They never will, because Steve Jobs is a petty and vindictive a-hole. Newton was Gilbert Amelio's baby and Steve's pogrom to purge Amelio from the collective memory will prevent any resurgence. Hell, the first thing he did when he made his re-appearance was to pull the Newton group back in to Apple (after it had been spun off into its own company) just to kill it.
I'm more than happy to pay for a printed newspaper/magazine. But not for an online one. Why is this?
I think it's in part because we know that the manufacturing and distribution costs money. We get something tangible for the money. It seems to me that there should be a steep discount for the content, when you remove a substantial cost from the publisher, no?
I read somewhere that most ad-carrying periodicals make all of their money from advertising. The cost of the periodical itself is to cover production and distribution for the most part. I have no idea if this is true or not, but it doesn't seem unlikely.
Personally, I prefer the method that Maxim Magazine uses. When you subscribe, you get access to all of the online content. I'm not sure if you can get access any other way. They get added distribution and can use that to sell more ads, and you get added value to your subscription. It's a win-win in my book.
so typing will not be so difficult....unless you're in the dark. It's nearly impossible to see the keyboard when the screen is the only illumination in the room. Good thing they left the soft keyboard in.
From a legal standpoint it *is* odd that TigerDirect waited for so long to file this,
No, it isn't. Up until this release tomorrow, there was no product 'Tiger', it was an internal project codename. Apple could have changed the name before the release. Now, the name Tiger is set in stone. The product *is* called Tiger and therefore does infringe on Tiger Direct's trademark.
I suppose you could put a secret partition on the drive with your tools on it. Use an encrypted filesystem. Then you could remote in (assuming SSH server is available) and mount it the same as you'd do the disk.
You might be able to make the filesystem a file itself, so you wouldn't have to repartition the drive. I don't know if it's possible to make an encrypted RAM drive.
A short time ago, one of our admins created a "locked down" DMZ system incorporating the minimum amount of packages he could use.
This isn't a bad idea. I've used it at many sites, and I don't consider myself particularly paranoid. I use Knoppix or TomsRTBT when I need a "full" featured OS to troubleshoot with.
Oh, the iPod isn't stagnant? I see. Jobs will license another iPod class product every two years until Apple really is the market leader. Great plan.
Another plan would be to lower the price of your machines until, like the iPod, the price point is where it ought to be. But then Mac owners would have to give up the veneer of superiority that a higher price affords them.
Gosh, this is a news flash. Last I checked MS was the odds on favorite to win the OS wars.
Seems to me that you've been fully immolated in Jobs' reality distortion field if you think that Apple's in the lead.
Considering that the one and only hit product that Apple has had in the last 25 years is the iPod, methinks your categorization of Apple as the leader is a heapin' helpin' of wishful thinking and hero worship.
It's amusing that Apple has been playing second fiddle to a third rate operating system for 25 years. You've got to be a complete moron to have the best product in the field and not be able to surpass 11% of the market at it's height (circa 1991, not on Jobs watch, FYI). Kudos to Bill G for taking a POS operating system and making it he world standard all the while having a better competitor sitting their, poised to steal his lunch.
Why yes it does, but an adult "tangoing" with a 15 year old is illegal in the US, even if the 15 year old wanted it. Besides, one would expect that a person who's job it is to keep children safe from predators by monitoring chat rooms would have the sense and willpower to not succumb to the wiles of a kid.
I always thought that the point of a prank was to be clever or to be funny, preferably both. Most of these "pranks" really are neither. They fall into the category of either "who cares?" or "I'm being a dick!". Please, Caltech, strive for humor or cleverness. This series of "pranks" seem more like the kind a petulant child would play rather than students/graduates at one of the premier technical schools in our nation.
I'm getting WoW updates almost 3 times as fast as you are. With my cable modem, I was pulling updates at 384kbps and faster. The total time was phenomenally better than I'd ever gotten with EQ. Apparently, I was on when more people were serving out data. With EQ, if I were to log on to the update server (assuming of course that I could actually get connected to it) for a big patch, I'd get miserable download speeds.
This is going to be another Y2K, in that those who are concerned with the flaw will have worked out the problems years in advance, and the press will have a heyday of Doom-and-Gloom reports telling everyone to stack up on baseball bats with nails in them, football pads, and "juice" for the coming apocalypse brought on by the proud and ignorant computer "experts" we were all trusting.
When the moment comes and goes without incident, they'll proclaim it a victory for the news agencies which apparently got the word out and forced the computer industry to fix the issue.
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They never will, because Steve Jobs is a petty and vindictive a-hole. Newton was Gilbert Amelio's baby and Steve's pogrom to purge Amelio from the collective memory will prevent any resurgence. Hell, the first thing he did when he made his re-appearance was to pull the Newton group back in to Apple (after it had been spun off into its own company) just to kill it.
It's a USB 2.0 device. Fast enough for you?
I'm more than happy to pay for a printed newspaper/magazine. But not for an online one. Why is this?
I think it's in part because we know that the manufacturing and distribution costs money. We get something tangible for the money. It seems to me that there should be a steep discount for the content, when you remove a substantial cost from the publisher, no?
I read somewhere that most ad-carrying periodicals make all of their money from advertising. The cost of the periodical itself is to cover production and distribution for the most part. I have no idea if this is true or not, but it doesn't seem unlikely.
Personally, I prefer the method that Maxim Magazine uses. When you subscribe, you get access to all of the online content. I'm not sure if you can get access any other way. They get added distribution and can use that to sell more ads, and you get added value to your subscription. It's a win-win in my book.
That's a laptop, not a handheld.
Maybe he got big hands...
I prefer the Tandy Model 102 myself. I still have 2.
so typing will not be so difficult. ...unless you're in the dark. It's nearly impossible to see the keyboard when the screen is the only illumination in the room. Good thing they left the soft keyboard in.
Yo, Apple Apologist, cool your shit down and read what I was commenting on, the statement that TigerDirect didn't own a trademark on Tiger.
So much BS would be avoided if zealots would bother to READ.
True. To question Apple is to question Steve Jobs, and no one must question Steve Jobs. No one.
The company owns trademarks on the names Tiger, TigerDirect and TigerSoftware.
RTFA
Ford didn't sue over "Jaguar" either.
Ford doesn't sell home computers. Tiger Direct does. That makes all the difference in the world.
From a legal standpoint it *is* odd that TigerDirect waited for so long to file this,
No, it isn't. Up until this release tomorrow, there was no product 'Tiger', it was an internal project codename. Apple could have changed the name before the release. Now, the name Tiger is set in stone. The product *is* called Tiger and therefore does infringe on Tiger Direct's trademark.
I suppose you could put a secret partition on the drive with your tools on it. Use an encrypted filesystem. Then you could remote in (assuming SSH server is available) and mount it the same as you'd do the disk.
You might be able to make the filesystem a file itself, so you wouldn't have to repartition the drive. I don't know if it's possible to make an encrypted RAM drive.
A short time ago, one of our admins created a "locked down" DMZ system incorporating the minimum amount of packages he could use.
This isn't a bad idea. I've used it at many sites, and I don't consider myself particularly paranoid. I use Knoppix or TomsRTBT when I need a "full" featured OS to troubleshoot with.
See? When you lay off the pipe, you can write coherently.
WTF are you smoking, dude? We're talking about video games, nothing illegal here. Try posting when you're not high, you might be more coherent.
Simple, it's not stagnant.
Oh, the iPod isn't stagnant? I see. Jobs will license another iPod class product every two years until Apple really is the market leader. Great plan.
Another plan would be to lower the price of your machines until, like the iPod, the price point is where it ought to be. But then Mac owners would have to give up the veneer of superiority that a higher price affords them.
Losers always copy the winners.
Gosh, this is a news flash. Last I checked MS was the odds on favorite to win the OS wars.
Seems to me that you've been fully immolated in Jobs' reality distortion field if you think that Apple's in the lead.
Considering that the one and only hit product that Apple has had in the last 25 years is the iPod, methinks your categorization of Apple as the leader is a heapin' helpin' of wishful thinking and hero worship.
It's amusing that Apple has been playing second fiddle to a third rate operating system for 25 years. You've got to be a complete moron to have the best product in the field and not be able to surpass 11% of the market at it's height (circa 1991, not on Jobs watch, FYI). Kudos to Bill G for taking a POS operating system and making it he world standard all the while having a better competitor sitting their, poised to steal his lunch.
pure Slashdot - noise with no substance so far.
Pure Slashdot - complaining about someone else not doing something without reading the article yourself.
The new project isn't anything that most people would use. It's a versioning system that is specifically for this task of Kernel development. RTFA
Lest we not forget YAG.
It takes two to tango.
Why yes it does, but an adult "tangoing" with a 15 year old is illegal in the US, even if the 15 year old wanted it. Besides, one would expect that a person who's job it is to keep children safe from predators by monitoring chat rooms would have the sense and willpower to not succumb to the wiles of a kid.
I hate this sh**t, someone else controlling every aspect of your life.
Said like a true teenager. You're a little green to be posting in the Big Boy forums.
I always thought that the point of a prank was to be clever or to be funny, preferably both. Most of these "pranks" really are neither. They fall into the category of either "who cares?" or "I'm being a dick!". Please, Caltech, strive for humor or cleverness. This series of "pranks" seem more like the kind a petulant child would play rather than students/graduates at one of the premier technical schools in our nation.
In Soviet Russia, the Internet governs YOU!
I'm getting WoW updates almost 3 times as fast as you are. With my cable modem, I was pulling updates at 384kbps and faster. The total time was phenomenally better than I'd ever gotten with EQ. Apparently, I was on when more people were serving out data. With EQ, if I were to log on to the update server (assuming of course that I could actually get connected to it) for a big patch, I'd get miserable download speeds.
or is this going to be another Y2K?
This is going to be another Y2K, in that those who are concerned with the flaw will have worked out the problems years in advance, and the press will have a heyday of Doom-and-Gloom reports telling everyone to stack up on baseball bats with nails in them, football pads, and "juice" for the coming apocalypse brought on by the proud and ignorant computer "experts" we were all trusting.
When the moment comes and goes without incident, they'll proclaim it a victory for the news agencies which apparently got the word out and forced the computer industry to fix the issue.