All these new DRM schemes (Yes Apples included) have something in common, they do set aside laws such as fair use and comes with extensive EULA on what you can and can not do with the media, these EULAs can also has a clause that they can change at anytime. whetever this is legal or not is up to every country to decide and this is one area where goverments has a place in this drama. The companys want to make the music very restrictive, the consumer want to have it less restrictive. A conflict is born. Thinking that it will be decided with the all mighty dollars and euros is very naive, laws are needed to make the media accesible in a good way both for the consumers and the producers.
Maybe because as they say RAID 5 (Or at least not the implementation they where using) didn't scale well to petabyte-levels. They could of course have done many smaller RAID 5 arrays and still keep redundancy. Don't know why they didn't.
It would probably be alot easier to port something like gtk+ to aqua since it is open source. That way we can have fully open program and libraries and nobody playing catchup with Apple latest extensions to a proprietary API.
We like to do it because its our right to run what the fuck we want on our hardware, because it suits our needs better then the preinstalled software. It's something you would never understand.
I believe it when I see it, on Linux I can compile mozilla in the background and pretty much not noticing a slowdown on anything else. Thats a good desktop scheduler. Can the same be said about OS X?
You can do textmode work about 5 minutes after beginning install of gentoo. Then as software compiles you can do more and more. But it's not like you can't use the computer while it installs.
If you install Gentoo from knoppix you have full X server from the start, no need to wait at all.
You are right, Intel really needs this. Their CPU sucks monkeyball. They need the free marketing from thousands of Apple drones stating that what Intel is doing is the latest and greatest. Just as the Mac heads always are. If steve sells it, it must be good.
Back to reality, the Pentium M is twice a fast as the G4. Speed is more important for some than how many GPR are available.
Are you still dreaming about the G5 in your iBook?
It's a god damn mystery why opera has close to zero marketshare and Firefox has 5% when according to some opera fanbois all features of every browser is copied from opera. So where is opera lacking? Why isn't marketshare larger? Maybe you should ask yourself that question instead of picking on successfull browsers such as Firefox.
I have a logitech dinovo blouetooth keyboard/mouse combo and I do not use that mouse for gaming. It's way to laggy, I think bluetooth has maximum update of 80hz or something. Have they worked around that?
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The problem is that Apple and the minors(appleusers) use KHTML-Webcore as an example of how great Apple works with the OSS comunnity when they don't in this particular case work with the OSS community at all.
Yes it's a fork. Apple should say it's a fork, it happens as you say all the time. But they shouldn't be telling lies about their involvment in the OSS/KHTML community when they infact are not involved at all.
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From what I understand the KDE developers wasn't really pissed about Apple behavour in this matter, what they where pissed about was the people (Mostly Mac users) who constantly tell everyone what a great relationship Apple and the KDE team have with KHTML when in fact it was non existant.
Why are you answering a question you obviously have no answer for?
What if I like Linux better then BSD? Why can't I run Gentoo (Which is a Linux) instead of OS X (which is a BSD). If you have used both Linux and say FreeBSD you would know there are ALOT of differences. Startup is totaly different (On OS X it's even more so). Firewall is totally different (on OS X I 've heard it's even somewhat lacking).
Package manager is nonexistant on OS X. I have to resort to third party apps and then I won't get the base system which means shell out money or don't upgrade (If yI have an old OS X I also have security holes because of lack of updates).
I have an X86 box for HTPC right now (built on Linux), I can not see ANYTHING that OS X would give me that Linux won't in the setup I'm using. Would it be so totaly wrong of me to buy a mini to replace my X86 (because then I could have the box next to the TV) but keep the software I'm using.
And before they get "the blessed hand of steve" they need to work with for example Microsoft because quite different from Apple Microsoft gladly works with startups with 0% marketshare. And if/when they have 50% marketshare and MS DRM Why would they go to Apple?
So tell me something genious. How the heck can anobody else sell non DRM mp3 when Apple is not allowed to do that. Or is all this talk about Apple adding DRM to the songs because RIAA wants it not true. Your argumentation seem to imply that Apple does it in order to control the music in some absurd way.
All this bullshit with Apple and their non licenceable DRM will only lead to them marginalize them in this market also. Just as the did in the PC market, just as they did with firewire/USB.
There are 1000000 other grandmothers who can figure out either WMP or itunes. Just because yours has special need doesn't make all grandmothers stupid.
It's not like it's impossible to implement a secure operating system that's also user friendly -- I think Apple's clearly demonstrating that.
Apple don't offer security patches for 10.1 which was released 3 years ago. How can OS X be secure if they don't offer security patches? Do Apple think nobody uses 3 year old macs?
If a company sell hardware with an OS they better release security patches for it for as long as the hardware is used (some limit of course). 3 years is not enough.
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All these new DRM schemes (Yes Apples included) have something in common, they do set aside laws such as fair use and comes with extensive EULA on what you can and can not do with the media, these EULAs can also has a clause that they can change at anytime. whetever this is legal or not is up to every country to decide and this is one area where goverments has a place in this drama. The companys want to make the music very restrictive, the consumer want to have it less restrictive. A conflict is born. Thinking that it will be decided with the all mighty dollars and euros is very naive, laws are needed to make the media accesible in a good way both for the consumers and the producers.
Maybe because as they say RAID 5 (Or at least not the implementation they where using) didn't scale well to petabyte-levels. They could of course have done many smaller RAID 5 arrays and still keep redundancy. Don't know why they didn't.
Anybody seen any comparison with OS X. Especially threading and forking. Is this bad boy even slower than OS X? Is it possible?
It would probably be alot easier to port something like gtk+ to aqua since it is open source. That way we can have fully open program and libraries and nobody playing catchup with Apple latest extensions to a proprietary API.
We like to do it because its our right to run what the fuck we want on our hardware, because it suits our needs better then the preinstalled software. It's something you would never understand.
Only problem is you can't put unsupported system software on a network (at least it's highly dangerous to do so).
I believe it when I see it, on Linux I can compile mozilla in the background and pretty much not noticing a slowdown on anything else. Thats a good desktop scheduler. Can the same be said about OS X?
You can do textmode work about 5 minutes after beginning install of gentoo. Then as software compiles you can do more and more. But it's not like you can't use the computer while it installs.
If you install Gentoo from knoppix you have full X server from the start, no need to wait at all.
This probably says more about Apples in(ability) to code for x86 than the speed of the cpu. Something they will have to learn pretty soon I heard.
You are right, Intel really needs this. Their CPU sucks monkeyball. They need the free marketing from thousands of Apple drones stating that what Intel is doing is the latest and greatest. Just as the Mac heads always are. If steve sells it, it must be good.
Back to reality, the Pentium M is twice a fast as the G4. Speed is more important for some than how many GPR are available.
Are you still dreaming about the G5 in your iBook?
It's a god damn mystery why opera has close to zero marketshare and Firefox has 5% when according to some opera fanbois all features of every browser is copied from opera. So where is opera lacking? Why isn't marketshare larger? Maybe you should ask yourself that question instead of picking on successfull browsers such as Firefox.
How do you get an intel system NOT comparable to a mac mini, shipping pentium 3?
How about some speed. The Mini is bottom line (3 year old tech) on everything, thats a fact and can only be better with more competition.
The Logitech Desktop MX includes a MX700 which I also have one, and while it's pretty good it is not totaly lag free like the corded MX510.
I have a logitech dinovo blouetooth keyboard/mouse combo and I do not use that mouse for gaming. It's way to laggy, I think bluetooth has maximum update of 80hz or something. Have they worked around that?
The problem is that Apple and the minors(appleusers) use KHTML-Webcore as an example of how great Apple works with the OSS comunnity when they don't in this particular case work with the OSS community at all.
Yes it's a fork. Apple should say it's a fork, it happens as you say all the time. But they shouldn't be telling lies about their involvment in the OSS/KHTML community when they infact are not involved at all.
From what I understand the KDE developers wasn't really pissed about Apple behavour in this matter, what they where pissed about was the people (Mostly Mac users) who constantly tell everyone what a great relationship Apple and the KDE team have with KHTML when in fact it was non existant.
it may be a big difference if the programs are of equal quality.
More often than not the programs are NOT of equal quality, thats why many people and businesses use open source.
Why are you answering a question you obviously have no answer for?
What if I like Linux better then BSD? Why can't I run Gentoo (Which is a Linux) instead of OS X (which is a BSD). If you have used both Linux and say FreeBSD you would know there are ALOT of differences. Startup is totaly different (On OS X it's even more so). Firewall is totally different (on OS X I 've heard it's even somewhat lacking).
Package manager is nonexistant on OS X. I have to resort to third party apps and then I won't get the base system which means shell out money or don't upgrade (If yI have an old OS X I also have security holes because of lack of updates).
I have an X86 box for HTPC right now (built on Linux), I can not see ANYTHING that OS X would give me that Linux won't in the setup I'm using. Would it be so totaly wrong of me to buy a mini to replace my X86 (because then I could have the box next to the TV) but keep the software I'm using.
And before they get "the blessed hand of steve" they need to work with for example Microsoft because quite different from Apple Microsoft gladly works with startups with 0% marketshare. And if/when they have 50% marketshare and MS DRM Why would they go to Apple?
Except that it's impossible to licence Fairplay which make to format pretty useless for businesses.
Or they can try to make a real and use it anyway and get sued by Apple.
So tell me something genious. How the heck can anobody else sell non DRM mp3 when Apple is not allowed to do that. Or is all this talk about Apple adding DRM to the songs because RIAA wants it not true. Your argumentation seem to imply that Apple does it in order to control the music in some absurd way.
All this bullshit with Apple and their non licenceable DRM will only lead to them marginalize them in this market also. Just as the did in the PC market, just as they did with firewire/USB.
There are 1000000 other grandmothers who can figure out either WMP or itunes. Just because yours has special need doesn't make all grandmothers stupid.
It still fills up your harddrive with possibly malicious crap. If thats ok for you Apple didn't do anything wrong even this time.
It's not like it's impossible to implement a secure operating system that's also user friendly -- I think Apple's clearly demonstrating that.
Apple don't offer security patches for 10.1 which was released 3 years ago. How can OS X be secure if they don't offer security patches? Do Apple think nobody uses 3 year old macs?
If a company sell hardware with an OS they better release security patches for it for as long as the hardware is used (some limit of course). 3 years is not enough.