I know the chip is physically there, but I don't think it's being used for anything important. My proof? Well, for starters, someone (Blex86r from the OSX86 project) got OS X for x86 running in VMWare. If there was DRM, I think he might have had a bit of a harder time getting it to work.
I know the chip is physically there, but I don't think it's being used for anything important. My proof? Well, for starters, someone (Blex86r from the OSX86 project) http://www.flickr.com/photos/56598311@N00">got OS X for x86 running in VMWare. If there was DRM, I think he might have had a bit of a harder time getting it to work.
My writeup for this article (submitted nearly 4 hours ago) was a bit more detailed so I might as well post it as a comment.
As if we needed yet another sign of the impending apocalypse, Apple announced today that they will be selling a multi-button mouse. The aptly-named "Mighty Mouse" features two top buttons (actually, one that's a touch sensitive panel to determine which side of the mouse has been clicked), a secondary button that is activated by squeezing the sides of the mouse, and a clickable, bidirectional scroll ball. It also contains a small speaker to give user feedback when clicking or scrolling. The mouse is programmable from the Mac OS X Mouse Control Panel and will retail for $49. It has not yet been bundled with any Macs and is not available as a build-to-order option. It is, however, PC compatible.
Revolutionary user-centric design? Who the hell let Microsoft's marketing department post a story here?
Now I'm not just blowing smoke here because I hate IE, but that "review" was the grossest, most one-sided waste of my time that I'd ever read. The guy praised Microsoft (and rightly so) for adding the search field and generally making the browser feature complete with every single other browser that has been out since 2002, but I don't think I heard one single critisizm other than the author not liking the use of the word "phishing". He said that there wasn't one default setting he would have changed, but what about the fact that phishing protection is OFF by default? We're talking about people who fall for phishing scams here. They won't have a clue how to enable something like that. Good UI design? How about the fact that the menubar is UNDER the tabs. What crack-smoking UI designer thought that one up? Ugh, the broswer looks like Firefox with a bad interface, the atrociously bad IE render engine (check out how badly it butchers the acid test!), and a phishing protection sceme that's off by default. Is that what user-centric design means?
The volume and mute buttons on a TiVo remote interface with the TV directly. So yes, if your TV has mute, so does your TiVo. Was there a joke in your post I missed? I thought that someone on slashdot of all places would know that TiVo is a set top box that can be turned off and muted.
Chainarong Sretthachau, director of the conservation group Southeast Asia Rivers Network in Chiang Mai, Thailand, said threats to the giant catfish include commercial fishing, their touting to tourists as a food said to impart wisdom, and dynamite blasting of their spawning ground.
What the hell? I thought that was a joke in cartoons. People actually fish en masse like that? Does it even work?
Eh, the post doesn't even make sense due to an errant br tag. The middle paragraph is gone. I'd blame it on drunkenness but I'm at work. So I'll blame it on drunkenness and boredom.
I suppose it makes me ill in the same sense that a video of a man filleting his penis might make you sick. They're making obvious and painful mistakes. Not only that, they're one of the more powerful political lobbies in the US. These morons making these mistakes are the same guys who are influencing our laws.
I have no problem with the iTunes music store, especially since no steps have been takin in quite a while to hinder people from decrypting songs purchased there. I have no issue paying for music but this buisiness model is stupid and has failed before.
1.) Set up service with the downsides of buying music (having to pay, shitty RIAA-only selection) 2.) Match that with the downsides of peer to peer file sharing (having to upload, disorganization, no physical cd) 3.) Slap on some draconian Microsoft DRM for good measure 4.) ??? 5.) Chapter 11!
Note: Step 4 may or may not be an earthquake caused by everyone on the planet going "huh?!" at the same time.
Also, I needed a title for the post so I made a random one and now all I can think of is eating babies.
That's like a supermarket selling you oranges, but making you pick them up from the supplier yourself.
No, it's more like the supermarket charging you to sell their oranges. Sure, you get to eat a few on the job but in the end, you're paying them to work there.
How is it even possible that the RIAA things this is a good idea?! This is quite possibly the stupid thing I've ever heard of. In fact, I think I've heard this buisiness plan before. Does anyone recall the Scour Network? Basically it was a napster-era general use peer to peer service that got taken down and ressurected as a pay service. Basically, users had to pay to use lame content that they hosted themselves for others to download. You're paying a service to use your own connection for them. The idea of being compensated for this with a points system is laughable. People share music on peer to peer services because they love music and they want everyone to enjoy the songs that they have in their collection. People download songs on peer to peer networks because it's free, convenient, and offers a great selection.
What the RIAA has done is taken the bad parts about legitimate music (paying, poor selection, hassle) and merged them with the downsides of Peer to Peer file sharing (slow download speeds, having to upload on an asymmetrical connection). The rewards system seems to be a new concept but overall, they've taken the downsides of two distribution methods and are sure to fail, as others have in the past using this same exact strategy. Sometimes I wonder if they live in their own little magic world where ideas like this sound less retarded, because that's the only logical explanation I can come up with for the creation of this service.
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Ugh, butchered post.
I know the chip is physically there, but I don't think it's being used for anything important. My proof? Well, for starters, someone (Blex86r from the OSX86 project) got OS X for x86 running in VMWare. If there was DRM, I think he might have had a bit of a harder time getting it to work.
I know the chip is physically there, but I don't think it's being used for anything important. My proof? Well, for starters, someone (Blex86r from the OSX86 project) http://www.flickr.com/photos/56598311@N00">got OS X for x86 running in VMWare. If there was DRM, I think he might have had a bit of a harder time getting it to work.
I would mod you offtopic but the moderation system is down.
My writeup for this article (submitted nearly 4 hours ago) was a bit more detailed so I might as well post it as a comment.
As if we needed yet another sign of the impending apocalypse, Apple announced today that they will be selling a multi-button mouse. The aptly-named "Mighty Mouse" features two top buttons (actually, one that's a touch sensitive panel to determine which side of the mouse has been clicked), a secondary button that is activated by squeezing the sides of the mouse, and a clickable, bidirectional scroll ball. It also contains a small speaker to give user feedback when clicking or scrolling. The mouse is programmable from the Mac OS X Mouse Control Panel and will retail for $49. It has not yet been bundled with any Macs and is not available as a build-to-order option. It is, however, PC compatible.
Revolutionary user-centric design? Who the hell let Microsoft's marketing department post a story here?
Now I'm not just blowing smoke here because I hate IE, but that "review" was the grossest, most one-sided waste of my time that I'd ever read. The guy praised Microsoft (and rightly so) for adding the search field and generally making the browser feature complete with every single other browser that has been out since 2002, but I don't think I heard one single critisizm other than the author not liking the use of the word "phishing". He said that there wasn't one default setting he would have changed, but what about the fact that phishing protection is OFF by default? We're talking about people who fall for phishing scams here. They won't have a clue how to enable something like that. Good UI design? How about the fact that the menubar is UNDER the tabs. What crack-smoking UI designer thought that one up? Ugh, the broswer looks like Firefox with a bad interface, the atrociously bad IE render engine (check out how badly it butchers the acid test!), and a phishing protection sceme that's off by default. Is that what user-centric design means?
The volume and mute buttons on a TiVo remote interface with the TV directly. So yes, if your TV has mute, so does your TiVo. Was there a joke in your post I missed? I thought that someone on slashdot of all places would know that TiVo is a set top box that can be turned off and muted.
Except That. And That. And that and that and that and that and that.
And that.
Chainarong Sretthachau, director of the conservation group Southeast Asia Rivers Network in Chiang Mai, Thailand, said threats to the giant catfish include commercial fishing, their touting to tourists as a food said to impart wisdom, and dynamite blasting of their spawning ground.
What the hell? I thought that was a joke in cartoons. People actually fish en masse like that? Does it even work?
will Angelina Jolie be aboard? Will she be wearing an eyepatch? Because the eyepatch is pretty hot in a weird, pirate sort of way.
Yes. The iPod is certainly incapable of playing video.
Eh, the post doesn't even make sense due to an errant br tag. The middle paragraph is gone. I'd blame it on drunkenness but I'm at work. So I'll blame it on drunkenness and boredom.
I can see the commercial now:
Smith and Wesson firearms. American Made, American Owned Since 1852.
I suppose it makes me ill in the same sense that a video of a man filleting his penis might make you sick. They're making obvious and painful mistakes. Not only that, they're one of the more powerful political lobbies in the US. These morons making these mistakes are the same guys who are influencing our laws.
I have no problem with the iTunes music store, especially since no steps have been takin in quite a while to hinder people from decrypting songs purchased there. I have no issue paying for music but this buisiness model is stupid and has failed before.
1.) Set up service with the downsides of buying music (having to pay, shitty RIAA-only selection)
2.) Match that with the downsides of peer to peer file sharing (having to upload, disorganization, no physical cd)
3.) Slap on some draconian Microsoft DRM for good measure
4.) ???
5.) Chapter 11!
Note: Step 4 may or may not be an earthquake caused by everyone on the planet going "huh?!" at the same time.
Also, I needed a title for the post so I made a random one and now all I can think of is eating babies.
That's like a supermarket selling you oranges, but making you pick them up from the supplier yourself.
No, it's more like the supermarket charging you to sell their oranges. Sure, you get to eat a few on the job but in the end, you're paying them to work there.
How is it even possible that the RIAA things this is a good idea?! This is quite possibly the stupid thing I've ever heard of. In fact, I think I've heard this buisiness plan before. Does anyone recall the Scour Network? Basically it was a napster-era general use peer to peer service that got taken down and ressurected as a pay service. Basically, users had to pay to use lame content that they hosted themselves for others to download. You're paying a service to use your own connection for them. The idea of being compensated for this with a points system is laughable. People share music on peer to peer services because they love music and they want everyone to enjoy the songs that they have in their collection. People download songs on peer to peer networks because it's free, convenient, and offers a great selection.
What the RIAA has done is taken the bad parts about legitimate music (paying, poor selection, hassle) and merged them with the downsides of Peer to Peer file sharing (slow download speeds, having to upload on an asymmetrical connection). The rewards system seems to be a new concept but overall, they've taken the downsides of two distribution methods and are sure to fail, as others have in the past using this same exact strategy. Sometimes I wonder if they live in their own little magic world where ideas like this sound less retarded, because that's the only logical explanation I can come up with for the creation of this service.
Wait, the UK is in Europe? They could have fooled me.
Huh? You're installing an OS on the archrival OS maker's hardware. That's absolutely nothing like what you described above.
Yes, but it wasn't emulated and on Apple hardware. That would have been like a Sonic game on SNES in 1994. Creepy.
Could you please put that stupid ascii emoticon in a sig. I turned off sigs for a reason: I found them annoying. Tacking one on manually is worse.
Orisinal.com is a site that makes flash and shockwave games. Damn good ones too. I'd expect nothing less.
Please moderators! Futurama rules.
I replied because with your writing style, I can tell you'll check back, looking for a reply. Have a nice day.
Hoisted by my own petard! Parent make a grammar mistake. If irony meant what people think it means, this would be it.