I *guess* that he means that the cursors are in a sandbox so the vulnerability isn't that harmful. But apparently he didn't understand the whole point of the term "sandbox" so he replaced it with "sandtank". Or so.
What's the justification for a thumb-board when it only serves some applications that are heavily used by only a handful of users? It's there when you watch a movie, it's there when you look at a web page, it's there when you select a song, while the space could be used so much better.
Asia's crowded and Europe's too old Africa is far too hot And Canada's too cold And South America stole our name Let's drop the big one There'll be no one left to blame us
We'll save Australia Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo We'll build an All American amusement park there They got surfin', too
The disadvantages of the Walkman: - max. 90 minutes of storage (120min just wasn't reliable) - more storage meant more physical space - relatively bad sound quality - difficult to find songs
The disadvantages of the Discman: - max 80 minutes or the length of an album - more storage meant more physical space - not shockproof, even shockproof versions could scratch cd's. - quite large
The disadvantages of the iPod: - non-replaceable batteries
The iPod solved the major problems of its predecessors. It enables me to take 3300+ songs with me (15GB) on a very small device. Of course, it's not perfect, but I don't see how the availability of new technology will change the perfect music player radically like it did before.
Saturday Night's approaching, in Europe it's already started, time for our weekly dose of melancholy to prevent us from commiting suicide.
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You'll be surprised by how many CS students use Notepad! When I show them Vim with syntax-highlighting they start yelling things like 'wtf??/slash? STFU n00b!1one Colors R teh l4m3!1deux':(
The disadvantage to such an effecient input system is when the cat jumps on your keyboard, you can have hours of work erased in Vi. <Esc>uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu <Ctrl>-R <Ctrl>-R <Ctrl>-R
I use iTunes on Windows. It's usable although I wish it was a bit faster.
When I add large collections of new music (like from www.legaltorrents.com) I prepend the artist's name with a three-digit identifier. In the case of Legaltorrents, there are archives from record labels like 'Monotonik' and 'Kikapu'. The 'Monotonik' bands get 'mtk:' before their names, the 'Kikapu' artists get 'kpu:' and so on. That way they are nicely grouped UI-wise. And when they appear in the Party Shuffle I know directly where the music comes from.
Did the different marketing groups at Intel ever notice that they had two uses for the term 'MMX' back in 1996? One was for a certain processor technology, the other for stating that the Internet would be faster in fourteen years.
Have you ever wondered why the new 30GB and 60GB iPods are so thin compared to the previous generations? That's because they already use perpendicular recording.....
Of course you can't cleanse a dirty system from within if the exploit is remote, the only way I know to even come close is to remove from the net and cleanse, Rinse, repeat for each machine.
That's the problem here. The malware is redundant. If one of the instances detects that another instance is tampered with, it reinstalls the first one (and the other way around). No network needed. The only remedy is removing every instance simultaneously, but you can't do that before you detected them, and at that point there could be another $sys$copy somewhere else on your system.
'When I was arrested, Apple said that PPC processors were evil.'
'PPC processors are evil. Good. And Apple always said that PPC processors are evil, has it not?' Winston drew in his breath. He opened his mouth to speak and then did not speak. He could not take his eyes away from the dial.
'The truth, please, Winston. Your truth. Tell me what you think you remember.' 'I remember that until only a week before I was arrested, Apple used PPC processors. They even proved that they were the better ones. Intel's processors were the evil ones. That had lasted for nine years. Before that '
Jobs stopped him with a movement of the hand.
[..]
'Do you remember,' he went on, ' writing in your diary, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four"?' 'Yes,' said Winston. Jobs held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended. 'How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? 'Four.' 'And if the party says that it is not four but 4.0000000097768 then how many?' 'Four.'
1- if you buy 60 minidiscs at once, you can save a little bit I used the guessed retail price from a MD-fansite, the lowest retail price I found was a bit higher.
But ok, maybe the 30GB example would be cheaper with MD's. But will it be much cheaper? At least for me it isn't worth the hassle of carrying a box of disks around.
2- if, as you assert, most folks only use half a 15g ipod, then you don't need 15 or 30 or 60 blanks.. only 7-8 That isn't what I said. I said that I can put only less than half of my collection on my 15GB iPod. My collection is over 30GB's, and most music freak's collections are about that size. People have either a couple of cd's or a lot of cd's.
3- who wins dollariwse if you need 61gb of music? hiMD. Let's pay EUR130 (that's almost a 1GB Nano or a cheap mp3 player with built-in fm tuner) extra and carry 61 disks around because you're not able to scrap the 1.5% of music you don't listen to anyway.:)
The new Hi-MD format offers 1GB per disc (which can add up to 45 hours of music on one disc)-- and a disc only costs a few Euros
45 hours on 1 GB? that's 53kbps... 1 GB (1GiB) is still 18 hours @ 128kbps.
One disk costs EUR 7.00, so here's a little price comparison for people who want an mp3-player (and don't use the recording or video functions) (all prices in Euro's):
1 GB iPod Nano: EUR 159 1 GB hi-MD: 150 + 1*7 = 157 : roughly the same price
2 GB iPod Nano: EUR 209 2 GB hi-MD: 150 + 2*7 = 164 : MD is the best choice, but the iPod has no moving parts.
4 GB iPod Nano: EUR 259 4 GB hi-MD: 150 + 4*7 = 178.00 : MD is the best choice, but the iPod has no moving parts.
Here's the gap between occasional music listeners and music lovers. Non-existing market according to Apple. You either have a handful or a lot of cd's. My iPod 3G 15GB is too big for most people while I can't even put half of my collection on it. Maybe the hi-MD could fill this gap up.
Add to that the ease of selecting playlists (of any size you want, not limited to 1GB) instead of carrying a wallet with md's around, and I don't see why I should buy a hi-MD recorder. The only advantage over mp3-cd players is the size.
Another thing, if you want certain songs on multiple playlists (disks) with the hi-MD player, you need to copy them on multiple disks, decreasing the actual capacity even further. On my iPod I have a couple of similar ("all music", "best", "hard", "easy",....) playlists, all using the same music library.
Before the.mp3 player revolution, MDs only competitors were CDs and before that, tapes. He forgets DCC:)
Now, I think that that is a pointless battle: you won't beat Apple in its current winning mood. Forget it. It ain't gonna happen. True.
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That explains a lot!
I *guess* that he means that the cursors are in a sandbox so the vulnerability isn't that harmful. But apparently he didn't understand the whole point of the term "sandbox" so he replaced it with "sandtank". Or so.
What's the justification for a thumb-board when it only serves some applications that are heavily used by only a handful of users? It's there when you watch a movie, it's there when you look at a web page, it's there when you select a song, while the space could be used so much better.
What about the new Danish traffic signs?
Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us
We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too
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In hexadecimal it is:
:)
D-A-7D6
7+6=13
The disadvantages of the Walkman:
- max. 90 minutes of storage (120min just wasn't reliable)
- more storage meant more physical space
- relatively bad sound quality
- difficult to find songs
The disadvantages of the Discman:
- max 80 minutes or the length of an album
- more storage meant more physical space
- not shockproof, even shockproof versions could scratch cd's.
- quite large
The disadvantages of the iPod:
- non-replaceable batteries
The iPod solved the major problems of its predecessors. It enables me to take 3300+ songs with me (15GB) on a very small device. Of course, it's not perfect, but I don't see how the availability of new technology will change the perfect music player radically like it did before.
WiFi. More space than a Nomad. Lame.
That's 450GB (at most!). I'd rather pay a bit more and have 2 250GB harddisks.
Saturday Night's approaching, in Europe it's already started, time for our weekly dose of melancholy to prevent us from commiting suicide.
You'll be surprised by how many CS students use Notepad! When I show them Vim with syntax-highlighting they start yelling things like 'wtf??/slash? STFU n00b!1one Colors R teh l4m3!1deux' :(
The disadvantage to such an effecient input system is when the cat jumps on your keyboard, you can have hours of work erased in Vi.
<Esc>uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu <Ctrl>-R <Ctrl>-R <Ctrl>-R
I use iTunes on Windows. It's usable although I wish it was a bit faster.
When I add large collections of new music (like from www.legaltorrents.com) I prepend the artist's name with a three-digit identifier. In the case of Legaltorrents, there are archives from record labels like 'Monotonik' and 'Kikapu'. The 'Monotonik' bands get 'mtk:' before their names, the 'Kikapu' artists get 'kpu:' and so on. That way they are nicely grouped UI-wise. And when they appear in the Party Shuffle I know directly where the music comes from.
Like when my girlfriend needed to update her podcast and kept screwing up the XML file, I just wrote a little app to do it for her.
What? screwing up the XML file?
I don't know, but what I do know is that AMD will pretty soon release a rivaling product called EmacsscamE.
MMX makes the internet go faster.
Did the different marketing groups at Intel ever notice that they had two uses for the term 'MMX' back in 1996? One was for a certain processor technology, the other for stating that the Internet would be faster in fourteen years.
Slashdotting Google? That's cruel!
Have you ever wondered why the new 30GB and 60GB iPods are so thin compared to the previous generations? That's because they already use perpendicular recording.....
...says Negroponte too Linux.
No, hosting providers use it to hire limo's. :)
...why not just install Windows 95 on it?
Of course you can't cleanse a dirty system from within if the exploit is remote, the only way I know to even come close is to remove from the net and cleanse, Rinse, repeat for each machine.
That's the problem here. The malware is redundant. If one of the instances detects that another instance is tampered with, it reinstalls the first one (and the other way around). No network needed. The only remedy is removing every instance simultaneously, but you can't do that before you detected them, and at that point there could be another $sys$copy somewhere else on your system.
'When I was arrested, Apple said that PPC processors were evil.'
'PPC processors are evil. Good. And Apple always said that PPC processors are evil, has it not?'
Winston drew in his breath. He opened his mouth to speak and then did not speak. He could not take his eyes away from the dial.
'The truth, please, Winston. Your truth. Tell me what you think you remember.'
'I remember that until only a week before I was arrested, Apple used PPC processors. They even proved that they were the better ones. Intel's processors were the evil ones. That had lasted for nine years. Before that '
Jobs stopped him with a movement of the hand.
[..]
'Do you remember,' he went on, ' writing in your diary, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two
make four"?'
'Yes,' said Winston.
Jobs held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
'How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?
'Four.'
'And if the party says that it is not four but 4.0000000097768 then how many?'
'Four.'
1- if you buy 60 minidiscs at once, you can save a little bit
:)
I used the guessed retail price from a MD-fansite, the lowest retail price I found was a bit higher.
But ok, maybe the 30GB example would be cheaper with MD's. But will it be much cheaper? At least for me it isn't worth the hassle of carrying a box of disks around.
2- if, as you assert, most folks only use half a 15g ipod, then you don't need 15 or 30 or 60 blanks.. only 7-8
That isn't what I said. I said that I can put only less than half of my collection on my 15GB iPod. My collection is over 30GB's, and most music freak's collections are about that size. People have either a couple of cd's or a lot of cd's.
3- who wins dollariwse if you need 61gb of music?
hiMD. Let's pay EUR130 (that's almost a 1GB Nano or a cheap mp3 player with built-in fm tuner) extra and carry 61 disks around because you're not able to scrap the 1.5% of music you don't listen to anyway.
The new Hi-MD format offers 1GB per disc (which can add up to 45 hours of music on one disc)-- and a disc only costs a few Euros
....) playlists, all using the same music library.
.mp3 player revolution, MDs only competitors were CDs and before that, tapes. :)
45 hours on 1 GB? that's 53kbps... 1 GB (1GiB) is still 18 hours @ 128kbps.
One disk costs EUR 7.00, so here's a little price comparison for people who want an mp3-player (and don't use the recording or video functions) (all prices in Euro's):
1 GB iPod Nano: EUR 159
1 GB hi-MD: 150 + 1*7 = 157 : roughly the same price
2 GB iPod Nano: EUR 209
2 GB hi-MD: 150 + 2*7 = 164 : MD is the best choice, but the iPod has no moving parts.
4 GB iPod Nano: EUR 259
4 GB hi-MD: 150 + 4*7 = 178.00 : MD is the best choice, but the iPod has no moving parts.
Here's the gap between occasional music listeners and music lovers. Non-existing market according to Apple. You either have a handful or a lot of cd's. My iPod 3G 15GB is too big for most people while I can't even put half of my collection on it. Maybe the hi-MD could fill this gap up.
30GB iPod: EUR 329
30GB hi-MD: 150 + 30*7 = 360 : iPod is better
60GB iPod: EUR 439
60GB hi-MD: 150 + 60*7 = 570 : iPod is better
Add to that the ease of selecting playlists (of any size you want, not limited to 1GB) instead of carrying a wallet with md's around, and I don't see why I should buy a hi-MD recorder. The only advantage over mp3-cd players is the size.
Another thing, if you want certain songs on multiple playlists (disks) with the hi-MD player, you need to copy them on multiple disks, decreasing the actual capacity even further. On my iPod I have a couple of similar ("all music", "best", "hard", "easy",
Before the
He forgets DCC
Now, I think that that is a pointless battle: you won't beat Apple in its current winning mood. Forget it. It ain't gonna happen.
True.