Doesn't most of the copywrite extension boil down to non-human 'entities' trying to control copyrights on works? The general problem isn't that, say, Arthur C. Clark was trying to protect a story he wrote, but instead Disney trying to protect their corporate mascot (and cash cow).
Perhaps the problem could be reduced by REQUIRING that only HUMANS own a copyright and that right can extend up to the lifetime + 10 years of the copyright holder.
Sure, a company can USE the work, and, in fact, defend the copyright holder's rights, but they don't own the copyright except by proxy through the real human owner.
Finally, as regards a certain digitally deficient corporate rodent, perhaps we need a new class of 'intellectual property'. When copyrights and trademarks were 'created' images were static and text was printed on paper.
Perhaps we need to allow for 'mutable' intellectual property where the 'mutability' would allow M. Mouse to be covered in all his 'poses' and various states of 'instantiation' (digital, blah blah blah). (Ie you can own said mouse in his typical garb, with his typical form in perpetuity as your corporate mascot.)
I'm very curious to know what kind of develoment. The PowerMacs are quite expandable and are the fastest systems Apple produces, but as a recent upgrader from a G3 PowerMac to a G4 iMac, I'm very pleased with my new system.
Are you doing something brutal computationally? Or are you developing generic large programs? Generally, unless you really need an enormous amount of CPU power, or a huge amount of disk storage, an iMac or G4 PowerBook will be nearly as fast.
The iMac will buy you a small foot print. Mine has 768M of memory a SuperDrive and a 60G hard Disk. I'm still trying to put it to full use.:) It is very quiet. And the LCD screen is downright lucious. I'm a little sad that I only have a 15" display, as rumors of a 17" are rampant. (Typical man, I know, always wanting the BIG ONE.)
A G4 PowerBook will buy you portability. Recent models include DVI support so if you want that external monitor you can have it. In addition, you'll be able to cart your development environment with you!
All systems have FireWire and USB 1.x and will provide for plenty of expandability when it comes to storage and input peripherals.
A must buy for any new Mac will be a USB hub of some type, as those peripherals do tend to multiply quickly.
As for Memory vs. CPU, I'd always pick memory. As everyone else has already pointed out, all CPUs waiting for SWAP run at the same effective clock speed.;)
The reason is that it's acceptable to ogle heterosexually but not homosexually. I suspect, the lifeguards in question are bent out of shape because it isn't hot-sexy-females that are ogling them.
Fundamentally, people need to get over being seen as sexual objects by EITHER sex. Provided:
1) It's look, but don't touch.
2) The 'view' is publically available. (no one snuck into your house to photograph you nekkid)
Please understand, I'm not talking about leering and fondling yourself in front of them on the beach, making rude comments, or making an ass of yourself trying to get a phone number.
But good grief, if someone you see fuels a fantasy, let them have fun with it. Speaking as a gay man, I'm certainly not hurt if some woman has a hot sexual fantasy about me, as long as she doesn't try to physically involve me in it. I'm also pretty sure the hot Fed-Ex man I find so attractive isn't hurt in any real way, if he's featured in a dream or two of mine.
Yeah! public officials in a public place have their nickers in a twist because somebody is ogling at them as 'sexual objects'.
Too bad boys, if this were private locker room video taken without consent, fine, outlaw it. Reasonable expectation of privacy, etc...
If you really want to stop this, just have the life guards wear ugly boxer suits, or grow a big gut to hang over the suit line.
I'm sure if this were pictures of lovely female lifeguards doing their duty, they primary surfers would be the very gentlemen writing the 'digital rights' law.
Personally, if I were the web publisher, I'd just write a nice essay on the beach and surf conditions and call myself a news site. The photos would then just be the typical news background image.:)
How lovely that an illegal monopolist is using it's ill gained cash to empower a repressive regime all in the name of extending their brand! Microsoft, the Imperial Robber Barons of the 21st century.
I'm beginning to think that my smartest investment would be to sell any Fortune 100 Company audited by Arthur Anderson short. First the brought you Enron, then WorldCom, coming soon....
If we actually get sucked into a depression by all this 'shady accounting', I'm thinking that there are going to be some former officers of Arthur Anderson "up against the wall".
Who's going to go back and revise all those history books, PBS specials, etc. to tell the truth? The unfortunate truth is that Alexander Graham Bell will likley remain the 'inventor' of the telephone for at least another generation, if not in perpetuity. It's easy enough to 'fix' things going forward, but rewriting the millions of copies of bogus wetware out there is next to impossible. I'll probably have forgetten this fact within the next 24 hours.
If I can get a reliable, accurate, high quality download of a track I want for $0.99 and have the ability to freely burn and copy it to my MP3 player, then I'm more than willing to spend the money. I can avoid Kazaa's virus ware, I can avoid bogus badly ripped versions, and I can get the tracks of any album I want. For 9.99 and a 50 cent CD, I can burn my own copy of the album minus liner notes/cover.
My suggestion to the biz, be smart, make the cover/liner notes available as a PDF file. And provide multiple remixes of the tracks to suit various tastes.
I pledge allegiance to the OS of the Corporation of Microsoft, and to the monopoly for which it stands. One corporation, under Bill, with proprietary injustice for all.
It's not only that OS X is less targetted, it's that the OS is inherently more secure. User and system level access are more distinct. Base system applications are less likely to 'autoexecute' damaging code.
How about two point to point comparisons?
1) How long has Outlook continued to leave programatic access to the user's address book and increased the spread of viruses? Can you demonstrate a similar bug in OS X's Mail.app?
2) How many holes/viruses/problems are caused by IIS web servers? What percentage of Apache webservers show the same problem?
I'm sure I could find other examples where a BSD based OS is more secure than a Microshaft machine. (Daemons run with non-root status,...)
And for the record, I still run virus protection and checking software, because I'm not stupid enough to believe I'm totally immune. That doesn't equate to my machine being AS VULNERABLE as a PC to being exploited, as the title of the article implies.
Lee
Mac OS X is to Windows as _______ is to swiss cheese.
I've been using MacOS 9.x and OSX for the last 4 years quite extensively. Browsing the web, downloading binaries, etc, etc, etc. In all that time, I've not been hit once by a virus that I can tell. I've consistently run Norton Antivirus, and it's never reported a damaged, infected, or otherwise bogus file. However, I've seen pc's in my office drop like flies. (Fortunately, I rarely need to use the immunocompromised little beasties, and when I do, I'm meticulous about my virus checking. I also don't run Outlook, EVER.)
Given the stress by Apple to move people to OS X and it's BSD underpinnings, it's obviously scary to Symantec, MacAffee, etc. that they might lose their chunk of money. Think about it, who ever heard of a virus checker for any *nix?
Find me a non-corporate virus hunter that will make the same claim and I'll buy it. Otherwise FUD.
A psych journal dedicated to "failed" experiments. With psi as the 'icon'. Is this some wierd cover p by the Corps and Mr. Bester. Where's Lyta Alexander when you need her?
Yeah, I do get it. Psi, Psych, Psychology. No coverup here.
Wait? Is that silent approach of the Black Helicopters?
The Wiz Picture the CEOs of all the desktop computer manufactures striding around the central crystal as the disembodied voice of the 'Wiz' announes the 'current' hot color. Wouldn't be dead in Red, Wouldn't be Seen in Green...
Given the 'reported' problems with the importing the new iMacs and that the units only seem to have been shipping in large quantities in the last month or so, I think this is amazingly good news. With the new 10G iPod and the ability to ship iMacs at rate, I suspect Q2 is going to be prettty damn amazing for apple.
Remember folks, almost every other home computer company is really struggling to make numbers these days. Apple made them with production problems.
Yes the process has existed and is expensive, I went back and researched the original article, it doesn't mention the cost of these alumina sheets.
Years ago Nova reported on the gem quality synthetic ruby manufacturer (who dope's her rubies so that they fluoresce under black light). They're cheaper per carat for large stones than the kind mother nature provides, but far from dirt cheap. I guess it was wishful thinking on my part to assume the Germans had improved the process to where it was at a significant price reduction.
Of course on further reflection, I should have imagined a "ruby" iMac which was actually ruby!
Ok, am I the only one thinking if you can make windows out of alumina, that doping it correctly you can make a seriously BIG 'synthetic' ruby by doping said window with chromium? The article is non-specific about size, even a window of 4" square and 1" thick represents a pretty big honking ruby. Are sapphire (the other kind of alumina) and ruby about to go the way of aluminium itself?
If I remember correctly at the time it was built, the Washington Monument was capped with an aluminum peak. This was done, because refined aluminum metal was both rare and precious.
I'm thinking ruby drinking glasses, ruby soda cans, 5c ruby rings. You get the picture.:)
What we really need for these articles isn't a 'blind justice' icon. It's more of a justice in a tight mini, fishnet stockings and high heels accepting a nice fat cash bribe from Borgified Bill. Recent slashdot postings referred to ZDnet which shows that Microsoft's contributions to the most recent elections made Enron's money look 'soft' indeed.
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There are plenty of pocket sized firewire and USB drives on the market that could be used to do the same thing. The iPod differs only in that it's got a really cool interface and can double as a nice MP3 player.
It's eugenics to eliminate an embryo based on an single trait. It's not the "grand repair the genome and build a perfect baby genetic manipulation", but taken over time and across a wide segment of the population the effect is the same. Elimination of the gene.
Should it be legal to select an embryo on the basis of single gene or even a set of genes? Selecting against obvious genetic problems like spina bifida, strong predisposition to Alzheimer's, or Down Syndrome seems to make sense, to me at least. Picking the point on the curve to stop is the 'problem'. What about when the trait doesn't correlate to death, or severe disability? Near sightedness? Asthma? Non homozygous sickle cell anemia?
Current theory correlates a certain gene on the X chromosome with homosexuality in males. This 'trait' is considered to be very bad by some segment of the population. Should it be legal to screen against an embryo on this basis? Beyond the obvious social engineering problems, there is also the question of what traits are 'bad'?
AIDS research has led to the discovery that some significant portion (23%?) of Northern Europeans have defects in the protein markers on their CD4 cells. This seems to be correlated with a better chance of survival to bubonic plague. What happens when we eliminate a 'defective' gene that is actually a built in survival mechanism?
Genetic variability is natures way of protecting us from the unforeseen changes. Do we want to engineer population so genetically uniform that we invite disaster?
It really doesn't much matter where they put it, 22000 miles goes a VERY long way when it wraps over the circumference of the earth (~24,900 miles?). That's 88 percent of the way around. Let's hope the momentum carries the cable across water for most of it's journey, otherwise it's going to be one hell of a whip crack. OUCH!
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Doesn't most of the copywrite extension boil down to non-human 'entities' trying to control copyrights on works? The general problem isn't that, say, Arthur C. Clark was trying to protect a story he wrote, but instead Disney trying to protect their corporate mascot (and cash cow).
Perhaps the problem could be reduced by REQUIRING that only HUMANS own a copyright and that right can extend up to the lifetime + 10 years of the copyright holder.
Sure, a company can USE the work, and, in fact, defend the copyright holder's rights, but they don't own the copyright except by proxy through the real human owner.
Finally, as regards a certain digitally deficient corporate rodent, perhaps we need a new class of 'intellectual property'. When copyrights and trademarks were 'created' images were static and text was printed on paper.
Perhaps we need to allow for 'mutable' intellectual property where the 'mutability' would allow M. Mouse to be covered in all his 'poses' and various states of 'instantiation' (digital, blah blah blah). (Ie you can own said mouse in his typical garb, with his typical form in perpetuity as your corporate mascot.)
Am I just silly or what?
I'm very curious to know what kind of develoment. The PowerMacs are quite expandable and are the fastest systems Apple produces, but as a recent upgrader from a G3 PowerMac to a G4 iMac, I'm very pleased with my new system.
:) It is very quiet. And the LCD screen is downright lucious. I'm a little sad that I only have a 15" display, as rumors of a 17" are rampant. (Typical man, I know, always wanting the BIG ONE.)
;)
Are you doing something brutal computationally? Or are you developing generic large programs? Generally, unless you really need an enormous amount of CPU power, or a huge amount of disk storage, an iMac or G4 PowerBook will be nearly as fast.
The iMac will buy you a small foot print. Mine has 768M of memory a SuperDrive and a 60G hard Disk. I'm still trying to put it to full use.
A G4 PowerBook will buy you portability. Recent models include DVI support so if you want that external monitor you can have it. In addition, you'll be able to cart your development environment with you!
All systems have FireWire and USB 1.x and will provide for plenty of expandability when it comes to storage and input peripherals.
A must buy for any new Mac will be a USB hub of some type, as those peripherals do tend to multiply quickly.
As for Memory vs. CPU, I'd always pick memory. As everyone else has already pointed out, all CPUs waiting for SWAP run at the same effective clock speed.
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The reason is that it's acceptable to ogle heterosexually but not homosexually. I suspect, the lifeguards in question are bent out of shape because it isn't hot-sexy-females that are ogling them.
Fundamentally, people need to get over being seen as sexual objects by EITHER sex. Provided:
1) It's look, but don't touch.
2) The 'view' is publically available. (no one snuck into your house to photograph you nekkid)
Please understand, I'm not talking about leering and fondling yourself in front of them on the beach, making rude comments, or making an ass of yourself trying to get a phone number. But good grief, if someone you see fuels a fantasy, let them have fun with it. Speaking as a gay man, I'm certainly not hurt if some woman has a hot sexual fantasy about me, as long as she doesn't try to physically involve me in it. I'm also pretty sure the hot Fed-Ex man I find so attractive isn't hurt in any real way, if he's featured in a dream or two of mine.
Yeah! public officials in a public place have their nickers in a twist because somebody is ogling at them as 'sexual objects'.
:)
Too bad boys, if this were private locker room video taken without consent, fine, outlaw it. Reasonable expectation of privacy, etc...
If you really want to stop this, just have the life guards wear ugly boxer suits, or grow a big gut to hang over the suit line.
I'm sure if this were pictures of lovely female lifeguards doing their duty, they primary surfers would be the very gentlemen writing the 'digital rights' law.
Personally, if I were the web publisher, I'd just write a nice essay on the beach and surf conditions and call myself a news site. The photos would then just be the typical news background image.
How lovely that an illegal monopolist is using it's ill gained cash to empower a repressive regime all in the name of extending their brand! Microsoft, the Imperial Robber Barons of the 21st century.
Power really does make strange bedfellows.
I'm beginning to think that my smartest investment would be to sell any Fortune 100 Company audited by Arthur Anderson short. First the brought you Enron, then WorldCom, coming soon....
If we actually get sucked into a depression by all this 'shady accounting', I'm thinking that there are going to be some former officers of Arthur Anderson "up against the wall".
I'm so pleased to see that Eowyn is going to be in the movie. I was so scared that she'd be replaced by Arwen Warrior Princess.
Who's going to go back and revise all those history books, PBS specials, etc. to tell the truth? The unfortunate truth is that Alexander Graham Bell will likley remain the 'inventor' of the telephone for at least another generation, if not in perpetuity. It's easy enough to 'fix' things going forward, but rewriting the millions of copies of bogus wetware out there is next to impossible. I'll probably have forgetten this fact within the next 24 hours.
Damn the truth, just give me the facts!
If I can get a reliable, accurate, high quality download of a track I want for $0.99 and have the ability to freely burn and copy it to my MP3 player, then I'm more than willing to spend the money. I can avoid Kazaa's virus ware, I can avoid bogus badly ripped versions, and I can get the tracks of any album I want. For 9.99 and a 50 cent CD, I can burn my own copy of the album minus liner notes/cover.
My suggestion to the biz, be smart, make the cover/liner notes available as a PDF file. And provide multiple remixes of the tracks to suit various tastes.
I pledge allegiance to the OS of the Corporation of Microsoft, and to the monopoly for which it stands. One corporation, under Bill, with proprietary injustice for all.
Not to try to run the webserver under Windows CE using IIs. :)
Try thinking about it this way...
...)
It's not only that OS X is less targetted, it's that the OS is inherently more secure. User and system level access are more distinct. Base system applications are less likely to 'autoexecute' damaging code.
How about two point to point comparisons?
1) How long has Outlook continued to leave programatic access to the user's address book and increased the spread of viruses? Can you demonstrate a similar bug in OS X's Mail.app?
2) How many holes/viruses/problems are caused by IIS web servers? What percentage of Apache webservers show the same problem?
I'm sure I could find other examples where a BSD based OS is more secure than a Microshaft machine. (Daemons run with non-root status,
And for the record, I still run virus protection and checking software, because I'm not stupid enough to believe I'm totally immune. That doesn't equate to my machine being AS VULNERABLE as a PC to being exploited, as the title of the article implies.
Lee
Mac OS X is to Windows as _______ is to swiss cheese.
I've been using MacOS 9.x and OSX for the last 4 years quite extensively. Browsing the web, downloading binaries, etc, etc, etc. In all that time, I've not been hit once by a virus that I can tell. I've consistently run Norton Antivirus, and it's never reported a damaged, infected, or otherwise bogus file. However, I've seen pc's in my office drop like flies. (Fortunately, I rarely need to use the immunocompromised little beasties, and when I do, I'm meticulous about my virus checking. I also don't run Outlook, EVER.)
Given the stress by Apple to move people to OS X and it's BSD underpinnings, it's obviously scary to Symantec, MacAffee, etc. that they might lose their chunk of money. Think about it, who ever heard of a virus checker for any *nix?
Find me a non-corporate virus hunter that will make the same claim and I'll buy it. Otherwise FUD.
A psych journal dedicated to "failed" experiments. With psi as the 'icon'. Is this some wierd cover p by the Corps and Mr. Bester. Where's Lyta Alexander when you need her?
Yeah, I do get it. Psi, Psych, Psychology. No coverup here.
Wait? Is that silent approach of the Black Helicopters?
If you think fried or baked carbohydrates are a danger check out the bad news about dihydrogen oxide!
The Wiz Picture the CEOs of all the desktop computer manufactures striding around the central crystal as the disembodied voice of the 'Wiz' announes the 'current' hot color. Wouldn't be dead in Red, Wouldn't be Seen in Green...
Given the 'reported' problems with the importing the new iMacs and that the units only seem to have been shipping in large quantities in the last month or so, I think this is amazingly good news. With the new 10G iPod and the ability to ship iMacs at rate, I suspect Q2 is going to be prettty damn amazing for apple.
Remember folks, almost every other home computer company is really struggling to make numbers these days. Apple made them with production problems.
Yes the process has existed and is expensive, I went back and researched the original article, it doesn't mention the cost of these alumina sheets.
Years ago Nova reported on the gem quality synthetic ruby manufacturer (who dope's her rubies so that they fluoresce under black light). They're cheaper per carat for large stones than the kind mother nature provides, but far from dirt cheap. I guess it was wishful thinking on my part to assume the Germans had improved the process to where it was at a significant price reduction.
Of course on further reflection, I should have imagined a "ruby" iMac which was actually ruby!
Lee
Ok, am I the only one thinking if you can make windows out of alumina, that doping it correctly you can make a seriously BIG 'synthetic' ruby by doping said window with chromium? The article is non-specific about size, even a window of 4" square and 1" thick represents a pretty big honking ruby. Are sapphire (the other kind of alumina) and ruby about to go the way of aluminium itself?
:)
If I remember correctly at the time it was built, the Washington Monument was capped with an aluminum peak. This was done, because refined aluminum metal was both rare and precious.
I'm thinking ruby drinking glasses, ruby soda cans, 5c ruby rings. You get the picture.
Lee
What we really need for these articles isn't a 'blind justice' icon. It's more of a justice in a tight mini, fishnet stockings and high heels accepting a nice fat cash bribe from Borgified Bill. Recent slashdot postings referred to ZDnet which shows that Microsoft's contributions to the most recent elections made Enron's money look 'soft' indeed.
Lee
That's true of any of the firewire pocket drives.
Check out LaCie
There are plenty of pocket sized firewire and USB drives on the market that could be used to do the same thing. The iPod differs only in that it's got a really cool interface and can double as a nice MP3 player.
Lee
A satisified iPod owner.
It's eugenics to eliminate an embryo based on an single trait. It's not the "grand repair the genome and build a perfect baby genetic manipulation", but taken over time and across a wide segment of the population the effect is the same. Elimination of the gene.
Should it be legal to select an embryo on the basis of single gene or even a set of genes? Selecting against obvious genetic problems like spina bifida, strong predisposition to Alzheimer's, or Down Syndrome seems to make sense, to me at least. Picking the point on the curve to stop is the 'problem'. What about when the trait doesn't correlate to death, or severe disability? Near sightedness? Asthma? Non homozygous sickle cell anemia?
Current theory correlates a certain gene on the X chromosome with homosexuality in males. This 'trait' is considered to be very bad by some segment of the population. Should it be legal to screen against an embryo on this basis? Beyond the obvious social engineering problems, there is also the question of what traits are 'bad'?
AIDS research has led to the discovery that some significant portion (23%?) of Northern Europeans have defects in the protein markers on their CD4 cells. This seems to be correlated with a better chance of survival to bubonic plague. What happens when we eliminate a 'defective' gene that is actually a built in survival mechanism?
Genetic variability is natures way of protecting us from the unforeseen changes. Do we want to engineer population so genetically uniform that we invite disaster?
It's a desert topping AND a floor wax. Or more likely it's whatever Microsoft needs it to be to spread FUD.
It really doesn't much matter where they put it, 22000 miles goes a VERY long way when it wraps over the circumference of the earth (~24,900 miles?). That's 88 percent of the way around. Let's hope the momentum carries the cable across water for most of it's journey, otherwise it's going to be one hell of a whip crack. OUCH!