changes to procedures or updates are easily updated electronically, compared with paper.
While some manuals remain on board, the move has eliminated about 50 pounds of paper
This probably wouldn't happen in the western world because we have some expectation of safety and working conditions
No longer true, after decades of deregularisation pushed by those who profit most from unsafe labour conditions, heedless environmental emissions, unsafe and toxic products, etc.
"In 2006 a movie called "The Lives of Others" came out, condemning the Stasi in communist East Germany for creating a police state"
Not really; it merely depicted a loosely fictionalised East Germany. The story and character studies were quite enjoyable but really very little of substance was stated about the Stasi; nor did the movie intend to. It was a mood piece.
Final condemnation of the Stasi, and American plutocracy (in particular recent Presidents and their puppeteers) will come from histories, just as history will never forgive Stalin, Hitler, Idi Amin, Franco, Pinochet, and hundreds of other monsters.
You can learn a great deal more about how authoritarian states (including the USA, Iran, China, Russia, etc) operate from reading history: The Gulag Archipelago, The Politics of Cruelty, Koba The Dread, and many others. The essential principles, methods, motivations and objectives never change, even if the technology does.
'You see enemy soldiers not only brutalizing American civilians, but outright murdering a mother in front of her children and callously tossing corpses around,'
Oh, so pretty much what the US military does in many parts of the world every day. Making this game pernicious propaganda intended to demonise a universal enemy—"foreigners = bad guys"—along with its tag team of TV and Hollywood.
OS X only does this for hardware architecture changes, after a long transition period while the previous architecture is emulated. For example: OS X 10.5 (introduced October 2007) ended support for the Classic runtime. The Classic runtime supported the API used in MacOS 9, 8, and earlier, and of course emulated the 68K architecture - that's around a 20 year coverage. The latest versions of OS X still include the Rosetta emulator for PowerPC applications to run, which is almost a 10 year coverage. (Ironically this is useful to run Microsoft's own products...)
(Prior to OS X, Apple deployed a high performance emulator for 68K to allow many applications of that architecture to run transparently on the PowerPC RISC line. This emulator was also present in Classic.)
So: No, Microsoft's incompetence doesn't lead to correct conclusions about how Apple manages backward compatibility. Maybe you should try a Mac: Sounds like you're in for a pleasant surprise.
The hypocrisy here is thick enough to cut with a knife. Every minute of every day US corporations (from Microsoft to Monsanto to Chevron and thousands of others) and the US military break the law in over 100 countries, heedlessly and without accountability or redress. Yet the FBI has the astonishing chutzpah to make a statement like, "Foreign firms that choose to operate in the United States are not free to flout the laws they don’t like simply because they can’t bear to be parted from their profits".
The iconic example of US corporate intransigence might be Union Carbide/Dow's all-but-deliberate poisoning of Bhopal, India, where tons of toxic, unstable nerve poison, improperly and carelessly stored in an American pesticide plant, killed 8,500 horribly in one night, and permanently injured 100,000s. No proper reparations have been made and nobody has been held to account.
In the Amazon, Chevron has committed one of the largest environmental crimes in US history - and thousands of US companies are doing the same every day.
More recently, the behaviour of Blackwater has illustrated that indiscriminate murder of foreign citizens is now just an accepted part of American corporate practice. Countless Iraqi citizens killed and injured by Blackwater (and other mercenary firm) employees have not seen justice.
The 2008 Aluminium Macbook is pretty much indestructible... My 2005 Powerbook is still going strong. Macs usually have working lives of more than 5 years and can be found still in production use at 10 years old.
Cattle ranching is the #1 cause of deforestation in the Amazon. Unless it is curtailed (ideally by a decline in demand for unsustainable meat, but military action should also be an option), there will be no Amazon in a few years.
"Guns are for self defence" is pure myth. Actually it's worse than that, it's idiocy.
If you don't want your family to live in one of the world's most violent and dangerous societies, why do you create and perpetuate it? The rest of us do just fine not shooting each other and we don't live in a permanent paranoid funk.
You can change it if you want to. Protip: Making guns more available isn't the answer.
a 27-year-old former Google engineer repeatedly took advantage of his position as a member of an elite technical group at the company to access users' accounts
Although SREs are probably a privileged subgroup and ordinary feature engineers do not have access to all data. Elementary measure, but when did Facebook ever care about your privacy?
The best way to maximise tax AVOIDANCE is to make sure the laws around tax EVASION are written in your favour. Which is what the kleptocracy does. And failing that, hide the money offshore (finally back OT).
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What took em so long??
This probably wouldn't happen in the western world because we have some expectation of safety and working conditions
No longer true, after decades of deregularisation pushed by those who profit most from unsafe labour conditions, heedless environmental emissions, unsafe and toxic products, etc.
"In 2006 a movie called "The Lives of Others" came out, condemning the Stasi in communist East Germany for creating a police state"
Not really; it merely depicted a loosely fictionalised East Germany. The story and character studies were quite enjoyable but really very little of substance was stated about the Stasi; nor did the movie intend to. It was a mood piece.
Final condemnation of the Stasi, and American plutocracy (in particular recent Presidents and their puppeteers) will come from histories, just as history will never forgive Stalin, Hitler, Idi Amin, Franco, Pinochet, and hundreds of other monsters.
You can learn a great deal more about how authoritarian states (including the USA, Iran, China, Russia, etc) operate from reading history: The Gulag Archipelago, The Politics of Cruelty, Koba The Dread, and many others. The essential principles, methods, motivations and objectives never change, even if the technology does.
That foreigners are dangerous, evil people with no worth as human beings. What could possibly be the outcome of that belief...
'You see enemy soldiers not only brutalizing American civilians, but outright murdering a mother in front of her children and callously tossing corpses around,'
Oh, so pretty much what the US military does in many parts of the world every day. Making this game pernicious propaganda intended to demonise a universal enemy—"foreigners = bad guys"—along with its tag team of TV and Hollywood.
And it works very effectively: You quickly end up with Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, an astonishing rate of civilian massacre by flying robots piloted by laughing good ole boys, trophy killings for sport, and all the rest of the bloody, horrible theatre perpetrated by the world's most dangerous rogue state.
What a smug, clueless jerk-off he must be. Europe can do without this type that thrives in North America.
You'd know that there *are* millions of climate refugees.
Start here or here or here ("12 out of 13 'flash' appeals in 2007 related to weather"). Here's 3/4 of a million soon to be refugees in just ONE island nation (now go add up the rest).
Pretty nice writing that snide and ignorant summary from your comfortable suburban basement, wasn't it?
Safari 4.1.3 is running fine on this OS X 10.4 Mac (Safari 1.0 ran on 10.2 or later.)
However, Firefox 4 and Opera 11 no longer support PowerPC.
Why did you install Windows, again? :D
OS X only does this for hardware architecture changes, after a long transition period while the previous architecture is emulated. For example: OS X 10.5 (introduced October 2007) ended support for the Classic runtime. The Classic runtime supported the API used in MacOS 9, 8, and earlier, and of course emulated the 68K architecture - that's around a 20 year coverage. The latest versions of OS X still include the Rosetta emulator for PowerPC applications to run, which is almost a 10 year coverage. (Ironically this is useful to run Microsoft's own products...)
(Prior to OS X, Apple deployed a high performance emulator for 68K to allow many applications of that architecture to run transparently on the PowerPC RISC line. This emulator was also present in Classic.)
So: No, Microsoft's incompetence doesn't lead to correct conclusions about how Apple manages backward compatibility. Maybe you should try a Mac: Sounds like you're in for a pleasant surprise.
The hypocrisy here is thick enough to cut with a knife. Every minute of every day US corporations (from Microsoft to Monsanto to Chevron and thousands of others) and the US military break the law in over 100 countries, heedlessly and without accountability or redress. Yet the FBI has the astonishing chutzpah to make a statement like, "Foreign firms that choose to operate in the United States are not free to flout the laws they don’t like simply because they can’t bear to be parted from their profits".
The iconic example of US corporate intransigence might be Union Carbide/Dow's all-but-deliberate poisoning of Bhopal, India, where tons of toxic, unstable nerve poison, improperly and carelessly stored in an American pesticide plant, killed 8,500 horribly in one night, and permanently injured 100,000s. No proper reparations have been made and nobody has been held to account.
In the Amazon, Chevron has committed one of the largest environmental crimes in US history - and thousands of US companies are doing the same every day.
More recently, the behaviour of Blackwater has illustrated that indiscriminate murder of foreign citizens is now just an accepted part of American corporate practice. Countless Iraqi citizens killed and injured by Blackwater (and other mercenary firm) employees have not seen justice.
Another example from this morning's timeline.
Here's another: Indonesia is just one of many countries now being flooded by a tsunami of toxic electronic waste from the United States.
Funny thing about karma...
...to make me regret closing my account in protest at the treatment of Wikileaks.
Fuck Amazon.
The 2008 Aluminium Macbook is pretty much indestructible... My 2005 Powerbook is still going strong. Macs usually have working lives of more than 5 years and can be found still in production use at 10 years old.
& J.R.R. Tolkien's oeuvre spared this final insult.
Nothing a $30 dictionary couldn't have prevented.
I'm sure Goldman Sachs and major banks are scrambling over themselves to offer him a fat six figure starting salary.
You just posted THIS on SLASHDOT???
Works for me.
Eat less, or no, meat.
Cattle ranching is the #1 cause of deforestation in the Amazon. Unless it is curtailed (ideally by a decline in demand for unsustainable meat, but military action should also be an option), there will be no Amazon in a few years.
"Guns are for self defence" is pure myth. Actually it's worse than that, it's idiocy.
If you don't want your family to live in one of the world's most violent and dangerous societies, why do you create and perpetuate it? The rest of us do just fine not shooting each other and we don't live in a permanent paranoid funk.
You can change it if you want to. Protip: Making guns more available isn't the answer.
They're an annoyance everywhere they're used.
a 27-year-old former Google engineer repeatedly took advantage of his position as a member of an elite technical group at the company to access users' accounts
Although SREs are probably a privileged subgroup and ordinary feature engineers do not have access to all data. Elementary measure, but when did Facebook ever care about your privacy?
The best way to maximise tax AVOIDANCE is to make sure the laws around tax EVASION are written in your favour. Which is what the kleptocracy does. And failing that, hide the money offshore (finally back OT).
He emigrated to Brazil?
(Oh crap, now that's the world's best kept secret, um, blown.)