I've noticed that apple has removed some songs already.. One song I had already bought has disapeared (pearl jams yellow ledbetter live from stockholm).Although they added new live versions of the same song. I noticed clasical chant music also went away.
I thought it was kinda wierd. But now I have some m4ps that I can't buy anymore..
The artists do get paid by the recording industry.. Yeah its a raw deal for musicans (some lose money), and the RIAA tatics are not entirely ethical.... but the music pirates aren't paying the artists dollar one.
Ask any artists trying to get publicity what the backing of a major label can do..Actually, even better look at the crap that gets on the radio to see what major label backing can do.
The RIAA looks out for the recording industry,not the consumer or the artists..
Unfortunetly they (RIAA) kinda have a monopoly, but if you have a better way you should start an indie label!
Jurasic Park was the first major movie to use computer graphics instead of models for the dinosaurs. They actually had hired a model make to do the stop action dinosaurs but the CG were so good speilberg went with them..
I think it was THE major moment when computers where used in films.
Before that there was a sequence in the move "Young sherlock holmes" that used CG to model stained glass knights. But it was a much smaller part.
I think OS X doesn't support video cards fully which makes OSX interface very slow. When Apple announced they'd never support those cards people who had imacs with un upgradable video were upset.
They were told they're machines would be ok to use OS X.
I don't like this remedy. They should have made OSX more backward compatible rather than forcing user to upgrade hardware.
I'm posting this late, but I have a mouse cleaning device from the nice accounting folks at delote & touch.. It looks like a short sqaute cylinder. On end has velcro on it. You remove the mouseball insert the velcro end where the ball was and twist back and forth. Works like a charm. A little too well as mine was at work and has disapeared.
The scripting abilities of OSX combined with access to applications make this a great tool.
I have macOSX a 200 gig drive for my scans. I wrote a perl scipt using imagemagick (gotten with fink) goes through my original scan directory tree and converts all my tiffs to jpegs on another drive. (basicially and incrimental perl backup)
Then I wrote a little apple script to launch the image convertion perl script. So whenever I need to back up I double click on the application and automagic backup!
I know its music, but apple gets poeple to pay for music. Wall street journal gets people to pay for there services as does bloomberg. Information is valuable. There is no easy way to pay for web pages if you want a little at a time.
Its like newspapers. In boston we have a "Free" daily paper (The Metro) its small but has the days news. The "pay" Boston Globe is much bigger with more depth.
I remember in a TMobile store the sales guy pulled up a map of my home area coverage on the sales computer. The coverage wasn't good. He sugested I try some other provider (I respect that alot). Ask if you can see a coverage map when you go to buy, if your nice they might show it to you..
I think everyone I know whos had ATT and had to deal with customer service knows ATTs is terrible uless you want to upgrade to a more expensive plan.
A friend is stuck with ATT for a few more months. Since its is only phone line I can tell you talking to him is a chore (the phone is always dropping out )
When there were green screen termninals a student wrote a simple program that took a username and login told the user it was incorrect and logged him out.
He left it running on the lab on the VT100s. It worked. He used the first account to get more accounts. He didn't do anything with the accounts.. (I think the worst he did was some inflamitory emails to some band fan club..)
It did get traced back to him however, but he denied denied denied and they just took his account away.
Ever since then I always make sure the login sceen is correct before logging onto a public terminal in a school or lab.
Keystroke loggers make it worse.. This is why secure systems are so important..
I predict Robots will bring manufacturing back to US/Europe. So design will become more important as the cost to manufacture goods drops.
One does have to wonder if enough "higher" level jobs will remain to keep everyone working. How much stuff do people need?
It might require a fundamental shift in economies/governments if goods are available significantly cheaper than they are now.
No search engine is the end all /competion is good
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Google is a very good search engine. But it still doesn't always get what exactly what I want. (I have a url from a coworker that is a GREAT description of UDP multicast that doesn't seem to be in googles top 50, and the url is significantly better than any of googles top hits.)
He found it with a different search engine. (teoma.com?/ about.com?). He uses more than one engine depending on what he's doing (He does use google too)
What I'm getting at is competetion is good. It forces companies to make better products because they know if they don't others are going to try too.
Other companies are working really hard at getting a better search engine. Don't expect google to be on top forever, because athough slashdot readers love google, they'll leave it quickly if something better comes along (remember altavista/hotbot/webcrawler etc.. )
The Intellivision was a great game device (we were lucky enough to hve one.) For 2 player games (football/baseball/autoracing/ armor battle) it couldn't be beat. I still have mine, and hook it up ocationally.
It had some problems though The paddles had 16 directions (atari had eight). But those paddles could be hard on the thumbs.. And the buttons on the side of the paddles weren't great.
But it cost more than the atari, which didn't help.The games cost more. Also some where significantly more complicated (entering plays for fotball required reading the manual.) which made it harder for the real young kids. Also It came out later than the atari and had a smaller installed base.
I liiked it anyway..
Re:Apple + PPC970 = True! -shipping August
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Out east we have toll roads.. And bridges. They allow a "Pay for use" model for roads. You can go around them and pay no toll but it will probably take you longer.
I wonder how many people changed routes when they doubled the tolls on the eastern end of the mass pike?
I still don't get how toll roads can also be interstates..
It seems that everyone always gets upset when the government cracks down. The whole point in pirating/ copyright infringment is illegal. Its wrong to take something that someone is not giving away and use it. The fact that you can share your files with all the anonymous cowards on the internet doesn't mean you should.
Do people download music they wouldn't buy, sure. Is there legitimate use for p2p, yes. But it also can be used easily to set out your own inexpensive publishing house and give away what others sell for free.
Information has value, especially in the new economy. I sometimes think people get to bent out of shape when people/companies try to protect that value.
I'm still using IE mac for most of my browsing, though migrating to mozilla.. I like the tabs alot..
I have to say IE mac has been pretty good at rendering most pages and fairly stable. The history tab is really usefull, as is the ability to quickly hide the top navigation bar to get more screen space when on a note book.
It was free and helped MS "Win" the browser wars.. I'll will miss it though...
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I've noticed that apple has removed some songs already.. One song I had already bought has disapeared (pearl jams yellow ledbetter live from stockholm).Although they added new live versions of the same song. I noticed clasical chant music also went away.
I thought it was kinda wierd. But now I have some m4ps that I can't buy anymore..
The artists do get paid by the recording industry.. Yeah its a raw deal for musicans (some lose money), and the RIAA tatics are not entirely ethical.... but the music pirates aren't paying the artists dollar one.
,not the consumer or the artists..
Ask any artists trying to get publicity what the backing of a major label can do..Actually, even better look at the crap that gets on the radio to see what major label backing can do.
The RIAA looks out for the recording industry
Unfortunetly they (RIAA) kinda have a monopoly, but if you have a better way you should start an indie label!
It looks really good.
Does it support Obj C though?
Can it compile Cocoa code?
Jurasic Park was the first major movie to use computer graphics instead of models for the dinosaurs. They actually had hired a model make to do the stop action dinosaurs but the CG were so good speilberg went with them..
I think it was THE major moment when computers where used in films.
Before that there was a sequence in the move "Young sherlock holmes" that used CG to model stained glass knights. But it was a much smaller part.
I think OS X doesn't support video cards fully which makes OSX interface very slow. When Apple announced they'd never support those cards people who had imacs with un upgradable video were upset.
They were told they're machines would be ok to use OS X.
I don't like this remedy. They should have made OSX more backward compatible rather than forcing user to upgrade hardware.
I'm posting this late, but I have a mouse cleaning device from the nice accounting folks at delote & touch.. It looks like a short sqaute cylinder. On end has velcro on it. You remove the mouseball insert the velcro end where the ball was and twist back and forth. Works like a charm. A little too well as mine was at work and has disapeared.
The scripting abilities of OSX combined with access to applications make this a great tool.
I have macOSX a 200 gig drive for my scans. I wrote a perl scipt using imagemagick (gotten with fink) goes through my original scan directory tree and converts all my tiffs to jpegs on another drive. (basicially and incrimental perl backup)
Then I wrote a little apple script to launch the image convertion perl script. So whenever I need to back up I double click on the application and automagic backup!
IBM had a scrolling mouse with one of those notebook pointing devices that hung out between the g and h keys on the keyboard.
It worked well. I miss that mouse. I like the fact the harder you pushed it the faster it scrolled.
I know its music, but apple gets poeple to pay for music. Wall street journal gets people to pay for there services as does bloomberg. Information is valuable. There is no easy way to pay for web pages if you want a little at a time.
Its like newspapers. In boston we have a "Free" daily paper (The Metro) its small but has the days news. The "pay" Boston Globe is much bigger with more depth.
There is a place for both.
This actually is kinda neat. If it can run on glucose it probably can run on fructose/sucrose/lactose and a lot of other sugars..
This of course brings back bad memories of Biology and the "Citric acid Cycle" and ATP..
I remember in a TMobile store the sales guy pulled up a map of my home area coverage on the sales computer. The coverage wasn't good. He sugested I try some other provider (I respect that alot). Ask if you can see a coverage map when you go to buy, if your nice they might show it to you..
I think everyone I know whos had ATT and had to deal with customer service knows ATTs is terrible uless you want to upgrade to a more expensive plan.
A friend is stuck with ATT for a few more months. Since its is only phone line I can tell you talking to him is a chore (the phone is always dropping out )
Avoid Avoid!
http://www.californiacoastline.org/
has a link to the latest in Barbra Steisands lawsuit.. Her house is on the coast and is included in there CA coast photo collection.
This is the page on the lawsuit with links to stories and a picture of her house on it.. Funny those guys. I hope they win.
When there were green screen termninals a student wrote a simple program that took a username and login told the user it was incorrect and logged him out.
He left it running on the lab on the VT100s. It worked. He used the first account to get more accounts. He didn't do anything with the accounts.. (I think the worst he did was some inflamitory emails to some band fan club..)
It did get traced back to him however, but he denied denied denied and they just took his account away.
Ever since then I always make sure the login sceen is correct before logging onto a public terminal in a school or lab.
Keystroke loggers make it worse.. This is why secure systems are so important..
I predict Robots will bring manufacturing back to US/Europe.
So design will become more important as the cost to manufacture goods drops.
One does have to wonder if enough "higher" level jobs will remain to keep everyone working. How much stuff do people need?
It might require a fundamental shift in economies/governments if goods are available significantly cheaper than they are now.
Google is a very good search engine. But it still doesn't always get what exactly what I want. (I have a url from a coworker that is a GREAT description of UDP multicast that doesn't seem to be in googles top 50, and the url is significantly better than any of googles top hits.)
He found it with a different search engine. (teoma.com?/ about.com?). He uses more than one engine depending on what he's doing (He does use google too)
What I'm getting at is competetion is good. It forces companies to make better products because they know if they don't others are going to try too.
Other companies are working really hard at getting a better search engine. Don't expect google to be on top forever, because athough slashdot readers love google, they'll leave it quickly if something better comes along (remember altavista/hotbot/webcrawler etc.. )
In the end everyone wins.
The Intellivision was a great game device (we were lucky enough to hve one.) For 2 player games (football /baseball/autoracing/ armor battle) it couldn't be beat.
I still have mine, and hook it up ocationally.
It had some problems though
The paddles had 16 directions (atari had eight). But those paddles could be hard on the thumbs.. And the buttons on the side of the paddles weren't great.
But it cost more than the atari, which didn't help.The games cost more. Also some where significantly more complicated (entering plays for fotball required reading the manual.) which made it harder for the real young kids. Also It came out later than the atari and had a smaller installed base.
I liiked it anyway..
shipping august ..2000$ and up!
about time..
Out east we have toll roads.. And bridges. They allow a "Pay for use" model for roads. You can go around them and pay no toll but it will probably take you longer.
I wonder how many people changed routes when they doubled the tolls on the eastern end of the mass pike?
I still don't get how toll roads can also be interstates..
It seems that everyone always gets upset when the government cracks down. The whole point in pirating/ copyright infringment is illegal. Its wrong to take something that someone is not giving away and use it. The fact that you can share your files with all the anonymous cowards on the internet doesn't mean you should.
Do people download music they wouldn't buy, sure. Is there legitimate use for p2p, yes. But it also can be used easily to set out your own inexpensive publishing house and give away what others sell for free.
Information has value, especially in the new economy. I sometimes think people get to bent out of shape when people/companies try to protect that value.
He's selling his Mercedes off road vehicle.. then he has a gallery of him beating on it off roading..
He doesn't claim lightly used though...
I'm still using IE mac for most of my browsing, though migrating to mozilla.. I like the tabs alot..
I have to say IE mac has been pretty good at rendering most pages and fairly stable. The history tab is really usefull, as is the ability to quickly hide the top navigation bar to get more screen space when on a note book.
It was free and helped MS "Win" the browser wars.. I'll will miss it though...
Maybe I'm just bitter because when I posted it it got modded -1 offtopic..
I'll stop whinning because Dukes are funny as hell...