Actually, an increasing number of OS X apps require an installer, to put things like libraries and other resources in the necessary locations. For example, the vast majority of an Adobe Creative Suite install is located entirely outside the Applications folder, which is why you must use the un/installer to add or remove components of it.
When I was in school, the last subject I wanted to study was Philosophy. BORING! Then I found myself in a Philosophy class with a great teacher, and it became one of my favorite subjects. I even minored in it in college. Granted, I stuck with Comp Sci as my major, because I'd already grown fond of eating every day and sleeping indoors every night, but if there were a way to make a living as a professional Philosopher, this story would have had a Very Good Point to it.:)
Too many sales people simply believe (and repeat) what the marketing folks tell them. When I worked in retail sales, I did my best to try out the hot new features I was supposed to be flogging, so I could at least not talk about the ones that didn't really live up to the hype.
Your sense of humor are as good as your grammar.:)
Actually, you've just touched upon an argument I plan to take to the Supreme Court as a class action on behalf of all corporations, that their inalienable rights under the Equal Protection clause are being violated. Corporations are denied the right to vote, to attend the school of their choice, to enlist in the armed services, to hold elective office, to adopt children, to marry the person (natural or otherwise) of their choice, etc.
His argument that a company is a physical thing analogous to a machine is flawed. In our legal system, a company is a "non-natural person", so what he's trying to do is to patent a person, and that's a definite no-no.
OK, so now the terrorists know that on a particular day, probably several years ago (based on the age of the images of my neighborhood), there were two nuclear subs docked at Faslane. What exactly is the tactical value of this information?
And in a related news article,The Sun reports that Google Earth's new ocean-floor imagery reveals the location of the lost city of Atlantis on the ocean floor west of the Canary Islands. A photo of Patrick Duffy is used as an illustration, and a reaction commentary by none other than Plato accompanies the story. You can't make shit like this up... because The Sun does it for you.
And according to the Sun, Google Earth "even reveals the longitude and latitude of... Faslane, Scotland"! Without Google's help, terrorists would have needed access to an Ordnance Survey map of Argyll and pocket calculators to ascertain this esoteric information!
Oh, please! GM doesn't make a gas-sipper. Never have. Over the past 20 years I've tried in vain to buy a good fuel-efficient car from the Big Three. The only things any of them have made that satisfied my efficiency standards have been cheap, poorly-made boxes with few amenities (e.g. Ford Festiva) that deliberately pushed the comfort-loving American buyer toward their more expensive (read "profitable") models.
If you had even glanced at the computer we're talking about, you'd realize what a stupid suggestion this is. The distinction between a 17" primary display and a 10" secondary display is not at all "arbitrary".
In addition to being a computer professional, I'm a Wacom-using designer/illustrator... and the secondary display is on the wrong side for me as well. I've always been used to finding tool palettes on the left side of my display, so when I added a second display as a place to put them (so I could have the main display for my work itself), I put it on the left side. It feels more natural to reach for them there, maybe because it simulates how an artist would hold a physical palette of paints: in his left hand. Not that I would be likely to buy a neither-fish-nor-fowl monstrosity like this regardless, but the fact that it's "backwards" to my way of working nixes it completely.
It's a bit sobering to realize that we're talking about a mission for which I had to stop for a few seconds to figure out whether I'll still be alive when it's completed.
For the record, I'll be in my early 60s. So... probably.
(Not that a negative answer would mean it wouldn't be worth spending money on. Future generations deserve their own Apollos, Voyagers, and Vikings.)
But seriously, this isn't about some poor child learning that she doesn't have rights (she does, including the right to remain silent and to have an attorney in a trial by her peers). It's about a disruptive adolescent learning that she has responsibilities. That's one of the things that schools are supposed to teach.
Don't be, because it has been done. Giving clients the source code to modify was fairly common in ye olden dayes, back before hardware became a standardized commodity and software became a mass-market shrinkwrapped product. When a client licensed software, they might buy a support contract which would get them X amount of customization, or they'd get the source code and support it themselves, or both.
A competent contract lawyer who works in the field of software licensing can easily help with this. All the OP needs is a business-to-business software license with a provision that the client gets the source code to modify for their own use as needed. It's something that's been done since long before the GPL or BSD license came along. But a tech looking for an off-the-shelf license to modify and use is a bit like a lawyer downloading the Linux kernel source and trying to hack it to run on his homebrew hardware.
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Actually, an increasing number of OS X apps require an installer, to put things like libraries and other resources in the necessary locations. For example, the vast majority of an Adobe Creative Suite install is located entirely outside the Applications folder, which is why you must use the un/installer to add or remove components of it.
"Fetch" and "Sit" are commands that the user intuitively understands, and might even guess at if he wasn't already familiar with them.
"Apt-get install" is not.
When I was in school, the last subject I wanted to study was Philosophy. BORING! Then I found myself in a Philosophy class with a great teacher, and it became one of my favorite subjects. I even minored in it in college. Granted, I stuck with Comp Sci as my major, because I'd already grown fond of eating every day and sleeping indoors every night, but if there were a way to make a living as a professional Philosopher, this story would have had a Very Good Point to it. :)
Too many sales people simply believe (and repeat) what the marketing folks tell them. When I worked in retail sales, I did my best to try out the hot new features I was supposed to be flogging, so I could at least not talk about the ones that didn't really live up to the hype.
"Teach those who are interested."
And what about those who'd rather go home and play Wii? Don't teach them anything?
Your sense of humor are as good as your grammar. :)
Actually, you've just touched upon an argument I plan to take to the Supreme Court as a class action on behalf of all corporations, that their inalienable rights under the Equal Protection clause are being violated. Corporations are denied the right to vote, to attend the school of their choice, to enlist in the armed services, to hold elective office, to adopt children, to marry the person (natural or otherwise) of their choice, etc.
His argument that a company is a physical thing analogous to a machine is flawed. In our legal system, a company is a "non-natural person", so what he's trying to do is to patent a person, and that's a definite no-no.
So apparently it is possible to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle?
This facial expression control system sounds like a great way to make speech recocognition seem unambiguous and reliable by comparison.
...and Transport for London says "Mind the gaps."
OK, so now the terrorists know that on a particular day, probably several years ago (based on the age of the images of my neighborhood), there were two nuclear subs docked at Faslane. What exactly is the tactical value of this information?
And in a related news article, The Sun reports that Google Earth's new ocean-floor imagery reveals the location of the lost city of Atlantis on the ocean floor west of the Canary Islands. A photo of Patrick Duffy is used as an illustration, and a reaction commentary by none other than Plato accompanies the story. You can't make shit like this up... because The Sun does it for you.
And according to the Sun, Google Earth "even reveals the longitude and latitude of ... Faslane, Scotland"! Without Google's help, terrorists would have needed access to an Ordnance Survey map of Argyll and pocket calculators to ascertain this esoteric information!
If you're impressed by a car getting 30+mpg, maybe you need to pull your own fuel efficiency standards out of the 1970s.
Oh, please! GM doesn't make a gas-sipper. Never have. Over the past 20 years I've tried in vain to buy a good fuel-efficient car from the Big Three. The only things any of them have made that satisfied my efficiency standards have been cheap, poorly-made boxes with few amenities (e.g. Ford Festiva) that deliberately pushed the comfort-loving American buyer toward their more expensive (read "profitable") models.
I've actually just transmitted an update to the article about Pluto in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It now reads "Mostly Boring."
So apparently Pluto farts.
If you had even glanced at the computer we're talking about, you'd realize what a stupid suggestion this is. The distinction between a 17" primary display and a 10" secondary display is not at all "arbitrary".
In addition to being a computer professional, I'm a Wacom-using designer/illustrator... and the secondary display is on the wrong side for me as well. I've always been used to finding tool palettes on the left side of my display, so when I added a second display as a place to put them (so I could have the main display for my work itself), I put it on the left side. It feels more natural to reach for them there, maybe because it simulates how an artist would hold a physical palette of paints: in his left hand. Not that I would be likely to buy a neither-fish-nor-fowl monstrosity like this regardless, but the fact that it's "backwards" to my way of working nixes it completely.
It's a bit sobering to realize that we're talking about a mission for which I had to stop for a few seconds to figure out whether I'll still be alive when it's completed.
For the record, I'll be in my early 60s. So... probably.
(Not that a negative answer would mean it wouldn't be worth spending money on. Future generations deserve their own Apollos, Voyagers, and Vikings.)
Maybe you should try wrapping your head around the fact that you don't know most parents.
Sure, Mom can pick her up and take her home as soon as she gets out of work at 6PM, or Dad can pick her up as soon as he makes parole.
What old TV sitcom do you think we're watching here?
Peter Noone, of Herman's Hermits fame.
But seriously, this isn't about some poor child learning that she doesn't have rights (she does, including the right to remain silent and to have an attorney in a trial by her peers). It's about a disruptive adolescent learning that she has responsibilities. That's one of the things that schools are supposed to teach.
Don't be, because it has been done. Giving clients the source code to modify was fairly common in ye olden dayes, back before hardware became a standardized commodity and software became a mass-market shrinkwrapped product. When a client licensed software, they might buy a support contract which would get them X amount of customization, or they'd get the source code and support it themselves, or both.
A competent contract lawyer who works in the field of software licensing can easily help with this. All the OP needs is a business-to-business software license with a provision that the client gets the source code to modify for their own use as needed. It's something that's been done since long before the GPL or BSD license came along. But a tech looking for an off-the-shelf license to modify and use is a bit like a lawyer downloading the Linux kernel source and trying to hack it to run on his homebrew hardware.