They'll probably imagine that some vast conspiracy is to blame. When it comes down to vast, unwieldy conspiracy or they are simply wrong, people like this go for the conspiracy.
Maybe they'll throw a few bombs, and the American people will finally get into their head: terrorist != towel head.
Or send them child porn. Even if they don't open the box, you can use it as an excuse to force prosecution in a place where their site is considered illegal.
In case you think I'm kidding, take a look at the old 'Amateur Action' case. (http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/AABBS_Thomases_Memphis/). It's fascinating material.
Bad example - even the original Tennessee jury thought that specific out of 12 counts was an entrapment. The other eleven obscenity charges would have been enough for both prosecution and conviction.
Are you saying that everything on the Taskbar always stays in the same place? In case you think so - brrrst, wrong. IOW its worse, because you can not depend on the behavior - well, that's not quite true because that is to be expected from Microsoft products
And in Windows, you have to drag file to taskbar item and then hunt down the fucking window after that pops up. Yeah, that is so much faster. Sure about the position of your head? Doesn't matter, no brain inside anyway.
Okay, hand her a TSR80. Or a C64? How about a PC running XENIX?
But yeah, you could also try something ten times the price of a Macintosh running X Window. But those hadn't copied any of the interface innovations from Apple yet, so all that made them different from the above was that you could show graphics in one window by typing commands in another one.
I'm sitting in front of a Macbook Pro right now and I can honestly say that not being able to do things like "drag a file into a window being shown in Expose" hurts. Especially since it's so easy to do in Windows (drag file to taskbar item then to the window).
Also, the OSuX has too many two-handed keyboard shortcuts where the equivalent in Windows is a one-handed shortcut.
In short, the OSuX.
Works great when you don't have your head up your ass.
To the larger point of "closing vs. quitting", there's a bit of ambiguity, especially with apps like System Preferences. The norm is "closing != quitting", but as far as I know, this app is the only one that breaks this convention. Given the power of most Macs, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't that big of a deal if an app is left open.
It's a matter of "interface" vs. "view on data" (or "document") windows. Windows makes a similar distinction with MDI vs. SDI.
That fact that you're so upset over this is a pretty big sign you're an Apple zealot.
I'm sure all the jokes about people obsessed with Apple are just by devious, bigoted men and women intent on massacring Applevangelists like the Nazis gassed jews. You poor oppressed thing.
The fact that you spend endless time to write and to defend your little joke is a pretty big sign you have no life. Maybe you should get a Mac?
You are overstating the case. In many instances one can make good guesses at how strongly overwritten it was. This works particularly well if the data being recovered is in some well understood format where one can look for markers. Say is there a sequence of 000s which act as a header? do we expect to see the sequence CR LF every so often?
They concluded that, after a single overwrite of the data on a drive, whether it be an old 1-gigabyte disk or a current model (at the time of the study), the likelihood of still being able to reconstruct anything is practically zero. Well, OK, not quite: a single bit whose precise location is known can in fact be correctly reconstructed with 56 per cent probability (in one of the quoted examples). To recover a byte, however, correct head positioning would have to be precisely repeated eight times, and the probability of that is only 0.97 per cent. Recovering anything beyond a single byte is even less likely."
>Of course that is all it is but they are selling like hot-cakes
Yes we must all judge things by popularity. Good idea! The best phone: the iphone. The best artistic endeavor in human history: the reality show. The best food: McDonalds. The best country: india.
I think you can see where Im going with this.
Yeah, you are saying all the people telling us the iPhone is not the market leader by far are trying to sell us shitty phones.
"Gulf News has a nice piece exposing the last couple generations of Apple's DRM strategy (you didn't really think they were abandoning DRM, did you?). Article focuses on how quickly the tactics are worked around, and how nasty the latest one is: purchased iTunes now have your personal data in them. Author suspects that this is to prevent you uploading them to a network."
"Apple launched iTunes Plus earlier today, the fruit of its agreement with EMI to sell DRM-free music. What they didn't say is that all DRM-free tracks have the user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them. Is this to discourage people from throwing the tracks up on their favorite P2P platform? 'It would be trivial for iTunes to report back to Apple, indicating that "Joe User" has M4As on this hard drive belonging to "Jane Userette," or even "two other users." This is not to say that Apple is going to get into the copyright enforcement business. What Apple and indeed the record labels want to watch closely is, will one user buy music for his five close friends?'"
The discussions brought up the same predictions of doom (by the same people sometimes) - and nothing of the kind has happened yet.
Besides, if you've filed a police report, in the very unlikely event of this sequence of events occuring, and you ending up at the barrel of a lawsuit for it, you can show that the iPod (presumably containing said songs) was stolen.
And if they do find your files on the net somewhere, they'll know the IP address of the guy who stole your iPod.
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They'll probably imagine that some vast conspiracy is to blame. When it comes down to vast, unwieldy conspiracy or they are simply wrong, people like this go for the conspiracy.
Maybe they'll throw a few bombs, and the American people will finally get into their head: terrorist != towel head.
Or send them child porn. Even if they don't open the box, you can use it as an excuse to force prosecution in a place where their site is considered illegal.
In case you think I'm kidding, take a look at the old 'Amateur Action' case. (http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/AABBS_Thomases_Memphis/). It's fascinating material.
Bad example - even the original Tennessee jury thought that specific out of 12 counts was an entrapment. The other eleven obscenity charges would have been enough for both prosecution and conviction.
Are you saying that everything on the Taskbar always stays in the same place? In case you think so - brrrst, wrong. IOW its worse, because you can not depend on the behavior - well, that's not quite true because that is to be expected from Microsoft products
Yeah, dragging a file onto a Editor window and getting a fucking icon is the epitome of user interface design.
And in Windows, you have to drag file to taskbar item and then hunt down the fucking window after that pops up . Yeah, that is so much faster. Sure about the position of your head? Doesn't matter, no brain inside anyway.
Do you even try to make sense?
Wooosh, there go the goal-posts.
Are you even trying to make sense? Heck, you are WMF, of course you aren't.
But yeah, you could also try something ten times the price of a Macintosh running X Window. But those hadn't copied any of the interface innovations from Apple yet, so all that made them different from the above was that you could show graphics in one window by typing commands in another one.
I spend 30 seconds to write a reply, WMF sockpuppet.
No I'm talking about the often used functionality that had no equivalent on your beloved yet lame Amiga.
That is completely false.
I'm sitting in front of a Macbook Pro right now and I can honestly say that not being able to do things like "drag a file into a window being shown in Expose" hurts. Especially since it's so easy to do in Windows (drag file to taskbar item then to the window).
Also, the OSuX has too many two-handed keyboard shortcuts where the equivalent in Windows is a one-handed shortcut.
In short, the OSuX.
Works great when you don't have your head up your ass.
The Mac was nice for 1984 but had that *tiny* screen and was a stunningly boring monochrome. Only a short year later the Amiga
I wouldn't call 18 months a short year. And the Amiga had a 0" screen.
Amiga never really did have anything comparable to QuickDraw, Quicktime or Colorsync.
Uh, at the time Quicktime was a video codec, container, and player. Whoopdedoo?
Shows what you know - nothing. Quicktime has from the start been a multimedia framework including rich API.
To the larger point of "closing vs. quitting", there's a bit of ambiguity, especially with apps like System Preferences. The norm is "closing != quitting", but as far as I know, this app is the only one that breaks this convention. Given the power of most Macs, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't that big of a deal if an app is left open.
It's a matter of "interface" vs. "view on data" (or "document") windows. Windows makes a similar distinction with MDI vs. SDI.
That fact that you're so upset over this is a pretty big sign you're an Apple zealot.
I'm sure all the jokes about people obsessed with Apple are just by devious, bigoted men and women intent on massacring Applevangelists like the Nazis gassed jews. You poor oppressed thing.
The fact that you spend endless time to write and to defend your little joke is a pretty big sign you have no life. Maybe you should get a Mac?
You Amiga fanbois really have bad memory.
Yeah, you are right, she would have been much happier using DOS.
Overall Apple has approved many thousands of apps and the percentage of apps that have been denied is small compared to that.
Citation needed. This kind of statement, without supporting evidence, sounds like either wishful thinking or fanboyism.
So name those thousands of apps that have been denied, or your post smells of hateboism.
You are overstating the case. In many instances one can make good guesses at how strongly overwritten it was. This works particularly well if the data being recovered is in some well understood format where one can look for markers. Say is there a sequence of 000s which act as a header? do we expect to see the sequence CR LF every so often?
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/news/112432
They concluded that, after a single overwrite of the data on a drive, whether it be an old 1-gigabyte disk or a current model (at the time of the study), the likelihood of still being able to reconstruct anything is practically zero. Well, OK, not quite: a single bit whose precise location is known can in fact be correctly reconstructed with 56 per cent probability (in one of the quoted examples). To recover a byte, however, correct head positioning would have to be precisely repeated eight times, and the probability of that is only 0.97 per cent. Recovering anything beyond a single byte is even less likely."
>Of course that is all it is but they are selling like hot-cakes
Yes we must all judge things by popularity. Good idea! The best phone: the iphone. The best artistic endeavor in human history: the reality show. The best food: McDonalds. The best country: india.
I think you can see where Im going with this.
Yeah, you are saying all the people telling us the iPhone is not the market leader by far are trying to sell us shitty phones.
And from the start of the year, Apple again outperformed NASDAQ. But yeah, WMF, stick to the few months that "prove your point".
On a different note, this is a sad day for those owning AAPL shares - expect them to plunge even further than they have over the past year.
You mean quite unlike the rest of the stock market?
Posted by CmdrTaco on 10.06.2007 17:08
"Gulf News has a nice piece exposing the last couple generations of Apple's DRM strategy (you didn't really think they were abandoning DRM, did you?). Article focuses on how quickly the tactics are worked around, and how nasty the latest one is: purchased iTunes now have your personal data in them. Author suspects that this is to prevent you uploading them to a network."
Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 30.05.2007 22:17
"Apple launched iTunes Plus earlier today, the fruit of its agreement with EMI to sell DRM-free music. What they didn't say is that all DRM-free tracks have the user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them. Is this to discourage people from throwing the tracks up on their favorite P2P platform? 'It would be trivial for iTunes to report back to Apple, indicating that "Joe User" has M4As on this hard drive belonging to "Jane Userette," or even "two other users." This is not to say that Apple is going to get into the copyright enforcement business. What Apple and indeed the record labels want to watch closely is, will one user buy music for his five close friends?'"
The discussions brought up the same predictions of doom (by the same people sometimes) - and nothing of the kind has happened yet.
Besides, if you've filed a police report, in the very unlikely event of this sequence of events occuring, and you ending up at the barrel of a lawsuit for it, you can show that the iPod (presumably containing said songs) was stolen.
And if they do find your files on the net somewhere, they'll know the IP address of the guy who stole your iPod.