That is quite possibly the best advice I've seen in this thread yet.
Considering the reliability of clear-com systems (not very, in my experience...) a system which can use standard telephones would be much better for this situation.
But that comes from spending way too much time with clear-com hardware and a soldering iron.
I don't want to have to mess with windoze headers.:)
Seriously, though, even $.25 is insanely expensive considering the distribution cost and the size of the market for anything even remotely popular. People really need to re-think the price they're willing to pay for entertainment.
I think about $1 per album is about right, considering that I'm not getting any physical media or packaging. If I want those, I think $3 would be ok.
But I'm only willing to pay that for the convenience - I still don't think copyright is a good thing.
Of course it wouldn't have been innovative to put a GUI on ProDOS in 1995. The GUI had already been put on ProDOS 10 years earlier.
Had the Apple II line been continued, Apple would likely have 50% marketshare today.
In 1984, the Macintosh introduction was handled very badly as far as any sort of sane marketing move. Sure, it was innovative, but had the Apple II followed logical progression to the present, Apple would not have angered so many customers.
As it is, I didn't get my first Mac until 1992, and I still used my Apple IIgs as my primary computer for several years after that.
The reason for not allowing (or mandating) everyone to carry a gun would not be the decompression risk - it would be the added weight necessary to make the cockpit bulletproof. You don't need to reinforce as much if you don't have to worry about bullets.
To protect Americans from ANY terrorists on airplanes, the first thing I'd do would be stop disarming Americans on airplanes.
While it might not be a good idea to let everyone on a plane have a gun, I think issuing a nice large knife to every adult passenger upon boarding would do wonders as a terrorist deterrent. Combine that with a requirement that the cockpit door stays locked no matter what happens, and you've solved the problem.
The 9/11 attacks happened because airline policy was to give the terrorists what they wanted, in the assumption that they were interested in their own safety, and would land the plane.
That assumption is clearly no longer valid, and passengers have already proven that terrorists will not be tolerated (try to light your shoe on a plane these days - somebody will stop you.)
In short, I'd stop treating passengers as terrorists, and start treating them like intelligent individuals responsible for their own safety.
The only problem there is that the government might just cave in.
If the forces currently in charge of such things as microsoft investigations see losing a case to sco as a good strategic move, or they simply see a payoff as less expensive than the case would be, they might just give up.
After all, they don't have any reason to support free software. The people making the budget decisions are spending other people's money.
And then sco would have a win - and a ton of new cash.
Claiming copyright on something you don't have copyright on in order to extract a payment from someone is fraud.
If you use the US Post Office to do it, it's mail fraud, a federal crime.
If SCO is proven to have claimed copyright on code they don't have the copyright on, they could be looking at charges - if a prosecutor decides to follow up on this.
And quite honestly, I don't mind the quality of a DVD that's been recompressed to fit onto a CD. It's fine as long as I'm watching it on my computer screen, which is actually larger than my television.
Yeah, there's some visible compression error - but I'm old enough to have grown up with broadcast TV (not cable) and it's far better than that, and it's far better than VHS.
I think the reality is that until something very much better comes along, DVD quality is very much good enough for most people.
In Nashville within the past few years, there was a case of a truck driver who was hijacked and locked in the trailer.
He had a cell phone, and called police. He had no idea where he was.
They tracked his phone - to a tower across town. As I recall, they finally found him when someone noticed his truck had been parked in the same place for quite a while.
If I remember correctly, only 1 tower had his phone signal, and it was about 3 miles away.
I'd forgotten about the math coprossessor emulators. I remember now.
I've never been much of a gamer, so I've never run into the game problems... but most programs that will run in 8 will also run in 9, from my experience.
And it's been a while, but I don't remember many PPC-only apps that didn't require (or at least work in) 8 or later. (that could just be my bad memory, though.)
The only thing that would void your warranty would be hardware modification, or intentionally flashing the firmware with something that isn't supported, like a region-free hack on the DVD drive. And even that would only void the warranty on the DVD drive.
So, this is a bit offtopic, but a serious question about this system.
Why can't you just put an LCD shutter over your license plate, and trigger it when you pass the camera? They'd be unable to read the plate, and you would be effectively invisible to the tracking.
If you wanted to get really fancy, you could record the GPS positions of all the cameras, and automate the shutter.
It seems to me that as long as there wasn't a cop car behind you, it would be pretty close to zero risk.
As long as there isn't anything for you to hit, very little will happen to your body. If you're wearing good armor, you'll be a bit uncomfy for a week or so, but otherwise fine.
I've known too many bikers who've gone down at ~125MPH and walked (or even ridden) away from the event.
Part of that may be that in most cases when there is no injury, bikers generally don't call the cops.
I know that the one time I dropped a bike (#$&%& wet sand just in front of a @#$#% stop sign on an unfamiliar road) I slid/rolled across the pavement a bit, got up, picked up the bike, shoved a bit of chewing gum into the hole in the gas tank, and rode off. I had small bits of road rash on my elbows and knees (but no damage to the leathers in those spots) and a bit of a scrape on my helmet. I was sore for a few days.
Had the same sort of event happened in a car, a tow truck would likely have had to have been called.
And the first politician who comes out and says "I will work to repeal the speed limits" will have my vote.
And yes, I break the speed limit all the time. I normally go 10-20 over the posted limit. I'd go much faster on the freeway if there were no limit. I probably wouldn't change my speed much in residential areas.
But I'm not a hypocrite on this - I don't think trucks should have speed limits either.
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That is quite possibly the best advice I've seen in this thread yet.
Considering the reliability of clear-com systems (not very, in my experience...) a system which can use standard telephones would be much better for this situation.
But that comes from spending way too much time with clear-com hardware and a soldering iron.
Make it AIFF for $.10, and we'll talk.
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I don't want to have to mess with windoze headers.
Seriously, though, even $.25 is insanely expensive considering the distribution cost and the size of the market for anything even remotely popular. People really need to re-think the price they're willing to pay for entertainment.
I think about $1 per album is about right, considering that I'm not getting any physical media or packaging. If I want those, I think $3 would be ok.
But I'm only willing to pay that for the convenience - I still don't think copyright is a good thing.
Of course it wouldn't have been innovative to put a GUI on ProDOS in 1995. The GUI had already been put on ProDOS 10 years earlier.
Had the Apple II line been continued, Apple would likely have 50% marketshare today.
In 1984, the Macintosh introduction was handled very badly as far as any sort of sane marketing move. Sure, it was innovative, but had the Apple II followed logical progression to the present, Apple would not have angered so many customers.
As it is, I didn't get my first Mac until 1992, and I still used my Apple IIgs as my primary computer for several years after that.
http://audiocoding.com/download.php
The reason for not allowing (or mandating) everyone to carry a gun would not be the decompression risk - it would be the added weight necessary to make the cockpit bulletproof. You don't need to reinforce as much if you don't have to worry about bullets.
To protect Americans from ANY terrorists on airplanes, the first thing I'd do would be stop disarming Americans on airplanes.
While it might not be a good idea to let everyone on a plane have a gun, I think issuing a nice large knife to every adult passenger upon boarding would do wonders as a terrorist deterrent. Combine that with a requirement that the cockpit door stays locked no matter what happens, and you've solved the problem.
The 9/11 attacks happened because airline policy was to give the terrorists what they wanted, in the assumption that they were interested in their own safety, and would land the plane.
That assumption is clearly no longer valid, and passengers have already proven that terrorists will not be tolerated (try to light your shoe on a plane these days - somebody will stop you.)
In short, I'd stop treating passengers as terrorists, and start treating them like intelligent individuals responsible for their own safety.
The only problem there is that the government might just cave in.
If the forces currently in charge of such things as microsoft investigations see losing a case to sco as a good strategic move, or they simply see a payoff as less expensive than the case would be, they might just give up.
After all, they don't have any reason to support free software. The people making the budget decisions are spending other people's money.
And then sco would have a win - and a ton of new cash.
But is is a "warranty void" sticker?
I remember seeing stickers on HPs - but they were "quality seal" stickers. There was no voiding of warranty implied on them.
But that's not the point. It's not something to do because it's cost effective computing power, it's something to do as an exercise in geekiness.
It's very much like mountain climbing - you don't do it because it's practical.
But it's not something that anybody will want to waste more than some "hobby time" on.
Now, hacking some of those cheap old beige G3s into a cluster might be interesting...
or 60 MHz PowerPC 601...
or 75 MHz PowerPC 603...
The Performa name was used on quite a few PowerPC models, all of which support Mac OS 9.1.
Claiming copyright on something you don't have copyright on in order to extract a payment from someone is fraud.
If you use the US Post Office to do it, it's mail fraud, a federal crime.
If SCO is proven to have claimed copyright on code they don't have the copyright on, they could be looking at charges - if a prosecutor decides to follow up on this.
iTunes was internet integrated from the start, with internet radio, and perfect for playing those mp3s you'd downloaded from napster.
iMovie can be used to create internet-ready content.
iDVD has much less to do with the internet, though. About the only connection you could claim is that you were going to sell the DVDs online.
And quite honestly, I don't mind the quality of a DVD that's been recompressed to fit onto a CD. It's fine as long as I'm watching it on my computer screen, which is actually larger than my television.
Yeah, there's some visible compression error - but I'm old enough to have grown up with broadcast TV (not cable) and it's far better than that, and it's far better than VHS.
I think the reality is that until something very much better comes along, DVD quality is very much good enough for most people.
Which sounds remarkably like restraint of trade to me.
If it's cheaper to re-import the product, why shouldn't they be able to do so?
And if the manufacturer wants to make it more difficult, why shouldn't I be able to produce a product legally that would allow me to do so?
In fact, why shouldn't the attempted restraint on trade be illegal in the first place?
Yeah, total agreement here on the electric razor.
My first one worked perfectly when it was replaced after about 7 years (it was stolen.)
I'm still on the second one. I got it in 1995. I've never had to crack the case to change the batteries, and it's still on the original blades.
Sure.
In Nashville within the past few years, there was a case of a truck driver who was hijacked and locked in the trailer.
He had a cell phone, and called police. He had no idea where he was.
They tracked his phone - to a tower across town. As I recall, they finally found him when someone noticed his truck had been parked in the same place for quite a while.
If I remember correctly, only 1 tower had his phone signal, and it was about 3 miles away.
I'd forgotten about the math coprossessor emulators. I remember now.
I've never been much of a gamer, so I've never run into the game problems... but most programs that will run in 8 will also run in 9, from my experience.
And it's been a while, but I don't remember many PPC-only apps that didn't require (or at least work in) 8 or later. (that could just be my bad memory, though.)
Yes, With an Intellivision emulator.
Um... No.
The only thing that would void your warranty would be hardware modification, or intentionally flashing the firmware with something that isn't supported, like a region-free hack on the DVD drive. And even that would only void the warranty on the DVD drive.
Well, while you can't directly run old versions of Mac OS on new Apple hardware, there is emulation that would allow you to do it.
It's available from emulation.net on the Macintosh emulator page.
So, this is a bit offtopic, but a serious question about this system.
Why can't you just put an LCD shutter over your license plate, and trigger it when you pass the camera? They'd be unable to read the plate, and you would be effectively invisible to the tracking.
If you wanted to get really fancy, you could record the GPS positions of all the cameras, and automate the shutter.
It seems to me that as long as there wasn't a cop car behind you, it would be pretty close to zero risk.
As long as there isn't anything for you to hit, very little will happen to your body. If you're wearing good armor, you'll be a bit uncomfy for a week or so, but otherwise fine.
I've known too many bikers who've gone down at ~125MPH and walked (or even ridden) away from the event.
Part of that may be that in most cases when there is no injury, bikers generally don't call the cops.
I know that the one time I dropped a bike (#$&%& wet sand just in front of a @#$#% stop sign on an unfamiliar road) I slid/rolled across the pavement a bit, got up, picked up the bike, shoved a bit of chewing gum into the hole in the gas tank, and rode off. I had small bits of road rash on my elbows and knees (but no damage to the leathers in those spots) and a bit of a scrape on my helmet. I was sore for a few days.
Had the same sort of event happened in a car, a tow truck would likely have had to have been called.
And the first politician who comes out and says "I will work to repeal the speed limits" will have my vote.
And yes, I break the speed limit all the time. I normally go 10-20 over the posted limit. I'd go much faster on the freeway if there were no limit. I probably wouldn't change my speed much in residential areas.
But I'm not a hypocrite on this - I don't think trucks should have speed limits either.
The thing everybody seems to be forgetting here is that Apple DOES NOT fix the price of anything.
They only set a MAP - Minimum Advertised Price.
The reseller can sell below that - they just can't advertise that they are below it.
Of course, with margins what they are on Apple products, there isn't much incentive to cut prices below MAP.