Basically that means that lots of home studio people who can't afford proprietary MAC hardware are out of luck if they want to get any updates for logic audio.
oh please. people who are running audio studios, whether at home or at work, are spending serious jack on their systems. audio hardware is inherently expensive. you don't run a studio on a $500 Dell. MOTU cards, high-bandwidth HD arrays, the actual audio hardware... these things are not exactly cheap.
no. arrogance that we jump at possibly political motivations to blame ourselves and others around us when we don't, in fact, know all of the causes of global warming and cooling.
like i said, i'm not saying that it's not the CO2. in fact, i'm right in line with conservation and reducing CO2 emissions (you're talking to an avid outdoorsman here)... however, given that we don't know what all contributes to world climate, indescriminately trashing CO2 producers is arrogant. i may own a truck that gets 13mpg, but i only drive it when i have something to do that my 28mpg car can't do... have you ever tried to haul lumber in the back of a VW?
global warming is being brandished about as a political tool more than anything else these days. even here on slashdot, you see posts that this is a conspiracy to protect the petrol industry. instead, we should be cutting back CO2 producing fuels -AND- looking for other peices of the puzzle.
re-read my post... i always thought it was arrogance to suggest that, to the exclusion of all other factors, humans had the greatest impact on global warming.
i'm not saying CO2 production doesn't affect global warming, or even that CO2 production isn't even a more significant cause... i'm saying that it's arrogant that many people refuse to even consider any small tidbit of evidence that there may be some other contributing factor.
i always thought it was arrogance to suggest that, to the exclusion of all other factors, humans had the greatest impact on global warming.
don't think me a corporate whore or anti-environmentalist; i'm willing to bet that we have some impact... i just think we don't know enough about our ecosystem and it's interaction with the universe around us to automatically assume that it's all our fault.
uhhhhhh.... Buran was an almost exact replica of the US Space Shuttle. so you're proposing we replace the 30 year old US Shuttles with 20 year old replicas of 30 year old US Shuttles?
If the Russians can do the same (almost -exactly- the same) system and do it cheaper somehow, why not just give them all of our existing equipment?
After all, they're safety record is much better, right?
I had this happen to me about a year ago. Very painful. As far as I could ever tell, the spammer was in *.it and was sending through an open relay in *.jp. I complained to the open relay and luckily got ahold of someone who spoke as least as good english as I speak japanese. After several misunderstandings, we got things straightened out, they closed their relay... and I never got any messages or bounces ever again.
I have yet to hear a good explanation why software is treated differantly.
Simple.
You have purchased the car. It is YOURS.
The software, you have only paid for the privilege of using (possibly with restrictions) in perpetuity (in most cases).
For instance, my mom lives on a ranch in east Texas with natural gas reserves. She has sold the mineral rights to the natural gas to a local-ish oil company. In essence, she has licensed the use of the land to them for the limited purpose of removing said natural gas.
They don't get to say, "We paid you money for this land, so move over so we can take the wood, too." All they bought was access to the natural gas.
The commercial software you have licensed is not yours, as much as it would be nice if it were, to do with however you please. You have licensed it and, in some cases, the license restricts how you may use it.
uh... doesn't BEING a/. reader imply sterility for social reasons alone? why go to the trouble of making it biological, when it ain' gonna happen anyway?
One of the biggest obstacles to anime on TV is the high cost of licensing the TV rights from Japan. Considering just how much anime we're talking about, that could be quite a lot of cash. Perhaps the downward spiral of the Japanese economy will help bring the terms down to a sustainable level. Still, promising a percentage of the profits rather than blanket licensing seems like the only way this could happen.
not true, according to some industry insiders. most recent anime licensing agreements already include the broadcasting rights.
Copeland was a lost cause and wouldn't ever be a worthwhile cause regardless of the amount of money Apple threw at it.
I think it's more accurate to say that OS 8 was called OS 8 more to entice consumers to buy the "new OS" than it was an attempt to end around licensing. Honestly, if Apple hadn't ended cloning, they probably would have faced investor lawsuits. They were bleeding so much red ink that, if cloning continued, there wouldn't have been anything to clone in another year or so.
As well, Apple actually wound up having to BUY some of the cloners (or, at least, their remaining assets) to get out of licensing. Specifically Power Computing; the other cloners weren't doing enough cloning to really care. UMAX and Motorola both had significant other business segments. Power Computing did not....
Apple's licensing the OS was good for consumers, but it wound up being very bad for virtually all of the companies involved. Power Computing was the only serious player and they operated at such razor thin margins that they didn't stand much of a chance. They were a major employer here in the Austin area and their problems were well known locally long before cloning ended.
The problem is partly the random part. It's a lottery. Your number comes up, you get searched. ex-VP Al Gore got randomly searched multiple times within a week not long ago (not surprising, I'm guessing, considering how much he probably travels).
Instead, they should be making intelligent choices about who they search. And, no, I'm not suggesting racial profiling. If you've ever been to Isreal or any other country with top notch security personel, you know what I'm talking about.
They ask you questions. They ask EVERYONE questions. They don't even care what your answers are. They ask your name, they ask where you're going, they ask where you've been. They pick some seemingly inconsequential detail on your passport and ask you about it. They don't really care what your answer is, sometimes it seems like they totally ignore your answer.... they're looking for your reaction. How quickly do you answer? HOW do you answer? They make a random search here or there, but really they're interested in the people who take too long remembering their own name, or say they're coming from the place they're going to, etc.
Here in the good ol' USA, guys like this would probably have a cow about security like this, though. They're invading my privacy! Bitch whine moan! blah blah blah. Air travel is NOT one of the inalienable rights discussed in the Declaration of Independance or the Bill of Rights. You got a problem with airport security, take a freaking bus.
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my understanding is that TS's mobos aren't capable of running OS X. just because it's PPC, doesn't necesarily mean that OS X will run on it.
Basically that means that lots of home studio people who can't afford proprietary MAC hardware are out of luck if they want to get any updates for logic audio.
oh please. people who are running audio studios, whether at home or at work, are spending serious jack on their systems. audio hardware is inherently expensive. you don't run a studio on a $500 Dell. MOTU cards, high-bandwidth HD arrays, the actual audio hardware... these things are not exactly cheap.
is there anything on this planet that has half the fancy features of emacs? I mean really... what other editor has a psychiatrist built in?
mmmmmm, M-x doctor
"Always trust content from Microsoft Corporation?"
There's a "Yes" button and a "No" button... but where the hell is the "HELL F*CKING NO" button?
here in Houston, it was at virtually every theater in town.
no... that was Spirit of the Cimerron or some such... and that was Dreamworks, iirc, not Disney. could be wrong on the studio..
Spirited Away is popularly known by it's Japanese title, Sen to Chihiro.
no. arrogance that we jump at possibly political motivations to blame ourselves and others around us when we don't, in fact, know all of the causes of global warming and cooling.
like i said, i'm not saying that it's not the CO2. in fact, i'm right in line with conservation and reducing CO2 emissions (you're talking to an avid outdoorsman here)... however, given that we don't know what all contributes to world climate, indescriminately trashing CO2 producers is arrogant. i may own a truck that gets 13mpg, but i only drive it when i have something to do that my 28mpg car can't do... have you ever tried to haul lumber in the back of a VW?
global warming is being brandished about as a political tool more than anything else these days. even here on slashdot, you see posts that this is a conspiracy to protect the petrol industry. instead, we should be cutting back CO2 producing fuels -AND- looking for other peices of the puzzle.
re-read my post...
i always thought it was arrogance to suggest that, to the exclusion of all other factors, humans had the greatest impact on global warming.
i'm not saying CO2 production doesn't affect global warming, or even that CO2 production isn't even a more significant cause... i'm saying that it's arrogant that many people refuse to even consider any small tidbit of evidence that there may be some other contributing factor.
i always thought it was arrogance to suggest that, to the exclusion of all other factors, humans had the greatest impact on global warming.
don't think me a corporate whore or anti-environmentalist; i'm willing to bet that we have some impact... i just think we don't know enough about our ecosystem and it's interaction with the universe around us to automatically assume that it's all our fault.
and, given the money, the US couldn't do the same thing?
uhhhhhh.... Buran was an almost exact replica of the US Space Shuttle. so you're proposing we replace the 30 year old US Shuttles with 20 year old replicas of 30 year old US Shuttles?
If the Russians can do the same (almost -exactly- the same) system and do it cheaper somehow, why not just give them all of our existing equipment?
After all, they're safety record is much better, right?
this isn't and never was a democracy. many of the founding fathers even despised the very word.
the US is a Democratic Republic, not a democracy.
if you don't like the 2-party system, vote for a third or fourth and convince others to do so too.
check out this list of Japanese smilies.
you're probably looking for (^-^;)
just because they filed in 1998, that does not mean that they claim they invented them in 1998.
They could have been awarded the patent by showing prior art, among other things.
I had this happen to me about a year ago. Very painful. As far as I could ever tell, the spammer was in *.it and was sending through an open relay in *.jp. I complained to the open relay and luckily got ahold of someone who spoke as least as good english as I speak japanese. After several misunderstandings, we got things straightened out, they closed their relay... and I never got any messages or bounces ever again.
I have yet to hear a good explanation why software is treated differantly.
Simple.
You have purchased the car. It is YOURS.
The software, you have only paid for the privilege of using (possibly with restrictions) in perpetuity (in most cases).
For instance, my mom lives on a ranch in east Texas with natural gas reserves. She has sold the mineral rights to the natural gas to a local-ish oil company. In essence, she has licensed the use of the land to them for the limited purpose of removing said natural gas.
They don't get to say, "We paid you money for this land, so move over so we can take the wood, too." All they bought was access to the natural gas.
The commercial software you have licensed is not yours, as much as it would be nice if it were, to do with however you please. You have licensed it and, in some cases, the license restricts how you may use it.
uh... doesn't BEING a /. reader imply sterility for social reasons alone? why go to the trouble of making it biological, when it ain' gonna happen anyway?
One of the biggest obstacles to anime on TV is the high cost of licensing the TV rights from Japan. Considering just how much anime we're talking about, that could be quite a lot of cash. Perhaps the downward spiral of the Japanese economy will help bring the terms down to a sustainable level. Still, promising a percentage of the profits rather than blanket licensing seems like the only way this could happen.
not true, according to some industry insiders. most recent anime licensing agreements already include the broadcasting rights.
check out this article.
there's a big difference between being sued and being charged.
Copeland was a lost cause and wouldn't ever be a worthwhile cause regardless of the amount of money Apple threw at it.
I think it's more accurate to say that OS 8 was called OS 8 more to entice consumers to buy the "new OS" than it was an attempt to end around licensing. Honestly, if Apple hadn't ended cloning, they probably would have faced investor lawsuits. They were bleeding so much red ink that, if cloning continued, there wouldn't have been anything to clone in another year or so.
As well, Apple actually wound up having to BUY some of the cloners (or, at least, their remaining assets) to get out of licensing. Specifically Power Computing; the other cloners weren't doing enough cloning to really care. UMAX and Motorola both had significant other business segments. Power Computing did not....
Apple's licensing the OS was good for consumers, but it wound up being very bad for virtually all of the companies involved. Power Computing was the only serious player and they operated at such razor thin margins that they didn't stand much of a chance. They were a major employer here in the Austin area and their problems were well known locally long before cloning ended.
um, no..... not a single protocol for everything. Merely a single protocol for DISCOVERY of everything. RTFA.
um, boats?
The problem is partly the random part. It's a lottery. Your number comes up, you get searched. ex-VP Al Gore got randomly searched multiple times within a week not long ago (not surprising, I'm guessing, considering how much he probably travels).
Instead, they should be making intelligent choices about who they search. And, no, I'm not suggesting racial profiling. If you've ever been to Isreal or any other country with top notch security personel, you know what I'm talking about.
They ask you questions. They ask EVERYONE questions. They don't even care what your answers are. They ask your name, they ask where you're going, they ask where you've been. They pick some seemingly inconsequential detail on your passport and ask you about it. They don't really care what your answer is, sometimes it seems like they totally ignore your answer.... they're looking for your reaction. How quickly do you answer? HOW do you answer? They make a random search here or there, but really they're interested in the people who take too long remembering their own name, or say they're coming from the place they're going to, etc.
Here in the good ol' USA, guys like this would probably have a cow about security like this, though. They're invading my privacy! Bitch whine moan! blah blah blah. Air travel is NOT one of the inalienable rights discussed in the Declaration of Independance or the Bill of Rights. You got a problem with airport security, take a freaking bus.
It's possible that the cost of running iTools is severely eating Apple. They may have had two options:
1) completely discontinue iTools
2) start charging for it
How many of us could afford to RUN a service like iTools? Consider the big iron and bandwidth required........
They aren't going out of business. Even Enron is still operating.
no such issue here. I'm still happily defaulting to ssh2.