The problem happens when you choose to download a file from a web site. Just VISITING the site won't do that. Several others here have observed that setting Safari to not open "Safe" files in the main preferences window will solve this in the short term.
The real problem isn't Safari or Mail.app, it's LaunchServices which needs to smarten up Real Soon Now.
I'm confused. Is this about a program that's on an iPod, executed by the computer into which the iPod has been plugged (which is what I think) or is it a way for an iPod to actually be executing its own code and somehow access the network through the USB port? (which seems REALLY clever and dangerous but extremely unlikely).
Both the article and the summary are poorly written in any event.
I can see someone who wants to play with OS X on Intel to go this way. But why on earth would someone want to put something even vaguely needing security on a system where you don't have a CLUE about the changes that have been made?
More to worry - that hacked components loaded up for the pure purpose of cracking - will start to make their way around so unattended laptops (or desktops although they are less likely) might be easily corrupted.
Would you use ANYONE'S hacks where you weren't privy to the source code and capable for understanding it? It's madness to go that way - just toss privacy to the winds.
Clearly you're not connected to the happening world. High quality, well-designed products have a very important market. You left out BMW and Mercedes in your list - probably because while they are luxury cars they are highly desirable.
Good design has value for those who can afford to pay for it. As long as Apple continues to produce well designed products that work well they will survive because people in their right minds DO pay extra for something nice.
Anyone involved with the raptors around the Altimont Pass would KNOW that wind turbines there DO kill substantial numbers of raptors including golden eagles and a wide variety of hawks.
Yes, it's got squid in the name so geeky is definitely implied. But even more it handles those damned power bricks elegantly. I gave 'em out as Christmas presents and they seemed to be well received.
I mean say WHAT? Are the little gamma rays gonna start taking apart the shielding? I dont' think so. They can destroy the solid state components of the robot of course.
So not only is it a DUP the right-up is by someone whose entire education about radiation appears to have come from watching 1950s science fiction movies.
Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel "Fifty Degrees Below" looks at the consequences of the North Atlantic Convery shutting down. It's not a great novel, surely not one of his best, but it's worth a read. Far too people die from exposure when D.C. gets a sustained period of -50F.
So you need to cool about 600KW worth of heat dissipation. A ton of ac/ is about 3.5 KW or in the neighborhood of 180 tons of a/c required that will take about 1.4 kw per ton to eject that energy. So you'll need another container-sized unit to hold the a/c and then some sort of radiator or cooling tower to eject the heat.
Clearly you're talking about serious energy density here with cooling which is on the order of what it took to cool a 637 class nuclear submarine underway in moderately cool water. Of course you'd really need TWO of those a/c units because you will want to protect that investment (still fits in the same footprint) and be ready to pay some substantial utility bills.
Let's see - Apple is going to upgrade the iBook with Intel and, if the rumors hold, it's going to outperform their high-end PowerBook line?
Does this make sense? Unless the iBooks are so crippled as to be totally uninteresting (slow graphics, very limited memory, bad bus speeds) why would anyone buy an old technology PowerBook?
Now I can see Apple doing the Mac Mini first but not the iBook if its performance really outstrips the G4 PowerBook.
I wonder which solution is easiest on the people who have to maintain wiring and ducting.
With raised floors you're working DOWN while running your cabling up under a drop ceiling (or not) has people standing on ladders. Even with bad knees I'd rather work closer to the floor if I have to go fishing in the infinite cable harnesses.
...Les Nesmond on WKRP in Cincinnati broadcast the great turkey drop during their first season. It might be one of the greatest comic episodes of US television history. Of course we might NEVER see it because of music licensing...
1) modern inks such as Epson's ultrachromes have very long lives on good media.
2) do you REALLY print every image you shoot? It's not like you have to take in a 36 exposure roll of film, have it printed, toss the ones you don't want (talk about a waste of resources) and keep maybe one or two per roll that are really good.
3) it's right there for you to learn on. Printing, like any other aspect of photography, is a skill and an art form. Embrace it if you want to have images that really look good. Explore printing on matte-finish papers, learn a little bit about dodging and burning (and I'm NOT talking RIAA here). Good color management exists on both the Mac and Windows (okay, maybe a bit harder on Windows) but the printer drivers are excellent. HP makes some printers that do fabulous work on black and white.
So yeah, if you print every image you take it's expensive. So don't do it and do a bit of editing.
So I want to go to the movie. Setting aside the cost of popcorn and sodas for two, which will cost more than the tickets, we enter the auditorium and find a seat. Can we sit and talk? No. There's a damn video playing on the screen pimping for a wretched TV series and commercials. This goes on until a few minutes before the curtain when the ads for the concessions come on, a terrible soft drink ad, and the an endless series of trailers for films that should have gone straight to DVD. Often I find myself thinking: "If these trailers are matched in any way to the expected audience for this film, then we've come to the wrong film." Finally the lights dim. The movie begins and it's okay but probably the trailers were right - the film is crappy.
The entire experience of going to the movies is just awful, one brutal and unsophisticated marketing blugeon after another.
Screw it - it'll take a hell of a movie to get me back into the theater again and it won't have penguins: it'll have decent writing, a plot, an understanding of cinematography and editing and it won't substitute CGI for any of these things. Most of all it will understand Fowler's Law: "When anything is possible, nothing is interesting."
Over the past few years I've watched as Microsoft challenging products and technologies have emerged and how a segment of the press reacts to put it down often using talking-points (where DID that phrase come from really?) that seem orchestrated in a way that just reeks of Microsoft PR.
When Dr Dobbs was a pulp you'd see Gates quoted in some profound way and then, a year or so later, you'd find out that behind the scenes Gates had wrapped up the results well in advance so of COURSE he looked knowledgeable because he already knew what was going to happen.
Now I see the nay-saying whispering campaign coming down and have to wonder if the same whispering campaign is at work.
You can either have a ton of devices trying to limit smog-producing emissions or you can work on reducing emissions at a few large sources. I'll all for the latter. Coupled with roof-top solar cell electricity production (in areas where it makes sense) this can have a substantial increase in air quality.
There are, of course, no free lunches, and you have to work at minimizing the emissions of power plants - but it's easier to do this there, where power generation is more efficient than in internal combustion engines.
When contemplating using an HD instead of DV tape I'd suggest that you ponder what you're losing: a field master.
I'm a Final Cut Pro user and when I bring tape into my system the first thing I do is LOG it. Then I can select what I want to capture. The tape gets write protected, of course, properly labelled, and now I can simply save my project files. At the end of a project I can discard the captured video. It's merely a matter of popping in a few tapes should I need to recapture the project.
This saves a TON of disk space that otherwise you're going to have to hold onto - or you'll lose the footage you chose not to keep (but which might be very useful). I've had no problem over five years in retrieving old footage. Yes - you might need to keep a lot of tapes but they are small.
your milage, of course, may vary -- but I recommend you have your camera cleaned and aligned and maybe treat it a little better - respect the tools you want to giv eyou good results is always a good idea.
Why in my time we had to use fingers dipped in mammoth blood (giant ground sloths worked too)!
Linear A indeed.
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Then you're completely disconnected from what it means to run computing systems that need to be reliable.
Who the heck CARES how many "Moore" generations a computer is if it does the job it was designed to do?
If your a gamer or just absolutely have to have the latest and greatest then reliability doesn't mean diddly to you. If your system is supporting space missions (for example) then it needs to be utterly reliable.
The VAX systems certainly are that - there's more engineering represented in those systems than Dell or HP or Apple can even IMAGINE applying today.
Today's desktop systems are, frankly, bare minimum crap compared to the old iron. Today's systems are cheap, throw away, crap.
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for such a CRAPPY book.
The problem happens when you choose to download a file from a web site. Just VISITING the site won't do that. Several others here have observed that setting Safari to not open "Safe" files in the main preferences window will solve this in the short term.
The real problem isn't Safari or Mail.app, it's LaunchServices which needs to smarten up Real Soon Now.
I'm confused. Is this about a program that's on an iPod, executed by the computer into which the iPod has been plugged (which is what I think) or is it a way for an iPod to actually be executing its own code and somehow access the network through the USB port? (which seems REALLY clever and dangerous but extremely unlikely).
Both the article and the summary are poorly written in any event.
I can see someone who wants to play with OS X on Intel to go this way. But why on earth would someone want to put something even vaguely needing security on a system where you don't have a CLUE about the changes that have been made?
More to worry - that hacked components loaded up for the pure purpose of cracking - will start to make their way around so unattended laptops (or desktops although they are less likely) might be easily corrupted.
Would you use ANYONE'S hacks where you weren't privy to the source code and capable for understanding it? It's madness to go that way - just toss privacy to the winds.
Clearly you're not connected to the happening world. High quality, well-designed products have a very important market. You left out BMW and Mercedes in your list - probably because while they are luxury cars they are highly desirable.
Good design has value for those who can afford to pay for it. As long as Apple continues to produce well designed products that work well they will survive because people in their right minds DO pay extra for something nice.
Anyone involved with the raptors around the Altimont Pass would KNOW that wind turbines there DO kill substantial numbers of raptors including golden eagles and a wide variety of hawks.
This is NOT a myth.
Yes, it's got squid in the name so geeky is definitely implied. But even more it handles those damned power bricks elegantly. I gave 'em out as Christmas presents and they seemed to be well received.
I mean say WHAT? Are the little gamma rays gonna start taking apart the shielding? I dont' think so. They can destroy the solid state components of the robot of course.
So not only is it a DUP the right-up is by someone whose entire education about radiation appears to have come from watching 1950s science fiction movies.
OR misread the article.
Barry Bonds find out.
Oh, wait, too late. He's shooting up even as we speak.
101 homers next year.
Sigh
Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel "Fifty Degrees Below" looks at the consequences of the North Atlantic Convery shutting down. It's not a great novel, surely not one of his best, but it's worth a read. Far too people die from exposure when D.C. gets a sustained period of -50F.
It's such a small sample but missing is:
The Book of the New Sun
Stand on Zanzibar
Ender's Game
Ring World
So you need to cool about 600KW worth of heat dissipation. A ton of ac/ is about 3.5 KW or in the neighborhood of 180 tons of a/c required that will take about 1.4 kw per ton to eject that energy. So you'll need another container-sized unit to hold the a/c and then some sort of radiator or cooling tower to eject the heat.
Clearly you're talking about serious energy density here with cooling which is on the order of what it took to cool a 637 class nuclear submarine underway in moderately cool water. Of course you'd really need TWO of those a/c units because you will want to protect that investment (still fits in the same footprint) and be ready to pay some substantial utility bills.
Let's see - Apple is going to upgrade the iBook with Intel and, if the rumors hold, it's going to outperform their high-end PowerBook line?
Does this make sense? Unless the iBooks are so crippled as to be totally uninteresting (slow graphics, very limited memory, bad bus speeds) why would anyone buy an old technology PowerBook?
Now I can see Apple doing the Mac Mini first but not the iBook if its performance really outstrips the G4 PowerBook.
I wonder which solution is easiest on the people who have to maintain wiring and ducting.
With raised floors you're working DOWN while running your cabling up under a drop ceiling (or not) has people standing on ladders. Even with bad knees I'd rather work closer to the floor if I have to go fishing in the infinite cable harnesses.
...Les Nesmond on WKRP in Cincinnati broadcast the great turkey drop during their first season. It might be one of the greatest comic episodes of US television history. Of course we might NEVER see it because of music licensing...
what is a "cooling rod"? And most modern power reactors are water-cooled, water-moderated, not heavy-water moderated/cooled.
I find all of this almost silly.
1) modern inks such as Epson's ultrachromes have very long lives on good media.
2) do you REALLY print every image you shoot? It's not like you have to take in a 36 exposure roll of film, have it printed, toss the ones you don't want (talk about a waste of resources) and keep maybe one or two per roll that are really good.
3) it's right there for you to learn on. Printing, like any other aspect of photography, is a skill and an art form. Embrace it if you want to have images that really look good. Explore printing on matte-finish papers, learn a little bit about dodging and burning (and I'm NOT talking RIAA here). Good color management exists on both the Mac and Windows (okay, maybe a bit harder on Windows) but the printer drivers are excellent. HP makes some printers that do fabulous work on black and white.
So yeah, if you print every image you take it's expensive. So don't do it and do a bit of editing.
So I want to go to the movie. Setting aside the cost of popcorn and sodas for two, which will cost more than the tickets, we enter the auditorium and find a seat. Can we sit and talk? No. There's a damn video playing on the screen pimping for a wretched TV series and commercials. This goes on until a few minutes before the curtain when the ads for the concessions come on, a terrible soft drink ad, and the an endless series of trailers for films that should have gone straight to DVD. Often I find myself thinking: "If these trailers are matched in any way to the expected audience for this film, then we've come to the wrong film." Finally the lights dim. The movie begins and it's okay but probably the trailers were right - the film is crappy.
The entire experience of going to the movies is just awful, one brutal and unsophisticated marketing blugeon after another.
Screw it - it'll take a hell of a movie to get me back into the theater again and it won't have penguins: it'll have decent writing, a plot, an understanding of cinematography and editing and it won't substitute CGI for any of these things. Most of all it will understand Fowler's Law: "When anything is possible, nothing is interesting."
Over the past few years I've watched as Microsoft challenging products and technologies have emerged and how a segment of the press reacts to put it down often using talking-points (where DID that phrase come from really?) that seem orchestrated in a way that just reeks of Microsoft PR.
When Dr Dobbs was a pulp you'd see Gates quoted in some profound way and then, a year or so later, you'd find out that behind the scenes Gates had wrapped up the results well in advance so of COURSE he looked knowledgeable because he already knew what was going to happen.
Now I see the nay-saying whispering campaign coming down and have to wonder if the same whispering campaign is at work.
It sure worked for Rove! Why not for Microsoft?
You can either have a ton of devices trying to limit smog-producing emissions or you can work on reducing emissions at a few large sources. I'll all for the latter. Coupled with roof-top solar cell electricity production (in areas where it makes sense) this can have a substantial increase in air quality.
There are, of course, no free lunches, and you have to work at minimizing the emissions of power plants - but it's easier to do this there, where power generation is more efficient than in internal combustion engines.
And I'm all in favor of increased efficiency.
When contemplating using an HD instead of DV tape I'd suggest that you ponder what you're losing: a field master.
I'm a Final Cut Pro user and when I bring tape into my system the first thing I do is LOG it. Then I can select what I want to capture. The tape gets write protected, of course, properly labelled, and now I can simply save my project files. At the end of a project I can discard the captured video. It's merely a matter of popping in a few tapes should I need to recapture the project.
This saves a TON of disk space that otherwise you're going to have to hold onto - or you'll lose the footage you chose not to keep (but which might be very useful). I've had no problem over five years in retrieving old footage. Yes - you might need to keep a lot of tapes but they are small.
your milage, of course, may vary -- but I recommend you have your camera cleaned and aligned and maybe treat it a little better - respect the tools you want to giv eyou good results is always a good idea.
THOSE were traceable. I suppose the EFF is against them also because they were, in theory, anonymous.
Sheesh.
I see it reported as a server processor but not for the desktop.
Why is this?
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You had Linear A?
Ha!
Why in my time we had to use fingers dipped in mammoth blood (giant ground sloths worked too)!
Linear A indeed.
Then you're completely disconnected from what it means to run computing systems that need to be reliable.
Who the heck CARES how many "Moore" generations a computer is if it does the job it was designed to do?
If your a gamer or just absolutely have to have the latest and greatest then reliability doesn't mean diddly to you. If your system is supporting space missions (for example) then it needs to be utterly reliable.
The VAX systems certainly are that - there's more engineering represented in those systems than Dell or HP or Apple can even IMAGINE applying today.
Today's desktop systems are, frankly, bare minimum crap compared to the old iron. Today's systems are cheap, throw away, crap.