The ironic thing is that the Sunncomm DRM that Sony/BMG has been using lately in the US doesn't stop Mac or Linux users from ripping the CDs; it only blocks Windows users. Their canned response even specifically says "If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes Player as you would normally do."
Calvin Damond, 55, pushed a shopping cart through the rising waters on Poydras Street, loaded with two suitcases, cartons of Pampers and his 5-year-old grandson. As their home in the Upper Ninth Ward filled with water during the storm, Mr. Damond, his daughter, Katherine, and her three children climbed into the attic.
"We stayed there all night," Mr. Damond said. The water receded Tuesday morning, he said, and he carried the children out on his shoulders and toward the Superdome.
Bethaney Waithe, 57, made her way there, balancing a plaid plastic tote bag with a few survival items on her head. Ms. Waithe said she tried to persuade her roommate, Rohanda Randall, to leave their house on Tuesday as the water slowly crept up the sides. But Ms. Randall has trouble walking and refused to go.
Yeah, they should all have walked for 12 hours, and then entered the Boston Marathon next year.
As noted, the Sanger, like the rest of the public HGP centers, makes their data accessible to everyone for free. You're thinking of Celera, who got out of the business.
(Claimer: I work at another of the centers. Similar scale, but those folks at Sanger have more server room floor space...sigh.)
If you're doing this seriously, 1U servers are too big. IBM BladeCenter: 14 dual-processor blades in a 7U chassis, 6 of which fit in a rack. The power cables look like garden hoses.
Double-click a.plist file on Mac OS X sometime. You get a nice GUI editor that knows what data type each item is and manages the XML hierarchy. Most applications have their own UI for managing preferences, though...and that UI can generate a plist file.
I remember when sendmail.cf was something "humans might want to edit". Well, except for the ones who wanted to keep their remaining sanity. That changed.
On the other hand, all of the terrorist attacks on US soil in the last decade don't even get into the ballpark of what drunk drivers and second hand smoke have done in the last year.
Or, for that matter, the average yearly US deaths from...the flu.
You know, that disease we're currently facing without enough vaccine available?
The Tungsten C has Wi-Fi built into it but has a stupid thumb keyboard, a 320x320 screen that doesn't extend or rotate, and it lacks bluetooth and voice memos. Yet despite missing all that it costs the same as a T3. Ridiculous.
To each their own. I bought the T|C because it works better for me than the T3 would have.
In my case, I use the WiFi daily; prefer the thumb keyboard to Graffiti 2 (too much time using Graffiti 1 to easily adjust, plus it's easier on my wrists to use a thumb-board than a stylus); the extra screen space would be nice, but is a fair tradeoff for the other features IMO; and don't use Bluetooth (I prefer the cradle, which helpfully charges). A WiFi card sticking out, just waiting to be broken, and taking up the slot I use for more storage would not be a win.
It can also do voice memos if you connect the optional headset, which I'm not bothered about.
My biggest complaint is that PalmOne doesn't ship Web Browser Pro with the C, their most Web-enabled product! (Minor complaint: the Bluetooth SDIO card that wasn't compatible with the C, but it still suffers from the above complaints about ease of breakage and taking up slot space.)
The gray base station has a Lucent PC card inside, so it's using a fairly lame antenna. You can put an external antenna on with a little Dremel work to make a hole in the base station case.
As for Airport Extreme, the Broadcom PC cards will work under OS X using the Apple driver; you'll wind up with a card sticking out of your TiBook, but you'll get 802.11g and probably better range as well. Worth a try.
The cheap thing to try (er, free:-) is to pop the battery out of the TiBook and make sure the antenna on that side is pressed firmly into the slot in the case. That may help your range a little bit.
I wonder if they've seen any pattern of people clicking through from "liberal" newspaper websites to the RNC "donate money" AdSense ad, and not donating.
Not that I would do anything like that, unless I were bored or wanted to see if the RNC had changed the donation page lately or anything.
I liked the commercial for one of those deals where the guy was sitting by the pool with his old clamshell iBook, as an attractive young woman handed him another cocktail, to show you what sort of amazing lifestyle you could expect if this deal was actually as good as they claim it is.
I guess they couldn't afford to rent a Ferrari to park in the background of the shot.
Seems like lots of geeks, at least the ones that go to USENIX (people like, er, Rob Pike, who might know something about innovative software) use Macs.
They have a much higher ratio of PhDs than Microsoft, or just about anyone short of a hospital.
Remind me not to go to your hospital. I want MDs treating me, not people who can give me a dissertation on ancient Sumeria or something. (MDs who also know about ancient Sumeria excepted.)
The article ignores the biggest obstacle that *BSD faced in its early days, which gave Linux a big head start: the AT&T lawsuit.
The FUD was flying and unlike today's situation with the SCO attacks, the open source model was not well known, and the idea of a free *BSD was not as established as Linux is today. The suit was eventually taken care of (AT&T had violated UCB's license terms, heh, heh) but the damage to *BSD's momentum was done, and Linux had taken a mindshare lead.
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And a Mac Mini is a circumvention device!
"1. I have an Apple Macintosh computer. Will the disc work on my MAC?
Yes. This disc will behave like a traditional CD in a Mac."
My experience is that the word "Enterprise" placed on any product means that the price gets multiplied by 10 or so.
Either that, or it's complicated enough that only Scotty or Geordi can keep it from undergoing a warp core breach once a week.
The ironic thing is that the Sunncomm DRM that Sony/BMG has been using lately in the US doesn't stop Mac or Linux users from ripping the CDs; it only blocks Windows users. Their canned response even specifically says "If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes Player as you would normally do."
My Speakeasy SDSL service is on a Verizon pair, Covad DSLAM, Speakeasy IP connectivity.
Now do that if you're tired, in your middle 40's and with 3 children under 10.
Carrying food, water, your medications, and a change of clothing.
Yeah, standing by the side of the highway, exhausted after a 12 hour walk, is a great way to face a hurricane.
The "scrolly thing" is a button (or a "clickable Scroll Ball" as they call it).
$17? Sounds like you need to shop around more for your CDs.
Even ignoring used CD stores ($5-$10), you can do a lot better than $17.
(Also, some of us have been buying CDs since the 1980s...if you buy one every couple of weeks for 20 years, that adds up.)
As noted, the Sanger, like the rest of the public HGP centers, makes their data accessible to everyone for free. You're thinking of Celera, who got out of the business.
(Claimer: I work at another of the centers. Similar scale, but those folks at Sanger have more server room floor space...sigh.)
If you're doing this seriously, 1U servers are too big. IBM BladeCenter: 14 dual-processor blades in a 7U chassis, 6 of which fit in a rack. The power cables look like garden hoses.
Double-click a .plist file on Mac OS X sometime. You get a nice GUI editor that knows what data type each item is and manages the XML hierarchy. Most applications have their own UI for managing preferences, though...and that UI can generate a plist file.
I remember when sendmail.cf was something "humans might want to edit". Well, except for the ones who wanted to keep their remaining sanity. That changed.
You know, that disease we're currently facing without enough vaccine available?
All three of those books (and Heather Has Two Mommies) are in my library system's catalog.
The name of this horrible right-wing town? Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Want to rethink that comment about "pious liberals"?
A Google logo LAVA(R) lamp of course. You can pay for it with the money you made on the IPO!
To each their own. I bought the T|C because it works better for me than the T3 would have.
In my case, I use the WiFi daily; prefer the thumb keyboard to Graffiti 2 (too much time using Graffiti 1 to easily adjust, plus it's easier on my wrists to use a thumb-board than a stylus); the extra screen space would be nice, but is a fair tradeoff for the other features IMO; and don't use Bluetooth (I prefer the cradle, which helpfully charges). A WiFi card sticking out, just waiting to be broken, and taking up the slot I use for more storage would not be a win.
It can also do voice memos if you connect the optional headset, which I'm not bothered about.
My biggest complaint is that PalmOne doesn't ship Web Browser Pro with the C, their most Web-enabled product! (Minor complaint: the Bluetooth SDIO card that wasn't compatible with the C, but it still suffers from the above complaints about ease of breakage and taking up slot space.)
The gray base station has a Lucent PC card inside, so it's using a fairly lame antenna. You can put an external antenna on with a little Dremel work to make a hole in the base station case.
:-) is to pop the battery out of the TiBook and make sure the antenna on that side is pressed firmly into the slot in the case. That may help your range a little bit.
As for Airport Extreme, the Broadcom PC cards will work under OS X using the Apple driver; you'll wind up with a card sticking out of your TiBook, but you'll get 802.11g and probably better range as well. Worth a try.
The cheap thing to try (er, free
I'm not sure I'd consider it "new age", unless that's been redefined to include more ukelele than I thought it did.
Speaking of ukelele, I have a cover of Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey" -- by Don Ho . Nobody at work challenges my ability to win the "weirdest iTunes collection on the local network" award for some reason.
I wonder if they've seen any pattern of people clicking through from "liberal" newspaper websites to the RNC "donate money" AdSense ad, and not donating.
Not that I would do anything like that, unless I were bored or wanted to see if the RNC had changed the donation page lately or anything.
I liked the commercial for one of those deals where the guy was sitting by the pool with his old clamshell iBook, as an attractive young woman handed him another cocktail, to show you what sort of amazing lifestyle you could expect if this deal was actually as good as they claim it is.
I guess they couldn't afford to rent a Ferrari to park in the background of the shot.
Is that why about 50% of the laptops at the USENIX Advanced Technical Conference last week were Macs?
Seems like lots of geeks, at least the ones that go to USENIX (people like, er, Rob Pike, who might know something about innovative software) use Macs.
I've seen two of the three unlaunched Saturn V stacks (KSC and JSC -- haven't made it to Marshall yet).
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(It's a Blues Brothers homage; that's Wrigley Field. I hate registration Nazis.)
They have a much higher ratio of PhDs than Microsoft, or just about anyone short of a hospital.
Remind me not to go to your hospital. I want MDs treating me, not people who can give me a dissertation on ancient Sumeria or something. (MDs who also know about ancient Sumeria excepted.)
The article ignores the biggest obstacle that *BSD faced in its early days, which gave Linux a big head start: the AT&T lawsuit.
The FUD was flying and unlike today's situation with the SCO attacks, the open source model was not well known, and the idea of a free *BSD was not as established as Linux is today. The suit was eventually taken care of (AT&T had violated UCB's license terms, heh, heh) but the damage to *BSD's momentum was done, and Linux had taken a mindshare lead.