When put in the way the previous poster put it, you would hope that Apple provides vouchers for one year subscriptions, when you buy a new Mac and provide 5Mb free e-mail accounts to all Mac users.
Throwing a fit about a 20 dollar OS upgrade? Were they insane? It sure beats a 199 dollar upgrade to windows XP Pro:).
It wasn't the cost which was the problem, but the principle of the situation. When MacOS X first came out it was slow, buggy and in certain cases unusable. When Apple announced the $20 upgrade price people screamed, because they felt that it was insane to pay for a fix to something they perceived as being broken in the first place.
What ended up happening is that you only paied the $20 if you got the upgrade by mail. I got mine through my local Apple store for free. Some places were even providing copied versions of the upgrade, for a small copying fee, since they didn't have enough upgrade packages in stock.
Last names are now officially patented by me, also known as surnames. I declare the use of a last name to identify a person, his living relatives, phone number, or any other source to be exclusively my Intellectual property. Anyone who decides to use this method of identification will now have to pay me royalties based on an agreed upon rate. Use of a last name without my express permission is a violation of my intellectual property rights and will be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Patent officers comment: patent explanation is too easy to read, please rewrite it so that we won't want to read the 23 pages, that essentially say the samee thing. We will only patent ideas that we don't understand or have time to read.
It does rock, but you need a x86 based processor and Windows. The poster was making a point about MacOS, which runs on a PPC processor. This minimum system requirements for Nero read:
Pentium 90, 16 MB RAM 12 MB free hard disk space CD-R, or CD-RW, DVD-R/RW or DVD+RW drive* Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP
Fusion reactors and anti-matter drives sound cool, but do the math...
It is true that they would probably take 30 years to reach the nearest star, but this is only an issue if you are talking manned missions. If you are sending a probe then this is less of an issue, since there is no life support to take worry about and the ground crew would be there to monitor anything ineteresting that the probe might sense.
The other thing that you need to take into account is that we didn't go from the stone wheel to the jet-engine in one leap. We had to go through a number of technological steps and also change our perceptions a number of times. It is the same with space travel, we can't even hope to build an FTL vehicle ( if it is possible ), until we have gone through another few technological steps and changing our perceptions of things a few more times.
"Start with one step and keep on walking." or "You need to learn to walk before you run." - either way the two philosphies can be used to describe technological progress.
One might equally ask why it took you guys a whole month to note the launch of this certification mark...
Good point, but if you knew about it a whole month ago why didn't you post the story to/.? ( This is not meant to be a flame, simply an honest question to a complaint )
Apart from the problem of not being able to being able to bookmark a page on the site ( since it is all flash ) and waiting ages for the site to load, web designers literaly shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to indexing. There was an article that I read recently that indicated that more people will make use of a search engine before surfing to the site of interest, so if your site is flash only your site is not going to get indexed, so nobody will know that there is stuff of interest, unless someone explicity says so.
One solution that I have talked about with friends, would be be to use an analogue signal with a reference sine wave as the 'clock' and distortion reference. In theory any interference happening to the data line should also effect the sine wave in the same way. To correct the signal error, you simply need to fix the data signal with the same distortion correction needed to make the sine wave correct. I haven't tried to prove whether it works in pratice, but the theory sounds okay. This way you would be able to put in a lot more values in a single clock beat.
Maybe a little offtopic, but what are the advantages of cabling kilometers worth of cabling into a central location, instead of spreading the hubs/switches out into multiple locations and thus reducing the amount of cabling?
Probably, but at the same time the hard-drive can be seen as cache, since I don't think it comes with anything to allow the data to be transfered off it, unless you do some hacking.
I can say monopoly, but I can also say sheep. While people don't understand what is being taken away, they'll flock to the OS if Joe Bob down the road says that the OS has cool feature X. The sad truth is if you put some a cool billion dollars worth of money at the bottom of a cliff and tell some people they'll get it, and maybe fame, if they jump, some people will - the promise of reward over-rules sensible thought. This is a generalisation, but you should get the idea.
I'll stop worrying the day that my relatives who don't understand the difference between a CD and a hard-disk, understand at least this.
I'd be interested to know who's fomenting the anti-US propoganda in Europe, and why.
I am not sure the source, but a lot of it probably comes from the 'US first attitude', that is portrayed by both national USA news and international news. What ever you might feel about Bush, much of his international politics is seen, from outside countries, as being a very naive and selfish.
Another difference is probably the fact that most European countries share a certain social agenda, whereby the good of the people is just as important as the good of corporation. In the US, its dog eat dog, though this is what allows the US to advance so much faster.
There is no country that does not have a certain arrogance when it comes to national pride. Like a ship, the larger tanker's errors will always be noticed more, and have a larger effect, than the small sail ship's in the same waters. For this reason the larger ship has to be more careful about errors it makes, if it isn't then the small sailing ships see the large tanker as being a bully, and arrogant towards it neighbours, in the pond. This is the way things are, like it or not.
When it comes to the moon, it doesn't matter how much the US government forked out to get there, it is a satellite that is covered by internationla treaty, more specfically the Moon Treaty ( see article 2, amongst others ). Others treaties of interest can be found here
BTW, although the USA was the first nation to set foot on the moon, the former USSR was the first nation to land a probe on the moon.
Swing in Java 1.4 has improved by a huge amount. I suspect that they have handed off more of the real work to the AWT level, but how ever they have done it, it is a great improvement.
A people carrier is still likely to be more efficient than a SUV. The problem is that people carriers tend to be designed for the family and are usually more aerodynamic than your average SUV. Most SUVs that I see are less aerodynamic than a brick.
If you are driving around a full vehicle it is one thing, but if you are driving around 365 days a year with only one person then the efficiency per load doesn't look so good.
In the UK the top 40 is based on sales of singles. The more popular the single the higher it gets in the charts. Of course the catch is that if your favourite tune is not represented by a single then it has no way of getting into the charts. This is where the album charts come in, though it is hard to tell which tracks encouraged its sale. While singles might cost a third of a price, it usually has the advantage of containing some remixes ( an evolution of the B side from vinyles ), which aren't availble on the album, and in a few cases the video version in mpeg or quicktime format.
I am not sure whether singles would really work in north America, since a) there currently isn't much of a culture built around them and b) they are half the price of an album.
Does anyone else know how the singles charts are caclulated in other places in the world?
Then again surely other nations should have their own programs in place to detect this sort of thing? I am not saying the US is right their choice, just that they aren't the only nation with a space program, not doing anything about this.
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If this is the case then they can solve this problem is one of two ways: either by making use of cookies, that has to be set via some main page, or making sure the referrer is actually the site itself. You can extend the set up so that when traffic originating from outside the site tries to make direct access to the resource, it would get sent to some main page or the html index page above the document in the directory hierarchy.
Check out article 19 of the declaration of human rights, and you will see that although Australia does not have a 'freedom of speach' or 'bill of rights' in their constitution, they do have something similar. Since Australia is part of the UN, it is meant to be respecting human rights.
All the points in the previous post are true ( though I am quite happy with my Mac ), though now that there is a suitable competitor on the market, we can only wait and see what Apple's reaction is.
You design around it. 3rd party drivers are a constraint for MS. Drivers do not have to run in ring-0. Microsoft chose for drivers to run in ring-0 and we pay for it with crashes.
The truth is tomorrows computers will be more stable for this very reason. If Microsoft, and others, are running drivers in ring-0, it is because of speed. By running in the kernel space your drivers are going to respond faster, though the trade off is stability if one of your drivers has a bug in it. IIRC OpenStep had protected memory for it drivers, but Darwin ( the MacOS X kernel ) did away with this to increase response times. With tomorrows computers being faster, the advantage of putting drivers in the kernel space will be lost and at that point we will probably start seeing protected memory for drivers and also running somewhere in ring-1+.
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When put in the way the previous poster put it, you would hope that Apple provides vouchers for one year subscriptions, when you buy a new Mac and provide 5Mb free e-mail accounts to all Mac users.
Throwing a fit about a 20 dollar OS upgrade? Were they insane? It sure beats a 199 dollar upgrade to windows XP Pro :).
It wasn't the cost which was the problem, but the principle of the situation. When MacOS X first came out it was slow, buggy and in certain cases unusable. When Apple announced the $20 upgrade price people screamed, because they felt that it was insane to pay for a fix to something they perceived as being broken in the first place.
What ended up happening is that you only paied the $20 if you got the upgrade by mail. I got mine through my local Apple store for free. Some places were even providing copied versions of the upgrade, for a small copying fee, since they didn't have enough upgrade packages in stock.
Patent officers comment: patent explanation is too easy to read, please rewrite it so that we won't want to read the 23 pages, that essentially say the samee thing. We will only patent ideas that we don't understand or have time to read.
Pentium 90, 16 MB RAM
12 MB free hard disk space
CD-R, or CD-RW, DVD-R/RW or DVD+RW drive*
Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP
Fusion reactors and anti-matter drives sound cool, but do the math ...
It is true that they would probably take 30 years to reach the nearest star, but this is only an issue if you are talking manned missions. If you are sending a probe then this is less of an issue, since there is no life support to take worry about and the ground crew would be there to monitor anything ineteresting that the probe might sense.
The other thing that you need to take into account is that we didn't go from the stone wheel to the jet-engine in one leap. We had to go through a number of technological steps and also change our perceptions a number of times. It is the same with space travel, we can't even hope to build an FTL vehicle ( if it is possible ), until we have gone through another few technological steps and changing our perceptions of things a few more times.
"Start with one step and keep on walking." or "You need to learn to walk before you run." - either way the two philosphies can be used to describe technological progress.
One might equally ask why it took you guys a whole month to note the launch of this certification mark...
/.? ( This is not meant to be a flame, simply an honest question to a complaint )
Good point, but if you knew about it a whole month ago why didn't you post the story to
Apart from the problem of not being able to being able to bookmark a page on the site ( since it is all flash ) and waiting ages for the site to load, web designers literaly shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to indexing. There was an article that I read recently that indicated that more people will make use of a search engine before surfing to the site of interest, so if your site is flash only your site is not going to get indexed, so nobody will know that there is stuff of interest, unless someone explicity says so.
One solution that I have talked about with friends, would be be to use an analogue signal with a reference sine wave as the 'clock' and distortion reference. In theory any interference happening to the data line should also effect the sine wave in the same way. To correct the signal error, you simply need to fix the data signal with the same distortion correction needed to make the sine wave correct. I haven't tried to prove whether it works in pratice, but the theory sounds okay. This way you would be able to put in a lot more values in a single clock beat.
Maybe a little offtopic, but what are the advantages of cabling kilometers worth of cabling into a central location, instead of spreading the hubs/switches out into multiple locations and thus reducing the amount of cabling?
Probably, but at the same time the hard-drive can be seen as cache, since I don't think it comes with anything to allow the data to be transfered off it, unless you do some hacking.
I'll stop worrying the day that my relatives who don't understand the difference between a CD and a hard-disk, understand at least this.
I am not sure the source, but a lot of it probably comes from the 'US first attitude', that is portrayed by both national USA news and international news. What ever you might feel about Bush, much of his international politics is seen, from outside countries, as being a very naive and selfish.
Another difference is probably the fact that most European countries share a certain social agenda, whereby the good of the people is just as important as the good of corporation. In the US, its dog eat dog, though this is what allows the US to advance so much faster.
There is no country that does not have a certain arrogance when it comes to national pride. Like a ship, the larger tanker's errors will always be noticed more, and have a larger effect, than the small sail ship's in the same waters. For this reason the larger ship has to be more careful about errors it makes, if it isn't then the small sailing ships see the large tanker as being a bully, and arrogant towards it neighbours, in the pond. This is the way things are, like it or not.
They even have cup holders. And I thought that was a CD tray - doh!
Maybe he is going withdraw that offer, since the /. crowd /.ed him.
When it comes to the moon, it doesn't matter how much the US government forked out to get there, it is a satellite that is covered by internationla treaty, more specfically the Moon Treaty ( see article 2, amongst others ). Others treaties of interest can be found here
BTW, although the USA was the first nation to set foot on the moon, the former USSR was the first nation to land a probe on the moon.
Swing in Java 1.4 has improved by a huge amount. I suspect that they have handed off more of the real work to the AWT level, but how ever they have done it, it is a great improvement.
A people carrier is still likely to be more efficient than a SUV. The problem is that people carriers tend to be designed for the family and are usually more aerodynamic than your average SUV. Most SUVs that I see are less aerodynamic than a brick.
If you are driving around a full vehicle it is one thing, but if you are driving around 365 days a year with only one person then the efficiency per load doesn't look so good.
In the UK the top 40 is based on sales of singles. The more popular the single the higher it gets in the charts. Of course the catch is that if your favourite tune is not represented by a single then it has no way of getting into the charts. This is where the album charts come in, though it is hard to tell which tracks encouraged its sale. While singles might cost a third of a price, it usually has the advantage of containing some remixes ( an evolution of the B side from vinyles ), which aren't availble on the album, and in a few cases the video version in mpeg or quicktime format.
I am not sure whether singles would really work in north America, since a) there currently isn't much of a culture built around them and b) they are half the price of an album.
Does anyone else know how the singles charts are caclulated in other places in the world?
Judging by the description of Longhorn, then its official release name should be Windows 1984 - the OS the KGB really wanted!
Then again surely other nations should have their own programs in place to detect this sort of thing? I am not saying the US is right their choice, just that they aren't the only nation with a space program, not doing anything about this.
If this is the case then they can solve this problem is one of two ways: either by making use of cookies, that has to be set via some main page, or making sure the referrer is actually the site itself. You can extend the set up so that when traffic originating from outside the site tries to make direct access to the resource, it would get sent to some main page or the html index page above the document in the directory hierarchy.
Check out article 19 of the declaration of human rights, and you will see that although Australia does not have a 'freedom of speach' or 'bill of rights' in their constitution, they do have something similar. Since Australia is part of the UN, it is meant to be respecting human rights.
All the points in the previous post are true ( though I am quite happy with my Mac ), though now that there is a suitable competitor on the market, we can only wait and see what Apple's reaction is.
If I remember correctly similar things were true of Edison in that inventions made by those in his lab were patented under his name.
Telsa lost out to Edison. Once again those with money are in a position to screw the rest of us.
The truth is tomorrows computers will be more stable for this very reason. If Microsoft, and others, are running drivers in ring-0, it is because of speed. By running in the kernel space your drivers are going to respond faster, though the trade off is stability if one of your drivers has a bug in it. IIRC OpenStep had protected memory for it drivers, but Darwin ( the MacOS X kernel ) did away with this to increase response times. With tomorrows computers being faster, the advantage of putting drivers in the kernel space will be lost and at that point we will probably start seeing protected memory for drivers and also running somewhere in ring-1+.