There is a straight forward way to downgrade without OS reinstall. Google "downgrade quicktime 7.4 to 7.3" and you will find the instructions. It is not too difficult. You need the installer file and Pacifist. Not the most elegant solution, but which quicker than OS reinstall. This might be in other comments as well, so sorry if this is repetitive.
Despite the uproar, I really wonder what the impact is? During the period when Abobe was not updating video apps for the Mac, we switched to Combustion and Motion for our motion graphics work. When Adobe came back to the market and our CS3 suite came with the video apps, we installed them, but no one in my shop uses them anymore.
If you want to gripe, the recent FCP upgrade that changed file formats so projects were not backwards compatible was a much bigger headache, and it was one line buried in the changes document, whereas it should have been a prominent point at the top, and I would have heartily endorsed the use of the blink tag for this.
One other question, the summary states that video apps are involved, but AE is the only one I have heard about, which other applications are affected?
There are other reasons. Having some sort of pairing code would be useful. I would like to be able to tie specific remotes to specific monitors, VTRs, etc. I have a lab where we have two or more of many pieces of the same equipment. It would be nice to be able to use the remotes, but having one person turn off the wrong VTR in the middle of a capture is big problem.
Other things that you can find are why they are doing this e.g. flight crews can better monitor safety conditions to prevent an incident, and can access fire extinguishers, if an incident does happen -- http://safetravel.dot.gov/tips.html
YOU CAN TRAVEL WITH MOST LI-ION CONSUMER BATTERIES assuming the TSA agents follow the rules as stated
For the lazy people not willing to look at the actual page, nor the willingness to get through the TSA's obtuse writing here is the punch line:
The following quantity limits apply to both your spare and installed batteries. The limits are expressed in grams of "equivalent lithium content." 8 grams of equivalent lithium content is approximately 100 watt-hours. 25 grams is approximately 300 watt-hours:
* Under the new rules, you can bring batteries with up to 8-gram equivalent lithium content. All lithium ion batteries in cell phones are below 8 gram equivalent lithium content. Nearly all laptop computers also are below this quantity threshold. -- My Macbook Pro battery is 60 watt hours or about 5.5 grams of lithium
* You can also bring up to two spare batteries with an aggregate equivalent lithium content of up to 25 grams, in addition to any batteries that fall below the 8-gram threshold. Examples of two types of lithium ion batteries with equivalent lithium content over 8 grams but below 25 are shown below ( the picture shows a pro-camcoder extended use battery and an external extended use laptop battery).
I usually travel with 10 or more Li-ion batteries of various sizes and this language does not lead me to believe that I will have any trouble because I never check my batteries.I am still concerned as enforcement of these new rules is left up to poorly trained agents, so I worry about losing very expensive batteries because one idiot see lithium on the label and chucks it.
They are certainly using a ZCorp printer. To the best of my knowledge, ZCorp still is the only manufacturer to make a multi-color 3D printer. These would be easy to print ( I run a zcorp machine). It is hard to judge the print volume from the photos, but it appears to be a pretty fair price considering the cost of the machine, materials and post processing time.
One, technicians are usually trained scientists, they may not have done post graduate work, but being a scientist is about how the person thinks and approaches problems, not what the degree says.
Two, yes, I have done one of those jobs on the list, both as a grad student and after completing my Ph.D. If you want a properly prepared skeleton, you often have to clean the corpse yourself. A couple of the nasty parts of my job related to that were salvaging road kill for potential specimens for teaching and research, and week 15 of the term of a comparative anatomy course picking through the students cats and sharks for the least rotten to find specimens to use on the lab practical. Things have not been the same since they stopped using formalin in the preservatives.
When I searched Google with Peter King's name the #1 hit was his home page, it was not until the 2nd page that anything like the article mentioned appeared, and as we all know most people do not go beyond the first page. So either google did something, or there has been some reverse-google-bombing. I think this is the link they were referring to Peter King and here is his home page Peter King to balance things out.
There is no need to speculate as to why they need to do this. Marks work differently than patents or copyright. Failure to defend a mark can allow it to fall into the public domain. Google could lose the exclusive right to use google as a mark. They do not need to pursue every infringement, but need to demonstrate that they are defending the mark. They need to take special care to defend it against significant infringement which could weaken their case for exclusive use. IANAL (as if you couldn't figure this out by my taking time to read and post), but my spouse use to to work in mark protection, so I learned a bit about it.
I don't know where you were looking, but I find the Quicktime installer at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download. It will bounce you to the installer for the system you are on, but there is a link to the other system on the page. It does not appear to install iTunes. I'd be interested to find out information to the contrary.
One thing I found about the article, is that when you add the Quicktime player and iTunes together, it has surpassed Real. Of course the trouble with this survey is that Quicktime is installed by so many things, that most people do not realize they have it on their systems. I bet if they surveyed just mac users, many of them would be uncertain, or even deny having quicktime installed.
What should be done is that it is illegal, as theft from the public, to produce a DRM system that does not timeout. And, I am sure congress (MPAA/RIAA/Publishing lobby teat-suckers that they are) will get right on that.
According to this site Gomek is a saltie from Papua New Guinea, which made more sense to me. There are a couple species of crocodilian South America that get large, but not as consistently.
I think it is 20 years after date of application for patent. There are a number of patents under the mp3 licensing group http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html. Some look like they might expire soon, I'd welcome corrections if I am wrong.
You might look at OSPI their content repository for the portfolio reminds me a lot of Xythos. I have been trying to get our central storage people to take a look and give me some feedback on whether I am right or wrong.
As it stands, DSpace is not meant for this kind of use. There is no versioning, there is not webdav access, only admins can replace files, only admins can delete files. It is meant to be a roach motel (in a good way) for data. Data goes in and is always there. It's great for many things, but not remote file storage.
The higher end, Canons (eg XL2) Sonys and Panasonics have better transports (assuming you don't want to go full-blown pro). The low-end consumer grade cameras were meant for pretty low usage. I have worn the heads out on these before anything else. The problem with high end cameras is they are bigger and cost more, but tend to have better built ports, better heads and transports that were designed for more use. They also wear out, but it takes longer, and they are less disposable than cheaper models, as somethings were designed to be repaired. We have gone through a series of Canon mid-range eluras and opturas that we loan to users, typically they are used 4-5 times a week for 2-3 hours at each appointment. We have found they last 18 months to 2 years before they start having issues. It is usually the ports that start going first (especially, external mic ports and firewire, buy a good deck to avoid this). Then, the heads start behaving as if they are dirty and even professional cleaning does not really help. We are pretty happy with that we get a couple new cameras every couple years. Solid state would be nice, but not until the prices for storage are competitive with tape.
My original mac portable was my SE/30. I had a giant bag that let me haul it from home to work on the bus. But, now that I think about it it not that much more heavy than my current laptop bag which is currently carrying two laptops -- my own very small, but portable cluster;-)
Funny, I was just thinking about that same movie this morning. I scared myself by with thoughts of how much Cliff Robertson's character reminded me of dubya.
It depends on the access point, some older ones from a few major manufacturers are vulnerable to a Newsham (I think I got that right) attack, you can get a key off of those with relatively few data packets, not that I have ever done that;-). That said, you are right, a 128 bit key changed weekly will be very hard to crack given the light usage by most residential users.
I was trying to find the article from a few months ago, but I believe that the HD-DVD forum ratified MPEG4-AVC (H.264), MPEG2, and a Windows Media codec as suitable codecs for HD-DVD. I think that all this says is that Blu-Ray will support HD-DVD standards. At least, I hope this is what it means.
So I need to hook it to the the USB port on my computer and then plugin the ethernet cable into wall? IS THIS WIRELESS? Or, I need to carry this device and YAB (yet another brick). The Apple product's design is much more user friendly for travel. They should do something like that. It is easier for me to plug the ethernet into my laptop and make it into an access point.
What is the big deal about USB power? It doesn't free you from being attached to the wall. And, if I want to share my wired connection, my internal wireless card is a lot easier to carry.
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There is a straight forward way to downgrade without OS reinstall. Google "downgrade quicktime 7.4 to 7.3" and you will find the instructions. It is not too difficult. You need the installer file and Pacifist. Not the most elegant solution, but which quicker than OS reinstall. This might be in other comments as well, so sorry if this is repetitive. Despite the uproar, I really wonder what the impact is? During the period when Abobe was not updating video apps for the Mac, we switched to Combustion and Motion for our motion graphics work. When Adobe came back to the market and our CS3 suite came with the video apps, we installed them, but no one in my shop uses them anymore. If you want to gripe, the recent FCP upgrade that changed file formats so projects were not backwards compatible was a much bigger headache, and it was one line buried in the changes document, whereas it should have been a prominent point at the top, and I would have heartily endorsed the use of the blink tag for this. One other question, the summary states that video apps are involved, but AE is the only one I have heard about, which other applications are affected?
There are other reasons. Having some sort of pairing code would be useful. I would like to be able to tie specific remotes to specific monitors, VTRs, etc. I have a lab where we have two or more of many pieces of the same equipment. It would be nice to be able to use the remotes, but having one person turn off the wrong VTR in the middle of a capture is big problem.
that you not travel with recalled batteries. http://safetravel.dot.gov/remember.html
Other things that you can find are why they are doing this e.g. flight crews can better monitor safety conditions to prevent an incident, and can access fire extinguishers, if an incident does happen -- http://safetravel.dot.gov/tips.html
YOU CAN TRAVEL WITH MOST LI-ION CONSUMER BATTERIES assuming the TSA agents follow the rules as stated
For the lazy people not willing to look at the actual page, nor the willingness to get through the TSA's obtuse writing here is the punch line:
The following quantity limits apply to both your spare and installed batteries. The limits are expressed in grams of "equivalent lithium content." 8 grams of equivalent lithium content is approximately 100 watt-hours. 25 grams is approximately 300 watt-hours:
* Under the new rules, you can bring batteries with up to 8-gram equivalent lithium content. All lithium ion batteries in cell phones are below 8 gram equivalent lithium content. Nearly all laptop computers also are below this quantity threshold. -- My Macbook Pro battery is 60 watt hours or about 5.5 grams of lithium
* You can also bring up to two spare batteries with an aggregate equivalent lithium content of up to 25 grams, in addition to any batteries that fall below the 8-gram threshold. Examples of two types of lithium ion batteries with equivalent lithium content over 8 grams but below 25 are shown below ( the picture shows a pro-camcoder extended use battery and an external extended use laptop battery).
I usually travel with 10 or more Li-ion batteries of various sizes and this language does not lead me to believe that I will have any trouble because I never check my batteries.I am still concerned as enforcement of these new rules is left up to poorly trained agents, so I worry about losing very expensive batteries because one idiot see lithium on the label and chucks it.
They are certainly using a ZCorp printer. To the best of my knowledge, ZCorp still is the only manufacturer to make a multi-color 3D printer. These would be easy to print ( I run a zcorp machine). It is hard to judge the print volume from the photos, but it appears to be a pretty fair price considering the cost of the machine, materials and post processing time.
So what happens when these are built into the furniture and the "mouse" goes bad? Will you need to buy a new desk?
One, technicians are usually trained scientists, they may not have done post graduate work, but being a scientist is about how the person thinks and approaches problems, not what the degree says. Two, yes, I have done one of those jobs on the list, both as a grad student and after completing my Ph.D. If you want a properly prepared skeleton, you often have to clean the corpse yourself. A couple of the nasty parts of my job related to that were salvaging road kill for potential specimens for teaching and research, and week 15 of the term of a comparative anatomy course picking through the students cats and sharks for the least rotten to find specimens to use on the lab practical. Things have not been the same since they stopped using formalin in the preservatives.
When I searched Google with Peter King's name the #1 hit was his home page, it was not until the 2nd page that anything like the article mentioned appeared, and as we all know most people do not go beyond the first page. So either google did something, or there has been some reverse-google-bombing. I think this is the link they were referring to Peter King and here is his home page Peter King to balance things out.
I am a herpetologist, and even I know that epiphytic orchids have the smallest seeds, they are wind-blown and can be dispersed thousands of miles.
Many paleontologists are pretty good geologists, too.
There is no need to speculate as to why they need to do this. Marks work differently than patents or copyright. Failure to defend a mark can allow it to fall into the public domain. Google could lose the exclusive right to use google as a mark. They do not need to pursue every infringement, but need to demonstrate that they are defending the mark. They need to take special care to defend it against significant infringement which could weaken their case for exclusive use. IANAL (as if you couldn't figure this out by my taking time to read and post), but my spouse use to to work in mark protection, so I learned a bit about it.
a system which sends personal contact information of people who produce systems like this to spammers and telemarketers?
I don't know where you were looking, but I find the Quicktime installer at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download. It will bounce you to the installer for the system you are on, but there is a link to the other system on the page. It does not appear to install iTunes. I'd be interested to find out information to the contrary. One thing I found about the article, is that when you add the Quicktime player and iTunes together, it has surpassed Real. Of course the trouble with this survey is that Quicktime is installed by so many things, that most people do not realize they have it on their systems. I bet if they surveyed just mac users, many of them would be uncertain, or even deny having quicktime installed.
What should be done is that it is illegal, as theft from the public, to produce a DRM system that does not timeout. And, I am sure congress (MPAA/RIAA/Publishing lobby teat-suckers that they are) will get right on that.
You can get some good information on large crocs here:
Which is the largest species of crocodile?
According to this site Gomek is a saltie from Papua New Guinea, which made more sense to me. There are a couple species of crocodilian South America that get large, but not as consistently.
I think it is 20 years after date of application for patent. There are a number of patents under the mp3 licensing group http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html. Some look like they might expire soon, I'd welcome corrections if I am wrong.
You might look at OSPI their content repository for the portfolio reminds me a lot of Xythos. I have been trying to get our central storage people to take a look and give me some feedback on whether I am right or wrong.
As it stands, DSpace is not meant for this kind of use. There is no versioning, there is not webdav access, only admins can replace files, only admins can delete files. It is meant to be a roach motel (in a good way) for data. Data goes in and is always there. It's great for many things, but not remote file storage.
The higher end, Canons (eg XL2) Sonys and Panasonics have better transports (assuming you don't want to go full-blown pro). The low-end consumer grade cameras were meant for pretty low usage. I have worn the heads out on these before anything else. The problem with high end cameras is they are bigger and cost more, but tend to have better built ports, better heads and transports that were designed for more use. They also wear out, but it takes longer, and they are less disposable than cheaper models, as somethings were designed to be repaired. We have gone through a series of Canon mid-range eluras and opturas that we loan to users, typically they are used 4-5 times a week for 2-3 hours at each appointment. We have found they last 18 months to 2 years before they start having issues. It is usually the ports that start going first (especially, external mic ports and firewire, buy a good deck to avoid this). Then, the heads start behaving as if they are dirty and even professional cleaning does not really help. We are pretty happy with that we get a couple new cameras every couple years. Solid state would be nice, but not until the prices for storage are competitive with tape.
My original mac portable was my SE/30. I had a giant bag that let me haul it from home to work on the bus. But, now that I think about it it not that much more heavy than my current laptop bag which is currently carrying two laptops -- my own very small, but portable cluster ;-)
Funny, I was just thinking about that same movie this morning. I scared myself by with thoughts of how much Cliff Robertson's character reminded me of dubya.
I meant to say, "you forGOT the URL" I hate it when I do that, especially in the subject --checks more closely for typos before submitting--
People for the Ethical Treatment of Vegetables
It depends on the access point, some older ones from a few major manufacturers are vulnerable to a Newsham (I think I got that right) attack, you can get a key off of those with relatively few data packets, not that I have ever done that ;-). That said, you are right, a 128 bit key changed weekly will be very hard to crack given the light usage by most residential users.
I was trying to find the article from a few months ago, but I believe that the HD-DVD forum ratified MPEG4-AVC (H.264), MPEG2, and a Windows Media codec as suitable codecs for HD-DVD. I think that all this says is that Blu-Ray will support HD-DVD standards. At least, I hope this is what it means.
So I need to hook it to the the USB port on my computer and then plugin the ethernet cable into wall? IS THIS WIRELESS? Or, I need to carry this device and YAB (yet another brick). The Apple product's design is much more user friendly for travel. They should do something like that. It is easier for me to plug the ethernet into my laptop and make it into an access point.
What is the big deal about USB power? It doesn't free you from being attached to the wall. And, if I want to share my wired connection, my internal wireless card is a lot easier to carry.