I have to agree with this. I had a huge amount of hassle installing and compiling gnucash. I had to download libraries not found within macports, locate and compile packages from alternative sources due to broken copies in macports and so on.
That was the case where I was lucky enough to get it to work in the end. I've lost days on others before writing it off as a waste of time. It's bad enough that it would be better if macports didn't exist.
Congratulations on your witty comment. If I was to write something like that I'd tick the anonymous box too.
Did you stop for a moment to think maybe there is no choice in ISP where the parent is based? For example, there are plenty of places in the US where there is no competitive business vying for your money.
I'd wager if you were to look at all the people wanting this that you'd find it was a combination of the two types. Regardless of which type the moron John Markoff belongs to, the idea is destined (hopefully) to go the way as most crackpot ideas coming from either the US or UK governments.
I'd forgotten about that debacle. Just goes to show Apple aren't perfect. They don't alter prices on a regular basis to keep products as competitive as they were when introduced, but over-compensate with the iPhone and alienate a whole bunch of people. Between those two is a happy medium.
imo there is a certain amount of truth to that but generally only at a products release or update. Apple don't tend to change prices unlike many others (take Dell for example), so while I tend to agree that the cost difference between different companies isn't great, it does tend to grow in favour of other companies the longer Apple leaves a product update.
I'm not using TrueCrypt yet, but I've been looking into it for a potential future netbook purchase.
It seems that you can have a secondary key (of sorts). You encrypt the drive and backup the header, which will be encrypted with your password. Then you can supply the machine to the user and have them create a new password. Then if they forget their password you can repair the header with your copy. You can find this in the TrueCrypt FAQ (search for the word enterprise)
Actually I did use VLC for playing music, right up until the point it started playing huge distortions where both iTunes and my mp3 player weren't. I stepped into the world of iTunes at that point.
Do you mean 100Gb, as in 12.5GB or do you mean 100GB?
If you're claiming you can go through 100GB in a single day I call bullshit. I don't care about Blu-ray so I'm using wikipedia for the stats. If wikipedia is true, then the maximum rate is 48Mbps for A/V. 100GB is the equivalent of watching almost 5 hours of high-definition at the highest level of encoding possible on blu-ray. Yet you're saying you can do that with videophone, streaming TV and "assorted" downloads, before going on to do another ~50GB the next day?
true but that's a weakness in people - not the protocol. I was a little worried until I also read it was nothing more than a brute force attack using a faster processing unit.
WEP is broken. It's broken because with a little time I can crack it on my G4 iMac. WPA isn't.
I'm actually curious. The engine used by the free chess program supplied with OS X has no trouble whipping me and I'm playing it at one of the easier levels. Fair enough I'm not a great player but I'm not a moron either. My guess is that a significant portion of those that enjoy a game of chess would find many of the free offerings sufficiently challenging.
I understand the desire to create better and more efficient algorithms but I'll be damned if I can see their commercial use.
Freeware doesn't necessarily mean you have access to the source code.
I think if you re-read the post you'd see they were referring to the possibility of the original creators updating the games when they release a collection pack.
Eh? The BitTorrent protocol specifies a completed message that is to be sent to the tracker once the torrent has been fully downloaded. What more do you need?
First, if someone defrauds your credit card, you're not liable. Dispute the charge and you're done, the onus is then on the merchant to prove the validity of the transaction. With cash accounts, once the money is gone, it's gone.
I don't believe for one moment that if you went to your credit card company disputing a transaction from 15 months ago that they'd take you seriously.
Second, checking accounts are difficult to reconcile as can be seen from the linked story
What??? Using any decent program you should be able to tell what your current balance is and what it will eventually be. Besides which, additional funds were being removed so it should simply show up as unknown or at best duplicate transaction which, if you bother to keep track of your finances, should stand out.
Firstly, it wasn't the government that deemed the advert misleading as the headline and summary suggests. The ASA are an independent body.
Secondly, we've tried approaching Ofcom about the use of the word unlimited here in the UK and got nowhere. A petition was also started to get the government to do something about it but they don't want to get involved either, so it isn't just your government that doesn't give a rats ass...
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What lesson is it that I am supposed to have learned?
I hope this post proves edifying in the ways of slashdot.
Be fair! after all, the entire site is probably running off a copy of Easy Peasy on a EEEPC 701...
I have to agree with this. I had a huge amount of hassle installing and compiling gnucash. I had to download libraries not found within macports, locate and compile packages from alternative sources due to broken copies in macports and so on.
That was the case where I was lucky enough to get it to work in the end. I've lost days on others before writing it off as a waste of time. It's bad enough that it would be better if macports didn't exist.
Oh you won't get any disagreement from me on that part. Apple sold it so it's their responsibility as you said.
That'll be Sony you want to thank ;-)
Congratulations on your witty comment. If I was to write something like that I'd tick the anonymous box too.
Did you stop for a moment to think maybe there is no choice in ISP where the parent is based? For example, there are plenty of places in the US where there is no competitive business vying for your money.
I'd wager if you were to look at all the people wanting this that you'd find it was a combination of the two types. Regardless of which type the moron John Markoff belongs to, the idea is destined (hopefully) to go the way as most crackpot ideas coming from either the US or UK governments.
I'd forgotten about that debacle. Just goes to show Apple aren't perfect. They don't alter prices on a regular basis to keep products as competitive as they were when introduced, but over-compensate with the iPhone and alienate a whole bunch of people. Between those two is a happy medium.
haha. I had to go back and re-read my post. You're right, I did use the t*** word excessively.
imo there is a certain amount of truth to that but generally only at a products release or update. Apple don't tend to change prices unlike many others (take Dell for example), so while I tend to agree that the cost difference between different companies isn't great, it does tend to grow in favour of other companies the longer Apple leaves a product update.
I'm not using TrueCrypt yet, but I've been looking into it for a potential future netbook purchase.
It seems that you can have a secondary key (of sorts). You encrypt the drive and backup the header, which will be encrypted with your password. Then you can supply the machine to the user and have them create a new password. Then if they forget their password you can repair the header with your copy. You can find this in the TrueCrypt FAQ (search for the word enterprise)
In fairness even if they could bypass the security there aren't any decent games for them to install :-D
I don't know about Like2Byte, but if I was in his/her situation I'd be happy with that :-D
If that was the iPhone slashdot users would be going ballistic right now - and rightly so.
Actually I did use VLC for playing music, right up until the point it started playing huge distortions where both iTunes and my mp3 player weren't. I stepped into the world of iTunes at that point.
Like anybody in their right mind would ever consider putting windows on a 1024 processor machine used for 'real high end stuff'.
Let's remember for a moment where most installations of windows will be.
Do you mean 100Gb, as in 12.5GB or do you mean 100GB?
If you're claiming you can go through 100GB in a single day I call bullshit. I don't care about Blu-ray so I'm using wikipedia for the stats. If wikipedia is true, then the maximum rate is 48Mbps for A/V. 100GB is the equivalent of watching almost 5 hours of high-definition at the highest level of encoding possible on blu-ray. Yet you're saying you can do that with videophone, streaming TV and "assorted" downloads, before going on to do another ~50GB the next day?
true but that's a weakness in people - not the protocol. I was a little worried until I also read it was nothing more than a brute force attack using a faster processing unit.
WEP is broken. It's broken because with a little time I can crack it on my G4 iMac. WPA isn't.
I'm actually curious. The engine used by the free chess program supplied with OS X has no trouble whipping me and I'm playing it at one of the easier levels. Fair enough I'm not a great player but I'm not a moron either. My guess is that a significant portion of those that enjoy a game of chess would find many of the free offerings sufficiently challenging.
I understand the desire to create better and more efficient algorithms but I'll be damned if I can see their commercial use.
Freeware doesn't necessarily mean you have access to the source code.
I think if you re-read the post you'd see they were referring to the possibility of the original creators updating the games when they release a collection pack.
Eh? The BitTorrent protocol specifies a completed message that is to be sent to the tracker once the torrent has been fully downloaded. What more do you need?
First, if someone defrauds your credit card, you're not liable. Dispute the charge and you're done, the onus is then on the merchant to prove the validity of the transaction. With cash accounts, once the money is gone, it's gone.
I don't believe for one moment that if you went to your credit card company disputing a transaction from 15 months ago that they'd take you seriously.
Second, checking accounts are difficult to reconcile as can be seen from the linked story
What??? Using any decent program you should be able to tell what your current balance is and what it will eventually be. Besides which, additional funds were being removed so it should simply show up as unknown or at best duplicate transaction which, if you bother to keep track of your finances, should stand out.
Anyway, what can I say? one typo and one cut and paste (without enough proof-reading) and voilà! one /. submission.
Firstly, it wasn't the government that deemed the advert misleading as the headline and summary suggests. The ASA are an independent body. Secondly, we've tried approaching Ofcom about the use of the word unlimited here in the UK and got nowhere. A petition was also started to get the government to do something about it but they don't want to get involved either, so it isn't just your government that doesn't give a rats ass...
According to the adjudication, Apple said "Which is why all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone"