I love Laura DiDio - like the Iraqi information minister, no matter what happens she stays on message. Novell is spending too much energy fighting the SCO lawsuit? Well gee, it only affects the future viability of their business plan. Why spend energy on that?
On second thought, maybe this means Ms. DiDio has finally realized that there is nothing to the SCO suit after all. Why spend energy on something so obviously baseless?
Naw, she's just a shill. Keep plugging away Ms. DiDio...
And that of course was one of the arguments against the Bill of Rights: that it would be taken by some to be an exhaustive list of the rights of the people. Which, as you correctly point out, has happened.
This is true - I'm a private pilot (another group targeted after 9/11) and there's an area near my local airport that we're told to avoid because of the very large "model" rockets flown there. I don't know the exact ceilings, but I do know that typical cruising altitudes (3 - 5 thousand feet AGL) are not considered enough.
I still think this is a bit of an overreaction, but the mental picture we have of a foot-tall rocket with an egg payload is not necessarily accurate.
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Granted, it says great things about Apple that the most anyone can come up with is the lack of a 2nd mouse button.
However, given that EVERYONE IN THE FREAKING UNIVERSE thinks that multiple mouse buttons are more usable, and has thought that way for, oh, the last 15 years or so, why doesn't Apple just swallow their pride and provide a mouse with a 2nd (or 3rd, this *is* UNIX after all) button? Why should someone have to spend $7 for a new mouse at Radio Shack when Apple could just include one from the get go?
Apple users are like Porsche owners. It's only when the new model comes out that they can admit the glaring flaws in the old. For years Mac users talked about how stable the OS was. Then when OSX came out everyone was saying, "Finally, it doesn't crash anymore. OS9 had real stability problems."
Admit it, the day Apple includes a 2 button mouse everyone will be talking about how the old mouse was dated and how Apple's pushed the Mac to new levels of productivity.
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I love Laura DiDio - like the Iraqi information minister, no matter what happens she stays on message. Novell is spending too much energy fighting the SCO lawsuit? Well gee, it only affects the future viability of their business plan. Why spend energy on that? On second thought, maybe this means Ms. DiDio has finally realized that there is nothing to the SCO suit after all. Why spend energy on something so obviously baseless? Naw, she's just a shill. Keep plugging away Ms. DiDio...
And that of course was one of the arguments against the Bill of Rights: that it would be taken by some to be an exhaustive list of the rights of the people. Which, as you correctly point out, has happened.
This is true - I'm a private pilot (another group targeted after 9/11) and there's an area near my local airport that we're told to avoid because of the very large "model" rockets flown there. I don't know the exact ceilings, but I do know that typical cruising altitudes (3 - 5 thousand feet AGL) are not considered enough. I still think this is a bit of an overreaction, but the mental picture we have of a foot-tall rocket with an egg payload is not necessarily accurate.
Granted, it says great things about Apple that the most anyone can come up with is the lack of a 2nd mouse button. However, given that EVERYONE IN THE FREAKING UNIVERSE thinks that multiple mouse buttons are more usable, and has thought that way for, oh, the last 15 years or so, why doesn't Apple just swallow their pride and provide a mouse with a 2nd (or 3rd, this *is* UNIX after all) button? Why should someone have to spend $7 for a new mouse at Radio Shack when Apple could just include one from the get go? Apple users are like Porsche owners. It's only when the new model comes out that they can admit the glaring flaws in the old. For years Mac users talked about how stable the OS was. Then when OSX came out everyone was saying, "Finally, it doesn't crash anymore. OS9 had real stability problems." Admit it, the day Apple includes a 2 button mouse everyone will be talking about how the old mouse was dated and how Apple's pushed the Mac to new levels of productivity.