I'm in norway, and I believe the laws here are a lot like in the US.
That said, Redhat gives a lot of effort into Fedora even while it runs its own business. Solaris has gone opensource. Apple is somewhat opensource on some projects. IBM is a story of its own. I don't think going public inherently means they'll leave GPL and opensource behind (nor that you claimed so;) ).
I think we should wait and see. I try to be cautiously optimistic.
it installs the iPod driver, and it installs itself to Program Files. To get into Program Files you need to be admin.
But when you run it, do you need to be admin then?;)
And you probably won't be working for that company for much longer because most people who genuinely wants to help tend to be what we call "aaaaaah" people. Try to pronounce "aaaaahah!". Then try to pronounce "huh?" You'll see soon that you can answer a lot more calls going "huh?" than saying "aaaaahah!".
A "huh?" person is always more effective. I know about a manager who said the ideal callcenter had only temps, because they could be replaced with new "huh" people as soon as they started saying "aaaaahah".
Parents article doesn't say ALL other manufacturers but "other manufacturers", unspecified.
I agree with you that a computer is basically a tool, whether its a SPARC, Mac or PC.
But many Mac people love the operating system primarily. It is NOT irrelevant what operating system one runs, otherwise more might switch to LINUX and UNIX, but their graphical enviroments have only recently become more user friendly as well.
And case colour and design actually has an impact to some extent. Would you buy a bright sheer pink computer, sit in a room with dark brown walls and a brightly blue floor? Maybe you would, maybe you'd hate it.
Would you buy a super powerful computer that had a black keyboard with medium grey keys? You might know touch typing, but it'd still be annoying to some people at least if it got even slightly dark...
I think we agree.:)
What options do I have if someone attacks me using martial arts unprovoked? Beyond contacting the police, can I go to his teacher or would that be bad form? I don't condone squeeling, but it is a topic of abuse of a highly respectable art form and a student who fails to respect the basis of his teachings.
What do you think?
(And I don't really have time and it should not have to be so that I am forced to take martial arts classes in case someone who knows martial arts decide to attack me. This is 2006 europe, not 1100s japan).
Sometimes customers will take their PCs that are generally working to a repair shop to have one component fixed. They get the PC back, with a clean harddrive, NO DRIVERS INSTALLED, and nothing works at all of course because the reason the customer put it in for repairs was because he or she was clueless in the first place...
It's a bit like certain attempts to "introduce democracy" on others. It's best to have them reach the breaking point and switch themselves.
Or get the ones who're in general clueless about computers when you can. That's how I got hooked on Mac, by being clueless and then having someone give me a Mac with OS 9 and Office 2001 and tell me that's all the computer I need for now.
As a chick who use Macs, I... guess I have to agree.
That said. Computers are a tool. While its honourable to want to help his sisters, it does not kill anyone to learn how to use a tool.
Sure, they don't want to be computer geeks or wizes, but I bet they have received education and training in some way on the other biological equipment they use. A computer is one of all their tools they want to use, and learning the basics of it can't hurt them at all.
The problem isn't I think that they are airheads (its not comforting to think of an airhead biologist), but rather that their brother has become convenient for them.
My argument that I completely fumbled was that I believe that when Belgium and the Netherlands were taken, the front grew too big for France to effectively defend and their choice to surrender, as far as I have understood it, was about saving their population from harm, which I consider a noble concept in some ways.
According to a Teach12.com lecture on Churchill, Chamberlain and other important british politicans were actually actively considering that Britain surrender for the same principle - less loss of human lives.
And having looked more into the dutch history, I can only offer my apologise again.
My gf is french/swedish, its annoying to her and I find its a bit annoying personally as well to observe that she gets hit with the "coward" stick for things she had nothing to do with or the "rude" stick in advance by people who don't know her. That's not an excuse to hurt your feelings, but it was an episode combined with being sleepy and reading a comment a bit too fast that lead to one of those "in the moment" mistakes.
Btw, I absolutely adore Amsterdam. I went there two years ago and people there were absolutely charming and very helpful and everyone knew english. We went to the marine museum and tried some of the excellent fish meals and had a splendid time.
I apologise for my bad thought out, hastily written comments about the netherlands and Belgium.
Unfortunately its not possible to delete comments made.:(
I do not regret writing that France did put up an effort to help norway against the nazis.
Quisling... you can mention him all you want. He was never recognized by anyone else than his own followers, and he didn't get in power in a recognized way. His "goverment" was fake, so his "surrender" is irrelevant.
Norway never surrendered.
France actually fought valiantly with the british to help norway resist german invasion. When both the Netherlands and Belgium just gave up the front grew too long and far for France to effectively resist an invasion so they surrendered to save their people from harm. How is that so terrible in principle?
Its always easier in hindsight to have wished to have acted differently.
Microsoft can hardly be expected to research other companies software plans.
And I doubt Microsoft saw their rootkit coming.
Microsoft obviously expect most threats to come from underground crackers and criminals and people up to no good, and not Sony Music or for that matter, McDonalds (who knows?).
The swastika is one of the great losses. In the norse and in asia its considered a symbol of health, wellbeing and peace.
The nazis flipped it (mirrored it) and used it as a symbol for themselves. There has been some outcries in asia by western tourists who see 1000 year old temples with swastikas (the correct way) and cry "nazi" (even though the nazis perverted an ancient good symbol).
And I have heard that asians bemoan that us perverting the swastika is our problem and they shouldn't be forced to change their view on this symbol because of whatever foolishness we did. Which I agree with. The swastika in itself carries no special anti-zionist meaning that I know off, but was considered a nazi symbol in general. I'd like them to be able to turn it the correct way and be allowed to use it again.
Another concept they ruined is the idea of heil. Heil is actually a very nice greeting, one of the best you can give someone. Now its useless. If someone says "Heil whoever" the real meaning of the word is not so likely to be considered.
I agree with your opinion wholeheartedly. I have met several women who did not get the custody though, and some who even gave it to the father because she felt he had a better support network to take care of the children.
We can't easily adopt and getting a baby with a guy opens a hornets nest of issues so I'll settle with being childless for now.;) I'm also not really eager to have a kid now. We have enough work with our kitten.;)
The Norwegian state broadcasting uses WMV as well but encoded to work with the (now defunct) WMV for Mac.
Their radio stations are available in open standard (as far as MP3 is an "open standard") that works well in iTunes.
I emailed them about it and they explained that its because using WMV, "the majority of end users don't need to install software to make it work". Since this is the state TV channel though they have a mandate to make sure their stuff plays on as many platforms as possible.
In an interview, unfortunately I don't remember the source now, a representant from NRK said the only problem they had with using Apples video standard was the lack of DRM that they needed on some programs (like sports and movies with copyright).
I read Somewhere (tm) on Channel9.msdn.com 's blogs that Microsoft employees in general don't hate Macs at all much.
However a friend of mine showed me a video clip where they bowled down OS/2 Warp boxes (not computers, but the retail boxes from the stores) in their hallways.
QT comes with any installation of iTunes for PC and you need QT to look at video trailers on Apples trailer site to name a couple reasons why users might have QT already.:)
But Apple would get the money anyway. MacOS X would be shipped on the Mac anyway.
I do however feel that its more likely we'll see Virtual PC for Mac now REALLY kick into gear and Microsoft loves selling Mac people a (for a change) totally fast PC emulator with a Windows licence that will let Mac users run the occasional windows program but still work on their Mac. That's imho a more likely Microsoft happy scenario.
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That said, Redhat gives a lot of effort into Fedora even while it runs its own business. Solaris has gone opensource. Apple is somewhat opensource on some projects. IBM is a story of its own. I don't think going public inherently means they'll leave GPL and opensource behind (nor that you claimed so ;) ).
I think we should wait and see. I try to be cautiously optimistic.
it installs the iPod driver, and it installs itself to Program Files. To get into Program Files you need to be admin. But when you run it, do you need to be admin then? ;)
Then again, its hard to find processed girlfriends in a box...
And you probably won't be working for that company for much longer because most people who genuinely wants to help tend to be what we call "aaaaaah" people. Try to pronounce "aaaaahah!". Then try to pronounce "huh?" You'll see soon that you can answer a lot more calls going "huh?" than saying "aaaaahah!". A "huh?" person is always more effective. I know about a manager who said the ideal callcenter had only temps, because they could be replaced with new "huh" people as soon as they started saying "aaaaahah".
Parents article doesn't say ALL other manufacturers but "other manufacturers", unspecified. I agree with you that a computer is basically a tool, whether its a SPARC, Mac or PC. But many Mac people love the operating system primarily. It is NOT irrelevant what operating system one runs, otherwise more might switch to LINUX and UNIX, but their graphical enviroments have only recently become more user friendly as well. And case colour and design actually has an impact to some extent. Would you buy a bright sheer pink computer, sit in a room with dark brown walls and a brightly blue floor? Maybe you would, maybe you'd hate it. Would you buy a super powerful computer that had a black keyboard with medium grey keys? You might know touch typing, but it'd still be annoying to some people at least if it got even slightly dark... I think we agree. :)
Natural gas is just a fancy word for flatulence ;)
Thank you for the advice, but I was thinking on the longer term.
What options do I have if someone attacks me using martial arts unprovoked? Beyond contacting the police, can I go to his teacher or would that be bad form? I don't condone squeeling, but it is a topic of abuse of a highly respectable art form and a student who fails to respect the basis of his teachings.
What do you think?
(And I don't really have time and it should not have to be so that I am forced to take martial arts classes in case someone who knows martial arts decide to attack me. This is 2006 europe, not 1100s japan).
Sometimes customers will take their PCs that are generally working to a repair shop to have one component fixed. They get the PC back, with a clean harddrive, NO DRIVERS INSTALLED, and nothing works at all of course because the reason the customer put it in for repairs was because he or she was clueless in the first place...
It's a bit like certain attempts to "introduce democracy" on others. It's best to have them reach the breaking point and switch themselves. Or get the ones who're in general clueless about computers when you can. That's how I got hooked on Mac, by being clueless and then having someone give me a Mac with OS 9 and Office 2001 and tell me that's all the computer I need for now.
The hot chicks you "get" through the Ferrari lasts until you need to refuel. The hot chicks you can get being yourself stay longer. ;)
But the feeling of accomplishment is greater with the latter...
As a chick who use Macs, I... guess I have to agree.
That said. Computers are a tool. While its honourable to want to help his sisters, it does not kill anyone to learn how to use a tool.
Sure, they don't want to be computer geeks or wizes, but I bet they have received education and training in some way on the other biological equipment they use. A computer is one of all their tools they want to use, and learning the basics of it can't hurt them at all.
The problem isn't I think that they are airheads (its not comforting to think of an airhead biologist), but rather that their brother has become convenient for them.
As a swede, I can only say: amen ;)
My argument that I completely fumbled was that I believe that when Belgium and the Netherlands were taken, the front grew too big for France to effectively defend and their choice to surrender, as far as I have understood it, was about saving their population from harm, which I consider a noble concept in some ways.
According to a Teach12.com lecture on Churchill, Chamberlain and other important british politicans were actually actively considering that Britain surrender for the same principle - less loss of human lives.
And having looked more into the dutch history, I can only offer my apologise again.
My gf is french/swedish, its annoying to her and I find its a bit annoying personally as well to observe that she gets hit with the "coward" stick for things she had nothing to do with or the "rude" stick in advance by people who don't know her. That's not an excuse to hurt your feelings, but it was an episode combined with being sleepy and reading a comment a bit too fast that lead to one of those "in the moment" mistakes.
Btw, I absolutely adore Amsterdam. I went there two years ago and people there were absolutely charming and very helpful and everyone knew english. We went to the marine museum and tried some of the excellent fish meals and had a splendid time.
I apologise for my bad thought out, hastily written comments about the netherlands and Belgium. Unfortunately its not possible to delete comments made. :(
I do not regret writing that France did put up an effort to help norway against the nazis.
Quisling... you can mention him all you want. He was never recognized by anyone else than his own followers, and he didn't get in power in a recognized way. His "goverment" was fake, so his "surrender" is irrelevant.
Norway never surrendered.
France actually fought valiantly with the british to help norway resist german invasion. When both the Netherlands and Belgium just gave up the front grew too long and far for France to effectively resist an invasion so they surrendered to save their people from harm. How is that so terrible in principle? Its always easier in hindsight to have wished to have acted differently.
Microsoft can hardly be expected to research other companies software plans. And I doubt Microsoft saw their rootkit coming. Microsoft obviously expect most threats to come from underground crackers and criminals and people up to no good, and not Sony Music or for that matter, McDonalds (who knows?).
it prohibits select+copy and screenshots as well. You need to use an actual camera or something of the screen to get it captured
The swastika is one of the great losses.
In the norse and in asia its considered a symbol of health, wellbeing and peace.
The nazis flipped it (mirrored it) and used it as a symbol for themselves. There has been some outcries in asia by western tourists who see 1000 year old temples with swastikas (the correct way) and cry "nazi" (even though the nazis perverted an ancient good symbol).
And I have heard that asians bemoan that us perverting the swastika is our problem and they shouldn't be forced to change their view on this symbol because of whatever foolishness we did. Which I agree with. The swastika in itself carries no special anti-zionist meaning that I know off, but was considered a nazi symbol in general. I'd like them to be able to turn it the correct way and be allowed to use it again.
Another concept they ruined is the idea of heil. Heil is actually a very nice greeting, one of the best you can give someone. Now its useless. If someone says "Heil whoever" the real meaning of the word is not so likely to be considered.
I agree with your opinion wholeheartedly. I have met several women who did not get the custody though, and some who even gave it to the father because she felt he had a better support network to take care of the children. We can't easily adopt and getting a baby with a guy opens a hornets nest of issues so I'll settle with being childless for now. ;) I'm also not really eager to have a kid now. We have enough work with our kitten. ;)
The Norwegian state broadcasting uses WMV as well but encoded to work with the (now defunct) WMV for Mac. Their radio stations are available in open standard (as far as MP3 is an "open standard") that works well in iTunes. I emailed them about it and they explained that its because using WMV, "the majority of end users don't need to install software to make it work". Since this is the state TV channel though they have a mandate to make sure their stuff plays on as many platforms as possible. In an interview, unfortunately I don't remember the source now, a representant from NRK said the only problem they had with using Apples video standard was the lack of DRM that they needed on some programs (like sports and movies with copyright).
I read Somewhere (tm) on Channel9.msdn.com 's blogs that Microsoft employees in general don't hate Macs at all much.
However a friend of mine showed me a video clip where they bowled down OS/2 Warp boxes (not computers, but the retail boxes from the stores) in their hallways.
QT comes with any installation of iTunes for PC and you need QT to look at video trailers on Apples trailer site to name a couple reasons why users might have QT already. :)
But Apple would get the money anyway. MacOS X would be shipped on the Mac anyway.
I do however feel that its more likely we'll see Virtual PC for Mac now REALLY kick into gear and Microsoft loves selling Mac people a (for a change) totally fast PC emulator with a Windows licence that will let Mac users run the occasional windows program but still work on their Mac. That's imho a more likely Microsoft happy scenario.