Updates which include both PowerPC and Intel, and which span more than the most recent OS update tend to be quite large.
Add to this 32-bit and 64-bit variations for each chipset, multiple languages, and you really have something very large. At the same time there is also very a good possibility that even if one minor thing changes in a file, it is the whole file that is replaced, instead of simply having a binary diff applied.
Whatever way you look at it, it is big, but who cares? Of course if you are limited to dial up then that is an issue.
The thing that should be pointed out is the way the article summary makes it look like the 10.5.7 update is simply a security fix. It isn't and is more the equivalent of a Microsoft Service Pack.
At someplace like starbucks, where one has a reasonable chance of receiving $5 for $.20 of product, low overhead, few employees, WiFi makes sense.
But in my experience Starbucks has started charging for its Wi-Fi access, and certain cases the accumulated monthly cost is many times higher than my home network connection. I now walk around with my DS looking for coffee shops offering free Wi-Fi.
Sony already has this in the form of the EyeToy. The issue here is not so much the camera, but the software behind it and more importantly how easy it is for games developers to take advantage of the intelligence provided.
There are plenty of examples of motion detection with cameras, but getting them to detect multiple moving objects, varying lighting conditions and so on is the challenge. I am not saying Microsoft will not succeed, I am simply saying that in many ways getting this to work perfectly is much more challenging than something like the Wiimote or the Wii Balance Board.
Really now. You think you have the right to take pictures of an ATM's innards? Try taking a picture of an armored car interior when they're delivering money to the bank. See how that turns out.
What could help this guy is proof that this sort of picture is already available freely on the web. If it is then the guy is not exposing anything which is not already exposed.
Instead the power companies will get all the business when people buy plugin hybrids.
This is why oil companies need to rebrand themselves as energy companies. This way they become energy providers, without really caring about what that source is. Maybe in five years time we will Texaco Nuclear and Shell Turbines?
I see the same change of direction needing to happen to GM and Chrysler, who need to rebrand themselves as transportation manufactures and not car companies. This way we would see GM becoming General Mobility and manufacturing everything from bicycles to cars and trucks to trains.
The real issue we have with electricity is storage. Hydrogen was never, and will never be, a fuel source, rather it is an energy transportation medium. What I mean is that in order to have hydrogen you need to get it from some medium, such as water or another compound. Since you need to do electrolysis to extract Hydrogen from water, you might as well look into skipping the step and using is straight. This reminds me of using natural gas to extract oil, as another energy wasting endeavour, but that is another story.
Now the issue is the storage of electricity, which currently has Lithium based batteries as the best method. The ideal solution, will probably be a super capacitor based system, since you will get the advantages of charge time and reduction of chemicals. Storing Hydrogen has one set of issues, which is compounded by the issues of making it safe in an accident.
Having said all this, batteries currently fail in very cold climates, and this is a place where Hydrogen could find its place. Given that this suddenly reduces the potential market for Hydrogen based vehicles, it is probably money better spent to find a solution to getting an electric vehicle starting at -30C. Heck, given the advantages for Moon and Mars missions, maybe we could even get NASA involved. Another advantage with electric vehicles, is that electricity can be produced by plenty of different sources and is easily transported (even if there is some loss).
I agree with the guy that the was inappropriate behaviour, but get accused of hacking? Clearly the jury has no clue of technology and that the defense failed to make a credible point. I am just trying to imagine the prosecution's argument:
"Sir, it is our belief that uploading an image from a computer he had access necessitated that he hack into a computer (that he had suitable access to), and upload to a password protected system (which he has legitimate access to), is a dangerous offense and could possibly result in the collapse of the economy"*.
This is about controlling the bittorrent client on your home machine, not using bittorrent locally on the phone. RTFS.
Yup, and there is good chance the reviewer didn't pick up on the difference (I cynically put them in the same category as phone agents). Also, you need to remember that Apple also has a policy of preventing any application that does not make the difference between cellular data and wi-fi data transfers.
At the same time when you consider Transmission has a web based GUI, then the only thing that really needs doing is to get it to have an optimised view.
I read an interview of the MP in question. She said that he never explicitly asked for this correspondence to be considered 'private'.
Certainly, but it would be good form to keep the name and address private. If this is indeed the case, I wonder whether we will see a change in this sort of policy?
Surely there is no point (yet) in using 3G in a household? Especially due to the (much) higher connectivity cost - the only real reason to use it at the moment is on-the-go, which renders an additional device redundant if it's built into the machine. I'll be surprised if such a peripheral is introduced (this year/soon)
Well, at the price cell phone companies charge for data in some countries, I am not sure I would want 3G data. On the other hand if they reduced the cost, then I might be interested in this. Something else that would be interesting is if we saw the development of wi-fi mesh networks. Sure there are some issues to be worked out, but if the service providers helped out in the solution, then it could be interesting.
They asked for a "warranty number" that doesn't actually appear on the machine anywhere...
Why would something like that have been removed?
I would wonder that too, but maybe he should check in the battery compartment in case it is there? Also, is this visible in the BIOS? I couldn't see any site that describes how to find the warranty of an Alienware product? Does anyone know where it is located?
For example, you would get the laptop for cheap, say $500, but then you would be tied in a 2 year contract with AT&T (or some other cell provider) to get "unlimited" data that really isn't unlimited, costs you a fortune, and theres no other way to buy the laptop.
I have never had a portable subsidised by a phone company, and I don't think the mere presence of 3G should mean a subsidised system. Steve Jobs has already indicated that phone companies should simply concentrate on the connectivity, ie the service side of things. I believe he is going to try to force the phone companies to accept the new reality, whether they like it or not.
This is pathetic. It's just a streaming service with client side DRM added on. Useless; but hardly novel.
Yeah, but you missed the unwritten part of the patent: installed without the user's knowledge on inserting of a CD. Additional methods include make a default part of major operating systems;)
I think all torrent sites should 2-way encrypt all their search results (meaning the titles, descriptions, etc..) and put a statement up that says decrypting is not allowed.
As that is will do anything. If you want something, then it would be an anonymous VPN, where no IP addresses are logged, except the 'problematic' ones. While this is not fool-proof it makes the job harder for the non-participants. Ironically in the point in time an IPv6 VPN would be even better, since I suspect most of the monitoring tools out there are targeted to IPv4.
Sounds like the college could have offered an alternative: offer to provide addresses in the college domain in exchange for not using the external one. Anyone who is not associated with the college, would not be able to be offered this.
If you aren't going to offer your students and staff e-mail accounts, for use related to the college, then expect them to go and create accounts elsewhere.
Maybe they should have studied how Apple did it, thrice:
- transition from 68K to PPC
- transition from MacOS 'Classic' to MacOS X
- transition from PPC to Intel
On the other hand with VMWare, Parallels and VirtualBox, there are certainly work arounds.
Nah, we'll just invade a few years later searching for weapons of mass destruction. Then, after a few short weeks, the dictator will be gone, we'll have our plutonium, and (as a side benefit) the North Korean people will love us! Foolproof plan.
Don't forget to doctor the 'victory' presentation afterwards.
Upon reading this, I wondered whether MacOS X suffered the same issue, so I decided to test. I disabled the showing of all extensions (Finder preferences), duplicated Text Edit, so it appeared as "TextEdit 2" and then edited the visible name to "TextEdit 2.doc". The result was displaying itself as "TextEdit 2.doc.app". For other file types, such as a PDF doing the same thing results in being asked if you are sure you want to change the filename extension, though renaming from the Terminal a PDF from "toto.pdf" to "toto.doc.pdf" resulted in the same visual behaviour as the one observed for the application. Its an interesting solution to the problem, since basically if the file has multiple extensions they are all shown.
The issue described in the post has already caused me issues in the past on Windows XP, on a developer's machine, where extensions were not shown by default. Imagine an Apache conf folder that contains:
http.conf
http.conf.bak The first one appears as 'http' and the second one as 'httpd.conf'. I didn't hit me straight away that the wrong file was being edited.
Does anyone know how Linux handles this in the various GUI file managers?
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Updates which include both PowerPC and Intel, and which span more than the most recent OS update tend to be quite large.
Add to this 32-bit and 64-bit variations for each chipset, multiple languages, and you really have something very large. At the same time there is also very a good possibility that even if one minor thing changes in a file, it is the whole file that is replaced, instead of simply having a binary diff applied.
Whatever way you look at it, it is big, but who cares? Of course if you are limited to dial up then that is an issue.
The thing that should be pointed out is the way the article summary makes it look like the 10.5.7 update is simply a security fix. It isn't and is more the equivalent of a Microsoft Service Pack.
At someplace like starbucks, where one has a reasonable chance of receiving $5 for $.20 of product, low overhead, few employees, WiFi makes sense.
But in my experience Starbucks has started charging for its Wi-Fi access, and certain cases the accumulated monthly cost is many times higher than my home network connection. I now walk around with my DS looking for coffee shops offering free Wi-Fi.
Stupid thing posted me anonymously despite being logged in!
It was deemed you already had too much Karma. That was a test of the new Karma limitation system ;)
Sony already has this in the form of the EyeToy. The issue here is not so much the camera, but the software behind it and more importantly how easy it is for games developers to take advantage of the intelligence provided.
There are plenty of examples of motion detection with cameras, but getting them to detect multiple moving objects, varying lighting conditions and so on is the challenge. I am not saying Microsoft will not succeed, I am simply saying that in many ways getting this to work perfectly is much more challenging than something like the Wiimote or the Wii Balance Board.
Really now. You think you have the right to take pictures of an ATM's innards? Try taking a picture of an armored car interior when they're delivering money to the bank. See how that turns out.
What could help this guy is proof that this sort of picture is already available freely on the web. If it is then the guy is not exposing anything which is not already exposed.
Instead the power companies will get all the business when people buy plugin hybrids.
This is why oil companies need to rebrand themselves as energy companies. This way they become energy providers, without really caring about what that source is. Maybe in five years time we will Texaco Nuclear and Shell Turbines?
I see the same change of direction needing to happen to GM and Chrysler, who need to rebrand themselves as transportation manufactures and not car companies. This way we would see GM becoming General Mobility and manufacturing everything from bicycles to cars and trucks to trains.
The real issue we have with electricity is storage. Hydrogen was never, and will never be, a fuel source, rather it is an energy transportation medium. What I mean is that in order to have hydrogen you need to get it from some medium, such as water or another compound. Since you need to do electrolysis to extract Hydrogen from water, you might as well look into skipping the step and using is straight. This reminds me of using natural gas to extract oil, as another energy wasting endeavour, but that is another story.
Now the issue is the storage of electricity, which currently has Lithium based batteries as the best method. The ideal solution, will probably be a super capacitor based system, since you will get the advantages of charge time and reduction of chemicals. Storing Hydrogen has one set of issues, which is compounded by the issues of making it safe in an accident.
Having said all this, batteries currently fail in very cold climates, and this is a place where Hydrogen could find its place. Given that this suddenly reduces the potential market for Hydrogen based vehicles, it is probably money better spent to find a solution to getting an electric vehicle starting at -30C. Heck, given the advantages for Moon and Mars missions, maybe we could even get NASA involved. Another advantage with electric vehicles, is that electricity can be produced by plenty of different sources and is easily transported (even if there is some loss).
Wikipedia link on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
I agree with the guy that the was inappropriate behaviour, but get accused of hacking? Clearly the jury has no clue of technology and that the defense failed to make a credible point. I am just trying to imagine the prosecution's argument:
"Sir, it is our belief that uploading an image from a computer he had access necessitated that he hack into a computer (that he had suitable access to), and upload to a password protected system (which he has legitimate access to), is a dangerous offense and could possibly result in the collapse of the economy"*.
No, actually, you're the one being stupid.
This is about controlling the bittorrent client on your home machine, not using bittorrent locally on the phone. RTFS.
Yup, and there is good chance the reviewer didn't pick up on the difference (I cynically put them in the same category as phone agents). Also, you need to remember that Apple also has a policy of preventing any application that does not make the difference between cellular data and wi-fi data transfers.
At the same time when you consider Transmission has a web based GUI, then the only thing that really needs doing is to get it to have an optimised view.
I read an interview of the MP in question. She said that he never explicitly asked for this correspondence to be considered 'private'.
Certainly, but it would be good form to keep the name and address private. If this is indeed the case, I wonder whether we will see a change in this sort of policy?
Surely there is no point (yet) in using 3G in a household? Especially due to the (much) higher connectivity cost - the only real reason to use it at the moment is on-the-go, which renders an additional device redundant if it's built into the machine. I'll be surprised if such a peripheral is introduced (this year/soon)
Well, at the price cell phone companies charge for data in some countries, I am not sure I would want 3G data. On the other hand if they reduced the cost, then I might be interested in this. Something else that would be interesting is if we saw the development of wi-fi mesh networks. Sure there are some issues to be worked out, but if the service providers helped out in the solution, then it could be interesting.
They asked for a "warranty number" that doesn't actually appear on the machine anywhere...
Why would something like that have been removed?
I would wonder that too, but maybe he should check in the battery compartment in case it is there? Also, is this visible in the BIOS? I couldn't see any site that describes how to find the warranty of an Alienware product? Does anyone know where it is located?
For example, you would get the laptop for cheap, say $500, but then you would be tied in a 2 year contract with AT&T (or some other cell provider) to get "unlimited" data that really isn't unlimited, costs you a fortune, and theres no other way to buy the laptop.
I have never had a portable subsidised by a phone company, and I don't think the mere presence of 3G should mean a subsidised system. Steve Jobs has already indicated that phone companies should simply concentrate on the connectivity, ie the service side of things. I believe he is going to try to force the phone companies to accept the new reality, whether they like it or not.
This is pathetic. It's just a streaming service with client side DRM added on. Useless; but hardly novel.
Yeah, but you missed the unwritten part of the patent: installed without the user's knowledge on inserting of a CD. Additional methods include make a default part of major operating systems ;)
Yeah, I knew about that. But did you notice the killall Finder ? This means you lose all open Finder windows just to show hidden files.
I did, but then again when I use MS-Windows I just opt to show all hidden files all the time.
I think all torrent sites should 2-way encrypt all their search results (meaning the titles, descriptions, etc..) and put a statement up that says decrypting is not allowed.
As that is will do anything. If you want something, then it would be an anonymous VPN, where no IP addresses are logged, except the 'problematic' ones. While this is not fool-proof it makes the job harder for the non-participants. Ironically in the point in time an IPv6 VPN would be even better, since I suspect most of the monitoring tools out there are targeted to IPv4.
Just did a quick search, and came up with this:
http://lifehacker.com/software/command-line/show-hidden-files-in-finder-188892.php
haven't tried it yet.
Sounds like the college could have offered an alternative: offer to provide addresses in the college domain in exchange for not using the external one. Anyone who is not associated with the college, would not be able to be offered this.
If you aren't going to offer your students and staff e-mail accounts, for use related to the college, then expect them to go and create accounts elsewhere.
Maybe they should have studied how Apple did it, thrice:
- transition from 68K to PPC
- transition from MacOS 'Classic' to MacOS X
- transition from PPC to Intel
On the other hand with VMWare, Parallels and VirtualBox, there are certainly work arounds.
Just use Chinese toys instead
I would have though Mountain Dew would be a better source. That color has always been suspicious ;)
Nah, we'll just invade a few years later searching for weapons of mass destruction. Then, after a few short weeks, the dictator will be gone, we'll have our plutonium, and (as a side benefit) the North Korean people will love us! Foolproof plan.
Don't forget to doctor the 'victory' presentation afterwards.
Upon reading this, I wondered whether MacOS X suffered the same issue, so I decided to test. I disabled the showing of all extensions (Finder preferences), duplicated Text Edit, so it appeared as "TextEdit 2" and then edited the visible name to "TextEdit 2.doc". The result was displaying itself as "TextEdit 2.doc.app". For other file types, such as a PDF doing the same thing results in being asked if you are sure you want to change the filename extension, though renaming from the Terminal a PDF from "toto.pdf" to "toto.doc.pdf" resulted in the same visual behaviour as the one observed for the application. Its an interesting solution to the problem, since basically if the file has multiple extensions they are all shown.
The issue described in the post has already caused me issues in the past on Windows XP, on a developer's machine, where extensions were not shown by default. Imagine an Apache conf folder that contains:
http.conf
http.conf.bak
The first one appears as 'http' and the second one as 'httpd.conf'. I didn't hit me straight away that the wrong file was being edited.
Does anyone know how Linux handles this in the various GUI file managers?
....the US overall reaches new broadband speeds of nearly 20mbps for half its citizens in the year 2025!!!
Wow, I thought it was bad in Canada, but reducing your bandwidth to 20 millibits per seconds is really harsh. Is that just overzealous capping?
So, wait.. how do you eat grapefruits?
You out-source the cutting to a country which doesn't treat you as a 2 year old kid and then simply import the remaining juice ;)