Apple really doesn't get into that many lawsuits compared to typical companies of Apple's size. You just hear about them everywhere, because there's a ton of mac-crazies and a ton of mac-haters.
Most likely, they just transferred the entire htdocs directory over to the NT box, which included the bin directory from the old bsd box; they haven't had time to clean out the embarassing files completely.
Do we have more or less art today versus the era when there was minimal copyright law?
Do we have better or worse art today versus the era when there was minimal copyright law?
Let the RIAA, MPAA, and other big-money organizations who hold artists hostage die. They are unnecessary organizations in our world; we had good movies and music before them, and we will have good movies and music without them in the future.
A big portion of the service fee goes to subsidization of the hardware costs.
TiVo can't currently offer discounts to people who don't dial in; there aren't enough users who use their own net connections to make it worthwhile. This may change with version 3 of the software, which will come with support for USB ethernet adapters (for series 1), tivonet boards (for series 2), and ppp over serial.
The advertisement business doesn't seem to be working for TiVo. Certainly if they could get more out of that, they would. However, this is not relevant to the price that TiVo charges. TiVo charges a price based on the maximum profit they think they can achieve; they're a public business.
The market here is for any portable power source that is quiet and can be used indoors--much like a battery, but with lower operating and maintenance costs.
Microsoft is in the business of competing with its customers and putting them out of business. For example, look at every company that has tried to make a mass-market spreadsheet, wordprocessor, web browser, or email client for Windows. It can do this easily since it has a monopoly and the companies cannot do anything about Microsoft's actions except go into prolonged legal battles.
A fixed hardware platform does offer advantages of integration, potentially leading to better ease of use and quicker integration of new standards. Apple uses this to its advantage quite well, but it would be manipulated badly by a microsoft monopoly.
In fact, while Apple's iMac is stylish, its form factor has been available for a while from several PC vendors, including IBM's NetVista X series (at roughly the same price).
The Netvista X starts at about $2400; it's a machine for businesses who are short on desk space. The iMac starts at about $1300; it's a consumer machine.
The iMac's case is a pain in the ass to work in. I've upgraded it to 192MB of RAM and a 30GB HD. It's nearly impossible to do so, and I've probably voided the warranty in the process, although it's too old to still have a valid one. It works great. As my router.
The iMac case isn't designed for internal HD upgrades. HDs can be added easily by plugging a firewire drive to the firewire port. It is designed for easy memory upgrades, which is about a 1-minute operation.
The real problem here is that you bought an iMac when you really wanted a g4 tower, which is by far the nicest case i've ever had to work with.
Actually, the original Mac (compact, all-in-one, no fan) of 1984 had a handle. Apple had the clue earlier.
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The DVD-R drive is good, but limiting in making of actual "DVD" compatable disc. They do not suppport lossless linking or variable bit rate MPEGs.
The iDVD consumer software doesn't support those features, but the pro version does. The features are not functions of the hardware.
Furthermore, the Superdrive actually does support one of the DVD-RW standards (I don't recall which one), but Apple doesn't advertise the feature because of the lack of solid standards currently.
Compilation of source code for completely different hardware architectures is a horrible benchmark. You aren't even performing the same operation, and compiler efficiency varies widely.
Well, I didn't criticize Apple over their strategy--maybe there is nothing they can do. I'm just saying that if they can't figure out how to offer some really nifty sub-$1000 machines (comparable to what you get in the PC world) and a wider range of laptops, I think they will not achieve much more market share than they have.
Apple is doing better financially than most of the PC makers that make laptops, with the possible exception of IBM. The days of marketshare at all costs died with the dot-com bubble.
Finally, the battery is a big winner: reloading the unit while connected to firewire, I never ran out of battery like I did all the time on a walkman or even a Rio.
Doesn't the iPod use the power supplied by the firewire bus to recharge?
Actually, the most common transportation in these regions are sit-down motorized scooters. They're efficient, cheap and reasonably speedy. Safety is poor, and the older ones have some nasty emissions. The Segway fills a different niche, one closer to that of bicycles (one passenger, ~10 mph)
The case isn't cheap. The engineering and design involved in putting it all together isn't cheap. Quality components are not cheap. The OS development isn't cheap. Also, selling price is set mostly by market forces rather than by costs.
PC-clone makers don't need to do any of this. They just buy commodity parts, assemble them, and the most expensive component they have is Windows. For consumer machines, their goal is to have the biggest MHz number and CD/DVD speed rating.
The TiVo doesn't need a CPU fan (nor do any of the Macs which use more powerful PowerPC processors). What's interesting is that it doesn't even need a heatsink on the main processor or MPEG chip.
The large majority of Americans, even slashdotters, have very little in common with Mother Teresa. The average slashdotter would rather spend $50 on a fancy fan to overclock a CPU by another 10 Mhz than spend that $50 to save a life.
I'm not saying that this is right or wrong, this is just the reality that America lives in.
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The stock right now is real cheap(before the announcment grr) and for a few months I considered buying it while the investors fleed from it. (Why didn't I buy 3 months ago darn it.)
Err, HWP (and while we're at it, CPQ) are at their 52-week lows now, so you should be quite happy you didn't buy either one 3 months ago.
IMHO, Fonts are a royal pain, and the main reason more people don't adopt Linux. If they could just build true type fonts and anti-aliasing into KDE, and make it work out of the box, then we'd start seeing way more converts.
Debian woody will do it easily. Just set QT_XFT to "true". For a web browser, use the dynamically linked version of Opera.
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Apple really doesn't get into that many lawsuits compared to typical companies of Apple's size. You just hear about them everywhere, because there's a ton of mac-crazies and a ton of mac-haters.
The binary is a freebsd binary.
ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, stripped
Most likely, they just transferred the entire htdocs directory over to the NT box, which included the bin directory from the old bsd box; they haven't had time to clean out the embarassing files completely.
Do we have more or less art today versus the era when there was minimal copyright law?
Do we have better or worse art today versus the era when there was minimal copyright law?
Let the RIAA, MPAA, and other big-money organizations who hold artists hostage die. They are unnecessary organizations in our world; we had good movies and music before them, and we will have good movies and music without them in the future.
Actually, most of the "thousands of record labels" fall under the big 5. See:
Who Owns Who for more details.
A big portion of the service fee goes to subsidization of the hardware costs.
TiVo can't currently offer discounts to people who don't dial in; there aren't enough users who use their own net connections to make it worthwhile. This may change with version 3 of the software, which will come with support for USB ethernet adapters (for series 1), tivonet boards (for series 2), and ppp over serial.
The advertisement business doesn't seem to be working for TiVo. Certainly if they could get more out of that, they would. However, this is not relevant to the price that TiVo charges. TiVo charges a price based on the maximum profit they think they can achieve; they're a public business.
The market here is for any portable power source that is quiet and can be used indoors--much like a battery, but with lower operating and maintenance costs.
Microsoft is in the business of competing with its customers and putting them out of business. For example, look at every company that has tried to make a mass-market spreadsheet, wordprocessor, web browser, or email client for Windows. It can do this easily since it has a monopoly and the companies cannot do anything about Microsoft's actions except go into prolonged legal battles.
A fixed hardware platform does offer advantages of integration, potentially leading to better ease of use and quicker integration of new standards. Apple uses this to its advantage quite well, but it would be manipulated badly by a microsoft monopoly.
In fact, while Apple's iMac is stylish, its form factor has been available for a while from several PC vendors, including IBM's NetVista X series (at roughly the same price).
The Netvista X starts at about $2400; it's a machine for businesses who are short on desk space. The iMac starts at about $1300; it's a consumer machine.
The iMac's case is a pain in the ass to work in. I've upgraded it to 192MB of RAM and a 30GB HD. It's nearly impossible to do so, and I've probably voided the warranty in the process, although it's too old to still have a valid one. It works great. As my router.
The iMac case isn't designed for internal HD upgrades. HDs can be added easily by plugging a firewire drive to the firewire port. It is designed for easy memory upgrades, which is about a 1-minute operation.
The real problem here is that you bought an iMac when you really wanted a g4 tower, which is by far the nicest case i've ever had to work with.
Actually, the original Mac (compact, all-in-one, no fan) of 1984 had a handle. Apple had the clue earlier.
The DVD-R drive is good, but limiting in making of actual "DVD" compatable disc. They do not suppport lossless linking or variable bit rate MPEGs.
The iDVD consumer software doesn't support those features, but the pro version does. The features are not functions of the hardware.
Furthermore, the Superdrive actually does support one of the DVD-RW standards (I don't recall which one), but Apple doesn't advertise the feature because of the lack of solid standards currently.
Compilation of source code for completely different hardware architectures is a horrible benchmark. You aren't even performing the same operation, and compiler efficiency varies widely.
Apple is doing better financially than most of the PC makers that make laptops, with the possible exception of IBM. The days of marketshare at all costs died with the dot-com bubble.
Doesn't the iPod use the power supplied by the firewire bus to recharge?
Actually, the most common transportation in these regions are sit-down motorized scooters. They're efficient, cheap and reasonably speedy. Safety is poor, and the older ones have some nasty emissions. The Segway fills a different niche, one closer to that of bicycles (one passenger, ~10 mph)
Apple has 700 Mhz iMacs (using a PowerPC G3) that do not have a fan. Perhaps all you need to do is to avoid x86 architecture.
PC-clone makers don't need to do any of this. They just buy commodity parts, assemble them, and the most expensive component they have is Windows. For consumer machines, their goal is to have the biggest MHz number and CD/DVD speed rating.
The TiVo doesn't need a CPU fan (nor do any of the Macs which use more powerful PowerPC processors). What's interesting is that it doesn't even need a heatsink on the main processor or MPEG chip.
I'm not saying that this is right or wrong, this is just the reality that America lives in.
See The 1982 Daily Kal
(Well, it looked much better on paper.)
Err, HWP (and while we're at it, CPQ) are at their 52-week lows now, so you should be quite happy you didn't buy either one 3 months ago.
Debian woody will do it easily. Just set QT_XFT to "true". For a web browser, use the dynamically linked version of Opera.
match edit rgba=bgr;
Anti-aliasing is also useful at high resolutions, as is partial pixel rendering (as seen in several high-res printers).
I wrote this one down from a long time ago:
"PCs that have a Pentium processor with MMX technology give you
richer color..."
--http://mmx.com/mmx/who.htm, Intel's MMX web site.
The ARClight is far brighter, and uses AAA batteries, though the batteries have about 1/4 the life of the Infinity's.