Is it able to import data from other fucking Thunderbird installs yet? I'm tired of having to fiddle around with the profile folder whenever I do a fresh Windows install and need to put my e-mail back.
Come on, guys. How hard can it be to add support for that to the import wizard? It just needs to be a frontend for copying the files! That feature has been lacking from Thunderbird and its ancestors for, like, ever.
What is your point? That's HP's problem, not mine. And so what if people start buying Linux with their PCs instead of Windows? HP would be able to make a hell of a lot more per Linux machine sols, anyway.
As I recall, he actually said the same thing during the press conference (I sucked it up and listened to the audio since Quicktime decided it didn't know how to decode the video).
What I really said was, look it, as a customer, you would have taken me, when I was working at my old company and said, I want you to get this, and get together with the other vendor, and make this stuff work. Don't put that responsibility on me. And Kevin, being a former CIO at Wal-Mart, he resonated, that was right on the money. He went and grabbed Steve and Brad, and said, you know what, this probably is the right thing. Steve had been hearing it, and Brad had been hearing it from customers, and then that really drove them into a meeting that we had in the May timeframe where we got the teams together and really began those discussions. I would tell you, it always takes two in a relationship. Both sides were listening very intently to each other, but that's how the story unfolded. Thank you to Kevin.
The only real piece of material in this interview tht was original was Mr. Hovsepian every-so-delicately pussyfooting around saying anything useful about Microsoft's IP allegations. I mean, come on. Grow some balls. Steve Ballmer just beat you over the head with the proverbian chair while you were standing on stage with him and you refuse to so much as condemn the comment?
In many areas, this 'right' is now entirely dependent upon your willingness to submit to an unwarrented search of your belongings and person. And if you don't want to do they? You get hauled up before a juvinile court and they fine your for truancy.
A powerful tool...that can do the same thing as five minutes of Photoshop? I fail to see how you can honestly believe that a webform to generate boarding passes is incidious enough to merit smashing your way into someone's home and seizuring their hardware. Unless, of course, you think I am a terrorist because I have image editing software.
So wait, a device that tries to connect to other devices and push down crap files that melt down after three days (regardless of their license!) isn't a virus already?
Damn. Viruses that affect viruses. I'm waiting for something like the Anti-Santy worm to get around and start 'fixing' Zunes.
DRM is a necessary evil and assuming a world without it is simply pissing in the wind. What we need to work towards is a DRM model that preserves as much of our rights as possible while still effectively preventing the widespread copying of content.
But until you take control of my computer away from me, we won't be able to reach something that prevents widespread copying, because at the end of the day, I am still the lord and master of all of the bits in my little reality.
Then we get into Trusted Computing, and the whole discussion goes down hill.
I recently watched Steal This Film. They're all about copying everything and handing it out, because the don't seem to think it actually hurts artists. Do I think that this is wrong? Sure. They worked to produce it, and its very reasonable for them to want compensation for their work. You don't do TBS reports for nothing, eh?
But can we prevent people from uploading CDs and movies? No, not really.
And on a slightly unrelated note...was it just me, or did Steal This Film fail to make any good justifications for piracy? Just because you can != the right thing to do.
So then, as somebody named Whiney Mac Fanboy, I understand very well that you know who is a shill and who is not a shill. However, the author states:
I spent time closely inspecting the original adapter that came with my PowerBook and caused the problem, comparing it to the model Apple sent me as a replacement and another Apple branded power adapter I purchased new from a local computer store. They were all identical. The reinforcing rubber "bootie" was the same. The cable appeared to be the exact same gauge. They even all exhibited the same lack of proper short protection and proved able to arc endlessly without tripping any breakers, fuses or GFCI outlets.
I am definitely not a manufacturer or an engineer or any physical products, nor am I a Microsoft and/or Apple fanboy (but I did order a MacBook Pro on Friday, hooah!), but from the information available it would seem as if Apple does have a potential safety issue.
The 30% premium was against a MacBook, not the much more expensive Pro. An equivalent Pro is over $1,000 more, almost a 90% premium.
Ah, oops. Well, my qualm with the Macbook is that the graphics card is not all that exciting. It's some integrated Intel crap. While I'm not fan of ATI, the proper graphics card is really worth a lot to me.
Yes, the Mac is more fashionable but the big point is going to be OS X -- will the general public (i.e. -- not Apple fanboys) be willing the make the switch at a 30% premium?
An interesting question!
I don't exactly qualify as 'general public' having been using Linux exclusively for the past few years, but I have finally decided to check out what all this talk about OS X is. And I grew up on PCs - I remember when I was like four years old and fucking around at the DOS prompt (like I knew what was going on =P).
A few of my friends have Apple hardware, and they really like how 'OS X just works'. So after months of seeing my boss' Macbook Pro, I've decided to get one myself (after the conference, of course).
And I realize I'm paying a *lot* for a Macbook Pro. I could get something almost as nice for 30% cheaper, as you pointed out. But I am willing to pay the premium for OS X, after not spending *any* money on Free software for the past few years.
This was a "truth-in-labeling" violation. Parents thought they knew what they were buying for their kids, and may have been okay with the violence but not the sexuality of the "hot coffee" scene.
Yes, killing hookers is fine for young'uns, but consensual sex? Corrupt their poor minds!
I applaud you for completely changing the subject under debate. Truthful advertising is the same thing as killing hookers, right?
But I suppose you would just shrugs your shoulders when you got sold a box that said it had a 40" HDTV in it and found that it had a 16" black-and-white beast.
They've had how many years to get their shit together, but we're still stuck with 'sorry, our implementation is a hack even though we helped write the standard, maybe you'll get THE BASIC FEATURES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB implemented in 2015!' story.
Sorry, I'm just really annoyed by this. It's great that IE7 users are getting some UI hotness, but I (as a web developer) am still getting boned. That is not acceptable to me.
They've had how many years to get their shit together, but we're still stuck with 'sorry, our implementation is a hack even though we helped write the standard, maybe you'll get THE BASIC FEATURES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB implemented in 2015!
Good point, I guess we'll see, but I imagine there will be some kind of fraud detection. This is a similar issue to the one of click fraud with any major search engine... but there are ways to prevent it at least to some degree.
In this circumstance, is it reasonable for fraud to only be prevented to 'some degree'? We are talking about the vast majority of PCs. Even a small degree of fraud will screw a lot of people.
And also, if I've paid for my hardware, I want to use it. I do not want my software vendor to tell me 'sorry, that happens to be crap' and disable it three months later because it's giving them a bad reputation. If they certify a driver, then it cannot be completely unstable and utterly worthless. I can live with an occasional crash because my computer will work 97% of the time (completely made up number, but you get the idea). Should that 3% disable me and put me out a hundred bucks?
This reeks of doubleplusungoodness (++!good). Introduction politics into the heart of Vista makes me shiver.
What you need, then are web designers, not graphics designers. As a programmer, you should not be stuck with the task of implementing a design. That is not your job. It should be implemented, CSS and all, for you. And you just plug it into your application/site. Yes, that is ideal. But I can assure you it is attainable. I currently work in such an environment.
You are being completely unrealistic. If he can mog together a layout with a few tables, I'm sure management would prefer that to hiring additional people or contractors.
How many people have YOU heard of being sued for $150,000 for trading music? Ok, so that's one hyperbole down. Next, how many people do you know who got in trouble for trading one song? What, nobody?
As it so happens, a friend's boyfriend was served by the MPAA last year over one movie he shared on Kazaa. I haven't seen either of them in awhile, so I do not know how it turned out.
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Which is exactly why Thunderbird's import wizard needs handle importing its own profiles.
Is it able to import data from other fucking Thunderbird installs yet? I'm tired of having to fiddle around with the profile folder whenever I do a fresh Windows install and need to put my e-mail back.
Come on, guys. How hard can it be to add support for that to the import wizard? It just needs to be a frontend for copying the files! That feature has been lacking from Thunderbird and its ancestors for, like, ever.
What is your point? That's HP's problem, not mine. And so what if people start buying Linux with their PCs instead of Windows? HP would be able to make a hell of a lot more per Linux machine sols, anyway.
As I recall, he actually said the same thing during the press conference (I sucked it up and listened to the audio since Quicktime decided it didn't know how to decode the video).
From the transcript:
The only real piece of material in this interview tht was original was Mr. Hovsepian every-so-delicately pussyfooting around saying anything useful about Microsoft's IP allegations. I mean, come on. Grow some balls. Steve Ballmer just beat you over the head with the proverbian chair while you were standing on stage with him and you refuse to so much as condemn the comment?
It's a cold day in Hell, lemme tell ya...
In many areas, this 'right' is now entirely dependent upon your willingness to submit to an unwarrented search of your belongings and person. And if you don't want to do they? You get hauled up before a juvinile court and they fine your for truancy.
A powerful tool...that can do the same thing as five minutes of Photoshop? I fail to see how you can honestly believe that a webform to generate boarding passes is incidious enough to merit smashing your way into someone's home and seizuring their hardware. Unless, of course, you think I am a terrorist because I have image editing software.
I would have to agree with you. That was one of my first thoughs upon reading the summary.
So wait, a device that tries to connect to other devices and push down crap files that melt down after three days (regardless of their license!) isn't a virus already?
Damn. Viruses that affect viruses. I'm waiting for something like the Anti-Santy worm to get around and start 'fixing' Zunes.
But until you take control of my computer away from me, we won't be able to reach something that prevents widespread copying, because at the end of the day, I am still the lord and master of all of the bits in my little reality.
Then we get into Trusted Computing, and the whole discussion goes down hill.
I recently watched Steal This Film. They're all about copying everything and handing it out, because the don't seem to think it actually hurts artists. Do I think that this is wrong? Sure. They worked to produce it, and its very reasonable for them to want compensation for their work. You don't do TBS reports for nothing, eh?
But can we prevent people from uploading CDs and movies? No, not really.
And on a slightly unrelated note...was it just me, or did Steal This Film fail to make any good justifications for piracy? Just because you can != the right thing to do.
So then, as somebody named Whiney Mac Fanboy, I understand very well that you know who is a shill and who is not a shill. However, the author states:
I am definitely not a manufacturer or an engineer or any physical products, nor am I a Microsoft and/or Apple fanboy (but I did order a MacBook Pro on Friday, hooah!), but from the information available it would seem as if Apple does have a potential safety issue.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who had that line stick with them.
(And likewise, I am no fan; I saw that movie once, but that's pretty much all the Gundam Wing I've seen.)
Ah, oops. Well, my qualm with the Macbook is that the graphics card is not all that exciting. It's some integrated Intel crap. While I'm not fan of ATI, the proper graphics card is really worth a lot to me.
An interesting question!
I don't exactly qualify as 'general public' having been using Linux exclusively for the past few years, but I have finally decided to check out what all this talk about OS X is. And I grew up on PCs - I remember when I was like four years old and fucking around at the DOS prompt (like I knew what was going on =P).
A few of my friends have Apple hardware, and they really like how 'OS X just works'. So after months of seeing my boss' Macbook Pro, I've decided to get one myself (after the conference, of course).
And I realize I'm paying a *lot* for a Macbook Pro. I could get something almost as nice for 30% cheaper, as you pointed out. But I am willing to pay the premium for OS X, after not spending *any* money on Free software for the past few years.
I applaud you for completely changing the subject under debate. Truthful advertising is the same thing as killing hookers, right?
But I suppose you would just shrugs your shoulders when you got sold a box that said it had a 40" HDTV in it and found that it had a 16" black-and-white beast.
Wow, look at my awesome complete sentences!
Sorry, I'm just really annoyed by this. It's great that IE7 users are getting some UI hotness, but I (as a web developer) am still getting boned. That is not acceptable to me.
IE7 may have all of the features Microsoft wanted it to have, but it still lacks reak XHTML support.
They've had how many years to get their shit together, but we're still stuck with 'sorry, our implementation is a hack even though we helped write the standard, maybe you'll get THE BASIC FEATURES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB implemented in 2015!
In this circumstance, is it reasonable for fraud to only be prevented to 'some degree'? We are talking about the vast majority of PCs. Even a small degree of fraud will screw a lot of people.
And also, if I've paid for my hardware, I want to use it. I do not want my software vendor to tell me 'sorry, that happens to be crap' and disable it three months later because it's giving them a bad reputation. If they certify a driver, then it cannot be completely unstable and utterly worthless. I can live with an occasional crash because my computer will work 97% of the time (completely made up number, but you get the idea). Should that 3% disable me and put me out a hundred bucks?
This reeks of doubleplusungoodness (++!good). Introduction politics into the heart of Vista makes me shiver.
Way to pick up on obvious sarcasm. Welcome to Slashdot. Home of mister literal since the beginning of time!
How can you so viciously slander the man who invented the Internet!
You are being completely unrealistic. If he can mog together a layout with a few tables, I'm sure management would prefer that to hiring additional people or contractors.
As it so happens, a friend's boyfriend was served by the MPAA last year over one movie he shared on Kazaa. I haven't seen either of them in awhile, so I do not know how it turned out.
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It is a magnet school in New Haven, Connecticut. You know, New England.