Amen. As a father of three, I wholeheartedly second everything you say - especially the part of making decisions for your children and being their parent, not their friend or partner. Being a parent is *not* symmetrical, nor should it be. Quite the opposite it's your duty to protect your children from things they can not or should not do (yet?).
To me, the essence of parenting is guidance, consequence, and, most of all love. Telling kids 'no' and sticking to it is more of a sign of love than most people (especially non-parents) understand.
Oh, and let me stress that explaining isn't negotiating. There *are* things you negotiate with your kids (how should they safely learn it otherwise?), but your decisions aren't among those.
It's not as if those people would spend all that much (in proportion to their wealth). They make a lot of money through financial means, though. So tell me:
Do they pay taxes on their financial earnings?
The EU is trying to achieve this for years now, so I think that in the USA there's no tax on financial transactions or profits.
Okay, I just got a major WTF. I wanted to know how my car compares to all those super-eco-friendly hybrids you people are talking about, and entered into Google "45 miles per gallon in liters per 100 km".
So, you see, my 2007 VW Touran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touran, being arguably bigger and more comfortable than a Prius, does a constant 39 MPG with its 1.9 TDI engine when I don't care about mileage. When I make longer trips or try to save some fuel (because it's much more expensive over here in Germany, we pay $ 7.20 per gallon for Diesel), I can easily bring it to 45 MPG, and I am pretty sure it's possible to get it to up to 48 using all those mileage tricks that drive everybody mad and clog up the streets.
So WTF. My huge car has the same mileage as your hybrids, and unlike the hybrids it doesn't come with additional boxes full of toxic chemicals (read: batteries) that become an environmental problem at the car's EOL.
You see, I'm not trying to be a cynic, but until 10 minutes ago I was feeling bad for not being able to afford a hybrid. Now I wonder if they're just some kind of nerd bait.
My impression is that Web Toolkit (or as most people call it, GWT) is quite heavily used by lots of people. I guess if they made it a for-pay framework, at least the company I work for and several others would simply shell out (given the price is in the four-figure league) instead of rolling their own.
You could ask that same question about your router, unless your router is used by more people than just you.
I am with you, I usually don't run my machines when I'm away, and I'm all for being green. But I've never, never, never encountered somebody who actually DID use WOL and not just talk about it.
I fare quite well with Wake-By-Wife. When I need to access my desktop, I just call her or send an SMS that she should turn on the thing. ^^
OT: MythTV is kinda nice, BTW, but my EyeTV software on my iMac can just turn the computer on before a recording and turn it off afterwards, just because I scheduled a recording. I like that and wonder why no other software, MythTV included, does do this. It's not exactly rocket science either.
Um, no. Why would you want to have something sleeping around the system that has to do a one-time action once in a while? I don't know for Windows, but a dyndns updater is a classic example of something *not* to be run as a daemon.
The point of DynDNS is being able to reach machines behind your router, so if they're online, they can run any dynamic DNS updating client they like, and even as a cronjob or scheduled thingamabob (however Windows might call them, I don't do Windows).
So, if you *have* machines running, *they* can update the IP, and if you *don't* have anything running, what's the point of dynamic DNS?
Maybe my definition of "professional" differs from the general understanding of the term. I've been CTO and COO of prepress and media production companies for quite some years and am now a consultant for a company providing software and consulting for media production processes. To me, somebody doing print design without color management simply is an amateur. The same goes for people dragging notebooks around just to have clients give them text changes in person. I haven't seen that (for non-freelancers) in at least a decade. Correction workflows are online nowadays, either per email, but more often through either CS Live or software like ours.
I don't say this to invalidate your statements, just to add an obviously different point of view. What is that line of work in which you see 'creative professionals' like that?
To be fair, he has a point. If said professional is designing for print, there's no way he will *ever* have the colors of his notebook screen calibrated anywhere *near* the printed result. Color management is there for a reason, and it's *not* to just make the manufacturers rich. (That's a nice side effect, I'll admit.)
The solution is obvious - just use some $1/month hosting company and spare yourself the stress of managing something you don't (want to?) understand and the embarassment of 2500 people seeing you fail.
Not being rude, just not understanding why you would want to do that. Oh, and I'd rather go with a minimal FreeBSD installation with added Apache, PHP and MySQL instead, but that's purely CLI and therefore not what you want, plus it's not Linux. But I've used FreeBSD as web servers for more than a decade and am really impressed with the security and uptime.
You know, for me it's the other way around, I can hardly keep up with my friends posting on G+, while almost everybody (including myself) has largely abandoned Facebook.
And you know something else? The plural of anecdote isn't data. Our experiences differ a lot, still the truth will be somewhere in between.
I don't know about you, but the last time I remember using the home button was in Netscape 3. Nowadays I just resume to whatever state I left the browser in.
The concept of a "home page" is obsolete since at least ten years.
I did as you said, and googled for it (including the quotes), and it just returns one image - the Austrian Pastafarian driver's license.
Way to go. How you found out he not only has the thing on his head but also what his scrotum looks like AND feed it all to Google is beyond my imagination. You sure are one of those brilliant LULZSEC hax0rs. ^^
By now some AC has posted what looks like inside knowledge, some of which covers my questions - there will be a way of creating a bootable USB stick or DVD from which one can install. I'm on 10.6, so buying online will not be a problem for me.
I was rather fearing that 10.7 would be the double-installation joke you propose - first set up an old OSX and install the new one from there. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I mean, hey, all they have to do is have a first step in the installer that says "now please insert a blank DVD so we can burn your installation medium".:-)
No, it's complete bullshit. How do you download from a borked machine? How do you boot and restore from your Time Machine backup? How do you reformat and install from scratch? (Please don't tell me they're starting this "service partition" crap.)
I sure hope they offer real media, even if they do at additional cost. At 30 USD for the OS I'll happily pay ten bucks more for packaging and media...
Aw, c'mon. I was being helpful 15 years ago, too. Nowadays there's just too many idiots to cope for, which is why the OP asked his question in the first place.
While I see your point, I'm pretty sure all of those would disappear by marking a handful of those as spam in your MUA and have ye olde Mr Bayes deal with the rest.
This makes all the G4 and G5 devices out there all but useless...
You mean those G4's that came out in 1999 and those G5's from 2003, making them 12 and 8 years old? Which happen to run just fine with OSX 10.5?
I'd really love to see your 12 and 8 years old PC hardware in use, and performing as well as my G4 with OSX 10.5. I gave it to my niece two years ago who to this day is really satisfied with it, using it for her everyday computing needs. It doesn't feel slower than her brother's Vista notebook, to fuel the flamewars.;-)
There are lots of reasons to fret about what Apple does with the iDevices, but still talking about PPCs really is ridiculous.
You know, you're getting modded "Funny", but actually this is +5, Insightful. But only because +5, Sad But True doesn't exist.
People don't understand how much better it is to control your own information. I sure hope something like Diaspora or Appleseed will give people the best of both worlds one day.
On the other hand freebsd has an awful packing system in my opinion
Nah. pkg_add -r [packetname] installs binary packages just as with apt-get install [packetname].
But I agree BSD is a bit lacking in documentation of everyday tasks such as upgrading software (both in ports and packages). For example, there's a multitude of ports dealing with port upgrading, but I find none of them intuitive. For some I never understood of which parts they consist and how to use them. In the end I just asked a BSD-savvy friend to set it up for me.
For the record, that was on 6.0 and it might have become better, but said 6.0 installation still rocks like gibraltar (it's a web and mail server), runs the current versions of everything (except FreeBSD itself, obviousy *g*) so there's no need to upgrade. I plan on playing with 8.2 when I have the time, but that's what's great with BSD - it runs and runs and runs and runs...
Oh and BTW, my old employer is still running the FreeBSD 4.8 box with exim as a mailserver. If my coworker didn't lie to me, it now has uptime of around five years of pretty heavy use.
This is most interesting, can you tell me the source to those numbers? I want to use them next time somebody is trying to talk me into buying any stock-based financial product. Or wants to tell me why the stock markets should NOT be made illegal.
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Amen. As a father of three, I wholeheartedly second everything you say - especially the part of making decisions for your children and being their parent, not their friend or partner. Being a parent is *not* symmetrical, nor should it be. Quite the opposite it's your duty to protect your children from things they can not or should not do (yet?).
To me, the essence of parenting is guidance, consequence, and, most of all love. Telling kids 'no' and sticking to it is more of a sign of love than most people (especially non-parents) understand.
Oh, and let me stress that explaining isn't negotiating. There *are* things you negotiate with your kids (how should they safely learn it otherwise?), but your decisions aren't among those.
I'll bite.
It's not as if those people would spend all that much (in proportion to their wealth). They make a lot of money through financial means, though. So tell me:
Do they pay taxes on their financial earnings?
The EU is trying to achieve this for years now, so I think that in the USA there's no tax on financial transactions or profits.
Thanks a lot! I was wondering whether somebody knew it, because it sounded like a movie I'd like to watch.
I feel there's a "your mom" joke hidden somewhere.
Okay, I just got a major WTF. I wanted to know how my car compares to all those super-eco-friendly hybrids you people are talking about, and entered into Google "45 miles per gallon in liters per 100 km".
So, you see, my 2007 VW Touran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touran, being arguably bigger and more comfortable than a Prius, does a constant 39 MPG with its 1.9 TDI engine when I don't care about mileage. When I make longer trips or try to save some fuel (because it's much more expensive over here in Germany, we pay $ 7.20 per gallon for Diesel), I can easily bring it to 45 MPG, and I am pretty sure it's possible to get it to up to 48 using all those mileage tricks that drive everybody mad and clog up the streets.
So WTF. My huge car has the same mileage as your hybrids, and unlike the hybrids it doesn't come with additional boxes full of toxic chemicals (read: batteries) that become an environmental problem at the car's EOL.
You see, I'm not trying to be a cynic, but until 10 minutes ago I was feeling bad for not being able to afford a hybrid. Now I wonder if they're just some kind of nerd bait.
My impression is that Web Toolkit (or as most people call it, GWT) is quite heavily used by lots of people. I guess if they made it a for-pay framework, at least the company I work for and several others would simply shell out (given the price is in the four-figure league) instead of rolling their own.
You could ask that same question about your router, unless your router is used by more people than just you.
I am with you, I usually don't run my machines when I'm away, and I'm all for being green. But I've never, never, never encountered somebody who actually DID use WOL and not just talk about it.
I fare quite well with Wake-By-Wife. When I need to access my desktop, I just call her or send an SMS that she should turn on the thing. ^^
OT: MythTV is kinda nice, BTW, but my EyeTV software on my iMac can just turn the computer on before a recording and turn it off afterwards, just because I scheduled a recording. I like that and wonder why no other software, MythTV included, does do this. It's not exactly rocket science either.
I still got FP with FF.
Um, no. Why would you want to have something sleeping around the system that has to do a one-time action once in a while? I don't know for Windows, but a dyndns updater is a classic example of something *not* to be run as a daemon.
So what?
The point of DynDNS is being able to reach machines behind your router, so if they're online, they can run any dynamic DNS updating client they like, and even as a cronjob or scheduled thingamabob (however Windows might call them, I don't do Windows).
So, if you *have* machines running, *they* can update the IP, and if you *don't* have anything running, what's the point of dynamic DNS?
Maybe my definition of "professional" differs from the general understanding of the term. I've been CTO and COO of prepress and media production companies for quite some years and am now a consultant for a company providing software and consulting for media production processes. To me, somebody doing print design without color management simply is an amateur. The same goes for people dragging notebooks around just to have clients give them text changes in person. I haven't seen that (for non-freelancers) in at least a decade. Correction workflows are online nowadays, either per email, but more often through either CS Live or software like ours.
I don't say this to invalidate your statements, just to add an obviously different point of view. What is that line of work in which you see 'creative professionals' like that?
To be fair, he has a point. If said professional is designing for print, there's no way he will *ever* have the colors of his notebook screen calibrated anywhere *near* the printed result. Color management is there for a reason, and it's *not* to just make the manufacturers rich. (That's a nice side effect, I'll admit.)
The solution is obvious - just use some $1/month hosting company and spare yourself the stress of managing something you don't (want to?) understand and the embarassment of 2500 people seeing you fail.
Not being rude, just not understanding why you would want to do that. Oh, and I'd rather go with a minimal FreeBSD installation with added Apache, PHP and MySQL instead, but that's purely CLI and therefore not what you want, plus it's not Linux. But I've used FreeBSD as web servers for more than a decade and am really impressed with the security and uptime.
You know, for me it's the other way around, I can hardly keep up with my friends posting on G+, while almost everybody (including myself) has largely abandoned Facebook.
And you know something else? The plural of anecdote isn't data. Our experiences differ a lot, still the truth will be somewhere in between.
I don't know about you, but the last time I remember using the home button was in Netscape 3. Nowadays I just resume to whatever state I left the browser in.
The concept of a "home page" is obsolete since at least ten years.
google images "penal scrotal webbing"
I did as you said, and googled for it (including the quotes), and it just returns one image - the Austrian Pastafarian driver's license.
Way to go. How you found out he not only has the thing on his head but also what his scrotum looks like AND feed it all to Google is beyond my imagination. You sure are one of those brilliant LULZSEC hax0rs. ^^
By now some AC has posted what looks like inside knowledge, some of which covers my questions - there will be a way of creating a bootable USB stick or DVD from which one can install. I'm on 10.6, so buying online will not be a problem for me.
I was rather fearing that 10.7 would be the double-installation joke you propose - first set up an old OSX and install the new one from there. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I mean, hey, all they have to do is have a first step in the installer that says "now please insert a blank DVD so we can burn your installation medium". :-)
Oh, that's OK then.
No, it's complete bullshit. How do you download from a borked machine? How do you boot and restore from your Time Machine backup? How do you reformat and install from scratch? (Please don't tell me they're starting this "service partition" crap.)
I sure hope they offer real media, even if they do at additional cost. At 30 USD for the OS I'll happily pay ten bucks more for packaging and media...
Aw, c'mon. I was being helpful 15 years ago, too. Nowadays there's just too many idiots to cope for, which is why the OP asked his question in the first place.
While I see your point, I'm pretty sure all of those would disappear by marking a handful of those as spam in your MUA and have ye olde Mr Bayes deal with the rest.
Really, why not just ignore it and throw it all away? If people sign up with the wrong addresses, they might as well notice it themselves...
This makes all the G4 and G5 devices out there all but useless...
You mean those G4's that came out in 1999 and those G5's from 2003, making them 12 and 8 years old? Which happen to run just fine with OSX 10.5?
I'd really love to see your 12 and 8 years old PC hardware in use, and performing as well as my G4 with OSX 10.5. I gave it to my niece two years ago who to this day is really satisfied with it, using it for her everyday computing needs. It doesn't feel slower than her brother's Vista notebook, to fuel the flamewars. ;-)
There are lots of reasons to fret about what Apple does with the iDevices, but still talking about PPCs really is ridiculous.
You know, you're getting modded "Funny", but actually this is +5, Insightful. But only because +5, Sad But True doesn't exist.
People don't understand how much better it is to control your own information. I sure hope something like Diaspora or Appleseed will give people the best of both worlds one day.
On the other hand freebsd has an awful packing system in my opinion
Nah. pkg_add -r [packetname] installs binary packages just as with apt-get install [packetname].
But I agree BSD is a bit lacking in documentation of everyday tasks such as upgrading software (both in ports and packages). For example, there's a multitude of ports dealing with port upgrading, but I find none of them intuitive. For some I never understood of which parts they consist and how to use them. In the end I just asked a BSD-savvy friend to set it up for me.
For the record, that was on 6.0 and it might have become better, but said 6.0 installation still rocks like gibraltar (it's a web and mail server), runs the current versions of everything (except FreeBSD itself, obviousy *g*) so there's no need to upgrade. I plan on playing with 8.2 when I have the time, but that's what's great with BSD - it runs and runs and runs and runs...
Oh and BTW, my old employer is still running the FreeBSD 4.8 box with exim as a mailserver. If my coworker didn't lie to me, it now has uptime of around five years of pretty heavy use.
This is most interesting, can you tell me the source to those numbers? I want to use them next time somebody is trying to talk me into buying any stock-based financial product. Or wants to tell me why the stock markets should NOT be made illegal.