Perhaps pr0n seekers, as a group, are more net savvy these days precisely because so much has been targeted at them. The new set of n00bs are the ones looking for the Better Business Bureau etc. Just a guess.
Fine for me. Mac mini in the TV room to get iTunes etc through Frontrow. Maybe web surfing/iChat if I buy a wireless keyboard. Mac mini in the kitchen for web surfing/email/recipes. iMac in the study for the usual stuff plus DV (iMovie) + photos + iTunes ripping.
None of these everday functions require large amounts of RAM (certainly not more than each machine can accommodate), top end GPUs or multiple ethernet ports. Expansion and connectivity is taken care of by FW (for video) or USB (for local backup, cameras, KB). The iMac can even handle a second screen.
I'll admit that Apple can't please all of the people all of the time, but they get most of the people most of the time.
Thankyou:-) I am niche, non-average and unique! I've used Macs for 15 years and never had a high-end system yet - couldn't afford it, couldn't justify it. I'll continue to buy Macs that are pretty much equivalent to average PCs in terms of processing power just because I like the design and look of the Macs and I like OS X (and OS 9, System 8, and System 7 before it). And I'm unique.
Crossmatch in 15 minutes. Easy peasy and routine for ALL blood recipients. If 15 minutes is too long, give albumin to keep up the volume until then. If that doesn't work, you're screwed any way you look at it.
No, it's abuse of monopoly if Apple told the car manufacturers that they will use the iPod interface and only the iPod interface, otherwise they can't use the iPod interface at all.
If company A has a monopoly on something and colludes with or threatens company B with dire consequences should they not do what they say, that is anticompetitive - the are not competing with competitors on the strength of the quality of their product. If company B decides to use company A's product (even to the exclusion of others) then that's their call.
MS was crucified (line on the left, one cross each...) because: In contrast to other operating system vendors, Microsoft both refused to license its operating system without a browser and imposed restrictions -- at first contractual and later technical -- on OEMs' and end users' ability to remove its browser from its operating system. As its internal contemporaneous documents and licensing practices reveal, Microsoft decided to bind Internet Explorer to Windows in order to prevent Navigator from weakening the applications barrier to entry, rather than for any pro-competitive purpose. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
MS used it's dominance in one area (OS) as leverage to threaten OEMs about another area (browsers). Being a monopoly isn't against the law. Abusing the power that goes with it is.
Does Zune have the same feature? Check the EULA for it. Par 26.1.3 states: You may NOT share an earbud with someone. That's stealing. You may only share music on a limited basis with another Zune droid.
While certainly not policy or anything, in my job as government web guy I get a lot of PDF scans*. The problem is twofold: lack of Adobe Writer around the place (cost, and the inability of IT to implement a cheaper PDF creator) and scanning photocopiers that include the ability to scan to PDF.
Ya reckon no-one in the Lebanese 'burbs noticed a few hundred Kattooooshhka rockets around the neighbourhood?
While they mightn't have anything to do with Hezbollah, you think they'd know something of what's going on and make plans to clear out.
Also, Hezbollah seems to be quite capable (and willing) of lobbing explosives and rockets onto civilian targets, so I don't think there's any high moral ground to be had here.
Bottom line: if your crazy neighbour starts installing rocket launchers, move.
MS makes an OS for a generic range of x86 PCs. Many different operating systems can run on these PCs, though the courts found that MS had a monopoly on the PC OS market. That in itself is not a bad thing. However, MS tried to use the monopoly it had in the OS market to force a competitor out of the browser market. That is where MS went wrong: trying to use the monopoly they had in one sphere to influence choice in another (manufacturers weren't preinstalling Netscape on PCs). MS tried to argue that the browser was an integral part of the OS and couldn't be removed, but the courts said that was bullshit. If MS made all the PCs they wouldn't have had this problem.
Apple makes the Mac. They make the hardware, for which they also create the OS. It's not a monopoly because it's their box from beginning to end. Anyone can make Mac software that can be installed later, but the hardware manufacturer (Apple) is under no obligation to preinstall anything. Mind you if Apple started breaking competitor's software, it would be an interesting legal battle.
That's one conspiracy theory I could never understand.
There's nothing in it for the car manufacturers. If they make a great car that runs on blueberries, the oil companies may be upset, but what could they do? If they sell lots of cars, great. Not like big oil can do anything about it.
Get the wife. Get the kids. You'll have no money, time, freedom, hair or sanity but it's the best thing ever. I'm doing it at 40 and wish I'd done it at 30 (when I had a leetle more energy:-) )
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No. Just Wolfgang.
Interesting. I'd like to know more about "thinking for myself." May I subscribe to your newsletter?
Ahh, I see you have reached Enlightenment on the Way of Slashdot. Well done, grasshopper.
(Although I did read your post as "... some unrelated extremist lawman." Made me think of debating with 'Walker, Texas Ranger'. )
Note to you: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5775099474 392087542&q=Monty+Python's+%22Dead+Parrot%22 . here ya go.
I'm pining for the fjords...
So I tune in and the first thing I get is Pet Shop Boys "You are always on my mind". I suppose that's the 'synthpop' side of it...
Perhaps pr0n seekers, as a group, are more net savvy these days precisely because so much has been targeted at them. The new set of n00bs are the ones looking for the Better Business Bureau etc. Just a guess.
I reckon you could be charged with affray./ ca190082/s93c.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act
Fine for me. Mac mini in the TV room to get iTunes etc through Frontrow. Maybe web surfing/iChat if I buy a wireless keyboard. Mac mini in the kitchen for web surfing/email/recipes. iMac in the study for the usual stuff plus DV (iMovie) + photos + iTunes ripping.
None of these everday functions require large amounts of RAM (certainly not more than each machine can accommodate), top end GPUs or multiple ethernet ports. Expansion and connectivity is taken care of by FW (for video) or USB (for local backup, cameras, KB). The iMac can even handle a second screen.
I'll admit that Apple can't please all of the people all of the time, but they get most of the people most of the time.
Thankyou :-) I am niche, non-average and unique! I've used Macs for 15 years and never had a high-end system yet - couldn't afford it, couldn't justify it. I'll continue to buy Macs that are pretty much equivalent to average PCs in terms of processing power just because I like the design and look of the Macs and I like OS X (and OS 9, System 8, and System 7 before it). And I'm unique.
Crossmatch in 15 minutes. Easy peasy and routine for ALL blood recipients. If 15 minutes is too long, give albumin to keep up the volume until then. If that doesn't work, you're screwed any way you look at it.
No, it's abuse of monopoly if Apple told the car manufacturers that they will use the iPod interface and only the iPod interface, otherwise they can't use the iPod interface at all.
If company A has a monopoly on something and colludes with or threatens company B with dire consequences should they not do what they say, that is anticompetitive - the are not competing with competitors on the strength of the quality of their product. If company B decides to use company A's product (even to the exclusion of others) then that's their call.
MS was crucified (line on the left, one cross each...) because:
In contrast to other operating system vendors, Microsoft both refused to license its operating system without a browser and imposed restrictions -- at first contractual and later technical -- on OEMs' and end users' ability to remove its browser from its operating system. As its internal contemporaneous documents and licensing practices reveal, Microsoft decided to bind Internet Explorer to Windows in order to prevent Navigator from weakening the applications barrier to entry, rather than for any pro-competitive purpose.
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
MS used it's dominance in one area (OS) as leverage to threaten OEMs about another area (browsers). Being a monopoly isn't against the law. Abusing the power that goes with it is.
Does Zune have the same feature? Check the EULA for it. Par 26.1.3 states: You may NOT share an earbud with someone. That's stealing. You may only share music on a limited basis with another Zune droid.
Potentially explosive. OH&S issues.
While certainly not policy or anything, in my job as government web guy I get a lot of PDF scans*. The problem is twofold: lack of Adobe Writer around the place (cost, and the inability of IT to implement a cheaper PDF creator) and scanning photocopiers that include the ability to scan to PDF.
*I then ask them to send the original doc.
Amazon's got a lot of books.
For now...
I think he means that they're transhuman, a new genetic variant - some sort of T-men, or W-men. Maybe Y-men. Who knows.
Ya reckon no-one in the Lebanese 'burbs noticed a few hundred Kattooooshhka rockets around the neighbourhood?
While they mightn't have anything to do with Hezbollah, you think they'd know something of what's going on and make plans to clear out.
Also, Hezbollah seems to be quite capable (and willing) of lobbing explosives and rockets onto civilian targets, so I don't think there's any high moral ground to be had here.
Bottom line: if your crazy neighbour starts installing rocket launchers, move.
But you will be sure to find out and get back to us with the info...
I think it goes like this:
MS makes an OS for a generic range of x86 PCs. Many different operating systems can run on these PCs, though the courts found that MS had a monopoly on the PC OS market. That in itself is not a bad thing. However, MS tried to use the monopoly it had in the OS market to force a competitor out of the browser market. That is where MS went wrong: trying to use the monopoly they had in one sphere to influence choice in another (manufacturers weren't preinstalling Netscape on PCs). MS tried to argue that the browser was an integral part of the OS and couldn't be removed, but the courts said that was bullshit. If MS made all the PCs they wouldn't have had this problem.
Apple makes the Mac. They make the hardware, for which they also create the OS. It's not a monopoly because it's their box from beginning to end. Anyone can make Mac software that can be installed later, but the hardware manufacturer (Apple) is under no obligation to preinstall anything. Mind you if Apple started breaking competitor's software, it would be an interesting legal battle.
Or run Safari...
That's one conspiracy theory I could never understand. There's nothing in it for the car manufacturers. If they make a great car that runs on blueberries, the oil companies may be upset, but what could they do? If they sell lots of cars, great. Not like big oil can do anything about it.
but then i'll be cold and hungry. where's the fun in that? i'd better blog this.
The highly-anticipated collider is set to start up in 2007, running at full speed by 2008."
It's going to take a year to get those particles up to full speed? Heavy.
Get the wife. Get the kids. You'll have no money, time, freedom, hair or sanity but it's the best thing ever. I'm doing it at 40 and wish I'd done it at 30 (when I had a leetle more energy :-) )