Of course, but if I download and install any software that contains malicious code then I am in trouble. Similar to that incidence of a developer deleting ~/ on users machines that used a pirated serial number.
As this Bash script (that's all it is) needs root access or physical access to the machine to propagate, I am not too concerned. Root is disabled by default on all shipping Mac's and if anyone has physical access to your machine then you are in serious trouble anyway.
Saying this though, keeping your Mac patched is probably the best idea. Some vulnerabilities in Mac OS X can give you root privs, but having the firewall on and only services that you need enabled (none are enabled by default) will protect you from those issues.
And as the report says, some aluminium cans are made to an even higher tolerance than those tubes. What does that prove, that Coke's manufacturers are creating weapons of mass destruction as well? Maybe Iraq just wanted those rockets to be able to hang around for a few years, note that they were anodised as well.
Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Soyuz, etc. did not use tiles. SpaceShipOne is using similar ablative compounds to remove the minor heat that it produces.
Of course, if they were doing orbital flights where you would have to remove the insane amounts of kinetic energy they would probably use carbon-carbon or something similar. Tiles are too complex a beast for extremely reliable space flight.
Once again the competition fails to grasp the fact that you cannot easily scan through over 1000 songs with a nub and your thumb. The iPod will continue to be No. 1 because its interface is that much better than its competitors.
Anyone else notice the glaring typo's in the system requirements (MAC and spave)? Seems a little rushed to me.
I have dropped my 40Gb iPod from around 4 feet with no noticeable damage done to the hard drive (was some buckling on the case). At the time though the hard drive was not spinning, and usually it is not. If it was spinning and being read, I don't want to know what type of damage it could have done.
Indeed you are correct about it being HFS+, but when it comes in the box it is Fat32. If you don't run the updater on it, it can remain Fat32 and still be synced to the Mac. I probably should have been a little more obvious in my parent post.
Also something of note, Windows has a certain tendency to want to format HFS+ devices plugged into it and this can be dangerous if you don't know what to do.
As someone that writes software for the iPod, I can ensure you that it would be impossible for Apple to lock someone out of the hard drive. It is a standard Fat32 mount on all systems.
I have also never heard of data loss caused by an iPod. It's a standard hard drive. Treat it as you would most devices that store data and it will work fine.
How about any of NASA's R&D to do exactly those things? If I recall correctly, the shape of the wings on many aircraft today are a direct descendant from research that NASA did on aircraft wings. Interestingly you may also not know that NASA found that a wing that was upside down with a small lip on the end was actually the best wing in terms of performance.
Composite structures in aircraft, such as the tail of the 777 or much of the Airbus super jumbo, owe a great deal to NASA's research.
Many new things have been learnt about the human body thanks to NASA research into human behaviour, in areas such as extended stays in isolation, the endurance of the human body and team work.
Many key elements of computers owe a lot to NASA funding miniaturisation for space craft and this has had a run off effect in many areas of human life.
Other posters have mentioned other areas, so I will leave it at that.
Chances are you will create an unstart if the engine is running due to the changes in the shock waves as the foreign body progresses through.
Of course an unstart does not damage the engine but it can radically alter the course of the aircraft. An unstart on an SR-71 at full speed led the aircraft to turn in the direction of the engine at roughly a mile every 4 seconds. They generally did not last long though.
Without Steve Jobs, the products may exist, but they most certainly would not be up to the extraidonary standard they are.
Case in point, the original iPod as designed by engineers (pre-release) was almost impossible to navigate. Jobs sat down with the team and worked out how you could get to anywhere on the iPod with only 3 clicks. That is what sets Apple's products apart and what makes them so successful.
In Apple's last quarterly statement they announced that the iTunes Music Store had made a slim profit. It is noted in the quarterly conference call and here is a transcript.
I assume the profit was only due to the economies of scale as they can only be earning 0.5-1c a song.
Personally, as a writer of Mac OS X iPod software, I see a very large number of switchers caused by people being happy with the iTunes/iPod combination on Windows. In fact, as time goes on I am seeing the number of switchers increase which I am only too happy about.
64 bit computing will not bring about faster day to day usage unless you are addressing over 4Gb of RAM. Even then, Panther supports 42bit addressing which is way more than the 8 slots on a G5 can handle.
Of course, saying this, I can't wait for Apple to make all of Mac OS X 64bit because we may finally be able to address more than 2Gb of RAM with each application, a major sore point for people buying G5's.
There is no autorun similar to the Windows variant that automatically starts an exe up. There is only 'autorun' for Audio CD's, DVD's and camera's, etc, media that cannot do any damage to the machine.
I don't know about complete failure. The ESA has a very good track record and I am sure big companies would rather pay for reliability (assuming that it is). You also have the fact that the ESA can now offer a complete solution to all customers, whether it be light Vega payloads or heavy Ariane 5 launches, they will cover it all.
On the other hand, the market is extremely small for light payloads to LEO, so both maybe a commercial disaster.
As all its stages are solid fuel (except the final stage), Vega doesn't need the hazards of complex machinery, fuelling, insulation and other things that can possibly make it fail or delay a launch.
What I find interesting is that it is such a small vehicle. I imagine its going to push some g's on launch because its thrust to weight ratio is quite high. I haven't seen any numbers to support this theory though.
As The Register pointed out, and it could well be true, it seems the RIAA is started to fear Steve and his creation. The old men of the RIAA were held over the barrel once before by MTV and now when a new industry starts up that produces them pure profit through every sale, they decide to start restraining it and quite possibly destroying it.
On the flip-side of course we have Steve throwing his weight around with Pixar and Disney. This is almost exactly the same thing the RIAA are doing, albeit Steve and Pixar had a bad contract with the monolithic Disney.
I guess we can only hope the RIAA come to their collective senses and note that they cannot throw their weight around like this anymore, the indies will eventually prevail.
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Tiger allows you to encrypt the swap files. Kind of overkill, but it should fix this problem.
Of course, but if I download and install any software that contains malicious code then I am in trouble. Similar to that incidence of a developer deleting ~/ on users machines that used a pirated serial number.
As this Bash script (that's all it is) needs root access or physical access to the machine to propagate, I am not too concerned. Root is disabled by default on all shipping Mac's and if anyone has physical access to your machine then you are in serious trouble anyway.
Saying this though, keeping your Mac patched is probably the best idea. Some vulnerabilities in Mac OS X can give you root privs, but having the firewall on and only services that you need enabled (none are enabled by default) will protect you from those issues.
And as the report says, some aluminium cans are made to an even higher tolerance than those tubes. What does that prove, that Coke's manufacturers are creating weapons of mass destruction as well? Maybe Iraq just wanted those rockets to be able to hang around for a few years, note that they were anodised as well.
Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Soyuz, etc. did not use tiles. SpaceShipOne is using similar ablative compounds to remove the minor heat that it produces.
Of course, if they were doing orbital flights where you would have to remove the insane amounts of kinetic energy they would probably use carbon-carbon or something similar. Tiles are too complex a beast for extremely reliable space flight.
...which is so much better. It means I can give myself RSI while finding my song of choice. Brilliant!
I should have mentioned of course that I was indicating both the physical interface and the software interface. Both are exceptionally lacking.
Once again the competition fails to grasp the fact that you cannot easily scan through over 1000 songs with a nub and your thumb. The iPod will continue to be No. 1 because its interface is that much better than its competitors.
Anyone else notice the glaring typo's in the system requirements (MAC and spave)? Seems a little rushed to me.
I have dropped my 40Gb iPod from around 4 feet with no noticeable damage done to the hard drive (was some buckling on the case). At the time though the hard drive was not spinning, and usually it is not. If it was spinning and being read, I don't want to know what type of damage it could have done.
Indeed you are correct about it being HFS+, but when it comes in the box it is Fat32. If you don't run the updater on it, it can remain Fat32 and still be synced to the Mac. I probably should have been a little more obvious in my parent post.
Also something of note, Windows has a certain tendency to want to format HFS+ devices plugged into it and this can be dangerous if you don't know what to do.
As someone that writes software for the iPod, I can ensure you that it would be impossible for Apple to lock someone out of the hard drive. It is a standard Fat32 mount on all systems.
I have also never heard of data loss caused by an iPod. It's a standard hard drive. Treat it as you would most devices that store data and it will work fine.
How about any of NASA's R&D to do exactly those things? If I recall correctly, the shape of the wings on many aircraft today are a direct descendant from research that NASA did on aircraft wings. Interestingly you may also not know that NASA found that a wing that was upside down with a small lip on the end was actually the best wing in terms of performance.
Composite structures in aircraft, such as the tail of the 777 or much of the Airbus super jumbo, owe a great deal to NASA's research.
Many new things have been learnt about the human body thanks to NASA research into human behaviour, in areas such as extended stays in isolation, the endurance of the human body and team work.
Many key elements of computers owe a lot to NASA funding miniaturisation for space craft and this has had a run off effect in many areas of human life.
Other posters have mentioned other areas, so I will leave it at that.
Chances are you will create an unstart if the engine is running due to the changes in the shock waves as the foreign body progresses through.
Of course an unstart does not damage the engine but it can radically alter the course of the aircraft. An unstart on an SR-71 at full speed led the aircraft to turn in the direction of the engine at roughly a mile every 4 seconds. They generally did not last long though.
Ok, let me rephrase it for him:
Without Steve Jobs, the products may exist, but they most certainly would not be up to the extraidonary standard they are.
Case in point, the original iPod as designed by engineers (pre-release) was almost impossible to navigate. Jobs sat down with the team and worked out how you could get to anywhere on the iPod with only 3 clicks. That is what sets Apple's products apart and what makes them so successful.
In Apple's last quarterly statement they announced that the iTunes Music Store had made a slim profit. It is noted in the quarterly conference call and here is a transcript.
I assume the profit was only due to the economies of scale as they can only be earning 0.5-1c a song.
The iTunes division reported a slim profit last quarter. Apple are not going to let _any_ profit to disappear, so they probably will fight it.
Personally, as a writer of Mac OS X iPod software, I see a very large number of switchers caused by people being happy with the iTunes/iPod combination on Windows. In fact, as time goes on I am seeing the number of switchers increase which I am only too happy about.
Of course, saying this, I can't wait for Apple to make all of Mac OS X 64bit because we may finally be able to address more than 2Gb of RAM with each application, a major sore point for people buying G5's.
- Improved compiler (GCC 3.5) which can create better PPC code, especially for the G5
- Improved Quartz Extreme. The core image API that was demo'ed included QE enhancements and performance increases.
- Some of the iApp's such as Mail, Address Book and iCal have seen significant rewrites
- Improvements to SMB and most networking protocols
Obviously that is not an exhaustive list, but you can find more info on Apple's website.I agree now, I neglected to think of the Desk Accessories from the original Mac OS as I am a Windows switcher.
Apple bought iTunes and Sherlock already did a fair few things that Watson did, and the developer knew that he was stepping into Apple's grounds.
This does not excuse Apple ripping off Konfabulator though, but these are the same tactics Microsoft has been using for years...
There is no autorun similar to the Windows variant that automatically starts an exe up. There is only 'autorun' for Audio CD's, DVD's and camera's, etc, media that cannot do any damage to the machine.
I don't know about complete failure. The ESA has a very good track record and I am sure big companies would rather pay for reliability (assuming that it is). You also have the fact that the ESA can now offer a complete solution to all customers, whether it be light Vega payloads or heavy Ariane 5 launches, they will cover it all.
On the other hand, the market is extremely small for light payloads to LEO, so both maybe a commercial disaster.
As all its stages are solid fuel (except the final stage), Vega doesn't need the hazards of complex machinery, fuelling, insulation and other things that can possibly make it fail or delay a launch.
What I find interesting is that it is such a small vehicle. I imagine its going to push some g's on launch because its thrust to weight ratio is quite high. I haven't seen any numbers to support this theory though.
I await Sony or Apple's version personally.
As The Register pointed out, and it could well be true, it seems the RIAA is started to fear Steve and his creation. The old men of the RIAA were held over the barrel once before by MTV and now when a new industry starts up that produces them pure profit through every sale, they decide to start restraining it and quite possibly destroying it.
On the flip-side of course we have Steve throwing his weight around with Pixar and Disney. This is almost exactly the same thing the RIAA are doing, albeit Steve and Pixar had a bad contract with the monolithic Disney.
I guess we can only hope the RIAA come to their collective senses and note that they cannot throw their weight around like this anymore, the indies will eventually prevail.