You are totally correct. Downloading an mp3 is not technically considered stealing, it is actually violating the copyright. I was using the word "stealing" simply because that is a common expression for the idea.
That being said, it still doesn't make it any more legal to violate the copyright than it does to "steal" the music.
You can put the radio broadcast into any format you want, so long as it still is for your own personal use. If you subsequently put the mp3 on a P2P network, you could be then be guilty of copyright infringement.
The difference here is how the copyrighted materials are distributed. If you legally obtained copyrighted materials you may use them however you want, so long as it remains only for your own personal use. When you start selling, trading, broadcasting in a public forum, etc. that is when your use of the materials becomes illegal.
So, yes, the situation may appear to be the same whether you download an mp3 or make one from a radio broadcast. The fact is that it's the process that matters, not strictly the content. Copyrighted materials are illegal to copy, except when you are given the rights by the copyright holder or when those rights are inherent to the fair use of the materials.
Downloading an mp3 is stealing, if you never bought the music you don't have the right to copy it for any use. This is covered under the distribution clauses of copyright law.
Taping a song off the radio is not stealing. It is covered by fair use law and it is called "time shifting". Under the idea of time shifting, you can record a radio or tv program for later personal listening or viewing. The idea here is that the broadcast, which presumably was made legally, may have been performed at a time not convenient for you to enjoy. You therefore have the right to enjoy the broadcast by recording it and playing it back later. You still do not own the broadcast and you can't redistribute it or play it for a large audience. It is just for your own personal use. This is why PVR devices like Tivo are legal.
It may seem like downloading music is a "victimless" crime, but if everyone who wanted the song got it for free online then the song would never sell and the artist would not get paid. An artist that doesn't get paid for their work is not going to be an artist for long. Remember, you are "voting" for them to be kept by their label with every album you buy. If you like the music, buy it so that the record labels and the artists know what is good and what is not.
Heh, well it's quite easy really. I backed up the user accounts I had using the ditto command:
sudo ditto -rsrcFork/Users//Volumes/VOLUME_NAME
I then did a complete reinstall of the server. Yeah it was a bit of overkill but it totally cleared up all of my troubles. (I had a few other odd problems that were plaguing me.)
Since then I have been a bit smarter about how to run the server. I have been keeping the user accounts on a separate drive. That way I can mess with the server drive without having to worry about messing up the data. I was circumventing Apple's tools for the firewall because I had a much more involved rule set that I wanted. Now what I am doing is using Apple's GUI to start the firewall and then adding in ipfw rules around the ones the server software creates.
If you are having problems with logging in it may be one of several problems. First of all, you may have messed around with Netinfo's domains. If you bork Netinfo then you lose many of the authentication services. You may also have created firewall rules which mess around with your loopback. If your server can't use its loopback properly, then it may not be able to do authentication lookups. Lastly, you may have accidently messed up one of the configuration files that controls your authentication services.
I'm not that well-versed in running a MacOS X Server machine, but these seem like the main issues. Since I did a re-install of the server and I was a bit more careful about messing around with things, I have had very few problems. My main one now is the fact that I am having trouble setting up IMAP accounts. It may be due to the fact that I'm running NAT, but I'm not sure yet.
I have been looking through the admin guide and I realized one big thing: dead tree docs are so much better than electronic docs! I am seriously thinking about printing the whole damn guide and binding it. The only thing holding me back is just what you said, the guide is way too general.
I want a very in-depth guide, or set of guides, similar to the old Inside Macintosh series, but for MacOS X Server admin. So what if it covers Unix topics, or GUI topics? Cover it all and break it down into modules that you can buy and read as you want. Have an intro book for general topics, have a book on mail, a book on web serving, a book on firewalls and NAT, etc. I'm sure Netinfo and LDAP will take a book just by themselves.
The point is that these introductory Mac books just don't cut it any more. They are all pretty much clones of each other and they tell you simple stuff like how to set up your web browser. That's great for the home user, but it does nothing for the professional system administrator looking to use Macs.
Let me start by saying that I think MacOS X Server is totally awesome. The GUI tools to administrate the server both locally and remotely are very well done and you have a lot of power.
That being said, the documentation is slim. I managed to totally bork my authentication services on my MacOS X Server box because I didn't totally understand LDAP and Netinfo. That was fun, couldn't login to the GUI or use the admin tools at all - it's a good thing I wasn't working on the main server and that I had lots of stuff backed up.
Right now I have everything working nicely, with the exception of not being able to serve out IMAP mail services. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, the documentation just doesn't explain enough for me to understand it fully.
I wanted to take one of the courses on MacOS X Server that Apple offers, but the course is $2,500. That might be par for the course, but I work for a non-profit and we can't afford to spend that much money on one training course. What we could do is to spend a few hundred on proper documentation and then teach ourselves.
This is a repost from the Apple article I submitted which was posted 3 hours earlier. See the last link in this story. It's cool that it has its own discussion, but you'd think that the original would at least reference the original discussion...
If you just copy the DVD by drag-and-drop, you'll probably have playback problems. (CSS and the disc name disagreeing?)
Not true. You can play DVD video from just about any media with the built-in DVD player in MacOS X. To see how take a look at this AppleCare Knowledge Base document, #42647. The important instructions are here:
To open your DVD movie:
1. Open DVD Player 3.1 (Requires Mac OS 10.1.3 or later)
2. Choose Open VIDEO_TS Folder from the File menu.
3. Locate and select the VIDEO_TS folder and click Choose.
4. To start playing the movie, click the Play button.
Actually, the confusion is a testament to the versatility of Linux. What other OS could be used so easily in both desktop and digital appliance environments as to make necessary the clarification?
I totally agree that Linux runs on a variety of hardware, but there is at least one operating system which probably runs on a greater variety than Linux. That operating system is NetBSD. The motto for NetBSD is "Of course it runs NetBSD." and if you look at the list of hardware which it runs on, you will see why. They have it running on just about every computing platform out there, and it will even run on stuff like the Sega Dreamcast and Sony Playstation.
I will admit that I am a long-time Mac user and am probably biased about their products. That being said, I have long looked at laptops as being generally not worth getting given the price/performance ratio compared to that of a desktop machine.
However, I was lucky enough to be able to borrow a Ti Powerbook from work for the past few weeks and I absolutely love the machine! The screen is large and beautiful, the machine is fast and responsive, the form factor is slim and easy to carry around. Everything is very well integrated, from the built-in Airport, to the slot-lading DVD player, to the plethora of ports in the back. It even plays 3D games decently, although I know there are plenty of desktop systems that can display 3D stuff better.
So now I'm looking at my desktop PowerMac G4 and I'm wishing that the machine was obsolete so that I could justify ditching it and getting a TiBook for myself. I definitely would recommend that people get the Ti PowerBook instead of a desktop machine if you don't need the expansion slots of a desktop box.
the government never informed the public that they were launching sizable masses of radioactive matter into space
I'd hardly call the amount of radioactive matter launched to be massive. A few ounces of radioactive material provides a considerable amount of power. Even if a rocket carrying one of these power supplies was to blow up in the worst possible place in our atmosphere, the amount of radiation which would rain down upon us is sure to be far less than the amount you'd get from standing in the summer sun for a few hours.
Generally, you are exposed to far more radiation from "natural" sources than you will ever receive from "man-made" sources. For example, if you were to sit on the fence of Three Mile Island from the minute of its accident for a period of one year you would have gotten less than a typical chest x-ray worth of radiation. However, if you live in a region where natural radon gas seeps into your house then you can get the same dose in a matter of a few weeks. Cinder blocks which make up your house are slightly radioactive, and coal-fired power plants produce many times the radiation per watt as that of a typical nuclear power plant. (Coal typically has a lot of radioactive elements bound up in it, which are released when it burns.)
In short, don't worry so much about radiation. It's a natural part of life, just use sunblock, seal your basement, and get the power companies to replace coal power plants with nuclear ones. The last item will also have the benefit of saving a ton in power costs.
The main problem is that this may not be as random as you may think. Many of these "random" fluctuations are actually fairly non-random, relating to electromagnetic fields around the circuit. So what may seem random one moment can become very non-random the next as the conditions around the circuit change.
That being said, these kind of circuits could possibly serve as seeds to a random number generator. However, I'm unsure if it would be better to have a regular, dependable seed device such as a clock, or to have a semi-random, unreliable device such as the circuit you have proposed.
MacOS has had context menus since MacOS 9 (or possibly MacOS 8
Actually, if I remember correctly, it was around the time of MacOS 7.5. Anyways, it's been a good long time.
Although MacOS may actually just support the right-click natively now - I don't know.
Yes, Apple natively supports two button mice with separate left and right click actions. A right click works the same as a control-click (it calls up a contextual menu if available, if not it acts like a left click), plus it still has the control-click. It also supports 3, 4, 5, and more button mice, but those buttons don't have any pre-defined operating system actions associated with them, they need to be defined by the current application or by third-party utilities.
Don't worry about it. The past tense of catch is caught. There are a lot of native English speakers who get stuck on that word. Some people just can't understand that this is the WORLD-wide web...
Step 4: Greetings citizen. Please place your tongue on the screen for clearance level verification.
Step 5: *ka-zap!* I'm sorry citizen, this information terminal is not for use by your security clearance level. You are in direct violation of standing order zz-alpha-z119, part 412qz. You are instructed to terminate yourself immediately. Have a nice day.
Time from problem discovery to problem resolution: 70 hours. Cost to me: $0.
I have found Apple's laptop support to be just amazing. My sister had a Powerbook 5300cs, well-known in Mac circles to be a laptop which was plagued with problems. She had a problem with it, so I contacted Apple. It turns out that even though it was way out of warranty, Apple had indefinitely extended the warranty for the 5300 and they sent me a mailer. The mailer came the next day, I sent it out immediately and the laptop was back in 2 days. They not only replaced the motherboard, they also fixed a bad screen hinge and some parts on the case which had gotten badly scratched. In other words, they returned the laptop in near-new condition for no cost and in 3 days from start to finish. Totally cool.
I've been hearing these kind of stories for years from other people who have had to contact Apple support. Sure they sometimes drop the ball, but it seems that it is rare that they do. Combine that with the fact that they are constantly on the cutting edge of technology in both software and hardware, it's not hard to see why they have such strong customer loyalty.
Get rid of patents on food. The companies deserve to be paid for advancing food technology and supply, but this isn't they way to go about.
So just how do these companies end up getting paid for their efforts. I mean, if a genetic research corporation can double the amount of corn per acre with no bad side effects, that's worth a considerable amount of compensation isn't it?
So, in order to pay for the cost of this research and, what the heck, even make a buck or two, what ways can this fictional company hope to receive compensation? They could lobby various governments to tax their citizens to pay for the research, they could attempt to sell the seeds at a higher cost than regular seeds, or they could patent the process and then sell licenses to produce the new grains.
The tax option is used, but it generally doesn't come anywhere close to paying for the research. Not only that but people are constantly complaining about taxes and these kinds of taxes are ripe for corruption and pork-barrel politics. Not exactly a great path to travel.
If you simply produce and sell the grains at a premium then it won't be long before your competition gets a stock of seeds and begins producing their own supplies to sell. The problem here is that the research company used a lot of money in developing the seeds, while the company that sat on its butt didn't spend dollar one. So the first company needs to recoup expenses and can't lower prices on the food, but the second company can sell them at normal prices without going broke. No company will do research under these conditions, so no research will get done and no improved grains will be made.
The last option is patenting. If you patent the genome which you created (remember, this now is not a grain found in nature - it is something INVENTED), you can then protect the patent and make sure that no one is undercutting you. You can then sell the seed at a higher cost, due to its higher production potential. You can't ask an arm and a leg for the grain, if you do so then the higher production will be offset by the cost of the seed.
Overall, I would say that it is just fine to patent a new grain that you have genetically engineered. I do think that these patents should be given short time limits, be strictly monitored, and that the requirements for granting be stringently reviewed. In other words, ideally these patents should be difficult to obtain and last just long enough for a company to make back its investment plus a bit more.
Don't have AirPort or Ethernet or a CD burner? I hear a lot of PCs, for reasons that are beyond me, still don't ship with any of those built in. Amazing! Well, in that case, you can buy or borrow an external FireWire hard drive to move your files over. Initialize it on the PC, copy your files to it, then just plug it right in to your Mac. Poof.
For the PowerMacs you can simply take an IDE hard drive out of the Windows computer, set it to slave, and install it onto the master HD in the Macintosh. This is easy to do since the PowerMac is so simple to work on and MacOS reads Fat32 drives without a hitch. You can then either copy over the new information to your master HD in the mac and re-format the Windows drive, or just leave the drive as it is. Either way the Mac doesn't care if the file system is Fat32, NTFS, HFS, HFS+, UFS...
Only one thing to keep in mind is that MacOS X can only boot off of a HFS, HFS+, or UFS drive, so keep the drive that came with the Mac as your boot drive. That's no biggie though.
Yeah, the French dressing does sound odd at first, but it tastes great in the salad. I haven't tried it with any other dressing because it's so close to perfection that I felt why mess with it more!:)
1 pound of ground beef 1 packet of taco seasoning 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 head of iceburg lettuce 2 ripe tomatoes 1 large onion 1 medium bottle of french dressing 1 medium bag of nacho chips (Doritos work great) 16 ounces of cheddar cheese, diced or shredded.
Brown and drain the ground beef. Add the taco seasoning and the garlic powder to the browned beef. Set aside and allow to cool.
Shread the lettuce. Dice the tomatoes and the onion and add to the lettuce.
Coarsely crush the nacho chips. Leave them in the bag until you are ready to serve the salad.
Just before serving, combine all of the ingredients in a large bowl and toss gently. Make sure to evenly distribute all ingredients.
The key is to do all the steps separately and then combine them just before you serve. This makes the salad still crunchy and that's when it tastes best
This recipe is very popular at lan parties and cookouts. It makes a large amount of taco salad, but it gets eaten quickly.
Also, they claim that the reason why Mac and PC players can't play together is due to "technical difficulties". Sounds like bullshit to me...
Yeah, I didn't know that they already had separate worlds. I just assumed that everyone would always be playing in the same world.
You are right, it is total bullshit. I mean, the programmers should know their own networking protocols and be able to use them in a new client. I guess it could be that they are too lazy and instead used DirectX or some proprietary protocol, but that is such a cop-out. You'd think that such a large corporation would have more control over their game than this.
It will no repeat will not connect to the PC version.
If that's true then I might just give it a try. I would hate to join an online rpg after people have been playing it for so long. This will give us a brand-new world to play in. Maybe after a year or two they can merge the worlds.
The keyboard is odd Pet peeve: Home, End, Page Up and Page Down don't do what you expect - they are nearly useless. Page Up and Page Down always move the scrollbar, not the cursor. And Home and End move to the beginning and end of the document, respectively. This is inexcusable in my opinion. Every time I hit end I lose my place!
As someone else has mentioned, in MacOS the home/end/page up/page down keys are for window-control only. They do not affect the cursor placement. This is by design. One thing that most ppl should know is that if you hit control-arrow key it will move you to the beginning and the end of a line, just like the home and end keys do on some other systems.
If you do happen to lose your place then the easiest way to find where the cursor is to simply hit an arrow key. When the cursor is moved with the arrow key the window will snap back to where the cursor is in order to show the movement.
The terminal window is broken so you'll want to find a new xterm right away - GLTerm is $10 shareware and seems to work pretty well
I'm not sure exactly what is broken with the terminal window, as it seems to work just fine to me. If you are having some sort of problem with it then another recommendation is to install OroborOSX, a X-window server and theme all packaged in one. It makes your xwindow applications running under it look and act almost exactly like MacOS X applications. Not only that but it comes with a version of xterm which seems to work perfectly.
The ports tree is missing! I never realized how convenient it was until it was gone.
A great utility which does a lot of what the ports tree does is Fink. Fink contains tons of useful programs such as GIMP, Gnome, kde, etc and it will grab and install either pre-compiled binaries or you can have it compile from source.
Mac OS 9's input support doesn't compare to this tiny bar that sits at the corner of your screen and lets you flip back and forth between English and several other character sets
I'm fairly certain this type of feature is in MacOS 9, and I know it is in MacOS X. In MacOS X you enable it by going to System Preferences->International and click on the Keyboard Menu tab. Once you are there you can click on any number of input methods, character sets, and keyboard layouts and a menu will appear at the top of the screen which will allow you to switch input methods as often and easily as needed.
You only need to set this once, since the preferences are persistent. If you want to remove the menu, just de-select all of the input methods except for one.
The Japanese (Kanji?) input method opened up a second application as a helper, I'm not sure what it did since I don't read Japanese.
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You are totally correct. Downloading an mp3 is not technically considered stealing, it is actually violating the copyright. I was using the word "stealing" simply because that is a common expression for the idea.
That being said, it still doesn't make it any more legal to violate the copyright than it does to "steal" the music.
You can put the radio broadcast into any format you want, so long as it still is for your own personal use. If you subsequently put the mp3 on a P2P network, you could be then be guilty of copyright infringement.
The difference here is how the copyrighted materials are distributed. If you legally obtained copyrighted materials you may use them however you want, so long as it remains only for your own personal use. When you start selling, trading, broadcasting in a public forum, etc. that is when your use of the materials becomes illegal.
So, yes, the situation may appear to be the same whether you download an mp3 or make one from a radio broadcast. The fact is that it's the process that matters, not strictly the content. Copyrighted materials are illegal to copy, except when you are given the rights by the copyright holder or when those rights are inherent to the fair use of the materials.
To clarify something:
Downloading an mp3 is stealing, if you never bought the music you don't have the right to copy it for any use. This is covered under the distribution clauses of copyright law.
Taping a song off the radio is not stealing. It is covered by fair use law and it is called "time shifting". Under the idea of time shifting, you can record a radio or tv program for later personal listening or viewing. The idea here is that the broadcast, which presumably was made legally, may have been performed at a time not convenient for you to enjoy. You therefore have the right to enjoy the broadcast by recording it and playing it back later. You still do not own the broadcast and you can't redistribute it or play it for a large audience. It is just for your own personal use. This is why PVR devices like Tivo are legal.
It may seem like downloading music is a "victimless" crime, but if everyone who wanted the song got it for free online then the song would never sell and the artist would not get paid. An artist that doesn't get paid for their work is not going to be an artist for long. Remember, you are "voting" for them to be kept by their label with every album you buy. If you like the music, buy it so that the record labels and the artists know what is good and what is not.
Heh, well it's quite easy really. I backed up the user accounts I had using the ditto command :
/Users/ /Volumes/VOLUME_NAME
sudo ditto -rsrcFork
I then did a complete reinstall of the server. Yeah it was a bit of overkill but it totally cleared up all of my troubles. (I had a few other odd problems that were plaguing me.)
Since then I have been a bit smarter about how to run the server. I have been keeping the user accounts on a separate drive. That way I can mess with the server drive without having to worry about messing up the data. I was circumventing Apple's tools for the firewall because I had a much more involved rule set that I wanted. Now what I am doing is using Apple's GUI to start the firewall and then adding in ipfw rules around the ones the server software creates.
If you are having problems with logging in it may be one of several problems. First of all, you may have messed around with Netinfo's domains. If you bork Netinfo then you lose many of the authentication services. You may also have created firewall rules which mess around with your loopback. If your server can't use its loopback properly, then it may not be able to do authentication lookups. Lastly, you may have accidently messed up one of the configuration files that controls your authentication services.
I'm not that well-versed in running a MacOS X Server machine, but these seem like the main issues. Since I did a re-install of the server and I was a bit more careful about messing around with things, I have had very few problems. My main one now is the fact that I am having trouble setting up IMAP accounts. It may be due to the fact that I'm running NAT, but I'm not sure yet.
Good luck with it!
I have been looking through the admin guide and I realized one big thing: dead tree docs are so much better than electronic docs! I am seriously thinking about printing the whole damn guide and binding it. The only thing holding me back is just what you said, the guide is way too general.
I want a very in-depth guide, or set of guides, similar to the old Inside Macintosh series, but for MacOS X Server admin. So what if it covers Unix topics, or GUI topics? Cover it all and break it down into modules that you can buy and read as you want. Have an intro book for general topics, have a book on mail, a book on web serving, a book on firewalls and NAT, etc. I'm sure Netinfo and LDAP will take a book just by themselves.
The point is that these introductory Mac books just don't cut it any more. They are all pretty much clones of each other and they tell you simple stuff like how to set up your web browser. That's great for the home user, but it does nothing for the professional system administrator looking to use Macs.
Let me start by saying that I think MacOS X Server is totally awesome. The GUI tools to administrate the server both locally and remotely are very well done and you have a lot of power.
That being said, the documentation is slim. I managed to totally bork my authentication services on my MacOS X Server box because I didn't totally understand LDAP and Netinfo. That was fun, couldn't login to the GUI or use the admin tools at all - it's a good thing I wasn't working on the main server and that I had lots of stuff backed up.
Right now I have everything working nicely, with the exception of not being able to serve out IMAP mail services. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, the documentation just doesn't explain enough for me to understand it fully.
I wanted to take one of the courses on MacOS X Server that Apple offers, but the course is $2,500. That might be par for the course, but I work for a non-profit and we can't afford to spend that much money on one training course. What we could do is to spend a few hundred on proper documentation and then teach ourselves.
This is a repost from the Apple article I submitted which was posted 3 hours earlier. See the last link in this story. It's cool that it has its own discussion, but you'd think that the original would at least reference the original discussion...
I will admit that I am a long-time Mac user and am probably biased about their products. That being said, I have long looked at laptops as being generally not worth getting given the price/performance ratio compared to that of a desktop machine.
However, I was lucky enough to be able to borrow a Ti Powerbook from work for the past few weeks and I absolutely love the machine! The screen is large and beautiful, the machine is fast and responsive, the form factor is slim and easy to carry around. Everything is very well integrated, from the built-in Airport, to the slot-lading DVD player, to the plethora of ports in the back. It even plays 3D games decently, although I know there are plenty of desktop systems that can display 3D stuff better.
So now I'm looking at my desktop PowerMac G4 and I'm wishing that the machine was obsolete so that I could justify ditching it and getting a TiBook for myself. I definitely would recommend that people get the Ti PowerBook instead of a desktop machine if you don't need the expansion slots of a desktop box.
Generally, you are exposed to far more radiation from "natural" sources than you will ever receive from "man-made" sources. For example, if you were to sit on the fence of Three Mile Island from the minute of its accident for a period of one year you would have gotten less than a typical chest x-ray worth of radiation. However, if you live in a region where natural radon gas seeps into your house then you can get the same dose in a matter of a few weeks. Cinder blocks which make up your house are slightly radioactive, and coal-fired power plants produce many times the radiation per watt as that of a typical nuclear power plant. (Coal typically has a lot of radioactive elements bound up in it, which are released when it burns.)
In short, don't worry so much about radiation. It's a natural part of life, just use sunblock, seal your basement, and get the power companies to replace coal power plants with nuclear ones. The last item will also have the benefit of saving a ton in power costs.
The main problem is that this may not be as random as you may think. Many of these "random" fluctuations are actually fairly non-random, relating to electromagnetic fields around the circuit. So what may seem random one moment can become very non-random the next as the conditions around the circuit change. That being said, these kind of circuits could possibly serve as seeds to a random number generator. However, I'm unsure if it would be better to have a regular, dependable seed device such as a clock, or to have a semi-random, unreliable device such as the circuit you have proposed.
Yes, Apple natively supports two button mice with separate left and right click actions. A right click works the same as a control-click (it calls up a contextual menu if available, if not it acts like a left click), plus it still has the control-click. It also supports 3, 4, 5, and more button mice, but those buttons don't have any pre-defined operating system actions associated with them, they need to be defined by the current application or by third-party utilities.
Don't worry about it. The past tense of catch is caught. There are a lot of native English speakers who get stuck on that word. Some people just can't understand that this is the WORLD-wide web...
I've been hearing these kind of stories for years from other people who have had to contact Apple support. Sure they sometimes drop the ball, but it seems that it is rare that they do. Combine that with the fact that they are constantly on the cutting edge of technology in both software and hardware, it's not hard to see why they have such strong customer loyalty.
So, in order to pay for the cost of this research and, what the heck, even make a buck or two, what ways can this fictional company hope to receive compensation? They could lobby various governments to tax their citizens to pay for the research, they could attempt to sell the seeds at a higher cost than regular seeds, or they could patent the process and then sell licenses to produce the new grains.
The tax option is used, but it generally doesn't come anywhere close to paying for the research. Not only that but people are constantly complaining about taxes and these kinds of taxes are ripe for corruption and pork-barrel politics. Not exactly a great path to travel.
If you simply produce and sell the grains at a premium then it won't be long before your competition gets a stock of seeds and begins producing their own supplies to sell. The problem here is that the research company used a lot of money in developing the seeds, while the company that sat on its butt didn't spend dollar one. So the first company needs to recoup expenses and can't lower prices on the food, but the second company can sell them at normal prices without going broke. No company will do research under these conditions, so no research will get done and no improved grains will be made.
The last option is patenting. If you patent the genome which you created (remember, this now is not a grain found in nature - it is something INVENTED), you can then protect the patent and make sure that no one is undercutting you. You can then sell the seed at a higher cost, due to its higher production potential. You can't ask an arm and a leg for the grain, if you do so then the higher production will be offset by the cost of the seed.
Overall, I would say that it is just fine to patent a new grain that you have genetically engineered. I do think that these patents should be given short time limits, be strictly monitored, and that the requirements for granting be stringently reviewed. In other words, ideally these patents should be difficult to obtain and last just long enough for a company to make back its investment plus a bit more.
Only one thing to keep in mind is that MacOS X can only boot off of a HFS, HFS+, or UFS drive, so keep the drive that came with the Mac as your boot drive. That's no biggie though.
Yeah, the French dressing does sound odd at first, but it tastes great in the salad. I haven't tried it with any other dressing because it's so close to perfection that I felt why mess with it more! :)
1 pound of ground beef
1 packet of taco seasoning
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 head of iceburg lettuce
2 ripe tomatoes
1 large onion
1 medium bottle of french dressing
1 medium bag of nacho chips (Doritos work great)
16 ounces of cheddar cheese, diced or shredded.
Brown and drain the ground beef. Add the taco seasoning and the garlic powder to the browned beef. Set aside and allow to cool.
Shread the lettuce. Dice the tomatoes and the onion and add to the lettuce.
Coarsely crush the nacho chips. Leave them in the bag until you are ready to serve the salad.
Just before serving, combine all of the ingredients in a large bowl and toss gently. Make sure to evenly distribute all ingredients.
The key is to do all the steps separately and then combine them just before you serve. This makes the salad still crunchy and that's when it tastes best
This recipe is very popular at lan parties and cookouts. It makes a large amount of taco salad, but it gets eaten quickly.
You are right, it is total bullshit. I mean, the programmers should know their own networking protocols and be able to use them in a new client. I guess it could be that they are too lazy and instead used DirectX or some proprietary protocol, but that is such a cop-out. You'd think that such a large corporation would have more control over their game than this.
If you do happen to lose your place then the easiest way to find where the cursor is to simply hit an arrow key. When the cursor is moved with the arrow key the window will snap back to where the cursor is in order to show the movement.
I'm not sure exactly what is broken with the terminal window, as it seems to work just fine to me. If you are having some sort of problem with it then another recommendation is to install OroborOSX, a X-window server and theme all packaged in one. It makes your xwindow applications running under it look and act almost exactly like MacOS X applications. Not only that but it comes with a version of xterm which seems to work perfectly.
A great utility which does a lot of what the ports tree does is Fink. Fink contains tons of useful programs such as GIMP, Gnome, kde, etc and it will grab and install either pre-compiled binaries or you can have it compile from source.
You only need to set this once, since the preferences are persistent. If you want to remove the menu, just de-select all of the input methods except for one.
The Japanese (Kanji?) input method opened up a second application as a helper, I'm not sure what it did since I don't read Japanese.