I don't believe it, file corruption ain't no joke and it's halfway down the release notes.
I have no reason to believe that the FreeBSD developers think it's a joke either, but to be fair, the corruption issue has to do with the file system using (optionally activated) soft updates. Standard installs do not have this turned on as default.
From my understanding the full implementation of a soft updating file system isn't going to be available until FreeBSD 5.n.
Apple was one of the few computer makers last year to have even posted a profit. They have billions in the bank and the coffers just keep growing.
I don't feel they have any particular desire to take over the world anymore. To hunker down and adapt their business to earnest competition with the other OSes and PC makers of the world (and in essence, become "just another computer maker", they'd have to slash their margins and change their products to appeal to the lowest common denominator just like everyone else... and in doing so lose much of their talented staff and likely ability to continue to create the types of products -- and spawn the types of industry mimicry -- that they're so loved/hated as they are now.
No, Apple isn't perfect, but nothing is and the set of compromises it makes are for it alone to decide as long as it continues to produce profits for shareholders.
I completely agree. I'm an old D&Der from the '70s and it'd be a cold day in hell before WotC got any creative juice from me... or anyone I'd know. It reads to me as if they drained their talent pushing out card cames and when it came time for them to try a shot at some new RPG material, they decided to go out of house and try to get it all done for spec.
Fsck that, them, and what they've done to the gaming world in general.
We still need to get the argument away from the question of copyright infringement and onto the subject of copyright itself - why it exists, who and what it is supposed to protect, etc. This is not easy [...]
No, it's not easy. It's like this: copyright laws are created by and controlled by the government, the governments are (nearly) controlled by corporations and corporations are (nearly) the single benefactors of the copyrights.
Not easy. Just (nearly) impossible. Our only hope is in that nearly.;)
Actually, Flash can begin displaying objects as they come in through the stream. Your movies can check for particular frames being loaded before they advance to the next frame. Audio can be specifically set to stream.
It's sometimes very difficult to do this properly over a variety of bandwiths so most movies opt to wait for the entire file to load before they begin playing (using a "loader" animation or equivalent), or plan specific pauses in the action of the movie for the loading of the rest of the movie to "catch up". Also, audio can be specifically set to play streamed from the file.
...but lately it seems as its the favorite form of response for many of the people to this product. It's very small, very light, made of stainless steel so likely very rugged, using FireWire so it's _very_ fast, and most importantly for Apple consumers -- it integrates nearly seamlessly with their existing hardware and software thus _very_ easy.
It may not be what a lot of you technogeeknophiles want, but for the majority of Apple customers, I think they'd be more than happy with it. It's a good portable audio media player compliment to their system, likely the best you could find at the moment, plus it makes a convenient portable FireWire drive.
So I don't get all the vitrol. No, it's not a PDA. It's not a toaster, either. So get off your high horses and evaluate it for what it is instead of what it's not.
spymac.com was registered two months ago to Holger Ehlis of Ehlis Design. He clearly has experience and desire in producing 3D renderings of speculative Apple hardware. Based upon this, combined with the fact that Apple has so effectively clamped down on leakage of pretty much ANYTHING within the past six-eight months and I'd say this is almost assuredly a fake.
Because M$ bought 10% of Apple to keep them from going out of business.
From my understanding it was more along the lines of M$ buying $150M of nonvoting stock as part of an out-of-court settlement regarding some non-licensed inclusion of QuickTime code into the then-new Windows98. Apple found out, threatened to sue, MS offered to buy some stock to shut them up (along with some effective Office-type sabre rattling) and it was a done deal.
Yeah and when I saw my first TRS-80 Model I at the local Radio Shack, I was told "it comes with 2 kilobytes of RAM, and you can get a 4 kilobyte version... but you don't NEED anything more than 2 K for ANYTHING."
Wake up. Those who forget the past are forever doomed to repeat it.
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I don't believe it, file corruption ain't no joke and it's halfway down the release notes.
I have no reason to believe that the FreeBSD developers think it's a joke either, but to be fair, the corruption issue has to do with the file system using (optionally activated) soft updates. Standard installs do not have this turned on as default.
From my understanding the full implementation of a soft updating file system isn't going to be available until FreeBSD 5.n.
Exactly.
Apple was one of the few computer makers last year to have even posted a profit. They have billions in the bank and the coffers just keep growing.
I don't feel they have any particular desire to take over the world anymore. To hunker down and adapt their business to earnest competition with the other OSes and PC makers of the world (and in essence, become "just another computer maker", they'd have to slash their margins and change their products to appeal to the lowest common denominator just like everyone else... and in doing so lose much of their talented staff and likely ability to continue to create the types of products -- and spawn the types of industry mimicry -- that they're so loved/hated as they are now.
No, Apple isn't perfect, but nothing is and the set of compromises it makes are for it alone to decide as long as it continues to produce profits for shareholders.
I completely agree. I'm an old D&Der from the '70s and it'd be a cold day in hell before WotC got any creative juice from me... or anyone I'd know. It reads to me as if they drained their talent pushing out card cames and when it came time for them to try a shot at some new RPG material, they decided to go out of house and try to get it all done for spec.
Fsck that, them, and what they've done to the gaming world in general.
We still need to get the argument away from the question of copyright infringement and onto the subject of copyright itself - why it exists, who and what it is supposed to protect, etc. This is not easy [...]
;)
No, it's not easy. It's like this: copyright laws are created by and controlled by the government, the governments are (nearly) controlled by corporations and corporations are (nearly) the single benefactors of the copyrights.
Not easy. Just (nearly) impossible. Our only hope is in that nearly.
Actually, Flash can begin displaying objects as they come in through the stream. Your movies can check for particular frames being loaded before they advance to the next frame. Audio can be specifically set to stream.
It's sometimes very difficult to do this properly over a variety of bandwiths so most movies opt to wait for the entire file to load before they begin playing (using a "loader" animation or equivalent), or plan specific pauses in the action of the movie for the loading of the rest of the movie to "catch up". Also, audio can be specifically set to play streamed from the file.
...but lately it seems as its the favorite form of response for many of the people to this product. It's very small, very light, made of stainless steel so likely very rugged, using FireWire so it's _very_ fast, and most importantly for Apple consumers -- it integrates nearly seamlessly with their existing hardware and software thus _very_ easy.
It may not be what a lot of you technogeeknophiles want, but for the majority of Apple customers, I think they'd be more than happy with it. It's a good portable audio media player compliment to their system, likely the best you could find at the moment, plus it makes a convenient portable FireWire drive.
So I don't get all the vitrol. No, it's not a PDA. It's not a toaster, either. So get off your high horses and evaluate it for what it is instead of what it's not.
spymac.com was registered two months ago to Holger Ehlis of Ehlis Design. He clearly has experience and desire in producing 3D renderings of speculative Apple hardware. Based upon this, combined with the fact that Apple has so effectively clamped down on leakage of pretty much ANYTHING within the past six-eight months and I'd say this is almost assuredly a fake.
Because M$ bought 10% of Apple to keep them from going out of business.
From my understanding it was more along the lines of M$ buying $150M of nonvoting stock as part of an out-of-court settlement regarding some non-licensed inclusion of QuickTime code into the then-new Windows98. Apple found out, threatened to sue, MS offered to buy some stock to shut them up (along with some effective Office-type sabre rattling) and it was a done deal.
Shouldn't that be... if you patent it, they will pay?
Yeah and when I saw my first TRS-80 Model I at the local Radio Shack, I was told "it comes with 2 kilobytes of RAM, and you can get a 4 kilobyte version... but you don't NEED anything more than 2 K for ANYTHING."
Wake up. Those who forget the past are forever doomed to repeat it.
According to Steve Jobs, it's to be pronounced "ten", not "ex".