Kinda, except the hack would have to do something blatantly illegal, like load pirated ROMs to to play, and it would have to inevitably result in Nintendo cracking down on all Wireless hacking and crippling DS wireless in the future.
Then it would be like people breaking Apple's DRM.
(I know, I know, no feeding the troll, sorry guys.)
The idea of this is great but the problem here is with precision. Balance is a pretty easy signal to process but with sight, they're trying to send uncompressed, massive resolution video signals through the tongue! Your tongue isn't that sensitive. Sure, you'll be able to make out some basic shapes with practice but a little vision is a bit more dangerous than none. Mr. Magoo anyone?
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Apple's campus is a little different, though the result is the same. Steve Jobs is really into micromanagement and he's actually good enough to pull it off. However he's also verbally abusive and extremely overbearing. As a result, employees work under a sort of omniscient eye (though they do have other bosses). Everything that the omniscient eye approves of becomes a smash hit. So they work their asses off on their own for some sort of approval.
It's a really interesting way to manage a company (though incredibly draining psychologically on the employees) and it explains a lot of the way Apple seems to work. Just look at the care that goes into the little details of the system. It ensures that while employees are being pushed, they are the ones pushing themselves and this passion shows up in their work. I don't know of many bosses that could pull off this sort of atmosphere without frustrating employees and making them quit.
In addition, after the release of 10.3, the OS development team took a serious break. Having used the OS for over a year now, for how much it has progressed so quickly, I can say that they really deserved the change of pace.
For Quicktime version 4, Apple was having so much trouble getting the Quicktime API working on Windows that they ended up re-implementing a good chunk of Carbon under Windows rather than try to fit Quicktime's round peg into the square hole that is the 9x API. However, since iTunes 4 only runs on Win 2000 and up, then it probably doesn't use much of that original partial ported carbon API.
The server may have survived longer if the images had been actually resized. Many are 500KB - 1MB each, html resized to 800x600. I'm trying to make a mirror of the mirror and use true resized images but I'm getting about 500 bytes/sec.
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Research? Have you ever heard the man speak? You think we'll need to induce sleep chemically?!
"As Americans we are absolutely united, all of us -- there are no Democrats, there are no Republicans -- as Americans, we are united in our determination..."
Well, I guess mac OS X doesn't have a framework called URL Mount that lets you hit command-shift-g in any standard (or non-standard if you do things right) open or save box and type a URL beginning with smb, ftp, afp, etc and let you save files there. It's good that hitting command-shift-k doesn't bring up a listing of local servers you can open and save documents to as if they were local. It's good that ssh:// and telnet:// and sftp:// were all in my head. The ability to add new protocols and file systems is there too. Not quite sure how imap:// would work but if you know, please tell me.
Oh, you want to talk about using certain local abilities like CD encoding transparently in your apps? Why don't look at the quicktime framework, free for any app to use. You wanted to do it via URL? Why? That doesn't even make sense, especially if it's for developer use. Messages offer way more flexibility. I guess if you wanted you could add functionality to the audo CD framework so that copying files didn't result in AIFFs but MP3s, but that seams like a really bloatware-ish idea.
Oh, and this is always helpful in OS X too. x-man-page:chmod
You know what? It is, but I've never seen a single Mac, even in an Apple Store, even is the most idiotic user's house, that does not have it turned on. Funny how things work that way.
Last time I checked, you could have any application take control of any protocol handler in OS X, even ones you've made up yourself, by simply adding a child to an array in an XML file located in the app's package. This actually caused the problem where a virus could auto-download a file to the user's hard drive and run the program via a url accessing that protocol to launch the app without the user's knowledge. Apple fixed this by making a dialog coming up the first time a file or URL accesses and app but I still think it was a dumb idea to link the internet and local applications in such an insecure way.
How about a box with the url, the app being called, "Allow" and "Deny" buttons and a checkbox to make the setting stick? Even then it's a bad idea. All it takes is one dumb app to compromise your system at user level. Launching these apps with guest permissions? Does KDE do these things? Why brag about such a dumb feature?
For Metroid, I'll assume you mean Samus (the woman in the suit, not those creepy bug things known as metroid life forms). Well, Samus and Zelda are both chicks. Suicide Girls... I like where this is going.
Technically VGA is.. you can't increase resolution...blah blah blah. This is why people at Slashdot need to all be slapped. This is a press release, of course it's not technically correct. I'll help you guys out here.
This tech is to increase visibility and clarity on low res screens by taking into account sub-pixels. They are not increasing resolution, they're just stepping back and reconsidering what a pixel is. Mac OS X does this, but it's not the same thing as Samsung's tech, since it's only for text and it's done in software. Same concept though, Samsung has just taken it a step farther. On an ultra low-res, underpowered device, having sub-pixel rendering/antialiasing on silicon would help readability immensely.
She endorsed Pepsi, not Coke. And apparently it worked, because I remember that. Unfortunately for them, I don't really like either cola so their mindfuck was just a waste.
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
This Futurama moment brought to you by... Lightspeed briefs: style and comfort for the discriminating crotch.
I have a setup where I let people stream and browse (not download) my iTunes library via Apache and PHP, upload their own music via a CGI script, which places the file in a folder watched by Applescript, which then passes the song off to iTunes, which adds it to my library and sorts it. Then the original in the folder is deleted.
I should probably release my system but it's so hard to set up that very few people would use it. I was writing an installer a while back but stopped due to a lack of time.
CNN reported in the wee hours of the morning today that a Florida Supreme Court decision has confirmed Ralph Nader's spot on the sunshine state's ballot.
I'm not quite sure who I'm more ashamed of, the Democrats or the Republicans. The Democrats have fought Nader's appearance on the ballot every step of the way. They claimed his party had been defunct in the state of Florida for many years, which would require him to gather signatures in order to appear on the ballot. The Dems are only backing off now after the court handed down its decision. They know that it will be close to impossible to win over Florida with Nader on the ballot.
The Republicans are equally as horrid and self serving. Nader's views are against both major parties but moreso against the Republicans. It doesn't take a political analyst to realize they only want Nader because he'll take away FAR more votes from the Democrats than the GOP. This story isn't restricted to Florida, either. The same can be said for many states, including Ohio and Oregon.
But what on earth is Ralph Nader trying to prove? Surely he want's Bush out of the Whitehouse and surely he knows that he couldn't possibly be the one to do it.Hope may spring eternal in Naderland but he's not an idiot. Kevin Zeese, a spokesman for Nader's Campaign said to CNN: "We hope Democrats engage on issues and stop anti-democratic efforts to prevent voters from having a choice."The key here is engaging the Democrats.While Nader has no real chance of getting into the Witehouse, he can ensure that some of his key issues do.By forcing himself onto the ballot in battleground states, Nader is essentially forcing the Dems to adopt some of his agenda in order to win back some of the votes he'd otherwise take from them.
As Nader sees it, he doesn't need to become president to change the country. Now let's just hope Kerry decides not to play hardball and his plan works.
I can't believe Apple would do something like this to 10.2 users! I paid $120 for Mac OS X v10.2 and now Apple refuses to fix critical security flaws in my OS, which is not yet 2 years old. I refuse to pay this annual Apple tax! And what's with the one mouse button, overpriced, non-upgradable hardware, combustible batteries, and abnormally long file copy times. I mean come on my 486 box with... wait, what?
The update IS for 10.2 and 10.3 users? Oh. Good then. I don't really feel like deleting the other stuff I wrote. Good to get it out of the way anyway, I guess.
I'm sorry, in my rush to post before class, I forgot to mention the "heartland" too. Generally the old south and a strip up from Texas to Montana. Ditto for all the other posts pointing this out to me. Same demographic with disproportionate votes though.
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Kinda, except the hack would have to do something blatantly illegal, like load pirated ROMs to to play, and it would have to inevitably result in Nintendo cracking down on all Wireless hacking and crippling DS wireless in the future. Then it would be like people breaking Apple's DRM. (I know, I know, no feeding the troll, sorry guys.)
The idea of this is great but the problem here is with precision. Balance is a pretty easy signal to process but with sight, they're trying to send uncompressed, massive resolution video signals through the tongue! Your tongue isn't that sensitive. Sure, you'll be able to make out some basic shapes with practice but a little vision is a bit more dangerous than none. Mr. Magoo anyone?
Apple's campus is a little different, though the result is the same. Steve Jobs is really into micromanagement and he's actually good enough to pull it off. However he's also verbally abusive and extremely overbearing. As a result, employees work under a sort of omniscient eye (though they do have other bosses). Everything that the omniscient eye approves of becomes a smash hit. So they work their asses off on their own for some sort of approval.
It's a really interesting way to manage a company (though incredibly draining psychologically on the employees) and it explains a lot of the way Apple seems to work. Just look at the care that goes into the little details of the system. It ensures that while employees are being pushed, they are the ones pushing themselves and this passion shows up in their work. I don't know of many bosses that could pull off this sort of atmosphere without frustrating employees and making them quit.
In addition, after the release of 10.3, the OS development team took a serious break. Having used the OS for over a year now, for how much it has progressed so quickly, I can say that they really deserved the change of pace.
For Quicktime version 4, Apple was having so much trouble getting the Quicktime API working on Windows that they ended up re-implementing a good chunk of Carbon under Windows rather than try to fit Quicktime's round peg into the square hole that is the 9x API. However, since iTunes 4 only runs on Win 2000 and up, then it probably doesn't use much of that original partial ported carbon API.
If you're like me and have access to all kinds of media, you might want a different kind of coverage. The fake and hilarious kind.
Lefterer.com's Fake Election Coverage.
I've been helping orchestrate the effort and it's pretty funny so far. Tune in.
Yeah, can I no longer be considered a "Mac user"? I'll continue to use my G5 because it's a great machine but I'll willingly give up the title now.
The server may have survived longer if the images had been actually resized. Many are 500KB - 1MB each, html resized to 800x600. I'm trying to make a mirror of the mirror and use true resized images but I'm getting about 500 bytes/sec.
Research? Have you ever heard the man speak? You think we'll need to induce sleep chemically?!
"As Americans we are absolutely united, all of us -- there are no Democrats, there are no Republicans -- as Americans, we are united in our determination..."
And I've blacked out.
Slashdot butchered that last link: Chmod Man page
Well, I guess mac OS X doesn't have a framework called URL Mount that lets you hit command-shift-g in any standard (or non-standard if you do things right) open or save box and type a URL beginning with smb, ftp, afp, etc and let you save files there. It's good that hitting command-shift-k doesn't bring up a listing of local servers you can open and save documents to as if they were local. It's good that ssh:// and telnet:// and sftp:// were all in my head. The ability to add new protocols and file systems is there too. Not quite sure how imap:// would work but if you know, please tell me. Oh, you want to talk about using certain local abilities like CD encoding transparently in your apps? Why don't look at the quicktime framework, free for any app to use. You wanted to do it via URL? Why? That doesn't even make sense, especially if it's for developer use. Messages offer way more flexibility. I guess if you wanted you could add functionality to the audo CD framework so that copying files didn't result in AIFFs but MP3s, but that seams like a really bloatware-ish idea. Oh, and this is always helpful in OS X too. x-man-page:chmod
You know what? It is, but I've never seen a single Mac, even in an Apple Store, even is the most idiotic user's house, that does not have it turned on. Funny how things work that way.
Last time I checked, you could have any application take control of any protocol handler in OS X, even ones you've made up yourself, by simply adding a child to an array in an XML file located in the app's package. This actually caused the problem where a virus could auto-download a file to the user's hard drive and run the program via a url accessing that protocol to launch the app without the user's knowledge. Apple fixed this by making a dialog coming up the first time a file or URL accesses and app but I still think it was a dumb idea to link the internet and local applications in such an insecure way.
How about a box with the url, the app being called, "Allow" and "Deny" buttons and a checkbox to make the setting stick? Even then it's a bad idea. All it takes is one dumb app to compromise your system at user level. Launching these apps with guest permissions? Does KDE do these things? Why brag about such a dumb feature?
For Metroid, I'll assume you mean Samus (the woman in the suit, not those creepy bug things known as metroid life forms). Well, Samus and Zelda are both chicks. Suicide Girls... I like where this is going.
Technically VGA is.. you can't increase resolution...blah blah blah. This is why people at Slashdot need to all be slapped. This is a press release, of course it's not technically correct. I'll help you guys out here.
This tech is to increase visibility and clarity on low res screens by taking into account sub-pixels. They are not increasing resolution, they're just stepping back and reconsidering what a pixel is. Mac OS X does this, but it's not the same thing as Samsung's tech, since it's only for text and it's done in software. Same concept though, Samsung has just taken it a step farther. On an ultra low-res, underpowered device, having sub-pixel rendering/antialiasing on silicon would help readability immensely.
She endorsed Pepsi, not Coke. And apparently it worked, because I remember that. Unfortunately for them, I don't really like either cola so their mindfuck was just a waste.
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
This Futurama moment brought to you by...
Lightspeed briefs: style and comfort for the discriminating crotch.
I'd say it would be a shot at Bush for his preemptive strike on Iraq based on faulty intelligence.
I have a setup where I let people stream and browse (not download) my iTunes library via Apache and PHP, upload their own music via a CGI script, which places the file in a folder watched by Applescript, which then passes the song off to iTunes, which adds it to my library and sorts it. Then the original in the folder is deleted.
I should probably release my system but it's so hard to set up that very few people would use it. I was writing an installer a while back but stopped due to a lack of time.
I've written an editorial on this at my political website (please visit it!)
Hurricane Nader Hits Florida
CNN reported in the wee hours of the morning today that a Florida Supreme Court decision has confirmed Ralph Nader's spot on the sunshine state's ballot.
I'm not quite sure who I'm more ashamed of, the Democrats or the Republicans. The Democrats have fought Nader's appearance on the ballot every step of the way. They claimed his party had been defunct in the state of Florida for many years, which would require him to gather signatures in order to appear on the ballot. The Dems are only backing off now after the court handed down its decision. They know that it will be close to impossible to win over Florida with Nader on the ballot.
The Republicans are equally as horrid and self serving. Nader's views are against both major parties but moreso against the Republicans. It doesn't take a political analyst to realize they only want Nader because he'll take away FAR more votes from the Democrats than the GOP. This story isn't restricted to Florida, either. The same can be said for many states, including Ohio and Oregon.
But what on earth is Ralph Nader trying to prove? Surely he want's Bush out of the Whitehouse and surely he knows that he couldn't possibly be the one to do it.Hope may spring eternal in Naderland but he's not an idiot. Kevin Zeese, a spokesman for Nader's Campaign said to CNN: "We hope Democrats engage on issues and stop anti-democratic efforts to prevent voters from having a choice."The key here is engaging the Democrats.While Nader has no real chance of getting into the Witehouse, he can ensure that some of his key issues do.By forcing himself onto the ballot in battleground states, Nader is essentially forcing the Dems to adopt some of his agenda in order to win back some of the votes he'd otherwise take from them.
As Nader sees it, he doesn't need to become president to change the country. Now let's just hope Kerry decides not to play hardball and his plan works.
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I can't believe Apple would do something like this to 10.2 users! I paid $120 for Mac OS X v10.2 and now Apple refuses to fix critical security flaws in my OS, which is not yet 2 years old. I refuse to pay this annual Apple tax! And what's with the one mouse button, overpriced, non-upgradable hardware, combustible batteries, and abnormally long file copy times. I mean come on my 486 box with... wait, what?
The update IS for 10.2 and 10.3 users? Oh. Good then. I don't really feel like deleting the other stuff I wrote. Good to get it out of the way anyway, I guess.
Thanks Apple!
No we wouldn't. Bush lost the popular vote by 500,000 in 2000. That's way more than the number of votes that were disputed in Florida.
I'm sorry, in my rush to post before class, I forgot to mention the "heartland" too. Generally the old south and a strip up from Texas to Montana. Ditto for all the other posts pointing this out to me. Same demographic with disproportionate votes though.