Noone ever vetoed winamp from doing the same. I'm aware that winamp has a web widget but never cared to investigate it; I *think* it presented ways to buy overpriced CDs with added handling costs (please correct me if wrong). I'm curious to see if winamp has an AAC plugin to play the unencumbered ones. Should Apple write one? Is it a standard or a proprietary Apple format say a'là.doc? I can't access the store (Italy, EU) so some USian should check if it's possible to convert DRMd AACs to unencubered MP3 (say @ 320) or to AIFF and feed the files to winamp straight from a shared folder. Last resort: burn the CD and re-rip it on the MS machine (no $ sign this time, so M* groupies don't have an argument). The options are numerous... given the RIAA attutude I'm surprised noone has branded them 'loopholes'. I think some 'pigopolist' (REG terminology) is looking for a way out from an unsustainable policy without loosing too much face. Given the momentum I think more than some label executive is having nightmares of Musicians giving them the finger and knocking on Apple's door straight away. Or winamp's door if Apple 'monopoly' on their program bothers you, or even that cool mediaplayer from MS everyone uses (unless they don't have anything else to do given it's resource hogging character) and their quality wma format.
The GPL License Caldera has accepted by distributing the kernel in their distro reads:
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They're screwed, even IF someone stole the code it's now licenced to use under the GPL.
They can try to roast who leaked the code but once they re-distributed it, it's licensed...
... there's a question haunting my mind; the Caldera logo. Is it a red C stamped upon a blue globe, or is it a Mickey Mouse blue silhouette dawning from the east? Either way, it's quite revealing;-)
... M$ will push their mobile phone platform into everyone's ass sooner or later and these games are just waiting to be repackaged in a cool new.NET shrinkwrap (or.99 $ one-click dl;-) You all know the crowds are holding their breath to play pacman on the cell... sigh! Sad to think I'm only joking while those fools are probably dead serious, eh? Let's play an old game instead: guess how many PowerPoint presentations have been wasted on these scenarios?
Witty remark: In the long run who knows, perhaps even Hitler's plans had some long-term gains (for those meant to survive of course). Seriously: I live in a country (Italy) that at least in principle regards health treatment as a constitutional right; I already despise the insurance-based system of the US. My examples were are meant to describe a situation where the 'normals' would be stigmatized and hated for their very existence.
Mentioning a movie doesn't lessen my argument one bit; many novels, films theatrical acts and even figurative arts are fictional stories inspiered by legitimate emotions, impressions and ethical positions.
Your sister-in-law is much more sensible than you I'm afraid. Have you ever seen GATTACA? If the purpose of medicine is to fight against natural selection wouldn't it be ironic if it ended up pursuing an artificial one? In a world of selected humans, insurance companies would refuse to cover defective beings tranfering the cost on the taxpayers thus inducing resentment for those 'irresponsibles' that didn't endure genetic screening. Education too would discriminate as parents feel their 'superior' kids are slowed down by those 'normal' classmates. Employers too would prefer productivity enhanced humans... Huh, we just built a new tech apatheid, go figure! Seriously man, go watch the film: many of your points are put to the test...
On the other hand, learning to manipulate and 'fix' post-facto genetic anomalies is of a completely different nature: in that sense it's the natural development of drugs.
Because every self respecting geek would puke if basic physics is violated. The difference between sci-fi and pure novel is the credibility of the scenario. Take Asimov, his stories simply set up a yet-to-be-discovered tech scenario to develop a storyline... the whole point is that the reader can concentrate on the human nature of the relationships without questioning the credibility of the setting. If it's close enough to current reality it doesn't distract the observer. After all even the LOTR is quite realistic and takes great pains in linking the fantastic to cultural beleifs and legends that are easily accepted by the public. This marks the difference from goldrake, gozilla and independence day (hack into an alien darpa network and set off a sqhell worm onto the evil lizard's servers... on a mac... running OS 9!!) Cany you make the difference?;-)
Of course he works for the evil beast! What would happen if you had to face the choice of dishing out $$$ for M$ $oftware or point you browser to openoffice.org?
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Oh, and the cached metadata should hide in a dotfile right? user:group 0000 was fine for '70 textfiles but it's excuciatingly insufficient today; that's why KDE, GNOME and the other lots have resolved to dotfiles or (I'm a unix guy sorry for any mistake) forks. The natural evolution for filesystems is to extract previews, tags, extended attributes in short and index them for fast live searches like in BeOS. Man, one reason I HATE M$ is that it crushed BeOS into oblivion without doing anything remotely close in functionality; M$ groupies you don't know what chance you passed by! EA are the future, they're on Solaris (as far as I know, though I've never played with one; only old DIGITAL, sigh!), FreeBSD and of course LINUX. These are pretty much staple food for every system like 16 bit sound vs PC Speaker. It's time they be put to use and I think next wave of unix Desktops will do. Apple is only doing what's obvious (perhaps duplicating some data but who cares if my mp3 ID3 tags are indexed by the kernel). No more mailbox maintenance code, just make a MUA from a souped up live query on the email datatype tag. Cool (BeOS was there...)
Tsk... modded down to the level of an AC... FYI it got a +1 simply because I posted logged in and not because I was "overrated" by somebody else; it's an incentive to post openly. Curious though that the offensive post that caused mine is still getting +3 Funny; ah, the chilling effect of a community democratically choosing to shut someone up. Folks, you are embracing an attitude that only makes things worse than what they are. What next: "nuke 'em ragheads"?
is it supposed to be a joke? Liberty fries too can be offensive but let's not overheat, take it as a sorry joke. This comment though is irritating: derisive, racially bigoted, arrogant. Mod me down it you choose so...
Cellular phone networks (not the case of sat but still...) are intrinsically tracking. Ever broke into the service menus of a phone? It keeps track of 4 to 6 stations and their strenght, obviously for cell/freq hopping. If authorized a network operator can easily select the stations linked to your device and guess your whereabouts to building resolution. GPS is only useful in rural areas where antenna density is lower.
Well, before the thread closes let me explain my "Off-Topic" (grunt!) "Troll" (re-grunt!)... Underhill is also the cover name Frodo uses to get to the Prancing Pony in the Fellowship... The reference to the burrows with Windows (capitalized) and the green gardens/blue skies points to the default desktop bg in an XP installation... my idea was to associate Apple bashing to M$ cheerleading. Yeah, it's convoluted but I found it funny... say: a change frm the staple 1. Patent bla bla 2. ??? 3. Profit! comments that sistematically get +1: Funny mods. I don't claim to be a particularly smart chap but if people made an extra effort they would get an extra laugh for free. A child post got it, good for him. (the reply associates my post, the - ive mods and a quote from the book... cool);-)
Hey! What's my parent post got to do with a Troll moderation? It's supposed to be funny; doesn't anyone remember Underhill? I mean,/. had a deluge of LOTR messaging when the films were onscreen, I'm sorry you can't see the joke in my 2 liner. Hmm, of all things... a troll... an Orc would have been more appropriate;-)
Should I explain it? Nah, no spoilers... hint, hint? Uh, you're smart enough to figure it out yourself;-)
they are treacherouss theifss, nasty Hobbtisess... live in nassty burrows with Windowsess And smelly green gardenss too, and the sick blue sky... ah! Poor Smeagol... nassty Hobbitsess...
Right, and the setup/hold deltas become irrelevant. As the switching speeds go up the time wasted for all the pin signals to be good becomes a hard limit for the bus; after all parallel is just a workaround to slow inverters. As long as the cables aren't too long for signal distortion to arise, serial can really push the limit and when that'll come I expect Si optoelectronic frontends will be mature enough to substitute electrical transmission lines in consumer electronics;-)
Hey kid, are you calling us names? Your reasoning sounds like a that of a Berlusconi's Forza Italia drone... cut it out thanks! BTW we're much smarter than what your witty commentt implies... go get a clue, troll
What's the point in dumping all the deployed office managment tools (standalone client or web-based... sap anyone?) to redo everything with Office? What's the point in placing out-of-office requests from Word, can't I just login the web portal? Can you see the m$ marketoids massaging your PHB's visions of a new 'office automation' utopia into M$ Reality? (email script viruses and global udp DOS)
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Noone ever vetoed winamp from doing the same. I'm aware that winamp has a web widget but never cared to investigate it; I *think* it presented ways to buy overpriced CDs with added handling costs (please correct me if wrong). .doc?
I'm curious to see if winamp has an AAC plugin to play the unencumbered ones. Should Apple write one? Is it a standard or a proprietary Apple format say a'là
I can't access the store (Italy, EU) so some USian should check if it's possible to convert DRMd AACs to unencubered MP3 (say @ 320) or to AIFF and feed the files to winamp straight from a shared folder.
Last resort: burn the CD and re-rip it on the MS machine (no $ sign this time, so M* groupies don't have an argument).
The options are numerous... given the RIAA attutude I'm surprised noone has branded them 'loopholes'. I think some 'pigopolist' (REG terminology) is looking for a way out from an unsustainable policy without loosing too much face. Given the momentum I think more than some label executive is having nightmares of Musicians giving them the finger and knocking on Apple's door straight away. Or winamp's door if Apple 'monopoly' on their program bothers you, or even that cool mediaplayer from MS everyone uses (unless they don't have anything else to do given it's resource hogging character) and their quality wma format.
...and add a series resistor in there somewhere...
Thus blowing away most of the power into heat. A cute current mirror would be better.
Unless of course you get hold of a qt3 built for mac that translates widgets to aqua (like the win build). Commercial license though...
I guess the worst bug it can have is unpredictable flushes accompanied by loo-overflow... start moppoing!
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5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
They're screwed, even IF someone stole the code it's now licenced to use under the GPL.
They can try to roast who leaked the code but once they re-distributed it, it's licensed...
... there's a question haunting my mind; the Caldera logo. Is it a red C stamped upon a blue globe, or is it a Mickey Mouse blue silhouette dawning from the east? Either way, it's quite revealing ;-)
... M$ will push their mobile phone platform into everyone's ass sooner or later and these games are just waiting to be repackaged in a cool new .NET shrinkwrap (or .99 $ one-click dl ;-) You all know the crowds are holding their breath to play pacman on the cell... sigh! Sad to think I'm only joking while those fools are probably dead serious, eh? Let's play an old game instead: guess how many PowerPoint presentations have been wasted on these scenarios?
Witty remark: In the long run who knows, perhaps even Hitler's plans had some long-term gains (for those meant to survive of course).
Seriously: I live in a country (Italy) that at least in principle regards health treatment as a constitutional right; I already despise the insurance-based system of the US. My examples were are meant to describe a situation where the 'normals' would be stigmatized and hated for their very existence.
Mentioning a movie doesn't lessen my argument one bit; many novels, films theatrical acts and even figurative arts are fictional stories inspiered by legitimate emotions, impressions and ethical positions.
Yes, and War is the world's only hygiene. That's fascism. cfr: Marinetti
Your sister-in-law is much more sensible than you I'm afraid. Have you ever seen GATTACA?
If the purpose of medicine is to fight against natural selection wouldn't it be ironic if it ended up pursuing an artificial one? In a world of selected humans, insurance companies would refuse to cover defective beings tranfering the cost on the taxpayers thus inducing resentment for those 'irresponsibles' that didn't endure genetic screening. Education too would discriminate as parents feel their 'superior' kids are slowed down by those 'normal' classmates. Employers too would prefer productivity enhanced humans... Huh, we just built a new tech apatheid, go figure! Seriously man, go watch the film: many of your points are put to the test...
On the other hand, learning to manipulate and 'fix' post-facto genetic anomalies is of a completely different nature: in that sense it's the natural development of drugs.
Because every self respecting geek would puke if basic physics is violated. The difference between sci-fi and pure novel is the credibility of the scenario. Take Asimov, his stories simply set up a yet-to-be-discovered tech scenario to develop a storyline... the whole point is that the reader can concentrate on the human nature of the relationships without questioning the credibility of the setting. If it's close enough to current reality it doesn't distract the observer. After all even the LOTR is quite realistic and takes great pains in linking the fantastic to cultural beleifs and legends that are easily accepted by the public. This marks the difference from goldrake, gozilla and independence day (hack into an alien darpa network and set off a sqhell worm onto the evil lizard's servers... on a mac... running OS 9!!) Cany you make the difference? ;-)
What does private use mean? ;-)
groan...
Of course he works for the evil beast! What would happen if you had to face the choice of dishing out $$$ for M$ $oftware or point you browser to openoffice.org?
Oh, and the cached metadata should hide in a dotfile right? user:group 0000 was fine for '70 textfiles but it's excuciatingly insufficient today; that's why KDE, GNOME and the other lots have resolved to dotfiles or (I'm a unix guy sorry for any mistake) forks. The natural evolution for filesystems is to extract previews, tags, extended attributes in short and index them for fast live searches like in BeOS. Man, one reason I HATE M$ is that it crushed BeOS into oblivion without doing anything remotely close in functionality; M$ groupies you don't know what chance you passed by!
EA are the future, they're on Solaris (as far as I know, though I've never played with one; only old DIGITAL, sigh!), FreeBSD and of course LINUX. These are pretty much staple food for every system like 16 bit sound vs PC Speaker. It's time they be put to use and I think next wave of unix Desktops will do.
Apple is only doing what's obvious (perhaps duplicating some data but who cares if my mp3 ID3 tags are indexed by the kernel). No more mailbox maintenance code, just make a MUA from a souped up live query on the email datatype tag. Cool (BeOS was there...)
Tsk... modded down to the level of an AC... FYI it got a +1 simply because I posted logged in and not because I was "overrated" by somebody else; it's an incentive to post openly. Curious though that the offensive post that caused mine is still getting +3 Funny; ah, the chilling effect of a community democratically choosing to shut someone up. Folks, you are embracing an attitude that only makes things worse than what they are. What next: "nuke 'em ragheads"?
is it supposed to be a joke? Liberty fries too can be offensive but let's not overheat, take it as a sorry joke. This comment though is irritating: derisive, racially bigoted, arrogant. Mod me down it you choose so...
Cellular phone networks (not the case of sat but still...) are intrinsically tracking. Ever broke into the service menus of a phone? It keeps track of 4 to 6 stations and their strenght, obviously for cell/freq hopping. If authorized a network operator can easily select the stations linked to your device and guess your whereabouts to building resolution.
GPS is only useful in rural areas where antenna density is lower.
Perhaps he was trying to hint that M$ might have ripped-off old GNU libc code without even bothering to check the changelogs. ;-)
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Well, before the thread closes let me explain my "Off-Topic" (grunt!) "Troll" (re-grunt!)... ;-)
Underhill is also the cover name Frodo uses to get to the Prancing Pony in the Fellowship...
The reference to the burrows with Windows (capitalized) and the green gardens/blue skies points to the default desktop bg in an XP installation... my idea was to associate Apple bashing to M$ cheerleading. Yeah, it's convoluted but I found it funny... say: a change frm the staple
1. Patent bla bla
2. ???
3. Profit!
comments that sistematically get +1: Funny mods.
I don't claim to be a particularly smart chap but if people made an extra effort they would get an extra laugh for free. A child post got it, good for him. (the reply associates my post, the - ive mods and a quote from the book... cool)
Hey! What's my parent post got to do with a Troll moderation? It's supposed to be funny; doesn't anyone remember Underhill? I mean, /. had a deluge of LOTR messaging when the films were onscreen, I'm sorry you can't see the joke in my 2 liner. Hmm, of all things... a troll... an Orc would have been more appropriate ;-)
;-)
Should I explain it? Nah, no spoilers... hint, hint? Uh, you're smart enough to figure it out yourself
they are treacherouss theifss, nasty Hobbtisess... live in nassty burrows with Windowsess And smelly green gardenss too, and the sick blue sky... ah! Poor Smeagol... nassty Hobbitsess...
Right, and the setup/hold deltas become irrelevant. As the switching speeds go up the time wasted for all the pin signals to be good becomes a hard limit for the bus; after all parallel is just a workaround to slow inverters. As long as the cables aren't too long for signal distortion to arise, serial can really push the limit and when that'll come I expect Si optoelectronic frontends will be mature enough to substitute electrical transmission lines in consumer electronics ;-)
Hey kid, are you calling us names? Your reasoning sounds like a that of a Berlusconi's Forza Italia drone... cut it out thanks!
BTW we're much smarter than what your witty commentt implies... go get a clue, troll
Anybody willing to take a bus trip to a major US city?
What's the point in dumping all the deployed office managment tools (standalone client or web-based... sap anyone?) to redo everything with Office? What's the point in placing out-of-office requests from Word, can't I just login the web portal? Can you see the m$ marketoids massaging your PHB's visions of a new 'office automation' utopia into M$ Reality? (email script viruses and global udp DOS)