>The vet said it was likely he inhaled something toxic!!!"
Heh, thats kinda funny. What kind of vet would say that without some type of autopsy? Who would bother to autopsy a bird? Anything that kills a bird that quickly will hurt a human, and it will be obvious.
The trolls over at the apple forums are pretty amusing.
Save slots? What is this 1989? Why is stuff still measured in 'blocks?' Whats a block anyway?
Seriously, flash memory is dirt cheap. Nintendo just needs to drop 2 or 3 gigs worth and you'll be able to save everything for the life of the console. Let us save these files to a backup SD card and we're golden.
I think its incredible that they wont let people download their own email client. The vendor of the phone shouldnt even have this power. Email clients are basic functionality. Installing your own doesnt hurt Apple in any way. Typical Apple: run by short-sighted MBAs. Im so glad I didnt give in to the iphone madness. WM isnt sexy but it runs everything.
No what happens is many political organizations ask people to email reps from outside their district or even outside their state. This is fraudulent behavior. The idea is to pretend that there's a sudden interest in something, when really its just the same 500 guys over at the freerepublic.com telling your rep Sarah Palin is awesome and to continue to fund the bridge to nowhere.
Nowadays I see a lot of submission forms that ask your for your address and a call back number. That seems a more elegant solution than letting crazies astroturf inboxes.
>Valve denied it was being purchased by Google, but it leads me to believe that the opposite may be true.
Whoa, I knew Steam was a high-margin money maker, but who knew Value would be buying Google soon?! Between Google's forever tracking cookie and Steam's DRM, it could lead to incredible heights of corporate douchebaggery!
>However this does not solve it for less technical people as they would have no idea what is going on
That's ironic beause opendns does exactly what you are decrying, yet geeks recommend it all the time. Nor does "open" dns publish open source code of their dns server or anything else.
In other words: Marketing works. I'm naming my next project OpenSpyware. Please recommend it to your friends like you do opendns.
You dont need an OS monopoly to make money. This has not been true historically.
Apple's clone attempts showed that the market will bear lower priced hardware. Apple still makes OEM money from the OS license itself. Considering how diversified Apple is now it can certainly open its game.
Lastly, what mac fanboys wont admit to is that OS7-9 was a terrible product. They would have failed in the 90s because they were selling garbage and everyone knew it, except loyalists. OS X is worth paying for.
>No, WATB, they have an obsession with not going out of business.
Opening your platform to more hardware is a good way to expand your market and create new profits.
The GP is correct. Apple's corporate philosophy is to deliver an all-in-one highly controlled solution. This has big advantages for the technophobic home market. Maintaining a 'it just works' reputation is important to them, but arguably an more open approach would be better, at least in dollars in the long run.
This is also why they wont let me virtualize their platform.
This guarantees that Apple will never make inroads into the big corporate sector, but it may not want to or it simply is not equipped to. A vanity/boutique device can also demand a higher margin than commodity stuff.
Yeah but the downside of people saying "Sure, I'll do this and not ask for a lot of money" is burnt out kids working at predatory employers. A lot of NPO workers get suckered this way. Ive seen it first hand, and it isnt pretty. Some NPOs have attitudes like "We'll get them young, work them like dogs, pay them nothing, and they'll get fed up at year two and go into the private sector. Thats two years of hard work from a smart kid, for nothing!" All the while management is living at fortune 100 standards. People get suckered this way because theyre afraid of being called dumb and consumerist by people like you.
I think there's an argument for demanding a good wage AND not blowing it all on toys.
I just sold my Wii which was sitting and collecting dust. It felt very liberating. I get this feeling every so often where I feel like I own too much unneeded stuff and I sell it. Demanding a good wage and a good lifestyle isnt "consumerist" its being smart. Spending it all on junk and maxing out credit cards is.
I think its easy to sit in your high-horse and call everyone "consumerist" but the economy works on the principle that consumers will buy things. It keeps people employed. I'd rather start seeing people make purchasing decisions for reasons other than lifestyle branding, keeping up with the jonses, or because a celebrity endorsed it. That's the first step to a better life and collectively we are very, very far from there. I doubt humanity will ever get tired of these gimmicks.
The honest people are now going to have DRM-free tracks with half the audio quality too.
Protected WMA > CD > compressed again to MP3 or WMA.
Is walmart serious? This is a joke. Give us an app that will strip the DRM without audio quality loss. Anything less is borderline fraud and false advertising.
No, Ive seen these ads on other computers. I believe these sites just buy very common words like 'office' so they can push their sketchy ads to a general audience.
Youre putting the decision into the hands of humans who have their own biases.
At the end of the day its probably a wash in most cases, but a couple of people with their own agendas could easily throw a close election because the laws and election technology are just so terrible. Another point, the butteryfly ballot:
The "cool kids" will, of course, tell you that everything is the same, everything sucks, and you should give up on trying to make a positive change in any part of your life or any part of your country.
Those people are dead wrong. Thats what they said about Gore and Bush, and I think its pretty obvious that a Gore presidency would have been 100% better for America. Dont give in to mindless peer-pressured apathy.
Hanging chad? So the voting technology is so terrible that an elderly person who votes for Gore has a good chance of not pressing hard enough (parkisons, arthritis, weakness is a bitch you know) and thus nullifying their vote. I dont expect this kind of thing to happen in fist world countries. I think its pretty obvious what a hanging chad means. Tossing it out is borderline voting fraud.
I disagree, bad work environments strive because they keep hiring people who dont know the culture. These people end up staying 1 or 2 years. They do good work because they want a good mark on their resume. They eventually take off for greener pastures. They spend their workdays hating their jobs and being stressed. This is extremely common in the non-profit sector where money is tight and perks are lacking.
I think its tempting to believe that bad employers and bad managers get their comeuppance, but they don't. In real life they just get to torture a new bunch every couple of years.
I hope he gets the help he needs. I think its getting obvious that his mental condition is far from normal and his obsession with finding wrongs in videogames has ruined his life.
Actually, if your skype can open a port and get to the internet it becomes a supernode and starts routing calls for people behind NATs. Essentially, its a p2p application.
I used to load it up, run netmon, and watch the IPs come in. When Im in a bad mood I randomly kill the connections. Ive since firewalled it off.
Thats fine if you live next door from the CO. I live in Chicago, just 4 miles from downtown and Im lucky to get 1.5mbps. Initially they gave me 768 until I went out and bought the best DSL modem I could find and talked them into trying to up the speed. The line is mostly stable.
Hundreds of thousands of AT&T subscribers are getting 1.5 or less in this area. The cant be bothered to do anything about this situation, instead they keep rolling more out in the suburbs. Meanwhile, Comcasts 6mbps+ lines are available, but 20-30 dollars more per month.
I imagine whenever we get uverse this should change, but lots of AT&T subscribers get crap speeds.
I use skype on WM5 with Sprint's EVDO. Cheap international calls anywhere. Works fine with the occasional nuttiness and dropouts.
I love how people defend the abusive practices of google, apple, tmobile, etc. "But, but, theyre watching out for us. Clearly you cant have VoIP over a cell data network!"
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>The vet said it was likely he inhaled something toxic!!!"
Heh, thats kinda funny. What kind of vet would say that without some type of autopsy? Who would bother to autopsy a bird? Anything that kills a bird that quickly will hurt a human, and it will be obvious.
The trolls over at the apple forums are pretty amusing.
>meantime, an underhanded developer could pay Apple some protection money
PASS THE BONG DUDE!!!
Save slots? What is this 1989? Why is stuff still measured in 'blocks?' Whats a block anyway?
Seriously, flash memory is dirt cheap. Nintendo just needs to drop 2 or 3 gigs worth and you'll be able to save everything for the life of the console. Let us save these files to a backup SD card and we're golden.
I think its incredible that they wont let people download their own email client. The vendor of the phone shouldnt even have this power. Email clients are basic functionality. Installing your own doesnt hurt Apple in any way. Typical Apple: run by short-sighted MBAs. Im so glad I didnt give in to the iphone madness. WM isnt sexy but it runs everything.
No what happens is many political organizations ask people to email reps from outside their district or even outside their state. This is fraudulent behavior. The idea is to pretend that there's a sudden interest in something, when really its just the same 500 guys over at the freerepublic.com telling your rep Sarah Palin is awesome and to continue to fund the bridge to nowhere.
Nowadays I see a lot of submission forms that ask your for your address and a call back number. That seems a more elegant solution than letting crazies astroturf inboxes.
>Valve denied it was being purchased by Google, but it leads me to believe that the opposite may be true.
Whoa, I knew Steam was a high-margin money maker, but who knew Value would be buying Google soon?! Between Google's forever tracking cookie and Steam's DRM, it could lead to incredible heights of corporate douchebaggery!
>However this does not solve it for less technical people as they would have no idea what is going on
That's ironic beause opendns does exactly what you are decrying, yet geeks recommend it all the time. Nor does "open" dns publish open source code of their dns server or anything else.
In other words: Marketing works. I'm naming my next project OpenSpyware. Please recommend it to your friends like you do opendns.
He probably works for the FSB now.
>Next we'll probably drive the ice vendors in Alaska to bankruptcy!
Naww, there's always a demand for governors lying in their tanning beds sipping iced tea while keeping an eye on those pesky russians.
You dont need an OS monopoly to make money. This has not been true historically.
Apple's clone attempts showed that the market will bear lower priced hardware. Apple still makes OEM money from the OS license itself. Considering how diversified Apple is now it can certainly open its game.
Lastly, what mac fanboys wont admit to is that OS7-9 was a terrible product. They would have failed in the 90s because they were selling garbage and everyone knew it, except loyalists. OS X is worth paying for.
>No, WATB, they have an obsession with not going out of business.
Opening your platform to more hardware is a good way to expand your market and create new profits.
The GP is correct. Apple's corporate philosophy is to deliver an all-in-one highly controlled solution. This has big advantages for the technophobic home market. Maintaining a 'it just works' reputation is important to them, but arguably an more open approach would be better, at least in dollars in the long run.
This is also why they wont let me virtualize their platform.
This guarantees that Apple will never make inroads into the big corporate sector, but it may not want to or it simply is not equipped to. A vanity/boutique device can also demand a higher margin than commodity stuff.
Yeah but the downside of people saying "Sure, I'll do this and not ask for a lot of money" is burnt out kids working at predatory employers. A lot of NPO workers get suckered this way. Ive seen it first hand, and it isnt pretty. Some NPOs have attitudes like "We'll get them young, work them like dogs, pay them nothing, and they'll get fed up at year two and go into the private sector. Thats two years of hard work from a smart kid, for nothing!" All the while management is living at fortune 100 standards. People get suckered this way because theyre afraid of being called dumb and consumerist by people like you.
I think there's an argument for demanding a good wage AND not blowing it all on toys.
I just sold my Wii which was sitting and collecting dust. It felt very liberating. I get this feeling every so often where I feel like I own too much unneeded stuff and I sell it. Demanding a good wage and a good lifestyle isnt "consumerist" its being smart. Spending it all on junk and maxing out credit cards is.
I think its easy to sit in your high-horse and call everyone "consumerist" but the economy works on the principle that consumers will buy things. It keeps people employed. I'd rather start seeing people make purchasing decisions for reasons other than lifestyle branding, keeping up with the jonses, or because a celebrity endorsed it. That's the first step to a better life and collectively we are very, very far from there. I doubt humanity will ever get tired of these gimmicks.
The honest people are now going to have DRM-free tracks with half the audio quality too.
Protected WMA > CD > compressed again to MP3 or WMA.
Is walmart serious? This is a joke. Give us an app that will strip the DRM without audio quality loss. Anything less is borderline fraud and false advertising.
No, Ive seen these ads on other computers. I believe these sites just buy very common words like 'office' so they can push their sketchy ads to a general audience.
That's true, but its a subjective call. Remember this famous photo:
http://willybova.com/hanging-chad.JPG
Youre putting the decision into the hands of humans who have their own biases.
At the end of the day its probably a wash in most cases, but a couple of people with their own agendas could easily throw a close election because the laws and election technology are just so terrible. Another point, the butteryfly ballot:
http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/gov/politics/election2000/img/prezrace/butterfly_large.jpg
Again, this is hostile to the elderly. Usability must take their needs into account.
Better technology and better implementations as well as better laws could easily change many elections to be more accurate and more fair to voters.
Does this also break remote desktop like the previous driver?
The "cool kids" will, of course, tell you that everything is the same, everything sucks, and you should give up on trying to make a positive change in any part of your life or any part of your country.
Those people are dead wrong. Thats what they said about Gore and Bush, and I think its pretty obvious that a Gore presidency would have been 100% better for America. Dont give in to mindless peer-pressured apathy.
Hanging chad? So the voting technology is so terrible that an elderly person who votes for Gore has a good chance of not pressing hard enough (parkisons, arthritis, weakness is a bitch you know) and thus nullifying their vote. I dont expect this kind of thing to happen in fist world countries. I think its pretty obvious what a hanging chad means. Tossing it out is borderline voting fraud.
I disagree, bad work environments strive because they keep hiring people who dont know the culture. These people end up staying 1 or 2 years. They do good work because they want a good mark on their resume. They eventually take off for greener pastures. They spend their workdays hating their jobs and being stressed. This is extremely common in the non-profit sector where money is tight and perks are lacking.
I think its tempting to believe that bad employers and bad managers get their comeuppance, but they don't. In real life they just get to torture a new bunch every couple of years.
I hope he gets the help he needs. I think its getting obvious that his mental condition is far from normal and his obsession with finding wrongs in videogames has ruined his life.
Then you still lose.
Actually, if your skype can open a port and get to the internet it becomes a supernode and starts routing calls for people behind NATs. Essentially, its a p2p application.
I used to load it up, run netmon, and watch the IPs come in. When Im in a bad mood I randomly kill the connections. Ive since firewalled it off.
>ATT's DSL: Full rated 6Mbps speed
Thats fine if you live next door from the CO. I live in Chicago, just 4 miles from downtown and Im lucky to get 1.5mbps. Initially they gave me 768 until I went out and bought the best DSL modem I could find and talked them into trying to up the speed. The line is mostly stable.
Hundreds of thousands of AT&T subscribers are getting 1.5 or less in this area. The cant be bothered to do anything about this situation, instead they keep rolling more out in the suburbs. Meanwhile, Comcasts 6mbps+ lines are available, but 20-30 dollars more per month.
I imagine whenever we get uverse this should change, but lots of AT&T subscribers get crap speeds.
I use skype on WM5 with Sprint's EVDO. Cheap international calls anywhere. Works fine with the occasional nuttiness and dropouts.
I love how people defend the abusive practices of google, apple, tmobile, etc. "But, but, theyre watching out for us. Clearly you cant have VoIP over a cell data network!"
Fuck yeah you can.
Yeah, because DVD was such an open and free format.
Most consumers dont even know what DRM stands for? Dont Read Manuals? Dog Rimming Machine?