And who's to say that the Mac Pro is easily upgradable? If I were to buy the very latest Nvidia or ATI card, can I expect it to work on the Pro using OS X?
This is how I always get Mac bashers to STFU. Regardless of Apple's smaller market share, _somebody_ would want to have bragging rights to be the first l33t to Pwn OS X. If it were so easy to do so, at least. And you bring up something I hadn't considered before - the Mac user base is so complacent about not getting r00ted or viruses, that they are a ripe target for attack. Personally, I don't patch my OS X system immediately....I do it every few months at my leisure. I bet there are plenty of other Mac users out there. We are perfect targets in theory, yet to this day nobody has seriously tried.
I use Verichat on my Treo and am logged into AIM, Yahoo, and MSN at all times...can even be alerted when certain people log on. I chat often using IMs back and forth and I don't pay a penny extra...why don't more people do this?
This is off-topic, but I was curious if anyone's tried to get one of the current higher-end cards working in a Mac Pro? Are there driver issues in doing so?
Why does this bit-for-bit crap keep getting trotted out? You _cannot_ make a true bit-for-bit copy, because the decryption keys are located on a section of the disk that burners cannot write to. To this day you STILL can't copy encrypted DVDs this way, so why would it be possible for HD-DVD and Blu Ray?
I had a similar problem with my Intel mini. At some point the wireless card would flake out and lose connectivity (the base station is an Airport Express). I would turn Airport off then on again - and for a while that would fix it, but more recently, I'd reconnect but still fail to get an IP over DHCP. Even hard-coding an IP failed. The only fix was to reboot the machine (well, until I figured out that putting it to sleep then waking it also fixed it). This was happening for weeks up until about 2 weeks ago....and now so far so good. Not quite sure why.
I still have a problem with my Airport Express ethernet port losing link for no good reason. I'm waiting for Apple to release an 802.11n version of the Express so I can replace it already.
I've been meaning to ask....with all this heightened security, what happens to border towns? I recall a section between VT and PQ where the border runs down the middle of the street (Canusa Street, cheekily enough). Are there border patrol officers at each corner checking folks who cross the street? Plus there are some homes and buildings that the border runs through (there's an opera house that's in both countries. How is that handled these days?
I never said it was easy. Just that it appears that Intel has won this round fair and square. But for the sake of continued competition, I hope AMD can top them again before long.
That's the way competition works. All AMD has to do to stay in the game is to release a new line of chips that can compete on price/preformance/power consumption.
Ah, _via Bootcamp_. But I was doing this with an external drive, which the Bootcamp GUI-level partitioning application doesn't support (Which brings up another point - I would expect the non-beta to be able to do this). Using the command-line diskutil lets me shrink, but not expand.
"the Bootcamp bootloader will cease to operate on September 30th, 2007"
I would Hope that Apple isn't audacious enough to actually pull this. I could see the tool refusing to prepare new Boot Camp installs after a particular date, but prevent booting completely? There's going to be a LOT of pissed off customers if they suddenly block people from booting into their XP installs out of the blue.....
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but for me it could only shrink HFS+ partitions non-destructively, not grow them again. I found this out the hard way when I tied to carve out some space on my external drive for playing with an Ubuntu install. I ended up having to use iPartition to reclaim the space again.
You're kidding right? You forget that most of the illegality of online gambling stems from avoiding taxes....and the party that favors increasing taxes just took over.
How can you expect to have your own culture when something like 90% of you live within 100 miles of the US border? I'd imagine a fair amount of the population gets US-based TV and radio stations over the airwaves, too.
"Not support" is not the same as "not run". I can see why Apple doesn't want to feild requests of random people trying to get particular apps running on it.
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Thing is, how upgradable is that Mac Pro? Can you just pop in a new top-of-the-line graphics card and expect it to work properly?
All you need is a client that supports IMAP IDLE for "push" capabilities, like ChatterMail for Treos.
And who's to say that the Mac Pro is easily upgradable? If I were to buy the very latest Nvidia or ATI card, can I expect it to work on the Pro using OS X?
This is how I always get Mac bashers to STFU. Regardless of Apple's smaller market share, _somebody_ would want to have bragging rights to be the first l33t to Pwn OS X. If it were so easy to do so, at least. And you bring up something I hadn't considered before - the Mac user base is so complacent about not getting r00ted or viruses, that they are a ripe target for attack. Personally, I don't patch my OS X system immediately....I do it every few months at my leisure. I bet there are plenty of other Mac users out there. We are perfect targets in theory, yet to this day nobody has seriously tried.
And? There are IM clients which use data that run over Java, so most phones should be able to run it.
I use Verichat on my Treo and am logged into AIM, Yahoo, and MSN at all times...can even be alerted when certain people log on. I chat often using IMs back and forth and I don't pay a penny extra...why don't more people do this?
This is off-topic, but I was curious if anyone's tried to get one of the current higher-end cards working in a Mac Pro? Are there driver issues in doing so?
Spitzer is a _Democrat_, and a newly elected one at that.
Why does this bit-for-bit crap keep getting trotted out? You _cannot_ make a true bit-for-bit copy, because the decryption keys are located on a section of the disk that burners cannot write to. To this day you STILL can't copy encrypted DVDs this way, so why would it be possible for HD-DVD and Blu Ray?
I had a similar problem with my Intel mini. At some point the wireless card would flake out and lose connectivity (the base station is an Airport Express). I would turn Airport off then on again - and for a while that would fix it, but more recently, I'd reconnect but still fail to get an IP over DHCP. Even hard-coding an IP failed. The only fix was to reboot the machine (well, until I figured out that putting it to sleep then waking it also fixed it). This was happening for weeks up until about 2 weeks ago....and now so far so good. Not quite sure why.
I still have a problem with my Airport Express ethernet port losing link for no good reason. I'm waiting for Apple to release an 802.11n version of the Express so I can replace it already.
I've been meaning to ask....with all this heightened security, what happens to border towns? I recall a section between VT and PQ where the border runs down the middle of the street (Canusa Street, cheekily enough). Are there border patrol officers at each corner checking folks who cross the street? Plus there are some homes and buildings that the border runs through (there's an opera house that's in both countries. How is that handled these days?
I never said it was easy. Just that it appears that Intel has won this round fair and square. But for the sake of continued competition, I hope AMD can top them again before long.
That's the way competition works. All AMD has to do to stay in the game is to release a new line of chips that can compete on price/preformance/power consumption.
Ah, _via Bootcamp_. But I was doing this with an external drive, which the Bootcamp GUI-level partitioning application doesn't support (Which brings up another point - I would expect the non-beta to be able to do this). Using the command-line diskutil lets me shrink, but not expand.
"the Bootcamp bootloader will cease to operate on September 30th, 2007"
I would Hope that Apple isn't audacious enough to actually pull this. I could see the tool refusing to prepare new Boot Camp installs after a particular date, but prevent booting completely? There's going to be a LOT of pissed off customers if they suddenly block people from booting into their XP installs out of the blue.....
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but for me it could only shrink HFS+ partitions non-destructively, not grow them again. I found this out the hard way when I tied to carve out some space on my external drive for playing with an Ubuntu install. I ended up having to use iPartition to reclaim the space again.
You're kidding right? You forget that most of the illegality of online gambling stems from avoiding taxes....and the party that favors increasing taxes just took over.
How can you expect to have your own culture when something like 90% of you live within 100 miles of the US border?
I'd imagine a fair amount of the population gets US-based TV and radio stations over the airwaves, too.
"Not support" is not the same as "not run". I can see why Apple doesn't want to feild requests of random people trying to get particular apps running on it.
My point being, a tool to strip watermarks will likely cause content owners to go back to DRM.
"assuming some tool doesn't come out to strip the MAK out of the file"
C'mon, you KNOW somebody's going to do that, if they hadn't already.
Funny, at first I read your comment as calling the first person to do it a 'tool'.....
Bear in mind, that with the Amiga you could set up a RAM Disk that survives a reboot! How cool is that?? I don't think anything in PCland can do that.
Is there any reason why they can't make it work on PowerPC-based Mac hardware? I'd almost hold onto my Powerbook just for that....
Uh, when did a low voter turnout ever affect a declaration of a mandate?
I realize Flip4Mac exists for this, but does the new VLC implement Windows WMV9 DLLs for the Intel OS X version?