being able to find non-pop music doesn't require a detective searching through masses of pop music. go to a virgin record store and go anymore but the pop sections. it's pretty damn straight forward. so straight forward in fact, I don't understand who you can be fooled unless your total exposure to music is MTV, VH1, and clear channel radio stations.
I doubt your a big guy into cars at all though. my neighbor who is a huge car fan(rebuilds old cars and shows them) can tell almost any car in the last god knows how long without trouble(wrecked, bare bones, or not). if you really feel every vehicle for sale in the US looks adn feels the same, then you are probably like me with wine. I'll only get it when absolutely required. but that doesn't mean there isn't a massive variety out there. to same a camry is similar to a jetta or a 3 series is just..... odd. the feel of each is incredibly different.
do you even know how WGA works? I have legal and not legal copies of xp just to try it out. WGA does no such thing and your complete ignorance of the system is just blatant.
WGA will not turn off a legal copy of xp even if it is past EOL. get your facts straight.
except your windows xp at eol won't start turning off every 10 minutes with a battery warning light flashing. and that product lasted a hell of a lot longer...
if you honestly believe you have a limited number of choices in styles of cars and music, you're just ignorant. there are hundreds of very different models of cars, trucks, vans, minivans, and SUV's, etc out there.
maybe you are just blinded by the fact that they only advertise those cars that earn the most margin? then you are being fooled by the advertising and applying that limited perspective to the market.
even worse is if you think the music industry is all pop. I listen to music all the time and I've never listened to pop voluntarily even once in the last 8 years.
so because you think every other phone, even those where the user gets opera mini, can at best be equivalent, they all suck? of course, your answer to IM is to go to a website and use a remote client, wow.... there are hacks for everything. apple doesn't generally force hacks to get around lacking features.
hat is your hack for voice dialing? when my mom learned about it, she became addicted. she no longer had to look away from the road, just hold the phone close to her mouth and say a name. as I see more and more people actively using this feature, I'd say it's a pretty big hole. yeah, it may be dangerous to drive while talking on a phone, but it's been the nature of being a doctor since they came out with pagers.
of course, your belief that long lines are someone telling of long term success or comparable quality is just stupid. PS3 had massive lines, and after Christmas, it's the only system I can find more than enough of to buy(to the point my local store gives 15% discounts). of course, if I want a wii, I had to search about 8 stores till I found one with 2 in stock(3 weeks ago), and to buy those you had to buy 2 games with it. lines weren't nearly as long for the wii, but I tell you, it sure is the fan favorite right now.
your view is the problem with a great deal of science education today. just because someone calls something a theory(a nebulous word with many different meanings) doesn't make it a scientific theory. ID can go right along side existentialism and tons of other philosophy but not science.
why?
simple, there isn't any testable hypotheses put forward in ID. Every theory requires postulates. Classic quantum mechanics postulates the wave equation and goes from there to make predictions about what a microscopic object would behave like(and how those behaviors could be detected). You can derive the wave equation(I think) from some complex least action formula but then taht is the postulate. ID offers postulates, but not a single test.
A system that offers postulates but no test for validity or predictive powers is not a scientific theory. It fits in with a logic, philosophy, or religion. While both religion and science offer theories, that doesn't not mean both offer scientific theories.
partially managed. it is "allowed" to have a small trading range each day. it's peg is to an undisclosed basket of currencies of which, statistics shows the dollar being a vast majority of the weighting. The chinese govt does not admit to currency manipulations beyond keeping the trading range firm but as the currency never uses any of it's allowed trading range tied with the continued increases in US govt debt holdings by the chinese govt, it's pretty much artificially pegged.
but, before someone says something about this. no one is sure where it's fair value actually lies any more. 10 years ago, it hsould have strengthened significantly to the dollar and that should have stalled the rapid increase in teh trade imbalance, but there are other factors now that limit this effect according to most analyses.
I think you've severely confused the difference between the revolution P2P brought to the music industry with the iPod. The iPod was and still is just another MP3 player. yes, it is the most popular, but to credit it with changing how record execs did business is ignorant. the massive amount of demand evinced by P2P forced them to find a way to capitalize on it.
to believe the fanboi hype that apple changed the music business with the iPod is just funny. if anything, they did it with iTMS. though that wasn't a revolution in how record execs thought, just the first successful implementation of a long visited idea from the perspectives of the big 4.
but there is a straight forward(not simple) way of looking at the situation of taxation of the wealthy vs the poor. The question is simply who benefits more from an ordered society. it is invariably the wealthy that demand the status quo be maintained in terms of laws, social structure, etc.
Why are they the ones that want it maintained? obvious, they became rich under such a social construct(look at the RIAA which never actually worried about copyright laws until society moved on). Now why should they be taxed more?
In any system, those that vociferously call for change are the ones being left out(in some way). If you allow the free market to go to its bitter end, you get a massive distribution of wealth towards a few people and the building of an aristocracy. This isn't morally wrong or bad and I'm not arguing that. but those left on the bottom have an unfortunate habit of trying to drive for major social changes. So all wealth redistribution is really meant to maintain the status quo.
Or another question, how much would a person living on Jupiter Island, Florida pay to not have to see homeless people and drug addicts sleeping on the streets in their neighborhood?
the problem with responses like yours(defending the other side) is that you defend an original poster who claims that because his bishop supported him, he was supported by the church, completely ignoring the fact that he was told to not advocate it by a much , much, much higher authority(the pope, several levels above his local bishop).
What should have been said by you is that while the political organization of hte church has stood in the way of tons of scientific research, Christians are not equivalent to the organization, each is an individual and several are very receptive to most, if not all, science. But to portray a bishop's view as equivalent and offsetting to the pope completely ignores the historical facts of that era.
I'm not trying to say you are ignorant of any of these points, but simply when an apologist tries to use these examples, they are committing a more egregious error(in my opinion) and at least as bad of one.
I'd bet dollars to dimes its your wireless network setup that is the problem. I set mine up, turned on my mac and it was connected. turned on my roommate's laptop, immediately connected.
um.... be careful. I was in the same book back in august, Ihave had 3 major hardware failures on the same mac,and for 3 months it sat on a desk not being used. quality with macs I've found is the exact same as every other company out there, spotty wtih horror stories(which I am living) and the 8 year old still runs just fine model.
btw, it was a hard drive failure, mother board failure, and ram failure. all I need now is the processor and screen to die and I will have a new computer....
please tell me what software came with my mac that would cost 600 dollars to replicate in windows world? you're being just as closed minded as someone who says "Macs cost more than windows" is when they don't specify, "for my minimum requirements".
then obviously you are happy with the predetermined options apple forces on you. apples are a shit load more expensive to do X, Y, Z tasks a lot of the time, and just more expensive by 100 or 200 bucks(which can be a lot to people) the rest of the time.
The problem with people who support macs and try to say they cost the same is they actually believe every laptop owner wants a built in camera, mic, and the 3 or 4 other "options" that can make a dell or HP cost the same amount. does it take that much of a stretch to realize a vast pool of users don't give a damn about having that functionality in a computer and then find the cheapest mac that does what they need to be a ton more expensive? While mac fans may say this is unfair, its the only meaningful comparison for someone who actually cares about buying a computer.
I'd say there is a huge difference. the TOS of something you can read and are asked to before you pay for a service.
again, its worse you think this company is arbitrarily controling what people write. just because the NYtimes rejects a story doesn't mean you have become limited as a writer. It simply means you have a single place where you can publish your work saying they do not feel confortable with it.
maybe live journal doesn't want certain difficult topics on its site. I don't agree that its the right decision from my moral view point, but I don't think its correct for me to feel or attempt to require another group to feel comfortable publishing something I do.
you don't sound like the average person. I have an interest in having a linux PC. but all 4 times I've tried to install it on my computer but only once was it successful(because a buddy of mine editted a ton of files on it to get ti working cleanly with my non-standard display and get me on the internet.
if they have a medium powered laptop there, I'm a buyer. well, unfortunately not now. I picked up an apple for that but damn, if this was around I'd ahve thrown this fucking apple out the door. comparison in quality out right and value is completely unfathomable. its not hard to beat a windows for a laptop because its so damn heavy of an OS for such minimalistic needs. apple isn't much better but I know from experience linux is perfect because you can turn off every bit of pretty and its quick as hell for a long time. hell, I've used redora on a pentium 3 just 2 years ago and it was more than enough for a laptop for travel . put a modern processor in it and it would work for years without worry.
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in other words, the author is an idiot when it comes to piracy outside of the 80's right?
when, in the last 5 years, have you not had access to high quality pirated versions? Outside of movies, the pirated versions are perfect replicas of the paid for product. and most of the times for movies, the pirated versions are perfect DVD rips.
now, the argument had real meaning 20 years ago but with the advent of the internet and now prolific broadband, it's moot. it can only become meaningful again if a real difference between a perfect copy and the original comes to light. Denying security updates for certain products would be a good example. Norton has a good system for this, I don't know of another one that works well.
his spam comment is probably the most true he ever made. 3 - 4 years ago, I had to delete hundreds of spam emails a week. wtih the advances in filtering technology, now I'm lucky to ever need to delete more than 10 a month, and that is on 3 separate email accounts compared to 1. I'd say the problem of spam has been replaced by a more benign problem: family forwarding on stupid messages about Bill gates giving away thousands of dollars for forwarding an email....
has anyone had their spam actually increase over the last year or 2? I'd be interested to find out how that happened.
Now, if someone thought he meant magically people would stop sending spam, then they are just stupid. the problem of spam was it filling up your inbox because there weren't good ways to filter it out. that has been solved to a major extent now.
I think that even you are being too kind. originally, when it was put forward, monetizing your work took a lot time. writing, advertising, production, and distribution took a far greater amount of time.
On the other hand, today, we can monetize these things in a world wide distribution channel in under 1 year(or at least begin to do it). without a doubt, in under 10 years, every single protected work had ample chance to be monetized in some way or another.
I think the progress of technology requires a person(or at least someone familiar with the purpose of copyright) to conclude shorter, not longer, copyrights are in order.
Now, certain materials can milk money for longer than 10 years. that is a definite fact. but that isn't a reason to extend copyrights at all. It simply means that certain objects are worth a great deal.
The simple comparison is with patents. Does the fact that claritin continues to sell incredibly well mean it should have remained patented until no one needed it(or had developed a resistance to it's mechanism)? no, that wouldn't force the company to move on. If an item can be monetized for 10 continuous years, then great for the company/author/creator. that money gives an incentive to keep creating or to retire if you can. but either way, it gives an author time to receive ample compensation to reward creativity, which is the original purpose of copyright.
Microsoft has won in their 2 major roles every single year for the last god knows how long(~16 years). The yankees, on the other hand, have won about 1/4 of the time. there is a big difference between those two numbers. they have also been known to go long periods of time without a championship or playoff berth(late 70's to late 90's builds quite the fan base).
anyways, I see lots of MS fans on slashdot, and that's like a gay guy in a southern bar. I'm sure there are more.
Japanese corps and other investors dont get a negative return on their USD debt investments. they get an amazing return. factor in the 5 - 15% decline in the yen vs. the dollar and they are getting a 20% return on their USD debt investments.
granted, its just as great for them elsewhere. but it certainly isnt negative (they naturally get long dollar/yen fx when investing in USD). Along with the rally is USD debt in the last 10 months, they are doing even better depending on the part of the curve they invested in.
nope, you're right. its why I have a mac sitting right next to me. the 1 button mouse(when macs are now set up to be used with a 2 button or 3 button mouse) is very annoying.
the thing is , you don't have to be pc centric to not be used to a track pad. most windows users I know(actually, every other one)uses a track pad. worse, every mac desktop I've use in the last 5 years is a desktop with people who replace the mac mouse with a 2 button mouse. the reason I find it idiotic is most mac users do this now. it means there is a real demand for a 2+ button mouse. mac realizes this because you can do a lot on a mac via contextual menus now. so why not just put the button on the laptop?
in the end, its just the damn setup is annoying. but it's not something that is a philosophical difference. I want the button there because it requires 1 hand to work and doesn't have the danger of accidental input(which has always been a problem for me on any track pad set up with multiple click methods).
now I will give them credit, apple came up with a lot of itneresting ways to work around such a difference for people who use their desktops. you can just leave two fingers on the track pad and click, click with 2 fingers, click while holding control.....
but this is like being asked to write some bubble sort code and turning in 2000 lines of code a month later.
no configuration necessary. shift+delete, enter permanent deletes. the closest I've found in mac defaults is command + delete, command + shift + delete but I've already said that isn't great because it doesn't just get rid of one file.
so yes, try and read. you can do it on a windows machine, there is no equivalent out of the box on a mac. just like mac security, you can set up a windows box to be just as secure but that doesn't mean I sit here and say windows is a secure system. every step a user must take to make windows secure is a built in vulnerability.
great, then give me a macbook with two buttons that do the same thing and let me change it from there. I don't have track pad clicking turned on. want to know why? same damn palm problem. at least with buttons there is resistance. with the damn track pad, there is done and I can accidentally do a ton of things(scroll, right click, left click).
no, macs have absolutely no comeback for that. mac users like some weird work around. I use my mac and like it, but its not without its foolish decisions in design.
the lack of a right mouse button is still ingrained in apple thinking. you would even go as far to say you could accidentally hit the right click with your palm but have no problems with doing the same thing on the track pad. I'm surprised you can be so short sighted when you've had similar problems your solution can cause.
btw, I know my mac doesn't take trackpad input while typing, but that doesn't mean it doesn't quickly revert when I pause or when I am first setting my hands down without looking.
I guess you missed the point completely, but its ok, most mac fans do.
the point is, there is no keyboard shortcut by default to permanently delete a single item.
alot of the times I want to clear memory immediately so that in as few strokes as possible I can begin a new install of a piece of software, download something, etc. if a movie or 1 large file is eating up space, I'd like a built in keyboard shortcut that can permanently remove it to free up space. apple doesn't offer one. its even worse UI guidelines to simply say, "if you want it, do it yourself".
I have changed those settings. it doesn't make it a usable or unusable system by default, just one that carries a ton of misnomers. windows has lots as well, but hey, that is how it is. but as deleting files goes, windows has a lot more built in functionality that does it a lot quicker and cleaner.
I guess you've never used your trash can as a limited term deposit (as a just in case) and a permanent delete for files you know you don't want. worse, you don't seem to realize sometimes people only want to delete one file at a time permanently while leaving other stuff in the recycle bin.
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being able to find non-pop music doesn't require a detective searching through masses of pop music. go to a virgin record store and go anymore but the pop sections. it's pretty damn straight forward. so straight forward in fact, I don't understand who you can be fooled unless your total exposure to music is MTV, VH1, and clear channel radio stations.
I doubt your a big guy into cars at all though. my neighbor who is a huge car fan(rebuilds old cars and shows them) can tell almost any car in the last god knows how long without trouble(wrecked, bare bones, or not). if you really feel every vehicle for sale in the US looks adn feels the same, then you are probably like me with wine. I'll only get it when absolutely required. but that doesn't mean there isn't a massive variety out there. to same a camry is similar to a jetta or a 3 series is just..... odd. the feel of each is incredibly different.
do you even know how WGA works? I have legal and not legal copies of xp just to try it out. WGA does no such thing and your complete ignorance of the system is just blatant.
WGA will not turn off a legal copy of xp even if it is past EOL. get your facts straight.
except your windows xp at eol won't start turning off every 10 minutes with a battery warning light flashing. and that product lasted a hell of a lot longer...
if you honestly believe you have a limited number of choices in styles of cars and music, you're just ignorant. there are hundreds of very different models of cars, trucks, vans, minivans, and SUV's, etc out there.
maybe you are just blinded by the fact that they only advertise those cars that earn the most margin? then you are being fooled by the advertising and applying that limited perspective to the market.
even worse is if you think the music industry is all pop. I listen to music all the time and I've never listened to pop voluntarily even once in the last 8 years.
so because you think every other phone, even those where the user gets opera mini, can at best be equivalent, they all suck? of course, your answer to IM is to go to a website and use a remote client, wow.... there are hacks for everything. apple doesn't generally force hacks to get around lacking features.
hat is your hack for voice dialing? when my mom learned about it, she became addicted. she no longer had to look away from the road, just hold the phone close to her mouth and say a name. as I see more and more people actively using this feature, I'd say it's a pretty big hole. yeah, it may be dangerous to drive while talking on a phone, but it's been the nature of being a doctor since they came out with pagers.
of course, your belief that long lines are someone telling of long term success or comparable quality is just stupid. PS3 had massive lines, and after Christmas, it's the only system I can find more than enough of to buy(to the point my local store gives 15% discounts). of course, if I want a wii, I had to search about 8 stores till I found one with 2 in stock(3 weeks ago), and to buy those you had to buy 2 games with it. lines weren't nearly as long for the wii, but I tell you, it sure is the fan favorite right now.
your view is the problem with a great deal of science education today. just because someone calls something a theory(a nebulous word with many different meanings) doesn't make it a scientific theory. ID can go right along side existentialism and tons of other philosophy but not science.
why?
simple, there isn't any testable hypotheses put forward in ID. Every theory requires postulates. Classic quantum mechanics postulates the wave equation and goes from there to make predictions about what a microscopic object would behave like(and how those behaviors could be detected). You can derive the wave equation(I think) from some complex least action formula but then taht is the postulate. ID offers postulates, but not a single test.
A system that offers postulates but no test for validity or predictive powers is not a scientific theory. It fits in with a logic, philosophy, or religion. While both religion and science offer theories, that doesn't not mean both offer scientific theories.
partially managed. it is "allowed" to have a small trading range each day. it's peg is to an undisclosed basket of currencies of which, statistics shows the dollar being a vast majority of the weighting. The chinese govt does not admit to currency manipulations beyond keeping the trading range firm but as the currency never uses any of it's allowed trading range tied with the continued increases in US govt debt holdings by the chinese govt, it's pretty much artificially pegged.
but, before someone says something about this. no one is sure where it's fair value actually lies any more. 10 years ago, it hsould have strengthened significantly to the dollar and that should have stalled the rapid increase in teh trade imbalance, but there are other factors now that limit this effect according to most analyses.
I think you've severely confused the difference between the revolution P2P brought to the music industry with the iPod. The iPod was and still is just another MP3 player. yes, it is the most popular, but to credit it with changing how record execs did business is ignorant. the massive amount of demand evinced by P2P forced them to find a way to capitalize on it.
to believe the fanboi hype that apple changed the music business with the iPod is just funny. if anything, they did it with iTMS. though that wasn't a revolution in how record execs thought, just the first successful implementation of a long visited idea from the perspectives of the big 4.
but there is a straight forward(not simple) way of looking at the situation of taxation of the wealthy vs the poor. The question is simply who benefits more from an ordered society. it is invariably the wealthy that demand the status quo be maintained in terms of laws, social structure, etc.
Why are they the ones that want it maintained? obvious, they became rich under such a social construct(look at the RIAA which never actually worried about copyright laws until society moved on). Now why should they be taxed more?
In any system, those that vociferously call for change are the ones being left out(in some way). If you allow the free market to go to its bitter end, you get a massive distribution of wealth towards a few people and the building of an aristocracy. This isn't morally wrong or bad and I'm not arguing that. but those left on the bottom have an unfortunate habit of trying to drive for major social changes. So all wealth redistribution is really meant to maintain the status quo.
Or another question, how much would a person living on Jupiter Island, Florida pay to not have to see homeless people and drug addicts sleeping on the streets in their neighborhood?
the problem with responses like yours(defending the other side) is that you defend an original poster who claims that because his bishop supported him, he was supported by the church, completely ignoring the fact that he was told to not advocate it by a much , much, much higher authority(the pope, several levels above his local bishop).
What should have been said by you is that while the political organization of hte church has stood in the way of tons of scientific research, Christians are not equivalent to the organization, each is an individual and several are very receptive to most, if not all, science. But to portray a bishop's view as equivalent and offsetting to the pope completely ignores the historical facts of that era.
I'm not trying to say you are ignorant of any of these points, but simply when an apologist tries to use these examples, they are committing a more egregious error(in my opinion) and at least as bad of one.
I'd bet dollars to dimes its your wireless network setup that is the problem. I set mine up, turned on my mac and it was connected. turned on my roommate's laptop, immediately connected.
um.... be careful. I was in the same book back in august, Ihave had 3 major hardware failures on the same mac,and for 3 months it sat on a desk not being used. quality with macs I've found is the exact same as every other company out there, spotty wtih horror stories(which I am living) and the 8 year old still runs just fine model.
btw, it was a hard drive failure, mother board failure, and ram failure. all I need now is the processor and screen to die and I will have a new computer....
please tell me what software came with my mac that would cost 600 dollars to replicate in windows world? you're being just as closed minded as someone who says "Macs cost more than windows" is when they don't specify, "for my minimum requirements".
then obviously you are happy with the predetermined options apple forces on you. apples are a shit load more expensive to do X, Y, Z tasks a lot of the time, and just more expensive by 100 or 200 bucks(which can be a lot to people) the rest of the time.
The problem with people who support macs and try to say they cost the same is they actually believe every laptop owner wants a built in camera, mic, and the 3 or 4 other "options" that can make a dell or HP cost the same amount. does it take that much of a stretch to realize a vast pool of users don't give a damn about having that functionality in a computer and then find the cheapest mac that does what they need to be a ton more expensive? While mac fans may say this is unfair, its the only meaningful comparison for someone who actually cares about buying a computer.
I'd say there is a huge difference. the TOS of something you can read and are asked to before you pay for a service.
again, its worse you think this company is arbitrarily controling what people write. just because the NYtimes rejects a story doesn't mean you have become limited as a writer. It simply means you have a single place where you can publish your work saying they do not feel confortable with it.
maybe live journal doesn't want certain difficult topics on its site. I don't agree that its the right decision from my moral view point, but I don't think its correct for me to feel or attempt to require another group to feel comfortable publishing something I do.
you don't sound like the average person. I have an interest in having a linux PC. but all 4 times I've tried to install it on my computer but only once was it successful(because a buddy of mine editted a ton of files on it to get ti working cleanly with my non-standard display and get me on the internet.
if they have a medium powered laptop there, I'm a buyer. well, unfortunately not now. I picked up an apple for that but damn, if this was around I'd ahve thrown this fucking apple out the door. comparison in quality out right and value is completely unfathomable. its not hard to beat a windows for a laptop because its so damn heavy of an OS for such minimalistic needs. apple isn't much better but I know from experience linux is perfect because you can turn off every bit of pretty and its quick as hell for a long time. hell, I've used redora on a pentium 3 just 2 years ago and it was more than enough for a laptop for travel . put a modern processor in it and it would work for years without worry.
in other words, the author is an idiot when it comes to piracy outside of the 80's right?
when, in the last 5 years, have you not had access to high quality pirated versions? Outside of movies, the pirated versions are perfect replicas of the paid for product. and most of the times for movies, the pirated versions are perfect DVD rips.
now, the argument had real meaning 20 years ago but with the advent of the internet and now prolific broadband, it's moot. it can only become meaningful again if a real difference between a perfect copy and the original comes to light. Denying security updates for certain products would be a good example. Norton has a good system for this, I don't know of another one that works well.
his spam comment is probably the most true he ever made. 3 - 4 years ago, I had to delete hundreds of spam emails a week. wtih the advances in filtering technology, now I'm lucky to ever need to delete more than 10 a month, and that is on 3 separate email accounts compared to 1. I'd say the problem of spam has been replaced by a more benign problem: family forwarding on stupid messages about Bill gates giving away thousands of dollars for forwarding an email....
has anyone had their spam actually increase over the last year or 2? I'd be interested to find out how that happened.
Now, if someone thought he meant magically people would stop sending spam, then they are just stupid. the problem of spam was it filling up your inbox because there weren't good ways to filter it out. that has been solved to a major extent now.
I think that even you are being too kind. originally, when it was put forward, monetizing your work took a lot time. writing, advertising, production, and distribution took a far greater amount of time.
On the other hand, today, we can monetize these things in a world wide distribution channel in under 1 year(or at least begin to do it). without a doubt, in under 10 years, every single protected work had ample chance to be monetized in some way or another.
I think the progress of technology requires a person(or at least someone familiar with the purpose of copyright) to conclude shorter, not longer, copyrights are in order.
Now, certain materials can milk money for longer than 10 years. that is a definite fact. but that isn't a reason to extend copyrights at all. It simply means that certain objects are worth a great deal.
The simple comparison is with patents. Does the fact that claritin continues to sell incredibly well mean it should have remained patented until no one needed it(or had developed a resistance to it's mechanism)? no, that wouldn't force the company to move on. If an item can be monetized for 10 continuous years, then great for the company/author/creator. that money gives an incentive to keep creating or to retire if you can. but either way, it gives an author time to receive ample compensation to reward creativity, which is the original purpose of copyright.
don't watch too much baseball, do ya?
Microsoft has won in their 2 major roles every single year for the last god knows how long(~16 years). The yankees, on the other hand, have won about 1/4 of the time. there is a big difference between those two numbers. they have also been known to go long periods of time without a championship or playoff berth(late 70's to late 90's builds quite the fan base).
anyways, I see lots of MS fans on slashdot, and that's like a gay guy in a southern bar. I'm sure there are more.
as I work in the industry..
Japanese corps and other investors dont get a negative return on their USD debt investments. they get an amazing return. factor in the 5 - 15% decline in the yen vs. the dollar and they are getting a 20% return on their USD debt investments.
granted, its just as great for them elsewhere. but it certainly isnt negative (they naturally get long dollar/yen fx when investing in USD). Along with the rally is USD debt in the last 10 months, they are doing even better depending on the part of the curve they invested in.
nope, you're right. its why I have a mac sitting right next to me. the 1 button mouse(when macs are now set up to be used with a 2 button or 3 button mouse) is very annoying.
the thing is , you don't have to be pc centric to not be used to a track pad. most windows users I know(actually, every other one)uses a track pad. worse, every mac desktop I've use in the last 5 years is a desktop with people who replace the mac mouse with a 2 button mouse. the reason I find it idiotic is most mac users do this now. it means there is a real demand for a 2+ button mouse. mac realizes this because you can do a lot on a mac via contextual menus now. so why not just put the button on the laptop?
in the end, its just the damn setup is annoying. but it's not something that is a philosophical difference. I want the button there because it requires 1 hand to work and doesn't have the danger of accidental input(which has always been a problem for me on any track pad set up with multiple click methods).
now I will give them credit, apple came up with a lot of itneresting ways to work around such a difference for people who use their desktops. you can just leave two fingers on the track pad and click, click with 2 fingers, click while holding control.....
but this is like being asked to write some bubble sort code and turning in 2000 lines of code a month later.
no configuration necessary. shift+delete, enter permanent deletes. the closest I've found in mac defaults is command + delete, command + shift + delete but I've already said that isn't great because it doesn't just get rid of one file.
so yes, try and read. you can do it on a windows machine, there is no equivalent out of the box on a mac. just like mac security, you can set up a windows box to be just as secure but that doesn't mean I sit here and say windows is a secure system. every step a user must take to make windows secure is a built in vulnerability.
great, then give me a macbook with two buttons that do the same thing and let me change it from there. I don't have track pad clicking turned on. want to know why? same damn palm problem. at least with buttons there is resistance. with the damn track pad, there is done and I can accidentally do a ton of things(scroll, right click, left click).
no, macs have absolutely no comeback for that. mac users like some weird work around. I use my mac and like it, but its not without its foolish decisions in design.
the lack of a right mouse button is still ingrained in apple thinking. you would even go as far to say you could accidentally hit the right click with your palm but have no problems with doing the same thing on the track pad. I'm surprised you can be so short sighted when you've had similar problems your solution can cause.
btw, I know my mac doesn't take trackpad input while typing, but that doesn't mean it doesn't quickly revert when I pause or when I am first setting my hands down without looking.
I guess you missed the point completely, but its ok, most mac fans do.
the point is, there is no keyboard shortcut by default to permanently delete a single item.
alot of the times I want to clear memory immediately so that in as few strokes as possible I can begin a new install of a piece of software, download something, etc. if a movie or 1 large file is eating up space, I'd like a built in keyboard shortcut that can permanently remove it to free up space. apple doesn't offer one. its even worse UI guidelines to simply say, "if you want it, do it yourself".
I have changed those settings. it doesn't make it a usable or unusable system by default, just one that carries a ton of misnomers. windows has lots as well, but hey, that is how it is. but as deleting files goes, windows has a lot more built in functionality that does it a lot quicker and cleaner.
I guess you've never used your trash can as a limited term deposit (as a just in case) and a permanent delete for files you know you don't want. worse, you don't seem to realize sometimes people only want to delete one file at a time permanently while leaving other stuff in the recycle bin.