Additionally, according to a book I'm reading from by Allen S. Weiss, Wagner wanted the Ring Cycle to be performed only three times and then the libretto and scores destroyed and Bayreuth burned. I guess he changed his mind.
I'm sure somebody owns the copyright on "Here comes the Bride". That would be Richard Wagner. He's dead. He's been dead for 124 years. The copyright on that expired a very long time ago, if it ever was copyrighted in the first place.
If that were the case, wouldn't Apple just charge some symbolic amount? Perhaps $1? On the other hand, Apple can't possibly be making very much money off of this, and it's not like they're hurting for cash.
Further, I would think that Sarbanes-Oxley would include a provision for things like hardware that could be updated through software. Other people have pointed out that software is updated all the time with added features for free. This does seem different to me though; Apple is adding a hardware feature, even though they're doing it without any physical modification to the device. What about when some iPods were suddenly able to do voice recording through a firmware update? I think that would fall into the same situation.
Regardless, I expect this patch to show up on the torrent networks within hours of its release. I also expect a lot of people to try installing it on older hardware, just to see if it works.
A BestBuy gift card? For music!? What the FUCK are you smoking? The only music that BestBuy carries is the crap played over ClearChannel radio, soundtracks, and overly sentimental 'classical' music.
What about buying someone a CD? Gift cards are a copout.
If my name is written on someone else's panties, I demand to know why!
ob Simpsons: Skinner: Oh, it's a miracle no one was hurt. Otto: I stand on my record - fifteen crashes and not a single fatality! Lou: Let's see your license, pal. Otto: No can do. Never got one. But, if you need proof of my identity, I wrote my name on my underwear... Oh wait, these aren't mine! Skinner: Well that tears it! Until you get a license and wear your own underwear, mister, you are suspended without pay!
In my opinion, only headsets are good for "audio chats." And only a small subset of quality headsets at that. There's a huge mac user base out there that disagrees.
All Macs that come with built-in monitors also come with built-in microphones. This has been the case for quite a few years. They just work and have sound quality that's good enough for audio chats.
You're probably right, I have a 1.5ghz Powerbook with 1gB of RAM, pretty much the same as your mac mini, except for the 5400rpm hard drive. Apple fucked up with those substandard drives, so a good firewire drive (7200rpm) and another stick of RAM probably would speed up the system quite a bit.
I feel like Apple's pro machines are getting a lot better (even the new iMacs are really well-built), but their new low end is slipping. The Macbooks and Mac-minis don't even have real video cards anymore.
If you're pin-wheeling a lot, I recommend opening up Activity Monitor (in/Applications/Utilities), a GUI front-end for top and see what's running. If you prefer just running top, fire up the terminal and do so. If it's the same process that's causing you to hang (applications that aren't responding are listed in red), then do some investigating about that process. As much as I hate to say it, you might have just gotten a wonky install, and backing up and reinstalling might work some of this out. There's an "archive and install" option on the install disk that does that pretty well for you.
Also, Apple's website has a huge knowledge base about all the internals of the system. There's a good amount on specific differences between what they do and general linux principals.
It's a lot harder for someone to accidentally get hurt in any sort of park with blind people around than it is when blind people are toting around guns.
Not letting people go hunting is certainly NOT putting them in a box.
i bet the chance of a seeing eye dog biting someone are higher than a blind hunter hurting someone
Seeing eye dogs are bred and trained to be friendly; they tend not to bite people. You're probably right that people get bitten by seeing eye dogs more often than blind hunters hurting someone, but this is only by virtue of blind hunters being a rare phenomenon.
Where is it exactly that everyone must hunt to be a part of society?
Finally, certainly more people are hurt by cars than guns, but my point was that restricting access to certain activities to sighted people is not about persecution, but about safety for everybody. I don't have any problem with blind people shooting at a shooting range because that's a much controlled and safe environment.
Grocery shopping and walking down the sidewalk are required for participation in society. Hunting is not. Also, the set of circumstances where a blind person shopping could result in someone getting seriously injured are a lot harder to believe than for a blind hunter.
We don't allow blind people to drive cars, either, but no one thinks this is prejudiced or an erosion of human rights.
One of the great things about snail mail for me is the physicality. For personal letters nothing beats having something that your correspondent spent time with.
Of course for things like junk mail I'd much prefer it not be sent at all, but I'm happy to take the junk if it means being able to hold an occasional letter from an old friend or family member. To read it scanned on a screen would seem so wrong.
Everyone doing something is not a moral justification. Slavery seems like the most pertinent example. I don't wish to imply that reselling the PS3 is like that though.
Although the PS3 is a luxury item, gouging people on it is still greedy.
A lot of the really cool mac apps out there are shareware, and it's something fairly unique to that market, so someone new to macs or recently a mac user might not know the term. Windows does have a few (Nero?), but the vocabulary is less universal.
"a sentence containing two full independent clauses. Or certain lists."
That should read: 'a sentence containing two full independent clauses or certain lists.'
There was no reason to separate those thoughts. It made the flow of your prose awkward. I must refer you to the old saying about glass houses and accusations.:-)
I read as much of the article that would load, and I don't think that there are any points against IE here. Users should be able to override security measures on THEIR system. I would much rather Microsoft not cater to the really stupid.
If Microsoft didn't allow people to override those controls I can just see a lot of internal applications breaking in a lot of businesses.
There's a lot wrong with Windows (which is why I chose not to use it), but from what I can tell from this article, the security on the upcoming version of IE might not be one of them (for once).
No one chastises Linux for allowing you to "sudo rm -rf/". I suppose it would be nice if IE prompted for a password.
parent: "We're talking about kids here, you can't expect them to act like responsible adults because THEY'RE NOT."
We still hold children and teens responsible for their actions. As soon as children are allowed to speak they are disciplined (mildly) for their wrongdoings. Teenagers suffer more consequences for misdeeds: expulsion from school and juvenile justice. Just because we don't consider people under eighteen responsible enough for some things (like voting, owning property, etc) doesn't mean that they can't be (and more to the point, aren't) held responsible for their actions.
Also, you brought up argument versus discussion. You [the parent post] seem to have missed some of the subtleties of both my and unapersson's posts. Unapersson presented a thought for discussion:
"The industry always wants to have it both ways though. They want to create this desire to have the hottest new things they are producing at the time. While pushing this desire at a group that doesn't necessarily have the resources to buy what they're demanding they "must have". So this whole sharing situation is a natural result of that marketing."
For the purposes of further discussion, I turned that into a possible justification for piracy. From there I made my point about personal responsibility, which I have partly elaborated on for your benefit in this post. After that I tossed in a few of my ideas about reasons for pirating music that seemed more apt.
Finally, in your penultimate sentence you accuse unapersson of arguing that "you are [I am] either stupid or disingenuous". Unapersson made a point, but said nothing about people who hold different views. I didn't get that idea from that post anywhere.
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Additionally, according to a book I'm reading from by Allen S. Weiss, Wagner wanted the Ring Cycle to be performed only three times and then the libretto and scores destroyed and Bayreuth burned. I guess he changed his mind.
What has that got to do with anything? That song blows anyway. Perhaps I should write a new Happy Birthday.
It is funny to see that stepped around on new TV shows.
"Oh for he's a jolly-good fellow, for he's a jolly-good fellow..."
That's supposed to sound funny, by the way...
If that were the case, wouldn't Apple just charge some symbolic amount? Perhaps $1? On the other hand, Apple can't possibly be making very much money off of this, and it's not like they're hurting for cash.
Further, I would think that Sarbanes-Oxley would include a provision for things like hardware that could be updated through software. Other people have pointed out that software is updated all the time with added features for free. This does seem different to me though; Apple is adding a hardware feature, even though they're doing it without any physical modification to the device. What about when some iPods were suddenly able to do voice recording through a firmware update? I think that would fall into the same situation.
Regardless, I expect this patch to show up on the torrent networks within hours of its release. I also expect a lot of people to try installing it on older hardware, just to see if it works.
A BestBuy gift card? For music!? What the FUCK are you smoking? The only music that BestBuy carries is the crap played over ClearChannel radio, soundtracks, and overly sentimental 'classical' music.
What about buying someone a CD? Gift cards are a copout.
If my name is written on someone else's panties, I demand to know why!
ob Simpsons:
Skinner: Oh, it's a miracle no one was hurt.
Otto: I stand on my record - fifteen crashes and not a single fatality!
Lou: Let's see your license, pal.
Otto: No can do. Never got one. But, if you need proof of my identity, I wrote my name on my underwear... Oh wait, these aren't mine!
Skinner: Well that tears it! Until you get a license and wear your own underwear, mister, you are suspended without pay!
All Macs that come with built-in monitors also come with built-in microphones. This has been the case for quite a few years. They just work and have sound quality that's good enough for audio chats.
You're probably right, I have a 1.5ghz Powerbook with 1gB of RAM, pretty much the same as your mac mini, except for the 5400rpm hard drive. Apple fucked up with those substandard drives, so a good firewire drive (7200rpm) and another stick of RAM probably would speed up the system quite a bit.
I feel like Apple's pro machines are getting a lot better (even the new iMacs are really well-built), but their new low end is slipping. The Macbooks and Mac-minis don't even have real video cards anymore.
If you're pin-wheeling a lot, I recommend opening up Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities), a GUI front-end for top and see what's running. If you prefer just running top, fire up the terminal and do so. If it's the same process that's causing you to hang (applications that aren't responding are listed in red), then do some investigating about that process. As much as I hate to say it, you might have just gotten a wonky install, and backing up and reinstalling might work some of this out. There's an "archive and install" option on the install disk that does that pretty well for you.
I'm a big fan of MenuMeters ( http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ ) for showing different loads on my system.
Also, Apple's website has a huge knowledge base about all the internals of the system. There's a good amount on specific differences between what they do and general linux principals.
It's a lot harder for someone to accidentally get hurt in any sort of park with blind people around than it is when blind people are toting around guns.
Not letting people go hunting is certainly NOT putting them in a box.
It's a lot harder for people to get hurt when doing the things you mention.
i bet the chance of a seeing eye dog biting someone are higher than a blind hunter hurting someone
Seeing eye dogs are bred and trained to be friendly; they tend not to bite people. You're probably right that people get bitten by seeing eye dogs more often than blind hunters hurting someone, but this is only by virtue of blind hunters being a rare phenomenon.
Where is it exactly that everyone must hunt to be a part of society?
Finally, certainly more people are hurt by cars than guns, but my point was that restricting access to certain activities to sighted people is not about persecution, but about safety for everybody. I don't have any problem with blind people shooting at a shooting range because that's a much controlled and safe environment.
Grocery shopping and walking down the sidewalk are required for participation in society. Hunting is not. Also, the set of circumstances where a blind person shopping could result in someone getting seriously injured are a lot harder to believe than for a blind hunter.
We don't allow blind people to drive cars, either, but no one thinks this is prejudiced or an erosion of human rights.
One of the great things about snail mail for me is the physicality. For personal letters nothing beats having something that your correspondent spent time with.
Of course for things like junk mail I'd much prefer it not be sent at all, but I'm happy to take the junk if it means being able to hold an occasional letter from an old friend or family member. To read it scanned on a screen would seem so wrong.
The orange in the center is a piece of pimento. It's stuffed in there after the pit is removed.
I don't know how that tradition started.
Everyone doing something is not a moral justification. Slavery seems like the most pertinent example. I don't wish to imply that reselling the PS3 is like that though.
Although the PS3 is a luxury item, gouging people on it is still greedy.
It would be proof that God has a sense of humor.
"And it's spelt kyrie, which is Greek for "Lord"."
Oh dear...
It's spellED kyrie, which is LATIN for "Lord". The requiem mass is a catholic thing, not greek orthodox.
"What would they do with all the iPods?"
Cannibalize the drives for use in Zune manufacture?
Shareware is an app with a free demo version.
A lot of the really cool mac apps out there are shareware, and it's something fairly unique to that market, so someone new to macs or recently a mac user might not know the term. Windows does have a few (Nero?), but the vocabulary is less universal.
If you don't have the time to tell your kids in person to turn off the TV or turn down the stereo, you shouldn't have kids.
Home automation is great, but automated parenting is bad.
"a sentence containing two full independent clauses. Or certain lists."
:-)
That should read: 'a sentence containing two full independent clauses or certain lists.'
There was no reason to separate those thoughts. It made the flow of your prose awkward. I must refer you to the old saying about glass houses and accusations.
I read as much of the article that would load, and I don't think that there are any points against IE here. Users should be able to override security measures on THEIR system. I would much rather Microsoft not cater to the really stupid.
/". I suppose it would be nice if IE prompted for a password.
If Microsoft didn't allow people to override those controls I can just see a lot of internal applications breaking in a lot of businesses.
There's a lot wrong with Windows (which is why I chose not to use it), but from what I can tell from this article, the security on the upcoming version of IE might not be one of them (for once).
No one chastises Linux for allowing you to "sudo rm -rf
parent: "We're talking about kids here, you can't expect them to act like responsible adults because THEY'RE NOT."
We still hold children and teens responsible for their actions. As soon as children are allowed to speak they are disciplined (mildly) for their wrongdoings. Teenagers suffer more consequences for misdeeds: expulsion from school and juvenile justice. Just because we don't consider people under eighteen responsible enough for some things (like voting, owning property, etc) doesn't mean that they can't be (and more to the point, aren't) held responsible for their actions.
Also, you brought up argument versus discussion. You [the parent post] seem to have missed some of the subtleties of both my and unapersson's posts. Unapersson presented a thought for discussion:
"The industry always wants to have it both ways though. They want to create this desire to have the hottest new things they are producing at the time. While pushing this desire at a group that doesn't necessarily have the resources to buy what they're demanding they "must have". So this whole sharing situation is a natural result of that marketing."
For the purposes of further discussion, I turned that into a possible justification for piracy. From there I made my point about personal responsibility, which I have partly elaborated on for your benefit in this post. After that I tossed in a few of my ideas about reasons for pirating music that seemed more apt.
Finally, in your penultimate sentence you accuse unapersson of arguing that "you are [I am] either stupid or disingenuous". Unapersson made a point, but said nothing about people who hold different views. I didn't get that idea from that post anywhere.