I had the (mis)fortune of installing Vista on my work laptop Friday evening, and it activated just fine for me at about midnight Pacific (about 08:00 GST.)
So it wasn't *ALL* servers, then.
(I also activated Office 2007 successfully this morning.)
Let's see, three years of my main laptop would include myself, my wife, my kids, my parents, my grandparents, my sister, my father-in-law, my sister-in-law and her family, a dozen or so friends (I can't be certain which ones,) and, oh, about 100 clients whose names I don't remember. (I often demonstrate things to clients on my laptop, and they do sometimes "use" my computer for a minute or two.)
My son's desktop computer would mean 'ratting out' a dozen or so of HIS friends. (10-13 years old at time of use, if you're covering 3 years worth of usage.)
For a corporation, producing a detailed 3 year log of who used a computer may be a feasable asking, but not for a personal computer.
Yes, you can. If all you want is to add custom ringtones, you can use a simple app like iFuntastic. If you want to replace existing other sounds (like the SMS tone you mention,) you need more in depth methods.
Hrm... Halfway through, iTunes gave me an "Update could not be completed" error, although the progress bar on the iPhone itself is still going.
Due to the Slashdot length-between-posts time limit, I have had time to let it finish, and it looks like it worked just fine. Although I currently have no cell phone signal, even though it's in the exact same location that it had a full signal before the update..... Ah, there we go. Signal is back. Sync failed, though. It's losing the connection to the iPhone... Trying plugged in directly, rather than through a USB hub... That did it.
The first step after hitting go involves the iPhone going into a "Software Update" screen, then immediately going to an Apple logo with progress bar. On the computer, while the progress bar is going by, is displayed "Verifying Current iPhone Software"... Does this mean it's checking the existing install to make sure it's not hacked?
Anyone with a hacked iPhone try this yet, and if so, any problems? I expect any hacks will have to be re-applied (or even re-discovered, if the hole that allowed them was patched.)
(I haven't hacked my iPhone yet, but I would like to make sure Apple doesn't lock hacked ones out of updates.)
Indeed, these people were no more special, or less special, than many others killed every day. The difference is that these people died doing something generally considered "not dangerous", so the deaths are more unexpected.
Still, I don't make jokes about individual soldiers in Iraq dying, I don't make jokes even about individual gang members dying. Making jokes about individual deaths is insensitivity in the extreme; even when shielded behind anonymous internet monikers. If you want to make jokes in general about death, or even about 'anonymous' deaths, that's one thing. But to take light the lives of the recently deceased is the height of cruelty. I do know one Scaled employee who I don't even need to worry was there, I know he's working on a different project, but I also know he reads Slashdot. I'm sure close friends or relatives of one or more of the deceased do as well.
I don't ask for any specific death to be treated more specially, just equally humanely.
Mean temperature of Oregon's bathing areas? I don't know, probably somewhere in the mid-to-high 90s F... I like my showers a bit on the cold side, though, so I'm pushing it down. My wife like's her baths hot, so we probably balance out.:-p (Yeah, I know, you meant beaches, not bathroom wash temperatures.)
I guess I didn't really take into account the business aspect. The busiest beaches in Oregon tend to have only a few hundred to a thousand or so people on the sand on even the busiest days. (The water off Oregon averages in the low 50s to the low 60s, even in the height of Summer, and the air temperature varies from the mid 60s to the mid 80s; with the higher temperatures being farther from populated areas, of course.) The coast is a good hour to hour and a half drive from any of the moderately big cities of Oregon; with the biggest (Portland) still being well short of NYC of Philly.
All 362 miles (per an Anonymous Coward post,) of Oregon's ocean beaches are public and free access. They are clean. They have amenities.
As for emergency services, in many cases, you *DO* have to pay. Ambulance rides aren't free, hospital stays aren't free. And in Arizona, if your own stupidity gets you into trouble, you pay for your own rescue.
As another poster mentioned, yes, it is possible to use the ISS as a 'launching post', but horribly inefficient. The Pluto mission didn't '[make] moon orbit', it made it to lunar SPACE. It was going WAY too fast to actually have a chance of decelerating and actually entering lunar orbit. It also made it to Jupiter significantly faster than dedicated Jupiter probe Galileo, because Galileo had to be going slow enough to enter Jupiter orbit.
And, yes, a lunar landing mission spacecraft would fit in the Shuttle's cargo bay, but that would be a ridiculously expensive way of carrying it to orbit. Better to use a single smaller rocket to get it there, that way you don't have to carry the entire weight of the Shuttle, too.
The only way an Earth-orbit space station would be a decent 'launching post' for a lunar mission would be if they were to find a cheap way to launch fuel into Earth orbit (cheaper per pound than launching the actual spacecraft,) and make the space station a refueling post. You'd launch the lunar lander into Earth orbit with just enough fuel to make it to the space station, then refuel in Earth orbit. Otherwise, you might as well just launch completely ready to go to the moon.
A *MARS* mission, on the other hand, makes a little more sense, because for such a long voyage, you would want a spacecraft that is really too large to launch straight to Mars as one piece. So you launch the individual pieces into Earth orbit, join them in Earth orbit, then leave for Mars. In that case, ISS makes a perfectly logical assembly point. (I am also a fan of the two-stage Mars launch, where you launch the return vehicle to Mars, along with fuel and supplies, unmanned. Then, once those are safely on Mars, you launch a smaller 'outbound-only' ship. This way, you don't have to launch one single large ship.
Speaking of which, when should we be hearing Google going after Apple for Spotlight?
I agree. I'm a Mac fanboy, but still, it seems that every thing Microsoft gets blasted for being anti-competitive about, Apple is praised for doing. Safari killed IE, Yay Safari! iTunes killed all other media players, Yay iTunes! Dashboard killed Konfabulator, Yay Dashboard! Spaces is about to kill off all the virtual desktop utilities, Yay Spaces! Now with Spotlight, we don't have any direct competition, but it's still something Microsoft has done that was complained bout, and nobody is complaining about Apple.
I recently had occasion to study the structure of OS X, because my department has a Mac lying around, and we were thinking it would be handy for hosting a TWiki. I discovered a lot of radical changes in the basic architecture of the system (file system layout; administrative tools; command line conventions) that made my experience with Unix and Linux pretty irrelevant. I admit I haven't used a BSD-based system in a couple of decades
Emphasis mine.
If your BSD experience is "decades" old, then it's irrelevant. Modern NetBSD or FreeBSD will seem just as foreign as Darwin/OS X does.
Try telneting into an OS X machine, and launching your favorite shell. It has all the regulars. Then treat it exactly as you would a BSD machine. ifconfig? Works./etc? It's there.
Correct, OS X is *NOT* BSD. But it *IS* an "official UNIX", and it is closer to BSD than Solaris or IRIX are, by a longshot. (UnixWare? You mean people still use that? I thought that died back in the '90s.)
"To imagine my information being disseminated without my written or verbal consent is unnerving," she said. "Then again, if I'm doing something I know is illegal, can I protest?"
Uh... Your "information being disseminated without [your] consent..."??? You mean, like you're doing to the MPAA by disseminating their movies (aka "information",) without their consent? At least there i the "can I protest?" caveat on the end to show that this person has some sense of reality.
What I'm saying is that the MacBook Pro is more than capable of playing 'mainstream' games. Look at the top 10 game sales on the PC. Half aren't games that require the latest and greatest. WoW and The Sims 2 and their add-ons dominate actual game sales. As another respondent said, you obviously haven't run Flight Sim X. Yes, its system requirements are technically low, but for it to look even DECENT requires a powerful machine. The MacBook Pro is *BARELY* capable of running it with acceptable quality settings, but it is capable. (Heck, if you turn all the settings all the way up, even a Core 2 Quad at 3 GHz with SLIed 8800 Ultras has trouble!)
My point wasn't that the Mac can run the most GPU-intensive games as smooth as silk with all the settings on max, my point is that those games aren't the high-volume games! Madden and Tiger Woods Golf certainly don't need the aforementioned C2Q+SLI rig. They will play just fine on even a Mac Mini with Intel 950 graphics and a 1.66 GHz Core Duo.
As has been said ad nauseam on various forums, you don't need a $5000 computer to play games! I play UT, RtCW, and Flight Sim X on my MacBook Pro just fine. An ATI X1600 is perfectly sufficient to play games. Only the most hardcore of hardcore care about video cards higher end. Yes, the GeForce 8800 Ultra and Radeon HD 2900 are the models that make all the review sites (okay, really just the 8800 Ultra,) but in reality, those will sell less than 5% of each manufacturer's total sales. The mere fact that INTEL sells more graphics chips than ATI and nVidia combined should tell you that the vast majority of computers DON'T have the latest greatest chip. And game developers know this. Most games are written to be at least playable even on Intel integrated graphics. The few games that really 'need' high-end graphics have equivalently small target markets. Just like Toyota. They make a $100,000 car, but they don't expect it to be their highest-selling car by a longshot. They expect their second-cheapest car to be the biggest seller. And so, yes, there are accessories for the high end car, but there are far more for the low-middle end cars.
(A better car example would probably be the Honda Civic vs. the Honda S2000. Yes, you can buy 'tuner' kits for the S2K, but there are far more tuner kits for the Civic.)
Am I the only one disappointed that it doesn't have four spindly little chair legs? It just looks like some odd monstrosity as it is. Even if it was the same height, it would look cooler to me if it had four smaller 'chair-like' legs.
Developed or updated by more than one independent software provider in a well-defined, inclusive process
(Taken from the intro to the Oregon legislation, not sure if the other states are similar or not.)
Why does it matter if it was developed or updated by more than one independent software provider? As long as it is well-defined and inclusive, and follows the other tenets (not encumbered by royalties, for example,) then does it really matter that it's developed by one sole provider? PDF is developed solely by Adobe, yet it otherwise fits the bill as 'open'.
I don't know about you, but I haven't signed anything with Major League Baseball. No contract of any kind that restricts my legal ability to watch my local team's games. While my use of a Slingbox may theoretically violate the agreement between MLB and the TV networks, wouldn't it only do so if one of those two were directly involved in the use of the Slingbox? As the TV network isn't involved in any active way in MY use of a Slingbox, they aren't liable any more than a gun manufacturer is liable for a murder committed with their weapon. (This last one has been tested legally, the gun manufacturer won.)
And since, unlike murder, I personally am not committing any crime or license violation (for any license that I have agreed to,) there is no illegality here for me personally. MLB is out of luck on this one.
This is an obvious thing, really. Apple has never maintained that they would offer "pure" mp3s, just that they would remove DRM. This seems like a perfectly acceptable compromise. It will stop the "average Joe" from sharing their music; but really won't stop the dedicated person. (There are utilities that can strip the info out, just as they could remove the DRM before.)
As for reporting? They have always said you could have one music file on five computers; it didn't specify that all five had to be "registered" to the same person. For example, I have songs from my account authorized on my main computer, my wife's main computer (which has her iTunes account as primary,) my son's main computer (again, his iTunes account is primary,) plus two spare PCs that don't have of our iTunes accounts as "primary". Am I worried that Apple will sick the RIAA on me because I have songs authorized on five computers that are registered to five different names? No, not one bit.
for 3 years now, always riding in the same pocket as my cell phone. Sounds like a Nissan-specific problem. (This is the same basic idea Nissan uses; but Toyota uses it as an option in various models, including most of the Lexus models, the Avalon, Corolla, and Prius.
I'm in the second category, but as I'm self-employed, I'm too cheap to buy a cell data card. (There have been enough free WiFi hot spots in town, and now there's a municipal WiFi going in.)
But even without constant WiFi, I manage fine without it. The only times I really miss it are when I need to look up new directions on the road, and I have to rely on EDGE-speed cellular (over Bluetooth from my cell phone) to do my Google Mapping.
This new chipset supports 1067 MHz DDR-3 max. 1333 MHz is the CPU bus speed. This chipset will probably be revved to officially support 1333 MHz RAM, but not yet.
But, as many have already discovered, the previous P965 chipset can be made to support DDR-2 faster than its specced 800 MHz, and processors above its specced 1067 MHz, so 1333 MHz RAM will PROBABLY work just fine with minor BIOS tweaking, but its still unofficial.
I'm waiting for X38, with its dual X16 PCI-E 2.0 slots, among other improvements.
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I had the (mis)fortune of installing Vista on my work laptop Friday evening, and it activated just fine for me at about midnight Pacific (about 08:00 GST.)
So it wasn't *ALL* servers, then.
(I also activated Office 2007 successfully this morning.)
Yes, feasable if they back up their log files.
Let's see, three years of my main laptop would include myself, my wife, my kids, my parents, my grandparents, my sister, my father-in-law, my sister-in-law and her family, a dozen or so friends (I can't be certain which ones,) and, oh, about 100 clients whose names I don't remember. (I often demonstrate things to clients on my laptop, and they do sometimes "use" my computer for a minute or two.)
My son's desktop computer would mean 'ratting out' a dozen or so of HIS friends. (10-13 years old at time of use, if you're covering 3 years worth of usage.)
For a corporation, producing a detailed 3 year log of who used a computer may be a feasable asking, but not for a personal computer.
Well, Pac-Man doesn't need any buttons. Dig Dug needs one, Pole Position needs one (the shifter, you can do gas and brake with the Y-axis.)
Thanks for the update. I can confirm that Safari is just as unstable... (Crashed twice so far today.)
Yes, you can. If all you want is to add custom ringtones, you can use a simple app like iFuntastic. If you want to replace existing other sounds (like the SMS tone you mention,) you need more in depth methods.
Hrm... Halfway through, iTunes gave me an "Update could not be completed" error, although the progress bar on the iPhone itself is still going.
Due to the Slashdot length-between-posts time limit, I have had time to let it finish, and it looks like it worked just fine. Although I currently have no cell phone signal, even though it's in the exact same location that it had a full signal before the update..... Ah, there we go. Signal is back. Sync failed, though. It's losing the connection to the iPhone... Trying plugged in directly, rather than through a USB hub... That did it.
All is good now.
The first step after hitting go involves the iPhone going into a "Software Update" screen, then immediately going to an Apple logo with progress bar. On the computer, while the progress bar is going by, is displayed "Verifying Current iPhone Software"... Does this mean it's checking the existing install to make sure it's not hacked?
Anyone with a hacked iPhone try this yet, and if so, any problems? I expect any hacks will have to be re-applied (or even re-discovered, if the hole that allowed them was patched.)
(I haven't hacked my iPhone yet, but I would like to make sure Apple doesn't lock hacked ones out of updates.)
Indeed, these people were no more special, or less special, than many others killed every day. The difference is that these people died doing something generally considered "not dangerous", so the deaths are more unexpected.
Still, I don't make jokes about individual soldiers in Iraq dying, I don't make jokes even about individual gang members dying. Making jokes about individual deaths is insensitivity in the extreme; even when shielded behind anonymous internet monikers. If you want to make jokes in general about death, or even about 'anonymous' deaths, that's one thing. But to take light the lives of the recently deceased is the height of cruelty. I do know one Scaled employee who I don't even need to worry was there, I know he's working on a different project, but I also know he reads Slashdot. I'm sure close friends or relatives of one or more of the deceased do as well.
I don't ask for any specific death to be treated more specially, just equally humanely.
Mean temperature of Oregon's bathing areas? I don't know, probably somewhere in the mid-to-high 90s F... I like my showers a bit on the cold side, though, so I'm pushing it down. My wife like's her baths hot, so we probably balance out. :-p (Yeah, I know, you meant beaches, not bathroom wash temperatures.)
I guess I didn't really take into account the business aspect. The busiest beaches in Oregon tend to have only a few hundred to a thousand or so people on the sand on even the busiest days. (The water off Oregon averages in the low 50s to the low 60s, even in the height of Summer, and the air temperature varies from the mid 60s to the mid 80s; with the higher temperatures being farther from populated areas, of course.) The coast is a good hour to hour and a half drive from any of the moderately big cities of Oregon; with the biggest (Portland) still being well short of NYC of Philly.
All 362 miles (per an Anonymous Coward post,) of Oregon's ocean beaches are public and free access. They are clean. They have amenities.
As for emergency services, in many cases, you *DO* have to pay. Ambulance rides aren't free, hospital stays aren't free. And in Arizona, if your own stupidity gets you into trouble, you pay for your own rescue.
As another poster mentioned, yes, it is possible to use the ISS as a 'launching post', but horribly inefficient. The Pluto mission didn't '[make] moon orbit', it made it to lunar SPACE. It was going WAY too fast to actually have a chance of decelerating and actually entering lunar orbit. It also made it to Jupiter significantly faster than dedicated Jupiter probe Galileo, because Galileo had to be going slow enough to enter Jupiter orbit.
And, yes, a lunar landing mission spacecraft would fit in the Shuttle's cargo bay, but that would be a ridiculously expensive way of carrying it to orbit. Better to use a single smaller rocket to get it there, that way you don't have to carry the entire weight of the Shuttle, too.
The only way an Earth-orbit space station would be a decent 'launching post' for a lunar mission would be if they were to find a cheap way to launch fuel into Earth orbit (cheaper per pound than launching the actual spacecraft,) and make the space station a refueling post. You'd launch the lunar lander into Earth orbit with just enough fuel to make it to the space station, then refuel in Earth orbit. Otherwise, you might as well just launch completely ready to go to the moon.
A *MARS* mission, on the other hand, makes a little more sense, because for such a long voyage, you would want a spacecraft that is really too large to launch straight to Mars as one piece. So you launch the individual pieces into Earth orbit, join them in Earth orbit, then leave for Mars. In that case, ISS makes a perfectly logical assembly point. (I am also a fan of the two-stage Mars launch, where you launch the return vehicle to Mars, along with fuel and supplies, unmanned. Then, once those are safely on Mars, you launch a smaller 'outbound-only' ship. This way, you don't have to launch one single large ship.
I agree. I'm a Mac fanboy, but still, it seems that every thing Microsoft gets blasted for being anti-competitive about, Apple is praised for doing. Safari killed IE, Yay Safari! iTunes killed all other media players, Yay iTunes! Dashboard killed Konfabulator, Yay Dashboard! Spaces is about to kill off all the virtual desktop utilities, Yay Spaces! Now with Spotlight, we don't have any direct competition, but it's still something Microsoft has done that was complained bout, and nobody is complaining about Apple.
Emphasis mine.
If your BSD experience is "decades" old, then it's irrelevant. Modern NetBSD or FreeBSD will seem just as foreign as Darwin/OS X does.
Try telneting into an OS X machine, and launching your favorite shell. It has all the regulars. Then treat it exactly as you would a BSD machine. ifconfig? Works.
Correct, OS X is *NOT* BSD. But it *IS* an "official UNIX", and it is closer to BSD than Solaris or IRIX are, by a longshot. (UnixWare? You mean people still use that? I thought that died back in the '90s.)
They switched to Linux, so they're good, right?
Uh... Your "information being disseminated without [your] consent..."??? You mean, like you're doing to the MPAA by disseminating their movies (aka "information",) without their consent? At least there i the "can I protest?" caveat on the end to show that this person has some sense of reality.
What I'm saying is that the MacBook Pro is more than capable of playing 'mainstream' games. Look at the top 10 game sales on the PC. Half aren't games that require the latest and greatest. WoW and The Sims 2 and their add-ons dominate actual game sales. As another respondent said, you obviously haven't run Flight Sim X. Yes, its system requirements are technically low, but for it to look even DECENT requires a powerful machine. The MacBook Pro is *BARELY* capable of running it with acceptable quality settings, but it is capable. (Heck, if you turn all the settings all the way up, even a Core 2 Quad at 3 GHz with SLIed 8800 Ultras has trouble!)
My point wasn't that the Mac can run the most GPU-intensive games as smooth as silk with all the settings on max, my point is that those games aren't the high-volume games! Madden and Tiger Woods Golf certainly don't need the aforementioned C2Q+SLI rig. They will play just fine on even a Mac Mini with Intel 950 graphics and a 1.66 GHz Core Duo.
As has been said ad nauseam on various forums, you don't need a $5000 computer to play games! I play UT, RtCW, and Flight Sim X on my MacBook Pro just fine. An ATI X1600 is perfectly sufficient to play games. Only the most hardcore of hardcore care about video cards higher end. Yes, the GeForce 8800 Ultra and Radeon HD 2900 are the models that make all the review sites (okay, really just the 8800 Ultra,) but in reality, those will sell less than 5% of each manufacturer's total sales. The mere fact that INTEL sells more graphics chips than ATI and nVidia combined should tell you that the vast majority of computers DON'T have the latest greatest chip. And game developers know this. Most games are written to be at least playable even on Intel integrated graphics. The few games that really 'need' high-end graphics have equivalently small target markets. Just like Toyota. They make a $100,000 car, but they don't expect it to be their highest-selling car by a longshot. They expect their second-cheapest car to be the biggest seller. And so, yes, there are accessories for the high end car, but there are far more for the low-middle end cars.
(A better car example would probably be the Honda Civic vs. the Honda S2000. Yes, you can buy 'tuner' kits for the S2K, but there are far more tuner kits for the Civic.)
Am I the only one disappointed that it doesn't have four spindly little chair legs? It just looks like some odd monstrosity as it is. Even if it was the same height, it would look cooler to me if it had four smaller 'chair-like' legs.
(Taken from the intro to the Oregon legislation, not sure if the other states are similar or not.)
Why does it matter if it was developed or updated by more than one independent software provider? As long as it is well-defined and inclusive, and follows the other tenets (not encumbered by royalties, for example,) then does it really matter that it's developed by one sole provider? PDF is developed solely by Adobe, yet it otherwise fits the bill as 'open'.
I don't know about you, but I haven't signed anything with Major League Baseball. No contract of any kind that restricts my legal ability to watch my local team's games. While my use of a Slingbox may theoretically violate the agreement between MLB and the TV networks, wouldn't it only do so if one of those two were directly involved in the use of the Slingbox? As the TV network isn't involved in any active way in MY use of a Slingbox, they aren't liable any more than a gun manufacturer is liable for a murder committed with their weapon. (This last one has been tested legally, the gun manufacturer won.)
And since, unlike murder, I personally am not committing any crime or license violation (for any license that I have agreed to,) there is no illegality here for me personally. MLB is out of luck on this one.
This is an obvious thing, really. Apple has never maintained that they would offer "pure" mp3s, just that they would remove DRM. This seems like a perfectly acceptable compromise. It will stop the "average Joe" from sharing their music; but really won't stop the dedicated person. (There are utilities that can strip the info out, just as they could remove the DRM before.)
As for reporting? They have always said you could have one music file on five computers; it didn't specify that all five had to be "registered" to the same person. For example, I have songs from my account authorized on my main computer, my wife's main computer (which has her iTunes account as primary,) my son's main computer (again, his iTunes account is primary,) plus two spare PCs that don't have of our iTunes accounts as "primary". Am I worried that Apple will sick the RIAA on me because I have songs authorized on five computers that are registered to five different names? No, not one bit.
for 3 years now, always riding in the same pocket as my cell phone. Sounds like a Nissan-specific problem. (This is the same basic idea Nissan uses; but Toyota uses it as an option in various models, including most of the Lexus models, the Avalon, Corolla, and Prius.
I'm in the second category, but as I'm self-employed, I'm too cheap to buy a cell data card. (There have been enough free WiFi hot spots in town, and now there's a municipal WiFi going in.)
But even without constant WiFi, I manage fine without it. The only times I really miss it are when I need to look up new directions on the road, and I have to rely on EDGE-speed cellular (over Bluetooth from my cell phone) to do my Google Mapping.
This new chipset supports 1067 MHz DDR-3 max. 1333 MHz is the CPU bus speed. This chipset will probably be revved to officially support 1333 MHz RAM, but not yet.
But, as many have already discovered, the previous P965 chipset can be made to support DDR-2 faster than its specced 800 MHz, and processors above its specced 1067 MHz, so 1333 MHz RAM will PROBABLY work just fine with minor BIOS tweaking, but its still unofficial.
I'm waiting for X38, with its dual X16 PCI-E 2.0 slots, among other improvements.