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I use TimeWarner Cable, but have been on Vonage for three years now. Any user who reboots his router and loses a convo, is an idiot, sounds like you are too. Why? Because a child will tell you that the best setup puts the analog/digital box for Vonage [or any VoIP service] IN BETWEEN the source cable line and the fucking router. DUH!!!
Tell me your stupidity arises from your sales gig, and that you have no intention of 'taking up' engineering, or support, please.
My Vonage setup has a dedicated 90KBs for full duplex, which allows fat pipes in the background for downloads, etc. Crystal clear lines. Used for business all the time. Two phone numbers and an 800-toll free for less than TW's basic single-line service, AND 24/7 zero long distance charges to all 50 States and Canada. In a word: Unbeatable. Haven't needed a landline since early 2003. Voicemail over the phone, online web site, and as attachments in e-mail [nice.wav files]. Righteous.
Anyone interested in the 2 for 1 deal, hit the email in my post. Over and out. Oh, and when I want to send a fax, no probs, jack in, send, no per page charge, no toll. Bite that, TW.
"The first to come to mind is Ubisoft, which is a very successfull French game publisher that was founded relatively recently."
Again, you would consider 20 years ago being founded recently?
What are you reading deficient? You notice the word relatively in the sentence you quoted?
And the answer is yeah, compared to, say, the oldest press agency in the World [Agence France Presse - 1835] Ubisoft was founded relatively recently. Get it?....yet?
An Apple iPhone (iPod integrated with cel and PDA) in combination with a partnership-of-convenience with a Google wireless hi-speed ISP? No broken 'features' VoIP ready-to-go, cross-branding. yikes.
Maybe a linked.Mac account (email) and a Gmail account acting as a database to cut the storage on the Apple servers. Good for the biz crowd, and enabled enough to grab the crazy 'disposable income' kids with no time to upload their own ringtones and whatnot.
Something like that could make the iPod look like hors d'oeuvres, a simple intro. The little boxes would be flying out of Amazon, FedEx hubs like every-other-shipment.
reasons why Motorola might not want people inside these linux phones. For example: 1.DRM. 2.Featureset. 3.Carriers. 4.Radio, phone functionality and FCC. 5.Viruses and the like.
That's because you have the whole concept exactly backwards. Ever hear the phrase "Time is money"? You say you want to save time, so you give money. Why? Because the value of the cost [in currency] is less than the value [to you] in terms of your time. Wake the fuck up, and for fuck's sake, cross economics off the list of jobs that are remotely suitable for a man of such dyslexic 'insights' masquerading as theories.
Fuck. It's one thing to come up with the answer "5" to the question "what is the sum of 2 + 2?" And then here you come with the answer: ?Thursday!"... way off podner. Whew.
I know there are tons of horror stories about paypal, but the silent and vast majority enjoy the service.
First...Amen. I like PayPal, they pay 4% or something on your balance. People's banks pay around 1% on checking accounts, if they even pay anything. PayPal is a money market Bank checking account, if looked at in those terms.
Second...most of the whining comes from these a-holes who have shit hemorrhages when PayPal asks for a checking account number
Meanwhile, to open a simple checking account where I live [Minneapolis] I walked in with Florida State ID, a Birth certificate, a Social Security card, and a receipt from the local Sheriff's Office for a new MN ID with my new address on it...and the chick opened my account on a provisional basis. Fuck. The provision? I get a note from my landlord saying I really live at my place. I can pick up a receipt book from Walgreen's and corral a bum for his autograph...which I told the chick, and she said, "That's okay, just fax it to me in a week." I mean, come on. The chick at the Bank [a nice lady, otherwise] has a BA in Finance, and what's the result? Intrusive policy and shit-for-brains. Nice.
I walk 5 minutes to the grocery store, buy my stuff with a PayPal Mastercard (handy as hell, by the way). When I get home, 5 minutes after the actual purchase, there's already an email from PayPal saying "Somebody just used your PayPal Mastercard to buy X dollars of groceries at the Blah-Blah Store. If it wasn't you, call us." Try that on a fucking US Bank web site with their own Debit or Credit Card. Impossible. I'm sticking with PayPal.
And if it were fraud, it would be a matter for the police, not Google's page rank algorithm.
Forget the police. I'm the one who counts in this, as the user of Google, who wants the Google search results to show me relevant search results.
If I get bullshit results, because guys would rather fuck with the page rank system rather than redo their main pages to accurately reflect what's really there, then those guys are breaking the terms of service, and I say "Fuck them." And Google, apparently, agrees.
Who cares if they call it fraud, or whatever...it was bullshit on the part of BMW, and 'bullshit walks', so Google told 'em to take a hike. The cops have better things to do than run around chasing violators of Terms of Service, for Christ's sake. Google did what they should be doing in a lot more cases, and hopefully they will continue to do so. Good for Google.
This is the only feasible one you've listed, but you'd think he'd either build the thing in a bathroom stall, where the cameras don't reach, or be tackled by one of the thousands of people within twenty feet of him.
I agree with your points/questions, BUT, as a longtime-ago taxi driver who was robbed twice at gunpoint, let me explain something to you:
At the first sight of a.38 or a Mac-10, one's first impulse is NOT to 'rush' the guy.
Anyone who disagrees is either lying, talking self-deluded bullshit, speaking from beyond the grave, or [in the longest of odds imaginable] probably in possession of a valid Purple Heart.
Individual members of 'crowds' are not exactly renowned for thinking rationally 'as a group', either.
The 'right' guy can assemble an AK in seconds, under a lap blanket, but there's a lot of more-easily concealed deadly force that wouldn't make itself known until loud noises, bodies droppping, etc. I wouldn't want to be around.
This is no chicken-and-egg problem, FIRST they need users like us and only then will they have advertisers.
Which is EXACTLY why we are the product, and the access to us is what the end-users [paying customers] are BUYING.
The idea that we are the end users isn't crazy, either. Obviously we go to sites to see the sites [ha ha ha], but the advertisers role in the whole operation is NOT to subsidize our 'fun'. Why would they do that? Out of charity? No. We are the product, as far as they're concerned, and they are aware of that fact enough to PAY for it [access to us].
The idea that without us, the advertisers wouldn't exist is valid, but the without the advertisers, the SITES wouldn't exist either. Making the advertisers the 'end users' as far as Google AND the sites, themselves, are concerned. Cows, on their slow march to McDonald's, don't run away from the farm, hell, they like getting fed... the sites are the food, we are the cows....and you can finish the rest when you see the next McDonald's ad.
It's a funny thing, I feel like I'm the end user, too, you know, it isn't taking a huge stretch of the imagination on my part to see it that way. But it hinges on the definition of 'use', and 'user', and 'consumer' and 'product'. The site [a product] attracts my [another user] attention [a product], for the usage of, and the ensuing enrichment from that use, by the ultimate 'user', 'purchaser', consumer of my 'attention'...the advertiser. Picture a guy, puts dog food on the porch, dogs attracted to the food, get killed by the guy, turned into burritos for the local off-road restaurant. The dogs might think they're the 'end user' vis a vis the 'free' dog food, but hey, they're just burritos in development.
it's like that scene in Chinatown..."I'm an end user (slap), I'm a burrito (slap)...an end user (slap)...a burrito, ", etc.
Which reminds me...the clock on the micro says it's Burrito Time. Over and out.
You might as well try to convince me that I'm not truly "free" until I convince the government to force you to grant me access to your living room on whatever terms I dictate.
Jesus H. Christ, a classic example of the debating/argumentative style of only two known creatures, a retard, or a high school chick. Which is it? It's a pure [as in Math] 50-50 toss-up.
OK, I know this is hard for Mac people to hear, but 3-5% is not a plurality!
I'll let other long-term Apple users [a lot of whom, like me, started out on IBM 360s and Fortran, moved to other unix boxes, bought early Sinclairs, Kaypros and Apples, and have used Windows when we had to] defend their 'alleged' concerns about 'what they don't want to hear.' Okay with you, bud?
But since you brought it up, as one of the 5 percenters, I don't give even half a fuck what you people use, and I am even less interested in your tired, unfounded, and childish rants and suppositions regarding what a shitload of individuals you have no insight into, may or may not be 'wanting to hear' at some point in time. You have too much time on your hands, and it hasn't been spent learning anything, that's obvious, unless your petty generalizations qualify as 'learning' in your mom's basement, or wherever you dream up your shit-for-ideas. Are we clear on that?
I'm in the 98 percentile on IQ, also, so, using your metrics and 'values', what should I do, dumb down because 97% of the population must know more than me? Ha ha ha, not likely Einstein, or is it Karnak?
Most people in America like to eat fast food, watch bullshit TV and get obese...so, does that mean they have some 'insight' into how to live? It's unfortuante that 80 or 90% of folks use Windows because they either have to or don't know any better, but guess what, sonny, that's their fucking problem, not mine.
Okay, I feel better, now, back to your delusions of insight and suppositions based on poor diet, too much TV or whatever your excuse du jour happens to be.
The guy worrying about 'meddling' doesn't have a clue as to what the arrangement is between Disney and Pixar, and neither do you. Pixar guys are running Disney animation departments now. Period. Read a fucking business journal once a month, for fuck's sake.
Their solution? To announce that every Ford worker that drives a non-Ford product now has to park in the outermost parking lot, thus providing an "incentive" for them buy a Ford product.
Yeah, that'll teach 'em to buy Toyotas. And won't it be great when people drive past the Ford plant and see nothing but Hondas, Subarus, and Toyotas in the employee parking lot. Yup, great marketing there, all right.
It had an inspiring side to it though. Christine McAuliffe was awarded the "School Teacher of the Year Award", because, according to the citation, "She only blew up in front of the class once during the entire year."
1.How easy is it to change the value of the USER environmental variable in Mac OS X? In Windows it's trivial. Does OS X require special privileges or a password?
Go ahead try: setenv USER 'name', and see what happens. Want to know? The next env command will show USER=name. Then do a 'who' command, and guess what? "who" command returns whatever name was already logged in, not the newly-set environment variable. Oh no, doesn't work does it? Maybe relaunch the console, try again. Then what happens? Run the command 'env' and you get the original, valid logged-in username, NOT the 'made up name' from the half-assed setenv USER 'trickadminname'. Trivial on Windows? Too bad, shoulda bought a Mac, or at least wiped the drive and loaded Linux, BSD, etc. Next.
2.Is there a universal username that is member of the admin group on all Mac OS X installations? For example, is "root" a valid username on all Macs? Or, can a non-admin or a program launched by a non-admin query the system to list all user accounts?
NO. Root, even if it is enabled, which it isn't, by default, is a member of one, and only one 'group', and that group is called 'wheel'. Only an admin user can add other users to the admin group. You weren't kidding about 'not a Mac expert'. Agreed, but that's fine, we all learn. Just ignore most of what these other wackjobs on here have to say about X.
Should these flaws be there? No, I might well want to share my Mac (especially in an academic setting) and a user gaining control over the root account IS a problem. So these things should be fixed. But I don't think this is quite the huge deal the article is trying to present it as.
And it wouldn't be any problem at all for you in a shared-with-colleague university situation either, if you followed the first, most obvious rule: Create a separate admin account, and make your normal/home a non-admin account. Very simple.
Share your "/home" all you want, without admin privileges your 'friends' can't touch root.
If you're worried about your 'friends' deleting your user account, well, you need new friends, pal. Mac users are just as stupid as any others, especially where it comes to operating, business-as-usaul, in an admin-enabled environment. What else are they teaching you in school? Not security or common sense, that's obvious.
I'm sure Pixar will soon be forced the churn out rushed, poorly done projects to feed to our children.
You're "sure", huh? Spoken like a bonafide toad with zero understanding of what's taking place. Let me explain it to you, and then you be the judge:
Ed Catmull, president of Pixar, was named president of the combined Pixar and Disney animation studios. Previously, he was vice president of the computer division of Lucasfilm, which later became Pixar. Mr. Catmull has a undergraduate degrees in computer science and physics and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.
John Lasseter Mr. Lasseter is a founding member of Pixar and oversees all of Pixar's films and associated projects as creative director. Under the Disney deal, Mr. Lasseter will become chief creative officer of Disney's animation studios. Before Pixar was formed in 1986, Mr. Lasseter worked at Lucasfilm Ltd. He soon began writing, directing and animating short films and commercials for Pixar, including "Tin Toy," which in 1988 became the first computer-animated film to win an Oscar. Mr. Lasseter directed the Pixar hits "Toy Story," "A Bug's Life" and "Toy Story 2" and was the executive producer for "Monsters, Inc.," "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles." "Toy Story" earned Mr. Lasseter a special Oscar in 1995, and 2003's "Finding Nemo" won for best animated feature.
Bob Iger was named Disney's CEO in March 2005 and took over from Michael Eisner in October of that year. Born in 1951, he has been the president of Walt Disney since 2000. Mr. Iger got his start in TV in the early 1970s as a weatherman and reporter in Ithaca, N.Y. He joined ABC in 1974 and climbed the ladder to become president of Capital Cities/ABC. He guided the merger of ABC and Disney in 1995, and was very active behind the scenes as Disney tried to prevent a shareholder rebellion in March 2004. Mr. Iger gained momentum as a CEO candidate when Disney's financial performance picked up thanks to television hits "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost."
To sum up: Messrs. Iger and Jobs acknowledged that the key was to maintain Pixar's unique culture. "Most of the time that Bob and I have spent talking about this hasn't been about economics, it's been about preserving the Pixar culture because we all know that's the thing that's going to determine the success here in the long run," said Mr. Jobs. At the same time, Pixar President Ed Catmull and Mr. Lasseter will "help provide a slightly different culture at Disney feature animation that will maximize some of the talent there to make even better films," said Mr. Jobs.
Mr. Catmull, who co-founded the studio, will become president of the combined Pixar/Disney animation business. Mr. Lasseter will take a role as chief creative officer of the combined company as well as a creative role advising Disney's Imagineering division, helping design attractions for the theme parks. Pixar will remain based in Emeryville, Calif., far from Disney's Burbank, California, home.
Do these guys sound like a crew that is just 'wingin' it', to you? Relax, for fuck's sake./P
I take it you've never witnessed a merger first hand, have you?
And how many were you personally involved with...one?
So, we can assume you have no knowledge of Rule One in bigtime Investment: "If you like somebody's business enough to buy it, don't turn around and fuck with it."
Maybe that collides with your extensive familiarity with M&A's whose results don't bolster your slightly-juvenile take on it all. Whatever.
Office 2004 for OS X is light years better than Office 2003 for Windows.
You have to be kidding, right?
Either that, or delusional.
I run Office:Mac 2004 here, on a Powerbook, and Office Pro 2003, in VirtualPC, and my question for the "Mac Office is better" guy, is: Yeah, and where is OneNote, Project and Access? [I'll leave out the also-missing: Visio, FrontPage, InfoPath, and Publisher, in the interest of 'fair-play.'
A lot of Mac users 'feel' that the Mac version is 'better', and it might have been at one time, I agreed once. But the facts don't support the 'feelings.'
OpenOffice 2.0 in ubuntu Linux doesn't cut it, either.
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Just vote them out of office.
I use TimeWarner Cable, but have been on Vonage for three years now. Any user who reboots his router and loses a convo, is an idiot, sounds like you are too. Why? Because a child will tell you that the best setup puts the analog/digital box for Vonage [or any VoIP service] IN BETWEEN the source cable line and the fucking router. DUH!!!
Tell me your stupidity arises from your sales gig, and that you have no intention of 'taking up' engineering, or support, please.
My Vonage setup has a dedicated 90KBs for full duplex, which allows fat pipes in the background for downloads, etc. Crystal clear lines. Used for business all the time. Two phone numbers and an 800-toll free for less than TW's basic single-line service, AND 24/7 zero long distance charges to all 50 States and Canada. In a word: Unbeatable. Haven't needed a landline since early 2003. Voicemail over the phone, online web site, and as attachments in e-mail [nice .wav files]. Righteous.
Anyone interested in the 2 for 1 deal, hit the email in my post. Over and out. Oh, and when I want to send a fax, no probs, jack in, send, no per page charge, no toll. Bite that, TW.
What are you reading deficient? You notice the word relatively in the sentence you quoted?
And the answer is yeah, compared to, say, the oldest press agency in the World [Agence France Presse - 1835] Ubisoft was founded relatively recently. Get it? ....yet?
An Apple iPhone (iPod integrated with cel and PDA) in combination with a partnership-of-convenience with a Google wireless hi-speed ISP? No broken 'features' VoIP ready-to-go, cross-branding. yikes.
Maybe a linked .Mac account (email) and a Gmail account acting as a database to cut the storage on the Apple servers. Good for the biz crowd, and enabled enough to grab the crazy 'disposable income' kids with no time to upload their own ringtones and whatnot.
Something like that could make the iPod look like hors d'oeuvres, a simple intro. The little boxes would be flying out of Amazon, FedEx hubs like every-other-shipment.
and of course, that old chestnut:
6.You'll poke your eye out!
Except with approximately 129,892 gas stations [in the US alone], 3% is more like losing 3,896 gas stations.
The key is 'that much', but then again, last I looked, most companies like to make, rather than lose, money.
That's because you have the whole concept exactly backwards. Ever hear the phrase "Time is money"? You say you want to save time, so you give money. Why? Because the value of the cost [in currency] is less than the value [to you] in terms of your time. Wake the fuck up, and for fuck's sake, cross economics off the list of jobs that are remotely suitable for a man of such dyslexic 'insights' masquerading as theories.
Fuck. It's one thing to come up with the answer "5" to the question "what is the sum of 2 + 2?" And then here you come with the answer: ?Thursday!" ... way off podner. Whew.
First...Amen. I like PayPal, they pay 4% or something on your balance. People's banks pay around 1% on checking accounts, if they even pay anything. PayPal is a money market Bank checking account, if looked at in those terms.
Second...most of the whining comes from these a-holes who have shit hemorrhages when PayPal asks for a checking account number
Meanwhile, to open a simple checking account where I live [Minneapolis] I walked in with Florida State ID, a Birth certificate, a Social Security card, and a receipt from the local Sheriff's Office for a new MN ID with my new address on it...and the chick opened my account on a provisional basis. Fuck. The provision? I get a note from my landlord saying I really live at my place. I can pick up a receipt book from Walgreen's and corral a bum for his autograph...which I told the chick, and she said, "That's okay, just fax it to me in a week." I mean, come on. The chick at the Bank [a nice lady, otherwise] has a BA in Finance, and what's the result? Intrusive policy and shit-for-brains. Nice.
I walk 5 minutes to the grocery store, buy my stuff with a PayPal Mastercard (handy as hell, by the way). When I get home, 5 minutes after the actual purchase, there's already an email from PayPal saying "Somebody just used your PayPal Mastercard to buy X dollars of groceries at the Blah-Blah Store. If it wasn't you, call us." Try that on a fucking US Bank web site with their own Debit or Credit Card. Impossible. I'm sticking with PayPal.
Forget the police. I'm the one who counts in this, as the user of Google, who wants the Google search results to show me relevant search results.
If I get bullshit results, because guys would rather fuck with the page rank system rather than redo their main pages to accurately reflect what's really there, then those guys are breaking the terms of service, and I say "Fuck them." And Google, apparently, agrees.
Who cares if they call it fraud, or whatever...it was bullshit on the part of BMW, and 'bullshit walks', so Google told 'em to take a hike. The cops have better things to do than run around chasing violators of Terms of Service, for Christ's sake. Google did what they should be doing in a lot more cases, and hopefully they will continue to do so. Good for Google.
I agree with your points/questions, BUT, as a longtime-ago taxi driver who was robbed twice at gunpoint, let me explain something to you:
At the first sight of a .38 or a Mac-10, one's first impulse is NOT to 'rush' the guy.
Anyone who disagrees is either lying, talking self-deluded bullshit, speaking from beyond the grave, or [in the longest of odds imaginable] probably in possession of a valid Purple Heart.
Individual members of 'crowds' are not exactly renowned for thinking rationally 'as a group', either.
The 'right' guy can assemble an AK in seconds, under a lap blanket, but there's a lot of more-easily concealed deadly force that wouldn't make itself known until loud noises, bodies droppping, etc. I wouldn't want to be around.
Which is EXACTLY why we are the product, and the access to us is what the end-users [paying customers] are BUYING.
The idea that we are the end users isn't crazy, either. Obviously we go to sites to see the sites [ha ha ha], but the advertisers role in the whole operation is NOT to subsidize our 'fun'. Why would they do that? Out of charity? No. We are the product, as far as they're concerned, and they are aware of that fact enough to PAY for it [access to us].
The idea that without us, the advertisers wouldn't exist is valid, but the without the advertisers, the SITES wouldn't exist either. Making the advertisers the 'end users' as far as Google AND the sites, themselves, are concerned. Cows, on their slow march to McDonald's, don't run away from the farm, hell, they like getting fed... the sites are the food, we are the cows....and you can finish the rest when you see the next McDonald's ad.
It's a funny thing, I feel like I'm the end user, too, you know, it isn't taking a huge stretch of the imagination on my part to see it that way. But it hinges on the definition of 'use', and 'user', and 'consumer' and 'product'. The site [a product] attracts my [another user] attention [a product], for the usage of, and the ensuing enrichment from that use, by the ultimate 'user', 'purchaser', consumer of my 'attention'...the advertiser. Picture a guy, puts dog food on the porch, dogs attracted to the food, get killed by the guy, turned into burritos for the local off-road restaurant. The dogs might think they're the 'end user' vis a vis the 'free' dog food, but hey, they're just burritos in development.
it's like that scene in Chinatown..."I'm an end user (slap), I'm a burrito (slap)...an end user (slap)...a burrito, ", etc.
Which reminds me...the clock on the micro says it's Burrito Time. Over and out.
Jesus H. Christ, a classic example of the debating/argumentative style of only two known creatures, a retard, or a high school chick. Which is it? It's a pure [as in Math] 50-50 toss-up.
Iran-Contra. Different administration [Reagan instead of Nixon], some of the same characters.
This isn't that "hose from the '56 Chevy thing, is it?"
I'll let other long-term Apple users [a lot of whom, like me, started out on IBM 360s and Fortran, moved to other unix boxes, bought early Sinclairs, Kaypros and Apples, and have used Windows when we had to] defend their 'alleged' concerns about 'what they don't want to hear.' Okay with you, bud?
But since you brought it up, as one of the 5 percenters, I don't give even half a fuck what you people use, and I am even less interested in your tired, unfounded, and childish rants and suppositions regarding what a shitload of individuals you have no insight into, may or may not be 'wanting to hear' at some point in time. You have too much time on your hands, and it hasn't been spent learning anything, that's obvious, unless your petty generalizations qualify as 'learning' in your mom's basement, or wherever you dream up your shit-for-ideas. Are we clear on that?
I'm in the 98 percentile on IQ, also, so, using your metrics and 'values', what should I do, dumb down because 97% of the population must know more than me? Ha ha ha, not likely Einstein, or is it Karnak?
Most people in America like to eat fast food, watch bullshit TV and get obese...so, does that mean they have some 'insight' into how to live? It's unfortuante that 80 or 90% of folks use Windows because they either have to or don't know any better, but guess what, sonny, that's their fucking problem, not mine.
Okay, I feel better, now, back to your delusions of insight and suppositions based on poor diet, too much TV or whatever your excuse du jour happens to be.
The guy worrying about 'meddling' doesn't have a clue as to what the arrangement is between Disney and Pixar, and neither do you. Pixar guys are running Disney animation departments now. Period. Read a fucking business journal once a month, for fuck's sake.
Yeah, that'll teach 'em to buy Toyotas. And won't it be great when people drive past the Ford plant and see nothing but Hondas, Subarus, and Toyotas in the employee parking lot. Yup, great marketing there, all right.
Ha ha ha, that's funny, but, he not only didn't 'get it', he turned around and screwed safely into saftly, again...kinda scary.
It had an inspiring side to it though. Christine McAuliffe was awarded the "School Teacher of the Year Award", because, according to the citation, "She only blew up in front of the class once during the entire year."
Go ahead try: setenv USER 'name', and see what happens. Want to know? The next env command will show USER=name. Then do a 'who' command, and guess what? "who" command returns whatever name was already logged in, not the newly-set environment variable. Oh no, doesn't work does it? Maybe relaunch the console, try again. Then what happens? Run the command 'env' and you get the original, valid logged-in username, NOT the 'made up name' from the half-assed setenv USER 'trickadminname'. Trivial on Windows? Too bad, shoulda bought a Mac, or at least wiped the drive and loaded Linux, BSD, etc. Next.
2.Is there a universal username that is member of the admin group on all Mac OS X installations? For example, is "root" a valid username on all Macs? Or, can a non-admin or a program launched by a non-admin query the system to list all user accounts?
NO. Root, even if it is enabled, which it isn't, by default, is a member of one, and only one 'group', and that group is called 'wheel'. Only an admin user can add other users to the admin group. You weren't kidding about 'not a Mac expert'. Agreed, but that's fine, we all learn. Just ignore most of what these other wackjobs on here have to say about X.
And it wouldn't be any problem at all for you in a shared-with-colleague university situation either, if you followed the first, most obvious rule: Create a separate admin account, and make your normal /home a non-admin account. Very simple.
Share your "/home" all you want, without admin privileges your 'friends' can't touch root.
If you're worried about your 'friends' deleting your user account, well, you need new friends, pal. Mac users are just as stupid as any others, especially where it comes to operating, business-as-usaul, in an admin-enabled environment. What else are they teaching you in school? Not security or common sense, that's obvious.
Insightful? Jesus.
You're "sure", huh? Spoken like a bonafide toad with zero understanding of what's taking place. Let me explain it to you, and then you be the judge:
Ed Catmull, president of Pixar, was named president of the combined Pixar and Disney animation studios . Previously, he was vice president of the computer division of Lucasfilm, which later became Pixar. Mr. Catmull has a undergraduate degrees in computer science and physics and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.
John Lasseter
Mr. Lasseter is a founding member of Pixar and oversees all of Pixar's films and associated projects as creative director. Under the Disney deal, Mr. Lasseter will become chief creative officer of Disney's animation studios. Before Pixar was formed in 1986, Mr. Lasseter worked at Lucasfilm Ltd. He soon began writing, directing and animating short films and commercials for Pixar, including "Tin Toy," which in 1988 became the first computer-animated film to win an Oscar. Mr. Lasseter directed the Pixar hits "Toy Story," "A Bug's Life" and "Toy Story 2" and was the executive producer for "Monsters, Inc.," "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles." "Toy Story" earned Mr. Lasseter a special Oscar in 1995, and 2003's "Finding Nemo" won for best animated feature.
Bob Iger was named Disney's CEO in March 2005 and took over from Michael Eisner in October of that year. Born in 1951, he has been the president of Walt Disney since 2000. Mr. Iger got his start in TV in the early 1970s as a weatherman and reporter in Ithaca, N.Y. He joined ABC in 1974 and climbed the ladder to become president of Capital Cities/ABC. He guided the merger of ABC and Disney in 1995, and was very active behind the scenes as Disney tried to prevent a shareholder rebellion in March 2004. Mr. Iger gained momentum as a CEO candidate when Disney's financial performance picked up thanks to television hits "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost."
To sum up: Messrs. Iger and Jobs acknowledged that the key was to maintain Pixar's unique culture. "Most of the time that Bob and I have spent talking about this hasn't been about economics, it's been about preserving the Pixar culture because we all know that's the thing that's going to determine the success here in the long run," said Mr. Jobs. At the same time, Pixar President Ed Catmull and Mr. Lasseter will "help provide a slightly different culture at Disney feature animation that will maximize some of the talent there to make even better films," said Mr. Jobs.
Mr. Catmull, who co-founded the studio, will become president of the combined Pixar/Disney animation business. Mr. Lasseter will take a role as chief creative officer of the combined company as well as a creative role advising Disney's Imagineering division, helping design attractions for the theme parks . Pixar will remain based in Emeryville, Calif., far from Disney's Burbank, California, home.
Do these guys sound like a crew that is just 'wingin' it', to you? Relax, for fuck's sake./P
And how many were you personally involved with...one?
So, we can assume you have no knowledge of Rule One in bigtime Investment: "If you like somebody's business enough to buy it, don't turn around and fuck with it."
Maybe that collides with your extensive familiarity with M&A's whose results don't bolster your slightly-juvenile take on it all. Whatever.
Either that, or delusional.
I run Office:Mac 2004 here, on a Powerbook, and Office Pro 2003, in VirtualPC, and my question for the "Mac Office is better" guy, is: Yeah, and where is OneNote, Project and Access? [I'll leave out the also-missing: Visio, FrontPage, InfoPath, and Publisher, in the interest of 'fair-play.'
A lot of Mac users 'feel' that the Mac version is 'better', and it might have been at one time, I agreed once. But the facts don't support the 'feelings.'
OpenOffice 2.0 in ubuntu Linux doesn't cut it, either.