Me too, but iTunes is a requirement to use an iPhone (call me whatever names you want, but I have WM6, iOS, BlackBerry and Android here. My iPhone is the only one I actually carry and use)
QuickTime isn't nearly as obnoxious as it used to be. It does still steal a few file associations upon installation but once you tell VLC to take back what it supports, QuickTime is mostly a "install it and forget it exists".
Gone are the days where QuickTime would run in the tray and take up CPU and memory despite the fact that you'd never actually used it.
Still, I'd happily give up iTunes' lackluster media playback capabilities entirely if I could lose QuickTime in the exchange.
It occurs to me that DNS could be used as a primary load distribution solution with HTTP redirects being used as a fallback.
This would require CDNs to work with large public DNS providers to ensure that the DNS providers return CDN IPs that have a redirect.
For website hosting redirects probably aren't worth it especially since with many sites you'd end up redirecting every static resource. I'm not sure that the latency of hitting the "wrong" CDN pool is that big a deal anyway for web pages and their resources.
For anything over 1MB or so, the additional few hundred ms to redirect upfront will quickly be overshadowed by the significantly faster KB/s download speeds.
However, at this point redirects might not be simple to drop-in, does iTunes follow redirects? Phasing it in wouldn't be that difficult, clients could add a &allowredirect=true to tell the CDN that it's free to redirect users when appropriate.
Either way, DNS is a bit of a clumsy way to do it.
Even so, anycasting IP traffic isn't impossible but it does require some clever programming to allow sites to "transfer" a client back and forth. A CARP-like solution would be possible.
Technically this is true, but I'm more annoyed by QuickTime's stream of vulnerabilities and the potential instability of having unneeded kernel modem drivers.
Constantly uninstalling something every time iTunes has an update isn't worth the hassle, nor is pulling apart the iTunes installer and beating it into installing just iTunes without Bonjour every time.
Bonjour is the one component that doesn't really annoy me, if only because it occasionally gets used (or at least some iPhone apps can use it to find a PC, and it's sometimes easier/lazier than entering IPs)
Right... Without DRM, but with a watermark (in other words, if you download a Miley Cyrus song and share it, anyone else who gets access to it can track it back to you)
That being said, I have a lot of trouble getting upset over the fact that purchased content is watermarked. As long as I'm not distributing the content, who cares?
You don't need to install iTunes to install QuickTime. Sadly, you do need QuickTime to install iTunes. Which is the lessor evil depends on your needs, but I'd be thrilled to have iTunes alone without QuickTime, Bonjour or the host of kernel mode crap it installs.
The finger pointing is an easy one: It's nVidia's fault.
nVidia claimed support for various flavours of Windows on the box, if they aren't prepared to write drivers for Windows they should remove those claims.
Turning off electronics has never been about interfereance with the plane, if that were the case you wouldn't be allowed to bring items onboard at all.
Consider this: Your electronics are just as electromagnetically dangerous left switched on in your pocket as they are in your hand and all the airlines verify is that you're not holding any electronics, not that they're turned off.
Most long-haul flights are available overnight, these planes tend to spend 20+ hours a day in the air so even on the longest routes they'll have 2 flights every 3 days. Anything in the 8-10 hours range is almost definitely doing two flights a day.
Commuter planes tend to be in service from 6-7am through 10-11pm, and so 5-9 flights per day seems to be about typical, although some routes will be higher.
huh? Lets go with $10/person, 50 people per flight, and accept that 200 flights is the break-even point.
How will it take years to pay for itself?
Longhaul service will do at least a flight per day, more typically at least two since they tend to fly overnight, minus a few days a year of downtime, so with 365 days a year, most planes will do 200 flights within 7-8 months.
For shorter routes and commuters you'll have less people using the service, but $10 is low enough to be worth using from a PDA or iPhone, 737/MD-80/A320 and similar can do 5-9 flights per day, so even if you only get 10-20 people per flight, that's 50-100 daily users per plane.
YYC's free wifi already decodes and reencrypts all SSL traffic.
For users who madly click "continue" on every security dialog to make it go away, SSL is worthless. For the rest of us, it's as good as SSL being blocked outright.
So he has to prove himself innocent to satisfy you why?
He doesn't have to prove where the money came from, although proving it didn't come from public funds isn't an unreasonable request from a member of the public.
3) sounds about right, especially since most keygens don't have any particular virus named, instead they trip something like "Win32/MalPackedB.suspicious" or "Suspicious file" (panda) or "Trojan Horse" (Symantec)
As for why keygen authors do what they do, it's the same reason anyone uploading copyrighted material does what they do: Because they can.
Okay, then we're back to my previous post, where I mentioned "or a sticky rubber bumper on the mechanical sensors"
Now I've certainly never ridden the train in Japan, but the ones I have used have door sensors sensitive enough to detect fingers caught in the doorway.
Linux wouldn't make a difference here, there is no special licensing required to have a boot disk under Windows either.
Pop in your Vista DVD, choose recovery mode and start a command prompt if you so desire, each and every Microsoft made Vista DVD offers this functionality. If your OEM fails to supply one, switching to Linux wouldn't magically make anyone start supplying media either.
Regardless, having bootable media won't help those who would need live chat help from Symantec clean anything though since if they had the knowledge and skills to clean up themselves, they wouldn't need Symantec.
No. Societal pressure doesn't apply to the idiot who is attempting to impress his equally idiotic friends by being a rebel by placing an ironic sticker over the sensor.
Social pressure applies, but it's not the same societal pressure that would move other idiots out of the doorway.
Societal pressure to conform moves the guy standing in the doorway, but doesn't help with the sticker over the sensor since whoever did that is long gone.
Human intervention takes a minute or two to identify and react.
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You're aware of the Apple ad campaigns over the years?
1984 adapted to the modern era where instead of the gov't being in control, corporations control the gov't and us.
Me too, but iTunes is a requirement to use an iPhone (call me whatever names you want, but I have WM6, iOS, BlackBerry and Android here. My iPhone is the only one I actually carry and use)
QuickTime isn't nearly as obnoxious as it used to be. It does still steal a few file associations upon installation but once you tell VLC to take back what it supports, QuickTime is mostly a "install it and forget it exists".
Gone are the days where QuickTime would run in the tray and take up CPU and memory despite the fact that you'd never actually used it.
Still, I'd happily give up iTunes' lackluster media playback capabilities entirely if I could lose QuickTime in the exchange.
It occurs to me that DNS could be used as a primary load distribution solution with HTTP redirects being used as a fallback.
This would require CDNs to work with large public DNS providers to ensure that the DNS providers return CDN IPs that have a redirect.
For website hosting redirects probably aren't worth it especially since with many sites you'd end up redirecting every static resource. I'm not sure that the latency of hitting the "wrong" CDN pool is that big a deal anyway for web pages and their resources.
For anything over 1MB or so, the additional few hundred ms to redirect upfront will quickly be overshadowed by the significantly faster KB/s download speeds.
However, at this point redirects might not be simple to drop-in, does iTunes follow redirects? Phasing it in wouldn't be that difficult, clients could add a &allowredirect=true to tell the CDN that it's free to redirect users when appropriate.
Either way, DNS is a bit of a clumsy way to do it.
Even so, anycasting IP traffic isn't impossible but it does require some clever programming to allow sites to "transfer" a client back and forth. A CARP-like solution would be possible.
Technically this is true, but I'm more annoyed by QuickTime's stream of vulnerabilities and the potential instability of having unneeded kernel modem drivers.
Constantly uninstalling something every time iTunes has an update isn't worth the hassle, nor is pulling apart the iTunes installer and beating it into installing just iTunes without Bonjour every time.
Bonjour is the one component that doesn't really annoy me, if only because it occasionally gets used (or at least some iPhone apps can use it to find a PC, and it's sometimes easier/lazier than entering IPs)
Fair enough.
Right... Without DRM, but with a watermark (in other words, if you download a Miley Cyrus song and share it, anyone else who gets access to it can track it back to you)
That being said, I have a lot of trouble getting upset over the fact that purchased content is watermarked. As long as I'm not distributing the content, who cares?
You don't need to install iTunes to install QuickTime. Sadly, you do need QuickTime to install iTunes. Which is the lessor evil depends on your needs, but I'd be thrilled to have iTunes alone without QuickTime, Bonjour or the host of kernel mode crap it installs.
Which is fine, except that you'll hit the "wrong" Akamai servers for your network.
My question is why Akamai is using DNS for their geo-load-balancing rather than anycasting the content servers themselves.
How does the other side not even get bothered without also granting them a chance to defend themselves?
The finger pointing is an easy one: It's nVidia's fault.
nVidia claimed support for various flavours of Windows on the box, if they aren't prepared to write drivers for Windows they should remove those claims.
The fa
Turning off electronics has never been about interfereance with the plane, if that were the case you wouldn't be allowed to bring items onboard at all.
Consider this: Your electronics are just as electromagnetically dangerous left switched on in your pocket as they are in your hand and all the airlines verify is that you're not holding any electronics, not that they're turned off.
Most long-haul flights are available overnight, these planes tend to spend 20+ hours a day in the air so even on the longest routes they'll have 2 flights every 3 days. Anything in the 8-10 hours range is almost definitely doing two flights a day.
Commuter planes tend to be in service from 6-7am through 10-11pm, and so 5-9 flights per day seems to be about typical, although some routes will be higher.
huh? Lets go with $10/person, 50 people per flight, and accept that 200 flights is the break-even point.
How will it take years to pay for itself?
Longhaul service will do at least a flight per day, more typically at least two since they tend to fly overnight, minus a few days a year of downtime, so with 365 days a year, most planes will do 200 flights within 7-8 months.
For shorter routes and commuters you'll have less people using the service, but $10 is low enough to be worth using from a PDA or iPhone, 737/MD-80/A320 and similar can do 5-9 flights per day, so even if you only get 10-20 people per flight, that's 50-100 daily users per plane.
YYC's free wifi already decodes and reencrypts all SSL traffic.
For users who madly click "continue" on every security dialog to make it go away, SSL is worthless. For the rest of us, it's as good as SSL being blocked outright.
So he has to prove himself innocent to satisfy you why?
He doesn't have to prove where the money came from, although proving it didn't come from public funds isn't an unreasonable request from a member of the public.
3) sounds about right, especially since most keygens don't have any particular virus named, instead they trip something like "Win32/MalPackedB.suspicious" or "Suspicious file" (panda) or "Trojan Horse" (Symantec)
As for why keygen authors do what they do, it's the same reason anyone uploading copyrighted material does what they do: Because they can.
Takes a few minutes? That is why you use a VM. In a VM it takes a few seconds to restore, including the bootup time.
Well, the horribly weak WiFi chipset, lack of 802.11g support, and lack of WPA2 without paying extra come to mind as reasons.
The absolutely horrible browser (not bad for it's day, but compared to what is out in mobile devices today) comes to mind as well.
The digitizer drift isn't fun either if you're one of the unlucky ones.
If that doesn't get you, the NVFS issues will.
I used to be a hardcore Palm guy, but the T|X really wasn't a good choice for Palm to end it's PDA line on a high note.
Okay, then we're back to my previous post, where I mentioned "or a sticky rubber bumper on the mechanical sensors"
Now I've certainly never ridden the train in Japan, but the ones I have used have door sensors sensitive enough to detect fingers caught in the doorway.
Linux wouldn't make a difference here, there is no special licensing required to have a boot disk under Windows either.
Pop in your Vista DVD, choose recovery mode and start a command prompt if you so desire, each and every Microsoft made Vista DVD offers this functionality. If your OEM fails to supply one, switching to Linux wouldn't magically make anyone start supplying media either.
Regardless, having bootable media won't help those who would need live chat help from Symantec clean anything though since if they had the knowledge and skills to clean up themselves, they wouldn't need Symantec.
Broadway musicals.
I'd assume he has been assigned a new name... That's the usual way of ensuring that a problem employee doesn't interact with the same customers again.
No. Societal pressure doesn't apply to the idiot who is attempting to impress his equally idiotic friends by being a rebel by placing an ironic sticker over the sensor.
Social pressure applies, but it's not the same societal pressure that would move other idiots out of the doorway.
Societal pressure to conform moves the guy standing in the doorway, but doesn't help with the sticker over the sensor since whoever did that is long gone.
Human intervention takes a minute or two to identify and react.