I guess you are right regarding the eject-feature. But as far as apple using the DMCA goes, how can you justify using something so terribly wrong even if it is to do something "right"? Every *use* of the DMCA legitimizes it more and more in the eyes of the court. I at least *think* that once there are all these legal precedents set, by people putting it to use, it will make it that much more difficult to throw out when an unpoisoned judge notes how unconstitutional it is. Furthermore, I read that the vendor was distributing a PATCH for iDVD that made it possible to burn DVDs on EXTERNAL drives, and not just Apple's INTERNAL DVD burners. If that *is* the case (any maybe you'll be able to answer that) then restricting software in order to leverage hardware sales is NOT GOOD BUSINESS. Even if its legal and makes the most money, guess what, its not GOOD. Its shady, and anyone with a conscience who trys to make a good product to sell at a good price, avoiding silly marketing strategies, will agree. SHADY SHADY SHADY.
Do they mention that it filters the exhaust through the water, like all other outboards? Let the fish have the pollution, so we dont have to smell what we are doing!!
Side note: these things have no rudders, and therefore are only propulsion-based steering. when you are about to hit an obstacle, like a fellow schmuck, what do you think your reflex will be? Probably let off of the gas, ENSURING that you will not be able to steer out of the way.
I cant wait for someone to examine that patch a little more closely. Its probably sneaking on some DRM stuff, huh? And can you turn off the "eject copyrighted CD" feature?
insightful? More expensive cars cost more because they were more expensive to build! A "good" business puts out the best products for the lowest prices possible. If it would only cost a few buckazoids to add another 16MB of memory to the iBook, and it would make it a far better product, then to be considered a "good" company they are *obligated* to do that. Otherwise, they are LIMITING THE PERFORMANCE FOR MARKETING PURPOSES, IGNORING A WAY TO MAKE A BETTER PRODUCT FOR LITTLE EXTRA $ IN ORDER TO INCREASE SALES OF THEIR HIGH END PRODUCT. That, my friend, is "Shady" Pick prices ranges. Make the best products you can, under those price ranges. do not ignore ways to improve one product in order to increase sales of another. That is the only way you can call a company "good"
Well, this is sort of invalid. It may be the CRTs. Or it may be the fact that those people who sit in front of a CRT for 8 hours are *sitting in one place* for 8 hours. Or maybe its the keyboards. Or maybe its the frequencies emitted by hard drives. I think they should include in the study those people who work in places like the texttile industry, where the fingerwork is similar but there is no CRT. You need to rule out all other possibilities that are in that cubicle with you. Not to say they shouldnt be sounding the alarm. I always agree its a better policy to "Not say its safe until you know it is", rather than "Dont say its unsafe until you know it is"
Have you ever looked at graphs of the mean temperature of the world, or the amount of greenhouse gasses present in the atmosphere, correlated with the start of the industrial revolution? To say "We are natural, so anything we do is Natural" is a lazy and ignorant tactic. Look at the ozone layer. You think that hole would be there without our help? In the last 150 years we have _dramatically_ altered patterns that have been steady for hundreds of millions of years. Do a little research before feeling confident hiding behind such a glib argument. If there was total nuclear annihilation, this wouldnt be a very fun place to live, would it? But you are right, we are "Natural", and so that nuclear annihilation will be "Natural" too. I'm sure your permanent shadow affixed to a cement wall will be very happy eternally remembering your syntactical victory on slashdot.
You are right, it was foolish of me to think that profit-driven oil companies couldnt come up with a better plan for managing our ecology than Mother Nature, who has been successful for the last 5 billion years.
Why does everyone stick up for big business? it HATES YOU
Those are the products that are openly available to us. Other solutions are possible. I firmly believe that if the oil supplies ran out this year, and we had known they would for the last 20, I'd still be driving to work today. Just in something a little more economically friendly than what we've got right now. Maybe I'm wrong, thats just what I believe. I also believe that the oil industry stifles research in oil alternatives. There are plenty of examples of the industry favoring the more profitable choice, as opposed to the choice that benefits People. I also believe that the oil company has such strong control of our government, they can even help lube up (get it, lube?) the process of going to a war that would profit them greatly. I also believe that the energy company Enron, who was involved in the biggest corporate scandal in recent american history, was the chief funder of our President's campaign and even allowed him exclusive use of the CEO's jet to campaign in. I cant tell you all of this is fact. And thats why the comment you replied to shouldnt have been written. Sorry.
Weird, I came to slashdot.org with the intention of posting a Very similar question. I recently downloaded the Apple developer kit, and basically signed away any right to disclose what the hell is available on their developer site. They use this "IOKit" for writing device drivers, but I want to write an open source device driver for Serial-to-USB converters (the iBook unfortunately has no serial or parallel port!!) So does anyone know of any resources where I can learn how to write a device driver for OS-X without using the closed-source developer kits Apple provides?
See I agree with you, but theres one thing that concerns me, and you mentioned it's posterchild: VESA. VESA was always such a slowdown, a total buzz kill, because you are making all these abstractions, wrapping and repackaging everything, that you end up throwing away usefulness. Then again, those cards couldnt do ONLY vesa, so you weren't throwing it away. Yeah, hell, implement the standardized way to do it, but if you have a better way, implement that, too, and require a driver for THAT. If joe schmoe loses his driver disk or wants to plug his camera into his homegirlz computer, he can do it, but it will do it in the standardized way.
Kinda like how I always need to turn to VESA when X doesnt support the video card I got duped into buying. At least i'm looking at X and not a blank screen right buddy?
Now, I am going to start off my admitting I have never taken any classes on TCP/IP and only have a user's level of understanding. Now I can see an attack by making a web server dump its data too you so often that it cant keep up w/ everyone else as being effective if it doesnt have any sort of client balancing, or whatever. But I thought that DoS proper involved looking at the connection at a lower level, where you would fill the TCP handler's queue with requests that would never get past a certain point, so the server would have a ton of socket connections waiting to be completed, handshaked, whatever happens (So many in fact that it's queue was completely full and could not even open a socket connection to any more users to even give the "403" error message.) Thats why it was called "Denial of Service" because valid clients would not even get a SLOW response from the server, they would get nothing because their TCP/IP connections would never even be opened. Isnt that right?
Hey smart guy, you shouldnt need to rely on your APPLICATIONS for stability. If an application is able to screw up the operating system, guess what, your protected mode operating system isnt doing what the entire CONCEPT of protected mode was designed for. No matter what the applications do in their context, the operating system should stay up. So yeah, if you dont run any applications, I'm sure windows is very stable. I'm sure you could even leave Windows 3.1 running indefinitely, provided you never launch a single program.
A man who identified himself as a former U.S. paratrooper and Persian Gulf War veteran e-mailed on June 25 that he regretted that "a political solution decision was made before my friends and I had a chance to completely wipe your cartoon character of a leader off the face of this earth."
That is pretty frightening. "I wish we didnt resolve this dispute before we got to waste each other." Why are military personnel so hell-bent on killing people? Are they trained to be like that, or does it just happen naturally through desensitization, given the violence-oriented environment in which they live?
Why, do email accounts cut you out of world trade? Do email accounts use their economic strength to manipulate the region where you live? If they do, then yeah, he'd probably want to bomb or gas them.:-D
So they are doing this to make cell phones more attractive, right? Or did the price of operating a connection from a land-line to a cell phone suddenly increase, for magical, mystical reasons?
You will never get good service when the provider is in it for profits alone.
Personally, I think people use linux over Windows because it is a much more intelligent operating system. Regardless of where it came from, it is easier to do complicated tasks, request and shortly download bug fixes or new features, and develop software under Linux (For most people. In my opinion. Bah Whatever I love linux and windows is totally ridiculous.:) The fact that it also has that "Free" appeal to it, not just Free as in $ but Free as in open and for the benefit of the users and no one else, isnt going to change just because IBM is making its own branch for its megacomputers and whatnot. Even if they come out with a desktop version that gains popularity, it wouldnt be mutally exclusive with Slackware and the rest of the gang. Those companies who liked linux for its robust working environment could now have that with the comfy blanket of legitimate IBM support, and those of us who dont want to pay for it, or dont want to give money to a supercorporation, could continue to use Slackware, etc. And if you really believe in the open source movement, you will trust the fact that software written For People will always be a better product than software written For Profit.:)
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I guess you are right regarding the eject-feature.
But as far as apple using the DMCA goes, how can you justify using something so terribly wrong even if it is to do something "right"? Every *use* of the DMCA legitimizes it more and more in the eyes of the court. I at least *think* that once there are all these legal precedents set, by people putting it to use, it will make it that much more difficult to throw out when an unpoisoned judge notes how unconstitutional it is.
Furthermore, I read that the vendor was distributing a PATCH for iDVD that made it possible to burn DVDs on EXTERNAL drives, and not just Apple's INTERNAL DVD burners. If that *is* the case (any maybe you'll be able to answer that) then restricting software in order to leverage hardware sales is NOT GOOD BUSINESS. Even if its legal and makes the most money, guess what, its not GOOD. Its shady, and anyone with a conscience who trys to make a good product to sell at a good price, avoiding silly marketing strategies, will agree. SHADY SHADY SHADY.
Perfect thing to ruin a peaceful day of sailing.
Do they mention that it filters the exhaust through the water, like all other outboards? Let the fish have the pollution, so we dont have to smell what we are doing!!
Side note: these things have no rudders, and therefore are only propulsion-based steering. when you are about to hit an obstacle, like a fellow schmuck, what do you think your reflex will be? Probably let off of the gas, ENSURING that you will not be able to steer out of the way.
I cant wait for someone to examine that patch a little more closely. Its probably sneaking on some DRM stuff, huh? And can you turn off the "eject copyrighted CD" feature?
We know how cozy apple is with the DMCA.
insightful?
More expensive cars cost more because they were more expensive to build!
A "good" business puts out the best products for the lowest prices possible. If it would only cost a few buckazoids to add another 16MB of memory to the iBook, and it would make it a far better product, then to be considered a "good" company they are *obligated* to do that. Otherwise, they are LIMITING THE PERFORMANCE FOR MARKETING PURPOSES, IGNORING A WAY TO MAKE A BETTER PRODUCT FOR LITTLE EXTRA $ IN ORDER TO INCREASE SALES OF THEIR HIGH END PRODUCT.
That, my friend, is "Shady"
Pick prices ranges. Make the best products you can, under those price ranges. do not ignore ways to improve one product in order to increase sales of another. That is the only way you can call a company "good"
How is IDE less reliable than SCSI? What are the problems with it?
Well, this is sort of invalid.
It may be the CRTs. Or it may be the fact that those people who sit in front of a CRT for 8 hours are *sitting in one place* for 8 hours. Or maybe its the keyboards. Or maybe its the frequencies emitted by hard drives. I think they should include in the study those people who work in places like the texttile industry, where the fingerwork is similar but there is no CRT. You need to rule out all other possibilities that are in that cubicle with you. Not to say they shouldnt be sounding the alarm. I always agree its a better policy to "Not say its safe until you know it is", rather than "Dont say its unsafe until you know it is"
Have you ever looked at graphs of the mean temperature of the world, or the amount of greenhouse gasses present in the atmosphere, correlated with the start of the industrial revolution?
To say "We are natural, so anything we do is Natural" is a lazy and ignorant tactic. Look at the ozone layer. You think that hole would be there without our help? In the last 150 years we have _dramatically_ altered patterns that have been steady for hundreds of millions of years.
Do a little research before feeling confident hiding behind such a glib argument.
If there was total nuclear annihilation, this wouldnt be a very fun place to live, would it?
But you are right, we are "Natural", and so that nuclear annihilation will be "Natural" too. I'm sure your permanent shadow affixed to a cement wall will be very happy eternally remembering your syntactical victory on slashdot.
You are right, it was foolish of me to think that profit-driven oil companies couldnt come up with a better plan for managing our ecology than Mother Nature, who has been successful for the last 5 billion years.
Why does everyone stick up for big business? it HATES YOU
Those are the products that are openly available to us. Other solutions are possible. I firmly believe that if the oil supplies ran out this year, and we had known they would for the last 20, I'd still be driving to work today. Just in something a little more economically friendly than what we've got right now.
Maybe I'm wrong, thats just what I believe. I also believe that the oil industry stifles research in oil alternatives. There are plenty of examples of the industry favoring the more profitable choice, as opposed to the choice that benefits People.
I also believe that the oil company has such strong control of our government, they can even help lube up (get it, lube?) the process of going to a war that would profit them greatly. I also believe that the energy company Enron, who was involved in the biggest corporate scandal in recent american history, was the chief funder of our President's campaign and even allowed him exclusive use of the CEO's jet to campaign in.
I cant tell you all of this is fact. And thats why the comment you replied to shouldnt have been written. Sorry.
Working for an industry that isnt helping to destroy the world?
Weird, I came to slashdot.org with the intention of posting a Very similar question.
I recently downloaded the Apple developer kit, and basically signed away any right to disclose what the hell is available on their developer site. They use this "IOKit" for writing device drivers, but I want to write an open source device driver for Serial-to-USB converters (the iBook unfortunately has no serial or parallel port!!) So does anyone know of any resources where I can learn how to write a device driver for OS-X without using the closed-source developer kits Apple provides?
you dont disagree with what? Who the frig is shepd and why's he coming to town?
hahaha
is this a joke that i dont get?
Stop the presses, 250,000 euros. :)
Microsoft's next step: Economic brutality to devalue the euro, decreasing the amount of research they can accomplish.
hehehe. jeez its probably almost true.
See I agree with you, but theres one thing that concerns me, and you mentioned it's posterchild: VESA. VESA was always such a slowdown, a total buzz kill, because you are making all these abstractions, wrapping and repackaging everything, that you end up throwing away usefulness.
Then again, those cards couldnt do ONLY vesa, so you weren't throwing it away. Yeah, hell, implement the standardized way to do it, but if you have a better way, implement that, too, and require a driver for THAT. If joe schmoe loses his driver disk or wants to plug his camera into his homegirlz computer, he can do it, but it will do it in the standardized way.
Kinda like how I always need to turn to VESA when X doesnt support the video card I got duped into buying. At least i'm looking at X and not a blank screen right buddy?
Now, I am going to start off my admitting I have never taken any classes on TCP/IP and only have a user's level of understanding. Now I can see an attack by making a web server dump its data too you so often that it cant keep up w/ everyone else as being effective if it doesnt have any sort of client balancing, or whatever. But I thought that DoS proper involved looking at the connection at a lower level, where you would fill the TCP handler's queue with requests that would never get past a certain point, so the server would have a ton of socket connections waiting to be completed, handshaked, whatever happens (So many in fact that it's queue was completely full and could not even open a socket connection to any more users to even give the "403" error message.) Thats why it was called "Denial of Service" because valid clients would not even get a SLOW response from the server, they would get nothing because their TCP/IP connections would never even be opened. Isnt that right?
> Is regulation the answer? Many people fear such a move, but might it be time to give it some serious thought?
I dont think we'll ever know the answer to that. Oh wait yes we do. No.
This is very interesting. Any other electrical engineers out there wish they had a biology background when they read stuff like this?
Hey smart guy, you shouldnt need to rely on your APPLICATIONS for stability. If an application is able to screw up the operating system, guess what, your protected mode operating system isnt doing what the entire CONCEPT of protected mode was designed for. No matter what the applications do in their context, the operating system should stay up.
So yeah, if you dont run any applications, I'm sure windows is very stable. I'm sure you could even leave Windows 3.1 running indefinitely, provided you never launch a single program.
Dont take the student body's word for it. I'd suggest meeting with Professor Noname and Dean Blankspace before you make any hasty indecisions.
A man who identified himself as a former U.S. paratrooper and Persian Gulf War veteran e-mailed on June 25 that he regretted that "a political solution decision was made before my friends and I had a chance to completely wipe your cartoon character of a leader off the face of this earth."
That is pretty frightening. "I wish we didnt resolve this dispute before we got to waste each other."
Why are military personnel so hell-bent on killing people? Are they trained to be like that, or does it just happen naturally through desensitization, given the violence-oriented environment in which they live?
Why, do email accounts cut you out of world trade? Do email accounts use their economic strength to manipulate the region where you live? :-D
If they do, then yeah, he'd probably want to bomb or gas them.
So they are doing this to make cell phones more attractive, right? Or did the price of operating a connection from a land-line to a cell phone suddenly increase, for magical, mystical reasons?
You will never get good service when the provider is in it for profits alone.
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One of these days I'll try that Preview button.
Personally, I think people use linux over Windows because it is a much more intelligent operating system. Regardless of where it came from, it is easier to do complicated tasks, request and shortly download bug fixes or new features, and develop software under Linux (For most people. In my opinion. Bah Whatever I love linux and windows is totally ridiculous. :) :)
The fact that it also has that "Free" appeal to it, not just Free as in $ but Free as in open and for the benefit of the users and no one else, isnt going to change just because IBM is making its own branch for its megacomputers and whatnot. Even if they come out with a desktop version that gains popularity, it wouldnt be mutally exclusive with Slackware and the rest of the gang. Those companies who liked linux for its robust working environment could now have that with the comfy blanket of legitimate IBM support, and those of us who dont want to pay for it, or dont want to give money to a supercorporation, could continue to use Slackware, etc. And if you really believe in the open source movement, you will trust the fact that software written For People will always be a better product than software written For Profit.