You don't get charged 42 cents per minute to call a mobile or 50 cents per 30 seconds on a payphone like we do in Australia.
I think Israel has got one of the best systems for the type of market it is because the government did a good job there and regulated it with logic and stuck with the same logic the whole way. (Payphone users do not get ripped off; while I was there I would use the payphone to call Oz.) So why use a payphone, if they're such a bad deal? Virgin Mobile's prepaid Bean Counter plan is only 10c per minute, mobile to mobile. Pennytel is only 12.78c/minute, VoIP to mobile. There are alternatives out there.
So you shouldn't use an iBook with an external display, keyboard, and mouse?
As long as you don't close the lid while it's running, you can use however many external devices you want. I don't know if you're being purposely dense or not; plugging in an external monitor has nothing to do with whether it's safe to close the lid of a laptop while it's running.
Are you purposely being dense yourself?
I mentioned using an external display merely as a situation where one might want to have their laptop operating with the lid closed, one that I don't think is particularly unusual.
If a laptop gets too warm it should increase the speed of its fans, if this doesn't work it should shutdown. As far as I am aware, this is what all laptops these days do. My MacBook Pro is certainly one, the manual explicitly indicates support of closed-lid operation.
It should never be up to the software to keep the hardware from overheating. What happens if you have a runaway process in OS X? I've had Safari do that several times. I'd be very pissed off if it melted the hardware too.
The reason I've compared the iBook to a mid-range machine from 1996 is that the iBook, despite coming from a company with a reputation for high-quality hardware and software, seems to lack basic functionality present in hardware that is certainly not considered high-end.
But if the Apple gets rotten and starts coming out with inferior products
Some that come to mind - iPhoto (Wastes a lot of disk space no cleanup options)
If you're willing to do a bit of DIY, it's possible to shrink iPhoto down considerably. Mine is only 57 megabytes. Control click on the iPhoto icon in the Finder, and select Show Package Contents, then go through the folders and remove what you don't need. You can get rid of languages (the.lproj folders) you don't use, the graphics used for the merchandise ordering, and the losslessly-compressed music (!) used for slide shows. The lipo command-line tool can also convert files from Universal binary to Intel or PPC only. Of course, if you want to save space across all your applications, try Monolingual.
Article bangs on the "mighty mouse" as not really being a 2 button mouse......while I am no fan of it, I recently hooked my Mom up with a new IMac and played with the mouse and the button on the side does right click and the knobby deal in the middle acts as a scroll wheel, at least it worked for me... Sure, until the scroll ball clogs up and you need to cut the mouse open just to clean it. Tell us how well you're doing a few months down the road.
Except that it doesn't sleep iBooks when you close the lid, and Apple recommends that iBooks be in sleep mode whenever they are closed up to prevent overheating. In short, although Ubuntu runs on Macs, it has default settings that are actually capable of damaging your hardware! No thanks. So you shouldn't use an iBook with an external display, keyboard, and mouse?
Shit, my old Pentium-100 Toshiba 200CDS could do that, and it had the power supply built-in to the laptop itself.
Its NEW ZEALAND not Australia you moron. You do realise that New Zealand is a state of Australia, in the Australian constitution; it just has not been ratified.
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/general/constitution/ preamble.htm see section 6 Read the damn thing properly. New Zealand will not be a state of Australia until both Parliaments agree to it. Don't hold your breath.
On the other hand, I don't think New Zealand is even in Oceania[1], much less in Airstrip One, so things may be a bit different there.
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[1] Yes, the use of "Oceania" to refer to the Americas and the Brittish isles _is_ confusing. What we call
"Oceania" in the modern world would almost certainly be part of Eastasia in Orwell's world. Um, no.
... and Photoshop, Illustrator, and video editing apps.
Those may be important to you, but they are niche applications, with replacements in the open source world. You mean like the GIMP, which, stupid name aside, doesn't even support colour management?
"Informatics" is a horrible word - it's certainly not English, and was probably derived/invented/whatever by some kind of acedemic lameass who did not have English as a first langugae. Most English words are imported from other languages, and there's plenty of fields of study with names ending in 'matics'--I don't see what's so odious about this one.
Watch the words. iMacs have a VGA port, but when you say "video out", I think most people will think you mean component video. Actually, it's mini-DVI.
I saw video of it on CNN. Actually, technically I believe it was on their Headline News network, but I did in fact directly see video of it.
However, as a side note, I once suggested as a small child (perhaps 7 or 8) that it only made sense for the world to go completely to electronic currency. I kept trying to convince adults that physical currency is not only inconvenient, but it is easier to steal, and harder to track.
If those concepts are readily apparent to a child, why hasn't anyone actually suggested it on a very serious level? Because those concepts are readily apparent to anyone. Phyiscal currency is harder to track than electronic currency, and many people are concerned about the privacy implications of electronic currency.
I know you're going for funny, but I haven't had but one piece of spam break through Gmail's filter in god-knows-how-long Yet no matter how many times I click the 'Report Spam' button, I still get pump and dump stock spam in my Gmail inbox daily. Your experience is not universal.
What is wrong with not providing legal benefits to gay couples just because they want to live together? Giving benefits to those who bare and raise a family makes sense, both socially and economically. Doing so for anyone else makes no sense what-so-ever. Do you really have to ask?
If straight couples who are unwilling or unable to have children receive the same benefits while gay couples don't, it's unfair discrimination.
And this is different from Windows 2000 how? It's not, I never said it was. This is a problem that goes back as far as Windows 95, if not further.
FWIW I don't like those submenus either, and when I install new software I clean it up - trashing the uninstall and readme and other useless shortcuts, but this is in no way Windows' fault - it's up to the silly programmers who thinks they have to put shortcuts for their über l33t program everywhere. It may not be Windows' fault, but it certainly is Microsoft's fault to an extent: their software does it too, and they write the design guidelines for others to follow.
I disagree, the Del and Enter keys are right next to each other on a PC keyboard. Deleting an item is very quick, and can be accomplished with one hand - 'Del' then 'Enter'. The Mac way involves me moving my hand from the mouse to keyboard so I can press Command + Delete to do the same thing. It's a lot slower, and lot less convienent. If your hand is on the mouse, you need to move it to the keyboard to press a button regardless of the operating system you use. Having said that, in my opinion, deleting on OS X is faster: you press Cmd+Delete (with one hand, thumb on the command key and finger on the delete key) and it is done, without having to confirm your action.
Either way, I wouldn't call XP's Start menu "awkward."
I would. Why do most applications feel the need to have their own Start Menu folder containing some or all of:
the program
its help (which can be accessed from said program)
the readme file (usually with nothing important to say)
and the uninstaller (which is what the Add/Remove programs control panel is for)
when just a simple icon in the 'Programs' sub-menu would suffice?
On a typical install of XP with an unchanged Start Menu, there are multitudes of folders containing only one important item, each displaying the standard Start Menu folder item instead of actual application shortcuts with their individual, distinctive icons.
As a result, most applications put an icon on the desktop too, which only adds to the clutter.
Sorry to address the same post a second time, but I have to correct more misinformation. Again, the 1-button mouse argument hasn't been relevant since the mid 90s. Even if you have a one button Mac mouse, it isn't the command key that is used to access contextual menus. For that, you can either click and hold for a moment, or hold down the CONTROL key (not the command). Therefore, there is no risk, since the control key is used much less than the command key.
So where in Mac OS X can you hold the button down to get to the contextual menu? I've tried that in a few places, and nothing happens.
No, you shouldn't just lie. Contrary to popular belief, not all blood gets tested for all the blood-transmissible diseases. There would be enormous expense involved. The questionnaire is a way of improving the odds that you get "healthy" blood in the first place.
As for lying on that particular test, well, here's a huge cluestick with your name on it: sick as it may seem, some diseases (such as hep B and C) are far more widespread in homosexuals than in heterosexuals and the questionnaire is an accurate reflection of this sad fact.
I'll take the odds that the sofa was the most flammable piece of furniture in his house. We do this all the time, but still...we should know better. I would probably also be asking whether there were functioning smoke detectors or a more sophisticated alarm system in place. Something very basic, but, again, too easily forgotten.
What good would a smoke detector do when an unoccupied house is going up in flames?
Example, getting pictures off a picture phone without paying for them. Any digital camera can do this just fine. The Razor even comes with a 5 pin USB connector. However no driver support available unless you pay for a "Mobile connectivity Package" Or hack your phone.
Presumably it's different where you live, but when I got my RAZR V3x earlier this year in Australia, the Motorola connectivity software was included in the box. I can't imagine any camera phone without the capability to transfer files to a computer doing well here.
It wasn't a "Police ban" or "restriction".
Some cops just warned them against it. They can photograph all they want and theres not a damn thing the police can do about it.
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I think Israel has got one of the best systems for the type of market it is because the government did a good job there and regulated it with logic and stuck with the same logic the whole way. (Payphone users do not get ripped off; while I was there I would use the payphone to call Oz.) So why use a payphone, if they're such a bad deal? Virgin Mobile's prepaid Bean Counter plan is only 10c per minute, mobile to mobile. Pennytel is only 12.78c/minute, VoIP to mobile. There are alternatives out there.
As long as you don't close the lid while it's running, you can use however many external devices you want. I don't know if you're being purposely dense or not; plugging in an external monitor has nothing to do with whether it's safe to close the lid of a laptop while it's running.
Are you purposely being dense yourself?
I mentioned using an external display merely as a situation where one might want to have their laptop operating with the lid closed, one that I don't think is particularly unusual.
If a laptop gets too warm it should increase the speed of its fans, if this doesn't work it should shutdown. As far as I am aware, this is what all laptops these days do. My MacBook Pro is certainly one, the manual explicitly indicates support of closed-lid operation. It should never be up to the software to keep the hardware from overheating. What happens if you have a runaway process in OS X? I've had Safari do that several times. I'd be very pissed off if it melted the hardware too.
The reason I've compared the iBook to a mid-range machine from 1996 is that the iBook, despite coming from a company with a reputation for high-quality hardware and software, seems to lack basic functionality present in hardware that is certainly not considered high-end.
Some that come to mind - iPhoto (Wastes a lot of disk space no cleanup options)
If you're willing to do a bit of DIY, it's possible to shrink iPhoto down considerably. Mine is only 57 megabytes. Control click on the iPhoto icon in the Finder, and select Show Package Contents, then go through the folders and remove what you don't need. You can get rid of languages (theShit, my old Pentium-100 Toshiba 200CDS could do that, and it had the power supply built-in to the laptop itself.
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[1] Yes, the use of "Oceania" to refer to the Americas and the Brittish isles _is_ confusing. What we call
"Oceania" in the modern world would almost certainly be part of Eastasia in Orwell's world. Um, no.
http://www.vision.ic.ac.uk/images/o2workstation.j
However, as a side note, I once suggested as a small child (perhaps 7 or 8) that it only made sense for the world to go completely to electronic currency. I kept trying to convince adults that physical currency is not only inconvenient, but it is easier to steal, and harder to track.
If those concepts are readily apparent to a child, why hasn't anyone actually suggested it on a very serious level? Because those concepts are readily apparent to anyone. Phyiscal currency is harder to track than electronic currency, and many people are concerned about the privacy implications of electronic currency.
If straight couples who are unwilling or unable to have children receive the same benefits while gay couples don't, it's unfair discrimination.
Either way, I wouldn't call XP's Start menu "awkward."
I would. Why do most applications feel the need to have their own Start Menu folder containing some or all of:
when just a simple icon in the 'Programs' sub-menu would suffice?
On a typical install of XP with an unchanged Start Menu, there are multitudes of folders containing only one important item, each displaying the standard Start Menu folder item instead of actual application shortcuts with their individual, distinctive icons.
As a result, most applications put an icon on the desktop too, which only adds to the clutter.
Sorry to address the same post a second time, but I have to correct more misinformation. Again, the 1-button mouse argument hasn't been relevant since the mid 90s. Even if you have a one button Mac mouse, it isn't the command key that is used to access contextual menus. For that, you can either click and hold for a moment, or hold down the CONTROL key (not the command). Therefore, there is no risk, since the control key is used much less than the command key.
So where in Mac OS X can you hold the button down to get to the contextual menu? I've tried that in a few places, and nothing happens.As for lying on that particular test, well, here's a huge cluestick with your name on it: sick as it may seem, some diseases (such as hep B and C) are far more widespread in homosexuals than in heterosexuals and the questionnaire is an accurate reflection of this sad fact.
So, this isn't true?
"The url contained a malformed video id."
You might want to check your link, and try again.
That was a good analogy (although it was a car analogy...)
Apple loves to use OSS... What OSS has it released? Why isn't OS X open sourced? http://www.apple.com/opensource/
I'll take the odds that the sofa was the most flammable piece of furniture in his house. We do this all the time, but still...we should know better. I would probably also be asking whether there were functioning smoke detectors or a more sophisticated alarm system in place. Something very basic, but, again, too easily forgotten.
What good would a smoke detector do when an unoccupied house is going up in flames?Example, getting pictures off a picture phone without paying for them. Any digital camera can do this just fine. The Razor even comes with a 5 pin USB connector. However no driver support available unless you pay for a "Mobile connectivity Package" Or hack your phone.
Presumably it's different where you live, but when I got my RAZR V3x earlier this year in Australia, the Motorola connectivity software was included in the box. I can't imagine any camera phone without the capability to transfer files to a computer doing well here.
It wasn't a "Police ban" or "restriction".
Some cops just warned them against it. They can photograph all they want and theres not a damn thing the police can do about it.
It's called a chilling effect.
ARG DUP! And linked to the same story too!
Ah, no. They're two separate stories on MSNBC. Go back and have another look.