and you're basing this on what exactly? Java enabled me to write an application that, except for a couple of issues over SWT, did indeed run as expected on multiple OSes, something that I seriously doubt would have happened without Java (based on the funding and manpower this project had). As for being a resource pig and unstable - if it's good enough to run bio-chemical simulations in I think it's good enough for the average user.
Well I can't speak for the GP but I'd like to respond to yours.
Any purchased disk of OS X has no serial verification or copy protection. All allow a fresh install as far as I know. Now the fact that they do this (and don't try to restrict the number of machines which it is placed on) is, I believe, separate from the licence agreement. The offer of a cheaper upgrade for Leopard users was meant in some way as a nod towards the short time between Leopard coming out and Snow Leopard. Somebody wishing to move to Leopard from Tiger was expected to pay the full amount, just as they are expected to if you move from Tiger to Snow Leopard. There very well may be perfect examples of Apple doing as you suggest, I would argue that this isn't one of them though.
She hasn't had time, but then the article made no suggestion that she had received the units back, merely how long it would take once they were sent. RTFA would seem to apply here.
Is it me or do Apple get in trouble in the UK a lot? I think there's about 4 Apple adverts that have been deemed false advertising by ASA, and now this? Have they really not bothered to hire any UK lawyers?
Would you though? Game Theory would suggest (to me anyway) that any loss possible in the UK is nothing compared to the possible losses in the US. I'd hire nothing but US lawyers too.
Illegal conditions in your EULA in the UK? get your knuckles rapped and correct it - end of story.
Sell a product in the US? prepare for endless lawsuits varying in their stupidity.
I tell you what, as much as I like Java as a programming language, I'd fill my underwear in record time if I ever discovered it was used in any nuclear facility.
...There's not an hour where I wake up where I'm NOT thinking about killing myself or everyone else...
Don't worry, you're not depressed, you're simply a sociopath.
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...(specially the new Windows 7 which I like quite a bit)...
pervert:-P
More seriously, I moved from XP to OS X 10.4, and I've recently tried Windows 7. The control panel is now a complete monster! There are a couple of nice touches but there's plenty of suck too.
Please, any idiot can build a computer cheaper than a mac mini. The question is can you do so and make it as small, quiet and cheap to run? Do that, with the difference in cost worthy of being mentioned, and then we'll talk.
Regardless (and this applies to any OS btw), if you can't easily navigate to and change the screen preferences from the lowest support screen resolution then you've screwed up when you designed the damned thing.
Are there not areas in the US where there really is almost no choice in your provider?
I'm wondering what the correlation is (if any) between people's technical knowledge and willingness to change providers. If you're that willing to insist your machine is fine maybe you aren't the likely person to be the target of their attention because you do actually know what you're doing (hence insisting the machine is fine).
and to follow on with what promythyus has already said. Once you've noticed that your ftp or your torrents aren't downloading/uploading you're trying to have us believe that your troubleshooting wouldn't eventually involve you launching a web browser?
Still nowhere near enough information for a meaningful comparison. Take memory, you could pay $485.99 for 12GB or $859.99 for 8GB from a particular site. What can you conclude? only that I haven't supplied enough information about the two options.
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We welcome hard-coded submissions, commercial AI programmers, academics and amateurs alike.
Yet you only post this on slashdot with 13 days before the deadline. You couldn't have posted it here back in May? (the earliest date a post seems to have in your google group).
You could stay home when other people are sick. Not sure where in the constitution it says healthy people have right to travel when sick people don't.
With rights or freedoms come responsibilities. Is it asking so much for somebody to not act like an asshole and potentially infect an entire plane full of people if they have any level of suspicion that they're ill with something infectious?
I can't agree with this. I collaborate with my colleagues, and many in my group have international collaborative works on the go right now and we all use LaTeX. When I collaborate with my supervisor we tend to use CVS, I've even found a package that supplies some of the basic functionality for tracking changes. Yes it isn't one of LaTeX's strengths but it isn't a deal breaker at all.
Just to point out, above this discussion you can find two comments (27629709 and 27631045) with one correcting the parent post about the status of a particular company, and the second, posted over two hours later blindly ignoring said post. Make a mistake over 1 cent though...:-D
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and you're basing this on what exactly? Java enabled me to write an application that, except for a couple of issues over SWT, did indeed run as expected on multiple OSes, something that I seriously doubt would have happened without Java (based on the funding and manpower this project had). As for being a resource pig and unstable - if it's good enough to run bio-chemical simulations in I think it's good enough for the average user.
Well I can't speak for the GP but I'd like to respond to yours.
Any purchased disk of OS X has no serial verification or copy protection. All allow a fresh install as far as I know. Now the fact that they do this (and don't try to restrict the number of machines which it is placed on) is, I believe, separate from the licence agreement. The offer of a cheaper upgrade for Leopard users was meant in some way as a nod towards the short time between Leopard coming out and Snow Leopard. Somebody wishing to move to Leopard from Tiger was expected to pay the full amount, just as they are expected to if you move from Tiger to Snow Leopard. There very well may be perfect examples of Apple doing as you suggest, I would argue that this isn't one of them though.
Congratulations on clearly not reading the article. I'd explain myself but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't read it :)
I know of large companies that are still using NT so I wouldn't joke about that too much if I were you.
She hasn't had time, but then the article made no suggestion that she had received the units back, merely how long it would take once they were sent. RTFA would seem to apply here.
and pray tell, where would they put two PS/2 connectors on a mac mini?
It costs folks like you and me
Well there was this one time when I discovered they were using windows 98 on our naval vessels...
Is it me or do Apple get in trouble in the UK a lot? I think there's about 4 Apple adverts that have been deemed false advertising by ASA, and now this? Have they really not bothered to hire any UK lawyers?
Would you though? Game Theory would suggest (to me anyway) that any loss possible in the UK is nothing compared to the possible losses in the US. I'd hire nothing but US lawyers too.
Illegal conditions in your EULA in the UK? get your knuckles rapped and correct it - end of story.
Sell a product in the US? prepare for endless lawsuits varying in their stupidity.
Allow you to be a smoker and still get your iCrap serviced under warranty?
Here's Apple, trying to save everybody from lung cancer and all I see are complaints!
If you won't think of the children then Apple have to!
I tell you what, as much as I like Java as a programming language, I'd fill my underwear in record time if I ever discovered it was used in any nuclear facility.
...There's not an hour where I wake up where I'm NOT thinking about killing myself or everyone else...
Don't worry, you're not depressed, you're simply a sociopath.
pervert :-P
More seriously, I moved from XP to OS X 10.4, and I've recently tried Windows 7. The control panel is now a complete monster! There are a couple of nice touches but there's plenty of suck too.
Please, any idiot can build a computer cheaper than a mac mini. The question is can you do so and make it as small, quiet and cheap to run? Do that, with the difference in cost worthy of being mentioned, and then we'll talk.
Regardless (and this applies to any OS btw), if you can't easily navigate to and change the screen preferences from the lowest support screen resolution then you've screwed up when you designed the damned thing.
and to follow on with what promythyus has already said. Once you've noticed that your ftp or your torrents aren't downloading/uploading you're trying to have us believe that your troubleshooting wouldn't eventually involve you launching a web browser?
Not that I wish to stop you frothing at the mouth, but I'd recommend viewing one of the posts above yours.
I don't think we have to worry any time soon...
Still nowhere near enough information for a meaningful comparison. Take memory, you could pay $485.99 for 12GB or $859.99 for 8GB from a particular site. What can you conclude? only that I haven't supplied enough information about the two options.
We welcome hard-coded submissions, commercial AI programmers, academics and amateurs alike.
Yet you only post this on slashdot with 13 days before the deadline. You couldn't have posted it here back in May? (the earliest date a post seems to have in your google group).
You could stay home when other people are sick. Not sure where in the constitution it says healthy people have right to travel when sick people don't.
With rights or freedoms come responsibilities. Is it asking so much for somebody to not act like an asshole and potentially infect an entire plane full of people if they have any level of suspicion that they're ill with something infectious?
Wow, this article really seems to have brought the soft science practitioners out in force. Where are all the real academics?
I can't agree with this. I collaborate with my colleagues, and many in my group have international collaborative works on the go right now and we all use LaTeX. When I collaborate with my supervisor we tend to use CVS, I've even found a package that supplies some of the basic functionality for tracking changes. Yes it isn't one of LaTeX's strengths but it isn't a deal breaker at all.
Just to point out, above this discussion you can find two comments (27629709 and 27631045) with one correcting the parent post about the status of a particular company, and the second, posted over two hours later blindly ignoring said post. Make a mistake over 1 cent though... :-D