Isn't it funny how those record breaking profits never seem to come up in the discussions about high fuel prices?
That would be because they're mostly irrelevant. Exxon had a 9.6% net profit margin last year. So if they decided to forego profits and sell oil at cost, you'd see at most a drop from $2.20/gallon to $2.00, still way higher than the recent past. I find it amusing when people are more willing to invent elaborate conspiracy theories than look at the plain facts of supply and demand and the OPEC cartel.
It comes out of my paycheck twice a month, so why not want to collect eventually?
Because despite decades of obfuscation by politicians, it's just another tax. (A regressive tax at that, which oddly Democrats don't seem to mind). I don't have any expectation that I should get my income tax payments returned to me later; ditto for the payroll tax. My 2-point plan for Social Security reform is to abolish FICA taxes entirely (raising other taxes as needed) and means-test benefits. SS is supposed to be insurance against poverty in retirement, so why does it pay out *more* to those who had higher incomes during their careers?
I hope this is a troll, because it disturbs me you might vote.
The page authors chose to put those ads there.
Good for them. And I choose not to view them. Isn't choice fun?
Reading the content of a web page is not a right, it is a privilege afforded to you by the website's author
Yes. And the author afforded me that privilege by placing the site on a publicly available server. The author could have set up a subscription system, but chose not to. Instead, he's hoping that I will view the ads, but that hope imposes no obligation on me whatsoever. It's the same business model as a store selling a specific product as a loss leader to get you in the door, hoping you'll buy more expensive stuff as well. It is certainly not immoral or unethical to only buy the cheap stuff.
You are using the internet thanks to hippy government. The government started the internet since no company would take the risk to see if it would be succesful.
Actually it was a Defense Department research project. Yep, you hippies can only bitch on moveon.org because of the military-industrial complex.
Windows will refuse if it thinks the drive is in use - OSX will just unmount the drive when told to
No it won't. OS X will tell you that files are in use and not unmount the drive. That's a feature, not a bug, although it maddeningly won't tell you *which* files are in use, which is not always obvious.
They would not be allowed to use either their personal money or money contributed by private 3rd parties.
Completely unenforceable. For example, can private third parties set up websites and run their own ads in support of their favored candidates? If so, you get MoveOn and the Swift Vets all over again; if not, you've completely shredded the 1st Amendment.
I'm not sure how this would be regulated but if it is possible then we might actually be able to even the odds a bit.
If you want to even the odds, then get rid of all restrictions. Incumbents start off with a huge advantage because they have name recognition and much more media coverage. *Any* restrictions are only going to increase their relative advantage.
But there was hope the problem would be fixed. People like Senator John McCain wanted to limit how much money got in the political process.
Right. Ever heard of public choice theory? What did you expect to happen happen when a group of politicians whose continued careers depend on winning elections get together to rewrite election laws?
I wouldn't be surprised if there is never a G5 Powerbook because of heat issues, at least not one using a processor from the PPC970 family. The next logical step is dual-core G4s, and after that the Powerbooks and iBooks may go to Cell derivatives instead.
It says in the AUP that I can't run a VPN or servers of any sort (does that mean I can't host a two player game of quake?)
Technically it also means you can't use FTP except in passive mode. That's what happens when terms of service are drawn up by lawyers who are clueless about technology.
No. The only language that we support fully is Objective C.
Although there are Cocoa bridges available for Python and Perl. In fact one of the WWDC sessions is focused on PyObjC:
PyObjC is a bridge between Python and Objective-C. It allows you to write Python scripts that use and extend existing Objective-C class libraries, and most importantly, Cocoa libraries. Specific topics from the 1.2 release covered in this session are: py2app, macho_standalone, NSBundle features, KVO/KVC support, the new scanframework script, objc.inject(), and runtime editing.
and yet the mini I've been waiting over 8 weeks for (and that according to the website still isn't built) won't come with tiger:(
Call up and ask, Apple's usually good about stuff like that. Worst case you can cancel your order and resubmit, although that may get you pushed to the back of the queue.
A flawed business model is not licence for you to take content without compensation.
Huh? I'm only "taking" what they're freely offering. They may hope that I view and respond to their ads, but that hope does not impose any obligation on me. Let me guess, I'm also stealing from TV networks when I go to the bathroom during commercials.
The 55 mile per hour limit was based on the actual verifiable science that cars will not guzzle as much gas whilst doing 55 as they do whilst going at 70. And in an age of decreasing oil reserves, this is more than a reasonable proposition.
So raise the tax on gas, and let people who want to drive faster pay more for it. You achieve the same result without an increase in state power.
And you could very well be required to have a snitch in your car. And there is fuck-all you can do about it.
Well, we can start by not electing power-hungry state-worshippers such as yourself.
Nobody's talking about constant state monitoring of your vehicle's position. Where in the bill does it say that? Yes, I guess they could, in theory, track your vehicle's location, but they're not doing that.
And the income tax was originally 3%, and those who warned it might one day reach 10% were told they were paranoid. And your Social Security number was never to be used for identification purposes. The slippery slope is not always a fallacy.
I'm sick and fucking tired of Slashdotters going up-in-arms over GPL violations but when it comes to actual copyrights that have been around for awhile
"Actual" copyrights? GPL infringements are a subset of copyright infringements. The GPL gives the user additional rights beyond what normal copyright allows, so by definition anybody "violating" the GPL is also violating copyright.
The UI guideline is that textured windows are okay for any application that uses a source list. The bookmarks display is a source list. So Safari is entirely within the rules.
Yeah but that's really stretching it. The purpose of Safari is to display web pages, not manage bookmarks. And "source list" is such a vague term that just about anything can qualify if you squint hard enough. Xcode has a "source list" of project files, Preview has a list of PDF pages, Mail has a list of mailboxes, etc, etc. As I recall the "source list" bit was added to the UI guidelines after Safari was released, so to me it looks like an attempt to retroactively justify Steve's preference for metal.
Of course with things like Key-Value introspection and Cocoa Bindings and Core Data, we're really moving beyond what a traditional application development environment it and getting closer to a data-abstraction environment.
Yes. And note that Next/OpenStep had very similar technologies in a different form with Enterprise Objects Framework.
Could Apple be jumping onto the bandwagon towards game softwares?
There were a couple of recent stories on the rumor sites about Apple looking to hire engineers to improve their OpenGL support, with speculation that this could be in response to Doom 3's relatively poor performance on OS X.
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Isn't it funny how those record breaking profits never seem to come up in the discussions about high fuel prices?
That would be because they're mostly irrelevant. Exxon had a 9.6% net profit margin last year. So if they decided to forego profits and sell oil at cost, you'd see at most a drop from $2.20/gallon to $2.00, still way higher than the recent past. I find it amusing when people are more willing to invent elaborate conspiracy theories than look at the plain facts of supply and demand and the OPEC cartel.
It comes out of my paycheck twice a month, so why not want to collect eventually?
Because despite decades of obfuscation by politicians, it's just another tax. (A regressive tax at that, which oddly Democrats don't seem to mind). I don't have any expectation that I should get my income tax payments returned to me later; ditto for the payroll tax. My 2-point plan for Social Security reform is to abolish FICA taxes entirely (raising other taxes as needed) and means-test benefits. SS is supposed to be insurance against poverty in retirement, so why does it pay out *more* to those who had higher incomes during their careers?
I hope this is a troll, because it disturbs me you might vote.
The page authors chose to put those ads there.
Good for them. And I choose not to view them. Isn't choice fun?
Reading the content of a web page is not a right, it is a privilege afforded to you by the website's author
Yes. And the author afforded me that privilege by placing the site on a publicly available server. The author could have set up a subscription system, but chose not to. Instead, he's hoping that I will view the ads, but that hope imposes no obligation on me whatsoever. It's the same business model as a store selling a specific product as a loss leader to get you in the door, hoping you'll buy more expensive stuff as well. It is certainly not immoral or unethical to only buy the cheap stuff.
You are using the internet thanks to hippy government. The government started the internet since no company would take the risk to see if it would be succesful.
Actually it was a Defense Department research project. Yep, you hippies can only bitch on moveon.org because of the military-industrial complex.
Windows will refuse if it thinks the drive is in use - OSX will just unmount the drive when told to
No it won't. OS X will tell you that files are in use and not unmount the drive. That's a feature, not a bug, although it maddeningly won't tell you *which* files are in use, which is not always obvious.
Hey, MkLinux was pretty good...
They would not be allowed to use either their personal money or money contributed by private 3rd parties.
Completely unenforceable. For example, can private third parties set up websites and run their own ads in support of their favored candidates? If so, you get MoveOn and the Swift Vets all over again; if not, you've completely shredded the 1st Amendment.
I'm not sure how this would be regulated but if it is possible then we might actually be able to even the odds a bit.
If you want to even the odds, then get rid of all restrictions. Incumbents start off with a huge advantage because they have name recognition and much more media coverage. *Any* restrictions are only going to increase their relative advantage.
But there was hope the problem would be fixed. People like Senator John McCain wanted to limit how much money got in the political process.
Right. Ever heard of public choice theory? What did you expect to happen happen when a group of politicians whose continued careers depend on winning elections get together to rewrite election laws?
I wouldn't be surprised if there is never a G5 Powerbook because of heat issues, at least not one using a processor from the PPC970 family. The next logical step is dual-core G4s, and after that the Powerbooks and iBooks may go to Cell derivatives instead.
"I miss the year 3000, when life was simple, when brains flew through the sky and people ate lasers." - Fry
It says in the AUP that I can't run a VPN or servers of any sort (does that mean I can't host a two player game of quake?)
Technically it also means you can't use FTP except in passive mode. That's what happens when terms of service are drawn up by lawyers who are clueless about technology.
Although there are Cocoa bridges available for Python and Perl. In fact one of the WWDC sessions is focused on PyObjC:
and yet the mini I've been waiting over 8 weeks for (and that according to the website still isn't built) won't come with tiger :(
Call up and ask, Apple's usually good about stuff like that. Worst case you can cancel your order and resubmit, although that may get you pushed to the back of the queue.
Once we have the computational power, initializing a machine to the state of a human brain is just a simple matter of programming.
And measuring a viable state of a human brain with sufficient precision.
It's not theft it's copyright infringement.
That's true, although in this case it's also commercial fraud.
A flawed business model is not licence for you to take content without compensation.
Huh? I'm only "taking" what they're freely offering. They may hope that I view and respond to their ads, but that hope does not impose any obligation on me. Let me guess, I'm also stealing from TV networks when I go to the bathroom during commercials.
The 55 mile per hour limit was based on the actual verifiable science that cars will not guzzle as much gas whilst doing 55 as they do whilst going at 70. And in an age of decreasing oil reserves, this is more than a reasonable proposition.
So raise the tax on gas, and let people who want to drive faster pay more for it. You achieve the same result without an increase in state power.
And you could very well be required to have a snitch in your car. And there is fuck-all you can do about it.
Well, we can start by not electing power-hungry state-worshippers such as yourself.
The best way to avoid getting a ticket is still to obey the posted speed limit.
True. Of course doing so actually increases the danger to yourself and others if the average speed is significantly above the limit.
Nobody's talking about constant state monitoring of your vehicle's position. Where in the bill does it say that? Yes, I guess they could, in theory, track your vehicle's location, but they're not doing that.
And the income tax was originally 3%, and those who warned it might one day reach 10% were told they were paranoid. And your Social Security number was never to be used for identification purposes. The slippery slope is not always a fallacy.
I'm sick and fucking tired of Slashdotters going up-in-arms over GPL violations but when it comes to actual copyrights that have been around for awhile
"Actual" copyrights? GPL infringements are a subset of copyright infringements. The GPL gives the user additional rights beyond what normal copyright allows, so by definition anybody "violating" the GPL is also violating copyright.
If there were no copyright, then what CherryOS is doing to PearPC would be perfectly fine.
Even ignoring copyright, by claiming their product isn't based on PearPC they are committing fraud.
The UI guideline is that textured windows are okay for any application that uses a source list. The bookmarks display is a source list. So Safari is entirely within the rules.
Yeah but that's really stretching it. The purpose of Safari is to display web pages, not manage bookmarks. And "source list" is such a vague term that just about anything can qualify if you squint hard enough. Xcode has a "source list" of project files, Preview has a list of PDF pages, Mail has a list of mailboxes, etc, etc. As I recall the "source list" bit was added to the UI guidelines after Safari was released, so to me it looks like an attempt to retroactively justify Steve's preference for metal.
Of course with things like Key-Value introspection and Cocoa Bindings and Core Data, we're really moving beyond what a traditional application development environment it and getting closer to a data-abstraction environment.
Yes. And note that Next/OpenStep had very similar technologies in a different form with Enterprise Objects Framework.
ill Clinton was as rightwing as Nixon, probably more so
Or alternately, Nixon was more left wing than Clinton. See price controls, for example.
Could Apple be jumping onto the bandwagon towards game softwares?
There were a couple of recent stories on the rumor sites about Apple looking to hire engineers to improve their OpenGL support, with speculation that this could be in response to Doom 3's relatively poor performance on OS X.