And the makers of automobiles (as well as a variety of other products) must meet certain federal regulations. If its found that records indicating that the regulations were met, were forged or not filled out properly, then the manufacturer is fined in addition to being even MORE liable if something were to go wrong.
Remember, if an automaker does everything "by the book" and something happens that NOBODY could have predicted, then the automaker carries no real liability as the courts will attribute extreme circumstances or unforeseeable circumstances. This all hinges on maintaining the proper paperwork and following all published regulations to Cover Your Ass (CYA).
I totally agree with Bruce, the parent post is certainly a troll as these same rigorous guidelines couldn't possibly be applied to Open Source software (not in any incarnation that I could imagine). Essentially, such guidelines couldn't be applied to hardly *any* software because of its complexity (not saying a vehicle isn't complex, but its easier to test a few thousand moving parts than a few million lines of code and cover every possible execution path for that code - I know, I helped write the flight deck software for the Boeing 767-400ER where all the execution paths *did* have to be checked). This inability to apply "safety" to code is probably why click-thrus were initially started. Of course, IANAL.
I don't think your logic follows. I've read a few times now that the FCC is relaxing their demand for all (major) networks to broadcast a digital signal by 2006, so while the TV manufacturers will be required to incorporate the digital boxes, the TV broadcasters won't be required to create demand for it... leaving the manufacturers eating the cost (initially).
Don't get me wrong, I think that this is probably a good thing... large industries rarely do anything proactively, which is why FCC mandates ever come about. The FCC needs to poke somebody in the arse, because the broadcasters are saying "not enough people can watch digital broadcasts, why should we convert all our equipment?" and the manufacturers are saying "none of our consumers want digital boxes" because the consumers are saying "none of the shows I watch are broadcast in digital, and I don't see the benefit - why should I pay extra for a digital box?"... the FCC can't regulate consumers and they've already tried to mandate the broadcasters (apparently without success), so that leaves the manufacturers!
From what you're saying, I think my experience is pretty much the same (from the times you're providing) - my looks at Jag have shown that basic interface responsiveness is MUCH improved, so you should be pretty happy about that, especially if your TiBook can handle Quartz Extreme (AGP 2x + 16MB).
I must say, running Win2K or XP on a PIII 1GHz isn't too much nicer, especially once I have a few different apps open. Using Dreamweaver, cygwin, PuTTY, SciTE, LeechFTP, Outlook, IE, Mozilla, and Excel results in pretty slow switch times between apps.
The one thing I don't notice is that typing in any application really slows down, which is quite annoying in OS X. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to be a problem with the Carbon event timers or something... either that they're being used or that they're *not* being used (or not being used properly). The (few) cocoa apps I've used don't seem to *ever* show any lag, whereas apps such as Dreamweaver MX and Mozilla lag often... it'd be nice if this were cleaned up.
I should be able to run compiles in the background and still have the frontmost app be responsive to something as basic as typing. Last time I did this, Mozilla was at least a sentence or two behind and after a little bit, was losing characters altogether.
By the time enough momentum is gathered, assuming that anyone does any of the things you propose, the patent will have expired. That's unfortunate, but I think that's the truth.
Your best bet (if you work a lot w/ JPEGs, i.e. creating them with Photoshop) is to contact the manufacturer of your software and check if your work is protected. GIFs created w/ Photoshop were protected because Adobe paid the Unisys licensing fees. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Adobe has licensed it (so its products are safe) and Microsoft has licensed it (so its products are safe).
Well, runs just fine in my book is simply that I can interact with it w/o getting annoyed. I've used Win 3.0/3.1,Win95, Win98, Win2K and WinXP as well as GNOME (since the early days) and KDE since about v. 2.0, all on PC hardware (and MacOS since about 6.5 on Apple hardware)... while a variety of these systems might pop up a menu faster than OS X on my iMac, that's not how I measure "runs just fine" - if I can get my work done w/o the interface slowing me down and if the applications run acceptably then all is good.
I imagine Jaguar will improve OS X's responsiveness even more (especially if your hardware supports Quartz Extreme).
No doubt... wish I had mod points this time around... sheesh. Guess this mod allows the content to be updated, but still - for things such as web sites, it wouldn't be too difficult to simply burn another CD.
Well, cookies (by definition) are stored on the client. Now, the session data they're linked to can be stored in a variety of ways... either in a DB or in a file that acts as a single record of a DB. Either way - wherever the session data is stored wouldn't have to be on the media that the web server is pulling content from, they can be distinct, providing some level of protection.
Not that I'm all that excited about this technology... seems rather dubious to me. Don't know that the cost of such a drive would warrant the minimal amount of protection it offered.
Can't speak for your friend, of course, but I have a G3 iMac (400MHz) with less than a gig of RAM (768MB, I think) and OS X 10.1.5 runs just fine. I use Imageready 7, Dreamweaver MX, XFree86 4.2, BBEdit 6.5.2, Mozilla 1.1alpha (nightly) and a variety of other software, mostly running at the same time. Notice, no video editing software - that should be used with a pro-level machine, me thinks, or resort to using the versions of software that were out when the G3 debuted as "pro-level"...
Not at all, its plenty to run OS X. It may not be enough to run OS X + Photoshop 7, but that's not a problem for OS X, but rather for Photoshop 7. If you buy a mac w/ OS X and 128MB, you should be set to run iTunes, iPhoto, etc. w/o a problem. Its the recommended minimum and (contrary to the minimums Microsoft has recommended at times), the system actually works satisfactorily w/ that amount!
Please feel free to correct me (and flame me) if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that an order of magnitude related to relations other than just pure logarithmic scales. I clearly recall discussing O(n) v. O(n^2) algorithms and hearing that particular phrase used... obviously, n was under no restriction to be 10 (which would make the aforementioned example logarithmic).
Of course, it may just have been far too long since I sat in a math class...
Your portfolio will make you stand out more than anything else. Depending on what work your friend is interested in at Pixar, ILM, etc. - the skills he would need differ. At Pixar, someone who writes shader code would need to be proficient in the shader language as well as the rest of the Renderman suite of tools (to my recollection, C is the dominant language for everything Renderman). Much of what ILM uses is proprietary, in-house, so you'd have to have a portfolio to get you in the door, and then (as I stated in a previous post), you'd probably have to work there for free, for a while, to learn their tools and the way their work-flow works. Then, after you've been there for a while, if your superiors like your work and you do a bit of ass-kissing, you'll probably get offered a job at some point (sometimes places like Pixar/ILM only hire a permanent employee if they lose a permanent employee, so you may need to wait for an opening to come up before thinking about being considered).
Of course, expanding your network and getting to know the people in the industry that work at Pixar, ILM, Dreamworks, Hammerhead Productions, etc. can only benefit you. In the media industry, its ALWAYS about who you know. After that, its about what you've done and then it *might* be about what you know (education/training/etc.)
Apple has never stated that they would continue iTools forever and they are under no obligation to continue to offer iTools forever.
iTools has now been discontinued. A new service will take its place called.Mac. This new service will offer some of the same features as well as new features. This new service will cost money.
Its really that simple. If a computer comes with Prodigy for life and Prodigy stops providing the service, that's that. Maybe it sucks, maybe its a good thing. Either way, its discontinued and that's it.
Does this strike anyone else as a Red Planet type thing, or am I thinking of the wrong movie? I know it was Mars and I think it was the Val Kilmer movie. I remember them being able to pull out a floppy looking screen that overlaid the landscape and was supposedly fed from the last data they got from their (defunct) orbiting craft...
This is a good point. If I am a terrorist, engaged in interstate travel, in my own personal car and I decide to kamikaze whilst on the highway, depending on the severity of my explosive devices and the congestion on the highway, I may kill/injure 10-20 people, statistically (and that's a liberal estimate). Now, if I'm the same terrorist, travelling by bus, that number might go up to 30-50, depending on the capacity of the bus and possibly the congestion at the time of detonation.
Here's the crux: by default, most planes carry far more passengers and since 9/11, we've seen that these planes can serve an even more deadly use. Thousands of deaths from two hijacked planes is a pretty significant vehicle to death rate ratio. I think it makes the entire issue significantly more "muddy".
As with many such "large" troublesome issues, the solution can typically not be applied at a local level (with "local" I don't mean "local as in city" I mean "local as in node of a graph"). The problem with terrorism cannot be solved by security checks at airports alone (and indeed, these security checks, as alleged by the lawsuit, cause more problems than they attempt to solve). The problem also cannot be solved simply by bombing the hell out of "Axis of Evil" countries. A more thorough analysis of the causes of terrorist retaliation against the US and its citizens and a subsequent analysis of ways to solve these shortcomings would be a far more rational approach, with a far larger chance of success.
Obviously, this isn't something that can be done overnight, like increasing security at airports. But, I disapprove of increasing security at airports and bombing the hell out of certain countries and NOT starting an analysis of this sort, that might provide long term solutions to this problem that, as admitted by practically everyone, is not going to be going away anytime soon. (Hence, a long term solution would seem to be a reasonable goal to strive for).
Cheers.
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I particularly like this bit:
A full chapter on.NET-specific regex issues helps to clarify things, and helps to make up for the exceedingly poor documentation that Microsoft provides with the package.
I don't necessarily believe it, I was just throwing that out there. Contrary to what everyone appears to think now about Apple, they are not the most money-hungry company around. There are skankier, slimier, swindling companies out there. Apple is simply trying to offset the cost of developing, running, and maintaining the.Mac application..Mac is not an email service - if that's all that's needed/wanted, there are plenty of other providers out there that will give you email forwarding or POP/IMAP access for a small fee or for free. Feel free to run to them in hordes and drive *them* out of business.
Popularity is expensive - if iTools only had a few thousand or even a hundred thousand or so users, I don't imagine that this would be an issue. But the infrastructure, support, maintenance, bandwidth, etc. needed to support 2.2 million users is quite significant, I'd imagine.
I believe there are other places where those who have used iTools only for POP email can get just this (maybe even IMAP), for free. I would imagine that Steve's take on this is "let all the mac.com users that are only using our email services drive someone ELSE out of business." Seem rational to me. The providers out there that can provide ad free, spam free email are (a) few and far between and (b) relatively unable to scale as that's when things start getting more expensive. At least if you want to maintain some QoS.
This isn't really that difficult to figure out on ones own. Check out schools that have strong film programs, such as Columbia College (in Chicago). My fiancee is a Columbia alum and she gets info all the time about job opps, things that are getting shot here and there, etc. Its hard to get into the industry with a salary... most have to work for free for a good bit, before they'll get any money (and then only if you're good!)
More apt might be "will the artist ever WANT to do the programmer's job via scripting" - I know quite a few artists that don't mind using the computer, but its more of a chore than a joy. This doesn't seem to be something that changes over time... it just seems to be a philosophy many creative talents share.
There's nowhere else in my vicinity where I can get an Iced White Chocolate Mocha with soy milk. I can make it myself, of course (and I do, on occasion), but that takes *my* time and typically isn't as good, as my equipment doesn't compare to Starbucks'.
Same equivalent to.Mac - I could pull together my own mix of services for less the $99/yr, but it wouldn't be as nice as.Mac.
Sounds like you need to blame your bank, not Apple. I purchase domains from joker.com (a German GmBH) and I don't incur any additional fees from my bank when I use my bank card (Visa debit). Same goes for any credit cards I have.
I doubt that Apple is purposefully trying to make your life harder in Europe. It typically takes them a little while to localize the European versions of their systems, since the localization process doesn't run in parallel with development (this would be cost prohibitive). It isn't started until the software reaches GM (gold master) stage which means there will be a delay before its ready.
Obviously, this sucks for the geeks out there (like me) that want to have every update the minute its released...:(
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And the makers of automobiles (as well as a variety of other products) must meet certain federal regulations. If its found that records indicating that the regulations were met, were forged or not filled out properly, then the manufacturer is fined in addition to being even MORE liable if something were to go wrong.
Remember, if an automaker does everything "by the book" and something happens that NOBODY could have predicted, then the automaker carries no real liability as the courts will attribute extreme circumstances or unforeseeable circumstances. This all hinges on maintaining the proper paperwork and following all published regulations to Cover Your Ass (CYA).
I totally agree with Bruce, the parent post is certainly a troll as these same rigorous guidelines couldn't possibly be applied to Open Source software (not in any incarnation that I could imagine). Essentially, such guidelines couldn't be applied to hardly *any* software because of its complexity (not saying a vehicle isn't complex, but its easier to test a few thousand moving parts than a few million lines of code and cover every possible execution path for that code - I know, I helped write the flight deck software for the Boeing 767-400ER where all the execution paths *did* have to be checked). This inability to apply "safety" to code is probably why click-thrus were initially started. Of course, IANAL.
Could be, could be ... my french isn't great :)
I don't think your logic follows. I've read a few times now that the FCC is relaxing their demand for all (major) networks to broadcast a digital signal by 2006, so while the TV manufacturers will be required to incorporate the digital boxes, the TV broadcasters won't be required to create demand for it ... leaving the manufacturers eating the cost (initially).
... large industries rarely do anything proactively, which is why FCC mandates ever come about. The FCC needs to poke somebody in the arse, because the broadcasters are saying "not enough people can watch digital broadcasts, why should we convert all our equipment?" and the manufacturers are saying "none of our consumers want digital boxes" because the consumers are saying "none of the shows I watch are broadcast in digital, and I don't see the benefit - why should I pay extra for a digital box?" ... the FCC can't regulate consumers and they've already tried to mandate the broadcasters (apparently without success), so that leaves the manufacturers!
Don't get me wrong, I think that this is probably a good thing
C'est l'avie.
I won't respond to your entire post, but QE only requires 16MB of RAM, which all the recent iBooks support.
Cheers.
From what you're saying, I think my experience is pretty much the same (from the times you're providing) - my looks at Jag have shown that basic interface responsiveness is MUCH improved, so you should be pretty happy about that, especially if your TiBook can handle Quartz Extreme (AGP 2x + 16MB).
... either that they're being used or that they're *not* being used (or not being used properly). The (few) cocoa apps I've used don't seem to *ever* show any lag, whereas apps such as Dreamweaver MX and Mozilla lag often ... it'd be nice if this were cleaned up.
I must say, running Win2K or XP on a PIII 1GHz isn't too much nicer, especially once I have a few different apps open. Using Dreamweaver, cygwin, PuTTY, SciTE, LeechFTP, Outlook, IE, Mozilla, and Excel results in pretty slow switch times between apps.
The one thing I don't notice is that typing in any application really slows down, which is quite annoying in OS X. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to be a problem with the Carbon event timers or something
I should be able to run compiles in the background and still have the frontmost app be responsive to something as basic as typing. Last time I did this, Mozilla was at least a sentence or two behind and after a little bit, was losing characters altogether.
By the time enough momentum is gathered, assuming that anyone does any of the things you propose, the patent will have expired. That's unfortunate, but I think that's the truth.
Your best bet (if you work a lot w/ JPEGs, i.e. creating them with Photoshop) is to contact the manufacturer of your software and check if your work is protected. GIFs created w/ Photoshop were protected because Adobe paid the Unisys licensing fees. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Adobe has licensed it (so its products are safe) and Microsoft has licensed it (so its products are safe).
Well, runs just fine in my book is simply that I can interact with it w/o getting annoyed. I've used Win 3.0/3.1,Win95, Win98, Win2K and WinXP as well as GNOME (since the early days) and KDE since about v. 2.0, all on PC hardware (and MacOS since about 6.5 on Apple hardware) ... while a variety of these systems might pop up a menu faster than OS X on my iMac, that's not how I measure "runs just fine" - if I can get my work done w/o the interface slowing me down and if the applications run acceptably then all is good.
I imagine Jaguar will improve OS X's responsiveness even more (especially if your hardware supports Quartz Extreme).
Did you read the article? The site was hosted in the US (New Jersey, if I recall).
No doubt ... wish I had mod points this time around ... sheesh. Guess this mod allows the content to be updated, but still - for things such as web sites, it wouldn't be too difficult to simply burn another CD.
Well, cookies (by definition) are stored on the client. Now, the session data they're linked to can be stored in a variety of ways ... either in a DB or in a file that acts as a single record of a DB. Either way - wherever the session data is stored wouldn't have to be on the media that the web server is pulling content from, they can be distinct, providing some level of protection.
... seems rather dubious to me. Don't know that the cost of such a drive would warrant the minimal amount of protection it offered.
Not that I'm all that excited about this technology
Can't speak for your friend, of course, but I have a G3 iMac (400MHz) with less than a gig of RAM (768MB, I think) and OS X 10.1.5 runs just fine. I use Imageready 7, Dreamweaver MX, XFree86 4.2, BBEdit 6.5.2, Mozilla 1.1alpha (nightly) and a variety of other software, mostly running at the same time. Notice, no video editing software - that should be used with a pro-level machine, me thinks, or resort to using the versions of software that were out when the G3 debuted as "pro-level" ...
Not at all, its plenty to run OS X. It may not be enough to run OS X + Photoshop 7, but that's not a problem for OS X, but rather for Photoshop 7. If you buy a mac w/ OS X and 128MB, you should be set to run iTunes, iPhoto, etc. w/o a problem. Its the recommended minimum and (contrary to the minimums Microsoft has recommended at times), the system actually works satisfactorily w/ that amount!
Please feel free to correct me (and flame me) if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that an order of magnitude related to relations other than just pure logarithmic scales. I clearly recall discussing O(n) v. O(n^2) algorithms and hearing that particular phrase used ... obviously, n was under no restriction to be 10 (which would make the aforementioned example logarithmic).
Of course, it may just have been far too long since I sat in a math class ...
For render farms they already have a pizza box:
Xserve
Your portfolio will make you stand out more than anything else. Depending on what work your friend is interested in at Pixar, ILM, etc. - the skills he would need differ. At Pixar, someone who writes shader code would need to be proficient in the shader language as well as the rest of the Renderman suite of tools (to my recollection, C is the dominant language for everything Renderman). Much of what ILM uses is proprietary, in-house, so you'd have to have a portfolio to get you in the door, and then (as I stated in a previous post), you'd probably have to work there for free, for a while, to learn their tools and the way their work-flow works. Then, after you've been there for a while, if your superiors like your work and you do a bit of ass-kissing, you'll probably get offered a job at some point (sometimes places like Pixar/ILM only hire a permanent employee if they lose a permanent employee, so you may need to wait for an opening to come up before thinking about being considered).
Of course, expanding your network and getting to know the people in the industry that work at Pixar, ILM, Dreamworks, Hammerhead Productions, etc. can only benefit you. In the media industry, its ALWAYS about who you know. After that, its about what you've done and then it *might* be about what you know (education/training/etc.)
Good luck!
Apple has never stated that they would continue iTools forever and they are under no obligation to continue to offer iTools forever.
.Mac. This new service will offer some of the same features as well as new features. This new service will cost money.
iTools has now been discontinued. A new service will take its place called
Its really that simple. If a computer comes with Prodigy for life and Prodigy stops providing the service, that's that. Maybe it sucks, maybe its a good thing. Either way, its discontinued and that's it.
Does this strike anyone else as a Red Planet type thing, or am I thinking of the wrong movie? I know it was Mars and I think it was the Val Kilmer movie. I remember them being able to pull out a floppy looking screen that overlaid the landscape and was supposedly fed from the last data they got from their (defunct) orbiting craft ...
This is a good point. If I am a terrorist, engaged in interstate travel, in my own personal car and I decide to kamikaze whilst on the highway, depending on the severity of my explosive devices and the congestion on the highway, I may kill/injure 10-20 people, statistically (and that's a liberal estimate). Now, if I'm the same terrorist, travelling by bus, that number might go up to 30-50, depending on the capacity of the bus and possibly the congestion at the time of detonation.
Here's the crux: by default, most planes carry far more passengers and since 9/11, we've seen that these planes can serve an even more deadly use. Thousands of deaths from two hijacked planes is a pretty significant vehicle to death rate ratio. I think it makes the entire issue significantly more "muddy".
As with many such "large" troublesome issues, the solution can typically not be applied at a local level (with "local" I don't mean "local as in city" I mean "local as in node of a graph"). The problem with terrorism cannot be solved by security checks at airports alone (and indeed, these security checks, as alleged by the lawsuit, cause more problems than they attempt to solve). The problem also cannot be solved simply by bombing the hell out of "Axis of Evil" countries. A more thorough analysis of the causes of terrorist retaliation against the US and its citizens and a subsequent analysis of ways to solve these shortcomings would be a far more rational approach, with a far larger chance of success.
Obviously, this isn't something that can be done overnight, like increasing security at airports. But, I disapprove of increasing security at airports and bombing the hell out of certain countries and NOT starting an analysis of this sort, that might provide long term solutions to this problem that, as admitted by practically everyone, is not going to be going away anytime soon. (Hence, a long term solution would seem to be a reasonable goal to strive for).
Cheers.
I particularly like this bit:
Nice to see that things haven't changed muchI don't necessarily believe it, I was just throwing that out there. Contrary to what everyone appears to think now about Apple, they are not the most money-hungry company around. There are skankier, slimier, swindling companies out there. Apple is simply trying to offset the cost of developing, running, and maintaining the .Mac application. .Mac is not an email service - if that's all that's needed/wanted, there are plenty of other providers out there that will give you email forwarding or POP/IMAP access for a small fee or for free. Feel free to run to them in hordes and drive *them* out of business.
Popularity is expensive - if iTools only had a few thousand or even a hundred thousand or so users, I don't imagine that this would be an issue. But the infrastructure, support, maintenance, bandwidth, etc. needed to support 2.2 million users is quite significant, I'd imagine.
Cheers.
I believe there are other places where those who have used iTools only for POP email can get just this (maybe even IMAP), for free. I would imagine that Steve's take on this is "let all the mac.com users that are only using our email services drive someone ELSE out of business." Seem rational to me. The providers out there that can provide ad free, spam free email are (a) few and far between and (b) relatively unable to scale as that's when things start getting more expensive. At least if you want to maintain some QoS.
Cheers.
This isn't really that difficult to figure out on ones own. Check out schools that have strong film programs, such as Columbia College (in Chicago). My fiancee is a Columbia alum and she gets info all the time about job opps, things that are getting shot here and there, etc. Its hard to get into the industry with a salary ... most have to work for free for a good bit, before they'll get any money (and then only if you're good!)
Cheers!
More apt might be "will the artist ever WANT to do the programmer's job via scripting" - I know quite a few artists that don't mind using the computer, but its more of a chore than a joy. This doesn't seem to be something that changes over time ... it just seems to be a philosophy many creative talents share.
There's nowhere else in my vicinity where I can get an Iced White Chocolate Mocha with soy milk. I can make it myself, of course (and I do, on occasion), but that takes *my* time and typically isn't as good, as my equipment doesn't compare to Starbucks'.
.Mac - I could pull together my own mix of services for less the $99/yr, but it wouldn't be as nice as .Mac.
Same equivalent to
Sounds like you need to blame your bank, not Apple. I purchase domains from joker.com (a German GmBH) and I don't incur any additional fees from my bank when I use my bank card (Visa debit). Same goes for any credit cards I have.
... :(
I doubt that Apple is purposefully trying to make your life harder in Europe. It typically takes them a little while to localize the European versions of their systems, since the localization process doesn't run in parallel with development (this would be cost prohibitive). It isn't started until the software reaches GM (gold master) stage which means there will be a delay before its ready.
Obviously, this sucks for the geeks out there (like me) that want to have every update the minute its released