But it's a nice temp-controlled Weller. I'm not giving it up. Besides, I've not burned myself with one since I was a teenager, and I'm well over 30 now.
Seriously, from the photos this looks like it would be about as easy as soldering gets. Opening the case without scratching it would be harder than the actual soldering.
That's not obvious at all. Those batteries will be available, and I obviously COULD change it myself.
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So it takes a soldering iron to change the battery. That's not exactly making it a challenge for most people on Slashdot, right?
And it's not like we're going to have any real trouble sourcing a battery either, all the usual iPod battery suppliers will have them.
I'm really not sure why people keep whining about the battery thing. That's really the least of the iPhone's problems as far as I'm concerned.
My list of why I won't buy one now, and maybe not ever:
1. I don't know if it will tether. If it won't, dealbreaker. 2. EDGE - I have an EDGE phone now. It's too slow. If 802.11 worked where I needed my phone to access the internet, I wouldn't need my phone to access the internet. 3. Javascript is not an SDK. 4. Not enough storage capacity to be useful as an iPod. I wouldn't mind at all having a hard drive in my phone, I want 80GB, not 8. 5. I don't do 2 year contracts. 6. This thing is useless without activation. If I decide I don't want Cingular, it's not even an ipod, it's a doorstop.
I don't hate Apple, I make Apple computers work for a living. I'm typing this on an iBook. But it looks like my next phone will probably be a RAZR v3xx, not an iPhone. And if the iPhone would do what I want, I'd be all over it.
Even 10 years past the death of the author is insanely long.
The only way I could support the concept of a copyright at all is if it's sanely limited, like maybe 10 years for books, 5 years for music, and 3 years for software. That's from date of publication, and nonextendable under any circumstances, ever.
But I think we'd be better off as a society as a whole to simply end copyright.
The first fully digital camera was the Fuji DS-1P in 1988, and it was not a professional camera. Neither was the next one, the Sanyo StillVision SVC-05. The first digital SLR was the 1.3 megapixel Kodak DCS-100, in 1991.
You act as if requiring the license for the landscaper is a bad thing. It isn't.
The homeowner with that chemical will at most damage his own yard, and he's going to use fairly small quantities of the chemical. The landscaper has the potential to damage MUCH larger areas, and will likely use MUCH larger amounts of the chemical.
And he's going to be using it to make a PROFIT, not deal with his own small weed problem. Why shouldn't he have to have a license to do that? It's insane not to require one. And the price of that license should go up as the landscaping company gets bigger - because a bigger company can cause more damage, and a bigger company can make larger profits.
And a dry cleaner is the same sort of situation. The chemicals they use, in the quantity they use them, can cause real damage. And they're not just using them to clean their own clothes, they're using them to make a profit. They should have to have a license, and it should get more expensive the more of the chemicals they use, and it should get more expensive the larger their profits are.
And I say all corporations should have to pay the stated tax rate. All tax breaks for individual corporations should be illegal.
But digital SLRs weren't the first digital cameras. The early ones were toys, not anywhere near usable for professional photography.
ENIAC may not have been a toy, but the vacuum tubes it used started out as toys, not tools. The transistors replaced the tubes started out in cheap radios, and integrated circuits were used in toys very early on.
The expensive RAID systems in use today are not using specialized hardware for their drives, they are using the same drives home computers do. And almost nobody is using celerons with 64MB RAM any more, but you're more likely to still find one still in use in a business than as someone's home computer.
And audio recording started with the wax cylinder phonograph. It was not a professional technology.
I'm not sure if you're just trolling, but the concept of a patent is the antithesis of a free market. Where there is a patent, there can be no free market, because there is a government-granted monopoly.
So asking a free market to fix patents is insane. A free market by definition can have no patents.
Still, you have to wonder why the article has that line about 4 slots - there wasn't ever a ][ with 4 slots - unless there was one in some secret Apple development location somewhere.
And somehow, it just seems really really wrong for a screenshot from an Apple II to be more than double the size of the floppy that not only held that screen, but the entire program as well.
You're speculating on what you think Apple sees in that SLA, which is not what the SLA says. And it does not appear to say that it's only a SLA for the version included in the box. It says it's a SLA for Mac OS X Tiger, not Mac OS X Tiger (PowerPC).
The precedent set by Mac OS X Server is merely that a later release of the same software includes an Intel version as well as a PowerPC version on the same disk. The SLA is unchanged, and does not specify Intel or PowerPC.
As Apple isn't shipping a retail version of Tiger with Universal Binaries at present, I would say that the only legal way to do this if the Apple TV doesn't already have a Mac OS X License would be to own both a Tiger Family Pack and an Intel Mac, but with both of those, I can't see a valid argument that it isn't legal.
I do wonder if the Apple TV wouldn't be considered to already have its own Mac OS X license, though. It does run Mac OS X out of the box, it just has a few extra features and a custom boot sequence. I haven't seen its accompanying literature.
I'm really not sure where you get this from the Apple Mac OS X SLA.
It doesn't specify PowerPC. That's not in there anywhere.
The Family Pack license for Tiger would cover using Mac OS X on an Apple TV, as long as it's an "Apple-labeled computer" and I can't imagine a court finding it isn't, since it contains all the elements of a computer by any definition I can think of.
And Apple has made public statements that they don't care, which means that it's highly unlikely that this would ever end up in court anyway.
Consult an attorney if you're really worried about it, but from my point of view, it's perfectly legal to install Mac OS X on the Apple TV, if you've got a Tiger Family Pack and haven't used all 5 copies, and it's for home use.
Well, yes. Some of us ARE suggesting that there are only a few things every year that are truly innovative enough to be deserving of a patent.
I don't know if I'd go as low as 3 or 4, but I doubt it's as high as 500. The vast majority of things patented are trivial tweaks to other things, not real innovations.
It's better to pay for drug research with tax money up front than let the insane drug profits line the fatcats' pockets.
Of course, we really do already pay for the drug research with tax money - we just never see the public benefit. The drug companies charge us insane prices on the backend.
So yeah, if the best you can come up with is supporting the drug companies, you've just made an excellent case for shutting down the patent system right now.
But the Bootcamp beta is stable at this point. It works. It's not exactly complex software, after all, it's just a bootloader and driver pack.
The buggiest part of using Bootcamp is Windows.
And if you want a final, supported solution, there's Parallels - which I would call better, since it doesn't require a reboot.
And by doing this, they get to buy less hardware, and put it in less space - I'm sure building more labs would cost a lot more than just buying more computers. By doing this, they can have fewer labs that serve more classes at once, since they don't have to idle half a lab because it's got the other platform.
I'm sorry, it's a very logical choice for any university.
Actually, for the copywriter to successfully write good documentation of what the EE has done, they have to have quite a bit of understanding of what the EE has done.
By setting the lower payscale for the copywriter, you're not likely to get a copywriter who is also an EE, and you're likely to get documentation that doesn't match what the product really does. Of course, if the rest of the industry is also doing that, and everybody's documentation is terrible, so maybe it doesn't create a disadvantage for you - but perhaps you should consider changing that and getting an advantage over the competition.
Call your local Apple Authorized Service Provider, not Apple.
Seriously, the dealers are happy to get service business. I'm the onsite guy for a dealer (Knoxville, TN) and most days I can schedule you in the same day. If you've got AppleCare, and it's a hardware problem, the onsite repair is free.
I realize that you were attempting sarcasm, but it fails because the points you are suggesting (regulation of document formats) actually needs to happen for formats that government agencies should use.
We're not talking about individual choice here - we're talking about government agency internal use, which is something that should not be subject to the whims of a few private individuals or a few corporations.
Everything the government does should be in open and accessible formats.
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But it's a nice temp-controlled Weller. I'm not giving it up. Besides, I've not burned myself with one since I was a teenager, and I'm well over 30 now.
Seriously, from the photos this looks like it would be about as easy as soldering gets. Opening the case without scratching it would be harder than the actual soldering.
That's not obvious at all. Those batteries will be available, and I obviously COULD change it myself.
So it takes a soldering iron to change the battery. That's not exactly making it a challenge for most people on Slashdot, right?
And it's not like we're going to have any real trouble sourcing a battery either, all the usual iPod battery suppliers will have them.
I'm really not sure why people keep whining about the battery thing. That's really the least of the iPhone's problems as far as I'm concerned.
My list of why I won't buy one now, and maybe not ever:
1. I don't know if it will tether. If it won't, dealbreaker.
2. EDGE - I have an EDGE phone now. It's too slow. If 802.11 worked where I needed my phone to access the internet, I wouldn't need my phone to access the internet.
3. Javascript is not an SDK.
4. Not enough storage capacity to be useful as an iPod. I wouldn't mind at all having a hard drive in my phone, I want 80GB, not 8.
5. I don't do 2 year contracts.
6. This thing is useless without activation. If I decide I don't want Cingular, it's not even an ipod, it's a doorstop.
I don't hate Apple, I make Apple computers work for a living. I'm typing this on an iBook. But it looks like my next phone will probably be a RAZR v3xx, not an iPhone. And if the iPhone would do what I want, I'd be all over it.
Even 10 years past the death of the author is insanely long.
The only way I could support the concept of a copyright at all is if it's sanely limited, like maybe 10 years for books, 5 years for music, and 3 years for software. That's from date of publication, and nonextendable under any circumstances, ever.
But I think we'd be better off as a society as a whole to simply end copyright.
Nope. High end digital backs came later.
The first fully digital camera was the Fuji DS-1P in 1988, and it was not a professional camera. Neither was the next one, the Sanyo StillVision SVC-05. The first digital SLR was the 1.3 megapixel Kodak DCS-100, in 1991.
You act as if requiring the license for the landscaper is a bad thing. It isn't.
The homeowner with that chemical will at most damage his own yard, and he's going to use fairly small quantities of the chemical. The landscaper has the potential to damage MUCH larger areas, and will likely use MUCH larger amounts of the chemical.
And he's going to be using it to make a PROFIT, not deal with his own small weed problem. Why shouldn't he have to have a license to do that? It's insane not to require one. And the price of that license should go up as the landscaping company gets bigger - because a bigger company can cause more damage, and a bigger company can make larger profits.
And a dry cleaner is the same sort of situation. The chemicals they use, in the quantity they use them, can cause real damage. And they're not just using them to clean their own clothes, they're using them to make a profit. They should have to have a license, and it should get more expensive the more of the chemicals they use, and it should get more expensive the larger their profits are.
And I say all corporations should have to pay the stated tax rate. All tax breaks for individual corporations should be illegal.
But digital SLRs weren't the first digital cameras. The early ones were toys, not anywhere near usable for professional photography.
ENIAC may not have been a toy, but the vacuum tubes it used started out as toys, not tools. The transistors replaced the tubes started out in cheap radios, and integrated circuits were used in toys very early on.
The expensive RAID systems in use today are not using specialized hardware for their drives, they are using the same drives home computers do. And almost nobody is using celerons with 64MB RAM any more, but you're more likely to still find one still in use in a business than as someone's home computer.
And audio recording started with the wax cylinder phonograph. It was not a professional technology.
I'm not sure if you're just trolling, but the concept of a patent is the antithesis of a free market. Where there is a patent, there can be no free market, because there is a government-granted monopoly.
So asking a free market to fix patents is insane. A free market by definition can have no patents.
Yeah, but slot 0 was a bit different, wasn't it?
Still, you have to wonder why the article has that line about 4 slots - there wasn't ever a ][ with 4 slots - unless there was one in some secret Apple development location somewhere.
One of those was over 280K.
And somehow, it just seems really really wrong for a screenshot from an Apple II to be more than double the size of the floppy that not only held that screen, but the entire program as well.
I liked the "DeCSS Descramble" better.
Nope, not really any different.
Satellite is still using the public airwaves.
Cable is using the public right-of-way.
You're speculating on what you think Apple sees in that SLA, which is not what the SLA says. And it does not appear to say that it's only a SLA for the version included in the box. It says it's a SLA for Mac OS X Tiger, not Mac OS X Tiger (PowerPC).
The precedent set by Mac OS X Server is merely that a later release of the same software includes an Intel version as well as a PowerPC version on the same disk. The SLA is unchanged, and does not specify Intel or PowerPC.
As Apple isn't shipping a retail version of Tiger with Universal Binaries at present, I would say that the only legal way to do this if the Apple TV doesn't already have a Mac OS X License would be to own both a Tiger Family Pack and an Intel Mac, but with both of those, I can't see a valid argument that it isn't legal.
I do wonder if the Apple TV wouldn't be considered to already have its own Mac OS X license, though. It does run Mac OS X out of the box, it just has a few extra features and a custom boot sequence. I haven't seen its accompanying literature.
I'm really not sure where you get this from the Apple Mac OS X SLA.
It doesn't specify PowerPC. That's not in there anywhere.
The Family Pack license for Tiger would cover using Mac OS X on an Apple TV, as long as it's an "Apple-labeled computer" and I can't imagine a court finding it isn't, since it contains all the elements of a computer by any definition I can think of.
And Apple has made public statements that they don't care, which means that it's highly unlikely that this would ever end up in court anyway.
Consult an attorney if you're really worried about it, but from my point of view, it's perfectly legal to install Mac OS X on the Apple TV, if you've got a Tiger Family Pack and haven't used all 5 copies, and it's for home use.
And THAT is a perfect example of how the patent system is broken.
That patent is from 1997. It might have been a reasonable patent - in 1797.
As it is, it should never have been issued.
Well, yes. Some of us ARE suggesting that there are only a few things every year that are truly innovative enough to be deserving of a patent.
I don't know if I'd go as low as 3 or 4, but I doubt it's as high as 500. The vast majority of things patented are trivial tweaks to other things, not real innovations.
That sounds like an EXCELLENT idea to me.
It's better to pay for drug research with tax money up front than let the insane drug profits line the fatcats' pockets.
Of course, we really do already pay for the drug research with tax money - we just never see the public benefit. The drug companies charge us insane prices on the backend.
So yeah, if the best you can come up with is supporting the drug companies, you've just made an excellent case for shutting down the patent system right now.
But the Bootcamp beta is stable at this point. It works. It's not exactly complex software, after all, it's just a bootloader and driver pack.
The buggiest part of using Bootcamp is Windows.
And if you want a final, supported solution, there's Parallels - which I would call better, since it doesn't require a reboot.
And by doing this, they get to buy less hardware, and put it in less space - I'm sure building more labs would cost a lot more than just buying more computers. By doing this, they can have fewer labs that serve more classes at once, since they don't have to idle half a lab because it's got the other platform.
I'm sorry, it's a very logical choice for any university.
Actually, for the copywriter to successfully write good documentation of what the EE has done, they have to have quite a bit of understanding of what the EE has done.
By setting the lower payscale for the copywriter, you're not likely to get a copywriter who is also an EE, and you're likely to get documentation that doesn't match what the product really does. Of course, if the rest of the industry is also doing that, and everybody's documentation is terrible, so maybe it doesn't create a disadvantage for you - but perhaps you should consider changing that and getting an advantage over the competition.
I'm sorry, it just sounds like a bad idea to me for math or science teachers to be paid more.
It's just asking for personnel issues, and it's creating a teacher economic hierarchy where none currently exists, and none needs to exist.
I'm talking about Apple.
If I order a part before 6pm, I typically have it the next morning by 11am.
I do on-site repairs, and I rarely have to leave business customers down for more than one day.
I even have loaner Macs if I can't finish the repair quickly enough.
Well, here in the states it takes 1 day to diagnose and order the part, it ships DHL overnight, and we install it the next morning.
Most repairs are less than 24 hour turnaround.
Call your local Apple Authorized Service Provider, not Apple.
Seriously, the dealers are happy to get service business. I'm the onsite guy for a dealer (Knoxville, TN) and most days I can schedule you in the same day. If you've got AppleCare, and it's a hardware problem, the onsite repair is free.
Well then, the solution is obvious.
Ban parents from driving until their children are 16.
It should also help with the screaming children in restaurants and theaters problem.
I realize that you were attempting sarcasm, but it fails because the points you are suggesting (regulation of document formats) actually needs to happen for formats that government agencies should use.
We're not talking about individual choice here - we're talking about government agency internal use, which is something that should not be subject to the whims of a few private individuals or a few corporations.
Everything the government does should be in open and accessible formats.