I think that it could actually be really helpful to a sex offender knowing when they are approaching an area where they aren't supposed to be and help them stay away from temptation. A green led could be lit when everything is cool, it would turn yellow and emit a tone when one gets to close to a restricted area and then emit mild electric shock once a restricted area is entered. Also a service could be offered to allow people to track the location of a sex offender as they walk around and possible when one enters the general vicinity neighborhood etc and warn parents. I don't think a name should be given just a warning and maybe a mug so people can know when they could be under threat. The police can keep track and the offenders have assistance staying out of trouble.
Give people help in converting there computers over to LINUX or encourage mac adoption. IOts my understanding that you can run WINE and still run most windows progs on linux. The problem with linux is that it can be a bit scarry and user unfriendly for average users so if you helped people switch then that would help a lot. A program that offered trade in value on current machines to buy macs would be helpfull. Mostly if you give people the right infromation in they waqy they can digest it it will help as far as getting the users to go along with it. Also mabye a site licence for some sort of really good virus protection and require people to use it in order to use the network.
Many people say that the whole idea or spreadsheets is fundamentally flawed because a single error can propagate itself throughout the whole spreadsheet so a miscalculation early on tends to expand exponentially down to the rest.
Just furthers the case that DRM is bad for everybody. Bad for companies, bad for consumers, bad for artists. Don't get me wrong there is a good motivation behind not wanting free copying of copyrighted media but requiring somebody to encrypt something to listen to it when they have it locally unencrypted on there computer serves no end but to make people less interested in the product. The best way to prevent large scale piracy is to offer a value added product. Pay the money and get good quality music on a CD, rip it yourself and get to keep the pretty pictures. Its all about making something that people WANT to purchase and make it worth the money to do so.
I would suggest making available lower qualityh mp3s for free on your site, people will be able to hear the music and you won't be wasting the money spent on high quality studio production. People will hear the music and if they like it then buy a cd or high quality music file.
Many of you have problably seen thoes coolers that have no gas or anything, just a fan. This technology, called thermo electrics was first used by the military to cool FLIR systems. The IR CCDS of the time weren't as sensitive and needed to be at liquid nitrogen temps to work. The one time i had a good look at one was at the MT tech sale. It was really cool, a heatsync with one side getting hot and a fan, and on the other a freezing cold heatsync. Something like that could fit in the case of the computer quite easiley. Mabye the dual 3 GHZ G5 3.5 mabye.;)
I beleve in the right ofg people to have the information and access to what they need. If you can't use computers and the internet it puts you in some ways in a disadvantage in today's society.
Another notch in the belt for thoes of us who beleve that internet access is a public right. One of the most inportant things to take into consideration in the future is to biuld a network that by using open firmware upgradable hardware to reduce the cost of supporting new and faster protocols like WI-MAX and whatever is coming next. This would allow for the network to meet the demands of incresing bandwith usage and reliability concerns for years to come. There is nothing like installing a multimillion dollar 802.11.b network only to find that it can't keep up with the usage demands. Another idea is in order to keep things free to require people to donate a few extra cpu cycles to the government in return by using java based distributed computing.
If the government were to try and sniff a large number of packets in the manner described they would be impossible to collect ones that are only illegal. They would have the same sort of situation I experienced when I installed snort and turned on everything. Spade was freaking out at me about once every 5 seconds, I was getting warnings about unicast ARP attacks and port-scans all over the place. How can you tell what constitutes a packet containing illicit transmissions? There would be so many false alarms that they wouldn't be able to do anything with that data. What if it was an encrypted communication? They can't just flag all encrypted stuff because legitimate transactions are encrypted all the time. A lot of people doing nothing wrong would be put under suspicion no matter what algorithm they were using. Therefore doing what is described is next to impossible.
I think that its high time for Apple to release a version of iTunes in binary form for linux. They did it on Windows and they are making money from ITMS they could do the same on linux for sure.
How does a power failure cause a blue screen of death and how does a usb booster cause infrared interference? His "explanations" really don't make any sense at all and seem to be distracting blame from the products that failed onto things that had little to nothing to do with it.
Don't fall for this blog article it is obviously part of a coverup as to what really happened.
"And digital cameras would not exist without flash memory (No. 22) and OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes, No. 17)."
Digital cameras with OLEDs aren't even commercially available yet so how could they be an integral part of digital cameras? Sure there is one to be released but from what he is saying suggests that without OLED's that digital cameras woulden't exist.
It would seem that Apple has been more successful then M$ in implementing convergence technologies into its operating system. OSX is virtually crash free and easy to use and is extremely extensible due to it's modular architecture. I would really like to see Apple releasing software however to allow easy storage and playback of TV and Movies. (it is possible to do this but the technologies that enable it need to be integrated into a nice clean iApp) What good is the software that does it for if its not reliable and unreasonably limited by DRM technology Mr Gates?
Why? Why would someone do that other than for obvious reasons. It would seem that he isn't the dangerous terrorist the charges imply beacause a real terrorist woulden't be dumb enough to shine the laser at the police. I suppose that I could see somebody doing stupid things with fancy lazers and whatnot. Thats why I am never going to get a gun beacause I would problably go around looking for things to shoot at.
From a true Mac fanatic: First of all I wear a digital watch you insensitive clod, (One of the Casio ones with the calendar, calculator etc.) But I do think you have a good post here. However once you started talking about placing limits on who can buy a Mac it kinda ruined it for me. As far as i am concerned the more people that switch to Mac the better. What could possibly make someone "not worthy" of owning a Mac? It shouldn't matter if you don't have 3000 smackers lying around or not, I happen to be lucky enough to have a 12 that was given to me by a very caring person and I have never been able to afford such a nice machine on my own. So I guess if I go by what you are saying I don't fit the proper criteria. Everyone should have the ability to use the best platform available. Regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, gender or financial situation. Its nice to see the Mac becoming a platform worthy of the masses. People with PCs often make life more difficult for everyone by sending us spam from their zombified computers or making it possible to bring the net to a grinding halt with one packet. Not to mention the problably substantial amount of many nation's GDP being wasted on "securing" Windows and cleaning up the messes it leaves behind. Thanks Microsoft! The question I really want to ask you is this? Is it the Mac that isn't worthy to be mainstream or the mainstream that doesn't deserve the Mac? Niter I say! But the first bit is a chilling conclusion that one could draw from your statements.
I think that a lot of the patents on software out there now are invalid. That calls into question the whole idea of patents in general. The idea behind a patent is that it is not to be awarded to an obvious perviously available or generic concept, product, or process.
For instance, M$ has been patenting things as silly as the double click and automatic software updates as well as claiming ownership over networking protocols that have become ubiquitous. If a company desires to hold valuable intellectual property than it should now allow its IP to be used without limitations. Basically, what I mean is that if for example that if UNIX were not to be released to other licensing agreements and development forks it would not have become a generic, thus invalidating any patents and trademarks involved.
It is silly to think that 256 is enough RAM to run 10.3. This 12" came standard with that and I couldn't use it w/o dropping another 512 into it. I think that 512 standard is more logical.
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That is an excellent point. Police protection would definentley need to play a big part.
I think that it could actually be really helpful to a sex offender knowing when they are approaching an area where they aren't supposed to be and help them stay away from temptation. A green led could be lit when everything is cool, it would turn yellow and emit a tone when one gets to close to a restricted area and then emit mild electric shock once a restricted area is entered. Also a service could be offered to allow people to track the location of a sex offender as they walk around and possible when one enters the general vicinity neighborhood etc and warn parents. I don't think a name should be given just a warning and maybe a mug so people can know when they could be under threat. The police can keep track and the offenders have assistance staying out of trouble.
Give people help in converting there computers over to LINUX or encourage mac adoption. IOts my understanding that you can run WINE and still run most windows progs on linux. The problem with linux is that it can be a bit scarry and user unfriendly for average users so if you helped people switch then that would help a lot. A program that offered trade in value on current machines to buy macs would be helpfull. Mostly if you give people the right infromation in they waqy they can digest it it will help as far as getting the users to go along with it. Also mabye a site licence for some sort of really good virus protection and require people to use it in order to use the network.
Many people say that the whole idea or spreadsheets is fundamentally flawed because a single error can propagate itself throughout the whole spreadsheet so a miscalculation early on tends to expand exponentially down to the rest.
Just furthers the case that DRM is bad for everybody. Bad for companies, bad for consumers, bad for artists. Don't get me wrong there is a good motivation behind not wanting free copying of copyrighted media but requiring somebody to encrypt something to listen to it when they have it locally unencrypted on there computer serves no end but to make people less interested in the product. The best way to prevent large scale piracy is to offer a value added product. Pay the money and get good quality music on a CD, rip it yourself and get to keep the pretty pictures. Its all about making something that people WANT to purchase and make it worth the money to do so.
Now they are trying to smuggle drugs into outer space? Crack smoking aliens don't sound to friendly. Its official, the end is near.
I would suggest making available lower qualityh mp3s for free on your site, people will be able to hear the music and you won't be wasting the money spent on high quality studio production. People will hear the music and if they like it then buy a cd or high quality music file.
Many of you have problably seen thoes coolers that have no gas or anything, just a fan. This technology, called thermo electrics was first used by the military to cool FLIR systems. The IR CCDS of the time weren't as sensitive and needed to be at liquid nitrogen temps to work. The one time i had a good look at one was at the MT tech sale. It was really cool, a heatsync with one side getting hot and a fan, and on the other a freezing cold heatsync. Something like that could fit in the case of the computer quite easiley. Mabye the dual 3 GHZ G5 3.5 mabye. ;)
Don't forget the Apple Xserve!
I beleve in the right ofg people to have the information and access to what they need. If you can't use computers and the internet it puts you in some ways in a disadvantage in today's society.
Another notch in the belt for thoes of us who beleve that internet access is a public right. One of the most inportant things to take into consideration in the future is to biuld a network that by using open firmware upgradable hardware to reduce the cost of supporting new and faster protocols like WI-MAX and whatever is coming next. This would allow for the network to meet the demands of incresing bandwith usage and reliability concerns for years to come. There is nothing like installing a multimillion dollar 802.11.b network only to find that it can't keep up with the usage demands. Another idea is in order to keep things free to require people to donate a few extra cpu cycles to the government in return by using java based distributed computing.
If the government were to try and sniff a large number of packets in the manner described they would be impossible to collect ones that are only illegal. They would have the same sort of situation I experienced when I installed snort and turned on everything. Spade was freaking out at me about once every 5 seconds, I was getting warnings about unicast ARP attacks and port-scans all over the place. How can you tell what constitutes a packet containing illicit transmissions? There would be so many false alarms that they wouldn't be able to do anything with that data. What if it was an encrypted communication? They can't just flag all encrypted stuff because legitimate transactions are encrypted all the time. A lot of people doing nothing wrong would be put under suspicion no matter what algorithm they were using. Therefore doing what is described is next to impossible.
Why don't the test out some sort of anti sattelite weapon on it?
I think that its high time for Apple to release a version of iTunes in binary form for linux. They did it on Windows and they are making money from ITMS they could do the same on linux for sure.
Damn robots hiding under my furniture with shotguns!!
I like Neo Office just fine. All the grit and power of x11 with the nice aqua wrapper and menus.
How does a power failure cause a blue screen of death and how does a usb booster cause infrared interference? His "explanations" really don't make any sense at all and seem to be distracting blame from the products that failed onto things that had little to nothing to do with it. Don't fall for this blog article it is obviously part of a coverup as to what really happened.
"And digital cameras would not exist without flash memory (No. 22) and OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes, No. 17)." Digital cameras with OLEDs aren't even commercially available yet so how could they be an integral part of digital cameras? Sure there is one to be released but from what he is saying suggests that without OLED's that digital cameras woulden't exist.
Where are the pics?
It would seem that Apple has been more successful then M$ in implementing convergence technologies into its operating system. OSX is virtually crash free and easy to use and is extremely extensible due to it's modular architecture. I would really like to see Apple releasing software however to allow easy storage and playback of TV and Movies. (it is possible to do this but the technologies that enable it need to be integrated into a nice clean iApp) What good is the software that does it for if its not reliable and unreasonably limited by DRM technology Mr Gates?
Why? Why would someone do that other than for obvious reasons. It would seem that he isn't the dangerous terrorist the charges imply beacause a real terrorist woulden't be dumb enough to shine the laser at the police. I suppose that I could see somebody doing stupid things with fancy lazers and whatnot. Thats why I am never going to get a gun beacause I would problably go around looking for things to shoot at.
From a true Mac fanatic: First of all I wear a digital watch you insensitive clod, (One of the Casio ones with the calendar, calculator etc.) But I do think you have a good post here. However once you started talking about placing limits on who can buy a Mac it kinda ruined it for me. As far as i am concerned the more people that switch to Mac the better. What could possibly make someone "not worthy" of owning a Mac? It shouldn't matter if you don't have 3000 smackers lying around or not, I happen to be lucky enough to have a 12 that was given to me by a very caring person and I have never been able to afford such a nice machine on my own. So I guess if I go by what you are saying I don't fit the proper criteria. Everyone should have the ability to use the best platform available. Regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, gender or financial situation. Its nice to see the Mac becoming a platform worthy of the masses. People with PCs often make life more difficult for everyone by sending us spam from their zombified computers or making it possible to bring the net to a grinding halt with one packet. Not to mention the problably substantial amount of many nation's GDP being wasted on "securing" Windows and cleaning up the messes it leaves behind. Thanks Microsoft! The question I really want to ask you is this? Is it the Mac that isn't worthy to be mainstream or the mainstream that doesn't deserve the Mac? Niter I say! But the first bit is a chilling conclusion that one could draw from your statements.
I think that a lot of the patents on software out there now are invalid. That calls into question the whole idea of patents in general. The idea behind a patent is that it is not to be awarded to an obvious perviously available or generic concept, product, or process. For instance, M$ has been patenting things as silly as the double click and automatic software updates as well as claiming ownership over networking protocols that have become ubiquitous. If a company desires to hold valuable intellectual property than it should now allow its IP to be used without limitations. Basically, what I mean is that if for example that if UNIX were not to be released to other licensing agreements and development forks it would not have become a generic, thus invalidating any patents and trademarks involved.
I hope at least that there is one slot for expansion or the 256 can be easily removed and a larger chip installed.
It is silly to think that 256 is enough RAM to run 10.3. This 12" came standard with that and I couldn't use it w/o dropping another 512 into it. I think that 512 standard is more logical.