if the shift key can be used to circumvent digital rights management, it obviously should be outlawed. seriously, its not the kid's fault for their resting their business model on something so easily to circumvent.
I know you were trying to be funny, but you may be confusing some users. There is an option in iTunes prefs to have all your music moved to a common directory, or to leave it where it was when you dropped it into the playlist. Also, you don't need to go looking for your file once it is in the playlist, because if you drag a song out of the list and into a folder in the finder, it makes a copy of it and puts it where you want it. Then, you can delete the file fromt he playlist (and it will ask you if you want to delete the source file, too). I'd bet this will carry over to windows iTunes as well, as I'd consider that basic functionality.
Yes, it does, just buy virtual PC. I've heard that it is fairly usable even on a 400MHz iBook, especially if you install a haxie that lets you quit the finder. I haven't tried it though, so don't take my word for it.
As I read the article... it seems that if you use a javascript document.write to insert the object tag, it doesn't prompt, but only if the function that does the writing is in an external file. I don't see how this makes things better, it just forces more scripting and more people to have potentially dangerous jscript turned on. Go figure.
"Plus there's the "it beats anything on the PC market", erm quad CPU Xenon? it's a PC ain't it?"
Apple has never claimed it beats anything on the PC market, just that it is the fastest desktop available. I sure haven't seen any quad xeon desktops, only servers. If and when Apple comes out with the G5 based xserve, I'd think that there may be a 4 or even 8 way model (now that they have faster busses that could probably keep those fed decently).
"So the industry keeps thinking it can pull one over on the consumers and make more money, but it's just the lawyers that will win on this one...
Just like:
Screen sizes include areas you can't actually see. 15" really means 13.8"...
Harddrive sizes are not what they seem. 1M == 1,000,000 bytes not 1024*1024.
The computer industry will keep making disceptive ads and lawyers doing class-action suits against them will keep getting rich. My guess is that the computer industry still make more money than they lose to the lawyers, so everyone is better off but the consumer..."
Do you really think the computer industry is the only one that does this? A car that is claimed to have 225 HP is rated at the flywheel, and does not account for paracidic loss through the drivetrain, so your actual HP that makes it to the wheels is always much less. I bet there are other examples, I just can't seem to think of any ATM.
317 area code is Indianapolis, IN. I just happen to live there. If anyone can come up with some good ideas of ways I can harass them (noting too illegal, please), post them on this thread. I'll track them down and give them hell. Donations are, of course, welcome;)
I wonder how they'd like a delivery of a ton of manure to their front door (this IS Indiana, after all..)?
"If VeriSign does not comply with this demand by 6:00 PM PDT on 4 October 2003, ICANN will be forced to take the steps necessary to enforce VeriSign's contractual obligations."
I'd be interested to see what those obligations were. If it is as bad as that sounds, I wonder if VeriSign could lose their Registrar priviledges as a result. This could have huge implications, and could help small(er) registrars get a leg up (finally) in the.com and.net domains. I guess only time will tell.
I'm sure everyone has at least seen one article where they tell you to NEVER install software from a company you've either never heard of, or don't trust. At this point, the internet has been around long enough that most people realize this, especially if you have data on your machine that is so important that you can't risk getting a virus or a trojan (such as this, apparently) on it. Live by the internet, die by the internet. Just because someone claims to be against the RIAA doesn't make them your friend. Just because someone is against SCO, doesn't make them about free software rights. There are such things as self-serving deeds, even if they appear to be good gestures to all.
"I taught my son a lesson by destroying his iBook. The lesson is that if you work hard and save your money to buy something, once you break the law with it, it will be taken away. By the time he saves enough to buy another laptop (which will be around two years based on his after school pay check) he will have learned that he was doing something bad and wont do it again."
Dude, if I had you as a parent, I'd watch your back. How is your lesson any better than a thug breaking a gambler's legs for not paying on time? I hope you don't own any guns... you just may become a statistic.
"Why didn't they switch to Linux instead of switchting to the - probably much more expensive - Windows 2003"
Hmmm... pretty safe bet there, brainiac. Anything compared to $0 would probably be more expensive (infinitely, to be precise). You do bring up some good thoughts though. This would be a good use for the "+1/2 Nice Try" moderator.
Intel has built up the megahertz myth so much that most people who don't understand the work/clock cycle dynamics would need to see this type of 4-7GHz speed to even think about why they should upgrade to a next-generation Intel processor, even if it was only marginally faster computationally when compared to the P4. How much would you like to bet this "next-gen" processor has a 75-stage pipeline and a one-trillion transistor branch prediction unit to try to keep it working, not to mention the most-likely needed nuclear power plant water cooling tower that would have to be attached, or the 240V power outlet that would be needed. Yeesh.
I just did some simple math, and it would seem that this would require a device that could supply a constant stream of around 3.15 gigabytes/second of bandwidth. Even with a generous 10x compression, thats still 315 megabytes per second SUSTAINED, a speed that can only be achieved with high-end RAID setups.
I do hope that this does make it to fruition, but I'm not holding my breath about being able to own one within the next decade, at least not until we have some sort of ultra-speed holographic storage device.
"I run a lab with an OS X server which relies on ssh for remote access, and all I wanted was a point patch to fix the ssh security hole announced two weeks ago.
However, Apple failed to provide us one. Instead, they rolled the patch into the 10.2.8 release, thus exposing anyone who upgraded solely for the security fix to additional instability caused by changes to other OS components.
I feel sorry for those server administrators who were unable to upgrade to 10.2.8 because it means the server is still vulnerable to the ssh security hole."
Yeah, that's the problem with software that you can get the actual code for. You have to rely on your computer distributor to keep it updated. Oh wait... If it is that important to the survival of your lab, go get the source and compile it. I bet if you look hard enough, there will undoubtedly be someone who has already compiled it and can give you the binary without actually compiling it yourself. If you are in charge of the entire lab, I'd sure hope you'd know at least enough about how the computers you run work to get some code to compile. Now quit your bitching.
I'd have to disagree. My ex-girlfriend was having problems with her dell, and the first support rep we talked to, unable to diagnose the problem with his unplug the computer, plug it back in and try again solution recommended that she "take a shotgun, aim it at the monitor, and fire." Despite the fact that the monitor was still working perfectly. Unlike the computer. After telling them repeatedly that I thought it was a bad power supply, they decided that it was probably the motherboard. Nope. Then they sent a new processor. Nope. Finally, I got them to send a new power supply, as I had originally asked them for. BINGO! It was a bad power supply capacitor.
"Problem is, they didn't click on the Kazaa EULA; they used a reverse-engineered version of Kazaa. Nevertheless, it appears the DMCA may apply here. Companies attempting to protect their copyrights should not be allowed to violate the copyrights of others."
Hmmm good point. I think they will effectively be killing two birds with one stone here. They get to point out to the court the illegal KaZaa clones out there AND may perhaps get the RIAA feces-throwing chimp of their backs. Not a bad move on their part, IMHO.
What country are you in and what OS are you running? I ripped Hail to the Theif to MP3 on my G4 without problem, and I was able to make a direct CD copy using Easy CD Creator on my girlfriend's WinXP Gateway laptop.
"Is to open the source for these "voting machines" so they can continually undergo a public review."
A request to make something open source on slashdot? This cannot be! I think partly with MS's smear campaigns of yesteryear, the governement (AKA microsoft east) would never do that. But i've been wrong before.
"You shouldn't get your impression of what kids are like from a TV channel. Go and talk to actual kids (assuming you're an adult with minimal contact with kids, which your statement suggests)."
I don't just sit on my ass and watch TV, I do actually enjoy the outdoors (can I say that on here???). I base my observation not on just the people who are ON the channel, but all the little pre-teen christina aguilera girls and the "i wanna be a rap star athough i'm only 13 years old" boys. Give me some credit here. There is a decided lack of originality in our youth these days, and that is what I am referring to.
"Right, because, obviously, America's children are so influenced by everything they see or hear..."
Um, you seen MTV lately? I'm really starting to think that the youth of america DO NOT have minds of their own, they just inherit personalities from TV. Do I think that the game makers should be sued? Nope, if anything the family of the deceased should be suing the parents of the brainless kids for what is an obvious case of lack of parenting. I kinda think this murder was a cry for help so absent mommy and daddy would be forced to spend some time with them.
"No, they don't dare do this.
It's a federal offence to redirect a misspelling to a porn site as it's "illegal to deceive children into viewing harmful material". This is a provision of the "Amber Alert" legislation and will land you in jail for 4 years."
So how does whitehouse.com get away with it? (i'm not going to make the name a link, I do not want to link to pr0n on/.).
"I've havn't had a microsoft patch mess up anything on my system since Windows NT 4.0 SP1. SP3A and beyond have had no issues up through xp and windows 2003 server."
Consider yourself lucky. Last week I installed the lastest IE patch for my win XP machine, and it completely broke my IIS development environment set up on my work machine. The only way I could get it to work again was by uninstalling the patch. If the patch had been applied without my knowing, I never would have been able to track it down and fix without hours and hours of research. THAT is why I don't trust MS to do anything to my computer without me knowing about it.
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if the shift key can be used to circumvent digital rights management, it obviously should be outlawed. seriously, its not the kid's fault for their resting their business model on something so easily to circumvent.
I know you were trying to be funny, but you may be confusing some users. There is an option in iTunes prefs to have all your music moved to a common directory, or to leave it where it was when you dropped it into the playlist. Also, you don't need to go looking for your file once it is in the playlist, because if you drag a song out of the list and into a folder in the finder, it makes a copy of it and puts it where you want it. Then, you can delete the file fromt he playlist (and it will ask you if you want to delete the source file, too). I'd bet this will carry over to windows iTunes as well, as I'd consider that basic functionality.
Yes, it does, just buy virtual PC. I've heard that it is fairly usable even on a 400MHz iBook, especially if you install a haxie that lets you quit the finder. I haven't tried it though, so don't take my word for it.
huh... just was playing around, and option + scroll lock (F14) opened the displays control panel. kinda nifty.
As I read the article... it seems that if you use a javascript document.write to insert the object tag, it doesn't prompt, but only if the function that does the writing is in an external file. I don't see how this makes things better, it just forces more scripting and more people to have potentially dangerous jscript turned on. Go figure.
Apple has never claimed it beats anything on the PC market, just that it is the fastest desktop available. I sure haven't seen any quad xeon desktops, only servers. If and when Apple comes out with the G5 based xserve, I'd think that there may be a 4 or even 8 way model (now that they have faster busses that could probably keep those fed decently).
Just like:
The computer industry will keep making disceptive ads and lawyers doing class-action suits against them will keep getting rich. My guess is that the computer industry still make more money than they lose to the lawyers, so everyone is better off but the consumer..."
Do you really think the computer industry is the only one that does this? A car that is claimed to have 225 HP is rated at the flywheel, and does not account for paracidic loss through the drivetrain, so your actual HP that makes it to the wheels is always much less. I bet there are other examples, I just can't seem to think of any ATM.
I wonder how they'd like a delivery of a ton of manure to their front door (this IS Indiana, after all..)?
Ok, I more meant I wonder what ramifications were present in the contract for breaking said contract. My bad.
I'd be interested to see what those obligations were. If it is as bad as that sounds, I wonder if VeriSign could lose their Registrar priviledges as a result. This could have huge implications, and could help small(er) registrars get a leg up (finally) in the .com and .net domains. I guess only time will tell.
I'm sure everyone has at least seen one article where they tell you to NEVER install software from a company you've either never heard of, or don't trust. At this point, the internet has been around long enough that most people realize this, especially if you have data on your machine that is so important that you can't risk getting a virus or a trojan (such as this, apparently) on it. Live by the internet, die by the internet. Just because someone claims to be against the RIAA doesn't make them your friend. Just because someone is against SCO, doesn't make them about free software rights. There are such things as self-serving deeds, even if they appear to be good gestures to all.
Dude, if I had you as a parent, I'd watch your back. How is your lesson any better than a thug breaking a gambler's legs for not paying on time? I hope you don't own any guns... you just may become a statistic.
I personnay put myself on the list. My name is Harold P. Ness.
Hmmm... pretty safe bet there, brainiac. Anything compared to $0 would probably be more expensive (infinitely, to be precise). You do bring up some good thoughts though. This would be a good use for the "+1/2 Nice Try" moderator.
Intel has built up the megahertz myth so much that most people who don't understand the work/clock cycle dynamics would need to see this type of 4-7GHz speed to even think about why they should upgrade to a next-generation Intel processor, even if it was only marginally faster computationally when compared to the P4. How much would you like to bet this "next-gen" processor has a 75-stage pipeline and a one-trillion transistor branch prediction unit to try to keep it working, not to mention the most-likely needed nuclear power plant water cooling tower that would have to be attached, or the 240V power outlet that would be needed. Yeesh.
I do hope that this does make it to fruition, but I'm not holding my breath about being able to own one within the next decade, at least not until we have some sort of ultra-speed holographic storage device.
However, Apple failed to provide us one. Instead, they rolled the patch into the 10.2.8 release, thus exposing anyone who upgraded solely for the security fix to additional instability caused by changes to other OS components.
I feel sorry for those server administrators who were unable to upgrade to 10.2.8 because it means the server is still vulnerable to the ssh security hole."
Yeah, that's the problem with software that you can get the actual code for. You have to rely on your computer distributor to keep it updated. Oh wait... If it is that important to the survival of your lab, go get the source and compile it. I bet if you look hard enough, there will undoubtedly be someone who has already compiled it and can give you the binary without actually compiling it yourself. If you are in charge of the entire lab, I'd sure hope you'd know at least enough about how the computers you run work to get some code to compile. Now quit your bitching.
I'd have to disagree. My ex-girlfriend was having problems with her dell, and the first support rep we talked to, unable to diagnose the problem with his unplug the computer, plug it back in and try again solution recommended that she "take a shotgun, aim it at the monitor, and fire." Despite the fact that the monitor was still working perfectly. Unlike the computer. After telling them repeatedly that I thought it was a bad power supply, they decided that it was probably the motherboard. Nope. Then they sent a new processor. Nope. Finally, I got them to send a new power supply, as I had originally asked them for. BINGO! It was a bad power supply capacitor.
Yeah, Dell has great support.
Hmmm good point. I think they will effectively be killing two birds with one stone here. They get to point out to the court the illegal KaZaa clones out there AND may perhaps get the RIAA feces-throwing chimp of their backs. Not a bad move on their part, IMHO.
What country are you in and what OS are you running? I ripped Hail to the Theif to MP3 on my G4 without problem, and I was able to make a direct CD copy using Easy CD Creator on my girlfriend's WinXP Gateway laptop.
A request to make something open source on slashdot? This cannot be! I think partly with MS's smear campaigns of yesteryear, the governement (AKA microsoft east) would never do that. But i've been wrong before.
I don't just sit on my ass and watch TV, I do actually enjoy the outdoors (can I say that on here???). I base my observation not on just the people who are ON the channel, but all the little pre-teen christina aguilera girls and the "i wanna be a rap star athough i'm only 13 years old" boys. Give me some credit here. There is a decided lack of originality in our youth these days, and that is what I am referring to.
Um, you seen MTV lately? I'm really starting to think that the youth of america DO NOT have minds of their own, they just inherit personalities from TV. Do I think that the game makers should be sued? Nope, if anything the family of the deceased should be suing the parents of the brainless kids for what is an obvious case of lack of parenting. I kinda think this murder was a cry for help so absent mommy and daddy would be forced to spend some time with them.
So how does whitehouse.com get away with it? (i'm not going to make the name a link, I do not want to link to pr0n on /.).
Consider yourself lucky. Last week I installed the lastest IE patch for my win XP machine, and it completely broke my IIS development environment set up on my work machine. The only way I could get it to work again was by uninstalling the patch. If the patch had been applied without my knowing, I never would have been able to track it down and fix without hours and hours of research. THAT is why I don't trust MS to do anything to my computer without me knowing about it.