Legality is a hard way to approach this problem. Wasn't there someone who declared banner- and popup-blocking routines illegal because they modified content a (à) la DMCA (or some other such nonsense)?
My point is that creating a legal argument against pop-ups invites legal arguments for other kinds of web advertising.
All kinds of arguments could be made about your tacit and implied acceptance of pop-ups just for clicking on a link or visiting a site. Lawyers like to do these kinds of things. It's, like, fun for them or something.
...it's because when it's round, you can move it easier around construction zones...you can just roll it.
Having worked in the trades, including doing basic municipal labour, I can state flatly that I have never seen this. When one handles a manhole cover, one simply hooks the lifter into the hole and drags it out of the hole. The thing is rarely moved more than a meter from it's hole. If it needs to be moved further, it is dragged, not rolled. If it needs to be move a great distance for some rare reason, it is dragged or carried by a truck.
These things are massive; nobody wants to roll a 20-40Kg cast-iron disc around on it's edge, over uneven ground.
I have to concur with the top-poster: it's round to keep it from falling in. A square cover could be aligned such that it would fall in. A round one cannot be aligned so.
The shape doesn't keep the manhole cover from falling in, the LIP does.
This is true for any shape of manhole cover. If it didn't have a lip, it wouldn't work at all.
A square cover would be able to fall through if rotated correctly and placed on the hole on the diagonal; a round one cannot. This is true regardless of the fact that both designs would have a lip to support it in it's "normal" aspect.
After trying hard to use FreeBSD and Linux for a few years as my primary desktop, I just got frustrated.
I hear you. This was my primary decision for springing for a new G4 last year, instead of building my usual "god box" to run some free *NIX on. I have no reason to run Windows at home, so there was no "switch" involved.
I'll admit I got a little tired of hacking and tweaking to get the CD burner to work, the 3D card to work, the sound card to work... Sure, I got things to work (mostly, or until the next kernel update) and I still consider it fun to tweak a Linux box. But it's less fun the older I get.
Really? I've recently stopped using Safari regularly; pages with a lot of little GIFs and tables (like, every poorly designed web site in the world) render so slow, I've had to no choice but to go back to Camino.
The 10.2.5 update changed little in that regard for me.
It is certainly a difficult job to shoot long, continuous shots. AFAIK, the longest shots in movies have been limited to the length of a reel, or trickery was used to hide the breaks where reels were changed (e.g., Hitchcock's "Rope", where the director would have the camera move behind a wall or set piece to hide the reel change).
If "Russian Ark" is indeed one continuous shot, I wonder how it was done.
They may not be able to break the encryption, but they sure as hell can break you.
You may be in the possession of said encrypted material, but you may not, in fact, know what is in it or how to get at it.
Many activist organizations work on the same principles as armies and terrorist cells: you operate on a need-to-know basis, with instructions and keys given to you in pieces. Often you have to "share a secret" with someone else to get the answers to critical questions.
Furthermore, you are often instructed to sing like a bird when captured. It is intended that you don't know enough (as an individual) to seriously damage the whole organization.
Of course, if you are an important member of an organization who has access to a lot of critical information you are in the dangerous position where you have to hide information.
In this case, as you say, encryption is not enough. From a brief survey of the Benetech web site referenced in this article, they are interested in the complete package: the secure transmission, obfuscation, encryption and dissemination of critical information under extreme circumstances.
Even the single-CPU Quicksilver's were too loud (though I understand the MDD G4's were exceptionally noisy). There was a small group of us who agitated for Apple to address this issue over a year ago. It's unfortunate that they let the situation degrade further. At least some folks will get relief.
Kudos to G4Noise for doing it right.
Anyone know where I can get an aftermarket power supply for a Quicksilver that is quieter? My warranty is almost up, and I'm about to tear all the fans out and replace 'em with fancy-pants reduced-voltage, ball-brearing fans. I just don't want to have to muck around with the fan inside the PSU.
No, tail is for looking at the n last lines of a file, or to follow a file that has data being added to the end of it.
If you regenerate the entire file, or write to it via random access, the output from tail will be less than helpful. It will be of even less help if the writing process creates a brand-new inode (or whatever) on the underlying filesystem. Good text editors know you care about the filename, and not the actual file as it resides on the filesystem, and behave properly.
As a rule, however, most text editors will let you read any file that is open for write elsewhere. Well, the good ones do, anyway. I actually like when gvim reports "the file has changed, do you want to refresh it" as I know something has happened to the output I need to look at.
I hate to split hairs, but running a global search and replace (which appears to not have been done, or done on a regular basis as they sucked more OBSD code in) is an intentional action. You have to know you are going to clobber some copyright strings that must remain untouched (to comply with the very terms of the copyright).
Even the OBSD folks keep the old NetBSD CVS tags in the code, and often keep the old comments in the header files, adding their own after them.
The reason for all the furor seems to be that there appears to be some amount of disingenuousness with the changes that were made.
OpenBSD has a very clear copyright policy and do regular license audits. I don't know if the MicroBSD people should be held up to the same standards or not, but the point many people are making is that the OpenBSD source is not in the public domain. Certainly some of it is, but not all.
I get the feeling that perhaps some of the MicroBSD people knew what they were doing all too well, while others didn't really consider the implications.
I mean, there were changes to source that were nothing but changes to the copyright string (the Pentium MTRR code, for example). Perhaps this can be attributed to a mindless global sed command. It's still pretty irresponsible.
Well, what would the OpenBSD project be without regular kerfuffles like this...
It's was only a matter of time for this to happen.
Individual companies have already contacted those businesses with a lot of "personal time" being spent on corporate networks. My own company was approached and mildly threatened by Sony because of P2P sharing.
Our IT people blocked the ports, and threatened us with various forms of violence if we shared/downloaded media. No distinction was made between legal or illegal downloads (if there really is such a thing).
Personally, I feel that home is the place to steal music. Work is for stealing software.
Run this Method with this Object, send the results Here
My example was trivial, I know. Using rendezvous as a sort of "RMI" implementation is something I'd never considered. As you say, the amount of introspection available in Objective-C makes this a very attractive way to leverage rendezvous.
Your example of using a bunch of rendezvous clients as an ad-hoc render farm for Photoshop is interesting. This kind of thing is closer to the SETI@Home (&etc.) model, without having to have so much central control.
I've certainly come to the end of my current knowledge on rendezvous, but it looks like there is a lot of potential I've never even considered.
I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that "Pop-pop" is rendezvous-enabled. No need to "host" a game -- you just see each other, double-click to request a game.
What is interesting is that even though "normal host a game over IP" stuff still works, and is dead-easy to config, rendezvous seems to be relatively easy to drop into an app.
I was skeptical at first, but now I'm curious to see what neato things people will start to implement using rendezvous.
*shrug* I don't care what it's called. The price is right for me, for the feature set.
Maybe Apple is looking to replace the iBook series with lower-powered "PowerBooks". Maybe they with replace 'em all with laptops in the shapes of chickens. I don't know, and I don't much care (well, it depends on the type of chicken they model, I guess). The main complaint in the article is that the new laptops were not "PowerBooks" for some definition of "PowerBook".
Fair enough. If you need better specs, you know what to do. However, I'm assuming most of us here are smart enough to shop around first. I am certainly not going to buy the 12in PBook and expect the moon. Heck, I wouldn't buy *any* laptop and expect desktop performance (if I get it, that's great, but I don't expect it).
The article did mention that if the slower CPU and lesser-powered mobile graphics adapter is good enough for you, then go for it. You also get Bluetooth and S-Video (without external dongles or adapters) and 802.11g. Having a G4 means a little more grunt, and vector processing. The smaller screen and slower CPU mean longer battery time, which is high on my list for a laptop.
These are all good things. The 12in powerbook is a modest system for those who know what they want. Choice is a good thing. Apple isn't lying to anyone here.
I will not agree for any definition of "iBook" that the 12in PowerBook is an iBook. Sorry.
The new 12" Powerbook is nothing more but an iBook on steroids with a G4 in it
Is this really a problem? I mean, this is exactly what I, personally, want from my next laptop. I know the bigger, faster PBooks are sexier, but I want a small notebook with decent battery time that I can haul to the coffee shop for some light hacking.
I use my girlfriend's iBook for this sometimes, and it is more than sufficient.
My only point (to stay on topic) is that Apple is offering a pretty wide range of products to choose from. A "G4 iBook" is really all that I would need.
IMHO, Ant is really a Java-oriented tool. It will work for other languages, but it shines when used as an incremental class building tool for Java.
Use make. There are plenty of make apps that run on more than one platform. Some even integrate reasonably well with MSVC; though I'm guessing a lot of shops simply use the IDE to do an initial setup, and then hand-edit everything from then on...
I think the reason I prefer tabbed browsers is that it gives me more choice. There are a lot of pages that just don't deserve their own window frame -- I mean, most of the pages I review in a typical day persist for a few minutes before being recycled. I tend to run a single browser window with 4-5 tabbed frames. If I need to do a side-by-side compare of content, I spawn a new window, and start building tabs on that one as well.
So I may end up with groups of related pages, using browser windows to sort pages (usually one miscellaneous group, and one development group).
Basically, having tabs available gives me more options. I already have the option of another browser window. Tabs give me the ability to manipulate content for pages that don't need a whole window to themselves.
For 90% of my browsing, I don't need to see more than one page at a time. For those times I do need to see multiple pages, I can still do so through the magic of "Open in a new Window".
For example, while browsing this thread, I ran across the link to Hyatt's weblog. Because I just want to see if it's been updated, I can cntrl-click (I'm on Windows right now) and it will load in a tab, in the background. The ~20 characters I can see of the title is good enough for me to tell what that tab is (I'm running with 6 tabs right now) and anyway, I'm just going to glance at it and then either kill the tab or reuse it for a google search or something. It's just become a natural thing for me to do now.
Meanwhile, I've got a bunch of Solaris development pages, man pages and internal bug postings open in another browser Window. Because it's lunch time, that window is minimized to the Taskbar.
I think the main issue for me is that switching tabs is no different than switching windows. It's just that, for most pages, I don't need another browser with the full complement of controls. I just need to see the content. Most content is just too short-lived to justify spawing a new window. The usual Copy-Switch-Paste activities are no easier with either scenario.
Sorry, I can't do without tabs anymore; they've become a standard way I work. As someone pointed out in this thread, you don't have to use them, but they are there if you do want them. I will not use Safari because of this. *shrug* Even if Chimera never makes it past release 0.6, that release is good enough for the majority of my work, including my usual corporate webmail and bank accounts.
I just don't understand this mass delusion that Chimera is "faster" than Mozilla, either.
There have been a few comparisions of native browers for OS X. Almost all of them break down "speed" into a variety of metrics. In most I've seen, important numbers like startup time and page load time, Chimera beats both Mozilla and IE. There are a lot of cars that share the same engine. We wouldn't expect them to perform the same would we?
Chimera, and Safari, are for people who want a web browser. They don't need, or want, a mail client or a chat client. Mozilla comes with an HTML editor, for cryinoutloud!
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Legality is a hard way to approach this problem. Wasn't there someone who declared banner- and popup-blocking routines illegal because they modified content a (à) la DMCA (or some other such nonsense)?
My point is that creating a legal argument against pop-ups invites legal arguments for other kinds of web advertising.
All kinds of arguments could be made about your tacit and implied acceptance of pop-ups just for clicking on a link or visiting a site. Lawyers like to do these kinds of things. It's, like, fun for them or something.
Having worked in the trades, including doing basic municipal labour, I can state flatly that I have never seen this. When one handles a manhole cover, one simply hooks the lifter into the hole and drags it out of the hole. The thing is rarely moved more than a meter from it's hole. If it needs to be moved further, it is dragged, not rolled. If it needs to be move a great distance for some rare reason, it is dragged or carried by a truck.
These things are massive; nobody wants to roll a 20-40Kg cast-iron disc around on it's edge, over uneven ground.
I have to concur with the top-poster: it's round to keep it from falling in. A square cover could be aligned such that it would fall in. A round one cannot be aligned so.
This is true for any shape of manhole cover. If it didn't have a lip, it wouldn't work at all.
A square cover would be able to fall through if rotated correctly and placed on the hole on the diagonal; a round one cannot. This is true regardless of the fact that both designs would have a lip to support it in it's "normal" aspect.
I hear you. This was my primary decision for springing for a new G4 last year, instead of building my usual "god box" to run some free *NIX on. I have no reason to run Windows at home, so there was no "switch" involved.
I'll admit I got a little tired of hacking and tweaking to get the CD burner to work, the 3D card to work, the sound card to work... Sure, I got things to work (mostly, or until the next kernel update) and I still consider it fun to tweak a Linux box. But it's less fun the older I get.
Take your pick!
Really? I've recently stopped using Safari regularly; pages with a lot of little GIFs and tables (like, every poorly designed web site in the world) render so slow, I've had to no choice but to go back to Camino.
The 10.2.5 update changed little in that regard for me.
Wait a minute. You can turn your Mac off? It works without being connected to the internet? SSH is not enabled by default?
Yow!
It is certainly a difficult job to shoot long, continuous shots. AFAIK, the longest shots in movies have been limited to the length of a reel, or trickery was used to hide the breaks where reels were changed (e.g., Hitchcock's "Rope", where the director would have the camera move behind a wall or set piece to hide the reel change).
If "Russian Ark" is indeed one continuous shot, I wonder how it was done.
You may be in the possession of said encrypted material, but you may not, in fact, know what is in it or how to get at it.
Many activist organizations work on the same principles as armies and terrorist cells: you operate on a need-to-know basis, with instructions and keys given to you in pieces. Often you have to "share a secret" with someone else to get the answers to critical questions.
Furthermore, you are often instructed to sing like a bird when captured. It is intended that you don't know enough (as an individual) to seriously damage the whole organization.
Of course, if you are an important member of an organization who has access to a lot of critical information you are in the dangerous position where you have to hide information.
In this case, as you say, encryption is not enough. From a brief survey of the Benetech web site referenced in this article, they are interested in the complete package: the secure transmission, obfuscation, encryption and dissemination of critical information under extreme circumstances.
Even the single-CPU Quicksilver's were too loud (though I understand the MDD G4's were exceptionally noisy). There was a small group of us who agitated for Apple to address this issue over a year ago. It's unfortunate that they let the situation degrade further. At least some folks will get relief.
Kudos to G4Noise for doing it right.
Anyone know where I can get an aftermarket power supply for a Quicksilver that is quieter? My warranty is almost up, and I'm about to tear all the fans out and replace 'em with fancy-pants reduced-voltage, ball-brearing fans. I just don't want to have to muck around with the fan inside the PSU.
Wasn't that called emacs or screen?
Good for you! Don't keep that rage in.
Let it out, sunshine, let it out. Wouldn't want an opposing view threaten you with a burst blood vessel in your brain.
It also might be this project.
Mmmm. Extensible, interactive molecular graphics programs.
No, tail is for looking at the n last lines of a file, or to follow a file that has data being added to the end of it.
If you regenerate the entire file, or write to it via random access, the output from tail will be less than helpful. It will be of even less help if the writing process creates a brand-new inode (or whatever) on the underlying filesystem. Good text editors know you care about the filename, and not the actual file as it resides on the filesystem, and behave properly.
As a rule, however, most text editors will let you read any file that is open for write elsewhere. Well, the good ones do, anyway. I actually like when gvim reports "the file has changed, do you want to refresh it" as I know something has happened to the output I need to look at.
I hate to split hairs, but running a global search and replace (which appears to not have been done, or done on a regular basis as they sucked more OBSD code in) is an intentional action. You have to know you are going to clobber some copyright strings that must remain untouched (to comply with the very terms of the copyright).
Even the OBSD folks keep the old NetBSD CVS tags in the code, and often keep the old comments in the header files, adding their own after them.
The reason for all the furor seems to be that there appears to be some amount of disingenuousness with the changes that were made.
OpenBSD has a very clear copyright policy and do regular license audits. I don't know if the MicroBSD people should be held up to the same standards or not, but the point many people are making is that the OpenBSD source is not in the public domain. Certainly some of it is, but not all.
I get the feeling that perhaps some of the MicroBSD people knew what they were doing all too well, while others didn't really consider the implications.
I mean, there were changes to source that were nothing but changes to the copyright string (the Pentium MTRR code, for example). Perhaps this can be attributed to a mindless global sed command. It's still pretty irresponsible.
Well, what would the OpenBSD project be without regular kerfuffles like this...
True enough. I just don't think that Sony, RIAA, et al know the difference. Or care
It's was only a matter of time for this to happen.
Individual companies have already contacted those businesses with a lot of "personal time" being spent on corporate networks. My own company was approached and mildly threatened by Sony because of P2P sharing.
Our IT people blocked the ports, and threatened us with various forms of violence if we shared/downloaded media. No distinction was made between legal or illegal downloads (if there really is such a thing).
Personally, I feel that home is the place to steal music. Work is for stealing software.
That last was a joke. Laugh. It's funny.
Run this Method with this Object, send the results Here
My example was trivial, I know. Using rendezvous as a sort of "RMI" implementation is something I'd never considered. As you say, the amount of introspection available in Objective-C makes this a very attractive way to leverage rendezvous.
Your example of using a bunch of rendezvous clients as an ad-hoc render farm for Photoshop is interesting. This kind of thing is closer to the SETI@Home (&etc.) model, without having to have so much central control.
I've certainly come to the end of my current knowledge on rendezvous, but it looks like there is a lot of potential I've never even considered.
I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that "Pop-pop" is rendezvous-enabled. No need to "host" a game -- you just see each other, double-click to request a game.
What is interesting is that even though "normal host a game over IP" stuff still works, and is dead-easy to config, rendezvous seems to be relatively easy to drop into an app.
I was skeptical at first, but now I'm curious to see what neato things people will start to implement using rendezvous.
*shrug* I don't care what it's called. The price is right for me, for the feature set.
Maybe Apple is looking to replace the iBook series with lower-powered "PowerBooks". Maybe they with replace 'em all with laptops in the shapes of chickens. I don't know, and I don't much care (well, it depends on the type of chicken they model, I guess). The main complaint in the article is that the new laptops were not "PowerBooks" for some definition of "PowerBook".
Fair enough. If you need better specs, you know what to do. However, I'm assuming most of us here are smart enough to shop around first. I am certainly not going to buy the 12in PBook and expect the moon. Heck, I wouldn't buy *any* laptop and expect desktop performance (if I get it, that's great, but I don't expect it).
The article did mention that if the slower CPU and lesser-powered mobile graphics adapter is good enough for you, then go for it. You also get Bluetooth and S-Video (without external dongles or adapters) and 802.11g. Having a G4 means a little more grunt, and vector processing. The smaller screen and slower CPU mean longer battery time, which is high on my list for a laptop.
These are all good things. The 12in powerbook is a modest system for those who know what they want. Choice is a good thing. Apple isn't lying to anyone here.
I will not agree for any definition of "iBook" that the 12in PowerBook is an iBook. Sorry.
Is this really a problem? I mean, this is exactly what I, personally, want from my next laptop. I know the bigger, faster PBooks are sexier, but I want a small notebook with decent battery time that I can haul to the coffee shop for some light hacking.
I use my girlfriend's iBook for this sometimes, and it is more than sufficient.
My only point (to stay on topic) is that Apple is offering a pretty wide range of products to choose from. A "G4 iBook" is really all that I would need.
IMHO, Ant is really a Java-oriented tool. It will work for other languages, but it shines when used as an incremental class building tool for Java.
Use make. There are plenty of make apps that run on more than one platform. Some even integrate reasonably well with MSVC; though I'm guessing a lot of shops simply use the IDE to do an initial setup, and then hand-edit everything from then on...
Please don't use nmake. It is an abomination.
The Globe and Mail also has an article about this.
Check out the scary "John Doe" clause.
I think the reason I prefer tabbed browsers is that it gives me more choice. There are a lot of pages that just don't deserve their own window frame -- I mean, most of the pages I review in a typical day persist for a few minutes before being recycled. I tend to run a single browser window with 4-5 tabbed frames. If I need to do a side-by-side compare of content, I spawn a new window, and start building tabs on that one as well.
So I may end up with groups of related pages, using browser windows to sort pages (usually one miscellaneous group, and one development group).
Basically, having tabs available gives me more options. I already have the option of another browser window. Tabs give me the ability to manipulate content for pages that don't need a whole window to themselves.
For 90% of my browsing, I don't need to see more than one page at a time. For those times I do need to see multiple pages, I can still do so through the magic of "Open in a new Window".
For example, while browsing this thread, I ran across the link to Hyatt's weblog. Because I just want to see if it's been updated, I can cntrl-click (I'm on Windows right now) and it will load in a tab, in the background. The ~20 characters I can see of the title is good enough for me to tell what that tab is (I'm running with 6 tabs right now) and anyway, I'm just going to glance at it and then either kill the tab or reuse it for a google search or something. It's just become a natural thing for me to do now.
Meanwhile, I've got a bunch of Solaris development pages, man pages and internal bug postings open in another browser Window. Because it's lunch time, that window is minimized to the Taskbar.
I think the main issue for me is that switching tabs is no different than switching windows. It's just that, for most pages, I don't need another browser with the full complement of controls. I just need to see the content. Most content is just too short-lived to justify spawing a new window. The usual Copy-Switch-Paste activities are no easier with either scenario.
Sorry, I can't do without tabs anymore; they've become a standard way I work. As someone pointed out in this thread, you don't have to use them, but they are there if you do want them. I will not use Safari because of this. *shrug* Even if Chimera never makes it past release 0.6, that release is good enough for the majority of my work, including my usual corporate webmail and bank accounts.
There have been a few comparisions of native browers for OS X. Almost all of them break down "speed" into a variety of metrics. In most I've seen, important numbers like startup time and page load time, Chimera beats both Mozilla and IE. There are a lot of cars that share the same engine. We wouldn't expect them to perform the same would we?
Chimera, and Safari, are for people who want a web browser. They don't need, or want, a mail client or a chat client. Mozilla comes with an HTML editor, for cryinoutloud!
"Bloated" can mean many things.