Id rather have it out later and have it be finished.
If you think there is no value in the systems updates then dont buy one. Perhaps youd like win98 second edition that add neat to nothing and isnt an upgrade for the thing that do need fixing?
Re:Why has corporate America avoided Macs?
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Ok feel I feel I need to address this.
1) I use my iBook everyday in my "corporate America" Job 2) 'Mac' is not a company
. Error messaging was minimal ("sad mac"? please.)
3) the 'sad mac' was to indicate a hardware failure of some type, and it gave a diag code to lookup. Im not sure what kinda of failure code you are looking for from the built in ROM software. Perhaps you would like a blue screen filled with unintelligible register contents?
4) Ejecting a disk, well then I ask should there have been a separate 'eject media' icon?
5) One button mouse. Dont like the mouse go buy a 2 button mouse. they work just fine. However i get the distinct impression you dont use a mac anyway.
6) Auto sizing windows: this behavior is a personal preference, Some windows I want large, some not. Based on your previous comments you seem to be upset that Apple makes some choices for the user that are personal preferences, but when they dont make this one you are upset about that also.
Mac offered compatibility with windows networking very late in the game
7) Im not sure im getting the point of this one. If the complaint is that Apple (see #2) didnt add windows file sharing until osx, this seems to miss the point of this screed about 'Corporate America'. From a corporate network POV, the server is supposed to be set up to talk to the clients, the clients have no onus to be peer to peer compatible with other clients, otherwise you lose the central control that is predominant in the corporate arena. Of course to be fair you would also have to complain that PC work stations haven't added any non MS windows compatibility.
I can only assume by your context that you mean wintel x86 as corporate workstations, so I have to base my comments on that assumption. I suppose its possible you mean some stripped down unix workstation from like 1998.
You claim to 'like' macs, but your things you dont like seems to be picayune at best. For all of these things that you believe that would get in the way of your 'corporate' workflow, it seems as if you have never tried to do such a thing to begin with.
I feel that you are using this 'corporate' thing as a bag you can fill up with a bunch of complaints and use it to bolster your beliefs.
5 mod points says that this list wont be accessible to the public, so the average person wont be able to critique the selctions, and that the ISPs will have to pay for the list for the privilege to comply with the law.
Have any of these people ever heard of data segregation?
Why on earth would a 'food service' computer either have on it, or have access to a list of prospective students? So they can preemptively issue dining cards in case of alien attack?
Umm doesnt any kind of config file require specialized code to read it?
As you wither need metadata to interpret the binary data, or know the predetermined data layout to read it, that sounds kinda specialized to me.
The other option is plain text with encoded binary data. This isnt bad, its human readable, kinda, it doesnt explain the encoded binary data. metadata is also needed. I can think of xinitrc files and old ini files from win16. Has to be parsed as plain text. No guarantee of best practice or anything
XML, well human readable, some meta info. still encoded binary data. This bonus here is the layout has at least some kinda standard to adhere to, and its possible in theory for one XML parser to read any arbitrary XML file.
So in any case you get a deal with faust. Not human readable, or something that needs to be parsed.
well regardless of what you think about Steve, hes not one to be pushed around and the RIAA is all about pushing. And we know the RIAA is stupid (who would buy a drm scheme that can be defeated by a marker?) So as long as some scheme gets past the monkey management committee at the RIAA it must be 'ok' enough for them
I say shame on a company trying to grab original work from their employees unethically, particularly if its not related to their contracted work duties.
Lets say for the sake of argument, someone stole some code from a popular OS platform, say windows NT4. And then made some changes to it. Is the company that person works for going to try and claim they own stolen property?
They cant try to patent or claim to own non-original work.
IIRC Gitmo is a US military base, the land is on (perpetual?) lease from cuba. US military bases are considered US sovereign territory.
Children born of service personnel born on said military bases get a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (FS-240) as opposed to a local govt birth certificate.
it'll be interesting to see how AOL claims to prove that any non AIM client users can assertively agree to this license. Last time i heard you cant agree to a contract by inaction. And to the best of my knowledge, i dont think any of the 'these terms may change at any time' have been tested in court by 'agreement by inaction'
Lets see you read something on a bullitin board to see your acceptance status, that you were going to see anyway, and because you saw it before harvard thought you should see it, this is unethical? Perhaps harvard should have kept the results offline until they were ready for publication.
If these students are going to be accepted, then the IT staff should also be fired for gross incompetence.
Ghost 2 was amazing, particularly the animation. However there were several things that made its first viewing hard.
1) There was a lot of dialog, so reading all the subtitles distracted from much of the visuals.
2) There were some things going on, plot wise that were hard to follow without some background of the first movie/series.
I enjoyed it and i went and bought both movies on DVD, but thing is, much of the plot was based on Batu, and what happened to the major. Much of the meta-plot is based on what is a ghost, and what does it mean to be 'human'. Both of these are explored in the tv series and the first movie. Very deep topics are being touched on, and i dont think someone could get the full feel of it in just one sitting. Which is of course why i got the dvds.
Being in NYC and a news junkie i have been desperately searching for a device that has a small FM radio with a pass thru connection to plug into my ipod so i dont have to swap devices all the time i want to listen to NPR.
only think that comes close is a Coby thing but the reviews are terrible. The Dell DJ has one, but it meant to be used a a remote for their device also, so id have to chop the cable up with no guarantee of success.
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Id rather have it out later and have it be finished.
If you think there is no value in the systems updates then dont buy one. Perhaps youd like win98 second edition that add neat to nothing and isnt an upgrade for the thing that do need fixing?
Ok feel I feel I need to address this.
1) I use my iBook everyday in my "corporate America" Job
2) 'Mac' is not a company
. Error messaging was minimal ("sad mac"? please.)
3) the 'sad mac' was to indicate a hardware failure of some type, and it gave a diag code to lookup. Im not sure what kinda of failure code you are looking for from the built in ROM software. Perhaps you would like a blue screen filled with unintelligible register contents?
4) Ejecting a disk, well then I ask should there have been a separate 'eject media' icon?
5) One button mouse. Dont like the mouse go buy a 2 button mouse. they work just fine. However i get the distinct impression you dont use a mac anyway.
6) Auto sizing windows: this behavior is a personal preference, Some windows I want large, some not. Based on your previous comments you seem to be upset that Apple makes some choices for the user that are personal preferences, but when they dont make this one you are upset about that also.
Mac offered compatibility with windows networking very late in the game
7) Im not sure im getting the point of this one. If the complaint is that Apple (see #2) didnt add windows file sharing until osx, this seems to miss the point of this screed about 'Corporate America'. From a corporate network POV, the server is supposed to be set up to talk to the clients, the clients have no onus to be peer to peer compatible with other clients, otherwise you lose the central control that is predominant in the corporate arena. Of course to be fair you would also have to complain that PC work stations haven't added any non MS windows compatibility.
I can only assume by your context that you mean wintel x86 as corporate workstations, so I have to base my comments on that assumption. I suppose its possible you mean some stripped down unix workstation from like 1998.
You claim to 'like' macs, but your things you dont like seems to be picayune at best. For all of these things that you believe that would get in the way of your 'corporate' workflow, it seems as if you have never tried to do such a thing to begin with.
I feel that you are using this 'corporate' thing as a bag you can fill up with a bunch of complaints and use it to bolster your beliefs.
Berman = bad producer
Shatner = bad ideas
sounds like we should keep these guys together not separate. mebbe trek can be killed once and for all.
last time i tried, iexplore.exe seems to merely be a stub for a certain look that is used by the 'browser'.
you can still jam urls into a regular windows explorer window, and they load. So its a phyrric victory at best.
Now this makes me wonder if a parent decides to opt in, then the parent is no longer able to review the list?
I dont know if i want to give my CC number to a bunch of guys giving out a list of porn links, i mean i get spam for that kinda crap
Thats funny i understood about the manual setup for 911 when i installed my vonage. In fact i think it was on the paper in the box.
As for only working during office hours, well then those police offices should be sued for not being open 24 hours.
5 mod points says that this list wont be accessible to the public, so the average person wont be able to critique the selctions, and that the ISPs will have to pay for the list for the privilege to comply with the law.
Have any of these people ever heard of data segregation?
Why on earth would a 'food service' computer either have on it, or have access to a list of prospective students? So they can preemptively issue dining cards in case of alien attack?
Well I know why I'm not going to see this movie, because I im not in the habit of supporting rabid fundamentalists.
Umm doesnt any kind of config file require specialized code to read it?
As you wither need metadata to interpret the binary data, or know the predetermined data layout to read it, that sounds kinda specialized to me.
The other option is plain text with encoded binary data. This isnt bad, its human readable, kinda, it doesnt explain the encoded binary data. metadata is also needed. I can think of xinitrc files and old ini files from win16. Has to be parsed as plain text. No guarantee of best practice or anything
XML, well human readable, some meta info. still encoded binary data. This bonus here is the layout has at least some kinda standard to adhere to, and its possible in theory for one XML parser to read any arbitrary XML file.
So in any case you get a deal with faust. Not human readable, or something that needs to be parsed.
well regardless of what you think about Steve, hes not one to be pushed around and the RIAA is all about pushing. And we know the RIAA is stupid (who would buy a drm scheme that can be defeated by a marker?) So as long as some scheme gets past the monkey management committee at the RIAA it must be 'ok' enough for them
thats how long this will work for until apple fixes it.
yes, yes it was:)
I say shame on a company trying to grab original work from their employees unethically, particularly if its not related to their contracted work duties.
Indeed this is no different than anything else.
Lets say for the sake of argument, someone stole some code from a popular OS platform, say windows NT4. And then made some changes to it. Is the company that person works for going to try and claim they own stolen property?
They cant try to patent or claim to own non-original work.
No expectation of privacy isnt the same as giving AOL to essentially republish everyone in any for forever.
Which GPL license violations are Apple and Microsoft alleged to be guilty of?
(I think this needs clarification instead of my mod point on it.)
The macosx has a details turndown to show 'requested right' which in my test case is system.install.root.user
/Applications/Utilities/Installer.app
and application
It should be noted that this is from an mkpg, Im looking to see if I have a standalone application installer around
IIRC Gitmo is a US military base, the land is on (perpetual?) lease from cuba. US military bases are considered US sovereign territory.
Children born of service personnel born on said military bases get a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (FS-240) as opposed to a local govt birth certificate.
it'll be interesting to see how AOL claims to prove that any non AIM client users can assertively agree to this license. Last time i heard you cant agree to a contract by inaction. And to the best of my knowledge, i dont think any of the 'these terms may change at any time' have been tested in court by 'agreement by inaction'
so it remains to be seen.
speaking of which, i donno why this hasnt his /. yet,,
8 4a -4364-b8fc-e6f11617d1ab.mov
new zelda trailer
http://media.nintendo.com/mediaFiles/52937b07-3
Lets see you read something on a bullitin board to see your acceptance status, that you were going to see anyway, and because you saw it before harvard thought you should see it, this is unethical? Perhaps harvard should have kept the results offline until they were ready for publication.
If these students are going to be accepted, then the IT staff should also be fired for gross incompetence.
Ghost 2 was amazing, particularly the animation. However there were several things that made its first viewing hard.
1) There was a lot of dialog, so reading all the subtitles distracted from much of the visuals.
2) There were some things going on, plot wise that were hard to follow without some background of the first movie/series.
I enjoyed it and i went and bought both movies on DVD, but thing is, much of the plot was based on Batu, and what happened to the major. Much of the meta-plot is based on what is a ghost, and what does it mean to be 'human'. Both of these are explored in the tv series and the first movie. Very deep topics are being touched on, and i dont think someone could get the full feel of it in just one sitting. Which is of course why i got the dvds.
Being in NYC and a news junkie i have been desperately searching for a device that has a small FM radio with a pass thru connection to plug into my ipod so i dont have to swap devices all the time i want to listen to NPR.
only think that comes close is a Coby thing but the reviews are terrible. The Dell DJ has one, but it meant to be used a a remote for their device also, so id have to chop the cable up with no guarantee of success.