You don't have secure enough locks on your house to suit my tastes. So, I'm coming over to enter your home and I'm going to change the locks so you can't get in. This will help you RTFM about locks.
You don't even have to be pre-med to get into med school. You can get into med school with any major provided you can do well on the MCAT.
Pre-med is actually kind of a stupid major IMHO since you could just as easily get into med school as a Biology major and have a lot of other good career choices that you might not have with pre-med.
I, too, am a long time Mac developer. I have a premier account at work and I've been getting these seeds since the early 90s.
At every conference we get the "talking to" from Apple about not doing this. I have never done anything like this and I suspected that real developers would not. This guy was not a developer - he was a power user who had no real need for to have the seed.
I've got users to think about. I need these seeds prior to the release of the OS to make sure that my products aren't going to break. While I like looking at new features too, my main reason for having isn't some kind of weird Apple pr0n which is apparently what this guy was after.
It would be a shame if Apple had to end a program like this because of irresponsible users.
At the time, I was in junior high and I had an Atari 400 with a 410 program recorder. We needed to upgrade and my parents decided that the 1450 XLD would be the right machine for us. My dad told me, "Find someplace that has one and I'll order it right away."
We spent a year waiting for that damn thing before we bought an 800XL and an Indus GT.
Yes, it is too bad for you that it is now impossible to buy a cell phone that isn't also an iPod.
Obviously if you prefer to have separate devices, you can purchase separate devices all you want. Right now, the market will decide whether separate devices or integrated ones (or both) will be made. So, your choices count!
After the Newton was canceled, Apple held a conference call for Newton developers to explain their decision. I was on the call and I got to ask the first question. The argument at the time was that Apple needed to put all of its OS development resources behind the Mac (i.e. what would become OS X). Unlike the iPod, the Newton is a real platform. It required a very large R&D budget to sustain it. For example, they had to have people to document OS APIs and publish developer documentation and support developers and continually reinvest in both hardware and software technology. The fact that they slightly exceeded their burn rate in one quarter with the pent up demand for the Newton 2000 and eMate does not make up for the billions Apple spent developing the Newton.
Also, when the Newton spin out was canceled, Palm and Microsoft raided the Newton group for employees. By the time that Jobs made the decision to kill the Newton, there was no one left at Apple who even knew where to find a copy of the source code for major pieces of the Newton OS.
I loved the Newton, too. But, I can in retrospect understand Apple's decision. Could they have executed it better - absolutely. They might have been able to sell off Newton, Inc. without canceling the spin off.
I'm not saying that at all. If I were, then I'd be saying "let's ban computers".
I strongly agree that there are some really great applications for P2P. For example, what if there was a P2P program that would help teachers trade lesson plans and teaching materials (i.e. not materials from a publisher, but materials created by a teacher who chooses to share them). I could imagine that such a system could help find lessons by subject, grade level, what text book it might supplement (or not).
My point is not that something should be illegal or legal based on whether it is easy to do. Therefore, I think that showing that a P2P app could be written in 15 lines is kind of pointless.
I was going to make this point too. It's pretty easy to kill someone with a handgun - even easier than writing a 15 line P2P app. This doesn't mean murder should be legal.
It *would* actually be interesting if you could get email or IM messages from your Sims (and IM them back?)
Maybe like Eliza on steroids where the Sim is trying to get you to do things for them (buy me a new table! Enlarge my swimming pool! I hate my job - get me a new one!).
start using "prouly made / supported in the us" products.. don't whine.
Ugh... these products don't really exist. Even if it said that, I don't think you could be sure that the components weren't made overseas.
I'm not against India at all. However, I would love to be able to boycott products from countries that have totalitarian regiemes. I don't like the idea of giving my money to support companies that have their workers working at gunpoint, or little girls chained to sewing machines. The problem is that even if you can find the microscopic label that says where a product was made, you don't know if it was made under humane conditions. It also tells you nothing about the parts or raw materials.
I think the best answer would be that we should not have allowed countries that torture their people and don't have basic labor standards into WTO. Unfortunately, there was no democratic voice in the creation of WTO - just corporate folks who don't mind torture.
You're silly if you think that the only political concerns that a dictator has is the US. He gave us an opportunity to object to the invasion of Kuwait way *before* he ever invaded. The US official in the region said in response to a direct question from the Iraqi goverment about the proposed invasion of Kuwait that the US didn't care about "inter-arab disputes". The whole thing was caused by an incompetent low level Bush administration official who made this statement. I don't remember her name off hand, but I do remember that it was a woman. After Iraq is in Kuwait is too late. The US can't afford to go around giving out mixed messages like that.
Highly debatable. There are no historic references to his life save for the biblical accounts which were all written more than a century after the time of Jesus. (By "the time of Jesus", I mean the historic period in which the story of his life is set.) There is also a Roman source, which is centuries after his death which refers to problems with Christians and references that their follower was executed under Pilate. However, that reference probably comes from the way in which Christians of the time identified themselves.
So, the evidence for Jesus having actually lived is very weak to the point where it is equally well explained as being a story made up in the second century.
In my old hometown of Springfield, MO, the traffic lights would blink red after a certain time of day in certain parts of town (typically after 8pm in the downtown area). I believe the reason was that since traffic is very light at that time/place, a four way stop becomes more efficient than a normal stoplight and so they were programmed to work in that manner.
I agree with this. At the time, I was a developer on a medical records system that ran on a PDA (Apple Newton) and desktop systems. My part was the Newton software.
Since the Newton OS was designed in the 90s, it did not have any Y2K problems. In fact, the date formats were designed to last for hundreds of years. Still, I had to fill out all kinds of paperwork and conduct various experiments to show that the software was Y2K compliant. I probably spent 2 weeks (total time) doing this which might not seem like much except for the fact that it was such a non-issue.
Sorry, but what about products like: Draw [Corel] , Write [OOo], & Notes [Lotus]?
Are you asking my opinion of the names of these product names? If so, I'm not a big fan, but nothing I said in my original post should imply that Microsoft is the only organization that has poorly named products.
y wife was buying airline tickets on Expedia when it asked her to log in, the first log in choice was to use her Passport id. So she dutifully goes and retrieves her US passport. Yes, I laughed at her too
I wouldn't laugh at her at all. Instead, laugh at the arrogant marketers at Microsoft that think they can take a noun with a very specific meaning and repurpose it (and probably trademark it too). Micorosoft products like "Word" "Windows" etc. are pretty poorly named IMHO, because Microsoft wants to avoid the expense of coming up with a real name.
That's a totaly stupid comment. There were calculators around when I was a kid and I can still make change in my head.
I once had a job as a clerk and the only think that made it tolerable was the fact that I would make change all day "in my head" rather than using the machine and never had the till off more than.05 at the end of the day.
Go read "The Mac is Not a Typewriter" or "The PC is Not a Typewriter" (basically the same book). You will discover that on a computer, it is improper to put two spaces after a period. People did that on typewriters because typewriters have monospaced fonts. On a computer it is incorrect because we mostly use non-monospaced fonts and the more sophisticated text processing system of a computer adds the correct amount of space for you. Professional book publishers always did this.
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You don't have secure enough locks on your house to suit my tastes. So, I'm coming over to enter your home and I'm going to change the locks so you can't get in. This will help you RTFM about locks.
Sound fair?
Legitimate charities disclose the percentage of donations goes to overhead vs. to help victims. The IRS requires this, btw.
For organizations like the Red Cross and Salvation Army, the amount going to overhead is very small.
You don't even have to be pre-med to get into med school. You can get into med school with any major provided you can do well on the MCAT.
Pre-med is actually kind of a stupid major IMHO since you could just as easily get into med school as a Biology major and have a lot of other good career choices that you might not have with pre-med.
I, too, am a long time Mac developer. I have a premier account at work and I've been getting these seeds since the early 90s.
At every conference we get the "talking to" from Apple about not doing this. I have never done anything like this and I suspected that real developers would not. This guy was not a developer - he was a power user who had no real need for to have the seed.
I've got users to think about. I need these seeds prior to the release of the OS to make sure that my products aren't going to break. While I like looking at new features too, my main reason for having isn't some kind of weird Apple pr0n which is apparently what this guy was after.
It would be a shame if Apple had to end a program like this because of irresponsible users.
At the time, I was in junior high and I had an Atari 400 with a 410 program recorder. We needed to upgrade and my parents decided that the 1450 XLD would be the right machine for us. My dad told me, "Find someplace that has one and I'll order it right away."
We spent a year waiting for that damn thing before we bought an 800XL and an Indus GT.
I think "Web TV for Dummies" is actually the slogan for the product, not the name of a book.
Yes, it is too bad for you that it is now impossible to buy a cell phone that isn't also an iPod.
Obviously if you prefer to have separate devices, you can purchase separate devices all you want. Right now, the market will decide whether separate devices or integrated ones (or both) will be made. So, your choices count!
Client to Server is, by definition, not Peer to Peer.
After the Newton was canceled, Apple held a conference call for Newton developers to explain their decision. I was on the call and I got to ask the first question. The argument at the time was that Apple needed to put all of its OS development resources behind the Mac (i.e. what would become OS X). Unlike the iPod, the Newton is a real platform. It required a very large R&D budget to sustain it. For example, they had to have people to document OS APIs and publish developer documentation and support developers and continually reinvest in both hardware and software technology. The fact that they slightly exceeded their burn rate in one quarter with the pent up demand for the Newton 2000 and eMate does not make up for the billions Apple spent developing the Newton.
Also, when the Newton spin out was canceled, Palm and Microsoft raided the Newton group for employees. By the time that Jobs made the decision to kill the Newton, there was no one left at Apple who even knew where to find a copy of the source code for major pieces of the Newton OS.
I loved the Newton, too. But, I can in retrospect understand Apple's decision. Could they have executed it better - absolutely. They might have been able to sell off Newton, Inc. without canceling the spin off.
Have you filed a bug with Apple on these?
https://bugreport.apple.com
Given that you have repro steps, I'm sure they would appreciate it.
I'm not saying that at all. If I were, then I'd be saying "let's ban computers".
I strongly agree that there are some really great applications for P2P. For example, what if there was a P2P program that would help teachers trade lesson plans and teaching materials (i.e. not materials from a publisher, but materials created by a teacher who chooses to share them). I could imagine that such a system could help find lessons by subject, grade level, what text book it might supplement (or not).
My point is not that something should be illegal or legal based on whether it is easy to do. Therefore, I think that showing that a P2P app could be written in 15 lines is kind of pointless.
I was going to make this point too. It's pretty easy to kill someone with a handgun - even easier than writing a 15 line P2P app. This doesn't mean murder should be legal.
It *would* actually be interesting if you could get email or IM messages from your Sims (and IM them back?)
Maybe like Eliza on steroids where the Sim is trying to get you to do things for them (buy me a new table! Enlarge my swimming pool! I hate my job - get me a new one!).
start using "prouly made / supported in the us" products.. don't whine.
Ugh... these products don't really exist. Even if it said that, I don't think you could be sure that the components weren't made overseas.
I'm not against India at all. However, I would love to be able to boycott products from countries that have totalitarian regiemes. I don't like the idea of giving my money to support companies that have their workers working at gunpoint, or little girls chained to sewing machines. The problem is that even if you can find the microscopic label that says where a product was made, you don't know if it was made under humane conditions. It also tells you nothing about the parts or raw materials.
I think the best answer would be that we should not have allowed countries that torture their people and don't have basic labor standards into WTO. Unfortunately, there was no democratic voice in the creation of WTO - just corporate folks who don't mind torture.
I've seen lots of people playing FPS on a cinema display and it looked fine.
You're silly if you think that the only political concerns that a dictator has is the US. He gave us an opportunity to object to the invasion of Kuwait way *before* he ever invaded. The US official in the region said in response to a direct question from the Iraqi goverment about the proposed invasion of Kuwait that the US didn't care about "inter-arab disputes". The whole thing was caused by an incompetent low level Bush administration official who made this statement. I don't remember her name off hand, but I do remember that it was a woman.
After Iraq is in Kuwait is too late. The US can't afford to go around giving out mixed messages like that.
Jesus was a real man who actually lived.
Highly debatable. There are no historic references to his life save for the biblical accounts which were all written more than a century after the time of Jesus. (By "the time of Jesus", I mean the historic period in which the story of his life is set.) There is also a Roman source, which is centuries after his death which refers to problems with Christians and references that their follower was executed under Pilate. However, that reference probably comes from the way in which Christians of the time identified themselves.
So, the evidence for Jesus having actually lived is very weak to the point where it is equally well explained as being a story made up in the second century.
In my old hometown of Springfield, MO, the traffic lights would blink red after a certain time of day in certain parts of town (typically after 8pm in the downtown area). I believe the reason was that since traffic is very light at that time/place, a four way stop becomes more efficient than a normal stoplight and so they were programmed to work in that manner.
pretty much every time-aware item in the typical house fails twice a year when the timezones change
Timezone changes?? You must live in an RV.
I agree with this. At the time, I was a developer on a medical records system that ran on a PDA (Apple Newton) and desktop systems. My part was the Newton software.
Since the Newton OS was designed in the 90s, it did not have any Y2K problems. In fact, the date formats were designed to last for hundreds of years. Still, I had to fill out all kinds of paperwork and conduct various experiments to show that the software was Y2K compliant. I probably spent 2 weeks (total time) doing this which might not seem like much except for the fact that it was such a non-issue.
Hey, he said he would let her jump up and down.
Sorry, but what about products like: Draw [Corel] , Write [OOo], & Notes [Lotus]?
Are you asking my opinion of the names of these product names? If so, I'm not a big fan, but nothing I said in my original post should imply that Microsoft is the only organization that has poorly named products.
y wife was buying airline tickets on Expedia when it asked her to log in, the first log in choice was to use her Passport id. So she dutifully goes and retrieves her US passport. Yes, I laughed at her too
I wouldn't laugh at her at all. Instead, laugh at the arrogant marketers at Microsoft that think they can take a noun with a very specific meaning and repurpose it (and probably trademark it too). Micorosoft products like "Word" "Windows" etc. are pretty poorly named IMHO, because Microsoft wants to avoid the expense of coming up with a real name.
That's a totaly stupid comment. There were calculators around when I was a kid and I can still make change in my head.
.05 at the end of the day.
I once had a job as a clerk and the only think that made it tolerable was the fact that I would make change all day "in my head" rather than using the machine and never had the till off more than
Go read "The Mac is Not a Typewriter" or "The PC is Not a Typewriter" (basically the same book). You will discover that on a computer, it is improper to put two spaces after a period. People did that on typewriters because typewriters have monospaced fonts. On a computer it is incorrect because we mostly use non-monospaced fonts and the more sophisticated text processing system of a computer adds the correct amount of space for you. Professional book publishers always did this.