Now I know that my OS X machine is just as vlnerable as Windows and Linux, but I have no infections or problems apart from my phpBB2 forum getting hacked a while ago, and the cause of that was a known flaw exploted by a bot. I should have kept it patched but I was a few versions behind. My own desktops or servers that I manage have not had any problems....yet 8)
Relaease it as open source, then it can be improved o make it the leanest, fastest and most efficient hacking toolkit, while simultaneously all security and kernel devs can try to patch the exploited holes, but in the end, I assume that to be owned the user must install the malware first, and that comes down to the human operator. There are still no patches to fix careless administration.
One of the reasons I hope Linux doesn't get too popular 8) Imagine only having one way to do eveything. Ugh.... Kit cars a re like Linux in some ways, not always production quality polish, but you cant beat the perfomance for the money 8) I want a v8 coupe that weighs less than 1 ton, but can still be road registered. Hard to find one manufactured by the mainstream, but I can build an Ultima GTR in my garage.
And all-in-one computers, and miniturised desktops like the mini, and display port, and mini display port, colour matched screens, laptops with 7 hours battery life. Apple tends to have innovated very well. However iPods were nothing new, they were just the best marketed and most successful portable digital music player.
Most of the other competitors are also racing to make the cheapest phone, so you get crappy batteries, overheating chargers, plasic screens and creaky flexible cases. I stuck with nokia for a long time on my phone simply because all of their chargers and accessories worked well with every model. Now with iPhone, I can charge it on my PC, in it's dock on my stereo, and in my car, and now OS3 gave it stereo bluetooth, I can get audio out on many devices too. It also has a standard 3mm earphone jack, I can play on any stereo on the planet with a simple RCA adapter cable.
That aside the glass screen has remained scratch free and is easy to clean, the solid case means nothing has broken or fallen off, and the reall metal trim has not worn out and faded so it looks as good now as it did when I bought it 2 yeas ago, unlike the palm it replaced which alshouth a good handset, looked like it had been through the wringer after only 6 months inmy pocket.
Umm, people here still seem to be able to sell bottled water, even though it is freely availble from any tap anywhere. What they are selling is the convenience of the bottle, the cooling to keep chilled until you wish to purchase and consume etc, but it is odd that a can of coke is cheaper than pump bottle of water.
3D movies is also proving interesting. To currenly watch a 3D movie as intended, you hve to go to a cinema. iMax is so good I dont mind every now an d them paying the stupidly expensive ticket price, becasue the iMax does make the experiance special.
After watching much of the crap that has come out in the last few years, having them stop cant come too soon. The best two movies I have watched in the last few months have been Moon (not even screening here so the only way to see it was a dowwnload torrent) and District 9 - which didnt cost a lot to make, and actually benifited from the plug being pulled on the Halo project, as there was suddenly a lot of talent looking to fill in some time. The stupid amounts of money involved in the movie and music industry is just warping common sense. Even if there was no mony to be made, those wanting to make art, will still do so.
Cory Doctrow writes lots of books, and he give many away for free as ebook because it costs him very little to do so, but then whenever he does that, the paper version of those books start selling like hotcakes.
For music, if the MP3 is free or low cost, then the artist can still charge $$$$ for a concert, maybe make special editions of their albums with extra content - videos, information, etc. I bought some stuff on iTunes because the download alo included some extra singles, and 3 videos. I'd dfinately be buying more if the tracks also included lyrics, sone note and information. This would save me lots of time cataloging the info fro other free sources, so I would pay money for tracks with this extra info.
Since iTunes went DRM free for music, I have bouth a ton of stuff there, but they till dont have everythign a CD shop might have, bacause some studios are afraid. No Tool, very little Metallica, no Seether etc, all main stream bands but not available on the NZ iTunes store, so as the two local CD shops in my town have closed, I'll just download the torrents instead. But I wont pay iTunes NZ$7 for a movie rental that I can only watch on my PC when I can rent the same movie for $1 for 7 days from Civic video and watch it anywhere I want.
Again one of the reason I like OS X - nice gui, and if you need X11, you've got it included already, no messing around looking for a good thirdparty server to run on your desktop. "ssh -X user@host ApplicationName" is a super easy way to get applications running on large powreful servers, and get the gui down on my netbook or mac mini. I run Scribus on my server for desktop publishing, and I have an old Compaq n800c laptop, that it pittifully slow and old, but still has a nice 16" screen. This makes a perfect X11 server for my DTP needs. As long as I have network, I can work anywhere.
The mini fits my needs pretty well as a desktop, but my for my server I want cheaper storage and faster CPU. I would buy an apple mini tower system if they offered one for sale, they don't so I have to make it myself. So, I'm not really confused, I just have different needs for different machines, and I make do with what I can get.
My copy of OS X on my hackintosh would actually boot OK on a real Mac, if not for the boot loader, not supplied by Apple, which is different. I modified some drivers to support my USB ports, but again, this was for drivers not supplied by Apple in the first place. Does this still make it an infringing or derivative copy?
Unless by monopoly you mean the only computers legally allowed to run OS X and the applications written to run under OS X. When you have monopolies, you have price gouging. EyeTV ship a Haupage USB digital TV encoder, that costs twice as much as a similar Haupage encoder for Windows. I have a Logitec web cam I stupidly bought as this version was OS X supported, not knowing it was exactly the same under the white plastic as the black one sold for Windows that was $50 cheaper. Odd that Logitec feel they should charge more for supplying a web cam with no drivers (OS X sees it fine) as opposed to the Windows one which does actually come with some nice extra Windows features.
My clone, is running a 3Ghz Core2 Duo CPU, same as an iMac, RAM is 2GBs of Kingstons best. My video card is an intel GMA950, same as a late '98 mini, my HDD is a toshiba, same model as in a Mini (Actually it came from my old Mini), The only difference is my BIOS is a software version of EFI, and the case was not kissed by unicorns as it was delivered. I would still however pay Apples price for supported gear if they sold what I want, but they don't, so I have to build it myself, and I'll run whatever damn OS I legally own on it!
But you aren't buying a copy of OS X, you are buying the limited right to use it on one Mac computer. 8) You are however BUYING a book when you buy a paper book, but not an e-book on a Kindle. Again, you are buying the right to see it on your kindle. The book itself still belongs to Amazon and they can stop you seeing that book whenever they want.
This I completely agree with. Every time I buy a new Mini, I end up just maxing out all of the hardware anyway, and the mini small form factor is just a pain in the ass sometimes. I really just want the quad core 27" iMac, but I really don't need the 27" screen. I'm happy using my 40" monitor as it is. It's nice the Mac Pro has dual CPU slots, hotswap drive bays, and all sorts of pro workstation class hardware, but I just don't need that at home, but I do need some CPU grunt and large fast disk for HD transcoding for EyeTV. Also my old desktop usually become my servers, so then I attach whatever I upgrade to to my monitor, and run the server headless. I really don't need an iMac. Because of this Apple miss out on NZ$2-3000 every couple of years from me, and Shuttle gets my money instead. BTW - Shuttle KPC bare bones runs Snow Leopard quite well. It may only have 600Mhz bus, but works fine with a 3Ghz Core2 Duo CPU and 2GB Ram and 1TB HDD, and only cost me NZ$800 to build + the cost of a retail copy of SnowLeopard server. Mac Mini is NZ$1049 for 2.26GHz Core2 Duo 2GB RAM 120GB HDD. NZ$1700 for the Mini Server. I would still pay Apples price to get OS X fully supported if they were able to offer a screen-less box with space for proper desktop drives and RAM. I would also still buy a Mini as my main desktop as I do now. Upgrades for smaller laptop gear is just still more expensive. 1TB SATA 7200RPM desktop NZ$300. 500GB 7200RPM is about the same price, but half the capacity. If size isn't important the price becomes much more reasonable. Apple gear pays a premium for the miniaturisation.
Wow, I just always thought DMCA was just broken, not just completely broken. So does that mean that when I run a CD, the audio decoded an run in my CD player RAM is also an unauthorised copy?
Actually much of the tech industry has been on a go slow for 10 years. The lack of any major space exploration by manned missions, the lack of any high tech enemys to the state, no pressure to advance except profit. The US patent system also has a lot to answer for, with companies crippled decause some key part of their design just happens to be tied up in a paper patent thought up by some guy with easy access to a lawyer, and no desire to actually make a working example of what they thought of.
.Net is just a language and some tools. Where the problem lies is that many.Net developers have no history or grounding in designing or working on high availability systems. Afterall, they are used to having their workstaions reboot for patches and updates, 8)
The danger of cheap abundant electricity is the risk of the power just being wasted becasue it is so cheap, then suddenly there will be a hydrogen crunch or something where you jsut cant get enough electrons any more, or it cant be distributed, or stored, or managed etc.
Smarte power grids will help out before fusion is cheap enough to mass produce electricity, and then every house on the block could be soaking up photons and powering themselves, or their street while everyone is away at work and the only power is being consumed by their LCD TVs and DVRs on standby 8)
Albums I have bought for the box. I have an iron maiden picture disk LP. But I don't have a turntable so i also have it on cd and mp3. I have a nice Queensryche live set of Operation MindCrime with a full comic and images from the concert. I also have Metallica Some Kind of Monster on DVD (and mp4 also now) all can be played or read on anything. This just seems like a way to get DRM and restriction back into an iTunes only format for apple to get you tied into their platform. How about a competing format where you can bundle the audio file and HTML into a single.XML file and call it OpenLP media tags already in the tracks could store. The album art and lyrics and the menu and environment could be plain old HTML5
I must be missing something here. Are the tracks playable as regular aac? Are they DRM encumbered? As the format is just web based and open can it be viewed on my iPhone? To me this seems like ATV. A nice idea but could have been thought through a little better.
The Issue with the cloud is if it is just personal or worth money to you. My Calendar and contacts are very important to me. If I am on call I need access to this information in a hurry. If I had lost them due to a failure like this then I would be severly hamperd in my ability to do my job. To counter this, I store critical stuff in multiple places and I make sure my phone is backed up every time it syncs at home.
I use the cloud, but I dont trust it 110% just yet 8)
I applied to SpaceX to see if they needed any IT staff. The job would have been just IT, but the chance to be in with a private company breaking into the space age - now that is cool 8)
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Now I know that my OS X machine is just as vlnerable as Windows and Linux, but I have no infections or problems apart from my phpBB2 forum getting hacked a while ago, and the cause of that was a known flaw exploted by a bot. I should have kept it patched but I was a few versions behind. My own desktops or servers that I manage have not had any problems....yet 8)
Relaease it as open source, then it can be improved o make it the leanest, fastest and most efficient hacking toolkit, while simultaneously all security and kernel devs can try to patch the exploited holes, but in the end, I assume that to be owned the user must install the malware first, and that comes down to the human operator. There are still no patches to fix careless administration.
One of the reasons I hope Linux doesn't get too popular 8) Imagine only having one way to do eveything. Ugh....
Kit cars a re like Linux in some ways, not always production quality polish, but you cant beat the perfomance for the money 8)
I want a v8 coupe that weighs less than 1 ton, but can still be road registered. Hard to find one manufactured by the mainstream, but I can build an Ultima GTR in my garage.
And all-in-one computers, and miniturised desktops like the mini, and display port, and mini display port, colour matched screens, laptops with 7 hours battery life. Apple tends to have innovated very well. However iPods were nothing new, they were just the best marketed and most successful portable digital music player.
Most of the other competitors are also racing to make the cheapest phone, so you get crappy batteries, overheating chargers, plasic screens and creaky flexible cases. I stuck with nokia for a long time on my phone simply because all of their chargers and accessories worked well with every model. Now with iPhone, I can charge it on my PC, in it's dock on my stereo, and in my car, and now OS3 gave it stereo bluetooth, I can get audio out on many devices too. It also has a standard 3mm earphone jack, I can play on any stereo on the planet with a simple RCA adapter cable.
That aside the glass screen has remained scratch free and is easy to clean, the solid case means nothing has broken or fallen off, and the reall metal trim has not worn out and faded so it looks as good now as it did when I bought it 2 yeas ago, unlike the palm it replaced which alshouth a good handset, looked like it had been through the wringer after only 6 months inmy pocket.
Wow, thats just like us looking at the US. We can't vote in USelections, but what it's government does affects us in many ways.
Umm, people here still seem to be able to sell bottled water, even though it is freely availble from any tap anywhere. What they are selling is the convenience of the bottle, the cooling to keep chilled until you wish to purchase and consume etc, but it is odd that a can of coke is cheaper than pump bottle of water.
3D movies is also proving interesting. To currenly watch a 3D movie as intended, you hve to go to a cinema. iMax is so good I dont mind every now an d them paying the stupidly expensive ticket price, becasue the iMax does make the experiance special.
After watching much of the crap that has come out in the last few years, having them stop cant come too soon.
The best two movies I have watched in the last few months have been Moon (not even screening here so the only way to see it was a dowwnload torrent) and District 9 - which didnt cost a lot to make, and actually benifited from the plug being pulled on the Halo project, as there was suddenly a lot of talent looking to fill in some time.
The stupid amounts of money involved in the movie and music industry is just warping common sense. Even if there was no mony to be made, those wanting to make art, will still do so.
Cory Doctrow writes lots of books, and he give many away for free as ebook because it costs him very little to do so, but then whenever he does that, the paper version of those books start selling like hotcakes.
For music, if the MP3 is free or low cost, then the artist can still charge $$$$ for a concert, maybe make special editions of their albums with extra content - videos, information, etc.
I bought some stuff on iTunes because the download alo included some extra singles, and 3 videos. I'd dfinately be buying more if the tracks also included lyrics, sone note and information. This would save me lots of time cataloging the info fro other free sources, so I would pay money for tracks with this extra info.
Since iTunes went DRM free for music, I have bouth a ton of stuff there, but they till dont have everythign a CD shop might have, bacause some studios are afraid. No Tool, very little Metallica, no Seether etc, all main stream bands but not available on the NZ iTunes store, so as the two local CD shops in my town have closed, I'll just download the torrents instead.
But I wont pay iTunes NZ$7 for a movie rental that I can only watch on my PC when I can rent the same movie for $1 for 7 days from Civic video and watch it anywhere I want.
Again one of the reason I like OS X - nice gui, and if you need X11, you've got it included already, no messing around looking for a good thirdparty server to run on your desktop.
"ssh -X user@host ApplicationName" is a super easy way to get applications running on large powreful servers, and get the gui down on my netbook or mac mini. I run Scribus on my server for desktop publishing, and I have an old Compaq n800c laptop, that it pittifully slow and old, but still has a nice 16" screen. This makes a perfect X11 server for my DTP needs. As long as I have network, I can work anywhere.
The mini fits my needs pretty well as a desktop, but my for my server I want cheaper storage and faster CPU. I would buy an apple mini tower system if they offered one for sale, they don't so I have to make it myself.
So, I'm not really confused, I just have different needs for different machines, and I make do with what I can get.
My copy of OS X on my hackintosh would actually boot OK on a real Mac, if not for the boot loader, not supplied by Apple, which is different. I modified some drivers to support my USB ports, but again, this was for drivers not supplied by Apple in the first place. Does this still make it an infringing or derivative copy?
Unless by monopoly you mean the only computers legally allowed to run OS X and the applications written to run under OS X.
When you have monopolies, you have price gouging.
EyeTV ship a Haupage USB digital TV encoder, that costs twice as much as a similar Haupage encoder for Windows. I have a Logitec web cam I stupidly bought as this version was OS X supported, not knowing it was exactly the same under the white plastic as the black one sold for Windows that was $50 cheaper. Odd that Logitec feel they should charge more for supplying a web cam with no drivers (OS X sees it fine) as opposed to the Windows one which does actually come with some nice extra Windows features.
My clone, is running a 3Ghz Core2 Duo CPU, same as an iMac, RAM is 2GBs of Kingstons best. My video card is an intel GMA950, same as a late '98 mini, my HDD is a toshiba, same model as in a Mini (Actually it came from my old Mini), The only difference is my BIOS is a software version of EFI, and the case was not kissed by unicorns as it was delivered. I would still however pay Apples price for supported gear if they sold what I want, but they don't, so I have to build it myself, and I'll run whatever damn OS I legally own on it!
But you aren't buying a copy of OS X, you are buying the limited right to use it on one Mac computer. 8)
You are however BUYING a book when you buy a paper book, but not an e-book on a Kindle. Again, you are buying the right to see it on your kindle. The book itself still belongs to Amazon and they can stop you seeing that book whenever they want.
This I completely agree with. Every time I buy a new Mini, I end up just maxing out all of the hardware anyway, and the mini small form factor is just a pain in the ass sometimes. I really just want the quad core 27" iMac, but I really don't need the 27" screen. I'm happy using my 40" monitor as it is.
It's nice the Mac Pro has dual CPU slots, hotswap drive bays, and all sorts of pro workstation class hardware, but I just don't need that at home, but I do need some CPU grunt and large fast disk for HD transcoding for EyeTV. Also my old desktop usually become my servers, so then I attach whatever I upgrade to to my monitor, and run the server headless. I really don't need an iMac.
Because of this Apple miss out on NZ$2-3000 every couple of years from me, and Shuttle gets my money instead.
BTW - Shuttle KPC bare bones runs Snow Leopard quite well. It may only have 600Mhz bus, but works fine with a 3Ghz Core2 Duo CPU and 2GB Ram and 1TB HDD, and only cost me NZ$800 to build + the cost of a retail copy of SnowLeopard server. Mac Mini is NZ$1049 for 2.26GHz Core2 Duo 2GB RAM 120GB HDD. NZ$1700 for the Mini Server. I would still pay Apples price to get OS X fully supported if they were able to offer a screen-less box with space for proper desktop drives and RAM. I would also still buy a Mini as my main desktop as I do now.
Upgrades for smaller laptop gear is just still more expensive. 1TB SATA 7200RPM desktop NZ$300. 500GB 7200RPM is about the same price, but half the capacity. If size isn't important the price becomes much more reasonable. Apple gear pays a premium for the miniaturisation.
Wow, I just always thought DMCA was just broken, not just completely broken.
So does that mean that when I run a CD, the audio decoded an run in my CD player RAM is also an unauthorised copy?
Actually much of the tech industry has been on a go slow for 10 years. The lack of any major space exploration by manned missions, the lack of any high tech enemys to the state, no pressure to advance except profit.
The US patent system also has a lot to answer for, with companies crippled decause some key part of their design just happens to be tied up in a paper patent thought up by some guy with easy access to a lawyer, and no desire to actually make a working example of what they thought of.
.Net is just a language and some tools. Where the problem lies is that many .Net developers have no history or grounding in designing or working on high availability systems. Afterall, they are used to having their workstaions reboot for patches and updates, 8)
The danger of cheap abundant electricity is the risk of the power just being wasted becasue it is so cheap, then suddenly there will be a hydrogen crunch or something where you jsut cant get enough electrons any more, or it cant be distributed, or stored, or managed etc.
Smarte power grids will help out before fusion is cheap enough to mass produce electricity, and then every house on the block could be soaking up photons and powering themselves, or their street while everyone is away at work and the only power is being consumed by their LCD TVs and DVRs on standby 8)
Albums I have bought for the box. I have an iron maiden picture disk LP. But I don't have a turntable so i also have it on cd and mp3. I have a nice Queensryche live set of Operation MindCrime with a full comic and images from the concert. I also have Metallica Some Kind of Monster on DVD (and mp4 also now) .XML file and call it OpenLP
all can be played or read on anything. This just seems like a way to get DRM and restriction back into an iTunes only format for apple to get you tied into their platform.
How about a competing format where you can bundle the audio file and HTML into a single
media tags already in the tracks could store. The album art and lyrics and the menu and environment could be plain old HTML5
I must be missing something here. Are the tracks playable as regular aac? Are they DRM encumbered? As the format is just web based and open can it be viewed on my iPhone? To me this seems like ATV. A nice idea but could have been thought through a little better.
The Issue with the cloud is if it is just personal or worth money to you.
My Calendar and contacts are very important to me. If I am on call I need access to this information in a hurry. If I had lost them due to a failure like this then I would be severly hamperd in my ability to do my job.
To counter this, I store critical stuff in multiple places and I make sure my phone is backed up every time it syncs at home.
I use the cloud, but I dont trust it 110% just yet 8)
I applied to SpaceX to see if they needed any IT staff.
The job would have been just IT, but the chance to be in with a private company breaking into the space age - now that is cool 8)