Yes, they could create an internet where competition is stifled and Bad Things happen. Easily.
Or they could create an internet where:
Standards compliance is required.
Secure protocols are not only the norm, but required.
P2P and multicast technologies are the norm.
The name system cannot be abused.
Spam is impossible or economically unfeasible.
Many current black hat attack methods are impossible.
The government cannot trace your data traffic.
The common language and its development model are suitable for delivering richly interactive applications (rather than a series of kludges bolted onto a hypertext document language).
I, for one, welcome our potential Google overlords. They can't stifle competition too much, or there won't be businesses willing to populate Google's new internet. Commercial acceptance would be necessary for such a thing to even hope to supplant the Internet. The Internet won't live forever. I'd be more happy with Google engineering the replacement than with some of the other big players of our time.
If it takes forever, chances are you have not configured the program correctly. EAC is not exactly the easiest ripper to configure. For a disc in decent condition, with EAC configured properly, EAC will rip in the same amount of time as CDex or any other ripper. If you need help, go to Hydrogen Audio.
Actually, I'd say the best use of EAC is to make the most of badly scratched discs. In this case, EAC will indeed take forever, but the results will be far less likely to contain audible problems. That's the 'secure' rip technology working.
Ah, the old "our universe is the inside of an event horizon that is located in another universe, which itself may be the inside of an event horizon that is located in another universe, ad nauseam" theory. That's been on my wouldn't-it-be-cool-if radar every since I had a layman's idea of what an event horizon was (i.e. not a rarely-rented DVD at the nearby Blockbuster). In your paper, did you go for the "event horizon formation == big bang in child universe" upgrade? Or even the "infinite hierarchy of universes" implication as a finale?
I hope to meet a cosmologist one of these days so that I might ask him/her why this insanely cool idea is, nevertheless, completely wrong.
When the doctor says "That pixel is your heart. From the looks of it, it is functioning perfectly." then I think it might be time for a second opinion.
How is this better than a good password? My passwords are private. My face is public and goes everywhere I go. All someone has to do to crack my phone is take a picture of me, print it, and show it to my phone. Bang, now they can call Elbonia on my dime.
So this guy's engine has kept up with the times, but what about the rest of the car? Did he install anti-lock brakes? How about a new exhaust system that complies with his state's new emissions law? Air bags? Did the chassis magically assume a modern design that takes into account the decades of impact research that have accumulated since his car was manufactured?
By the time a CPU upgrade makes sense, it's probably time to replace most of the machine.
Yes, that issue is one that caused much frustration when I attempted to switch to Mac. Many menu actions are available via key combos like Cmd+Shift-K, but not all. IIRC the only near-OOB way to keyboard navigate to some things is the Ctrl+F2 trick. That's a lot slower than, say, Alt+O-C-W, for getting to the column width dialog in Excel.
Hmm. I have noticed threads in the past discussing similar failure modes with other Apple products: PowerBook paint chips, PowerBook palm stains, PowerBook warping, iBooks getting dirty, iPod battery life, mouse ergonomics. Perhaps with the emphasis on industrial design, Apple has given real-lift usability testing a back seat.
In their software, too, there are similar issues. For the most part, OS X is an ingenious, very user-friendly operating system, arguably the best implementation out there of a desktop Unix. But there are some rough edges. For instance, keyboard navigation is incomplete and inconsistent across applications (e.g. Cocoa vs Carbon). Perhaps Apple would have noticed that issue in usability testing if they had included more keyboard navigation users, and specifically, people who spent much time doing keyboard navigation in Windows.
Really, I would like to see Apple succeed, but to do that, they may need to focus more on the usability and reliability of their products.
A BBC employee did it. That's not the same thing as "The BBC" doing it
When you are an employee, during work hours, you are a representative of your employer. Your public actions will have some impact on the public image of your employer. It is the burden of the employer to hire employees whose actions will not damage the public image of the employer.
Embedded devices don't need low-power chips? What have you been smoking?
Many embedded devices run on battery, solar, or other interesting power sources and thus have very stringent electrical requirements. Examples: clocks, calculators, MP3 players, automotive ECMs, oil/gas well telemetry units, satellites, missile guidance systems.
In other news, nobody really cares because Apple is switching to x86 based hardware sooner than these will make it into the hardware stream.
Apple amounts to only 1% or so of PPC sales. The other guys - makers of servers and embedded devices - most certainly do care.
Part of what makes the Mac experience what it is is that Apple doesn't try to cram legacy support into every product they make. With Apple it's out with the old and in with the new; PPC will be a dead end like 68k.
You should watch the Steve Jobs keynote where he discussed the plans for PPC support. There will be new PPC products from Apple in the next two years. Application publishers will continue to support PPC for many years via universal binaries. One must remember that the majority of the Mac install base will be PPC for several years after the Intel switch is complete. No Mac software maker will ignore the majority of their market.
Do you realize that you just posted a link to and transcript of AYB... and got modded to 5? I think that qualifies for Slashdot's Greatest Karma Whoring of All Time award!:-)
Great idea!
Then we can keep track of all those purists who believe the WWW is hypertext documents rather than an application platform. We'll wait for these people to die, wrap wire around them as they're interred, and solve the world's energy problems by generating electricity as the dead purists turn perpetually in their graves.
I seem to recall that most operating systems for personal computing need drivers to interface with hardware. Given Apple's ostensible plans that MacOS X x86 will run only on Apple hardware, it is highly unlikely that Apple has created such a comprehensive set of drivers as would allow MacOS X to run on any majority of PCs. The greater probability is a hardware requirement set so stringent that only PCs closely resembling the Apple developer box will run the OS with an acceptable degree of functionality.
So I say the idea of running MacOS X on any commodity PC is, at the moment, a complete myth.
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Or they could create an internet where:
I, for one, welcome our potential Google overlords. They can't stifle competition too much, or there won't be businesses willing to populate Google's new internet. Commercial acceptance would be necessary for such a thing to even hope to supplant the Internet. The Internet won't live forever. I'd be more happy with Google engineering the replacement than with some of the other big players of our time.
If it takes forever, chances are you have not configured the program correctly. EAC is not exactly the easiest ripper to configure. For a disc in decent condition, with EAC configured properly, EAC will rip in the same amount of time as CDex or any other ripper. If you need help, go to Hydrogen Audio.
Actually, I'd say the best use of EAC is to make the most of badly scratched discs. In this case, EAC will indeed take forever, but the results will be far less likely to contain audible problems. That's the 'secure' rip technology working.
cdparanoia != Exact Audio Copy
cdparanoia < Exact Audio Copy
Ah, the old "our universe is the inside of an event horizon that is located in another universe, which itself may be the inside of an event horizon that is located in another universe, ad nauseam" theory. That's been on my wouldn't-it-be-cool-if radar every since I had a layman's idea of what an event horizon was (i.e. not a rarely-rented DVD at the nearby Blockbuster). In your paper, did you go for the "event horizon formation == big bang in child universe" upgrade? Or even the "infinite hierarchy of universes" implication as a finale?
I hope to meet a cosmologist one of these days so that I might ask him/her why this insanely cool idea is, nevertheless, completely wrong.
If this isn't any proof that the end of the world is coming.... I don't know what is
We already knew the apocalypse was here.
It's the daemonic counterpart of Bit from the movie Tron.
When the doctor says "That pixel is your heart. From the looks of it, it is functioning perfectly." then I think it might be time for a second opinion.
Or you can sell it on eBay.
But effectively, we vote for who votes for who is controlled by who controls the most powerful military in the world.
Of course, it's also great to have a portable movie playing machine.
Heh. You're right. They will have room for a subwoofer in that thing.
It's only easier for a few people. There's a great chance that J. Random Thief is not going to be one of those few people.
How is this better than a good password? My passwords are private. My face is public and goes everywhere I go. All someone has to do to crack my phone is take a picture of me, print it, and show it to my phone. Bang, now they can call Elbonia on my dime.
I figured it was a bad example, but I couldn't think of anything better at the time.
So this guy's engine has kept up with the times, but what about the rest of the car? Did he install anti-lock brakes? How about a new exhaust system that complies with his state's new emissions law? Air bags? Did the chassis magically assume a modern design that takes into account the decades of impact research that have accumulated since his car was manufactured?
By the time a CPU upgrade makes sense, it's probably time to replace most of the machine.
Yes, that issue is one that caused much frustration when I attempted to switch to Mac. Many menu actions are available via key combos like Cmd+Shift-K, but not all. IIRC the only near-OOB way to keyboard navigate to some things is the Ctrl+F2 trick. That's a lot slower than, say, Alt+O-C-W, for getting to the column width dialog in Excel.
Hmm. I have noticed threads in the past discussing similar failure modes with other Apple products: PowerBook paint chips, PowerBook palm stains, PowerBook warping, iBooks getting dirty, iPod battery life, mouse ergonomics. Perhaps with the emphasis on industrial design, Apple has given real-lift usability testing a back seat.
In their software, too, there are similar issues. For the most part, OS X is an ingenious, very user-friendly operating system, arguably the best implementation out there of a desktop Unix. But there are some rough edges. For instance, keyboard navigation is incomplete and inconsistent across applications (e.g. Cocoa vs Carbon). Perhaps Apple would have noticed that issue in usability testing if they had included more keyboard navigation users, and specifically, people who spent much time doing keyboard navigation in Windows.
Really, I would like to see Apple succeed, but to do that, they may need to focus more on the usability and reliability of their products.
You might be surprised to discover that Apple's developer tools are available for free (as in beer) from here.
Not true. It may have neither potential (environmental friend or disaster). Therefore the answer is indeterminate.
A BBC employee did it. That's not the same thing as "The BBC" doing it
When you are an employee, during work hours, you are a representative of your employer. Your public actions will have some impact on the public image of your employer. It is the burden of the employer to hire employees whose actions will not damage the public image of the employer.
Embedded devices don't need low-power chips? What have you been smoking?
Many embedded devices run on battery, solar, or other interesting power sources and thus have very stringent electrical requirements. Examples: clocks, calculators, MP3 players, automotive ECMs, oil/gas well telemetry units, satellites, missile guidance systems.
Do you realize that you just posted a link to and transcript of AYB ... and got modded to 5? I think that qualifies for Slashdot's Greatest Karma Whoring of All Time award! :-)
Great idea! Then we can keep track of all those purists who believe the WWW is hypertext documents rather than an application platform. We'll wait for these people to die, wrap wire around them as they're interred, and solve the world's energy problems by generating electricity as the dead purists turn perpetually in their graves.
Ah, good call. It will be interesting to see what (if anything) Apple throws into MacOS X x86 to stop that from occurring.
I seem to recall that most operating systems for personal computing need drivers to interface with hardware. Given Apple's ostensible plans that MacOS X x86 will run only on Apple hardware, it is highly unlikely that Apple has created such a comprehensive set of drivers as would allow MacOS X to run on any majority of PCs. The greater probability is a hardware requirement set so stringent that only PCs closely resembling the Apple developer box will run the OS with an acceptable degree of functionality.
So I say the idea of running MacOS X on any commodity PC is, at the moment, a complete myth.