Nonsense. The clone makers were building Apple designed machines. And again, Apple could have made it a part of the licensing agreement that they had final authority over quality. Cloners were making faster computers and charging less money for them. Jobs wanted control, nothing more, nothing less.
When Jobs came, one of the first things he did was up the major version number from 7 to 8 because the license for Mac OS 7 allowed third parties to make computers that could run Mac OS.
Thus fucking over millions of customers and potential customers in the process.
It's just my guess but I think the reason Apple is doing this because some of the price that goes into it's computers is the price of developing the operating system.
That's precisely why each licensee had to pay Apple a fee. If they weren't getting enough, they could have negotiated a higher fee.
If Psystar wins this case, it will give a carte blanche to everybody else to create Mac clones, bringing Apple back into the situation they were in in 1998.
Hardly. Apple would be in a worse situation. In the late 90s they had fairly unique hardware. The only affordable PPC computers were either an Apple or a clone. Today, their hardware is custom x86. Everyone and their brother is making hardware that could run the OS if not for Apple's artificial barrier.
Personally I'm rooting for Apple on this one. It's their business model, and it has benefits for their users.
Apple is certainly entitled to try whatever business model they choose, but the are not entitled to have the courts enforce their wishes to make higher profits.
Where I live, we have a very big senior population. Hospitals are some of the biggest employers around here. Even when they need to close a hospital, all of the employees are needed at other locations.
I too can see the flicker from low luminosity and early CF bulbs. I used to get horrible headaches from them. I was able to overcome this by getting brighter bulbs than I'd otherwise need.
One need not experience head trauma, all you need is a pair of sensitive eyes.
Circuit City owned a bank. First North American National Bank was owned by Circuit City. There was no way they could go out of business. Then the perfect storm hit. The housing/mortgage industry dragged down the banking industry. Banking dragged down consumer spending. Their two sources of revenue were decimated. All of a sudden a company that was never going to go out of business went out of business. If DiVX hadn't been the abject failure that it was, can you imagine how many people would have been screwed out of the content that they paid have access to (in other words bought)?
It's highly unlikely that Disney will go out of business, but it's not impossible. What's far more likely is that in 10 years the consumers will have moved on to something else and it'll be a net loser for Disney to keep their key chest scheme running and they'll kill it leaving millions of consumers with nothing to show for it.
My old boss cut his teeth as a FORTRAN programmer back in the days of punch cards. He wrote nearly all of his code in 80 columns, regardless of language. He was a ridiculous Perl programmer too.
Yes, I picked the second result of the search that you referenced. A result that bolstered my claim.
Incidentally, do you know any insults besides "stupid"?
I know plenty, I keep using that one because it's appropriate.
At the risk of sounding pedantic, if you're trying to prove that I'm the stupid one, you should really consider consulting a thesaurus and coming up with other insults. To use the same one repeatedly over several replies really doesn't help your argument any.
Why dig into my vocabulary for words that you might not understand?
You should be able to marry your sister. And if genetic screenings say you won't make web footed duck babies, you should be able to have kids with her too.
Why should anyone have the power to determine who gets to produce children and with whom?
PS. You don't have to go through the 'petition' stage to get to the 'voting' stage. It's just as possible for you to walk into your congressman's office and have a nice private chat with him.
I don't know about where you live, but where I live it takes signatures on a petition to get an issue on the ballot.
Since the dawn of time, the family, consisting of a husband, wife, and their children, has been the fundamental unit of society.
That's not entirely accurate. For a large portion of time, a family consisted of a husband, wives and children.
Society has a right to determine what relationships it will recognize. The way things stand now, society says that it will not recognize same-sex unions.
People who disagree with that are free to speak against it, just as people who support the status quo are free to speak in favor of it. Keep the dialog going, allow society to evaluate both points of view and make an informed decision. You do our side a disservice by spouting information that's easily disproved.
I'm not even a Christian and I know this one. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
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however not giving them your business, or whine, is about all you can do.
I have one word for you sir, Antitrust.
LK
Nonsense. The clone makers were building Apple designed machines. And again, Apple could have made it a part of the licensing agreement that they had final authority over quality. Cloners were making faster computers and charging less money for them. Jobs wanted control, nothing more, nothing less.
LK
When Jobs came, one of the first things he did was up the major version number from 7 to 8 because the license for Mac OS 7 allowed third parties to make computers that could run Mac OS.
Thus fucking over millions of customers and potential customers in the process.
It's just my guess but I think the reason Apple is doing this because some of the price that goes into it's computers is the price of developing the operating system.
That's precisely why each licensee had to pay Apple a fee. If they weren't getting enough, they could have negotiated a higher fee.
If Psystar wins this case, it will give a carte blanche to everybody else to create Mac clones, bringing Apple back into the situation they were in in 1998.
Hardly. Apple would be in a worse situation. In the late 90s they had fairly unique hardware. The only affordable PPC computers were either an Apple or a clone. Today, their hardware is custom x86. Everyone and their brother is making hardware that could run the OS if not for Apple's artificial barrier.
Personally I'm rooting for Apple on this one. It's their business model, and it has benefits for their users.
Apple is certainly entitled to try whatever business model they choose, but the are not entitled to have the courts enforce their wishes to make higher profits.
LK
There is not one single zombie in 28 Days Later.
LK
I upgraded my laptop to XP when I found that Vista didn't run one of the games that's important to me.
LK
Journalism has been dead for 30 years. News organizations are owned by corporate interests that can't afford to piss off sponsors.
LK
I think this should be a really big wakeup call to european countries that relies 100% on american tech, both on hardware and software.
Yeah, because we all know how the Americans would NEVER come to Europe's aid in an emergency.
LK
Where I live, we have a very big senior population. Hospitals are some of the biggest employers around here. Even when they need to close a hospital, all of the employees are needed at other locations.
LK
Where I live, electricians can make a decent living but the guys who really clean up hold a regular job and do side work on evenings and weekends.
LK
you might want to think about nursing. My ex-wife was an RN and she made really good money right out of college.
You have to clean up poop sometimes, but it's decent money.
LK
I too can see the flicker from low luminosity and early CF bulbs. I used to get horrible headaches from them. I was able to overcome this by getting brighter bulbs than I'd otherwise need.
One need not experience head trauma, all you need is a pair of sensitive eyes.
LK
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Please be hot asian girls...Please be hot asian girls...
YES!
LK
Oh yeah? Tell that to Lay, Skilling and Madoff.
LK
Circuit City owned a bank. First North American National Bank was owned by Circuit City. There was no way they could go out of business. Then the perfect storm hit. The housing/mortgage industry dragged down the banking industry. Banking dragged down consumer spending. Their two sources of revenue were decimated. All of a sudden a company that was never going to go out of business went out of business. If DiVX hadn't been the abject failure that it was, can you imagine how many people would have been screwed out of the content that they paid have access to (in other words bought)?
It's highly unlikely that Disney will go out of business, but it's not impossible. What's far more likely is that in 10 years the consumers will have moved on to something else and it'll be a net loser for Disney to keep their key chest scheme running and they'll kill it leaving millions of consumers with nothing to show for it.
LK
My old boss cut his teeth as a FORTRAN programmer back in the days of punch cards. He wrote nearly all of his code in 80 columns, regardless of language. He was a ridiculous Perl programmer too.
LK
It's autumn. Many of us who can grow beards are doing so. I'm at about two months of growth.
LK
Ah, whadda you know n00b?
J/K
The old timers who remember Jon Katz know all about MH/MR people on slashdot.
LK
It was a successful(commercially) model for quite a long time, do you blame Hollywood for copying?
LK
Yes, I picked the second result of the search that you referenced. A result that bolstered my claim.
Incidentally, do you know any insults besides "stupid"?
I know plenty, I keep using that one because it's appropriate.
At the risk of sounding pedantic, if you're trying to prove that I'm the stupid one, you should really consider consulting a thesaurus and coming up with other insults. To use the same one repeatedly over several replies really doesn't help your argument any.
Why dig into my vocabulary for words that you might not understand?
LK
because that's pretty much the reason being given by the homephobic population against gay marriage.
Hey, damn it. I bought a house!
LK
You should be able to marry your sister. And if genetic screenings say you won't make web footed duck babies, you should be able to have kids with her too.
Why should anyone have the power to determine who gets to produce children and with whom?
LK
Leftists don't have a problem with discrimination and harassment, it's just that now THEY want to be the ones to decide the targets.
LK
PS. You don't have to go through the 'petition' stage to get to the 'voting' stage. It's just as possible for you to walk into your congressman's office and have a nice private chat with him.
I don't know about where you live, but where I live it takes signatures on a petition to get an issue on the ballot.
LK
Since the dawn of time, the family, consisting of a husband, wife, and their children, has been the fundamental unit of society.
That's not entirely accurate. For a large portion of time, a family consisted of a husband, wives and children.
Society has a right to determine what relationships it will recognize. The way things stand now, society says that it will not recognize same-sex unions.
People who disagree with that are free to speak against it, just as people who support the status quo are free to speak in favor of it. Keep the dialog going, allow society to evaluate both points of view and make an informed decision. You do our side a disservice by spouting information that's easily disproved.
LK
I'm not even a Christian and I know this one.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.