When Microsoft released Office v.X for MacOS X, the OS X page on apple's site showed the Excel, Powerpoint, Entourage, and Word icons together in this arrangement:
I'm pretty sure that the people who wrote "Happy Birthday" are still alive... This is a common "well whaddayaknow!" kinda thing I see on TV every now and then.
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The iPod does not allow you to copy mp3s off of it, because they're in a hidden directory that you can't easily see, therefore you can't use it to copy music.
However, there are a ton of freeware apps that allow you to copy the mp3s off it, because they can read the hidden directory, and therefore it is Joe Shmoe's freeware app "stealing" the music, not the iPod.
Apparently, it's sufficient to outsmart the RIAA goons. Cool.
I had something like this when I was a kid. Yeah, you could unload dozens of rubber bands in seconds... Then spend a whole day reloading it! No thanks...
In the early days of OS X, I saw a lot of developers saying stuff like, "MacOS X is a horrible platform for developers" and "It's so difficult to program for, that it could be years before our product is released."
In many of those cases, I've seen the same developer come out later touting how easy it was to write software for OS X. In rarer cases (Connectix), they've actually admitted that the difficulty was not the platform so much as their ignorance of it.
Except (unfortunately) yahoo violates most of your points. I was hoping Lycos wouldn't, but I went to the page and was presented a big animated Snickers commercial in front of their content! Ugh!
This probably means that any funding for more practical studies, e.g. the oceans (about which we know practically nothing), will probably be completely cut, since they have nothing to do with "smart" weapons with which we can bomb poor, oppressed people in the name of "freedom."
Actually, I've got a slight case of tinnitis and I became "sensitive" to TV tubes and light bulbs and stuff when it started... It was particularly bad when I listened to a lot of heavy metal in high school, I used to turn off the kitchen light at my house because it irritated me... I don't think that it was because of having abnormally acute high frequency hearing considering how I abused my ears back then.
After I figured out what was going on, I started taking care of my ears after that and they recovered almost fully, aside from a quiet ringing. However, recently I was at a friend's place, and she has one of those "spider repelling" electronic devices, which made a really irritating chirping sound that drove me nuts but was inaudible to the other people present, who all have fine hearing.
It seems most likely to me that it's something like the extra high frequencies inside my head are reinforcing the ones put off by the light bulb to the point where it's noticeable.
Interesting... I skimmed it briefly at a bookstore the other day and it seemed to me that it provides only a very high-level overview (like, OS X uses HotSpot, Cocoa can be accessed from Java, and don't use MacOS-specific functionality when writing cross-platform Java).
What do you find useful about it, and why would you recommend it? Did I just completely misjudge it?
Ok, my first reaction was "damn, that means next time I want to independently release a CD of my music, it's probably going to cost me 4 times as much." You know, if the cost of self-producing an album on CD-r doubles or quadruples or whatever, that could have the (probably intended) effect of stomping out some of the RIAA's only potential competition.
and then it occurred to me that this probably means that anyone who wants to back up their files to CDr, or their e-mail, or whatever, it's gonna cost them 4 times as much, too...
Are there any examples of musicians "owned" by the RIAA that actually believe in the crap these people keep spewing?
I don't think it's right to say that a processor speeds up the internet. For most users, the problem is probably not page render time so much as content download time.
Whether my browser renders a page in 1 or 10 seconds means little when it takes 40 to load all the banner ads, flash animations, and huge worthless gifs attempting to make a stupid web page look like a page from a magazine.
Basically, the problem is that MD-DATA disks cost about $15 each. I use them occasionally for my minidisc 4-track recorder, and they're very handy for this purpose, but the cost is prohibitive so I generally make do with standard stereo MDs.
It's a shame that MD hasn't really caught on. It's really nice having a compression scheme that actually sounds good.
If I'm going to spend $30 for a movie, I'd like to know that it's not going to degrade steadily and rapidly, like VHS.
Heck, if possible, I'd like to see video-CD (or video-CDRW?) recorders replace VHS, just so that I know that when I record "Shark Week" next week, I'll be able to watch it again a few years from now.
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She's obviously just trying to get rid of those annoying X10 ads!
I'm pretty sure that the people who wrote "Happy Birthday" are still alive... This is a common "well whaddayaknow!" kinda thing I see on TV every now and then.
The iPod does not allow you to copy mp3s off of it, because they're in a hidden directory that you can't easily see, therefore you can't use it to copy music.
However, there are a ton of freeware apps that allow you to copy the mp3s off it, because they can read the hidden directory, and therefore it is Joe Shmoe's freeware app "stealing" the music, not the iPod.
Apparently, it's sufficient to outsmart the RIAA goons. Cool.
I had something like this when I was a kid. Yeah, you could unload dozens of rubber bands in seconds... Then spend a whole day reloading it! No thanks...
Maybe the DoJ is laying off of Microsoft because of the DoD's dependency on them?
In many of those cases, I've seen the same developer come out later touting how easy it was to write software for OS X. In rarer cases (Connectix), they've actually admitted that the difficulty was not the platform so much as their ignorance of it.
I just think it's interesting.
I think this might have trouble getting adequate funding, since it has nothing to do with going to Mars :)
(Un)fortunately, OS X lacked folder actions last time I looked, so I guess that's not an issue anymore.
:)
It's a shame though; as soon as I find out about them and want to use them, they take them away!
Except (unfortunately) yahoo violates most of your points. I was hoping Lycos wouldn't, but I went to the page and was presented a big animated Snickers commercial in front of their content! Ugh!
I've never read anything about Edison vs. Tesla that portrays them in such light. Are you sure you didn't get their names reversed?
:)
But in any case, I'll take AC over DC any day!
This probably means that any funding for more practical studies, e.g. the oceans (about which we know practically nothing), will probably be completely cut, since they have nothing to do with "smart" weapons with which we can bomb poor, oppressed people in the name of "freedom."
Actually, I've got a slight case of tinnitis and I became "sensitive" to TV tubes and light bulbs and stuff when it started... It was particularly bad when I listened to a lot of heavy metal in high school, I used to turn off the kitchen light at my house because it irritated me... I don't think that it was because of having abnormally acute high frequency hearing considering how I abused my ears back then.
After I figured out what was going on, I started taking care of my ears after that and they recovered almost fully, aside from a quiet ringing. However, recently I was at a friend's place, and she has one of those "spider repelling" electronic devices, which made a really irritating chirping sound that drove me nuts but was inaudible to the other people present, who all have fine hearing.
It seems most likely to me that it's something like the extra high frequencies inside my head are reinforcing the ones put off by the light bulb to the point where it's noticeable.
Interesting... I skimmed it briefly at a bookstore the other day and it seemed to me that it provides only a very high-level overview (like, OS X uses HotSpot, Cocoa can be accessed from Java, and don't use MacOS-specific functionality when writing cross-platform Java).
What do you find useful about it, and why would you recommend it? Did I just completely misjudge it?
and then it occurred to me that this probably means that anyone who wants to back up their files to CDr, or their e-mail, or whatever, it's gonna cost them 4 times as much, too...
Are there any examples of musicians "owned" by the RIAA that actually believe in the crap these people keep spewing?
Whether my browser renders a page in 1 or 10 seconds means little when it takes 40 to load all the banner ads, flash animations, and huge worthless gifs attempting to make a stupid web page look like a page from a magazine.
It's a shame that MD hasn't really caught on. It's really nice having a compression scheme that actually sounds good.
If I'm going to spend $30 for a movie, I'd like to know that it's not going to degrade steadily and rapidly, like VHS. Heck, if possible, I'd like to see video-CD (or video-CDRW?) recorders replace VHS, just so that I know that when I record "Shark Week" next week, I'll be able to watch it again a few years from now.