Just so it's clear that the previous poster wasn't kidding...
Apple's 100 series laptops (and the 500 series, too, if I recall) had SCSI internal HD's in the 2.5" form factor, and had an external SCSI interface.
I still lament that SCSI didn't become the more popular standard rather than the kludgy IDE.
If it became the standard and got integrated into the chipsets, it wouldn't cost any more than IDE does today and would have provided consumers with a much more versatile interface.
I don't understand why this is flamebait. I guess it's just because it goes against the majority opinion on/.
Last time I commented on a related topic, someone responded by commenting that the song he/she/it downloaded lead to he/she/it buying the songs in question. (or somethign to that effect), as if that was somehow a rebuttal to my comment.
I'm sort of tired of people who cite increased CD sales to somehow justify piracy. That's totally beside the point. It's the copyright owners' prerogative to dictate how the works are sold, or not sold, for that matter. If the copyright owners didn't want the increased sales from allowing P2P, that's still their prerogative. It does not change their right to distribute or not distribute the work as they please. They can sew the master copy inside a matress and sit on it, if that's what they want to do.
Our prerogative, as consumers, is to not pay for said works if we don't agree with the terms under which they make it available. That's it. Piracy is piracy whether or not P2P leads to million or billion CD sales. Smart labels will realize this and capitalize on it; stupid ones will fight until they run out of money and lose to the others with a little more business savvy.
The industry's treatment of artists is also a completely separate discussion. No matter how crappy the artists' deals are, it STILL doesn't transfer copyright to pirates. If you don't like the way the labels do business, it's your prerogative not to buy from them. It still doesn't grant you rights to use the works they have the rights to without permission.
If you don't like the copyright laws, try to have the laws changed. However, until the laws do change, you STILL don't have the right to pirate copyrighted works.
Nobody forced these kids to distribute these files. If they were in fact participating in piracy, they deserve whatever reprimand they get.
Get it through your thick skulls -- It's the copyright owners' right not have their work distributed through P2P.
As it so happens, "kill two birds with one stone" has a direct translation in a colloquial phrase "isseki nichou". (one stone two birds). I think it's one of the small fraction of cases where this occurs, however.
I think I read that the "Firewire" name can now be used by eveybody, as it has become adopted by the standards body as the official name. So there is not longer a reason to keep the separate name, other than inertia.
That's funny. In my fit of retro-gaming, I had JUST finished a session of XCOM:EU a minute ago and fired up the browser to see this. It's still a good game, and one of the reasons I keep this Cyrix/200 box around.
It's not just the difficult to find free player. . . I forgot which one of the plugins it was (Macromedia, wmp, Real. . . but I'm sure it wasn't Quicktime), but the web site kept me from getting at the download from a different platform. i.e., I was trying to grab the Windows version of the player for a friend on my Powerbook, but the web site absolutely refused to let me get at the windows version of the download, no matter what games I tried with the URLs and links clicked. (In retrospect, I should have found a browser that lets me set my user agent.) The upshot was that in their lame attempt to be "helpful", they prevented someone from downloading the player and thus increasing their user base. I'm thinking it was Macromedia. Anyway, I thought that was even lamer than hiding the free player link.
It may not necessarily be "affordable", but you can use any PS/PS2 controller with one of the many PS->USB converters on the market. The one I have, I believe, is called something like "Kiki Joy" (poing! poing!)
Perhaps I'm just feeling cynical, but why do I get the feeling that these tracks will appear on kazaa, et. al. in no time flat, and the generation raised on Napster will simply take that, rather than supporting these types of enterprises. It's just human nature to take the "easy route".
In fact, that's pretty much how the whole thing got started, no? Since it was so easy to rip a CD and put it on Napster. With this thing, one doesn't even have to rip it first.
I often imagine what the world would have been like if millions of people didn't blatantly abuse their fair use rights in the days of Napster. People here complain about being treated like criminals, but the whole Napster episode demonstrated with ample evidence to the record companies that yes, indeed, many people, if not the majority, would pirate music if given the chance. If these people had shown a little restraint, the record companies would never have noticed, and the rest of us law-abiding citizens wouldn't have been encumbered with annoying DRM schemes. I guess that's the idealist in me talking.
So, even though they might be evil for lashing out like cornered animals and suing teenage girls and old ladies, I still feel that the abusers share equal blame in this whole mess.
This is a bit OT, but I bought myself an ASUS 7100 a while ago in the hopes that I can flash it w/ Mac firmware. After trying for a while and getting blank screens, I gave up, flashed it back, and resigned myself to having a decent backup vidcard for my Win/AMD PC's.
So, if you read this, could you tell me what you did to flash it?
I know there was a web site on this topic and I followed the instructions there. No dice.
Perhaps my problem is that the flash trick doesn't work with PCI GF2MXs or older macs, which I believe was implied on the web site.
In the knee-jerk reaction against anything that mentions the DCMA, people seem to have lost sight of the fact that this might be a useful service. Off hand, I can't think of any way to implement this sort of thing cost effectively if the 'unhackability' requirement is imposed.
As the parent post noted, it appears that the presumption that anything that can be hacked constitutes a bad business model seems to rule out many useful and beneficial developments in the future.
The DCMA might have been bought by corrupt businesses from corrupt politicians, but as far as I can tell, it was in turn a reaction to many people's blatant disregard for copyright as demonstrated by Napster et. al.
Whoa. I hope you googled for this. . . because the possibility that someone can just rattle this off the top of his head is just too scary to contemplate.
Along those lines, older Apple laptops (back when they all used to have SCSI ports rather than firewire) can be placed in a "scsi disk mode".
This allowd you to hook the laptop up to any Mac desktop and use it as a SCSI disk. This was possible even on Powerbooks with internal IDE drives.
I guess what I'm saying is that yeah, something like that should be possible, although the Apple solution probably required some support in firmware (BIOS).
This totally reminded me of a little cartoon I drew one time. I wish I'd kept it. It was a cover of a hypothetical "Stapler Monthly", with headlines such as "The New Swingline 447, is it Worth the Wait?", "Shootout: 20 latest Staple Removers Compared", "Stapling Tips: 20 do's and don'ts", "2003 Product Guide Issue"
The sutbtle point of the cartoon was that non-enthusiasts of any given topic will never understand the enthusiasts. (In this case, taken to the extreme with staplers.)
Hmm. . . I remember most non-frosh tech (as opposed to Hum/Soc) classes being more like 6-15 students. Has it really gotten that bad? I guess if the sibling post was right (780 students) and they didn't increase faculty, that could happen.
In any case, one of the main reasons to go to Mudd (or any of the Clarmont complex) is to have the other schools available to you. I'm not sure these rankings take that into account fairly.
Indeed! I can't believe reasonably intelligent people can still possibly believe this myth. Even a minute of thought will reveal that fallacy of "teach kids Windows because that's what's in the workforce".
As stated by the parent poster, they can't possibly expect applications and OS's to be the same 10 years down the road. (well, maybe if MS gets its way and gets a 100% monopoly, they will. ..)
As an example, when I was in high school, they taught keyboarding on WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS because that was the "business standard". By the time I was out of college and joining the workforce, all the various F-key shortcuts and commands for WP5.1 were COMPLETELY useless. However, the keyboarding/touch typing skills were generally applicable and still helps me every day. In fact, any Macintosh word processors of that time far more closely resemble modern word processors than WP ever did.
Another example: I took computer drafting in high school on AutoCAD release 10 for DOS. Again, the application-specific skills were completely useless by the time I got out of college. The paper drafting class I took, on the other hand, taught me geometry and construction skills that are still useful for making sketches and visualization.
Kids should be taught how to use computers to solve problems, do research, and help them think. Any reasonably modern computer is capable of this.
Teaching "Windows", "Word", or "Excel" as such is extremely poor use of classroom and teacher time.
It really makes my blood boil to see people spew this nonsense, especially when it's patently obvious how wrong it is if they give it just a moment of thought.
Along those lines, VST (now SmartDisk) had a 'tower' of sorts where you can plug in up to 6 (or so) of their 2.5" firewire chassis. The bottom slot was for a Powerbook style battery so that the whole thing can run off of battery. It was designed to be RAIDed. I thought it was a cool idea, but unfortunately, they don't seem to sell it any more.
Computer. . . arch!
Computer! Computer? Respond, computer.
Computer, run level 1 diagnostics... ...so has anyone else gotten the program to terminate? Or at least gotten the arch to appear? Anyone? Darn, this thing's STILL on the fritz.
Captain to bridge! Respond.
Damn...
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Apple's 100 series laptops (and the 500 series, too, if I recall) had SCSI internal HD's in the 2.5" form factor, and had an external SCSI interface.
I still lament that SCSI didn't become the more popular standard rather than the kludgy IDE.
If it became the standard and got integrated into the chipsets, it wouldn't cost any more than IDE does today and would have provided consumers with a much more versatile interface.
Just in case you weren't kidding, Office 2004 is a real, announced MS product for the macintosh.
Reminds me of a You Don't Know Jack commercial: SPLAT
SPreadable Lips Anuses and Teets, the Other alternative meat!
Last time I commented on a related topic, someone responded by commenting that the song he/she/it downloaded lead to he/she/it buying the songs in question. (or somethign to that effect), as if that was somehow a rebuttal to my comment.
I'm sort of tired of people who cite increased CD sales to somehow justify piracy. That's totally beside the point. It's the copyright owners' prerogative to dictate how the works are sold, or not sold, for that matter. If the copyright owners didn't want the increased sales from allowing P2P, that's still their prerogative. It does not change their right to distribute or not distribute the work as they please. They can sew the master copy inside a matress and sit on it, if that's what they want to do.
Our prerogative, as consumers, is to not pay for said works if we don't agree with the terms under which they make it available. That's it. Piracy is piracy whether or not P2P leads to million or billion CD sales. Smart labels will realize this and capitalize on it; stupid ones will fight until they run out of money and lose to the others with a little more business savvy.
The industry's treatment of artists is also a completely separate discussion. No matter how crappy the artists' deals are, it STILL doesn't transfer copyright to pirates. If you don't like the way the labels do business, it's your prerogative not to buy from them. It still doesn't grant you rights to use the works they have the rights to without permission.
If you don't like the copyright laws, try to have the laws changed. However, until the laws do change, you STILL don't have the right to pirate copyrighted works.
Nobody forced these kids to distribute these files. If they were in fact participating in piracy, they deserve whatever reprimand they get.
Get it through your thick skulls -- It's the copyright owners' right not have their work distributed through P2P.
As it so happens, "kill two birds with one stone" has a direct translation in a colloquial phrase "isseki nichou". (one stone two birds). I think it's one of the small fraction of cases where this occurs, however.
I think I read that the "Firewire" name can now be used by eveybody, as it has become adopted by the standards body as the official name. So there is not longer a reason to keep the separate name, other than inertia.
... tastes better than flan.
When I see BRULE(E), I can only think of dessert.
It was a while ago, but the gist of it was that a discrete-time system described thus:
z[n] = z[n-1] + z[n-2], describes a fibonnaci sequence
Solving for the impulse response, or
z[0] = 0, z[1] = 1
will give the transfer function of the discrete time system, which is exactly the forumula for finding the n-th element of the fibonacci sequence.
That's funny. In my fit of retro-gaming, I had JUST finished a session of XCOM:EU a minute ago and fired up the browser to see this. It's still a good game, and one of the reasons I keep this Cyrix/200 box around.
Did the scientists announce these in clean-room bunny suits?
It's not just the difficult to find free player. . . I forgot which one of the plugins it was (Macromedia, wmp, Real. . . but I'm sure it wasn't Quicktime), but the web site kept me from getting at the download from a different platform. i.e., I was trying to grab the Windows version of the player for a friend on my Powerbook, but the web site absolutely refused to let me get at the windows version of the download, no matter what games I tried with the URLs and links clicked. (In retrospect, I should have found a browser that lets me set my user agent.) The upshot was that in their lame attempt to be "helpful", they prevented someone from downloading the player and thus increasing their user base. I'm thinking it was Macromedia. Anyway, I thought that was even lamer than hiding the free player link.
It may not necessarily be "affordable", but you can use any PS/PS2 controller with one of the many PS->USB converters on the market. The one I have, I believe, is called something like "Kiki Joy" (poing! poing!)
In fact, that's pretty much how the whole thing got started, no? Since it was so easy to rip a CD and put it on Napster. With this thing, one doesn't even have to rip it first.
I often imagine what the world would have been like if millions of people didn't blatantly abuse their fair use rights in the days of Napster. People here complain about being treated like criminals, but the whole Napster episode demonstrated with ample evidence to the record companies that yes, indeed, many people, if not the majority, would pirate music if given the chance. If these people had shown a little restraint, the record companies would never have noticed, and the rest of us law-abiding citizens wouldn't have been encumbered with annoying DRM schemes. I guess that's the idealist in me talking.
So, even though they might be evil for lashing out like cornered animals and suing teenage girls and old ladies, I still feel that the abusers share equal blame in this whole mess.
I think the original joke was intended to sound like a cheap (and therefore inaccurate-for-earth) knockoff of Rolex watches.
And yes, the joke is a lot less funy when it has to be explained.
So, if you read this, could you tell me what you did to flash it?
I know there was a web site on this topic and I followed the instructions there. No dice.
Perhaps my problem is that the flash trick doesn't work with PCI GF2MXs or older macs, which I believe was implied on the web site.
In the knee-jerk reaction against anything that mentions the DCMA, people seem to have lost sight of the fact that this might be a useful service. Off hand, I can't think of any way to implement this sort of thing cost effectively if the 'unhackability' requirement is imposed.
As the parent post noted, it appears that the presumption that anything that can be hacked constitutes a bad business model seems to rule out many useful and beneficial developments in the future.
The DCMA might have been bought by corrupt businesses from corrupt politicians, but as far as I can tell, it was in turn a reaction to many people's blatant disregard for copyright as demonstrated by Napster et. al.
This looks like the opposite of what you're advocating. I think you meant the line should be kept clear.
Now pardon me while I try to get this holodeck simulation to terminate.
"Computer, End program!"
"Computer!"
"Computer!?"
"End this simulation, NOW!"
Whoa. I hope you googled for this. . . because the possibility that someone can just rattle this off the top of his head is just too scary to contemplate.
This allowd you to hook the laptop up to any Mac desktop and use it as a SCSI disk. This was possible even on Powerbooks with internal IDE drives.
I guess what I'm saying is that yeah, something like that should be possible, although the Apple solution probably required some support in firmware (BIOS).
The sutbtle point of the cartoon was that non-enthusiasts of any given topic will never understand the enthusiasts. (In this case, taken to the extreme with staplers.)
In any case, one of the main reasons to go to Mudd (or any of the Clarmont complex) is to have the other schools available to you. I'm not sure these rankings take that into account fairly.
As stated by the parent poster, they can't possibly expect applications and OS's to be the same 10 years down the road. (well, maybe if MS gets its way and gets a 100% monopoly, they will. . .)
As an example, when I was in high school, they taught keyboarding on WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS because that was the "business standard". By the time I was out of college and joining the workforce, all the various F-key shortcuts and commands for WP5.1 were COMPLETELY useless. However, the keyboarding/touch typing skills were generally applicable and still helps me every day. In fact, any Macintosh word processors of that time far more closely resemble modern word processors than WP ever did.
Another example: I took computer drafting in high school on AutoCAD release 10 for DOS. Again, the application-specific skills were completely useless by the time I got out of college. The paper drafting class I took, on the other hand, taught me geometry and construction skills that are still useful for making sketches and visualization.
Kids should be taught how to use computers to solve problems, do research, and help them think. Any reasonably modern computer is capable of this.
Teaching "Windows", "Word", or "Excel" as such is extremely poor use of classroom and teacher time. It really makes my blood boil to see people spew this nonsense, especially when it's patently obvious how wrong it is if they give it just a moment of thought.
Along those lines, VST (now SmartDisk) had a 'tower' of sorts where you can plug in up to 6 (or so) of their 2.5" firewire chassis. The bottom slot was for a Powerbook style battery so that the whole thing can run off of battery. It was designed to be RAIDed. I thought it was a cool idea, but unfortunately, they don't seem to sell it any more.
Computer. . . arch!
...so has anyone else gotten the program to terminate? Or at least gotten the arch to appear? Anyone?
Computer! Computer? Respond, computer.
Computer, run level 1 diagnostics...
Darn, this thing's STILL on the fritz.
Captain to bridge! Respond. Damn...
Just to stay on topic, it looks like the slashdot.jp frontpage story has a little more info. Regarding this.
Thankfully, my Japanese reading comprehension borders on pathetic, so I won't spend too much time there.