As an earlier poster mentioned, Porsche made aircooled 911's until 1996. 1997 saw the introduction of the first liquid-cooled 911s. US govt. emissions requirements haven't changed all that much in the past 8 years.
It's cool that you brought up the port issue. I'll expound on my frustration with linux on PPC...
I ran a webserver on PPC linux (SuSE) for a few years. The SuSE folks did a good job porting all the standard linux apps and packages over from x86. But as I sought to customize my server with special CGI packages that did stuff like photo galleries and log analysis, I would run into roadblocks because necessary libs weren't available in PPC rpms. Sure, I could try to compile them myself, but in most attempts at this, I'd run into all kinds of compile errors for which I have no knowledge of how to troubleshoot.
Eventually I scrapped my PPC server and switched to an old dual Celeron x86 box running Mandrake. It was very nice to have everything readily available for my distro.
At the point that this server dies, I intend to replace it with my antiquated B/W G3 450mhz box. I see more development focusing on Mac OS X PPC than linux PPC as I think there is a significantly larger userbase on Mac OS X than linux PPC. So, unlike mr Torvaldis, I'll probably run my system (server) off Mac OS X at that point. My desktop will remain Mac OS X.
Yeah, I know there isn't a lot of money out there in web development. But if you can evolve a web development company to be a CMS integration vendor, there's a demand. Using PLONE, Postnuke, or a few other open sourced CMS packages, a good salesman can sell CMS services to area businesses.
CMS offerings are what can seperate your company in a pitch meeting from the competition if you can offer a proposal that includes empowering the customer to update the content themselves without editing files by hand.
This discovery also marks the possibility of stars that look strikingly like planets.
Not only that, but it also suggests the possibilities of miniturizing these amazing power sources to such a size as to be portable. Perhaps someday we'll each have our own pocket-sun that we can use to supply juice to our laptop computers. Think it's unlikely? These are the same computers that exponentially out-perform computers that took up an entire room some thirty years ago.
That's wholly different from water service, where a competitor would have to negotiate with every single business and homeowner to get his pipes into the buildings But for wireless service, the government and the private companies are basically on the same footing. There's no plumbing to be installed in every building.
...there are potential competitors offering the same commodity where the government is stepping in.Who and where is there city-wide wireless being provided by a private company? I know there have been proposed plans for private companies to implement this as a fee-based service, but it doesn't already exist. And what of the small towns that don't capture the eye of profit-driven private corporations? They'll focus on the dense cities like Austin for these services, but avoid costly rural towns. This proposed legislation will ban those towns from doing it themselves.
it ended up top of all the search engines for the site's name.
Multimed,
This is because your domain is one of the biggest weights in google rankings for a given search term. If you search for 'cat hats' a site like 'www.catshats.com' will be near the top even though it doesn't even mention cat hats within the entire site. However, a site that contains all kinds of descriptions and references to cat hats will rank higher. In the world of Search Engine Optimization, Flash is a black hole, like the grandparent poster claims. Sure, a search for your domain name will return your site, but try a search for any of the text presented in your flash-delivered content. Your site won't be anywhere in the results.
For further insight on this topic, I recommend the O'Reilly book, Google Hacks.
why can't the govt. provide services?
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I don't agree that the government should be using their disposition (and probably deep municipal bandwidth discounts) to remove potential income from private industry.
By this rationale (and with very little exaggeration on my part), the govt. should stop:
Providing water utilities (treads on Ozarka's profits).
Providing public swimming pools (treads on Splash Town USA attendance)
Providing mail service (cuts into FedEx and UPS profits).
Protecting us with police officers (reduces profit earned by private security firms like Wackenhut).
Of course our society benefits from these things. And at the same time, there's opportunity for private companies to provide value-added services beyond what the government offers. Same with wireless.
The communications providers are worried they'll see subscription drop. Sure, some people will decide not to pay for service because there's an 802.11g signal covering their homes. But that's not going to even compare to the speed available via FTTH.
At the same time, municipal wireless services brings internet connectivity to those who are impoverished and can't afford an ISP or maybe even a telephone service. These are the same people who can't afford to drink only bottled Ozarka water, or take their kids to swim at White Water on the weekends, or send their Xmas cards via FedEx.
I work for a US government agency. We will not use flash under any circumstances because it is not ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant. No big whoop, you might think, until you start to imagine what it really would be like to be blind. As a blind person, the internet holds great potential to expand the information blind people can expose themselves to, but everytime their parsers hit crazy crap like a flash site, it's basically a brick wall.
So, for their sake, let's abandon Flash, once and for all. If not, let's use intelligent coding that routes blind people's browsers around Flash and to the ASCII content they seek.
I appreciate your objectivity. However, in support of my assertion I'd like to also point out that ThinSkin also has no posts in his/her history. As if it were a throw-away Slashdot account created simply to attribute ExtremeTech.com stories.
This fellow, ThinSkin, is a schill for ExtremeTech.com. Check his user info. In February, ThinSkin has submitted four articles that were accepted for Slashdot publication and all of them were links to ExtremeTech.com content.
Clearly this is paid placement to increase traffic to ExtremeTech.
Back in the mid-nineties I worked at APple Technical Support here in Austin. We'd frequently get people on the phone who would say, "Did you know that if you dial 1-800-SOS-APPL with a zero in SOS you get a porn line?" I would usually tell people that was a service provided by Apple for people without internet connections.
In Austin, TX, we've got several independent video rental stores. Perhaps they thrive here because our consumers are more discriminating and will seek out alternatives to Starbucks and the like. Two of the video rental stores have multiple storefronts across town. They're a nice alternative to Blockbuster because they have a deeper selection of obscure titles and the employees have frequently added their own reviews to the front of the boxes. On top of that, they also carry XXX porn, which surely helps prevent Blockbuster from cutting off their air supply.
I also support this notion. These operators have taken piracy to the "commercial" level that the law (the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA))is intended to police against. Since this co-worker of yours is breaking the law, you might want to bring it to the attention of your employer. If your employer allows it to persist, feel free to casually break all kinds of laws at your job. My hand would be in that cash register faster than the drawer could open.
I do want to point out that not all the DVD-R blanks sold are being used to pirate copyrighted works. In my case, I've bought a couple hundred DVD-R discs and used my PowerBook to create discs with all the short films I've made myself. The economy on these discs are such that I can just give them out to people for free.
I agree. I do amateur video editing on my PB 15" 1.32ghz and it seems to suffice. I use iMovie and iDVD, so I'm not really implementing layers or masks, but I do add a lot of titles and transitions. I didn't want to spend the money to get a G5 tower, but I needed to upgrade from my 450mhz 1998 B/W G3. I also thought the mobility of a laptop would be good. So far as yet, it's proven to be a very capable replacement for a desktop video workstation.
Apple made the Cube pretty easy and slick to open, but nobody cared really once the novelty wore off.
The original poster of this article and the parent here both seem to think the Cube was a failure. Maybe it didn't really push a paradigm shift like the iMac did, but history has left it as still a very desireable computer. Checking Ebay, it sells for $350. That's a pretty hefty resale price for a computer of its age. Probably the availability of the iMac mini will impact that resale price, but it seems as though the novelty hasn't worn off for a fair number of people.
It's not so much that this will be implemented camera-side. It won't. EVER But this patent would give HP the opportunity to sue anyone utilizing face-obscuring techniques to prevent their photograph from being captured. This would put Michael Jackson squarely in the crosshairs of HP's legal patent defense team for infringing on their patent.
As I understand it, the Apple Store is a secure shopping cart web app that employs SSL. If the images are hosted on a different box, how do they get around the SSL message visitors always get when the images aren't served through the same webserver? I'm asking because I want to be able to offload graphics from my ssl server...
I fully agree. This is probably another PR stunt cooked up by the Sidekick folks. They were probably the ones who sent out this press release just to promote the fact that their product is used by Demi Moore in addition to Paris Hilton. They also want people's imaginations to run wild with the idea that maybe these two were sending illicit pictures of themselves back and forth. "Buy a Sidekick, maybe our untrustworthy network will accidentally send one of their nude photos to your mailbox!"
There's no need for a govt. wireless network. By the very nature of wireless, such a network wouldn't guarantee any more security than using a private wireless provider. The signals are still travelling through the air.
The govt. agents who use wireless for sensitive communications have govt.-provided encryption on each end. Private keys. Man-in-the-middle attacks won't work.
As an example, I was at a conference in DC where Bill Clinton was speaking back in the 1990's. We had Secret Service all over the place. Each guy had a hip-mounted walkie-talkie which connected to an earpiece for audio and had a microphone in the sleeve of their suits. The walkie-talkies were bulky custom-made devices unlike anything I'd ever seen available on the public market. They also had some kind keypad for configuring the thing, I assume. Sure, you might be able to intercept their radio signal at the event, but good luck trying to decrypt their conversations.
Unfortunately, the SS agent in this case violated secrecy standards by broadcasting secret documents over unsecure com channels and needs to be disciplined.
Having atleast some reputation in your community, even if its just in the neighborhood, can be invaluable.
Great. I'm going to have to check my behavior for decades in order to get a home loan. Can't have a funny haircut. Can't put that John Kerry bumper sticker on my car. Can't rally for the reform of marijuana criminalization. It could jeopardize my credit rating, which is dependent on everyone in my conservative small town liking me. Heaven help me if I'm gay and/or black.
I'm not saying all white people in small towns are racist or homophobic. I'm saying that this system you're advocating tends to favor the majority over the minority.
DIdn't see the BTO option for the superdrive. Thanks for the heads-up.
idvd will not run when you don't have a superdrive. When iDVD 1.0 was released, someone wrote a hack to circumvent this. Haven't seen a hack for iDVD 2.0 and above.... damn.
In the specs for the iMac mini, they specifically spell out the iLife software bundle. In it, they mention iDVD. This is very curious considering that iDVD only (currently) supports Apple-branded "superdrives". The iMac mini does not offer a superdrive, but it does have a firewire port that someone could connect an external 3rd party dvd recorder to....
Could Apple be preparing to support non-Apple DVD recorders in iDVD?!?! I hope so.
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As an earlier poster mentioned, Porsche made aircooled 911's until 1996. 1997 saw the introduction of the first liquid-cooled 911s. US govt. emissions requirements haven't changed all that much in the past 8 years.
It's cool that you brought up the port issue. I'll expound on my frustration with linux on PPC...
I ran a webserver on PPC linux (SuSE) for a few years. The SuSE folks did a good job porting all the standard linux apps and packages over from x86. But as I sought to customize my server with special CGI packages that did stuff like photo galleries and log analysis, I would run into roadblocks because necessary libs weren't available in PPC rpms. Sure, I could try to compile them myself, but in most attempts at this, I'd run into all kinds of compile errors for which I have no knowledge of how to troubleshoot.
Eventually I scrapped my PPC server and switched to an old dual Celeron x86 box running Mandrake. It was very nice to have everything readily available for my distro.
At the point that this server dies, I intend to replace it with my antiquated B/W G3 450mhz box. I see more development focusing on Mac OS X PPC than linux PPC as I think there is a significantly larger userbase on Mac OS X than linux PPC. So, unlike mr Torvaldis, I'll probably run my system (server) off Mac OS X at that point. My desktop will remain Mac OS X.
Yeah, I know there isn't a lot of money out there in web development. But if you can evolve a web development company to be a CMS integration vendor, there's a demand. Using PLONE, Postnuke, or a few other open sourced CMS packages, a good salesman can sell CMS services to area businesses.
CMS offerings are what can seperate your company in a pitch meeting from the competition if you can offer a proposal that includes empowering the customer to update the content themselves without editing files by hand.
The user files could potentially be written uncompressed to a seperate file system. Not the compressed one. That part of the disc stays read only.
This discovery also marks the possibility of stars that look strikingly like planets.
Not only that, but it also suggests the possibilities of miniturizing these amazing power sources to such a size as to be portable. Perhaps someday we'll each have our own pocket-sun that we can use to supply juice to our laptop computers. Think it's unlikely? These are the same computers that exponentially out-perform computers that took up an entire room some thirty years ago.
That's wholly different from water service, where a competitor would have to negotiate with every single business and homeowner to get his pipes into the buildings But for wireless service, the government and the private companies are basically on the same footing. There's no plumbing to be installed in every building.
it ended up top of all the search engines for the site's name.
Multimed,
This is because your domain is one of the biggest weights in google rankings for a given search term. If you search for 'cat hats' a site like 'www.catshats.com' will be near the top even though it doesn't even mention cat hats within the entire site. However, a site that contains all kinds of descriptions and references to cat hats will rank higher. In the world of Search Engine Optimization, Flash is a black hole, like the grandparent poster claims. Sure, a search for your domain name will return your site, but try a search for any of the text presented in your flash-delivered content. Your site won't be anywhere in the results.
For further insight on this topic, I recommend the O'Reilly book, Google Hacks.
I don't agree that the government should be using their disposition (and probably deep municipal bandwidth discounts) to remove potential income from private industry.
By this rationale (and with very little exaggeration on my part), the govt. should stop:
Of course our society benefits from these things. And at the same time, there's opportunity for private companies to provide value-added services beyond what the government offers. Same with wireless.
The communications providers are worried they'll see subscription drop. Sure, some people will decide not to pay for service because there's an 802.11g signal covering their homes. But that's not going to even compare to the speed available via FTTH. At the same time, municipal wireless services brings internet connectivity to those who are impoverished and can't afford an ISP or maybe even a telephone service. These are the same people who can't afford to drink only bottled Ozarka water, or take their kids to swim at White Water on the weekends, or send their Xmas cards via FedEx.
I work for a US government agency. We will not use flash under any circumstances because it is not ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant. No big whoop, you might think, until you start to imagine what it really would be like to be blind. As a blind person, the internet holds great potential to expand the information blind people can expose themselves to, but everytime their parsers hit crazy crap like a flash site, it's basically a brick wall.
So, for their sake, let's abandon Flash, once and for all. If not, let's use intelligent coding that routes blind people's browsers around Flash and to the ASCII content they seek.
I appreciate your objectivity. However, in support of my assertion I'd like to also point out that ThinSkin also has no posts in his/her history. As if it were a throw-away Slashdot account created simply to attribute ExtremeTech.com stories.
This fellow, ThinSkin, is a schill for ExtremeTech.com. Check his user info. In February, ThinSkin has submitted four articles that were accepted for Slashdot publication and all of them were links to ExtremeTech.com content.
Clearly this is paid placement to increase traffic to ExtremeTech.
Back in the mid-nineties I worked at APple Technical Support here in Austin. We'd frequently get people on the phone who would say, "Did you know that if you dial 1-800-SOS-APPL with a zero in SOS you get a porn line?" I would usually tell people that was a service provided by Apple for people without internet connections.
In Austin, TX, we've got several independent video rental stores. Perhaps they thrive here because our consumers are more discriminating and will seek out alternatives to Starbucks and the like. Two of the video rental stores have multiple storefronts across town. They're a nice alternative to Blockbuster because they have a deeper selection of obscure titles and the employees have frequently added their own reviews to the front of the boxes. On top of that, they also carry XXX porn, which surely helps prevent Blockbuster from cutting off their air supply.
windsurfing, hiking, mountain biking, skiing
Uhhh.. You forgot skateboarding. Oregon has the best public skateparks in the world. Hands-down.
Seth
I also support this notion. These operators have taken piracy to the "commercial" level that the law (the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA))is intended to police against. Since this co-worker of yours is breaking the law, you might want to bring it to the attention of your employer. If your employer allows it to persist, feel free to casually break all kinds of laws at your job. My hand would be in that cash register faster than the drawer could open.
I do want to point out that not all the DVD-R blanks sold are being used to pirate copyrighted works. In my case, I've bought a couple hundred DVD-R discs and used my PowerBook to create discs with all the short films I've made myself. The economy on these discs are such that I can just give them out to people for free.
I agree. I do amateur video editing on my PB 15" 1.32ghz and it seems to suffice. I use iMovie and iDVD, so I'm not really implementing layers or masks, but I do add a lot of titles and transitions. I didn't want to spend the money to get a G5 tower, but I needed to upgrade from my 450mhz 1998 B/W G3. I also thought the mobility of a laptop would be good. So far as yet, it's proven to be a very capable replacement for a desktop video workstation.
Apple made the Cube pretty easy and slick to open, but nobody cared really once the novelty wore off.
The original poster of this article and the parent here both seem to think the Cube was a failure. Maybe it didn't really push a paradigm shift like the iMac did, but history has left it as still a very desireable computer. Checking Ebay, it sells for $350. That's a pretty hefty resale price for a computer of its age. Probably the availability of the iMac mini will impact that resale price, but it seems as though the novelty hasn't worn off for a fair number of people.
It's not so much that this will be implemented camera-side. It won't. EVER
But this patent would give HP the opportunity to sue anyone utilizing face-obscuring techniques to prevent their photograph from being captured. This would put Michael Jackson squarely in the crosshairs of HP's legal patent defense team for infringing on their patent.
As I understand it, the Apple Store is a secure shopping cart web app that employs SSL. If the images are hosted on a different box, how do they get around the SSL message visitors always get when the images aren't served through the same webserver? I'm asking because I want to be able to offload graphics from my ssl server...
Cool!! Thanks. I'll look for it.
I fully agree. This is probably another PR stunt cooked up by the Sidekick folks. They were probably the ones who sent out this press release just to promote the fact that their product is used by Demi Moore in addition to Paris Hilton. They also want people's imaginations to run wild with the idea that maybe these two were sending illicit pictures of themselves back and forth. "Buy a Sidekick, maybe our untrustworthy network will accidentally send one of their nude photos to your mailbox!"
There's no need for a govt. wireless network. By the very nature of wireless, such a network wouldn't guarantee any more security than using a private wireless provider. The signals are still travelling through the air.
The govt. agents who use wireless for sensitive communications have govt.-provided encryption on each end. Private keys. Man-in-the-middle attacks won't work.
As an example, I was at a conference in DC where Bill Clinton was speaking back in the 1990's. We had Secret Service all over the place. Each guy had a hip-mounted walkie-talkie which connected to an earpiece for audio and had a microphone in the sleeve of their suits. The walkie-talkies were bulky custom-made devices unlike anything I'd ever seen available on the public market. They also had some kind keypad for configuring the thing, I assume. Sure, you might be able to intercept their radio signal at the event, but good luck trying to decrypt their conversations.
Unfortunately, the SS agent in this case violated secrecy standards by broadcasting secret documents over unsecure com channels and needs to be disciplined.
Having atleast some reputation in your community, even if its just in the neighborhood, can be invaluable.
Great. I'm going to have to check my behavior for decades in order to get a home loan. Can't have a funny haircut. Can't put that John Kerry bumper sticker on my car. Can't rally for the reform of marijuana criminalization. It could jeopardize my credit rating, which is dependent on everyone in my conservative small town liking me. Heaven help me if I'm gay and/or black.
I'm not saying all white people in small towns are racist or homophobic. I'm saying that this system you're advocating tends to favor the majority over the minority.
DIdn't see the BTO option for the superdrive. Thanks for the heads-up. idvd will not run when you don't have a superdrive. When iDVD 1.0 was released, someone wrote a hack to circumvent this. Haven't seen a hack for iDVD 2.0 and above.... damn.
Appreciatively,
In the specs for the iMac mini, they specifically spell out the iLife software bundle. In it, they mention iDVD. This is very curious considering that iDVD only (currently) supports Apple-branded "superdrives". The iMac mini does not offer a superdrive, but it does have a firewire port that someone could connect an external 3rd party dvd recorder to....
Could Apple be preparing to support non-Apple DVD recorders in iDVD?!?! I hope so.