Why do they have to be limited to the precision of built-in data types? If dc can support unlimited precision calculations, the JPL can probably figure out too.
Weight lifting is much better than aerobics. It actually gives you cardiovascular benefits like aerobics does, plus a few:
- Muscle burns fat even when you're not using it, where fat just sits there doing nothing at all. Your basal metabolic rate increases when you build muscle.
- Everything you do, EVERYTHING depends on muscle, having more makes all of it easier.
Everything is more expensive in Europe, not just software. There's no conspiracy among the software developers.
Go look at the price of a car in Europe. My car cost $32K here, and 30K GBP. That's almost twice the cost.
Yet, if you look at their income, converted into equivalent currency Europeans (at least in places like the UK) make similar average incomes to people in the U.S.
There may not be a canned formula for making a good movie, but there sure is a number of well known formulas for making *bad* ones. I think that when most people say "make a good movie" they really mean "don't deliberately make a crappy one." There will always be stinkers, but they should be *creative* stinkers at least.
Is this so difficult to understand? Apple is not going after a consumer here. Put down your pitchfork already. They're going after a for-profit company who is trying to make a quick buck off Apple's hard work.
Any intelligent adult can see the difference. I realize this excludes a sizable fraction of the Slashdot population.
It just boggles my mind how anybody can make a rational argument that stealing OSX is justifiable. Yes, stealing. The software is inexpensive because Apple has subsidized the development cost with the hardware they sell. It is a complete solution, not two separate ones.
Further, there is an incredibly obvious distinction here that many people seem to be missing. This is not a case of a single user flaunting the EULA and installing OSX on their PC. This is a for-profit company attempting to base their own business model on Apple's hard work without compensating Apple. There is a huge difference between the two situations.
The real loser ends up being the legitimate customers. There is no Apple equivalent of WGA at this time, and I'd prefer there never is. If the courts decree that Apple may not tie the software to a specific piece of hardware, Apple will have to seek a technical solution.
What's the big deal with running OSX on non-Apple hardware, anyway? There is all kinds of products sold every day that have the software and hardware tied specifically together, but suddenly it's bad for Apple to do this? They are peddling a solution, take it or leave it, vote with your wallet. But you have to take it or leave it in its entirety.
That thread is really tame. You have an incredibly tiny forum with very few threads, and the first critical comments in a short 12-post thread send you running to Slashdot for help? Wow. Go over and read some forums with a lot more posts and grow a thicker skin. Seriously.
Actually, I'm glad they are working so hard. At this point it's way too late to save their image. Even if they cut the pollution to zero for the Olympics it will be a hot topic. Every day on the news we hear about how hard they're working to solve the problem, and we get bombarded with pictures of how bad the situation is. China's pollution needed to be exposed to the world, now it is.
I think perhaps AT&T has a legitimate point in that it changes every month. Perhaps you can challenge that as not a valid practice, but it fits reality like it or not. My bill this month is $0.01 more than last month, which as I mentioned in my original post was different from the month before.
Also, I should point out I said to budget $80 for the $75/month plan. I have a budget, and this is exactly what I do. If you have to have your budget figured down to the minimum dollars and cents for everything, you're doing it wrong. Budget in round numbers, and as conservatively as possible, because it always costs more than you think it will.
You extrapolated beyond what I said. Yes, I did say you can afford 1.1 * $n. I did not, however, say you could apply that indefinitely. Stay grounded in reality, please, no need to go all hypothetical;-).
Really? If you can afford $75/month, you can afford it with taxes. I can see their point for not wanting to give out numbers on this, because of the variables involved. Plus, if they try to quote you a "with taxes cost" then you might try to hold them to that figure. Better to just sidestep it and let you figure out the taxes yourself, like you would have to with any other purpose that is taxed.
FWIW, I paid $62.96 last month on my iPhone $60/month plan, and $63.42 the month before that. So extrapolate from there, and for a $75/month plan budget $80 and you'll be close enough.
It's going to be a while before mobile 911 is good enough to satisfy me.
I want to be able to pick up the phone, dial 911, and yell "FIRE!" and then run out the door. I hope to never use that feature, but I buy insurance too.
No, I don't think so. It wouldn't be "one of them is bound to be right" -- it would be something more along the lines of "with enough posts, the consensus is likely to be close to reality."
This assumes, of course, that everything in life is like a jar of jellybeans.
If we are going to take this route, let's at least do it right.
The point is to penalize unhealthy people, correct? There are studies which show pretty conclusively that the healthiest people are the ones which are slightly over the 'ideal' weight. Folks carrying a bit of extra weight (read: normal) live longer than folks who maintain that beautiful body that TV insists you should have.
So, let's penalize the thin people too. If their lifestyle is as unhealthy as the fat folks, why exempt them?
People keep saying this, and I don't understand the logic behind it. This is not a case of the end user violating the EULA, this is a for-profit company violating the EULA to make money. That's a whole different ballgame.
I hold my iphone all the time with one hand and type with the thumb on that hand. The trick is applying something to the phone to give it more grip (a silicone case, or as I did, BestSkinsEver). A bare iphone is too slippery to safely hold and type with in one hand, giving it some traction makes worlds of difference.
If you want to factor in long term maintenance costs for both cars, it has to include more than just the batteries in both instances. His point was that just the batteries alone cost more than the gasoline they are supposed to replace, and that's before you fill them with any electricity.
First it was us on the Unix Sysadmin team. Then the network guys had a look at what we were doing, and started buying themselves Macs as well. Now management is starting to get into them. With VMware Fusion we can use Outlook, everything else we don't need Windows to do.
Vista has prompted many people to make a decision about what they want from their operating system of choice. With Windows the OS is everything, with OSX it's just the means by which applications are run. The measure of an OS that I find most compelling is how effectively it keeps me from noticing it.
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Why do they have to be limited to the precision of built-in data types? If dc can support unlimited precision calculations, the JPL can probably figure out too.
You are completely wrong.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1827342,00.html?cnn=yes
Even 30 minutes does almost nothing.
Weight lifting is much better than aerobics. It actually gives you cardiovascular benefits like aerobics does, plus a few:
- Muscle burns fat even when you're not using it, where fat just sits there doing nothing at all. Your basal metabolic rate increases when you build muscle.
- Everything you do, EVERYTHING depends on muscle, having more makes all of it easier.
Everything is more expensive in Europe, not just software. There's no conspiracy among the software developers.
Go look at the price of a car in Europe. My car cost $32K here, and 30K GBP. That's almost twice the cost.
Yet, if you look at their income, converted into equivalent currency Europeans (at least in places like the UK) make similar average incomes to people in the U.S.
There may not be a canned formula for making a good movie, but there sure is a number of well known formulas for making *bad* ones. I think that when most people say "make a good movie" they really mean "don't deliberately make a crappy one." There will always be stinkers, but they should be *creative* stinkers at least.
Is this so difficult to understand? Apple is not going after a consumer here. Put down your pitchfork already. They're going after a for-profit company who is trying to make a quick buck off Apple's hard work.
Any intelligent adult can see the difference. I realize this excludes a sizable fraction of the Slashdot population.
Exactly.
It just boggles my mind how anybody can make a rational argument that stealing OSX is justifiable. Yes, stealing. The software is inexpensive because Apple has subsidized the development cost with the hardware they sell. It is a complete solution, not two separate ones.
Further, there is an incredibly obvious distinction here that many people seem to be missing. This is not a case of a single user flaunting the EULA and installing OSX on their PC. This is a for-profit company attempting to base their own business model on Apple's hard work without compensating Apple. There is a huge difference between the two situations.
The real loser ends up being the legitimate customers. There is no Apple equivalent of WGA at this time, and I'd prefer there never is. If the courts decree that Apple may not tie the software to a specific piece of hardware, Apple will have to seek a technical solution.
What's the big deal with running OSX on non-Apple hardware, anyway? There is all kinds of products sold every day that have the software and hardware tied specifically together, but suddenly it's bad for Apple to do this? They are peddling a solution, take it or leave it, vote with your wallet. But you have to take it or leave it in its entirety.
That thread is really tame. You have an incredibly tiny forum with very few threads, and the first critical comments in a short 12-post thread send you running to Slashdot for help? Wow. Go over and read some forums with a lot more posts and grow a thicker skin. Seriously.
Actually, I'm glad they are working so hard. At this point it's way too late to save their image. Even if they cut the pollution to zero for the Olympics it will be a hot topic. Every day on the news we hear about how hard they're working to solve the problem, and we get bombarded with pictures of how bad the situation is. China's pollution needed to be exposed to the world, now it is.
I think perhaps AT&T has a legitimate point in that it changes every month. Perhaps you can challenge that as not a valid practice, but it fits reality like it or not. My bill this month is $0.01 more than last month, which as I mentioned in my original post was different from the month before.
Also, I should point out I said to budget $80 for the $75/month plan. I have a budget, and this is exactly what I do. If you have to have your budget figured down to the minimum dollars and cents for everything, you're doing it wrong. Budget in round numbers, and as conservatively as possible, because it always costs more than you think it will.
You extrapolated beyond what I said. Yes, I did say you can afford 1.1 * $n. I did not, however, say you could apply that indefinitely. Stay grounded in reality, please, no need to go all hypothetical ;-).
Really? If you can afford $75/month, you can afford it with taxes. I can see their point for not wanting to give out numbers on this, because of the variables involved. Plus, if they try to quote you a "with taxes cost" then you might try to hold them to that figure. Better to just sidestep it and let you figure out the taxes yourself, like you would have to with any other purpose that is taxed.
FWIW, I paid $62.96 last month on my iPhone $60/month plan, and $63.42 the month before that. So extrapolate from there, and for a $75/month plan budget $80 and you'll be close enough.
It's going to be a while before mobile 911 is good enough to satisfy me.
I want to be able to pick up the phone, dial 911, and yell "FIRE!" and then run out the door. I hope to never use that feature, but I buy insurance too.
No, I don't think so. It wouldn't be "one of them is bound to be right" -- it would be something more along the lines of "with enough posts, the consensus is likely to be close to reality."
This assumes, of course, that everything in life is like a jar of jellybeans.
Surpise! The uninformed public does not judge products based on whether or not they are *first*.
If we are going to take this route, let's at least do it right.
The point is to penalize unhealthy people, correct? There are studies which show pretty conclusively that the healthiest people are the ones which are slightly over the 'ideal' weight. Folks carrying a bit of extra weight (read: normal) live longer than folks who maintain that beautiful body that TV insists you should have.
So, let's penalize the thin people too. If their lifestyle is as unhealthy as the fat folks, why exempt them?
s/crawling/attacking/
With what? Their electric tanks?
Opera also crashes about 10 times as often as Firefox. Choose your battles, I guess.
iPhone does.
People keep saying this, and I don't understand the logic behind it. This is not a case of the end user violating the EULA, this is a for-profit company violating the EULA to make money. That's a whole different ballgame.
I agree. A touchpad doesn't make a lot of sense if you have the means to use a mouse. It's perfect for laptops and handheld devices, though.
I think it's a mistake to see touchpads as competition for mice and keyboards. It's an alternative technology, not a replacement.
I hold my iphone all the time with one hand and type with the thumb on that hand. The trick is applying something to the phone to give it more grip (a silicone case, or as I did, BestSkinsEver). A bare iphone is too slippery to safely hold and type with in one hand, giving it some traction makes worlds of difference.
The Windstar doesn't have batteries.
If you want to factor in long term maintenance costs for both cars, it has to include more than just the batteries in both instances. His point was that just the batteries alone cost more than the gasoline they are supposed to replace, and that's before you fill them with any electricity.
First it was us on the Unix Sysadmin team. Then the network guys had a look at what we were doing, and started buying themselves Macs as well. Now management is starting to get into them. With VMware Fusion we can use Outlook, everything else we don't need Windows to do.
Vista has prompted many people to make a decision about what they want from their operating system of choice. With Windows the OS is everything, with OSX it's just the means by which applications are run. The measure of an OS that I find most compelling is how effectively it keeps me from noticing it.