While circumstantial, I would guess that this is a privately funded space shot. Why he needs this much storage is still an open question, but by non-serviceable I believe we can take him literally:)
Although I haven't heard more than rumors, this sounds a lot like a PVR device that I would expect Apple to produce--down to the pricetag being 2.5x the competition ($400 for a TiVo vs. $1K for this.) Hm, lets' see: SuperDrive, FireWire. Figure that Apple throws in a better show finder than TiVo, and connects it to.Mac for either the same price as this, or maybe a little more. Watch for it 11/5.
That strategy usually works with Macs, too, btw. While smaller base of applications for a platform is usually a bad thing, when it comes to viruses and spyware it often works to my advantage.
I was actually reaching for my wallet. I have wanted something like this for a long time. The internet offers the promise of more choice than the still choice limited and time restricted movies available through cable TV pay-per-view--like that advertisement, "every movie, in every language, ever made, ever." Truly refreshing--even my local Blockbuster doesn't have that.
And I even have the latest Windows Media Player installed--so I'm good to go, right? But oh--no Mac support, irregardless that I got WMP from a legally purchased copy of Microsoft Office for OS X. I guess Windows media isn't Windows media, so I'm back to Netflix as my best option. Too bad. My wallet is back in my pocket, and another company loses me as a customer due to a short-sighted market penetration strategy.
I hate to be a grammar flame, but Jesus H. Christ, would you learn how to use a "period"? Periods go at the end of sentences. Ellipses (three dots) bridge thoughts. It's like the difference of stopping at a stop sign, and doing a "rolling stop"--sometimes you just need to end your idea.
Back on topic, no, I don't consider 12 installations in a year very many, not when XM's costs are what they are.
As much as I like my job at Apple, brother do I hate Vantive. It is contrary to everything that Apple stands for, seriously impedes my workflow rather than helps it, and is just plain hard to use, buggy, and slow. I hope I meet a Vantive programmer in a dark alley some day, I'll teach him something about undimissable pop-ups and how to connect to a printer API.
How someone was actually paid money to develop it is way beyond me--I envisage the conference room where the deployment demonstration took place while I'm waiting for my page to refresh.
I sure wish Apple gets a serious case of whatever Gateway caught that made them move from Vantive.
Except he's actually right. Although Macs as of 4 years ago don't have external ADB ports, the portables retain keyboards that are connected via an ADB pipe--just without connectors that will suit any other ADB device. Look closely (very closely) at some tech specs on even the latest Apple portables, and you will find that ADB keyboards are still used. Strange, I know. Write me back if you need proof--but you can trust me on this.
I found this aspect of the case interesting, and so performed a Google search for other articles. One of which spelled it out in more detail: the suspects were indeed arrested at the end of the fake job interview, before they returned home; the passwords and other information that they supplied during the course of the interview were later used to gather more evidence. Therefore, no extradition from foreign soil was required; therefore, no Russian court had to grant approval.
Side note: does the fact that these (successful) computer criminals were looking for salaried work mean that crime really doesn't pay?
This makes the lack of a KaZaa (FastTrack) client particularly interesting. How many more movies would be available if this client existed? Aren't the developers of KaZaa being a little short-sighted in their exclusion of Macs?
So, as a conservative, and as an application developer, I would like nothing better then to see MS get it's ass handed to it by Linux. And yes, an acceptable alternative would be to open up the Windows codebase, but we all know it will be a cold day in hell before that happens.
So, do you think that vot[ing] for George W. Bush 3 times now (2 times for Texas Governor, and once for President.) has helped or hurt you to reach the first goal?
While you don't need Mac OS X Server to do this, the same resources will apply. I would recommend the OS X Server mailing list, or the X Server Admin Guide. Both are good sources of info for doing just this kind of thing.
Also take a look at some non-Apple resources: AFP548.com is consistently the most current, and has a question and answer bulletin board; there's also StepWise, an oldie but goodie.
Friends don't let friends use black text on a grey blackground. Sure it looks cool, but you have to read it, too. Reminds me of the spaceship from one the HitchHiker's books with black text on black labels on a black surface! Cool! Undriveable!
I'm sure that posters after this one will highlight the solution presented. I just want to add this: when did our computers stop working for us, and change to us having to work for them?
And if that yahoo can't get the solutions to work, I hope he thinks about a Mac, or Linux, for each CD (of his own music! already encoded, even!) that he has to reload. If his time is worth something, that Mac looks cheaper every day...
Right! I'm a shill for porn companies! I don't actually like downloading the.jpgs, I'm just demonstrating how much fun it can be!
Just as long as my wife doesn't catch me demonstrating...
On a related tangent, who did this first? I'm an Apple guy, so I'd like to think that Guy Kawasaki innovated the form, but maybe Apple just stole the concept from someplace?
My understanding of.Net is this: MSFT wants to be a data utility as much as your power company is a power utility. Said again, MSFT wants your data to flow from you to any other service that you can connect to the data pipe, be it your cellphone, your fridge, your car. MSFT intends to provide the mechanisms for making this flow possible, mostly be enabling data forms that are useful anywhere, and by abstracting the application that interprets the data.
I believe that the vision is that computing devices would mostly allow you to dip into that data stream, and lose almost all of the autonomy that they now possess--while historically useful, it means that I can't have my fridge interoperate with the grocery store and compare my cupboards with what's on special today, and then alert me with a pop-up ad while I'm watching TV. All of these devices would be manufactured independantly, but MSFT would provide the means and the infrastructure to connect their data streams.
If said data was regulated by an open protocol, you could probably achieve much the same kind of thing; however, MSFT is a demonstrated monopoly, and as such can dictate a data-transfer protocol and make it a defacto standard. MSFT then gains the ability to charge on the basis of each transaction, or rent your data transmission method to you or to the device manufacturers.
Will it work? I dunno. I suppose anyone can install solar panels and resume their autonomy from the infrastructure. However, there's lots of good reasons to still be connected to the grid, even though it costs you more in the long run. Took a long time for this infrastructure to be implemented, though, and I'm not sure MSFT has the patience.
This is really all just speculation and conjecture--I would love to hear what others think of these assumptions. Am I right?
The discovery of that "mysterious force" is the first that I've heard of it--and it's freaking me out a little bit. If there is indeed some kind of force or effect that decelerates objects in what would otherwise be a non-decelerating state, that's going to screw up a LOT of calculations. So much for Newton's First.
Does anyone else with a better understanding of Einstein's physics have any conjecture what this is? I don't know what they've already corrected for to come up with the "error", but I wonder if this isn't something like the rate of expansion of the Universe, accounting for a relative speed decrease. Any better ideas?
From the article "Retail Therapy" the author writes: Solaris, because it's the most popular Unix OS. By most ways of counting, Mac OS X is now the "most popular Unix."
By 'most ways of counting' I mean number of machines that have it installed and actively used, or shipped with it installed--according to Jobs at his latest keynote, the former number is 2.5 million users. Apple actually shipped more Unix systems than that number even represents. Honestly, what are the numbers for people using Solaris?
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are all based around mp3s
If that means MP3s will be preferred over WMA, that's good enough for me.
Sounds like a space gig, based on the poster's previous post in the Australians to Build Spaceport on Christmas Island thread. Also, in this thread, the poster specifically uses the example of Australian Aerospace students.
While circumstantial, I would guess that this is a privately funded space shot. Why he needs this much storage is still an open question, but by non-serviceable I believe we can take him literally
Don't forget the BSD guys at Apple. Hubbard springs immediately to mind, but I think there are others, as well.
How you would find them I dunno, really--hang out in newsgroups? Post ads?
Although I haven't heard more than rumors, this sounds a lot like a PVR device that I would expect Apple to produce--down to the pricetag being 2.5x the competition ($400 for a TiVo vs. $1K for this.) Hm, lets' see: SuperDrive, FireWire. Figure that Apple throws in a better show finder than TiVo, and connects it to
That strategy usually works with Macs, too, btw. While smaller base of applications for a platform is usually a bad thing, when it comes to viruses and spyware it often works to my advantage.
I was actually reaching for my wallet. I have wanted something like this for a long time. The internet offers the promise of more choice than the still choice limited and time restricted movies available through cable TV pay-per-view--like that advertisement, "every movie, in every language, ever made, ever." Truly refreshing--even my local Blockbuster doesn't have that.
And I even have the latest Windows Media Player installed--so I'm good to go, right? But oh--no Mac support, irregardless that I got WMP from a legally purchased copy of Microsoft Office for OS X. I guess Windows media isn't Windows media, so I'm back to Netflix as my best option. Too bad. My wallet is back in my pocket, and another company loses me as a customer due to a short-sighted market penetration strategy.
I hate to be a grammar flame, but Jesus H. Christ, would you learn how to use a "period"? Periods go at the end of sentences. Ellipses (three dots) bridge thoughts. It's like the difference of stopping at a stop sign, and doing a "rolling stop"--sometimes you just need to end your idea.
Back on topic, no, I don't consider 12 installations in a year very many, not when XM's costs are what they are.
As much as I like my job at Apple, brother do I hate Vantive. It is contrary to everything that Apple stands for, seriously impedes my workflow rather than helps it, and is just plain hard to use, buggy, and slow. I hope I meet a Vantive programmer in a dark alley some day, I'll teach him something about undimissable pop-ups and how to connect to a printer API.
How someone was actually paid money to develop it is way beyond me--I envisage the conference room where the deployment demonstration took place while I'm waiting for my page to refresh.
I sure wish Apple gets a serious case of whatever Gateway caught that made them move from Vantive.
I almost hate to do this.
Except he's actually right. Although Macs as of 4 years ago don't have external ADB ports, the portables retain keyboards that are connected via an ADB pipe--just without connectors that will suit any other ADB device. Look closely (very closely) at some tech specs on even the latest Apple portables, and you will find that ADB keyboards are still used. Strange, I know. Write me back if you need proof--but you can trust me on this.
I found this aspect of the case interesting, and so performed a Google search for other articles. One of which spelled it out in more detail: the suspects were indeed arrested at the end of the fake job interview, before they returned home; the passwords and other information that they supplied during the course of the interview were later used to gather more evidence. Therefore, no extradition from foreign soil was required; therefore, no Russian court had to grant approval.
Side note: does the fact that these (successful) computer criminals were looking for salaried work mean that crime really doesn't pay?
This makes the lack of a KaZaa (FastTrack) client particularly interesting. How many more movies would be available if this client existed? Aren't the developers of KaZaa being a little short-sighted in their exclusion of Macs?
So, as a conservative, and as an application developer, I would like nothing better then to see MS get it's ass handed to it by Linux. And yes, an acceptable alternative would be to open up the Windows codebase, but we all know it will be a cold day in hell before that happens.
So, do you think that vot[ing] for George W. Bush 3 times now (2 times for Texas Governor, and once for President.) has helped or hurt you to reach the first goal?
While you don't need Mac OS X Server to do this, the same resources will apply. I would recommend the OS X Server mailing list, or the X Server Admin Guide. Both are good sources of info for doing just this kind of thing.
Also take a look at some non-Apple resources: AFP548.com is consistently the most current, and has a question and answer bulletin board; there's also StepWise, an oldie but goodie.
Hope that helps, and good luck.
Friends don't let friends use black text on a grey blackground. Sure it looks cool, but you have to read it, too. Reminds me of the spaceship from one the HitchHiker's books with black text on black labels on a black surface! Cool! Undriveable!
So she said to me: "I'm getting a diamond from you, one way or another."
I'm sure that posters after this one will highlight the solution presented. I just want to add this: when did our computers stop working for us, and change to us having to work for them?
And if that yahoo can't get the solutions to work, I hope he thinks about a Mac, or Linux, for each CD (of his own music! already encoded, even!) that he has to reload. If his time is worth something, that Mac looks cheaper every day...
Right! I'm a shill for porn companies! I don't actually like downloading the
Just as long as my wife doesn't catch me demonstrating...
On a related tangent, who did this first? I'm an Apple guy, so I'd like to think that Guy Kawasaki innovated the form, but maybe Apple just stole the concept from someplace?
You are probably working for SonyEricsson. Nice try.
My understanding of
I believe that the vision is that computing devices would mostly allow you to dip into that data stream, and lose almost all of the autonomy that they now possess--while historically useful, it means that I can't have my fridge interoperate with the grocery store and compare my cupboards with what's on special today, and then alert me with a pop-up ad while I'm watching TV. All of these devices would be manufactured independantly, but MSFT would provide the means and the infrastructure to connect their data streams.
If said data was regulated by an open protocol, you could probably achieve much the same kind of thing; however, MSFT is a demonstrated monopoly, and as such can dictate a data-transfer protocol and make it a defacto standard. MSFT then gains the ability to charge on the basis of each transaction, or rent your data transmission method to you or to the device manufacturers.
Will it work? I dunno. I suppose anyone can install solar panels and resume their autonomy from the infrastructure. However, there's lots of good reasons to still be connected to the grid, even though it costs you more in the long run. Took a long time for this infrastructure to be implemented, though, and I'm not sure MSFT has the patience.
This is really all just speculation and conjecture--I would love to hear what others think of these assumptions. Am I right?
The discovery of that "mysterious force" is the first that I've heard of it--and it's freaking me out a little bit. If there is indeed some kind of force or effect that decelerates objects in what would otherwise be a non-decelerating state, that's going to screw up a LOT of calculations. So much for Newton's First.
Does anyone else with a better understanding of Einstein's physics have any conjecture what this is? I don't know what they've already corrected for to come up with the "error", but I wonder if this isn't something like the rate of expansion of the Universe, accounting for a relative speed decrease. Any better ideas?
Okay, I just put an X through the bubble of a candidate. Will that count as a vote for them?
Perhaps the machine will see that and spit it out. Now, what if I fill in the bubble for Bush, but put a cross through the bubble for Gore?
This is just to show that it is very difficult to make this kind of system infalliable.
From the article "Retail Therapy" the author writes: Solaris, because it's the most popular Unix OS. By most ways of counting, Mac OS X is now the "most popular Unix."
By 'most ways of counting' I mean number of machines that have it installed and actively used, or shipped with it installed--according to Jobs at his latest keynote, the former number is 2.5 million users. Apple actually shipped more Unix systems than that number even represents. Honestly, what are the numbers for people using Solaris?
MPEG-2 available here as a separate install and charge. Why it's extra I dunno, but it is in fact available.
This is not a rumor; this is an announced, real, for-sale-today product. www.elgato.com.
This will work with a Mac, but is not an Apple product. Just to be clear.