I doubt it has anything to do with being "open minded" and more to do with wanting something they can take completely apart, build it again and make it work different. I'm sure cost is also a large factor, but as far as software is concerned, I doubt the politics of it came in to play at all.
There were six that they've identified so far, and if you don't think women and children can be used as combatants, you were obviously asleep during your Vietnam courses.
They may all try emulating it because it's one of the better looks. As much as people complain about brushed metal windows and the like or the "flashy eye candy" of OS X it blends into the background of the environment perfectly. They don't tend to take away from useability, they tend to improve it.
Large icons (especialy as desktop resolutions get higher) that are very descriptive as to what the item is are wonderful tools. People operate visualy, the more distinct seperate items are the better.
Visual clues as to where objects are spacialy as they move are helpful to the user. For example, everyone complains about the minimizing effects in OS X, but the reality is they help with subconcious memory. You see where an item goes, and your mind remembers it's exact location. Contrast this to the item just disapearing from screen and moving to your task bar. If your taskbar is hidden by default, you have no clue where on the taskbar the item is. For that matter, if it just disapears and you weren't paying much attention, you don't even know if you closed it or minimized it. It's all about visual cues.
Out of curiosity, you say you've tried the utilitarian themes and found them all to be somewhat lacking. Have you tried one of the OS X themes? Maybe you'll see why so many people want to emulate it.
Except it was no scam. There was no intent on the buyer's half to legitimately pay for a powerbook. The buyer expressed interest in paying for a powerbook through an escrow service. The escrow service was a fake, and there was no intent to legitimately pay. There is no sale contract, and therefore no scam.
eBay was not defrauded, if you read, eBay declared the transaction VOID.
Think of it like a ticket queue. Where I do support work, we use remedy to line up service calls. Problem is, we have to actively check the service calls, there's no good notification system other than an email. Imagine a program where the last 3 tickets sit in a translucent window in the corner of your screen and floats above all windows. If you haven't used the program for X amount of time it becomes 80% translucent and you can click through it to items below it. When a new call comes in, it goes back to say 10% translucent and not only has it caught your attention, but you can immediately work in the window.
I've come to the conclusion that Apple must have some sort of market share that defies the natural laws of the universe. For years now, Apple's market share has always been reported at ~4% with numbers as low as 2% in some places and as high as 10% in others. But the one thing that has remained constant throughout these reports is that it's adwindling market share and it's falling rapidly. Now, how is it that 6 years ago, they could have 4%, 5 years ago they had 4%, 4 years ago they had 4%, 3 years ago they have 4%, 2 years ago they have 4%, one year ago they have 4% and this year, they still have 4%, yet every year it was declining?
This leads to the conclusion that Apple must have invented purpetual self sustaining marketshare, a graph of which could make MC Escher proud, and that they must patent this immediately so that they can increase their marketshare to -pi
It damn well better come with Office or someone's going to have to explain to me how my Mac OS version of open office using X11 can print to PDFs using a windows driver from adobe.
1) Minors can't buy from iTMS (see need for credit card). The only way they could buy is if they have an allowance system, under which, the parent is legaly responsible for the music. The contract is with whom ever owns the card the accoutnn is registered to.
2) The terms are not amended after the sale. You have to agree to these terms BEFORE you buy the music.
3) You do recieve something in exchange, you recieve the music in exchange for $.99 and giving up the right to use unauthorized programs to make copies of said music.
4) No, they haven't, but certainly terms you agree to before a sale have been.
From the looks of this, these are manual target aquisition units, and depending on how fast it can move to target destroy and move again, I'd say there's a decent chance it doesn't matter.
Poverty and Famine which cause wars are the result of differing opinions. WHy is one group opressed over another? Because the first group feels the other is of a lower priority, not as human. Differing opinions.
underlying social problems that cause the "bad men" to be mad at us in the first place
That underlying social problem is something the rest of us call opinions. You see, people have different opinions, and they like others to have the same opinions they do. We don't like feeling like we're the only ones who think the way we do.
check out www.campusfood.com not a bad site, useful late at night when you're leaving the lab and on your way back to your dorm, schedule a delivery and it'll be there when you get there.
Heh, the moment something like this gets implimented, I have bets on a worm being released that infects all unpatched machines and DDoSes microsoft. I gurantee they'll turn arround and start issueing patches again.
Neither Windows, nor OS X, nor Linux can work connected to internet without regular patching - this is reality of software development. You can setup a firewal, but you still have to patch IE or Mozilla, probably Office or OpenOffice, etc.
What the hell? Either I'm reading you wrong or you're a dumbass, I have an OS 9 box sitting right here next to me that hasn't seen a patch since oh some time in 2000, and it works perfectly well. Furthermore, I know dozens of people that still run windows 98 regularly, and I know a handful that still use 95, those are all still functioning.
Some of it is 100% legitimate piracy. Ok, so that's sort of an oxymoron but take this for example. I friend of mine recently bought an IBM Thinpad. Now, thesethings don't come with disks anymore, rather the entire restore system is on the HDD on a hidden partition. Unfortunately her computer caught a rather nasty virus and had to be reformatted, the person who formatted her machine deleted the hidden partition too, end result is she has a computer, but way to restore it. She calls IBM and IBM will gladly send her restore disks. For $35.
Now, she has a legitimate claim on a copy of windows, but is now being forced to pay extra for said copy because her computer died. So I install my copy of windows on to her computer. Unfortunately because of microsofts licensing fun, her key doesn't work with my copy, so she needs my key. Now she has a pirated version of the OS, but it's only because she couldn't get her legitimate copy without having to pay extra on top of having already paid for it.
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I doubt it has anything to do with being "open minded" and more to do with wanting something they can take completely apart, build it again and make it work different. I'm sure cost is also a large factor, but as far as software is concerned, I doubt the politics of it came in to play at all.
There were six that they've identified so far, and if you don't think women and children can be used as combatants, you were obviously asleep during your Vietnam courses.
They may all try emulating it because it's one of the better looks. As much as people complain about brushed metal windows and the like or the "flashy eye candy" of OS X it blends into the background of the environment perfectly. They don't tend to take away from useability, they tend to improve it.
Large icons (especialy as desktop resolutions get higher) that are very descriptive as to what the item is are wonderful tools. People operate visualy, the more distinct seperate items are the better.
Visual clues as to where objects are spacialy as they move are helpful to the user. For example, everyone complains about the minimizing effects in OS X, but the reality is they help with subconcious memory. You see where an item goes, and your mind remembers it's exact location. Contrast this to the item just disapearing from screen and moving to your task bar. If your taskbar is hidden by default, you have no clue where on the taskbar the item is. For that matter, if it just disapears and you weren't paying much attention, you don't even know if you closed it or minimized it. It's all about visual cues.
Out of curiosity, you say you've tried the utilitarian themes and found them all to be somewhat lacking. Have you tried one of the OS X themes? Maybe you'll see why so many people want to emulate it.
They don't directly compete with microsoft. Know of any good office replacements that are rolling in the dough? How about a good OS?
He has records of the same person commiting other frauds. On top of that the "buyer" said he'd worked with the escrow service before.
Except it was no scam. There was no intent on the buyer's half to legitimately pay for a powerbook. The buyer expressed interest in paying for a powerbook through an escrow service. The escrow service was a fake, and there was no intent to legitimately pay. There is no sale contract, and therefore no scam.
eBay was not defrauded, if you read, eBay declared the transaction VOID.
Er... that's nothing close to security through obscurity. It's just crappy security.
Think of it like a ticket queue. Where I do support work, we use remedy to line up service calls. Problem is, we have to actively check the service calls, there's no good notification system other than an email. Imagine a program where the last 3 tickets sit in a translucent window in the corner of your screen and floats above all windows. If you haven't used the program for X amount of time it becomes 80% translucent and you can click through it to items below it. When a new call comes in, it goes back to say 10% translucent and not only has it caught your attention, but you can immediately work in the window.
How about in soviet russia, beowulf cluster jokes you?
ah sorry, it was su that couldn't be used without the root account being enabled.
I've come to the conclusion that Apple must have some sort of market share that defies the natural laws of the universe. For years now, Apple's market share has always been reported at ~4% with numbers as low as 2% in some places and as high as 10% in others. But the one thing that has remained constant throughout these reports is that it's adwindling market share and it's falling rapidly. Now, how is it that 6 years ago, they could have 4%, 5 years ago they had 4%, 4 years ago they had 4%, 3 years ago they have 4%, 2 years ago they have 4%, one year ago they have 4% and this year, they still have 4%, yet every year it was declining?
This leads to the conclusion that Apple must have invented purpetual self sustaining marketshare, a graph of which could make MC Escher proud, and that they must patent this immediately so that they can increase their marketshare to -pi
It damn well better come with Office or someone's going to have to explain to me how my Mac OS version of open office using X11 can print to PDFs using a windows driver from adobe.
It may have changed since I last installed OS X, but sudo doesn't work without the root account enabled.
Just for reference, the X11 version does have PDF export.
File-Print
and in the dialoge where you would normaly choose your printer, select PDF Printer (or something like that)
1) Minors can't buy from iTMS (see need for credit card). The only way they could buy is if they have an allowance system, under which, the parent is legaly responsible for the music. The contract is with whom ever owns the card the accoutnn is registered to.
2) The terms are not amended after the sale. You have to agree to these terms BEFORE you buy the music.
3) You do recieve something in exchange, you recieve the music in exchange for $.99 and giving up the right to use unauthorized programs to make copies of said music.
4) No, they haven't, but certainly terms you agree to before a sale have been.
5) You can't.
You send an email to the iTMS help and tell them that you've lost a computer and you'd like to deauthorize it.
From the looks of this, these are manual target aquisition units, and depending on how fast it can move to target destroy and move again, I'd say there's a decent chance it doesn't matter.
Poverty and Famine which cause wars are the result of differing opinions. WHy is one group opressed over another? Because the first group feels the other is of a lower priority, not as human. Differing opinions.
underlying social problems that cause the "bad men" to be mad at us in the first place
That underlying social problem is something the rest of us call opinions. You see, people have different opinions, and they like others to have the same opinions they do. We don't like feeling like we're the only ones who think the way we do.
Actualy I watch plenty of TV, but Papa Johns is not good pizza. It's not shit like Pizza Hut or Dominos but it's not good pizza either.
check out www.campusfood.com not a bad site, useful late at night when you're leaving the lab and on your way back to your dorm, schedule a delivery and it'll be there when you get there.
Oy, if you think papa johns is quality pizza, you don't know what you're missing.
Heh, the moment something like this gets implimented, I have bets on a worm being released that infects all unpatched machines and DDoSes microsoft. I gurantee they'll turn arround and start issueing patches again.
Neither Windows, nor OS X, nor Linux can work connected to internet without regular patching - this is reality of software development. You can setup a firewal, but you still have to patch IE or Mozilla, probably Office or OpenOffice, etc.
What the hell? Either I'm reading you wrong or you're a dumbass, I have an OS 9 box sitting right here next to me that hasn't seen a patch since oh some time in 2000, and it works perfectly well. Furthermore, I know dozens of people that still run windows 98 regularly, and I know a handful that still use 95, those are all still functioning.
Some of it is 100% legitimate piracy. Ok, so that's sort of an oxymoron but take this for example. I friend of mine recently bought an IBM Thinpad. Now, thesethings don't come with disks anymore, rather the entire restore system is on the HDD on a hidden partition. Unfortunately her computer caught a rather nasty virus and had to be reformatted, the person who formatted her machine deleted the hidden partition too, end result is she has a computer, but way to restore it. She calls IBM and IBM will gladly send her restore disks. For $35.
Now, she has a legitimate claim on a copy of windows, but is now being forced to pay extra for said copy because her computer died. So I install my copy of windows on to her computer. Unfortunately because of microsofts licensing fun, her key doesn't work with my copy, so she needs my key. Now she has a pirated version of the OS, but it's only because she couldn't get her legitimate copy without having to pay extra on top of having already paid for it.