Mistrusted with good reason indeed. Such as, say, specifically the **entire run up to war in Iraq**.
That pretty much killed all sympathy for the traditional media for me. If I hadn't been fortunate enough to be cynical AND not trust traditional media, I would have been manipulated by fear and anger by what felt like most of the rest of America - which was itself a media-created exaggeration. There were so many dissenting voices, simply ignored.
I mean, tens of thousands march on a street to protest the way in Iraq, and it's a blip on the news. A few hundred honkies gather in a public park to sit in lawnchairs with misspelled signs and hate on taxes, and it's a revolution in the making? That should tell you all you need to know about the integrity of traditional media - and why people aren't trusting it.
I'm not sure exactly what you're "calling bullshit on". As I originally stated the setup he has works perfectly fine on the Mac, but he is facing the need to upgrade. So your notion for the **current requirements** for Logic or FCP have no bearing - since we're talking about the software which works on his older box.
And by the way, he doesn't use either Logic or FCP for recording, which is what the DSP cards are for. He uses ProTools.
But let's say that his box must be from before 2006. So? Exactly how does that prove I'm "bullshitting" in some way, when i say that a software upgrade is going to force him through a hardware upgrade of not just his box, but all his DSP's?
The producer I know has both Mac and PC systems in case he needs either, due to incoming formats from musicians.
He's also facing a bit of a problem from Macs: new Mac software is requiring new Mac hardware, which in turn won't fit the perfectly-fine hardware DSP cards he spent a lot of money acquiring.
I'd recommend a hackintosh for him, but I don't know of any uniformly easy target boxes for a motherboard that might fit his older cards...
I have a 3g, and I'll be upgrading and then jailbreaking it again. So I can get back video recording and multitasking, and actual pictures for contacts in my address book (inexplicable why Apple hasn't done this yet).
Also if the 4.0 doesn't provide it for the 3g, I'll go ahead and pay for the Bluetooth keyboard stack via Cydia.
At this point, I'm just want a solid Android phone that can run a couple of the apps I use - number one being 1password, which has saved my ass countless times. I will be resisting the Jobs borging as long as possible.
I heard a few years ago that some cops fooled a suspect into confessing, by pretending a photocopier was a lie detector. They wrote "Lie" on a sheet of paper, and every time they felt he was lying they pressed the Copy button.
Unfortunately this beautiful story has turned out to be an urban legend - http://www.snopes.com/legal/colander.asp . But it is funny to realize that *actual* lie detectors can be used in the same manner - as they may work only slightly better than 50/50 .
It sounds like Reagan signed this before the next President officially took office at the Inauguration. This would have been one of the last acts of Reagan's presidency, in January 1989.
Polygraphs have also been deliberately beaten, at least in history. I'm recalling an incident where John Paul Vann, a US military officer in the 1960's, found out he was going to be polygraphed. He stayed up without sleep for several days before the test, and his readings were so messed up that they couldn't get a baseline "truth" reaction to measure deviation from.
Maybe the tech has advanced since then, or maybe not - but until we get something like sf author's H. Beam Piper's detector that actual notices the mental process of swapping out real information for created information, we're stuck with investigation and educated guesses.
Freaking A. Preview is my friend. My computer security-consultant friends have told me that Windows is far **easier** to compromise than Mac systems. Just to be clear.
I have. They have told me that Windows is. And for the record, they prefer neither and would rather run Linux.
As to why you would write viruses for Mac if you could, 5% of the computers out there is still one hell of a lot of computers. And the first person to get a virus to propagate through Mac systems would at this point have nearly the entire territory to themselves.
If it were as easy to spread a virus through Mac as it seems to be through Windows, someone absolutely would. And on a constant basis.
You asked me to show what I was talking about. I showed what I was talking about. It happened. Therefore that is not FUD.
Sure, anyone can write malware that schedules a shutdown - but it certainly seems that Microsoft is the best system for such a virus to propagate to other machines.
And, however "very very few" Windows machines were, it was and is far more than Mac or *nix machines. Ditto for all those other viruses which have followed after Chernobyl.
It also seems that botnets don't grab in Macs either.
Understand what I'm saying - Macs are by no means a perfect system or even the best system. It seems the most secure system by far is *nix of various flavors. But Macs are proven far less prone to viruses and botnets than Windows.
I don't think blaming the cost and poor service of Insurance companies on government interference, is really supported by the facts. For one thing, insurance companies remain one of the few industries that are exempted from trust laws.
More directly, insurance premiums have risen at a scale completely unrelated to their costs. Including the cost of malpractice suits, which - despite the hype - have remained relatively stable. There has not been an increase in government interference from 2000 to 2009 - why did their premiums rise?
It seems to me more like a case that they raised the premiums because they could - and their customers have no choice but to either pay or lose their insurance. Which would be fine if you're talking about an inconvenience - that's what makes market competition work, if people can choose to do without something. But when the product is something that people need to **live**, the consumer's choice is severely limited.
We have no such thing as completely unregulated market in many areas. That doesn't explain why many other *more* regulated industries keep their prices relative to inflation and costs, but the insurance companies do not.
Note the utter lack of Apple, and the utter ubiquity of Microsoft.
As for FUD, there's a lot I don't like about Apple, and Steve Jobs in particular. Job's master to wrap all Mac users into an increasingly closed ecosystem, that just creeps me the frak out. But it seems pretty hard to deny that Macs have a near immunity to viruses, botnets and the like.
I guess my response should have been more precise:
The economy WOULDN'T have improved without Obama - or at least, without a new President who would depart from Bush/conservative economic policies.
"Cycles" or no, if the economy is influenced some ways it work better than if influenced other ways.
Besides the obligatory virus concerns that I already flamed about,:) - this is Beverly Hills in the heart of the film and TV industry. So they may also want students to be able to use video editing programs such as iMovie, and especially Final Cut Pro - which is the de facto standard and which doesn't exist on windows.
Yeah I know, Avid - but that's way too much for a public school to afford. Yes of course also Adobe Premiere - but really, almost no one in the film and TV industry uses that program. At most they have it to help translate files into FCP.
You pass a law that forces insurance corps to accept everyone.
That is essentially what's going on right now, as I understand it - it's being phased in. The only difference is that the government will require you to have insurance, which mandates that people pay for it.
If Medicare sucks so bad, why aren't you on private insurance and off of Medicare entirely?
The only logical answer is, Medicare is better.
I'm sure there's a lot that can be fixed with Medicare. But if we were better off without it, I imagine you would get off it right now.
As for a national market, the problem there is insurance companies competing for all the healthy patients who **don't need** health care - because they're the cheapest for the companies - and charging so much for people who might need it that the needy can't afford it.
This is why a free market is great for things we can live without, but terrible for things we need to live. If we need something to live, it creates a potentially infinite demand.
This is absolutely and provably not true.
A majority of both economists and economic historians agree that FDR's policies shortened and got us out of the Great Depression, rather than lengthened it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
In the same article, you will see a refutation of the same study you're citing:
However, Cole and Ohanian's argument relies on hypotheticals, including an unprecedented growth rate necessary to end the Depression by 1936,[74][75]
So they postulate a different outcome that isn't backed by facts and has never occurred in economic history.
Even this is not enough - they then have to deliberately not count jobs created by the government - ***which was the main tool of FDR's New Deal**.
...and by not counting workers employed through New Deal programs. Programs that built or renovated 2,500 hospitals, 45,000 schools, 13,000 parks and playgrounds, 7,800 bridges, 700,000 miles of roads, 1,000 airfields and employed 50,000 teachers through programs that rebuilt the country's entire rural school system.
So, this conservative point should stand corrected. Until the next time.
It's funny to me how conservatives refuse to accept this, even though it was known as fact to nonpartisan analysts as far back as FDR's administration. But, since it proves wrong the whole thrust of "tax cuts == teh most awesome evar!!!!1111!!eleventy!!!" philosophy, I can understand why.
I would say that because the PC world is regularly pwned by all kinds of viruses as well as botnets, dll tomfoolery, etc. etc. Whereas these are almost completely unknown to mac users.
Now the argument can be made that this is due to there being far more PC's in the world, instead of Microsoft's crappy software. I don't buy that argument, but it can be made. But even if that's the case, it still would be a good reason to go with macs - it still means there are almost no viruses to be concerned about.
But they are going to come in and be on the same network and exchanging files and data with everyone else. Which makes security in general and viruses in particular a serious issue to be concerned about.
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Mistrusted with good reason indeed. Such as, say, specifically the **entire run up to war in Iraq**.
That pretty much killed all sympathy for the traditional media for me. If I hadn't been fortunate enough to be cynical AND not trust traditional media, I would have been manipulated by fear and anger by what felt like most of the rest of America - which was itself a media-created exaggeration. There were so many dissenting voices, simply ignored.
I mean, tens of thousands march on a street to protest the way in Iraq, and it's a blip on the news. A few hundred honkies gather in a public park to sit in lawnchairs with misspelled signs and hate on taxes, and it's a revolution in the making? That should tell you all you need to know about the integrity of traditional media - and why people aren't trusting it.
I'm not sure exactly what you're "calling bullshit on". As I originally stated the setup he has works perfectly fine on the Mac, but he is facing the need to upgrade. So your notion for the **current requirements** for Logic or FCP have no bearing - since we're talking about the software which works on his older box.
And by the way, he doesn't use either Logic or FCP for recording, which is what the DSP cards are for. He uses ProTools.
But let's say that his box must be from before 2006. So? Exactly how does that prove I'm "bullshitting" in some way, when i say that a software upgrade is going to force him through a hardware upgrade of not just his box, but all his DSP's?
The producer I know has both Mac and PC systems in case he needs either, due to incoming formats from musicians.
He's also facing a bit of a problem from Macs: new Mac software is requiring new Mac hardware, which in turn won't fit the perfectly-fine hardware DSP cards he spent a lot of money acquiring.
I'd recommend a hackintosh for him, but I don't know of any uniformly easy target boxes for a motherboard that might fit his older cards...
Really? Offtopic rating, for asking an informative on-topic comment to be modded up?
Whatever floats someone's boat....
Someone please mod up. Informative.
I'ts completely fricking irritated me, to be listening to streaming radio on one app and then have to stop it to switch briefly to another app.
:) No biggie at all.
So, I jailbroke mine and added multitasking.
I have a 3g, and I'll be upgrading and then jailbreaking it again. So I can get back video recording and multitasking, and actual pictures for contacts in my address book (inexplicable why Apple hasn't done this yet).
Also if the 4.0 doesn't provide it for the 3g, I'll go ahead and pay for the Bluetooth keyboard stack via Cydia.
At this point, I'm just want a solid Android phone that can run a couple of the apps I use - number one being 1password, which has saved my ass countless times. I will be resisting the Jobs borging as long as possible.
I heard a few years ago that some cops fooled a suspect into confessing, by pretending a photocopier was a lie detector. They wrote "Lie" on a sheet of paper, and every time they felt he was lying they pressed the Copy button.
Unfortunately this beautiful story has turned out to be an urban legend - http://www.snopes.com/legal/colander.asp . But it is funny to realize that *actual* lie detectors can be used in the same manner - as they may work only slightly better than 50/50 .
It sounds like Reagan signed this before the next President officially took office at the Inauguration. This would have been one of the last acts of Reagan's presidency, in January 1989.
Polygraphs have also been deliberately beaten, at least in history. I'm recalling an incident where John Paul Vann, a US military officer in the 1960's, found out he was going to be polygraphed. He stayed up without sleep for several days before the test, and his readings were so messed up that they couldn't get a baseline "truth" reaction to measure deviation from.
Maybe the tech has advanced since then, or maybe not - but until we get something like sf author's H. Beam Piper's detector that actual notices the mental process of swapping out real information for created information, we're stuck with investigation and educated guesses.
Freaking A. Preview is my friend. My computer security-consultant friends have told me that Windows is far **easier** to compromise than Mac systems. Just to be clear.
I have. They have told me that Windows is. And for the record, they prefer neither and would rather run Linux.
As to why you would write viruses for Mac if you could, 5% of the computers out there is still one hell of a lot of computers. And the first person to get a virus to propagate through Mac systems would at this point have nearly the entire territory to themselves.
If it were as easy to spread a virus through Mac as it seems to be through Windows, someone absolutely would. And on a constant basis.
You asked me to show what I was talking about. I showed what I was talking about. It happened. Therefore that is not FUD.
Sure, anyone can write malware that schedules a shutdown - but it certainly seems that Microsoft is the best system for such a virus to propagate to other machines.
And, however "very very few" Windows machines were, it was and is far more than Mac or *nix machines. Ditto for all those other viruses which have followed after Chernobyl.
It also seems that botnets don't grab in Macs either.
Understand what I'm saying - Macs are by no means a perfect system or even the best system. It seems the most secure system by far is *nix of various flavors. But Macs are proven far less prone to viruses and botnets than Windows.
I don't think blaming the cost and poor service of Insurance companies on government interference, is really supported by the facts. For one thing, insurance companies remain one of the few industries that are exempted from trust laws.
More directly, insurance premiums have risen at a scale completely unrelated to their costs. Including the cost of malpractice suits, which - despite the hype - have remained relatively stable. There has not been an increase in government interference from 2000 to 2009 - why did their premiums rise?
It seems to me more like a case that they raised the premiums because they could - and their customers have no choice but to either pay or lose their insurance. Which would be fine if you're talking about an inconvenience - that's what makes market competition work, if people can choose to do without something. But when the product is something that people need to **live**, the consumer's choice is severely limited.
We have no such thing as completely unregulated market in many areas. That doesn't explain why many other *more* regulated industries keep their prices relative to inflation and costs, but the insurance companies do not.
I was thinking specifically of the Chernobyl virus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus)
But there was also Jerusalem,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_(computer_virus)
Here, you may want to refresh yourself with the entire list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_notable_computer_viruses_and_worms
Note the utter lack of Apple, and the utter ubiquity of Microsoft.
As for FUD, there's a lot I don't like about Apple, and Steve Jobs in particular. Job's master to wrap all Mac users into an increasingly closed ecosystem, that just creeps me the frak out. But it seems pretty hard to deny that Macs have a near immunity to viruses, botnets and the like.
I guess my response should have been more precise: The economy WOULDN'T have improved without Obama - or at least, without a new President who would depart from Bush/conservative economic policies. "Cycles" or no, if the economy is influenced some ways it work better than if influenced other ways.
Ahem. Please delete previous entry. Holy whoops.
Besides the obligatory virus concerns that I already flamed about, :) - this is Beverly Hills in the heart of the film and TV industry. So they may also want students to be able to use video editing programs such as iMovie, and especially Final Cut Pro - which is the de facto standard and which doesn't exist on windows.
Yeah I know, Avid - but that's way too much for a public school to afford. Yes of course also Adobe Premiere - but really, almost no one in the film and TV industry uses that program. At most they have it to help translate files into FCP.
So, how many viruses have been released that caused a worldwide scheduled shutdown of Macs? Just curious.
Also wondering what the states of botnet infections are, by platform.
You pass a law that forces insurance corps to accept everyone.
That is essentially what's going on right now, as I understand it - it's being phased in. The only difference is that the government will require you to have insurance, which mandates that people pay for it.
Like the economy wouldn't have improved without Obama and it never runs in cycles.
It certainly would not have improved if Bush continued his "tax cuts and deregulation fixes everything" philosophy.
If Medicare sucks so bad, why aren't you on private insurance and off of Medicare entirely?
The only logical answer is, Medicare is better.
I'm sure there's a lot that can be fixed with Medicare. But if we were better off without it, I imagine you would get off it right now.
As for a national market, the problem there is insurance companies competing for all the healthy patients who **don't need** health care - because they're the cheapest for the companies - and charging so much for people who might need it that the needy can't afford it.
This is why a free market is great for things we can live without, but terrible for things we need to live. If we need something to live, it creates a potentially infinite demand.
So they postulate a different outcome that isn't backed by facts and has never occurred in economic history. Even this is not enough - they then have to deliberately not count jobs created by the government - ***which was the main tool of FDR's New Deal**.
So, this conservative point should stand corrected. Until the next time. It's funny to me how conservatives refuse to accept this, even though it was known as fact to nonpartisan analysts as far back as FDR's administration. But, since it proves wrong the whole thrust of "tax cuts == teh most awesome evar!!!!1111!!eleventy!!!" philosophy, I can understand why.
I would say that because the PC world is regularly pwned by all kinds of viruses as well as botnets, dll tomfoolery, etc. etc. Whereas these are almost completely unknown to mac users.
Now the argument can be made that this is due to there being far more PC's in the world, instead of Microsoft's crappy software. I don't buy that argument, but it can be made. But even if that's the case, it still would be a good reason to go with macs - it still means there are almost no viruses to be concerned about.
But they are going to come in and be on the same network and exchanging files and data with everyone else. Which makes security in general and viruses in particular a serious issue to be concerned about.