Crazy isn't it? You'd think that with so many businesses on Linux these days, there'd *be* a native QuickBooks. Have you tried wine? This seems like one of those things that would work pretty well.
So after starting all this hub bub I went and used my copy of Photoshop Elements. Turns out that the n00b interface is pretty annoying IMO, although I don't have a Mac here right now with which to re-experience iPhoto. Of course, if you turn that off you still have the better part of the professional product, which is nice. I say good job Adobe for making their commodity products reasonably priced so as to profit from software that would otherwise be unused in the non-professional world (or at least not paid for), while ensuring that professionals will still pay for their core product.
The article just states without proof that iLife is better than (admittedly pared down versions of) Adobe's tools, some of which are the most powerful around, because they're "complex." It's worth mentioning here that elements in particular has a freaking wizard for everything. If somebody wants to compare iLife and Adobe intro stuff side by side, I'd like to see it, but when it's on the short list of reasons why iMac is better, I need more than one sentence.
I'd probably take back the analogy if I could (although it was a great deal of fun thinking it up), but I still believe that this point was just pulled out of the author's rear orifice.
And another gripe: he also seems to assume that Vista is vulnerable to all the malware that XP is. Fact is, that is one area where Vista has made huge progress over XP. Combine Windows Defender with what I like to call "user mode Internet Explorer" and the probable malware intrusion vectors are things like Bonzi Buddy. In as much as the normal AIM client is malware, it works on mac too.
It comes with Elements, which may as well be Photoshop unless you're planning on doing professional print work. Perhaps I should have noted in my analogy that you are building your own fence, not someone else's.
From TFA:
includes a group of Adobe multimedia programs that are less well integrated and more complex. So you got Photoshop and you're whining that you want iLife back? That's like being given a table saw and complaining that it's not a dremel tool -- fine if you're going to complete your uber case mod, but it's going to suck trying to a build a fence with it.
malloc need return only contiguous virtual memory. Memory mapping is not part of the C spec. However it does make sense performance and implementation wise to return a contiguous physical block if you can. In practice, memory will have to be contiguous at least to the level of the page size in use (4k is a typical example). Usually these align well enough with cache line boundaries that this kind of fragmentation is not an issue, although other posters seem to have experience to the contrary.
My feeling is that they won't talk about it because if you support nukes you will drive half the environmental lobby crazy. If you oppose you'll drive the other half crazy, along with the energy realists of the world. Politicians won't say anything unless they can pander to some well-defined group of people without completely pissing off another.
With respect to the government of America, I have a reasonable fear of it. I'm not about to start an armed resistance, but I think the right to bear arms is fundamental to liberty. Gun control has been enacted here, but it is not as far reaching or as effective.
One thing Wikipedia was unclear on is who can get these licences in Australia. In California, needing a licence is sort of code for you can't have one unless you're a cop, depending on your county. For instance, in San Francisco, you're out of luck even if you are a cop. Your service weapons are yours, but good luck getting anything else approved. I realize that's a bit me-centric, but I'm sure other people would like to know more about who can get licences and how. You might add to that article your knowledge of the subject.
Perhaps gun control works better on an island. Can't even keep the felons away from the guns they did ban over here. I need a permit to keep a small handgun for protection (the bad guys do have guns here) but every 2 bit gangster wannabe has an Uzi). I blame the porous Mexican border for that supply. Down there, private security have full automatics.
Also, I read on wikipedia that Australia banned pump shotguns, save for certain classes of people that don't include farmers. Those are commonly kept on farms that I've been to, as well as in hunting situations (although you are limited to 3 rounds when hunting, for the animals sake.)
just not automatics, semi-automatics or handguns in most cases Which leave you what, muzzle loading muskets? They've taken away anything with which you can reasonably defend yourself from criminals, let alone the government.
Who's to say what belongs in an encyclopedia. If you want to recreate World Book then do that, but if you're going to use the Wiki form you have to take advantage of its power.
is why there's no 1-to-1 correspondence with dollars or euros or fcking rupees for all I care. Beyond obscuring the cost, the exchange rate seems deliberately chosen to make things seem cheaper than they are.
That said, we're talking about a grand total of a few bucks here. I put more stock in the whining about paying for online access.
Full disclosure: I am a XBL subscriber and I want new rock band songs!
The 40 hour work, if it's even still alive, mandates only that your employer pay you more if you work more. It says nothing about how many hours they can require you to work. Even so, the 40 hours have become bog-standard in many professions.
You are quite free to "home-school" your children on the farm where they all have chores to do all day long. Yet for some reason most people choose not to. I think you could completely repeal child labor laws and see no measurable increased incidence of actual child labor.
By the way, I have never lived libertarianism and neither has any living American. I'd like to give it a try.
Once oil is paid for in Euros, not dollars. That's what the military is for.
Seriously, though, I've been hearing this theory on the Internets for way too long. You're basically saying that the only business anyone does with the US is oil. Even if no one has to buy dollars to buy oil they will still need them if they want to have any part of the output of the country with the largest GDP in the world. I almost wish someone would start trading oil in Euros so this theory could be proven wrong.
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Crazy isn't it? You'd think that with so many businesses on Linux these days, there'd *be* a native QuickBooks. Have you tried wine? This seems like one of those things that would work pretty well.
Fedora is a little bit "better" about this. You often end up with less than current versions of apps, though, which can be a problem.
So after starting all this hub bub I went and used my copy of Photoshop Elements. Turns out that the n00b interface is pretty annoying IMO, although I don't have a Mac here right now with which to re-experience iPhoto. Of course, if you turn that off you still have the better part of the professional product, which is nice. I say good job Adobe for making their commodity products reasonably priced so as to profit from software that would otherwise be unused in the non-professional world (or at least not paid for), while ensuring that professionals will still pay for their core product.
Somebody else posted that. It could be wrong. Not a bad guess though.
Actually I Picasa for casuals photo takers.
The article just states without proof that iLife is better than (admittedly pared down versions of) Adobe's tools, some of which are the most powerful around, because they're "complex." It's worth mentioning here that elements in particular has a freaking wizard for everything. If somebody wants to compare iLife and Adobe intro stuff side by side, I'd like to see it, but when it's on the short list of reasons why iMac is better, I need more than one sentence.
I'd probably take back the analogy if I could (although it was a great deal of fun thinking it up), but I still believe that this point was just pulled out of the author's rear orifice.
And another gripe: he also seems to assume that Vista is vulnerable to all the malware that XP is. Fact is, that is one area where Vista has made huge progress over XP. Combine Windows Defender with what I like to call "user mode Internet Explorer" and the probable malware intrusion vectors are things like Bonzi Buddy. In as much as the normal AIM client is malware, it works on mac too.
It comes with Elements, which may as well be Photoshop unless you're planning on doing professional print work. Perhaps I should have noted in my analogy that you are building your own fence, not someone else's.
Jailarity?
(I have to type something now to get past the lameness filter so I'll tell you that jailarity was my new word for a college class.)
malloc need return only contiguous virtual memory. Memory mapping is not part of the C spec. However it does make sense performance and implementation wise to return a contiguous physical block if you can. In practice, memory will have to be contiguous at least to the level of the page size in use (4k is a typical example). Usually these align well enough with cache line boundaries that this kind of fragmentation is not an issue, although other posters seem to have experience to the contrary.
Actually I was able to follow the link as posted. Perhaps they've fixed that little bug.
My feeling is that they won't talk about it because if you support nukes you will drive half the environmental lobby crazy. If you oppose you'll drive the other half crazy, along with the energy realists of the world. Politicians won't say anything unless they can pander to some well-defined group of people without completely pissing off another.
Firefox doesn't display the page properly, so you can't see Ron Paul. It cuts off the bottom of the list. At least in my setup.
Funny, I can't see the bottom of the list. I think it's a conspiracy by Firefox to ignore Ron Paul.
With respect to the government of America, I have a reasonable fear of it. I'm not about to start an armed resistance, but I think the right to bear arms is fundamental to liberty. Gun control has been enacted here, but it is not as far reaching or as effective.
One thing Wikipedia was unclear on is who can get these licences in Australia. In California, needing a licence is sort of code for you can't have one unless you're a cop, depending on your county. For instance, in San Francisco, you're out of luck even if you are a cop. Your service weapons are yours, but good luck getting anything else approved. I realize that's a bit me-centric, but I'm sure other people would like to know more about who can get licences and how. You might add to that article your knowledge of the subject.
Perhaps gun control works better on an island. Can't even keep the felons away from the guns they did ban over here. I need a permit to keep a small handgun for protection (the bad guys do have guns here) but every 2 bit gangster wannabe has an Uzi). I blame the porous Mexican border for that supply. Down there, private security have full automatics.
Also, I read on wikipedia that Australia banned pump shotguns, save for certain classes of people that don't include farmers. Those are commonly kept on farms that I've been to, as well as in hunting situations (although you are limited to 3 rounds when hunting, for the animals sake.)
Damn at that rate it's not even worth pirating movies. Maybe that's their evil plan...
I would prefer that people who want to run governments as if they were bureaucracies would sod off and run universities instead.
Who's to say what belongs in an encyclopedia. If you want to recreate World Book then do that, but if you're going to use the Wiki form you have to take advantage of its power.
Sony laptops also ship with the "mini" Firewire ports, which is annoying as shit b/c your iPod discharges while you're forcing songs onto it.
Ummm I was talking about pegging XBL points to dollars (the subject of this discussion). But thanks for macro economics lecture.
is why there's no 1-to-1 correspondence with dollars or euros or fcking rupees for all I care. Beyond obscuring the cost, the exchange rate seems deliberately chosen to make things seem cheaper than they are.
That said, we're talking about a grand total of a few bucks here. I put more stock in the whining about paying for online access.
Full disclosure: I am a XBL subscriber and I want new rock band songs!
The 40 hour work, if it's even still alive, mandates only that your employer pay you more if you work more. It says nothing about how many hours they can require you to work. Even so, the 40 hours have become bog-standard in many professions.
You are quite free to "home-school" your children on the farm where they all have chores to do all day long. Yet for some reason most people choose not to. I think you could completely repeal child labor laws and see no measurable increased incidence of actual child labor.
By the way, I have never lived libertarianism and neither has any living American. I'd like to give it a try.
Seriously, though, I've been hearing this theory on the Internets for way too long. You're basically saying that the only business anyone does with the US is oil. Even if no one has to buy dollars to buy oil they will still need them if they want to have any part of the output of the country with the largest GDP in the world. I almost wish someone would start trading oil in Euros so this theory could be proven wrong.