Many posters have referred to this clause/agreement as an NDA. NDA stands for Non-Disclosure Agreement; ie: you can't tell anyone anything about your work. That is not what these employment agreements are, they are essentially MDAs (Must Disclose Agreements), they force you as an employee to tell the company everything you create while an employee and for a certain amount of time afterward. To follow the letter of the agreement, you must inform the company every time you build something, draw something, think of something. According to the agreement if you have the thought that it might be nice to build a BBQ pit, the company owns that idea and the BBW once it's built. If you explain it to your boss or the HR department this way they will should see the clause a rediculous and agree to a change.
I've never seen an agreement worded the way the author says this one is, all my agreements limited themselves to ideas, products or software of business interest to my employer, and they didn't automatically own it, they simply had first right of refusal.
As a suggestion to the author, see if they will change the wording to something like: You agree that the compnay shall have first right of refusal to any works you create while employed with the company if such works could reasonably be deemed of interest to the company. Works may be ideas, documents, sofftware or phyisical constructions created in whole or in part by you.
This is (IMO) a reasonable clause for an employment agreement. It protects the company from you making lots of money from their resources, and protects you from having your life belong to the company. If an average person (read: potential jury member) can't see any connection between your work and the company hen you don't have to disclose.
I agree. Teach these kids the differnce between a shift and rotate, make them understand what the CPU is actually doing.
To those saying that time would be better spent learning higher level languages better or that development is faster/easier with C*, Java, etc, you're missing the point ot the article. He's not suggesting that more people program in assembly instead of higher level stuff, but that knowing assembly will allow people to program better in the higher level languages. Yes the compiler and assembler will make a lot of optimizations for you, but you likely could enhance the application's performance by making small changes to your code that aren't apparent unless you really understand how your processor does what it does.
Most modern languages allow you to embed or link to assembly code, so you could have the best of both worlds, ease and speed ot high-level development with the speed and efficiency of assembly.
Or at lesst.. you could, but the device would cease to be a metal detector and become something more like an electron microscope thus preventing the very use you metioned.
What is the history of the bar? The history of the bar is that it serves alcoholic beverages. Each and every person that drinks an alcoholic beverage and then operates a motor vehicle is almost definitely a threat to public safety. Whether the offense is arrestable is another matter. My experience/opinion is that about 70% of people leaving a pub and driving are intoxicated above the legal limit.
DUIs kill more innocent** people each year than gang activity. If this mandetory video surveilance is truely a deterrent or provider of evidence, then why haven't these towns mandated video in bars? The rate at which patrons of bars commit crimes or injur other persons is FAR greater than the same instances at cyber cafes.
I know that capitalism is an economic system, but it relies on a social principal of survival of the fit(test). If you don't perform the act of "right product/service at the right price at the right time and place", you loose customers and hence profit and your company dies. The strongest companies survive and sometimes breed other companies. Sometimes the stronger consume the weaker. Capitalism is inextricably linked to a social system.
Most of the failings of the U.S.'s Soclialist/Republican Capitalist society are when government steps in and attemps to regulate the free evolution/development of the system. In this case, if there really were many crimes in these establishments they would quickly g out of business. Who would go to a cyber cafe if they thought they would be harmed? Gangs? Do the gang members pay for computer time? Probably not. No paying customers, the business goes away. The government here as decided to short-circuit the free evolution of the system. IF cameras were going to deter the crimes in question, then business owners would install them on their own, or shortly after the first wrongful death suit was brought against them.
** I use innocent here in the colloquial "not involved as a perpetrator of the crime being commited" sense. Most people are indeed guilty of something if you look at their lives with in any detail.
The IDs that are checked for alcohol and tobbacco sales are state issued, there is no cost inccurred by the business owner for this unless you could the 15 seconds it takes to look at a picture and birth date. The price then would be about $.04 if the employee is making $10/hr.
The gasoline dispensing restriction adds no cost to gas station owners except the one-time application of a sticker at each pump. There is no requirement of enforcement on the part of the station owner or operators. I regularly see people dispensing gasoline in to non-approved containers.
There is no cost to the business owner to check a state-issued ID before allowing a person to sign a contract. Okay.. fine, there's a $.01 cost for photocopying the ID that is offered for later prodcution in court if necessary.
I agree that the government can force a business to operate in a manner consistent with public *safety*. I changed a word there. For a business to operate consistent with public interest(as you stated) is a completely different matter and would essentially require a private business owner to operate as a democracy, only doing and selling what the public wants. In effect this is the case, as if the public interest is not served then the company does not get and business and hense no income or profit and it closes. This is called capitalism, survival of the fittest, and many other things; it does not require futher regulation.
There is a basic tennent of American law that is quickly disapearing: You are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a trial, usually by a jury of your peers. To say that there have been crimes commited by people who gatherin a cybercafe, and that those people must then be video recorded at cost to the business operator is just ludicrous. There can be no legal presumption of guilt to justify it, and that's what the government mandated recording is equivelant to.
If you REALLY think that this is a good idea, then lets go to the next step: All cars that enter the parking lot of a bar will have the driver's face and vehicle's license plate photographed. The bar MUST video tape the actions within the bar and save the tapes for 72 hours. This (by your and the Garden Grove's thinking) would eliminate or reduce the instances of driving while intoxicated. A bar is a place where people are known to gather in groups and commit crimes on the premisis or shortly after leaving.
See, I tend to disagree. Either a business should be illegal and prohibited from operating, or allowed to operate freely without regulation unless public safety/health is at stake.
In this case I don't think it should be the responsibility of the business operators to protect public safety, the local government should increase patrols in the areas, and/or step up gang enforcement.
If you have trouble with gangs commiting crimes, you shouldn't make people record the crimes on tape, you should make it illegal and difficult for gangs to form or assemble inpublic spaces. The video survailence doesn't prevent the behaviors that lead to crime, it just provides evidence after a crime is commited. Pass a law that any three or more known gang members or people displaying gand colors/symbols together in a public space are subject to arrest and questioning.
This law will do nothing to stop crimes in the establishments, and it will do nothing to curtail gang activity. It attempts to shift the financial burdon of "public safety" from the government to the business owner.
As for the pasties and such, I don't understand those laws. First off, it's a matter of sexual discrimination. If a male were to dance on stage, he doesn't have to wear pasties. Second, the establishments are private clubs, and I don't understand the necessity of regulating what people do in private when all parties are conscenting. Third, these laws obviously don't reflect the local "morality", or there would be no-one to work at or patronize the club.
But the cameras in the other stores are not mandated by any law they are there by the sole decision of the business owner/operator. In this case the city is now requiring an operating video survailence system that keeps records for 72 hours.
First, I am an advocate of diversifying my connections, I would never consider allowing my voice, data and television communications to all come over the same wire or even provider. One cable cut or power failure and you're completely cut off from the world with the exception of radio. I use QWest for voice, cable for data and satellite for video.
More directly to your questions:
What I've used and why I chose satellite for video I used to use digital cable for video, and gave up after lousy service from two different cable operators in my area (Mesa, AZ) and switched to Dish Network's Dish 500 system (a 4900 receiver) about 5 years ago. I don't think I'll ever go back to cable. It wasn't just the low quality and unreliable nature of my digital cable; the ADs in the program guide really pissed me off also. Dish doesn't have that. One of the providers was taking up about 1/3 of the screen for ad space on the program guide. It might not have been so bad if it were just ads for pay-per-view, but I was getting ads for beer, cars, etc. Dish does put ads on the "Open-TV" based interactive content, but I really don't use that and it seems to be just pay-per-view ads anyway.
Quality of signal/video My dish is not exactly line-of-sight to the satellites, it's partially blocked by the house, but that's because I prefer the dish to be completely hidden from sight from the street. Still, I've only rarely had loss of signal. All of my outages were when a major thunderstorm cell moved directly in my dish's line to the satellite. Even then I usually only lost one of that sats or just a few transponders. I have not yet lost all reception from both sats. I've never lost video in a simple rain storm, one of our famous Arizona dust storms or the like. There was one freak-ish time that a low-flying(~1500ft) bomber blocked my signal for a few seconds, but how often does that happen? Considering I live 2 miles from the final approach of a Confederate Fair Force wing and see low-flying bombers almost weekly and only had one signal loss: not that often.
There's an aspect to digital satellite video that can be viewed as either a positive or negative: Unlike analog signals, Dish's signals are either on or off. You either get a pristine image or no image at all. There's no snow, static, ghosting, etc. This leads to very abrupt outages when they do happen. The video will play fine, then stutter or pause for a few seconds while audio continues, then it all goes out an you get the "aquiring satellite" page. The only way to ascertain the signal strength is to go in to the "setup" menu of the reciever and look at the signal strength bars for each transponder from each satellite.
PVR/recording options As for the recording option: go with the digital recorder offered/authorized by your digital provider. Recording the direct digital signal from the sats is a much better way to go than a separate Tivo with the extra digital->analog step and extra cabling. I know that Dish's PVRs are now all Linux/GNU based and Dish's source is posted on their site, so hacking should be more interesting if that's your game.
Science television NASA-TV is priceless, but at least on dish the Reasearch Channel out of University of Washington and the UCTV feeds are also tremendously interesting and educational. There's a few other channles with some neat science info, and Free Speech TV (FSTV) is educational on an entirely different level whether you agree or disagree with the messages in the programs.
If yo ustep down just one level to 256MB, the price difference between SD and CF is only $3. It's all about the statistics and how you choose to show them.
The difference is that when you use GnuPG or PGP for text messages the recipients don't have access to your private key and can't generate signed messages with it, so they have no edge and must brute force the key. In the case of the camera, the private key is in the hands of the hackers and can be probed freely in a manner I mentioned.
I would think that when you can run known content through the key that you could narrow down the attack, or outright decipher the key with enough testing. I'm no encryption expert, but I do know that when you put the "black box" in the open, it will be reverse engineered.
I would think that taking a number of pictures of the same simple scenes (all black, all white, all red, all blue, all green, test pattern, etc) in both the "secure" and insecure modes, that you could discerne or brute force the private key. Then you could use almost any image as the souce, sign it and it would pass the verifier. Sure, this may seem like a lot of work, but if we're going to talk about large $$ court cases and matters of guilt, then cracking the camera's key becomes quite a worhwhile investment. But you honor; I have a verifiable image from my Canon digital camera that says I wasn't anywhere near the scene of that crime when it happened.
I'd also like to know how they guarantee that the timestamp of the image in question, does the camera have a built-in radio reciever that syncs to GPS or the WWVB broadcasts and has no user interface to alter the settings?
So I guess that you are also outraged that you don't have the source code to the engine managment system in your computer, or the source code that runs your CD or DVD player or cell phone, or the telco's central office switches?
Are you equally outraged that when you choose a refigerator, you are locked in to single vendor and cant piece together a system from multiple vendors?
Quicktime can decrypt and play the DRMed files for you. You can use standard documented Quicktime APIs from any app to open and play a FairPlay file. The same with Sorenson files, or any other Quicktime supported codec.
I have difficultyunderstanding why you would want to re-invent the wheel here and write your own code to do these things when there's a perfectly good toolbox sitting there for you to call. It's like complainig that Apple doesn't document how to track the mouse and move the cursor around, why would you want to when the OS supplies this functionality for you as part of the toolbox. Yes Quicktime is a black box, but it works.
I do to a certain extent see your point, Apple is sometimes slow (or outright refuses) to release an SDK or even API or file format documentation. The one that I'm personally peeved about at the moment is iPhoto and the format the meta data is stored in. There's no simple manner for a 3rd party to get to the meta deta in a structured manner for use in another program. But the open source community has the same problems to a certain exent. There's lots of neat stuff out there that has no documentation and you have to go look at the source code and resulatant files/structures to reverse engineer it and make your stuff interoperate. But at least you do have the source.
Apache and Samba are related to Mac OS X because they are shipped as standard services components of the OS. Sure you CAN run them under MS Windows, but it's not shipped as part of that OS by Microsoft.
I may never understand the thinking that everything must be open and free, I simply think there are things that are better kept proprietary for the good of the code, or the company producing it, then again I still think there are things that are better done in analog than digital, or with pencil instead of computer.
Funny, this same logic gets modded "flaim bait" when you bring it up with regard to Linux, which is not an operating system. Linux by itself is pretty boring and useless.
As for Mac OS, I can get you quite a bit of the source: Apache, Samba, QTSS, etc. While much of the OS is closed, there is a sizeable chunk that is open. There's also the fact that most of OS X is based on open standards and not proprietary formats/protocols.
See... that official definition fits the US to a "T".
Lets look at Cuba alone:
(i)We coerce the population maintaining a trade embargo against them and offering them money to start coups. It's common knowledge that trade embargos only hurt the general population, not the fat-cat leaders. (ii) We've intimidated Castro many times (or attempted to). He's not very intimidatable apparently. (iii) HOW many times have we attempted to assasinate Catro again?
So if I work under an "at will employment" agreement where I get paid, I'm a volunteer because no-one forced me to take the job? Except for the last definition, most people in the US would be considered volunteers. I'll have to change my filing to reflect that this year, I shouldn't have to pay taxes for doing volunteer work.
Nice job. Gives a much more realistic idea of a crater than the flat image. I don't think the crater is as deep as your movie makes it seem, though. Is NASA just too overwhelmed with workload to put out stuff like thus yet?
While I know what you mean, there are indeed at least two "orders" for the planets of our solar system. Neptune and Pluto tend to swap out for the title of farthest from time to time If memoery serves, Pluto is currenly farther from the Sun than Neptune.
I've only read a few stories about premature battery death, the Neistats being the most prominent of the bunch. I'm not saying it's not possible for the battery to be dead in 18 months. If you go with the estimate of 500 recharge cycles for a lithium based battery, then if you recharged the battery about 28 times per month, 18 months would be the average lifespan.
I've done the math on this in another post a few weeks ago. Whether the iPod uses proprietary internal battery packs, or user replaceable AA rechargables, you'd pay about $50 after 18 months for batteries either way. Alakaline's come in at over $500, or the price of a new iPod and then some. And these calculations are based on about 20 cycles per month, not the 28 the brothers seem to have averaged.
Not really. The iTunes files themselves work on both platforms, whether you rip tracks yourself or purchase them from the iTMS. If you plug the thing in to a Mac, then in to a PC (or a different Mac or two PCs) iTunes will only offer to erase the iPod and copy the new songs to it. If iTunes also re-formats the iPod HD, then I guess no-one would notice (unless it doesn't preserve notes, contacts and alarms)
No, it's not. 've had my iPod 5GB first generation for about 2 years and it sill gets about 8 hours of run time on a charge. down from about 11 at the start
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Many posters have referred to this clause/agreement as an NDA. NDA stands for Non-Disclosure Agreement; ie: you can't tell anyone anything about your work. That is not what these employment agreements are, they are essentially MDAs (Must Disclose Agreements), they force you as an employee to tell the company everything you create while an employee and for a certain amount of time afterward.
To follow the letter of the agreement, you must inform the company every time you build something, draw something, think of something.
According to the agreement if you have the thought that it might be nice to build a BBQ pit, the company owns that idea and the BBW once it's built. If you explain it to your boss or the HR department this way they will should see the clause a rediculous and agree to a change.
I've never seen an agreement worded the way the author says this one is, all my agreements limited themselves to ideas, products or software of business interest to my employer, and they didn't automatically own it, they simply had first right of refusal.
As a suggestion to the author, see if they will change the wording to something like:
You agree that the compnay shall have first right of refusal to any works you create while employed with the company if such works could reasonably be deemed of interest to the company. Works may be ideas, documents, sofftware or phyisical constructions created in whole or in part by you.
This is (IMO) a reasonable clause for an employment agreement. It protects the company from you making lots of money from their resources, and protects you from having your life belong to the company. If an average person (read: potential jury member) can't see any connection between your work and the company hen you don't have to disclose.
I agree. Teach these kids the differnce between a shift and rotate, make them understand what the CPU is actually doing.
To those saying that time would be better spent learning higher level languages better or that development is faster/easier with C*, Java, etc, you're missing the point ot the article. He's not suggesting that more people program in assembly instead of higher level stuff, but that knowing assembly will allow people to program better in the higher level languages.
Yes the compiler and assembler will make a lot of optimizations for you, but you likely could enhance the application's performance by making small changes to your code that aren't apparent unless you really understand how your processor does what it does.
Most modern languages allow you to embed or link to assembly code, so you could have the best of both worlds, ease and speed ot high-level development with the speed and efficiency of assembly.
No.
Or at lesst.. you could, but the device would cease to be a metal detector and become something more like an electron microscope thus preventing the very use you metioned.
What is the history of the bar?
The history of the bar is that it serves alcoholic beverages. Each and every person that drinks an alcoholic beverage and then operates a motor vehicle is almost definitely a threat to public safety. Whether the offense is arrestable is another matter. My experience/opinion is that about 70% of people leaving a pub and driving are intoxicated above the legal limit.
DUIs kill more innocent** people each year than gang activity. If this mandetory video surveilance is truely a deterrent or provider of evidence, then why haven't these towns mandated video in bars?
The rate at which patrons of bars commit crimes or injur other persons is FAR greater than the same instances at cyber cafes.
I know that capitalism is an economic system, but it relies on a social principal of survival of the fit(test). If you don't perform the act of "right product/service at the right price at the right time and place", you loose customers and hence profit and your company dies. The strongest companies survive and sometimes breed other companies. Sometimes the stronger consume the weaker. Capitalism is inextricably linked to a social system.
Most of the failings of the U.S.'s Soclialist/Republican Capitalist society are when government steps in and attemps to regulate the free evolution/development of the system. In this case, if there really were many crimes in these establishments they would quickly g out of business. Who would go to a cyber cafe if they thought they would be harmed? Gangs? Do the gang members pay for computer time? Probably not. No paying customers, the business goes away.
The government here as decided to short-circuit the free evolution of the system. IF cameras were going to deter the crimes in question, then business owners would install them on their own, or shortly after the first wrongful death suit was brought against them.
** I use innocent here in the colloquial "not involved as a perpetrator of the crime being commited" sense. Most people are indeed guilty of something if you look at their lives with in any detail.
The IDs that are checked for alcohol and tobbacco sales are state issued, there is no cost inccurred by the business owner for this unless you could the 15 seconds it takes to look at a picture and birth date. The price then would be about $.04 if the employee is making $10/hr.
The gasoline dispensing restriction adds no cost to gas station owners except the one-time application of a sticker at each pump. There is no requirement of enforcement on the part of the station owner or operators. I regularly see people dispensing gasoline in to non-approved containers.
There is no cost to the business owner to check a state-issued ID before allowing a person to sign a contract. Okay.. fine, there's a $.01 cost for photocopying the ID that is offered for later prodcution in court if necessary.
I agree that the government can force a business to operate in a manner consistent with public *safety*. I changed a word there. For a business to operate consistent with public interest(as you stated) is a completely different matter and would essentially require a private business owner to operate as a democracy, only doing and selling what the public wants. In effect this is the case, as if the public interest is not served then the company does not get and business and hense no income or profit and it closes. This is called capitalism, survival of the fittest, and many other things; it does not require futher regulation.
There is a basic tennent of American law that is quickly disapearing: You are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a trial, usually by a jury of your peers. To say that there have been crimes commited by people who gatherin a cybercafe, and that those people must then be video recorded at cost to the business operator is just ludicrous. There can be no legal presumption of guilt to justify it, and that's what the government mandated recording is equivelant to.
If you REALLY think that this is a good idea, then lets go to the next step: All cars that enter the parking lot of a bar will have the driver's face and vehicle's license plate photographed. The bar MUST video tape the actions within the bar and save the tapes for 72 hours. This (by your and the Garden Grove's thinking) would eliminate or reduce the instances of driving while intoxicated. A bar is a place where people are known to gather in groups and commit crimes on the premisis or shortly after leaving.
See, I tend to disagree. Either a business should be illegal and prohibited from operating, or allowed to operate freely without regulation unless public safety/health is at stake.
In this case I don't think it should be the responsibility of the business operators to protect public safety, the local government should increase patrols in the areas, and/or step up gang enforcement.
If you have trouble with gangs commiting crimes, you shouldn't make people record the crimes on tape, you should make it illegal and difficult for gangs to form or assemble inpublic spaces. The video survailence doesn't prevent the behaviors that lead to crime, it just provides evidence after a crime is commited. Pass a law that any three or more known gang members or people displaying gand colors/symbols together in a public space are subject to arrest and questioning.
This law will do nothing to stop crimes in the establishments, and it will do nothing to curtail gang activity. It attempts to shift the financial burdon of "public safety" from the government to the business owner.
As for the pasties and such, I don't understand those laws. First off, it's a matter of sexual discrimination. If a male were to dance on stage, he doesn't have to wear pasties. Second, the establishments are private clubs, and I don't understand the necessity of regulating what people do in private when all parties are conscenting. Third, these laws obviously don't reflect the local "morality", or there would be no-one to work at or patronize the club.
But the cameras in the other stores are not mandated by any law they are there by the sole decision of the business owner/operator. In this case the city is now requiring an operating video survailence system that keeps records for 72 hours.
First, I am an advocate of diversifying my connections, I would never consider allowing my voice, data and television communications to all come over the same wire or even provider. One cable cut or power failure and you're completely cut off from the world with the exception of radio. I use QWest for voice, cable for data and satellite for video.
More directly to your questions:
What I've used and why I chose satellite for video
I used to use digital cable for video, and gave up after lousy service from two different cable operators in my area (Mesa, AZ) and switched to Dish Network's Dish 500 system (a 4900 receiver) about 5 years ago. I don't think I'll ever go back to cable. It wasn't just the low quality and unreliable nature of my digital cable; the ADs in the program guide really pissed me off also. Dish doesn't have that. One of the providers was taking up about 1/3 of the screen for ad space on the program guide. It might not have been so bad if it were just ads for pay-per-view, but I was getting ads for beer, cars, etc. Dish does put ads on the "Open-TV" based interactive content, but I really don't use that and it seems to be just pay-per-view ads anyway.
Quality of signal/video
My dish is not exactly line-of-sight to the satellites, it's partially blocked by the house, but that's because I prefer the dish to be completely hidden from sight from the street. Still, I've only rarely had loss of signal. All of my outages were when a major thunderstorm cell moved directly in my dish's line to the satellite. Even then I usually only lost one of that sats or just a few transponders. I have not yet lost all reception from both sats. I've never lost video in a simple rain storm, one of our famous Arizona dust storms or the like. There was one freak-ish time that a low-flying(~1500ft) bomber blocked my signal for a few seconds, but how often does that happen? Considering I live 2 miles from the final approach of a Confederate Fair Force wing and see low-flying bombers almost weekly and only had one signal loss: not that often.
There's an aspect to digital satellite video that can be viewed as either a positive or negative: Unlike analog signals, Dish's signals are either on or off. You either get a pristine image or no image at all. There's no snow, static, ghosting, etc. This leads to very abrupt outages when they do happen. The video will play fine, then stutter or pause for a few seconds while audio continues, then it all goes out an you get the "aquiring satellite" page. The only way to ascertain the signal strength is to go in to the "setup" menu of the reciever and look at the signal strength bars for each transponder from each satellite.
PVR/recording options
As for the recording option: go with the digital recorder offered/authorized by your digital provider. Recording the direct digital signal from the sats is a much better way to go than a separate Tivo with the extra digital->analog step and extra cabling. I know that Dish's PVRs are now all Linux/GNU based and Dish's source is posted on their site, so hacking should be more interesting if that's your game.
Science television
NASA-TV is priceless, but at least on dish the Reasearch Channel out of University of Washington and the UCTV feeds are also tremendously interesting and educational. There's a few other channles with some neat science info, and Free Speech TV (FSTV) is educational on an entirely different level whether you agree or disagree with the messages in the programs.
If yo ustep down just one level to 256MB, the price difference between SD and CF is only $3. It's all about the statistics and how you choose to show them.
SD/MMC is so popular because its so small.
The difference is that when you use GnuPG or PGP for text messages the recipients don't have access to your private key and can't generate signed messages with it, so they have no edge and must brute force the key.
In the case of the camera, the private key is in the hands of the hackers and can be probed freely in a manner I mentioned.
I would think that when you can run known content through the key that you could narrow down the attack, or outright decipher the key with enough testing. I'm no encryption expert, but I do know that when you put the "black box" in the open, it will be reverse engineered.
I would think that taking a number of pictures of the same simple scenes (all black, all white, all red, all blue, all green, test pattern, etc) in both the "secure" and insecure modes, that you could discerne or brute force the private key. Then you could use almost any image as the souce, sign it and it would pass the verifier.
Sure, this may seem like a lot of work, but if we're going to talk about large $$ court cases and matters of guilt, then cracking the camera's key becomes quite a worhwhile investment.
But you honor; I have a verifiable image from my Canon digital camera that says I wasn't anywhere near the scene of that crime when it happened.
I'd also like to know how they guarantee that the timestamp of the image in question, does the camera have a built-in radio reciever that syncs to GPS or the WWVB broadcasts and has no user interface to alter the settings?
So I guess that you are also outraged that you don't have the source code to the engine managment system in your computer, or the source code that runs your CD or DVD player or cell phone, or the telco's central office switches?
Are you equally outraged that when you choose a refigerator, you are locked in to single vendor and cant piece together a system from multiple vendors?
Quicktime can decrypt and play the DRMed files for you. You can use standard documented Quicktime APIs from any app to open and play a FairPlay file. The same with Sorenson files, or any other Quicktime supported codec.
I have difficultyunderstanding why you would want to re-invent the wheel here and write your own code to do these things when there's a perfectly good toolbox sitting there for you to call. It's like complainig that Apple doesn't document how to track the mouse and move the cursor around, why would you want to when the OS supplies this functionality for you as part of the toolbox. Yes Quicktime is a black box, but it works.
I do to a certain extent see your point, Apple is sometimes slow (or outright refuses) to release an SDK or even API or file format documentation. The one that I'm personally peeved about at the moment is iPhoto and the format the meta data is stored in. There's no simple manner for a 3rd party to get to the meta deta in a structured manner for use in another program.
But the open source community has the same problems to a certain exent. There's lots of neat stuff out there that has no documentation and you have to go look at the source code and resulatant files/structures to reverse engineer it and make your stuff interoperate. But at least you do have the source.
Apache and Samba are related to Mac OS X because they are shipped as standard services components of the OS. Sure you CAN run them under MS Windows, but it's not shipped as part of that OS by Microsoft.
I may never understand the thinking that everything must be open and free, I simply think there are things that are better kept proprietary for the good of the code, or the company producing it, then again I still think there are things that are better done in analog than digital, or with pencil instead of computer.
Funny, this same logic gets modded "flaim bait" when you bring it up with regard to Linux, which is not an operating system. Linux by itself is pretty boring and useless.
As for Mac OS, I can get you quite a bit of the source: Apache, Samba, QTSS, etc. While much of the OS is closed, there is a sizeable chunk that is open. There's also the fact that most of OS X is based on open standards and not proprietary formats/protocols.
See... that official definition fits the US to a "T".
Lets look at Cuba alone:
(i)We coerce the population maintaining a trade embargo against them and offering them money to start coups. It's common knowledge that trade embargos only hurt the general population, not the fat-cat leaders.
(ii) We've intimidated Castro many times (or attempted to). He's not very intimidatable apparently.
(iii) HOW many times have we attempted to assasinate Catro again?
Define Terrorist.
There's not really a good way to define it that doesn't lump US in that category.
For those that say "you just know", that's not good enough.
So if I work under an "at will employment" agreement where I get paid, I'm a volunteer because no-one forced me to take the job?
Except for the last definition, most people in the US would be considered volunteers. I'll have to change my filing to reflect that this year, I shouldn't have to pay taxes for doing volunteer work.
Aren't volunteer and paid worker mutually exclusive?
Nice job. Gives a much more realistic idea of a crater than the flat image. I don't think the crater is as deep as your movie makes it seem, though. Is NASA just too overwhelmed with workload to put out stuff like thus yet?
For his next "mod", he'll gut a 1947 Ferrari 125 and replace all the parts with those from a 2004 Buick Regal.
Why is this news, and why is it on the front page? Is there no end to these "look! I stuffed a PC system in to a different box" stories?
100% pure vanilla extract is up to 70% alcohol.
While I know what you mean, there are indeed at least two "orders" for the planets of our solar system. Neptune and Pluto tend to swap out for the title of farthest from time to time If memoery serves, Pluto is currenly farther from the Sun than Neptune.
I've only read a few stories about premature battery death, the Neistats being the most prominent of the bunch.
I'm not saying it's not possible for the battery to be dead in 18 months. If you go with the estimate of 500 recharge cycles for a lithium based battery, then if you recharged the battery about 28 times per month, 18 months would be the average lifespan.
I've done the math on this in another post a few weeks ago. Whether the iPod uses proprietary internal battery packs, or user replaceable AA rechargables, you'd pay about $50 after 18 months for batteries either way. Alakaline's come in at over $500, or the price of a new iPod and then some. And these calculations are based on about 20 cycles per month, not the 28 the brothers seem to have averaged.
Not really.
The iTunes files themselves work on both platforms, whether you rip tracks yourself or purchase them from the iTMS.
If you plug the thing in to a Mac, then in to a PC (or a different Mac or two PCs) iTunes will only offer to erase the iPod and copy the new songs to it. If iTunes also re-formats the iPod HD, then I guess no-one would notice (unless it doesn't preserve notes, contacts and alarms)
No, it's not. 've had my iPod 5GB first generation for about 2 years and it sill gets about 8 hours of run time on a charge. down from about 11 at the start