I keep scaning my hard drive too, on my Windows box, and I can't find a copy of MS Office that came with the OS. But as everybody says, Office uses 'hooks' to the OS that other office software vendors don't have available to them. Final Cut probably does the same thing with the Apple OS.
Again, Apple just wishes they had the power to be as mean and nasty as Microsoft. They're no better or worse ethically as a company.
Apparently you missed the fact that the parent poster was saying, just as you appear to be, that Microsoft is no better or worse than Apple in this regard.
We got rid of the guy where I work who insisted on using a Mac on his desktop. Because, while that alone really wasn't an issue, it was a symptom of a contrarian crank, who was never going to be easy for anybody to work with.
How come Gore couldn't simply win the favorite sun vote in his home state? If he'd had the electoral vote in either his or Clinton's home states, the Florida electoral votes wouldn't have mattered.
All your non-peer reviewed books and websites are just noise.
Your 'solution' renders the suggestion completele worthless.
A 'receipt' system where the voter has the ability to willfully claim whatever he wants about which way he voted, and challange the results of the election based on said recipt?
Sounds like fun. When do we get to start throwing the sand in the gears? Can we establish that no government gets to sit and pass laws and/or collect taxes until it's all sorted out??
Both sides engaged in dubious activities in 2000, just like always. 'Get out the vote' is really about dragging as many senior citizens onto the busses as possible and 'assisting' them in making 'the right choice.'
Nobody makes much noise because... ummm, well the games played in places like St. Louis make Florida look like a bunch of amateurs.
The first reckless party held by a bunch of teenagers would result in the evaporation of the oceans.
Let's face it, we live in a relatively closed system. An amount of energy comes into the biosphere that is relatively constant. The biosphere has evolved and developed dependent on that amount of energy being relatively constant.
Any 'revolution' in energy that means we have infinite amounts of it will mean the waste heat from all the new consuption will reck havoc on everything.
If your equipment is valuable enough, pirates will land on your ship and steal all the gear and the ship itself.
You're in international waters, remember? Nobody's law enforcement team will come to your aid. Surely you're not proposing Thailand, presumably the nation you're going to be closest to, protect you....
What he means is that Java compiles to a obfuscated binary file. That's important if you want to close the source. It further enables cross-platform closed source, which appears to be a priority for some people.
There couldn't be a 'big hemp.' Not like with tobbacco. Hemp is extremely easy to grow and it can be cultivated about anywhere. Tobbacco, on the other hand, is difficult to grow and a very labor-intensive process. It will only grow well in a limited area of the world.
Pot as a recreational drug frightens government types particularly because it's very difficult to control. It would be hard to tax and regulate if it were made legal. Any pothead will tell you they'd have their patch growing in a minute, and let's face it, there wouldn't end up being much of a commercial market.
Only retarded people repurchased their albums on cassette tape. With a decent tape deck it is trivial to record a better sounding copy than the junk on commercially produced cassettes. Why do you think every record store back in the day had loads and loads of blank cassettes in stock.
In addition, If you ask music listeners today, the music pumped out today probably isn't worth buying again if the medium did change.
That's called middle age setting in. "The crap young people listen to these days" etc. etc. Been putting on any weight? Losing some of your hair up front, eh?
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I keep scaning my hard drive too, on my Windows box, and I can't find a copy of MS Office that came with the OS. But as everybody says, Office uses 'hooks' to the OS that other office software vendors don't have available to them. Final Cut probably does the same thing with the Apple OS.
Again, Apple just wishes they had the power to be as mean and nasty as Microsoft. They're no better or worse ethically as a company.
Apparently you missed the fact that the parent poster was saying, just as you appear to be, that Microsoft is no better or worse than Apple in this regard.
We weren't making sand candles or incense.
We got rid of the guy where I work who insisted on using a Mac on his desktop. Because, while that alone really wasn't an issue, it was a symptom of a contrarian crank, who was never going to be easy for anybody to work with.
Think Different indeed.
Well, cripes. My cheap Toshiba 486 is a Beowulf Cluster, if I just plug it into that big bunch of machines over there in the next room.
If someone wants a laptop for travel, it's likely they won't want to plug in external widgets for basic functionality like a pointing device.
So, you're implying that Fox News is the only news service that doesn't report 'the truth' as you know and believe it, eh?
It's surprising, though, to hear a lockstep liberal using the word 'evil.'
Shouldn't the term be 'ethically different.'
Read all the ranting nutcase sites on the web?
It's 'We been cheated!' over and over and over.
How come Gore couldn't simply win the favorite sun vote in his home state? If he'd had the electoral vote in either his or Clinton's home states, the Florida electoral votes wouldn't have mattered.
All your non-peer reviewed books and websites are just noise.
Your 'solution' renders the suggestion completele worthless.
A 'receipt' system where the voter has the ability to willfully claim whatever he wants about which way he voted, and challange the results of the election based on said recipt?
Sounds like fun. When do we get to start throwing the sand in the gears? Can we establish that no government gets to sit and pass laws and/or collect taxes until it's all sorted out??
The most intense voter fraud in 2000 didn't occur in Florida.
Just thought you should know.
Both sides engaged in dubious activities in 2000, just like always. 'Get out the vote' is really about dragging as many senior citizens onto the busses as possible and 'assisting' them in making 'the right choice.'
Nobody makes much noise because... ummm, well the games played in places like St. Louis make Florida look like a bunch of amateurs.
It's really a simple answer:
The first reckless party held by a bunch of teenagers would result in the evaporation of the oceans.
Let's face it, we live in a relatively closed system. An amount of energy comes into the biosphere that is relatively constant. The biosphere has evolved and developed dependent on that amount of energy being relatively constant.
Any 'revolution' in energy that means we have infinite amounts of it will mean the waste heat from all the new consuption will reck havoc on everything.
If I remember correctly, the computers we were using in 1983 had damned solid welded steel cases.
Now a lot of computers come in cheap molded plastic cases. The 'cost cutting MBA types' have definitely been at it.
When it's all reduced to a real labor market, as you call it, programming becomes a commodity. Then it's shipped to the country with the lowest wages.
If your equipment is valuable enough, pirates will land on your ship and steal all the gear and the ship itself.
You're in international waters, remember? Nobody's law enforcement team will come to your aid. Surely you're not proposing Thailand, presumably the nation you're going to be closest to, protect you....
I always love it when an ancient obsolete religion has a term for 'end of the world' that has to be explained.
Whoops. End of their world, anyhow...
Naw. Some 14 year old sitting in his 'room' at his parent's house would mark it 'overrated.'
What he means is that Java compiles to a obfuscated binary file. That's important if you want to close the source. It further enables cross-platform closed source, which appears to be a priority for some people.
but Java is *the* standard programming language
Except Sun won't permit it to become a standard. They prefer it to be their proprietary little beastie that they can change whichever way they like.
Wasn't it time for Sun to just move on?
MIPS stands for Million Instructions Per Second, not Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed.
Don't be a dork.
You're talking about computer software, you know.
There couldn't be a 'big hemp.' Not like with tobbacco. Hemp is extremely easy to grow and it can be cultivated about anywhere. Tobbacco, on the other hand, is difficult to grow and a very labor-intensive process. It will only grow well in a limited area of the world.
Pot as a recreational drug frightens government types particularly because it's very difficult to control. It would be hard to tax and regulate if it were made legal. Any pothead will tell you they'd have their patch growing in a minute, and let's face it, there wouldn't end up being much of a commercial market.
Only retarded people repurchased their albums on cassette tape. With a decent tape deck it is trivial to record a better sounding copy than the junk on commercially produced cassettes. Why do you think every record store back in the day had loads and loads of blank cassettes in stock.
In addition, If you ask music listeners today, the music pumped out today probably isn't worth buying again if the medium did change.
That's called middle age setting in. "The crap young people listen to these days" etc. etc. Been putting on any weight? Losing some of your hair up front, eh?
You're supposed to teach them what a narcissist is, and how to avoid being one.
You could get GNU Emacs and Lucid Emacs both on the same installation media .