Umm...anything (Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.). Have you had your head in the sand for the last year? The new apple laptops run the x86 chipset.
2 of these products are Core to the OS Well, not exactly. Since you didn't say which, I'm going to assume that you mean 2 of the following 3: Quicktime, Finder, and DiskManagement.framework. Quicktime is just an app with a set of codecs and some plugins (all removable). Finder is just an app, and while the method for doing so is not GUI accessible, you can in fact turn it off and use something else (i.e. the terminal, or PathFinder). DiskManagement.framework is just an API for easier/higher level access (higher than say mount or umount) to disk management functions like mounting/unmounting, and repairing permissions (where the MOAB bug lies), and frankly, repairing permissions on an OS X machine is simply an automated process for setting permissions on disk should they get out of whack (which pretty much only happens when you let the Quark 6.0 installer stomp all over your system, assigning permissions like a blind sysadmin with digital diarrhea (digital as in 5 digits to a hand)).
Now I'm not saying these aren't bad or problematic, just quibbling with your statement that these are Core to the OS.
Oh, and Apple users need not look smug... their Intel Macs already all come brain damaged from the factory with this hardware as standard. Thank you for pointing out that intel macs already come with TPM hardware, but you're glazing over it's purpose. Were it not for that little chip, people could walk into a store that sold only Dell and HP hardware and say, "I want to buy a Mac" and have someone say, "no problem" and *legally* install an off the shelf version of OS X on standard Dell hardware. This is, in fact, demonstrably dangerous to Apple's business model - OS X development and shrinkwrap software costs are heavily subsidized by profits made on *hardware* sales. If one could go anywhere and buy a "Mac", Apple would suffer substantially. There doesn't appear to be anything particularly devious about this, especially since the TPM is not even used for the DRM for purchased iTunes material. Might I also remind you that OS X (non-server) installation does not even require a serial number, let alone some WGA crap for software updates. So yeah, as long as those things remain true, I will sit here and look as smug as I like, thank you very much.
...EMI has announced they are discontinuing the release of new albums on standard Audio CDs and will now be selling Audio HD-DVDs complete with fingerprint scanners and GPS transmitters and facial recognition software. Any AHD-DVD found to be played by a user other than it's owner (or within hearing range of a non-owner) will self-destruct, and any AHD-DVD found outside it's allocated region will explode.
In other, other news, numerous airlines worldwide have banned the usage of all media disks during flight.
No, I think your's is working just fine...unfortunately many of the respondents purchased the clearance rack model, which apparently allows them to only understand fart jokes....
Not to sound too much like a mac fanboy, but Tiger does have the ability to encrypt memory pages that are paged to disk - I'd imagine it adds some overhead to the paging process, but nevertheless seems like a decent security feature, and one I'd not even considered the usefulness of until I read your post.
A drink is generally defined (if I remember correctly from my Drivers Ed) as 1.5-2 oz of 80 proof liquor (like scotch, rum, vodka, etc.), 4-6 oz of wine (40 proof), and 12-14 oz of beer (10-12 proof). Those measurements give you roughly the same alcohol content. As my driver's ed instructor said, a drink is a drink, it doesn't matter what it is.
I do believe you can do GPS syncing over bluetooth, IIRC there are a number of products out there that come with Palm software. As to pairing multiple devices simultaneously, I've honestly never tried - generally when I'm using the laptop, that's my mode of communication, and when I don't have my laptop I use my treo, and I've yet to find a bluetooth headset in my price range that I actually want. However, given Palm OS's less than great support for multitasking, it may not work flawlessly if it does at all.
Funny note about the DUN reactivation - apparently the way Verizon locked it out was by disabling the display of the DUN on/off toggle. Hilarious. So, reactivating it involves installing a Bluetooth.prc with that control enabled (see here for more details).
Did I mention I also got my phone to boot linux?:-P
This seems a little too cut and dry. Without the users, Google would have no customers - it seems to me that we are customers of Google by proxy. In other words, we pay the advertisers (with eyeball/click through time) and the advertisers pay Google (with money). Remove any link in that chain and it all falls to pieces; therefore I'd say that we are indeed (though indirectly) Google's customers, as it is in Google's best interest to keep both us and the advertisers happy.
Fortunately, if you get one of the palm os powered treos (whatever you're opinion is of the Palm OS), it's totally hackable, even on Verizon. I've enabled bluetooth DUN on mine (verizon "locks" you out of that), and naturally, since it's a pda, ringtones are a piece of cake. The only thing I've not yet managed to unlock is the Network settings, so no wifi module for me (yet). At any rate, my Treo 650 has allowed me to be the free-est (as in speech) with my phone of any of the 8 years of Verizon phones I've had.
Now if they'd only lower the bloody price on their unlimited data plan....
I disagree that is has anything to do with being first - more likely, after speeding to get to the front of the pack (assuming no radar detector) they realize that they're speeding all by their lonesome and as such are easy targets for traffic cops.
Perhaps when it acquired quotation marks? In the ever evolving english language, perhaps "forking" means "releasing plugins for a product" and forking means what it bloody well already does mean.
...some astronomers have expressed doubt that stars would be spinning fast enough at this stage in their lives.
Now, i'm not an astrophysicist, but it seems to me that if a star had any spin at all before collapsing into a black hole, that spin would be magnified quite substantially, to conserve angular momentum (y'know, like a figure skater, or you spinning on your office chair).
And that's the kind of sense of humor that keeps you at the bottom of the...er...friend matrix - but then, who needs a friend when you've got a vault full of good old Benny Franklin?
My problem with capital punishment is that it implies 100% faith in the system. For a government based on checks and balances (i.e. the lack of 100% faith in the system) this seems contradictory to me.
Do you really think societies money is better spent to keep such a person behind bars than to spend it in more productive ways?
It costs more to execute someone than to imprison them for life...just keep that in mind.
Rob, let me just say thanks to you for your work on FreePBX. I have a TrixBox installation that I manage for my (relatively small) office, and FreePBX makes that really quite simple, I now spend more time on the web interface than in the backend. So all that said, I hope this acquisition remains the "good thing" it seems to be at the moment. At any rate, I hope at the very least that you get your pinball machine:-P.
NPR doesn't tend to attack their interviewees - and as a result, they can interview people from anywhere on the spectrum, which they do, yielding a fair and remarkably well balanced coverage of the issues. Now, that doesn't mean they don't ask poignant and uncomfortable questions, which they do of both liberal and conservative interviewees. All of this also doesn't mean that NPR isn't leaning to the left, one can see (hear) that quite clearly in the issues that they tend to raise with their guests, and in general the issues that they cover on their news stories.
Admittedly - Microsoft's management structure is no ideal model, but MS's money (were that all they provided) would surely be wasted in the _extremely_ poorly managed public school systems. Public school systems do not necessarily need more money (though that is by no means a universal truth); they simply need to learn how to spend the money in ways that actually improves education.
Having developed student management software and attempted to sell it (responding to an RFP) to a very large North Eastern school district, losing the bid to a company who's software cost 4 to 5 times more per year (our price being on the order of $200k per year), only to have this school district come back to us after discovering that the software did not do what they want, whereas ours did (this being after they signed a 7 year contract), and they offered to buy our software (which, I might add, contains a proper superset of the features of the contract winning software). So, seeing a school district waste $5.6 million so easily, one can only imagine what they'd do with more (like, say, spend $63 million on a "school of the future").
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Umm...anything (Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.). Have you had your head in the sand for the last year? The new apple laptops run the x86 chipset.
Now I'm not saying these aren't bad or problematic, just quibbling with your statement that these are Core to the OS.
...EMI has announced they are discontinuing the release of new albums on standard Audio CDs and will now be selling Audio HD-DVDs complete with fingerprint scanners and GPS transmitters and facial recognition software. Any AHD-DVD found to be played by a user other than it's owner (or within hearing range of a non-owner) will self-destruct, and any AHD-DVD found outside it's allocated region will explode.
In other, other news, numerous airlines worldwide have banned the usage of all media disks during flight.
No, I think your's is working just fine...unfortunately many of the respondents purchased the clearance rack model, which apparently allows them to only understand fart jokes....
...is not a bloody security feature. This is why people who actually want to secure a wireless network use some combination of Radius and VPNs...
Not to sound too much like a mac fanboy, but Tiger does have the ability to encrypt memory pages that are paged to disk - I'd imagine it adds some overhead to the paging process, but nevertheless seems like a decent security feature, and one I'd not even considered the usefulness of until I read your post.
A drink is generally defined (if I remember correctly from my Drivers Ed) as 1.5-2 oz of 80 proof liquor (like scotch, rum, vodka, etc.), 4-6 oz of wine (40 proof), and 12-14 oz of beer (10-12 proof). Those measurements give you roughly the same alcohol content. As my driver's ed instructor said, a drink is a drink, it doesn't matter what it is.
And yes, calendar and contact sync (and just about any other kind of syncing) work like a charm via bluetooth.
I do believe you can do GPS syncing over bluetooth, IIRC there are a number of products out there that come with Palm software. As to pairing multiple devices simultaneously, I've honestly never tried - generally when I'm using the laptop, that's my mode of communication, and when I don't have my laptop I use my treo, and I've yet to find a bluetooth headset in my price range that I actually want. However, given Palm OS's less than great support for multitasking, it may not work flawlessly if it does at all.
:-P
Funny note about the DUN reactivation - apparently the way Verizon locked it out was by disabling the display of the DUN on/off toggle. Hilarious. So, reactivating it involves installing a Bluetooth.prc with that control enabled (see here for more details).
Did I mention I also got my phone to boot linux?
This seems a little too cut and dry. Without the users, Google would have no customers - it seems to me that we are customers of Google by proxy. In other words, we pay the advertisers (with eyeball/click through time) and the advertisers pay Google (with money). Remove any link in that chain and it all falls to pieces; therefore I'd say that we are indeed (though indirectly) Google's customers, as it is in Google's best interest to keep both us and the advertisers happy.
Fortunately, if you get one of the palm os powered treos (whatever you're opinion is of the Palm OS), it's totally hackable, even on Verizon. I've enabled bluetooth DUN on mine (verizon "locks" you out of that), and naturally, since it's a pda, ringtones are a piece of cake. The only thing I've not yet managed to unlock is the Network settings, so no wifi module for me (yet). At any rate, my Treo 650 has allowed me to be the free-est (as in speech) with my phone of any of the 8 years of Verizon phones I've had.
Now if they'd only lower the bloody price on their unlimited data plan....
Or even worse - to paraphrase any number of Fox pre-news blurbs:
Will the world end tomorrow? More at eleven...
I disagree that is has anything to do with being first - more likely, after speeding to get to the front of the pack (assuming no radar detector) they realize that they're speeding all by their lonesome and as such are easy targets for traffic cops.
Perhaps when it acquired quotation marks? In the ever evolving english language, perhaps "forking" means "releasing plugins for a product" and forking means what it bloody well already does mean.
*groans* the other guy who replied to my comment got the joke. I knew I should have added an emoticon for our more humor-deprived slashdot brethren.
First bugs, then viruses, then trojans, worms and other malware - now computers can get cancer!? What's next, liver disease?
...some astronomers have expressed doubt that stars would be spinning fast enough at this stage in their lives.
Now, i'm not an astrophysicist, but it seems to me that if a star had any spin at all before collapsing into a black hole, that spin would be magnified quite substantially, to conserve angular momentum (y'know, like a figure skater, or you spinning on your office chair).
In soviet Russia, April Fool's Day is in October.
And that's the kind of sense of humor that keeps you at the bottom of the...er...friend matrix - but then, who needs a friend when you've got a vault full of good old Benny Franklin?
My problem with capital punishment is that it implies 100% faith in the system. For a government based on checks and balances (i.e. the lack of 100% faith in the system) this seems contradictory to me.
Do you really think societies money is better spent to keep such a person behind bars than to spend it in more productive ways?
It costs more to execute someone than to imprison them for life...just keep that in mind.
Rob, let me just say thanks to you for your work on FreePBX. I have a TrixBox installation that I manage for my (relatively small) office, and FreePBX makes that really quite simple, I now spend more time on the web interface than in the backend. So all that said, I hope this acquisition remains the "good thing" it seems to be at the moment. At any rate, I hope at the very least that you get your pinball machine :-P.
NPR doesn't tend to attack their interviewees - and as a result, they can interview people from anywhere on the spectrum, which they do, yielding a fair and remarkably well balanced coverage of the issues. Now, that doesn't mean they don't ask poignant and uncomfortable questions, which they do of both liberal and conservative interviewees. All of this also doesn't mean that NPR isn't leaning to the left, one can see (hear) that quite clearly in the issues that they tend to raise with their guests, and in general the issues that they cover on their news stories.
Admittedly - Microsoft's management structure is no ideal model, but MS's money (were that all they provided) would surely be wasted in the _extremely_ poorly managed public school systems. Public school systems do not necessarily need more money (though that is by no means a universal truth); they simply need to learn how to spend the money in ways that actually improves education.
Having developed student management software and attempted to sell it (responding to an RFP) to a very large North Eastern school district, losing the bid to a company who's software cost 4 to 5 times more per year (our price being on the order of $200k per year), only to have this school district come back to us after discovering that the software did not do what they want, whereas ours did (this being after they signed a 7 year contract), and they offered to buy our software (which, I might add, contains a proper superset of the features of the contract winning software). So, seeing a school district waste $5.6 million so easily, one can only imagine what they'd do with more (like, say, spend $63 million on a "school of the future").