Do we have to go through this again? What's cheaper: Fighting a court battle or paying a licensing fee? Prolly the licensing fee. Multi-billion corporations are rightly hesitant to place themselves into a legal struggle over a cause, no matter how just that cause is. Apple needs to keep an eye on its bottom line and stock price, and getting into a pissing contest with Amazon.com wouldn't have helped that.
I'm writing this with toungue half implanted in cheek.
You need to find Lutheran Church Ladies, preferrably from North Dakota, Minnesota, or Wisconson. They are wholly accustomed to making vast quantities of coffee for large gatherings of people. 20 people would be hardly a challenge for them and, as an added bonus, you'll get fed *really* well late at night. They work best in basements.
That being said, see if you can find a restaraunt supply store. Buy an industrial size/strength coffee maker. a friend of a friend is a co-owner of a farmer-cafe around these parts and they've got this massive Bunn, drip machine which can brew three pots simultaneously and keep a fourth warm. Cool, huh?
Exactly. What if I wanted to let people read a paper I wrote by putting it on my site. I quote Ernest Becker from The Denial of Death, using the phrase, "... an anus which shits." 100% academic work, but likely censored because of "shits". Ah well. I'm in college.
Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright.
Carbon under the public beta is so slow because there is so much debug code in it. MacOS Rumors is just reporting on the latest build, noting that Photoshop runs about 25% faster because of removed debug code and further optimization for the G4. I checked with a developer friend who does have the latest build, and he says on his machine it's closer to 30-35%.
And do you not think that if another car company made a car which closely resembeled the new, VW Beetle that Volkswagen would let it slide on by? One of the key selling points of Apple products is the appearance, not only to the SOHO crowd the iMac and (supposedly) the Cube target, but also to the creative crowd which the upper-end G4s target: When the first G4s were unvailed, every single design-related mailing list I subscribe to had a comment along these lines, "It's beautiful... I want one," followed later by the specs.
I agree with you in that eventually WINE or some WINE-like package will be the best solution. But for the immediate future, VPC will continue to be the best available option if not just becuase it's the only option.
"Relatively cheap"---relatively cheap compared to the cost of another computer, not to WINE. WINE doesn't factor into my cost comparissons as its not yet available for MacOS X or, to my knowledge, LinuxPPC. Of course when it becomes available and feature-equal to VPC it becomes the better option.
Other than having it for free. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Connectix isn't going to let VirtualPC fall by the wayside, nor is the maker of BlueLabel, etc. Ports are likely, in other words. Yea they're closed, commercial solutions but, for the time being, they've got a few advantages over WINE on MacOS X or LinuxPPC:
* They're available now and VPC has 4.0 maturity
* They emulate an entire Win-32 system, not just bits and pieces. More overhead, but I'd gather less compatibility problmes.
* Relatively cheap.
Patience grasshopper. Who knows how well VirtualPC will run under MacOS X if it's made into a cocoa app?
Hah. Can do you one better. Was having problems with a colocated server on New Years eve. About 11:00 pm where the server was physically located. Call their 1-800 tech support line---a PERSON, a TECH, picks-up on the first ring and fixes the problem in five minutes with minium hassle on either side.
Seriously though, what are the possibilities for other developments like this? I'm not thinking of access per se as much as hosting, ala Sealand. Sail a converted container ship in international waters, and load that ship up with servers, etc. (One could even have modular data suites fitted into standard sized containers...) I know rough seas would be a problem, but there's surely ways to dampen the shock. Unless the ship is kept in one spot for most of its life, fiber connections would be out meaning all connectivity would be satellite based---big time latency. But that wouldn't be a problem for storage of sensitive data.
If someone breaks into the room whilst you're sleeping, would you not notice? Then again if they harass a college kid for looking at a site post crack and having books on BIND...
What's a keyboard signal look like? An analog signal sent over a wire. We've got the technology to encrypt that, it's just a matter of encrypting it strongly enough so that it doesn't become the weak link in the chain. (ie one would PGP all your sensitive stuff and then put a plain text copy of your private key in a password protected zip archive.)
How complex would an analog key, something like an Enigma machine, need to be before it stopped being the weak link in the chain? And how would one tell the computer what the key is? Can't type it, after all, and using a mouse to type it leaves the mouse unencrypted...
To use a laptop which can be kept in your physical presence at all time. If one was going to do something illegal and needed to keep records which would clearly attest to the illegal thing, wouldn't you want to keep a close eye on those records? ie, a laptop or a palmtop? If it's on your person, the FBI would have a very difficult time getting to it without your knowledge.
I thought search warrants had to be explicit in exactly what is being searched and possibly seized. Here, like Carnivore, it seems that a copy of everything is being seized. Like the article says, yea they'll get stuff on illegal gambling, but they'll also get personal correspondance, private documents, medical records, legitimate business documents, etc. are all captured by the device, documents which are arguably well outside of the FBI's need to know and would hardly constitute a specific search and seizure.
Or am I babbling? 4 hours of sleep in the last 48... finals nearing and all.
What the hell? You sound like you have some very repressed anger, or at the very least are so terribly blinded by your own elitism that you fail to recognize that other people do things differently---and if it works perfectly well for their working style, it's a completely valid way of doing things.
Regarding benchmarks: Color prepress is not exactly an undemanding task on a system. Start playing around in Photoshop with 300 dpi CMYK images, multiple layers, alpha channels here and there, etc.---and let's play at 6x8 feet at resolution. You're talking some serious power for a desktop machine to be able to handle an image like that. I've personally pushed Photoshop files beyond 500MB and, on a G3 with enough RAM and SCSI-II, everything runs hunky dory.
Bad mojo. If you mange to not seriously foul-up the optics, you'll at least have to take the drive apart to fish out the CD. Not a fun thing I'd gater.
Actually I think you might be incorrect... bernoulli carts used to use a similar system, iirc, in which the spinning of the disc was stablized the by literal bernoulli effect created.
The Bernoulli drive was named after a Swiss scientist who discovered the principle of aerodynamic lift. The principal characteristic of a Bernoulli drive is that the flexible disk floats between the read/write heads, so there is no actual contact between the disk and the heads. With this principal the Bernoulli drive is less susceptible to head crashes.
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Do we have to go through this again? What's cheaper: Fighting a court battle or paying a licensing fee? Prolly the licensing fee. Multi-billion corporations are rightly hesitant to place themselves into a legal struggle over a cause, no matter how just that cause is. Apple needs to keep an eye on its bottom line and stock price, and getting into a pissing contest with Amazon.com wouldn't have helped that.
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>> reap the benefits of spam
Benefits?
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I'm writing this with toungue half implanted in cheek.
You need to find Lutheran Church Ladies, preferrably from North Dakota, Minnesota, or Wisconson. They are wholly accustomed to making vast quantities of coffee for large gatherings of people. 20 people would be hardly a challenge for them and, as an added bonus, you'll get fed *really* well late at night. They work best in basements.
That being said, see if you can find a restaraunt supply store. Buy an industrial size/strength coffee maker. a friend of a friend is a co-owner of a farmer-cafe around these parts and they've got this massive Bunn, drip machine which can brew three pots simultaneously and keep a fourth warm. Cool, huh?
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Exactly. What if I wanted to let people read a paper I wrote by putting it on my site. I quote Ernest Becker from The Denial of Death, using the phrase, "... an anus which shits." 100% academic work, but likely censored because of "shits". Ah well. I'm in college.
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A little more than 21 metres.
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---http://woz.org/letters/pirates/12.html
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Apple licensed the technology from XeroxPARC.
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Carbon under the public beta is so slow because there is so much debug code in it. MacOS Rumors is just reporting on the latest build, noting that Photoshop runs about 25% faster because of removed debug code and further optimization for the G4. I checked with a developer friend who does have the latest build, and he says on his machine it's closer to 30-35%.
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And do you not think that if another car company made a car which closely resembeled the new, VW Beetle that Volkswagen would let it slide on by? One of the key selling points of Apple products is the appearance, not only to the SOHO crowd the iMac and (supposedly) the Cube target, but also to the creative crowd which the upper-end G4s target: When the first G4s were unvailed, every single design-related mailing list I subscribe to had a comment along these lines, "It's beautiful... I want one," followed later by the specs.
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I agree with you in that eventually WINE or some WINE-like package will be the best solution. But for the immediate future, VPC will continue to be the best available option if not just becuase it's the only option.
"Relatively cheap"---relatively cheap compared to the cost of another computer, not to WINE. WINE doesn't factor into my cost comparissons as its not yet available for MacOS X or, to my knowledge, LinuxPPC. Of course when it becomes available and feature-equal to VPC it becomes the better option.
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Other than having it for free. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Connectix isn't going to let VirtualPC fall by the wayside, nor is the maker of BlueLabel, etc. Ports are likely, in other words. Yea they're closed, commercial solutions but, for the time being, they've got a few advantages over WINE on MacOS X or LinuxPPC:
* They're available now and VPC has 4.0 maturity
* They emulate an entire Win-32 system, not just bits and pieces. More overhead, but I'd gather less compatibility problmes.
* Relatively cheap.
Patience grasshopper. Who knows how well VirtualPC will run under MacOS X if it's made into a cocoa app?
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Hah. Can do you one better. Was having problems with a colocated server on New Years eve. About 11:00 pm where the server was physically located. Call their 1-800 tech support line---a PERSON, a TECH, picks-up on the first ring and fixes the problem in five minutes with minium hassle on either side.
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>> them "download" to you www.yahoo.com
;-)
We should meet up at NDSU. We could get the farmer-frat to borrow us some pitchforks, and then we could go throw some cows over the fence some hay.
Regional humor. Nothing for the outsiders to see here.
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Kinda' makes book mobiles look pathetic, huh?
Seriously though, what are the possibilities for other developments like this? I'm not thinking of access per se as much as hosting, ala Sealand. Sail a converted container ship in international waters, and load that ship up with servers, etc. (One could even have modular data suites fitted into standard sized containers...) I know rough seas would be a problem, but there's surely ways to dampen the shock. Unless the ship is kept in one spot for most of its life, fiber connections would be out meaning all connectivity would be satellite based---big time latency. But that wouldn't be a problem for storage of sensitive data.
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If someone breaks into the room whilst you're sleeping, would you not notice? Then again if they harass a college kid for looking at a site post crack and having books on BIND...
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What's a keyboard signal look like? An analog signal sent over a wire. We've got the technology to encrypt that, it's just a matter of encrypting it strongly enough so that it doesn't become the weak link in the chain. (ie one would PGP all your sensitive stuff and then put a plain text copy of your private key in a password protected zip archive.)
How complex would an analog key, something like an Enigma machine, need to be before it stopped being the weak link in the chain? And how would one tell the computer what the key is? Can't type it, after all, and using a mouse to type it leaves the mouse unencrypted...
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one would more likely be able to always have a laptop in one's physical presence. Difficult to insert hardware under your nose.
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Heh. And the funny thing is I don't even own a TV, nor do I watch TV...
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To use a laptop which can be kept in your physical presence at all time. If one was going to do something illegal and needed to keep records which would clearly attest to the illegal thing, wouldn't you want to keep a close eye on those records? ie, a laptop or a palmtop? If it's on your person, the FBI would have a very difficult time getting to it without your knowledge.
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I thought search warrants had to be explicit in exactly what is being searched and possibly seized. Here, like Carnivore, it seems that a copy of everything is being seized. Like the article says, yea they'll get stuff on illegal gambling, but they'll also get personal correspondance, private documents, medical records, legitimate business documents, etc. are all captured by the device, documents which are arguably well outside of the FBI's need to know and would hardly constitute a specific search and seizure.
Or am I babbling? 4 hours of sleep in the last 48... finals nearing and all.
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What the hell? You sound like you have some very repressed anger, or at the very least are so terribly blinded by your own elitism that you fail to recognize that other people do things differently---and if it works perfectly well for their working style, it's a completely valid way of doing things.
Apple's Mac Products Guide should dispell that nasty, nasty myth of "there's no software for Macs"
Regarding benchmarks: Color prepress is not exactly an undemanding task on a system. Start playing around in Photoshop with 300 dpi CMYK images, multiple layers, alpha channels here and there, etc.---and let's play at 6x8 feet at resolution. You're talking some serious power for a desktop machine to be able to handle an image like that. I've personally pushed Photoshop files beyond 500MB and, on a G3 with enough RAM and SCSI-II, everything runs hunky dory.
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Okay... so there goes that argument about Mac users being stupid newbies...
We power users have it set to toggle visibility on an f-key...
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Bad mojo. If you mange to not seriously foul-up the optics, you'll at least have to take the drive apart to fish out the CD. Not a fun thing I'd gater.
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Actually I think you might be incorrect... bernoulli carts used to use a similar system, iirc, in which the spinning of the disc was stablized the by literal bernoulli effect created.
Better description from here
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>> STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK17-DOM
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Oooh... kinky stuff.
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