What I love is this from their FAQ:
Can I run updates: The answer is yes and no. No because there are some updates that are decidedly non-safe. Yes because most updates are not non-safe. It's best to check on InsanelyMac for this information but when in doubt don't update it. You may have to reinstall your OS X if it is a non-safe update. I see this blowing up in their faces big time.
Unfortunately, some universities have gone to just locking down their firewalls on campus and make the students in the dorms pay for their own internet through a local provider. That way the University does not get in trouble. Unfortunately you then have to contact the one guy who controls the firewall if you need to use anything that he has not already punched a hole for.
For all the MAC users out there, I have found that NeoOffice (www.neooffice.org) is able to open and edit.docx format. It is a little weird on printing the format, but if you "save as" to an earlier format like word 6, then it opens and prints fine.
One problem with all of these arguments about the wonders of linux (mostly Ubuntu)is that most of the rabid linux supporters who rail at OSX have been using linux for a long time and know how to fix something when an installer screws up or it does not install a needed package to run a program. They say that the average Joe can pickup Ubuntu and use it. I completely agree with that, but the flaw in this argument is that Joe Public is not savvy enough to know what things are or how to install and use them without the help of the technophile who suggested installing it. I have seen these sort of people install Ubuntu and other linux distros and what I see is that the novelty of the free OS wears off and they end up going back to what they have always used. The thing about OSX is that you have a stable and secure platform that still has the software that most people are familiar with instead of a knockoff of the software that may or may not have all of the features you use. Having the software that people use on a regular basis on a non-microsoft OS is one of OSX's strong points. Another strong point is the ease of installing and removing programs (just drag and drop the icon). Can Windows claim this kind of program management ease? Can any flavor of Linux? No they can't, unless Ubuntu completely changed the way linux handles programs. With OSX there is no need for a "installer", even though some programs still use one, because all the files used for running the program (with only a couple of exceptions) are located within that "icon". For the end user it does not matter how this 'one icon' system is accomplished. You can argue all day how easy it is to install and manage programs on linux, or even windows. But you cannot argue that the way OSX handles programs is easier for the end user than anything out there. Example. I want to download a program from the web. OSX - download DMG file. Open DMG. Drag icon to Application folder (or wherever you want to put it). Run program. Linux - (if the program is not listed in the OS as an auto install program, which a lot are) Download a gzip archive. Unzip contents to a folder somewhere on the hard drive (most users would lose the files at this point). Follow web instructions on how to compile and install the program. Find out you do not have all the packages required. Download other packages and install with help of online instructions. Possibly repeat this step 3 or 4 times. Finally compile and install the program. Even if there is a RPM style install they still have to deal with dependencies that are not always there.
I know this will be flamed because it is the nature of/. but I am not dogging linux. I am just saying that for the average joe user it still may not be the right choice unless their techie friend is always there to lend a hand.
It is a large temptation to sneak a peek at what people do on their machines. Mostly for chuckles later when you find out bob in accounting is into bondage. But is the risk of finding something that you may have to report to someone worth the chuckle? Most of the time it is not a big deal because this type of discovery is, fortunately, not a common occurance.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. I used to work for a large retail chain here in the US and we had managers who would deny services like this when questioned by unknowing warm body tech workers. Just because that one manager said no does not mean that his word is the law for all of the store. The next step would be to speak to either a different manager or speak with the store's general manager. Usually, if it goes all the way to the GM you will get what you want. If taking those steps does not help then it is time to go and speak with their corporate office where they usually bow and scrape to the customers because they have no idea how it is out in the real world cause they live in a world of fantastical numbers and to hear from an actual human is a wondrous thing, and they must make this mythical "consumer" feel like they care. If you still don't get satisfaction...then it is time to start a holy crusade upon the chain...but usually it does not get that far.
Evil is subjective. What universal law tells us that murder, stealing, rape and various other things are evil? Evil is a social ideal. There have been known to be tribes of people who practice ritual sacrifice, some that practice cannibalism, and some that stone people to death just for speaking out of turn. Are these people inherently evil? You might say yes because your social upbringing has taught so. But what about those people who grow up and are taught differently? I guarantee that if one of those people sat in front of a mirror, they would be able to look at themselves proudly. And in their mind, what you might deem as "evil" they can justify and not feel ashamed. Do you think a racist looks in a mirror and feels shame because of their intolerance? No. The feel righteous in their views. I am not saying I condone or like intolerance, violence, rape, and murder, but people have to realize that even though you might see something as inherently evil, another culture might see it as normalcy. Don't make assumptions for the world because there is always someone somewhere that can prove you wrong, even if they are a minority.
Ok that crap is a cop-out. If the child is acting up like that in any public place you at least need to teach them that that sort of behavior is not ok. I have a 4-year old son and he knows better then to cause a hissy fit in a public place. They begin throwing a tantrum, take them outside and make them sit a time-out on a bench and if the behavior continues or they will not listen then a pop on the butt is called for. If it still continues then it is time to go home where they can't do anything they want to do..no TV no toys, etc. Eventually they will get the message. Yes it may be an inconvenience to you, but if you curb this sort of behavior then they will learn how to behave. Just because you become a parent does not mean that you should now ignore common courtesy for people around you. Remember how annoying crying kids were before you had one. Think about that next time your kid throws a fit and you decide to ignore him/her.
If you have two people working 10+ hours a day and are only able to scrape by then they need to go find a place to live with a cheaper cost of living. We live in the rural south and it is completely doable to live decently making 30k a year between the two working parents (15k a year each). Of course this is assuming that the people you speak of have better life goals and skills than working at McDonalds.
Ah yes...one step closer to a society that takes no responsibility for anything their children do. I guess you could argue that using a technology such as a super V chip helps parents automatically filter content that they are concerned their kids will see. Unfortunately, as a computer tech, I see so many parents ask tech shops about spying software and filtering software so they don't have to actively monitor what their kids are doing. If a parent is worried with who their kid is chatting with online then they need to be involved and ask. Parents have built in monitoring called "looking". I know its a low-tech foreign concept but it works. If you are open and honest with your kids, actively talk to them about dangers, keep them using search engines that filter bad content by default (like google) and watching what they are doing and who they are talking to on the internet then things like this are not needed. But that would take too much responsibility I guess.
All I read was the title. I am so glad that someone has finally created a useful virus to eliminate all the really bad films that have come out lately.
What do you mean thats not what the article is about?...damn there goes my mod points..sigh..
Unless they are assigning static IP addresses to each student I don't see how they can gaurentee that these letters would get to the right people if they are only going by IP. Now if they are logging all traffic and downloads of each and every user by username then I suppose this could be solid, but with dynamic IP addys there is no way to know if the IP might have moved on to another student, say, after a holiday break when the DHCP licence expires and gives it to another machine upon the return of students. I think we might see some false accusations.
This is a lesson to everyone who goes to parties and has someone take their picture. Wearing a pirate hat while holding a cup and giving the "peace" sign constitutes underage drinking no matter what age you are. Beware, peace sign giving, cup holding, pirate hat wearing can lead to harder things like Tumbler holding and even beanie wearing. Just say no kids.
Ok, am I the only one who doesn't see the blatant images of alcohol consumption? All I see is somone having a good time at a party. Anything could be in that Mr. Goodbar cup. So teachers are not allowed to have fun and socialize? I had no idea that all teachers were supposed to be priests and nuns. Even if she WAS drunk, which I do not think the pictures prove, so what? As somone pointed out above, the math does not add up to being underage.
The thing I keep seeing is that people are saying that Anthony was squatting on the "official" Obama myspace url. Well how is that possible when the page was posted before Obama had even put his hat in the race? And the URL's that he is supposedly "squatting" on are first come first serve. Now that there is a precident for it all Myspacers should complain because somone else has "their" name and lets see how may sites they yank from people. I would say this guy was a squatter if he had not put so much time and effort into the site, because that is not the defination of a squatter. If he had taken the URL and left just a blank page with no info at all, THEN I would say that the actions taken were justified. Now I know how Anthony feels...if I spent all my spare time getting something like this together and then somone comes in and wants to take it from me and leave me out of it, then I would want to be compensated too. And I gaurentee you that they guys who are now in charge of the "Official" obama page now are making well over 40k a year (and Anthony worked on this for over 2 years).
I have experienced the IMAX 3d as well as the Real D (took my kid to see meet the robinsons). There is quite a diffrence between the two. I did get a headache in the IMAX movie and the glasses were horrible. The Real D movie that we went to see, they handed everyone a packaged, never work, pair of 3d glasses which had nice big lenses that made it comfortable to wear, even with glasses on (I wear glasses). The 3d was great. No headaches and for the most part, you almost forget your wearing the glasses.
I disagree. I have been running OSX versions 10.2 to 10.4 on 512MB of memory on a powerbook g4 and it runs like a champ. And I am not your average word process/internet guy. I do a lot of graphic design and photo manipulations. Sure more memory would be nice but the fact is that OSX runs well on 512.
At least they had the balls to admit that something was wrong and try to take steps to fix it. It will be intresting to see if they recall the ones already sold.
I was thinking bone marrow possibly or reminants of hair or some such items trapped within the fossels. I think you can get DNA from marrow but I may be wrong...
This is pretty awesome. I know this has been a theory for many years now but to have it actually confirmed is another win for the scientific community. Its times like this that it boggles my mind how some people of faith can ignore all proof of evolution.
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If I were wanting to show a really compelling case via search terms I would use "bible, jesus, porn, surfing, nascar". "Porn" blows them all out of the water. Here is my Google trends search for that area in the last 30 days with these terms
See Honey, it's HP's fault that porn was on our computer! All 3 terrabytes of it...nasty bugs. *whistles innocently*
Unfortunately, some universities have gone to just locking down their firewalls on campus and make the students in the dorms pay for their own internet through a local provider. That way the University does not get in trouble. Unfortunately you then have to contact the one guy who controls the firewall if you need to use anything that he has not already punched a hole for.
Where else are they going to contain the evil emanating from the server hosting goatse?
For all the MAC users out there, I have found that NeoOffice (www.neooffice.org) is able to open and edit .docx format. It is a little weird on printing the format, but if you "save as" to an earlier format like word 6, then it opens and prints fine.
One problem with all of these arguments about the wonders of linux (mostly Ubuntu)is that most of the rabid linux supporters who rail at OSX have been using linux for a long time and know how to fix something when an installer screws up or it does not install a needed package to run a program. They say that the average Joe can pickup Ubuntu and use it. I completely agree with that, but the flaw in this argument is that Joe Public is not savvy enough to know what things are or how to install and use them without the help of the technophile who suggested installing it. I have seen these sort of people install Ubuntu and other linux distros and what I see is that the novelty of the free OS wears off and they end up going back to what they have always used. The thing about OSX is that you have a stable and secure platform that still has the software that most people are familiar with instead of a knockoff of the software that may or may not have all of the features you use. Having the software that people use on a regular basis on a non-microsoft OS is one of OSX's strong points. Another strong point is the ease of installing and removing programs (just drag and drop the icon). Can Windows claim this kind of program management ease? Can any flavor of Linux? No they can't, unless Ubuntu completely changed the way linux handles programs. With OSX there is no need for a "installer", even though some programs still use one, because all the files used for running the program (with only a couple of exceptions) are located within that "icon". For the end user it does not matter how this 'one icon' system is accomplished. You can argue all day how easy it is to install and manage programs on linux, or even windows. But you cannot argue that the way OSX handles programs is easier for the end user than anything out there. Example. I want to download a program from the web. OSX - download DMG file. Open DMG. Drag icon to Application folder (or wherever you want to put it). Run program. Linux - (if the program is not listed in the OS as an auto install program, which a lot are) Download a gzip archive. Unzip contents to a folder somewhere on the hard drive (most users would lose the files at this point). Follow web instructions on how to compile and install the program. Find out you do not have all the packages required. Download other packages and install with help of online instructions. Possibly repeat this step 3 or 4 times. Finally compile and install the program. Even if there is a RPM style install they still have to deal with dependencies that are not always there. I know this will be flamed because it is the nature of /. but I am not dogging linux. I am just saying that for the average joe user it still may not be the right choice unless their techie friend is always there to lend a hand.
It is a large temptation to sneak a peek at what people do on their machines. Mostly for chuckles later when you find out bob in accounting is into bondage. But is the risk of finding something that you may have to report to someone worth the chuckle? Most of the time it is not a big deal because this type of discovery is, fortunately, not a common occurance.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. I used to work for a large retail chain here in the US and we had managers who would deny services like this when questioned by unknowing warm body tech workers. Just because that one manager said no does not mean that his word is the law for all of the store. The next step would be to speak to either a different manager or speak with the store's general manager. Usually, if it goes all the way to the GM you will get what you want. If taking those steps does not help then it is time to go and speak with their corporate office where they usually bow and scrape to the customers because they have no idea how it is out in the real world cause they live in a world of fantastical numbers and to hear from an actual human is a wondrous thing, and they must make this mythical "consumer" feel like they care. If you still don't get satisfaction...then it is time to start a holy crusade upon the chain...but usually it does not get that far.
Evil is subjective. What universal law tells us that murder, stealing, rape and various other things are evil? Evil is a social ideal. There have been known to be tribes of people who practice ritual sacrifice, some that practice cannibalism, and some that stone people to death just for speaking out of turn. Are these people inherently evil? You might say yes because your social upbringing has taught so. But what about those people who grow up and are taught differently? I guarantee that if one of those people sat in front of a mirror, they would be able to look at themselves proudly. And in their mind, what you might deem as "evil" they can justify and not feel ashamed. Do you think a racist looks in a mirror and feels shame because of their intolerance? No. The feel righteous in their views. I am not saying I condone or like intolerance, violence, rape, and murder, but people have to realize that even though you might see something as inherently evil, another culture might see it as normalcy. Don't make assumptions for the world because there is always someone somewhere that can prove you wrong, even if they are a minority.
Ok that crap is a cop-out. If the child is acting up like that in any public place you at least need to teach them that that sort of behavior is not ok. I have a 4-year old son and he knows better then to cause a hissy fit in a public place. They begin throwing a tantrum, take them outside and make them sit a time-out on a bench and if the behavior continues or they will not listen then a pop on the butt is called for. If it still continues then it is time to go home where they can't do anything they want to do..no TV no toys, etc. Eventually they will get the message. Yes it may be an inconvenience to you, but if you curb this sort of behavior then they will learn how to behave. Just because you become a parent does not mean that you should now ignore common courtesy for people around you. Remember how annoying crying kids were before you had one. Think about that next time your kid throws a fit and you decide to ignore him/her.
If you have two people working 10+ hours a day and are only able to scrape by then they need to go find a place to live with a cheaper cost of living. We live in the rural south and it is completely doable to live decently making 30k a year between the two working parents (15k a year each). Of course this is assuming that the people you speak of have better life goals and skills than working at McDonalds.
Ah yes...one step closer to a society that takes no responsibility for anything their children do. I guess you could argue that using a technology such as a super V chip helps parents automatically filter content that they are concerned their kids will see. Unfortunately, as a computer tech, I see so many parents ask tech shops about spying software and filtering software so they don't have to actively monitor what their kids are doing. If a parent is worried with who their kid is chatting with online then they need to be involved and ask. Parents have built in monitoring called "looking". I know its a low-tech foreign concept but it works. If you are open and honest with your kids, actively talk to them about dangers, keep them using search engines that filter bad content by default (like google) and watching what they are doing and who they are talking to on the internet then things like this are not needed. But that would take too much responsibility I guess.
I can just see it now. The little help icon looks like a sleazy car salesman. "I see you are typing a letter, Would you like to buy some Cialis?"
All I read was the title. I am so glad that someone has finally created a useful virus to eliminate all the really bad films that have come out lately. What do you mean thats not what the article is about?...damn there goes my mod points..sigh..
Unless they are assigning static IP addresses to each student I don't see how they can gaurentee that these letters would get to the right people if they are only going by IP. Now if they are logging all traffic and downloads of each and every user by username then I suppose this could be solid, but with dynamic IP addys there is no way to know if the IP might have moved on to another student, say, after a holiday break when the DHCP licence expires and gives it to another machine upon the return of students. I think we might see some false accusations.
In other news... Icy Hot CEO's caught sabotageing NASA equipment.
This is a lesson to everyone who goes to parties and has someone take their picture. Wearing a pirate hat while holding a cup and giving the "peace" sign constitutes underage drinking no matter what age you are. Beware, peace sign giving, cup holding, pirate hat wearing can lead to harder things like Tumbler holding and even beanie wearing. Just say no kids.
Ok, am I the only one who doesn't see the blatant images of alcohol consumption? All I see is somone having a good time at a party. Anything could be in that Mr. Goodbar cup. So teachers are not allowed to have fun and socialize? I had no idea that all teachers were supposed to be priests and nuns. Even if she WAS drunk, which I do not think the pictures prove, so what? As somone pointed out above, the math does not add up to being underage.
The thing I keep seeing is that people are saying that Anthony was squatting on the "official" Obama myspace url. Well how is that possible when the page was posted before Obama had even put his hat in the race? And the URL's that he is supposedly "squatting" on are first come first serve. Now that there is a precident for it all Myspacers should complain because somone else has "their" name and lets see how may sites they yank from people. I would say this guy was a squatter if he had not put so much time and effort into the site, because that is not the defination of a squatter. If he had taken the URL and left just a blank page with no info at all, THEN I would say that the actions taken were justified. Now I know how Anthony feels...if I spent all my spare time getting something like this together and then somone comes in and wants to take it from me and leave me out of it, then I would want to be compensated too. And I gaurentee you that they guys who are now in charge of the "Official" obama page now are making well over 40k a year (and Anthony worked on this for over 2 years).
I have experienced the IMAX 3d as well as the Real D (took my kid to see meet the robinsons). There is quite a diffrence between the two. I did get a headache in the IMAX movie and the glasses were horrible. The Real D movie that we went to see, they handed everyone a packaged, never work, pair of 3d glasses which had nice big lenses that made it comfortable to wear, even with glasses on (I wear glasses). The 3d was great. No headaches and for the most part, you almost forget your wearing the glasses.
I disagree. I have been running OSX versions 10.2 to 10.4 on 512MB of memory on a powerbook g4 and it runs like a champ. And I am not your average word process/internet guy. I do a lot of graphic design and photo manipulations. Sure more memory would be nice but the fact is that OSX runs well on 512.
At least they had the balls to admit that something was wrong and try to take steps to fix it. It will be intresting to see if they recall the ones already sold.
I was thinking bone marrow possibly or reminants of hair or some such items trapped within the fossels. I think you can get DNA from marrow but I may be wrong...
This is pretty awesome. I know this has been a theory for many years now but to have it actually confirmed is another win for the scientific community. Its times like this that it boggles my mind how some people of faith can ignore all proof of evolution.