I want to know the whole story. Apple was one of the early adopters of Alkamia and the whole distributed load-balancing technology precisely for their keynote and high web traffic. Apple.com has consistently been one of the top sites on the Internet for years.
Either something(s) failed, or there was unprecidented demand. Apple has scalability. It can handle big loads. Heck, you can't/. Apple.com, and yet, it happened.
Ironically, BT was actually a step back from the p2p generation. It was Napster-esque, and thus, first generation p2p (centralized p2p). Kazaa(Gnutella, etc) were 2nd gen (decentralized, p2p). Then the newest apps like Mute, Waste, and even Freenet are 'third gen' p2p. Comprising decentralized structure, p2p connections, and anonymity/security functions for protection.
3rd gen was an obvious move from 2nd gen. 2nd gen(Gnutella) was a smart, but obvious move from 1st gen(napster).
4th Gen? I have no idea. A more efficient (experience over time) protocol and clever tricks, for sure. But there is no clear 'next generation' p2p client.
"We have a company here that's suing 21 year old mac fans for participating in the illegal sharing of a beta build of their OS."
He signed an NDA. It IS his fault.
"We have a company here that's suing a side aimed at their fans because the site spreads some rumors about new products."
Again. Violation of an NDA. What is apple suppose to do?
"We have a company that refuses to use an open standard, or even simply to license their technology to other companies, in order to leverage the huge market share they have in one area to boost sales in an other area."
I admit, it would be nice. But they are using an open standard and putting(their own) security/DRM on top of it. You don't have to use iPods, there are CLEARLY alternatives, and you don't have to use iTunes, nor are you stuck if you are using a mac. There are reasonable, competitive alternatives.
"We have a company here that is taking open source technology for their new browser, but then refuse to give the changes they make back in a way that might be useful to the original open source developers."
Blatant lie. Apple has been PRAISED for contributing back to the KHTML project. Beyond which, Webcore is a system-wide rendering engine, any open, closed, free or share-ware developer can use it in the same way Safari uses it.
What about adding hooks for applications to to send/recieve performance changes after tweaks? Services, daemons, etc, need to communicate how the GA's latest tweak adjusted performance, right?
Why don't they just turn off Windows Messenger Service and RPC with SP2(and make it easy to have an msi undo it for corporate enviroments)?
Why turn a feature on by default that only a few corporate users use(relatively) when those 2 services are 2 of the BIGGEST pains in running windows!
Do it how Apple does it. Everything off by default(network services, atleast), but make it easy to turn on(require an admin password, etc). This is the only way that makes sense.
For a Wikipedia 1.0, where you could(in theory) order a hardcopy in which each article is ceritified to be accurate, Wikipedia NEEDS a -stable version of articles controlled SOLEY by moderators and admins, and a -current that exists now.
-stable would be where mods get a queue to approve/disapprove of changes to be put into the stable version, such that the -stable is verified to be accurate.
Almost all mainstream scientists accept that global warming is happening... The question is, in their minds, if this is a bad thing, a short-term thing, or a 'buy antartic beachfront property' thing.
I bet they will post a live recording after-the-fact, in quicktime 7's new h.whatever format for higher quality.
It is a good bet Steve introduces, with other products, the new quicktime version, so releasing qt7 player, and the keynote as bait, should hurry along early adoption.
bittorrent, as it is now(as I have been told), is not efficient enough for small files. It is only effective on medium to big files, not small text and html files, because the negotiation of the protocol is more bandwidth then the web content it is negotiating over.
They way I have been told, is that. With Eve, Adam, humanity and all, God gave us free will. We can choose to love him, or not. And Satan is free to tempt us away. God has chosen a hands-off approach. How can someone love him if they do not have the choice to hate him(Angels)? So, nature, satan, and the rest are the negative side to God's open ended offer. When we die/Judgement day, we will get a yay or a nay vote that lasts eternity.
I have always seen it as this(sunday school, B movies, my own understand, etc are included):
Warning: I do not personally agree or follow this, but it is what I have peiced together, been taught.
1. God created Angels, etc. they were perfect, but since they were not free to choose love/hate toward their creator, God could not truley be loved by the Angels. (Lucifer, at some point, rebels, etc).
2. God creates adam and, later, eve. He loves them, etc, but gives them free will, such that, Adam and Eve could FREELY choose to love him. This SUPERBLY backfires. Eve + Apple + snake == Fucked up humanity. Fall from grace, banished from Eden. world, in handbasket, 1-way trip to hell.
3. God lays down the law: "OK, you guys really fucked up that free ride I gave you. So here: Go populate the earth, etc, and I will be back. Those who love me when I return get heaven, those who don't get hell. Those who do not know me(remote tribes, etc) will be given a choice on the day of my return, and those who die before my return will be addressed by me on their moment of death.
4. Time passes. Humanity populates, civilizations rise and crumble and rise again.
5. At some point, God is going to come back. He will lay down the law. Do some 7 years of serious screwups(tribulatou, if you will), after taking his believers away to view from heaven. Then there will be some thousand year reign and Judgement day.
6. You are either eternally happy in heaven, or eternally screwed in hell. But you have your chance, you were given free will, your destiny is yours to make or break.
Interesting belief system, I must say. Talk about playing "for all the marbles".
Coming from a friend who is married to an Indian(native born), she tells me that because of its size, etc, Bollywood doesn't really care if you share movies online. It couldn't possibly try to sue you, besides, it makes their movies more popular for the Indians abroad.
Increase the size of the House of Reps, decrease lobbyists, and make it illegal for any non-citizen of the USA to donate to a politician/political party/etc.
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Get a more diverse group, remove people who are payed to swing their vote, and don't let companies bribe them.
Makes sense to me. "300-odd people" governing over 300 million? That doesn't seem right to me.
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I want to know the whole story. Apple was one of the early adopters of Alkamia and the whole distributed load-balancing technology precisely for their keynote and high web traffic. Apple.com has consistently been one of the top sites on the Internet for years.
/. Apple.com, and yet, it happened.
Either something(s) failed, or there was unprecidented demand. Apple has scalability. It can handle big loads. Heck, you can't
Why don't they quit with the PR games and go to yahoo.com and reset his email password? How hard is that?
There sure has.
Yea. But Apple is up 40 from the high-teens($18-20) 12-18 months ago.
Yes. It is hush quiet and fanless.
It has 40 - 80 gigs, so that is quite a lot. Add a stick of ram and you got a badass little server.
Ironically, BT was actually a step back from the p2p generation. It was Napster-esque, and thus, first generation p2p (centralized p2p). Kazaa(Gnutella, etc) were 2nd gen (decentralized, p2p). Then the newest apps like Mute, Waste, and even Freenet are 'third gen' p2p. Comprising decentralized structure, p2p connections, and anonymity/security functions for protection.
3rd gen was an obvious move from 2nd gen. 2nd gen(Gnutella) was a smart, but obvious move from 1st gen(napster).
4th Gen? I have no idea. A more efficient (experience over time) protocol and clever tricks, for sure. But there is no clear 'next generation' p2p client.
"I'm still waiting for the days of OSX but with windows.... cygwin will have to suffice for now."
That is like buying a body kit for your honda civic that gives it the grill of a BMW sports car... Then expecting your civic to handle like a beemer.
It doesn't work that way. Now, buying a real BMW...
They bought NT?
Looks like it. Mac OS X running Apple's X11 software, I believe.
"We have a company here that's suing 21 year old mac fans for participating in the illegal sharing of a beta build of their OS."
He signed an NDA. It IS his fault.
"We have a company here that's suing a side aimed at their fans because the site spreads some rumors about new products."
Again. Violation of an NDA. What is apple suppose to do?
"We have a company that refuses to use an open standard, or even simply to license their technology to other companies, in order to leverage the huge market share they have in one area to boost sales in an other area."
I admit, it would be nice. But they are using an open standard and putting(their own) security/DRM on top of it. You don't have to use iPods, there are CLEARLY alternatives, and you don't have to use iTunes, nor are you stuck if you are using a mac. There are reasonable, competitive alternatives.
"We have a company here that is taking open source technology for their new browser, but then refuse to give the changes they make back in a way that might be useful to the original open source developers."
Blatant lie. Apple has been PRAISED for contributing back to the KHTML project. Beyond which, Webcore is a system-wide rendering engine, any open, closed, free or share-ware developer can use it in the same way Safari uses it.
The beta-quality game crashed. It happens. How is this Microsoft's fault?
That is a great idea. Now here is a dumb one:
What about adding hooks for applications to to send/recieve performance changes after tweaks? Services, daemons, etc, need to communicate how the GA's latest tweak adjusted performance, right?
Why don't they just turn off Windows Messenger Service and RPC with SP2(and make it easy to have an msi undo it for corporate enviroments)?
Why turn a feature on by default that only a few corporate users use(relatively) when those 2 services are 2 of the BIGGEST pains in running windows!
Do it how Apple does it. Everything off by default(network services, atleast), but make it easy to turn on(require an admin password, etc). This is the only way that makes sense.
For a Wikipedia 1.0, where you could(in theory) order a hardcopy in which each article is ceritified to be accurate, Wikipedia NEEDS a -stable version of articles controlled SOLEY by moderators and admins, and a -current that exists now.
-stable would be where mods get a queue to approve/disapprove of changes to be put into the stable version, such that the -stable is verified to be accurate.
-current would be the wikipedia that we know now.
Almost all mainstream scientists accept that global warming is happening... The question is, in their minds, if this is a bad thing, a short-term thing, or a 'buy antartic beachfront property' thing.
I bet they will post a live recording after-the-fact, in quicktime 7's new h.whatever format for higher quality.
It is a good bet Steve introduces, with other products, the new quicktime version, so releasing qt7 player, and the keynote as bait, should hurry along early adoption.
bittorrent, as it is now(as I have been told), is not efficient enough for small files. It is only effective on medium to big files, not small text and html files, because the negotiation of the protocol is more bandwidth then the web content it is negotiating over.
Free will.
They way I have been told, is that. With Eve, Adam, humanity and all, God gave us free will. We can choose to love him, or not. And Satan is free to tempt us away. God has chosen a hands-off approach. How can someone love him if they do not have the choice to hate him(Angels)? So, nature, satan, and the rest are the negative side to God's open ended offer. When we die/Judgement day, we will get a yay or a nay vote that lasts eternity.
Excellemt quote.
I have always seen it as this(sunday school, B movies, my own understand, etc are included):
Warning: I do not personally agree or follow this, but it is what I have peiced together, been taught.
1. God created Angels, etc. they were perfect, but since they were not free to choose love/hate toward their creator, God could not truley be loved by the Angels. (Lucifer, at some point, rebels, etc).
2. God creates adam and, later, eve. He loves them, etc, but gives them free will, such that, Adam and Eve could FREELY choose to love him. This SUPERBLY backfires. Eve + Apple + snake == Fucked up humanity. Fall from grace, banished from Eden. world, in handbasket, 1-way trip to hell.
3. God lays down the law: "OK, you guys really fucked up that free ride I gave you. So here: Go populate the earth, etc, and I will be back. Those who love me when I return get heaven, those who don't get hell. Those who do not know me(remote tribes, etc) will be given a choice on the day of my return, and those who die before my return will be addressed by me on their moment of death.
4. Time passes. Humanity populates, civilizations rise and crumble and rise again.
5. At some point, God is going to come back. He will lay down the law. Do some 7 years of serious screwups(tribulatou, if you will), after taking his believers away to view from heaven. Then there will be some thousand year reign and Judgement day.
6. You are either eternally happy in heaven, or eternally screwed in hell. But you have your chance, you were given free will, your destiny is yours to make or break.
Interesting belief system, I must say. Talk about playing "for all the marbles".
Coming from a friend who is married to an Indian(native born), she tells me that because of its size, etc, Bollywood doesn't really care if you share movies online. It couldn't possibly try to sue you, besides, it makes their movies more popular for the Indians abroad.
Sure does. Time to move to FreeBSD
I bet you a dime it will be less effective then ad-aware or spybot SD (neither of which is complete in itself).
Fx ActiveX, then come talk to me. Why try and fix the effect, and you can cure the cause? What a dumb ass way of attacking a problem.
Increase the size of the House of Reps, decrease lobbyists, and make it illegal for any non-citizen of the USA to donate to a politician/political party/etc.
==
Get a more diverse group, remove people who are payed to swing their vote, and don't let companies bribe them.
Makes sense to me. "300-odd people" governing over 300 million? That doesn't seem right to me.
That is odd. it takes 3 keys to write E T C, and three keys to write & c, so whay go to the trouble of using the &? You aren't saving any time.
Interesting, though.