Many banks make you provide your thumbprint when you cash a check, if you don't have an account there.
Many Notaries and Lawyers and Brokers use the thumbprint along with your signature when recording documents. Why? Because you can forge signatures... it's much harder or impossible to forge a thumbprint, and you can't get away from it.
Why NOT for checks? I'll gladly put my thumbprint on a credit card receipt, or a check.
If you wanted, you could always carry the little inkpad in your wallet and use your thumbprint as your official signature for everything you do.
at the PowerGlove sections of http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/hbvr.html I see instructions for how to monitor the spacial elements of the glove... but what about the qwerty keypad on them?
I think they'd be FAR more useful if THAT could be put out to a RS232 port as well.
If online journalists have the same RIGHTS as TV and print ones, I take it they are just as responsable for libel, and accurate reporting, as well as being consiedered as having a "public duty" to report honestly and unbiasly. No rights or freedoms come without duties. ~DW
T'Pol, the most decorated Vulcan of all time. T'Pol, who helped her (son? relation of some sort) Sarek become an Ambassador to Earth, where he met and married a human, to the chagrine of his Vulcan brethren, who later gave birth to a son they named Spock.
T'Pol is the head of Spock's family. Something tells me that Enterprise is going to be showing ALOT of backstory.
And I liked the opening sequence visuals. Showing all the REAL Enterprise ships, and the timeline of human exploration was quite nice.
Listen carefully anytime they talk about what happend to the societies of Earth. The first thing they did was "got rid of all money", and then they "got rid of all the corrupted government" (ie all of them)...
Also, notice that they NEVER talk about how much it costs to send Wesley or anyone else to Starfleet Academy.
The premise of Star Trek is ANARCHY. It may be peaceful, and co-operative, and everythign was based on the abolution of government and money, and the advancement of culture and science where everyone was equal, but it all started with Anarchy.
the X-Windowing System is being and has been ported to run concurrent with the Aqua GUI of OSX. Thus, any BSD apps that have been ported (if need be), and runs in X, will run in OSX. That's presueming the llibraries have been ported (most are being so)
Virtual PC... It'll be interesting to see the new versions of this native for OSX.. it'll FLY.
Almost all Mac Applications EVER written. I've used some old text only games from 1985 in OS X already. No problem.
Fully Java2 compatible. And you can write Cocoa apps in pure Java.
Somewhere there's a Be emulator...
It's a fun system.. can't wait to install the Final on Sunday night.
Apple had to make some choices...
Actually, Apple released a press release yesterday. ~CD writing will be available in April, as an update (frre of course).
~CD writing (many of us think) IS possible, as it actually requires drivers for the programme (Toast), and Toast 5 works in OS X and will (probably) burn. What DOESN'T work is iTunes/iDVD burning, and Drag-n-Drop burning from the OS.
~DVD capabilities will be available this summer, again, as a donwload, again, free.
~Apple chose to put the more advanced DVD/CD authoring capabilities into the current OS 9.1, and wait on putting them into OSX, in order to give the most people what they need NOW. Most of the early adopters of OSX (of which I'm one) don't particularly care, since we understand that this is a 1.0 release, and we've ALWAYS known there would be some missing componants, and we'd have to upgrade thru the summer.
~I don't know of any other operating system that, out of the box, has had the ability to burn CDs drag-n-drop style. the Mac OS has been for at least 3 years. We just have to wait a month to do it in OSX.
I can record a song at home, put it on an MP3, and connect to Napster and give anyone access to my song. The copyright on my song STILL belongs to me, unless I specifically say "This song is in the public domain".
If the court actually said Napster must block all songs having copyrights, they're STUPID, because
A) there's not way you can actually TELL from the file if something is in the PD or not
2) there are plenty of people shareing the music they've created via Napster, but who still own their copyrights
D) there are plenty of Public Domain files on Napster too... various recordings of Mozart's sonata's for example.
-Donald
Go read section 2.1 of the license. There is NO NEED to inform ANYONE if you change the code for internal R&D or Personal use.
Apple is releasing Darwin, the *nix aspect of the OS to the community. They will NEVER release the code to the GUI. The GUI is a good part of WHY people use Macs. Releaseing the code to that is REALLY shooting themsleves in the foot.
I've been useing Mac OS X Public Beta on a G4 at home since it came out. I have to say, it's REALLY nice, and as soon as I get my DSL line in, and the Final edition comes out, I'll be loving it. A private streaming server that I can access almost anywhere, serving me my own MP3 set, on a box I can SSH to, and do anything I want... what fun
-Donald
------Quoted------
if you pretend that you're still going to be using those P3's running Office xxxx in 5 years time, you're wrong.
------end quote------
Why not? I'm useing Office 98 on a Mac 8100. The 8100 is a 1994 macheine, so 98 came out 4 years later. Works great.
The real point of this though is, if a programme is working for you, why fiddle with it?
If I have an old computer, connected to the net, and my old software works on my old computer, I don't want the software company to tell me that I MUST upgrade and that my word processor no longer works untill I do. What if the new software version is incompatible with my computer?
Subscription services only work if there is MORE backwards compatibility and LESS bugs than there are now. Otherwise it's the company forceing you to upgrade not just your programme, but your OTHER programmes, AND your hardware.
-Donald
Haveing been a Mac user for years (10 as of the end of the month), Apple DID in fact threatened M$ this way.
The lawsuit over Windows and The "Look and Feel" of the Mac OS was just finally settled in 1998 or 99. Microsoft licensed some Apple software to actually CREATE Windows, and Apple wasn't happy with how similar the 2 OS's ended up. M$ finally just paid money to Apple, settling out of court, because the DOJ trial was going to use the perdicament in the case.
If part of Gopher was the parseing of HTML documents.... then we could conceivably access the entire WWW via Gopher. yes, I know there are issues with that, but lets face it, most of the CONTENT of the web is in text form, and would work with Gopher.
PDFs, and forms of streaming audio and video... That would make Gopher viable again. As another post of mine here says: I'll take a FUNCTIONAL Internet over a glitzy one
I remember useing Gopher, although it was after HTTP was takeing over.
I prefer Gopher for one reason: I get to the information faster, and don;t have to deal with all the ads and glitz of the WWW.
HTML and the WWW are becomeing increaseingly useless when it comes to quickly getting information, and reviveing Gopher would be a GREAT way to counteract this.
Gopher isn;t hard to use, and it's faster. I'll take a FUNCTIONAL Internet over the HTML monstrosity we now have. (although Slashdot is great)
Darwin 1.0, which is the SAME code as Mac OS X sans the GUI, compiles and runs on Intel hardware. Go to http://publicsource.apple.com and see for yourself. Granted, you have to be running some UNIX varient to install it, but it DOES work, and Apple is working to make the GUI work all nicely.
As crazy as this sounds...The place to find the answers to alot that is in the August edition of MacAddict magazine. They do a big ting about how it all works. yup yup.
What people keep saying is that BSD and the Mac OS have been merged...and that isn;t the case. <BR><BR> The OS is the Mach Microkernel and BSD. The User Interface is Aqua, so you have a UNIX system with a Mac-like GUI on top.<BR><BR>
I was reading somewheres at Apple that you can open a text editor and actually access the command line. now hwo knows what shell it's useing.
When you're as big an outfit as the US military, you don't need to build a new system from consumer products; you can do it better and cheaper (and hella secreter) if you spec and build it yourself. I think not. Granted, NASA has had some problems with their new approach to projects, but they've just pushed too fast. NASA used to say "We need a camera that can operate in extreme cold and in a sealed atmosphere so we can put it on a satelite" So they'd put a bunch of engineers on the project and have them design it, then buy the parts. Then somebody had the sense to turn to the worlds largest camera companies and say "Do you have one of those?" and they said "Yes, we've been selling them for use on submarines for over 30 years...we can help you modify it for use in space too." So, while yes, the army doesn;t need to be useing off the shelf consumer goods, consumer quality goods are many times some of the best ther are. -DW
If you're going to go to the trouble of compiling the code, what next? Does that *automatically* mean that you are going to use it for 'underhanded' purposes? Controversial as it may be, and as broken as the logic may be, this is the argument that the MPAA/legal system is likely to use in order to bypass the 6th Circuit Court's ruling. No..that doesn't fly. I can copy my father's LP's onto tapes. The music as sound is copyrighted, thus I cannot redistribute it. Also, I cannot say, copy it by ear onto staff paper and distribute that. BUT, If I'm copying it for MY use AT MY HOME, I can use it. I have further rights if it's being used educationally.
THUS: I can obtain the CODE (protected via Amendment 1) and I can study that code, and I can COMPILE the code as part of that study. If we ignore DMCA, I can even USE the compiled programme to copy a DVD for my personal use. But again, I cannot redistribute.
well...True, it's an absolute ONLY inside the 6th district, but most other courts will take it as precedient, because that's part of the foundation of our judicial system. While another judge can say "That judge was an idiot" and make a contradictory ruling, the defendant in such a case could then appeal higher with significant legal backing.
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Many banks make you provide your thumbprint when you cash a check, if you don't have an account there.
Many Notaries and Lawyers and Brokers use the thumbprint along with your signature when recording documents. Why? Because you can forge signatures... it's much harder or impossible to forge a thumbprint, and you can't get away from it.
Why NOT for checks? I'll gladly put my thumbprint on a credit card receipt, or a check.
If you wanted, you could always carry the little inkpad in your wallet and use your thumbprint as your official signature for everything you do.
~DW
at the PowerGlove sections of http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/hbvr.html I see instructions for how to monitor the spacial elements of the glove... but what about the qwerty keypad on them?
I think they'd be FAR more useful if THAT could be put out to a RS232 port as well.
~Donald
well.. if the CASE is the same, but you swap out the motherboard, you can argue that it was a computer UPGRADE, not a new computer.
If M$ tried to claim otherwise, the anti-trust lawyers against them would have a field day.
~Donald
If online journalists have the same RIGHTS as TV and print ones, I take it they are just as responsable for libel, and accurate reporting, as well as being consiedered as having a "public duty" to report honestly and unbiasly. No rights or freedoms come without duties. ~DW
think back... WAAAAAAY back...
T'Pol, the most decorated Vulcan of all time. T'Pol, who helped her (son? relation of some sort) Sarek become an Ambassador to Earth, where he met and married a human, to the chagrine of his Vulcan brethren, who later gave birth to a son they named Spock.
T'Pol is the head of Spock's family. Something tells me that Enterprise is going to be showing ALOT of backstory.
And I liked the opening sequence visuals. Showing all the REAL Enterprise ships, and the timeline of human exploration was quite nice.
~Donald
Also, notice that they NEVER talk about how much it costs to send Wesley or anyone else to Starfleet Academy.
The premise of Star Trek is ANARCHY. It may be peaceful, and co-operative, and everythign was based on the abolution of government and money, and the advancement of culture and science where everyone was equal, but it all started with Anarchy.
-DW
except Java DOES run fast on OS X... -Marchie
the X-Windowing System is being and has been ported to run concurrent with the Aqua GUI of OSX. Thus, any BSD apps that have been ported (if need be), and runs in X, will run in OSX. That's presueming the llibraries have been ported (most are being so)
Virtual PC... It'll be interesting to see the new versions of this native for OSX.. it'll FLY.
Almost all Mac Applications EVER written. I've used some old text only games from 1985 in OS X already. No problem.
Fully Java2 compatible. And you can write Cocoa apps in pure Java.
Somewhere there's a Be emulator...
It's a fun system.. can't wait to install the Final on Sunday night.
Donald
name ONE THING that a Mac CAN'T do that you CAN with a PC. Nameing a specific programme is not fair. Let's see it.
-Donald
they DO compile, and depending on the programme need little or no tweaking.
The weird thing is that it's SUPPOSED to be FreeBSD... but it isn't.
It's mostly FreeBSD, but there are aspects of Net and Open BSDs in it...
Or that's what I read somewhere.. in a DaemonNews article I think
-Donald
Apple had to make some choices...
Actually, Apple released a press release yesterday. ~CD writing will be available in April, as an update (frre of course).
~CD writing (many of us think) IS possible, as it actually requires drivers for the programme (Toast), and Toast 5 works in OS X and will (probably) burn. What DOESN'T work is iTunes/iDVD burning, and Drag-n-Drop burning from the OS.
~DVD capabilities will be available this summer, again, as a donwload, again, free.
~Apple chose to put the more advanced DVD/CD authoring capabilities into the current OS 9.1, and wait on putting them into OSX, in order to give the most people what they need NOW. Most of the early adopters of OSX (of which I'm one) don't particularly care, since we understand that this is a 1.0 release, and we've ALWAYS known there would be some missing componants, and we'd have to upgrade thru the summer.
~I don't know of any other operating system that, out of the box, has had the ability to burn CDs drag-n-drop style. the Mac OS has been for at least 3 years. We just have to wait a month to do it in OSX.
-Donald
I can record a song at home, put it on an MP3, and connect to Napster and give anyone access to my song. The copyright on my song STILL belongs to me, unless I specifically say "This song is in the public domain".
If the court actually said Napster must block all songs having copyrights, they're STUPID, because
A) there's not way you can actually TELL from the file if something is in the PD or not
2) there are plenty of people shareing the music they've created via Napster, but who still own their copyrights D) there are plenty of Public Domain files on Napster too... various recordings of Mozart's sonata's for example. -Donald
Apple is releasing Darwin, the *nix aspect of the OS to the community. They will NEVER release the code to the GUI. The GUI is a good part of WHY people use Macs. Releaseing the code to that is REALLY shooting themsleves in the foot. I've been useing Mac OS X Public Beta on a G4 at home since it came out. I have to say, it's REALLY nice, and as soon as I get my DSL line in, and the Final edition comes out, I'll be loving it. A private streaming server that I can access almost anywhere, serving me my own MP3 set, on a box I can SSH to, and do anything I want... what fun -Donald
------Quoted------ if you pretend that you're still going to be using those P3's running Office xxxx in 5 years time, you're wrong. ------end quote------ Why not? I'm useing Office 98 on a Mac 8100. The 8100 is a 1994 macheine, so 98 came out 4 years later. Works great. The real point of this though is, if a programme is working for you, why fiddle with it? If I have an old computer, connected to the net, and my old software works on my old computer, I don't want the software company to tell me that I MUST upgrade and that my word processor no longer works untill I do. What if the new software version is incompatible with my computer? Subscription services only work if there is MORE backwards compatibility and LESS bugs than there are now. Otherwise it's the company forceing you to upgrade not just your programme, but your OTHER programmes, AND your hardware. -Donald
Haveing been a Mac user for years (10 as of the end of the month), Apple DID in fact threatened M$ this way.
The lawsuit over Windows and The "Look and Feel" of the Mac OS was just finally settled in 1998 or 99. Microsoft licensed some Apple software to actually CREATE Windows, and Apple wasn't happy with how similar the 2 OS's ended up. M$ finally just paid money to Apple, settling out of court, because the DOJ trial was going to use the perdicament in the case.
-Marchie
If part of Gopher was the parseing of HTML documents.... then we could conceivably access the entire WWW via Gopher. yes, I know there are issues with that, but lets face it, most of the CONTENT of the web is in text form, and would work with Gopher.
PDFs, and forms of streaming audio and video... That would make Gopher viable again. As another post of mine here says: I'll take a FUNCTIONAL Internet over a glitzy one
-Marchie
I remember useing Gopher, although it was after HTTP was takeing over.
I prefer Gopher for one reason: I get to the information faster, and don;t have to deal with all the ads and glitz of the WWW.
HTML and the WWW are becomeing increaseingly useless when it comes to quickly getting information, and reviveing Gopher would be a GREAT way to counteract this.
Gopher isn;t hard to use, and it's faster. I'll take a FUNCTIONAL Internet over the HTML monstrosity we now have. (although Slashdot is great)
-Marchie
Darwin 1.0, which is the SAME code as Mac OS X sans the GUI, compiles and runs on Intel hardware. Go to http://publicsource.apple.com and see for yourself. Granted, you have to be running some UNIX varient to install it, but it DOES work, and Apple is working to make the GUI work all nicely.
effectively breaking the GPL
thre has been no GPL violation (not that FreeBSD or it's Darwin derivative are under the GPL)
You are paying $30 for the UI. If you want the UNIX part of Mac OS X, then download Darwin for free.
As crazy as this sounds...The place to find the answers to alot that is in the August edition of MacAddict magazine. They do a big ting about how it all works. yup yup.
What people keep saying is that BSD and the Mac OS have been merged...and that isn;t the case.
<BR><BR>
The OS is the Mach Microkernel and BSD. The User Interface is Aqua, so you have a UNIX system with a Mac-like GUI on top.<BR><BR>
I was reading somewheres at Apple that you can open a text editor and actually access the command line. now hwo knows what shell it's useing.
GPS systems...all soldiers interlinked to each other...heldheld access to information...
They sound more like Storm troopers to me!
-DW
When you're as big an outfit as the US military, you don't need to build a new system from consumer products; you can do it better and cheaper (and hella secreter) if you spec and build it yourself. I think not. Granted, NASA has had some problems with their new approach to projects, but they've just pushed too fast. NASA used to say "We need a camera that can operate in extreme cold and in a sealed atmosphere so we can put it on a satelite" So they'd put a bunch of engineers on the project and have them design it, then buy the parts. Then somebody had the sense to turn to the worlds largest camera companies and say "Do you have one of those?" and they said "Yes, we've been selling them for use on submarines for over 30 years...we can help you modify it for use in space too." So, while yes, the army doesn;t need to be useing off the shelf consumer goods, consumer quality goods are many times some of the best ther are. -DW
If you're going to go to the trouble of compiling the code, what next? Does that *automatically* mean that you are going to use it for 'underhanded' purposes? Controversial as it may be, and as broken as the logic may be, this is the argument that the MPAA/legal system is likely to use in order to bypass the 6th Circuit Court's ruling.
No..that doesn't fly. I can copy my father's LP's onto tapes. The music as sound is copyrighted, thus I cannot redistribute it. Also, I cannot say, copy it by ear onto staff paper and distribute that. BUT, If I'm copying it for MY use AT MY HOME, I can use it. I have further rights if it's being used educationally.
THUS: I can obtain the CODE (protected via Amendment 1) and I can study that code, and I can COMPILE the code as part of that study. If we ignore DMCA, I can even USE the compiled programme to copy a DVD for my personal use. But again, I cannot redistribute.
this ruling applies only to the 6th District
well...True, it's an absolute ONLY inside the 6th district, but most other courts will take it as precedient, because that's part of the foundation of our judicial system. While another judge can say "That judge was an idiot" and make a contradictory ruling, the defendant in such a case could then appeal higher with significant legal backing.