If they could find the grandma cell I wonder if we could forget the fact we ever had George W. as president or, to a lesser extent, that we saw our grandma naked while we were a child. That is, preventing the stored memory from reaching the cache.
Some people and situations you never wish you saw..
...according to their specs sheet, this stuff has a boiling point of 49.2C (120.6F).
What I wonder is how good will it be in places like Phoenix, AZ where a summer's day can exceed 120.6F?
Doesn't seem to have much practical use outside of what it seems to have been designed for (keeping fire off water damaged items). Not that that is a bad thing but knowing the/. crowd, they'd probably try to install Linux on a liter of the fluid and make a Beowulf cluster out of it.
Not sure where I called it a hoax. The PR itself says it is benign. It cannot spread. It has to be compressed... It is basically harmless (as harmless as an applescript or any other program that does this or working in the finder). My biggest problem is with the title of this/. story. It implies this is an exploit in in the MP3 engines or in iTunes itself. It is neither. Just a clever use of the cfrg resource.
Indeed. It is just a way to sell software it seems. The file in question is a compressed CFM Application (it must be compressed or encoded in some way as the internet destroys the resource fork and makes this application nothing more than a tame MP3 file with laughter).
The cfrg resource gives the offset of the executable code in the data fork as 64 bytes with a length of 3215 bytes. Which is the exact length of the ID3 tag in question. So the application part is completely ignored by MP3 players and the MP3 part is completely ignored by the Application and OS.
The real question is why didn't the author just put all the executable code in the resource fork. The resource fork is required because the cfrg resource (among others) are required for OS X to launch CFM applications.
I wonder just how many people won't be confused when they see an mp3 file in a stuffit archive. How often do you download mp3s in compressed archives?
See the problem is humans can only program a computer to do something the human coding it knows how to thoroughly describe. It is also why you won't see a computer naturally speaking, showing emotions, or doing anything else we cannot describe today.
It is amusing to see computers being used as proof bringers when you usually need a proof to program the darn things.
The thing I've noticed when people say it costs $XXX in the use and XXX in the UK is that they don't realize that US prices do *not* include tax. All the UK prices do. They never add the US tax to the US price or subtract the UK tax from the UK price.
Well, it is obvious that I won't be watching it tonight. A new episode of Scrubs is on at the same time that deals with causality and the chaos theory. A subject much more interesting to me.
I will be at Narita airport on March 31st. I will make sure to wear a camera around my neck and ask every one when Godzilla is next scheduled to attack.
But I don't remember it saying anything about latency. I thought fixed-wireless was neat and fast (750 kilobytes/second down) until I learned the ping time was around 400-800ms.
You don't think they'd fix any heat issue by release? You can be assured that by release, your precious penis will be safe from harm's way (at least from the computer, not anything else you do to it...)
I hate MS, but I hate what Michael Robertson is doing more. Lindows, the name, implies 100% compatibility with Windows programs. Therefore, it does dilute the windows trademark. Even worse, it doesn't deliver on that compatibility because of a previous lawsuit MS filed.
Sigh, someone is gonna burn, even if it is just my moderator points.
Yeah. Same here as soon as I read it the first thing I though was "Damn, can't wait until it's FFIV vs. Amazon. Cecil is going to kick some ass. Amazon is just a spoony little bard anyways."
I think you got the link wrong. It should have linked to here Instead. Yes, it is all Rick Berman's fault. Every ST movie that has royally sucked was his fault. Every episode that royally sucked was his fault. It's his genius idea to NOT write (or even allow) star trek episodes that reference any part of the star trek mythology.
Seriously, when the FIRST episode of Enterprise didn't fit in the continuity (Klingons, huh?). I knew it was dead, despite the amazing amount of potential a pissed captain has. Right now they just took the events of 9/11 and turned into into a third season of ST:Enterprise.
When icons are dragged off the dock, instead of going *poof* they should be moved to the desktop, unless they are dragged into the trash (and of course, the trash can't be removed)
You mean like holding down the command key while moving an icon off the dock?
The clock epoch (Jan 1st, 1904) and the time it resets to are two different things. All time is counted from the 1904 date. It's up to the designer of that particular motherboard/system/whatever what date the system will reset to if the time value has been lost. Usually it's sometime before the Mac could have ever existed so applications can tell whether or not the date IS actually wrong. If the OS returns 1970, some apps warn you that the date it set incorrectly.
I don't see why they don't just do what Apple does. Slap in a DVD-/+RW drive and just don't tell anyone. Add support to the OS and again, tell no one. Then when someone complains it's not there tell them but make sure they tell no one.
If you have a mac running panther you can see if your DVD drive supports whatever format by typing drutil info in the terminal. OS X does not support packet writing, sadly.
Silly goose. There are no 64-bit patches. Right now OS X *cannot* run 64-bit code so the test would have had to have been 32-bit. The G5 Plugin/patches are for altivec and the ilk. The G5 can run some G4 AltiVec very, very slowly. The G5 plugin changed this code to run faster on a G5.
The G5 was running in 32-bit mode as well. When dealing with 32-bit data, 32-bit mode and 64-bit mode on the G5 have the same performance. I had thought this was true of the Opteron as well.
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If they could find the grandma cell I wonder if we could forget the fact we ever had George W. as president or, to a lesser extent, that we saw our grandma naked while we were a child. That is, preventing the stored memory from reaching the cache.
Some people and situations you never wish you saw..
...according to their specs sheet, this stuff has a boiling point of 49.2C (120.6F).
/. crowd, they'd probably try to install Linux on a liter of the fluid and make a Beowulf cluster out of it.
What I wonder is how good will it be in places like Phoenix, AZ where a summer's day can exceed 120.6F?
Doesn't seem to have much practical use outside of what it seems to have been designed for (keeping fire off water damaged items). Not that that is a bad thing but knowing the
Not sure where I called it a hoax. The PR itself says it is benign. It cannot spread. It has to be compressed... It is basically harmless (as harmless as an applescript or any other program that does this or working in the finder). My biggest problem is with the title of this /. story. It implies this is an exploit in in the MP3 engines or in iTunes itself. It is neither. Just a clever use of the cfrg resource.
Indeed. It is just a way to sell software it seems. The file in question is a compressed CFM Application (it must be compressed or encoded in some way as the internet destroys the resource fork and makes this application nothing more than a tame MP3 file with laughter).
The cfrg resource gives the offset of the executable code in the data fork as 64 bytes with a length of 3215 bytes. Which is the exact length of the ID3 tag in question. So the application part is completely ignored by MP3 players and the MP3 part is completely ignored by the Application and OS.
The real question is why didn't the author just put all the executable code in the resource fork. The resource fork is required because the cfrg resource (among others) are required for OS X to launch CFM applications.
I wonder just how many people won't be confused when they see an mp3 file in a stuffit archive. How often do you download mp3s in compressed archives?
See the problem is humans can only program a computer to do something the human coding it knows how to thoroughly describe. It is also why you won't see a computer naturally speaking, showing emotions, or doing anything else we cannot describe today.
It is amusing to see computers being used as proof bringers when you usually need a proof to program the darn things.
It is slightly wrong.
Mac OS 10.2's official release date was August 24th. They had a special starting at 10:20PM the night before at some Apple stores.
OmniWeb has explicit support for this. Check out:
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http://www.omnigroup.com/images/newimagestemp/omn
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/gal
So it is nothing new, really.
The thing I've noticed when people say it costs $XXX in the use and XXX in the UK is that they don't realize that US prices do *not* include tax. All the UK prices do. They never add the US tax to the US price or subtract the UK tax from the UK price.
Well, it is obvious that I won't be watching it tonight. A new episode of Scrubs is on at the same time that deals with causality and the chaos theory. A subject much more interesting to me.
I will be at Narita airport on March 31st. I will make sure to wear a camera around my neck and ask every one when Godzilla is next scheduled to attack.
But I don't remember it saying anything about latency. I thought fixed-wireless was neat and fast (750 kilobytes/second down) until I learned the ping time was around 400-800ms.
There goes the mod points i just had.
For 3mb down/384 up Cox charges only 199/mo, business account. At least here in phoenix.
You don't think they'd fix any heat issue by release? You can be assured that by release, your precious penis will be safe from harm's way (at least from the computer, not anything else you do to it...)
I hate MS, but I hate what Michael Robertson is doing more. Lindows, the name, implies 100% compatibility with Windows programs. Therefore, it does dilute the windows trademark. Even worse, it doesn't deliver on that compatibility because of a previous lawsuit MS filed.
Sigh, someone is gonna burn, even if it is just my moderator points.
Are people deeply involved with OSS going to start fixing bugs in Win 2k? Might be fun and a dagger in MS's heart.
"We fix bugs in 24 to 40 hours, much faster than OSS."
Yeah. Same here as soon as I read it the first thing I though was "Damn, can't wait until it's FFIV vs. Amazon. Cecil is going to kick some ass. Amazon is just a spoony little bard anyways."
Isn't that what caused the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?
I think you got the link wrong. It should have linked to here Instead. Yes, it is all Rick Berman's fault. Every ST movie that has royally sucked was his fault. Every episode that royally sucked was his fault. It's his genius idea to NOT write (or even allow) star trek episodes that reference any part of the star trek mythology.
Seriously, when the FIRST episode of Enterprise didn't fit in the continuity (Klingons, huh?). I knew it was dead, despite the amazing amount of potential a pissed captain has. Right now they just took the events of 9/11 and turned into into a third season of ST:Enterprise.
When icons are dragged off the dock, instead of going *poof* they should be moved to the desktop, unless they are dragged into the trash (and of course, the trash can't be removed)
You mean like holding down the command key while moving an icon off the dock?
Yeah, can you imagine loosing 40 gigs of data instead of the usual 40 megs? ;)
The clock epoch (Jan 1st, 1904) and the time it resets to are two different things. All time is counted from the 1904 date. It's up to the designer of that particular motherboard/system/whatever what date the system will reset to if the time value has been lost. Usually it's sometime before the Mac could have ever existed so applications can tell whether or not the date IS actually wrong. If the OS returns 1970, some apps warn you that the date it set incorrectly.
The Matshita does not, the Pioneer does.
Vendor Product Rev
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D A606
Interconnect: ATAPI
SupportLevel: Apple Shipping
Cache: 2000k
CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, BUFE, Test
Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Look at that SEXY baby.
I don't see why they don't just do what Apple does. Slap in a DVD-/+RW drive and just don't tell anyone. Add support to the OS and again, tell no one. Then when someone complains it's not there tell them but make sure they tell no one.
If you have a mac running panther you can see if your DVD drive supports whatever format by typing drutil info in the terminal. OS X does not support packet writing, sadly.
P.S. drutil stands for DiscRecording Utility
Silly goose. There are no 64-bit patches. Right now OS X *cannot* run 64-bit code so the test would have had to have been 32-bit. The G5 Plugin/patches are for altivec and the ilk. The G5 can run some G4 AltiVec very, very slowly. The G5 plugin changed this code to run faster on a G5.
The G5 was running in 32-bit mode as well. When dealing with 32-bit data, 32-bit mode and 64-bit mode on the G5 have the same performance. I had thought this was true of the Opteron as well.