Forgive my ignorance, are you saying that Apple does not produce and maintain documentation on something as simple as connecting something to a network? Seems like a search on Apple's website would result in more than enough information...
Indeed. The only halfway useful "documentation" about setting up a Mac for using an LDAP server for user authentication is found on 3rd party sites (that either become obsolete after a while, or go offline completely).
Is Mac maybe a home machine where Windows is more of a corporate platform? One expects to be part of a corporate network, the other not so much?
Probably this is indeed the reason why. Too bad for SOHO environments which might feel tempted to use Macs as clients for their small network server.
Apple legitimately wants to change something on their end
Maybe that's the real issue. Apple changes their stuff far too often, and in far too fundamental ways.
With Windows, I can try to figure out how to connect the machine to an LDAP server (for example), write a cheat sheet about it, and come back 3 years later on a new Windows machine, and my cheat sheet still applies.
With Apple, stuff changes in a fundamental way not only between major versions (Tiger and Leopard) but also within the various releases of Leopard. What should be a simple routine operation (adding a new Mac to our network) becomes each time a whole new reverse-engineering project, because Apple can't keep their interfaces and GUIs stable.
The act of licensing a product doesn't actually use state resources.
And neither does it use corporate resources.
If Microsoft licenses 2,000,000 $250 copies of Vista, it doesn't utilize any more state resources than if they had licensed 200,000 copies of vista, or if they had licensed 2,000,000 $100 copies instead.
If Microsoft licenses 2,000,000 $250 copies of Vista, it doesn't utilize any more corporate resources than if they had licensed 200,000 copies of vista, or if they had licensed 2,000,000 $100 copies instead.
So why exactly should Microsoft be entitled to licensing fees, and why exactly don't states force them to make available their software for free download (... except for protecting consumers against their own stupidity...)
Connect to my ISP (the software connects and then crashes before I type my password)
Run my ISP's web accelerator software (simply doesn't run)
Run Internet Exploder (starts-up then crashes five minutes later)
Allow me to select 1000 songs, right-click on "open", and play those songs sequentially in VLC Player. Instead the stupid OS tries to open all 1000 songs at the same time. I had to yank the power cord to regain control. I haven't seen that level of poor design since AmigaOS 1.2 (1987).
Won't properly emulate Atari games via StellaX (which works 100% on Windows but only 70% on Linux)
Adjusted the screen size to 640x480, and when I tried to go back to normal 1280x1024 mode, discovered the desktop properties window did not fit the screen. Normally that'd be no big deal except the "OK" button was inaccessible so my laptop is now permanently stuck in 640x480. (Or at least it was until I wiped the c: drive with a fresh XP install.)
Does anybody have any idea why this tripe is moderated Insightful rather than Inciteful? Ok, I see, Inciteful doesn't exist. But Troll does...
And that's just what I discovered during my first month of usage.
One month to discover that you can't connect to your ISP? You must be joking.
And now I will be labeled "troll" because I'm a customer who speaks the truth.
[A, the classical "I'll be modded as troll" gambit. Amazing how moderators still fall for this (... and I will get a Troll or Flamebait for criticizing moderator's judgment in such a fashion...).]
Well, first you weren't moderated as troll (because your gambit worked like a charm...), and second you weren't speaking the truth. And you weren't even smart at making your stuff up. Do you really think anybody would believe something as enormous as Linux not being able to connect to the Internet? Linux has its origin on the Internet, for chrissakes! Do you really think that if it was true that Linux couldn't connect to the Internet, that this wouldn't be known much better than that? You'd hear about it everywhere where Linux is mentioned, rather than only reading about it in trollish posts.
As for your other points:
Internet Exploder: Well Windows doesn't run Konqueror. So what?
1000 song playlist: well Amarkok handles this quite well, never had any such problem. But I do agree that the new KDE4 UI for Amarok is messy (but this will hopefully be cleaned up...)
Atari emulation: never had any problem
Ok button off screen: why the hell didn't you just move the window, so that the button was accessible?
Sure, plenty of other businesses engage in this sort of thing all the time in much more subtle ways than broadcasting what you thought was a private transaction,
Try "Sure, their competitor still engages in exactly this sort of thing". Try enrolling in LinkedIn, and book a trip using tripIt...
Users did sign up to Facebook, but did they also agree to Facebook and Amazon (for example...) sharing any data? Users signed up to LinkedIn, but they agree to LinkedIn and TripIt sharing any data?
2.no one pays to be a member of.
How is that relevant?
3.is not a financial/medical/etc company or something that contains what one may deem as sensitive data.
Try "book purchases". Or travel arrangments. While maybe not legally protected, they can be pretty embarrassing depending on what book you bought or where you went to at what specific date.
While I dont know enough about the ad system they put in place, i am willing to bet one could defeat their "beacon system" by using some fairly basic practices and principals of online use. i.e. disabling cookies, monitoring what 'active-x' apps are being run
Geeks know about this stuff. But most other users probably won't. And even geeks tend to get lazy and not purge their cookies as often, especially when they don't yet suspect that something nefarious might be going on. It's not exactly as if Facebook were sending mails to users, warning them about this upcoming great new service.
The idea that "privacy" continues to exist in any shape, way, or form in a world where an NSA text-mining system reads every email, text message, blog post, and Slashdot comment you ever write is laughable.
So what consequences would it have if some paper pusher miles away from you, whom you'll probably never meet IRL has access to the loveletters to your boyfriend? In most cases, none.
Beacon, on the other hand, has a much higher potential for real-life embarassment and mischief. Just imagine if you bought "Outing Yourself -- How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends and Coworkers", and Beacon blasts the happy news to your list of 200 friends, which include family, close (and not so close...) friends and coworkers. On the bright side, you'll no longer need to read the damn book after such a stunt...
While the NSA gathers information, and then archives it in some dark dusty basement to never be looked at again, Beacon brings the gossip right to those people who are likely to be the most interested in it.
And Beacon's sneakiness makes it so much worse: it broadcasts information that you did not enter for the purpose of sharing, and obtains it from companies of which you do not even know that they had an agreement with Facebook!
Add to this: "and if the take-down notice is baseless, the filer has to pay damages to the hosting company and their customer to make up for the inconvenience".
First off, there are domain names like cars.com that one might have surmised would be very valuable --
Back in the day, the internet was mostly a research thingy, not a marketplace. So, cars.com would only "sell" to profs and students, a market which would probably be to thin to bother.
sorry, forced to use Fracking IE 6 at work, no in-line spell check... Wish it were not the case.
Sorry, even in this economy, it's not that hard to find a new job, if you have a minimum amount of talent. And lots of employers do supply workstations with firefox.
Arabs are just stoopid. Just this morning I got in an argument with a cute Arab about proper parking of his huge oversized van. No, you don't park it half-way in a crossroads, so that it completely blocks view from one street to the other, and vice-versa.
As expected, the argument quickly degenerated into physical threats (he wanted to break the phone with which I had snapped his mis-parked van), and name calling.
Ironically enough, he (whose people are at war against Israel) asked me, a Luxembourger (one of the many countries victims of persecution in WWII) how many jews I killed 60 years ago. At least, if you insult people, try to come up with something more intelligent!
Too bad this gorgeous body didn't have a decent brain to go with it:-(
Even a non-onc like me would READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE SUMMARY to understand how this device doesn't pick up prostate cancer molecules from your breath.
Just wait until they make a ptest version of this.
If it did, you have serious problems for which I would NOT refer you to an oncologist, especially you.
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Forgive my ignorance, are you saying that Apple does not produce and maintain documentation on something as simple as connecting something to a network? Seems like a search on Apple's website would result in more than enough information...
Indeed. The only halfway useful "documentation" about setting up a Mac for using an LDAP server for user authentication is found on 3rd party sites (that either become obsolete after a while, or go offline completely).
Is Mac maybe a home machine where Windows is more of a corporate platform? One expects to be part of a corporate network, the other not so much?
Probably this is indeed the reason why. Too bad for SOHO environments which might feel tempted to use Macs as clients for their small network server.
Apple legitimately wants to change something on their end
Maybe that's the real issue. Apple changes their stuff far too often, and in far too fundamental ways.
With Windows, I can try to figure out how to connect the machine to an LDAP server (for example), write a cheat sheet about it, and come back 3 years later on a new Windows machine, and my cheat sheet still applies.
With Apple, stuff changes in a fundamental way not only between major versions (Tiger and Leopard) but also within the various releases of Leopard. What should be a simple routine operation (adding a new Mac to our network) becomes each time a whole new reverse-engineering project, because Apple can't keep their interfaces and GUIs stable.
The act of licensing a product doesn't actually use state resources.
And neither does it use corporate resources.
If Microsoft licenses 2,000,000 $250 copies of Vista, it doesn't utilize any more state resources than if they had licensed 200,000 copies of vista, or if they had licensed 2,000,000 $100 copies instead.
If Microsoft licenses 2,000,000 $250 copies of Vista, it doesn't utilize any more corporate resources than if they had licensed 200,000 copies of vista, or if they had licensed 2,000,000 $100 copies instead.
So why exactly should Microsoft be entitled to licensing fees, and why exactly don't states force them to make available their software for free download (... except for protecting consumers against their own stupidity...)
Here's a few things Ubuntu Linux won't do:
Does anybody have any idea why this tripe is moderated Insightful rather than Inciteful? Ok, I see, Inciteful doesn't exist. But Troll does...
And that's just what I discovered during my first month of usage.
One month to discover that you can't connect to your ISP? You must be joking.
And now I will be labeled "troll" because I'm a customer who speaks the truth.
[A, the classical "I'll be modded as troll" gambit. Amazing how moderators still fall for this (... and I will get a Troll or Flamebait for criticizing moderator's judgment in such a fashion...).]
Well, first you weren't moderated as troll (because your gambit worked like a charm...), and second you weren't speaking the truth. And you weren't even smart at making your stuff up. Do you really think anybody would believe something as enormous as Linux not being able to connect to the Internet? Linux has its origin on the Internet, for chrissakes! Do you really think that if it was true that Linux couldn't connect to the Internet, that this wouldn't be known much better than that? You'd hear about it everywhere where Linux is mentioned, rather than only reading about it in trollish posts.
As for your other points:
You've also forgotten: "Ooh a Mac, you must be batting for the same team as me! Wanna go out?"
This is a free country, if I want to open myself up to this, that should be my choice.
You're still open to manually put whatever juicy details of your private life onto your Facebook wall yourself.
Sure, plenty of other businesses engage in this sort of thing all the time in much more subtle ways than broadcasting what you thought was a private transaction,
Try "Sure, their competitor still engages in exactly this sort of thing". Try enrolling in LinkedIn, and book a trip using tripIt...
1.users have to sign up to use
Users did sign up to Facebook, but did they also agree to Facebook and Amazon (for example...) sharing any data? Users signed up to LinkedIn, but they agree to LinkedIn and TripIt sharing any data?
2.no one pays to be a member of.
How is that relevant?
3.is not a financial/medical/etc company or something that contains what one may deem as sensitive data.
Try "book purchases". Or travel arrangments. While maybe not legally protected, they can be pretty embarrassing depending on what book you bought or where you went to at what specific date.
While I dont know enough about the ad system they put in place, i am willing to bet one could defeat their "beacon system" by using some fairly basic practices and principals of online use. i.e. disabling cookies, monitoring what 'active-x' apps are being run
Geeks know about this stuff. But most other users probably won't. And even geeks tend to get lazy and not purge their cookies as often, especially when they don't yet suspect that something nefarious might be going on. It's not exactly as if Facebook were sending mails to users, warning them about this upcoming great new service.
The idea that "privacy" continues to exist in any shape, way, or form in a world where an NSA text-mining system reads every email, text message, blog post, and Slashdot comment you ever write is laughable.
So what consequences would it have if some paper pusher miles away from you, whom you'll probably never meet IRL has access to the loveletters to your boyfriend? In most cases, none.
Beacon, on the other hand, has a much higher potential for real-life embarassment and mischief. Just imagine if you bought "Outing Yourself -- How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends and Coworkers", and Beacon blasts the happy news to your list of 200 friends, which include family, close (and not so close...) friends and coworkers. On the bright side, you'll no longer need to read the damn book after such a stunt...
While the NSA gathers information, and then archives it in some dark dusty basement to never be looked at again, Beacon brings the gossip right to those people who are likely to be the most interested in it.
And Beacon's sneakiness makes it so much worse: it broadcasts information that you did not enter for the purpose of sharing, and obtains it from companies of which you do not even know that they had an agreement with Facebook!
yeah!
According to Wikipedia, Uranus has the coldest planetary atmosphere, at 49K.
Strange, with all those hot winds that blow out of the crevasse...
We're waiting for him to die.
Why wait? Get out your crowbars, axes, chainsaws and Samurai swords!
I'm sure you'll doubly enjoy to see his blood spray and splatter! If Martin Bryant was able do it, so can you!
We want to see Atkinson's head. On a platter. Along with his left arm and right leg!
http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/massachusetts
O my Dildo, why does this site have to be so anal?
At least the CodePlex folks didn't skimp on the astroturfing budget.
Add to this: "and if the take-down notice is baseless, the filer has to pay damages to the hosting company and their customer to make up for the inconvenience".
I'm pretty sure he isn't laughing his ass off while sitting in jail after 14 months.
But after 14 months in jail, his ass will probably have been the source of fun for countless other people...
First off, there are domain names like cars.com that one might have surmised would be very valuable --
Back in the day, the internet was mostly a research thingy, not a marketplace. So, cars.com would only "sell" to profs and students, a market which would probably be to thin to bother.
The thing was so damn hot that I was concerned for the safety of the furniture around it :-)
a, "furniture", that's what you call it :-)
woooooosh!
sorry, forced to use Fracking IE 6 at work, no in-line spell check... Wish it were not the case.
Sorry, even in this economy, it's not that hard to find a new job, if you have a minimum amount of talent. And lots of employers do supply workstations with firefox.
You filthy islamophobe !
Arabs are just stoopid. Just this morning I got in an argument with a cute Arab about proper parking of his huge oversized van. No, you don't park it half-way in a crossroads, so that it completely blocks view from one street to the other, and vice-versa.
As expected, the argument quickly degenerated into physical threats (he wanted to break the phone with which I had snapped his mis-parked van), and name calling.
Ironically enough, he (whose people are at war against Israel) asked me, a Luxembourger (one of the many countries victims of persecution in WWII) how many jews I killed 60 years ago. At least, if you insult people, try to come up with something more intelligent!
Too bad this gorgeous body didn't have a decent brain to go with it :-(
Oh and all women should apologize to men for taking that apple.
There were no women in his life. That's why the government gave him so much hate, and he eventually ate that apple.
Maybe his mate had a bad case of diarrhea?
Even a non-onc like me would READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE SUMMARY to understand how this device doesn't pick up prostate cancer molecules from your breath.
Just wait until they make a ptest version of this.
If it did, you have serious problems for which I would NOT refer you to an oncologist, especially you.
Wouldn't that be for colon cancer?
Shitcock
Aren't you confusing the receiver and the giver here?