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Answer this then: Why the hell would MSN Virtual Earth leave out just one quadrant in Cupertino, and have the entire rest of Silicon Valley. I guess it was just luck that the one spot in the bay area that
has some 17 year old lo-res image is smack dab on 1 Infinite Loop. Yeah, I guess they were too cheap to buy the more recent map for Cupertino. They must have found the money to buy better maps for the rest of the Bay Area.
May I point out that the rest of the bay area as far as I can tell is all imaged with much more recent and hi rez images. In fact, it appears that it is just that one quadrant of Cupertino that is missing, and all the rest of the pictures of the bay area are of much much higher quality in terms of resolution than google maps.
Whoever working at Microsoft must have known that they were blocking out 1 Infinite Loop. I mean, the entire rest of Silicon Valley is there, why would Apple be the only
It was a pretty good prank/joke though. I still think it would be funny if google blocked out Redmond.
Although my karma is so bad I doubt anyone will get to see this, I still wanted chime in with agreement in what Skye16 said.
I think the comparison to hypothetical sony made dvd players that only play dvd's rented or bought through sony media channels is spot on. Apple does not need to make the ipod fully open and compatible to other companies and their preferred file formats, but how could anyone disagree with more choices in the marketplace? To some extent the U.S. is a free market of products and ideas, and competition and innovation of those ideas and products is what makes both of them better.
As an aside, you know Glasser knew about Harmony prior to his meeting with Jobs a few months ago... I bet when Jobs heard about Harmony he went nutz!
Also, I know most PC users hate Real for their spyware, however I do appreciate the competition it provided in a windows media centric internet. Often quicktime is not offered, and the choice is either Windows Media or Real.
One last thing.. why is it that everyone assumes that Macs are a "non-gaming-capable" machine? I moved from a PC about a year ago and play all the games I liked on PC, and they play as well or better then they did on my old OC'd P4. I say have your cake and eat it too.
"Now should we initiate a recall? Take the number
of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the
probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the
average out-of-court settlement, C. A times
B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost
of a recall, we don't do one."
But since I have karma worse than that of satan... no one will ever get a chance to read this. *sigh* Such is life.
"Concerned enough about Wi-Fi security... given that WEP can be cracked with a large enough data capture"
It's called WPA, and it can be much more secure than WEP.
Just remember to be smart and NOT use a word that can be found in a dictionary for your passkey if you are not using an authentication server.. Random numbers help - doh.
"Taking out downtown Manhattan would take 8-12 nuclear missiles. "
To say that "taking out" the island of Manhattan would take 12 nuclear missiles is patently wrong; assuming that by missiles you referring to just ONE of the warheads carried by an ICBM missile such as those on the Minuteman III.
Just one warhead from an MX or Minuteman ICBM is in the 400 kiloton range, as opposed to the 12 kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan. In the case of Hiroshima, almost every building within a mile in any direction from ground zero had been substantially damaged. Remember to keep in mind that Manhattan is just 12 miles long, and 2.5 miles wide at it's widest. One also has to wonder just how many warheads would be targeted at a population center the size of Manhattan. A study done in the 70's estimating the effects of a an attack on a city such as Detroit figured that 4 soviet warheads would be directed at the city. Further more, the effects of a nuclear explosion are not relegated solely to the blast impact, but also the after affects of radiation, and fire. It is impossible to think that first responders would be at all effective in trying to contain the uncontrolled fires while radioactive ash falls on their heads. I think it is foolish to discount the effects of an all out nuclear exchange and the large cities that would inevitably be targeted... Granted, the entire land surface of the planet may not be turned to glass in an all out war. But surely millions, and millions, and millions of people would perish within the first year. So if by "missiles" you mean the actual ICBM's and their payload.. then you are talking about at least 15 megatons of nuclear hell aimed at an area just 3 miles across and 12 miles long. I highly doubt it would take that even a 10th of that many ICBM's to say that it was taken out
That said I think that your point about the world not being sterilized ten times over is valid.. but one must be careful not to underestimate the loss associated with an attack on a city with a population density that of NYC.
I have yet to understand why it is that I can install a fresh copy of win2k and have it run smoothly, fast, and responsive. And yet, by the time I fully patch the damned thing it is markedly less responsive.
Considering that most of the income made by Microsoft from direct sales of it's OS are from bulk licenses used by computer manufactures; it would seem that Microsoft would be encouraged to not spend time making sure that there patches are efficiently programmed. They only have to gain if they are able to give the user the feeling that there computer is outdated and lacks responsiveness after installing required patches. It often would cause joe user to think that they need a newer computer, and so they go out and buy a new computer, with a new copy of Windows.
At any rate, my paranoia and sanity are kept in check by using linux. That, and between revitalizing older hardware (P3 1 Ghz), using OO, The Gimp, and Linux I have saved several thousands dollars easily.
So that's why I stay off windows.
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Maybe someone here remembers more of the details of this case.. but I recall something similar happening in Oakland where a burglar broke into a mans house and was confronted in the living room with a knife in one hand, and stolen goods in the other. The homeowner then attacked the burglar with a bat and seriously injured the man.
The homeowner was then arrested and faced charges of assault with a deadly weapon. The whole community was up and arms and I think the DA finally dropped the charges.
But the parent is right.. are all the legal fee's and associated hassle really worth an ipod? I mean, by all means - if your life is in danger, protect yourself. But is it worth killing some homeless, drug addicted teenager who is trying to scare you into giving up your favorite new gizmo?
I think you just hit it on the head. Things like free music over the radio and TV lower the value of their product. I think that fundamentally people think of music as a right - and that it can be obtained almost everywhere for very little cost (ie: advertisements, cost of listening device - TV/Radio)
Historically, the value of purchasing music came from convenience, quality sound reproduction, and the medium the music was distributed on. And the record industry only furthered those assumptions of value. CD's cost more than tapes, tapes cost more than vinyl. Ah, but now factor in the Internet. Now people can reproduce music digitally, with relatively high quality sound reproduction, almost no cost of medium, and listen to it at home, while walking, or in the car. All of this done of course with a high degree of convenience.
I mean Christ, you can hook your computer up to your TV and tune to MTV and rip all the music till your hearts content. Hook it up to your FM radio, and record your favorite songs. And you wonder why people think it's not illegal? Because it's essentially free to the listeners anyway! Which goes directly back to the point that the Record companies have devalued their own product. Which is kinda funny since this is all about IP rights, and the RIAA is essentially saying when it comes down to there to 100 music that: "Hey, you can't make copies of our music! If you want to listen to it tune into your favorite radio station, or MTV, MTV2, VH1, BoX, or CMT and listen to it for free. But if you want your music on a $.10 plastic disc along with a napkin sized piece of album art then it will cost you $19.99"
At any rate, I realize that this is a very charged issue - feel free to let me know what you think.
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Heh, I completely agree..
I was just pointing out that in terms of programming knowledge; the last three years as a CS major have been a little lacking. Granted, I still have at least 3 semesters left.. but still, the majority of my study has been in math, not C++.
Computer Science Education is about producing scientists not programmers who can develop a product. You should be banished to Devry.
UNCLEAN!!!!! UNCLEAN!!!!!
AC, you cracked me up!!
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Hrmmm... I think the first programming class I took in school was during 4th grade. I think it was LOGO, and then that summer my school started a computer camp that focused on BASIC.
But still... it is just getting younger and younger. During the summer my University hosts several computer camps, and I see 7,8, 9 and 10 year old kids programming in C ++ and other OO programming languages.
"most of these virus writers are not formally educated in programming, but able to hack together code snippets they find on the web. It's a wonder some of them work..."
heh.. sure, right. God knows that unless you have a masters in CS your only chance to program something like code red, blaster, or sasser is by hacking "together code snippets [you] find on the web" Christ, 3 years into a CS major, and aside from the calculus I have yet to make any large leaps in knowledge over what I already knew several years ago.
I happen to agree with others that the poster was being at least slightly pedantic, if not wholly pretentious in not using the more commonly-known pen name of George Orwell instead of Eric Blair.
However, after thinking about it and reading some other posts I had to wonder whether anyone would have cared if the poster in referring to a Dr Seuss story used the the name Theodore Geissel instead of "Dr Seuss". Or if the story was referring to novel by Mark Twain they used the name Samuel Clemens. It's just that some authors real names are more commonly known than others.
I don't know, I am sure that quite a few people missed the reference the first time reading it. I had to read it twice before it clicked for me.
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Im just happy when people put numbers like 12km into a graspable framework.
Irregardless of the phrase he used, you still must have known what he meant to say...
"Special driver? This acts like an SATA drive. What OS are you using that needs a "special driver" to support SATA?"
I'm pretty sure he was referring to the Microsoft SQL database driver.
Btw, did you know that you can disable virtual memory in Windows?
Answer this then: Why the hell would MSN Virtual Earth leave out just one quadrant in Cupertino, and have the entire rest of Silicon Valley. I guess it was just luck that the one spot in the bay area that has some 17 year old lo-res image is smack dab on 1 Infinite Loop. Yeah, I guess they were too cheap to buy the more recent map for Cupertino. They must have found the money to buy better maps for the rest of the Bay Area.
May I point out that the rest of the bay area as far as I can tell is all imaged with much more recent and hi rez images. In fact, it appears that it is just that one quadrant of Cupertino that is missing, and all the rest of the pictures of the bay area are of much much higher quality in terms of resolution than google maps.
Whoever working at Microsoft must have known that they were blocking out 1 Infinite Loop. I mean, the entire rest of Silicon Valley is there, why would Apple be the only
It was a pretty good prank/joke though. I still think it would be funny if google blocked out Redmond.
Although my karma is so bad I doubt anyone will get to see this, I still wanted chime in with agreement in what Skye16 said.
I think the comparison to hypothetical sony made dvd players that only play dvd's rented or bought through sony media channels is spot on. Apple does not need to make the ipod fully open and compatible to other companies and their preferred file formats, but how could anyone disagree with more choices in the marketplace? To some extent the U.S. is a free market of products and ideas, and competition and innovation of those ideas and products is what makes both of them better.
As an aside, you know Glasser knew about Harmony prior to his meeting with Jobs a few months ago... I bet when Jobs heard about Harmony he went nutz!
Also, I know most PC users hate Real for their spyware, however I do appreciate the competition it provided in a windows media centric internet. Often quicktime is not offered, and the choice is either Windows Media or Real.
One last thing.. why is it that everyone assumes that Macs are a "non-gaming-capable" machine? I moved from a PC about a year ago and play all the games I liked on PC, and they play as well or better then they did on my old OC'd P4. I say have your cake and eat it too.
UT2K
SoF2
Halo
MoH
Civ III
Diablo II
Ghost Recon
Splinter Cell
Dungeon Siege
Never Winter Nights
Quake3
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cheers!
"Now should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
But since I have karma worse than that of satan... no one will ever get a chance to read this. *sigh* Such is life.
Maybe someone is browsing at 0, or -1?
Who would have thought??
Bill Gates, you asshat you.
... Oh, Joy.
Place your "I for one welcome our new Overlords" Joke here.
"Concerned enough about Wi-Fi security... given that WEP can be cracked with a large enough data capture"
It's called WPA, and it can be much more secure than WEP.
Just remember to be smart and NOT use a word that can be found in a dictionary for your passkey if you are not using an authentication server.. Random numbers help - doh.
" Taking out downtown Manhattan would take 8-12 nuclear missiles. "
To say that "taking out" the island of Manhattan would take 12 nuclear missiles is patently wrong; assuming that by missiles you referring to just ONE of the warheads carried by an ICBM missile such as those on the Minuteman III.
Just one warhead from an MX or Minuteman ICBM is in the 400 kiloton range, as opposed to the 12 kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan. In the case of Hiroshima, almost every building within a mile in any direction from ground zero had been substantially damaged. Remember to keep in mind that Manhattan is just 12 miles long, and 2.5 miles wide at it's widest. One also has to wonder just how many warheads would be targeted at a population center the size of Manhattan. A study done in the 70's estimating the effects of a an attack on a city such as Detroit figured that 4 soviet warheads would be directed at the city. Further more, the effects of a nuclear explosion are not relegated solely to the blast impact, but also the after affects of radiation, and fire. It is impossible to think that first responders would be at all effective in trying to contain the uncontrolled fires while radioactive ash falls on their heads. I think it is foolish to discount the effects of an all out nuclear exchange and the large cities that would inevitably be targeted... Granted, the entire land surface of the planet may not be turned to glass in an all out war. But surely millions, and millions, and millions of people would perish within the first year. So if by "missiles" you mean the actual ICBM's and their payload.. then you are talking about at least 15 megatons of nuclear hell aimed at an area just 3 miles across and 12 miles long. I highly doubt it would take that even a 10th of that many ICBM's to say that it was taken out
That said I think that your point about the world not being sterilized ten times over is valid.. but one must be careful not to underestimate the loss associated with an attack on a city with a population density that of NYC.
I have yet to understand why it is that I can install a fresh copy of win2k and have it run smoothly, fast, and responsive. And yet, by the time I fully patch the damned thing it is markedly less responsive.
Considering that most of the income made by Microsoft from direct sales of it's OS are from bulk licenses used by computer manufactures; it would seem that Microsoft would be encouraged to not spend time making sure that there patches are efficiently programmed. They only have to gain if they are able to give the user the feeling that there computer is outdated and lacks responsiveness after installing required patches. It often would cause joe user to think that they need a newer computer, and so they go out and buy a new computer, with a new copy of Windows.
At any rate, my paranoia and sanity are kept in check by using linux. That, and between revitalizing older hardware (P3 1 Ghz), using OO, The Gimp, and Linux I have saved several thousands dollars easily.
So that's why I stay off windows.
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Maybe someone here remembers more of the details of this case.. but I recall something similar happening in Oakland where a burglar broke into a mans house and was confronted in the living room with a knife in one hand, and stolen goods in the other. The homeowner then attacked the burglar with a bat and seriously injured the man.
The homeowner was then arrested and faced charges of assault with a deadly weapon. The whole community was up and arms and I think the DA finally dropped the charges.
But the parent is right.. are all the legal fee's and associated hassle really worth an ipod? I mean, by all means - if your life is in danger, protect yourself. But is it worth killing some homeless, drug addicted teenager who is trying to scare you into giving up your favorite new gizmo?
Woah there cowboy.. you're forgetting the _*best_ linux distro available.
;)
Ahemm...
(sound of thunder crashing - deep voice of God)
SlackWare Linux
Now forget mandrake, be a man and get out there and pick yourself up some slack.
Mr. Dobbs loves you.
* Actually I take that back.. feel free to reply with what you think is good or not good with slack.
yeah, but I hear the the latency is a bitch.
=]
I think you just hit it on the head. Things like free music over the radio and TV lower the value of their product. I think that fundamentally people think of music as a right - and that it can be obtained almost everywhere for very little cost (ie: advertisements, cost of listening device - TV/Radio)
Historically, the value of purchasing music came from convenience, quality sound reproduction, and the medium the music was distributed on. And the record industry only furthered those assumptions of value. CD's cost more than tapes, tapes cost more than vinyl. Ah, but now factor in the Internet. Now people can reproduce music digitally, with relatively high quality sound reproduction, almost no cost of medium, and listen to it at home, while walking, or in the car. All of this done of course with a high degree of convenience.
I mean Christ, you can hook your computer up to your TV and tune to MTV and rip all the music till your hearts content. Hook it up to your FM radio, and record your favorite songs. And you wonder why people think it's not illegal? Because it's essentially free to the listeners anyway! Which goes directly back to the point that the Record companies have devalued their own product. Which is kinda funny since this is all about IP rights, and the RIAA is essentially saying when it comes down to there to 100 music that: "Hey, you can't make copies of our music! If you want to listen to it tune into your favorite radio station, or MTV, MTV2, VH1, BoX, or CMT and listen to it for free. But if you want your music on a $.10 plastic disc along with a napkin sized piece of album art then it will cost you $19.99"
At any rate, I realize that this is a very charged issue - feel free to let me know what you think.
Heh, I completely agree.. I was just pointing out that in terms of programming knowledge; the last three years as a CS major have been a little lacking. Granted, I still have at least 3 semesters left.. but still, the majority of my study has been in math, not C++.
Computer Science Education is about producing scientists not programmers who can develop a product. You should be banished to Devry. UNCLEAN!!!!! UNCLEAN!!!!!
AC, you cracked me up!!
UCSD!
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Hrmmm... I think the first programming class I took in school was during 4th grade. I think it was LOGO, and then that summer my school started a computer camp that focused on BASIC.
But still... it is just getting younger and younger. During the summer my University hosts several computer camps, and I see 7,8, 9 and 10 year old kids programming in C ++ and other OO programming languages.
Crazy indeed
"most of these virus writers are not formally educated in programming, but able to hack together code snippets they find on the web. It's a wonder some of them work..."
heh.. sure, right. God knows that unless you have a masters in CS your only chance to program something like code red, blaster, or sasser is by hacking "together code snippets [you] find on the web" Christ, 3 years into a CS major, and aside from the calculus I have yet to make any large leaps in knowledge over what I already knew several years ago.
Maybe that's what grad school is for?
I happen to agree with others that the poster was being at least slightly pedantic, if not wholly pretentious in not using the more commonly-known pen name of George Orwell instead of Eric Blair.
However, after thinking about it and reading some other posts I had to wonder whether anyone would have cared if the poster in referring to a Dr Seuss story used the the name Theodore Geissel instead of "Dr Seuss". Or if the story was referring to novel by Mark Twain they used the name Samuel Clemens. It's just that some authors real names are more commonly known than others.
I don't know, I am sure that quite a few people missed the reference the first time reading it. I had to read it twice before it clicked for me.
At any rate, I think he is twat.