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6503 authors 13220 modules Yeah... there are a lot of pointless modules, or ones that aren't as good as they could be, but if even 1% of them are "production" thats 1,300.
If its 10% that number jumps to 13,000, and thats not even counting the modules that might not be "production quality" but are "good enough" for what you need.
I agree with the spirit of your argument, but I think your math is wrong.
apple seems hell bent on selling anything it can to developers (ever heard of FREE?) I disagree. They are giving the SDK away for FREE. The development tools (including IDE) are all FREE. The only thing the are charging for is a ONE time $99 registration fee in order to distribute applications through the iTunes App store. This is one time for all of your apps, not for each app. If you want to give a way your app for free in iTunes, you are free to charge nothing. If you want to charge for it, you have to give 30% to Apple. That doesn't sound like a bad deal to me since they are handling all of the credit card processing, hosting, bandwidth, storage and other costs, plus they are providing free marketing to a huge audience of interested customers.
I'm not sure that being able to run multiple OSs on the same box is a particular advantage for most people. Not everyone, but it is a feature, which was the point I was trying to make. Intel Macs can run OSX/Windows/Linux/Solaris/*BSD and several others, PC's can run all of these too, except for OSX (legally).
Also, this feature appeals to more than just a minority now a days. I've seen more than a few non-developers, systems administrators, and business users running Windows in a VM on a Mac to use certain proprietary/single platform apps. This isn't because of deficiency in OSX, except for a perhaps a market share deficiency.
pretty, high-end low-feature stuff, just like his Macs. My MacBook Pro that runs Windows, Linux, & OSX along with all of their applications, plus it has Firewire 400/800, 802.11abgn, USB2, an amazing screen, backlit keyboard, dual link DVI, etc etc and is half the size of other laptops strongly disagrees with you regarding the low-feature comment. But I will agree that it is very pretty.
"The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy."
Weird views of contract law you've got over there, I say. Usually, purchasing contracts (which are formed anytime something is purchased - they don't need to be in writing) contain the exact debts that each party has. Usually, the buyer has the debt of delivering the payment to the seller, and the seller has the debt to accept the payment from the buyer, among a few other things. The latter debt can actually be the grounds for lawsuits.
As stated in both the summary and the article, they aren't just my views, but that of the Treasury Department.
Fair enough - works more than well enough for me where I live, maybe I'm supposed to be bothered that it's coming from cellphone tower locations instead of time shifts measured from geosynchronous orbit but, functions the same from my perspective. And even if it didn't exist, that lack of one minor feature is more than made up for by the usability of the rest of the iPhone.
GPS uses medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites, not geosynchronous (or geostationary) orbit ones.
Just FYI.
I don't know what utopian fantasy state you are living in, but the police system in my country (USA) exists largely to create fear. Perhaps not hate, but fear is the tool that prevents many people from committing crimes. Fear or getting caught, fear of being punished by incarceration or in several states, fear of execution.
Prison does not exist to rehabilitate people. It exists to punish them, and in the process it takes them off the street. They may receive some level of rehabilitation while in prison, but that is secondary.
On the surface, this woman was convicted of murder by a jury of her peers. She was punished and she escaped. How does the fact she hasn't killed anyone else make this OK?? If I kill you and then promise not to kill anyone else, I guess they should just drop the charges then because I'm rehabilitated.
With practices like this why would anyone want to do business with Apple?
Well.. I started doing business with Apple (relatively recently) because I like their laptops and have come to love their OS.
My personal view is that many of their products are superior to their competition's products and represent a better value to me.
in the United state of America it is a felony to not accept United States currency as legal tender.
It says right in the summary that you are incorrect. You are required to accept cash/legal tender for payment on a "debt" only, not for purchasing a product or service.
It is not really that much cheaper now, actually the 8GB iPhone is the now the same price as the 16GB iPod Touch. They dropped the price of the 8GB iPhone to 399 and are dropping the 4GB iPhone completely.
On one hand you are talking about an engineer/programmer working directly on an OS kernel. On the other you are referring to CEOs of very large corporations that make a multitude of products far more complex and wide ranging than just a kernel. You would be better off comparing the statements from the CEO of Red Hat, Novell etc. to those of Ballmer/Jobs.. or maybe an engineer within Microsoft/Apple to those of Linus.
It is the Job of a CEO to appear as a visionary. It's part of their job to sell both the company and its products.
Free speech is fine but I don't agree with having this tool available to non-professionals in a nice easily installed package. And why not? You would prefer to pay a ridiculous amount of money for such a tool?
There was a flaw in mDNSresponder, but Apple fixed it last month. The fix was included in the 10.4.10 update. I suspect that this is where this "security researcher" got the idea to develop the exploit.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305 530
Will Woods, the new test lead for the Fedora Project, has only been in his position a few weeks, but already he has a clear goal in mind. Whenever Fedora is mentioned on Slashdot, he notes, "There's always someone who will comment that Fedora is just Red Hat's beta test for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It's not true, and I want no one to have cause to say that ever again."
I always thought the 1st, 2nd, 3rd world catgories came about after WW2
First world: Democratic/Western Bloc
Second World: Communist/Eastern Bloc
Third World: Everything else
Its not free but I really like goScreen. You can have a larger preview window that autohides with different background images for every desktop.
http://www.goscreen.info/
You are exactly right. The expression "activist judge" is so overused and elastic that it is essentially meaningless. Eash side of the political specturm throws it at decisions they disagree with.
A more neutral definition would be far more appropriate, such as, labeling a decision "activist" when it overturns a federal/state law or existing precedent.
If you look at decisions with this definition, you see that those of both ideologies are using the courts to achieve goals they can't in the legislature.
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OK.. I had never heard of TinkerTool, so didn't realize what it did. Thinks for the tip!
You can do all of those conversions with OSX's native preview application as well,
I agree with the spirit of your argument, but I think your math is wrong.
1% of 13220 would be 132.2 not 1,300.
and 10% would be 1,300 not 13,000
"The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy."
As stated in both the summary and the article, they aren't just my views, but that of the Treasury Department.
GPS uses medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites, not geosynchronous (or geostationary) orbit ones.
Just FYI.
I don't know what utopian fantasy state you are living in, but the police system in my country (USA) exists largely to create fear. Perhaps not hate, but fear is the tool that prevents many people from committing crimes. Fear or getting caught, fear of being punished by incarceration or in several states, fear of execution. Prison does not exist to rehabilitate people. It exists to punish them, and in the process it takes them off the street. They may receive some level of rehabilitation while in prison, but that is secondary. On the surface, this woman was convicted of murder by a jury of her peers. She was punished and she escaped. How does the fact she hasn't killed anyone else make this OK?? If I kill you and then promise not to kill anyone else, I guess they should just drop the charges then because I'm rehabilitated.
Well.. I started doing business with Apple (relatively recently) because I like their laptops and have come to love their OS.
My personal view is that many of their products are superior to their competition's products and represent a better value to me.
It says right in the summary that you are incorrect. You are required to accept cash/legal tender for payment on a "debt" only, not for purchasing a product or service.
It is not really that much cheaper now, actually the 8GB iPhone is the now the same price as the 16GB iPod Touch. They dropped the price of the 8GB iPhone to 399 and are dropping the 4GB iPhone completely.
On one hand you are talking about an engineer/programmer working directly on an OS kernel. On the other you are referring to CEOs of very large corporations that make a multitude of products far more complex and wide ranging than just a kernel. You would be better off comparing the statements from the CEO of Red Hat, Novell etc. to those of Ballmer/Jobs.. or maybe an engineer within Microsoft/Apple to those of Linus. It is the Job of a CEO to appear as a visionary. It's part of their job to sell both the company and its products.
There was a flaw in mDNSresponder, but Apple fixed it last month. The fix was included in the 10.4.10 update. I suspect that this is where this "security researcher" got the idea to develop the exploit. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305 530
I always thought the 1st, 2nd, 3rd world catgories came about after WW2
First world: Democratic/Western Bloc
Second World: Communist/Eastern Bloc
Third World: Everything else
But their other customers are paying for it. They just want to get paid twice!
Its not free but I really like goScreen. You can have a larger preview window that autohides with different background images for every desktop. http://www.goscreen.info/
You are exactly right. The expression "activist judge" is so overused and elastic that it is essentially meaningless. Eash side of the political specturm throws it at decisions they disagree with. A more neutral definition would be far more appropriate, such as, labeling a decision "activist" when it overturns a federal/state law or existing precedent. If you look at decisions with this definition, you see that those of both ideologies are using the courts to achieve goals they can't in the legislature.
Sometimes I wished you could give a score greater than 5
Thanks for the information!
nobody (not meaning OOo devs, meaning *anybody*) cares much about non-x86 linux.
Linus seems to care.