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Could it be that the TPM module is being used to verify the state of the EFI?

It would make sense to me, that one of the most fundamental aspects of a Trusted Platform Module would be to ensure that the platform is booting in a state you can trust, and not booting on some hacked EFI pointing to (and enabling) devices that the user has no idea are installed. As this is Apple's (or any major vendor to my knowledge) first foray into the TPM arena, perhaps this is part of that whole security featureset that you paid for but can't work with, I'm in the same boat, and would like to feel free to try Darwin in other incarnations as well as use the equipment for Windows and prove to my friends outright why Apple is such the superior gear.

Is there any way we can map the calls made on the system bus during the complete post? Do we have ANY information on how TPM is being used here?

There's a glaring hole in the documentation imho a long way from the 1984 ad...http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/1984.html but there always seems to be someone's visage up on that screen no matter how you slice it.

Take a look here: 1984 advert

I thought our enemies would talk themselves to death, and we would bury them with their own confusion.

...oh wait, that's another company .

I liked this when I was 12-- HBO used to show it all the time:
"A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink."

1984-- a very good year-- Macintosh first appeared, Firefox on HBO, and Airwolf on CBS. Best... tv show theme... ever.

For some reason the editors cut this part of my question out...All of which makes me wonder, do evangelical users and press help or hurt the popularity of a platform? Did the iPod become successful because of or because of a lack of evangelizing and is a backlash from Apple becoming a bit too much of a "cool" and "think" dictator coming from people seeing it as hypocritical to it's think different market image ?

Macintosh post-it notes: the post-it note for the rest of us.

Saturday Night Live's Macintosh Post-It Notes Parody.

Coral cache.

Reminds me of another speech...

http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/think-different-one. html/

Apple 1984 Commercial

http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/1984.html

1984 just comes 20 years late! Wait! Apple is using PowerPC?!? We are DOOMED! Seriously, IBM has disguised itself nicely in the past couple years as friends of open source: adapting Linux, push Sun to open Java, and Eclipse. IBM has changed its image from the Evil Big Brother to the Benevolent Giant. However, deep down inside, IBM is still the evil big brother in disguise. I am interested to see the reaction from Open Source Communities, a lot of which are against software patent all together. I suspect most would likely to hail this decision rather then speak against it since IBM is such a friend of open source. However, in long term, the projects using IBM's patents are going to effectively become IBM's weapon against its commercial competitors as IBM would be the only one qualified to including these projects in its commercial offering. Software patent is bad, bad, bad!!!

What about Apple's famous 1984 commercial? That was pretty important...

Video here for those who don't remember...

Isn't ironic that this IBM commercial shows the 'Free Code' penguin opening the minds of the other [proprietary code] penguins when about 20 years ago the Apple commercial freed the minds of IBM users?

Hey, don't I remember some apple ad that was super popular back in 1984? Something about the book :O Commercial

http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/1984.html and new version: notice the ipod?

Do a little Googling and you'll see that the commercial on Apple's website is not the original, nor is it the same woman! Looks like they re-filmed the part with the chick in the jogging pants, making her wear an iPod, and re-editing it into the original video.

Kind of like killing a turtle and going to the pet store to get a new one, trying to pass it off as the dead turtle!

A lone voice pipes up from the back of the room, "Get a Macintosh!"

Why is Apple+IBM such a new thing?

How about October, 1991?

More info about the PowerPC alliance.

Apple never said that IBMs *technology* was no good. They said that IBM made boring corporate Personal Computers that didn't foster individuality and creativity amongst it's users. I would say that is still correct.

Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

...because, on Jan 28, 1984, Apple introduced Macintosh.

:-P

> In years past Apple wasn't running commercials targetting Microsoft

Huh? Yes, they were.

> In years past Apple wasn't running commercials targetting Microsoft

Huh? Yes, they were.

> In years past Apple wasn't running commercials targetting Microsoft

Huh? Yes, they were.

> In years past Apple wasn't running commercials targetting Microsoft

Huh? Yes, they were.

Actually, the first comment was correct.

The 1984 SuperBowl commercial by Apple featured "Big Brother" on a giant screen lecturing the grey, anonymous IBM "clones". An athlete wearing white and red runs in, chased by "police" figures and throws a huge hammer through the screen.

The "IBM Lemmings" commercial was a different one.
See these links for details:
Big Brother
Lots of Apple Ads

Apple hasn't had any kind of serious marketing blitz since the Apple ][...

What about the greatest Super Bowl commercial of all time?

"Sweet! IBM is sounding cooler and cooler all the time. I distinctly recall the Apple TV advertisement that ran once during the '84 Olympics, announcing Macintosh, and portraying IBM as the Big Brother (1984, get it?). I guess IBM has been undergoing some revamping of their corporate culture."

Not to pick nits, but that commercial actually aired during the '84 Super Bowl.

It was an excellent commercial, though. There used to be a copy of it hosted at www.adcritic.com in the archives under Apple. They removed it when Apple threatened to sue, but there's another copy here, which also includes text translating the rather scratchy voice-over.

I can't say how IBM is as a place to work nowadays, but I hear back in the early 80s it was a bitch. A fellow I know worked at their South Florida office around that time, where they enforced a strict white shirt, coat and tie dress code...even in the summer. I can't imagine what the smell must have been like on 98-degree 98% humidity days, which is pretty much every day from May to September in Florida.

You can find it here...

sorry... that's the first thing that came into my mind with the subject of your post. =^)
-legolas

i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...

Well, that file doesn't seem to exist, so I'm not sure how you came up with that address, but you can get it from Apple's site here. Be warned, it's 13MB of QuickTime...