Do any of you guys who parrot this same lame-assed, uninformed bullshit thing ever do a little thing called fact-checking?
jesus Christ...walk into an Apple store..see those shelves? No, not the low ones with all the powerbooks and iPods, back in the back near the cash registers...the sorta 'layered' shelves, like a thing called, believe it or not "bookshelves." See those boxes with a big mo-fuggin' black X on them??? See the price tag? $129. Guess what? Standalone OS X. Got an iMac? same box. Got a dual-core twin proc G5? same box. Got an aluminum Powerbook? same box. See a pattern there somewhere?
And, just out of morbid, see-how-the-fake-smart-guys-think curiosity, what is meant by "doesn't really? Is that like "yes, technically"? What the fuck?
The biggest problem with the Finder isn't necessarily the Finder, itself, it's the wacky CNIDs that Apple's equally-wacky HFS+ file system uses, forcing the 'Finder' to leave those.DS_Stores files in every iteration of a window, and slowing down directory listing re-writes (especially on complex, multiple-HD setups).
The DS files are supposed to 'save' the user's choice of how a 'window' is drawn, but what about multi-user setups, which are what really differentiate OS X from Windows? In a 'real' UNIX, all configs are in/home, so every user has a top-to-bottom config ['defaults'] when they log in. But the 'local' windows on a Mac (i.e., every window not generated ant tied to a particular user's/home directory) retain the last DS_Store file, no matter who logs in, and that means every window generated by the OS, itself, outside of/home, is using DS_Store files for nothing, just clutter to 'help' the Finder do its job, which it isn't really doing, under those circumstances, anyway. What a waste.
10.4.6 moves with a lot more snap, and it looks like OS X is finally going to be just as 'fast' as OS 9 was, in the Finder. Only took five years.
Directory navigation and file finding/moving/copying are much faster using PathFinder, or Xfile, or even FileBuddy. Why? Because they use the Inodes instead of the proprietary Apple CNIDs, to 'find' and edit files, mainly. They ID a file based on content near the top of the file, and disregard the extension, or the resource fork, or whatever hare-brained file handler this or that OS X app decides to default to.
Third-party navigators are only hampered by Apple's stupid decision to have an alias of the Finder and the 'real' Finder.app in System/Library/CoreServices.
This leads to fuckups when an app calls the Finder, and specifies the 'wrong' one in its scripting. "Wrong" meaning: the one of the two that wasn't [and couldn't be] specified when the CLI is used to set the defaults to one's third-party "finder" filepath instead of Finder.app. (Because believe it or not, otherwise smart developers will occasionally 'call' the alias instead of the actual executable). There must be a simple explanation for why the call of the 'alias' wouldn't 'point' to the original, which was re-mapped to the third-party 'finder', but I have no idea why that might be. That also screws up AppleEvents, on occasion. Oh well.
Still, those are all gripes that have their roots in the file system, not the Finder, which is in over it's head trying to use a file system that is actually incompatible with the Unix-like underlying system. All a result of the decision to 'marry' legacy MacOS with what could have been a pure port of NextStep to the Mac hardware.
The Finder ends up taking the heat, and is the 'frontend' for a bad decision at Apple, back in '99, or whenever it was they caved in to their whining OS 9 developers. But the file system is the real culprit.
Absolutely God-damned right. I met Eliot Spitzer a few weeks before he announced he would seek the governorship. He was at the Twin Trees Bar/Restaurant at the bottom of Tipp Hill, in Syracuse. It's an inexpensive bar that has good, reasonably priced food, where I used to get pizzas, a block from my place. He is a simple, brilliant, down-home, hard-working attorney, who knows the Law, inside and out. Very personable and approachable.
In a country where the wealthy and privileged have the Congress, the Administration, the Supreme Court, and all of the so-called regulatory agencies working overtime creating loopholes you could fly a fleet of 787s through, here comes a guy who simply holds some of the worst, crass abusers of what laws remain on the books, accountable. And these cowards, hiding behind their AC posts, have the gall to call this guy an opportunist?
No wonder the country's going to fucking Hell in a sled; the people are mental midgets with no sense of the history of this country, no concept of the importance of Rights and Equal Protection before the Law, and what seems like an utter disregard for the people who came to this country and built it, and went off and died to protect a Way of Life that is being auctioned off in Washington, DC, to the highest bidders.
This isn't about political parties; it's about a country full of working families vs. the greediest robber barons ever to walk the Earth, aided, by a corrupt system and a sleeping, paid-off Media, and abetted, by what looks like a Nation of easily-manipulated retards.
My first thought, when I heard Spitzer was looking at the governorship, was, "What the fuck will happen to law enforcement in the State of New York, now?"
There are plenty of wealthy Americans [anybody heard of Warren Buffet, for example?] who are appalled when they see the greed and criminality that seems like business-as-usual in America, today. It has nothing to do with Left, Right, Liberal, Conservative, or Dems and the GOP. It's about nobody being 'above the law', fair play, decency towards our neighbors, and a lot of other humane characteristics that used to define "America" to people in other countries, and here in the USA.
I've lived in a lot of places, seen every state, and I know Americans are a good, decent bunch of people. They're gettting short-changed, and robbed by the people supposedly representing them. It's a travesty, and, yes, in a lot of cases, it is criminal. And when there's crime, we need people to use their offices to bring the criminals to justice...who else is going to do it? GE? Fox News? The lapdogs in Congress? Anonymous Cowards? Jesus Christ, spare us.
My 'home' directory, which actually includes data on the internal and three external drives, is way over 150 GB. My last reinstall of the OS, necessitated by a major screwup with Open Firmware and a flubbed Debian install on an internal partition [which 'disappeared' from the Mac OS mount routines as a result) took about 35 minutes. So, in terms of time-saving, no, in my case a System restore or reinstall is quicker. I see your point, and obviously, backing up personal data and configs [preferences] is the way to go, no matter what. But my point was that the user data was vastly more important, on an everyday working basis, than an annual [at the worst case] reinstall of the OS. YMMV, as always, point well taken.
I'd much rather restore my system files than $home.
No shit. I see this all the time, people so fucking worried about the system files. Why? I accidentally synced my Address Book [which I don't even like] with an empty Entourage address book, and wiped all my phone numbers, and believe me, a re-install of the OS would be nothing compared to the pain-in-the-ass effect of that personal blunder.
The OS is an enabler, only; userland [/home] is where the work, data, and utility of the computer actually 'happens' and resides.
The whole point of keeping the user sandboxed from the system is to protect the user, not the fucking system. I see people on help forums talking about 'backing up the system', and just wonder, "Why?" The system should simply execute and stay out of my way.
The problem is applications in Windows and Mac OS X do not adhere to these sound security policies and end up making a system generally not as easy to work with.
That is simply not true. I have been running OS X [10.4.6 as of this morning] for months as a non-admin user with no root account enabled at all on my system. Zero problems, and not once have I needed to log out and back in as the admin account. Not once. My apps, be they Apple, third-party, Java, or Unix ports, run with serious 'snap', and I use Path Finder in lieu of the Finder, which I hate. I install 99.9% of my apps in my userland, and honestly don't remember having to use an admin password on an install. I get asked for my password, sure, but not an admin pw. I'm actually looking forward to typing in my old admin username and password at some point, but I'm not holding my breath.
I used to tell others to run as non-admin, based on Unix past experience, but I would run as admin all the time, myself. I was a hypocrite, then, in other words. Today, I occasionally look at my "Accounts" setting in System Preferences just to be sure I haven't unknowingly been running as admin somehow, and there "I" am, running as a non-privileged user. Quite astonishing, actually. Good security is so simple, with the right OS and common sense
I install tons of apps, download, edit, delete, or ftp huge files to web sites, regularly, and run clamXav, (which has never found even a trace of a 'suspect' bit of code) and have had absolutely zero malware, no third-party root escalation, etc. My system is inherently, theoretically, and in the sense of applied science Really more secure than the default runtime setups of Windows, most Linux distros, and the Macintosh (which most Mac users run as 'admin', stupid).
I don't hate Windows; some of my best work was done on garden variety WinTel boxes, and I love Linux, but I use my Mac, my way, and it works more than well enough for me. And in terms of security, [whether a 'combo' of relative real-World obscurity plus my sensibilities, or not) it is, for all intents and purposes, unparalleled.
I must be losing it. I re-read the original post a few times, and honestly didn't see the sarcasm or humor. My mistake. Although I wouldn't expect to see it here, on/., I have seen people, throughout my life, who are, apparently, [what's the word?] fundamentally? incapable of grasping the concept of the refund=interest free loan deal. Apologies to any concerned.
Apple sold the machine to a reseller, they didn't sell it directly. The reseller kept it off the market for longer than a month, then posted it on their site, the DAY after the original 1-year Apple Warranty expired.
Call BS all you want, then call a 6th grader for some reading comprehension tutoring, do everybody a favor.
So then why am I still waiting 12 months later for them to fix my damn superdrive?
I don't know about you, but I do know why I'm waiting:
I took delivery of a refurbed Aluminum 1.25 after buying it the first day it appeared on a third-party authorized reseller's site.
Several days later I realized that part of the backlit keyboard wasn't lit up. Thinking that the first gen of the backlit boards were known to be not too bright [they're far brighter these days] I blew it off.
I took it into the Apple Store in Syracuse, and a quick run of the serial showed that the laptop was about a month past the expiration of the original one-year warranty, and the repair of just the one channel of backlighting was quoted at $219. I took a pass on that.
A month later the SuperDrive went intermittent on me, and began issuing alerts that made reference to an inability to gauge the width of the read laser. It died, totally, within a few weeks.
I was shocked, and did an in-depth trace of the history of the machine. When it had arrived, initially, it had an unopened set of manuals, in spanish, and an uninstalled Extreme Card, as well as an unopened [shrink-wrapped] CD with the Extreme software driver...The 'in-depth history' confirmed that the machine had been unsold in South America, returned to Apple and resold to the reseller, with the proviso that it not be resold until one day after the expiration of the Apple Warranty (coincidentally, of course, when 'yours truly' entered the equation). Why one day? Simple: To prevent the buyer, me, from purchasing AppleCare.
Maybe it's just me, but, the phrase "shooting dirty pool" comes to mind. In the world of, say, criminal dope dealing, this sort of behavior is what puts a.38 in a crackhead's hand, a wave of an 8-ball, and the instructions, "put two in the chest of the guy with the turtleneck, and the 8-ball's yours."
But that's crass, so, I content myself with posting OS X and Final Cut Pro HD, Shake, and Motion, with serials, to the Usenet, instead, whenever I'm in the mood...which is...often, as it turns out.
You can buy individual songs, but I don't usually feel the need to support an artist who can only produce 1 or 2 good songs.
Well, that's fine, for you, but there are over 1 Billion [and counting] purchasers who seem to be saying that the 'buy individual tracks' model is relevant, valid, and a winner.
Also, when Jobs first came back to Apple, he used an IBM ThinkPad. He told people that nothing Apple was currently making was as good
That's correct, and as a longtime Apple user, I too, always thought the ThinkPads [at least the pricier ones] were pretty well-built. But Jobs wasn't talking about the hardware when he showed up at Apple with his ThinkPad, he was talking about the OS he was running on it, namely, NeXTSTEP.
Also, he was running an early version of the browser from the OmniGroup, called OmniWeb, which is still around as an OS X-only browser that follows Apple APIs like nobody's business. Very nifty. Of course it wasn't all that long [sort of] before Apple had the NeXT port, and their own browser to go with it. [Konqueror aka Safari].
I'm not much on the stock trade so I don't know much about this. What exactly would the violation be?
The securities laws include a stipulation that news that might have a material impact on the valuation of a publicly traded company's stock has to go out to all investors at the same time.
So, the good news/bad news situation isn't a problem. It would have been a problem if they'd released the positive news in a press release, or statement of some kind, publicly, and then privately advised big shareholders of the 'bad' news. They didn't do anything of the sort. So, no legal problem, whatsoever.
Ha ha ha... hee hee, AC nails it, and also, the Englishman in the referred-to post uses "I'm all for encouraging sensible and correct use of language, but seriously....that". In fact which it should either be "the sensible...and usage of", or, at least the 'use' should be usage. Also, since when does an ellipsis have four dots? The "Englishman" is either an impostor or a particularly poorly-educated - and, I might add, unrepresentative - islander, whatever.
The problem with the toleration of crappy language and spelling is that it seeps into the mind of the reader, over time, and eventually we have intelligent people, who knew better, using 'loose' for 'lose', and other retarded stuff...it finds it way into resumes, etc, etc...
What we need are underground chip labs. It's time people. It's time to end IP law. It's time to put blinders on the surveillance cameras. It's time to zap the bugs.
Hey, AC, you just nailed the coolest idea, I've heard, in a long time. "Underground chip labs"...I like it...yeah. I'm probably too old, and almost certainly not educated enough to do this, myself, but I dearly hope that people pick it up, and fight back. yeah.
Indeed. I went to the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technlogy, located in the same town, Terre Haute, IN. (Which, incidentally, required laptops in 1995, my freshman year and the first year they accepted incoming female students.) Anyway, we used to joke that if you made it through your freshman (or was it sophomore?) year at Rose, you could go pick up your bachelor's degree in math at ISU.
Ha ha ha, funny one Einstein, but it's even better than you think. When you get out of your Rose-Hulman with a B.Sc, you also qualify to graduate from a typical Tokyo High School. Nothing like smartie-pants Japs to ruin it all for an elist, self-proclaimed Weisenheimer eh bud? ha ha ha.
LaunchServices should recognize that particular app hasn't been run and throw up a warning dialog, but that's the part I don't get.
What??? LaunchServices only pops the "This is the first launch of the app 'so-and-so..." dialog the FIRST time the app in question is launched, not EVERY time. Maybe if a user never used Terminal at all [there are people like that in Apple-land, lots of 'em, and I don't associate with them:) ] then. sure, you'd get the dialog, but if the app has run previously, no dialog.
The only way to reset that dialog, across the system, which is annoying as fuck, is to trash the System caches. [specifically the LaunchServices caches, of course]
Why is it passing it to bash to execute if it doesn't think it's an executable?
You ask that, because the guy you responded to is all the way wrong. Unix, and Unix-like systems, read the head of the file, doesn't matter what the extension or 'human-readable" ascii says. The file is plain text, the executable 'bit' is set, therefor its a unix executable. Fuck the Finder and Get Info, they're carbonized relics of the single-user albatross that is ruining OS X, which SHOULD be NextStep sitting on BSD...i.e., no carbon, no resource forks, no sacrificing 30 year-old Unix security in the name of 10-yr old tried-and-failed MS/Apple 'ease-of-use'...no bullshit.
We're in a multi-user World, and environment. Period. Apple needs to wake the fuck up, or those of us with history of "Macs at home", and whatever works, elsewhere, [plus something like a brain] will migrate to Linux. it's as simple as that.
But compared to the 1980s? I take it you never had to spend $100/city/3-month-period subscribing to the Sunday paper for EACH CITY you were interested in?
Not to be argumentative, but, I take it you weren't familiar with these little buildings, full of books, and [Ding!] 'periodicals', back in the 70s and 80s [when I was job hunting in the Valley], called "Libraries". Newspapers, same day, or next day [at the latest]. Your resume, at the ready, Xerox machines at your service, typewriters available for cover letters, and there we were: Typing like mad, addressing these paper containers, affixing postage, drop the load in a mailbox on the way out, etc. Subscriptions? Uh...no.
How about a universe that has included my Vonage VoIP, for the last four years, and works whether the fucking computer is even on, or not. A wireless phone from BellSouth days [fuck them, by the way] and I haven't had, or needed, a landline in years...sucker.
Grabbing my voicemail offf the web, over the phone, and in email attachments...shit, landlines are for losers. Free faxing going out, no'time', no pages charges...etc, etc....Check your fucking facts.
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WTF???
Do any of you guys who parrot this same lame-assed, uninformed bullshit thing ever do a little thing called fact-checking?
jesus Christ...walk into an Apple store..see those shelves? No, not the low ones with all the powerbooks and iPods, back in the back near the cash registers...the sorta 'layered' shelves, like a thing called, believe it or not "bookshelves." See those boxes with a big mo-fuggin' black X on them??? See the price tag? $129. Guess what? Standalone OS X. Got an iMac? same box. Got a dual-core twin proc G5? same box. Got an aluminum Powerbook? same box. See a pattern there somewhere?
And, just out of morbid, see-how-the-fake-smart-guys-think curiosity, what is meant by "doesn't really? Is that like "yes, technically"? What the fuck?
The biggest problem with the Finder isn't necessarily the Finder, itself, it's the wacky CNIDs that Apple's equally-wacky HFS+ file system uses, forcing the 'Finder' to leave those .DS_Stores files in every iteration of a window, and slowing down directory listing re-writes (especially on complex, multiple-HD setups).
The DS files are supposed to 'save' the user's choice of how a 'window' is drawn, but what about multi-user setups, which are what really differentiate OS X from Windows? In a 'real' UNIX, all configs are in /home, so every user has a top-to-bottom config ['defaults'] when they log in. But the 'local' windows on a Mac (i.e., every window not generated ant tied to a particular user's /home directory) retain the last DS_Store file, no matter who logs in, and that means every window generated by the OS, itself, outside of /home, is using DS_Store files for nothing, just clutter to 'help' the Finder do its job, which it isn't really doing, under those circumstances, anyway. What a waste.
10.4.6 moves with a lot more snap, and it looks like OS X is finally going to be just as 'fast' as OS 9 was, in the Finder. Only took five years.
Directory navigation and file finding/moving/copying are much faster using PathFinder, or Xfile, or even FileBuddy. Why? Because they use the Inodes instead of the proprietary Apple CNIDs, to 'find' and edit files, mainly. They ID a file based on content near the top of the file, and disregard the extension, or the resource fork, or whatever hare-brained file handler this or that OS X app decides to default to.
Third-party navigators are only hampered by Apple's stupid decision to have an alias of the Finder and the 'real' Finder.app in System/Library/CoreServices.
This leads to fuckups when an app calls the Finder, and specifies the 'wrong' one in its scripting. "Wrong" meaning: the one of the two that wasn't [and couldn't be] specified when the CLI is used to set the defaults to one's third-party "finder" filepath instead of Finder.app. (Because believe it or not, otherwise smart developers will occasionally 'call' the alias instead of the actual executable). There must be a simple explanation for why the call of the 'alias' wouldn't 'point' to the original, which was re-mapped to the third-party 'finder', but I have no idea why that might be. That also screws up AppleEvents, on occasion. Oh well.
Still, those are all gripes that have their roots in the file system, not the Finder, which is in over it's head trying to use a file system that is actually incompatible with the Unix-like underlying system. All a result of the decision to 'marry' legacy MacOS with what could have been a pure port of NextStep to the Mac hardware.
The Finder ends up taking the heat, and is the 'frontend' for a bad decision at Apple, back in '99, or whenever it was they caved in to their whining OS 9 developers. But the file system is the real culprit.
Absolutely God-damned right. I met Eliot Spitzer a few weeks before he announced he would seek the governorship. He was at the Twin Trees Bar/Restaurant at the bottom of Tipp Hill, in Syracuse. It's an inexpensive bar that has good, reasonably priced food, where I used to get pizzas, a block from my place. He is a simple, brilliant, down-home, hard-working attorney, who knows the Law, inside and out. Very personable and approachable.
In a country where the wealthy and privileged have the Congress, the Administration, the Supreme Court, and all of the so-called regulatory agencies working overtime creating loopholes you could fly a fleet of 787s through, here comes a guy who simply holds some of the worst, crass abusers of what laws remain on the books, accountable. And these cowards, hiding behind their AC posts, have the gall to call this guy an opportunist?
No wonder the country's going to fucking Hell in a sled; the people are mental midgets with no sense of the history of this country, no concept of the importance of Rights and Equal Protection before the Law, and what seems like an utter disregard for the people who came to this country and built it, and went off and died to protect a Way of Life that is being auctioned off in Washington, DC, to the highest bidders.
This isn't about political parties; it's about a country full of working families vs. the greediest robber barons ever to walk the Earth, aided, by a corrupt system and a sleeping, paid-off Media, and abetted, by what looks like a Nation of easily-manipulated retards.
My first thought, when I heard Spitzer was looking at the governorship, was, "What the fuck will happen to law enforcement in the State of New York, now?"
There are plenty of wealthy Americans [anybody heard of Warren Buffet, for example?] who are appalled when they see the greed and criminality that seems like business-as-usual in America, today. It has nothing to do with Left, Right, Liberal, Conservative, or Dems and the GOP. It's about nobody being 'above the law', fair play, decency towards our neighbors, and a lot of other humane characteristics that used to define "America" to people in other countries, and here in the USA.
I've lived in a lot of places, seen every state, and I know Americans are a good, decent bunch of people. They're gettting short-changed, and robbed by the people supposedly representing them. It's a travesty, and, yes, in a lot of cases, it is criminal. And when there's crime, we need people to use their offices to bring the criminals to justice...who else is going to do it? GE? Fox News? The lapdogs in Congress? Anonymous Cowards? Jesus Christ, spare us.
My 'home' directory, which actually includes data on the internal and three external drives, is way over 150 GB. My last reinstall of the OS, necessitated by a major screwup with Open Firmware and a flubbed Debian install on an internal partition [which 'disappeared' from the Mac OS mount routines as a result) took about 35 minutes. So, in terms of time-saving, no, in my case a System restore or reinstall is quicker. I see your point, and obviously, backing up personal data and configs [preferences] is the way to go, no matter what. But my point was that the user data was vastly more important, on an everyday working basis, than an annual [at the worst case] reinstall of the OS. YMMV, as always, point well taken.
Two things to say to that:
there is zero possibility of malware root escalation, assuming you aren't the strawman idiot "Acrobat"-user/gullible moron you alluded to.
No shit. I see this all the time, people so fucking worried about the system files. Why? I accidentally synced my Address Book [which I don't even like] with an empty Entourage address book, and wiped all my phone numbers, and believe me, a re-install of the OS would be nothing compared to the pain-in-the-ass effect of that personal blunder.
The OS is an enabler, only; userland [/home] is where the work, data, and utility of the computer actually 'happens' and resides.
The whole point of keeping the user sandboxed from the system is to protect the user, not the fucking system. I see people on help forums talking about 'backing up the system', and just wonder, "Why?" The system should simply execute and stay out of my way.
That is simply not true. I have been running OS X [10.4.6 as of this morning] for months as a non-admin user with no root account enabled at all on my system. Zero problems, and not once have I needed to log out and back in as the admin account. Not once. My apps, be they Apple, third-party, Java, or Unix ports, run with serious 'snap', and I use Path Finder in lieu of the Finder, which I hate. I install 99.9% of my apps in my userland, and honestly don't remember having to use an admin password on an install. I get asked for my password, sure, but not an admin pw. I'm actually looking forward to typing in my old admin username and password at some point, but I'm not holding my breath.
I used to tell others to run as non-admin, based on Unix past experience, but I would run as admin all the time, myself. I was a hypocrite, then, in other words. Today, I occasionally look at my "Accounts" setting in System Preferences just to be sure I haven't unknowingly been running as admin somehow, and there "I" am, running as a non-privileged user. Quite astonishing, actually. Good security is so simple, with the right OS and common sense
I install tons of apps, download, edit, delete, or ftp huge files to web sites, regularly, and run clamXav, (which has never found even a trace of a 'suspect' bit of code) and have had absolutely zero malware, no third-party root escalation, etc. My system is inherently, theoretically, and in the sense of applied science Really more secure than the default runtime setups of Windows, most Linux distros, and the Macintosh (which most Mac users run as 'admin', stupid).
I don't hate Windows; some of my best work was done on garden variety WinTel boxes, and I love Linux, but I use my Mac, my way, and it works more than well enough for me. And in terms of security, [whether a 'combo' of relative real-World obscurity plus my sensibilities, or not) it is, for all intents and purposes, unparalleled.
I must be losing it. I re-read the original post a few times, and honestly didn't see the sarcasm or humor. My mistake. Although I wouldn't expect to see it here, on /., I have seen people, throughout my life, who are, apparently, [what's the word?] fundamentally? incapable of grasping the concept of the refund=interest free loan deal. Apologies to any concerned.
Where did you learn to read, asshole?
Apple sold the machine to a reseller, they didn't sell it directly. The reseller kept it off the market for longer than a month, then posted it on their site, the DAY after the original 1-year Apple Warranty expired.Call BS all you want, then call a 6th grader for some reading comprehension tutoring, do everybody a favor.
Sorry, but, No. Your refund means that you gave "the Man" an interest-free loan last year. Nice going, 'Reb'.
#11 Lack of, or faulty, breaker on the firewire port, leading to a mobo swap, instead of a replacement port, on the all the Titaniums through the 667.
What's that breaker run...? 39 cents in bulk?
I don't know about you, but I do know why I'm waiting:
I took delivery of a refurbed Aluminum 1.25 after buying it the first day it appeared on a third-party authorized reseller's site.
Several days later I realized that part of the backlit keyboard wasn't lit up. Thinking that the first gen of the backlit boards were known to be not too bright [they're far brighter these days] I blew it off.
I took it into the Apple Store in Syracuse, and a quick run of the serial showed that the laptop was about a month past the expiration of the original one-year warranty, and the repair of just the one channel of backlighting was quoted at $219. I took a pass on that.
A month later the SuperDrive went intermittent on me, and began issuing alerts that made reference to an inability to gauge the width of the read laser. It died, totally, within a few weeks.
I was shocked, and did an in-depth trace of the history of the machine. When it had arrived, initially, it had an unopened set of manuals, in spanish, and an uninstalled Extreme Card, as well as an unopened [shrink-wrapped] CD with the Extreme software driver...The 'in-depth history' confirmed that the machine had been unsold in South America, returned to Apple and resold to the reseller, with the proviso that it not be resold until one day after the expiration of the Apple Warranty (coincidentally, of course, when 'yours truly' entered the equation). Why one day? Simple: To prevent the buyer, me, from purchasing AppleCare.
Maybe it's just me, but, the phrase "shooting dirty pool" comes to mind. In the world of, say, criminal dope dealing, this sort of behavior is what puts a .38 in a crackhead's hand, a wave of an 8-ball, and the instructions, "put two in the chest of the guy with the turtleneck, and the 8-ball's yours."
But that's crass, so, I content myself with posting OS X and Final Cut Pro HD, Shake, and Motion, with serials, to the Usenet, instead, whenever I'm in the mood...which is...often, as it turns out.
Well, that's fine, for you, but there are over 1 Billion [and counting] purchasers who seem to be saying that the 'buy individual tracks' model is relevant, valid, and a winner.
That's correct, and as a longtime Apple user, I too, always thought the ThinkPads [at least the pricier ones] were pretty well-built. But Jobs wasn't talking about the hardware when he showed up at Apple with his ThinkPad, he was talking about the OS he was running on it, namely, NeXTSTEP.
Also, he was running an early version of the browser from the OmniGroup, called OmniWeb, which is still around as an OS X-only browser that follows Apple APIs like nobody's business. Very nifty. Of course it wasn't all that long [sort of] before Apple had the NeXT port, and their own browser to go with it. [Konqueror aka Safari].
The securities laws include a stipulation that news that might have a material impact on the valuation of a publicly traded company's stock has to go out to all investors at the same time.
So, the good news/bad news situation isn't a problem. It would have been a problem if they'd released the positive news in a press release, or statement of some kind, publicly, and then privately advised big shareholders of the 'bad' news. They didn't do anything of the sort. So, no legal problem, whatsoever.
Ha ha ha... hee hee, AC nails it, and also, the Englishman in the referred-to post uses "I'm all for encouraging sensible and correct use of language, but seriously....that". In fact which it should either be "the sensible...and usage of", or, at least the 'use' should be usage. Also, since when does an ellipsis have four dots? The "Englishman" is either an impostor or a particularly poorly-educated - and, I might add, unrepresentative - islander, whatever.
The problem with the toleration of crappy language and spelling is that it seeps into the mind of the reader, over time, and eventually we have intelligent people, who knew better, using 'loose' for 'lose', and other retarded stuff...it finds it way into resumes, etc, etc...
Hey, AC, you just nailed the coolest idea, I've heard, in a long time. "Underground chip labs"...I like it...yeah. I'm probably too old, and almost certainly not educated enough to do this, myself, but I dearly hope that people pick it up, and fight back. yeah.
You make up a word instead of using "presumptuous?" No wonder you have problems with Google searches. I feel sorry for your students.
Ha ha ha, funny one Einstein, but it's even better than you think. When you get out of your Rose-Hulman with a B.Sc, you also qualify to graduate from a typical Tokyo High School. Nothing like smartie-pants Japs to ruin it all for an elist, self-proclaimed Weisenheimer eh bud? ha ha ha.
Gee guy, no kidding, eh? That would be like Time Warner trying to have a TV Network, a Record label, a Cable company, and buy an ISP...oh wait.
In other words, how in the fuckety-fuck does that get modded 'insightful'?
What??? LaunchServices only pops the "This is the first launch of the app 'so-and-so..." dialog the FIRST time the app in question is launched, not EVERY time. Maybe if a user never used Terminal at all [there are people like that in Apple-land, lots of 'em, and I don't associate with them :) ] then. sure, you'd get the dialog, but if the app has run previously, no dialog.
The only way to reset that dialog, across the system, which is annoying as fuck, is to trash the System caches. [specifically the LaunchServices caches, of course]
You ask that, because the guy you responded to is all the way wrong. Unix, and Unix-like systems, read the head of the file, doesn't matter what the extension or 'human-readable" ascii says. The file is plain text, the executable 'bit' is set, therefor its a unix executable. Fuck the Finder and Get Info, they're carbonized relics of the single-user albatross that is ruining OS X, which SHOULD be NextStep sitting on BSD...i.e., no carbon, no resource forks, no sacrificing 30 year-old Unix security in the name of 10-yr old tried-and-failed MS/Apple 'ease-of-use'...no bullshit.
We're in a multi-user World, and environment. Period. Apple needs to wake the fuck up, or those of us with history of "Macs at home", and whatever works, elsewhere, [plus something like a brain] will migrate to Linux. it's as simple as that.
Not to be argumentative, but, I take it you weren't familiar with these little buildings, full of books, and [Ding!] 'periodicals', back in the 70s and 80s [when I was job hunting in the Valley], called "Libraries". Newspapers, same day, or next day [at the latest]. Your resume, at the ready, Xerox machines at your service, typewriters available for cover letters, and there we were: Typing like mad, addressing these paper containers, affixing postage, drop the load in a mailbox on the way out, etc. Subscriptions? Uh...no.
How about a universe that has included my Vonage VoIP, for the last four years, and works whether the fucking computer is even on, or not. A wireless phone from BellSouth days [fuck them, by the way] and I haven't had, or needed, a landline in years...sucker.
Grabbing my voicemail offf the web, over the phone, and in email attachments...shit, landlines are for losers. Free faxing going out, no'time', no pages charges...etc, etc....Check your fucking facts.