The issue you're having is DRM induced - the phone needs to be reauthorized to run the software installed. Install a new app from the app store (anything, even a free app) and you should be good to go.
Yeah, considering there's no Apple authorized way to redistribute it, now that it's been booted from the app store...
There - fixed that for you...the application itself still lives as a file on both the phone and the computer it's synced with. You can certainly crack/redistribute it. Whether or not one of the 8 people who was stupid enough to purchase said app has the wherewithal to do that remains to be seen.
Football implemented letting q-backs throw the ball into the stands. Baseball juiced up the players themselves, but thankfully drew the line on allowing metal bats.
How, exactly, is removing the catalytic converter (which acts on the engine's exhaust just before it is expelled to the atmosphere) supposed to help improve engine efficiency?
The same way removing your muffler does - both the muffler and the catalytic converter restrict the flow of exhaust in the car (thereby restricting the intake, and subsequently reducing the amount of power the car can generate). NASCAR teams remove the mufflers and catalytic converters from cars - adding about 50HP to the car in the process.
Plus, too many intelligent people think that they're right and everyone else is an idiot, which makes conversing with them slightly less enjoyable than talking to a wall. (You can at least pound the wall for not being responsive.) I like talking to people who listen, don't really care about how intelligent they are.
That's quite true - there are a lot of smart people who think far too highly of themselves. I suppose I should have added that "open-minded" is also a quality I find necessary - as I find close-minded, intelligent people are barely distinguishable from stupid people.
there's value in learning to interact with people who aren't exactly like you are
Absolutely - but intelligence does not define who one is. My tendency to select friends who are smart does not inform the type of person I tend to choose as friends. Smart people run the gamut of interests and personality types - I don't have *any* friends who I would say are "exactly like me."
I beg to differ. Most "normal" people (say, average intelligence) have little to no interest in examining/understanding the world, and as a result, aren't terribly interesting to speak with, as they bring no interesting (read: different from mine) viewpoints or insight to a discussion. That's why, I, personally, prefer the company of smart people.
I disagree with this too - intellect nullification doesn't happen until drink #5+ and if there's anything I learned in college, it's that high level intellectual conversations are readily fueled by alcohol (up to a point).
You are, of course, quite right - it uses the -threads flag in ffmpeg. The details may be wrong - but the original point still stands - ffmpeg does a great job with multiple cores.
When the iPod syncs media - the files themselves aren't the only data being written to the device. iTunes also updates a database that contains the ID3 information for all the tracks, and, in the case of newer ipods, album art. If the iPod simply synced like a mass storage device, it would have to use it's own resources (e.g. battery, processor) to do exactly the same indexing, which would mean more disk reads, and more RAM usage (and subsequently a shorter battery life). With iTunes doing the syncing, all of that work is offloaded to the computer, and the iPod has to do *none* of this work - which yields better battery life, a more responsive interface for browsing, and shorter loading times for music files. While many of these issues are mitigated by the faster processors and flash memory in newer iPods, the whole iPod/iTunes ecosystem started when iPods (and pretty much every other PMP on the market) were slow, low on RAM and contained HDDs only.
Sure, this also gives apple some lock-in, but given the many other syncing options out there (at least for media files on the ipod) for all the major operating systems, it's obviously not that bad.
...makes excellent use of multiple cores. It is however Mac-only. Interestingly, what it does is split a file into chunks and spawns multiple ffmpeg processes to do the conversion. Which is to say, perhaps you can do some (relatively simple) scripting with ffmpeg that will do the job.
From a completely anecdotal and non-scientific standpoint - the authorized apple reseller branch of the company I work for has been selling a bunch of Macs to ex-windows users. They frequently ask about running windows on their new machines, but generally decline to have it installed because of the added expense; deciding rather to have it done later, if they need it. Very few (<10%) come back for the windows install.
Doesn't mean they don't get little Johnny Neighbor to install a pirated version later, but hey - it's an anecdote.
My understanding is that the premise of Intelligent Design is that evolution is not caused by random events, but by the will of God.
Not quite true. The basic premise of intelligent design is primarily a negative one - that evolution *cannot* produce the speciation and diversity that we see today. Most IDers do believe that evolution is responsible for gradual changes (i.e. the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria) - but cannot create things that are "irreducibly complex" such as the human eye, or a bacterial flagellum.
And while I'm on the subject - let's be clear that evolution is most certainly *not* caused by random events - the primary mechanism of evolution is selection, which is a distinctly non-random process; random mutations simply make the process of selection productive.
Forgive me if I'm not impressed. How does that little snippet make it any better? Just because immunity will be granted iff they can prove the government instructed them to *knowingly* break the law does not absolve the telecoms of any wrongdoing. Each and every one of the companies in question has a massive, highly paid and very talented legal team. They had all the tools they needed to determine whether or not it was legal for them to accede to the government's demands. If the wiretaps in question were for the executives of said telecoms, you can be damn sure they would have fought it in court every step of the way. Is it not more than reasonable to expect a company with whom we entrust a great deal of personal information and access to follow the law? Ignorance is no excuse; and neither is "the government made us do it". The government can't compel a company to do anything without a court order (and you can be damn sure their legal teams know this). Since there were no court orders in this ridiculous mess - there's no excuse, and certainly no grounds for granting them immunity.
It might - we'll have to wait until we can replicate a "new" Stradivarius and compare it to the old ones (of which there are still quite a few kicking around). However, as a string player I can tell you that generally, as an instrument ages (and if it is well taken care of), its sound improves. Seeing as every single (acoustic) violin out there is modeled after the Stradivarius - I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that the same would be true for the genuine article.
Indeed - and like a great wine, a great violin improves with age. As closely as we might be able to mimic the construction of a Strad as it was 300 years ago, that 300 years is hard to fake.
No argument there. I certainly expect my doctor to have medical training, my lawyer to have law training - but do I expect my local PC tech guy to have investigative training? Do you really want to hand your computer to someone who is trained at gleaning information? When I fix a computer - I make a studious effort to ignore the personal contents of a machine...this is just ridiculous.
Oh yes - it's much better now - both the ram and the hard disk are easily accessible from underneath the battery. As amusing as it was to take and ibook all the way down to its component parts to replace the HDD, the process is much improved (and non-warranty-voiding, to boot).
Okay, so the upshot is, when you *don't actually have to use the hyper-awesome software bundled with OSX*, then gasp, you don't see all the interface problems with the hyper-awesome software! I use iTunes and Safari (I prefer it to firefox, it's much faster) quite frequently, as well as Pages, Keynote and Numbers for business-y stuff (makes things pretty with minimal effort). I also use a great deal of the hyper-awesome software that's bundled "under-the-hood" and available only from the command line.
No, you're still thinking of a different problem. These are not regular windows; they do not respond to cmd+w in any version. No, I'm not. You're talking about the lesser windows that are invisible when the application doesn't have focus - they also have only one button on the top bar (close); you can, in fact, close them with cmd+w in Leopard. I agree that this fix is late to the game.
How is it disingenuous to want to do *anything* instead of... 90% of anything What was disingenuous was your claim that the keyboard shortcuts only gave one access to 6 features, when the number is, of course, much higher. As to 100% access to the menu options - I personally think that using arrow keys to navigate the menus is awkward - but it's possible in OS X - all you need to do is enable full keyboard access (Ctrl-F1) - then Ctrl-F2 gets you to the menu bar in any app - those keystrokes, along with many, many others (even Application specific ones) can be assigned/changed from the Keyboard Shortcuts pref pane. Being a fan of emacs key-bindings myself (they're available in any Cocoa App, and configurable too, but the process is a little arcane) - I also like to map caps-lock to control (available from the Keyboard Preference pane under "Modifier Keys", you can also switch around option, command and control).
Btw, how do you browse without ever touching the mouse? I don't, typically - I will keep an api doc window open if I'm going mouseless, in which case all I need is Cmd-F. I personally don't like the browser paradigm of being able to tab to every link on the page - I much prefer to tab between control elements only, and use the mouse for navigation.
As to your comments about the built-in help feature, you're probably quite right - I haven't used built-in documentation for OS X ever, I don't think, but then I've been using it since the public beta. I personally have always found google to be more useful than any built-in docs for anything, anyway.
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The issue you're having is DRM induced - the phone needs to be reauthorized to run the software installed. Install a new app from the app store (anything, even a free app) and you should be good to go.
No it isn't. JSON uses the javascript hash notation - keys and values are separated by ':'s, not '='s
Yeah, considering there's no Apple authorized way to redistribute it, now that it's been booted from the app store...
There - fixed that for you...the application itself still lives as a file on both the phone and the computer it's synced with. You can certainly crack/redistribute it. Whether or not one of the 8 people who was stupid enough to purchase said app has the wherewithal to do that remains to be seen.
Football implemented letting q-backs throw the ball into the stands. Baseball juiced up the players themselves, but thankfully drew the line on allowing metal bats.
There. Fixed that for you.
How, exactly, is removing the catalytic converter (which acts on the engine's exhaust just before it is expelled to the atmosphere) supposed to help improve engine efficiency?
The same way removing your muffler does - both the muffler and the catalytic converter restrict the flow of exhaust in the car (thereby restricting the intake, and subsequently reducing the amount of power the car can generate). NASCAR teams remove the mufflers and catalytic converters from cars - adding about 50HP to the car in the process.
As an example of someone who is intelligent, but close-minded to the point of appearing like a complete idiot - I give you....Rush Limbaugh.
Plus, too many intelligent people think that they're right and everyone else is an idiot, which makes conversing with them slightly less enjoyable than talking to a wall. (You can at least pound the wall for not being responsive.) I like talking to people who listen, don't really care about how intelligent they are.
That's quite true - there are a lot of smart people who think far too highly of themselves. I suppose I should have added that "open-minded" is also a quality I find necessary - as I find close-minded, intelligent people are barely distinguishable from stupid people.
there's value in learning to interact with people who aren't exactly like you are
Absolutely - but intelligence does not define who one is. My tendency to select friends who are smart does not inform the type of person I tend to choose as friends. Smart people run the gamut of interests and personality types - I don't have *any* friends who I would say are "exactly like me."
Most normal people aren't dull
I beg to differ. Most "normal" people (say, average intelligence) have little to no interest in examining/understanding the world, and as a result, aren't terribly interesting to speak with, as they bring no interesting (read: different from mine) viewpoints or insight to a discussion. That's why, I, personally, prefer the company of smart people.
Alcohol consumption immediately nullifies intellect
I disagree with this too - intellect nullification doesn't happen until drink #5+ and if there's anything I learned in college, it's that high level intellectual conversations are readily fueled by alcohol (up to a point).
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Admittedly - it is a problem, but it certainly has a workaround.
You are, of course, quite right - it uses the -threads flag in ffmpeg. The details may be wrong - but the original point still stands - ffmpeg does a great job with multiple cores.
When the iPod syncs media - the files themselves aren't the only data being written to the device. iTunes also updates a database that contains the ID3 information for all the tracks, and, in the case of newer ipods, album art. If the iPod simply synced like a mass storage device, it would have to use it's own resources (e.g. battery, processor) to do exactly the same indexing, which would mean more disk reads, and more RAM usage (and subsequently a shorter battery life). With iTunes doing the syncing, all of that work is offloaded to the computer, and the iPod has to do *none* of this work - which yields better battery life, a more responsive interface for browsing, and shorter loading times for music files. While many of these issues are mitigated by the faster processors and flash memory in newer iPods, the whole iPod/iTunes ecosystem started when iPods (and pretty much every other PMP on the market) were slow, low on RAM and contained HDDs only.
Sure, this also gives apple some lock-in, but given the many other syncing options out there (at least for media files on the ipod) for all the major operating systems, it's obviously not that bad.
...makes excellent use of multiple cores. It is however Mac-only. Interestingly, what it does is split a file into chunks and spawns multiple ffmpeg processes to do the conversion. Which is to say, perhaps you can do some (relatively simple) scripting with ffmpeg that will do the job.
A video game can't kill you if it contains something you're allergic to.
From a completely anecdotal and non-scientific standpoint - the authorized apple reseller branch of the company I work for has been selling a bunch of Macs to ex-windows users. They frequently ask about running windows on their new machines, but generally decline to have it installed because of the added expense; deciding rather to have it done later, if they need it. Very few (<10%) come back for the windows install.
Doesn't mean they don't get little Johnny Neighbor to install a pirated version later, but hey - it's an anecdote.
You are - subtract the price difference between the new and old iPhone ($200) and voila you get $160.
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My understanding is that the premise of Intelligent Design is that evolution is not caused by random events, but by the will of God.
Not quite true. The basic premise of intelligent design is primarily a negative one - that evolution *cannot* produce the speciation and diversity that we see today. Most IDers do believe that evolution is responsible for gradual changes (i.e. the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria) - but cannot create things that are "irreducibly complex" such as the human eye, or a bacterial flagellum.
And while I'm on the subject - let's be clear that evolution is most certainly *not* caused by random events - the primary mechanism of evolution is selection, which is a distinctly non-random process; random mutations simply make the process of selection productive.
Forgive me if I'm not impressed. How does that little snippet make it any better? Just because immunity will be granted iff they can prove the government instructed them to *knowingly* break the law does not absolve the telecoms of any wrongdoing. Each and every one of the companies in question has a massive, highly paid and very talented legal team. They had all the tools they needed to determine whether or not it was legal for them to accede to the government's demands. If the wiretaps in question were for the executives of said telecoms, you can be damn sure they would have fought it in court every step of the way. Is it not more than reasonable to expect a company with whom we entrust a great deal of personal information and access to follow the law? Ignorance is no excuse; and neither is "the government made us do it". The government can't compel a company to do anything without a court order (and you can be damn sure their legal teams know this). Since there were no court orders in this ridiculous mess - there's no excuse, and certainly no grounds for granting them immunity.
It might - we'll have to wait until we can replicate a "new" Stradivarius and compare it to the old ones (of which there are still quite a few kicking around). However, as a string player I can tell you that generally, as an instrument ages (and if it is well taken care of), its sound improves. Seeing as every single (acoustic) violin out there is modeled after the Stradivarius - I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that the same would be true for the genuine article.
Indeed - and like a great wine, a great violin improves with age. As closely as we might be able to mimic the construction of a Strad as it was 300 years ago, that 300 years is hard to fake.
No argument there. I certainly expect my doctor to have medical training, my lawyer to have law training - but do I expect my local PC tech guy to have investigative training? Do you really want to hand your computer to someone who is trained at gleaning information? When I fix a computer - I make a studious effort to ignore the personal contents of a machine...this is just ridiculous.
Oh yes - it's much better now - both the ram and the hard disk are easily accessible from underneath the battery. As amusing as it was to take and ibook all the way down to its component parts to replace the HDD, the process is much improved (and non-warranty-voiding, to boot).
You gave your wife sudo privileges on your linux box!?
You're a braver man than I...
As to your comments about the built-in help feature, you're probably quite right - I haven't used built-in documentation for OS X ever, I don't think, but then I've been using it since the public beta. I personally have always found google to be more useful than any built-in docs for anything, anyway.