Don't know. Maybe a big company is funding the lawsuit, but Psystar is a company consisting of two kids in their mid-20s, Roberto and Randolfo Pedraza, who are most likely operating out of their parents' basement. No, really. Check it out for yourself.
So i doubt the company itself is backed by anyone. I think they just picked themselves up a 'guardian angel' so-to-speak.
Seriously it could be any one of a number of reasons. Lawyers are like dance hall hookers - you got the money they got the time so the fact a high price firm gets involved means little really.
The size of a company's bank account is usually proportional to their size. High-priced lawyers tend to want lots more money that a small company like Psystar likely has unless they have a puppetmaster.
No, no. You misunderstand. The subject line actually refers to his English teacher, Miss Alice N. Wonderland-Quote. He was just trying to get her attention.
Well, okay, Dirac isn't much in widespread use yet. (VLC just got support for it like last month) and MPEG-2 is wayyyy obsolete. I think at this point the only use for it is for (low-def) DVDs.
Sometimes he can be intellectually dishonest. That's why I said he's an Apple fanboy at heart with a;) (in the sense of 'HHOS'). But when it comes down to it, Dave is very well informed about Apple and Apple's products -- but then to inflate Apple's position and standing in any Apple criticism article, he'll often either leave out important details or inflate other details. You have to do with Dave's posts what you do with a research paper or when reading a book -- separate out the wheat from chafe and decide what is real and what is BS.
Of course, I'm probably expecting too much to ask people to think for themselves.:-/
That's quite a bit different than your sig, though. There's a Grand Canyon's worth of difference between 'Anticipate difficulties while things are still easy; achieve great things with small beginnings.' and 'All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.' The first implies that that there are some things that are easy that will become difficult, the second says that all things that are difficult start out easy. At best, it's a misquote, at worst it is a deliberate mischaracterization of Lao Tse's words designed to deceive.
Don't read many of daveschroeder's posts, eh? He has a tendency to be a bit wordy, but much of what he has to say is actual useful information, especially relating to Macs, even if he is an Apple fanboy at heart.;)
Bah. Portknocking is cool, but it is, at the end of the day, security-through-obscurity.
I just set my SSH server up to only accept RSA private keys as valid authentication. No password auth is allowed. Good luck forging a 2048-bit OpenSSH RSA private key.
As far as 'open enough', the only truly open video format that I'm aware of is Ogg Theora. As someone else mentioned, MPEG anything is patent encumbered.
Apparently not, if TFS is to be believed. It's important to note that Dijkstra felt that computer science is about computers as much as astronomy is about telescopes -- IOW, not much. But he did -- reluctantly -- purchase a Macintosh, which he used only for surfing the Web and e-mail.
Miracles are free, of course. Hell, Jesus' frickin' father supposedly created the flippin' Earth and everything on it in 7 days with $0!!! (Money hadn't been invented yet...) Certainly something as relatively mundane as turning water into wine must be even cheaper than free.
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Don't know. Maybe a big company is funding the lawsuit, but Psystar is a company consisting of two kids in their mid-20s, Roberto and Randolfo Pedraza, who are most likely operating out of their parents' basement. No, really. Check it out for yourself.
So i doubt the company itself is backed by anyone. I think they just picked themselves up a 'guardian angel' so-to-speak.
Seriously it could be any one of a number of reasons. Lawyers are like dance hall hookers - you got the money they got the time so the fact a high price firm gets involved means little really.
The size of a company's bank account is usually proportional to their size. High-priced lawyers tend to want lots more money that a small company like Psystar likely has unless they have a puppetmaster.
No, no. You misunderstand. The subject line actually refers to his English teacher, Miss Alice N. Wonderland-Quote. He was just trying to get her attention.
Uhhhh...that wasn't what I meant by that...sorry you took it that way. :( I didn't mean you specifically.
Nope. Python 3.11 for Workgroups.
So why don't they just compile it with mingw?
Well, okay, Dirac isn't much in widespread use yet. (VLC just got support for it like last month) and MPEG-2 is wayyyy obsolete. I think at this point the only use for it is for (low-def) DVDs.
Sometimes he can be intellectually dishonest. That's why I said he's an Apple fanboy at heart with a ;) (in the sense of 'HHOS'). But when it comes down to it, Dave is very well informed about Apple and Apple's products -- but then to inflate Apple's position and standing in any Apple criticism article, he'll often either leave out important details or inflate other details. You have to do with Dave's posts what you do with a research paper or when reading a book -- separate out the wheat from chafe and decide what is real and what is BS.
Of course, I'm probably expecting too much to ask people to think for themselves. :-/
That's quite a bit different than your sig, though. There's a Grand Canyon's worth of difference between 'Anticipate difficulties while things are still easy; achieve great things with small beginnings.' and 'All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.' The first implies that that there are some things that are easy that will become difficult, the second says that all things that are difficult start out easy. At best, it's a misquote, at worst it is a deliberate mischaracterization of Lao Tse's words designed to deceive.
Could you have maybe said that shorter?
Don't read many of daveschroeder's posts, eh? He has a tendency to be a bit wordy, but much of what he has to say is actual useful information, especially relating to Macs, even if he is an Apple fanboy at heart. ;)
Bah. Portknocking is cool, but it is, at the end of the day, security-through-obscurity.
I just set my SSH server up to only accept RSA private keys as valid authentication. No password auth is allowed. Good luck forging a 2048-bit OpenSSH RSA private key.
As far as 'open enough', the only truly open video format that I'm aware of is Ogg Theora. As someone else mentioned, MPEG anything is patent encumbered.
Believe it or not, this site is actually educational.
You must be new here.
I can has his chzbrgr plz?
Only in the USA and UK. Everywhere else, you'd be too hot to call it living.
37 deg C = 98.6 deg F. IOW, normal human body temperature. Or did I just do a whooosh?
Too late. I think Microsoft already hired him to do a service pack for Vista.
You're either dead or you're not. It's rather binary. There's no continuum.
Perhaps there is no randomness. Perhaps all things behave according to some order.
Of course, now we just left physics and mathematics and entered the realm of philosophy... ;)
Bah! Mathematics is just applied counting. One...one science! Bwahahahah! Two...two sciences! Bwahahahaha! Three...three sciences!!!!! Bwhahahahaha
I win!
--The Count--
Statement is untrue if the black holes are very very far away from each other.
Hmmmmm...time to register testcheatsheet.com..."You've got a test, we have the answers!"
Probably like this.
Grrr...Slashdot ate my link.
Apparently not, if TFS is to be believed. It's important to note that Dijkstra felt that computer science is about computers as much as astronomy is about telescopes -- IOW, not much. But he did -- reluctantly -- purchase a Macintosh, which he used only for surfing the Web and e-mail.
Miracles are free, of course. Hell, Jesus' frickin' father supposedly created the flippin' Earth and everything on it in 7 days with $0!!! (Money hadn't been invented yet...) Certainly something as relatively mundane as turning water into wine must be even cheaper than free.