This is what I hate about Near East poltics, there's really not standard for good behavior, everyone is culpable, everyone has gotten their hands dirty in some way.
But, I think Israel without the "Palestinian question," which has lasted for far too long because of the Israelies, the Palestinians themselves, and all the surrounding countries who could have accepted the Palestinians into their territory--fair, no but history proves this works, frankly even the Turks and Palestinians don't actually belong in that region, they were pushed west by other groups, so the east coast of the Mediterrian hasn't really been 'owned' by anyone.
Actually Turkey is not part of the Middle East, but that's truly a semantic arguement so I will concede, Turkey is indeed the singular Democracy in the Middle East.
Israel is first a Zionist state but it does have a democratic system in place, and as bad as you may believe they are they at least made the choice.
But, Israeli and Palestinian situation has been for far too long an excuse for the rest of the Middle East to languish in despots and poverty--with the ocassional hard-shove by Western countries: France, Britian, US, etc. I'm not going to defend the United State's own culpability in the Near East.
As bad as Israel is, and they've mishandled the situation incredibly since Balfour, they're still better than Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or any other country on the Arabian Penninsula, and the Muslim theocrats who use the same language you accused the Israelies of using.
First, name the other democracies in the Middle East. Oh wait that's right you can't. I don't want to defend Israel because their treatment of the Palestinians has been aborhent, but the rest of the Middle East has been almost at least as culpable: the myth of the right of return, the refusal of Syria, Jordan to accept refugees; and the refusal of the PLO and Yassir Arafat to end suicide bombings in exchange for concessions. Furthermore, the Syrians were the ones who fired Katyusha rockets from the Golan, and the PLO were the ones who caused the one other democracy in the modern middle east, Lebanon to disintigrate. The Middle East is a political cesspool and no one comes out clean.
But, working with the Israelies to develop the THEL could be a good thing for Israeli security which makes them more comfortable which makes it easier for them to offer concessions and abandon the Golan and the West Bank, settlement issue aside.
Furthermore, anti-Semitism is dangerous and while you may decide to deride the fears of Jews you must remember that not only did modern Jewry absorb the German hollocost and the previous Pollish and Russian pogroms but they also endured 3 separate attacks after 1948. Israel is in a position that is historically rare and while it's very easy for you to say Israel could be different, imagine your home in the same position.
Lastly, to be totally honest if it was a choice between the theocratic or despotic countries of the Middle East or Israeli I side with the Israelies every time.
But, I still think they've wholy screwed up situations they could have fixed and I think Sharon is a war-criminal.
Actually this system is not designed for ICBMs, but rather to take out the Katyusha rockets that are periodically tossed in the Israeli's midst from the Golan Heights. This would be most effective in theater against artillery and multiple-launch rockets and possibly against something as large as a Scud.
Again, not Star Wars which is space-based anti-ICBM technology that would only be useful against those who actually have ICBMs, but not enough to overwhelm the system.
Star-Wars has been a huge waste of money and the anti-ICBM crowd is deluded in thinking this is the big threat, but behind able to knock down a Katyusha, not that's something our military could use. Think of it also as the replacement for the close-in-defense guns currently on US ships which are very ripe targets for Exocets.
People buy Mac to get away from Microsoft and their kludge of an operating system.
And there are thousands of titles out for the Macintosh, just maybe not what you're interested in.
Also, Apple is the name of the company and the Macintosh or Mac is the name of the product.
Why do I have the distinct feeling I'm feeding a troll?
First, thanks for ripping this off from Eric Raymond:
But, second while I think your description is interesting, it is immediately obvious what your opinion is, so thanks for feigning even-handedness.
However, I can see your point about the Macintosh world, even though I can also say that the 'church' of the Mac also cares about the user experience and makes high-aims towards that end-result even if it is inside a closed proprietary loop.
But, I think you missed some sections in the PC world, or the Bazaar.
The PC world is a bazaar in Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Although at the lowest levels there is intense competition and a ever-changing structure, there is still a singular oligarch at the top, and a rising, but still marginal oligarchical structure just below that. (If you haven't figured it out by now, Windows and Linux) These two overall oligarchys will control the user experience, the rather important relationship between the user and computer. This is the part that is the most central part of the computer, the frission between user and system, the technology is the fulcrum for that, but not the central reason for existing.
Ultimately, for all its variences, the PC world is defined by only a few pertinent structures, the oligarchy that controls and taxes the numerous and heady bazaars below.
I like the Mac better for lots of reasons, but I can understand and appreciate the differences. Neither reigns supreme.
Please define real music based on these terms, it is the age, the use of 'classical' instruments, the time period, or the fact that this makes you sound smart when it really makes you sound like a jackass for using such a useless definition as 'real' music.
You do know that at one point Schubert was 'Pop' music for the wig-headed set right?
If the definition of classic music is really old stuff than you should really appreciate the digeridoo or the skin-drum, chanting and the Greek chorus. But, you probably have a slightly narrower field of vision than that.
Re: Mood organ.
Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Remember Deckard's wife was experimenting with the Mood organ, lowering her mood and then playing songs to make it worse, rather than better which is the way the mood organ was supposed to work.
I disagree, most normal processes do not use root, email, web-browsing, MS office, the things many people do should not delve that deep into the system. Some things will and those are things that need a sanity check or a roadblock that can be easily bypassed. Similar to the warning labels on just about everything, you can use your hairdryer in the shower, however we just told you it might not be such a good idea. That kind of Are you sure? is enough to slow down many users. Combine that with limited, none Administrator/Root accounts and most lusers can't break nearly as much shit as they would with free-reign. There's a reason that your TV has all the screws on the back and the big scary warning label.
The Sandbox, restricted user is the best way to keep your 10-year old from trashing the system; secretaries aren't any different.
Except that is the beauty of OSX. You set up the moron users with limited accounts and you can be very specific about what they are allowed to and what they are not. I do this with all of my machines and it works quite well. If you need Administrative access, you either doing something you need me for, or you're doing something you shouldn't.
Ummm. No. The files can be moved back, but they're invisible to the system, but there are about a zillion tools to show these files and then just move them back. In the case of Protected AACs you can drop them to another computer, but when you try to play them iTunes reads the DRM tags and then looks to see if that computer is Authorized.
However, be careful to make sure that a regular Mp3 or your own 'ripped' Mp4s can be moved onto computer or back without any kind of encryption. Apple put in the invisible files thing to keep people from sneaker-netting 10 gigs of files around. But, like all DRM, it is easy to circumvent.
But, wait it uses WMV and that's worth at least 300.00 right. Right?
At least it's better than their first solution, strapping an Xbox to your chest with duck tape.
Go look up the definition of a monopoly you dumb jackass. I see this comment every single time there's an article about Apple.
Not a monopoly, a vertically integrated company. I know the shades of difference are hard for you to hold onto but try.
There needs to be a modifier for either didn't read the post or just plain stupid. He said 'Corporate Desktop' which is more often that not, running Windows. Yes, x86 can run Linux, guess what, so can PPC. Oh wow who's the big boy now? Who knowledgable with operating system choices now? Feel better.
Actually in a democratic republc such as the United States the government enforces the will of the majority so long as it does not infringe upon inalienable rights, hence the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the Judicial branch of the US government under the wing of the Supreme Court.
A system that depended on majority will could result in 51% of people voting that the remaining 49% are slaves and should remain as such.
I know this little subtly is hard to grasp, but try.
This is an interesting point that Tolkien brings up and you reiterate. Islam intentionally avoids images of Allah and Mohammed and has instead created an art form of goemetric images. This was to avoid both idolotry which was rife in 7th century pre-Islamic societies and possibly the kind of weird iconography that became the image of god in the Christian church. Think of it, Michelangelo has created the mind's-eye image of god for generations of Christians.
But, I would also argue that the mind has the ability to surpass these images and formulate its own. Think of Shakespeare's Hamlet and all the various ways it's been presented even in the last few decades; the Mel Gibson version is very different from Kenneth Branagh version. Or Romeo & Juliet, translated into everything from Baz Lurhman's screeching Leonardo DiCaprio to the odd Romeo Must Die staring Jet Li and a million sitcoms and dramas.
I think the danger exists, but it can be overcome by the ability of the mind to stretch over new images and ideas, every story must be retold a thousand times.
And in the case of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, I had the same concern until the camera first settled on Bag End and I realized how carefully the crew has translated Tolkien's work using his own descriptions. I think Tolkien would be surprised not only at WETA's amazing effects and images, but at the shear will of Jackson et. al. to stay close to his descriptions.
This I believe is one of the problems with our society, we measure everything in cost without measuring benefit. I'm reminded of Fight Club when Jack tells Tyler his job:
I'm a recall coordinator. My job was to apply the formula. It's
simple arithmetic....It's a story problem. A new car built by my company leaves Boston traveling at 60 miles per hour. The rear differential locks up...The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now: do we initiate a recall?...You take the number of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the
probable rate of failure (B), multiply the result by the average
out-of-court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
What is cheap isn't necessarily good or right. I know this is an extreme example and maybe a cheap way to illustrate a point, but customers shouldn't be buying the cheapest thing they can find because often that cheap price is the result of economic forces they'd rather not think about.
BTW, what the cheapest brand-name new PC you can find and what's the cheapest Macintosh you can buy at Apple, excluding discounts, special deals, etc. Now adjust for any missing or included software and hardware either way and see the result.
Obviously a Macintosh is more expensive than the beige case with mobo and chip sitting on the Fry's backshelves, but that's not a fair assement of price because few general consumers buy that machine, they buy a Dell or HP (1 & 2 in the market) and yet most consumers compare the price of an Apple machine to that beige machine in the back corner which they have no intension of buying.
No because that would constitute probable cause, please see the definition here: http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/315/315lect06.htm .
The Fourth Ammendment requires probable cause and protects against unreasonable searches. Read that, unreasonable searches. In the case of the article, Hibble is not required to show an ID under federal law although he is under California law, so the Supreme Court is to decide whether this is Constitutional, and they are supposed to do.
You make the same assumption that the police often do, if a crime has been committed all citizens are guilty until proven innocent, while this is a mindset brought on by the inherent reality of an officer's job, it is still wrong. You should be able to walk down the street any time without being questioned by a police officer, however it is reasonable for them to question you, and for you to refuse.
If someone is on one side of the street bloody and holding a samurai sword and someone is on the other side of the street with their hands in their pockets, your reasoning would have the police stop both because a crime had been committed in the neighborhood.
So what we want is a group that wants the exact opposite of the things in the Union of Concerned Scientists.
And yeah, human feces affects the environment, wow can't believe it. Have about 10 tons of its (the average amount moved through a city sewer in less than an hour) dumped on your front yard and see how long it takes to affect your environment.
The UCS isn't an objective bunch, but that last comment was just stupid.
Of course this is not the mention the religious and political groups that also said Galileo, Copernicus were wrong. Oh wait, dissenting views are marginalized, and disenters demonized.
It cuts both ways, the point is to look at the science and not personal scientific truth nor political agendas.
Just because Galileo managed to be right doesn't mean that Lomberg or anyone else is right, its a neat little tautology you got there though.
Oh for once will one of you geniuses--those whom jump up and down hollering Apple is a monopoly too at the top of your lungs--go and read the legal definition of a monopoly and the abuse of such a monopoly.
Furthermore, please note that Microsoft was convicted of monopolist practices.
Also, as someone has already pointed out, but I think needs to be reiterated for all the soft-skulled around her, you can remove the i-Apps and bring in new Apps without breaking the system. With the exception of Quicktime (which is needed for iTunes) you can just simply delete every Application that comes with a Macintosh and replace it with competitors products and they will work.
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Using your statitics I plotted it out, and you can see how badly the Disney Animation studios are really doing. Except for Lilo & Stich, Disney hasn't broken the 100 Million dollar mark since 1999's Tarzan, and Treasure Planet and Fantasia 2000 were under 50 Million.
Meanwhile, Pixar's worst Domestic Gross was A Bug's Life with $162.8 Million.
The really amazing thing, though is to take earnings and compare them to possible costs. Assuming (just for the process) that each movie costs 50 Million to make, Disney ends up with a profit of 516 Million, while Pixar earns 946 Million. Pixar almost doubles Disney's numbers in the same period. Also, if you look at Pixar's earnings, they're climbing, while Disney's have fallen since Tarzan.
Disney obviously has other sources for profit, but how long can the operations that demand on the movies (tie-ins, etc.) last at this rate.
Pixar is only a symptom of a greater problem within Disney.
Um okay...did you freak out when Apple released the security update for OSX.3 and then later in the week, after a wave of bitching and moaning on Slashdot, everyone who had bitched was quiet when it was announced that yes indeed Apple was releasing an update for Jaguar as well.
I'm just wondering.
How old is your computer by the way, a Beige G3 I believe, I mean dude when did you buy that thing?
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This is what I hate about Near East poltics, there's really not standard for good behavior, everyone is culpable, everyone has gotten their hands dirty in some way. But, I think Israel without the "Palestinian question," which has lasted for far too long because of the Israelies, the Palestinians themselves, and all the surrounding countries who could have accepted the Palestinians into their territory--fair, no but history proves this works, frankly even the Turks and Palestinians don't actually belong in that region, they were pushed west by other groups, so the east coast of the Mediterrian hasn't really been 'owned' by anyone.
Actually Turkey is not part of the Middle East, but that's truly a semantic arguement so I will concede, Turkey is indeed the singular Democracy in the Middle East. Israel is first a Zionist state but it does have a democratic system in place, and as bad as you may believe they are they at least made the choice. But, Israeli and Palestinian situation has been for far too long an excuse for the rest of the Middle East to languish in despots and poverty--with the ocassional hard-shove by Western countries: France, Britian, US, etc. I'm not going to defend the United State's own culpability in the Near East. As bad as Israel is, and they've mishandled the situation incredibly since Balfour, they're still better than Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or any other country on the Arabian Penninsula, and the Muslim theocrats who use the same language you accused the Israelies of using.
First, name the other democracies in the Middle East. Oh wait that's right you can't. I don't want to defend Israel because their treatment of the Palestinians has been aborhent, but the rest of the Middle East has been almost at least as culpable: the myth of the right of return, the refusal of Syria, Jordan to accept refugees; and the refusal of the PLO and Yassir Arafat to end suicide bombings in exchange for concessions. Furthermore, the Syrians were the ones who fired Katyusha rockets from the Golan, and the PLO were the ones who caused the one other democracy in the modern middle east, Lebanon to disintigrate. The Middle East is a political cesspool and no one comes out clean. But, working with the Israelies to develop the THEL could be a good thing for Israeli security which makes them more comfortable which makes it easier for them to offer concessions and abandon the Golan and the West Bank, settlement issue aside. Furthermore, anti-Semitism is dangerous and while you may decide to deride the fears of Jews you must remember that not only did modern Jewry absorb the German hollocost and the previous Pollish and Russian pogroms but they also endured 3 separate attacks after 1948. Israel is in a position that is historically rare and while it's very easy for you to say Israel could be different, imagine your home in the same position. Lastly, to be totally honest if it was a choice between the theocratic or despotic countries of the Middle East or Israeli I side with the Israelies every time. But, I still think they've wholy screwed up situations they could have fixed and I think Sharon is a war-criminal.
Actually this system is not designed for ICBMs, but rather to take out the Katyusha rockets that are periodically tossed in the Israeli's midst from the Golan Heights. This would be most effective in theater against artillery and multiple-launch rockets and possibly against something as large as a Scud. Again, not Star Wars which is space-based anti-ICBM technology that would only be useful against those who actually have ICBMs, but not enough to overwhelm the system. Star-Wars has been a huge waste of money and the anti-ICBM crowd is deluded in thinking this is the big threat, but behind able to knock down a Katyusha, not that's something our military could use. Think of it also as the replacement for the close-in-defense guns currently on US ships which are very ripe targets for Exocets.
People buy Mac to get away from Microsoft and their kludge of an operating system. And there are thousands of titles out for the Macintosh, just maybe not what you're interested in. Also, Apple is the name of the company and the Macintosh or Mac is the name of the product. Why do I have the distinct feeling I'm feeding a troll?
First, thanks for ripping this off from Eric Raymond: But, second while I think your description is interesting, it is immediately obvious what your opinion is, so thanks for feigning even-handedness. However, I can see your point about the Macintosh world, even though I can also say that the 'church' of the Mac also cares about the user experience and makes high-aims towards that end-result even if it is inside a closed proprietary loop. But, I think you missed some sections in the PC world, or the Bazaar. The PC world is a bazaar in Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Although at the lowest levels there is intense competition and a ever-changing structure, there is still a singular oligarch at the top, and a rising, but still marginal oligarchical structure just below that. (If you haven't figured it out by now, Windows and Linux) These two overall oligarchys will control the user experience, the rather important relationship between the user and computer. This is the part that is the most central part of the computer, the frission between user and system, the technology is the fulcrum for that, but not the central reason for existing. Ultimately, for all its variences, the PC world is defined by only a few pertinent structures, the oligarchy that controls and taxes the numerous and heady bazaars below. I like the Mac better for lots of reasons, but I can understand and appreciate the differences. Neither reigns supreme.
Please define real music based on these terms, it is the age, the use of 'classical' instruments, the time period, or the fact that this makes you sound smart when it really makes you sound like a jackass for using such a useless definition as 'real' music. You do know that at one point Schubert was 'Pop' music for the wig-headed set right? If the definition of classic music is really old stuff than you should really appreciate the digeridoo or the skin-drum, chanting and the Greek chorus. But, you probably have a slightly narrower field of vision than that.
Re: Mood organ. Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Remember Deckard's wife was experimenting with the Mood organ, lowering her mood and then playing songs to make it worse, rather than better which is the way the mood organ was supposed to work.
I disagree, most normal processes do not use root, email, web-browsing, MS office, the things many people do should not delve that deep into the system. Some things will and those are things that need a sanity check or a roadblock that can be easily bypassed. Similar to the warning labels on just about everything, you can use your hairdryer in the shower, however we just told you it might not be such a good idea. That kind of Are you sure? is enough to slow down many users. Combine that with limited, none Administrator/Root accounts and most lusers can't break nearly as much shit as they would with free-reign. There's a reason that your TV has all the screws on the back and the big scary warning label. The Sandbox, restricted user is the best way to keep your 10-year old from trashing the system; secretaries aren't any different.
Except that is the beauty of OSX. You set up the moron users with limited accounts and you can be very specific about what they are allowed to and what they are not. I do this with all of my machines and it works quite well. If you need Administrative access, you either doing something you need me for, or you're doing something you shouldn't.
Next time ditch the cape, people will stop looking at you funny.
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Ummm. No. The files can be moved back, but they're invisible to the system, but there are about a zillion tools to show these files and then just move them back. In the case of Protected AACs you can drop them to another computer, but when you try to play them iTunes reads the DRM tags and then looks to see if that computer is Authorized. However, be careful to make sure that a regular Mp3 or your own 'ripped' Mp4s can be moved onto computer or back without any kind of encryption. Apple put in the invisible files thing to keep people from sneaker-netting 10 gigs of files around. But, like all DRM, it is easy to circumvent.
But, wait it uses WMV and that's worth at least 300.00 right. Right? At least it's better than their first solution, strapping an Xbox to your chest with duck tape.
Go look up the definition of a monopoly you dumb jackass. I see this comment every single time there's an article about Apple. Not a monopoly, a vertically integrated company. I know the shades of difference are hard for you to hold onto but try.
There needs to be a modifier for either didn't read the post or just plain stupid. He said 'Corporate Desktop' which is more often that not, running Windows. Yes, x86 can run Linux, guess what, so can PPC. Oh wow who's the big boy now? Who knowledgable with operating system choices now? Feel better.
Actually in a democratic republc such as the United States the government enforces the will of the majority so long as it does not infringe upon inalienable rights, hence the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the Judicial branch of the US government under the wing of the Supreme Court. A system that depended on majority will could result in 51% of people voting that the remaining 49% are slaves and should remain as such. I know this little subtly is hard to grasp, but try.
This is an interesting point that Tolkien brings up and you reiterate. Islam intentionally avoids images of Allah and Mohammed and has instead created an art form of goemetric images. This was to avoid both idolotry which was rife in 7th century pre-Islamic societies and possibly the kind of weird iconography that became the image of god in the Christian church. Think of it, Michelangelo has created the mind's-eye image of god for generations of Christians. But, I would also argue that the mind has the ability to surpass these images and formulate its own. Think of Shakespeare's Hamlet and all the various ways it's been presented even in the last few decades; the Mel Gibson version is very different from Kenneth Branagh version. Or Romeo & Juliet, translated into everything from Baz Lurhman's screeching Leonardo DiCaprio to the odd Romeo Must Die staring Jet Li and a million sitcoms and dramas. I think the danger exists, but it can be overcome by the ability of the mind to stretch over new images and ideas, every story must be retold a thousand times. And in the case of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, I had the same concern until the camera first settled on Bag End and I realized how carefully the crew has translated Tolkien's work using his own descriptions. I think Tolkien would be surprised not only at WETA's amazing effects and images, but at the shear will of Jackson et. al. to stay close to his descriptions.
This I believe is one of the problems with our society, we measure everything in cost without measuring benefit. I'm reminded of Fight Club when Jack tells Tyler his job: I'm a recall coordinator. My job was to apply the formula. It's simple arithmetic....It's a story problem. A new car built by my company leaves Boston traveling at 60 miles per hour. The rear differential locks up...The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now: do we initiate a recall?...You take the number of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. What is cheap isn't necessarily good or right. I know this is an extreme example and maybe a cheap way to illustrate a point, but customers shouldn't be buying the cheapest thing they can find because often that cheap price is the result of economic forces they'd rather not think about. BTW, what the cheapest brand-name new PC you can find and what's the cheapest Macintosh you can buy at Apple, excluding discounts, special deals, etc. Now adjust for any missing or included software and hardware either way and see the result. Obviously a Macintosh is more expensive than the beige case with mobo and chip sitting on the Fry's backshelves, but that's not a fair assement of price because few general consumers buy that machine, they buy a Dell or HP (1 & 2 in the market) and yet most consumers compare the price of an Apple machine to that beige machine in the back corner which they have no intension of buying.
No because that would constitute probable cause, please see the definition here: http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/315/315lect06.htm .
The Fourth Ammendment requires probable cause and protects against unreasonable searches. Read that, unreasonable searches. In the case of the article, Hibble is not required to show an ID under federal law although he is under California law, so the Supreme Court is to decide whether this is Constitutional, and they are supposed to do.
You make the same assumption that the police often do, if a crime has been committed all citizens are guilty until proven innocent, while this is a mindset brought on by the inherent reality of an officer's job, it is still wrong. You should be able to walk down the street any time without being questioned by a police officer, however it is reasonable for them to question you, and for you to refuse.
If someone is on one side of the street bloody and holding a samurai sword and someone is on the other side of the street with their hands in their pockets, your reasoning would have the police stop both because a crime had been committed in the neighborhood.
So what we want is a group that wants the exact opposite of the things in the Union of Concerned Scientists. And yeah, human feces affects the environment, wow can't believe it. Have about 10 tons of its (the average amount moved through a city sewer in less than an hour) dumped on your front yard and see how long it takes to affect your environment. The UCS isn't an objective bunch, but that last comment was just stupid.
Of course this is not the mention the religious and political groups that also said Galileo, Copernicus were wrong. Oh wait, dissenting views are marginalized, and disenters demonized. It cuts both ways, the point is to look at the science and not personal scientific truth nor political agendas. Just because Galileo managed to be right doesn't mean that Lomberg or anyone else is right, its a neat little tautology you got there though.
Oh for once will one of you geniuses--those whom jump up and down hollering Apple is a monopoly too at the top of your lungs--go and read the legal definition of a monopoly and the abuse of such a monopoly. Furthermore, please note that Microsoft was convicted of monopolist practices. Also, as someone has already pointed out, but I think needs to be reiterated for all the soft-skulled around her, you can remove the i-Apps and bring in new Apps without breaking the system. With the exception of Quicktime (which is needed for iTunes) you can just simply delete every Application that comes with a Macintosh and replace it with competitors products and they will work. ate
Using your statitics I plotted it out, and you can see how badly the Disney Animation studios are really doing. Except for Lilo & Stich, Disney hasn't broken the 100 Million dollar mark since 1999's Tarzan, and Treasure Planet and Fantasia 2000 were under 50 Million. Meanwhile, Pixar's worst Domestic Gross was A Bug's Life with $162.8 Million. The really amazing thing, though is to take earnings and compare them to possible costs. Assuming (just for the process) that each movie costs 50 Million to make, Disney ends up with a profit of 516 Million, while Pixar earns 946 Million. Pixar almost doubles Disney's numbers in the same period. Also, if you look at Pixar's earnings, they're climbing, while Disney's have fallen since Tarzan. Disney obviously has other sources for profit, but how long can the operations that demand on the movies (tie-ins, etc.) last at this rate. Pixar is only a symptom of a greater problem within Disney.
Um okay...did you freak out when Apple released the security update for OSX.3 and then later in the week, after a wave of bitching and moaning on Slashdot, everyone who had bitched was quiet when it was announced that yes indeed Apple was releasing an update for Jaguar as well. I'm just wondering. How old is your computer by the way, a Beige G3 I believe, I mean dude when did you buy that thing?
Why can't there be a mod-point for dumbass jokes. Macs only have one mouse button tehe!