As a 20 year Mac user myself, I want to agree with you except for one thing.
I bought a Mac Mini specifically for FrontRow and specifically so I could stream my video collection from iTunes, and I have never been more embarrassed or dissatisfied with a piece of Apple hardware in a very very long time.
The *only* thing this machine is doing is running iTunes & FrontRow.
More often than not iTunes is pegged at 100% CPU that the entire machine becomes so unstable that I have to pull out the power cord because I can't even shut the machine down gracefully!
2x faster my ass. My older 800MHz iMac G4 was more stable and faster than this Intel crap.
Yeah, it's called "SMS" where T-Mobile charges up to 10 per message (incoming and outgoing) unless you pay extra and buy a plan that includes 300-500 messages per month.
> I ran this test with OpenOffice 1.1.3 on my Fedora Core 3 laptop. My single letter "k", with no style attributes or anything, came to 5,181k!
> So, we have 5,180 "characters" (bytes) of data being stored just so that my single, solitary letter "k" can be rendered with the right font, size, paragraph, and whatever else attributes to be added.
In your example. Word (and even OOo) is not an appropriate medium to store a single letter "k", as a single letter "k" does not compress very well.
Store a 100,000 word novel or thesis and your results will most certainly vary.
> I heard for years that 24-bit color was "better than the human eye could discern" yet 32-bit color video cards are commonplace nowadays. What about 48 bit? 64 bit? 128 bit?
You do realized though that your 24-bit color is only 24 bits because you're summing up the three 8-bit RGB color channels, right? The 32nd bit that you refer to above is an 8-bit (256 bit) alpha channel.
Of course, this is all in the RGB color space.
Printers (the people) and graphic artists in general already use 32-bit & 48-bit color today: C(yan) M(agenta) Y(ellow) and blac(K).
Anyone who uses Yahoo! for email gets what they pay for.
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There was a report on TV some time back (investigative report) which wondered why communities charged for recycling so they decided to find out.
They tagged some recycling trucks and followed them to their final destination:
The city dump.
If the story ended there it would have been sensationalistic enough, but the next day they showed what goes on at the city dump.
Normal trash, and trash from recycled bins got fed into these giant conveyor belts where workers sorted through the trash and pulled out all the recyclable material before it got burned.
They asked the landfill operator why, and they said because they make money off the recycling.
After I saw that piece I haven't worried one bit about nor recycling, and I haven't paid for it either. Why should I pay a company money to do some work when it doesn't mean anything in the end and they in turn are just going to make more money?
No thank you.
I'm sure the same happens with PCs and equipment. Copper is valuable. So is gold. If there's money to be made, someone will figure out a way of extracting the raw materials. If the process is not environmentally friendly then that's a different problem.
Power plants didn't used to be environmentally friendly until the laws were changed which forced power companies to install scrubbers and catalytic converters. If you require the recycling companies to clean up their acts then they will.
Obviously you haven't reached the stage of enlightenment yet to recognize that the only part of your body necessary for masturbation is only your mind.
it's also hobbled by a terrible keyboard that's missing a lot of standard keys and a single mouse button.
Have you typed for any length of time on a MacBook Pro's keyboard where you can honestly make this assertion or is your assertion simply based on speculation and presumption?
With regards to missing standard keys, could you be more specific? Are you referring to "Prt Scr," "Sys Rq," etc? Which keys are missing that are considered "standard"?
What is your reason for wanting OSX on a generic "Dell" as opposed to a Mac Book Pro?
Is it simply because you already have the hardware and can't justify spending money on new hardware? Do you feel the Mac Book Pro doesn't have the same cost/ value quotient as your Dell?
If such is the case, then perhaps you should wait three years when your Dell becomes obsolete, and when it comes time to replace it, replace it with a MacBook Pro (or equivalent). That way, you'd be able to run OS X, Yellow Dog Linux, and probably Windows Vista if you so desired (something which I doubt your Latitude or Inspiron notebook won't be able to do.)
IANAL, and I can understand every word and sentence in it.
Admittedly, it's the US License Agreement. THe License Agreement in other countries might be different.
Contracts are not Rocket Science. If you have an 8th grade education you shouldn't have a problem understanding any conract since that's what most contracts are written towards (from an understanding level).
Here's the EULA (formatting will probably be screwed up):
The relevant section (under section 4, iTunes Music Store):
Apple and its licensors reserve the right to change, suspend, remove, or disable access to any Services at any time without notice. In no event will Apple be liable for the removal of or disabling of access to any such Services. Apple may also impose limits on the use of or access to certain Services, in any case and without notice or liability.
Then again, customers have no box to stand on to complain. THis language has been in the EULA since the beginning.
English Apple Computer, Inc. Software License Agreement for iTunes PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT ("LICENSE") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE APPLE SOFTWARE. BY USING THE APPLE SOFTWARE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THE LICENSE, YOU MAY RETURN THE APPLE SOFTWARE TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU OBTAINED IT FOR A REFUND. IF THE APPLE SOFTWARE WAS ACCESSED ELECTRONICALLY, CLICK "DISAGREE/DECLINE". FOR APPLE SOFTWARE INCLUDED WITH YOUR PURCHASE OF HARDWARE, YOU MUST RETURN THE ENTIRE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PACKAGE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A REFUND. IMPORTANT NOTE: This software may be used to reproduce materials. It is licensed to you only for reproduction of non-copyrighted materials, materials in which you own the copyright, or materials you are authorized or legally permitted to reproduce. This software may also be used for remote access to music files for listening between computers. Remote access of copyrighted music is only provided for lawful personal use or as otherwise legally permitted. If you are uncertain about your right to copy or permit access to any material you should contact your legal advisor. 1. General. The software, documentation and any fonts accompanying this License whether on disk, in read only memory, on any other media or in any other form (collectively the "Apple Software") are licensed, not sold, to you by Apple Computer, Inc. ("Apple") for use only under the terms of this License, and Apple reserves all rights not expressly granted to you. The rights granted herein are limited to Apple's and its licensors' intellectual property rights in the Apple Software and do not include any other patents or intellectual property rights. You own the media on which the Apple Software is recorded but Apple and/or Apple's licensor(s) retain ownership of the Apple Software itself. The terms of this License will govern any software upgrades provided by Apple that replace and/or supplement the original Apple Software product, unless such upgrade is accompanied by a separate license in which case the terms of that license will govern. 2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions. This License allows you to install and use the Apple Software. The Apple Software may be used to reproduce materials so long as such use is limited to reproduction of non-copyrighted materials, materials in which you own the copyright, or materials you are authorized or legally permitted to reproduce. You may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time. You may make one copy of the Apple Software in machine-readable form for backup purposes only; provided that the backup copy must include all copyright or other proprietary notices contained on the original. Except as and only to the extent expressly permitted in this License or by applicable law, you may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, or create derivative works of the Apple Software or any part thereof. THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, P
Anyone who uses a bank to save money doesn't understand what a bank is.
A bank is not for your or I to save money.
A bank is for you and I to deposit our money so the banks can sit on it and make money.
Period.
End of story.
Banks are FOR PROFIT institutions.
They make their money off the interest they charge us to lend us money, and by loaning our money to others (and to other banks) and by charging interest off those loans, too.
If you want to save money, to truly save money, then you should be banking (pun intended) with a credit union.
Credit Unions are, by statute, non-profit financial co-ops.
The yields on your money will be higher, and the interest you pay on loans will be lower.
At the end of each quarter and year you'll even get a nice "dividend".
When was the last time a bank paid you money just for being a customer?
Considering that VMWare is not available for OSX (PPC or x86), and even VirtualPC does not allow the running of virtual OS X instances (PPC), odds are you are running 10.4.1 from the Developer Preview, a hacked version no less I'm sure, in which case you have broken the 11th Commandment of the Book of EULA: Thou Shalt Only Run OS X on Apple Hardware.
Your actions have been reported to the Jobs Almighty. May Apple Lawyers have mercy on your Soul.
So technically it doesn't cost US$5000, and only US$3760, but then again, a Vegamite sandwich goes for AU$3.92 as opposed to US$2.50 so it's all relative.;-)
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As a 20 year Mac user myself, I want to agree with you except for one thing.
I bought a Mac Mini specifically for FrontRow and specifically so I could stream my video collection from iTunes, and I have never been more embarrassed or dissatisfied with a piece of Apple hardware in a very very long time.
The *only* thing this machine is doing is running iTunes & FrontRow.
More often than not iTunes is pegged at 100% CPU that the entire machine becomes so unstable that I have to pull out the power cord because I can't even shut the machine down gracefully!
2x faster my ass. My older 800MHz iMac G4 was more stable and faster than this Intel crap.
Breakfast.
Why make it more complicated than it needs to be?
Just dispute those calls with T-Mobile and let them figure it out.
If your bill was over by $40 go back and tell them you didn't receive this call, you didn't receive that call, didn't make that call, etc.
They have the data to know when and where the calls were received based on the cell towers that the phone was received from.
Keep escalating the issue dude.
Call back and immediately ask to speak with a supervisor.
Get names.
Record the dates and time you called and who you spoke with.
Keep escalating up the chain of command if you have to.
If that doesn't work, file a formal complaint with the FCC and your State's Public Service Commission. That'll definitely get their attention.
Good luck!
I wouldn't want you to be the sysadmin either.
Sysadmin's rarely support end-user applications. We usually only support the servers and OSes.
Yeah, it's called "SMS" where T-Mobile charges up to 10 per message (incoming and outgoing) unless you pay extra and buy a plan that includes 300-500 messages per month.
A few of your points are off.
> I ran this test with OpenOffice 1.1.3 on my Fedora Core 3 laptop. My single letter "k", with no style attributes or anything, came to 5,181k!
> So, we have 5,180 "characters" (bytes) of data being stored just so that my single, solitary letter "k" can be rendered with the right font, size, paragraph, and whatever else attributes to be added.
In your example. Word (and even OOo) is not an appropriate medium to store a single letter "k", as a single letter "k" does not compress very well.
Store a 100,000 word novel or thesis and your results will most certainly vary.
> I heard for years that 24-bit color was "better than the human eye could discern" yet 32-bit color video cards are commonplace nowadays. What about 48 bit? 64 bit? 128 bit?
You do realized though that your 24-bit color is only 24 bits because you're summing up the three 8-bit RGB color channels, right? The 32nd bit that you refer to above is an 8-bit (256 bit) alpha channel.
Of course, this is all in the RGB color space.
Printers (the people) and graphic artists in general already use 32-bit & 48-bit color today: C(yan) M(agenta) Y(ellow) and blac(K).
Someone wake me up when Slashdot mods have regained their sense of humor.
Anyone who uses Yahoo! for email gets what they pay for.
There was a report on TV some time back (investigative report) which wondered why communities charged for recycling so they decided to find out.
They tagged some recycling trucks and followed them to their final destination:
The city dump.
If the story ended there it would have been sensationalistic enough, but the next day they showed what goes on at the city dump.
Normal trash, and trash from recycled bins got fed into these giant conveyor belts where workers sorted through the trash and pulled out all the recyclable material before it got burned.
They asked the landfill operator why, and they said because they make money off the recycling.
After I saw that piece I haven't worried one bit about nor recycling, and I haven't paid for it either. Why should I pay a company money to do some work when it doesn't mean anything in the end and they in turn are just going to make more money?
No thank you.
I'm sure the same happens with PCs and equipment. Copper is valuable. So is gold. If there's money to be made, someone will figure out a way of extracting the raw materials. If the process is not environmentally friendly then that's a different problem.
Power plants didn't used to be environmentally friendly until the laws were changed which forced power companies to install scrubbers and catalytic converters. If you require the recycling companies to clean up their acts then they will.
Democracy Television (google for it) does.
There's even an open source PHP script available which includes a built-in Tracker & Server.
It was in a ratings slump.
Enterprise did pick up on this however.
Nothing personal taken, and I didn't accuse you of being ignorant.
In response to your question though: Yes.
I typed on a ThinkPad for 9 hours a day while at one company for over 3 years, and a Dell Latitude today for the last 6 months.
I still prefer my PowerBook, and even my sub-par iBook has a better feeling keyboard.
Obviously you haven't reached the stage of enlightenment yet to recognize that the only part of your body necessary for masturbation is only your mind.
Have you typed for any length of time on a MacBook Pro's keyboard where you can honestly make this assertion or is your assertion simply based on speculation and presumption?
With regards to missing standard keys, could you be more specific? Are you referring to "Prt Scr," "Sys Rq," etc? Which keys are missing that are considered "standard"?
What is your reason for wanting OSX on a generic "Dell" as opposed to a Mac Book Pro?
Is it simply because you already have the hardware and can't justify spending money on new hardware? Do you feel the Mac Book Pro doesn't have the same cost/ value quotient as your Dell?
If such is the case, then perhaps you should wait three years when your Dell becomes obsolete, and when it comes time to replace it, replace it with a MacBook Pro (or equivalent). That way, you'd be able to run OS X, Yellow Dog Linux, and probably Windows Vista if you so desired (something which I doubt your Latitude or Inspiron notebook won't be able to do.)
VersionTracker.
What part of the document do you not understand?
It's written in English.
IANAL, and I can understand every word and sentence in it.
Admittedly, it's the US License Agreement. THe License Agreement in other countries might be different.
Contracts are not Rocket Science. If you have an 8th grade education you shouldn't have a problem understanding any conract since that's what most contracts are written towards (from an understanding level).
Here's the EULA (formatting will probably be screwed up):
The relevant section (under section 4, iTunes Music Store):
Apple and its licensors reserve the right to change, suspend, remove, or disable access to any Services at any time without notice. In no event will Apple be
liable for the removal of or disabling of access to any such Services. Apple may also impose limits on the use of or access to certain Services, in any case and
without notice or liability.
Then again, customers have no box to stand on to complain. THis language has been in the EULA since the beginning.
English
Apple Computer, Inc.
Software License Agreement for iTunes
PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT ("LICENSE") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE APPLE SOFTWARE. BY USING THE APPLE SOFTWARE,
YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, DO NOT USE THE
SOFTWARE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THE LICENSE, YOU MAY RETURN THE APPLE SOFTWARE TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU OBTAINED
IT FOR A REFUND. IF THE APPLE SOFTWARE WAS ACCESSED ELECTRONICALLY, CLICK "DISAGREE/DECLINE". FOR APPLE SOFTWARE INCLUDED WITH
YOUR PURCHASE OF HARDWARE, YOU MUST RETURN THE ENTIRE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PACKAGE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A REFUND.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This software may be used to reproduce materials. It is licensed to you only for reproduction of non-copyrighted materials,
materials in which you own the copyright, or materials you are authorized or legally permitted to reproduce. This software may also be used for
remote access to music files for listening between computers. Remote access of copyrighted music is only provided for lawful personal use or as
otherwise legally permitted. If you are uncertain about your right to copy or permit access to any material you should contact your legal advisor.
1. General. The software, documentation and any fonts accompanying this License whether on disk, in read only memory, on any other media or in any other
form (collectively the "Apple Software") are licensed, not sold, to you by Apple Computer, Inc. ("Apple") for use only under the terms of this License, and
Apple reserves all rights not expressly granted to you. The rights granted herein are limited to Apple's and its licensors' intellectual property rights in the
Apple Software and do not include any other patents or intellectual property rights. You own the media on which the Apple Software is recorded but
Apple and/or Apple's licensor(s) retain ownership of the Apple Software itself. The terms of this License will govern any software upgrades provided by
Apple that replace and/or supplement the original Apple Software product, unless such upgrade is accompanied by a separate license in which case the
terms of that license will govern.
2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions. This License allows you to install and use the Apple Software. The Apple Software may be used to reproduce
materials so long as such use is limited to reproduction of non-copyrighted materials, materials in which you own the copyright, or materials you are
authorized or legally permitted to reproduce. You may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple
computers at the same time. You may make one copy of the Apple Software in machine-readable form for backup purposes only; provided that the backup
copy must include all copyright or other proprietary notices contained on the original. Except as and only to the extent expressly permitted in this License or
by applicable law, you may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, or create derivative works of the Apple Software or any part
thereof. THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION
SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD
TO DEATH, P
Area 51 is very visible from Google Earth, jus that there's not much to see except a very long runway and some hangars.
Anyone who uses a bank to save money doesn't understand what a bank is.
A bank is not for your or I to save money.
A bank is for you and I to deposit our money so the banks can sit on it and make money.
Period.
End of story.
Banks are FOR PROFIT institutions.
They make their money off the interest they charge us to lend us money, and by loaning our money to others (and to other banks) and by charging interest off those loans, too.
If you want to save money, to truly save money, then you should be banking (pun intended) with a credit union.
Credit Unions are, by statute, non-profit financial co-ops.
The yields on your money will be higher, and the interest you pay on loans will be lower.
At the end of each quarter and year you'll even get a nice "dividend".
When was the last time a bank paid you money just for being a customer?
Considering that VMWare is not available for OSX (PPC or x86), and even VirtualPC does not allow the running of virtual OS X instances (PPC), odds are you are running 10.4.1 from the Developer Preview, a hacked version no less I'm sure, in which case you have broken the 11th Commandment of the Book of EULA: Thou Shalt Only Run OS X on Apple Hardware.
Your actions have been reported to the Jobs Almighty. May Apple Lawyers have mercy on your Soul.
I concur. But it's not just HIPAA, there are GLBA concerns as well.
If Google doesn't publish the URLs and/ or netblocks used by this then they run the risk of getting blocked in entirety all over the place.
What Vonage needs is to cut back a little on its freakin' marketing efforts.
There IS such a thing as Too Much of a Good Thing[tm].
On a side note, I'm glad I ditched Vonage. I'm now using Gizmo and saving money in the process (even with a dial-in number).
Looks like he's quoting AU$. AU$5000 = US$3760.
;-)
So technically it doesn't cost US$5000, and only US$3760, but then again, a Vegamite sandwich goes for AU$3.92 as opposed to US$2.50 so it's all relative.
7290. Go to m.gmail.com ;-)