I imagine that Jobs wouldn't be very happy when Microsoft announced that the mac business unit was shutting down and there'd be no more Office for Mac.
Problem: all of the new fat binaries will take up twice as much space on my already crowded hard drive.
Ok, that's about it.
Personally, I'd love to see Apple release OS X for non-Apple x86 hardware. Not because I want to buy cheaper hardware to run OS X on--I just want to see what Bill Gates' reaction would be. Destroying Apple's entire hardware business would almost be worth it for that alone.
You should go to the Denver airport sometime. It's really amazing to watch all of those planes landing at 700 mph and dodging mountains the whole time.
You're misunderstanding the purpose of the Internet. It was originally developed by DARPA as a way to track everything anyone does anywhere on the planet. Unfortunately, it turned out to be horribly inefficient for this purpose, and most people think it was actually designed to exchange information.
Now they're going to replace it with RFID tags, and they'll be able to track you a lot better. Hope this helps.
If Steve Jobs announces at WWDC that he realized that what Apple customers really want is to be able to run Windows better on their machines, so he's switching architectures to make that possible, I'm going to wrap my head in tin foil immediately, because it will be absolute proof that Microsoft has perfected orbital mind control lasers. Aiyee!
It won't catch a single porn site that existed before.xxx addresses were available, and will give a false sense of security.
While we're at it, why not tattoo all of the terrorists we can find with "Terrorist" on their foreheads, so airport security knows which people to stop?
Whether Mac users are stealing more software or not is irrelevant. Go to any CompUSA or other store that sells software for both platforms, and compare the number of Mac titles and the number of Windows titles. Then tell me if you expect Windows users not to buy more software.
If a title doesn't exist for my computer, I can't buy it. I can't steal it, either.
They don't even have to put it directly into the business. They can put it into the bank or invest it in other ways, and build up a huge endowment.
Look at the finances of major universities. Many of them have billions of dollars doing nothing but earning more money, and it's perfectly legal. It's only "profit" when you've got shareholders/owners who are benefiting through stock value, dividends, or just plain taking the profits out of the company.
I guess you'll be first in line to vote YES on a constitutional amendment eliminating the secret ballot in elections, too. And releasing all of your tax returns to the public. And medical records from any public-funded hospitals.
I know for a fact that you are too young to know anything about McCarthyism.
Your quote. You may know for a fact that his argument seems to show that he's not familiar with all of the implications of letting the government look into your reading habits, the people you choose to associate with, etc. You do not, as you claimed, "know for a fact" that he's too young to know anything about McCarthy or any other topic for that matter.
I don't disagree with your point, just your age-based ad hominem.
Sadly, the American Library Association was powerful enough to get 48 states to ban all libraries from turning over circulation to anyone without a subpoena, but will never be powerful enough to keep these provisions in the PATRIOT Act from being renewed indefinitely.
Fortunately, no reputable library software links checked out materials to the patrons who checked them out once the materials are returned, and you can't force a library to reveal information they don't have. Of course, it probably won't be long before libraries are required to keep that information forever, "just in case it's needed to stop a terrorist attack".
Exactly how old does one have to be to read a history book?
I guess we can all by glad that 70+ year old computer geeks like you are around to tell us about McCarthy (I'm assuming you were an adult during the hearings, as someone under 18 could not possibly have understood all of the implications of what the Senator was doing).
But Alberto Gonzales testified that the PATRIOT Act had never been used to try to get information from a library. Are you accusing the Attorney General of committing a federal crime by lying to Congress? I'm shocked... shocked!
But you said "pain". I'd say your email "panic" was just as bad as my cigarette cravings. Neither was painful, but both were symptoms of addiction.
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The title of the linked article is the only part that even mentions Photoshop. Nowhere in the article does anyone claim that the process would be as easy as using Photoshop, or any other software programming.
They do compare the advance in genetic manipulation to the difference between editing with Wite-Out and editing with a word processor, but that's what we call an analogy. They're not claiming that producing genes would be something anyone with no training can do with their home computer.
When I quit smoking, it caused me no physical pain whatsoever. I guess by your definition, I wasn't addicted. I wonder what all of those months of non-painful cravings were about, though.
Oh please. They acknowledge your right to burn the first copy for yourself, and CD-Rs have plenty of other substantial non-infringing uses.
Your analogy is flawed. A better analogy would be a company that makes rockets for putting satellites into orbit redesigning them so they couldn't be used to deliver nuclear warheads. Not hypocritical at all.
And, more to the point, what he saw was almost certainly what was shown in the theatrical release, so if anything didn't make sense it's the fault of whoever did the final cut.
I imagine the places you're putting the nodes in aren't having the overcrowding problem (and that the location mentioned in the article did see an increase in overall revenue when it installed wifi).
Clearly, adding free wifi to a location is going to attract more customers. Even if you attract a lot of freeloaders too, as long as you're below your full capacity the increase is going to help profits. The situation only gets bad when you're above your full capacity and people who would be paying customers start leaving because there's nowhere to put them. In essence, the problem is not the wifi, it's that they don't have enough space to meet their needs at their peak time.
A coffee shop I used to go to a lot in the days before wifi had lots of board games patrons could play, which generated a lot of business on weeknights. They also had a ban on playing any sort of games on weekend evenings, when they were constantly full and could benefit from high turnaround.
If you've got empty tables, there's no reason to care if someone buys one cup of coffee and sits around for 8 hours.
"Common sense is what tells you the world is flat." - umm, someone.
Your argument doesn't hold water. If these kids like to break the law with their computers, as you claim, prohibiting trading music should mean that trading music satisfies their "livin' on the edge" desires, while legalizing file-sharing would make it less attractive for them, driving them to more hardcore cyber-crimes.
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Considering bugzilla.opendarwin.org tracks XPF bugs, I'd have to say they don't seem too distressed about it.
I imagine that Jobs wouldn't be very happy when Microsoft announced that the mac business unit was shutting down and there'd be no more Office for Mac.
You're thinking of Leninist/Stalinist style state "communism".
Ok, that's about it.
Personally, I'd love to see Apple release OS X for non-Apple x86 hardware. Not because I want to buy cheaper hardware to run OS X on--I just want to see what Bill Gates' reaction would be. Destroying Apple's entire hardware business would almost be worth it for that alone.
You should go to the Denver airport sometime. It's really amazing to watch all of those planes landing at 700 mph and dodging mountains the whole time.
Now they're going to replace it with RFID tags, and they'll be able to track you a lot better. Hope this helps.
If Steve Jobs announces at WWDC that he realized that what Apple customers really want is to be able to run Windows better on their machines, so he's switching architectures to make that possible, I'm going to wrap my head in tin foil immediately, because it will be absolute proof that Microsoft has perfected orbital mind control lasers. Aiyee!
While we're at it, why not tattoo all of the terrorists we can find with "Terrorist" on their foreheads, so airport security knows which people to stop?
Can I provide a link to Brave New World and claim that most likely ordinary reproduction will be outlawed and all humans will be cloned in a lab?
If a title doesn't exist for my computer, I can't buy it. I can't steal it, either.
Look at the finances of major universities. Many of them have billions of dollars doing nothing but earning more money, and it's perfectly legal. It's only "profit" when you've got shareholders/owners who are benefiting through stock value, dividends, or just plain taking the profits out of the company.
Fascist asshat.
Most librarians are not, in fact, employed by the government. Getting funding from the state doesn't make all of your employees government employees.
Your quote. You may know for a fact that his argument seems to show that he's not familiar with all of the implications of letting the government look into your reading habits, the people you choose to associate with, etc. You do not, as you claimed, "know for a fact" that he's too young to know anything about McCarthy or any other topic for that matter.
I don't disagree with your point, just your age-based ad hominem.
Fortunately, no reputable library software links checked out materials to the patrons who checked them out once the materials are returned, and you can't force a library to reveal information they don't have. Of course, it probably won't be long before libraries are required to keep that information forever, "just in case it's needed to stop a terrorist attack".
I guess we can all by glad that 70+ year old computer geeks like you are around to tell us about McCarthy (I'm assuming you were an adult during the hearings, as someone under 18 could not possibly have understood all of the implications of what the Senator was doing).
But Alberto Gonzales testified that the PATRIOT Act had never been used to try to get information from a library. Are you accusing the Attorney General of committing a federal crime by lying to Congress? I'm shocked... shocked!
But you said "pain". I'd say your email "panic" was just as bad as my cigarette cravings. Neither was painful, but both were symptoms of addiction.
They do compare the advance in genetic manipulation to the difference between editing with Wite-Out and editing with a word processor, but that's what we call an analogy. They're not claiming that producing genes would be something anyone with no training can do with their home computer.
When I quit smoking, it caused me no physical pain whatsoever. I guess by your definition, I wasn't addicted. I wonder what all of those months of non-painful cravings were about, though.
Your analogy is flawed. A better analogy would be a company that makes rockets for putting satellites into orbit redesigning them so they couldn't be used to deliver nuclear warheads. Not hypocritical at all.
And, more to the point, what he saw was almost certainly what was shown in the theatrical release, so if anything didn't make sense it's the fault of whoever did the final cut.
Clearly, adding free wifi to a location is going to attract more customers. Even if you attract a lot of freeloaders too, as long as you're below your full capacity the increase is going to help profits. The situation only gets bad when you're above your full capacity and people who would be paying customers start leaving because there's nowhere to put them. In essence, the problem is not the wifi, it's that they don't have enough space to meet their needs at their peak time.
A coffee shop I used to go to a lot in the days before wifi had lots of board games patrons could play, which generated a lot of business on weeknights. They also had a ban on playing any sort of games on weekend evenings, when they were constantly full and could benefit from high turnaround.
If you've got empty tables, there's no reason to care if someone buys one cup of coffee and sits around for 8 hours.
Oddly enough, lots of people buy Starbucks coffee to go. Some of them must be under the impression it tastes good.
Your argument doesn't hold water. If these kids like to break the law with their computers, as you claim, prohibiting trading music should mean that trading music satisfies their "livin' on the edge" desires, while legalizing file-sharing would make it less attractive for them, driving them to more hardcore cyber-crimes.