Virtual PC doesn't do quite the same thing. It "just" emulates x86 hardware. Wine in an implementation of (some) Win32 APIs which runs on x86 *nixen. With VirtualPC you need a copy of Windows, with Wine you don't.
You need the x86 emulation layer to run Windows executables. Adding hooks for x86 executables running under an emulator to use native PPC implementations of the Wine libs sounds like a distinctly hairy exercise to me, but it would provide the best performance.
With all these dual-core chips coming up, I wonder if IBM would be cheeky enough to stick a little x86 core in the package along with a couple of POWER cores. They have an x86 core design already, even if it is a bit old (the Cyrix 6x86).
I'm not sure I can explain why when my wife calls her mother in the US the line is sometimes poor quality, yet any call made within Europe is always crystal clear.
If you're using one of those international calling cards that is your problem. They are compressed to fuck.
I'd like my phone to appear on my desktop the way an external hard drive or other mass-storage device does whenever I get into proximity with my computer.
My Siemens S55 does this. The entire filesystem (texts, pictures, contacts, java apps, settings, ringtones...) is browseable over bluetooth, serial or USB and you can drag & drop. Some Siemens phones have an SD/MMC slot, so you can stick a gig in if you like. You do need software on the host PC though (unless you use BT and OBEX, but that's not quite the same).
Bah. Leave it to the UK to randoumly insergt letters wheure they doun't beloung.
There are no extraneous letters in "whinge" (except perhaps the h); it is not an alternative spelling of "whine". It rhymes with "hinge" and means to complain excessivley or annoyingly. Unlike "whine" it isn't used to descibe a sound.
It's not one thing. It's not just the design, that's fairly generic. It's the design being so similar, the name being so similar and the marketing being so similar all combined. It ammounts to "passing off" (that's what we call it in the UK anyway, it's "trade dress" in the US I think).
I could make a car which looked quite like a BMW 3-series and get away with it. If I also called it the 3-series, had a round logo with the middle divided into 4 segments, played on it being a driver's car in my advertising and called my company EMW it would ammount to passing off, even though those actions individually may not be a problem.
This is even more stupid than that guy who shined a laser into an airplane cockpit on more than one occasion.
All this "laser pointers blind pilots" stuff is pure BS (I know that's not what you said, this is a tangent). Look up beam divergence. Work out how accurately you'd have to aim the thing even if you had a laser powerful enough to do any damage. I'm sure Raytheon would build you something for a few megabucks, but someone holding a laser pointer being a danger to a fast moving, distant target? Don't make me laugh.
Basically, humans should not mess with nature, let it be itself.
What are we, aliens? No, we're animals from the planet Earth. By far the best damn animals the planet has ever seen, but still animals. We evolved. We are part of nature. The Interweb is just as natural as a beaver's dam.
It seems like this might be a good case if the evidence is really so strong.
That's not for the PearPC developers to decide. Their claim is for copyright infringement. The CherryOS people claim there is no code from PearPC in their product, which makes the license irrelevant. It's just plain old copyright law, which is pretty well tested.
In order to test the GPL the CherryOS folks would have to admit they had used PearPC code, but claim the GPL allowed them to redistribute it code in the way they have. That would be a test of the GPL itself. As CherryOS claim there is no PearPC code in their product I doubt this will happen.
The San Francisco-based bank said it also installed more than 3,000 online stations in nearly all of its 6,046 branch locations.
That can't mean they have more than 3000 in total, as that's only around half of 6046. Even in marketing-land where the margins are bigger, you'd need at least 5000 out of 6000 to claim "nearly all". Logically, this means they must have more than 3000 online stations in each of their 6046 branches. That's over 18 million Windows licenses. Some sales guy at MS just got a new yacht.
Well, Sony always had uber-sexy Vaio laptops that made people drool for as long as Apple's Powerbooks.
True, and they cost about the same as Apple's hardware. Of course, it's not Sony Vaio laptops that people compare Apple Powerbooks to. Oh no, they compare them to Walmart specials.
Find me a desktop mac that costs $1000. ill take my noisie pc, format the hard drive, install a nice version of linux. Buy some quitter fans for $20 at fry's and enjoy my computer. And while you are watching your empty checking account ill be enjoying the sun in hawaii for the amount of money i saved.
And while you're fiddling about getting Linux to "Just Work" as a Mac does (you won't manage it, but you'll try), I'll be actually getting some work done. I've got Linux boxes and they're a lot of fun. For some things there is nothing better. As a general-purpose desktop machines they just aren't there yet. I'd have to use GIMP instead of Photoshop. OpenOffice instead of MS Office. Using inferior software costs time, and time is money. You may not think your time has any value, but I know mine does. So I pay the experts at Apple to deal with the crap so I can get on with doing some work.
Is it OK for a medium sized business with a small percentage of aggregate market-share to use restraint of trade practices, ethically dubious legal machinations to control product information flow, and closed source development methodology?
Yes, it is. They can do whatever they like (within the law, of course). This is not a problem because unlike Microsoft, Apple are not a monopoly. They're approaching a monopoly in digital music, but they aren't quite there yet. There are still many viable alternatives which are equally easy to access and use. If iTunes becomes a monopoly then Apple will have to play nice or the'll have the competition authorities to answer to.
It's still much easier to buy a non-iTunes music player than it is to buy a non-MS PC. For Apple to be like MS they'd have to ban their resellers from selling any music player that wasn't iTunes-based and the resellers would have to depend so much on Apple sales that they couldn't refuse. In other words, they'd have to have a monopoly and abuse it to restrict overall consumer choice.
Apple isn't doing too much innovation( at least, not as much as they used to).
I guess you've never tried Rendezvous, FireWire or Expose. I guess you hadn't noticed that Apple is practically the only innovator in PC form factors. I guess the fact that they've made a UNIX box your grandma can use out of the box without ever seeing a CLI isn't innovative. The fact that they pioneered USB and WiFi passed you buy. Perhaps they aren't always the first, but few "innovations" are truly new, most are reimplementations of existing ideas. Apple does this better than anyone. They make good ideas actually work and invent some truly new stuff along the way.
IBM didn't do it to be nice. They did it because they are (or want to be) a hardware and services company. They want to reduce the price of their product's compliments (the stuff you also need to buy when you buy IBM's products and services) - operating systems and software. IBM support open source because it makes their products and services cheaper to the consumer. It's good business, not altruism.
That's clearly rubbish, I can think of lots of businesses that don't go around doing the things Apple do. Most of them are small, a few are large (think Google, Red Hat etc).
Google are now a corporation. Expect their definition of "evil" (as in do no evil) to depart from yours Real Soon Now. They have little choice. Corporations are legally obliged to make as much money as possible. If the "right thing" conflicts with "the profitable thing" then "the profitable thing" gets done.
Google are already slipping - check out the new Google Groups interface. It breaks accepted usenet practice (the default is to not qute when replying - this works well for reading via Google, but isn't optimal for the majority of usenet readers) and integrates its own groups with the usenet groups in a very non-obvious way. Isn't this Google leveraging its monopoly in usenet archives to promote its own interface and forums?
You already have a relationship with this company. There is no problem with contacting them. You know where they live, they are not faceless spammers using hacked boxes to spam everyone and their dogs. I actually *like* some of the emails I get from companies I do business with. Your solution would in effect criminalise them and deprive me of product updates, special offers and the like because you are too lazy to even attempt to unsubscribe.
Any decent site has a privacy policy and if you don't even look at it before agreeing to buy that's your problem, not mine. If you don't like it then shop elsewhere.
If you don't mind deleting spam manually, that's your prerogative, but don't complain about it.
Don't complain? Don't complain about dealing with spam? Don't complain about paying money (ISP mail servers cost money, and you pay for them) so that some fucktard breaking the law (spamming is illegal in many places) can waste the time of millions of people every day?
I'm complaining about you Daniel Quinlan. Go write a filter for me, you're good at it. I'll complain exactly as much as I like. I'll write to my elected representatives. I'll campaign to change the law. I'll demand good service from enterprises I patronise. I'll advise my friends how to do the same.
You think I should give up my power as a voter and consumer because there's a bit of software which helps? You think I should just sit here and take it in the ass from the spammers because 93.6174% of the time some code stops their dicks before they reach my butt-cheeks? Fuck you. I'm going to bitch, complain, campaign and whine till the day comes that I don't need your stinkin' software.
The US and other countries could put pressure on China to get them to clean up their ISPs.
It's all China's fault is it? Let me guess, if this was 1980 it would all be the USSR's fault, 1991 Iraq's fault, 1945 Japan's fault, 1955 Communism's fault...
If you think all a BMW has to offer you is leather seats then get leather seats for your Chrysler and be happy.
I've got a Mac, an iBook (and home-built x86 boxen running Linux and Windows, I'm no Mac zealot). They aren't that expensive compared to comparable Windows laptops. A bit more, yes. You can certainly get an x86 laptop for much less, but comparable models aren't hugely cheaper. If I keep the iBook for two years the extra cost ammounts to about half a pint of beer a week.
I know where all the extra money went, it went on quality materials (plastics and mechanics - the computing hardware is pretty generic of course) and trillions of little details. That's where it goes in a BMW too. That's what separates great hotels from OK ones and sucessful spacecraft from lithobraking demonstrations. It's the details, and getting them all right is both hard and expensive. I think it's worth the cash. This may be my first Mac but it won't be my last.
Apple aren't the only maker of more expensive computers of course. You can pay more for a Sony x86 box than a Walmart special too. And I bet the Sony gets more of the details right.
You advocate your fave OS so more people will use it. More users attracts more developers: some users are also developers, developers often want their software to be widely used (kudos, cash, karma...). With more developers your fave OS gets better quicker.
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You need the x86 emulation layer to run Windows executables. Adding hooks for x86 executables running under an emulator to use native PPC implementations of the Wine libs sounds like a distinctly hairy exercise to me, but it would provide the best performance.
With all these dual-core chips coming up, I wonder if IBM would be cheeky enough to stick a little x86 core in the package along with a couple of POWER cores. They have an x86 core design already, even if it is a bit old (the Cyrix 6x86).
If you're using one of those international calling cards that is your problem. They are compressed to fuck.
My Siemens S55 does this. The entire filesystem (texts, pictures, contacts, java apps, settings, ringtones...) is browseable over bluetooth, serial or USB and you can drag & drop. Some Siemens phones have an SD/MMC slot, so you can stick a gig in if you like. You do need software on the host PC though (unless you use BT and OBEX, but that's not quite the same).
There are no extraneous letters in "whinge" (except perhaps the h); it is not an alternative spelling of "whine". It rhymes with "hinge" and means to complain excessivley or annoyingly. Unlike "whine" it isn't used to descibe a sound.
A poll on a poll on a picture of a person playing his pole.
I know a titanic joke, but it's too big to post here.
I could make a car which looked quite like a BMW 3-series and get away with it. If I also called it the 3-series, had a round logo with the middle divided into 4 segments, played on it being a driver's car in my advertising and called my company EMW it would ammount to passing off, even though those actions individually may not be a problem.
All this "laser pointers blind pilots" stuff is pure BS (I know that's not what you said, this is a tangent). Look up beam divergence. Work out how accurately you'd have to aim the thing even if you had a laser powerful enough to do any damage. I'm sure Raytheon would build you something for a few megabucks, but someone holding a laser pointer being a danger to a fast moving, distant target? Don't make me laugh.
What are we, aliens? No, we're animals from the planet Earth. By far the best damn animals the planet has ever seen, but still animals. We evolved. We are part of nature. The Interweb is just as natural as a beaver's dam.
That's not for the PearPC developers to decide. Their claim is for copyright infringement. The CherryOS people claim there is no code from PearPC in their product, which makes the license irrelevant. It's just plain old copyright law, which is pretty well tested.
In order to test the GPL the CherryOS folks would have to admit they had used PearPC code, but claim the GPL allowed them to redistribute it code in the way they have. That would be a test of the GPL itself. As CherryOS claim there is no PearPC code in their product I doubt this will happen.
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If you don't mind early starts I'm sure the Post Office would take you.
Communicate to first self understand must.
That can't mean they have more than 3000 in total, as that's only around half of 6046. Even in marketing-land where the margins are bigger, you'd need at least 5000 out of 6000 to claim "nearly all". Logically, this means they must have more than 3000 online stations in each of their 6046 branches. That's over 18 million Windows licenses. Some sales guy at MS just got a new yacht.
True, and they cost about the same as Apple's hardware. Of course, it's not Sony Vaio laptops that people compare Apple Powerbooks to. Oh no, they compare them to Walmart specials.
And while you're fiddling about getting Linux to "Just Work" as a Mac does (you won't manage it, but you'll try), I'll be actually getting some work done. I've got Linux boxes and they're a lot of fun. For some things there is nothing better. As a general-purpose desktop machines they just aren't there yet. I'd have to use GIMP instead of Photoshop. OpenOffice instead of MS Office. Using inferior software costs time, and time is money. You may not think your time has any value, but I know mine does. So I pay the experts at Apple to deal with the crap so I can get on with doing some work.
Yes, it is. They can do whatever they like (within the law, of course). This is not a problem because unlike Microsoft, Apple are not a monopoly. They're approaching a monopoly in digital music, but they aren't quite there yet. There are still many viable alternatives which are equally easy to access and use. If iTunes becomes a monopoly then Apple will have to play nice or the'll have the competition authorities to answer to.
It's still much easier to buy a non-iTunes music player than it is to buy a non-MS PC. For Apple to be like MS they'd have to ban their resellers from selling any music player that wasn't iTunes-based and the resellers would have to depend so much on Apple sales that they couldn't refuse. In other words, they'd have to have a monopoly and abuse it to restrict overall consumer choice.
I guess you've never tried Rendezvous, FireWire or Expose. I guess you hadn't noticed that Apple is practically the only innovator in PC form factors. I guess the fact that they've made a UNIX box your grandma can use out of the box without ever seeing a CLI isn't innovative. The fact that they pioneered USB and WiFi passed you buy. Perhaps they aren't always the first, but few "innovations" are truly new, most are reimplementations of existing ideas. Apple does this better than anyone. They make good ideas actually work and invent some truly new stuff along the way.
IBM didn't do it to be nice. They did it because they are (or want to be) a hardware and services company. They want to reduce the price of their product's compliments (the stuff you also need to buy when you buy IBM's products and services) - operating systems and software. IBM support open source because it makes their products and services cheaper to the consumer. It's good business, not altruism.
Google are now a corporation. Expect their definition of "evil" (as in do no evil) to depart from yours Real Soon Now. They have little choice. Corporations are legally obliged to make as much money as possible. If the "right thing" conflicts with "the profitable thing" then "the profitable thing" gets done.
Google are already slipping - check out the new Google Groups interface. It breaks accepted usenet practice (the default is to not qute when replying - this works well for reading via Google, but isn't optimal for the majority of usenet readers) and integrates its own groups with the usenet groups in a very non-obvious way. Isn't this Google leveraging its monopoly in usenet archives to promote its own interface and forums?
Any decent site has a privacy policy and if you don't even look at it before agreeing to buy that's your problem, not mine. If you don't like it then shop elsewhere.
Don't complain? Don't complain about dealing with spam? Don't complain about paying money (ISP mail servers cost money, and you pay for them) so that some fucktard breaking the law (spamming is illegal in many places) can waste the time of millions of people every day?
I'm complaining about you Daniel Quinlan. Go write a filter for me, you're good at it. I'll complain exactly as much as I like. I'll write to my elected representatives. I'll campaign to change the law. I'll demand good service from enterprises I patronise. I'll advise my friends how to do the same.
You think I should give up my power as a voter and consumer because there's a bit of software which helps? You think I should just sit here and take it in the ass from the spammers because 93.6174% of the time some code stops their dicks before they reach my butt-cheeks? Fuck you. I'm going to bitch, complain, campaign and whine till the day comes that I don't need your stinkin' software.
It's all China's fault is it? Let me guess, if this was 1980 it would all be the USSR's fault, 1991 Iraq's fault, 1945 Japan's fault, 1955 Communism's fault...
How many of these businesses have failed to remove you from their mailing lists on request? You have actually tried asking them, right?
I've got a Mac, an iBook (and home-built x86 boxen running Linux and Windows, I'm no Mac zealot). They aren't that expensive compared to comparable Windows laptops. A bit more, yes. You can certainly get an x86 laptop for much less, but comparable models aren't hugely cheaper. If I keep the iBook for two years the extra cost ammounts to about half a pint of beer a week.
I know where all the extra money went, it went on quality materials (plastics and mechanics - the computing hardware is pretty generic of course) and trillions of little details. That's where it goes in a BMW too. That's what separates great hotels from OK ones and sucessful spacecraft from lithobraking demonstrations. It's the details, and getting them all right is both hard and expensive. I think it's worth the cash. This may be my first Mac but it won't be my last.
Apple aren't the only maker of more expensive computers of course. You can pay more for a Sony x86 box than a Walmart special too. And I bet the Sony gets more of the details right.
You advocate your fave OS so more people will use it. More users attracts more developers: some users are also developers, developers often want their software to be widely used (kudos, cash, karma...). With more developers your fave OS gets better quicker.