IF you can get a flight for less than $1000 you're saving money.
You're forgetting the customs taxes and so on. It's never going to be cheaper, just more painful to see that, gasp, it's cheaper for Apple to sell their products in their own country...
I don't think beige boxes are the target market for this. I'm imagining this running on a RAID 5 setup with Xraid later this year. I wouldn't use this on just one little drive at home...
As for disabling it, read the article. It's not even on until you get into Terminal and turn it on.
I would really like to know WHY some people are so adamant about burning OS X on the UNIX front.
The same reason Jehovah's Witnesses maintain that Christ came back when they preducted (circa 1917), albet invisibly and silently so that no one knew but them: people don't like to change their mental picture of the future they predicted. Linux zealots preducted Linux would make it to the desktop. BSD, somehow, did it instead. They're upset that they put their faith in the, well, wrong religion.;)
Lastly, why would you want to buy your hardware and software from a specific vendor? Sure it might work better, but is that level of integration really worth the money (for most of us at least.)
Well, let's see, pay more and it works or pay less and babysit it... gee, what's my time worth again? More than about $3,000 once every five years or so, for sure. (Yes, I said five years. I'm on a three-year-old machine now any my previous two Macs held up for five years each before they were just plain obsolete.)
Isn't this the same reason most of us are moving away from Sun to begin with?
No, it's because they cost $40k each just for the right to win the pissing contest with the ISP next door. EVERY situation I've seen a large Sun used it could have been handled with Linux on a couple of Xeons or on an Xserve and MOSXS. There's no compelling reason to use a Sun anymore other than to win the pissing contest with the sysadmins of the competitor (what competitors are left, at least).
RIAA is evil. This is an established fact of life. What I'd like to know, from an artist's standpoint, is how SHOULD it be? Now you sign with a label that helps production and then calls you a hired hand and steals your music. How should it work, start to finish? What's currently broken that's stopping this? Do you have any ideas on how we can fix this for the artist, as a society? How can we get involved to help the artists?
Which would be relevant if you needed a license to run a piece of software that you acquired legally, but you don't [cornell.edu].
That page talks about "backup copies" and so on, but nothing about a computer maker requiring you to agree to terms of use for a software package you licensed (not bought).
If it was "less than a year ago" then it came with both 9 and 10, so a discount on older versions of 10 would be enough. Look at the CDs that came with the computer, you should have at least an old version of 10.
You realize you're asking for an upgrade price on software that is three years and four revisions out of date, right? I bought 9 in 1999. I'm thinking it's about time to put some money back in the pot, myself. If you got 10.1 and didn't use it that's only your fault. I really don't think Apple needs to share that burdon with you.
I believe the point is that people who upgrade from other versions of Mac OS X (which is not the entire user base) should get a discount. People, then, who have Mac OS 9 should pay full price.
Yeah... so I'll go to the Apple Menu and select "About this Mac" and get a console message: "NSError: 'Hey, anyone know how to generate this window? Can it wait until the next rev?'"
Change log is in KBase article 106859. Important part below:
* Resolves a potential delay that could occur when connecting to the Internet using a dial-up modem (PPP connection).
* Improves compatibility with certain single- and dual-channel SCSI cards.
* Reduces time needed for Sherlock file searches.
* Improves usability of Sherlock when searching a Mac OS X Server volume.
* Enhances security with increased TCP broadcast address communication filtering.
* Improves compatibility with certain third-party network routers (AppleTalk source sockets 128 or higher are now used).
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IF you can get a flight for less than $1000 you're saving money.
You're forgetting the customs taxes and so on. It's never going to be cheaper, just more painful to see that, gasp, it's cheaper for Apple to sell their products in their own country...
There is no penalty for games. Games only read. The performance hit is for mass file creation and renaming and so on.
I don't think beige boxes are the target market for this. I'm imagining this running on a RAID 5 setup with Xraid later this year. I wouldn't use this on just one little drive at home...
As for disabling it, read the article. It's not even on until you get into Terminal and turn it on.
Because then it wouldn't be NeXT, silly!
The same reason Jehovah's Witnesses maintain that Christ came back when they preducted (circa 1917), albet invisibly and silently so that no one knew but them: people don't like to change their mental picture of the future they predicted. Linux zealots preducted Linux would make it to the desktop. BSD, somehow, did it instead. They're upset that they put their faith in the, well, wrong religion.
Well, let's see, pay more and it works or pay less and babysit it ... gee, what's my time worth again? More than about $3,000 once every five years or so, for sure. (Yes, I said five years. I'm on a three-year-old machine now any my previous two Macs held up for five years each before they were just plain obsolete.)
Isn't this the same reason most of us are moving away from Sun to begin with?
No, it's because they cost $40k each just for the right to win the pissing contest with the ISP next door. EVERY situation I've seen a large Sun used it could have been handled with Linux on a couple of Xeons or on an Xserve and MOSXS. There's no compelling reason to use a Sun anymore other than to win the pissing contest with the sysadmins of the competitor (what competitors are left, at least).
RIAA is evil. This is an established fact of life. What I'd like to know, from an artist's standpoint, is how SHOULD it be? Now you sign with a label that helps production and then calls you a hired hand and steals your music. How should it work, start to finish? What's currently broken that's stopping this? Do you have any ideas on how we can fix this for the artist, as a society? How can we get involved to help the artists?
That page talks about "backup copies" and so on, but nothing about a computer maker requiring you to agree to terms of use for a software package you licensed (not bought).
When you break anything in the EULA you cease to have a licensed copy of the software and have, therefore, a pirate copy (if you keep using it).
So, yes, it is.
If it was "less than a year ago" then it came with both 9 and 10, so a discount on older versions of 10 would be enough. Look at the CDs that came with the computer, you should have at least an old version of 10.
You realize you're asking for an upgrade price on software that is three years and four revisions out of date, right? I bought 9 in 1999. I'm thinking it's about time to put some money back in the pot, myself. If you got 10.1 and didn't use it that's only your fault. I really don't think Apple needs to share that burdon with you.
I believe the point is that people who upgrade from other versions of Mac OS X (which is not the entire user base) should get a discount. People, then, who have Mac OS 9 should pay full price.
I disagree, but that's the statement.
Yeah ... so I'll go to the Apple Menu and select "About this Mac" and get a console message: "NSError: 'Hey, anyone know how to generate this window? Can it wait until the next rev?'"
With 15 years of code under their belt that relied on just that fact, well, yes.
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Know me not, you do. Much music have I.
No way in hell I can back all that up on CD for my car player...
Angiogenesis is old news.
Of COURSE they will. That's the point. They're replacing that model with a current model.
It's still using a G3. That's, what, 6 years old? [sigh]
Because there is a Windows version...
Star Office? AppleWorks. The MS Office importer actually works on that one AND it's cross-platform.
Asking Google: how do I cancel my Earthlink account" gives me this page with specific instructions: http://help.mindspring.com/modules/00800/00823.htm
Lay off the weed, ok? Makes thinking clearer.
Except Slashdot is about Noise-to-Signal ratios...
Mac fan I am, but I thought it funny to see that argument used to the reverse...
But the P4 can't stick it's "toungue" out at you!