Well, if the license states one copy of the software running on one Apple made PC (I am using a C2D 17 Macbook right this moment) why not boot into XP (Bootcamp) load up VMWare or Parallels and create a VM running OSX ? This scenario is plausible, funny thing about it though, once the VM is made the where and how its ran legally is up to the end user.
one smalll hiccup with this plan for us in the US, Apple encrypts a few of the OS binaries and decoding them outside of Apples scheme would seem to be a violation of the some really stupid US copyright law as you would be circumventing a 'digital' protection, any emulator that copies this process without Apples consent might be in some trouble. I for one as a long time Apple customer would love to see more folks using the OS even it its in a VM, it will certainly run better on the real deal but it might still the the fence sitters a chance to play without a substantial investment.
I remember hearing warnings about having transmitters near my explosives, something about accidentally triggering professional grade gear; Exposing high strength radio waves to homemade devices might result in detection by detonation.......
I was fortunate enough to get my 17" C2D laptop as a warranty replacement for what was nearly a 3 year old 17" PB G4, so on one hand I am a very happy customer.
I was pleasantly surprised when I loaded bootcamp and found out that I could load DLink N drivers and use the fully functional N-draft card.
After using it for a bit I noticed a few problems with accessing my Airport Express; software update offered this:
I bit, ran the updater and didn't think much of it until I booted natively into my Windows environment, dude, wheres my N-spec card? the D-link drivers no longer seem to work, remove and reinstall fails but using the Apple (bootcamp) provided driver works.
Sell the laptops with enabled cards cause your in a hurry to get them to market knowing that the N functionality requires drivers, discover that your users have figured it out, disable the N functionality in firmware with an *update* (Dec 13) wait a month and offer an *upgrade*
It bothers me a bit, but only because it seemed to work previously and they disabled it; $5 is cheaper then buying an N spec card and replacing the one that came with it but I am pretty certain that Apple paid full price for the cards that went in to this laptop and they've realized full profit from those that bought them.
So what gives? This logic suggests that every *new* feature in software should be paid for or its illegal, firmware *is* software.
as a pathological consumer of headphones..... I have tried numerous headsets; I have favorite pair for movie watching (Sony MDR-F1) in queit settings. I have a favorite pair for movie watching and music (Bose triport) in noisy (office, school) settings. I have a favorite pair for music listening (Grado 325i) in queit settings I have a favorite pair for short periods of time in planes and data centers (Shure E2C). I have a favorite pair for LONG periods of time in planes and data centers (Bose QC2's).
I have the Shure E2C's and like them but I suspect that the poster is trying to avoid inner ear insertion, fit can be a problem and something as simple as a yawn can reduce these to 0 reduction, as they are passive and great souding I would suggest these *with* professional fitting, you can get molded earplugs to match.
Another poster noted that data center noise is higher up on the freq scale then say aircraft, and my experience is the same.
The Bose QC2's that I bought for plane use render jet drone into something more like light wind noise, that being said, the QC2's make both jet and data center noise quite barable and they live up to the 'comfort' part of their name, extended wear isn't a problem, these cans are far from perfect though, initially I noticed a slight sensation of 'pressure' while wearing them and the new QC3's are even more so noticable, because they are always active there is a bit of hiss added and you can't turn it off (some cheaper sets allow passive use of the phones, good for silent and/or dead battery scenarios, fortunately battery life is over 30 hours; think back to dolby C on tape, its subtle but its there) and this makes these headphones annoying in silent situations. Its a lot of money to spend (300 USD) on headphones that should cost closer to 125-150 range but they do work well. If you spend more then 2 eight hours shifts a week in a DC I wouldn't think twice, if you don't, look at the shures and/or good plugs.
Really, an unpaid music tax, can't wait for the first case against the RIAA where the defendant is a Zune holding customer; your honor, they all but condoned it and most certainly were compansanted well before my 'crimes' were commited. They tried this crap with blank CD's, hard drives (what exactly do you need a TB of spinning disk for anyway?)....
How about paying a small tax on the case of bullets I just bought, pretty sure I'll find something to shoot at and moving targets are so much more fun.
working in a 'large' corp. network I can say that some skype functionality is blocked, some is not, I can dial out but IM doesn't seem to work; the behaviour is random but would suggest someone is trying to block it, just not able to do so all the time.
blocking the 'ports' might not be so simple, it can/does use web proxy ports quite well and I can fully see why some would consider it a risk.
its a great product but its allure is certainly that it does work where others are blocked......
If the FBI shows up looking for kiddie porn and you've got it I suspect they're not worried about the anonymous individuals who might have got their attention from your free WAP.
In other words, if you've got an open WAP and there isn't any evidence on your systems you have little to fear and a lesson learned, freedom comes at a price;
my WAP is open, it is linked to a multi-homed router that can tell the difference between my systems and others, my wireless systems can see my other home systems the rest are given a QOS restraint that is no more than 20% of my bandwidth, casual users have little care, bandwidth hogs need to look elsewhere.
As a Colorado resident I am kind of upset about the waste of taxpayer funds, it isn't illegal to leave a WAP open...... they're wardriving and its ok? Are they working with the ISP to track to IP? Is the ISP giving away customer information without a warrant?
unsecured base stations/routers are one thing, free access is another.
On another note, the three Police officers within range of my WAP are quite happy its open.
having a good single chip water cooling system and moving to a dual chip (each being a dual core opteron) I had somewhat the same quetion.
I previously cooled my cpu and graphics card (both 25% overclocked) but because of an initial lack of funding went back to air cooled and modest (10%) overclock.
Anyone tackled with with a single pump/radiator solution?
I've been using P2P networks for my backups, I simply share all of my files out and when I need to recover them, or I am away from home I use the same P2P software to search for them.
I need very little local storage and people really seem willing to share the burden of backing up my music and pr0n.
Seriously though, an affordable SOHO backup solution would be nice, the media to backup one of my 250 GB HD's cost more then the 250 GB HD...
so lets hope this generates results that the non-enterprise user can benefit from, not likely but...
When folks feel that its ok to steal because they don't believe in a way a company does business that company will be forced to take countermeasures.
I recall a few threads back an article linked to benchmarking the new Apple laptops, a dell running a hacked (read, stolen, a DVD image most likely DL'd from any number of sites) copy of OS X was used as an example, this is both unfair to Dell (who I hate) and Apple (who I happen to like) the OS was configured to run properly on Apple hardware and by luck ran well enough on the Dell to run some basic benchmarks.
Apple has been submitting a large amount of code for nearly all of the OS that runs underneath their closed GUI (always has been closed) and this policy is sound for a company that attempts to make a profit, if it threatened their business model they would be foolish to release it and in the case of the gui it would threaten it to have others build the gui on linux or solaris or aix. Apple continues to submit source for items that do not compromise their business model, previous to the x86 move Apple had little concern regarding their OS/look/feel appearing on anything but Apple controlled hardware, it could be done (MOL as an example) but this was always out of the reach of the general population. With the move to x86 they have to rely on DRM (hate that too) to ensure that their profit (they're a hardware company?) continues as their OS is really only sold as an upgrade (not a full version like the folks from Redmond sell) and on the condition that you are running it in the environment for which it was designed (read the shrinkwrap license, which I also hate).
I would imagine that the module(s) for TPM are very cleanly written and very easy to defeat given a little effort and a recompile, if you've looked at any of the code Apple has released you'll know this to be true, with little to stop them we could be seeing HK and/or Chinese Macs (really they are already, almost all manufactured PC's are) rolling in for a bit less then Apple could afford to profit from.
As an open source advocate I am saddened to see this, as a stockholder I am quite happy.
The same hard core gamers that would buy not one but two high end graphics cards, each costing nearly as much as the PS3 into placing them into one machine to play games balk at the price? People complained about the pricing of the PS2 which in my estimation still hasn't seen its full potential. They'll complain about the PS3, some will buy it, some will wait. Sony knows this, the PS3 has a whole lot more in it and will likely be able to adopt to whatever playing style evolves for a good time to come, although dated now the PS2 has weathered the original xbox, gamecube well, it is still an entertaining platform and I am sure the PS3 will continue that tradition.
If you can't afford it, don't buy it, they'll drop the price eventually.
Put those aol discs to use, grab a few 'free' discs, grab a fedex flat rate mailer and donate the postage amount to the cause, if we all do this they're going to need a whole bunch of dogs and a whole lot of customs inspectors.
If the MPAA/RIAA had its way they would be checking data at the airport, much like a currency needs to be declared now if your carrying a lot of it.
I travel quite a bit via Airplane with are a relatively large amount of data (a little over a TB) the majority of which is legitimate but would certainly appear to be bootleg (OS disc images, multiple virtual machines, music and video that I have transcoded from media that I have purchased, etc.)
Its already a lot of fun with TSA looking, looking and looking some more but imagine having to have your data examined; encrypt it and your a crook, leave it unprotected and your a fool, either way you know they would love to see it. Paranoid? maybe but this is really getting out of hand.
My experience with Windows and VM scenarios is that it runs better in VM then in real life; mom and pop might not notice this but I should hope those that are savvy enough to understand what Microsoft is proposing as a 'threat' would also be savvy enough to notice the little things that make VM still a pain. examples:
I bought 4 GB of ram and a 400 GB drive, now I have 1 GB and 150 GB drive (with 250 GB overhead for mail and porn). My Ultra-Monkey quad SLI Nvidia 9999 video card with 1 GB of ram now shows up as a 16 MB S3 Virge card, WTF? My Comcastic experience is now more like my old netcom dial up account but the cable modems lights are busy.
Its really good to see Microsoft concerned about security, but I hope they will stop looking at how elaborate the hacks could be and focus more on why this crap can be done in the first place.....
In, Pulse high energy weapons grade lasers out of the telescope to 'clear' a path to see, if they're strong enough birds, planes and satellites be damned.
seriously, this is more the sky is falling crap, shifting weather patterns will render some locations unusable while others might become better, this has been a problem for locations such as Palomar, when it occurs they retask and/or devise a new technical method around the clutter.
I can tell you from first hand experience that amatuer astronomers will travel to great lengths to get better seeing conditions.
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coat my car with this..... no reflection, no return, lidar that....... :)
Well,
if the license states one copy of the software running on one Apple made PC (I am using a C2D 17 Macbook right this moment) why not
boot into XP (Bootcamp) load up VMWare or Parallels and create a VM running OSX ? This scenario is plausible, funny thing about it though,
once the VM is made the where and how its ran legally is up to the end user.
one smalll hiccup with this plan for us in the US, Apple encrypts a few of the OS binaries and decoding them outside of Apples scheme would seem to be a
violation of the some really stupid US copyright law as you would be circumventing a 'digital' protection, any emulator that copies this process without
Apples consent might be in some trouble. I for one as a long time Apple customer would love to see more folks using the OS even it its in a VM, it will certainly
run better on the real deal but it might still the the fence sitters a chance to play without a substantial investment.
I remember hearing warnings about having transmitters near my explosives, something about accidentally triggering professional grade gear;
Exposing high strength radio waves to homemade devices might result in detection by detonation.......
I was fortunate enough to get my 17" C2D laptop as a warranty replacement for what was nearly a 3 year old 17" PB G4, so on one hand I am a very happy customer.
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I was pleasantly surprised when I loaded bootcamp and found out that I could load DLink N drivers and use the fully functional N-draft card.
After using it for a bit I noticed a few problems with accessing my Airport Express; software update offered this:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportupd
I bit, ran the updater and didn't think much of it until I booted natively into my Windows environment, dude, wheres my N-spec card? the D-link drivers
no longer seem to work, remove and reinstall fails but using the Apple (bootcamp) provided driver works.
Sell the laptops with enabled cards cause your in a hurry to get them to market knowing that the N functionality requires drivers, discover that your users have figured
it out, disable the N functionality in firmware with an *update* (Dec 13) wait a month and offer an *upgrade*
It bothers me a bit, but only because it seemed to work previously and they disabled it; $5 is cheaper then buying an N spec card and replacing the
one that came with it but I am pretty certain that Apple paid full price for the cards that went in to this laptop and they've realized full profit from those that bought them.
So what gives? This logic suggests that every *new* feature in software should be paid for or its illegal, firmware *is* software.
as a pathological consumer of headphones.....
I have tried numerous headsets;
I have favorite pair for movie watching (Sony MDR-F1) in queit settings.
I have a favorite pair for movie watching and music (Bose triport) in noisy (office, school) settings.
I have a favorite pair for music listening (Grado 325i) in queit settings
I have a favorite pair for short periods of time in planes and data centers (Shure E2C).
I have a favorite pair for LONG periods of time in planes and data centers (Bose QC2's).
I have the Shure E2C's and like them but I suspect that the poster is trying to avoid inner ear insertion, fit can be a problem
and something as simple as a yawn can reduce these to 0 reduction, as they are passive and great souding I would suggest
these *with* professional fitting, you can get molded earplugs to match.
Another poster noted that data center noise is higher up on the freq scale then say aircraft, and my experience
is the same.
The Bose QC2's that I bought for plane use render jet drone into something more like light wind noise,
that being said, the QC2's make both jet and data center noise quite barable and they live up to the 'comfort' part
of their name, extended wear isn't a problem, these cans are far from perfect though, initially I noticed a slight
sensation of 'pressure' while wearing them and the new QC3's are even more so noticable, because they are always active
there is a bit of hiss added and you can't turn it off (some cheaper sets allow passive use of the phones, good for silent and/or dead
battery scenarios, fortunately battery life is over 30 hours; think back to dolby C on tape, its subtle but its there) and this makes
these headphones annoying in silent situations. Its a lot of money to spend (300 USD) on headphones that should cost
closer to 125-150 range but they do work well. If you spend more then 2 eight hours shifts a week in a DC I wouldn't think
twice, if you don't, look at the shures and/or good plugs.
opinions for sure.
Really, an unpaid music tax, can't wait for the first case against the RIAA where the defendant is a Zune holding customer; your honor, they all but condoned it and most certainly were compansanted well before my 'crimes' were commited. They tried this crap with blank CD's, hard drives (what exactly do you need a TB of spinning disk for anyway?)....
How about paying a small tax on the case of bullets I just bought, pretty sure I'll find something to shoot at and moving targets are so much more fun.
This does answer another question; Apparently Apple is doing well enough with growing its user base that Norton wants a piece of the pie....
I suppose this is their form of 'viral' marketing.
a surge in enrollments, it would seem that the warez-hunters have found a sanctioned way to collect britney speers albums.
I wonder if they're going to report on pr0n-sites.......
working in a 'large' corp. network I can say that some skype functionality is blocked, some is not, I can dial out but IM doesn't seem to work;
the behaviour is random but would suggest someone is trying to block it, just not able to do so all the time.
blocking the 'ports' might not be so simple, it can/does use web proxy ports quite well and I can fully see why some would consider it a risk.
its a great product but its allure is certainly that it does work where others are blocked......
just my 10 cents.
If the FBI shows up looking for kiddie porn and you've got it I suspect they're not worried about the anonymous individuals who might have got their attention from your free WAP.
In other words, if you've got an open WAP and there isn't any evidence on your systems you have little to fear and a lesson learned, freedom comes at a price;
my WAP is open, it is linked to a multi-homed router that can tell the difference between my systems and others, my wireless systems can see
my other home systems the rest are given a QOS restraint that is no more than 20% of my bandwidth, casual users have little
care, bandwidth hogs need to look elsewhere.
As a Colorado resident I am kind of upset about the waste of taxpayer funds, it isn't illegal to leave a WAP open...... they're wardriving and its ok?
Are they working with the ISP to track to IP? Is the ISP giving away customer information without a warrant?
unsecured base stations/routers are one thing, free access is another.
On another note, the three Police officers within range of my WAP are quite happy its open.
The war on citizens continues.
thanks, I get it, silly me I was thinking one beam.
First, I don't even pretend to understand physics, but have had a few bad experiences with gravity (3 story fall, fun, landing, bad).
which leads me to ask;
if your measuring from point A (emitter) to point B (receptor) and time/space is curved during the test by what we will presume to be
a gravity wave.
The straight (hah) line distance between the points might become shorter but the path followed by the laser should curve.
Timing this should result in the same time regardless of curvature much like light travelling in fiber optics?
Are they looking for shift in the wavelength of the laser ?
having a good single chip water cooling system and moving to a dual chip (each being a dual core opteron) I had somewhat the same quetion.
I previously cooled my cpu and graphics card (both 25% overclocked) but because of an initial lack of funding went back to air cooled and
modest (10%) overclock.
Anyone tackled with with a single pump/radiator solution?
thanks!
How exactly did the school find out about the blog?
are they monitoring the activities of their students inside and outside
of school grounds?
good articles.
I've been using P2P networks for my backups, I simply share all of my files out and when I need to recover them, or I am away from home I use the same P2P
software to search for them.
I need very little local storage and people really seem willing to share the burden of backing up my music and pr0n.
Seriously though, an affordable SOHO backup solution would be nice, the media to backup one of my 250 GB HD's cost more then the 250 GB HD...
so lets hope this generates results that the non-enterprise user can benefit from, not likely but...
When folks feel that its ok to steal because they don't believe in a way a company does business that company will be forced to take countermeasures.
I recall a few threads back an article linked to benchmarking the new Apple laptops, a dell running a hacked (read, stolen, a DVD image most likely DL'd from
any number of sites) copy of OS X was used as an example, this is both unfair to Dell (who I hate) and Apple (who I happen to like) the OS was configured to run properly on Apple hardware and by luck ran well enough on the Dell to run some basic benchmarks.
Apple has been submitting a large amount of code for nearly all of the OS that runs underneath their closed GUI (always has been closed) and this policy is sound for a company that attempts to make a profit, if it threatened their business model they would be foolish to release it and in the case of the gui it would threaten it to have others build the gui on linux or solaris or aix. Apple continues to submit source for items that do not compromise their business model, previous to the x86 move Apple had little concern regarding their OS/look/feel appearing on anything but Apple controlled hardware, it could be done (MOL as an example) but this was always out of the reach of the general population. With the move to x86 they have to rely on DRM (hate that too) to ensure that their profit (they're a hardware company?) continues as their OS is really only sold as an upgrade (not a full version like the folks from Redmond sell) and on the condition that you are running it in the environment for which it was designed (read the shrinkwrap license, which I also hate).
I would imagine that the module(s) for TPM are very cleanly written and very easy to defeat given a little effort and a recompile, if you've looked at any of the code Apple has released you'll know this to be true, with little to stop them we could be seeing HK and/or Chinese Macs (really they are already, almost all manufactured PC's are) rolling in for a bit less then Apple could afford to profit from.
As an open source advocate I am saddened to see this, as a stockholder I am quite happy.
The same hard core gamers that would buy not one but two high end graphics cards, each costing nearly as much as the PS3 into placing them into one machine to play games balk at the price? People complained about the pricing of the PS2 which in my estimation still hasn't seen its full potential. They'll complain about the PS3, some will buy it, some will wait. Sony knows this, the PS3 has a whole lot more in it and will likely be able to adopt to whatever playing style evolves for a good time to come, although dated now the PS2 has weathered the original xbox, gamecube well, it is still an entertaining platform and I am sure the PS3 will continue that tradition.
If you can't afford it, don't buy it, they'll drop the price eventually.
Put those aol discs to use, grab a few 'free' discs, grab a fedex flat rate mailer and donate the postage amount to the cause, if we all
do this they're going to need a whole bunch of dogs and a whole lot of customs inspectors.
If the MPAA/RIAA had its way they would be checking data at the airport, much like a currency needs to be declared now if your carrying a lot of it.
I travel quite a bit via Airplane with are a relatively large amount of data (a little over a TB) the majority of which is legitimate
but would certainly appear to be bootleg (OS disc images, multiple virtual machines, music and video that I have transcoded from media that I have purchased, etc.)
Its already a lot of fun with TSA looking, looking and looking some more but imagine having to have your data examined; encrypt it and your a crook, leave it unprotected and your a fool, either way you know they would love to see it. Paranoid? maybe but this is really getting out of hand.
1 in 10,000 something will hit it? what about it hitting something?
My experience with Windows and VM scenarios is that it runs better in VM then in real life; mom and pop might not notice this but I should hope those that are savvy enough to understand what Microsoft is proposing as a 'threat' would also be savvy enough to notice the little things that make VM still a pain.
examples:
I bought 4 GB of ram and a 400 GB drive, now I have 1 GB and 150 GB drive (with 250 GB overhead for mail and porn).
My Ultra-Monkey quad SLI Nvidia 9999 video card with 1 GB of ram now shows up as a 16 MB S3 Virge card, WTF?
My Comcastic experience is now more like my old netcom dial up account but the cable modems lights are busy.
Its really good to see Microsoft concerned about security, but I hope they will stop looking at how elaborate the hacks could be and focus more on why this crap
can be done in the first place.....
In,
Pulse high energy weapons grade lasers out of the telescope to 'clear' a path to see, if they're strong enough birds, planes and satellites be damned.
seriously, this is more the sky is falling crap, shifting weather patterns will render some locations unusable while others might become better,
this has been a problem for locations such as Palomar, when it occurs they retask and/or devise a new technical method around the clutter.
I can tell you from first hand experience that amatuer astronomers will travel to great lengths to get better seeing conditions.
or Phor!
no one can hear you scream, four......