Why? Simple reason: to successfully reverse engineer something, you need to hire a 'virgin' software developer who has not seen the code of FairPlay. DVD Jon has cracked FairPlay several times in the past and he has seen the code of FairPlay.
Actually, the FM radio band is abslutely the worst choice for an emergency broadcast. The range of FM is short and the radio waves don't bounce off the ionosphere. If there's some kind of a catastrophic event, there's a very good chance that local FM transmitter will be affected by it as well. SW and AM are much better since their waves bounce off the ionosphere and are long range.
Also, relying on Zune for emergency signal is silly (and I'm being nice) since it has a short battery life and no AM/SW bands. Also, what will you listen to after 5hrs have passed?!
If you want an emergency radio, get one with three bands and get one that has a hand crank.
These cooling systems use the same principle as ionic air purifiers. Consumer Reports did several studies and they have issued several warnings about dangerous ozone levels that these machines might create. This is the reason why I ditched my Ionic Breeze air "purifier".
The magazine also said that people with asthma or respiratory allergies are especially sensitive to indoor ozone, an irritant that can worsen asthma, deaden sense of smell, raise sensitivity to pollen and mold, and may cause permanent lung damage.
Since when? Well... since 1998, I think. Here's more:
The patentable assets of the e-commerce business may also include the "business model" of the e-commerce enterprise -- that is, the systems and methods constituting the unique operational structure of the business. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently has sanctioned such business model patenting (State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., 149 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. 1998) and AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications, Inc., 172 F.3d 1352 (Fed. Cir. 1999)). As a consequence, business system/business method patents are now being filed and issued in large numbers.
--Steven J. Hultquist, "Maximizing the Value of Proprietary Rights in E-Commerce," IPTL Notes, Winter 1999
And then this:
Juno patented an offline ad-delivery process, and Netcentives did the same with its ClickRewards scheme. Cybergold, Priceline, and Open Market have also rushed to patent biz models. Business-model patenting appears to be the lastest, greatest way to gain cred.
--Jess Freund, "Hype List," Wired, February 1999
I've had 5 different HDD enclosures and from my experience Oxford 911 is the only chipset that works with FW devices. I have a Mac as well and FW is the way to go. It's much faster than USB2. Stay away from USB2.
Also, whatever you buy, make sure it is not based on PROLIFIC chipset! It's an absolute crap and I've lost 2 different hard drives because of it. Prolific claims FW support when in fact its support is shoddy at best. You'll lose your data and, eventually, you'll lose your drive. If the chipset is not listed, it probably is a Prolific chipset. Seek enclosures that have Oxford911 in the name... just to make sure.
You're just repeating unsubstantiated rumors. Please, provide us with some evidence that Apple will fully implement TC.
Also, I don't know anyone who runs anything but OS X on their Macs and Apple's Schiller has stated many times that you'll be able to run Windows XP on your machine (but they won't support it) so I don't see how TC makes any difference to me. I don't care about Linux (that's why I run OS X).
Simple and effective. Just go to a pharmacy and pick up a pair. I have a few pairs of them and I prefer those that have plastic "string" embedded in them so you don't lose them. Much cheaper than those noise canceling earphones which don't work very well and are not heavy. Soft foam earplugs are extremely comfortable (to me anyway).
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We told Nader to take a hike at the Green Party convention.
You told him to take a hike because he was too god at what he does.
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Democratic slant that is. Take this latest one as an example:
"Could it be that in this way Nader is beholden to corporate interests? For shame, Ralph"
What proof o they have for this?! It's just a smear campaign by the Democrats. Just look at what Dems have been doing to Nader... all those frivolous lawsuits, constant misinformation's... Dems should be ashamed.
As for compatibility, Word 2004 has a nice feature called "Compatibility Report" which analyzes a file before saving it and warns you which versions of Word might have problems.
My general advice for forms is to implement an XML based form server. I know that Adobe is pushing their PDF forms server but that's really an overkill. If you have money to burn, Microsoft's InfoPath is a good choice as well.
in China are like a mouse who thinks can get the cheese from a trap. Chinese will always keep a step ahead and keep on asking for various "features". Just take a look what they're doing to CPUs (Intel won't be able to sell soon) and Wi-Fi chips.
Search engines will be the same. Chinese will demand that they be able to censor anything they want. They'll be asking for backdoors and ways to track who accesses what.
Just when you think you've jumped through the last hoop, there will be another one waiting for you.
I have been using Safari and Mozilla in the past simply because Firebird 0.7 (MacOSX) could not save webpages... at all! I normally use Safari for browsing but when I want to save a webpage, I switch over to Mozilla because Safari does not save any image, css, etc files when saving a webpage (only html).
Firebird is a nice and very fast browser. I'd consider using it as my primary browser if they manage to fix a few really major bugs. I'm hoping that the save has been fixed in 0.7.1!
The scenario outlined in the referenced article is exactly what MS will do. MS will tolerate Mono as long as.Net is second to Java. MS LOVES Mono! It gives enterprise developers a false sense of cross platform runtime. As soon as.Net overtakes J2EE (and they will unless Sun wakes up and redefines their strategy) as the most popular enterprise platform, MS will take out Mono. At that point, there will be tons of enterprises who have lots and lots of C# code that needs a runtime. After Mono becomes liability due to patent infringement, MS will start offering Linux-to-Windows upgrade paths. People will have a choice of either upgrading to Windows or scrapping their.Net projects. What do you think they'll do?!
Mono is truly a bad idea. It is a trojan horse for the Linux community and sadly, one of the pillars of Linux community, is an "unsuspecting" accomplice. Well, not that unsuspecting anymore looking at that last quoted paragraph in the article.
If you think this SCO "code" has thrown a monkey-wrench into Linux community, just wait when MS decides that Mono's time is up and it's time to reel those Mono-dependent companies in.
Linux developers, and app developers using Mono should cease any Mono development and should demand from MS to state their position on this project. If MS remains silent, just flat out refuses to comment or just issues a set of contrived statements, abandon Mono and concentrate on Java (or something else) instead.
I refuse to develop using mono since this code might end up orphaned, without any runtime. I just can't justify developing for a platform that might not exist 2 years down the road.
... and for being a capitalist. Dr. Damadian is a firm believer in creationism and has been heading a successful company that has profited from MRI. That company has also sued a lot of companies which have tried to enter the MRI space. All of these things probably had some influence on the selection process.
Personally, I think Nobel Committee has set a pretty dangerous precedent that pretty much punishes researches who have views which deviate from majority's point of view.
Would Nobel Committee award a Nobel prize to a researcher who finds a cure for cancer or AIDS and who is also a holocaust denier or a neo-nazi? NOTE: I'm not putting creationists in the same category... I'm just using an extreme example.
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That's why they still left iPod Classic to fill the need of people like yourself.
I discovered this by an accident... when you scroll to the end of the page, hit space bar and the next page of results will automatically open. Cool!
Why? Simple reason: to successfully reverse engineer something, you need to hire a 'virgin' software developer who has not seen the code of FairPlay. DVD Jon has cracked FairPlay several times in the past and he has seen the code of FairPlay.
Nice work though...
Actually, the FM radio band is abslutely the worst choice for an emergency broadcast. The range of FM is short and the radio waves don't bounce off the ionosphere. If there's some kind of a catastrophic event, there's a very good chance that local FM transmitter will be affected by it as well. SW and AM are much better since their waves bounce off the ionosphere and are long range.
Also, relying on Zune for emergency signal is silly (and I'm being nice) since it has a short battery life and no AM/SW bands. Also, what will you listen to after 5hrs have passed?!
If you want an emergency radio, get one with three bands and get one that has a hand crank.
Read more here: Danger: Ionizing air purifiers impure
Exactly. That's why I use NoScript... and everyone else should too! Get it and you'll eliminate all kinds of attacks.
Maybe they could go as far as trying to create the real "Philadelphia Experiment".
If I pay for a movie/show, I don't want to give my bandwidth for free. They should pay me for giving my bandwidth to them!
Nice try, NBC!
Also, don't forget Ashlar-Vellum's Cobalt... they designed SpaceShipOne using it.
There are also many other, smaller & more affordable Mac CAD programs out there (do a Google or Versiontracker search for a complete list).
I've had 5 different HDD enclosures and from my experience Oxford 911 is the only chipset that works with FW devices. I have a Mac as well and FW is the way to go. It's much faster than USB2. Stay away from USB2.
Also, whatever you buy, make sure it is not based on PROLIFIC chipset! It's an absolute crap and I've lost 2 different hard drives because of it. Prolific claims FW support when in fact its support is shoddy at best. You'll lose your data and, eventually, you'll lose your drive. If the chipset is not listed, it probably is a Prolific chipset. Seek enclosures that have Oxford911 in the name... just to make sure.
Good luck!
Check out what Revision3 guys did with their box: http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/ You can download the whole episode off their site.
While you're there, they also have an episode on how to make your own HQ A/V cables: http://revision3.com/systm/avcabling/
Enjoy!
You're just repeating unsubstantiated rumors. Please, provide us with some evidence that Apple will fully implement TC.
Also, I don't know anyone who runs anything but OS X on their Macs and Apple's Schiller has stated many times that you'll be able to run Windows XP on your machine (but they won't support it) so I don't see how TC makes any difference to me. I don't care about Linux (that's why I run OS X).
I use a Mac so Preview rules my world!
FWIW, Macs now come with iMovie HD which has HD capabilities. You could also get Final Cut Pro or SE version too.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Simple and effective. Just go to a pharmacy and pick up a pair. I have a few pairs of them and I prefer those that have plastic "string" embedded in them so you don't lose them. Much cheaper than those noise canceling earphones which don't work very well and are not heavy. Soft foam earplugs are extremely comfortable (to me anyway).
We told Nader to take a hike at the Green Party convention.
You told him to take a hike because he was too god at what he does.
Democratic slant that is. Take this latest one as an example:
"Could it be that in this way Nader is beholden to corporate interests? For shame, Ralph"
What proof o they have for this?! It's just a smear campaign by the Democrats. Just look at what Dems have been doing to Nader... all those frivolous lawsuits, constant misinformation's... Dems should be ashamed.
Two lawsuits try to keep Nader off ballot And this is just in one state, Florida! They've been using the same dirty tactics in other states as well.
Don't vote for the "better" of two evils, vote Nader in 2004! Evil is still evil and there's very little difference between the two major parties.
http://www.votenader.org/
... and they open just fine.
As for compatibility, Word 2004 has a nice feature called "Compatibility Report" which analyzes a file before saving it and warns you which versions of Word might have problems.
My general advice for forms is to implement an XML based form server. I know that Adobe is pushing their PDF forms server but that's really an overkill. If you have money to burn, Microsoft's InfoPath is a good choice as well.
in China are like a mouse who thinks can get the cheese from a trap. Chinese will always keep a step ahead and keep on asking for various "features". Just take a look what they're doing to CPUs (Intel won't be able to sell soon) and Wi-Fi chips.
Search engines will be the same. Chinese will demand that they be able to censor anything they want. They'll be asking for backdoors and ways to track who accesses what.
Just when you think you've jumped through the last hoop, there will be another one waiting for you.
That's why smart researchers get a Mac.
I have been using Safari and Mozilla in the past simply because Firebird 0.7 (MacOSX) could not save webpages... at all! I normally use Safari for browsing but when I want to save a webpage, I switch over to Mozilla because Safari does not save any image, css, etc files when saving a webpage (only html).
Firebird is a nice and very fast browser. I'd consider using it as my primary browser if they manage to fix a few really major bugs. I'm hoping that the save has been fixed in 0.7.1!
Heh, also, the difference between Mono and WINE is that .Net is laden with various patents: Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent
The scenario outlined in the referenced article is exactly what MS will do. MS will tolerate Mono as long as .Net is second to Java. MS LOVES Mono! It gives enterprise developers a false sense of cross platform runtime. As soon as .Net overtakes J2EE (and they will unless Sun wakes up and redefines their strategy) as the most popular enterprise platform, MS will take out Mono. At that point, there will be tons of enterprises who have lots and lots of C# code that needs a runtime. After Mono becomes liability due to patent infringement, MS will start offering Linux-to-Windows upgrade paths. People will have a choice of either upgrading to Windows or scrapping their .Net projects. What do you think they'll do?!
Mono is truly a bad idea. It is a trojan horse for the Linux community and sadly, one of the pillars of Linux community, is an "unsuspecting" accomplice. Well, not that unsuspecting anymore looking at that last quoted paragraph in the article.
If you think this SCO "code" has thrown a monkey-wrench into Linux community, just wait when MS decides that Mono's time is up and it's time to reel those Mono-dependent companies in.
Linux developers, and app developers using Mono should cease any Mono development and should demand from MS to state their position on this project. If MS remains silent, just flat out refuses to comment or just issues a set of contrived statements, abandon Mono and concentrate on Java (or something else) instead.
I refuse to develop using mono since this code might end up orphaned, without any runtime. I just can't justify developing for a platform that might not exist 2 years down the road.
Personally, I think Nobel Committee has set a pretty dangerous precedent that pretty much punishes researches who have views which deviate from majority's point of view.
Would Nobel Committee award a Nobel prize to a researcher who finds a cure for cancer or AIDS and who is also a holocaust denier or a neo-nazi? NOTE: I'm not putting creationists in the same category... I'm just using an extreme example.
More here: Did Nobel Committee Ignore MRI Creator Because of Creationism?