I recently replaced my phone, but I was looking for a phone with 2 features: half-decent phone, bluetooth.
You can't get that easily without getting a camera.
I ended up getting a phone with a camera, but I specifically picked one with the lowest-end camera functionality. The camera function is so bad it is more of a cruel joke than a real camera. doubt anyone will take it seriously.
There are places some people go where cameras are not allowed. I will have to leave my cellphone in the car in those cases.
(Actually I am more likely to switch to my old phone, as poor as it was (it would miss calls) it doesn't have a camera and it did work for dialing out.).
(The last place I went to where a camera was not allowed was a court house. In Canada even the reporters are not allowed to bring cameras in.)
They could use it from a proprietary, ecrypted version control system too. SHould they release that?
The clause in the GPL/LGPL is to prevent someone from obfuscating the code before release.
Apple does not have to release a change set of any kind. THey can simply release the entire source tree and they will be conforming with the license requirements. period. You may not like it, but that is valid.
By the way, a lot of developers using version control still don't use decent comments. You assume Apple does.
The last few CRT's I've purchased, or that friends and family have purchased lasted about 2 years before degrading in quality to the point of contemplating replacement.
CRT Quality is not what it once was.
Also, people complain about LCD colour accuracy but fail to mention that for accurate colour on a CRT it should be under 4yrs old. Recalibration will reach the point of no-return for colour accuracy on most CRTs by then.
Typically if your on a provider with a large user base youw ill get spam regardless of the address used because they will even try generating address'.
You do realize they submitted pornographic magazines as evidence, and atleast as reported the last time I saw an article on it, they had no evidence anyone other than michael ever looked at them.
Don't know, but I don't think owning a couple of magazines I can buy at Max or 7-11 should be inherently admissable in court to imply someone is a pedophile.
Thats like saying owning a car shows you're inclined to rob banks.
Whats funny about this is that under Canadian law (local to specific provinces) they are required to show GST seperate from the price, not inclusive.
See, someone convinced the local government here in Manitoba that it was better to show GST on the receipt and not included in the price.
Me, I think it is deceptive all-around and all retailers should be required to show both prices. That way the tax itself isn't hidden (by the government in prices), and the retails can't blame their high prices on the tax.
Microsoft doesn't release patches for 3 dozen problems.
Microsoft releases patches for thousands of problems at once. They are called service packs.
The only updates they release the rest of the time are security updates.
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Obviously the developers of KHTML don't agree with you.
If they did they would not have used the LGPL.
As a Mac user, but not, typically, a KDE/Linux user I do not particularly care whether they are happy with each other, atleast to the extent that neither party is directly harmed.
Apple's obligations in this manner have been met. Apple could have met the obligations while at the same time making it difficult to re-use the resulting components, instead they have created an object that is extremely simple to use for developers on the Mac platform, with an extremely good rendering engine which is only as good as it is today because of the efforts of the KHTML team and the Apple development team.
It may be depressing that Apples priorities do not more closely coincide with the KHTML development team but it is not tragic.
I get the impression that the KHTML developers biggest complaints are that people think it should take little, or no work for Apples changes to filter back into the KHTML tree. Even if Apple went significantly out of their way to make it possible I don't think the KHTML team would do it. They, like any other group of developers have different priorities than another team. THey have different ideas of how changes should be made, and what changes should be done next.
Smart people don't have huge collections of VHS tapes they will never watch again.
I don't archive shows, I watch them. Typically, only once. Tivo does that and it does it well.
But, since I have version 7.x on my Tivo I can argue anyway, because I can download any recorded program off the tivo without difficulty.
Currently there are some technicaly issues with converting Tivo content to a DVD (it has to Transcode, which takes a considerable amount of time) but if I can fix a sound issue I will have a method that takes a show, once downloaded from the Tivo, and spits out a working, regular DVD in under 1hr. Not perfect, but well worth the effort for that one show out of 50 I might actually want to keep.
I was too busy trying to ignore the horrific dialog at that point in the show.
Between the mushy dialog (between certain characters), the horrible networking terminology, and the idea that you can determine the location a picture was taken when it looks like any other farm/backyard within a few thousand miles of some particular location...
let's just say I was a bit disappointed with this episode, more than others.
Never mind that if Department of Homeland security is actually using the Internet to routine real-time satellite data (disregarding the impossible live footage-anytime crap they show on 24) you have bigger problems to worry about...
The basic assumption is the organization is a single-entity, and therefor already has full access and rights to the source, and binaries and any changes.
So no, your boss does not have to hand over source code just because they modified it. The I.T. department can't keep it to itself.
Diesels can be a bit of a pain to start in the cold. But they are extremely efficient when idling. The biggest downside to using a Diesel would probably be their acceleration, they tend to be lethargic. (Turbo Diesels deal with that, but would a turbo diesel configured as a hybrid make sense?).
With the vehicle moving a diesel engine should damn near start on it's own, unlike a gasoline engine they do not use spark plugs. (Glow plugs are used to start the engine, after that compression ignites the fuel.)
Which is why in Tiger (OS X 10.4), Apple has included Core Data.
An application programmer shouldn't have to worry about the low level details of storage.
(I realize Tiger may mean nothing to you; this not being an Apple forum, but I think it is of interest that an OS vendor has supplied even a basic mechanism to handle the task.)
It isn't full featured, but it has the ability to use SQLite as its repository. I'm not curious as to how easy it would be to add an Oracle implementation to allow for transition from low end to high-end. (note: Apple expects you to not fiddle with their storage details, I expect it is sub-optimal on fields and value types stored. Don't expect to map it to an existing database).
Kind of like an adventure game with different endings.
Really, it's just a question of where it diverged first, the rest is just a parallel universe plot line. Maybe it's because Ford showed up with beer, but didn't get the supervisor to lie down in front of the bulldozer.
really.
I saw the movie this weekend with a friend of mine, and my girlfriend. My girlfriend wasn't impressed; she seemed bored through out. She preferred the books. My friend spent most of the movie laughing his ass off. I'm glad, because otherwise I would have had to feel guilty about enjoying the movie.
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I have a KVM switch which is USB based.
It supports 2 VGA monitors, and has 4 USB ports on the console.
I have my wireless keyboard/mouse from Logitech plugged into it.
It is hooked up to a Windows XP machine and a PowerMac G5.
It works well, EXCEPT I dislike the delay when switching from one computer to the other. For general use I run a program called Synergy (available on sourceforge) which allows you to drag the mouse from one computer to the other, with keyboard focus following the mouse.
Cut & paste of plain text works reasonably well and it makes having a Mac, and PC on the same desk a dream to work with.
If all that's holding you back from buying a MacMini is the thought of adding a second keyboard and mouse, forget it, go out and buy one. USB based KVM switches are readily available.
(If you need one with PS/2, and USB support you might have to look harder).
I recommend both a switch box for those circumstances when synergy doesn't work, and synergy for all other times.
Dragging a mouse from a PC running Windows XP to a machine running Mac OS X is sure to impress your friends, and you can throw a linux box into the mix too!
Normally I'm a big proponent of GPS units. I think they are very cool, and they have a lot of inherent functionality.
For this task they are probably a poor choice. Typical GPS unit uses algorithms for determining speed which will filter out minor changes, or delay their appearance in the data.
They do a very good job of giving an accurate speed when they are neither accelerating nor decelerating. (more accurate than your average speedometer in good conditions). But it is unlikely the data will show any details of individual strokes.
An accelerometer would be a better choice as you should then be able to plot the power of each stroke.
No, not every OS X Compatible printer is supported by CUPS.
I can print to by S330 just fine from OS X. I cannot on the other hand print to it over my network. CUPS doesn't support it. (might now, haven't checked recently).
And for some reason Windows won't print to it on my Mac, so I've been swapping the USB cable back and forth. Kinda stupid.
Every time I get en envelope with pre-release software from Apple in it it comes with a small piece of paper, about 3x5 which states the material is confidential.
This guy is supposed to be a med student; does this mean he's going to say 'sorry, I didn't read the last page on how to perform this surgery'.
He's an idiot and caused himself self-inflicted trouble. Why should I feel sorry for him? (I am glad to see something was worked out which is acceptable to all parties).
But in this case the point isn't the user interface to the search capabilities. It is important, but not the technical issue.
The technical issue is the filesystem / operating system has the necessary hooks to reduce the subjective overhead to zero.
By having the hooks integrated such that indexing occurs when files are updated, moved, or otherwise changed the search capabilities are dynamic. It isn't necessary to scan the file system to detect changes, the changes are already known and the search query itself simply has to refresh. It doesn't scan the filesystem for the relevant files, it simply looks them up in it's index.
I've used BeOS and I am hopeful Apple's Spotlight will match, or exceed BeOS' implementation. In my mind it is imposible for Microsoft to do it better, So I don't understand that part of the issue.
I believe Apple is supplying the necessary tools and information so that a new file, created by an application can have it's filesystem details index, as well as call a custom routine to pull any application specific data from the file and have that indexed.
Lets say you have a new word processor that stores it's data in a compressed format; a routine for the application could process the file and update the index with all the keywords, perhaps all the text, etc automatically.
A third party company would have difficulty putting forth a standard for such a function, and would have to support the major applications themselves.
Except, nobody has ever shown evidence of an Imaging satellite actually being able to do it. They are normally in an obit that is way too low, and they move way too fast over a given area.
It would be like taking photo's of a baseball game from a train passing by 2 feet off the firstbase line.
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I recently replaced my phone, but I was looking for a phone with 2 features: half-decent phone, bluetooth.
You can't get that easily without getting a camera.
I ended up getting a phone with a camera, but I specifically picked one with the lowest-end camera functionality. The camera function is so bad it is more of a cruel joke than a real camera. doubt anyone will take it seriously.
There are places some people go where cameras are not allowed. I will have to leave my cellphone in the car in those cases.
(Actually I am more likely to switch to my old phone, as poor as it was (it would miss calls) it doesn't have a camera and it did work for dialing out.).
(The last place I went to where a camera was not allowed was a court house. In Canada even the reporters are not allowed to bring cameras in.)
For $999 U.S. you get the software and hardware necessary.
on the 486 the FPU was disabled to get a 486SX.
The 386SX had a 16bit external bus, instead of 32 like the 386DX, or 386 (which predates the 386sx/dx naming convention).
They could use it from a proprietary, ecrypted version control system too. SHould they release that?
The clause in the GPL/LGPL is to prevent someone from obfuscating the code before release.
Apple does not have to release a change set of any kind. THey can simply release the entire source tree and they will be conforming with the license requirements. period. You may not like it, but that is valid.
By the way, a lot of developers using version control still don't use decent comments. You assume Apple does.
The last few CRT's I've purchased, or that friends and family have purchased lasted about 2 years before degrading in quality to the point of contemplating replacement.
CRT Quality is not what it once was.
Also, people complain about LCD colour accuracy but fail to mention that for accurate colour on a CRT it should be under 4yrs old. Recalibration will reach the point of no-return for colour accuracy on most CRTs by then.
Many cards support a 32bit mode, but they do not do 32bit colour.
The 32bit mode allowed for faster read/write access.
Typically if your on a provider with a large user base youw ill get spam regardless of the address used because they will even try generating address'.
They don't do it to smaller providers though.
You do realize they submitted pornographic magazines as evidence, and atleast as reported the last time I saw an article on it, they had no evidence anyone other than michael ever looked at them.
Don't know, but I don't think owning a couple of magazines I can buy at Max or 7-11 should be inherently admissable in court to imply someone is a pedophile.
Thats like saying owning a car shows you're inclined to rob banks.
Whats funny about this is that under Canadian law (local to specific provinces) they are required to show GST seperate from the price, not inclusive.
See, someone convinced the local government here in Manitoba that it was better to show GST on the receipt and not included in the price.
Me, I think it is deceptive all-around and all retailers should be required to show both prices. That way the tax itself isn't hidden (by the government in prices), and the retails can't blame their high prices on the tax.
Microsoft doesn't release patches for 3 dozen problems.
Microsoft releases patches for thousands of problems at once. They are called service packs.
The only updates they release the rest of the time are security updates.
Obviously the developers of KHTML don't agree with you.
If they did they would not have used the LGPL.
As a Mac user, but not, typically, a KDE/Linux user I do not particularly care whether they are happy with each other, atleast to the extent that neither party is directly harmed.
Apple's obligations in this manner have been met. Apple could have met the obligations while at the same time making it difficult to re-use the resulting components, instead they have created an object that is extremely simple to use for developers on the Mac platform, with an extremely good rendering engine which is only as good as it is today because of the efforts of the KHTML team and the Apple development team.
It may be depressing that Apples priorities do not more closely coincide with the KHTML development team but it is not tragic.
I get the impression that the KHTML developers biggest complaints are that people think it should take little, or no work for Apples changes to filter back into the KHTML tree. Even if Apple went significantly out of their way to make it possible I don't think the KHTML team would do it. They, like any other group of developers have different priorities than another team. THey have different ideas of how changes should be made, and what changes should be done next.
Smart people don't have huge collections of VHS tapes they will never watch again.
I don't archive shows, I watch them. Typically, only once. Tivo does that and it does it well.
But, since I have version 7.x on my Tivo I can argue anyway, because I can download any recorded program off the tivo without difficulty.
Currently there are some technicaly issues with converting Tivo content to a DVD (it has to Transcode, which takes a considerable amount of time) but if I can fix a sound issue I will have a method that takes a show, once downloaded from the Tivo, and spits out a working, regular DVD in under 1hr. Not perfect, but well worth the effort for that one show out of 50 I might actually want to keep.
I was too busy trying to ignore the horrific dialog at that point in the show.
Between the mushy dialog (between certain characters), the horrible networking terminology, and the idea that you can determine the location a picture was taken when it looks like any other farm/backyard within a few thousand miles of some particular location...
let's just say I was a bit disappointed with this episode, more than others.
Never mind that if Department of Homeland security is actually using the Internet to routine real-time satellite data (disregarding the impossible live footage-anytime crap they show on 24) you have bigger problems to worry about...
"can't" should be can; sorry for the confusion.
(waiting 2 minutes to post a correction really sucks, this is slashdot, 2000 people could be swearing at me for the mistake by now).
The answer to both is: No.
The basic assumption is the organization is a single-entity, and therefor already has full access and rights to the source, and binaries and any changes.
So no, your boss does not have to hand over source code just because they modified it. The I.T. department can't keep it to itself.
Diesels can be a bit of a pain to start in the cold. But they are extremely efficient when idling. The biggest downside to using a Diesel would probably be their acceleration, they tend to be lethargic. (Turbo Diesels deal with that, but would a turbo diesel configured as a hybrid make sense?).
With the vehicle moving a diesel engine should damn near start on it's own, unlike a gasoline engine they do not use spark plugs.
(Glow plugs are used to start the engine, after that compression ignites the fuel.)
Which is why in Tiger (OS X 10.4), Apple has included Core Data.
An application programmer shouldn't have to worry about the low level details of storage.
(I realize Tiger may mean nothing to you; this not being an Apple forum, but I think it is of interest that an OS vendor has supplied even a basic mechanism to handle the task.)
It isn't full featured, but it has the ability to use SQLite as its repository. I'm not curious as to how easy it would be to add an Oracle implementation to allow for transition from low end to high-end. (note: Apple expects you to not fiddle with their storage details, I expect it is sub-optimal on fields and value types stored. Don't expect to map it to an existing database).
Kind of like an adventure game with different endings.
Really, it's just a question of where it diverged first, the rest is just a parallel universe plot line. Maybe it's because Ford showed up with beer, but didn't get the supervisor to lie down in front of the bulldozer.
really.
I saw the movie this weekend with a friend of mine, and my girlfriend. My girlfriend wasn't impressed; she seemed bored through out. She preferred the books.
My friend spent most of the movie laughing his ass off. I'm glad, because otherwise I would have had to feel guilty about enjoying the movie.
I have a KVM switch which is USB based.
It supports 2 VGA monitors, and has 4 USB ports on the console.
I have my wireless keyboard/mouse from Logitech plugged into it.
It is hooked up to a Windows XP machine and a PowerMac G5.
It works well, EXCEPT I dislike the delay when switching from one computer to the other. For general use I run a program called Synergy (available on sourceforge) which allows you to drag the mouse from one computer to the other, with keyboard focus following the mouse.
Cut & paste of plain text works reasonably well and it makes having a Mac, and PC on the same desk a dream to work with.
If all that's holding you back from buying a MacMini is the thought of adding a second keyboard and mouse, forget it, go out and buy one. USB based KVM switches are readily available.
(If you need one with PS/2, and USB support you might have to look harder).
I recommend both a switch box for those circumstances when synergy doesn't work, and synergy for all other times.
Dragging a mouse from a PC running Windows XP to a machine running Mac OS X is sure to impress your friends, and you can throw a linux box into the mix too!
Normally I'm a big proponent of GPS units. I think they are very cool, and they have a lot of inherent functionality.
For this task they are probably a poor choice. Typical GPS unit uses algorithms for determining speed which will filter out minor changes, or delay their appearance in the data.
They do a very good job of giving an accurate speed when they are neither accelerating nor decelerating. (more accurate than your average speedometer in good conditions). But it is unlikely the data will show any details of individual strokes.
An accelerometer would be a better choice as you should then be able to plot the power of each stroke.
No, not every OS X Compatible printer is supported by CUPS.
I can print to by S330 just fine from OS X. I cannot on the other hand print to it over my network. CUPS doesn't support it. (might now, haven't checked recently).
And for some reason Windows won't print to it on my Mac, so I've been swapping the USB cable back and forth. Kinda stupid.
So nobody is allowed to complain that something is lacking? They have to fix it themselves?
Isn't the idea that the community can do what people can't, or won't do for themselves.
Some people don't have time to do what would have to be done.
Every time I get en envelope with pre-release software from Apple in it it comes with a small piece of paper, about 3x5 which states the material is confidential.
This guy is supposed to be a med student; does this mean he's going to say 'sorry, I didn't read the last page on how to perform this surgery'.
He's an idiot and caused himself self-inflicted trouble. Why should I feel sorry for him? (I am glad to see something was worked out which is acceptable to all parties).
Normally I would agree with your statement.
But in this case the point isn't the user interface to the search capabilities. It is important, but not the technical issue.
The technical issue is the filesystem / operating system has the necessary hooks to reduce the subjective overhead to zero.
By having the hooks integrated such that indexing occurs when files are updated, moved, or otherwise changed the search capabilities are dynamic. It isn't necessary to scan the file system to detect changes, the changes are already known and the search query itself simply has to refresh. It doesn't scan the filesystem for the relevant files, it simply looks them up in it's index.
I've used BeOS and I am hopeful Apple's Spotlight will match, or exceed BeOS' implementation. In my mind it is imposible for Microsoft to do it better, So I don't understand that part of the issue.
I believe Apple is supplying the necessary tools and information so that a new file, created by an application can have it's filesystem details index, as well as call a custom routine to pull any application specific data from the file and have that indexed.
Lets say you have a new word processor that stores it's data in a compressed format; a routine for the application could process the file and update the index with all the keywords, perhaps all the text, etc automatically.
A third party company would have difficulty putting forth a standard for such a function, and would have to support the major applications themselves.
Actually, I think it was Patriot games.
Except, nobody has ever shown evidence of an Imaging satellite actually being able to do it. They are normally in an obit that is way too low, and they move way too fast over a given area.
It would be like taking photo's of a baseball game from a train passing by 2 feet off the firstbase line.