It is not clear that such actions are cost effective nor do they have to be if in fact the real movers are those peddling lawyer services (solicitor work in the UK) as a form of "protection" for the RIAA.
Perhaps these lawyers have convinced the RIAA that such action will be cost effective. Of course on that one, as they say, "the jury is out"
I can't see why *any* Windows user should object, even/.ers. You chose to rent their operating system or if you prefer, your computer is the apartment and Windows OS is your tenant. As such, they can "come and go" as long as they don't trash your place. No evidence of such damage is presented in this case. If you don't like this behaviour than chose a different OS.
It seems like Apple Inc. Could easily side step this brouhaha by doing what they did with iTV, viz: change the name just prior (or at) release to, "ta da", Apple Phone.
It is too early to tell how things will turn out but it does seem that Boot camp is the sound of one shoe dropping (to hopelessly mix metaphors). What would be the effect of dropping the second shoe if it were the ability to run the virtual PC on the Intel Mac at native speed and at a fair price point?
Presumably one would pay a little more to Apple (instead of to say, Dell) to get the benefit of running both OSes at the same time on the same box. Dual Boot, in comparison, is not so very useful since I operate in parallel rather than serial mode. And I time share rather badly what with the cost of interrupts/boots.
The irony(?) would be that the most stable wayto run your Windows Software and applications would be as a "Virtual" OS running on an Intel Mac from Apple. This would certainly is an attractive proposition to me.
The mind boggles.
Of course another way to go would be to get Tiger to run on a Virtual PC. Of course, for this to be feasible some limitations or specifications on the virtual "hardware" and BIOS would be required. But this is possible. The boggling mind now is rather ill at the thought but never mind.
Which company has the most to gain from Windows running (in parallel, forget dual boot) on Apple hardware/software?
Yes, Very nice analogy. [But] What of the Mainframe programmers (question about which started this flame fest)? Do they predate Lego? Stretch your mind further grasshopper, you are still to grasp the unseen.
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It is not clear that such actions are cost effective nor do they have to be if in fact the real movers are those peddling lawyer services (solicitor work in the UK) as a form of "protection" for the RIAA.
Perhaps these lawyers have convinced the RIAA that such action will be cost effective. Of course on that one, as they say, "the jury is out"
I can't see why *any* Windows user should object, even /.ers. You chose to rent their operating system or if you prefer, your computer is the apartment and Windows OS is your tenant. As such, they can "come and go" as long as they don't trash your place. No evidence of such damage is presented in this case. If you don't like this behaviour than chose a different OS.
It seems like Apple Inc. Could easily side step this brouhaha by doing what they did with iTV, viz: change the name just prior (or at) release to, "ta da", Apple Phone.
It is too early to tell how things will turn out but it does seem that Boot camp is the sound of one shoe dropping (to hopelessly mix metaphors). What would be the effect of dropping the second shoe if it were the ability to run the virtual PC on the Intel Mac at native speed and at a fair price point?
Presumably one would pay a little more to Apple (instead of to say, Dell) to get the benefit of running both OSes at the same time on the same box. Dual Boot, in comparison, is not so very useful since I operate in parallel rather than serial mode. And I time share rather badly what with the cost of interrupts/boots.
The irony(?) would be that the most stable wayto run your Windows Software and applications would be as a "Virtual" OS running on an Intel Mac from Apple. This would certainly is an attractive proposition to me.
The mind boggles.
Of course another way to go would be to get Tiger to run on a Virtual PC. Of course, for this to be feasible some limitations or specifications on the virtual "hardware" and BIOS would be required. But this is possible. The boggling mind now is rather ill at the thought but never mind.
Which company has the most to gain from Windows running (in parallel, forget dual boot) on Apple hardware/software?
Yes, Very nice analogy. [But] What of the Mainframe programmers (question about which started this flame fest)? Do they predate Lego? Stretch your mind further grasshopper, you are still to grasp the unseen.
check out http://www.swallowtail.org/naughty-intel.html [swallowtail.org] Read carefully