In the same vein, and good for hours of fun is listening in to a remote system's microphone. Thankfully, some modern Unices have taken the hint and tightened up security, setting/dev/audio etc. to mode 660 and owned by root:audio, or similar.
My brother installed his RAM backwards (shoulda asked for my help!) Result: smoke and scorched motherboard. Incredibly, the manufacturer exchanged it for the cost of shipping.
To my knowledge, only on Windows is Photoshop based on an MDI setup. To me it's difficult to use MDI, when windows are crowded into a single workspace with a non-transparent background, and it gets really unruly when scrollbars show up on the parent or you have multiple monitors. Cubase and Reason are examples of this. Note that Microsoft has also deprecated MDI.
On OS X, windows are free-floating, but they're also grouped by application (so no hunting around behind your xterms). And the menu bar is always on top, avoiding hunting around for the little palette in GIMP 1.x. The same is true on OS 9, I think.
Personally, I wish Linux had a way to group application windows by program, and kept the menu bar on top. It's possible to do this, but it doesn't work consistently.
It's interesting that Reason is similar: MDI on Windows, free-floating on OS X; it's much easier for me to use on OS X. But I use it on Windows anyway, because my Mac is too slow.
You could always surreptitiously install it when you go over there, rename the binary, change the icon, put an IE skin on, maybe hexedit a few strings, and he'll never know. 'Course since he'll never know, maybe there's no point.
Indeed, after using Firebird and Safari on my computers, my girlfriend had to have tabbed browsing and popup blocking on hers. In fact, I think that's what USB keydrives were made for.
On the other hand, my dad, who is pretty computer knowledgable, installed and then discarded Mozilla. Who knows why.
He was already comparing $6 million per month to $20M / 7 months == $3 million per month. "Profit" was not considered--he was using the gross--except to say the subscription model profits are probably higher. You did make a valid point though, at $3M per month Apple would equal or beat out any single subscription-based store.
People write in with their car problems to the auto mechanic column in my local paper all the time, with good results. I don't see how this is any different, as long as you can separate the wheat from the chaff.
I'd say go for it. I have an iBook and I've already had them replace the display cable and one battery, within one year. Apple's service has been amazing, less than 48 hour turnaround time. Now, I don't think these problems should have occurred in the first place, but you can probably expect something unexpected to happen, especially with new models. Consider that one repair will cost more than Applecare.
As another poster commented, you can try it out and then extend it for up to two more years anytime within your first year. This is what I did (didn't think I'd need it, at first) and this is what I recommend.
This is interesting, but I was wondering how this is any different than encrypting your data with a GPG key (the key is protected by a passphrase), and then storing the GPG key on a USB dongle. As a couple people have mentioned earlier, Loop-AES lets you do this out of the box.
The article says that the rover is equipped with software that knows the position of everything in the solar system. But it doesn't check them all against each other. It simply means that, given any planet, it will know the position of that planet and the sun, and can therefore find the sun's position in the sky. They did this so it can be sent to any planet, not limited to just one.
The submitter was a little overzealous in assuming it checks the position of everything in the solar system for overlap.
Therefore, if left to compete in the open environment (maybe some seeds spread to a different field, or some kid turns their fish loose in the sea) they could replace the natural species.
I don't see why this is necessarily a bad thing. If more organisms glowed, we could save a bundle on lighting!
By the way, humans have been genetically engineering plants and animals for thousands of years. Corn cobs used to be smaller than your thumb, you know. Fortunately, we replaced the natural species with bigger and tastier varieties. It is something to consider.
Wow. Are there really that many in New York? In Chicago, they've all but disappeared. There are still some inside buildings, and maybe that's what Verizon is targeting, but you can walk for many, many, many blocks before stumbling across one outside. I only remember seeing a couple in the entire Loop.
I cancelled my LD service as well, but the Feds actually tax you if you don't have long distance service: $4.49 in my case, for "Federal Access Charge". Now that's a rip off.
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In the same vein, and good for hours of fun is listening in to a remote system's microphone. Thankfully, some modern Unices have taken the hint and tightened up security, setting /dev/audio etc. to mode 660 and owned by root:audio, or similar.
My brother installed his RAM backwards (shoulda asked for my help!) Result: smoke and scorched motherboard. Incredibly, the manufacturer exchanged it for the cost of shipping.
To my knowledge, only on Windows is Photoshop based on an MDI setup. To me it's difficult to use MDI, when windows are crowded into a single workspace with a non-transparent background, and it gets really unruly when scrollbars show up on the parent or you have multiple monitors. Cubase and Reason are examples of this. Note that Microsoft has also deprecated MDI.
On OS X, windows are free-floating, but they're also grouped by application (so no hunting around behind your xterms). And the menu bar is always on top, avoiding hunting around for the little palette in GIMP 1.x. The same is true on OS 9, I think.
Personally, I wish Linux had a way to group application windows by program, and kept the menu bar on top. It's possible to do this, but it doesn't work consistently.
It's interesting that Reason is similar: MDI on Windows, free-floating on OS X; it's much easier for me to use on OS X. But I use it on Windows anyway, because my Mac is too slow.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day archive.
It's true... an earlier poster noted there was a more informative NIST article, which it turns out also refers to rotational speed, not orbital speed.
You could always surreptitiously install it when you go over there, rename the binary, change the icon, put an IE skin on, maybe hexedit a few strings, and he'll never know. 'Course since he'll never know, maybe there's no point.
Indeed, after using Firebird and Safari on my computers, my girlfriend had to have tabbed browsing and popup blocking on hers. In fact, I think that's what USB keydrives were made for.
On the other hand, my dad, who is pretty computer knowledgable, installed and then discarded Mozilla. Who knows why.
He was already comparing $6 million per month to $20M / 7 months == $3 million per month. "Profit" was not considered--he was using the gross--except to say the subscription model profits are probably higher. You did make a valid point though, at $3M per month Apple would equal or beat out any single subscription-based store.
My friend once said the following:
"It'd be virtually impossible; static cling is late binding my arms inline."
Dime is derived from the word "ten", so strictly speaking it is self-describing.
People write in with their car problems to the auto mechanic column in my local paper all the time, with good results. I don't see how this is any different, as long as you can separate the wheat from the chaff.
The FAQ addresses the question of Bluetooth.
This article was interesting but short on technical detail. Here are some other links on static recompilation:
http://www.gtoal.com/sbt/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/staticrecompilers/
It is unclear to me how they deal with more complex situations such as self-modifying code or code that jumps into the middle of an instruction.
I'd say go for it. I have an iBook and I've already had them replace the display cable and one battery, within one year. Apple's service has been amazing, less than 48 hour turnaround time. Now, I don't think these problems should have occurred in the first place, but you can probably expect something unexpected to happen, especially with new models. Consider that one repair will cost more than Applecare.
As another poster commented, you can try it out and then extend it for up to two more years anytime within your first year. This is what I did (didn't think I'd need it, at first) and this is what I recommend.
No problem, it's not that slow. In fact here's an Applesoft BASIC program that will do it in the blink of an eye!It might be a little faster in assembly, though.
This is interesting, but I was wondering how this is any different than encrypting your data with a GPG key (the key is protected by a passphrase), and then storing the GPG key on a USB dongle. As a couple people have mentioned earlier, Loop-AES lets you do this out of the box.
The article says that the rover is equipped with software that knows the position of everything in the solar system. But it doesn't check them all against each other. It simply means that, given any planet, it will know the position of that planet and the sun, and can therefore find the sun's position in the sky. They did this so it can be sent to any planet, not limited to just one.
The submitter was a little overzealous in assuming it checks the position of everything in the solar system for overlap.
Therefore, if left to compete in the open environment (maybe some seeds spread to a different field, or some kid turns their fish loose in the sea) they could replace the natural species.
I don't see why this is necessarily a bad thing. If more organisms glowed, we could save a bundle on lighting!
By the way, humans have been genetically engineering plants and animals for thousands of years. Corn cobs used to be smaller than your thumb, you know. Fortunately, we replaced the natural species with bigger and tastier varieties. It is something to consider.
Before the core was placed in the Fat Man bomb tested at Alamogordo people were passing the plutonium core around.
Ah, scientist frat parties. "Dude... pass me the 40 [kiloton weapon]!"
Wow. Are there really that many in New York? In Chicago, they've all but disappeared. There are still some inside buildings, and maybe that's what Verizon is targeting, but you can walk for many, many, many blocks before stumbling across one outside. I only remember seeing a couple in the entire Loop.
The increase in Windows version numbers is exponential (3, 95, 2000, ...). By the time 2150 rolls around, I fully expect to be at Windows Avogadro.
Well then, just fire up your Beowulf cluster, render the pixels, and view the movie when it arrives much later. Wait, that's been done.
I cancelled my LD service as well, but the Feds actually tax you if you don't have long distance service: $4.49 in my case, for "Federal Access Charge". Now that's a rip off.
As if "This site requires Internet Explorer" is any guarantee of it actually working with Internet Explorer.
The people who stop to look at how good stories are told are the ones who will be able to tell stories of their own.
;)
And often in the form of bad fan fiction.