That's how I always read Phrack -- on a 300 baud connection to an upstate New York web site called OSUNY (Ohio Scientific Users of New York). My computer was 40-column and Phrack was 80-column, so I would print out each issue and save it in a binder along with the cDc g-philes.
It's been a long long time since I cared about such things. Are there any good hack/phreak groups left? Who's teaching the next generation?
Salling Clicker rocks. I resisted buying this for a long time, but finally did. It's really amazing. I don't have a TV in my bedroom, so I just pop my Powerbook on the dresser and run iDVD from my cell phone, or my Clie. It rocks.
Maybe Tiger will include something similar. Most American households have a cell phone. Many (though still a minority) have Bluetooth. If this is a media center, imagine that you don't have to buy a remote control for it BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAVE ONE in your cell phone. Maybe that explains the recent coziness between Apple and Motorola, whose most recently successful phones have Bluetooth in them.
Pulled all that out of my ass, but if I'm right I will still take 100% credit.
The Sandisk is more expensive than the iPod.
From the Sandisk website -- 512MB: $149 1GB: $199.
More important for me, though, is the fact that with the iPod Shuffle I don't have to carry around yet another cable to sync the songs. I can plug the Shuffle directly into a USB port.
Nope, look at the various images at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod 1st : 4 buttons under screen and wheel below that, 2nd : 4 curved buttons around the wheel, 3rd : 4 buttons under screen and wheel below that, 4th : 4 spots on wheel that act like buttons.
I know it's heresy to say it in Slashdot, but Wikipedia is wrong (again). The picture is mislabeled. However, the text is correct when it says, "The 1G iPod featured four buttons - Menu, Play/Pause, Back, and Forward - arranged around the circumference of the scroll wheel."
That's pretty much what I did last time. I ended up getting about 40 songs. And since they were free, I ended up trying a bunch of different genres that I normally wouldn't spend actual money on. Some of them I ended up liking and bought more music in those genres, broadening my horizons.
But my stomach still hasn't recovered from all that Pepsi.
Good luck finding somewhere. This same thing has happened to me when visiting other countries, including Canada and the U.K. I thought it was standard procedure since it happened to me on my U.K. visit almost five years ago.
I guess since it happened to some geek with a blog it's news now.
Wikipedia is not "someone's opinion"; it is supposed to be neutral, and factual.
Yes, Wikipedia is supposed to be neutral and factual, but very often it isn't, and from what I've read more often than not it is someone's opinion. I've read a dozen or so Wikipedia articles on the industry I'm in that were obviously written by outsiders with strong opinions, rather than people who actualy have the facts. Fact-checking and vetting are two very good things that Wikipedia lacks. I don't blame Wikipedia. It's just a flaw in the Wiki philosophy.
How about a less-paranoid conspiracy theory -- the owner of the satellite knew it had a flaw, or was approaching the end of its usable life or something, and just had it "fail" to collect the insurance money.
This brings back memories of when Galaxy IV disappeared a few years back. I was downlinking a transmission when it just faded away. It was very strange, and set my work back several hours that day until a new bird could be arranged.
I saw a Flash demo of Apple's Piles somewhere on the internet once. It was great. That method of file organization exactly matches how my brain and my desk work. I'm sooooo disappointed it hasn't become a real product yet. I'd switch back to Windows for it.
I like the concept of the Bluetooth device. But I worry about the quality because it's being made by Griffin. I bought two iTrips -- one for my 1st gen iPod, and one for my wife's 3rd gen iPod. They both suck. They don't work in the car like they should, and at home I have to put the iPod on top of the stereo to get a clear signal. I've been very very disappointed with them.
Since this guy doesn't work for Apple, and presumably has no NDA agreement with them, the 1st amendment should protect him, like any other journalist.
That depends on how broadly you define the word "journalist." Every geek with a blog thinks he's better than Bob Woodward. We'll have to see if the court agrees.
Apple is well within its rights and the law in trying to find out who leaked the information. They're not trying to stop him from speculating or talking about rumors. What he sometimes publishes are well beyond mere heresay. Apple is not trying to restrict free speech. If you think it is, then you should read up on the law and court decisions. You do not have the right to say whatever you want, for example -- the classic cliche about how you're not free to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater. That speech, and many others, are not protected by the First Amendment. I suggest actually reading the Constitution and the law rather than getting all of your legal advice from other people's.sigs.
ve found that all Macs ive tried plugging PS/2 devices into using adapters jsut plain dont accept them. Take my ibook for example, plugged a MS keyboard into it (no jokes, they make damn good keyboards regardless of their software), the Caps Lock LED lit up, but nothing worked, no keys produced anything, the same issue with a PS/2 mouse I tried, it didnt work.
A couple of years ago I picked up a strange little thingy at Micro Center for less than $15 that allowed me to plug a PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard into a single USB port on my wife's iBook, and it worked great. Maybe you need a different adapter?
That's a shame. I've always found of all the customer service drone banks I have to call, T-Mobile gave me the best service, behind Washington Mutual. I call T-Mobile just about every month to make a change to my service (thanks to the freedom of not being contractually obligated), and they've always been good. Guess I've been lucky. Next time I cancel my GPRS I might be in the same boat as you.
My G5 has NEVER crashed, not ONCE, and thats being on 24 X 7 ( sleeping when not used ) since I got it Thanksgiving 2003.
That's pretty good. My wife had her first OS X crash last week, and she's had her iBook since 2001. I haven't been so lucky -- my Powerbook is 13 months old, and it's crashed twice. The last one was really cool. I got text running across the GUI and some kind of crazy Darwin prompt. Still, that's much better than my old HP XP box which would fudge its boxers every other week or so.
Incorrect. Companies sue all the time. Even the politicians sue over this sort of thing long after the election is over. It happens. Just because you don't pick up a newspaper doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Nope. Two inch tape inside red plastic cartridges. I even saw the boxes which were clearly labeled. These were pretty small -- about the size today's Beta SX field tapes, but much thicker with a black plastic shutter. I understand they didn't hold much video -- maybe five minutes on each.
This happened a little sooner than I expected. I can think of about a dozen medium-market radio stations that still use reel-to-reel machines every day.
Speaking of obscure tape formats, I still know of a TV station that uses 2-inch tape cartridges in its every day news production. I think they haven't been made since the 80's. Station owner heard they were going to stop making them, and bought a warehouse full so he wouldn't have to upgrade the playback machines.
Seriously... suppose it's 18-24 months from now, and many large metropolitan areas have WiMax coverage.
Seriously... suppose you actually want to use a product today, or in the next couple of weeks instead of waiting for something that might or might not happen and work well two years from now.
That's like not buying a cell phone now because two years from now they should be really really cool. That doesn't help when you want to make a call today.
I was shocked when I saw a map of the US showing huge areas without any base stations for mobile phones at all
It's all about population density. Europe has a lot more people crammed into a much smaller space, thus it's cheaper and easier to deploy more cell phone towers. In the United States there are places where you can drive for hours and never see another person. I've been to a couple of places where there wasn't even radio, AM or FM. There are some town remote enough not to have land-line phone service. Either they don't have phones at all, or they use radio relays.
It's a big country with a lot to see. I've tried to see a lot of it, and my experience has been that when the cell phone towers disappear, you find the prettiest parts of the country.
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300 might have been more my speed.
That's how I always read Phrack -- on a 300 baud connection to an upstate New York web site called OSUNY (Ohio Scientific Users of New York). My computer was 40-column and Phrack was 80-column, so I would print out each issue and save it in a binder along with the cDc g-philes.
It's been a long long time since I cared about such things. Are there any good hack/phreak groups left? Who's teaching the next generation?
Salling Clicker rocks. I resisted buying this for a long time, but finally did. It's really amazing. I don't have a TV in my bedroom, so I just pop my Powerbook on the dresser and run iDVD from my cell phone, or my Clie. It rocks.
Maybe Tiger will include something similar. Most American households have a cell phone. Many (though still a minority) have Bluetooth. If this is a media center, imagine that you don't have to buy a remote control for it BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAVE ONE in your cell phone. Maybe that explains the recent coziness between Apple and Motorola, whose most recently successful phones have Bluetooth in them.
Pulled all that out of my ass, but if I'm right I will still take 100% credit.
The Sandisk is more expensive than the iPod.
From the Sandisk website -- 512MB: $149 1GB: $199.
More important for me, though, is the fact that with the iPod Shuffle I don't have to carry around yet another cable to sync the songs. I can plug the Shuffle directly into a USB port.
Nope, look at the various images at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod 1st : 4 buttons under screen and wheel below that, 2nd : 4 curved buttons around the wheel, 3rd : 4 buttons under screen and wheel below that, 4th : 4 spots on wheel that act like buttons.
I know it's heresy to say it in Slashdot, but Wikipedia is wrong (again). The picture is mislabeled. However, the text is correct when it says, "The 1G iPod featured four buttons - Menu, Play/Pause, Back, and Forward - arranged around the circumference of the scroll wheel."
That's pretty much what I did last time. I ended up getting about 40 songs. And since they were free, I ended up trying a bunch of different genres that I normally wouldn't spend actual money on. Some of them I ended up liking and bought more music in those genres, broadening my horizons.
But my stomach still hasn't recovered from all that Pepsi.
Good luck finding somewhere. This same thing has happened to me when visiting other countries, including Canada and the U.K. I thought it was standard procedure since it happened to me on my U.K. visit almost five years ago.
I guess since it happened to some geek with a blog it's news now.
I don't want to pay my 2 months salary for a freaking computer (I live in Poland and in fact my income is quite above average)
Wow. People in Poland only make $250 a month? I guess that's why there are so many Polish immigrants in Chicago. They came over here to buy $500 Macs
They just announced their Q1-2005 numbers. They sold 1,046,000 computers in that quater.
Wow. You must have Bloomberg FutureCast -- considering that Q1 2005 isn't even half over yet.
Could this possibly be related to the huge coronal mass ejection i read about Jan 15
Hey, I tapped her on the head. What more could I do?
Wikipedia is not "someone's opinion"; it is supposed to be neutral, and factual.
Yes, Wikipedia is supposed to be neutral and factual, but very often it isn't, and from what I've read more often than not it is someone's opinion. I've read a dozen or so Wikipedia articles on the industry I'm in that were obviously written by outsiders with strong opinions, rather than people who actualy have the facts. Fact-checking and vetting are two very good things that Wikipedia lacks. I don't blame Wikipedia. It's just a flaw in the Wiki philosophy.
How about a less-paranoid conspiracy theory -- the owner of the satellite knew it had a flaw, or was approaching the end of its usable life or something, and just had it "fail" to collect the insurance money.
This brings back memories of when Galaxy IV disappeared a few years back. I was downlinking a transmission when it just faded away. It was very strange, and set my work back several hours that day until a new bird could be arranged.
Or maybe one of those anonymous pre-paid Mastercards they sell at 7-Eleven.
I saw a Flash demo of Apple's Piles somewhere on the internet once. It was great. That method of file organization exactly matches how my brain and my desk work. I'm sooooo disappointed it hasn't become a real product yet. I'd switch back to Windows for it.
I like the concept of the Bluetooth device. But I worry about the quality because it's being made by Griffin. I bought two iTrips -- one for my 1st gen iPod, and one for my wife's 3rd gen iPod. They both suck. They don't work in the car like they should, and at home I have to put the iPod on top of the stereo to get a clear signal. I've been very very disappointed with them.
Since this guy doesn't work for Apple, and presumably has no NDA agreement with them, the 1st amendment should protect him, like any other journalist.
That depends on how broadly you define the word "journalist." Every geek with a blog thinks he's better than Bob Woodward. We'll have to see if the court agrees.
Please stop trying to restrict free speech.
.sigs.
Apple is well within its rights and the law in trying to find out who leaked the information. They're not trying to stop him from speculating or talking about rumors. What he sometimes publishes are well beyond mere heresay. Apple is not trying to restrict free speech. If you think it is, then you should read up on the law and court decisions. You do not have the right to say whatever you want, for example -- the classic cliche about how you're not free to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater. That speech, and many others, are not protected by the First Amendment. I suggest actually reading the Constitution and the law rather than getting all of your legal advice from other people's
I love this mini mac, but you need a usb keyboard mouse. Your Dell keyboard won't cut it.
The Dells we have at work all came with USB keyboards and mice. I guess it's time to move into this century.
ve found that all Macs ive tried plugging PS/2 devices into using adapters jsut plain dont accept them. Take my ibook for example, plugged a MS keyboard into it (no jokes, they make damn good keyboards regardless of their software), the Caps Lock LED lit up, but nothing worked, no keys produced anything, the same issue with a PS/2 mouse I tried, it didnt work.
A couple of years ago I picked up a strange little thingy at Micro Center for less than $15 that allowed me to plug a PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard into a single USB port on my wife's iBook, and it worked great. Maybe you need a different adapter?
That's a shame. I've always found of all the customer service drone banks I have to call, T-Mobile gave me the best service, behind Washington Mutual. I call T-Mobile just about every month to make a change to my service (thanks to the freedom of not being contractually obligated), and they've always been good. Guess I've been lucky. Next time I cancel my GPRS I might be in the same boat as you.
My G5 has NEVER crashed, not ONCE, and thats being on 24 X 7 ( sleeping when not used ) since I got it Thanksgiving 2003.
That's pretty good. My wife had her first OS X crash last week, and she's had her iBook since 2001. I haven't been so lucky -- my Powerbook is 13 months old, and it's crashed twice. The last one was really cool. I got text running across the GUI and some kind of crazy Darwin prompt. Still, that's much better than my old HP XP box which would fudge its boxers every other week or so.
And nobody sues. Oh. Except apple.
Incorrect. Companies sue all the time. Even the politicians sue over this sort of thing long after the election is over. It happens. Just because you don't pick up a newspaper doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
You sicken me.
Seriously -- get over yourself.
Nope. Two inch tape inside red plastic cartridges. I even saw the boxes which were clearly labeled. These were pretty small -- about the size today's Beta SX field tapes, but much thicker with a black plastic shutter. I understand they didn't hold much video -- maybe five minutes on each.
This happened a little sooner than I expected. I can think of about a dozen medium-market radio stations that still use reel-to-reel machines every day.
Speaking of obscure tape formats, I still know of a TV station that uses 2-inch tape cartridges in its every day news production. I think they haven't been made since the 80's. Station owner heard they were going to stop making them, and bought a warehouse full so he wouldn't have to upgrade the playback machines.
Seriously... suppose it's 18-24 months from now, and many large metropolitan areas have WiMax coverage.
Seriously... suppose you actually want to use a product today, or in the next couple of weeks instead of waiting for something that might or might not happen and work well two years from now.
That's like not buying a cell phone now because two years from now they should be really really cool. That doesn't help when you want to make a call today.
I was shocked when I saw a map of the US showing huge areas without any base stations for mobile phones at all
It's all about population density. Europe has a lot more people crammed into a much smaller space, thus it's cheaper and easier to deploy more cell phone towers. In the United States there are places where you can drive for hours and never see another person. I've been to a couple of places where there wasn't even radio, AM or FM. There are some town remote enough not to have land-line phone service. Either they don't have phones at all, or they use radio relays.
It's a big country with a lot to see. I've tried to see a lot of it, and my experience has been that when the cell phone towers disappear, you find the prettiest parts of the country.