If apple sues they are on some mighty thin legal ice. Maybe a lot of you don't remember these law suits, but Microsoft was sued by Apple in the 80s (or was it early 90s) for emulating the Mac Look&Feel too closely. There was also a lawsuit about this with regard to spreadsheets (lotus and excel if I recall correctly). The courts ruled in both cases that a look&feel (i.e. an interface) is not a copyrightable or otherwise protectable asset.
I had thought that the loss of the case was mostly due to the existing licence agreements between MS and Apple that foolishly gave MS the right to use a bunch of Mac elements in their Windows 1.0 product. When Apple and MS stopped working together and MS used these things in later products, Apple sued. Apon examination, the licencing agreement that Apple singed with MS gave MS much more lattitude than Apple probably intended, and thus Apple lost the major points of the case. Apple majorly screwed up in its drafting of the original agreement, and MS profitted.
In any case, "trade dress" is quite a well defined legal concept, and Apple has been successful in preventing others from using particular designs and design features in the past.
One thing that cases like this do is to put the "fear of god" into other companies. With successful class action suits of this nature, companies are more likely to follow good practices and produce quality products that are properly advertised in the future. They tend to protect us all, even if the rewards for the plaintifs are minimal.
You can copy files to and from the iPod from any machine, just not via the iTunes interface.
This is not completely clear - it seems as though you can use iTunes to download from any Mac, but you can't use the autosync feature from more than one machine at a time, and the autosync feature only goes one way, from the Mac to the iPod.
The pdf FAQ reads: To transfer music between your computers, or to add songs to iPod from both systems, you can selectively drag and drop songs, albums, or playlists between iPod and either computer using the manual update mode.
It is not clear if the "manual update mode" is part of iTunes or just a feature of the standard Finder interface.
I think that you are very much mistaken. There is a long legal history of the "citizen's arrest", and company security and other private police forces are quite able to gather evidence and detain people - happens all the time. You think that the bank guards are just there for show?
We wouldn't be able to jail even a terrorist entering with a bomb, because he would find protection under the 4th amendment,
I don't think that this is entirely accurate. I think that there have been a number of supreme course decisions that validate the use of evidence collected by a "third party" (ie. not the police) in trials, even if that evidence was not obtained via a search warrent. Private investigators, insurance investigators, and similar professionals do this type of thing all the time, and private citizens can provide evidence as well. Of course if the non-cop was acting under the direction of the police, then as an "agent" of the police limitations are imposed, but in general if you "joe public" bust down the crack house door and grab up all the evidence without a warrent, it would probably be legitimate.
I suggest that you leave your 12" dildo home or anything else you do not want anyone to see.
The problem isn't the stuff at home, it is the stuff that was stashed in the lab before the searches started. How's he supposed to get the porn collection back out to his car?:-)
One can trick the installer to doing the update on an 8600 and then replace a few critical resources and get 9.2.1 up and running. There have been a few discussions on how to do it at xlr8yourmac and in the macfixit.com forums. I don't know what you good it does however.
I think that if you install Mac OS X on the 8600 (through a few nifty hacks availabe at Otherworldcomputing) and get 9.2.1 installed, the classic environment is supposed to be more stable. I have yet to get them both working on my 8600 with a G4 upgrade. 10.0.4 works fine with both the 8600/604e and the upgraded 8600/G4, but I haven't gotten 10.1 to install yet.
If you ask me, Christians (or muslims for that sake) with blind faith are not stupid, but they are ignorant, which is a bigger sin in my eyes.
Well, "ignorance" can be cured, while stupidity is probably more difficult to deal with.
I suspect that the orignial writer meant to say something more in line with "strong faith" rather than "blind faith". There are certainly many many intelligent people with strong faiths in any number of religious traditions. Just because others may think the dogma of any one religion "bullshit", does not necessarily make it so.
I will agree that the use of religious faith as an example was probably one of the least effective ones to come up with however.
After having it for about six months, though, I'm wondering if I turn it off how many I would still be getting.
I was wondering the same thing. If the privacy director thing gives a "please put this number on the do-not-call list" direction, I would think that running it for a few months would get your number on the majority of such lists. Cancelling the service should mean that only new callers would not have you on their do not call list.
In terms of calling a spouse rather than you - I always ask "please put US on your do-not-call list" rather than "me". I doubt the list is anything more than a list of phone numbers rather than "people", but I suppose that it is possible.
You would think that, but amazingly it isn't true. Some pretty nifty things can be done with decryption even when you do not know the method of encryption.
An old example would be the "purple" encryption used by Japan in WW2. I beleive that the US codebreakers broke it without knowing how it was encrypted. Similarly, using not-quite-random numbers can allow some parts of coded messages to be understood when using an "unbreakable" one-time-pad.
If there is enough information in the picture to let the FBI know that there is a hidden message in it, there is probably enough information to allow them to extract that information.
That's a good reason for the use of such email addresses as "marketing@foo.bar.com" and "support@foo.bar.com" rather than having web links and other documentation directing people to "chris@foo.bar.com" and "pat@foo.bar.com".
One of the first things to do with any new project should be to create the approriate email aliases and point them to the appropriate people, and then use those addresses for all material relating to the project. When people move on, the aliases can be repointed and the archive of email can be passed on too...
I have always seen full addresses listed in phone books in places I have lived (Vancouver, Urbaba IL, Hamilton ON, Sherbrooke QC), but maybe people or phone companies are listing less information these days.
Certainly whenever I've been successful in finding phone numbers of old friends online, I've always also gotten fairly compelte addressess too.
If I wanted to know the phone number of the person who lives down the street, I'd have no idea how to find it, given that the phone company doesn't publish house numbers in their listings.
There are reverse phone number directories, as well as address/number directories available online.
Back to the general topic:
We just turn off the ringer of the phone. The answering machine explains that a child is sleeping, so leave a message. Usually we get to the phone while the answering machine is quietly talking to the caller. Seems to work great.
Combined with the phone and mail preferences services offered by the Canadian and the American direct marketer's associations, we get very little junk mail or phone solicitations. In addition we try to always ask to be put on "do not call lists". We have not gotten a phone call solicitation in months.
The Canadian DMA forms can be filled out online for free, the American ones charge a fee online or do it free via snail mail.
You could turn off the ringer of the phone you know - that's what we've done. The answering machine explains that a child is sleeping, so leave a message. Usually we get to the phone while the answering machine is quietly talking to the caller. Seems to work great.
Combined with the phone and mail preferences services offered by the Canadian and the American direct marketer's associations, we get very little junk mail or phone solicitations. In addition we try to always ask to be put on "do not call lists". We have not gotten a phone call solicitation in months.
The Canadian DMA forms can be filled out online for free, the American ones charge a fee online or do it free via snail mail.
To the people who are already doing this - any idea what I'd be needing in terms of RAM and hard drive capacity, to run OS X in an almost-sane fashion?
I think the installer wants a partition of at least 1 gig, I gave it 2. It is reasonably responsive on my 8600/300 with the 604e processor, and a bit better responsive with a G4/400 from XLR8 that I just got. I am still waiting for my copy of 10.1 to make it's way here from Apple, so I don't know if that will be much of an improvement. I am running with about 380 meg of RAM. I think that as waith many unix implementations, the more RAM the better. I would say that probably 128 meg is probably the minimum, with 256 or more being a much better experience.
There are still some irritating slowness issues with some UI responsiveness, but I am not sure that this is the fault of my machine and not the fault of poor programing choices made by application developers and the Finder programmers.
However the ORB sites only list Open Relays, which this is not one of.
It doesn't really sound TOO bad, presuming that they are actually using at least single opt-in lists. Yes, the single opt-in is open to abuse by third parties, but as long as the list maintainers are not abusing their own opt-in policies it is certainly much less of a problem than the traditional web/usenet address harvesters out there.
They make about as much noise as a battery, ie none.
Here, why don't you buy one. This little demo unit is about the size of a clock radio and consists of a solar cell that generates the hydrogen, and then a fuel cell that uses that hydrogen to run a little electric motor.
I would not want to claim that we regularly target civilians, but it is very true that we are much less careful with certain civilians than with others. When we have dealt with domestic terrorism, there was not much public support for dropping bombs on the towns of suspects.
Additionally, if part of the motivation for a military strike is to "teach them a lesson", it is easy to see how some might think that civilian deaths are part of the program.
There seems to be a lot of behind the scenes movement at xns.org involved in getting some unnamed mystery big player partners lined up. The xns mailing list has been getting quite restless at the lack of information available about the technical specifications release and the first release of the open source reference code.
There seems to be a feeling that big movements at XNS could occur in the many weeks/few months time frame which is not that long, but since we have just passed the one year anniversary of OneName's and XNSorg's rollout of the XNS implementation of the single-signon/universal name/self-updating ecards, and there has been little further movement visible from outside - people are starting to get frustrated.
I think that there is a real worry that while XNS was one of the first boats to leave the dock, one of the less-open boats could well make it out of the harbour before them.
I am hoping that it will turn out that one of these industry groups like the "Liberty Alliance Project" will be using XNS technology as their underlying foundation and that the open specs and open source implementations will win the day, but it is frustrating to not hear much new information from XNSorg.
>>Having a thrust/weight ratio > 1 to get off the ground
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>It would get you off the ground, but you still need to go beyond escape velocity to break orbit.
You need to review your old movies. See "The Mouse on the Moon". As long as your upwards forces are greater than your downwards forces, you will move upwards.
Escape velocity is the velocity necessary for an object to get away from the plant for an object with no thrust. If you want to throw a baseball so that it doesn't fall back to earth, it needs to be thrown at escape velocity. If you want to turn off your rocket and eventually fall back to earth, you need to be going as fast or faster than escape velocity before you shut it down. If you want to keep running your engine, you don't need to be going this fast.
NASA and others generally get their ships up to escape velocity and then let them turn off their engines, since going at a slower speed with a lower thrust for longer takes a whole bunch more fuel.
OK, but XNS provides a standardized method of exchanging a service contract between you and the other party. XNS is only the protocol being managed by XNSorg.
It isn't clear to me what stance XNSorg would adopt in any dispute between parties who used XNS to exchange data, but it is clearly in the interest of XNSorg to work towards widespread compliance with the privacy agreements. While the privacy contracts would allow for court cases, most disputes would probably be settled with political pressure - play nice or you don't get to use XNS technology and have XNS using customers.
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I had thought that the loss of the case was mostly due to the existing licence agreements between MS and Apple that foolishly gave MS the right to use a bunch of Mac elements in their Windows 1.0 product. When Apple and MS stopped working together and MS used these things in later products, Apple sued. Apon examination, the licencing agreement that Apple singed with MS gave MS much more lattitude than Apple probably intended, and thus Apple lost the major points of the case. Apple majorly screwed up in its drafting of the original agreement, and MS profitted.
In any case, "trade dress" is quite a well defined legal concept, and Apple has been successful in preventing others from using particular designs and design features in the past.
This is not completely clear - it seems as though you can use iTunes to download from any Mac, but you can't use the autosync feature from more than one machine at a time, and the autosync feature only goes one way, from the Mac to the iPod.
The pdf FAQ reads: To transfer music between your computers, or to add songs to iPod from both systems, you can selectively drag and drop songs, albums, or playlists between iPod and either computer using the manual update mode. It is not clear if the "manual update mode" is part of iTunes or just a feature of the standard Finder interface.
I don't think that this is entirely accurate. I think that there have been a number of supreme course decisions that validate the use of evidence collected by a "third party" (ie. not the police) in trials, even if that evidence was not obtained via a search warrent. Private investigators, insurance investigators, and similar professionals do this type of thing all the time, and private citizens can provide evidence as well. Of course if the non-cop was acting under the direction of the police, then as an "agent" of the police limitations are imposed, but in general if you "joe public" bust down the crack house door and grab up all the evidence without a warrent, it would probably be legitimate.
The problem isn't the stuff at home, it is the stuff that was stashed in the lab before the searches started. How's he supposed to get the porn collection back out to his car? :-)
One can trick the installer to doing the update on an 8600 and then replace a few critical resources and get 9.2.1 up and running. There have been a few discussions on how to do it at xlr8yourmac and in the macfixit.com forums. I don't know what you good it does however.
I think that if you install Mac OS X on the 8600 (through a few nifty hacks availabe at Otherworldcomputing) and get 9.2.1 installed, the classic environment is supposed to be more stable. I have yet to get them both working on my 8600 with a G4 upgrade. 10.0.4 works fine with both the 8600/604e and the upgraded 8600/G4, but I haven't gotten 10.1 to install yet.
Well, "ignorance" can be cured, while stupidity is probably more difficult to deal with.
I suspect that the orignial writer meant to say something more in line with "strong faith" rather than "blind faith". There are certainly many many intelligent people with strong faiths in any number of religious traditions. Just because others may think the dogma of any one religion "bullshit", does not necessarily make it so.
I will agree that the use of religious faith as an example was probably one of the least effective ones to come up with however.
I was wondering the same thing. If the privacy director thing gives a "please put this number on the do-not-call list" direction, I would think that running it for a few months would get your number on the majority of such lists. Cancelling the service should mean that only new callers would not have you on their do not call list.
In terms of calling a spouse rather than you - I always ask "please put US on your do-not-call list" rather than "me". I doubt the list is anything more than a list of phone numbers rather than "people", but I suppose that it is possible.
An old example would be the "purple" encryption used by Japan in WW2. I beleive that the US codebreakers broke it without knowing how it was encrypted. Similarly, using not-quite-random numbers can allow some parts of coded messages to be understood when using an "unbreakable" one-time-pad.
If there is enough information in the picture to let the FBI know that there is a hidden message in it, there is probably enough information to allow them to extract that information.
One of the first things to do with any new project should be to create the approriate email aliases and point them to the appropriate people, and then use those addresses for all material relating to the project. When people move on, the aliases can be repointed and the archive of email can be passed on too...
Certainly whenever I've been successful in finding phone numbers of old friends online, I've always also gotten fairly compelte addressess too.
That's what I thought was going to be a problem. We just leave it off all the time now. Anyhow it works for us.
I wonder why you were getting so many hangups? That doesn't seem like a very good telemarketing technique, eh?
There are reverse phone number directories, as well as address/number directories available online.
Back to the general topic:
We just turn off the ringer of the phone. The answering machine explains that a child is sleeping, so leave a message. Usually we get to the phone while the answering machine is quietly talking to the caller. Seems to work great.
Combined with the phone and mail preferences services offered by the Canadian and the American direct marketer's associations, we get very little junk mail or phone solicitations. In addition we try to always ask to be put on "do not call lists". We have not gotten a phone call solicitation in months.
The Canadian DMA forms can be filled out online for free, the American ones charge a fee online or do it free via snail mail.
You could turn off the ringer of the phone you know - that's what we've done. The answering machine explains that a child is sleeping, so leave a message. Usually we get to the phone while the answering machine is quietly talking to the caller. Seems to work great.
Combined with the phone and mail preferences services offered by the Canadian and the American direct marketer's associations, we get very little junk mail or phone solicitations. In addition we try to always ask to be put on "do not call lists". We have not gotten a phone call solicitation in months.
The Canadian DMA forms can be filled out online for free, the American ones charge a fee online or do it free via snail mail.
I think the installer wants a partition of at least 1 gig, I gave it 2. It is reasonably responsive on my 8600/300 with the 604e processor, and a bit better responsive with a G4/400 from XLR8 that I just got. I am still waiting for my copy of 10.1 to make it's way here from Apple, so I don't know if that will be much of an improvement. I am running with about 380 meg of RAM. I think that as waith many unix implementations, the more RAM the better. I would say that probably 128 meg is probably the minimum, with 256 or more being a much better experience.
There are still some irritating slowness issues with some UI responsiveness, but I am not sure that this is the fault of my machine and not the fault of poor programing choices made by application developers and the Finder programmers.
When you "rite out" your cheque? That made me laugh.
It doesn't really sound TOO bad, presuming that they are actually using at least single opt-in lists. Yes, the single opt-in is open to abuse by third parties, but as long as the list maintainers are not abusing their own opt-in policies it is certainly much less of a problem than the traditional web/usenet address harvesters out there.
Here, why don't you buy one. This little demo unit is about the size of a clock radio and consists of a solar cell that generates the hydrogen, and then a fuel cell that uses that hydrogen to run a little electric motor.
The same people have all sorts of other little fuel cell toys, but they ain't cheap.
Additionally, if part of the motivation for a military strike is to "teach them a lesson", it is easy to see how some might think that civilian deaths are part of the program.
There seems to be a feeling that big movements at XNS could occur in the many weeks/few months time frame which is not that long, but since we have just passed the one year anniversary of OneName's and XNSorg's rollout of the XNS implementation of the single-signon/universal name/self-updating ecards, and there has been little further movement visible from outside - people are starting to get frustrated.
I think that there is a real worry that while XNS was one of the first boats to leave the dock, one of the less-open boats could well make it out of the harbour before them.
I am hoping that it will turn out that one of these industry groups like the "Liberty Alliance Project" will be using XNS technology as their underlying foundation and that the open specs and open source implementations will win the day, but it is frustrating to not hear much new information from XNSorg.
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>It would get you off the ground, but you still need to go beyond escape velocity to break orbit.
You need to review your old movies. See "The Mouse on the Moon". As long as your upwards forces are greater than your downwards forces, you will move upwards.
Escape velocity is the velocity necessary for an object to get away from the plant for an object with no thrust. If you want to throw a baseball so that it doesn't fall back to earth, it needs to be thrown at escape velocity. If you want to turn off your rocket and eventually fall back to earth, you need to be going as fast or faster than escape velocity before you shut it down. If you want to keep running your engine, you don't need to be going this fast.
NASA and others generally get their ships up to escape velocity and then let them turn off their engines, since going at a slower speed with a lower thrust for longer takes a whole bunch more fuel.
It isn't clear to me what stance XNSorg would adopt in any dispute between parties who used XNS to exchange data, but it is clearly in the interest of XNSorg to work towards widespread compliance with the privacy agreements. While the privacy contracts would allow for court cases, most disputes would probably be settled with political pressure - play nice or you don't get to use XNS technology and have XNS using customers.