Should they have the instructions for starting MacOS X in verbose mode flash on the screen in 72pt letters with a strobe effect to the beat of Name of the Game?
...or maybe since you consider yourself a 'power user' that would care to watch verbose mode, you might be capable enough to find out how to do it yourself...
The iTunes samples songs are only part of the OS 9 install, not the OS X install. Thankfully, I backed them up before wiping my hard drive and reinstalling OS X.
Stupid Andrew Plotkin. Andrew Plotkin no good intuitively understanding even most simple interfaces. Andrew Plotkin no figure out multiple window animations. Andrew Plotkin no figure out scale faster than genie. Andrew Plotkin no figure out customize toolbar until days later. Andrew Plotkin no figure out time since day be half hour or week.
I definately agree. I used to frequent K5, but stopped long ago (I moved from/. to K5, back to/. at a higher threshold). This is why my.sig over there is "Kuro5hin:...and culture, from the trenches".
I do think Scoop is a better content engine than Slashcode, tho.
It is my understanding that most applications are installed to Macs in this fashion. I'm a Mac newbie, but I think everything I run installs in this way.
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The kid didn't steal anything from CompUSA. The kid infringed on Microsoft's copyright.
Ironically, Microsoft has pioneered an easy-to-use installation scheme on the Mac that makes its Mac software relatively easy to pilfer. The company is known for its sometimes heavy-handed anti-piracy mechanisms in such products as Windows XP.
There is nothing ironic about this. It is Apple's ingenious.app framework that allows applications to be wrapped up in tidy packages rather than be strewn across the hard drive as on Windows computers.
Microsoft will be anouncing Microsoft Transfer Protocol.Net which will be used by the WWN (World Wide.Net) for anything from ms-mail (sending electronic messages to friends and family) to paying your ms-mortgage.
This page indicates that IBM's first all-in-one personal computer was released in late February of 1984 -- the first Macintosh, an all-in-one personal computer, was released in January of the same year. A year earlier Apple had released its first all-in-one personal computer, the Lisa.
Bob needs to point to an example of at least one company (other than Microsoft) turning a decent profit licensing an operating system for commodity hardware.
Clue: That's hard to do unless you're in a very fortunate position where you're able to build a monopoly.
Microsoft was lucky or evil enough to get a license providing an OS for the x86 architecture at the beginning of its lifecycle before Microsoft even had acquired DOS. They were able to convince IBM that they should commoditize the architecture and used that to take the control away from IBM. Apple wouldn't be any where near as fortunate. They'd have an entrenched OS to compete against, and whether Bob knows it or not a lot of consumers buy based on price (read: cheapness) first and quality second. x86 machines would weaken Apple hardware sales (which is where Apple makes its money).
I don't know if Bob knows this or not, but his analogy is horrible. There is a company that buys parts from Porsche and makes their own cars around them. This company is called Ruf. Any Porsche-lover with the extra cash to spend would rather have a Ruf than a Porsche. Please note that I am not saying x86 is to PowerPC as Ruf is to Porsche. I'm just saying Bob's analogy sucks.
I hope Bob reads Slashdot because I'd love a response from him (and I didn't see his e-mail address on that article).
Dammit. I wish foreign directors would quit making movies that are "ridiculous, fake, American-enhancing crap" so that everyone would get off our back!
There won't be this form of competition once Microsoft implements its software subscription licensing. You'll need competition from other organizations.
Assuming that you're the only subscriber they have in that particular 5-digit zip code, yes they could. Otherwise, they couldn't unless they are getting more unique information than the 5-digit zip code.
It appears we have independent review of the information being sent back, and they are not using anything more unique than the 5-digit zip.
How are you going to fast-forward through the commercials of LIVE TV? You forget these people are watching it live instead of a recording they did a few hours/days ago.
There are varying levels of publicity (is that a word?) of bug notes in the Microsoft Knowledgebase. I know this because I used to be part of Microsoft Support. I believe there are developer-level, escalation-level, employee-level, partner-level, contractor-level, and fully public bug notes. I may be wrong, it's been a few years since I was there (thank goodness).
What is with all of the background noise? It sounds like it is on a loop instead of being real noise. Are they just trying to make it sound like a cool "Contact" sort of transmission?
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Should they have the instructions for starting MacOS X in verbose mode flash on the screen in 72pt letters with a strobe effect to the beat of Name of the Game?
...or maybe since you consider yourself a 'power user' that would care to watch verbose mode, you might be capable enough to find out how to do it yourself...
The iTunes samples songs are only part of the OS 9 install, not the OS X install. Thankfully, I backed them up before wiping my hard drive and reinstalling OS X.
Stupid Andrew Plotkin. Andrew Plotkin no good intuitively understanding even most simple interfaces. Andrew Plotkin no figure out multiple window animations. Andrew Plotkin no figure out scale faster than genie. Andrew Plotkin no figure out customize toolbar until days later. Andrew Plotkin no figure out time since day be half hour or week.
I definately agree. I used to frequent K5, but stopped long ago (I moved from /. to K5, back to /. at a higher threshold). This is why my .sig over there is "Kuro5hin: ...and culture, from the trenches".
I do think Scoop is a better content engine than Slashcode, tho.
It is my understanding that most applications are installed to Macs in this fashion. I'm a Mac newbie, but I think everything I run installs in this way.
The kid didn't steal anything from CompUSA. The kid infringed on Microsoft's copyright.
The iPod is a fucking FireWire hard drive. It's bootable. Of course, you can install Linux on the Mac from it!
Everyone calls Ballmer a spaz. You're not making any great revelations here.
MSTP .Net
.Net which will be used by the WWN (World Wide .Net) for anything from ms-mail (sending electronic messages to friends and family) to paying your ms-mortgage.
Microsoft will be anouncing Microsoft Transfer Protocol
This page indicates that IBM's first all-in-one personal computer was released in late February of 1984 -- the first Macintosh, an all-in-one personal computer, was released in January of the same year. A year earlier Apple had released its first all-in-one personal computer, the Lisa.
Bob needs to point to an example of at least one company (other than Microsoft) turning a decent profit licensing an operating system for commodity hardware.
Clue: That's hard to do unless you're in a very fortunate position where you're able to build a monopoly.
Microsoft was lucky or evil enough to get a license providing an OS for the x86 architecture at the beginning of its lifecycle before Microsoft even had acquired DOS. They were able to convince IBM that they should commoditize the architecture and used that to take the control away from IBM. Apple wouldn't be any where near as fortunate. They'd have an entrenched OS to compete against, and whether Bob knows it or not a lot of consumers buy based on price (read: cheapness) first and quality second. x86 machines would weaken Apple hardware sales (which is where Apple makes its money).
I don't know if Bob knows this or not, but his analogy is horrible. There is a company that buys parts from Porsche and makes their own cars around them. This company is called Ruf. Any Porsche-lover with the extra cash to spend would rather have a Ruf than a Porsche. Please note that I am not saying x86 is to PowerPC as Ruf is to Porsche. I'm just saying Bob's analogy sucks.
I hope Bob reads Slashdot because I'd love a response from him (and I didn't see his e-mail address on that article).
One detail you left out of your statement is at what video resolution the audio component takes up about half of the filesize.
We don't want to stick with 320x200 or even 640x480 video streams. That is why further work on video compression is needed to get filesize down.
Dammit. I wish foreign directors would quit making movies that are "ridiculous, fake, American-enhancing crap" so that everyone would get off our back!
There won't be this form of competition once Microsoft implements its software subscription licensing. You'll need competition from other organizations.
Assuming that you're the only subscriber they have in that particular 5-digit zip code, yes they could. Otherwise, they couldn't unless they are getting more unique information than the 5-digit zip code.
It appears we have independent review of the information being sent back, and they are not using anything more unique than the 5-digit zip.
...and that isn't live TV.
My understanding was they use the 5 digit zip code. Not the 5+4 digit zip code that will identify a unique address.
Can anyone confirm this?
How are you going to fast-forward through the commercials of LIVE TV? You forget these people are watching it live instead of a recording they did a few hours/days ago.
Do you know if the processor used in the iPod supports floating point operations?
There are varying levels of publicity (is that a word?) of bug notes in the Microsoft Knowledgebase. I know this because I used to be part of Microsoft Support. I believe there are developer-level, escalation-level, employee-level, partner-level, contractor-level, and fully public bug notes. I may be wrong, it's been a few years since I was there (thank goodness).
The author states that the article is interesting, and interesting. But, is it interesting?
What is with all of the background noise? It sounds like it is on a loop instead of being real noise. Are they just trying to make it sound like a cool "Contact" sort of transmission?
It's only 500MHz! And I thought Macintoshes were slow at their measly 1GHz.
Thanks for the help, but I wasn't able to get Unsanity Echo or Audion to stream Ogg when I was trying to listen to BBC's last Ogg experiement.
MacAmp isn't out for OS X yet.