let me fill in the blank: You send a message at noon to someone who is twelve hours ahead of you. They get the message at midnight. They come in to work at 8:00 AM their time, and read your message. They send a response, but it is already 8:00 PM your time, so you don't see the message for another 12 hours when you come in to work the next day at 8:00 AM.
Having to go through multiple iterations of the message to make sure your point is clearly presented can slow things down significantly.
Apple has gained a great deal by levereging OSS in Mac OS X. They not only got a rock solid (especially in comparison to OS 9) base to build their proprietary GUI on top of, but they also have gotten a lot of traction in the serious computer geek user category (just look at all the Apple press on/.)
Their use of a solid, tested (open) base for OS X has allowed them to spend most of their developer time refining the user experience. They seem to be moving a lot faster with OS developement than Microsoft (or any other vendor), currently.
Apple seems to grok the spirt of the open source community, and has generally been a good citizen about giving back to the community technologies from OS X (from bug fixes to packages used in OS X, to Apple paid developer time on OSS projects, to release of Apple software under a open license (Darwin, Rendezvous, etc.)
The article also mentions that the university has recently revised its' policy for dealing with copyright infringement complaints. Students are required to take delete offending material and 'filesharing quiz' or face losing network access.
The article metions that these subpoenas have gone out to 21 universities.
According to quote.yahoo.com, the current market cap for AAPL is 8.87B, so they're approaching the 9B mark already. I think Apple is well on track with the high profit margins and popularity of the iPod, and all the great things they have been doing with both Mac hardware and MacOS X the last couple of years.
The excitement that has been surrounding Apple the last couple of years reminds me of the Macintosh during the System 7 or PowerPC transitions.
Also, it should be noted that Fred Anderson is the C*F*O of Apple, not the CTO
You're right, they have no such obligation. If the university has a general "no servers" policy (IMHO bad, and unproductive to academic pursuits) , then that is something that a user would have to live with. My problem, however, is targeting P2P type programs exclusively. I wonder if ICARUS cuts off users that have HTTP or FTP ports open?
From what I have been able to gather, detection with ICARUS is done by regularly port scanning machines on the campus network. There doesn't seem to be any component of this sytem to allow users to share legitimate content (for example, I regularly use Bit Torrent to share live concerts performed by bands who allow and encourage concert taping and distrubution) --- This really bothers me!
The virus & worm scanner portion of this software is a really good idea, and something that a lot of campuses have implemented with students returning this fall and all the Blaster hoopla.
The Wired article lists this software as open source -- has anyone been able to find a pointer to the source? I searched around Google a bit, but didn't find anything.
DirecTV's tactics are downright despicable. They are preying on individuals solely on the basis of buying a potentially innocuous piece of computer hardware.
DirecTV is counting on the fact that those who they file suit against will either not have the legal resources to fight them, causing them to settle, or that the defendants will realize that a settlement will be better than a long, protracted, expensive court battle.
I personally have purchased smart card programmers before (not from 'satellite piracy' sites) for programming smart cards for authentication use in a home automation system. I really don't know what I would do if I were to face a DirecTV lawsuit. One the one hand, I would like to stand up to their bullying tactics, but on the other hand, I don't know that I would have the financial resources to do so.
This type of corporate bullying must be stopped!!!
Because Microsoft does it to lock people into OS
dependency maybe?
It seems like Apple is guilty of this as well. If I have a bunch of DRM'd AAC files that I purchased from the Apple music store, and that can only be listened to in iTunes (a MacOS only program), I may think twice about buying that speedy new windows box:) (yes, you could burn to CD and rip the CDs into new AACs, but what a PITA!)
This seems to be a great market for Linux, especially with the downturn in the US economy. With software like the Linux Terminal Server Project the machines don't even have to have a disk in them. An old clunker with a fast network connection can easily serve the needs of a school computer lab.
Linux also makes a lot of sense from a durability standpoint in primary/secondary education lab situations. The machines can be administered remotely, and can easily be kept in a consitent state. Administration becomes a breeze, keeping the Linux machines up and running can be a pretty much automated process. Try and do that with a Windows lab!
The only problem I see with using Linux in these situations is finding trained personell to staff the labs. Good Linux people are still hard to find, especially with the lower-than-typical pay scale in primary/secondary education. I suppose this will change little by little as more users adopt Linux both in education and enterprise applications.
what is cool about this device is that you can have your Home Theater PC directly control what gets written to the LCD display.
For example, I have my entire CD collection stored in MP3s on a linux box, running some homebrew jukebox type software. If I had one of these devices to use as a remote, I could select "mp3" from an audio source menu, and it could bring up a list of albums, selected live from the DB on the server. Just touch the album you want, and the HTPC sends out the appropriate IR to switch the stereo reciever's input, and instructs the jukebox to begin playing the album. Hard to justify the $300, but it sounds damn nifty:)
But, MacOSX is not all about UNIX. Yeah, the back-end is based on BSD, but Apple is doing their best to make sure that the end user will NEVER have to see the BSD side of things, unless he wants to.
well, there may not be a whole lot of pratical use for it *yet*, but how long will it be until Joe Public is dumping his old, slow OC3 links for something 10 times the speed?
they are continuing to use the same ATI card that shipped in the previous crop of Powermac G4 machines. The Radeons are not supposed to even ship until September, are they??
Yes, of course the MP3 is not a perfect copy of the track on the CD. MP3 is lossy compression, and you are going to loose some data.
But,I think that the important thing to recognize is that this distribution model gets rid of "Generational Loss". Say I take a CD, and put it on to tape for my friend. Then my friend dubs his tape for a friend, who in turn dubs it for another friend, etc. After this occours a few times (each duplication is known as a Generation), the tape starts to sound like shit.
If I do the same thing with a MP3, no generational loss occours. The MP3 that my friend's friend's friend's friend's friend gets is exactally the same as the MP3 that I gave to my friend.
I think the scenerio you describe is very different from deep Hyperlinking. A better analogy would be to have links on your web page which point to a discussion topic on the slashdot.org server. This link to slashdot.org's HTML document would include slashdot's advertisements. I see this practice as totally different from duplicating slashdot's content in your own web space.
The only problem is that you can't simply replace the Tivo drive with a regular hard drive. The Tivo uses a special Quantum drive which has two sets of heads, allowing for reading from and writing to the drive at the same time.
As I understand it, this is one of the reasons why the Tivo is so expensive.
does any one know of any biometric authentication devices which are compatible with Linux and/or MacOS?
Fingerprint would probabally be the best option for us because of cost. Something like the biomouse which has fingerprint and smartcard would be even nicer.
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let me fill in the blank: You send a message at noon to someone who is twelve hours ahead of you. They get the message at midnight. They come in to work at 8:00 AM their time, and read your message. They send a response, but it is already 8:00 PM your time, so you don't see the message for another 12 hours when you come in to work the next day at 8:00 AM.
Having to go through multiple iterations of the message to make sure your point is clearly presented can slow things down significantly.
Apple has gained a great deal by levereging OSS in Mac OS X. They not only got a rock solid (especially in comparison to OS 9) base to build their proprietary GUI on top of, but they also have gotten a lot of traction in the serious computer geek user category (just look at all the Apple press on /.)
Their use of a solid, tested (open) base for OS X has allowed them to spend most of their developer time refining the user experience. They seem to be moving a lot faster with OS developement than Microsoft (or any other vendor), currently.
Apple seems to grok the spirt of the open source community, and has generally been a good citizen about giving back to the community technologies from OS X (from bug fixes to packages used in OS X, to Apple paid developer time on OSS projects, to release of Apple software under a open license (Darwin, Rendezvous, etc.)
The Indiana Daily Student is also reporting that Indiana students' names have also been subpoenaed.
The article also mentions that the university has recently revised its' policy for dealing with copyright infringement complaints. Students are required to take delete offending material and 'filesharing quiz' or face losing network access.
The article metions that these subpoenas have gone out to 21 universities.
I was wondering about that. Thanks for the clarification!!
According to quote.yahoo.com, the current market cap for AAPL is 8.87B, so they're approaching the 9B mark already. I think Apple is well on track with the high profit margins and popularity of the iPod, and all the great things they have been doing with both Mac hardware and MacOS X the last couple of years.
The excitement that has been surrounding Apple the last couple of years reminds me of the Macintosh during the System 7 or PowerPC transitions.
Also, it should be noted that Fred Anderson is the C*F*O of Apple, not the CTO
You're right, they have no such obligation. If the university has a general "no servers" policy (IMHO bad, and unproductive to academic pursuits) , then that is something that a user would have to live with. My problem, however, is targeting P2P type programs exclusively. I wonder if ICARUS cuts off users that have HTTP or FTP ports open?
From what I have been able to gather, detection with ICARUS is done by regularly port scanning machines on the campus network. There doesn't seem to be any component of this sytem to allow users to share legitimate content (for example, I regularly use Bit Torrent to share live concerts performed by bands who allow and encourage concert taping and distrubution) --- This really bothers me!
The virus & worm scanner portion of this software is a really good idea, and something that a lot of campuses have implemented with students returning this fall and all the Blaster hoopla.
The Wired article lists this software as open source -- has anyone been able to find a pointer to the source? I searched around Google a bit, but didn't find anything.
DirecTV's tactics are downright despicable. They are preying on individuals solely on the basis of buying a potentially innocuous piece of computer hardware.
DirecTV is counting on the fact that those who they file suit against will either not have the legal resources to fight them, causing them to settle, or that the defendants will realize that a settlement will be better than a long, protracted, expensive court battle.
I personally have purchased smart card programmers before (not from 'satellite piracy' sites) for programming smart cards for authentication use in a home automation system. I really don't know what I would do if I were to face a DirecTV lawsuit. One the one hand, I would like to stand up to their bullying tactics, but on the other hand, I don't know that I would have the financial resources to do so.
This type of corporate bullying must be stopped!!!
Because Microsoft does it to lock people into OS dependency maybe?
:) (yes, you could burn to CD and rip the CDs into new AACs, but what a PITA!)
It seems like Apple is guilty of this as well. If I have a bunch of DRM'd AAC files that I purchased from the Apple music store, and that can only be listened to in iTunes (a MacOS only program), I may think twice about buying that speedy new windows box
This seems to be a great market for Linux, especially with the downturn in the US economy. With software like the Linux Terminal Server Project the machines don't even have to have a disk in them. An old clunker with a fast network connection can easily serve the needs of a school computer lab.
Linux also makes a lot of sense from a durability standpoint in primary/secondary education lab situations. The machines can be administered remotely, and can easily be kept in a consitent state. Administration becomes a breeze, keeping the Linux machines up and running can be a pretty much automated process. Try and do that with a Windows lab!
The only problem I see with using Linux in these situations is finding trained personell to staff the labs. Good Linux people are still hard to find, especially with the lower-than-typical pay scale in primary/secondary education. I suppose this will change little by little as more users adopt Linux both in education and enterprise applications.
If you haven't already, be sure to check out DScaler which will de-interlace the signal from your TV card.
I use DScaler with a front projection setup, and it works great!
what is cool about this device is that you can have your Home Theater PC directly control what gets written to the LCD display.
:)
For example, I have my entire CD collection stored in MP3s on a linux box, running some homebrew jukebox type software. If I had one of these devices to use as a remote, I could select "mp3" from an audio source menu, and it could bring up a list of albums, selected live from the DB on the server. Just touch the album you want, and the HTPC sends out the appropriate IR to switch the stereo reciever's input, and instructs the jukebox to begin playing the album. Hard to justify the $300, but it sounds damn nifty
Yes, that is true. The Mac OS ROM is not actually a ROM anymore ,but is a file. This file, however, is still Apple's protected IP.
In order for clones to pop up, Apple would have to license the use of this ROM file, which as mentioned in other comments, they will not do!
I don't think Apple "copied" or "stole" GUI elements from Parc. I believe that apple LICENSED all the GUI elements that they used from Xerox Parc
It looks to me like these are nothing but iMacs re-packeged into Marathon Computer's iRack.
Check out the picture on the terrasoft page, and then look at the marathon page. They look almost identical!!
That would explain the RAM limitations, and the lack of SCSI.
Kind of dissapointing that they are just repackaging Apple hardware!!
But, MacOSX is not all about UNIX. Yeah, the back-end is based on BSD, but Apple is doing their best to make sure that the end user will NEVER have to see the BSD side of things, unless he wants to.
well, there may not be a whole lot of pratical use for it *yet*, but how long will it be until Joe Public is dumping his old, slow OC3 links for something 10 times the speed?
typical troll
they are continuing to use the same ATI card that shipped in the previous crop of Powermac G4 machines. The Radeons are not supposed to even ship until September, are they??
But, unless we strive for a perfect world, how can we ever hope to get closer to having one?
Yes, of course the MP3 is not a perfect copy of the track on the CD. MP3 is lossy compression, and you are going to loose some data.
But,I think that the important thing to recognize is that this distribution model gets rid of "Generational Loss". Say I take a CD, and put it on to tape for my friend. Then my friend dubs his tape for a friend, who in turn dubs it for another friend, etc. After this occours a few times (each duplication is known as a Generation), the tape starts to sound like shit.
If I do the same thing with a MP3, no generational loss occours. The MP3 that my friend's friend's friend's friend's friend gets is exactally the same as the MP3 that I gave to my friend.
I think the scenerio you describe is very different from deep Hyperlinking. A better analogy would be to have links on your web page which point to a discussion topic on the slashdot.org server. This link to slashdot.org's HTML document would include slashdot's advertisements. I see this practice as totally different from duplicating slashdot's content in your own web space.
The only problem is that you can't simply replace the Tivo drive with a regular hard drive. The Tivo uses a special Quantum drive which has two sets of heads, allowing for reading from and writing to the drive at the same time.
As I understand it, this is one of the reasons why the Tivo is so expensive.
does any one know of any biometric authentication devices which are compatible with Linux and/or MacOS?
Fingerprint would probabally be the best option for us because of cost. Something like the biomouse which has fingerprint and smartcard would be even nicer.
I believe that it it not the clock rate, but rather the fact that the machine can sustain 1 Gigaflop (4 Gigaflops peak) that makes it non-exportable.
Also, I believe that it IS exportable to most countries, but there are a few which it is not exportable to (iraq or cuba possibly?)