And the negotiation is at least partially based on SIP, which is also an open standard. However there's still some proprietary glue sitting on top that goes over the AIM network that would have to be figured out.
Well, you're lucky that you have parents that are willing to learn. Mine don't care enough to, I offer to explain things to them and they just say "no no no, just fix it" and get all annoyed if I don't.
If I do take the time to explain things to them, they promptly forget, so I figure it's worthless trying to. So one of them uses a Mac and the other uses a PC provided by and serviced by work.
One of their leaflets was used as the subject matter for one of the GCSE English papers a few years ago. (GCSEs are national exams taken by all 16 year-olds here in the UK, after which they may either leave school or continue on to further education.)
OK, so you inform them before they are connected to an operator ("this call may be recorded for purposes"). However you certainly cannot do that for e-mail, and doing it for IM would be a right PITA.
If you had actually RTFA it says that ALL parties must consent. Sure, you can get consent from your employee that their communications can be monitored, but how do you get consent from the person they are communicating with?
Under the Sarbanes-Oxley act employers are required to monitor and archive all electronic communications. There was an article about this the other day over at El Reg.
So, in New Hampshire, it sounds like employers must either not comply with Sarbanes-Oxley or must be guilty of illegal wiretapping. Or am I missing something?
Apple *does* have ads targeting consumers. You can hardly miss the iPod adverts splattered all across cities and television these days. These adverts are clearly targeting consumers and it's paying off - the net result is the iPod is the market leader in portable digital music players.
The thinking goes like this: Joe Bloggs sees iPod advert and notices all his friends have iPods. Joe buys iPod. Joe likes iPod. Joe's Dell is a bit long in the tooth, so he decides to stop by the newly opened local Apple Retail Store. Apple people demonstrate the benefits of owning a Mac to Joe and he leaves with a shiny new machine.
The same thinking applies to the iTunes Music Store (and also just the iTunes software as a free MP3 jukebox for Windows), in that it will fuel iPod purchases which will in turn fuel Mac purchases.
You said that customers will walk into one of the major retail stores and probably not see Macs. As a result of having a small market share, it's been the case that the retail stores just can't be bothered to give Macs any resources in terms of pushing them onto consumers. The obvious solution is to make them more obvious on the high street, and after years of trying to do that with the store-within-a-stores and all that kerfuffle they finally gave up and are doing it themselves, and it seems to be working.
Personally, I think for a long time advertising wouldn't have solved the problem. Now there's so much else going on, a really well targeted ad campaign for consumer desktops (perhaps shortly after they release a G5-based consumer machine?) would really hit hard.
Having said all that, the management have repeatedly proven that they move in strange and wondrous ways, so who knows what'll happen.
Has there ever been confirmation of this, though? I thought there was some confusion over whether VeriDisc's thing was actually the same as Apple's thing, as their web site domain expired and that site hasn't been updated in years...
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Yeah, except that the GIMP runs in Mac OS X's X11 environment. This is basically XFree86, so it has exactly the same API as it does on every other platform.
I wish people would get off QuickTime's case. QuickTime's file format is fully documented, and it's actually quite a nice cross-platform media framework. The only thing that's "evil" is its reliance on closed-source codecs, but there's nothing particularly surprising with that. You could even write some open-source codecs for it! (There's an Ogg Vorbis one, I know someone's doing one for XviD, etc).
What processes does QuickTime run at startup? I know that iTunes runs one which sits there looking for iPod connections, but since it blocks and doesn't take up any processor time AT ALL unless you have an iPod, it's consuming all of a few hundred bytes in your process table and THAT'S IT.
Actually, @stake reported it to Apple months ago, which IS WHY they are fixed in Panther. @stake only released their advisories once Panther was out and it was clear that it was not vulnerable.
Actually, I heard that one WebObjects developer's Sun servers were up for renewal, so they replaced 3 mid-spec SPARCs with one xserve and got a massive performance INCREASE.
MOL for OS X is called the Classic Environment and is included in OS X... Does it say that they're not going to support Classic in 2003? I find that hard to believe. They're just going to not support BOOTING into OS 9.
That's not what he was saying. If libraries are available and standard on other unices, then Apple recommends not packing them as frameworks because, say, if you had an app that depended on zlib then instead of adding "-lz" to the LDFLAGS, you'd have to add "-framework zlib", or similar, and you'd have to change all the includes from #include to #include . They did this because they used to package zlib and openssl as frameworks on the Public Beta, and people complained. Good thing, too.
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And the negotiation is at least partially based on SIP, which is also an open standard. However there's still some proprietary glue sitting on top that goes over the AIM network that would have to be figured out.
MSN certainly cannot send or receive files at the moment, but people are working on it.
Well, you're lucky that you have parents that are willing to learn. Mine don't care enough to, I offer to explain things to them and they just say "no no no, just fix it" and get all annoyed if I don't.
If I do take the time to explain things to them, they promptly forget, so I figure it's worthless trying to. So one of them uses a Mac and the other uses a PC provided by and serviced by work.
One of their leaflets was used as the subject matter for one of the GCSE English papers a few years ago. (GCSEs are national exams taken by all 16 year-olds here in the UK, after which they may either leave school or continue on to further education.)
OK, so you inform them before they are connected to an operator ("this call may be recorded for purposes"). However you certainly cannot do that for e-mail, and doing it for IM would be a right PITA.
Or you could use Jabber, of course.
If you had actually RTFA it says that ALL parties must consent. Sure, you can get consent from your employee that their communications can be monitored, but how do you get consent from the person they are communicating with?
Under the Sarbanes-Oxley act employers are required to monitor and archive all electronic communications. There was an article about this the other day over at El Reg.
So, in New Hampshire, it sounds like employers must either not comply with Sarbanes-Oxley or must be guilty of illegal wiretapping. Or am I missing something?
You're new here, aren't you?
Apple *does* have ads targeting consumers. You can hardly miss the iPod adverts splattered all across cities and television these days. These adverts are clearly targeting consumers and it's paying off - the net result is the iPod is the market leader in portable digital music players.
The thinking goes like this: Joe Bloggs sees iPod advert and notices all his friends have iPods. Joe buys iPod. Joe likes iPod. Joe's Dell is a bit long in the tooth, so he decides to stop by the newly opened local Apple Retail Store. Apple people demonstrate the benefits of owning a Mac to Joe and he leaves with a shiny new machine.
The same thinking applies to the iTunes Music Store (and also just the iTunes software as a free MP3 jukebox for Windows), in that it will fuel iPod purchases which will in turn fuel Mac purchases.
You said that customers will walk into one of the major retail stores and probably not see Macs. As a result of having a small market share, it's been the case that the retail stores just can't be bothered to give Macs any resources in terms of pushing them onto consumers. The obvious solution is to make them more obvious on the high street, and after years of trying to do that with the store-within-a-stores and all that kerfuffle they finally gave up and are doing it themselves, and it seems to be working.
Personally, I think for a long time advertising wouldn't have solved the problem. Now there's so much else going on, a really well targeted ad campaign for consumer desktops (perhaps shortly after they release a G5-based consumer machine?) would really hit hard.
Having said all that, the management have repeatedly proven that they move in strange and wondrous ways, so who knows what'll happen.
Has there ever been confirmation of this, though? I thought there was some confusion over whether VeriDisc's thing was actually the same as Apple's thing, as their web site domain expired and that site hasn't been updated in years...
Yeah, except that the GIMP runs in Mac OS X's X11 environment. This is basically XFree86, so it has exactly the same API as it does on every other platform.
I wish people would get off QuickTime's case. QuickTime's file format is fully documented, and it's actually quite a nice cross-platform media framework. The only thing that's "evil" is its reliance on closed-source codecs, but there's nothing particularly surprising with that. You could even write some open-source codecs for it! (There's an Ogg Vorbis one, I know someone's doing one for XviD, etc).
What processes does QuickTime run at startup? I know that iTunes runs one which sits there looking for iPod connections, but since it blocks and doesn't take up any processor time AT ALL unless you have an iPod, it's consuming all of a few hundred bytes in your process table and THAT'S IT.
I think you'll find that OS X does have DLLs. They're called Mach-O dynamically linked shared libraries.
WETA Digital are currently working on the CG for a live action movie of Neon Genesis Evangelion (IMDB).
Oh yes, because iTunes comes with lots of spyware and adware.
Pity you're not actually the first poster, though.
Actually, @stake reported it to Apple months ago, which IS WHY they are fixed in Panther. @stake only released their advisories once Panther was out and it was clear that it was not vulnerable.
Actually, I heard that one WebObjects developer's Sun servers were up for renewal, so they replaced 3 mid-spec SPARCs with one xserve and got a massive performance INCREASE.
They used to run apple.com on a farm of Sun machines, actually (granted that was before they had an "Industrial Strength UNIX" operating system).
MOL for OS X is called the Classic Environment and is included in OS X... Does it say that they're not going to support Classic in 2003? I find that hard to believe. They're just going to not support BOOTING into OS 9.
That's not what he was saying. If libraries are available and standard on other unices, then Apple recommends not packing them as frameworks because, say, if you had an app that depended on zlib then instead of adding "-lz" to the LDFLAGS, you'd have to add "-framework zlib", or similar, and you'd have to change all the includes from #include to #include . They did this because they used to package zlib and openssl as frameworks on the Public Beta, and people complained. Good thing, too.
Don't believe what you read in manpages on Darwin. They are often full of lies.