Because the entire smartphone market hasn't been pushed towards releasing useable products since the release of the iPhone, right?
I agree that often Apple gets a whole lot of credit for improving on already existing ideas, but smartphones really sucked before the iPhone came out, and the rising tide lifted everyone's boat, and everyone is better off 3 years later.
Microsoft has done extensive studies comparing the ribbon to their older menus-and-toolbars system, and the ribbon comes out on top in nearly every category. Learning curve, ease of finding new functions, etc. This is solid, measurable, improvement-- which is why I said "measurably better" in my initial post.
Maybe I'm some old curmudgeon then, because I can't find a damn thing in the ribbon interface. I spend easily 400% of the time looking for stuff than I did before in the drop down menus.
Here's a UI idea: give me a checkbox to turn it off if I find it to be less useable than what came before.
I don't disagree with you, but here's the counterargument that would make your plan never happen:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
I've bolded the relevant bits. There's also been some case law where the Supreme Court has ruled on campaign donations as free speech in the context of campaign finance reform laws in the past, but I'm no lawyer and don't pretend to understand how that affects things. Either way, such legislation would turn into a First Amendment issue overnight.
Good thing there have been 15 Royal Navy ships named Enterprise, 6 in the US Navy including the technological marvel with hull number CVN-65 which was launched in 1960, before the first episode of Star Trek was even close to written.
If you don't like the license, then don't use the product that is published under that license. Write it yourself, find a competitive product, or STFU and accept the terms.
This goes for any software license agreement, btw.
This isn't a user agent string. This is a hardware model identifier. Apple hardware has an identifier in the ROM so that you can find out what hardware you're running on in software. Here are some examples of why you'd want to do that:
MacPro 1,1: First generation Mac Pro (only has 16-lane PCI-e) MacBookPro 1,1: First generation MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo, not Intel Core2 Duo with SSE4) MacPro 3,1: Third generation Mac Pro (32-lane PCI-e, quad core Nehalem Xeons) iPhone 2,1: Hardware compass, etc. etc.
So their sacrifice gave Stalin the right to purge (read: exterminate) all his political enemies, force millions into servitude and near starvation, and establish dictatorial control and depose neighboring countries' governments?
Not saying the US is without skeletons in the closet either, but the whole "a lot of Russians died in WW2" thing does not justify the horrible things the Soviets did in the next 50 years.
Doesn't even take a superbowl. A NCAA Division-1 football game that isn't even sold out will do it.
Truly pathetic. I can't even send a text message from 30 minutes before kick, to 30 minutes after the final whistle. Then, when their horseshit network catches up, I get a machinegun of stuff that was supposed to be delivered to me over the last 4 hours.
Exactly why I haven't installed 3.1 yet. When this stuff came out, I had already booked a cross-continent trip with a layover in a city known for charging the shit out of everyone for everything. Wasn't gonna give up free connectivity for my laptop until after I got home.
Luckily for me, Delta was handing out cards at the departure gate for a free try on their in-flight WiFi thingy, so I'm actually posting this from 34,000 feet.
I manage 100 Macs here, some of which are deployed 300+ miles away. We use FileWave to deploy applications to them, and maintain file integrity of those applications. In the latest release of FileWave, you can also deploy Mac OS X to workstations, as long as they have the FileWave client running.
We'll be upgrading all of our Macs simultaneously to 10.6 using this, while not losing any data from the home folders, because you can exclude folders you don't want it to stomp while imaging the machine. Also, since your apps and your OS are coming from the same place, rebuilds are done in a matter of minutes, since it can just checksum the files that it puts there instead of recopying every file - it just copies what needs to be changed, and deletes what isn't supposed to be there.
www.filewave.com. It's not a free software, but it's worth every penny.
However, Earl Blumenauer is a leader in the anti-car cabal here in Portland. There's a reason he wears that huge bicycle pin any time he's in front of a camera. He brings home the pork for Streetcars and light rail, but actively goes out of his way to make life for the motoring public completely miserable.
Now that he's got some clout in Washington, he's trying to enact the policies that increase congestion (and concentrations of pollution, by the way) on the entire nation, rather than just the Portland Metro area, or the State of Oregon. We have bridges about to fall into the river that carry over 35,000 cars per day and can't find any money to fix that, or even get them rehabilitated so that you can drive a fire truck over it without fear of the thing collapsing; but there's hundreds of millions for a Streetcar, and $1.4B for a new bridge to carry bikes, pedestrians, busses, and light rail (no cars though). Never mind that light rail already crosses the Willamette 1.6 river miles downstream, and there's extra wide sidewalks specifically for pedestrians and bikes on the Hawthorne Bridge, 3100 feet downriver from the proposed new bridge, on an alignment that people will actually ride bikes and walk downtown.
Unfortunately, all the greenies, hippies, and bikeniks will keep this guy in office until he retires or kicks off.
When the fuel load is removed from the reactor, it's because there is too much material (Xe-135, Sm-149) that is absorbing neutrons, "poisoning" the reaction. We could remove these neutron poisoning elements and continue to burn that fuel, but certain executive orders from past presidents don't allow for it. Thus, we put it in cooling pools for 20+ years, and then cement casks for god knows how long after that.
It is backasswards, wasteful, and a policy from a different world.
Depending on where you go, you can get prepaid sim cards that you can snap in and go. I have a friend that did this with his iPhone when he travelled to China last year.
Adam and Jamie (Mythbusters) already did have a go at this one, and didn't know it. They put a shedload of thermite (Fe2O3 + Al2) on top of bricks of ice, and watch the amazingly energetic explosion, in difference to regular thermite burning.
It was in an episode that aired in the last week or two.
A strange thing happens to nuclear material in a configuration that would allow criticality when it experiences a massive g-shock like a 500 mph to 0 mph deceleration, such as no longer being a configuration that is conducive to criticality.
If you think that the delicate nature of a nuclear fuel assembly would withstand that amount of force, you need to practice your critical thinking skills.
I'm pretty sure that someone in the court's jurisdiction bought Microsoft Office, therefore, they are filing the lawsuit in a proper jurisdiction, as it could be proved that the violation of the US Patent the company holds happened in the area of this court's oversee.
I really just want to know what a police would do should he come across someone with a freakin oscilloscope hanging off the side of a parking meter, and shoving cards in and out, recording data.
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Because the entire smartphone market hasn't been pushed towards releasing useable products since the release of the iPhone, right?
I agree that often Apple gets a whole lot of credit for improving on already existing ideas, but smartphones really sucked before the iPhone came out, and the rising tide lifted everyone's boat, and everyone is better off 3 years later.
Maybe I'm some old curmudgeon then, because I can't find a damn thing in the ribbon interface. I spend easily 400% of the time looking for stuff than I did before in the drop down menus.
Here's a UI idea: give me a checkbox to turn it off if I find it to be less useable than what came before.
I don't disagree with you, but here's the counterargument that would make your plan never happen:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
I've bolded the relevant bits. There's also been some case law where the Supreme Court has ruled on campaign donations as free speech in the context of campaign finance reform laws in the past, but I'm no lawyer and don't pretend to understand how that affects things. Either way, such legislation would turn into a First Amendment issue overnight.
From what I've seen, MMS messages makes AT&T's network cry.
Good thing there have been 15 Royal Navy ships named Enterprise, 6 in the US Navy including the technological marvel with hull number CVN-65 which was launched in 1960, before the first episode of Star Trek was even close to written.
If you don't like the license, then don't use the product that is published under that license. Write it yourself, find a competitive product, or STFU and accept the terms.
This goes for any software license agreement, btw.
This isn't a user agent string. This is a hardware model identifier. Apple hardware has an identifier in the ROM so that you can find out what hardware you're running on in software. Here are some examples of why you'd want to do that:
MacPro 1,1: First generation Mac Pro (only has 16-lane PCI-e)
MacBookPro 1,1: First generation MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo, not Intel Core2 Duo with SSE4)
MacPro 3,1: Third generation Mac Pro (32-lane PCI-e, quad core Nehalem Xeons)
iPhone 2,1: Hardware compass, etc. etc.
Get it?
So their sacrifice gave Stalin the right to purge (read: exterminate) all his political enemies, force millions into servitude and near starvation, and establish dictatorial control and depose neighboring countries' governments?
Not saying the US is without skeletons in the closet either, but the whole "a lot of Russians died in WW2" thing does not justify the horrible things the Soviets did in the next 50 years.
Doesn't even take a superbowl. A NCAA Division-1 football game that isn't even sold out will do it.
Truly pathetic. I can't even send a text message from 30 minutes before kick, to 30 minutes after the final whistle. Then, when their horseshit network catches up, I get a machinegun of stuff that was supposed to be delivered to me over the last 4 hours.
What a joke.
Exactly why I haven't installed 3.1 yet. When this stuff came out, I had already booked a cross-continent trip with a layover in a city known for charging the shit out of everyone for everything. Wasn't gonna give up free connectivity for my laptop until after I got home.
Luckily for me, Delta was handing out cards at the departure gate for a free try on their in-flight WiFi thingy, so I'm actually posting this from 34,000 feet.
I manage 100 Macs here, some of which are deployed 300+ miles away. We use FileWave to deploy applications to them, and maintain file integrity of those applications. In the latest release of FileWave, you can also deploy Mac OS X to workstations, as long as they have the FileWave client running.
We'll be upgrading all of our Macs simultaneously to 10.6 using this, while not losing any data from the home folders, because you can exclude folders you don't want it to stomp while imaging the machine. Also, since your apps and your OS are coming from the same place, rebuilds are done in a matter of minutes, since it can just checksum the files that it puts there instead of recopying every file - it just copies what needs to be changed, and deletes what isn't supposed to be there.
www.filewave.com. It's not a free software, but it's worth every penny.
Yeah, probably.
However, Earl Blumenauer is a leader in the anti-car cabal here in Portland. There's a reason he wears that huge bicycle pin any time he's in front of a camera. He brings home the pork for Streetcars and light rail, but actively goes out of his way to make life for the motoring public completely miserable.
Now that he's got some clout in Washington, he's trying to enact the policies that increase congestion (and concentrations of pollution, by the way) on the entire nation, rather than just the Portland Metro area, or the State of Oregon. We have bridges about to fall into the river that carry over 35,000 cars per day and can't find any money to fix that, or even get them rehabilitated so that you can drive a fire truck over it without fear of the thing collapsing; but there's hundreds of millions for a Streetcar, and $1.4B for a new bridge to carry bikes, pedestrians, busses, and light rail (no cars though). Never mind that light rail already crosses the Willamette 1.6 river miles downstream, and there's extra wide sidewalks specifically for pedestrians and bikes on the Hawthorne Bridge, 3100 feet downriver from the proposed new bridge, on an alignment that people will actually ride bikes and walk downtown.
Unfortunately, all the greenies, hippies, and bikeniks will keep this guy in office until he retires or kicks off.
I like how you refer to a "cult" but lash out with some disproportionate animosity to something, which you fully admit, you don't know anything about.
Sounds like pretty cult-like behavior.
When the fuel load is removed from the reactor, it's because there is too much material (Xe-135, Sm-149) that is absorbing neutrons, "poisoning" the reaction. We could remove these neutron poisoning elements and continue to burn that fuel, but certain executive orders from past presidents don't allow for it. Thus, we put it in cooling pools for 20+ years, and then cement casks for god knows how long after that.
It is backasswards, wasteful, and a policy from a different world.
Depending on where you go, you can get prepaid sim cards that you can snap in and go. I have a friend that did this with his iPhone when he travelled to China last year.
I am posting from a MacBook Pro running the latest seed of 10.6, and I have Creative Suite 3 installed and running on it.
"We don't support it" â "It doesn't work, ever." My guess, is that they don't support it now as 10.6 is still a beta until Friday.
I have 10.6 (build 10A421a) and Adobe Creative Suite 3 installed on this MacBook Pro. It works just fine.
Much ado about nothing.
Brilliant troll. It was believable right up to the point when you said that Rob Enderle was a "voice of reason."
Adam and Jamie (Mythbusters) already did have a go at this one, and didn't know it. They put a shedload of thermite (Fe2O3 + Al2) on top of bricks of ice, and watch the amazingly energetic explosion, in difference to regular thermite burning.
It was in an episode that aired in the last week or two.
A strange thing happens to nuclear material in a configuration that would allow criticality when it experiences a massive g-shock like a 500 mph to 0 mph deceleration, such as no longer being a configuration that is conducive to criticality.
If you think that the delicate nature of a nuclear fuel assembly would withstand that amount of force, you need to practice your critical thinking skills.
Score: -1, Wooooooooooooosh
In your case, ignorance doesn't seem that blissful at all.
You do realize, even within the Plutonium family, that there are isotopes that are not suitable for nuclear weapons, right?
Idiot.
I'm pretty sure that someone in the court's jurisdiction bought Microsoft Office, therefore, they are filing the lawsuit in a proper jurisdiction, as it could be proved that the violation of the US Patent the company holds happened in the area of this court's oversee.
Next!
Wow, Pudge taking the flamebait.
Never seen the /. badge before =)
I really just want to know what a police would do should he come across someone with a freakin oscilloscope hanging off the side of a parking meter, and shoving cards in and out, recording data.