Note that this user has only posted one message, and has no information linking them to the actual author of the article. The legitimacy of the message should be IN QUESTION.
(Off topic: How did this posting get +1 without any other comments to get karma from?)
And this *should* already be illegal, as I have to pay for received SMS messages.
Yes, it is possible to block addresses from sending SMS. But one at a time. With forged headers, this is absolutely useless. And yes, it is SMS spam. Think normal e-mail spam, but a lot shorter.
As a matter of fact, iTunes and SoundJam use the same code base. iTunes is just a specialized version of SJ with a nifty skin, iPod support, and some G4 optimization. Do note, however, that the encoder has not been improved since the early days of SoundJam -- it you want higher quality, try using lame.
Still, using a MD5 sum is no more secure than using the word you took the sum of. If someone can guess the word, then they know your password just as well as if it were cleartext.
This is entirely insecure. Now everybody knows the that your password is "d41d8cd98f00b204e980998ecf8427e". Using md5sum on an empty file will ALWAYS give this result.
Eeee... youch! I have just confirmed this: typing in the command "nidump passwd." will give a passwd-like database, for ANY USER. This is a serious problem!
I know that the price isn't quite right now that the original iMacs are being phased out, and that PC users COULD try using some Windoze program to store their music on their 'pod, and...
Speed is not at all an issue here, as iTunes can encode (at most any bit rate) near the speed of my CD drive. My issue is quality. From several relatively-well controlled listening tests which I have performed, iTunes (using VBR settings on medium-high quality) produces larger yet worse-sounding MP3 files than lame does. According to one of the developers, the encoder for iTunes has not been updated since the days of SoundJam[1] other than AltiVec improvements. THE ENGINE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE. Thus, the relative quality -- especially for VBR, which was never a forte of SoundJam -- has degraded relative to other encoders. Now, compared to lame, iTunes/SoundJam-encoded MP3s sound rather bad to my somewhat untrained ears.
[1]: Yes, iTunes and SoundJam are the same thing. Same code, same developers, same engine.
As a matter of fact, iTunes has one of the worse encoders still around. I'd have to suggest using the LAME encoder -- a native OS X version is available somewhere. It's called "lamer".
This resistance-path method will only find the shortest path from one point to another -- a task for which there already exist solutions which can complete in polynomial time. A *full* path (which is required as a solution to the Travelling Salesman problem) is not directly solved by this method.
I had been considering joining up with the project - admittedly, I'm no programmer genius, but perhaps I could have helped.
Now that I've heard about this, they just lost themselves another possible developer. (I'm still in high school.) Sorry, Apple: if you're going to be this pigheaded about it, you'll have to find programmers elsewhere.
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Note that this user has only posted one message, and has no information linking them to the actual author of the article. The legitimacy of the message should be IN QUESTION.
(Off topic: How did this posting get +1 without any other comments to get karma from?)
Quick! Call the police!
;-)
This man is breaking the laws of relativity! Have him arrested immediately!
Agreed. If anything, more mention of the financial/managerial issues than the engineering ones.
See http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ff600/fv00529.htm. ..
An extremely similar question was recently asked (or attempted to be asked) on kuro5hin.org, and voted out of existence.
I can only wonder how this one made its way here, and what hopes its author has of getting an intelligent reponse.
For the record, it was generally decided that the distribution of 'clothing' meshes would be allowed if:
1. The author of the original meshes did not provide any similar accessories.
2. The original meshes were not distributed in any form with the accessories.
3. The author does not expressly prohibit the distribution of such meshes.
And this *should* already be illegal, as I have to pay for received SMS messages.
Yes, it is possible to block addresses from sending SMS. But one at a time. With forged headers, this is absolutely useless. And yes, it is SMS spam. Think normal e-mail spam, but a lot shorter.
Can you give a citation for this foot powder case (preferably on the web)?
As a matter of fact, iTunes and SoundJam use the same code base. iTunes is just a specialized version of SJ with a nifty skin, iPod support, and some G4 optimization. Do note, however, that the encoder has not been improved since the early days of SoundJam -- it you want higher quality, try using lame.
Still, using a MD5 sum is no more secure than using the word you took the sum of. If someone can guess the word, then they know your password just as well as if it were cleartext.
This is entirely insecure. Now everybody knows the that your password is "d41d8cd98f00b204e980998ecf8427e". Using md5sum on an empty file will ALWAYS give this result.
Eeee... youch! I have just confirmed this: typing in the command "nidump passwd ." will give a passwd-like database, for ANY USER. This is a serious problem!
It's a joke. Laugh.
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I know that the price isn't quite right now that the original iMacs are being phased out, and that PC users COULD try using some Windoze program to store their music on their 'pod, and
Well, you get the idea. I hope.
Speed is not at all an issue here, as iTunes can encode (at most any bit rate) near the speed of my CD drive. My issue is quality. From several relatively-well controlled listening tests which I have performed, iTunes (using VBR settings on medium-high quality) produces larger yet worse-sounding MP3 files than lame does. According to one of the developers, the encoder for iTunes has not been updated since the days of SoundJam[1] other than AltiVec improvements. THE ENGINE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE. Thus, the relative quality -- especially for VBR, which was never a forte of SoundJam -- has degraded relative to other encoders. Now, compared to lame, iTunes/SoundJam-encoded MP3s sound rather bad to my somewhat untrained ears.
[1]: Yes, iTunes and SoundJam are the same thing. Same code, same developers, same engine.
As a matter of fact, iTunes has one of the worse encoders still around. I'd have to suggest using the LAME encoder -- a native OS X version is available somewhere. It's called "lamer".
As some have said, an iPod costs $1200 (or $1300 for the 10GB version)...
$400-$500 for the iPod and $800 for the iMac to go with it.
No.
This resistance-path method will only find the shortest path from one point to another -- a task for which there already exist solutions which can complete in polynomial time. A *full* path (which is required as a solution to the Travelling Salesman problem) is not directly solved by this method.
He claims that his electric violin will "put soul back into MIDI music".
Soul? MIDI? Have we ever heard these two word togethe before?
me: Can you add one and one and get two?
smarterchild: You may only add five stocks to your portfolio at a time.
Yeah -- it's called recursive marketing. Technically, it isn't illegal, as you are selling something.
Well, I can't recall any based on Amber. However, there *was* one loosely based on the Cthulhu mythos - _The_Lurking_Horror_. Very loosely, though.
Now that I've heard about this, they just lost themselves another possible developer. (I'm still in high school.) Sorry, Apple: if you're going to be this pigheaded about it, you'll have to find programmers elsewhere.
Again, I am proved right. Where can I get my copy of Finux?
Or demanding all your personal recipes which you had given to your friends.
Is it just me, or can almost any post on ./ be linked eventually to _Cryptonomicon_? Anything, for that matter?
Or is it just that I'm studying World War II?
How does it tell different end uses of radioactive material apart? Uranium is uranium, no matter whether it's for medical or terroristic (?) uses.