1) Pricing: Mac's are significantly more money. And if you thought the Microsoft OS costs were bad, looks at Apple's. OS X launched in 2001, and, if you were a 10.0 buyer, while 10.1 was a free upgrade, 10.2 wasn't, and 10.3 is coming fast! And from the end user perspective, these have all been largely mandatory upgrades -- many apps now won't work unless you are running 10.2, for example.
Now, your other points might be valid (though there are several companies that specialize in mac upgrades), but an unlimited license for OSX Server is what? $1000? Even at 10 times that, it pays for any hardware disparity with commodity PC parts with any significant installation.
How much is a 5000 seat WinXP contract? How many IT to support that, and how much do they make?
My reason for not choosing Apple is vendor lock-in. If I can keep something that allows me to pick and choose parts from a wide variety of sources, I can build solutions that fit the need.
But of that commodity hardware that you use, how much of your IT time is spent upgrading those commodity parts, vs troubleshooting Windows and associated exploits?
Oh, an interesting fact about it is if you take a holographic film and cut it in half, because all the information about the image is stored throughout the film, you don't have half a hologram; you have a hologram of the entire object that is half the size of the original. Pretty cool stuff actually.
So can we extrapolate how big our Visa cards would be if they didn't chop the dove down to giblet size?
I'm not sure he's the one that missed the point.. A 486 has serial ports too.
Right, but this is just another chink in the argument that "we can't let you work on a mac because we still need x86 to do "
The more it takes on the functionality of a regular *nix (and the fewer handrolled apps your company has) the more likely you can use a mac, if that's what you prefer.
ClearChannel is a whole different can of worms, but if you're arguing that getting Letterman spots and radio time is what being a famous musician is about, maybe it *is* time for a paradigm shift to pure online, search engines, smaller club gigs, and word of mouth.
with iTMS, didn't they? Or maybe they just rely on one-click shopping to be the crack that it is, which assures the CC companies the ratio of worthwhile charges will overwhelm any expense incurred with those single 99 cent charges.
I suspect that, as with the labels, there was a sense that this was one of those "experiment with a 3% population" things, and they saw they could make money.
I wish I could mod you up further, but alas, I had to comment.
The "benevolent dictator" that Linus is with the kernel, and Apple is with the UI are two areas in which we need some coherency.
The fact is, Apple understands that the kernel *and* the UI need some guiding hand; Linus/the Linux community only see the kernel. Where Linus, et al see chrome, fins, and spoilers, Apple sees workflow, efficient tool use, and getting work done.
Yes, but given back very little in comparison to what they've got. The projects Apple has "borrowed" from would exist without apple, OS X most likely would not without them.
I don't know. They've had Avie Tevanian for quite some time, if you include NeXT in the equation. And Avie, along with Richard Rashid, now with MS, pretty much wrote the mach kernel.
And with Hurd being implemented on top of mach, maybe RMS should be giving back to Apple. JK.
If they don't tell you where the infringing code is, isn't it hidden in plain sight?
Secrecy through immensity? Like when lawyers know you want information they have, they send over 8 dozen boxes of papers in random order during discovery.
"Got my trade secrets in there. Go find it. And it's all in hex. mwAHAHAHAHA!"
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I also laughed when Steve said "[and the G5] has massive branch prediction logic.... which I don't know what it does - predicts branches. (laughter) I don't know... but it's a good thing (heavy laughter).
There are tons of resources and organizations for technology use in education. A lot of these are for elementary and secondary education, so this is just a sample, but it gives you a good idea of things to try.
I mean, if there are programs and projects for ritalin-dependent rugrats, I think keeping frosh English majors engaged wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
Most states have their own laundry list of resources as well, so check with your local DOE website. (edit: Conn DOE site *sucks*)
Linky links
http://www.rtec.org/ http://www.iste.org/ http ://tinyurl.com/f36q (this one is resources from GA Learning Connections website, if the tiny URL throws Slashdot off) http://www.seirtec.org/ http://www.ncrel.or g/tech/ http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/
Those increasing apps that need Jag was due to Apple finally pinning down the APIs for a number of things.
As for future versions, if $129 gets you the API for teleportation apps, and you don't want to spends the benjamins, qwitcherbitchin when dozens of apps like "Teleport to France," "Teleport to Spain," "Teleport to One Infinite Loop," etc. come out.
IANAL, but in the settlement, I can't find (Phynd... get it? Huuur!) anything that stipulates disallowing GPL or BSDing the engine, and allowing others to use the engine, other than some nebulous "indirect contributory actions" or some weasel words like that.
Probably the window manager intercepts the screenshot call and throws that on the jpeg or png or whatever.
Kind of like what happens with a DVD screencap.
There are ways around this, of course. Like a digital camera or something, but I think this is Apple's attempt to align with "cannot record without consent" laws in many states.
Bleah. UPnP is a bear compared to ZeroConf (aka Rendezvous).
Why not have the DRM in the file, as people and industries care about *content* and focus on easy communications that are easy to implement?
IIRC, including ZeroConf capabilities for a particular service is like, 5 lines in ObjC or something, but UPnP is templates and device descriptions and yadda yadda.
You want to clamp down on what's allowed where? Put it in the content, not the media or device. You will lose on the device side (right, Mr. V-Chip? Who has programmed their TV to block channels? Easier to say "BEDTIME!" than push 37 buttons and remember passwords for YOUR OWN TV!)
Make the data format reasonable to work with and people will adopt or use it if it doesn't present any perceptible obstacles (no bone thrown to "information wants to be free" people). I don't think many are willing to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars (sorry all you HDTV early adopters! Maybe next year!) for a device that actually *reduces* functionality.
The reason for the moniker "ancient UNIX," note the EULA, section 3 (SysV is specifically excluded):
3. LICENSED SOURCE CODE PRODUCTS
The SOURCE CODE PRODUCTS to which SCO grants rights under this AGREEMENT are restricted to the following UNIX Operating Systems, including SUCCESSOR OPERATING SYSTEMs, that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System with specific exclusion of UNIX System V and successor operating systems:
He wasn't invited to be humble, or a yes-man. He was invited to give his opinion on the possible marketing and profitability of the Segway.
That aside, I'm glad to see that he was critical in the way he was. Initial accounts put him as saying "cities will be built around this device." Don't know where they got that quote. It seems diametrically opposed to his criticisms.
Anyone know where that "cities will be built" quote came from?
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Actually, I think Apple has been hiring Sun engineers for a while now, to get XServe up and running.
Now with IBM's 970 and upcoming 980 (doesn't the 980 do n-way?), the "8 CPU, 64 bit box with FibreChannel and hardware RAID" may very well have an Apple logo on it. In addition to some really cool blinkenlights.
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1) Pricing: Mac's are significantly more money. And if you thought the Microsoft OS costs were bad, looks at Apple's. OS X launched in 2001, and, if you were a 10.0 buyer, while 10.1 was a free upgrade, 10.2 wasn't, and 10.3 is coming fast! And from the end user perspective, these have all been largely mandatory upgrades -- many apps now won't work unless you are running 10.2, for example.
Now, your other points might be valid (though there are several companies that specialize in mac upgrades), but an unlimited license for OSX Server is what? $1000? Even at 10 times that, it pays for any hardware disparity with commodity PC parts with any significant installation.
How much is a 5000 seat WinXP contract? How many IT to support that, and how much do they make?
My reason for not choosing Apple is vendor lock-in. If I can keep something that allows me to pick and choose parts from a wide variety of sources, I can build solutions that fit the need.
But of that commodity hardware that you use, how much of your IT time is spent upgrading those commodity parts, vs troubleshooting Windows and associated exploits?
....so how long before we start seeing Tux cameos in Disney toons?
About -4 years?
Oh, an interesting fact about it is if you take a holographic film and cut it in half, because all the information about the image is stored throughout the film, you don't have half a hologram; you have a hologram of the entire object that is half the size of the original. Pretty cool stuff actually.
So can we extrapolate how big our Visa cards would be if they didn't chop the dove down to giblet size?
I'm not sure he's the one that missed the point.. A 486 has serial ports too.
Right, but this is just another chink in the argument that "we can't let you work on a mac because we still need x86 to do "
The more it takes on the functionality of a regular *nix (and the fewer handrolled apps your company has) the more likely you can use a mac, if that's what you prefer.
I think the point made was, because the RIAA wasn't claiming to act on behalf of Professor Usher, but the artist Usher.
It's like the following exchange:
"Hey, have you ever spoken with Robert DeNiro?"
"No"
"HAH! Wrong! *My* name's Robert DeNiro!"
No one would call you a liar for saying no, likewise, no judge would call mistaken identity perjury.
That in no way is meant to imply the RIAA didn't look like a bunch of dickheads, just that in the absence of any damage, it's not actionable.
but subpeona 1 has been reserved for Bill Gates. But he said recently, he won't distribute it.
ClearChannel is a whole different can of worms, but if you're arguing that getting Letterman spots and radio time is what being a famous musician is about, maybe it *is* time for a paradigm shift to pure online, search engines, smaller club gigs, and word of mouth.
with iTMS, didn't they? Or maybe they just rely on one-click shopping to be the crack that it is, which assures the CC companies the ratio of worthwhile charges will overwhelm any expense incurred with those single 99 cent charges.
I suspect that, as with the labels, there was a sense that this was one of those "experiment with a 3% population" things, and they saw they could make money.
I wish I could mod you up further, but alas, I had to comment.
The "benevolent dictator" that Linus is with the kernel, and Apple is with the UI are two areas in which we need some coherency.
The fact is, Apple understands that the kernel *and* the UI need some guiding hand; Linus/the Linux community only see the kernel. Where Linus, et al see chrome, fins, and spoilers, Apple sees workflow, efficient tool use, and getting work done.
Yes, but given back very little in comparison to what they've got. The projects Apple has "borrowed" from would exist without apple, OS X most likely would not without them.
I don't know. They've had Avie Tevanian for quite some time, if you include NeXT in the equation. And Avie, along with Richard Rashid, now with MS, pretty much wrote the mach kernel.
And with Hurd being implemented on top of mach, maybe RMS should be giving back to Apple. JK.
This is modded +4 Interesting? It's a JOKE ARTICLE! Criminey. You people scare me.
10.2.7 is Jaguar that is updated to run on the G5. Or did you think they would be able to run on an entirely new architecture without a 10.2.X rev?
If they don't tell you where the infringing code is, isn't it hidden in plain sight?
Secrecy through immensity? Like when lawyers know you want information they have, they send over 8 dozen boxes of papers in random order during discovery.
"Got my trade secrets in there. Go find it. And it's all in hex. mwAHAHAHAHA!"
I also laughed when Steve said "[and the G5] has massive branch prediction logic.... which I don't know what it does - predicts branches. (laughter) I don't know... but it's a good thing (heavy laughter).
There are tons of resources and organizations for technology use in education. A lot of these are for elementary and secondary education, so this is just a sample, but it gives you a good idea of things to try.
p ://tinyurl.com/f36q (this one is resources from GA Learning Connections website, if the tiny URL throws Slashdot off)r g/tech/
I mean, if there are programs and projects for ritalin-dependent rugrats, I think keeping frosh English majors engaged wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
Most states have their own laundry list of resources as well, so check with your local DOE website. (edit: Conn DOE site *sucks*)
Linky links
http://www.rtec.org/
http://www.iste.org/
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http://www.seirtec.org/
http://www.ncrel.o
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/
Those increasing apps that need Jag was due to Apple finally pinning down the APIs for a number of things.
As for future versions, if $129 gets you the API for teleportation apps, and you don't want to spends the benjamins, qwitcherbitchin when dozens of apps like "Teleport to France," "Teleport to Spain," "Teleport to One Infinite Loop," etc. come out.
IANAL, but in the settlement, I can't find (Phynd... get it? Huuur!) anything that stipulates disallowing GPL or BSDing the engine, and allowing others to use the engine, other than some nebulous "indirect contributory actions" or some weasel words like that.
Hey, Jesse, release it to the wild!
I think it's a bunch of Apple fans looking for leaked specs and pics.
Don't worry, the traffic from WWDC will die down in a week or two.
Probably the window manager intercepts the screenshot call and throws that on the jpeg or png or whatever.
Kind of like what happens with a DVD screencap.
There are ways around this, of course. Like a digital camera or something, but I think this is Apple's attempt to align with "cannot record without consent" laws in many states.
Bleah. UPnP is a bear compared to ZeroConf (aka Rendezvous).
Why not have the DRM in the file, as people and industries care about *content* and focus on easy communications that are easy to implement?
IIRC, including ZeroConf capabilities for a particular service is like, 5 lines in ObjC or something, but UPnP is templates and device descriptions and yadda yadda.
You want to clamp down on what's allowed where? Put it in the content, not the media or device. You will lose on the device side (right, Mr. V-Chip? Who has programmed their TV to block channels? Easier to say "BEDTIME!" than push 37 buttons and remember passwords for YOUR OWN TV!)
Make the data format reasonable to work with and people will adopt or use it if it doesn't present any perceptible obstacles (no bone thrown to "information wants to be free" people). I don't think many are willing to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars (sorry all you HDTV early adopters! Maybe next year!) for a device that actually *reduces* functionality.
I think using StrongARM allows the entire appendage, up to, and including the wrist and palm.
He wasn't invited to be humble, or a yes-man. He was invited to give his opinion on the possible marketing and profitability of the Segway.
That aside, I'm glad to see that he was critical in the way he was. Initial accounts put him as saying "cities will be built around this device." Don't know where they got that quote. It seems diametrically opposed to his criticisms.
Anyone know where that "cities will be built" quote came from?
Actually, I think Apple has been hiring Sun engineers for a while now, to get XServe up and running.
Now with IBM's 970 and upcoming 980 (doesn't the 980 do n-way?), the "8 CPU, 64 bit box with FibreChannel and hardware RAID" may very well have an Apple logo on it. In addition to some really cool blinkenlights.