When it comes to choosing performance or noise level, I usually choose to have a quieter machine. But hopefully Apple, unlike Sony, will allow an easy way to control which gets priority.
Most people these days are used to the idea of "try before you buy". Take away that ability, and sales will drop.
And (re: "these days"): this is nothing new. You used to be able to try out entire LPs at the mom 'n pop record store down the street.
With the advent of CDs and especially online stores, the ability gradually disappeared. (Curiously I might add, since CDs are much less vulnerable to wear.) Not to mention the death of real, non-playlisted radio.
Well, they may be in the process of understanding how important this has always been.
So, wait, your answer is to watch more movies? How does that have anything to do with music?
Once again, we have a false analogy that keeps cropping up in these discussions: that a movie and an album of music have anything in common other than general size and shape.
You are making the same mistake the industry made, to think that "music" is somehow isolated in the marketplace, and owning it through copyright extension would ensure a perpetual revenue.
What they are finding out is that music still competes in the market, with other things that people currently prefer to buy.
Obviously I was confusing this with the case of the Darwin kernel/OS and other projects, where (I believe!) they are indeed releasing more code than they really have to.
the reality is that Windows has a much more robust security API. It supports a wide range of settings. The unfortunate fact is that people are mostly oblivious to this (as you are), and many (non-Microsoft and non-Microsoft logoed) apps don't work well without permissions. Those are all bugs in the programs.
No amount of tacked-on "security features" will do any good until they are enabled by default. Which they essentially can't do, precisely because it would break all those legacy that they encouraged being written in a security-unaware setting.
This is the sense in which you're being told that the entire system (OS and all the apps -- "non-logoed", if you wish, but they are what keep the users on the platform) was built without security in mind.
The user groups (Admin vs. Local) are insecure. (...) my "user" account has normal priveleges and I use "su" and "sudo" for those times I need admin privileges. Windows doesn't even have "su" or "sudo" capabilities. You have to log out and log back in?
As for a lack of sudo, this can easily be handles as Apple does with their security framework and dialog boxes to mometarilty elevate to root priv.
How do you think Apple's "dialog boxes to momentarily mometarilty elevate to root priv." work?
That's right: they use sudo.
Which only sudoers, aka "administrator accounts", can do.
And which, as pointed out above, Windows doesn't have.
(Not sure if the checkbox to install the 'BSD Subsystem' is on or off in a default installation. I suppose what some people would like is the assurance that this stuff is there when they walk to someone else's machine.)
My bad - forgive a person who's been using OS X for a year so hadn't kept up.
VideoLAN runs on OS X, quite well. It is needed if you want to alternate between European and American DVDs (Regions 1 & 2) more than five times.
(N.B.: Is theres any rationale for having a law effectively keep motion picture competition away from this country? Can we still then call others -- Canadians, etc -- "cultural protectionists", with a straight face?)
Over 3 years and yet it's only "largely" done. Who's late again?
They take patches, so I guess that would be you:-)
I haven't kept up with the reason why this bug is still unresolved or reopened -- bug 168174 could be the remaining problem. But the many comments there might show you that it's perhaps not as easy as it seems at first. Assuming you ever read html mail, what makes you so sure that any mailer is not "late" on this?
It largely has it, and also Ben Bucksch's "View message body as Simpl(ified) html" that others mentioned already. (The bug is 28327, making you over 3 years late;-)
What I'd still like to see though, is the choice of "View message source" in the same submenu as Original html/Simple html/Plain text. Only seems natural, and would allow one to still navigate between source-view messages at a keystroke, instead of opening a new extraneous "source" window every time.
his thing has the best IMAP support for windows of any mail client.
Amen, and I would guess it's due in no small part to the presence of (IMAP4 designer) jgmyers among the developers. (I should know, he personally fixed a bug I filed. Thanks John. And THANKS to all the Netscape folks who -- from where I sit -- generally did a huge part of the work.)
Howawah, IMAP still has a problem I find galling. The whole point is that you can check it from anywhere using all kinds of clients, right? The problem is with those (unspec-ed?) areas that each client finds fit to implement differently. So where Mozilla makes me a Trash folder, Mail.app makes Deleted Messages, SquirrelMail makes an INBOX.Trash, etc., ad nauseam. All on first connection before you even get a chance to configure them. And so the family complains about "all that junk in my profile".
(BTW I could swear I once saw a pref to change that Trash name in either Mozilla or Mail.app, which I can't find anymore. Anyone remember if/where that exists?)
InterTrust CEO Talal Shamoon asks rhetorically, "How much would that be worth to Microsoft?"
Hey this rings a bell... it's the SDMI watermark company and guy! Kind of nice to see how that all ended:
At its prebubble height, InterTrust (founded in 1990) employed 376 people and marketed its own software and hardware products; today it consists mainly of a patent portfolio, 30 employees, and this lawsuit.
"Area of the unit sphere = 4 \pi" is a product of Archimedes' intellect. Is it ipso facto "property", with all the connotations of the word in our ambiant ideology?
But, how can you call a property of the universe intellectual property? That's as bad as patenting gene sequences
That's right, and still it was an intellectual production of Archimedes, so that goes to confirm that not every production should automatically become property. The problem is with people for whom nothing even exists unless it can be sold.
The problem with 'Author' is that it's quite common to assign copyrights to others
But that's the whole point. Author's right is not the same concept as our copyright-as-property.
The former cannot be assigned to others, but does make sense for intellectual productions like "Area = 4 \pi".
Some Swiss in Berne once chose that term, "intellectual property". But as I tried to illustrate, "property" itself may have been a much less loaded term to them than it is today in **AA-think (where nothing gets on the radar unless it can be hoarded and sold).
Moreover, note that they were originally from a patent office (the very same where Einstein worked, I believe), not "copyright". What works for one need not work for the other.
"Intellectual Property" means "products primarily of the labor of mind," not "owned intellect."
Amazing. You make an excellent case for saying intellectual products , and then without even noticing, you immediately identify product = property.
"Area of the unit sphere = 4 \pi" is a product of Archimedes' intellect. Is it ipso facto "property", with all the connotations of the word in our ambiant ideology?
(Example of such connotations: trespassing your neighbor's property is a crime; in Swiss culture it is a right.)
So no, "Area = 4\pi" is not Archimedes' property. But he has an inalienable right to it, namely to be recognized as the author. What the French legal tradition calls Author's right (droit d'auteur).
Different name, different connotations. Thus for instance, being inalienably yours the author's right cannot be sold in French law. Compare the U.S., where the first thing publishers demand of aspiring songwriters is to sell them the copyright as part of the deal.
Which of course, is the very mechanism through which untalented businessmen end up thinking they own 20th century culture, or UNIX.
Note that this leaves open the question of what material rewards law may, or may not, be attached to Author's right. Certainly one may argue for a mechanism to compensate authors when their (recent) intellectual products are traded in books. Indeed French law has something to this effect.
But to immediately declare it's going to be treated as property, as part of the very grammar, is trumping the cards from the get go.
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With the advent of CDs and especially online stores, the ability gradually disappeared. (Curiously I might add, since CDs are much less vulnerable to wear.) Not to mention the death of real, non-playlisted radio.
Well, they may be in the process of understanding how important this has always been.
What they are finding out is that music still competes in the market, with other things that people currently prefer to buy.
Obviously I was confusing this with the case of the Darwin kernel/OS and other projects, where (I believe!) they are indeed releasing more code than they really have to.
I also agree with your other comments.
Yes.
This is the sense in which you're being told that the entire system (OS and all the apps -- "non-logoed", if you wish, but they are what keep the users on the platform) was built without security in mind.
That's right: they use sudo.
Which only sudoers, aka "administrator accounts", can do.
And which, as pointed out above, Windows doesn't have.
Sigh... Gone are the days when you could say: "Those were the days".
KHTML is LGPL.
Could you restate your point?
Neither... it's in the 'BSD Subsystem':
(Not sure if the checkbox to install the 'BSD Subsystem' is on or off in a default installation. I suppose what some people would like is the assurance that this stuff is there when they walk to someone else's machine.)
VideoLAN runs on OS X, quite well. It is needed if you want to alternate between European and American DVDs (Regions 1 & 2) more than five times.
(N.B.: Is theres any rationale for having a law effectively keep motion picture competition away from this country? Can we still then call others -- Canadians, etc -- "cultural protectionists", with a straight face?)
Got it, Thanks. The bug for GUI access is 182274.
(And ditto to the AC below.)
I haven't kept up with the reason why this bug is still unresolved or reopened -- bug 168174 could be the remaining problem. But the many comments there might show you that it's perhaps not as easy as it seems at first. Assuming you ever read html mail, what makes you so sure that any mailer is not "late" on this?
What I'd still like to see though, is the choice of "View message source" in the same submenu as Original html/Simple html/Plain text. Only seems natural, and would allow one to still navigate between source-view messages at a keystroke, instead of opening a new extraneous "source" window every time.
Howawah, IMAP still has a problem I find galling. The whole point is that you can check it from anywhere using all kinds of clients, right? The problem is with those (unspec-ed?) areas that each client finds fit to implement differently. So where Mozilla makes me a Trash folder, Mail.app makes Deleted Messages, SquirrelMail makes an INBOX.Trash, etc., ad nauseam. All on first connection before you even get a chance to configure them. And so the family complains about "all that junk in my profile".
(BTW I could swear I once saw a pref to change that Trash name in either Mozilla or Mail.app, which I can't find anymore. Anyone remember if/where that exists?)
I mean, this is 2003, let's move on and embrace unicode!
In the meantime I also recommend the ascii quicktime player. Open sourced by Apple!
That's right, and still it was an intellectual production of Archimedes, so that goes to confirm that not every production should automatically become property. The problem is with people for whom nothing even exists unless it can be sold.
But that's the whole point. Author's right is not the same concept as our copyright-as-property.
The former cannot be assigned to others, but does make sense for intellectual productions like "Area = 4 \pi".
Some Swiss in Berne once chose that term, "intellectual property". But as I tried to illustrate, "property" itself may have been a much less loaded term to them than it is today in **AA-think (where nothing gets on the radar unless it can be hoarded and sold).
Moreover, note that they were originally from a patent office (the very same where Einstein worked, I believe), not "copyright". What works for one need not work for the other.
Amazing. You make an excellent case for saying intellectual products , and then without even noticing, you immediately identify product = property .
"Area of the unit sphere = 4 \pi" is a product of Archimedes' intellect. Is it ipso facto "property", with all the connotations of the word in our ambiant ideology?
(Example of such connotations: trespassing your neighbor's property is a crime; in Swiss culture it is a right.)
So no, "Area = 4\pi" is not Archimedes' property. But he has an inalienable right to it, namely to be recognized as the author. What the French legal tradition calls Author's right (droit d'auteur).
Different name, different connotations. Thus for instance, being inalienably yours the author's right cannot be sold in French law. Compare the U.S., where the first thing publishers demand of aspiring songwriters is to sell them the copyright as part of the deal.
Which of course, is the very mechanism through which untalented businessmen end up thinking they own 20th century culture, or UNIX.
Note that this leaves open the question of what material rewards law may, or may not, be attached to Author's right. Certainly one may argue for a mechanism to compensate authors when their (recent) intellectual products are traded in books. Indeed French law has something to this effect.
But to immediately declare it's going to be treated as property, as part of the very grammar, is trumping the cards from the get go.
More like mac-bsd, no?