user, but I will say you have an unfairly (IMO) apologetic opinion of Microsoft in these regards.
I'm not aware of Microsoft's solutions ever being regarded as inexpensive, except by those who've historically acquired their Microsoft wares by way of sneakery. You know what I mean!!;-) (Not accusing you - I'm talking about every old school Windows "user" I've known.)
Just a few things: Their dominance came wholy on the coat tails of IBM's monopoly (by virtue of IBM's brainwashed userbase) pure and simple.
The userbase keeping their hardware for those reasons was surely misguided given the relative quality of what else was available -- if it was bad enough to need Microsoft, then replacement could have been as good an option. (No, keep that hardware at any price!)
Going GUI (which they did on another vendor's platform - not their own) was one of the few innovations they offered back then and it wasn't even a feature of their OS.
"Paying thru the nose" for OS/2 (on a new PC) was largely a factor of being forced to **also** pay for Windows whether you wanted it or not. (This is the reason I never got a PC.....Windows 3.1 wasn't worth paying for and there was no reasonable option to not get it.)
...and just to further the point: This monopoly bull$#it has been going on since around 1990.
I am anti-Windows for one reason only: When I was looking to upgrade from my Atari 800, I was looking into the PC platform to possibly run OS/2. Of all the vendors in Computer Shopper that I called (and for those old enough to remember Computer Shopper from those days....there were MANY DOZENS of vendors), none of them would sell me a computer without Windows. Not one.
If the OEM PC vendors were not beholden to the Microsoft monopoly, you can be sure we'd have much more to choose from than "meters and meters of Windows machines". You might even find something other than just the PC platform!
I can attest to the fact that HP is no longer a monolithic institution, but rather a bunch of components jammed up against each other operating largely autonomously.
It's what the stockholders want I guess, and will only become more prevalent as HP continues its pace of rapid acquisitions.
I call this the Worldcom Model of Corporate Success. This seems to be the most popular model these days.
That view is more than a little naive. Remember: Capitalism thrives on corruption.
Maybe the guy won't be featured in Fortune magazine anytime soon (think he cares?), but that won't stop him from getting another (rube) investor with more money than they know what to do with.
-Matt
(BTW, for all we know his investors still made a pile of money on the deal.)
SUV drivers are lumbering, but they are not the worst.
I dunno about elsewhere, but of the places I've lived the Volvo drivers are universally the worst. Not even the SUV'ers exuse of having a "lumbering vehicle".
And at least with SUV'ers it seems there is at least a subset of them who *can* drive alright. I have yet to encounter that group of Volvo-ites.
Sounds like something (e.g.) Rush Limbaugh would say. LOL.
Unless you have some numbers or research on the subject you can share, it seems unlikely that there are more idiots in Teaching than any other profession. That's especially true when you consider what we pay teachers on average. (Google "teachers median pay" if you don't know.)
Using the idiots as an excuse to bash the non-idiots is just a small-minded way of dealing with the fact that people are people no matter where you go.
(Anecdotally, that saying seems to have originated during an era when Teaching was dominated by women who were by and large locked out of the "mainstream" workforce. The "cream of that crop" had almost no place else to go but teaching. Go figure...)
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Don't you remember all the tee-shirts and bumper stickers? They weren't all just the product of a stealthy propaganda effort by men in dark vans...
I think you missed the point: The bumper sticker people are the "little ignorance" I referred to. You get them together with the lock-step marketing message that the Bush Administration and media industry were producing and....well, the rest is (almost?) history.
Also, there are no men in dark vans -- that only happens in the movies.
Further, I don't believe any evidence against Saddam Hussein needed to be trumped up. There was plenty of real evidence from (e.g.) the Iran-Iraq war. So to me it's a good question: why was evidence "trumped up"?
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I hate to agree and be a pessimist, but...
Iraq anyone?
Seriously! Do you remember how many people got onboard for **that**?
It's simple really: Combine a little ignorance with some fear-based marketing...
Apparently, it's a **very** effective combo. And fear trumps reason. I'll leave it at that.
It's not like people in the US are jumping to replace their SUVs and trucks with little electric cars.
I guess I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, but look at the top truck/SUV manufacturers and see where they are offering their biggest/most prominent rebates now. This doesn't mean that people en masse are gunning for "little electric cars", but I think it may indicate that gas prices that are staying high might have woken a few people up. Finally.;-)
Manufacturer's are all ramped up for volume truck production, so they can't afford *not* to sell them...buyers aren't (I'm suggesting) as hot for trucks/SUV's as they were in the 90's and early 2000's...hence lots of strong manufacturer rebates!
(I'll save everyone the hassle and just copy and paste from the respective manufacturer sites [where possible] for you...Google on your own for two seconds if you don't belive these numbers.:) )
Ford
Focus $2,500, Fusion $1,000, Mustang $1,500, Five Hundred $2,000, Freestyle $2,000, Edge $1,000 - 0% APR Financing* OR Cash Back F-150,Ranger,Super Duty,Escape,Explorer,Expedition,Sport Trac - 0% APR Financing* PLUS $2007 cash back
Chevrolet's only "Featured offer"
0% APR for 60 months1 on all half-ton extended and crew cabs for well qualified buyers. Silverado has the best available highway fuel economy2 and a warranty better than Ford. Better than Toyota. That's 0% APR for 60 months1 on our most popular Silverado models.
GMC's list...
All-New Sierra 1500 Regular Cab (1) $1,500 Cash Allowance AND $500 Bonus Cash OR 0% APR AND $500 Bonus Cash All-New Sierra 1500 Extended/Crew Cab (1) $1,500 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR All-New Sierra 2500/3500 (1) $1,500 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR Sierra 1500 Classic Series Regular Cab (1) $3,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR Sierra 1500 Classic Series Extended Cab (1) $3,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR Sierra 1500 Classic Series Crew Cab (1) $3,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR Sierra 2500/3500 Classic Series (excludes LBZ) (1) $4,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR Sierra 2500/3500 Classic Series (with LBZ) (1) $4,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR
Toyota They don't seem to post their rebates on their website, so I used automotive.com for Toyota's "Featured Deals"
2007 Toyota Highlander - Max Rebate Cash: $1,250.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 5.9% 2007 Toyota Tacoma - Max Rebate Cash: $500.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 5.9% 2007 Toyota Matrix - Max Rebate Cash: $750.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 4.9% 2007 Toyota Sequoia - Max Rebate Cash: $2,000.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 3.9% 2007 Toyota Highlander Hybrid - Max Rebate Cash: $1,250.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 5.9%
Dodge
Cash Allowance Bonus Cash
Caliber $500 or sweet interest rate*
Caravan/Cargo Van SWB $3000 or sweet interest rate*
Charger (excl. SRT8) $2000 or sweet interest rate* plus $500
Charger R/T $3500 or sweet interest rate* plus $500
Dakota $4000 or sweet interest rate* plus $1000
Durango $4500 or sweet interest rate* plus $1000
Grand Caravan/Cargo Van $4000 or sweet interest rate*
Magnum RT $3000 or sweet interest rate*
Magnum SE/SXT $1500 or sweet interest rate*
Nitro $750
Ram 1500 Mega Cab $5000 or sweet interest rate*
Ram 1500 Quad Cab $6000 or sweet interest rate* plus $1000
Ram 1500 Regular Cab $6000 or sweet interest rate* plus $1000
Ram 2500/3500 Mega Cab $3500 or sweet interest rate*
Ram 2500/3500 Regular/Quad Cab $3500 or sweet interest rate*
Ram Chassis
Despite the headlines, TFA supports Peak Oil theory so far as I know it.
As you mentioned, the big distinction they repeatedly try to draw in the article is that they don't think it will happen "soon".
At least from the Peak Oil discussions I've read, all the proponents agree it's hard as a mutha to predict *when* for many reasons. (Most also agree we'll never truly run out.)
One big reason is that most of the best data on oil reserves is not public data.
So, if these authors are the "inside" crowd(1), then perhaps we now have a more reliable answer to "when": about 24 years.
To be honest, the "when" isn't the real kicker.
The real kicker is what happens when the supply curve no longer points up, but the demand curve still does. Right?
I saw no answers to this question in TFA.
Short answer? The price of just about everything goes up.
But then what?
-------------- Quote from TFA: (1) "CERA draws both on its own data bases and those of its parent company IHS, which has the world's most complete proprietary data bases on oil production and resources."
IMO, one of the stranger trends in commercial business networking (I'm considering my experience working in commercial netwoking from ~1996 to present) is the move by customers away from reliablity in favor of CHEAP and MORE CHEAP.
I'm not sure how the mass delusion took place where businesses started thinking they could get reliability for free, but it happened.
Back in the early- and mid-90's we had customers paying big bucks for analog 9.6kbp leased lines. Often, they would also pony up for a so-called dial backup (DBU as we called it) to use in the event their primary connection had a problem. These customer's almost never had a network outage that woud cripple their business.
It's almost impossilbe to describe how for from this level of reliability we've come since "going digital" -- first with T1's and now the terror of DSL. The sad fact is that DBU hasn't gone anywhere as a technology and almost everyone has the option of having a backup connection of some kind.....yet they do not. And the whining that ensues when customers' poor planning comes home to roost? Give me a break.
I say to all: Quit whining!
You're getting nothing more than you pay for. Same as it's ever been. Likewise, the options for redundancy are still there - if you're mad, why aren't you using them?
So the choice is have an organized Applications folder, or don't use Software Update... pain in ass!
That's a negative, Ghost Rider.
Only Apple's suported Apps have this "limitation", and they only if you want/need to use Software Update to patch your App's. It is not required.
To me (most?) the small sacrifice of leaving Apple's App's where they are is worth it so they can be maintained by Software Update.
Anything you install can be kept anywhere you please. (For my setup, I still install everything to/Applications.)
If you wish to have greater organizational flexibility, you can do what I do (many variations for this):
I have a folder where I keep aliases (shortcuts) organized to all of my App's. I have a few of these folders, in fact. Once you have them initially set up, drop the folder(s) (as well as your actual/Applications folder) into your Dock as aliases and - Voila! - you have super easy access to all of them. There are several benefits you will discover when using a system like this one.
Let's not forget reality -- it's who you know, not what you know, that matters. Always has been and likely always will be.
That cases like this are uncovered more often lately is maybe a good sign, but certainly not a sign things are really changing.
(In fact, what you know can be ignored or forged. Among the plentiful examples illustrating this, one of the more prominent would be The President Of The United States and "Brownie" of FEMA infamy. This practice is widespread, not even isolated and rare.)
Seems more likely that Microsoft would dump Windows once and for all and start porting all their shit to OS X.
Who knows, maybe there's some guru-like devision within Microsoft where they've secretly been making sure all their software has remained compatible with OS X?
This sounds less crazy to me than what Dvorak suggests!
This article shows that engineers of competing products usually respect each other. All too often this is lost when passionate people discuss why they like/dislike a product.
Sentiment is true, but you're kinda comparing the insiders interactions with the interactions of fans (or outsiders).
On the inside, the respect is lost when the profit motive is introduced. If people like this share with each other - as would happen naturally - it can impact their company's profits. Regardless of how good sharing might be for them or others, the profit impact will over-rule in all but the most exceptional cases.
In fact, in the corporate world you could say they are legally obligated to act like this: Link
Stupid title is to try and catch jmorris's attention.
J,
Even after showing you what a straw man your alleged lack of tools in early OS X was... Even after showing you that even that straw man is gone, you keep complaining....
If your goal is to be anal, then there's really not much to talk about....go install your favorite "real" UNIX (whatever the F that means to you...anything dated prior to Fall '03 that can run cpio *without* dropping resource forks, apparently) and enjoy!
If you wish to pitch your "Apple Doesn't Care About UNIX" to someone who (I *think* you'll agree) DOES care about UNIX, maybe you should direct it to the guy in charge of Apple's UNIX effort?
If there were no malware authors, Windows would be easy as cake. Windows itself is extremely reliable, just as robust (if not more so) than the Mac. What makes it so unstable and trouble-prone is a world full of assholes.
That's a sorry apology for Microsoft.
The fact is, there have *always* been better options than a Microsoft-based PC...go as far back chronologically as you like. The reasons change - DOS was cryptic, no GUI, Windows 1-3 weren't worth the bits they were made from, 95 "home of the GPF", (honestly, easy piracy was the best reason to use MS operating systems through this period), *crap* GUI, Security issues, Security issues OUT THE WAZOO.
For all the internal stability the drones in Redmond have been able to achieve in modern renditions of Windows (it doesn't crash just sitting there anymore), they've had that progress *more* than eclipsed by malware vulnerability. *And* it's not too hard to see this situation as nothing more than the legacy of their crap software development standards. Additionally, they've never had the discipline that Apple has had wrt designing a *nice* coherent interface. And I say this while acknowledging that Apple took a few steps back in that department when moving from OS 9 to OS X!!
Last, to cede a little ground to the pro-Windows side so they have somewhere to stand....Window is *definitely* the preferred platform to run games on. This is a "duh" point to an extent - the number of packages for Win32 is enormous - but it is important to me to give credit where it's due.
If you're a hard core gamer, you shouldn't look ay anything but a PC.
Past gaming, the pro-Windows argument gets pretty thin IMO.
If you look at online stores of Dell and Apple and build out similar systems (as close as possible, similar substitutions are allowed!) you will find their prices are essentially the same - sometimes Apple will even have a price $50-$100 better, sometimes the other way.
The main exception is that Dell *also* sells an additional lower class of systems that no one should be stuck with -- their "Basic PC". It's still in the same field as a Mac mini, but stripped to the max and with few options. This is the PC that nobody in this forum would buy for themselves unless it was the last PC in the universe for sale.
If you exclude the *garbage* bottom end systems that Dell sells, over time, there's little difference in price or components.
At least by any conventional definition, Mac's are not overpriced - haven't been for a long time.
(You build it yourself-ers are working a different equation. Possibly much cheaper (or much more) than either Dell or Apple, but not an apples to apples comparison, and not what 99% of people are going to try.)
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Teacher hating very often fits into that same way of thinking.
Business and government are similar in that they are all staffed and run by people (that is, greedy grafty nasty people). They are different in that we elect our government people and there is some oversight of the work and the results - sometimes late, and sometimes shoddy, but the oversight is there.. A business on the other hand, involves no community decision, is run as a dictatorship and there is minimal oversight (less and less every day since the 80's).
I'm not anti-business, just honest. The problems come from the people, not the organizational method. The organizational method is supposed to be a way of compensating for the problems while minimizing the bad side-effects.
Being anti-gov't or anti-teacher is just a way of parroting something you heard from someone else -- it's not a legitimate position to argue from.
(Trying not to repeat others' comments in mine...)
;-) (Not accusing you - I'm talking about every old school Windows "user" I've known.)
I know you're self-branding as a Ubunutu user, but I will say you have an unfairly (IMO) apologetic opinion of Microsoft in these regards.
I'm not aware of Microsoft's solutions ever being regarded as inexpensive, except by those who've historically acquired their Microsoft wares by way of sneakery. You know what I mean!!
Just a few things:
Their dominance came wholy on the coat tails of IBM's monopoly (by virtue of IBM's brainwashed userbase) pure and simple.
The userbase keeping their hardware for those reasons was surely misguided given the relative quality of what else was available -- if it was bad enough to need Microsoft, then replacement could have been as good an option. (No, keep that hardware at any price!)
Going GUI (which they did on another vendor's platform - not their own) was one of the few innovations they offered back then and it wasn't even a feature of their OS.
"Paying thru the nose" for OS/2 (on a new PC) was largely a factor of being forced to **also** pay for Windows whether you wanted it or not. (This is the reason I never got a PC.....Windows 3.1 wasn't worth paying for and there was no reasonable option to not get it.)
...and just to further the point: This monopoly bull$#it has been going on since around 1990.
I am anti-Windows for one reason only: When I was looking to upgrade from my Atari 800, I was looking into the PC platform to possibly run OS/2. Of all the vendors in Computer Shopper that I called (and for those old enough to remember Computer Shopper from those days....there were MANY DOZENS of vendors), none of them would sell me a computer without Windows. Not one.
If the OEM PC vendors were not beholden to the Microsoft monopoly, you can be sure we'd have much more to choose from than "meters and meters of Windows machines". You might even find something other than just the PC platform!
Good luck!
-Matt
I call this the Worldcom Model of Corporate Success. This seems to be the most popular model these days.
If you play more and more at an exponential rate for years and years?
Yes, I can predict you will hit the lottery.
That view is more than a little naive. Remember: Capitalism thrives on corruption.
Maybe the guy won't be featured in Fortune magazine anytime soon (think he cares?), but that won't stop him from getting another (rube) investor with more money than they know what to do with.
-Matt
(BTW, for all we know his investors still made a pile of money on the deal.)
I dunno about elsewhere, but of the places I've lived the Volvo drivers are universally the worst. Not even the SUV'ers exuse of having a "lumbering vehicle".
And at least with SUV'ers it seems there is at least a subset of them who *can* drive alright. I have yet to encounter that group of Volvo-ites.
Old....and played out.
Sounds like something (e.g.) Rush Limbaugh would say. LOL.
Unless you have some numbers or research on the subject you can share, it seems unlikely that there are more idiots in Teaching than any other profession. That's especially true when you consider what we pay teachers on average. (Google "teachers median pay" if you don't know.)
Using the idiots as an excuse to bash the non-idiots is just a small-minded way of dealing with the fact that people are people no matter where you go.
(Anecdotally, that saying seems to have originated during an era when Teaching was dominated by women who were by and large locked out of the "mainstream" workforce. The "cream of that crop" had almost no place else to go but teaching. Go figure...)
I think you missed the point: The bumper sticker people are the "little ignorance" I referred to. You get them together with the lock-step marketing message that the Bush Administration and media industry were producing and....well, the rest is (almost?) history.
Also, there are no men in dark vans -- that only happens in the movies.
Further, I don't believe any evidence against Saddam Hussein needed to be trumped up. There was plenty of real evidence from (e.g.) the Iran-Iraq war. So to me it's a good question: why was evidence "trumped up"?
I hate to agree and be a pessimist, but...
Iraq anyone?
Seriously! Do you remember how many people got onboard for **that**?
It's simple really: Combine a little ignorance with some fear-based marketing...
Apparently, it's a **very** effective combo. And fear trumps reason. I'll leave it at that.
Dam...hate to reply to myself, but one more solid link from Consumer Reports:
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I guess I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, but look at the top truck/SUV manufacturers and see where they are offering their biggest/most prominent rebates now. This doesn't mean that people en masse are gunning for "little electric cars", but I think it may indicate that gas prices that are staying high might have woken a few people up. Finally. ;-)
:) )
Manufacturer's are all ramped up for volume truck production, so they can't afford *not* to sell them...buyers aren't (I'm suggesting) as hot for trucks/SUV's as they were in the 90's and early 2000's...hence lots of strong manufacturer rebates!
(I'll save everyone the hassle and just copy and paste from the respective manufacturer sites [where possible] for you...Google on your own for two seconds if you don't belive these numbers.
Ford
Focus $2,500, Fusion $1,000, Mustang $1,500, Five Hundred $2,000, Freestyle $2,000, Edge $1,000 - 0% APR Financing* OR Cash Back
F-150,Ranger,Super Duty,Escape,Explorer,Expedition,Sport Trac - 0% APR Financing* PLUS $2007 cash back
Chevrolet's only "Featured offer"
0% APR for 60 months1 on all half-ton extended and crew cabs for well qualified buyers. Silverado has the best available highway fuel economy2 and a warranty better than Ford. Better than Toyota. That's 0% APR for 60 months1 on our most popular Silverado models.
GMC's list...
All-New Sierra 1500 Regular Cab (1) $1,500 Cash Allowance AND $500 Bonus Cash OR 0% APR AND $500 Bonus Cash
All-New Sierra 1500 Extended/Crew Cab (1) $1,500 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR
All-New Sierra 2500/3500 (1) $1,500 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR
Sierra 1500 Classic Series Regular Cab (1) $3,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR
Sierra 1500 Classic Series Extended Cab (1) $3,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR
Sierra 1500 Classic Series Crew Cab (1) $3,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR
Sierra 2500/3500 Classic Series (excludes LBZ) (1) $4,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR
Sierra 2500/3500 Classic Series (with LBZ) (1) $4,000 Cash Allowance OR 0% APR
Toyota
They don't seem to post their rebates on their website, so I used automotive.com for Toyota's "Featured Deals"
2007 Toyota Highlander - Max Rebate Cash: $1,250.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 5.9%
2007 Toyota Tacoma - Max Rebate Cash: $500.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 5.9%
2007 Toyota Matrix - Max Rebate Cash: $750.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 4.9%
2007 Toyota Sequoia - Max Rebate Cash: $2,000.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 3.9%
2007 Toyota Highlander Hybrid - Max Rebate Cash: $1,250.00 - Finance Incentives: 48 months - 5.9%
Dodge
Cash Allowance Bonus Cash
Caliber $500 or sweet interest rate*
Caravan/Cargo Van SWB $3000 or sweet interest rate*
Charger (excl. SRT8) $2000 or sweet interest rate* plus $500
Charger R/T $3500 or sweet interest rate* plus $500
Dakota $4000 or sweet interest rate* plus $1000
Durango $4500 or sweet interest rate* plus $1000
Grand Caravan/Cargo Van $4000 or sweet interest rate*
Magnum RT $3000 or sweet interest rate*
Magnum SE/SXT $1500 or sweet interest rate*
Nitro $750
Ram 1500 Mega Cab $5000 or sweet interest rate*
Ram 1500 Quad Cab $6000 or sweet interest rate* plus $1000
Ram 1500 Regular Cab $6000 or sweet interest rate* plus $1000
Ram 2500/3500 Mega Cab $3500 or sweet interest rate*
Ram 2500/3500 Regular/Quad Cab $3500 or sweet interest rate*
Ram Chassis
I suspect (nay, hope) that Godwin's law someday covers "Apple monopoly" comments in Microsoft monopoly threads.
(Maybe that law will at least be semi-useful at that point.)
Agreed!
Despite the headlines, TFA supports Peak Oil theory so far as I know it.
As you mentioned, the big distinction they repeatedly try to draw in the article is that they don't think it will happen "soon".
At least from the Peak Oil discussions I've read, all the proponents agree it's hard as a mutha to predict *when* for many reasons. (Most also agree we'll never truly run out.)
One big reason is that most of the best data on oil reserves is not public data.
So, if these authors are the "inside" crowd(1), then perhaps we now have a more reliable answer to "when": about 24 years.
To be honest, the "when" isn't the real kicker.
The real kicker is what happens when the supply curve no longer points up, but the demand curve still does. Right?
I saw no answers to this question in TFA.
Short answer? The price of just about everything goes up.
But then what?
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Quote from TFA:
(1) "CERA draws both on its own data bases and those of its parent company IHS, which has the world's most complete proprietary data bases on oil production and resources."
"In some areas, two lines aren't enough. I worked for an ISP with a data-center near a major fault line."
In areas like this you'll want to hook up with the data-center NOT on a fault line!
Wow.
IMO, one of the stranger trends in commercial business networking (I'm considering my experience working in commercial netwoking from ~1996 to present) is the move by customers away from reliablity in favor of CHEAP and MORE CHEAP.
I'm not sure how the mass delusion took place where businesses started thinking they could get reliability for free, but it happened.
Back in the early- and mid-90's we had customers paying big bucks for analog 9.6kbp leased lines. Often, they would also pony up for a so-called dial backup (DBU as we called it) to use in the event their primary connection had a problem. These customer's almost never had a network outage that woud cripple their business.
It's almost impossilbe to describe how for from this level of reliability we've come since "going digital" -- first with T1's and now the terror of DSL. The sad fact is that DBU hasn't gone anywhere as a technology and almost everyone has the option of having a backup connection of some kind.....yet they do not. And the whining that ensues when customers' poor planning comes home to roost? Give me a break.
I say to all: Quit whining!
You're getting nothing more than you pay for. Same as it's ever been. Likewise, the options for redundancy are still there - if you're mad, why aren't you using them?
Don't you mean 1000 monkeys at 1000 keyboards? Something like that? ;-)
In all seriousness, this is one strategy (and usually strength) of the wiki model.
That's a negative, Ghost Rider.
Only Apple's suported Apps have this "limitation", and they only if you want/need to use Software Update to patch your App's. It is not required.
To me (most?) the small sacrifice of leaving Apple's App's where they are is worth it so they can be maintained by Software Update.
Anything you install can be kept anywhere you please. (For my setup, I still install everything to
If you wish to have greater organizational flexibility, you can do what I do (many variations for this):
I have a folder where I keep aliases (shortcuts) organized to all of my App's. I have a few of these folders, in fact. Once you have them initially set up, drop the folder(s) (as well as your actual
Let's not forget reality -- it's who you know, not what you know, that matters. Always has been and likely always will be.
That cases like this are uncovered more often lately is maybe a good sign, but certainly not a sign things are really changing.
(In fact, what you know can be ignored or forged. Among the plentiful examples illustrating this, one of the more prominent would be The President Of The United States and "Brownie" of FEMA infamy. This practice is widespread, not even isolated and rare.)
Seems more likely that Microsoft would dump Windows once and for all and start porting all their shit to OS X.
Who knows, maybe there's some guru-like devision within Microsoft where they've secretly been making sure all their software has remained compatible with OS X?
This sounds less crazy to me than what Dvorak suggests!
-Matt
On the inside, the respect is lost when the profit motive is introduced. If people like this share with each other - as would happen naturally - it can impact their company's profits. Regardless of how good sharing might be for them or others, the profit impact will over-rule in all but the most exceptional cases.
In fact, in the corporate world you could say they are legally obligated to act like this: Link
Stupid title is to try and catch jmorris's attention.
2 2
:-)
J,
Even after showing you what a straw man your alleged lack of tools in early OS X was...
Even after showing you that even that straw man is gone, you keep complaining....
If your goal is to be anal, then there's really not much to talk about....go install your favorite "real" UNIX (whatever the F that means to you...anything dated prior to Fall '03 that can run cpio *without* dropping resource forks, apparently) and enjoy!
If you wish to pitch your "Apple Doesn't Care About UNIX" to someone who (I *think* you'll agree) DOES care about UNIX, maybe you should direct it to the guy in charge of Apple's UNIX effort?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22jordan+hubbard%
Go ahead and let the (co?)founder of FreeBSD know you think he's doing a piss poor job of caring about UNIX.
That's a sorry apology for Microsoft.
The fact is, there have *always* been better options than a Microsoft-based PC...go as far back chronologically as you like. The reasons change - DOS was cryptic, no GUI, Windows 1-3 weren't worth the bits they were made from, 95 "home of the GPF", (honestly, easy piracy was the best reason to use MS operating systems through this period), *crap* GUI, Security issues, Security issues OUT THE WAZOO.
For all the internal stability the drones in Redmond have been able to achieve in modern renditions of Windows (it doesn't crash just sitting there anymore), they've had that progress *more* than eclipsed by malware vulnerability. *And* it's not too hard to see this situation as nothing more than the legacy of their crap software development standards. Additionally, they've never had the discipline that Apple has had wrt designing a *nice* coherent interface. And I say this while acknowledging that Apple took a few steps back in that department when moving from OS 9 to OS X!!
Last, to cede a little ground to the pro-Windows side so they have somewhere to stand....Window is *definitely* the preferred platform to run games on. This is a "duh" point to an extent - the number of packages for Win32 is enormous - but it is important to me to give credit where it's due.
If you're a hard core gamer, you shouldn't look ay anything but a PC.
Past gaming, the pro-Windows argument gets pretty thin IMO.
If you look at online stores of Dell and Apple and build out similar systems (as close as possible, similar substitutions are allowed!) you will find their prices are essentially the same - sometimes Apple will even have a price $50-$100 better, sometimes the other way.
The main exception is that Dell *also* sells an additional lower class of systems that no one should be stuck with -- their "Basic PC". It's still in the same field as a Mac mini, but stripped to the max and with few options. This is the PC that nobody in this forum would buy for themselves unless it was the last PC in the universe for sale.
If you exclude the *garbage* bottom end systems that Dell sells, over time, there's little difference in price or components.
At least by any conventional definition, Mac's are not overpriced - haven't been for a long time.
(You build it yourself-ers are working a different equation. Possibly much cheaper (or much more) than either Dell or Apple, but not an apples to apples comparison, and not what 99% of people are going to try.)
There's already a Tiki Wiki, you know..