Whenever I see a post about running Linux (or any non-OS X os) on Apple hardware I also see a post asking what is the point when OS X is the best UNIX available on the desktop.
Here is the point. When Gnome or KDE copies features from OS X 10.6 or greater, owners of this newly excluded hardware will be able to get in on the fun as well.
Have you actually seen what she was wearing? It does not look like a little light up name tag. It looks like what C4 with a firing pin in it looks like in the movies. She is indeed lucky she was not shot.
1) they're going to sell crazy numbers of them anyway during the holiday season because it's the cheapest iPod with a screen. 2) they need something to keep their margins up after cutting them on the new iMac, iPod Touch, and iPhone.
Depends. If you're telling a story about your friend Forest having sex with alcoholic beverages during a trip to Japan, then "For fucks sake." is appropriate.
Put your Documents folder under the Finder icon on the doc. Then click and hold on either to see them popup like the "Stacks" feature coming in Leopard.
That's right, Stacks is already available on OS X, just with a less shiny UI.
I think this is much more efficient than having to clear windows to see the Desktop to access mounted volumes.
Is the coverage of Make, et al, in Chapter 2 from the POV of using them to build stuff you've downloaded, or using them to build your own project? Same question for the coverage of packages (apt, rpm, etc.).
These can be a major bitch to figure out on your own, and are a pain in the ass even when you think you know what you're doing.
No coverage of source control?
No coverage of bug tracking?
And about this line: Linux doesn't have a comprehensive IDE on the lines of Microsoft Visual Studio to develop programs... Did the Eclipse project fold up and call it a good run?
This terrible review make the book sound terrible as well.
It's the unfortunate tension of television that the business side demands an open ended series that can run as long as possible while the artistic side would usually be better served by a finite length and definite ending.
I am a huge, huge fan of BSG (warts and all) and was actually happy to see the earlier report that the 4th season would be the end. I am one who thinks the writers would be doing a better job if they knew what the hell the point of each episode should be.
Wow. So this is what it feels like when I'm in a targeted demographic that is being pandered.
Feels good. I really want to vote for him now.
A note to other candidates: I enjoy -- erm, I mean, My demographic enjoys Magic: the Gathering, Guitar Hero, and PERL. We like to get our media content for free -- or very close to free -- and be able to do whatever we want with it, short of selling or distributing it.
That's right, more people working in France than in the US. (Source: OECD Employment Outlook 2005 (pdf))
Sorry to be pedantic, but there is a higher percentage of people working in France, not more people.
The current population of France is ~61,000,000. The current population of USA is ~300,000,000.
So, by your numbers, there are almost 53 million working France vs. almost 260 million working in USA.
Also, you should better explain what unemployment rate is vs. employement rate. If 4.6% of Americans are not working and 86.3% are, what are the other 9.1% doing?
Pretty good post though. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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I've written to my three congress-people several times (yes, I live in a small state with a single House rep) about how long copyright times, the use of DRM, and it being illegal to break DRM are bad for our nation because they're stiffling our culture.
The replies have all been to the effect of "we hear your concerns, but media companies are a huge percentage of our (USA) GDP and we won't do anything to hurt that." Which obviously implies "media companies" give us a lot of money and their lobbyists have more ready access to our offices and restaurants and golf courses on Capital Hill than you.
So until it can be shown to our Congress-people that bad copyright laws (from the POV of the citizen) and legally unbreakable DRM costs more money than the alternative we're stuck with it.
Season 1 of this new run really turned me off and I haven't come back.
When I first saw the original series as reruns on over-the-air public television back in the late-80s to early-90s I thought the terrible special effects and camp were charming. The underlying plots were usually OK and kept me watching since they were so different from what Star Trek or Star Wars offered.
But now that I'm older I find the new series dependance on terrible, cheap special effects, mediocre acting and dialog, and camp just offputting. Also I'm much more busy with a wife and kid and don't (won't) devote as much time to television as I used to. My sci-fi budget is filled with Battlestar Galactica.
It's somewhat ironic that I prefer the new Galactica and old Who and very much dislike the original Galactica and new Who.
2) Playing videos you have, for some reason, in H.264 format
All of my DVDs have been ripped to H.264 in.mp4 containers. Much smaller than a straight MPEG-2 rip but of similar quality and with the convenience of not being tied to a phyisical disk. This is very, very nice when I can drop a few movies onto my laptop before a trip and not have to pack the physical media and worry about losing or damaging it.
It's not about the backup, it's about the restore.
If you aren't regulary testing your recovery capabilities, your nightly backups are masturbation. It may make you feel good for a bit, but it's not satisfying.
I'd start with their album "1". It has pretty much every song you've probably heard.
If you want to go a little deeper and check out original albums, I'd start with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
"Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" should probably be picked up as well, and together.
IMHO, those four albums are the essentials that any music fan should have in their collection.
After that I'd pick and choose. You prefer their early pop sound? Check out "Help!" or "Hard Days Night". You dig the later, more complex stuff? "Abbey Road" or the white album "The Beatles".
"Love" has received pretty good reviews but I haven't heard it yet myself. It's basically an eclectic mix that has been remaster and reedited to serve as the soundtrack to a Cirque du Solei show. If you're interested, pick it up after "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver".
Many sites are implementing similar systems. These systems are collectively called "adaptive authentication" and SiteKey is a particular implementation.
These systems are supposed to prevent phishing attacks by making it impossible to just steal a username and password to authenticate fraudulently.
The fundamental flaw is that these systems are still requiring only something you know, albeit you need to know many things. Phishers will simply increase the complexity of their attack to steal more information.
In fact, man-in-the-middle phishing attacks aren't even prevented by two-factor authentication anymore. Phishers are basically acting as proxy servers between the customer and the bank, passing challenges and responses back and forth until the end-user authenticates. At that point the phisher drops the user's session and takes control by themself.
There is no way to change the authentication system to prevent this. The solution has to be validating the server before authentication begins to take place.
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Shhh! I'm building a collection of the greatest albums ever and it's costing me pennies compared to trying to keep up with the "top 40".
Whenever I see a post about running Linux (or any non-OS X os) on Apple hardware I also see a post asking what is the point when OS X is the best UNIX available on the desktop.
Here is the point. When Gnome or KDE copies features from OS X 10.6 or greater, owners of this newly excluded hardware will be able to get in on the fun as well.
Have you actually seen what she was wearing? It does not look like a little light up name tag. It looks like what C4 with a firing pin in it looks like in the movies. She is indeed lucky she was not shot.
Two reasons I can think of:
1) they're going to sell crazy numbers of them anyway during the holiday season because it's the cheapest iPod with a screen.
2) they need something to keep their margins up after cutting them on the new iMac, iPod Touch, and iPhone.
In my experience, when S.M.A.R.T. tells you a drive is dead or dying, its not kidding.
That's if SMART tells you.
Please post some citations for your serious accusations.
/. anymore.
Your statements are as libelous as what you accuse Lyons of, if they are not true.
Weaselly posts like this modded up to +5 are why I rarely read
-No one is getting rich in a $200 unit.
What to know one way to become a millionaire?
Sell for $2 a million loaves of bread that cost you $1 to manufacture.
Here's another: Sell for $200 a million laptops that cost you $199 to manufacture.
For the record, I still consider a $1 million net worth to be rich.
How do these fabled African cell towers get electricity?
It seems to me (naively, I'm guessing) that if you can run electricity to wherever, you probably could have run a phone line along with it.
Depends. If you're telling a story about your friend Forest having sex with alcoholic beverages during a trip to Japan, then "For fucks sake." is appropriate.
That's because I'm not copying the DVD to a new DVD, I'm ripping and reencoding it to h.264/aac!
Yes.
Put your Documents folder under the Finder icon on the doc. Then click and hold on either to see them popup like the "Stacks" feature coming in Leopard.
That's right, Stacks is already available on OS X, just with a less shiny UI.
I think this is much more efficient than having to clear windows to see the Desktop to access mounted volumes.
Is the coverage of Make, et al, in Chapter 2 from the POV of using them to build stuff you've downloaded, or using them to build your own project? Same question for the coverage of packages (apt, rpm, etc.).
These can be a major bitch to figure out on your own, and are a pain in the ass even when you think you know what you're doing.
No coverage of source control?
No coverage of bug tracking?
And about this line: Linux doesn't have a comprehensive IDE on the lines of Microsoft Visual Studio to develop programs... Did the Eclipse project fold up and call it a good run?
This terrible review make the book sound terrible as well.
The de facto first programming lesson is creating output: "Hello, World!"
The second lesson needs to be accepting, cleaning, and validating input: ";drop table;".
It's the unfortunate tension of television that the business side demands an open ended series that can run as long as possible while the artistic side would usually be better served by a finite length and definite ending.
I am a huge, huge fan of BSG (warts and all) and was actually happy to see the earlier report that the 4th season would be the end. I am one who thinks the writers would be doing a better job if they knew what the hell the point of each episode should be.
Wow. So this is what it feels like when I'm in a targeted demographic that is being pandered.
Feels good. I really want to vote for him now.
A note to other candidates: I enjoy -- erm, I mean, My demographic enjoys Magic: the Gathering, Guitar Hero, and PERL. We like to get our media content for free -- or very close to free -- and be able to do whatever we want with it, short of selling or distributing it.
Pander away!
That's right, more people working in France than in the US. (Source: OECD Employment Outlook 2005 (pdf))
Sorry to be pedantic, but there is a higher percentage of people working in France, not more people.
The current population of France is ~61,000,000. The current population of USA is ~300,000,000.
So, by your numbers, there are almost 53 million working France vs. almost 260 million working in USA.
Also, you should better explain what unemployment rate is vs. employement rate. If 4.6% of Americans are not working and 86.3% are, what are the other 9.1% doing?
Pretty good post though. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
This post has been brought to you courtesy of the peanut, olive, and coconut/palm oil industry of America (POCPOIA). Our motto: The more your cooking oil costs the better a person you are!
I've written to my three congress-people several times (yes, I live in a small state with a single House rep) about how long copyright times, the use of DRM, and it being illegal to break DRM are bad for our nation because they're stiffling our culture.
The replies have all been to the effect of "we hear your concerns, but media companies are a huge percentage of our (USA) GDP and we won't do anything to hurt that." Which obviously implies "media companies" give us a lot of money and their lobbyists have more ready access to our offices and restaurants and golf courses on Capital Hill than you.
So until it can be shown to our Congress-people that bad copyright laws (from the POV of the citizen) and legally unbreakable DRM costs more money than the alternative we're stuck with it.
Season 1 of this new run really turned me off and I haven't come back.
When I first saw the original series as reruns on over-the-air public television back in the late-80s to early-90s I thought the terrible special effects and camp were charming. The underlying plots were usually OK and kept me watching since they were so different from what Star Trek or Star Wars offered.
But now that I'm older I find the new series dependance on terrible, cheap special effects, mediocre acting and dialog, and camp just offputting. Also I'm much more busy with a wife and kid and don't (won't) devote as much time to television as I used to. My sci-fi budget is filled with Battlestar Galactica.
It's somewhat ironic that I prefer the new Galactica and old Who and very much dislike the original Galactica and new Who.
Do I lose my geek card for posting this?
2) Playing videos you have, for some reason, in H.264 format
.mp4 containers. Much smaller than a straight MPEG-2 rip but of similar quality and with the convenience of not being tied to a phyisical disk. This is very, very nice when I can drop a few movies onto my laptop before a trip and not have to pack the physical media and worry about losing or damaging it.
All of my DVDs have been ripped to H.264 in
H.264 is where it's at. It's a real standard, with much better compresion and video quality.
Please, everyone, stop using DivX and move to H.264.
No, DivX is not the mp3 of video. H.264 is.
It's not about the backup, it's about the restore.
If you aren't regulary testing your recovery capabilities, your nightly backups are masturbation. It may make you feel good for a bit, but it's not satisfying.
Hah!
One of the best comments I've read here in quite some time.
I'd start with their album "1". It has pretty much every song you've probably heard.
If you want to go a little deeper and check out original albums, I'd start with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
"Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" should probably be picked up as well, and together.
IMHO, those four albums are the essentials that any music fan should have in their collection.
After that I'd pick and choose. You prefer their early pop sound? Check out "Help!" or "Hard Days Night". You dig the later, more complex stuff? "Abbey Road" or the white album "The Beatles".
"Love" has received pretty good reviews but I haven't heard it yet myself. It's basically an eclectic mix that has been remaster and reedited to serve as the soundtrack to a Cirque du Solei show. If you're interested, pick it up after "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver".
The system is flawed.
Many sites are implementing similar systems. These systems are collectively called "adaptive authentication" and SiteKey is a particular implementation.
These systems are supposed to prevent phishing attacks by making it impossible to just steal a username and password to authenticate fraudulently.
The fundamental flaw is that these systems are still requiring only something you know, albeit you need to know many things. Phishers will simply increase the complexity of their attack to steal more information.
In fact, man-in-the-middle phishing attacks aren't even prevented by two-factor authentication anymore. Phishers are basically acting as proxy servers between the customer and the bank, passing challenges and responses back and forth until the end-user authenticates. At that point the phisher drops the user's session and takes control by themself.
There is no way to change the authentication system to prevent this. The solution has to be validating the server before authentication begins to take place.