That might have something to do with the fact that you don't give anything but your IP address to TPB, whereas you are giving Facebook your email address, your location, your interests (activities, tv, movies, books, music, games, sexual preference, religion, etc.), your friends, your relationships, your plans (events), your schools, your jobs, your birthday, and a plethora of pictures of yourself.
TPB has barely any information to "be dicks" with. Facebook on the other hand probably knows more about the real you than your parents do.
As far as I'm concerned, if you put your information on the web, you sacrifice your privacy, period. For me the benefits of having my cell number and email address in a place where any of my friends can see it, as well as a medium to easily communicate, share, and plan publicly outweighs the potential danger of Facebook using or selling my information.
The maker of Twitter must be laughing hysterically now as he swims in vast seas of money and shits 17 carat gold logs, thinking back to that fateful day where he first came upon the idea for his website...
Twitter Guy: EUREKA!1 Some Guy: What? TG: I just got a great idea for a website, users upload what they are doing or thinking at any given moment in time for the whole world to see! SG: Isn't that just what a facebook status is? TG: Hmmmm, we can limit the number of characters people use to only 140, concise and it will keep the server load down so we always have a good uptime! SG: Why 140? TG: Because its (12 x 12) - 4 SG: Oooooookay? How do you plan on making money? TG: Its just a great idea so venture capitalists will just throw money at our potential. SG:.... you sound like a twit. TG: BRILLIANT, WE CAN CALL IT TWITTER!1!11
"The purpose of the experiment is to analyse whether human beings are capable of co-existing in a small environment without showing signs of significant mental and physical deterioration"
Is it april fools yet, or is this the dumbest study ever?
You just touched on an important point as to why Macs are so popular among college students.
Every summer Apple has their back to school sale, where if you attend pretty much any college, you can get a student discount of anywhere between 100-250 dollars off of the base price, more if you upgrade certain specs when buying. In addition, you get a free ipod Nano (or ~$200 off an ipod classic).
Couple a (sorta) deal like that that with high school graduation party money and a trendy brand name and you've got yourself a winning formula.
So, because they specialize in "Apple rumors", that makes them unbiased when reviewing competitor's phones?
No, but despite some of the epic bias in this particular article, it still brings an interesting view to the table. Take for example, the introduction of the Blackberry Storm, the G1, or the announcement of the Palm Pre. The media fell in love with each, claiming each would be an iPhone killer to the extreme (the "killer" status was declared for the G1 before the iPhone was even actually out, and no consumers have actually dealt with anything but display prototypes of the Pre still to this day). In all three cases, who ended up being right about who would fail and who would be the consumer winner? Your right if you guessed Appleinsider.
The iPhone is a smartphone for the average consumer. Blackberrys are traditionally smartphones for the businessperson. Is it any surprise that the Storm isn't as much of a commercial success when Blackberry rushes out a touch version of a consumer smartphones when they've been targeting a completely different market for most of their existence? Its just common sense that the product is not going to stack up. It would be like if ferarri decided to make a four door family car under $35k. Its not their traditional target market, so the product is probably going to be weak relative to some of the more established players in the economy car segment.
What about the G1? Oh, right, thats now been branded as a prototype development phone. It certainly holds a lot of potential for what its worth, but right now the hardware isn't matching up to the capabilities of the software, though that will change over time.
And lastly the Palm Pre. Three words will suffice: Not out yet. If thats not good enough for you, maybe the Web SDK (just like the iPhone 1.0 was trashed over among the/. elite) will make you realize its really not all its cracked up to be (at least given what little we really know about it).
Then on top of those there's all the others like the LG Dare, HTC touch, the Behold, etc. that failed to make that big of a splash.
Appleinsider may have only been right because they picked a phone that was released earlier than all the phones above, had been in development longer than all the phones above, had better integration with an established software platform (itunes), had an arguably classier brand name attached to it (hip factor etc), had an app store thats been out longer and therefore had more apps for it, and more. But really then your just naming reasons why the iPhone is _actually better_ than any other *consumer* smartphones out there. Now Appleinsider is sticking with its guns concerning a phone that Dell is maybe possibly trying to design that apparently isn't getting off the ground.
Writing like: "Dell's failure to successfully step from the commodity PC business into the mobile handset market should come as no surprise, as smartphones requires expertise in software platform development, consumer design savvy, and portable device engineering, all things Dell has never demonstrated any proficiency in." obviously indicates a bias, and a strong one at that. But at least in this case, history shows that that specific bias may end up being 100% correct.
Trust me, as an actual Mac user seeing articles like this that reinforce the pompous prick stereotype about fans of apple products annoys me more (or at least equal to) than most anything. But as long as you know to separate the wheat from the bullshit (just like you have to on this site and knowthefacts and ubuntuforums.org and practically every website in existence) sites like Appleinsider are usually at least good at showing the shortcomings of everything that isn't apple/MS/linux/whatever branded.
Appleinsider used to be (and probably still is) the best *editorial* apple rumor website. However, more recently their best writer (Prince McLean) has become more like Daniel Eran Dilger of RouglyDrafted in his style and bias. In the websites "Road to Snow Leopard" series about OS 10.6, occasionally McLean would cite Dilger concerning random tidbits of Mac history, but not often enough to make the articles bad like Dilgers self-citing poorly written biased excuses for articles are. More recently though, McLeans articles are becoming equally snarky and has a lot of shots against apple competitors just like Dilgers articles, making me think that McLean is a just a pseudonym/sockpuppet for Dilger (which would be further supported by the fact that Dilger posts all of McLeans editorials on his site).
Either way its unfortunate whether its true or not, because it means either that McLean is not Dilger but is being influenced by one of the most pompous worst apple editorialists in the worst possible way, or that McLean is Dilger, and that Dilger actually has the potential to write decent articles (like McLeans earlier writing on the site), but instead writes the trash like what normally ends up on Roughly Drafted.
I can't wait until its available for OS X. I switched from Safari 3 to Firefox 3 when FF3 first came out, but in the past few months I've been looking forward to either Chrome for OS X or Safari 4 coming out.
Firefox takes FOREVER to start up. Like 6-8 seconds. CS4 programs start faster than it. I'm sure this is mostly attributable to the 33,000+ site history I've built up since I installed it, in conjunction with the awesome bar (which I am apparently one of the few fans of). If its getting slow because of my large history (which I'm sure pales in comparison to some/.-ers), then they should have picked a method of storing the history info that scales better. Nonetheless, performance degrades over time open too, and it hasn't yet given up its memory hog ways. It crashes maybe twice a week, and JavaScript performance has gotten slow to the point that even just on heavily commented/. articles I can scroll down faster than the page is loading the comments (and download speed is plenty fast).
Firefox is still better than IE, but the truth is that despite market share, IE is no longer its direct competition. IE is already slowly dying, and Chrome, Safari, and to a lesser extent, Opera are its new measuring sticks. Beating IE at "the internet" is like taking candy from a baby, now Firefox needs to realize its competing against some bigger kids, and adjust accordingly.
I hope it does, if only for the sake of competition.
That is just pathetic. Google's SMS service was opened up in good faith hoping that no one would abuse it to make money.
Do you hate vendors like Red Hat and Novell who took an "opened up" piece of software and made money off of it? To say they abused the service is patently false. There's an open API so people can write third party clients for it, how is it abusive to write a third party client for it???
Though it seems to be their modus operandi over there, I would blame Google for exposing an API for a function they arn't ready to support. In a way its a problem caused by Googles versioning system. The API may have been a true beta build, but no one would ever know what that actually means, as everyting is still in beta according to Google (including things as rock solid as GMail).
Who cares, its a personal computer. If you installed a webcam on a server or are dual screening on your print server its stupid. If its your own personal laptop you can, you know, have fun with it. That's why people have things like games, or music, or movies, or spinning 3d cube desktops, etc... on their computers.
The comment a little further down has a youtube link, and the cool factor on this is through the roof (IMnsHO). I can't wait till OLED screens get commercially viable so manufacturers can throw in nice touches like this for people that want it on the cheap.
I was surprised after I restarted that it still took a proper screenshot despite being messed up, but if that's the sort of distortion you get, its probably an early sign of bad things to come.
The last time my MBP worked before it totally crapped out I was playing a game and it got extremely laggy (like 2-3 fps), and because that sort of lag was not normal in my playing, I tried restarting the computer to see if something had gotten borked randomly. The computer would boot fine, but the screen wouldn't "start". Your unit is probably not 100% poopy, but somehow halfway broke, which gives you occasional distortion and poor performance rather than a completely dead card.
I would recommend you back up whatever you've got and call up Apple support and explain the distortion and poor graphics performance you've been getting. I went to a store but the tech there thought it was something else, the cost of which to repair (when you factor in both parts and labor + taxes) would have been as much as a refurbished model of what I had. However, the Apple phone support person suggested that it was the problem in the support document I posted earlier right off the bat. The repair is free as long as your within two years of buying your computer, so since you noted your computer is around 1.5 years old earlier in the thread, it would probably be best for you to get that repaired soon.
Um, wat? I have the same model you do (it's the santa rosa MBP with the 8600m GT yes?) and it has no problem running WC3 at full res and everything maxxed. Anything less and your computer probably has something wrong with it.
I can run WoW in dalaran (for those not familiar with the game, the busiest city) on a packed server or do a full 25 man raid with everything but view distance maxxed and view distance at around 1/3 of max and still average ~30+ FPS. If I go any higher on distance I need to lower most other settings, as I think thats when all the various armor/player/model/building/etc textures start causing the 256 mb of graphics ram to have to swap out and things start getting shitty. WC3 is much less graphically intense than that even if you've got two huge armies going at it.
I got that but Apple fixes it for free warranty or not since its Nvidia's manufacturing problem (my understanding is its the same problem (conceptually) as the RRoD only on your laptop).
FTA: "In our testing, the answer is no. However, we did notice a difference among browsers, just not as pronounced as the benchmarks indicate. Safari 4 and, to our surprise, Internet Explorer 8 felt the snappiest, though neither version of Firefox ever felt slow by comparison."
They need to get someone with a backbone to say one is definitely better than the other, so that I can tell them that they are wrong.
Was I the only one who thought it was odd that Betamax disks don't make the list at all? They mention it at the very end, they go over the HD-DVD and Blu-ray competition, and feature more obscure storage options (magneto-optical?). Why they actually left it out completely is beyond me
It might be that I'm jealous of folks with the discretionary income to buy those stylish electronic gizmos that really aren't necessary for everyday life or for life in general.
If all I did was spend money on things that were necessary for everyday life I would certainly have more money that I do now, but I wouldn't be as happy.
That's not to say that money always does buy happiness, but its worth the cash to go out on a nice dinner with my friends every once in a while, or drop some dough on whatever the new game of the month is, or spend some scrilla on some random class at the nearby community college to learn something new, or shell out some clams on your car to get a better one or improve the one you have, etc...
I just asked my father, who is a lawyer, a few questions about it. Note that he is primarily what I like to refer to as a financial lawyer (bankruptcies, IRS/tax problems, certain real estate things, wills, and a few others), so this is outside of his normal repertoire. Here was his answers (paraphrased):
Q: Do you know what an EULA is? A: No Q: You know, those end user license agreements you have to accept when you buy or download certain software? A: Oh ok yes what about them Q: If you built a device that would allow a cat to accept an EULA, would you be legally bound by the EULA? A: Well it depends on the intent. If you specifically built the device and coerced the cat your intent is obvious and you would probably be held to the agreement in court. If the cat was just dancing around on your computer and accepted it though you probably wouldn't be bound. Q: What if you got a small child to accept the agreement, would they not be bound because of their age? A: It depends on your jurisdiction and the law of that area, but here in Illinois it probably wouldn't be binding in court and would be tossed out. Q: Do EULA's violate any sort of doctrine of first sale since they require you to agree to the license after you've bought the product and limit what you've gotten if you don't agree to it? A: I'm not exactly sure, but its defiantly a good question. They could get around that pretty easily by making you agree to the EULA before you purchase the computer, but I'm not familiar with the law so its just an educated guess.
Most applications installed by default with Snow Leopard are 1/3 or less the size they are in Leopard. The article guesses that its because of simple background compression. Other reasons could be dropping 32-bit code, no more ppc support, resolution independent svg's everywhere, and/or just plain old cleaned up code (Snow Leopards TL;DR is: Leopard refracted and optimized + a few major (or minor depending on what your coding) developer features).
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That might have something to do with the fact that you don't give anything but your IP address to TPB, whereas you are giving Facebook your email address, your location, your interests (activities, tv, movies, books, music, games, sexual preference, religion, etc.), your friends, your relationships, your plans (events), your schools, your jobs, your birthday, and a plethora of pictures of yourself.
TPB has barely any information to "be dicks" with. Facebook on the other hand probably knows more about the real you than your parents do.
As far as I'm concerned, if you put your information on the web, you sacrifice your privacy, period. For me the benefits of having my cell number and email address in a place where any of my friends can see it, as well as a medium to easily communicate, share, and plan publicly outweighs the potential danger of Facebook using or selling my information.
It's a freeeee rideee, when you've already paid...
Similar concept different medium:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c03b5A_gfIU
The maker of Twitter must be laughing hysterically now as he swims in vast seas of money and shits 17 carat gold logs, thinking back to that fateful day where he first came upon the idea for his website...
Twitter Guy: EUREKA!1 .... you sound like a twit.
Some Guy: What?
TG: I just got a great idea for a website, users upload what they are doing or thinking at any given moment in time for the whole world to see!
SG: Isn't that just what a facebook status is?
TG: Hmmmm, we can limit the number of characters people use to only 140, concise and it will keep the server load down so we always have a good uptime!
SG: Why 140?
TG: Because its (12 x 12) - 4
SG: Oooooookay? How do you plan on making money?
TG: Its just a great idea so venture capitalists will just throw money at our potential.
SG:
TG: BRILLIANT, WE CAN CALL IT TWITTER!1!11
"The purpose of the experiment is to analyse whether human beings are capable of co-existing in a small environment without showing signs of significant mental and physical deterioration"
Is it april fools yet, or is this the dumbest study ever?
You just touched on an important point as to why Macs are so popular among college students.
Every summer Apple has their back to school sale, where if you attend pretty much any college, you can get a student discount of anywhere between 100-250 dollars off of the base price, more if you upgrade certain specs when buying. In addition, you get a free ipod Nano (or ~$200 off an ipod classic).
Couple a (sorta) deal like that that with high school graduation party money and a trendy brand name and you've got yourself a winning formula.
So, because they specialize in "Apple rumors", that makes them unbiased when reviewing competitor's phones?
No, but despite some of the epic bias in this particular article, it still brings an interesting view to the table. Take for example, the introduction of the Blackberry Storm, the G1, or the announcement of the Palm Pre. The media fell in love with each, claiming each would be an iPhone killer to the extreme (the "killer" status was declared for the G1 before the iPhone was even actually out, and no consumers have actually dealt with anything but display prototypes of the Pre still to this day). In all three cases, who ended up being right about who would fail and who would be the consumer winner? Your right if you guessed Appleinsider.
The iPhone is a smartphone for the average consumer. Blackberrys are traditionally smartphones for the businessperson. Is it any surprise that the Storm isn't as much of a commercial success when Blackberry rushes out a touch version of a consumer smartphones when they've been targeting a completely different market for most of their existence? Its just common sense that the product is not going to stack up. It would be like if ferarri decided to make a four door family car under $35k. Its not their traditional target market, so the product is probably going to be weak relative to some of the more established players in the economy car segment.
What about the G1? Oh, right, thats now been branded as a prototype development phone. It certainly holds a lot of potential for what its worth, but right now the hardware isn't matching up to the capabilities of the software, though that will change over time.
And lastly the Palm Pre. Three words will suffice: Not out yet. If thats not good enough for you, maybe the Web SDK (just like the iPhone 1.0 was trashed over among the /. elite) will make you realize its really not all its cracked up to be (at least given what little we really know about it).
Then on top of those there's all the others like the LG Dare, HTC touch, the Behold, etc. that failed to make that big of a splash.
Appleinsider may have only been right because they picked a phone that was released earlier than all the phones above, had been in development longer than all the phones above, had better integration with an established software platform (itunes), had an arguably classier brand name attached to it (hip factor etc), had an app store thats been out longer and therefore had more apps for it, and more. But really then your just naming reasons why the iPhone is _actually better_ than any other *consumer* smartphones out there. Now Appleinsider is sticking with its guns concerning a phone that Dell is maybe possibly trying to design that apparently isn't getting off the ground.
Writing like: "Dell's failure to successfully step from the commodity PC business into the mobile handset market should come as no surprise, as smartphones requires expertise in software platform development, consumer design savvy, and portable device engineering, all things Dell has never demonstrated any proficiency in." obviously indicates a bias, and a strong one at that. But at least in this case, history shows that that specific bias may end up being 100% correct.
Trust me, as an actual Mac user seeing articles like this that reinforce the pompous prick stereotype about fans of apple products annoys me more (or at least equal to) than most anything. But as long as you know to separate the wheat from the bullshit (just like you have to on this site and knowthefacts and ubuntuforums.org and practically every website in existence) sites like Appleinsider are usually at least good at showing the shortcomings of everything that isn't apple/MS/linux/whatever branded.
Appleinsider used to be (and probably still is) the best *editorial* apple rumor website. However, more recently their best writer (Prince McLean) has become more like Daniel Eran Dilger of RouglyDrafted in his style and bias. In the websites "Road to Snow Leopard" series about OS 10.6, occasionally McLean would cite Dilger concerning random tidbits of Mac history, but not often enough to make the articles bad like Dilgers self-citing poorly written biased excuses for articles are. More recently though, McLeans articles are becoming equally snarky and has a lot of shots against apple competitors just like Dilgers articles, making me think that McLean is a just a pseudonym/sockpuppet for Dilger (which would be further supported by the fact that Dilger posts all of McLeans editorials on his site).
Either way its unfortunate whether its true or not, because it means either that McLean is not Dilger but is being influenced by one of the most pompous worst apple editorialists in the worst possible way, or that McLean is Dilger, and that Dilger actually has the potential to write decent articles (like McLeans earlier writing on the site), but instead writes the trash like what normally ends up on Roughly Drafted.
I can't wait until its available for OS X. I switched from Safari 3 to Firefox 3 when FF3 first came out, but in the past few months I've been looking forward to either Chrome for OS X or Safari 4 coming out.
Firefox takes FOREVER to start up. Like 6-8 seconds. CS4 programs start faster than it. I'm sure this is mostly attributable to the 33,000+ site history I've built up since I installed it, in conjunction with the awesome bar (which I am apparently one of the few fans of). If its getting slow because of my large history (which I'm sure pales in comparison to some /.-ers), then they should have picked a method of storing the history info that scales better. Nonetheless, performance degrades over time open too, and it hasn't yet given up its memory hog ways. It crashes maybe twice a week, and JavaScript performance has gotten slow to the point that even just on heavily commented /. articles I can scroll down faster than the page is loading the comments (and download speed is plenty fast).
Firefox is still better than IE, but the truth is that despite market share, IE is no longer its direct competition. IE is already slowly dying, and Chrome, Safari, and to a lesser extent, Opera are its new measuring sticks. Beating IE at "the internet" is like taking candy from a baby, now Firefox needs to realize its competing against some bigger kids, and adjust accordingly.
I hope it does, if only for the sake of competition.
That is just pathetic. Google's SMS service was opened up in good faith hoping that no one would abuse it to make money.
Do you hate vendors like Red Hat and Novell who took an "opened up" piece of software and made money off of it? To say they abused the service is patently false. There's an open API so people can write third party clients for it, how is it abusive to write a third party client for it???
Though it seems to be their modus operandi over there, I would blame Google for exposing an API for a function they arn't ready to support. In a way its a problem caused by Googles versioning system. The API may have been a true beta build, but no one would ever know what that actually means, as everyting is still in beta according to Google (including things as rock solid as GMail).
If you take a look at his flickr photostream, you can see its just a small rubber finger that functions as a small USB flash drive and nerd attractor.
Who cares, its a personal computer. If you installed a webcam on a server or are dual screening on your print server its stupid. If its your own personal laptop you can, you know, have fun with it. That's why people have things like games, or music, or movies, or spinning 3d cube desktops, etc... on their computers.
The comment a little further down has a youtube link, and the cool factor on this is through the roof (IMnsHO). I can't wait till OLED screens get commercially viable so manufacturers can throw in nice touches like this for people that want it on the cheap.
So what your saying is: Its not a bug, its a feature?
Where have I heard the before? Hmm.....
At least Ubuntu has cute names I can rely on!
Yea, they should come up with a naming convention that empathizes cats to jump on the LoLcats bandwagon. Everyone loves cats!
OS 10.7: Garfield Y/N?
I doubt its hard coded, it handles "how tall is steve jobs" and "how tall is bill gates" fine.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ujU&q=how+tall+is+steve+jobs&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=6lU&q=how+tall+is+bill+gates&btnG=Search
Whatever source they use for the ages must not have steve jobs listed. "how tall is steve wozniak" doesn't work presumably for that reason.
A while before mine fully shat itself I got this: http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/9207/distortion.png
I was surprised after I restarted that it still took a proper screenshot despite being messed up, but if that's the sort of distortion you get, its probably an early sign of bad things to come.
The last time my MBP worked before it totally crapped out I was playing a game and it got extremely laggy (like 2-3 fps), and because that sort of lag was not normal in my playing, I tried restarting the computer to see if something had gotten borked randomly. The computer would boot fine, but the screen wouldn't "start". Your unit is probably not 100% poopy, but somehow halfway broke, which gives you occasional distortion and poor performance rather than a completely dead card.
I would recommend you back up whatever you've got and call up Apple support and explain the distortion and poor graphics performance you've been getting. I went to a store but the tech there thought it was something else, the cost of which to repair (when you factor in both parts and labor + taxes) would have been as much as a refurbished model of what I had. However, the Apple phone support person suggested that it was the problem in the support document I posted earlier right off the bat. The repair is free as long as your within two years of buying your computer, so since you noted your computer is around 1.5 years old earlier in the thread, it would probably be best for you to get that repaired soon.
Um, wat? I have the same model you do (it's the santa rosa MBP with the 8600m GT yes?) and it has no problem running WC3 at full res and everything maxxed. Anything less and your computer probably has something wrong with it.
I can run WoW in dalaran (for those not familiar with the game, the busiest city) on a packed server or do a full 25 man raid with everything but view distance maxxed and view distance at around 1/3 of max and still average ~30+ FPS. If I go any higher on distance I need to lower most other settings, as I think thats when all the various armor/player/model/building/etc textures start causing the 256 mb of graphics ram to have to swap out and things start getting shitty. WC3 is much less graphically intense than that even if you've got two huge armies going at it.
Maybe an early sign of this: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377
I got that but Apple fixes it for free warranty or not since its Nvidia's manufacturing problem (my understanding is its the same problem (conceptually) as the RRoD only on your laptop).
And their conclusion is...
There is no conclusion?
FTA: "In our testing, the answer is no. However, we did notice a difference among browsers, just not as pronounced as the benchmarks indicate. Safari 4 and, to our surprise, Internet Explorer 8 felt the snappiest, though neither version of Firefox ever felt slow by comparison."
They need to get someone with a backbone to say one is definitely better than the other, so that I can tell them that they are wrong.
Was I the only one who thought it was odd that Betamax disks don't make the list at all? They mention it at the very end, they go over the HD-DVD and Blu-ray competition, and feature more obscure storage options (magneto-optical?). Why they actually left it out completely is beyond me
Not to mention the mere existence of WINE.
Also, I know more than one Mac user who uses dual-boot with Windows...
MY GOODNESS...
This shocking revelation surely means that OS X is definitely not ready for the desktop yet. What will Apple do?
It might be that I'm jealous of folks with the discretionary income to buy those stylish electronic gizmos that really aren't necessary for everyday life or for life in general.
If all I did was spend money on things that were necessary for everyday life I would certainly have more money that I do now, but I wouldn't be as happy.
That's not to say that money always does buy happiness, but its worth the cash to go out on a nice dinner with my friends every once in a while, or drop some dough on whatever the new game of the month is, or spend some scrilla on some random class at the nearby community college to learn something new, or shell out some clams on your car to get a better one or improve the one you have, etc...
I just asked my father, who is a lawyer, a few questions about it. Note that he is primarily what I like to refer to as a financial lawyer (bankruptcies, IRS/tax problems, certain real estate things, wills, and a few others), so this is outside of his normal repertoire. Here was his answers (paraphrased):
Q: Do you know what an EULA is?
A: No
Q: You know, those end user license agreements you have to accept when you buy or download certain software?
A: Oh ok yes what about them
Q: If you built a device that would allow a cat to accept an EULA, would you be legally bound by the EULA?
A: Well it depends on the intent. If you specifically built the device and coerced the cat your intent is obvious and you would probably be held to the agreement in court. If the cat was just dancing around on your computer and accepted it though you probably wouldn't be bound.
Q: What if you got a small child to accept the agreement, would they not be bound because of their age?
A: It depends on your jurisdiction and the law of that area, but here in Illinois it probably wouldn't be binding in court and would be tossed out.
Q: Do EULA's violate any sort of doctrine of first sale since they require you to agree to the license after you've bought the product and limit what you've gotten if you don't agree to it?
A: I'm not exactly sure, but its defiantly a good question. They could get around that pretty easily by making you agree to the EULA before you purchase the computer, but I'm not familiar with the law so its just an educated guess.
There you have it.
A new internet? But I haven't even beaten the old one yet!
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/27/solving_the_mystery_of_snow_leopards_shrinking_apps.html
Most applications installed by default with Snow Leopard are 1/3 or less the size they are in Leopard. The article guesses that its because of simple background compression. Other reasons could be dropping 32-bit code, no more ppc support, resolution independent svg's everywhere, and/or just plain old cleaned up code (Snow Leopards TL;DR is: Leopard refracted and optimized + a few major (or minor depending on what your coding) developer features).