Take my pick? Of what? I click on that and all you've done is search for "innocent executed USA" on Google... if you'd bothered to read any of the results you'd have come to the same conclusion that I have - no one has proved that an innocent man has been executed in the US. In fact, one of the links says:
"If the tests, which Democratic Gov. Mark Warner is expected to order before he leaves office in mid-January, clear Roger Coleman, death penalty opponents say it would be the first time in the history of the American death penalty that an executed convict is scientifically shown to be innocent." That's because before nobody has bothered.
While I will concede that there is almost no way that an innocent has NOT been executed by mistake, I am still puzzled by your statement... can you cite even one example? I've never seen this before. Take your pick.
Nevertheless, we do not abandon other systems because an "innocent" was killed. Tens of thousands of innocents are killed on the roads in the US every year, yet we don't outlaw cars. Whenever a bridge or tunnel is constructed, we accept that construction workers may get seriously injured and die. The mere fact that an innocent person is killed by a certain system does not mean that you should just throw the whole system out the window. Hey, my comment was mostly about your statement "Is there any semblance of due process in China?" At least in the less civilized states of the US it's nearly impossible to get a judge to accept any evidence that the convict is innocent. If only because he, the DA and the sheriff/cop involved were re-elected or got better jobs because of the conviction. Your question should be: "Is there any semblance of due process in the USA?"
The difference is this: in China the government trys to get rid of crime, so they make short process of those they think are criminals. In the USA the populace wants to feel safe. To do so, they want a fast arrest, a swift trial, a hard judgement and a slow execution. And they have the power to elect the people who will give them that - as if it wasn't bad enough they are allowed to do that with politicians. Notice how "try to get rid of crime" doesn't show up on the agenda?
and host the German version on de.gmail.com instead of gmail.de ? There isn't a German version of Gmail. Well, not the way you think there is. First of all, Gmail.de is actually owned by someone else. And all gmail.tld as well as googlemail.com redirect to mail.google.com anyway.
Yes, some states in the US execute people who have killed another human being. China executes people for things like corruption or drug trafficking.
Inmates in the US typically spend over 10 years winding their way through the legal system before they are actually executed. Is there any semblance of due process in China? You'd have a point if there hadn't been several cases of innocents being executed in the USA.
Does anyone (any Germans in the house?) know what they DO with this? Why is it required to register my phone? Why? Relax, it isn't the evil government asking you for the data, it is the benevolent mega-corporation - your data is in safe hands.
How is a country that makes it illegal to speak favorably about Nazis a "bastion of freedom"?
(Not that I have anything favorable to say about the Nazis, mind you.) You can speak favorably about Nazis as long as you want in Germany, you can even be one - as long as you don't wear a swastika on your shirt or yell "Heil Hitler" in public. Where did you get that silly idea? Because you can go to jail if you repeatedly publicly deny the holocaust?
Is using a dictionary really that hard for Apple nuts? No wonder Jobs said that more than one button on the mouse would confuse his customers...
So you admit YOU can't use a dictionary, including not being able to tell the difference between different and distinct. The distinction is in the way Microsoft treats the two, you confused Microsoft user (both by Microsoft and yourself), too dumb to use a one-button mouse.
Not to mention that you admited that Windows and its Server versions are different, if only by a setting in the Registry.
. (1) The distinction between Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server is non existent. It's the only commercial operating system in the world where that's true.
Do you realize Windows NT since 1992 has had a shared code base between the client and server versions. (You could literally make Windows NT Workstation into Server by changing a registry key.) Why are all the Mac experts clueless to anything non-Mac? He didn't say difference, he said distinction. Why is it that Windows experts can never tell the difference between two distinct words?
"Not just supports Safari, but is the same actual application."
Apparently there are Windows-specific bugs in Version 3.0 (beta) of Safari, so that pretty much disproves the idea that every implementation of Safari "is the same actual application" just because it uses the same name. A conservative point of view is that Safari is Apple's browser brand that is implemented slightly differently on each platform. That's why he said Safari and the full OS X. There aren't going to be problems with a Windows frontend. So your only complaint might be that it doesn't use ClearType.
He didn't say take the hover out of websites. Just make it non-essential. For instance, if you have a menu, have them respond to both hover AND click.
If I target desktop devices, and hover is perfectly intuitive and usable for my target public, I'll use it as much as I want.
Just because there's some new fancy device which can't perform rollover and 0.5% of my visitors will use it, doesn't matter I should wreck the desktop users experience. Does your site support 14" monitors, or do you require the new fancy 17" devices?
So, does CO2 explain the global warming on Mars? Given that Mars' atmosphere is almost completely CO2 - what do you think? Not to mention that any warming on Mars will thaw more dry ice and release more CO2 into the atmosphere. But pretending that CO2 isn't actually well known to be a green house gas and that it will not amplify even the tiniest amount of increase in solar output is so easy, isn't it?
What that data seems to projects is that FF may overtake IE6... whose numbers seem to be dropping mostly because of the people switching to IE7. IE6/7 still has a comfortable lead over FF.
Which is exactly what Abraxor says.
But which is exactly what the OP didn't say ("Firefox will overtake IE in August.")
According to Apple "Safari respects the proxy settings in the Windows Internet control panel". Gee, maybe you didn't set them, because all browsers have their own proxy settings for some reason?
Broken crap under Windows doesn't convert people to use Mac, it just pisses them off.
Which is a better point than some might realize... "normal people" (oppose to tech-heads here on/.) might use iTunes on Windows and be like "god this is a POS! Their computers must be equally bad or much worse!" and never bother consider using a mac.
Cheers,
Fozzy
Sorry, but "normal people" will not even try to log in as two users at the same time, let alone run iTunes on both accounts, so they will never see this error.
Enduser flashable firmware? For the iPhone? Given the "SDK" debacle?
"Send your phone to Apple for a firmware update"? Given the whole phone/SIM lock thing? Yeah, I think sending your phone to Apple for three weeks is an acceptable way to extend functionality.
It's not always that easy...
Gee, maybe they could use the same way to update the firmware of the iPhone like they do for the iPod: iTunes?
more folks on Mac seem to run Firefox than Safari.
I wouldn't be so sure. I know one shouldn't extrapolate too much from a single site's stats, but last month my website saw 3.9% Safari and 6.1% Mac OS -- when that was the only platform it was available for. That means almost 2/3 of the Mac visitors to my site were using Safari.
Ahh, but most of the Mac-Firefox users pretend to run Windows! That means the Mac marketshare is actually close to 10%.
The problem is all the apologists who've decided without reason that Safari is only made available for iPhone testing. No, the problem are the paranoids that claim that Safari was only made to destroy Firefox.
but the real problem is that Opera wasn't mentioned at all, cause ohmygod people might actually be using a superior browser that isn't open source! It was mentioned amongst all the "Other" superior browsers that aren't open source. Anyway, it is mentioned on the Apple Safari page - mostly as slow in the HTML test;-)
The GP was comparing the Safari beta to the original releases of Firefox, which is a fair comparison. Pre-release builds of Firefox 3 are not a fair comparison. First, Mozilla started out with a stable product. Secondly, they don't even put unstable features on the trunk. You'd have to be building a branch for it to be unstable -- and it would still be based on a stable product.
Are you implying that Safari for Mac, what Safari for Windows is based upon, is unstable? You may not be aware of the fact that Safari 3 beta for the Mac does not have (almost) any of the bugs Windows users cry about. So it's a pretty good guess that the problems are in the made-for-Windows part of Safari - which is pretty new.
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Take your pick. Nevertheless, we do not abandon other systems because an "innocent" was killed. Tens of thousands of innocents are killed on the roads in the US every year, yet we don't outlaw cars. Whenever a bridge or tunnel is constructed, we accept that construction workers may get seriously injured and die. The mere fact that an innocent person is killed by a certain system does not mean that you should just throw the whole system out the window. Hey, my comment was mostly about your statement "Is there any semblance of due process in China?" At least in the less civilized states of the US it's nearly impossible to get a judge to accept any evidence that the convict is innocent. If only because he, the DA and the sheriff/cop involved were re-elected or got better jobs because of the conviction. Your question should be: "Is there any semblance of due process in the USA?"
The difference is this: in China the government trys to get rid of crime, so they make short process of those they think are criminals. In the USA the populace wants to feel safe. To do so, they want a fast arrest, a swift trial, a hard judgement and a slow execution. And they have the power to elect the people who will give them that - as if it wasn't bad enough they are allowed to do that with politicians. Notice how "try to get rid of crime" doesn't show up on the agenda?
Inmates in the US typically spend over 10 years winding their way through the legal system before they are actually executed. Is there any semblance of due process in China? You'd have a point if there hadn't been several cases of innocents being executed in the USA.
(Not that I have anything favorable to say about the Nazis, mind you.) You can speak favorably about Nazis as long as you want in Germany, you can even be one - as long as you don't wear a swastika on your shirt or yell "Heil Hitler" in public. Where did you get that silly idea? Because you can go to jail if you repeatedly publicly deny the holocaust?
"Condition of being different; difference"
Is using a dictionary really that hard for Apple nuts? No wonder Jobs said that more than one button on the mouse would confuse his customers...
So you admit YOU can't use a dictionary, including not being able to tell the difference between different and distinct. The distinction is in the way Microsoft treats the two, you confused Microsoft user (both by Microsoft and yourself), too dumb to use a one-button mouse.
Not to mention that you admited that Windows and its Server versions are different, if only by a setting in the Registry.
Do you realize Windows NT since 1992 has had a shared code base between the client and server versions. (You could literally make Windows NT Workstation into Server by changing a registry key.) Why are all the Mac experts clueless to anything non-Mac? He didn't say difference, he said distinction. Why is it that Windows experts can never tell the difference between two distinct words?
Actually, under this administration several thousand files were re-classified.
Apparently there are Windows-specific bugs in Version 3.0 (beta) of Safari, so that pretty much disproves the idea that every implementation of Safari "is the same actual application" just because it uses the same name. A conservative point of view is that Safari is Apple's browser brand that is implemented slightly differently on each platform. That's why he said Safari and the full OS X. There aren't going to be problems with a Windows frontend. So your only complaint might be that it doesn't use ClearType.
If I target desktop devices, and hover is perfectly intuitive and usable for my target public, I'll use it as much as I want.
Just because there's some new fancy device which can't perform rollover and 0.5% of my visitors will use it, doesn't matter I should wreck the desktop users experience. Does your site support 14" monitors, or do you require the new fancy 17" devices?
Which is exactly what Abraxor says.
But which is exactly what the OP didn't say ("Firefox will overtake IE in August.")Yeah, what he meant was Film on YouTube at 11 plus length of film plus 30 seconds.
So according to your "reality" there already are no other browsers.
According to Apple "Safari respects the proxy settings in the Windows Internet control panel". Gee, maybe you didn't set them, because all browsers have their own proxy settings for some reason?
Which is a better point than some might realize... "normal people" (oppose to tech-heads here on /.) might use iTunes on Windows and be like "god this is a POS! Their computers must be equally bad or much worse!" and never bother consider using a mac.
Cheers,
Sorry, but "normal people" will not even try to log in as two users at the same time, let alone run iTunes on both accounts, so they will never see this error.Fozzy
Enduser flashable firmware? For the iPhone? Given the "SDK" debacle?
"Send your phone to Apple for a firmware update"? Given the whole phone/SIM lock thing? Yeah, I think sending your phone to Apple for three weeks is an acceptable way to extend functionality.
It's not always that easy...
Gee, maybe they could use the same way to update the firmware of the iPhone like they do for the iPod: iTunes?Can't you just select all the songs to change, do Get Info (control-i), then change the field you want on the Sort tab, and click OK?
Even better, you can right click and tell it to automatically find and change the sort field on all songs by the same artist.
Ahh, but Windows users don't expect right-clicking on an Apple app to work!I wouldn't be so sure. I know one shouldn't extrapolate too much from a single site's stats, but last month my website saw 3.9% Safari and 6.1% Mac OS -- when that was the only platform it was available for. That means almost 2/3 of the Mac visitors to my site were using Safari.
Ahh, but most of the Mac-Firefox users pretend to run Windows! That means the Mac marketshare is actually close to 10%.Are you implying that Safari for Mac, what Safari for Windows is based upon, is unstable? You may not be aware of the fact that Safari 3 beta for the Mac does not have (almost) any of the bugs Windows users cry about. So it's a pretty good guess that the problems are in the made-for-Windows part of Safari - which is pretty new.
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