Is there a rule somewhere that says hybrid cars have to be fugly? This one looks much better than the previous insight. But the Prius get zero points for style.
Apple doesn't take 30% off the top. I believe they do with iPhone apps, but certainly not with Mac OS X apps.
Secondly, you completely misinterpreted my comment. I said Apple was gaining market share (which they are). I made no comment on their being more or less open than MS. The point I'm making is that no one stays on top forever. MS knows this, and they know they need to start getting their shit together, or they are going to lose their asses in the long run.
I find it impossible to believe that the government is capable of keeping conspiracies secret. They couldn't keep 5 guys breaking into the DNC office a secret (Watergate), but somehow they can orchestrate an elaborate conspiracy involving thousands of people over the course of 6 decades and not a single shred of credible evidence has been leaked. I'm sorry but deathbed confessions don't count.
Ah, you never specified you were on a laptop. That's an easy one. You will notice a key called Fn on the bottom left of the keyboard. Holding this key while pressing the Delete key on the keyboard will perform a forward delete ala the Delete key on a full sized keyboard.
Has anyone else noticed that since we are no longer in direct competition with another super power over space superiority (although is close), NASA has lost it's drive and dedication for manned space flight. The shuttle program has limped along for far too long. Anyone who thinks that NASA will make it to the moon again or even Mars hasn't been paying attention to the federal government's track record lately. They have failed at everything. Period. Commercial space flight is the only option I see as having a chance to make it to the moon and even Mars.
It doesn't work that way. I'll be blunt: learning OSX is a pain. There's a ton of non-obvious stuff that is completely different from the Windows world (I'll just point to tabbing between firefox windows when other apps are open as one of my initial pain points), and which have to be re-learned.
So different automatically means worse? Describe something non-obvious from the Windows world that is more difficult to accomplish on Mac OS X? I would argue that the Mac is more obvious than Windows. Having used both operating system extensively, it typically takes twice as many steps to accomplish the same task in Windows than it does in Mac OS X. That's if you can even find the damn setting in the windows Control Panel in the first place.
And then there are things that OSX simply won't do. In Windows if I want to delete something I can click on the file, icon, object or whatever and press the Delete button my keyboard. In OSX I have to drag it to the Trash Can. Ya... that's a really efficient "workflow".
How To Delete In Mac OS X
1. Select item in the Finder.
2. On your keyboard, press Command (Apple Key) plus Delete (backspace delete).
3. There's no step 3!
I have another gripe with the way OSX doesn't properly utilize the Delete key. I will use the example of typing in a web address. I want to go to www.google.com. So I type it out but accidently type www.boogle.com. Now if I want to delete the B, I have to put the cursor after the B and press backspace. I can't put the cursor in front of the B and press Delete. WTF is up with that? Everyone knows... Backspace moves the cursor to the left and deletes text to the left of the cursor. Delete keeps the cursor in place and deletes text to the right of the cursor. What is so hard about that?
This is so utterly wrong. Not sure what bizarro world you live in, but the Delete key works just fine on my Mac. If you need proof I'll even take the time to make a video for you.
Next you are going to argue that Macs only come with one button mice!
"unfortunately religious bullshit is reaching far beyond dirt farmers"
Looking at both your name and your comments, it's pretty apparent that you not only disbelieve in a god, you despise those that do; "dirt farmers" as the old canard that religious believers are poor and stupid. So let's establish right away that you have your biases too.
"and the pollution of science with faith is impacting other areas, such as pharmacists who are fighting for the right to withhold medicine from patients if they personally dislike it e.g. contraception."
That's not "a polution of science". That's a "polution", as you put it, of policy. And you're statement was pretty blatant misrepresentation of the issue. Pharmacists, in this case, that object to dispensing contraception or abortion pills do so not on scientific grounds, but on personal ethical grounds. And they're not refusing to dispense them outright, simply saying that their own personal beliefs don't permit them to issue such pills, and that other pharmacists can do it, and that because of their beliefs, they shouldn't be forced to it if another pharmacist that doesn't object is available. Many Doctors and Nurses also refuse to participate in abortion on ethical grounds as well, as they think it violates the creed of "first do no harm". We wouldn't dare force a doctor to perform an abortion. Pharmacists are simply saying they should have the same ethical rights.
You, however, misrepresent the whole issue because of your own personal loathing of religious faith. You make it sound like they're going "I'm Baptist, and I don't like you atheists so I'm not going to give you any penicillin". That's crap, sir. That doesn't happen. If you wish to provide an example to prove me wrong, I'd love to see it.
"(on the other hand if it gets much worse America will collapse so hard people will realise why the 1st amendment was such a good idea in the first place.)"
For an atheist, you speak in bombastically religious terms. "America will collapse"? Have you been taking rhetoric lessons from evangelicals? You sound like one, with the prophecies of doom.
America has been a religious country from its very origins, for hundreds of years. Religious influences are pervasive in our culture, law, and government. Always have been, and probably, always will be. We've been here for hundreds of years with religion without "dooming ourselves", thanks.
Just so I understand what you are saying, Doctors/Pharmacists should not be forced to treat patients because their own personal beliefs may not coincide with the desired treatment. This is complete bullshit. The Hippocratic oath states the welfare of the patient is the doctor's top concern, not their personal or religious beliefs. Suppose you needed emergency heart surgery, but the only doctor that was able to perform the surgery was Jewish. And you happened to need that emergency surgery on the sabbath. Shit out of luck? Refusing to provide birth control has nothing to do with ethics, and everything to do with the pharmacist's wacky religious beliefs trumping the desires and welfare of the patient.
People mindlessly clicking OK dialog boxes, even if they are warned twice, says more about user behavior then OS security. The problem with computer security is that computers are operated by human beings, which we all know means that many (if not the majority) of those human beings can and will be tricked to do things they shouldn't do. This is a fact of life. If the OS warns the user TWICE, and they still click OK, then I fail to see how this is a security flaw in the software.
Are you sure attached apps are run automatically? You don't have to click on anything at all?
Actually, the Mac out of the box was nigh-impossible to get into, so they created a way for hackers to send a URL to an email address which would cause safari to automatically open the URL on the machine. The winner got in through a Safari vulnerability.
> So you are saying that Jesus was never written about until over 30 years after his death?
He was not biographed (to coin a word) until 30 years after death, because before that one could ask any of several thousand people who had seen him alive, at various stages of his life. The Epistles were written about him, in the sense of about what he had taught, and what the Crucifixtion meant, for at least a decade before the first Gospel. Before that, they were too busy talking about him to set it down.
> What age were the disciples when Jesus died?
Some were probably in their late teens, some probably as old as he was, or early 30s. Quite easy for them to have survived to the Gospel-writing period. John of Patmos, writer of the last accepted Gospel, might have been a very old Disciple (i.e., THE John) or someone who had interviewed him enough to adopt him as PoV when writing his Gospel version.
Really, there are far better places than Slashdot to find this out. Are you honestly trying to suggest that people believed that the actual son of God lived on this Earth, performed amazing miracles, and redeemed mankind, and not one person thought it was important enough to record *at the time*. Given that people in those days were very lucky to see their 40s, I find it utterly insane to think that people would wait so long to record the life of Jesus if it was highly unlikely they would live that long.
The truth is no one has a clue how old the disciples were. And they would most likely have to be children disciples to be able to live long enough to write a first hand account in 65AD.
Considering there really isn't anything that is original about Jesus (born of a virgin, resurrection, etc.), it's clear that Jesus is old pagan gods repackaged and relabeled.
"Bill Gates: The most effective thing would be if I could sit down with them and just take them through the new look for a couple of minutes, show them the Sidebar, show them the way the search lets you go through lots of things, including lots of photos. Set up a parental control. And then I might edit a high-definition movie and make a little DVD that's got photos. As I went through, they'd think, "Wow, is that something I could use, would that make a difference for me?""
Great. I would then come sit them down next to a Mac, show them all the same features, and explain that Macs have had all this and more for years.
Actually, you are wrong. There's a problem here in California with lawyers filing "shakedown" lawsuits against businesses claiming they are violating city codes. There's no plaintiff at all. The business just end up paying the lawyers 10's of thousands of dollars to settle and avoid the long court battle.
I live in California. We have the highest gas prices in the nation. This prop will make gas prices go even HIGHER. I know the law makes it illegal for the gas companies to pass the tax on to consumers, but they will. How are you going to prove that any price hikes after this law is passed are not a result of the new taxes? You can't and you won't. Also, there is NO OVERSIGHT of the money that is raised by this new tax. There is no way to hold the people who are going to allocate this money accountable.
I almost always vote no on these propositions. We're being taxed enough.
Well, as much as I'm happy that the GPL was upheld in a German court, I seriously doubt that the GPL would mean much in US courts. As we say in the US, if you don't like the law, lobby like hell to get it changed!
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Is there a rule somewhere that says hybrid cars have to be fugly? This one looks much better than the previous insight. But the Prius get zero points for style.
what about the CHILDREN!?!?!
When did I ever say they weren't financially solvent?
I said Vista was a failure. Secondly, Apple is budging more than just a few points. They are now 3rd in market share.
Apple doesn't take 30% off the top. I believe they do with iPhone apps, but certainly not with Mac OS X apps. Secondly, you completely misinterpreted my comment. I said Apple was gaining market share (which they are). I made no comment on their being more or less open than MS. The point I'm making is that no one stays on top forever. MS knows this, and they know they need to start getting their shit together, or they are going to lose their asses in the long run.
I think M$ has seen the writing on the wall. With the utter failure of Vista, and Apple's skyrocketing market share, it's only a matter of time.
I find it impossible to believe that the government is capable of keeping conspiracies secret. They couldn't keep 5 guys breaking into the DNC office a secret (Watergate), but somehow they can orchestrate an elaborate conspiracy involving thousands of people over the course of 6 decades and not a single shred of credible evidence has been leaked. I'm sorry but deathbed confessions don't count.
Ah, you never specified you were on a laptop. That's an easy one. You will notice a key called Fn on the bottom left of the keyboard. Holding this key while pressing the Delete key on the keyboard will perform a forward delete ala the Delete key on a full sized keyboard.
Since when was a plus or minus sign not obvious enough to signify adding or removing something?
Has anyone else noticed that since we are no longer in direct competition with another super power over space superiority (although is close), NASA has lost it's drive and dedication for manned space flight. The shuttle program has limped along for far too long. Anyone who thinks that NASA will make it to the moon again or even Mars hasn't been paying attention to the federal government's track record lately. They have failed at everything. Period. Commercial space flight is the only option I see as having a chance to make it to the moon and even Mars.
It doesn't work that way. I'll be blunt: learning OSX is a pain. There's a ton of non-obvious stuff that is completely different from the Windows world (I'll just point to tabbing between firefox windows when other apps are open as one of my initial pain points), and which have to be re-learned.
So different automatically means worse? Describe something non-obvious from the Windows world that is more difficult to accomplish on Mac OS X? I would argue that the Mac is more obvious than Windows. Having used both operating system extensively, it typically takes twice as many steps to accomplish the same task in Windows than it does in Mac OS X. That's if you can even find the damn setting in the windows Control Panel in the first place.
And then there are things that OSX simply won't do. In Windows if I want to delete something I can click on the file, icon, object or whatever and press the Delete button my keyboard. In OSX I have to drag it to the Trash Can. Ya... that's a really efficient "workflow".
How To Delete In Mac OS X
1. Select item in the Finder.
2. On your keyboard, press Command (Apple Key) plus Delete (backspace delete).
3. There's no step 3!
I have another gripe with the way OSX doesn't properly utilize the Delete key. I will use the example of typing in a web address. I want to go to www.google.com. So I type it out but accidently type www.boogle.com. Now if I want to delete the B, I have to put the cursor after the B and press backspace. I can't put the cursor in front of the B and press Delete. WTF is up with that? Everyone knows... Backspace moves the cursor to the left and deletes text to the left of the cursor. Delete keeps the cursor in place and deletes text to the right of the cursor. What is so hard about that?
This is so utterly wrong. Not sure what bizarro world you live in, but the Delete key works just fine on my Mac. If you need proof I'll even take the time to make a video for you.
Next you are going to argue that Macs only come with one button mice!
"unfortunately religious bullshit is reaching far beyond dirt farmers"
Looking at both your name and your comments, it's pretty apparent that you not only disbelieve in a god, you despise those that do; "dirt farmers" as the old canard that religious believers are poor and stupid. So let's establish right away that you have your biases too.
"and the pollution of science with faith is impacting other areas, such as pharmacists who are fighting for the right to withhold medicine from patients if they personally dislike it e.g. contraception."
That's not "a polution of science". That's a "polution", as you put it, of policy. And you're statement was pretty blatant misrepresentation of the issue. Pharmacists, in this case, that object to dispensing contraception or abortion pills do so not on scientific grounds, but on personal ethical grounds. And they're not refusing to dispense them outright, simply saying that their own personal beliefs don't permit them to issue such pills, and that other pharmacists can do it, and that because of their beliefs, they shouldn't be forced to it if another pharmacist that doesn't object is available. Many Doctors and Nurses also refuse to participate in abortion on ethical grounds as well, as they think it violates the creed of "first do no harm". We wouldn't dare force a doctor to perform an abortion. Pharmacists are simply saying they should have the same ethical rights.
You, however, misrepresent the whole issue because of your own personal loathing of religious faith. You make it sound like they're going "I'm Baptist, and I don't like you atheists so I'm not going to give you any penicillin". That's crap, sir. That doesn't happen. If you wish to provide an example to prove me wrong, I'd love to see it.
"(on the other hand if it gets much worse America will collapse so hard people will realise why the 1st amendment was such a good idea in the first place.)"
For an atheist, you speak in bombastically religious terms. "America will collapse"? Have you been taking rhetoric lessons from evangelicals? You sound like one, with the prophecies of doom.
America has been a religious country from its very origins, for hundreds of years. Religious influences are pervasive in our culture, law, and government. Always have been, and probably, always will be. We've been here for hundreds of years with religion without "dooming ourselves", thanks.
Just so I understand what you are saying, Doctors/Pharmacists should not be forced to treat patients because their own personal beliefs may not coincide with the desired treatment. This is complete bullshit. The Hippocratic oath states the welfare of the patient is the doctor's top concern, not their personal or religious beliefs. Suppose you needed emergency heart surgery, but the only doctor that was able to perform the surgery was Jewish. And you happened to need that emergency surgery on the sabbath. Shit out of luck? Refusing to provide birth control has nothing to do with ethics, and everything to do with the pharmacist's wacky religious beliefs trumping the desires and welfare of the patient.
So I guess this means god may have created life on Mars as well!
People mindlessly clicking OK dialog boxes, even if they are warned twice, says more about user behavior then OS security. The problem with computer security is that computers are operated by human beings, which we all know means that many (if not the majority) of those human beings can and will be tricked to do things they shouldn't do. This is a fact of life. If the OS warns the user TWICE, and they still click OK, then I fail to see how this is a security flaw in the software. Are you sure attached apps are run automatically? You don't have to click on anything at all?
Actually, the Mac out of the box was nigh-impossible to get into, so they created a way for hackers to send a URL to an email address which would cause safari to automatically open the URL on the machine. The winner got in through a Safari vulnerability.
I know consumers already told us they don't want a product like this, but let's give it to them anyway!
So, can I assume Fox News is reporting this is the result of a terrorist attack?
Did they find the saddle that Jesus used to ride the dinosaur?
StarCraft 2 is written in OpenGL.. hence why it will be available for Mac and PC at the same time. id and Blizzard can do it, why can't anyone else?
"Bill Gates: The most effective thing would be if I could sit down with them and just take them through the new look for a couple of minutes, show them the Sidebar, show them the way the search lets you go through lots of things, including lots of photos. Set up a parental control. And then I might edit a high-definition movie and make a little DVD that's got photos. As I went through, they'd think, "Wow, is that something I could use, would that make a difference for me?""
Great. I would then come sit them down next to a Mac, show them all the same features, and explain that Macs have had all this and more for years.
Actually, you are wrong. There's a problem here in California with lawyers filing "shakedown" lawsuits against businesses claiming they are violating city codes. There's no plaintiff at all. The business just end up paying the lawyers 10's of thousands of dollars to settle and avoid the long court battle.
I live in California. We have the highest gas prices in the nation. This prop will make gas prices go even HIGHER. I know the law makes it illegal for the gas companies to pass the tax on to consumers, but they will. How are you going to prove that any price hikes after this law is passed are not a result of the new taxes? You can't and you won't. Also, there is NO OVERSIGHT of the money that is raised by this new tax. There is no way to hold the people who are going to allocate this money accountable. I almost always vote no on these propositions. We're being taxed enough.
Well, as much as I'm happy that the GPL was upheld in a German court, I seriously doubt that the GPL would mean much in US courts. As we say in the US, if you don't like the law, lobby like hell to get it changed!
Uhh... so saying that she's attractive is disparaging?