Well to a degree i disagree. First, I'm not trying to start a flame war, so sorry if i came off harsh.
I strongly believe anyone in the world is entitled to whatever they wish to purchase/aquire through legal means to benifit their cause (asside from weapons, which no one should have but hey, it's not a perfect world). A problem arrises when their CAUSE is one which is hurtful or degrading to humanity as a whole. Think of cisco, a nice fat chinese contract for the "great firewall" as it has been dubbed, yadda yadda yadda...
I'm sure china didn't send a list of "Sites that will be banned using your product to make life here isolated and controled". As well as I'm sure China has blocked things that really shouldn't be seen, like child pornography. But, they also blocked things that could be threatening to them, such as free speech sites and outside views on how their government conducts itself.
Is this banning of "threatening" materials a legit move by the Chinese government? No, by OUR standards. Are they isolating their own people from the absolute truth? CERTAINLY.
But, did Cisco have prior knowledge as to the injustice that was to occur? No, I seriously doubt it. What you do with a firewall/router/switch/whatever is what YOU do. The manufacturer cannot be blamed for a defect in the consumer, only the product. Cisco does not create facist governments, merely equipment.
And as for the comparison to Al Qaeda, they are obviously not out for anyone's good. China cares SOMEWHAT about their people, because they seem to be having at least some success (albeit under ridiculous amounts of control) with their country. All Al-Qaeda did was teach some nomads what guns are and that "Americans are bad". China can do things much more useful to humanity and that is why, even dispite the tension bewteen the US and China, we have more respect for them than the likes of Al-Qaeda. I'm sure Cisco wouldn't strike up a deal with a government they thought would use the equipment entirely for "evil", which China is certanly not (entirely).
As for banning Cisco, I misunderstood the intent of your original post and again for that I aplolgize. In this case. however, I am unsure they are worthy of the title "hypocrites"...
Think the Chaos Computer Club can get permission to do this with the office lights in the Prudential Building in downtown Boston?
They spelled "GO SOX" in 2000 in the office lights durring the World Series so there must be some sort of computer control already implemented... it's be great fun to play pong on a skyscraper! I'd pay the $1.00 every once and a while...
Your damn right. Cisco has how many employees to think of? A nice, fat chinese government contract for some really heavy metal? I think they'd take it. If that's what China wants, that's what China gets. If you want to ban Cisco because they sold equipment to a government you don't like be my guest but I'll lay the blame where it belongs, with the Chinese for putting their purchase to poor use.
That's like blaming Red Hat for the skript kiddie who just fuct up your box.
Exactly, very good point about Apple's prices, deserves an Insightful.
I never understood that either. I watch my friends gloat at me that their PC cost so little to build, $800, $600, $500... and they have all this AMAZING stuff in it, 1.8GHz Athlon CPU, lastest-most-awsome motherboard, 1094576GB of hard drive space, and 896MB of RAM, running Windows XP and the lastest Linux, dual boot, with a 32x rewritable burner in it.
And every other day, something breaks. How many ATX motherboards have they sent back? How many times has that Maxtor drive failed? Windows XP? I wont' even start with the FUD...
I have a Power Macintosh 8600/250 here. I bought it in 1998. It has probably been powered down for about 6 months TOTAL that whole 5 years. It runs better than the day I bought it (thanks to OS updates) and for 250Mhz and only 96MB of RAM, I can do a suprising amount. Writing code, Photoshop, it hosted a variety of 'net services (SMB share, web site, FTP, and AppleShare) all at once when I was living in a dorm. Slightly sluggish, but it's a 250. It does crash but in the 5 years I've had it, it's never had to be reformatted. And these are SCSI drives from Quantum (yes, one IS a FireBall, hasn't failed yet).
The point is, you get what you pay for. Buy a Mac and learn the right way to use it, and it'll last forever. I haven't seen one of these homebuilt PCs last more than a few months before SOEMTHING majorly wrong happened with either hardware, software, or both. So, save your money and spend top dollar, and you won' tneed a new PC every 2 years but every 10 instead. (And they even throw in a DVD burner)
Suppose a photographer has a page with a dozen of his pictures on it, and his name and (C). If I linked to one of those pictures, I'd be in violation. If I linked to (and preferably anchored down to the appropriate image) his page of pictures with his name and (C), that would be legal, because he would have credit.
Of course, you can always add a (C) notice to the image with the GIMP or Photoshop or something. That pretty much covers any senario.
What makes a file "below" an HTML file? I have.jpgs on my website with no html, I just send people the URL. If it has a URL, it already is top-level.
If that is the only way to access the image then it may be considered OK to do so. But if you had a page full of copyrighted images with your specific byline and (C), it's probably only legal if someone links to that.
There are dozens of ways to protect your site from unauthorized loading:
Link through CGI scripts that check the HTTP-REFERER. If the refering page isn't yours, it's a no go.
Although it may take a little "elbow grease", use the cron to run a script that changes the filenames and allows pages to reference them through SSI. No outside linking if the names keep changing!
If your stuff only for use by users under a certian domain? Say a corporate intranet? Use.htaccess to weed out those outsiders
Pesky Google Image Search and Metacrawler stealing all your hard work? Use a robots.txt
All in all, if I can type its URL in my "Location" bar in a browser window and get it, it's out in the open, and anyone can get at it any way they like. Unless the people doing the "illegal linking" circumvented some sort of security (including a simple HTML page with a (C) on it) to do so, I would have to agree and see no reason for legal action to be considered by any court.
Remember "Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus?" THAT, my friends, was a computer book.
It featured a dozen authors, but the book was coherent. The CD was PACKED full of AWSOME stuff (some was crap but not much). If not for a book like that, I would have never been writing my own games for Mac.
Apple announces MacOS X...
Uh-oh. Where is my Sound Manager? QuickDraw has been replaced? How do I guratentee I'll have enough CPU time (or does that even matter anymore)? How do I do refresh sync with the Vertical Retrace Manger now? Can Quartz do what I want and how?? OpenGL??? Networking???? INTERUPTS???? AUUUGHHH!!:-)
I hate wading through Apple's docs and source code. Dont' get me wrong, they're great if you know what you're looking for, but to go and teach yourself the entire thing? No, I'd rather have a nice big book, preferably written by people who know what they're doing. And can explain it in a manner that makes sense. You'd need chapters on (of course first off) good program design and applying it to games. Stuff about CoreGraphics and CoreAudio would be nice, along with how to generate sound and use raw frame buffers, and please, how do I sync to the damn VBL? Networking... how the hell do you even do that in MacOS X? Is OpenTransport even still there? OpenGL... been meaning to learn it, lots of example code out there...for Windows and Linux. Great, how does this appl to OS X? How should the screen/window be set up?
In case you couldn't tell, I'd rather not code in Carbon, as it's not as full featured as Cocca seems to be. Therefore, a chapter on the basics of Objective C would be nice as well.
Plus a million more questions I'm sure a ton of people want answered without wading through the Apple Source Vault Of Doom(TM);-)
I'd love to have a computer small emough to have in my car as a stereo. Or to fit in my pocket as a wearable computer. I think thewre was an article a while back about glasses with a minature screen in them that some guy custom built? (I lost the link:-\) That would be perfect.
Or, using the same techniques used by the galsses, why not make a HUD for my car, with speed, and proximity warnings, and a GPS linked map... forget taking my work home, this is the right combination of size/power to do all kinds of cool new things!
And, for those calling it "obsolete" by the time it comes out, dont' you think that if they want to wait a few years to market it and such that they want some extra R&D time to improve it?
For OSX, you'd need more than just a PPC motherboard, as it uses other Apple proprietary components (ROM, etc.). But, you could still run Darwin, which is the Mach kernel and BSD workings that the "OSX Layer" runs on top of.
In fact, there is an x86 version of it availible for download at Apple's Open Source website (requires a free reg. to download). It's not Aqua but you still get a decent BSD system.
Makes me wonder if the entirety of OS X will someday be ported to x86? (Not likely)
I don't know about you, but my service provider (RoadRunner) was really awsome (400k/sec FTP on average!) put bandwidth caps on and service has been progressively slower (12k/sec FTP average:-P), probably due to the same people who where using alot of bandwidth to begin with taking longer to do whatever it is they where doing...due to the damn bandwidth caps. Plus they hiked the price.
I'd quote their website but I can't seem to connect to it right now... heh.
Point is, we pay more for what is guarenteed to be less, and there is no other choice here. Time/Warner is the only cable company and DSL here is through Verizon, and judging from seeing the people who have it (and they live a few blocks from the CO), i dunno why anyone would take DSL at all. 56k is cheaper and seems to run the same speeds. I hope the extra money goes into more bandwidth/improving service and not into Time/Warners advertising budget.
AppleScript Studio may be the answer you're looking for, it is a GUI-based editor that allows you to write Cocoa-style apps and then write functions and such for your interface elements in AppleScript. Since AppleScript has been around since System 7, many many apps support it and this could easily be used to create a window with common controls for all your currently running programs. Create a nice, simple GUI for automating complex config or mainenince tasks on your G4 web server? Now we're talking!
Much in the same style as Visual Basic, or RealBasic...
or if you're a Mac oldskooler.........HYPERCARD!
I always thought Apple should have taken HyperCard and just upped the technology, I mean it still ran in black & white until the day it died (96? 97? Too much ganja...), it was an amazing piece of software WELL ahead of it's time featuring things like user-authoring of programs and full scriptability, and even things we take for granted today such as hyperlinking! Everything from custom databases to slide shows, and even games, where created for it. I even saw a LaserDisc player-controlling stack once!
APPLE! BRING BACK HYPERCARD! If you don't I really am going to go STAK-WILD;-)
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I have nothing further, your honor.
Computer sends e-mail over the Internet.
The Internet is made of wires.
Therefore, E-mail == communications made over a wire.
Wire tapping == listening to communications made over a wire.
Anyone else see what I'm getting at?
Why does a court even have to rule on this? Existing laws should have this covered. I never understood why laws are either too broad or too narrow.
I strongly believe anyone in the world is entitled to whatever they wish to purchase/aquire through legal means to benifit their cause (asside from weapons, which no one should have but hey, it's not a perfect world). A problem arrises when their CAUSE is one which is hurtful or degrading to humanity as a whole. Think of cisco, a nice fat chinese contract for the "great firewall" as it has been dubbed, yadda yadda yadda...
I'm sure china didn't send a list of "Sites that will be banned using your product to make life here isolated and controled". As well as I'm sure China has blocked things that really shouldn't be seen, like child pornography. But, they also blocked things that could be threatening to them, such as free speech sites and outside views on how their government conducts itself.
Is this banning of "threatening" materials a legit move by the Chinese government? No, by OUR standards. Are they isolating their own people from the absolute truth? CERTAINLY.
But, did Cisco have prior knowledge as to the injustice that was to occur? No, I seriously doubt it. What you do with a firewall/router/switch/whatever is what YOU do. The manufacturer cannot be blamed for a defect in the consumer, only the product. Cisco does not create facist governments, merely equipment.
And as for the comparison to Al Qaeda, they are obviously not out for anyone's good. China cares SOMEWHAT about their people, because they seem to be having at least some success (albeit under ridiculous amounts of control) with their country. All Al-Qaeda did was teach some nomads what guns are and that "Americans are bad". China can do things much more useful to humanity and that is why, even dispite the tension bewteen the US and China, we have more respect for them than the likes of Al-Qaeda. I'm sure Cisco wouldn't strike up a deal with a government they thought would use the equipment entirely for "evil", which China is certanly not (entirely).
As for banning Cisco, I misunderstood the intent of your original post and again for that I aplolgize. In this case. however, I am unsure they are worthy of the title "hypocrites"...
LMAO yea that too...
can't we all just get along?
yes.
why don't we?
...well?
They spelled "GO SOX" in 2000 in the office lights durring the World Series so there must be some sort of computer control already implemented... it's be great fun to play pong on a skyscraper! I'd pay the $1.00 every once and a while...
Your damn right. Cisco has how many employees to think of? A nice, fat chinese government contract for some really heavy metal? I think they'd take it. If that's what China wants, that's what China gets. If you want to ban Cisco because they sold equipment to a government you don't like be my guest but I'll lay the blame where it belongs, with the Chinese for putting their purchase to poor use.
That's like blaming Red Hat for the skript kiddie who just fuct up your box.
but didnt' /. run a story on this a while back? like 6-months to a year? Check the archives.. i'm tired.
That's one small step for man...
I never understood that either. I watch my friends gloat at me that their PC cost so little to build, $800, $600, $500... and they have all this AMAZING stuff in it, 1.8GHz Athlon CPU, lastest-most-awsome motherboard, 1094576GB of hard drive space, and 896MB of RAM, running Windows XP and the lastest Linux, dual boot, with a 32x rewritable burner in it.
And every other day, something breaks. How many ATX motherboards have they sent back? How many times has that Maxtor drive failed? Windows XP? I wont' even start with the FUD...
I have a Power Macintosh 8600/250 here. I bought it in 1998. It has probably been powered down for about 6 months TOTAL that whole 5 years. It runs better than the day I bought it (thanks to OS updates) and for 250Mhz and only 96MB of RAM, I can do a suprising amount. Writing code, Photoshop, it hosted a variety of 'net services (SMB share, web site, FTP, and AppleShare) all at once when I was living in a dorm. Slightly sluggish, but it's a 250. It does crash but in the 5 years I've had it, it's never had to be reformatted. And these are SCSI drives from Quantum (yes, one IS a FireBall, hasn't failed yet).
The point is, you get what you pay for. Buy a Mac and learn the right way to use it, and it'll last forever. I haven't seen one of these homebuilt PCs last more than a few months before SOEMTHING majorly wrong happened with either hardware, software, or both. So, save your money and spend top dollar, and you won' tneed a new PC every 2 years but every 10 instead. (And they even throw in a DVD burner)
Nice john hancock, ;-)
Anyways, here is your 1700th (approx.) "Congrats!"
Duh, my other post starts wrong. Not mod totals, it's his sig. You'll have to excuse me, I just woke up. :-D
That being said, do Nintendo and Sega pay royalties on this and that's why only Sony and M$ are in on the suit? Any info anyone?
Suppose a photographer has a page with a dozen of his pictures on it, and his name and (C). If I linked to one of those pictures, I'd be in violation. If I linked to (and preferably anchored down to the appropriate image) his page of pictures with his name and (C), that would be legal, because he would have credit.
Of course, you can always add a (C) notice to the image with the GIMP or Photoshop or something. That pretty much covers any senario.
...that's like calling Trent Reznor a pop star.
If that is the only way to access the image then it may be considered OK to do so. But if you had a page full of copyrighted images with your specific byline and (C), it's probably only legal if someone links to that.
There are dozens of ways to protect your site from unauthorized loading:
All in all, if I can type its URL in my "Location" bar in a browser window and get it, it's out in the open, and anyone can get at it any way they like. Unless the people doing the "illegal linking" circumvented some sort of security (including a simple HTML page with a (C) on it) to do so, I would have to agree and see no reason for legal action to be considered by any court.
It featured a dozen authors, but the book was coherent. The CD was PACKED full of AWSOME stuff (some was crap but not much). If not for a book like that, I would have never been writing my own games for Mac.
Apple announces MacOS X...
Uh-oh. Where is my Sound Manager? QuickDraw has been replaced? How do I guratentee I'll have enough CPU time (or does that even matter anymore)? How do I do refresh sync with the Vertical Retrace Manger now? Can Quartz do what I want and how?? OpenGL??? Networking???? INTERUPTS???? AUUUGHHH!! :-)
I hate wading through Apple's docs and source code. Dont' get me wrong, they're great if you know what you're looking for, but to go and teach yourself the entire thing? No, I'd rather have a nice big book, preferably written by people who know what they're doing. And can explain it in a manner that makes sense. You'd need chapters on (of course first off) good program design and applying it to games. Stuff about CoreGraphics and CoreAudio would be nice, along with how to generate sound and use raw frame buffers, and please, how do I sync to the damn VBL? Networking... how the hell do you even do that in MacOS X? Is OpenTransport even still there? OpenGL... been meaning to learn it, lots of example code out there...for Windows and Linux. Great, how does this appl to OS X? How should the screen/window be set up?
In case you couldn't tell, I'd rather not code in Carbon, as it's not as full featured as Cocca seems to be. Therefore, a chapter on the basics of Objective C would be nice as well.
Plus a million more questions I'm sure a ton of people want answered without wading through the Apple Source Vault Of Doom(TM) ;-)
I think that's a rather cool idea, i really think it would sell, not only for it's novelty but it's usefulness.
Or, using the same techniques used by the galsses, why not make a HUD for my car, with speed, and proximity warnings, and a GPS linked map... forget taking my work home, this is the right combination of size/power to do all kinds of cool new things!
And, for those calling it "obsolete" by the time it comes out, dont' you think that if they want to wait a few years to market it and such that they want some extra R&D time to improve it?
For OSX, you'd need more than just a PPC motherboard, as it uses other Apple proprietary components (ROM, etc.). But, you could still run Darwin, which is the Mach kernel and BSD workings that the "OSX Layer" runs on top of.
In fact, there is an x86 version of it availible for download at Apple's Open Source website (requires a free reg. to download). It's not Aqua but you still get a decent BSD system.
Makes me wonder if the entirety of OS X will someday be ported to x86? (Not likely)
I'd quote their website but I can't seem to connect to it right now... heh.
Point is, we pay more for what is guarenteed to be less, and there is no other choice here. Time/Warner is the only cable company and DSL here is through Verizon, and judging from seeing the people who have it (and they live a few blocks from the CO), i dunno why anyone would take DSL at all. 56k is cheaper and seems to run the same speeds. I hope the extra money goes into more bandwidth/improving service and not into Time/Warners advertising budget.
Might be nice for the rack, though.
Much in the same style as Visual Basic, or RealBasic...
or if you're a Mac oldskooler.........HYPERCARD!
I always thought Apple should have taken HyperCard and just upped the technology, I mean it still ran in black & white until the day it died (96? 97? Too much ganja...), it was an amazing piece of software WELL ahead of it's time featuring things like user-authoring of programs and full scriptability, and even things we take for granted today such as hyperlinking! Everything from custom databases to slide shows, and even games, where created for it. I even saw a LaserDisc player-controlling stack once!
APPLE! BRING BACK HYPERCARD! ;-)
If you don't I really am going to go STAK-WILD
Jigawatt? Jigawho?