In California if you are not paid on time the penalty is a day's pay for every day they're late--including weekends and holidays. So if your check is due Friday and you don't get it until Tuesday you've just made 4 days extra salary. Cha ching! Of course to get this you have to file a complaint with labor standards/enforcement, but you will get it.
It's not okay for your boss to threaten to not pay you. Does he have a boss? Do you have a human resources department? Either one will lay the smackdown on your boss if you tell them about this. Or...have you heard of Jack's Smirking Revenge? Maybe you can get a paid vacation out of this.
FedEx delivered mine yesterday. I tried to get him to bring it back today but he refused. I've called Apple about returning my unsupported copy, but they haven't returned my calls. It could take weeks to send it back and get a real copy meanwhile if the FedEx guy had just taken the package back I'd have it today and everything would be fine.
Maybe parents could go the low tech way and just monitor their children and use the word "no" once in a while? No, god forbid they have to spend time with the little bastards.
Being the Mac, iPod, and gadget in general fan that I am it pains me to say this, but I don't see the point in this. It's cool, but that's all.
I was in college in the early 90's and recorded my lectures on a $30 tape recorder--and it did me no good. Recording lectures doesn't help everyone. I also didn't have a computer. I had a 3.5gpa though so I did something right.
FileVault encrypts your user folder. There's no good reason to encrypt virtual memory that's just going to go away when the computer is restarted. It'll keep people out of your documents, etc though--it's a good feature if you need it.
Mail.app has supported Exchange since Panther. I used it at my old job. All I ever needed from it was email, so I don't know how robust its support for Exchange was--but if it helps you I can say that it did open up a whole bunch of folders in my Mailboxes pane. I don't remember what any of them were called though--sorry. It seems like it's more than just imap though.
For once I have to use microsoft as an example of how it *should* be done. Look at service pack 2, you get additional features, tweaks, and improved security. It seems that tiger is comparable to sp2 as far as adding features to the base OS.
Of course Microsoft didn't charge for SP2--it was a bug fix! They sold you a broken OS and they're doing the right thing and trying to fix it--and they made you wait 3 years. Who would charge for that? Oh, wait--Microsoft would. I seem to remember paying a lot for Windows 98 because it fixed Windows 95. And for only $200 too!
Websebse making a big deal about blog bugs should be taken about as seriously as Symantec making a big deal about cell phone or Macintosh viruses. At best it's self-serving.
But there's something bigger that really bugs me: Websense is part of that big conglomeration known as "them" or "they". Sometimes it's hard to tell where the government stops and "they" start. The American media is another big member of "them" and blogs are a threat. So "they" have to do whatever they can to steer people away from them--make it unclear what exactly a blog is, tell people their computers will get viruses if they read blogs, censor their content--we'll hear more in the next few months I'm sure.
Those in control are just trying to draw devil horns on blogs so that they can stay in control.
If I were ETS I'd certainly be looking to expand beyond the higher education scene. Why be happy with 1 million dollars when you can make 2 million?
I'm a teacher and I've given a lot of money to ETS over the years in order for them to represent my knowledge in pass/fail form. CBEST, MSAT, CSET, RICA, CLAD. It's an expensive alphabet soup and it's proved nothing. I paid money. I took tests. I passed tests. Somebody invents more tests, I take those to keep my job.
I wouldn't be surprised if the agencies who credential teachers start requiring a formal computer literacy assessment. They already require (in CA anyway) formal instruction in using technology in the classroom. That conssits of a 10 week tutorial on how to use the basic features of Microsoft Office. It's sickening and it's pointless.
I don't mean to doubt the validity of morons.org, but has anybody verified this? Has any other source reported it? It's a very plausible story that we'd all love to believe. We're suckers for incompetent cashiers on power trips and abuses of power by the police. It's just a little too perfect and it sound a lot like that Taco Bell $2 bill story that was going around a few years ago. I'm not going to get up in arms over it until I know that it actually happened.
No no no. One of the reasons you do research papers in school is so you can learn to evaluate sources of information--basically so you can tell shit from shinola. Wikipedia would never make it into the reference page of anybody who was taking their assignment seriously. I'm sure as teachers get hip to Wikipedia they'll start explicitly telling students not to use it.
Probably yet another April Fool's joke, but it would be a good idea for them to cut the crap with the rebates and just give lower prices in the store. I don't know what the data looks like, but obviously enough people forget to send in the rebates to make it worthwhile for them to offer them. I've done it, and I'm generally pretty diligent about everything.
Enough already--with the rebates and the fake stories.
It's rare that you can buy anything without strings attached. You aren't supposed to drive your car too fast and you're not supposed to pass around your CD for all your friends to make copies of. These rules have always existed and it was up to us to follow them. If we got caught breaking them we got in trouble. What's different now is that we are not trusted to follow the rules on our own. The rules are automatically enforced for us. As a practical matter this shouldn't effect me since I was already a law abiding citizen, but on general principle it pisses me off because I wasn't part of the problem (although now thanks to the DMCA I'm probably a criminal). It stinks of prior restraint, which used to be forbidden in the US back when we followed our constitution.
This DRM issue isn't the fault of the online music stores. They have to DRM their stuff in order to be in business so in that sense it's a step in the right direction (buying music online, not DRM). The big problem is much bigger than Apple, Microsoft, or Real. The big problem is basically the way the world is run. Big corporations conrol everything, including the government. Since I doubt we'll get a constitutional amendment requiring the "seperation of corporation and state" we're stuck fighting this out guerilla style.
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Informative page, who says microsoft is 100% evil?!
That sounds more like slavery than a summer internship. They want to own you lock stock and barrel. Is it really that important that you intern for that particular company?
As as side note, I use (as do many others) a program called sidetrack, ( http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/ ) which allows you to place regions on the track pad to support up to an additional 4 buttons, and v/h scrolling on the edges of the pad. It works well- but takes a lot of getting used to (to avoid accidentally hitting the buttons) IMHO but it's better than nothing- however howabout a mod for the PB itself to have it on the HW, along with the two button mouse.
The new PowerBooks do have this feature in the hardware. No more need for Sidetrack--although Sidetrack is great if you do happen to own a PowerBook more than a month old.
True. I don't know how long those things have been around. I have been using those features for 2 years--starting with the day I stopped using Windows.
That's good marketing on their part. "Get the patches before the browser is out so that you'll be ready!" It's just backward enough that it might work. They might even be able to charge for the browser now. Microsoft can parlay crap into fortune with just this kind of thinking.
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say they'll innovate. Innovate means they will break new ground and offer something you haven't seen before. They'll offer what all the other browsers have had for 2 years and that's it. No innovation, just keeping up with the Jonses. Now maybe they'll have some innovative marketing plan or some innovative predatory practices that will allow them to rincon the browser market again. That's where Microsoft really innovates.
Yes, the tags are complete and accurate. No artwork, but that's not such a hassle.
Why would you have to "drop" $30 to find out if they have tags? You can pre-pay any amount you want and they even give you 20 cents credit when you sign up. Don't laugh--at 2 cents per MB 20 cents actually goes pretty far.
As a publically owned company Apple has to protect themselves and their shareholders. It's a messed up system, but it's the one we've got. So if they've got someone leaking their secrets the only logical thing to do is try to find out who is doing it.
The problem starts when you have a legal system that allows them to do it. The court should have told Apple to shove it.
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Wifi and bluetooth aren't built in. They're addons that cost money.
Right you are. I had a moment of confusion--I was typing that on my new PowerBook, which came with bt and airport. On other models they do cost extra.
However if you do pay extra to get airport, YDL ain't gonnna support it.
People have been installing Yellow Dog on Macs for a long time. This is nothing new.
Since it doesn't support the built in wifi or bluetooth I'm not sure why this would be such a good idea though.
In California if you are not paid on time the penalty is a day's pay for every day they're late--including weekends and holidays. So if your check is due Friday and you don't get it until Tuesday you've just made 4 days extra salary. Cha ching! Of course to get this you have to file a complaint with labor standards/enforcement, but you will get it.
It's not okay for your boss to threaten to not pay you. Does he have a boss? Do you have a human resources department? Either one will lay the smackdown on your boss if you tell them about this. Or...have you heard of Jack's Smirking Revenge? Maybe you can get a paid vacation out of this.
FedEx delivered mine yesterday. I tried to get him to bring it back today but he refused. I've called Apple about returning my unsupported copy, but they haven't returned my calls. It could take weeks to send it back and get a real copy meanwhile if the FedEx guy had just taken the package back I'd have it today and everything would be fine.
Yeah right.
Maybe parents could go the low tech way and just monitor their children and use the word "no" once in a while? No, god forbid they have to spend time with the little bastards.
Being the Mac, iPod, and gadget in general fan that I am it pains me to say this, but I don't see the point in this. It's cool, but that's all.
I was in college in the early 90's and recorded my lectures on a $30 tape recorder--and it did me no good. Recording lectures doesn't help everyone. I also didn't have a computer. I had a 3.5gpa though so I did something right.
Neat gadgets do not make you a good student.
Woo!!! Now all the best graphics apps will be under one name!
Or, to look at it another way, all of the graphics applications that anybody actually uses are under one name.
Don't they call that a monopoly?
FileVault encrypts your user folder. There's no good reason to encrypt virtual memory that's just going to go away when the computer is restarted. It'll keep people out of your documents, etc though--it's a good feature if you need it.
Mail.app has supported Exchange since Panther. I used it at my old job. All I ever needed from it was email, so I don't know how robust its support for Exchange was--but if it helps you I can say that it did open up a whole bunch of folders in my Mailboxes pane. I don't remember what any of them were called though--sorry. It seems like it's more than just imap though.
I really don't see an advantage here other then saving yourself a few seconds.
What's wrong with saving a few seconds? You only get so many seconds in your life--why waste them?
For once I have to use microsoft as an example of how it *should* be done. Look at service pack 2, you get additional features, tweaks, and improved security. It seems that tiger is comparable to sp2 as far as adding features to the base OS.
Of course Microsoft didn't charge for SP2--it was a bug fix! They sold you a broken OS and they're doing the right thing and trying to fix it--and they made you wait 3 years. Who would charge for that? Oh, wait--Microsoft would. I seem to remember paying a lot for Windows 98 because it fixed Windows 95. And for only $200 too!
Websebse making a big deal about blog bugs should be taken about as seriously as Symantec making a big deal about cell phone or Macintosh viruses. At best it's self-serving.
But there's something bigger that really bugs me: Websense is part of that big conglomeration known as "them" or "they". Sometimes it's hard to tell where the government stops and "they" start. The American media is another big member of "them" and blogs are a threat. So "they" have to do whatever they can to steer people away from them--make it unclear what exactly a blog is, tell people their computers will get viruses if they read blogs, censor their content--we'll hear more in the next few months I'm sure.
Those in control are just trying to draw devil horns on blogs so that they can stay in control.
If I were ETS I'd certainly be looking to expand beyond the higher education scene. Why be happy with 1 million dollars when you can make 2 million?
I'm a teacher and I've given a lot of money to ETS over the years in order for them to represent my knowledge in pass/fail form. CBEST, MSAT, CSET, RICA, CLAD. It's an expensive alphabet soup and it's proved nothing. I paid money. I took tests. I passed tests. Somebody invents more tests, I take those to keep my job.
I wouldn't be surprised if the agencies who credential teachers start requiring a formal computer literacy assessment. They already require (in CA anyway) formal instruction in using technology in the classroom. That conssits of a 10 week tutorial on how to use the basic features of Microsoft Office. It's sickening and it's pointless.
I don't mean to doubt the validity of morons.org, but has anybody verified this? Has any other source reported it? It's a very plausible story that we'd all love to believe. We're suckers for incompetent cashiers on power trips and abuses of power by the police. It's just a little too perfect and it sound a lot like that Taco Bell $2 bill story that was going around a few years ago. I'm not going to get up in arms over it until I know that it actually happened.
No no no. One of the reasons you do research papers in school is so you can learn to evaluate sources of information--basically so you can tell shit from shinola. Wikipedia would never make it into the reference page of anybody who was taking their assignment seriously. I'm sure as teachers get hip to Wikipedia they'll start explicitly telling students not to use it.
Probably yet another April Fool's joke, but it would be a good idea for them to cut the crap with the rebates and just give lower prices in the store. I don't know what the data looks like, but obviously enough people forget to send in the rebates to make it worthwhile for them to offer them. I've done it, and I'm generally pretty diligent about everything.
Enough already--with the rebates and the fake stories.
It's rare that you can buy anything without strings attached. You aren't supposed to drive your car too fast and you're not supposed to pass around your CD for all your friends to make copies of. These rules have always existed and it was up to us to follow them. If we got caught breaking them we got in trouble. What's different now is that we are not trusted to follow the rules on our own. The rules are automatically enforced for us. As a practical matter this shouldn't effect me since I was already a law abiding citizen, but on general principle it pisses me off because I wasn't part of the problem (although now thanks to the DMCA I'm probably a criminal). It stinks of prior restraint, which used to be forbidden in the US back when we followed our constitution.
This DRM issue isn't the fault of the online music stores. They have to DRM their stuff in order to be in business so in that sense it's a step in the right direction (buying music online, not DRM). The big problem is much bigger than Apple, Microsoft, or Real. The big problem is basically the way the world is run. Big corporations conrol everything, including the government. Since I doubt we'll get a constitutional amendment requiring the "seperation of corporation and state" we're stuck fighting this out guerilla style.
Informative page, who says microsoft is 100% evil?!
1.) I got a 404 on that page. 2.) I do.
That sounds more like slavery than a summer internship. They want to own you lock stock and barrel. Is it really that important that you intern for that particular company?
As as side note, I use (as do many others) a program called sidetrack, ( http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/ ) which allows you to place regions on the track pad to support up to an additional 4 buttons, and v/h scrolling on the edges of the pad. It works well- but takes a lot of getting used to (to avoid accidentally hitting the buttons) IMHO but it's better than nothing- however howabout a mod for the PB itself to have it on the HW, along with the two button mouse.
The new PowerBooks do have this feature in the hardware. No more need for Sidetrack--although Sidetrack is great if you do happen to own a PowerBook more than a month old.
True. I don't know how long those things have been around. I have been using those features for 2 years--starting with the day I stopped using Windows.
That's good marketing on their part. "Get the patches before the browser is out so that you'll be ready!" It's just backward enough that it might work. They might even be able to charge for the browser now. Microsoft can parlay crap into fortune with just this kind of thinking.
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say they'll innovate. Innovate means they will break new ground and offer something you haven't seen before. They'll offer what all the other browsers have had for 2 years and that's it. No innovation, just keeping up with the Jonses. Now maybe they'll have some innovative marketing plan or some innovative predatory practices that will allow them to rincon the browser market again. That's where Microsoft really innovates.
Yes, the tags are complete and accurate. No artwork, but that's not such a hassle. Why would you have to "drop" $30 to find out if they have tags? You can pre-pay any amount you want and they even give you 20 cents credit when you sign up. Don't laugh--at 2 cents per MB 20 cents actually goes pretty far.
As a publically owned company Apple has to protect themselves and their shareholders. It's a messed up system, but it's the one we've got. So if they've got someone leaking their secrets the only logical thing to do is try to find out who is doing it. The problem starts when you have a legal system that allows them to do it. The court should have told Apple to shove it.