It probally had something to with this. We losing the war on terror, not winning it. It has nothing to do with how many terrorist we kill, but everything with giving away our civil liberties for the illusion of security. We need to put a leash on this government. With Iraq war, spying on US citizens without warrant, and torture, this administration has taken the 9/11 to far and drag every decent thing this country use to represent in the mud. I am definately paying attention 2006 and 2008 elections. I am holding my representatives accountable for this.
Apple's Schiller has already stated that Apple will not take any measures to prevent another from being installed, they just won't support it. Linux can be dual booted on Macs now but its suffer from driver incompatibilty as Apple doesn't provide information on their hardware. But it may not be even necessary to dual boot as virtualization software that will run Windows or Linux in Mac OSX will probably run at near native speeds. Hell, they may even offer full 3D support.
Your are an idiot. If you pay attention in high school biology, you might know this. To treat diabetes... Let me dumb this down for you first. Insulin is produce by the pancreas to regulate gluclose..err.. sugar levels in your body. When the pancreas no longer produce insulin in sufficient quantity, you get a disease called diabetes (or at least on type, but let's not confuse you). To treat this disease, the body must be supplemented with insulin. So, how do you get it? Well, you could harvest it from other animals but there are purification issues. So, you take the gene that codes for human insulin and you splice into a plasmid DNA strand. Then, implant it in a bacterium which will produce human insulin using its own translation mechanisms. That is genetic engineering and is a good example of using a DNA sequence to produce a protein for medicinal purpose. Go to school before you post on slashdot.
With 90 percent of the mainstream writers being Mac users
Where does he get 90%? Is there a poll out there questioning tech writers at random as to their computer preference? If that is true and the tech media is so bias toward Apple, then people must not read their columns because 90% of users use Microsoft. I personally think 99% of cnet columnist use PC's because they are so bias towards Microsoft.
Patenting genes is plausible. Genes are blueprints that code for protein that can be use in medicine. Insulin is a good example of a drug derived from genetic engineering. Moreover, it is theoretically possible to design DNA sequences to created any type of protein analgous to software writing. The latter is not as practical at this time as the former. With the amount time, effort, and money expended into identifying genes, patents should be issue for that were design by natural selection so as a way to stimulate further gene research. To tackle today's diseases, we need that to know those sequences.
Internet addiction which seems to be overglorified bad habit is a social addiction not a physical. It doesn't produce any ill health effects or affect your physiology in any way. However, it does take a hit at productivity which can be bad. Reading slashdot a few times a day during can be hampering but it is controllable. It is like reading the news paper in the morning. It just something you do out of routine. Now, porn addiction is a different animal, but I leave it as we discussed this to death on slashdot.
in the world. I personally like to see the death match between Apple lawyers and the RIAA. In any rate, now that Apple has build the mountain of gold in the form of the iPod and iTunes. The music industry wants to exert control with the same brilliant management that led to piracy in the first place. Competitors are now throwing in the towel and are metamorphing into patent leeches. In the end, if Apples lawyers fail, they may succeed in bringing everything down and leaving us with another Microsoft monopoly and cheap commodity mp3 market.
What is the fundamental nature of human beings? We are a social species. We are not mammoth dinosaurs that brave the wild as individuals. We rely on the group for our very survival. It should be not any surprise that our very emotional well being is tied to being accepted into a group (ie have friends). Second, we are a species that reproduces sexually. As such, our bodies change to accomodate this task and again, our emotional well being is tied to accomplishing it. So, with this in mind, why would spending endless nights alone in a dorm room reading a textbook seem natural. You are not being social or having sex. In the modern age, all our knowledge has evolve to a high state that the very complicated concepts must be mastered first before we can contribute to todays problems. This now means years of the long sexless antisocial nights studying a textbook. All a persprective American engineering student have to do to see option B is turn on the TV. You see young people being social and having sex. They are happy. They are sure of themselves. The problem why American are not producing scientists and engineers is because we have to suppress our very nature to achieve the level that modern society needs. Any improvement of that situation would therfore require that we address our very nature.
is the real problem. Piracy as I see it seems to be the only thing controlling prices on the music. Steve Jobs has just stated that Apple will resist price changes at the iTunes store. He cites their greed as the only motivation to increase the price. I have seen many recording artist (some still in their teens) that wealthy that they will not have work again in their lives. That is true today as it was 50 years. So, what is piracy real impact? I am no advocate for piracy but stopping piracy completely will opened the door to price gouging. Ultimately, their greed is going to have a significant impact on American culture.
For the love, a 256 MB video card? 1GB of RAM, SATA, PCI Express. Not even Apple would pull that stunt. They have been doing accelerated desktop graphics for years and their recommended requirements top out at about 64 MB. Moreover, most of the computers sold today don't have video cards with their own dedicated memory. They have Intel chipsets which use shared memory. What would they be thinking? I don't believe this not even of Microsoft.
I prefer epson scanners especially for the Mac. HP has bloated unreliable software. I don't particularly like HP running in the background at start has they insist on doing. Epson has simple easy to use software that runs only when want it. It auto-identifies the document and it provides indexing for multiple scans so you only have to enter a filename once.
What about Javascript viruses? I ran Clam AV for Mac OSX and it discover 6 instances of one Javascript trojan. I try to google for more information on javascript viruses and their imapct on the system. I didn't find any thing useful on it. So, can a javascript get administrative priviledges in OSX. Does it only run in safari? What is the impact? The fact that there seems to be no good answers is scary. With Windows, you can be pretty certain you will be attacked and thus you take precautions. What about Mac people. How many invest in antivirus? If a sly hacker can find a hole, I doubt many will ever notice they been attack until after weeks or months have past.
The conquest of the Americas nearly cause a similar event with the Native Americans. Disease, domination, and marginalization of territory nearly wipe out the Amerindians. My guess it was simlar set circumstances that did in the Neanderthals. First, Humans and Neanderthals are related closely just as a horse an a donkey are. So, diseases that human had long evolved to resist Moreover, these are the humans whose descendants will be the most notorious conquerors in human history. Live and let live and share and share alike were probably not well practice back then either. Humans with superior numbers and technology wipe out whole tribes. Then, the final blow was neanderthals, due to war, probably limited themselves to smaller stretches of territory in less hospitable regions where they finally went extinct. Native Americans were lucky in that they could interbreed with the conqueror; however, since human and neanderthals are different species, any interbreeding may have lead to sterile offspring if that.
Hell man, why dual-boot when Virtual PC can run it in OSX. You'll pay the same. Also, I agree that Apple is the direction to go. You could stick it out with Linux or XP and boycott Vista all together but it will be difficult on new purchases. I don't think Apple is not going to jump on this ship just yet. Curiously, Apple is not a member of the Trusted Computing Group. I wouldn't imagine Apple would implement this technology wholeheartedly without being in the loop from the onset. The may wait a few years and see how it is adopted or offer a benign alternative to content providers.
These stories are just pathetic. I guess this is pep speech for the Windows fateful. Don't worry. We'll have those features soon and they will be better. Keep the faith. (DORKS!!!) I have been a Mac user back in the pre-OSX days. The whole Apple experience is great not just the OS. Beyond the very capable OS, you have high quality, well designed hardware back up by great tech support. The genius bar is one the best ideas to come of Apple lately. You have problem with the computer. Just set up an appointment and walk in. You have live human right there so you show them the problem even if you can't quite describe it. Dwell on OS features if like but Microsoft/OEM will never offer that experience.
I am Physics researcher and this sort of thing is quite common. Theoretical papers have this problem in particular because usually there is little experimental evidence and the mathematics is so complicated. Even in a peer review situation, many just don't bother over every little detail and one wrong detail can throw an entire calculation off. The point isn't that every little thing that publish must be right but rather the mistake is picked up someone else and eventually some useful truth is discovered. Hawkins, Newton, and even Einstein published something that wasn't correct.
Apple will be transitioning all their G4 product beginning in 2006. They contract Frescale till the end of 2008, which 3 years - the length of a typical applecare extended contract. So, I guess they only intend to sell these systems till the end of this year. Given the recent announcements of Intel processor lineup, I guess Apple will release new Powerbook, iBook, and mac mini's along side Intels release of dual-core and single Yonahs.
I think the writer overlooked the fact that this will be impossible to implement in the short term. Many have said it here, no one is going to replace and expensive monitor or TV set with HDCP just to watch the new content. Content providers will have tough time getting any market penetration. Moreover, broadband is not fast enough today to deliver HD content in any rate. Those things will be here but won't reach a good saturation until after 2010. When it does, content providers will start using these features. So, I guess they are just putting the framework in place now so it will ready for when HD content becomes mainstream.
Apple is a pretty large company with a strong legal department. I am sure if there is a loophole or prior art, they will find it. If not, Apple has billions in the bank. I am not losing any sleep though I cringe at the thought of giving Microsoft money. Ah, who I am kidding- there is no way to use a computer without paying something to those guys.
I believe in copyright and that people should make money off their creation so I don't like piracy. But when it comes music piracy, I increasingly adament against not pirating music. It is not because I believe RIAA is particularly more deserving of respecting copyright. But rather, the sleaze that they peddle spreads out uncheck degrading our values and culture. The lifestyle they advocate of sex, drugs, and violence is marketed directly at children. With the cost of a CD, there was at least an economic barrier to limit their exposure to this sleaze. Now, any kid with a computer can get the latest trash telling them to party, have sex, and do drugs. You don't have songs glorifying doing homework, going to college, or at least wearing condoms. We wonder why Americans are geting dumber with each successive generation. It is going to get worst and piracy is going cause a real problem that I fear can't be solved.
If you don't believe me, I have examples, I know people who took greater than decade to graduate college (BS degrees). It wasn't that they were stupid but rather they rather party than study. I know people who had kids at sixteen and won't even go to college. Again, this wasn't because they were stupid but rather they had sex without condoms. The above all actively purchase music. Luckily for me, I never could afford a album. I never bought or really listen to music alot. I zipped through college with honors, am getting a master degree, and will probably move on to get a Ph.D.
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It probally had something to with this. We losing the war on terror, not winning it. It has nothing to do with how many terrorist we kill, but everything with giving away our civil liberties for the illusion of security. We need to put a leash on this government. With Iraq war, spying on US citizens without warrant, and torture, this administration has taken the 9/11 to far and drag every decent thing this country use to represent in the mud. I am definately paying attention 2006 and 2008 elections. I am holding my representatives accountable for this.
Geez, with all the adware, spyware, and rootkits, you would Windows is already an ad-supported operating system!
Apple's Schiller has already stated that Apple will not take any measures to prevent another from being installed, they just won't support it. Linux can be dual booted on Macs now but its suffer from driver incompatibilty as Apple doesn't provide information on their hardware. But it may not be even necessary to dual boot as virtualization software that will run Windows or Linux in Mac OSX will probably run at near native speeds. Hell, they may even offer full 3D support.
damn!! You beat me to the singularity joke.
Your are an idiot. If you pay attention in high school biology, you might know this. To treat diabetes... Let me dumb this down for you first. Insulin is produce by the pancreas to regulate gluclose ..err .. sugar levels in your body. When the pancreas no longer produce insulin in sufficient quantity, you get a disease called diabetes (or at least on type, but let's not confuse you). To treat this disease, the body must be supplemented with insulin. So, how do you get it? Well, you could harvest it from other animals but there are purification issues. So, you take the gene that codes for human insulin and you splice into a plasmid DNA strand. Then, implant it in a bacterium which will produce human insulin using its own translation mechanisms. That is genetic engineering and is a good example of using a DNA sequence to produce a protein for medicinal purpose. Go to school before you post on slashdot.
With 90 percent of the mainstream writers being Mac users
Where does he get 90%? Is there a poll out there questioning tech writers at random as to their computer preference? If that is true and the tech media is so bias toward Apple, then people must not read their columns because 90% of users use Microsoft. I personally think 99% of cnet columnist use PC's because they are so bias towards Microsoft.
I just 99% out my ass
Patenting genes is plausible. Genes are blueprints that code for protein that can be use in medicine. Insulin is a good example of a drug derived from genetic engineering. Moreover, it is theoretically possible to design DNA sequences to created any type of protein analgous to software writing. The latter is not as practical at this time as the former. With the amount time, effort, and money expended into identifying genes, patents should be issue for that were design by natural selection so as a way to stimulate further gene research. To tackle today's diseases, we need that to know those sequences.
Internet addiction which seems to be overglorified bad habit is a social addiction not a physical. It doesn't produce any ill health effects or affect your physiology in any way. However, it does take a hit at productivity which can be bad. Reading slashdot a few times a day during can be hampering but it is controllable. It is like reading the news paper in the morning. It just something you do out of routine. Now, porn addiction is a different animal, but I leave it as we discussed this to death on slashdot.
in the world. I personally like to see the death match between Apple lawyers and the RIAA. In any rate, now that Apple has build the mountain of gold in the form of the iPod and iTunes. The music industry wants to exert control with the same brilliant management that led to piracy in the first place. Competitors are now throwing in the towel and are metamorphing into patent leeches. In the end, if Apples lawyers fail, they may succeed in bringing everything down and leaving us with another Microsoft monopoly and cheap commodity mp3 market.
What is the fundamental nature of human beings? We are a social species. We are not mammoth dinosaurs that brave the wild as individuals. We rely on the group for our very survival. It should be not any surprise that our very emotional well being is tied to being accepted into a group (ie have friends). Second, we are a species that reproduces sexually. As such, our bodies change to accomodate this task and again, our emotional well being is tied to accomplishing it. So, with this in mind, why would spending endless nights alone in a dorm room reading a textbook seem natural. You are not being social or having sex. In the modern age, all our knowledge has evolve to a high state that the very complicated concepts must be mastered first before we can contribute to todays problems. This now means years of the long sexless antisocial nights studying a textbook. All a persprective American engineering student have to do to see option B is turn on the TV. You see young people being social and having sex. They are happy. They are sure of themselves. The problem why American are not producing scientists and engineers is because we have to suppress our very nature to achieve the level that modern society needs. Any improvement of that situation would therfore require that we address our very nature.
is the real problem. Piracy as I see it seems to be the only thing controlling prices on the music. Steve Jobs has just stated that Apple will resist price changes at the iTunes store. He cites their greed as the only motivation to increase the price. I have seen many recording artist (some still in their teens) that wealthy that they will not have work again in their lives. That is true today as it was 50 years. So, what is piracy real impact? I am no advocate for piracy but stopping piracy completely will opened the door to price gouging. Ultimately, their greed is going to have a significant impact on American culture.
For the love, a 256 MB video card? 1GB of RAM, SATA, PCI Express. Not even Apple would pull that stunt. They have been doing accelerated desktop graphics for years and their recommended requirements top out at about 64 MB. Moreover, most of the computers sold today don't have video cards with their own dedicated memory. They have Intel chipsets which use shared memory. What would they be thinking? I don't believe this not even of Microsoft.
I prefer epson scanners especially for the Mac. HP has bloated unreliable software. I don't particularly like HP running in the background at start has they insist on doing. Epson has simple easy to use software that runs only when want it. It auto-identifies the document and it provides indexing for multiple scans so you only have to enter a filename once.
What about Javascript viruses? I ran Clam AV for Mac OSX and it discover 6 instances of one Javascript trojan. I try to google for more information on javascript viruses and their imapct on the system. I didn't find any thing useful on it. So, can a javascript get administrative priviledges in OSX. Does it only run in safari? What is the impact? The fact that there seems to be no good answers is scary. With Windows, you can be pretty certain you will be attacked and thus you take precautions. What about Mac people. How many invest in antivirus? If a sly hacker can find a hole, I doubt many will ever notice they been attack until after weeks or months have past.
The conquest of the Americas nearly cause a similar event with the Native Americans. Disease, domination, and marginalization of territory nearly wipe out the Amerindians. My guess it was simlar set circumstances that did in the Neanderthals. First, Humans and Neanderthals are related closely just as a horse an a donkey are. So, diseases that human had long evolved to resist Moreover, these are the humans whose descendants will be the most notorious conquerors in human history. Live and let live and share and share alike were probably not well practice back then either. Humans with superior numbers and technology wipe out whole tribes. Then, the final blow was neanderthals, due to war, probably limited themselves to smaller stretches of territory in less hospitable regions where they finally went extinct. Native Americans were lucky in that they could interbreed with the conqueror; however, since human and neanderthals are different species, any interbreeding may have lead to sterile offspring if that.
Hell man, why dual-boot when Virtual PC can run it in OSX. You'll pay the same. Also, I agree that Apple is the direction to go. You could stick it out with Linux or XP and boycott Vista all together but it will be difficult on new purchases. I don't think Apple is not going to jump on this ship just yet. Curiously, Apple is not a member of the Trusted Computing Group. I wouldn't imagine Apple would implement this technology wholeheartedly without being in the loop from the onset. The may wait a few years and see how it is adopted or offer a benign alternative to content providers.
These stories are just pathetic. I guess this is pep speech for the Windows fateful. Don't worry. We'll have those features soon and they will be better. Keep the faith. (DORKS!!!) I have been a Mac user back in the pre-OSX days. The whole Apple experience is great not just the OS. Beyond the very capable OS, you have high quality, well designed hardware back up by great tech support. The genius bar is one the best ideas to come of Apple lately. You have problem with the computer. Just set up an appointment and walk in. You have live human right there so you show them the problem even if you can't quite describe it. Dwell on OS features if like but Microsoft/OEM will never offer that experience.
I am Physics researcher and this sort of thing is quite common. Theoretical papers have this problem in particular because usually there is little experimental evidence and the mathematics is so complicated. Even in a peer review situation, many just don't bother over every little detail and one wrong detail can throw an entire calculation off. The point isn't that every little thing that publish must be right but rather the mistake is picked up someone else and eventually some useful truth is discovered. Hawkins, Newton, and even Einstein published something that wasn't correct.
Apple will be transitioning all their G4 product beginning in 2006. They contract Frescale till the end of 2008, which 3 years - the length of a typical applecare extended contract. So, I guess they only intend to sell these systems till the end of this year. Given the recent announcements of Intel processor lineup, I guess Apple will release new Powerbook, iBook, and mac mini's along side Intels release of dual-core and single Yonahs.
Money gouging low life. Geez , I might as well pirate. I going to download my copy of limewire. Give them hell, Steve
Not only will we have wings, but the will have jet engines strapped to them
I think the writer overlooked the fact that this will be impossible to implement in the short term. Many have said it here, no one is going to replace and expensive monitor or TV set with HDCP just to watch the new content. Content providers will have tough time getting any market penetration. Moreover, broadband is not fast enough today to deliver HD content in any rate. Those things will be here but won't reach a good saturation until after 2010. When it does, content providers will start using these features. So, I guess they are just putting the framework in place now so it will ready for when HD content becomes mainstream.
Apple is a pretty large company with a strong legal department. I am sure if there is a loophole or prior art, they will find it. If not, Apple has billions in the bank. I am not losing any sleep though I cringe at the thought of giving Microsoft money. Ah, who I am kidding- there is no way to use a computer without paying something to those guys.
I believe in copyright and that people should make money off their creation so I don't like piracy. But when it comes music piracy, I increasingly adament against not pirating music. It is not because I believe RIAA is particularly more deserving of respecting copyright. But rather, the sleaze that they peddle spreads out uncheck degrading our values and culture. The lifestyle they advocate of sex, drugs, and violence is marketed directly at children. With the cost of a CD, there was at least an economic barrier to limit their exposure to this sleaze. Now, any kid with a computer can get the latest trash telling them to party, have sex, and do drugs. You don't have songs glorifying doing homework, going to college, or at least wearing condoms. We wonder why Americans are geting dumber with each successive generation. It is going to get worst and piracy is going cause a real problem that I fear can't be solved.
If you don't believe me, I have examples, I know people who took greater than decade to graduate college (BS degrees). It wasn't that they were stupid but rather they rather party than study. I know people who had kids at sixteen and won't even go to college. Again, this wasn't because they were stupid but rather they had sex without condoms. The above all actively purchase music. Luckily for me, I never could afford a album. I never bought or really listen to music alot. I zipped through college with honors, am getting a master degree, and will probably move on to get a Ph.D.
Want to start a pool as to what day uspecting college student receive Apple supeonas. I call Monday.