That's called good business sense. If people are willing to pay more on ebay for something than it costs on Amazon, they deserve to be taken advantage of. "The guy has nary a moral fiber in his body" is pure bs - he's just better than you at the game we call capitalism.
Read Ken Thompson's classic paper on just that. He makes the case that it would, in fact, be not terribly difficult to hide code that does exactly what intel is being accussed of in an open source compiler, without anyone ever knowing it was there.
But how is that any different from what people are assuming this to be? You can't do vga bandwidth over wifi without compression, and compression requires intelligence in the monitor. It's going to have to have ram and a processor and run some os. It might not be as smart as the viewsonic ones, but it'll have them.
If this is in fact a wireless monitor, for the imac or otherwise, it's isn't a new idea. Microsoft came out with a reference platform to do exactly this, see viewsonic's version, but unfortunately they cost a ton. It'll be interesting to see if apple goes down the same route.
I would be pretty cool to have an imac with a detachable wireless monitor, but the imacs are supposed to be 17" and 20" neither of which is particularly portable.
Microsoft made these a few years ago. They had a strongarm proc in them and a wifi chip, and ran wince. Remote Desktop Connection on windows works great even over 802.11b, and in fact is even quite usable over the internet, so whatever apple comes up with should be fine.
Granted, it may not be able to handle games or the genie effect, but plug it in via the connector on the bottom and you've got a much faster dvi connection.
I installed it on all the computers at my house, for my parents/siblings etc, and haven't had complaints. The first thing they asked for when we got a new computer was firefox.
As some of the osnews comments pointed out, there's nothing new about the spacial interface. the first version of macos had it, and windows has had it since win95. In fact, you can still switch to it easily in winxp. However, xp does provide an easy way to turn it off, which nautilus apparently doesn't.
Overall, I think that the spacial metaphor is good for novice users, but once users get used to organizing files and folders themselves, they begin to find that it clutters their interface more than a browser-based interface does.
Or, do what the old-school stereoscopes (i think) did. basically, place a thin piece of cardboard perpendicular to the photos, and let it rest between your eyes, touching your nose. Now, since each eye only sees the intended image, it'll look somewhat 3-d, though you'll have to play with the distance to get it right.
I'd argue that the Americas were not quite "perfectly habitable," especially since the first couple colonization attempts disappeared without a trace, and it took decades for the rest to gain a decent foothold.
And actually, if you paid attention to somewhat publications, you'd see that there's actually a lot of evidence that the Chinese not only made it to South America around a hundred years before columbus, but also circumnavigated the world nearly 200 years before magellan. Both of which are far more impressive than the vikings happening upon iceland.
My campus actually does this the first time you connect using an unknown MAC address. DNS won't tell you anything (although you can still get at on-campus machines by ip) and keeps redirecting you to a registration page, where you have to put in you student id etc, so they can associate your mac address with a particular student. from then on, dhcp gives you the same ip each time you connect.
I think this would be easy to implement (as you've said) for disconnected people, exactly so they aren't left wondering what's wrong with the internet.
I think he's talking about sending them a different gateway and dns server. this way, the gateway ensures they can ONLY get to the virusscan page, and dns helps by only returning its ip, no matter what webpage they asked for. So when they open ie to msn.com, they actually get the "Hey! you have a virus! Here's how to fix it!" page.
Actually, the only time I use an X server on either OS X or Windows is to run unix applications hosted on my campus' network. I just start up the X server, ssh in to our campus network, and start running matlab or any other program. even though I don't have them installed, they show up just like any other program on the desktop, and are actually quite responsive.
Actually, you can do both, without even replacing a dll, just modifying one. Get uxthemeutil from tgtsoft.com. It'll replace uxtheme.dll on your xp box, allowing you to use custom themes (essentially the same as windowblinds but without any program running).
Then get tweakui and enable mouse-brings-to-top. Done.
The idea here is that when you use any 2->1 gate, such as an and gate, you lose one bit of information. Since information is actually just energy, you have to dissapate that energy somewhere, usually as heat. If instead of a 2->1 gate you used 2->2 gates, where one bit is the and product and the other is enough information to reverse the operation, you aren't discarding any information and thus, aren't dissapating any heat.
innocent until proven guilty. the burden of proof is on directv. THEY must prove that you used it illegally, otherwise you can countersue to recover the lawyer's fees.
shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $2,500;
Wow. I wasn't aware of that. In other words, it's not stealing, but it is a criminal offense. This bill just seeks to change the limit from 10 copies and $2500 to 1 copy, no matter what the value.
I disagree with you that free speech requires anonymity. If you have something worth saying, you should be willing to stand behind what you say.
Granted, in many places in the world that will cause bad things to happen to you, but the whole idea behind free speech (at least in the theoretical united states) is that nothing will. Since no one is legally allowed to persecute you for your speech, you should not have any fear of speaking your mind, and thus should have no need for anonymity.
I installed Firebird on one of the 4 computers at my house. The rest of my family is not very technical minded, but within a week I was getting requests to install it on all the computers. Which I happily did.
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That's called good business sense. If people are willing to pay more on ebay for something than it costs on Amazon, they deserve to be taken advantage of. "The guy has nary a moral fiber in his body" is pure bs - he's just better than you at the game we call capitalism.
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Read Ken Thompson's classic paper on just that. He makes the case that it would, in fact, be not terribly difficult to hide code that does exactly what intel is being accussed of in an open source compiler, without anyone ever knowing it was there.
At MIT, at least for laptops brought to class, it's about 10% linux, 25% mac, and 65% windows.
But how is that any different from what people are assuming this to be? You can't do vga bandwidth over wifi without compression, and compression requires intelligence in the monitor. It's going to have to have ram and a processor and run some os. It might not be as smart as the viewsonic ones, but it'll have them.
If this is in fact a wireless monitor, for the imac or otherwise, it's isn't a new idea. Microsoft came out with a reference platform to do exactly this, see viewsonic's version, but unfortunately they cost a ton. It'll be interesting to see if apple goes down the same route.
I would be pretty cool to have an imac with a detachable wireless monitor, but the imacs are supposed to be 17" and 20" neither of which is particularly portable.
Microsoft made these a few years ago. They had a strongarm proc in them and a wifi chip, and ran wince. Remote Desktop Connection on windows works great even over 802.11b, and in fact is even quite usable over the internet, so whatever apple comes up with should be fine.
Granted, it may not be able to handle games or the genie effect, but plug it in via the connector on the bottom and you've got a much faster dvi connection.
My experience with 3 computers has actually been a general speedup, especially for boot time.
I installed it on all the computers at my house, for my parents/siblings etc, and haven't had complaints. The first thing they asked for when we got a new computer was firefox.
As some of the osnews comments pointed out, there's nothing new about the spacial interface. the first version of macos had it, and windows has had it since win95. In fact, you can still switch to it easily in winxp. However, xp does provide an easy way to turn it off, which nautilus apparently doesn't.
Overall, I think that the spacial metaphor is good for novice users, but once users get used to organizing files and folders themselves, they begin to find that it clutters their interface more than a browser-based interface does.
Or, do what the old-school stereoscopes (i think) did. basically, place a thin piece of cardboard perpendicular to the photos, and let it rest between your eyes, touching your nose. Now, since each eye only sees the intended image, it'll look somewhat 3-d, though you'll have to play with the distance to get it right.
I'd argue that the Americas were not quite "perfectly habitable," especially since the first couple colonization attempts disappeared without a trace, and it took decades for the rest to gain a decent foothold.
And actually, if you paid attention to somewhat publications, you'd see that there's actually a lot of evidence that the Chinese not only made it to South America around a hundred years before columbus, but also circumnavigated the world nearly 200 years before magellan. Both of which are far more impressive than the vikings happening upon iceland.
My campus actually does this the first time you connect using an unknown MAC address. DNS won't tell you anything (although you can still get at on-campus machines by ip) and keeps redirecting you to a registration page, where you have to put in you student id etc, so they can associate your mac address with a particular student. from then on, dhcp gives you the same ip each time you connect.
I think this would be easy to implement (as you've said) for disconnected people, exactly so they aren't left wondering what's wrong with the internet.
I think he's talking about sending them a different gateway and dns server. this way, the gateway ensures they can ONLY get to the virusscan page, and dns helps by only returning its ip, no matter what webpage they asked for. So when they open ie to msn.com, they actually get the "Hey! you have a virus! Here's how to fix it!" page.
Which, as people have started to mention, are New York, Miami, and Oakland (not LA).
Actually, the only time I use an X server on either OS X or Windows is to run unix applications hosted on my campus' network. I just start up the X server, ssh in to our campus network, and start running matlab or any other program. even though I don't have them installed, they show up just like any other program on the desktop, and are actually quite responsive.
Actually, you can do both, without even replacing a dll, just modifying one. Get uxthemeutil from tgtsoft.com. It'll replace uxtheme.dll on your xp box, allowing you to use custom themes (essentially the same as windowblinds but without any program running).
Then get tweakui and enable mouse-brings-to-top. Done.
The idea here is that when you use any 2->1 gate, such as an and gate, you lose one bit of information. Since information is actually just energy, you have to dissapate that energy somewhere, usually as heat. If instead of a 2->1 gate you used 2->2 gates, where one bit is the and product and the other is enough information to reverse the operation, you aren't discarding any information and thus, aren't dissapating any heat.
You mean like a cue-cat?
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Copyright violations are punishable by imprisonment.
innocent until proven guilty. the burden of proof is on directv. THEY must prove that you used it illegally, otherwise you can countersue to recover the lawyer's fees.
shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $2,500;
Wow. I wasn't aware of that. In other words, it's not stealing, but it is a criminal offense. This bill just seeks to change the limit from 10 copies and $2500 to 1 copy, no matter what the value.
I disagree with you that free speech requires anonymity. If you have something worth saying, you should be willing to stand behind what you say.
Granted, in many places in the world that will cause bad things to happen to you, but the whole idea behind free speech (at least in the theoretical united states) is that nothing will. Since no one is legally allowed to persecute you for your speech, you should not have any fear of speaking your mind, and thus should have no need for anonymity.
I installed Firebird on one of the 4 computers at my house. The rest of my family is not very technical minded, but within a week I was getting requests to install it on all the computers. Which I happily did.
I'd guess that they'd use XP embedded instead of regular xp for just that reason. They can pick and choose what options to include.