Furthermore there is recourse against releasing company secrets, in the form of legal action. You can, if you so choose, make an example of those who violate that extension of trust.
What determines a flame, troll, or insightful mod is twofold. Sometimes the mods are on crack--they don't like what you're saying, and mod you down. Other times, the manner of speech is provocative--it is "mean" sounding, or seems to be needlessly sensational or otherwise. Your comment fit the latter criterion.
At the same time, programming defensively would suggest taking the more conservative approach. I.E. If the result of a destructive operation is not known, abort the operation.
The least Apple could do is disallow moves between volumes--don't allow the circumstance to occur, if you can't prevent it any other way.
I was going for the funny mod, but here's a reply:
Concerning the monitors: You must have gotten a hell of a deal somewhere, as a 22" TFT monitor on NewEgg is about 250 bucks. Apple's price is about 2.5 times more expensive, not 5. Furthermore, 20" monitors with comparable pixel density to the Cinema Displays run $400+. Furthermore, the Cinema Displays integrate with ColorSync to ensure accurate color representation between devices.
The RAID card you put in the box far exceeds the capabilities of onboard solutions. (RAID 5 capable, dedicated RAID chipset (Onboard RAID uses CPU for much of the work), a 256 MB cache with 72 hour battery backup, etc).
The RAM on the Mac Pro is buffered ECC RAM, which tends to be $expensive. Not to pry, but what type of RAM did you install in your PC? I'll still give you the benefit of the doubt here, coz Apple is known to "gouge" their RAM sales.
Overall, is Apple more expensive? Of course. But, believe it or not, that's a selling point. Apple customers pay a premium for a quality product, and you can bet most customers configuring a Mac Pro know it.
But how reasonable is the estimate? Without knowing a confidence interval of a given estimate (i.e., what most think of as "error"), the statistic is wholly useless. A CI for a reasonable estimation (say, alpha >.95) could span nearly the entire set of choices, making it wholly useless as a statistic.
when we prevent small scale fires, we cause a build up of the materials that fuel fires, and we see much larger fires with lower frequency. It happens like goddamn, motherfucking clockwork.
we live in an extremely unethical society... most people are basically honest...
I read that as saying "the group lacks ethics" and "the individual posesses honesty". I.E. The property of the individual doesn't scale to the community.
To me, that makes a good deal of sense. Look at how our most visible officials (US Executive--now and then), personas (Ms. Spears & Lohan, Mr. O'Reilly), and social structures (Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adephia, Monsanto, Halliburton, Walmart, (MP|RI)AA, etc.) operate or have operated.
people have ethics but don't manage to pass them on to the younger generation
If I read it correctly, yeh. Children are growing up surrounded by an unethical society. Children learn ethics from society. Thus, our children are becoming unethical people. (Proving postulate 2 is left as an exercise to the reader.)
If you're old enough, purchase games with a credit card with a consumer protection plan. The credit card company refunds your money if the store doesn't. If you're not old enough, then ask your parent or guardian to do it and give them the money for the game.
the customer who is still paying the same ticket price gets less value by having their luggage no longer randomly come out.
I'm not sure I agree. Get this logic:
Say it takes (on average) 30 mins for the priority customers to get their luggage.
Say it costs 20 bucks for priority luggage handling.
Then, I can spend that half an hour buying $20 of overpriced terminal food, core-dump, and arrange post-flight nookie with a stewardess. And all this before leisurely sauntering over to the claim, to find that my luggage was redirected and subsequently lost somewhere over LAX.
I'd say that he does obsess to an extent. He made a conscious decision to ignore dress code and for hippie wear (granted that was years--decades?--ago). If he truly didn't care, he'd show up in what they expected.
What's worse is when you've been the anti-MS zealot, wizened up, and returned from the brink. You try your damnedest to like Microsoft, even recommending it to your clients... and subsequently hate the decision, hate Microsoft (again), and wonder why you ever offered MS a second chance. But now, you're stuck maintaining Windows-centric software, waiting for the resources to port operations to a UNIX/POSIX platform.
I try, I really do. Microsoft doesn't even make that easy enough. So, I bought a Mac.
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Furthermore there is recourse against releasing company secrets, in the form of legal action. You can, if you so choose, make an example of those who violate that extension of trust.
What determines a flame, troll, or insightful mod is twofold. Sometimes the mods are on crack--they don't like what you're saying, and mod you down. Other times, the manner of speech is provocative--it is "mean" sounding, or seems to be needlessly sensational or otherwise. Your comment fit the latter criterion.
At the same time, programming defensively would suggest taking the more conservative approach. I.E. If the result of a destructive operation is not known, abort the operation.
The least Apple could do is disallow moves between volumes--don't allow the circumstance to occur, if you can't prevent it any other way.
It was an illustration of modern-day conveniences, not a comparison.
Crap is good for meadows. It replenishes nitrogen compounds & trace elements, which attracts and proliferates a healthy variety of flora.
I was going for the funny mod, but here's a reply:
Overall, is Apple more expensive? Of course. But, believe it or not, that's a selling point. Apple customers pay a premium for a quality product, and you can bet most customers configuring a Mac Pro know it.
The menu bar & menus in Leopard do the same thing. I'm also in the camp of finding the translucency annoying. Luckily, it's easy to ignore.
Next time don't configure an XServe in place of your home box.
But how reasonable is the estimate? Without knowing a confidence interval of a given estimate (i.e., what most think of as "error"), the statistic is wholly useless. A CI for a reasonable estimation (say, alpha > .95) could span nearly the entire set of choices, making it wholly useless as a statistic.
I wish my ecology textbook read like that. ;)
If I only did... I confused the Dodecahedron with the Icosahedron. Thanks for catching the mistake :)
We don't have triangular monitors.
And while we're at it, Linux is an operating system.
*ducks*
because the Slashdot Effect will reduce their email server to a puddle of slag?
He could have meant "an order of magnitude more expensive", but lacked the vocabulary. :)
I read that as saying "the group lacks ethics" and "the individual posesses honesty". I.E. The property of the individual doesn't scale to the community.
To me, that makes a good deal of sense. Look at how our most visible officials (US Executive--now and then), personas (Ms. Spears & Lohan, Mr. O'Reilly), and social structures (Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adephia, Monsanto, Halliburton, Walmart, (MP|RI)AA, etc.) operate or have operated.
If I read it correctly, yeh. Children are growing up surrounded by an unethical society. Children learn ethics from society. Thus, our children are becoming unethical people. (Proving postulate 2 is left as an exercise to the reader.)
I was assuming that you wanted to protect yourself from shrinkwrap licenses, not that your intention was to send a message to game publishers. My bad.
If you're old enough, purchase games with a credit card with a consumer protection plan. The credit card company refunds your money if the store doesn't. If you're not old enough, then ask your parent or guardian to do it and give them the money for the game.
I'm not sure I agree. Get this logic:
Then, I can spend that half an hour buying $20 of overpriced terminal food, core-dump, and arrange post-flight nookie with a stewardess. And all this before leisurely sauntering over to the claim, to find that my luggage was redirected and subsequently lost somewhere over LAX.
I'd say that he does obsess to an extent. He made a conscious decision to ignore dress code and for hippie wear (granted that was years--decades?--ago). If he truly didn't care, he'd show up in what they expected.
The mods are especially astute today. Not only do they mod the joke (GP) insightful, but they mod troll the voice of reason that follows it.
Cheers!
I don't know what suits you've been wearing, but mine is damn comfortable. I don't find many opportunities to wear it, unfortunately.
Neoncow's post is misleading. The error does not prevent Word (at least Word 2003) from opening and displaying the file.
I'd say it'd be better to mod "Funny" than "Insightful", but whatever.
I'm not so sure. The WSJ was recently snagged by our boy Rupert Murdoch, owner of FOX news.
What's worse is when you've been the anti-MS zealot, wizened up, and returned from the brink. You try your damnedest to like Microsoft, even recommending it to your clients... and subsequently hate the decision, hate Microsoft (again), and wonder why you ever offered MS a second chance. But now, you're stuck maintaining Windows-centric software, waiting for the resources to port operations to a UNIX/POSIX platform.
I try, I really do. Microsoft doesn't even make that easy enough. So, I bought a Mac.