After watching carefully again the new version, I wouldn't bet my hand on the second difference. It is very difficult to say that the date is not 84 like on the first version.
However it was the first time I spotted the fact that the athlete's shirt has the Macintosh logo imprinted on it.
How about the same exact thing happening last october in France to Google.fr, as you can check here ?
Now should I start bashing the US, it's stupid politicians, lawyers, its lack of free speech, or how it doesn't understand anything to the very nature of the internet ? Should I tell Excite and Netscape to get the hell outta the US and show these rednecks we don't care about them ? Or should I just be funnily amused to see how the/. crowd, although educated, bright, open-minded and non-conventional, can be driven by low-level patriotism and turn itself into the anti-French "Fair and Balanced"(TM) Fox News of the "News for Nerds" ?
Sorry for this rant that I couldn't refrain myself writing, and that will bring me to the lowest levels of the moderation system, but it had to be said.
Greetings from the other side of the pond.
You're probably right for the average user, although the average user will use what they have at work, so If Linux goes mainstream at work, home users will follow.
But governments don't need to be impoverished to choose FOSS. They just need to understand their role in managing the information they use and record (such as tax data, legal information, etc): that is to make it available to everyone regardless of wealth status, and to ensure that it's well preserved for the future.
The tracks are elevated because trains with road crossings need to be built safely. That is, they need to withstand plowing into a fuel truck stalled on the tracks.
Nah, that's a moot point. The high-speed tracks built especially for the TGV (those where it can run at 300 km/h and above in the future) have no crossings at all. Where there are crossings (on the older conventional tracks built before), the TGV runs at 160 km/h (ie like regular french trains). And the fact they have to build special tracks for the TGV to run faster is the only reason why the high-speed TGV network is not more developed in France. Believe me, a lot of cities would like to have their TGV station because they have seen how much it helped the local economy of those who have them. But it's still too expensive and in some areas (like in the Champagne region), people don't want the new tracks. So, building special tracks is a real problem that is currently faced in France. That's why I think it would be an even bigger problem to build elevated tracks for the Maglevs, hence my question on why it's needed.
Elevating the track allows you to make the cars lighter.
I'd say it forces you to make them lighter;-)
And for real estate, that's not the biggest problem either, even in densely populated Europe. I'd think it's still cheaper to buy the land and built the track on ground than make it elevated everywhere (it's not like we need the land here: we already produce so much agricultural goods that we have to heavily regulate and that's one of the biggest political problems of the EU). But more important, I think people would really not accept it. Already people don't like having wind turbines around because they find them ugly and destroying the landscape. And I don't know for you, but I'm happy that we don't have those elevated highways that they love building in Japan or some US conurbations: those are really ugly. Not matter how light the construction is, it stills destroys the landscape and people do not accept that anymore. I'd understand that you have to make the Maglev track elevated in urban areas (they already do that for new train lines or new highways anyway), but why all along the track ? Of course I'm supposing that the idea is to have long-distance Maglevs, otherwise I don't even see why we'd need them (I don't care in gaining 5 minutes on a 10 km distance).
As a side point, it shouldn't be a problem to pass the electrical lines under the tracks in some places to avoid them falling on the tracks.
I'd very much like to back you on this but unfortunately I had a completely different experience about 2 weeks ago. That was when I installed OOo on an old P200 unders W98 that I gave to my cousin. A few days later she asked if she could have the same menus as in the course she had some time ago (she didn't even know she was asking me to install MS Word).
I just told her to try it like it was and we would see if she really needed to have *exactly* the same menus.
Switches between tracks are even more complicated, Transrapid for instance uses a 250m long steel frame which can be bended over the full length to provide smooth connections from one track to the next.
Thanks for this. I didn't know anything about how the Transrapid changes tracks, and that's a very necessity if you want to have real commercial service between two places afar. You cannot just have one train going back and forth between 2 places, otherwise you'd have to build a way too dense network. BTW, can the tracks be switched quickly ? Another question: why isn't the track symply built on ground ? I don't see why it has to be different than conventional tracks with bridges.
And by the way, you mention that conventional trains cannot use high slants because of the possibility they would need to stop, but why is that different with Maglevs ? Wouldn't one also have to consider the possibility that they'd need to stop in a random location due to technical problems or any other reason ?
Q1-> It's just a question of behaviour, boy, nothing more... If MS was playing by the rules and behaving nice, nobody would bash them. Indeed, there are companies with bad behaviour (Real Networks ?) and bad reputation, even though they're not a monopoly.
Q2-> I'm a not well paid PhD student, and I still prefer the Mac. Just a question of priorities in your life, and absolutely not a question of wealth. Some very rich people don't even own a car.
Remark about monopolies: you are a bit confused, really. You mix up controlling a platform and being a monopoly. What if I tell you that Nintendo controls their gaming platform, but that they're not a monopoly ? What about Sun ? What about SGI ? See what I mean ?
but no full-screen maximize mode on any convenient keypress if the feature is even there.
Others already pointed out before me that full-screen is available only with QT Pro (~30$). On the Mac there are free add-ons to play full-screen, like this one. Dunno if that exists for Windows.
Anyway, Quicktime don't let you do any of this stuff. Who is it for? Who uses it, other than mac loons without viable alternatives?
You shouldn't forget that you're not talking about QuickTime, which is a technology integrated to the system on Mac OS X. You're bitching about the QuickTime Player, which is essentially a crippled frontend to the technology, no worse than WMP or Real Player.
See this for an overview. And by the way, don't worry for Mac loons, I don't think they lack choice.
the quicktime versions always tend to be itty bitty
320x240 things with scratchy lo-fi sound
No, you're totally right. I always clean install OS X (workstation, as you call it) and no version has the firewall on by default. It also struck me when I RTFA and I thought it was a pity because it makes the arguments weaker. But it is of course utterly simple to click on "start" in the firewall tab of the "sharing system preference".
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They didnt have the marketing and media muscle though.
They surely didn't have the mindset to think "let's do it in such a way that people will enjoy using it" though ! Believe it or not, if the iTMS is successful, it's not just good luck.
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They represent the nasty side of the biology of the Net: the fact that any simulated or real ecosystem produces more parasites than non-parasites, and that non-parasites have to spend a significant amount of energy fighting off the bugs.
Yeah maybe, but as in the real world where we're mostly healthy, we still can use our computers productively most of the time. Granted, I run OS X, but even when I'm on a Windows box I still fight the system more than the viruses. The energy I spend cursing MS products is far more significant. Your analogy works better if Windows is the parasite, not the viruses.
However if you take a smaller "ecosystem", like the e-mail, it works much better.
For starters, they don't actually have to pay $250, as another poster here pointed out, it's actually $99.
This is totally fresh and new, this 99$ replacement has been announced like, two weeks ago.
I'm willing to assume that when he called about getting the battery replaced he got someone new/clueless.
I personally assumed that in order to record the call for his movie, he probably had to call Apple a 2nd time. Or else he must be a paranoid or new in advance what they were gonna say, don't you think ?.
For the rest I agree this is an isolated case.
OK, sorry if I hurt your feelings, I've been probably too harsh with you. However your net still seems too wide in equating turkish policy with turkish individuals.
That greek guy though, is quite incredible in his bias. I met a fair share of greeks or armenians before, and I never heard/read that much crap from them about turks/muslims. Wow really "christian turks are called greeks or armenians", get a clue boy ! Get out of your small village and travel a bit, instead of reading your crappy greek low-level newspapers.
Oh quit painting millions with the brush of something specific. Why do you say that ALL Turks are evil ?
Some Turks != Turkey.
I generally don't like a lot of what I hear about The USA, but how are you going to equate that with "All Americans" or "being protestant" ?
I generally don't like a lot of what I hear about Greece, but how are you going to equate that with "All Greeks" or "being orthodox" ?
I'm sorry to tell you both guys, you're just racists. I know it's not easy to read, but it's reality. Get some education and try to be critical of the media.
Microsoft is very good at anticipating the "stupid things" people will do with their systems, which is one of the reasons their products are so widely used.
I really wonder where you got that idea that MS anticipates anything. The most well known fix to Windows problems is "reinstall that damn thang", which is probably the proof that you shouldn't do too many "stupid things". Or you'll have to spend some time dealing with the hassle of a complete reinstall.
For the rest of your rant, there's a few iPods that have this problem, and other cases where using 1st Gen. iPods works with iTunes for Windows (see the Apple support thread). I don't even know why less than 10 people having the problem makes/. headlines. It's far from being as widespread as white spots on 15" Powerbooks. At least for the moment. I'd say wait and see before dissing Apple.
The question really is should I have to Hack the firmware to get it to work. The video card is more than capable.
The firmware hack doesn't work on 500 & 600 MHz iBooks with an ATI Rage Mobility (8 MB VRAM), unfortunately. And don't try it, it could render your machine unusable.
the fact that they're trying to force French law on a business based in a foreign country is the real crux of the matter
No, it's not. The case is about a company (Google) doing business in France. The company is providing a business service to French companies (putting their ads), a service for which they have to pay, and all of this happens in France, since the service is available in France. This has to be ruled by the french trade laws. If Renault's going to sell cars in the US, they have to make cars that are acceptable there, the US law applies. That's reasonable to me.
Then I don't think this ruling (Google vs Bourse des vols) is very intelligent, but don't expect french judges to know much more about the internet than US judges.
you "owe" time to the government to pay for it. So you would go straight from college to the civil service, then when you have served enough time, you are then free (if you choose) to get a private sector job
To be more precise, those schools that require you to work as a civil servant for 5 years after attending pay you a serious monthly salary while being a student. That is the reason why you're required to be a civil servant after attending. Then again, you are never forced to become a civil servant. All you have to do if you want to go to the private sector is to pay back, and you're free. Sometimes even the company hiring you will pay that for you, if they really want you. The reason is to allow people from poor background to be able to attend studies they'd never afford otherwise.
They should block France until the French Government changes their opinion on this ruling.
Being French, I'd like the government not to give a shit about that (and probably they won't, cause they won't hear about it). Because, you know, government (making the laws) is not supposed to intrude on justice (those who rule actual cases using that particular law). At least that's how it's supposed to work in something we used to call democracy.
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After watching carefully again the new version, I wouldn't bet my hand on the second difference. It is very difficult to say that the date is not 84 like on the first version.
However it was the first time I spotted the fact that the athlete's shirt has the Macintosh logo imprinted on it.
How about the same exact thing happening last october in France to Google.fr, as you can check here ?
/. crowd, although educated, bright, open-minded and non-conventional, can be driven by low-level patriotism and turn itself into the anti-French "Fair and Balanced"(TM) Fox News of the "News for Nerds" ?
Now should I start bashing the US, it's stupid politicians, lawyers, its lack of free speech, or how it doesn't understand anything to the very nature of the internet ? Should I tell Excite and Netscape to get the hell outta the US and show these rednecks we don't care about them ?
Or should I just be funnily amused to see how the
Sorry for this rant that I couldn't refrain myself writing, and that will bring me to the lowest levels of the moderation system, but it had to be said. Greetings from the other side of the pond.
You're probably right for the average user, although the average user will use what they have at work, so If Linux goes mainstream at work, home users will follow. But governments don't need to be impoverished to choose FOSS. They just need to understand their role in managing the information they use and record (such as tax data, legal information, etc): that is to make it available to everyone regardless of wealth status, and to ensure that it's well preserved for the future.
The tracks are elevated because trains with road crossings need to be built safely. That is, they need to withstand plowing into a fuel truck stalled on the tracks.
;-)
Nah, that's a moot point. The high-speed tracks built especially for the TGV (those where it can run at 300 km/h and above in the future) have no crossings at all. Where there are crossings (on the older conventional tracks built before), the TGV runs at 160 km/h (ie like regular french trains). And the fact they have to build special tracks for the TGV to run faster is the only reason why the high-speed TGV network is not more developed in France.
Believe me, a lot of cities would like to have their TGV station because they have seen how much it helped the local economy of those who have them. But it's still too expensive and in some areas (like in the Champagne region), people don't want the new tracks. So, building special tracks is a real problem that is currently faced in France. That's why I think it would be an even bigger problem to build elevated tracks for the Maglevs, hence my question on why it's needed.
Elevating the track allows you to make the cars lighter.
I'd say it forces you to make them lighter
And for real estate, that's not the biggest problem either, even in densely populated Europe. I'd think it's still cheaper to buy the land and built the track on ground than make it elevated everywhere (it's not like we need the land here: we already produce so much agricultural goods that we have to heavily regulate and that's one of the biggest political problems of the EU).
But more important, I think people would really not accept it. Already people don't like having wind turbines around because they find them ugly and destroying the landscape. And I don't know for you, but I'm happy that we don't have those elevated highways that they love building in Japan or some US conurbations: those are really ugly. Not matter how light the construction is, it stills destroys the landscape and people do not accept that anymore. I'd understand that you have to make the Maglev track elevated in urban areas (they already do that for new train lines or new highways anyway), but why all along the track ? Of course I'm supposing that the idea is to have long-distance Maglevs, otherwise I don't even see why we'd need them (I don't care in gaining 5 minutes on a 10 km distance).
As a side point, it shouldn't be a problem to pass the electrical lines under the tracks in some places to avoid them falling on the tracks.
I'd very much like to back you on this but unfortunately I had a completely different experience about 2 weeks ago. That was when I installed OOo on an old P200 unders W98 that I gave to my cousin. A few days later she asked if she could have the same menus as in the course she had some time ago (she didn't even know she was asking me to install MS Word).
I just told her to try it like it was and we would see if she really needed to have *exactly* the same menus.
Switches between tracks are even more complicated, Transrapid for instance uses a 250m long steel frame which can be bended over the full length to provide smooth connections from one track to the next.
Thanks for this. I didn't know anything about how the Transrapid changes tracks, and that's a very necessity if you want to have real commercial service between two places afar. You cannot just have one train going back and forth between 2 places, otherwise you'd have to build a way too dense network. BTW, can the tracks be switched quickly ? Another question: why isn't the track symply built on ground ? I don't see why it has to be different than conventional tracks with bridges.
And by the way, you mention that conventional trains cannot use high slants because of the possibility they would need to stop, but why is that different with Maglevs ? Wouldn't one also have to consider the possibility that they'd need to stop in a random location due to technical problems or any other reason ?
Q1-> It's just a question of behaviour, boy, nothing more... If MS was playing by the rules and behaving nice, nobody would bash them. Indeed, there are companies with bad behaviour (Real Networks ?) and bad reputation, even though they're not a monopoly.
Q2-> I'm a not well paid PhD student, and I still prefer the Mac. Just a question of priorities in your life, and absolutely not a question of wealth. Some very rich people don't even own a car.
Remark about monopolies: you are a bit confused, really. You mix up controlling a platform and being a monopoly. What if I tell you that Nintendo controls their gaming platform, but that they're not a monopoly ? What about Sun ? What about SGI ? See what I mean ?
but no full-screen maximize mode on any convenient keypress if the feature is even there.
.mov wrapper, just go here for a starter. In fact, if QT was so irrelevant, I don't see why the format has been taken as the basis for the MPEG-4 standard by the ISO.
Others already pointed out before me that full-screen is available only with QT Pro (~30$). On the Mac there are free add-ons to play full-screen, like this one. Dunno if that exists for Windows.
Anyway, Quicktime don't let you do any of this stuff. Who is it for? Who uses it, other than mac loons without viable alternatives?
You shouldn't forget that you're not talking about QuickTime, which is a technology integrated to the system on Mac OS X. You're bitching about the QuickTime Player, which is essentially a crippled frontend to the technology, no worse than WMP or Real Player. See this for an overview. And by the way, don't worry for Mac loons, I don't think they lack choice.
the quicktime versions always tend to be itty bitty 320x240 things with scratchy lo-fi sound
I don't see how you can blame QuickTime or Apple for that. If you want some quality content encapsulated in
No, you're totally right. I always clean install OS X (workstation, as you call it) and no version has the firewall on by default. It also struck me when I RTFA and I thought it was a pity because it makes the arguments weaker. But it is of course utterly simple to click on "start" in the firewall tab of the "sharing system preference".
HERE !
They didnt have the marketing and media muscle though.
They surely didn't have the mindset to think "let's do it in such a way that people will enjoy using it" though ! Believe it or not, if the iTMS is successful, it's not just good luck.
They represent the nasty side of the biology of the Net: the fact that any simulated or real ecosystem produces more parasites than non-parasites, and that non-parasites have to spend a significant amount of energy fighting off the bugs.
Yeah maybe, but as in the real world where we're mostly healthy, we still can use our computers productively most of the time. Granted, I run OS X, but even when I'm on a Windows box I still fight the system more than the viruses. The energy I spend cursing MS products is far more significant. Your analogy works better if Windows is the parasite, not the viruses.
However if you take a smaller "ecosystem", like the e-mail, it works much better.
For starters, they don't actually have to pay $250, as another poster here pointed out, it's actually $99.
This is totally fresh and new, this 99$ replacement has been announced like, two weeks ago.
I'm willing to assume that when he called about getting the battery replaced he got someone new/clueless.
I personally assumed that in order to record the call for his movie, he probably had to call Apple a 2nd time. Or else he must be a paranoid or new in advance what they were gonna say, don't you think ?.
For the rest I agree this is an isolated case.
OK, sorry if I hurt your feelings, I've been probably too harsh with you. However your net still seems too wide in equating turkish policy with turkish individuals.
That greek guy though, is quite incredible in his bias. I met a fair share of greeks or armenians before, and I never heard/read that much crap from them about turks/muslims. Wow really "christian turks are called greeks or armenians", get a clue boy ! Get out of your small village and travel a bit, instead of reading your crappy greek low-level newspapers.
Oh quit painting millions with the brush of something specific. Why do you say that ALL Turks are evil ?
Some Turks != Turkey.
I generally don't like a lot of what I hear about The USA, but how are you going to equate that with "All Americans" or "being protestant" ?
I generally don't like a lot of what I hear about Greece, but how are you going to equate that with "All Greeks" or "being orthodox" ?
I'm sorry to tell you both guys, you're just racists. I know it's not easy to read, but it's reality. Get some education and try to be critical of the media.
Microsoft is very good at anticipating the "stupid things" people will do with their systems, which is one of the reasons their products are so widely used.
/. headlines. It's far from being as widespread as white spots on 15" Powerbooks. At least for the moment. I'd say wait and see before dissing Apple.
I really wonder where you got that idea that MS anticipates anything. The most well known fix to Windows problems is "reinstall that damn thang", which is probably the proof that you shouldn't do too many "stupid things". Or you'll have to spend some time dealing with the hassle of a complete reinstall.
For the rest of your rant, there's a few iPods that have this problem, and other cases where using 1st Gen. iPods works with iTunes for Windows (see the Apple support thread). I don't even know why less than 10 people having the problem makes
As open source software, it can be ported by other people, to mac OS X for example.
How about using iCommune instead ? It's been on OS X for about 1 year, IIRC.
The question really is should I have to Hack the firmware to get it to work. The video card is more than capable.
The firmware hack doesn't work on 500 & 600 MHz iBooks with an ATI Rage Mobility (8 MB VRAM), unfortunately. And don't try it, it could render your machine unusable.
the fact that they're trying to force French law on a business based in a foreign country is the real crux of the matter
No, it's not. The case is about a company (Google) doing business in France. The company is providing a business service to French companies (putting their ads), a service for which they have to pay, and all of this happens in France, since the service is available in France. This has to be ruled by the french trade laws. If Renault's going to sell cars in the US, they have to make cars that are acceptable there, the US law applies. That's reasonable to me.
Then I don't think this ruling (Google vs Bourse des vols) is very intelligent, but don't expect french judges to know much more about the internet than US judges.
you "owe" time to the government to pay for it. So you would go straight from college to the civil service, then when you have served enough time, you are then free (if you choose) to get a private sector job
To be more precise, those schools that require you to work as a civil servant for 5 years after attending pay you a serious monthly salary while being a student. That is the reason why you're required to be a civil servant after attending. Then again, you are never forced to become a civil servant. All you have to do if you want to go to the private sector is to pay back, and you're free. Sometimes even the company hiring you will pay that for you, if they really want you. The reason is to allow people from poor background to be able to attend studies they'd never afford otherwise.
I believe that they do all the public sector recruitment from a few select government-run schools for public service.
That's definitely not the case.
They should block France until the French Government changes their opinion on this ruling.
Being French, I'd like the government not to give a shit about that (and probably they won't, cause they won't hear about it). Because, you know, government (making the laws) is not supposed to intrude on justice (those who rule actual cases using that particular law). At least that's how it's supposed to work in something we used to call democracy.