I remember that the MacII originally was advertised as supporting 128 meg of RAM, but when Apple release a version of MacOS that could support that much RAM, it would only support 68 meg on the II, and would not support virtual memory.
However, if you bought Connectix's Mode32, that would patch MacOS to support 128 meg, and added virtual memory support.
There was a consumer lawsuit, and eventually Apple agreed to buy a copy of Mode32 for any MacII owner who wanted 128 megs or virtual memory, and reimburse those who already had it.
It's funny...one of the supposed points in favor of Macs over PCs is that since Apple controls the hardware and the software, the system will work better. Yet that is twice now Apple has had to be sued to actually make it work.
It's a little fishy that an antivirus lab announced that a new clone was on the way, not spreading but on the way
I'm curious who you would expect to announce such a thing, if not an antivirus lab? Isn't this no different from the way it is usually medical researchers that announce the a new strain of flu is on the way?
Not only would voice destroy the ROLE PLAYING element
What role playing element? In all successful MMORPGs so far, role playing dies for most players around level 5 or so, except as an occasional thing.
Take a look at group chat in a game like EQ or DAoC during an idle moment between fights. If the players are chatting about game stuff, they most likely will be chatting as human game players, not as citizens of Norrath or Camelot. If not chatting about game-specific stuff, they'll be talking about movies, TV, sports, politics, and everything else people talk about on, say, AOL or MSN.
Have you ever used a P2P file sharing system? Nearly everything that is traded is stuff that would still be under copyright under the shortest term US copyright law ever had.
The real question is, what if I don't have a computer in my dorm room? Do I still have to get stuck paying this?
Everyone seems to ask this, as if this is a totally novel concept. Look around, people! This goes on all the time. People who don't have cars, or who only drive locally, pay taxes for interstates. Vegans pay taxes that pay for meat inspections. Creationists pay for research on evolution.
When things have a small marginal cost, so that individual monitoring and charging is not efficient, and they benefit most of a group, it makes sense to fund them via a tax, and let the public use them as much as it wants.
Digital music plus high speed networks plus large hard disks have made it so music is one of those things where the marginal cost is low enough for this to make sense.
However, it is important that they include some good system to figure out what is getting downloaded, so that small musicians can get their cut if their music is popular. It shouldn't just be split up among a few big labels. This is especially true on colleges, where a lot of independent music is listened to.
In Burbank, California, there is a street named Pass Avenue. It goes over the freeway, via an overpass. If you were to cross that, on a certain Jewish holiday, you would pass over Pass overpass over Passover.
That will be a fun one to give a translation program. (Or a speech recognition program, for that matter).
I'm using Energizer ACCUs, available at Best Buy and Office Depot and other places. I use them in remotes, Palm, flashlight, and...uhm...things we shan't discuss because children might be present.
The only thing I've had a problem in is a smoke detecter. The low battery beep starts about once a week if I use an ACCU in that, but a regular batter lasts over a year, so I've switched back.
These batteries do discharge if they are just sitting on the shelf, but with a little discipline that is no problem. Here's what I do. I've got a tray that I keep charged batteries in, on their sides, so they can roll. The tray is in a drawer at a slight incline, so the batteries roll toward the front. So, if batteriers are pulled from the front, the tray functions as a FIFO. If I pull batteries from the back, the tray functions as a LIFO.
I put four batteries in the charger. When I notice those are full, I put them on the back of the FIFO, and pull four off the front for the charger.
When I need batteries for something, I check to see if I happen to have a full set in the charger. If not, I use the tray in LIFO mode, to get the most recently charged batteries of the appopriate type.
As long as I remember to check the charger every few days, I've always got a reasonably charged set of batteries.
They seem to have stuff that is not in any of those major categories. For example, notice that there is no "Classical" category, yet if I search by artist, I can find classical music.
However, there is also a lot of stuff on there that I consider to be not very good. Granted, one man's trash is another's treasure, but MP3.com seems kind of littered to me, and I am sure to most people
I wouldn't expect to use MP3.com or iTunes to find music that is totally new to me. At best, I'd maybe use them to check out other albums by artists I already know of.
It seems to me that streaming services, such as live365, are where one would go to find new music. Listen to streaming stations that play the kind of stuff you like, and then go to MP3.com or iTunes to buy it.
The companies behind DVD+R/W has done better marketing, and have got bigger companies with them, like Microsoft. And we shall not forget that most people are stupid when it comes to technology (!). This is exactly the same that happend when "we" choose VHS instead of Beta
The problem with your argument is that +R/RW is the better technology. The only thing -R/RW has going for it is that Apple picked it.
Any format differences in compatibility are swamped by recorder differences. That is, whether a DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW will work in a given player depends on both the player AND the recorder.
They only used two -R/RW recorders, two +R/RW recorders, and one that can do all of them.
Hmmmm....a lot of people have posted what they see in the sample images, and many of those are something doing something, so there are a lot of "g"s showing up in the passwords, from the -ing ending.
It would probably be better to drop -ing on the last word for each image before taking the last letter.
Again, all you've shown is that obscurity is not sufficient. For example, suppose I am sending encrypted data between two locations. If I use a good, open, system (AES, Twofish, etc), it improves security to not tell anyone which I'm using.
These systems are already subject to public scrutiny, so my keeping my particular choice secret does not reduce the amount of public flaw checking. All my secrecy does is make someone doing a brute force attack have to waste time playing "guess the algorithm". If someone does learn the algorithm, then I'm no worse off than someone who did not keep it secret.
He talks about how the royalty of $0.0007 (actually $0.000762 under the royalty plan he is talking about) per song really adds up for the small broadcaster: with 100k listeners, it's over $0.70 per song, and so only commercial stations can afford it.
I don't know what internet that guy is on, but here on Earth's internet, if you have 100k listeners to a song, you ain't a small broadcaster!
For a more realistic look at the small broadcaster, go take a look at Live365.
A plan with 100 simultaneous listeners for your station (way more realistic than 100k listeners) starts at $8/month, and that includes the royalties.
Last time I checked I was using the WORLD Wide Web, and there seems little point wasting bandwidth to post your website to the world when only those living in the USA can buy and/or use the product
How would you propose that the "post" their website to just the US?
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However, if you bought Connectix's Mode32, that would patch MacOS to support 128 meg, and added virtual memory support.
There was a consumer lawsuit, and eventually Apple agreed to buy a copy of Mode32 for any MacII owner who wanted 128 megs or virtual memory, and reimburse those who already had it.
It's funny...one of the supposed points in favor of Macs over PCs is that since Apple controls the hardware and the software, the system will work better. Yet that is twice now Apple has had to be sued to actually make it work.
I'm curious who you would expect to announce such a thing, if not an antivirus lab? Isn't this no different from the way it is usually medical researchers that announce the a new strain of flu is on the way?
I work at an anti-virus company. This could reduce demand for our product!
When it is NEWS that a single Windows machine got hacked, such an apology would be in order.
What role playing element? In all successful MMORPGs so far, role playing dies for most players around level 5 or so, except as an occasional thing.
Take a look at group chat in a game like EQ or DAoC during an idle moment between fights. If the players are chatting about game stuff, they most likely will be chatting as human game players, not as citizens of Norrath or Camelot. If not chatting about game-specific stuff, they'll be talking about movies, TV, sports, politics, and everything else people talk about on, say, AOL or MSN.
Maybe having to answer a few thousand suits would exhaust SCOs legal budget, and they'd have to drop all this nonsense.
(nothing to add...just quoting that because some idiot moderated down as a troll)
Have you ever used a P2P file sharing system? Nearly everything that is traded is stuff that would still be under copyright under the shortest term US copyright law ever had.
Everyone seems to ask this, as if this is a totally novel concept. Look around, people! This goes on all the time. People who don't have cars, or who only drive locally, pay taxes for interstates. Vegans pay taxes that pay for meat inspections. Creationists pay for research on evolution.
When things have a small marginal cost, so that individual monitoring and charging is not efficient, and they benefit most of a group, it makes sense to fund them via a tax, and let the public use them as much as it wants.
Digital music plus high speed networks plus large hard disks have made it so music is one of those things where the marginal cost is low enough for this to make sense.
However, it is important that they include some good system to figure out what is getting downloaded, so that small musicians can get their cut if their music is popular. It shouldn't just be split up among a few big labels. This is especially true on colleges, where a lot of independent music is listened to.
That will be a fun one to give a translation program. (Or a speech recognition program, for that matter).
The only thing I've had a problem in is a smoke detecter. The low battery beep starts about once a week if I use an ACCU in that, but a regular batter lasts over a year, so I've switched back.
These batteries do discharge if they are just sitting on the shelf, but with a little discipline that is no problem. Here's what I do. I've got a tray that I keep charged batteries in, on their sides, so they can roll. The tray is in a drawer at a slight incline, so the batteries roll toward the front. So, if batteriers are pulled from the front, the tray functions as a FIFO. If I pull batteries from the back, the tray functions as a LIFO.
I put four batteries in the charger. When I notice those are full, I put them on the back of the FIFO, and pull four off the front for the charger.
When I need batteries for something, I check to see if I happen to have a full set in the charger. If not, I use the tray in LIFO mode, to get the most recently charged batteries of the appopriate type.
As long as I remember to check the charger every few days, I've always got a reasonably charged set of batteries.
Their search allows wildcards. A search for "*" in song titles gives 280,306 hits.
They seem to have stuff that is not in any of those major categories. For example, notice that there is no "Classical" category, yet if I search by artist, I can find classical music.
I wouldn't expect to use MP3.com or iTunes to find music that is totally new to me. At best, I'd maybe use them to check out other albums by artists I already know of.
It seems to me that streaming services, such as live365, are where one would go to find new music. Listen to streaming stations that play the kind of stuff you like, and then go to MP3.com or iTunes to buy it.
The problem with your argument is that +R/RW is the better technology. The only thing -R/RW has going for it is that Apple picked it.
They only used two -R/RW recorders, two +R/RW recorders, and one that can do all of them.
It would probably be better to drop -ing on the last word for each image before taking the last letter.
By that argument, one can't steal a credit card number, or any other information. Care to post your credit card number?
A couple more good geek kids series were Danny Dunn and Mike Mars, both of which appear to be hard to find nowadays.
These systems are already subject to public scrutiny, so my keeping my particular choice secret does not reduce the amount of public flaw checking. All my secrecy does is make someone doing a brute force attack have to waste time playing "guess the algorithm". If someone does learn the algorithm, then I'm no worse off than someone who did not keep it secret.
Everyone says this, but not one understands what it means.
What it means is that obscurity is not sufficient for security. It does not mean that obscurity is not helpful as part of an overall security system.
I don't know what internet that guy is on, but here on Earth's internet, if you have 100k listeners to a song, you ain't a small broadcaster!
For a more realistic look at the small broadcaster, go take a look at Live365. A plan with 100 simultaneous listeners for your station (way more realistic than 100k listeners) starts at $8/month, and that includes the royalties.
These illustrate very nicely how much you can do with good editing and music, even if the visuals are limited somewhat by the game engine.
How would you propose that the "post" their website to just the US?
So does P4. Sun only wins on performance when you have a problem that needs a LOT of CPUs.