The LHC goes online in just under a day; Google Earth is going to be obsolete
Google Earth is an interactive map & the LHC is a particle accelerator. Frankly, I don't see wtf one has to do with the other (or how one could obsolete the other)...
If its damage, then if you take care to dispose, how is it an issue?
Because of their size & weight, plastic bags escape normal disposal options easily. Look around you. Most of the trash I see on the streets is plastic bags.
You probably use thousands of plastic bags every year. Are you so confident of your disposal methods that none of them entered a waterway?
if its bio-degrade, I dont get that either. They arent the largest things around. Is it a significant issue?
1) Paper bags recycle more readily than plastic. 2) You could just reuse a sturdy bag and that way, not contribute to landfill with the containers you use to take home your shopping at all.
* Don't leave you with a coating of vendor lock-in slime.
Sure, if you're a complete Apple shop (hah!), then OS X server is probably a good fit for you, but in the real world, its mixed clients (or at least looking in that direction).
If your going to comment it helps if you have half a clue what your talking about.
Nope, an exchange of money for a good seems like a legitimate purchase to me.
So an 'unlocked' Mac OS should cost more than one bundled with a Mac computer. Simple. So pay up the extra money, or shut up.
Nope, Apple's more like a supermarket, offering some goods very cheaply to entice customers to buy other goods. Some customers will come in & buy the discounted items only. *shrug* bad luck, update your business plan if that's not what you want.
GP: Copyright law was always intended to prevent unauthorized distribution of protected materials, and not to dictate use of legitimately purchased materials.
YDE:if it's about 'making a statement' rather than a money issue, I'm sure the OP would be delighted to donate the appropriate extra money to Apple.
Are you retarded? How does it make a statement to give money to the very company that is attempting to dictate use of legitimately purchased materials?
Perhaps you meant to suggest giving the money to the FSF/EFF instead?
but the reaction of most music fans will be: 'Yahoo had an online music store?'
Unbelievably, the follow up to that from many slashdotters will be: "My music store will never go offline." Unbelievably, people are still buying (and defending) DRMd music.
If this story (and the MS one before) doesn't alert you to the sad fact that you don't own any DRMd music you've bought, nothing will.
Yes - good for me. Hopefully you know the difference between the marketing for an unreleased product & an actual released product.
Oh, and your *rolls eyes* is pretty gay.
*rolls eyes*
I think saying something is "pretty gay" is pretty stupid. Unless you're actually talking about two men fucking. (or someone being bright & cheery if you're old fashioned I guess).
I'm afraid the idea that you're in international territory until you've crossed passport control is a myth. Some countries decide to exclude parts of their airports from passport & border controls so those areas appear to be international territory.
The US doesn't treat their airports like this & couldn't have a case like (for instance) Merhan Karimi Nasseri.
I'm guessing your country has laws similar to France, but guess what? There's a big world out there & laws are not uniform.
If you don't like the US's laws, don't go to the country - simple as that (I don't & don't).
All nice and dandy, but please remember that the rest of us filthy foreigners who are coming for a friendly visit aren't directly guilty of anything in particular either.
There's a good reason why international tourism in the US is plummeting when a low US dollar means it should be increasing.
Oh well, I guess the US economy is strong enough to withstand $94 Billion in lost spending.... oh wait!
This petition is just a gentle reminder that the carrot (utilizing OSS community development process) & stick (customers switching vendors) already exist. (from TLA):
Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source kernel code.
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Yeah, destroying all that precious grass...
You think because Cattle eat grass that there can be no possible environmental issue caused by Cattle other than grass eating?
Fuck you're a dumbass.
vegetarianism and veganism are, for most of the world, unusual.
Hmmmn - I believe you meant 'USA' instead of 'World'.
It's hard to get good figures, but I'd say 1/2 a billion Indians are vegeterian (but eat eggs, dairy)
Billions more eat very little meat. A diet low in meat is normal for most of the world & something easy you can do if you want to be green.
The question is, apart from Government financing, is it possible for Normal People to buy a Green Home / Car / Life?
Move close to your work (or get a job you can telecommute to), use a bike / walk / public transport wherever possible. Insulate. Put in a water tank.
There - not that hard & no need to go whining to the government for a hand out.
Oh, you can be a blog & have subscriptions. And I only whine about how great Macs and OS X are.... ;-p
I'd like to propose that those who complain about Slashdot editing standards are now simply referred to as "whiners".
This is a blog - you're a guest here. Get over it.
Wooosh indeed.
Clearly my joke-a-meter needs recalibrating.
Oh well, I am a mac fanboy - we're renowned for our humourlessness & obliviousness in the face of sarcasm ;-)
The LHC goes online in just under a day; Google Earth is going to be obsolete
Google Earth is an interactive map & the LHC is a particle accelerator. Frankly, I don't see wtf one has to do with the other (or how one could obsolete the other)...
If its damage, then if you take care to dispose, how is it an issue?
Because of their size & weight, plastic bags escape normal disposal options easily. Look around you. Most of the trash I see on the streets is plastic bags.
You probably use thousands of plastic bags every year. Are you so confident of your disposal methods that none of them entered a waterway?
if its bio-degrade, I dont get that either. They arent the largest things around. Is it a significant issue?
1) Paper bags recycle more readily than plastic.
2) You could just reuse a sturdy bag and that way, not contribute to landfill with the containers you use to take home your shopping at all.
its 500 dollars for a unlimited license,
Uhhh? unlimited license? For $500, Apple gives you a 10-client license?
and does a hell of a lot more than throw a few OSS solutions into the box.
OSS solutions:
* Scale up onto hardware Apple can only dream about (talk to Sun or IBM for more info)
* Fit into your existing vmware infrastructure.
* Don't impose bullshit per-client licensing restrictions.
* Don't leave you with a coating of vendor lock-in slime.
Sure, if you're a complete Apple shop (hah!), then OS X server is probably a good fit for you, but in the real world, its mixed clients (or at least looking in that direction).
If your going to comment it helps if you have half a clue what your talking about.
Well - at least we agree on this....
it's not legitimately purchased any more.
Nope, an exchange of money for a good seems like a legitimate purchase to me.
So an 'unlocked' Mac OS should cost more than one bundled with a Mac computer. Simple. So pay up the extra money, or shut up.
Nope, Apple's more like a supermarket, offering some goods very cheaply to entice customers to buy other goods. Some customers will come in & buy the discounted items only. *shrug* bad luck, update your business plan if that's not what you want.
GP: Copyright law was always intended to prevent unauthorized distribution of protected materials, and not to dictate use of legitimately purchased materials.
YDE: if it's about 'making a statement' rather than a money issue, I'm sure the OP would be delighted to donate the appropriate extra money to Apple.
Are you retarded? How does it make a statement to give money to the very company that is attempting to dictate use of legitimately purchased materials?
Perhaps you meant to suggest giving the money to the FSF/EFF instead?
with loads of certifications of every piece of hardware Apple has made in the past 10 years
I'm curious - what are the certifications you can get on individual pieces of Apple hardware?
but the reaction of most music fans will be: 'Yahoo had an online music store?'
Unbelievably, the follow up to that from many slashdotters will be: "My music store will never go offline." Unbelievably, people are still buying (and defending) DRMd music.
If this story (and the MS one before) doesn't alert you to the sad fact that you don't own any DRMd music you've bought, nothing will.
WTF does that mean?
Scientists have been using the phrase Paradigm Shift for years. Marketing types took it up because it sounded scholarly.
"This defies our old paradigms," means "this does not fit into our current sets of theories & hypothesis...."
You have to keep in mind, this restriction is undoubtedly imposed by the telcos
Nokia doesn't seem to have any problem including skype on their phones, so I'm not sure wtf you'd think that.
Good for you.
Yes - good for me. Hopefully you know the difference between the marketing for an unreleased product & an actual released product.
Oh, and your *rolls eyes* is pretty gay.
*rolls eyes*
I think saying something is "pretty gay" is pretty stupid. Unless you're actually talking about two men fucking. (or someone being bright & cheery if you're old fashioned I guess).
Yeah. The sound quality is actually good and the lag doesn't seem significant.
*rolls eyes*
I can make a video where Fring seems to have nice sound quality & no lag too.
And they feel they have to do these "studies" for marketing reasons.
Palamida is a security company. They're not the FSF, who, unlike MS do not have reams of cash to promote the GPL.
GPLv3 = IPv6 = Vista = "wfc";
Uh-huh. Uptake of the GPLv3 (as a percentage of GPLv2 instances) is far higher than Vista (compared to Windows installs) or IPV6 vs IPV4
Iditot.
but to me it looks way better than fring
*rolls eyes*
You can tell that based on a video? Whatever.
The 300MB limit gives you 10MB/day, which would be fine for VoIP
Provided the users never uses any other services which require data. Which I personally don't think is realistic.
Considerably less than 300MB/month would be useful for many people to avoid occasional trunk call charges.
You don't have to make every call over VOIP for it to be tremendously useful.
Its a pity Apple places artificial restrictions on the phone & doesn't allow this sort of functionality.
Not really, Fring is pretty cool I admit but it's not fully there yet.
Which is better than this App - which is not there at all.
Tourism to the US is up 15% for the first quarter of 2008 compared to the year prior, precisely because of the weak dollar.
Nice try though.
Look at Internatianal arrivals here. You've got a little way to go to recover to y2k levels.don't (in the legal sense) enter the US.
I'm afraid the idea that you're in international territory until you've crossed passport control is a myth. Some countries decide to exclude parts of their airports from passport & border controls so those areas appear to be international territory.
The US doesn't treat their airports like this & couldn't have a case like (for instance) Merhan Karimi Nasseri.
I'm guessing your country has laws similar to France, but guess what? There's a big world out there & laws are not uniform.
If you don't like the US's laws, don't go to the country - simple as that (I don't & don't).
All nice and dandy, but please remember that the rest of us filthy foreigners who are coming for a friendly visit aren't directly guilty of anything in particular either.
There's a good reason why international tourism in the US is plummeting when a low US dollar means it should be increasing.Oh well, I guess the US economy is strong enough to withstand $94 Billion in lost spending.... oh wait!
This petition is just a gentle reminder that the carrot (utilizing OSS community development process) & stick (customers switching vendors) already exist. (from TLA):