Since the part is a non-exchange module, an Apple service center (try an independent, not an Apple Store) can get you a JIS keyboard to swap onto a cheaper US MacBook Pro for (their cost) under $50.
Example: the part number for a JIS keyboard on a MBP Core 2 15" is J922-7908.
While we currently operate under a two-party biased system, the marginalization of third party candidates IMHO has more to do with their ability to communicate with the populace than any governmental forces. Conversely, a docile populace fails in its obligation to demand information.
A vote is only as good as the information on which it is based; as long as the majority of media outlets are either owned by a few companies or parrot those few companies in a desperate race to keep up, the public at large will hear only what advertisers on large networks (or in large newspaper conglomerates) want them to.
In the past, a policy called the Fairness Doctrine placed restrictions on media ownership. While they may have slowed the dissemination of information and/or popular culture around the country...
...they may have served us in that they kept public outlets (broadcast airwaves, newspaper markets, etc.) public. They're OURS.
With the advent of so many fully private channels of information distribution (e.g. satellite, cable) is it time to take the public airwaves back a la Ma Bell?
I realize that this may be self-evident to the vast majority of./ readers. I invite your comment out of my own curiosity.
Yeah, this new IBM stuff looks pretty revolutionary. It does have several features that I wish were incorporated in my xServe RAIDs that we've been running for almost two years...on both Apple xServes and Dell/Linux solutions...
I hope that this doesn't come as a surprise to TOO many people.
Gratuitous link here
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Since the part is a non-exchange module, an Apple service center (try an independent, not an Apple Store) can get you a JIS keyboard to swap onto a cheaper US MacBook Pro for (their cost) under $50.
Example: the part number for a JIS keyboard on a MBP Core 2 15" is J922-7908.
OT, i know...
Touché. Anyone ready to call back the limits placed on ownership of media outlets by the Fairness Doctrine? I guess I could have sharpened my point...
While we currently operate under a two-party biased system, the marginalization of third party candidates IMHO has more to do with their ability to communicate with the populace than any governmental forces. Conversely, a docile populace fails in its obligation to demand information.
A vote is only as good as the information on which it is based; as long as the majority of media outlets are either owned by a few companies or parrot those few companies in a desperate race to keep up, the public at large will hear only what advertisers on large networks (or in large newspaper conglomerates) want them to.
In the past, a policy called the Fairness Doctrine placed restrictions on media ownership. While they may have slowed the dissemination of information and/or popular culture around the country...
...they may have served us in that they kept public outlets (broadcast airwaves, newspaper markets, etc.) public. They're OURS.
With the advent of so many fully private channels of information distribution (e.g. satellite, cable) is it time to take the public airwaves back a la Ma Bell?
I realize that this may be self-evident to the vast majority of ./ readers. I invite your comment out of my own curiosity.
Yeah, this new IBM stuff looks pretty revolutionary. It does have several features that I wish were incorporated in my xServe RAIDs that we've been running for almost two years...on both Apple xServes and Dell/Linux solutions... I hope that this doesn't come as a surprise to TOO many people. Gratuitous link here