It is the result of US accounting law. They can't give it away for free and claim it as part of the cost of OS X as they have been since there are too many new features in it to pass muster.
So it's a tax dodge.
Well that just makes it all better. Especially in a nation where the national debt is spiralling out of control.
MS still have no problem offering a free version of Visual Studio. Does MS have a tax issue with Paint?
It's a bad excuse and you know it. Besides, you did not address the issue of Apple going back on its word, that Xcode was free and how many people parroted that. Unless this is one of those "we have always been at war with Eurasia" moments.
An IDE that Apple and it's fanboys made a big noise about being free, unlike another monopolistic competitor which is said not to offer a version of it's IDE for free.
The problem isn't that they're charging, it's that they are charging when they promised not to. It's a bait and switch. However this isn't the first time Apple have "altered the deal" and if you've locked your self in all you can do is "prey they do not alter it any further". It wont be the last time they do it either.
If MS started charging just $0.05 for Telnet the same people defending Apple would be up in arms. It's the level of sheer hypocrisy that annoys me.
Of course, after a dozen or so of those go out, you end up with two or three people sending a Reply All just to say "please stop sending your removal requests Reply All" The last one went out to 500 employees and I ended up with 40+ copies of the email in my inbox because of people being absolutely stupid.
There is a simple solution to this. All email clients need to be configured to pop up a warning dialog box if they are reply all to more then 50 people, it should say something like "you are replying to more then 50 people, are you sure you need to send this message to all of them". If the user clicks yes, machine gun armed drones will be dispatched to their cubicle.
I like the solution in K-9 Mail (android app) better.
The on screen menu has 'reply', you actually have to tap another button to get to 'reply-all'. It can be tedious, but it has prevented the reply-all issues in my case.
The Gmail application has had that functionality for some time now. Reply All is hidden (can be shown by pressing the arrow button that displays more buttons) and the only visible button is Reply. Once you're writing the reply you can choose between Reply, Reply All and Forward via a selection list via a selection list.
I blame outlook for not making reply the default and adding a reply all button next to the reply button.
I'm as critical of the war on terror as you are, but you have to remember the military's role in a democracy. It's not their job to decide when to go to war, with whom, for what reason. It is their job to *assume* the country's elected representatives have good reasons to go to war, and to prosecute that war as efficiently (in terms of lives and dollars) as possible.
Once upon a time,.
It was an armies job to defend a nation, ensure that it is capable and ready to deal with threats and when war was unavoidable, to win that conflict at all costs for the society it was charged with defending..
When did the army ever require efficiency?. Victory is their only real requirement.
Whilst there are tenants of the total war philosophy I disagree with, it's right in the fact that you cant fight a partial war. If you are not willing to be in a war 100% you are guaranteed to lose. This is why the US lost Vietnam (it doesn't matter how many battles you declared won, or how superior you were on paper, it matters who controlled Saigon now), this is why the US has lost Iraq and ultimately will end up losing in Afghanistan. The vast majority of a population must be willing to submit to a total and prolonged war, regardless as to loss of life or material costs.
Because they're unsure if the other person can hear them properly and it's easier to shout then the ask the simple question "can you hear me OK" - HTH.
There, fixed that for you.
I do ask if people can hear me because I like talking at a normal level, I'll also tell people when they are shouting at me and tell them to stop it, if they don't I hang up.
Most banks will permit you to keep a cheque once it's been cashed, especially a commemorative cheque. At worst they'll write "cleared" or some such on there to indicate it's been used.
Or do something to provide real competition. Around here there's at least two big fiber networks (Altibox, Telenor),
I'm assuming you're talking about the UK.
The problem you have is that the infrastructure (copper/glass) is not separated from the sales/service part of it. So you essentially have a vertical monopoly and no reason to provide the best links to other ISP's. It's a problem that Australia suffered with despite regulation, first Telstra restricted access to the copper, when the govt put an end to that they restricted access to DSLAM's, when other ISP's installed their own they restricted access to the Exchanges, claiming they were all full.
Basically the best way to improve competition is to separate the medium (OSI L1 and L2) from the service (OSI L3 and 4). Basically you end up with a wholesaler that has a monopoly but no ability to sell to the general public. That's better then having lots of little monopolies on all four layers though. You get plenty of competition on the service side (Layer 3 and 4) which drives down costs to the end user. It's much easier to effectively control a monopoly in this fashion.
Virgin media have just finished rolling out 50Mbps download, just started rolling out 100Mbps
VDSL or Fibre?
If it's VDSL I call BS on you because once you get about 1 KM of copper between you and the exchange that speed drops to ADSL2 speeds (at the same distance).
If it's Fibre, I ask what their coverage is, and then call BS on you using that coverage data.
and are in the process of doubling their upload speeds, so I call bull on you.
But what's the point?
When they can say, we'll throttle x connection down to 2 Mbit, what good is a sync speed of 100 Mbit?
Christianity is the same, the white supremacists operating out of the US can quote large tracts of the bible to prove that god made white men superior.
Show me one single organised religion that has not be politically co-opted. For crying out loud, the entire bible was re-written at least once, British kings changed entire tracts without blinking when it suited them (ye olde Henry and his six wives comes tom mind). I'm certain Rome has done the same.
So good luck with trying to tell them it's wrong. They will just say that your version is the mistranslation.
Virgin Media: Well we haven't upgraded our infrastructure and now we are having problems with sheep leaving our oversubscribed networks. They even have the gall to complain to regulatory authorities about us. So we think we can solve the problem by limiting a certain type of traffic which competes with one of our other business units.
You can expect VOIP and Youtube to be next.
This is why the Aussie NBN is a good thing, private providers will never upgrade the network if it has a choice.
US$8 for non-commercial use in high-income countries—a list that for the present purposes includes the USA, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, Israel, Singapore, and several of the Persian Gulf States (Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Brunei, and Bahrain), but not Canada.
I don't understand why Australia is in there. We're a nation of filthy pirates that should be lined up against the wall along with our maple loving mooseheaded shipmates according to the MPIAA.
Maybe, the MPIAA are trying to butter up the govt, for all the good it will do, Gillard or Abbott cant afford to become less popular at the moment.
Having discount prices for 3rd-world countries can create a double standard
But that has already happened.
Pricing for media in Australia is fixed as if the exchange rate is 0.5:1 AUD/USD. Currently it's 1.02:1.
Media prices are already enforcing a double standard. As an Australian I can legally buy games from Hong Kong for half the price of buying them locally. HK isn't much cheaper then the US (new release PC game goes for US$40-50). Why are the same games AU$80-100? If anyone says tax (which is 10%) I'll beat you with a club made from your own stupidity, AU courts permitted parallel importing because of double standards in pricing.
He could have a Windows Phone 7.
BTW, 5 GB isn't hard to do if you leave a download going overnight (if you've got an Iphone and cant do this, now would be a good time to stick your fingers in your ears and go LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU). For general web browsing I use about 300 MB a month, if I tether to my PC for 2 weeks because my DSL was down that's another 500 MB without downloading anything, if I used it as my primary internet connection, I'd be going over 5 GB every month.
But my phone has a 1 GB cap, I've never gone over that because it's not my primary internet connection.
So maybe the real cause of lost sleep is the blurring line between work life and personal life and/or the increasing productivity demands of a shitty economy and a lack of viable options for employees?
I deliberately make sure I do not do any work after 8 PM unless there is an emergency (READ: Something had better be on fire) for this very reason.
But I've taken to reading before trying to sleep of late, I read for 1 to 3 hours yet I'm having a harder time sleeping then when I spent the same time reading things on the internet or playing video games.
This is how I see it. Just like with the codec changes a few years ago that heralded a 30% price increase, the record labels want to raise the price yet again but Apple want to make it look like they're resisting.
Recording industry: We would like to raise prices for digital downloads. Apple: Absolutely, we agree, after all we're getting a percentage. Recording industry: Excellent, lets say another 30% added onto the RRP. Apple: We have one minor provision though. Recording industry: Provision? Apple: Well, the plebs trust us, we've got an image to maintain and raising prices like this would be seen as being "evil" and "uncool" so we want to give a token gesture that would allow us to disguise this as something for their own good. Recording industry: Pah, we care nothing for the sheep. What do you have in mind. Apple: Something trivial, something they already have access to, say the ability to redownload songs they've already paid for. Recording industry: Well I suppose so, we've already planned for the recordings we are releasing tomorrow to be outdated by next week, we'll be releasing the same recording with a new drum beat over the top. The sheep who does not have it will be the laughing stock of its herd. Apple: Excellent.
I find it disappointing that people here are joking about killing a guy who basically annoyed them with some e-mail. Yeah, spam is annoying, but really?
As a sysadmin, it makes my life hell, I get yelled at and threatened by my boss because he's annoyed at Viagra spam.
We have to spend thousands on email filtering software, even if the software is free, hundreds of man hours per year are still spent on maintaining it and that is never free. Spam has a real economic cost and a noticeable impact on the lives of many people. It's not just a little annoying, it's hell for the sysadmin's tasked with fighting it and it certainly isn't simply annoying for it's victims.
So kindly sod off with that kind of thinking.
Where were you people when wall street ruined the economy
December 2003: "the US is going to have to pay a lot to maintain this war" (shortly after, GWB said to the banks, "we cant afford a recession during a war", in retrospect the US couldn't afford not to).
July 2006 "I don't want to buy a house, the market is flooded, I'm only going to lose money" (referring to the Australian and US markets)
September 2007 "The US banking sector is unsustainable"
February 2009, "Why am I not surprised that I am only getting 24 Baht per AUD"
Hindsight is wonderful, foresight is even better.
and the government opened an illegal prison in Cuba?
Protesting all along. Not that the US ever listened to people like me, the people going into these secret prisons were all "enemies of freedom" I was told. I was called "ungrateful" for suggesting that we don't actually know this, a "terrorist sympathiser" for suggesting that trials should be open and not conducted by the US military and a "traitor" for suggesting perhaps we (the entirety of the western world) shouldn't be invading other nations and spiriting away their people to secret prisons where they were tortured for information.
I was thinking, like most rational people would that 100 Degrees Celsius (boiling point of water) _would_ be way too hot and wondered how the servers could keep operating under such extreme conditions. Now in high temperature environments like mine sites we use self contained racks with their own AC unit. We occasionally use empty ones to chill beer.
But then I read this and realised they were using the backwards Fahrenheit measurement.
100 degree hot isles are too cold.
Now here I agree, 38 Degrees is not too hot so long as you aren't working there 8 hours a day. I'm sure datacentre staff have a nice climate controlled cubical to go back to so that is a non issue.
BTW, the strangest rack I've ever come across was one we deployed to a mine in Mongolia. Yes, you can get self contained racks with their own heater.
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Title had me confused with Cisco's IOS. Can we use proper names next time (iOS)?
How many people live with you in your cave?
It's not a cave, it's a Network Operations Centre.
So it's a tax dodge.
Well that just makes it all better. Especially in a nation where the national debt is spiralling out of control.
MS still have no problem offering a free version of Visual Studio. Does MS have a tax issue with Paint?
It's a bad excuse and you know it. Besides, you did not address the issue of Apple going back on its word, that Xcode was free and how many people parroted that. Unless this is one of those "we have always been at war with Eurasia" moments.
An IDE that Apple and it's fanboys made a big noise about being free, unlike another monopolistic competitor which is said not to offer a version of it's IDE for free.
The problem isn't that they're charging, it's that they are charging when they promised not to. It's a bait and switch. However this isn't the first time Apple have "altered the deal" and if you've locked your self in all you can do is "prey they do not alter it any further". It wont be the last time they do it either.
If MS started charging just $0.05 for Telnet the same people defending Apple would be up in arms. It's the level of sheer hypocrisy that annoys me.
Of course, after a dozen or so of those go out, you end up with two or three people sending a Reply All just to say "please stop sending your removal requests Reply All" The last one went out to 500 employees and I ended up with 40+ copies of the email in my inbox because of people being absolutely stupid.
There is a simple solution to this. All email clients need to be configured to pop up a warning dialog box if they are reply all to more then 50 people, it should say something like "you are replying to more then 50 people, are you sure you need to send this message to all of them". If the user clicks yes, machine gun armed drones will be dispatched to their cubicle.
I like the solution in K-9 Mail (android app) better.
The on screen menu has 'reply', you actually have to tap another button to get to 'reply-all'. It can be tedious, but it has prevented the reply-all issues in my case.
The Gmail application has had that functionality for some time now. Reply All is hidden (can be shown by pressing the arrow button that displays more buttons) and the only visible button is Reply. Once you're writing the reply you can choose between Reply, Reply All and Forward via a selection list via a selection list.
I blame outlook for not making reply the default and adding a reply all button next to the reply button.
Major is still a fairly high rank, I'm sure his pension hasn't been affected that much.
Guns are illegal? Didnt get that memo.
Neither are drugs, both are controlled.
I'm as critical of the war on terror as you are, but you have to remember the military's role in a democracy. It's not their job to decide when to go to war, with whom, for what reason. It is their job to *assume* the country's elected representatives have good reasons to go to war, and to prosecute that war as efficiently (in terms of lives and dollars) as possible.
Once upon a time,.
It was an armies job to defend a nation, ensure that it is capable and ready to deal with threats and when war was unavoidable, to win that conflict at all costs for the society it was charged with defending..
When did the army ever require efficiency?. Victory is their only real requirement.
Whilst there are tenants of the total war philosophy I disagree with, it's right in the fact that you cant fight a partial war. If you are not willing to be in a war 100% you are guaranteed to lose. This is why the US lost Vietnam (it doesn't matter how many battles you declared won, or how superior you were on paper, it matters who controlled Saigon now), this is why the US has lost Iraq and ultimately will end up losing in Afghanistan. The vast majority of a population must be willing to submit to a total and prolonged war, regardless as to loss of life or material costs.
Because they're unsure if the other person can hear them properly and it's easier to shout then the ask the simple question "can you hear me OK" - HTH.
There, fixed that for you.
I do ask if people can hear me because I like talking at a normal level, I'll also tell people when they are shouting at me and tell them to stop it, if they don't I hang up.
Most banks will permit you to keep a cheque once it's been cashed, especially a commemorative cheque. At worst they'll write "cleared" or some such on there to indicate it's been used.
I'm assuming you're talking about the UK.
The problem you have is that the infrastructure (copper/glass) is not separated from the sales/service part of it. So you essentially have a vertical monopoly and no reason to provide the best links to other ISP's. It's a problem that Australia suffered with despite regulation, first Telstra restricted access to the copper, when the govt put an end to that they restricted access to DSLAM's, when other ISP's installed their own they restricted access to the Exchanges, claiming they were all full.
Basically the best way to improve competition is to separate the medium (OSI L1 and L2) from the service (OSI L3 and 4). Basically you end up with a wholesaler that has a monopoly but no ability to sell to the general public. That's better then having lots of little monopolies on all four layers though. You get plenty of competition on the service side (Layer 3 and 4) which drives down costs to the end user. It's much easier to effectively control a monopoly in this fashion.
VDSL or Fibre?
If it's VDSL I call BS on you because once you get about 1 KM of copper between you and the exchange that speed drops to ADSL2 speeds (at the same distance).
If it's Fibre, I ask what their coverage is, and then call BS on you using that coverage data.
But what's the point?
When they can say, we'll throttle x connection down to 2 Mbit, what good is a sync speed of 100 Mbit?
The passage says whatever they want it to say.
Christianity is the same, the white supremacists operating out of the US can quote large tracts of the bible to prove that god made white men superior.
Show me one single organised religion that has not be politically co-opted. For crying out loud, the entire bible was re-written at least once, British kings changed entire tracts without blinking when it suited them (ye olde Henry and his six wives comes tom mind). I'm certain Rome has done the same.
So good luck with trying to tell them it's wrong. They will just say that your version is the mistranslation.
Virgin Media: Well we haven't upgraded our infrastructure and now we are having problems with sheep leaving our oversubscribed networks. They even have the gall to complain to regulatory authorities about us. So we think we can solve the problem by limiting a certain type of traffic which competes with one of our other business units.
You can expect VOIP and Youtube to be next.
This is why the Aussie NBN is a good thing, private providers will never upgrade the network if it has a choice.
US$8 for non-commercial use in high-income countries—a list that for the present purposes includes the USA, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, Israel, Singapore, and several of the Persian Gulf States (Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Brunei, and Bahrain), but not Canada.
I don't understand why Canada merits special favor, when her per-capita income is higher than most of Western Europe, Japan, Israel, and Japan.
I don't understand why Australia is in there. We're a nation of filthy pirates that should be lined up against the wall along with our maple loving mooseheaded shipmates according to the MPIAA.
Maybe, the MPIAA are trying to butter up the govt, for all the good it will do, Gillard or Abbott cant afford to become less popular at the moment.
But that has already happened.
Pricing for media in Australia is fixed as if the exchange rate is 0.5:1 AUD/USD. Currently it's 1.02:1.
Media prices are already enforcing a double standard. As an Australian I can legally buy games from Hong Kong for half the price of buying them locally. HK isn't much cheaper then the US (new release PC game goes for US$40-50). Why are the same games AU$80-100? If anyone says tax (which is 10%) I'll beat you with a club made from your own stupidity, AU courts permitted parallel importing because of double standards in pricing.
He could have a Windows Phone 7. BTW, 5 GB isn't hard to do if you leave a download going overnight (if you've got an Iphone and cant do this, now would be a good time to stick your fingers in your ears and go LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU). For general web browsing I use about 300 MB a month, if I tether to my PC for 2 weeks because my DSL was down that's another 500 MB without downloading anything, if I used it as my primary internet connection, I'd be going over 5 GB every month.
But my phone has a 1 GB cap, I've never gone over that because it's not my primary internet connection.
I deliberately make sure I do not do any work after 8 PM unless there is an emergency (READ: Something had better be on fire) for this very reason.
But I've taken to reading before trying to sleep of late, I read for 1 to 3 hours yet I'm having a harder time sleeping then when I spent the same time reading things on the internet or playing video games.
This is how I see it. Just like with the codec changes a few years ago that heralded a 30% price increase, the record labels want to raise the price yet again but Apple want to make it look like they're resisting.
Recording industry: We would like to raise prices for digital downloads.
Apple: Absolutely, we agree, after all we're getting a percentage.
Recording industry: Excellent, lets say another 30% added onto the RRP.
Apple: We have one minor provision though.
Recording industry: Provision?
Apple: Well, the plebs trust us, we've got an image to maintain and raising prices like this would be seen as being "evil" and "uncool" so we want to give a token gesture that would allow us to disguise this as something for their own good.
Recording industry: Pah, we care nothing for the sheep. What do you have in mind.
Apple: Something trivial, something they already have access to, say the ability to redownload songs they've already paid for.
Recording industry: Well I suppose so, we've already planned for the recordings we are releasing tomorrow to be outdated by next week, we'll be releasing the same recording with a new drum beat over the top. The sheep who does not have it will be the laughing stock of its herd.
Apple: Excellent.
No need to apologise,
Yours just happened to be the closest post.
but my rant stands,
6.2 billion people use Celsius, if not more. Why are we being held hostage to an out of date, arbitrary temperature system.
As a sysadmin, it makes my life hell, I get yelled at and threatened by my boss because he's annoyed at Viagra spam.
We have to spend thousands on email filtering software, even if the software is free, hundreds of man hours per year are still spent on maintaining it and that is never free. Spam has a real economic cost and a noticeable impact on the lives of many people. It's not just a little annoying, it's hell for the sysadmin's tasked with fighting it and it certainly isn't simply annoying for it's victims.
So kindly sod off with that kind of thinking.
December 2003: "the US is going to have to pay a lot to maintain this war" (shortly after, GWB said to the banks, "we cant afford a recession during a war", in retrospect the US couldn't afford not to).
July 2006 "I don't want to buy a house, the market is flooded, I'm only going to lose money" (referring to the Australian and US markets)
September 2007 "The US banking sector is unsustainable"
February 2009, "Why am I not surprised that I am only getting 24 Baht per AUD"
Hindsight is wonderful, foresight is even better.
Protesting all along. Not that the US ever listened to people like me, the people going into these secret prisons were all "enemies of freedom" I was told. I was called "ungrateful" for suggesting that we don't actually know this, a "terrorist sympathiser" for suggesting that trials should be open and not conducted by the US military and a "traitor" for suggesting perhaps we (the entirety of the western world) shouldn't be invading other nations and spiriting away their people to secret prisons where they were tortured for information.
So, you were saying.
But then I read this and realised they were using the backwards Fahrenheit measurement.
Now here I agree, 38 Degrees is not too hot so long as you aren't working there 8 hours a day. I'm sure datacentre staff have a nice climate controlled cubical to go back to so that is a non issue.
BTW, the strangest rack I've ever come across was one we deployed to a mine in Mongolia. Yes, you can get self contained racks with their own heater.
It's not like they are involved in multiple concurrent wars and need these spy drones for military purposes.
Sure about that one tiger?
OMG I laughed at the mental picture of a member of the Brass choking having inhaled one of their spy drones...
Imagine the recovery effort.
"Captain, drone 6 is emerging"
"Very good Leftenant, alert the recovery teams and let me know when we have splashdown."
Toy sized drones swallowed by British Air Marshall's at testing grounds, thought to be hors d'oeuvres.