Those other guys are just trying to get something out of you. In reality, Pine's too old of a mail client. It has no setting to disable HTML images, so you need to upgrade to a mail client that does. Even better, you could go for the feature-packed client that is Outlook! It even has a datebook built in, and scripting for your whole system!
What the hell is a "hoosier" anyway? And saying "a person from Indiana" is not an acceptable answer. Some of my immediate family just emigrated to your fine state and they couldn't answer the question for me.
Not really. They're still *very* far behind Sony as far as installed base goes, and I think they're still behind Nintendo by a small margin - though with current sale rates that won't be for long.
But you say "kicking ass" like it's a definitive win for them, which it most definitely is not. The original PlayStation was Sony "kicking a significant amount of ass" back in the day. MS hasn't come close to that sort of coup.
It keeps me sane, certainly, and I work with the developmentally disabled every day. My clientele runs the gamut from normal-intelligence people that happen to have cerebral palsy to individuals with sub-40 IQs. And most of them have a great sense of humor - if they didn't, as you said, they'd have a hard time staying sane.
Now, when I'm at work, the above thread would not be something I'd say. But when I'm on my own personal time - like right now - I find it hilarious. I've been known to say things that are potentially much more offensive, but to me it's funny.
Then again, 99% of my life is funny in some way. Maybe I was wrong about laughter keeping me sane.
And what methodology do you use to ensure that your software is safe, I have to ask? Really, there are no good generally-available methods of avoiding such trojans.
Well, don't download warez from LimeWaire, for one. That guy was lying through his teeth; he tried tt get Word for free and got bitten. LimeWire has never been the fastest method for downloading anything, and you can bet if MS were offering Word for free you'd find out about it through other channels.
You're right, that doesn't. BUT, I've used a BFS CD before, (with BeOS of course) so using filesystems other than ISO9660 is not unheard of. I could have sworn most Apple CDs were HFS as well. In fact, I'm almost positive - that's why some nifty tricks, like building pictures out of strategically-placed cutom icons for empty folders - worked. You wouldn't be able to do that with any of the ISO formats, I'm almost positive.
Is it actually in the FS though? I don't think so. I can put four moderately-sized files (~125 MB) into an ISO file, with a net gain of 50 KB or so over the raw files. You can't tell me besides containing the actual FS info that image includes ECC.
The reed-solomon encoding/decoding is all taken care of at the hardware level by the CD drive, unless you choose to record in DAO/96 mode or something similar, where the recording software takes charge of subcodes.
It was always my understanding that ISO9660 was a sort of lowest-common-denominator standard designed to be useful on most computer systems at the time of its design. Most systems have moved on from where they were years ago, so companies have added extras (Windows Joliet support, Rock Ridge, High Sierra, etc.) as the years have gone on. The original idea, though, was to be a sort of minimum standard so as to avoid problems with different computers.
In a Mode 1 CD the drive hardware takes care of the ECC. You feed the drive 650MB (or, recently, 700MB) of data, and it generates error correction as it burns. Mode 2 removes the ECC for slightly more space. This is useful for things like VCDs, where a missed bit is easily concealed, but an extra 300 bytes per sector adds up to significantly more space.
This is, interestingly enough, the secret used in many copy protection schemes. The original CD was mastered with invalid ECC entries on specific sectors. Your computer would correct the data when reading/ripping the image. Then, when you burned the CD with "correct" ECCs, the software simply had to look for the sectors it knew should be bad. If they looked pristine, then the software knew you were running a copy.
So, my summary: ISO9660 is a crappy FS that's been extended far too much, but much like FAT it's here to stay.
But there is no written license agreed to by the purchaser, not even packaged with the DVD, so the terms of copyright codified in the law take effect - giving you the right to make copies for personal use.
Her aim does not appear to be working to find the optimal path that works for both sides -- it is totally consumer oriented....which it should be. That's what negotiation is about. You are expected to argue for what you really want - but don't quite need - and compromise from there. It's the same as buying a used car. You don't go and offer the seller the most you're willing to pay. You offer him less than you know he's willing to take, since it's a given you'll negotiate up from there.
I think they changed the file format somehow. I just purchased a song (had Pepsi freebies to blow before the 30th) and played it back in iTunes, then tried to remove the DRM with Playfair 0.5.0. "Couldn't get DRM key for user." is the reply.
Note that I have not yet updated iTunes; I'm still using version 4.2.0.72, and QuickTime 6.5.
I have a CD that was a cheapie, no protective layer over the silver. Part of it (a 1-2mm circle) chipped and started to peel, so I painted over the patch with clear nail polish. I haven't cared enough about what's on the CD to re-record it, but the cheapie disc still works. =)
8X and 4X are hardly high-speed by today's standards. Try burning at 40X versus 2X in a drive capable of both speeds, using media that's designed for it. For my purposes I've been using some 48X-rated Sonys that I picked up at Wal-Mart. Contrary to conventional wisdom, my DVD±RW drive produces burned CDs that are far more reliable when burning at full speed versus the same discs recorded in the 2-8X range. I'm sure that on some burners it's better to recird at a slower speed, but more recent drives truly are tuned for the high-speed recording.
I have a Lite-On LDW-411S. I have high-speed-compatible CD-Rs. Hearing (and following) the "burn slower for more reliability" adage for so long, I started off using my new toy at around 4X. I mean, hey - I was in no rush. I then found that any of the audio CD-Rs that I made didn't work well in my Discman, and didn't work at all in a friend's CD player. I then tried burning at a slower speed, hoping it would make things better, but it didn't. I gave up on the DVD drive as a CD writer, as I still had a good CD-R drive in the machine. Months later, my CD-R gave up. On a whim, I burned an audio CD in the Lite-On at maximum speed, and to my surprise it worked perfectly. Since then, I've burned all my CDs at full speed, and had excellent reliability in both my Discman and other audio CD players that I run across.
Not well-researched I'll give you, but definitely true in my case.
1) Wasn't done on work time, at least not creating the messes. The clean-up wasn't so bad for the balloons, evidently. Can't eb so sure about the Post-Its.
2) A good manager sees the value of good clean fun, and knows that it can be a morale booster in moderation. Happy workers == productive workers.
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Those other guys are just trying to get something out of you. In reality, Pine's too old of a mail client. It has no setting to disable HTML images, so you need to upgrade to a mail client that does. Even better, you could go for the feature-packed client that is Outlook! It even has a datebook built in, and scripting for your whole system!
I never realized he was such a visionary - but now I'm looking forward to welcoming our anthropomorphic, bovine overlords.
What the hell is a "hoosier" anyway? And saying "a person from Indiana" is not an acceptable answer. Some of my immediate family just emigrated to your fine state and they couldn't answer the question for me.
Not really. They're still *very* far behind Sony as far as installed base goes, and I think they're still behind Nintendo by a small margin - though with current sale rates that won't be for long.
But you say "kicking ass" like it's a definitive win for them, which it most definitely is not. The original PlayStation was Sony "kicking a significant amount of ass" back in the day. MS hasn't come close to that sort of coup.
It keeps me sane, certainly, and I work with the developmentally disabled every day. My clientele runs the gamut from normal-intelligence people that happen to have cerebral palsy to individuals with sub-40 IQs. And most of them have a great sense of humor - if they didn't, as you said, they'd have a hard time staying sane.
Now, when I'm at work, the above thread would not be something I'd say. But when I'm on my own personal time - like right now - I find it hilarious. I've been known to say things that are potentially much more offensive, but to me it's funny.
Then again, 99% of my life is funny in some way. Maybe I was wrong about laughter keeping me sane.
Oh like they planned for that.
After all, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Why not modify the iTunes binary to NOP at the point it sets the flag? Simple, easy-to-undo hack that solves the problem.
It certainly sounds more likely to work reliably than just hoping any potential user has an iPod.
And what methodology do you use to ensure that your software is safe, I have to ask? Really, there are no good generally-available methods of avoiding such trojans.
Well, don't download warez from LimeWaire, for one. That guy was lying through his teeth; he tried tt get Word for free and got bitten. LimeWire has never been the fastest method for downloading anything, and you can bet if MS were offering Word for free you'd find out about it through other channels.
You're right, that doesn't. BUT, I've used a BFS CD before, (with BeOS of course) so using filesystems other than ISO9660 is not unheard of. I could have sworn most Apple CDs were HFS as well. In fact, I'm almost positive - that's why some nifty tricks, like building pictures out of strategically-placed cutom icons for empty folders - worked. You wouldn't be able to do that with any of the ISO formats, I'm almost positive.
Is it actually in the FS though? I don't think so. I can put four moderately-sized files (~125 MB) into an ISO file, with a net gain of 50 KB or so over the raw files. You can't tell me besides containing the actual FS info that image includes ECC.
The reed-solomon encoding/decoding is all taken care of at the hardware level by the CD drive, unless you choose to record in DAO/96 mode or something similar, where the recording software takes charge of subcodes.
It was always my understanding that ISO9660 was a sort of lowest-common-denominator standard designed to be useful on most computer systems at the time of its design. Most systems have moved on from where they were years ago, so companies have added extras (Windows Joliet support, Rock Ridge, High Sierra, etc.) as the years have gone on. The original idea, though, was to be a sort of minimum standard so as to avoid problems with different computers.
In a Mode 1 CD the drive hardware takes care of the ECC. You feed the drive 650MB (or, recently, 700MB) of data, and it generates error correction as it burns. Mode 2 removes the ECC for slightly more space. This is useful for things like VCDs, where a missed bit is easily concealed, but an extra 300 bytes per sector adds up to significantly more space.
This is, interestingly enough, the secret used in many copy protection schemes. The original CD was mastered with invalid ECC entries on specific sectors. Your computer would correct the data when reading/ripping the image. Then, when you burned the CD with "correct" ECCs, the software simply had to look for the sectors it knew should be bad. If they looked pristine, then the software knew you were running a copy.
So, my summary: ISO9660 is a crappy FS that's been extended far too much, but much like FAT it's here to stay.
Unless I'm mistaken, it's the CD media writing process that involves error correction, not the ISO9660 format itself. And mistaken I could be.
But there is no written license agreed to by the purchaser, not even packaged with the DVD, so the terms of copyright codified in the law take effect - giving you the right to make copies for personal use.
I always thought that was the publishing date.
Though I think I've seen it on Euro-import CDs rather than domestic (US) releases.
No, that would be you!
Nah, they digitally remove the music from every scene to avoid paying royalties...
I thought you were going to make some lame reference to "viral marketing." But you didn't.
You just had to make me do it!
Her aim does not appear to be working to find the optimal path that works for both sides -- it is totally consumer oriented. ...which it should be. That's what negotiation is about. You are expected to argue for what you really want - but don't quite need - and compromise from there. It's the same as buying a used car. You don't go and offer the seller the most you're willing to pay. You offer him less than you know he's willing to take, since it's a given you'll negotiate up from there.
I think they changed the file format somehow. I just purchased a song (had Pepsi freebies to blow before the 30th) and played it back in iTunes, then tried to remove the DRM with Playfair 0.5.0. "Couldn't get DRM key for user." is the reply.
Note that I have not yet updated iTunes; I'm still using version 4.2.0.72, and QuickTime 6.5.
What's a hypocracy? A country run by hypocrites? ("hypocrats?")
Hey, at least it's not a Hippocracy.
If it started showing context-related ads with my PGP mails, then I'd start to get a little freaked out.
;)
That, and I'd know that their "search cluster" is really used as a "crypto cluster" when not searching
I have a CD that was a cheapie, no protective layer over the silver. Part of it (a 1-2mm circle) chipped and started to peel, so I painted over the patch with clear nail polish. I haven't cared enough about what's on the CD to re-record it, but the cheapie disc still works. =)
8X and 4X are hardly high-speed by today's standards. Try burning at 40X versus 2X in a drive capable of both speeds, using media that's designed for it. For my purposes I've been using some 48X-rated Sonys that I picked up at Wal-Mart. Contrary to conventional wisdom, my DVD±RW drive produces burned CDs that are far more reliable when burning at full speed versus the same discs recorded in the 2-8X range. I'm sure that on some burners it's better to recird at a slower speed, but more recent drives truly are tuned for the high-speed recording.
I have a Lite-On LDW-411S. I have high-speed-compatible CD-Rs. Hearing (and following) the "burn slower for more reliability" adage for so long, I started off using my new toy at around 4X. I mean, hey - I was in no rush. I then found that any of the audio CD-Rs that I made didn't work well in my Discman, and didn't work at all in a friend's CD player. I then tried burning at a slower speed, hoping it would make things better, but it didn't. I gave up on the DVD drive as a CD writer, as I still had a good CD-R drive in the machine. Months later, my CD-R gave up. On a whim, I burned an audio CD in the Lite-On at maximum speed, and to my surprise it worked perfectly. Since then, I've burned all my CDs at full speed, and had excellent reliability in both my Discman and other audio CD players that I run across.
Not well-researched I'll give you, but definitely true in my case.
He's just lucky it wasn't the quintessential tool of the terrorist, the NAIL CLIPPER!
1) Wasn't done on work time, at least not creating the messes. The clean-up wasn't so bad for the balloons, evidently. Can't eb so sure about the Post-Its.
2) A good manager sees the value of good clean fun, and knows that it can be a morale booster in moderation. Happy workers == productive workers.