Or you can use Pwnage Tool and continue to use 2.0 fw. And Ziphone is a major cause of 'bricked' phones. iLiberty is the safe (and honest) solution if you want a jailbroken/unlocked iPhone.
What does it matter if the Big Oil Cartel has decided to cut back drilling and production in order to artificially inflate the price of oil? Its not as if we have an oil deficit right now! Most of our oil comes now from Canada and Mexico, so the Gulf Wars play hardly any role in the cost of oil or gas. The Oil Co.s, pulling down about $120 Billion in profit last year (ExxonMobile alone, the largest most profitable co. in the history of capitalism, made $40 billion last year), have a monopoly and they know they have us by the balls, and they are the only ones capable of drilling this "reserve." Does anyone really believe they're going to flood their markets with cheap oil? In fact, they intend to cut back drilling and production even more over the next 4 years, driving the cost of oil, gas, transportation and everything dependant on it, even higher.
I think Oil should be nationalized, like roads and bridges. Antitrust laws should give our government the ability to break up the Big Oil Co.s, and allow real competition to drive product quality up and prices back down to allow for $.89/gallon gas where it should be.
Agreed. Lynch's movie wasn't made with complete fidelity to the book, but so what? It grabbed the major themes, and as others pointed out, it was gorgeous. I personally feel it is complemantary to Herbert's novel (helps immensly with pronunciations).
I think a second movie could be made mashing Dune Messiah with Children of Dune, and a 3rd movie could focus on the epic God Emperor of Dune. Lets keep Kyle MacLauchlan as the Preacher, and somehow make it seem as that misplaced last scene in Dune, the one where it starts raining, as a forshadowing dream sequence.
They should have, but there's proof that they did not. Mouse over the startup splash screen on Photoshop CS3, and you will see the old pre-OS X wristwatch. This means there is ancient code in there being translated via Carbon. Adobe is the new Microsoft, therefore, they will avoid creating anything new at all costs, even if that means abondoning the platform that put them on the map, as they have shown they are willing to do in the past.
Adobe is the new Microsoft. As they got huge, they got slow and lazy. They have abandoned Apple before, the company that put them on the map and made them great (once), and now, because they are slow and lazy, they will do it again. Adobe, like Microsoft, is no longer interested in developing new products. Software development is too hard and expensive. They'd much rather take old source, bugs and all, and run it through translating compilers, put it in a new box, and sell it as if new. Carbon was a transitional solution, and now the transition is complete. But Adobe is not impressed with Apple's slick new dev platform. It will require them to hire sharp new developers and task them to (gasp!) develop something. God forbid Adobe ever start from scratch, when their 15-year old source has been pulling them along with such slow but predictable momentum. Apple's only crime here is attempting to push technology forward. The Big tech co.s don't need trailblazers... they just want to repackage and resell the same old crap.
Engineers focus an [sic] attention to details...
I believe you're thinking of Physicists. Engineers ignore the details. A good engineer sees the forest for the trees.
...along with their perceived lack of social skills...
Again, you're thinking of Physicists. Engineers grew up too cool.
...make them excellent targets to be recruited by terrorists
(sigh) uh, Physicists, duh!
Agreed. Good graphic designers are notorious resource hogs. Next time, get the right tools for the job, and don't be so concerned about saving a company money. The revenue you should be able to generate will far out-weigh the cost of the 24" iMac or even the Mac Pro, plus 30" HD screen, plus MacBook Pro, plus insanely expensive trucolor large format plotter proofer. Parent should stop dicking around and get something done with professional tools.
No, no, no, dude. Its the same and its worse. Silverlight is merely another Microsoft attempt to lock users into proprietary software. If Silverlight had the install base that Flash has, Microsoft would cease supporting Silverlight on any browser/server but theirs. Web pages are for viewing html. Why not make your own WWW, that browses with Flash, or Silverlight or whatever, and leave the WWW alone?
Like I keep saying, Adobe is the new Microsoft. I call Flash the third great scourge of the internets, after spam and malware/virii. Flash needs to be reigned in before it turns every site into a blinking, broken monstrocity. I'm rooting for our hero Ajax to qwell the desire to over use such ugly, proprietary technology. I'd rather view unformatted txt pages than give up processor cycles to this decadent and invasive POS.
I agree with you, and the (grand?)-parent post. Another glaring indicator by what Apple isn't doing is the lack of legal retaliation. Apple has a history of meticulously tracking down and punishing, or at the very least, settleing with NDA violators. If Apple cared about keeping the iPhone in-jail, or locked-down, we'd hear about it in the form of NDA and intellectual property lawsuits. But the Apple legal team is quiet... a little too quiet. The first Beta of the iPhone SDK appeared on torrents and usenet almost immediately after its release... but we haven't heard of any complaints from Apple about it.
Merely because an app is built with the iPhone SDK does not necessarily mean it is legitimate. If the number of apps out there that were made prior to the release of the SDK are any indication, we can expect many of them to be re-released using the SDK, and plenty of those will never receive sanction by Apple. If Sadun's app appears in the simulator, as some example sanctioned by Apple, I suppose it is 'legit,' by my guess is the vast majority of apps that will soon be available will never even be acknowledged by Apple.
Well, you're right, but... its just... listen, fw400 beats USB2... its nearly twice as fast for most applications, but fw800 simply decimates USB2. They are in different classes altogether. For a long time, and afaik still, there isn't even a drive out there that can max out the bandwidth available over fw800. Its sick. So if you please, enough of the understatements. Does anyone compare USB2 to SATA? There's a reason they don't. And for the same reason it is unfair and silly to compare fw800 to USB2. Its like comparing a diesel VW bus to the Space Shuttle.
I sort of agree. Dell should be applauded for offerring and supporting Ubuntu, and this decision has undoubtedly been a boon to both Dell sales and Ubunu adoption (and driver availability). However, I think the jury is still out on the quality of their designs. I've seen too high a percentage of anemic Dell laptops (fast processor, not enough memory standard) and desktops that break within weeks of warranty expiration. But at the same time, I must acknowledge their deals are hard to beat, esp. if the purchaser's intention is to replace hardware on a 1.5-2-year schedule. My next purchase will likely be that SC1430 8-Core for ~$750, when my cash flow is in sync with the deal schedule.
March 2001___Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) ----> Feb. 2000____ NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) Sept 2001_____Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma) -------> Oct. 2001____ NT 5.1 (Windows XP) August 2002___Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) ------> March 2003__ NT 5.2 (Server 2K, XP x64) Oct. 2003____Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) ------> Aug. 2004____ NT 5.3?(SP2) April 2005____Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) ---------> Nov. 2006____ NT 6.0 (Vista) Oct. 2007 ____Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) ------> ???. 2010____ NT 7.0 (Windows 7)
Sounds a little fishy to me. Its not surprising that an exploit that affects a Mac's native browser doesn't affect native browsers on Ubuntu or Vista, and I can't imagine that surprising anyone else. Likewise, I wouldn't expect an exploit of Vista's native browser to affect Ubuntu or Mac. What is fishy (and seemingly incidental) is that the Mac exploit came first, likely because its the more desired result: to win the MacBook Air. Why weren't all 3 laptops MacBook Air's, I wonder? One running Leopard, one Vista, and one Ubuntu? Seems like that would be a level the playing field. But if there is only one MacBook Air, obviously, cracking that is first prize.
Well, they let them use a Vista laptop because Windows 7 isn't available yet (not sure it means anything, but Microsoft is still an OS generation behind Apple).
Its times like these that Bishop Berkeley pops into my head: "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Berkeley says 'yes,' because God is always around. We say 'sure, its physics, but so what? Its an unheard sound.'
So lets ask ourselves, if there's an unpatched Microsoft running PC on the interwebs, and no script kiddie notices it, is it really vulnerable? Or lets consider, if there's a fully patched Mac, with a few dozen undiscovered vulnerabilities on the interwebs that many are aware of and, for some reason, constantly scanning it, but no known wild exploits anywhere, is it secure?
Fine, I'll grant you that sharing information isn't useful, as absurd as that sounds. I'll even grant that the machine I have matches to a Pentium Pro, frankly I have no idea. However, FYI, most Macs from that era expand from between or including 512MB to 1.5GB of RAM. But the problem that your not seeing is that XP is a full generation behind OS X 10.4, aka Tiger. OS X 10.3, Panther, is the Apple OS that matches up with XP, Tiger is side by side with Vista, and OS X 10.5 Leopard with Windows 7. So... lets see your Pentium Pro run Vista. And we're still waiting for any list of legacy PC hardware still in use, trivially hosting useless information or not.
Honestly, I don't think that they make PCs like they used to... I think there would be more 286/386/486/586 in use if they hadn't been abandoned for faster hw. Its the newer PCs that are shoddy. You were lucky to make it past warranty with a PC made after 2004. My main workhorse and newest computer is a 2003 Powerbook that I bought new in 2003. Its running Leopard. It actually feels snappier than Tiger did (except when Time Machine is running, or when, say, rendering h.264 video, then I feel the pain.). But for most things, web browsing, email, but also page layout(Quarking), Photoshopping, Digidesigning and Reasoning, its acceptable... nothing to write home about, but it works.
What's really freaking me out is that my phone has a faster processor than that 1996 Mac I mentioned. And runs Apache, and a modified version of Leopard. Get Windows 7 on your smartphone and then we'll really have some fun.
There are many many out there who are running OS X on legacy hardware, "restricted" or not (how restricted can it be?...poster makes a point... Apple doesn't want to be bogged down supporting hardware 8 years out of warranty). You may have a few examples of older PCs running XP, but it is highly irregular. I challenge you to show an example of any PC mobo from 1995 running XP!! Funny how you throw around "fanboi" insults while you are quite obviously a bigot. These older Macs hunt with a very modern OS, when who in their right mind would bother installing Windows on a 386 with Linux being immeasurably more secure and stable? And are you claiming Microsoft supports older hardware!!? Get yer shit straight, boi!
Fail.
I have a second-hand Mac made in 1996 running 10.4. Granted, the processor was upgraded in 2001, and I needed to use XPostFacto and some 3rd party software to utilize the onchip cache, but if you can customize XP (btw, almost no one does this anywhere near an expert level... though I did aquire a Stripped to the Bone edition, but not for running on legacy hardware... for modern PC hardware and Mac VMs), then Mac users can hack their Macs. And this Mac of mine has been running since 2003 24/7/365 (except for the upgrades installs and monthly update reboots). Even pre-PPC Macs are still useful as webservers, and there are plenty of examples out there. Show me a list of 286/386 webservers, pal. It is absolutely fact that Macs always outlast their PC counterparts from the same era. Where the heck have YOU been?
Assuming there is a copyright violation, it can't be the bot that is violating. That's anthropamorphising. The bot has no intent, because it isn't a person, and therefore cannot commit fraud or copyright violation, nor can it be sued. IANAL(Y), but check this out: if I developed a robot that collected copyrighted information and duplicated it, and I sold 100,000 of these robots to 100,000 people, the robot isn't infringing on copyright. Its the PEOPLE using the robot that may be considered copyright infringers (pirates), not the soulless robot. In the same vein, this is why we don't prosecute cigarettes, guns, knives and blunt objects for murder, even though these objects cause death.
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Or you can use Pwnage Tool and continue to use 2.0 fw.
And Ziphone is a major cause of 'bricked' phones. iLiberty is the safe (and honest) solution if you want a jailbroken/unlocked iPhone.
What does it matter if the Big Oil Cartel has decided to cut back drilling and production in order to artificially inflate the price of oil? Its not as if we have an oil deficit right now! Most of our oil comes now from Canada and Mexico, so the Gulf Wars play hardly any role in the cost of oil or gas. The Oil Co.s, pulling down about $120 Billion in profit last year (ExxonMobile alone, the largest most profitable co. in the history of capitalism, made $40 billion last year), have a monopoly and they know they have us by the balls, and they are the only ones capable of drilling this "reserve." Does anyone really believe they're going to flood their markets with cheap oil? In fact, they intend to cut back drilling and production even more over the next 4 years, driving the cost of oil, gas, transportation and everything dependant on it, even higher.
I think Oil should be nationalized, like roads and bridges. Antitrust laws should give our government the ability to break up the Big Oil Co.s, and allow real competition to drive product quality up and prices back down to allow for $.89/gallon gas where it should be.
I thought it was 'script kitties.'
still, lmao, thx
Agreed. Lynch's movie wasn't made with complete fidelity to the book, but so what? It grabbed the major themes, and as others pointed out, it was gorgeous. I personally feel it is complemantary to Herbert's novel (helps immensly with pronunciations).
I think a second movie could be made mashing Dune Messiah with Children of Dune, and a 3rd movie could focus on the epic God Emperor of Dune. Lets keep Kyle MacLauchlan as the Preacher, and somehow make it seem as that misplaced last scene in Dune, the one where it starts raining, as a forshadowing dream sequence.
They should have, but there's proof that they did not. Mouse over the startup splash screen on Photoshop CS3, and you will see the old pre-OS X wristwatch. This means there is ancient code in there being translated via Carbon. Adobe is the new Microsoft, therefore, they will avoid creating anything new at all costs, even if that means abondoning the platform that put them on the map, as they have shown they are willing to do in the past.
Adobe is the new Microsoft. As they got huge, they got slow and lazy. They have abandoned Apple before, the company that put them on the map and made them great (once), and now, because they are slow and lazy, they will do it again. Adobe, like Microsoft, is no longer interested in developing new products. Software development is too hard and expensive. They'd much rather take old source, bugs and all, and run it through translating compilers, put it in a new box, and sell it as if new. Carbon was a transitional solution, and now the transition is complete. But Adobe is not impressed with Apple's slick new dev platform. It will require them to hire sharp new developers and task them to (gasp!) develop something. God forbid Adobe ever start from scratch, when their 15-year old source has been pulling them along with such slow but predictable momentum. Apple's only crime here is attempting to push technology forward. The Big tech co.s don't need trailblazers... they just want to repackage and resell the same old crap.
I believe you're thinking of Physicists. Engineers ignore the details. A good engineer sees the forest for the trees.
...along with their perceived lack of social skills...Again, you're thinking of Physicists. Engineers grew up too cool.
(sigh) uh, Physicists, duh!
Agreed. Good graphic designers are notorious resource hogs. Next time, get the right tools for the job, and don't be so concerned about saving a company money. The revenue you should be able to generate will far out-weigh the cost of the 24" iMac or even the Mac Pro, plus 30" HD screen, plus MacBook Pro, plus insanely expensive trucolor large format plotter proofer. Parent should stop dicking around and get something done with professional tools.
I've been saying this since CS2, so I think I speak with some authority: Adobe is the new Microsoft.
No, no, no, dude. Its the same and its worse. Silverlight is merely another Microsoft attempt to lock users into proprietary software. If Silverlight had the install base that Flash has, Microsoft would cease supporting Silverlight on any browser/server but theirs. Web pages are for viewing html. Why not make your own WWW, that browses with Flash, or Silverlight or whatever, and leave the WWW alone?
Like I keep saying, Adobe is the new Microsoft. I call Flash the third great scourge of the internets, after spam and malware/virii. Flash needs to be reigned in before it turns every site into a blinking, broken monstrocity. I'm rooting for our hero Ajax to qwell the desire to over use such ugly, proprietary technology. I'd rather view unformatted txt pages than give up processor cycles to this decadent and invasive POS.
I agree with you, and the (grand?)-parent post. Another glaring indicator by what Apple isn't doing is the lack of legal retaliation. Apple has a history of meticulously tracking down and punishing, or at the very least, settleing with NDA violators. If Apple cared about keeping the iPhone in-jail, or locked-down, we'd hear about it in the form of NDA and intellectual property lawsuits. But the Apple legal team is quiet... a little too quiet. The first Beta of the iPhone SDK appeared on torrents and usenet almost immediately after its release... but we haven't heard of any complaints from Apple about it.
Merely because an app is built with the iPhone SDK does not necessarily mean it is legitimate. If the number of apps out there that were made prior to the release of the SDK are any indication, we can expect many of them to be re-released using the SDK, and plenty of those will never receive sanction by Apple. If Sadun's app appears in the simulator, as some example sanctioned by Apple, I suppose it is 'legit,' by my guess is the vast majority of apps that will soon be available will never even be acknowledged by Apple.
Did they remember to patent the detonation? Or the destruction? Fallout? Or would the mushroom cloud fall under copyright law?
Well, you're right, but... its just... listen, fw400 beats USB2... its nearly twice as fast for most applications, but fw800 simply decimates USB2. They are in different classes altogether. For a long time, and afaik still, there isn't even a drive out there that can max out the bandwidth available over fw800. Its sick. So if you please, enough of the understatements. Does anyone compare USB2 to SATA? There's a reason they don't. And for the same reason it is unfair and silly to compare fw800 to USB2. Its like comparing a diesel VW bus to the Space Shuttle.
Back in the mid-to-late -90's they sold a superior business-oriented operating system. They've been skating on momentum ever since.
I sort of agree. Dell should be applauded for offerring and supporting Ubuntu, and this decision has undoubtedly been a boon to both Dell sales and Ubunu adoption (and driver availability). However, I think the jury is still out on the quality of their designs. I've seen too high a percentage of anemic Dell laptops (fast processor, not enough memory standard) and desktops that break within weeks of warranty expiration. But at the same time, I must acknowledge their deals are hard to beat, esp. if the purchaser's intention is to replace hardware on a 1.5-2-year schedule. My next purchase will likely be that SC1430 8-Core for ~$750, when my cash flow is in sync with the deal schedule.
Major OS Revisions, Apple vs. Microsoft:
March 2001___Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) ----> Feb. 2000____ NT 5.0 (Windows 2000)
Sept 2001_____Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma) -------> Oct. 2001____ NT 5.1 (Windows XP)
August 2002___Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) ------> March 2003__ NT 5.2 (Server 2K, XP x64)
Oct. 2003____Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) ------> Aug. 2004____ NT 5.3?(SP2)
April 2005____Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) ---------> Nov. 2006____ NT 6.0 (Vista)
Oct. 2007 ____Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) ------> ???. 2010____ NT 7.0 (Windows 7)
Sounds a little fishy to me. Its not surprising that an exploit that affects a Mac's native browser doesn't affect native browsers on Ubuntu or Vista, and I can't imagine that surprising anyone else. Likewise, I wouldn't expect an exploit of Vista's native browser to affect Ubuntu or Mac. What is fishy (and seemingly incidental) is that the Mac exploit came first, likely because its the more desired result: to win the MacBook Air. Why weren't all 3 laptops MacBook Air's, I wonder? One running Leopard, one Vista, and one Ubuntu? Seems like that would be a level the playing field. But if there is only one MacBook Air, obviously, cracking that is first prize.
Well, they let them use a Vista laptop because Windows 7 isn't available yet (not sure it means anything, but Microsoft is still an OS generation behind Apple).
Its times like these that Bishop Berkeley pops into my head: "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Berkeley says 'yes,' because God is always around. We say 'sure, its physics, but so what? Its an unheard sound.'
So lets ask ourselves, if there's an unpatched Microsoft running PC on the interwebs, and no script kiddie notices it, is it really vulnerable? Or lets consider, if there's a fully patched Mac, with a few dozen undiscovered vulnerabilities on the interwebs that many are aware of and, for some reason, constantly scanning it, but no known wild exploits anywhere, is it secure?
Fine, I'll grant you that sharing information isn't useful, as absurd as that sounds. I'll even grant that the machine I have matches to a Pentium Pro, frankly I have no idea. However, FYI, most Macs from that era expand from between or including 512MB to 1.5GB of RAM. But the problem that your not seeing is that XP is a full generation behind OS X 10.4, aka Tiger. OS X 10.3, Panther, is the Apple OS that matches up with XP, Tiger is side by side with Vista, and OS X 10.5 Leopard with Windows 7. So... lets see your Pentium Pro run Vista. And we're still waiting for any list of legacy PC hardware still in use, trivially hosting useless information or not.
Honestly, I don't think that they make PCs like they used to... I think there would be more 286/386/486/586 in use if they hadn't been abandoned for faster hw. Its the newer PCs that are shoddy. You were lucky to make it past warranty with a PC made after 2004. My main workhorse and newest computer is a 2003 Powerbook that I bought new in 2003. Its running Leopard. It actually feels snappier than Tiger did (except when Time Machine is running, or when, say, rendering h.264 video, then I feel the pain.). But for most things, web browsing, email, but also page layout(Quarking), Photoshopping, Digidesigning and Reasoning, its acceptable... nothing to write home about, but it works.
What's really freaking me out is that my phone has a faster processor than that 1996 Mac I mentioned. And runs Apache, and a modified version of Leopard. Get Windows 7 on your smartphone and then we'll really have some fun.
There are many many out there who are running OS X on legacy hardware, "restricted" or not (how restricted can it be?...poster makes a point... Apple doesn't want to be bogged down supporting hardware 8 years out of warranty). You may have a few examples of older PCs running XP, but it is highly irregular. I challenge you to show an example of any PC mobo from 1995 running XP!! Funny how you throw around "fanboi" insults while you are quite obviously a bigot. These older Macs hunt with a very modern OS, when who in their right mind would bother installing Windows on a 386 with Linux being immeasurably more secure and stable? And are you claiming Microsoft supports older hardware!!? Get yer shit straight, boi!
Fail.
I have a second-hand Mac made in 1996 running 10.4. Granted, the processor was upgraded in 2001, and I needed to use XPostFacto and some 3rd party software to utilize the onchip cache, but if you can customize XP (btw, almost no one does this anywhere near an expert level... though I did aquire a Stripped to the Bone edition, but not for running on legacy hardware... for modern PC hardware and Mac VMs), then Mac users can hack their Macs. And this Mac of mine has been running since 2003 24/7/365 (except for the upgrades installs and monthly update reboots). Even pre-PPC Macs are still useful as webservers, and there are plenty of examples out there. Show me a list of 286/386 webservers, pal. It is absolutely fact that Macs always outlast their PC counterparts from the same era. Where the heck have YOU been?
Assuming there is a copyright violation, it can't be the bot that is violating. That's anthropamorphising. The bot has no intent, because it isn't a person, and therefore cannot commit fraud or copyright violation, nor can it be sued. IANAL(Y), but check this out: if I developed a robot that collected copyrighted information and duplicated it, and I sold 100,000 of these robots to 100,000 people, the robot isn't infringing on copyright. Its the PEOPLE using the robot that may be considered copyright infringers (pirates), not the soulless robot. In the same vein, this is why we don't prosecute cigarettes, guns, knives and blunt objects for murder, even though these objects cause death.