Apple has spent a lot of time and money on making their store a seamless part of the iPod, they licensed the fairplay drm, reverse engineering it for personal use is just dandy, reverse engineering it for competitive gain is theft.
That being said as a Mac user and an iPod owner (on number 2 now) I applaud Apple on having an open product, it plays unprotected AAC (mpeg 4) it plays DRM'd ACC and it plays MP3 encoded audio; what would real add to this for me? zero, Real has done little if anything to support me in the past and I for one intend on returning the favor. I hope they choke on this one.
1. Armed by tradition because of some colonial problems, care to enlighten us? 2. Saying all Americans are overweight is like saying all Britains have serious dental problems, ok. 3. One word, shag, really, no slang in the UK. 4. Yet another statement based on something other then fact, seems like you've been getting facts from your television? 5. I agree with you on this, our Constitution has been turned into a relatively useless document by a bunch of asswipes, while are forced to study it in secondary school its not until much later that we are studying the past, shortly after figuring out who has done this to us we go out and do #1 6. Two words; rabbit, die-back. 7. If that were true I doubt Bush Jr. would have made it as far as he has. 8. umm, I watch the BBC for news, but what is that crap thats on in between the news? you have how many channels of that? You pay a use tax for it? nice.
Ok, the concerns are valid and it would seem that CNN is fluffing this one up; still I think soldiers should be warned.
My question is this, if one of these things were to be activated by mistake, on a base or a battlefront, would the Coke truck arrive? I mean an SUV delivered in Iraq might be an incredible prize to a soldier hoofing it......
Maybe the folks in charge should stop using Coke products, not the kind measured in ounces or milliliters but the kind measured in grams.
An attempt to bring one of the buildings down had already been attempted; seismological readings would have shown the potential energy of the buildings turning into kinetic energy at the point of structural failure; the structural failure is what caused the fall(s) Structural failure caused by the intense heat of the buildings superstructure being coated with burning jet fuel.
to get the same effect with explosives you would need to have access to the superstructure and a material like thermite to create the heat required to cause the failure. The twin towers fell as a direct result, the rest fell as a result of secondary damage or as you've suggested the decision that salvage would not be a viable option.
None of this really matters for the the point that I was trying to make. To simplify.
Take away the guns and knives will be used, take away explosives and JP8 will be used. Controlling rocket fuel will not prevent terrorists from doing what they do; metal shavings and pool chemicals can be just as dangerous and a bit less suspicious. All controlling rocket fuel is going to do is dampen rocket hobbyists.
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Funny thing, I already pay a monthly fee for file sharing, talk to my ISP.
Hasn't the US Gov't seen any of the Dirty Harry movies?
When will RC cars and Aircraft be outlawed?
I seem to remember a scene in a movie where an RC car fitted with a bomb was used to explode a car.
When you take all of the things that could be used in violent acts away, people invent new methods (and generally more efficient) methods for doing the things you planned on preventing.
Case in point; it was too hard to get enough explosives to damage the WTC buildings, but highjack a couple of airplanes fueled to cross the continent and you have the means to do so.
Why not outlaw planes? why not require background checks to fly? I defer to George Carlin on this one, surely a large fist could be used to take control of a plane, will we have strength tests at the gates?
While I rattle on about how stupid we've become, why not just sedate all plane passengers with enough to keep them out cold for the duration of the flight? you fall asleep in the terminal and wake up at your destination? Heck, why not just sedate the entire population?
If you spend all of your time trying to prevent the things that could happen, nothing will happen and no progress will be made.
AK's aren't allowed, but name them something else, remove the bayonet and ship them with a 10 round clip and you have a 'hunting' rifle....... It's not an AK74, it just shoots the same round as one, officer.
After Microsofts *successful* defence in the anti-trust suit it appears as if they are on the attack again.
I recently had the chance to 'lunch' with a team of boiler room types on the topic of ' Interoperability, Integration, Extensibility' subtitled 'Unix interoperability'
After enjoying a excellent meal at one of the better steak houses in town I began to notice that this 'meating' wasn't so much about working with Unix systems as it was about providing unix services from Windows servers; After being seeded with 'free' software (funny that, free tools just not free source) title:Windows Services for Unix 3.5 and looking closely I saw that they are now providing NFS, Syslog, NIS, DNS, Mail and a tool to 'port' your Unix 'legacy' (their words) apps to a modern OS.
What frightened me most was that my inclusion to this meeting was last minute and that my 'peers' didn't have a technical bone in em, they were all either Microsoft partners or middle to upper manglement types.
The last 'free' software I saw from Microsoft was IE, I wonder if this latest offering will have as profound an effect.
You can run a 450 off of 120 VAC, some were sold as 'workstations' My biggest concern isn't the power consumption, its the heat soak, a E450 is my idea of a winter basement heater; and they are *not* quiet by any standards.
Shopped long and hard for a digital SLR, have been a Canon user for quite some time (S20, S40 G3) and when they released the 300D and 10D I looked at both and purchased the 300D based on its user interface, weight and appearance.
Why not photographic quality? After looking at RAW mode output from both models it was truly a toss up; I suspect that a lot of 'pros' will by the 10D based on looks and price, magnesium body and its *black*. I personally have never been a fan of black cameras but thats taste. What I think in regards to this is that 500 saved on the body is 500 more I can spend on a lens, which I believe is where the real difference is made.
After using the 300D for a while a couple of things bothered me. 1. selected focal/metered locations as defaults, you can select them but it involved a trial and error and then a focal lock.
2. while using RAW mode a jpg is embedded in the image for preview and use. Being able to increase or decrease this would be great (flash savings or for comparison in processing).
3. Being able to change the settings of the flash comp.
After reading up on the firmware I found that it is truly 300D firmware with a few bits turned on, as I have a copy of the unaltered firmware this was a no brainer, I applied it; and began using the added 'features' right away. Do I have a 10D now? not a chance, the 10D has a faster shutter, more cache for burst (I can take 4 rapid shots, the 10D I think at least doubles this) and a higher (directly adjustable) iso sensitivity (3200, to get this on the 300D you would have to set exposure adjust +1)
But I do have the features that I was missing (mirror lock, 1/3 stop adjust, etc). And after proving to several of my friends that this doesn't cook the camera they have done the same.
Having played a bit of paintball I can say if the velocity is cranked up and can (and has) puntured skin.
Tear gas paintballs already exist (heh) but I always thought it would be cool if traffic cops could tag your car with a paintball transponder...... blow through a speed trap? why chase em? mark em and wait for them to stop either because they thought they got away or because they've realized the car is marked.
OR maybe you could use them to deliver a russian style sleeping gas..... (just don't drop em) its easy to get a paintball into a window..
You could crank the gas up and fire a wooden dowel (sharpened no doubt).
just rambling but this is pretty cool and paintball guns have gone a long way from the 'marking trees for forestry' beginning.
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.................
Apple had a relatively new look and feel in the personal computer arena. Microsoft said hey, we should license this.
Apple said OK, license it for Windows 286 and/or 2.0 and continued to develop the interface.
Apple continued to develop the interface while Microsoft continued to develop the interface to DOS.
Apple made great strides in the gui department while Microsoft continued to develop a new version of Windows with these unlicensed enhancements.
Apple cried foul, Microsoft released Windows 3.
Apple sued.
Why are the patenting this? its new and they would like to implement it in their products without concern or loss in R&D as it is quite clear that Microsoft has no problems rolling innovation into their products, problem is it isn't their innovation.
JMHO and some will take this as flame bait but as long as the software model is 'we charge you to use this'; for profit businesses need some form of remedy to protect themselves from the Microsofts of this planet.
Ethics aside I think that a anti-virus virus would have to play on the actions that allowed the original virus to spread; blood transfusions, accidental exposure and wildly unprotected sex. I would also think that before releasing something like this in the wild they should find some method to make it possible to remove the anti-virus-virus from the host. The parallels between this kind of treatment/ethics/risk and releasing an self patching exploits worms/virus/trojans is interesting.
I fall back to a punchline from a comedian; you put your d!ck in and the sh!t blows up..........
Apple and Microsoft are both big corp. entities; as such the downplaying of security issues would be expected.
This strongly biased end user and multi platform support professional would like ad his 10 cents worth.
1. Apple and Microsoft both have services with discovered and yet undiscovered flaws.
2. Apple and Microsoft both release security patches to address those flaws typically when *discovered*.
3. Apple tends to patch these flaws *before* they become a problem for the end user base, discovery is typically done by the open source community on which many of these flaws were inherited.
4. Microsoft tends to patch these flaws after the end user base has brought the problems to their attention, discovery is typically done by the end user base under extremely painful conditions.
5. Apple and Microsoft both have mechinisms for priv. separation, both suggest using them, only one really practices this at installation time (you guess).
6. Apple tends to use defaults that reduce system risk while increasing end user ease of use (sometimes this leads to potential damage).
7. Microsoft tends to use defaults that are historical in nature while increasing system ease of use (scripting host, macros, com and wins?) but also tend to expose the end user in methods not easily understood by that end user.
Where am I going with this? this article is obviously a troll.
When asked about platform preference I suggest using the tool that is right at the time and place of need.
i.e. no money? linux and x86 i.e. money? modern mac hardware and OS X i.e. you paying my bills? Solaris/Sparc Windows/X86
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Apple has spent a lot of time and money on making their store
a seamless part of the iPod, they licensed the fairplay drm,
reverse engineering it for personal use is just dandy, reverse engineering it for competitive gain is theft.
That being said as a Mac user and an iPod owner (on number 2 now) I applaud Apple on having an open product, it plays unprotected AAC (mpeg 4) it plays DRM'd ACC and it plays MP3 encoded audio; what would real add to this for me? zero, Real has done little if anything to support me in the past and I for one intend on returning the favor. I hope they choke on this one.
the video star.
If you hibernate for 8 hours, would you wake 'rested'
metabolic rate has something to do with this and dropping it.....
i.e. body regenerates/replenishes stored sugars, digests food/produces waste.
I am by no means a biologist but the thought does come to mind on this otherwise attractive idea.
1. Armed by tradition because of some colonial problems, care to enlighten us?
2. Saying all Americans are overweight is like saying all Britains have serious dental problems, ok.
3. One word, shag, really, no slang in the UK.
4. Yet another statement based on something other then fact,
seems like you've been getting facts from your television?
5. I agree with you on this, our Constitution has been turned into a relatively useless document by a bunch of asswipes, while are forced to study it in secondary school its not until much later that we are studying the past, shortly after figuring out who has done this to us we go out and do #1
6. Two words; rabbit, die-back.
7. If that were true I doubt Bush Jr. would have made it as far as he has.
8. umm, I watch the BBC for news, but what is that crap thats on in between the news? you have how many channels of that? You pay a use tax for it? nice.
One OS
One People
One Nexus
I can't wait to see how they 're-write' links and searches
to 'enhance' your experience.
Maybe it was just a clever method to get a subscription to a magazine he would otherwise have not gotten the kitchen pass to obtain?
I am sure this guy didn't list 'hacked altavista' on his
resume, or wait, maybe he did.....
Its ok though, if he was really top notch it would have been google.
Ok, the concerns are valid and it would seem that CNN is fluffing
this one up; still I think soldiers should be warned.
My question is this, if one of these things were to be activated by mistake, on a base or a battlefront, would the Coke truck arrive? I mean an SUV delivered in Iraq might be an incredible prize to a soldier hoofing it......
Maybe the folks in charge should stop using Coke products, not the kind measured in ounces or milliliters but the kind measured in grams.
An attempt to bring one of the buildings down had already been attempted; seismological readings would have shown the potential energy of the buildings turning into kinetic energy at the point of structural failure; the structural failure is what caused the fall(s) Structural failure caused by the intense heat of the buildings superstructure being coated with burning jet fuel.
to get the same effect with explosives you would need to have access to the superstructure and a material like thermite to create the heat required to cause the failure. The twin towers fell as a direct result, the rest fell as a result of secondary damage or as you've suggested the decision that salvage would not be a viable option.
None of this really matters for the the point that I was trying to make. To simplify.
Take away the guns and knives will be used, take away explosives and JP8 will be used. Controlling rocket fuel will not prevent terrorists from doing what they do; metal shavings and pool chemicals can be just as dangerous and a bit less suspicious. All controlling rocket fuel is going to do is dampen rocket hobbyists.
Funny thing, I already pay a monthly fee for file sharing, talk to my ISP.
Federal Safe Explosives act........
wait a second, *safe* explosives?
huh?
Hasn't the US Gov't seen any of the Dirty Harry movies?
When will RC cars and Aircraft be outlawed?
I seem to remember a scene in a movie where an RC car fitted with a bomb was used to explode a car.
When you take all of the things that could be used in violent acts away, people invent new methods (and generally more efficient) methods for doing the things you planned on preventing.
Case in point; it was too hard to get enough explosives to damage the WTC buildings, but highjack a couple of airplanes fueled to cross the continent and you have the means to do so.
Why not outlaw planes? why not require background checks to fly? I defer to George Carlin on this one, surely a large fist could be used to take control of a plane, will we have strength tests at the gates?
While I rattle on about how stupid we've become, why not just sedate all plane passengers with enough to keep them out cold for the duration of the flight? you fall asleep in the terminal and wake up at your destination? Heck, why not just sedate the entire population?
If you spend all of your time trying to prevent the things that could happen, nothing will happen and no progress will be made.
End of silly rant.
AK's aren't allowed, but name them something else, remove the bayonet and ship them with a 10 round clip and you have a 'hunting' rifle....... It's not an AK74, it just shoots the same round as one, officer.
Can't wait til the overclockers get ahold of you.
Body bus enabled Active X pronographic vibromatic undergarments will bring new and pleasurable levels to all your
pron needs.
Can't wait until the first bus fault.
How about linking multiple body buses in a free for all?
After Microsofts *successful* defence in the anti-trust suit it
appears as if they are on the attack again.
I recently had the chance to 'lunch' with a team of boiler room types on the topic of ' Interoperability, Integration, Extensibility'
subtitled 'Unix interoperability'
After enjoying a excellent meal at one of the better steak houses in town I began to notice that this 'meating' wasn't so much about working with Unix systems as it was about providing unix services from Windows servers; After being seeded with 'free' software (funny that, free tools just not free source) title:Windows Services for Unix 3.5 and looking closely I saw that they are now providing NFS, Syslog, NIS, DNS, Mail and a tool to 'port' your Unix 'legacy' (their words) apps to a modern OS.
What frightened me most was that my inclusion to this meeting was last minute and that my 'peers' didn't have a technical bone in em, they were all either Microsoft partners or middle to upper manglement types.
The last 'free' software I saw from Microsoft was IE, I wonder if this latest offering will have as profound an effect.
You can run a 450 off of 120 VAC, some were sold as 'workstations' My biggest concern isn't the power consumption, its the heat soak, a E450 is my idea of a winter basement heater; and they are *not* quiet by any standards.
Shopped long and hard for a digital SLR, have been a Canon
user for quite some time (S20, S40 G3) and when they
released the 300D and 10D I looked at both and purchased
the 300D based on its user interface, weight and appearance.
Why not photographic quality? After looking at RAW mode output from both models it was truly a toss up; I suspect that
a lot of 'pros' will by the 10D based on looks and price, magnesium body and its *black*. I personally have never been a fan of black cameras but thats taste. What I think in regards to this is that 500 saved on the body is 500 more I can spend on a lens, which I believe is where the real difference is made.
After using the 300D for a while a couple of things bothered me.
1. selected focal/metered locations as defaults, you can select them but it involved a trial and error and then a focal lock.
2. while using RAW mode a jpg is embedded in the image for preview and use. Being able to increase or decrease this would be great (flash savings or for comparison in processing).
3. Being able to change the settings of the flash comp.
After reading up on the firmware I found that it is truly 300D firmware with a few bits turned on, as I have a copy of the unaltered firmware this was a no brainer, I applied it; and began using the added 'features' right away. Do I have a 10D now?
not a chance, the 10D has a faster shutter, more cache for burst (I can take 4 rapid shots, the 10D I think at least doubles this)
and a higher (directly adjustable) iso sensitivity (3200, to get this on the 300D you would have to set exposure adjust +1)
But I do have the features that I was missing (mirror lock, 1/3 stop adjust, etc). And after proving to several of my friends that this doesn't cook the camera they have done the same.
JMHO, YMMV
Pate LaBelle?
A music store or french liver?
Having played a bit of paintball I can say if the velocity is cranked up and can (and has) puntured skin.
Tear gas paintballs already exist (heh) but I always thought it would be cool if traffic cops could tag your car with a paintball transponder...... blow through a speed trap? why chase em?
mark em and wait for them to stop either because they thought they got away or because they've realized the car is marked.
OR maybe you could use them to deliver a russian style sleeping gas..... (just don't drop em) its easy to get a paintball into a window..
You could crank the gas up and fire a wooden dowel (sharpened no doubt).
just rambling but this is pretty cool and paintball guns have gone a long way from the 'marking trees for forestry' beginning.
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.................
Apple had a relatively new look and feel in the personal
computer arena.
Microsoft said hey, we should license this.
Apple said OK, license it for Windows 286 and/or 2.0 and
continued to develop the interface.
Apple continued to develop the interface while Microsoft
continued to develop the interface to DOS.
Apple made great strides in the gui department while Microsoft
continued to develop a new version of Windows with these
unlicensed enhancements.
Apple cried foul, Microsoft released Windows 3.
Apple sued.
Why are the patenting this? its new and they would like to implement it in their products without concern or loss in R&D
as it is quite clear that Microsoft has no problems rolling innovation into their products, problem is it isn't their innovation.
JMHO and some will take this as flame bait but as long as the software model is 'we charge you to use this';
for profit businesses need some form of remedy to protect themselves from the Microsofts of this planet.
Ethics aside I think that a anti-virus virus would have to play
on the actions that allowed the original virus to spread;
blood transfusions, accidental exposure and wildly unprotected sex. I would also think that before releasing something like this in the wild they should find some method to make it possible to remove the anti-virus-virus from the host. The parallels between this kind of treatment/ethics/risk and releasing an self patching exploits worms/virus/trojans is interesting.
I fall back to a punchline from a comedian; you put your d!ck
in and the sh!t blows up..........
So......
Apple and Microsoft are both big corp. entities;
as such the downplaying of security issues would be expected.
This strongly biased end user and multi platform support professional would like ad his 10 cents worth.
1. Apple and Microsoft both have services with discovered and
yet undiscovered flaws.
2. Apple and Microsoft both release security patches to address those flaws typically when *discovered*.
3. Apple tends to patch these flaws *before* they become a
problem for the end user base, discovery is typically done by the open source community on which many of these flaws were inherited.
4. Microsoft tends to patch these flaws after the end user base
has brought the problems to their attention, discovery is typically done by the end user base under extremely painful conditions.
5. Apple and Microsoft both have mechinisms for priv. separation, both suggest using them, only one really practices this at installation time (you guess).
6. Apple tends to use defaults that reduce system risk while increasing end user ease of use (sometimes this leads to potential damage).
7. Microsoft tends to use defaults that are historical in nature
while increasing system ease of use (scripting host, macros, com and wins?) but also tend to expose the end user in methods not easily understood by that end user.
Where am I going with this? this article is obviously a troll.
When asked about platform preference I suggest using the tool that is right at the time and place of need.
i.e. no money? linux and x86
i.e. money? modern mac hardware and OS X
i.e. you paying my bills? Solaris/Sparc Windows/X86
again, biased but hey!
I was thinking along the lines of a lawsuit against SCO for selling me the right to use something they didn't have the right to sell. :)