Show me any (unmodded) Nomad with >160GB. The largest listed on Creative's site are the Zen, Zen Vision, and Zen Vision W(idescreen). These come in 30GB and 60GB flavors. The "small" iPod Classic is now 80GB. The big one is 160GB.
The rest of the iPods, well, they're pretty lame anyway. I have a small music collection and 16GB is too small for it. (It weighs in at just under 18GB.) But at least the iPod Touch finally has wireless.
So I guess CmdrTaco's initial analysis is now completely false.
Wireless. More space than a Nomad. Decidedly not lame.
Just some (attempted) profit-taking. Everybody buys AAPL right before an announcement, then sells shortly afterward to get some fast cash. Only the ones that buy several days in advance make anything, but the effect is tried-and-true. It's been happening around every Apple product announcement for the last couple of decades, with varying share prices of course.
Programming is an "industry" or "manufacturing" job since it produces a final, tangible product (a program). Project management and architect/designer gets lumped in with programming a lot, and they're service jobs (they guide the output of the manufacturing job, but produce no final product in and of themselves). But programming itself is not a service. Code monkeys are digital steering-wheel installers on a code assembly line.
They aren't trying very hard. Java has a 15-year head-start on.NET. Meanwhile,.NET is vastly superior and is mopping the floor with Java. Why? Because Java sucks. Why should I have to mess with a classpath when I can just include references in a build file or dump a binary into a "magic" directory? Flexibility is no excuse for stupidity. This extends to the rest of the Java vs..NET issue. Java is flexible but clunky and stupid..NET lacks a tiny amount of that flexibility in a compromise to ease of use.
Basically, Microsoft finally got something right. That's not to say they didn't take some lessons from Java, but the fact is.NET is way nicer than Java.
I just hope the Mono guys make hay while they can and get Mono up to a fully-usable state before MS decides they've given enough engineering support to the Linux-support guys. I'd love to use.NET to make cross-platform apps that work as well as.NET on Windows does now.
Perhaps instead of "PPC" the OP should've said ${nonX86Processor} so you would get the drift. The same applies to Sparc, ARM, Power-and-siblings, and a half-dozen others that I can't be bothered to name. Not all of these are out of mainstream production (even PPC is still in mainstream production, just not by Apple) and there is certainly a need for Linux video drivers for these platforms. Not to mention embedded stuff...
You build it at the minimum height requirement and wider than it is tall. Seriously, most of the time, a mechanical vent space on a cupola on the roof will pass for a steeple. This is how Jehovah's Witnesses build their buildings in areas with these laws without having a real phallic-symbol steeple on their Kingdom Halls. Look at a recently-built one in an uptight suburb of just about any American city and you'll probably notice this feature. But only if you look for it.
Many municipalities require "religious" buildings to be zoned residential and have a steeple of some sort (it can be inconspicuous, but there's a minimum height requirement). If these conditions aren't met, then the local government won't give it tax-exempt status. Sure, you can get out of federal taxes as a non-profit, but there's property taxes, sales taxes, and all the other local stuff.
Then there's the states. Some states require each church location to register (similar to the property-tax-exemption requirements of some municipalities) in order to get state tax exemption.
So, yes, the US federal government does not require anything more than a non-profit shell corporation and various associated tax-dancing that goes with them in order for a group to be a "religion", but the states have their own rules, and counties and cities have even more. And they use the term "religion" in the laws.
Stores where you become a member make it a matter of contract law. (I'm thinking Sam's Club and Costco here...)
You go there, pay your membership dues, and sign a contract to become a member. That gives you the legal right to shop there without paying dues until the membership expiration date, and it also gives them the right to check your purchases against your reciept. Note that they do not have the right to search you, only to verify that the items you walk out of the store with are the ones you paid for.
Once upon a time, I imagine someone argued that this was a search, and in a way it is. But it's a protected one.
I had Connectix Virtual Game Station for the Mac (OS 9, not X!). They finally updated the emulation core for it to work with FF8, but it took them a while, and I had bought the real PSX by the time that patch was released. Then they discontinued CVGS.
Heh... "Blast Processing" wasn't hype, nor was it a feature. It was just Sega's fancy marketing-drivel name for double buffering. Everything up to that point on consoles had just used ultra-fast vblank blitters and DMA. Sonic would get all kinds of nasty image tearing and artifacts if they did that, so they "invented" double buffering for that game. Then marketing spun it (as marketing is wont to do) and it became a bullet point for the fanboys to argue over.
The thing is, and I don't think I stated it clearly, I'm one of those "fanboys" that buys Nintendo no-matter-what and hates Sega/Sony/MS/et al. You'll notice that I tried emulation before actually buying a PSX... And it took something as thorougly awesome as Guitar Hero (actualy, GH2!) to get me to buy a PS2... No Xboxen for me yet. Besides, the middle-school-level pissing matches are almost as fun as the games.
My SNES can beat your Genesis any day because it can display 32767 colors and the Genesissy can only display 512! My N64 can destroy your Playstation because it has z-buffering and anti-aliasing and tri-linear mipmap interpolation and the Praystation only has grainy crap! My Gamecube is better than your PS2... because it is! My Wii ownz your Xbox360 because the ladies love playing with my Wii!
I almost punched a kid in high school over one of these arguments (SNES vs. Genesis, back then). Good times... Fortunately, I'm 27 now, completely secure in my fanboyism, and don't have much time to get into immature arguments anymore.
That's not true. If the DLL was in a different memory space... - and - mapped into the application's virtual address space - and - the code for strlen() is not duplicated in memory for every app that needs it
Umm... don't the second two statements there pretty much put the first one to rest as inaccurate? The DLL has its own memory space. A mapping to that address space is created within the "virtual address space" of the app. The DLL's code is not duplicated into each app (unlike a statically-linked library), merely mapped so that it kinda looks like it's statically linked. But it's not, really. It's separate, but easy access is granted to it, bypassing the normal restrictions on app-to-app memory use.
Thus it's not really linking. It's using a separate app to generate a response in the same fashion as that of a static library.
Actually, it makes me $600 richer and no worse for the wear.
I have every Nintendo system since the NES, and a decent library of games for every system since the SNES. I'm fairly certain that there will be games I want to play on ${CurrentNintendoSystem} and that this statement will be as true 10 years from now as it was 20 years ago and every year in between. Why should I buy a Sony system?
Now, that's not to say that I won't buy a Sony system. I have a PSX and a PS2. I bought the PSX when FF8 wouldn't work in emulation. I bought the PS2 for Guitar Hero. I have half a dozen games for each (a paltry sum compared to my dozens of games for each Nintendo system). I haven't missed out on much by delaying these purchases, and in fact, I've saved a bit of money. The PSX was under $100 brand new, and the PS2 was about $130 brand new. No used stuff (questionable maintenance and possible abuse = no thanks). Compare that to the $300 price tag on those systems when they were new... Yeah. Saved a bundle.
That's not moronic. It's selective and fiscally responsible.
And taking all kinds of flak for the bugs those copy-control systems introduce.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft is well aware that simplifying their codebase will make it more stable. They just can't do it without stomping on the DMCA and pissing off several licensing authorities (MPEG-LA, AACS-LA, etc.). Thus they have a vested interest in relaxing the restrictions placed upon their system by the assholes in "big media".
(Without a standard interface where you cold drop in a replacement from another source)
But that's what a DLL guarantees. If you code the DLL on your own, use the same function names, parameters, exports/imports/namespaces (depending on COM or.NET), and put it in the same filename (whatever.dll), and replace the GPL-coded DLL file with your new one, your unmodified program will work. You have to be very careful to duplicate the interface exactly WRT to names and parameters and types, but it's possible.
Thus a DLL cannot pass GPL restrictions on to any app that uses it.
DLL's aren't a gray area. DLL's are dynamically linked libraries. They're also shared libraries. That means that they have to stand on their own in the OS (they "plug-in" to a loader framework, then stay resident until their memory space is needed for something else). Any app can use any DLL present on the system, and when compiling, this requires only a few hooks to be placed in the code (hooks into the loader framework, not the DLL, thus no GPL violation).
This means that DLL's are basically a separate app from the app that calls them. They have their own memory space, even (because they're shared and can outlive any app that uses them). Thus, GPL is not violated and does not foist itself upon the main app. The libraries likely underwent changes to make them valid DLL's, and those changes would certainly be covered by the GPL. But the main app is not. Period. It's quite cut-and-dried.
DLL's are dynamically linked libraries. All windows libraries are DLL's. Static libraries get rolled into the EXE file. Thus there's no viral-GPL bullshit on Windows unless the developer is stupid enough to just copy/paste GPL'ed code into their app and compile it in directly.
The best you can ask for in this case is the source to the DLL's. These probably had to undergo some modifications to be DLL's, since most GPL'ed-library developers know that you shouldn't make it easy to wrap that GPL'ed code in a DLL and isolate it from the app and destroy the GPL's invasion possibilities.
My only concern is the new MB Pro's are too wide-screenish. The screen is really wide and not very tall, which seems optimized for watching movies. OK, but has anyone tried reading text documents on a screen like that? You're continually scrolling, and doing two pages side-by-side makes the text too small.
It's not that bad. The native vertical resolution is 900 pixels (or 1050 pixels if you get the 17" model), and everything in 10.4 and beyond is rendered independent of the resolution and pixel pitch anyway. On top of that, the touchpad now supports two-finger dragging, which equates to scroll-wheel functionality by default. After just a few days of using this feature, you'll be used to it and feel somewhat lost when using a laptop that doesn't have it.
Just be warned that some of the older MBP's had screen-flickering problems right away, though I think those issues have been resolved. The current design seems to have matured.
Theft requires two things. 1) The thief must take something. 2) The victim must be deprived of the item the thief took.
Copyright infringement is morally and ethically similar to theft, but it consists of the following corresponding steps: 1) The infringer copies something. 2) The victim is deprived of the benefit potentially gained by the use of the copy.
It's the distinction between outright pain and mere inconvenience. Geeks like to think of everything as true/false, digital decisions, but the fact is that life and human nature is analog. Copyright infringement is at its base far less damaging than outright theft.
I've been an SBC DSL user for almost 7 years now, and I didn't have to use an alternate SMTP port until 18 months ago, right about the time they bought BellSouth (they called it a merger in all the press releases, but you're right, it was a buyout). I'm still of the opinion that SBC was less evil 2 years ago. And not just 2-years-of-decay evil, but actually almost a "good" telco.
Oh well. I guess the only good telco is a dead telco. Shoot 'em. It's faster and cheaper than hanging.
AT&T is upset because the vast majority of people don't want a crippled iPhone. They did costly upgrades to their network in order to lock people into crippled iPhone service in the US, and they honestly thought people would buy a crippled phone with overpriced, crippled service. Now that most of the hype has died down, and it's become clear that most people aren't as stupid as everyone likes to assume they are, they're attempting to make more demand for the iPhone by crippling everyone else's phones too.
Or better, line the pipe with thermocouple generators to generate electricity from the difference in temperature. Not only will it leech heat energy from the pipe (making the impact on river temperature decrease), it will also boost plant output. Maybe it's only 1%. That's still an extra 1% you were going to throw away.
Expensive? Yes, but it's a friggin' nuclear power plant. Those aren't exactly cheap to begin with. What difference does another 0.01% of the total cost make?
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Show me any (unmodded) Nomad with >160GB. The largest listed on Creative's site are the Zen, Zen Vision, and Zen Vision W(idescreen). These come in 30GB and 60GB flavors. The "small" iPod Classic is now 80GB. The big one is 160GB.
The rest of the iPods, well, they're pretty lame anyway. I have a small music collection and 16GB is too small for it. (It weighs in at just under 18GB.) But at least the iPod Touch finally has wireless.
So I guess CmdrTaco's initial analysis is now completely false.
Wireless. More space than a Nomad. Decidedly not lame.
Just some (attempted) profit-taking. Everybody buys AAPL right before an announcement, then sells shortly afterward to get some fast cash. Only the ones that buy several days in advance make anything, but the effect is tried-and-true. It's been happening around every Apple product announcement for the last couple of decades, with varying share prices of course.
Programming is an "industry" or "manufacturing" job since it produces a final, tangible product (a program). Project management and architect/designer gets lumped in with programming a lot, and they're service jobs (they guide the output of the manufacturing job, but produce no final product in and of themselves). But programming itself is not a service. Code monkeys are digital steering-wheel installers on a code assembly line.
They aren't trying very hard. Java has a 15-year head-start on .NET. Meanwhile, .NET is vastly superior and is mopping the floor with Java. Why? Because Java sucks. Why should I have to mess with a classpath when I can just include references in a build file or dump a binary into a "magic" directory? Flexibility is no excuse for stupidity. This extends to the rest of the Java vs. .NET issue. Java is flexible but clunky and stupid. .NET lacks a tiny amount of that flexibility in a compromise to ease of use.
.NET is way nicer than Java.
.NET to make cross-platform apps that work as well as .NET on Windows does now.
Basically, Microsoft finally got something right. That's not to say they didn't take some lessons from Java, but the fact is
I just hope the Mono guys make hay while they can and get Mono up to a fully-usable state before MS decides they've given enough engineering support to the Linux-support guys. I'd love to use
Perhaps instead of "PPC" the OP should've said ${nonX86Processor} so you would get the drift. The same applies to Sparc, ARM, Power-and-siblings, and a half-dozen others that I can't be bothered to name. Not all of these are out of mainstream production (even PPC is still in mainstream production, just not by Apple) and there is certainly a need for Linux video drivers for these platforms. Not to mention embedded stuff...
You build it at the minimum height requirement and wider than it is tall. Seriously, most of the time, a mechanical vent space on a cupola on the roof will pass for a steeple. This is how Jehovah's Witnesses build their buildings in areas with these laws without having a real phallic-symbol steeple on their Kingdom Halls. Look at a recently-built one in an uptight suburb of just about any American city and you'll probably notice this feature. But only if you look for it.
Not quite true.
Many municipalities require "religious" buildings to be zoned residential and have a steeple of some sort (it can be inconspicuous, but there's a minimum height requirement). If these conditions aren't met, then the local government won't give it tax-exempt status. Sure, you can get out of federal taxes as a non-profit, but there's property taxes, sales taxes, and all the other local stuff.
Then there's the states. Some states require each church location to register (similar to the property-tax-exemption requirements of some municipalities) in order to get state tax exemption.
So, yes, the US federal government does not require anything more than a non-profit shell corporation and various associated tax-dancing that goes with them in order for a group to be a "religion", but the states have their own rules, and counties and cities have even more. And they use the term "religion" in the laws.
Stores where you become a member make it a matter of contract law. (I'm thinking Sam's Club and Costco here...)
You go there, pay your membership dues, and sign a contract to become a member. That gives you the legal right to shop there without paying dues until the membership expiration date, and it also gives them the right to check your purchases against your reciept. Note that they do not have the right to search you, only to verify that the items you walk out of the store with are the ones you paid for.
Once upon a time, I imagine someone argued that this was a search, and in a way it is. But it's a protected one.
I had Connectix Virtual Game Station for the Mac (OS 9, not X!). They finally updated the emulation core for it to work with FF8, but it took them a while, and I had bought the real PSX by the time that patch was released. Then they discontinued CVGS.
Heh... "Blast Processing" wasn't hype, nor was it a feature. It was just Sega's fancy marketing-drivel name for double buffering. Everything up to that point on consoles had just used ultra-fast vblank blitters and DMA. Sonic would get all kinds of nasty image tearing and artifacts if they did that, so they "invented" double buffering for that game. Then marketing spun it (as marketing is wont to do) and it became a bullet point for the fanboys to argue over.
The thing is, and I don't think I stated it clearly, I'm one of those "fanboys" that buys Nintendo no-matter-what and hates Sega/Sony/MS/et al. You'll notice that I tried emulation before actually buying a PSX... And it took something as thorougly awesome as Guitar Hero (actualy, GH2!) to get me to buy a PS2... No Xboxen for me yet. Besides, the middle-school-level pissing matches are almost as fun as the games.
My SNES can beat your Genesis any day because it can display 32767 colors and the Genesissy can only display 512! My N64 can destroy your Playstation because it has z-buffering and anti-aliasing and tri-linear mipmap interpolation and the Praystation only has grainy crap! My Gamecube is better than your PS2... because it is! My Wii ownz your Xbox360 because the ladies love playing with my Wii!
I almost punched a kid in high school over one of these arguments (SNES vs. Genesis, back then). Good times... Fortunately, I'm 27 now, completely secure in my fanboyism, and don't have much time to get into immature arguments anymore.
And time, too. But then you have to do something else with all that time you have laying around, and that can be a PITA, or worse, boring.
I'll stick with buying games I like.
That's not true. If the DLL was in a different memory space...
- and -
mapped into the application's virtual address space
- and -
the code for strlen() is not duplicated in memory for every app that needs it
Umm... don't the second two statements there pretty much put the first one to rest as inaccurate? The DLL has its own memory space. A mapping to that address space is created within the "virtual address space" of the app. The DLL's code is not duplicated into each app (unlike a statically-linked library), merely mapped so that it kinda looks like it's statically linked. But it's not, really. It's separate, but easy access is granted to it, bypassing the normal restrictions on app-to-app memory use.
Thus it's not really linking. It's using a separate app to generate a response in the same fashion as that of a static library.
Actually, it makes me $600 richer and no worse for the wear.
I have every Nintendo system since the NES, and a decent library of games for every system since the SNES. I'm fairly certain that there will be games I want to play on ${CurrentNintendoSystem} and that this statement will be as true 10 years from now as it was 20 years ago and every year in between. Why should I buy a Sony system?
Now, that's not to say that I won't buy a Sony system. I have a PSX and a PS2. I bought the PSX when FF8 wouldn't work in emulation. I bought the PS2 for Guitar Hero. I have half a dozen games for each (a paltry sum compared to my dozens of games for each Nintendo system). I haven't missed out on much by delaying these purchases, and in fact, I've saved a bit of money. The PSX was under $100 brand new, and the PS2 was about $130 brand new. No used stuff (questionable maintenance and possible abuse = no thanks). Compare that to the $300 price tag on those systems when they were new... Yeah. Saved a bundle.
That's not moronic. It's selective and fiscally responsible.
And taking all kinds of flak for the bugs those copy-control systems introduce.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft is well aware that simplifying their codebase will make it more stable. They just can't do it without stomping on the DMCA and pissing off several licensing authorities (MPEG-LA, AACS-LA, etc.). Thus they have a vested interest in relaxing the restrictions placed upon their system by the assholes in "big media".
1) Simplify Windows' codebase by removing copy-control shit
2) ???
3) Profit!!!
Even underpants gnomes could fill in the ??? there.
(Without a standard interface where you cold drop in a replacement from another source)
.NET), and put it in the same filename (whatever.dll), and replace the GPL-coded DLL file with your new one, your unmodified program will work. You have to be very careful to duplicate the interface exactly WRT to names and parameters and types, but it's possible.
But that's what a DLL guarantees. If you code the DLL on your own, use the same function names, parameters, exports/imports/namespaces (depending on COM or
Thus a DLL cannot pass GPL restrictions on to any app that uses it.
No, no, no... That would be WAMP. Like the rats.
DLL's aren't a gray area. DLL's are dynamically linked libraries. They're also shared libraries. That means that they have to stand on their own in the OS (they "plug-in" to a loader framework, then stay resident until their memory space is needed for something else). Any app can use any DLL present on the system, and when compiling, this requires only a few hooks to be placed in the code (hooks into the loader framework, not the DLL, thus no GPL violation).
This means that DLL's are basically a separate app from the app that calls them. They have their own memory space, even (because they're shared and can outlive any app that uses them). Thus, GPL is not violated and does not foist itself upon the main app. The libraries likely underwent changes to make them valid DLL's, and those changes would certainly be covered by the GPL. But the main app is not. Period. It's quite cut-and-dried.
Not if the GPL software is all in DLL's.
DLL's are dynamically linked libraries. All windows libraries are DLL's. Static libraries get rolled into the EXE file. Thus there's no viral-GPL bullshit on Windows unless the developer is stupid enough to just copy/paste GPL'ed code into their app and compile it in directly.
The best you can ask for in this case is the source to the DLL's. These probably had to undergo some modifications to be DLL's, since most GPL'ed-library developers know that you shouldn't make it easy to wrap that GPL'ed code in a DLL and isolate it from the app and destroy the GPL's invasion possibilities.
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along" never seemed more appropriate.
My only concern is the new MB Pro's are too wide-screenish. The screen is really wide and not very tall, which seems optimized for watching movies. OK, but has anyone tried reading text documents on a screen like that? You're continually scrolling, and doing two pages side-by-side makes the text too small.
It's not that bad. The native vertical resolution is 900 pixels (or 1050 pixels if you get the 17" model), and everything in 10.4 and beyond is rendered independent of the resolution and pixel pitch anyway. On top of that, the touchpad now supports two-finger dragging, which equates to scroll-wheel functionality by default. After just a few days of using this feature, you'll be used to it and feel somewhat lost when using a laptop that doesn't have it.
Just be warned that some of the older MBP's had screen-flickering problems right away, though I think those issues have been resolved. The current design seems to have matured.
Copyright is not theft.
Theft requires two things.
1) The thief must take something.
2) The victim must be deprived of the item the thief took.
Copyright infringement is morally and ethically similar to theft, but it consists of the following corresponding steps:
1) The infringer copies something.
2) The victim is deprived of the benefit potentially gained by the use of the copy.
It's the distinction between outright pain and mere inconvenience. Geeks like to think of everything as true/false, digital decisions, but the fact is that life and human nature is analog. Copyright infringement is at its base far less damaging than outright theft.
I've been an SBC DSL user for almost 7 years now, and I didn't have to use an alternate SMTP port until 18 months ago, right about the time they bought BellSouth (they called it a merger in all the press releases, but you're right, it was a buyout). I'm still of the opinion that SBC was less evil 2 years ago. And not just 2-years-of-decay evil, but actually almost a "good" telco.
Oh well. I guess the only good telco is a dead telco. Shoot 'em. It's faster and cheaper than hanging.
There. Fixed that for you.
Or better, line the pipe with thermocouple generators to generate electricity from the difference in temperature. Not only will it leech heat energy from the pipe (making the impact on river temperature decrease), it will also boost plant output. Maybe it's only 1%. That's still an extra 1% you were going to throw away.
Expensive? Yes, but it's a friggin' nuclear power plant. Those aren't exactly cheap to begin with. What difference does another 0.01% of the total cost make?