This is a wonderful insight. However, I have always heard arguments like this applied not simply to the existence of planets like Earth, but further extended as proof of the existence of intelligent life elsewhere.
I would like to restate your point, which is that given an infinitely large set of possible circumstances, it is not required that a particular set of possibilities exist, especially if these possibilities are excluded by the definition of the set. Therefore infinity alone is not sufficient evidence of anything existing. As proof, contemplate an infinite set of odd numbers. Infinite in length, yet containing only bounded instances!
This is really a me too post, but I just love this argument, and I will think about it whenever someone invokes infinity as proof.
Yeah, I'm a laugh riot. I essentially just said every now and then I find a feature missing from the BSD tools that exists in the GNU tools. Honestly, I enjoy extra complexity if it comes from a feature I want.
Extra complexity that I do not want would be what I described, using fink to maintain two sets of binaries for GNU and BSD versions of the same tool in order to get an additional feature or a different behavior that I desire. I think this is annoying and would prefer just to replace one with the other. In fact, I would prefer GNU tools be installed by default, since in my experience, the BSD tools are the ones lacking in features.
Simplicity in software, that you seem to idolize, is not nearly as valuable to me as software that does what I want. Truthfully, I am used to the GNU tools, and when I find a comparable BSD one lacks a certain command line option or something like that, it annoys me.
You may find this humorous, but it is not a joke. Also, I doubt very much that you know my requirements for a good desktop system.
I suppose it is true that most Apple users could care less about the command line. I am not one of them - If OS X did not support the command line as well as it did, I would be using Linux as my desktop. As it is, I have been annoyed on several occassions that the BSD command line utilities Apple provides lacked some feature that the GNU utilities have (I recall just replacing Apple's 'ls' with the GNU equivalent outright). At the same time, I don't want to mess with Fink, it introduces complexity. For example, having two sets of binaries in different places doesn't mean you can run shell scripts without changing them if they were written expecting one set to be somewhere it isn't. I'd much rather that Apple just installed the GNU stuff by default. But again, maybe that doesn't cater to their target market.
I see myself eventually going back to Linux anyway since it offers users much more control over their system than even Apple is willing to allow. The problem of the situation is that Apple does have to cater to a target market, whereas in Linux you can just assemble your system to do what you want.
My understanding is that to produce 64 bit apps in this case will depend on the compiler, not the application code. So they should just be able to recompile their existing code to make it 64 bit. Not that much pressure - I think switching to OS X from 9 was much worse.
If the story is a duplicate, don't comment on it. I know it will take discipline not to cut and paste previous highly rated comments, but something has got to give here to make the editors take notice. I say, ignore the duplicate stories. No comments, no interest. There is no point voicing disapproval as it is generally ignored. Therefore I suggest voicing nothing at all.
I find trivial stuff like case modding rather insipid, but this is genuinely cool. Two aspects - One, if you saw the pictures, you would appreciate the guy building his own external mounts for all the extra hard drives and power supplies. Two, I didn't know about the linux LVM before and now I do. I may have a use for this feature...
I am all in favor of 'legislating morality', or rather curtailing individual freedoms in the cases when it is beneficial to society. I believe that prostitution is hurtful to society, whether legal or not. You may find this hard to swallow, but I think it is damaging to society regardless of how the prostitutes or their patrons feel about it. Perhaps where prostitution is legal you can find prostitutes who are happy in their positions, but this situation is temporary. Staying in that career path long enough severely limits their ability to do other things that most people find satisfying, like raising a family - that are also beneficial to society. Even if they do not want to do this (and they are perfectly free to choose not to), a career in prostitution also cuts off their ability to enter other careers once they are no longer young and attractive, and thus no longer able to work as prostitutes.
Essentially, prostitution should be illegal for the same reason that selling yourself into slavery should be. That is, there are certain things you should not be forced to give up, or even allowed to give up. In the case of prostitution, prostitutes are selling their ability to pursue future happiness in exchange for temporary happiness. This is a right that no one should be allowed to give up.
You lump proscription of prostitution with anti-sodomy and anti-flag-burning laws. I think this is a false categorization, mostly because I can find no rational objection to either sodomy or flag burning, except sodomy in the case of rape. But rape is a special case. All sodomy is not rape.
You completely missed the point of my original post. There is a victim in the 'victimless' transaction that occurs when someone purchases drugs from a drug dealer. The victim is society. Maybe the drug user has no problem with frying their brains on drugs, but in the long run having fried people around hurts society, as such people are less productive, often much less so. Therefore it makes sense to outlaw the use of substances that tend to reduce the social value of individuals to a low or even negative level. Maybe there are well adjusted people whose usefulness to the world at large will not be impaired by their recreational crack usage, but generally crack user's lives are negatively affected in ways that negatively affect others. Thus on balance the substance is harmful and does have victims, and should be illegal. I should point out that using this reasoning, marijuana usage as I have observed it probably does not need to be illegal. Your mentioning of alcohol is interesting. Although legal, it is also a dangerous substance when abused and sales of it are heavily regulated. People recognized long ago that dangerous though it was, prohibiting it did not work to reduce the danger. I think we may see similar arguments applied to pot in America in the future, but it is harder to extend them to substances like heroin.
I really do not understand your point about knives. Your initial post indicated that you thought murder as payback against those who report crimes was justified and should be legal. I think murder should be outlawed under any circumstances, regardless of the instrument used. Is this really such an unreasonable view? Trust me, even if you believe in victimless crimes, murder obviously is not one of them.
Whether things are illegal or not has little bearing on whether I will report others for doing them. Don't know about you though. Regardless, I find it hard to imagine how calling the police with fake tips about drug dealers would work to persecute people I don't like. For it to work, the person in question would actually have to have illegal drugs. I would laugh my ass off if the police showed up on my doorstep with a warrant to search for illegal drugs. Search all you like, dimwits, I don't have any.
If you are tried for a crime in court, it is very easy to face your accuser. The accuser is society, as represented by the prosecutor. Drug dealing and prostitution are crimes against society. If you cannot see how they are harmful to society, then you are ignoring the obvious. Crack whores are not happy, productive people, let me tell you. Victimless crimes do not exist.
In all criminal cases, the accuser is the prosecutor, who presents evidence against the accused, which may include testimony from victims. Victims at best are witnesses. The judicial process makes it easy to face the accuser (prosecutor) and all the evidence against you. Including anonymous tips. What do you think happens to those tips anyway? They are followed up by the police, again an instrument of society, and if you are charged, it will most likely be with better evidence than just the word of an anonymous person. Even then, you are allowed extensive opportunities to defend yourself in a court of law.
Since you think it is unfair that you are not allowed to do things which benefit you at cost to all of society, and are also not furnished with the names of the people who turn you in (for payback purposes), I am inclined to think you belong in prison. However, you are probably much too cowardly to commit any crimes and merely enjoy furtively posting to slashdot in a rant against the rule of law.
It is good that Apple is encouraging cross-platform interoperability, and they are genuinely interested in open source developers. Linux users should find a lot to like about current Apple systems. They are continuously getting more capable from unix point of view. I am watching for ever more powerful server hardware to come out of Apple, probably in about six months, when they are expected to release the next major update to the operating system.
They are courting geeks to try to get them to switch from other *nixes. Initially, they are focusing mostly on individual desktop users. I think part of their strategy now is to get their products into the hands of people who will be making corporate purchasing decisions down the road. Right now the server variant of the OS is not there yet - Many advertised features do not work as documented, or as they should. The next major update will probably be much better. Once you have an Apple in the server room, it is possible for you to provide all sorts of specialized services to Apple clients, making it more attractive to obtain them.
Watch for businesses that want the stability and manageability of Linux but also want to be associated with a mainstream company to look at Apple. We are already seeing plenty of sysadmins switch. First, personal machines, then (Apple hopes!) the machines they are responsible for.
Probably, in the real universe. Mac OS X and Linux are both stable enough that if anything serious happens, like an out and out crash or freeze, I take this as a sign of a hardware problem. I have not been proven wrong yet. Unfortunately - it is annoying when a hard disk fails or something else breaks, but hardly the fault of the OS.
My experience with Windows effectively ended years ago, but crashes requiring reboots were common then due to problems with the software. I hear they still happen, which is inexcusable. Disgusting software errors never happen on Mac OS X or Linux in my experience, but if the hardware breaks, that can still cause problems.
I am not entirely sure that analog by itself uses so much more battery than digital. However, I can only present this piece of anecdotal evidence. My dads old phone was a hybrid that could use either analog or digital. When it could only find analog service, it would use that but it would continually search for digital service because it 'preferred' it. The problem was, digital service was not available in the area. The phone would seek fruitlessly and waste its battery. This was the explanation given to him when he asked why his phone battery lasted so much longer when he traveled into other service areas where digital was available. I have no idea who exactly who told him this. Maybe this was just a lie. The parent post is modded up so people tend to agree that analog phones have worse battery life, but maybe the seeking for digital is the reason and not the power consumption of the technology?
Wow. I had never looked at tabs this way before. Truly, Safari's window creation speed and ease of switching does make them much less necessary than they are in slower, clunkier browsers.
My feeling is that tabs are a feature that the average user is going to have difficulty understanding. I think Apple will implement this feature as turned off by default (and thus absent from the UI of each window) unless you specifically turn it on. 'Power' users will probably be satisfied by this, but as you so cleverly pointed out above, it is mostly unnecessary for Safari. I have been using tabbed browsers for over a year now but that does not mean I am not prepared to abandon them for a browser that does multiple windows right!
I just wanted to mention that after using Safari for a few minutes now, it appears to be amazing. The browser is so much faster it is like a hardware upgrade. On my 500mhz iBook I have never been able to scroll smoothly through pages on any browser. Now scrolling is almost perfectly smooth! Great job with the browser Apple!
"Holding car drivers to the same standards as aircraft is such a huge leap that the paperwork generated by it could likely employ everyone in America."
I think you just solved all our economic problems in a single stroke!
I would guess that biometric stuff would be hard to find for Apple computers because they are not used much by the government. Despite all the news of biometrics being tested for commercial uses, the government is still the largest purchaser by far of biometric technology and thus pretty much dictates what is going to to be developed.
I was also a member of the mythical class of 2000. One thing I remember from grade school is the emphasis that was being placed on the enviromental movement. I really stuck with me when a textbook or handout or something insisted that if oil consumption continued to rise at the current rate, there would be no oil right about now. That was the theme, 'We are running out of oil, and cars in the future will certainly not use it.'
We spent a lot of time discussing alternative energy of various varieties. Back then the major idea seemed to be solar panels. Flash forward to the present, when the major alternative energy source (at least in terms of how many megawatts generated from it) now seems to be wind power.
However, fossil fuels are still in copious supply at low prices.
I am enthusiastic to point this out because it is the only major prediction I have seen made by people who seemed to know what they were doing that I have thus far lived long enough to realize the falsity of.
Interesting? There is a real dearth of comments on this story (78 total now, including trolls) compared to many of the linux ones. The only reason this is on the site is because it is paid content, and I object to that. Advertising should never be reported as news - How many serious media outlets can you think of that do this?
This message was brought to you by the editors of Slashdot, who think the best way to keep their website running is by gradually and insidiously commercializing their content.
OS X as unix on the desktop may be nice, but has anyone here ever used OS X Server as a server? I think it is really crummy, especially if you are trying to provide services (like authentication, remote home directories, etc) to OS X clients. Most of the Apple proprietary server stuff hardly works at all. Difficult to configure and also poorly documented, in addition to being expensive.
Check out the forums on the Apple website if you don't believe me. Loads of people saying things along the lines of, "I just bought a XServe for my school lab, and it is not working for an unexplained reason." The solution Apple often uses is to deny that the problem even exists.
I think this distinction is irrelevant. It may seem odd that Apple has registered a.org and not a.com, but that may be because their attorneys believe that owning one of these domains is enough to establish a legal precedent of some sort, which may be all that they wanted. IANAL and this does not constitute legal advice.
No, that requirement should be for posting to the site. Poor spellers should still be allowed to read it, as long as they realize this will not improve their spelling!
Seriously, I am not criticizing anyone specific here, but when you misspell common words, it takes a lot of credibility away from your thoughts. I wish slashdot allowed me to automatically mod down the poor spellers by a point or two. A system to correct them before they post incorrect spellings would be better. Though admittedly I like being given indications that the poster is a fool before bothering to read some badly reasoned nonsense, which sometimes can delay me for some time before jumping to erroneous conclusions in a digusting logical error which I immediately dismiss in annoyance. Watching for the misspelling of words gives an early warning that the poster is not thinking clearly and may be attempting to disguise an opinion in the garb of a fact.
Bear in mind that this very criticism is just an opinion. There are surely exceptions to this rule, but in general I doubt I am the only one that feels this way. I honestly believe that if you are uncertain how to spell a word, you should never use it in written communication.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
-attribution uncertain, sometimes given as Mark Twain
I probably missed a word somewhere in this post, and that means the trolls will eat me alive. I had a good run I guess.
Yeah, I'll be watching the google zeitgeist for any changes. As an OS X user, I was quite pleased when Mac OS went up from 4% to 5% of the hits one recent month. And it has stayed there as far as I know.
Checking the other operation systems, I discovered that Mac OS hits were now more numerous than Windows NT hits - whatever that means. In any case, I enthused "Woo hoo, we beat WinNT!"
You have to take these small victories as they come. Microsoft is pretty entrenched in the world, even though I am pretty sure they have passed their growth zenith.
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This is a wonderful insight. However, I have always heard arguments like this applied not simply to the existence of planets like Earth, but further extended as proof of the existence of intelligent life elsewhere. I would like to restate your point, which is that given an infinitely large set of possible circumstances, it is not required that a particular set of possibilities exist, especially if these possibilities are excluded by the definition of the set. Therefore infinity alone is not sufficient evidence of anything existing. As proof, contemplate an infinite set of odd numbers. Infinite in length, yet containing only bounded instances! This is really a me too post, but I just love this argument, and I will think about it whenever someone invokes infinity as proof.
Yeah, I'm a laugh riot. I essentially just said every now and then I find a feature missing from the BSD tools that exists in the GNU tools. Honestly, I enjoy extra complexity if it comes from a feature I want.
Extra complexity that I do not want would be what I described, using fink to maintain two sets of binaries for GNU and BSD versions of the same tool in order to get an additional feature or a different behavior that I desire. I think this is annoying and would prefer just to replace one with the other. In fact, I would prefer GNU tools be installed by default, since in my experience, the BSD tools are the ones lacking in features.
Simplicity in software, that you seem to idolize, is not nearly as valuable to me as software that does what I want. Truthfully, I am used to the GNU tools, and when I find a comparable BSD one lacks a certain command line option or something like that, it annoys me.
You may find this humorous, but it is not a joke. Also, I doubt very much that you know my requirements for a good desktop system.
I suppose it is true that most Apple users could care less about the command line. I am not one of them - If OS X did not support the command line as well as it did, I would be using Linux as my desktop. As it is, I have been annoyed on several occassions that the BSD command line utilities Apple provides lacked some feature that the GNU utilities have (I recall just replacing Apple's 'ls' with the GNU equivalent outright). At the same time, I don't want to mess with Fink, it introduces complexity. For example, having two sets of binaries in different places doesn't mean you can run shell scripts without changing them if they were written expecting one set to be somewhere it isn't. I'd much rather that Apple just installed the GNU stuff by default. But again, maybe that doesn't cater to their target market.
I see myself eventually going back to Linux anyway since it offers users much more control over their system than even Apple is willing to allow. The problem of the situation is that Apple does have to cater to a target market, whereas in Linux you can just assemble your system to do what you want.
My understanding is that to produce 64 bit apps in this case will depend on the compiler, not the application code. So they should just be able to recompile their existing code to make it 64 bit. Not that much pressure - I think switching to OS X from 9 was much worse.
If the story is a duplicate, don't comment on it. I know it will take discipline not to cut and paste previous highly rated comments, but something has got to give here to make the editors take notice. I say, ignore the duplicate stories. No comments, no interest. There is no point voicing disapproval as it is generally ignored. Therefore I suggest voicing nothing at all.
I find trivial stuff like case modding rather insipid, but this is genuinely cool. Two aspects - One, if you saw the pictures, you would appreciate the guy building his own external mounts for all the extra hard drives and power supplies. Two, I didn't know about the linux LVM before and now I do. I may have a use for this feature...
I am all in favor of 'legislating morality', or rather curtailing individual freedoms in the cases when it is beneficial to society. I believe that prostitution is hurtful to society, whether legal or not. You may find this hard to swallow, but I think it is damaging to society regardless of how the prostitutes or their patrons feel about it. Perhaps where prostitution is legal you can find prostitutes who are happy in their positions, but this situation is temporary. Staying in that career path long enough severely limits their ability to do other things that most people find satisfying, like raising a family - that are also beneficial to society. Even if they do not want to do this (and they are perfectly free to choose not to), a career in prostitution also cuts off their ability to enter other careers once they are no longer young and attractive, and thus no longer able to work as prostitutes.
Essentially, prostitution should be illegal for the same reason that selling yourself into slavery should be. That is, there are certain things you should not be forced to give up, or even allowed to give up. In the case of prostitution, prostitutes are selling their ability to pursue future happiness in exchange for temporary happiness. This is a right that no one should be allowed to give up.
You lump proscription of prostitution with anti-sodomy and anti-flag-burning laws. I think this is a false categorization, mostly because I can find no rational objection to either sodomy or flag burning, except sodomy in the case of rape. But rape is a special case. All sodomy is not rape.
You completely missed the point of my original post. There is a victim in the 'victimless' transaction that occurs when someone purchases drugs from a drug dealer. The victim is society. Maybe the drug user has no problem with frying their brains on drugs, but in the long run having fried people around hurts society, as such people are less productive, often much less so. Therefore it makes sense to outlaw the use of substances that tend to reduce the social value of individuals to a low or even negative level. Maybe there are well adjusted people whose usefulness to the world at large will not be impaired by their recreational crack usage, but generally crack user's lives are negatively affected in ways that negatively affect others. Thus on balance the substance is harmful and does have victims, and should be illegal. I should point out that using this reasoning, marijuana usage as I have observed it probably does not need to be illegal. Your mentioning of alcohol is interesting. Although legal, it is also a dangerous substance when abused and sales of it are heavily regulated. People recognized long ago that dangerous though it was, prohibiting it did not work to reduce the danger. I think we may see similar arguments applied to pot in America in the future, but it is harder to extend them to substances like heroin.
I really do not understand your point about knives. Your initial post indicated that you thought murder as payback against those who report crimes was justified and should be legal. I think murder should be outlawed under any circumstances, regardless of the instrument used. Is this really such an unreasonable view? Trust me, even if you believe in victimless crimes, murder obviously is not one of them.
Whether things are illegal or not has little bearing on whether I will report others for doing them. Don't know about you though. Regardless, I find it hard to imagine how calling the police with fake tips about drug dealers would work to persecute people I don't like. For it to work, the person in question would actually have to have illegal drugs. I would laugh my ass off if the police showed up on my doorstep with a warrant to search for illegal drugs. Search all you like, dimwits, I don't have any.
If you are tried for a crime in court, it is very easy to face your accuser. The accuser is society, as represented by the prosecutor. Drug dealing and prostitution are crimes against society. If you cannot see how they are harmful to society, then you are ignoring the obvious. Crack whores are not happy, productive people, let me tell you. Victimless crimes do not exist.
In all criminal cases, the accuser is the prosecutor, who presents evidence against the accused, which may include testimony from victims. Victims at best are witnesses. The judicial process makes it easy to face the accuser (prosecutor) and all the evidence against you. Including anonymous tips. What do you think happens to those tips anyway? They are followed up by the police, again an instrument of society, and if you are charged, it will most likely be with better evidence than just the word of an anonymous person. Even then, you are allowed extensive opportunities to defend yourself in a court of law.
Since you think it is unfair that you are not allowed to do things which benefit you at cost to all of society, and are also not furnished with the names of the people who turn you in (for payback purposes), I am inclined to think you belong in prison. However, you are probably much too cowardly to commit any crimes and merely enjoy furtively posting to slashdot in a rant against the rule of law.
It is good that Apple is encouraging cross-platform interoperability, and they are genuinely interested in open source developers. Linux users should find a lot to like about current Apple systems. They are continuously getting more capable from unix point of view. I am watching for ever more powerful server hardware to come out of Apple, probably in about six months, when they are expected to release the next major update to the operating system.
They are courting geeks to try to get them to switch from other *nixes. Initially, they are focusing mostly on individual desktop users. I think part of their strategy now is to get their products into the hands of people who will be making corporate purchasing decisions down the road. Right now the server variant of the OS is not there yet - Many advertised features do not work as documented, or as they should. The next major update will probably be much better. Once you have an Apple in the server room, it is possible for you to provide all sorts of specialized services to Apple clients, making it more attractive to obtain them.
Watch for businesses that want the stability and manageability of Linux but also want to be associated with a mainstream company to look at Apple. We are already seeing plenty of sysadmins switch. First, personal machines, then (Apple hopes!) the machines they are responsible for.
Probably, in the real universe. Mac OS X and Linux are both stable enough that if anything serious happens, like an out and out crash or freeze, I take this as a sign of a hardware problem. I have not been proven wrong yet. Unfortunately - it is annoying when a hard disk fails or something else breaks, but hardly the fault of the OS.
My experience with Windows effectively ended years ago, but crashes requiring reboots were common then due to problems with the software. I hear they still happen, which is inexcusable. Disgusting software errors never happen on Mac OS X or Linux in my experience, but if the hardware breaks, that can still cause problems.
I will personally market it, Hemos.
I am not entirely sure that analog by itself uses so much more battery than digital. However, I can only present this piece of anecdotal evidence. My dads old phone was a hybrid that could use either analog or digital. When it could only find analog service, it would use that but it would continually search for digital service because it 'preferred' it. The problem was, digital service was not available in the area. The phone would seek fruitlessly and waste its battery. This was the explanation given to him when he asked why his phone battery lasted so much longer when he traveled into other service areas where digital was available. I have no idea who exactly who told him this. Maybe this was just a lie. The parent post is modded up so people tend to agree that analog phones have worse battery life, but maybe the seeking for digital is the reason and not the power consumption of the technology?
Wow. I had never looked at tabs this way before. Truly, Safari's window creation speed and ease of switching does make them much less necessary than they are in slower, clunkier browsers.
My feeling is that tabs are a feature that the average user is going to have difficulty understanding. I think Apple will implement this feature as turned off by default (and thus absent from the UI of each window) unless you specifically turn it on. 'Power' users will probably be satisfied by this, but as you so cleverly pointed out above, it is mostly unnecessary for Safari. I have been using tabbed browsers for over a year now but that does not mean I am not prepared to abandon them for a browser that does multiple windows right!
I just wanted to mention that after using Safari for a few minutes now, it appears to be amazing. The browser is so much faster it is like a hardware upgrade. On my 500mhz iBook I have never been able to scroll smoothly through pages on any browser. Now scrolling is almost perfectly smooth! Great job with the browser Apple!
"Holding car drivers to the same standards as aircraft is such a huge leap that the paperwork generated by it could likely employ everyone in America." I think you just solved all our economic problems in a single stroke!
I would guess that biometric stuff would be hard to find for Apple computers because they are not used much by the government. Despite all the news of biometrics being tested for commercial uses, the government is still the largest purchaser by far of biometric technology and thus pretty much dictates what is going to to be developed.
You failed to convince me, but google found this link - http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/xmasabbr. htm
Interesting.
I was also a member of the mythical class of 2000. One thing I remember from grade school is the emphasis that was being placed on the enviromental movement. I really stuck with me when a textbook or handout or something insisted that if oil consumption continued to rise at the current rate, there would be no oil right about now. That was the theme, 'We are running out of oil, and cars in the future will certainly not use it.' We spent a lot of time discussing alternative energy of various varieties. Back then the major idea seemed to be solar panels. Flash forward to the present, when the major alternative energy source (at least in terms of how many megawatts generated from it) now seems to be wind power. However, fossil fuels are still in copious supply at low prices. I am enthusiastic to point this out because it is the only major prediction I have seen made by people who seemed to know what they were doing that I have thus far lived long enough to realize the falsity of.
Interesting? There is a real dearth of comments on this story (78 total now, including trolls) compared to many of the linux ones. The only reason this is on the site is because it is paid content, and I object to that. Advertising should never be reported as news - How many serious media outlets can you think of that do this?
This message was brought to you by the editors of Slashdot, who think the best way to keep their website running is by gradually and insidiously commercializing their content.
OS X as unix on the desktop may be nice, but has anyone here ever used OS X Server as a server? I think it is really crummy, especially if you are trying to provide services (like authentication, remote home directories, etc) to OS X clients. Most of the Apple proprietary server stuff hardly works at all. Difficult to configure and also poorly documented, in addition to being expensive.
Check out the forums on the Apple website if you don't believe me. Loads of people saying things along the lines of, "I just bought a XServe for my school lab, and it is not working for an unexplained reason." The solution Apple often uses is to deny that the problem even exists.
Totally offtopic.
I think this distinction is irrelevant. It may seem odd that Apple has registered a .org and not a .com, but that may be because their attorneys believe that owning one of these domains is enough to establish a legal precedent of some sort, which may be all that they wanted. IANAL and this does not constitute legal advice.
No, that requirement should be for posting to the site. Poor spellers should still be allowed to read it, as long as they realize this will not improve their spelling!
Seriously, I am not criticizing anyone specific here, but when you misspell common words, it takes a lot of credibility away from your thoughts. I wish slashdot allowed me to automatically mod down the poor spellers by a point or two. A system to correct them before they post incorrect spellings would be better. Though admittedly I like being given indications that the poster is a fool before bothering to read some badly reasoned nonsense, which sometimes can delay me for some time before jumping to erroneous conclusions in a digusting logical error which I immediately dismiss in annoyance. Watching for the misspelling of words gives an early warning that the poster is not thinking clearly and may be attempting to disguise an opinion in the garb of a fact.
Bear in mind that this very criticism is just an opinion. There are surely exceptions to this rule, but in general I doubt I am the only one that feels this way. I honestly believe that if you are uncertain how to spell a word, you should never use it in written communication.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
-attribution uncertain, sometimes given as Mark Twain
I probably missed a word somewhere in this post, and that means the trolls will eat me alive. I had a good run I guess.
Yeah, I'll be watching the google zeitgeist for any changes. As an OS X user, I was quite pleased when Mac OS went up from 4% to 5% of the hits one recent month. And it has stayed there as far as I know.
Checking the other operation systems, I discovered that Mac OS hits were now more numerous than Windows NT hits - whatever that means. In any case, I enthused "Woo hoo, we beat WinNT!"
You have to take these small victories as they come. Microsoft is pretty entrenched in the world, even though I am pretty sure they have passed their growth zenith.