I see you as a complete apologist for those who are happy to legislate our freedoms into oblivion. Perhaps when they take away something you treasure you might at least grunt coherently before rolling over anyway.
Let's see, what was that I read on a wall once?
"When they came for the gypsies, I did not speak, for I am not
a gypsy. When they came for the Jews, I did not speak, because I
wasn't a Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I did not speak, for I
am not a Catholic. And when they came for me, there was no one left to
speak." -On the Wall at the Holocaust Museum in Washington
spending $50M for underground and for sake of argument 0 for maintenance of the same period.
First you are working under the assumption that if you put anything in the ground, it is preserved perfectly forever. You will *never* put something in the ground and do 0 maintenance on it for even 5 years. Ask anyone who works in a NAP, or does fiber work how many times a month they have to do maintenance because of anything. Backhoes, trees, and vermin as stated in a previous post, have an odd way of breaking things that is left under dirt.
There is no market for power distribution. If you are dissatisfied by the reliability of your electrical grid, you cannot switch to a competitor's grid. The owners of the grid will charge you the cost of running the grid plus as much as they can get away with over that.
Grossly untrue. There is a Market for Power Distribution. Just because as a single home owning consumer you never see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Sure, in your area you may not be able to pick and choose who you get your electricity from, but rest assured that all the power you use does *not* come from who ever you get your bill from at the end of the month. The transmission grid is bird dogged and government subsidized, there is no "competitor's grid" as power doesn't flow like natural gas or water. In fact, we get a very large amount of our power (specifically Midwest Region) from Canada.
The most amazing thing about the electrical grid is that it works at all. And indeed most of the time it works well when compared to, say, Iraq. But although it works in routine cases, it does not work in even moderately exceptional cases, such as peak demand for air conditioning. And it certainly does not work to address problems like the California power crisis of several years ago.
It is only amazing that something that is watched over by the government is able to function as efficiently as the Electric Grid, other than that standards and policies and procedures out the rear are in place to ensure that the lights stay on. Also, as someone else already said to you, the situation in California was staged specifically to line the pockets of officers of a Public Utility.
Looking forward two to three decades, the electrical grid is probably the single most important piece of infrastucture to improve
The grid is being upgraded on a regular basis. It is known that the US is power hungry (in the electic sense here) and Utilities are working almost daily to get funding, and zoning, and laws to build more distribution sites. Bureaucracy is a slow, tedious process.
It's a personal opinion, of course. But I think Parallels Workstation is going to be a major plus. It is available for more than Mac too, by the way. Currently, I'm running VirtualPC 6 on a 1.25 Ghz G4 eMac. So maybe I'm not the best person to ask, I think I might be a little biased.
Perhaps, but the binary module is compiled by linking against the kernel headers, and it includes shim code which may (or may not) be derived from the kernel. This would mean that the compiled binary module (which he is distributing) could therefore be derived from the kernel, and thus would need to be distributed under the terms of the GPL.
According to information that the originator of Kororaa received from NVidia while investigating this matter, this is not true.
The NVIDIA kernel module consists of two pieces: a binary-only
portion and a kernel interface layer (aka the "shim"). The
binary-only portion is not Linux-specific (the same code is used
on Windows, Solaris, etc), and does not include any Linux kernel
header files when it is built. The shim is provided in source code
form with the driver package, and this is the piece that is compiled
for your version and configuration of the Linux kernel. The shim
is the only piece that references Linux kernel data structures or
macros, and only does so to the extent that is needed to provide
the functionality of a modern graphics driver. After the shim is
compiled, it is linked with the binary-only portion, to produce
the final NVIDIA kernel module.
NVidia states that the binary is the same binary they use in all Systems. Be they Linux, BSD, Windows, or Bob's Unknown Mini-OS. The "shim" is the glue code they write that is OS specific that makes calls into the binary.
The problem with being an Alternate OS user, regardless of preferred OS, is that Microsoft is still the 2 ton Gorilla in the professional sector. I have worked in companies as a UNIX Admin that expected me to do my entire set of job functions from an NT Workstation with Putty. I'm sorry, that just seems wrong to me. Their excuse? "We need to be able to have a singular desktop for the entire company that has the ability to roll out updates and security fixes from the Administrator."
The point is, if you are working for a company where computers are in daily use, chances are Windows is there. Many corporations use Exchange for their email / calendar / project planning systems. There is no easy way to access these stores on a Mac. Even Microsoft's own Entourage doesn't come ready equipped to talk to Exchange, and needs fixes, and even a third party adapter. So Outlook needs to be run. Virtual PC has been in use for a while for just this reason. Because, let's face it, VPC didn't ever really do games well. It was to gain access to certain corp apps that "your" boss tells you that you must use.
As a disclaimer, I must tell you that I am an Apple share holder. I have only Macs in my home. However, at work, I must use an XP machine. No ifs, no ands, and certainly no buts. Though my management would not listen to this plea, there are those that can now go to their boss and say "I need a new laptop, this laptop comes in high in all marks and respects, is competitively priced and I can pick one up today that will let me even check our web page / graphics / whatever for Mac users." That can be an important sale point to a manager that only has the stipulation of "It must run Windows to interoperate."
We, as average/. reading Joes, do not know the whole story. You can not say that he was fed up with working for Apple, because his voice isn't in the article. In this instance we are supposed to read "Steal" as Apple paying $100,000 to do a job and Samsung coming along and saying "Hey, we know you're happy over there, but see we have these buckets full of cash that are going to waste and all and...." then offering $900,000 to do the same job.
However, *neither* viewpoint is accurate as referenced in the article as it states that Paul Mercer was *not* working for Apple when he developed the software that ran the iPod. He owned and operated his *own* company called Pixo that was contracted to provide the software for the iPod. He did, however, work for Apple back in the System 7 days as a Programmer
He also is not working for Samsung. His new company, Iventor, Inc., has been contracted by Samsung to provide the software for their new Z5. It's a very small thing, grammatically, but an important one.
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I'm trying to assume that you are making a joke here. Yet, I'm not so sure that's how you mean this to be taken.
Free to Air or FTA Satellite TV has nothing to do with stealing content. The systems and broadcasters that want to protect their content have, using multiple encryption schemes. But there are birds up there that still have plenty of unscrambled content on them. It is *exactly* the same as putting an arial on your roof and receiving your local TV stations directly and telling your cable company to take a long walk.
This has nothing to do with trying to force / crack security ala DirecTV access cards to receive pay content for nothing. Please note the difference.
Oddly enough, and this is more of an anecdote than a post guess I'm in blogging mode, anyway. Oddly enough, I've felt ever since I was a child that I would live to see another U.S. revolution. I've looked into moving to Canada, and I *hate* snow, just because I have such an intense feeling. I do not want to be here when it happens.
Tune to... 97.3? What ever is between 97.1 and 98.3. It's either the all Christian all the time channel or they were playing the 700 Club. Either way, on the way to work tonight music surfing, the scan stopped there long enough for me to hear those asshats talking about it, so I stopped the scan to figure out what they were talking about. Apparently it's a senator from the south, Evansville area or something like that.
Reminds me of when 93.9 tried to become WGOD radio, All God, All the time. That worked so well they didn't even get all the letterhead finished before they changed to WSNG The Song.
Nah, they are still trying to outlaw porn too. They are just being more sneaky about it now. Like changing zoning laws so adult book stores can't be within 900 miles of a populated area.
They can still sell what ever porn they want. Just have to be in, oh say, Chicago to do it.
This law is about as stupid as the law requiring my pharmacist to write down my Driver's License number to sell me Day-Quil to verify that I am, in fact, not a drug crazed meth head trying to score some more dope but a law abiding citizen looking to get my sinus headache to go away.
So now all the meth heads are still making meth, with different and maybe even more volatile chemicals and the rest of us can't buy over the counter drugs over the counter anymore.
Next I won't be able to buy video games over the counter. They (being Big Brother) will track my every game purchase and decide that because I bought Fluffy Bunnies in Space and Grand Murder Chainsaw: Bob's Island that I must be in fact teaching myself how to kill rabbits with chainsaws and that I must be stopped.
The hilarious thing is I heard this on the radio on the way into work tonight and the media blitz is attempting to spin it like "those Godless Heathens at Wal Mart that have no Moral Base for what they do are selling your kids shotguns and tools to teach themselves to kill everyone in your family over the counter for $5."
Ok, so that wasn't the actual blurb, I paraphrased. But the gist is still there. "Won't someone think of the children?"
Oh, and I do by the way. Think of the children. When my daughters want to buy a shotgun and play with it in the house, I tell them no. I *gasp* watch them and interact with them in their daily lives!
I'm absolutely cheering to hear that it isn't just U.S. parents that no longer take any concern into the well being of their children. For a while I thought we had the "The Government should Watch My Kids for Me so I can Drink All I Want." wrapped up with a pretty blue bow.
Another thing people could do if a machine doesn't have a BIOS that is USB boot friendly is mirror the/boot structure on a 3" mini-cdr and keep that in the case with the drive. Set the Live CD up so that it seeks out the USB drive for/usr/home/etc partitions.
The $140 price tag is a little steep for me to have something I'd only use as a toy, though. With USB keys as cheap as they are right now, I'm not sure how well the market will accept this today.
Especially when you have people runnnig the lines that are as good as some of the guys in the telo world, they can really make the wiring look like a art in some places.
Mmmm.... wax wrap. Speaking of which, does anyone actually know where one can purchase that stuff?
Maybe Google just wants to be the next Apple. Get the content partially done. Start talking to publishers behind closed doors and release the bPod. The first eBook reader that works well enough to catch the general public attention.
iLibrary will let you read all your books on your computer, and will automatically sync with your bPod to download new stories.
Then, about a year after the introduction of iLibrary they will introduce NewsPodding. The ability to get news and journals directly to your bPod.
This makes me chuckle mostly because I saw Harvey Birdman last night. I don't know if it was a repeat or not, but the episode was basically one of those "Welcome to Company X" promotional training videos. "How to do your job" "Why we're here" "Company History" all that.
Every time they showed Sebben he had an ever larger pile of money until at the very end of it he was neck deep in cash with swimsuited women on pool floats.
And for those of you that think Geeks and Animation can not possibly be interrelated and have never seen Harvey Birdman, the joke behind the series is he's a lawyer willing to take on the case of the "little" `Toon.
I don't believe anything of this sort is strictly a "tax" based decision. Especially with the low volume of money the state would be reaping from the decision. I mean, where I am there are a lot of the "I Sold on eBay" places. But not that many.
I think many are overlooking the less obvious here. Stolen goods. I know here, at least, an Auctioneer and a Pawn Shop are required to be bonded, not for tax purposes, but to know who they are. A "reputable" Pawn Shop must even make inquires and file reports with local Police Departments when they get certain types of merchandise.
This looks more like the state wanting to be able to watch the movement of goods than wanting to earn tax revenue from a couple of hundred "auctioneers." Especially if part of the law requires items with serial numbers to be ran through the Police to verify they have not been reported stolen before they can be sold.
Why not? Besides the fact that you'll pass out, fall down, and start breathing again. The only thing really holding up Darwine is the emulation of the processor being tied to the API's. You have to get an x86 emu installed, tweaked, then install something that's not always entirely stable to begin with on top of something else not entirely stable.
The original post is asking how the move to Intel will affect CAD software. I say any CAD software that is written for a *NIX on x86 will appear very quickly on MacTel. WINE, being what it is, will probably be available for MacTel on day 2. They will no longer need to emulate the x86 hardware, it's already there.
In fact, I predict someone in the Open Source community will completely side step the issue anyway and develop a Mac-On-Linux (MOL) like system "hole." MOL allows Mac Linux users to continue to run Mac OS X within Linux by giving it control of the underlying hardware resources. Better than Virtual PC, and probably what the Virtual Server product Microsoft is talking about does. I also know there is something on Linux (that I've never used so don't remember) that allows something similar in running multiple Linux instances on a single hardware set.
What ever bad things the MacTel moves brings with it, the good is in the instant tripling of software that will be available. Whether it be through WINE, or WOM (Windows-On-Mac) (hey... WOMBAT... now what can the BAT stand for), or Virtual PC, or straight up multi-booting. MacTel is looking good.
If nothing else, I regularly SSH into a linux machine next to my current PPC Mac and push programs to it via the X11 protocols. This won't change no matter what the underlying hardware is, so worse case scenario is two machines. One Mac desktop and One Massive *NIX box. (I'm thinking rack mounted Solaris might be fun) and you're set. The great thing about networking is you don't need to run *everything* native. Let something else do the work and push the visual to you through ethernet.
Well, if that is where Apple is heading, then some one has beat them to it. Check out: Akimbo
I found that a week ago and researched it a little bit. Very odd concept. Very odd programs they have been able to lease for rebroadcast. Most aren't really 1st line shows. But the idea is you have a monthly (or if you get in on the ground floor a one time lifetime) "Free for All" package that gives you a certain set of Free content every month, then you have other packages ala cable and sat that you buy to get content from the signed networks.
"Think about it - email, the WWW, etc - once they were the sole province of geeks. The geeks built the next big things as well, but they didn't do it because they were bored and moved on, did they?"
Um... actually... Yes, they did. All of it, every bit of technology that has come down the pike, is because of a bored geek that was staring at his terminal thinking to him/herself "Isn't there a better way to do this?"
Email? Geek waiting for a Professor to login to the mainframe to drop him a "walled" statement thinking, "Darnit, isn't there a way to just leave it for him so it alerts him when he logs in so I don't have to sit here for the next six hours waiting for him to get into the office in Zimbabwe?"
WWW? "I need to share this static information with several people in Berlin, one in England, a Professor in Boston and a married couple in Sydney. How do I get them to see it in the format I need them to see it in?"
Flash? Java? Blogging? The internal combustion engine? The light bulb? The harpsichord? All the same. Somewhere, right now, there is a bored geek waiting for a response or a hit to a log or a notification from a server thinking "Isn't there a better way?"
"Perhaps people now understand the lock-in that Apple has achieved? I think they've done a great job of execution, and I can't fault Apple. But people using iPod with iTMS are locked in to Apple. They cannot leave."
I own an iPod, a 10 GB model to be precise. I currently have purchased 101 songs from iTMS yet I have 2148 songs on the iPod. Those other songs had to come from somewhere, didn't they? Good thing I own so many CD's.
Wait, are we talking about leaving to go to a different online reseller? Why would we want to, honestly? The others lease you music, iTMS sells you music. There is a distinct difference in that wording. I haven't bought anything from iTMS in about three months. How much has that cost me? Nothing. I didn't have to give Apple one penny to not buy anything from them. Had I been a Napster customer, I would have to have continued paying my monthly service charge to be allowed to use my music. Why? Because they lease it to me, when I cancel my Napster subscription the right to play my music disappears. Sure, sure, some of the music is pure MP3 and I'm allowed to keep it, but when I pay for something I want all of it. Not some of it.
"On a personal level, though, I can't imagine why anyone would buy from the apple store in the first place when you can pick up a used CD for $4-$6 per album. Not only are they cheaper, but they come with the right to play them on all the computers, stereo systems, and portable devices you're ever going to own....
But as an individual actor, it boggles my mind that an individual would choose an online vendor, especially one selling crippled products with outrageously restrictive licenses like apple"
This, Sir, is why human beings come in different shapes, sizes, colors, religions and creeds. If you can't imagine that there are people in the world with a different culture than you have, then you obviously haven't ever left the backwoods of Tennessee.
Allow me to make an attempt at broadening your horizons. On a personal level, I prefer to buy songs individually. Back when CD's were the new thing and I sported a Mullet and a Z28 I bought several hundred CD's. Some new, some used. I used them to make mix tapes. You see, there are very few albums I can listen to from start to finish. I typically like only a couple of songs, and don't like the others. Call me fickle if you must, but that's how I am.
Then MP3 came along, and tools to rip songs directly from CD to computer and CD burners to give me the ability to rearrange song libraries so instead of carrying 20-30 CD's in the car with me and switching CD's every other song which could be viewed as reckless and dangerous, I was able to boil those down to about 5 CD's that I could keep that would give me all the music I needed at one time and allow me to change discs only when one had ended.
Then the iPod was introduced and I haven't carried a CD with me since.
Then you go on to say that iTMS has an outrageously restrictive license. In what way exactly? What precisely does Fairplay do that doesn't allow you to listen to music you have purchased? I call CD's with their new attempts at copy protection that lock up a computer when placed in the drive outrageous. Fairplay in contrast allows you to burn an infinite amount of copies of the songs you have bought. That's the cute little sideways eight that says it will eat as many numbers as you throw at it.
You are only allowed to burn a Playlist a set number of times. Let's be honest with each other here, if you have to burn the exact same album structure 10 times, you either get mugged a lot or are doing something with the information that doesn't fit with Fair Use anyway. Even with a CD you buy at Best Buy, you can't legally burn 10 copies for all your friends anyway. That doesn't stop people, and the law has more to do than concern itself with you burning a copy for your best friend anyway, but that doesn't change what is written.
Oh... and if Fairplay really is too restrictive for you, guess what, that restriction does not follow to the disc you just burned. Stick the thing back in the computer and re-rip in whatever format you feel like. Then delete the file you bought and keep the identical MP3 if it bothers you so much. Let's not walk down the path that complains about losing a couple hundred Hz, in the grand scheme of things your ears probably won't notice the difference anyway.
To summarize, for me, iTMS is cheaper because I buy the one or two songs I want for $2.00 instead of even a used CD for $4.00. Look, just saved $2.00 let's buy another two songs from a different album. I can then legally burn those files to a CD and put them into any other computer, stereo system, or portable device I have and they will work without question. Again, legally. If I decide to trade my iPod in for a Rio... oops, sorry... Samsung MP3 player, then I can re-rip the files back to my computer as MP3 and listen to them without problem on my new player. While that may be a little more grey, legally, Fairplay will not stop me from doing it as it isn't on the CD-RW of AAC files I just burned anyway because they were all transcoded back to RAW format to be compatible with all those other devices you mentioned.
It's not that expensive. You just need to be on a secured base performing a legit job function (ie copier repair) have the Captain who is supposed to escort you off base just wave you on which causes you to see something you aren't supposed to at which point you are interrogated for 48 hours at the end of which you are granted Leve...... NO CARRIER.
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Let's see, what was that I read on a wall once?
First you are working under the assumption that if you put anything in the ground, it is preserved perfectly forever. You will *never* put something in the ground and do 0 maintenance on it for even 5 years. Ask anyone who works in a NAP, or does fiber work how many times a month they have to do maintenance because of anything. Backhoes, trees, and vermin as stated in a previous post, have an odd way of breaking things that is left under dirt.
Grossly untrue. There is a Market for Power Distribution. Just because as a single home owning consumer you never see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Sure, in your area you may not be able to pick and choose who you get your electricity from, but rest assured that all the power you use does *not* come from who ever you get your bill from at the end of the month. The transmission grid is bird dogged and government subsidized, there is no "competitor's grid" as power doesn't flow like natural gas or water. In fact, we get a very large amount of our power (specifically Midwest Region) from Canada.Just for research check out and dig through the following:
http://www.ferc.gov/ Federal Electricity Regulatory Commission
http://www.nerc.com/ North American Electric Reliability Council
http://www.pjm.com/ PJM Regional Transmission Organization
http://www.midwestiso.org/ Midwest Independant Transmission System Operator, Inc.
It is only amazing that something that is watched over by the government is able to function as efficiently as the Electric Grid, other than that standards and policies and procedures out the rear are in place to ensure that the lights stay on. Also, as someone else already said to you, the situation in California was staged specifically to line the pockets of officers of a Public Utility.
The grid is being upgraded on a regular basis. It is known that the US is power hungry (in the electic sense here) and Utilities are working almost daily to get funding, and zoning, and laws to build more distribution sites. Bureaucracy is a slow, tedious process.
It's a personal opinion, of course. But I think Parallels Workstation is going to be a major plus. It is available for more than Mac too, by the way. Currently, I'm running VirtualPC 6 on a 1.25 Ghz G4 eMac. So maybe I'm not the best person to ask, I think I might be a little biased.
According to information that the originator of Kororaa received from NVidia while investigating this matter, this is not true.
NVidia states that the binary is the same binary they use in all Systems. Be they Linux, BSD, Windows, or Bob's Unknown Mini-OS. The "shim" is the glue code they write that is OS specific that makes calls into the binary.
I don't know if this was a Nintendo done commercial, or a fan based one, but it's the Wii controller as a lightsaber handle
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=163649363The problem with being an Alternate OS user, regardless of preferred OS, is that Microsoft is still the 2 ton Gorilla in the professional sector. I have worked in companies as a UNIX Admin that expected me to do my entire set of job functions from an NT Workstation with Putty. I'm sorry, that just seems wrong to me. Their excuse? "We need to be able to have a singular desktop for the entire company that has the ability to roll out updates and security fixes from the Administrator."
The point is, if you are working for a company where computers are in daily use, chances are Windows is there. Many corporations use Exchange for their email / calendar / project planning systems. There is no easy way to access these stores on a Mac. Even Microsoft's own Entourage doesn't come ready equipped to talk to Exchange, and needs fixes, and even a third party adapter. So Outlook needs to be run. Virtual PC has been in use for a while for just this reason. Because, let's face it, VPC didn't ever really do games well. It was to gain access to certain corp apps that "your" boss tells you that you must use.
As a disclaimer, I must tell you that I am an Apple share holder. I have only Macs in my home. However, at work, I must use an XP machine. No ifs, no ands, and certainly no buts. Though my management would not listen to this plea, there are those that can now go to their boss and say "I need a new laptop, this laptop comes in high in all marks and respects, is competitively priced and I can pick one up today that will let me even check our web page / graphics / whatever for Mac users." That can be an important sale point to a manager that only has the stipulation of "It must run Windows to interoperate."
We, as average /. reading Joes, do not know the whole story. You can not say that he was fed up with working for Apple, because his voice isn't in the article. In this instance we are supposed to read "Steal" as Apple paying $100,000 to do a job and Samsung coming along and saying "Hey, we know you're happy over there, but see we have these buckets full of cash that are going to waste and all and ...." then offering $900,000 to do the same job.
However, *neither* viewpoint is accurate as referenced in the article as it states that Paul Mercer was *not* working for Apple when he developed the software that ran the iPod. He owned and operated his *own* company called Pixo that was contracted to provide the software for the iPod. He did, however, work for Apple back in the System 7 days as a Programmer
He also is not working for Samsung. His new company, Iventor, Inc., has been contracted by Samsung to provide the software for their new Z5. It's a very small thing, grammatically, but an important one.
I'm trying to assume that you are making a joke here. Yet, I'm not so sure that's how you mean this to be taken.
Free to Air or FTA Satellite TV has nothing to do with stealing content. The systems and broadcasters that want to protect their content have, using multiple encryption schemes. But there are birds up there that still have plenty of unscrambled content on them. It is *exactly* the same as putting an arial on your roof and receiving your local TV stations directly and telling your cable company to take a long walk.
This has nothing to do with trying to force / crack security ala DirecTV access cards to receive pay content for nothing. Please note the difference.
Dude! So make this a Stickie! Some1 make it a sticky!
Wait, damn. This is a blog, not a forum.
Oddly enough, and this is more of an anecdote than a post guess I'm in blogging mode, anyway. Oddly enough, I've felt ever since I was a child that I would live to see another U.S. revolution. I've looked into moving to Canada, and I *hate* snow, just because I have such an intense feeling. I do not want to be here when it happens.
But, I'm just a crazy Hoosier, so what do I know?
Tune to ... 97.3? What ever is between 97.1 and 98.3. It's either the all Christian all the time channel or they were playing the 700 Club. Either way, on the way to work tonight music surfing, the scan stopped there long enough for me to hear those asshats talking about it, so I stopped the scan to figure out what they were talking about. Apparently it's a senator from the south, Evansville area or something like that.
Reminds me of when 93.9 tried to become WGOD radio, All God, All the time. That worked so well they didn't even get all the letterhead finished before they changed to WSNG The Song.
Nah, they are still trying to outlaw porn too. They are just being more sneaky about it now. Like changing zoning laws so adult book stores can't be within 900 miles of a populated area.
They can still sell what ever porn they want. Just have to be in, oh say, Chicago to do it.
This law is about as stupid as the law requiring my pharmacist to write down my Driver's License number to sell me Day-Quil to verify that I am, in fact, not a drug crazed meth head trying to score some more dope but a law abiding citizen looking to get my sinus headache to go away.
So now all the meth heads are still making meth, with different and maybe even more volatile chemicals and the rest of us can't buy over the counter drugs over the counter anymore.
Next I won't be able to buy video games over the counter. They (being Big Brother) will track my every game purchase and decide that because I bought Fluffy Bunnies in Space and Grand Murder Chainsaw: Bob's Island that I must be in fact teaching myself how to kill rabbits with chainsaws and that I must be stopped.
The hilarious thing is I heard this on the radio on the way into work tonight and the media blitz is attempting to spin it like "those Godless Heathens at Wal Mart that have no Moral Base for what they do are selling your kids shotguns and tools to teach themselves to kill everyone in your family over the counter for $5."
Ok, so that wasn't the actual blurb, I paraphrased. But the gist is still there. "Won't someone think of the children?"
Oh, and I do by the way. Think of the children. When my daughters want to buy a shotgun and play with it in the house, I tell them no. I *gasp* watch them and interact with them in their daily lives!
I'm absolutely cheering to hear that it isn't just U.S. parents that no longer take any concern into the well being of their children. For a while I thought we had the "The Government should Watch My Kids for Me so I can Drink All I Want." wrapped up with a pretty blue bow.
Another thing people could do if a machine doesn't have a BIOS that is USB boot friendly is mirror the /boot structure on a 3" mini-cdr and keep that in the case with the drive. Set the Live CD up so that it seeks out the USB drive for /usr /home /etc partitions.
The $140 price tag is a little steep for me to have something I'd only use as a toy, though. With USB keys as cheap as they are right now, I'm not sure how well the market will accept this today.
Maybe Google just wants to be the next Apple. Get the content partially done. Start talking to publishers behind closed doors and release the bPod. The first eBook reader that works well enough to catch the general public attention.
iLibrary will let you read all your books on your computer, and will automatically sync with your bPod to download new stories.
Then, about a year after the introduction of iLibrary they will introduce NewsPodding. The ability to get news and journals directly to your bPod.
It's coming.
This makes me chuckle mostly because I saw Harvey Birdman last night. I don't know if it was a repeat or not, but the episode was basically one of those "Welcome to Company X" promotional training videos. "How to do your job" "Why we're here" "Company History" all that.
Every time they showed Sebben he had an ever larger pile of money until at the very end of it he was neck deep in cash with swimsuited women on pool floats.
And for those of you that think Geeks and Animation can not possibly be interrelated and have never seen Harvey Birdman, the joke behind the series is he's a lawyer willing to take on the case of the "little" `Toon.
I don't believe anything of this sort is strictly a "tax" based decision. Especially with the low volume of money the state would be reaping from the decision. I mean, where I am there are a lot of the "I Sold on eBay" places. But not that many.
I think many are overlooking the less obvious here. Stolen goods. I know here, at least, an Auctioneer and a Pawn Shop are required to be bonded, not for tax purposes, but to know who they are. A "reputable" Pawn Shop must even make inquires and file reports with local Police Departments when they get certain types of merchandise.
This looks more like the state wanting to be able to watch the movement of goods than wanting to earn tax revenue from a couple of hundred "auctioneers." Especially if part of the law requires items with serial numbers to be ran through the Police to verify they have not been reported stolen before they can be sold.
Why not? Besides the fact that you'll pass out, fall down, and start breathing again. The only thing really holding up Darwine is the emulation of the processor being tied to the API's. You have to get an x86 emu installed, tweaked, then install something that's not always entirely stable to begin with on top of something else not entirely stable.
The original post is asking how the move to Intel will affect CAD software. I say any CAD software that is written for a *NIX on x86 will appear very quickly on MacTel. WINE, being what it is, will probably be available for MacTel on day 2. They will no longer need to emulate the x86 hardware, it's already there.
In fact, I predict someone in the Open Source community will completely side step the issue anyway and develop a Mac-On-Linux (MOL) like system "hole." MOL allows Mac Linux users to continue to run Mac OS X within Linux by giving it control of the underlying hardware resources. Better than Virtual PC, and probably what the Virtual Server product Microsoft is talking about does. I also know there is something on Linux (that I've never used so don't remember) that allows something similar in running multiple Linux instances on a single hardware set.
What ever bad things the MacTel moves brings with it, the good is in the instant tripling of software that will be available. Whether it be through WINE, or WOM (Windows-On-Mac) (hey ... WOMBAT ... now what can the BAT stand for), or Virtual PC, or straight up multi-booting. MacTel is looking good.
If nothing else, I regularly SSH into a linux machine next to my current PPC Mac and push programs to it via the X11 protocols. This won't change no matter what the underlying hardware is, so worse case scenario is two machines. One Mac desktop and One Massive *NIX box. (I'm thinking rack mounted Solaris might be fun) and you're set. The great thing about networking is you don't need to run *everything* native. Let something else do the work and push the visual to you through ethernet.
But everyone here already knew that, right?
Well, if that is where Apple is heading, then some one has beat them to it. Check out: Akimbo
I found that a week ago and researched it a little bit. Very odd concept. Very odd programs they have been able to lease for rebroadcast. Most aren't really 1st line shows. But the idea is you have a monthly (or if you get in on the ground floor a one time lifetime) "Free for All" package that gives you a certain set of Free content every month, then you have other packages ala cable and sat that you buy to get content from the signed networks.
Apple could do it better though
Um ... actually ... Yes, they did. All of it, every bit of technology that has come down the pike, is because of a bored geek that was staring at his terminal thinking to him/herself "Isn't there a better way to do this?"
Email? Geek waiting for a Professor to login to the mainframe to drop him a "walled" statement thinking, "Darnit, isn't there a way to just leave it for him so it alerts him when he logs in so I don't have to sit here for the next six hours waiting for him to get into the office in Zimbabwe?"
WWW? "I need to share this static information with several people in Berlin, one in England, a Professor in Boston and a married couple in Sydney. How do I get them to see it in the format I need them to see it in?"
Flash? Java? Blogging? The internal combustion engine? The light bulb? The harpsichord? All the same. Somewhere, right now, there is a bored geek waiting for a response or a hit to a log or a notification from a server thinking "Isn't there a better way?"
The World was built on the back of geeks.
I own an iPod, a 10 GB model to be precise. I currently have purchased 101 songs from iTMS yet I have 2148 songs on the iPod. Those other songs had to come from somewhere, didn't they? Good thing I own so many CD's.
Wait, are we talking about leaving to go to a different online reseller? Why would we want to, honestly? The others lease you music, iTMS sells you music. There is a distinct difference in that wording. I haven't bought anything from iTMS in about three months. How much has that cost me? Nothing. I didn't have to give Apple one penny to not buy anything from them. Had I been a Napster customer, I would have to have continued paying my monthly service charge to be allowed to use my music. Why? Because they lease it to me, when I cancel my Napster subscription the right to play my music disappears. Sure, sure, some of the music is pure MP3 and I'm allowed to keep it, but when I pay for something I want all of it. Not some of it.
This, Sir, is why human beings come in different shapes, sizes, colors, religions and creeds. If you can't imagine that there are people in the world with a different culture than you have, then you obviously haven't ever left the backwoods of Tennessee.
Allow me to make an attempt at broadening your horizons. On a personal level, I prefer to buy songs individually. Back when CD's were the new thing and I sported a Mullet and a Z28 I bought several hundred CD's. Some new, some used. I used them to make mix tapes. You see, there are very few albums I can listen to from start to finish. I typically like only a couple of songs, and don't like the others. Call me fickle if you must, but that's how I am.
Then MP3 came along, and tools to rip songs directly from CD to computer and CD burners to give me the ability to rearrange song libraries so instead of carrying 20-30 CD's in the car with me and switching CD's every other song which could be viewed as reckless and dangerous, I was able to boil those down to about 5 CD's that I could keep that would give me all the music I needed at one time and allow me to change discs only when one had ended.
Then the iPod was introduced and I haven't carried a CD with me since.
Then you go on to say that iTMS has an outrageously restrictive license. In what way exactly? What precisely does Fairplay do that doesn't allow you to listen to music you have purchased? I call CD's with their new attempts at copy protection that lock up a computer when placed in the drive outrageous. Fairplay in contrast allows you to burn an infinite amount of copies of the songs you have bought. That's the cute little sideways eight that says it will eat as many numbers as you throw at it.
You are only allowed to burn a Playlist a set number of times. Let's be honest with each other here, if you have to burn the exact same album structure 10 times, you either get mugged a lot or are doing something with the information that doesn't fit with Fair Use anyway. Even with a CD you buy at Best Buy, you can't legally burn 10 copies for all your friends anyway. That doesn't stop people, and the law has more to do than concern itself with you burning a copy for your best friend anyway, but that doesn't change what is written.
Oh ... and if Fairplay really is too restrictive for you, guess what, that restriction does not follow to the disc you just burned. Stick the thing back in the computer and re-rip in whatever format you feel like. Then delete the file you bought and keep the identical MP3 if it bothers you so much. Let's not walk down the path that complains about losing a couple hundred Hz, in the grand scheme of things your ears probably won't notice the difference anyway.
To summarize, for me, iTMS is cheaper because I buy the one or two songs I want for $2.00 instead of even a used CD for $4.00. Look, just saved $2.00 let's buy another two songs from a different album. I can then legally burn those files to a CD and put them into any other computer, stereo system, or portable device I have and they will work without question. Again, legally. If I decide to trade my iPod in for a Rio ... oops, sorry ... Samsung MP3 player, then I can re-rip the files back to my computer as MP3 and listen to them without problem on my new player. While that may be a little more grey, legally, Fairplay will not stop me from doing it as it isn't on the CD-RW of AAC files I just burned anyway because they were all transcoded back to RAW format to be compatible with all those other devices you mentioned.
It's not that expensive. You just need to be on a secured base performing a legit job function (ie copier repair) have the Captain who is supposed to escort you off base just wave you on which causes you to see something you aren't supposed to at which point you are interrogated for 48 hours at the end of which you are granted Leve...... NO CARRIER.