There are actually only five other native graphical browser rendering engines for OS X in wide use, even if there are many browsers. There is the Mozilla family: Camino/Chimera, Mozilla, Phoenix/Firebird - lots of different UIs, but the same rendering engine, Gecko. Next there's IE, based on Tasman - a giant load of crap that is only better than the Windows version if you prefer eyecandy to standards (the OS X version can only handle a few text encodings, for instance). Safari, another promising browser, based on KHTML/WebCore. And there is OmniWeb (and there's talk that OmniWeb might switch to WebCore, which would bring us down to three other rendering engines). Finally, there's iCab, which is dropping behind it seems.
The more competition there is in the browser market on all platforms, the bigger the win for standards. The further that standards pull ahead of non-standard (i.e., IE) rendering, the bigger the win for developers. The bigger the win for developers, the more time developers can spend on what really makes the net worthwhile, innovative content and presentation, and the bigger the win for consumers.
And the fact that 5 British journalists were also subjected to this, despite the fact that the British supported the US in the war, means what? Maybe that your theory is all wet?
I'll tell you what I think happened. They came into the country on tourist visas, and when they were asked why they had come to the US, they said "we're journalists going to a games conference." The Homeland Security goons looked at the visas, saw that they either lied to get their visas or were lying to the goons, and determined them to be security risks. Hence the cavity searches.
So the moral of the story is...if you have a tourist visa and the Homeland Security goons ask if you're here to go to Disneyland, you SAY YES!
We've had 2 CATASTROPHIC failures on 130 or so runs. Not bad, perhaps, for a non-mission critical system, but pretty damned bad for a transportation system. Kind of like that old Microsoft joke: would you drive a car that spun out of control 6 times a year?
Actually, now that I think about it, why wouldn't wolves and dogs be the same species? They interbreed (which humans and chimps don't, except for on/.). Is interbreeding unreliable between them?
Issue is over how you draw genus lines. They are usually drawn by phenotype, rather than by genotype. And remember that wolves are a lot more like dogs than humans are like chimps.
I've had a C for about 2 weeks. It's fantastic. Only issues I've had are synching to OS X via wireless (10.2.6 broke it; it worked fine before, and still synchs via cradle and synchs to Windows XP via WiFi), and some of the 3d party apps seem to need to be updated for Palm OS5 (VNC seemed to work, and LFTP, but there were times I'd have TCP/IP troubles and I couldn't track down which app caused it). Also, Graffiti 2 is not fun for someone who knows Graffiti 1 well (yes, you can do Graffiti on the screen if your input settings are right).
WiFi range is about 3/4 what my iBook gets. Set up was easy, and switching networks is easy. Cons: can't do Bluetooth (not sure why), can't do MP3 (but that's what the iPod is for), didn't come with the mic and earphone for voice mail, no Windows RDC client (which I guess means switching the Windows machines to VNC). Haven't had the opportunity to test the Kinoma video player. If you're coming from a Palm, the 65 MB and the 400 MHz processor will shock you. I didn't think I'd like the keyboard, but I'm using it 1/2 the time now.
Of course, if you're planning on traveling around a lot and want to get Blackberry-like service, go with the W, not the C. The W is more cell-oriented. But if you want something to use in the office and at home, and at the occasional hot spot (if you want to pay T-Mobile or somebody the subscription fees), the C is a nice piece of work.
My personal conspiracy theory is that SCO (aka Caldera) leaked the code into the general Linux base at the request of Microsoft so that they could bring about this case. It's not like there's a big central CVS repository that comprises "Linux".
By "going gets tough," I assume you mean when the Republicans in the Texas state legislature (not "legislation") try to leverage their majority there to gerrymander up a better majority in the Federal congress?
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Washington state may have no sales tax on food groceries (as Massachusetts does), but does it also have no meals tax?
What's so hard? Cent = 1% of a dollar. Dime = one tenth (deci-) of a dollar. Quarter = 1/4 dollar. Half-dollar = dollar. Nickel = 20% of a dollar coin made out of nickel. Sacagewa golden dollar coin = thing that makes your hands grubby and goes dull after three minutes in your pocket.
n-baxley just posted a troll that less than 5% of apple.slashdot.org readers, themselves less than 5% of Apple users, themselves a mere 5% of computer users, would ever consider reading. Woot!
Expensing stock options is financial rigor, and covers the stockholders' own butts. Forcing Jobs to change his entire market strategy, on the other hand . . . . That would basically be questioning Jobs' status as the Almighty Hero of the NeXTized Apple. I doubt there are that many Apple stockholders who are not impressed with Jobs' strategy: after all, for years the pundits have been telling them that Apple is a lost cause (it would be interesting to know the buy/sell recommendation histories of the pundits with regard to Apple). So investing with Apple, at least until recently, is a leap of faith; and why would the same investors with the faith to give Jobs their money for stock suddenly decide to force him to change Apple into Dell lite?
In other words, the Reality Distortion Field (TM). Sometimes a cliche is a useful way of encapsulating an entire argument: people who put money into Apple already buy into Jobs' vision.
Social sciences and cultural studies have issues that the traditional humanities don't. Cultural studies is mostly a methodological free-for-all; traditional humanities departments find most cultural studies work to be unrigorous at best. Social sciences has that rep, too, though often it's unwarranted.
Reread above. I'm talking about AppleHardware, not AppleSoftware. As far as AppleSoftware is concerned, it would be prohibitively expensive for them to farm out their OS to commodity hardware makers. Too much R&D of other people's hardware. It's not like the PDA market where there are only a few products, and if anything extened is added to the hardware and doesn't work, the consumer considers that the extended hardware's fault, not the OS.
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There are actually only five other native graphical browser rendering engines for OS X in wide use, even if there are many browsers. There is the Mozilla family: Camino/Chimera, Mozilla, Phoenix/Firebird - lots of different UIs, but the same rendering engine, Gecko. Next there's IE, based on Tasman - a giant load of crap that is only better than the Windows version if you prefer eyecandy to standards (the OS X version can only handle a few text encodings, for instance). Safari, another promising browser, based on KHTML/WebCore. And there is OmniWeb (and there's talk that OmniWeb might switch to WebCore, which would bring us down to three other rendering engines). Finally, there's iCab, which is dropping behind it seems.
The more competition there is in the browser market on all platforms, the bigger the win for standards. The further that standards pull ahead of non-standard (i.e., IE) rendering, the bigger the win for developers. The bigger the win for developers, the more time developers can spend on what really makes the net worthwhile, innovative content and presentation, and the bigger the win for consumers.
Let a thousand browsers bloom!
And the fact that 5 British journalists were also subjected to this, despite the fact that the British supported the US in the war, means what? Maybe that your theory is all wet?
I'll tell you what I think happened. They came into the country on tourist visas, and when they were asked why they had come to the US, they said "we're journalists going to a games conference." The Homeland Security goons looked at the visas, saw that they either lied to get their visas or were lying to the goons, and determined them to be security risks. Hence the cavity searches.
So the moral of the story is...if you have a tourist visa and the Homeland Security goons ask if you're here to go to Disneyland, you SAY YES!
Yeah, imagine what THAT would do for protein folding, SETI, and all those other number crunching projects.
We've had 2 CATASTROPHIC failures on 130 or so runs. Not bad, perhaps, for a non-mission critical system, but pretty damned bad for a transportation system. Kind of like that old Microsoft joke: would you drive a car that spun out of control 6 times a year?
I wonder if a dog or a wolf would agree with you?
Actually, now that I think about it, why wouldn't wolves and dogs be the same species? They interbreed (which humans and chimps don't, except for on /.). Is interbreeding unreliable between them?
It's the web site, not the filing. The lawyers don't create the web site, they create the filing.
Issue is over how you draw genus lines. They are usually drawn by phenotype, rather than by genotype. And remember that wolves are a lot more like dogs than humans are like chimps.
As you said, the hardware is mono. I guess I don't see the point of spending 10 bucks to listen to MP3s in mono.
Thanks. Preview is also your friend.
I've had a C for about 2 weeks. It's fantastic. Only issues I've had are synching to OS X via wireless (10.2.6 broke it; it worked fine before, and still synchs via cradle and synchs to Windows XP via WiFi), and some of the 3d party apps seem to need to be updated for Palm OS5 (VNC seemed to work, and LFTP, but there were times I'd have TCP/IP troubles and I couldn't track down which app caused it). Also, Graffiti 2 is not fun for someone who knows Graffiti 1 well (yes, you can do Graffiti on the screen if your input settings are right).
WiFi range is about 3/4 what my iBook gets. Set up was easy, and switching networks is easy. Cons: can't do Bluetooth (not sure why), can't do MP3 (but that's what the iPod is for), didn't come with the mic and earphone for voice mail, no Windows RDC client (which I guess means switching the Windows machines to VNC). Haven't had the opportunity to test the Kinoma video player. If you're coming from a Palm, the 65 MB and the 400 MHz processor will shock you. I didn't think I'd like the keyboard, but I'm using it 1/2 the time now.
Of course, if you're planning on traveling around a lot and want to get Blackberry-like service, go with the W, not the C. The W is more cell-oriented. But if you want something to use in the office and at home, and at the occasional hot spot (if you want to pay T-Mobile or somebody the subscription fees), the C is a nice piece of work.
But this might be of use to you. Google is your friend. http://www.macos.utah.edu/Documentation/MacOSX_Dep loyment/Specifics_ToolsUsedDeploy.html
Is Linux GPL? If it is, it doesn't matter whether or not it is a GNU project, it's still free.
And (to complete the chain for the hard-of-thinking) I suspect La Disme is a contraction of decimal.
You mean besides the fact that my handle is Sanskrit, but I'm an American of Irish and English ancestry, you stupid fsck?
This would be a legitimate argument - if Linux were not Free Software. But isn't Linux GPL?
The US didn't support small rouge states?
Naw, that was Revlon, Max Factor, etc.
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Oh, you meant ROGUE states!!!
My personal conspiracy theory is that SCO (aka Caldera) leaked the code into the general Linux base at the request of Microsoft so that they could bring about this case. It's not like there's a big central CVS repository that comprises "Linux".
Exactly. Linus uses Bitkeeper
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By "going gets tough," I assume you mean when the Republicans in the Texas state legislature (not "legislation") try to leverage their majority there to gerrymander up a better majority in the Federal congress?
Washington state may have no sales tax on food groceries (as Massachusetts does), but does it also have no meals tax?
What's so hard? Cent = 1% of a dollar. Dime = one tenth (deci-) of a dollar. Quarter = 1/4 dollar. Half-dollar = dollar. Nickel = 20% of a dollar coin made out of nickel. Sacagewa golden dollar coin = thing that makes your hands grubby and goes dull after three minutes in your pocket.
n-baxley just posted a troll that less than 5% of apple.slashdot.org readers, themselves less than 5% of Apple users, themselves a mere 5% of computer users, would ever consider reading. Woot!
I don't ever remember seeing the phrase " access to an administration account..." in an MS update. I could be wrong, but I'd be surprised.
Expensing stock options is financial rigor, and covers the stockholders' own butts. Forcing Jobs to change his entire market strategy, on the other hand . . . . That would basically be questioning Jobs' status as the Almighty Hero of the NeXTized Apple. I doubt there are that many Apple stockholders who are not impressed with Jobs' strategy: after all, for years the pundits have been telling them that Apple is a lost cause (it would be interesting to know the buy/sell recommendation histories of the pundits with regard to Apple). So investing with Apple, at least until recently, is a leap of faith; and why would the same investors with the faith to give Jobs their money for stock suddenly decide to force him to change Apple into Dell lite?
In other words, the Reality Distortion Field (TM). Sometimes a cliche is a useful way of encapsulating an entire argument: people who put money into Apple already buy into Jobs' vision.
Social sciences and cultural studies have issues that the traditional humanities don't. Cultural studies is mostly a methodological free-for-all; traditional humanities departments find most cultural studies work to be unrigorous at best. Social sciences has that rep, too, though often it's unwarranted.
Reread above. I'm talking about AppleHardware, not AppleSoftware. As far as AppleSoftware is concerned, it would be prohibitively expensive for them to farm out their OS to commodity hardware makers. Too much R&D of other people's hardware. It's not like the PDA market where there are only a few products, and if anything extened is added to the hardware and doesn't work, the consumer considers that the extended hardware's fault, not the OS.