I'm more worried about the massive debris field we've strewn around our planet. Blimps may be cheap, but if we blow holes through them with paint chips from the 70's, the worth suddenly drops.
Maybe this will make it affordable to launch garbage collection in space, though.
Not if some of the source is based on a license that doesn't permit use of the GPL. If they accidentally included some proprietary or closed source to which they didn't have full rights, then their release of the software under GPL would be illegal.
It might be a good idea to find out why it was removed. Perhaps they discovered a license violation and took it down to prevent a lawsuit. While noble, the automatic assumption that they simply don't want to pursue the project could be placing yipyow in an actionable position.
Law enforcement was called in to arrest them. It's not MPAA vigilantes; if no one reported the crime to the police, they would never know about it.
The theaters aren't just fighting for the MPAA - many don't like the MPAA, who sucks up much of the ticket cost - they are doing it because it's potentially lost income, not to mention that laws are being broken on their premises.
Taking a camcorder into a theater is breaking the law. If they can spot people with night vision goggles, that's great. They shouldn't be doing it.
Completely setting the MPAA aside, this is blatant copyright violation. It's clearly prohibited, and no one can reasonably feign ignorance on this. How many people reasonably take the camcorder for purely personal viewing with no intent to distribute the copy?
If it's for personal viewing, they can wait, spent $4 more, buy the DVD, and be legal.
It's a fair statement. PS users are accustomed to right-clicking. As a long-time Mac user, especially a long-time PowerBook user, I prefer key commands. Most options available on a context menu can be performed from the keyboard on a Macintosh. Familiarity with the key commands puts me at a big advantage over Joe PC-User. I almost never use the context menus.
On Windows, it's an entirely different story. The longtime availability - even dependance - on the context menu has made using a PC an experience in right-clicking. From the half-dozen system-embedded functions that programs like WinZip tack onto the context menu to the near impossible to guess locations of functions in menus in Office, the context menu doesn't just make sense, sometiems it's the only thing that does. I'm being a little harsh, but I find it generally true that Windows is built around the context menu. Just look at people's auto-collapse menus sometime.
That's almost an admission that Windows never really made proper use of the standard menus, preferring to focus on the context menu - there are so many crammed options in the menus they hide them to make your life easier.
Nevertheless, I use my key commands whenever possible; Mac or PC. For me, the Mac requires less mousing work. Windows just works better with one hand on the mouse, finger firmly placed over the right button. ---- Moving on, "keyboard gynmastics" is a little harsh. Control is always a pinky away, no matter with which hand you hold the mouse. You don't even have to press Control, you can simply wait the fraction of a second - but that is an annoying delay, especially for PC users.
And PowerBooks have had cursor keys for quite some time. Page Up/Down, Home, End are accessed by pressing "Function" - on the arrows. Delete gets the same thing on the Delete key - backspace for PCs... I couldn't say about Insert - never really needed it.
No, that's when they start making it a default install...
"But your honor, we can't remove Visual Studio. Large parts of Windows are now compiled on the fly...":)
Sure, Apple gets away with things that Microsoft can't. But, if Microsoft released a brand new operating system (really, not just "Oh, look, this one's blue.") and bundled - not default installed - a devkit with it, the inevitable lawsuits would go much more quickly.
Still stuck on the mouse button issue? Just go buy one... any generic two-button USB mouse will work. One of my co-workers prefers the Microsoft Intellimouse Optical on his Mac. It works fine. Scroll wheel, too. If you want one, go buy the kind you like. You'll be even happier with that than the $2 branded Logitech rip-off that Dell gives you.
Yeah, I bought the 190, which suffered from many of the same problems - not the burning batteries of the first release, though.
The power connector was crap I snapped and re-soldered mine three times, and have seen another 190 and two 5300's with the same problem.
Apple did offer a trade-in on all 190 and 5300 models - get a PowerBook G3 (Pismo) for $1900. It was a good trade, for my $900 190, and I still use my Pismo.
It strikes me that Darwin could be much bigger than it is...
Darwin comes with all the OS underpinnings of Mac OS X, right? Sure, no GUI, but what about the significant features - CUPS, CIFS, AFP, webDAV - aren't they there? If your company is looking at Linux but is facing those integration problems, isn't this an ideal solution? OS X on the desktop, Darwin on the servers that don't need a GUI.
The concept is great, but this is a potential problem with widespread use. They say their first market is Uninterruptible Power Supplies. The short recharge time is great, except the load during that short time will be tremendous.
Your servers draw 100 amps max? When the power comes back on and all your batteries need to recharge at once, expect a serious spike. I'm not an EE, but if it takes 30 seconds compared to 8 hours, that's 960 times faster, which means 960 times the load per unit of time.
Accountants as hosting companies will cry every time the power flickers, as the demand charges shoot up 800%
vector graphics are those made out of lines, not pixels. The difference is commonly referenced in a comparison of "drawing" programs, where the shapes are editable, and "painting" programs, where everything is a pixel.
I remember stealing the HyperTint XCMD out of something (I think it was one of the Atlas CDs that would Sad-Mac some computers if it was in during boot) for a teacher's presentation.
They require completely new airports - out of the question in most large cities, where the cities grew around the airport and there is no possibility of expansion.
Bad Plan, but possible
on
Quieting Your G5?
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Good luck. This is a really crappy way to do it, but...
You could set it up in an independantly vented sound-dampened box. Run two pieces of dryer hose out of the room and put some 50+ cfm fans on the ends. Build a case cover to seal the hoses onto - cardboard & blankets to go cheap, brown bread or something intended for the purpose is more expensive. You could try polyester batting, possibly.
Anyway, it's a crappy plan, reminiscent of even cheaper mods.
You need some kind of partition, box, etc. How much you are willing to spend is the big issue.
This is probably a case of expectation. If you support non-DRM AAC, people will assume that they could use their iTunes Music Store files with the player, then be dissappointed/angry/upset when they can't put the free song they got from Pepsi on their new player.
Just as saying "We support WMA" creates the expectation of supporting WMA with DRM, so it is with AAC.
That being said, they could offer "unsupported" support for AAC. It could be helpful to sales to let it slip that the non-DRM AAC files are playable.
What about something like a Sony CLIE with built-in camera? The NX80V has a 1.3 mega-pixel camera, which might be enough for some users (with additional software) or at least a decent starting point.
You might also consider work on a wearable solution and build a package around a low-power board and custom software tailored to your design.
This is old business with a new timecard. Some businesses (people, really) watch the one- and two-minute differences with no forgiveness.
Is it so significant that a palm scanner is being used now? It prevents deception - it's unlikely you'll cut off a hand for your friend to clock you in early. Other than that, it means you can't lose your timecard (major accidents excepted). Oh, and you might want to wash your hands more...
While this has potential in large groups of same-age individuals - schools, universities - I don't see this making significant headway in "the real world". I purchase most of my music, and I occasionally burn CDs for friends.
The biggest difficulties I see it facing are:
Selection: If there isn't much there, people aren't as likely to use it.
Price: Artist-set prices could mean big variations. Hopefully it'll be consistent, but who knows.
Convenience: When three plays are up, how much more difficult is it to download the song on the p2p-network-du-jour?
Ah, the benefits of a free market. When your access is partially or fully government subsidized, it can be plenty cheaper. We aren't getting screwed necessarily; we are paying for choice (even if it doesn't exist in your area).
For my area, I get DSL for $40 (Verizon or the one Verizon reseller), dial-up for $15, or I can go for my own leased line. At work We could get Business Cable ($150+), dial-up $15, or (the chosen option) a fractional T1 from our telco. It's $300-something for 384k.
I've kept my eye on Lego, even though I haven't purchased much for years. My greatest disappointment is the "special" pieces that are now so common. All the special pieces detract from your ability to make new and interesting things with multiple sets.
It's time to go back to castles and space ships and cities.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm more worried about the massive debris field we've strewn around our planet. Blimps may be cheap, but if we blow holes through them with paint chips from the 70's, the worth suddenly drops.
Maybe this will make it affordable to launch garbage collection in space, though.
As long as your sensor isn't a video camera of some sort, the anonymity of the technology should be fine for most.
then it's GPL forever baby
Not if some of the source is based on a license that doesn't permit use of the GPL. If they accidentally included some proprietary or closed source to which they didn't have full rights, then their release of the software under GPL would be illegal.
It might be a good idea to find out why it was removed. Perhaps they discovered a license violation and took it down to prevent a lawsuit. While noble, the automatic assumption that they simply don't want to pursue the project could be placing yipyow in an actionable position.
Law enforcement was called in to arrest them. It's not MPAA vigilantes; if no one reported the crime to the police, they would never know about it.
The theaters aren't just fighting for the MPAA - many don't like the MPAA, who sucks up much of the ticket cost - they are doing it because it's potentially lost income, not to mention that laws are being broken on their premises.
To put it simply: Good
Taking a camcorder into a theater is breaking the law. If they can spot people with night vision goggles, that's great. They shouldn't be doing it.
Completely setting the MPAA aside, this is blatant copyright violation. It's clearly prohibited, and no one can reasonably feign ignorance on this. How many people reasonably take the camcorder for purely personal viewing with no intent to distribute the copy?
If it's for personal viewing, they can wait, spent $4 more, buy the DVD, and be legal.
It's a fair statement. PS users are accustomed to right-clicking. As a long-time Mac user, especially a long-time PowerBook user, I prefer key commands. Most options available on a context menu can be performed from the keyboard on a Macintosh. Familiarity with the key commands puts me at a big advantage over Joe PC-User. I almost never use the context menus.
On Windows, it's an entirely different story. The longtime availability - even dependance - on the context menu has made using a PC an experience in right-clicking. From the half-dozen system-embedded functions that programs like WinZip tack onto the context menu to the near impossible to guess locations of functions in menus in Office, the context menu doesn't just make sense, sometiems it's the only thing that does. I'm being a little harsh, but I find it generally true that Windows is built around the context menu. Just look at people's auto-collapse menus sometime.
That's almost an admission that Windows never really made proper use of the standard menus, preferring to focus on the context menu - there are so many crammed options in the menus they hide them to make your life easier.
Nevertheless, I use my key commands whenever possible; Mac or PC. For me, the Mac requires less mousing work. Windows just works better with one hand on the mouse, finger firmly placed over the right button.
----
Moving on, "keyboard gynmastics" is a little harsh. Control is always a pinky away, no matter with which hand you hold the mouse. You don't even have to press Control, you can simply wait the fraction of a second - but that is an annoying delay, especially for PC users.
And PowerBooks have had cursor keys for quite some time. Page Up/Down, Home, End are accessed by pressing "Function" - on the arrows. Delete gets the same thing on the Delete key - backspace for PCs... I couldn't say about Insert - never really needed it.
No, that's when they start making it a default install...
:)
"But your honor, we can't remove Visual Studio. Large parts of Windows are now compiled on the fly..."
Sure, Apple gets away with things that Microsoft can't. But, if Microsoft released a brand new operating system (really, not just "Oh, look, this one's blue.") and bundled - not default installed - a devkit with it, the inevitable lawsuits would go much more quickly.
Still stuck on the mouse button issue? Just go buy one... any generic two-button USB mouse will work. One of my co-workers prefers the Microsoft Intellimouse Optical on his Mac. It works fine. Scroll wheel, too. If you want one, go buy the kind you like. You'll be even happier with that than the $2 branded Logitech rip-off that Dell gives you.
Yeah, I bought the 190, which suffered from many of the same problems - not the burning batteries of the first release, though.
The power connector was crap I snapped and re-soldered mine three times, and have seen another 190 and two 5300's with the same problem.
Apple did offer a trade-in on all 190 and 5300 models - get a PowerBook G3 (Pismo) for $1900. It was a good trade, for my $900 190, and I still use my Pismo.
Darwin is free, and doesn't require new hardware, either. However, the robust, consistent GUI is a big draw for people developing interfaces.
And Darwin will integrate nicely between your old, busted and your completely new hardware. (j/k)
It strikes me that Darwin could be much bigger than it is...
Darwin comes with all the OS underpinnings of Mac OS X, right? Sure, no GUI, but what about the significant features - CUPS, CIFS, AFP, webDAV - aren't they there? If your company is looking at Linux but is facing those integration problems, isn't this an ideal solution? OS X on the desktop, Darwin on the servers that don't need a GUI.
The concept is great, but this is a potential problem with widespread use. They say their first market is Uninterruptible Power Supplies. The short recharge time is great, except the load during that short time will be tremendous.
Your servers draw 100 amps max? When the power comes back on and all your batteries need to recharge at once, expect a serious spike. I'm not an EE, but if it takes 30 seconds compared to 8 hours, that's 960 times faster, which means 960 times the load per unit of time.
Accountants as hosting companies will cry every time the power flickers, as the demand charges shoot up 800%
vector graphics are those made out of lines, not pixels. The difference is commonly referenced in a comparison of "drawing" programs, where the shapes are editable, and "painting" programs, where everything is a pixel.
I remember stealing the HyperTint XCMD out of something (I think it was one of the Atlas CDs that would Sad-Mac some computers if it was in during boot) for a teacher's presentation.
They require completely new airports - out of the question in most large cities, where the cities grew around the airport and there is no possibility of expansion.
Good luck. This is a really crappy way to do it, but...
You could set it up in an independantly vented sound-dampened box. Run two pieces of dryer hose out of the room and put some 50+ cfm fans on the ends. Build a case cover to seal the hoses onto - cardboard & blankets to go cheap, brown bread or something intended for the purpose is more expensive. You could try polyester batting, possibly.
Anyway, it's a crappy plan, reminiscent of even cheaper mods.
You need some kind of partition, box, etc. How much you are willing to spend is the big issue.
This is probably a case of expectation. If you support non-DRM AAC, people will assume that they could use their iTunes Music Store files with the player, then be dissappointed/angry/upset when they can't put the free song they got from Pepsi on their new player.
Just as saying "We support WMA" creates the expectation of supporting WMA with DRM, so it is with AAC.
That being said, they could offer "unsupported" support for AAC. It could be helpful to sales to let it slip that the non-DRM AAC files are playable.
What about something like a Sony CLIE with built-in camera? The NX80V has a 1.3 mega-pixel camera, which might be enough for some users (with additional software) or at least a decent starting point.
You might also consider work on a wearable solution and build a package around a low-power board and custom software tailored to your design.
That's not bad, considering an external drive that's 4 times the size of $200 internal drives.
It actually checks for indications that you are alive beyond heat - conductivity, capacitance... that sort of thing, I think.
This is old business with a new timecard. Some businesses (people, really) watch the one- and two-minute differences with no forgiveness.
Is it so significant that a palm scanner is being used now? It prevents deception - it's unlikely you'll cut off a hand for your friend to clock you in early. Other than that, it means you can't lose your timecard (major accidents excepted). Oh, and you might want to wash your hands more...
The biggest difficulties I see it facing are:
Ah, the benefits of a free market. When your access is partially or fully government subsidized, it can be plenty cheaper. We aren't getting screwed necessarily; we are paying for choice (even if it doesn't exist in your area).
For my area, I get DSL for $40 (Verizon or the one Verizon reseller), dial-up for $15, or I can go for my own leased line. At work We could get Business Cable ($150+), dial-up $15, or (the chosen option) a fractional T1 from our telco. It's $300-something for 384k.
I've kept my eye on Lego, even though I haven't purchased much for years. My greatest disappointment is the "special" pieces that are now so common. All the special pieces detract from your ability to make new and interesting things with multiple sets.
It's time to go back to castles and space ships and cities.