I mean, forcing you to use iTunes to load music on it, or else it won't play? What's that all about? Just about every other MP3 player (ok, the creative ones suck in that way too) let's you use it as an USB Mass Storage device, no drivers, no software, and it will play any MP3 you put on there.. Nice and simple!
Simple for you maybe. Most people have little to no idea about the file system on their computer. Many of them can't find the folder where they put all their MP3s. Software and drivers makes it easier on these kinds of people.
You're not contractually required to give Steve Jobs a rim-job..
I looked everywhere in my iPod docs and I can't find that anywhere. If you've got a point to make, it'll go over better if you don't resort to bashing people without providing a reason.
What happens to the battery life when you run the ARM at higher clock?
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You're right! Enlightment's pager does show small versions of the windows -- so I don't see how MS's application is patentable. I don't know the process for submitting prior art -- but I remember seeing it in the comments. Someone less lazy than me should submit it:)
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The most interesting part is the images. There you can actually see the Gnome logo. (There is an extra karma bunus for the first who find the KDE logo;)
Listen, I hate MS as much as the next guy -- but did you read the rest of the patent? In the "BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS" section, it reads:
[0013] FIG. 1A [referring to the KDE front panel] is a pictorial diagram illustrating a desktop of a graphical user interface according to the prior art.
[0014] FIG. 1B [referring to the Gnome front panel] is a pictorial diagram illustrating one implementation of a panel containing a desk guide used to switch among multiple virtual desktop according to the prior art.
In the "BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION" section, it points out that in KDE, the pager doesn't show you the pictures of the desktops: "As more and more application windows 102 are dispersed throughout these virtual desktops, it may be difficult for a user to remember which desktop contains which application window." You have to click on each desktop until you find it.
For the GNOME pager, it says that "running application windows appear as small, raised squares... it is still not possible for a user to determine from these small raised squares the desired application window for which he may be looking"
The patent is apparently for MS's improvment of the concept by actually showing small recognizable representations of each desktop in a "preview" pane that shows all the desktops, and for being able to transfer application windows from a different virtual desktop to the current one, without actually bringing up the other desktop.
Ok,/.'ers -- can you think of prior art for this? Codetek's Virual Desktop is similar, but it uses application icons to represent windows, instead of shrunken pictures of the actual windows. However, from this FAQ, it appears the Codetek has at least tried to show shruken pictures in their pager, and found it was too processor intensive.
[eyelash curlers] double as a lethal [emphasis mine] instrument of pain and torture [...] she was screaming in pain, bruised and bleeding...
I was all jazzed up thinking I was going to get a story about how she jabbed an eyelash curler into your best friend's chest, killing him...
That reminds me of a stupid ad I saw in the paper the other day. It had, in huge letters, "7 Deadly Mistakes When Selling Your Home!!!" then talked about how you could lose thousands of dollars in the sale if you didn't do such and such..
If you're going to make exaggerations, at least make them funny!:)
Nor are there any tiles, as more than twofool implies.
The foam is sprayed on, and it adheres directly to the External Tank's aluminum substrate (and itself, of course). Some metallic sections of the tank are coated with epoxy before being sprayed. But the process is slightly different on the bipod structure:
The insulated region where the bipod struts attach to the External Tank is structurally, geometrically, and materially complex. Because of concerns that foam applied over the fittings would not provide enough protection from the high heating of exposed surfaces during ascent, the bipod fittings are coated with ablators. BX-250 foam is sprayed by hand over the fittings (and ablator materials), allowed to dry, and manually shaved into a ramp shape. The foam is visually inspected at the Michoud Assembly Facility and also at the Kennedy Space Center, but no other non-destructive evaluation is performed.
-- excerpt from CAIB report vol. 1, p. 51
When apple puts out a security update, they send a PGP-signed email to their mailing list, security-announce@lists.apple.com. The mail has download URLs, and SHA-digests for each. e.g., here's an excerpt from the last email I got from them:
For Mac OS X v10.3.4 "Panther" and Mac OS X Server v10.3.4 === http://www.apple.com/support/downloa ds/ Click on: Security Update 2004-06-07 (10.3.4) The download file is named: "SecUpd2004-06-07Pan.dmg" Its SHA-1 digest is: 182745485d8db3ea29ec67cb603cc5668a4f60d9
MS should have done something similar. They already have an existing mechanism (a mailing list for security-related announcments), they just need to add the PGP-signing and checksum. (MD5 or other)
Sysinternals provides an array of tools for monitoring your system. e.g. Autoruns provides the same info as startcop. Filemon shows all filesystem activity, in real-time, with optional filters. I use it, in combination with the registry monitor regmon, to monitor software installation.
How do you keep Firefox from going to search.netscape.com when you type a word into the location bar? (e.g. type "tired" in the location bar doesn't go to "www.tired.com")
BTW, did you know if you type "a " in the location bar it will do a "I'm feeling lucky" google search?
From space, more specifically from the Asteroid Belt, of course. Those are made of ice, all of a sudden? Since when? This page seems to say otherwise?
Even if they were made of ice -- how did you plan on making these crash into Mars? More magic arse-rockets? How much energy is it going to take to go to the asteroid belt (more than it takes to get to Mars, unless you want to take 5 years getting there...). Then how much to slow down the 'roid enough to make it go towards Mars?
AFAIK most comets are basically water ice with some dirt mixed in.
Who said anything about comets? Are you going to go to the Oort cloud and bring them back? WTF?! If you've got that much energy then just do whatever you're going to do directly on Mars. Don't use it on some fantastically stupid plan to bring comets from outside the solar system.
This page implies that you won't see any slow-downs:
The engine automatically takes all the metadata inside files and enabled applications and puts the data into a high-performance index. This process occurs transparently and in the background, so you never experience lag times or slow downs during normal operation. When you make a change, such as adding a new file, receiving an email or entering a new contact, the metadata engine updates its index automatically. Results of search requests are displayed virtually as fast as you can type your query.
there isn't much value to having the camera steered on board vs. from a ground computer
Look, the whole *point* of this is so that the ground doesn't have to tell the spacecraft what to do.
First of all, you can't watch your satellite 24 hours/day unless you're rich enough to build your own network of ground stations. How else do you plan on keeping on contact with the satellite all day? With limited funding, are you going to spend your money on instruments and operations, or waste it on building your own network? Oh, and are you going to pay people to either be around or be on call 24 hours a day too, to take care of your ground computers? Or are you so awesome that you can guarantee your ground computer is working 100% of the time?
BTW, your camera on board can't image *and* downlink the image at the same time.
Typically you get 20 to 30 7-minute contacts per day. You share the ground network with dozens of other satellites. i.e. you only have a limited amount of time to direct the spacecraft what to do. It sure would be nice if you didn't have to *tell* it, now wouldn't it?
[...]the very same reason people dont watch movies in foreign languages without subtitles: We want to connect to the storyline, and through it the characters.
I first saw Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in Chinese with English subtitles. Later, it appeared on cable in dubbed English; it was horrible -- so horrible it was almost B-movie funny! The voice actors just didn't do the original justice. The movie was much better when you could hear the emotion in the their voices, even if you didn't speak a word of Chinese.
Maybe the problem there was just horrible voice actors:-/
I had the same experience with Mail -- I let it chug away *overnight* to import my mail. The next day when I tried actually *using* Mail it was too slow compared to Eudora. What a waste of time:(
FYI, Eudora 6.1 now has address book integration. See here
connect to a secure ssh server as a client (using public key authentication so it can connect without a password)
Keep in my mind that this will give free access to the "secure ssh server" to the laptop's new "owner". (i.e. if he discovers your tunnel he then has access to the shell on your ssh server as well as your laptop).
Apple does have a volume licensing and maintenance program for clients as well, but you have to have at least 10 clients. I just submitted a PO for 10 upgrades to 10.3 clients, $59/each. The Maintenance program is $99/seat for 3 years (10-99 seats). $79 for 100-999, $59 for 1000+ seats.
The above prices are for government POs; I don't know if EDU pricing is different.
... or religiously check Windows Update on the second Tuesday of each month.
The problem with Windows Update, is, well, it doesn't always work! For example, a local system admin ran WU two weeks ago (April 15th and 16th, to be exact) on all the Windows machines in my office. On Friday the 30th, two of them were found to be infected with something that exploited the vulnerability in ms-its patched by MS04-013.
When I checked, I found that it had not been installed, because Windows Update did not report it as a needed update.
In other words, Windows Update is practically useless.
This is because alumni who played sports when they went to college want to see their old school do well against their old enemies and donate money for new stadiums, equipment, coaches....etc.
I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing. Why do people even care who wins some stupid game, the outcome of which affects nothing of importance? How is donating sports equipment helpful to the university? Did you decide on a college based on how well their sports team did?
If, by some miracle, or by hard work, I become rich enough to donate money to my alma mater, I'm positive that the money will NOT be used for anything sports-related. I'd rather see a new computer lab or engineering building; hell, new trees planted is better than new freaking helmets.
All sports did for me in college was prevent me from parking close to the library when I needed to study.
While I'm ranting... why do some people, when they find out what college you went to, immediately ask, "Did you catch that game last week?". I'd love to say, "HELL NO, why would I even care???"
Ah, I must be in a bad mood from listening to co-workers talk about sports instead of working. (Don't they know they could be posting on/. instead!?!?!!:) )
Good point. I looked up "self sealing tanks" and found this. It doesn't specifically address a particular aircraft, but these self-sealing tanks contain layers of Kevlar. If that's still true then the STF-saturated Kevlar could also be used.
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I mean, forcing you to use iTunes to load music on it, or else it won't play? What's that all about? Just about every other MP3 player (ok, the creative ones suck in that way too) let's you use it as an USB Mass Storage device, no drivers, no software, and it will play any MP3 you put on there.. Nice and simple!
Simple for you maybe. Most people have little to no idea about the file system on their computer. Many of them can't find the folder where they put all their MP3s. Software and drivers makes it easier on these kinds of people.
You're not contractually required to give Steve Jobs a rim-job..
I looked everywhere in my iPod docs and I can't find that anywhere. If you've got a point to make, it'll go over better if you don't resort to bashing people without providing a reason.
Besides, he shaves his ass so it isn't so bad...
What happens to the battery life when you run the ARM at higher clock?
You're right! Enlightment's pager does show small versions of the windows -- so I don't see how MS's application is patentable. I don't know the process for submitting prior art -- but I remember seeing it in the comments. Someone less lazy than me should submit it :)
The most interesting part is the images. There you can actually see the Gnome logo. (There is an extra karma bunus for the first who find the KDE logo;)
/.'ers -- can you think of prior art for this? Codetek's Virual Desktop is similar, but it uses application icons to represent windows, instead of shrunken pictures of the actual windows. However, from this FAQ, it appears the Codetek has at least tried to show shruken pictures in their pager, and found it was too processor intensive.
Listen, I hate MS as much as the next guy -- but did you read the rest of the patent? In the "BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS" section, it reads:
[0013] FIG. 1A [referring to the KDE front panel] is a pictorial diagram illustrating a desktop of a graphical user interface according to the prior art.
[0014] FIG. 1B [referring to the Gnome front panel] is a pictorial diagram illustrating one implementation of a panel containing a desk guide used to switch among multiple virtual desktop according to the prior art.
In the "BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION" section, it points out that in KDE, the pager doesn't show you the pictures of the desktops: "As more and more application windows 102 are dispersed throughout these virtual desktops, it may be difficult for a user to remember which desktop contains which application window." You have to click on each desktop until you find it.
For the GNOME pager, it says that "running application windows appear as small, raised squares... it is still not possible for a user to determine from these small raised squares the desired application window for which he may be looking"
The patent is apparently for MS's improvment of the concept by actually showing small recognizable representations of each desktop in a "preview" pane that shows all the desktops, and for being able to transfer application windows from a different virtual desktop to the current one, without actually bringing up the other desktop.
Ok,
[eyelash curlers] double as a lethal [emphasis mine] instrument of pain and torture [...] she was screaming in pain, bruised and bleeding...
:)
I was all jazzed up thinking I was going to get a story about how she jabbed an eyelash curler into your best friend's chest, killing him...
That reminds me of a stupid ad I saw in the paper the other day. It had, in huge letters, "7 Deadly Mistakes When Selling Your Home!!!" then talked about how you could lose thousands of dollars in the sale if you didn't do such and such..
If you're going to make exaggerations, at least make them funny!
Nor are there any tiles, as more than two fool implies.
The foam is sprayed on, and it adheres directly to the External Tank's aluminum substrate (and itself, of course). Some metallic sections of the tank are coated with epoxy before being sprayed. But the process is slightly different on the bipod structure:
The insulated region where the bipod struts attach to the External Tank is structurally, geometrically, and materially complex. Because of concerns that foam applied over the fittings would not provide enough protection from the high heating of exposed surfaces during ascent, the bipod fittings are coated with ablators. BX-250 foam is sprayed by hand over the fittings (and ablator materials), allowed to dry, and manually shaved into a ramp shape. The foam is visually inspected at the Michoud Assembly Facility and also at the Kennedy Space Center, but no other non-destructive evaluation is performed.
-- excerpt from CAIB report vol. 1, p. 51
You can get all the CAIB reports here.
When apple puts out a security update, they send a PGP-signed email to their mailing list, security-announce@lists.apple.com. The mail has download URLs, and SHA-digests for each. e.g., here's an excerpt from the last email I got from them:
a ds/
For Mac OS X v10.3.4 "Panther" and Mac OS X Server v10.3.4
===
http://www.apple.com/support/downlo
Click on: Security Update 2004-06-07 (10.3.4)
The download file is named: "SecUpd2004-06-07Pan.dmg"
Its SHA-1 digest is: 182745485d8db3ea29ec67cb603cc5668a4f60d9
MS should have done something similar. They already have an existing mechanism (a mailing list for security-related announcments), they just need to add the PGP-signing and checksum. (MD5 or other)
Sysinternals provides an array of tools for monitoring your system. e.g. Autoruns provides the same info as startcop. Filemon shows all filesystem activity, in real-time, with optional filters. I use it, in combination with the registry monitor regmon, to monitor software installation.
redirect all web browser requests to this page
If I type just "tired" in the location bar it goes to this page
If I type "a tired" it does a Google "...Lucky" search.
My keyword URL was the default (i.e. Google "Lucky" search). Just for kicks I took the lucky part out, but it still behaves the same before and after.
How do you keep Firefox from going to search.netscape.com when you type a word into the location bar? (e.g. type "tired" in the location bar doesn't go to "www.tired.com")
BTW, did you know if you type "a " in the location bar it will do a "I'm feeling lucky" google search?
Even if they were made of ice -- how did you plan on making these crash into Mars? More magic arse-rockets? How much energy is it going to take to go to the asteroid belt (more than it takes to get to Mars, unless you want to take 5 years getting there...). Then how much to slow down the 'roid enough to make it go towards Mars?
AFAIK most comets are basically water ice with some dirt mixed in.
Who said anything about comets? Are you going to go to the Oort cloud and bring them back? WTF?! If you've got that much energy then just do whatever you're going to do directly on Mars. Don't use it on some fantastically stupid plan to bring comets from outside the solar system.
And where, exactly, are you getting these magic ice asteroids? Your arse?
Hmm... I bet when Iceman gets clogged up, he shoots ice asteroids out his arse.
Write all your code on one very long line...
The engine automatically takes all the metadata inside files and enabled applications and puts the data into a high-performance index. This process occurs transparently and in the background, so you never experience lag times or slow downs during normal operation. When you make a change, such as adding a new file, receiving an email or entering a new contact, the metadata engine updates its index automatically. Results of search requests are displayed virtually as fast as you can type your query.
there isn't much value to having the camera steered on board vs. from a ground computer
Look, the whole *point* of this is so that the ground doesn't have to tell the spacecraft what to do.
First of all, you can't watch your satellite 24 hours/day unless you're rich enough to build your own network of ground stations. How else do you plan on keeping on contact with the satellite all day? With limited funding, are you going to spend your money on instruments and operations, or waste it on building your own network? Oh, and are you going to pay people to either be around or be on call 24 hours a day too, to take care of your ground computers? Or are you so awesome that you can guarantee your ground computer is working 100% of the time?
BTW, your camera on board can't image *and* downlink the image at the same time.
Typically you get 20 to 30 7-minute contacts per day. You share the ground network with dozens of other satellites. i.e. you only have a limited amount of time to direct the spacecraft what to do. It sure would be nice if you didn't have to *tell* it, now wouldn't it?
I first saw Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in Chinese with English subtitles. Later, it appeared on cable in dubbed English; it was horrible -- so horrible it was almost B-movie funny! The voice actors just didn't do the original justice. The movie was much better when you could hear the emotion in the their voices, even if you didn't speak a word of Chinese.
Maybe the problem there was just horrible voice actors :-/
I had the same experience with Mail -- I let it chug away *overnight* to import my mail. The next day when I tried actually *using* Mail it was too slow compared to Eudora. What a waste of time :(
FYI, Eudora 6.1 now has address book integration. See here
The example exploit worked on my OS X 10.2.8 box.
Keep in my mind that this will give free access to the "secure ssh server" to the laptop's new "owner". (i.e. if he discovers your tunnel he then has access to the shell on your ssh server as well as your laptop).
Apple does have a volume licensing and maintenance program for clients as well, but you have to have at least 10 clients. I just submitted a PO for 10 upgrades to 10.3 clients, $59/each. The Maintenance program is $99/seat for 3 years (10-99 seats). $79 for 100-999, $59 for 1000+ seats.
The above prices are for government POs; I don't know if EDU pricing is different.
The problem with Windows Update, is, well, it doesn't always work! For example, a local system admin ran WU two weeks ago (April 15th and 16th, to be exact) on all the Windows machines in my office. On Friday the 30th, two of them were found to be infected with something that exploited the vulnerability in ms-its patched by MS04-013.
When I checked, I found that it had not been installed, because Windows Update did not report it as a needed update.
In other words, Windows Update is practically useless.
I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing. Why do people even care who wins some stupid game, the outcome of which affects nothing of importance? How is donating sports equipment helpful to the university? Did you decide on a college based on how well their sports team did?
/. instead!?!?!! :) )
If, by some miracle, or by hard work, I become rich enough to donate money to my alma mater, I'm positive that the money will NOT be used for anything sports-related. I'd rather see a new computer lab or engineering building; hell, new trees planted is better than new freaking helmets.
All sports did for me in college was prevent me from parking close to the library when I needed to study.
While I'm ranting... why do some people, when they find out what college you went to, immediately ask, "Did you catch that game last week?". I'd love to say, "HELL NO, why would I even care???"
Ah, I must be in a bad mood from listening to co-workers talk about sports instead of working. (Don't they know they could be posting on
Randall: In a row?
Good point. I looked up "self sealing tanks" and found this. It doesn't specifically address a particular aircraft, but these self-sealing tanks contain layers of Kevlar. If that's still true then the STF-saturated Kevlar could also be used.