But what a totally arbitrary decision for them to make.. porn = bad, but fucking over a user's [boingboing.net] computer [cnet.com] = good?
Keep in mind that Sony's electronics, music and movie divisions are almost treated as seperate companies. Each one competes with the other, has different policies, etc. From what little I can make of it, the in-fighting alone is going to kill them eventually if they don't sort it out.
Essentially, Apple wants anything running on an Apple product to be either developed and provided by Apple or provided by another party which is under contract from Apple so that Apple still has control over the software.
You've obviously never actually looked at the Mac software market. Even a quick glance at VersionTracker will show thousands of apps not developed by Apple, nor developed under contract with Apple.
Screw the coffee. I have to admit, they make a damn fine tasting Chai Latte tea. I know, it probably tastes nothing like real chai, but to my American palatte it's extremely tasty.
Y'know, you could just offer to sell the gift card to some kid on the local campus, a relative or *gasp* a friend, right? Then you'd have the cash to spend however you want.
Also, those socks have terrible DRM. I mean, you can only use them on your feet! Talk about restricted use. I mean, maybe you can use them as a rag, or a hand puppet, but you have to do some serious hacking to get any other serious use out of them.;)
That's the problem entirely: changing your method of dealing with projects involves learning the new method. And there's always excuses why you don't have the time right now.
I'm stuck in the same situation. Been meaning to buy a copy of GTD and apply it, but I have "other things to do" first...
If Ubuntu had the features of Mac OS X with a better file browser (frankly, Finder sucks ass) and for cheaper than Windows, then it could make real in-roads
Frankly, I'd kill for a port of Nautilus to OS X. From what little I've used Ubuntu, I really like that file manager.
Some EMTs are run & operated by your local (city or county) government. Others are privately owned and run by a hospital or a corporation. Regardless, they are typically not empowered to break into an individual's home, regardless of the severity of the emergency call. EMTs are not indemnefied against lawsuits for damages in most cases, unlike police & firefighters, so they'd be inviting frivolous suits when little Timmy crank calls 911.
Okay, click a menu. You're telling me that every single entry on that menu has a shortcut? If it does, either you're not running OSX or they made substantive changes in the last year and a half.:)
It depends on which app you're using. Most of Apple's apps do have a keyboard shortcut for 90% of the menu options. Some third-party apps have nothing but Copy/Cut/Paste/Undo.
Yeah, noone has ever used a contact lens fluid container with a liquid explosive and a casio watch to set off a bomb on an airplane. Nor did they assemble it in the airplane lavatory. That is just crazy talk. It is clearly impossible.
Congratulations. You've just completely misconstrued the nature of the events. This plot was supposedly based on people smuggling various non-explosive liquids onto a plane to combine into a chemical explosive. The event you cite was a single explosive liquid being brought onboard and detonated with a mechanical device, which is easily detected with modern security measures.
That doesn't make sense. At all. The phones don't run OS X themselves, so it won't drive licenses of OS X that way. If the halo effect is to be believed, they may buy a new Mac which includes OS X (which would be one license). If they already have a Mac, they don't need another OS X license (so still just one total).
No, you see the OP saying something like "I don't know Linux and neither do my co-workers here in IT." I'm just saying that not knowing information should not be a barrier to your *consideration* of adoption. If this is a good choice for you (which they said it was, cost of training being the barrier) and this is the only thing holding you back from a proposal, download some Slackware or Gentoo install disks and LEARN.
You're assuming that he has the time to learn a new OS. Not just learn to use it, learn it well enough to admin a facility run on Linux. And learn it while still maintaining the current system. And probably helping the other admins, staff, etc. learn too. It's not as simple as, "Pick up a book at the library for a few weeks."
How does this invalidate NPOV? Yes, people will put biased things into articles. Which later get removed by people who actually care about NPOV. What's your point?
Quicktime is not a video encoding format, it's a media package. It has been used for interactive behavior, for years. So, I don't see it coming out anytime soon.
I think what's being overlooked here is that the Mac is just over 20 years old. And early Apple fans are among some of the most loyal customers I've ever seen.
It's not that big of a stretch to imagine the graphic designers, artists, business owners and DTP entrepreneurs who first bought a Mac in the mid-eighties are still using Macs now. Add 20 years onto the age they picked up one of those Macs, and you have the current market.
I won't even bother with your newspaper comments. If you believe that advertising and website hits subsidise enough of a publishing business that newspapers can survive without subscribers paying them, you need to brush up on your economics.
This assumes that the person lives in a place where bus transportation is available and usable. There's a lot of places in the US where this just isn't the case. I guess you never leave whatever dense urban area you live in.
Again, you'd be wrong. I live in rural Kentucky and had to buy a car for the first time because I couldn't ride the bus when I moved out here. Until that time, it was more affordable and practical for me to ride the bus. You're reaching.
No, not everyone has good enough credit for a credit card, but there's no reason for anyone to not have a bank account, unless they're some kind of criminal or something. Most regular jobs now require you to have a bank account for direct deposit or else you won't get a paycheck.
You're very good at making assumptions about other people's lifestyles, when you've apparently no real-world experience at all. I've known people who don't trust banks, can't get a bank account due to past bounced checks (some through no fault of their own, other people deliberately), and until the last decade or so, a number of banks in this area had minimum balances to keep (which doesn't work for those living paycheck to paycheck). Now, it's more common for banks to offer $0 minimum accounts, and employers are moving to direct deposit. Yes, that makes it easier... but until recently, it wasn't always an option.
You've really made a lot of bad assumptions about people and the way they live. You're quite free to disregard it as "their fault" if you wish, but that doesn't make you any more right about real-world living.
Did you just come from 1970? Who the heck still reads newspapers?
Well, at least we can lump you in with our esteemed President. Point of fact: if people didn't read newspapers, newspaper companies would be out of business. Given the sheer number of newspaper companies across the nation, I'd say people are buying plenty of 'em.
Who rides the bus?
Anyone who can't afford a car, can't find reasonable parking, doesn't want to drive, can't drive for a medical reason, car has broke down, etc.
If you still use cash, then you're making a choice to do so, and going to a lot of extra trouble to do so.
You're not even trying, now. Not everyone has a credit line for a credit card, or a bank account. Cash is still the default for a lot of transactions in this country.
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Keep in mind that Sony's electronics, music and movie divisions are almost treated as seperate companies. Each one competes with the other, has different policies, etc. From what little I can make of it, the in-fighting alone is going to kill them eventually if they don't sort it out.
Um, did you even read the clip from the website posted at the top of this page?
Emphasis mine.
Mod parent UP. This one is pretty clear bad-faith exploit on the MoAB folks' part.
You've obviously never actually looked at the Mac software market. Even a quick glance at VersionTracker will show thousands of apps not developed by Apple, nor developed under contract with Apple.
... which are Linux distros. The question is, why aren't people rolling more variant OSes, rather than repackaging Linux?
Screw the coffee. I have to admit, they make a damn fine tasting Chai Latte tea. I know, it probably tastes nothing like real chai, but to my American palatte it's extremely tasty.
Y'know, you could just offer to sell the gift card to some kid on the local campus, a relative or *gasp* a friend, right? Then you'd have the cash to spend however you want.
;)
Also, those socks have terrible DRM. I mean, you can only use them on your feet! Talk about restricted use. I mean, maybe you can use them as a rag, or a hand puppet, but you have to do some serious hacking to get any other serious use out of them.
That's the problem entirely: changing your method of dealing with projects involves learning the new method. And there's always excuses why you don't have the time right now.
I'm stuck in the same situation. Been meaning to buy a copy of GTD and apply it, but I have "other things to do" first...
Frankly, I'd kill for a port of Nautilus to OS X. From what little I've used Ubuntu, I really like that file manager.
Some EMTs are run & operated by your local (city or county) government. Others are privately owned and run by a hospital or a corporation. Regardless, they are typically not empowered to break into an individual's home, regardless of the severity of the emergency call. EMTs are not indemnefied against lawsuits for damages in most cases, unlike police & firefighters, so they'd be inviting frivolous suits when little Timmy crank calls 911.
'nuff said.
Though I'm way too late to get modded, and most mods probably won't recognize it.
It depends on which app you're using. Most of Apple's apps do have a keyboard shortcut for 90% of the menu options. Some third-party apps have nothing but Copy/Cut/Paste/Undo.
You do realize you're about to get bludgeoned by the "subbed" vs. "dubbed" debate, right? ;)
If I had points, I'd mod you up. I want to see a non-human (and non-Vulcan!) captain.
Congratulations. You've just completely misconstrued the nature of the events. This plot was supposedly based on people smuggling various non-explosive liquids onto a plane to combine into a chemical explosive. The event you cite was a single explosive liquid being brought onboard and detonated with a mechanical device, which is easily detected with modern security measures.
Virgin Mobile (which runs off Sprint towers) had a model that did that a couple years ago. I think they called it the "Raver."
That doesn't make sense. At all. The phones don't run OS X themselves, so it won't drive licenses of OS X that way. If the halo effect is to be believed, they may buy a new Mac which includes OS X (which would be one license). If they already have a Mac, they don't need another OS X license (so still just one total).
You're assuming that he has the time to learn a new OS. Not just learn to use it, learn it well enough to admin a facility run on Linux. And learn it while still maintaining the current system. And probably helping the other admins, staff, etc. learn too. It's not as simple as, "Pick up a book at the library for a few weeks."
... and apparently stayed that way!
How does this invalidate NPOV? Yes, people will put biased things into articles. Which later get removed by people who actually care about NPOV. What's your point?
I don't know whose press releases you're reading. Even on the site itself it says not use Wikipedia as a source, just as a jumping-off point.
Quicktime is not a video encoding format, it's a media package. It has been used for interactive behavior, for years. So, I don't see it coming out anytime soon.
I think what's being overlooked here is that the Mac is just over 20 years old. And early Apple fans are among some of the most loyal customers I've ever seen.
It's not that big of a stretch to imagine the graphic designers, artists, business owners and DTP entrepreneurs who first bought a Mac in the mid-eighties are still using Macs now. Add 20 years onto the age they picked up one of those Macs, and you have the current market.
This assumes that the person lives in a place where bus transportation is available and usable. There's a lot of places in the US where this just isn't the case. I guess you never leave whatever dense urban area you live in.
Again, you'd be wrong. I live in rural Kentucky and had to buy a car for the first time because I couldn't ride the bus when I moved out here. Until that time, it was more affordable and practical for me to ride the bus. You're reaching.
No, not everyone has good enough credit for a credit card, but there's no reason for anyone to not have a bank account, unless they're some kind of criminal or something. Most regular jobs now require you to have a bank account for direct deposit or else you won't get a paycheck.
You're very good at making assumptions about other people's lifestyles, when you've apparently no real-world experience at all. I've known people who don't trust banks, can't get a bank account due to past bounced checks (some through no fault of their own, other people deliberately), and until the last decade or so, a number of banks in this area had minimum balances to keep (which doesn't work for those living paycheck to paycheck). Now, it's more common for banks to offer $0 minimum accounts, and employers are moving to direct deposit. Yes, that makes it easier... but until recently, it wasn't always an option.
You've really made a lot of bad assumptions about people and the way they live. You're quite free to disregard it as "their fault" if you wish, but that doesn't make you any more right about real-world living.
Well, at least we can lump you in with our esteemed President. Point of fact: if people didn't read newspapers, newspaper companies would be out of business. Given the sheer number of newspaper companies across the nation, I'd say people are buying plenty of 'em.
Who rides the bus?
Anyone who can't afford a car, can't find reasonable parking, doesn't want to drive, can't drive for a medical reason, car has broke down, etc.
If you still use cash, then you're making a choice to do so, and going to a lot of extra trouble to do so.
You're not even trying, now. Not everyone has a credit line for a credit card, or a bank account. Cash is still the default for a lot of transactions in this country.