The fires caused by these batteries are pretty rare events. I think maybe 2 powerbooks have actually caught on fire (out of... millions?). So, I wouldn't be too worried about your thinkpad battery unless/until they actually announce a recall for it.
OTOH, I would also make sure my home owner's insurance covers fire and is paid up.
I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I'm against all government spending. I'm not - really. Its just I hate to see big budget deficits and I hate to see money being wasted on stupid things.
This year, I'll actually be voting for a republican for the first time ever - in the New York senate race. I just can't support Hilary Clinton and that vote is mostly because of her stance on wanting to outlaw video games.
Whether drugs are legal or not - I don't really care. I just don't like the civil rights violations that have gone along with the drug war. And the fact is that it was democrats - specifically Tip O'Neal and his group in the 80s that put those ridiculous laws through.
Also, you look at states like California and New York on gun issues vs. places like Arkansas or Oklahoma. I'd much rather deal with Arkansas's gun laws than New York's.
When it comes to whom I'm with philosophically, it would be, at least more traditionally the republicans. However, they have proved over and over that they say one thing and then do another. When it comes to results, the democrats are significantly better. I think we would be much better off with Al Gore as president than W. (Although, I've never been a fan of John Kerry - I voted for Edwards in the Washington state caucas in 2004.)
Sorry, I did slightly misspell the name - but only slightly. It is actually "Quanta". They are a taiwanese company that does contract manufacturing of electronics - most notably notebook computers for Apple, Dell, and others.
If you disagree with what the taxes are being spent for, then you are holding your nose.
I was hoping that the republicans would at least cut some of the more obvious waste out of the federal budget (AmTrac, Coporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, NASA, Headstart, Department of Education, etc.) The budgets for all of these things should be zeroed out.
Also, our military spending is too high. I don't think it should be zero, but I think it is too high now. And too much of it goes to redundant stuff and new weapons systems and not enough to paying the troops decently.
There are so many ways in which our tax money could be better spent, but personally I think we should really cut the budget down, get the debt paid off, and then have a nice tax cut across the board and stop spending on stupid things like the ones I've mentioned.
However, I'd still rather pay taxes to support these things that I think are a waste of money than have the feds BORROW the money.
We pay taxes like chumps in this country. What we SHOULD be doing is investing the tax money in a "national endowment" and letting Congress spend the interest. I would probably have an exception in the case of a DECLARED war - but that would be it. (We have not had a delcared war since WWII.)
And don't get me started on how bad the democrats are when they try to "out mean" the republicans. For example, Hilary Clinton recently came out with a new initiative to bad video games. I can't support that. The "war on drugs" has lots of excesses related to it. Much of these can be traced to pissing contests where the democrats decide they can be more tough on crime than the republicans. So, they vote in things like "rules of evidence" where you don't need any evidence to convict someone of a drug crime in federal court. The sentancing for drug crimes are totally crazy - mostly the fault of the democrats.
Also, the democrats have always supported disarming law abiding citizens in order to make them better prey for criminals. I'm talking about the gun and knife laws. The people who are elected are not completely sans clue. They know that crooks don't care about the laws, but still they want to disarm us so that we're easy pickings.
There are idiological points where I agree with each party, but far more often they are both completely wrong when it comes to results.
I'm not sure which part of your message is more ridiculous: the idea that Apple has a hard time filling positions at their retail stores, or the idea that some retail store employee should be attending WWDC. Yes, I attend WWDC, but I have been a professional Mac developer for 10 years. I could point to several products in the Mac catalogs that I have personally written. There is actual value in my attending WWDC - enough so that my company pays for my attendance, hotel, airfare, lost time at work, etc. I fail to see what benefit Apple would get from having their retail employees attend WWDC (engineers yes, retail no). It is not for fans. Are they really going to sit through lectures like "Multithreaded programming in Cocoa"? Would they get any benefit from that? They aren't writing applications, so why do they care about new programming APIs??
The retail employees WILL be trained on Leopard before it comes out. (Although not about the programming APIs!) However, seeing it now doesn't benefit them because Leopard isn't done. They will have a hard enough time remembering details of the differences between Panther, Tiger, and Leopard without being confused about whether they saw something in the WWDC Leopard pre-release vs. the final GM Leopard. Seeing it now will only confuse and distract them. This is one of the differences between a retail sales position and engineering.
Finally, it is my understanding that Apple typically has about 500 candidates for every position they have open up at their retail stores. Yes, it costs them to fire these folks because they have to train replacements. However, part of doing the job is following the rules on confidentiality. If they can't do their jobs in a professional manner, then they shouldn't be working for Apple.
And you know they were otherwise good employees how exactly? Also, it is my understanding that Apple has no problem hiring people to work in its retail stores.
Furthermore, I can't imagine that the general public will care about this issue. Mac fans... I would be surprised to see anyone swayed by this in any real way.
Balanced against a real need for secrecy, I think Apple did the right thing. The other alternatives aren't pretty (shutting down the seeding program, etc).
No. What you are saying is that they should hold people who don't work for Apple to a higher standard than they hold their own employees.
Apple did the right thing. I'm sure they are investigating this further to try to find the person who posted it to bittorrent in the first place.
I think it is a losing battle given that the number of Apple Developers is increasing right now (along with Apple's marketshare, etc.) As long as they are in an expanding market, there will be new Mac developers all the time. As long as they continue their policy of giving pre-release copies of the OS to developers, there will be developers who are new to the Mac who don't understand or care about Apple's policies and will leak. And it only takes one person to leak for it to be everywhere.
The alternative is even worse. They could NOT give out pre-release copies of the OS. Then, third party application might break. Developers wouldn't know about the breaks until the OS was actually shipping which means people who bought the OS early would be very likely to encounter problems that would break their applications.
The only alternative I can think of would be a program where the developers submit their applications to Apple for compatibility testing. Or perhaps developers could only do compatbility testing with the new OS at the ADC compatibility labs. This sounds expensive and inconvienient for everyone.
So, the best course of action is probably for Apple to continue to fight leaks the way they are currently doing on a case by case basis.
They gave out copies at WWDC. They should assume it will appear on bit torrent. I made that assumption.
I did attend WWDC and I have a copy of Leopard sitting right here next to me. I didn't share it with anyone - I'm using it for legitimae uses (i.e. making sure my app works on Leopard, taking advantages of new features, etc.) Someone even asked me for a copy and I said no. Still, I fully expected it to appear on Bit Torrent.
There is still some debate as to whether a computer simulation of a woman can be called a "girlfriend".
Woman?
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How many times has this happened? Once. And as soon as Bush got in, he ordered DOJ to fall on their sword and they did. Microsoft can get away with pretty much anything they want.
Your singing mice link points to the plague-infected story?
Who cares if these two traits get mixed up?
I ordered the singing mice for my daughters birthday present! Those idiots switched the mice again. Damn plague. They should have at least sent me the happy mice!
If that is a serious problem for you then you are eating too much pizza, fatass.
Most of the people I need to phone are relatives, coworkers, or people I regularly do business with (my attorney, etc.). It is much easier to pick their numbers from a list. The interface involves maybe two clicks.
Right. This is the part I didn't get. Why would SCO care about asking some ex-employee of IBM about his personal life? I would think they would try to ask him things about the case itself and try to get him to contradict his previous testamony or testamony from someone else from IBM.
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R&D is OK. The way Microsoft runs their R&D is idiotic. (I am familiar with it.)
Why bother? Microsoft's current management is well on its way to achieving the goals you describe.
Pretty pictures make great games, but why would I want that for an OS?
And if you did want such a thing, you would have bought a Mac two years ago.
The fires caused by these batteries are pretty rare events. I think maybe 2 powerbooks have actually caught on fire (out of ... millions?). So, I wouldn't be too worried about your thinkpad battery unless/until they actually announce a recall for it.
OTOH, I would also make sure my home owner's insurance covers fire and is paid up.
Wouldn't it make far more sense to simply not defy a court order or even steal music in the first place?
Tell me, what is it like to work for the RIAA?
I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I'm against all government spending. I'm not - really. Its just I hate to see big budget deficits and I hate to see money being wasted on stupid things.
This year, I'll actually be voting for a republican for the first time ever - in the New York senate race. I just can't support Hilary Clinton and that vote is mostly because of her stance on wanting to outlaw video games.
Whether drugs are legal or not - I don't really care. I just don't like the civil rights violations that have gone along with the drug war. And the fact is that it was democrats - specifically Tip O'Neal and his group in the 80s that put those ridiculous laws through.
Also, you look at states like California and New York on gun issues vs. places like Arkansas or Oklahoma. I'd much rather deal with Arkansas's gun laws than New York's.
When it comes to whom I'm with philosophically, it would be, at least more traditionally the republicans. However, they have proved over and over that they say one thing and then do another. When it comes to results, the democrats are significantly better. I think we would be much better off with Al Gore as president than W. (Although, I've never been a fan of John Kerry - I voted for Edwards in the Washington state caucas in 2004.)
Sorry, I did slightly misspell the name - but only slightly. It is actually "Quanta". They are a taiwanese company that does contract manufacturing of electronics - most notably notebook computers for Apple, Dell, and others.
You have muscles too, you know, which, from what I hear, taste of chicken.
What? You haven't tried long pig?
Yeah, OS/2 is everyone's definition of a success story.
I completely agree - those things just didn't come to mind while I was typing the post. There are probably hundreds of other things that could be cut.
If you disagree with what the taxes are being spent for, then you are holding your nose.
I was hoping that the republicans would at least cut some of the more obvious waste out of the federal budget (AmTrac, Coporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, NASA, Headstart, Department of Education, etc.) The budgets for all of these things should be zeroed out.
Also, our military spending is too high. I don't think it should be zero, but I think it is too high now. And too much of it goes to redundant stuff and new weapons systems and not enough to paying the troops decently.
There are so many ways in which our tax money could be better spent, but personally I think we should really cut the budget down, get the debt paid off, and then have a nice tax cut across the board and stop spending on stupid things like the ones I've mentioned.
However, I'd still rather pay taxes to support these things that I think are a waste of money than have the feds BORROW the money.
We pay taxes like chumps in this country. What we SHOULD be doing is investing the tax money in a "national endowment" and letting Congress spend the interest. I would probably have an exception in the case of a DECLARED war - but that would be it. (We have not had a delcared war since WWII.)
And don't get me started on how bad the democrats are when they try to "out mean" the republicans. For example, Hilary Clinton recently came out with a new initiative to bad video games. I can't support that. The "war on drugs" has lots of excesses related to it. Much of these can be traced to pissing contests where the democrats decide they can be more tough on crime than the republicans. So, they vote in things like "rules of evidence" where you don't need any evidence to convict someone of a drug crime in federal court. The sentancing for drug crimes are totally crazy - mostly the fault of the democrats.
Also, the democrats have always supported disarming law abiding citizens in order to make them better prey for criminals. I'm talking about the gun and knife laws. The people who are elected are not completely sans clue. They know that crooks don't care about the laws, but still they want to disarm us so that we're easy pickings.
There are idiological points where I agree with each party, but far more often they are both completely wrong when it comes to results.
I'm not sure which part of your message is more ridiculous: the idea that Apple has a hard time filling positions at their retail stores, or the idea that some retail store employee should be attending WWDC. Yes, I attend WWDC, but I have been a professional Mac developer for 10 years. I could point to several products in the Mac catalogs that I have personally written. There is actual value in my attending WWDC - enough so that my company pays for my attendance, hotel, airfare, lost time at work, etc. I fail to see what benefit Apple would get from having their retail employees attend WWDC (engineers yes, retail no). It is not for fans. Are they really going to sit through lectures like "Multithreaded programming in Cocoa"? Would they get any benefit from that? They aren't writing applications, so why do they care about new programming APIs??
The retail employees WILL be trained on Leopard before it comes out. (Although not about the programming APIs!) However, seeing it now doesn't benefit them because Leopard isn't done. They will have a hard enough time remembering details of the differences between Panther, Tiger, and Leopard without being confused about whether they saw something in the WWDC Leopard pre-release vs. the final GM Leopard. Seeing it now will only confuse and distract them. This is one of the differences between a retail sales position and engineering.
Finally, it is my understanding that Apple typically has about 500 candidates for every position they have open up at their retail stores. Yes, it costs them to fire these folks because they have to train replacements. However, part of doing the job is following the rules on confidentiality. If they can't do their jobs in a professional manner, then they shouldn't be working for Apple.
And you know they were otherwise good employees how exactly? Also, it is my understanding that Apple has no problem hiring people to work in its retail stores.
Furthermore, I can't imagine that the general public will care about this issue. Mac fans... I would be surprised to see anyone swayed by this in any real way.
Balanced against a real need for secrecy, I think Apple did the right thing. The other alternatives aren't pretty (shutting down the seeding program, etc).
He should spend one hour in jail for every spam message he sent.
I don't see how "Apple shot themselves in the foot". The employees, yes. Apple, no.
No. What you are saying is that they should hold people who don't work for Apple to a higher standard than they hold their own employees.
Apple did the right thing. I'm sure they are investigating this further to try to find the person who posted it to bittorrent in the first place.
I think it is a losing battle given that the number of Apple Developers is increasing right now (along with Apple's marketshare, etc.) As long as they are in an expanding market, there will be new Mac developers all the time. As long as they continue their policy of giving pre-release copies of the OS to developers, there will be developers who are new to the Mac who don't understand or care about Apple's policies and will leak. And it only takes one person to leak for it to be everywhere.
The alternative is even worse. They could NOT give out pre-release copies of the OS. Then, third party application might break. Developers wouldn't know about the breaks until the OS was actually shipping which means people who bought the OS early would be very likely to encounter problems that would break their applications.
The only alternative I can think of would be a program where the developers submit their applications to Apple for compatibility testing. Or perhaps developers could only do compatbility testing with the new OS at the ADC compatibility labs. This sounds expensive and inconvienient for everyone.
So, the best course of action is probably for Apple to continue to fight leaks the way they are currently doing on a case by case basis.
They gave out copies at WWDC. They should assume it will appear on bit torrent. I made that assumption.
I did attend WWDC and I have a copy of Leopard sitting right here next to me. I didn't share it with anyone - I'm using it for legitimae uses (i.e. making sure my app works on Leopard, taking advantages of new features, etc.) Someone even asked me for a copy and I said no. Still, I fully expected it to appear on Bit Torrent.
There is still some debate as to whether a computer simulation of a woman can be called a "girlfriend".
Woman?
How many times has this happened? Once. And as soon as Bush got in, he ordered DOJ to fall on their sword and they did. Microsoft can get away with pretty much anything they want.
Your singing mice link points to the plague-infected story?
Who cares if these two traits get mixed up?
I ordered the singing mice for my daughters birthday present! Those idiots switched the mice again. Damn plague. They should have at least sent me the happy mice!
'And' is never used at the beginning of a sentance. (Except the previous one.)
If that is a serious problem for you then you are eating too much pizza, fatass.
Most of the people I need to phone are relatives, coworkers, or people I regularly do business with (my attorney, etc.). It is much easier to pick their numbers from a list. The interface involves maybe two clicks.
Right. This is the part I didn't get. Why would SCO care about asking some ex-employee of IBM about his personal life? I would think they would try to ask him things about the case itself and try to get him to contradict his previous testamony or testamony from someone else from IBM.
No it is not quicker. It is the same as being in a cave scratching at the wall with a fucking bone.
The whole concept of telephone numbers is pretty antiquated anyway. It is far easier, faster, and less mistake prone to pick someone from a list.
It isn't a 90 minute joke. It is a 2 second joke that has been diluted by a 90 minute crapfest of a movie.