How does having the encryption in the drive rather than a driver help?
* the processor in the driver is slower than the processor in the computer. * anything that will trash an encrypted partition will trash it whether the encryption is in hardware or software.
Now you may be arguing that firmware is inherently more reliable than the OS. That's a viable argument, I suppose, but I've worked on too much firmware to believe it.
"It's asserting that bundling leads to market share. I don't know how you can make the claim with a straight face," he said.
Maybe because it's true? In fact the converse boggles my mind. How can you say, with a straight face, that Internet Explorer would have significant market share if it wasn't bundled with Windows?
You would have thought a Slashdot poster would understand the difference between an application, a window, and a process.
I don't know the difference between "an application" and "a process". Please elaborate.
See, every Windows box I use, the first thing I do is select "Launch folder windows as a separate process".
Otherwise, within a week, I'm wishing I had... when Explorer locks up for a minute or two because of a buggy USB drive or broken network share or just because I have "the wrong kind of icons".
So why does the fact that they were using an Apple music player or laptop annoy you then? I mean, you made such a point of the blandness of the white headphones. What does it matter whether they're listening on an Apple, Creative, or Microsoft product? Do you imagine that the music somehow sounds different on an iPod?
Your comment doesn't even make enough sense to be wrong.
The Amiga used the 68000 processor, which was big-endian, as were almost all processor designs, ever. Most computers today are little-endian, because that's what Intel (following DEC's lead) standardized on.
Computers don't read memory "left to right" or "right to left". They operate in parallel.
I remember when we got our first TV that had "instant on". My dad, en electrical engineer, always hammered on us kids to turn the power off at the wall when we weren't watching. This was in Australia where we had a real honest-to-goodness power switch on every wall plug. I was boggled to discover a few years later that US power points were live all the time.
The whole question of the validity of the current patent system should be the topic here, not whether Apple is likely to abuse it... so far as I know Apple's only used their patents defensively (have I missed something?).
Nowadays it's hard to find a non-right-biased, symmetrical mouse (at least a good one).
The cheap basic Microsoft Optical mouse is the best mouse I've found - the fancy ones with extra buttons and exciting shapes are a pain to use - and it's symmetrical. It's the best thing Microsoft's ever made... maybe even better than Xenix.
The biggest source of spam is the united states. If you could effectively eliminate US spam it would have a huge and permanent impact on the spamosphere.
You don't need to trace the origin cold, or even at all. For a spammer to make money he has to tell the customer how to find him. You follow the money.
I know a couple: out of the several hundred developers I was supporting in a precious job I can only recall a couple who were using a mouse left-handed handed when I was called in to help them... so obviously some people prefer them.
They all type with both hands. Even when entering a password.
I don't think corporate culture is so much a part of the problem for Apple. The environment is different.
PReP and other "generic power PC" designs weren't a threat to Microsoft. In fact Microsoft promoted it... it was a wonderful distraction for them while they were increasing the dominance of the "Wintel" environment.
Generic OS X today would be a much more direct attack on Windows, and there's no way Apple would go for it unless they could break the Office monopoly. All it would take would be for Microsoft to pull Office for Mac and their market share would be down to 5% again.
But why not use XMPP? XMPP has a huge advantage over this product: there are already a ton of clients out there -- no one has to install anything special to be able to talk to your users.
Given the number of incompatible IM protocols in use in games, one wonders if that isn't seen as an advantage by the game companies.:(
Extending the TCPA to cover spam, so you could sue spammers in small claims court for $250/incident, like you can sue telemarketers, would probably do the trick. But it'll never happen.
Because if everybody's getting spam from *.welovespam.com, nobody's going to want to register in that namespace.
With Tucows and other people offering reseller-in-a-box packages, you really would just be pushing the problem one level down. It wouldn't be "*.welovespam.com", it would be a "*.cool.com" that had 30,000 legitimate domains by the time one of their resellers turned pink.
But for me, the $50 figure always comes to mind, because I remember everybody whining about it when Network Solutions had a monopoly and that's what they charged.
I recall paying $35 a year to Network Solutions, not $50. Which is why $50 seemed like an example. It doesn't mean anything to me.
OK, Intel thinks they need any kind of GPU win, badly. Their "oh no, you don't need a fast GPU, you need raytracing in the CPU, 8- and 16- core laptops won't be too hot really" strategy doesn't seem to be getting the great press they hoped. Having Apple drop the GMA line at the low end has to be embarrassing for them as well.
Multics used a file/disk oriented model, and programs were created and destroyed... it had nothing like Smalltalk or APL's workspaces. The main distinction between Multics and its spiritual successor UNIX is not that the files were objects or elements in a persistent object store, but that files were memory mapped. This turned out to be a bottleneck because the small address space of even mainframes of the time meant they had to use a complex paging scheme to deal with files over 256k.
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Legally speaking, I suspect "labeled by Apple, Inc" is the only one that matters.
Did Apple label it? Or did you?
How does having the encryption in the drive rather than a driver help?
* the processor in the driver is slower than the processor in the computer.
* anything that will trash an encrypted partition will trash it whether the encryption is in hardware or software.
Now you may be arguing that firmware is inherently more reliable than the OS. That's a viable argument, I suppose, but I've worked on too much firmware to believe it.
"It's asserting that bundling leads to market share. I don't know how you can make the claim with a straight face," he said.
Maybe because it's true? In fact the converse boggles my mind. How can you say, with a straight face, that Internet Explorer would have significant market share if it wasn't bundled with Windows?
You would have thought a Slashdot poster would understand the difference between an application, a window, and a process.
I don't know the difference between "an application" and "a process". Please elaborate.
See, every Windows box I use, the first thing I do is select "Launch folder windows as a separate process".
Otherwise, within a week, I'm wishing I had... when Explorer locks up for a minute or two because of a buggy USB drive or broken network share or just because I have "the wrong kind of icons".
So why does the fact that they were using an Apple music player or laptop annoy you then? I mean, you made such a point of the blandness of the white headphones. What does it matter whether they're listening on an Apple, Creative, or Microsoft product? Do you imagine that the music somehow sounds different on an iPod?
Enlighten me.
Your comment doesn't even make enough sense to be wrong.
The Amiga used the 68000 processor, which was big-endian, as were almost all processor designs, ever. Most computers today are little-endian, because that's what Intel (following DEC's lead) standardized on.
Computers don't read memory "left to right" or "right to left". They operate in parallel.
I remember when we got our first TV that had "instant on". My dad, en electrical engineer, always hammered on us kids to turn the power off at the wall when we weren't watching. This was in Australia where we had a real honest-to-goodness power switch on every wall plug. I was boggled to discover a few years later that US power points were live all the time.
Isn't the x86 architecture effectively public domain, after the Cyrix/IBM case?
The whole question of the validity of the current patent system should be the topic here, not whether Apple is likely to abuse it... so far as I know Apple's only used their patents defensively (have I missed something?).
You mean someone using a laptop that isn't black or headphones that aren't silver actually annoys you?
You related to Henry Ford or something?
Nowadays it's hard to find a non-right-biased, symmetrical mouse (at least a good one).
The cheap basic Microsoft Optical mouse is the best mouse I've found - the fancy ones with extra buttons and exciting shapes are a pain to use - and it's symmetrical. It's the best thing Microsoft's ever made... maybe even better than Xenix.
The biggest source of spam is the united states. If you could effectively eliminate US spam it would have a huge and permanent impact on the spamosphere.
You don't need to trace the origin cold, or even at all. For a spammer to make money he has to tell the customer how to find him. You follow the money.
Touché
I know a couple: out of the several hundred developers I was supporting in a precious job I can only recall a couple who were using a mouse left-handed handed when I was called in to help them... so obviously some people prefer them.
They all type with both hands. Even when entering a password.
I don't think corporate culture is so much a part of the problem for Apple. The environment is different.
PReP and other "generic power PC" designs weren't a threat to Microsoft. In fact Microsoft promoted it... it was a wonderful distraction for them while they were increasing the dominance of the "Wintel" environment.
Generic OS X today would be a much more direct attack on Windows, and there's no way Apple would go for it unless they could break the Office monopoly. All it would take would be for Microsoft to pull Office for Mac and their market share would be down to 5% again.
That's the first time I've heard of one-handed typing being commonplace. I thought it was restricted to certain kinds of websites. :)
But why not use XMPP? XMPP has a huge advantage over this product: there are already a ton of clients out there -- no one has to install anything special to be able to talk to your users.
Given the number of incompatible IM protocols in use in games, one wonders if that isn't seen as an advantage by the game companies. :(
I suppose whereas "1234" is popular among right-hand people, "159357" will be popular among lefties.
Last time I looked, the keypad was on the right of the keyboard. ^^
What about people who dislike iTunes?
Get off my lawn! Darn kids and their hepped-up WinAMP...
Why not Apple? Because Apple isn't selling generic OS X that competes head to head against Windows on generic PCs.
If Apple changed that, you can bet Microsoft would be on to them in a flash.
Extending the TCPA to cover spam, so you could sue spammers in small claims court for $250/incident, like you can sue telemarketers, would probably do the trick. But it'll never happen.
Because if everybody's getting spam from *.welovespam.com, nobody's going to want to register in that namespace.
With Tucows and other people offering reseller-in-a-box packages, you really would just be pushing the problem one level down. It wouldn't be "*.welovespam.com", it would be a "*.cool.com" that had 30,000 legitimate domains by the time one of their resellers turned pink.
But for me, the $50 figure always comes to mind, because I remember everybody whining about it when Network Solutions had a monopoly and that's what they charged.
I recall paying $35 a year to Network Solutions, not $50. Which is why $50 seemed like an example. It doesn't mean anything to me.
OK, Intel thinks they need any kind of GPU win, badly. Their "oh no, you don't need a fast GPU, you need raytracing in the CPU, 8- and 16- core laptops won't be too hot really" strategy doesn't seem to be getting the great press they hoped. Having Apple drop the GMA line at the low end has to be embarrassing for them as well.
Multics used a file/disk oriented model, and programs were created and destroyed... it had nothing like Smalltalk or APL's workspaces. The main distinction between Multics and its spiritual successor UNIX is not that the files were objects or elements in a persistent object store, but that files were memory mapped. This turned out to be a bottleneck because the small address space of even mainframes of the time meant they had to use a complex paging scheme to deal with files over 256k.