WINE does nothing more than give developers just one more excuse not to support cross-platform software.
Agreed. Unless there's some absolute imperative to use a given Windows-based application, I prefer to just do without. Fortunately, alternatives usually exist.
Hmmm. What for? I've got better things to do than attend to your education. If you're too young to remember (and you don't have to be very old), or if you're too lazy to keep up with current events, then an old fart like myself might suggest some general world history textbooks.
My point is that most nations manage to get by without having someone to do war on for at least a little while. America apparently does not.
Perhaps by way of perspective from one who grew up under the shadow of the Cold War, this might suffice: when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was an almost palpable sense that everybody was scrambling to find a new enemy. For a while, it looked like it might be the Chinese or those pesky North Koreans until the attack on the World Trade Center apparently provided a (conspiracy theorists might say convenient) focus on the Islamic world.
and those who are hostile and nuclear capable can't reach us.
...yet...
This is exactly why most of the world has an unshakeable conviction that Americans are adolescents. It seems that America has no identity at all if it isn't fighting the perennial "last war", whether it be against Russians, Muslims or others as yet unnamed.
a good slide rule is something you don't easily part with.
Good slide rules are also quite collectible, and are worth a bit of money for the cognoscenti. But I really like the fact that they never break down and they never suffer from flat batteries.
I never forgave my HP48 for throwing a hissy-fit in the middle of an exam back in the days when I was studying mechanical engineering. I made a point of bringing my old log-log trig decitrig slide-rule to exams after that. And when I could afford it, I bought myself a TI-89 which is faster and way more reliable. But I still miss RPN, the clicky keys and that big fat "Enter" button just where your index finger was meant to find it...
Prefacing an otherwise valid comment with "BS" is not a good way to endear yourself to those (perhaps few) of us who come here for informed discussion. If you care enough to want moderators to respond well to your post, you might want to consider moderating yourself before you click that "submit" button.
It must be a sad world you live in then. Fortunately I have had the pleasure of meeting other spotty little whippersnappers^W^W^W persons born post-1984 who are less content to live in a cultural vacuum.
What on earth prompted you to adopt the handle of an equally illustrious dystopian?
Oh, and BTW one might suggest you go and look up how to use apostrophes and commas.
...then they will find a way around the arbitrary system.
This is true. Which is why a lot of universities prefer to do their assessment on the fly. I'm not exactly sure how one might apply this to anything other than a science course (IANA teacher) but a system whereby a supervisor can stroll around and see how the student has been able to apply what he has learned seems to work. If a student has an empty worksheet, then he clearly hasn't understood something, and needs to do more work.
This means of assessment is kind of hard on the student, but it is an incentive to keep up.
Essentially I just want to read text and view images.
That's all PDF is for. I've lost count of the number of hours I've spent on the phone to users who imagine that editing PDFs with Acrobat Professional is going to be easy. The whole point of PDF is that it is an end-point document, viewable on screen or printable with a consistent format. It was never intended to provide a format designed for being edited.
That's where OpenOffice (or NeoOffice) has it right - providing a nice handy button to click to export your document as a PDF, but not leaving you under any illusion that that has anything to do with the real document.
How much of this price change is due to the fluctuations in exchange rates?
Well, I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but here in Australia the price seems to be pegged at an advantageous rate (for Apple) and that is that. There is no room for negotiation: you either want the product or you don't. This is IMO one of the more distasteful aspects of Apple's business model.
Their model doesn't annoy me enough to stop me using my second-hand MacBook, since I find it complements my (linux) desktop machines quite comfortably, but my approval isn't required...
I think it would be good to bring back capital gains taxes on profits that are made on short term investments.
You don't have them? Here in Australia, we pay CGT on any capital gain, but there is a 50% discount on that if you have had the investments for more than 2 years.
You don't need an MBA to know there are bust-boom cycles.
You also don't need an MBA to know that there is a limit to the number of balls a juggler can keep in the air at any time before he drops one. And when one ball drops, the whole thing falls apart. As the truism goes, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it...
Amazingly enough, I still have no idea what Twitter even looks like...
Same here. I don't do Facebook either. My wife spends lots of time on it though, and that is plenty to let me know that I don't want any part in it. If I want to contact someone (or them to contact me), I've got more phones than I need, and there's always email. Hell, I have a few friends who still send postcards.
One thing I find a little sad is the demise of the handwritten letter, the type where you could enjoy the anticipation as you opened the envelope. But I'm as guilty as anyone - I don't need more than two hands to count the number of letters I have sent in the last 20 years. There's a lot to be said for keeping life simple; noone really has time to do justice to 1,048,576 friends all at once.
If it were a copyright issue, that would prevent them from selling certain CDs (which indeed it occasionally does), just as certain books are only offered for sale in particular countries.
I just went back and had another look at the message, and it seems to be a blanket operation:
"We could not process your order. The sale of MP3 Downloads is currently available only to US customers located in the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia." Not very useful.
Amazon does have an awesome MP3 store that is DRM-free
Some of that might be true, but...
I am a longstanding customer of Amazon, and I have bought dozens of CDs through them. But the other day when I thought to buy a few tracks as MP3s, I was disappointed to get a message that the service is only available to US customers. (I am in Australia.) I can't think of a single good reason why they would need to pursue that strategy other than to enforce DRM in some way. They were happy to sell me a CD of the same thing, but they had made me grumpy, so I took my business elsewhere.
Then why did you bother posting? It is perfectly admissible for the blogger to comment on the product's durability. Whether or not you are interested is of no interest to anyone else.
Slashdot Mirror
I presume you mean /dev/null...
WINE does nothing more than give developers just one more excuse not to support cross-platform software.
Agreed. Unless there's some absolute imperative to use a given Windows-based application, I prefer to just do without. Fortunately, alternatives usually exist.
Using 'M$' only makes you look childish. Actually it's worse than that, it makes you look like Twitter.
Childish, maybe. Who cares? But people have been calling Microsoft M$ far longer than Twitter has been around on Slashdot.
Citation, please
Hmmm. What for? I've got better things to do than attend to your education. If you're too young to remember (and you don't have to be very old), or if you're too lazy to keep up with current events, then an old fart like myself might suggest some general world history textbooks.
My point is that most nations manage to get by without having someone to do war on for at least a little while. America apparently does not.
Perhaps by way of perspective from one who grew up under the shadow of the Cold War, this might suffice: when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was an almost palpable sense that everybody was scrambling to find a new enemy. For a while, it looked like it might be the Chinese or those pesky North Koreans until the attack on the World Trade Center apparently provided a (conspiracy theorists might say convenient) focus on the Islamic world.
Perhaps you thought their intended use was to blow up?
Hmmm. In that case, they could just make the missiles out of cardboard and felt (like the Clangers) and nobody would be any the wiser.
and those who are hostile and nuclear capable can't reach us.
...yet...
This is exactly why most of the world has an unshakeable conviction that Americans are adolescents. It seems that America has no identity at all if it isn't fighting the perennial "last war", whether it be against Russians, Muslims or others as yet unnamed.
You have to know that the land will be uninhabitable for years on both sides.
If you wipe out a few generations of innocent civilians, there is no point in poisoning the planet they lived on.
Yee-haw!
Maybe you should visit your local pharmacist and ask him to give you something for redness around the neck area.
a good slide rule is something you don't easily part with.
Good slide rules are also quite collectible, and are worth a bit of money for the cognoscenti. But I really like the fact that they never break down and they never suffer from flat batteries.
I never forgave my HP48 for throwing a hissy-fit in the middle of an exam back in the days when I was studying mechanical engineering. I made a point of bringing my old log-log trig decitrig slide-rule to exams after that. And when I could afford it, I bought myself a TI-89 which is faster and way more reliable. But I still miss RPN, the clicky keys and that big fat "Enter" button just where your index finger was meant to find it...
Prefacing an otherwise valid comment with "BS" is not a good way to endear yourself to those (perhaps few) of us who come here for informed discussion. If you care enough to want moderators to respond well to your post, you might want to consider moderating yourself before you click that "submit" button.
and viola, adblock for MobileSafari.
A viola is a four-stringed bowed instrument tuned to C,G, D and A, one 5th lower than the violin. I fail to see any relevance to phones...
So old farts like me aren't allowed to speak English any more?
Only saddo's who lived in 1984, quote 1984
It must be a sad world you live in then. Fortunately I have had the pleasure of meeting other spotty little whippersnappers^W^W^W persons born post-1984 who are less content to live in a cultural vacuum.
What on earth prompted you to adopt the handle of an equally illustrious dystopian?
Oh, and BTW one might suggest you go and look up how to use apostrophes and commas.
...then they will find a way around the arbitrary system.
This is true. Which is why a lot of universities prefer to do their assessment on the fly. I'm not exactly sure how one might apply this to anything other than a science course (IANA teacher) but a system whereby a supervisor can stroll around and see how the student has been able to apply what he has learned seems to work. If a student has an empty worksheet, then he clearly hasn't understood something, and needs to do more work.
This means of assessment is kind of hard on the student, but it is an incentive to keep up.
Essentially I just want to read text and view images.
That's all PDF is for. I've lost count of the number of hours I've spent on the phone to users who imagine that editing PDFs with Acrobat Professional is going to be easy. The whole point of PDF is that it is an end-point document, viewable on screen or printable with a consistent format. It was never intended to provide a format designed for being edited.
That's where OpenOffice (or NeoOffice) has it right - providing a nice handy button to click to export your document as a PDF, but not leaving you under any illusion that that has anything to do with the real document.
Yeah, right. Like the reason why the inspectors didn't find any WMDs in Iraq is because they were hidden inside Saddam's wife's burqa ;-)
at least they'll remember how you smelled--like Red Shirt cologne.
:-)
Well, I guess that might be better than smelling like a Klingon...
How much of this price change is due to the fluctuations in exchange rates?
Well, I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but here in Australia the price seems to be pegged at an advantageous rate (for Apple) and that is that. There is no room for negotiation: you either want the product or you don't. This is IMO one of the more distasteful aspects of Apple's business model.
Their model doesn't annoy me enough to stop me using my second-hand MacBook, since I find it complements my (linux) desktop machines quite comfortably, but my approval isn't required...
Your first surmise was probably correct. :-)
I think it would be good to bring back capital gains taxes on profits that are made on short term investments.
You don't have them? Here in Australia, we pay CGT on any capital gain, but there is a 50% discount on that if you have had the investments for more than 2 years.
You don't need an MBA to know there are bust-boom cycles.
You also don't need an MBA to know that there is a limit to the number of balls a juggler can keep in the air at any time before he drops one. And when one ball drops, the whole thing falls apart. As the truism goes, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it...
Amazingly enough, I still have no idea what Twitter even looks like...
Same here. I don't do Facebook either. My wife spends lots of time on it though, and that is plenty to let me know that I don't want any part in it. If I want to contact someone (or them to contact me), I've got more phones than I need, and there's always email. Hell, I have a few friends who still send postcards.
One thing I find a little sad is the demise of the handwritten letter, the type where you could enjoy the anticipation as you opened the envelope. But I'm as guilty as anyone - I don't need more than two hands to count the number of letters I have sent in the last 20 years. There's a lot to be said for keeping life simple; noone really has time to do justice to 1,048,576 friends all at once.
Apparently not.
If it were a copyright issue, that would prevent them from selling certain CDs (which indeed it occasionally does), just as certain books are only offered for sale in particular countries.
I just went back and had another look at the message, and it seems to be a blanket operation:
"We could not process your order. The sale of MP3 Downloads is currently available only to US customers located in the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia." Not very useful.
Amazon does have an awesome MP3 store that is DRM-free
Some of that might be true, but...
I am a longstanding customer of Amazon, and I have bought dozens of CDs through them. But the other day when I thought to buy a few tracks as MP3s, I was disappointed to get a message that the service is only available to US customers. (I am in Australia.) I can't think of a single good reason why they would need to pursue that strategy other than to enforce DRM in some way. They were happy to sell me a CD of the same thing, but they had made me grumpy, so I took my business elsewhere.
Either way, I don't care.
Then why did you bother posting? It is perfectly admissible for the blogger to comment on the product's durability. Whether or not you are interested is of no interest to anyone else.