I have a couple email addresses posted all over the web, so I've been receiving 300+ messages per day telling me my Mac is infected with viruses that don't exist for it. I don't wade through most of these thanks to my spam filter but nonetheless it slows down traffic for me to download them. Everybody suffers from worms and viruses, even the ones that only bring down unpatched Windows boxes.
A point that should be made throughout all this virus hoopla is that while Macintosh users are generally immune from any direct attack from PC viruses, a Macintosh user can be a "typhoid Mary" style carrier by passing along a virus from an email or infected file.
So not only is my Mac immune to Windows viruses; it also helps those viruses destroy Windows machines?
Not according to the judge in the BSD case. He ruled that comments were not part of the source code.
To be fair, that doesn't mean stealing them isn't IP infringement. If you write a brilliant poem in the comments of your code you don't lose IP interest in it. But that's not what we're talking about here. None of those comments have anything worth protecting as IP in them. The only reason for showing they are the same would be as a convenient pointer to potentially stolen code. Nobody here should be disputing that it is the code, not the comments, that are at issue.
You can get a good iBook, or eMac for under $1,000 these days if you're looking for something with OS X, I'd go with a G4 though. The G3's are slowly being phased out completely.
The eMac has a G4. You can get one for about $800 (though I would at least add a bunch of RAM to that model). Also, the G3 won't be phased out for a while.
I can't tear the machine apart for parts, or (asside from Yellow Dog Linux) put another OS on it.
Or Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, or NetBSD, or plain old Darwin and roll your own distribution. There's even a very unofficial slackware project available. Or if you *really* like rolling your own, check out Linux from Scratch. If you have a really old Mac you can even run BeOS on it.
Me, I'll stick with OS X, but don't tell me you can't put another OS on your Mac.
Why not just have your land line call forward to your cell phone, and tell people to call your land line number? You can switch the # you're forwarding to whenever you get a different cell.
Why is it that anytime somebody thinks of something cool to do with something, people like you whine about how its only use is piracy. You go even farther than many, suggesting that multibillion dollar corporations who might lose few theoretical bucks to pirates should produce crippled merchandise and buy crooked laws rather than "sitting there and watching." Why some moderators thought that was insightful is beyond me.
Sorry if I sound annoyed, but it gets tedious dealing with this question every time a new technology is developed.
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How about the worst of both worlds? A Window manager designed mostly to emulate Windows poorly atop an operating system that actually *is* Windows. Ugh.
Blackouts can be fun. I remember the great LA blackout of 2000... OK it wasn't that great and it wasn't really a blackout but regardless... I lit up a shitload of candles; I always have tons of them around, and a lot of people in the neighborhood, seeing the candles and no other lights around, started to come by... a crowd gathered in the front yard and people started bringing bottles of wine and stuff. Spontaneous party, it was really cool, people I knew and quite a few that I didn't. But the power came back on in a few hours, and it hardly was the magnitude of what's happening now.
I realize you have blackouts at least once a week in New Orleans, but we're talking about electricity outages here, not blackouts from alcohol overconsumption.
CA got messed up because their power system was RE-regulated with a set of stupid rules that certain less-than-ethical companies took advatage of. It was the REGULATIONS put in place that caused everything to fall apart, not a lack of them.
So let's see... you think these "less-than-ethical companies" would be better behaved with fewer rules? That makes a lot of sense. You're blaming the regulations because companies found ways to abuse them. How about a little blame for the companies that abuse them?
Bloomberg says that the smoke from the 14th street power station is from a shutdown procedure, that I could completely believe
I could believe it too. In power stations running Windows there is a well known error reporting device known to insiders as the "BSOD," or "Black Smoke of Death."
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I have a couple email addresses posted all over the web, so I've been receiving 300+ messages per day telling me my Mac is infected with viruses that don't exist for it. I don't wade through most of these thanks to my spam filter but nonetheless it slows down traffic for me to download them. Everybody suffers from worms and viruses, even the ones that only bring down unpatched Windows boxes.
So not only is my Mac immune to Windows viruses; it also helps those viruses destroy Windows machines?
So what's the downside?
But abaci don't have spell check!
If they were copying Apple, they would at least put the icons on the right side of the desktop!!
No; they would install *nix from scratch.
One classic game I loved playing in OS 6 or 7 was Balance of Power. I just got it working on vMac!!
To be fair, that doesn't mean stealing them isn't IP infringement. If you write a brilliant poem in the comments of your code you don't lose IP interest in it. But that's not what we're talking about here. None of those comments have anything worth protecting as IP in them. The only reason for showing they are the same would be as a convenient pointer to potentially stolen code. Nobody here should be disputing that it is the code, not the comments, that are at issue.
slashdot sells SCSI devices? Cool!
The eMac has a G4. You can get one for about $800 (though I would at least add a bunch of RAM to that model). Also, the G3 won't be phased out for a while.
Me too! I want 10 new G5s.
Until she reads about it on slashdot :)
not if all you do is spend your time posting to slashdot.
Or Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, or NetBSD, or plain old Darwin and roll your own distribution. There's even a very unofficial slackware project available. Or if you *really* like rolling your own, check out Linux from Scratch. If you have a really old Mac you can even run BeOS on it.
Me, I'll stick with OS X, but don't tell me you can't put another OS on your Mac.
Why not just have your land line call forward to your cell phone, and tell people to call your land line number? You can switch the # you're forwarding to whenever you get a different cell.
The company is beleaguered, you know.
I want to know his slashdot user ID.
Because they get embarrassed trying to make smalltalk with a lisp.
Why is it that anytime somebody thinks of something cool to do with something, people like you whine about how its only use is piracy. You go even farther than many, suggesting that multibillion dollar corporations who might lose few theoretical bucks to pirates should produce crippled merchandise and buy crooked laws rather than "sitting there and watching." Why some moderators thought that was insightful is beyond me.
Sorry if I sound annoyed, but it gets tedious dealing with this question every time a new technology is developed.
You need a garbage can.
How about the worst of both worlds? A Window manager designed mostly to emulate Windows poorly atop an operating system that actually *is* Windows. Ugh.
The BSOD (Black Smoke of Death).
Blackouts can be fun. I remember the great LA blackout of 2000... OK it wasn't that great and it wasn't really a blackout but regardless... I lit up a shitload of candles; I always have tons of them around, and a lot of people in the neighborhood, seeing the candles and no other lights around, started to come by... a crowd gathered in the front yard and people started bringing bottles of wine and stuff. Spontaneous party, it was really cool, people I knew and quite a few that I didn't. But the power came back on in a few hours, and it hardly was the magnitude of what's happening now.
I realize you have blackouts at least once a week in New Orleans, but we're talking about electricity outages here, not blackouts from alcohol overconsumption.
So let's see... you think these "less-than-ethical companies" would be better behaved with fewer rules? That makes a lot of sense. You're blaming the regulations because companies found ways to abuse them. How about a little blame for the companies that abuse them?
I could believe it too. In power stations running Windows there is a well known error reporting device known to insiders as the "BSOD," or "Black Smoke of Death."