Malicious prosecution has nothing to do with contract law. You want Apple to release new software to run on a phone that you have either (1) intentionally tampered with the software on or (2) actively changed the hardware on.
This post is modded 'Flamebait', why? It should be 'Insightful' and should be fixed by a mod, and the original moderator should get a brown star or whatever the mechanism is.
I'm a longtime Apple user, but I certainly don't endorse their policies, in any 'broad' sense, as a rule. So I guess I'm not a garden variety 'fanboi' but I really think we should exercise a little intelligence and open mindedness when it comes to the viewpoints of others. That's not exactly a rarefied attitude, but it sure seems like it sometimes here... Somebody please fix this. Thanks.
...and they lie about how heavily the "successful" artists subsidize the unsuccessful artists.
I worked as a musician for almost three decades. In that time I worked in recording studios, produced jingles, and advised younger fellows, in their own bands, during contract 'negotiations.'
But the first thing I want to say is related to your above statement. It is not inaccurate, but the truth is the industry needs, and creates, failures in terms of investment in bands/artists that don't work out, to use as a tax write-off for the ones who do.
It makes sense, too. I mean, why pay taxes when bribing politicians is cheaper and provides customized service for your industrial/monopolistic 'needs'?
The basic recording contract is a "Work for Hire" agreement, and it is extremely rare for any artist, even the established ones, to retain ownership of their own recorded works (copyright. which gets traded away as collateral for the 'advance.'). This gives the 'lie' to all arguments regarding ideas around: "If you download music, you deprive artists of their living." That is a complete fabrication, that flies 180 degrees in the face of the reality of the music business.
Meanwhile, in the recording studio, 'engineers' regard the environment as their domain, and only deal with musicians because they have to. Musicians are looked at as spoiled, unintelligent sources of 'signal.'
There is exactly nothing 'new' about any of this. Duke Ellington once said, back in the post-War years: "The purpose of the music industry is to sell booze." It's more about clothing and consumerist, (i.e. 'carefree, thoughtless, or self-absorbed', take your pick, ) lifestyle, these days, as opposed to booze, "... but It's the Same, Old Song..."
Agreed. Last time I tried, I (and about 20 others) was stuck on 96.8% for weeks without anyone wanted to seed. Pretty much made me stop using Bittorrent for music download.
Same here. I know it isn't an unusual occurrence, but after similar situations I just went right back to Usenet, which just slaughters any other venue as far as choices, the ability to interact (you know, post, request, say things like 'Thank You', etc).
It's sad, what it says about people, that 'ratio enforcement' is even necessary, out there in Torrent-Land. (But it certainly is)
Any major distribution of GNU/Linux (sans Gentoo perhaps)
sans Gentoo? You don't mean without Gentoo, you probably meant except for Gentoo. Right? So, if the use of French is, as they say, de rigueur here, then I suggest sauf que in place of sans, although dropping back into native English and using save for makes better lingo, and is actually derived from sauf que... wouldn't you know?:)
Oh, if only we had some rich South African guy on our side...
Ha ha ha ha ha.... +5 Funny
I knew I shouldn't have posted here earlier, and saved my mod points for those other articles where everybody's just mind-made-up yelling at and belittling one another. Oh well. Very f'ing funny...
It drives me up a wall that copy and paste is so inconsistant[sic]. I have to think, is it control-v, right click and use menu, middle click, shift-insert, and its common for me to get it wrong. Oh, to do page up/down, should I use page up or down keys, or shift and page up/down, or will page up and down even work? What about drag and drop? Will it work? Will it work between apps? What about a consistant[sic]Widget look and feel?
These are common GUI things from the mid 80s, but as a rank ordering from best to worst, you have OS X, Windows, and others. Windows is not that great either. The look and feel has become about as segmented as *NIX. And OS X is not perfect, but it seems clear that they have spent more time and effort with attention to these design features than anybody else.
The first thing I want to say is that I have mod points, but I'll drop them elsewhere tonight, because all of the messages/posts on this topic, tonight, are really good reading, and seem very thoughtful. So, I would mod everybody in the article up +1.
That being said, I run two Apple laptops at home. One is a garden variety OS X, and the one I'm on now is running OS X, Windows 2000 Pro (aka NT 5 heheh, in VPC), and dual-boots into Ubuntu (Feisty). I love playing around in Ubuntu Linux. No kidding. It's just a stone blast, and I get a real genuine kick out of it, and it plays well into the my mindset regarding the possibility of a better future for people, machines, information sharing and availability, freedom, etc. hats off to everyone involved.
But I agree, 100%, with the poster I quoted here. Further to that, I don't care if Linux is 'ready for the Desktop', and I won't debate, or be judgmental about, whether or not this is the "Year of Linux on the Desktop." In my opinion it is far from 'ready' and i think its best years are ahead of it, still.
I haven't used the numerous GUIs that this poster mentioned. But KDE and Gnome are obviously based on NT, and maybe Gnome has a little OS X feel to it. But so what? Greater minds than mine have come up with the statement that 'All ideas are based on other ideas' and who am I to argue. The beautiful thing about Linux, as it stands, is that the fragmentation of the desktop metaphors is also its saving grace. Anyone is free to get out there and innovate. what more could you ask for?
But the average desktop user is going to freak the first time they want to do something simple, like, say, get rid of those annoying tool tips on the Desktop, and then, not seeing anything relevant in the System admin menu or the Applications menu, going into Ubuntu/Gnome "help" and finding out that they have to dust off their non-existent 1966-era text input skills (launch VIM, in other words) and drill down into the correct gconf file and fiddle about. [Oh, and if Uncle Fred or Aunt Millie is reading, for God's sake, if you even find the gconf file, instead of the xml 'tree' that opens in your browser, for Christ's sake don't forget to launch VIM as 'root'... they forgot that part in "Help"... {laughs}]
Do you see where I'm going with this? It's not ready. Not yet. Part of me says, "Big deal" and the other part of me hopes that somebody, somewhere, comes up with a GUI that even the ''average' user can comfortably navigate, alter, and use. Because we need this. Windows has destroyed the enjoyment of personal computing and information sharing (via the Internet) for a good part of millions of people's lives. It would be illegal if sanity was any consideration. And Apple is slowly destroying their 'fork' of Unix, so it's going to be up to you folks, to come up with a Linux for the 'other', for the 'masses', and we'll still be able to do make installs of the kernel, and hobbyist-away our time on the Planet, if we so desire.
I didn't mean to go on and on like this, but I go back quite a ways; I've used SGIs, SPARCStations, a boatload of Apple gear, and I still love NT 4.0, so, I guess I grant myself the freedom to take liberties when I say that Linux is way good enough for me, already, a couple years ago in fact, but for 'them'... Out There? Uh, no. Not yet.
Easiest if you keep all your docs on the external drive, however if you want copies of each doc on each computer a network is easiest.
I agree with your point, totally. I was referring only to those situations where both operating systems are on a single unit, being dual-booted.
One easy was around even this setup: which I use, is to have OS X on its own partition, so that partition is easily accessed while I'm booted into Linux. It isn't however, as easy to access User-owned folders, due to permissions and security stuff that I wouldn't lift for my benefit, and then have aq 'leaky' system for anyone else's benefit.
We all have different approaches, and if you're like me, or a lot of us, you've changed your approach over the years. I know I have, and when I get/hear about/see a better idea I try it out. With something like photography I would be thinking of a large, fast external drive for all the originals to be dumped to, by 'any' system, and then using whichever non-destructive editor, in whichever system-of-choice, for the edits. That's me, though. There must be unlimited ways of doing things, all with their own pros and cons.
2 - No more F-Key assignments (that's good enough for my 'bye-bye' right there)
3 - Each mail account (server/UserID) has its own In/Out/Sent/Trash, instead of the combined??? (nice one kids)
4 - Can't config the actual Mailbox window's columns (stuck with "Label", for example, forever???)
5 - HTML (gecko... so what) by default in out-going, bad scene kids, e-mail is a plain text thing, quit trying to turn everything into browser/advertising receivers, jesus, leave us alone
6 - All old Filters settings have been FUBAR'd at least to some degree
7 - All imported mailboxes are back to an "Un-read" state, and can only be cleared individually (have fun, corporate up(?)graders)
8 - No more 'Filter Reports' (which streamlined notifications, etc)
9 - Bouncing 'dock' or sound-only for notifies (hey guys, animation on the desktop is for girls, and a lot of them are way too smart to use it, too) See #8
These aren't a 'Top Ten', not even close. But, just as I feared, the Mozilla people have turned the most awesome email program ever into yet-another-Outlook, with BFD gecko rendering. Nice going. On a bright note, this played right into my predictions (which were based on the evolution of Firefox on the Macintosh, it's better in Linux, sort of). It amazes me that all these anti-Microsoft 'rebels' do nothing but emulate NT-era MS design choices in look and feel. Why not just make apologies and try to worm one's way back into the Redmond development arena?
I don't 'hate' Outlook, but, uh, guys, it already "Exists' you know what I mean? And on the Mac there's Gyaz, Mail.app, Thunderbird, et al, already, why add to it all? I'll keep it onboard, it's only the first version, after all, but if ZFirefox is any indication of what's to come, then the 'outlook' (sorry) is not good, to say the least. But, in fairness, the 'new' Eudora IS definitely the best windows/outlook wannabe on the Mac, so far. Nice going. (one hand clapping noise)
And yeah, yeah, I know, a user who learned Eudora, and dares to barf when it gets shredded by 'developers' is a troll, and again, so what... Oh yeah, I almost forgot:
10 - No more x-eudora-settings (off to Guantanamo with the lot of you)
I dual boot Linux and OS X on Mac here, and one of the easier ways to sync your apps, to a degree, is to just copy the things like bookmarks.html, and your Eudora folder (stuff like that) to a little external hard drive and then pop the data where it belongs when booted into Linux.
I haven't done it with Eudora, yet, but will this afternoon. Having a drive that can be shared between Mac/Windows/Linux is 'the easy way out' as far as I know.
Some might point out that the original sources can be accessed, instead of troubling oneself to copy to an external, but, as far as I know, giving read/write to 'other' or all, or whatever, is a no-no. I prefer to keep the systems very isolated, so the remote drive works well for me.
There are many, many more problems associated with sending XHTML as text/html with various hacks to mitigate some of them to a greater or lesser degree. However I don't feel that sending XHMTL as text/html is ever a good idea and if you insist on generating XHTML markup then I suggest you use a good [ptlis.net] content negotiation script to send it as application/xhtml+xml where the browser supports it and when it does not using XSLT to transform the document to HTML before sending it to UAs that do not.
This is very interesting, and even though I dabble in XHTML and CSS and warping PHP templates, and have read a lot, I'd never considered sending different content types before. You know, the conventional 'wisdom' (I use that term loosely in my case) is all about hacks, and alternate stylesheets. But I worked with XML for years, and still hadn't considered the 'xml for these folks, html/text for those folks' idea. Time for me to start digging up my XSLT books and guidelines. Thanks for this.
Then we'd have to pay the Chinese in real gold. It would get very expensive.
That's an interesting comment, to me, because it reminds me that back when gold was around $500 US/oz you could actually get triple that in the interior of China. This was due to the fact that there were no regulated exchanges that ordinary Chinese could get near, and the fact that gold is used in tons (understatement) of trinkets that are everywhere in even the peasant-end of Chinese society.
I like your humor, and this is not meant to be some wiseass 'factual' deflation of humor. It just reminded me of the strange 'reality' of gold prices, that's all. And, of course, if there are still such huge discrepancies, then it is quite conceivable that Chinese products would cost far less, if we returned to a gold standard, or found a way to cut deals with villages or provinces ('somehow', not too likely) to take gold instead of dollars or yuan.
As for getting England to 'take us back', um, I love the idea, but the ruling class in the US would laugh at that, due, in no small part to the fact that they already 'monetized' the 'Debt' and laid it on the backs of the US middle class. They don't 'need' England, in other words.
Americans can still rest assured that the US $100 bill is still the main unit of organized crime, worldwide. and yes, the Euro would make more strictly economic sense, but the fact that corruption in high places in America, combined with an international 'police force' and the willingness to employ it, makes the guys behind the 100 dollar bill the real 'guarantors' of the whole crimeland currency issue.
The No-Script add-on will allow you to do something similar for Firefox (as per TFA).
After using NoScript for well over a year, I finally dumped it this week. What a huge pain in the ass. The thing has inconsequential updates about every week.
I use tons of Addons, and love them. They're the only reason I use Firefox, because the app itself is not meant for a Mac (and no, I don't even have Safari installed here, preferring Camino). And in Windows environment I use Opera.
But seeing the author of NoScript getting pissy about 'somebody could write a script that takes over your screen"... What the fuck?
This guy's Addon is the only one that I know of that forces its way into browser port focus after the restart following his fucking updates. What a hypocrite. Add a menu item link to a 'Release Notes' or whatever, Buttload. Shit. To hell with him and his pain in the ass Addon. If it gets too 'scary' out there I'll switch back to OmniWeb and use site-specific prefs. Meanwhile, I'll take my chances with javascript.
Having spent years in the guts of things electronic, here are some added thoughts:
Somebody finally posts when they're in possession of some actual facts... and they get modded all the way to... '2'... I know, pretend the guy didn't read the article before commenting... we'll get those mod points up where they belong, one way or the other!
I actually use the nice Menu Editor add-on in Firefox to hide the Bookmarks menu. Since I never used it.
Thanks for the tip on the Menu Editor. I don't use the menu for Bookmarks either, because it doesn't work, anyway, unless a window is open already. (on the Mac, it probably works fine elsewhere). The Editor will be great to have, yeah:)
One of the many important features of Photoshop is color-management.
Amen. And since no Mac users have popped up yet, I'll be the lightning rod, and go you one step further... Windows sucks for color management, or have they 'discovered' or 'improved upon' Pantone, yet? That's one of the two reasons why arguing about which color correction app (which is about half of the pro photo editing biz)is 'best' or 'as good' on Windows, is like putting lipstick on a pig.
And guess what the other half of the composition/layout thing is all about? Font management, and, again, it's the same story. Color and font management are where the Macintosh makes sense. Might be the only thing it has that makes it ny 'better' (if there is such a thing, in generalities, which I don't frankly believe) than the rest.
As for laying out close to $400 for a Photoshop/Illy wannabe, I see CS3 Photoshop in the Apple stores for $200 these days. That's cheap for what it is: The absolute gold standard for pro photofinishing/correction. Period.
Yeah, it's grim, but that's my 2 cents. Adobe makes great stuff, and I love using their big apps on Windows too, if I have to. But these days, even the big companies, with the crappy, mega-thou, "optimized for IE 6 (7) web sites, and wall-to-wall 'thin' Dell boxes, have a little section of G5s for the real, critical, print/web graphics stuff. Why screw around? People don't need to 'drink the kool-aid' in order to use the right tool for the job.
P.S. Not to start a flame war or anything, but... [snipped]... Might not hurt to assume they *might be* working @ CC because selling the products they know and understand is no longer an option.
No kidding. I remember, back in the Eighties, meeting guys who were working behind the counter in the local 7-Eleven shops, out around Orange County, CA, and they had been engineers who were laid off by Boeing and Lockheed, and were, as far as I know, personally, the first wave of people who left real industries to become members of the 'services' industry. It was sad. These guys did all the right things, and had young families and mortgages, and then Bam!
I'm too tired to Google to find out if was Democrats or Republicans 'in power' at the time, (does it even matter?) but I do remember some politicians, around that time, crowing about 'all these jobs being created.' And I'd think of these guys, and their families, and be like, "Yeah, right."
Sorry, but catch up? The smartphones currently out there do way more than an iPhone does. It's too expensive for the casual user and no business would use it.
Exactly right. I have to wonder what is the target market? Business? Blackberry rules business. Period. Kids? With $29 PAZRs around everywhere? Come on. That leaves the Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt people. Are there enough of them to make Apple a pile of money? Probably... and that is depressing. It's no wonder most of the world hates us over here. Such waste.
Stock repurchase would not be a good idea as it would dilute the value of the existing shares.
Sure, buddy, they buy back shares, so with fewer shares outstanding, that dilutes the stock how? You're an idiot. If they ISSUED shares it would dilute the stock.
Let me explain it to you, if that's even possible... Pretend there's 200 shares, all worth 10 bucks, based on what people value the shares at. The company makes x amount of net profit, and the net profit, divided by the number of oustanding shares, gives the 'earnings per share', Are ya with me so far? (I doubt it)... But we'll pretend you are...
So, the company says, we're going to buy back half the shares, and take them out of the pool of shares (it's called 'retiring' shares). So, now what? Well, simple, the same net earnings are now divided up by half as many shares, meaning, the earnings per share ratio has gone up by a factor of two, and that will result in the shares being priced (valued in the marketplace) higher (everything being considered 'equal', which it never is), twice as high.
Think about it, and whatever you do, don't get any ideas about investing money, yours or anyone else's. Stock repurchase plans almost always result in an immediate jump in the share trading prices because they INCREASE shareholder equity, which is, um, the exact opposite of dilution. At least you were way the fuck off, why screw around with being 'sort of' off?
You're welcome
P.S. And buy Sun?? You are not only poorly-educated, but you might also be off your rocker.
You're such an idiot. What if you need to relocate for a job? Moron.
then get your company to pay for it, like I did, asswipe, what do you need a child to help you navigate though life. Ya fuckin' fag, go back to your fudge-packin', buttload, and kiss my ass on th way out the door.
Isn't this what Camino is for? Like, the very reason for its existence?
Sure, Camino is that, in the same way way that Firefox, minus the extensions (which are the only reason I use it on a Mac)is nothing more than an IE for Windows that is 'better than IE), at least in theory. And you know what? As a Mac user who uses Windows and Linux, also, I say so what? "better than IE" wow! I am under-fucking-whelmed
As I have said for a long time, if Mozilla/firefox can't be bothered to at least get Firefox to use the Services (menu) in Apple's APIs, fuck 'em, they should stop pretending they're good enough, or care enough, to be a Mac app, period.
We'll 'get over it, don't worry.
P.S. Latest nightlies for Safari make Camino redundant, also.
Who knew that I should be conditioning myself to tolerate only pure "Cacau" bars, just as I might do with fish oil, so I can rest smugly in my chocolate snobishness.
But wait, processing the bean discards much of the natural taste and benefit. Better to eat the beans whole, directly from the tree, than to pollute them by the touch of man or machine. This is truly the way of the chocolate elite.
Since when does a cynical asshole, that can't even read the post his rant supposedly is 'in reply to,' qualify as 'Funny?'
Who knew, indeed? What an asshole. Let me guess, while others learned to appreciate chocolate, you were too busy packing fudge, am I right?
Oh, and snobbishness, has two letter 'b' symbols in it, dumbfuck.
People who appreciate things are snobs. What's this, the front end of the revolt of the ignorant? You're such an asshole, tell ya what, while folks with functioning tastebuds enjoy the real deal, you can eat shit. After all, it's brown, right? Just add high fructose corn syrup, what's the difference eh Fuckwad? All in favor of turning this illiterate, tasteless fuck into soap and/or dog food, say Aye.
Look at how all the foreclosures are driving down the price of homes and causing homes to take longer to sell. Even if you bought your house all cash, you're affected by Joe Spendalot next door - his foreclosed home will depress your house's value when you try to sell and move.
Your myopic view is endemic of ubercapitalist and ubersocialist thinkers alike.
So use your My-Needs-Uber-Alles Brain, and don't arbitrarily decide to sell into a down market, asshole. Bottom line: Quit blaming others.
And Choicepoint makes money off you without you doing business with anyone? How? By getting money for info sold to others? So what. What do want, a cut? What are you putting in, as far as value, to get a cut? Your existence in the market eco-system? Big fucking deal.
By the way, what's with all the uber generalizations? Are you paying any attention at all to the dosages on those little bottles? Didn't think so, sure doesn't sound like it. Relax, and again, quit blaming your fucking shortcomings, real or imagined, on the neighbors. People like you (paranoid, over-generalizing blamer/conspiracy-addicts) should, I don't know, be watched, maybe... [nervous laughter]
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This post is modded 'Flamebait', why? It should be 'Insightful' and should be fixed by a mod, and the original moderator should get a brown star or whatever the mechanism is.
I'm a longtime Apple user, but I certainly don't endorse their policies, in any 'broad' sense, as a rule. So I guess I'm not a garden variety 'fanboi' but I really think we should exercise a little intelligence and open mindedness when it comes to the viewpoints of others. That's not exactly a rarefied attitude, but it sure seems like it sometimes here... Somebody please fix this. Thanks.
I worked as a musician for almost three decades. In that time I worked in recording studios, produced jingles, and advised younger fellows, in their own bands, during contract 'negotiations.'
But the first thing I want to say is related to your above statement. It is not inaccurate, but the truth is the industry needs, and creates, failures in terms of investment in bands/artists that don't work out, to use as a tax write-off for the ones who do.
It makes sense, too. I mean, why pay taxes when bribing politicians is cheaper and provides customized service for your industrial/monopolistic 'needs'?
The basic recording contract is a "Work for Hire" agreement, and it is extremely rare for any artist, even the established ones, to retain ownership of their own recorded works (copyright. which gets traded away as collateral for the 'advance.'). This gives the 'lie' to all arguments regarding ideas around: "If you download music, you deprive artists of their living." That is a complete fabrication, that flies 180 degrees in the face of the reality of the music business.
Meanwhile, in the recording studio, 'engineers' regard the environment as their domain, and only deal with musicians because they have to. Musicians are looked at as spoiled, unintelligent sources of 'signal.'
There is exactly nothing 'new' about any of this. Duke Ellington once said, back in the post-War years: "The purpose of the music industry is to sell booze." It's more about clothing and consumerist, (i.e. 'carefree, thoughtless, or self-absorbed', take your pick, ) lifestyle, these days, as opposed to booze, "... but It's the Same, Old Song..."
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Plus the related groups. Nice selection. No worries about mp3s, legal or otherwise.
Same here. I know it isn't an unusual occurrence, but after similar situations I just went right back to Usenet, which just slaughters any other venue as far as choices, the ability to interact (you know, post, request, say things like 'Thank You', etc).
It's sad, what it says about people, that 'ratio enforcement' is even necessary, out there in Torrent-Land. (But it certainly is)
sans Gentoo? You don't mean without Gentoo, you probably meant except for Gentoo. Right? So, if the use of French is, as they say, de rigueur here, then I suggest sauf que in place of sans, although dropping back into native English and using save for makes better lingo, and is actually derived from sauf que... wouldn't you know? :)
Ha ha ha ha ha.... +5 Funny
I knew I shouldn't have posted here earlier, and saved my mod points for those other articles where everybody's just mind-made-up yelling at and belittling one another. Oh well. Very f'ing funny...
The first thing I want to say is that I have mod points, but I'll drop them elsewhere tonight, because all of the messages/posts on this topic, tonight, are really good reading, and seem very thoughtful. So, I would mod everybody in the article up +1.
That being said, I run two Apple laptops at home. One is a garden variety OS X, and the one I'm on now is running OS X, Windows 2000 Pro (aka NT 5 heheh, in VPC), and dual-boots into Ubuntu (Feisty). I love playing around in Ubuntu Linux. No kidding. It's just a stone blast, and I get a real genuine kick out of it, and it plays well into the my mindset regarding the possibility of a better future for people, machines, information sharing and availability, freedom, etc. hats off to everyone involved.
But I agree, 100%, with the poster I quoted here. Further to that, I don't care if Linux is 'ready for the Desktop', and I won't debate, or be judgmental about, whether or not this is the "Year of Linux on the Desktop." In my opinion it is far from 'ready' and i think its best years are ahead of it, still.
I haven't used the numerous GUIs that this poster mentioned. But KDE and Gnome are obviously based on NT, and maybe Gnome has a little OS X feel to it. But so what? Greater minds than mine have come up with the statement that 'All ideas are based on other ideas' and who am I to argue. The beautiful thing about Linux, as it stands, is that the fragmentation of the desktop metaphors is also its saving grace. Anyone is free to get out there and innovate. what more could you ask for?
But the average desktop user is going to freak the first time they want to do something simple, like, say, get rid of those annoying tool tips on the Desktop, and then, not seeing anything relevant in the System admin menu or the Applications menu, going into Ubuntu/Gnome "help" and finding out that they have to dust off their non-existent 1966-era text input skills (launch VIM, in other words) and drill down into the correct gconf file and fiddle about. [Oh, and if Uncle Fred or Aunt Millie is reading, for God's sake, if you even find the gconf file, instead of the xml 'tree' that opens in your browser, for Christ's sake don't forget to launch VIM as 'root'... they forgot that part in "Help"... {laughs}]
Do you see where I'm going with this? It's not ready. Not yet. Part of me says, "Big deal" and the other part of me hopes that somebody, somewhere, comes up with a GUI that even the ''average' user can comfortably navigate, alter, and use. Because we need this. Windows has destroyed the enjoyment of personal computing and information sharing (via the Internet) for a good part of millions of people's lives. It would be illegal if sanity was any consideration. And Apple is slowly destroying their 'fork' of Unix, so it's going to be up to you folks, to come up with a Linux for the 'other', for the 'masses', and we'll still be able to do make installs of the kernel, and hobbyist-away our time on the Planet, if we so desire.
I didn't mean to go on and on like this, but I go back quite a ways; I've used SGIs, SPARCStations, a boatload of Apple gear, and I still love NT 4.0, so, I guess I grant myself the freedom to take liberties when I say that Linux is way good enough for me, already, a couple years ago in fact, but for 'them'... Out There? Uh, no. Not yet.
I agree with your point, totally. I was referring only to those situations where both operating systems are on a single unit, being dual-booted.
One easy was around even this setup: which I use, is to have OS X on its own partition, so that partition is easily accessed while I'm booted into Linux. It isn't however, as easy to access User-owned folders, due to permissions and security stuff that I wouldn't lift for my benefit, and then have aq 'leaky' system for anyone else's benefit.
We all have different approaches, and if you're like me, or a lot of us, you've changed your approach over the years. I know I have, and when I get/hear about/see a better idea I try it out. With something like photography I would be thinking of a large, fast external drive for all the originals to be dumped to, by 'any' system, and then using whichever non-destructive editor, in whichever system-of-choice, for the edits. That's me, though. There must be unlimited ways of doing things, all with their own pros and cons.
1 - No working import of "Settings" on the Mac
2 - No more F-Key assignments (that's good enough for my 'bye-bye' right there)
3 - Each mail account (server/UserID) has its own In/Out/Sent/Trash, instead of the combined??? (nice one kids)
4 - Can't config the actual Mailbox window's columns (stuck with "Label", for example, forever???)
5 - HTML (gecko... so what) by default in out-going, bad scene kids, e-mail is a plain text thing, quit trying to turn everything into browser/advertising receivers, jesus, leave us alone
6 - All old Filters settings have been FUBAR'd at least to some degree
7 - All imported mailboxes are back to an "Un-read" state, and can only be cleared individually (have fun, corporate up(?)graders)
8 - No more 'Filter Reports' (which streamlined notifications, etc)
9 - Bouncing 'dock' or sound-only for notifies (hey guys, animation on the desktop is for girls, and a lot of them are way too smart to use it, too) See #8
These aren't a 'Top Ten', not even close. But, just as I feared, the Mozilla people have turned the most awesome email program ever into yet-another-Outlook, with BFD gecko rendering. Nice going. On a bright note, this played right into my predictions (which were based on the evolution of Firefox on the Macintosh, it's better in Linux, sort of). It amazes me that all these anti-Microsoft 'rebels' do nothing but emulate NT-era MS design choices in look and feel. Why not just make apologies and try to worm one's way back into the Redmond development arena?
I don't 'hate' Outlook, but, uh, guys, it already "Exists' you know what I mean? And on the Mac there's Gyaz, Mail.app, Thunderbird, et al, already, why add to it all? I'll keep it onboard, it's only the first version, after all, but if ZFirefox is any indication of what's to come, then the 'outlook' (sorry) is not good, to say the least. But, in fairness, the 'new' Eudora IS definitely the best windows/outlook wannabe on the Mac, so far. Nice going. (one hand clapping noise)
And yeah, yeah, I know, a user who learned Eudora, and dares to barf when it gets shredded by 'developers' is a troll, and again, so what... Oh yeah, I almost forgot:
10 - No more x-eudora-settings (off to Guantanamo with the lot of you)
Hi Falcon,
I dual boot Linux and OS X on Mac here, and one of the easier ways to sync your apps, to a degree, is to just copy the things like bookmarks.html, and your Eudora folder (stuff like that) to a little external hard drive and then pop the data where it belongs when booted into Linux.
I haven't done it with Eudora, yet, but will this afternoon. Having a drive that can be shared between Mac/Windows/Linux is 'the easy way out' as far as I know.
Some might point out that the original sources can be accessed, instead of troubling oneself to copy to an external, but, as far as I know, giving read/write to 'other' or all, or whatever, is a no-no. I prefer to keep the systems very isolated, so the remote drive works well for me.
HTH
This is very interesting, and even though I dabble in XHTML and CSS and warping PHP templates, and have read a lot, I'd never considered sending different content types before. You know, the conventional 'wisdom' (I use that term loosely in my case) is all about hacks, and alternate stylesheets. But I worked with XML for years, and still hadn't considered the 'xml for these folks, html/text for those folks' idea. Time for me to start digging up my XSLT books and guidelines. Thanks for this.
That's an interesting comment, to me, because it reminds me that back when gold was around $500 US/oz you could actually get triple that in the interior of China. This was due to the fact that there were no regulated exchanges that ordinary Chinese could get near, and the fact that gold is used in tons (understatement) of trinkets that are everywhere in even the peasant-end of Chinese society.
I like your humor, and this is not meant to be some wiseass 'factual' deflation of humor. It just reminded me of the strange 'reality' of gold prices, that's all. And, of course, if there are still such huge discrepancies, then it is quite conceivable that Chinese products would cost far less, if we returned to a gold standard, or found a way to cut deals with villages or provinces ('somehow', not too likely) to take gold instead of dollars or yuan.
As for getting England to 'take us back', um, I love the idea, but the ruling class in the US would laugh at that, due, in no small part to the fact that they already 'monetized' the 'Debt' and laid it on the backs of the US middle class. They don't 'need' England, in other words.
Americans can still rest assured that the US $100 bill is still the main unit of organized crime, worldwide. and yes, the Euro would make more strictly economic sense, but the fact that corruption in high places in America, combined with an international 'police force' and the willingness to employ it, makes the guys behind the 100 dollar bill the real 'guarantors' of the whole crimeland currency issue.
After using NoScript for well over a year, I finally dumped it this week. What a huge pain in the ass. The thing has inconsequential updates about every week.
I use tons of Addons, and love them. They're the only reason I use Firefox, because the app itself is not meant for a Mac (and no, I don't even have Safari installed here, preferring Camino). And in Windows environment I use Opera.
But seeing the author of NoScript getting pissy about 'somebody could write a script that takes over your screen"... What the fuck?
This guy's Addon is the only one that I know of that forces its way into browser port focus after the restart following his fucking updates. What a hypocrite. Add a menu item link to a 'Release Notes' or whatever, Buttload. Shit. To hell with him and his pain in the ass Addon. If it gets too 'scary' out there I'll switch back to OmniWeb and use site-specific prefs. Meanwhile, I'll take my chances with javascript.
Somebody finally posts when they're in possession of some actual facts... and they get modded all the way to... '2'... I know, pretend the guy didn't read the article before commenting... we'll get those mod points up where they belong, one way or the other!
Thanks for the tip on the Menu Editor. I don't use the menu for Bookmarks either, because it doesn't work, anyway, unless a window is open already. (on the Mac, it probably works fine elsewhere). The Editor will be great to have, yeah :)
Amen. And since no Mac users have popped up yet, I'll be the lightning rod, and go you one step further... Windows sucks for color management, or have they 'discovered' or 'improved upon' Pantone, yet? That's one of the two reasons why arguing about which color correction app (which is about half of the pro photo editing biz)is 'best' or 'as good' on Windows, is like putting lipstick on a pig.
And guess what the other half of the composition/layout thing is all about? Font management, and, again, it's the same story. Color and font management are where the Macintosh makes sense. Might be the only thing it has that makes it ny 'better' (if there is such a thing, in generalities, which I don't frankly believe) than the rest.
As for laying out close to $400 for a Photoshop/Illy wannabe, I see CS3 Photoshop in the Apple stores for $200 these days. That's cheap for what it is: The absolute gold standard for pro photofinishing/correction. Period.
Yeah, it's grim, but that's my 2 cents. Adobe makes great stuff, and I love using their big apps on Windows too, if I have to. But these days, even the big companies, with the crappy, mega-thou, "optimized for IE 6 (7) web sites, and wall-to-wall 'thin' Dell boxes, have a little section of G5s for the real, critical, print/web graphics stuff. Why screw around? People don't need to 'drink the kool-aid' in order to use the right tool for the job.
No kidding. I remember, back in the Eighties, meeting guys who were working behind the counter in the local 7-Eleven shops, out around Orange County, CA, and they had been engineers who were laid off by Boeing and Lockheed, and were, as far as I know, personally, the first wave of people who left real industries to become members of the 'services' industry. It was sad. These guys did all the right things, and had young families and mortgages, and then Bam!
I'm too tired to Google to find out if was Democrats or Republicans 'in power' at the time, (does it even matter?) but I do remember some politicians, around that time, crowing about 'all these jobs being created.' And I'd think of these guys, and their families, and be like, "Yeah, right."
Not sure about Kentucky, but I'd have to believe this pretty well seals it for the the Newfies.
Exactly right. I have to wonder what is the target market? Business? Blackberry rules business. Period. Kids? With $29 PAZRs around everywhere? Come on. That leaves the Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt people. Are there enough of them to make Apple a pile of money? Probably... and that is depressing. It's no wonder most of the world hates us over here. Such waste.
Sure, buddy, they buy back shares, so with fewer shares outstanding, that dilutes the stock how? You're an idiot. If they ISSUED shares it would dilute the stock.
Let me explain it to you, if that's even possible... Pretend there's 200 shares, all worth 10 bucks, based on what people value the shares at. The company makes x amount of net profit, and the net profit, divided by the number of oustanding shares, gives the 'earnings per share', Are ya with me so far? (I doubt it)... But we'll pretend you are...
So, the company says, we're going to buy back half the shares, and take them out of the pool of shares (it's called 'retiring' shares). So, now what? Well, simple, the same net earnings are now divided up by half as many shares, meaning, the earnings per share ratio has gone up by a factor of two, and that will result in the shares being priced (valued in the marketplace) higher (everything being considered 'equal', which it never is), twice as high.
Think about it, and whatever you do, don't get any ideas about investing money, yours or anyone else's. Stock repurchase plans almost always result in an immediate jump in the share trading prices because they INCREASE shareholder equity, which is, um, the exact opposite of dilution. At least you were way the fuck off, why screw around with being 'sort of' off?
You're welcome
P.S. And buy Sun?? You are not only poorly-educated, but you might also be off your rocker.
Ha ha ha. Excellent. The 'funny' mods should be along any minute. :)
then get your company to pay for it, like I did, asswipe, what do you need a child to help you navigate though life. Ya fuckin' fag, go back to your fudge-packin', buttload, and kiss my ass on th way out the door.
Pucker up, Pussy
Sure, Camino is that, in the same way way that Firefox, minus the extensions (which are the only reason I use it on a Mac)is nothing more than an IE for Windows that is 'better than IE), at least in theory. And you know what? As a Mac user who uses Windows and Linux, also, I say so what? "better than IE" wow! I am under-fucking-whelmed
As I have said for a long time, if Mozilla/firefox can't be bothered to at least get Firefox to use the Services (menu) in Apple's APIs, fuck 'em, they should stop pretending they're good enough, or care enough, to be a Mac app, period.
We'll 'get over it, don't worry.P.S. Latest nightlies for Safari make Camino redundant, also.
Since when does a cynical asshole, that can't even read the post his rant supposedly is 'in reply to,' qualify as 'Funny?'
Who knew, indeed? What an asshole. Let me guess, while others learned to appreciate chocolate, you were too busy packing fudge, am I right?
Oh, and snobbishness, has two letter 'b' symbols in it, dumbfuck.
People who appreciate things are snobs. What's this, the front end of the revolt of the ignorant? You're such an asshole, tell ya what, while folks with functioning tastebuds enjoy the real deal, you can eat shit. After all, it's brown, right? Just add high fructose corn syrup, what's the difference eh Fuckwad? All in favor of turning this illiterate, tasteless fuck into soap and/or dog food, say Aye.
So use your My-Needs-Uber-Alles Brain, and don't arbitrarily decide to sell into a down market, asshole. Bottom line: Quit blaming others.
And Choicepoint makes money off you without you doing business with anyone? How? By getting money for info sold to others? So what. What do want, a cut? What are you putting in, as far as value, to get a cut? Your existence in the market eco-system? Big fucking deal.
By the way, what's with all the uber generalizations? Are you paying any attention at all to the dosages on those little bottles? Didn't think so, sure doesn't sound like it. Relax, and again, quit blaming your fucking shortcomings, real or imagined, on the neighbors. People like you (paranoid, over-generalizing blamer/conspiracy-addicts) should, I don't know, be watched, maybe... [nervous laughter]