Yes well good point. But to answer you specifically, there's a known undetectable hack for the software on the memory card. it was demonstrated by Harri Hurtsi. So if you can access the memory card then it's aready known how to hack the software.
All of your questions have been debated at length by many voting system experts. Many in fact had simmilar questions or complaints when they first examined the system. But those who stick around long enough to listen and lear, find out why those features exists. It really is very well though out.
I'm curious what the problem is. It seems to render well on my machines so are you critiquing the the Wiki format as being inappropos. It's just a client side wiki called tiddlyWiki. Anyhow i'd genuinely like to know what you see as the problem since you seem to be the exception, not the rule.
When I do want heat, electrical resistance heating is the worst way to go (due to the tremendous conversion and transmisson losses from the original heat source along the way), so if people are using marginally less electicity for heating and a few iotas more gas, it's a win.
Not if its nuclear power or Hydro electric. Heating with electicity _can_ mean fewer imported fossil fuels. Or can in principle.
that light bulb is heating the house most of the year. if you replaced it you would turn up the heat. This would in turn burn more heating oil, propane, wood, coal. the energy savings might occur in summer or in a few parts of the US. But mainly it would have no effect. It might even be net negative, since the light is heating an occupied room directly whereas heating a whole house just to heat one occupied room is less efficient.
The oil companies will thus love this because the net effect is to use less nuclear and hydro electric power (for the electricity) and more oil and gas
Anyone know of a mac or linux version of this? On windows machines, it's sort of pointless since you can play the songs. If they dont' come out with a linux or mac version then they enhance the argument that this is piracy enhancement tool not an access tool.
Barring that is there any way to play WMA with the DRM 7.0 on liinux or macs?
And what will the french say? After all AAC/itunes drm, will play on windows machines. And apple even provides cracking tools for it's own DRM ( imovie tranlates it to AIFF that is DRM free). So the itunes DRM is more of a honesty reinforcement protocol than a fairuse prohibition. If the French did not like AAC/drm why are they not making a perfumed hairy armpit stink over WMA?
Windows has stopped making WMA players for macintoshes. and the DRM component Media Manager version 7 is not available for the old Media Player 9. Flip for Mac, mplayer and vlcplayer all lack it too.
I went to my public library yesterday to get check out their new "downloadable audio books" which they say will work on any "mp3" player. Not so. they wont play on ipods or mp3 players or even WMA players. Only WMA players with Media Manager 7 drm work.
So I can download the books to my mac, and my ipod but I cannot play them.
I'd love to be able to strip this DRM so I can play these. I'm not interested in piracy, just being able to use them, at all.
I note that I can't even simply buy a WMA player to use these. I also have to have a windows computer in order to perform the transfer of the DRM to the audioplayer. Talk about monopoly lock-in. sheesh.
gdisk is not free. You will be paying for it in many ways. Ads, personal info sharing, and lock in to other google services. Likewise with live drive which will probably require a subscription fee.
Have you ever gone to a lecture where the speaker forgets to turn off his wireless mike and then does or says something embarassing like for example taking a bowel movement in the bathroom while the entire lecture hall listens in?
Now imagine "roboting in" from home to give your lecture, then forgetting to turn it off before you did something else you might do in your home. Maybe burst out into a Numa-Numa rendition, Starwars fight with your dog, or spank the monkey.
I'm sure it will happen when these "presence" avatars become ubiquitous.
If a CEO can persuade investors to accept lower returns the CEO is doing his job and shoul dbe paid more. Or to put it another way, the investors must be persuaded the companies future value will be higher if they are willing to invest in a low return comapny. Thus they must have confidence in the CEO. This happens a lot in companies with high P/E ratios. Look at steve Jobs.
I use peerflix in combination with my local video store. Like netflix, with peerflix You can keep the movies you have as long as you want to. Peerflix is like netflix except you pay per trade not a fixed monthly fee. So hanging on to movies incurs no penalty of cost. (it's about $1.50 per trade ).
I use peerflix for three purposes 1) for movies my local store does not have on hand.
2) for movies I want on hand but am not sure when I will watch: e.g. classic movies for a rainy day with my wife or a Jackie chan flick for me late at night
3) for new releases, which are more expensive to rent (say all of 24).
4) to dispose of movies I own already. (e.g. DVDs my kids have outgrown)
I still go to the local video store for the same reasons you do, but I also have on hand a nice cache of movies at all times without payint the netflix monthly rental fee while they gather dust.
The downside of peerflix is the following: 1) you can't get new movies without trading back the ones you have. But it's not as simple as just sending them in. You have to wait for someone to ask for them. For some movies, like say 3 stooges, or a too popular but now forgotten film, that might be a long long time.
2) You can't just get a movie you want. Someone has to list it to send, and you might be way down on the waiting list.
3) If you accumulate too many movies no one wants. Then you will have to buy more movies just to have something you can trade to get the ones you want.
4) there's a weird dynamic that happens that forces you to get more old releases than new releases. old releases cost 1 point, and new releases cost 3 points. If you have 3 points in your account and you are sent three old releases, then when you go to trade chances are not all three movies will get requested at the same time. This means when you trade the first one, you get one point, and then peerflix arranges a trade for you and since you only have one point to trade, you get sent an old release. Thus you never accumulate enough points to get a new release sent to you...
the last thing is the most annoying to me.
5) their website is badly organized and browsing is painful. their customer service is non responsive.
6) you have to print out and tape up the envelopes to send your dvds. there's no "red envelope"
I worked on magnetic bubble development before IBM canceled their program. it was a matter of finding a commercial niche.
Magnetic bubbles did exist and were sold and used in computers. But at the time their was no niche for them like their is flashram. bubbles were faster than disks but more expensive and slower than ram but cheaper. Thus they got caught in a squeeze play. Although they consumed no current when off they were not particularly low power devices so they were not suited for battery powered devices. It's the latter that allows flashram to get a commerical foothold around which it has matured.
Mram is supposedly going to be faster then ram and consume less power. So it too may have a niche that eluded bubbles. it's main competitor is not flash or disk but ram I think.
Spotlight may allow for complex query syntax, but Vista's query builder is considerably more intuitive
There's zillions of query builder's for mac osx. Pick the one that's intuitive and Sierra Foxtrot Tango Uniform. You apparentlt a very ignorant of MacOSX. Not that I claim to be cognizant of Windows features, or should I say vapor features.
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Wrong. It's the hooks into the filesystem that allow notification for spotlight to update. Spotlight is external to the file system, so it's the existence of those hooks that allow it to function as a real time up to date DB rahter than batch processed.
HFS++ looking pretty sharp now eh?
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They all laughed at HFS+ with it's resource forks and meta data and built in filesystem execution hooks. Aw that backward little OS. But now look, those little hook, now allow it to do content indexing without changing anything about the FS structure. And that meta-dat solves an awful lot of problems with filesystem extensions. And let's not forget the non-consecutive node list layout makes it easy to detect fragmentation and auto-defragment. Hmmm....looking pretty good.
Of course, one can point to ext3 or ReiderFS and say, hey these have cool features too. But the reality is this, windows could not get these into NTFS without junking the whole FS and it killed them Likewsie ext3 and reiser are both clean sheet re-dos an FS so they naturally can have whatever feaatures they wanted. Thus the miracle of HFS+ is that is got all those nifty features without having to toss out the old FS and invent a new one. it was upgradable.
No problem, you can still have a content indexed file system in vista. Just use spotlight.
Here I'm naturally assuming everyone will own a macbook and be running Vista in a VM (in Lion or Parallels).
In that case then as long as the disks are shared you can just content index the windows files in Mac OS.
Whose to say Gates made a mistake letting google and yahoo create web based software? It's MS modus operandi to let others pioneer a field then they take it over. We all know the PC story and how IBM and apple and others pioneered it. Same with Wordprocessing and office software. And what about Programming IDEs?.
Now look at what is happening in the field of PDAs and telephones. And of course there's the Xbox which came lat to the party as well. And one might even speculate MS will make a bigger move on the Server side of computing soon.
MS is always late the to party. Pioneers get the arrows. Settlers get the land.
One can hardly say that google's web apps are either the wave of the future or that in the End it won't be MS that controls them. There was nothing defective about Gates strategy, it has worked in the past quite well.
But he's on the right track. Python allows dynamic typing but nearly all of ones programs do not take advantage of it. Recognizing that is key to making it go fast I think. It would be nice to have a filter you could run over python that would find all the type ambiguous points and let you insert some sort of compiler hinting.
I could envision it working like this. Instead of statically declaring all your variable types in every function, you instead simply declare that whatever tpyes are being used, they are always the same every time this function gets called. All the compiler then has to do is to find one instance of calling that function or one instance of the use of the arguments within the subrotuine in which the type is unambiguous to reverse engineer the types without having to be told. It could then flag the few cases where it can't resolve the type and either handle those in a slower dynamically typed fashion, or allow you to hint the types it was confused by.
The headache of installing Vista on a mac intel has been the fact that it won't boot off of the EFI partition block. This has lead to speculation that it may be hard for OSX and Vista to function well togheter on the same computer. Under this vitualized environment the Disk is booting off of a EFI block (holding OSX), and then Vista is running and accessing the same disk not living on it's own disk. The two are running concurrently and not fighting. This is what I meant by bodes well. That is installing vista does not have to cripple your mac or limit your ability to cut and paste beteeen them.
The bigger news however is headline: vista runs on PPC.
First,
Other's have only been able to install Vista by wiping out the EFI boot partition. Here's a way to concurrently run Vista. It shows it can be done without reformating the disk. Second,
it shows that Contrary to rumors, Vista is not crippled against running on macs or under virtual systems. Third,
it shows macs meet the minumum specs for Vista, so one need not hesitate about buying a mac now if one was worried about running vista. Fourth,
it means you can do comparisons of Vista and mac osx.
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Yes well good point. But to answer you specifically, there's a known undetectable hack for the software on the memory card. it was demonstrated by Harri Hurtsi. So if you can access the memory card then it's aready known how to hack the software.
All of your questions have been debated at length by many voting system experts. Many in fact had simmilar questions or complaints when they first examined the system. But those who stick around long enough to listen and lear, find out why those features exists. It really is very well though out.
I'm curious what the problem is. It seems to render well on my machines so are you critiquing the the Wiki format as being inappropos. It's just a client side wiki called tiddlyWiki. Anyhow i'd genuinely like to know what you see as the problem since you seem to be the exception, not the rule.
When I do want heat, electrical resistance heating is the worst way to go (due to the tremendous conversion and transmisson losses from the original heat source along the way), so if people are using marginally less electicity for heating and a few iotas more gas, it's a win. Not if its nuclear power or Hydro electric. Heating with electicity _can_ mean fewer imported fossil fuels. Or can in principle.
that light bulb is heating the house most of the year. if you replaced it you would turn up the heat. This would in turn burn more heating oil, propane, wood, coal. the energy savings might occur in summer or in a few parts of the US. But mainly it would have no effect. It might even be net negative, since the light is heating an occupied room directly whereas heating a whole house just to heat one occupied room is less efficient. The oil companies will thus love this because the net effect is to use less nuclear and hydro electric power (for the electricity) and more oil and gas
Barring that is there any way to play WMA with the DRM 7.0 on liinux or macs?
And what will the french say? After all AAC/itunes drm, will play on windows machines. And apple even provides cracking tools for it's own DRM ( imovie tranlates it to AIFF that is DRM free). So the itunes DRM is more of a honesty reinforcement protocol than a fairuse prohibition. If the French did not like AAC/drm why are they not making a perfumed hairy armpit stink over WMA?
Windows has stopped making WMA players for macintoshes. and the DRM component Media Manager version 7 is not available for the old Media Player 9. Flip for Mac, mplayer and vlcplayer all lack it too.
I went to my public library yesterday to get check out their new "downloadable audio books" which they say will work on any "mp3" player. Not so. they wont play on ipods or mp3 players or even WMA players. Only WMA players with Media Manager 7 drm work.
So I can download the books to my mac, and my ipod but I cannot play them.
I'd love to be able to strip this DRM so I can play these. I'm not interested in piracy, just being able to use them, at all.
I note that I can't even simply buy a WMA player to use these. I also have to have a windows computer in order to perform the transfer of the DRM to the audioplayer. Talk about monopoly lock-in. sheesh.
gdisk is not free. You will be paying for it in many ways. Ads, personal info sharing, and lock in to other google services. Likewise with live drive which will probably require a subscription fee.
As Wallace and Grommet found in "A fine day out", it's very simmilar to wenslydale cheese.
I think they meant demultiplexer. Given that I'd say the rest of the article is just a PR puff piece exagerating every possible aspect.
Have you ever gone to a lecture where the speaker forgets to turn off his wireless mike and then does or says something embarassing like for example taking a bowel movement in the bathroom while the entire lecture hall listens in?
Now imagine "roboting in" from home to give your lecture, then forgetting to turn it off before you did something else you might do in your home. Maybe burst out into a Numa-Numa rendition, Starwars fight with your dog, or spank the monkey.
I'm sure it will happen when these "presence" avatars become ubiquitous.
If a CEO can persuade investors to accept lower returns the CEO is doing his job and shoul dbe paid more. Or to put it another way, the investors must be persuaded the companies future value will be higher if they are willing to invest in a low return comapny. Thus they must have confidence in the CEO. This happens a lot in companies with high P/E ratios. Look at steve Jobs.
I use peerflix in combination with my local video store. Like netflix, with peerflix You can keep the movies you have as long as you want to. Peerflix is like netflix except you pay per trade not a fixed monthly fee. So hanging on to movies incurs no penalty of cost. (it's about $1.50 per trade ).
I use peerflix for three purposes
1) for movies my local store does not have on hand.
2) for movies I want on hand but am not sure when I will watch: e.g. classic movies for a rainy day with my wife or a Jackie chan flick for me late at night
3) for new releases, which are more expensive to rent (say all of 24).
4) to dispose of movies I own already. (e.g. DVDs my kids have outgrown)
I still go to the local video store for the same reasons you do, but I also have on hand a nice cache of movies at all times without payint the netflix monthly rental fee while they gather dust.
The downside of peerflix is the following:
1) you can't get new movies without trading back the ones you have. But it's not as simple as just sending them in. You have to wait for someone to ask for them. For some movies, like say 3 stooges, or a too popular but now forgotten film, that might be a long long time.
2) You can't just get a movie you want. Someone has to list it to send, and you might be way down on the waiting list.
3) If you accumulate too many movies no one wants. Then you will have to buy more movies just to have something you can trade to get the ones you want.
4) there's a weird dynamic that happens that forces you to get more old releases than new releases. old releases cost 1 point, and new releases cost 3 points. If you have 3 points in your account and you are sent three old releases, then when you go to trade chances are not all three movies will get requested at the same time. This means when you trade the first one, you get one point, and then peerflix arranges a trade for you and since you only have one point to trade, you get sent an old release. Thus you never accumulate enough points to get a new release sent to you...
the last thing is the most annoying to me.
5) their website is badly organized and browsing is painful. their customer service is non responsive.
6) you have to print out and tape up the envelopes to send your dvds. there's no "red envelope"
1) put one of these on a suspect you are interogating. Hold up the photos. "ever seen the victim", watch if the eeg shows recognition.
2) grab a focus group, play them your Jingle or TV commercial or sound bite. Assess subliminal recognition
3) video game: good guy or bad guy that just moved too quickly to see.
4) soldiers on guard duty.
5) people looking through intel data for links, trying to process more info than their brains can recall.
I worked on magnetic bubble development before IBM canceled their program. it was a matter of finding a commercial niche.
Magnetic bubbles did exist and were sold and used in computers. But at the time their was no niche for them like their is flashram. bubbles were faster than disks but more expensive and slower than ram but cheaper. Thus they got caught in a squeeze play. Although they consumed no current when off they were not particularly low power devices so they were not suited for battery powered devices. It's the latter that allows flashram to get a commerical foothold around which it has matured.
Mram is supposedly going to be faster then ram and consume less power. So it too may have a niche that eluded bubbles. it's main competitor is not flash or disk but ram I think.
Put something that boots fast like Damn Small Linus on a USB key, and do web-restores and internet-apps and voila you have a practical portable OS.
Wrong. It's the hooks into the filesystem that allow notification for spotlight to update. Spotlight is external to the file system, so it's the existence of those hooks that allow it to function as a real time up to date DB rahter than batch processed.
They all laughed at HFS+ with it's resource forks and meta data and built in filesystem execution hooks. Aw that backward little OS. But now look, those little hook, now allow it to do content indexing without changing anything about the FS structure. And that meta-dat solves an awful lot of problems with filesystem extensions. And let's not forget the non-consecutive node list layout makes it easy to detect fragmentation and auto-defragment. Hmmm....looking pretty good.
Of course, one can point to ext3 or ReiderFS and say, hey these have cool features too. But the reality is this, windows could not get these into NTFS without junking the whole FS and it killed them Likewsie ext3 and reiser are both clean sheet re-dos an FS so they naturally can have whatever feaatures they wanted. Thus the miracle of HFS+ is that is got all those nifty features without having to toss out the old FS and invent a new one. it was upgradable.
No problem, you can still have a content indexed file system in vista. Just use spotlight. Here I'm naturally assuming everyone will own a macbook and be running Vista in a VM (in Lion or Parallels). In that case then as long as the disks are shared you can just content index the windows files in Mac OS.
Whose to say Gates made a mistake letting google and yahoo create web based software? It's MS modus operandi to let others pioneer a field then they take it over. We all know the PC story and how IBM and apple and others pioneered it. Same with Wordprocessing and office software. And what about Programming IDEs?.
Now look at what is happening in the field of PDAs and telephones. And of course there's the Xbox which came lat to the party as well. And one might even speculate MS will make a bigger move on the Server side of computing soon.
MS is always late the to party. Pioneers get the arrows. Settlers get the land.
One can hardly say that google's web apps are either the wave of the future or that in the End it won't be MS that controls them. There was nothing defective about Gates strategy, it has worked in the past quite well.
But he's on the right track. Python allows dynamic typing but nearly all of ones programs do not take advantage of it. Recognizing that is key to making it go fast I think. It would be nice to have a filter you could run over python that would find all the type ambiguous points and let you insert some sort of compiler hinting.
I could envision it working like this. Instead of statically declaring all your variable types in every function, you instead simply declare that whatever tpyes are being used, they are always the same every time this function gets called. All the compiler then has to do is to find one instance of calling that function or one instance of the use of the arguments within the subrotuine in which the type is unambiguous to reverse engineer the types without having to be told. It could then flag the few cases where it can't resolve the type and either handle those in a slower dynamically typed fashion, or allow you to hint the types it was confused by.
The headache of installing Vista on a mac intel has been the fact that it won't boot off of the EFI partition block. This has lead to speculation that it may be hard for OSX and Vista to function well togheter on the same computer. Under this vitualized environment the Disk is booting off of a EFI block (holding OSX), and then Vista is running and accessing the same disk not living on it's own disk. The two are running concurrently and not fighting. This is what I meant by bodes well. That is installing vista does not have to cripple your mac or limit your ability to cut and paste beteeen them.
The bigger news however is headline: vista runs on PPC.
First,
Other's have only been able to install Vista by wiping out the EFI boot partition. Here's a way to concurrently run Vista. It shows it can be done without reformating the disk.
Second,
it shows that Contrary to rumors, Vista is not crippled against running on macs or under virtual systems.
Third,
it shows macs meet the minumum specs for Vista, so one need not hesitate about buying a mac now if one was worried about running vista.
Fourth,
it means you can do comparisons of Vista and mac osx.
Thank you for an erudite poste. I appreciate the precise elocution in the service of cogent arguments.