As of last year, the lawsuit was settled with Apple Corp (the music people) relinquishing rights to the Apple name and Apple (formerly Computer), Inc. owning the rights to the word and licensing it back to Apple Corp.
Another vote for the NSLU2. I have debian installed on mine. Another option would be to get a bug base -- it's twice (or more) expensive, but 4 times the memory (128Meg vs 32), faster (600? mhz vs 266), and I think it has floating point hardware.
Compared to a x86 box, the slug uses much less power. Some people have been able to run it off solar power.
so, I searched for "penis" -- not that I'm searching for penis, it's the first word that popped into my head. Ugh, anyhow, the first page consists solely of sites for penis enlargement pills.
Currently, only EMI (and maybe some indy labels) have DRM-free music at iTMS. BMG has a hard-on for apple. They (along with Warner) let their iTMS contract expire and can cancel iTMS sales at any point. Warner is offering exclusive (and DRM free) songs to Amazon.
the iTunes Music Store profit is negligible. The record label gets around 70% of the purchase price. The iPod is where the money is at., and Apple has (rightly) refused an RIAA tax on it.
rumor has it, iTunes will support DVD ripping (for 20th century FOX movies) as part of the FOX movie rental deal. It might be announced at MacWorld later this month.
I used to use NeXT slabs (loved the display postscript), then moved to Sun (with X support for display PS). I tried linux but display ghostscript was inadequate. These days, I'm using OS X and display PDF is sweet. I'm no longer scared of PDF web pages either:-)
Qualified dividends (more or less all dividends if you're a long term investor) are taxed at a 15% rate. The LTCG rate will increase to 20% in 2011 (most likely sooner and higher if a democrat is President).
A 10-1 price to dividend means it has a 10% yield. That's junk bond territory. I own high yield funds and preferred stocks that pay in the 7-10% range, but that's for monthly income; growth is pretty much non-existant. Not exactly MF territory.
I've always considered control as a GUI modifier key to be bad form, considering it's historical usage. BeOS used Alt. MacOS has the Apple Key. Using the control key seems to be one of those "copy it from windows" ideas that plagues free software.
They may have read the article, but the article sucked. If you put any amount of thought into it, you would wonder how the RIAA would randomly pick someone and sue them for ripping CDs for personal use. A google later you'd find out that he was originally identified as a kazaa user, went to court without a lawyer, and lost.
Looks like the person in question was using Kazaa, which listed his mp3 files, although they weren't actually shared (uhh... does kazaa publish them if they're not shared?) Media Sentry found them (but didn't actually download them?). He represented himself and lost big time.
The Neo Open Source movement is a latecomer to the field, so yeah, a lot of is "let's copy this commercial software!". But there's often a "it's good enough" mentality. For years, CVS had problems, but the prevailing wisdom was "it's good enough". There's svn (et alia) now, but would it exist (or be as popular) if closed source (perforce, bitkeeper) software hadn't pushed the edge?
... the 24", extreme core 2 duo version (only 2 gigs of ram, though, since Apple seriously overprices it). I've got more money than I know what to do with, but when I drop that much on a computer, it makes me think a bit. Especially since there's a reasonable chance there will be upgrades in January.
I made the right decision. I like Windows 2K, I like Windows XP. But I think Vista, WGA, etc are a step in the wrong direction.
After playing with OS X for a while, it excites me. It feels more like OpenStep and BeOS than classic Mac. The OS doesn't get in your way like Windows does.
Meaning on a 32GB Drive, before you start seeing failures, you would have to (thanks to wear-leveling) write 32*100,000 GB, or 3.2Petabytes
Data isn't written by the byte, it's written by the block (512 -- 4096 bytes). And don't forget that wear leveling requires swapping blocks (and therefore 2 write operations instead of one). And don't forget that writing 1 byte (potentially) causes just as much wear as writing an entire block.
Many Egyptian laws (sharia much?) aren't US Constitutional. When the USSC ruled Disney/Bono copyright extensions ok, they also stated that extending them further might not be ok.
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As of last year, the lawsuit was settled with Apple Corp (the music people) relinquishing rights to the Apple name and Apple (formerly Computer), Inc. owning the rights to the word and licensing it back to Apple Corp.
Another vote for the NSLU2. I have debian installed on mine. Another option would be to get a bug base -- it's twice (or more) expensive, but 4 times the memory (128Meg vs 32), faster (600? mhz vs 266), and I think it has floating point hardware.
Compared to a x86 box, the slug uses much less power. Some people have been able to run it off solar power.
so, I searched for "penis" -- not that I'm searching for penis, it's the first word that popped into my head. Ugh, anyhow, the first page consists solely of sites for penis enlargement pills.
Most, if not all TVs under 40" seem to be 720p.
Currently, only EMI (and maybe some indy labels) have DRM-free music at iTMS. BMG has a hard-on for apple. They (along with Warner) let their iTMS contract expire and can cancel iTMS sales at any point. Warner is offering exclusive (and DRM free) songs to Amazon.
the iTunes Music Store profit is negligible. The record label gets around 70% of the purchase price. The iPod is where the money is at., and Apple has (rightly) refused an RIAA tax on it.
rumor has it, iTunes will support DVD ripping (for 20th century FOX movies) as part of the FOX movie rental deal. It might be announced at MacWorld later this month.
Apple convinced them to sell per-song downloads, then got so successful at it the big record labels had to abandon DRM to spite them.
I used to use NeXT slabs (loved the display postscript), then moved to Sun (with X support for display PS). I tried linux but display ghostscript was inadequate. These days, I'm using OS X and display PDF is sweet. I'm no longer scared of PDF web pages either :-)
Qualified dividends (more or less all dividends if you're a long term investor) are taxed at a 15% rate. The LTCG rate will increase to 20% in 2011 (most likely sooner and higher if a democrat is President).
A 10-1 price to dividend means it has a 10% yield. That's junk bond territory. I own high yield funds and preferred stocks that pay in the 7-10% range, but that's for monthly income; growth is pretty much non-existant. Not exactly MF territory.
PS - MSFT does pay a dividend.
If it's anything like Wikipedia, I'll have to use google to find what I'm looking for in their search engine.
it doesn't (yet) run linux, though.
that's pretty sweet. I'd love to see it in iMax 3d though.
I've always considered control as a GUI modifier key to be bad form, considering it's historical usage. BeOS used Alt. MacOS has the Apple Key. Using the control key seems to be one of those "copy it from windows" ideas that plagues free software.
They may have read the article, but the article sucked. If you put any amount of thought into it, you would wonder how the RIAA would randomly pick someone and sue them for ripping CDs for personal use. A google later you'd find out that he was originally identified as a kazaa user, went to court without a lawyer, and lost.
Comment I posted in a firehose story (which took all of 30 seconds to realize the summary was simplistic and wrong):
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Looks like the person in question was using Kazaa, which listed his mp3 files, although they weren't actually shared (uhh ... does kazaa publish them if they're not shared?) Media Sentry found them (but didn't actually download them?). He represented himself and lost big time.
The Neo Open Source movement is a latecomer to the field, so yeah, a lot of is "let's copy this commercial software!". But there's often a "it's good enough" mentality. For years, CVS had problems, but the prevailing wisdom was "it's good enough". There's svn (et alia) now, but would it exist (or be as popular) if closed source (perforce, bitkeeper) software hadn't pushed the edge?
The iPhone SDK will probably be released at Macworld (January 14-18).
The iPhone and the iPod touch are (stripped) OS-X based. The others are not.
Currently, the first review of the EEE PC is from someone who installed windows XP on it. (A great little Windows computer!!).
Personally: Intranet, yes. Internet, no.
I made the right decision. I like Windows 2K, I like Windows XP. But I think Vista, WGA, etc are a step in the wrong direction.
After playing with OS X for a while, it excites me. It feels more like OpenStep and BeOS than classic Mac. The OS doesn't get in your way like Windows does.
I think the OS-X premium is worth it.
Meaning on a 32GB Drive, before you start seeing failures, you would have to (thanks to wear-leveling) write 32*100,000 GB, or 3.2Petabytes
Data isn't written by the byte, it's written by the block (512 -- 4096 bytes). And don't forget that wear leveling requires swapping blocks (and therefore 2 write operations instead of one). And don't forget that writing 1 byte (potentially) causes just as much wear as writing an entire block.
Many Egyptian laws (sharia much?) aren't US Constitutional. When the USSC ruled Disney/Bono copyright extensions ok, they also stated that extending them further might not be ok.