I refill the 10GB on my iPod weekly. I'm at about 26 GB of MP3s (with still more cd's to convert yet) and it's easier to just delete everything on the iPod and upload whatever set of playlists i'm in the mood for.
No way would i go with a USB 1 device for over 250MB.
I'm guessing they have patents on DjVu, purchased from AT&T.
I use LizardTech's MrSID product for GIS imagery and they are hardcore about declaring (and enforcing) their patents on the wavelet compressions it uses.
That said, MrSID compressed images are amazing tight with very good resolution.
PNG is lossless. JPG is lossy. JPG can make files smaller than PNG (at least at aggressive compression ratios). Websites want the smallest file they can get to speed browsing (ok, at least responsible websites would want the smaller file)
So yes PNG is a great format, especially for intermediate work in a graphics workflow, but a lossy compression is desirable for an end product to get a smaller file.
That's only true if the checksum to be checked is embedded in the file that is downloaded with no independent way of verifying the checksum.
Since Apple has provided a web page with the checksum listed you can check the signature yourself. They also used the SHA1 method for generating the checksum, which guarantees there can be no other file/message with the same signature.
If you use Apple's secure page to independently check the checksum the following steps need to take place to present a false update:
a) DNS spoof Apple.com b) Get a forged SSL certificate in apple's name (not impossible, remember someone got a Microsoft certificate not too many months ago) c) provide your own update and the signature for that update
Not an impossible scenario, but not an easy one either.
Assuming you got a real software update the scenario becomes more difficult by adding a public key signature on the update, so now the private key (assuming they aren't signing them with multiple keys) also needs to be cracked to provide a bogus update.
The most likely source of a bogus update becomes an insider at Apple using the legitimate software update process to provide a properly signed bogus update.
I thought Unicode was allowed in domain names now. this company will register domain names in asian character sets (i've no idea how worthwhile that company is, it popped up on google when I searched on unicode domian name)
iteresting bit is that you must pay for all eligible machines, if they run microsoft software or not:
"School Agreement requires an institution-wide commitment. To that end, you must include all of the eligible PCs in the participating school(s) or district. Eligible PCs include all of the Pentium machines, Power Macs, iMacs or better. You must also include any number of 486 machines or below and any Apple, UNIX, or Windows Terminals on which any of the software will be run."
So if you sign up, then move to something else, you still gotta pay.
Not sure if you pay per package installed (i.e. do you pay for Windows OS on iMac's?)
firewire is apple's trademark and i believe if you call your device "firewire" you have to give them more money (more than just the royalty for the firewire patent, which apple also owns)
and in the very next question he says code doesn't need to be rewritten from the ground up! huh?
so in the first 2 questions we have: a) My code doesn't decay because I rewrite it (duh, code decay happens to un-maintaned code. same as unmaintained steel rusts)
b) even though I rewrite my functions from the ground up, software doesn't need to be rewritten from the ground up
then in the question on bloatware he moves from talking about code to talking about content -- different subjects! adding 10,000 articles to an encylopedia makes it heavier -- it doesn't make the encyclopedia go up in flames because they were written poorly. or give you the flu because of poor security.
actually i thought putting the LED's in the eyes and the port's in the hands and feet a little more original than hollowing out the bear and stuffing a switch in it.
weird, if i'm watching something and something else is scheduled it always pops up and asks if i want to switch or keep recording the current show, it doesn't just do it.
also, you can schedule to record over on sports events but you have to do it in advance when setting up the recording.
since tivo works off the guide service, not some actual broadcast "this show is...." it has no way of telling when a game runs long. So the option is to cut off the end of one game to get someother show you specified you wanted, or guess that it'll run X minutes over and cut off the first few minutes of another show.
You mean if Microsoft had some device, say they called it "Ultimate TV" that did exactly the same thing as TiVo would I believe their assertions? No, and apparently a lot of other people don't either. Ultimate TV is being shut down.
TiVo != Microsoft. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.
If they were to change their privacy policy to get rid of the "anonymous" factor, or make some other change -- then yeah i'd drop the service.
or it was proven they really do know who records the playboy channel 24 hours a day, then again i'd drop the service.
but so far their track record has been acceptable to me.
TiVo doesn't count recorded as watched. Since your (and my) TiVo also records button strokes, they know you never hit play to watch the superbowl, never hit rewind to rewatch a scene and just deleted it off the list (if it even showed up on the list).
so they got just fine data from you (and me, who didn't watch it either...)
It doesn't call home everytime you launch or use it, in fact I don't think it calls home at all. The process described has to do with the process of updating an old serial number for the new version (or getting a new registation number after purchasing -- but those are valid numbers anyway), this process is browser based, not built into the app.
What's really interesting is the 107 people that tried to use a "pirated" number, when through the process of trying to update the old pirated number to a new valid number for the new version.
In other words, this was people taking time to run through a registration process, but not having time to pay for the software.
jeez.
i pay for shareware i use, but prefer to find a free solution first.
and maelstrom is still a kick-ass game from Ambrosia (it's like 10 years old now and still fun)
I accidently connected to an AA wireless network in Dallas. This was way before 9/11. At first I thought it was a freebie for exec flyers, once i realized it was their business network i disconnected.
they had a dhcp server that assigned ip/dns to anyone that connected.
didn't even think about it again until i read this article.
long cable from far side station to near side, transmit back from there.
or antennae at line of site around to near side.
I'm not sure there's a moon stationary orbit that's stable enough not to need fuel to correct the orbit. there is a huge gravity well that gets in the way.
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but the number of firewire computers is > than the number of USB 2.0 ready computers.
USB 2.0 devices usually work with USB 1 computers, but the speed sucks (and IMO for a 10GB device is unusable).
Of course the real reason most media players go with USB 2 over Firewire -- USB is royalty free, Firewire requires royalties paid to Apple.
So the iPod for Windows gives an additional little kickback to Apple when the owner has to buy a Firewire card too.
I refill the 10GB on my iPod weekly. I'm at about 26 GB of MP3s (with still more cd's to convert yet) and it's easier to just delete everything on the iPod and upload whatever set of playlists i'm in the mood for.
No way would i go with a USB 1 device for over 250MB.
I'm guessing they have patents on DjVu, purchased from AT&T.
I use LizardTech's MrSID product for GIS imagery and they are hardcore about declaring (and enforcing) their patents on the wavelet compressions it uses.
That said, MrSID compressed images are amazing tight with very good resolution.
PNG is lossless. JPG is lossy. JPG can make files smaller than PNG (at least at aggressive compression ratios). Websites want the smallest file they can get to speed browsing (ok, at least responsible websites would want the smaller file)
So yes PNG is a great format, especially for intermediate work in a graphics workflow, but a lossy compression is desirable for an end product to get a smaller file.
No, that was UniSys:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
Apple is strangling Firewire adoption (IEEE 1394) with patent royalty fees.
That's only true if the checksum to be checked is embedded in the file that is downloaded with no independent way of verifying the checksum.
Since Apple has provided a web page with the checksum listed you can check the signature yourself. They also used the SHA1 method for generating the checksum, which guarantees there can be no other file/message with the same signature.
If you use Apple's secure page to independently check the checksum the following steps need to take place to present a false update:
a) DNS spoof Apple.com
b) Get a forged SSL certificate in apple's name (not impossible, remember someone got a Microsoft certificate not too many months ago)
c) provide your own update and the signature for that update
Not an impossible scenario, but not an easy one either.
Assuming you got a real software update the scenario becomes more difficult by adding a public key signature on the update, so now the private key (assuming they aren't signing them with multiple keys) also needs to be cracked to provide a bogus update.
The most likely source of a bogus update becomes an insider at Apple using the legitimate software update process to provide a properly signed bogus update.
if you want to make sure this update is valid you can read the update info and verify the checksum
or for the extra paranoid, check the secure page
You can reduce the pause between tracks in the iTunes preferences (you can also use the preferences to have it make MP3 cd's instead of Audio cd's).
You can't grab a bunch AIFF's from an original CD and make a new Audio cd -- that is true, iTunes wants to make them into MP3s first.
I'm pretty sure you can use Disk Copy to duplicate an audio CD (rather than using rip/burn via iTunes -- that was for making custom mix cd's).
Not sure it can do all the game type cd's. some of those have funky protections on them that Disc Copy may get wrong (on purpose?). I haven't tried.
Not sure about DVD burning but I got rid of both Toast and Charismac's Discribe and just use the built-in cd burning software.
.dmg images to cd to making audio cd's via iTunes.
Does everything I need from burning files or whole
And I don't have to deal with Roxio's obnoxiousness.
I thought Unicode was allowed in domain names now. this company will register domain names in asian character sets (i've no idea how worthwhile that company is, it popped up on google when I searched on unicode domian name)
why wouldn't you hook an iPod up? A 10GB emergency boot disk 8-)
Also a lot of these are probably destined for video/audio editing tables where space is a premium. a front side firewire would be really nice there.
Oh and the xserve comes with 2-10/100/1000 Mb/s ports. dual-gigabit, drool, drool, drool.
you can't network OS X via firewire yet. that is supposed to be introduced in OS X 10.2 later this year.
yes i did. i was pointing out the problem if they sign up now and decide to move later. not imply that they were already screwed.
decisions under pressure can sometimes lead to not thinking about long term consequences.
Microsoft's School Agreement 3.0 (Word doc of course)
iteresting bit is that you must pay for all eligible machines, if they run microsoft software or not:
"School Agreement requires an institution-wide commitment. To that end, you must include all of the eligible PCs in the participating school(s) or district. Eligible PCs include all of the Pentium machines, Power Macs, iMacs or better. You must also include any number of 486 machines or below and any Apple, UNIX, or Windows Terminals on which any of the software will be run."
So if you sign up, then move to something else, you still gotta pay.
Not sure if you pay per package installed (i.e. do you pay for Windows OS on iMac's?)
firewire is apple's trademark and i believe if you call your device "firewire" you have to give them more money (more than just the royalty for the firewire patent, which apple also owns)
so everyone comes out with their own name.
so in the first 2 questions we have:
a) My code doesn't decay because I rewrite it (duh, code decay happens to un-maintaned code. same as unmaintained steel rusts)
b) even though I rewrite my functions from the ground up, software doesn't need to be rewritten from the ground up
then in the question on bloatware he moves from talking about code to talking about content -- different subjects! adding 10,000 articles to an encylopedia makes it heavier -- it doesn't make the encyclopedia go up in flames because they were written poorly. or give you the flu because of poor security.
actually i thought putting the LED's in the eyes and the port's in the hands and feet a little more original than hollowing out the bear and stuffing a switch in it.
took a bit more skill, but not much.
must be a slow day....
weird, if i'm watching something and something else is scheduled it always pops up and asks if i want to switch or keep recording the current show, it doesn't just do it.
also, you can schedule to record over on sports events but you have to do it in advance when setting up the recording.
since tivo works off the guide service, not some actual broadcast "this show is...." it has no way of telling when a game runs long. So the option is to cut off the end of one game to get someother show you specified you wanted, or guess that it'll run X minutes over and cut off the first few minutes of another show.
it's only a computer, not an AI.
You mean if Microsoft had some device, say they called it "Ultimate TV" that did exactly the same thing as TiVo would I believe their assertions? No, and apparently a lot of other people don't either. Ultimate TV is being shut down.
TiVo != Microsoft. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.
If they were to change their privacy policy to get rid of the "anonymous" factor, or make some other change -- then yeah i'd drop the service.
or it was proven they really do know who records the playboy channel 24 hours a day, then again i'd drop the service.
but so far their track record has been acceptable to me.
TiVo doesn't count recorded as watched. Since your (and my) TiVo also records button strokes, they know you never hit play to watch the superbowl, never hit rewind to rewatch a scene and just deleted it off the list (if it even showed up on the list).
so they got just fine data from you (and me, who didn't watch it either...)
It doesn't call home everytime you launch or use it, in fact I don't think it calls home at all. The process described has to do with the process of updating an old serial number for the new version (or getting a new registation number after purchasing -- but those are valid numbers anyway), this process is browser based, not built into the app.
What's really interesting is the 107 people that tried to use a "pirated" number, when through the process of trying to update the old pirated number to a new valid number for the new version.
In other words, this was people taking time to run through a registration process, but not having time to pay for the software.
jeez.
i pay for shareware i use, but prefer to find a free solution first.
and maelstrom is still a kick-ass game from Ambrosia (it's like 10 years old now and still fun)
kevin
High-res originals are here, and more info can be found here:
h ot -02-02.html
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/p
I think the arguments against this license are the opposite of those BSD people make against GPL.
GPL is disliked by BSD because it forces developers to release derived software under GPL.
BSD people dislike the above because it doesn't allow relicensing.
The BSD license allows derivative software to be licensed anyway the developer of the derivative software wishes (even as proprietary).
I accidently connected to an AA wireless network in Dallas. This was way before 9/11. At first I thought it was a freebie for exec flyers, once i realized it was their business network i disconnected.
they had a dhcp server that assigned ip/dns to anyone that connected.
didn't even think about it again until i read this article.
long cable from far side station to near side, transmit back from there.
or antennae at line of site around to near side.
I'm not sure there's a moon stationary orbit that's stable enough not to need fuel to correct the orbit. there is a huge gravity well that gets in the way.