The Darwin Kernel is still open source, and will likely have that DRM in the source as well. Besides, the DRM is likely to only ensure that it boots on an Apple x86 machine, no more. Besides, look at Apple's history, when have they ever used serial numbers for their OSes? Never.
Neither does Dashboard. So? Everyone knows that new features don't work in older versions of the OS. Safari can't function in OS 9, unless you make a crippled version for both. iLife has an older version of iMovie and iTunes and iDVD that functions in OS 9, it's not like they stopped functioning.
The idea: UV rays hitting the titanium dioxide coated cement and concrete trigger a catalytic reaction that destroys the molecules of pollutants, including nitrogen oxides.
Guess I can't go sleep on the sidewalk or press my face against the glass storefronts, not in the daytime at least. Is this going to like vaporize organic tissue?
The Matrix was in production for almost a year when Dark City was released. You will see the roof-hopping segment in it, much like the beginning of The Matrix. In any case, the nature of the reality the characters live in is quite different. Also, the characters' names from The Matrix were memorable, everyone can name them, not so for Dark City.
This doesn't seem too intuitive. Can you imagine trying to explain this concept to your mother? Look at the Discarding Windows part of the video, where does the window go? Bring it back! It's like the drag-lock on the trackpads, inexperienced people hate it because it gets in their way, interrupting their work.
I know, one of the first things I did when I got OS X was get out my old 68k StuntCopter game and play. Amazing that it was written for a different processor and OS, but the thing that was meant for a 4MHz Mac classic screamed on a 466MHz iBook. Ah what fun. If the Intel transition breaks compatibility, I'm sure going to miss it.
Now where can I get a copy of Crystal Quest or Spin Doctor?
Better fans. Apple had some great fan designs and ideas, like their convection cooling iMacs, and silent G5's.
Better cases, Apple is my favorite.
Wireless everything. I can see what you mean, but Apple took care of that, you could have an entire room of Macs in a lab all with cordless mice, as long as you setup and pair them one at a time. Also, they don't go far enough so your neighbor gets the interference, unless you're in an apartment maybe, and there's some simple ecryption done anyways.
It's not the professors, it's the students who go and resell their books back to the bookstore. With all those used books, the prices won't change much, and the demand will stay the same, because the students can't really choose to go without their textbooks for school.
Cheney said he knew "exactly" where the WMDs were. If he knew, why didn't he have satellites monitor the sites? Hard to miss a convoy of trucks moving tons of material now, isn't it? If there were WMDs, then the Bush administration and the military is grossly incompetent and should be fired for letting them get away.
Your link is bogus, old news. Yes, a shell with traces was exploded. It's most likely an old shell from the Iran-Iraq war or first Gulf war. The wreckage of tanks are still around, it's not that hard to pick up. Someone took the scrap and built an IED around it. If they knew it had 'traces' of Sarin, wouldn't they put it to better use rather than a shell casing that blew away all the gas in the open wind? That article and incident dates from over a year ago. If there were more chemical agents, how come no more were found? The insurgents are itching to fight, are you going to tell me they are just sitting on the chance to use chemical gas if they had any? I mean, all their opportunities like the election are past by now.
As for point 2, they're not related in that manner. One of the goals was to stabilize the oil industry and ensure less dependance on Saudi Arabia. However, nobody in the administration was counting on the security failures. The oil fields are left relatively insecure, and it's taking years longer than expected to stabilize the oil industry and harden it from attacks. Oil was A factor, but the plan was botched.
I believe the Now Playing (Tivo) widget updates in the background depending on how many minutes you set it before you update, or you can have it update only when you call Dashboard.
Yes, that wait for all the other widgets is really annoying. Can't they set it to a high nice and then have them update?
Where do you hear mainstream Muslims try to "impose" their religion on others? And when do they condone hurting non-believers? And No, the Qur'an does NOT state to do that. No, it doesn't.
Islam doesn't have to go into the phases that Christianity did, because Islam doesn't have the same problems that Christianity has. Qur'anic literalism is completely different from biblical literalism, for starters.
"there is a defined movement in Islam that preaches the status and fate of non-believers in a very expressed way. Not in some terrorist movement, but imams in their official mosques."
Yes, Islam generally has a stance on non-believers. They're human beings. Wrong and sinful people, but murder can be a hell-worthy sin. It's haram (forbidden) to force them to convert. Also, there is a quotation from the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, saying that "Whoever murders a [non-Muslim citizen] will not even smell the fragrance of Paradise." let alone get into it. Please show me where Christianity gives such human rights. Like I said, Islam has different issues than Christianity, so it's foolish to compare them in the same manner.
You're not going to find imams in official mosques condoning terrorism. Every government out there cracked down years ago.
That would make it a perfect target then, wouldn't it? If they're defenseless, they would be the best place to aim for. Even Christian missionaries have been known to go after poor areas, even cities in America dealing with huge unemployment, thinking that they'll be more receptive to religion. So why isn't Al Qaeda focusing on Sweden or even South America? Bin Laden doesn't care about Sweden, Sweden didn't have soldiers in his country, and Sweden didn't fund the dictators in his country.
No, that's not what "taqqiya" means. Taqqiya is a rarely-invoked allowance to conceal one's faith, if they feel they are in imminent danger of death or physical harm. If you put a gun to my head and ask me if I'm Muslim, I'm allowed to lie if I think it will save my life. That's the ONLY time it is allowed, and lying is a big sin in Islam otherwise. The doctrine is far more elaborated in Shiism, due to their history of persecution.
The Qur'an does not allow Muslims to lie except in the above case or during war, when one is allowed to deceive the enemy militarily, the verses ordering Muslims to be honest are numerous. Muslims can't lie in order to gain converts, God will not accept their deeds if they resort to such tactics. Taqqiya only applies to hiding your faith in God if you're threatened, and nothing else. The word is quite overblown and overrated among non-Muslims. It's the new buzzword of the anti-Islam crowd, since Jihad isn't really a word they can get a shock out of anymore. I can think of extremely few Muslims who are scholarly enough to know what the word even means, because the word and its definition is practically medieval.
*Sigh* I knew you were going to say something like that. Look, they say the attack was wrong and against Islam. I'm telling you that these organizations speak for Millions of American Muslims, I wouldn't brush them all off so quickly. Even if you think these groups are somehow evil terrorist fronts (which they're not), I see that their condemnation of the attack is matched by Muslim groups and Muslim country governments worldwide. Are you saying that these thousands of communiques and fatwas condemning the attack are all false, and just some "secret worldwide conspiracy with aims to take over the world"? Where have I heard that before?
I can vouch for these condemnations, there's a majority tremendous number of flag-waving patriotic Muslims out there, and they all believe terrorism is a sin and evil. They say it in their own Muslim circles as well, and it's a sin to lie to other Muslims, regardless of what you think this whole "Taqiyyah" business really is. What's frightening is that every group that oppressed another uses the same strategy of "We can't trust anything they say! They'll lie openly and through their teeth to hide their true evil intentions." Hitler used it on the Jews, the KKK made that claim about black civil rights groups, Iraqis accused Bush of concealing his imperialist intentions by using such soft and peaceful rhetoric, etc. Your suspicion is entirely unfounded unless you can tell me you've been with Muslims and asked them directly about it.
They all have condemnations of the London bombings on their front pages.
Why do you assume they're silent? I don't assume that pro-life organizations were silent when abortion clinics were blown up. I didn't see them talking on CNN, but my common sense told me they didn't support it, just like these Muslim organizations. If you condemn something but Fox News doesn't bring you on as a speaker to get the message out, what can you do?
Why is it that it's a very politically unwise move to criticize Israeli and Jewish groups like the ADL and AIPAC, which has its share of extremists within, but CAIR gets all the suspicion?
The Wiki entry is garbage, it's sources are all Frontpage magazine and National Review, Daniel Pipes and Laura Ingram, all right-wing news and columnists. All of those accusations are just that, accusations. CAIR has a huge membership, and right-wing Muslims hate the organization because it's so liberal, so pro-American, and unwilling to criticize Bush too harshly. Even Wikipedia acknowledges The neutrality of this article is disputed on the top of its page.
CAIR does plenty of actual honest and good work. They've alerted the government to hate crimes, publicized cases where employees were fired for their religion, and tried to present their side on News shows. Now that the US government had nearly all Muslim immigrants fingerprinted and photographed, and announced that they'd be spying domestically on the American Muslim community and in the face of increasing deportations, I'd say that CAIR is needed in America.
As someone who's read and kept every CAIR email for the last 2 and a half years at the state and national chapter level, I'd say they're clean. They condemn terrorism so much, so strongly, and so often that to me they sound like a broken record. Their "Not in the Name of Islam" petition against terrorism has 688,878 signatures at last count. CAIR-NY on July 1 announced that they disagree and disapprove of a Muslim group in NYC that pickets gay parades.
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From Apple's site: "Time is round. Space is curved. Why should your mouse be linear?"
Wait, Time is round? How is that?
True, but Apple also sells 5-user OS X packs that are no different from any other box copy except for a different license agreement printed inside.
And what, become a software company? Compete with Red Hat, Microsoft, Amiga, Debian, Fedora, IBM and God knows who else?
No, let Apple stay the way it is. Do you want BMW to just sell engines?
The Darwin Kernel is still open source, and will likely have that DRM in the source as well. Besides, the DRM is likely to only ensure that it boots on an Apple x86 machine, no more. Besides, look at Apple's history, when have they ever used serial numbers for their OSes? Never.
Hey, with these top-list people out of the running, doesn't it make it a bit easier to be hired if you were further down the list?
In short: Good news if you're a B-rank engineer
Bad news if you're trying to diversify the industry
Neither does Dashboard. So? Everyone knows that new features don't work in older versions of the OS. Safari can't function in OS 9, unless you make a crippled version for both. iLife has an older version of iMovie and iTunes and iDVD that functions in OS 9, it's not like they stopped functioning.
Guess I can't go sleep on the sidewalk or press my face against the glass storefronts, not in the daytime at least. Is this going to like vaporize organic tissue?
The Matrix was in production for almost a year when Dark City was released. You will see the roof-hopping segment in it, much like the beginning of The Matrix. In any case, the nature of the reality the characters live in is quite different. Also, the characters' names from The Matrix were memorable, everyone can name them, not so for Dark City.
This doesn't seem too intuitive. Can you imagine trying to explain this concept to your mother? Look at the Discarding Windows part of the video, where does the window go? Bring it back! It's like the drag-lock on the trackpads, inexperienced people hate it because it gets in their way, interrupting their work.
Does look pretty cool though.
I know, one of the first things I did when I got OS X was get out my old 68k StuntCopter game and play. Amazing that it was written for a different processor and OS, but the thing that was meant for a 4MHz Mac classic screamed on a 466MHz iBook. Ah what fun. If the Intel transition breaks compatibility, I'm sure going to miss it.
Now where can I get a copy of Crystal Quest or Spin Doctor?
Better fans. Apple had some great fan designs and ideas, like their convection cooling iMacs, and silent G5's.
Better cases, Apple is my favorite.
Wireless everything. I can see what you mean, but Apple took care of that, you could have an entire room of Macs in a lab all with cordless mice, as long as you setup and pair them one at a time. Also, they don't go far enough so your neighbor gets the interference, unless you're in an apartment maybe, and there's some simple ecryption done anyways.
yeah, but I can't search or spellcheck my notes. Emailing a copy requires me to scan it first.
With those aside, I prefer writing my notes. I get too distracted and start to read my email or browse blogs, losing out on the lecture.
It's not the professors, it's the students who go and resell their books back to the bookstore. With all those used books, the prices won't change much, and the demand will stay the same, because the students can't really choose to go without their textbooks for school.
Pitch Black was the name of the movie actually. Not bad either.
Cheney said he knew "exactly" where the WMDs were. If he knew, why didn't he have satellites monitor the sites? Hard to miss a convoy of trucks moving tons of material now, isn't it? If there were WMDs, then the Bush administration and the military is grossly incompetent and should be fired for letting them get away.
Your link is bogus, old news. Yes, a shell with traces was exploded. It's most likely an old shell from the Iran-Iraq war or first Gulf war. The wreckage of tanks are still around, it's not that hard to pick up. Someone took the scrap and built an IED around it. If they knew it had 'traces' of Sarin, wouldn't they put it to better use rather than a shell casing that blew away all the gas in the open wind? That article and incident dates from over a year ago. If there were more chemical agents, how come no more were found? The insurgents are itching to fight, are you going to tell me they are just sitting on the chance to use chemical gas if they had any? I mean, all their opportunities like the election are past by now.
As for point 2, they're not related in that manner. One of the goals was to stabilize the oil industry and ensure less dependance on Saudi Arabia. However, nobody in the administration was counting on the security failures. The oil fields are left relatively insecure, and it's taking years longer than expected to stabilize the oil industry and harden it from attacks. Oil was A factor, but the plan was botched.
update your prebindings and erase your caches. Also, reboot.
Command-double click the file, it will open the enclosing folder.
I believe the Now Playing (Tivo) widget updates in the background depending on how many minutes you set it before you update, or you can have it update only when you call Dashboard.
Yes, that wait for all the other widgets is really annoying. Can't they set it to a high nice and then have them update?
"I before E except after C, or when sounding like A as in neighbor or weigh."
Islam doesn't have to go into the phases that Christianity did, because Islam doesn't have the same problems that Christianity has. Qur'anic literalism is completely different from biblical literalism, for starters.
"there is a defined movement in Islam that preaches the status and fate of non-believers in a very expressed way. Not in some terrorist movement, but imams in their official mosques."
Yes, Islam generally has a stance on non-believers. They're human beings. Wrong and sinful people, but murder can be a hell-worthy sin. It's haram (forbidden) to force them to convert. Also, there is a quotation from the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, saying that "Whoever murders a [non-Muslim citizen] will not even smell the fragrance of Paradise." let alone get into it. Please show me where Christianity gives such human rights. Like I said, Islam has different issues than Christianity, so it's foolish to compare them in the same manner.
You're not going to find imams in official mosques condoning terrorism. Every government out there cracked down years ago.
I thought he famously called 311 often to complain about potholes.
That would make it a perfect target then, wouldn't it? If they're defenseless, they would be the best place to aim for. Even Christian missionaries have been known to go after poor areas, even cities in America dealing with huge unemployment, thinking that they'll be more receptive to religion. So why isn't Al Qaeda focusing on Sweden or even South America? Bin Laden doesn't care about Sweden, Sweden didn't have soldiers in his country, and Sweden didn't fund the dictators in his country.
No, that's not what "taqqiya" means. Taqqiya is a rarely-invoked allowance to conceal one's faith, if they feel they are in imminent danger of death or physical harm. If you put a gun to my head and ask me if I'm Muslim, I'm allowed to lie if I think it will save my life. That's the ONLY time it is allowed, and lying is a big sin in Islam otherwise. The doctrine is far more elaborated in Shiism, due to their history of persecution.
The Qur'an does not allow Muslims to lie except in the above case or during war, when one is allowed to deceive the enemy militarily, the verses ordering Muslims to be honest are numerous. Muslims can't lie in order to gain converts, God will not accept their deeds if they resort to such tactics. Taqqiya only applies to hiding your faith in God if you're threatened, and nothing else. The word is quite overblown and overrated among non-Muslims. It's the new buzzword of the anti-Islam crowd, since Jihad isn't really a word they can get a shock out of anymore. I can think of extremely few Muslims who are scholarly enough to know what the word even means, because the word and its definition is practically medieval.
*Sigh* I knew you were going to say something like that. Look, they say the attack was wrong and against Islam. I'm telling you that these organizations speak for Millions of American Muslims, I wouldn't brush them all off so quickly. Even if you think these groups are somehow evil terrorist fronts (which they're not), I see that their condemnation of the attack is matched by Muslim groups and Muslim country governments worldwide. Are you saying that these thousands of communiques and fatwas condemning the attack are all false, and just some "secret worldwide conspiracy with aims to take over the world"? Where have I heard that before?
I can vouch for these condemnations, there's a majority tremendous number of flag-waving patriotic Muslims out there, and they all believe terrorism is a sin and evil. They say it in their own Muslim circles as well, and it's a sin to lie to other Muslims, regardless of what you think this whole "Taqiyyah" business really is. What's frightening is that every group that oppressed another uses the same strategy of "We can't trust anything they say! They'll lie openly and through their teeth to hide their true evil intentions." Hitler used it on the Jews, the KKK made that claim about black civil rights groups, Iraqis accused Bush of concealing his imperialist intentions by using such soft and peaceful rhetoric, etc. Your suspicion is entirely unfounded unless you can tell me you've been with Muslims and asked them directly about it.
ICNA, The Islamic Circle of North America
ISNA, The Islamic Society of North America
MPAC, The Muslim Public Affairs Council
The Muslim American Society
They all have condemnations of the London bombings on their front pages.
Why do you assume they're silent? I don't assume that pro-life organizations were silent when abortion clinics were blown up. I didn't see them talking on CNN, but my common sense told me they didn't support it, just like these Muslim organizations. If you condemn something but Fox News doesn't bring you on as a speaker to get the message out, what can you do?
The Wiki entry is garbage, it's sources are all Frontpage magazine and National Review, Daniel Pipes and Laura Ingram, all right-wing news and columnists. All of those accusations are just that, accusations. CAIR has a huge membership, and right-wing Muslims hate the organization because it's so liberal, so pro-American, and unwilling to criticize Bush too harshly. Even Wikipedia acknowledges The neutrality of this article is disputed on the top of its page.
CAIR does plenty of actual honest and good work. They've alerted the government to hate crimes, publicized cases where employees were fired for their religion, and tried to present their side on News shows. Now that the US government had nearly all Muslim immigrants fingerprinted and photographed, and announced that they'd be spying domestically on the American Muslim community and in the face of increasing deportations, I'd say that CAIR is needed in America.
As someone who's read and kept every CAIR email for the last 2 and a half years at the state and national chapter level, I'd say they're clean. They condemn terrorism so much, so strongly, and so often that to me they sound like a broken record. Their "Not in the Name of Islam" petition against terrorism has 688,878 signatures at last count. CAIR-NY on July 1 announced that they disagree and disapprove of a Muslim group in NYC that pickets gay parades.
Ah yes, and lest I forget: CAIR Condemns 'Barbaric' London Terror Attacks. Wow, they called other Muslims "Barbaric," do you still think they're with the extremists?
For all those who missed out over the past few years:
CAIR Condemns killing of British Hostage in Iraq
CAIR Calls for Release of All Hostages in Iraq
CAIR-CAN Condemns Anti-Semitic Graffitti
CAIR Sends Condolences to Korean Ambassador
CAIR Calls for Release of Iraq Hostages, Ceasefire
CAIR Condems Mutilation of Bodies in Iraq
CAIR Condemns Killings in Iraq, Pakistan
CAIR Condemns Attacks on Civilians
US Muslims Condemn Church Attack in Pakistan
CAIR Condemns 9/11 attack