What doesn't make sense is that it's a tax on something which is illegal.
It's like the cd-r issue. Either the RIAA gets money from a tax on cd-r, or they get to enforce their copyright for damages in the court... but not both. Both these organisations are effectively double dipping. This shows how courts and governments can be manipulated given the right amount of money.
Why it's wrong is that users pay a fee for using their cd-rs for any legitimate content, and anyone that uses their computer is similarly paying a fee, for the possibility that they might do something illegal with their machine.
(The RIAA and similar organisations are too used to their lucrative contractual deals where they get alot of money for doing very little, such as 15% breakage fees still existing from vinyl days, when even then it was ridiculous for the artist to be paying for that.)
I'm surprised it's doesn't have a photo of a beautiful woman drinking coffee.
The author delicately neglects that the most common way people get spyware on their computer is not through downloading bonzi buddy from the website, but by visiting infected websites, which until recently used to be deliberately set up malicious sites. With recent bugs being exploited between IIS and IE, this is instead been legitimate websites such as a large trusted bank who happened to be running IIS and infected scores of it's users with the gift wrapped bug of the day.
Ironically the article is lack-lustre, because the information presented is in many parts entirely incorrect.(perhaps/. could assemble the most uninformed tech articles for the year?) This is probably because the author didn't bother revising specs on the discussed items since the first time they reviewed them.
In other news the article is quite blatant with it's recommendation guides, and considering that it's Dec 21, it's naive to suggest that this isn't product placement.
I think I'm speaking for several people when I say that we don't hold Reals tactics alongside the same as more useful reverse engineering projects, such as making office documents work more cleanly in openoffice.
This is because unlike Office, those interested in using the iPod, can also use a number of other available formats that don't happen to have DRM, such as wav/aiff/apple lossless/mp3 and probably non-drm AAC too.(Unlike Office where you do need the office format to enjoy a full feature set.)
Reals tactics undermine fairplay, a product that apple has licensed to use in it's iPod for DRM, it's not an Apple product and Apple are not allowed to open it to vendors, it's not theirs to give. Additionally the reason why many people are bidding on the side of Apple is because Apple already provides a higher quality service, which is more centric on pleasing customers than making Apple rich(at 99c per track the iTunes Music Store barely covers operating costs). Apple are considered to be earning an 'honest' living, selling a premium product in a market they revolutionised, then allowing users to inexpensively(and legally) enjoy their product with minimal effort and very low prices. (Which came about from a massive organisational cost to Apple to develop and serve the music stores.)
he makes some legitimate arguments, such as incremental save (users of Maya or Adobe Indesign get to experience implementations of this, maya will back up your work exactly as is before it crashes, Indesign will always have your file saved, even to the point in your document to which you were scrolled.) on the other hand some are obvious productivity mistakes... if items weren't greyed out.. he'd be begging for them to be greyed out. imagine if all greyed out options gave you the ability to traverse their window. Often their window provides little extra information on the functionality, simply because most rely on a quick preview to make their job obvious, now if it can't actually form a preview because the data is in the incorrect format (hence why it's greyed out in the first place) then you aren't doing anything but wasting your time.
Greying out options gives the experienced user a quick reminder that their data format isn't of the correct type for this functionality. (Which is preferable to say MS Office where it will remove the option altogether, leaving you hunting for it, if you didn't know precisely where to find it.) The main stream example would be in photoshop, where your various image modes will effect your function list. Sure some are pure laziness such as the unavailability of many filters in CMYK or 16bit-channel modes.(In general though you don't miss them once your work gets to CMYK so it's a nice compromise.) Additionally if what he is looking for is an explanation of a feature, then he's looking in the wrong menu, he should be clicking on 'Help'.
the reason why telstra bigpond was so concerned... Is because it was actually their ad which had the stuff up in it. Being the premier provider of all telecommunications in australia telstra then decided to use what powers it had to reverse this (at least for it's own users). Aside from that they did at least try to get everyone to update their pornographic+questionable material firewalls.
I absolutely believe if it was someone else's mistake, then they wouldn't have bothered with any of this.
haha, I'd love to do this, but I notice alot of mother boards require start up software these days for both audio drivers and usb drivers.... why on earth they don't use the existing frameworks I'll never know.
In terms of spyware that runs on your system as a program, it's a good idea to write a list of the notorious Run directory in the windows registry, that way you can check your list to see if new spyware(and sometimes viruses) have been added. What you need to really do though is ensure that you don't end up deleting legitimate additions to this list, such as those added after installing applications.
Major motor companies Toyota and Honda have both stated in the past, that while development of electric vehicles does take place, they are more interested in developing two main types of vehicles -before- they get to hydrogen fuel cells(and other 100% electric cars). The first is hybrids that use petrol like ordinary cars, then a new material that is both environmentally sound, but can be pumped and used through the existing petrol distribution infrastructure. Then they will move onto hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, which includes the 100% electric car concepts. (Toyota for example has had 100% Electric vehicles such as the "RAV4 EV", as well as a Tarago counterpart for several years now.)
Business success has more to do with partnerships and deals, in reality, both OSs are adequate for use as a PDA, so it's really just what kind of business deals that each company can secure.
Apple are well known for optimising their software to be significantly faster with each pre-release build. Having had the opportunity to test the developer tester of 10.4 with spotlight on a 12" powerbook (which was bogged down with various applications at the time) I can assure you that spotlight remained snappy, and definitely true to the 'instant' claim (I've noticed apple are quite careful on not over advertising their products, as it cause more problems than sales and a bad image). After using microsoft products we become very used to how slow a process can be. Apple's advantage is clear, they know their target hardware, like video-card driver writers they can optimise any part of their OS to fit their hardware for optimum speed. Additionally the g4/g5 chipsets have some quite useful registers for performing these sorts of searches (think sort of like MMX for x86, except with developers actually utilising them outside of games)
Actually it's quite different from the index search.
Already the differences in Fat32/NTFS versus HFS+ (the mac filesystem) yield significantly faster searches before spotlight is introduced. Sit down on an OSX apple and notice that an entire search of the HD is actually a fast operation, not the waiting many-minute exercise that it is on windows.
Now since spotlight is built into the core of the system, and isn't just a tack-on service like the windows indexer is, there are significant speed advantages, updating the SQL database when files are modified, added, etc is incredibly light on the CPU, and is equivalent to doing something like changing the file name.
What spotlight isn't, and this might be where you are getting confused, spotlight isn't a spider that crawls from folder to folder cataloguing information about each file, which is what the windows indexer was doing, hence why it was resource intensive, as it was busy checking files and folders that you have possibly not made any changes to.
As a counter to the 'Filesystem metadata is great, but "instantly" updated search indexes sounds like a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist.' Microsoft, google and apple would disagree. Having an up-to-date catalogue without the CPU strain is a must have, go figure MS have been trying to implement it since NT4.0.
the author tends to slant on it being more a problem of buffer overflows from the C/C++ etc languages.
Where the problem with Microsoft has got a lot more to do with their management forcing competitors products into the ground ensuring that they get those high 90s market share figures.
Microsoft is rather better known for poor security tactics.
The argument that it's some inherent flaw in C doesn't hold water, as it can be not only programmed around, but a multiple layer approach to security would as a minimum ensure that each bug found had limited damage, instead of the typical issue in MS products which is that a single hole will render the entire system to be a remote control for anyone on the Internet. This is the same for viruses on the windows platform, and part of the basic structure of how the OS handles commands sent between software. (Such as the famous trick to elevate your priviledges in 'secured' windows boxes.)
In the end, shipping an OS with just about every internet service and port open by default is not a fault in the C programming language. It's a filthy oversight.
Unfortunately the budget isn't suiting, but maybe you can pick up some ideas on how they have done it.
OS X can be accessed and controlled entirely through SSH using applescript through the command line osascript command. Similarly, it runs VNC or apple remote desktop just fine if you want a visual.
iTunes can stream music straight to Apple's airport express wireless basestation, naturally in a lossless audio format. Additionally iTunes can be configured to accept a CD, rip it(CDDB for names) and eject it without any user intervention. iTunes also lets you control where it places the music when ripped.
Now the x86 part of all this is that other than SSH'ing into an OS X box.. you can do all this on a Wintel computer. (as iTunes and Airport Express work on windows.)
shut up fucking american weenie, if anyone is over rationalizing, it's you, trying to pervert every possible sentence for maximum vindication. go fucking kill yourself.
iPod mini or new virgin player...
I'd go the mini, mostly because it doesn't look like a plastic remote control.
Now com'on I'm tired of hearing about 'Britney killers', and 'iPod killers'. All these products are merely trying to fill a market that is reaching it's peak momentum, a person will now just buy an iPod over other devices simply because it's 'cool', and their friend has one.
Not many people left in the game who just want a music player. (Hence why the iPod does so well, despite just being a music player.)
Generally I will doubt any claim that suggests they can run PPC code on x86 hardware at any considerable speed, such as 80%, or even 50% for that matter. The PPC chipset has more general purpose registers than x86, how they map around the instructions to fit on an x86 chipset is usually inadequet and some kind of register emulation must take place. Taking any register functionality off chip is a method of emulation, that works, however it's incredibly slow, by comparison to native speeds. This is why it's trivial to get good speeds out of x86 code on PPC chipsets through emulation, and why the reverse is usually a marketing scam.
this idea is not so exacting, but you can fathom that if you exist in a world where anything can happen, yet you want only one particular outcome: then you are never with the odds.
To get your way strike down the range of other possible outcomes.
How MS play towards the market is arguably holding back the IT sector in the USA. The american legal & patent systems are being abused by those who can afford to do so, this to kill viable competition and to keep the status quo.
When new, better ideas are being squashed by cashed up companies with a weaker product to protect, it's time to realise that a change is needed in the way that these two main government bodies are operated.
A few things that are notable. --RIAA/MPAA essentially bribing politicians to be their puppets, to prolong their outdated business model. --Large companies, simply suing smaller companies, then appealing and re-appealing until the smaller company is bankrupt. --Trivial patents being awarded, when technology already supercedes them+prior art exists.
--Companies such as the MPAA&RIAA settling deals, then attempting to use more law suits to avoid forfilling their side. (Money already goes to the music co's for blank cd purchases, but then trying to make it impossible to use cd's to duplicate music under fair use. All while still charging artists the 15% vinyl disc breakage fee from the ages of records.
Finally the lack of realisation that certain companies shouldn't be making ever increasing profit. OSes are at saturation point, consumers only have so much money to spend on CDs and other non-essential items, we don't have significant population increases of talented musical artists every year. We shouldn't have massively increasing numbers of patent registrations each year either.
The list of abuses can go on forever, it all translates into american companies being hindered by other american companies, while other less legally restricted countries can leap ahead in technology advances.
okay, lets run through it again. First of all, a mac can run without OS X, or OS9, it runs any PPC linux distro fine, check out the yellow dog distro. you can buy apple hardware with it preinstalled. Secondly, an eMac, which is I state again is a G4 (1.25GHz for $799), is priced below $800.
Additionally software support for both platforms is even in most categories, in the creative and scientific categories the apple platform has a considerable lead, it's only the mainstream games category where the apple platform is lacking.
www.apple.com/store, prices are in USD. Those prices have been like that for a while. Those prices are also the same as what they are in apple centres.
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It's like the cd-r issue. Either the RIAA gets money from a tax on cd-r, or they get to enforce their copyright for damages in the court... but not both. Both these organisations are effectively double dipping. This shows how courts and governments can be manipulated given the right amount of money.
Why it's wrong is that users pay a fee for using their cd-rs for any legitimate content, and anyone that uses their computer is similarly paying a fee, for the possibility that they might do something illegal with their machine.
(The RIAA and similar organisations are too used to their lucrative contractual deals where they get alot of money for doing very little, such as 15% breakage fees still existing from vinyl days, when even then it was ridiculous for the artist to be paying for that.)
I wonder if the handle is digitally signed to say that it can carry the unit.
The author delicately neglects that the most common way people get spyware on their computer is not through downloading bonzi buddy from the website, but by visiting infected websites, which until recently used to be deliberately set up malicious sites. With recent bugs being exploited between IIS and IE, this is instead been legitimate websites such as a large trusted bank who happened to be running IIS and infected scores of it's users with the gift wrapped bug of the day.
Ironically the article is lack-lustre, because the information presented is in many parts entirely incorrect.(perhaps /. could assemble the most uninformed tech articles for the year?) This is probably because the author didn't bother revising specs on the discussed items since the first time they reviewed them.
In other news the article is quite blatant with it's recommendation guides, and considering that it's Dec 21, it's naive to suggest that this isn't product placement.
This is because unlike Office, those interested in using the iPod, can also use a number of other available formats that don't happen to have DRM, such as wav/aiff/apple lossless/mp3 and probably non-drm AAC too.(Unlike Office where you do need the office format to enjoy a full feature set.)
Reals tactics undermine fairplay, a product that apple has licensed to use in it's iPod for DRM, it's not an Apple product and Apple are not allowed to open it to vendors, it's not theirs to give. Additionally the reason why many people are bidding on the side of Apple is because Apple already provides a higher quality service, which is more centric on pleasing customers than making Apple rich(at 99c per track the iTunes Music Store barely covers operating costs). Apple are considered to be earning an 'honest' living, selling a premium product in a market they revolutionised, then allowing users to inexpensively(and legally) enjoy their product with minimal effort and very low prices. (Which came about from a massive organisational cost to Apple to develop and serve the music stores.)
Greying out options gives the experienced user a quick reminder that their data format isn't of the correct type for this functionality. (Which is preferable to say MS Office where it will remove the option altogether, leaving you hunting for it, if you didn't know precisely where to find it.) The main stream example would be in photoshop, where your various image modes will effect your function list. Sure some are pure laziness such as the unavailability of many filters in CMYK or 16bit-channel modes.(In general though you don't miss them once your work gets to CMYK so it's a nice compromise.) Additionally if what he is looking for is an explanation of a feature, then he's looking in the wrong menu, he should be clicking on 'Help'.
I think this incident alone proves the difference.
I absolutely believe if it was someone else's mistake, then they wouldn't have bothered with any of this.
haha, I'd love to do this, but I notice alot of mother boards require start up software these days for both audio drivers and usb drivers.... why on earth they don't use the existing frameworks I'll never know.
In terms of spyware that runs on your system as a program, it's a good idea to write a list of the notorious Run directory in the windows registry, that way you can check your list to see if new spyware(and sometimes viruses) have been added. What you need to really do though is ensure that you don't end up deleting legitimate additions to this list, such as those added after installing applications.
Major motor companies Toyota and Honda have both stated in the past, that while development of electric vehicles does take place, they are more interested in developing two main types of vehicles -before- they get to hydrogen fuel cells(and other 100% electric cars). The first is hybrids that use petrol like ordinary cars, then a new material that is both environmentally sound, but can be pumped and used through the existing petrol distribution infrastructure. Then they will move onto hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, which includes the 100% electric car concepts. (Toyota for example has had 100% Electric vehicles such as the "RAV4 EV", as well as a Tarago counterpart for several years now.)
Business success has more to do with partnerships and deals, in reality, both OSs are adequate for use as a PDA, so it's really just what kind of business deals that each company can secure.
Apple are well known for optimising their software to be significantly faster with each pre-release build. Having had the opportunity to test the developer tester of 10.4 with spotlight on a 12" powerbook (which was bogged down with various applications at the time) I can assure you that spotlight remained snappy, and definitely true to the 'instant' claim (I've noticed apple are quite careful on not over advertising their products, as it cause more problems than sales and a bad image). After using microsoft products we become very used to how slow a process can be. Apple's advantage is clear, they know their target hardware, like video-card driver writers they can optimise any part of their OS to fit their hardware for optimum speed. Additionally the g4/g5 chipsets have some quite useful registers for performing these sorts of searches (think sort of like MMX for x86, except with developers actually utilising them outside of games)
Already the differences in Fat32/NTFS versus HFS+ (the mac filesystem) yield significantly faster searches before spotlight is introduced. Sit down on an OSX apple and notice that an entire search of the HD is actually a fast operation, not the waiting many-minute exercise that it is on windows.
Now since spotlight is built into the core of the system, and isn't just a tack-on service like the windows indexer is, there are significant speed advantages, updating the SQL database when files are modified, added, etc is incredibly light on the CPU, and is equivalent to doing something like changing the file name.
What spotlight isn't, and this might be where you are getting confused, spotlight isn't a spider that crawls from folder to folder cataloguing information about each file, which is what the windows indexer was doing, hence why it was resource intensive, as it was busy checking files and folders that you have possibly not made any changes to.
As a counter to the 'Filesystem metadata is great, but "instantly" updated search indexes sounds like a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist.' Microsoft, google and apple would disagree. Having an up-to-date catalogue without the CPU strain is a must have, go figure MS have been trying to implement it since NT4.0.
Where the problem with Microsoft has got a lot more to do with their management forcing competitors products into the ground ensuring that they get those high 90s market share figures.
Microsoft is rather better known for poor security tactics.
The argument that it's some inherent flaw in C doesn't hold water, as it can be not only programmed around, but a multiple layer approach to security would as a minimum ensure that each bug found had limited damage, instead of the typical issue in MS products which is that a single hole will render the entire system to be a remote control for anyone on the Internet. This is the same for viruses on the windows platform, and part of the basic structure of how the OS handles commands sent between software. (Such as the famous trick to elevate your priviledges in 'secured' windows boxes.)
In the end, shipping an OS with just about every internet service and port open by default is not a fault in the C programming language. It's a filthy oversight.
OS X can be accessed and controlled entirely through SSH using applescript through the command line osascript command. Similarly, it runs VNC or apple remote desktop just fine if you want a visual.
iTunes can stream music straight to Apple's airport express wireless basestation, naturally in a lossless audio format. Additionally iTunes can be configured to accept a CD, rip it(CDDB for names) and eject it without any user intervention. iTunes also lets you control where it places the music when ripped.
Now the x86 part of all this is that other than SSH'ing into an OS X box.. you can do all this on a Wintel computer. (as iTunes and Airport Express work on windows.)
Just like to write that I did not write that flame-bait, that was submitted to this article. Thank you to those that have notified me.
shut up fucking american weenie, if anyone is over rationalizing, it's you, trying to pervert every possible sentence for maximum vindication. go fucking kill yourself.
i think i might just be tired of hearing about all new whiney female acts, ranging from pink, to christina aguilera and avril lavigne.
I'd go the mini, mostly because it doesn't look like a plastic remote control.
Now com'on I'm tired of hearing about 'Britney killers', and 'iPod killers'. All these products are merely trying to fill a market that is reaching it's peak momentum, a person will now just buy an iPod over other devices simply because it's 'cool', and their friend has one.
Not many people left in the game who just want a music player. (Hence why the iPod does so well, despite just being a music player.)
Generally I will doubt any claim that suggests they can run PPC code on x86 hardware at any considerable speed, such as 80%, or even 50% for that matter. The PPC chipset has more general purpose registers than x86, how they map around the instructions to fit on an x86 chipset is usually inadequet and some kind of register emulation must take place. Taking any register functionality off chip is a method of emulation, that works, however it's incredibly slow, by comparison to native speeds. This is why it's trivial to get good speeds out of x86 code on PPC chipsets through emulation, and why the reverse is usually a marketing scam.
To get your way strike down the range of other possible outcomes.
When new, better ideas are being squashed by cashed up companies with a weaker product to protect, it's time to realise that a change is needed in the way that these two main government bodies are operated.
A few things that are notable.
--RIAA/MPAA essentially bribing politicians to be their puppets, to prolong their outdated business model.
--Large companies, simply suing smaller companies, then appealing and re-appealing until the smaller company is bankrupt.
--Trivial patents being awarded, when technology already supercedes them+prior art exists.
--Companies such as the MPAA&RIAA settling deals, then attempting to use more law suits to avoid forfilling their side. (Money already goes to the music co's for blank cd purchases, but then trying to make it impossible to use cd's to duplicate music under fair use. All while still charging artists the 15% vinyl disc breakage fee from the ages of records.
Finally the lack of realisation that certain companies shouldn't be making ever increasing profit. OSes are at saturation point, consumers only have so much money to spend on CDs and other non-essential items, we don't have significant population increases of talented musical artists every year. We shouldn't have massively increasing numbers of patent registrations each year either.
The list of abuses can go on forever, it all translates into american companies being hindered by other american companies, while other less legally restricted countries can leap ahead in technology advances.
Secondly, an eMac, which is I state again is a G4 (1.25GHz for $799), is priced below $800.
Additionally software support for both platforms is even in most categories, in the creative and scientific categories the apple platform has a considerable lead, it's only the mainstream games category where the apple platform is lacking.
www.apple.com/store, prices are in USD. Those prices have been like that for a while. Those prices are also the same as what they are in apple centres.