People are going to be buying these iPhones under the impression they are the product Apple produces.
Of course they aren't. The "Apple" name and logo still belong to Apple in Brazil. And like TFA says, the Brazilian iPhone will have a green Android logo. So, no "fake Apple iPhones" just "Brazilian iPhones". No one who wants an Apple iPhone will be buying these by mistake.
That's the risk you take when you use such a very simple almost generic name for your product.
Yes, in principal I could ask the company to pay for my personal copy of MS office so I can work at home, but I'm a firm believer that one of the ways to be a good (eg successful) employee is to minimize the amount of effort your boss needs to spend supporting you.
You're working at home, on your own hardware, and buy your own software. And you don't want to bother the boss by asking him to pay for any of this. Well, of course, he is happy to exploit you. Does your wife or daughter have to sleep with him as well? That would make you even more successful, so I guess since you have no self respect that they do. And that's something he can't outsource, so it's a smart career move.
That said, for some tasks, you have to consider the "Heisenberg effect" a bit, depending on the work being done - do you want your progress bar pestering the "worker" for progress reports all the time, or just doing its job.
With a CPU operating at GHz, an interrupt once a second to update progress should have negligible effect.
And it's not as if there aren't dozens of other processes running in the background as well.
Yes, I guess it's like the "SyFy " station, that shows "reality" TV and wrestling and hardly any science fiction any more.
Any halfway popular media outlet eventually gets taken over by assholes who only look at the audience numbers and sideline anyone who mentions having a "mission".
when it comes to correctness: the International System of Units defines kilo-, mega- and giga- as powers of 10 instead, not powers of 2
Irrelevant in this context, since there is no SI unit of data. The prefixes were certainly borrowed from SI, but so what, SI took them from Latin and Greek. They have no claim to "correctness" in computer science.
Met a lot more paranoids at Berkley and Occupy events then I ever did at the shooting ranges.
Being paranoid is unfortunate. Self-righteous "Occupiers' are annoying. But they don't massacre schoolchildren, or blacks in hoodies, or put bullets in the heads of senators. More likely the only violence they're involved in is getting beaten up and tasered by cops.
Well, if the gun nuts can easily mod guns to make them into full military spec, then the guns themselves have to be banned. Alternatively, if the 2nd Amendment prohibits that, we could just round up all the NRA members, put them in a stadium with their guns and unlimited ammo for 24 hours and let their paranoia solve the problem.
[Reposted again, because some humourless assholes modded it to zero.]
And lastly, despite your final solution for the NRA, how are you going to round them up if they have their guns?
Police also have guns. Resisting arrest with a gun merits use of deadly force.
But it'd be neater to let them wipe each other out. If you're all as peaceful and polite as you claim, you can just play solitaire or take a nap and be on your way the next day. I'd bet they wouldn't last 20 minutes before someone got nervous though. It'd make an excellent screening process for prospective gun licensees. Put them through in batches of 100. Could televise it to pay for the ammo and funerals.
Well, if the gun nuts can easily mod guns to make them into full military spec, then the guns themselves have to be banned. Alternatively, if the 2nd Amendment prohibits that, we could just round up all the NRA members, put them in a stadium with their guns and unlimited ammo for 24 hours and let their paranoia solve the problem.
[Reposted because some humourless assholes modded it to zero.]
Well, if the gun nuts can easily mod guns to make them into full military spec, then the guns themselves have to be banned. Alternatively, if the 2nd Amendment prohibits that, we could just round up all the NRA members, put them in a stadium with their guns and unlimited ammo for 24 hours and let their paranoia solve the problem.
It's a great pity you can't network computers together with copper wire, isn't it?
They know that. Just it will cost more to wire the classrooms to spec. And no one wants to pick up the tab. The astronomers aren't obligated to and are starved for budget already. The education department similarly. Probably it'll be resolved by some private donor or company sponsor.
on as those it sought to expose, while its supporters are expected to follow, unquestioningly, in blinkered, cultish devotion.' If WikiLeaks performs a public service exposing the secrets of others but censors its own secrets, does it really matter?
No, it doesn't matter. The situations are not parallel. Wikileaks isn't an elected government. They don't and can't "censor" information about themselves or anyone. They keep secrets, same as any reporter does, in particular to keep sources confidential to protect them. No matter how big a jerk Assange is, it's irrelevant to anyone except those who work with him. And clearly Assange could not "censor" stories about himself. "Cultish"? Bollocks. No one was setting themselves on fire on his command.
Perhaps it's just developers not taking the time to test their products on an operating system with known vulnerabilities that Microsoft will never patch.
Actually, its Microsoft's new compilers that make it impossible to generate Win2k compatible versions. They don't have a choice.
I hear people going on about "vulnerabilities" in the OS. You're a fool if you trust the OS, new or otherwise. I use third party security, the OS is never exposed. In any case, it's worked for over 10 years and I've never had a security problem. But compatibility will force me to upgrade in a year or so I think. Then I'll have the problem of making all my old software work in the new OS. I don't want to spend the time on that till I have to.
They're not "CCLeaner files". Winapp 2 is made by a 3rd party See theior site:
http://www.winapp2.com/ "This website and its files are not endorsed or supported in any way by Piriform. They take no responsibility for any damages or problems that arise from its use.",
Looks like Piriform has sent similar messages to them.
Unlikely. Their reply was likely to engage a lawyer at having the information source removed so that you can't access it in the future.
That's what Apple did, maybe still does. I had some old Mac desktop PCs and their design is very nice, but I couldn't work out how to do simple things like open the case without breaking something. Went to a Mac users' site and asked and was told that such information was "proprietary" and that anyone distributing them and doing their own repairs was stealing food from the mouths of authorised technicians. Any copies of service manuals online were sent threats from Apple. And absurdly, anyone who published the URLS on Apple's FTP site of the manuals was also threatened and banned from the forum (not run by Apple). But I eventually found the manuals and so how the catches worked to open the case and then change the battery and later upgrade the RAM and disks without having to go to a service centre for such trivial "repairs".
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Why can't I get office for iPad.
Who'd seriously want to use Office without a keyboard?
There are plenty of ways to read or display Office documents, charts, etc on iPads without having Office itself.
People are going to be buying these iPhones under the impression they are the product Apple produces.
Of course they aren't. The "Apple" name and logo still belong to Apple in Brazil. And like TFA says, the Brazilian iPhone will have a green Android logo. So, no "fake Apple iPhones" just "Brazilian iPhones". No one who wants an Apple iPhone will be buying these by mistake.
That's the risk you take when you use such a very simple almost generic name for your product.
Yes, in principal I could ask the company to pay for my personal copy of MS office so I can work at home, but I'm a firm believer that one of the ways to be a good (eg successful) employee is to minimize the amount of effort your boss needs to spend supporting you.
You're working at home, on your own hardware, and buy your own software. And you don't want to bother the boss by asking him to pay for any of this. Well, of course, he is happy to exploit you. Does your wife or daughter have to sleep with him as well? That would make you even more successful, so I guess since you have no self respect that they do. And that's something he can't outsource, so it's a smart career move.
You can't call someone a hypocrite for following the same rules everyone else is currently following.
Yes you can, if it's something he has said was morally wrong.
That said, for some tasks, you have to consider the "Heisenberg effect" a bit, depending on the work being done - do you want your progress bar pestering the "worker" for progress reports all the time, or just doing its job.
With a CPU operating at GHz, an interrupt once a second to update progress should have negligible effect.
And it's not as if there aren't dozens of other processes running in the background as well.
Any halfway popular media outlet eventually gets taken over by assholes who only look at the audience numbers and sideline anyone who mentions having a "mission".
For a site filled with pedants, it's odd how many members forget the "stuff that matters" part of the slogan.
I've always parsed it as [News for nerds] LOGICAL AND [stuff that matters].
Any news site on earth has "stuff that matters", to someone. This is supposed to have "news that matters to nerds".
News for nerds?
when it comes to correctness: the International System of Units defines kilo-, mega- and giga- as powers of 10 instead, not powers of 2
Irrelevant in this context, since there is no SI unit of data. The prefixes were certainly borrowed from SI, but so what, SI took them from Latin and Greek. They have no claim to "correctness" in computer science.
Satire is lost on these idiots. Obviously the only "Swift" they've ever heard of is the boat.
This How can anyone claim to be tolerant and peaceful
I never claimed that. I'm very intolerant of you gun nuts who want the right to kill anyone who offends or frightens you.
when they advocate abducting everyone who owns a gun and then forcing them into a stadium so they can kill each other? It's sheer idiocy.
"Abducting"? Arresting. Anyway, pretty fucking obviously this was tongue in cheek. Moron.
Met a lot more paranoids at Berkley and Occupy events then I ever did at the shooting ranges.
Being paranoid is unfortunate. Self-righteous "Occupiers' are annoying. But they don't massacre schoolchildren, or blacks in hoodies, or put bullets in the heads of senators. More likely the only violence they're involved in is getting beaten up and tasered by cops.
More likely, they'd all stand up and say "we're tired of this crap" and march on DC to throw out all the Marxist a-holes.
"Marxists" in Washington. I love these idiots.
Well, if the gun nuts can easily mod guns to make them into full military spec, then the guns themselves have to be banned. Alternatively, if the 2nd Amendment prohibits that, we could just round up all the NRA members, put them in a stadium with their guns and unlimited ammo for 24 hours and let their paranoia solve the problem. [Reposted again, because some humourless assholes modded it to zero.]
And lastly, despite your final solution for the NRA, how are you going to round them up if they have their guns?
Police also have guns. Resisting arrest with a gun merits use of deadly force.
But it'd be neater to let them wipe each other out. If you're all as peaceful and polite as you claim, you can just play solitaire or take a nap and be on your way the next day. I'd bet they wouldn't last 20 minutes before someone got nervous though. It'd make an excellent screening process for prospective gun licensees. Put them through in batches of 100. Could televise it to pay for the ammo and funerals.
[Reposted because some humourless assholes modded it to zero.]
Well, if the gun nuts can easily mod guns to make them into full military spec, then the guns themselves have to be banned. Alternatively, if the 2nd Amendment prohibits that, we could just round up all the NRA members, put them in a stadium with their guns and unlimited ammo for 24 hours and let their paranoia solve the problem.
It's a great pity you can't network computers together with copper wire, isn't it?
They know that. Just it will cost more to wire the classrooms to spec. And no one wants to pick up the tab. The astronomers aren't obligated to and are starved for budget already. The education department similarly. Probably it'll be resolved by some private donor or company sponsor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_Files
The US is embarrassed by things it SHOULD be embarrassed by.
on as those it sought to expose, while its supporters are expected to follow, unquestioningly, in blinkered, cultish devotion.' If WikiLeaks performs a public service exposing the secrets of others but censors its own secrets, does it really matter?
No, it doesn't matter. The situations are not parallel. Wikileaks isn't an elected government. They don't and can't "censor" information about themselves or anyone. They keep secrets, same as any reporter does, in particular to keep sources confidential to protect them. No matter how big a jerk Assange is, it's irrelevant to anyone except those who work with him. And clearly Assange could not "censor" stories about himself. "Cultish"? Bollocks. No one was setting themselves on fire on his command.
Is the plural of medium really that obscure?
"Mediums" refers to people who talk to spirits. "Media" to methods of communication. Maybe the author has heard of "mass media", for example.
Perhaps it's just developers not taking the time to test their products on an operating system with known vulnerabilities that Microsoft will never patch.
Actually, its Microsoft's new compilers that make it impossible to generate Win2k compatible versions. They don't have a choice.
I hear people going on about "vulnerabilities" in the OS. You're a fool if you trust the OS, new or otherwise. I use third party security, the OS is never exposed. In any case, it's worked for over 10 years and I've never had a security problem. But compatibility will force me to upgrade in a year or so I think. Then I'll have the problem of making all my old software work in the new OS. I don't want to spend the time on that till I have to.
Winapp2 is produced by the same people as Bleach. This is a giant AstroTurf circle.
Since both programs are free, and the connections aren't hidden, I can't see anything to complain about.
http://www.winapp2.com/ "This website and its files are not endorsed or supported in any way by Piriform. They take no responsibility for any damages or problems that arise from its use.",
Looks like Piriform has sent similar messages to them.
Unlikely. Their reply was likely to engage a lawyer at having the information source removed so that you can't access it in the future.
That's what Apple did, maybe still does. I had some old Mac desktop PCs and their design is very nice, but I couldn't work out how to do simple things like open the case without breaking something. Went to a Mac users' site and asked and was told that such information was "proprietary" and that anyone distributing them and doing their own repairs was stealing food from the mouths of authorised technicians. Any copies of service manuals online were sent threats from Apple. And absurdly, anyone who published the URLS on Apple's FTP site of the manuals was also threatened and banned from the forum (not run by Apple). But I eventually found the manuals and so how the catches worked to open the case and then change the battery and later upgrade the RAM and disks without having to go to a service centre for such trivial "repairs".
Anyway, most of the sites I used have gone offline, but you can Google for the filenames (e.g. listed at http://oldermac.hardsdisk.net/Apple_Mac_Manual_Names.html ) and find copies stashed in odd places.