I think you'll find the major issue in Florida was the gerrymandering that GWB's brother, Jeb and his cronies perpetrated: namely the mass disenfranchisement of people simply because they belonged to a demographic that typically votes Democrat on the excuse that they were criminals and therefore ineligable. The constitutional aspects aside of not allowing a criminal that's paid their debt to vote: most of those disenfranchised had never had a criminal convction of any kind in their life.
I don't know about the US but whilst that's generally true in the UK there are exceptions: for example should I buy your diamond at an early morning market (I forget the precise definition) then it's mine and I can keep it even if it was stolen.
Fortunately, at least in the UK, anything a company sells has to be of "merchantable quality" and "fit for purpose" and that's not something the company weasle their way around in anyway at all. Doesn't matter if they put up signs in the shop saying "sold as seen" or make you agree to an EULA: those consumer rights still hold regardless.
In addition, it's a basic part of contract law that any clause that effectively takes away precisely the benefit you were contracting to receive is automatically void.
Be interesting to see if this, finally, gets them tested in a court of law. Problem is, and much as a despise them, it would do an awful lot of damage to the software industry if they weren't upheld.
Ah the reasoned arguments of a a PC user. Shouldn't you be cleaning out viruses or patching the patches on the patches to Windows?
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It's literally quieter than a whisper. All those fans are there so that the Mac can turn on only the ones it needs for the bits that need cooling at that moment. The PowerMacs have something similar (although on mine it's spoilt by the crappy, loud fan on the 9800pro video card.)
"good" and "dell" in the same sentence? What are you smoking?
I'm typing this on my work Dell Latitude (yes they put a gun to my head:( ) and let's see:
Work Dell: the case is super-cheap plastic;
My Powerbook: shiney aluminium.
Work Dell: Cheap keyboard that flexes.
My PB: Metal keyboard that does not flex.
Work Dell: Comes complete with not 1, not 2, not even 3 but 4 mouse buttons. Well 2 pairs of 2 really. One with the nipple and the other with the trackpad.
My Apple: only comes with a trackpad and one mouse button (wait for it...)
Work Dell: Of the 4 mouse buttons NONE work reliably (2 don't work at all). The nipple is unreliable to the point of being unusable. The track pad works but is small and cramped.
My PB: Trackpad works flawlessly, every single time, and so does the button.
Work Dell: Bluetooth radio: doesn't work. At all. With any of my BT devices.
My PB: Bluetooth works seamlessly with all my BT devices including my MS mouse & P900.
Work Dell: Comes with XP. worst. operating. system. ever. (yes I think it's worse than ME).
My PB: Comes with OSX. best. operating. system. ever.
So you can understand why I laugh in the face of anyone that describes any consumer computer made by Dell as good. They're not. They are the epitome of why Wintel PCs are shit.
Personally I think you're talking out of your arse.
Sure some iMacs are probably bought to pretty up a reception area. But most are bought by people who want: A Unix-like with a usable GUI, a computer that just works, a computer that does take hours of frustrating effort just to plug in a standard peripheral, etc etc etc.
If you don't want to pay for an Apple, fine stick with your Dell. I decided not to have a Porsche Boxster as my company car (yes, I really had that option) I decided to have extra cash and a Ford Focus. But you don't hear me bitching about how a Boxster is overpriced because it has a pretty engine (it has).
So stick with your cheap Dell-clone and leave the quality computers the those of that can are a willing to afford them.
If can afford the quality, and want maximum expandability, then the PowerMac is what you should be looking at. The iMac isn't aimed at people that habitually rip stuff out and put other stuff in its place: never has been. It's aimed at people that want to be able to use a computer.
That's only true for a language that doesn't allow dynamic binding or proxying: ie it's a work-around not a fundamentally requirement. The reason I'd call it a work around is because it uses nheritance for implementation (the same as private inheritance: something that real;-) OO languages don't have).
The only problem with this is that if the code is "wrong" (ie works perfectly as code, but just does the wrong thing) then someone else is going to have a hard time telling that's the case.
That said I prefer not to comment and leave it to unit testing to verify my code isn't "wrong": in that sense the unit tests are a kind of verifiable comment.
It's not just corporations: nations have got along with authoritatrian regimes: The US regularly supports unpleasant regimes against their democratic opponents: They helped the right wing nationalists in Spain overthrow the elected republican government; they overthrew the democratically elected government of Grenada (and there are lots of other examples is central america); they support the Al Saud rulers of Saudi Arabia, they've given China favoured nation status.
So if you're *genuinely* concerned, and let's face it most people venting here are just karma whoring, then perhaps you should start with the US Goverment: you at least can vote to change them.
Woohoo about time the Europeans rather than us Brits got the stiffed on the pricing of identical goods. In the UK it's GBP26.99 - GBP29.99, which is about 45euros/50dollars.
Got to be a first, we actually got a US release *before* the US, rather than 3 months later as is usually the case.
Wife and I watch epIV last night (and yes Greedo and Han do shoot at the same time) and thoroughly enjoyed it: the improvements are noticable: especially compared to our worn out VHS copy;-) some changes (all the wild life wandering in and around Mos Eisley for example) seem a little gratuitous but not over the top.
I'd give it a thimbs up so far (but then I always did like IV, V was risible, ewoks *spit*, and VI was OK).
C++ is an abomination plain and simple. It's a Frankenstein's monster of a functional language (C) that's had OO constructs bolted and stitched onto it.
C gave you a pistol and allowed you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ gave you a machine with the trigger and the safety catch switched around and came with an instruction manual that encouraged you to shoot yourself in the foot (a previous posters cout C still has a place: writing low level, fast and efficient stuff. C++ is just a willy-wavers' ("ooh look girls I can de-reference a pointer") language.
You do know they have VAT in the union as well? And if something is sold with VAT in one part you do not have to pay VAT in the other?
So, as I am sure Apple have done, they register to pay VAT in one country and they're covered for all: they do not have to pay VAT individually to each country (hence the reason iTunes works everywhere else in Europe; just because they have a common currency doesn't mean they have a unified tax system).
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I think you'll find the major issue in Florida was the gerrymandering that GWB's brother, Jeb and his cronies perpetrated: namely the mass disenfranchisement of people simply because they belonged to a demographic that typically votes Democrat on the excuse that they were criminals and therefore ineligable. The constitutional aspects aside of not allowing a criminal that's paid their debt to vote: most of those disenfranchised had never had a criminal convction of any kind in their life.
I don't know about the US but whilst that's generally true in the UK there are exceptions: for example should I buy your diamond at an early morning market (I forget the precise definition) then it's mine and I can keep it even if it was stolen.
In addition, it's a basic part of contract law that any clause that effectively takes away precisely the benefit you were contracting to receive is automatically void.
I have four letters for you: E U L and A.
Be interesting to see if this, finally, gets them tested in a court of law. Problem is, and much as a despise them, it would do an awful lot of damage to the software industry if they weren't upheld.
Insightful ? . Note to Mod: RTFA it's not even about spamming, nor is the scam based in Ireland.
Yes because Ireland's economy is closely coupled with that of the South Pacific Islands.
Rather a lot of these "make random uninformed comments" karma whores today.
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Ah the reasoned arguments of a a PC user. Shouldn't you be cleaning out viruses or patching the patches on the patches to Windows?
It's literally quieter than a whisper. All those fans are there so that the Mac can turn on only the ones it needs for the bits that need cooling at that moment. The PowerMacs have something similar (although on mine it's spoilt by the crappy, loud fan on the 9800pro video card.)
Wow yes you're right: the G5 iMac is parctically a tablet computer. And so's my G5 PowerMac.
"good" and "dell" in the same sentence? What are you smoking?
I'm typing this on my work Dell Latitude (yes they put a gun to my head:( ) and let's see:
So you can understand why I laugh in the face of anyone that describes any consumer computer made by Dell as good. They're not. They are the epitome of why Wintel PCs are shit.
Personally I think you're talking out of your arse.
Sure some iMacs are probably bought to pretty up a reception area. But most are bought by people who want: A Unix-like with a usable GUI, a computer that just works, a computer that does take hours of frustrating effort just to plug in a standard peripheral, etc etc etc.
If you don't want to pay for an Apple, fine stick with your Dell. I decided not to have a Porsche Boxster as my company car (yes, I really had that option) I decided to have extra cash and a Ford Focus. But you don't hear me bitching about how a Boxster is overpriced because it has a pretty engine (it has).
Why can't we mod posts stupid?
Lucky for you we can't.
So stick with your cheap Dell-clone and leave the quality computers the those of that can are a willing to afford them.
If can afford the quality, and want maximum expandability, then the PowerMac is what you should be looking at. The iMac isn't aimed at people that habitually rip stuff out and put other stuff in its place: never has been. It's aimed at people that want to be able to use a computer.
Yeah I know: it really sucks to have Apple force me to have all that quality when I buy a computer from them.
If you want to buy a cheap pile of shit: buy a Dell.
That's only true for a language that doesn't allow dynamic binding or proxying: ie it's a work-around not a fundamentally requirement. The reason I'd call it a work around is because it uses nheritance for implementation (the same as private inheritance: something that real ;-) OO languages don't have).
"bloated" isn't spelled "versatile".
Compare this to some equivalent Java code:
Note: no bizarre operating overloading and only one line of code.
If the original developer didn't bother getting the unit tests right do you seriously think he'd get the comments right?
The only problem with this is that if the code is "wrong" (ie works perfectly as code, but just does the wrong thing) then someone else is going to have a hard time telling that's the case.
That said I prefer not to comment and leave it to unit testing to verify my code isn't "wrong": in that sense the unit tests are a kind of verifiable comment.
It's not just corporations: nations have got along with authoritatrian regimes: The US regularly supports unpleasant regimes against their democratic opponents: They helped the right wing nationalists in Spain overthrow the elected republican government; they overthrew the democratically elected government of Grenada (and there are lots of other examples is central america); they support the Al Saud rulers of Saudi Arabia, they've given China favoured nation status.
So if you're *genuinely* concerned, and let's face it most people venting here are just karma whoring, then perhaps you should start with the US Goverment: you at least can vote to change them.
Good lord talk about anal.
Take a deep breath and repeat after me: "It's only a film, It's only a film, It really is only a film".
79 Euros!?!
Woohoo about time the Europeans rather than us Brits got the stiffed on the pricing of identical goods. In the UK it's GBP26.99 - GBP29.99, which is about 45euros/50dollars.
Got to be a first, we actually got a US release *before* the US, rather than 3 months later as is usually the case.
Wife and I watch epIV last night (and yes Greedo and Han do shoot at the same time) and thoroughly enjoyed it: the improvements are noticable: especially compared to our worn out VHS copy ;-) some changes (all the wild life wandering in and around Mos Eisley for example) seem a little gratuitous but not over the top.
I'd give it a thimbs up so far (but then I always did like IV, V was risible, ewoks *spit*, and VI was OK).
C++ is an abomination plain and simple. It's a Frankenstein's monster of a functional language (C) that's had OO constructs bolted and stitched onto it.
C gave you a pistol and allowed you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ gave you a machine with the trigger and the safety catch switched around and came with an instruction manual that encouraged you to shoot yourself in the foot (a previous posters cout C still has a place: writing low level, fast and efficient stuff. C++ is just a willy-wavers' ("ooh look girls I can de-reference a pointer") language.
You do know they have VAT in the union as well? And if something is sold with VAT in one part you do not have to pay VAT in the other? So, as I am sure Apple have done, they register to pay VAT in one country and they're covered for all: they do not have to pay VAT individually to each country (hence the reason iTunes works everywhere else in Europe; just because they have a common currency doesn't mean they have a unified tax system).