>You can filter applicants based on past history, without it being discrimination. >Discrimination usually means things you can't help, too. Nobody is forcing anybody to work at SCO.
OK, what if I want to not hire anyone who has ever been a member of the NAACP? I don't think it would fly even though membership in the NAACP is voluntary (just like working at SCO).
So when do you draw the line? What if your company was making dangerous chemicals and not disposing of them properly? What if they were making chemical weapons? What if they were selling chemical weapons to terrorists?
If I was working for a company that did what you are saying, I would call the FBI. Quitting wouldn't do anything.
Are you kidding me? One of the multi-millionaires that I know spent hours on a plan to reuse 30 cent floppy disks that had already failed tests once to put software on to send out to people.
This would have literally saved our software company maybe $10/year and probably would have cost us thousands in having to re-ship disks and in lost sales. (He abandoned this plan when I pointed out the potential losses.)
Very rich people are often the most cost conscious people you will *ever* meet.
Too busy to care about music altogether I'll believe. Too busy to download MP3s, never.
I used to write Newton software for a living. My favorite part was telling other engineers I worked with "The Newton doesn't really have the concept of a file."
Sounds too optimistic to me. What they really do is lobby and bribe the government to look the other way while they run their protection racket, strongarm competitors, etc. In the worst cases, they get the government to hobble or outlaw competitors, or else just give them big subsidies directly.
Look at how the passenger railways were put out of business by cars in the US. A mixture of harsh regulations on the railroads plus subsidies on highways.
Track changes, adding comments, tables, creating templates for various purposes, outline views, etc.
Its not that anyone uses every feature, but every feature is someone's favorite, and they cry if it isn''t there.
One place where I worked had one guy who knew a lot about Word and his job was to create all kinds of templates for everyone else. There was all kinds of junk that we ended up using regularly that I don't even know how to use unless it is in his template.
taking screen shots of that application (you can arrange the windows in such a way that a screen shot will miss that window altogether
Sounds like a third party opportunity for a screen shot app. It is pretty hard to prevent someone from accessing video memory, although it has been done. (Scroll down to where it talks about video obfuscation
You will not find a bigger Mac enthusiast than me. Every machine I have bought in the last 10 years is an Apple. I make my living from programming the Mac. I could go on...
However, what you are saying isn't right. When you buy a Mac, you *do* have to agree to several EULAs. I think that they are actually printed out for you and are available to read before you break the seal signifying that you agree to them. They also have click through EULAs.
They aren't quite as bad as Dell in this instance, but to say they don't require you to agree to a EULA is not correct.
And in the case you're talking about, the guy *won* the computer for free. Jeez, even I have taken free PCs. The only windows computer I have I got for free. Admitedly, everyone in my family prefers to use a Mac and mostly that computer is unused. But, it isn't like the guy had a choice about what he was winning.
Also, Apple has put all sorts of icons on the desktop in the past. During MacOS 8.x heyday, they would install all sorts of crap on the desktop.
Even today they install software that you may or may not want. (iTunes, iMovie, etc.)
Actually, that's not a bad idea. What if congress and the president set the income tax *rate* and got to decide what programs were put on the list and then each individual tax payer got to decide what his or her money went to. I'm sure that some people wouldn't like the results, but I think it would be very fair.
It would be y'all, not ya'll. Its a contraction of "you all". When making a contraction, you should put the apostrophe in the place of the missing letters.
that while the G5 is much faster at floating point math, Apple has cleverly designed their graphics subsystem to be based on floating point math.
One of the things I was struck by when I started using Quartz (the new graphics system) is that all the coordinate systems are based on floats. (For example, CGRect is all floats.) Plus, NSTimer (CFTimer) uses floats for everything. So does the event system.
So, the upshot is that the better performance for floating point isn't as isolated as you might think if you're coming from the x86 world or MacOS 9.
Are you kidding me? I know some women in their 20s and 30s who I've worked with (I'm a programmer) whose whole life revolves around video games.
Try going to the mall, go to the games stores and talk to a few female clerks. You'll find the type I mean without that much trouble. (Might take more than one visit, but you'll meet one.)
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The Apple QuickTake 200 digital camera requires 4 of these. (I have one of these cameras.)
It was just as expensive to buy the damn batteries as it was to get film developed. 4 Lithium AAs would be like $18.
Her name is Clarus. There are no male dogcows. They would be dogbulls which would be too confusing as there are already bulldogs.
Most city busses have more room and are usually more comfortable than the vast majority of aircraft.
So are most closets.
I've purchased movie soundtracks that both had songs that weren't in the movie and lacked songs that were in the movie.
Case in point, the "Pump up the Volume" soundtrack is guilty of both.
And were you going to see "Pirates of the Carribean"?
Yeah, I'm sure your boycot will really hurt Paul and Ringo.
>You can filter applicants based on past history, without it being discrimination.
>Discrimination usually means things you can't help, too. Nobody is forcing anybody to work at SCO.
OK, what if I want to not hire anyone who has ever been a member of the NAACP? I don't think it would fly even though membership in the NAACP is voluntary (just like working at SCO).
So when do you draw the line? What if your company was making dangerous chemicals and not disposing of them properly? What if they were making chemical weapons? What if they were selling chemical weapons to terrorists?
If I was working for a company that did what you are saying, I would call the FBI. Quitting wouldn't do anything.
Are you kidding me? One of the multi-millionaires that I know spent hours on a plan to reuse 30 cent floppy disks that had already failed tests once to put software on to send out to people.
This would have literally saved our software company maybe $10/year and probably would have cost us thousands in having to re-ship disks and in lost sales. (He abandoned this plan when I pointed out the potential losses.)
Very rich people are often the most cost conscious people you will *ever* meet.
Too busy to care about music altogether I'll believe. Too busy to download MP3s, never.
I used to write Newton software for a living. My favorite part was telling other engineers I worked with "The Newton doesn't really have the concept of a file."
You paint the walls every day?
Besides, is a joke from a cartoon really in the same class as something seriously predicted at a world's fair?
Be like my last company and take away all the printers for "security reasons".
Sounds too optimistic to me. What they really do is lobby and bribe the government to look the other way while they run their protection racket, strongarm competitors, etc. In the worst cases, they get the government to hobble or outlaw competitors, or else just give them big subsidies directly.
Look at how the passenger railways were put out of business by cars in the US. A mixture of harsh regulations on the railroads plus subsidies on highways.
Track changes, adding comments, tables, creating templates for various purposes, outline views, etc.
Its not that anyone uses every feature, but every feature is someone's favorite, and they cry if it isn''t there.
One place where I worked had one guy who knew a lot about Word and his job was to create all kinds of templates for everyone else. There was all kinds of junk that we ended up using regularly that I don't even know how to use unless it is in his template.
taking screen shots of that application (you can arrange the windows in such a way that a screen shot will miss that window altogether
Sounds like a third party opportunity for a screen shot app. It is pretty hard to prevent someone from accessing video memory, although it has been done. (Scroll down to where it talks about video obfuscation
Yeah, just like Mitnik who was in sollitary confinement for almost his whole stay.
Give me a break.
You will not find a bigger Mac enthusiast than me. Every machine I have bought in the last 10 years is an Apple. I make my living from programming the Mac. I could go on...
However, what you are saying isn't right. When you buy a Mac, you *do* have to agree to several EULAs. I think that they are actually printed out for you and are available to read before you break the seal signifying that you agree to them. They also have click through EULAs.
They aren't quite as bad as Dell in this instance, but to say they don't require you to agree to a EULA is not correct.
And in the case you're talking about, the guy *won* the computer for free. Jeez, even I have taken free PCs. The only windows computer I have I got for free. Admitedly, everyone in my family prefers to use a Mac and mostly that computer is unused. But, it isn't like the guy had a choice about what he was winning.
Also, Apple has put all sorts of icons on the desktop in the past. During MacOS 8.x heyday, they would install all sorts of crap on the desktop.
Even today they install software that you may or may not want. (iTunes, iMovie, etc.)
Actually, that's not a bad idea. What if congress and the president set the income tax *rate* and got to decide what programs were put on the list and then each individual tax payer got to decide what his or her money went to. I'm sure that some people wouldn't like the results, but I think it would be very fair.
It would be y'all, not ya'll. Its a contraction of "you all". When making a contraction, you should put the apostrophe in the place of the missing letters.
I'm sorry, I couldn't read your comment. You see, I'm using AOL.
But I want to see "Chase the Chuck Waggon" for PS2!
...802.11b/g ad-hoc network? (Isn't that a LAN?) ...two old Macs connected by a localtalk cable?
How the hell will they enforce this?
What about home networking?
Why not just add a tax on routers? Or better yet, maybe they could just raise their sales tax rate.
that while the G5 is much faster at floating point math, Apple has cleverly designed their graphics subsystem to be based on floating point math.
One of the things I was struck by when I started using Quartz (the new graphics system) is that all the coordinate systems are based on floats. (For example, CGRect is all floats.) Plus, NSTimer (CFTimer) uses floats for everything. So does the event system.
So, the upshot is that the better performance for floating point isn't as isolated as you might think if you're coming from the x86 world or MacOS 9.
Are you kidding me? I know some women in their 20s and 30s who I've worked with (I'm a programmer) whose whole life revolves around video games.
Try going to the mall, go to the games stores and talk to a few female clerks. You'll find the type I mean without that much trouble. (Might take more than one visit, but you'll meet one.)