Have you used Kazaa? I have tried every OSX P2P software suggested and I don't come across nearly as many of the music files I am looking for and the downloads seem to timeout all the time. Its not ignorance, its a fact.
I have around 800 songs in my iTunes library and not one of them is a P2P download. They are all CD imports.
My windows box has tons of MP3s, mostly gotten through Kazaa. Lots of live stuff, hard to find tracks.
I have tried Acquision, Drumbeat, Limewire, etc. I think they aren't worth the trouble. If I had to pay $.99 so I didn't sit there and watch a handful of songs timeout I would.
One of the most interesting parts in Intrepid was the story of how the Nazis forged some documents to feed Stalin's suspicions that his military staff was compromised. He excuted many of his top officers, a move which contributed to Germany's successes in advancing into Russia.
How does it look bad? They provide him a jet (that he leases him his doesn't make much of a difference, they'd have to lease it from somewhere). He's a CEO. You thought he walked everywhere? Flew commercial with Mini Me and Yao?
A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson recounts the war from the aspect of the clandestine serivces in the US and UK. It shows how Churchill was consulting the Crown before he was technically back in power, but received permission to start working on means to defend England. It talks about Roosevelt's involvement in the defense of Britain from an early stage, before the public knew about it or would support such actions.
The book talks about the repeated raids on the heavy water factories, the code-breaking process, the creation of the OSS, the establishment of a backup British Government in NYC in case London fell, etc. There is also the appearance of such notables as Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming and Aldous Huxley, working in British Intelligence.
Some of the stories of radio operators dropped into Europe, captured, tortured and killed, could and should be made into movies or books in their own right.
Intrepid, by the way, was the code name of the man chosen by Churchill to be a liason with Roosevelt in the early stages (before lend-lease, before Pearl Harbor, etc)
If they want to get into the auto industry, there is a pretty easy way.
Partner with a with a kit-built hot rod company who manufactures 'glass bodies. If it doesn't work with fiberglass, then help work out a solution that would work. If the stuff is as good as the article says it will gain acceptance and will become desired. If they can replicate candy colors, if they can put flames and other designs in the film (the article says logos can be in the film, so why not?) this technology will come into demand and also have some real-world testing. Car shows are also a great way to advertise it.
If they can't lower the price to make it feasable, stick with some limited show vehicles, or work with people like Boyd Coddington to create some low-run premium models.
NASA isn't even sure that was foam. It may have been ice.
Even if they had sustained some minor damage on the way up, what is the remedy? Could another Shuttle have ferried tiles? Can you apply them in Space? Could they have docked at the ISS? Did they have the equipment? Could they have "spacewalked" to another Shuttle? I have no clue, but the situation may have been such that NASA had to chance a reentry.
Also, NASA said today that the tire sensor went to off-scale low. The last communication with Columbia was Houston saying that the tire sensor was still off-scale low, and Columbia answered with a "roger" just before communication went dead.
Some have speculated that off-scale low is some sort of reading. It actually indicates no reading. Here is a selection from the NASA chronology of Apollo 13:
55:54:51 - Oxygen tank No. 2 quantity jumps to off-scale high
and then begins to drop until the time of telemetry loss,
indicating failed sensor.
55:54:52 - Oxygen tank No. 2 temperature sensor reads -151.3 F.
55:54:52.703 - Oxygen tank No. 2 temperature suddenly goes
off-scale low, indicating failed sensor.
It is the best book ever on recording an album and availble as a.txt file.
Its also guaranteed to work:
WE GUARANTEE THAT WE WILL REFUND THE COMPLETE PRICE OF THIS MANUAL IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ACHIEVE A NUMBER ONE SINGLE IN THE OFFICIAL (GALLUP) U.K. CHARTS WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF THE PURCHASE OF THIS MANUAL AND ON CONDITION THAT YOU HAVE FULFILLED OUR INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER. TO RECEIVE THIS GUARANTEE PLEASE WRITE TO KLF PUBLICATIONS, BOX 283, HP21 7HG, U.K. WITH YOUR NAME, ADDRESS AND A PHOTOCOPY OF YOUR PURCHASE RECEIPT AND AN S.A.E. YOU WlLL RECEIVE YOUR GUARANTEE WITHIN TWENTY EIGHT DAYS.
You cite "works" applications as opposed to "office" applications. Are there any other examples of an Office suite other than the one from MS?
You would likely never see an iOffice for two reasons. Firstly, Apple would like something that doesn't sound like an MS clone and secondly because MS would raise holy hell. They would probably say that it would be like if Apple were to have named Keynote iPowerPoint instead. Granted, Office seems more generic, but just take a look at Lindows.
As this type of technology becomes cheaper you are going to see a lot of this type of stuff. Not because corporations give a shit about where you drove your Michelins, but rather as protection against piracy and theft of items that get knocked off or stolen with great frequency. Piracy (not trading MP3s or warez, but counterfeit goods) is a huge business that a lot of companies are looking to counter in some way.
NPFC used some sort of material to frost the windows across one end of the top floor loft. A digital projector hanging from the rafters projected reversed images of a moving robot, "NPFC", the time of the performance and "Come up." The display attracted people in the crowds walking away from the festival. Once the band was set to play, they used a regular non-reversed projection and the wall of frosted over windows was used as the screen behind them for the visual accompaniment to their performance. It was a cool use of windows and not a bad idea for someone looking for interesting storefront displays or other applications.
The article says that Car and Driver refer to the BMW 745i's knob as a "miracle knob". C&D actually has a fantastic article on iDrive, which Frank Marcus referred to as "The Boss" and even compared to Windows (click the link for the entire article, it is much longer):
As for The Boss, it's really a mouse by another name. And you'd better make friends with it because it's the go-to knob for most of your entertainment, navigation, and "settings" needs (clock, trip computer, adjustable shocks, etc.). It has substantial say over HVAC, the phone, and numerous other options as well.
Let's say you want to tune in Rush Limbaugh. (Caution: The voice in the dash has no privacy policy, and I wouldn't trust it to keep any confidences.) Okay, you can toggle The Boss in eight different directions: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW. For the entertainment screen, go south. After three or four seconds, you'll get a menu. Rotate The Boss as you watch the orange square move around the screen. When it surrounds AM, press The Boss.
If the station is preset, rotate to SCAN and press. Otherwise, rotate to MEMORY and press. Wait for a new screen. Rotate to M AM and press. Now rotate again to MANUAL and press. This activates the frequency display. Now you're all the way up to what would have been your starting point if you were driving, say, a 1949 Ford with those needlessly complex knobs.
If, during the above, your interfacing had been momentarily distracted by your driving, i.e., the road ahead, the frequency display probably timed out (it stays live for eight seconds). Naturally, you've already started rotating for the station, which has taken you away from MANUAL. So take your eyes off the road, find it again, and press. Now rotate to tune.
If we applied such labor-saving innovation to all our daily jobs, by supper time we'd almost earn enough for breakfast.
The dash still has knobs for temp and fan, and there's a rocker on the wheel for radio volume. How did these complexities escape the tyranny of the control center? In an odd quirk of logic, the CD-player buttons also do part-time on the radio.
I'm reminded of Windows, which always gives two or three ways of doing everything. This BMW has at least three ways of setting radio volume and, counting CD buttons, several station-tuning methods. That sure sounds like "unnecessary complexity" to me. The carrot for learning Windows? You can talk to most computers. Do motorists really want to learn a special language so they can talk to a BMW? We'll see.
My brother once was anesthetized for lithotripsy to break up his kidney stones when the machine broke down. He was sitting there, basically unable to move his lower body, while the medical staff was placing ice on the machine, which had overheated. No techinicians were available, so eventually they sent him to recovery without having anything performed. Not quite BSOD, but it has to be unnerving watching people try to ice down a machine which they intend to use on your body.
The original hot-rods were cars that were easily modified, cheap and available everywhere. Like a Civic. Somebody pointed out that it didn't make sense to mod a Civic when you could mod a 350z and you'd have more potential because you started off with something faster to begin with. The thing is that the Civic's popularity has led to a vast aftermarket of performance parts, goofy wings, body kits, carbon fiber parts, interior mods, etc. etc. I don't own a Civic, nor do I race, but I can see why it might be your choice if you were a young guy looking to have fun with a car on a budget. Instead, I have a 46 Ford hot rod with aluminum heads, tri-power, flames, dummy spots, tuck and roll interior, Lincoln floor shift, etc (100 horsepower stock and still slow as shit, but fun).
Yes, the poor-unwashed Christopher Lowell and Ultimate Fighting Championship deprived will surely be banging pots and pans in the streets for his release.
If you didn't protect the rights of people that own and operate satellite systems (because they are "stifling" the flow of information, information that [i]they supply[/i]) nobody would broadcast satellite.
Finally, your comparison of the actions of an alleged thief to Martin Luther King shows a serious lack of understanding of what King did, or why.
Collecting dust in my basement is a Mac LC (complete with 2400 baud prodigy bundle modem that still will connect to some things) with a 40MB HD.
Shortly after it was purchased Apple came out with the LCII and the LCIII and suddenly my hardware was pretty out of date. I still spent countless hours using it, and it still boots perfectly if I ever get nostalgic for Phrase Craze Plus or Bomber. Eventually I migrated to a PC.
I have always wanted to go back to using a Mac. Every time Win9x would get so buggy that it would require a reinstall, or worse, a reformat or devices wouldn't run properly I would check into Apple and windowshop. When I took a Photoshop class and the class computers were Macs I felt like somebody that came back home, to find things the same, but yet different. After a few classes it felt natural again.
Recently, I have had the fortune to have some spare cash and the need for a laptop, so again I searched around. I decided on an iBook. Once I saw that there was no SuperDrive available I jumped up to PowerBook. Several clicks later I somehow ended up with the top of the line 1 ghz (and bumped up to 1 gig of RAM for $40 extra during the promotion).
I am not a gamer. I primarily use a computer to create documents, create graphics, browse the web, communicate with people, and listen to music. Whether or not Mhz can be believed, if Apple products are bested in speed, matters little to me. Everything works fantastically for my needs.
I have yet to find a P2P client worth using (even following suggestions on this and other sites) yet my iTunes library stands at over 700 songs. This is due to the ease of ripping a cd with iTunes. It recognizes your cd, you deselect any tracks you dont want to rip, press a button and an entire CD is automatically labeled and filed away.
Anyway, if you ascribe to time = money (which, if you read this site, you probably should) the amount of time you will spend using a Mac makes it a bargain. I haven't touched my PC in a while. It sits in a room broadcasting information to my Airport (which works better than a D-Link card I previously had in a Dell, contrary to some earlier reviews I read).
I know someone that just switched from OS 9 to OSX, and she says that its a tough switch for her, that its very different. I last regularly used a Mac with System 6.0.7 and come to OSX from Windows XP and I have found it easy to use, but probably touching on references from both.
By the way, the REALLY expensive part of owning a Mac is that you want to buy stuff for it all the time. An iPod, a DV camera, a Wacom tablet, Creature speakers, etc, etc. It really does work seamlessly, and makes you want other gadgets.
A development tool that is built upon a non-open architecture is "useless" for the free software community? But a sort-of-working substitution remedies the problem?
Man arrested for leaking Apple documents by Jim Dalrymple, jdalrymple@maccentral.com December 11, 2002 4:10 pm ET
Apple on Wednesday filed a civil complaint in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara against a former contract employee for leaking documents. In addition, according to court documents filed last week, the District Attorney in Sacramento, California is also pressing criminal charges and the man has been arrested.
Jose Lopez -- who was contracted by Apple through the Volt Services Group -- and an unnamed person referred to as Doe 1 are named in the civil complaint filed by Apple this morning. Lopez worked for Apple as a contractor last summer when schematic drawings and other details about Apple's Power Mac G4 were released on the Internet.
"Apple has filed a civil complaint against Jose Lopez, previously employed by Apple as a contractor, who we believe stole Apple's trade secrets by posting schematic drawings, images and engineering details of an unannounced Apple product on the Internet," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement to MacCentral today. "Innovation is in Apple's DNA, so the protection of trade secrets is crucial to our success. Our policy is to take legal actions where necessary to preserve the confidentiality of our intellectual property."...(more).
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The man in the black robe says they did, it doesn't much matter what Rambus says about it at that point.
It shifts them to presumed guilty, which sucks for them.
Have you used Kazaa? I have tried every OSX P2P software suggested and I don't come across nearly as many of the music files I am looking for and the downloads seem to timeout all the time. Its not ignorance, its a fact.
.99 so I didn't sit there and watch a handful of songs timeout I would.
I have around 800 songs in my iTunes library and not one of them is a P2P download. They are all CD imports.
My windows box has tons of MP3s, mostly gotten through Kazaa. Lots of live stuff, hard to find tracks.
I have tried Acquision, Drumbeat, Limewire, etc. I think they aren't worth the trouble. If I had to pay $
Maybe someone has a suggestion.
D
Seeing how no P2P services work well on Macs (why is that, anyway?) $.99 a song beats using the shit software that is available, really.
One of the most interesting parts in Intrepid was the story of how the Nazis forged some documents to feed Stalin's suspicions that his military staff was compromised. He excuted many of his top officers, a move which contributed to Germany's successes in advancing into Russia.
How does it look bad? They provide him a jet (that he leases him his doesn't make much of a difference, they'd have to lease it from somewhere). He's a CEO. You thought he walked everywhere? Flew commercial with Mini Me and Yao?
Also, Einar Skinnarland is listed in the index of the book (although he only appears on two pages).
A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson recounts the war from the aspect of the clandestine serivces in the US and UK. It shows how Churchill was consulting the Crown before he was technically back in power, but received permission to start working on means to defend England. It talks about Roosevelt's involvement in the defense of Britain from an early stage, before the public knew about it or would support such actions.
The book talks about the repeated raids on the heavy water factories, the code-breaking process, the creation of the OSS, the establishment of a backup British Government in NYC in case London fell, etc. There is also the appearance of such notables as Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming and Aldous Huxley, working in British Intelligence.
Some of the stories of radio operators dropped into Europe, captured, tortured and killed, could and should be made into movies or books in their own right.
Intrepid, by the way, was the code name of the man chosen by Churchill to be a liason with Roosevelt in the early stages (before lend-lease, before Pearl Harbor, etc)
If they want to get into the auto industry, there is a pretty easy way.
Partner with a with a kit-built hot rod company who manufactures 'glass bodies. If it doesn't work with fiberglass, then help work out a solution that would work. If the stuff is as good as the article says it will gain acceptance and will become desired. If they can replicate candy colors, if they can put flames and other designs in the film (the article says logos can be in the film, so why not?) this technology will come into demand and also have some real-world testing. Car shows are also a great way to advertise it.
If they can't lower the price to make it feasable, stick with some limited show vehicles, or work with people like Boyd Coddington to create some low-run premium models.
As someone on Fox News pointed out the other day (paraphrasing here):
"It took man 66 years to go from Kitty Hawk to the moon, and in the 34 years since were have gone absolutely nowhere."
That was a pretty good summation of the problem with the Shuttle. It is a proof of concept, but hasn't expanded man's horizons.
I say that the tribute to Columbia's astronauts should be a man stepping on Mars.
NASA isn't even sure that was foam. It may have been ice.
Even if they had sustained some minor damage on the way up, what is the remedy? Could another Shuttle have ferried tiles? Can you apply them in Space? Could they have docked at the ISS? Did they have the equipment? Could they have "spacewalked" to another Shuttle? I have no clue, but the situation may have been such that NASA had to chance a reentry.
Also, NASA said today that the tire sensor went to off-scale low. The last communication with Columbia was Houston saying that the tire sensor was still off-scale low, and Columbia answered with a "roger" just before communication went dead.
Some have speculated that off-scale low is some sort of reading. It actually indicates no reading. Here is a selection from the NASA chronology of Apollo 13:
55:54:51 - Oxygen tank No. 2 quantity jumps to off-scale high
and then begins to drop until the time of telemetry loss,
indicating failed sensor.
55:54:52 - Oxygen tank No. 2 temperature sensor reads -151.3 F.
55:54:52.703 - Oxygen tank No. 2 temperature suddenly goes
off-scale low, indicating failed sensor.
Or in case I get hit by a minivan again; I may not be so lucky next time!
Stephen King reads Slashdot?
KLF's The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) will answer all questions.
.txt file.
It is the best book ever on recording an album and availble as a
Its also guaranteed to work:
WE GUARANTEE THAT WE WILL REFUND THE COMPLETE PRICE OF THIS MANUAL IF
YOU ARE UNABLE TO ACHIEVE A NUMBER ONE SINGLE IN THE OFFICIAL (GALLUP)
U.K. CHARTS WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF THE PURCHASE OF THIS MANUAL AND ON
CONDITION THAT YOU HAVE FULFILLED OUR INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER. TO
RECEIVE THIS GUARANTEE PLEASE WRITE TO KLF PUBLICATIONS, BOX 283, HP21
7HG, U.K. WITH YOUR NAME, ADDRESS AND A PHOTOCOPY OF YOUR PURCHASE
RECEIPT AND AN S.A.E. YOU WlLL RECEIVE YOUR GUARANTEE WITHIN TWENTY
EIGHT DAYS.
You cite "works" applications as opposed to "office" applications. Are there any other examples of an Office suite other than the one from MS?
You would likely never see an iOffice for two reasons. Firstly, Apple would like something that doesn't sound like an MS clone and secondly because MS would raise holy hell. They would probably say that it would be like if Apple were to have named Keynote iPowerPoint instead. Granted, Office seems more generic, but just take a look at Lindows.
As this type of technology becomes cheaper you are going to see a lot of this type of stuff. Not because corporations give a shit about where you drove your Michelins, but rather as protection against piracy and theft of items that get knocked off or stolen with great frequency. Piracy (not trading MP3s or warez, but counterfeit goods) is a huge business that a lot of companies are looking to counter in some way.
19.5 Collective used a technique similar to this to advertise a show at the Low Res loft following the 2001 Detroit Electronic Music Festival.
NPFC used some sort of material to frost the windows across one end of the top floor loft. A digital projector hanging from the rafters projected reversed images of a moving robot, "NPFC", the time of the performance and "Come up." The display attracted people in the crowds walking away from the festival. Once the band was set to play, they used a regular non-reversed projection and the wall of frosted over windows was used as the screen behind them for the visual accompaniment to their performance. It was a cool use of windows and not a bad idea for someone looking for interesting storefront displays or other applications.
D
The article says that Car and Driver refer to the BMW 745i's knob as a "miracle knob". C&D actually has a fantastic article on iDrive, which Frank Marcus referred to as "The Boss" and even compared to Windows (click the link for the entire article, it is much longer):
As for The Boss, it's really a mouse by another name. And you'd better make friends with it because it's the go-to knob for most of your entertainment, navigation, and "settings" needs (clock, trip computer, adjustable shocks, etc.). It has substantial say over HVAC, the phone, and numerous other options as well.
Let's say you want to tune in Rush Limbaugh. (Caution: The voice in the dash has no privacy policy, and I wouldn't trust it to keep any confidences.) Okay, you can toggle The Boss in eight different directions: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW. For the entertainment screen, go south. After three or four seconds, you'll get a menu. Rotate The Boss as you watch the orange square move around the screen. When it surrounds AM, press The Boss.
If the station is preset, rotate to SCAN and press. Otherwise, rotate to MEMORY and press. Wait for a new screen. Rotate to M AM and press. Now rotate again to MANUAL and press. This activates the frequency display. Now you're all the way up to what would have been your starting point if you were driving, say, a 1949 Ford with those needlessly complex knobs.
If, during the above, your interfacing had been momentarily distracted by your driving, i.e., the road ahead, the frequency display probably timed out (it stays live for eight seconds). Naturally, you've already started rotating for the station, which has taken you away from MANUAL. So take your eyes off the road, find it again, and press. Now rotate to tune.
If we applied such labor-saving innovation to all our daily jobs, by supper time we'd almost earn enough for breakfast.
The dash still has knobs for temp and fan, and there's a rocker on the wheel for radio volume. How did these complexities escape the tyranny of the control center? In an odd quirk of logic, the CD-player buttons also do part-time on the radio.
I'm reminded of Windows, which always gives two or three ways of doing everything. This BMW has at least three ways of setting radio volume and, counting CD buttons, several station-tuning methods. That sure sounds like "unnecessary complexity" to me. The carrot for learning Windows? You can talk to most computers. Do motorists really want to learn a special language so they can talk to a BMW? We'll see.
My brother once was anesthetized for lithotripsy to break up his kidney stones when the machine broke down. He was sitting there, basically unable to move his lower body, while the medical staff was placing ice on the machine, which had overheated. No techinicians were available, so eventually they sent him to recovery without having anything performed. Not quite BSOD, but it has to be unnerving watching people try to ice down a machine which they intend to use on your body.
I dunno why, but if you log-in to passport @msn.com and then click Hotmail it works fine. Hotmail.com is flakey on Safari though.
The original hot-rods were cars that were easily modified, cheap and available everywhere. Like a Civic. Somebody pointed out that it didn't make sense to mod a Civic when you could mod a 350z and you'd have more potential because you started off with something faster to begin with. The thing is that the Civic's popularity has led to a vast aftermarket of performance parts, goofy wings, body kits, carbon fiber parts, interior mods, etc. etc. I don't own a Civic, nor do I race, but I can see why it might be your choice if you were a young guy looking to have fun with a car on a budget. Instead, I have a 46 Ford hot rod with aluminum heads, tri-power, flames, dummy spots, tuck and roll interior, Lincoln floor shift, etc (100 horsepower stock and still slow as shit, but fun).
Yes, the poor-unwashed Christopher Lowell and Ultimate Fighting Championship deprived will surely be banging pots and pans in the streets for his release.
If you didn't protect the rights of people that own and operate satellite systems (because they are "stifling" the flow of information, information that [i]they supply[/i]) nobody would broadcast satellite.
Finally, your comparison of the actions of an alleged thief to Martin Luther King shows a serious lack of understanding of what King did, or why.
Works on a 10gb iPod.
Beware that P. Run-In will require a reset to exit.
I recently umm.. switched-back, I guess.
Collecting dust in my basement is a Mac LC (complete with 2400 baud prodigy bundle modem that still will connect to some things) with a 40MB HD.
Shortly after it was purchased Apple came out with the LCII and the LCIII and suddenly my hardware was pretty out of date. I still spent countless hours using it, and it still boots perfectly if I ever get nostalgic for Phrase Craze Plus or Bomber. Eventually I migrated to a PC.
I have always wanted to go back to using a Mac. Every time Win9x would get so buggy that it would require a reinstall, or worse, a reformat or devices wouldn't run properly I would check into Apple and windowshop. When I took a Photoshop class and the class computers were Macs I felt like somebody that came back home, to find things the same, but yet different. After a few classes it felt natural again.
Recently, I have had the fortune to have some spare cash and the need for a laptop, so again I searched around. I decided on an iBook. Once I saw that there was no SuperDrive available I jumped up to PowerBook. Several clicks later I somehow ended up with the top of the line 1 ghz (and bumped up to 1 gig of RAM for $40 extra during the promotion).
I am not a gamer. I primarily use a computer to create documents, create graphics, browse the web, communicate with people, and listen to music. Whether or not Mhz can be believed, if Apple products are bested in speed, matters little to me. Everything works fantastically for my needs.
I have yet to find a P2P client worth using (even following suggestions on this and other sites) yet my iTunes library stands at over 700 songs. This is due to the ease of ripping a cd with iTunes. It recognizes your cd, you deselect any tracks you dont want to rip, press a button and an entire CD is automatically labeled and filed away.
Anyway, if you ascribe to time = money (which, if you read this site, you probably should) the amount of time you will spend using a Mac makes it a bargain. I haven't touched my PC in a while. It sits in a room broadcasting information to my Airport (which works better than a D-Link card I previously had in a Dell, contrary to some earlier reviews I read).
I know someone that just switched from OS 9 to OSX, and she says that its a tough switch for her, that its very different. I last regularly used a Mac with System 6.0.7 and come to OSX from Windows XP and I have found it easy to use, but probably touching on references from both.
By the way, the REALLY expensive part of owning a Mac is that you want to buy stuff for it all the time. An iPod, a DV camera, a Wacom tablet, Creature speakers, etc, etc. It really does work seamlessly, and makes you want other gadgets.
-DM
A development tool that is built upon a non-open architecture is "useless" for the free software community? But a sort-of-working substitution remedies the problem?
Hmm.
Funny this should also be posted today:
.
Man arrested for leaking Apple documents
by Jim Dalrymple, jdalrymple@maccentral.com
December 11, 2002 4:10 pm ET
Apple on Wednesday filed a civil complaint in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara against a former contract employee for leaking documents. In addition, according to court documents filed last week, the District Attorney in Sacramento, California is also pressing criminal charges and the man has been arrested.
Jose Lopez -- who was contracted by Apple through the Volt Services Group -- and an unnamed person referred to as Doe 1 are named in the civil complaint filed by Apple this morning. Lopez worked for Apple as a contractor last summer when schematic drawings and other details about Apple's Power Mac G4 were released on the Internet.
"Apple has filed a civil complaint against Jose Lopez, previously employed by Apple as a contractor, who we believe stole Apple's trade secrets by posting schematic drawings, images and engineering details of an unannounced Apple product on the Internet," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement to MacCentral today. "Innovation is in Apple's DNA, so the protection of trade secrets is crucial to our success. Our policy is to take legal actions where necessary to preserve the confidentiality of our intellectual property."...(more)
This is like Delphi's TruckSecure (Detroit News), a product that expands on LoJack and OnStar technologies.
It can be used to track hazardous materials shipments, plus provide access and security controls to the vehicles.
Pretty cool actually.
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