I left Javascript enabled in Konqueror, but set "open new windows" to "ask" in preferences and set the other JS policies to "ignore." Site displayed normally, and the spoofed text entry box didn't launch.
It's October and right now the land in the west is pretty dry, and there have already been quite a few decent sized fires in California. What if the magma starts flowing and creates forest fires? Would the government try to put out the fires? How?
Pretty simple: Tommy Lee Jones will dynamite a high rise conveniently located near the path of the flow and divert the lava into the Pacific.
Don't you watch any movies? This is done all the time.
You're right that mutual consent is an essential component of any contract, but properly written software EULAs have generally been held to be enforceable since ProCD v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996). Unless there's some fatal flaw in the wording of Apple's EULA -- which would greatly surprise me -- pleading ignorance of its terms will probably not be sufficient defense against its violation.
I'll bet Apple with attempt to enjoin Cherry OS on the basis that it has no legitimate use. To utilize Cherry OS, you must load a copy of OS X into something other than the single Apple-labeled computer allowed by the EULA. There is no legal application for Cherry OS' software.
Surely Cherry OS has considered this and has prepared a clever answer for the inevitable cease and desist from Cupertino. But it had better be a very clever answer, indeed.
I think the title was "The Discovery of a World in the Moone." There's a reproduction of the rather cool title page here.
I'd love to find a facsimile of "Discovery." They pop up at antiquarian book auctions now and then, fetching out-of-this-world prices.
Facinating guy, I agree. Science hadn't yet figured out that space is a vacuum, and Wilkins confused magnetism and gravity. Still, he was a modern mind in a world still gripped by superstition. Pretty clear-eyed for a man of faith. Good for him.
That's true, but Jobs has hinted that Apple *did* design an updated version of the Newton that never made it to market. Think Secret might have been right.
While no rumor site is 100% on-the-money, I've found TS to be the best of the bunch. They're not given to empty speculation.
About 8% of my iPod library was legally licensed through Apple's iTunes store. The remaining 92% is entirely composed of rips from my own CDs.
Ballmer has -- once again -- overstated the facts. I'm also the owner of a licensed copy of Office v. X for Mac. So Ballmer has just called at least one of his customers a crook for no damn good reason.
What awful PR folks these Microsoft people are. What's next -- suing some kid for having a web address that sounds like the word "Microsoft"? Oh... never mind.
> Sipping my first coffee of the day, I almost spit it out when I saw "Breaking News" on CNN's site
*Breaking* news pretty much describes the capsule, I'd agree.
1) Why do they feel the need to complicate the iPod? People love the fact that it does one primary thing, and does it brilliantly. The iPod is expensive enough without any more frills.
A Wi-Fi iPod will allow you to stream internet broadcasts. It will be the beginning of a terrestrial competitor to what we now know as radio.
Okay, I'll be the Luddite here. Flame away and mod me down.
First, I love digital music and have my entire library in iTunes.
Duke's iPod program is a stupid idea. It's a recruitment perk with little legitimate educational value.
If Duke thinks Mr. Undergrad is going to be listening to Professor Flatulent's geology lecture while out jogging instead of paging through their Audioslave tracks, they've got another thing coming. If they believe Miss Undergrad will be up late studying, rather than melting the university's WAN swapping MP3s, Duke is in for a rude awakening.
Virtually all Duke students will have their own PCs. If the school wants to distribute MP3 instruction or event calendars, there's already an infrastructure to support it.
There are plenty of kids who can't even afford the tuition for community college (thank you, Mr. Bush). The price of an iPod would cover 3 semester hours at most of these institutions. If Duke really wants to do something to improve their campus' test scores, they should put a couple dozen kids who can't afford their University into a year's community college and offer scholarships to those who really distinguish themselves.
On the desktop side, I see no advantage of running Linux rather than OS X. Don't get me wrong, I use Linux on my IBM laptop all the time, but on OS X I can run the same programs and also all the nice Mac OS X only things like iTunes.
I primarily run OS X these days, but I've lived with Yellow Dog on an older iBook and it was a great experience. Nobody is even close to Terrasoft's Mac hardware support, particularly on laptops. My iBook YDL 3.0 install was even better behaved on PPC than its parent, Red Hat 8, was on x86. Airport and power control works right out of the box.
I'm with you on iTunes. But guess what? It will be supported by Codeweavers in the full release of Crossover Office 3.1.
The primary reasons for running YDL on Apple hardware are the same as running Linux on any platform: free or inexpensive software and freedom from Corporate hegemony. OS X totally rocks. But it ain't cheap, and you'll sink big dollars approximating the functionality of Linux' totally free Open Office, GIMP, and so on. The boxed edition of YDL is quite reasonably priced, and comes with the riches of Open Source software we all take for granted.
In a commercial setting, Mac hardware is elegant and durable. More importantly, Terrasoft is an authorized Apple reseller. That means great support, making PPC Linux a viable alternative for mission-critical installations.
I'm not sure YDL's claim to be lighter than OS X is justified these days. OS X has been running pretty well since Jaguar (even on older G3s), and the big two desktops are... well... pretty big. But with Linux on PPC, you can pick and choose window managers and programs to get the most out of your hardware. Can't really do that on OS X.
Finally, a lot of people simply *like* their Linux desktop environments. KDE folks get used to the way KDE works, and the same could be said for Gnome or Windowmaker or whatever. Familiarity breeds efficiency.
I have money in OS X software, so I run Panther on all my Apple gear. But Linux is a great call for a lot of PPC users. And it will scream on a dual G5 when Terrasoft releases their 64-bit native suite.
I'm running OS X and believe the DRM won't install if you disable autorun in the Classic Quicktime player (simple enough). I don't have Classic on this machine, so it shouldn't be an issue.
Still...
If Velvet Revolver can hold itself together, they could end up being an important band. What a lineup. As for the Beasties, they show up Limp Bizkit as the wannabes they are. I'm just disappointed they tolerate the record business' heavy-handed attempt at meddling with our machines.
I'm not against all DRM, and I do not swap music files. Apple's licensing, for instance, seems reasonable for my needs. Maybe the record companies could license Apple's technology and make it possible to rip CDs through iTunes. Apple would broker the transaction and be rebated a dime or so by the label for each transaction. That would take care of all the iPod owners (and at least half of all portable music devices).
Gotta take slight issue with you on the Who. They were the Beastie Boys of their era. Sure, "My Generation" sounds a bit quaint now. But it was incendiary then, and the Beasties are in the Who's debt.
Thought of that (and I like the iTunes store). But I'm really hooked on Apple's lossless codec. Sounds *much* better to me, and iTunes downloads are all 160kbps AAC.
I'm not dissing the iTunes store -- I have a lot of their music. But I prefer the option of a high-quality rip.
What is most distressing is that the Beasties are the second DRM CD to hit the top of the chart. Boroughs displaced Velvet Revolver's Contraband at #1. Contraband is also DRM "protected."
This should open the floodgates. If record companies were ever shy of DRM, now they'll know people will buy their defective wares, anyway.
I'd like a copy of Velvet Revolver. But I won't buy it until I can find a copy on the used market. If the entire Slashdot world quit buying CDs, it would hardly make a dent (not that Slashdotters *always* pay for their music). But it's the principle of the whole thing.
My main bitch with DRM CDs is that it might make it more difficult to rip legally purchased music to my hard drive. I don't even own a standalone CD player these days, and I want to be able to load my library on an iPod. All perfectly legal activities, but Big Music wants to dictate how I listen and store my music. In the owrds of our Vice President, f*ck them.
And f*ck artists who go along with it. Maybe I don't need that Velvet Revolver CD, after all.
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... because it could be used as a weapon.
Shouldn't John Ashcroft be out chasing Osama bin Laden or something?
Okay, I nominate the phrase "iPod Killer" for the most overused tech cliche of 2004. Any seconds?
Yup: that occured to me. Vaporware won't violate anyone's EULA. ;-)
Pretty simple: Tommy Lee Jones will dynamite a high rise conveniently located near the path of the flow and divert the lava into the Pacific.
Don't you watch any movies? This is done all the time.
I'll bet Apple with attempt to enjoin Cherry OS on the basis that it has no legitimate use. To utilize Cherry OS, you must load a copy of OS X into something other than the single Apple-labeled computer allowed by the EULA. There is no legal application for Cherry OS' software.
Surely Cherry OS has considered this and has prepared a clever answer for the inevitable cease and desist from Cupertino. But it had better be a very clever answer, indeed.
Adults riding with helmets generally look less dorky after a casual impact than their uber-cool, non-helmet-wearing bretheren.
I'd be real interested to see if the OS X EULA allows the software to be run on non-Mac hardware. Anyone got theirs handy?
Ya figure? ;-)
I'd love to find a facsimile of "Discovery." They pop up at antiquarian book auctions now and then, fetching out-of-this-world prices.
Facinating guy, I agree. Science hadn't yet figured out that space is a vacuum, and Wilkins confused magnetism and gravity. Still, he was a modern mind in a world still gripped by superstition. Pretty clear-eyed for a man of faith. Good for him.
While no rumor site is 100% on-the-money, I've found TS to be the best of the bunch. They're not given to empty speculation.
Ballmer has -- once again -- overstated the facts. I'm also the owner of a licensed copy of Office v. X for Mac. So Ballmer has just called at least one of his customers a crook for no damn good reason.
What awful PR folks these Microsoft people are. What's next -- suing some kid for having a web address that sounds like the word "Microsoft"? Oh
> Sipping my first coffee of the day, I almost spit it out when I saw "Breaking News" on CNN's site *Breaking* news pretty much describes the capsule, I'd agree.
A Wi-Fi iPod will allow you to stream internet broadcasts. It will be the beginning of a terrestrial competitor to what we now know as radio.
Worth doing.
... if it's possible to lockout the Lockout feature?
First, I love digital music and have my entire library in iTunes.
Duke's iPod program is a stupid idea. It's a recruitment perk with little legitimate educational value.
If Duke thinks Mr. Undergrad is going to be listening to Professor Flatulent's geology lecture while out jogging instead of paging through their Audioslave tracks, they've got another thing coming. If they believe Miss Undergrad will be up late studying, rather than melting the university's WAN swapping MP3s, Duke is in for a rude awakening.
Virtually all Duke students will have their own PCs. If the school wants to distribute MP3 instruction or event calendars, there's already an infrastructure to support it.
There are plenty of kids who can't even afford the tuition for community college (thank you, Mr. Bush). The price of an iPod would cover 3 semester hours at most of these institutions. If Duke really wants to do something to improve their campus' test scores, they should put a couple dozen kids who can't afford their University into a year's community college and offer scholarships to those who really distinguish themselves.
What's next? University supplied Gameboys?
What is half of free, anyway?
I primarily run OS X these days, but I've lived with Yellow Dog on an older iBook and it was a great experience. Nobody is even close to Terrasoft's Mac hardware support, particularly on laptops. My iBook YDL 3.0 install was even better behaved on PPC than its parent, Red Hat 8, was on x86. Airport and power control works right out of the box.
I'm with you on iTunes. But guess what? It will be supported by Codeweavers in the full release of Crossover Office 3.1.
The primary reasons for running YDL on Apple hardware are the same as running Linux on any platform: free or inexpensive software and freedom from Corporate hegemony. OS X totally rocks. But it ain't cheap, and you'll sink big dollars approximating the functionality of Linux' totally free Open Office, GIMP, and so on. The boxed edition of YDL is quite reasonably priced, and comes with the riches of Open Source software we all take for granted.
In a commercial setting, Mac hardware is elegant and durable. More importantly, Terrasoft is an authorized Apple reseller. That means great support, making PPC Linux a viable alternative for mission-critical installations.
I'm not sure YDL's claim to be lighter than OS X is justified these days. OS X has been running pretty well since Jaguar (even on older G3s), and the big two desktops are ... well ... pretty big. But with Linux on PPC, you can pick and choose window managers and programs to get the most out of your hardware. Can't really do that on OS X.
Finally, a lot of people simply *like* their Linux desktop environments. KDE folks get used to the way KDE works, and the same could be said for Gnome or Windowmaker or whatever. Familiarity breeds efficiency.
I have money in OS X software, so I run Panther on all my Apple gear. But Linux is a great call for a lot of PPC users. And it will scream on a dual G5 when Terrasoft releases their 64-bit native suite.
Just blame the CIA. Seems to be working for other folks.
There, there mon ami. We're not all Republicans.
Without France, there would be no United States. And vice-versa. American-French relations will survive the little man from Crawford.
Still ...
If Velvet Revolver can hold itself together, they could end up being an important band. What a lineup. As for the Beasties, they show up Limp Bizkit as the wannabes they are. I'm just disappointed they tolerate the record business' heavy-handed attempt at meddling with our machines.
I'm not against all DRM, and I do not swap music files. Apple's licensing, for instance, seems reasonable for my needs. Maybe the record companies could license Apple's technology and make it possible to rip CDs through iTunes. Apple would broker the transaction and be rebated a dime or so by the label for each transaction. That would take care of all the iPod owners (and at least half of all portable music devices).
Gotta take slight issue with you on the Who. They were the Beastie Boys of their era. Sure, "My Generation" sounds a bit quaint now. But it was incendiary then, and the Beasties are in the Who's debt.
I'm not dissing the iTunes store -- I have a lot of their music. But I prefer the option of a high-quality rip.
Well, it debuted at Number One on the Billboard Album Chart, so somebody must care.
What is most distressing is that the Beasties are the second DRM CD to hit the top of the chart. Boroughs displaced Velvet Revolver's Contraband at #1. Contraband is also DRM "protected."
This should open the floodgates. If record companies were ever shy of DRM, now they'll know people will buy their defective wares, anyway.
I'd like a copy of Velvet Revolver. But I won't buy it until I can find a copy on the used market. If the entire Slashdot world quit buying CDs, it would hardly make a dent (not that Slashdotters *always* pay for their music). But it's the principle of the whole thing.
My main bitch with DRM CDs is that it might make it more difficult to rip legally purchased music to my hard drive. I don't even own a standalone CD player these days, and I want to be able to load my library on an iPod. All perfectly legal activities, but Big Music wants to dictate how I listen and store my music. In the owrds of our Vice President, f*ck them.
And f*ck artists who go along with it. Maybe I don't need that Velvet Revolver CD, after all.
Hey .. you ain't one of those unlawful combatants, are you?