We have speed limits because some people can't drive responsible [sic].
Actually, that is not true. Speed limits were invented originally to curb overzealous law enforcement.
Originally, the law was that you had to drive at a safe and prudent speed. That started to fall apart when the local Police Chief decided that (usually if you were from out of town) the safe and prudent speed was 5 mi/h slower than however fast you were driving. So the idea of a speed limit was introduced with the concept being that unless there were extraordinary circumstances (which presumably the officer issuing a citation could document), you would be presumed to be driving prudently if you were under the posted speed.
The problems started when those same overzealous cops figured out that their revenue generating model worked just as well when they simply lowered the numbers on the signs rather than using proper traffic engineering (which dictates that normally a speed limit should not be lower than the 85th percentile speed observed with a neutral [that is, not a uniformed officer waving a radar gun] traffic survey).
Not quite. You are allowed to record a show with the broadcast flag turned on. However, any device after the tuner must support either transporting or recording the digital stream in a secure (encrypted) way so that you, the owner of the equipment, cannot get to see the raw digital bits (because you are presumed to be naughty and would put them up on Kaaza). You can record the bits, but the recorded has to keep them encrypted and must have serial copy management. If any device in the chain does not support the HDMI-CP stuff, then the signal has to be either blocked, or downconverted to 480i.
There was once somewhere an FCC FAQ about the broadcast flag. It specifically says that, yes, you can have a TiVo, so long as it denies you high-quality digital access to unencrypted bits.
It's still a raw deal. There's no reason to make it sound worse than it really is.
I stand corrected. Thank you. Google did come up with results for 'Goodwin,' (and didn't offer the corrected spelling), but comes up with better ones for 'Godwin.'
It's not. If the counting shows more votes in Ohio for Kerry, then he'll win regardless of his concession. As is so often the case in politics, it's nothing but talk.
But from where I sit, the math doesn't work out that way.
For a while, Apple was trying to keep folks with 3rd party 802.11g cards from using them with AppleAirPort2.kext, their AirPort Extreme driver. It started when I discovered that you could use their original AirPort Express driver with a Linksys WPC54G simply by changing some stuff in the Info.plist file. Apple responded by locking non-Apple hardware out in the driver - they were checking the PCI device ID against a fixed string in the driver and puking if it wasn't correct. Simply changing the string they were checking against was sufficient to make things work again. So what I did was write a perl script to make the whole patch process totally droolproof and post it at OSXHax. Every month or so Apple would release an updated driver (this was early on when 802.11g wasn't yet finalized), and I'd have to change the perl script to find the new location of the string. Finally, Apple gave up. And now if you plug a Buffalo or older Linksys 802.11g cardbus card into an older Powerbook, you too can have AirPort Express just like owners of new PowerBooks do. Only now, you don't have to actually do anything.
So I encourage... someone... to turn the binary patching stuff into a nice, easy perl script.:-)
The error is in the construction of the adverbial phrase. You cannot use a gerund (the "ing" form of a verb, which makes it actually noun. vis: "Sleeping is restful.") as an adverbial phrase on its own.
If you compare Macs to PCs of similar quality and configuration, the price difference is not nearly as high as you think. The trouble with most comparisons is that they "cheap out" on the PC, substituting cheaper components than those Apple uses - an opportunity that isn't there for Mac purchasers (thankfully). If you're honest, you'll compare, for example, a low end Powermac G5 to something like an Alienware Area 51. Those two are priced about the same, and I dare say the performance and value is probably about the same as well. But don't go comparing the G5 to a PC you can get for $200 from Walmart and then crow about how Macs are expensive.
I just upgraded my desktop at work to RC2 from 5.2.1. The hiccups were minimal (remove PFIL_HOOKS, add devices io and mem, re-download HFS support), and for my trouble my problems getting my iPod to talk to the USB 2.0 interfaces have all gone away. While I was at it, I added LDAP NSS and PAM support ports and am now a very happy camper! Kudos to everyone involved.
Fair enough. Let me get my google on. While I'm looking for the percentage userbase, let me provide you with this tidbit, which backs up my statements as to why the userbase is higher than the sales figures - namely that 80% of the macs ever sold are still being used.
When you are only 2% of the global computer userbase
You are confused, Grasshopper. Macs are about 20% of the installed userbase. You are quoting sales figures but calling them installed base figures. People keep their Macs longer than PeeCees (and when they sell them, they fetch higher prices on eBay).
By the way, since the XBox 2 will use the PowerPC G5, it shouldn't be that difficult to port future XBox games to the Power Mac G5
This guy's as sharp as a marble. Unless you're coding your games in assembly (no doubt some of that still happens, though compilers are getting so good that the ROI of assembler for games must be pretty low by now), swapping out one compiler for another has got to be the least of the porting worries. I'd say that first and foremost is what to do about DirectX.
If Apple were serious about games, they'd write a DirectX shim layer of some sort. That would probably do more for the portability of games than anything. The problem is that in this case, "if you build it, they will come" is not necessarily true. Because the mac isn't regarded as a gaming platform, I am not so sure that even the immediate magical appearance of DirectX on OS X would change developer hearts and minds.
It doesn't matter whether they're root or not, even an unprivileged user can act as a spam relay or DOS agent or any number of other things that make them valuable to any number of dickheads. It is also almost as disasterous to wipe out an unprivileged user's account as it is to wipe out the machine.
The "malware" described here is really nothing more than a rootkit someone discovered on a compromised machine. So far as I know, no evidence has surfaced as to how it got there. So we have no evidence that a trojan, worm or virus is at work spreading this thing. Given that, I think this story is awfully alarmist.
I fondly remember Apple pascal, which was based on the UCSD p-System. Perhaps I've led a sheltered life, but that was the only filesystem I ever used that required contiguous file allocation. Defragmentation wasn't merely an optimization, it was often required to get a large enough block of free space to actually use!
Anyway, sometime later I got a PCPI Applicard and ran CP/M on my Apple. The PCPI was very hackable, since unlike the Microsoft CP/M cards, it didn't try to share any of the resources of the Apple motherboard. Instead, it was a complete Z-80 running independently in its own 64K RAM space and communicating with the Apple across a parallel port. The Apple could spend its processor time buffering keystrokes and print jobs, and since the timing was not critical, you could "overclock" the Z-80 very easily. I wound up at one point with a 10 MHz Z-80 that was actually able, with Turbo Pascal, to compile programs faster than the x86 machines in the school's lab (and they were state-of-the art at the time)!
I still have that Applicard somewhere. I don't have an Apple ][ to put it in, but I just can't seem to let go of it.
I do, however, still have an installation of a p code interpreter from the FreeBSD ports tree. It can even do turtle graphics. Fun!
I think the best client is Chicken of the VNC. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the scaling feature you speak of, but I don't mind it when it's in the pan-n-scan fullscreen mode.
The client built into KDE is pretty nice too.
What? The guy didn't say what platform he was talking about.
Using them both ways is fine by me. The answer is not that VoIP should be regulated because POTS lines are, it's that POTS lines should not be regulated either.
When phone service was a monopoly, that was one thing. But between VoIP, cell service and alternate dial tone providers (my parents actually get their dial tone from their cable company), the regulation is becoming vestigial.
Where is it written that anytime something new arrives the government has to come along and shit all over it?
How do they propose to even define VoIP? Does iChatAV count? Does it have to be real time? If so, how do you define that? What is the level of latency before it becomes unregulated? If it doesn't have to be realtime do you then tax attaching.aiff files to e-mail? Is it all about phone numbers? How long after they start regulating it that way before people simply abandon that archaic addressing scheme?
No, no, no, no, no. Nobody apart from the endpoints should have any reason to look at anything besides the IP header. We've already departed too far from that state of affairs.
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Actually, that is not true. Speed limits were invented originally to curb overzealous law enforcement.
Originally, the law was that you had to drive at a safe and prudent speed. That started to fall apart when the local Police Chief decided that (usually if you were from out of town) the safe and prudent speed was 5 mi/h slower than however fast you were driving. So the idea of a speed limit was introduced with the concept being that unless there were extraordinary circumstances (which presumably the officer issuing a citation could document), you would be presumed to be driving prudently if you were under the posted speed.
The problems started when those same overzealous cops figured out that their revenue generating model worked just as well when they simply lowered the numbers on the signs rather than using proper traffic engineering (which dictates that normally a speed limit should not be lower than the 85th percentile speed observed with a neutral [that is, not a uniformed officer waving a radar gun] traffic survey).
There was once somewhere an FCC FAQ about the broadcast flag. It specifically says that, yes, you can have a TiVo, so long as it denies you high-quality digital access to unencrypted bits.
It's still a raw deal. There's no reason to make it sound worse than it really is.
I stand corrected. Thank you. Google did come up with results for 'Goodwin,' (and didn't offer the corrected spelling), but comes up with better ones for 'Godwin.'
I've heard from about a half dozen liberal friends about the election so far, and without exception each one has instantly run afoul of Goodwin's Law.
In my book, it goes quite some ways towards explaining why they lost.
It's not. If the counting shows more votes in Ohio for Kerry, then he'll win regardless of his concession. As is so often the case in politics, it's nothing but talk.
But from where I sit, the math doesn't work out that way.
So I encourage... someone... to turn the binary patching stuff into a nice, easy perl script. :-)
How does the baby seem?
She seems to be sleeping.
The error is in the construction of the adverbial phrase. You cannot use a gerund (the "ing" form of a verb, which makes it actually noun. vis: "Sleeping is restful.") as an adverbial phrase on its own.
If you compare Macs to PCs of similar quality and configuration, the price difference is not nearly as high as you think. The trouble with most comparisons is that they "cheap out" on the PC, substituting cheaper components than those Apple uses - an opportunity that isn't there for Mac purchasers (thankfully). If you're honest, you'll compare, for example, a low end Powermac G5 to something like an Alienware Area 51. Those two are priced about the same, and I dare say the performance and value is probably about the same as well. But don't go comparing the G5 to a PC you can get for $200 from Walmart and then crow about how Macs are expensive.
I just upgraded my desktop at work to RC2 from 5.2.1. The hiccups were minimal (remove PFIL_HOOKS, add devices io and mem, re-download HFS support), and for my trouble my problems getting my iPod to talk to the USB 2.0 interfaces have all gone away. While I was at it, I added LDAP NSS and PAM support ports and am now a very happy camper! Kudos to everyone involved.
You are confused, Grasshopper. Macs are about 20% of the installed userbase. You are quoting sales figures but calling them installed base figures. People keep their Macs longer than PeeCees (and when they sell them, they fetch higher prices on eBay).
I wouldn't be caught dead with the sort of crappy PeeCee that would cost half or a third of what a mac costs.
This guy's as sharp as a marble. Unless you're coding your games in assembly (no doubt some of that still happens, though compilers are getting so good that the ROI of assembler for games must be pretty low by now), swapping out one compiler for another has got to be the least of the porting worries. I'd say that first and foremost is what to do about DirectX.
If Apple were serious about games, they'd write a DirectX shim layer of some sort. That would probably do more for the portability of games than anything. The problem is that in this case, "if you build it, they will come" is not necessarily true. Because the mac isn't regarded as a gaming platform, I am not so sure that even the immediate magical appearance of DirectX on OS X would change developer hearts and minds.
o/~ They've got to be protected / all their rights respected / 'till somebody we like can be elected. o/~
(Send The Marines, by Tom Lehrer).
It doesn't matter whether they're root or not, even an unprivileged user can act as a spam relay or DOS agent or any number of other things that make them valuable to any number of dickheads. It is also almost as disasterous to wipe out an unprivileged user's account as it is to wipe out the machine.
The "malware" described here is really nothing more than a rootkit someone discovered on a compromised machine. So far as I know, no evidence has surfaced as to how it got there. So we have no evidence that a trojan, worm or virus is at work spreading this thing. Given that, I think this story is awfully alarmist.
Well, why don't you RTFA and find out!
The Gateway stores failed where Apple stores succeed because, well, the Gateway stores sold Gateways instead of Apples.
I fondly remember Apple pascal, which was based on the UCSD p-System. Perhaps I've led a sheltered life, but that was the only filesystem I ever used that required contiguous file allocation. Defragmentation wasn't merely an optimization, it was often required to get a large enough block of free space to actually use!
Anyway, sometime later I got a PCPI Applicard and ran CP/M on my Apple. The PCPI was very hackable, since unlike the Microsoft CP/M cards, it didn't try to share any of the resources of the Apple motherboard. Instead, it was a complete Z-80 running independently in its own 64K RAM space and communicating with the Apple across a parallel port. The Apple could spend its processor time buffering keystrokes and print jobs, and since the timing was not critical, you could "overclock" the Z-80 very easily. I wound up at one point with a 10 MHz Z-80 that was actually able, with Turbo Pascal, to compile programs faster than the x86 machines in the school's lab (and they were state-of-the art at the time)!
I still have that Applicard somewhere. I don't have an Apple ][ to put it in, but I just can't seem to let go of it.
I do, however, still have an installation of a p code interpreter from the FreeBSD ports tree. It can even do turtle graphics. Fun!
The client built into KDE is pretty nice too.
What? The guy didn't say what platform he was talking about.
When phone service was a monopoly, that was one thing. But between VoIP, cell service and alternate dial tone providers (my parents actually get their dial tone from their cable company), the regulation is becoming vestigial.
Where is it written that anytime something new arrives the government has to come along and shit all over it?
How do they propose to even define VoIP? Does iChatAV count? Does it have to be real time? If so, how do you define that? What is the level of latency before it becomes unregulated? If it doesn't have to be realtime do you then tax attaching .aiff files to e-mail? Is it all about phone numbers? How long after they start regulating it that way before people simply abandon that archaic addressing scheme?
No, no, no, no, no. Nobody apart from the endpoints should have any reason to look at anything besides the IP header. We've already departed too far from that state of affairs.
You wouldn't get a chance unless the 22nd amendment was repealed.
You still don't get it: Yes, you can. I overeat. But my weight has remained constant for years now. It is too high, but it is constant.
The human body's adaptive systems which have evolved throughout the millenia do not help to inform us about the ecosystem and C02 over production.
Then why did you bring it up as an analogy for the ecosystem? And in doing so, why did you get the principles wrong in order to prop up your argument?