Differential backup means exactly what it sounds like it means: only the differences are backed up. If you back up whole files that have only changed in part, that is not a differential backup. Indeed, even if you back up whole blocks that have only changed in part, that's not a differential backup, so ZFS doesn't cut the mustard either;P
I think it's safe to say that default firewalls should be on for all machines. Regardless of whether they are to be turned on manually or they're on by default when the OS is installed. Absolutely not. If, for example, OS X would have been the first to fall because Apple stupidly refuse to enable the firewall by default, well, Apple obviously need a bit of bad press to persuade them to do the Right Thing out of the box.
You just don't get it, do you? Name me a phone which, if the call being made is not answered, can send a voice MMS without the caller doing anything else other than speaking after the tone.
It's the classic Linux fanboy fallacy. "Linux can do anything, therefore it is for everyone". I can guarantee you that Steve Jobs didn't get richer than you by following cock-eyed logic like that.
Having a better GUI doesn't cost £600, some of it it must go somewhere on\in the phone the sales person was unable to tell me where I would have thought that either of you could probably have spotted that you don't get quite so much voice/text/data allowance with your £10 a month as you would with the iPhone.
So no, it doesn't cost £600, it costs rather less than that. But it does cost something, and if that's not something you're prepared to pay, don't get an iPhone. It's not rocket science -- the iPhone isn't aimed at the frugal end of the market.
...can send audio clips via MMS as well as video (yes, I can record just audio clips on my phone), and they sit in your message inbox similar to an SMS so you can open whichever one you want whenever you want. The Apple salesman agreed that this wasn't hugely different to visual voicemail... When I call you, if you're not available I can, without doing anything else whatsoever other than speak, leave you a voicemail. Realistically, that's what I'm going to do; why would I bother cutting off that call just so I can perform the completely separate operation of sending you a voice MMS? So in other words, the difference between visual voicemail and voice MMS is that you don't get any voice MMSs.
Perhaps your rebuke made you look clever when you composed it in your head, but once you had hit "submit" it turns out it just made you look like a misanthrope.
And remember, contrary to the article's assertion, since owning an iPhone isn't mandatory, and we presumably have free will, no one is "forced" to do anything.
Durrr have you forgotten the people who want iphones and don't want AT&T? That's what this whole hullabaloo is about. No, of course he hasn't forgotten those people. What part of the difference between "want/don't want" and "forced" do you not understand? I want to read insightful comments and I don't want to have to put up with idiots like you. Yet am I forced to read Slashdot? No. Let he who is without "durrr" cast the first aspersion.
So what Apple does is a little bit of deciding for the user what makes sense. The first step was going to an intelligent application level firewall that makes it a lot more functional and easier to use. The next was making some policies that allow services Apple considers "essential" to the whole Mac OS X user experience. And like it or not, Bonjour is an integral part of that.
I can't agree that Apple's application level firewall is any more functional (any app that wants to listen can do so by spawning netcat, which is signed by Apple).
Their policies would make sense if Apple had made those policies the default. But the default is to leave the firewall wide open -- no protection whatsoever.
So given that the OP is presumably comparing Tiger and Leopard on exactly the same hardware, and given that Photoshop is pretty resource-hungry in the aspects you mentioned... I would probably, in the absence of any other information, conclude that Leopard is leaner than Tiger. Although if all he's running is Photoshop and Finder, it could just be that Finder is faster / more responsive.
Describing a cache miss to explain what the grandfather describes goes beyond generous and well into misleading. He talked about detection in the human ear, which has nothing to do with the cache. His friend presumably doesn't have anything to do with the engineering side of working for a hard drive manufacturer.
I signed a petition asking the government not to cut the budget to the British Library lest they have to start charging for entrance. The government responded that the British Library has autonomy over how much it charges for entrance. In other words they completely (and presumably deliberately) failed to address the point. The e-petitions site is a smokescreen for collecting email addresses, nothing more.
In a follow-up interview today, Croll explained, "ZFS is not the default file system for Leopard. We are exploring it as a file system option for high-end storage systems with really large storage. As a result, we have included ZFS -- a read-only copy of ZFS -- in Leopard."
"Read-only means that at a later date, if there are ZFS volumes, those systems would be able to read ZFS volumes," Croll added. "You cannot write data into the system. It will allow you to read ZFS volumes later."
Um, what?! That's a clarification?! Is read-only ZFS shipping in Leopard, or later?
I thought I understood the first paragraph. But the second reads like it was written by the sort of person who refers to their computer as "my screen":
"Read-only means that at a later date (bad start: read-only has nothing to say about time) , if there are ZFS volumes (there are definitely ZFS volumes, I've seen them on Sun boxes), those systems (to what does "those" refer?) would be able to read ZFS volumes," Croll added. "You cannot write data into the system (you can't write data into a system which can read ZFS volumes?!). It (what?) will allow you to read ZFS volumes later (when?)."
Just make sure to put a proper conduit in. While you're at it, why not put water main, hot, and waste trunk around the skirt of each room in case you ever want to change it into a bedroom and plumb in a basin or shower?
The fact that your friend couldn't afford the equipment may illustrate that one of the main drivers for the highest-end stuff is lucrativity. People buy gold-plated taps for their bathroom, but their higher cost doesn't make them any better at what they do.
And not to get too picky about it, but making your own equipment is not the same as producing content, unless he made that equipment for his recording studio.
For my own part, I can't tell the difference between CD and 256Kbps AAC, but then, neither have I ever met or even heard of anyone who has been proven in a properly-conducted double-blind test to have done so in a statistically significant manner.
I know, from reading your original post to which I replied, that you are not under the impression that when you buy an album you are buying a license to invalidate copyright law. Copyright prevents me from distributing copies; it doesn't prevent the copyright holder from doing so.
In other words, I can go to Spain, buy a CD and bring it back to Germany without breaking copyright law in either country.
I agree with everything else in your analysis. The only way to avoid breaking one or more conflicting laws is to stay out of the game, but it's the record companies that are causing this situation, so it's them the EU are really after.
So if I live in Spain, and can buy a pass that lets me ride all public transportation for 1 year at a flat rate, then I move to Germany, should I be able to ride all the German public transportation for the remainder of the year? No, you should be able to ride all Spanish public transportation in Germany. And indeed you can.
Then I don't understand your point. Because you seemed to be suggesting buying equipment based on its use of a less congested band, when clearly that is not going to be the case in future due to increasing 802.11n adoption.
A negative result would simply prove that God either does not exist or does not wish to take part in my experiment. I suspect that a lot of people will believe the latter to be more likely;)
To prove or disprove the Genesis story, one could set up a large telescope 6000 light years away and watch history unfold. We'd just have to figure out how to get it there quickly. Maybe when we hook up with aliens, we can swap Genesis stories?
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Differential backup means exactly what it sounds like it means: only the differences are backed up. If you back up whole files that have only changed in part, that is not a differential backup. Indeed, even if you back up whole blocks that have only changed in part, that's not a differential backup, so ZFS doesn't cut the mustard either ;P
You're sick.
But you also asked for an explanation. Do you get it now?
You just don't get it, do you? Name me a phone which, if the call being made is not answered, can send a voice MMS without the caller doing anything else other than speaking after the tone.
It's the classic Linux fanboy fallacy. "Linux can do anything, therefore it is for everyone". I can guarantee you that Steve Jobs didn't get richer than you by following cock-eyed logic like that.
So no, it doesn't cost £600, it costs rather less than that. But it does cost something, and if that's not something you're prepared to pay, don't get an iPhone. It's not rocket science -- the iPhone isn't aimed at the frugal end of the market.
...can send audio clips via MMS as well as video (yes, I can record just audio clips on my phone), and they sit in your message inbox similar to an SMS so you can open whichever one you want whenever you want. The Apple salesman agreed that this wasn't hugely different to visual voicemail... When I call you, if you're not available I can, without doing anything else whatsoever other than speak, leave you a voicemail. Realistically, that's what I'm going to do; why would I bother cutting off that call just so I can perform the completely separate operation of sending you a voice MMS? So in other words, the difference between visual voicemail and voice MMS is that you don't get any voice MMSs.Perhaps your rebuke made you look clever when you composed it in your head, but once you had hit "submit" it turns out it just made you look like a misanthrope.
Let he who is without "durrr" cast the first aspersion.
Just to pose another question: is it possible you have given a straight reply to a sarcastic post?
I can't agree that Apple's application level firewall is any more functional (any app that wants to listen can do so by spawning netcat, which is signed by Apple).
Their policies would make sense if Apple had made those policies the default. But the default is to leave the firewall wide open -- no protection whatsoever.
So given that the OP is presumably comparing Tiger and Leopard on exactly the same hardware, and given that Photoshop is pretty resource-hungry in the aspects you mentioned... I would probably, in the absence of any other information, conclude that Leopard is leaner than Tiger. Although if all he's running is Photoshop and Finder, it could just be that Finder is faster / more responsive.
Describing a cache miss to explain what the grandfather describes goes beyond generous and well into misleading. He talked about detection in the human ear, which has nothing to do with the cache. His friend presumably doesn't have anything to do with the engineering side of working for a hard drive manufacturer.
By what process would that process have been enacted? Is the electoral college system, for instance, morally sound?
I signed a petition asking the government not to cut the budget to the British Library lest they have to start charging for entrance. The government responded that the British Library has autonomy over how much it charges for entrance. In other words they completely (and presumably deliberately) failed to address the point. The e-petitions site is a smokescreen for collecting email addresses, nothing more.
If you don't drown, then you're a witch, and we'll burn you!
Ah, yes. Well interpreted! Thanks.
Um, what?! That's a clarification?! Is read-only ZFS shipping in Leopard, or later?
I thought I understood the first paragraph. But the second reads like it was written by the sort of person who refers to their computer as "my screen":
Apple should keep this guy away from the press.
Just make sure to put a proper conduit in. While you're at it, why not put water main, hot, and waste trunk around the skirt of each room in case you ever want to change it into a bedroom and plumb in a basin or shower?
The fact that your friend couldn't afford the equipment may illustrate that one of the main drivers for the highest-end stuff is lucrativity. People buy gold-plated taps for their bathroom, but their higher cost doesn't make them any better at what they do.
And not to get too picky about it, but making your own equipment is not the same as producing content, unless he made that equipment for his recording studio.
For my own part, I can't tell the difference between CD and 256Kbps AAC, but then, neither have I ever met or even heard of anyone who has been proven in a properly-conducted double-blind test to have done so in a statistically significant manner.
Great comment, wish I had mod points for you.
I know, from reading your original post to which I replied, that you are not under the impression that when you buy an album you are buying a license to invalidate copyright law. Copyright prevents me from distributing copies; it doesn't prevent the copyright holder from doing so.
In other words, I can go to Spain, buy a CD and bring it back to Germany without breaking copyright law in either country.
I agree with everything else in your analysis. The only way to avoid breaking one or more conflicting laws is to stay out of the game, but it's the record companies that are causing this situation, so it's them the EU are really after.
Then I don't understand your point. Because you seemed to be suggesting buying equipment based on its use of a less congested band, when clearly that is not going to be the case in future due to increasing 802.11n adoption.