Apple as a company is not an angel. But its not a monoply and is leverging open source an contributing back to the open source community. As a rule Apple shuns DRM (digital rights management).
But OS-X has at its core DARWIN which is an open source version of BSD which apple puts out. The parts of the OS that isn't opensource is the graphics layer above OS and a few other bits (hfs+ the file system is not open either I think.).
They've given back web browser code, updates to GCC etc. etc.. So all told they're not bad guys.
Oracle used to (maybe they still do) all there front ends and installers in java so they were cross platform. They show an XP screen shot, but don't seemed to detail what platforms this will run under.
The way it was: RIAA got your info- sent a letter telling you to settle. If you didn't you get dragged to court.
The way it is now: RIAA goes to court, gets your info, sues you.
I'm not saying your ISP should be giving out your info to anyone, but now you name is in public record as a defendent in a lawsuit. Probably won't get off the hook as easy as the first batch of defendents either.
People have been complaining about them.. Ours has hit the floor 3-4 times before the ethernet jack broke and we wised up and went wireless. We've had it over 1.5 years now and its been great..
I mean seriously. They seem to be seriously shooting themselves in the foot. If we used SCO we'd be moving off them so fast and hoping never to hear from them again.
We have a 4 megapixel camera. A minolta s404. We can make 4x6 and 5x7 which are quite sharp a detailed and colorfull. We've also made some 8x10s and that really pushing it with 4 or 5 megapiexels, and you can't crop much.
I sugest investing in a photo printer. They're cheap (except the ink) and the output is good. (I have an epson 1270).
I'm not a super digital fan boy, in fact 90% of what I do is film. But digital cameras can be fun fun and has its place.
A good rule of thumb is you want at least 200 dpi for you prints (300 is ideal) Note this has nothing to do with printer resolution. so a 4 megapixel image 2270 X 1700 at 300 dpi is 7 inches by almost 6. At 200 dpi 11 inch by 8.5.
He's really bad as he comes off as not even close to being objective about anything.
see this link for his "pro ms" ces wrap up.
http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Art ic le/ArticleID/41423/windowspaulthurrott_41423.html
and I quote for one of his little bits.
Predictable Open-Source Advocates Decry Microsoft Anti-Linux Ads
Microsoft's recent ad campaign that pits Linux against Windows has engendered an unintentionally hilarious but predictable reaction from the open-source community, with various Linux advocates crying foul over what they call Microsoft's misleading analysis. The biggest problem seems to be that Microsoft commissioned some of the reports the ads cite, but the company has been upfront about that situation and claims that such funding is a common industry practice. Watching the open-source guys fall all over each other trying to be the first to disprove the Microsoft claims about Linux is what I find really funny. We get it, guys; you don't like Microsoft.
So you get the maximum performance out of every program. You want it when? There is a fine line between raw performance and the time required to code. If I'm first to market with a slower product I'm at an advantage. If it cost you 10X as much to code your much optimized solution I'm still at an advantage provided hardware is fairly inexpensive compared to programmer time.
Perl programs write really fast code because they tend to use hashes more than c/C++ programmer. Perl isn't compilied.
Its not as simple as you make it seem.
3 years of testing and it goes down in 5 seconds
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Gotta love the slashdot effect. 15 comments and the servers down..
I use words that are likely to be in a reveiw/paper to try an eliminate cruff. Usually words that are common to music out of range of a middle schooler. Maybe musical terms. Maybe a word like "composed" or the key its in. It always takes a work.
I tried searching for reveiws of some products this holiday season. I have a method of keywords I used to get me past the ads. This used to work great. The google slammers (or whatever they're called now) are getting much much better as a lot of what looked to be reviews were just sites selling. Uggg. Often I would have to go to page 2 and 3 to pick up real review. I ended up using sites recomended by a friend and searched there postings.
I've started looking for/using other engines already. Sometimes when you get too big everyone tries to trick the service into selling.
Like open source preaches options are really important to keep things going.
UDP is not connection based so you have no idea a connection was made on the other end. Its kind of a send a forget protocol, unless you want to write your own handshaking in the application.
Also udps message size limit of 64k might be limiting..
I like it. The 5 worst of the year.. "All pop-punk bands" the 4th worst. Metalica as most disapointing.
The Good news that pantara (shameless metalica wannabes) is finaly gone.
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I've been thinking of the Laptop picture frame program for a bit. I was going to code one up over the holidays using java. I never thought of loading linux but am curious how well those odd video cards in notebooks are supported?
What I meant was don't buy music put out by RIAA labels if you don't want too. I have a lot of CDs I've bought at shows that aren't on "Riaa" labels that I know off. I also like a number of bands that do have major label contracts.
examples of band selling CDs without the RIAA. Whats cool is that you can listen to free samples/tracks to see if you like before buying. Steve was right, the internet was made to distribute music! Darediablo Andrew Kerr Anti Jazz Ray Gun The fighting idols
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Apple has a monopoly on "macs" not on home computers.. MS controls probably about 90% of the pc computer market.
Apple as a company is not an angel. But its not a monoply and is leverging open source an contributing back to the open source community. As a rule Apple shuns DRM (digital rights management).
But OS-X has at its core DARWIN which is an open source version of BSD which apple puts out. The parts of the OS that isn't opensource is the graphics layer above OS and a few other bits (hfs+ the file system is not open either I think.).
They've given back web browser code, updates to GCC etc. etc.. So all told they're not bad guys.
Also some of the expensive audio programs do midi to sheet music. logic pro does it (see the sidebar on the right..) and I'm sure there is more.
Run yellow dog or geentoo linux..
Oracle used to (maybe they still do) all there front ends and installers in java so they were cross platform. They show an XP screen shot, but don't seemed to detail what platforms this will run under.
The way it was:
RIAA got your info- sent a letter telling you to settle. If you didn't you get dragged to court.
The way it is now:
RIAA goes to court, gets your info, sues you.
I'm not saying your ISP should be giving out your info to anyone, but now you name is in public record as a defendent in a lawsuit. Probably won't get off the hook as easy as the first batch of defendents either.
I'm guess I'm glad I don't distribute..
The well respected economist magazine has a ppp index related to Big Macs
Of course they make you pay to see it..
People have been complaining about them.. Ours has hit the floor 3-4 times before the ethernet jack broke and we wised up and went wireless. We've had it over 1.5 years now and its been great..
I mean seriously. They seem to be seriously shooting themselves in the foot. If we used SCO we'd be moving off them so fast and hoping never to hear from them again.
I can't wait till this is over.
Ken rockwells site is really really good..
We have a 4 megapixel camera. A minolta s404. We can make 4x6 and 5x7 which are quite sharp a detailed and colorfull. We've also made some 8x10s and that really pushing it with 4 or 5 megapiexels, and you can't crop much.
I sugest investing in a photo printer. They're cheap (except the ink) and the output is good. (I have an epson 1270).
I'm not a super digital fan boy, in fact 90% of what I do is film. But digital cameras can be fun fun and has its place.
A good rule of thumb is you want at least 200 dpi for you prints (300 is ideal) Note this has nothing to do with printer resolution. so a 4 megapixel image 2270 X 1700 at 300 dpi is 7 inches by almost 6. At 200 dpi 11 inch by 8.5.
Isn't having multiple ways to buy and playback music on your platform the definition of CHOICE?
This gives consumers more CHOICE. CHOICE not to use WMA.
He's really bad as he comes off as not even close to being objective about anything.
t ic le/ArticleID/41423/windowspaulthurrott_41423.html
see this link for his "pro ms" ces wrap up.
http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Ar
and I quote for one of his little bits.
Predictable Open-Source Advocates Decry Microsoft Anti-Linux Ads
Microsoft's recent ad campaign that pits Linux against Windows has engendered an unintentionally hilarious but predictable reaction from the open-source community, with various Linux advocates crying foul over what they call Microsoft's misleading analysis. The biggest problem seems to be that Microsoft commissioned some of the reports the ads cite, but the company has been upfront about that situation and claims that such funding is a common industry practice. Watching the open-source guys fall all over each other trying to be the first to disprove the Microsoft claims about Linux is what I find really funny. We get it, guys; you don't like Microsoft.
Legos used to me made in europe. They've been moving production to china to lower cost.
So you get the maximum performance out of every program. You want it when?
There is a fine line between raw performance and the time required to code. If I'm first to market with a slower product I'm at an advantage. If it cost you 10X as much to code your much optimized solution I'm still at an advantage provided hardware is fairly inexpensive compared to programmer time.
Perl programs write really fast code because they tend to use hashes more than c/C++ programmer. Perl isn't compilied.
Its not as simple as you make it seem.
Gotta love the slashdot effect. 15 comments and the servers down..
A PDA with a small harddrive and the abiltity to play video and MP3s.And WMA. Weeee. Why is this so novel?
I use words that are likely to be in a reveiw/paper to try an eliminate cruff. Usually words that are common to music out of range of a middle schooler. Maybe musical terms. Maybe a word like "composed" or the key its in. It always takes a work.
I tried searching for reveiws of some products this holiday season. I have a method of keywords I used to get me past the ads. This used to work great. The google slammers (or whatever they're called now) are getting much much better as a lot of what looked to be reviews were just sites selling. Uggg. Often I would have to go to page 2 and 3 to pick up real review. I ended up using sites recomended by a friend and searched there postings.
I've started looking for/using other engines already. Sometimes when you get too big everyone tries to trick the service into selling.
Like open source preaches options are really important to keep things going.
UDP is not connection based so you have no idea a connection was made on the other end. Its kind of a send a forget protocol, unless you want to write your own handshaking in the application.
Also udps message size limit of 64k might be limiting..
Avoid rip-offs send 20$ to po box....
"Better buy 2, we'll be double protected"
apologies to D.Miller.
The actual cause is probably the inability of Bush administration to keep the value of the dollar high due to high budget deficits and a soft economy.
The following dollar helps US exporters and makes domestic programming more competetive cost wise.
These curency exchanges are way more important than people think.
I like it.
The 5 worst of the year..
"All pop-punk bands" the 4th worst.
Metalica as most disapointing.
The Good news that pantara (shameless metalica wannabes) is finaly gone.
I've been thinking of the Laptop picture frame program for a bit. I was going to code one up over the holidays using java. I never thought of loading linux but am curious how well those odd video cards in notebooks are supported?
examples of band selling CDs without the RIAA. Whats cool is that you can listen to free samples/tracks to see if you like before buying. Steve was right, the internet was made to distribute music!
Darediablo
Andrew Kerr
Anti Jazz Ray Gun
The fighting idols