Yes you can use these numbers to shop in a store. Real easy.
My bank called me to ask if I was in Istanbul, Turkey, over the weekend. When I said "No", they said: "But your Visa Card was", and they did not seem at all surprised that the physical card was still in my possession.
They gave me a nice list of events: First the thugs bought something small, then tried something big. As the card was declined, they tried something small again, and then a couple of medium purchases (like $100 a piece). All in all, they had racked up about $1000 when the call came, but I did not have to cover any of that, luckily. Again, all of these were in-store purchases.
The title of the article is really badly researched. Virutalization is not the only way to run Vista on a Mac, when using Bootcamp you can legally use any version.
And for crying out loud -- I am not giving away secrets here that they installed an outdated version of pre-release software on hardware it wasn't developed for.
Pretty puh-leaze with sugar on top, wait until there is a release version of the software...
This is entirely absurd. While there are people who don't know better, some chose to have their WiFi open.
And "some people" include such ignorant folks as Intel Corp., who operate a free-for-all access point on San Francisco's Union Square. Would the law outlaw this kind of marketing, too?
Oh, and a hint: Put your phone no. or eMail in your SSID and I will personally thank you when I use your AP.
The Federal Government of Germany tried to sell of its bunker some years ago. Despite some more or less reasonable offers it never got sold as the potential buyers were not willing to accept certain obligations, such as equipping it with a new structural fire protection. It is now sealed and flooded.
Of all the people who write code for a living, what percent makes money bu coding for an application that is for sale to the public?
As I understand it, GPL 3 tries to redefine "sale to the public". And the percentage of programmers that write code which helps companies make a profit is relatively high.
My limited brain thinks about, say, you are an insurance agency. You run a website, which is served by some customized GPL3 code, then you will have to make that source public. Supposed, your printing system for sending out mail is also run by customized GPL 3 software. You don't have to make that public.
In neither case, you are distributing the code, only the results. In case 1 it's byte streams, in case 2 it's paper. Why they distinction?
What can we do to make sure that for profit enterprises won't ever consider using GPL3 code in any projects?
When I used to work for a web company, it contracted people from the open source community to customize GPL'ed code. And I did think that used to be seen as a "best case": We got a customized apache, and people from the community got some money.
I am a moron without a brain, and this may be flamebait, but sometimes I wonder how some opensource advocates pay their rent. Because, somehow the companies that pay the programmers will have to make some profit. Or is the idea that I should have learned a real job like carpenting, and program just for fun...
Of course the level of pain differs by project, no contest there.
As I have stated earlier, even before the Intel announcement, Metrowerks were no longer even selling CodeWarrior 9 for OS X. The support has been minimal since the last two years already, so the switch to Xcode/gcc would have been unavoidable.
As to b), of course. And I can hear my academic friends cry that probably IBM's XL/F will not be available for Intel. But just like there will be Fortran Compilers for Intel ported for the Mac, I would assume the toolmakers will port their tools as well. Especially open source projects have been great in seperating OS from processor srchitectures
If you, c), do not know what a Fat (Universal) Binary is, the Apple Documentation will help. If you are unwilling to RTFM I kindly suggest that coding is not the right activity for you.
d) Yes, but again, to port these libs to Intel will be easier than to port the libs from 68k to PPC back in the day
e) We do a lot of hardware communication (USB, FireWire, SCSI, PCI), which often comes with Endian issues. For our projects all I can say, I still considered porting "painless". And if you were using bitfields, you will have to adjust them porting from CodeWarrior to Xcode/gcc regardless.
All in all, porting is not usually "fun". I have coded for Mac OS since System 5, and for what I do, this is not the worst transition I have seen.
Your mileage may vary, but for our projects I was amazed how easy it was.
As I lost a good deal of my hair already, I'll gladly be dated with that term. But "universal" remains just a fancy new marketing name for the same old 0xcafebabe fat binaries.
By the way, Apple Engineers think the same way and so the man page for the "lipo" tool still talks about "thinning out fat files"
- The switch will be painless Creating Fat Binaries is easy and quick for those using Xcode. Been there, done that already. And as Motorola is no longer supporting CodeWarrior, everybody not using Xcode woulld have had to make the jump sooner or later
- Apple has no interest in having the OS running on other hardware. They are a hardware company, this is how they run their business.
as for "hackers and geeks," they mostly reside in their own circles. this is especially tru on the internet. within one's own circle, it's much easier to get away with it.
I disagree. If you are in the "circles" not just for fun but professionally, you should care. English is my second language, and I am seriously irritated by people who can't spell. When someone (other than Yoda) can not write a single correct sentence in a business proposal - and I mean gross mistakes - I question the author's overall intelligence.
So, if you are on the 'net for fun, misspell all you like. But when it comes to business, whip out your Webster's!
I would quit my whining if Yahoo! updated their non-windows clients at the same speed that they update their protocols.
The Unix and MacOS versions clearly lag behind the Windows client, most notably not supporting Audio/Video. Oh, sorry, the MacOS version supports video, which at least allows you to do chats in sign language.
IIRC, the third-party clients do not offer any of these features either, but why punish them by not being backward compatible?
The Rosen piece is really wonderful: "If anyone reading this can come up with some magical way to distribute music from California to Illinois for free, I'd like to hear it." Apparently she does not really want to hear it.
I certainly did not notice that CAN-SPAM became effective 1/1/04. Or actually, my filters are still filtering out a very similar number of messages. Does anyone have information of some kind, if legislators think that this law actually worked?
As much as I would love to see spammers prosecuted, I doubt CAN-SPAM has done anything to reduce spam.
When I present Objective-C, I throw in that the Macintosh veterans may notice some similarity to HyperCard. Both HyperCard and Objective-C use a bunch of SmallTalk concepts, which I think is a very cool thing.
The death and torture of Jesus is important. But the extreme focus on this distorts the view -- in my very humble opinion. "Evangelium" is the "Good News". I feel the slice that Gibon gives us is mostly suitable for inflicting feelings of guilt, or aggression. Not much good news there.
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Yes you can use these numbers to shop in a store. Real easy.
My bank called me to ask if I was in Istanbul, Turkey, over the weekend. When I said "No", they said: "But your Visa Card was", and they did not seem at all surprised that the physical card was still in my possession.
They gave me a nice list of events: First the thugs bought something small, then tried something big. As the card was declined, they tried something small again, and then a couple of medium purchases (like $100 a piece).
All in all, they had racked up about $1000 when the call came, but I did not have to cover any of that, luckily.
Again, all of these were in-store purchases.
Alex
The title of the article is really badly researched. Virutalization is not the only way to run Vista on a Mac, when using Bootcamp you can legally use any version.
Alex
On a similar note, could news like this be marked "Of interest to US Residents only" so I can exclude them from my view?
Alex
And for crying out loud -- I am not giving away secrets here that they installed an outdated version of pre-release software on hardware it wasn't developed for.
Pretty puh-leaze with sugar on top, wait until there is a release version of the software...
Alex
I had heard rumors that someone had written a Sony "DRM" tool for Mac, and I wondered if Sony created a rootkit.
Obviously, not so easy. And yes, I agree that this shows the Windows model is way too easily outsmarted.
I imagine some users will be "convinced" to enter the password (if they can). But a lot will wonder "WTF"?
Alex
This is entirely absurd. While there are people who don't know better, some chose to have their WiFi open.
And "some people" include such ignorant folks as Intel Corp., who operate a free-for-all access point on San Francisco's Union Square. Would the law outlaw this kind of marketing, too?
Oh, and a hint: Put your phone no. or eMail in your SSID and I will personally thank you when I use your AP.
Alex
The Federal Government of Germany tried to sell of its bunker some years ago.
Despite some more or less reasonable offers it never got sold as the potential buyers were not willing to accept certain obligations, such as equipping it with a new structural fire protection. It is now sealed and flooded.
Too bad, actually
Alex
Of all the people who write code for a living, what percent makes money bu coding for an application that is for sale to the public?
As I understand it, GPL 3 tries to redefine "sale to the public". And the percentage of programmers that write code which helps companies make a profit is relatively high.
My limited brain thinks about, say, you are an insurance agency. You run a website, which is served by some customized GPL3 code, then you will have to make that source public.
Supposed, your printing system for sending out mail is also run by customized GPL 3 software. You don't have to make that public.
In neither case, you are distributing the code, only the results. In case 1 it's byte streams, in case 2 it's paper. Why they distinction?
Alex
What can we do to make sure that for profit enterprises won't ever consider using GPL3 code in any projects?
When I used to work for a web company, it contracted people from the open source community to customize GPL'ed code. And I did think that used to be seen as a "best case": We got a customized apache, and people from the community got some money.
I am a moron without a brain, and this may be flamebait, but sometimes I wonder how some opensource advocates pay their rent. Because, somehow the companies that pay the programmers will have to make some profit. Or is the idea that I should have learned a real job like carpenting, and program just for fun...
Just my 0.02
Alex
Of course the level of pain differs by project, no contest there.
As I have stated earlier, even before the Intel announcement, Metrowerks were no longer even selling CodeWarrior 9 for OS X. The support has been minimal since the last two years already, so the switch to Xcode/gcc would have been unavoidable.
As to b), of course. And I can hear my academic friends cry that probably IBM's XL/F will not be available for Intel. But just like there will be Fortran Compilers for Intel ported for the Mac, I would assume the toolmakers will port their tools as well.
Especially open source projects have been great in seperating OS from processor srchitectures
If you, c), do not know what a Fat (Universal) Binary is, the Apple Documentation will help. If you are unwilling to RTFM I kindly suggest that coding is not the right activity for you.
d) Yes, but again, to port these libs to Intel will be easier than to port the libs from 68k to PPC back in the day
e) We do a lot of hardware communication (USB, FireWire, SCSI, PCI), which often comes with Endian issues. For our projects all I can say, I still considered porting "painless".
And if you were using bitfields, you will have to adjust them porting from CodeWarrior to Xcode/gcc regardless.
All in all, porting is not usually "fun". I have coded for Mac OS since System 5, and for what I do, this is not the worst transition I have seen.
Your mileage may vary, but for our projects I was amazed how easy it was.
Alex
As I lost a good deal of my hair already, I'll gladly be dated with that term. But "universal" remains just a fancy new marketing name for the same old 0xcafebabe fat binaries.
;)
By the way, Apple Engineers think the same way and so the man page for the "lipo" tool still talks about "thinning out fat files"
Cheers
Alex
Sorry for being sloppy. And I receive tons of email about coding for embedded systems with CW.
But CW for OS X is dead.
Alex
I fully agree, particularly on two points:
- The switch will be painless
Creating Fat Binaries is easy and quick for those using Xcode. Been there, done that already. And as Motorola is no longer supporting CodeWarrior, everybody not using Xcode woulld have had to make the jump sooner or later
- Apple has no interest in having the OS running on other hardware. They are a hardware company, this is how they run their business.
Just my 0.02
Alex
as for "hackers and geeks," they mostly reside in their own circles. this is especially tru on the internet. within one's own circle, it's much easier to get away with it.
I disagree. If you are in the "circles" not just for fun but professionally, you should care. English is my second language, and I am seriously irritated by people who can't spell.
When someone (other than Yoda) can not write a single correct sentence in a business proposal - and I mean gross mistakes - I question the author's overall intelligence.
So, if you are on the 'net for fun, misspell all you like. But when it comes to business, whip out your Webster's!
Alex
Please, please mod the parent way up.
..."? We can not let that happen!
A news item like this without "In Soviet Russia
Alex
Funny. If it got gold a week ago, why I Apple sitll asking me about bug reports I submitted...
If this is just what you read on the rumor sites, then it means nothing...
Alex
I would quit my whining if Yahoo! updated their non-windows clients at the same speed that they update their protocols.
The Unix and MacOS versions clearly lag behind the Windows client, most notably not supporting Audio/Video. Oh, sorry, the MacOS version supports video, which at least allows you to do chats in sign language.
IIRC, the third-party clients do not offer any of these features either, but why punish them by not being backward compatible?
Just my 0.02
Alex
The Rosen piece is really wonderful:
"If anyone reading this can come up with some magical way to distribute music from California to Illinois for free, I'd like to hear it."
Apparently she does not really want to hear it.
Just my 0.02
Alex
I certainly did not notice that CAN-SPAM became effective 1/1/04. Or actually, my filters are still filtering out a very similar number of messages.
Does anyone have information of some kind, if legislators think that this law actually worked?
As much as I would love to see spammers prosecuted, I doubt CAN-SPAM has done anything to reduce spam.
Alex
When I present Objective-C, I throw in that the Macintosh veterans may notice some similarity to HyperCard. Both HyperCard and Objective-C use a bunch of SmallTalk concepts, which I think is a very cool thing.
Bye
Alex
that he did not invent the Internet.
(And - probably contrary to George's belief - Al Gore never claimed he did)
Alex
The death and torture of Jesus is important. But the extreme focus on this distorts the view -- in my very humble opinion.
"Evangelium" is the "Good News". I feel the slice that Gibon gives us is mostly suitable for inflicting feelings of guilt, or aggression. Not much good news there.
Alex
While this may be getting off-topic..
I consider myself a christian, and I do have a problem with Gibson's "Passion"...
Just my 0.02
Alex
Knowing Englisch, German and - to an extent - Jiddish I ask to mod the parent up. This actually is the connection.
Actually, let's find some of those sites and fill in garbage.
The pr0n site operators will not be able to tell that it is NOT the text they are looking for.
Let's go for it!
Alex