This may not even be precedential. Unless it gets published, it's only persuasive authority, not precedential authority. And even if the case gets published, it's only binding on that Federal District Court. The rest of the District and Appellate courts are free to do as they please.
Well, Apple may be doing *some* things well, but they certainly don't confront their numerous hardware problems head-on. From the long-denied powerbooks with faulty ram slots, to the macbook pro's with doomed-to-fail graphics chips (which were at least acknowledged as an issue by other vendors included in the nVidia settlement), to yellowing keyboard plastic on the early macbooks, to problems with the airport chips, to the new-found performance degradation while using sound on the mac pro's, to the yellowing displays on the newest iMacs, their hardware QC is absolutely appauling. AND they don't acknowledge these issues when they arise until enough people make a stink. This is made worse when one considers the fact that Apple only releases product refreshes what, once a year? If other hardware vendors had this problem, they'd be out of business. And Apple gets to hand pick this hardware, and custom-tailor their OS to the architecture. They don't have to deal with swirling device driver compatibility issues with their limited and carefully chosen hardware configurations.
"Pentium M's are good because they are primarily based on P3 technology, not P4..."
Pentium M's are based off of Pentium Pro Technology, arguably the best chip Intel has ever produced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M
I've read so many stories on the (unjustified) outcry over GTA:SA. What I haven't read are any stories asking the readers to Write their public officials in an effort to stop this political witch-hunt.
I think the real question is whether you should be held accountable for your grammatical errors:
"Parents MUST be held to their childrens actions"
should be "children's actions"
"Its as simple as that, parents..."
should be "it's as simple as that." (notice the run on sentence)
"there is a reason why and it's in the home."
"its" should read "it's"
"We have a overwelming lack of good teachers and a overwelming number"
both "a's" should be changed to "an's"
"Pay better money, make it easier but at the same time make sure you get rid of the bad ones..."
a comma is needed after "easier".
"Its a joke, shows absolutely nothing but the person is a good test taker, and truthful give a false readout of if the students are doing well or not. I know great testakers who are total morons, and I know people who did horrable on the SATs yet could mentaly do the calculations for perfect satalite trajectories."
Where to start on this one: "Its" needs to be changed to "It's". What does "and truthful give a false readout..." mean?
Oh, and speaking of some total morons, how "horrable" did you do on your SAT's, and can you "mentaly" calculate "satalite" trajectories?
"Im sorry the fact"
I use AIM for Im, perhaps you meant "I'm" ?
"a unqualified college grad based soley on a peice of paper are directly responsible and should be made to blame. College is ment to further your enducation, not complete it."
Speaking of unqualified, how about changing "a unqualified" to "an unqualified", "soley" to "solely", and by the way, did you ever get that "peice of paper" ? I can totally see how college was "ment to further your enducaction", but it certainly did not "complete it".
"But at the moment there is just to many wasted humans who need to sadly be forced to stop being asshats thanks to their parents that schools just cant cope unless you have a special program for it."
And the fun continues, ladies and gentlemen. Allow me to re-write this for those of us who aren't "wasted humans":
"But at the moment, there are just too many wasted humans who need, sadly, to be forced to stop being asshats, thanks to their parents. Schools just can't cope unless you have a special program for it (whatever it is, perhaps being an asshat?).
"You want people to be smart start actually put money into the schools instead of saying it"
Agreed, because you certainly can't say it.
I guess I should "start actually put money into schools," instead of running my mouth, though.
And finally, I'd just like to give a big shout out to my
Actually, upon re-reading your post, I rescind my previous post. I believe your argument to be correct. So then, from a philosophical perspective, what do you believe to be the reason behind the better-developed Mac, unix, etc. programs? A more seasoned developer base? Just curious of your opinion from the philosophical side.
-Kerry
While it may be true that Windows does have the worst software community, that is 'without innovation', and full of ubiquity, it does have the largest software community, which means that I can find more polished programs that are more likely to work for its operating system than I can for any other operating system.
Other OS's may have higher quality software per programmer, or more innovative programmers, but the sheer number of applications says that there is something there from an economic standpoint if from nothing else. And the typical addage goes that *nix apps continue to lack the spit and polish of Windows apps, and I must say that it is dreadfully true.
Try selling any kind of large scale real-time management system to a telecomms provider
Funny, then why does Verizon, the world's largest telecom provider use a management system written in VB.net (and yes, they bought it from another company)?
Don't get me wrong, I don't like VB.net, which by many is not considered a language, but not everything will be written in c++, either. High level languages have their place - rapid application development, reusability and maintainability. By the same token, so does c++, which is the de facto language for every OS with clout.
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This may not even be precedential. Unless it gets published, it's only persuasive authority, not precedential authority. And even if the case gets published, it's only binding on that Federal District Court. The rest of the District and Appellate courts are free to do as they please.
Out of curiosity, what hardware are you using for this?
Well, Apple may be doing *some* things well, but they certainly don't confront their numerous hardware problems head-on. From the long-denied powerbooks with faulty ram slots, to the macbook pro's with doomed-to-fail graphics chips (which were at least acknowledged as an issue by other vendors included in the nVidia settlement), to yellowing keyboard plastic on the early macbooks, to problems with the airport chips, to the new-found performance degradation while using sound on the mac pro's, to the yellowing displays on the newest iMacs, their hardware QC is absolutely appauling. AND they don't acknowledge these issues when they arise until enough people make a stink. This is made worse when one considers the fact that Apple only releases product refreshes what, once a year? If other hardware vendors had this problem, they'd be out of business. And Apple gets to hand pick this hardware, and custom-tailor their OS to the architecture. They don't have to deal with swirling device driver compatibility issues with their limited and carefully chosen hardware configurations.
Violating an NDA is a breach of contract, not a tort. Torts provide remedies for civil wrongs not arising out of contract.
"Pentium M's are good because they are primarily based on P3 technology, not P4..." Pentium M's are based off of Pentium Pro Technology, arguably the best chip Intel has ever produced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M
I've read so many stories on the (unjustified) outcry over GTA:SA. What I haven't read are any stories asking the readers to Write their public officials in an effort to stop this political witch-hunt.
I've worked on Windows systems on corporate networks that have been infected in less than 1 minute after installing a fresh copy of windows.
Actually, upon re-reading your post, I rescind my previous post. I believe your argument to be correct. So then, from a philosophical perspective, what do you believe to be the reason behind the better-developed Mac, unix, etc. programs? A more seasoned developer base? Just curious of your opinion from the philosophical side. -Kerry
No offense, but way to go with the ad hominem approach.
While it may be true that Windows does have the worst software community, that is 'without innovation', and full of ubiquity, it does have the largest software community, which means that I can find more polished programs that are more likely to work for its operating system than I can for any other operating system. Other OS's may have higher quality software per programmer, or more innovative programmers, but the sheer number of applications says that there is something there from an economic standpoint if from nothing else. And the typical addage goes that *nix apps continue to lack the spit and polish of Windows apps, and I must say that it is dreadfully true.