actually.. you are exactly right. This is what i was trying to say, said poorly, and you said it clearly.
When i said bad mobos, i was referring to the FSB speed... and i was wrong. But this is what i meant when i said "essentially running PC133 memory". Yeah, there iss DDR memory on the DP G4's, but its not being used at all.... cause it can't be.
btw: is 167 the top FSB for all G4s? I know that some of the software radios i've seen (okay, all of them) run G4s, but many of them have great bandwidth... around 200 Mhz wide... which would shock me that they could do it with 167 Mhz bandwidth.
is this because the embeded G4's have better FSB? anyone? Beuller?
I don't get why its believed that Mac OS X has to be 64-bit to run on the 970. We've been told in numerous places (Ars, IBM's frickin website) that the 970 runs in 32-bit just fine.
SO... that being said... my WWDC announcment predictions along with what Apple has already stated
- New Macs with PPC 970 - New PowerBook 15 with PPC 970 (the 15" PowerBook is the workhorse of the line, always will be, sorry) - Preview of Panther - Macintosh Roadmap Roadmap showing the future... and this is the big-ass news that everyone's been talking about.
Roadmap steps will look something like this...
July 2003: 10.2.7 running on new 970-based Macs practically unmodified because the 970 handles 32-bit operation just totally fine. x.x.+1 updates between WWDC and October 2003. Developer-only release of 64-bit SDK which will not be ready for prime time, but will allow developers to make the swtich, if necessary (similar to Mac OS 9 -> Carbon transition)
October 2003: 10.3 release - all those cool updates in iApps, updates in performance and operation of Mac OS X UI that were shown at WWDC. Panther Will NOT BE a 64-Bit OS!! - why not? Does not need to be because there are no 64-bit apps! Where are the apps? They are still being worked on with the 64-bit SDK, see you at Mac World San Fran with first 64-bit apps.
Jan 2004 (MWSF): 10.3.5 release. Mac OS X will run 64-bit applications. Only apps that NEED to be recomplied 64-bit clean will be recompiled 64-bit clean (iChat, for example, does NOT need to be 64-bit). Finder will be first app to be 64-bit clean because it needs to be.
beyond that, its non-speculateable.
But i think that the real news at this WWDC is going to be the first major Macintosh Roadmap since we saw the Rhapsody one in 1997(8?). You will see where the Mac is going hardware-wise and software wise.
Apple is going to push into the small-medium server market in a hard way.... 64-bit XServes which can run horkin Oracle databases, huge fileservers, and be the backbone of big-ass renderfarms... all with Mac OS X moron-simple UI and none of the pain of cost with Windows servers or admin headache of Linus servers? Puhlease... Apple is going to kick ass and move in where Intel and AMD are just simply lagging behind.
(yes, half the guys in my wedding party have apple.com email addresses.. no, none of this information was gleaned from them.)
the real reason G4's don't perform is that they are usually waiting on data... the G4's may be fast and have great AltiVec, the whole issue of still running (essentially) PC133 memory is the bottleneck.. no matter how fast your CPU is, if you can't get it lots of data - not just the data in the L2 cache - its just gonna sit there.
the 970 systems should, by any means, at least keep the CPU(s) busy. that alone will greatly enhance the performance of the new machines when doing things like 3D rendering, video transcoding, etc.
Its like why my Powerbook rips mp3's from CD's at only 10x, while my slower desktop rips them at 14x... the desktop has a 52x CD-ROM drive and my Powerbook has a slow-as-ass Superdrive. I can't keep the machine busy because I can't get it the data. The bottleneck in that case is the CD read.
In the G4's vs. the 970's discussion, the bottleneck is the pathetic (compared to Intel mobos) G4 motherboard because the mobo's running the 970's are all around faster.
if you *really* thought that some choad leaving their cell phone on in their bag could cause the 737 you're on to crash....
would you really get on it?
Neither would I. This is just bullshit.
How do you account for the fact that you can use your cellphone in the plane on the runway, tarmack, etc? The RF is in the plane - regardless of which direction its going... from the cell phone or to the cell phone.
If this was actually dangerous, the cell towers within 5 miles of airports would all have to be shut down. The high-power, possibly interfering RF is not coming from your 200 mW GSM phone.. its from the kW tower on top of Concourse C.
While the CD Baby page has not been taken down, its been neutered - all relevant info has been removed and I think its obvious why.
Apple only gets about 6-12 months to have their innovations be innovations before someone else copies them.. putting out the info now, instead of in the 90ish days when the details will all be public, only gives MS and Real a head-start on their idea copying.
I'm perfectly willing to wait and see.... tho other sources have already noted that Apple has mentioned a iTMS Compression tool to allow Indie's the ability to compress their own music on their own machines to make their music ready for sale on the iTMS.
and if that's true.. that kicks fscking ass.
Go Apple, you guys r0x0r.
</16 year old pimple faced Apple Fanboy mode>
(note: i'm not bashing their copying of Apple's ideas, i'm only stating fact)
Apple is about to become a _very large label_ on their own.
If they come up with a form of pay-to-publish (as simple as their pay-to-buy system is), instead of some garage band who actually may not suck paying $1000 for CD's, Apple may be able to provide anyone with a meager amount of money the chance to sell their wares on iTMS.
Different levels of funding may get you more presence on iTMS just as more money on eBay gets you better presence on eBay.
Apple, if they can do this, can inflict serious damage on the do-nothing copyright hoarders (the big 5) as well as promote a wide variety of music.
And hell, if some band wants to be sponsored by Sunkist to get them better product placement on iTMS - more $$$ to Apple = better product placement on iTMS, all the better for them!
Imagine - any company or individual could be a sponsor for any band that they wanted, and it could actually make a difference! While this "selling out" sounds cheecky at first - imagine a band that didn't suck, who got their first "CD" out and became popular could, actually drop their sponsor, and go on and OWN all THEIR creations in the future.... instead of Sony, Vevindi, etc.
the big 5 may have slit their own throats... unless they change and start working for a living.
this is amazing - everyone here needs to understand.. THESE BOYS ARE LIABLE FOR IP THEFT.
Now, its fine, dandy, and wonderful that Spielberg is not being an asshole.
What is wrong is that the ONLY reason that these guys are not behind bars already is that Spielberg appears to not be an asshole.
"Asshole-ness" should not be the reason one is or is not legitimately liable for IP "theft"... even if they are never charged for it.... they should live in fear, because maybe, someday, Spielberg may change his tune, or one of his lawyers may make him change his tune (a la trademark infringement rules)
and that is why i contribute to the EFF and gave to Eldred. Damnit, people. This nation is coming unglued, and you're glad that one dude is not a dick.
6 hours on a single battery charge (longer if you sat with the sunlight hitting the screen directly... no backlight necessary) with the HD turned off running Word 5.1 with 8 megs of ram and a 80 meg HD on System 7.1 and a Stylewriter II in the dorm room.
honestly, to write papers in college back in the day, there was nothing better... hell, there was nothing close. 15 pound Compaq not-so-compact 386 laptops? Puh-lease.
if you're not surfing the net, then if you want a note taking machine with a nice and quiet keyboard that can go all day long without being plugged in, you want a PowerBook 100.
then, go back to your dorm to a real computer of your choice and copy notes over from floppy or serial or docked SCSI connection.
They are clearly stating that they are not going down to a single person... so there is no issue here.
in fact, all that can happen from this is a) increase revenue/profits for a kick-ass outfit like TiVo (we're still sorta in a capitalist society here, aren't we?) b) reduce my bill.
Both are a win.
Hell, if they wanted to identify it down to me (Nielsen?) and charge me nothing for the service.. i'd be up for that.
but that's me. If you'd not be down with that, then they should not have any right to do that.
and since they are not, this is a GOOD news story, not a BAD news story.
Many freeware/shareware folks like to keep download stats for marketing purposes, so P2P software and mirrors really irk them....
In order to foster more love from freeware/shareware distributors, could BitTorrent be made to inform the end user (me) that BitTorrent was going to send a "notice of download" (not including any personal information, such as an IP, etc) upon sucessful download (that I could preview before sending of course)?
If *I* was Warner Bros, and eveyone offered to distribute and pay for all the bandwidth for the next version of the Animatrix, while I still got to see download statistics, i'm not sure I'd even would need to provide a direct link to the 150 meg QuickTime files.
With this kind of feedback mechanism, the software/media providers get all the love - download stats, far far far less bandwidth used -
and we get all the goodness - their free movies, software, freeware, data, etc. Its the ultimate mirror.
>Step 2: Keep multimillion-song digital catalog of downloadable, copyrighted music online for millions of Mac and, real-soon-now, Windows users to access at their convenience, and take a percentage of every purchase.
I'm not even quibbling with this step.. but for the pete of sake...
just tell us, be honest about it, and admit it.. don't spin it and bullshit us by calling it an "enhancement".
That is what separates Microsoft and SCO from companies that we like - we like companies who are honest and truthful
(strangely, we do like presidents who are spin-artists and tell us that getting a suck in the office "is"... something else... i've never understood that myself.)
If Apple stays honest with its customers - we'll stay honest with them and keep buying their good stuff.
JUST DON'T BULLSHIT US. That's all I ask.. i don't know about y'all...
No, i'm complaining, and i'm sure others will as well.
Apple is rapidly approaching a point that their only saving grace is that there is nary a hint that Apple is actively maintaining rights to my Mac to disable any software that may do this, if iTunes 4 won't - such as in XP, w2k, etc.
If/when that happens, then yeah, i will remove X and install YDL on the whole damn hard drive.
I find it inane that Apple a) didn't simply say "the music execs, thinking stupidly, that this was a great way to steal music, so we downgraded, sorry". b) didn't point out to them that there are some 10 better, faster, simpler, more robust ways to steal music than iTunes 4 and Audio Hijack... ask them if they had ever heard of Gnutella, Kazza, Grokster, Limewire, yada yada yada.
this is stupid, it doesn't so anything to stop "stealing", and only hurts people who were using the functionality legitmately.
I had a bad tingling in my bones when Apple and the big 5 got together.. i hope this is where this kind of bullshit compromizing ends. What are they going to do next, shitcan iChat 2's teleconferenceing because someone can send files back and forth on it and some a-hole at Sony Music complains?
Come on, Apple - if this is what you have to do in order to sleep with the music companies, then to hell with them.
and speaking of which - where the hell are the indie artists' and their music on iTMS? Huh?
Roadtools coolpad at Apple Company store across street from Elite... $25 Roadtools coolpad at Elite.... $39.99
Sony Firewire-Analog bridge at Apple Company Store - $299 Sony Firewire-Analog bridge at Elite - $599
I recall these numbers almost verbatim because I was in the market for them at one time or another, and when looking at my choices while visiting the Bay Area, i was just totally floored at how insanely overpriced they were. I never once saw anything at Elite that was even competative in price to anywhere else.
while it was a fun place to look at junk - i can't fathom actually buying anything there.. i'm sorry its gone - just because it was a cool place to look around, but honestly, they did it to themselves. There was just no justification for their prices.
Its one thing to not get good deals on Macs... fine. They could have easily simply not sold Macs. They could have simply sold accessories and service and 3rd party support...
But when everything they sold was at least 50% markup from what you could get at Fry's - in this day and age, there just isn't the market for it, no matter their level of customer service.
i've been looking for a long time for this kind of thing. I can't listen to Jim Rome most days, and oftentimes, I can't get out of work early enough to listen to Michael Savage.
I always wanted to set this up on one of my old macs.. so that I could listen on my mp3 CD player in my Jeep.
I think this is a great idea. I hope that it will work with both AM as well as internet streams.
does anyone have an idea of how to do this now with a Mac OS X machine?
the next time i have something insightful to write, i'll fscking spell check and grammar and english check it.
sorry about that... i'm at work, and i got pulled away to do something, and i just hit submit without reviewing it.
my apologies. Hell, i'll rewrite it in my response to the lawyer who wrote the article. And, i'll actually cut and past from the RFCs to prove my point.
Like we talked about before with regards to "breaking into" a Wi-Fi network and using bandwitdh that is attached to the Wi-Fi network (wired or unwired).... these things are much simpler, ans FAR less confusing if you get to the actual bits of the matter. They also, sometimes, allow one to use real-world anaologies of law.. such as breaking and entering. Their downfall (or greatness, depending on what side you take) is that they, in the end, place responsibility of the proprety owners to know - karnally - what is going on with what they bought.
I think few people would gripe with the idea of sniffing packets and forging MAC addresses and passwords to gain access onto a Wi-Fi base station as "unauthorized access" if the Wi-Fi base station hs MAC address access lists and uses WEP - regardless of how ipss-por they are in providing ACTUAL security... you clearly have intent of the 3rd party to gain "unauthorized access" because they are doing the equivalent of lock picking - hacking tumblers with a non-key to fake an authorized key.
But what of the "Linksys" Wi-Fi base stations that are set to defaults which purposefully hand out IPS and DHCP licenses? Or websites with no passwords that provide any file with a simple HTTP GET request? Or SMTP servers that happily forward any SMTP request without passwords or IP filters?
What is happening in each of these cases - open base stations with DHCP servers, open websites, and open SMTP relays is that, at the actual protocol levles, each of THESE cases is a slam dunk.
If i request a DHCP lease, and the open base station gives me a IP and a lease, then, by definition, i have no gained access in an unauthorized manner. That person's equpiment functioned properly, within bounds, and GAVE me access. If you GIVE someone access, by definition, its not unauthorized.
If i request a URL with a HTTP GET, and the server happily sends me a file that was in a directry that was not "meant" to be opened - that person's equipment GAVE me access, and just like in real life, if i ASK for access, and you GIVE it to me, then that access is AUTHORIZED.
Some of these cases in the whitepaper are foolish and would have been overturned if the RFCs got busted out..
in the case of Explorica, i could have kicked their ass. The RFCs clearly state that web services cannot be demanded, they cannot be stolen, they are requested with a GET, and the request is either accepted or not. If EF didn't want to have their prices undercut, then wtf did they put them on a public webpage? Explorica REQUESTED information - and EF's computers GRANTED it... all according to the protocols... all according to the rules.
If i to a properly formatted and non-corrupted HTTP GET, and you SEND me the data - there is no legal case of me GAINING "access of any kind".. i didn't REQUEST ACCESS.. i requested data - and you gave it to me.. be it a letter, a picture named "45728.jpg", the comany's secret files improperly stored on a website...
If you and I are on the train, and i ask you for all your money, and you give it to me... what are the possible circumstances...
1. I am a robber, and i threaten you with a gun or a knife or with some form of physical threat... so you give me the money under duress.
2. I am a begger, and i do not threaten you in any way. You give me all your money freely.
In example 1- i am violating protocol... i am threatening you. in example 2 - i violate no protocol, and in no way threaten you, you decision to give me all your money, while perhapse foolish and stupid on your part - is you free will.
open websites, open wi-fi base stations, and smtp relays are ALL example 2. There is a protocol - in all cases clearly laid out in RFCs... and as long as the protocol is followed without any modificaiton, and yet YOU GIVE ME DATA.... there cannot be any crime.
just as there is no crime in giving a person money on a train, so long as there is no violati
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but, seriously... I have often wondered.
Why do people live in places like this when they get hit _every year_ by tornados? I mean, holy crap - what kind of stress must it be to know that, next year, come May, you or someone near you has almost a 100% chance of having their new house flattened... again... next may. Hell, maybe in two months?
I live in CO - we have snowstorms, but you either shovel, or wait for the snow to melt, and that's that.
What is it that draws you people to live there, why do you not move from such an obviously inhospitible place to live, and why do you insist on FEMA paying your (collective Kansas and Oklahoma) asses money to rebuild your houses in the same Goddamned spot so the next Chet-chasing twister can blow you to hell all over again?
Okay, that started sounding callus toward the end, sorry.
I serously don't get why people live there, and why they expect taxpayers to buy them new trailers every few years. Its silly, and its insane, and its expensive for everyone.
"Rights management technologies alone cannot solve all digital piracy and confidentiality problems, but they are a crucial part of the many efforts Microsoft is making toward Trustworthy Computing. For the technology industry, rights management offers exciting new business prospects. Software and hardware developers can enhance their products and generate new revenues by offering rights management capabilities with their applications, devices and peripherals.
We're excited about partnering with a wide range of content owners, authors and industry vendors on these crucial technologies, particularly as broadband continues to expand the opportunities for delivering digital media content worldwide, and as rights management is recognized by businesses large and small as an opportunity to protect copyrights, confidentiality and personal privacy while promoting innovation, creating opportunity and empowering customers."
in English....
"This.... is a shit sandwich. You are going to eat this. You can put mustard on it, you can even cut it in half and eat it in two pieces. But you are going to eat it."
in 10.2.4, i could connect to the internet via GPRS on my TMobile t68i without incident.
for the last 3 weeks with 10.2.5, i couldn't connect often evne after 3-5 attempts. When i did connect, it would often not hold for more than a minute. I'm way behind on my data allowence for the month on my account.:-)
10.2.6, i'm back to 10.2.4 days.. i can keep the connection up as long as I like... and should pummel my 10 megs in a day or two now.
i'm using my AlBook 12" on my work desk with my t68i on my desk in the desk stand charger in the exact same position for all 3 software revs. I'm sure its the software, and not the phone or computer.
If Apple would fix the problem with my aunt's single-user iBook wanting a password everytime a software install comes up. That would save me so much money in time, it would be insane.
Most users are deathly afraid when the system puts up a window telling them to do somthing and does not explain to them why they are doing it. I can't fathom what it would be like to put a Linux box in front of her. Lindows is something i'm actually concidering becuause it DOES run in root, and she can make changes and add software without having to call me to see if its "okay" to type in a password every time she wants to install something.
of course, otoh, it does slow her down from installing 500 apps a week that she gets in spammail with executables... which is why i took her PC away from her running 98...
The service i really want to see is $99 a year for users to be able to call Apple/some linux company evey time they have a dumb-ass question of the hour. So instead of my cell phone going off at work, Apple could field the "what's with this iPod updator window? I don't know how to close it!!!" (its quit, just like all other 100 programs you run on Mac OS X.. don't freak out, damint.)
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actually.. you are exactly right. This is what i was trying to say, said poorly, and you said it clearly.
When i said bad mobos, i was referring to the FSB speed... and i was wrong. But this is what i meant when i said "essentially running PC133 memory". Yeah, there iss DDR memory on the DP G4's, but its not being used at all.... cause it can't be.
btw: is 167 the top FSB for all G4s? I know that some of the software radios i've seen (okay, all of them) run G4s, but many of them have great bandwidth... around 200 Mhz wide... which would shock me that they could do it with 167 Mhz bandwidth.
is this because the embeded G4's have better FSB? anyone? Beuller?
I don't get why its believed that Mac OS X has to be 64-bit to run on the 970. We've been told in numerous places (Ars, IBM's frickin website) that the 970 runs in 32-bit just fine.
SO... that being said... my WWDC announcment predictions along with what Apple has already stated
- New Macs with PPC 970
- New PowerBook 15 with PPC 970 (the 15" PowerBook is the workhorse of the line, always will be, sorry)
- Preview of Panther
- Macintosh Roadmap Roadmap showing the future... and this is the big-ass news that everyone's been talking about.
Roadmap steps will look something like this...
July 2003:
10.2.7 running on new 970-based Macs practically unmodified because the 970 handles 32-bit operation just totally fine. x.x.+1 updates between WWDC and October 2003. Developer-only release of 64-bit SDK which will not be ready for prime time, but will allow developers to make the swtich, if necessary (similar to Mac OS 9 -> Carbon transition)
October 2003:
10.3 release - all those cool updates in iApps, updates in performance and operation of Mac OS X UI that were shown at WWDC. Panther Will NOT BE a 64-Bit OS!! - why not? Does not need to be because there are no 64-bit apps! Where are the apps? They are still being worked on with the 64-bit SDK, see you at Mac World San Fran with first 64-bit apps.
Jan 2004 (MWSF):
10.3.5 release. Mac OS X will run 64-bit applications. Only apps that NEED to be recomplied 64-bit clean will be recompiled 64-bit clean (iChat, for example, does NOT need to be 64-bit). Finder will be first app to be 64-bit clean because it needs to be.
beyond that, its non-speculateable.
But i think that the real news at this WWDC is going to be the first major Macintosh Roadmap since we saw the Rhapsody one in 1997(8?). You will see where the Mac is going hardware-wise and software wise.
Apple is going to push into the small-medium server market in a hard way.... 64-bit XServes which can run horkin Oracle databases, huge fileservers, and be the backbone of big-ass renderfarms... all with Mac OS X moron-simple UI and none of the pain of cost with Windows servers or admin headache of Linus servers? Puhlease... Apple is going to kick ass and move in where Intel and AMD are just simply lagging behind.
(yes, half the guys in my wedding party have apple.com email addresses.. no, none of this information was gleaned from them.)
cache performance, bus performance increases.
the real reason G4's don't perform is that they are usually waiting on data... the G4's may be fast and have great AltiVec, the whole issue of still running (essentially) PC133 memory is the bottleneck.. no matter how fast your CPU is, if you can't get it lots of data - not just the data in the L2 cache - its just gonna sit there.
the 970 systems should, by any means, at least keep the CPU(s) busy. that alone will greatly enhance the performance of the new machines when doing things like 3D rendering, video transcoding, etc.
Its like why my Powerbook rips mp3's from CD's at only 10x, while my slower desktop rips them at 14x... the desktop has a 52x CD-ROM drive and my Powerbook has a slow-as-ass Superdrive. I can't keep the machine busy because I can't get it the data. The bottleneck in that case is the CD read.
In the G4's vs. the 970's discussion, the bottleneck is the pathetic (compared to Intel mobos) G4 motherboard because the mobo's running the 970's are all around faster.
if you *really* thought that some choad leaving their cell phone on in their bag could cause the 737 you're on to crash....
would you really get on it?
Neither would I. This is just bullshit.
How do you account for the fact that you can use your cellphone in the plane on the runway, tarmack, etc? The RF is in the plane - regardless of which direction its going... from the cell phone or to the cell phone.
If this was actually dangerous, the cell towers within 5 miles of airports would all have to be shut down. The high-power, possibly interfering RF is not coming from your 200 mW GSM phone.. its from the kW tower on top of Concourse C.
think people... damnit.
life is rough, get a fscking helmet.
While the CD Baby page has not been taken down, its been neutered - all relevant info has been removed and I think its obvious why.
Apple only gets about 6-12 months to have their innovations be innovations before someone else copies them.. putting out the info now, instead of in the 90ish days when the details will all be public, only gives MS and Real a head-start on their idea copying.
I'm perfectly willing to wait and see.... tho other sources have already noted that Apple has mentioned a iTMS Compression tool to allow Indie's the ability to compress their own music on their own machines to make their music ready for sale on the iTMS.
and if that's true.. that kicks fscking ass.
Go Apple, you guys r0x0r.(note: i'm not bashing their copying of Apple's ideas, i'm only stating fact)
Apple is about to become a _very large label_ on their own.
If they come up with a form of pay-to-publish (as simple as their pay-to-buy system is), instead of some garage band who actually may not suck paying $1000 for CD's, Apple may be able to provide anyone with a meager amount of money the chance to sell their wares on iTMS.
Different levels of funding may get you more presence on iTMS just as more money on eBay gets you better presence on eBay.
Apple, if they can do this, can inflict serious damage on the do-nothing copyright hoarders (the big 5) as well as promote a wide variety of music.
And hell, if some band wants to be sponsored by Sunkist to get them better product placement on iTMS - more $$$ to Apple = better product placement on iTMS, all the better for them!
Imagine - any company or individual could be a sponsor for any band that they wanted, and it could actually make a difference! While this "selling out" sounds cheecky at first - imagine a band that didn't suck, who got their first "CD" out and became popular could, actually drop their sponsor, and go on and OWN all THEIR creations in the future.... instead of Sony, Vevindi, etc.
the big 5 may have slit their own throats... unless they change and start working for a living.
this is amazing - everyone here needs to understand.. THESE BOYS ARE LIABLE FOR IP THEFT.
Now, its fine, dandy, and wonderful that Spielberg is not being an asshole.
What is wrong is that the ONLY reason that these guys are not behind bars already is that Spielberg appears to not be an asshole.
"Asshole-ness" should not be the reason one is or is not legitimately liable for IP "theft"... even if they are never charged for it.... they should live in fear, because maybe, someday, Spielberg may change his tune, or one of his lawyers may make him change his tune (a la trademark infringement rules)
and that is why i contribute to the EFF and gave to Eldred. Damnit, people. This nation is coming unglued, and you're glad that one dude is not a dick.
My first Mac, my first post-Amiga computer love.
6 hours on a single battery charge (longer if you sat with the sunlight hitting the screen directly... no backlight necessary) with the HD turned off running Word 5.1 with 8 megs of ram and a 80 meg HD on System 7.1 and a Stylewriter II in the dorm room.
honestly, to write papers in college back in the day, there was nothing better... hell, there was nothing close. 15 pound Compaq not-so-compact 386 laptops? Puh-lease.
if you're not surfing the net, then if you want a note taking machine with a nice and quiet keyboard that can go all day long without being plugged in, you want a PowerBook 100.
then, go back to your dorm to a real computer of your choice and copy notes over from floppy or serial or docked SCSI connection.
They are clearly stating that they are not going down to a single person... so there is no issue here.
in fact, all that can happen from this is a) increase revenue/profits for a kick-ass outfit like TiVo (we're still sorta in a capitalist society here, aren't we?) b) reduce my bill.
Both are a win.
Hell, if they wanted to identify it down to me (Nielsen?) and charge me nothing for the service.. i'd be up for that.
but that's me. If you'd not be down with that, then they should not have any right to do that.
and since they are not, this is a GOOD news story, not a BAD news story.
Darl McBride has been unmasked as the Iraqi Information minister!!!
Thank Allah... i thought he had died at the hands of the infidels that were not in Iraq!
Many freeware/shareware folks like to keep download stats for marketing purposes, so P2P software and mirrors really irk them....
In order to foster more love from freeware/shareware distributors, could BitTorrent be made to inform the end user (me) that BitTorrent was going to send a "notice of download" (not including any personal information, such as an IP, etc) upon sucessful download (that I could preview before sending of course)?
If *I* was Warner Bros, and eveyone offered to distribute and pay for all the bandwidth for the next version of the Animatrix, while I still got to see download statistics, i'm not sure I'd even would need to provide a direct link to the 150 meg QuickTime files.
With this kind of feedback mechanism, the software/media providers get all the love - download stats, far far far less bandwidth used -
and we get all the goodness - their free movies, software, freeware, data, etc. Its the ultimate mirror.
Or am i missing something?
>Step 2: Keep multimillion-song digital catalog of downloadable, copyrighted music online for millions of Mac and, real-soon-now, Windows users to access at their convenience, and take a percentage of every purchase.
I'm not even quibbling with this step.. but for the pete of sake...
just tell us, be honest about it, and admit it.. don't spin it and bullshit us by calling it an "enhancement".
That is what separates Microsoft and SCO from companies that we like - we like companies who are honest and truthful
(strangely, we do like presidents who are spin-artists and tell us that getting a suck in the office "is"... something else... i've never understood that myself.)
If Apple stays honest with its customers - we'll stay honest with them and keep buying their good stuff.
JUST DON'T BULLSHIT US. That's all I ask.. i don't know about y'all...
No, i'm complaining, and i'm sure others will as well.
Apple is rapidly approaching a point that their only saving grace is that there is nary a hint that Apple is actively maintaining rights to my Mac to disable any software that may do this, if iTunes 4 won't - such as in XP, w2k, etc.
If/when that happens, then yeah, i will remove X and install YDL on the whole damn hard drive.
I find it inane that Apple a) didn't simply say "the music execs, thinking stupidly, that this was a great way to steal music, so we downgraded, sorry". b) didn't point out to them that there are some 10 better, faster, simpler, more robust ways to steal music than iTunes 4 and Audio Hijack... ask them if they had ever heard of Gnutella, Kazza, Grokster, Limewire, yada yada yada.
this is stupid, it doesn't so anything to stop "stealing", and only hurts people who were using the functionality legitmately.
I had a bad tingling in my bones when Apple and the big 5 got together.. i hope this is where this kind of bullshit compromizing ends. What are they going to do next, shitcan iChat 2's teleconferenceing because someone can send files back and forth on it and some a-hole at Sony Music complains?
Come on, Apple - if this is what you have to do in order to sleep with the music companies, then to hell with them.
and speaking of which - where the hell are the indie artists' and their music on iTMS? Huh?
Roadtools coolpad at Apple Company store across street from Elite... $25
Roadtools coolpad at Elite.... $39.99
Sony Firewire-Analog bridge at Apple Company Store - $299
Sony Firewire-Analog bridge at Elite - $599
I recall these numbers almost verbatim because I was in the market for them at one time or another, and when looking at my choices while visiting the Bay Area, i was just totally floored at how insanely overpriced they were. I never once saw anything at Elite that was even competative in price to anywhere else.
while it was a fun place to look at junk - i can't fathom actually buying anything there.. i'm sorry its gone - just because it was a cool place to look around, but honestly, they did it to themselves. There was just no justification for their prices.
Its one thing to not get good deals on Macs... fine. They could have easily simply not sold Macs. They could have simply sold accessories and service and 3rd party support...
But when everything they sold was at least 50% markup from what you could get at Fry's - in this day and age, there just isn't the market for it, no matter their level of customer service.
Hmm... apparently, this diagram seems to be a big fav our best friend...
Darl McBride, CEO of The SCO group,
presenting the Unix History in Caldera GeoFORUM Las Vegas. -- august 26, 2002.
halfway down the page
http://www.levenez.com/wall/
apparently, he was blissfully unaware that people were stealing from him the whole time, what a shame!
(/sarcasm)...
an automated app that would sync StickiesDatabase to your iPod notes would be just the shiznit.
;-)
yes, i'm waiting for Pudge to crank this out in 15 minutes in perl.
i've been looking for a long time for this kind of thing. I can't listen to Jim Rome most days, and oftentimes, I can't get out of work early enough to listen to Michael Savage.
I always wanted to set this up on one of my old macs.. so that I could listen on my mp3 CD player in my Jeep.
I think this is a great idea. I hope that it will work with both AM as well as internet streams.
does anyone have an idea of how to do this now with a Mac OS X machine?
holy shit.
the next time i have something insightful to write, i'll fscking spell check and grammar and english check it.
sorry about that... i'm at work, and i got pulled away to do something, and i just hit submit without reviewing it.
my apologies. Hell, i'll rewrite it in my response to the lawyer who wrote the article. And, i'll actually cut and past from the RFCs to prove my point.
Like we talked about before with regards to "breaking into" a Wi-Fi network and using bandwitdh that is attached to the Wi-Fi network (wired or unwired).... these things are much simpler, ans FAR less confusing if you get to the actual bits of the matter. They also, sometimes, allow one to use real-world anaologies of law.. such as breaking and entering. Their downfall (or greatness, depending on what side you take) is that they, in the end, place responsibility of the proprety owners to know - karnally - what is going on with what they bought.
... you clearly have intent of the 3rd party to gain "unauthorized access" because they are doing the equivalent of lock picking - hacking tumblers with a non-key to fake an authorized key.
.. i requested data - and you gave it to me.. be it a letter, a picture named "45728.jpg", the comany's secret files improperly stored on a website...
I think few people would gripe with the idea of sniffing packets and forging MAC addresses and passwords to gain access onto a Wi-Fi base station as "unauthorized access" if the Wi-Fi base station hs MAC address access lists and uses WEP - regardless of how ipss-por they are in providing ACTUAL security
But what of the "Linksys" Wi-Fi base stations that are set to defaults which purposefully hand out IPS and DHCP licenses? Or websites with no passwords that provide any file with a simple HTTP GET request? Or SMTP servers that happily forward any SMTP request without passwords or IP filters?
What is happening in each of these cases - open base stations with DHCP servers, open websites, and open SMTP relays is that, at the actual protocol levles, each of THESE cases is a slam dunk.
If i request a DHCP lease, and the open base station gives me a IP and a lease, then, by definition, i have no gained access in an unauthorized manner. That person's equpiment functioned properly, within bounds, and GAVE me access. If you GIVE someone access, by definition, its not unauthorized.
If i request a URL with a HTTP GET, and the server happily sends me a file that was in a directry that was not "meant" to be opened - that person's equipment GAVE me access, and just like in real life, if i ASK for access, and you GIVE it to me, then that access is AUTHORIZED.
Some of these cases in the whitepaper are foolish and would have been overturned if the RFCs got busted out..
in the case of Explorica, i could have kicked their ass. The RFCs clearly state that web services cannot be demanded, they cannot be stolen, they are requested with a GET, and the request is either accepted or not. If EF didn't want to have their prices undercut, then wtf did they put them on a public webpage? Explorica REQUESTED information - and EF's computers GRANTED it... all according to the protocols... all according to the rules.
If i to a properly formatted and non-corrupted HTTP GET, and you SEND me the data - there is no legal case of me GAINING "access of any kind".. i didn't REQUEST ACCESS
If you and I are on the train, and i ask you for all your money, and you give it to me... what are the possible circumstances...
1. I am a robber, and i threaten you with a gun or a knife or with some form of physical threat... so you give me the money under duress.
2. I am a begger, and i do not threaten you in any way. You give me all your money freely.
In example 1- i am violating protocol... i am threatening you. in example 2 - i violate no protocol, and in no way threaten you, you decision to give me all your money, while perhapse foolish and stupid on your part - is you free will.
open websites, open wi-fi base stations, and smtp relays are ALL example 2. There is a protocol - in all cases clearly laid out in RFCs... and as long as the protocol is followed without any modificaiton, and yet YOU GIVE ME DATA.... there cannot be any crime.
just as there is no crime in giving a person money on a train, so long as there is no violati
but, seriously... I have often wondered.
... again... next may. Hell, maybe in two months?
Why do people live in places like this when they get hit _every year_ by tornados? I mean, holy crap - what kind of stress must it be to know that, next year, come May, you or someone near you has almost a 100% chance of having their new house flattened
I live in CO - we have snowstorms, but you either shovel, or wait for the snow to melt, and that's that.
What is it that draws you people to live there, why do you not move from such an obviously inhospitible place to live, and why do you insist on FEMA paying your (collective Kansas and Oklahoma) asses money to rebuild your houses in the same Goddamned spot so the next Chet-chasing twister can blow you to hell all over again?
Okay, that started sounding callus toward the end, sorry.
I serously don't get why people live there, and why they expect taxpayers to buy them new trailers every few years. Its silly, and its insane, and its expensive for everyone.
"Rights management technologies alone cannot solve all digital piracy and confidentiality problems, but they are a crucial part of the many efforts Microsoft is making toward Trustworthy Computing. For the technology industry, rights management offers exciting new business prospects. Software and hardware developers can enhance their products and generate new revenues by offering rights management capabilities with their applications, devices and peripherals.
We're excited about partnering with a wide range of content owners, authors and industry vendors on these crucial technologies, particularly as broadband continues to expand the opportunities for delivering digital media content worldwide, and as rights management is recognized by businesses large and small as an opportunity to protect copyrights, confidentiality and personal privacy while promoting innovation, creating opportunity and empowering customers."
in English....
"This.... is a shit sandwich. You are going to eat this. You can put mustard on it, you can even cut it in half and eat it in two pieces. But you are going to eat it."
in 10.2.4, i could connect to the internet via GPRS on my TMobile t68i without incident.
:-)
for the last 3 weeks with 10.2.5, i couldn't connect often evne after 3-5 attempts. When i did connect, it would often not hold for more than a minute. I'm way behind on my data allowence for the month on my account.
10.2.6, i'm back to 10.2.4 days.. i can keep the connection up as long as I like... and should pummel my 10 megs in a day or two now.
i'm using my AlBook 12" on my work desk with my t68i on my desk in the desk stand charger in the exact same position for all 3 software revs. I'm sure its the software, and not the phone or computer.
if the NSA has Saddam's 802.11b MAC address, it should take no time at all to find his smelly ass.
$5 will get you $10, he's hiding out in some gay pr0n shop (aka: French Public Library).
If Apple would fix the problem with my aunt's single-user iBook wanting a password everytime a software install comes up. That would save me so much money in time, it would be insane.
Most users are deathly afraid when the system puts up a window telling them to do somthing and does not explain to them why they are doing it. I can't fathom what it would be like to put a Linux box in front of her. Lindows is something i'm actually concidering becuause it DOES run in root, and she can make changes and add software without having to call me to see if its "okay" to type in a password every time she wants to install something.
of course, otoh, it does slow her down from installing 500 apps a week that she gets in spammail with executables... which is why i took her PC away from her running 98...
The service i really want to see is $99 a year for users to be able to call Apple/some linux company evey time they have a dumb-ass question of the hour. So instead of my cell phone going off at work, Apple could field the "what's with this iPod updator window? I don't know how to close it!!!" (its quit, just like all other 100 programs you run on Mac OS X.. don't freak out, damint.)