Changing customers' behavior is exactly what advertising and marketing are meant to accomplish. It's just usually aimed at getting people to buy your product. Here, instead of "Buy our $FOO now!" the message is "Don't download our $FOO!". I don't see why I should be angrier about this than about advertising in general.
Their OS, until quite recently, had to work on x86, x86_64, PPC, PPC64, and ARM. Deliberately excluding one particular variant of one of these in a nontrivial way just means they will have to deal with increased complexity in their codebase, because the Hackintosh community is just going to work around it anyway. So it doesn't make business sense to do that.
Apple has had and continues to have many, many opportunities to do stuff in their OS that breaks it for non-Macs. They haven't yet, for good reason.
You have evaluate what this is really worth to you. You can learn just fine with notes you hand-wrote. Will all the effort you'd put into making this electronic really mean you'll learn the material in less time? And you're not seriously going to bring a Wacom tablet to class, are you? You'll look ridiculous.
If you really must, scan and OCR your (neatly) hand-written notes. You'll get enough of the words to be able to search for the concept you need later.
Or, if you don't believe me, just learn TeX markup for equations, and don't worry about getting the syntax 100% right during class. Fix syntax errors and render your notes after class.
I may have missed something, but Nvidia doesn't claim that their driver is open source, only that the tiny kernel interface piece is. On the other hand, Netgear is touting hardware's open-source friendliness, when it reality it isn't. The problem is that Netgear is being extremely disingenuous here.
I had always thought the point of an SLA was for there to be some real, immediate monetary cost for downtime to the provider, which would provide an incentive to make sure their internal processes for ensuring uptime were robust. The payment to customers is just sort of a side effect of this.
Bad analogy. I have both a BlackBerry and iPod, and both sync just fine with my iTunes library using their respective applications. Palm could take the same approach as RIM instead of picking fights with both Apple and the USB folks.
You sound like a sociopath more interested in winning at politics than delivering a good product...but you present an important perspective and good advice because there are many like you in the real world.
That's bizarre. No Linux allowed? At least in my field (biophysics, involving molecular dynamics etc.), everything runs on Linux. Anyway, your bureaucracy must be completely broken if your IT department won't let you have the tools you demonstrably need to do the job you are paid for.
3) VERY IMPORTANT - Apple will stop selling 10.5 the day they release 10.6. So if you have a macbook or intel imac with 10.4(.11) on it and don't get it updated to 10.5 before the 28th you cannot install Snow Leopard. The AASPs are going to go mad as of today trying to order as many 10.5 retail packs as they can get their hands on. If you will be needing one, you'd better get it NOW.
Citation? That would be monumentally stupid of Apple. Surely they'll figure out how to sell their new OS to 10.4 users on Intel.
Then they implemented my kernel as a blob, and there was nobody left to speak up for me because their systems were causing kernel panics because of all the blobs that nobody could debug.
(Again I'm thinking of medicine. My own post grad work is in astronomy so I'm very much a lay reader when it comes to medicine, and when I've tried to read medical papers it's usually been an interesting excercise)
I think there are three main hurdles to comprehending scientific literature:
1) Obtuse grammar. This is universal. Why describe something in five words when you can use twenty?
2) Jargon: Every field has its jargon, and may co-opt words from the vernacular and give them very specific meanings. This gets in the way of a simplified description.
3) Intuition: Quite a lot of papers don't properly explain the intuition behind what they do. This is particularly rampant in fields that depend strongly on math. The reader is often expected to recognize the form of an equation without any explanation whatsoever. If you can do this, the intuition often turns out to be surprisingly simple. If you cannot do this (say, you're a new grad student) it looks like an impenetrable wall of Greek letters.
We can do something about (1) by journals forcing submitters to simplify their language. But fixing (2) by avoiding jargon would interfere with meaning. And fixing (3) would make papers much longer. So it's a tough problem.
You can build a Hackintosh yourself. Bootloaders and such are out there - you can run Leopard on a regular PC, as long as you are careful to only use supported components. Amazingly enough, Apple has been remarkably nonchalant about this. So why do they have such a big problem with Psystar?
Running OSX on a white-box PC takes technical know-how and a willingness to put up with some level of brokenness. This is the polar opposite of 99.9% of Mac buyers, who want their computer to just work - that's why they bought a Mac in the first place. So Hackintoshes do not meaningfully decrease Mac sales - indeed, they might even (very) slightly increase Mac sales because they get people invested in the Mac ecosystem. (Once you've wrangled with getting OSX to run on your white-box PC, only to have to do it again for the next point update, the convenience of a real Mac starts looking like a pretty darn good upgrade.)
The problem with Psystar is that they were promising to make their white-box Mac clones easy to maintain, thus destroying the selling point of a real Mac.
Um, Google is responsible for quite a bit of Mozilla Foundation revenue.
Google's motivation is just to get people away from IE, because MS controls that, and has had little incentive to improve it. Now, with a substantial installed base of competing browsers, all of them are of much higher quality (Firefox memory leaks aside) and Google can build more neat stuff for you to use so you can click on ads.
With respect to small, efficient diesel engines - Europe is full of them. In the US, diesel fuel is of low quality, because there isn't enough refinery capacity to make high quality diesel fuel. It's difficult to make a diesel engine that runs well on it, and satisfies stringent California emissions requirements. And, Americans still have the perception that diesel is loud and smelly, despite modern diesel engines being neither.
So I might be wrong on this... but the dual-license guys seem way more blatant, probably because I get a lot of satisfaction posting here, but dont really get much satisfaction contributing to some faceless corporations open source project.
So don't. If it's GPL you can fork it yourself and do what you like within the GPL.
Of course there isn't a fundamental difference - but by this point MS has fixed enough bugs and removed enough crap from Vista that people are more willing to buy the upgrade. Who cares what they call it?
According to your post, the time between initial observation and commercialization of major energy producing methods has been decreasing by orders of magnitude as history marches on. Maybe it's not so stupid to ask about commercialization of the technology within a single generation.
Essentially the best possible case, and the one that seems to be shaping up, is that Windows 7 will be the latter-day equivalent of Windows 2000: on current hardware, fast, stable, functional, and not chock full of garbage.
There is still the multitude of terrible design choices MS made that we can harp on, don't you worry:)
Well, crap, hit Submit instead of Preview. Meant to say, <- as an assignment operator (I know = works now, but still...)? Bizarre data frame and object semantics? R is quite useful but I really dislike writing anything nontrivial in it.
Actually it may not suck. But having used it on and off over the past few years while not being a statistics pro, I find the R language bletcherous and annoying. - as an assignment operator?
"I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code," said Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing at SAS. She adds, "We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet."
Wow...talk about FUD. Does SAS imdemnify against plane crashes?
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Changing customers' behavior is exactly what advertising and marketing are meant to accomplish. It's just usually aimed at getting people to buy your product. Here, instead of "Buy our $FOO now!" the message is "Don't download our $FOO!". I don't see why I should be angrier about this than about advertising in general.
Their OS, until quite recently, had to work on x86, x86_64, PPC, PPC64, and ARM. Deliberately excluding one particular variant of one of these in a nontrivial way just means they will have to deal with increased complexity in their codebase, because the Hackintosh community is just going to work around it anyway. So it doesn't make business sense to do that.
Apple has had and continues to have many, many opportunities to do stuff in their OS that breaks it for non-Macs. They haven't yet, for good reason.
You have evaluate what this is really worth to you. You can learn just fine with notes you hand-wrote. Will all the effort you'd put into making this electronic really mean you'll learn the material in less time? And you're not seriously going to bring a Wacom tablet to class, are you? You'll look ridiculous.
If you really must, scan and OCR your (neatly) hand-written notes. You'll get enough of the words to be able to search for the concept you need later.
Or, if you don't believe me, just learn TeX markup for equations, and don't worry about getting the syntax 100% right during class. Fix syntax errors and render your notes after class.
I may have missed something, but Nvidia doesn't claim that their driver is open source, only that the tiny kernel interface piece is. On the other hand, Netgear is touting hardware's open-source friendliness, when it reality it isn't. The problem is that Netgear is being extremely disingenuous here.
I had always thought the point of an SLA was for there to be some real, immediate monetary cost for downtime to the provider, which would provide an incentive to make sure their internal processes for ensuring uptime were robust. The payment to customers is just sort of a side effect of this.
Bad analogy. I have both a BlackBerry and iPod, and both sync just fine with my iTunes library using their respective applications. Palm could take the same approach as RIM instead of picking fights with both Apple and the USB folks.
SNOBOL dropped out of high school and ended up working for a car dealership, last I heard. He was always the sleazy sort.
You sound like a sociopath more interested in winning at politics than delivering a good product...but you present an important perspective and good advice because there are many like you in the real world.
But the idiots are apparently the ones who pay the bills, so they get what they want. What's wrong with that?
That's bizarre. No Linux allowed? At least in my field (biophysics, involving molecular dynamics etc.), everything runs on Linux. Anyway, your bureaucracy must be completely broken if your IT department won't let you have the tools you demonstrably need to do the job you are paid for.
3) VERY IMPORTANT - Apple will stop selling 10.5 the day they release 10.6. So if you have a macbook or intel imac with 10.4(.11) on it and don't get it updated to 10.5 before the 28th you cannot install Snow Leopard. The AASPs are going to go mad as of today trying to order as many 10.5 retail packs as they can get their hands on. If you will be needing one, you'd better get it NOW.
Citation? That would be monumentally stupid of Apple. Surely they'll figure out how to sell their new OS to 10.4 users on Intel.
Then they implemented my kernel as a blob, and there was nobody left to speak up for me because their systems were causing kernel panics because of all the blobs that nobody could debug.
That already happened. It's called Windows.
(Again I'm thinking of medicine. My own post grad work is in astronomy so I'm very much a lay reader when it comes to medicine, and when I've tried to read medical papers it's usually been an interesting excercise)
I think there are three main hurdles to comprehending scientific literature:
1) Obtuse grammar. This is universal. Why describe something in five words when you can use twenty?
2) Jargon: Every field has its jargon, and may co-opt words from the vernacular and give them very specific meanings. This gets in the way of a simplified description.
3) Intuition: Quite a lot of papers don't properly explain the intuition behind what they do. This is particularly rampant in fields that depend strongly on math. The reader is often expected to recognize the form of an equation without any explanation whatsoever. If you can do this, the intuition often turns out to be surprisingly simple. If you cannot do this (say, you're a new grad student) it looks like an impenetrable wall of Greek letters.
We can do something about (1) by journals forcing submitters to simplify their language. But fixing (2) by avoiding jargon would interfere with meaning. And fixing (3) would make papers much longer. So it's a tough problem.
You can build a Hackintosh yourself. Bootloaders and such are out there - you can run Leopard on a regular PC, as long as you are careful to only use supported components. Amazingly enough, Apple has been remarkably nonchalant about this. So why do they have such a big problem with Psystar?
Running OSX on a white-box PC takes technical know-how and a willingness to put up with some level of brokenness. This is the polar opposite of 99.9% of Mac buyers, who want their computer to just work - that's why they bought a Mac in the first place. So Hackintoshes do not meaningfully decrease Mac sales - indeed, they might even (very) slightly increase Mac sales because they get people invested in the Mac ecosystem. (Once you've wrangled with getting OSX to run on your white-box PC, only to have to do it again for the next point update, the convenience of a real Mac starts looking like a pretty darn good upgrade.)
The problem with Psystar is that they were promising to make their white-box Mac clones easy to maintain, thus destroying the selling point of a real Mac.
Um, Google is responsible for quite a bit of Mozilla Foundation revenue.
Google's motivation is just to get people away from IE, because MS controls that, and has had little incentive to improve it. Now, with a substantial installed base of competing browsers, all of them are of much higher quality (Firefox memory leaks aside) and Google can build more neat stuff for you to use so you can click on ads.
With respect to small, efficient diesel engines - Europe is full of them. In the US, diesel fuel is of low quality, because there isn't enough refinery capacity to make high quality diesel fuel. It's difficult to make a diesel engine that runs well on it, and satisfies stringent California emissions requirements. And, Americans still have the perception that diesel is loud and smelly, despite modern diesel engines being neither.
So I might be wrong on this... but the dual-license guys seem way more blatant, probably because I get a lot of satisfaction posting here, but dont really get much satisfaction contributing to some faceless corporations open source project.
So don't. If it's GPL you can fork it yourself and do what you like within the GPL.
The BlackBerry network does have outages from time to time. But the linked article is from April 18, 2007!
Of course there isn't a fundamental difference - but by this point MS has fixed enough bugs and removed enough crap from Vista that people are more willing to buy the upgrade. Who cares what they call it?
According to your post, the time between initial observation and commercialization of major energy producing methods has been decreasing by orders of magnitude as history marches on. Maybe it's not so stupid to ask about commercialization of the technology within a single generation.
Phones are banned for patients and families. Clinical staff use them all the time. (I'm a medical student.)
Essentially the best possible case, and the one that seems to be shaping up, is that Windows 7 will be the latter-day equivalent of Windows 2000: on current hardware, fast, stable, functional, and not chock full of garbage.
There is still the multitude of terrible design choices MS made that we can harp on, don't you worry :)
Well, crap, hit Submit instead of Preview. Meant to say, <- as an assignment operator (I know = works now, but still...)? Bizarre data frame and object semantics? R is quite useful but I really dislike writing anything nontrivial in it.
Actually it may not suck. But having used it on and off over the past few years while not being a statistics pro, I find the R language bletcherous and annoying. - as an assignment operator?
"I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code," said Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing at SAS. She adds, "We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet."
Wow...talk about FUD. Does SAS imdemnify against plane crashes?