Right on. There's no reason to approach vector and raster art through different programs.
This is one of the things I loved about Canvas. It gained alot of missing raster features with version 5, but it also lost a lot of stability. They stopped checking for out of memory errors, leading to some nasty crashes.
I wish someone would take the good features of Fireworks (symbols, slices), Photoshop (almost everything), and Canvas (sane object manipulation, awesome text handling, exact object placement, awesome object tools) and make one good, stable, fast application.
Then why use the GPL code? It's not public domain. It's someone's copyrighted code that they gave to Linksys in exchange for publicly available copies of all modifications and additions that they may make to it. If Linksys didn't like the terms, they should have written their own software instead of stealing somone else's.
I say that they are stealing because to legally copy it they had to agree to the GPL. The GPL requires them to do certain things which they have not done. They have not fulfilled their obligations under the GPL, yet they still use the code. This is analogous to buying a car and not making the payments.
I just sat there wondering how the hell can windows software be cheaper then free software.
It's supply and demand. I put my clients on Linux or BSD servers. So do many of my colleagues. I don't know anyone who prefers to use windows servers. Hell, I've got no clue how to administer a machine w/out SSH. Because of this, there may be more demand for *nix based servers, allowing the providers to charge more.
This is not a new trend. Dell has copied most of Apple's innovations since at least '99. They just copy the guys with the highest margins. Since the ones with the highest margins have them so that they can afford to develop interesing new technologies, Dell is just outsourcing its R&D and market research for free.
I wonder sometimes what Apple doesn't gradually dump AppleScript for Python?
Anyone who wants another scripting language instead of AppleScript can do it themselves. AppleScript is not a one man show, it is part of Apple's open scripting architecture.
I hate replying to myself, but here's some more info on BATs: google They all seem to cost $200. It's just silly to pay that much for a keyboard. Particularly one that requires two weeks of training, and won't even talk to my computer w/out having to hack the drivers.
I've been trying to get one of Englebart's chorded keyboards (BAT), but he insists on charging way too much money for a keyboard that uses a really outdated interface and would require an adapter. If he wants to see his ideas (other than the mouse) accepted, the price of entry should be lowered. A $5 qwerty keyboard has more moving parts and probably costs more to build than a BAT. If I could buy a BAt for even $20 I would do it in a heartbeat.
I have one -- the Samsung i300. The interface sucks. Try checking your voicemail or using any phone menu system. Instead of feeling where the key is to erase your message, you have to take the damned phone off of your ear, look at the pad, and find the button. If someone would make an lcd that would allow the app designer to specify that certain areas should be raise (probably by air injection or magnetism), then this would be useful. Until then, its just a PITA.
The worms will need a kernel bug *and* a remotely exploitable bug to propagate
Why? It's a remote root exploit. How about this: A script is written that gets root on a specified machine using this exploit. Then it copies the script from the originating host and runs it, targeting every machine it can ping. That sounds like propagation to me.
Unless you consider Democrats AND Repulblicans, for whom 95+% of Americans vote, to be right of center, then you're off your rocker.
I do think that the Democrats are too conservative. I find the republicans slightly more so. The list of issues on which those two "diffrent" parties agree is longer than the list on which they disagree. They are more like two branches of a somewhat conservative party. Look at how they work together to exclude other parties from the political process. The barriers to entry are ridiculously high.
I don't think that everyone accepts that to the same degree (or necessarily at all). Some people want a smaller military, some people want a larger one, some want none at all. Other people may have other ideas about how the military should be used.
If your convictions include not supporting a particular thing, then not doing it is hou you keep from being a hypocrite. I'll be accused of pandering to the moderators for this next part, but it's just how I feel. I wouldn't take a job at Microsoft because I don't want to support them. I don't like many of their business practices. I don't like most of their software. I wouldn't do work on a grant that would help them further degrade the computer industry. However, if there was an MS funded grant for studying the use of computers to fight viruses (human viruses, not computer ones), then I might want to work on that. It's all about adhering your principles.
In the past, Apple stuck with the GCC compiler because it causes the Pentium to perform much worse than it would perform on code compiled with an Intel-provided compiler.
Would you care to back that up? How do you know their motives well enough to make that statement?
Maybe they chose GCC because it is the compiler that is used by their development suite (and thus most OS X software)? Maybe they chose to use it on the PC because that way both machines would have to deal with the performance issues (if any) of compiling SPEC with GCC?
They ran SPEC on Linux for x86. Most Linux programs for x86 are compiled with GCC. It seems to me that Apple chose the compiler that would be most likely to be used on both platforms and one in which ther performance of the compiler itself would not skew the results.
In any case, GCC for x86 has had much more development than GCC for PPC, so I guess that Apple's choice of compiler actually put their machine at a disadvantage.
You know what? You're right. Of course, Apple also used GCC in their G5 benchmarks, so I'm not certain what your point was. This has been debated extensively. Look at the last/. story about Apple's benchmarks to read all about it.
Or you can mount the image and use a legally authorized DVD player.
When I bought my G4 it was advertised as being able to play DVDs w/out an mpeg decoder card. They were right, but the DVD software they had written wasn't up to the task. They have since lost a class action suit on this point.
Before the update to the DVD player was released, I found that I could get DVDs to play back properly (no more sound-going-out-of-sync) if I first made a disk image of the DVD then mounted it. Opening the Apple DVD Player software allowed me to play the "fake" dvd flawlessly.
I think this was fair use, but it does show how someone could pirate DVDs w/out using DeCSS. A simple copy works. This would not make much sense for piracy since used DVDs are cheaper than the HD space they take up.
I did a report on this for my Computer Ethics course. The simple fact is this: the DeCSS code was published in an unsealed legal filing by John Hoy, president of the DVD-CCA (those fighting against DeCSS). By doing this, he made it part of the public record, thus nullifying any trade secret status it might have had.
I had a better link to the filing but I don't have time to track it down. Use google.
That legend has a white bullet next to it in the list. From the site:
White bullets are the ones most commonly associated with "pure" urban legends -- entries that describe plausible events so general that they could have happened to someone, somewhere, at some time, and are therefore essentially unprovable. Some legends that describe events known to have occurred in real life are also put into this category if there is no evidence that the events occurred before the origination of the legends.
On a seperate note, does anyone know how to get around Apple's insistance that consumers in Florida aren't eligable for AppleCare?
Since when? I have AppleCare on my G4 (well... had, it expired last year). My step-father has AppleCare on his TiBook. We both live in S. Florida and bought our AppleCare here too.
How many instances does it take to qualify this as a habit? I think the experieice your boss had was the exception.
My father had AppleCare service done on his 165c several times w/out any hassle.
My phone line was struck by lightning, frying my DSL modem, router, several phones, and the onboard ethernet on my G4. Apple replaced the motherboard for free even though they knew it was a lightning strike.
My router's warranty refused to replace it, but Apple ate the cost of the new G4 mother board when they didn't have to. That's customer service.
You can. Use Apple's own API to remove the DRM from the files. There's a 23-line java progam for exporting to AIFF and there's even a suite of commandline utilities for manipulating them. I used these tools to take an album I bought yesterday to work with me, w/out resorting to using a CD. A simple search on google reveals all kinds of tools for getting to the underlying mpeg4 data. You can only use these tools on a machine authorised to open the files, but once you have the data, you can export it in a variety of formats.
I'm studying rapier for stage combat. It's a real workout and it looks really cool. Your arms and your quads will really feel it, but you'll do it to learn something cool. If that's not enough, try learning broadsword. It requires much more strength than rapier.
Apple only deals with a set number of labels -- including CD Baby. They refuse to deal with individual artists citing the legal hassle of having thousands of individual contracts vs the simplicity of having one contract per label. There was a story about this here when the iTunes Indie meeting happened.
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Right on. There's no reason to approach vector and raster art through different programs.
This is one of the things I loved about Canvas. It gained alot of missing raster features with version 5, but it also lost a lot of stability. They stopped checking for out of memory errors, leading to some nasty crashes.
I wish someone would take the good features of Fireworks (symbols, slices), Photoshop (almost everything), and Canvas (sane object manipulation, awesome text handling, exact object placement, awesome object tools) and make one good, stable, fast application.
Then why use the GPL code? It's not public domain. It's someone's copyrighted code that they gave to Linksys in exchange for publicly available copies of all modifications and additions that they may make to it. If Linksys didn't like the terms, they should have written their own software instead of stealing somone else's.
I say that they are stealing because to legally copy it they had to agree to the GPL. The GPL requires them to do certain things which they have not done. They have not fulfilled their obligations under the GPL, yet they still use the code. This is analogous to buying a car and not making the payments.
I just sat there wondering how the hell can windows software be cheaper then free software.
It's supply and demand. I put my clients on Linux or BSD servers. So do many of my colleagues. I don't know anyone who prefers to use windows servers. Hell, I've got no clue how to administer a machine w/out SSH. Because of this, there may be more demand for *nix based servers, allowing the providers to charge more.
This is not a new trend. Dell has copied most of Apple's innovations since at least '99. They just copy the guys with the highest margins. Since the ones with the highest margins have them so that they can afford to develop interesing new technologies, Dell is just outsourcing its R&D and market research for free.
A brief history.
I wonder sometimes what Apple doesn't gradually dump AppleScript for Python?
Anyone who wants another scripting language instead of AppleScript can do it themselves. AppleScript is not a one man show, it is part of Apple's open scripting architecture.
Anyway, a google search reveals this: Using the Open Scripting Architecture from Python
I actually started to write up a patent for this, but I'm not sure how to implement it. I may make it my research subject for grad school.
I hate replying to myself, but here's some more info on BATs: google
They all seem to cost $200. It's just silly to pay that much for a keyboard. Particularly one that requires two weeks of training, and won't even talk to my computer w/out having to hack the drivers.
I've been trying to get one of Englebart's chorded keyboards (BAT), but he insists on charging way too much money for a keyboard that uses a really outdated interface and would require an adapter. If he wants to see his ideas (other than the mouse) accepted, the price of entry should be lowered. A $5 qwerty keyboard has more moving parts and probably costs more to build than a BAT. If I could buy a BAt for even $20 I would do it in a heartbeat.
I have one -- the Samsung i300. The interface sucks. Try checking your voicemail or using any phone menu system. Instead of feeling where the key is to erase your message, you have to take the damned phone off of your ear, look at the pad, and find the button. If someone would make an lcd that would allow the app designer to specify that certain areas should be raise (probably by air injection or magnetism), then this would be useful. Until then, its just a PITA.
The worms will need a kernel bug *and* a remotely exploitable bug to propagate
Why? It's a remote root exploit. How about this: A script is written that gets root on a specified machine using this exploit. Then it copies the script from the originating host and runs it, targeting every machine it can ping. That sounds like propagation to me.
Unless you consider Democrats AND Repulblicans, for whom 95+% of Americans vote, to be right of center, then you're off your rocker.
I do think that the Democrats are too conservative. I find the republicans slightly more so. The list of issues on which those two "diffrent" parties agree is longer than the list on which they disagree. They are more like two branches of a somewhat conservative party. Look at how they work together to exclude other parties from the political process. The barriers to entry are ridiculously high.
if we accept that a military is necessary,
I don't think that everyone accepts that to the same degree (or necessarily at all). Some people want a smaller military, some people want a larger one, some want none at all. Other people may have other ideas about how the military should be used.
If your convictions include not supporting a particular thing, then not doing it is hou you keep from being a hypocrite. I'll be accused of pandering to the moderators for this next part, but it's just how I feel. I wouldn't take a job at Microsoft because I don't want to support them. I don't like many of their business practices. I don't like most of their software. I wouldn't do work on a grant that would help them further degrade the computer industry. However, if there was an MS funded grant for studying the use of computers to fight viruses (human viruses, not computer ones), then I might want to work on that. It's all about adhering your principles.
There is also something to be said for AMD's HyperTransport bus
Yeah,HyperTransport is pretty cool. Too bad the G5 doesn't have it, right?
In the past, Apple stuck with the GCC compiler because it causes the Pentium to perform much worse than it would perform on code compiled with an Intel-provided compiler.
Would you care to back that up? How do you know their motives well enough to make that statement?
Maybe they chose GCC because it is the compiler that is used by their development suite (and thus most OS X software)? Maybe they chose to use it on the PC because that way both machines would have to deal with the performance issues (if any) of compiling SPEC with GCC?
They ran SPEC on Linux for x86. Most Linux programs for x86 are compiled with GCC. It seems to me that Apple chose the compiler that would be most likely to be used on both platforms and one in which ther performance of the compiler itself would not skew the results.
In any case, GCC for x86 has had much more development than GCC for PPC, so I guess that Apple's choice of compiler actually put their machine at a disadvantage.
Apple used GCC in their P4 benchmarks.
/. story about Apple's benchmarks to read all about it.
You know what? You're right. Of course, Apple also used GCC in their G5 benchmarks, so I'm not certain what your point was. This has been debated extensively. Look at the last
This implies that it is not illegal if you say:
Are the silly looking disclaimers of the early '90s going to make a comeback?
Or you can mount the image and use a legally authorized DVD player.
When I bought my G4 it was advertised as being able to play DVDs w/out an mpeg decoder card. They were right, but the DVD software they had written wasn't up to the task. They have since lost a class action suit on this point.
Before the update to the DVD player was released, I found that I could get DVDs to play back properly (no more sound-going-out-of-sync) if I first made a disk image of the DVD then mounted it. Opening the Apple DVD Player software allowed me to play the "fake" dvd flawlessly.
I think this was fair use, but it does show how someone could pirate DVDs w/out using DeCSS. A simple copy works. This would not make much sense for piracy since used DVDs are cheaper than the HD space they take up.
I did a report on this for my Computer Ethics course. The simple fact is this: the DeCSS code was published in an unsealed legal filing by John Hoy, president of the DVD-CCA (those fighting against DeCSS). By doing this, he made it part of the public record, thus nullifying any trade secret status it might have had.
I had a better link to the filing but I don't have time to track it down. Use google.
That legend has a white bullet next to it in the list. From the site:
White bullets are the ones most commonly associated with "pure" urban legends -- entries that describe plausible events so general that they could have happened to someone, somewhere, at some time, and are therefore essentially unprovable. Some legends that describe events known to have occurred in real life are also put into this category if there is no evidence that the events occurred before the origination of the legends.
On a seperate note, does anyone know how to get around Apple's insistance that consumers in Florida aren't eligable for AppleCare?
Since when? I have AppleCare on my G4 (well... had, it expired last year). My step-father has AppleCare on his TiBook. We both live in S. Florida and bought our AppleCare here too.
How many instances does it take to qualify this as a habit? I think the experieice your boss had was the exception.
My father had AppleCare service done on his 165c several times w/out any hassle.
My phone line was struck by lightning, frying my DSL modem, router, several phones, and the onboard ethernet on my G4. Apple replaced the motherboard for free even though they knew it was a lightning strike.
My router's warranty refused to replace it, but Apple ate the cost of the new G4 mother board when they didn't have to. That's customer service.
You can. Use Apple's own API to remove the DRM from the files. There's a 23-line java progam for exporting to AIFF and there's even a suite of commandline utilities for manipulating them. I used these tools to take an album I bought yesterday to work with me, w/out resorting to using a CD. A simple search on google reveals all kinds of tools for getting to the underlying mpeg4 data. You can only use these tools on a machine authorised to open the files, but once you have the data, you can export it in a variety of formats.
I'm studying rapier for stage combat. It's a real workout and it looks really cool. Your arms and your quads will really feel it, but you'll do it to learn something cool. If that's not enough, try learning broadsword. It requires much more strength than rapier.
Apple's agreement with the smaller labels requires that all albums be real CDs with barcodes. This is part of why CD Baby can do this.
Apple only deals with a set number of labels -- including CD Baby. They refuse to deal with individual artists citing the legal hassle of having thousands of individual contracts vs the simplicity of having one contract per label. There was a story about this here when the iTunes Indie meeting happened.