IIRC, this is using Silverlight. You need to install Microsoft's latest "active content" environment on your mac (or, eventually, on Linux) to take advantage of this. After avoiding depending on "active content" even on Windows (and avoiding a number of big virus panics) for a decade, I'm not about to start trusting them now.
Let's start by decriminalizing all drugs that are less addictive than tobacco (oh, wait, that's all of them).
Decriminalization doesn't mean "legalization". It doesn't mean it's legal to sell them without a prescription or anything like that, just that simple use is not criminal. If you're addicted to a prescription pharmaceutical, you're not scared to get help for it. It may be embarrassing, but you're not going to worry about going to jail for falling off the wagon.
That's a lot smaller hurdle, no? And one that doesn't dismantle your pugnacious security blanket all in one go.
If you had actually been involved in getting help for someone addicted to illegal drugs you wouldn't spout nonsense like that. People don't WANT to be addicted, they're SCARED of getting help, so they put it off, until what would have been a little problem is a big problem.
And since making it illegal hasn't made it harder to get, what's the point?
Which makes me think that no one has heard of thin clients on windows, which work just fine.
For small values of "fine". We tried moving to X terminals with a Citrix client built in to transition from UNIX to Windows, and the behavior of the thin clients was enough to make us move quickly to dataless Windows desktops (enforced in practice by limited local disk space... Windows doesn't have really good dataless support either) with a local X server.
X terminals, diskless workstations, and dataless workstations, these all work very well in the UNIX world, but Windows is still too tied into the single-user model and there are simply too many shortcomings for any but the lightest use.
Yes, I'm using the second generation of Core Duo Macbook Pros. They have significant heat problems and improving the fan thresholds doesn't help. I can easily believe that the Macbook Air has similar problems.
When the MacBook Pros were released these values were wrong. The fans would not kick in early enough and the machine would become unstable. Tweaking them a bit made the machine a bit louder and shortened the battery life slightly, but stopped it crashing (the CPU was fine, but the memory chips got too hot). A subsequent update fixed the problem and I don't have the fan control or temperature monitor utilities installed anymore.
You must have a more recent Macbook Pro than me. I have to remove the battery to keep it from overheating with more than about 50% total CPU use (100% of one core or 50% of both cores) even with fan control utilities.
I think right now the MacBook Air is the only Ultra lightweight and Thin laptop that performs as well as a Mid to upper mid level PC.
The MacBook Air is specced similarly to the Macbook at the time of its introduction, or the contemporary Mac mini, with a mediocre processor and a significantly below-par GPU. It's nowhere near a "mid to upper mid level PC", it's smack dab in the center of "entry level".
In this case, Steam is two types of DRM. It protects Valve from piracy and allows you to manage your games from a central location.
You don't need Steam to keep a copy of your games on a server. Steam just forces you to only use THEIR server.
"Copy Protection" or "DRM", it's only there to restrict the purchaser's rights. It may be necessary to do that in some cases, but that doesn't change the fact that... no matter what you call it... it can only *restrict* what you can do with the software you legally installed. It only adds value for the consumer to the extent that it encourages creators to publish (which is where the "it may be necessary" part comes in).
Do most people crack games themselves? I haven't been much into games since the '80s, and back then I don't think I knew ANYONE who cracked a game themselves. They'd just wait for Bozo NYC to do it and it'd show up on the local bulletin boards. Often before it showed up in the stores.
These days it's torrents instead of BBSes, but most pirated copies are still downloaded... not cracked directly.
The best they can hope to do with stronger DRM is to hold off the pirates a couple of weeks. After that, it might as well not be there.
I bought a copy of Wizardry, and it broke because the copy protection was too flakey. I got a local "pirate" to write a cracked copy over the original gold-labelled floppy, which amused him no end.
You seem to be displaying exactly the kind of cynicism I'm concerned about.
Do you really think some of those exemption papers were written deliberately with the intent of derailing the efforts to fight the wildfire growth of DRM technologies?
Apple is a corporation. Corporations are by law required to be psychopathic money-hungry bastards (that's what the SEC regulations for public companies amount to). Don't attribute human emotions and motivations to corporations... corporations reflect ANY human attributes only in spite of what they are.
Setting that aside, the third reason for a patent is to provide defensive ammunition against the OTHER psychopathic money-hungry bastards that might use THEIR patent against you.
The additional I/O overhead in Vista, which seems to be partly related to internal mechanisms to prevent "wiretapping" media streams by kernel components, is hardly going to show up in idle CPU overhead. I can not comprehend the confusion in the mind that would lead to someone supposing otherwise.
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IIRC, this is using Silverlight. You need to install Microsoft's latest "active content" environment on your mac (or, eventually, on Linux) to take advantage of this. After avoiding depending on "active content" even on Windows (and avoiding a number of big virus panics) for a decade, I'm not about to start trusting them now.
Which drugs would you legalize?
Let's start by decriminalizing all drugs that are less addictive than tobacco (oh, wait, that's all of them).
Decriminalization doesn't mean "legalization". It doesn't mean it's legal to sell them without a prescription or anything like that, just that simple use is not criminal. If you're addicted to a prescription pharmaceutical, you're not scared to get help for it. It may be embarrassing, but you're not going to worry about going to jail for falling off the wagon.
That's a lot smaller hurdle, no? And one that doesn't dismantle your pugnacious security blanket all in one go.
Maybe we should go retro back to the 80s and 'the war on drugs' ...
I think the '80s never ended.
If you had actually been involved in getting help for someone addicted to illegal drugs you wouldn't spout nonsense like that. People don't WANT to be addicted, they're SCARED of getting help, so they put it off, until what would have been a little problem is a big problem.
And since making it illegal hasn't made it harder to get, what's the point?
My experience matches yours, quite closely.
Which makes me think that no one has heard of thin clients on windows, which work just fine.
For small values of "fine". We tried moving to X terminals with a Citrix client built in to transition from UNIX to Windows, and the behavior of the thin clients was enough to make us move quickly to dataless Windows desktops (enforced in practice by limited local disk space... Windows doesn't have really good dataless support either) with a local X server.
X terminals, diskless workstations, and dataless workstations, these all work very well in the UNIX world, but Windows is still too tied into the single-user model and there are simply too many shortcomings for any but the lightest use.
Yes, I'm using the second generation of Core Duo Macbook Pros. They have significant heat problems and improving the fan thresholds doesn't help. I can easily believe that the Macbook Air has similar problems.
When the MacBook Pros were released these values were wrong. The fans would not kick in early enough and the machine would become unstable. Tweaking them a bit made the machine a bit louder and shortened the battery life slightly, but stopped it crashing (the CPU was fine, but the memory chips got too hot). A subsequent update fixed the problem and I don't have the fan control or temperature monitor utilities installed anymore.
You must have a more recent Macbook Pro than me. I have to remove the battery to keep it from overheating with more than about 50% total CPU use (100% of one core or 50% of both cores) even with fan control utilities.
See this temperature graph.
I think right now the MacBook Air is the only Ultra lightweight and Thin laptop that performs as well as a Mid to upper mid level PC.
The MacBook Air is specced similarly to the Macbook at the time of its introduction, or the contemporary Mac mini, with a mediocre processor and a significantly below-par GPU. It's nowhere near a "mid to upper mid level PC", it's smack dab in the center of "entry level".
SSL?
Where do you get that price from?
The phones will be sold without a contract at low prices -- $A299 ($US192).
You say "money-hungry" like it's a bad thing.
It may be of concern when it's combined with "psychopathic" and "bastard".
You should start a company that's not money-hungry and see how far you get...
I didn't say there was an alternative to a public corporation being a PMHB, just that you have to keep that in mind when dealing with one.
Point. Thank you for the correction, I should have noted that. :)
Good point, thanks for the clarification. I should have noted that myself.
It's sold without contract to any network. They have no incentive to restrict it.
If you were a weakly godlike intelligence, would you choose Windows?
This is not an exploit, this is a payload like a rootkit that targets Firefox... after your computer has already been compromised.
I would be surprised if there ISN'T a similar payload targeting IE delivered by the same malware.
In my experience, most corporations involve people at some level or another.
That's why we need Economy 2.0!
Maybe they're channeling Rowan and Martin.
"Verrrry Interesting... but stupid."
In this case, Steam is two types of DRM. It protects Valve from piracy and allows you to manage your games from a central location.
You don't need Steam to keep a copy of your games on a server. Steam just forces you to only use THEIR server.
"Copy Protection" or "DRM", it's only there to restrict the purchaser's rights. It may be necessary to do that in some cases, but that doesn't change the fact that... no matter what you call it... it can only *restrict* what you can do with the software you legally installed. It only adds value for the consumer to the extent that it encourages creators to publish (which is where the "it may be necessary" part comes in).
Using DRM make a game more difficult to pirate
Do most people crack games themselves? I haven't been much into games since the '80s, and back then I don't think I knew ANYONE who cracked a game themselves. They'd just wait for Bozo NYC to do it and it'd show up on the local bulletin boards. Often before it showed up in the stores.
These days it's torrents instead of BBSes, but most pirated copies are still downloaded... not cracked directly.
The best they can hope to do with stronger DRM is to hold off the pirates a couple of weeks. After that, it might as well not be there.
I bought a copy of Wizardry, and it broke because the copy protection was too flakey. I got a local "pirate" to write a cracked copy over the original gold-labelled floppy, which amused him no end.
that would be the entire point.
You seem to be displaying exactly the kind of cynicism I'm concerned about.
Do you really think some of those exemption papers were written deliberately with the intent of derailing the efforts to fight the wildfire growth of DRM technologies?
Apple is a corporation. Corporations are by law required to be psychopathic money-hungry bastards (that's what the SEC regulations for public companies amount to). Don't attribute human emotions and motivations to corporations... corporations reflect ANY human attributes only in spite of what they are.
Setting that aside, the third reason for a patent is to provide defensive ammunition against the OTHER psychopathic money-hungry bastards that might use THEIR patent against you.
The additional I/O overhead in Vista, which seems to be partly related to internal mechanisms to prevent "wiretapping" media streams by kernel components, is hardly going to show up in idle CPU overhead. I can not comprehend the confusion in the mind that would lead to someone supposing otherwise.