And yet, at MacWorld NY, which took place July 18-21, they showed off, on the exhibition floor, Mac OS X doing NetBoot for client Macs, so no, this tech isn't on PCs behind curtains, and no, it isn't abandoned.
Hey, want to sell that Macintosh you aren't using?
I could always use another good machine around the house!
(x86 architecture need not apply, I have enough of those.)
Do you hate the platinum appearance theme, or do you hate MacOS 9? You can change the appearance of MacOS 9 to look like that of Aqua (yes, apple legal forced the themes to be pulled but I still have them.) And if it's the dock you like, you should check out A-Dock, which has the same functionality for OS 9.
If you hate Mac OS 9 and don't want to wait til september for X.1, sell me your Macintosh, no?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Palm developers have always had to recompile for new versions of the PalmOS, as well as for the different Palm devices:
apps that worked in 2.x broke for 3. Apps that worked in 3 were broken for 3.3 and 3.5. Apps that worked great were recoded for the higher quality grayscale screens, and then refused to work on earlier Palm IIIs.
Apps that worked great on the new 16 shade grayscale screens got recoded for color devices.
Everything got altered to work on Handsprings.
In other words,
making changes to existing application code is nothing new to Palm developers.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
They were not Adobe lawyers as I understand it; in Germany, it's accepted practice for law firms to notify random people of laws that they're breaking, and to charge them for that service. In other words, the money wouldn't have gone to Adobe, it would have gone to the lawyers, as billable hours.
Isn't this the equivalent of the poor squeegee guy who cleans your windshield at the stoplight and then demands you pay for a service you did not want?
I never thought I'd demean impoverished people by comparing them to lawyers.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Do you know if this sort of tracking is being implemented with pagers?
Old-style pagers, new-style two way pagers?
I'd think about getting a pager module for my handspring if I thought it would keep me from being tracked, or keep me tracked only at a cell-granular level rather than a specific level.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
You said:
Most any device or technology for law enforcement could (and probably will) be abused at some point - but it doesn't negate the benefit of the technology nor provide a substantial argument for abandoning it.
I say:
Weren't we the country that said we'd rather let criminals go free than let innocents be convicted? We SHOULD abandon technologies that have wide potential for abuse, regardless of the possible benefits.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
One, teaches application use.
"This is the keyboard, this is the mouse. This is how you start Word. This is how you save your document. This is how you print."
the Second, teaches programming.
"This is how you tell the turtle to move forward 20, right 90."
Free software is an acceptable solution to the second problem. It is not an acceptable solution to the first problem.
(Neither is Windows, but many students are made to suffer with it.)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Expectation of privacy is a funny amorphous thing-
I may not have an expectation of privacy in a public place, but I also don't expect that my actions or presence will be recorded in near-irrefutable evidence to be used against me at some later time. How long will these records be stored? What's to prevent a compilation tape from surfacing that's been edited creatively to show me in my worst light?
And knowing that video can be altered (see substitution of ads in ballparks and times square, in place of competitor's ads..) why is it that my video footage will not be admitted as credible evidence, but the government's will?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
You may or may not be any of the names you've asked people to avoid calling you, but one thing you are, in my opinion, is a revisionist historian.
America as a nation has always consisted on immigrants, be they from Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, and lands further out.
To suggest that America was not intended to be a multi-cultural empire like the British Empire is to ignore where the first citizens of the colonies immigrated from. New Amsterdam, the Pennsylvania Dutch, German farmers in the south, and later, the French fur traders all mean nothing to you? Or they're all "okay" because at least they're European?
It's interesting that you mention Israel- I know you mention it in the supposition that America will fall siege to a conflict similar to the one that nation suffers. More interesting is that many Israelis jokingly consider their nation to be the 51st state. Many Israelis were Germans, Britons, and Americans who emigrated to Israel. Many Americans who emigrate to Israel return home to America frequently. They don't bring conflict with them, they bring economic prosperity... and isn't that what the current bent of our government seems to be? Bowing to every corporate desire in the name of economic prosperity?
The reason why there's such internal strife in America can be boiled down and over-simplified.
Over-simplification says, "Immigrants, as late as the turn of the century, felt a need to belong to America, and not preserve and cherish the old ways with a staunch refusal to integrate the American way into their life. Yes, the traditions were kept and revered, but not at the expense of refusing to participate in the American way of life. Now, we have people worshipping at the altar of multi-culturalism, rejecting America."
the second thing is, "We have lost our innocence as a people. JFK was the first president to make an effort to stop the spread of arms and give the impression of making an effort for the civil rights movement. His death, MLK's death, Malcolm X's death, RFK's death, are all big question marks that have taken innocence and faith in the government, from the people. With no faith, there is no trust. With no trust, there is no respect for authority. With no respect for authority, there is no way for authority to lead other than by force. Use of force proves the conclusions that lead to the loss of faith."
Thanks for citing the source you used for the FBI statistics. However, those who have lost all faith in the government would say that those statistics are as hokey as the institution that published them, the same institution that killed Randy Weaver's family and the branch dividians. Whatever their crimes were, I don't believe they needed killin'.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
with the coming t13 / CPRM standards, I refuse to buy new harddrives. I simply do not want anyone placing copy controls in the firmware of my hard disk.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Every floppy drive that I've ever seen (and I've taken apart about twenty from different years and manufacturers) have microswitches in them that close when the disk is inserted. In fact, there are two, at the left and right sides of the disk, at the opening insertion slot of the drive.
When the diskette goes in, the diskette drops down a little, closing the switches. DOS, Windows, Linux, and others FAIL to take advantange of the fact that the switches are there, but the drives are capable of generating the event.
Why do I know this? recycling floppy drives from 386's- I found several drives with dirty microswitches, and a inserted floppy would give me "drive not ready" or "Please insert a disk and press any key when ready" errors in DOS, something I hadn't seen since the 5.25" days, when I'd leave a drive door open.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
I am no ms supporter, but I suspect that they will go 64-bit only to say that they've done it. I also expect it to be a muddled pile of uselessness when they do.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
They did the same thing with USB 2.0, changing their minds...
But you have it wrong about 64bit-
At the Office XP launch, here in Raleigh, I heard the talking head (Shawn) specifically say that they were developing for 64-bit.
If Office is 64-bit, then the OS will be 64-bit, because you know for *damn* sure that there won't be Office running on anything other than Windows or MacOS X.
I heard it straight from the mouthpiece of the beast.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Functionally, this doesn't have *THAT* great an impact. Data cds are still kosher, but music cds will be affected.
Great, I'll make my x86 music discs with cdrecord (thanks, Jorg!) and my PPC music discs with iTunes and the MacOS cdburner. (thanks Jobs!)
We know that Jobs isn't interested in this kind of strong-arming to get consumers to get in step- they advertised it with the Rip.Mix.Burn. campaign, and that combined with iTunes and the new iBook, the user is meant to insert a cd, have iTunes rip it to mp3, and burn to cd-r/rw.
So I can still do the things I need to do in iTunes and cdrecord. I can use roxio for data cds if I must.
At least Apple is still catering to some of the customers' concerns.
And hey, reason enough for me to support Apple? They voted AGAINST all CPRM proposals.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
The above statement is in error:
Macs run WinNT 4 for PPC and OS/2 Warp for PPC as well as DebianPPC, SuSE PPC, YellowDog, LinuxPPC 2000. Soon Mandrake will join the list.
Not that you'd want to when Mac OS X is so sleek.
(okay, Linux has it's place on the Mac, but X is so sweet!)
The PPC is a great architecture, powering the RS/6000 AIX machines for years. No sense in knocking the Mac when using standard non optimized code. Now, perhaps this would have been a fair run if Amiga OS had been tried all the way 'round... but all Jay showed is that his current setup suits him fine.
Yes, Jay can say that if gcc is prepared by Apple for the g4 that he'll only use it when Apple sends it to the FSF... he's letting his gnu philosophy get in the way of fair minded benchmarks. Apple complied with anything the FSF would have wanted by posting the source to their take on gcc. If he's hung up on licensing issues, that's his right, but that's no excuse for publishing benchmarks as even-handed.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
I'd like to agree that a subpoena/court order would be required, but I remain unconvinced that what you say is correct: a police officer was quoted in yesterday's local paper (Raleigh NC News and Observer) as indicating that it's the police' responsiblity to determine what is reasonable and what is not, and whether a technology is something that is legal for use as an investigative tool, up until a court ruling declares that it is. (He was speaking about thermal imaging.) The officer went on to say "I certainly hope that the Supereme Court rules that use of thermal imaging devices is not a search under the Fourth Amendment." If thermal imaging is okay because it's the heat that escapes the home that they're searching, not in the home, then it's an easy leap to getting anything off the airwaves they please.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Go to the fcc site and read up on their e911 plan- it says they're going to use the GPS information to track you to send the EMT's out when you make a 911 call.
Reality says, they're going to use it to track you whenever you have your cellphone on. No more need for that tedious police work, eh?
Big Brother won't need to watch, he'll know where you are by your cell phone.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
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And yet, at MacWorld NY, which took place July 18-21, they showed off, on the exhibition floor, Mac OS X doing NetBoot for client Macs, so no, this tech isn't on PCs behind curtains, and no, it isn't abandoned.
You must be a FUDboy.
Yes,
but your monitor isn't shielded and the screen can be read outside your building at staggeringly large distances.
If you do attempt something like this, shield your monitor, or shield your room.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
At 27, what have you done to warrant a red flag in your FBI file? Did you use the FOIA to find out about your red flag?
I'm in Raleigh, what part of NC are you in?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Hey, want to sell that Macintosh you aren't using?
I could always use another good machine around the house!
(x86 architecture need not apply, I have enough of those.)
Do you hate the platinum appearance theme, or do you hate MacOS 9? You can change the appearance of MacOS 9 to look like that of Aqua (yes, apple legal forced the themes to be pulled but I still have them.) And if it's the dock you like, you should check out A-Dock, which has the same functionality for OS 9.
If you hate Mac OS 9 and don't want to wait til september for X.1, sell me your Macintosh, no?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Aye, but if you'd bought the m505, you'd be cursed with having to run with the backlight on fulltime to see the screen at all.
You'd also have SecureDigital cards, and who wants cards with crappy content protection built in?
go get yerself a prism, or stick with the IIIc.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Palm developers have always had to recompile for new versions of the PalmOS, as well as for the different Palm devices:
apps that worked in 2.x broke for 3. Apps that worked in 3 were broken for 3.3 and 3.5. Apps that worked great were recoded for the higher quality grayscale screens, and then refused to work on earlier Palm IIIs.
Apps that worked great on the new 16 shade grayscale screens got recoded for color devices.
Everything got altered to work on Handsprings.
In other words,
making changes to existing application code is nothing new to Palm developers.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Isn't this the equivalent of the poor squeegee guy who cleans your windshield at the stoplight and then demands you pay for a service you did not want?
I never thought I'd demean impoverished people by comparing them to lawyers.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Do you know if this sort of tracking is being implemented with pagers?
Old-style pagers, new-style two way pagers?
I'd think about getting a pager module for my handspring if I thought it would keep me from being tracked, or keep me tracked only at a cell-granular level rather than a specific level.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
The difference is this:
When I'm in a cell, I'm within a broad area. If they want me, they have to triangulate to get me.
If I have a cell phone with e911 imposed on it, the GPS will pinpoint my location much more accurately.
I'm already considering abandoning the phone. I wish those inkjet-printed paper phones would hurry up and get here.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
You said:
Most any device or technology for law enforcement could (and probably will) be abused at some point - but it doesn't negate the benefit of the technology nor provide a substantial argument for abandoning it.
I say:
Weren't we the country that said we'd rather let criminals go free than let innocents be convicted? We SHOULD abandon technologies that have wide potential for abuse, regardless of the possible benefits.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
I meant to add this URL also.
e s/ 1999/nrwl9040.html
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Wireless/News_Releas
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
They'll be tracking us full-time anyway,
e s/ 1999/nrwl9046.html
thanks to FCC e911.
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Wireless/News_Releas
I'll keep using my pcs phone without e911 capability, until it breaks. When it breaks, screw communicating, I'd rather not be tracked.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Schools teach two types of computer courses.
One, teaches application use.
"This is the keyboard, this is the mouse. This is how you start Word. This is how you save your document. This is how you print."
the Second, teaches programming.
"This is how you tell the turtle to move forward 20, right 90."
Free software is an acceptable solution to the second problem. It is not an acceptable solution to the first problem.
(Neither is Windows, but many students are made to suffer with it.)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Did you break NDA by telling use the size of the OS and about certain constraints and no DX components? or is that publicly available...
Waiting until MS comes and asks CmdrTaco to remove the post...
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Adobe also made a version of Framemaker for Linux, which I still have on my hardfile.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Expectation of privacy is a funny amorphous thing-
I may not have an expectation of privacy in a public place, but I also don't expect that my actions or presence will be recorded in near-irrefutable evidence to be used against me at some later time. How long will these records be stored? What's to prevent a compilation tape from surfacing that's been edited creatively to show me in my worst light?
And knowing that video can be altered (see substitution of ads in ballparks and times square, in place of competitor's ads..) why is it that my video footage will not be admitted as credible evidence, but the government's will?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
You may or may not be any of the names you've asked people to avoid calling you, but one thing you are, in my opinion, is a revisionist historian.
America as a nation has always consisted on immigrants, be they from Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, and lands further out.
To suggest that America was not intended to be a multi-cultural empire like the British Empire is to ignore where the first citizens of the colonies immigrated from. New Amsterdam, the Pennsylvania Dutch, German farmers in the south, and later, the French fur traders all mean nothing to you? Or they're all "okay" because at least they're European?
It's interesting that you mention Israel- I know you mention it in the supposition that America will fall siege to a conflict similar to the one that nation suffers. More interesting is that many Israelis jokingly consider their nation to be the 51st state. Many Israelis were Germans, Britons, and Americans who emigrated to Israel. Many Americans who emigrate to Israel return home to America frequently. They don't bring conflict with them, they bring economic prosperity... and isn't that what the current bent of our government seems to be? Bowing to every corporate desire in the name of economic prosperity?
The reason why there's such internal strife in America can be boiled down and over-simplified.
Over-simplification says, "Immigrants, as late as the turn of the century, felt a need to belong to America, and not preserve and cherish the old ways with a staunch refusal to integrate the American way into their life. Yes, the traditions were kept and revered, but not at the expense of refusing to participate in the American way of life. Now, we have people worshipping at the altar of multi-culturalism, rejecting America."
the second thing is, "We have lost our innocence as a people. JFK was the first president to make an effort to stop the spread of arms and give the impression of making an effort for the civil rights movement. His death, MLK's death, Malcolm X's death, RFK's death, are all big question marks that have taken innocence and faith in the government, from the people. With no faith, there is no trust. With no trust, there is no respect for authority. With no respect for authority, there is no way for authority to lead other than by force. Use of force proves the conclusions that lead to the loss of faith."
Thanks for citing the source you used for the FBI statistics. However, those who have lost all faith in the government would say that those statistics are as hokey as the institution that published them, the same institution that killed Randy Weaver's family and the branch dividians. Whatever their crimes were, I don't believe they needed killin'.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
What about CPRM?
with the coming t13 / CPRM standards, I refuse to buy new harddrives. I simply do not want anyone placing copy controls in the firmware of my hard disk.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
The PC floppy drives CAN generate events.
Every floppy drive that I've ever seen (and I've taken apart about twenty from different years and manufacturers) have microswitches in them that close when the disk is inserted. In fact, there are two, at the left and right sides of the disk, at the opening insertion slot of the drive.
When the diskette goes in, the diskette drops down a little, closing the switches. DOS, Windows, Linux, and others FAIL to take advantange of the fact that the switches are there, but the drives are capable of generating the event.
Why do I know this? recycling floppy drives from 386's- I found several drives with dirty microswitches, and a inserted floppy would give me "drive not ready" or "Please insert a disk and press any key when ready" errors in DOS, something I hadn't seen since the 5.25" days, when I'd leave a drive door open.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
I am no ms supporter, but I suspect that they will go 64-bit only to say that they've done it. I also expect it to be a muddled pile of uselessness when they do.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
They did the same thing with USB 2.0, changing their minds...
But you have it wrong about 64bit-
At the Office XP launch, here in Raleigh, I heard the talking head (Shawn) specifically say that they were developing for 64-bit.
If Office is 64-bit, then the OS will be 64-bit, because you know for *damn* sure that there won't be Office running on anything other than Windows or MacOS X.
I heard it straight from the mouthpiece of the beast.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Well, let's see.
Functionally, this doesn't have *THAT* great an impact. Data cds are still kosher, but music cds will be affected.
Great, I'll make my x86 music discs with cdrecord (thanks, Jorg!) and my PPC music discs with iTunes and the MacOS cdburner. (thanks Jobs!)
We know that Jobs isn't interested in this kind of strong-arming to get consumers to get in step- they advertised it with the Rip.Mix.Burn. campaign, and that combined with iTunes and the new iBook, the user is meant to insert a cd, have iTunes rip it to mp3, and burn to cd-r/rw.
So I can still do the things I need to do in iTunes and cdrecord. I can use roxio for data cds if I must.
At least Apple is still catering to some of the customers' concerns.
And hey, reason enough for me to support Apple? They voted AGAINST all CPRM proposals.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
The above statement is in error:
Macs run WinNT 4 for PPC and OS/2 Warp for PPC as well as DebianPPC, SuSE PPC, YellowDog, LinuxPPC 2000. Soon Mandrake will join the list.
Not that you'd want to when Mac OS X is so sleek.
(okay, Linux has it's place on the Mac, but X is so sweet!)
The PPC is a great architecture, powering the RS/6000 AIX machines for years. No sense in knocking the Mac when using standard non optimized code. Now, perhaps this would have been a fair run if Amiga OS had been tried all the way 'round... but all Jay showed is that his current setup suits him fine.
Yes, Jay can say that if gcc is prepared by Apple for the g4 that he'll only use it when Apple sends it to the FSF... he's letting his gnu philosophy get in the way of fair minded benchmarks. Apple complied with anything the FSF would have wanted by posting the source to their take on gcc. If he's hung up on licensing issues, that's his right, but that's no excuse for publishing benchmarks as even-handed.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
I'd like to agree that a subpoena/court order would be required, but I remain unconvinced that what you say is correct: a police officer was quoted in yesterday's local paper (Raleigh NC News and Observer) as indicating that it's the police' responsiblity to determine what is reasonable and what is not, and whether a technology is something that is legal for use as an investigative tool, up until a court ruling declares that it is. (He was speaking about thermal imaging.) The officer went on to say "I certainly hope that the Supereme Court rules that use of thermal imaging devices is not a search under the Fourth Amendment." If thermal imaging is okay because it's the heat that escapes the home that they're searching, not in the home, then it's an easy leap to getting anything off the airwaves they please.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
3G phones with built in GPS-
Go to the fcc site and read up on their e911 plan- it says they're going to use the GPS information to track you to send the EMT's out when you make a 911 call.
Reality says, they're going to use it to track you whenever you have your cellphone on. No more need for that tedious police work, eh?
Big Brother won't need to watch, he'll know where you are by your cell phone.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close