Maybe this is a wheat and chaffe situation. If they chrush all the used equipment then the remains are all wheat. Now honestly there's propbably no hope of every getting data off of those drives. Now let's say they're a little paranoid, and decide to put some chaffe (unused drives) back into the mix to make it even harder to get at the data.
To an extent an I can agree with this concept, I don't think it will come from Google. I believe XWindows and the various desktop managers is what's keeping linux from pentrating the desktop market. It's fine to say let's cut XWindows out of the picture and make a new UI for linux. I understand pointing at OS X as an example of making it happen. Let us not forget our computing history. OS X is basically the next version of NeXTStep ported to PPC. There was an existing framework/architecture for the UI that developed over many years. Apple/NeXT basically redesigned the appearance of the NeXTStep UI to fit into a Mac OS world. For this to happen on linux a lot of people will have to buy into a new unified UI framework. As opposed to the world where Steve Job says it will be so and it is.
I would agree with the parent. The only hardware that seems to be sold at a loss are gaming consoles and cell phones. The console makers do it because they assume they will make up the loss on game sales. The cell phone makers aren't selling at a loss, it is the providers that base the loss on the length of the contract. And the providers only seem to be giving the crappy phones away. The good cell phones will still cost around $200. Profit on the hardware is why Apple won't offically release a version of OS X for generic x86 hardware. There's not enough money in it for them if the hardware sales are missing from the equation.
I have to agree with the parent. The iPod supports DRM songs, but doesn't force you to use that format. Sony initially forced you to convert your mp3s to atracs. Out of 4000+ songs on my iPod less than 20 are fairplay ACC. There is a difference between supporting DRM and forcing DRM on the enduser.
You could do that, but then you couldn't do a spotlight search on your porn collection to find fetish your currently interest in. ie, latex, corset, Suze Randall.
But your demographic information is used for your car insurance rates. I'm pretty sure in addition to where you live, under/over 25 and married/single play a part in your rates. Then I'm sure they look at any points on your license and number of accidents in the past x years. The insurance company uses that to evalute the risk of insuring me. What would make me unhappy is if they sold all the information on me. Which they probably are doing to some extent.
Reading all this stuff, I tend to think that Nintendo is the Apple of the console market. They were both cooler in the early days, don't dominate the their respective markets now and people are always talking smack about them. I don't think either is poised gain dominance in the next few years, but in the end they make decent products and make a profit. I think that Nintendo is smart enough to not make the mistakes Sega made, and continue to exist in their niche of the console market.
That being said I would like to see Nintendo make some killer games that launched a new franchises.
I bought a Humax branded TiVo and the HD noise was driving me nuts. I swear I could hear the heads moving. Popping the case open, I realized that the case itself was acting as a drum and amplifing the noise. The bracket the HD is one was petty wide so I thought I could get one of the drive silencers and put it in the TiVo. Unfortunately the bracket wasn't wide enought for me to install it. The bargin option was to pick up some rubber stoppers at the computer store. I put 2 stoppers next to every screw hole on the bracket. In the mornings I can hear the drive heads, but once I turn the TV on the noise disappears.
Unfortunately for the poster, MTV last showed a "video" in 1997.
That's not true. Though the quantity is so low that I have to have my TiVo record "All Things Rock" on MTV. Of course that's shown at 1am once a week if I'm lucky.
At my last job, I used WebObjects for some of our web apps. I thought it did a great job and especially like using EOModeler. One app was supposed to use data from our other apps. So the app had to talk to 4 database, 3 of which belonged to other apps in the company. We made EOModels for each of our database connections. In our main EOModel, we had a couple objects that were connected to objects in the other models. Above the EOModel, EOF totally hid that fact that I was talking to multiple databases and assembling all the object relations for me. Granted I didn all this against an Oracle database, but when the Apple Reps we pitching the IDE to us they connected an Oracle db and an Access db to prove it didn't matter where your data was.
I believe he was involved in a "reverse" buyout of Apple. Basically Apple gave NeXT a lot of money and NeXT engineer's took over OS development. This consisted of porting Nextstep to Apple's PPC hardware and making a compability library to run the old software. That's right folks. Everybody who's running OS X is really just running what essentially would be Nextstep XP.
You're right I do want to see it. That being said, I'm also planning to see it 2 weeks after it opens so that the movie theater gets a bigger cut of my addmission than Lucas does.
No the game I installed is EV: Nova. Anyway, back to playing games on my consoles (GC or xbox).
P.S. If the used MechAssault I bought is any indication of the quality of used games. I think I'll stick to buying the game new, the media is to fragile.
You are correct in the fact that the OS was getting long in the tooth and Windows was catching up pretty fast. I would say that the 7500 I owned from that period was great example of good engineering from Apple. While from the same time period, I would say that most of the Performa models were not worth the money.
Also, note that the lifetime subscription is tied to the physical device and not the subscriber. I had a series 1, it is possible that I should've bought the lifetime subscription for it. I now own one of the TiVo DVD burners. I still resisted the lifetime subscription as I hope to upgrade to a better model (ie opencard/HDTV) before it would be worth it.
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So are you bitter cause you can't afford one or that it won't play org vorbis?;)
This is not a downgrade, this is Apple blocking a plugin from running in their app. Yes, you should backup your purchased music. Last time I checked, iTMS didn't put the copy of my purchased music on my iPod. iTMS sent a copy of the music to iTunes which wrote it to my computer's disk. Then iTunes may put the purchased music on my iPod. So why do I need to access the songs on my iPod to backup them up when I can copy them as from my local disk? Backups should happen before the disaster, not after.
Ok, I'll admit off the bat that I am an Apple fanboy and own lots of fruit. I haven't heard Apple's offical response to this, but here's how I see this Apple playing this out:
If you can figure out how to gets music off your iPod, good for you.
If you can download a program that can get music off your iPod, good for you.
If you download a plugin for iTunes that can get music off your iPod, not so good.
Why? Because Apple doesn't want iTunes via a plugin getting music off an iPod. In fact this kind of plugin violates the licence agreement for the iTunes plugin SDK. Apple only wants people to write iTunes plugins for other mp3 players and visual effects/screen savers. In fact I believe iCommune had this exact same problem.
I would suggest these folks do as the iCommune people did, make it a stand alone app and Apple will leave you alone. So yeah, Apple does seem a bit heavy handed about these things.
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Hey, my family resembles that remark!
On another note, my wife wishes VW would make a cabrio again. The VW Beetle just doesn't do it for her.
Maybe this is a wheat and chaffe situation. If they chrush all the used equipment then the remains are all wheat. Now honestly there's propbably no hope of every getting data off of those drives. Now let's say they're a little paranoid, and decide to put some chaffe (unused drives) back into the mix to make it even harder to get at the data.
To an extent an I can agree with this concept, I don't think it will come from Google. I believe XWindows and the various desktop managers is what's keeping linux from pentrating the desktop market. It's fine to say let's cut XWindows out of the picture and make a new UI for linux. I understand pointing at OS X as an example of making it happen. Let us not forget our computing history. OS X is basically the next version of NeXTStep ported to PPC. There was an existing framework/architecture for the UI that developed over many years. Apple/NeXT basically redesigned the appearance of the NeXTStep UI to fit into a Mac OS world. For this to happen on linux a lot of people will have to buy into a new unified UI framework. As opposed to the world where Steve Job says it will be so and it is.
I would agree with the parent. The only hardware that seems to be sold at a loss are gaming consoles and cell phones. The console makers do it because they assume they will make up the loss on game sales. The cell phone makers aren't selling at a loss, it is the providers that base the loss on the length of the contract. And the providers only seem to be giving the crappy phones away. The good cell phones will still cost around $200. Profit on the hardware is why Apple won't offically release a version of OS X for generic x86 hardware. There's not enough money in it for them if the hardware sales are missing from the equation.
I have to agree with the parent. The iPod supports DRM songs, but doesn't force you to use that format. Sony initially forced you to convert your mp3s to atracs. Out of 4000+ songs on my iPod less than 20 are fairplay ACC. There is a difference between supporting DRM and forcing DRM on the enduser.
You could do that, but then you couldn't do a spotlight search on your porn collection to find fetish your currently interest in. ie, latex, corset, Suze Randall.
But your demographic information is used for your car insurance rates. I'm pretty sure in addition to where you live, under/over 25 and married/single play a part in your rates. Then I'm sure they look at any points on your license and number of accidents in the past x years. The insurance company uses that to evalute the risk of insuring me. What would make me unhappy is if they sold all the information on me. Which they probably are doing to some extent.
Reading all this stuff, I tend to think that Nintendo is the Apple of the console market. They were both cooler in the early days, don't dominate the their respective markets now and people are always talking smack about them. I don't think either is poised gain dominance in the next few years, but in the end they make decent products and make a profit. I think that Nintendo is smart enough to not make the mistakes Sega made, and continue to exist in their niche of the console market.
That being said I would like to see Nintendo make some killer games that launched a new franchises.
I bought a Humax branded TiVo and the HD noise was driving me nuts. I swear I could hear the heads moving. Popping the case open, I realized that the case itself was acting as a drum and amplifing the noise. The bracket the HD is one was petty wide so I thought I could get one of the drive silencers and put it in the TiVo. Unfortunately the bracket wasn't wide enought for me to install it. The bargin option was to pick up some rubber stoppers at the computer store. I put 2 stoppers next to every screw hole on the bracket. In the mornings I can hear the drive heads, but once I turn the TV on the noise disappears.
That's not true. Though the quantity is so low that I have to have my TiVo record "All Things Rock" on MTV. Of course that's shown at 1am once a week if I'm lucky.
I've always wanted a pony!
At my last job, I used WebObjects for some of our web apps. I thought it did a great job and especially like using EOModeler. One app was supposed to use data from our other apps. So the app had to talk to 4 database, 3 of which belonged to other apps in the company. We made EOModels for each of our database connections. In our main EOModel, we had a couple objects that were connected to objects in the other models. Above the EOModel, EOF totally hid that fact that I was talking to multiple databases and assembling all the object relations for me. Granted I didn all this against an Oracle database, but when the Apple Reps we pitching the IDE to us they connected an Oracle db and an Access db to prove it didn't matter where your data was.
I believe he was involved in a "reverse" buyout of Apple. Basically Apple gave NeXT a lot of money and NeXT engineer's took over OS development. This consisted of porting Nextstep to Apple's PPC hardware and making a compability library to run the old software. That's right folks. Everybody who's running OS X is really just running what essentially would be Nextstep XP.
So I can declare a German BSDM film as art?
You're right I do want to see it. That being said, I'm also planning to see it 2 weeks after it opens so that the movie theater gets a bigger cut of my addmission than Lucas does.
Honestly, how fun is a demolition derby between two rover if one of them is stuck?
No the game I installed is EV: Nova. Anyway, back to playing games on my consoles (GC or xbox).
P.S. If the used MechAssault I bought is any indication of the quality of used games. I think I'll stick to buying the game new, the media is to fragile.
Yeah my wife bought her sister a set for Christmas.
You are correct in the fact that the OS was getting long in the tooth and Windows was catching up pretty fast. I would say that the 7500 I owned from that period was great example of good engineering from Apple. While from the same time period, I would say that most of the Performa models were not worth the money.
Also, note that the lifetime subscription is tied to the physical device and not the subscriber. I had a series 1, it is possible that I should've bought the lifetime subscription for it. I now own one of the TiVo DVD burners. I still resisted the lifetime subscription as I hope to upgrade to a better model (ie opencard/HDTV) before it would be worth it.
So are you bitter cause you can't afford one or that it won't play org vorbis? ;)
This program will keep you stocked with porn.
This is not a downgrade, this is Apple blocking a plugin from running in their app. Yes, you should backup your purchased music. Last time I checked, iTMS didn't put the copy of my purchased music on my iPod. iTMS sent a copy of the music to iTunes which wrote it to my computer's disk. Then iTunes may put the purchased music on my iPod. So why do I need to access the songs on my iPod to backup them up when I can copy them as from my local disk? Backups should happen before the disaster, not after.
Ok, I'll admit off the bat that I am an Apple fanboy and own lots of fruit. I haven't heard Apple's offical response to this, but here's how I see this Apple playing this out:
If you can figure out how to gets music off your iPod, good for you.
If you can download a program that can get music off your iPod, good for you.
If you download a plugin for iTunes that can get music off your iPod, not so good.
Why? Because Apple doesn't want iTunes via a plugin getting music off an iPod. In fact this kind of plugin violates the licence agreement for the iTunes plugin SDK. Apple only wants people to write iTunes plugins for other mp3 players and visual effects/screen savers. In fact I believe iCommune had this exact same problem. I would suggest these folks do as the iCommune people did, make it a stand alone app and Apple will leave you alone. So yeah, Apple does seem a bit heavy handed about these things.
You're new to this internet thing aren't you? Guys pretend to be a "hot goth chick" all the time. ;)