I suggest that you also contact compnies like CDNOW, Amazon, etc and tell them that you will no longer purchase CDs or other merchandise from them as long as they carry these copy-protected CDs.
This is the most absurd thing I have heard in a long time. I listen to music at work all the time and I am quite productive.. more so than if I did not... simply becasue of the general office noise around me.
You are right, it's a little sketchy, but pulls together somethings that are a little difficult to find on Apple's developer web site and on other sites around the web. I thought that the chapter on Deployment and Integration provided some good information and also Chapter 5: Enhanced Integration was good. It answered some questions that I've had. Just ofr that information, I think it's worth the $25 I paid.
Here are some more books on MacOS X / Cocoa / Carbon Programming:
Java: "MacOS X Java" Wiliams, Albert, Hart, Hopkins and Steinberg, Wrox press. (Just got this one, reading it now)
WebObjects 5 for Java: A Developer's Guide (With CD-ROM)
by Jesse Feiler (Paperback)
Java & ObjC: "Mac OS X Programming" by Dan Parks Sydow (got this one on order)
Mac OS X Developer's Guide by Jesse Feiler (Paperback) (this is an OK text, some good examples with ObjC & Java, but lacks a lot of detail on many Cocoa topics)
Mac OS X Carbon Developers Black Book (With CD-ROM) by Dan Parks Sydow (Paperback) (don't have this one)
REALbasic: "REALbasic: The Definitive Guide" by Matt Neuburg (good book, but only covers development with REALbasic.. and you can develop "X-only" applications with this)
Actually your point bring sup a little pet peeve of mine.... introducing computers in the classroom and then teaching an operating system. Computers in the classroom should be used as tools for learning math, science, history, etc... not the right way to install the latest HP Printer Driver.
Any reasonably intelligent person should be able to sit down in front of any coimputer with a GUI and with a little guidance be able to navigate their way through their user space... Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. There is absolutely no need to go beyond basic file management in the elementary/middle school classrooms... unless it's a programming class. The choice of computers in the classroom should be based on the needs of the students and the teachers... not the IT managers.
Teaching kids to use MS Office on a PC because that's what they'll be using in the so-called "real world" is a silly agrument. In my "real world", I don't use MS Office at all.
Whether consumers will care when they see a newly bought CD can't be copied remains to be seen. Digital music market analyst Lee Black of Webnoize said most people who listen to music on their computers, usually as MP3 files, aren't buying CDs anyway.
"The majority of people who buy CDs aren't these highly technical people," Black said. "If you want to get MP3s, you'd probably just download them somewhere else."
That quote really m akes me laugh... I listen to MP3 files all the time... and evey one that I own was ripped from a CD that I bought.. not downloaded.
Something to consider is that each iPod device has a unique identifier that's linked to the music database on it's "home" Macintosh.
My speculation is that this may be used in the future in some sort of a system where you can purchase music and have it linked to a specific device... of course, as others have pointed out in other replies, Steve Jobs has said that piracy is a "social issue", not a technoligical issue.
Is is fixed in OS X. Select the file in the Finder, press Command-I and choose the proper panel in the Get Info dialog box. You can choose which application to associate with the current file or for all files with the current extension.
Nothing at all like using ResEdit or one of the other applications to change the creator code.
Why does everyone always pick on this song without listening to what they are really saying. Everyopne always stops after reading the first six words of the title.
It's because the general public is "stupid". They don't look beyond the obvious and avoid anything that might force them to actually THINK. These are the same people who drive 90 on the interstate in bumper to bumper traffic while talking on their cellular phone.
All planes in the air were ordered to land immediately at the closest possible airport... of course, not all airports can handle all types of aircraft. But they had to land as soon as possible.
By the way, I know a LOT of civil servants who will be able to tell you that working in SOME jobs IS a right....in certain jobs, even a Constitutional right.
I don't think so, buddy. The employer did make reasonable accommodations.. as described in the article. I think that this woman was looking to exploit a law that was designed to protect people with more serious disabilities that prevent them for performing _many_ jobs. Let's face it, the employment opportunities for people who are blind or deaf or confined to a wheel chair are seriously limited. This woman could find another job.
Also, as you said, this was her chosen profession. Working in a particular job is not a right.
Well.. I typically "lean left" politically, but in this case, I agree with the courts. It appears that the employer made reasonable efforts to accommodate the reporter.
I wonder what type of medical treatment she had... if I remember correctly, there are surgical techniques that can be performed to correct these types of injuries.
I also wonder how much effort she put into researching assistive technologies- other than voice recognition. In 1997, voice recognition technology might not have been adequate, but currently, I think that's a very viable option. Via Voice appears to be a great product (of course, I'm making that judgement based only on the demo's I've seen).
She's got all kinds of employment opportunities.. it looks like she's just looking for an easy way out. When people are put into a difficult situation, they can play one of two roles: the "helpless victim" and the "adapt and overcomer". I saw a woman once who had no arms but still used a computer. She typed with her toes. If that woman can use a computer, I see no reason why the reporter in this article could not adapt and overcome her injuries. It looks like she's rather be a "helpless victim".
No I think this will work out well for everyone, and I hope that minority browsers like Mozilla and Opera follow suit. No longer will we need to be constrained by the linking laziness of web authors:)
I am going to have to disagree with you on this... in an ideal world this system might work, however, we don't live in an ideal world. The "example" links in the article were a bit absurd, but I can envision something like that happening. I simply don't believe that Microsoft, nor any other corporation that produces a web browser will automatically generate links to "favorable" information about their competitors. They will simply use it to their own advantage and it will become a tool for sales and marketing, not a tool to provide more (unbiased) information to the web site reader.
It's nice to see them following Apple's lead and abandoning legacy ports... no standard serial port, no parallel port on this machine.
It compares nicely to the new iBook, however.
The iBook is larger @ 4.9 pounds, but has 2 USB ports, 12" display, and no PC Card slot and a 6-pin FireWire port, which means you can connect bus-powered FireWire devices. Plus it has a groovy case;-) . The iBook is a better deal for me, but this Casio laptop is pretty nice.
heehee! this brings to mind one of my favorite sigs i've see on Slashdot "Remember.. Star Trek is not a Documentary". I wish I could rememeber whose it was.
I'm going to disagree with your statement that there is no correlation between degrees and intelligence. The probability of someone having one or more college degrees and being intelligent is far far far higher than someone with no degrees or no high school education.
I grew up near a small town in a very rural area. I've met a lot of "blue collar" guys who were reasonably intelligent. But the majority of them (both men and women) were the type of person that wondered "why in the world" I'd want to go off to college and learn "stuff that ain't good fer nuthin'". Well... most of those people are still earning about $14 an hour in a factory (if they are lucky). Don't get me wrong though... I've also met some idiots that made it through college.. but I've met a LOT more idiots that never went to college.
Given a choice between someone with a degree and someone without a degree, I'd probably choose the person with the degree for a job.. unless the undegreed person demonstrated exceptional skills and also demonstrated that the ability to learn new skills and to adapt quickly to a changing schedule and work requirements. College teaches you a lot more than how to solve statics problems.
My roommate wanted to get DSL run to the house and was told by the folks at BellSouth that it would be "no problem". They sent him a modem and he tried for a couple of days to get it up and running. They sent out a technician to check the phone lines (which checked out ok) both inside and outside the house. After about a week they told him that the house was right on the edge of the 15k limit (or whatever the magic distance is).. so we went with a cable modem instead. I hate being a customer of the evil AOL-Time Warner megacorp, but I have been surprisingly pleased with the service in this area- eastern edge of Memphis. Outages are rare.. I think it's only been out once over the past year. In the old neighborhood, outages were a weekly thing.
So what's the point of this post... ummm.. I guess that the phone companies should make an effort to improve their infrastructure if they want the number of DSL subscribers to increase.
I remember reading a while ago that Apple was not going to try and get OS X "certified" as an official version of Unix... they just wanted to take advantage of the power of Unix but were not going to try and sell OS X as a "Unix" OS. Please correct me if I am not remembering correctly.... by the way, I've been running OSX since DP4 and full-time since it was officiallly released on March 24. I _really_ like it.
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I suggest that you also contact compnies like CDNOW, Amazon, etc and tell them that you will no longer purchase CDs or other merchandise from them as long as they carry these copy-protected CDs.
This is the most absurd thing I have heard in a long time. I listen to music at work all the time and I am quite productive.. more so than if I did not... simply becasue of the general office noise around me.
You are right, it's a little sketchy, but pulls together somethings that are a little difficult to find on Apple's developer web site and on other sites around the web. I thought that the chapter on Deployment and Integration provided some good information and also Chapter 5: Enhanced Integration was good. It answered some questions that I've had. Just ofr that information, I think it's worth the $25 I paid.
I just got this one today... I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to do Java development on MacOS X.
Here are some more books on MacOS X / Cocoa / Carbon Programming:
.. and you can develop "X-only" applications with this)
Java: "MacOS X Java" Wiliams, Albert, Hart, Hopkins and Steinberg, Wrox press. (Just got this one, reading it now)
WebObjects 5 for Java: A Developer's Guide (With CD-ROM)
by Jesse Feiler (Paperback)
Java & ObjC: "Mac OS X Programming" by Dan Parks Sydow (got this one on order)
Mac OS X Developer's Guide by Jesse Feiler (Paperback) (this is an OK text, some good examples with ObjC & Java, but lacks a lot of detail on many Cocoa topics)
Mac OS X Carbon Developers Black Book (With CD-ROM) by Dan Parks Sydow (Paperback) (don't have this one)
REALbasic: "REALbasic: The Definitive Guide" by Matt Neuburg (good book, but only covers development with REALbasic
Actually your point bring sup a little pet peeve of mine.... introducing computers in the classroom and then teaching an operating system. Computers in the classroom should be used as tools for learning math, science, history, etc... not the right way to install the latest HP Printer Driver.
Any reasonably intelligent person should be able to sit down in front of any coimputer with a GUI and with a little guidance be able to navigate their way through their user space... Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. There is absolutely no need to go beyond basic file management in the elementary/middle school classrooms... unless it's a programming class. The choice of computers in the classroom should be based on the needs of the students and the teachers... not the IT managers.
Teaching kids to use MS Office on a PC because that's what they'll be using in the so-called "real world" is a silly agrument. In my "real world", I don't use MS Office at all.
Whether consumers will care when they see a newly bought CD can't be copied remains to be seen. Digital music market analyst Lee Black of Webnoize said most people who listen to music on their computers, usually as MP3 files, aren't buying CDs anyway.
"The majority of people who buy CDs aren't these highly technical people," Black said. "If you want to get MP3s, you'd probably just download them somewhere else."
That quote really m akes me laugh... I listen to MP3 files all the time... and evey one that I own was ripped from a CD that I bought.. not downloaded.
ugh.
Something to consider is that each iPod device has a unique identifier that's linked to the music database on it's "home" Macintosh.
My speculation is that this may be used in the future in some sort of a system where you can purchase music and have it linked to a specific device... of course, as others have pointed out in other replies, Steve Jobs has said that piracy is a "social issue", not a technoligical issue.
heehee .. does the GNU spell checker make you replace Linux with GNU/Linux?
Bud.. the iPod is too small to hold a standard notebook hard drive.
I just tried to access MSN.com using Netscape 4.7.2 on HP-UX 11... lol, the browser completely crashes.
Is is fixed in OS X. Select the file in the Finder, press Command-I and choose the proper panel in the Get Info dialog box. You can choose which application to associate with the current file or for all files with the current extension.
Nothing at all like using ResEdit or one of the other applications to change the creator code.
Why does everyone always pick on this song without listening to what they are really saying. Everyopne always stops after reading the first six words of the title.
It's because the general public is "stupid". They don't look beyond the obvious and avoid anything that might force them to actually THINK. These are the same people who drive 90 on the interstate in bumper to bumper traffic while talking on their cellular phone.
Given the volume of traffic online today.. you guys have done a great job keeping this site up and runnning smoothly.
Congratulations and Thanks!
All planes in the air were ordered to land immediately at the closest possible airport... of course, not all airports can handle all types of aircraft. But they had to land as soon as possible.
By the way, I know a LOT of civil servants who will be able to tell you that working in SOME jobs IS a right....in certain jobs, even a Constitutional right.
ok.. so what are they?
I don't think so, buddy. The employer did make reasonable accommodations.. as described in the article. I think that this woman was looking to exploit a law that was designed to protect people with more serious disabilities that prevent them for performing _many_ jobs. Let's face it, the employment opportunities for people who are blind or deaf or confined to a wheel chair are seriously limited. This woman could find another job. Also, as you said, this was her chosen profession. Working in a particular job is not a right.
Well.. I typically "lean left" politically, but in this case, I agree with the courts. It appears that the employer made reasonable efforts to accommodate the reporter.
I wonder what type of medical treatment she had... if I remember correctly, there are surgical techniques that can be performed to correct these types of injuries.
I also wonder how much effort she put into researching assistive technologies- other than voice recognition. In 1997, voice recognition technology might not have been adequate, but currently, I think that's a very viable option. Via Voice appears to be a great product (of course, I'm making that judgement based only on the demo's I've seen).
She's got all kinds of employment opportunities.. it looks like she's just looking for an easy way out. When people are put into a difficult situation, they can play one of two roles: the "helpless victim" and the "adapt and overcomer". I saw a woman once who had no arms but still used a computer. She typed with her toes. If that woman can use a computer, I see no reason why the reporter in this article could not adapt and overcome her injuries. It looks like she's rather be a "helpless victim".
No I think this will work out well for everyone, and I hope that minority browsers like Mozilla and Opera follow suit. No longer will we need to be constrained by the linking laziness of web authors :)
I am going to have to disagree with you on this... in an ideal world this system might work, however, we don't live in an ideal world. The "example" links in the article were a bit absurd, but I can envision something like that happening. I simply don't believe that Microsoft, nor any other corporation that produces a web browser will automatically generate links to "favorable" information about their competitors. They will simply use it to their own advantage and it will become a tool for sales and marketing, not a tool to provide more (unbiased) information to the web site reader.
It's nice to see them following Apple's lead and abandoning legacy ports... no standard serial port, no parallel port on this machine.
;-) . The iBook is a better deal for me, but this Casio laptop is pretty nice.
It compares nicely to the new iBook, however.
The iBook is larger @ 4.9 pounds, but has 2 USB ports, 12" display, and no PC Card slot and a 6-pin FireWire port, which means you can connect bus-powered FireWire devices. Plus it has a groovy case
heehee! this brings to mind one of my favorite sigs i've see on Slashdot "Remember.. Star Trek is not a Documentary". I wish I could rememeber whose it was.
I'm going to disagree with your statement that there is no correlation between degrees and intelligence. The probability of someone having one or more college degrees and being intelligent is far far far higher than someone with no degrees or no high school education.
I grew up near a small town in a very rural area. I've met a lot of "blue collar" guys who were reasonably intelligent. But the majority of them (both men and women) were the type of person that wondered "why in the world" I'd want to go off to college and learn "stuff that ain't good fer nuthin'". Well... most of those people are still earning about $14 an hour in a factory (if they are lucky). Don't get me wrong though... I've also met some idiots that made it through college.. but I've met a LOT more idiots that never went to college.
Given a choice between someone with a degree and someone without a degree, I'd probably choose the person with the degree for a job.. unless the undegreed person demonstrated exceptional skills and also demonstrated that the ability to learn new skills and to adapt quickly to a changing schedule and work requirements. College teaches you a lot more than how to solve statics problems.
My roommate wanted to get DSL run to the house and was told by the folks at BellSouth that it would be "no problem". They sent him a modem and he tried for a couple of days to get it up and running. They sent out a technician to check the phone lines (which checked out ok) both inside and outside the house. After about a week they told him that the house was right on the edge of the 15k limit (or whatever the magic distance is).. so we went with a cable modem instead. I hate being a customer of the evil AOL-Time Warner megacorp, but I have been surprisingly pleased with the service in this area- eastern edge of Memphis. Outages are rare.. I think it's only been out once over the past year. In the old neighborhood, outages were a weekly thing.
So what's the point of this post... ummm.. I guess that the phone companies should make an effort to improve their infrastructure if they want the number of DSL subscribers to increase.
I remember reading a while ago that Apple was not going to try and get OS X "certified" as an official version of Unix... they just wanted to take advantage of the power of Unix but were not going to try and sell OS X as a "Unix" OS. Please correct me if I am not remembering correctly.... by the way, I've been running OSX since DP4 and full-time since it was officiallly released on March 24. I _really_ like it.