a company that can't fire people at will is a company that will be burdened by excessive, redundant and unnecessary employees, and will cease to be efficient or make money
Now I am surprised! Here in the land Down Under, we have always been compelled to identify ourselves to police. Name and address, but there's no ID card requirement.
There is also a charge for giving police a false name.
I think the original poster was confusing "Classic Mac OS" with "OS9/8/7". One of them DID have an autostart 'feature', which gave rise to about the last virus I remember on a Mac. To stop the virus spreading you just had to turn off the autostart. Apple stopped making it the default soon after that. Just like Apple: see a simple problem, use a simple solution.
In addition, I would be surprised if the DRM-ware ran on OS9.
" The PowerBook G4 does sustained WRITES to the dual drive RAID set faster than the G5 Power Mac! I've included a graph below to highlight the issue. Something is radically wrong with the built-in FireWire 800 controller on the G5 when the Dual 2GHz model gets beat by PowerBook with a single G4/1.33."
In an office environment, most workers are using a limited number of apps. Even further, they are using them in limited ways to perform a limited number of tasks.
We recently migrated from W95 to a locked down SOE of XP, with commensurate migration to Office XP. 3000 people in my local area. 50 000 across the state. It was (and still is) a very big job (mostly) ably handled by the IT staff.
Users' biggest complaint? They can't customise their desktop picture or use their own screensaver.
That's like saying you are welcome to take your new car out and ram it into a lightpost because the manufacturer will just fix it for you.
Not really. When you buy software/music/movie whatever, you are buying two things. Firstly you are buying the physical medium which might cost a few dollars to make, burn, wrap and deliver to you. Secondly you are buying a licence to use/listen to/watch whatever it is you bought. (In the case of music, this is the equivalent of 'mechanical royalties'.)
While the physical medium can get wrecked, your licence should remain valid. It should not die just because your CD has. Therefore you should be able to get a replacement CD or DVD for the cost of the physical medium only, i.e. a few bucks.
That the copyright holders, under the interpretation of our current copyright laws, require consumers to buy the same things over and over again is disingenuous of them. They know it's wrong, but they like us replacing stuff every ten years.
LONDON--June 15, 2004--Apple® today launched its revolutionary iTunes® Music Store in the UK, France and Germany... (blah blah PR)... Apple also today announced that it will launch a European Union version of the iTunes Music Store in October of this year.
If the EU is so unified, how come Apple et al can't provide an EU-wide service? Obviously Apple wants to, but maybe something in these other countries is blocking them?
Perhaps it's not that Apple's definition of "Europe" is lax, but the EU's definition of Union is.
You can do tabbed browsing using Avant Browser. I installed it, used it, uninstalled it, went back to Opera. Looked OK to me, but I like Opera better on the PC, and Safari on my Mac. Firefox is damned fast though. YMMV etc.
Peter Garrett is a dildo. He has sold out his principles, and he has helped the ALP demonstrate its autocratic style and continued reliance on the cult of personality. If I was a Labor party member in that seat, I'd be tearing up my card tomorrow and punching Garrett in the head.
(If anyone wanted Garrett to achieve anything, he'd be running for the Senate. As it is, if the ALP don't achieve a Parliamentary majority in the next election, his will be a quiet voice with little impact. At least in the senate he'd have a chance of achieving something. Intelligence and numbers counts in the senate. Only numbers count in parliament.)
He doesn't even live in the area he wants to represent! I saw him on the news tonight saying that the Oils played 'near there' early on in their career and he's surfed at Coogee Beach, so he felt an affinity with the area. Big deal. I had a piss in Canberra once. Doesn't make me Prime Bloody Minister.
Peter Garrett is a very intelligent and literate man. What I saw tonight made me think they've cloned his body and filled it with crap.
Pine Gap - full reversal. Uranium mines - full reversal. How many 180s can he do before his head unscrews?
Let's see... iTunes on XP.
- title bar is no different to iTunes 4.5
- no options if you right click the title bar
- app is only minimised to the task bar
- nothing to keep it on top of other windows
- no option to "Make programs recognize iTunes as WinAmp"
methinks bbuchs is having a lend of us... or something.
I sort of think that I have a bit of an idea of it now. Not enough to put it in my next PowerPoint presentation, but enough to do for now.
Question. "what is the square root of minus one? Well, maths has an answer and we call it i". Isn't that 'begging the question' a bit. It seems like the answer (well, we'll call it "i") has been proposed before anyone has shown if can really happen.
hehe I'm nearly 40 (where did the time go...) so I'd say I'm the present rather than the future. Hopefully my kid(s) will be the future. And will support me.
Now it's back to work, or my job will be in the past.
It is a bit of a stretch to go from from a story on a planetary event to a forgettable eighties band, but this is/.
* That site also tells us that "Venus is the only song in the history of the Billboard charts to hit number one three times (first time on February 7, 1970, second time on June 20, 1981 by "Stars On 45"; third time on September 6, 1986 by Bananarama)." So there. Wow. And now I can't get the damn song out of my head... she's got it, yeah baby she's got it...
Slashdot Mirror
For breaking what law?
Theft? Since nothing was actually stolen, theft might be difficult to prove (he said, answering his own question). Breach of copyright, mayhaps? :-)
a company that can't fire people at will is a company that will be burdened by excessive, redundant and unnecessary employees, and will cease to be efficient or make money
hey, leave those poor public servants alone!
Now I am surprised! Here in the land Down Under, we have always been compelled to identify ourselves to police. Name and address, but there's no ID card requirement.
There is also a charge for giving police a false name.
Try this for a start.
Or Google
I think the original poster was confusing "Classic Mac OS" with "OS9/8/7". One of them DID have an autostart 'feature', which gave rise to about the last virus I remember on a Mac. To stop the virus spreading you just had to turn off the autostart. Apple stopped making it the default soon after that. Just like Apple: see a simple problem, use a simple solution.
In addition, I would be surprised if the DRM-ware ran on OS9.
Firewire on the G5 has sucky performance.
" The PowerBook G4 does sustained WRITES to the dual drive RAID set faster than the G5 Power Mac! I've included a graph below to highlight the issue. Something is radically wrong with the built-in FireWire 800 controller on the G5 when the Dual 2GHz model gets beat by PowerBook with a single G4/1.33."
FW on the G5 is not fast enough for HD video.
The US is a foreign country.
In an office environment, most workers are using a limited number of apps. Even further, they are using them in limited ways to perform a limited number of tasks.
We recently migrated from W95 to a locked down SOE of XP, with commensurate migration to Office XP. 3000 people in my local area. 50 000 across the state. It was (and still is) a very big job (mostly) ably handled by the IT staff.
Users' biggest complaint? They can't customise their desktop picture or use their own screensaver.
That's like saying you are welcome to take your new car out and ram it into a lightpost because the manufacturer will just fix it for you.
Not really. When you buy software/music/movie whatever, you are buying two things. Firstly you are buying the physical medium which might cost a few dollars to make, burn, wrap and deliver to you. Secondly you are buying a licence to use/listen to/watch whatever it is you bought. (In the case of music, this is the equivalent of 'mechanical royalties'.)
While the physical medium can get wrecked, your licence should remain valid. It should not die just because your CD has. Therefore you should be able to get a replacement CD or DVD for the cost of the physical medium only, i.e. a few bucks.That the copyright holders, under the interpretation of our current copyright laws, require consumers to buy the same things over and over again is disingenuous of them. They know it's wrong, but they like us replacing stuff every ten years.
Nearly right.
If the EU is so unified, how come Apple et al can't provide an EU-wide service? Obviously Apple wants to, but maybe something in these other countries is blocking them?
Perhaps it's not that Apple's definition of "Europe" is lax, but the EU's definition of Union is.
You can do tabbed browsing using Avant Browser. I installed it, used it, uninstalled it, went back to Opera. Looked OK to me, but I like Opera better on the PC, and Safari on my Mac. Firefox is damned fast though. YMMV etc.
Antioch Radio. You get old radio serials from the 30s and 40s, including Sci Fi shows.
As a fellow Aussie, I agree. Regardless of what they think they have, the US political scene seems to consist of Right and Further Right.
:-)
Plus the whole Libertarian thing seems really out there.
My own political position? LeftRightOut
Peter Garrett is a dildo. He has sold out his principles, and he has helped the ALP demonstrate its autocratic style and continued reliance on the cult of personality. If I was a Labor party member in that seat, I'd be tearing up my card tomorrow and punching Garrett in the head.
(If anyone wanted Garrett to achieve anything, he'd be running for the Senate. As it is, if the ALP don't achieve a Parliamentary majority in the next election, his will be a quiet voice with little impact. At least in the senate he'd have a chance of achieving something. Intelligence and numbers counts in the senate. Only numbers count in parliament.)
He doesn't even live in the area he wants to represent! I saw him on the news tonight saying that the Oils played 'near there' early on in their career and he's surfed at Coogee Beach, so he felt an affinity with the area. Big deal. I had a piss in Canberra once. Doesn't make me Prime Bloody Minister.
Peter Garrett is a very intelligent and literate man. What I saw tonight made me think they've cloned his body and filled it with crap.
Pine Gap - full reversal. Uranium mines - full reversal. How many 180s can he do before his head unscrews?
Let's see ... iTunes on XP.
- title bar is no different to iTunes 4.5
- no options if you right click the title bar
- app is only minimised to the task bar
- nothing to keep it on top of other windows
- no option to "Make programs recognize iTunes as WinAmp"
methinks bbuchs is having a lend of us ... or something.
haha i love it. a simple mac hack that's so simple even a mac user can do it :-)
I found it funny. The knife thing, not the shrimp thing.
(love the jet boat pics. those little thing haul)
Wow. I'm going to use some of that as filler in my web pages.
I sort of think that I have a bit of an idea of it now. Not enough to put it in my next PowerPoint presentation, but enough to do for now.
Question. "what is the square root of minus one? Well, maths has an answer and we call it i". Isn't that 'begging the question' a bit. It seems like the answer (well, we'll call it "i") has been proposed before anyone has shown if can really happen.
I'll close my arse and stop talking now.
hehe I'm nearly 40 (where did the time go...) so I'd say I'm the present rather than the future. Hopefully my kid(s) will be the future. And will support me.
Now it's back to work, or my job will be in the past.
You know you're in trouble when you don't even understand the question.
My homemade pr0n is very unsafe. Don't try this one at home unless you're a trained professional!
Do you know why people were requesting AAC in particular? It's not like iTunes and iPods can't play MP3s. Seems like an odd request. That is all.
Did you point out that the internet isn't exactly free? Or that he was denying people access to the phone system by not letting people use his phone.
I suppose you could have offered to set up a wifi point in their house - and leave it open for the world...
No, you see Venus would have to be bigger to cause an eclipse. At least the size of the moon, maybe a little bigger.
But since it's only the size of a Transit Van, it's passage across the face of the sun will only be The Transit of Venus.
A band called Bananarama did a cover of a song called "Venus" in the eighties (1986). It was originally done by Shocking Blue* in 1970.
Lyrics here.
It is a bit of a stretch to go from from a story on a planetary event to a forgettable eighties band, but this is /.
* That site also tells us that "Venus is the only song in the history of the Billboard charts to hit number one three times (first time on February 7, 1970, second time on June 20, 1981 by "Stars On 45"; third time on September 6, 1986 by Bananarama)." So there. Wow. And now I can't get the damn song out of my head... she's got it, yeah baby she's got it