Apple gains a lot from the agreement with HP. According to CBS Marketwatch (see http://tinyurl.com/2yqf4) Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing is reported to have said that "the multi-year exclusive deal has Apple building the players with the H-P name and in colors that are more familiar to H-P's product line".
Since Apple is building the HP iPods, it will benefit from the economies of scale in producing the additional units. This in turn will result in either lower prices down the road (consumers benefit) or better margins for Apple or some combination of both.
And the HP version of the iPod will not suck, since it is essentially a re-badged iPod.
Use of the default password has been going on since time immemorial. Apparently Richard Feynmann who worked on the Manhatten Project (which developped the first atom bomb) had a reputation as an expert safecracker because very few people on the project changed the combination of the safes from the way it had been programmed at the factory.
Perhaps the problem arises because we have so many passwords to remember. My solution is to have one password for most of my accounts, which I share with nobody. This led to a nasty family argument, when I refused to tell my passwword to my daughter so that she could logon to my linux box at home. That was solved by giving her an account of her own.
Another possibility is that most people are simply unaware of the need for security. I got a taste of this when I taught an introductory course on Unix to a group at one company who shared files with each other. When I asked how they did it, they told me that each one of them posted a little yellow sticky with their userid and password on their monitors so whoever had to could simply log on as them!!
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'nuff said.
And some state legislature passed (or came close to passing) a bill specifying that Pi equals three.
Apple gains a lot from the agreement with HP. According to CBS Marketwatch (see
http://tinyurl.com/2yqf4) Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing is reported to have said that "the multi-year exclusive deal has Apple building the players with the H-P name and in colors that are more familiar to H-P's product line".
Since Apple is building the HP iPods, it will benefit from the economies of scale in producing the additional units. This in turn will result in either lower prices down the road (consumers benefit) or better margins for Apple or some combination of both.
And the HP version of the iPod will not suck, since it is essentially a re-badged iPod.
If SCO wins this suit, does this mean that they will write themselves a check?
Use of the default password has been going on since time immemorial. Apparently Richard Feynmann who worked on the Manhatten Project (which developped the first atom bomb) had a reputation as an expert safecracker because very few people on the project changed the combination of the safes from the way it had been programmed at the factory.
Perhaps the problem arises because we have so many passwords to remember. My solution is to have one password for most of my accounts, which I share with nobody. This led to a nasty family argument, when I refused to tell my passwword to my daughter so that she could logon to my linux box at home. That was solved by giving her an account of her own.
Another possibility is that most people are simply unaware of the need for security. I got a taste of this when I taught an introductory course on Unix to a group at one company who shared files with each other. When I asked how they did it, they told me that each one of them posted a little yellow sticky with their userid and password on their monitors so whoever had to could simply log on as them!!