Raising fines is meaningless without enforcement. In Singapore, people understand fines because people are caught. Getting punished for online piracy is like getting bit by a shark. People still swim in the ocean because they know that the probability of a shark attack is virtually non-existant.
Ack! Slashdot garbled up my post! Let me try posting this again.
This hack converts the Google search field in Safari into a YubNub search/command line field.
The hack: Close Safari. Open this file in a hex editor such as HexEdit, or open it in vi if you know how to use vi:/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
If you want, create a backup of this file just in case. In this file, replace the ASCII string: ttp://%@.google.com/%@?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
with this ASCII string: ttp://%@%@@yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=%@
For this hack I used this hint. What it does is it replaces a url with another url of same length, so that the binary's length is unchanged. There are three %@'s. They are replaced with "www", "search", and the search term. We only want the search term, so we put an at mark between the first two terms and the domain name, which results in everything before the at mark being ignored.
Right, 480Mbps = 60 MB/s (b = bit, B = byte = 8 bits). I was only speaking in terms of megabytes/s instead of megabits/s because the previous post's parent seemed to be using that unit. I still don't have a clue what the difference is between what you call a "real" USB HD versus the USB HDs that I was referring to. Maynard's posted specs for his old thumbdrive is probably going to be inferior to a what would be used in a flash drive laptop should they ever be delivered in the future, so nothing conclusive can be said about the future of flash drive laptops just by the specs of usb thumbdrives.
The thing about iPod speeds that I thought was interesting is that people often raise the topic of speed when talking about Apple dropping their default support for FireWire. From what I can tell from my iPod mini, at least, the speeds are pretty much identically slow compared to what both connection types are maximally capable of.
We're assuming that there is no traffic congestion since a good speed test is measuring the best speed possible without sharing bandwidth with other hardware. My flash drive does transfers at less than 1 MB/s, which is no where near the 60 MB/s USB 2.0 speed limit. It's not USB's fault that my USB HD can do circles around it.
I have Lexar JumpDrive Secure (older edition) which transfers at 0.87 MB/s. A generic CompactFlash card I have also reads and writes at pretty much the same speed. This is slower than 11.54 MB/s I get for my external 3.5" HDD in a USB 2.0 enclosure, and 3.92 MB/s for 4GB iPod mini (first gen). These were tested with a 100MB file of random data. Tested on an 800 Mhz iBook G4. For my tests I did date ; cp source dest ; date and looked at the time difference. The ars review show drastically faster speeds, though. Maybe it's newer technology.
And my iPod mini HD is even slower than your thumb drive.:-) About 3.5 MB/s for upload and download to the mounted drive.
And regarding the grandparent post, no USB 2.0 is not the bottle neck because external drives that people make are nowhere near the USB 2.0 speed limit of 60 MB/s.
I prefer AppleWorks for my office suite, which comes free with new Macs.. yes, it's an outdated office suite, but it works, it's more responsive and loads much faster than NeoOffice/J.
iWork is $79, Mac MS Office is $399. If one was choosing between these two, I would recommend the iWork not just because of pricing but because of the vendor: Apple is more likely to care about their own users while MS has potential to drop their product quality because Mac users aren't as important to MS than they are to Apple. Microsoft has already started to pull away from Microsoft Windows Media Player for OS X (currently lacks AVI, MPEG, MP3 support, playlist, drag-n-drop support, displayal of filename during playback, doesn't stop screensavers from running during video playback, etc.). MS has also announced that they've stopped development for Internet Explorer for Mac. The few people that still use IE for Mac probably do so because they've grown accustomed to it from the times before Mozilla + Safari, or because of the Microsoft brand name. I think people need to stop thinking that the Microsoft brand is the best choice, especially on the Mac platform which competes with Windows for marketshare.
This hack converts the Google search field built in to Safari into a YubNub search/"command line" field.
Close Safari. Open this file in a hex editor such as HexEdit, or open it in vi if you know how to use vi:/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Simply put, the ACLU does not attack speech simply for being Christian.
The ACLU may have attacked unconstitutional speech or action that happened to be Christian in nature, but in that case the action would be under criticism not because it is Christian but because it is unconstitutional. Contrarily, in this case they are defending speech under attack by Christians.
Is it me or are Japanese the only ones creating fucked up anime-ish characters for kids?
You have to take into consideration that the cartoon/animation market is much larger in Japan, and there are different cartoons made for different demographics. Just because one Japanese manga/anime you've seen is "fucked up" doesn't mean that work targeted children. There are age restrictions in Japan as well on sale of creative works.
In comparison to Japan, the US cartoon/animation market seems stagnant. I can't explain completely why this is the case. Japan however is a train society, and many buy cheap weekly manga magazines at train stations for their commute. A competitive manga magazine market could have caused greater advancement there. I'm sure with more competition there's greater tendency to lean towards sex and violence as well. In the US, Nickelodeon dominated TV animation, Disney dominated the movie theaters with very little competition to the point that nickelodeon was for a long time running just decades old animation (bugs bunny, road runner, etc) instead of creating new ones.
The Kanto region of Japan had a large, cheap labor force of part-time housewives to work on drawing animation cells to help the industry in the earlier days. Nowadays animation often incorporates CG so this is a less significant factor, however.
I've never used a CueCat, but I think a barcode scanner that works with my Mac (hence PS/2 CueCats are no good... ) would be great for selling off a bunch of used books i have online.
People who are selling "broken" iPods might be selling "broken, but possibly fixable" iPods. I think that the possibly fixable iPods don't really have to be recycled, so we're talking about a different ballpark here.
Either that or maybe eBay is just a terrible ripoff for buyers of broken iPods.
Piracy definately hurts sales in a very real way, though. When I went to a CD store, my friends ask me "you're going to buy that?" and they reminde me that this CD and others are available for free download. When I went to a bookstore in Japan and checked out the cartoon section, I was shocked to discover just how much of the titles on the bookshelf were ones I've also seen listed on piracy related websites.
With P2P piracy, consumers can spend more time on freely downloadable material than spending more cash for legitimate goods. Most downloaders find the copyright law to be of little deterrence and also tend to care less about paying for non-pirated equivalents. What people who paint the RIAA against artists fail to grasp is that artists sign up with RIAA labels on their own free will.
Yeah, because companies that market products towards developing countries will suddenly go insane and abandon CRTs - oh wait, this article was about an ad for the submitter's company.
If you were knowingly running a program that could potentially upload copyright-restricted content, and then your program made such an upload, then you are no more innocent than without the anonymizing layer. Even if you may not have a copy of the content on your HD, you made the upload, and the upload could get you in trouble.
An anonymous network supporter mumbles something about circumventing Chinese internet censorship, but you are still knowingly doing something that can aide illegal activity, which, like terrorism, is something that is wrong even if you care to slap on some ideology or political cause behind it, because it damages copyright. The pretend ignorance is the type of logic used at offshore banks, and anonimizing networks that inherently use this type of logic could likely come under legal trouble.
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Raising fines is meaningless without enforcement. In Singapore, people understand fines because people are caught. Getting punished for online piracy is like getting bit by a shark. People still swim in the ocean because they know that the probability of a shark attack is virtually non-existant.
http://play.aelitis.com/torrents/eclipse-SDK-3.1-w in32.zip.torrent
m acosx-carbon.tar.gz.torrent
http://play.aelitis.com/torrents/eclipse-SDK-3.1-
I don't know why the eclipse team (and other organizations) don't just make their own torrents. Hosting Firefox probably isn't cheap.
Ack! Slashdot garbled up my post! Let me try posting this again.
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
This hack converts the Google search field in Safari into a YubNub search/command line field.
The hack:
Close Safari. Open this file in a hex editor such as HexEdit, or open it in vi if you know how to use vi:
If you want, create a backup of this file just in case. In this file, replace the ASCII string:
ttp://%@.google.com/%@?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
with this ASCII string:
ttp://%@%@@yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=%@
For this hack I used this hint. What it does is it replaces a url with another url of same length, so that the binary's length is unchanged. There are three %@'s. They are replaced with "www", "search", and the search term. We only want the search term, so we put an at mark between the first two terms and the domain name, which results in everything before the at mark being ignored.
Right, 480Mbps = 60 MB/s (b = bit, B = byte = 8 bits). I was only speaking in terms of megabytes/s instead of megabits/s because the previous post's parent seemed to be using that unit. I still don't have a clue what the difference is between what you call a "real" USB HD versus the USB HDs that I was referring to. Maynard's posted specs for his old thumbdrive is probably going to be inferior to a what would be used in a flash drive laptop should they ever be delivered in the future, so nothing conclusive can be said about the future of flash drive laptops just by the specs of usb thumbdrives.
The thing about iPod speeds that I thought was interesting is that people often raise the topic of speed when talking about Apple dropping their default support for FireWire. From what I can tell from my iPod mini, at least, the speeds are pretty much identically slow compared to what both connection types are maximally capable of.
cool, thanks
We're assuming that there is no traffic congestion since a good speed test is measuring the best speed possible without sharing bandwidth with other hardware. My flash drive does transfers at less than 1 MB/s, which is no where near the 60 MB/s USB 2.0 speed limit. It's not USB's fault that my USB HD can do circles around it.
I have Lexar JumpDrive Secure (older edition) which transfers at 0.87 MB/s. A generic CompactFlash card I have also reads and writes at pretty much the same speed. This is slower than 11.54 MB/s I get for my external 3.5" HDD in a USB 2.0 enclosure, and 3.92 MB/s for 4GB iPod mini (first gen). These were tested with a 100MB file of random data. Tested on an 800 Mhz iBook G4. For my tests I did date ; cp source dest ; date and looked at the time difference. The ars review show drastically faster speeds, though. Maybe it's newer technology.
That's like comparing a tricycle on a city street with one on a highway. Just because the speed limit is higher doesn't make it any faster.
And my iPod mini HD is even slower than your thumb drive. :-)
About 3.5 MB/s for upload and download to the mounted drive.
And regarding the grandparent post, no USB 2.0 is not the bottle neck because external drives that people make are nowhere near the USB 2.0 speed limit of 60 MB/s.
I prefer AppleWorks for my office suite, which comes free with new Macs .. yes, it's an outdated office suite, but it works, it's more responsive and loads much faster than NeoOffice/J.
iWork is $79, Mac MS Office is $399. If one was choosing between these two, I would recommend the iWork not just because of pricing but because of the vendor: Apple is more likely to care about their own users while MS has potential to drop their product quality because Mac users aren't as important to MS than they are to Apple. Microsoft has already started to pull away from Microsoft Windows Media Player for OS X (currently lacks AVI, MPEG, MP3 support, playlist, drag-n-drop support, displayal of filename during playback, doesn't stop screensavers from running during video playback, etc.). MS has also announced that they've stopped development for Internet Explorer for Mac. The few people that still use IE for Mac probably do so because they've grown accustomed to it from the times before Mozilla + Safari, or because of the Microsoft brand name. I think people need to stop thinking that the Microsoft brand is the best choice, especially on the Mac platform which competes with Windows for marketshare.
Jabba the Hutt, is that you?
This hack converts the Google search field built in to Safari into a YubNub search/"command line" field.
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Close Safari. Open this file in a hex editor such as HexEdit, or open it in vi if you know how to use vi:
after creating backup of the file for just-in-case, replace the ASCII string:
http://.google.com/%25@?q=%25@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
with this ASCII string:
http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=%25@
For this hack I used this hint.
He became CEO of the telecommunications company NTT DoCoMo in 1998.
Simply put, the ACLU does not attack speech simply for being Christian.
The ACLU may have attacked unconstitutional speech or action that happened to be Christian in nature, but in that case the action would be under criticism not because it is Christian but because it is unconstitutional. Contrarily, in this case they are defending speech under attack by Christians.
Is it me or are Japanese the only ones creating fucked up anime-ish characters for kids?
You have to take into consideration that the cartoon/animation market is much larger in Japan, and there are different cartoons made for different demographics. Just because one Japanese manga/anime you've seen is "fucked up" doesn't mean that work targeted children. There are age restrictions in Japan as well on sale of creative works.
In comparison to Japan, the US cartoon/animation market seems stagnant. I can't explain completely why this is the case. Japan however is a train society, and many buy cheap weekly manga magazines at train stations for their commute. A competitive manga magazine market could have caused greater advancement there. I'm sure with more competition there's greater tendency to lean towards sex and violence as well. In the US, Nickelodeon dominated TV animation, Disney dominated the movie theaters with very little competition to the point that nickelodeon was for a long time running just decades old animation (bugs bunny, road runner, etc) instead of creating new ones.
The Kanto region of Japan had a large, cheap labor force of part-time housewives to work on drawing animation cells to help the industry in the earlier days. Nowadays animation often incorporates CG so this is a less significant factor, however.
I've never used a CueCat, but I think a barcode scanner that works with my Mac (hence PS/2 CueCats are no good... ) would be great for selling off a bunch of used books i have online.
IF you type http://gmail.google.com/ you get forwarded to an https address anyway so your password is always secure.
By the way Japan's neighbour South Korea has a tougher liters-per-flush regulation.
People who are selling "broken" iPods might be selling "broken, but possibly fixable" iPods. I think that the possibly fixable iPods don't really have to be recycled, so we're talking about a different ballpark here.
Either that or maybe eBay is just a terrible ripoff for buyers of broken iPods.
Piracy definately hurts sales in a very real way, though. When I went to a CD store, my friends ask me "you're going to buy that?" and they reminde me that this CD and others are available for free download. When I went to a bookstore in Japan and checked out the cartoon section, I was shocked to discover just how much of the titles on the bookshelf were ones I've also seen listed on piracy related websites.
With P2P piracy, consumers can spend more time on freely downloadable material than spending more cash for legitimate goods. Most downloaders find the copyright law to be of little deterrence and also tend to care less about paying for non-pirated equivalents. What people who paint the RIAA against artists fail to grasp is that artists sign up with RIAA labels on their own free will.
Yeah, because companies that market products towards developing countries will suddenly go insane and abandon CRTs - oh wait, this article was about an ad for the submitter's company.
If you were knowingly running a program that could potentially upload copyright-restricted content, and then your program made such an upload, then you are no more innocent than without the anonymizing layer. Even if you may not have a copy of the content on your HD, you made the upload, and the upload could get you in trouble.
An anonymous network supporter mumbles something about circumventing Chinese internet censorship, but you are still knowingly doing something that can aide illegal activity, which, like terrorism, is something that is wrong even if you care to slap on some ideology or political cause behind it, because it damages copyright. The pretend ignorance is the type of logic used at offshore banks, and anonimizing networks that inherently use this type of logic could likely come under legal trouble.
I think Bit Torrent is here to stay. The most useful new features from Rodi (like IP anonimity) will eventually be implemented in Bit Torrent.
Azureus BitTorrent Client uses an I2P anonymizing layer so progress seems to be made on non-official clients.
This reminds me of the time I got my cool wireless optical and my cool transparent table, and the two coolnesses just cancelled each other out.
Also it seems like shift-click == new window for FireFox mac.