Do you mean proprietary as in a Ford F-150 crankcase won't fit on a stock GMC Yukon? Or do you mean proprietary as in Mac hardware uses chips from that lesser-known vender Intel? Yeah, the Mac hardware is so proprietary, Windows can't even run on it; oh wait. Mac OS X is so proprietary it can't run applications compiled on other *NIX systems; oh wait.
If it makes you feel better, yes, people have a rationale for choosing a particular OS platform over another. Wow. You have a way with words: "[...] they pretend that they are an alternative to Microsoft [...] away from Microsoft." Yeah, I find it quite common to not do what I'm not doing without a computer from a company it isn't from. $150 million for an under-the-table patent settlement does not a merger make.
If the main incentive for virus writers is economic, wouldn't it make sense to attempt to bring down Mac OS X security? It would be a stroke of self-preservation. You can either look at it from the perspective of portfolio diversity - being able to claim larger territory; because people who can only get their food from one place die of starvation in the long run. Or you can look at it from the perspective of virus writers ensuring there are fewer reasons for users to switch to Macs. I know if I don't want someone leaving one platform I do support, for another platform I don't, I either start supporting both platforms, or I find a way to discourage switching. Drilling holes in Mac OS X'x security would be one obvious way.
It's pretty easy actually. Security is quantified the same way everyday, whether physical or electronic/computer: the time or energy expended to get in to a system or stronghold. That can be measured in man-hours, bytes of code or lines of code, milliseconds of CPU time, etc.
That's exactly what I was thinking. In addition, wouldn't the only people who care about the content covered in this book already have intimate, first-hand knowledge of the content covered in this book?
The Apple counter was off by just over a minute five minutes before 1 billion. I took a bit more complex semi-realtime approach. I used some calculus on Apple's log entries, in addition to factoring in samples from iTMS server response monitoring. According to a basic interpolation of Apple's log data, my computed target time was right on the money. As for my attempt at acquiring the 1 billionth song, I second-guessed my own computed results and went with gut instinct. Needless to say my gut instinct was not on the money. The timestamp my program gave for the 1 billionth song was: "Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:33:53 GMT"
Yes. According to Apple's logs the number of songs sold per second climbed from 63.81 to 122.49 in just the ten minute window surrounding the 1 billionth song. It's a shame that most people assumed the counter on Apple's website was accurate. It was off by several minutes. By the time the counter reached 1 billion the 1 billionth song had long been purchased.
Who or what are you talking about? If you are referring to me, what exactly did I say that indicated I didn't read the article? I simply expressed an opinion. Just because you don't why I want an application that can bundle a web page into one file in order to send to a client (who may or may not be educated enough to handle unzipping a directory and all of its contents, then know which HTML file to open up in their browser), doesn't mean I didn't read the article.
I'm not sure why you didn't follow. You gave an example of what the parent poster was describing to a tee.
Old cop checks me out, walks back to my car and offers to write me up a ticket for not having my seatbelt on instead of a speeding ticket (I did have my seatbelt on at the time). I intially got a little hot about this when the cop offered it to me, but he pointed out that a seat belt violation had no points, doesn't affect my insurance rates, and it's a lot cheaper than a speeding ticket.
My concern with this is that the cop isn't being honest. I don't care if you thought he was cutting you a break. Willingness to lie about a circumstance is not a respectable trait for someone charged with upholding the law. Like I said, what you experienced is precisely what the previous poster described. If the cops truly "recognized that [you weren't] endangering anybody with [your] driving" then why didn't they just let you go on your way? Wouldn't that be following the spirit of the law? It sounds to me you are only defending cops because you got away with moving violations. This is borderline "pay off the police" behavior. Bait and switch for minor violations aside, if the police look the other way when a crime is committed, isn't that still an abuse of power?
I got stopped by a cop late last year for walking on a public sidewalk, in my own neighborhood, that I had been living in for over 10 years, and walking the same way almost daily for 7 years. He detained me for about 10 minutes and had me help fill out paperwork. Why? To this day there isn't a reasonable explanation except that he could. Cops generally seem to have power trip hungry personalities as this article illustrates.
Not to mention, Apple wouldn't have spent thousands of hours creating a Universal Binary system, or made attempt after attempt to secure Mac OS X from being ported to a generic PC box.
Probability aside, switching to the metric system and soccer picking up popularity would be a GOOD thing. Yeah, Mac Windows. There isn't enough sudsy soapy cleaning liquid in the world to wash those windows.
I beg to differ. Although I'm not sure why Apple did it, and I was a bit surprised last night when it happened, I ran an application "directly" and it prompted me about running it for the first time. If Apple intended to have this prompt show its face only when a document opens an application, there may be a flaw in the latest version (10.4.5).
I'm sure 96% of them can. That's why I stated a scenario where some can't. In addition to the inability to change their order (e.g. company purchase orders, on vacation in the Yukon wilderness, etc.), some may not know in time. Not everyone is hanging off Apple's every press release or checks their email everyday.
You think it's a better option for Apple to have thousands of computers returned right away because people got their 2.0 machines sooner than they had a chance to change their order to a 2.16 machine? Wow, that's one way to misunderstand the supply and demand economic implications!
Yeah, but what about the people who pre-ordered the 1.83 because they wanted the fastest? If they aren't in a position to change their order to the 2.16 (e.g. 2 week long business meeting in a remote village of Greenland) they get screwed. I think fastest should be bumped to fastest.
Not so quick on the "not any form of html at all." SMIL can and does reside within Quicktime. Although SMIL isn't HTML specifically, it is an HTML-like language.
I could say that, but Microsoft has at least provided something unique with SQL Server: ease of use. With that said, I generally don't like to use Microsoft technologies because most of them are bad copies of something else, with very few exceptions.
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What plot hole did I miss that's going to allow Yoda to come back from the dead?
Do you mean proprietary as in a Ford F-150 crankcase won't fit on a stock GMC Yukon? Or do you mean proprietary as in Mac hardware uses chips from that lesser-known vender Intel? Yeah, the Mac hardware is so proprietary, Windows can't even run on it; oh wait. Mac OS X is so proprietary it can't run applications compiled on other *NIX systems; oh wait.
If it makes you feel better, yes, people have a rationale for choosing a particular OS platform over another. Wow. You have a way with words: "[...] they pretend that they are an alternative to Microsoft [...] away from Microsoft." Yeah, I find it quite common to not do what I'm not doing without a computer from a company it isn't from. $150 million for an under-the-table patent settlement does not a merger make.
Actually, if you look closely, the average battery time is 3 minutes 17 seconds, because as the reviewer says, "Times in minutes and seconds"
If the main incentive for virus writers is economic, wouldn't it make sense to attempt to bring down Mac OS X security? It would be a stroke of self-preservation. You can either look at it from the perspective of portfolio diversity - being able to claim larger territory; because people who can only get their food from one place die of starvation in the long run. Or you can look at it from the perspective of virus writers ensuring there are fewer reasons for users to switch to Macs. I know if I don't want someone leaving one platform I do support, for another platform I don't, I either start supporting both platforms, or I find a way to discourage switching. Drilling holes in Mac OS X'x security would be one obvious way.
"How can you quantify security."
It's pretty easy actually. Security is quantified the same way everyday, whether physical or electronic/computer: the time or energy expended to get in to a system or stronghold. That can be measured in man-hours, bytes of code or lines of code, milliseconds of CPU time, etc.
That's exactly what I was thinking. In addition, wouldn't the only people who care about the content covered in this book already have intimate, first-hand knowledge of the content covered in this book?
The Apple counter was off by just over a minute five minutes before 1 billion. I took a bit more complex semi-realtime approach. I used some calculus on Apple's log entries, in addition to factoring in samples from iTMS server response monitoring. According to a basic interpolation of Apple's log data, my computed target time was right on the money. As for my attempt at acquiring the 1 billionth song, I second-guessed my own computed results and went with gut instinct. Needless to say my gut instinct was not on the money. The timestamp my program gave for the 1 billionth song was: "Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:33:53 GMT"
Yes. According to Apple's logs the number of songs sold per second climbed from 63.81 to 122.49 in just the ten minute window surrounding the 1 billionth song. It's a shame that most people assumed the counter on Apple's website was accurate. It was off by several minutes. By the time the counter reached 1 billion the 1 billionth song had long been purchased.
Everything is bound to fail on G4. Oh, you mean the Apple hardware and not the television network.
Who or what are you talking about? If you are referring to me, what exactly did I say that indicated I didn't read the article? I simply expressed an opinion. Just because you don't why I want an application that can bundle a web page into one file in order to send to a client (who may or may not be educated enough to handle unzipping a directory and all of its contents, then know which HTML file to open up in their browser), doesn't mean I didn't read the article.
I've been waiting a long time for this. It's about time.
I got stopped by a cop late last year for walking on a public sidewalk, in my own neighborhood, that I had been living in for over 10 years, and walking the same way almost daily for 7 years. He detained me for about 10 minutes and had me help fill out paperwork. Why? To this day there isn't a reasonable explanation except that he could. Cops generally seem to have power trip hungry personalities as this article illustrates.
Not to mention, Apple wouldn't have spent thousands of hours creating a Universal Binary system, or made attempt after attempt to secure Mac OS X from being ported to a generic PC box.
Probability aside, switching to the metric system and soccer picking up popularity would be a GOOD thing. Yeah, Mac Windows. There isn't enough sudsy soapy cleaning liquid in the world to wash those windows.
I beg to differ. Although I'm not sure why Apple did it, and I was a bit surprised last night when it happened, I ran an application "directly" and it prompted me about running it for the first time. If Apple intended to have this prompt show its face only when a document opens an application, there may be a flaw in the latest version (10.4.5).
I'm sure 96% of them can. That's why I stated a scenario where some can't. In addition to the inability to change their order (e.g. company purchase orders, on vacation in the Yukon wilderness, etc.), some may not know in time. Not everyone is hanging off Apple's every press release or checks their email everyday.
You think it's a better option for Apple to have thousands of computers returned right away because people got their 2.0 machines sooner than they had a chance to change their order to a 2.16 machine? Wow, that's one way to misunderstand the supply and demand economic implications!
Yeah, but what about the people who pre-ordered the 1.83 because they wanted the fastest? If they aren't in a position to change their order to the 2.16 (e.g. 2 week long business meeting in a remote village of Greenland) they get screwed. I think fastest should be bumped to fastest.
The interest in cats is how the Egyptians were caught off guard by the Gou'ald the first time.
These are just the Gou'ald scouts. We have about 3.5 years before the main invasion.
Not so quick on the "not any form of html at all." SMIL can and does reside within Quicktime. Although SMIL isn't HTML specifically, it is an HTML-like language.
e /IQ_InteractiveMovies/quicktimeandsmil/chapter_10_ section_4.html
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTim
I could say that, but Microsoft has at least provided something unique with SQL Server: ease of use. With that said, I generally don't like to use Microsoft technologies because most of them are bad copies of something else, with very few exceptions.