Are those actually quiet, or do they use the same type of housing as the corded "buttonless" Apple mice? The whole shell serves as the button on those, but they're still pretty noisy.
The 1985-ish MS Mouse 5.0 might do the trick if you can find one that still works. These were the beige ones with two brown buttons. There wasn't really any tactile feedback either, so there was a tendency to press too hard which would kill the switches after a while.
iTMS do require that at least some songs be available individually, with the exception that tracks longer than 7 minutes can only be sold as part of an album. This is Apple's rule, you'd have to ask them why.
Album prices are set by the label, with a maximum of USD0.99 * number of tracks.
Apparently some artists don't agree. Many are arguing that people will pay one or two dollars for only one or two songs from an album, instead of buying the whole thing. But then again, why should we go to a store and pay for an entire album when we only want a few?
IIRC there was a management agency or two saying that, but I don't recall any artists saying so themselves (maybe some did, but I missed it).
To clarify, it would be take doofuses to such a high-profile server to be vulnerable to such an attack in this day and age. I mean really, SYN floods are soooo 1997.
A writer in Texas likely never would have seen one. After the initial ZX80 and ZX81 kits, a licensing deal was worked out with Timex for US mfg. and distribution. The models were different, and the business imploded around the time the Spectrum-type machines were first appearing. A mono machine that otherwise looked very much like the Spectrum was sold briefly, and a somewhat different color model did show up for a little while. More here.
So does this then mean that if I install Linux on my computer, and then sell or give my computer away I must provide extensive notification of the Linux installation?
Just leave the COPYING files that were installed there in the first place, and either put the sources on the HD or hand over a copy of the CDs, and you're fine.
Really, this is no different than if you sell or give away a PC that has Windows or Mac OS and some applications installed. In that case, you're expected to hand over the original media as a part of the transaction. The big difference with FOSS systems is that you are given permission to keep copies for yourself.
So if you're now thinking "what's so free about that?" well, in reality it's not very free at all. There are very real strings attached, even if they're not wallet-thinning ones.
I'm curious.. did he do this for a similar reason as the one he claims he created DeCSS for - namely to play back DVDs on Linux ?
The new patch doesn't really accomplish that. It makes unprotected copies of DRM'd files. It doesn't allow one to play the original file without a key. Yes, the distinction is largely academic, but it matters to the people who put DRM on files.
In a way, yeah. The Mac has always been sold as an integrated hardware-software platform, and until a little while after System 7 was introduced, Apple carried that so far as not to charge for OS updates. Supporting new hardware and keeping up with/ahead of competitors makes the OS something Apple has to keep developing. Viewed in that light, repackaging the software as retail OS upgrades boils down to pure revenue enhancement.
Umm, wow, that's some interesting spin. Ink is removed from phone books by churning the shredded paper through what amounts to detergent and water. The nasty metallic inks went away for those applications quite a few years ago.
The de-inking water can then be filtered or evaporated, and what you end up with is the ink that was already on the paper, and some soap.
If that paper is NOT recycled, where would the phone book go? Into a landfill or an incinerator (possibly as paret of an energy plant).
If the paper IS recycled, where does that same ink go? Why, into the very same landfills and incinerators. But the paper goes back into use.
There's definitely going to be energy and water consumption involved in this process, but the same goes for virgin paper.
Quicktime supports plugins, and iTunes can use those. For example, There has been an ogg vorbis decoder that works with Mac iTunes for quite a while now.
So, QuickTime and iTunes will happily support whatever obscure new formats people chose to produce. If you really feel a need to have them, grab the source linked above and start coding.
Well, the Sunncomm "protection" doesn't really qualify for DMCA protection, and I do hope this comes out soon.
In the DMCA, covered protection is defined as follows:
''(B) a technological measure 'effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title."
Autoplay is a user-selectable option, so in the "ordinary course of operation" Sunncomm's system doesn't "effectively" protect diddlysquat.
What I wonder is why the courts haven't gagged McBride yet?
I'm sure that IBM are more than delighted to hand SCOX all the rope they want, and if the defendant doesn't care at this point, why would the court bother?
I'm more or less expecting SCOX to keep a lot quieter about the whole invoicing thing from here out, now that IBM have brought the GPL into the case.
The speedy trial thing in the 6th amendment applies to criminal cases. The SCO stuff to date all involves civil cases. Both sides in this dispute have been allowed extensions, it's all a part of the game.
Why is the 64-bit module an addon?
Intel have poured obscene amounts into Itanic, and no one is really buying it so far. If they enable 64 bits on x86 right now, it will likely kill the Itanic investment outright. The latent x86-64 functionality is there as a quick way to recover ground if AMD's new stuff begins to steal away too much market share.
How does Mac OSX actually handle shared libraries? Are they simply not used?
OS X certainly has plenty of shared libraries, but there might be a grain of truth to the "simply not used" idea. The library set included with the core OS is remarkably rich, so in many/most cases there really isn't a need to install more support for the program [heh, this is reminding me of Ken Olsen's comparison of Unix and VMS, but now OS X is the "it's all there" OS....]. When libraries do need to be installed, they tend to be things like codecs that in turn talk to an existing framework (QT in that case), so the damage is more or less localized and insulated.
Also, the Mac tends to have a "this kind of document is handled by this program" approach, and there does seem to be a bit more "call program X" than "hook into library Y" than you typically see on other platforms. Funny, that, since it's a mindset that Unix started with and kind of drifted away from.
This is all broad generalization, of course. I'm sure that if we all work diligently, OS X can have as messy a depencency hell as any other OS. But for now, most everyone seems to be content to keep breakage on Apple's OS release schedule.
Fuuny thing is, on one of the runor sites a day or two ago, there was an article about 10.2.8 getting released internally to Apple, and that public release might be delayed because some unspecified problems cropping up. Makes you wonder if whoever is supposed to say "stop the presses!" called in sick on the wrong day.
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Are those actually quiet, or do they use the same type of housing as the corded "buttonless" Apple mice? The whole shell serves as the button on those, but they're still pretty noisy.
The 1985-ish MS Mouse 5.0 might do the trick if you can find one that still works. These were the beige ones with two brown buttons. There wasn't really any tactile feedback either, so there was a tendency to press too hard which would kill the switches after a while.
It's part of one of the dreaded Partial Albums, most likely.
IIRC there was a management agency or two saying that, but I don't recall any artists saying so themselves (maybe some did, but I missed it).
At any rate, sometimes people change their minds.
Also, it would be take doofuses to such an oddly constructed sentence. Some day I really must learn how to type. Sigh.
To clarify, it would be take doofuses to such a high-profile server to be vulnerable to such an attack in this day and age. I mean really, SYN floods are soooo 1997.
There's been a ton of discussion of this on Groklaw today -- consensus is that either this is no attack, or their network is run by doofuses.
A writer in Texas likely never would have seen one. After the initial ZX80 and ZX81 kits, a licensing deal was worked out with Timex for US mfg. and distribution. The models were different, and the business imploded around the time the Spectrum-type machines were first appearing. A mono machine that otherwise looked very much like the Spectrum was sold briefly, and a somewhat different color model did show up for a little while. More here.
...when this reminds you of the stuffed TV sets and stereos you made back in the '70s. Somehow, I feel vindicated.
Just leave the COPYING files that were installed there in the first place, and either put the sources on the HD or hand over a copy of the CDs, and you're fine.
Really, this is no different than if you sell or give away a PC that has Windows or Mac OS and some applications installed. In that case, you're expected to hand over the original media as a part of the transaction. The big difference with FOSS systems is that you are given permission to keep copies for yourself.
So if you're now thinking "what's so free about that?" well, in reality it's not very free at all. There are very real strings attached, even if they're not wallet-thinning ones.
The new patch doesn't really accomplish that. It makes unprotected copies of DRM'd files. It doesn't allow one to play the original file without a key. Yes, the distinction is largely academic, but it matters to the people who put DRM on files.
Umm, wow, that's some interesting spin. Ink is removed from phone books by churning the shredded paper through what amounts to detergent and water. The nasty metallic inks went away for those applications quite a few years ago.
The de-inking water can then be filtered or evaporated, and what you end up with is the ink that was already on the paper, and some soap.
If that paper is NOT recycled, where would the phone book go? Into a landfill or an incinerator (possibly as paret of an energy plant).
If the paper IS recycled, where does that same ink go? Why, into the very same landfills and incinerators. But the paper goes back into use.
There's definitely going to be energy and water consumption involved in this process, but the same goes for virgin paper.
Quicktime supports plugins, and iTunes can use those. For example, There has been an ogg vorbis decoder that works with Mac iTunes for quite a while now. So, QuickTime and iTunes will happily support whatever obscure new formats people chose to produce. If you really feel a need to have them, grab the source linked above and start coding.
That hasn't changed. Add iCal to your Login Items prefs and you'll never have to worry about it again.
Well, the Sunncomm "protection" doesn't really qualify for DMCA protection, and I do hope this comes out soon.
In the DMCA, covered protection is defined as follows:
''(B) a technological measure 'effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title."
Autoplay is a user-selectable option, so in the "ordinary course of operation" Sunncomm's system doesn't "effectively" protect diddlysquat.
I'm sure that IBM are more than delighted to hand SCOX all the rope they want, and if the defendant doesn't care at this point, why would the court bother?
I'm more or less expecting SCOX to keep a lot quieter about the whole invoicing thing from here out, now that IBM have brought the GPL into the case.
The speedy trial thing in the 6th amendment applies to criminal cases. The SCO stuff to date all involves civil cases. Both sides in this dispute have been allowed extensions, it's all a part of the game.
Why is the 64-bit module an addon? Intel have poured obscene amounts into Itanic, and no one is really buying it so far. If they enable 64 bits on x86 right now, it will likely kill the Itanic investment outright. The latent x86-64 functionality is there as a quick way to recover ground if AMD's new stuff begins to steal away too much market share.
OS X certainly has plenty of shared libraries, but there might be a grain of truth to the "simply not used" idea. The library set included with the core OS is remarkably rich, so in many/most cases there really isn't a need to install more support for the program [heh, this is reminding me of Ken Olsen's comparison of Unix and VMS, but now OS X is the "it's all there" OS....]. When libraries do need to be installed, they tend to be things like codecs that in turn talk to an existing framework (QT in that case), so the damage is more or less localized and insulated.
Also, the Mac tends to have a "this kind of document is handled by this program" approach, and there does seem to be a bit more "call program X" than "hook into library Y" than you typically see on other platforms. Funny, that, since it's a mindset that Unix started with and kind of drifted away from.
This is all broad generalization, of course. I'm sure that if we all work diligently, OS X can have as messy a depencency hell as any other OS. But for now, most everyone seems to be content to keep breakage on Apple's OS release schedule.
Fuuny thing is, on one of the runor sites a day or two ago, there was an article about 10.2.8 getting released internally to Apple, and that public release might be delayed because some unspecified problems cropping up. Makes you wonder if whoever is supposed to say "stop the presses!" called in sick on the wrong day.