Actually, it's the separator in HFS+, the format of Mac hard drives. It gets kinda weird in Terminal in OS X, because the Terminal works like UNIX: / is the separator.
What's funny is you can make a file with a ':' in it in Terminal, and it shows up in Terminal as a colon, but it's rendered (and probably stored as) a slash in the Finder.
If it really matters, I don't see why they can't just add to the Sears Tower some "integral structural element", like a 100-foot foam spire, and be done with it.
I don't normally correct spelling unless I have something do go with it, but this is such a corner case I might as well.
And my experience with my friends who license with GPL is that their goal is to affect a social change in how software is used and distributed.
You actually want effect, not affect. Despite what schools teach, both can be used as verbs. Affect means "to modify", whereas effect means "to bring about" or "to cause", as in a change.
I doubt it. My understanding is HFS+ is used Mac-side, and FAT32 is used Windows-side. (I don't think it was due to MusicMatch.) Then again, I lack a Windows machine to test this on.
I can attest to this! One of the professors at my college naturally speaks at probably 2x normal speech or higher. Generally speaking, the eyes and ears in the room are riveted on her lecture.
Even with that and the Indian (I think) accent, she's still pretty easy to understand.
Yeah, I realize that, but there isn't one with all of them out of the box. I think the XBox comes closest, but that thing is/was a beast, both in terms of size and price. If the XBox drops to $149 or so, it _might_ be worth $200 to look at DOA boobies, though. As well as Marathon 4 (AKA Halo).
The speaker-wire connections are the tricky point, though. It might work better if there were 4 RCA (A/V) connectors on the back for four different speakers. The console company could release speakers that take that connector as input and are powered separately, too. If they can do that cheaply enough (say $50?), then perhaps even 13-year-olds can have a decent, though probably fairly quiet, surround sound system for their games.
Since this thread has quickly turned into this anyway, here's what I think the industry should be aiming for in its next releases.
Native HDTV resolutions up to 720p/1080i
3D audio processed in dedicated hardware (It'd be nice if the programmer only needed to specify the x/y/z-coordinates and volume of a sound, for example.)
Optical and coaxial audio output for at least 5.1 output to a receiver (available to games!)
Speaker-wire output for at least a 4-speaker output (I really wanted this one before I got a receiver, but I imagine there are power issues with this.
Hard Disk (Not an XBox fan, but I gotta admit; I'm sure it's handy.)
Built-in ethernet/modem adapters
At least 4 controller ports
Optional keyboard/mouse which together only use one port
Apple has apparently improved CSS in Safari. The Complex Spiral Demo previously mentioned via the Mac Browser Smackdown, which in turn was mentioned on slashdot, now renders correctly in Safari. (Previously Safari was coloring black the parts which weren't in the blue box and were off the screen when the page finished loading.)
(As a side note, I couldn't load the Ars Technica article without turning off Javascript. It kept sending me to some crappy ad that was supposed to redirect me back to the article but didn't.)
10 million songs * $.33 profit/song = $3.3 million profit. So.... sue for $57million damages.
This is a violation of an agreement/contract, so Apple (Comp) should pay something, or forge a new contract, but hopefully it'll be something reasonable.
After all, Apple (Records) has to have some songs in iTMS that are making money. Like... uh... wait, Apple Records is still around?
Here's your term of the day: statistically significant. One, two, three, or even ten computers is not enough to to provide a statistically significant sample. You can't determine anything about hard drive reliability from such a small sample set. You need to have access to, at the very least, hard drive failure information for hundreds of systems.
That's all well and good, but I never claimed to be statistically significant, did I? I was merely relating my experience.
Okay, on page 6 he chown's the test program to root. Now, I just tried to chown something I own to root and it said operation not permitted. This is true in both tcsh and bash. It does of course work if you sudo, or start as root, but if you have root access, why write shellcode to give yourself root access on the same machine? Or is this covered after the first 12 pages?
No freakin' duh. That's why I can buy an IDE drive from anywhere and have it work in my Mac. You might want to check up on what Mac fanboy myths are before you start quoting them.
Nevertheless, in my experience it seems that Macs are much less likely to suffer a hard drive crash. For example, it has never happened to me. And I'm using Maxtor drives, which are supposedly notorious for bad quality. (Well, I do have a drive that doesn't want to wake up from sleep, but I'm just keeping it spun up until I buy another one. Probably a Western Digital.) But still, I've never had a crash. The Maxtors, I'm told, have issues with heat. I probably shouldn't be running dnetc all the time with my main drive underneath another one. Oh well, something else the new G5 design fixes, hmm?
I've mentioned this to my PC friends. One of them thinks there's something different in the file formats FAT32, NTFS, and HFS+ that gives the Mac some sort of edge. Or maybe the difference is in how the OS's power-saving features. Either way.
Not quite. IANAL, but I believe commercial use in this case is more along the lines of say, Hollywood buying a song and including it in a movie soundtrack. Or to a lesser extent, you couldn't charge people money to listen to it at a concert. Promotional use would be using it in promotional material for say, your company picnic.
Well, as far as gifts go, if for whatever reason the recipient can't accept cash as a gift, I suppose Apple could set up gift certificates for the iTMS. Makes more sense than transferring songs rights for a gift, anyway.
Ask Apple users how often they lose all their data to a hard drive crash. Or any of it, for that matter.
Maybe that's why it's taking so long for the Windows version to come out.
On a more general note, if you're that paranoid about 99 cents that you think you should back up every song as soon as you download it to "prevent people from getting screwed", maybe you're better off just buying the CD.
Anyone else here play Magic? Since, say, 5th Edition? Remember "fizzle" and "summoning sickness"?
For those who don't, the point is this: even if Apple is forced to change the name, "Rendezvous" at this point is probably pervasive enough to still be called that by the people who use the products that use Rendezvous.
On the other hand, Xerox is a registered trademark. Can anyone xerox this document for me? The Canon photocopier is in the next room.
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Actually, it's the separator in HFS+, the format of Mac hard drives. It gets kinda weird in Terminal in OS X, because the Terminal works like UNIX: / is the separator.
What's funny is you can make a file with a ':' in it in Terminal, and it shows up in Terminal as a colon, but it's rendered (and probably stored as) a slash in the Finder.
If it really matters, I don't see why they can't just add to the Sears Tower some "integral structural element", like a 100-foot foam spire, and be done with it.
I don't normally correct spelling unless I have something do go with it, but this is such a corner case I might as well.
And my experience with my friends who license with GPL is that their goal is to affect a social change in how software is used and distributed.
You actually want effect, not affect. Despite what schools teach, both can be used as verbs. Affect means "to modify", whereas effect means "to bring about" or "to cause", as in a change.
I doubt it. My understanding is HFS+ is used Mac-side, and FAT32 is used Windows-side. (I don't think it was due to MusicMatch.) Then again, I lack a Windows machine to test this on.
A-thousand, B-hundred thirty-F.
I can attest to this! One of the professors at my college naturally speaks at probably 2x normal speech or higher. Generally speaking, the eyes and ears in the room are riveted on her lecture.
Even with that and the Indian (I think) accent, she's still pretty easy to understand.
Go Suresh!
Yeah, I realize that, but there isn't one with all of them out of the box. I think the XBox comes closest, but that thing is/was a beast, both in terms of size and price. If the XBox drops to $149 or so, it _might_ be worth $200 to look at DOA boobies, though. As well as Marathon 4 (AKA Halo).
The speaker-wire connections are the tricky point, though. It might work better if there were 4 RCA (A/V) connectors on the back for four different speakers. The console company could release speakers that take that connector as input and are powered separately, too. If they can do that cheaply enough (say $50?), then perhaps even 13-year-olds can have a decent, though probably fairly quiet, surround sound system for their games.
Since this thread has quickly turned into this anyway, here's what I think the industry should be aiming for in its next releases.
Apple has apparently improved CSS in Safari. The Complex Spiral Demo previously mentioned via the Mac Browser Smackdown, which in turn was mentioned on slashdot, now renders correctly in Safari. (Previously Safari was coloring black the parts which weren't in the blue box and were off the screen when the page finished loading.)
(As a side note, I couldn't load the Ars Technica article without turning off Javascript. It kept sending me to some crappy ad that was supposed to redirect me back to the article but didn't.)
I didn't _really_ miss an entire point update, did I?
I'm guessing it was an internal development release. Or is it what's currently on the G5's?
Yeah, someone apparently doesn't click on the anime face enough, hmm?
10 million songs * $.33 profit/song = $3.3 million profit. So.... sue for $57million damages.
This is a violation of an agreement/contract, so Apple (Comp) should pay something, or forge a new contract, but hopefully it'll be something reasonable.
After all, Apple (Records) has to have some songs in iTMS that are making money. Like... uh... wait, Apple Records is still around?
I'm guessing because it wasn't that informative? Eh, I'm seeing it as a score 4 anyway. I think I have a bonus to informative posts, though.
The article number for this was 107666. If that's not clear proof that Microsoft was somehow involved, I don't know what is.
Um, I need something for the 107 part...
Waiting to see if this gets modded flamebait or funny... ;-)
I realize this was meant as a joke, but I'm pretty sure the sun will explode before that.
any non-parent/non-guardian interacting with any child[ren]
Actually, I believe that in New Hampshire, any adult who touches a child- AT ALL- can be charged with assault.
Just think about that one for a while. See a kid about to get run over by a car? Better not push him out of the way. That's assault.
Geez, how the hell did you screw that up?
Here's your term of the day: statistically significant. One, two, three, or even ten computers is not enough to to provide a statistically significant sample. You can't determine anything about hard drive reliability from such a small sample set. You need to have access to, at the very least, hard drive failure information for hundreds of systems.
That's all well and good, but I never claimed to be statistically significant, did I? I was merely relating my experience.
In any case, thanks for the info/advice.
Okay, on page 6 he chown's the test program to root. Now, I just tried to chown something I own to root and it said operation not permitted. This is true in both tcsh and bash. It does of course work if you sudo, or start as root, but if you have root access, why write shellcode to give yourself root access on the same machine? Or is this covered after the first 12 pages?
No freakin' duh. That's why I can buy an IDE drive from anywhere and have it work in my Mac. You might want to check up on what Mac fanboy myths are before you start quoting them.
Nevertheless, in my experience it seems that Macs are much less likely to suffer a hard drive crash. For example, it has never happened to me. And I'm using Maxtor drives, which are supposedly notorious for bad quality. (Well, I do have a drive that doesn't want to wake up from sleep, but I'm just keeping it spun up until I buy another one. Probably a Western Digital.) But still, I've never had a crash. The Maxtors, I'm told, have issues with heat. I probably shouldn't be running dnetc all the time with my main drive underneath another one. Oh well, something else the new G5 design fixes, hmm?
I've mentioned this to my PC friends. One of them thinks there's something different in the file formats FAT32, NTFS, and HFS+ that gives the Mac some sort of edge. Or maybe the difference is in how the OS's power-saving features. Either way.
Not quite. IANAL, but I believe commercial use in this case is more along the lines of say, Hollywood buying a song and including it in a movie soundtrack. Or to a lesser extent, you couldn't charge people money to listen to it at a concert. Promotional use would be using it in promotional material for say, your company picnic.
Well, as far as gifts go, if for whatever reason the recipient can't accept cash as a gift, I suppose Apple could set up gift certificates for the iTMS. Makes more sense than transferring songs rights for a gift, anyway.
Ask Apple users how often they lose all their data to a hard drive crash. Or any of it, for that matter.
Maybe that's why it's taking so long for the Windows version to come out.
On a more general note, if you're that paranoid about 99 cents that you think you should back up every song as soon as you download it to "prevent people from getting screwed", maybe you're better off just buying the CD.
Anyone else here play Magic? Since, say, 5th Edition? Remember "fizzle" and "summoning sickness"?
For those who don't, the point is this: even if Apple is forced to change the name, "Rendezvous" at this point is probably pervasive enough to still be called that by the people who use the products that use Rendezvous.
On the other hand, Xerox is a registered trademark. Can anyone xerox this document for me? The Canon photocopier is in the next room.
Off the top of your head...
1. Name one Tibco product that uses Rendezvous.
2. Name one Apple product that uses Rendezvous.