As best I can tell from what this guy is saying, there are some places (like, for example, deleting a file in the/System or/Library directory) where the Finder would prompt you for a password. As OS X matures, there are still some times where the Finder simply doesn't do it right - and simply refuses permission, when it should prompt you for permission. This happens less frequently in Leopard than it did in Tiger. There is nothing separate from the POSIX permissions in OS X, there is nothing like UAC that can be turned on and off. If you have permissions, you can do something, if you don't, you can't, or you are prompted for a password (the gui equivalent of 'sudo').
CSS is not a "flavor-of-the-hour" technology. It's a core part of absolutely any well-formed website.
I heartily agree that CSS is not "flavor of the hour." I disagree, however, that it's a "core part." The whole point of css is to make it a totally superficial, interchangeable piece of the puzzle, that exists on top of well formed (X)HTML. It means you don't put the things that make the webpage look pretty in the html, that's where you embed the semantic meaning of the various pieces of the page. The CSS makes it pretty.
I agree - the new title bar takes a little getting used to, but it recovers a fairly significant amount of dead space (all that blank space to the left and right of the selected tab's title, making it certainly worth a little bit of (initial) discomfort. As to the preference for the old way, it's easy:
Presuming that it is in fact the doctor's children/SO doing the P2P and not the doctor him or herself (as the sibling poster suggests) it would be adequate to simply set up separate user accounts with permissions set appropriately. Fast user switching makes using separate accounts on a single machine a very minimal burden and even windows can be set up with proper permissions with little to no effort.
You've certainly listed instances where the the winner, or at least projected winner of the battles in the market are, in fact technically superior. You have not, however, demonstrated that the reason they've won is, in fact, their technical superiority. Apache, by itself won because it's both better and cheaper, same can be said of the Toyota vs. Chevy. To put it simply, technical superiority is by no means the *only* factor in determining a winner - marketing and other forces play a significant role. Sometimes the player that we techies think should win does, but certainly not all the time.
Sure does - it's called a calling card. You call a number, enter a pin, and your call is redirected through their system to the number you wish to reach, tracing the call would require a warrant. (Or some social engineering.)
You are, quite likely, correct.
This[German] article makes the point that the quote is dated 1855, and yet Hohner harmonicas were not manufactured until 1857. The curator of the Hohner museum also denies the existence of any such letter from Abraham Lincoln.
What's that? Your going to find a way to put it on there without Apple's permission? A simple firmware upgrade will take care of that.
Which is precisely why I've had a voip client on my iPhone that, in blatant disregard of Apple's Wifi only voip rules works on the cellular network, and has through the last several firmware updates...
I agree - from this point on, the year should be referred to as a kiloday. Who cares if the earth takes 365.25 days to travel around the sun, it should be mathematically convenient, the location of the stars be damned.
If it's your own network, it's not spam. It's an approved, system-wide message.
Amen, and failure to understand this is, I think, why everyone who thinks this is a terrible idea on this thread is holding that opinion. The fact the it's the DoJ that ran this test - there's some presumption that the government would be the entity responsible for this training, which is a) a waste of taxpayer dollars, and b) never going to happen, and an improper use of government authority.
If, on the other hand, ISPs and email providers take this approach on their own networks - it could definitely work. After all - it is in an ISP's best interest to reduce the overall profitability of it's network as a target. And, since it is an ISP's resources that are being wasted by spam targeting their network, it is certainly in their best interest to take a proactive approach to prevent spam.
Maybe he meant payed. From what i've heard of working conditions in telemarketing firms, it would not strike me as unreasonable to expect that the employees are tied by ropes to their desks, which are only payed out for the purpose of making phone calls.
You can be quite sure that the students in question signed an agreement stating that they agreed to abide by the rules and regulations of the university. Remember that universities are massive bureaucracies, that have fought many legal battles - so the first thing you can be quite sure that they have established is a binding paper trail for their policies. Administration, is after all, the primary function of the institution itself. The actual educators have little to nothing to do with the running and rules of the institution.
Jailbreak and install backgrounder - it's a nice little app (you can either add a plist containing a list of applications for which you want backgrounding enabled) or just hold down the home button until it alerts you that backgrounding has been enabled. I use it with pandora, siax (a voip app) and im apps. Very handy, and having several background processes running (with the exception of pandora, playing music) has little to no noticeable impact on my battery life.
The volume of all of the Earth's oceans combined is estimated at 1.37 × 10^9 km^3. The volume of the moon is ~4/3*pi*(3476km)^3 = 1.75925143 × 10^11 km^3. Given that, I don't think the pacific ocean is a hole left from the moon splitting from the Earth. But then, IANAAP.
I couldn't agree more - as a full time software developer, I find that I spend far, far too much time in front of a computer screen. As a direct result, I never get any work done...
Cocoa is an API, not a programming language. The language behind Cocoa is Objective-C, and if you know C++ or Java, you can pick up Objective-C in hours. You can also develop Cocoa applications in Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.
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As best I can tell from what this guy is saying, there are some places (like, for example, deleting a file in the /System or /Library directory) where the Finder would prompt you for a password. As OS X matures, there are still some times where the Finder simply doesn't do it right - and simply refuses permission, when it should prompt you for permission. This happens less frequently in Leopard than it did in Tiger. There is nothing separate from the POSIX permissions in OS X, there is nothing like UAC that can be turned on and off. If you have permissions, you can do something, if you don't, you can't, or you are prompted for a password (the gui equivalent of 'sudo').
CSS is not a "flavor-of-the-hour" technology. It's a core part of absolutely any well-formed website.
I heartily agree that CSS is not "flavor of the hour." I disagree, however, that it's a "core part." The whole point of css is to make it a totally superficial, interchangeable piece of the puzzle, that exists on top of well formed (X)HTML. It means you don't put the things that make the webpage look pretty in the html, that's where you embed the semantic meaning of the various pieces of the page. The CSS makes it pretty.
Cameras? cables, routers, programmers, artists, production software?
No, but the White House bought them and controls them
Last I checked, people aren't really for sale in the US. (Although if the economy gets any worse, indentured servitude might get back in style).
Quite right. I certainly hope no one is running Safari as root.
I agree - the new title bar takes a little getting used to, but it recovers a fairly significant amount of dead space (all that blank space to the left and right of the selected tab's title, making it certainly worth a little bit of (initial) discomfort. As to the preference for the old way, it's easy:
sudo defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool FALSE
Okay, so it's not a checkbox, but meh - you only need to do it once.
Presuming that it is in fact the doctor's children/SO doing the P2P and not the doctor him or herself (as the sibling poster suggests) it would be adequate to simply set up separate user accounts with permissions set appropriately. Fast user switching makes using separate accounts on a single machine a very minimal burden and even windows can be set up with proper permissions with little to no effort.
Unless you consider "they people" to be correct grammar.
Of course it isn't... every edumacated man knows he meant "them people."
You've certainly listed instances where the the winner, or at least projected winner of the battles in the market are, in fact technically superior. You have not, however, demonstrated that the reason they've won is, in fact, their technical superiority. Apache, by itself won because it's both better and cheaper, same can be said of the Toyota vs. Chevy. To put it simply, technical superiority is by no means the *only* factor in determining a winner - marketing and other forces play a significant role. Sometimes the player that we techies think should win does, but certainly not all the time.
Does this kinda thing exist already?
Sure does - it's called a calling card. You call a number, enter a pin, and your call is redirected through their system to the number you wish to reach, tracing the call would require a warrant. (Or some social engineering.)
John McCain jokes are as old as the man himself..
You are, quite likely, correct. This[German] article makes the point that the quote is dated 1855, and yet Hohner harmonicas were not manufactured until 1857. The curator of the Hohner museum also denies the existence of any such letter from Abraham Lincoln.
What's that? Your going to find a way to put it on there without Apple's permission? A simple firmware upgrade will take care of that.
Which is precisely why I've had a voip client on my iPhone that, in blatant disregard of Apple's Wifi only voip rules works on the cellular network, and has through the last several firmware updates...
I agree - from this point on, the year should be referred to as a kiloday. Who cares if the earth takes 365.25 days to travel around the sun, it should be mathematically convenient, the location of the stars be damned.
And while we're at it, lets define pi to be 3.
If it's your own network, it's not spam. It's an approved, system-wide message.
Amen, and failure to understand this is, I think, why everyone who thinks this is a terrible idea on this thread is holding that opinion. The fact the it's the DoJ that ran this test - there's some presumption that the government would be the entity responsible for this training, which is a) a waste of taxpayer dollars, and b) never going to happen, and an improper use of government authority.
If, on the other hand, ISPs and email providers take this approach on their own networks - it could definitely work. After all - it is in an ISP's best interest to reduce the overall profitability of it's network as a target. And, since it is an ISP's resources that are being wasted by spam targeting their network, it is certainly in their best interest to take a proactive approach to prevent spam.
Maybe he meant payed. From what i've heard of working conditions in telemarketing firms, it would not strike me as unreasonable to expect that the employees are tied by ropes to their desks, which are only payed out for the purpose of making phone calls.
I know that the overlap between XP x64 and Zune users is at least 3.
Huh. How 'bout that - everyone who owns a Zune runs XP x64... :P
You can be quite sure that the students in question signed an agreement stating that they agreed to abide by the rules and regulations of the university. Remember that universities are massive bureaucracies, that have fought many legal battles - so the first thing you can be quite sure that they have established is a binding paper trail for their policies. Administration, is after all, the primary function of the institution itself. The actual educators have little to nothing to do with the running and rules of the institution.
run applications in the background
Jailbreak and install backgrounder - it's a nice little app (you can either add a plist containing a list of applications for which you want backgrounding enabled) or just hold down the home button until it alerts you that backgrounding has been enabled. I use it with pandora, siax (a voip app) and im apps. Very handy, and having several background processes running (with the exception of pandora, playing music) has little to no noticeable impact on my battery life.
The slave trade was a free market, from what I can remember
Now, I will admit your UID is pretty low, but surely you can't be *that* old...
Sure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
Are you certain of that? Question mark?
Ford Mondeo, or a Volvo V70, or a Saab 93, or a Jaguar XF
Good points, all in all. One minor quibble, though: Saab is owned and manufactured by GM.
The volume of all of the Earth's oceans combined is estimated at 1.37 × 10^9 km^3. The volume of the moon is ~4/3*pi*(3476km)^3 = 1.75925143 × 10^11 km^3. Given that, I don't think the pacific ocean is a hole left from the moon splitting from the Earth. But then, IANAAP.
I couldn't agree more - as a full time software developer, I find that I spend far, far too much time in front of a computer screen. As a direct result, I never get any work done...
Cocoa is an API, not a programming language. The language behind Cocoa is Objective-C, and if you know C++ or Java, you can pick up Objective-C in hours. You can also develop Cocoa applications in Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.