A condom? Really?
Wow. I had no idea that a simple condom could filter out the HIV in infected blood, or prevent HIV being passed from mother to child in-utero.
Just wanted to make a point about one of my pet hates; that is, americans always putting a country's name after the place name. E.G. Paris, France, or Rome, Italy, as if there was another more famous populous Rome or Paris somewhere. I suspect the tradition started as a result of american isolationist tendency's meaning a majority of americans didn't actually know where Paris was (as opposed to Paris in Louisiana) , but regardless, it sure is annoying and condescending as hell. Especially since I, along with the rest-of-the-world do things slightly more sensibly. Where two or more places are named the same, we generally call the largest and/or most populous/famous one by just its name, then any other instance of it by its name followed by geographic designation. For example, Cambridge is in southern England. There's also another Cambridge in the USA. But, even though Cambridge MA is about the same size as Cambridge, England, and, likewise has one of the worlds great learning seats (Harvard and MIT), Cambridge on its own refers to the one in England, whereas Cambridge Mass. is how one refers to the home of Harvard.
Heh, I'm 24. As a teenager, rather than hanging around shops, I was in the air cadets (think you have similar things in the USA), and spent many a fine Saturday (and even more wet windy horrible ones) firing off a few hundred rounds of 5.56mm at the range; sometimes semi-auto, occasionally fully auto. Because I was young, stupid and convinced, like all youth, that I was in every way invincible, I had, at best, a laissez faire attitude towards ear defenders. Even worse, we used to play around with flares (proper ones, not the wee nancy ones the yacht crowd have) and even mortars on occasion. I can still hear well into the 25KHz range (I know, I'm a freak). I used to be able to hear around 27-28KHz, which apparently is extremely rare. Can't anymore. I fail to see why I should be treated the same as the ned hooligans that annoy and bother me on the way into the shop. I can hear these annoying noises all too well. They hurt like hell even after only a second or so. I cannot imagine entering a shop that has one of these. If I find one here in Scotland, I shall brave the awful noise to go inside, ask (politely) to speak to the manager, and explain that I was going to give them my custom, but since they saw fit to try and torture me, I will not. And I'll mention the statistics that show over 40% of 30 year olds can hear these things.
Well, believe me when I say I am no where near qualified to speak on this level and be of any help to anyone, except maybe as comic relief.
That being said, the dude running these trials, one Dr. Gordon Dougal, is probably the best guy to contact in regards mixing your Optical Topography therapy with the 1072nm IR therapy he apparently specialises in. 1072 can apparently cause a whole range of GoodThings(TM) from age-restoration effects in the epidermis to significantly reduced healing times for treatment of the herpes simplex-2 virus in cold sores, genital herpes and skin herpes outbreaks. There's a paper on pubmed here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16046143&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum . Hope this is of some help to you....
I'd suggest e-mailing this guy and asking him about his project. Whilst he does run/partner a company that seems to be making a whole raft of devices for the treatment of cold-sores and age-restoration therapies, he nonetheless is working with University's on it, if only to provide accurate peer-accredited evidence to back up his devices claims. They really do appear to work. It seems it is definitely worth a trial run of building one of these helmet jobs using the LED's I mentioned above and trialing it on patients for possible effects. It's been shown time and time over that 1072nm (and those near to it) wavelength light has no detrimental effect on patients, as evidenced by the fact this guy's devices are licensed for usage now. It works for stimulating cell growth in the skin; why not the brain?
Heh, I'm hardly "enlightened", just have an interest in doing this (although little biochem knowledge, i'm better with technology than fleshies) and experience in buying IR diodes.
It is interesting however that whilst this Optical Topography they're talking about (even though it uses lower wavelengths of IR, typically around the 850nm~ band) isn't aimed at thereputic effects, it does seem to cause an increase in the levels of haemoglobin and oxyhaemoglobin in the brain, which in itself could be responsible for the memory effects noticed in the mice in this study.
Expensive but worth a shot. I've used that company before; their stuff is top notch, and for mid-ir led's, $20 a unit ain't bad. If you're buying a lot they give you discounts too, and if you call 'em up and ask for it, they can give you a specific reading on the 1072 wavelength it emits. I'm thinking of doing this myself if it gets proven correct.
Oh, and your google-fu is lacking, Sir, because a brief search of my normal LED suppliers gave me this:
http://www.roithner-laser.com/LED_diverse.htm which admittedly is 1070nm (2.5mW) nominal output rather than 1072nm. However, given that it's minimum is 1020 and it's maximum 1120 i'd say you're gonna be getting a fairly hefty amount of 1072nm light out of it. I notice they also do a high-power (like 150mW) LED panel which radiates at 1050nm (peak 1000~1100nm), which again isn't right on the money but is gonna give you enough to trial, given that they were talking about this clinical trial dosing patients with about the same amount of IR as regular sunlight.
Granted these diodes don't come cheap, with the quoted price for the 1070nm LED being about $20 each, which given the number you'd want could get pretty expensive. But then, what cost is health?
Granted it ain't easy to source the LED's, but they do exist; I know this purely from the fact that this study is using some of them. They didn't make them themselves, and that therefore means a company, somewhere, makes 1072nm IR LED's. Failing that, there is a pumped 1072nm laser for sale. Dunno how you could incorporate that into a treatment regimen, but it could be done, I'm sure.
You know, as harsh as the situation is, look up the details on this. There's nothing stopping you as a private person getting together some components and having a go yourself. Hell, document what you do and you may even help other sufferers as well. Make one of these helmets and give it a go. As you say, what harm is it going to do? It can't make him worse, can it?
It seems a fairly simple idea; no pulsing or signals are required, just a low level IR source in a head gear. So get some strong IR LED's, a bike helmet and cut a hole for some fans/heatsink and see how he does. Hope it works.
It's like believing that Star Wars is real (the movie, not the missile defense system...).
Hardly. It's true the L. Ron Hubbard was a sci-fi author. But he was no where near in the same league of writing skills as George Lucas. Star Wars might be a bit cheesy and corny. but it's watchable. We're talking about the pulp-rag guy that gave the world Battlefield Earth!! Do not compare the rabid dribblings of this self-confessed opium addict to the work of George Lucas!!
It doesn't "just" auto-sync changes. It works fully in tandem with Time Machine, part of Mac OS X 10.5. What this means is any changes you make to any file on the OS (or some part of it) are backed up periodically (you can tell it when to do it). OK, you're asking "how is this different to any other backup system?". What's different here is that OS X provides a simple (I cannot stress this word enough) easy-to-use GUI for the backup. You just hit the time-machine icon, and the current finder window (like a Windows Explorer window) pops up on screen, with a whole load of greyed out identical windows stretching back behind it in a cool space-time-warp kinda effect. You can then scroll back and forth through these windows that are, in effect, the current folder you're in, but going backwards in time through every backup that's ever been made of it. Then when you find the file/folder you were looking for 'cause like me, you're a pratt and deleted something you shouldn't have, you click on it, then hit the (big, pulsing) restore button. Once you've explained the basics of it to the average user, they never come bothering you again wanting help to back things up cause they just lost their term-paper/last month's accounting spreadsheet/photos of their new crotchfruit* (delete as necessary).
This new product is essentially just a wi-fi based hard-drive that links into the Time-Machine process, something that's ultra handy for laptop owners that don't have the separate hard-drive TM needs to do it's shit. Something I've been crying out for, since I constantly have to plug-in my macbook to an external firewire drive for TM to work, and I seem to lose a few files that I've created/edited then deleted before it's had a chance to archive them. If I had the spare cash I'd buy one of these for sure.
I originally posted this on The Register's comment field, but I'll repost here:
There really are a plethora of issues here. I'll address them in ascending order of relative importance:
1). So she's an animal rights activist. So what? What does that have to do with the application of a dodgy and imho illegal act? Sod all.
2). Not all animal rights activists (ARA from here on out 'cause I'm lazy) burn kiddies for breakfast, exhume grannies for lunch and tar/feather yuppies for dinner. How do you know what she's doe. Not even the filth know that yet. Hence this 'polite invitation'.
3). In my humble opinion, all life is sacred. No creatures should suffer unnecessarily. Food animals are understandably bred and slaughtered to keep people alive (although vegetation is more energy efficient). Standing by and watching whilst a company gets paid to torture defenceless animals is immoral. Doesn't matter if it's for food (foi gras), medical research, "fun" (aka hunting with dogs), because some yoofs get bored and fancy kicking a puppy to death. Doesn't matter. It's immoral. Claiming "oh, but it's all for the greater good" is the same kind of empty arguments the Nazi's used in WW2 to kill jews (They're not really human, and society is better without them), Stalin used to get rid of opponents (Society will be destroyed by these political anarchists) and the USA is currently using to kidnap, torture and murder various muslims (we need to protect america against terrorism; torture's ok as long as we do it overseas).
These arguments are easily seen as what they are; a pathetic excuse to quell the apathetic masses from rebelling against the barbaric and evil crimes of the powerful.
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The real meat of my post. That act. It too, is immoral. Really immoral. Hate to Godwin again here, but it's verging on the jews-aren't-really-people argument immoral. I think it's so immoral I sent a strongly worded letter to my MP, the venerable David Cairns MP (who as I have previously stated is honestly not a slick-as-oil shitebag who would lie about the colour of the sky) with regards the RIPA and stating my belief that the then-PM Tony Blair was as much a threat to the freedom of the british people as Adolf & Co were in the 1940's.
Needless to say, Mr Cairns MP (Lab) replied saying that such a comparison was wholly unfair and that the RIPA was a valuable tool for the Police in their War on Terror(TM), and it along with the ID Cards would be fine and dandy, nothing to worry about.
I didn't believe him then. I still don't believe him now. This sort of act is exactly like the martial-law declarations and 'enabling acts' made in countless previously-democratic countries when their governments forget that they serve the people not vice-versa. It is sad to see yet another government making this mistake. Although this is but the beginning of the more draconian legislation, for it is the nature of such acts to breed ones more repressive, nonetheless, when in years to come people ask "Where Did It All Go Wrong", this my dear friends, this was when it All Went Wrong. Democracy in this country did not die in a battle, nor in a riot or a revolution. It died with a group of balding middle-aged men drinking brandy in the Commons bar, laughing amongst themselves. It died when the apathetic masses forgot to care about what laws get passed without their consent or approval. It died when the wishes of extremists and power-mad
politicians were given more thought than the rights of the people.
In years to come, when the same apathetic masses remember to care, and decide to remind the government why they serve and the masses sufferance, when there are tanks driving down the Mall firing at unarmed civilians, when the skyline of cities from Aberdeen to London are lit-up by the fires of freedom and revolution; maybe then you will look back and wish that this law had not passed, that the police did not have the right to see this hippies personal porn stash.
Dude, you are so full of shit, it's untrue. For the record, Adobe just made a (very) painful transition to XCode from CodeWarrior, specifically for the purpose of making Universal binaries. Secondly, I have CS3, on a PPC eMac. And it seems to run! Shock. Secondly, even if you were somehow right on the whole develop-for-windows-then-port-to-mac bullshit, why did Lightroom get released as a beta to Mac-only (as a universal I'd add). It was only later they ported it to windows. If anything, your idea is totally backwards. From the evidence available, it seems that Adobe are developing for mac, then porting to windows. Although I have it on good authority they have a core codebase that's OS independant, then the coding teams make the OS-dependant bit around that, with the Mac version being ready sooner because said core is made in XCode. Don't know how true that is, but I'd suspect fairly.
I'm quite happy in Scotland ta. Just want the chance to democratically decide for Scotland o be in the UK or not. It's never actually been put to a democratic vote. The Act Of Uinion was signed by less than a hundred Scots, and most of them were actually land-owning aritocrats that sat in parliement. How's about democracy. If them unionist toadies are sooo worried about it, put it to the Scottish people. But no, they don't even want the Scottish people to have a referendum on it. Why not? Since when did it become "dangerous & reckless" (Jack McConnell) or "stupid & irrelevant" (That whinging LibDem git who's so bland I can't even remember his name) to ask the people???
Thing is, only UKians as you put it, pay for the BBC. And we have to. No choice in the matter, if you want a TV in this country you have to pay "licence fee". That fee funds the BBC. They make some cash from overseas sales, syndication etc. but about 95% of their budget comes from the fee paying public. Because we have no choice in the matter, it's not like, say, Sky, who people can choose to receive or not. As such, it puts the onus on them to allow all UK licence payers a way to access the programming they've paid for. The web was made for this kinda thing. If only they'd use their own codec (they've been making one for years), a fairly simple DRM system (sadly a legal necessity given the distribution deals they have overseas) and then release it for all major OS's and whatnot, we'd be just dandy (except the ISP's who can quite frankly go fuck 'emselves. I pay for 4MB access. Not 4MB access for-half-an-hour-till-i've-used-up-the-bandwidth or 4MB access as-long-as-it's-with-the-ISP's-content). But no, they code a terribly shitty system, that locks into a really oppressive OS that only some people can/want to use. No wonder people are pissed.
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Just to add, I can't think why he's done it, but there has been a really concentrated spin effort by Tony Blair in the last 10 years. This concerns how TB is in fact english. Yeah. Cause, I mean, it's not like he was born in Scotland, or spent his childhood here or anything. Point being, gordon can't do the same. The cats out of the bag for him. So TB has gone 10 years as "England's PM". Now GB has finally managed to kick him out, and TB's managed to leave him with a sting in the tail that is the english voters now think GB is some skirt wearing miserly scots git that cares not abut england, therefore should be disposed of ASAP. One might comment at this time why the english think it's fine to have an english PM that has no votes at all in Scotland or Wales (Maggie) do massive change to Scotland, and that's just democracy, but a scottish pm that changes the entire UK fairly equally would be terrible to have "forced" upon them. I wouldn't comment on such things however since I care not what the english think of Scotland, nor it's sons, although I personally hope that fat wee git (GB) and his grinning twat sidekick are spotted on the floor of their local JobCentre soon. Hopefully the people in Scotland, with the election of the SNP just there are finally starting to realise that they dont need London to tell them what to do anymore, and pretty soon, all them english that like to buy holiday homes here in Scotlnd, thus shutting out locals from the housing market, turning the entire area into an english holiday village, they'll need a passport to come here. Independence cannot come to soon for Scotland.
Formula! Ha!
Just tell her that's what breasts are for, to whap em out, and take one for the team, cause Daddy needs some OpenGL 2 shader lovin!
After that, you won't need a new video card...the hospital will probably have a gaming room somewhere for your 6 months convalescing....
It goes without saying, by the way, that barring good medical reasons, mothers should be breast-feeding anways. There have been countless studies showing that both physically and mentally, for good child development, "breast is best". Not to mention the bonding for both child and mother that occurs through breast-feeding, the seratonin release in mothers, and the immuno-development that can only come through breast-milk. This disturbing trend where lazy mothers resort to formula has got to stop. After all, the father (or 'other' mother, in gay couples) is quite capable of feeding to using bottled breast-milk to relieve the workload some, so that old argument can be discarded too.....
Shhh!
Don't spoil the fascist's fun. Next you'll be telling him it's wrong to burn books for having 'dirty' pictures in them!
Then we might as well be in Moscow with the commies! Oops! Sorry, wrong witchhunt, this is 2007 not 1967.
Then we might as well be in Iran with all the islamic terrorists!
Yeah, as robably says, it's no major drain. It encrypts the entire/~ directory as an encrypted disk image. It decrypts/encrypts on the fly seamlessly; to the end user there is no outward appearance of anything happening. A pro-user *might* notice it's slightly slower (milliseconds on the MB) when transferring a lot of small files to the/~ from elsewhere on the drive as opposed to from/Applications or wherever, but I doubt it. Apple really did a good job of Apple-ising encryption.
The best feature of the FileVault system is that because it's all done on the fly, and the overall disk image stays encrypted, getting mounted as a disk image at login and unmounted at logout, if for any reason the machine is not shut down properly, say, because 15 big guys with guns burst into your house and you just yank the power cable (or hit the power button on a laptop), your data still isn't compromised...
Note my use of the term "ever". They sometimes get lucky, and may leave it running for a year, but to my knowledge (which isn't complete in this area admittedly), there hasn't been a case where a properly secured Mac's data has actually been cracked. The only case that I've heard of was a drugs bust case where a lot of important evidence, both from a prosecutory as well as intel side, was located on the "Mr Big's" mac (contacts, delivery timetables, meeting points, even accounting stuff). They got it not through hacking but by offering a reduced sentence to a minion who had access.
Hate to sound like a apple fanboi, but even for those with something to hide that don't know much about computers at all, and therefore lack the know-how required to use these tools, simply using Mac OS X and turning on File-Vault, sad as it sounds, is enough to confound the majority of law enforcement. Most of the contractors that the police in the UK use are windows only. I know for fact that any linux or 'specialist' computers get passed to a specialist data firm in Germany for decoding... Macs? Only in the most serious of cases are macs in the UK sent for hacking if File-Vault's on. They go to Canada and take upwards of a year to crack. If ever. Unless you've done something pretty fucking serious, and the police know the evidence is on the machine, just can't prove it, they usually won't go to the expense. Of course, only the most stupid and inept of morons would be doing illegal shit and storing it on their computer without using the most powerful encryption possible, and only storing that which absolutely must be stored. Mind you, criminals are not usually noted for their cunning and intelligence....
It goes without saying that the above does not translate to across the pond, nor does it apply on Security operations with terrorists and the like. How MI5 & MI6 do things is completely different and tends to involve some 'specialist' people from the likes of the I-corps and in-house solutions.... I could elaborate, but I'm not THAT dumb.....
True. But I totally love MacWorld, since I entered an online competition with them, and won a $150 (£75) crumpler crippy duck 2 days after I'd bought an iBook!:)
Didn't even know I'd won till it arrived at my door!:) sweet!
As such I can brook no criticism of them. Till someone else gives me a nice apple-related prize, cause Macworld mag really is a heap of shit!
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A condom? Really? Wow. I had no idea that a simple condom could filter out the HIV in infected blood, or prevent HIV being passed from mother to child in-utero.
Just wanted to make a point about one of my pet hates; that is, americans always putting a country's name after the place name. E.G. Paris, France, or Rome, Italy, as if there was another more famous populous Rome or Paris somewhere. I suspect the tradition started as a result of american isolationist tendency's meaning a majority of americans didn't actually know where Paris was (as opposed to Paris in Louisiana) , but regardless, it sure is annoying and condescending as hell. Especially since I, along with the rest-of-the-world do things slightly more sensibly. Where two or more places are named the same, we generally call the largest and/or most populous/famous one by just its name, then any other instance of it by its name followed by geographic designation. For example, Cambridge is in southern England. There's also another Cambridge in the USA. But, even though Cambridge MA is about the same size as Cambridge, England, and, likewise has one of the worlds great learning seats (Harvard and MIT), Cambridge on its own refers to the one in England, whereas Cambridge Mass. is how one refers to the home of Harvard.
Heh, I'm 24. As a teenager, rather than hanging around shops, I was in the air cadets (think you have similar things in the USA), and spent many a fine Saturday (and even more wet windy horrible ones) firing off a few hundred rounds of 5.56mm at the range; sometimes semi-auto, occasionally fully auto. Because I was young, stupid and convinced, like all youth, that I was in every way invincible, I had, at best, a laissez faire attitude towards ear defenders. Even worse, we used to play around with flares (proper ones, not the wee nancy ones the yacht crowd have) and even mortars on occasion.
I can still hear well into the 25KHz range (I know, I'm a freak). I used to be able to hear around 27-28KHz, which apparently is extremely rare. Can't anymore.
I fail to see why I should be treated the same as the ned hooligans that annoy and bother me on the way into the shop. I can hear these annoying noises all too well. They hurt like hell even after only a second or so. I cannot imagine entering a shop that has one of these. If I find one here in Scotland, I shall brave the awful noise to go inside, ask (politely) to speak to the manager, and explain that I was going to give them my custom, but since they saw fit to try and torture me, I will not. And I'll mention the statistics that show over 40% of 30 year olds can hear these things.
Oh, and Happy Birthday for yesterday!
Well, believe me when I say I am no where near qualified to speak on this level and be of any help to anyone, except maybe as comic relief. That being said, the dude running these trials, one Dr. Gordon Dougal, is probably the best guy to contact in regards mixing your Optical Topography therapy with the 1072nm IR therapy he apparently specialises in. 1072 can apparently cause a whole range of GoodThings(TM) from age-restoration effects in the epidermis to significantly reduced healing times for treatment of the herpes simplex-2 virus in cold sores, genital herpes and skin herpes outbreaks. There's a paper on pubmed here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16046143&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum . Hope this is of some help to you.... I'd suggest e-mailing this guy and asking him about his project. Whilst he does run/partner a company that seems to be making a whole raft of devices for the treatment of cold-sores and age-restoration therapies, he nonetheless is working with University's on it, if only to provide accurate peer-accredited evidence to back up his devices claims. They really do appear to work. It seems it is definitely worth a trial run of building one of these helmet jobs using the LED's I mentioned above and trialing it on patients for possible effects. It's been shown time and time over that 1072nm (and those near to it) wavelength light has no detrimental effect on patients, as evidenced by the fact this guy's devices are licensed for usage now. It works for stimulating cell growth in the skin; why not the brain?
Heh, I'm hardly "enlightened", just have an interest in doing this (although little biochem knowledge, i'm better with technology than fleshies) and experience in buying IR diodes. It is interesting however that whilst this Optical Topography they're talking about (even though it uses lower wavelengths of IR, typically around the 850nm~ band) isn't aimed at thereputic effects, it does seem to cause an increase in the levels of haemoglobin and oxyhaemoglobin in the brain, which in itself could be responsible for the memory effects noticed in the mice in this study.
Expensive but worth a shot. I've used that company before; their stuff is top notch, and for mid-ir led's, $20 a unit ain't bad. If you're buying a lot they give you discounts too, and if you call 'em up and ask for it, they can give you a specific reading on the 1072 wavelength it emits. I'm thinking of doing this myself if it gets proven correct.
Oh, and your google-fu is lacking, Sir, because a brief search of my normal LED suppliers gave me this: http://www.roithner-laser.com/LED_diverse.htm which admittedly is 1070nm (2.5mW) nominal output rather than 1072nm. However, given that it's minimum is 1020 and it's maximum 1120 i'd say you're gonna be getting a fairly hefty amount of 1072nm light out of it. I notice they also do a high-power (like 150mW) LED panel which radiates at 1050nm (peak 1000~1100nm), which again isn't right on the money but is gonna give you enough to trial, given that they were talking about this clinical trial dosing patients with about the same amount of IR as regular sunlight. Granted these diodes don't come cheap, with the quoted price for the 1070nm LED being about $20 each, which given the number you'd want could get pretty expensive. But then, what cost is health?
Granted it ain't easy to source the LED's, but they do exist; I know this purely from the fact that this study is using some of them. They didn't make them themselves, and that therefore means a company, somewhere, makes 1072nm IR LED's. Failing that, there is a pumped 1072nm laser for sale. Dunno how you could incorporate that into a treatment regimen, but it could be done, I'm sure.
You know, as harsh as the situation is, look up the details on this. There's nothing stopping you as a private person getting together some components and having a go yourself. Hell, document what you do and you may even help other sufferers as well. Make one of these helmets and give it a go. As you say, what harm is it going to do? It can't make him worse, can it? It seems a fairly simple idea; no pulsing or signals are required, just a low level IR source in a head gear. So get some strong IR LED's, a bike helmet and cut a hole for some fans/heatsink and see how he does. Hope it works.
Hardly. It's true the L. Ron Hubbard was a sci-fi author. But he was no where near in the same league of writing skills as George Lucas. Star Wars might be a bit cheesy and corny. but it's watchable. We're talking about the pulp-rag guy that gave the world Battlefield Earth!! Do not compare the rabid dribblings of this self-confessed opium addict to the work of George Lucas!!
It doesn't "just" auto-sync changes. It works fully in tandem with Time Machine, part of Mac OS X 10.5. What this means is any changes you make to any file on the OS (or some part of it) are backed up periodically (you can tell it when to do it). OK, you're asking "how is this different to any other backup system?". What's different here is that OS X provides a simple (I cannot stress this word enough) easy-to-use GUI for the backup. You just hit the time-machine icon, and the current finder window (like a Windows Explorer window) pops up on screen, with a whole load of greyed out identical windows stretching back behind it in a cool space-time-warp kinda effect. You can then scroll back and forth through these windows that are, in effect, the current folder you're in, but going backwards in time through every backup that's ever been made of it. Then when you find the file/folder you were looking for 'cause like me, you're a pratt and deleted something you shouldn't have, you click on it, then hit the (big, pulsing) restore button. Once you've explained the basics of it to the average user, they never come bothering you again wanting help to back things up cause they just lost their term-paper/last month's accounting spreadsheet/photos of their new crotchfruit* (delete as necessary).
This new product is essentially just a wi-fi based hard-drive that links into the Time-Machine process, something that's ultra handy for laptop owners that don't have the separate hard-drive TM needs to do it's shit. Something I've been crying out for, since I constantly have to plug-in my macbook to an external firewire drive for TM to work, and I seem to lose a few files that I've created/edited then deleted before it's had a chance to archive them. If I had the spare cash I'd buy one of these for sure.
I originally posted this on The Register's comment field, but I'll repost here: There really are a plethora of issues here. I'll address them in ascending order of relative importance: 1). So she's an animal rights activist. So what? What does that have to do with the application of a dodgy and imho illegal act? Sod all. 2). Not all animal rights activists (ARA from here on out 'cause I'm lazy) burn kiddies for breakfast, exhume grannies for lunch and tar/feather yuppies for dinner. How do you know what she's doe. Not even the filth know that yet. Hence this 'polite invitation'. 3). In my humble opinion, all life is sacred. No creatures should suffer unnecessarily. Food animals are understandably bred and slaughtered to keep people alive (although vegetation is more energy efficient). Standing by and watching whilst a company gets paid to torture defenceless animals is immoral. Doesn't matter if it's for food (foi gras), medical research, "fun" (aka hunting with dogs), because some yoofs get bored and fancy kicking a puppy to death. Doesn't matter. It's immoral. Claiming "oh, but it's all for the greater good" is the same kind of empty arguments the Nazi's used in WW2 to kill jews (They're not really human, and society is better without them), Stalin used to get rid of opponents (Society will be destroyed by these political anarchists) and the USA is currently using to kidnap, torture and murder various muslims (we need to protect america against terrorism; torture's ok as long as we do it overseas). These arguments are easily seen as what they are; a pathetic excuse to quell the apathetic masses from rebelling against the barbaric and evil crimes of the powerful. 4) The real meat of my post. That act. It too, is immoral. Really immoral. Hate to Godwin again here, but it's verging on the jews-aren't-really-people argument immoral. I think it's so immoral I sent a strongly worded letter to my MP, the venerable David Cairns MP (who as I have previously stated is honestly not a slick-as-oil shitebag who would lie about the colour of the sky) with regards the RIPA and stating my belief that the then-PM Tony Blair was as much a threat to the freedom of the british people as Adolf & Co were in the 1940's. Needless to say, Mr Cairns MP (Lab) replied saying that such a comparison was wholly unfair and that the RIPA was a valuable tool for the Police in their War on Terror(TM), and it along with the ID Cards would be fine and dandy, nothing to worry about. I didn't believe him then. I still don't believe him now. This sort of act is exactly like the martial-law declarations and 'enabling acts' made in countless previously-democratic countries when their governments forget that they serve the people not vice-versa. It is sad to see yet another government making this mistake. Although this is but the beginning of the more draconian legislation, for it is the nature of such acts to breed ones more repressive, nonetheless, when in years to come people ask "Where Did It All Go Wrong", this my dear friends, this was when it All Went Wrong. Democracy in this country did not die in a battle, nor in a riot or a revolution. It died with a group of balding middle-aged men drinking brandy in the Commons bar, laughing amongst themselves. It died when the apathetic masses forgot to care about what laws get passed without their consent or approval. It died when the wishes of extremists and power-mad politicians were given more thought than the rights of the people. In years to come, when the same apathetic masses remember to care, and decide to remind the government why they serve and the masses sufferance, when there are tanks driving down the Mall firing at unarmed civilians, when the skyline of cities from Aberdeen to London are lit-up by the fires of freedom and revolution; maybe then you will look back and wish that this law had not passed, that the police did not have the right to see this hippies personal porn stash.
Dude, you are so full of shit, it's untrue. For the record, Adobe just made a (very) painful transition to XCode from CodeWarrior, specifically for the purpose of making Universal binaries. Secondly, I have CS3, on a PPC eMac. And it seems to run! Shock.
Secondly, even if you were somehow right on the whole develop-for-windows-then-port-to-mac bullshit, why did Lightroom get released as a beta to Mac-only (as a universal I'd add). It was only later they ported it to windows. If anything, your idea is totally backwards. From the evidence available, it seems that Adobe are developing for mac, then porting to windows. Although I have it on good authority they have a core codebase that's OS independant, then the coding teams make the OS-dependant bit around that, with the Mac version being ready sooner because said core is made in XCode. Don't know how true that is, but I'd suspect fairly.
Well, I for one welcome our Small, Furry Warm-Blooded Rodent Overlords.....
I'm quite happy in Scotland ta. Just want the chance to democratically decide for Scotland o be in the UK or not. It's never actually been put to a democratic vote. The Act Of Uinion was signed by less than a hundred Scots, and most of them were actually land-owning aritocrats that sat in parliement. How's about democracy. If them unionist toadies are sooo worried about it, put it to the Scottish people.
But no, they don't even want the Scottish people to have a referendum on it. Why not? Since when did it become "dangerous & reckless" (Jack McConnell) or "stupid & irrelevant" (That whinging LibDem git who's so bland I can't even remember his name) to ask the people???
Thing is, only UKians as you put it, pay for the BBC. And we have to. No choice in the matter, if you want a TV in this country you have to pay "licence fee". That fee funds the BBC. They make some cash from overseas sales, syndication etc. but about 95% of their budget comes from the fee paying public. Because we have no choice in the matter, it's not like, say, Sky, who people can choose to receive or not. As such, it puts the onus on them to allow all UK licence payers a way to access the programming they've paid for. The web was made for this kinda thing. If only they'd use their own codec (they've been making one for years), a fairly simple DRM system (sadly a legal necessity given the distribution deals they have overseas) and then release it for all major OS's and whatnot, we'd be just dandy (except the ISP's who can quite frankly go fuck 'emselves. I pay for 4MB access. Not 4MB access for-half-an-hour-till-i've-used-up-the-bandwidth or 4MB access as-long-as-it's-with-the-ISP's-content). But no, they code a terribly shitty system, that locks into a really oppressive OS that only some people can/want to use. No wonder people are pissed.
Also, remember kiddies, if you want to be able to see, buy some goggles: http://www.wickedlasers.com/Goggles-16-1.html $39 ain't that expensive when it comes to being able to see!
Just to add, I can't think why he's done it, but there has been a really concentrated spin effort by Tony Blair in the last 10 years. This concerns how TB is in fact english. Yeah. Cause, I mean, it's not like he was born in Scotland, or spent his childhood here or anything.
Point being, gordon can't do the same. The cats out of the bag for him. So TB has gone 10 years as "England's PM". Now GB has finally managed to kick him out, and TB's managed to leave him with a sting in the tail that is the english voters now think GB is some skirt wearing miserly scots git that cares not abut england, therefore should be disposed of ASAP.
One might comment at this time why the english think it's fine to have an english PM that has no votes at all in Scotland or Wales (Maggie) do massive change to Scotland, and that's just democracy, but a scottish pm that changes the entire UK fairly equally would be terrible to have "forced" upon them.
I wouldn't comment on such things however since I care not what the english think of Scotland, nor it's sons, although I personally hope that fat wee git (GB) and his grinning twat sidekick are spotted on the floor of their local JobCentre soon. Hopefully the people in Scotland, with the election of the SNP just there are finally starting to realise that they dont need London to tell them what to do anymore, and pretty soon, all them english that like to buy holiday homes here in Scotlnd, thus shutting out locals from the housing market, turning the entire area into an english holiday village, they'll need a passport to come here.
Independence cannot come to soon for Scotland.
Formula! Ha! Just tell her that's what breasts are for, to whap em out, and take one for the team, cause Daddy needs some OpenGL 2 shader lovin! After that, you won't need a new video card...the hospital will probably have a gaming room somewhere for your 6 months convalescing.... It goes without saying, by the way, that barring good medical reasons, mothers should be breast-feeding anways. There have been countless studies showing that both physically and mentally, for good child development, "breast is best". Not to mention the bonding for both child and mother that occurs through breast-feeding, the seratonin release in mothers, and the immuno-development that can only come through breast-milk. This disturbing trend where lazy mothers resort to formula has got to stop. After all, the father (or 'other' mother, in gay couples) is quite capable of feeding to using bottled breast-milk to relieve the workload some, so that old argument can be discarded too.....
Shhh! Don't spoil the fascist's fun. Next you'll be telling him it's wrong to burn books for having 'dirty' pictures in them! Then we might as well be in Moscow with the commies! Oops! Sorry, wrong witchhunt, this is 2007 not 1967. Then we might as well be in Iran with all the islamic terrorists!
Yeah, as robably says, it's no major drain. It encrypts the entire /~ directory as an encrypted disk image. It decrypts/encrypts on the fly seamlessly; to the end user there is no outward appearance of anything happening. A pro-user *might* notice it's slightly slower (milliseconds on the MB) when transferring a lot of small files to the /~ from elsewhere on the drive as opposed to from /Applications or wherever, but I doubt it. Apple really did a good job of Apple-ising encryption.
The best feature of the FileVault system is that because it's all done on the fly, and the overall disk image stays encrypted, getting mounted as a disk image at login and unmounted at logout, if for any reason the machine is not shut down properly, say, because 15 big guys with guns burst into your house and you just yank the power cable (or hit the power button on a laptop), your data still isn't compromised...
Note my use of the term "ever".
They sometimes get lucky, and may leave it running for a year, but to my knowledge (which isn't complete in this area admittedly), there hasn't been a case where a properly secured Mac's data has actually been cracked. The only case that I've heard of was a drugs bust case where a lot of important evidence, both from a prosecutory as well as intel side, was located on the "Mr Big's" mac (contacts, delivery timetables, meeting points, even accounting stuff). They got it not through hacking but by offering a reduced sentence to a minion who had access.
Hate to sound like a apple fanboi, but even for those with something to hide that don't know much about computers at all, and therefore lack the know-how required to use these tools, simply using Mac OS X and turning on File-Vault, sad as it sounds, is enough to confound the majority of law enforcement. Most of the contractors that the police in the UK use are windows only. I know for fact that any linux or 'specialist' computers get passed to a specialist data firm in Germany for decoding...
Macs?
Only in the most serious of cases are macs in the UK sent for hacking if File-Vault's on. They go to Canada and take upwards of a year to crack. If ever.
Unless you've done something pretty fucking serious, and the police know the evidence is on the machine, just can't prove it, they usually won't go to the expense.
Of course, only the most stupid and inept of morons would be doing illegal shit and storing it on their computer without using the most powerful encryption possible, and only storing that which absolutely must be stored. Mind you, criminals are not usually noted for their cunning and intelligence....
It goes without saying that the above does not translate to across the pond, nor does it apply on Security operations with terrorists and the like. How MI5 & MI6 do things is completely different and tends to involve some 'specialist' people from the likes of the I-corps and in-house solutions....
I could elaborate, but I'm not THAT dumb.....
True. But I totally love MacWorld, since I entered an online competition with them, and won a $150 (£75) crumpler crippy duck 2 days after I'd bought an iBook! :)
Didn't even know I'd won till it arrived at my door! :) sweet!
As such I can brook no criticism of them. Till someone else gives me a nice apple-related prize, cause Macworld mag really is a heap of shit!