I'm confused? No one will develop an OS unless they can make money on it, right? No one will bother workng on something as mundane as office software unless they can make money on it, right?.. Wrong! And not only are you wrong, but your arguement is irrelevant because what I'm talking about is something that could be very interesting (the kind of thing some people enjoy studying as hobbies) and useful (think reporter, folklorists, historians, etc)...
The Quicktime clip was encoded using the QDesign Music 2 codec as a16 bit Mono recording at 22.05kHz.
Note: the sound is a little hollow.. I imagine the mp3 file sounds about the same, and the compression could probably be better if the signal had not been compressed on the fly, i.e. off-line compression can be better because the whole track is known and the optimization routine could be tuned to minimize the file size.
I thought we were suppsed to be geeks? Come on guys. Transcribing an hour of audio into text should take one line to fire up a voice recognition code, and no more time than the wall time required to listen to the interview..
There's a huge group of people hear who would love to see a free variant of *NIX that can compete with windows for the desktop market. I think that before this happens you're going to need to sit down, spend some time in your local technical library researching voice, image, pattern recognition algorithms.. I'd love to be able to type:
voice2text -mp3 woz.mp3 woz_interview.text
and get a transcribed version of a speech, or lecture notes.. How about combining this with an answering machine app to record and transcribe messages then send those messages to the IMAP server or atleast place them in a searchable database for future reference..
This is way off-topic but it's something I started thinking about when rumors bagan floating around concerning Apple's iPhoto app.. I thought it would be pretty incredible if Apple could piece together an app to project photos onto an empirical basis set and then use the coefficients from that projection to sort images.. Think of it like a generalized face recognition routine only more useful..
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that gnome and kde are nice, but to take over the desktop market you we really need to crawl out of the box, and burn it to the ground!
Alright, usually I wouldn't post something like this, but you may want to wait until Tuesday afternoon before submitting your holiday wish list to your significant other.. Why you ask?
Apparently, Apple is planning to announce some "breakthrough Digital Hub" device.. There's a lot of speculation floating around, and rumors that Apple's iTunes, Quicktime, and "another unnamed project" group are responsible for whatever this thing does.. I'm going to spread anything specific, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple releases a consumer machine based on a combination of the cube and the iMac to replace the iMac.. WHo knows what Apple's up to, but I'd pass this along so you aren't kicking yourself for turning in the list a day early..
It probably sounds silly, but running a barcode down the nose might work better than either the forehead or hand. There are fewer potential problems with hats and gloves (which important this time of year)..
Or the thermo-nuclear weapon of economic warfare: Offer to provide their best and brightest with MBA degrees from US institutions with the condition that those students must return home...
You can buy the BriQ's from Total Impact, but they're not cheap as you pointed out.
I'm glad to see that TerraSoft is working with TotalImpact. They were selling rack mounted clusters comprised of g3's ripped from iMacs.. This is definitely a step in the right direction!
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This is how Adobe Distiller works on my Mac.. I can print anything to a PDF because Adobe has set-up Distiller as a virtual printer. What happens when I print something is that the print task is passed to LaserWriter 8 and a postscript document is created, this postscript document is then piped through distiller to create the PDF.. It's very slick!
When the CodeRED worm hit it peak, we had to reboot a few of our printers. There's an issue with the embedded network code on some of the jetdirect cards.. Apparantly, there is a way to download and update that code, but I never bothered, as my printer was fine, and the sysadmin handled the public printer down the hall...
Here's an honest question... Imagine a user has an Earthlink account and decides to access it via a POP3 client which automatically removes the message from the server. The message text is gone from the server, and all that's left is a log entry. I'm not sure if AOL allows POP3 access, but the terrorist could certainly delete the incriminating messages from his/her inbox.. So the questions become "What are these guys really hoping to find?" and "What's the probability that an incriminating message will still reside on the servers?"
Does anyone know what percentage of people store their mail on servers, rather than on their notebook, or home PC?
I agree, here's a quick example of how Mr. Bin Laden might avoid encryption issues and confuse the Carnivore stuff as well:
"OOK, ve-a veell keell thuoosunds by heejecking plunes oon Sept. 11 2001"
"Seegned: Oosema Been Ledee"
"PS - joost tu prufe-a it's me-a I veell send thees in peper by FedEx es vell....hehehha, thuse-a Emereecuns veell nefer be-a eble-a tu cetch me-a"
See nothing to it!
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You're missing the elegance of the attack.. Sure FedEX and UPS planes don't carry passengers, blah, blah.. The reason passenger planes were used is because they can't be shot down! Let me repeat that again: passenger planes were used is because they can't be shot down!
If you're sitting in front of a command terminal and see a plane flying into restricted air space what do you do? You try to contact it, then you inform your supervisor, and he/she calls the appropriate authorities.. At some point someone has to say: "Well, damn! It looks like this plane is going to enter our air space maybe we should scramble a couple fighters up there to direct them back onto course.." Of course, if the fighters get there in time and the plane doesn't turn, another choice has to be made.. Do we fire upon a plane full of American citizens? Surely killing them, or do hope the plane keeps flying right through the restricted space?
With a cargo plane you say, well the 2-3 person crew must be dead or insane and pull the trigger.. There's no dilema.. A few lost packages, or a 1000 lost lives..
The only way to defend against this kind of thing once the plane is hijacked is to have SAM sites protecting important buildings. I don't think you could scramble fighters fast enough, unless you have a huge no-fly zone over your important buildings.
This wouldn't necessarily help. First you need to hit the plane, which could be very difficult if it's flying low across the skyline without hitting a nearby building with your SAM. Second, even if you hit the plane (keep in mind we're talking about an airliner here, not a fighter), there's a good chance the mass of the craft would still barrel into a building or a hospital or a concert in the park.. And lastly, you need someone to make the judgement call, and pull the trigger.
Yep.. I agree.. This is a production line that manufacturers steel parts. I would assume they'd have a full-time on-site machinist, or a technician with machinist skills that could've turned out an Aluminum pulley in less than "a few hours"..
The other thing most people here are forgetting is that the goo, that these Rapid Prototyping System use is not cheap stuff.. We just had a system demoed on campus, and the cst of the goo was astounding!..
This is the real question.. The iBook is just as thin, weighs the same, includes a DVD/CD-RW drive, Mac OS 9.2/Mac OS X, a 12" (1024x768) screen, 4+ hour battery life, and costs less ($1800 for the top of the line iBook as opposed to $2k for the model discussed in the article)..
It's great that it stacks up well against a PIII based notebook, but that's not were the real challenge lies for this thing..
Thanks.. For a second there I thought about compiling my latest altivec optimized turbulence simulation, but now I realize that I clearly lack the intelligence to do so... I better sign-on to AOL and make sure my DARPA contract monitor knows that I lack the computer literacy to complete my work..
You fucking schmuck.. Mac users are no less computer literate than you and your geek brethren..
This is how Apple's keychain system works.. Except your keychain resides on your local machine rather than a remote server.. If someone wants my keychain they have to gain access to my personal machine..
Sure Windows XP isn't going to support every piece of hardware ever made, but I bet when it's finally released it will support a lot more than OS X does.
Uhm.. OS X supports (or will within the next 2 weeks) every piece of hardware that Apple ships. The thing you need to remember is that Apple has the luxury of knowing what hardware their OS is going to be installed on, and therefore Apple does not need to support everything under the sun as MS does..
As for the developer support issue. Apple provided a public beta with their developer tools. They then shipped the first version of OS X, which was still really a beta with updated developer tools. In the first month, they provided 4 updates to the OS, and further revised the developer tools. Apple isn't perfect but they're working their butts off trying to get the developer community behind them.. In the last few months, I've seen almost every app I use in OS 9 ported to OS X, and then a bunch of Apps from the NeXT days as well as the entire BSD ports collection. Scilab was recently modified to route it's display through a cocoa app thereby circumventing the need for rootless X11 and taking advantage of OS X's pdf display layer.. There's all kinds of developers trying to port their apps, but it takes a little time.. So in the mean time, I run non-native apps through classic or boot into OS 9.. Not a big deal.. Really.
Adobe provides PDF viewers for ALL operating systems, and has made their document format, PDF, into an OPEN standard. Even if they didn't provide a viewer, I could write my own.
BE VERY CAREFUL!.. Quicktime is an API and it uses a very open and well documented wrapper for it's media content.. Take a look at Xanim which can play a number of *.mov files.. Now, the CODECs are not open, but neither is the encryption/security algorithm that Adobe uses with their PDF documents.. If this were the case, then there would be absolutely no case against Sklyarov, right?
The point I'm trying to make is that Apple hasn't stopped you from writing a Quicktime client. They simply haven't provided you with a CODEC which they're paying to liscense from Sorensen.. It's a big difference..
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Not trying to be critical but props should have been given to where the technology was born. I remember back to the days when no one who used windows wanted anything to do with Quicktime.
They weren't really discussing the origins of the technology. They were talking about the Windows plug-in for X86 (Native Win32)..
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I'm confused? No one will develop an OS unless they can make money on it, right? No one will bother workng on something as mundane as office software unless they can make money on it, right?.. Wrong! And not only are you wrong, but your arguement is irrelevant because what I'm talking about is something that could be very interesting (the kind of thing some people enjoy studying as hobbies) and useful (think reporter, folklorists, historians, etc)...
The Quicktime clip was encoded using the QDesign Music 2 codec as a16 bit Mono recording at 22.05kHz.
Note: the sound is a little hollow.. I imagine the mp3 file sounds about the same, and the compression could probably be better if the signal had not been compressed on the fly, i.e. off-line compression can be better because the whole track is known and the optimization routine could be tuned to minimize the file size.
I thought we were suppsed to be geeks? Come on guys. Transcribing an hour of audio into text should take one line to fire up a voice recognition code, and no more time than the wall time required to listen to the interview..
There's a huge group of people hear who would love to see a free variant of *NIX that can compete with windows for the desktop market. I think that before this happens you're going to need to sit down, spend some time in your local technical library researching voice, image, pattern recognition algorithms.. I'd love to be able to type:
and get a transcribed version of a speech, or lecture notes.. How about combining this with an answering machine app to record and transcribe messages then send those messages to the IMAP server or atleast place them in a searchable database for future reference..This is way off-topic but it's something I started thinking about when rumors bagan floating around concerning Apple's iPhoto app.. I thought it would be pretty incredible if Apple could piece together an app to project photos onto an empirical basis set and then use the coefficients from that projection to sort images.. Think of it like a generalized face recognition routine only more useful..
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that gnome and kde are nice, but to take over the desktop market you we really need to crawl out of the box, and burn it to the ground!
Alright, usually I wouldn't post something like this, but you may want to wait until Tuesday afternoon before submitting your holiday wish list to your significant other.. Why you ask?
Apparently, Apple is planning to announce some "breakthrough Digital Hub" device.. There's a lot of speculation floating around, and rumors that Apple's iTunes, Quicktime, and "another unnamed project" group are responsible for whatever this thing does.. I'm going to spread anything specific, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple releases a consumer machine based on a combination of the cube and the iMac to replace the iMac.. WHo knows what Apple's up to, but I'd pass this along so you aren't kicking yourself for turning in the list a day early..
It probably sounds silly, but running a barcode down the nose might work better than either the forehead or hand. There are fewer potential problems with hats and gloves (which important this time of year)..
Or the thermo-nuclear weapon of economic warfare: Offer to provide their best and brightest with MBA degrees from US institutions with the condition that those students must return home...
And yes I will stick my neck out and say that the Slashdot readership will not develop the technology of the warp drive in the next ten years.
Do you really think that anyone will develop "the technology" for >c travel in the next ten years (let alone the next century)?
Maybe.. Maybe not.. Are you sure you want to be left off the guest list when it happens because you had a lousy attitude?
You can buy the BriQ's from Total Impact, but they're not cheap as you pointed out.
I'm glad to see that TerraSoft is working with TotalImpact. They were selling rack mounted clusters comprised of g3's ripped from iMacs.. This is definitely a step in the right direction!
This is how Adobe Distiller works on my Mac.. I can print anything to a PDF because Adobe has set-up Distiller as a virtual printer. What happens when I print something is that the print task is passed to LaserWriter 8 and a postscript document is created, this postscript document is then piped through distiller to create the PDF.. It's very slick!
This is bad idea! If everyone on this list redirected their malformed requests to Microsoft, they'd never be able to distribute a patch!!
When the CodeRED worm hit it peak, we had to reboot a few of our printers. There's an issue with the embedded network code on some of the jetdirect cards.. Apparantly, there is a way to download and update that code, but I never bothered, as my printer was fine, and the sysadmin handled the public printer down the hall...
Here's an honest question... Imagine a user has an Earthlink account and decides to access it via a POP3 client which automatically removes the message from the server. The message text is gone from the server, and all that's left is a log entry. I'm not sure if AOL allows POP3 access, but the terrorist could certainly delete the incriminating messages from his/her inbox.. So the questions become "What are these guys really hoping to find?" and "What's the probability that an incriminating message will still reside on the servers?"
Does anyone know what percentage of people store their mail on servers, rather than on their notebook, or home PC?
I agree, here's a quick example of how Mr. Bin Laden might avoid encryption issues and confuse the Carnivore stuff as well:
"OOK, ve-a veell keell thuoosunds by heejecking plunes oon Sept. 11 2001"
"Seegned: Oosema Been Ledee"
"PS - joost tu prufe-a it's me-a I veell send thees in peper by FedEx es vell....hehehha, thuse-a Emereecuns veell nefer be-a eble-a tu cetch me-a"
See nothing to it!
You're missing the elegance of the attack.. Sure FedEX and UPS planes don't carry passengers, blah, blah.. The reason passenger planes were used is because they can't be shot down! Let me repeat that again: passenger planes were used is because they can't be shot down!
If you're sitting in front of a command terminal and see a plane flying into restricted air space what do you do? You try to contact it, then you inform your supervisor, and he/she calls the appropriate authorities.. At some point someone has to say: "Well, damn! It looks like this plane is going to enter our air space maybe we should scramble a couple fighters up there to direct them back onto course.." Of course, if the fighters get there in time and the plane doesn't turn, another choice has to be made.. Do we fire upon a plane full of American citizens? Surely killing them, or do hope the plane keeps flying right through the restricted space?
With a cargo plane you say, well the 2-3 person crew must be dead or insane and pull the trigger.. There's no dilema.. A few lost packages, or a 1000 lost lives..
The only way to defend against this kind of thing once the plane is hijacked is to have SAM sites protecting important buildings. I don't think you could scramble fighters fast enough, unless you have a huge no-fly zone over your important buildings.
This wouldn't necessarily help. First you need to hit the plane, which could be very difficult if it's flying low across the skyline without hitting a nearby building with your SAM. Second, even if you hit the plane (keep in mind we're talking about an airliner here, not a fighter), there's a good chance the mass of the craft would still barrel into a building or a hospital or a concert in the park.. And lastly, you need someone to make the judgement call, and pull the trigger.
Yep.. I agree.. This is a production line that manufacturers steel parts. I would assume they'd have a full-time on-site machinist, or a technician with machinist skills that could've turned out an Aluminum pulley in less than "a few hours"..
The other thing most people here are forgetting is that the goo, that these Rapid Prototyping System use is not cheap stuff.. We just had a system demoed on campus, and the cst of the goo was astounding!..
This is the real question.. The iBook is just as thin, weighs the same, includes a DVD/CD-RW drive, Mac OS 9.2/Mac OS X, a 12" (1024x768) screen, 4+ hour battery life, and costs less ($1800 for the top of the line iBook as opposed to $2k for the model discussed in the article)..
It's great that it stacks up well against a PIII based notebook, but that's not were the real challenge lies for this thing..
Thanks.. For a second there I thought about compiling my latest altivec optimized turbulence simulation, but now I realize that I clearly lack the intelligence to do so... I better sign-on to AOL and make sure my DARPA contract monitor knows that I lack the computer literacy to complete my work..
You fucking schmuck.. Mac users are no less computer literate than you and your geek brethren..
The FBI has had UAV's for a while now.
This is how Apple's keychain system works.. Except your keychain resides on your local machine rather than a remote server.. If someone wants my keychain they have to gain access to my personal machine..
Sure Windows XP isn't going to support every piece of hardware ever made, but I bet when it's finally released it will support a lot more than OS X does.
Uhm.. OS X supports (or will within the next 2 weeks) every piece of hardware that Apple ships. The thing you need to remember is that Apple has the luxury of knowing what hardware their OS is going to be installed on, and therefore Apple does not need to support everything under the sun as MS does..
As for the developer support issue. Apple provided a public beta with their developer tools. They then shipped the first version of OS X, which was still really a beta with updated developer tools. In the first month, they provided 4 updates to the OS, and further revised the developer tools. Apple isn't perfect but they're working their butts off trying to get the developer community behind them.. In the last few months, I've seen almost every app I use in OS 9 ported to OS X, and then a bunch of Apps from the NeXT days as well as the entire BSD ports collection. Scilab was recently modified to route it's display through a cocoa app thereby circumventing the need for rootless X11 and taking advantage of OS X's pdf display layer.. There's all kinds of developers trying to port their apps, but it takes a little time.. So in the mean time, I run non-native apps through classic or boot into OS 9.. Not a big deal.. Really.
Quickly get to your knees and pray to your box.
Not a bad idea! I wonder if she'll reciprocate and drop to her knees a little later?..
Adobe provides PDF viewers for ALL operating systems, and has made their document format, PDF, into an OPEN standard. Even if they didn't provide a viewer, I could write my own.
BE VERY CAREFUL!.. Quicktime is an API and it uses a very open and well documented wrapper for it's media content.. Take a look at Xanim which can play a number of *.mov files.. Now, the CODECs are not open, but neither is the encryption/security algorithm that Adobe uses with their PDF documents.. If this were the case, then there would be absolutely no case against Sklyarov, right?
The point I'm trying to make is that Apple hasn't stopped you from writing a Quicktime client. They simply haven't provided you with a CODEC which they're paying to liscense from Sorensen.. It's a big difference..
Not trying to be critical but props should have been given to where the technology was born. I remember back to the days when no one who used windows wanted anything to do with Quicktime.
They weren't really discussing the origins of the technology. They were talking about the Windows plug-in for X86 (Native Win32)..
Who would put linux on a mac when OS X comes pre-installed on all new macs?