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Fair trade:
Ole Milton Friedman says if Chinese workers are paid less than their counterparts in the US, it is the equivalent of China taxing its people to make us cheap goods. Let them do it!
Eventually, currency exchanges will even things out. We have seen that happen with regards to Japan. Remember in the 1980s when Japan's trade was so one sided they couldn't bring their profit dollars home. They had so many dollars if they started buying yen the yen would strengthen to the point of no trade advantage. The Japanese had to leave their profit dollars here in the US. They bought everything from Rockefeller Plazy to a golf course in my town. The effect was to drive up real estate prices here for a few years but, in the long run, they ended up selling their US properity for less than they paid for it. What goes around comes around!
Free trade:
I'm a staunch supporter of free trade. What ever we have going on between USA and Mexico isn't free trade.
I have a retired friend living on a sailboat in Mexico. He has one heck of a time getting anything through customs. Anything sent from the states cost again as much to get across the border. All of his friends that go to visit pack a change of shorts and 75 pounds of boat parts.
Canada isn't any better. They flood the US with subsidized natural resource goods (timber).
In my state, the Soviet of Washington, we always lag the rest of the country by two years coming out of a recession (911 induced). This inspite of the fact we lie in an ideal place on the Pacific Rim.
It would not be a surprise if our manufactoring jobs, Boeing, end up in Cotton's home town. Over the years, many Northern states have shipped their blue collar jobs to the Southern states. There is no reason for it except bad politics.
OT: Actually Blue, one of my relatives was a general in the Revolutionay War. His son was a general in the Confederecy and later founded the first institute of higher learning for 'colored folks'. It's a complex world and people do some amazing changing.
Dean is wrong to back off his statements to address the south. There are some pretty fine people living in the South and the so called 'fly over states'. Boston, LA, and Idaho have a higher density of racist than the South. The Demos handily lost Tenn. and Ark. They had better start drifting back towards the center.
I just think it is funny the elitist are swallowing hard now that Dean is making a pitch for the South and snuggling up to the NRA.
The way some of you talk, a yellow dog will be able to handily beat the idiotic , stupid Shrub. We shall see. Hilary doesn't think so. She has her boy Wes in there stirring up the mess so she can emerge from the fog in 2008.
dilleet: You too can make a difference. Fly the Confederate flag from your pick-up. Deaner, Deaner, Deaner
Lango, after the initial push to the early adopters, I haven't heard squat about .Mac. Remember it was you who pushed me into signing up.
The anywhere anytime e-mail address is still the most value in a membership. iSync is nice also.
Many DSL connections require an ISP besides. Why can't .Mac fill that requirement. Does an ISP do any more than provide a mail server?
Services...
When is Services going to be enabled in Safari? It would be nice to have a spell checker helping me spell 'volume' correctly.
.MAC renewal rate...
Let's not forget the automatic renewal feature. I believe you have to actually uncheck the box in your account or it just keeps coming. Remember the sales gimmick where they would send you the first volumn free and then you would have to sign and mail a form to keep the other volumnes and bills from coming. State AGs don't like that.
Linda,
Repairing privileges with Disk First Aid didn't work. I haven't bought Norton or Disk Warrior for X yet. Part of the reason for not buying either, is everything most always works pretty darn well even with the abuse I give a machine. This is the first hiccup and I expect an Apple fix soon or I know how to get around the problem.
"User profile"
I have some sort of corrupted Java issue on my PB (waiting for an Apple fix). The Java issue is only with my 'user profile'. It looks like a conflict with some preference file in the home directory. Deleting the obvious preference files didn't help. If I create a new user, the Java issue goes away.
Apple Care suggested I migrate to a new user and then start dumping old preference files back in. The old preference files are saved to a disk image when the old user is deleted.
The 'User profile' contains all of the key chains, high game scores, browser settings, bookmarks, etc... I don't want to start fresh and I don't want to migrate if at possible. Waiting for the Apple fix...
My man Robert Bork has it right on Microsoft. Sigh, he would have made such a good Supreme.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/146888_antitrust05.html
nickeltong...
I was told if you wish to migrate to a new user profile delete your present profile. Panther makes a disc image copy of the deleted user profile and stores this in either the home directory or computer directory, can't remember. I haven't heard of another way of generating a disc image of a user profile.
PS: Sorry but I'm having som 'i' and 'l' issues while typing.
OT: Dean Teamers..
I have a pick-up truck. Where do get one of them there Confederate
flags?
RichD...or hook your cable modem into a cheap router (may as well get a wireless router) and then you can connect with any number of computers and use your laptop anywhere in the house.
Company policy
There needs to be some flexibility in policy. One of my 17" LCDs took a tumble from the chart table to the deck (actually it was the second tumble that did it) and a small aluminim casting in the hinge broke.There is no way for me to buy this casting. Either send the whole monitor to Apple or nothing.
It looks like I'll have to have one made in a machine shop as the epoxy solution didn't work. It would be so easy for someone to call Apple's disiplay repair shop and have them send me this part. Charge me $50 for a $2 item. I don't care but, make me happy.
Group dynamics
You sure are right on with your understanding of development "sweet spot". The same principle applies across all walks of life. There needs to be more scholarship concerning "sweet spots' and thresholds.
"It is time Steve cleans house. "
At the several MacWorlds I've attended, Apple has lots of bright shiny faces peopling the floor but, it is always surprising the lack of depth in their knowledge. Most seem to be experts in one narrow aspect and have no general knowledge. Many seem not to be more than casual users.
FireWire hard drive problems...
How do you install a firmware update without mounting the drive? Boot into OS9 if you have it?
Microsoft and Google
Here we go again. Microsoft set to ruin another great service or at least cast a pall over a IPO.
Everytime you think you have a way around these guys (Virtual PC, etc.) they buy and dominate or kill off any hope. There should be a antitrust suit...never mind.
P. Jackson for Supreme Court
OT: Last years fires, southern Oregon etc., were in timber country. I don't think many homes were lost.
fmikehugo you'll love the 17" AlPB. I ordered mine from MacMall to get around the sales tax in my state and get some free stuff. Never again. The free stuff (refunds) have never showed. The extra free RAM cost $40 to have it installed (actually Apple did the installing). The HP printer refund has never showed so I paid an extra $100 for something I gave away.
Go Apple Stores!
Cotton: Java1.4
Seems there is a problem with Java and Panther
http://www.macintouch.com/panreader08.html
I've seen the warning in the above link since I installed Panther over the top of Jaguar rather than the clean install.
OT: Good for you Blue. Go Dean! (or Dukakis, or Nader, or Gray Davis,...)
Morbid econ thoughts...
In Daddy Shrub's day, everyone couldn't figure why the economy wasn't taking off. Everything was primed but, nothing was happening.
Some economist believe the ultimate trigger which got things rolling was the big huricane in Florida. All of a sudden a lot of insurance money was released for the rebuilding effort; people started building, buying, and working.
These people losing their homes to the fires of Calif. aren't going to start living in tents.
Lost my cable modem service due to a big wind storm...
Went down to the local cafe and tried to use their Wi-Fi. Everything worked automatically and great until I was logged on and paying and then both Safari and IE locked into an endless loop with Toshiba's splash page. Click on a bookmark and it would re-load the splash page. Oh well, it only cost $5 to learn that lesson.
T-Mobile at Starbucks works fine. In Panther, everything is automatic. Turn the PB on and it locates the only connection available. No need to fool around in System Preferences.
Panther is a great tweak. Besides Expose, nothing really jumps out at me but, almost everything works better.
Cotton: I'm using the freebie Scottrader Streamer.
Cotton: Scottrader works poorly in Panther launched thru Applet Launcher. It works but is real sluggish and is having some brushed metal artifact issue. The quote window and graph window try to work but just don't make it.
Of course, Scottrader works fine in IE in Panther. It really irrate me with all of this standard talk with Java and then MS is compelled to break everything. These enterprise outfits, like Ameitrade, that hire crappy programmers don't help.
Linda,
The original iTrip did not work on my newer iPod. The ports it plugged into were changed. It appears Griffin has a new iTrip for the newer iPods.
Cotton, I think Epose is the new window shade.
Reverse order printing with Epson
That feature is buried deep enough it would have been a long time for me to find it. Thanks for the heads up. Most all of my printing will benefit and I will be a better person for the less cursing.
Solving Applet Launcher launch problems
Deja vu of extension conflicts. Apple Support narrowed it down to a conflict in my user/library/preferences. In other words, Applet Launcher works fine in a new account. But to find the culprit in 'my account' I need to move the existing Preference folder to the desktop, re-start, and then add preferences back until it breaks. Thus, I will find the preference stopping Applet Launcher from launching.
Cotton: Panther, Java
Island and aaplTalk both work in Panther using Applet Launcher. I gave up trying to make Scottrader streamer work in Jaguar. if you ever have any luck making it work in Jaguar I would love to know the details.
I am calling Apple Support tomorrow because Applet Launcher works fine on the G4 922hz desktop but is goofy on the PBG4. It acts like it isn't launched yet it shows in the dock. I can't quit it from the dock and must use forced quit.
Besides Expose, I too didn't have any pressing need for Panther. It just feels better though. Everything is much crispier. I must have gotten use to the brushed metal look because I can't remember what Jaguar looked like. It still irrates me the date is grayed out under the time menu. What's with that?
The Help feature is starting to lag way behind. Also, I would like to see some services; namely, spell checking in each application.
Cotton: I took one of my 17" LCDs with me while boating around the Bering Sea. On two different occasions it hit the deck from the charting table; a 39" drop. Don't ask. Anyway, the monitor still works but I broke an aluminum bracket that fits in the foot spring gizmo. I have a repair shop working on a replacement as epoxy wasn't strong enough to make the repair.
Don't give up. Your town could be the assembler of the new Boeing 7E7. It is starting to sound like Boeing wants out of Washington State in the worse way.
Yofal, but where do I type the news server name? In Network system preferences there isn't an obvious place anymore.
Please help!
I have Comcast cable and I don't know how to set up a news server? Does Comcast have a news server? ATTBI did.
Tom, for Expose try quickly pressing the appropriate F key and releasing rather than pressing and holding.
Speaking of Java...
My Applet Launcher is dead! It won't open. Can anyone else open it?
Panther installed on both G4 922 and PB 17inch. Installation went smoothely.There does seem to be a performance increase. Expose is the only new feature that jumps out at me.
PANTHER rang the door bell.
My Panther is in Rancho Cordova (Mexico?)
Apple must have upgraded shipping since I didn't pay any extra for overnight and mine is suppose to be here by 3:00PM. Does Fed Ex require a signature?
Apple shipped my Panther this morning at 0230. Fed Ex still hasn't entered the tracking number so my copy is probably sitting on some pallet on an unnamed loading dock.
I plan to do a dirty install on both of my machines.
Most of the new features I've read about haven't struck me as 'must have'. Hope there is some under the hood performance increases and hope I'm surprised with the feature set.
Rich try calling Apple Support. I've always found someone to help me even if the machine is a few years old. Tell them you just bought some other Apple product (Quicktime Pro, .Mac, AppleWorks, keyboard, etc) and they usually let you slide.
There are a whole bunch of key combinations to hold down during attempted start-up to accomplish different things. Also, they might have you re-set the PMU (power management unit) inside the box.
The bottom line is Apple wants your machine to work. Call them.