No matter what the equipment there is a limit with respect to speed and there is a natural assumtion that fairness of use could be set and enforced just like speed limits on a road (etc).
If you saw a sign that said "It's legal on this highway to drive as fast as your car can go, all the way through the state." and you got pulled over for speeding, you'd contest the ticket I'm sure...
Disecting Lemonade Stand and discovering how it did it's animation (and through that how the Apple ]['s lowres graphics mode was esentially a second character generator!) pushed me head first on my quest to create computer games.
It isnt' so much that Macs dont (or can't) get viruses but I haven't seen a big Mac virus breakout since the days of INIT 1984 and ChinaTalk (early 90s?)...that being said, when Mac users finally do get hit with one, it's probably going to be devistating. Then again, our OS doesn't have the "AvticeX subway" as someone else put it...
Sorry for the self reply but after I posted it occured to me I should make a disclaimer:
IANAOU (I am not an Outlook User), obviously. Therefore I cannot vouch 100% for the single-click story, it is simply what i have been told by people who have used Outlook. I assume it's a default setting, taking into regards the level of setup the particular person's PC has undergone. Either way, it's obviously way to easy to toss viruses around a corporate network. YMMW.
Despite what Windows pundits would have you belive, Linux and Mac OS alike dont' get fewer virii because of lower market share (lower market share?!? I smell a pissing contest), but because they have no mechnasisms in place out of the box where a user can recieve e-mail with an executable file which can be activated with a single click. Not a double click, mind you; a single click and Outlook will launch a.exe attachment. (Oops, I meant to hit "Delete" or "Reply" -- There goes the corporate network)
If Microsoft was acutally serious about security, I would think this would be one of the first things changed. Honestly, does ANYONE besides the virus writers actually use this feature for something important?
I feel no guilt at atll using Mac OS X. It does everything I want on hardware I like better than that x86 stuff. All my buddies who have PCs are constantly fixing software (mostly Windows problems) or hardware (bad fan kills CPU, northbridge failure, drive crashes...the list goes on)
I put a lot of use into my two Macs here, and the 8600 I've had since 1998, been running it rather constantly for 6 years now, no major problems. It even dual boots to Linux, although it's an old old version (YDL 2000 Q4, IIRC) because I'm always in the Mac OS. I have a G4 to use Unix-y stiff
I don't mind the fact that when you buy Apple you have to buy everything Apple; simply because Apple is what I want. I suppose if I was unhappy with the product, I would buy an x86 machine, be it for Windows or Linux. Besides, these days Macs are compatable enough to be comfortable, I dont' have to go to great lengths to find devices that work...
Why waste time hacking a file format? You know, one hex edit and you can screw up an entire file...suppose that particular byte is part of a run-length indicator? Load and crash, as the entire rest of the level is shfted even one byte left or right.
Hex editing is a good skill to have, but don't try to learn level editing with a hex editor unless you're trying to edit Chip's Challenge...
Indeed, I didn't make that clear in my post, but my argument was for cabling the backbones, which over great distances have less interference porential, and then that last mile solution would be the WiFi. (err. last 50km solution;-) )
Much of the command line is Linux and BSD derrived, X11 runs integrated with the Mac WindowServer; hell, the thing comes with Apache pre-installed with a "Start Webserver" button from the GUI.
Why even re-install when I can run anything right in the Mac OS?
Have you any idea what sort of bandwidth requirements whole countries in Africa have, compared to the average US neighbourhood of a few thousand?
Have you any idea what kind of money can be saved and used for the developing economy if in 20 or 30 years time the entire Internet structure of a country doesn't need a complete replacement because they did things backwards like build backbones with WiFi?
If they're planning on developing, someday their bandwidth requirements will increase. They're either prepared, or they pay to do it again and stifle their efforts.
This is the first time I have ever heard a convincing argument for a store to collect data on it's customers as such. I for one would not feel my privacy invaded at all if a store called to alert me to the possiblity I had purchased bad meat, especially if this situation was life-threatening such as this.
Now if only they wouldn't sell my name to junk mail lists, I'd be happy to give them real information when I sign up for a card.
It's to stop open source developers from writing software that interoperates with these formats. If OOo implements these in a way that violates the patents, microsoft can have the distribution of OOo stopped in the US. Which is ultimately what they really want.
Isn't the whole point of using something like XML to make interoperability possible and simple, at that?
Microsoft is off their nut. So is the USPTO if they approve this.
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The original Windows should just have been called "Panefull"
*rimshot*
Disecting Lemonade Stand and discovering how it did it's animation (and through that how the Apple ]['s lowres graphics mode was esentially a second character generator!) pushed me head first on my quest to create computer games.
Unfortunately I haven't finished one yet.
It isnt' so much that Macs dont (or can't) get viruses but I haven't seen a big Mac virus breakout since the days of INIT 1984 and ChinaTalk (early 90s?)...that being said, when Mac users finally do get hit with one, it's probably going to be devistating. Then again, our OS doesn't have the "AvticeX subway" as someone else put it...
...the picture the robot draws in the video is a self-portrait of the peanut gallery who kept commenting throughout the entire movie.
<rimshot> Be sure to tip your waitress, I'll be here all week!
*duck and cover*
Sorry for the self reply but after I posted it occured to me I should make a disclaimer:
IANAOU (I am not an Outlook User), obviously. Therefore I cannot vouch 100% for the single-click story, it is simply what i have been told by people who have used Outlook. I assume it's a default setting, taking into regards the level of setup the particular person's PC has undergone. Either way, it's obviously way to easy to toss viruses around a corporate network. YMMW.
Despite what Windows pundits would have you belive, Linux and Mac OS alike dont' get fewer virii because of lower market share (lower market share?!? I smell a pissing contest), but because they have no mechnasisms in place out of the box where a user can recieve e-mail with an executable file which can be activated with a single click. Not a double click, mind you; a single click and Outlook will launch a
If Microsoft was acutally serious about security, I would think this would be one of the first things changed. Honestly, does ANYONE besides the virus writers actually use this feature for something important?
Apparently they call it "MSN" everywhere else...
I feel no guilt at atll using Mac OS X. It does everything I want on hardware I like better than that x86 stuff. All my buddies who have PCs are constantly fixing software (mostly Windows problems) or hardware (bad fan kills CPU, northbridge failure, drive crashes...the list goes on)
I put a lot of use into my two Macs here, and the 8600 I've had since 1998, been running it rather constantly for 6 years now, no major problems. It even dual boots to Linux, although it's an old old version (YDL 2000 Q4, IIRC) because I'm always in the Mac OS. I have a G4 to use Unix-y stiff
I don't mind the fact that when you buy Apple you have to buy everything Apple; simply because Apple is what I want. I suppose if I was unhappy with the product, I would buy an x86 machine, be it for Windows or Linux. Besides, these days Macs are compatable enough to be comfortable, I dont' have to go to great lengths to find devices that work...
You can't be too careful on
...or maybe I was joking too? (*embarrasingly attempts to get away with it*)
Why waste time hacking a file format? You know, one hex edit and you can screw up an entire file...suppose that particular byte is part of a run-length indicator? Load and crash, as the entire rest of the level is shfted even one byte left or right.
Hex editing is a good skill to have, but don't try to learn level editing with a hex editor unless you're trying to edit Chip's Challenge...
...is my home
Indeed, I didn't make that clear in my post, but my argument was for cabling the backbones, which over great distances have less interference porential, and then that last mile solution would be the WiFi. (err. last 50km solution
Much of the command line is Linux and BSD derrived, X11 runs integrated with the Mac WindowServer; hell, the thing comes with Apache pre-installed with a "Start Webserver" button from the GUI.
Why even re-install when I can run anything right in the Mac OS?
If they're planning on developing, someday their bandwidth requirements will increase. They're either prepared, or they pay to do it again and stifle their efforts.
No no no, In Soviet Russia, Episode III films Beowulf Cluster of G5s!
My god man, that was beautiful!
Buy Hormel?
Yea right, what are they gonna do, buy out Hormel or something?
This is the first time I have ever heard a convincing argument for a store to collect data on it's customers as such. I for one would not feel my privacy invaded at all if a store called to alert me to the possiblity I had purchased bad meat, especially if this situation was life-threatening such as this.
Now if only they wouldn't sell my name to junk mail lists, I'd be happy to give them real information when I sign up for a card.
Then it's a violation of Serman Networks TOS, not copyright infringement, unless they copied source straight from Kazaas codebase.
Of what, exactly?
Sounds like either a stupid lawsuit or piss poor reporting, to me...
Microsoft is off their nut. So is the USPTO if they approve this.