Going to a friend's house to watch a movie on pay per view instead of each of you ordering it yourself
The pay-per-view providers license viewings on a single screen, and as long as you don't charge anyone else to watch it, they don't care who sees it. You paid for it, you get to watch it (once), along with whoever sits there with you.
Reading about a sporting event in the paper instead of going to the game yourself
This is just nonsense. Being at the game yourself and reading about it in the paper are such entirely different experiences, comparing them is ludicrous. That's like saying watching 2001 is the same thing as being in space.
I've gone from the Newton to Palm III to two Handspring models. When I started to find myself regularly writing Graffiti symbols on paper, and finding myself completely unable to remember a damn thing without my PDA handy, I gave it to my wife to play card games on and haven't used one since. That it was able to affect my basic ability to remember things scared the hell out of me, frankly.
I stuck with a paper calendar on my wall for quite some time, but recently started using iCal for that, and the OSX Address Book for contact info. But I haven't found them causing any problems remembering things - probably because if I'm not at my desk I still have to rely on primitive technology (my brain). The only mobile device I rely on is my cellphone, and I find myself entering numbers manually more often than I use its phone book except for numbers I only call once in a great while.
FWIW, I had the same trouble when trying to transfer domains from Verisign over to INWW (inww.com). I had success though with Dotster - the transfer of 3 domains from INWW and 2 domains from Verisign over to Dotster worked great. I don't know if they have some special agreement with NSI or not, but it's the only thing that's worked for me. Other people I know have had the same black-hole treatment at NSI, except one guy who also uses Dotster and got his NSI domains moved to Dotster without any issues.
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I've been in the sysadmin business for about 7 years now, which has brought me into contact with most free OS's (Linux, the BSD family) as well as some non-free (Solaris, BSDI) and of course, things like Windows and Macs (pre-OSX).
Over the years I've had many desktop systems with many OS's, several versions of Windows... most recently a Sparc Ultra10 running Solaris 8 and two different PC's running Redhat Linux. I recently switched to OSX after my Redhat box failed. It was a hardware failure, not a Linux issue. But the PC architecture itself has imploded on me enough times that I'd had it. My Ultra10 wouldn't boot up anymore either, which really torqued me off (that was my backup desktop which had been sitting in a closet).
Anyway, I went to Apple for two reasons: I've been told the hardware is very reliable, and not prone to bizarre crap like IRQ conflicts and such, and second because I've always liked the Mac UI, but until now couldn't really live inside it because the multitasking and memory management weren't good and there was no CLI available. Of course, the memory management, multitasking scheduler, and CLI availability issue are all "fixed" in OSX, and I'm in love. I spent nearly $2500 on the machine and it was worth every penny.
(For those who care this is on a 933MHz G4 tower).
I no longer spend hours every week just making the system happy - I just use it, and it doesn't require any fussing around. I have plenty to do making the systems I'm paid to admin work well; I don't need the added time drain of playing admin on my desktop (which should, IMO, act like an appliance and not a server).
Just my $0.02. My primary server environment is Solaris, and I stand behind it 100%. But on the desktop OSX is where it's at today, IMO.
That isn't the only reason. Photoshop running in Classic mode has device issues. You can't acquire from scanners or USB devices properly, and things like pen-based input devices don't work. A lot of graphics people rely on these devices to function, so they stick with OS9 because OSX's Classic can't do these things properly.
Just before hemp was outlawed in the US, Dow Chemical had patented a paper-manufacture process working with wood pulp... and they had enough money to have the ear of the legislative branch. You can draw your own conclusions from that if you like.
The US government was faced with a problem in WWII of running out of fabric sources to make things like paper, parachutes, etc, for military operation... they didn't have a problem re-legalizing hemp at that point to get their soldiers outfitted in things. Parachutes that saved soldiers' lives, American flags, and many copies of the Bible were all made out of hemp from that era. Farmers were actually required to grow their fair share for the US government. It was never actually re-legalized, the law was just suspended for the period of the need.
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The pay-per-view providers license viewings on a single screen, and as long as you don't charge anyone else to watch it, they don't care who sees it. You paid for it, you get to watch it (once), along with whoever sits there with you.
This is just nonsense. Being at the game yourself and reading about it in the paper are such entirely different experiences, comparing them is ludicrous. That's like saying watching 2001 is the same thing as being in space.
I've gone from the Newton to Palm III to two Handspring models. When I started to find myself regularly writing Graffiti symbols on paper, and finding myself completely unable to remember a damn thing without my PDA handy, I gave it to my wife to play card games on and haven't used one since. That it was able to affect my basic ability to remember things scared the hell out of me, frankly.
I stuck with a paper calendar on my wall for quite some time, but recently started using iCal for that, and the OSX Address Book for contact info. But I haven't found them causing any problems remembering things - probably because if I'm not at my desk I still have to rely on primitive technology (my brain). The only mobile device I rely on is my cellphone, and I find myself entering numbers manually more often than I use its phone book except for numbers I only call once in a great while.
I thought that was an option to turn it back ON - since I believe it has always been off by default.
FWIW, I had the same trouble when trying to transfer domains from Verisign over to INWW (inww.com). I had success though with Dotster - the transfer of 3 domains from INWW and 2 domains from Verisign over to Dotster worked great. I don't know if they have some special agreement with NSI or not, but it's the only thing that's worked for me. Other people I know have had the same black-hole treatment at NSI, except one guy who also uses Dotster and got his NSI domains moved to Dotster without any issues.
I've been in the sysadmin business for about 7 years now, which has brought me into contact with most free OS's (Linux, the BSD family) as well as some non-free (Solaris, BSDI) and of course, things like Windows and Macs (pre-OSX).
Over the years I've had many desktop systems with many OS's, several versions of Windows... most recently a Sparc Ultra10 running Solaris 8 and two different PC's running Redhat Linux. I recently switched to OSX after my Redhat box failed. It was a hardware failure, not a Linux issue. But the PC architecture itself has imploded on me enough times that I'd had it. My Ultra10 wouldn't boot up anymore either, which really torqued me off (that was my backup desktop which had been sitting in a closet).
Anyway, I went to Apple for two reasons: I've been told the hardware is very reliable, and not prone to bizarre crap like IRQ conflicts and such, and second because I've always liked the Mac UI, but until now couldn't really live inside it because the multitasking and memory management weren't good and there was no CLI available. Of course, the memory management, multitasking scheduler, and CLI availability issue are all "fixed" in OSX, and I'm in love. I spent nearly $2500 on the machine and it was worth every penny.
(For those who care this is on a 933MHz G4 tower).
I no longer spend hours every week just making the system happy - I just use it, and it doesn't require any fussing around. I have plenty to do making the systems I'm paid to admin work well; I don't need the added time drain of playing admin on my desktop (which should, IMO, act like an appliance and not a server).
Just my $0.02. My primary server environment is Solaris, and I stand behind it 100%. But on the desktop OSX is where it's at today, IMO.
That isn't the only reason. Photoshop running in Classic mode has device issues. You can't acquire from scanners or USB devices properly, and things like pen-based input devices don't work. A lot of graphics people rely on these devices to function, so they stick with OS9 because OSX's Classic can't do these things properly.
Just before hemp was outlawed in the US, Dow Chemical had patented a paper-manufacture process working with wood pulp... and they had enough money to have the ear of the legislative branch. You can draw your own conclusions from that if you like.
The US government was faced with a problem in WWII of running out of fabric sources to make things like paper, parachutes, etc, for military operation... they didn't have a problem re-legalizing hemp at that point to get their soldiers outfitted in things. Parachutes that saved soldiers' lives, American flags, and many copies of the Bible were all made out of hemp from that era. Farmers were actually required to grow their fair share for the US government. It was never actually re-legalized, the law was just suspended for the period of the need.