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Know what? This is absolute FUD on both parts. At least you're both ill-informed. These complaints apply to OS X, yes - but that's the client OS. Buy the Server and get the server tools. It's very easy to do pretty much everything remotely, through a Apple-provided GUI tool.
If I wanted to add a user to one of our OS X servers right now, I could. Remotely. Through a GUI. Without VNC. If people would look into using a "Server" as a server, people would be much happier.
First off, it radiates radio waves, as you seem to understand. It doesn't radiate alpha particles or gamma rays or any such fission by-products. It's radiation, but not nearly as bad as the name implies to some.
Some persons believe the EM radiation given off by cell phones is a hazard to your health; I actually tend to agree. The problem is, you can't make it less of an issue by using a crappy antenna. If the antenna is worse, you just generate a stronger signal to overcome that limitation. The power needed to contact the cell tower remains the same.
So, you will have the same amount of radiation emitted into your brain cave whether or not the phone's antenna is efficient. You might as well just get an efficient antenna and save batter power, instead of holding back the tech out of paranoia.
Not really any booing, but the crowd erupted in cheering when he mentioned how much music the three students were able to dowload...so you can tell a lot of the audience didn't really agree with what he was saying.
I can STILL RUN an 8086-compiled program on my Athlon 1.2.
I can still run software initially intended for a Mac Plus on my OS X G4. What's your point?
Just because it's a compatibility environment doesn't mean it has to go away. I suppose that's where Apple has one-upped MS. They use a compatibility layer, bu tit's on top of the new fast code. MS takes the opposite tack - graftign new functionality over the old environenment.
BTW, there's a darn good chance you can't run that old DOS app under XP if it's sufficiently old. The DOS compatibility environment from NT is not fully compatible, so the days of claiming all DOS software works properly under current systems are numbered.
(Note I don't want to imply all ancient Mac software runs under OS X, it doesn't. Poorly written programs often depended on undocuemnted system calls or specific hardware to function properly.)
The line "I have obtained a DVD copier (at great expense) and I frequently rent movies and copy them so I can view them later, like so: " pretty well puts that theory to rest. He wanted to copy them and watch them later. if ou have the media, there's no reason to copy it for time shifting, so he obviously wants to watch them after returning the original DVD.
Besides, he mentioned using a DVD recorder on rented DVDs. Media-shifting isn't an argument here either!
So, it's not fair use. Your example may have been, but the original poster was definitely not.
I have obtained a DVD copier (at great expense) and I frequently rent movies and copy them so I can view them later, like so:
O.K., cool!
No, not cool. When you rent a movie, you are borrowing it. (albeit for a fee.) part of the mechanism that renting works on is only one copy is out there at a time. Only one (set of) viewer(s) can watch it at once. When you copy a rented film and keep it for yourself, it is the same as any other sort of piracy. Fair use is fair use of the owner. The owner can loan a copy out, but can't duplicate for others.
This is the exact same as the example "I hand out free copies of DVD movies everywhere I can to as many people as I can," except the loanee is doing the copy, not the loaner.
You may think that, but also look at such screenshots as the one below:
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/zoom.php?shots/yo ur nick_fluxbox.jpg
BlackBox (and by extension, FluxBox) rocks. (that's just fun to say =) but GNU/Linux and X apps in general lack a cohesive UI. In the aforementioned screen shot, I count no fewer than four window styles. That means no less than four separate ways of intereacting with the machine. That's the *windowing* level, for chrissakes. Get on down to the widgets, that's another four interfaces to get used to, and all of them can get mixed and matched.
On OS X, you have three sets of interface elements, but all of them are *very* similar. (Aqua for one, Classic for another, and the "Pro app" brushed metal of all the Apple media apps) it's much more cohesive - and the lessons learned from one UI apply almost directly to the others.
Now, one of the keys to OS X is simplicity. Yes, it's impossible to do some things in the stock GUI. But, the things you can do are very easy. Not only that, but the features that are missing from the GUI are almost certainly available in the Terminal.
Furthermore...many Mac users are of the Oooh! Shiny! approach...but just try denying that Luna doesn't attemt to pander to that taste. Not to mention the downright crappy-looking transparent terminals things liek eterm provide in X...
The key here is the total stop of forward motion on the Segway's part, while the rider contines on due to the wonderful force of the rider's momentum. It may use itg gyros and wheels to attempt to stay vertical...but if the wheels run into somethign six inches tall (or maybe more, whatever it takes to stop it cold) the rider *will* fall off.
The best balance in the world can't overcome the momentum and leverage a 20 MPH impact with a ledge is going to give you.
Except for the 75% fiction that is the dinosaur series...
I'm sorry, but with the blatant guessing they presented as fact there...wow. The show looked like it might be interesting at first, but then I just decided to go rent Land Before Time. It's free at Family Video, (hey, it's a kiddie movie), and I can rewind it if I miss something. (This was all before I got my TiVo, of course.) =)
It's the color that kills the viewing on a color LCD, from what I understand. Instead of going through a single (black/white) layer of reactive liquid crystal, you have to get light though three layers on a color screen. even worse, without backligting, you just have the reflective back to help you. The light goes through every layer twice, which gives a total trip of six layers of crystal.
Aside from the color, GBA screens are remarkably better than the original GB. Compare the contrast of an original GB to a GB Pocket. The color is better, the contrast is better, and the screen is actually shades of gray instead of yellow to green.
DiscJuggler. No question about it. The pricing isn't too bad, and the software works great. It is good for both mastering and duplication, with good support for multiple drives.
The solution is obvious: Stop selling ad time based on the broadcast time, and start pricing it on the actual (predicted) number of viewers for a show. Get the ratings for a show, and tell the advertisers that so many viewers are expected for the next showing.
Ratings will be based on an important metric for once...
You know, it's about time you updated your.sig. It's nearly five years out of date!
Now, you may use the excuse that it's a quote and therefore should not be changed...but then why is it not contained within quotation marks nor attributed correctly (to The Onion?)
Actually, deionized water is not a conductor. It's the impurities that make it ionize, and therefore conduct. That's why salt water conducts much better than tap water - NaCl is rather good at ionizing water.
When you freeze water, little pockets of impurities form while the crystallized part is relatively pure. So, I would venture a guess ice does not conduct well.
Really, it is apparent we haven't just ceased to evolve, we are now de-evolving. Our own medicine will make us frail, and be our downfall.
Things that kept the gene pool pure in the past are no longer problems. A man with a low sperm count and a woman who would be considered infertile thirty years ago are now able to have quituplets. A child who manifests cancer at the age of eight can receive treatment, then pass on his genes later in life.
Our own medicine - which we like to think makes us strong - is making us weak. The process of natural selection can no longer take place. We have, to a certain extent, defeated death.
But death has a surprise for us. It's still there, stronger than ever. It's just biding its time.
There are two things this might be useful for:
1) Really crappy bootleg recording. It's the intended use, sure. But nobody with any experience or sense will use it for that.
2) College students who want to take notes. With the 32kbit rate, it would be great for recording long lectures.
In light of those two uses, I see the primary market being college students who maybe think they can be bootleggers on the side. It's not the world's biggest market, bu never understimate the willingness of people my age to spend money on (almost) useless crap;)
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Know what? This is absolute FUD on both parts. At least you're both ill-informed. These complaints apply to OS X, yes - but that's the client OS. Buy the Server and get the server tools. It's very easy to do pretty much everything remotely, through a Apple-provided GUI tool.
If I wanted to add a user to one of our OS X servers right now, I could. Remotely. Through a GUI. Without VNC. If people would look into using a "Server" as a server, people would be much happier.
First off, it radiates radio waves, as you seem to understand. It doesn't radiate alpha particles or gamma rays or any such fission by-products. It's radiation, but not nearly as bad as the name implies to some.
Some persons believe the EM radiation given off by cell phones is a hazard to your health; I actually tend to agree. The problem is, you can't make it less of an issue by using a crappy antenna. If the antenna is worse, you just generate a stronger signal to overcome that limitation. The power needed to contact the cell tower remains the same.
So, you will have the same amount of radiation emitted into your brain cave whether or not the phone's antenna is efficient. You might as well just get an efficient antenna and save batter power, instead of holding back the tech out of paranoia.
Not really any booing, but the crowd erupted in cheering when he mentioned how much music the three students were able to dowload...so you can tell a lot of the audience didn't really agree with what he was saying.
Not to mention the capability still exists in OS X's .app packages.
I can STILL RUN an 8086-compiled program on my Athlon 1.2.
I can still run software initially intended for a Mac Plus on my OS X G4. What's your point?
Just because it's a compatibility environment doesn't mean it has to go away. I suppose that's where Apple has one-upped MS. They use a compatibility layer, bu tit's on top of the new fast code. MS takes the opposite tack - graftign new functionality over the old environenment.
BTW, there's a darn good chance you can't run that old DOS app under XP if it's sufficiently old. The DOS compatibility environment from NT is not fully compatible, so the days of claiming all DOS software works properly under current systems are numbered.
(Note I don't want to imply all ancient Mac software runs under OS X, it doesn't. Poorly written programs often depended on undocuemnted system calls or specific hardware to function properly.)
...but everybody likes a Slip 'n' Slide!
Would this goo fall under attractive nuisance laws?
Oh, they'll be back. They'll be back.
What I just read is this:
rc3 was released with a bug.
rc4 was released with the bug fixed
rc3 was marked final anyway.
so now we have a final relaese with a bug that a *later* rc did not have.
The line "I have obtained a DVD copier (at great expense) and I frequently rent movies and copy them so I can view them later, like so: " pretty well puts that theory to rest. He wanted to copy them and watch them later. if ou have the media, there's no reason to copy it for time shifting, so he obviously wants to watch them after returning the original DVD.
Besides, he mentioned using a DVD recorder on rented DVDs. Media-shifting isn't an argument here either!
So, it's not fair use. Your example may have been, but the original poster was definitely not.
O.K., cool!
No, not cool. When you rent a movie, you are borrowing it. (albeit for a fee.) part of the mechanism that renting works on is only one copy is out there at a time. Only one (set of) viewer(s) can watch it at once. When you copy a rented film and keep it for yourself, it is the same as any other sort of piracy. Fair use is fair use of the owner. The owner can loan a copy out, but can't duplicate for others.
This is the exact same as the example "I hand out free copies of DVD movies everywhere I can to as many people as I can," except the loanee is doing the copy, not the loaner.
You may think that, but also look at such screenshots as the one below:
o ur nick_fluxbox.jpg
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/zoom.php?shots/y
BlackBox (and by extension, FluxBox) rocks. (that's just fun to say =) but GNU/Linux and X apps in general lack a cohesive UI. In the aforementioned screen shot, I count no fewer than four window styles. That means no less than four separate ways of intereacting with the machine. That's the *windowing* level, for chrissakes. Get on down to the widgets, that's another four interfaces to get used to, and all of them can get mixed and matched.
On OS X, you have three sets of interface elements, but all of them are *very* similar. (Aqua for one, Classic for another, and the "Pro app" brushed metal of all the Apple media apps) it's much more cohesive - and the lessons learned from one UI apply almost directly to the others.
Now, one of the keys to OS X is simplicity. Yes, it's impossible to do some things in the stock GUI. But, the things you can do are very easy. Not only that, but the features that are missing from the GUI are almost certainly available in the Terminal.
Furthermore...many Mac users are of the Oooh! Shiny! approach...but just try denying that Luna doesn't attemt to pander to that taste. Not to mention the downright crappy-looking transparent terminals things liek eterm provide in X...
The key here is the total stop of forward motion on the Segway's part, while the rider contines on due to the wonderful force of the rider's momentum. It may use itg gyros and wheels to attempt to stay vertical...but if the wheels run into somethign six inches tall (or maybe more, whatever it takes to stop it cold) the rider *will* fall off.
The best balance in the world can't overcome the momentum and leverage a 20 MPH impact with a ledge is going to give you.
Except for the 75% fiction that is the dinosaur series...
I'm sorry, but with the blatant guessing they presented as fact there...wow. The show looked like it might be interesting at first, but then I just decided to go rent Land Before Time. It's free at Family Video, (hey, it's a kiddie movie), and I can rewind it if I miss something. (This was all before I got my TiVo, of course.) =)
It's the color that kills the viewing on a color LCD, from what I understand. Instead of going through a single (black/white) layer of reactive liquid crystal, you have to get light though three layers on a color screen. even worse, without backligting, you just have the reflective back to help you. The light goes through every layer twice, which gives a total trip of six layers of crystal.
Aside from the color, GBA screens are remarkably better than the original GB. Compare the contrast of an original GB to a GB Pocket. The color is better, the contrast is better, and the screen is actually shades of gray instead of yellow to green.
DiscJuggler. No question about it. The pricing isn't too bad, and the software works great. It is good for both mastering and duplication, with good support for multiple drives.
The solution is obvious: Stop selling ad time based on the broadcast time, and start pricing it on the actual (predicted) number of viewers for a show. Get the ratings for a show, and tell the advertisers that so many viewers are expected for the next showing.
Ratings will be based on an important metric for once...
You know, it's about time you updated your .sig. It's nearly five years out of date!
Now, you may use the excuse that it's a quote and therefore should not be changed...but then why is it not contained within quotation marks nor attributed correctly (to The Onion?)
I think this is explained by the same motto that accounts for 90% of the software on Freshmeat:
Because We Can
Well, then...help Google rip people off! Genius!
..."
make a Java applet that pops up a dialog..."Hello from the accounting department of [ISP Name]. We need to re-verify your account information.
It could even use the Google index to take the reverse-lookup of the person's IP, then locate the ISP's real name.
Actually, deionized water is not a conductor. It's the impurities that make it ionize, and therefore conduct. That's why salt water conducts much better than tap water - NaCl is rather good at ionizing water.
When you freeze water, little pockets of impurities form while the crystallized part is relatively pure. So, I would venture a guess ice does not conduct well.
Really, it is apparent we haven't just ceased to evolve, we are now de-evolving. Our own medicine will make us frail, and be our downfall.
Things that kept the gene pool pure in the past are no longer problems. A man with a low sperm count and a woman who would be considered infertile thirty years ago are now able to have quituplets. A child who manifests cancer at the age of eight can receive treatment, then pass on his genes later in life.
Our own medicine - which we like to think makes us strong - is making us weak. The process of natural selection can no longer take place. We have, to a certain extent, defeated death.
But death has a surprise for us. It's still there, stronger than ever. It's just biding its time.
I keep many on-site, but I prefer my off-site partial backups. I don't have a real schedule yet, but ideally I'd make a back-up at least daily.
The backup medium isn't as reliable/error-proof as one might hope, but it's all I have for now...
There are two things this might be useful for:
;)
1) Really crappy bootleg recording. It's the intended use, sure. But nobody with any experience or sense will use it for that.
2) College students who want to take notes. With the 32kbit rate, it would be great for recording long lectures.
In light of those two uses, I see the primary market being college students who maybe think they can be bootleggers on the side. It's not the world's biggest market, bu never understimate the willingness of people my age to spend money on (almost) useless crap
In a concert, it's even easier to tell than usual - the background audience noise is especially susceptible to MP3 artifacting.
Awww....cheap shot ;)
Besides, if the rumors are true, Mac dual-processor single-GHz boxen will be available within a month...