Comment Re:It's easy (Score 1) 881
Does it make me a bad person if my immediate reaction to someone who would respond this way is to omit the "or yourself" part?
Does it make me a bad person if my immediate reaction to someone who would respond this way is to omit the "or yourself" part?
Any application you start after changing the setting should respect the setting. Otherwise, if you want all your apps (including Finder) to use it, you can just log out and log back in.
Or you can use Mac OS X's (incomplete and officially unsupported) Resolution Independence to scale the entire GUI. If you want your interface to be 25% larger than normal, open up a Terminal and enter:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.25
To get it back to normal, just enter:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.00
defaults delete NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor
[Photoshop] certainly is an extremely useful tool and can't be banned outright, however, they could impose very clear limits on retouching photos of people.
Who is "they" and how would they impose these arbitrary limits on photo retouching?
The problem isn't necessarily with the advertising agencies who are trying their best to fool us that their client/product is "better" than they actually are. That's what they've always done and that is what they will continue to do.
The problem is with the increasing number of people in our society who lack critical thinking skills and don't question what is presented to them.
What's nefarious about this particular DMCA take down notice is that its only purpose is to squelch critical opinion on advertising techniques. (It is also just another example of how the DMCA has little to do with copyright protection and is more about handing over control of our culture to the media companies).
Your logic would be spot on if Microsoft's Mac offering were indeed direct ports of their Windows counterparts. But they are not.
One of the major reasons the MBU exists is because of the horribly ill-fated idea of throwing out the Mac-native Word for Mac 5.0/5.1 and using the Word for Windows 2.0/3.0 codebase to come up with Word 6.0 for both Mac and Windows. (You can read details of this debacle directly from a MBU employee).
The majority of Microsoft's Mac products are complete re-implementations of the features in their Windows counterparts (and the reason why there is not complete feature-parity between the two versions).
I think the reason that the MBU has such high profit margins is that are fewer "cooks in the kitchen" relative to Microsoft's Windows-related projects. It's a small group of dedicated employees who are in the unenviable position of trying to make great Mac software while being viewed by some on the outside as just more drones from the evil Windows empire.
To all of the righteous "downloading is a crime" types: get some priorities and complain about things that really matter, children.
Wait. What about how illegal downloading effects the children of the intellectual "property" owners (who, by the way are hardly ever the intellectual property creators). My god, at this rate they will only be able to afford 1 italian sports car and not 2 or more!
I'd rather just believe that it's done by little elves running around.