Ironically, one of the best mice you can get for a mac, IMHO, is the Microsoft bluetooth mouse. The two thumb buttons serve very well as Expose' buttons. The only quibbles are that you can't get the battery state in the keyboard panel in the system preferences, and it's unsuitable for lefties. Oh well.
I remember hearing horror stories in the past (that I unfortunately can't put my Google on at the moment) about trying to get Microsoft's driver for this gizmo to play nice with Windows (particularly when you already had Bluetooth set up), but on a mac (as is so often the case), it just worked.
The ultimate statement of that sentiment has already been made a reality - Kill Bill was split not into two halves of a single movie, but into two separate movies. Why? So we could be made to pay twice.
Since XM made the SDK for the USB XM radio in question,
No, they didn't. Or more precisely, none of the third party software for the PCR out there today was initially developed with one. The OpenXM project was the first, and they reverse-engineered the protocol.
And for all those bringing up fair use rights and the like, those are rights you have in the absense of more restrictive agreements. If the next audio CD you buy comes in a shrink-wrap license that limits your use, then there's potentially no fair use for that either.
Some of his songs are parody, some are satire. "Achy Breaky Song" is clearly a parody, but "Livin' in the Fridge" is very clearly a satire. Why? Because the humor in ABS is clearly directed at the original song, whereas the humor in LitF is not. As we have all learned, parodies are protected, satire is not.
The fact that Weird Al doesn't have to get permission stems not from whether his songs are parody or satire, but because of the compulsory license system we have for music (the reason ASCAP and BMI exist today). It is the compulsory license system that allowed K-Tel and so many others to make compilation albums without asking - there is a standard formula that pays the song writer.
That he asks for permission first is more about just sheer politeness, I suspect.
This is going to descend into off-topic-ancy a bit, but I would think that deep in the guts of a Java OS there would have to be some JNI as well to handle things like DMA for devices. I mean, the average USB device driver can be pure Java, but the driver for the USB host controller probably is going to need to at least be able to wire down a DMA buffer, get its address, stuff that into a device register, and wait for an interrupt. The drivers themselves can be written to use abstractions of concepts like DMA buffers or interrupt scheduling, but the abstractions will probably need to touch the hardware...
The ironic thing in my view is that this is sort of what CHiRP was supposed to be - a happy universe where you could buy an RS6000 and run MacOS on it, or a Mac and run Solaris on it, or whatever. But then His Steveness decided that the clones had to go...
Allow me to be far from the first to point out that everything that is bad about Linux is addressed with MacOS X, and that almost everything (running on cheap and crappy comodity hardware being the big one missing) great about Linux can also be said about OS X.
To wit:
dependency hell - OS X Frameworks largely address this by allowing applications to specify acceptable versions if necessary, or supply them, still allowing newer system-provided frameworks to override, if allowed. A very complex statement, any part of which you'd find challenging on Linux.
UI widget set anarchy - Aqua, baby.
Difficulty of installing software - Most software on OS X either uses a very friendly packaging/installation system or is simply a single icon you drag from a disk (or mountable disk image) to the Applications folder (or anywhere else you want it to live).
Hardware support - While there is still some hardware you can get that is Windows-only, overall you're a lot more likely to find Mac drivers available from the vendor than Linux drivers.
The old saw about Macs being expensive is old and tired.
It is more accurate to say that you cannot buy a "cheap" mac. That is, the lowest price mac you can get is more expensive than the least expensive PC you can buy. But those two machines won't wind up being even close to either other in features or TCO. This is particularly the case with laptops.
I believe you are incorrect. The original song is being parodied as well as Bush and Kerry. They are contrasting the song's appeal to national unity with the divisive nature of modern politics.
That we both can seriously claim to have opinions on both sides of this issue is precisely why it's going to have to wind up being decided in Federal court. But I can see that neither side here has a slam-dunk case. If anything, JibJab has a slight edge, in my view, simply because the rightsholder here may not want to have any sort of precedent set if they lose.
"This is city probe. We've run across some illegal sexual activity. It should be on your monitors now. Relay to investigating officers." "Thank you for your assistance in crime prevention."
This bit of dialog has been brought to you by THX-1138: Dystopian visions for a new millenium.
No. And his getting permission has nothing to do with it. He can get away with it because he pays royalties to the original songwriters. Music can be used under a compulsory license scheme. This is why the RNC can play "Born in the USA" at their convention and all Meloncamp can do about it is sulk. So long as the RNC pays.
If JibJab paid the licensing fees, that would be the end of it. Since they are not, then the conversation shifts to whether or not they are allowed to create a derivitave work without paying, and thus into the difference between parody and satire and all the rest.
"Barbie girl" is a parody because it makes fun of the copyrighted (actually, that case was about trademarks more than copyrights, but the point is the same) material itself. The allegation here is that Jib Jab's work is a satire, because it makes fun of subject matter other than the work that is used (that is, it makes fun of Bush and Kerry, not Arlo Guthrie's song).
Jib Jab's defense is that the original song is one of the targets of their derivitave work, which means it is a parody, which protects it.
Real's engineers certainly had to obtain iTunes and an iPod to make this happen.
Not necessarily. They could have simply downloaded a copy of hymn. Since that decrypts FairPlay protected files, the source could have given them all of the information they needed. If that's what happened, then that further inflames Apple's beef with the hymn author, somewhat like the way BSDi was able to defer to the University of California when USL came calling.
1. They are not in any way training you to drink and/or enjoy Pepsi. 2. Even if they were, the act of drinking and/or enjoying Pepsi is no different than drinking and/or enjoying Coke.
Say what you want about the moral, political or other educational biases that are present in schools, but I think it crosses a line when it trains one manufacturer's commercial product to the exclusion of others. There is almost no precedent other than computers where this objection can come into play. The closest analog, Driver's Ed, doesn't even work because if you learn how to drive a Ford you can much more easily translate that into driving a Volkswagen than if you learned Windows and then sat down in front of KDE or MacOS X.
If none of these bother you, ask yourself why it bothers you who supplies the PCs and software to your school?
I call Straw Man.
Everything you listed was a comodity - that is, the brand of chalk you use does not alter your chalk-drawing experience in any meaningful way. Thus, the brand of chalk you use in school does not influence your chalk purchase decisions once you leave school. Sitting in front of one brand of desk for 13 years does not mold your ass in such a way to make sitting in front of other brands of desk more difficult or painful.
The review was vague about being able to receive standard VHF and UHF over the air broadcasts
Allow me to clarify:
The EyeTV 500 does not receive analog signals at all. It only receives digital TV signals and only works with a normal UHF/VHF antenna receiving broadcast signals over-the-air.
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It was.
Ironically, one of the best mice you can get for a mac, IMHO, is the Microsoft bluetooth mouse. The two thumb buttons serve very well as Expose' buttons. The only quibbles are that you can't get the battery state in the keyboard panel in the system preferences, and it's unsuitable for lefties. Oh well.
I remember hearing horror stories in the past (that I unfortunately can't put my Google on at the moment) about trying to get Microsoft's driver for this gizmo to play nice with Windows (particularly when you already had Bluetooth set up), but on a mac (as is so often the case), it just worked.
I suppose some enterprising soul could even write a little app to poll the state and display it in the menu bar like the airport rainbow.
The ultimate statement of that sentiment has already been made a reality - Kill Bill was split not into two halves of a single movie, but into two separate movies. Why? So we could be made to pay twice.
No, they didn't. Or more precisely, none of the third party software for the PCR out there today was initially developed with one. The OpenXM project was the first, and they reverse-engineered the protocol.
And for all those bringing up fair use rights and the like, those are rights you have in the absense of more restrictive agreements. If the next audio CD you buy comes in a shrink-wrap license that limits your use, then there's potentially no fair use for that either.
Some of his songs are parody, some are satire. "Achy Breaky Song" is clearly a parody, but "Livin' in the Fridge" is very clearly a satire. Why? Because the humor in ABS is clearly directed at the original song, whereas the humor in LitF is not. As we have all learned, parodies are protected, satire is not.
The fact that Weird Al doesn't have to get permission stems not from whether his songs are parody or satire, but because of the compulsory license system we have for music (the reason ASCAP and BMI exist today). It is the compulsory license system that allowed K-Tel and so many others to make compilation albums without asking - there is a standard formula that pays the song writer.
That he asks for permission first is more about just sheer politeness, I suspect.
Very interesting.
This is going to descend into off-topic-ancy a bit, but I would think that deep in the guts of a Java OS there would have to be some JNI as well to handle things like DMA for devices. I mean, the average USB device driver can be pure Java, but the driver for the USB host controller probably is going to need to at least be able to wire down a DMA buffer, get its address, stuff that into a device register, and wait for an interrupt. The drivers themselves can be written to use abstractions of concepts like DMA buffers or interrupt scheduling, but the abstractions will probably need to touch the hardware...
I am rather good at making an oragami boulder. I get to practice almost daily given how much junk mail arrives in my mailbox 6 days a week.
RTFA. The implication here is that the machine being attacked probably does NOT have a VNC server installed. The attack installs one.
No. If I had meant that, I probably wouldn't have signed my name either.
For suitable definitions of "rapidly".
Ugh, why would you want to?
Now, Solaris on an XServe... That makes sense... Server class hardware that doesn't suck, yet doesn't cost an arm and a leg, running perhaps the best multiprocessor Unix ever... Mmmmm.
The ironic thing in my view is that this is sort of what CHiRP was supposed to be - a happy universe where you could buy an RS6000 and run MacOS on it, or a Mac and run Solaris on it, or whatever. But then His Steveness decided that the clones had to go...
No, but 3 rights make a left.
To wit:
The old saw about Macs being expensive is old and tired.
It is more accurate to say that you cannot buy a "cheap" mac. That is, the lowest price mac you can get is more expensive than the least expensive PC you can buy. But those two machines won't wind up being even close to either other in features or TCO. This is particularly the case with laptops.
That we both can seriously claim to have opinions on both sides of this issue is precisely why it's going to have to wind up being decided in Federal court. But I can see that neither side here has a slam-dunk case. If anything, JibJab has a slight edge, in my view, simply because the rightsholder here may not want to have any sort of precedent set if they lose.
"This is city probe. We've run across some illegal sexual activity. It should be on your monitors now. Relay to investigating officers."
"Thank you for your assistance in crime prevention."
This bit of dialog has been brought to you by THX-1138: Dystopian visions for a new millenium.
If JibJab paid the licensing fees, that would be the end of it. Since they are not, then the conversation shifts to whether or not they are allowed to create a derivitave work without paying, and thus into the difference between parody and satire and all the rest.
As usual, at the core, it's just about the money.
"Barbie girl" is a parody because it makes fun of the copyrighted (actually, that case was about trademarks more than copyrights, but the point is the same) material itself. The allegation here is that Jib Jab's work is a satire, because it makes fun of subject matter other than the work that is used (that is, it makes fun of Bush and Kerry, not Arlo Guthrie's song).
Jib Jab's defense is that the original song is one of the targets of their derivitave work, which means it is a parody, which protects it.
Not necessarily. They could have simply downloaded a copy of hymn. Since that decrypts FairPlay protected files, the source could have given them all of the information they needed. If that's what happened, then that further inflames Apple's beef with the hymn author, somewhat like the way BSDi was able to defer to the University of California when USL came calling.
Doesn't change a thing.
1. They are not in any way training you to drink and/or enjoy Pepsi.
2. Even if they were, the act of drinking and/or enjoying Pepsi is no different than drinking and/or enjoying Coke.
Say what you want about the moral, political or other educational biases that are present in schools, but I think it crosses a line when it trains one manufacturer's commercial product to the exclusion of others. There is almost no precedent other than computers where this objection can come into play. The closest analog, Driver's Ed, doesn't even work because if you learn how to drive a Ford you can much more easily translate that into driving a Volkswagen than if you learned Windows and then sat down in front of KDE or MacOS X.
I call Straw Man.
Everything you listed was a comodity - that is, the brand of chalk you use does not alter your chalk-drawing experience in any meaningful way. Thus, the brand of chalk you use in school does not influence your chalk purchase decisions once you leave school. Sitting in front of one brand of desk for 13 years does not mold your ass in such a way to make sitting in front of other brands of desk more difficult or painful.
Your TiVo does not do the one thing that this box does: receive and record HDTV (unless you spent about $1000 for an HD DirecTivo).
Allow me to clarify:
The EyeTV 500 does not receive analog signals at all. It only receives digital TV signals and only works with a normal UHF/VHF antenna receiving broadcast signals over-the-air.
is to use any LHS @example.com. This, by RFC, is guaranteed to belong to nobody.