Yeah they just might sue you. Ask the folks at hacker mag 2600. they got busted for linking to copies of the dvd decryption programs. not for hosting but just linking.
You dont need a CD to convert AAC to MP3. You just need to convert it to AIFF on your harddisk first. then you can transcode it. Yes. that is two steps but you can write an apple script to do it auomatically. the AIFF step does not lose quality so the transcoding is effectively a single step.
To prove this to yourself just do the following. open iMovie (not iTunes). pick any protected AAC song from the library and addit is a sound track. now look in the iMovie folder that contains your new movie. Voila there is the AIFF file.
Now drag this into iTunes and transcode it to MP3.
Now automate this with Applescript. Install the script into the iTunes services and viola you have a new menu item in Itunes to convert any protected AAC to mp3 with no more loss of quality than any other trascode.
alternatively you can just use DVD John's hack to break the AAC protection, though that might have some watermarking issues that someday could crop up in the future if apple wanted to get ughly about it
the one who "had to resign" was an extremely resepected scientst and a member of the national academy of science. He was essentially a vice president at the lab and the only member of the NAS who was at that level of management.
In college I once built a tiny device that that could be hidden in a ceilng tile that would emit a de-localized sounding cricket chirp. If you turned the lights on to look for it it turned off. After the lights went off it waited 20 minutes then emitted a chirp about every few minutes. Victim either had to leave dorm room light on at night or go crazy hunting for it.
Something is illogical about your argument, so I think you must be ommitting some crucila detail. If they can get all the info they need from your credit card and check then why do they need the member card to idnetify you anyhow?
All I can think of is that somehow the act of getting a member card is an authorization for them to collect that information. Or the other purpose of the loyalty card is to encourage loyalty. that is to be able to offer you progessive discounts as you use it more: for example my store occasionally offers promos where you get a prize after so many visits or dollars spent.
And multiple releases of iTunes since then have done nothing to stop these files from playing - which it cannot do because they are now identical to files that you rip from CD yourself with AAC!!
Uh dude 3/4 of the article was about why that is not true at all. Two reasons were given. First, Ipod and Itunes memorizes what songs were bought from the music store. If it sees that song with out the DRM it wont play. Amusingly it will play on any machine that did not purchase that song, it just wont play on a machine that did purchase it. Second, apple may be watermarking the songs. So these songs ARE distinguishable from songs you ripped yourself to AAC.
The first post nailed this stupid article with a stake through the heart.
wake up dudes, the world works in a hierarchical fashion not because it can but because in fact this works well. Look at how scientific research works. Sure there might be lots of little folks that could be great seniour researchers if only they could get funded. But it costs too much to identify these folks. Its better in general to go with a trusted senoir researcher than require omniscience on the part of funding agencies.
that was the long recognized flaw of the command economy in russia. it could not effectively gather the information that a market economy could
thus elitism as a filter to diseminate useful information about a limited availability product in an optimal fashion is not a bad idea.
Isn't X-11 already available either on the mac-install disk and as part fo fink. Or are these just X-11 servers instead of being real cleints (using the bass-ackward X-11 speak)?
This could also create problems too. past studies have noted that cell phone intenisty inside subway carriages can be 100 fold higher due to resonant trapping of the energy. Edge effects could be even higher. Like wise there will be reflections creating nodes in your house. Since the wavelengths are quite long these nodes will be macroscopically large.
Notably, the corners of your house will act like corner cubes maximally reflecting the energy back to the emitter itself. If the emitter happens to be your laptop then you are going to get the majority of the radiation passing through you on each round trip bounce.
as it happens, the wavelength is near the wavelength of your microwave. The microwave is tuned to optimally excite the rotational frequency of aqueaous water. The 2.4 Ghz is slightly off the optimum but You are inhogenous enough that you probably absorb quite well in this region. The rest of the dry materials in the room wont be doing much absorbing. Thus you will become the primary fate of all the radiated energy.
so you lose on two accounts: 1) high field strengths 2) all the energy resonates around till if finds your testicles.
If these things dont permit HDTV output no one will buy them. If they do, then there is your dvd-quality hole right? or is hdtv signal also encypted all the way to the screen? Admittedly its not an analog hole but it has the same character.
Okay I get the basics of Bit torrents distributed file sharing. But could someone please explain the details. That is how does the original site know who has what slices. How does the system heal itself when a seeder signs off taking with him some of the pieces. How to the nodes decide which peers to ask for what and get updated on who has what as more peers sign on. How is the download=upload actually enforced--what stops me from creating some evil bittorrent that only downloads then hands out shit.
Did the on-line digital music market exist, significantly, before apple created it? um no. Did apples dominance of the digital download market make the ipod popular. No the reverse.
apple entered two different markets and rose to dominance in both. They did not levergae a monoloply in one market to gain in another.
moreover it's dubious they have a monopoly. It all depends upon how you define the market. Does apple have a monopoly on digital music players. No, if you consider CD players. Does apple have a market monopoly on music sales? ha. no. what about online music sales. Um no, check with BMG, columbuia house, amazon who all sell digital music on line.
So apple did not leverage a monoloply and it may not even have a monopoly if you define the market correctly. They only have a monopoly on the ipod market but that is too narrow a definition and does not intrude on say the WMA or rasphody market, which by the same narrow scope are "monopolies".
&c is not an abbreviation for etc. rather, both are 3-key abbreviations for "et cetera". and by the way, "etc." takes four keys including the period. More importantly it it takes more effort to typeset which is of course where al these thinkgs got started. Keyboards are just a recent innovation.
'et' is the latin word for "and". as in "et tu brute" meaning "and you to brutus?" which ceaser remarked upon being stabbed. The ampersand is the single character verison of "and". "etc." is the abbreviation for "et cetra" which means "and the others".
Et cetera, often abbreviated to etc., and sometimes in older texts as &c. or &/c. It is often used to represent the logical continuation of some sort of series of descriptions. For example:
We need a lot of fruit: apples, bananas, oranges, etc.
It is important to avoid the phrase "and etc." because then you are saying "and and the others".
the article poster seems to confuse parallel processing on a single machine with distributed computing. The difference is that each machine is running it's own OS and not sharing physical memory in distributed computing.
distributed computing happens at the application layer. Thus if you can run something like an MPI library on windows you have the basis for efficient distributed computing. All you need is a scheduler and launcher to be able to launch distributed launch an application across the net. But virtually all of these are daemons not strictly part of the OS. So that level of system independent abstraction exists already so this should not be too difficult.
I'm one of the authors of the code they are running as the first application of the world grid. This is Rosetta, the protein structure prediction program. Rosetta was born on Linux. It can run on a mac too but not as well. There never was a version developed for Windows. But hand it to the the IBM folks to create a wrapper that lets it run as a grid "screen saver" scavenger application on windows. Pretty remarkable.
Of course the reason for this is obvious right? windows dominated the planet not only in installed systems but in installed systems with cycles to spare. i.e. desktops. So dont cry your eyes out over it not being linux compatible. The excess linux bandwidth after you subtract our the servers is not going to be a lot. Console yourself that the TCO of linux is really a lot less when you figure that linux computers are already too busy to be bothered with Grid computing.:-)
Rosetta itself was written in fortran and only recently converted to C++. the C++ conversion was done using the incredibly well designed Objexx Library by stuart metzner and colleagues. This is a library that lets you write fortran code in C++. Before this people who tried to re-write this behemoth to C++ just died in the process. The objexx library let the whole thing be converted to C++ in one fell swoop. Now the program will slowly evolve from fortran style to C++ object orientation as it continues to grow. But in the meantime the code is productive. Nice Eh? The cool thing is that with a bit of optimization the code did not lose any appreciable speed in the conversion. So if you have legacy fortran you use for speed, consider converting it using Objexx. I was one of the people who argued for going to fortran95 not c++ because I feeared a speed loss; Iv'e become a convert
In any event the program is not like folding at home. That program tries to study in detail the picosecond evolution of single protien as it folds. Rosetta simply predicts the folded structure. Its actually quite fast at doing that. But it turns out it makes lots of different predictions. So you have to do it tens of thousands of times and then see which geometries of folded structures are favored statistically. Then you do the next protein. Eventually you work your way through the whole human genome.
also unlike folding at home the potential surface in rosetta is less physics based and more bayesian statistice. It has statistical potential for the probability of a peptide backbone structure occuring. And it has a probabilty for a sidechain amino acid sequence given a backbone structure. Multiply those together and bayes rule says the result is proportional to the probablity of a structrure given a sequence. You can read more about this here. Click on publications.
This statistical potential turns out to be so accurate that it can not only be used to predict the structure of proteins but it can be used in reverse to design a novel structured protein. Recently it was used to design a protein with a tolopology that had never previously existied in nature. This is rather an amazing results. Others had previously redesigned the sequences of existing topologies or perturbed those topologies or created some special case topologies. But Brian Kuklman in David Baker's lab actually started from a napkin sketch and designed a protein from scratch.
After you predict the structure of a protein, one thing you can do is ask if that structure is like another Protein you have seen before. You can compare the structure of a model to a real protein using a program known as MAMMOTH. While there are a variety of programs for comparing two proteins this one is particularly good for the case of comparing an inaccurate model to an experimentally known structure. If they match then you can assume the protiens may share a related function or evolutionary origin (or not!).
whihc brings us to what proteins are. Think of DNA as a disk drive that
does anyone think maybe this is a hoax and that when the probability reaches 1, there will be some new product, like Microsoft-asteroid-proof backup announced?
Me thinks so!
does anyone think maybe this is a hoax and that when the probability reaches 1, there will be some new product, like Microsoft-asteroid-proof backup announced?
Me thinks so!
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Yeah they just might sue you. Ask the folks at hacker mag 2600. they got busted for linking to copies of the dvd decryption programs. not for hosting but just linking.
You dont need a CD to convert AAC to MP3. You just need to convert it to AIFF on your harddisk first. then you can transcode it. Yes. that is two steps but you can write an apple script to do it auomatically. the AIFF step does not lose quality so the transcoding is effectively a single step. To prove this to yourself just do the following. open iMovie (not iTunes). pick any protected AAC song from the library and addit is a sound track. now look in the iMovie folder that contains your new movie. Voila there is the AIFF file. Now drag this into iTunes and transcode it to MP3. Now automate this with Applescript. Install the script into the iTunes services and viola you have a new menu item in Itunes to convert any protected AAC to mp3 with no more loss of quality than any other trascode. alternatively you can just use DVD John's hack to break the AAC protection, though that might have some watermarking issues that someday could crop up in the future if apple wanted to get ughly about it
the one who "had to resign" was an extremely resepected scientst and a member of the national academy of science. He was essentially a vice president at the lab and the only member of the NAS who was at that level of management.
if i had say an apple airport with my computer behind it, which mac address does the ISP see?
It looks like your trying to transfer your life savings to Latvia, would you like some help
And well then it was all over.
Which brings be to TCO.
As this person found out, TCO of windows is much higher than a Macintosh.
In college I once built a tiny device that that could be hidden in a ceilng tile that would emit a de-localized sounding cricket chirp. If you turned the lights on to look for it it turned off. After the lights went off it waited 20 minutes then emitted a chirp about every few minutes. Victim either had to leave dorm room light on at night or go crazy hunting for it.
All I can think of is that somehow the act of getting a member card is an authorization for them to collect that information. Or the other purpose of the loyalty card is to encourage loyalty. that is to be able to offer you progessive discounts as you use it more: for example my store occasionally offers promos where you get a prize after so many visits or dollars spent.
Uh dude 3/4 of the article was about why that is not true at all. Two reasons were given. First, Ipod and Itunes memorizes what songs were bought from the music store. If it sees that song with out the DRM it wont play. Amusingly it will play on any machine that did not purchase that song, it just wont play on a machine that did purchase it. Second, apple may be watermarking the songs. So these songs ARE distinguishable from songs you ripped yourself to AAC.
wake up dudes, the world works in a hierarchical fashion not because it can but because in fact this works well. Look at how scientific research works. Sure there might be lots of little folks that could be great seniour researchers if only they could get funded. But it costs too much to identify these folks. Its better in general to go with a trusted senoir researcher than require omniscience on the part of funding agencies.
that was the long recognized flaw of the command economy in russia. it could not effectively gather the information that a market economy could
thus elitism as a filter to diseminate useful information about a limited availability product in an optimal fashion is not a bad idea.
Isn't X-11 already available either on the mac-install disk and as part fo fink. Or are these just X-11 servers instead of being real cleints (using the bass-ackward X-11 speak)?
Notably, the corners of your house will act like corner cubes maximally reflecting the energy back to the emitter itself. If the emitter happens to be your laptop then you are going to get the majority of the radiation passing through you on each round trip bounce.
as it happens, the wavelength is near the wavelength of your microwave. The microwave is tuned to optimally excite the rotational frequency of aqueaous water. The 2.4 Ghz is slightly off the optimum but You are inhogenous enough that you probably absorb quite well in this region. The rest of the dry materials in the room wont be doing much absorbing. Thus you will become the primary fate of all the radiated energy.
so you lose on two accounts: 1) high field strengths 2) all the energy resonates around till if finds your testicles.
you dont need a local root exploit on Windows because everyone is root by default
if 640K is enough for anyone, then this is enough for 1% of the united states. So how many of these do they plan to make.
If these things dont permit HDTV output no one will buy them. If they do, then there is your dvd-quality hole right? or is hdtv signal also encypted all the way to the screen? Admittedly its not an analog hole but it has the same character.
Okay I get the basics of Bit torrents distributed file sharing. But could someone please explain the details. That is how does the original site know who has what slices. How does the system heal itself when a seeder signs off taking with him some of the pieces. How to the nodes decide which peers to ask for what and get updated on who has what as more peers sign on. How is the download=upload actually enforced--what stops me from creating some evil bittorrent that only downloads then hands out shit.
apple entered two different markets and rose to dominance in both. They did not levergae a monoloply in one market to gain in another.
moreover it's dubious they have a monopoly. It all depends upon how you define the market. Does apple have a monopoly on digital music players. No, if you consider CD players. Does apple have a market monopoly on music sales? ha. no. what about online music sales. Um no, check with BMG, columbuia house, amazon who all sell digital music on line.
So apple did not leverage a monoloply and it may not even have a monopoly if you define the market correctly. They only have a monopoly on the ipod market but that is too narrow a definition and does not intrude on say the WMA or rasphody market, which by the same narrow scope are "monopolies".
move along nothing to see here. .
I beleive that I am the only human posting to slashdot and the rest are all machine generated.
&c is not an abbreviation for etc. rather, both are 3-key abbreviations for "et cetera". and by the way, "etc." takes four keys including the period. More importantly it it takes more effort to typeset which is of course where al these thinkgs got started. Keyboards are just a recent innovation.
Et cetera, often abbreviated to etc., and sometimes in older texts as &c. or &/c. It is often used to represent the logical continuation of some sort of series of descriptions. For example:
We need a lot of fruit: apples, bananas, oranges, etc.
It is important to avoid the phrase "and etc." because then you are saying "and and the others".
distributed computing happens at the application layer. Thus if you can run something like an MPI library on windows you have the basis for efficient distributed computing. All you need is a scheduler and launcher to be able to launch distributed launch an application across the net. But virtually all of these are daemons not strictly part of the OS. So that level of system independent abstraction exists already so this should not be too difficult.
Of course the reason for this is obvious right? windows dominated the planet not only in installed systems but in installed systems with cycles to spare. i.e. desktops. So dont cry your eyes out over it not being linux compatible. The excess linux bandwidth after you subtract our the servers is not going to be a lot. Console yourself that the TCO of linux is really a lot less when you figure that linux computers are already too busy to be bothered with Grid computing. :-)
Rosetta itself was written in fortran and only recently converted to C++. the C++ conversion was done using the incredibly well designed Objexx Library by stuart metzner and colleagues. This is a library that lets you write fortran code in C++. Before this people who tried to re-write this behemoth to C++ just died in the process. The objexx library let the whole thing be converted to C++ in one fell swoop. Now the program will slowly evolve from fortran style to C++ object orientation as it continues to grow. But in the meantime the code is productive. Nice Eh? The cool thing is that with a bit of optimization the code did not lose any appreciable speed in the conversion. So if you have legacy fortran you use for speed, consider converting it using Objexx. I was one of the people who argued for going to fortran95 not c++ because I feeared a speed loss; Iv'e become a convert
In any event the program is not like folding at home. That program tries to study in detail the picosecond evolution of single protien as it folds. Rosetta simply predicts the folded structure. Its actually quite fast at doing that. But it turns out it makes lots of different predictions. So you have to do it tens of thousands of times and then see which geometries of folded structures are favored statistically. Then you do the next protein. Eventually you work your way through the whole human genome.
also unlike folding at home the potential surface in rosetta is less physics based and more bayesian statistice. It has statistical potential for the probability of a peptide backbone structure occuring. And it has a probabilty for a sidechain amino acid sequence given a backbone structure. Multiply those together and bayes rule says the result is proportional to the probablity of a structrure given a sequence. You can read more about this here. Click on publications.
This statistical potential turns out to be so accurate that it can not only be used to predict the structure of proteins but it can be used in reverse to design a novel structured protein. Recently it was used to design a protein with a tolopology that had never previously existied in nature. This is rather an amazing results. Others had previously redesigned the sequences of existing topologies or perturbed those topologies or created some special case topologies. But Brian Kuklman in David Baker's lab actually started from a napkin sketch and designed a protein from scratch.
After you predict the structure of a protein, one thing you can do is ask if that structure is like another Protein you have seen before. You can compare the structure of a model to a real protein using a program known as MAMMOTH. While there are a variety of programs for comparing two proteins this one is particularly good for the case of comparing an inaccurate model to an experimentally known structure. If they match then you can assume the protiens may share a related function or evolutionary origin (or not!).
whihc brings us to what proteins are. Think of DNA as a disk drive that
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You have just been hoaxed I bellieve.
Just look at the URL closely. this has got to be a joke on slashdot.
neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ip?1replace the 1 with whatever you like and voila, instant impact probabilty to scare your freinds with.
does anyone think maybe this is a hoax and that when the probability reaches 1, there will be some new product, like Microsoft-asteroid-proof backup announced? Me thinks so!
AS I WRITE THIS THE PROBABILITY HAS BECOME 1 in 4 Hitting earth.
does anyone think maybe this is a hoax and that when the probability reaches 1, there will be some new product, like Microsoft-asteroid-proof backup announced? Me thinks so!