Can you name one state where state law states this? Copyright law is federal (in the US) and states have no say in it. It is quoted by best buy types without even blinking but that doesn't make it right or legal.
When I was called a troll the other day I had mentioned that the current wireless add on board looked like a last minute hack. I think that connector was for other things like maybe a video encoder. At first I had guessed it was for the ipod connector but that appears to be wrong since those signals are documented here.
There is still another option... Could Apple be looking at buying firewire cd/dvd rom drives?
I still think that this thing was built for a different market and the major market segment that is buying the things is not understood by apple (or else they wouldn't be custom building most of them). I would love to see a large version that holds a real disk drive and I would be happy to not have the modem too. The current case design has to cost a fortune. It wouldn't surprise me if it was the single most expensive part.
But he didn't even play arround with the new services database. What a bummer even though his code is much better than the service db stuff I've seen.
A lesson from Microsoft... Don't keep boot status info in a binary file that also can start programs. You can't tell if its been hacked without rebuilding it and you can't rebuild it with ease. The new services stuff for Solaris 10 is sort of a mix between init, inetd, cron and the windows registry. This is wrong and someone at sun needs to fix it now.
I don't know what your problem is... I looked at the mini mac to see if it could replace the pcs at work. It works fine out of the box for about 50% of the users. If they fixed a few things then it would be closer to 90%. The odd thing is that the g5 takes care of that other 40% at a much higher cost.
maybe you don't like my comment about the internal card being a hack. It looks like one to me. Have you opened one of these?
I've been involved with enough product design to see a hack when I see one. That board socket was intended for something else and the other stuff just got added on latter. Maybe it was the interface for the ipod that was rumored to exist?
The very specific segment of the market it was intended for isn't buying them and several other segments are. Maybe you didn't pay attention to the fact that most of the ones apple is selling are custom built which means apples costs are far higher than had they guessed right.
I bought it to see if I could replace 20 odd beige boxes. The answer is no. The other macs cost too much. Also that US$500 mini mac purchased in Australia at below list price costs US$633 when it hit my credit card.
It is a step in the right direction for Apple and for once wall street agrees but they are going to have fix some things before this product is any threat to the pc business.
Its why there needs to be a "kings ransom" for a cure for aids, the common cold or the flu. The flu pill business is approaching $10 billion a year in stuff that won't cure anything and most of the best advertised flu treatments allow people to got back to work at the point where they are most contagious.
The solution to this is offer a billion dollars to the persons (and not the company) of anyone who comes up with a cure for anything that is costing more than a $10 billion a decade.
One recent example of a real cure was for ulcers. Someone found the fungus that was causing the problem and a common drug kills the fungus. That killed a two billion dollar a year industry. A related fungicide was found to stop dandruff with the same effect.
I expect that OS X is running on generic pc hardware right now somewhere at apple. Their technical docs seem to show that someone with resources inside apple is playing with the intel platform in a serious way and odd bugs get fixed that aren't ppc bugs but are a work around for the odd way intel processors do things. There seems to be hooks for x86 support in xcode as well. I expect that that they test recent builds of OS X on a PC platform for quality control and to make sure the code stays up to a high standard. That doesn't mean it would be good for apple for it ever to get out of the testing lab. NeXT started out on controlled PC hardware so i don't think it would be much of a stretch to get os x running on a PC with the same video and other controllers as something in the current mac line.
Apple has no idea who their market is for the mini-mac. Its selling very well but I don't think they have a clue who is buying them or why.
I just got one and its got some problems. 1) its disk is too small and slow. 2) its case must cost a fortune to make 3) its less 3rd party friendly than any other current mac. 4) the bluetooth and wifi require a second board installed and look like a last minute hack.
I think they should do a mini mac ][ with a bigger case. Two memory slots, no modem, slots for wifi and bluetooth built in and a 3.5 inch disk. A major market for the mini mac is corp replacement for beige boxes and I think they should take advantage of that while they can still ride the hype.
There is clear prior art on all that nonsense. Some of that was done decades before they did it.
If any company pays these idiots, they deserve what they get. If they want to break the patent, find prior art. Its out there. If they can't find it, hire the right people to find it.
Whats this "if Wi-Max takes off"? Its only going to get about 70mb per access point and each access point is going to use up 1/3 of the allocated spectrum in the area. So either its going to provide old school dsl speeds to lots of people or fiber speeds to one. To make it useful, there are going to need to be more access points than cell towers and I don't think that is going to happen since fiber costs are now under $.2 per meter to run.
If this hack was for a 128 bit SHA (which its not) that results in reduction of search space by a factor of 2048 or so, then there is a good chance that the same technique can reduce a 256 bit SHA by a factor of 4096, 4194304 or 8589934592.
Hashes major weakness is the fact that its block related. As soon as you find one block you can swap out in a file, then the rest doesn't matter at all. A hash that can keep state is much harder to mess with but that gets rid of the ability to hash as stream process.
I have a friend who is planning a straw bail house. The wall seal isn't going to last more than a few years and once the bail absorbs moisture, its going to get very moldy if its mostly sealed up. My friends house is going to be a car port type roof and then bails for the non load bearing walls which will be a foot above the ground. The result is there will be that the concrete footer for the bails will take far more concrete than for a normal stud wall and a steel stud wall will be cheaper than the extra concrete for the footer.
Or option 3: Set up a company to do what those 800 people did before they got sacked and complete directly with MS. Governments tend to have enough cash to take losses over a few years.
So tweak the stack so the app does the acks and then the app can send udp like packets that look like tcp port 80 (or whatever) packets and then it costs too much to filter the odd ones.
Its a federal office if your shoplifting from a souvenir shop in a federal park (thats run by the gov't), a military store or a US gov't book store or post office. There used to be a sign in the bookstore in Kansas city that said that shop lifting in that store was a federal crime and would result in jail time. The guy at the shop said the sign cut down on their losses a bunch.
What needs to happen is they need to use existing laws to bust a few of these guys for "offering drugs to children within 100 yards of a school" and send them to jail for 100 years or whatever the law allows. The rules are on the books and they broke the law. Now make an example of them.
No, no and no. That was my point. None of the companies run by history majors are doing things the right way to be there for the long haul. Those three all have major problems which makes them very bad for long term investment. Siebel will only exist until MSFT does their CRM in office. Exelon runs the most risky power plants in the US and Amex only used to exists to keep the regulators from looking too deep into the Master Card/Visa situation and that has changed so they will be gone in a decade. Lucent is now almost a dead company from a long term investment point. IBM's only revenue stream these days is services that others can do much cheaper and Plam/Handspring are no more and their market has been shrinking every year for the last 3.
Can you name a history major CEO of a company I would invest in? Lucent, IBM are heading the same direction Palm and Handspring did and we all know about HP.
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Can you name one state where state law states this? Copyright law is federal (in the US) and states have no say in it. It is quoted by best buy types without even blinking but that doesn't make it right or legal.
When I was called a troll the other day I had mentioned that the current wireless add on board looked like a last minute hack. I think that connector was for other things like maybe a video encoder. At first I had guessed it was for the ipod connector but that appears to be wrong since those signals are documented here.
There is still another option... Could Apple be looking at buying firewire cd/dvd rom drives?
I still think that this thing was built for a different market and the major market segment that is buying the things is not understood by apple (or else they wouldn't be custom building most of them). I would love to see a large version that holds a real disk drive and I would be happy to not have the modem too. The current case design has to cost a fortune. It wouldn't surprise me if it was the single most expensive part.
But he didn't even play arround with the new services database. What a bummer even though his code is much better than the service db stuff I've seen.
A lesson from Microsoft...
Don't keep boot status info in a binary file that also can start programs.
You can't tell if its been hacked without rebuilding it and you can't rebuild it with ease. The new services stuff for Solaris 10 is sort of a mix between init, inetd, cron and the windows registry. This is wrong and someone at sun needs to fix it now.
All thouse people had good access to inital capital because of the schools they went to and the connections they made there.
I don't know what your problem is...
I looked at the mini mac to see if it could replace the pcs at work. It works fine out of the box for about 50% of the users. If they fixed a few things then it would be closer to 90%. The odd thing is that the g5 takes care of that other 40% at a much higher cost.
maybe you don't like my comment about the internal card being a hack. It looks like one to me. Have you opened one of these?
I've been involved with enough product design to see a hack
when I see one. That board socket was intended for something else and the other stuff just got added on latter. Maybe it was the interface for the ipod that was rumored to exist?
The very specific segment of the market it was intended for isn't buying them and several other segments are. Maybe you didn't pay attention to the fact that most of the ones apple is selling are custom built which means apples costs are far higher than had they guessed right.
I bought it to see if I could replace 20 odd beige boxes. The answer is no. The other macs cost too much. Also that US$500 mini mac purchased in Australia at below list price costs US$633 when it hit my credit card.
It is a step in the right direction for Apple and for once wall street agrees but they are going to have fix some things before this product is any threat to the pc business.
Its why there needs to be a "kings ransom" for a cure for aids, the common cold or the flu. The flu pill business is approaching $10 billion a year in stuff that won't cure anything and most of the best advertised flu treatments allow people to got back to work at the point where they are most contagious.
The solution to this is offer a billion dollars to the persons (and not the company) of anyone who comes up with a cure for anything that is costing more than a $10 billion a decade.
One recent example of a real cure was for ulcers. Someone found the fungus that was causing the problem and a common drug kills the fungus. That killed a two billion dollar a year industry. A related fungicide was found to stop dandruff with the same effect.
I expect that OS X is running on generic pc hardware right now somewhere at apple. Their technical docs seem to show that someone with resources inside apple is playing with the intel platform in a serious way and odd bugs get fixed that aren't ppc bugs but are a work around for the odd way intel processors do things. There seems to be hooks for x86 support in xcode as well. I expect that that they test recent builds of OS X on a PC platform for quality control and to make sure the code stays up to a high standard. That doesn't mean it would be good for apple for it ever to get out of the testing lab. NeXT started out on controlled PC hardware so i don't think it would be much of a stretch to get os x running on a PC with the same video and other controllers as something in the current mac line.
Apple has no idea who their market is for the mini-mac. Its selling very well but I don't think they have a clue who is buying them or why.
I just got one and its got some problems.
1) its disk is too small and slow.
2) its case must cost a fortune to make
3) its less 3rd party friendly than any other current mac.
4) the bluetooth and wifi require a second board installed and look like a last minute hack.
I think they should do a mini mac ][ with a bigger case. Two memory slots, no modem, slots for wifi and bluetooth built in and a 3.5 inch disk. A major market for the mini mac is corp replacement for beige boxes and I think they should take advantage of that while they can still ride the hype.
There is clear prior art on all that nonsense. Some of that was done decades before they did it.
If any company pays these idiots, they deserve what they get. If they want to break the patent, find prior art. Its out there. If they can't find it, hire the right people to find it.
Healthmore (aka filter queen) was building stuff based on the Dyson patents before Dyson was even born.
This is news for nerds. No more context is needed.
Whats this "if Wi-Max takes off"?
Its only going to get about 70mb per access point and each access point is going to use up 1/3 of the allocated spectrum in the area. So either its going to provide old school dsl speeds to lots of people or fiber speeds to one. To make it useful, there are going to need to be more access points than cell towers and I don't think that is going to happen since fiber costs are now under $.2 per meter to run.
If this hack was for a 128 bit SHA (which its not) that results in reduction of search space by a factor of 2048 or so, then there is a good chance that the same technique can reduce a 256 bit SHA by a factor of 4096, 4194304 or 8589934592.
Hashes major weakness is the fact that its block related. As soon as you find one block you can swap out in a file, then the rest doesn't matter at all. A hash that can keep state is much harder to mess with but that gets rid of the ability to hash as stream process.
I have a friend who is planning a straw bail house. The wall seal isn't going to last more than a few years and once the bail absorbs moisture, its going to get very moldy if its mostly sealed up. My friends house is going to be a car port type roof and then bails for the non load bearing walls which will be a foot above the ground. The result is there will be that the concrete footer for the bails will take far more concrete than for a normal stud wall and a steel stud wall will be cheaper than the extra concrete for the footer.
What do you do with the monsters? The guys that go to jail young for multiple murders and then kill more while they are in jail?
Or option 3:
Set up a company to do what those 800 people did before they got sacked and complete directly with MS. Governments tend to have enough cash to take losses over a few years.
I've got one of those and it works great with the salt crystal litter but get the large one.
Real IPv4 died when you could no longer get a /24 routed and small dual homing died.
So tweak the stack so the app does the acks and then the app can send udp like packets that look like tcp port 80 (or whatever) packets and then it costs too much to filter the odd ones.
Its a federal office if your shoplifting from a souvenir shop in a federal park (thats run by the gov't), a military store or a US gov't book store or post office. There used to be a sign in the bookstore in Kansas city that said that shop lifting in that store was a federal crime and would result in jail time. The guy at the shop said the sign cut down on their losses a bunch.
anyone have any news thats not a year old about this?
What needs to happen is they need to use existing laws to bust a few of these guys for "offering drugs to children within 100 yards of a school" and send them to jail for 100 years or whatever the law allows. The rules are on the books and they broke the law. Now make an example of them.
No, no and no.
That was my point. None of the companies run by history majors are doing things the right way to be there for the long haul. Those three all have major problems which makes them very bad for long term investment. Siebel will only exist until MSFT does their CRM in office. Exelon runs the most risky power plants in the US and Amex only used to exists to keep the regulators from looking too deep into the Master Card/Visa situation and that has changed so they will be gone in a decade. Lucent is now almost a dead company from a long term investment point. IBM's only revenue stream these days is services that others can do much cheaper and Plam/Handspring are no more and their market has been shrinking every year for the last 3.
Can you name a history major CEO of a company I would invest in? Lucent, IBM are heading the same direction Palm and Handspring did and we all know about HP.