... We're lucky, guys; had this thing landed in a village in western India (or worse, in Cashmere), India would have blamed Pakistan for the strike and they would be merrily nuking each other right now... Pheeew!
Seriously though, those guys are really, really, really out of luck!!
... actually, it seems to depend on your drive... Copy Controlled CD's crash my iMac (CD-DVD drive), but will rip perfectly on my G4 (Superdrive, Pioneer DVR-103). Pop the CD in, launch iTunes, import... The *other* volume that mounts on your desktop contains the wma tracks and a shitty player (play/pause/next/previous... No names on the tracks whatsoever:-/ )
These "Copy Controlled" CD's will play in some CD-ROM drives, and not in others... For instance, they'll crash my iMac (can't remember the drive's brand, sorry), but will play / rip (using the standard iTunes "import" button) on my G4 (Superdrive Pioneer DVR-103)... I ripped (legally acquired, in order to feed my iPod) lots of them: placebo, Massive Attack, etc etc...
Apple should just add a hard disk to their Airport base stations . Add rendez-vous and iDisk-like management to it, and you have a sweeeet, cheap, easy-to-use and completely unobstrusive personal web server ('cause there's no way I leave that 90-dB G4 on 24/7).
Here in France some guys installed a nifty system... Wireless camera on top of the ATM, that would record the PIN numbers... + a Wi-Fi card hidden in a bicycle (parked some meters away) that at its turn, would pass the info to the guys in a car (Wi-fi laptop). Eventually they got caught:)
Sometimes (in rural areas mostly, with weak police coverage), some guys also use bulldozers to steal the ATM *altogether*, complete with the bank's wall and all:-)
Isn't Apple simply trying to follow / benefit from the rise of patriotism in America? I know a lot of people who would use these icons (particularly 15-year-old l33t ha>orZ who watch "Alias" and Stargate too much)...
I had never considered moving to another country. But the more European governments step up to this crap while our own government takes the DMCA attitude, the better my chances of visiting the EU for an extended stay
Yup... come over some time, it's a nice place here:)
But this reminds me of a growing trend, and that is that as soon as large infrastructures are finally completed (be it the transition to OS X or 802.11b) the technology becomes obsolete.
Obviously, you are new to the computer industry, aren't you?
Following that logic, we could start calling Linux "Windows": after all, its free AND open source, I don't see how linux is capitalizing from the name...
If I followed your logic, I could say: "Duke Nukem Forever was announced in 1998, and still not out! Microsoft, liars! ". That wouldn't be fair either, would it?
Somebody ought to get to work making emulator cards for the Mac that are essentially one of those mini PCs. It'd be pretty cool to have a true dual environment without having the emulation slowdown.
It has been done before. (by "Orange PC", I think.) It was a complete disaster. Apple even introduced some weird computers with two motherboards: one PPC, one X86, so you could switch between both platforms. BIG failure, too.
Just as an information: VPC 6.0 usually emulates a processor (Pentium II / MMX) at 700 MhZ on my dual 1 GhZ. Once, it launched itself at more than 1 GhZ (though I hadn't changed any settings). I can run XP and sudden strike 2 at (sorta) decent speeds; all you need is a lot of RAM.
If somebody knows how I could get back to this 1 GhZ speed, please tell me how...
I got a lot of this stuff to on my inbox (running OS X and Mail.app, thanks god;). My theory is that Sobig not only spoofs the sender's adress, but also the reply-to adress, choosing from the infected PC's adressbook. Your adress and mine were probably chosen like that.
Bah... At least virii like that create job opportunities for unemployed mailer daemons...
They can brag about being virus-free all they want, but their voice is too small to be heard above the roar of the virus-afflicted Windows users.... which is why the windows users should sometimes just shut up and listen.
Yeah, but WTF? Being on OS X doesn't stop your mail adress from being flooded (not dangerous, but still annoying) by OTHER PLATFORM's viruses... Recent example: I've been getting, in the past 4 days, 30 mails a day sent from a friend's friend's PC (who happened to have my mail in its contacts... This worm/virus / trojan horse ("W32.Sobig.F@mm") sends itself from that person's PC (same numerical IP), but with different senders' identities (randomly choosing from that PC's adress book). What's worse is that this worm has chosen MY mail adress to be the default "reply-to", which adds tons of mailer-daemon replies to the flood... (description of the worm here. From what I see here, this one is going to spread fast; but they say it's gonna kill itself on september 10th 2003).
This is where ego comes in: some hacker is impressed by the original worm, decides that he wants to play too, and codes an "anti-worm", and watches the battle as it spreads...
Actually, some Italian guy patented a system consisting of a plastic brick, with some sort of sensor and a radio emitter inside, that would shut down the TV when you threw the brick at it. Cool:-)
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Good grief,the country has over 840 million people
Check your facts... India's population has exceeded 1 billion (+/-1 Gb) four or five years ago...
Where is Jean-Louise Gassee?
Here. He writes chronicles about the computer industry in french newspaper Liberation.
... We're lucky, guys; had this thing landed in a village in western India (or worse, in Cashmere), India would have blamed Pakistan for the strike and they would be merrily nuking each other right now...
Pheeew!
Seriously though, those guys are really, really, really out of luck!!
18 minutes of UHDV takes up 3.5 terabytes." 4,000 horizontal scanlines. Excellent.
:grin:
Cool! Anyone has a bit-torrent link to an example video?
Finally, some innovation outside of the labs.
What do you mean, "outside of the labs"? Perhaps the European Space Agency doesn't work in labs?
I'm not sure what you mean here!
... actually, it seems to depend on your drive... Copy Controlled CD's crash my iMac (CD-DVD drive), but will rip perfectly on my G4 (Superdrive, Pioneer DVR-103). Pop the CD in, launch iTunes, import... The *other* volume that mounts on your desktop contains the wma tracks and a shitty player (play/pause/next/previous... No names on the tracks whatsoever :-/ )
Bah!
These "Copy Controlled" CD's will play in some CD-ROM drives, and not in others... For instance, they'll crash my iMac (can't remember the drive's brand, sorry), but will play / rip (using the standard iTunes "import" button) on my G4 (Superdrive Pioneer DVR-103)... I ripped (legally acquired, in order to feed my iPod) lots of them: placebo, Massive Attack, etc etc...
:)
Strange what technology can do for you
Apple should just add a hard disk to their Airport base stations . Add rendez-vous and iDisk-like management to it, and you have a sweeeet, cheap, easy-to-use and completely unobstrusive personal web server ('cause there's no way I leave that 90-dB G4 on 24/7).
"Windows Rights Management Services (RMS)" Richard M. Stallman must be pissed > right now :-)
Here in France some guys installed a nifty system... Wireless camera on top of the ATM, that would record the PIN numbers... + a Wi-Fi card hidden in a bicycle (parked some meters away) that at its turn, would pass the info to the guys in a car (Wi-fi laptop). Eventually they got caught :)
:-)
Sometimes (in rural areas mostly, with weak police coverage), some guys also use bulldozers to steal the ATM *altogether*, complete with the bank's wall and all
Update: 09/18 16:27 GMT by M: The Independent has moved/deleted the story on their site, breaking our link. We've already mentioned this story anyway.
Oooooh, so that's what dupes are for... I see!
Isn't Apple simply trying to follow / benefit from the rise of patriotism in America? I know a lot of people who would use these icons (particularly 15-year-old l33t ha>orZ who watch "Alias" and Stargate too much)...
3D renders, most (if not all) of them...
I had never considered moving to another country. But the more European governments step up to this crap while our own government takes the DMCA attitude, the better my chances of visiting the EU for an extended stay
:)
Yup... come over some time, it's a nice place here
El Ganzo Loco,
(european)
But this reminds me of a growing trend, and that is that as soon as large infrastructures are finally completed (be it the transition to OS X or 802.11b) the technology becomes obsolete.
Obviously, you are new to the computer industry, aren't you?
Following that logic, we could start calling Linux "Windows": after all, its free AND open source, I don't see how linux is capitalizing from the name...
What has Apple to do with FWB?
If I followed your logic, I could say: "Duke Nukem Forever was announced in 1998, and still not out! Microsoft, liars! ". That wouldn't be fair either, would it?
No matter how great your applications are, there is always somebody requesting YOU to use windows programs...
.exe package.
Your boss may be a good example; or a friend that sends you his summer JPEG pictures in a nice
Somebody ought to get to work making emulator cards for the Mac that are essentially one of those mini PCs. It'd be pretty cool to have a true dual environment without having the emulation slowdown. It has been done before. (by "Orange PC", I think.) It was a complete disaster. Apple even introduced some weird computers with two motherboards: one PPC, one X86, so you could switch between both platforms. BIG failure, too. Just as an information: VPC 6.0 usually emulates a processor (Pentium II / MMX) at 700 MhZ on my dual 1 GhZ. Once, it launched itself at more than 1 GhZ (though I hadn't changed any settings). I can run XP and sudden strike 2 at (sorta) decent speeds; all you need is a lot of RAM. If somebody knows how I could get back to this 1 GhZ speed, please tell me how...
I got a lot of this stuff to on my inbox (running OS X and Mail.app, thanks god ;). My theory is that Sobig not only spoofs the sender's adress, but also the reply-to adress, choosing from the infected PC's adressbook. Your adress and mine were probably chosen like that.
Bah... At least virii like that create job opportunities for unemployed mailer daemons...
They can brag about being virus-free all they want, but their voice is too small to be heard above the roar of the virus-afflicted Windows users. ... which is why the windows users should sometimes just shut up and listen.
Yeah, but WTF? Being on OS X doesn't stop your mail adress from being flooded (not dangerous, but still annoying) by OTHER PLATFORM's viruses... /virus / trojan horse ("W32.Sobig.F@mm") sends itself from that person's PC (same numerical IP), but with different senders' identities (randomly choosing from that PC's adress book). What's worse is that this worm has chosen MY mail adress to be the default "reply-to", which adds tons of mailer-daemon replies to the flood... (description of the worm here. From what I see here, this one is going to spread fast; but they say it's gonna kill itself on september 10th 2003).
Recent example: I've been getting, in the past 4 days, 30 mails a day sent from a friend's friend's PC (who happened to have my mail in its contacts... This worm
Ah, whatever: screw Microsoft. Screw Office. Screw Microsoft. Screw Outlook. Screw IE. Screw Microsoft.
"Nobody gets fired for installing Windows" now should read: Nobody used to get fired for installing windows... Heh!
This is where ego comes in: some hacker is impressed by the original worm, decides that he wants to play too, and codes an "anti-worm", and watches the battle as it spreads...
Actually, some Italian guy patented a system consisting of a plastic brick, with some sort of sensor and a radio emitter inside, that would shut down the TV when you threw the brick at it. Cool :-)