That's an unfair comparison. Try throwing the file at emacs, or some other Linux program that attempts to load the entire file into RAM, which tar does not.
In addition to the points made by the other posts,the timed system sleep feature is managed by the settings in NVRAM. The installer boots a bare-bones version of OS X off the CD which has a complete kernel and obeys these stored settings.
Advertising has a large unconscious component; anyone who has lived in this modern world for any stretch of time knows that. This is just the first time (probably not even) that it's been documented with medical evidence. Advertisers have been researching the psychological effects of color, motion, music, and so on for decades; it's no surprise they'd eventually switch to modern instruments instead of having focus groups respond verbally or in writing.
In regards to point 1 and 2, iTunes is not limited to playing only the streams listed in the Radio. Look under the Advanced menu, it will connect to (and add to the library) any mp3 stream on the net.
The other posts are not quite correct: You can only burn a given playlist 10 times if it contains protected music. You can burn lists of MP3s or unprotected AACs as many times as you want.
That is exactly why all electronic textbook projects so far have used DRM. Someone's going to have to pay for those books, or they're not going to get written.
Don't get a GF4MX for gaming in the future. If you want your box to last through the Source and Doom 3 engines, get a card with hardware shader support, even if it's the previous generation it'll be better than the 4MX.
In general, a computer will not power down unless ordered to by a human. Although, if an AI is installed in a facility susceptible to power outages, it might be criminal negligence or reckless endangerment...
Stop beating around the bush and blaming the "unwashed masses". The problem is that real science is boring. Chemists very rarely make funny-colored clouds and explosions, physicists don't play with particle acccelerators and electrostatic generators all day, and that's not even getting into the more observational fields like astronomy. To understand why a particular bit of lab work or a telescope session is important and exciting despite the appearance of tedium takes the same years of study and knowledge of the field that it takes to become a scientist in the first place, and the audience in general does not have it. It's the same problem as portraying hackers in movies.
Huh? If it beats the 3rd place machine, it becomes 3rd and the current 3rd place becomes 4th. To be 2nd it has to beat the 2nd place machine at 13 TFlops.
Yes, because spending time and effort on, say, writing a feature that allows multiple versions of a system library to be installed at the same time for apps that break if you use the wrong one makes much more sense than demanding that your developers write stable, forwards-compatible code.
It's not going to make "a dent in the universe", as Steve Jobs would put it, and it's not going to kill 802.11 or start another bubble or anything revolutionary like that, but it's here to stay. Adding Bluetooth to an existing product or upcoming design is routine now; it's built into all new Macs and a lot of PCs. One of these days it will just be everywhere and people will use it without a second though and demand it as a standard feature. Bluetooth will just end up like Firewire: There's no massive marketing campaign for it (any more), but it's widely used and it works well at what it does.
Just from seeing it in action, Internet access through Bluetooth phones is pretty damn cool, and will be until 802.11 hotspots are a LOT more common than they are now.
Quake 3 requires a console command to enable SMP support, which is off by default. Premiere only uses a single CPU. Word almost certainly also uses only a single CPU.
For one thing, Kahane Chai itself is already on the list. For another, if the same thing happened with a book publisher, TV channel, or whatever this wouldn't even be on Slashdot.
That's because there is no one solution to all problems. Not regulation, not the free market, not the Internet, not open source, not anything. Government regulation can help here, and it can help anywhere, as long as it's done intelligently. Same as anything else I mentioned.
OK, you keep thinking that until your cable modem becomes unusably flooded. I, meanwhile, will be using an ISP that actually tries to *fix* problems with its network.
...Before computer use (at least on the Internet) requires a license. I realize that has some very large drawbacks, but at the rate we're going one day the benefits really will outweigh the drawbacks. Do we have to wait until network traffic is 90% spam and viruses? 99%? 100%? A computer can do more damage to the network than a car can do to a highway, and we license driving. Maybe we'll wait until poor network performance starts to kill people by interfering with hospitals and emergency services.
Yes, it is that difficult. iTunes uses OS X's proprietary APIs, like Carbon, that have no Linux equivalents. It's as hard as porting any Windows or OS9 app to Linux.
Apple allows, and even encourages, you to back up your music files. The page refers only to CD burning, but the files can be freely copied around the hard disk and between computers with the Finder. You can still play any of the copies on authorized computers, all the DRM data is internal.
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That's an unfair comparison. Try throwing the file at emacs, or some other Linux program that attempts to load the entire file into RAM, which tar does not.
In addition to the points made by the other posts,the timed system sleep feature is managed by the settings in NVRAM. The installer boots a bare-bones version of OS X off the CD which has a complete kernel and obeys these stored settings.
Advertising has a large unconscious component; anyone who has lived in this modern world for any stretch of time knows that. This is just the first time (probably not even) that it's been documented with medical evidence. Advertisers have been researching the psychological effects of color, motion, music, and so on for decades; it's no surprise they'd eventually switch to modern instruments instead of having focus groups respond verbally or in writing.
Hardly. Platform stability isn't exactly a zero-sum game.
In regards to point 1 and 2, iTunes is not limited to playing only the streams listed in the Radio. Look under the Advanced menu, it will connect to (and add to the library) any mp3 stream on the net.
It's optional.
The other posts are not quite correct: You can only burn a given playlist 10 times if it contains protected music. You can burn lists of MP3s or unprotected AACs as many times as you want.
What if they're *your* medical records?
That is exactly why all electronic textbook projects so far have used DRM. Someone's going to have to pay for those books, or they're not going to get written.
The operative word there is "Internet". As Micah pointed out, Internet polls do not provide useful results, period.
35,000 Internet users isn't exactly public opinion. That's 4 orders of magnitude less than the population of the US.
Bush's job approval rating is currently 52%.
Don't get a GF4MX for gaming in the future. If you want your box to last through the Source and Doom 3 engines, get a card with hardware shader support, even if it's the previous generation it'll be better than the 4MX.
In general, a computer will not power down unless ordered to by a human. Although, if an AI is installed in a facility susceptible to power outages, it might be criminal negligence or reckless endangerment...
Airplane hazard? Why would you be flying that close to the building in the first place?
Stop beating around the bush and blaming the "unwashed masses". The problem is that real science is boring. Chemists very rarely make funny-colored clouds and explosions, physicists don't play with particle acccelerators and electrostatic generators all day, and that's not even getting into the more observational fields like astronomy. To understand why a particular bit of lab work or a telescope session is important and exciting despite the appearance of tedium takes the same years of study and knowledge of the field that it takes to become a scientist in the first place, and the audience in general does not have it. It's the same problem as portraying hackers in movies.
Huh? If it beats the 3rd place machine, it becomes 3rd and the current 3rd place becomes 4th. To be 2nd it has to beat the 2nd place machine at 13 TFlops.
Yes, because spending time and effort on, say, writing a feature that allows multiple versions of a system library to be installed at the same time for apps that break if you use the wrong one makes much more sense than demanding that your developers write stable, forwards-compatible code.
It's not going to make "a dent in the universe", as Steve Jobs would put it, and it's not going to kill 802.11 or start another bubble or anything revolutionary like that, but it's here to stay. Adding Bluetooth to an existing product or upcoming design is routine now; it's built into all new Macs and a lot of PCs. One of these days it will just be everywhere and people will use it without a second though and demand it as a standard feature. Bluetooth will just end up like Firewire: There's no massive marketing campaign for it (any more), but it's widely used and it works well at what it does.
Just from seeing it in action, Internet access through Bluetooth phones is pretty damn cool, and will be until 802.11 hotspots are a LOT more common than they are now.
Quake 3 requires a console command to enable SMP support, which is off by default. Premiere only uses a single CPU. Word almost certainly also uses only a single CPU.
For one thing, Kahane Chai itself is already on the list. For another, if the same thing happened with a book publisher, TV channel, or whatever this wouldn't even be on Slashdot.
That's because there is no one solution to all problems. Not regulation, not the free market, not the Internet, not open source, not anything. Government regulation can help here, and it can help anywhere, as long as it's done intelligently. Same as anything else I mentioned.
OK, you keep thinking that until your cable modem becomes unusably flooded. I, meanwhile, will be using an ISP that actually tries to *fix* problems with its network.
...Before computer use (at least on the Internet) requires a license. I realize that has some very large drawbacks, but at the rate we're going one day the benefits really will outweigh the drawbacks. Do we have to wait until network traffic is 90% spam and viruses? 99%? 100%? A computer can do more damage to the network than a car can do to a highway, and we license driving. Maybe we'll wait until poor network performance starts to kill people by interfering with hospitals and emergency services.
Yes, it is that difficult. iTunes uses OS X's proprietary APIs, like Carbon, that have no Linux equivalents. It's as hard as porting any Windows or OS9 app to Linux.
Apple allows, and even encourages, you to back up your music files. The page refers only to CD burning, but the files can be freely copied around the hard disk and between computers with the Finder. You can still play any of the copies on authorized computers, all the DRM data is internal.