I actually think it's strange to hide the menu bar, but whatever floats your boat. I do, however, have the Dock set to auto-hide; I just move my mouse close to the screen edge and it slides into view.
You chose not to argue with the core of my argument, which is that contrary to your claims, the Kyoto Protocol won't harm the U.S. economy. The things that are blamed on Kyoto are happening anyways without Kyoto. Do you care to respond to this?
That's what it boils down to, right? I want to live like a wasteful pig but I don't want anyone else to.
How about research and development on cleaner more efficient tech? Then we can clean up our act *and* sell the technology to others. Oh but spurring economic activity would apparently be a *bad* thing according to you.
Do you really think China and India need the help of the Kyoto Protocol? Production is *already* shifting to those countries. And yes their emissions are uncapped, but their emissions are a fraction of the U.S.'s emissions. When they become part of the problem then we can talk, but right now Europe and the U.S. are the problem.
"...Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
respecting |ri?spekti ng | with reference or regard to establishment |i?stabli sh m?nt| a business organization, public institution, or household
translated using 21st century American English:
'Congress shall make NO law regarding or in reference to a church'
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That said, I agree with the grandparent. I've used OSX on an occasional basis, but when I need to get real work done, I use linux.I need an environment that can be configured the way I want. Choosing menu fonts and a background is what passes for "configurability" on OSX. When they start supporting multiple virtual desktops, focus follows mouse, and no toolbar (I want control of *all* pixels), wake me up and I'll take another look.
So your idea of 'real work' is configuring the UI of your desktop? (By the way, all of the features you listed are available, either as part of the default OS or with shareware)
If competition existed then I would agree with you. But this move towards 'de-regulation' (that has been going on since the Clinton years) is happening in an environment where the market is already out of whack.
The telecom companies have government sanctioned monopolies, and they defend those monopolies. In my area I have exactly one choice for broadband: Charter Cable. I've called and asked SBC nee AT&T when they plan to offer DSL in my neighborhood, answer: never (or not in the foreseeable future in their words).
When these telecom companies want to protect their government sanctioned monopolies and block access to competitors over their wires (that were built with government granted rights of way), and then decry any 'regulation' which promotes competition, it stinks of hypocrisy.
In a perfect world I could use Speakeasy (or any other broadband provider) over my cable line, or my phone line. THEN I would say sure, go ahead Speakeasy, limit my access to content outside of your network, because I'll just switch to another provider which doesn't have such restrictions. When I only have one choice, all I can do is bend over.
I will not buy a cell phone with music capabilities. Or, if not given a choice (something the cell phone networks seem to just LOVE to do), then I will disable/ignore the music features.
When are the cell phone companies going to realize that most of us just want a simple voice communications device? We don't want music, video, web, still camera, video camera, etc. etc. in our phones. All of these features are seldom used and clutter up the interface, not to mention sucking battery. We want a compact phone with as much battery life as possible and the best sound quality possible, and that's IT.
Most of what passes for 'creative' on the Web is actually just re-inventing the wheel, poorly. Taking desktop applications and putting an AJAX interface on them and running them on a web server. They're slower, take control away from the user, and have worse user interfaces and features. But hey, it's on the Web!!! Web based word processing! Web based calendars! Oooh!
For my businesses, I pay my employees the lowest salary possible, in some cases minimum wage. I myself only earn minimum wage. Yet my employees also get a much larger share of profits, up to 70% on a given project. They are directly tied to the performance of their work, as well as the performance of the market. I'm one of the lowest paid in my IT business (although I also do less work than most).
So essentially you're asking your employees to assume the risk for you, but not offering them the equity that should come with that risk. It's as if you bought stock in a company but couldn't receive any of the capital gains if the stock price increases, but hey, you might still get dividends if the company does well!
The whole point of working for a company is to let the company shoulder the market risk. If you're passing the buck down to your employees, those people would be much better off either finding another place to work or going freelance.
In short risk = reward. I don't see any reward (other than the minimum wage salary) that you provide your employees by asking them to expose themselves to the risk of market fluctuations. I think you're a bad boss.
The reason cows, bison, or any other ruminants have no effect on global warming is because ruminants eat grass. Therefore all the carbon released by their digestive process came from plants which captured the carbon from the atmosphere.
A cow or horse could emit 10 times the carbon that a car does (I'm not saying it does) and it wouldn't matter. The reason fossil fuels cause greenhouse problems is because we're taking millions upon millions of years of stored carbon and releasing it in the matter of a couple centuries.
Considering your blatant partisanship, I'm only interested in your opinion about this issue when there's a Democrat in the White House, since your blind allegiance to your 'team' prevents you from seeing the issue from the proper perspective.
How is wiretapping drug dealers stopping terrorism? How likely is it that the Federal Government will give up it's new powers in the event that terrorism subsides? Terrorism was the justification for all these new powers, after all.
I really don't know the answer to this question, but how much of Jobs' wealth is stock/stock options, and how much of it is liquid?
Either way, he's an order of magnitude poorer than Gates.
(Which is not to cast aspersions at Gates' charitable giving, I'm glad for it, just that he has more and has had it for longer, so it's easier to give)
The Theory of Evolution says nothing at all about the origins of life. The theory that life evolved from chemical reactions in non living matter is called Abiogenesis.
Do you imagine that the Linux kernel, Apache, Firefox, etc. developers all live in the same city and work in the same office? If it's possible to develop successful open source software over the internet, why not commercial software? And as far as I'm aware, the only type of software where the developers have daily contact with the end users is in vertical market business applications. I was speaking of commercial software development, which is a completely different thing.
The offshoring comparison is not valid. There are cultural and language barriers there, as well as timezone differences. Not to mention that most of the offshoring arrangements I'm familiar with involve one company paying another company to do the work, whereas a telecommuter works for the same organization.
In order for your uninsightful comment to have any kind of a point, you would have to hire an independent contracting company in Podunk, KS which only employs people who have marginal English skills and only works 3rd shift.
I live in a small town in the Midwest. I was recently laid off by a small company that isn't doing well financially. I'm educated, I have 11 years of experience in the software industry, and I would come (comparatively) cheaply for someone with my experience. I haven't found a company yet that wants a telecommuter, even for short term contracts. Given that my former employer is basically the only local place that is suitable and I don't expect them to make it to the end of the year, I foresee a return to the west coast for my wife and I.
It just makes no sense, given that software is the ideal telecommuting job, that so few companies are willing to work with that arrangement. Maybe I haven't spent enough time looking, but I'm not optimistic.
I fully expect Apple will keep OS X building and tested on PPC for a long time to come, just in case (similar to the x86 builds that they've been doing since the Rhapsody days).
Now whether they will ship PPC machines to consumers after the end of this year? I doubt it, although it would be cool. I'll still keep my software compiling and building on PPC anyways, to mirror the just in case attitude. There will still be PPC users that haven't upgraded to x86 machines after the end of this year, but even more importantly it costs practically nothing and you just never know what the future will hold.
One interesting thing about the Newton OS was its persistent storage mechanism. You had 'soups' and 'slots' which were neither files nor databases. They weren't like anything else I can think of, although it was almost like XML, but binary object oriented and globally accessible and there was no reading or writing, you simply addressed them in newtonscript.
Soups could have certain standardized slots that contained newtonscript code. This code could be executed at various pre-defined times. For instance there was a slot that would get executed if your soup was stored on a removable flash card when the card is inserted (to, say, let you sync data to the internal storage) or ejected.
If I had mod points you'd get an Insightful mod from me. You've really hit the nail on the head. I will say that I like IOKit for drivers, but yeah the rest of the kernel is a bit of a drag. I don't see them changing it though, so hopefully they'll keep improving the performance.
Well, I'm exaggerating a little. But I *am* sick of people trying to shoe-horn every possible computer application into a web page. I'd much rather see network-aware desktop applications. The user interface can be better adapted to the task and the speed is about 10x better. And with a little bit of careful encapsulation of your network layer from your content layer you can create a network-aware app that also works offline, for those times when the net isn't available.
I think Google Earth is a good example of what I mean.
Can we let the Web mature into a one-of-many ways to use the 'net, and get back to the days when you had lots of different apps that worked with the internet?
I thought it was the engineers that create tech products and the IT guys that keep the systems running (including that one system, you may have heard of it, the Internet)
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That's actually a feature of some of the iApps. See:
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http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/features/fullsc
I actually think it's strange to hide the menu bar, but whatever floats your boat. I do, however, have the Dock set to auto-hide; I just move my mouse close to the screen edge and it slides into view.
You chose not to argue with the core of my argument, which is that contrary to your claims, the Kyoto Protocol won't harm the U.S. economy. The things that are blamed on Kyoto are happening anyways without Kyoto. Do you care to respond to this?
That's what it boils down to, right? I want to live like a wasteful pig but I don't want anyone else to.
How about research and development on cleaner more efficient tech? Then we can clean up our act *and* sell the technology to others. Oh but spurring economic activity would apparently be a *bad* thing according to you.
Do you really think China and India need the help of the Kyoto Protocol? Production is *already* shifting to those countries. And yes their emissions are uncapped, but their emissions are a fraction of the U.S.'s emissions. When they become part of the problem then we can talk, but right now Europe and the U.S. are the problem.
Since the word 'pants' is an abbreviation of 'pantaloons', I'm curious how 'underwear' is it's proper meaning?
"...Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
respecting |ri?spekti ng | with reference or regard to
establishment |i?stabli sh m?nt| a business organization, public institution, or household
translated using 21st century American English:
'Congress shall make NO law regarding or in reference to a church'
That said, I agree with the grandparent. I've used OSX on an occasional basis, but when I need to get real work done, I use linux.I need an environment that can be configured the way I want. Choosing menu fonts and a background is what passes for "configurability" on OSX. When they start supporting multiple virtual desktops, focus follows mouse, and no toolbar (I want control of *all* pixels), wake me up and I'll take another look.
So your idea of 'real work' is configuring the UI of your desktop? (By the way, all of the features you listed are available, either as part of the default OS or with shareware)
If competition existed then I would agree with you. But this move towards 'de-regulation' (that has been going on since the Clinton years) is happening in an environment where the market is already out of whack.
The telecom companies have government sanctioned monopolies, and they defend those monopolies. In my area I have exactly one choice for broadband: Charter Cable. I've called and asked SBC nee AT&T when they plan to offer DSL in my neighborhood, answer: never (or not in the foreseeable future in their words).
When these telecom companies want to protect their government sanctioned monopolies and block access to competitors over their wires (that were built with government granted rights of way), and then decry any 'regulation' which promotes competition, it stinks of hypocrisy.
In a perfect world I could use Speakeasy (or any other broadband provider) over my cable line, or my phone line. THEN I would say sure, go ahead Speakeasy, limit my access to content outside of your network, because I'll just switch to another provider which doesn't have such restrictions. When I only have one choice, all I can do is bend over.
I will not buy a cell phone with music capabilities. Or, if not given a choice (something the cell phone networks seem to just LOVE to do), then I will disable/ignore the music features.
When are the cell phone companies going to realize that most of us just want a simple voice communications device? We don't want music, video, web, still camera, video camera, etc. etc. in our phones. All of these features are seldom used and clutter up the interface, not to mention sucking battery. We want a compact phone with as much battery life as possible and the best sound quality possible, and that's IT.
Most of what passes for 'creative' on the Web is actually just re-inventing the wheel, poorly. Taking desktop applications and putting an AJAX interface on them and running them on a web server. They're slower, take control away from the user, and have worse user interfaces and features. But hey, it's on the Web!!! Web based word processing! Web based calendars! Oooh!
So essentially you're asking your employees to assume the risk for you, but not offering them the equity that should come with that risk. It's as if you bought stock in a company but couldn't receive any of the capital gains if the stock price increases, but hey, you might still get dividends if the company does well!
The whole point of working for a company is to let the company shoulder the market risk. If you're passing the buck down to your employees, those people would be much better off either finding another place to work or going freelance.
In short risk = reward. I don't see any reward (other than the minimum wage salary) that you provide your employees by asking them to expose themselves to the risk of market fluctuations. I think you're a bad boss.
The reason cows, bison, or any other ruminants have no effect on global warming is because ruminants eat grass. Therefore all the carbon released by their digestive process came from plants which captured the carbon from the atmosphere.
A cow or horse could emit 10 times the carbon that a car does (I'm not saying it does) and it wouldn't matter. The reason fossil fuels cause greenhouse problems is because we're taking millions upon millions of years of stored carbon and releasing it in the matter of a couple centuries.
Considering your blatant partisanship, I'm only interested in your opinion about this issue when there's a Democrat in the White House, since your blind allegiance to your 'team' prevents you from seeing the issue from the proper perspective.
How is wiretapping drug dealers stopping terrorism? How likely is it that the Federal Government will give up it's new powers in the event that terrorism subsides? Terrorism was the justification for all these new powers, after all.
I really don't know the answer to this question, but how much of Jobs' wealth is stock/stock options, and how much of it is liquid?
Either way, he's an order of magnitude poorer than Gates.
(Which is not to cast aspersions at Gates' charitable giving, I'm glad for it, just that he has more and has had it for longer, so it's easier to give)
The Theory of Evolution says nothing at all about the origins of life. The theory that life evolved from chemical reactions in non living matter is called Abiogenesis.
Do you imagine that the Linux kernel, Apache, Firefox, etc. developers all live in the same city and work in the same office? If it's possible to develop successful open source software over the internet, why not commercial software? And as far as I'm aware, the only type of software where the developers have daily contact with the end users is in vertical market business applications. I was speaking of commercial software development, which is a completely different thing.
The offshoring comparison is not valid. There are cultural and language barriers there, as well as timezone differences. Not to mention that most of the offshoring arrangements I'm familiar with involve one company paying another company to do the work, whereas a telecommuter works for the same organization.
In order for your uninsightful comment to have any kind of a point, you would have to hire an independent contracting company in Podunk, KS which only employs people who have marginal English skills and only works 3rd shift.
I live in a small town in the Midwest. I was recently laid off by a small company that isn't doing well financially. I'm educated, I have 11 years of experience in the software industry, and I would come (comparatively) cheaply for someone with my experience. I haven't found a company yet that wants a telecommuter, even for short term contracts. Given that my former employer is basically the only local place that is suitable and I don't expect them to make it to the end of the year, I foresee a return to the west coast for my wife and I.
It just makes no sense, given that software is the ideal telecommuting job, that so few companies are willing to work with that arrangement. Maybe I haven't spent enough time looking, but I'm not optimistic.
I fully expect Apple will keep OS X building and tested on PPC for a long time to come, just in case (similar to the x86 builds that they've been doing since the Rhapsody days).
Now whether they will ship PPC machines to consumers after the end of this year? I doubt it, although it would be cool. I'll still keep my software compiling and building on PPC anyways, to mirror the just in case attitude. There will still be PPC users that haven't upgraded to x86 machines after the end of this year, but even more importantly it costs practically nothing and you just never know what the future will hold.
One interesting thing about the Newton OS was its persistent storage mechanism. You had 'soups' and 'slots' which were neither files nor databases. They weren't like anything else I can think of, although it was almost like XML, but binary object oriented and globally accessible and there was no reading or writing, you simply addressed them in newtonscript.
Soups could have certain standardized slots that contained newtonscript code. This code could be executed at various pre-defined times. For instance there was a slot that would get executed if your soup was stored on a removable flash card when the card is inserted (to, say, let you sync data to the internal storage) or ejected.
Obviously not because if that were the case then the exploit would still be in effect when Length == 0, Length == 2, etc.
If I had mod points you'd get an Insightful mod from me. You've really hit the nail on the head. I will say that I like IOKit for drivers, but yeah the rest of the kernel is a bit of a drag. I don't see them changing it though, so hopefully they'll keep improving the performance.
Well, I'm exaggerating a little. But I *am* sick of people trying to shoe-horn every possible computer application into a web page. I'd much rather see network-aware desktop applications. The user interface can be better adapted to the task and the speed is about 10x better. And with a little bit of careful encapsulation of your network layer from your content layer you can create a network-aware app that also works offline, for those times when the net isn't available.
I think Google Earth is a good example of what I mean.
Can we let the Web mature into a one-of-many ways to use the 'net, and get back to the days when you had lots of different apps that worked with the internet?
I thought it was the engineers that create tech products and the IT guys that keep the systems running (including that one system, you may have heard of it, the Internet)
Nah, it's really the bloggers that are 'elite'.
...and that's if your HMO doesn't deny the request for a specialist outright. And THAT's if you have health insurance at all, which many don't.
Unauthorized use of a computer is a criminal offense, I believe. See here:
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http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/1030_new
Sentences ranging from fines up to 20 years imprisonment.