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Well, they MIGHT take his knighthood away (meaning he could not without being a falsifier put it on his résumé), but he would certainly get a lot of laughs.
That's how I was with SWG until last month, when I said "screw it," unsubscribed, and took advantage of a sale on TiVo machines. SWG just gets kind of dull after a while.
When I made the prior remark I am not sure if I had read the specific sales figures yet or not -- 3 times as many eMacs were sold as iMacs. Apple certainly does need to make the iMac more than just a "flat-panel eMac," especially as a large number of LCD junkies are laptop users anyhow. Adding a G5 is a good way to do that.
Frankly put, Apple ran out of G4 iMacs. Either sales were better than expected, IBM was worse than expected, or both. They STILL have G4 Power Macs, having just quit making them, so they didn't want to cannibalize sales on the Power Mac G5 release. Now they want to get people excited so they keep their pants on and don't go get a Dell or even settle for an eMac before September. Besides, it's nice to let your stockholders know what's up when you have hit a mishap -- remind them that the dark cloud of no iMacs has a 64-bit silicon lining.
Have two categories -- "junk" and "inappropriate." Allow individual users to add stuff to them, so your copy of Firefox would adjust to not let you see pop-ups for X10 cameras and "free" iPods (junk) or shock sites and porn (inappropriate) if you so chose. And the definitions would evolve to meet your tastes and needs, as well as the evolving nature of advertising and indececy. Basically the Thunderbird filter (Bayesian or what have you), but in Firefox.
Here in the US, many of our state lotteries are a source of income for the States -- and therefore fund public education, road construction, and the like, if I recall.
BSA affiliates want to tell their investors something that doesn't sound anything like either "people don't want to buy worthless upgrades" or "those Free Software guys are pushing our products into obsolescence." Things like that hurt stock prices.
Secunia is simply saying this to "show" that they are not "anti-Windows zealots." I haven't heard much about OS X servers being cracked, and the only viruses created for OS X have been non-replicating proofs of concept. Moreover, no OS X program can screw up your system unless YOU GIVE IT YOUR ADMIN PASSWORD-- and hopefully you have your personal data backed up anyhow, as hardware failure hits when you least expect it.
Even on an administrator account, you can't screw up the operating system without a chance to bail out at a password prompt. Try that on Windows.
A disclaimer -- "This service, if being used for password retrieval, is intended only for use by system administrators or their authorized agents" -- would help avoid legal problems, but a click-through license is worthless. They may or may not hold water, and beyond that, how would you go about enforcing the contract?
What you forget is that apple.com is not the only place where you can acquire a Mac -- this is Apple, not Gateway or Dell, and Apple has retail channels. The physical Apple stores probably still have some, and of course some of the authorized resellers probably have decently-sized stockpiles.
Actually, it was Richard M. Stallman whose impetus for the free software movement as we know it was his first proprietary printer driver...that did not work.
Popular Photography (no, really, it's for the articles!), Popular Science (geeky stuff), Invention & Technology (historical stuff, largely), and Macworld (to tip me off on new software and peripherals).
Or perhaps they simply don't want overmuch trouble from labels. Fair use doesn't enter into Hymn, because the problem is not one of copyright. The issue MIGHT involve patents (if any exist). But more likely they're trying to enforce contracts -- the iTunes license agremeent forbids stuff like that.
You could also use optical scan sheets. Basically the same, but the mark you put on the paper involves darkening an oval, and a computer knows where the oval goes. You can still easily hand count it, though -- if people bubble two alternatives, and they didn't bubble one more, throw the ballot out.
Actually you are REFLECTING photons, therefore infringing on the intellectual property of General Electric, Westinghouse, many other lumination consultancy firms, and moreover the stars themselves. Pirate!
They provide source code, under the GPL, for all GPL licensed software that they use. You can get this from their website. Doesn't that meet all the GPL's requirements?
While an SLR won't solve every problem (a tripod solves double chins and steadiness issues, and composition takes practice), a camera that doesn't have parallax will keep you from cutting off Aunt Mildred at a bad location.
Poor choice of equipment can cause a lot of problems. And if you cannot bring yourself to buy a digital SLR (or ZLR if you don't care about interchangable lenses -- the reflex is what's important so long as you have a good midrange optical zoom on it), consider film. It lacks the instant gratification (and deletability!) of an LCD and a TV output, you have to buy film, and a film cartridge will never be as durable as a CompactFlash card, but on the other hand, parallax-free cameras are cheap.
Actually, the last time I used Windows was yesterday.
In fact, I think I made that post from my Dell running Windows XP Home. I use Windows XP and Windows 98 every day.
I am aware of automatic updates...but I do not use them, because how would you know when you have received an update and what it is? You'd probably know when you'd received it by phantom reboot messages.
OS X can be set up to download the updates whenever they are available, but will not (and cannot, as Software Update doesn't keep an administrator password on file) install anything without your permission. So a friend tells you that an update caused trouble for them and that you should wait. Everyone releases a patch from time to time that causes problems for some users, and Microsoft is no exception. All you can do, if you know how, is turn off automatic updates. You can't just uncheck that particular patch when the update window comes up.
If the average Web-Office-and-maybe-Quicken-or-Photoshop user transitioned to Mac OS X, the problem would not exist. Yes, there'd probably be more Mac OS X viruses, but the update process is a lot easier. If there's an update for any Apple product you own, by default the software update program (which is browser-agnostic because it is browser-irrelevent) pops up on bootup (or on an OS reinstall) and asks you to click the Install button and type your password. All updates for Mac OS, Quicktime, iTunes and the other iLife components, Final Cut if you have it, or anything else Apple then download and install all at once. You are asked to reboot if necessary. You then can go about your life, and assume that next Tuesday or whenever, your Software Update will pop up again (on bootup, if you have broadband, so it won't interrupt any other work) if it needs to do its job.
If "hardware limited" means no second button, any laptop Mac (be it a PowerBook or an iBook, but probably not a Mac Portable though I don't recall about its input) has a single built-in click button on the trackpad, or else two equivalent buttons above and below a trackball (in the case of early PowerBooks) and is thus prior art. You can double click, you can click and hold. They may have a patent for double clicking on PDAs, but I imagine that Palm or anyone could get it overturned.
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Well, they MIGHT take his knighthood away (meaning he could not without being a falsifier put it on his résumé), but he would certainly get a lot of laughs.
That's how I was with SWG until last month, when I said "screw it," unsubscribed, and took advantage of a sale on TiVo machines. SWG just gets kind of dull after a while.
When I made the prior remark I am not sure if I had read the specific sales figures yet or not -- 3 times as many eMacs were sold as iMacs. Apple certainly does need to make the iMac more than just a "flat-panel eMac," especially as a large number of LCD junkies are laptop users anyhow. Adding a G5 is a good way to do that.
Frankly put, Apple ran out of G4 iMacs. Either sales were better than expected, IBM was worse than expected, or both. They STILL have G4 Power Macs, having just quit making them, so they didn't want to cannibalize sales on the Power Mac G5 release. Now they want to get people excited so they keep their pants on and don't go get a Dell or even settle for an eMac before September. Besides, it's nice to let your stockholders know what's up when you have hit a mishap -- remind them that the dark cloud of no iMacs has a 64-bit silicon lining.
Bear in mind that there are no keyloggers for USB. Plug in a Mac keyboard or other USB device.
Any country with "democratic" or "republic" in the name isn't.
Anyone called a "personality" doesn't have one.
Anything called a "solution" doesn't solve anything.
Have two categories -- "junk" and "inappropriate." Allow individual users to add stuff to them, so your copy of Firefox would adjust to not let you see pop-ups for X10 cameras and "free" iPods (junk) or shock sites and porn (inappropriate) if you so chose. And the definitions would evolve to meet your tastes and needs, as well as the evolving nature of advertising and indececy. Basically the Thunderbird filter (Bayesian or what have you), but in Firefox.
In plain English, that's Samba.
Here in the US, many of our state lotteries are a source of income for the States -- and therefore fund public education, road construction, and the like, if I recall.
BSA affiliates want to tell their investors something that doesn't sound anything like either "people don't want to buy worthless upgrades" or "those Free Software guys are pushing our products into obsolescence." Things like that hurt stock prices.
Secunia is simply saying this to "show" that they are not "anti-Windows zealots." I haven't heard much about OS X servers being cracked, and the only viruses created for OS X have been non-replicating proofs of concept. Moreover, no OS X program can screw up your system unless YOU GIVE IT YOUR ADMIN PASSWORD-- and hopefully you have your personal data backed up anyhow, as hardware failure hits when you least expect it.
Even on an administrator account, you can't screw up the operating system without a chance to bail out at a password prompt. Try that on Windows.
A disclaimer -- "This service, if being used for password retrieval, is intended only for use by system administrators or their authorized agents" -- would help avoid legal problems, but a click-through license is worthless. They may or may not hold water, and beyond that, how would you go about enforcing the contract?
What you forget is that apple.com is not the only place where you can acquire a Mac -- this is Apple, not Gateway or Dell, and Apple has retail channels. The physical Apple stores probably still have some, and of course some of the authorized resellers probably have decently-sized stockpiles.
Actually, it was Richard M. Stallman whose impetus for the free software movement as we know it was his first proprietary printer driver...that did not work.
Popular Photography (no, really, it's for the articles!), Popular Science (geeky stuff), Invention & Technology (historical stuff, largely), and Macworld (to tip me off on new software and peripherals).
It looks to be a storage-area-network program, like Apple Xsan (and I think there's one called FibreShare (FiberShare?) or something)
I suppose that if you actually need two you can either use FireWire 800 or add a SCSI card.
Or perhaps they simply don't want overmuch trouble from labels. Fair use doesn't enter into Hymn, because the problem is not one of copyright. The issue MIGHT involve patents (if any exist). But more likely they're trying to enforce contracts -- the iTunes license agremeent forbids stuff like that.
You could also use optical scan sheets. Basically the same, but the mark you put on the paper involves darkening an oval, and a computer knows where the oval goes. You can still easily hand count it, though -- if people bubble two alternatives, and they didn't bubble one more, throw the ballot out.
Actually you are REFLECTING photons, therefore infringing on the intellectual property of General Electric, Westinghouse, many other lumination consultancy firms, and moreover the stars themselves. Pirate!
They provide source code, under the GPL, for all GPL licensed software that they use. You can get this from their website. Doesn't that meet all the GPL's requirements?
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While an SLR won't solve every problem (a tripod solves double chins and steadiness issues, and composition takes practice), a camera that doesn't have parallax will keep you from cutting off Aunt Mildred at a bad location.
Poor choice of equipment can cause a lot of problems. And if you cannot bring yourself to buy a digital SLR (or ZLR if you don't care about interchangable lenses -- the reflex is what's important so long as you have a good midrange optical zoom on it), consider film. It lacks the instant gratification (and deletability!) of an LCD and a TV output, you have to buy film, and a film cartridge will never be as durable as a CompactFlash card, but on the other hand, parallax-free cameras are cheap.
Actually, the last time I used Windows was yesterday.
In fact, I think I made that post from my Dell running Windows XP Home. I use Windows XP and Windows 98 every day.
I am aware of automatic updates...but I do not use them, because how would you know when you have received an update and what it is? You'd probably know when you'd received it by phantom reboot messages.
OS X can be set up to download the updates whenever they are available, but will not (and cannot, as Software Update doesn't keep an administrator password on file) install anything without your permission. So a friend tells you that an update caused trouble for them and that you should wait. Everyone releases a patch from time to time that causes problems for some users, and Microsoft is no exception. All you can do, if you know how, is turn off automatic updates. You can't just uncheck that particular patch when the update window comes up.
If the average Web-Office-and-maybe-Quicken-or-Photoshop user transitioned to Mac OS X, the problem would not exist. Yes, there'd probably be more Mac OS X viruses, but the update process is a lot easier. If there's an update for any Apple product you own, by default the software update program (which is browser-agnostic because it is browser-irrelevent) pops up on bootup (or on an OS reinstall) and asks you to click the Install button and type your password. All updates for Mac OS, Quicktime, iTunes and the other iLife components, Final Cut if you have it, or anything else Apple then download and install all at once. You are asked to reboot if necessary. You then can go about your life, and assume that next Tuesday or whenever, your Software Update will pop up again (on bootup, if you have broadband, so it won't interrupt any other work) if it needs to do its job.
If "hardware limited" means no second button, any laptop Mac (be it a PowerBook or an iBook, but probably not a Mac Portable though I don't recall about its input) has a single built-in click button on the trackpad, or else two equivalent buttons above and below a trackball (in the case of early PowerBooks) and is thus prior art. You can double click, you can click and hold. They may have a patent for double clicking on PDAs, but I imagine that Palm or anyone could get it overturned.