When I got my first car, I didn't know much about them. I learned about them as I needed to. When your choices are "learn how something works so you can fix it" or "pay someone who knows how it works to fix it" some people do the former while most people do the latter. The real problem arises when people don't want to do either.
Broadcast TV uses public airways so the government has the right to regulate the speech on it. TV that is carried over private means(cable) is beyond the reach of the FCC.
I understand the point you were trying to make, but even that wouldn't work. People would still rip and burn discs that they couldn't physically access.
Robot Odyssey and Rocky's Boots taught me about logic way back in 1984 when I was in 4th grade.
I and a good friend used to play that game for hours in school. He later went on to get a scholarship to CMU and is pulling in all kinds of green doing the grown up version of what we did 21 years ago.
As I understand it, these aren't really RFID cards but just imagine the mayhem if all you had to do was stand outside of your local mall smoking and rip off every RFID card that passed by.
Or a corrupt janitor could install a sniffer inside of a garbage can in a high traffic area.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that China is a piracy haven, but it's pretty damned close.
They can't stop real pirates from mass producing actual DVDs and CDs; why in the fuck would they think that they can stop casual pirates on the internet?
Thank God these women are standing up for themselves.
What we have here is analagous to when a bully picks on the wrong kid. Many kids will give up their lunch money to prevent getting beaten up, but sometime the bully picks the wrong target. Instead of a pocket full of lunch money he gets a mouth full of knuckles.
I didn't give a dime to the NYPD when they were begging for donations, but I'd give money to these women's defense funds.
I misspoke. You are correct. Windows 95 preemptively multitasked protected mode 32 bit applications.
BeOS did intrigue me even though I never used it. It was very multimedia friendly and could boot within 15 second and was lightyears ahead of the competition.
I used the preview release on my 6400. I didn't use it for long, just a couple of weeks. At the time, it was AMAZING. The thing that sticks out most in my mind was how I could open and play 8 quicktime movies at the same time and although there was some stuttering it was minimal.
I've been trying to get my hands on a BeBox for about two years now. They're in short supply after all this time.
MacOS 7.x didn't compare. Mac OS 8 was a huge step in the right direction.
Many businesses put pressure on Apple's customers to move to Windows for photoshop and MacOS frankly sucked. It had no premptive multitasking, no concept of a kernel, and WindowsNT was about to come into popularity.
Windows 95, 98 and ME had no premptive multitasking and were EASILY as unstable as Mac OS 7.5.x. You can't claim that the lack of something that the competition didn't have either was a reason that Apple was losing market share.
Jobs 1.) Killed the clones
Which is why I haven't bought any new Apple hardware since his return. I never bought a clone, but it was nice to have the choice. Apple killed off the clones because they(most notable Power Computing and Daystar) were putting out better machines at lower prices.
Many of the graphic artists that I knew jumped all over the PowerTower Pro series from Power Computing and ALL of the hardcore Mac geeks I knew wanted a Genesis MP.
2.) Needed a quick competitor to NT which became NextStep errr MacOSX
Which could have easily been the Be OS had Apple not taken him back.
3.) Differentiated his products and created value by coming out with the imac. Imacs looked awesome and made the name Apple actually mean something. People valued a stylish high end system.
The iMac was NOT a high end system. I worked for an Apple dealer when they launched. People who needed high end computers bought PowerMac G3s and then later PowerMac G4s.
4.) Moved into online music and appliances with the Ipod in an effort to save the company if their pc business flopped.
Brilliant move BTW, but it has nothing to do with the fact that they could have made Be OS into a successful OS.
5.) Prevented hollywood from going to an all microsoft format for media from the sucess of itunes and its expanded userbase
What does iTunes have to do with Hollywood? Hollywood makes movies, not music.
Had Jobs not returned, Apple would have probably ponied up the $400 million or so that Gasse wanted for Be.
Apple's problem has never been technological, they have some ass stomping programmers. Be OS would have been transformed from something cool into something SWEET if they had gotten a hold of it.
At the time Apple bought NeXT, THEY didn't have anything like Cocoa. Apple built Cocoa from the ground up for the platform that they did have. They could have done it on a Be OS foundation.
It's unknown if Apple could have implemented a POSIX compliant framework for Be OS and this is one of the big strengths of OSX.
What we're seeing now isn't so much the survival of the Macintosh platform as it is the survival of Apple in any form necessary. I can understand that Apple had their reasons for doing so, but abandoning the PPC architecture will change them. Instead of a cool company with uniquely good hardware and an OS with its own strengths they will become what Dell would be if they bought Mandriva or Red Hat.
It wasn't really a big deal to pay premium Apple prices for Mac OS on PPC, but aside from die hard Mac fans, who will pay them for the same Intel processors that can be had from Dell, HP, IBM and Gateway?
Gasse miscalculated one thing, the return of Jobs.
Had Steve Jobs not been brought back to Apple, Be OS would have been the foundation for the "next generation" Mac OS instead of NeXT's.
It would have taken less work, less time and could arguably have yielded a better final result to build a new OS on top of the Be OS compared to the process of porting NeXT's OS from the ground up.
No you jackass. I was making it clear that you don't need the Windows Vista additions to the Windows API to make visually pleasing applications quickly.
While we are moving more to a web-based application model, we still have 95% of our programs written in Delphi, and even support a legacy DOS-based system. There's no way we'd get all that ported to Linux any time in the next 2 years, even if we dropped everything until it was done.
There's WINE and DOSEMU. You don't have to worry about porting them.
You may not want to and that's your right, but let's not pretend that you can't.
As far as what he "knew", unless the person told him that the property was stolen how would he have "known"?
He should have believed. He should have suspected. He should have thought; and I have no doubt that he did all of those things, but he wouldn't "know" unless he was told.
Unless you have actual constructive knowledge, you don't "know".
Regardless, it's STILL illegal to traffic in stolen goods, even if you don't know that they're stolen.
Slashdot Mirror
GMail has free POP access bitch.
LK
It's widely believed that some lawyers have decoded the supposedly "secret" systems of how cases are assigned to appeals courts.
The ACLU in particular is believed to manage challenges to new laws in such a way that insures that the case is heard before a sympathetic judge.
LK
but not everyone should be using a computer.
When I got my first car, I didn't know much about them. I learned about them as I needed to. When your choices are "learn how something works so you can fix it" or "pay someone who knows how it works to fix it" some people do the former while most people do the latter. The real problem arises when people don't want to do either.
LK
Broadcast TV uses public airways so the government has the right to regulate the speech on it. TV that is carried over private means(cable) is beyond the reach of the FCC.
Wireless Devices...Foil...Hijack!!!!!
This is a paranoid's worst nightmare.
LK
I understand the point you were trying to make, but even that wouldn't work. People would still rip and burn discs that they couldn't physically access.
LK
We're still paying fees that were added to telegraph services back during the Spanish American war.
Once the government gets their hooks into you, it's damned near impossible to get them out.
LK
It is high time laws were passed to protect such bloggers' free speech rights
Just as we a ll have freedom of speech, employers have freedom to hire and fire whomever they want.
LK
Robot Odyssey and Rocky's Boots taught me about logic way back in 1984 when I was in 4th grade.
I and a good friend used to play that game for hours in school. He later went on to get a scholarship to CMU and is pulling in all kinds of green doing the grown up version of what we did 21 years ago.
LK
As I understand it, these aren't really RFID cards but just imagine the mayhem if all you had to do was stand outside of your local mall smoking and rip off every RFID card that passed by.
Or a corrupt janitor could install a sniffer inside of a garbage can in a high traffic area.
LK
I wouldn't go as far as to say that China is a piracy haven, but it's pretty damned close.
They can't stop real pirates from mass producing actual DVDs and CDs; why in the fuck would they think that they can stop casual pirates on the internet?
LK
Thank God these women are standing up for themselves.
What we have here is analagous to when a bully picks on the wrong kid. Many kids will give up their lunch money to prevent getting beaten up, but sometime the bully picks the wrong target. Instead of a pocket full of lunch money he gets a mouth full of knuckles.
I didn't give a dime to the NYPD when they were begging for donations, but I'd give money to these women's defense funds.
LK
I misspoke. You are correct. Windows 95 preemptively multitasked protected mode 32 bit applications.
BeOS did intrigue me even though I never used it. It was very multimedia friendly and could boot within 15 second and was lightyears ahead of the competition.
I used the preview release on my 6400. I didn't use it for long, just a couple of weeks. At the time, it was AMAZING. The thing that sticks out most in my mind was how I could open and play 8 quicktime movies at the same time and although there was some stuttering it was minimal.
I've been trying to get my hands on a BeBox for about two years now. They're in short supply after all this time.
MacOS 7.x didn't compare. Mac OS 8 was a huge step in the right direction.
Many businesses put pressure on Apple's customers to move to Windows for photoshop and MacOS frankly sucked. It had no premptive multitasking, no concept of a kernel, and WindowsNT was about to come into popularity.
Windows 95, 98 and ME had no premptive multitasking and were EASILY as unstable as Mac OS 7.5.x. You can't claim that the lack of something that the competition didn't have either was a reason that Apple was losing market share.
Jobs
1.) Killed the clones
Which is why I haven't bought any new Apple hardware since his return. I never bought a clone, but it was nice to have the choice. Apple killed off the clones because they(most notable Power Computing and Daystar) were putting out better machines at lower prices.
Many of the graphic artists that I knew jumped all over the PowerTower Pro series from Power Computing and ALL of the hardcore Mac geeks I knew wanted a Genesis MP.
2.) Needed a quick competitor to NT which became NextStep errr MacOSX
Which could have easily been the Be OS had Apple not taken him back.
3.) Differentiated his products and created value by coming out with the imac. Imacs looked awesome and made the name Apple actually mean something. People valued a stylish high end system.
The iMac was NOT a high end system. I worked for an Apple dealer when they launched. People who needed high end computers bought PowerMac G3s and then later PowerMac G4s.
4.) Moved into online music and appliances with the Ipod in an effort to save the company if their pc business flopped.
Brilliant move BTW, but it has nothing to do with the fact that they could have made Be OS into a successful OS.
5.) Prevented hollywood from going to an all microsoft format for media from the sucess of itunes and its expanded userbase
What does iTunes have to do with Hollywood? Hollywood makes movies, not music.
LK
Can someone explain to me why packages are distro-specific?
Glibc versions.
Also, not every distro stores config files in the same manner.
LK
And without Jobs, there would be no iMac, iBook or iPod to save them.
Without Jobs Apple would still be Apple. It wasn't him that saved the company, it was the legions of faithful Apple customers.
There's an almost religious aspect to the fanaticism with which some people remain loyal to Apple.
In my experience, I took less flack after a religious conversion than I did after a platform change.
LK
(Whoever you are burning up your mod points on me. I have excellent Karma, I can take it.)
Management issues.
LK
Had Jobs not returned, Apple would have probably ponied up the $400 million or so that Gasse wanted for Be.
Apple's problem has never been technological, they have some ass stomping programmers. Be OS would have been transformed from something cool into something SWEET if they had gotten a hold of it.
At the time Apple bought NeXT, THEY didn't have anything like Cocoa. Apple built Cocoa from the ground up for the platform that they did have. They could have done it on a Be OS foundation.
It's unknown if Apple could have implemented a POSIX compliant framework for Be OS and this is one of the big strengths of OSX.
What we're seeing now isn't so much the survival of the Macintosh platform as it is the survival of Apple in any form necessary. I can understand that Apple had their reasons for doing so, but abandoning the PPC architecture will change them. Instead of a cool company with uniquely good hardware and an OS with its own strengths they will become what Dell would be if they bought Mandriva or Red Hat.
It wasn't really a big deal to pay premium Apple prices for Mac OS on PPC, but aside from die hard Mac fans, who will pay them for the same Intel processors that can be had from Dell, HP, IBM and Gateway?
LK
It's all about choice. At one time people were saying "Windows CE is the future of the embedded market, why waste time developing embedded linux?"
As we get more and more gadgets, there will be more and more room for new platforms to develop them on.
LK
I HIGHLY doubt that the Yellow Tab folks expect joe sixpack to even hear about this.
It'll be a cool toy for geeks to play with, and it might even be a good OS for a "Smart Appliance" or other embedded applications.
LK
Gasse miscalculated one thing, the return of Jobs.
Had Steve Jobs not been brought back to Apple, Be OS would have been the foundation for the "next generation" Mac OS instead of NeXT's.
It would have taken less work, less time and could arguably have yielded a better final result to build a new OS on top of the Be OS compared to the process of porting NeXT's OS from the ground up.
LK
No you jackass. I was making it clear that you don't need the Windows Vista additions to the Windows API to make visually pleasing applications quickly.
LK
While we are moving more to a web-based application model, we still have 95% of our programs written in Delphi, and even support a legacy DOS-based system. There's no way we'd get all that ported to Linux any time in the next 2 years, even if we dropped everything until it was done.
There's WINE and DOSEMU. You don't have to worry about porting them.
You may not want to and that's your right, but let's not pretend that you can't.
LK
As far as what he "knew", unless the person told him that the property was stolen how would he have "known"?
He should have believed. He should have suspected. He should have thought; and I have no doubt that he did all of those things, but he wouldn't "know" unless he was told.
Unless you have actual constructive knowledge, you don't "know".
Regardless, it's STILL illegal to traffic in stolen goods, even if you don't know that they're stolen.
LK
With very little code we are going to be able to create gorgeous applications with a terrific user experience.
Depending on the programming environment you're using, this is possible now.
Using RealBasic, I've been able to whip up some useful programs in relatively little time.
I never migrated to VB.Net but VB6 was useful in the same regard.
LK