There's a Jules Feiffer play, later a movie, Little Murders in which an FBI agent is reading one of the character's mail. This character starts sending letters to himself for the FBI agent to read, chiding him for invading other people's privacy and so on. Eventually, the FBI agent commits suicide.
What I meant was that there are no Apple-supplied package managers. Fink is a good add-on, but for some folks it's just got too much stuff in it. There's a good discussion here . While we're on that subject, there's also MacPorts.
We don't exactly have "package managers" in OS X. The BSD side of OS X is only barely "maintained" at all, and then in some truly obscure and incoherent bubble-headed Cupertino fashion. Anything you really want to actually work with, you have to maintain yourself: PHP, Apache, rsync, ffmpeg, Perl -- all the seriously useful stuff like that you put into/usr/local and set your $PATH accordingly. You _cannot_ trust Apple not to break things.
The Canadian government has become so dysfunctional that no legislation of any kind will likely be passed for the next few years. Hopefully, a Liberal government under an intellectual prime-minister will be less likely to introduce a stupid unpopular and essentially self-defeating copyright law.
Last week's Las Vegas revolved around a poker tournament, being broadcast live, and the announcers had these small, grey, Apple-branded laptops that (to my knowledge) don't exist -- they were just mock laptops with the white Apple logo on them. They never did a reverse angle so you could see the screen. Not to mention that that's a situation where neither Macs nor laptops would likely be used. I carefully watched the credits, and there was Apple listed in the support category.
This isn't even "product placement," it's "logo placement."
In the interests of fairness, I must point out that we are a happy Apple family.
No, they don't have the same parts they used to have. Radio Shack is gone in Canada. Those whole walls full of parts that you needed to get your ZX81 running again have been replaced by displays of cheap Chinese digital watches and dancing Santas.
I live in a small town, and the Radio Shack was one of the best stores here. Combined with the free-shipping online service, everything in the RS catalogue was available almost instantly.
I can't believe that "The Source" is going to last very long. Future Shop and Best Buy both have better deals, more stock, and (frequently) free shipping. Radio Shack was a unique source of obscure electronic parts; "The Source" is just a flea market.
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There's a Jules Feiffer play, later a movie, Little Murders in which an FBI agent is reading one of the character's mail. This character starts sending letters to himself for the FBI agent to read, chiding him for invading other people's privacy and so on. Eventually, the FBI agent commits suicide.
What I meant was that there are no Apple-supplied package managers. Fink is a good add-on, but for some folks it's just got too much stuff in it. There's a good discussion here . While we're on that subject, there's also MacPorts.
We don't exactly have "package managers" in OS X. The BSD side of OS X is only barely "maintained" at all, and then in some truly obscure and incoherent bubble-headed Cupertino fashion. Anything you really want to actually work with, you have to maintain yourself: PHP, Apache, rsync, ffmpeg, Perl -- all the seriously useful stuff like that you put into /usr/local and set your $PATH accordingly. You _cannot_ trust Apple not to break things.
The Canadian government has become so dysfunctional that no legislation of any kind will likely be passed for the next few years. Hopefully, a Liberal government under an intellectual prime-minister will be less likely to introduce a stupid unpopular and essentially self-defeating copyright law.
... and they (NBC) never claimed the parade was "live." That 12-hour time difference plays hell with live coverage anyway.
This isn't even "product placement," it's "logo placement."
In the interests of fairness, I must point out that we are a happy Apple family.
I live in a small town, and the Radio Shack was one of the best stores here. Combined with the free-shipping online service, everything in the RS catalogue was available almost instantly.
I can't believe that "The Source" is going to last very long. Future Shop and Best Buy both have better deals, more stock, and (frequently) free shipping. Radio Shack was a unique source of obscure electronic parts; "The Source" is just a flea market.