He may have been from Korea, but his actions were his own - what does this have to do with Korea or Koreans? I have never quite understood how people can blame an entire country and its population for someone's actions.
Step 1 - You either have SP2 or you don't. If you don't, install whatever version you have and download the update (that'll also cut down the number of reboots on step 2). If you're worried about viruses, download a freeware AV package before you do the update. There are freeware personal firewalls available too.
Step 2 - If you were loading from old distribution CD, wouldn't you have to go through this step at least once? The last Macintosh update I got required a reboot, so I know that if I reloaded from the OSX distribution CD that I got with my system, I would need to do a reboot.
Step 3 - Most installations don't really need new drivers. With few exceptions - newer display adapters or older hardware - the base Windows install supports just about any hardware that someone has on their system. Sometimes it's limited support, but it generally works well enough to get the latest driver to fully enable it.
Step 4 - Well, yes, but that's the nature of the beast.
Steps 5 through 10 are the user's choice and has nothing to do with the installation of Windows. Each one of those components is in the base install. You may not like them and may want to use something else, but they're there.
Take 2 Games (TTWO, NASDAQ) is a publicly traded company. Most investors aren't terribly happy with lawsuits to put the smackdown on someone that's bothering them or "just to prove a point"
Oops. Should've RTFA'd rather than flipped out because of the headline. As I can go through multiple pages before I get one that's the best mixture of paper/color, I'm still not totally impressed with the concept.
I'm ok with sending finished photography work to a service bureau, but for intermediate prints, I really need to have my own printer. After 20 years of HP printers, my next one'll be Epson...
Not only that, they charge an ignorant amount for their software as well.
Ignorant in what way? Obviously enough people are willing to pay the "ignorant amount" for their products to permit Adobe to keep the price where it is. Yes, this means that a lot of people won't be able to buy them who otherwise would if Adobe would lower their price (I admit that I had to think about it a while before I got a copy of Photoshop), but there's enough people who are willing to pay that it's profitable to keep making them. There is still the "Elements" line for people who don't need or can't afford the some of the full products.
Now if someone could prove that they're paying design studios to use it exclusively in order to keep other players out of the market, that'd be something completely different.
I will submit that it is difficult to get a concealed license permit. But that is based on current laws and I was basing my post upon changes upon those laws. Please notice that I said "loosening". Please also note that everyone who carries a concealed weapon is not necessarily legally entitled to do so.
You are talking about people who have demonstrated that the correct understanding of guns and the laws surrounding their use. I was not.
Given my experience, I can only assume that the same bunch of merry idiots that have to take driver's safety classes to get a driver's license (where still required), get one and then proceed to demonstrate their skills by weaving in and out of traffic like they're driving through pylons are going to be the same folks who will be walking down to the local gun shop and will walk out with no further understanding than which ammunition to buy. Which they will promptly forget while getting into the car.
As I said, I have no problem with people having guns, so long as they understand how to use them. I'm afraid that that world doesn't exist. Why is it that people who have the slightest objections to universal gun ownership are accused of subscribing to FUD? I wouldn't give a gun to a three-year-old. I would never trust one in the hands of someone untrained. Is this a problem?
As to the Assault Rifle bill, by the time it had gotten to the final form, it was so specific to be absolutely meaningless. The sponsors knew this. They wanted to pass something symbolic and they knew that only way it would get passed the Republicans, the NRA and the President was to make it look good but mean nothing. I would have preferred that they have dropped the bill. And said why. Unfortunately, that Congress only exists on the same planet that people are willing to take account of their actions. The one that's Far, Far Away...
And when you or someone like you shoots an innocent by mistake, will the victim be somewhat less dead because he wasn't shot by the "bad guy"?
I mean no insult to you. I'm not completely against handgun ownership, IFF the owner gets proper training and has regular practice on a firing range. But that isn't what'll happen. If laws are loosened, people whose only previous experience with handguns was watching them on TV will run out and buy them, assuming that they don't require any training to use. And people will die. Sure, there may only be 5 or 10, rather than 30, but now you're going to have the grieving families along with the grieving inexperienced gun owner that shot one of them.
I would be more than happy to vote for loosening of gun ownership restrictions if it could be proved to me that the new gun owners were willing to take responsibility for both their weapon and themselves - at least more than most people currently show for their motor vehicles
As someone who has been shot at by mistake (the idiot was shooting at a beer can on the water and the ricochet landed about six inches from me), and who's father stopped deer hunting because he was tired of getting shot at (while wearing an International orange vest, BTW) it'll take some strong arguments...
Hollywood has been losing business to Canadian industry for years now.
No, Hollywood (and its stockholders) has been doing quite well (or not quite so badly, depending on your point of view and your tax status), thanks largely to lower filming costs in Canada. It's the people who used to work on films when they were done in the US that have lost out on the deal...
Because for most people, its far easier for to use Music->Playlists->Classical or Music->Playlists->Baroque or Music->Artist->Bach rather than/Classical if they want to hear all of their songs (assuming all of their Classical music is stored there) and/Classical/Baroque when they want to listen to their Baroque collection (again, all of their Baroque music has to be in that directory for this to work) or/Classical/Baroque/Bach if they just want to listen to Bach. Since iTunes tracks location, they just have to know what they want rather than where it is.
It's not totally automatic, as users have to create the playlists and they will have to decide which playlist(s) to assign their stuff to, but once done, they never have to worry how the songs are logically organized within the file structure.
Well, as OSX is the reason that people who buy Macs are buying them in the first place, why not just buy a cheaper system and put anything that you want on it. Except OSX, of course, but as you don't want it anyway...
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RIM didn't pass Palm because of the Blackberry device, (which are quite good), they passed them because they took a page from Palms's book - don't have a lot of bells and whistles, but what you do, do very well.
Palm would do well to reexamine the whole concept of the PDA interface if the do end up changing the OS. Don't try to do what everybody else does, don't try to make it just like a laptop, but smaller. Just do what you do simply and well.
Apple's got the right idea with iPhone (well, except for possibly locking out third-party development-where Palm got it exactly right with all of their tools), but Palm's got a head start...
Yeah, because we all know that the only ones who work on movies are the MPAA and the actors - all those names on the credits are only filler so the theme music can play a little longer, right?
Yes, maybe your friend and people like him will understand that there are responsibilities that go along with freedom of speech and that words and actions have ramifications.
I think that the original point was that there is no possibility of off-line work in a purely web-based system. Open-source aside, is there any real difference between Zimbra desktop and Outlook, Thunderbird any other client-based MUA?
Donahue was no Dick Cavett, but at his worst, he was far, far better than the I-wanna-get-on-TV-so-bad-I'll-do-anything-to-do-it Jerry Springer freakshow or the Oprah tearfest...
A single shining instance of human rationality doesn't necessarily a complete refutation make.
Yes, it worked - until the Europeans came. But the native population had virtually unlimited land and resources to work with. They also had a very small population as a starting point.
Maybe it's 'cause I'm getting old and cynical, but after having participated in neighborhood and other (larger) groups, I can't see more than five people working in a collective manner, let alone every human.
Try getting three people to agree where to go for lunch...
And then what happens when my autonomous collective needs a some of resource that another autonomous collective controls, but is unwilling to share?
Without some supra-collective authority, who mediates the dispute? One can assume that all parties will deal rationally with each other, but that would fly in the face of thousands of years of human history. You only have to examine the ongoing disputes over water in the American West to see how badly groups of people allocate "shared" resources when left to their own devices.
No, radio stations don't suck because of the music that they play, they suck because they all play the same music.
When I was a teenager, almost all of the radio stations in my area were independently owned. They didn't have playlists, didn't subscribe to programming services and didn't play the same music. In fact, you were actually pretty lucky to hear your favorite songs more than once a day. The DJ played what they liked or what they felt like playing. Which made for some very interesting listening, especially at night. I swear some of 'em put on Innagadadavida just so they could slip out for twenty minutes...
I guess radio stations figured out that they were supposed to make money 'cause they started playing just the top 10, subscribing to programming services or sold out to big media companies. Things went downhill from there.
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He may have been from Korea, but his actions were his own - what does this have to do with Korea or Koreans? I have never quite understood how people can blame an entire country and its population for someone's actions.
Step 2 - If you were loading from old distribution CD, wouldn't you have to go through this step at least once? The last Macintosh update I got required a reboot, so I know that if I reloaded from the OSX distribution CD that I got with my system, I would need to do a reboot.
Step 3 - Most installations don't really need new drivers. With few exceptions - newer display adapters or older hardware - the base Windows install supports just about any hardware that someone has on their system. Sometimes it's limited support, but it generally works well enough to get the latest driver to fully enable it.
Step 4 - Well, yes, but that's the nature of the beast.
Steps 5 through 10 are the user's choice and has nothing to do with the installation of Windows. Each one of those components is in the base install. You may not like them and may want to use something else, but they're there.
Take 2 Games (TTWO, NASDAQ) is a publicly traded company. Most investors aren't terribly happy with lawsuits to put the smackdown on someone that's bothering them or "just to prove a point"
Could having an open access point be considered an attractive nuisance in the same way as an unprotected pool?
Oops. Should've RTFA'd rather than flipped out because of the headline. As I can go through multiple pages before I get one that's the best mixture of paper/color, I'm still not totally impressed with the concept.
I'm ok with sending finished photography work to a service bureau, but for intermediate prints, I really need to have my own printer. After 20 years of HP printers, my next one'll be Epson...
Ignorant in what way? Obviously enough people are willing to pay the "ignorant amount" for their products to permit Adobe to keep the price where it is. Yes, this means that a lot of people won't be able to buy them who otherwise would if Adobe would lower their price (I admit that I had to think about it a while before I got a copy of Photoshop), but there's enough people who are willing to pay that it's profitable to keep making them. There is still the "Elements" line for people who don't need or can't afford the some of the full products.
Now if someone could prove that they're paying design studios to use it exclusively in order to keep other players out of the market, that'd be something completely different.
You are talking about people who have demonstrated that the correct understanding of guns and the laws surrounding their use. I was not.
Given my experience, I can only assume that the same bunch of merry idiots that have to take driver's safety classes to get a driver's license (where still required), get one and then proceed to demonstrate their skills by weaving in and out of traffic like they're driving through pylons are going to be the same folks who will be walking down to the local gun shop and will walk out with no further understanding than which ammunition to buy. Which they will promptly forget while getting into the car.
As I said, I have no problem with people having guns, so long as they understand how to use them. I'm afraid that that world doesn't exist. Why is it that people who have the slightest objections to universal gun ownership are accused of subscribing to FUD? I wouldn't give a gun to a three-year-old. I would never trust one in the hands of someone untrained. Is this a problem?
As to the Assault Rifle bill, by the time it had gotten to the final form, it was so specific to be absolutely meaningless. The sponsors knew this. They wanted to pass something symbolic and they knew that only way it would get passed the Republicans, the NRA and the President was to make it look good but mean nothing. I would have preferred that they have dropped the bill. And said why. Unfortunately, that Congress only exists on the same planet that people are willing to take account of their actions. The one that's Far, Far Away...
I remember them.
I remember multiple head crashes. Data forever lost because I was dumb enough to use them as my primary data drive.
I also remember the sound of plastic and metal shattering when the disk was thrown against a brick wall across the room when it couldn't be read.
Those were the days.
Please excuse me while I go get a drink...
I mean no insult to you. I'm not completely against handgun ownership, IFF the owner gets proper training and has regular practice on a firing range. But that isn't what'll happen. If laws are loosened, people whose only previous experience with handguns was watching them on TV will run out and buy them, assuming that they don't require any training to use. And people will die. Sure, there may only be 5 or 10, rather than 30, but now you're going to have the grieving families along with the grieving inexperienced gun owner that shot one of them.
I would be more than happy to vote for loosening of gun ownership restrictions if it could be proved to me that the new gun owners were willing to take responsibility for both their weapon and themselves - at least more than most people currently show for their motor vehicles
As someone who has been shot at by mistake (the idiot was shooting at a beer can on the water and the ricochet landed about six inches from me), and who's father stopped deer hunting because he was tired of getting shot at (while wearing an International orange vest, BTW) it'll take some strong arguments...
No, Hollywood (and its stockholders) has been doing quite well (or not quite so badly, depending on your point of view and your tax status), thanks largely to lower filming costs in Canada. It's the people who used to work on films when they were done in the US that have lost out on the deal...
Or do you think that the Cisco phones on CSI:Wherever were donated?
It's not totally automatic, as users have to create the playlists and they will have to decide which playlist(s) to assign their stuff to, but once done, they never have to worry how the songs are logically organized within the file structure.
Well, as OSX is the reason that people who buy Macs are buying them in the first place, why not just buy a cheaper system and put anything that you want on it. Except OSX, of course, but as you don't want it anyway...
Palm would do well to reexamine the whole concept of the PDA interface if the do end up changing the OS. Don't try to do what everybody else does, don't try to make it just like a laptop, but smaller. Just do what you do simply and well.
Apple's got the right idea with iPhone (well, except for possibly locking out third-party development-where Palm got it exactly right with all of their tools), but Palm's got a head start...
Or maybe it's not quite so unplanned...
Yeah, because we all know that the only ones who work on movies are the MPAA and the actors - all those names on the credits are only filler so the theme music can play a little longer, right?
Yes, maybe your friend and people like him will understand that there are responsibilities that go along with freedom of speech and that words and actions have ramifications.
It appears that they have the right to face harassment for doing their jobs.
I think that the original point was that there is no possibility of off-line work in a purely web-based system. Open-source aside, is there any real difference between Zimbra desktop and Outlook, Thunderbird any other client-based MUA?
Donahue was no Dick Cavett, but at his worst, he was far, far better than the I-wanna-get-on-TV-so-bad-I'll-do-anything-to-do-it Jerry Springer freakshow or the Oprah tearfest...
A shortage of cats? Can't the replicators make those, too?
Yes, it worked - until the Europeans came. But the native population had virtually unlimited land and resources to work with. They also had a very small population as a starting point.
Maybe it's 'cause I'm getting old and cynical, but after having participated in neighborhood and other (larger) groups, I can't see more than five people working in a collective manner, let alone every human.
Try getting three people to agree where to go for lunch...
Without some supra-collective authority, who mediates the dispute? One can assume that all parties will deal rationally with each other, but that would fly in the face of thousands of years of human history. You only have to examine the ongoing disputes over water in the American West to see how badly groups of people allocate "shared" resources when left to their own devices.
When I was a teenager, almost all of the radio stations in my area were independently owned. They didn't have playlists, didn't subscribe to programming services and didn't play the same music. In fact, you were actually pretty lucky to hear your favorite songs more than once a day. The DJ played what they liked or what they felt like playing. Which made for some very interesting listening, especially at night. I swear some of 'em put on Innagadadavida just so they could slip out for twenty minutes...
I guess radio stations figured out that they were supposed to make money 'cause they started playing just the top 10, subscribing to programming services or sold out to big media companies. Things went downhill from there.