On OSX it is. In fact, it's the antithesis of everything the Mac UI stands for - it's clunky, enigmatic, and difficult for people who aren't familiar with it to troubleshoot.
My girlfriend gave up on using openoffice altogether because of X11.
While I don't argue X11's potential, its implementation on OSX leaves much to be desired.
So long as the transfer is digital (and really, even if it's analog, to a degree*), it doesn't really matter; whatever protection is in place will be broken within a year. The value of the content is simply too high for it to be left alone.
This is wonderful news, in a way - as long as content is stored in a "black box" of sorts, it is extremely difficult to get to (look how difficult it has been to hack series 2 TiVos with OS7+). But as soon as the content is transferred from one device to another, it leaves a host of vulnerabilities, especially since a) most companies are too lazy to make a proprietary interface and end up using a standard, such as USB or IEEE1394, and b) when companies do decide to create their own, it is usually quite buggy and poorly designed (i.e., with weak security). And Echostar has even said that the interface will be USB for this device.
*Since TFA states that the transfers will be done in as much as a 1:12 ratio, I can't imagine it will be in any analog format.
How does that not break the "1 person, 1 vote" rule?
I could see allowing a person to cast a single 'no' vote for one candidate instead of a 'yes' vote for someone else, but that's the only way I can think to reconcile the two.
Exactly - and for those reasons (and others), I don't get what the big deal is in the first place?
So what if the US maintains control of the Root DNS servers? Other countries can simply put their own in place and point all their national sub-DNS servers to their own roots instead of the ones in the US... Granted, this will end up fracturing the Internet to some degree, but that's going to happen at some point anyway.
The real issue here, it seems to me, is that everybody wants a piece of the control, but they want to do it without causing a rift in the Internet. If someone were to have the huevos to stand up and say "we're going to do it on our own, you can interoperate with us or not", the US will suddenly find themselves in a very lonely position without much bargaining power. And with the current political strength of US-based multinational corporations, they will soon convince the US Government to stop this foolishness and accept the fact that they aren't the only game in town anymore and they need to play nicely with everyone else.
The US has entered its teenage years. It's rebellious, strong, and anti-authority, and hasn't learned not to be so self-centered. It will grow out of it, eventually, if enough good people guide it the right way. This might be a good learning experience for it.
Yes, but don't forget that QM measurements don't negate relativity - this is the ultimate example of "to thine own self be true". Yes, wheeling it down the hall will change its timing relative to everything else that is not moving the same way. So as far as useful measurements go, anything which is measuring the device will have to be moving with it - which includes any "stationary" object on the entire earth, practically speaking. (Especially since they won't be moving it down the hall for that exact reason.)
What's probably more useful, however, is that general relativity is fairly well understood from a mathematical standpoint. Id est, it is relatively simple (no pun intended) to calculate the time/space compression impact on two bodies whose relative speeds are known. (Now what I don't know is, is the same level of measurement accuracy required in the speeds to be able to utilize the 10^-18 resolution?)
Firefox's extensions are a great boon to functionality.
Hmmm, well it could be argued that Opera doesn't need any, and is therefore superior... most of the extensions I have installed on FF (tabbed browsing control, state saving, mouse gestures, image control) are simply to make FF more Opera-like, though I will grant than some of the extensions (text box alteration, especially) can come in handy, once in a while.
It suits me, and it suits all the other people I have recommended it to. As well, Firefox runs much faster on my 300mhz 192mb ram laptop compared to Opera.
Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard of FF running faster than Opera. Opera flies compared to FF on every single box I've installed both on. (And that has been many.)
I'm not one to get attached to a brand, nor to a specific program, but I do get attached to functionality, and I'm always relieved to go back to Opera after a few minutes using Firefox. And though I spent the money to get rid of the ads, I find Opera no less capable when modifying the interface (and quite a bit more so in the default configuration).
I don't begrudge you your preference, but I wonder if something isn't wrong with your configuration that slows Opera down and causes it to crash. I can count the number of crashes I've had in Opera on one hand in the past 5 years.
"If you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
Ever heard that one? I work in information security, so I have heard it more than my fair share. I've always hated that reasoning, because I am a little bit paranoid by nature, something which serves me very well in my profession. So my standard response to people who have asked that question near me has been "because I'm paranoid." But that doesn't usually help, since most people who would ask that question see paranoia as a bad thing to begin with. So for a long time I've been trying to come up with a valid, reasoned, and intelligent answer which shoots the holes in the flawed logic that need to be there.
And someone unknowingly provided me with just that answer today. In a conversation about hunting, somebody posted this about prey animals and hunters: "Yeah! Hunters don't kill the *innocent* animals - they look for the shifty-eyed ones that are probably the criminal element of their species!" but in a brilliant (and very funny) retort, someone else said: "If the're not guilty, why are they running?"
Suddenly it made sense, that nagging thing in the back of my head. The logical reason why a reasonable dose of paranoia is healthy. Because it's one thing to be afraid of the TRUTH. People who commit murder or otherwise deprive others of their Natural Rights are afraid of the TRUTH, because it is the light of TRUTH that will help bring them to justice.
But it's another thing entirely to be afraid of hunters. And all too often, the hunters are the ones proclaiming to be looking for TRUTH. But they are more concerned with removing any obstactles to finding the TRUTH, even when that means bulldozing over people's rights (the right to privacy, the right to anonymity) in their quest for it. And sadly, these people often cannot tell the difference between the appearance of TRUTH and TRUTH itself. And these, the ones who are so convinced they have found the TRUTH that they stop looking for it, are some of the worst oppressors of Natural Rights the world has ever known.
They are the hunters, and it is right and good for the prey to be afraid of the hunters, and to run away from them. Do not be fooled when a hunter says "why are you running from me if you have nothing to hide?" Because having something to hide is not the only reason to be hiding something.
What the hell?? How can you have more than one valedictorian?
From wiki: "In the United States, the title of valedictorian is given to the top graduate of the entire graduating class of an educational institution."
You can't have more than one valedictorian, by definition. Sounds like the administrators need to go back to school!
I saw a launch it was with my family years ago. We parked in a parking lot in Titusville, FL and had a pretty good view from T+7 seconds or so as it ascended.
One piece of advice though - watch out for fire ants!! We ended up unwittingly parking on a fire ant mound when we got out to watch. Not fun.
IIRC, HDCP is a required component of HDMI - you can't have an HDMI interface if it doesn't support HDCP. DRM is inherent in HDMI, even if just in an auxiliary way.
Perhaps the best course of action is to call the BSA yourself and offer information in return for immunity. Get a lawyer to figure out the language, b/c you want to make sure: a) they will not sue you personally b) they will not press criminal charges against you c) they will do everything in their power, including have their legal team represent you at their cost, to protect you if anybody else sues you, fires you, files criminal charges, etc.
I have no idea if it will work, but it's worth a shot asking - the BSA has an 'anonymous' hotline you can call and get at least a preliminary understanding of how they work.
If the BSA isn't willing to help you, they can't very well hold you accountable, I wouldn't think.
Actually, I do this all the time. I mark changes in my rental car contracts, my sales contracts, anything. If I don't like the language, I change it, in pen, and mark it with my initials. If the store takes my money, it's a binding contract.
I even completely rewrote my AT&T wireless contract from scratch, because I didn't like the language that said, "You (the customer) authorize anyone who can provide us with the last four digits of your social security number to make changes to your account." I sent the new language in with a cashier's check for my first payment, with a note on the check that said, "By accepting this payment, you accept the terms and conditions outlined in the attached document." They took it without complaint.
I'd say I get questions about 10% of the time, but I've only had my changes rejected once, ever. A lot of people are impressed b/c they didn't know it was possible... and most of them agree that the original language sucks anyway.
That's exactly right. Under US law (AFAIK, IANAL), agreements are solidified as soon as an exchange of goods takes place - in this case, software for money. So if an EULA is not presented prior to the Point of Sale, it cannot be enforced.
What's more, the last I heard there was a 9th Circuit Court Ruling applying the "First Sale " doctrine to software, regardless of what the EULA says... Which is why those people at computer shows can legally sell you the OEM copies that have "Not for Resale" stamped in big, bold, (useless) letters on the package.
Downloaded software is much more insidious, because many times the EULA is presented before the download... But with Firefox's "Edit Text Box" extension (or whatever it's called), you can change the EULA to whatever you want... or if it's like Sun's EULA, just rewrite the HTML to reflect terms that are favorable to you before you hit 'submit'.
So far I just write in the box that I reserve all rights and privileges and that's all there is to it... I wonder how far one could push it, legally?
Much more profitable for Apple (or whoever) to license the patent than try to sue everybody who wants to use the same idea. Apple is not quite so pugilistic as, say, SCO.
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X11 is not nasty.
On OSX it is. In fact, it's the antithesis of everything the Mac UI stands for - it's clunky, enigmatic, and difficult for people who aren't familiar with it to troubleshoot.
My girlfriend gave up on using openoffice altogether because of X11.
While I don't argue X11's potential, its implementation on OSX leaves much to be desired.
So long as the transfer is digital (and really, even if it's analog, to a degree*), it doesn't really matter; whatever protection is in place will be broken within a year. The value of the content is simply too high for it to be left alone.
This is wonderful news, in a way - as long as content is stored in a "black box" of sorts, it is extremely difficult to get to (look how difficult it has been to hack series 2 TiVos with OS7+). But as soon as the content is transferred from one device to another, it leaves a host of vulnerabilities, especially since a) most companies are too lazy to make a proprietary interface and end up using a standard, such as USB or IEEE1394, and b) when companies do decide to create their own, it is usually quite buggy and poorly designed (i.e., with weak security). And Echostar has even said that the interface will be USB for this device.
*Since TFA states that the transfers will be done in as much as a 1:12 ratio, I can't imagine it will be in any analog format.
How does that not break the "1 person, 1 vote" rule?
I could see allowing a person to cast a single 'no' vote for one candidate instead of a 'yes' vote for someone else, but that's the only way I can think to reconcile the two.
Am I missing something?
Exactly - and for those reasons (and others), I don't get what the big deal is in the first place?
So what if the US maintains control of the Root DNS servers? Other countries can simply put their own in place and point all their national sub-DNS servers to their own roots instead of the ones in the US... Granted, this will end up fracturing the Internet to some degree, but that's going to happen at some point anyway.
The real issue here, it seems to me, is that everybody wants a piece of the control, but they want to do it without causing a rift in the Internet. If someone were to have the huevos to stand up and say "we're going to do it on our own, you can interoperate with us or not", the US will suddenly find themselves in a very lonely position without much bargaining power. And with the current political strength of US-based multinational corporations, they will soon convince the US Government to stop this foolishness and accept the fact that they aren't the only game in town anymore and they need to play nicely with everyone else.
The US has entered its teenage years. It's rebellious, strong, and anti-authority, and hasn't learned not to be so self-centered. It will grow out of it, eventually, if enough good people guide it the right way. This might be a good learning experience for it.
Yes, but don't forget that QM measurements don't negate relativity - this is the ultimate example of "to thine own self be true". Yes, wheeling it down the hall will change its timing relative to everything else that is not moving the same way. So as far as useful measurements go, anything which is measuring the device will have to be moving with it - which includes any "stationary" object on the entire earth, practically speaking. (Especially since they won't be moving it down the hall for that exact reason.)
What's probably more useful, however, is that general relativity is fairly well understood from a mathematical standpoint. Id est, it is relatively simple (no pun intended) to calculate the time/space compression impact on two bodies whose relative speeds are known. (Now what I don't know is, is the same level of measurement accuracy required in the speeds to be able to utilize the 10^-18 resolution?)
D'accord.
but the math is high school
If that's the case, then NASA needs to go back to high school.
Let's hope these are more realistic calculations than they did on the Columbia and Challenger statistics...
Use Ghostscript and GSView instead. It loads faster and is GPL.
And don't forget to always send books at the 'media' rate, much cheaper than 1st class in the U.S.
Firefox's extensions are a great boon to functionality.
Hmmm, well it could be argued that Opera doesn't need any, and is therefore superior... most of the extensions I have installed on FF (tabbed browsing control, state saving, mouse gestures, image control) are simply to make FF more Opera-like, though I will grant than some of the extensions (text box alteration, especially) can come in handy, once in a while.
It suits me, and it suits all the other people I have recommended it to. As well, Firefox runs much faster on my 300mhz 192mb ram laptop compared to Opera.
Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard of FF running faster than Opera. Opera flies compared to FF on every single box I've installed both on. (And that has been many.)
I'm not one to get attached to a brand, nor to a specific program, but I do get attached to functionality, and I'm always relieved to go back to Opera after a few minutes using Firefox. And though I spent the money to get rid of the ads, I find Opera no less capable when modifying the interface (and quite a bit more so in the default configuration).
I don't begrudge you your preference, but I wonder if something isn't wrong with your configuration that slows Opera down and causes it to crash. I can count the number of crashes I've had in Opera on one hand in the past 5 years.
I wrote about this a while ago. Here's the text:
"If you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
Ever heard that one? I work in information security, so I have heard it more than my fair share. I've always hated that reasoning, because I am a little bit paranoid by nature, something which serves me very well in my profession. So my standard response to people who have asked that question near me has been "because I'm paranoid." But that doesn't usually help, since most people who would ask that question see paranoia as a bad thing to begin with. So for a long time I've been trying to come up with a valid, reasoned, and intelligent answer which shoots the holes in the flawed logic that need to be there.
And someone unknowingly provided me with just that answer today. In a conversation about hunting, somebody posted this about prey animals and hunters:
"Yeah! Hunters don't kill the *innocent* animals - they look for the shifty-eyed ones that are probably the criminal element of their species!"
but in a brilliant (and very funny) retort, someone else said:
"If the're not guilty, why are they running?"
Suddenly it made sense, that nagging thing in the back of my head. The logical reason why a reasonable dose of paranoia is healthy. Because it's one thing to be afraid of the TRUTH. People who commit murder or otherwise deprive others of their Natural Rights are afraid of the TRUTH, because it is the light of TRUTH that will help bring them to justice.
But it's another thing entirely to be afraid of hunters. And all too often, the hunters are the ones proclaiming to be looking for TRUTH. But they are more concerned with removing any obstactles to finding the TRUTH, even when that means bulldozing over people's rights (the right to privacy, the right to anonymity) in their quest for it. And sadly, these people often cannot tell the difference between the appearance of TRUTH and TRUTH itself. And these, the ones who are so convinced they have found the TRUTH that they stop looking for it, are some of the worst oppressors of Natural Rights the world has ever known.
They are the hunters, and it is right and good for the prey to be afraid of the hunters, and to run away from them. Do not be fooled when a hunter says "why are you running from me if you have nothing to hide?" Because having something to hide is not the only reason to be hiding something.
Or find the freecycle list in your area.
Philly has several large ones.
What the hell?? How can you have more than one valedictorian?
From wiki: "In the United States, the title of valedictorian is given to the top graduate of the entire graduating class of an educational institution."
You can't have more than one valedictorian, by definition. Sounds like the administrators need to go back to school!
I saw a launch it was with my family years ago. We parked in a parking lot in Titusville, FL and had a pretty good view from T+7 seconds or so as it ascended.
One piece of advice though - watch out for fire ants!! We ended up unwittingly parking on a fire ant mound when we got out to watch. Not fun.
IIRC, HDCP is a required component of HDMI - you can't have an HDMI interface if it doesn't support HDCP. DRM is inherent in HDMI, even if just in an auxiliary way.
Geez, you'd think that would be taxing enough!
Can you imagine what the next home rental media will look like if they read that!
Yeah, they tried that... remember DIVX? (It was a horrible thing that thankfully failed miserably.)
Eric Johnson and Trevor Rabin come to mind immediately. Both do songwriting, composing (as in film scores), and improv guitar (mostly solos).
And some wikis to add flavor - Eric's wiki page and Trevor's wiki page.
Even time travel technology converges eventually.
Wow, now there's a non-obvious statement if ever I heard one...
No, no, no, it's like the Earth... banana-shaped!
Perhaps the best course of action is to call the BSA yourself and offer information in return for immunity. Get a lawyer to figure out the language, b/c you want to make sure:
a) they will not sue you personally
b) they will not press criminal charges against you
c) they will do everything in their power, including have their legal team represent you at their cost, to protect you if anybody else sues you, fires you, files criminal charges, etc.
I have no idea if it will work, but it's worth a shot asking - the BSA has an 'anonymous' hotline you can call and get at least a preliminary understanding of how they work.
If the BSA isn't willing to help you, they can't very well hold you accountable, I wouldn't think.
Just a thought.
Actually, I do this all the time. I mark changes in my rental car contracts, my sales contracts, anything. If I don't like the language, I change it, in pen, and mark it with my initials. If the store takes my money, it's a binding contract.
I even completely rewrote my AT&T wireless contract from scratch, because I didn't like the language that said, "You (the customer) authorize anyone who can provide us with the last four digits of your social security number to make changes to your account." I sent the new language in with a cashier's check for my first payment, with a note on the check that said, "By accepting this payment, you accept the terms and conditions outlined in the attached document." They took it without complaint.
I'd say I get questions about 10% of the time, but I've only had my changes rejected once, ever. A lot of people are impressed b/c they didn't know it was possible... and most of them agree that the original language sucks anyway.
It's called "External Editor". (You have to use Firefox to use the link.)
:-)
Enjoy!
That's exactly right. Under US law (AFAIK, IANAL), agreements are solidified as soon as an exchange of goods takes place - in this case, software for money. So if an EULA is not presented prior to the Point of Sale, it cannot be enforced.
What's more, the last I heard there was a 9th Circuit Court Ruling applying the "First Sale " doctrine to software, regardless of what the EULA says... Which is why those people at computer shows can legally sell you the OEM copies that have "Not for Resale" stamped in big, bold, (useless) letters on the package.
Downloaded software is much more insidious, because many times the EULA is presented before the download... But with Firefox's "Edit Text Box" extension (or whatever it's called), you can change the EULA to whatever you want... or if it's like Sun's EULA, just rewrite the HTML to reflect terms that are favorable to you before you hit 'submit'.
So far I just write in the box that I reserve all rights and privileges and that's all there is to it... I wonder how far one could push it, legally?
Much more profitable for Apple (or whoever) to license the patent than try to sue everybody who wants to use the same idea. Apple is not quite so pugilistic as, say, SCO.