"Moscow-based ElcomSoft briefly sold a computer program over the Internet last year that allowed people using Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE.O) eBook Reader to circumvent copyright protections so they could copy and print digital books, as well as transfer them to other computers and have the computer read them aloud."
I wonder if the dBook reader allows for 'Accessibillity' in that it includes a way to have the books 'read.. aloud'.
If not, this would be a very nice point to bring up in the trial. If Adobe hasn't provided a way for vision impaired individuals to access these eBooks they may be in for a rude awakening. Where are the laws on this? Anyone know what the current status is for 'Fair Access'?
Not that I like people who create virii or worms more than the average person, but all of a sudden I just can't help but see that they too are only expressing themselves.
If only 'they' would create benign virii and worms that would only attack evil monopolistic instutions and leave the rest of us alone...;-p
Isn't it lovely? I actually went ahead and paid for Screenshot Pro for this very reason... well and to make movies of how-to things for marketing!!!;-p
You might want to consider that many M$ Office documents contain huge amounts of unrendered and non-formatting information.This could be the last ten edits you did or that your coworkers did to the document or if there is a spreadsheet or table it is most likely now an embedded database from excel, not to mention Powerpoint code for anything image wise.
If all you are doing is creating a ruch formatted text document you might want to consider copying and pasting the actual text and formatting from Word into a new document, either MSWord or Abiword or whatever and resave... witness the file size and complexity of the document shrivel to a reasonable size.
M$Word never throws anything away. Try doing a save as to.RTF on a file and see how the size shrinks even then.
Parseing and displaying the results of bad standards isn't really all that impressive. Kinda like the dog that finally caught it's own tail and proceeded to chew it off.
Too late... I run OS X and I turn off my desktop to improve windowing performance. I don't like previews in the finder so I turn that off as well. WMP doesn't seem to use any Quicktime APIs. I don't consider any of those things to be part of the OS... widgets and bells and whistles maybe but not a part of the OS.
They really are just APIs to added value libraries. IE uses these APIs to show QT movies embedded in HTML, so does Mozilla and Opera but they certainly aren't 'required' components for the OS, just libraries for the QT/Sorenson codec. The same APIs and libraries that allow Windows to play QT.
Truthfully it is that simple on OS X. A few new tricks include making sure you pick up all the priviliges, etc.. but it's no harder than making an image of a drive in any other UNIX.
Also apps do copy over completely by moving the files. Start them up again and voila, etc. though of course if you've removed the registered preferences file you'll have to put in the serial again. Many apps simply install off a disk image by copying the app to your drive... that simple, no installer.
Fact is there are plenty of mp3 players and burners out there that do as good a job as iTunes on OS X. Maybe not better but as good.
iTunes's only claim to fame is it's UI. It is very easy to use, straightforward and obvious to anyone from the beginning, ie it was made by Apple. Well it also has a killer visualizer but Apple bought and enhanced that part.
It's a value add to OS X, not anti-competitive. In fact it only began coming w/ the OS in version X right along-side M$IE (though there is obviously no integration or 'commingled code' in IE for the Mac).
I live in CA and I'm curious about where that money will now go. Back to the treasury? It's already been budgeted... maybe we could invest in some Savings and Loans project?
..and you also get #2, there is already hardware accellerated Quartz for all supported OS X machines.. QE improves upon this support for machines that have extra OpenGL accelleration on their GPUs.
Also 32MB of VRAM is not required, it is recommended.
How much RAM? RAM is insanely important for OS X. I get better performance in some tasks on my G4-350 w/ a gig of RAM than my TiG4-500 w/ 512MB RAM.
Just because redraw times are a slower in 10.1 doesn't mean the system is running slower, just the redraws. Try doing something besides using the finder or IE (which is a slow as hell app to begin with, try any other browser and you'll see). You'll see that Photoshop/Illustrator/any CLI app runs really great.
10.2 will bring plenty of performance boosts to all the Macs that support OS X. Multi-threaded Finder for one thing, lost of code optimizations as well. You'll see.
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Well that would mean that his mother and father were either mother and son or father and daughter, both of course being preachers.
It's not all that difficult. Probably pretty common to... in Applachia. It's a natural result of all the flooding that happens there. At least that's what the preacher.. I'm mean my mother told me before she showed me all about the birds and the bees. What a great mother;-p
How do you guys get so much damn spam... i get a few things from Verisign, Apple Developer Connection and maybe a few random once a monthers from scatter spammers... not alot. Is it a Windows thing? Maybe Hotmail, which isnt't really e-mail at all, more like marketing central.
2.8 million dollars... what is that, like the amount Macromedia spends on catering yearly? Gimme a break.
This is a nominal fee for back pay of the patent license. They'll work out a deal and probably have a better working relationship because of it. I know Adobe uses the SWF format in LiveMotion but Macromedia can't do a thing cause the specs have been open sourced... well, whatever... it's just drama.
Ah unless it is anaerobic... could be that there's a whole colony of microbes up there right now sucking in sun and dust and multiplying into 'green cheese'.
"crack propagation is an especially important problem in materials science, and it's nice to see that these large computers can be used to help solve it."
Yes I hear you material scientists rely far too heavily on smoking crack to get you through those tedious simulation runs..:-S
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"Moscow-based ElcomSoft briefly sold a computer program over the Internet last year that allowed people using Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE.O) eBook Reader to circumvent copyright protections so they could copy and print digital books, as well as transfer them to other computers and have the computer read them aloud."
I wonder if the dBook reader allows for 'Accessibillity' in that it includes a way to have the books 'read.. aloud'.
If not, this would be a very nice point to bring up in the trial. If Adobe hasn't provided a way for vision impaired individuals to access these eBooks they may be in for a rude awakening. Where are the laws on this? Anyone know what the current status is for 'Fair Access'?
Not that I like people who create virii or worms more than the average person, but all of a sudden I just can't help but see that they too are only expressing themselves.
;-p
If only 'they' would create benign virii and worms that would only attack evil monopolistic instutions and leave the rest of us alone...
Isn't it lovely? I actually went ahead and paid for Screenshot Pro for this very reason... well and to make movies of how-to things for marketing!!! ;-p
(well somene paid for it but I digress)
"perhaps they could use some LAbiaSpread. I can't believe it's not butter!
You might want to consider that many M$ Office documents contain huge amounts of unrendered and non-formatting information.This could be the last ten edits you did or that your coworkers did to the document or if there is a spreadsheet or table it is most likely now an embedded database from excel, not to mention Powerpoint code for anything image wise.
.RTF on a file and see how the size shrinks even then.
If all you are doing is creating a ruch formatted text document you might want to consider copying and pasting the actual text and formatting from Word into a new document, either MSWord or Abiword or whatever and resave... witness the file size and complexity of the document shrivel to a reasonable size.
M$Word never throws anything away. Try doing a save as to
Parseing and displaying the results of bad standards isn't really all that impressive. Kinda like the dog that finally caught it's own tail and proceeded to chew it off.
Too late... I run OS X and I turn off my desktop to improve windowing performance. I don't like previews in the finder so I turn that off as well. WMP doesn't seem to use any Quicktime APIs. I don't consider any of those things to be part of the OS... widgets and bells and whistles maybe but not a part of the OS.
They really are just APIs to added value libraries. IE uses these APIs to show QT movies embedded in HTML, so does Mozilla and Opera but they certainly aren't 'required' components for the OS, just libraries for the QT/Sorenson codec. The same APIs and libraries that allow Windows to play QT.
Truthfully it is that simple on OS X. A few new tricks include making sure you pick up all the priviliges, etc.. but it's no harder than making an image of a drive in any other UNIX.
Also apps do copy over completely by moving the files. Start them up again and voila, etc. though of course if you've removed the registered preferences file you'll have to put in the serial again. Many apps simply install off a disk image by copying the app to your drive... that simple, no installer.
you should insist on using a Mac. Mac OSs have always met all of your interests.
Fact is there are plenty of mp3 players and burners out there that do as good a job as iTunes on OS X. Maybe not better but as good.
iTunes's only claim to fame is it's UI. It is very easy to use, straightforward and obvious to anyone from the beginning, ie it was made by Apple. Well it also has a killer visualizer but Apple bought and enhanced that part.
It's a value add to OS X, not anti-competitive. In fact it only began coming w/ the OS in version X right along-side M$IE (though there is obviously no integration or 'commingled code' in IE for the Mac).
What and give up the Beowulf Cluster? For a 'genuine' super computer... ;-p
Maybe it was only the first installment?
Can't be worse than Enron, of course we still don't know all the details on how CA got screwed by them.
I live in CA and I'm curious about where that money will now go. Back to the treasury? It's already been budgeted... maybe we could invest in some Savings and Loans project?
Well, this should all be quite humorous.
Actually the L probably stands for Link as in hard/soft link.
My fav part of that press release:
"Over three million Macs® with Mac OS X have shipped to date, making Apple the number one supplier of UNIX-based systems in the world."
hehehehe sounds like more than 5% market share to me... =P
Jobs and Apple will soon be saying so as well.. claiming that they no longer compete with M$ and are now #1 in their own market... just a prediction.
Well you definitely do get #1, GCC 3 is included.
..and you also get #2, there is already hardware accellerated Quartz for all supported OS X machines.. QE improves upon this support for machines that have extra OpenGL accelleration on their GPUs.
Also 32MB of VRAM is not required, it is recommended.
How much RAM? RAM is insanely important for OS X. I get better performance in some tasks on my G4-350 w/ a gig of RAM than my TiG4-500 w/ 512MB RAM.
Just because redraw times are a slower in 10.1 doesn't mean the system is running slower, just the redraws. Try doing something besides using the finder or IE (which is a slow as hell app to begin with, try any other browser and you'll see). You'll see that Photoshop/Illustrator/any CLI app runs really great.
10.2 will bring plenty of performance boosts to all the Macs that support OS X. Multi-threaded Finder for one thing, lost of code optimizations as well. You'll see.
Well that would mean that his mother and father were either mother and son or father and daughter, both of course being preachers.
;-p
It's not all that difficult. Probably pretty common to... in Applachia. It's a natural result of all the flooding that happens there. At least that's what the preacher.. I'm mean my mother told me before she showed me all about the birds and the bees. What a great mother
How do you guys get so much damn spam... i get a few things from Verisign, Apple Developer Connection and maybe a few random once a monthers from scatter spammers... not alot. Is it a Windows thing? Maybe Hotmail, which isnt't really e-mail at all, more like marketing central.
well, good luck...
2.8 million dollars... what is that, like the amount Macromedia spends on catering yearly? Gimme a break.
This is a nominal fee for back pay of the patent license. They'll work out a deal and probably have a better working relationship because of it. I know Adobe uses the SWF format in LiveMotion but Macromedia can't do a thing cause the specs have been open sourced... well, whatever... it's just drama.
Ah unless it is anaerobic... could be that there's a whole colony of microbes up there right now sucking in sun and dust and multiplying into 'green cheese'.
I'd be more concerned about the enormous number of bacteria living off of the human body. Estimates between 100 billion and 100 trillion.
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http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/70
http://www.russellbeatie.com/simpleface/
We're working on putting together a standard for UI/GUI with definite focus on OSS Desktop environments.
Any help/suggestion is welcome.
I believe they do for the simple fact that they don't require the Mac OS X firmware stuff... and because what else would run on those platforms?
Maybe you could provide some info via a few google searches or the like?
"crack propagation is an especially important problem in materials science, and it's nice to see that these large computers can be used to help solve it."
Yes I hear you material scientists rely far too heavily on smoking crack to get you through those tedious simulation runs..:-S