OSX is designed only for Apple hardware, without regard (the more cynical among us say negative regard) for other hardware. Installing OSX on hardware it's not designed for is quite an achievement, even if 90% of it is the same as "normal" hardware.
As long as Apple doesn't say a word in favor of this stuff (thereby making it mainstream and accepted), they can refuse to support OSX on other hardware and take only a minor PR hit - if you're a hack(intosh)er, it's expected that you do things yourself.
And 2012 has a grain of truth to it - with all the crazy nuts stockpiling weapons and living like there's no tomorrow there's bound to be some disruption.
Unfortunately, the entire world of genetics will turn itself upside down in the next 30-100 years as we gain the ability to understand genes and modify them at will, so we'll at most have 2 more generations where that sort of thing matters.
Try listening to people in casual unprepared (speech, not text) conversation. You'll be surprised how many nonsense syllables people use because their thought can't keep up with their speaking.
At least 6% of all internet traffic runs through Google. If you add 29 other large corporations, that value becomes 30%. Aside from the corporations, you also have a few centralized nodes through which internet traffic goes from country to country. A single undersea cable being cut can cause massive disruptions to internet service in some regions. That's the kind of centralization that is the Achilles heel of the Internet.
It's a what if. Sort of like "what if magic as described in World of Warcraft 3.1 existed in the real world". The point is not to think about how it happens, it's to think about the results.
Switching off the capability that allows a computer to link up to any computer, even one dozens of nodes along, within 1 second and with only a single click from the user. That includes HTTP, SMTP, FTP, Telnet, etc. although you could still connect to a computer over a single wire, or wirelessly to one five meters away.
Allowing for truly malicious behaviour from Microsoft, they could force a worm onto the 70% of computers that are grabbing stuff from microsoft, and let it spread to the other 30%. They could even put a Mac and Linux-compatible worm on their Office software to catch those people who run Office for Mac or Office on Wine. Maybe 2% of those computers that regularly connect to the internet would survive.
Ok, step back. One single company could bring down 98% of the internet all on their own? That is a VERY scary thought.
The internet is fairly easy to take down right now, but that's only because large corporations like Google are centralizing it. If it gets taken down, we'll learn our mistakes and we'll think up of some protocol that allows the wireless in every person's computer to communicate to others and connect the entire city together. Bringing THAT down would be impossible.
User: Oooh, I can download this to see dancing bunnies ->sudo apt-get install dancingbunniez OS: password required Malware:*infects system* OS:*pwned* User:*pwned* User: Hey, that wasn't very nice! I'm gonna report this package and no one downloading from repositories will be harmed by it again! Malware:*pwned*
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Troll? I hope that was a misclick...
OSX is designed only for Apple hardware, without regard (the more cynical among us say negative regard) for other hardware. Installing OSX on hardware it's not designed for is quite an achievement, even if 90% of it is the same as "normal" hardware.
As long as Apple doesn't say a word in favor of this stuff (thereby making it mainstream and accepted), they can refuse to support OSX on other hardware and take only a minor PR hit - if you're a hack(intosh)er, it's expected that you do things yourself.
And 2012 has a grain of truth to it - with all the crazy nuts stockpiling weapons and living like there's no tomorrow there's bound to be some disruption.
So does morality run on Linex?
So you mean links to Twitter itself?
Mao killed tens of millions of innocent people. You don't want to be ROFLing about that.
Do YOU use tap water? Why? Why aren't you supporting American bottled water business like a good capitalist?
Unfortunately, the entire world of genetics will turn itself upside down in the next 30-100 years as we gain the ability to understand genes and modify them at will, so we'll at most have 2 more generations where that sort of thing matters.
Not really, it's just the modern definition of the word "n00b", which is often closer to "idiot" than "newbie".
Try listening to people in casual unprepared (speech, not text) conversation. You'll be surprised how many nonsense syllables people use because their thought can't keep up with their speaking.
It was... a joke. Thank god English is free of that stupid distinction?
Thank god English is free of that stupid distinction.
Non-open-source? That's a pretty convoluted way to say "closed-source".
At least 6% of all internet traffic runs through Google. If you add 29 other large corporations, that value becomes 30%. Aside from the corporations, you also have a few centralized nodes through which internet traffic goes from country to country. A single undersea cable being cut can cause massive disruptions to internet service in some regions. That's the kind of centralization that is the Achilles heel of the Internet.
It's a what if. Sort of like "what if magic as described in World of Warcraft 3.1 existed in the real world". The point is not to think about how it happens, it's to think about the results.
Switching off the capability that allows a computer to link up to any computer, even one dozens of nodes along, within 1 second and with only a single click from the user. That includes HTTP, SMTP, FTP, Telnet, etc. although you could still connect to a computer over a single wire, or wirelessly to one five meters away.
Allowing for truly malicious behaviour from Microsoft, they could force a worm onto the 70% of computers that are grabbing stuff from microsoft, and let it spread to the other 30%. They could even put a Mac and Linux-compatible worm on their Office software to catch those people who run Office for Mac or Office on Wine. Maybe 2% of those computers that regularly connect to the internet would survive.
Ok, step back. One single company could bring down 98% of the internet all on their own? That is a VERY scary thought.
The internet is fairly easy to take down right now, but that's only because large corporations like Google are centralizing it. If it gets taken down, we'll learn our mistakes and we'll think up of some protocol that allows the wireless in every person's computer to communicate to others and connect the entire city together. Bringing THAT down would be impossible.
If the military in my country relied on proprietary software written by a foreign corporation I would be very afraid for my country.
Geneva conventions? What part of "you are free to use the program for any purpose" don't you understand?
10 TB USB keys will be $10.
Wait, how can someone simultaneously be against Windows and be an enemy of Slashdot? Does he have secret links to the RIAA?
We should follow Google's footsteps and make a Linux distribution called "Lynx OS". And we should do it before the name gets stolen by Ubuntu 10.04.
Or, alternatively:
User: Oooh, I can download this to see dancing bunnies
->sudo apt-get install dancingbunniez
OS: password required
Malware:*infects system*
OS:*pwned*
User:*pwned*
User: Hey, that wasn't very nice! I'm gonna report this package and no one downloading from repositories will be harmed by it again!
Malware:*pwned*