Suck shit. you missed the boat, mostly through your own greed. The opportunity has been there for the past decade or so for the movie industry to get on board with digital distribution and format shifting, but instead they persisted with hardware based copy-protection (blue-ray, dvd, etc) and attempting to get customers to pay for the same media multiple times on multiple different formats. They make out that they're not charging you for physical media, its a license to the content, yet if you want it in a different format, you need to pay full price for new media. Its bullshit.
Apple has taken over music distribution because by and large, they offer what customers want. They don't want to have to carry around a valuable single physical copy of their content (or break the law by ripping/copying it). They don't want to have to buy an entire album for one song. They don't want to trek around town to different stores looking for the particular song/artist they are interested in.
Yes, the iTunes program sucks. But as a marketplace, its awesome. I can hear about some new show/song/etc on the weekend or at night, go home, and purchase it then and there - and be listening/watching it minutes later.
You're assuming iran has a decently fast internet backbone. I suspect it doesn't, and that a half-decent major ISP level deep packet inspection device would be sufficient for the country.
Its nothing to do with hardware compatibility or doing what you want with software you have purchased. You have purchased an UPGRADE copy. Without a full version to upgrade from (which ships only with apple hardware - they are not available anywhere else), you are not licensed.
Sorry its as simple as that - if you want to run a Hackintosh, you may as well just copy the DVD off a friend, because its about the same level of legality.
That Psystar were actually trying to sell this as legit was just begging to be sued into oblivion by apple, and rightly so.
If you don't agree with the OS X license terms, don't run it.
The software is sold as UPGRADE copies, and licensed for use on apple hardware. Requiring a previous full version (which only ships with apple hardware) to use.
No, its not unexpected, because according to the license, retail copies of OS X are upgrade licenses. Not licensed for installation unless you have an existing copy of the previous version. The only way to get a non-upgrade copy of OS X is with the purchase of apple hardware.
To some people, OS X is important. I'd pay several hundred dollars if i could run OS X on my home PC. The fact that I needed to upgrade, so just bought a macbook pro and got nice aesthetically pleasing hardware is a bonus.
I have blu-ray (burner) in my desktop PC at home. I've used it about 3 times in the past 2 years. No blu-ray is no great loss.
At this rate, given what the rapid release has so far done to their market share, firefox will be down to 10% share by christmas, and they'll need to go back to considering what their user base actually want, rather than some project leader's fantasy.
Quite likely. So, it can be turned off, woot. Thats one less annoyance, but still leaves me with no reason to give up either chrome or safari. i'm not a heavy extension user...
For the cost of the card, i reckon you could almost build a cheap atom/similar based system with onboard graphics that will kill the machine as a whole in performance.
If you're stuck with PCI, you're also probably stuck with some tiny amount of slow RAM, parallel ATA, a BIOS that can't read hard drives bigger than 500 meg, etc.
Not exactly a gaming/video machine there...
If its just to play HD content on TV, then an appleTV or boxee box will probably be cheaper and perform better, also.
I'm happy with either Safari (mac) or Chrome (PC) - 2 browsers that haven't changed their UI for a few years and work properly.
However, one pet beef with chrome (and IE) that firefox also has - get rid of the fucking search from the address bar. If I type in a hostname, i expect to go to that hostname, not kick of some search for some shit on the internet. I also don't want the browser doing x hundred search URL lookups while I type. If i want to search, i will use a search box.
Thank fuck safari / opera do it right: opera = need to prefix with a couple of letters if you want to search (from memory), and Safari has a separate box. As it should have.
Whilst i am posting this from my Mac, and have administered Linux and BSD boxes for about 15 years+...
To be fair, part of the reason for that is that Linux boxes are more often used to run high-value machines than OS X.
If i hack your workstation (that is likely behind an egress filtering firewall if the admin has a clue), woohoo. However, if i hack a linux (or any unix) box, which is typically well-connected network wise with lots of bandwidth and often has a C compiler installed already, well, thats a far more valuable target.
You're not a user who uses "password" though. Those types are just as likely to just delete the message for about 6-12 months before mentioning it in passing to the IT guy at the christmas party.
Well of course. there's a difference between not getting busted by your employer for doing stuff you shouldn't be doing at work and attacking the US government and multinational corporations, however.
If your want to fuck with the big boys, then you better have your shit in order. Be it some bot-net to hide your tracks with, an account in backpackistan, or whatever.
Renting service of a VPN provider in the UK (who is well known to be the USA's bitch in recent years) to attack megacorps and the US government is just retarded.
OK, so given that some censorship worthy information is illegal in some countries, what's to say hidemyass.com won't just bend over for a government other than the US, when presented with law breakage in that particular country?
So what you're actually saying is that we need open standards (standard bolts example). This doesn't require open source - it just means giving microsoft the flick...
I think you are over-estimating the *average* home user's use.
Average user checks email, facbook, browses the internet and watches a few movies.
This can be done on an iphone/ipad quite easily. Hell, you could even do it on an appleTV, given the ability to pair decent bluetooth interface devices to it, and a web browser.
Other than games (which there are plenty of on iPad anyway) - the number of users who *actually* need the power of even a core 2 duo, when you take out the requirements of running windows, virus scanner, etc is perhaps 1% of the market.
They will continue to be served by high power desktops. The rest of us will have machines we carry around with us.
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Suck shit. you missed the boat, mostly through your own greed. The opportunity has been there for the past decade or so for the movie industry to get on board with digital distribution and format shifting, but instead they persisted with hardware based copy-protection (blue-ray, dvd, etc) and attempting to get customers to pay for the same media multiple times on multiple different formats. They make out that they're not charging you for physical media, its a license to the content, yet if you want it in a different format, you need to pay full price for new media. Its bullshit.
Apple has taken over music distribution because by and large, they offer what customers want. They don't want to have to carry around a valuable single physical copy of their content (or break the law by ripping/copying it). They don't want to have to buy an entire album for one song. They don't want to trek around town to different stores looking for the particular song/artist they are interested in.
Yes, the iTunes program sucks. But as a marketplace, its awesome. I can hear about some new show/song/etc on the weekend or at night, go home, and purchase it then and there - and be listening/watching it minutes later.
read up on deep packet inspection
You're assuming iran has a decently fast internet backbone. I suspect it doesn't, and that a half-decent major ISP level deep packet inspection device would be sufficient for the country.
Or they're going to block internet banking now?
Its nothing to do with hardware compatibility or doing what you want with software you have purchased. You have purchased an UPGRADE copy. Without a full version to upgrade from (which ships only with apple hardware - they are not available anywhere else), you are not licensed.
Sorry its as simple as that - if you want to run a Hackintosh, you may as well just copy the DVD off a friend, because its about the same level of legality.
That Psystar were actually trying to sell this as legit was just begging to be sued into oblivion by apple, and rightly so.
If you don't agree with the OS X license terms, don't run it.
The software is sold as UPGRADE copies, and licensed for use on apple hardware. Requiring a previous full version (which only ships with apple hardware) to use.
Copies of OS X are quite clearly sold as upgrades. No previous version of OS X to upgrade from = you aren't licensed to use it.
No, its not unexpected, because according to the license, retail copies of OS X are upgrade licenses. Not licensed for installation unless you have an existing copy of the previous version. The only way to get a non-upgrade copy of OS X is with the purchase of apple hardware.
the demand just isn't there. the 1% of customers who want this feature are not worth the development expense.
To me, multitouch, OS X and the all metal case is easily worth a few hundred bucks.
To some people, OS X is important. I'd pay several hundred dollars if i could run OS X on my home PC. The fact that I needed to upgrade, so just bought a macbook pro and got nice aesthetically pleasing hardware is a bonus.
I have blu-ray (burner) in my desktop PC at home. I've used it about 3 times in the past 2 years. No blu-ray is no great loss.
At this rate, given what the rapid release has so far done to their market share, firefox will be down to 10% share by christmas, and they'll need to go back to considering what their user base actually want, rather than some project leader's fantasy.
Just get me to store my media collection on it. the drive will fail in due course.
Quite likely. So, it can be turned off, woot. Thats one less annoyance, but still leaves me with no reason to give up either chrome or safari. i'm not a heavy extension user...
For the cost of the card, i reckon you could almost build a cheap atom/similar based system with onboard graphics that will kill the machine as a whole in performance.
If you're stuck with PCI, you're also probably stuck with some tiny amount of slow RAM, parallel ATA, a BIOS that can't read hard drives bigger than 500 meg, etc.
Not exactly a gaming/video machine there...
If its just to play HD content on TV, then an appleTV or boxee box will probably be cheaper and perform better, also.
I'm happy with either Safari (mac) or Chrome (PC) - 2 browsers that haven't changed their UI for a few years and work properly.
However, one pet beef with chrome (and IE) that firefox also has - get rid of the fucking search from the address bar. If I type in a hostname, i expect to go to that hostname, not kick of some search for some shit on the internet. I also don't want the browser doing x hundred search URL lookups while I type. If i want to search, i will use a search box.
Thank fuck safari / opera do it right: opera = need to prefix with a couple of letters if you want to search (from memory), and Safari has a separate box. As it should have.
Whilst i am posting this from my Mac, and have administered Linux and BSD boxes for about 15 years+...
To be fair, part of the reason for that is that Linux boxes are more often used to run high-value machines than OS X.
If i hack your workstation (that is likely behind an egress filtering firewall if the admin has a clue), woohoo. However, if i hack a linux (or any unix) box, which is typically well-connected network wise with lots of bandwidth and often has a C compiler installed already, well, thats a far more valuable target.
You're not a user who uses "password" though. Those types are just as likely to just delete the message for about 6-12 months before mentioning it in passing to the IT guy at the christmas party.
Well of course. there's a difference between not getting busted by your employer for doing stuff you shouldn't be doing at work and attacking the US government and multinational corporations, however.
If your want to fuck with the big boys, then you better have your shit in order. Be it some bot-net to hide your tracks with, an account in backpackistan, or whatever.
Renting service of a VPN provider in the UK (who is well known to be the USA's bitch in recent years) to attack megacorps and the US government is just retarded.
But sure, to hide from your boss, go for it.
OK, so given that some censorship worthy information is illegal in some countries, what's to say hidemyass.com won't just bend over for a government other than the US, when presented with law breakage in that particular country?
I'm not claiming to have a method. My option is "don't do retarded shit on the internet and expect not to get caught".
But using someone else's VPN service in a western country is pretty much equivalent to using nothing at all.
If you're expecting to use public VPN servers to "hide your ass" you're doing it wrong.
If you're not competent enough to "hide your own ass" then you really shouldn't be fucking with other people's networks.
So what you're actually saying is that we need open standards (standard bolts example). This doesn't require open source - it just means giving microsoft the flick...
Average user checks email, facbook, browses the internet and watches a few movies.
This can be done on an iphone/ipad quite easily. Hell, you could even do it on an appleTV, given the ability to pair decent bluetooth interface devices to it, and a web browser.
Other than games (which there are plenty of on iPad anyway) - the number of users who *actually* need the power of even a core 2 duo, when you take out the requirements of running windows, virus scanner, etc is perhaps 1% of the market.
They will continue to be served by high power desktops. The rest of us will have machines we carry around with us.