Since my 17" Sandy Bridge MBP seems to go FOREVER on battery, I don't think the need for a removable battery is as common as you think. I can do an 8 hour workday or flight with no problem.
Amen! I wish more people realized this. The $99/yr is a good thing as it provides some control on who is running not-ready-for-primetime software on the their devices. iOs is NOT closed if you have a Mac, $99/yr, and enough tech savvy to operate the IDE.
Estate taxes are immoral. They punish family businesses and farms. Confiscating property may make you feel better and provide the government more money to redistribute but it does not help the disadvantaged.
No, for the most part the "Rich" got that way and stay that way by providing goods and services that people want. Are there scum that profit from crime, dishonesty, and abuse? Sure there are and always have been but punishing the "Rich" will just result in lowering the amount of "value" in the world. Less "value" means a lower standard of living for all.
You would be right if the set of schools and their quality was static. But demand always leads to increased supply. If the money can move then the people will chase it by creating more schools, expanding capacity at good ones, and improving quality at poor ones.
The transportation issue is actual a counter argument to your assertion as there is and will be a bias toward a convenient location. Location is just one of the many facts that would go into each families calculation of which school is better for them.
Mobility of the money, teachers, and students will lead to a rising tide that will improve education for all. Especially those you fear would be left behind.
What the heck is a a "proper visual layout designer" if Interface Builder doesn't qualify? It's by far the most powerful gui builder I've seen on any platform.
You must not spend much time at "StarButs". It's rare to walk into one anywhere in the world and not find a MacBook. The one I'm sitting in now in Washington DC has 5 in sight.
There is no overseer. There is no entity that has the power to correct things on a global scale. Not even "the world" can do it. His actions did nothing to change the corruption you believe is endemic. If opposing such corruption was his intent then he failed.
There is a long list of actions he could take and people he could go to before dumping documents on the internet. There are many effective actions that don't require the public disclosure.
The US military does not train people to obey orders above all. They train people to obey lawful orders, to oppose unlawful orders, and how to know when an order is unlawful. They also train you on how to oppose an unlawful order. None of this has anything to with Manning. He is accused violating a lawful order. If he considered it unlawful then he has several actions available to him. What he did is not among that list.
No, you have a moral obligation to refuse illegal orders. But that is not what manning did. He knowingly disclosed a random load of classified information.
Absolutely Not. You MUST take action to oppose injustice and immorality. However, there are many ways to do it that do not involve dumping a random load of classified information on the internet. Taking a stand does not require you to do that.
It does not matter what the content of the leak was or what supposedly beneficial effect it had. Breaking faith with your country and failing to follow orders cannot go unpunished.
It all depends on your definition of significant. I think the growth were seeing now is significant and the analysts are all raising there mac sales predictions after last weeks MacBook pro release.
"According to IDC's estimates of average selling prices, Apple is also now the dollar market share leader in the U.S. home market with 29.4% of all the dollars spent on computers in the period. However, this figure is open to debate based on IDC estimating a higher average transaction price than Apple's own results. Regardless of which revenue estimate is correct, it's clear that Apple is gaining a lot traction in every market except education where PCs outpaced Macs by 11.4% to 5.1%. Apple still has plenty of room to grow however, with only 4.36% of the global computer market."
Really? "Analysis by market research firm IDC shows that Mac sales growth in the last fiscal quarter was nearly seven times that of the overall PC market with Apple outgrowing overall PCs for 19 consecutive quarters, or nearly five years running."
"Under what conditions does accelerated inequity appeal to the majority of a democratic population?" When the alternative is theft by the government at the point of a gun. In this case the medicine is much worse than the illness. Try reading Bastiet and Solzhenitsyn to see where forced redistribution of wealth leads.
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Since my 17" Sandy Bridge MBP seems to go FOREVER on battery, I don't think the need for a removable battery is as common as you think. I can do an 8 hour workday or flight with no problem.
iTunes hasn't had DRM in years.
Amen! I wish more people realized this. The $99/yr is a good thing as it provides some control on who is running not-ready-for-primetime software on the their devices. iOs is NOT closed if you have a Mac, $99/yr, and enough tech savvy to operate the IDE.
That 8 character limitation is the choice of your company. User names for eDir/Netware/OES can be up to 128 characters.
Estate taxes are immoral. They punish family businesses and farms. Confiscating property may make you feel better and provide the government more money to redistribute but it does not help the disadvantaged.
Whats your point? What do you propose to do about it?
Life is not fair and never will be. Marxism does nothing to correct this, it just changes who has the advantage.
There right... "terms of total federal revenue:". We are indeed spending as much on entitlements as we are taking in.
Who is John Galt?
No, for the most part the "Rich" got that way and stay that way by providing goods and services that people want. Are there scum that profit from crime, dishonesty, and abuse? Sure there are and always have been but punishing the "Rich" will just result in lowering the amount of "value" in the world. Less "value" means a lower standard of living for all.
Who is John Galt?
You would be right if the set of schools and their quality was static. But demand always leads to increased supply. If the money can move then the people will chase it by creating more schools, expanding capacity at good ones, and improving quality at poor ones.
The transportation issue is actual a counter argument to your assertion as there is and will be a bias toward a convenient location. Location is just one of the many facts that would go into each families calculation of which school is better for them.
Mobility of the money, teachers, and students will lead to a rising tide that will improve education for all. Especially those you fear would be left behind.
I've had a full MSDN subscription for over a decade. I don't see what your talking about. I find XCode and Cocoa Touch far more polished and powerful.
What the heck is a a "proper visual layout designer" if Interface Builder doesn't qualify? It's by far the most powerful gui builder I've seen on any platform.
Tom Baker....anything before that is too dated. The Tom Baker episodes hold up well and he is very entertaining.
You must not spend much time at "StarButs". It's rare to walk into one anywhere in the world and not find a MacBook. The one I'm sitting in now in Washington DC has 5 in sight.
So how is this "Stuff That Matters"?
There is no overseer. There is no entity that has the power to correct things on a global scale. Not even "the world" can do it. His actions did nothing to change the corruption you believe is endemic. If opposing such corruption was his intent then he failed.
There is a long list of actions he could take and people he could go to before dumping documents on the internet. There are many effective actions that don't require the public disclosure.
The US military does not train people to obey orders above all. They train people to obey lawful orders, to oppose unlawful orders, and how to know when an order is unlawful. They also train you on how to oppose an unlawful order. None of this has anything to with Manning. He is accused violating a lawful order. If he considered it unlawful then he has several actions available to him. What he did is not among that list.
No, you have a moral obligation to refuse illegal orders. But that is not what manning did. He knowingly disclosed a random load of classified information.
Absolutely Not. You MUST take action to oppose injustice and immorality. However, there are many ways to do it that do not involve dumping a random load of classified information on the internet. Taking a stand does not require you to do that.
If you have clear evidence of a crime there a myriad of ways to take action that do not involve knowing disclosing classified information.
It does not matter what the content of the leak was or what supposedly beneficial effect it had. Breaking faith with your country and failing to follow orders cannot go unpunished.
It all depends on your definition of significant. I think the growth were seeing now is significant and the analysts are all raising there mac sales predictions after last weeks MacBook pro release.
"According to IDC's estimates of average selling prices, Apple is also now the dollar market share leader in the U.S. home market with 29.4% of all the dollars spent on computers in the period. However, this figure is open to debate based on IDC estimating a higher average transaction price than Apple's own results. Regardless of which revenue estimate is correct, it's clear that Apple is gaining a lot traction in every market except education where PCs outpaced Macs by 11.4% to 5.1%. Apple still has plenty of room to grow however, with only 4.36% of the global computer market."
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/23/mac-sales-growth-continues-to-surge-ahead-of-pcs-3-to-1/
No, but higher relative sales growth is how you gain market share.....no?
Really?
"Analysis by market research firm IDC shows that Mac sales growth in the last fiscal quarter was nearly seven times that of the overall PC market with Apple outgrowing overall PCs for 19 consecutive quarters, or nearly five years running."
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/apple-outgrows-pc-market-for-nearly-five-years-aided-by-enterprise.ars?comments=1&start=160#comments-bar
"Under what conditions does accelerated inequity appeal to the majority of a democratic population?" When the alternative is theft by the government at the point of a gun. In this case the medicine is much worse than the illness. Try reading Bastiet and Solzhenitsyn to see where forced redistribution of wealth leads.