OS X Tiger ran great on a 450mhz G4 w/ 512MB RAM. It was even usable on a 500mhz G3 iBook w/ 384MB. OS X 10.4 has all the features Vista was touting and then some.
Not to ruin your point, but Apple only has to code and test for a comparatively small set of hardware. They know what the OS will/should be running on, so it's much easier for them to optimize for that.
When I switched to Cox (get your lulz out here) they sent a tech guy out to change the homepage of each user to their website. He actually wanted me to call somebody up for their password just to do that.
Well, the thing is that it becomes a different situation when a police officer does the search, as he is an agent of the government.
And I wasn't really attempting to cite those websites as authorities on the subject, but rather as basic references as I didn't want to take the time to search for specific court cases or rulings. Those websites reference a few, though.
I also would not depend on those websites were I an instructor, but I maintain that a contract between private entities with terms contrary to the rights specified in the Fourth Amendment is not unconstitutional nor void.
Do private school students have the same rights? No. Public school officials are subject to Fourth Amendment limitations on searches because public schools are government entities and those officials are government employees. Because a private school is not a government entity, private school students have no constitutional protection against unreasonable searches by private school teachers or administrators.
There is an important difference between public and private or parochial schools because the Constitution was written to protect individuals from actions by the government. Therefore, a search can violate the Constitution only if the person conducting it is acting "on behalf" of the government, and the Supreme Court has decided that public school officials are acting on behalf of the government when they search students' belongings. Private school faculty and administrators are not usually acting on behalf of the government and thus are not subject to constitutional prohibitions. They would thus be free to conduct a search any time they wanted to without violating the Constitution.
The Court held that neither the Fourth Amendment nor Article 14 apply to a search by private school officials, and, therefore, the search of the students and their hotel room was legally permissible. The Court stressed the importance of who was conducting the search. For the constitutional protections to apply, the search had to be conducted by agents of the state or federal government. The Court found that the school officials involved in the initial search and questioning of the students were not agents of the government.
One of the main limitations in the Equal Protection Clause is that it limits only the powers of government bodies, and not the private parties on whom it confers equal protection.
Congress lacked the constitutional authority under the enforcement provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals and organizations, rather than state and local governments.
The Court stated that since the Fourteenth Amendment only restricted state action, Congress lacked power under this amendment to forbid discrimination that was not sponsored by the state.
You have a warped understanding of both the scope and the intent of the Bill of Rights.
You as a private citizen can't deny these "rights" to others either by your explicit actions either, through contract, employment, or other rationale.
Yes I can. If I grant you access to my land per the terms of some contract, you are bound to that contract. If the contract states that personal property you have on you may be searched without warrant or cause, it may be. You are not required to be on my land.
As for private schools permitting instructors to confiscate student notes, I contend that is an illegal act based upon the 1st amendment clauses of "freedom of the press" and "freedom of speech" that exist in most modern democracies today, and not just the USA.
How you can apply the First Amendment to this I have no idea, so I'll quote it for you:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The key word is "Congress". Private school != Congress. You may be thinking of the Fourth Amendment since you mention confiscation, but that does not apply here either.
With public schools the line is somewhat blurry as they receive federal and state funding. It is perhaps even more so at the K–12 level as states have compulsory education laws (though private schools are an alternative).
Some other things you got right, but it almost seems like I'm feeding a troll here.
In a lot of my high school classes we actually did copy notes. The teachers, and I use that term loosely, threw up PowerPoint presentations full of text and told us to copy it while they read it. There was little teaching involved outside of that. There was half a wing of sports coaches teaching civics, government, and history with seemingly no real qualifications to do so. Sports were their priority.
I never knew about Ernie Ball switching, but I was just thinking about buying new guitar strings and that article somewhat bumped up my opinion of them. Not that their switch to Linux will make my guitar sound better, but I think it's good to support a company that does that.
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Yeah, but the statement "Back when n came out, its benefits over WinME were incredible" is true for all n.
I'd like to point out that open source does not have to mean free.
Then the econdomy broke, the corporations left, and we're left caring for its children in a broken home.
I have a vast variety of [engines] where we [run] our [code].
Not to ruin your point, but Apple only has to code and test for a comparatively small set of hardware. They know what the OS will/should be running on, so it's much easier for them to optimize for that.
Yeah, and your mom is 100% visually indistinguishable from a pig!
Mr. Owl, how many bug will this version not fix?
Is this bad?
I sometimes hear cabinet, only slightly less frequently than case. For the parts and not just the case, I typically hear tower or just plain computer.
Semantics deals with the meanings of words, so arguing that two things are semantically different is arguing that they mean different things.
I love how in Omaha there is a coal power plant right next to a water treatment plant.
I love that "Developers×4" song they play at their concerts.
No, the parent wasn't making a reference to anything except World War II.
When I switched to Cox (get your lulz out here) they sent a tech guy out to change the homepage of each user to their website. He actually wanted me to call somebody up for their password just to do that.
I think at least some of them are.
Well, the thing is that it becomes a different situation when a police officer does the search, as he is an agent of the government.
And I wasn't really attempting to cite those websites as authorities on the subject, but rather as basic references as I didn't want to take the time to search for specific court cases or rulings. Those websites reference a few, though.
I also would not depend on those websites were I an instructor, but I maintain that a contract between private entities with terms contrary to the rights specified in the Fourth Amendment is not unconstitutional nor void.
Rape is illegal, yes. So a contract including something like that would indeed be void. Searching property, however, is not illegal.
Here is a small collection of sources that refutes your argument:
http://www.barronstad.com/res_044.htm:
http://www.courttv.com/archive/legalcafe/home/search/search_background.html
http://www.hklaw.com/id24660/PublicationId1691/ReturnId31/contentid47764/:
Related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause
Different Amendment, but still relevant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Cases:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_power_of_enforcement
You have a warped understanding of both the scope and the intent of the Bill of Rights.
Yes I can. If I grant you access to my land per the terms of some contract, you are bound to that contract. If the contract states that personal property you have on you may be searched without warrant or cause, it may be. You are not required to be on my land.
How you can apply the First Amendment to this I have no idea, so I'll quote it for you:
The key word is "Congress". Private school != Congress. You may be thinking of the Fourth Amendment since you mention confiscation, but that does not apply here either.
With public schools the line is somewhat blurry as they receive federal and state funding. It is perhaps even more so at the K–12 level as states have compulsory education laws (though private schools are an alternative).
Some other things you got right, but it almost seems like I'm feeding a troll here.
In a lot of my high school classes we actually did copy notes. The teachers, and I use that term loosely, threw up PowerPoint presentations full of text and told us to copy it while they read it. There was little teaching involved outside of that. There was half a wing of sports coaches teaching civics, government, and history with seemingly no real qualifications to do so. Sports were their priority.
You're forgetting about Clippy.
Why would you have to do that? Just put the settings in user.js in the user's profile.
You vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!
Typically in rhyming slang you only use the first word of the phrase. So the rhyming slang for Yank is just septic.
I never knew about Ernie Ball switching, but I was just thinking about buying new guitar strings and that article somewhat bumped up my opinion of them. Not that their switch to Linux will make my guitar sound better, but I think it's good to support a company that does that.
And you can only get 146 greyscale pictures out of a single cartridge!