As much as it may sound like the ravings of a paranoid luncatic, the current culture of copyright is proceeding down a disturbing path. Very soon we are going to live in a world where the ideals of free expression and ideological innovation are replaced by the chains of universal IP rights. Every form of communication will be copyrighted, licensed, and regulated. People will fear to speak out or take action on ideas that matter to them for fear of being sued if they duplicate the process of someone else.
Hopefully the unwashed masses will get wind of all this and demand change before it gets to that point though.
OK, whatever. I was going by what a stock report site said. Their market cap is still ~33B and it still won't change after the split. The parent poster seemed to think that splitting stock caused market cap to double.
There's no way in hell Apple is worth 72,9 BILLION dollars (900 million shares @ 81 dollars
You're right, they aren't. They are only worth half that. Apple's market cap is currently at 33.18 Billion (408 million shares at ~$81).
Splitting your stock doesn't affect your market cap. When the stock splits the price per share will be halved. So they will still be worth 33.18B (816 million shares at ~$40.50).
I've lost count of the number of "mod your Mac Mini like this" stories that have been posted here in the last month. Most of them deal with increasing the power or expandibility. I find this kind of ironic, considering that the Mac Mini's market seems to be mostly people to which power and expandibility are definitely not primary considerations in a computer buying decision.
Yes, of course... Paypal would never wrongfully suspend accounts!
Never said that. I said that the insinuation in your original post (that they always suspend every account who transacted with a fraudster) was inaccurate, which it is.
The last time I used Paypal, there was no easy, or even relatively hard to find published number to reach anyone.
Things have gotten better since they were bought by ebay. The phone support is very good (I have used it). I think ebay realized that if they didn't clean up the place feelings toward Paypal would just get more negative and that would reflect badly on the ebay name as well.
These are known facts!
None of the contents of your original post are known facts. Your first statement is most definitely false. Your second one may have been true at one point, but is not any longer.
They'd suspend your account and the accounts of anyone who has ever transferred funds to, or received funds from your account.
What utter nonsense. If Paypal suspended the accounts of everyone who ever interacted with a fradulent account, they would be killing off a lot of perfectly good customers. I have never seen any evidence of any kind that this kind of thing takes place. If they feel another account is closely related (like an alias used by the same person) then they may kill it, but otherwise this would be an insanely stupid thing to do. Some people conducting fradulent activity with Paypal transact with thousands of people before they are caught. In most of these cases the buyers did nothing wrong except by letting themselves be duped. If Paypal killed all of those accounts, their business model would die fairly quickly.
There would be no way to talk to a representative, as they do not publish telephone numbers
If you actually took the time to visit their contact page instead of spewing more uninformed rubbish, you would have found that their contact number is 402-935-2050.
I'm not saying Paypal is without problems. Clearly they have their share. But at least make some kind of minor effort to get your facts straight.
The alt key is the rightmost (on the left side) on a win kb, whereas its in the middle on a Mac kb. So is the windows key the mac alt key, and the pc alt key the mac apple-key?
Usually the alt key corresponds to the Mac's option key and the Windows key becomes the Mac Apple key.
As someone who has seen both, I am sure you are in the minority with this opinion. The production quality of the new BSG series is top notch, certainly at least as good as the original, if not better.
I never said it did. Copland was Apple's initial attempt to make an OS with many of the features OS X has today. Obviously it was a miserable failure. But the fact remains that it was 12 years from the time they started developing those features in Copland until the time they actually had a shipping product that utiized them (OS X in 2001). That is what I was saying.
2) OS X is not based on the Classic Mac OS
I never said it was. I was merely comparing different aspects between the two systems.
3) Classic apps and the Carbon libraries running on OS X do not directly access the Mach microkernel
4) very few things in OS X and its apps actually know there is a Mach microkernel in there
Why do you think this is? It's because Apple wrote a large amount of system code to hook its existing APIs up to the lower level components.
So why would't it make sense?
Because it is needlessly reinventing the wheel, or because "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" or because of a dozen other reasons. Take your pick.
Given the fact that some features in OS X took Apple over 12 years to get into a shipping product (development on Copland started in 89), and given the fact that for years Apple had suffered with a horribly buggy, non standards compliant, limited system that was the Classic Mac OS, and given the fact that Darwin with the Mach kernel is an excellent open source unix system, and given the fact that huge amounts of time and money were spent getting OS 9 and Carbon libraries to run on it, and given the fact that OS X is now arguably the best OS out there and is earning heaps of praise from geeks, luddites, and just about every other type of user, and given the fact that OS X represents the most compelling reason to switch to Apple computers in years, and given the fact that in just a few years the OS has amassed a compartively huge following of developers and applications...
Given all those facts...
Whould it make sense for Apple to now completely rewrite it DOWN TO THE KERNEL LEVEL!!!
That the government is going to pocket the $10 per system, while people continue to throw the computers in the trash because it's not worth their time/effort?
This is a good point. Just look at how well it has worked so far with regular recycling. There are thousands of places to take your trash if you want to recycle and help reduce waste, but what percentage of people actually take the extra time to do that? I think it's still fairly small.
On the other hand this could be a good idea for corporate environments that junk thousands of machines annually and already recycle their other trash.
LOL, if I needed to keep it a secret I would have posted AC. I actually already talked to several people who work in that building about the problem. They were very receptive and it will probably be fixed soon. Openness is another key component to effectively dealing with security issues.
This wasn't a public school. And it wasn't just salaries. There was some sensitive personal financial information that was definitely not stuff those people would want just anyone knowing.
True story. When I was in HS, I frequently assisted the head sysadmin with network maintenance. I did it as part of a class and then later as an employee after school hours and in the summer.
One day I came across a stack of floppy disks lying around one of the computer labs that had one separated from the rest. For no particular reason, I was interested what was on it so I inserted it into a nearby system to check it out. It contained a single file, an excel spreadsheet. Upon opening that and browsing around a bit, I found that it contained the salaries and financial account information of every school employee, from the janitors to the top management and headmaster. I was definitely astonished that this kind of information was just lying around for anyone to find. (This was in a student computer lab that mostly everyone had access to.)
I'm now a CS major at well known university and it isn't much better here. I recently found that all of the student password hashes are accessible to anyone on a certain machine. After running that against John the Ripper, I was able to obtain about 50 of them within 2 hours. Of course I never intend to use them, but it was an interesting excercise.
I really think the people in charge of security in academic environments need a wake up call.
It does boggle my mind that the world has come to such that a show that 'only brings in 2.5 MILLION people' isn't worth producing.
Unfortuantely this is just a reflection of the fact that the number of people who appreciate intelligent, thought provoking content are way outnumbered by mindless drones who will watch whatever the mass market tells them is popular.
The Nielson survey group installs tracking devices in about 5000 TVs as I recall (of course with the owner's permission). They are randomly selected so the data gathered can be analyzed somewhat accurately as a representative statistical sample (kind of like a poll).
It was moved to Friday, which we all know is teh death nell for any SciFi show.
I find that a rather illogical statement, considering that Stargate and Battlestar Galactica are both doing very well on Friday, and they are even on cable which doesn't reach as many households as UPN.
The problem with Enterprise was that the first two seasons sucked ass and it consequently never developed a strong fanbase beyond the die hard trekkies during the early life of the show. The last two seasons have been better, but unfortuantely not good enough to save it.
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As much as it may sound like the ravings of a paranoid luncatic, the current culture of copyright is proceeding down a disturbing path. Very soon we are going to live in a world where the ideals of free expression and ideological innovation are replaced by the chains of universal IP rights. Every form of communication will be copyrighted, licensed, and regulated. People will fear to speak out or take action on ideas that matter to them for fear of being sued if they duplicate the process of someone else.
Hopefully the unwashed masses will get wind of all this and demand change before it gets to that point though.
OK, whatever. I was going by what a stock report site said. Their market cap is still ~33B and it still won't change after the split. The parent poster seemed to think that splitting stock caused market cap to double.
There's no way in hell Apple is worth 72,9 BILLION dollars (900 million shares @ 81 dollars
You're right, they aren't. They are only worth half that. Apple's market cap is currently at 33.18 Billion (408 million shares at ~$81).
Splitting your stock doesn't affect your market cap. When the stock splits the price per share will be halved. So they will still be worth 33.18B (816 million shares at ~$40.50).
I've lost count of the number of "mod your Mac Mini like this" stories that have been posted here in the last month. Most of them deal with increasing the power or expandibility. I find this kind of ironic, considering that the Mac Mini's market seems to be mostly people to which power and expandibility are definitely not primary considerations in a computer buying decision.
I'm sure it's not really Paypal's contact number.
;)
Yes it is, because I have used it.
I had a problem with my account that needed to be fixed. The agent I spoke with was very helpful and fixed the problem right away.
Yes, of course... Paypal would never wrongfully suspend accounts!
Never said that. I said that the insinuation in your original post (that they always suspend every account who transacted with a fraudster) was inaccurate, which it is.
The last time I used Paypal, there was no easy, or even relatively hard to find published number to reach anyone.
Things have gotten better since they were bought by ebay. The phone support is very good (I have used it). I think ebay realized that if they didn't clean up the place feelings toward Paypal would just get more negative and that would reflect badly on the ebay name as well.
These are known facts!
None of the contents of your original post are known facts. Your first statement is most definitely false. Your second one may have been true at one point, but is not any longer.
They'd suspend your account and the accounts of anyone who has ever transferred funds to, or received funds from your account.
What utter nonsense. If Paypal suspended the accounts of everyone who ever interacted with a fradulent account, they would be killing off a lot of perfectly good customers. I have never seen any evidence of any kind that this kind of thing takes place. If they feel another account is closely related (like an alias used by the same person) then they may kill it, but otherwise this would be an insanely stupid thing to do. Some people conducting fradulent activity with Paypal transact with thousands of people before they are caught. In most of these cases the buyers did nothing wrong except by letting themselves be duped. If Paypal killed all of those accounts, their business model would die fairly quickly.
There would be no way to talk to a representative, as they do not publish telephone numbers
If you actually took the time to visit their contact page instead of spewing more uninformed rubbish, you would have found that their contact number is 402-935-2050.
I'm not saying Paypal is without problems. Clearly they have their share. But at least make some kind of minor effort to get your facts straight.
The alt key is the rightmost (on the left side) on a win kb, whereas its in the middle on a Mac kb. So is the windows key the mac alt key, and the pc alt key the mac apple-key?
Usually the alt key corresponds to the Mac's option key and the Windows key becomes the Mac Apple key.
Computer, where is Commander Data?
Actually, he's in the ship's third grade classroom.
The old series... not this new crud on Sci-Fi
As someone who has seen both, I am sure you are in the minority with this opinion. The production quality of the new BSG series is top notch, certainly at least as good as the original, if not better.
What OS we we be using in 20 years, 50 years, 100 years time ? One answer is that it will be Microkernel based
In 100 years we will probably be using quantum computers and all of today's OS paradigms will be obsolete.
1) OS X has nothing to do with Copland
I never said it did. Copland was Apple's initial attempt to make an OS with many of the features OS X has today. Obviously it was a miserable failure. But the fact remains that it was 12 years from the time they started developing those features in Copland until the time they actually had a shipping product that utiized them (OS X in 2001). That is what I was saying.
2) OS X is not based on the Classic Mac OS
I never said it was. I was merely comparing different aspects between the two systems.
3) Classic apps and the Carbon libraries running on OS X do not directly access the Mach microkernel
4) very few things in OS X and its apps actually know there is a Mach microkernel in there
Why do you think this is? It's because Apple wrote a large amount of system code to hook its existing APIs up to the lower level components.
So why would't it make sense?
Because it is needlessly reinventing the wheel, or because "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" or because of a dozen other reasons. Take your pick.
would it make any sense for Apple to look at L4?
Given the fact that some features in OS X took Apple over 12 years to get into a shipping product (development on Copland started in 89), and given the fact that for years Apple had suffered with a horribly buggy, non standards compliant, limited system that was the Classic Mac OS, and given the fact that Darwin with the Mach kernel is an excellent open source unix system, and given the fact that huge amounts of time and money were spent getting OS 9 and Carbon libraries to run on it, and given the fact that OS X is now arguably the best OS out there and is earning heaps of praise from geeks, luddites, and just about every other type of user, and given the fact that OS X represents the most compelling reason to switch to Apple computers in years, and given the fact that in just a few years the OS has amassed a compartively huge following of developers and applications...
Given all those facts...
Whould it make sense for Apple to now completely rewrite it DOWN TO THE KERNEL LEVEL!!!
I really hope I don't have to answer that.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, you have the MATRIX!
In Soviet Russia, the Matrix hacks into you.
That the government is going to pocket the $10 per system, while people continue to throw the computers in the trash because it's not worth their time/effort?
This is a good point. Just look at how well it has worked so far with regular recycling. There are thousands of places to take your trash if you want to recycle and help reduce waste, but what percentage of people actually take the extra time to do that? I think it's still fairly small.
On the other hand this could be a good idea for corporate environments that junk thousands of machines annually and already recycle their other trash.
LOL, if I needed to keep it a secret I would have posted AC. I actually already talked to several people who work in that building about the problem. They were very receptive and it will probably be fixed soon. Openness is another key component to effectively dealing with security issues.
This wasn't a public school. And it wasn't just salaries. There was some sensitive personal financial information that was definitely not stuff those people would want just anyone knowing.
True story. When I was in HS, I frequently assisted the head sysadmin with network maintenance. I did it as part of a class and then later as an employee after school hours and in the summer.
One day I came across a stack of floppy disks lying around one of the computer labs that had one separated from the rest. For no particular reason, I was interested what was on it so I inserted it into a nearby system to check it out. It contained a single file, an excel spreadsheet. Upon opening that and browsing around a bit, I found that it contained the salaries and financial account information of every school employee, from the janitors to the top management and headmaster. I was definitely astonished that this kind of information was just lying around for anyone to find. (This was in a student computer lab that mostly everyone had access to.)
I'm now a CS major at well known university and it isn't much better here. I recently found that all of the student password hashes are accessible to anyone on a certain machine. After running that against John the Ripper, I was able to obtain about 50 of them within 2 hours. Of course I never intend to use them, but it was an interesting excercise.
I really think the people in charge of security in academic environments need a wake up call.
Or does anyone else think that pbskids site hired some designers from Trading Spaces?
Yeah but that's the syndicated version.
It does boggle my mind that the world has come to such that a show that 'only brings in 2.5 MILLION people' isn't worth producing.
Unfortuantely this is just a reflection of the fact that the number of people who appreciate intelligent, thought provoking content are way outnumbered by mindless drones who will watch whatever the mass market tells them is popular.
Considering this new development, what kind of "equipment" will their creators choose to outfit them with?
The Nielson survey group installs tracking devices in about 5000 TVs as I recall (of course with the owner's permission). They are randomly selected so the data gathered can be analyzed somewhat accurately as a representative statistical sample (kind of like a poll).
It was moved to Friday, which we all know is teh death nell for any SciFi show.
I find that a rather illogical statement, considering that Stargate and Battlestar Galactica are both doing very well on Friday, and they are even on cable which doesn't reach as many households as UPN.
The problem with Enterprise was that the first two seasons sucked ass and it consequently never developed a strong fanbase beyond the die hard trekkies during the early life of the show. The last two seasons have been better, but unfortuantely not good enough to save it.
In my experience, old people don't really drive like they are drunk, just like their car is governed at 35.