As a result of "Open Safe Files" in this instance, the user has to perform something like six manual steps instead of eight. Anyone gullible enough to go through those six steps would be gullible enough to go through eight, so "Open Safe Files" isn't really making anyone less safe here.
Your subject seems to suggest that you believe that now that there's actual a piece of Mac malware in the wild, things with snowball, and there will be more and more. Is there any logical reason to believe that this is the case? In the latter days of pre-X Mac OS, there was some malware program or other released every year or three, but the rate never seemed to climb.
Any Mac haters gleefully hoping that this is the start of a Mac threat environment similar to the Windows threat environment is probably going to be quite disappointed.
Whoever sets up the presentations for Steve Jobs, for example, tends to do a pretty good job for his keynotes
This article comparing the presentation styles of Jobs and Gates is quite relevant here. (And quite entertaining.)
Most people treat their slides as a sort of scratch pad. They don't figure out what information they're going to present, then figure out what they have to say and what should go on the slides. They figure out what they're going to say by writing it on the slides. Then they go in and read the slides.
Doing really first-rate presentations is hard. The vast majority of business types who are expected to give presentations don't remotely have the graphics design or (more importantly) information design skills to do it well. Even when you have first-rate people doing it, it takes quite a lot of time. Supposedly a Steve Job keynote takes weeks to prepare, and there's probably an entire team involved.
Most other things, like the Directory, are based on open standards like LDAP and Kerberos (real Kerberos, not Windows brain-damaged kerberos).
Yes, but with OS X Server you can set up e.g. network home directories for Mac clients with a couple of clicks, and manage everything through a very straightforward interface. While you can technically do all of the same stuff on Linux with an LDAP server, etc. it's going to take a sufficiently large amount of work that the time your IT guys will spend on it is probably worth more than it would cost to buy a copy of OS X Server (and probably a Mac to run it on).
Palm bought BeOS in 2001. They could have turned around and shipped a slimmed down version of that (and it was already pretty slim), and had the most advanced mobile operating system on the market at the time. Instead, they've made minor improvements to an archaic OS (crippled by being initially designed for extremely limited hardware) for far too long. In many respects they're in the same position Apple was in in the mid-90s, except there's no NeXTSTEP for them to buy, and there's no Steve Jobs to come back and save the day.
It's sad. I've owned three Palms. Though I have to admit I bought the last one mostly because I couldn't bring myself to buy into a Microsoft platform on principle, rather than because it was clearly better than the Microsoft devices.
But the day Apple ships that SDK (i.e. sometime in February), it's game over for Palm. The smartphone market has already largely undermined the PDA market, and while Palm has a horse in that race, it was already losing to the BlackBerry. Well, the iPhone is even stiffer competition there. And once that SDK is out, the iPod Touch officially becomes a PDA, and will almost certainly outsell every other non-phone PDA on the market combined, possibly several times over. (The non-phone PDA market is only about 4M units a year.)
Is the iPhone's platform closed? And if it is, will it be open to developers in the future? Jobs says it's a security issue, but Apple is working to find a way to allow developers to build applications for it. Jobs says he doesn't want the iPhone to be "one of those phones that crashes a few times a day." He adds: "We would like to solve this problem and if you could just be a little more patient with us, we'll do it."
"I may call the mind from immense the fact that it is deep".
But the will which ", therefore i why, or is possible and/or therefore whether the time comes designate the person, as the canned goods Are those sought? " --Shakespeare, Henry four world, pt. One behavior III
I understand the mechanics of each case. You say fair use is a different matter, but I was asking for some sort of legal argument, which would essentially boil down to how the two cases differ in a way that matters in a fair use test. I really still haven't seen that anywhere.
I'd be really interested if anyone against Google's book indexing could advance any kind of coherent explanation for how it differs legally from Google's web indexing, which (almost) nobody seems to have a problem with.
Plausible real-world space elevators aren't huge cables. They're thin ribbons. If one was cut near the top, it wouldn't fall back to Earth so much as... flutter.
I think you're being confused by slightly unusual word ordering. "Skills" is the subject of the relevant clause, despite coming at the end. A similar example, to tweak one of the examples you use above, would be "To several stores is going he," in which "he" is still the subject despite the odd word ordering.
BTW, my ring fingers are longer than my index fingers, yet I've always been better at verbal stuff than at math. I sometimes suspect this is mostly the result of crappy math education, though.
For Apple? Yeah, pretty much. With Apple Lossless encoding, a 4 minute song is maybe 10 MB. 5M of those will fit on five maxed-out Xserve RAID units. That's about $70K worth of storage, or $140K if you buy a second set for backup. Less for Apple, of course, since they get Xserve RAID units at cost. Not a major expense for the iTMS, which is probably doing a few billion in sales every year these days.
I have business-class DSL with a static IP and a ToS agreement that lets me run all the servers I want. I used to have a server on the network and run my own e-mail, web hosting, etc. I don't anymore. Why? Because it's not worth my time. I don't want to have to worry about backups, software updates, spam filtering, DoS attacks... My e-mail is on GMail now, and I've switched my web hosting to MediaTemple. These guys have full-time staff to deal with any issues that arise. They have massive amounts of redundant infrastructure, backup power, and well tested procedures.
I used to think things would head in the direction of personal servers. Now, I think the trend will be in the other direction. More web-based apps, more hosted services. Why? Basically, because it provides huge economies of scale, in terms of both infrastructure and manpower.
No need to "stick it" to Apple. Labels have been growing leery of Apple because Apple controls the only DRM that works with 80% of players, and therefore, from the perspective of a company that was unwilling to give up DRM, Apple controls access to customers.
But if a label is willing to give up DRM, that problem goes away. Sure, EMI made the first deal with Apple, but... they can make other deals. They can sell DRM-free music through any channel, and iPod owners will be able to play it. For a label willing to give up DRM, Apple's control of iPod DRM isn't a threat, so there's no motivation to undermine Apple's market position.
"But DJCacophony," you may say, "there are other players that can handle unprotected AAC." I am well aware of this, but the fact of the matter is that there aren't a whole lot, and Jobs knows this.
This is a silly argument. True, there aren't a lot of other players that do AAC now. But if being compatible with iTunes downloads is as useful to Apple's competitors as you imply, they'll all support it pretty fast. The notion that Apple should adopt an inferior format just to save its competitors the trouble of implementing AAC is frankly ludicrous.
This is complete nonsense. There is no royalty required to use the "likeness" of a city. NYC doesn't even charge for shooting permits; you can literally get a permit and close down streets for a shoot without paying the city a dime. City and state governments want to attract filmmakers not because they get money directly, but because it results in money being spent in local economies and it promotes tourism.
Some distinctive buildings may have copyrighted designs. The Chrysler building, for instance. But courts have ruled that even in these cases, the building owners only have a claim if the building itself is a major element of a shot. A shot of the NYC skyline, for instance, even if the Chrysler building is clearly visible, can't get you into any trouble.
I don't have any discs around to check, but a two hour VC-1 or H.264 movie should be under 10 GB for 1080p (~11 Mb/s), unless they're using higher bit rates than you'd reasonably expect for those codecs. You can also use MPEG-2 on both formats. I think some discs do.
Either way... sure, the size of the media might give them some protection for a while, but... consider that it took 7 years for DVD sales to surpass VHS sales. These formats might not even get adopted that fast... and we're probably not going to see a "super HD" come along any time soon that requires new formats anyway. So, Blu-ray and/or HD-DVD are going to be around for a good long time. If you project out the last 10 years of advances, desktop computers are going to have over 100 terabytes of storage 10 years from now. The size of the content isn't going to be much protection then!
(Of course, the formats might die before then due to Internet distribution.)
I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you're connected with about two feet of headphone cable.
Jobs gets this stuff. Think this through. Compare the Bill Gates solution (have people navigate through menus and beam music to other people's players across the room) with what Jobs is proposing. With what Jobs proposes:
You've creating physical intimacy through close physical proximity.
You're listening to the same song at the same time. It's a shared experience. That isn't necessarily so with the Zune approach.
You both have an ear free, so you can actually talk.
Now, there are comments in response to this Jobs quote all over the Internet to the effect of "I don't see the point, you can do the same thing with the Zune." I suspect astroturfing, because the point is obvious: this Zune feature, the only thing is has going for it, is a complicated technological solution to a problem that people have solved in better ways without the technology.
I really don't think Apple would put up with software crippling. Whether they can talk the cell phone vendors out of it, well... they have more to offer than anyone else who's ever tried, as far as I'm aware. I mean, if your competition is basically giving away free or subsidized iPods with service contracts, and you're just giving away yet another phone, that's probably bad for you. And if Apple implements a system to sell music direct to phones, and service providers could get in on that revenue stream, well....
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DPX or TIFF image sequences. (These are the standard formats for high-end digital post production already.)
You can set things up so http://mail.yourdomain.com/ (or whatever) will point to your domain's Google login page.
As a result of "Open Safe Files" in this instance, the user has to perform something like six manual steps instead of eight. Anyone gullible enough to go through those six steps would be gullible enough to go through eight, so "Open Safe Files" isn't really making anyone less safe here.
Your subject seems to suggest that you believe that now that there's actual a piece of Mac malware in the wild, things with snowball, and there will be more and more. Is there any logical reason to believe that this is the case? In the latter days of pre-X Mac OS, there was some malware program or other released every year or three, but the rate never seemed to climb.
Any Mac haters gleefully hoping that this is the start of a Mac threat environment similar to the Windows threat environment is probably going to be quite disappointed.
This article comparing the presentation styles of Jobs and Gates is quite relevant here. (And quite entertaining.)
Most people treat their slides as a sort of scratch pad. They don't figure out what information they're going to present, then figure out what they have to say and what should go on the slides. They figure out what they're going to say by writing it on the slides. Then they go in and read the slides.
Doing really first-rate presentations is hard. The vast majority of business types who are expected to give presentations don't remotely have the graphics design or (more importantly) information design skills to do it well. Even when you have first-rate people doing it, it takes quite a lot of time. Supposedly a Steve Job keynote takes weeks to prepare, and there's probably an entire team involved.
Yes, but with OS X Server you can set up e.g. network home directories for Mac clients with a couple of clicks, and manage everything through a very straightforward interface. While you can technically do all of the same stuff on Linux with an LDAP server, etc. it's going to take a sufficiently large amount of work that the time your IT guys will spend on it is probably worth more than it would cost to buy a copy of OS X Server (and probably a Mac to run it on).
Palm bought BeOS in 2001. They could have turned around and shipped a slimmed down version of that (and it was already pretty slim), and had the most advanced mobile operating system on the market at the time. Instead, they've made minor improvements to an archaic OS (crippled by being initially designed for extremely limited hardware) for far too long. In many respects they're in the same position Apple was in in the mid-90s, except there's no NeXTSTEP for them to buy, and there's no Steve Jobs to come back and save the day.
It's sad. I've owned three Palms. Though I have to admit I bought the last one mostly because I couldn't bring myself to buy into a Microsoft platform on principle, rather than because it was clearly better than the Microsoft devices.
But the day Apple ships that SDK (i.e. sometime in February), it's game over for Palm. The smartphone market has already largely undermined the PDA market, and while Palm has a horse in that race, it was already losing to the BlackBerry. Well, the iPhone is even stiffer competition there. And once that SDK is out, the iPod Touch officially becomes a PDA, and will almost certainly outsell every other non-phone PDA on the market combined, possibly several times over. (The non-phone PDA market is only about 4M units a year.)
(See here.)
"I may call the mind from immense the fact that it is deep".
But the will which ", therefore i why, or is possible and/or therefore whether the time comes designate the person, as the canned goods
Are those sought? "
--Shakespeare, Henry four world, pt. One behavior III
I understand the mechanics of each case. You say fair use is a different matter, but I was asking for some sort of legal argument, which would essentially boil down to how the two cases differ in a way that matters in a fair use test. I really still haven't seen that anywhere.
I'd be really interested if anyone against Google's book indexing could advance any kind of coherent explanation for how it differs legally from Google's web indexing, which (almost) nobody seems to have a problem with.
Plausible real-world space elevators aren't huge cables. They're thin ribbons. If one was cut near the top, it wouldn't fall back to Earth so much as... flutter.
I think you're being confused by slightly unusual word ordering. "Skills" is the subject of the relevant clause, despite coming at the end. A similar example, to tweak one of the examples you use above, would be "To several stores is going he," in which "he" is still the subject despite the odd word ordering.
BTW, my ring fingers are longer than my index fingers, yet I've always been better at verbal stuff than at math. I sometimes suspect this is mostly the result of crappy math education, though.
You should be able to call 911 on any landline that's physically connected, even if you don't pay for landline service.
Umm... $70K = $70,000. I didn't think that particularly needed to be spelled out on Slashdot.
For Apple? Yeah, pretty much. With Apple Lossless encoding, a 4 minute song is maybe 10 MB. 5M of those will fit on five maxed-out Xserve RAID units. That's about $70K worth of storage, or $140K if you buy a second set for backup. Less for Apple, of course, since they get Xserve RAID units at cost. Not a major expense for the iTMS, which is probably doing a few billion in sales every year these days.
I have business-class DSL with a static IP and a ToS agreement that lets me run all the servers I want. I used to have a server on the network and run my own e-mail, web hosting, etc. I don't anymore. Why? Because it's not worth my time. I don't want to have to worry about backups, software updates, spam filtering, DoS attacks... My e-mail is on GMail now, and I've switched my web hosting to MediaTemple. These guys have full-time staff to deal with any issues that arise. They have massive amounts of redundant infrastructure, backup power, and well tested procedures.
I used to think things would head in the direction of personal servers. Now, I think the trend will be in the other direction. More web-based apps, more hosted services. Why? Basically, because it provides huge economies of scale, in terms of both infrastructure and manpower.
No need to "stick it" to Apple. Labels have been growing leery of Apple because Apple controls the only DRM that works with 80% of players, and therefore, from the perspective of a company that was unwilling to give up DRM, Apple controls access to customers.
But if a label is willing to give up DRM, that problem goes away. Sure, EMI made the first deal with Apple, but... they can make other deals. They can sell DRM-free music through any channel, and iPod owners will be able to play it. For a label willing to give up DRM, Apple's control of iPod DRM isn't a threat, so there's no motivation to undermine Apple's market position.
"But DJCacophony," you may say, "there are other players that can handle unprotected AAC." I am well aware of this, but the fact of the matter is that there aren't a whole lot, and Jobs knows this.
This is a silly argument. True, there aren't a lot of other players that do AAC now. But if being compatible with iTunes downloads is as useful to Apple's competitors as you imply, they'll all support it pretty fast. The notion that Apple should adopt an inferior format just to save its competitors the trouble of implementing AAC is frankly ludicrous.
AAC is not a proprietary file format. The only proprietary aspect of Apple's downloads was the DRM, which these files don't have.
This is complete nonsense. There is no royalty required to use the "likeness" of a city. NYC doesn't even charge for shooting permits; you can literally get a permit and close down streets for a shoot without paying the city a dime. City and state governments want to attract filmmakers not because they get money directly, but because it results in money being spent in local economies and it promotes tourism.
Some distinctive buildings may have copyrighted designs. The Chrysler building, for instance. But courts have ruled that even in these cases, the building owners only have a claim if the building itself is a major element of a shot. A shot of the NYC skyline, for instance, even if the Chrysler building is clearly visible, can't get you into any trouble.
I don't have any discs around to check, but a two hour VC-1 or H.264 movie should be under 10 GB for 1080p (~11 Mb/s), unless they're using higher bit rates than you'd reasonably expect for those codecs. You can also use MPEG-2 on both formats. I think some discs do.
Either way... sure, the size of the media might give them some protection for a while, but... consider that it took 7 years for DVD sales to surpass VHS sales. These formats might not even get adopted that fast... and we're probably not going to see a "super HD" come along any time soon that requires new formats anyway. So, Blu-ray and/or HD-DVD are going to be around for a good long time. If you project out the last 10 years of advances, desktop computers are going to have over 100 terabytes of storage 10 years from now. The size of the content isn't going to be much protection then!
(Of course, the formats might die before then due to Internet distribution.)
Listening to music can be social.
Jobs on Zune's sharing feature: Jobs gets this stuff. Think this through. Compare the Bill Gates solution (have people navigate through menus and beam music to other people's players across the room) with what Jobs is proposing. With what Jobs proposes:- You've creating physical intimacy through close physical proximity.
- You're listening to the same song at the same time. It's a shared experience. That isn't necessarily so with the Zune approach.
- You both have an ear free, so you can actually talk.
Now, there are comments in response to this Jobs quote all over the Internet to the effect of "I don't see the point, you can do the same thing with the Zune." I suspect astroturfing, because the point is obvious: this Zune feature, the only thing is has going for it, is a complicated technological solution to a problem that people have solved in better ways without the technology.If you're trying to get into orbit, there are benefits to launching closer to the equator.
I really don't think Apple would put up with software crippling. Whether they can talk the cell phone vendors out of it, well... they have more to offer than anyone else who's ever tried, as far as I'm aware. I mean, if your competition is basically giving away free or subsidized iPods with service contracts, and you're just giving away yet another phone, that's probably bad for you. And if Apple implements a system to sell music direct to phones, and service providers could get in on that revenue stream, well....