Wow. Cause it's not like any random Yahoo could write something in the TPM article, is it... oh, wait.
Have you actually read that article, in particular that section? A lot of it is written amazingly badly - I wouldn't accept much of it as a Junior High English essay, the basic grammar and sentence structure at that horrible.
Point of anecdote, I was willing to pay sane prices for music rather than jump straight to 'piracy'.
Pay who? AllOfMP3.com claimed that it was setting aside funds for the artists, etc., but that no-one had ever claimed it from them. Haha. That really passed the sniff test. About the same as "Most bittorrent traffic is Linux ISOs, even if all those top 10 torrent tracker sites show the most downloaded stuff to be screeners of new release films and top 10 albums that we claim to hate so much!"
They gave you a defective product, recalled it, replaced it with another defective product, and you're wringing your hands about how you could have given them even more money... RDF indeed...
Or starting the laptop in Target Disk mode and using it from the desktop as an external drive? You might even be able to boot the desktop from the laptop's drive.
Did you actually just suggest using the MBP as an external hard drive for the majority of the time? The Steve must love you.
The Cinema Display requires that lovely $100 connector to do things - and then even on the Apple Store site, most user reviews are 1 star or 2, with complaints and "keep away at all cost" all over the place.
hen you are told to delete the photos, you say sternly, "No. This memory card contains photos of my daughter who was killed by a drunk driver three days ago. These are the last photos I have of her. If we must go to the police station to discuss this matter, by all means, let's go." When cops or security guards realize you are dead serious about making this a situation and understand the limits of their authority, they back the fuck down. The funny thing is, when you take that attitude from the get-go, you never have to press an issue like this with a security guard or cop because they can sense that they can't push you around.
Whilst your approach is also well-thought out and reasoned, I'm not sure advising people to lie a police officer is a wise route to take. Why not just say "I want to go to the station to discuss this"? if you -are- prepared to do so.
One of my friends, who is intersex and transgender
Intersex and transgender?
Curiosity is piqued as to how someone who is, by very definition, "of both sexes" (excluding very specific chromosomalities), can be "transgender", the belief that one's gender is opposite to that of their physical characteristics at birth.
Failing that, the very desire to identify as transgender engenders (haha) a belief that you are of a specific gender, regardless of physical characteristics - then using the nominals "sie" and "hir" are counter to that, because they are the very elucidation of the perception that you/they are "different" altogether.
My personal belief is that a lot of times, such nominatives are rather used far more to draw attention to one's self as being different than for genuine identity, and despite the constant protestations that one does not want to be seen or treated as different in any way.
"If you reasonably rely on someone's assurances" - READ the damn TOS. It SPECIFICALLY STATES that you cannot rely on guaranteed availability or ongoing continuation of service. There goes your reliable reliance, right there. So sad, too bad.
Not sure. Then again, I remember the last several times a white anglo-saxon christian tried to attack the US government by terrorism, be it by the use of anthrax, or by blowing up Federal buildings, but hey, you say profiling works, cause those damn non-whites are a higher risk.:D
If you're running the microwave and vacuum cleaner and got forbid a space heater is running in a room
When the power goes off and you're out firing up the generator, is your mind really on cooking some popcorn while giving the living room a quick run over with the vacuum?!?:P
What do we know, perhaps he's doing his absolutely best to highlight the bad sides of apple products as well, just that there isn't really any in the field(s) they are operating?
The kool-aid was strong when you drunk it, I guess - wow. "There really isn't any bad side to any Apple products across the board".
Well at first it appeared that the tag was read as "rip steve" rather than the (hopefully implied) "R.I.P Steve" and I was a little scared
Scared? Upset maybe, distressed, distraught. But scared? At what, what might happen to Apple? It's an odd day when one is scared for the sake of a multi-billion dollar corporation...
Well, then, I guess you better not install MSRT then, right? For it is not installed unless you explicitly ask for it, and it IS fairly clear that it is a "SOFTWARE REMOVAL TOOL", and that it will "remove software or files that Microsoft has determined to be malicious", and that you agree to that.
Do you worry about Symantec AV removing malware from your machine too, in case their definition differs?
Nice theory. Funny, though, there are whole swathes of articles that are OWNed by people and factions. Disputes go to ANI every day on that very issue, that is, when the people complaining know enough about the arcanities of WP's processes (people spouting three letter acronyms at you, and a wholly useless search facility, etc, don't particularly make this easy) not to avoid stepping on any one of a thousand rules that will allow the owning person/clique to block or ban. That's a much more realistic view of WP, not the idealism spouted on any one of a dozen policy pages. The very fact that entire groups of people can be labelled 'wiki-lawyers' or 'policy wonks' shows exactly the reality of how these principles are put into place.
Jimmy Wales has no problem charging $50,000+ per speaking engagement, which he seems to do pretty much fulltime, as his attempt to spin WP into a for-profit enterprise, Wikia, seem to be failing quite dismally (note, too, that he had some of his Wikipedia employees 'helpfully' move a lot of content from WP to Wikia, to give it a friendly leg up. But bear in mind, they're completely independent, despite this! Just don't look at the board member lists, or the employee lists, too closely, or you might think you're seeing double. Apparently the fact that it is illegal to use a non-profit to aid a for-profit organization is just a pesky law...).
WP also needs to help fund Jimmy's dinners with people, where he likes $600+ bottles of wine, or when he seeks reimbursement for $1,000 bills at Russian "massage parlors"...
Or help to deal with the fact that they've had all sorts of issues with that staffing - whoever heard of a secretarial temp being hired on as the COO of a multi-million a year company after a couple of months? Wikipedia has! And I know many CxOs of for-profit companies with 10 employees would enjoy making $300,000+ a year, let alone 501(c)3 non profit charities, like WP... yet have a guess what WP pays some of its corporate officers.
I'm fairly certain Visa and Mastercard mechant regulations, if not laws in many areas, prohibit the transaction fee being passed (directly) to the consumer.
There is a problem with your claims - that your qualifications mean nothing on or to Wikipedia. On the internet, anyone can be a doctor, lawyer, mathematician, scientist, tenured professor with doctoral degrees in theology and canon law. In many cases, people will actively shut down anyone claiming to be speaking from a position of expertise.
But wait, WP claims strenuously that the 'admin bit' ISN'T important, that it's a janitor being handed "the mop". That it means nothing and confers no extra power (haha). You claim otherwise. These things are mutually exclusive.
Great idea in theory. But in practice, it leads to Eastern European weightlifters being deleted because pimply-faced American 'admins' haven't heard of them, but that every single Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon card ever created has its own separate page. There's plenty wrong with the AfD process, where oftentimes results are swayed by people having an "uninvolved" (I love that word in Wikipedia-speak. It usually means "a friend of mine that I contacted off-wiki who just "happened" to show up on this page at exactly the right time, despite never having shown an interest in the subject in their three years on WP, and decides that he or she has "read the consensus" and unilaterally decides that what needs to happen is oh-so-coincidentally exactly what -I- think should happen") admin or editor turn up to close.
And those on Slashdot, all upgrade-happy, comprise precisely what percentage of the target audience for the Mac, as espoused by Apple advertising campaigns? A good what, two, maybe three per cent, if that?
And he probably homeschools, too, to prevent another form of indoctrination, and better to keep your kids away from other kids, cause you know that it's not like other kids don't get sick. Bleh. You can only take idealism so far.
http://store.apple.com/us/reviews/MB571Z/A?rs=mostUseful makes for interesting reading. The people who are able to buy this $100 dongle are pretty much highly unimpressed. Issues with framerate, with flicker, with it failing, etc.
I know, cause it's obvious that the US has pretty much the best system in place for workers, right. The highest minimum wage laws in the world, time off for maternity and paternity, paid vacation, all those kind of things.
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Have you actually read that article, in particular that section? A lot of it is written amazingly badly - I wouldn't accept much of it as a Junior High English essay, the basic grammar and sentence structure at that horrible.
Pay who? AllOfMP3.com claimed that it was setting aside funds for the artists, etc., but that no-one had ever claimed it from them. Haha. That really passed the sniff test. About the same as "Most bittorrent traffic is Linux ISOs, even if all those top 10 torrent tracker sites show the most downloaded stuff to be screeners of new release films and top 10 albums that we claim to hate so much!"
They gave you a defective product, recalled it, replaced it with another defective product, and you're wringing your hands about how you could have given them even more money... RDF indeed...
Did you actually just suggest using the MBP as an external hard drive for the majority of the time? The Steve must love you.
The Cinema Display requires that lovely $100 connector to do things - and then even on the Apple Store site, most user reviews are 1 star or 2, with complaints and "keep away at all cost" all over the place.
Only if played through a system with danceable cables of course ;)
Whilst your approach is also well-thought out and reasoned, I'm not sure advising people to lie a police officer is a wise route to take. Why not just say "I want to go to the station to discuss this"? if you -are- prepared to do so.
Intersex and transgender?
Curiosity is piqued as to how someone who is, by very definition, "of both sexes" (excluding very specific chromosomalities), can be "transgender", the belief that one's gender is opposite to that of their physical characteristics at birth.
Failing that, the very desire to identify as transgender engenders (haha) a belief that you are of a specific gender, regardless of physical characteristics - then using the nominals "sie" and "hir" are counter to that, because they are the very elucidation of the perception that you/they are "different" altogether.
My personal belief is that a lot of times, such nominatives are rather used far more to draw attention to one's self as being different than for genuine identity, and despite the constant protestations that one does not want to be seen or treated as different in any way.
"If you reasonably rely on someone's assurances" - READ the damn TOS. It SPECIFICALLY STATES that you cannot rely on guaranteed availability or ongoing continuation of service. There goes your reliable reliance, right there. So sad, too bad.
Not sure. Then again, I remember the last several times a white anglo-saxon christian tried to attack the US government by terrorism, be it by the use of anthrax, or by blowing up Federal buildings, but hey, you say profiling works, cause those damn non-whites are a higher risk. :D
Or was it having the audacity to be "irate" when AirTran 1) refused to re-book them on any flight, and 2) refused to issue a refund?
When the power goes off and you're out firing up the generator, is your mind really on cooking some popcorn while giving the living room a quick run over with the vacuum?!? :P
Scared? Upset maybe, distressed, distraught. But scared? At what, what might happen to Apple? It's an odd day when one is scared for the sake of a multi-billion dollar corporation...
Do you worry about Symantec AV removing malware from your machine too, in case their definition differs?
Nice theory. Funny, though, there are whole swathes of articles that are OWNed by people and factions. Disputes go to ANI every day on that very issue, that is, when the people complaining know enough about the arcanities of WP's processes (people spouting three letter acronyms at you, and a wholly useless search facility, etc, don't particularly make this easy) not to avoid stepping on any one of a thousand rules that will allow the owning person/clique to block or ban. That's a much more realistic view of WP, not the idealism spouted on any one of a dozen policy pages. The very fact that entire groups of people can be labelled 'wiki-lawyers' or 'policy wonks' shows exactly the reality of how these principles are put into place.
WP also needs to help fund Jimmy's dinners with people, where he likes $600+ bottles of wine, or when he seeks reimbursement for $1,000 bills at Russian "massage parlors"...
Or help to deal with the fact that they've had all sorts of issues with that staffing - whoever heard of a secretarial temp being hired on as the COO of a multi-million a year company after a couple of months? Wikipedia has! And I know many CxOs of for-profit companies with 10 employees would enjoy making $300,000+ a year, let alone 501(c)3 non profit charities, like WP... yet have a guess what WP pays some of its corporate officers.
Hilarity ensues.
I'm fairly certain Visa and Mastercard mechant regulations, if not laws in many areas, prohibit the transaction fee being passed (directly) to the consumer.
There is a problem with your claims - that your qualifications mean nothing on or to Wikipedia. On the internet, anyone can be a doctor, lawyer, mathematician, scientist, tenured professor with doctoral degrees in theology and canon law. In many cases, people will actively shut down anyone claiming to be speaking from a position of expertise.
I think it's quite laughable that you think other news media are unafraid to challenge the government.
But wait, WP claims strenuously that the 'admin bit' ISN'T important, that it's a janitor being handed "the mop". That it means nothing and confers no extra power (haha). You claim otherwise. These things are mutually exclusive.
Great idea in theory. But in practice, it leads to Eastern European weightlifters being deleted because pimply-faced American 'admins' haven't heard of them, but that every single Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon card ever created has its own separate page. There's plenty wrong with the AfD process, where oftentimes results are swayed by people having an "uninvolved" (I love that word in Wikipedia-speak. It usually means "a friend of mine that I contacted off-wiki who just "happened" to show up on this page at exactly the right time, despite never having shown an interest in the subject in their three years on WP, and decides that he or she has "read the consensus" and unilaterally decides that what needs to happen is oh-so-coincidentally exactly what -I- think should happen") admin or editor turn up to close.
And those on Slashdot, all upgrade-happy, comprise precisely what percentage of the target audience for the Mac, as espoused by Apple advertising campaigns? A good what, two, maybe three per cent, if that?
And he probably homeschools, too, to prevent another form of indoctrination, and better to keep your kids away from other kids, cause you know that it's not like other kids don't get sick. Bleh. You can only take idealism so far.
http://store.apple.com/us/reviews/MB571Z/A?rs=mostUseful makes for interesting reading. The people who are able to buy this $100 dongle are pretty much highly unimpressed. Issues with framerate, with flicker, with it failing, etc.
Hmmm, I see a flaw in the plan.