Then you need to find a different job. I have 2 Powerbooks and an iMac running OSX.3, and I am responsible for several more.
They all work, and I have seen 2 kernal panics and only a few application crashes--most of which have been MS Office.
If you're system is constantly crashing, you've busted something.
As for the trashcan, WTF cares?
My machines are extremely stable, fast and allow me and the people around me to get their work done. The iLife suite is unbeatable and the Pro Apps are incredibly easy to use.
So, no marketing BS, I like my machines.
BTW, how do you train software?
But, that's not what you said. But, I digress, obviously IE works with 99.99% of the websites out there, but IE has numerous flaws. I think by supporting Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. you force IE to either evolve or die, which makes everything better. Many people are far too interested in keeping MS status-quo and are not interested in try new technologies which challenge that status-quo. MS has been sitting on its hands since 1999 with IE and only recently have they added anything to the software which is so much a part of the core of the OS.
Incidentally, except for that one website, which doesn't work on anything but IE on either Windows or OSX, everything else works really, really well. And in exchange for that one annoyance I get tabbed browsing, no pop-ups, etc.
Nano, if you want a better browsing experience, try Firefox. Just by using it you make IE better, competition is good!
"And besides, IE is not even an option for anyone serious about, well, serious about anything."... except for viewing 99.999% of the sites on the web.
Then what does this sentence mean exactly?
If it's less than a year old. Go to www.apple.com/support. If it is older than that there are several new batteries available including one that lasts for around 20 hours.
Try Google.
1. 5%
2. 15%
3. 10%
4. 65%
5. 5%
So yeah, I didn't buy all my music, but having it all tied to some hideous Windows DRM scheme is going to make me buy exactly 0%.
Ballmer's an idiot.
If I visit 100 websites, and 1 doesn't render properly than only 1% of websites do not render properly.
I noticed after posting that you had gotten several responses about this, so I think my comment was redundant, but you might want to consider not using hyperbole next time. You said 99% of websites didn't render properly, which is really not true. Some don't render properly, and that's a problem, but one I"m willing to put up with if I can otherwise use Firefox without all of IEs problems.
So. Heh.
He's not saying for the US gov't to pay terrorists, but to stop enforcing policies and supporting foreign governments who do create terrorists.
The United States, Europe, and Russia are primarily responsible for the current state of the Middle East, we are paying for the sins of our fathers or what Kipling called the 'white man's burden."
The UN has failed in stopping terrorism because it the above are on the Security Council and furthermore, the UN is not a democratic body, hence Syria's position on the Council for Human Rights.
Now, stop listening to the John Birch Society, there is no conspiracy by the UN to take our money and give it to terrorists, the US was part of those decisions. The Food for Oil program was known by the CIA to be a funnel for money to Saddam, and yet ignored it. Much easier to invade the country.
You're an idiot.
Muslims will not kill you just for existing, they do not hate our freedom, or just feel like hurling themselves in the World Trade Center along with a bunch of innocents because they had some bad kabobs.
They do these things because of the world's negative involvement in their lives, because of our support of Israel, a great little theocracy that bulldozes people's houses and kills children with rubber bullets.
They do so because we constantly insist on friendly governments while supporting monsters like the Shah, Saddam, and the Saudi royal family.
They do so because when their doors are kicked in at night and they are dragged out of their homes the men are wearing US-made uniforms and equipment.
They do so because they don't want US soldiers in their holy land, how pissed would Catholics be if there were Turkish troops positioned around Rome.
To kill every terrorist you'd have to kill everyone. Everyone! Woman and children, old men and teenagers. You'd have to kill young girls wearing chadors because we allowed the extermists in Iran to gain power after we installed the Shah. You'd have to kill young Turkish men sipping tea and playing soccer, you'd have to slaughter and pillage and salt the earth of every Muslim country, from the tip of Africa to Malaysia. You'd have to kill nearly a Billion people.
And then you would have killed every possible terrorist, every future terrorist.
It's not a matter of kill X number of people and the rest will go quietly; it's a matter of making it so that terrorism isn't the only avenue of reform and change.
We need a better world.
But, you'd rather be Charlemagne with his mountains of skulls, who knew as he lay dying that his empire would never last.
First, even Bill Moyers admits that there are biases, but that reporting must be aimed towards finding truths even if they happen to be uncomfortable or happen to conflict with a certain ammendment. The search for truth is one of the most important tenants of a democracy, so is the extension of this knowledge to the voting public.
Journalists naturally are liberal, in fact I would argue that they should inherently exist to be liberal in so as to balance the forces of conservatism that also naturally form in government. Afterall, conservatism's inherent tendancy is to keep the situation stable to converse that current power. Liberal journalists are there to kick the legs out of the system when it needs it in order to retain a great balance of power. When the government moves to the left, the press can move to the right, or vice versa, except that never happens.
Social and fiscal convertives are interested in the current situation only, even if that runs against the greater good. In the instance of slavery, the conservative viewpoint was the retain the econonimc model no matter how detrimental it might be, liberalism then was about revolution or change. Lincoln, while a Republican, was liberal in his acceptance that protecting the Union ultimately meant the death of this economic model. The RIAA and the MPAA, even Microsoft, are examples of conservative models protecting their interests against newly forming liberal models.
Your acceptance of liberal=communism, or anti-gun nut, just shows how shallowly your thought process goes.
Furthermore, the EC system has the inherent flaw of a 'rogue' electorate, wherein a representative can vote in opposition to the popular vote.
Lastly, the system creats a winner-take-all system wherein the votes of a minority in a locked-down state, say Democrats in Arizona, are discounted even though they create a significant plurality if counted.
If Bush wins by 1 vote in Arizona he gets the entire EC votes.
Lastly, most states are still ignored under our system because if you're able to secure California, New York, etc. you can win the election while ignoring Oregon, Washington, and all the other Pacific NW states because they have less votes overall than a single win in California.
The EC system was set-up because the Founding Fathers didn't trust the electorate, the same reason for the Senate.
I guess not,
apparently we have to go over this
every fucking time someone mentions iTunes or WMP.
For all that is holy, those who do not understand it, get it through you thick heads:
Windows Media Player-based stores only work with Windows Media apps, and they do not work with Macs or Linux at all.
iTMS only works with iTunes which works with Windows and Macs.
Mp3 works with everything.
Get it.
WMP is not better than iTunes. iTunes is slightly better than WMP.
Mp3 works with everything.
Including WMP and iTunes.
'...when your hardware breaks, the guy at the corner computer store will not be able to help you.'
Then you can call Apple and they will ship the machine back, or go to an Apple store, or find a guy who actually knows enough that Macs use standard parts!
'Device capability is rougly the same as you might expect for a Linux PC'
This is just pure FUD, every peripherial I've tried has worked. Drives, Keyboards, Cameras, Mice, Printers, all work. And many times without installing drivers. The OS community has done very well to make devices work under Linux, but OSX still works with more. Even the Microsoft Intellimouse works under OSX.
"'There are great games for the Mac!' (Windows PC gaming is broader reaching...).
Yes, there are many more games for the PC, but there nonetheless good games for the Mac....Macs have a version of MS Office...however it does not contain the same range of productivity applications...
And yet, there is more than MS Office for a computer. And yet, Office v.X+ is a very, very good program that doesn't everything but full Exchange support.
Futhermore, Photoshop, Elements, Maya, FCP, and loads of Freeware and Open Sources apps are outstanding on the Mac.
And you get stuff like iPhoto, iChat, iTunes, Safari, iMovie, all just for showing up.
The Mac OS is a great platform and while I respect those who make a choice to use another one instead--even if it happens to be Microsoft--I don't respect those who don't know anything about the platform.
So no laptop huh?
Hey you're a CS student, more power to you if you want to build your own Opteron. However, I would argue that the best CS students would be those who not only could build a Wintel machine and run Windows, but those who could effortlessly shift to Linux and OSX as well.
I disagree,
BT is great for short-range transfer of data using low-power chips, I use it with my Powerbook, my cell phone and headset, and have used it to sync PDAs, etc. for others.
The short-range is actually as much as 10-meters, and BT was developed as a Personal Area Network protocol, meaning if you're bigger than 10-meters you're a pilot whale and BT ain't gonna' help that.
got some emotional scars there don't you?
If you don't want an iPod than don't buy one, but you might want to consider why you have such a visceral reaction towards a small inaminate object and the company that sells it.
And, if you buy an iPod from HP...
You're still buying an iPod! An Apple iPod, except this one will have a small HP logo on the back, near the Apple logo.
Slate.com recommended dumping IE for Firefox:
http://www.slate.com/id/2103152/
Salon also had a similar reaction, but isn't owned by Microsoft. Slate, however, may be on the block.
I thought that was odd too, although Muslim conquerors typical ignored Christian churches, leaving them for the original peoples, they did alter a few. The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul used to be the central church of the Byzantine empire back when Istanbul was Constantinople. The Hagia Sophia still retains much of its Christian roots, and the only real change was the addition of large panels with writings from the Koran. Muslims didn't change every church, but they did change some. So, it seems like an odd thing to get stuck on from a game. As for 'hembra' that strikes me as a colloquial use, so there's no way MS could know without having a consultant from central america. But, considering they lost money in many of these, you'd think they'd start hiring.
What are you twelve?
Google isn't in the number one spot because of habit. If habit were the simple guiding principle than no one would ever have changed from AltaVista to Yahoo. Google is a recognizable brand, becoming an adverb, a mail service, and is now for reliable searches.
It won't end with Google, but Microsoft's MSN or another product won't be its sucessor, something truly better will.
Slashdot Mirror
Or Dell. Or IBM. Smartass.
I've had an iPod for more than two years: 2 lockups total.
The 1" HDs are fine, it's the Rio that sucks.
Then you need to find a different job. I have 2 Powerbooks and an iMac running OSX.3, and I am responsible for several more. They all work, and I have seen 2 kernal panics and only a few application crashes--most of which have been MS Office. If you're system is constantly crashing, you've busted something. As for the trashcan, WTF cares? My machines are extremely stable, fast and allow me and the people around me to get their work done. The iLife suite is unbeatable and the Pro Apps are incredibly easy to use. So, no marketing BS, I like my machines. BTW, how do you train software?
But, that's not what you said. But, I digress, obviously IE works with 99.99% of the websites out there, but IE has numerous flaws. I think by supporting Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. you force IE to either evolve or die, which makes everything better. Many people are far too interested in keeping MS status-quo and are not interested in try new technologies which challenge that status-quo. MS has been sitting on its hands since 1999 with IE and only recently have they added anything to the software which is so much a part of the core of the OS. Incidentally, except for that one website, which doesn't work on anything but IE on either Windows or OSX, everything else works really, really well. And in exchange for that one annoyance I get tabbed browsing, no pop-ups, etc. Nano, if you want a better browsing experience, try Firefox. Just by using it you make IE better, competition is good!
"And besides, IE is not even an option for anyone serious about, well, serious about anything." ... except for viewing 99.999% of the sites on the web.
Then what does this sentence mean exactly?
If it's less than a year old. Go to www.apple.com/support. If it is older than that there are several new batteries available including one that lasts for around 20 hours. Try Google.
1. 5% 2. 15% 3. 10% 4. 65% 5. 5% So yeah, I didn't buy all my music, but having it all tied to some hideous Windows DRM scheme is going to make me buy exactly 0%. Ballmer's an idiot.
If I visit 100 websites, and 1 doesn't render properly than only 1% of websites do not render properly. I noticed after posting that you had gotten several responses about this, so I think my comment was redundant, but you might want to consider not using hyperbole next time. You said 99% of websites didn't render properly, which is really not true. Some don't render properly, and that's a problem, but one I"m willing to put up with if I can otherwise use Firefox without all of IEs problems. So. Heh.
About 90% of the websites I view work just fine with Firefox. In fact, there's just one that doesn't render properly. So, nice try.
Democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all the rest" - can't remember who said it That was Winston Churchill
It's a sex joke. You wouldn't get it.
He's not saying for the US gov't to pay terrorists, but to stop enforcing policies and supporting foreign governments who do create terrorists. The United States, Europe, and Russia are primarily responsible for the current state of the Middle East, we are paying for the sins of our fathers or what Kipling called the 'white man's burden." The UN has failed in stopping terrorism because it the above are on the Security Council and furthermore, the UN is not a democratic body, hence Syria's position on the Council for Human Rights. Now, stop listening to the John Birch Society, there is no conspiracy by the UN to take our money and give it to terrorists, the US was part of those decisions. The Food for Oil program was known by the CIA to be a funnel for money to Saddam, and yet ignored it. Much easier to invade the country.
You're an idiot. Muslims will not kill you just for existing, they do not hate our freedom, or just feel like hurling themselves in the World Trade Center along with a bunch of innocents because they had some bad kabobs. They do these things because of the world's negative involvement in their lives, because of our support of Israel, a great little theocracy that bulldozes people's houses and kills children with rubber bullets. They do so because we constantly insist on friendly governments while supporting monsters like the Shah, Saddam, and the Saudi royal family. They do so because when their doors are kicked in at night and they are dragged out of their homes the men are wearing US-made uniforms and equipment. They do so because they don't want US soldiers in their holy land, how pissed would Catholics be if there were Turkish troops positioned around Rome. To kill every terrorist you'd have to kill everyone. Everyone! Woman and children, old men and teenagers. You'd have to kill young girls wearing chadors because we allowed the extermists in Iran to gain power after we installed the Shah. You'd have to kill young Turkish men sipping tea and playing soccer, you'd have to slaughter and pillage and salt the earth of every Muslim country, from the tip of Africa to Malaysia. You'd have to kill nearly a Billion people. And then you would have killed every possible terrorist, every future terrorist. It's not a matter of kill X number of people and the rest will go quietly; it's a matter of making it so that terrorism isn't the only avenue of reform and change. We need a better world. But, you'd rather be Charlemagne with his mountains of skulls, who knew as he lay dying that his empire would never last.
First, even Bill Moyers admits that there are biases, but that reporting must be aimed towards finding truths even if they happen to be uncomfortable or happen to conflict with a certain ammendment. The search for truth is one of the most important tenants of a democracy, so is the extension of this knowledge to the voting public. Journalists naturally are liberal, in fact I would argue that they should inherently exist to be liberal in so as to balance the forces of conservatism that also naturally form in government. Afterall, conservatism's inherent tendancy is to keep the situation stable to converse that current power. Liberal journalists are there to kick the legs out of the system when it needs it in order to retain a great balance of power. When the government moves to the left, the press can move to the right, or vice versa, except that never happens. Social and fiscal convertives are interested in the current situation only, even if that runs against the greater good. In the instance of slavery, the conservative viewpoint was the retain the econonimc model no matter how detrimental it might be, liberalism then was about revolution or change. Lincoln, while a Republican, was liberal in his acceptance that protecting the Union ultimately meant the death of this economic model. The RIAA and the MPAA, even Microsoft, are examples of conservative models protecting their interests against newly forming liberal models. Your acceptance of liberal=communism, or anti-gun nut, just shows how shallowly your thought process goes.
Bbecause Americans (and the average slashdotter) barely understand our own politics, there's not a chance in hell we could follow anyone else's.
Furthermore, the EC system has the inherent flaw of a 'rogue' electorate, wherein a representative can vote in opposition to the popular vote. Lastly, the system creats a winner-take-all system wherein the votes of a minority in a locked-down state, say Democrats in Arizona, are discounted even though they create a significant plurality if counted. If Bush wins by 1 vote in Arizona he gets the entire EC votes. Lastly, most states are still ignored under our system because if you're able to secure California, New York, etc. you can win the election while ignoring Oregon, Washington, and all the other Pacific NW states because they have less votes overall than a single win in California. The EC system was set-up because the Founding Fathers didn't trust the electorate, the same reason for the Senate.
I guess not, apparently we have to go over this every fucking time someone mentions iTunes or WMP. For all that is holy, those who do not understand it, get it through you thick heads: Windows Media Player-based stores only work with Windows Media apps, and they do not work with Macs or Linux at all. iTMS only works with iTunes which works with Windows and Macs. Mp3 works with everything. Get it. WMP is not better than iTunes. iTunes is slightly better than WMP. Mp3 works with everything. Including WMP and iTunes.
'...when your hardware breaks, the guy at the corner computer store will not be able to help you.' Then you can call Apple and they will ship the machine back, or go to an Apple store, or find a guy who actually knows enough that Macs use standard parts! 'Device capability is rougly the same as you might expect for a Linux PC' This is just pure FUD, every peripherial I've tried has worked. Drives, Keyboards, Cameras, Mice, Printers, all work. And many times without installing drivers. The OS community has done very well to make devices work under Linux, but OSX still works with more. Even the Microsoft Intellimouse works under OSX. "'There are great games for the Mac!' (Windows PC gaming is broader reaching...). Yes, there are many more games for the PC, but there nonetheless good games for the Mac. ...Macs have a version of MS Office...however it does not contain the same range of productivity applications...
And yet, there is more than MS Office for a computer. And yet, Office v.X+ is a very, very good program that doesn't everything but full Exchange support.
Futhermore, Photoshop, Elements, Maya, FCP, and loads of Freeware and Open Sources apps are outstanding on the Mac.
And you get stuff like iPhoto, iChat, iTunes, Safari, iMovie, all just for showing up.
The Mac OS is a great platform and while I respect those who make a choice to use another one instead--even if it happens to be Microsoft--I don't respect those who don't know anything about the platform.
So no laptop huh? Hey you're a CS student, more power to you if you want to build your own Opteron. However, I would argue that the best CS students would be those who not only could build a Wintel machine and run Windows, but those who could effortlessly shift to Linux and OSX as well.
I disagree, BT is great for short-range transfer of data using low-power chips, I use it with my Powerbook, my cell phone and headset, and have used it to sync PDAs, etc. for others. The short-range is actually as much as 10-meters, and BT was developed as a Personal Area Network protocol, meaning if you're bigger than 10-meters you're a pilot whale and BT ain't gonna' help that.
got some emotional scars there don't you? If you don't want an iPod than don't buy one, but you might want to consider why you have such a visceral reaction towards a small inaminate object and the company that sells it. And, if you buy an iPod from HP... You're still buying an iPod! An Apple iPod, except this one will have a small HP logo on the back, near the Apple logo.
Slate.com recommended dumping IE for Firefox: http://www.slate.com/id/2103152/ Salon also had a similar reaction, but isn't owned by Microsoft. Slate, however, may be on the block.
I thought that was odd too, although Muslim conquerors typical ignored Christian churches, leaving them for the original peoples, they did alter a few. The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul used to be the central church of the Byzantine empire back when Istanbul was Constantinople. The Hagia Sophia still retains much of its Christian roots, and the only real change was the addition of large panels with writings from the Koran.
Muslims didn't change every church, but they did change some. So, it seems like an odd thing to get stuck on from a game.
As for 'hembra' that strikes me as a colloquial use, so there's no way MS could know without having a consultant from central america.
But, considering they lost money in many of these, you'd think they'd start hiring.
What are you twelve? Google isn't in the number one spot because of habit. If habit were the simple guiding principle than no one would ever have changed from AltaVista to Yahoo. Google is a recognizable brand, becoming an adverb, a mail service, and is now for reliable searches. It won't end with Google, but Microsoft's MSN or another product won't be its sucessor, something truly better will.
Ever been to the Sonoran Desert? No. Then hush, the Sonoran Desert is a living desert, lots of cactus, animals, not a lot of endless sand dunes.