As an omniture customer, I'm able to see browser stats for all of omniture's customers. This includes yahoo and intuit (as indicated by the other article about intuit tracking users)
Here is what omniture says under Browser Types for it's customer average:
Microsoft: 79.6% Mozilla: 7.4% Safari: 5.0% AOL: 4.8% Netscape: 2.4% (this is Netscape 4 and earlier.. netscape 6+ is counted under Mozilla) Opera: 0.3%
Again, these are the averages for *all* of omniture's customers for April (so far).
They also break it down to individual browser versions, but there are over a hundred of those.. including "Nutscrape 1.0" and HotJava. So I'm not going to bother with that.
Why would you be so trusting of Intuit but not Omniture?
Yeah.. plus, as an Omniture customer, I'm not completely sure they're the genius overlords people make them out to be.
here is a sample of what an actual omniture tracking bug looks like. It's a bit of javascript, an img tag and some categorization variables. (Ours is slightly different than the sample code macromedia has.. because each customer's tracking bug is customized by omniture)
We don't give omniture our server logs (hell, we don't even have them turned on).
Now looking at today's reports, omniture claims that 124 people have hit our index page using Lynx. How can they know that? Lynx doesn't run javascript, and doesn't load imgs... so a Lynx browser should be totally hidden from them.
What's even more suprising is that Omniture claims that 4 people have hit our index page using "wget (unknown version)".
While omniture does provide some amazing statistics... the magical tracking of Lynx and wget make me suspicious.
A formula, process, device, or item of information used by a business that has economic value because it is not generally known or easily discovered by observation or examination and for which reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy have been made
I don't think that disclosing the existence of soon-to-be-announced products qualifies.
But trade secret law doesn't even come into this.. Apple isn't claiming that anyone broke the law, trade secret or otherwise. They're claiming that someone violated an NDA. Only problem is that Apple has no proof that anyone violated an NDA.
re they seriously saying that the leaking of product information (against a contract) is the same thing as being a whistle blower against illegal actions by companies
Goddammit, Think! We don't know that there is a contract violation, we don't know that anyone involved was under an NDA. Neither does Apple!
The BBC is against issuing subpoenas forcing journalists to reveal their sources so that Apple can determine *if* someone broke the law.
This is the very definition of a fishing expedition.
I can't tell my musician friend to go out and buy your Dell and expect to get a free music sequencer installed, along with the rest of the software.
Your musician friend is going to hate GarageBand. It's limited to 8 tracks and can't even keyframe effects.
Your musician friend would be much happier with Acid5 (which is a mere $70).. and if your musician friend is into MIDI (as you claim he is) he'd be much happier with Reason.
Purchasing an OS because it comes with a crappy freeware app that doesn't do 1/10th of what a $70 piece of software does is rediculous.
It's like saying that because your friend is an artist, he should purchase Windows because it comes with MSPaint and OSX doesn't come with anything.
In all seriousness, there is not//one// Linux-created piece of software (that I wanted to run) which I couldn't compile for myself under Mac OS X. With or without Fink.
That's because you weren't looking. Just recently we were looking at consolidating our audio streaming. The idea is this:
We have a bunch of audio streams. Police Scanner, a couple of radio stations, and a phone. We need to stream these over the web. We wanted to take a bunch of USB line-input dongles and plug them into *one* computer. Then have software on that computer capture the audio input and send it to something like Quicktime Streaming Server.
Some of the streams (like the police scanner) would run 24/7, others would be cronned to start and stop at the appropriate times.
This is, as far as we can tell, impossible on OSX. OSX can't capture from multiple audio devices simultaneously. On linux it was trivial. You plug in a usb device and/dev/dsp1 shows up, you plug in another and/dev/dsp2 shows up. Running multiple copies of Darkice was simple.
Because OSX doesn't have a/dev tree, any linux app that handles hardware cannot possibly be ported to OSX.
So here we have a system, where to add another audio stream is as simple as buying another $20 usb device and plugging it in. Where if we were to use OSX, we'd have to buy another Mac!
Wait a minute.... green employees? Where the heck does your company outsource to?!
Some people say "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green". Ah hold on now... purple or green? You gotta draw the line somwhere. To hell with purple people!...unless they're suffocating. then, help 'em! -Mitch Hedberg
Napster wants to force Apple to open its DRM, so it can offer "competition" in the marketplace for music.
Sounds a lot like the companies that were trying to force AT&T to allow competitors' devices to connect to their phone lines. I mean, hey "they're AT&T's lines, they can restrict what goes on them, right?"
AT&T's death grip on it's phone lines led directly to the splitting up of AT&T.
t's only when running the 64-bit version of Windows, not when using a 64-bit processor.
Well then, that doesn't have anything to do with SP2 then, does it?
XP64 is a completely different version of windows.. it's not just a 64bit enabled version of XP. There is no such thing as "SP2" for XP64.. hell the damn thing isn't even out of beta yet.
Suing MAPs would be like suing the publisher of a restaurant review for saying the steak was tough and the service was surly
Ah, but since MAPS listed an entire IP block instead of just the infringing IPs, it'd be like suing the publisher of a restaurant review for saying the steak was tough at your restaurant even though the reviewer had gone to the restaurant next door.
A libel case could totally be made against MAPS for claiming this guy is a spammer.
Additionally, I would challenge you to this test: let's say you have a stock PHP installation, without the GD libraries linked into the PHP binary. Now let's say you want to create a PHP application that uses GD. Do you A) recompile your PHP server, or B) give up platform-independence and run some kind of system call?
I do this:
yum install php-gd
wow, that was easy! Even if I wasn't using rpm packages, I could compile GD and dynamically load it.
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Why does "the Windows equivalent of Garageband" cost frickin' $300?
Because it's soo much better than garageband. You can keyframe audio effects. You can have more than 8 tracks.
Acid5 is more equivilent to garageband (although it can still do more) and it's only $70.
Dude, you want to do real-time, multi-track audio editing on over 5 year old machines?
Why not? I was doing it over 5 years ago.. what's changed?
You get invalidate your entire iTunes Music Store library.
That's the price you pay for vendor lock-in.
"Eliminate the Appletalk networking protocol."
A worthy and noble goal. Chattiest protocol ever.
"Are you there printer?"
"Yeah, I'm still here."
"Sweet.. just checking"
"So.. uh.. what's new with you?"
"Not much, did you see the file share that moved in down the block?"
"Yeah, he was talking to me earlier"
"Nice guy. I like him. He shares files you know"
"So I gathered. As a printer, I don't think I need to talk to him"
"Heh, yeah, that's probably true. But hey, never hurts to keep in contact with everyone, even if you have nothing in common"
"I hear you brother! So, um.. did you need to print something?"
"Me? Oh no.. I'm just keeping tabs on everyone"
"Yeah... I do that too"
As an omniture customer, I'm able to see browser stats for all of omniture's customers. This includes yahoo and intuit (as indicated by the other article about intuit tracking users)
Here is what omniture says under Browser Types for it's customer average:
Microsoft: 79.6%
Mozilla: 7.4%
Safari: 5.0%
AOL: 4.8%
Netscape: 2.4% (this is Netscape 4 and earlier.. netscape 6+ is counted under Mozilla)
Opera: 0.3%
Again, these are the averages for *all* of omniture's customers for April (so far).
They also break it down to individual browser versions, but there are over a hundred of those.. including "Nutscrape 1.0" and HotJava. So I'm not going to bother with that.
Why would you be so trusting of Intuit but not Omniture?
Yeah.. plus, as an Omniture customer, I'm not completely sure they're the genius overlords people make them out to be.
here is a sample of what an actual omniture tracking bug looks like. It's a bit of javascript, an img tag and some categorization variables. (Ours is slightly different than the sample code macromedia has.. because each customer's tracking bug is customized by omniture)
We don't give omniture our server logs (hell, we don't even have them turned on).
Now looking at today's reports, omniture claims that 124 people have hit our index page using Lynx. How can they know that? Lynx doesn't run javascript, and doesn't load imgs... so a Lynx browser should be totally hidden from them.
What's even more suprising is that Omniture claims that 4 people have hit our index page using "wget (unknown version)".
While omniture does provide some amazing statistics... the magical tracking of Lynx and wget make me suspicious.
Items were STOLEN from the Apple Campus and thenreported in opposition to the Uniform Trade Secret Act.
Prove it. What proof do you have that anything was stolen? None. You cannot use "a hunch" to subpoena evidence.
The legal definition for a trade secret is below:
A formula, process, device, or item of information used by a business that has economic value because it is not generally known or easily discovered by observation or examination and for which reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy have been made
I don't think that disclosing the existence of soon-to-be-announced products qualifies.
But trade secret law doesn't even come into this.. Apple isn't claiming that anyone broke the law, trade secret or otherwise. They're claiming that someone violated an NDA. Only problem is that Apple has no proof that anyone violated an NDA.
Every so often, people mention Apple being mean and heavy handed in this instance, but think about what you would have done in their shoes.
There are other ways of finding out if someone is violating NDAs than issuing random subpoenas.
This is really no different than the RIAA issuing John Doe subpoenas to determine if people are stealing music.
Apple has absolutely no proof that a crime has been committed. In fact they're using subpoenas to *find* proof.
re they seriously saying that the leaking of product information (against a contract) is the same thing as being a whistle blower against illegal actions by companies
Goddammit, Think! We don't know that there is a contract violation, we don't know that anyone involved was under an NDA. Neither does Apple!
The BBC is against issuing subpoenas forcing journalists to reveal their sources so that Apple can determine *if* someone broke the law.
This is the very definition of a fishing expedition.
The person who leaked Apple's secrets broke the law and deserves no protection from it
Prove it. Prove they broke the law. What Apple did was go on a fishing expedition.
Caltech has yet to transform an MIT building into a cathedral or cause the president's office to disappear entirely.
MIT has yet to have a movie made about their pranks.
I can't tell my musician friend to go out and buy your Dell and expect to get a free music sequencer installed, along with the rest of the software.
Your musician friend is going to hate GarageBand. It's limited to 8 tracks and can't even keyframe effects.
Your musician friend would be much happier with Acid5 (which is a mere $70).. and if your musician friend is into MIDI (as you claim he is) he'd be much happier with Reason.
Purchasing an OS because it comes with a crappy freeware app that doesn't do 1/10th of what a $70 piece of software does is rediculous.
It's like saying that because your friend is an artist, he should purchase Windows because it comes with MSPaint and OSX doesn't come with anything.
As far as I know, the majority of Internet access still occurs through dial-up
Not true. More than 50% of Americans get online via broadband from home now.
In all seriousness, there is not
That's because you weren't looking. Just recently we were looking at consolidating our audio streaming. The idea is this:
We have a bunch of audio streams. Police Scanner, a couple of radio stations, and a phone. We need to stream these over the web. We wanted to take a bunch of USB line-input dongles and plug them into *one* computer. Then have software on that computer capture the audio input and send it to something like Quicktime Streaming Server.
Some of the streams (like the police scanner) would run 24/7, others would be cronned to start and stop at the appropriate times.
This is, as far as we can tell, impossible on OSX. OSX can't capture from multiple audio devices simultaneously. On linux it was trivial. You plug in a usb device and
Because OSX doesn't have a
So here we have a system, where to add another audio stream is as simple as buying another $20 usb device and plugging it in. Where if we were to use OSX, we'd have to buy another Mac!
Wait a minute.... green employees? Where the heck does your company outsource to?!
...unless they're suffocating. then, help 'em! -Mitch Hedberg
Some people say "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green". Ah hold on now... purple or green? You gotta draw the line somwhere. To hell with purple people!
Napster wants to force Apple to open its DRM, so it can offer "competition" in the marketplace for music.
Sounds a lot like the companies that were trying to force AT&T to allow competitors' devices to connect to their phone lines. I mean, hey "they're AT&T's lines, they can restrict what goes on them, right?"
AT&T's death grip on it's phone lines led directly to the splitting up of AT&T.
t's only when running the 64-bit version of Windows, not when using a 64-bit processor.
Well then, that doesn't have anything to do with SP2 then, does it?
XP64 is a completely different version of windows.. it's not just a 64bit enabled version of XP. There is no such thing as "SP2" for XP64.. hell the damn thing isn't even out of beta yet.
Suing MAPs would be like suing the publisher of a restaurant review for saying the steak was tough and the service was surly
Ah, but since MAPS listed an entire IP block instead of just the infringing IPs, it'd be like suing the publisher of a restaurant review for saying the steak was tough at your restaurant even though the reviewer had gone to the restaurant next door.
A libel case could totally be made against MAPS for claiming this guy is a spammer.
Those who actually paid attention to the WHOLE list know that PhotoShop CS only fails to start under XP SP2 on 64-bit processors
Well that's not true.. I run Photoshop CS just fine under XP2 on my AMD64.
Additionally, I would challenge you to this test: let's say you have a stock PHP installation, without the GD libraries linked into the PHP binary. Now let's say you want to create a PHP application that uses GD. Do you A) recompile your PHP server, or B) give up platform-independence and run some kind of system call?
I do this:
yum install php-gd
wow, that was easy! Even if I wasn't using rpm packages, I could compile GD and dynamically load it.
I assume they're there mainly for spare parts?
Yeah and storage.
The official name is the AMARC.
Here's another great Aerial photo
If you're ever in Tucson, the Pima Air and Space museum gives tours of the boneyard.
Same here:
The Boneyard a few miles away from my house.
Pan west... that's a crapload of planes.
epia800 is fanless, and some Epia1000s are fanless.
You can also get a fanless 30W PSU for both. 30W is enough to drive the motherboard, the cpu, and a harddrive.
I met my ex wife of 5 years asking ASL in an IRC chat.
Oooh.. good example!