This is in Louisiana, not in New Orleans. New Orleans may as well not even be in Louisiana, because as soon as you step out of the metro area, it's like a completely different world. But really, I don't see how this conflicts at all with the rebuilding process.
The education system in New Orleans is completely fucked up, anyway. Luckily I was educated in a decent system in a suburb in the New Orleans metro area.
1) They both have keyboards.;) Seriously though, I was wrong about it being from the Apple ][; the Apple III or the Lisa was the first unit to have the Apple keys, but later models of the Apple ][ gained them as well. Although the first Macintosh was obviously heavy on the mouse use, everything was designed to be usable from the keyboard.
"We thought it was important for the user to be able to invoke every menu command directly from the keyboard, so we added a special key to the keyboard to invoke menu commands, just like our predecessor, Lisa. We called it the "Apple key"; when pressed in combination with another key, it selected the corresponding menu command. We displayed a little Apple logo on the right side of every menu item with a keyboard command, to associate the key with the command."
-- Andy Hertzfeld
Steve Jobs then made them change the key from an Apple to the command symbol because the drop-down menus looked ridiculous full of apples. When Steve was fired by Sculley, the apples were put back on the keyboards, and just sometime in the last year Apple removed the apples from the keyboards once again.
2. R restarts, S sleeps, Escape cancels, and Enter shuts down. This is behavior consistent with the rest of OS X. Tab, arrow keys, etc. never do anything in such dialog boxes, iirc. It's always enter for the default button, escape for the "do nothing" button, and letter keys for the alternative buttons.
Compare using a Mac with a windows box with no mouse plugged in. It's actually nearly impossible to operate a mac with no mouse. Certain dialogs (like shutting the machine down) are not KB accessible. When you plug an unrecognized keyboard into a mac you have to use a mouse to configure they keyboard (iirc).
That's ridiculous. Mac OS X has just as much keyboard functionality as Windows does. Both operating systems have roots in older OSs that existed before mice were adopted (Apple ][ and MS-DOS).
There are two ways that I know of to shut down a Mac from the keyboard: 1. Press ctrl+eject to bring up the Restart/Sleep/Shut Down dialog. 2. Press ctrl+F2 to select the menubar, then press down until you reach "Shut Down" and press enter.
From the article: Labs is now out to all English users (US and UK), and administrators using Google Apps can choose to enable Labs by checking the "Turn on new features" box in Domain Settings.
I don't know about McCain but I suggest you investigate Obama further on this, because he definitely seems to know what he is talking about in general. There's an excellent interview with him at Google on YouTube. He even answers a jokingly-asked programming question semi-right ("what's the best way to sort an array of random 32-bit integers?" to which Obama laughingly answered "well, I wouldn't go with the bubblesort.")
Wouldn't you just wait until after you got the door to submit?
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She is not concerned about losing her data. What you fail to realize is that it is a Washington DC law that requires Best Buy to inform her that her laptop with her sensitive data had been lost while under their service. It doesn't matter whether she took responsible precautions with her data or not--it's the LAW that Best Buy has to do this, even if it wasn't their fault and the lady was negligent with her data. Not only did Best Buy not do what is required by law but they also lied to her for THREE MONTHS about her laptop. She should at least get the value of the laptop, the value of losing time with the laptop for three months (an unreasonable length of time to fix a simple power button), and the value of having to pay for monitoring services because of Best Buy's negligence (something Best Buy could have avoided being liable for if they had informed her when they should have). No one is saying she deserves 54 million, not even her. But Best Buy should have to pay punitive fees.
Was that what Best Buy did was illegal. From ars technica:
"Campbell's tax returns were on her laptop, and Best Buy apparently violated Washington, DC's security breach notification laws by not telling her about the potential data loss. And the potential for data theft as a result of missing equipment is no laughing matter: the state of Ohio, TSA, IRS, US Department of Transportation, and the Veterans Administration have all lost equipment (often laptops) that have forced them to alert millions of citizens to watch out for identity theft. Campbell says that she still hasn't heard from Best Buy on that particular issue, and has been forced to incur extra costs to monitor all of her accounts for suspicious activity."
On top of that, the victim also notes that she herself thinks 54 mil is too much, but thinks it is necessary to get the media attention to make Best Buy do the right thing.
Padding allows the players to do more than their Rugby counterparts. I've heard this argument a thousand times, but the truth is that if the players have padding, they will play harder to compensate. If you give your rugby players padding, will they play the same way or will they play harder? It's a different focus on playing. American football and Rugby are different sports, even if they are closely related.
In addition, American Football is more about the strategy in moving the ball than Rugby is. There is time between each play for the players to talk strategy and swap benched players. This is 45 seconds in the NFL, 25 seconds in college. The stadium screens and television networks usually play a replay of the previous play from angles to show the viewers exactly what happened the last play, which is often necessary to completely understand what happened.
If you don't like American football, that's fine. We Americans really aren't offended nor do we care. But I think both American football and Rugby are respectable, but different, sports. That goes for soccer, too.
I've never understood why people ask the question "when is my child mature enough for ?"
Surely the maturity to understand something comes with exposure to it? Why not expose your kids to things early on, and with parental help and explanation, make sure they understand?
Why is it that people don't deem their children 'mature enough' to start understanding sex until they're in their early teens/tweens? I heard about sex and knew exactly what it was, along with all the crude humor and slang, long before that age through the world around me, the media, and the bad kids at school. Surely you'd want to talk to your kids and give them a healthy understanding of sex long before they hear it from someone else you don't trust?
Surely you'd want your kids to play video games and understand them before they get invited to a friend's house one day to play GTA for the first time when they're actually old enough to pick up a gun and go shoot someone before they get home?
Darwin is Apple's stuff. They made it. It is based on BSD, but the BSD license doesn't require them to release the source (does it? IANAL). It is also based on NeXTSTEP, which was acquired by Apple in the 90s.
Apple's record with open source is inconsistent. Sometimes they develop internally and release source (Darwin, Bonjour), sometimes they collaborate with open source projects and share (WebKit with KDE), sometimes they buy out someone's software (Cover Flow), sometimes they steal ideas and never credit original authors (Dashboard).
Apple has its own open source license, the Apple Public Source License, approved by OSI and the FSF. However, they also release under the Apache license as well.
I would say in general, Apple is very open source-friendly, and a lot of open source developers I know have flocked to the Mac. It's just sometimes they have some evil empire corporation actions that make us Apple users shake our heads.
There are two kinds of teachers: those who love their subject and teaching it enough and enjoy the theory more than the application and are willing to take the shaft of being underpaid for their passion, and those who couldn't make it in the real world so they teach instead.
The first kind are the good teachers. They inject as much good knowledge into their teaching as possible, going above and beyond the silly curriculum requirements that the establishment puts on them. They do view their students as apprentices and work with them to be the best possible--they want their students to learn. I have learned a lot from these types of people.
The second kind are the bad teachers. They know enough to get by, so they simply repeat what the required text says, make sure that the students know how to work problems like those that are in the book, and they don't care if students simply regurgitate what's being said to them instead of truly grasping the concept.
You obviously don't understand the importance of good teachers in society. Yes, they can just "get another job"--but why on earth would you WANT THEM TO? The best-minded people should be passing on what they know, not leaving that to the idiots. There shouldn't be a demand for teachers; a demand for teachers means lowering the bar so that demand can be filled. Instead, the pay for teachers should be so high that everyone wants to teach and only the best get through.
Don't complain that the teaching field is filled with idiots and then suggest we should lower the pay for teachers--that's WHY there are idiots in teaching.
Well this sucks. In the New Orleans area this store was the only place to buy geek products. CompUSA carried a lot of things places like Best Buy or Circuit City don't. There's no Fry's or Apple Store here, either. There's only one mom 'n' pop Apple dealer here, and the guy who runs it rents Penske trucks out of the place instead of focusing on the Apple stuff--everything in there is pre-Intel era, even the advertisements for iMac G4s...
I have to say I didn't spend much money at CompUSA (they sure were expensive), but I enjoyed going there to mess with the Mac Pro with 30" monitor and other stuff they had around there. It was also the only place you could purchase Bawls.
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This is in Louisiana, not in New Orleans. New Orleans may as well not even be in Louisiana, because as soon as you step out of the metro area, it's like a completely different world. But really, I don't see how this conflicts at all with the rebuilding process.
The education system in New Orleans is completely fucked up, anyway. Luckily I was educated in a decent system in a suburb in the New Orleans metro area.
1) They both have keyboards. ;) Seriously though, I was wrong about it being from the Apple ][; the Apple III or the Lisa was the first unit to have the Apple keys, but later models of the Apple ][ gained them as well. Although the first Macintosh was obviously heavy on the mouse use, everything was designed to be usable from the keyboard.
"We thought it was important for the user to be able to invoke every menu command directly from the keyboard, so we added a special key to the keyboard to invoke menu commands, just like our predecessor, Lisa. We called it the "Apple key"; when pressed in combination with another key, it selected the corresponding menu command. We displayed a little Apple logo on the right side of every menu item with a keyboard command, to associate the key with the command."
-- Andy Hertzfeld
Steve Jobs then made them change the key from an Apple to the command symbol because the drop-down menus looked ridiculous full of apples. When Steve was fired by Sculley, the apples were put back on the keyboards, and just sometime in the last year Apple removed the apples from the keyboards once again.
2. R restarts, S sleeps, Escape cancels, and Enter shuts down. This is behavior consistent with the rest of OS X. Tab, arrow keys, etc. never do anything in such dialog boxes, iirc. It's always enter for the default button, escape for the "do nothing" button, and letter keys for the alternative buttons.
Compare using a Mac with a windows box with no mouse plugged in. It's actually nearly impossible to operate a mac with no mouse. Certain dialogs (like shutting the machine down) are not KB accessible. When you plug an unrecognized keyboard into a mac you have to use a mouse to configure they keyboard (iirc).
That's ridiculous. Mac OS X has just as much keyboard functionality as Windows does. Both operating systems have roots in older OSs that existed before mice were adopted (Apple ][ and MS-DOS).
There are two ways that I know of to shut down a Mac from the keyboard: 1. Press ctrl+eject to bring up the Restart/Sleep/Shut Down dialog. 2. Press ctrl+F2 to select the menubar, then press down until you reach "Shut Down" and press enter.
http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/athome/security/children/leetspeak.mspx
OH SHIT THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG
PARENT OVER SHOULDER!!!
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To the guy who complained about his chair: your wife is getting you a new one!
From the article: Labs is now out to all English users (US and UK), and administrators using Google Apps can choose to enable Labs by checking the "Turn on new features" box in Domain Settings.
Also works fine in Safari...
I don't know about McCain but I suggest you investigate Obama further on this, because he definitely seems to know what he is talking about in general. There's an excellent interview with him at Google on YouTube. He even answers a jokingly-asked programming question semi-right ("what's the best way to sort an array of random 32-bit integers?" to which Obama laughingly answered "well, I wouldn't go with the bubblesort.")
I think everyone who plays video games knows this already...
http://www6.comcast.net/powerboost/
All it does is give you short bursts of high bandwidth and is really more talk than usefulness.
My ISP, Cox, does this too, though once the "PowerBoost" thing is off, I steadily get the bandwidth I'm supposed to get. Dunno about Comcast.
Wouldn't you just wait until after you got the door to submit?
Oh.
She is not concerned about losing her data. What you fail to realize is that it is a Washington DC law that requires Best Buy to inform her that her laptop with her sensitive data had been lost while under their service. It doesn't matter whether she took responsible precautions with her data or not--it's the LAW that Best Buy has to do this, even if it wasn't their fault and the lady was negligent with her data. Not only did Best Buy not do what is required by law but they also lied to her for THREE MONTHS about her laptop. She should at least get the value of the laptop, the value of losing time with the laptop for three months (an unreasonable length of time to fix a simple power button), and the value of having to pay for monitoring services because of Best Buy's negligence (something Best Buy could have avoided being liable for if they had informed her when they should have). No one is saying she deserves 54 million, not even her. But Best Buy should have to pay punitive fees.
Was that what Best Buy did was illegal. From ars technica:
"Campbell's tax returns were on her laptop, and Best Buy apparently violated Washington, DC's security breach notification laws by not telling her about the potential data loss. And the potential for data theft as a result of missing equipment is no laughing matter: the state of Ohio, TSA, IRS, US Department of Transportation, and the Veterans Administration have all lost equipment (often laptops) that have forced them to alert millions of citizens to watch out for identity theft. Campbell says that she still hasn't heard from Best Buy on that particular issue, and has been forced to incur extra costs to monitor all of her accounts for suspicious activity."
On top of that, the victim also notes that she herself thinks 54 mil is too much, but thinks it is necessary to get the media attention to make Best Buy do the right thing.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080212-victim-54-million-best-buy-lawsuit-stupid-but-necessary.html
Bait, but I guess I'll bite...
Padding allows the players to do more than their Rugby counterparts. I've heard this argument a thousand times, but the truth is that if the players have padding, they will play harder to compensate. If you give your rugby players padding, will they play the same way or will they play harder? It's a different focus on playing. American football and Rugby are different sports, even if they are closely related.
In addition, American Football is more about the strategy in moving the ball than Rugby is. There is time between each play for the players to talk strategy and swap benched players. This is 45 seconds in the NFL, 25 seconds in college. The stadium screens and television networks usually play a replay of the previous play from angles to show the viewers exactly what happened the last play, which is often necessary to completely understand what happened.
If you don't like American football, that's fine. We Americans really aren't offended nor do we care. But I think both American football and Rugby are respectable, but different, sports. That goes for soccer, too.
As much as I love TPB for its antics, it really is a crappy tracker. It's hard to search and it's filled with shit.
I've never understood why people ask the question "when is my child mature enough for ?"
Surely the maturity to understand something comes with exposure to it? Why not expose your kids to things early on, and with parental help and explanation, make sure they understand?
Why is it that people don't deem their children 'mature enough' to start understanding sex until they're in their early teens/tweens? I heard about sex and knew exactly what it was, along with all the crude humor and slang, long before that age through the world around me, the media, and the bad kids at school. Surely you'd want to talk to your kids and give them a healthy understanding of sex long before they hear it from someone else you don't trust?
Surely you'd want your kids to play video games and understand them before they get invited to a friend's house one day to play GTA for the first time when they're actually old enough to pick up a gun and go shoot someone before they get home?
Darwin is Apple's stuff. They made it. It is based on BSD, but the BSD license doesn't require them to release the source (does it? IANAL). It is also based on NeXTSTEP, which was acquired by Apple in the 90s.
Apple's record with open source is inconsistent. Sometimes they develop internally and release source (Darwin, Bonjour), sometimes they collaborate with open source projects and share (WebKit with KDE), sometimes they buy out someone's software (Cover Flow), sometimes they steal ideas and never credit original authors (Dashboard).
Apple has its own open source license, the Apple Public Source License, approved by OSI and the FSF. However, they also release under the Apache license as well.
I would say in general, Apple is very open source-friendly, and a lot of open source developers I know have flocked to the Mac. It's just sometimes they have some evil empire corporation actions that make us Apple users shake our heads.
I see: the link got moved to the "unbricks iPhone" text from the "Ars Technica" text.
That's weird; I'm positive I included the link when I submitted this story; the editor must have removed it for some reason.
It also depends on the market. Sega's marketing in the past has pronounced itself "Say-guh" in the United States but "See-guh" in Australia.
That's what they want you to think.
He died?
They do work another job and that is the problem!
There are two kinds of teachers: those who love their subject and teaching it enough and enjoy the theory more than the application and are willing to take the shaft of being underpaid for their passion, and those who couldn't make it in the real world so they teach instead.
The first kind are the good teachers. They inject as much good knowledge into their teaching as possible, going above and beyond the silly curriculum requirements that the establishment puts on them. They do view their students as apprentices and work with them to be the best possible--they want their students to learn. I have learned a lot from these types of people.
The second kind are the bad teachers. They know enough to get by, so they simply repeat what the required text says, make sure that the students know how to work problems like those that are in the book, and they don't care if students simply regurgitate what's being said to them instead of truly grasping the concept.
You obviously don't understand the importance of good teachers in society. Yes, they can just "get another job"--but why on earth would you WANT THEM TO? The best-minded people should be passing on what they know, not leaving that to the idiots. There shouldn't be a demand for teachers; a demand for teachers means lowering the bar so that demand can be filled. Instead, the pay for teachers should be so high that everyone wants to teach and only the best get through.
Don't complain that the teaching field is filled with idiots and then suggest we should lower the pay for teachers--that's WHY there are idiots in teaching.
Well this sucks. In the New Orleans area this store was the only place to buy geek products. CompUSA carried a lot of things places like Best Buy or Circuit City don't. There's no Fry's or Apple Store here, either. There's only one mom 'n' pop Apple dealer here, and the guy who runs it rents Penske trucks out of the place instead of focusing on the Apple stuff--everything in there is pre-Intel era, even the advertisements for iMac G4s... I have to say I didn't spend much money at CompUSA (they sure were expensive), but I enjoyed going there to mess with the Mac Pro with 30" monitor and other stuff they had around there. It was also the only place you could purchase Bawls.
Absolute power holders drink absolut vodka?