I find other airlines are a much more pleasant experience, and I can always do without the unnecessary and intrusive stopovers south of the border when flying to Canada.
Even before reading this story I was intent on avoiding United next time I fly. The Canadian airlines - like the country - are simply more polite. And of course airlines like Swiss or JAL are just outstanding in comparison.
Seems to me we got lucky, landed in an estuary. I think the bottom 50% of the pic is a puddle of liquid, with rocks in it. Top 25% looks like rocks to the horizon. Waiting for higher res images...
Hey Clueless: I've been using Macs since 1985, so it's always been hard to understand people who buy PCs. I have no hesitation in recommending the Mac Mini TODAY since now, for the first time, we have a cost-effective entry option to dangle in front of people who otherwise would have - like you, presumably - taken the "I'm ignorant, hurt me" option.
Btw, the Mini makes a great cheap fast fanless and headless server, not everyone has figured that out yet. And of course it runs Linux.
I'm libertarian in leanings but I have no problem with Apple putting this case forward. It certainly doesn't make me think any less of Apple. Let the court decide.
Jobs' personal attitude to leaks is well known, it's amazing nothing was done sooner. Nick must have a lot of chutzpah to leak big news like the iPod, the Mac Mini...
I certainly don't think it's a publicity grab by Apple. C'mon. As if Jobs doesn't already have the media dancing to his tune! This is the guy who gets Time covers synchronised to the day of his product launches.
they'd be better off improving the original image compression algorithm or coming up with a new one
Which is basically what they did. It's not such an amazing feat to improve compression rates over a general purpose compressor, when you have advance knowledge of the file format.
The gain: It compresses JPEGs better, be recognising and transcoding into something more compact. There is nothing gained for other file formats.
Sanctions were effective, I guess you don't read independent news.
As for the rest of your post, well, you're the kind of person we're fighting. You might want to look up "liberation" and "genocide" in a dictionary some time.
If the US attempts another invasion hot on the heels of their last revolting effort, the rest of the world will rise up and slap them so hard they might finally get a clue. We've had 60 years of their murderous bullshit and there is no reason to tolerate any more.
The methods are always the same, as is the mindset of those who institute it: Change the law, then use the law to threaten. It's a well entrenched routine in the West, even if it rarely makes headlines.
Charges and trial are now completely optional; you can be imprisoned FOR LIFE without them.
Oh, and torture comes free with the package: the terrible weight of the Geneva Convention, resolutions against Torture, etc, have been lifted from your friendly hotelier.
The Bush administration's decision to ignore the Geneva Convention and assert the right to hold captives indefinitely under the legally ambiguous category "illegal combatant" has left it with a nasty dilemma. What do we do with these people?
One thing we don't do is build a network of secret, extraterritorial prisons where terrorism suspects that U.S. authorities don't want to free or bring before U.S. and foreign courts can be held for life. According to the Washington Post, this proposal is among those being considered...
Indefinite, incommunicado incarceration without the right of trial is a horrible affront to American ideals. It certainly makes a mockery of what we purport to stand for in the eyes of the world. And as details about the treatment of Iraqi prisoners and the detainees at Guantanamo leak out, there have to be grave doubts that a system operated in secret would be humanely run.... As for secret prisons where inmates are held for life without trial, the old Soviet Union bequeathed us a name for such a system -- gulags.
...suffer similar problems. It seems they are only suited for the ephemeral and personal; for any serious topic it's just a kiddie version of Usenet - although many people optimistically attempt to create "serious" categories for discussion.
Doesn't this nullify your remark? Having delete but not write is approximately the same allowance. And if they have write but not delete, how can you stop them truncating the file? Besides, in UNIX disallowing write access on the directory can prevent delete while allowing (existing) file writes, while allowing write access on the directory still allows deleting read-only files. Are we sure the VMS model is worth the extra bit?
Surely someone is going to set the PC world on its ear with a massive performance leap that doesn't require 1000 watt power supplies
Somebody already has, but everyone seems to be completely ignoring it: Orion Multisystems has a 12 CPU system ($10K) that pulls less than 220W peak; and a 96 CPU system that fits under your desk and is less than $100,000. That's revolutionary.
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I find other airlines are a much more pleasant experience, and I can always do without the unnecessary and intrusive stopovers south of the border when flying to Canada. Even before reading this story I was intent on avoiding United next time I fly. The Canadian airlines - like the country - are simply more polite. And of course airlines like Swiss or JAL are just outstanding in comparison.
Imagine a Beo-- oh wait...
Seems to me we got lucky, landed in an estuary. I think the bottom 50% of the pic is a puddle of liquid, with rocks in it. Top 25% looks like rocks to the horizon. Waiting for higher res images...
Btw, the Mini makes a great cheap fast fanless and headless server, not everyone has figured that out yet. And of course it runs Linux.
No Windows tax. And it runs Linux beautifully.
Jobs' personal attitude to leaks is well known, it's amazing nothing was done sooner. Nick must have a lot of chutzpah to leak big news like the iPod, the Mac Mini...
I certainly don't think it's a publicity grab by Apple. C'mon. As if Jobs doesn't already have the media dancing to his tune! This is the guy who gets Time covers synchronised to the day of his product launches.
Support possibilities are so much more tenuous when the system is closed. With an open system, in many senses support is perpetually available.
That's why it was obvious the rumours were true... Hasn't everyone figured out that Jobs is not a stupid man?
They aren't called "Mutable Realms" for nothing...
Bash away! They're still in business!
So market share comparisons are dubious at best.
Sanctions were effective, I guess you don't read independent news. As for the rest of your post, well, you're the kind of person we're fighting. You might want to look up "liberation" and "genocide" in a dictionary some time.
If the US attempts another invasion hot on the heels of their last revolting effort, the rest of the world will rise up and slap them so hard they might finally get a clue. We've had 60 years of their murderous bullshit and there is no reason to tolerate any more.
The methods are always the same, as is the mindset of those who institute it: Change the law, then use the law to threaten. It's a well entrenched routine in the West, even if it rarely makes headlines.
Charges and trial are now completely optional; you can be imprisoned FOR LIFE without them. Oh, and torture comes free with the package: the terrible weight of the Geneva Convention, resolutions against Torture, etc, have been lifted from your friendly hotelier.
...suffer similar problems. It seems they are only suited for the ephemeral and personal; for any serious topic it's just a kiddie version of Usenet - although many people optimistically attempt to create "serious" categories for discussion.
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