Our process for patching external projects is pretty straightforward (https://opensource.google.com/docs/patching/). Tell your buddies to contact me (they can look me up in our internal directory) and I can try to help address their concerns. -Will Norris
> I've always found it intriguing that a programmer who could > master several arcane computer languages (especially since > computers are notably intolerant of errors), could fail so utterly > to master his own native human language.
I believe it is precisely the fact that spoken or written languages ARE tolerant of errors that prevents people from mastering them. I'm reminded of an email that's floated around for a long time referring to some university study where a paragraph of text was still legible even though every single word was egregiously mispelled. It was close, and therefore "close enough" to effectively communicate a message.
You can see this same thing when comparing programming languages -- many of the more strict ones force you to write clearer and better code, while more lax languages allow you to write really bad code and get away it. (Of course, there are always exceptions to that)
interestingly, I was able to use this two finger scrolling driver in firefox with no modifications. Has anyone else experience this, or know why it works for some and not others?
if you've never really used OS X before, this is definitely a decent machine to get you used to the mac world. Buy one, use it for 6 months, and if you totally fall in love with the mac way of doing thing then work into something bigger like a Powerbook or G5 iMac/PowerMac. You won't feel so bad about buying a whole new computer so soon down the road considering this one only set you back $500. And if you don't like it... again, it was only $500.
However if you're already a Mac user, I wouldn't imagine the mini would be all that attractive as far as computing power and such, unless all you're looking for is to add a small workstation to that tiny desk in your living room or something.
perhaps i'm unclear... are you suggesting to write to sony, dell, et al and ask them to support m4p files? It's not that they don't want to... who wouldn't want to have a piece of apple's pie? - iTMS is by far the largest online music store around. the problem is that apple hasn't released the specs on fairplay, so these other manufacturers physically can't create a player that will play m4p files.
while easier, i think the obvious attraction to ripping & burning is that there is no question that it is granted by the iTMS TOS and therefore perfectly legal. Just reading through some of the replies on here should make it quite clear that there is still much debate as to whether usage of HYMN is legal.
no, what he's saying is that when you purchase a track from iTMS, you are granted certain rights and you agree to do only what they say you can do with the track. one of those rights they give you is the right to burn it to a CD. however, they also explicitly say (from my understanding) you cannot circumvent the DRM encryption in the manner that HYMN uses.
is it a raw deal that they dictate what you can do? perhaps, but you agreed to it when you bought the song.
you're going to law school, and are proposing this? i'm sure hoping that's not copyright law you're planning on going into! i think the idea here for a book exchange program is to do it cheaply but also LEGALLY.
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Our process for patching external projects is pretty straightforward (https://opensource.google.com/docs/patching/). Tell your buddies to contact me (they can look me up in our internal directory) and I can try to help address their concerns. -Will Norris
> I've always found it intriguing that a programmer who could
> master several arcane computer languages (especially since
> computers are notably intolerant of errors), could fail so utterly
> to master his own native human language.
I believe it is precisely the fact that spoken or written languages ARE tolerant of errors that prevents people from mastering them. I'm reminded of an email that's floated around for a long time referring to some university study where a paragraph of text was still legible even though every single word was egregiously mispelled. It was close, and therefore "close enough" to effectively communicate a message.
You can see this same thing when comparing programming languages -- many of the more strict ones force you to write clearer and better code, while more lax languages allow you to write really bad code and get away it. (Of course, there are always exceptions to that)
interestingly, I was able to use this two finger scrolling driver in firefox with no modifications. Has anyone else experience this, or know why it works for some and not others?
if you've never really used OS X before, this is definitely a decent machine to get you used to the mac world. Buy one, use it for 6 months, and if you totally fall in love with the mac way of doing thing then work into something bigger like a Powerbook or G5 iMac/PowerMac. You won't feel so bad about buying a whole new computer so soon down the road considering this one only set you back $500. And if you don't like it... again, it was only $500.
However if you're already a Mac user, I wouldn't imagine the mini would be all that attractive as far as computing power and such, unless all you're looking for is to add a small workstation to that tiny desk in your living room or something.
perhaps i'm unclear... are you suggesting to write to sony, dell, et al and ask them to support m4p files? It's not that they don't want to... who wouldn't want to have a piece of apple's pie? - iTMS is by far the largest online music store around. the problem is that apple hasn't released the specs on fairplay, so these other manufacturers physically can't create a player that will play m4p files.
while easier, i think the obvious attraction to ripping & burning is that there is no question that it is granted by the iTMS TOS and therefore perfectly legal. Just reading through some of the replies on here should make it quite clear that there is still much debate as to whether usage of HYMN is legal.
no, what he's saying is that when you purchase a track from iTMS, you are granted certain rights and you agree to do only what they say you can do with the track. one of those rights they give you is the right to burn it to a CD. however, they also explicitly say (from my understanding) you cannot circumvent the DRM encryption in the manner that HYMN uses.
is it a raw deal that they dictate what you can do? perhaps, but you agreed to it when you bought the song.
you're going to law school, and are proposing this? i'm sure hoping that's not copyright law you're planning on going into! i think the idea here for a book exchange program is to do it cheaply but also LEGALLY.