They have finally settled down on some things, however, like launchd. It was kind of funny having/etc/rc "you shouldn't use this because it will be gone eventually" and SystemStarter startup items (which most people used) "these are also deprecated" and mach_init items "use these but they won't be around either."
Price gouging? Isn't that a fancy term for, "I'm upset that stuff is expensive?" Seriously, at least with gas stations you are limited in your options of where you can buy from. The processor market is competitive and not localized. If you think their prices are "fishy" (whatever that means), then don't buy from them. In fact there is a nearly perfect substitute good made by AMD.
Proper rules for languages don't have much to do with the actual rules of a language in the first place and only have a limited influence on language change. There are rules so that we can understand each other, but you learned them by listening to your parents and your peers, not your teachers. "I ain't go no cash" isn't proper, but it is just as valid English as "I have no cash." On the other hand, we all know that "Cash I have no" isn't English, even if it isn't obvious why not.
Also, American English sounds more like Elizabethan English than does modern British English:)
Latin only seems more rational because it's dead and its most famous writings had extremely high standards of style and consistency. In reality, languages have rational syntax in the sense that people can understand them, but none have the sort of rational syntax that a computer is good at understanding.
People can still get your data after you zero your drive: they just won't because it costs too much and chances are you're not important enough anyway.
In addition to being able to address much more RAM, x86-64 chips also have more general purpose registers than their 32-bit brethren. This would probably account for performance gains more than anything else in most applications.
One of the best-kept secrets in the video gaming industry is that video games use "binary code." I'm sure every parent will be shocked to learn that this "binary code" is the exact same medium by which electronic pornography is stored. Even a seemingly innocent game such as "Super Mario Bros. 3" contains pornography with the constituent bits and bytes incidentally being placed in another order. In fact it can be demonstrated that merely by rearranging these bits and bytes, that any video game can be found to contain pornography. I must therefore sincerely reccomend that this licentious and decidedly un-American industry be placed under the most scrutinous regulations lest they should continue to corrupt our youth.
You may not realize this, but eugenics actually was practiced in the U.S. Fortunately Hitler gave it a bad enough name that people came to their sense.
Make no bones about it: NO company can afford to do things on principal.
Plenty of companies can afford to do things on principal: it's only the rich ones that do afford to do things on the interest. Seriously though, a lot of companies would probably make more in the long run if they acted on principle, but shareholders all seem to want money NOW as though they are just waiting to flee to the Bahamas or something.
Linguistics has nothing to do with prescriptive grammar, except perhaps studying what influence it has on language. Something like "don't split infinitives" is not a rule in linguistics. Something like "size descriptors come before color descriptors in English" is a rule, because it's how people actually speak. Incidentally, most people are not even aware of these rules in their native language, despite obviously having mastery over them.
If there were no rules, I could write a post using random letters for random sounds in a random order, or just using a bunch of non-letters. That wouldn't convey anything. Saying "I'm writing on slashdot" is more effective than writing "(*&$@(&^$)(#*$&"
For one thing, there's the brushed metal Finder that magically becomes a normal window sans sidebar--when you click the button to hide the toolbar. Or there's Mail, which while a great improvement over Panther, uses a UI out of left field that no other application does. There's also the disparity between the "Find" window (which is pretty useless anyway) and the Spotlight window. Tiger has a lot of awesome features, but there are too many unnecessary wtf's that don't seem to have any plausible explanation.
Like, just cuz ppl srsly use English in non-formal ways doesn't mean that there ain't no standards for something like news. There's a difference between believing in prescriptive grammar, and believing in using the right tool for the right job.
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They have finally settled down on some things, however, like launchd. It was kind of funny having /etc/rc "you shouldn't use this because it will be gone eventually" and SystemStarter startup items (which most people used) "these are also deprecated" and mach_init items "use these but they won't be around either."
Price gouging? Isn't that a fancy term for, "I'm upset that stuff is expensive?" Seriously, at least with gas stations you are limited in your options of where you can buy from. The processor market is competitive and not localized. If you think their prices are "fishy" (whatever that means), then don't buy from them. In fact there is a nearly perfect substitute good made by AMD.
Also, American English sounds more like Elizabethan English than does modern British English :)
Spot on? English grammar is not worth checking? No human langauge has simple grammar, by the way.
Latin only seems more rational because it's dead and its most famous writings had extremely high standards of style and consistency. In reality, languages have rational syntax in the sense that people can understand them, but none have the sort of rational syntax that a computer is good at understanding.
People can still get your data after you zero your drive: they just won't because it costs too much and chances are you're not important enough anyway.
But it is in fact possible to identify music without listening to it.
Oh a sacrasm dectector; that's real useful!
In addition to being able to address much more RAM, x86-64 chips also have more general purpose registers than their 32-bit brethren. This would probably account for performance gains more than anything else in most applications.
Wouldn't you rather just read an actual Tom Clancy novel?
One of the best-kept secrets in the video gaming industry is that video games use "binary code." I'm sure every parent will be shocked to learn that this "binary code" is the exact same medium by which electronic pornography is stored. Even a seemingly innocent game such as "Super Mario Bros. 3" contains pornography with the constituent bits and bytes incidentally being placed in another order. In fact it can be demonstrated that merely by rearranging these bits and bytes, that any video game can be found to contain pornography. I must therefore sincerely reccomend that this licentious and decidedly un-American industry be placed under the most scrutinous regulations lest they should continue to corrupt our youth.
I believe you misspelled "death."
You may not realize this, but eugenics actually was practiced in the U.S. Fortunately Hitler gave it a bad enough name that people came to their sense.
You must have missed the memo--the results are in on this one. It may be months away, but I hope you have a happy Christosoft.
It doesn't run x86 OS X.
Plenty of companies can afford to do things on principal: it's only the rich ones that do afford to do things on the interest. Seriously though, a lot of companies would probably make more in the long run if they acted on principle, but shareholders all seem to want money NOW as though they are just waiting to flee to the Bahamas or something.
You can hide the dock with cmd-opt-d.
Hopefully your key isn't shaped much like a Bic pen.
If there were no rules, I could write a post using random letters for random sounds in a random order, or just using a bunch of non-letters. That wouldn't convey anything. Saying "I'm writing on slashdot" is more effective than writing "(*&$@(&^$)(#*$&"
For one thing, there's the brushed metal Finder that magically becomes a normal window sans sidebar--when you click the button to hide the toolbar. Or there's Mail, which while a great improvement over Panther, uses a UI out of left field that no other application does. There's also the disparity between the "Find" window (which is pretty useless anyway) and the Spotlight window. Tiger has a lot of awesome features, but there are too many unnecessary wtf's that don't seem to have any plausible explanation.
OS X has always run on x86 and PPC--it is no more "forked" than NetBSD.
Hard disk space is cheap. RAM is less cheap, but having twice as much code and then only loading half of it into RAM doesn't increase bloat at all.
No, the point is "moo." You know, like a cow's opinion: it doesn't matter.
Like, just cuz ppl srsly use English in non-formal ways doesn't mean that there ain't no standards for something like news. There's a difference between believing in prescriptive grammar, and believing in using the right tool for the right job.
Actually I knew a bunch of kid who didn't take drugs but lied and said they did on the surveys because they thought it sounded cooler.