Thinking about trade embargoes, I am suddenly reminded of Foundation. About how the Mercantile empire of the Foundation eventually led to an association and absorption into the Second Empire.
We are past the time when the US had a technological or manufacturing advantage over other countries, but maybe if they'd stopped their protectionist tendencies...
For the way I like to read Slashdot, it's perfect. I tend to read the 3-5 posts, but will often read the parents and replies of such posts even if they're 1-2 because they often progress the conversation starter that got modded up. It's also nice not to have to go back constantly in my browser, everything opens up in the single window, and the moderation is easy to do with the new system, you know exactly how many points you have left as you read on.
Yeah, I got the feeling that everyone in that story has their own issues. But without a body, or even enough blood to prove the person is dead, proving that a murder even occurred is going to be a challenge. All the evidence seems fairly circumstantial at this point.
Once in a while - sure. Just like I need to use sudo on a Linux box or need to authenticate on Mac OS X. That's fine, and a good security model.
But the problem with Vista's UAC is its omnipresence and its redundancy. to reach certain settings, I need to go through 8 menu choices, 3 of which I might have to "authorize". Why won't it recognize my activation of the first and not ask me again for a short time, like sudo and OS X do? Once I authenticate in a OS X preference window, for example, I'm in until I quit, and it won't ask me for a password again. Exception being the network preferences, but once again it's only going to ask once, when I click Apply.
Considering that mono and friends is a project at delivering an open-source, Linux-compatible implementation of.NET, I completely fail to see how they could get ahead. Unless they have a time machine hidden somewhere... It's like complaining that German translation of books written in English are always released after the English versions.
That's not the point. The point is that everything is (or at the least should be) equal before the law, and any transgression of the law should be investigated and pursued. That their father is President of the USA should be irrelevant. The lawyer here calling for investigation is making a point that the RIAA, on the other hand, is mostly pursuing people with little money to defend themselves, and extorting money from them, and that the penalties for copyright infringement are completely disproportional to the offenses.
Considering that banks in Canada are opened from 11:01 to 11:03 (slight exaggeration), they obviously automatically deliver debit cards, and few other than old and unemployed people go to a human teller anymore.
And you've never seen a vending machine that accepts a debit/credit card? They're not very common, but I've seen some.
It's funny how libertarians can turn everything on their head.
So here we have a story about how the government promised (and delivered) deregulation in exchange for a promise from the deregulated companies to provide a specific improvement in the service they offered.
You take the government involvement, and you consider that undue interference in the free market? The result of the government "involvement" in this case WAS to go back to a free market. See the result.
Same around here. I learned since NT4 not to trust a non-SP1 Microsoft OS release. At this company here which I'm working as a part-time network admin has (upon my recommendations) adopted a 1-year lockdown on using Vista. We'll re-evaluate early 2008.
We call them "paychecks" and checks, but for most businesses all this stuff is transferred directly to bank accounts. I get a paper record of my pay on a paper, but the money just "appears" in my account at 2AM on payday. Some businesses still work the old way, but most employees of such companies find that very annoying:-)
Most government payouts (tax returns among other things) are treated the same way.
The only thing I still use checks for is my rent, because my landlord is an individual. Banks usually collect rent and mortgage payments automatically from your account. Insurance premiums are done the same way. My money mostly goes in the account by itself, and comes out the same way:-) I don't even receive paper bills from utilities anymore. Cable/phone/internet bill is in electronic format, same with electricity bill. I pay both online.
There are small businesses around that won't take credit/debit cards, but they are very rare. Taxi cabs started getting equipped with the machines a few years ago, but they are still uncommon and are one of the few reasons I keep some cash on me. You can request a cab that will take debit/credit cards though if you want.
Credit cards? I don't have or need one. I essentially never carry more than 20$CDN in my pockets, which I keep for small purchases, taxi runs, etc; and use my debit card for everything. But then I live in Canada. We don't really use checks anymore either.
But it's still a game, being real has nothing to do with it. That the outcome of the game has more significant consequences than say the outcome of a chess game is totally irrelevant to its nature. Imagine if instead of the cold war, the US and USSR had agreed to have the best chess player on each side and agree that the loser would let the winner invade without resistance. Would that have not been a game?
Now, it might depend on what you think a game is, but I tend to go with the mathematical definition. You might not know, but game theory is very relevant in the study of politics.
Well, I've only ever had one customer specifically ask me for Firefox on his Mac, and one other Mac on which I worked where Firefox was the default browser on 10.3-10.4. As I said, I always install Firefox on Macs I install or work on. I work on 5 to 10 Macs every week, and I have done so since OS X was released.
The situation is different for previous system versions obviously, people still on 10.2 usually have Firefox as their main browser, but that's because you can't have a recent version of Safari on it. Don't see a lot of those, though, to be honest.
Probably something on your end. Safari does crash occasionally, but maybe once a month for me on average. My customers rarely complain about Safari being unstable, and it's pretty much always caused by an underlying system or hardware issue. v3 beta so far has been perfectly stable for me also.
A significant portion of Mac users have Firefox installed. Most of them keep it to browse web sites that are not Safari-compatible. Few use Firefox as their main browser. When people ask me about which browser they should use on the Mac, I recommend they have Firefox installed (I usually install it on computers I setup, whether running Windows or OS X) , and use whichever they prefer. Most choose Safari.
Journaled HFS+ is reasonably stable. Most file system problems are one of three types:
- Easily repaired on reboot from the journal info (common and cause negligible trouble) - Caused by a hardware failure (fairly common) - Totally screwed up, making the drive unmountable but the data usually rescuable through specialized software (quite rare)
Before journaling, we used to see a LOT of screwed up filesystems that had to be repaired regularly. Crashing would often cause slight errors which would then breed more errors, cause more crashings (and more errors), until the corruption would make the system unbootable.
In my experience, journaled HFS+ seems about as stable as NTFS or ext3, maybe a bit more prone to problems but not by much. On the other hand, there are more efficient tools to work with and repair HFS+ than these other file systems.
At first, when we heard the more serious info about ZFS last week, I found it interesting, but when I read the comments here on/. and went to look for info on ZFS, I realized it's a powerful filesystem but which might not be ready for prime-time. I suspect Apple is looking or looked at using it, but realized it wasn't ready for integration -- especially not as the default FS in a consumer OS. I'd certainly like to see it as an optional supported format to play and experiment with, but such a switch would probably cause more trouble than it'd be worth right now.
Indeed. The issue not being that Windows is less secure, but that it's a different platform, and as such would expose any code to completely different vulnerabilities.
Yeah! Really! You talk to them dude! They should like totally do like my best friends and CHARGE them for the PRIVILEGE of beta testing their applications!
They released a beta version of a program with the usual disclaimers about how it's not finished, and should not be used in a production environment, and are not forcing anyone to use it. What's your problem?
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If you continue to vote for Bush & friends, don't worry, you won't have any rights to complain about soon enough.
Thinking about trade embargoes, I am suddenly reminded of Foundation. About how the Mercantile empire of the Foundation eventually led to an association and absorption into the Second Empire.
We are past the time when the US had a technological or manufacturing advantage over other countries, but maybe if they'd stopped their protectionist tendencies...
For the way I like to read Slashdot, it's perfect. I tend to read the 3-5 posts, but will often read the parents and replies of such posts even if they're 1-2 because they often progress the conversation starter that got modded up. It's also nice not to have to go back constantly in my browser, everything opens up in the single window, and the moderation is easy to do with the new system, you know exactly how many points you have left as you read on.
Yeah, I got the feeling that everyone in that story has their own issues. But without a body, or even enough blood to prove the person is dead, proving that a murder even occurred is going to be a challenge. All the evidence seems fairly circumstantial at this point.
Once in a while - sure. Just like I need to use sudo on a Linux box or need to authenticate on Mac OS X. That's fine, and a good security model.
But the problem with Vista's UAC is its omnipresence and its redundancy. to reach certain settings, I need to go through 8 menu choices, 3 of which I might have to "authorize". Why won't it recognize my activation of the first and not ask me again for a short time, like sudo and OS X do? Once I authenticate in a OS X preference window, for example, I'm in until I quit, and it won't ask me for a password again. Exception being the network preferences, but once again it's only going to ask once, when I click Apply.
Considering that mono and friends is a project at delivering an open-source, Linux-compatible implementation of .NET, I completely fail to see how they could get ahead. Unless they have a time machine hidden somewhere... It's like complaining that German translation of books written in English are always released after the English versions.
That's not the point. The point is that everything is (or at the least should be) equal before the law, and any transgression of the law should be investigated and pursued. That their father is President of the USA should be irrelevant. The lawyer here calling for investigation is making a point that the RIAA, on the other hand, is mostly pursuing people with little money to defend themselves, and extorting money from them, and that the penalties for copyright infringement are completely disproportional to the offenses.
Considering that banks in Canada are opened from 11:01 to 11:03 (slight exaggeration), they obviously automatically deliver debit cards, and few other than old and unemployed people go to a human teller anymore.
And you've never seen a vending machine that accepts a debit/credit card? They're not very common, but I've seen some.
Hey, I agree with you here, just pointing it out :-)
It's funny how libertarians can turn everything on their head.
So here we have a story about how the government promised (and delivered) deregulation in exchange for a promise from the deregulated companies to provide a specific improvement in the service they offered.
You take the government involvement, and you consider that undue interference in the free market? The result of the government "involvement" in this case WAS to go back to a free market. See the result.
"Liberty or Death" is a cute slogan, but if you want Liberty, you have to be ready to accept Liberty AND Death.
Same around here. I learned since NT4 not to trust a non-SP1 Microsoft OS release. At this company here which I'm working as a part-time network admin has (upon my recommendations) adopted a 1-year lockdown on using Vista. We'll re-evaluate early 2008.
We call them "paychecks" and checks, but for most businesses all this stuff is transferred directly to bank accounts. I get a paper record of my pay on a paper, but the money just "appears" in my account at 2AM on payday. Some businesses still work the old way, but most employees of such companies find that very annoying :-)
:-) I don't even receive paper bills from utilities anymore. Cable/phone/internet bill is in electronic format, same with electricity bill. I pay both online.
Most government payouts (tax returns among other things) are treated the same way.
The only thing I still use checks for is my rent, because my landlord is an individual. Banks usually collect rent and mortgage payments automatically from your account. Insurance premiums are done the same way. My money mostly goes in the account by itself, and comes out the same way
There are small businesses around that won't take credit/debit cards, but they are very rare. Taxi cabs started getting equipped with the machines a few years ago, but they are still uncommon and are one of the few reasons I keep some cash on me. You can request a cab that will take debit/credit cards though if you want.
Credit cards? I don't have or need one. I essentially never carry more than 20$CDN in my pockets, which I keep for small purchases, taxi runs, etc; and use my debit card for everything. But then I live in Canada. We don't really use checks anymore either.
Except that Webkit, Safari's rendering engine, is open source.
But it's still a game, being real has nothing to do with it. That the outcome of the game has more significant consequences than say the outcome of a chess game is totally irrelevant to its nature. Imagine if instead of the cold war, the US and USSR had agreed to have the best chess player on each side and agree that the loser would let the winner invade without resistance. Would that have not been a game?
Now, it might depend on what you think a game is, but I tend to go with the mathematical definition. You might not know, but game theory is very relevant in the study of politics.
Well, I've only ever had one customer specifically ask me for Firefox on his Mac, and one other Mac on which I worked where Firefox was the default browser on 10.3-10.4. As I said, I always install Firefox on Macs I install or work on. I work on 5 to 10 Macs every week, and I have done so since OS X was released.
The situation is different for previous system versions obviously, people still on 10.2 usually have Firefox as their main browser, but that's because you can't have a recent version of Safari on it. Don't see a lot of those, though, to be honest.
Probably something on your end. Safari does crash occasionally, but maybe once a month for me on average. My customers rarely complain about Safari being unstable, and it's pretty much always caused by an underlying system or hardware issue. v3 beta so far has been perfectly stable for me also.
A significant portion of Mac users have Firefox installed. Most of them keep it to browse web sites that are not Safari-compatible. Few use Firefox as their main browser. When people ask me about which browser they should use on the Mac, I recommend they have Firefox installed (I usually install it on computers I setup, whether running Windows or OS X) , and use whichever they prefer. Most choose Safari.
Before journaling, HFS+ wasn't great, but since its introduction, it's not bad at all in my experience.
Journaled HFS+ is reasonably stable. Most file system problems are one of three types:
- Easily repaired on reboot from the journal info (common and cause negligible trouble)
- Caused by a hardware failure (fairly common)
- Totally screwed up, making the drive unmountable but the data usually rescuable through specialized software (quite rare)
Before journaling, we used to see a LOT of screwed up filesystems that had to be repaired regularly. Crashing would often cause slight errors which would then breed more errors, cause more crashings (and more errors), until the corruption would make the system unbootable.
In my experience, journaled HFS+ seems about as stable as NTFS or ext3, maybe a bit more prone to problems but not by much. On the other hand, there are more efficient tools to work with and repair HFS+ than these other file systems.
At first, when we heard the more serious info about ZFS last week, I found it interesting, but when I read the comments here on /. and went to look for info on ZFS, I realized it's a powerful filesystem but which might not be ready for prime-time. I suspect Apple is looking or looked at using it, but realized it wasn't ready for integration -- especially not as the default FS in a consumer OS. I'd certainly like to see it as an optional supported format to play and experiment with, but such a switch would probably cause more trouble than it'd be worth right now.
Probably from where there's "No child left behind".
Indeed. The issue not being that Windows is less secure, but that it's a different platform, and as such would expose any code to completely different vulnerabilities.
Yeah! Really! You talk to them dude! They should like totally do like my best friends and CHARGE them for the PRIVILEGE of beta testing their applications!
They released a beta version of a program with the usual disclaimers about how it's not finished, and should not be used in a production environment, and are not forcing anyone to use it. What's your problem?