Contois isn't selling or otherwise distributing a product with that interface.
They patented the product yet they aren't using it anyway. They can't claim damages because iTunes has been distrubted for 4 years.
Just what are they suing over? The fact that a person scribbled down a UI for a music player, but then never actually used said interface for anything more than a demo product?
Bit torrent is 4 years old. They have been testing various configurations for the last four years.
I think this guy knows a bit more about how an effiecent torrent is going to work.
MSFT is once again playing catch up. In a few years they are going to end up duplicating the entire effort of bram just ot make a closed source version of the software, which will then fizzle out because msft won't make clients for anything other than windows. Yet Torrents can be had for any OS.
And how many aliens from other worlds have you met? We haven't been into space for any length of time. heck how many other worlds have you stepped on.
You can't observe someone else doing it unless you are actually out there. Our telescopes can't make out titan(in complete detail), yet you want to observe a ship traveling between the stars?
We would have to observe it in real time, and from a really limited point of view.
I still say it's possible, just not in mine, or my children's lifetimes
100 years ago Flight was quite literally a dream for 99.99999999% of the world.
For 50 years one thought they couldn't travel faster than sound.
in the Late 1970's IBM asked would an home person want a computer.
Just because you can't figure out how, doesn't mean someone else can't.
Sci-Fi has presented a lot of good ideas and possibilities. Andromena. Battlestar Galactic, and several others use regular light speed signals for normal space, then use a twist to get them to a very distant point. All of those methods have been theorized and talked about, but none of them can be known for sure until we get more information.
I always thought that is why they bought connective and virtualPC.
That way Longhorn would have a nearly the same speed virtual windows. It could become unstable but the new system would just drop it and it could be restarted.
Of course My bet is that MSFT couldn't get the performance they want so they are just going to run the win32 api on top of longhorn.
Why doesn't MSFT just completely and totally drop the old crud from longhorn. Then when longhorn is stable and cool, build either a VPC emulator, or a wine like emulator to cross translate. It's not like the system specs are going down for Longhorn.
That is how you upgrade a system, you phase the old stuff out slowly. OS 9 apps have/are getting 7 years to upgrade, and you can still run the old OS's just not on newer hardware. Windows is maintianing compatiblity with win 3.1
OS X has to be backwards compatible. Heck I play OS 9 games on OS X and it very rarely even has to start Classic mode. The libraries load and go.
My roommate hired one of his co-workers( a photo art student at a major college) That guys camera was an 8 megapixel, My roommates was a 6 megapixel. After words they created a DVD of all the photos, and then they printed out a thumbnail of everything to help them sort. 500 pictures printed on an 18"x60" piece of paper.
my roommate and his wife went through the whole list selected about 300 images and made 3x5's for the close family members, and for every thank you card they included a picture of the person in question.
Now working for a Digital print lab and being allowed to use the equipment cheap to free helps.
Very true, but when your cutting features that you have promised for the past 6 years just to get the product out the door something is seriously wrong.
Since XP was released. OS X has matured into a great product getting faster and better with each release.
Linux has gone from hard to install for the average person to being easy.
Beos has come back from the dead.
Sky OS was competely written by a lone programmer(1999-2005)including drivers and a full GUI.
Now MSFT out numbers all those companies/people by 10 to 1 in the case of apple. why can smaller companies produce more unique software faster than MSFT can? The size of the apps is the same. They can do similar things to MS offerings. yet MSFT can't keep up.
the managed.NET code that was supposed to be an all new APi is being removed to speed up the deadline. Avalon is being back ported to windows XP. Win FS is being dropped due to it being to big of a concept and MSFT doesn't have anyone to copy off of.
Longhorn I hoped would of been a complete rewrite. it failed. There is not a single new innovative feature in longhorn now. spotlight searches fast and effective, on all but networked drives. GPU driven displays OSX and a large number of X server's(sgi's)
New remote command shell is a combination of applescript and a python interpreter. It would of been cool but it's been delayed.
Yet somewhere MSFT found the time to make their own Bit torrent P2P client and server setups. I guess it shows where MSFT lays it's priorities. An app that won't bring them cash or their Next Generation OS.
That tale is out of stanford(?). It is true. They were tracking the physical route paths of the cables and couldn't find the computer to which a cable was connected.
All of them at my work. Of course that is because we need dos and netware networking support.
I am tryig to figure out an upgrade path. it's just that the software we use is very propertiry. and moving off is possible though hard. That and I refuse to install XP at work. I need an idiot proof server setup, and I haven't found it yet.
Don't get me wrong you can only get my powerbook why you pry it from my cold dead hands.
But as a server it has problems. as desktop machine you won't notice them, not because you don't load it up, but because the load is different.One app eating a bunch of memory and CPU vs a bunch of different threads each requiring a different CPU
OS X and Linux aren't a Unix. They look act and play like unix but were banned membership due to long hair and tatoo's.:-)
Second OS X is proven to be a terrible Server. Sure it can handle small tasks effectively. and It's priced right, but handling for high loads Windows does a better, more reliable job. The guy who reviewed the G5 over at anadtech recently was comparing linux and OS X with Linux always coming out ahead.
It's that hybrid kernel slowing down thread creation. So if you keep a database and a webserver on the same machine(normal for Linux, BSD's, heck even OS X) you take a performance hit after so many connections at once. (ie minor slashdotting)
The shuttles are designed for 7 people at a time. The soyuz can take up to three people at a time. So you need three soyuz launches for every shuttle launch.
Since no one else answered with a good answer here it is.
Droids Accuracy for being a machine sucks. Clone troopers accuracy is a lot better than droids.
rebel troopers will to survive to see their families again work very hard to maintain accuracy, and will to survive.
Note the clone troopers are replaced with more clone troopers. The survivor's get replaced, and the kamonian's said that the first batch was done. how many more batches had been in the works for the past 10 years? maybe one a year, I know I would still have more troopers coming right after a war ended. Because you can't predict when a war will end.
Napster, Real, buymusic are all on the verge of bankruptcy.
Yahoo and MSN will fund their music subscription services with other business. Anyone else noticed how Napster and Rean where doing well untill they were put out on their own?
>>You havn't lost anything, because you never bought anything to begin with, but you get to listen to hundreds of thousands of tracks during the period you are subscribed.
That's right I never did have it to begin with. yet you only listened to maybe 5,000-10,000 tracks. Possibly total. 5,000 songs is roughly 291 hours or 12 days non-stop music. At $5 a month(yahoo is undercutting everyone else at their own expense) That is 6 cd's of music from itunes.
The best part when/if itunes folds you still can play those files.
You buy a new computer and push your credit card up to it's limit. Not a big deal until you can't listen to music cause your subscription wasn't renewed.
What happens when you want to travel? What happens if you get seriously hurt and the only thing you can do is listen to music and watch tv yet you can no longer afford to do either.
Sorry I want the music to play as long as i have a player. You are now tied to napster for your music. You can't say no, you have no choice but to pay them forever.
Apple would be quietly getting by on sales of high-end earthen homes.(think hobbit hole) They would include their own wind and solar power supply as well, but need regular line power to work at 100%.
I also imagine Gentoo would be more like here's an axe, a saw, a hammer, and here is a sample floor plan. There are some good sized trees over there have fun.
Have you actually used spotlight? or are you just another it's not windows so it sucks person?
Spotlight searches within files , not just names.
You forgot to label a file?, You can remember the title? type it in to spotlight, one of the results will be your file.
3 seconds you just narrowed down your list of 3,000 files to search to just 10.
I don't use label's a lot in gmail, but I did import all my gmail into my Apple mail folders. Why so i can do an offline search of all 30mb of my email in folders.
Spotlight is close to being a local version of google.
My V551 works well with tiger and isync9finally), two annoying problems.
Batterylife if you use it sucks. About 5 days without using it, about 2 if you make just a few. The battery meter is also not set right. 3 bars to 2 takes days. 2 bars to 0 takes 12-16 hours.
Second way to many features in a clunky interface.
A straight ascii text file, that you manually encrypt and decrypt. create encryption programs or use standard ones so that your data is accessible no matter what computer/os you are using.
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Contois isn't selling or otherwise distributing a product with that interface.
They patented the product yet they aren't using it anyway. They can't claim damages because iTunes has been distrubted for 4 years.
Just what are they suing over? The fact that a person scribbled down a UI for a music player, but then never actually used said interface for anything more than a demo product?
Bit torrent is 4 years old. They have been testing various configurations for the last four years.
I think this guy knows a bit more about how an effiecent torrent is going to work.
MSFT is once again playing catch up. In a few years they are going to end up duplicating the entire effort of bram just ot make a closed source version of the software, which will then fizzle out because msft won't make clients for anything other than windows. Yet Torrents can be had for any OS.
And how many aliens from other worlds have you met? We haven't been into space for any length of time. heck how many other worlds have you stepped on.
You can't observe someone else doing it unless you are actually out there. Our telescopes can't make out titan(in complete detail), yet you want to observe a ship traveling between the stars?
We would have to observe it in real time, and from a really limited point of view.
I still say it's possible, just not in mine, or my children's lifetimes
UM Why is FTL impossible again?
100 years ago Flight was quite literally a dream for 99.99999999% of the world.
For 50 years one thought they couldn't travel faster than sound.
in the Late 1970's IBM asked would an home person want a computer.
Just because you can't figure out how, doesn't mean someone else can't.
Sci-Fi has presented a lot of good ideas and possibilities. Andromena. Battlestar Galactic, and several others use regular light speed signals for normal space, then use a twist to get them to a very distant point. All of those methods have been theorized and talked about, but none of them can be known for sure until we get more information.
I always thought that is why they bought connective and virtualPC.
That way Longhorn would have a nearly the same speed virtual windows. It could become unstable but the new system would just drop it and it could be restarted.
Of course My bet is that MSFT couldn't get the performance they want so they are just going to run the win32 api on top of longhorn.
Why doesn't MSFT just completely and totally drop the old crud from longhorn. Then when longhorn is stable and cool, build either a VPC emulator, or a wine like emulator to cross translate. It's not like the system specs are going down for Longhorn.
That is how you upgrade a system, you phase the old stuff out slowly. OS 9 apps have/are getting 7 years to upgrade, and you can still run the old OS's just not on newer hardware. Windows is maintianing compatiblity with win 3.1
OS X has to be backwards compatible. Heck I play OS 9 games on OS X and it very rarely even has to start Classic mode. The libraries load and go.
My roommate hired one of his co-workers( a photo art student at a major college) That guys camera was an 8 megapixel, My roommates was a 6 megapixel. After words they created a DVD of all the photos, and then they printed out a thumbnail of everything to help them sort. 500 pictures printed on an 18"x60" piece of paper.
my roommate and his wife went through the whole list selected about 300 images and made 3x5's for the close family members, and for every thank you card they included a picture of the person in question.
Now working for a Digital print lab and being allowed to use the equipment cheap to free helps.
Best layout ever though.
Very true, but when your cutting features that you have promised for the past 6 years just to get the product out the door something is seriously wrong.
Since XP was released.
OS X has matured into a great product getting faster and better with each release.
Linux has gone from hard to install for the average person to being easy.
Beos has come back from the dead.
Sky OS was competely written by a lone programmer(1999-2005)including drivers and a full GUI.
Now MSFT out numbers all those companies/people by 10 to 1 in the case of apple. why can smaller companies produce more unique software faster than MSFT can? The size of the apps is the same. They can do similar things to MS offerings. yet MSFT can't keep up.
nope it's not being phased out.
.NET code that was supposed to be an all new APi is being removed to speed up the deadline. Avalon is being back ported to windows XP. Win FS is being dropped due to it being to big of a concept and MSFT doesn't have anyone to copy off of.
the managed
Longhorn I hoped would of been a complete rewrite. it failed. There is not a single new innovative feature in longhorn now. spotlight searches fast and effective, on all but networked drives. GPU driven displays OSX and a large number of X server's(sgi's)
New remote command shell is a combination of applescript and a python interpreter. It would of been cool but it's been delayed.
Yet somewhere MSFT found the time to make their own Bit torrent P2P client and server setups. I guess it shows where MSFT lays it's priorities. An app that won't bring them cash or their Next Generation OS.
That tale is out of stanford(?). It is true. They were tracking the physical route paths of the cables and couldn't find the computer to which a cable was connected.
That is what I call a real OS
My boss :-). completely clueless. We have a dsl connection nd internal Email but she uses AOL because I can't get her not to.
The server is currently netware 3.12. The damn thing is a beast. It will wear out the processor before it crashes.
I know of 10 machines running win95b/win98.
All of them at my work. Of course that is because we need dos and netware networking support.
I am tryig to figure out an upgrade path. it's just that the software we use is very propertiry. and moving off is possible though hard. That and I refuse to install XP at work. I need an idiot proof server setup, and I haven't found it yet.
Yea it's the only kind of exercise us geeks get now a days.
Don't get me wrong you can only get my powerbook why you pry it from my cold dead hands.
But as a server it has problems. as desktop machine you won't notice them, not because you don't load it up, but because the load is different.One app eating a bunch of memory and CPU vs a bunch of different threads each requiring a different CPU
First nitpick correction.
OS X and Linux aren't a Unix. They look act and play like unix but were banned membership due to long hair and tatoo's.:-)
Second OS X is proven to be a terrible Server. Sure it can handle small tasks effectively. and It's priced right, but handling for high loads Windows does a better, more reliable job. The guy who reviewed the G5 over at anadtech recently was comparing linux and OS X with Linux always coming out ahead.
It's that hybrid kernel slowing down thread creation. So if you keep a database and a webserver on the same machine(normal for Linux, BSD's, heck even OS X) you take a performance hit after so many connections at once. (ie minor slashdotting)
Um The soyuz has only had small crews.
The shuttles are designed for 7 people at a time. The soyuz can take up to three people at a time. So you need three soyuz launches for every shuttle launch.
Yea and did you live it in memory or are you comparing them properly and taking them all the way out of memory.
MS Office uses the same style launcher that OO.o and Mozilla like. a small at boot time loader for the main cross section of libraries.
It increases speed a lot but then again it chews up memory as well.
Applescript has to be programmed for I do believe. so the programmer who creates the program leaves applescript backdoors into the software.
Also with OS X10.4 applescript is now also a command line program and can take arguments from the command line.
Since no one else answered with a good answer here it is.
Droids Accuracy for being a machine sucks.
Clone troopers accuracy is a lot better than droids.
rebel troopers will to survive to see their families again work very hard to maintain accuracy, and will to survive.
Note the clone troopers are replaced with more clone troopers. The survivor's get replaced, and the kamonian's said that the first batch was done. how many more batches had been in the works for the past 10 years? maybe one a year, I know I would still have more troopers coming right after a war ended. Because you can't predict when a war will end.
Napster, Real, buymusic are all on the verge of bankruptcy.
Yahoo and MSN will fund their music subscription services with other business. Anyone else noticed how Napster and Rean where doing well untill they were put out on their own?
>>You havn't lost anything, because you never bought anything to begin with, but you get to listen to hundreds of thousands of tracks during the period you are subscribed.
That's right I never did have it to begin with. yet you only listened to maybe 5,000-10,000 tracks. Possibly total. 5,000 songs is roughly 291 hours or 12 days non-stop music. At $5 a month(yahoo is undercutting everyone else at their own expense) That is 6 cd's of music from itunes.
The best part when/if itunes folds you still can play those files.
You buy a new computer and push your credit card up to it's limit. Not a big deal until you can't listen to music cause your subscription wasn't renewed.
What happens when you want to travel? What happens if you get seriously hurt and the only thing you can do is listen to music and watch tv yet you can no longer afford to do either.
Sorry I want the music to play as long as i have a player. You are now tied to napster for your music. You can't say no, you have no choice but to pay them forever.
Some deal.
Get it right
Apple would be quietly getting by on sales of high-end earthen homes.(think hobbit hole) They would include their own wind and solar power supply as well, but need regular line power to work at 100%.
I also imagine Gentoo would be more like here's an axe, a saw, a hammer, and here is a sample floor plan. There are some good sized trees over there have fun.
Have you actually used spotlight? or are you just another it's not windows so it sucks person?
Spotlight searches within files , not just names.
You forgot to label a file?, You can remember the title? type it in to spotlight, one of the results will be your file.
3 seconds you just narrowed down your list of 3,000 files to search to just 10.
I don't use label's a lot in gmail, but I did import all my gmail into my Apple mail folders. Why so i can do an offline search of all 30mb of my email in folders.
Spotlight is close to being a local version of google.
My V551 works well with tiger and isync9finally), two annoying problems.
Batterylife if you use it sucks. About 5 days without using it, about 2 if you make just a few. The battery meter is also not set right. 3 bars to 2 takes days. 2 bars to 0 takes 12-16 hours.
Second way to many features in a clunky interface.
A straight ascii text file, that you manually encrypt and decrypt. create encryption programs or use standard ones so that your data is accessible no matter what computer/os you are using.
Just hang on there a sec. Would tunnelling involve physical excerise?
Cause I am all for it, but I don't do physical.