while they haven't locked things out they sure haven't made it easy for developers (no documentation for hardware mostly). don't get me wrong, i like apple. i'm typing this up on a 12" AL book. but linux is far easier to install and run on x86 hardware than an apple branded machine.
are you losing sleep over the matter? if not. don't worry about it and get on with the better things in life. let the weenie at the other project be a weenie.
i never said you should. but it is unfortunately a problem we're going to have to live with. i just posted a way to get around it. until someone declares it illegal for us to leave the room during commericals.
tip: take those 15 minutes to go get popcorn, soda, go to the bathroom, gather up your kids, loved ones, pets, friends on the couch, chairs, beanbags. turn off the phone. turn down the lights. etc.
i always pop in a dvd, let it "boot" up, get past the FBI warning(s), commericals, intros, blah blah blah. come back 10 minutes later, it's at the menu waiting for you to go.
yeah. sucks that i have to do that. but hey, at least it gives me prep time.
well then. i imagine the people that moved to sirius to escape commericals will move to the competition for just that reason.
i abhor radio for the simple fact i can't stand commericals or the "dj's" and since both take up about 55 minutes of any given hour (and i can't stand the music on 99% of the public radio stations anyway) and that's why i happily bought an ipod almost 3 years ago now. keep it loaded up with songs and listen to it during my commute. no more radio. no more advertisements. no more annoying "dj's".
big deal. i can write a book on brain surgery, doesn't mean you'd want me to open up your head and start digging in! (note: i am not a brain surgeon in real life! nor do i play one on/.!)
well. considering apple is taking the hard drive from toshiba and the battery from someone else there isn't much else they can do. apple can only reduce the consumption of battery life of their parts, toshiba has to do their own (and i doubt it's as high a priority as increasing capacity) and as for battery manufacturers, people have been complaining for years that there are no real innovations in increased life in standard chemical batteries. come to think of it, i haven't heard much hype over fuel cells either lately..
jeeze. now our cars are going to nag us about our speed? what's next? why doesn't the car just phone in the ticket to the police?
if the government really didn't want us to speed they could just put governors in everyone's car and be done with it. why all these silly games, black boxes in cars, cars to recgonize signs, gps trackers?
fact of it all is, townships, counties even states NEED us to go above the "speed limit" else they wouldn't get to levy those hefty fines. governments make HUGE profits off of speeding tickets and it's big business.
maybe we need some sort of organized strike. have everyone agree NOT to speed one day out of the year. wonder how much money would be lost and how much those governments would be mad. and the poor police, they'd have to sit around eating doughnuts all day.:-(
if someone had a butt-ugly mp3 player that had 24 hrs of battery life and 80g of storage and it was the same price as a beautiful mp3 player that had 4 hrs of battery life and 10g of storage you'd still get the pretty one? come on. you buy a mp3 player to LISTEN TO MUSIC, not gawk at it's astetics.
yeah. the ipod is very nice to look at and the interface is pretty much the one to beat. but if you're buying it on looks alone that's pretty stupid. how often do you shove your mp3 player in your pocket/backpack/whatever anyway?
correct. but after moving your home directory to/tmp MacOS X will crash out forcing the user to reboot. unless you know what is going on and are smart enough to stop it immediately and boot off of CD to try and restore your home directory you are screwed. same end result. he probably did it this way because he didn't have permissions to delete some of the files in your home directory (some apps run as root or some other user and have temp files in yoru home dir) but the running user would have permissions to move his home directory. MacOS X cleans up/tmp on boot automatically regardless of who owns the files.
would i ever even consider trying a demo by this author. if he HAD code in to do something destructive like that what's to say that it is stable and bug free? ok. he turned it off (for now). maybe he'll turn it back on one day. maybe he'll slip up and it'll be re-enabled one day. maybe it has a bug and goes off after 90 days regardless if you registered or not. saying "only pirates have something to worry about" is foolish.
i'm all for authors protecting their work, but when they do things like this they've crossed the line. i could never recommend ANY software this author helped develop. if someone did this in a corporation they'd be subject to criminal charges
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while they haven't locked things out they sure haven't made it easy for developers (no documentation for hardware mostly). don't get me wrong, i like apple. i'm typing this up on a 12" AL book. but linux is far easier to install and run on x86 hardware than an apple branded machine.
will apple every allow it? hahaah.. maybe you can run osx & os9.. but you can bet they'll restrict it from running anything else..
what ever happened to the chrp machines that would multi-boot apple's OS + anything else you wanted?
are you losing sleep over the matter? if not. don't worry about it and get on with the better things in life. let the weenie at the other project be a weenie.
i never said you should. but it is unfortunately a problem we're going to have to live with. i just posted a way to get around it. until someone declares it illegal for us to leave the room during commericals.
uh. hit the - key (or skip back, whatever your remote says) not a big issue. unless they block that out too. haha..
as for not wanting to hear the opening music over and over, turn off the sound until you're ready to hear it. shrug.
tip: take those 15 minutes to go get popcorn, soda, go to the bathroom, gather up your kids, loved ones, pets, friends on the couch, chairs, beanbags. turn off the phone. turn down the lights. etc.
i always pop in a dvd, let it "boot" up, get past the FBI warning(s), commericals, intros, blah blah blah. come back 10 minutes later, it's at the menu waiting for you to go.
yeah. sucks that i have to do that. but hey, at least it gives me prep time.
actually, it isn't. you need to buy a license for it just like the mac & windows versions.
I for one welcome our Solaris Wielding Overlords.
well then. i imagine the people that moved to sirius to escape commericals will move to the competition for just that reason.
i abhor radio for the simple fact i can't stand commericals or the "dj's" and since both take up about 55 minutes of any given hour (and i can't stand the music on 99% of the public radio stations anyway) and that's why i happily bought an ipod almost 3 years ago now. keep it loaded up with songs and listen to it during my commute. no more radio. no more advertisements. no more annoying "dj's".
big deal. i can write a book on brain surgery, doesn't mean you'd want me to open up your head and start digging in! (note: i am not a brain surgeon in real life! nor do i play one on /.!)
guess what. the old fashioned method still works. just hang up on them. regardless of what CID says. duh.
or. ever try screening with an answering machine..? that works well too!
ok. so look at it this way then. it's a 60g ipod. bigger than the current 40g ipods.
;-)
no one says you HAVE to use the photo capabilites and if you hate color screens only store black and white photos on it and pretend.
well. considering apple is taking the hard drive from toshiba and the battery from someone else there isn't much else they can do. apple can only reduce the consumption of battery life of their parts, toshiba has to do their own (and i doubt it's as high a priority as increasing capacity) and as for battery manufacturers, people have been complaining for years that there are no real innovations in increased life in standard chemical batteries. come to think of it, i haven't heard much hype over fuel cells either lately..
ok.. so a few short paragraphs into the article i see:
"So the Perkinses turned to Jaysen's therapist, Kim McDaniel, for help."
wait a minute. this kid already has a therapist? so he already has issues?
so much for being worried about such a wide-spread problem.
remember, video game cartridges don't kill people, sticking a fork in a toaster does.
does that mean it just doesn't matter?
jeeze. now our cars are going to nag us about our speed? what's next? why doesn't the car just phone in the ticket to the police?
:-(
if the government really didn't want us to speed they could just put governors in everyone's car and be done with it. why all these silly games, black boxes in cars, cars to recgonize signs, gps trackers?
fact of it all is, townships, counties even states NEED us to go above the "speed limit" else they wouldn't get to levy those hefty fines. governments make HUGE profits off of speeding tickets and it's big business.
maybe we need some sort of organized strike. have everyone agree NOT to speed one day out of the year. wonder how much money would be lost and how much those governments would be mad. and the poor police, they'd have to sit around eating doughnuts all day.
hey. here's a clue..
CPD can stand for whatever anyone wants it to stand for
Cats Pursue Dreams
Can't Predict Dorks
C*nts Prefer D*cks
It stands for whatever I want it to stand for because I say that's what it stands for. Duh.
stupid AC's..
na. just felt like pointing out the obvious to the anonymous poster from the CPD who decided to troll on /.
actually, i was quoting the author's explanation for what CPD should stand for. if you had read the article you'd see that..
erm. rather than posting here as AC why don't you email them and tell them that? maybe they will offer that as well.
actually. i own a 12" powerbook and a few older apple products. but no, i don't worship at the altar of steve jobs.
if someone had a butt-ugly mp3 player that had 24 hrs of battery life and 80g of storage and it was the same price as a beautiful mp3 player that had 4 hrs of battery life and 10g of storage you'd still get the pretty one? come on. you buy a mp3 player to LISTEN TO MUSIC, not gawk at it's astetics.
yeah. the ipod is very nice to look at and the interface is pretty much the one to beat. but if you're buying it on looks alone that's pretty stupid. how often do you shove your mp3 player in your pocket/backpack/whatever anyway?
I, for one, welcome our USB Overlords.
correct. but after moving your home directory to /tmp MacOS X will crash out forcing the user to reboot. unless you know what is going on and are smart enough to stop it immediately and boot off of CD to try and restore your home directory you are screwed. same end result. he probably did it this way because he didn't have permissions to delete some of the files in your home directory (some apps run as root or some other user and have temp files in yoru home dir) but the running user would have permissions to move his home directory. MacOS X cleans up /tmp on boot automatically regardless of who owns the files.
would i ever even consider trying a demo by this author. if he HAD code in to do something destructive like that what's to say that it is stable and bug free? ok. he turned it off (for now). maybe he'll turn it back on one day. maybe he'll slip up and it'll be re-enabled one day. maybe it has a bug and goes off after 90 days regardless if you registered or not. saying "only pirates have something to worry about" is foolish.
i'm all for authors protecting their work, but when they do things like this they've crossed the line. i could never recommend ANY software this author helped develop. if someone did this in a corporation they'd be subject to criminal charges