Security Update 2004-02-23 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:
I beleive if Google has decided to go after new business, it would be because they decided to move into a new market, not because they wanted to act in malace against another company.
That's how every company and every business works in this country. It is for that very reason - direct competition - that we have so many awesome, cool products and services. At the end of the day, consumers want the best value for their dollar, the most choices, the most convenience. It's what a free market is all about.
So consider this, if Google creates an email service, and Yahoo starts to see some of its customers switch to Google, then Yahoo will be in a position to either a) do nothing, or b) offer something new to make Yahoo an even better service than it was before.
At the end of the day, if both services are doing a really good job, then they'll split the user base. But if one is really doing a better job than the other, that one will "win" the majority (usually). End-users will have more choices for web-based email, and we'll possibly see other services created to entice us to switch services.
I say screw it. Whats happened happened. If Microsoft is bad they will fail all by themselves. They don't need the rule of laws help.
Actually, they do need laws to help, because they have amassed a disproportionately large amount of power and without laws they will literally be able to do whatever they choose. This isn't a question of being a Microsoft fan or not, this is a question of a single company having enormous power and reach, and without laws that company can do (and has already done, even with laws, because they are always able to manipulate the circumstances in their favor) things that are unfair to other companies.
I'm no Microsoft fan either, but I stand in complete awe of their ability to succeed, regardless of the circumstances. Despite doing many things "wrong" according to/. users, Microsoft has in fact played their cards right in a lot of ways. It is not random chance that they're one of the largest, most powerful companies on the planet. On the contrary, it's very deliberate. I'd suggest doing some reading on the things they've done in the past. There's a lot of history in that company and many, many examples of behavior that a) was successful, and b) probably could have been curbed by a slightly less wimpy legal system.
> I would caution against taking anything Michael Moore says as valid.
So you think he made up everything in the movie? Did he fake all the news clippings? Are those even real people that appear on screen? It sounds like you've got a beef with him and his style (and I agree there are fair reasons to disagree with his style) and now you distrust everything he touches, just because he had something to do with it. Seems just as extreme as Mr. Moore himself.
I've read those and other discussions of Michael Moore's "creative" use of facts, that he leaves out certain details to make his point sound more shocking. Or in the case of the NRA/Charlton Heston scenes, he seems to have done more than just leave out a few facts in order to paint the picture the way he wants it. Hey, it's a fricking movie, and yes, it's plays itself like a documentary, leading us to believe that everything is true. But you know what, I think that when anybody tries to make a point about something controversial, the single easiest thing for the listener to do is find one or more details that were left out (intentionally or not) and use them to trash everything else that the person was trying to say. But what the hell is that? Who tries to make a convincing point about something, say abortion, and then offers up every single little reason why their own point is questionable, or slightly weak? Who says "Goddammit I'm right about this! Except for that thing over there, and these things here, and the fact that some other things happned last week, and..." That's not the way people work. I'm not trying to defend Michael Moore at all, but I totally have issues with people who single him out and blame him like he's the only one who ever does this. EVERYBODY does this. The difference is, Moore did it on the big screen in front of the entire world, so somehow he's the asshole for doing the same thing that the rest of the world does on a daily basis.
The point that the movie makes, that point that I agree with, and that many of the "Michael Moore is lying" web pages also agree with - our society is shaped very heavily by mainstream media, and we live in a society of fear. I don't give a shit what the NRA thinks, or what Moore says about the NRA, I don't think it's relevant.
9. Fear. Bowling probably has a good point when it suggests that the media feeds off fear in a search for the fast buck.
So tying all of this back to the conversation about blaming video games for violence in this country... the media feeds off fear, and the people feed off the media, and soon (well, already happened) society is shaped and molded by the constant fears and concerns that everybody has, with everyone worrying about every goddamn thing under the sun.
I admit I did not rtfa, but I already believe games are not to blame for violence in this country. Why? Well we hear it all the time in the mainstream news -heavy metal music is making kids kill each other, Grand Theft Auto is making kids kill each other, freely available handguns and high-power firearms is why kids kill each other, violence on TV and in movies is what makes kids kill each other, the broken marriages, high divorce rates and single-family homes are robbing kids of the stability at home and thus they grow up insecure and want to kill each other,......
The interesting thing is this:
- the United States is not the only country with alienated youth, check out Japanese kids (in Japan) or countires throughout Europe. In fact, isn't it part of growing up to be alienated and not fit in? Most of us didn't fit in when we were growing up, but who cares?
- the divorce rate in the U.S. is not the highest in the world, Brittain is higher. But we don't see the Brits killing each other left and right, or blaming everyone and their dog for why the other is so violent.
- mainstream music and movies can't be blamed, because they are ALL available in other countries, and in some cases might even be "taken more seriously" by foreigners who idolize the American way of life, so how can we blame movies, TV and music?
- the availability of guns in this country isn't totally to blame either - look at Canadians, they've got millions of guns throughout the country, but we don't see the Kanucks blowing each other's heads off.
I never really had a cohesive perspective on this stuff until I watched Bowling for Columbine. This is exactly what the movie is about - investigating why this country is so obsessed with violence. The answer, according to Michael Moore (and I totally agree with him), is that we live in a society that thrives on fear.
We're afraid of being robbed, insulted, embarassed... We're afraid we'll get too fat, or get too thin, or be unhealthy about our diet.... We're afraid we won't fit in, or won't get laid this weekend, or can't get a promotion at work, or might get fired, and what the hell am I gonna do when I retire? and how are my kids going to possibly afford college on their own?! and jesus what is up with social security?....
It just goes on and on, and we finally get to fear over our kids, and that's where all the blame lands on TV, movies, music, and video games. If the average parent would spend real quality time with their kids instead of plopping them in front of the fucking television night after night, things in this country might start turning for the better.
... to that PC World bonehead who wrote an article about OS X being "just as insecure as Windows" because somebody discovered a remote exploit (where "remote" meant "on the same lan as your machine").
I don't recall his name, but I remember the sensationalist tone of his article, the minimal facts, and the gloating that Windows was no longer alone in being vulnerable. It's probably asking a bit much for him to read the article without his "I Love Windows Blindly" hat on, but maybe he (and others whose love of bashing the Mac seems to exceed anyone else's love of anything, including the so-called "Mac zealots") might be begin to accept reality.
It sounds like Disney-insiders blame the CEO of Disney.
From the article:
Roy Disney and ally Stanley Gold, who both resigned from the Disney board late last year and called for Chief Executive and Chairman Michael Eisner to step down, placed the blame on Eisner.
"More than a year ago, we warned the Disney board that we believed Michael Eisner was mismanaging the Pixar partnership and expressed our concern that the relationship was in jeopardy," they said.
Neither of them work for me, both complain about cookies not being enabled (they are). Whatever. Since I could not follow their legitimate download process, I used the direct download link from another post.
As for the email address thing, that's one of the niceties about owning your own domain - you get an infinite number of b.s. address ("blahblah@yourdomain.com, whatever@yourdomain.com, etc.). Then you can specify one rule on the server that routes them all into a junk folder.
I can't even log in to Friendster, let alone get to a point where I can get a warning that my network can't be accessed, etc.. I just tried again yesterday, and got the usual 60 second browser timeout after hitting the "login" button.
I totally agree that it's too bad for Friendster, because they sure as shit could have used a boost in performance.
What's next, KFC saying their chicken is good for you?
dude, I hate to break it to you, but I don't think KFC's chicken is actually made out of chicken... kinda like "silver paste" being silver-colored, but made of somthing else
insecurity stems not from some flaw in an OS but from a fundamental problem with the users and industry's mindset which stresses features and convenience over security. Just imagine what a simple script could do on a Uix dervative when accidentatlly run aby a user. Now imagine what happens when that user is running as root. And that's just what many people are going to do...
I do not see how this scenario has any real-world merit. Getting root access on a machine isn't something that you accidentally do. On many non-Windows OS's, you have to go out of your way to explicitly enable root access. Of the *nix choices most likely to make it onto a random household desktop, OS X is probably going to win out, and it also requires explicit activation of the root account.
Your comment that 'insecurity is not the result of an OS flaw' doesn't seem to make sense. "Being attacked by the majority" and "being secure" are two different, independent things. Something can be secure without being attacked by the majority. For instance, I'll set up two safes, one that we'll call "secure" and one that we will call "insecure".
The "secure" safe will be fireproof, unbreakable (if something smashes it), and it will have an extremely precise lock that is known to thwart most good attempts at breaking in. We could also make it extremely heavy so that it's not possible for an average individual to carry it off alone. Perhaps you can think of a few other characteristics that you might consider "secure".
The "insecure" safe will be made of paper and glass, so that it is see-through, easily smashable, and utterly flammable. It will have a lock on it like you see on the back of a screen door (that little latch-hook thingy). It will weigh only 2 pounds and have easy-carry handles, making it very easy for somebody to carry it home.
Whether or not 100 million people try to break into each of these safes, it is clear that one is more secure than the other. Furthermore, one is secure and the other is not because of their designs.
Even if your claim is correct (that the industry mindset stresses features/convenience over security), that is no excuse for a company to come up with a poor design, or to have a poor design and avoid properly modifying it to eliminate the glaring security problems.
...when it's really gone - it has a certain look & feel that is very unique...
This is just like those conversations about CD audio replacing vinyl, or solid-state amplifiers replacing tubes. Generally, it's about digital versus analog.
Walk into any good record shop (not Tower Records...) and ask if they've got any vinyl; I guarantee that you'll see a lot of it. I think that the worse-case scenario for what will happen to traditional film vs. digital film will be similar to the vinyl vs. CD war. There will always be people who choose vinyl, tubes, and traditional film. They may not be the majority, but they will always be around.
I've found that the pay for the jobs out there hasn't decreased it's simply the number of jobs available has gone down the toilet.
This is interesting, because it seems to be in stark contrast to the comments in the story about U.S. workers being unwilling to work for less money. That suggests to me that there are still the same number of jobs in this country, only now they pay smaller salaries, and after some period of time the executives decided that U.S. workers were unwilling to accept those smaller salaries.
The thing is, as you pointed out, this is not what's happening. There are in fact fewer jobs available, and the salaries are the same (ie, not lower).
Perhaps a good summary of the article might be: "Well, we're doing the usual blind executive thing, making lots of decisions that we can't really justify to the public because our reasoning is shaky and unfounded. So please just leave us alone and give us the freedom to wreck the U.S. high-tech job market as we see fit. Thank you."
I've been tracking an iPod that I just ordered through apple.com (only way to get it engraved), and FedEx shows its origination as Shanghai, China.
I bought a Powerbook 1 1/2 years ago, and that tracked from Asia as well, not the U.S.
I agree with your overall point, we do get what we pay for, but Apple shouldn't be the role model for how to keep production in this country when they've already been doing production overseas for a long time.
My wife and I spent a few months last year living in New Zealand, and I can assure you that if you end up moving down there you're going to need a lot of sunscreen.
We're outdoorsy types, have spent the last decade living in Texas, and generally enjoy a sunny day as much as anyone. But not in NZ. The sun's power is significantly stronger down there, to the point that you would literally feel pain when sunlight made contact with your skin. I cannot stress this enough. The kiwis are all used to it, and many of them simply dismiss it like it's not a problem (and for them, I guess it isn't, since they're used to it). Consider yourself warned.
I can't believe nobody has made the connection/joke already, but...
Microsoft had better stop studying Linux or they're gonna be liable for that $699 fee per license for their new core OS. That would put each purchase even more underwater than their current Xbox giveaway!
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The law does apply to the entire EU, but it has not taken effect EU-wide, as it is up to each member of the EU to follow through. The UK has moved forward, but most of the other members (list below) have not. It's also not clear that they ever will.
The directive obliged individual EC member states to introduce anti-spam laws by October 31. However nine member nations of the 15 country European Union have so far failed to adopt anti-spam legislation. France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden all face possible court action unless they provide an explanation on their lack of progress within the next two months. Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the UK have already taken steps to adopt the EU law.
I agree that the iTunes/Pepsi music giveaway will have an impact on digital music use, but I'm actually more interested in seeing how things will change for the iTunes music store itself. In recent news, Apple has said they've had more than 20 million music downloads. After they give away 1 million tracks, that's going to bring a lot of new business to the store, people who have never given it a try or maybe never heard of it. I'd be curious to see any discussion from Apple on what they're predicting for sales increases after the Pepsi giveaway.
After completing load testing of the rotor, the CRW will be ready for first flight, which is expected to occur by the end of 2002.
Did I miss something? The linked page says the testing was supposed to happen in 2002, yet here we are a few weeks away from 2004. For such a cutting-edge creation, you think they might have updated their web page, perhaps somewhere in the 2003 time-frame...
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And I have to spend nearly zero brainpower remembering a password. Here's what I do...
Take a phrase (song lyric, phrase, personal mantra, etc.) and grab the first letter of each word. Then replace various letters with numeric digits.
So an example phrase might be: "i love to post on slashdot"
which would become: "iltpos", but then you could replace the "o" with the digit zero (0), and the "s" with the digit five (5), so now you've got:
"iltp05"
That's basically an unintelligible password, yet totally easy to remember because all you need to remember is your password geneation scheme and a tip for what your phrase is.
Just think, people in the U.S. complain about getting fired for saying something work-related (and probably negative) in a personal blog, but in China you might get thrown in jail for a year or more without ever being charged. Things may not be perfect in America, but they sure could be a lot worse... For instance, imagine most/. posters going to jail for speaking freely in a public forum.
Not trying to troll here, but Microsoft is a company that I simply do not trust. I don't trust them with maintaining my privacy, nor do I trust that they have my best interests in mind. And that's only for computer usage. Why would I trust that their system will always "do the right thing" when I'm in a real-world scenario, driving down the highway at 50 mph? True, I have no idea what role Windows CE (or whatever is used) would actually play while the car is in use, but it's an important question to answer. For myself, you can damn well be sure that I would take some serious convincing before I would entertain the possibility of spending a huge sum of money on a rolling, engine-powered WIndows machine. And even if I'm convinced, who's to say that there aren't serious problems with the design of Windows CE and how it interacts with the rest of the car. Even if it's only used to control the car stereo, I'd rather not have it there. I'll just stick with a nice Toyota or Volkswagen, or frankly any other manufacturer that avoids the use of a Microsoft prodcut as a systems controller.
A human version of GTA would make even more money than the console version - weapons, fighting, stealing, driving, stunt jumping, motorcycles, helicopters, prostitutes... what more would we need? I'd personally rather have all of that than Virtual Doom where I'm just killing monsters again and again, but ymmv.
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oops, posted the wrong link before... at a glance, it looks like it contains the same information.
here is the correct page for 10.3.x at apple.com
From this support page at apple.com:
Security Update 2004-02-23 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:
DiskArbitration
IPSec
Point-to-Point-Protocol
Safari
Additionally, Security Update 2003-11-19 has been incorporated into this security update. Those components are:
gm4
groff
Mail w/CRAM-MD5 authentication
OpenSSL
Personal File Sharing
QuickTime for Java
zlib "gzprintf()" function
I beleive if Google has decided to go after new business, it would be because they decided to move into a new market, not because they wanted to act in malace against another company.
That's how every company and every business works in this country. It is for that very reason - direct competition - that we have so many awesome, cool products and services. At the end of the day, consumers want the best value for their dollar, the most choices, the most convenience. It's what a free market is all about.
So consider this, if Google creates an email service, and Yahoo starts to see some of its customers switch to Google, then Yahoo will be in a position to either a) do nothing, or b) offer something new to make Yahoo an even better service than it was before.
At the end of the day, if both services are doing a really good job, then they'll split the user base. But if one is really doing a better job than the other, that one will "win" the majority (usually). End-users will have more choices for web-based email, and we'll possibly see other services created to entice us to switch services.
I say screw it. Whats happened happened. If Microsoft is bad they will fail all by themselves. They don't need the rule of laws help.
/. users, Microsoft has in fact played their cards right in a lot of ways. It is not random chance that they're one of the largest, most powerful companies on the planet. On the contrary, it's very deliberate. I'd suggest doing some reading on the things they've done in the past. There's a lot of history in that company and many, many examples of behavior that a) was successful, and b) probably could have been curbed by a slightly less wimpy legal system.
Actually, they do need laws to help, because they have amassed a disproportionately large amount of power and without laws they will literally be able to do whatever they choose. This isn't a question of being a Microsoft fan or not, this is a question of a single company having enormous power and reach, and without laws that company can do (and has already done, even with laws, because they are always able to manipulate the circumstances in their favor) things that are unfair to other companies.
I'm no Microsoft fan either, but I stand in complete awe of their ability to succeed, regardless of the circumstances. Despite doing many things "wrong" according to
> I would caution against taking anything Michael Moore says as valid.
So you think he made up everything in the movie? Did he fake all the news clippings? Are those even real people that appear on screen? It sounds like you've got a beef with him and his style (and I agree there are fair reasons to disagree with his style) and now you distrust everything he touches, just because he had something to do with it. Seems just as extreme as Mr. Moore himself.
I've read those and other discussions of Michael Moore's "creative" use of facts, that he leaves out certain details to make his point sound more shocking. Or in the case of the NRA/Charlton Heston scenes, he seems to have done more than just leave out a few facts in order to paint the picture the way he wants it. Hey, it's a fricking movie, and yes, it's plays itself like a documentary, leading us to believe that everything is true. But you know what, I think that when anybody tries to make a point about something controversial, the single easiest thing for the listener to do is find one or more details that were left out (intentionally or not) and use them to trash everything else that the person was trying to say. But what the hell is that? Who tries to make a convincing point about something, say abortion, and then offers up every single little reason why their own point is questionable, or slightly weak? Who says "Goddammit I'm right about this! Except for that thing over there, and these things here, and the fact that some other things happned last week, and..." That's not the way people work. I'm not trying to defend Michael Moore at all, but I totally have issues with people who single him out and blame him like he's the only one who ever does this. EVERYBODY does this. The difference is, Moore did it on the big screen in front of the entire world, so somehow he's the asshole for doing the same thing that the rest of the world does on a daily basis.
The point that the movie makes, that point that I agree with, and that many of the "Michael Moore is lying" web pages also agree with - our society is shaped very heavily by mainstream media, and we live in a society of fear. I don't give a shit what the NRA thinks, or what Moore says about the NRA, I don't think it's relevant.
From the first link you posted, see #9:
9. Fear. Bowling probably has a good point when it suggests that the media feeds off fear in a search for the fast buck.
So tying all of this back to the conversation about blaming video games for violence in this country... the media feeds off fear, and the people feed off the media, and soon (well, already happened) society is shaped and molded by the constant fears and concerns that everybody has, with everyone worrying about every goddamn thing under the sun.
I admit I did not rtfa, but I already believe games are not to blame for violence in this country. Why? Well we hear it all the time in the mainstream news -heavy metal music is making kids kill each other, Grand Theft Auto is making kids kill each other, freely available handguns and high-power firearms is why kids kill each other, violence on TV and in movies is what makes kids kill each other, the broken marriages, high divorce rates and single-family homes are robbing kids of the stability at home and thus they grow up insecure and want to kill each other, ......
The interesting thing is this:
- the United States is not the only country with alienated youth, check out Japanese kids (in Japan) or countires throughout Europe. In fact, isn't it part of growing up to be alienated and not fit in? Most of us didn't fit in when we were growing up, but who cares?
- the divorce rate in the U.S. is not the highest in the world, Brittain is higher. But we don't see the Brits killing each other left and right, or blaming everyone and their dog for why the other is so violent.
- mainstream music and movies can't be blamed, because they are ALL available in other countries, and in some cases might even be "taken more seriously" by foreigners who idolize the American way of life, so how can we blame movies, TV and music?
- the availability of guns in this country isn't totally to blame either - look at Canadians, they've got millions of guns throughout the country, but we don't see the Kanucks blowing each other's heads off.
I never really had a cohesive perspective on this stuff until I watched Bowling for Columbine. This is exactly what the movie is about - investigating why this country is so obsessed with violence. The answer, according to Michael Moore (and I totally agree with him), is that we live in a society that thrives on fear.
We're afraid of being robbed, insulted, embarassed... We're afraid we'll get too fat, or get too thin, or be unhealthy about our diet.... We're afraid we won't fit in, or won't get laid this weekend, or can't get a promotion at work, or might get fired, and what the hell am I gonna do when I retire? and how are my kids going to possibly afford college on their own?! and jesus what is up with social security?....
It just goes on and on, and we finally get to fear over our kids, and that's where all the blame lands on TV, movies, music, and video games. If the average parent would spend real quality time with their kids instead of plopping them in front of the fucking television night after night, things in this country might start turning for the better.
I wrote about this on my blog when I saw the movie a few months ago. For any interested parties, here's a link to The Charlie Rose Show where Michael Moore was interviewed.
... to that PC World bonehead who wrote an article about OS X being "just as insecure as Windows" because somebody discovered a remote exploit (where "remote" meant "on the same lan as your machine").
I don't recall his name, but I remember the sensationalist tone of his article, the minimal facts, and the gloating that Windows was no longer alone in being vulnerable. It's probably asking a bit much for him to read the article without his "I Love Windows Blindly" hat on, but maybe he (and others whose love of bashing the Mac seems to exceed anyone else's love of anything, including the so-called "Mac zealots") might be begin to accept reality.
It sounds like Disney-insiders blame the CEO of Disney.
From the article:
Roy Disney and ally Stanley Gold, who both resigned from the Disney board late last year and called for Chief Executive and Chairman Michael Eisner to step down, placed the blame on Eisner.
"More than a year ago, we warned the Disney board that we believed Michael Eisner was mismanaging the Pixar partnership and expressed our concern that the relationship was in jeopardy," they said.
Neither of them work for me, both complain about cookies not being enabled (they are). Whatever. Since I could not follow their legitimate download process, I used the direct download link from another post.
As for the email address thing, that's one of the niceties about owning your own domain - you get an infinite number of b.s. address ("blahblah@yourdomain.com, whatever@yourdomain.com, etc.). Then you can specify one rule on the server that routes them all into a junk folder.
It can be _very slow_ sometimes...
I can't even log in to Friendster, let alone get to a point where I can get a warning that my network can't be accessed, etc.. I just tried again yesterday, and got the usual 60 second browser timeout after hitting the "login" button.
I totally agree that it's too bad for Friendster, because they sure as shit could have used a boost in performance.
What's next, KFC saying their chicken is good for you?
dude, I hate to break it to you, but I don't think KFC's chicken is actually made out of chicken... kinda like "silver paste" being silver-colored, but made of somthing else
and no, it's not good for you
insecurity stems not from some flaw in an OS but from a fundamental problem with the users and industry's mindset which stresses features and convenience over security. Just imagine what a simple script could do on a Uix dervative when accidentatlly run aby a user. Now imagine what happens when that user is running as root. And that's just what many people are going to do...
I do not see how this scenario has any real-world merit. Getting root access on a machine isn't something that you accidentally do. On many non-Windows OS's, you have to go out of your way to explicitly enable root access. Of the *nix choices most likely to make it onto a random household desktop, OS X is probably going to win out, and it also requires explicit activation of the root account.
Your comment that 'insecurity is not the result of an OS flaw' doesn't seem to make sense. "Being attacked by the majority" and "being secure" are two different, independent things. Something can be secure without being attacked by the majority. For instance, I'll set up two safes, one that we'll call "secure" and one that we will call "insecure".
The "secure" safe will be fireproof, unbreakable (if something smashes it), and it will have an extremely precise lock that is known to thwart most good attempts at breaking in. We could also make it extremely heavy so that it's not possible for an average individual to carry it off alone. Perhaps you can think of a few other characteristics that you might consider "secure".
The "insecure" safe will be made of paper and glass, so that it is see-through, easily smashable, and utterly flammable. It will have a lock on it like you see on the back of a screen door (that little latch-hook thingy). It will weigh only 2 pounds and have easy-carry handles, making it very easy for somebody to carry it home.
Whether or not 100 million people try to break into each of these safes, it is clear that one is more secure than the other. Furthermore, one is secure and the other is not because of their designs.
Even if your claim is correct (that the industry mindset stresses features/convenience over security), that is no excuse for a company to come up with a poor design, or to have a poor design and avoid properly modifying it to eliminate the glaring security problems.
...when it's really gone - it has a certain look & feel that is very unique...
This is just like those conversations about CD audio replacing vinyl, or solid-state amplifiers replacing tubes. Generally, it's about digital versus analog.
Walk into any good record shop (not Tower Records...) and ask if they've got any vinyl; I guarantee that you'll see a lot of it. I think that the worse-case scenario for what will happen to traditional film vs. digital film will be similar to the vinyl vs. CD war. There will always be people who choose vinyl, tubes, and traditional film. They may not be the majority, but they will always be around.
Newer isn't always better.
I've found that the pay for the jobs out there hasn't decreased it's simply the number of jobs available has gone down the toilet.
This is interesting, because it seems to be in stark contrast to the comments in the story about U.S. workers being unwilling to work for less money. That suggests to me that there are still the same number of jobs in this country, only now they pay smaller salaries, and after some period of time the executives decided that U.S. workers were unwilling to accept those smaller salaries.
The thing is, as you pointed out, this is not what's happening. There are in fact fewer jobs available, and the salaries are the same (ie, not lower).
Perhaps a good summary of the article might be: "Well, we're doing the usual blind executive thing, making lots of decisions that we can't really justify to the public because our reasoning is shaky and unfounded. So please just leave us alone and give us the freedom to wreck the U.S. high-tech job market as we see fit. Thank you."
Dude, Apple's products are not made in the U.S.
I've been tracking an iPod that I just ordered through apple.com (only way to get it engraved), and FedEx shows its origination as Shanghai, China.
I bought a Powerbook 1 1/2 years ago, and that tracked from Asia as well, not the U.S.
I agree with your overall point, we do get what we pay for, but Apple shouldn't be the role model for how to keep production in this country when they've already been doing production overseas for a long time.
My wife and I spent a few months last year living in New Zealand, and I can assure you that if you end up moving down there you're going to need a lot of sunscreen.
We're outdoorsy types, have spent the last decade living in Texas, and generally enjoy a sunny day as much as anyone. But not in NZ. The sun's power is significantly stronger down there, to the point that you would literally feel pain when sunlight made contact with your skin. I cannot stress this enough. The kiwis are all used to it, and many of them simply dismiss it like it's not a problem (and for them, I guess it isn't, since they're used to it). Consider yourself warned.
No thanks. I think I'll wait for Crazy as a Sh*thouse Rat: The Darl McBride Story.
Well who's gonna be crazier - Darl for living on another planet, or you for shelling out $699 to buy a copy of The Darl McBride Story?
Yeah, I'm speculating on the price, but prior experience suggests that $699 would be more or less correct for something "produced" by SCO...
I can't believe nobody has made the connection/joke already, but...
Microsoft had better stop studying Linux or they're gonna be liable for that $699 fee per license for their new core OS. That would put each purchase even more underwater than their current Xbox giveaway!
The law does apply to the entire EU, but it has not taken effect EU-wide, as it is up to each member of the EU to follow through. The UK has moved forward, but most of the other members (list below) have not. It's also not clear that they ever will.
From The Register:
The directive obliged individual EC member states to introduce anti-spam laws by October 31. However nine member nations of the 15 country European Union have so far failed to adopt anti-spam legislation. France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden all face possible court action unless they provide an explanation on their lack of progress within the next two months. Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the UK have already taken steps to adopt the EU law.
I agree that the iTunes/Pepsi music giveaway will have an impact on digital music use, but I'm actually more interested in seeing how things will change for the iTunes music store itself. In recent news, Apple has said they've had more than 20 million music downloads. After they give away 1 million tracks, that's going to bring a lot of new business to the store, people who have never given it a try or maybe never heard of it. I'd be curious to see any discussion from Apple on what they're predicting for sales increases after the Pepsi giveaway.
After completing load testing of the rotor, the CRW will be ready for first flight, which is expected to occur by the end of 2002.
Did I miss something? The linked page says the testing was supposed to happen in 2002, yet here we are a few weeks away from 2004. For such a cutting-edge creation, you think they might have updated their web page, perhaps somewhere in the 2003 time-frame...
And I have to spend nearly zero brainpower remembering a password. Here's what I do...
Take a phrase (song lyric, phrase, personal mantra, etc.) and grab the first letter of each word. Then replace various letters with numeric digits.
So an example phrase might be: "i love to post on slashdot"
which would become: "iltpos", but then you could replace the "o" with the digit zero (0), and the "s" with the digit five (5), so now you've got:
"iltp05"
That's basically an unintelligible password, yet totally easy to remember because all you need to remember is your password geneation scheme and a tip for what your phrase is.
Just think, people in the U.S. complain about getting fired for saying something work-related (and probably negative) in a personal blog, but in China you might get thrown in jail for a year or more without ever being charged. Things may not be perfect in America, but they sure could be a lot worse... For instance, imagine most /. posters going to jail for speaking freely in a public forum.
Not trying to troll here, but Microsoft is a company that I simply do not trust. I don't trust them with maintaining my privacy, nor do I trust that they have my best interests in mind. And that's only for computer usage. Why would I trust that their system will always "do the right thing" when I'm in a real-world scenario, driving down the highway at 50 mph? True, I have no idea what role Windows CE (or whatever is used) would actually play while the car is in use, but it's an important question to answer. For myself, you can damn well be sure that I would take some serious convincing before I would entertain the possibility of spending a huge sum of money on a rolling, engine-powered WIndows machine. And even if I'm convinced, who's to say that there aren't serious problems with the design of Windows CE and how it interacts with the rest of the car. Even if it's only used to control the car stereo, I'd rather not have it there. I'll just stick with a nice Toyota or Volkswagen, or frankly any other manufacturer that avoids the use of a Microsoft prodcut as a systems controller.
A human version of GTA would make even more money than the console version - weapons, fighting, stealing, driving, stunt jumping, motorcycles, helicopters, prostitutes... what more would we need? I'd personally rather have all of that than Virtual Doom where I'm just killing monsters again and again, but ymmv.