I've used Mail.app regularly since the release of 10.3 for multiple POP, multiple IMAP, and one.Mac (IMAP, but handled as a special case) accounts. I've never had a problem with IMAP (or.Mac). Ever. I'm not sure what problem you're having or what hardware/software configuration you have, but it sounds like you have problems outside of Mail.app to worry about.
But you pretty much drove home my point. Thunderbird lacks polish and integration. It is, to a Mac user's eye, "n00b shit". On Windows, however, it's a godsend. Outlook (and OE) needs to die in a fire.
I'd be surprised if MS actually threatened any FOSS developers
And therein lies the bluff and the path to exploiting it. The vendors don't necessarily develop or own the copyrights on the code. The developers don't (usually) directly sell support contracts on the system. The vendors pay the developers, the developers produce for the vendors. But neither one is "touchable" by Microsoft. Microsoft wants to "touch" (read: take) the vendors' market. Microsoft knows they can't "touch" (read: sue) the developers for alleged patent infringement because the developers have no money. Blood from a stone, and all that...
So when Microsoft comes knocking on the vendors' doors, they tell MS they don't own the code and haven't infringed upon jack squat. MS knows they can't get anything from the developers, so they won't bother (and really don't want the PR backlash of trying to make an example of one or two of them).
As long as vendors are support only and keep the developers separate (corporate shell games are allowed...), they'll be fine. Microsoft can (and will) be told to pound sand.
What the heck is "iMail"? I googled for it, but the first two or three links were either parked domains or 404's.
Perhaps you meant Mail(.app). In that case, I'd have to rate your opinion-making skills as "weak". Mail is way better than Thunderbird. It has everything T-bird has, but with polish and proper system integration. And a handy "bounce message" function that essentially tells automated spam systems to sod off. Thunderbird still has a ways to go before it's at the level of flexibility and polish of Firefox, and only then does it have a chance to be better than Mail.
Your opinion of Safari at least has merit. It would be nice to have plugins (Developer Toolbar and AdBlock are wonderful) in Safari. It's lacking in that area. But Safari (for Mac) is still a damned good browser. Safari for Windows is crap, though. (And, no, they're not the same.)
Because anybody with a clue is using VoIP by this point
I'm going to snicker at your misfortune when you have an emergency and find out just how shitty E911 compliance is with most VoIP providers. That's assuming you're not running your own Asterisk server and providing your own E911... You did remember to set that up with the local fire/ambulance district, right?
And if you seem to live in a dreamworld where E911 is "government mandated" and therefore is reliable, I'm here to tell you that I've worked with VoIP telco provisioning systems, and I can personally assure you that they're absolute shit. You're lucky if the provisioning system doesn't deallocate your phone number when you go to set it up. You're also lucky if the provisioning system actually provisions your line, rather than just displaying the expected result of the process and getting a SOAP-fault on the back-end when actually trying to provision things.
In other words, anyone with a real clue is sticking with POTS until the VoIP providers can get their act together and make their billing and provisioning (these are usually tied closely together) systems not suck.
Yes, because it's so hard to find http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/. It's not like there aren't eleventy bajillion "Get Quicktime" banners everywhere that point you there or anything.
Anybody that wants to can make an AAC-spec encoder/decoder device or software, and can easily access the spec. They cannot distribute it without paying license fees, however.
Ask your bank for a non-credit-backed "ATM" card. They'll likely be able to issue one to you. They often reserve those for people that don't qualify for a credit card (and thus can't be trusted with the overdraft float allowed in a credit-backed debit card). If your bank won't issue one, find a smaller (usually locally owned) bank. They always have them.
Once you have the card, you have to get used to matching up credit card network symbols to the debit card network symbols (MasterCard -> Maestro/Cirrus, Discover/Novus -> Pulse, VISA -> VISA Debit). If a retailer displays the credit card symbol in their window or on the cash register, the corresponding type of debit card is probably going to work as well. Many times there are a half-dozen other debit-only network symbols (Shazam, Star, etc.) on the swipe reader, and all of those will be accepted too.
A PIN is always required to run a transaction with one of these cards. They are debit-only, and will draw funds directly from your bank account until you're out, then there's usually a very small overdraft limit (about $200 at the most) and the bank will rape you for that overdraft charge.
"Tangerine" tells a good Mac tech exactly what type of Mac that user has. It's a "tangerine" iMac with a 266 or 333MHz G3 processor (PPC750, IBM-style, with copper tracing instead of aluminum), between 64 (most likely) and 256 (max) MB of RAM (PC66 168-pin DIMM), a 24x CD-ROM drive, a 4 or 6 GB HDD (ATA/33), 10/100 Ethernet, an ATI Rage Pro LT 8MB video accelerator, and a 17" CRT screen.
But your point stands for other, less-distinctive types of hardware.
Or perhaps that's a side-effect of the proper use of the English language. When you don't know the gender of the party you're using a pronoun for, you use the masculine gender. Of course, that applies only if you don't RTFA. But "assuming" masculine gender is correct and is not some sort of anti-whiny-bitch-feminist agenda or part of a presumed gender role.
Given the technology that allowed the NSA to split the optical signal so they could watch traffic, I wonder if they're considering applying their ' filtering ' technology in the same manner. In other words, would they act as big brother over all the data packets that travel ' their ' pipes and filter anything they feel is necessary ?
I'm guessing this is the real issue. The NSA is about to get a beatdown from the publicity and the pressure on elected officials brought about by the discovery of that wiretapping operation. But AT&T was a compliant, consenting party to that operation, and it's their network. So naturally, they can voluntarily do the wiretapping operation and offer their customers up as sacrificial lambs as desired (by the NSA).
This whole thing probably isn't so much a filter as it is a wiretap-by-a-name-the-public-won't-recognize, spun to appear like a think-of-the-children-or-at-least-the-poor-starvin g-artists-and-their-RIAA-overlords PR issue.
It has little to do with religion other than sharing a common cause.
It's simple "ostrich" mentality. "If I stick my head in the sand, it'll all go away and I won't have to change my beliefs or routine. LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU..."
Morons. And they're giving religion a bad (worse?) name.
...Like the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and moon phases.
The Mac got a popularity boost in 1998 when the iMac was introduced and started selling like hotcakes. Games were made. Fun was had. A community formed. Then people kept using the same outdated iMac long after its gaming ability was rendered obsolete by modern games. Sure, some people upgraded to newer, better Macs and kept up with the games.
But over the last 8 or 9 years, the community has slowly faded, game ports have tapered off, porting houses have been dissolved and bought out, and the Mac once again sucks for gaming. But Macs are becoming popular again. Which means...
Games will be made. Fun will be had. New communities will form, and old ones will rise like the phoenix. Porting houses will be incorporated. Games will once again come to the Mac. And in 3-5 years, most Macs will once again be "behind the times" and "outdated" and "not capable of running modern games" and "unshaven and lounging about in their underwear all day waiting for that new version of solitaire with simians set alight". The market will once again ignore Macs as gaming machines. Analysts will call Apple "beleaguered" once again, just for old times' sake. And the cycle will begin again another 2-3 years after that.
Maybe this cycle won't dip as low as they once did, since the x86 allows for using Winelib (and it's bastard child "Cider"). We can only hope.
A phone booth (what's that?) is property of the phone company. They, as the owner, forbid non-users from bothering the current user of the booth.
Public restrooms are explicitly provided for in most states' laws. This alters their "public property" status in the interest of the current user. It also conveniently sidesteps public decency laws that might otherwise apply.
A doctor's office (or lawyer's) is private property owned by the building owner, leased to the doctor. That makes the doctor the owner's mouthpiece in matters of privacy. The doctor is the one that ensures privacy in that case, and there is legal recourse against him if he doesn't.
In all of these cases, this is property that would otherwise be "public" to the user, but it gets special protection either from the owner (usually for profit motive) or from the law. The matter is still quite black-and-white.
Free software isn't, and will never be, a business.
The way to make money from free software (I'm aware of only one) is to sell overpriced service contracts to suckers hoping that they don't grow/hire some brains to operate your product without you. Kinda like Best Buy does, only with a bit more of a "hands on" approach.
"So, would you like to buy a service plan? There's no warranty on this free software, you know. If anything breaks, you're toast. But if you buy our service plan, you can just bring it back to the store and we'll replace it, no questions asked."
It sounds like a poor way to win friends and influence people, and a good way to not make money.
<flamebait>RMS is a dirty commie hippie.</flamebait>
Roads are owned by the state or municipality in which they are located. That makes them public property. Only a private drive can be considered private property, and in that case, an agent of the state (policeman) has no expectation of privacy, since it's not his private property.
Basically, everything is "public" to you unless you're on your own property. The world is chmod-ed 755.
Steve Jobs has a funny way of fucking companies in their collective ass when they tell him "no".
Examples: - RIAA members - small, greedy Mac software houses that make interesting and useful apps that should honestly be part of the OS (note: the non-greedy ones got corpo-raped despite saying "yes") - Apple itself
I'm pretty sure the "bug" button is prominent in the Safari Beta UI for a reason, and being an attention hound isn't it. If this guy found bugs, he should push the damned bug button and report it back to Apple. After he's done that, he can blog about it to gloat, inform, or whatever else he feels he should do. But to blog/gloat/inform before sending the report to Apple (remember, it's one fricking button) is just asshattery.
I wonder what happened to that exquisitely trained installation tech from your story. How did he fare in the Telecommunications merger/split circus that has characterized the last 20 years of the industry?
I hope he took a retirement package and is living well on a pension that the greed-inhibited jackasses now in charge have to keep going for fear of getting their asses sued to kingdom come.
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I've used Mail.app regularly since the release of 10.3 for multiple POP, multiple IMAP, and one .Mac (IMAP, but handled as a special case) accounts. I've never had a problem with IMAP (or .Mac). Ever. I'm not sure what problem you're having or what hardware/software configuration you have, but it sounds like you have problems outside of Mail.app to worry about.
Angry, angry...
But you pretty much drove home my point. Thunderbird lacks polish and integration. It is, to a Mac user's eye, "n00b shit". On Windows, however, it's a godsend. Outlook (and OE) needs to die in a fire.
I'd be surprised if MS actually threatened any FOSS developers
And therein lies the bluff and the path to exploiting it. The vendors don't necessarily develop or own the copyrights on the code. The developers don't (usually) directly sell support contracts on the system. The vendors pay the developers, the developers produce for the vendors. But neither one is "touchable" by Microsoft. Microsoft wants to "touch" (read: take) the vendors' market. Microsoft knows they can't "touch" (read: sue) the developers for alleged patent infringement because the developers have no money. Blood from a stone, and all that...
So when Microsoft comes knocking on the vendors' doors, they tell MS they don't own the code and haven't infringed upon jack squat. MS knows they can't get anything from the developers, so they won't bother (and really don't want the PR backlash of trying to make an example of one or two of them).
As long as vendors are support only and keep the developers separate (corporate shell games are allowed...), they'll be fine. Microsoft can (and will) be told to pound sand.
What the heck is "iMail"? I googled for it, but the first two or three links were either parked domains or 404's.
Perhaps you meant Mail(.app). In that case, I'd have to rate your opinion-making skills as "weak". Mail is way better than Thunderbird. It has everything T-bird has, but with polish and proper system integration. And a handy "bounce message" function that essentially tells automated spam systems to sod off. Thunderbird still has a ways to go before it's at the level of flexibility and polish of Firefox, and only then does it have a chance to be better than Mail.
Your opinion of Safari at least has merit. It would be nice to have plugins (Developer Toolbar and AdBlock are wonderful) in Safari. It's lacking in that area. But Safari (for Mac) is still a damned good browser. Safari for Windows is crap, though. (And, no, they're not the same.)
Because anybody with a clue is using VoIP by this point
I'm going to snicker at your misfortune when you have an emergency and find out just how shitty E911 compliance is with most VoIP providers. That's assuming you're not running your own Asterisk server and providing your own E911... You did remember to set that up with the local fire/ambulance district, right?
And if you seem to live in a dreamworld where E911 is "government mandated" and therefore is reliable, I'm here to tell you that I've worked with VoIP telco provisioning systems, and I can personally assure you that they're absolute shit. You're lucky if the provisioning system doesn't deallocate your phone number when you go to set it up. You're also lucky if the provisioning system actually provisions your line, rather than just displaying the expected result of the process and getting a SOAP-fault on the back-end when actually trying to provision things.
In other words, anyone with a real clue is sticking with POTS until the VoIP providers can get their act together and make their billing and provisioning (these are usually tied closely together) systems not suck.
the new improved iRDF on sale for $399, but its in black now!
It was always in black. And jeans. And usually in need of a shave.
But if I could pay money for an RDF, I would. Imagine how useful it would be when trying to pick up chicks!
Guy: "Hey baby!"
Girl: {SLAP}
Guy: (Ouch...) [RDF ON] "Hey baby!"
Girl: "Do me now!"
Guy: {Pats RDF generator} "Worth every penny..."
Yes, because it's so hard to find http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/. It's not like there aren't eleventy bajillion "Get Quicktime" banners everywhere that point you there or anything.
AAC is open.
If AAC was not patented, it would also be free.
Anybody that wants to can make an AAC-spec encoder/decoder device or software, and can easily access the spec. They cannot distribute it without paying license fees, however.
Open != Free.
More like a "you scratch my balls, I'll scratch yours" proposal, I would estimate. Both of these items are "pet projects" to someone.
Congress is just a bunch of ball-scratchers, I tell ya!
Ask your bank for a non-credit-backed "ATM" card. They'll likely be able to issue one to you. They often reserve those for people that don't qualify for a credit card (and thus can't be trusted with the overdraft float allowed in a credit-backed debit card). If your bank won't issue one, find a smaller (usually locally owned) bank. They always have them.
Once you have the card, you have to get used to matching up credit card network symbols to the debit card network symbols (MasterCard -> Maestro/Cirrus, Discover/Novus -> Pulse, VISA -> VISA Debit). If a retailer displays the credit card symbol in their window or on the cash register, the corresponding type of debit card is probably going to work as well. Many times there are a half-dozen other debit-only network symbols (Shazam, Star, etc.) on the swipe reader, and all of those will be accepted too.
A PIN is always required to run a transaction with one of these cards. They are debit-only, and will draw funds directly from your bank account until you're out, then there's usually a very small overdraft limit (about $200 at the most) and the bank will rape you for that overdraft charge.
"Tangerine" tells a good Mac tech exactly what type of Mac that user has. It's a "tangerine" iMac with a 266 or 333MHz G3 processor (PPC750, IBM-style, with copper tracing instead of aluminum), between 64 (most likely) and 256 (max) MB of RAM (PC66 168-pin DIMM), a 24x CD-ROM drive, a 4 or 6 GB HDD (ATA/33), 10/100 Ethernet, an ATI Rage Pro LT 8MB video accelerator, and a 17" CRT screen.
But your point stands for other, less-distinctive types of hardware.
Or perhaps that's a side-effect of the proper use of the English language. When you don't know the gender of the party you're using a pronoun for, you use the masculine gender. Of course, that applies only if you don't RTFA. But "assuming" masculine gender is correct and is not some sort of anti-whiny-bitch-feminist agenda or part of a presumed gender role.
Given the technology that allowed the NSA to split the optical signal so they could watch traffic, I wonder if they're considering applying their ' filtering ' technology in the same manner. In other words, would they act as big brother over all the data packets that travel ' their ' pipes and filter anything they feel is necessary ?
n g-artists-and-their-RIAA-overlords PR issue.
I'm guessing this is the real issue. The NSA is about to get a beatdown from the publicity and the pressure on elected officials brought about by the discovery of that wiretapping operation. But AT&T was a compliant, consenting party to that operation, and it's their network. So naturally, they can voluntarily do the wiretapping operation and offer their customers up as sacrificial lambs as desired (by the NSA).
This whole thing probably isn't so much a filter as it is a wiretap-by-a-name-the-public-won't-recognize, spun to appear like a think-of-the-children-or-at-least-the-poor-starvi
It has little to do with religion other than sharing a common cause.
It's simple "ostrich" mentality. "If I stick my head in the sand, it'll all go away and I won't have to change my beliefs or routine. LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU..."
Morons. And they're giving religion a bad (worse?) name.
My favorite:
"If we aren't supposed to eat the animals, then why did God make them out of meat?"
Hey, at least GameRanger's still around.
...Like the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and moon phases.
The Mac got a popularity boost in 1998 when the iMac was introduced and started selling like hotcakes. Games were made. Fun was had. A community formed. Then people kept using the same outdated iMac long after its gaming ability was rendered obsolete by modern games. Sure, some people upgraded to newer, better Macs and kept up with the games.
But over the last 8 or 9 years, the community has slowly faded, game ports have tapered off, porting houses have been dissolved and bought out, and the Mac once again sucks for gaming. But Macs are becoming popular again. Which means...
Games will be made. Fun will be had. New communities will form, and old ones will rise like the phoenix. Porting houses will be incorporated. Games will once again come to the Mac. And in 3-5 years, most Macs will once again be "behind the times" and "outdated" and "not capable of running modern games" and "unshaven and lounging about in their underwear all day waiting for that new version of solitaire with simians set alight". The market will once again ignore Macs as gaming machines. Analysts will call Apple "beleaguered" once again, just for old times' sake. And the cycle will begin again another 2-3 years after that.
Maybe this cycle won't dip as low as they once did, since the x86 allows for using Winelib (and it's bastard child "Cider"). We can only hope.
A phone booth (what's that?) is property of the phone company. They, as the owner, forbid non-users from bothering the current user of the booth.
Public restrooms are explicitly provided for in most states' laws. This alters their "public property" status in the interest of the current user. It also conveniently sidesteps public decency laws that might otherwise apply.
A doctor's office (or lawyer's) is private property owned by the building owner, leased to the doctor. That makes the doctor the owner's mouthpiece in matters of privacy. The doctor is the one that ensures privacy in that case, and there is legal recourse against him if he doesn't.
In all of these cases, this is property that would otherwise be "public" to the user, but it gets special protection either from the owner (usually for profit motive) or from the law. The matter is still quite black-and-white.
Free software isn't, and will never be, a business.
The way to make money from free software (I'm aware of only one) is to sell overpriced service contracts to suckers hoping that they don't grow/hire some brains to operate your product without you. Kinda like Best Buy does, only with a bit more of a "hands on" approach.
"So, would you like to buy a service plan? There's no warranty on this free software, you know. If anything breaks, you're toast. But if you buy our service plan, you can just bring it back to the store and we'll replace it, no questions asked."
It sounds like a poor way to win friends and influence people, and a good way to not make money.
<flamebait>RMS is a dirty commie hippie.</flamebait>
The pooper is just the most convenient place to take it.
There. Fixed that for you.
Roads are owned by the state or municipality in which they are located. That makes them public property. Only a private drive can be considered private property, and in that case, an agent of the state (policeman) has no expectation of privacy, since it's not his private property.
Basically, everything is "public" to you unless you're on your own property. The world is chmod-ed 755.
Steve Jobs has a funny way of fucking companies in their collective ass when they tell him "no".
Examples:
- RIAA members
- small, greedy Mac software houses that make interesting and useful apps that should honestly be part of the OS (note: the non-greedy ones got corpo-raped despite saying "yes")
- Apple itself
RDF + Corpo-rape FTW!
Then you'll stop automatically distrusting unions,
Never.
and stop automatically trusting the corporations which demonize them.
I don't, and I never will.
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not all out to get me.
I'm pretty sure the "bug" button is prominent in the Safari Beta UI for a reason, and being an attention hound isn't it. If this guy found bugs, he should push the damned bug button and report it back to Apple. After he's done that, he can blog about it to gloat, inform, or whatever else he feels he should do. But to blog/gloat/inform before sending the report to Apple (remember, it's one fricking button) is just asshattery.
I wonder what happened to that exquisitely trained installation tech from your story. How did he fare in the Telecommunications merger/split circus that has characterized the last 20 years of the industry?
I hope he took a retirement package and is living well on a pension that the greed-inhibited jackasses now in charge have to keep going for fear of getting their asses sued to kingdom come.