Apple knows that DRM is futile, so they don't waste billions of dollars making some half-assed version of content management. Yet they still continue to profit.
Apple doesn't abide by this policy because they are nice people, Apple is a hardware company. The #1 job of a hardware company is to sell hardware. All those cool OS innovations, easy to use applications, and over-dramatized keynotes have one purpose, to sell hardware. Putting DRM in to your OS and/or hardware will not sell.
I use mozilla too and have it configured for google seach, but the search button is too far away to be useful. What I ment was having a whole link system, where you can click on a hyperlink that is a standard for google search. Like:
<A HREF="google:// In Soviet Russia"> Russian Google Search</A>
For more examples of the chill imposed on legitimate activities by the DMCA, see EFF's white paper, "Unintended Consequences: Four Years Under the DMCA" (google: "DMCA unintended consequences").
Pretty soon, people are going to stop using hyperlinks all together and just use google keywords. Maybe there should be a google://.. I know if I'm in a conversation and someone wants a hyperlink, I say "google for (keyword) instead of using a url.
Some good games? The past 5 games I bought for the Ps2 at $50 a pop, I returned 3 of them because they were very disappointing. Great Hardware and Fantastic graphics are insignificant if the game sucks. Better yet, how about a new game genre?
I don't know who makes it, I got for a steal at $500 on ebay. A widow was selling all her husband's stuff on ebay including this desk and a sweet 89 ferarri. Putting it together by yourself is a pain in the ass, but its worth it. I could put 6-8 systems on this desk without any trouble.
Well why not just have a TiBook Screen that you can also write on with a stylus instead of dropping the keyboard? I understand the many benefits of writing on the screen but dropping the laptop form-factor is the wrong way to go.
Yeah I love how they still try to use the included CD as a means to jack up the price. A duplicated CD that probably cost them twenty cents, filled with a bunch of readily available freeware is justification for hiking the price up by $3-$5.
These are just rumors and probably untrue, but if they are true I think both ideas will flop. A tablet pc is currently only viable where people need to stand up, people will not be trading in their laptops anytime soon. 2 years from now, we will all be laughing about the "tablet pc revolution."
As far as the video i-pod is concerned, the market for such a thing would be so small. While MP3 is on just about everyone's computer, a large percentage of users are not downloading movies or editing video, mostly due to cost and bandwidth restrictions. The learning curve doesn't help either. The other reason why a vid-pod would fail is the experience would such, nobody wants to watch video on such a small screen, especially mac users who probably already have a ibook or tibook. The people who don't have laptops may be interested, but they will correctly reason that they shouldn't by such a toy, when they can save x amount of dollars more and get a full fledged laptop.
I work for a major video game developer and can unabashedly say that the "release" drivers you speak of will barely differ from the "early beta versions" that you mention.
Then how do you explain the substantial performance boost with new releases of Nvidia's Detonator driver package over the years? I remember one particular release improving my quake3 FPS substantially a few years ago.
I like Maximumpc magazine, I even subscribed to it for a couple of years, but what is up with their website? It doesn't look terrible, but they could have a lot more content on there. Maximumpc seems to have always viewed their website as a threat to magazine sales. The magazine would have been much better off having a content filled, updated daily, community based site that would attract people to the magazine. I even remember one time a year or two ago when their website was not updated for a few months due to "renovations." Who shuts down for such things besides personal websites consisting of cat pictures and one of those "under construction" animations that came out with Netscape 2.0?
I picked up a mint osbourne 1 last year. It works great and has all the original materials, including shipping boxes, software etc. I paid $200. Is there any place besides eBay to get a good idea of what the thing is worth? Ebay prices seem to fluctuate too much to be an accurate assessment of the true value of a classic computer.
I've had an ATC 101 for over a year now. Coolermaster cases are very expensive, but the quality and performance is unbeatable. My ATC 101 runs at 30C with 100% CPU utilization sustained in a 78 degree room. No crazy mod either, just a standard ATC 101 case, with a standard coolermaster heatsink, and 2 superdrive coolers in the front. Here is a screenshot.
Sure, they save time, but then the company wants even more from us (and numbers show computers have driven paper use up -- due to number of drafts printed out and number of extra documents printed -- and docs printed in multiple copies).
I don't know where your getting your numbers from, but total paper use has been decline for quite some time. Personal use via printers may be up, but total paper use is declining.
Beyond 2000 use to be on the Discovery Channel 10-15 years ago when the network's goal was to educate, unlike now where everything is about sharks, the military, and guys with accents showcasing dangerous animals.
If your kid is old enough to have $55 extra in his/her wallet to by GTA3, then their might be more issues here than games. Personally, I don't see any problem with people 16+ buying this game. I've been playing violent video games since the age of 13 with Wofenstein. I'm a productive citizen, with no criminal record, a job, etc. This goes for music and movies too. When I was ten, my cousin and I had a favorite album, it was Eazy-E "Eazy Duz it," because it had the most curse words and every other sentence was about "pussy" and "bitches." I watched porn all the time over at my friends house because his Dad had a "porn room" with a Big Screen and a stack of magazines. My favorite films as a child were Vietnam war movies such as Platoon and of course the Rambo and Missing in Action series.
Today I am 25, I have a job, degree, girlfriend, etc. I'm not violent, I'm not a pervert, etc. According to many advocacy groups, I should have snapped by now. Why didn't I crack up? Good Parenting, it is all about how a child is raised. Great parents can even raise children in terrible surroundings and wind up with fantastic well adjusted children. Unfortunately, there are no advocacy/lobbying groups for ensuring good parenting and probably the biggest problems is the people who are least qualified to be parents are having the most children! My grandmother use to call it, Devolution.
The fact is if MS started charging for IE, this board would be full of anti-ms comments. But because it is Apple the rational is "they have to make money somehow." Well maybe they shouldn't have spent hundreds of millions on a catchy ad campaign. I think this is a sign that the big "switch campaign" has failed. Which should have been obvious since most ads focused on windows problems that were fixed with 2000/XP. You need to give a good reason to switch, especially when it can be a huge pain in the ass for non-techies.
It reminds me of a startup ISP I worked for five years ago, where the owners thought people would switch from other providers because our service was $5 cheaper. They didn't stop to think that people may want to keep the same e-mail address or may not want to bother installing new software for a $5/month savings. Televisions advertisements are a great way to brand and sell beer, not computers. Judging from the proliferation of switch ads on TV, I bet apple was planning on generating a lot of sales from the TV ads alone.
The big question is what is the difference between a software update and a bugfix? Won't this model encourage Apple to abandon older versions with bugs and force people to "upgrade" to the pay version. Why not just use the current model of charging for incremental OS upgrades? Being hardware AND software company is Apple's best advantage and biggest drawback, since the two models collide.
Furthur is a LEGAL P2P program that allows you to download concerts from bands who allow taping. You can download concerts in MP3 and and loseless SHN format. There are many bands you will recognize and a lot you 've never heard before. There are a lot of jambands such as Phish, The Grateful Dead, but there are rap, metal, jazz, and grunge groups on there as well. Best of all, its written in Java so it will run on just about any platform.
Personally, I prefer the way Sony is handling online play with the PS2 network adaptor. There is no centralized service for all games, and at least right now there are no subscription fees for most if not all of the current games.
Well yes if you plug in a mouse, too bad my powerbook's trackpad only has one button. I was not identifying this as a FLAW, just a difference. Personally, I don't have a problem with option+click. Good luck using that 2 button mouse sitting in an airplane.
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There go my chances of being selected!
Apple doesn't abide by this policy because they are nice people, Apple is a hardware company. The #1 job of a hardware company is to sell hardware. All those cool OS innovations, easy to use applications, and over-dramatized keynotes have one purpose, to sell hardware. Putting DRM in to your OS and/or hardware will not sell.
Thanks for the Konq tip, I just tried it out on my laptop and it works great.
Pretty soon, people are going to stop using hyperlinks all together and just use google keywords. Maybe there should be a google:// .. I know if I'm in a conversation and someone wants a hyperlink, I say "google for (keyword) instead of using a url.
BTW, here is a link to the paper.
Some good games? The past 5 games I bought for the Ps2 at $50 a pop, I returned 3 of them because they were very disappointing. Great Hardware and Fantastic graphics are insignificant if the game sucks. Better yet, how about a new game genre?
I don't know who makes it, I got for a steal at $500 on ebay. A widow was selling all her husband's stuff on ebay including this desk and a sweet 89 ferarri. Putting it together by yourself is a pain in the ass, but its worth it. I could put 6-8 systems on this desk without any trouble.
I beg to differ, when my tiBook fan kicks in it is by far the loudest fan in the room.
Well why not just have a TiBook Screen that you can also write on with a stylus instead of dropping the keyboard? I understand the many benefits of writing on the screen but dropping the laptop form-factor is the wrong way to go.
Yeah I love how they still try to use the included CD as a means to jack up the price. A duplicated CD that probably cost them twenty cents, filled with a bunch of readily available freeware is justification for hiking the price up by $3-$5.
Actually the most current release fixed a lot of problems for the integrated graphics on an nforce board I have.
As far as the video i-pod is concerned, the market for such a thing would be so small. While MP3 is on just about everyone's computer, a large percentage of users are not downloading movies or editing video, mostly due to cost and bandwidth restrictions. The learning curve doesn't help either. The other reason why a vid-pod would fail is the experience would such, nobody wants to watch video on such a small screen, especially mac users who probably already have a ibook or tibook. The people who don't have laptops may be interested, but they will correctly reason that they shouldn't by such a toy, when they can save x amount of dollars more and get a full fledged laptop.
Then how do you explain the substantial performance boost with new releases of Nvidia's Detonator driver package over the years? I remember one particular release improving my quake3 FPS substantially a few years ago.
I like Maximumpc magazine, I even subscribed to it for a couple of years, but what is up with their website? It doesn't look terrible, but they could have a lot more content on there. Maximumpc seems to have always viewed their website as a threat to magazine sales. The magazine would have been much better off having a content filled, updated daily, community based site that would attract people to the magazine. I even remember one time a year or two ago when their website was not updated for a few months due to "renovations." Who shuts down for such things besides personal websites consisting of cat pictures and one of those "under construction" animations that came out with Netscape 2.0?
I did pick up on ebay, from a guy in Maryalnd I think.
I picked up a mint osbourne 1 last year. It works great and has all the original materials, including shipping boxes, software etc. I paid $200. Is there any place besides eBay to get a good idea of what the thing is worth? Ebay prices seem to fluctuate too much to be an accurate assessment of the true value of a classic computer.
I've had an ATC 101 for over a year now. Coolermaster cases are very expensive, but the quality and performance is unbeatable. My ATC 101 runs at 30C with 100% CPU utilization sustained in a 78 degree room. No crazy mod either, just a standard ATC 101 case, with a standard coolermaster heatsink, and 2 superdrive coolers in the front. Here is a screenshot.
Well between mozilla's pop-up blocking capabilities and the Bannerblind addon. I've been browsing banner-free for quite some time.
I don't know where your getting your numbers from, but total paper use has been decline for quite some time. Personal use via printers may be up, but total paper use is declining.
Beyond 2000 use to be on the Discovery Channel 10-15 years ago when the network's goal was to educate, unlike now where everything is about sharks, the military, and guys with accents showcasing dangerous animals.
Today I am 25, I have a job, degree, girlfriend, etc. I'm not violent, I'm not a pervert, etc. According to many advocacy groups, I should have snapped by now. Why didn't I crack up? Good Parenting, it is all about how a child is raised. Great parents can even raise children in terrible surroundings and wind up with fantastic well adjusted children. Unfortunately, there are no advocacy/lobbying groups for ensuring good parenting and probably the biggest problems is the people who are least qualified to be parents are having the most children! My grandmother use to call it, Devolution.
It reminds me of a startup ISP I worked for five years ago, where the owners thought people would switch from other providers because our service was $5 cheaper. They didn't stop to think that people may want to keep the same e-mail address or may not want to bother installing new software for a $5/month savings. Televisions advertisements are a great way to brand and sell beer, not computers. Judging from the proliferation of switch ads on TV, I bet apple was planning on generating a lot of sales from the TV ads alone.
The big question is what is the difference between a software update and a bugfix? Won't this model encourage Apple to abandon older versions with bugs and force people to "upgrade" to the pay version. Why not just use the current model of charging for incremental OS upgrades? Being hardware AND software company is Apple's best advantage and biggest drawback, since the two models collide.
Furthur is a LEGAL P2P program that allows you to download concerts from bands who allow taping. You can download concerts in MP3 and and loseless SHN format. There are many bands you will recognize and a lot you 've never heard before. There are a lot of jambands such as Phish, The Grateful Dead, but there are rap, metal, jazz, and grunge groups on there as well. Best of all, its written in Java so it will run on just about any platform.
Personally, I prefer the way Sony is handling online play with the PS2 network adaptor. There is no centralized service for all games, and at least right now there are no subscription fees for most if not all of the current games.
Well yes if you plug in a mouse, too bad my powerbook's trackpad only has one button. I was not identifying this as a FLAW, just a difference. Personally, I don't have a problem with option+click. Good luck using that 2 button mouse sitting in an airplane.