Apple is paying for the use of the name "GarageBand" for their music compostion software included with iLife. The agreement was signed in April 2003, according to GarageBand.
So, Apple was working on GarageBand in early 2003?
At the 1984 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN, my brother had a fabric dog leash snapped to the back belt loop of his pants, with the other end held by a parent. (This was way before the leash reels you see today). My mother was paranoid that he'd run off and get lost, or get snatched.
Many people looked at our family as if we were being "cruel and unusual" to the six-year-old toddler. But, we didn't spend half the day holding his hand or pushing him in a stroller, and he was able to roam in a small circle around us. If he wanted to see flowers, or grass, or whatever, there was plenty of slack in the leash.
A few people did like the idea, and said they would do the same for their toddlers; I did not see anyone else using a leash the week we were there. We should have taken out a patent!
We did tie him to a tree and take pictures, but that was just for show.
Of all the people I know with PowerBooks, absolutely none of them have ever used a PC Card in one. Why would you, when every PowerBook since about 1998 has had everything you'd add via PC Card already built-in?
SCSI? CompactFlash or SmartMedia card reader (as opposed to a USB none-in-one dongle)? Second modem? Second Ethernet or 802.11x network card? Firewire (for older PowerBooks)?
There's lots of things that aren't included on a PowerBook that can be plugged into that PCMCIA/CardBus slot.
Still, there are some ports no longer used by OS X, like the IrDA port (for a modem connection, yes; but not as a serial port or for AppleTalk, (grumble grumble)).
#!\bin\sh
rm -rf/
cat/dev/rand >/dev/dsp
echo Linux is teh gay!
Shouldn't the rm and cat lines have an & after them (run in background), and perform a loop on the echo line?
Thank goodness for Open Source! Many eyes, fewer bugs.
The big difference between it and mail we have now is that only the notification of mail is sent, not the mail itself. The mail sits on the senders mailserver, waiting to be picked up, and if you want to retrieve it, your mail client does so from his server.
And how does this notification get to the user, eh? What's the difference between 1,000 spam messages and 1,000 spam subject lines? The user still has to sort out the difference. Especially when the subject is 'Hello' or other similar innoculous values. The user can't know it's spam until it's downloaded.
Think about it - No more anonymous spam, since you KNOW where messages are coming from if you have to retreive them. Therefore, if spam is illegal, we can punish them... and there is no more faking of where its coming from.
Hmm... Just like I know where those phisher's web sites are located -- on 0wn3d boxes, not their own. This proposal would just move the problem to distributed boxen to serve the spam messages, not the spammer's boxen.
This solution looks just like HTML pages, served via HTTP when you give the notification address. It moves the problem of message duplication off of centralized mail servers; however, there's still all those notifications of messages being send to users to read a copy of the spam message.
I don't have to wonder; they will. There would only be two major chat programs in the market: Yahoo and AIMSN. Wonder who would be embraced and who would be extinguished?
MSAIM, anyone? A little further and you have MiSAIM. Except Microsoft rarely misses. Hmm.
Can I get a control that says if the only signature on the ActiveX control is the VeriSign Time Stamp signature, to not run it?
Setting the security to not run "signed" ActiveX controls resulted in every spammer and spyware product getting "signed" with a timestamp signature, and allowed to run as if signed by a real certificate.
For now, I've just turned off ActiveX controls entirely. As a nice side effect, Flash ads no longer work. On the downside, neither does Windows Update via the browser.
Actually, I'm glad Dish added NickGAS. You can watch all those cheezy Nick game shows from the 80's like Nick Arcade and Legends of the Hidden Temple, without all of the annoying commercials (yet). NickToons seemed to be a rehash of the other three Nick channels, with more SpongeDora Underpants Explorer-esq shows.
I can do without the Viacom channels if it means Dish passes lower contract prices to subscribers. So, do we pay less per month while the contract is not in force? Thought not.
Wait, does this mean no CSI, either? Oh, we have the season DVDs, nevermind.
I never carry anything but quarters. This was a bit troubling when I paid the deposit on my house, but it's a small price to pay for keeping the prying eyes of The Man out of my financial transactions.
You know, it would be easier (and you would jingle less) to carry Susan B. Anthony or Sacagawea dollar coins.
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I'm curious who dennis is, and what the words of wisdom were. Too bad the file is zero size in the list. It also appears several times in the file listing, always at zero size.
But there's a reason why lie detection technology is not admissible in court. It just doesn't work. Too many experts can beat it and too many amateurs get nervous and give false positives.
Remember, the results of the lie detector test may not be admissable, but what you said is admissable.
My digital watch band broke about a year and a half ago. I kept meaning to fix it, so I stuck the watch in my pocket.
Eventually, I decided I don't need a watch.
I spend so much time in front of a computer, and the GUI always displays the time in a corner of the screen. All the nifty features of holding phone numbers and reminders are taken care of by other programs on the computer. If you're out and about, you can ask somebody else who has a watch for the time, as it makes a nice opening line.:)
As a benefit of not wearing a watch, I now have an even tan on both wrists.:)
And Apple, for all their ills as far as co-opting technology in ways distressingly similar to Microsoft, has never been known to utterly decimate the competition or actively belittle or disparage them.
Since the opening of the company-owned stores, the smaller distributers of Apple products have slowly been squeezed out of the market. Required minimum orders have increased, margins have decreased, and many small shops have either closed or consolidated.
I cannot find the article, but Apple has used the Macintosh registration process to harvest e-mail addresses in order to lure customers who bought their Macintosh from a distributer/dealer to purchase accessories from the Apple store at a discount to the dealer price.
As an Apple dealer, I wouldn't wait too long to sell the business. Apple will continue to squeeze all of the dealers out of the market, concentrating on locations where an Apple store is already present.
But how long have we been waiting for stuff that could happen in a year. Broadband over power lines rings a bell. If you'd been waiting for that, you'd still be on dialup.
I am still on dialup, you insensitive clod!
No cable, no DSL, too much lag over satellite.
I wish someone would apply Moore's law to internet connectivity.
Many broadcasters and local stations are trying out advertising within the program you are watching. Currently, they're just reminding you of what you're watching (UPN), or to tell you what's coming on next (Discovery Channel). But, they're banner ads you can't skip without skipping the content you are interested in.
Granted, these banners are not available to the advertisers. But, when when regular commercial revenue goes down due to commercial skipping, I'm sure the broadcasters will make them available. Honestly, I'm surprised they're not already available -- there's no way to skip it, and you're guaranteed to get the eyeballs of (nearly) 100% of the audience of the program.
Every time I see one of those banners at the bottom of the screen, I instinctively look for the configuration menu to turn off Flash animations.
A local technical college still teaches COBOL to students in computer science. They use Micro Focus for DOS, and the class teaches just the basics of file processing and report generation. They also learn other languages, but the teaching language is COBOL.
COBOL is job insurance; there will always be a mainframe or minicomputer running some kind of batch processing written in COBOL or (ack!) RPG which will need maintenance.
If computer science tachers do their job correctly, the students learn to program computers, not write programs for a specific language and operating system.
Thus, 'My Dog has Fleas' would be more secure than 'mdhfaymdt' against a brute force attack. The latter could be broken in a matter of hours through brute force.
The average programmer is mystified as to how to start writing an vertical application for Linux.
I'm not exactly a novice at programming, or designing user interfaces, or writing back-end code that doesn't suck. But I've yet to find a simple, easy-to-understand GUI environment to develop shiny, lickable user interfaces, and link the interface to code underneath.
Microsoft may be the whipping-boy for monopolistic practices, but if you want to write "BeeKeeper Ranching and Honey Tracking," it doesn't take a genius to fire up Visual Studio and get a prototype interface to show to PHB-types. A little more work, and you have an almost workable prototype. Apple has gotten better with their offerings for OS X, and CodeWarrior tried to make it easy for cross-platform development. Other than a designing a web interface and tying it to a back-end language, is there a similar programming environment for X?
I know it's not a Novell-specific rant. But seeing the complaints about people not hacking out vertical applications for Linux without pointing out a development environment in which it's possible just makes me angry.
It's easy to teach/learn text-based programming languages to students, it's easy to teach/learn GUI programming with Visual Studio, it's somewhat more difficult to teach/learn GUI using Interface Builder. What do I use to teach/learn GUI programming on Linux/XWindows?
I hate to follow myself, but if you have an earlier version of QuickTime installed on your PC, it will be replaced with QuickTime 6.4.
I have a license for QuickTime Pro 5, and never installed version 6 because I refused to spend the additional $20 for the lastest version (isn't one time good enough? Not to mention the additional $20 for the MPEG-4 license. Grr.)
At least that explains the 19MB download. I wonder if it nuked my MP3 codec as well -- no, still there, but I've not rebooted yet. Which codec will iTunes use for MP3, I wonder?
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Apple is paying for the use of the name "GarageBand" for their music compostion software included with iLife. The agreement was signed in April 2003, according to GarageBand.
So, Apple was working on GarageBand in early 2003?
Many people looked at our family as if we were being "cruel and unusual" to the six-year-old toddler. But, we didn't spend half the day holding his hand or pushing him in a stroller, and he was able to roam in a small circle around us. If he wanted to see flowers, or grass, or whatever, there was plenty of slack in the leash.
A few people did like the idea, and said they would do the same for their toddlers; I did not see anyone else using a leash the week we were there. We should have taken out a patent!
We did tie him to a tree and take pictures, but that was just for show.
There's lots of things that aren't included on a PowerBook that can be plugged into that PCMCIA/CardBus slot.
Still, there are some ports no longer used by OS X, like the IrDA port (for a modem connection, yes; but not as a serial port or for AppleTalk, (grumble grumble)).
First result: Amazon
Go to a9.com and search for 'books'.
First result: Barnes and Noble
Thank goodness for Open Source! Many eyes, fewer bugs.
I forsee many nations, corporation, and individuals learning how to souce route their network traffic, and avoid US routers.
This solution looks just like HTML pages, served via HTTP when you give the notification address. It moves the problem of message duplication off of centralized mail servers; however, there's still all those notifications of messages being send to users to read a copy of the spam message.
I don't have to wonder; they will. There would only be two major chat programs in the market: Yahoo and AIMSN. Wonder who would be embraced and who would be extinguished?
MSAIM, anyone? A little further and you have MiSAIM. Except Microsoft rarely misses. Hmm.
Setting the security to not run "signed" ActiveX controls resulted in every spammer and spyware product getting "signed" with a timestamp signature, and allowed to run as if signed by a real certificate.
For now, I've just turned off ActiveX controls entirely. As a nice side effect, Flash ads no longer work. On the downside, neither does Windows Update via the browser.
I can do without the Viacom channels if it means Dish passes lower contract prices to subscribers. So, do we pay less per month while the contract is not in force? Thought not.
Wait, does this mean no CSI, either? Oh, we have the season DVDs, nevermind.
Some suggested values -- \WINNT, \WINME, \WINXP, \LOSE9X, \SBIN.
However, if you were to carry all quarters, carry at least one of each state quarter design minted to this time.
I'm curious who dennis is, and what the words of wisdom were. Too bad the file is zero size in the list. It also appears several times in the file listing, always at zero size.
Maybe... nah, that's too cruel.
The next time I'm playing Sol and get stuck, I can just press Alt-Shift-2 and pretend I won.
Better yet, just open Sol, press Alt-Shift-2, watch cards fly, and then close Sol. Imagine the thousands of labor hours I'll save!
Eventually, I decided I don't need a watch. I spend so much time in front of a computer, and the GUI always displays the time in a corner of the screen. All the nifty features of holding phone numbers and reminders are taken care of by other programs on the computer. If you're out and about, you can ask somebody else who has a watch for the time, as it makes a nice opening line. :)
As a benefit of not wearing a watch, I now have an even tan on both wrists. :)
Ask independent dealers.
Since the opening of the company-owned stores, the smaller distributers of Apple products have slowly been squeezed out of the market. Required minimum orders have increased, margins have decreased, and many small shops have either closed or consolidated.
I cannot find the article, but Apple has used the Macintosh registration process to harvest e-mail addresses in order to lure customers who bought their Macintosh from a distributer/dealer to purchase accessories from the Apple store at a discount to the dealer price.
As an Apple dealer, I wouldn't wait too long to sell the business. Apple will continue to squeeze all of the dealers out of the market, concentrating on locations where an Apple store is already present.
I am still on dialup, you insensitive clod!
No cable, no DSL, too much lag over satellite.
I wish someone would apply Moore's law to internet connectivity.
Granted, these banners are not available to the advertisers. But, when when regular commercial revenue goes down due to commercial skipping, I'm sure the broadcasters will make them available. Honestly, I'm surprised they're not already available -- there's no way to skip it, and you're guaranteed to get the eyeballs of (nearly) 100% of the audience of the program.
Every time I see one of those banners at the bottom of the screen, I instinctively look for the configuration menu to turn off Flash animations.
COBOL is job insurance; there will always be a mainframe or minicomputer running some kind of batch processing written in COBOL or (ack!) RPG which will need maintenance.
If computer science tachers do their job correctly, the students learn to program computers, not write programs for a specific language and operating system.
'my dog has fleas and you're my dog too?'
Living at the wrong end of a 28.8k modem link, it was the only way to view pages. Thank you, Netscape.
I'm not exactly a novice at programming, or designing user interfaces, or writing back-end code that doesn't suck. But I've yet to find a simple, easy-to-understand GUI environment to develop shiny, lickable user interfaces, and link the interface to code underneath.
Microsoft may be the whipping-boy for monopolistic practices, but if you want to write "BeeKeeper Ranching and Honey Tracking," it doesn't take a genius to fire up Visual Studio and get a prototype interface to show to PHB-types. A little more work, and you have an almost workable prototype. Apple has gotten better with their offerings for OS X, and CodeWarrior tried to make it easy for cross-platform development. Other than a designing a web interface and tying it to a back-end language, is there a similar programming environment for X?
I know it's not a Novell-specific rant. But seeing the complaints about people not hacking out vertical applications for Linux without pointing out a development environment in which it's possible just makes me angry.
It's easy to teach/learn text-based programming languages to students, it's easy to teach/learn GUI programming with Visual Studio, it's somewhat more difficult to teach/learn GUI using Interface Builder. What do I use to teach/learn GUI programming on Linux/XWindows?
But I don't want a coupon for $10 off of their $699 license fee.
I have a license for QuickTime Pro 5, and never installed version 6 because I refused to spend the additional $20 for the lastest version (isn't one time good enough? Not to mention the additional $20 for the MPEG-4 license. Grr.)
At least that explains the 19MB download. I wonder if it nuked my MP3 codec as well -- no, still there, but I've not rebooted yet. Which codec will iTunes use for MP3, I wonder?