He still was definitely not German. The German language is spoken in places outside Germany as well. Citizens of the U.S. aren't English, just because they happen to speak that language, are they_
Germans can have a great sense of humor! It just tends to be a little... dark. I find Kafka a riot.:)
That doesn't say anything about the german sense of humor. Kafka wasn't german. He was born in Prague when that was still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. So he was Czech. Maybe austrian or hungarian, but definitely not german.
I used to have the same problem on a single proc G4. The culprit was a dodgy memory stick. Once I removed that sleeping and waking worked like a charm. Just go through your memory sticks one at a time and you should be happy in no time. Good luck.
The winners of the austrian BBAs were announced today. For those who care: Microsoft did not win a single one, although they were nominated in two categories. All the awards went to companies and public institutions that invaded the privacy of austrian citizens in a much more direct way than Microsoft is able to.
I do think that giving the award to Microsoft was more of a publicity stunt pulled by the organizers of the german event than anything else. Giving them a "lifetime achievement" for things they will likely do in the future does seem a bit out of place.
The BigBrotherAwards are not totally useless. But at the moment they should mainly operate on a national level and raise awareness of existing intrusions into privacy. I don't know if there is an international version of these awards. If such a thing exists, then two years down the line Microsoft might deserve to be honored, but right now it just is a cheap attempt to get some publicity.
In completely unrelated and off-topic news: I just found out that Richard Harris, among a lot of other achievments known as the actor who played Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films, died today at the age of 72. Bummer.
If these people want to search for these sites, they can still fire up google.com.
As a matter of fact they can't. Access to google.com is restricted. I am in Austria and can go to google France, Germany or Belgium. But if I try to go to google.com I am automatically sent to google.at. And this can not be circumvented by changing the Language settings of your browser.
That would be kinda like this guy. But maybe it will fade over time.
I have found that people actually expect you to be a Mac zealot when they find out you use one. I remember showing off my new iBook to a friend in a café and someone else on the table was asking me "So why should I use this instead of windows." My answer was (and always is in comparable situations), that everyone should use what works best for them.
They release this just when my iPod is away getting repaired. What I really would like to know is what other phones they plan on supporting. Is this going to stay a bluetooth only solution, or will they support phones connected in another way (infrared, usb)? And why do I need a.Mac membership to sync two computers?
You make some good points concerning the limitations to the iPod. You do however exagerate the difficulty of muting the iPod. If you don't do anything for a couple of seconds it automatically switches to the "Now Playing" menu. So adjusting the volume is the default action for the wheel 96% of the time. If you are interacting with the thing you are usually looking at the display. True - getting to the top level menu does require a lot of clicks. Especially since the 1.2 update that introduced the "Browse" menu item.
I think, that the iPod UI has been designed to make operation as easy as possible in most circumstances. It has not been designed for special conditions. Dedicated car players are definitely safer to use on the road, but they won't work when you're riding a bus.
I have never even thought about a bookmark functionality but now that I saw it mentioned I must admit, that it sounds like a good idea. Fast forwarding through a track with the wheel (pressing the action button while in the "Now Playing" screen) is an okay substitute. Once again something that works good in most situations, but only okay under certain conditions.
If what people are used to would prevent them from switching to anything different the world would be pretty boring. Its not like the switch from InDesign to Quark is hard to do. You can change the InDesign shortcuts to the Quark layout if you want to. Importing XPress files into ID works pretty good (So far it worked perfect for me, but the documents I tried it on were not that complex).
If your Printer wont accept either InDesign or PDF files then find one that is allready comfortable with the new millenium. Converting XPress files into PDFs is a nightmare. Exporting ID to PDF is flawless.
If you are comfortable with the other Adobe products (every designer should at least know Photoshop) then getting used to the UI is trivial. And the interface is really intuitive. Working with InDesign sometimes really feels to me as if the application has got some kind of "Do What I Want" functionality. XPress allways made me feel like a sucker with no way out.
Apple bundling this software will give desing shops an incentive to check it out (if they didnt get it in the latest Adobe Design Collection anyway) and see that it truly is a better product.
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Okay: Pessimist! Defeatist!
What I want to believe with all my heart is that there are, and will be, generations of hackers to work on such a project "Because We Can"(TM). Back in the cold war days these hackers received a lot of public funding. Right now they are on their own. But that doesn'tstop them from trying.
I don't question the usefulness of your product. I do however still think that, unless you steal your music, that MP3 products vastly improve handling of the music, but don't make CDs any less expensive. I rip every new CD I buy and put it on my portable MP3 player, but unless the rate at which I lose CDs suddenly increases I will never recoup the cost of said player that way. In the ten years I collect CDs I have lost two to bad handling. I dropped a cuppoard on one while moving and the other one got scratched so badly only half the songs will play back without skipping. The rest of CD loss is due to lending them to someone and not getting them back. A simple notepad helped me drastically reduce the number of CDs that vanished that way.
I am not flaming your product. I think it looks really interesting and is actually something I might get sometime. For your car/office situation it doesn't help though, does it? You'd still need another product for that - another product that increases the total investment in MP3.
I have to agree that it's a nice looking device. Not suitable to my current living situation (since the Computer and Stereo are in the same room anyway) but something that might appeal to me should I ever decide to get a place of my own instead of sharing. The following quote from this page surprised me a little bit:
Welcome to the future of music! The SliMP3 (Slim-'pE-'thrE) is a revolutionary approach to music playback, which frees you from the hassles of fragile, expensive Compact Discs. (emphasis is mine)
I was still under the impression that you were supposed to buy the music you store in a compressed format. At least thats what vendors of such devices usually claim. Converting my CDs to mp3s has not made them cheaper for me - after all I have to spend the time and harddisk space in adition to the purchase price.
If you don't think the filters and blacklists work, one spammer whines, "My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters."
Spammers might learn to adapt as long as it makes economic sense. Remember: With this kind of statistical analysis this time around the Spammers have to play catch up with the filters instead of the other way around...
In the long run filtering would eliminate the source as well. Spam has to be payed for by two sides: Both the spammer and the recipient have to pay for the bandwith. The spammer has to pay a lot more though. Spamming is a business that will continue to exist as long as its profitable. If the success rate of Spam drops dramatically due to refining filters than sooner or later Spammers will no longer be able to afford the bandwidth they need.
To beat Bayesian filters, it would not be enough for spammers to make their emails unique or to stop using individual naughty words. They'd have to make their mails indistinguishable from your ordinary mail. And this I think would severely constrain them. Spam is mostly sales pitches, so unless your regular mail is all sales pitches, spams will inevitably have a different character.
Basically the only way to get around this proposed method of statistical analysis ist to completely change the way spam copy is written. But changing that would basically defy the whole point of spam. If, to get through a filter, you had to stop writing sales pitches, then why spam in the first place?
Developing the OS is anything but free. Apple will never recoup the development costs for Jaguar through revenues from boxed copies. They are a hardware company and only concerned about their bottom line. Departments and budgets are a tool for controlling but at the end of a quarter the performance of the whole company has to be satisfying.
People might install Jaguar on old machines, but IIRC the oldest machines officially supported by it where officially EOLd about 2,5 to 3 years ago. If you want to compare Apple's situation to MS you could say that they don't care about people pirating Windows as long as they pay for Office -- and essentially this statement used to be true. For MS Office is (or used to be) where the money is. For Apple it's hardware. In my opinion Apple has its priorities right: They go after companies that enable the theft of software (Other World Computing had a programm that allowed to use third party DVD burners with iDVD - but iDVD is payed for when you get a Superdrive)and they go after websites that publish instructions how to turn the free 10.1 upgrade CD into a full installer. But they don't lock their users down with DRM schemes (iPod - Don't steal music) and they don't make it hard to install legit copies of their OS on multiple machines. I did not pay for 10.1. I got it from a friend who got the installer with a new machine. I will not buy Jaguar for my tower. I will instead install the version from the iBook that I'm about to buy. Both times I was/will be wrong. But Apple will probably not prosecute me or even make me feel like a criminal. They get my money one way or the other and that is the important thing for them. And they will continue to get money from me as long as they will make computers and give me the feeling of being a respected by them. Plus the money that I don't spend on a legit copy of Jaguar for my tower will sooner or later show up as a Mac sale for Adobe -- something that is good for Apple as well.
It's a nice thing to do, but only something that Apple can really afford to pull of (what with the honor system and all). The five machines that Jaguar will be installed on under this license have allready brought money to Apple. I'm sure that they don't like people to pirate their OS, but they surely aren't going to lose sleep if somebody does it. They are, after all, a hardware company. They can "risk" to play nice and improve their image. After all people are going to be buying Apples again in the future - especially if they feel like the company treats them with respect.
Apple users don't download music with iTunes. Apple is not opposed to supporting DRM schemes when they seem to make sense. iTunes 3 has support for Audiobooks from Audible.com and they use some kind of DRM system. Files you rip are normal mp3s though, that can be copied to wherever you want.
Did you even read further than the headline? He was looking for a player to take jogging. So a "bigger (bit clumpy, but just hide it in a bag when walking) jukebox" will not do him any good.
OTOH, the true savings are in the time you're not spending reformatting the hard drive. Negligible if you order only a handful of systems, but if you order a few thousand, that's a serious chunk of time.
I might be ignorant, but I was under the impression that you would have to format the HD either way. Does it make a difference if you format a new, blank disk as opposed to one that has Windows on it?
Sounds really good to me. Sure - you'd have to learn how to use it, but thats no big deal. I learned how to message pretty fast on my cell phone so I'm sure learning the key "chores" he talked about wont be to hard. Sounds like a good application for Bluetooth. You have the thing with you at all times and can use it to input text into your PDA, phone, Laptop or machine at home. And two years later that guy can release version 2 of his keyboard with built in wristwatch...
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Looks to me like you are doing a lot of the travelling abroad. Young Americans seem to really enjoy partying hard when they can legally drink under the age of 21. But they are not as bad as people from Nordic countries that are happy to be able to buy drinks that cost less than their average monthly wages. And there allways seem to be a lot of energetic old people with stared and striped T-Shirts. At the end of the day US tourists arent that bad though. Zee Germans can really get to you.
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He still was definitely not German. The German language is spoken in places outside Germany as well. Citizens of the U.S. aren't English, just because they happen to speak that language, are they_
No - Austrian. Therefore I don't like Germany and don't want them to take credit for anything they are not entitled to.
That doesn't say anything about the german sense of humor. Kafka wasn't german. He was born in Prague when that was still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. So he was Czech. Maybe austrian or hungarian, but definitely not german.
I used to have the same problem on a single proc G4. The culprit was a dodgy memory stick. Once I removed that sleeping and waking worked like a charm. Just go through your memory sticks one at a time and you should be happy in no time. Good luck.
The winners of the austrian BBAs were announced today. For those who care: Microsoft did not win a single one, although they were nominated in two categories. All the awards went to companies and public institutions that invaded the privacy of austrian citizens in a much more direct way than Microsoft is able to.
I do think that giving the award to Microsoft was more of a publicity stunt pulled by the organizers of the german event than anything else. Giving them a "lifetime achievement" for things they will likely do in the future does seem a bit out of place.
The BigBrotherAwards are not totally useless. But at the moment they should mainly operate on a national level and raise awareness of existing intrusions into privacy. I don't know if there is an international version of these awards. If such a thing exists, then two years down the line Microsoft might deserve to be honored, but right now it just is a cheap attempt to get some publicity.
In completely unrelated and off-topic news: I just found out that Richard Harris, among a lot of other achievments known as the actor who played Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films, died today at the age of 72. Bummer.
Yes it does. As I said - going to national google sites does work. Google.com is restricted though.
As a matter of fact they can't. Access to google.com is restricted. I am in Austria and can go to google France, Germany or Belgium. But if I try to go to google.com I am automatically sent to google.at. And this can not be circumvented by changing the Language settings of your browser.
That would be kinda like this guy. But maybe it will fade over time.
I have found that people actually expect you to be a Mac zealot when they find out you use one. I remember showing off my new iBook to a friend in a café and someone else on the table was asking me "So why should I use this instead of windows." My answer was (and always is in comparable situations), that everyone should use what works best for them.
And recorded comments on your bootleg tape don't piss you off?
They release this just when my iPod is away getting repaired. What I really would like to know is what other phones they plan on supporting. Is this going to stay a bluetooth only solution, or will they support phones connected in another way (infrared, usb)? And why do I need a .Mac membership to sync two computers?
You make some good points concerning the limitations to the iPod. You do however exagerate the difficulty of muting the iPod. If you don't do anything for a couple of seconds it automatically switches to the "Now Playing" menu. So adjusting the volume is the default action for the wheel 96% of the time. If you are interacting with the thing you are usually looking at the display. True - getting to the top level menu does require a lot of clicks. Especially since the 1.2 update that introduced the "Browse" menu item.
I think, that the iPod UI has been designed to make operation as easy as possible in most circumstances. It has not been designed for special conditions. Dedicated car players are definitely safer to use on the road, but they won't work when you're riding a bus.
I have never even thought about a bookmark functionality but now that I saw it mentioned I must admit, that it sounds like a good idea. Fast forwarding through a track with the wheel (pressing the action button while in the "Now Playing" screen) is an okay substitute. Once again something that works good in most situations, but only okay under certain conditions.
If what people are used to would prevent them from switching to anything different the world would be pretty boring. Its not like the switch from InDesign to Quark is hard to do. You can change the InDesign shortcuts to the Quark layout if you want to. Importing XPress files into ID works pretty good (So far it worked perfect for me, but the documents I tried it on were not that complex).
If your Printer wont accept either InDesign or PDF files then find one that is allready comfortable with the new millenium. Converting XPress files into PDFs is a nightmare. Exporting ID to PDF is flawless.
If you are comfortable with the other Adobe products (every designer should at least know Photoshop) then getting used to the UI is trivial. And the interface is really intuitive. Working with InDesign sometimes really feels to me as if the application has got some kind of "Do What I Want" functionality. XPress allways made me feel like a sucker with no way out.
Apple bundling this software will give desing shops an incentive to check it out (if they didnt get it in the latest Adobe Design Collection anyway) and see that it truly is a better product.
Okay: Pessimist! Defeatist!
What I want to believe with all my heart is that there are, and will be, generations of hackers to work on such a project "Because We Can"(TM). Back in the cold war days these hackers received a lot of public funding. Right now they are on their own. But that doesn'tstop them from trying.
I don't question the usefulness of your product. I do however still think that, unless you steal your music, that MP3 products vastly improve handling of the music, but don't make CDs any less expensive. I rip every new CD I buy and put it on my portable MP3 player, but unless the rate at which I lose CDs suddenly increases I will never recoup the cost of said player that way. In the ten years I collect CDs I have lost two to bad handling. I dropped a cuppoard on one while moving and the other one got scratched so badly only half the songs will play back without skipping. The rest of CD loss is due to lending them to someone and not getting them back. A simple notepad helped me drastically reduce the number of CDs that vanished that way.
I am not flaming your product. I think it looks really interesting and is actually something I might get sometime. For your car/office situation it doesn't help though, does it? You'd still need another product for that - another product that increases the total investment in MP3.
I have to agree that it's a nice looking device. Not suitable to my current living situation (since the Computer and Stereo are in the same room anyway) but something that might appeal to me should I ever decide to get a place of my own instead of sharing. The following quote from this page surprised me a little bit:
Welcome to the future of music! The SliMP3 (Slim-'pE-'thrE) is a revolutionary approach to music playback, which frees you from the hassles of fragile, expensive Compact Discs. (emphasis is mine)
I was still under the impression that you were supposed to buy the music you store in a compressed format. At least thats what vendors of such devices usually claim. Converting my CDs to mp3s has not made them cheaper for me - after all I have to spend the time and harddisk space in adition to the purchase price.
A quick quote from a recent /. story:
If you don't think the filters and blacklists work, one spammer whines, "My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters."
Spammers might learn to adapt as long as it makes economic sense. Remember: With this kind of statistical analysis this time around the Spammers have to play catch up with the filters instead of the other way around...
In the long run filtering would eliminate the source as well. Spam has to be payed for by two sides: Both the spammer and the recipient have to pay for the bandwith. The spammer has to pay a lot more though. Spamming is a business that will continue to exist as long as its profitable. If the success rate of Spam drops dramatically due to refining filters than sooner or later Spammers will no longer be able to afford the bandwidth they need.
You should have continued to read the article.
To beat Bayesian filters, it would not be enough for spammers to make their emails unique or to stop using individual naughty words. They'd have to make their mails indistinguishable from your ordinary mail. And this I think would severely constrain them. Spam is mostly sales pitches, so unless your regular mail is all sales pitches, spams will inevitably have a different character.
Basically the only way to get around this proposed method of statistical analysis ist to completely change the way spam copy is written. But changing that would basically defy the whole point of spam. If, to get through a filter, you had to stop writing sales pitches, then why spam in the first place?
Developing the OS is anything but free. Apple will never recoup the development costs for Jaguar through revenues from boxed copies. They are a hardware company and only concerned about their bottom line. Departments and budgets are a tool for controlling but at the end of a quarter the performance of the whole company has to be satisfying.
/will be wrong. But Apple will probably not prosecute me or even make me feel like a criminal. They get my money one way or the other and that is the important thing for them. And they will continue to get money from me as long as they will make computers and give me the feeling of being a respected by them. Plus the money that I don't spend on a legit copy of Jaguar for my tower will sooner or later show up as a Mac sale for Adobe -- something that is good for Apple as well.
People might install Jaguar on old machines, but IIRC the oldest machines officially supported by it where officially EOLd about 2,5 to 3 years ago. If you want to compare Apple's situation to MS you could say that they don't care about people pirating Windows as long as they pay for Office -- and essentially this statement used to be true. For MS Office is (or used to be) where the money is. For Apple it's hardware. In my opinion Apple has its priorities right: They go after companies that enable the theft of software (Other World Computing had a programm that allowed to use third party DVD burners with iDVD - but iDVD is payed for when you get a Superdrive)and they go after websites that publish instructions how to turn the free 10.1 upgrade CD into a full installer. But they don't lock their users down with DRM schemes (iPod - Don't steal music) and they don't make it hard to install legit copies of their OS on multiple machines. I did not pay for 10.1. I got it from a friend who got the installer with a new machine. I will not buy Jaguar for my tower. I will instead install the version from the iBook that I'm about to buy. Both times I was
It's a nice thing to do, but only something that Apple can really afford to pull of (what with the honor system and all). The five machines that Jaguar will be installed on under this license have allready brought money to Apple. I'm sure that they don't like people to pirate their OS, but they surely aren't going to lose sleep if somebody does it. They are, after all, a hardware company. They can "risk" to play nice and improve their image. After all people are going to be buying Apples again in the future - especially if they feel like the company treats them with respect.
Apple users don't download music with iTunes. Apple is not opposed to supporting DRM schemes when they seem to make sense. iTunes 3 has support for Audiobooks from Audible.com and they use some kind of DRM system. Files you rip are normal mp3s though, that can be copied to wherever you want.
Did you even read further than the headline? He was looking for a player to take jogging. So a "bigger (bit clumpy, but just hide it in a bag when walking) jukebox" will not do him any good.
OTOH, the true savings are in the time you're not spending reformatting the hard drive. Negligible if you order only a handful of systems, but if you order a few thousand, that's a serious chunk of time.
I might be ignorant, but I was under the impression that you would have to format the HD either way. Does it make a difference if you format a new, blank disk as opposed to one that has Windows on it?
Sounds really good to me. Sure - you'd have to learn how to use it, but thats no big deal. I learned how to message pretty fast on my cell phone so I'm sure learning the key "chores" he talked about wont be to hard. Sounds like a good application for Bluetooth. You have the thing with you at all times and can use it to input text into your PDA, phone, Laptop or machine at home. And two years later that guy can release version 2 of his keyboard with built in wristwatch...
Looks to me like you are doing a lot of the travelling abroad. Young Americans seem to really enjoy partying hard when they can legally drink under the age of 21. But they are not as bad as people from Nordic countries that are happy to be able to buy drinks that cost less than their average monthly wages. And there allways seem to be a lot of energetic old people with stared and striped T-Shirts. At the end of the day US tourists arent that bad though. Zee Germans can really get to you.