Imagine trying to convince a graphic artist, who doesn't code, to create a shell script for (for example) changing a directory of images' size, applying a new color profile, applying bilingual Japanese and Arabic tags to the filename, sending them to an external drive, and then finally reducing each one into a thumbnail and emailing them to 1000 people. It would take a bash expert hours or even days to accomplish this task. With Automator I could have this all done more quickly than it took me to write this comment.
The statement that your simple example would take a bash expert hours or days to implement is false. I'd consider myself to have little more than basic bash scripting experience, and what you describe would take at most 5 minutes.
An example of a very successful dongle scheme is the one used by Steinberg for their product "Cubase". I think they employ some variant of the encryption based scheme. It's one of the most popular music production suites, and they've utilized effective dongle based protection since version 3.
Version 3 was hard to crack, and it took some time before a stable crack was released. But it did backfire a little bit - the dongle emulator was faster than the actual dongle, so the cracked version performed better.
But version 4 was never reliably cracked - cracks were released, but caused random crashes. Then version 5 came out - I see cracks for it now, but don't know if they work - the ones I saw (even almost half a year after release of the software), made the application unstable and unusable. Recently version 6 came out and I see no cracks available.
We have this in Denmark now. I can login using "NemID" (a two-factor single sign-on authentication system, which gives access to just about every interaction you'd ever need with the state). Using this, I can see my entire medical record. It was actually quite fun to look at when first introduced - records of doctor and hospital visits from before I can even remember (from when I was about 2 years old - I'm 29 now), another visit at age 7, which I distantly remember. And of course the doctor's comments on earlier emergency room visits from my youth, that I'd happily forgotten about now.:)
Well, a quick search tells that the AppleADay trademark has been registered in the following classes (translated from French by Google translate): --- Nice Class Number: 35 List of Goods and Services: Advertising, business management, business organization and business management, consulting for business management, business administration, publication of publicity texts; distribution [distribution] of samples, product demonstrations, promoting sales, advertising mail, updating of advertising material; clerical, service retail ready meals, take away or not administrative management of restaurants, snack bars and delivery services for food. Nice Class Number: 39 List of Goods and Services: Transportation package delivery, and packaging of products, delivery of goods, delivery of goods ordered by mail, delivery of meals and food products, including controlled correspondence, including telephone or Mail Order by communication via computer terminals or via the Internet. Nice Class Number: 43 List of Goods and Services: Food Services (food), temporary accommodation, hotel services, pensions, services, bars, services Brewery, coffee shops, restaurants [meals], catering services, cafeterias, rental of chairs, tables, table linen and glassware; rental of meeting rooms and dining rooms, free catering service. ---
From this it doesn't seem Apple has any reason for complaint.
Try out cedega, once named winex (http://www.transgaming.com). They claim Doom III should work. I haven't tried it, however. But all the games of the Fallout series are working, and that's enough to keep me from booting into windows..
Not a stupid question at all. Just reading other people's comments, sometimes thinking that I should reply, but never actually done it. Well, there's almost always been somebody with the same opinion as me posting, and I've thought that my posts would be redundant. So there you have... I hope that I will be able to post something worthwhile to some story that I actually care about sometime...
Well I've thought of making a post to slashdot many times - but those times I've had something sensible to say. This time however, I couldn't really think of anything to say that had to do with the story, or anything else at all, but what the hell, I'm drunk and just got home from some café where I've been listening to some boring DJ's, who could think of nothing better than to stand still on the stage, occasionally fiddling with their synths and turntables, constantly blinding me with some laser thingie. But afterall, making a first post to slashdot is a funny feeling. Oh, this was a really boring post.... Well.. Hmm.. But kind of nice to have posted to slashdot after all this time... Hmm... I better go to bed, or read slashdot the rest of the night...
Sorry, I'm drunk.. Just go home from a night out, took a quick look at slashdot and saw that a story with no comments. I've been reading slashdot for some years now and this is the first time I've had a chance to make a first post, so I couldn't resist it. Well this post is going nowhere and has nothinh to do with the story at all, so I'll sign off here...
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Warning: above link seems to contain a trojan that spreads through the domain's "favicon.ico".
Imagine trying to convince a graphic artist, who doesn't code, to create a shell script for (for example) changing a directory of images' size, applying a new color profile, applying bilingual Japanese and Arabic tags to the filename, sending them to an external drive, and then finally reducing each one into a thumbnail and emailing them to 1000 people. It would take a bash expert hours or even days to accomplish this task. With Automator I could have this all done more quickly than it took me to write this comment.
The statement that your simple example would take a bash expert hours or days to implement is false.
I'd consider myself to have little more than basic bash scripting experience, and what you describe would take at most 5 minutes.
An example of a very successful dongle scheme is the one used by Steinberg for their product "Cubase". I think they employ some variant of the encryption based scheme.
It's one of the most popular music production suites, and they've utilized effective dongle based protection since version 3.
Version 3 was hard to crack, and it took some time before a stable crack was released.
But it did backfire a little bit - the dongle emulator was faster than the actual dongle, so the cracked version performed better.
But version 4 was never reliably cracked - cracks were released, but caused random crashes.
Then version 5 came out - I see cracks for it now, but don't know if they work - the ones I saw (even almost half a year after release of the software), made the application unstable and unusable.
Recently version 6 came out and I see no cracks available.
We have this in Denmark now. I can login using "NemID" (a two-factor single sign-on authentication system, which gives access to just about every interaction you'd ever need with the state). :)
Using this, I can see my entire medical record. It was actually quite fun to look at when first introduced - records of doctor and hospital visits from before I can even remember (from when I was about 2 years old - I'm 29 now), another visit at age 7, which I distantly remember. And of course the doctor's comments on earlier emergency room visits from my youth, that I'd happily forgotten about now.
Well, a quick search tells that the AppleADay trademark has been registered in the following classes (translated from French by Google translate):
---
Nice Class Number: 35
List of Goods and Services: Advertising, business management, business organization and business management, consulting for business management, business administration, publication of publicity texts; distribution [distribution] of samples, product demonstrations, promoting sales, advertising mail, updating of advertising material; clerical, service retail ready meals, take away or not administrative management of restaurants, snack bars and delivery services for food.
Nice Class Number: 39
List of Goods and Services: Transportation package delivery, and packaging of products, delivery of goods, delivery of goods ordered by mail, delivery of meals and food products, including controlled correspondence, including telephone or Mail Order by communication via computer terminals or via the Internet.
Nice Class Number: 43
List of Goods and Services: Food Services (food), temporary accommodation, hotel services, pensions, services, bars, services Brewery, coffee shops, restaurants [meals], catering services, cafeterias, rental of chairs, tables, table linen and glassware; rental of meeting rooms and dining rooms, free catering service.
---
From this it doesn't seem Apple has any reason for complaint.
I run gentoo too, it's been very stable for this server:
$ uptime
14:22:32 up 440 days, 20:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
$ uname -a
Linux pdp-innovation 2.6.10-hardened-r3 #4 SMP Thu Feb 24 15:36:46 CET 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I think that might have been "Cloud Kingdoms".
Try out cedega, once named winex (http://www.transgaming.com). They claim Doom III should work. I haven't tried it, however. But all the games of the Fallout series are working, and that's enough to keep me from booting into windows..
Not a stupid question at all. Just reading other people's comments, sometimes thinking that I should reply, but never actually done it.
Well, there's almost always been somebody with the same opinion as me posting, and I've thought that my posts would be redundant. So there you have... I hope that I will be able to post something worthwhile to some story that I actually care about sometime...
Well I've thought of making a post to slashdot many times - but those times I've had something sensible to say. This time however, I couldn't really think of anything to say that had to do with the story, or anything else at all, but what the hell, I'm drunk and just got home from some café where I've been listening to some boring DJ's, who could think of nothing better than to stand still on the stage, occasionally fiddling with their synths and turntables, constantly blinding me with some laser thingie. But afterall, making a first post to slashdot is a funny feeling.
Oh, this was a really boring post.... Well.. Hmm.. But kind of nice to have posted to slashdot after all this time...
Hmm... I better go to bed, or read slashdot the rest of the night...
Sorry, I'm drunk.. Just go home from a night out, took a quick look at slashdot and saw that a story with no comments. I've been reading slashdot for some years now and this is the first time I've had a chance to make a first post, so I couldn't resist it. Well this post is going nowhere and has nothinh to do with the story at all, so I'll sign off here...
Woohoo.. First post. Actually my first post ever.