Can we get this stuff off the slashdot front page until Sun decides to do something that will make any difference? It is probably so late in the game that nothing they do will.
The libertarian party seems to embrace intellectual protectionism as much as anyone else. Look at many of their candidates and leaders to know for sure that they are as gung ho on it as Dems or Reps.
From websters, the first definition is "posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide". It is the model that is at fault and preesents the problem. It is not because it is plaged by problems, but because it is the problem, the riddle, how you can use it with good results for complicated computations.
Floating point is hopelessly problematic for the average programmer and too many average programmers wrote the programs from Excel to MS Calculator and by any number of other vendors, all of which had "Pentium bugs" reported, that didn't need particular Intel hardware to be reproduced.
In other news, CEO Steve Jobs was just rescued from his leaky rowboat by the USS Itanic. Everyone on board congratulated him on his suave sense of style in holding out to be rescued by such an acknowledged, unsinkable leader...
They are being as bad in this respect as Microsoft, it appears.
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I wonder if the trademark works. They will probably have to call it Power Microsoft Shell.
People will likely want to have Unix-like piping of textual results. Does this mean a Text array gets instantiated, or is it a stream object?
Does it bother anyone that this coalition decided to publish their opinions under a dotcom (.com) TLD? No. TLDs including.net and.org as currently set up are very silly, and it is natural for people to not respect them. People tend to look under.com, and it should be just as natural to look under.us or.eu.
Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC. So who fixes the crappy powerbook I bought. AppleCare won't repair.
From their actions during the Iraq fiasco and many other defenses of corruption in the establishment, it is clear that the media does not deserve more rights than the citizens and clearly an establishment press should have no more rights than a citizen press.
How about rights for everyone to security against Apple enforcers who would like to bust down the doors. Just because they have a signed agreement that the info would not be disclosed does not mean that everyones' rights should be trampled because they cannot figure out who violated their agreement.
Next time it will be over DRM, "trusted computing", etc. Apple has no admirable public ethics worth mentioning.
They have no credibility when they refuse simple legitimate claims, and it is clear I am not the only one having such problems. The coontinuously-reappearing Apple claims that they have worthwhile hardware needs to be answered whenever it arises.
So you had repairs amounting to over a thousand dollars (assuming the 300+ price tag for a Powerbook extended warranty, which you claim in one of your other posts to this same topic paid for itself three times over at least)? Sounds like a seriously defective machine to me, just like they are selling to others. Yet you have no sympathy for others who have not had the same success getting the defects fixed
If somebody told me that anywhere in US presumption of innocence does not hold in trials, I would be as surprised as if I heard it does not hold somewhere in EU.
Apple doesn't join because they are past caring, so why would they care about a few complaints, and filing is just a way to show how bad they are. Apple has already tried to make it go away without addressing it. But if everyone who experienced their substandard hardware and service filed a complaint, though, it might start making a difference and give a reference point of formally-filed complaints.
Something to stave off the Apple Fanboys with next time they start trying to convince someone that Apple is a good decision from a hardware perspective.
where it turned out that they had miss-filed the serial number and so they would not repair it under warranty
I have the extended warranty, which the store clearly verified (they claimed that they would not fix it because a key would only snap off under severe abuse), and now that the BBB complaint went to Apple, they are claiming that my PB was not under warranty at all.
Any Apple hardware advantage is a complete myth, but mine has only spent a few weeks at Apple. Your story is almost making me glad to sacrifice my down-arrow key just to not give them another crack at screwing it up worse.
I can point you to the BBB case I filed against them that has been stagnating for months. You were lucky, I was not. This is not the first failure they refused or were reluctant to fix.
Their hardware is full of defects and they won't stand behind the simple terms of the warranty that they should fix it. I have a case with the BBB against them, and they have yet (after months) to make any attempt at a good excuse why they won't fix the hardware under the terms of the warranty.
Should be sufficient argument to anyone against buying Apple for the hardware. AppleCare won't repair. They have no pride whatsoever in making what they sold you work. Far more failures than comparable PC hardware. My down arrow broke. Sorry, the warranty doesn't cover that. Same story that they are reluctant to fix a dead hard drive, bad power supplies, batteries that are clearly defective, and a list of other things. If you buy the hardware because you want to look cool, just don't even waste money on the extended warranty.
You do realize that you can find "unpopular" and "undiscovered" sites on Google by starting on page 20 of the results, don't you? When you have 100,000 sites to work with, you can be sure that you have not heard of 99,990 of the results.
Duh. The point is being able to get the site you want without having to manually search through the 20 pages of junk.
That you would even make such a suggestion that this is how someone looking for something based on a non-popularity-contest criterion -- advanced searching -- should have to find it using Google shows how badly deficient the mindset of the Google fanboys is.
Which is why google is designed for idiots who do not know how to search for something better. But for non-idiots who want something better, you would get something better than what is offered now.
It is 3 if you write the digits in order of ascending significance.
It is 1 (or 0 depending upon when you quit writing implied 0's) if you write it in base Pi. There are many other competent representations that have a last digit
The filtering and social assumptions in searches seems to be the problem, not the answer.
Under Google's leadership, real raw search capabilities have regressed, and we are supposed to be happy with Google interpreting a simple search in a way that supposedly makes most searchers happy (happy compared to what?).
IMO, before further filters and dumbing-down are useful, you need a powerful basic search engine that allows you to ask advanced search questions.
Of course, this sort of open capability of search engines might reduce Google's proprietary control of the searches.
What if you could do a honest search that did not factor in the prior popularity of the site, but relied on other criteria, so that a new site with unique content might have a chance of getting found? What if you could make advanced characterizations of the sort of content you were looking for? What if any third party could make these characterizations for you so there could be competition in usage of the dominant search engines -- for example a better Froogle produced by just formulating advanced Google searches for users.
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Can we get this stuff off the slashdot front page until Sun decides to do something that will make any difference? It is probably so late in the game that nothing they do will.
The libertarian party seems to embrace intellectual protectionism as much as anyone else. Look at many of their candidates and leaders to know for sure that they are as gung ho on it as Dems or Reps.
From websters, the first definition is "posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide". It is the model that is at fault and preesents the problem. It is not because it is plaged by problems, but because it is the problem, the riddle, how you can use it with good results for complicated computations.
Yes, as charity for all the anti-nazi nazis with nothing better to do. More rules please.
Floating point is hopelessly problematic for the average programmer and too many average programmers wrote the programs from Excel to MS Calculator and by any number of other vendors, all of which had "Pentium bugs" reported, that didn't need particular Intel hardware to be reproduced.
In other news, CEO Steve Jobs was just rescued from his leaky rowboat by the USS Itanic. Everyone on board congratulated him on his suave sense of style in holding out to be rescued by such an acknowledged, unsinkable leader...
They are being as bad in this respect as Microsoft, it appears.
I wonder if the trademark works. They will probably have to call it Power Microsoft Shell. People will likely want to have Unix-like piping of textual results. Does this mean a Text array gets instantiated, or is it a stream object?
Does it bother anyone that this coalition decided to publish their opinions under a dotcom (.com) TLD? No. TLDs including .net and .org as currently set up are very silly, and it is natural for people to not respect them. People tend to look under .com, and it should be just as natural to look under .us or .eu.
Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC. So who fixes the crappy powerbook I bought. AppleCare won't repair.
The implication is that most apps that use relational databases don't need them.
Can I get bare-bones hardware to install Windows on, or do I have to pay the Apple Tax.
Just had to try it out: s/Windows/Apple/ s/Linux/Windows/
Certainly not most people who are using it.
From their actions during the Iraq fiasco and many other defenses of corruption in the establishment, it is clear that the media does not deserve more rights than the citizens and clearly an establishment press should have no more rights than a citizen press.
How about rights for everyone to security against Apple enforcers who would like to bust down the doors. Just because they have a signed agreement that the info would not be disclosed does not mean that everyones' rights should be trampled because they cannot figure out who violated their agreement.
Next time it will be over DRM, "trusted computing", etc. Apple has no admirable public ethics worth mentioning.
They have no credibility when they refuse simple legitimate claims, and it is clear I am not the only one having such problems. The coontinuously-reappearing Apple claims that they have worthwhile hardware needs to be answered whenever it arises.
So you had repairs amounting to over a thousand dollars (assuming the 300+ price tag for a Powerbook extended warranty, which you claim in one of your other posts to this same topic paid for itself three times over at least)? Sounds like a seriously defective machine to me, just like they are selling to others. Yet you have no sympathy for others who have not had the same success getting the defects fixed
If somebody told me that anywhere in US presumption of innocence does not hold in trials, I would be as surprised as if I heard it does not hold somewhere in EU.
Obviously you have never been to traffic court.
Apple doesn't join because they are past caring, so why would they care about a few complaints, and filing is just a way to show how bad they are. Apple has already tried to make it go away without addressing it. But if everyone who experienced their substandard hardware and service filed a complaint, though, it might start making a difference and give a reference point of formally-filed complaints.
Something to stave off the Apple Fanboys with next time they start trying to convince someone that Apple is a good decision from a hardware perspective.
where it turned out that they had miss-filed the serial number and so they would not repair it under warranty
I have the extended warranty, which the store clearly verified (they claimed that they would not fix it because a key would only snap off under severe abuse), and now that the BBB complaint went to Apple, they are claiming that my PB was not under warranty at all.
Any Apple hardware advantage is a complete myth, but mine has only spent a few weeks at Apple. Your story is almost making me glad to sacrifice my down-arrow key just to not give them another crack at screwing it up worse.
I can point you to the BBB case I filed against them that has been stagnating for months. You were lucky, I was not. This is not the first failure they refused or were reluctant to fix.
Their hardware is full of defects and they won't stand behind the simple terms of the warranty that they should fix it. I have a case with the BBB against them, and they have yet (after months) to make any attempt at a good excuse why they won't fix the hardware under the terms of the warranty.
Should be sufficient argument to anyone against buying Apple for the hardware. AppleCare won't repair. They have no pride whatsoever in making what they sold you work. Far more failures than comparable PC hardware. My down arrow broke. Sorry, the warranty doesn't cover that. Same story that they are reluctant to fix a dead hard drive, bad power supplies, batteries that are clearly defective, and a list of other things. If you buy the hardware because you want to look cool, just don't even waste money on the extended warranty.
You do realize that you can find "unpopular" and "undiscovered" sites on Google by starting on page 20 of the results, don't you? When you have 100,000 sites to work with, you can be sure that you have not heard of 99,990 of the results.
Duh. The point is being able to get the site you want without having to manually search through the 20 pages of junk.
That you would even make such a suggestion that this is how someone looking for something based on a non-popularity-contest criterion -- advanced searching -- should have to find it using Google shows how badly deficient the mindset of the Google fanboys is.
Which is why google is designed for idiots who do not know how to search for something better. But for non-idiots who want something better, you would get something better than what is offered now.
It is 3 if you write the digits in order of ascending significance.
It is 1 (or 0 depending upon when you quit writing implied 0's) if you write it in base Pi. There are many other competent representations that have a last digit
In base 10 descending order, it is foo.
Or were you just asking to be rhetorical?
The filtering and social assumptions in searches seems to be the problem, not the answer.
Under Google's leadership, real raw search capabilities have regressed, and we are supposed to be happy with Google interpreting a simple search in a way that supposedly makes most searchers happy (happy compared to what?).
IMO, before further filters and dumbing-down are useful, you need a powerful basic search engine that allows you to ask advanced search questions.
Of course, this sort of open capability of search engines might reduce Google's proprietary control of the searches.
What if you could do a honest search that did not factor in the prior popularity of the site, but relied on other criteria, so that a new site with unique content might have a chance of getting found? What if you could make advanced characterizations of the sort of content you were looking for? What if any third party could make these characterizations for you so there could be competition in usage of the dominant search engines -- for example a better Froogle produced by just formulating advanced Google searches for users.
This is not a new phenomena. Ever hear of OpenVMS?