Accessibility options only benefit a tiny minority... If you can't afford to pay for school, you deserve what you get." Which I agree with.
What a nasty, creepy little attitude you have. Yuck.
In fact, given the over-the-top troll quotient I've seen in this thread, I'm betting the OP might be regretting having having taken the trouble to submit it. I'm out of here.
Except nowhere does the original article say that OOXML is not a standard.
One thing that's always struck me about the name OOXML ("Office Open XML") is the confusion it stirs up with OpenOffice. Seems to me that it would have made more sense for Microsoft to highlight a distinction from its OSS competitor.
Unless, of course Microsoft's marketing department has been taking its cues from Monty Python: "Are you the Judean People's Front?"
"Fuck off! We're the People's Front of Judea!"
10.4 is hardly obsolete... The official upgrade cost is around $100.
Any hardware support you might have had from Apple must have evaporated by now, so there is little or no point in going through "official" channels. EBay is a useful place to start. Alternatively, you can buy an official Snow Leopard "upgrade" copy for $29 and do a clean install off it (assuming your machine isn't a ppc).
We still have a computer running 10.2 hooked up to a microscope.
You gotta love these single-tasking machines. I've still got a machine running DOS 3.1 hooked up to a milk pasteuriser. It "just works" without fail, and I can swap out components (or the whole machine if I have to) within a few minutes if anything starts to look a bit flaky.
Normally I would agree, but since my ageing but still perfectly functional 2.16GHz Core2Duo MacBook is beginning to groan occasionally under the load of Firefox running on Snow Leopard, I am inclined to welcome anything that will speed it up. If all that old code is beginning (as Mozilla says) to affect the integrity of the tree as a whole, then it is definitely time to get rid of it.
I just checked FleaBay, and I didn't have to look far to find copies of Leopard available for $9.00, and of course Snow Leopard is available for not a whole lot more. There is no point whining about not getting security updates on your browser if you aren't keeping your operating system current.
Sounds like OS X's API has evolved quite a bit in the last 5 years.
Yeah, but in some ways it seems as if Apple has gone out of its way to break some of them. A case in point is the APIs pertaining to their AirPort cards, which with the introduction of Slow Leopard have broken iStumbler and every program like it that I know of, apart from the fairly limited native text-mode airport utility.
Admittedly, the developers of iStumbler have been seriously dragging their heels over updating their software. Apparently there is a beta available, but my request for a copy went unanswered.
When law gets in the way of making money hand over fist, the obvious solution is to change the laws, isn't it?
That's probably what's going to happen in any case, once the appeals process has been exhausted - i.e. the Golden Rule being that who has the gold makes the rules.
There's a federal election coming up some time this year, and unless I'm mistaken, Conroy's seat will be up for grabs. (Federal Senate terms are for 6 years except in the case of a double dissolution.) How about the Communications Minister gets kicked out of his office? It is obvious enough to everybody that he is utterly incompetent, and that his accomplishments are better suited to running an ice-cream van.
Disclaimer: I support his party at elections, in the absence of a more sane alternative.
You just reconnect and you've got all of your data again.
You mean Google has it. If you're happy with that, I guess you're lucky. I just can't bring myself to trust Google with my data, no matter how inconsequential it may seem.
even being a geek, I have no need for Skype on a cell phone...
Geek credentials aside, I would be overjoyed if I could find a mobile (i.e. cell) phone with skype capabilities that didn't involve gouging the user on data [as well as | rather than] call charges. For the time being at least, the telcos have a free ride at our expense, and the experience is wearing a bit thin.
You're either very young or you have a short memory. Redhat was always Redhat from 1994 until about 2003 when the non-enterprise version of the distro got funneled off into Fedora.
Exactly. That's why I refuse to use a phone for anything but making calls
In any case, one can't count on your contact having a phone (or telco plan) capable of doing anything more than calls or SMS. Lots of people have basic phones, but possibly even more have comparatively "smart" devices that are (a) connected to a plan that doesn't offer more than a typically flaky GPRS conection or (b) connected to an owner that doesn't know what to to with anything other than a phone call.
...that Amazon is the 800lb gorilla in bookselling business who currently controls 80-90% of eBook market...
I had been led to understand that only particularly obese gorillas achieved weights of 600lb in captivity.:-)
But in Amazon's case, there is (now) no such exclusivity in the ebook arena, since their attempts to gouge the market have effectively (thanks to the well-publicised shenanigans with Macmillan) been stymied by the entry of the iPad into the market. Whatever we might think about Amazon (or Apple, for that matter), the author is in a stronger position than he was a few weeks ago.
In any case, I don't really believe the dead-tree format is dead. As Buckell says in one of TFAs mentioned in the OP,
$9.99 is really expensive, you suck. eBooks should never cost this much.
As a buyer of eBooks, I agree. Hell, as a buyer of regular books I agree.
Here's how I, as a reader, go about buying a book.
Is it someone I know will rock my world and I'll love reading? I'll buy hardcover.
Although a professional writer might be expected to be a bit more competent in articulating his thoughts, the message comes through clearly enough for me, since I am of the same mind.
I'd trust the Chinese further than most of my neighbours.
That's a bit sad. I get on quite well with the majority of my neighbours, but most people I know who have wide experience of commercial dealing with Chinese (not to be confused with personal interactions with individuals and their families) have told me of a catalogue of dishonest, conspiratorial and treacherous activities. Basically, it seems their attitude is that "westerners" are fair game, since their rules are just not recognised by the Chinese.
Adopting this attitude in comparatively small business dealings is one thing, but enshrining it in (unofficial) government policy is another. If the Chinese insist on treating other nations as enemies, they should expect the same in return. The fact that our governments and corporations are so ready to kowtow to them for their business is nothing short of sickening.
I think he meant Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
So would I. But the GGP (or whatever) is right about the plot being confusing. I never did get the hang of it, but that might be partly because it used to be my practice to drop 50 or 60 tabs of acid before watching it.:-P
Haven't done it for a long time, but I used to really love that stuff. (Incidentally, for the benefit of the uninformed, it isn't really possible to OD on LSD - an increase in dose just prolongs the best and most intense part of the trip.)
How in the world is a "normal" person supposed to know when the judge or attorney is trying to pull a fast one
You're not. You're expected to do as you're told, and think what they tell you to think. It's common for some sort of deal to have taken place, or for some sort of circumstance affecting another case to have occurred, but the jury is usually kept in the dark about it, even if they do catch a strong whiff of rodent.
i'm turning 30 this year and already i can see why they say youth is wasted on the young.
If you're 30, then you are young. You should have another 10 years or so before the effects of entropy really start making themselves noticed. Mind you, although my knees and ankles creak and my eyes don't work that well, I really wouldn't want the chore of having to live the last 5 decades all over again....
For years now, going back to the analogue days but increasingly over the past decade, audio has been "dynanic-range compressed" to increase the loudness of the song.
Not to increase the loudness, in the case of analogue recordings. Those black vinyl LPs were/are recorded with what is known as as an RIAA equalisation technique in order to reduce excessive movement (and resulting audio distortion) from a needle driven by a moving groove on a disc. This also allowed manufacturers to produce discs with longer playing times, since the grooves could be more closely spaced.
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Accessibility options only benefit a tiny minority... If you can't afford to pay for school, you deserve what you get." Which I agree with.
What a nasty, creepy little attitude you have. Yuck.
In fact, given the over-the-top troll quotient I've seen in this thread, I'm betting the OP might be regretting having having taken the trouble to submit it. I'm out of here.
Except nowhere does the original article say that OOXML is not a standard.
One thing that's always struck me about the name OOXML ("Office Open XML") is the confusion it stirs up with OpenOffice. Seems to me that it would have made more sense for Microsoft to highlight a distinction from its OSS competitor.
Unless, of course Microsoft's marketing department has been taking its cues from Monty Python:
"Are you the Judean People's Front?"
"Fuck off! We're the People's Front of Judea!"
Correction to my post: iStumbler beta now available here.
10.4 is hardly obsolete... The official upgrade cost is around $100.
Any hardware support you might have had from Apple must have evaporated by now, so there is little or no point in going through "official" channels. EBay is a useful place to start. Alternatively, you can buy an official Snow Leopard "upgrade" copy for $29 and do a clean install off it (assuming your machine isn't a ppc).
We still have a computer running 10.2 hooked up to a microscope.
You gotta love these single-tasking machines. I've still got a machine running DOS 3.1 hooked up to a milk pasteuriser. It "just works" without fail, and I can swap out components (or the whole machine if I have to) within a few minutes if anything starts to look a bit flaky.
This is far too premature.
Normally I would agree, but since my ageing but still perfectly functional 2.16GHz Core2Duo MacBook is beginning to groan occasionally under the load of Firefox running on Snow Leopard, I am inclined to welcome anything that will speed it up. If all that old code is beginning (as Mozilla says) to affect the integrity of the tree as a whole, then it is definitely time to get rid of it.
I just checked FleaBay, and I didn't have to look far to find copies of Leopard available for $9.00, and of course Snow Leopard is available for not a whole lot more. There is no point whining about not getting security updates on your browser if you aren't keeping your operating system current.
Sounds like OS X's API has evolved quite a bit in the last 5 years.
Yeah, but in some ways it seems as if Apple has gone out of its way to break some of them. A case in point is the APIs pertaining to their AirPort cards, which with the introduction of Slow Leopard have broken iStumbler and every program like it that I know of, apart from the fairly limited native text-mode airport utility.
Admittedly, the developers of iStumbler have been seriously dragging their heels over updating their software. Apparently there is a beta available, but my request for a copy went unanswered.
...and we can all get back to being the relaxed outback heroes people used to think of us as.
Trouble is, while our Prime Minister is such an insufferable prig, that's never going to happen. How I miss Paul Keating. At least he was fun.
When law gets in the way of making money hand over fist, the obvious solution is to change the laws, isn't it?
That's probably what's going to happen in any case, once the appeals process has been exhausted - i.e. the Golden Rule being that who has the gold makes the rules.
And here's another idea:
There's a federal election coming up some time this year, and unless I'm mistaken, Conroy's seat will be up for grabs. (Federal Senate terms are for 6 years except in the case of a double dissolution.) How about the Communications Minister gets kicked out of his office? It is obvious enough to everybody that he is utterly incompetent, and that his accomplishments are better suited to running an ice-cream van.
Disclaimer: I support his party at elections, in the absence of a more sane alternative.
You just reconnect and you've got all of your data again.
You mean Google has it. If you're happy with that, I guess you're lucky. I just can't bring myself to trust Google with my data, no matter how inconsequential it may seem.
even being a geek, I have no need for Skype on a cell phone...
Geek credentials aside, I would be overjoyed if I could find a mobile (i.e. cell) phone with skype capabilities that didn't involve gouging the user on data [as well as | rather than] call charges. For the time being at least, the telcos have a free ride at our expense, and the experience is wearing a bit thin.
Fedora is and always has been Red Hat's test bed.
You're either very young or you have a short memory. Redhat was always Redhat from 1994 until about 2003 when the non-enterprise version of the distro got funneled off into Fedora.
Exactly. That's why I refuse to use a phone for anything but making calls
In any case, one can't count on your contact having a phone (or telco plan) capable of doing anything more than calls or SMS. Lots of people have basic phones, but possibly even more have comparatively "smart" devices that are (a) connected to a plan that doesn't offer more than a typically flaky GPRS conection or (b) connected to an owner that doesn't know what to to with anything other than a phone call.
...that Amazon is the 800lb gorilla in bookselling business who currently controls 80-90% of eBook market...
:-)
I had been led to understand that only particularly obese gorillas achieved weights of 600lb in captivity.
But in Amazon's case, there is (now) no such exclusivity in the ebook arena, since their attempts to gouge the market have effectively (thanks to the well-publicised shenanigans with Macmillan) been stymied by the entry of the iPad into the market. Whatever we might think about Amazon (or Apple, for that matter), the author is in a stronger position than he was a few weeks ago.
In any case, I don't really believe the dead-tree format is dead. As Buckell says in one of TFAs mentioned in the OP,
$9.99 is really expensive, you suck. eBooks should never cost this much. As a buyer of eBooks, I agree. Hell, as a buyer of regular books I agree. Here's how I, as a reader, go about buying a book. Is it someone I know will rock my world and I'll love reading? I'll buy hardcover.
Although a professional writer might be expected to be a bit more competent in articulating his thoughts, the message comes through clearly enough for me, since I am of the same mind.
I'd trust the Chinese further than most of my neighbours.
That's a bit sad. I get on quite well with the majority of my neighbours, but most people I know who have wide experience of commercial dealing with Chinese (not to be confused with personal interactions with individuals and their families) have told me of a catalogue of dishonest, conspiratorial and treacherous activities. Basically, it seems their attitude is that "westerners" are fair game, since their rules are just not recognised by the Chinese.
Adopting this attitude in comparatively small business dealings is one thing, but enshrining it in (unofficial) government policy is another. If the Chinese insist on treating other nations as enemies, they should expect the same in return. The fact that our governments and corporations are so ready to kowtow to them for their business is nothing short of sickening.
I think he meant Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
:-P
So would I. But the GGP (or whatever) is right about the plot being confusing. I never did get the hang of it, but that might be partly because it used to be my practice to drop 50 or 60 tabs of acid before watching it.
Haven't done it for a long time, but I used to really love that stuff. (Incidentally, for the benefit of the uninformed, it isn't really possible to OD on LSD - an increase in dose just prolongs the best and most intense part of the trip.)
just saying, those policies could bias the result and the researchers have taken no steps to address that.
Well, what do you suggest?
How in the world is a "normal" person supposed to know when the judge or attorney is trying to pull a fast one
You're not. You're expected to do as you're told, and think what they tell you to think. It's common for some sort of deal to have taken place, or for some sort of circumstance affecting another case to have occurred, but the jury is usually kept in the dark about it, even if they do catch a strong whiff of rodent.
It occurs to me that having a T-shirt saying "GUILTY" should be a pretty good way of getting yourself excluded. ;-)
I can't imagine call phones or networked computers are allowed for a sequestered jury anyway
Here in Western Australia, the courts "ask" you to surrender your phone. Doesn't even matter if it doesn't have a camera.
If you sick your finger in a dyke, you'll get your head slapped.
i'm turning 30 this year and already i can see why they say youth is wasted on the young.
If you're 30, then you are young. You should have another 10 years or so before the effects of entropy really start making themselves noticed. Mind you, although my knees and ankles creak and my eyes don't work that well, I really wouldn't want the chore of having to live the last 5 decades all over again....
...which is exactly what the article said.
For years now, going back to the analogue days but increasingly over the past decade, audio has been "dynanic-range compressed" to increase the loudness of the song.
Not to increase the loudness, in the case of analogue recordings. Those black vinyl LPs were/are recorded with what is known as as an RIAA equalisation technique in order to reduce excessive movement (and resulting audio distortion) from a needle driven by a moving groove on a disc. This also allowed manufacturers to produce discs with longer playing times, since the grooves could be more closely spaced.