1) they are actually licensing OS X to intel manufacturers which is a ballsy move, but quite doable. Some serious risk of losing the high end to a bunch of cloners on the low end, but with the ITMS revenue stream to buoy them it's a good time step up. That would be the full court press on longhorns debatable or at best irrelevant release.
2) it's some sort of new device that uses intel chips (tablet, phone, or magic marker) like the patent designs of late. This is probably most likely since Ars is pointing out that they just extended an offer to hardware (zaurus and nokia) hacker Pavel Machek
3) it's complete subterfuge so Jobs can keep his real surprise which is to announce the iTunes Music store is now the iTunes Media store. Begin your downloading now.
The cnet article for all it's authoritative stance is really just the same tired rumors. The work involved in making an outright switch would be huge, not to mention the work of trying to convince developers to invest in all new hardware... (you can have my PPC Powerbook when you can pry it from my cold dead fingers..) If they did switch it'd be to AMD's Opteron anyway not Intel. The rumors will definitely kick up the stock price though.. if you bought today.. sell on monday because it will shoot up and then crash when people figure out that, no they are not switching to Intel.
No I won't. I refuse to pay the ridiculous sum they want now. I'll buy it used before I pay $18 for a cd.
The main reason to introduce a new format, is to bring the control of DVD's to the music realm. Region coding being a prime example. I will refuse to buy Audio discs with arbitrary limits on how (and where) I can use it. I suspect my taste in music will undergo a further shift towards the independent artists who wants to be heard, as the Music Industry implodes under the weight of it's own greed.
Yes, this is another egregious waste of resources. Lets create another mass market consumable that automatically turns into trash with all the trashy infrastructure to support it. Freshness sealed dvd's...
Trash is a purely human invention and one that will ultimately destroy us. Every other creature on the planet creates resusable waste except for us. An excellent book about this is Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things.
I read today (I'm looking for it again but I can't find it), that Northwest airlines were going through employees computers (through court action) to find out whether they took part in a planned "sick out" back in december. Pretty scary stuff. I do not know whether Northwest has a similar computer program but it would seem to be even easier for company's to appropriate data on a machine that was "given" to an employee.
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1) they are actually licensing OS X to intel manufacturers
which is a ballsy move, but quite doable. Some serious risk of losing the high end to a bunch of cloners on the low end, but with the ITMS revenue stream to buoy them it's a good time step up. That would be the full court press on longhorns debatable or at best irrelevant release.
2) it's some sort of new device that uses intel chips (tablet, phone, or magic marker) like the patent designs of late. This is probably most likely since Ars is pointing out that they just extended an offer to hardware (zaurus and nokia) hacker Pavel Machek
3) it's complete subterfuge so Jobs can keep his real surprise which is to announce the iTunes Music store is now the iTunes Media store. Begin your downloading now.
The cnet article for all it's authoritative stance is really just the same tired rumors. The work involved in making an outright switch would be huge, not to mention the work of trying to convince developers to invest in all new hardware... (you can have my PPC Powerbook when you can pry it from my cold dead fingers..) If they did switch it'd be to AMD's Opteron anyway not Intel. The rumors will definitely kick up the stock price though.. if you bought today.. sell on monday because it will shoot up and then crash when people figure out that, no they are not switching to Intel.
No I won't. I refuse to pay the ridiculous sum they want now. I'll buy it used before I pay $18 for a cd.
The main reason to introduce a new format, is to bring the control of DVD's to the music realm. Region coding being a prime example. I will refuse to buy Audio discs with arbitrary limits on how (and where) I can use it. I suspect my taste in music will undergo a further shift towards the independent artists who wants to be heard, as the Music Industry implodes under the weight of it's own greed.
totally disgusted
.... And the key feature of OpenDirectory is the Kerberos Server built in.
Yes, this is another egregious waste of resources. Lets create another mass market consumable that automatically turns into trash with all the trashy infrastructure to support it. Freshness sealed dvd's...
Trash is a purely human invention and one that will ultimately destroy us. Every other creature on the planet creates resusable waste except for us. An excellent book about this is Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things.
I read today (I'm looking for it again but I can't find it), that Northwest airlines were going through employees computers (through court action) to find out whether they took part in a planned "sick out" back in december. Pretty scary stuff. I do not know whether Northwest has a similar computer program but it would seem to be even easier for company's to appropriate data on a machine that was "given" to an employee.