Seems like all school administrators these days are requiring the LAW to teach students.
This isn't about teaching students. It is a legal matter, not an academic one. The students were (presumably) in private residences posting in a public, non-school-related forum.
Teachers and principals are granted in loco parentis only while students are under their charge. They have no authority anywhere else. If a minor commits a crime off of school grounds, he is tried in a (juvenile) court of law, not given detention. The same rules apply in civil matters.
If you read the original source document, it is not in her capacity as assistant principal that the plaintiff is suing; rather, the individual in question is filing a private lawsuit against other individuals whom she claims have defamed her, personally. Exactly as it should be.
As the blurb says, Steve Dorner is the original developer of Eudora/Mac. This was back before 1990, when TCP/IP on the desktop was a protocol looking for a killer app. He was at University when he wrote it, has been with Qualcomm since they bought Eudora, and seems to be a reasonably nice guy. He gave away early versions to anyone willing to send him a floppy. (No, there weren't any Mac FTP clients then, either....)
He's the guy who named it after Eudora Welty, naturally.
I'm glad he's on the new "Eudora" team. His input bodes well for Eudora users who aren't just looking for Thunderbird with a new icon.
My car's manual goes out of its way to emphasize how "no special break-in procedure is required."
Modern manufacturing techniques don't really necessitate a "settling in" period. Yeah, perhaps if you really hammer it after you drive it off the lot, it'll crap out at 150,000 miles instead of 250K. But if you're the kind of driver that drives the hell out of a new car, you're going to shorten the lifespan of your car no matter how peacefully its first thousand miles go. And most new-car-buyers trade in long before they have to live with the consequences.
But Voyager... Voyager tried to take the TNG angle, which was already tired, and they just shoved perfectly, ridiculously clean carpetry into a quadrant of the galaxy where they should barely have had access to soap, let alone the carpet shampooing requirements that a typical Federation starship needs. It was implausible. They were exceeding the general cleanliness of a fully-tooled-up Federation, on their own, half a galaxy from home.
One of the (very few) lines I remember from that series was a joke Chakotay made about cleaning the carpets while Janeway was off dealing with the Borg.
Hewlett and Packard, Jobs and Woz, and even Page and Brin worked out of garages. Gates was born to one of Seattle's richest lawyers, and probably hasn't ever set foot in a garage.
Yes, with absolute certainty because it is a perfect copy. If it wasn't "really the same" then it would NOT be a perfect copy. You question indicates that you need to think about the phrase "perfect copy" or otherwise about the phrase "really the same" (or maybe both) until you grasp their meaning. Hint: it's the same.
1 a : resembling in every relevant respect b : conforming in every respect -- used with as 2 a : being one without addition, change, or discontinuance : IDENTICAL b : being the one under discussion or already referred to
You're talking about definition 1, according to which a perfect copy is the same as the original, because no analysis or measurement could distinguish them.
By definition two, the two objects, are two objects, not one, and thus they are not the same: there has been both an addition and a discontinuance of the (destroyed) source object. That is, the copy is not the selfsame.
The philosophical question, to be especially pedantic, is, is selfsameness important? (Especially if we're talking about humans.)
Despite many predictions (by Slahsdotters, and by Real itself in its financial disclosures) that Harmony would incite a lawsuit, there have been nothing but strong words exchanged.
Was Apple afraid it would lose? (And since when has that stopped anyone?) Does Apple prefer repeatedly breaking Harmony with firmware updates? Or does Apple just not give a shit about minor players like Real?
it's logic (saves space on small displays) doesn't apply when the screen is large.
No, no, no, that's not the logic at all. The logic is, it's always in the same place, and it's against the screen edge, so it's easy to hit.
Your typical Windows or Gnome menubar might be anywhere on the screen, and has to be hit exactly with the pointer. The Mac menubar is always at the top, and always grows from top-left corner rightward. Hitting it is easy: flick the mouse to the top. You can't ever overshoot it; your pointer will always bump up against the top. It's measurably faster to hit the same File menu on a Mac (even with a huge display) than it is with in-window menubars.
As a side effect, you can hit the corner Apple or Spotlight menus blindfolded--with 100% accuracy--regardless of display size. Just mouse toward the pointer toward the appropriate corner until there's nowhere else the pointer could be.
A flying car would likely be traveling at 150 mph or more
Says who?
You're thinking of something like today's single-engine aircraft. Not the same thing; we already have those, and they're not practical replacements for cars for a variety of reasons.
The OP (and I) are talking about honest-to-goodness Back-To-The-Future-DeLorean flying cars with some sort of gravity-defying mechanism. Such things would be small, cheap, stable, (either through aerodynamic or avionic means) would not require runways to land, and could slow down to city-traffic speeds in the air, or even hover in a stationary position.
That's a flying car. That's what GM's over-the-top "Car of the Future" marketing promised us back in the '60s, and that's what we want. And yes, we realize the impracticality of it all, but we still can't forget those promises.
Maybe he likes to think before he acts, maybe even consult a lawyer or two. Do the stockholders really want a CEO who shoots from the hip?
He is the Chief Executive for a major company. They have in-house corporate counsel, and probably a major law firm on retainer. Consulting a lawyer takes all of fifteen minutes to set up. (According to the Newsweek article, a major law firm was involved and contacting the parties involved within hours.)
If it took three weeks for the lawyers to craft so much as a press release, it does not inspire confidence. And it means three weeks' worth of front-page stories, full of rumor, speculation, and choice quotes from HP's accusers.
One of the primary rsponsibilities of management is to find good people and then delegate. One of the other responsibilities is to, well, take responsibility. Nothing wrong with having counsel available, but to refuse to answer even one question about your own company? Worst case scenario, you say, "I can't comment" or "I'll let Mr. Lawyer answer that."
Especially in this particular case, where the central question is was management aware of what the hired guns were doing?
When you have an employee who is doing things that - in your opinion as managment - hurt the company, it is your obligation to the stockholders to find out who it is and stop them.
The "employees" in question were directors. You know, the guys elected by the shareholders to oversee the company?
It's a bit harder to drive your car into the side of a highrise buidling. How, exactly? Do the highrises where you live float above the surface the cars drive on?
I can accept that controlling a craft in three dimensions is more complicated than doing it in two, but I don't see stationary buildings as a greater threat than they already are.
The ground itself, though, you have to learn to watch out for.
Gasoline is one of the only commodities consumers actually buy.
For the most part, people buy brand names. Companies buy wheat, sugar, steel, and cotton. Consumers buy Wonderbread, M&Ms, Chevrolets, and Levis. But petroleum is practically the only commodity that consumers buy based on price, not brand.
The only difference between this article and any other Apple article is that it's not Steve Jobs whose being handed all the credit.
Click on the Apple section and read another article. From the comments, you'd think Steve Jobs writes every single line of code in iTunes and OS X, and hand-solders every circuit on the motherboard of every Mac.
The interesting thing is, in the early days, it really was one guy (woz) doing most of the heavy lifting.
The EE department of my university posted streaming video of certain classes. The audio was from the professor's lapel mike and the video switched between a scanconverter of the PowerPoint slides, and camera views of whatever he drew on the blackboards. The.ppt files, and sometimes class notes, could also be downloaded.
They were a great way to, say, study for a final by reviewing classes from the beginning of the year.
Public engineering university, btw. No DRM or authentication, either. If you find the right URL, you can watch the entire semester without even being enrolled. The downside was, only certain classes got this treatment, mainly due to a limited number of staff and camera-equipped rooms.
What breaks Windows is the removal of Windows web-rendering DLLs, and the same thing happens to MacOS if you remove the system libraries associated to folder and web rendering.
Removing WebKit (the web-rendering library) probably would not greatly impact OS X. OS X would remain quite functional, although the system help wouldn't work (and Safari and Mail would need to be replaced with, say, Firefox and Thunderbird) WebKit is not used when "rendering" the local filesystem.
The TV industry seems to be doing pretty well right now. Everybody I know has their eye on SOME kind of TV lately, be it plasma, LCD, or what-have-you.
The Wikipedia article on HDTV says that by the end of this year, 10% of US TVs will be HDTVs.
Ten percent. Real soon now.
When VHS and DVD launched, everybody had an SDTV. But Blu-Ray and HD-DVD have nothing to appeal to 90% of potential (US) customers. And they have to split the potential market they do have between two incompatible formats.
it's a bit of a lifesaver if your wife happens to crash her Windows box on a regular basis, forcing a reformat and reinstall about once every six months.
Do that before you format.
In the event of a catastrophic crash (well, five catastrophic crashes) then log into the Store and click Deauthorize All.
And next time, come up with a better excuse. Like, "if your wife happens to own a non-iPod music player" or "your wife wants to play her music on her Linux box."
at least in the US, it's much cheaper to burn natural gas (and sometimes heating oil) than convert electricity into heat. All forms of heat may be 100% efficient, but the monetary cost varies widely. I don't know what natural gas prices are like in Europe, but for USians, shifting the heating load toward furnaces (and heat pumps) is not a downside.
And at present, CFLs have LEDs beat when it comes to light/watt. This may change, but until then.
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if you buy a PC in a retail store like ours, the sales people will pound into you the idea of in-home setup, virus protection, etc. The problem is that people will find a way around it if it'll save them a few bucks. People can be told it's better for a pro to configure it but they'll take their chances for a slightly smaller bill. Even if we made it mandatory with every purchase, people would just go elsewhere for "cheaper" pc's without the service.
If I buy a $450 washer at Sears, they deliver it, connect the water, power, and drain hoses, and pull the knob to make sure they did it right. For free. Yeah, it costs a bit more than the discount-appliance-warehouse joint, but somehow they stay in business.
I don't want to be making a statement of my consumer ethos by purchasing a mac, I just want a good computer!
Frankly, I think you're a pretty sad specimen. On the one hand, you've bought the It's not a computer...It's a lifestyle(R) marketing message lock, stock, and barrel. On the other, you're so afraid of it that you have to demean it.
It is just a computer. It's not a threat to your individuality or your sexual orientation or your no-bullshit-kinda-guy image.
And or the record, as an Apple customer, I think these commercials are pretty lame. Almost as lame as the guy who submitted them to Slashdot.
Under no circumstances may working hours exceed the maximum set by applicable laws. Suppliers must offer vacation time, leave periods and holidays consistent with applicable laws.
We did, however, find that employees worked longer hours than permitted by our Code of Conduct, which limits normal workweeks to 60 hours and requires at least one day off each week. We reviewed seven months of records from multiple shifts of different productions lines and found that the weekly limit was exceeded 35% of the time and employees worked more than six consecutive days 25% of the time. Although our Code of Conduct allows overtime limit exceptions in unusual circumstances, we believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and found these percentages to be excessive.
The supplier has enacted a policy change to enforce the weekly overtime limits set by our Code of Conduct. The policy change has been communicated to supervisors and employees and a management system has been implemented to track compliance with the Code of Conduct. Supervisors must receive approval from upper level management for any deviation.... Recognizing that some aspects of workplace auditing (such as health and safety) lie beyond our current expertise, we've engaged the services of Verité, an internationally recognized leader in workplace standards dedicated to ensuring that people around the world work under safe, fair and legal conditions. We are committed to ensuring compliance with our Code of Conduct and will complete audits of all final assembly suppliers of Mac and iPod products in 2006.
To sum this up: 1. Apple hires third-party, Chinese supplier 2. Supplier violates Apple's Code of Conduct and the local law 3. Apple audits supplier, learns of violation 4. Apple demands supplier change policy. Supplier promises to comply. 5. Apple publicly admits violation occurred. 6. Apple enlists third-party, nonprofit organization to oversee compliance.
the debate here is between Windows and OS X, not Unix.
OS X is just a peculiar Unix distro.
I find it fascinating that Linux can borrow BSD features, and AIX can mimic Solaris features, but when Apple steals a feature for its particular Unixling, it's a big event.
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Seems like all school administrators these days are requiring the LAW to teach students.
This isn't about teaching students. It is a legal matter, not an academic one. The students were (presumably) in private residences posting in a public, non-school-related forum.
Teachers and principals are granted in loco parentis only while students are under their charge. They have no authority anywhere else. If a minor commits a crime off of school grounds, he is tried in a (juvenile) court of law, not given detention. The same rules apply in civil matters.
If you read the original source document, it is not in her capacity as assistant principal that the plaintiff is suing; rather, the individual in question is filing a private lawsuit against other individuals whom she claims have defamed her, personally. Exactly as it should be.
As the blurb says, Steve Dorner is the original developer of Eudora/Mac. This was back before 1990, when TCP/IP on the desktop was a protocol looking for a killer app. He was at University when he wrote it, has been with Qualcomm since they bought Eudora, and seems to be a reasonably nice guy. He gave away early versions to anyone willing to send him a floppy. (No, there weren't any Mac FTP clients then, either....)
He's the guy who named it after Eudora Welty, naturally.
I'm glad he's on the new "Eudora" team. His input bodes well for Eudora users who aren't just looking for Thunderbird with a new icon.
the goal of this project is to increase the intelligence of the group
That's a particularly bad example.
My car's manual goes out of its way to emphasize how "no special break-in procedure is required."
Modern manufacturing techniques don't really necessitate a "settling in" period. Yeah, perhaps if you really hammer it after you drive it off the lot, it'll crap out at 150,000 miles instead of 250K. But if you're the kind of driver that drives the hell out of a new car, you're going to shorten the lifespan of your car no matter how peacefully its first thousand miles go. And most new-car-buyers trade in long before they have to live with the consequences.
But Voyager... Voyager tried to take the TNG angle, which was already tired, and they just shoved perfectly, ridiculously clean carpetry into a quadrant of the galaxy where they should barely have had access to soap, let alone the carpet shampooing requirements that a typical Federation starship needs. It was implausible. They were exceeding the general cleanliness of a fully-tooled-up Federation, on their own, half a galaxy from home.
One of the (very few) lines I remember from that series was a joke Chakotay made about cleaning the carpets while Janeway was off dealing with the Borg.
He worked out of his dorm room at Harvard.
Hewlett and Packard, Jobs and Woz, and even Page and Brin worked out of garages. Gates was born to one of Seattle's richest lawyers, and probably hasn't ever set foot in a garage.
From a dictionary:
You're talking about definition 1, according to which a perfect copy is the same as the original, because no analysis or measurement could distinguish them.
By definition two, the two objects, are two objects, not one, and thus they are not the same: there has been both an addition and a discontinuance of the (destroyed) source object. That is, the copy is not the selfsame.
The philosophical question, to be especially pedantic, is, is selfsameness important? (Especially if we're talking about humans.)
Despite many predictions (by Slahsdotters, and by Real itself in its financial disclosures) that Harmony would incite a lawsuit, there have been nothing but strong words exchanged.
Was Apple afraid it would lose? (And since when has that stopped anyone?) Does Apple prefer repeatedly breaking Harmony with firmware updates? Or does Apple just not give a shit about minor players like Real?
it's logic (saves space on small displays) doesn't apply when the screen is large.
No, no, no, that's not the logic at all. The logic is, it's always in the same place, and it's against the screen edge, so it's easy to hit.
Your typical Windows or Gnome menubar might be anywhere on the screen, and has to be hit exactly with the pointer. The Mac menubar is always at the top, and always grows from top-left corner rightward. Hitting it is easy: flick the mouse to the top. You can't ever overshoot it; your pointer will always bump up against the top. It's measurably faster to hit the same File menu on a Mac (even with a huge display) than it is with in-window menubars.
As a side effect, you can hit the corner Apple or Spotlight menus blindfolded--with 100% accuracy--regardless of display size. Just mouse toward the pointer toward the appropriate corner until there's nowhere else the pointer could be.
A flying car would likely be traveling at 150 mph or more
Says who?
You're thinking of something like today's single-engine aircraft. Not the same thing; we already have those, and they're not practical replacements for cars for a variety of reasons.
The OP (and I) are talking about honest-to-goodness Back-To-The-Future-DeLorean flying cars with some sort of gravity-defying mechanism. Such things would be small, cheap, stable, (either through aerodynamic or avionic means) would not require runways to land, and could slow down to city-traffic speeds in the air, or even hover in a stationary position.
That's a flying car. That's what GM's over-the-top "Car of the Future" marketing promised us back in the '60s, and that's what we want. And yes, we realize the impracticality of it all, but we still can't forget those promises.
Maybe he likes to think before he acts, maybe even consult a lawyer or two. Do the stockholders really want a CEO who shoots from the hip?
He is the Chief Executive for a major company. They have in-house corporate counsel, and probably a major law firm on retainer. Consulting a lawyer takes all of fifteen minutes to set up. (According to the Newsweek article, a major law firm was involved and contacting the parties involved within hours.)
If it took three weeks for the lawyers to craft so much as a press release, it does not inspire confidence. And it means three weeks' worth of front-page stories, full of rumor, speculation, and choice quotes from HP's accusers.
One of the primary rsponsibilities of management is to find good people and then delegate.
One of the other responsibilities is to, well, take responsibility. Nothing wrong with having counsel available, but to refuse to answer even one question about your own company? Worst case scenario, you say, "I can't comment" or "I'll let Mr. Lawyer answer that."
Especially in this particular case, where the central question is was management aware of what the hired guns were doing?
When you have an employee who is doing things that - in your opinion as managment - hurt the company, it is your obligation to the stockholders to find out who it is and stop them.
The "employees" in question were directors. You know, the guys elected by the shareholders to oversee the company?
It's a bit harder to drive your car into the side of a highrise buidling.
How, exactly? Do the highrises where you live float above the surface the cars drive on?
I can accept that controlling a craft in three dimensions is more complicated than doing it in two, but I don't see stationary buildings as a greater threat than they already are.
The ground itself, though, you have to learn to watch out for.
I just used my last two mod points in another article. Oh, god, what a missed opportunity.
Just write a script! I need to put that in my sig.
Gasoline is one of the only commodities consumers actually buy.
For the most part, people buy brand names. Companies buy wheat, sugar, steel, and cotton. Consumers buy Wonderbread, M&Ms, Chevrolets, and Levis. But petroleum is practically the only commodity that consumers buy based on price, not brand.
The only difference between this article and any other Apple article is that it's not Steve Jobs whose being handed all the credit.
Click on the Apple section and read another article. From the comments, you'd think Steve Jobs writes every single line of code in iTunes and OS X, and hand-solders every circuit on the motherboard of every Mac.
The interesting thing is, in the early days, it really was one guy (woz) doing most of the heavy lifting.
The EE department of my university posted streaming video of certain classes. The audio was from the professor's lapel mike and the video switched between a scanconverter of the PowerPoint slides, and camera views of whatever he drew on the blackboards. The .ppt files, and sometimes class notes, could also be downloaded.
They were a great way to, say, study for a final by reviewing classes from the beginning of the year.
Public engineering university, btw. No DRM or authentication, either. If you find the right URL, you can watch the entire semester without even being enrolled. The downside was, only certain classes got this treatment, mainly due to a limited number of staff and camera-equipped rooms.
I need something that will play on both my Sansa e250, and my fiance's iPod
I'm looking at the manual, and it only mentions MP3, WMA, and Secure WMA. "Other file types need to be converted to these formats."
What breaks Windows is the removal of Windows web-rendering DLLs, and the same thing happens to MacOS if you remove the system libraries associated to folder and web rendering.
Removing WebKit (the web-rendering library) probably would not greatly impact OS X. OS X would remain quite functional, although the system help wouldn't work (and Safari and Mail would need to be replaced with, say, Firefox and Thunderbird) WebKit is not used when "rendering" the local filesystem.
The TV industry seems to be doing pretty well right now. Everybody I know has their eye on SOME kind of TV lately, be it plasma, LCD, or what-have-you.
The Wikipedia article on HDTV says that by the end of this year, 10% of US TVs will be HDTVs.
Ten percent. Real soon now.
When VHS and DVD launched, everybody had an SDTV. But Blu-Ray and HD-DVD have nothing to appeal to 90% of potential (US) customers. And they have to split the potential market they do have between two incompatible formats.
You do the math.
it's a bit of a lifesaver if your wife happens to crash her Windows box on a regular basis, forcing a reformat and reinstall about once every six months.
Do that before you format.
In the event of a catastrophic crash (well, five catastrophic crashes) then log into the Store and click Deauthorize All.
And next time, come up with a better excuse. Like, "if your wife happens to own a non-iPod music player" or "your wife wants to play her music on her Linux box."
at least in the US, it's much cheaper to burn natural gas (and sometimes heating oil) than convert electricity into heat. All forms of heat may be 100% efficient, but the monetary cost varies widely. I don't know what natural gas prices are like in Europe, but for USians, shifting the heating load toward furnaces (and heat pumps) is not a downside.
And at present, CFLs have LEDs beat when it comes to light/watt. This may change, but until then.
if you buy a PC in a retail store like ours, the sales people will pound into you the idea of in-home setup, virus protection, etc. The problem is that people will find a way around it if it'll save them a few bucks. People can be told it's better for a pro to configure it but they'll take their chances for a slightly smaller bill. Even if we made it mandatory with every purchase, people would just go elsewhere for "cheaper" pc's without the service.
If I buy a $450 washer at Sears, they deliver it, connect the water, power, and drain hoses, and pull the knob to make sure they did it right. For free. Yeah, it costs a bit more than the discount-appliance-warehouse joint, but somehow they stay in business.
I don't want to be making a statement of my consumer ethos by purchasing a mac, I just want a good computer!
Frankly, I think you're a pretty sad specimen. On the one hand, you've bought the It's not a computer...It's a lifestyle (R) marketing message lock, stock, and barrel. On the other, you're so afraid of it that you have to demean it.
It is just a computer. It's not a threat to your individuality or your sexual orientation or your no-bullshit-kinda-guy image.
And or the record, as an Apple customer, I think these commercials are pretty lame. Almost as lame as the guy who submitted them to Slashdot.
From Apple's report on manufacturing practices
To sum this up:
1. Apple hires third-party, Chinese supplier
2. Supplier violates Apple's Code of Conduct and the local law
3. Apple audits supplier, learns of violation
4. Apple demands supplier change policy. Supplier promises to comply.
5. Apple publicly admits violation occurred.
6. Apple enlists third-party, nonprofit organization to oversee compliance.
What, exactly, should Apple be ashamed of?
the debate here is between Windows and OS X, not Unix.
OS X is just a peculiar Unix distro.
I find it fascinating that Linux can borrow BSD features, and AIX can mimic Solaris features, but when Apple steals a feature for its particular Unixling, it's a big event.