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  1. Re:Buying The License... on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors · · Score: 1

    Intel Macs can't run 10.2 or 10.3. Powermacs can't run 10.6, and a 10.2 era powermac would probably struggle with 10.5

  2. But will it run on a Psystar? on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors · · Score: 1

    10.6.2 would have been the perfect opportunity for Apple to muck around with its DRM-- though getting cocky might look bad in front of the judge.

  3. Re:Unauthorized on Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy · · Score: 1

    The Haupage encoder comes with EyeTV lite EyeTV's own products come with the full version. Lite Users can upgrade for $50.

  4. Re:Unauthorized on Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy · · Score: 1

    and I'll run whatever damn OS I legally own on it!

    You appear to be begging the question. Legally, Apple owns the OS.

  5. Re:Anyone surprised? on Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy · · Score: 1

    . If they were to make money off of the OS, they would have to sell it for a lot more than $30.

    How does $129, payable every 18 months sound?

  6. Re:Anyone surprised? on Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy · · Score: 1

    2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
    A. Single Use License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you have purchased a Family Pack or Upgrade license for the Apple Software, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.
    B. Family Pack License. If you have purchased a Family Pack license, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non- exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-branded computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By "household" we mean a person or persons who share the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium, but shall also extend to student members who are primary residents of that household but residing at a separate on-campus location. The Family Pack License does not extend to business or commercial users.
    C. Leopard Upgrade Licenses. If you have purchased an Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard license, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer as long as that computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it. If you have purchased a Family Pack Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard license, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-branded computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household (as defined above), are used by persons who occupy that same household, and each such computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it. The Family Pack Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard License does not extend to business or commercial users.

    Previous family packs contained an additional sheet of paper amending the license terms.

  7. Re:So on ICANN Might Pre-Register gTLDs To Placate Critics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm just surprised that colon.slashdot.org isn't being used. "idle" could have used that name,

  8. Re:I call bullsh*t on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 1

    And "crappy Linux 2.4" can't be installed on a Patriot Weapons Control Computer.

  9. Re:Poor QA on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you sure that the computer was even capable of IEEE floating point? wikipedia suggests that the computer used a 24 bit word.

    Although IEEE 854 float uses a 23 bit mantissa, 8 bit exponent and a sign bit, the wcc might well have used a proprietary scheme.

  10. Re:I'm safe! on After 1 Year, Conficker Infects 7M Computers · · Score: 2, Funny

    "checking for wine.... yes"

  11. Re:Legislate this away on Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Think of the internet as a series of tubes.

  12. Re:raw LaTeX is fine on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    Straight LaTeX is awful for typesetting matrices (with member expressions, naturally). Lyx is a little more usable.

  13. Apple. Definitely Apple on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: -1, Troll

    iLife. iTunes Garage Band.Something called Mac OSX. I ended up reformatting the drive, going out and buying a copy of Windows Vista Home-- which wasn't even included in the price, and installing that. I hope I the Apple Magic works and I don't get any viruses.

  14. Re:What makes this so outrageous? on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 1

    Assumptions need not make sense. They only need to be assumed. For instance, the censorious masses assume that the adult video game market does not exist.

  15. Re:What makes this so outrageous? on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    People who watch "Saw" are assumed to be active participants in the movie, fully capable of distinguishing right from wrong, and adjusting their actions accordingly. People who play "Modern Warfare II" are passive participants, blindly led along the pathways mapped out in advance by the designers.

  16. Re:Good name on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 1

    My guess is the idea that it would make you more sympathetic to bad-guy tactics.

    It might. On the other hand, it might not. It all would depend on whether you have a brain. Most 18 year olds are assumed to have at least a rudimentary one.

  17. Re:So in other words... on Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting · · Score: 1

    Some macbooks use the slightly less crippled Intel GMA X3100. Now, of course, the baseline is the nVidia 9400M.

  18. Re:4x HD for $1m on Surgeon Performs World's First 4X HD Surgery · · Score: 1

    You might as well ask why anyone would need a magnifying glass, or a microscope.

  19. Re:please stop trying to turn Linux into OS X on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    Linux doesn't need fat binaries because the package manager automatically installs the binaries that are appropriate for the machine.

    So when you buy a game for Linux, or install a closed source binary, there's a magic "package manager" that works every time?

    OS X needs fat binaries because it doesn't have package management.

    Drag the application into the Applications Folder. To uninstall, reverse the process. Why must you complicate things?

  20. Re:Linux is fine, but how about other platforms on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Somebody didn't read the article...

    Q: Do you have to read the entire FatELF file to load it?
    A: Nope! Just a few bytes at the start, and then the specific ELF object we want is read directly. The other ELF objects in the file are ignored, so the disk bandwidth overhead is almost non-existent.

    Q: So this...adds PowerPC support to my Intel box?
    A: No. FatELF is not an emulator, it just glues ELF binaries together. If you have a FatELF binary with PowerPC and Intel records, then PowerPC and Intel boxes will pick the right one and do the right thing, and other platforms will refuse to load the binary, like they would anyway.

    Q: Does this let me run 32-bit code on a 64-bit system or vice versa?
    A: No. This doesn't let 32-bit and 64-bit code coexist, it just lets them both reside in the file so the platform can choose 32 or 64 bits as necessary.

    Q: Do I need to have PowerPC (MIPS, ARM, whatever) support in my FatELF file?
    A: No. Put whatever you want in there. The most popular scenario will probably be x86 plus x86_64, to aid in transition to 64-bit systems.

  21. Re:Somebody should tell this guy about ./configure on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Calm down. Gentoo has almost finished building. In a few hours, you'll be able to use your machine again.

  22. Re:The only prudent thing to do with these things. on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 1

    The modem reset is the price one has to pay to get tech support. I don't think they can reset it remotely.

    It's a relatively stable service-- outages are very rare, and, if you have the modems manual on hand it's not all that hard to get it back into bridge mode.
    ( If you don't have the manual, and you do make a mistake, it's not as if you can "find it on the internet" unless maybe a neighbor has a unsecured access point.)

  23. Re:The only prudent thing to do with these things. on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 1

    Verizon's equivalent of "have you tried rebooting your computer" is to reset the modem-- which puts it back in router mode.

  24. Re:Latency on NVIDIA Targeting Real-Time Cloud Rendering · · Score: 1

    *20,000 frames included in monthly fee. Additional frames are charged at $0.004 per frame

  25. Re:I am a Mac Fan... on Apple Blurs the Server Line With Mac Mini Server · · Score: 1

    SCO's original complaint was that some of its proprietary x86 code (relating to SMP and RCU) made its way into Linux by way of AIX. Since A/UX ran on single processor m68k machines, A/UX did not infringe.
    Later on, SCO tried to expand its claims into a "we own Unix" thing, but the purported sale took place in 1995-- after A/UX's heyday.