From the article: 'Like the iMac before it, Apple's MacBook Pro underwent an upgrade highlighted by a chip swap -- the Core Duo processor that used to power Apple's pro laptop is gone, replaced by the next-generation Core 2 Duo.
It also gained dual-layer Superdrives and Firewire 800 back, and comes with more RAM standard and higher maximum RAM than the previous model, which is more than you can say for the iMac upgrade.
Yet another defeat for the fascist anti-Comedy police state.
Well I, for one, welcome our fascist anti-comedic overlords. I'd like to remind them that as an avid internet user, I can be helpful in rounding up media pirates to toil in their underground reality-tv script caves.
I just spotted over on the Windows Vista Team Blog the news that the Windows Vista retail licensing terms are being revised.
This may be a dumb question, but there isn't a separate OEM license, right? I'd hate to think I had to pay the full retail price to be able to make major changes later to a system I was buidling from scratch at the moment. I only ask as it's the kind of stupidity I expect from Microsoft.
You want to post benchmarking results? Well, Microsoft may now have a say in it.
Hasn't a precident for this already been set by the courts. Software companies trying to use draconian EULA's to keep unfavorable reviews and benchmarking results out of print is nothing new, and they've been shown to be unenforcable and an infringment of First Amendment rights.
Has the Mozilla team considered adopting timeframes to the resolution of bugs, no matter what the severity. I've seen bugs on Bugzilla that while minor, have been open since before the browser was named Firefox, some without any comment besides the initial confirmation they exist. Why do issues stay unaddressed after multiple major releases?
But I can't understand how Apple can charge for what is a pretty damn small upgrade.
Because people will pay for it? As long as the majority of consumers are willing to pay the price then the price is not too high. That's how the free market works.
And not to nitpick, but there's no such thing as an OSX "upgrade". There's only two boxed verions (client and server). The disks you buy contain the whole OS, you don't have to give the license key from a previous version or have a previous version installed on your hardware already. Upgrades give a finiancial incentive for staying up to date, so the older the version you have, the more you pay. But with Apple, you could jump straight from OS9 to 10.5 and pay the same as someone going from 10.4 to 10.5.
there is NO WAY to detect or extract the real files from the planted files.
Actually, if they monitor changes to the drive on the sector level, they would see the blocks of the hidden volume changing, which would make no sense if they exist in a section of the (outer) TrueCrypt volume that contain no files. And these changes would be visible on a journalling filesystem. So it's recommended you don't use one.
"Johansen has written [two] programs...: one that would let other companies sell copy-protected songs that play on the iPod, and another that would let other devices play iTunes songs.
That's what the DOUBLE means in "DoubleTwist".
Letting other devices play iTunes songs would mean getting either creating a psudo-Fairplay system for future devices to incorporate, or converting the song from Fairplay protected AAC to plain AAC or another format. Converting to MP3 would allow the largest number of devices to play the songs after that, but I don't think they would choose a non-DRM format since they would be removing copy protection and risking DMCA action.
There's a chance that it will improve again, but currently there's a (grassroots/astroturf?) fear campaign against foreigners, mostly focussed on islamic cultured or coloured people, but americans as well (your current president isn't helping your reputation!).
GAIM 2.0 is not actually out yet. This is only a beta, and as someone who has been waiting for over a year for the software to be released, I don't expect it to show up anytime soon. In fact, it's reminding me of Vista's development. Very little information, and feature scale backs. The merging of the Gaim-vv code into 2.0 was canceled, the results of the Google Summer of Code 2005 were released right around the time the Summer of Code 2006 was ending.
The longest thread on the project's forum page is still a thread asking about the delays even though it was closed at the end of August. And it has it's share of jerks, but it really illustrates what a Debian-like release cycle this has been.
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Yeah, if there's one place I'm concerned about privacy, it's when I'm out in public.
It also gained dual-layer Superdrives and Firewire 800 back, and comes with more RAM standard and higher maximum RAM than the previous model, which is more than you can say for the iMac upgrade.
Well I, for one, welcome our fascist anti-comedic overlords. I'd like to remind them that as an avid internet user, I can be helpful in rounding up media pirates to toil in their underground reality-tv script caves.
This may be a dumb question, but there isn't a separate OEM license, right? I'd hate to think I had to pay the full retail price to be able to make major changes later to a system I was buidling from scratch at the moment. I only ask as it's the kind of stupidity I expect from Microsoft.
Hasn't a precident for this already been set by the courts. Software companies trying to use draconian EULA's to keep unfavorable reviews and benchmarking results out of print is nothing new, and they've been shown to be unenforcable and an infringment of First Amendment rights.
Wrist Machine: "Cold. Cold. Warmer. Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot."
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Phone tracks you FOR Soviet Russia!
Security? It's easier to start with something that's already halfway there than learn about a whole new Netscapesque spaghetti-ball of code.
Has the Mozilla team considered adopting timeframes to the resolution of bugs, no matter what the severity. I've seen bugs on Bugzilla that while minor, have been open since before the browser was named Firefox, some without any comment besides the initial confirmation they exist. Why do issues stay unaddressed after multiple major releases?
Also interesting, there are only 3 pages of photos on Google China, and 34 pages of photos on Google.com
I suppose next they'll tell us Chinese people are not interested in their own country?
The U.S. says they don't censor news stories.
Are there any American media stories about this or have they already been corrected?
You say that like those videos will stay there permanently.
Because people will pay for it? As long as the majority of consumers are willing to pay the price then the price is not too high. That's how the free market works.
And not to nitpick, but there's no such thing as an OSX "upgrade". There's only two boxed verions (client and server). The disks you buy contain the whole OS, you don't have to give the license key from a previous version or have a previous version installed on your hardware already. Upgrades give a finiancial incentive for staying up to date, so the older the version you have, the more you pay. But with Apple, you could jump straight from OS9 to 10.5 and pay the same as someone going from 10.4 to 10.5.
Actually, if they monitor changes to the drive on the sector level, they would see the blocks of the hidden volume changing, which would make no sense if they exist in a section of the (outer) TrueCrypt volume that contain no files. And these changes would be visible on a journalling filesystem. So it's recommended you don't use one.
(this is all in the TrueCrypt FAQ's by the way)
You know, in Soviet Russia, the joke gets you.
Okay. I give up.
Was it Sir William Howe? Nicholas II, Csar of Russia? Who is that quote attributed to?
DRM is not one of them.
Music video would be nice, though.
Or a discount code to be used for buying tickets for a live show of the artist.
The idea of putting hardened snot in my mouth makes my skin crawl. But then many of us will admit our tastes have changed from twenty years ago.
Not yet, but wait till after we secure an orbit for those babies!
The submitter is going on a stupid rant about DRM. But YOU didn't read the previous coverage of DoubleTwist.
"Johansen has written [two] programs...: one that would let other companies sell copy-protected songs that play on the iPod, and another that would let other devices play iTunes songs.
That's what the DOUBLE means in "DoubleTwist".
Letting other devices play iTunes songs would mean getting either creating a psudo-Fairplay system for future devices to incorporate, or converting the song from Fairplay protected AAC to plain AAC or another format. Converting to MP3 would allow the largest number of devices to play the songs after that, but I don't think they would choose a non-DRM format since they would be removing copy protection and risking DMCA action.
Wont that make traveling by air rather expensive?
We know, we said we were sorry for that.
GAIM 2.0 is not actually out yet. This is only a beta, and as someone who has been waiting for over a year for the software to be released, I don't expect it to show up anytime soon. In fact, it's reminding me of Vista's development. Very little information, and feature scale backs. The merging of the Gaim-vv code into 2.0 was canceled, the results of the Google Summer of Code 2005 were released right around the time the Summer of Code 2006 was ending.
The longest thread on the project's forum page is still a thread asking about the delays even though it was closed at the end of August. And it has it's share of jerks, but it really illustrates what a Debian-like release cycle this has been.
Enlightening, perhaps?
He should have drank the cold coffee. It has a special trace program to help us bring him back to reality.