And you have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what the optics of the time were like.
Really, the cheapest piece of crap made in China toy telescope you can find today, is better, optically and field of view wise than the telescopes used by Galileo and Harriot. The cheap pocket telescopes sold by Edmund Scientific are much, much better than those original 'scopes used by Galileo and Harriot.
Please. Stop using the Internet. You're getting your stupid all over everything.
Tell you what, CastrTroy, I'll give you a telescope that is the equal to what Harriot used (a telescope, by the way, that's inferior to even the cheapest toy telescope sold by Edmund Scientific.) a pencil and a pad of paper, and lets see YOU do a better job of mapping the Lunar surface.
"So I'm not seeing a clear win for Apple in DRM here.
But I think the most fundamental argument is: It sounds like you're saying Apple has "good DRM." Can such a thing exist?"
Apple DRM does not impact the average user in any way. They don't see it. It doesn't get in the way of the average user enjoying their music and video purchased from iTunes.
They have one computer and one iPod. The one talks to the other.
MAYBE they also synch to the computer at work.
MP3 files and converted to MP4 video plays just fine on the iPod.
The iPod itself and the iPod software on the computer do not forbid you from playing non-DRMed files, nor prevent you from transferring files to the the iPod.
iTunes Store. "Oh, I want that song!" Two mouse clicks later, it's on the computer. Next time the iPod is docked, it automatically copies to the iPod. The DRM did not get in the way in any form.
If you download from the iTunes Store in Apple Lossless and then burn a Music CD, there is no loss in quality. You can burn 10 CDs of the same playlist. Swap the order of two files and burn 10 more.
As for backup of all your purchased music/video files. You DO use Time Machine, right?
Remember, Slashdot geek:
YOU are NOT the target audience for the iPod. YOU have NEVER BEEN the target audience for the iPod. YOU will NEVER BE the target audience for the iPod.
...this story will enter the realm of "Urban Legend", and every student who is the least on the ball with either scan, photocopy or transcribe to digital their class notes for all their classes.
And then, hand over their paper notebooks with a smile.
Now, given THIS scenario, anyone demanding I hand over MY 'notebook' for destruction is in for a very hard time, indeed.
I use Verizon DSL. Used it under OS 9 and now OS X.
It's been so many years since I opened the account, I have forgotten most of the details.
But, I assure you, I DID NOT need to use their CD in any way shape or form. Because there was NO OS 9 compatible software on the disc.
I did have to call tech support, due to some minor oddness with the DSL router/modem and OS 9, involving AppleTalk, I think. In any event, the tech blew the dust off the OS 9 script and within a few minutes, the G3 Mac was online via DSL.
Any OS more complex than that shipped with the VIC=20 can be exploited in some fashion.
Unlike Windows, the slutty whore that'll let ANYBODY screw her, Mac OS is much harder to mess with. No Autorun, no incestuous relationship between Mail.app and Safari, immune to SONY's CD based rootkits, ships with security options switched on by default, a virgin Mac OS X install can sit on an unfirewalled Internet connection for, essentially, forever, and not get 0wned, unlike Windows which lasts maybe 1 minute before getting 0wned.
And when, Oh happy day!, when Mac OS is the majority OS on the planet, I'll be concerned about exploits then. Until then...
Best of luck trying to run an exploit in an OS that requires a specific set of actions by the Admin to install software.
Unlike Windows and 'Autorun', and Outlook Express and Internet Explorer, and the SONY Rootkits, et al, etc.
Granted, even stupid people use Macs from time to time, so, I guess that it's potentially possible to actually get some moron to install a rootkit if he thought he'd was going to see (Female Celebrity) sex tape.
In my decades of using Macs, I've only run into ONE virus, and that was on a used Color Classic I bought at the now defunct Computer Renaissance shop in Cambridge almost 10 years ago.
The original Apple Extended. I'm using one right now. It's more than 20 years old, and works like it just came off the assembly line. REAL mechanical key switches (not as clicky as the Model M, but still give a decent audio feedback.) Great feel and just enough resistance and just enough travel. I can and have typed for hours at a time with this board (bought used at a local Goodwill for US$2.00 some years ago) with no physical distress.
As far as I'm concerned, every other "modern" keyboard feels like I'm poking at a slab of Silly Putty when attempting to type on one.
As for cleaning, well, every year or so, I pull all the keycaps and dump them in a bucket of hot water with a hefty dollop of Spic & Span liquid cleaner and let them sit overnight. (Brownian motion is your friend) For the two part plastic enclosure, I use either the bathtub or kitchen sink, hot water and more Spic & Span.
I clean the crud off the PC board with canned air and an old toothbrush.
All the keys get fished out of the bucket after a few hours, wiped off and left on some newspaper to dry, the enclosure pieces get hung up on the shower curtain rod to dry.
The next day, everything goes back together again and the keyboard looks like new.
Over the course of a year, I was able to buy 5 more Apple Extended Keyboards and a couple of Extended IIs. I don't think I paid much more than US$15.00 combined for all of them.
The new Apple Aluminum keyboard defines both "unusable" AND uncleanable. It is essentially disposable. If you find an original Apple Aluminum keyboard that still works in 20 years, it'll be because someone stuck it in a closet and forgot about it for two decades.
I'm using this keyboard on my dual processor FW800 MDD Mac, via the Griffin iMate ADB to USB adaptor.
I am confident that this keyboard will still be in use by somebody long after I'm dead.
"I would love to see the part of the Constitution that says "Congress shall provide a robust cellular network for its citizens.""
Here you go:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare , and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (emphasis added)
I find it interesting that you are a mendacious twit.
And that you didn't answer the question.
And that, instead of addressing the point of my original comments, you blithely ignored the fact that it was BIG FUCKING GOVERNMENT that increased the liberty of the oppressed minority in America. First, by judicial activism, I.E., the Supreme Court, and then by the application of sheer, raw military might to enforce the integration of a high school, at gunpoint.
Granted, you libertarian types LOATH the idea of state intervention, unless someone will make a decent profit from it. Then it's send in the strike breakers/Marines. As long as the coal gets dug and the bananas get picked, fuck the unalienable Right of Man.
It wasn't the left that shredded the 4th and 5th Amendments, and that big old lefty head of the DNC, Howard Dean, himself promulgated the theory that whatever gun control laws there are, should be left to the states to decide. Oakland, CA has much different circumstances than Rutland, Vermont, (for example) when it comes to regulating the possession and use of firearms.
So, buy more guns. You'll feel better, you'll help the economy and your Viagra expenses will be lessened.
And it took the courts and legislature to actually recognize that fellow human beings who happen to not have pink colored skin were actually American citizens with ALL the rights of citizens who did have pink colored skin.
And why? Because there was a government BIG enough, with enough power to enforce the decisions of the Supreme Court, I.E., Brown vs Board of Education. Being able to send in the 82nd Airborne to Little Rock (as I recal) to enforce the Supreme Court decision is the action of a big, strong government, not a small, weak government, so beloved by Libertarians and other Randroids.
As for marriage equality, again, the godbotherers want to decide who has rights and who doesn't. As the bible has as much legitimacy in the legislature as does "The Bobsey Twins go to The Circus", it falls to the courts to ensure that the words, "All persons are equal before the law, and will enjoy equal protection under the law" are more than empty words, devoid of meaning and authority.
"Free options like hulu don't include some series I wanted to see like Earth Final Conflict or the Avengers. I purchased both of these on DVD, and they both sucked. That's almost $200 wasted, and I can't return either of them."
Jeebus! That's what Netflix is for! You bloody RENT the box set, or as much of it as you need to rent to see if you like or dislike it.
"Oh, but it's not FREE!!!" Sucks to be you, then, you cheap sod! Using Netflix to see if you liked Earth: Final Conflict or the Avengers box sets would have been a LOT Cheaper than buying the box sets and discovering you didn't like them.
So, sell the box sets on eBay or Craigslist and make back some of your money, which you can then spend on MORE crap you'll discover that you don't like.
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
God DAMN JFK and LBJ and their overwhelming BIG GOVERNMENT taking away the liberty of good, decent Christian Southerners to lynch all those uppity niggers wanting to vote and eat at a lunch counter and not have to sit in the back of the bus, that had the temerity to ask that they stopped being lynched for wanting to vote and eat at a lunch counter and not have to sit in the back of the bus.
And now, NOW, the god damned faggots are wanting to get MARRIED, just like normal people!
It's an outrage how our freedoms and liberties are being eroded by the liberals and the ACLU and George Soros and Michael Moore and Al Gore!
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And Herriot did it FIRST.
And as an amateur astronomer who began in the late 1960s, pretty much all sketches made by astronomers look crude, at first.
Looking at Herriot's sketches, I had no trouble identifying the features.
Again. Please stop using the Internet. You're getting your stupid all over everything.
And you have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what the optics of the time were like.
Really, the cheapest piece of crap made in China toy telescope you can find today, is better, optically and field of view wise than the telescopes used by Galileo and Harriot. The cheap pocket telescopes sold by Edmund Scientific are much, much better than those original 'scopes used by Galileo and Harriot.
Please. Stop using the Internet. You're getting your stupid all over everything.
Tell you what, CastrTroy, I'll give you a telescope that is the equal to what Harriot used (a telescope, by the way, that's inferior to even the cheapest toy telescope sold by Edmund Scientific.) a pencil and a pad of paper, and lets see YOU do a better job of mapping the Lunar surface.
Never fear, no one ever listens to us old pre-AOL/Endless September hackers on Slashdot.
The onions tied to our belts is a dead giveaway to our elderly and senile status.
"We shared our files via USENET ! And we LIKED IT!"
And we still like it, too.
Newsguy subscription : US$8.95 a month.
One time fee to NZB Matrix : US$10.00.
Being almost impossible to trace by the MPAA/RIAA: Priceless!
(Yes, you do need an NZB client . Mac OS, Windows, Linux all have clients. It's almost as easy as using BitTorrent!)
And despite the earnest MS Fanboying up there, the Zune still defines "Epic Fail".
Particularly after the New Year's mass seppuku of the 30 gig models.
"So I'm not seeing a clear win for Apple in DRM here.
But I think the most fundamental argument is: It sounds like you're saying Apple has "good DRM." Can such a thing exist?"
Apple DRM does not impact the average user in any way. They don't see it. It doesn't get in the way of the average user enjoying their music and video purchased from iTunes.
They have one computer and one iPod.
The one talks to the other.
MAYBE they also synch to the computer at work.
MP3 files and converted to MP4 video plays just fine on the iPod.
The iPod itself and the iPod software on the computer do not forbid you from playing non-DRMed files, nor prevent you from transferring files to the the iPod.
iTunes Store. "Oh, I want that song!" Two mouse clicks later, it's on the computer. Next time the iPod is docked, it automatically copies to the iPod. The DRM did not get in the way in any form.
If you download from the iTunes Store in Apple Lossless and then burn a Music CD, there is no loss in quality. You can burn 10 CDs of the same playlist. Swap the order of two files and burn 10 more.
As for backup of all your purchased music/video files. You DO use Time Machine, right?
Remember, Slashdot geek:
YOU are NOT the target audience for the iPod.
YOU have NEVER BEEN the target audience for the iPod.
YOU will NEVER BE the target audience for the iPod.
"Mars is from Earth, Mercury is from Venus. ...and methane is from Uranus.
Sorry.."
No. No, you're not sorry.
Not at all, you cheeky little monkey!
...this story will enter the realm of "Urban Legend", and every student who is the least on the ball with either scan, photocopy or transcribe to digital their class notes for all their classes.
And then, hand over their paper notebooks with a smile.
Now, given THIS scenario , anyone demanding I hand over MY 'notebook' for destruction is in for a very hard time, indeed.
"The average user has at least 3 working computers and another two they are working on, right?"
Reaches out right arm and touches two Macs that are online and doing stuff. Didn't have to lean over to touch the farthest away Mac, either.
Turns head to the right and sees two other Macs in the bedroom. There's a SPARCserver 20 in there as well.
There's a Mac G3 "All In One" that needs RAM, a CD/RW drive, some hard drives and A/V card. That counts as "being worked on", right?
I use Verizon DSL. Used it under OS 9 and now OS X.
It's been so many years since I opened the account, I have forgotten most of the details.
But, I assure you, I DID NOT need to use their CD in any way shape or form. Because there was NO OS 9 compatible software on the disc.
I did have to call tech support, due to some minor oddness with the DSL router/modem and OS 9, involving AppleTalk, I think. In any event, the tech blew the dust off the OS 9 script and within a few minutes, the G3 Mac was online via DSL.
No Windows involved at end at all.
... quote for every occasion:
Jen: "Why are you doing this, Roy?"
Roy: "For the same reason I do anything, Jen. To have sex with a lady!"
It's true! Just ask the Elders of the Internet.
Wow! A comment that entirely invalidates the username of the commentator, now and for the remaining life of the Universe.
Really, that takes some mad rhetorical skills right there.
Rats off to ya!
"Exactly the way the free market is supposed to work, no need for government intervention or bullshit laws."
The stench of Randroid droppings is thick in the air tonight.
Any OS more complex than that shipped with the VIC=20 can be exploited in some fashion.
Unlike Windows, the slutty whore that'll let ANYBODY screw her, Mac OS is much harder to mess with. No Autorun, no incestuous relationship between Mail.app and Safari, immune to SONY's CD based rootkits, ships with security options switched on by default, a virgin Mac OS X install can sit on an unfirewalled Internet connection for, essentially, forever, and not get 0wned, unlike Windows which lasts maybe 1 minute before getting 0wned.
And when, Oh happy day!, when Mac OS is the majority OS on the planet, I'll be concerned about exploits then. Until then...
Best of luck trying to run an exploit in an OS that requires a specific set of actions by the Admin to install software.
Unlike Windows and 'Autorun', and Outlook Express and Internet Explorer, and the SONY Rootkits, et al, etc.
Granted, even stupid people use Macs from time to time, so, I guess that it's potentially possible to actually get some moron to install a rootkit if he thought he'd was going to see (Female Celebrity) sex tape.
In my decades of using Macs, I've only run into ONE virus, and that was on a used Color Classic I bought at the now defunct Computer Renaissance shop in Cambridge almost 10 years ago.
The original Apple Extended. I'm using one right now. It's more than 20 years old, and works like it just came off the assembly line. REAL mechanical key switches (not as clicky as the Model M, but still give a decent audio feedback.) Great feel and just enough resistance and just enough travel. I can and have typed for hours at a time with this board (bought used at a local Goodwill for US$2.00 some years ago) with no physical distress.
As far as I'm concerned, every other "modern" keyboard feels like I'm poking at a slab of Silly Putty when attempting to type on one.
As for cleaning, well, every year or so, I pull all the keycaps and dump them in a bucket of hot water with a hefty dollop of Spic & Span liquid cleaner and let them sit overnight. (Brownian motion is your friend) For the two part plastic enclosure, I use either the bathtub or kitchen sink, hot water and more Spic & Span.
I clean the crud off the PC board with canned air and an old toothbrush.
All the keys get fished out of the bucket after a few hours, wiped off and left on some newspaper to dry, the enclosure pieces get hung up on the shower curtain rod to dry.
The next day, everything goes back together again and the keyboard looks like new.
Over the course of a year, I was able to buy 5 more Apple Extended Keyboards and a couple of Extended IIs. I don't think I paid much more than US$15.00 combined for all of them.
The new Apple Aluminum keyboard defines both "unusable" AND uncleanable. It is essentially disposable. If you find an original Apple Aluminum keyboard that still works in 20 years, it'll be because someone stuck it in a closet and forgot about it for two decades.
I'm using this keyboard on my dual processor FW800 MDD Mac, via the Griffin iMate ADB to USB adaptor.
I am confident that this keyboard will still be in use by somebody long after I'm dead.
"I would love to see the part of the Constitution that says "Congress shall provide a robust cellular network for its citizens.""
Here you go:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare , and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
(emphasis added)
You're welcome!
"Botnets, spammer's botnets!
What kind of boxes are on botnets?
Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too!
Are boxes, found on botnets. All running Windows, FOO!"
For myself, I'm currently running OSX, 10.5.6.
Why, yes. Yes I AM a smug bastard! Thanks for asking!
I find it interesting that you are a mendacious twit.
And that you didn't answer the question.
And that, instead of addressing the point of my original comments, you blithely ignored the fact that it was BIG FUCKING GOVERNMENT that increased the liberty of the oppressed minority in America. First, by judicial activism, I.E., the Supreme Court, and then by the application of sheer, raw military might to enforce the integration of a high school, at gunpoint.
Granted, you libertarian types LOATH the idea of state intervention, unless someone will make a decent profit from it. Then it's send in the strike breakers/Marines. As long as the coal gets dug and the bananas get picked, fuck the unalienable Right of Man.
It wasn't the left that shredded the 4th and 5th Amendments, and that big old lefty head of the DNC, Howard Dean, himself promulgated the theory that whatever gun control laws there are, should be left to the states to decide. Oakland, CA has much different circumstances than Rutland, Vermont, (for example) when it comes to regulating the possession and use of firearms.
So, buy more guns. You'll feel better, you'll help the economy and your Viagra expenses will be lessened.
Netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook!
FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF!
Netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook, netbook!
FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF!
You may address your C&D letter to my lawyers, the Firm of Mako, Basking and White, Boston, MA.
Buy more guns, then. That IS the Randroid answer to everything, right?
And it took the courts and legislature to actually recognize that fellow human beings who happen to not have pink colored skin were actually American citizens with ALL the rights of citizens who did have pink colored skin.
And why? Because there was a government BIG enough, with enough power to enforce the decisions of the Supreme Court, I.E., Brown vs Board of Education. Being able to send in the 82nd Airborne to Little Rock (as I recal) to enforce the Supreme Court decision is the action of a big, strong government, not a small, weak government, so beloved by Libertarians and other Randroids.
As for marriage equality, again, the godbotherers want to decide who has rights and who doesn't. As the bible has as much legitimacy in the legislature as does "The Bobsey Twins go to The Circus", it falls to the courts to ensure that the words, "All persons are equal before the law, and will enjoy equal protection under the law" are more than empty words, devoid of meaning and authority.
"Free options like hulu don't include some series I wanted to see like Earth Final Conflict or the Avengers. I purchased both of these on DVD, and they both sucked. That's almost $200 wasted, and I can't return either of them."
Jeebus! That's what Netflix is for! You bloody RENT the box set, or as much of it as you need to rent to see if you like or dislike it.
"Oh, but it's not FREE!!!" Sucks to be you, then, you cheap sod! Using Netflix to see if you liked Earth: Final Conflict or the Avengers box sets would have been a LOT Cheaper than buying the box sets and discovering you didn't like them.
In some instances, you can even borrow these DVDs for free from your local library, even though libraries are, in the opinion of the Libertarians, "Public libraries, as institutions that destroy value, destroy in some small way our ability to live our lives to the fullest. They represent houses of death and should be spat upon and cursed in the most creative language possible."
So, sell the box sets on eBay or Craigslist and make back some of your money, which you can then spend on MORE crap you'll discover that you don't like.
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
God DAMN JFK and LBJ and their overwhelming BIG GOVERNMENT taking away the liberty of good, decent Christian Southerners to lynch all those uppity niggers wanting to vote and eat at a lunch counter and not have to sit in the back of the bus, that had the temerity to ask that they stopped being lynched for wanting to vote and eat at a lunch counter and not have to sit in the back of the bus.
And now, NOW, the god damned faggots are wanting to get MARRIED, just like normal people!
It's an outrage how our freedoms and liberties are being eroded by the liberals and the ACLU and George Soros and Michael Moore and Al Gore!