Even if Windows has an "unsafe for execution" flag for files, the DLLs in question aren't really being launched through the new process/application launch APIs that would implement such a flag. These files are being loaded as trusted libraries of shared code that likely bypass anti-virus and other such protection apps.
No, a dial-up modem is not really a network connection in the ad-hoc sense that these systems were probably using. At least to me a "network" involves two (arguably three) or more identifiable and addressable nodes and a dialup connection fails on both.
There's no identification mechanism on either side (IP address, machine name, etc) of a point to point (not PPP) dialup connection you either initiate or answer and once the handshake is complete there's no further distinction between the two nodes. There's no addressing mechanism either, you just pump stuff out your serial port and the other side gets it nor not, you may never know unless you were running a specialized transfer app/protocol like Kermit or X/Y/Zmodem. In fact you can't even tell if there is "another side" sometimes you may just be sending to the bit bucket.
To do that with my remote involves pushing the "Watch Movie" button, and when the DVD ends, pressing the "Watch TV" button.
Its not touch screen, just a Logitech Harmony 670.
The thing that this line of remotes does differently is that you don't control devices, you control actions. My housemate doesn't have to remember to switch to "Video-2" to watch cable tv, or "Component-1" to watch a DVD, the remote knows all that and hides it all behind the simple activity options.
But in this country people do have the right to not go to sleep hungry or be harassed. You have confused the concept of "rights" and "obligations". Just because people have the right to affordable food doesn't mean that anyone has the obligation to provide it. To force supermarkets to lower their prices infringes on their right to charge whatever they feel like for products (what the free market will bear).
So what people are really talking about when they say "people ought to have the right to (fill in the blank", they really mean that they want to take away someone else's right(s) and place an obligation on them to do something they otherwise would choose not to do.
That doesn't sound very democratic to me, more like socialism.
"As for the Acid3 test, Firefox 3 Beta 5 scores only 71/100 compared to 75/100 for Safari 3.1 and 79/100 for the latest Opera 9.5 snapshot. "
Why are you comparing two betas to a shipping product? The "beta" Safari, known as webkit (www.webkit.org), has been scoring 100% on Acid3 for about a week now.
Was it ignorance, shame or malice that causes people to use inappropriate comparisons to bolster their positions?
Are there really people who need more that 6,000 minutes per month ($219)? That's talking 8 hours a day for over 12 days. I can't even get to my 450 minutes limit.
And every time that information moves around it's being "downloaded". Getting something from the internet: it gets downloaded. Installing software from a CD: downloading.. sending an email: download it to the internet. "download" is the universal word for data transfer for the technologically inept.
We have words for these things people: install, copy, upload, send. Learn the lingo or get off the computer.
Minor point: The.Mac page does in fact have a logout button, the separate window that is spawned to display the iDisk contents does not have one. Simply clicking back to the main.Mac page allows one to click "logout" and close the session.
As far as I know this only would affect: 1. Windows/GnuLinux users using the web page interface 2. Mac users forced to use Simple Finder.
Any Mac user with access to the full finder menus will simply choose Go:iDisk:Other Users' iDisk to access their own iDisk from a computer other than their own. Dragging the icon to the eject symbol logs you out of the iDisk contents.
I don't see how the lack of the logout button in the one window is a major security flaw.
1. Training... there's hundreds of PDFs and walkthroughs and dozens of video walkthroughs for almost anything normal people want to do with a Mac. From "What is this row of colorful icons at the bottom of the screen" to "how do I print a calendar of all my favorite photos" and lots more.
2. integration. Sure you can do everything that.Mac does with other services to some degree or another, but with.Mac its all in one place and its all integrated with the software on the machine.
3. Support. One person(company) to call if any of it goes wrong. No having to deal with Microsoft and Photobucket and your ISP and perhaps your camera vendor. One call to AppleCare and they will likely solve the issue..Mac isn't for the geeks, its for the average user. That said I'm a geek and I use my.Mac account, but I get it for free.
Yes, the inability to enter manual music management mode on the Shuffle is normal behavior. All the other iPods (to my knowledge) will ask you if you want to erase the iPod, ignore it or enter manual mode.
To expound on the 'there no physical effect to account for water attracting brass rods' comment. All of the natural attraction/repulsion/radiation forces I am aware of are quite omni-directional. Pulsars are beams but for a very well understood reason. There is no way that underground water would only affect non-ferrous rods when the water is inline between the rods and the center of the Earth (IE you are standing over the water). If this supposed effect existed it would be beam-based anti-gravity which would have tremendous financial/military benefits. Given the nearly limitless potential for wealth and/or power, the continual non-exploitation of this would-be force means one must gather that the force/effect simply does not exist. If it can be detected it can be identified and harnessed. Even if water in the ground were causing the rods to move, the force causing the movement would radiate in all directions (a sphere) and fall off at a probably exponential rate from the source. If such a force existed it would not act suddenly as proponents claim but would act over a much larger area, so large in fact as to make the rods useless. If over the water the rods are acted upon with such force that the handler can not un-cross them, then twenty feet away the force should still be at least so strong that the handler can just barely uncross the rods.
We know 100%, dead certain that there are "sentient beings in the dark depths of space". We are living proof. The job of Seti is to perhaps start answering the question "How many other civilizations are out there?".
I recall it was James Burke in his television series "Connections" that stated, roughly, that over the same timeframe American women spent as much money on cosmetics as NASA spent on the Apollo program.
I don't, not even for a moment, question the spending of money on Seti and similar projects when the entire annual budget for the a project is only about $14 million. The US needs to stop spending so much money on the military/police establishments and start spending more on science, education and arts.
The new Disk Utility in Leopard allows one to perform live partition modification, even on the boot drive/volume. Launch DU, shrink your boot volume, add a new one and set the new partition for TM backups. Viola, backups with only one drive.
That setup does nothing to protect against drive failure (it even causes more wear-and-tear on the drive), but it will protect against data corruption and accidental deletion/overwrite.
TM is not making disk images, it's copying files that have been changed since the last backup.
TM also works at a finer level than just files, it can restore individual records within a file (a single iCal entry, email message or address book entry for examples) without affecting the remainder of that database.
For the home/office user the hourly backups will also alleviate the "accidental overwrite" scenario: backup fires at 1am, you create a file at 11am, then accidentally save over that file with new content at 1pm then change the file three more times that day but don't realize all that until the meeting at 4pm. DV is useless since no version of the file is backed up. With TM the initial version and at least one of the revisions are in the backups. Simply fly back and grab the version (or versions) you need. Complete time to restore your data is probably 2 minutes. TM can't protect against all issues but it is quite a large safety net.
Show me your rsync solution run every hour and automatically manage disk space by only keeping the previous 23 hourly backups, 30 days of daily backups and monthlies for as long as disk space holds out.
When you're done with that make rsync work on an intra-file level so that I can restore individual records within a database structure from within the application managing the records (using the same exact interface as the file restore functionality). Example, restore a single calender entry from within the calender application.
When that's all ironed out make it all work seamlessly regardless of how often the backup drive is connected and turned on.
I tried to use Amazon's MP3 download store only to be stymied by the completely anemic search and sorting capabilities. Choose to search by "Song title" and type in a phrase. You get back all matches to song title, album title and artist. WTF? Worse, I could not find a way to sort the list by song title. Ex: Search for song title "Mary". The first 28 results don't have "Mary" in the song title! Sorry, but iTunes is just an infinitely easier to use store than the Amazon web site; and have you SEEN the Wireless iTunes Music store?? iTMS is just so far ahead of Amazon in style and functionality that I don't see anyone on Windows or Mac abandoning iTMS in favor of Amazon.
Amazon is also mis-leading consumers. They claim $.89 downloads, but it only applies to the "top 100" songs, most other tracks are $.99_ or more_.
Sure the Amazon tracks are DRM free, but the Fairplay rights from iTunes Music store are something most consumers are never going to run up against... 5 computers, unlimited iPods, only 10 sequential playlist burns before you have to alter the playlist or start copying the burned disk directly. And there are certainly enough ways "around" Fairplay that anyone who would be affected; ie non windows/Mac OS users, could remove the DRM on a supported platform via emulation and migrate the music to another format/platform.
I get the sneaky suspicion that there is some back-room politics going on here between the record companies and Amazon and that it is all to benefit the record companies.
Forgive my naivety but why would your god bless instruments of or an organization dedicated to perfecting death? Aren't "love your enemy" and "turn the other cheek" core teachings of jesus and of most Judeo-Christian religions?
IBM holds the record for the first ever 1GB drive (1980) and the first desktop use 1GB drive (1991)
Try searching for the answer and you'll see my point though. Not only is this information not on the forefront of anyone's mind, it's barely accessible as historical documents on the internet.
TOO states " As the first hard drive to reach the terabyte mark, Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 will be remembered, too. Squeezing a trillion bytes into a 3.5" hard drive form factor is a monumental engineering achievement"
I doubt that anyone will remember this in a year. Quick; what was the model and manufacturer of the first drive to pass 500GB, or 1GB. Both were monumental engineering achievements in their time. These milestones will not be remembered because they are all evolutionary; a 10-30% jump in capacity. When we see 10x capacity increases in one generation, THAT name might be remembered.
That said.. good job Hitachi, but we all know that WD and Seagate will be out with their versions in a month or so.
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Even if Windows has an "unsafe for execution" flag for files, the DLLs in question aren't really being launched through the new process/application launch APIs that would implement such a flag.
These files are being loaded as trusted libraries of shared code that likely bypass anti-virus and other such protection apps.
No, a dial-up modem is not really a network connection in the ad-hoc sense that these systems were probably using. At least to me a "network" involves two (arguably three) or more identifiable and addressable nodes and a dialup connection fails on both.
There's no identification mechanism on either side (IP address, machine name, etc) of a point to point (not PPP) dialup connection you either initiate or answer and once the handshake is complete there's no further distinction between the two nodes. There's no addressing mechanism either, you just pump stuff out your serial port and the other side gets it nor not, you may never know unless you were running a specialized transfer app/protocol like Kermit or X/Y/Zmodem. In fact you can't even tell if there is "another side" sometimes you may just be sending to the bit bucket.
To do that with my remote involves pushing the "Watch Movie" button, and when the DVD ends, pressing the "Watch TV" button.
Its not touch screen, just a Logitech Harmony 670.
The thing that this line of remotes does differently is that you don't control devices, you control actions. My housemate doesn't have to remember to switch to "Video-2" to watch cable tv, or "Component-1" to watch a DVD, the remote knows all that and hides it all behind the simple activity options.
Right... because allowing everyone to vote has ensured that politicians are not all older white men who own more than 40 acres.
But in this country people do have the right to not go to sleep hungry or be harassed.
You have confused the concept of "rights" and "obligations".
Just because people have the right to affordable food doesn't mean that anyone has the obligation to provide it.
To force supermarkets to lower their prices infringes on their right to charge whatever they feel like for products (what the free market will bear).
So what people are really talking about when they say "people ought to have the right to (fill in the blank", they really mean that they want to take away someone else's right(s) and place an obligation on them to do something they otherwise would choose not to do.
That doesn't sound very democratic to me, more like socialism.
"As for the Acid3 test, Firefox 3 Beta 5 scores only 71/100 compared to 75/100 for Safari 3.1 and 79/100 for the latest Opera 9.5 snapshot. "
Why are you comparing two betas to a shipping product? The "beta" Safari, known as webkit (www.webkit.org), has been scoring 100% on Acid3 for about a week now.
Was it ignorance, shame or malice that causes people to use inappropriate comparisons to bolster their positions?
But YOUR first mistake was not reading the article.
Apple is not "crippling" software and the "speedup fix" is documented. Result: false story.
Even if this were a speedup, what's the point of scrolling a window faster than the refresh rate of the physical display.
Are there really people who need more that 6,000 minutes per month ($219)? That's talking 8 hours a day for over 12 days. I can't even get to my 450 minutes limit.
And every time that information moves around it's being "downloaded". Getting something from the internet: it gets downloaded. Installing software from a CD: downloading.. sending an email: download it to the internet.
"download" is the universal word for data transfer for the technologically inept.
We have words for these things people: install, copy, upload, send. Learn the lingo or get off the computer.
Airport Extreme router: $179
LaCie 1TB BigDisk Extreme: $369.95
Boom, file server for under $600.
The extreme shares files from the drive over SMB and AFP simultaneously and can allow WAN access. Passworded or open access.
Minor point: .Mac page does in fact have a logout button, the separate window that is spawned to display the iDisk contents does not have one. Simply clicking back to the main .Mac page allows one to click "logout" and close the session.
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As far as I know this only would affect:
1. Windows/GnuLinux users using the web page interface
2. Mac users forced to use Simple Finder.
Any Mac user with access to the full finder menus will simply choose Go:iDisk:Other Users' iDisk to access their own iDisk from a computer other than their own. Dragging the icon to the eject symbol logs you out of the iDisk contents.
I don't see how the lack of the logout button in the one window is a major security flaw.
You left out several big points for .Mac:
.Mac does with other services to some degree or another, but with .Mac its all in one place and its all integrated with the software on the machine.
.Mac isn't for the geeks, its for the average user. That said I'm a geek and I use my .Mac account, but I get it for free.
1. Training... there's hundreds of PDFs and walkthroughs and dozens of video walkthroughs for almost anything normal people want to do with a Mac. From "What is this row of colorful icons at the bottom of the screen" to "how do I print a calendar of all my favorite photos" and lots more.
2. integration. Sure you can do everything that
3. Support. One person(company) to call if any of it goes wrong. No having to deal with Microsoft and Photobucket and your ISP and perhaps your camera vendor. One call to AppleCare and they will likely solve the issue.
Yes, the inability to enter manual music management mode on the Shuffle is normal behavior.
All the other iPods (to my knowledge) will ask you if you want to erase the iPod, ignore it or enter manual mode.
To expound on the 'there no physical effect to account for water attracting brass rods' comment.
All of the natural attraction/repulsion/radiation forces I am aware of are quite omni-directional. Pulsars are beams but for a very well understood reason.
There is no way that underground water would only affect non-ferrous rods when the water is inline between the rods and the center of the Earth (IE you are standing over the water). If this supposed effect existed it would be beam-based anti-gravity which would have tremendous financial/military benefits. Given the nearly limitless potential for wealth and/or power, the continual non-exploitation of this would-be force means one must gather that the force/effect simply does not exist. If it can be detected it can be identified and harnessed.
Even if water in the ground were causing the rods to move, the force causing the movement would radiate in all directions (a sphere) and fall off at a probably exponential rate from the source. If such a force existed it would not act suddenly as proponents claim but would act over a much larger area, so large in fact as to make the rods useless. If over the water the rods are acted upon with such force that the handler can not un-cross them, then twenty feet away the force should still be at least so strong that the handler can just barely uncross the rods.
We know 100%, dead certain that there are "sentient beings in the dark depths of space". We are living proof.
The job of Seti is to perhaps start answering the question "How many other civilizations are out there?".
I recall it was James Burke in his television series "Connections" that stated, roughly, that over the same timeframe American women spent as much money on cosmetics as NASA spent on the Apollo program.
I don't, not even for a moment, question the spending of money on Seti and similar projects when the entire annual budget for the a project is only about $14 million. The US needs to stop spending so much money on the military/police establishments and start spending more on science, education and arts.
Time machine will back up to almost any mountable volume (not those on airport base stations). You can have many systems backing up to a single server
The new Disk Utility in Leopard allows one to perform live partition modification, even on the boot drive/volume. Launch DU, shrink your boot volume, add a new one and set the new partition for TM backups. Viola, backups with only one drive.
That setup does nothing to protect against drive failure (it even causes more wear-and-tear on the drive), but it will protect against data corruption and accidental deletion/overwrite.
TM is not making disk images, it's copying files that have been changed since the last backup.
TM also works at a finer level than just files, it can restore individual records within a file (a single iCal entry, email message or address book entry for examples) without affecting the remainder of that database.
For the home/office user the hourly backups will also alleviate the "accidental overwrite" scenario: backup fires at 1am, you create a file at 11am, then accidentally save over that file with new content at 1pm then change the file three more times that day but don't realize all that until the meeting at 4pm. DV is useless since no version of the file is backed up. With TM the initial version and at least one of the revisions are in the backups. Simply fly back and grab the version (or versions) you need. Complete time to restore your data is probably 2 minutes. TM can't protect against all issues but it is quite a large safety net.
Except it's more than that....
Show me your rsync solution run every hour and automatically manage disk space by only keeping the previous 23 hourly backups, 30 days of daily backups and monthlies for as long as disk space holds out.
When you're done with that make rsync work on an intra-file level so that I can restore individual records within a database structure from within the application managing the records (using the same exact interface as the file restore functionality). Example, restore a single calender entry from within the calender application.
When that's all ironed out make it all work seamlessly regardless of how often the backup drive is connected and turned on.
I tried to use Amazon's MP3 download store only to be stymied by the completely anemic search and sorting capabilities. Choose to search by "Song title" and type in a phrase. You get back all matches to song title, album title and artist. WTF? Worse, I could not find a way to sort the list by song title. Ex: Search for song title "Mary". The first 28 results don't have "Mary" in the song title!
Sorry, but iTunes is just an infinitely easier to use store than the Amazon web site; and have you SEEN the Wireless iTunes Music store??
iTMS is just so far ahead of Amazon in style and functionality that I don't see anyone on Windows or Mac abandoning iTMS in favor of Amazon.
Amazon is also mis-leading consumers. They claim $.89 downloads, but it only applies to the "top 100" songs, most other tracks are $.99_ or more_.
Sure the Amazon tracks are DRM free, but the Fairplay rights from iTunes Music store are something most consumers are never going to run up against... 5 computers, unlimited iPods, only 10 sequential playlist burns before you have to alter the playlist or start copying the burned disk directly. And there are certainly enough ways "around" Fairplay that anyone who would be affected; ie non windows/Mac OS users, could remove the DRM on a supported platform via emulation and migrate the music to another format/platform.
I get the sneaky suspicion that there is some back-room politics going on here between the record companies and Amazon and that it is all to benefit the record companies.
The latter is simply the former with a lot more people involved; effectively there is no difference.
Forgive my naivety but why would your god bless instruments of or an organization dedicated to perfecting death? Aren't "love your enemy" and "turn the other cheek" core teachings of jesus and of most Judeo-Christian religions?
At least according to this page: http://www.patantconsult.com/articlesvault/Article /The-History-of-the-Floppy-and-Hard-Disk-Drive/115 01
IBM holds the record for the first ever 1GB drive (1980) and the first desktop use 1GB drive (1991)
Try searching for the answer and you'll see my point though. Not only is this information not on the forefront of anyone's mind, it's barely accessible as historical documents on the internet.
TOO states " As the first hard drive to reach the terabyte mark, Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 will be remembered, too. Squeezing a trillion bytes into a 3.5" hard drive form factor is a monumental engineering achievement"
I doubt that anyone will remember this in a year. Quick; what was the model and manufacturer of the first drive to pass 500GB, or 1GB. Both were monumental engineering achievements in their time. These milestones will not be remembered because they are all evolutionary; a 10-30% jump in capacity. When we see 10x capacity increases in one generation, THAT name might be remembered.
That said.. good job Hitachi, but we all know that WD and Seagate will be out with their versions in a month or so.
13. Make the thing load and operate faster. At least compared to Safari on my PM G5, FireFox is a sloth.
14. Improve the interface to look significantly less like something a 6 year old would draw with crayons,
... companies that use the ARC logo are returning >profits from licensed products back to the ARC. So whats the problem?