No, actually, January 30, 2001 happened. On that day... well, Apple's stock price died... Actually, I think that's the day Microsoft was able to dump their Apple stock from the 1997-era "keep Office on the Mac and invest in us please, please, please" announcement.
I've had an odd thought lately about how to artificially and temporarily boost the value of the dollar.
Combine the idea of flashmobs and slashdotting... now do this to the banking system. If everyone withdraws a large amount of their money simultaneously, banks get scared and hoard money, dollars are removed from the system and they get scarce. Scarcity makes the value go up. The foreigners buy in and then the financial DDoS reverses itself and takes their money gladly.
The trick is to make it believable. Get the foreign banks to buy in when the dollar is high... then fuck them in the ass. Tide out, tide in. Repeat until they're all so gunshy they won't invest in us anymore. By then, we should have enough of their money that they have to invest in us to stay alive. It's a scam, but it might work once or twice.
Speaking as a "Yank", I have to point out that a few people here actually like France for at least a few things. True, France is a very independent country, and that makes them somewhat of a thorn in the side of the retarded politicians here.
But most Americans (the ones with a working brain cell or two, at least) don't hate France. We think of France as being a beautiful area with lots of wine and sexy women (and romantic men, according to most womens' dreams). Some people that were able to stay awake through history classes in middle and high school remember that France helped us fight off those evil, nasty, imperialist pigs from Britain (and occasionally their lap dogs in Canuckistan:P) during the early years of the nation's history. A few even remember that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France.
Of course, the prevailing idea that the French are wussies and whiny little bitches has some merit as well. In World War 2, they seemed a bit wussy (though most countries would've buckled under that sort of attack until the German armies were finally spread thinly enough to whomp on). And ever since, they've been whiny little hippies. Then again, San Francisco is just as bad, and that's something we can't just blame on someone else.
Keep that in mind... Not all Americans are stupid, irresponsible, rude, annoying jackasses. Just the ones in power.
Apple won't touch Photoshop or Illustrator, nor will it optimize the system PDF functions to replace Acrobat/Distiller. Digital print media is still quite firmly an Apple hardware/Adobe software market.
Adobe's just going away from video on the Mac because they can't compete with the Hollywood-pro-level tools that Apple's pushing.
Audio's next, and already the audio software developers are lashing out. Everything twitches a bit when it dies.
Actually, you couldn't always just hit cmd-e or F12. In MacOS (not X), the Eject command was cmd-y. And the F12 shortcut was not added until recently, about the same time they stopped putting power buttons on the keyboard (one of the G4 iterations). F12 is only supported in that capacity in MacOS X.
And on the current Apple keyboard, the F-keys run from 1-13, then 14-16, then there's volume-down, volume-up, mute, and eject on the top row. And F12 sends an "F12" command, not "Eject" on this keyboard. And to answer another question you might ask, no, Windows does not support the Eject key because Windows is crap. (And here I sit typing this on my Apple keyboard plugged into a homebuilt PC running Windows. Bah.)
I'm not gonna rag on you for the obvious... everyone else did that already.
There's just one thing in your post that really struck me as odd, though. "They were as cold, unhelpful and indifferent to my situation as the most arrogant companies I've ever dealt with. Somehow I expected more from Apple."
You didn't expect a company founded by Steve Jobs, run nearly into the ground by 3 CEO's, all arrogant and egotistical, then taken back over by Steve Jobs in a political ouster that made the Watergate scandal look like an episode of Leave It to Beaver... sorry, I got a bit carried away there... But you seriously didn't expect this company to be a den of assholes? Wow.
I knew they were assholes before I bought my first Mac. I had to deal with their assinine policies when they shipped me a DOA monitor (an $800 one at that!) and tried to send me a refurbished one as a replacement. I had to deal with their thuggish rebate people to get a free 128MB stick of RAM once. Trust me, they're assholes. That's just the way they are.
But they make one hell of a kick-ass computer. And that's why you bend over and ask for more.
That's because there are 2 kinds of VB programmers:
1) Stupid n00b programmer that will never grow from n00b-dom into someone riding a clue train (any clue train at all...) These would do something like if foo = true then bar because they were told to do it that way, and that if they didn't, they'd have their neck wrung.
2) "Old salt" VB programmers (HA!) that are trying to teach the type from #1. They know that it's all too easy to have problems with VB when you try if foo then bar and not know what types you're dealing with.
In fact, I'm not so sure that latter code example is even legal in VB.
I once read through some header files from Symantec C++ version 8.6 on MacOS (old MacOS). It defined NULL like this:
#define NULL 0
It's kinda difficult to redefine NULL when the compiler does a wholesale find-and-replace on it before compiling (and it complained, as it should, when you tried to #define something twice).
Worse yet, and what the grandparent was probably thinking, what if a thief sets up a "company" and plants a reader near a busy sidewalk? Lots of $24.99 transactions later, the thief is rich, but worries that his scheme will be discovered, so he moves to a different sidewalk and repeats the process. No need to take a card. No need to trick people into swiping it. Just get it to charge something automatically as it goes by, and put the proceeds into your get-a-new-Ferrari fund. You could probably have 2 or 3 new Ferraris in a month's time.
I'm no lawyer (but on/. who is?), but I'd assume your first order of business on notification that you're being sued is a motion to dismiss. I'm sure even a halfway competent lawyer could get you one ready to go in a matter of hours for a relatively small fee (a few hundred dollars). If the court goes for it, the people suing you are fucked, and may additionally be told to "get bent". This process may have to be repeated a few times (in appeals), but each time, the case precedent is on your side. It's certainly better than losing your ass in a court battle, and probably better than getting shafted in a settlement.
Companies don't work this way. They make the choices, you still get it in the end.
Governments, however, are usually required to be responsible for their policies, and therefore would allow you some leverage to get them to do what they're supposed to do (that is, serve the public).
The operative term here is "that you have drivers for." Note that there are no Atheros chipset drivers, only Broadcomm if you want to add WiFi to your Mac.
Yes. But only for a DVD. They must realize that a non-hard-copy of their show is worth much less than a burned, physical copy on relatively durable media. The price goes down even further for DRM'ed copies that reduce my ability to do what I want with the files.
Now for the other side of it: you have to realize that they won't offer this in any format you'd find usable. They'll use Windows Media because "everyone has it" or Real because "it's streaming so people have to pay-per-view". They'll inevitably screw something up to make it unusable, which makes it worth about $0.25 to those that will use it. Of course, they can't recoup their costs or match the amount of profit from the hard-copies when they do this, so it'll go away quickly.
PVC (like plastic pipe) is most certainly NOT plenum-rated. In fact, most wire has PVC jacketing. The plenum-rated stuff is about double the cost (which is less than half the cost of conduit). Then, of course, there's the fire-rated cable (usually red jacket, used for fire alarm wiring), which is able to burn for a LONG time (minutes in direct flame, hours smoldering) before giving up the ghost.
If you're running this wire outside a plenum area (exposed, or a wire and pipe chase), putting it in PVC is a good way to protect the wire, and probably won't violate code (IANABI - building inspector). But if you're running this above a drop ceiling, get plenum-rated wire and go with bridle rings. They're way cheaper than any kind of piping, even if you do have to get beam clamps (not likely in a residence).
First of all, "Black American English" is not a language. It's a dialect marked by (usually) incorrect usage.
But for the sake of whacking your argument upside it's head, let's use this guy's name as an example here. "I be hatin'" could more easily be expressed as "I hate." The subject is the same (I) but the verb is pacified ("be" vs. "hate") in the incorrect case. To properly use a passive ("being") verb in this sentence, you would need the word "am" instead of "be". "I am hatin'."
However, the duration of this act (which is how you justify the use of the incorrect English) can be assumed to be the same. How? If there's a TV show that I hate continuously (every time it's on), then "I be hatin' this TV show" would be no more descriptive than "I hate this TV show". Both convey the meaning that you dislike this show strongly no matter what time or place you are exposed to it, and that you'll continue to feel this way into the indefinite future.
English does not lack the verb tense you speak of. There is no need to make excuses for people that refuse to learn to speak or write properly, or who for social reasons pretend that they know less than they really do.
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No, actually, January 30, 2001 happened. On that day... well, Apple's stock price died... Actually, I think that's the day Microsoft was able to dump their Apple stock from the 1997-era "keep Office on the Mac and invest in us please, please, please" announcement.
Greed can be used to draw someone out empty their pockets. You can't cheat an honest man.
I've had an odd thought lately about how to artificially and temporarily boost the value of the dollar.
Combine the idea of flashmobs and slashdotting... now do this to the banking system. If everyone withdraws a large amount of their money simultaneously, banks get scared and hoard money, dollars are removed from the system and they get scarce. Scarcity makes the value go up. The foreigners buy in and then the financial DDoS reverses itself and takes their money gladly.
The trick is to make it believable. Get the foreign banks to buy in when the dollar is high... then fuck them in the ass. Tide out, tide in. Repeat until they're all so gunshy they won't invest in us anymore. By then, we should have enough of their money that they have to invest in us to stay alive. It's a scam, but it might work once or twice.
Speaking as a "Yank", I have to point out that a few people here actually like France for at least a few things. True, France is a very independent country, and that makes them somewhat of a thorn in the side of the retarded politicians here.
:P) during the early years of the nation's history. A few even remember that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France.
But most Americans (the ones with a working brain cell or two, at least) don't hate France. We think of France as being a beautiful area with lots of wine and sexy women (and romantic men, according to most womens' dreams). Some people that were able to stay awake through history classes in middle and high school remember that France helped us fight off those evil, nasty, imperialist pigs from Britain (and occasionally their lap dogs in Canuckistan
Of course, the prevailing idea that the French are wussies and whiny little bitches has some merit as well. In World War 2, they seemed a bit wussy (though most countries would've buckled under that sort of attack until the German armies were finally spread thinly enough to whomp on). And ever since, they've been whiny little hippies. Then again, San Francisco is just as bad, and that's something we can't just blame on someone else.
Keep that in mind... Not all Americans are stupid, irresponsible, rude, annoying jackasses. Just the ones in power.
There is exactly one place where a single letter variable is acceptable.
for(x=0;x
And that's only for languages besides C and others like it that require you to declare that at the top of the block.
Apple won't touch Photoshop or Illustrator, nor will it optimize the system PDF functions to replace Acrobat/Distiller. Digital print media is still quite firmly an Apple hardware/Adobe software market.
Adobe's just going away from video on the Mac because they can't compete with the Hollywood-pro-level tools that Apple's pushing.
Audio's next, and already the audio software developers are lashing out. Everything twitches a bit when it dies.
I'd think three times to break the tie.
Halo seems to be building on the Marathon series in many (maybe not so small) ways. That might put the total as high as 5.
Actually, you couldn't always just hit cmd-e or F12. In MacOS (not X), the Eject command was cmd-y. And the F12 shortcut was not added until recently, about the same time they stopped putting power buttons on the keyboard (one of the G4 iterations). F12 is only supported in that capacity in MacOS X.
And on the current Apple keyboard, the F-keys run from 1-13, then 14-16, then there's volume-down, volume-up, mute, and eject on the top row. And F12 sends an "F12" command, not "Eject" on this keyboard. And to answer another question you might ask, no, Windows does not support the Eject key because Windows is crap. (And here I sit typing this on my Apple keyboard plugged into a homebuilt PC running Windows. Bah.)
I'm not gonna rag on you for the obvious... everyone else did that already.
There's just one thing in your post that really struck me as odd, though. "They were as cold, unhelpful and indifferent to my situation as the most arrogant companies I've ever dealt with. Somehow I expected more from Apple."
You didn't expect a company founded by Steve Jobs, run nearly into the ground by 3 CEO's, all arrogant and egotistical, then taken back over by Steve Jobs in a political ouster that made the Watergate scandal look like an episode of Leave It to Beaver... sorry, I got a bit carried away there... But you seriously didn't expect this company to be a den of assholes? Wow.
I knew they were assholes before I bought my first Mac. I had to deal with their assinine policies when they shipped me a DOA monitor (an $800 one at that!) and tried to send me a refurbished one as a replacement. I had to deal with their thuggish rebate people to get a free 128MB stick of RAM once. Trust me, they're assholes. That's just the way they are.
But they make one hell of a kick-ass computer. And that's why you bend over and ask for more.
That's because there are 2 kinds of VB programmers:
1) Stupid n00b programmer that will never grow from n00b-dom into someone riding a clue train (any clue train at all...) These would do something like
if foo = true then bar
because they were told to do it that way, and that if they didn't, they'd have their neck wrung.
2) "Old salt" VB programmers (HA!) that are trying to teach the type from #1. They know that it's all too easy to have problems with VB when you try
if foo then bar
and not know what types you're dealing with.
In fact, I'm not so sure that latter code example is even legal in VB.
I once read through some header files from Symantec C++ version 8.6 on MacOS (old MacOS). It defined NULL like this:
#define NULL 0
It's kinda difficult to redefine NULL when the compiler does a wholesale find-and-replace on it before compiling (and it complained, as it should, when you tried to #define something twice).
I'm not sure which is funnier - your post, or the current moderation "(Score: 5, Informative)".
It's truly sad when this kind of thing can be modded informative and rational people can understand why.
Worse yet, and what the grandparent was probably thinking, what if a thief sets up a "company" and plants a reader near a busy sidewalk? Lots of $24.99 transactions later, the thief is rich, but worries that his scheme will be discovered, so he moves to a different sidewalk and repeats the process. No need to take a card. No need to trick people into swiping it. Just get it to charge something automatically as it goes by, and put the proceeds into your get-a-new-Ferrari fund. You could probably have 2 or 3 new Ferraris in a month's time.
I'm no lawyer (but on /. who is?), but I'd assume your first order of business on notification that you're being sued is a motion to dismiss. I'm sure even a halfway competent lawyer could get you one ready to go in a matter of hours for a relatively small fee (a few hundred dollars). If the court goes for it, the people suing you are fucked, and may additionally be told to "get bent". This process may have to be repeated a few times (in appeals), but each time, the case precedent is on your side. It's certainly better than losing your ass in a court battle, and probably better than getting shafted in a settlement.
Not only cromulent, but stuponfucious.
Those searches are for lodging! Just as if I would search for "Madrid Sheraton" or "London Motel 6"! Isn't there a Hilton in Paris?
'Tang is even less well known on /.
Sorry, I had to...
giving me chocies in the end
Companies don't work this way. They make the choices, you still get it in the end.
Governments, however, are usually required to be responsible for their policies, and therefore would allow you some leverage to get them to do what they're supposed to do (that is, serve the public).
The operative term here is "that you have drivers for." Note that there are no Atheros chipset drivers, only Broadcomm if you want to add WiFi to your Mac.
I found this out about 30 minutes too late. Grr.
Would we pay that?
Yes. But only for a DVD. They must realize that a non-hard-copy of their show is worth much less than a burned, physical copy on relatively durable media. The price goes down even further for DRM'ed copies that reduce my ability to do what I want with the files.
Now for the other side of it: you have to realize that they won't offer this in any format you'd find usable. They'll use Windows Media because "everyone has it" or Real because "it's streaming so people have to pay-per-view". They'll inevitably screw something up to make it unusable, which makes it worth about $0.25 to those that will use it. Of course, they can't recoup their costs or match the amount of profit from the hard-copies when they do this, so it'll go away quickly.
PVC (like plastic pipe) is most certainly NOT plenum-rated. In fact, most wire has PVC jacketing. The plenum-rated stuff is about double the cost (which is less than half the cost of conduit). Then, of course, there's the fire-rated cable (usually red jacket, used for fire alarm wiring), which is able to burn for a LONG time (minutes in direct flame, hours smoldering) before giving up the ghost.
If you're running this wire outside a plenum area (exposed, or a wire and pipe chase), putting it in PVC is a good way to protect the wire, and probably won't violate code (IANABI - building inspector). But if you're running this above a drop ceiling, get plenum-rated wire and go with bridle rings. They're way cheaper than any kind of piping, even if you do have to get beam clamps (not likely in a residence).
First of all, "Black American English" is not a language. It's a dialect marked by (usually) incorrect usage.
But for the sake of whacking your argument upside it's head, let's use this guy's name as an example here. "I be hatin'" could more easily be expressed as "I hate." The subject is the same (I) but the verb is pacified ("be" vs. "hate") in the incorrect case. To properly use a passive ("being") verb in this sentence, you would need the word "am" instead of "be". "I am hatin'."
However, the duration of this act (which is how you justify the use of the incorrect English) can be assumed to be the same. How? If there's a TV show that I hate continuously (every time it's on), then "I be hatin' this TV show" would be no more descriptive than "I hate this TV show". Both convey the meaning that you dislike this show strongly no matter what time or place you are exposed to it, and that you'll continue to feel this way into the indefinite future.
English does not lack the verb tense you speak of. There is no need to make excuses for people that refuse to learn to speak or write properly, or who for social reasons pretend that they know less than they really do.
10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts...
I need that in measurements I can understand. What is that in Pentium 4's?
I'm pretty sure the third one is Dido. And she's hot in that cute sort of way.