1. No WPA support! 2. This device can't give user credentials for a T-Mobile hotspot account or other similar types of roaming Wi-Fi accounts
So basically, I like the idea but its security needs massive improvement and it needs to be able to work on authenticated gateways that you find at most mobile wi-fi hotspots. Sure this device will work great on any insecure or unsecured WiFi network but I certain refuse to use any WiFi device that doesnt support at least WPA security these days.
Step 1: Buy a cheap Mac Mini Step 2: Buy copy of Office 2004 Step 3: Open your horrendous Word.DOC in Word 2004 Step 4: Print to PDF OR Step 4: Export to XHTML in Word
Done.
Exporting to XHTML in Word 2004 seems to do a pretty good job usually. However you should just print the DOCs to PDF and put those up instead.
Hopefully MySpace won't turn into MyRepublicanNeoConSpace. However it will be great if the FOX people can get rid of the %&$%^$ Jamster ads from the site. I hate ads that make noise.
Going into business for yourself is possible in this country still but it is not an easy thing by any stretch of the imagination. Being a little guy gives you huge advantages in some of the risks that one can take, and if you are lucky will find a niche or even better latch onto the next big thing by mistake and be taken for a great ride.
That being said however, I completely understand your argument with regards to what is the percieved value of that which the workers ultimately create verse what they actually are paid.
However I think one factor that is perhaps changing the face of small business opportunities is the recent rash of patent stupidity over the past few years. All it takes to clobber your small biz startup is some Amazon or worse a pure IP-lawsuit generating company to wipe away any semblance of profit as well as progress what with the time now having to be spent to have your legal work taken cared of not to mention extremely high legal fees necessitated by your representation.
All things being equal however, not everyone in America is capable of starting a new business per se. Either they don't have necessary capital to get started or they might not be able to come up with a sufficently good enough idea and business plan to get traction. The major issue as I see it is this:
Everyone in America CAN NOT become a "knowledge worker" or their own boss by means of starting their own business. The fact of the matter is that you have a bell curve distribution of intelligence anywhere in the world. The reason this is a problem is because depending on a persons intelligence determines what types of education and learning will end in positive results. Positive results meaning that person can function normally in society and contribtue to it positvely in some way. If we allow our education system to not properly account for this reality (which currently the Leave Every Child Behind is accelerating for us, thank you Bush and the DOE) then we as a country are going to be saddled with a greater societal burden for these people who we have left unprepared and unable to properly integrate into society and economy. Those of us who are able to contribute to the economy and society in a positive way will see our burden of support increase unless we do something to ensure a maximal number of people in our society are functional contributors to the economy and society at large.
Yet I rarely ever see anyone on Slashdot here recognize this fundamental truth. Instead people are quick to say "You don't have to take that job" or "Just go into business for yourself" or "Go back to school and learn the *new* hot thing". The problem is, as manufacturing jobs got replaced by technology jobs what is replacing the technology jobs are jobs that to me at least seem less and less tied to specific locality and only end up increasing the number of people I compete for positions, worldwide as well as forcing median salries to come to a median level for certain positions that are great money in other countires not as highly developed as the US or the UK for example.
I don't know, I just get a feeling that a true free market economy is only going to bring everyone down to the same level, the issue is that the new median level is an unsustainable living wage in many well developed countries. I could be wrong about some of this, but this is how it feels to me in my gut at least.
And yes, I know what a plumber makes in a year. It's my Plan C. Can't outsource clogged plumbing repairs, thats for sure.
Obviously HP has a hardon to grab anyone high up at Dell seeing as the bulk of their focus was beating Dell. That being said that article says nothing of what his compensation package is when he leaves Hewlett-Packard years down the road. Of course there is this then:
Mott will also receive "targeted long-term performance cash of $7 million for the 2005-2008 performance cycle, of which $5 million is guaranteed," the filing said.
So if this guy completely fucks up...he gets 5 million spread out over 3 years. Or he makes:
YR 2005 690000 Base 690000 Short-term 100% Bonus 1000000 Relocation Allowance 2200000 Signing Bonus 1666666 "Performance" Cash (Worst Case) 1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year) YR 2005 Total = $7,668,246
YR 2006 690000 Base 690000 Short-term 100% Bonus (Ends Y06) 1666666 "Performance" Cash (Worst Case) 1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year) YR 2006 Total = $4,468,246
YR 2007 690000 Base 1666666 "Performance" Cash (Worst Case) 1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year) YR 2007 Total = $3,778,246
YR 2008 690000 Base 1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year) YR 2008 Total = $2,111,580
YR 2009 690000 Base 1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year) FULLY VESTED YR 2009 Total = $2,111,580
Total Monies gained by Mr. Mott after being at Hewlett-Packard for 5 years:
$20,137,898
And that good people is if he performs POORLY. Please also, do not forget its not outside the realm of possibility for the executives to "re-target" their performance goals so instead of missing them for their pay bonuses they actually hit them fully due to newer, lower targets.
So the question I ask is, what do the people immeadiately under Mott make that are just one level below him? And so on and so forth.
I'm sorry but I don't follow your argument. You are saying that if the company doesnt pay the CEO a fair amount of money that the CEO is more likely to defraud his own company to extract what they think is a proper pay?
How do you explain the likes of Bernie Ebbers at Worldcom, or say the Rigas family in Adelphia? Or Enron?
With regards to not being paid by skills then please explain why the whole sum of the entire tech jobmarket is predicated upon SKILLS? Knowing the likes of C++, Java, J2EE, C#,.NET, CCIE, CISSP, GIAC, A+, and on and on! It most certainly is your pay follows according to yours SKILLS and your education as well as your marketable experience!
Target disk mode works OUTSIDE of the OS. That is, when you turn on the Mac you hold down the T key and the system skips booting into OS X and runs in a special mode supported by the OpenFirmware on the Firewire-capable Macs at which point your Mac can be plugged into another Mac or PC via FireWire and it looks like a standard external harddrive to the computer connecting to it. This is mighty useful for working on disks with messed up filesystems that won't boot into OS X or you have some need to quickly mirror the contents of a Macs disk to another, etc.
And no, I've yet to run into a single PC that could do that as of yet. Maybe when the EFI standard becomes more widely adopted it will finally happen.
Sure, CEOs should make more then the average workers at a corporation but exactly at what gross multiple of average salary wages is too much for a CEO to be making?
It has been shown that european CEOs salrays are often a much smaller multiple of median workers salaries I recall. BusinessWeek, which has tracked executive pay for half a century, figures that CEOs of the country's largest corporations last year (2003) were paid about 300 times the average factory worker. In Europe, in contrast, chief executive pay tops out at 30 times the average worker. Americans might defend this disparity by declaring that U.S. companies are better run, but are these companies more than 10 times better run?
Additionally according to Kevin J. Murphy, E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California: 'Since 1970, cash compensation for CEOs has gone from 25 times the pay of the average worker to about 90 times the pay of the average worker. Total compensation, including stock options measured at grant value, went from just over 25 times average worker pay in 1970 to a peak of almost 600 times average worker pay in 2000, and has now (2004) dropped down to about 360 times average worker pay.'
I dont know about you but I have to say I am sure that being a CEO is a hard job and requires a variety of skills and risks to be taken, but it is not such a specialized set of skills that warrants 600:1 pay disparity I think. Yes, capitalism exists to reward those who take the greatest risk but if you are a CEO making multi-millions a year regardless of company performance all one needs to do is survive for a few years and then then bail out on your disgustingly obscene Golden Parachute(tm) and be set for life while the company you leave lay in ruins and the common worker gets the shaft.
At least thats how I see it in the light of what that bitch Carly did to Hewlett-Packard (oh, and dont call it HP, then your parodying Carly's attempt to make everyone forget how Walter Hewlett spoke out against the merger between Companq and Hewlett-Packard http://news.com.com/2100-1001-858499.html?legacy=c net )
Seriously however this latest post is so full of word conclusions its a joke. Lets deconstruct this crapola:
"Question 1: What happened to the PowerPC's supposed performance advantage over Intel?...Apple loved to pull Phil Schiller onstage to do side-by-side speed tests showing how much faster in real life the G4s and G5s were than their Pentium equivalents. Was that so much BS? Did Apple not really mean it? And why was the question totally ignored in this week's presentation?"
Steve said consumer end Macs would get the Intel treatment first. I.E. The iBook/iMac/eMac/Mac Mini. Looking at the CPUs we have...G4/G5/G4/G4. G4's get their ass handed to them by P4s/AMD 64. Moving these models to Pentium Ms would be a performance boost for these systems! AltiVec is not used as often as one would think. Everything is not a vector problem! PPC in the form of G5 does compete well still against Intels Netburst CPUs. Also, performance wasnt talked about because it was a developers confrence and this was the beginning of the process so things will only get FASTER moving forward as things are optimized, ported, etc.
Myth: Busted
"Question 2: What happened to Apple's 64-bit operating system?
OS X 10.4 -- Tiger -- is a 64-bit OS, remember, yet Intel's 64-bit chips -- Xeon and Itanium -- are high buck items aimed at servers, not iMacs."
Not ALL of Tiger is 64-bits, only certain libraries. To quote from Apple's Tiger webpage:
"Initially, only libSystem, the Accelerate framework, and a few other low-level support libraries are available in a 64-bit format. This means that only basic, command-line functionality is available to 64-bit applications. GUI applications that need more than 4 GB of memory will have to split their functionality into a 64-bit back end and a 32-bit GUI that communicate using interprocess communication."
Plus, the high end Macs are going to be the last to move to Intel CPUs because of...64-bitness! The idea that Apple would use Itanium is sheer comedy. Itanium is a dead chip. Cringley didn't read the bloody Universal Binary Guide Apple wrote because it talks about IA-32 architecture explicity!
"Question 3: Where the heck is AMD?
If Apple is willing to embrace the Intel architecture because of its performance and low power consumption, then why not go with AMD, which equals Intel's power specs, EXCEEDS Intel's performance specs AND does so at a lower price point across the board?"
Lets see, AMD is nowhere to be found because: 1. It's fabs are barely able to keep up with demand for the new whiz-bang CPUs. AMD will have some breathing room when its new Fab in Dresden open up in...uhm 2007 i think? 2. AMD makes no motherboard chipsets unless forced to. 3. It's CURRENT line of CPUs are better then Intels CURRENT line of CPUs but Apple is going to be using NEWER CPUs (Yonah for mobile I suspect, and perhaps Conroe for desktops). The Pentium M is very competitive with the AMD chips and many people have wondered out loud why in the sam hell Intel doesnt push Pentium-M to the desktop to regain the fast, cool, and neat crown.
"Question 4: Why announce this chip swap a year before it will even begin for customers?"
It is a DEVELOPERS CONFRENCE you IDIOT! These are the people who NEED TO KNOW FIRST. God, Cringley, you can be brillant sometimes but then you say shit like this and I have to wonder if your cat started typing for you while you were away. Take note that you have to go hunting on the Apple.com website to find the announcement of this transition.
"Question 5: Is this all really about Digital Rights Management?"
The only DRM this will be about is Apple using the LaGrande technology to insure that only Apple motherboards will run OS X along with Windows, Linux and any other OS you so choose. DRM exists only to insure you only run OS X on the hardware Apple certifies and sells.
Intel will not buy Apple, IBM couldn't have improved their roadmap to suit Apple and thats that. Cringley is dead wrong on all counts here. You read it here first.
dspisak writes "It seems rumors of the plots to not assassinate Berman and Braga were greatly exaggerated! MercenaryToday reports that according to Ayatolla Sistani, a new hit on Berman and Braga's life might come sooner than you think: "If it gets done in two years or three years I think that timeframe for a new, fresh set of bounties with a whole different outlook, namely, one of dead and not alive would be fine." He's previously said that Berman and Braga will experience a whole new realm of pain and suffering; it's being bid by former Nazi party memebers that had escaped to Brazil along with other notorious ex-patriates."
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Because operating a PDA is typically not easy compared to operating a iPod.
Will this new funding spur a third and perhaps even a fourth dupe of this story on Slashdot?
Now I can make my Mac look ugly and like crap. Thats a hell of a choice in beer:
"Son you can have this here Bass ale or this here Budwiser"
MS hires smart people, sure, but how come you managed to misspell Bill Maher's name in your signatures quote?
Where's Brain and Penny to fix this fine mess?
I'm going to double major in CS and Plumbing.
Dings against this device:
1. No WPA support!
2. This device can't give user credentials for a T-Mobile hotspot account or other similar types of roaming Wi-Fi accounts
So basically, I like the idea but its security needs massive improvement and it needs to be able to work on authenticated gateways that you find at most mobile wi-fi hotspots. Sure this device will work great on any insecure or unsecured WiFi network but I certain refuse to use any WiFi device that doesnt support at least WPA security these days.
Step 1: Buy a cheap Mac Mini .DOC in Word 2004
Step 2: Buy copy of Office 2004
Step 3: Open your horrendous Word
Step 4: Print to PDF
OR
Step 4: Export to XHTML in Word
Done.
Exporting to XHTML in Word 2004 seems to do a pretty good job usually. However you should just print the DOCs to PDF and put those up instead.
Hopefully MySpace won't turn into MyRepublicanNeoConSpace. However it will be great if the FOX people can get rid of the %&$%^$ Jamster ads from the site. I hate ads that make noise.
Going into business for yourself is possible in this country still but it is not an easy thing by any stretch of the imagination. Being a little guy gives you huge advantages in some of the risks that one can take, and if you are lucky will find a niche or even better latch onto the next big thing by mistake and be taken for a great ride.
That being said however, I completely understand your argument with regards to what is the percieved value of that which the workers ultimately create verse what they actually are paid.
However I think one factor that is perhaps changing the face of small business opportunities is the recent rash of patent stupidity over the past few years. All it takes to clobber your small biz startup is some Amazon or worse a pure IP-lawsuit generating company to wipe away any semblance of profit as well as progress what with the time now having to be spent to have your legal work taken cared of not to mention extremely high legal fees necessitated by your representation.
All things being equal however, not everyone in America is capable of starting a new business per se. Either they don't have necessary capital to get started or they might not be able to come up with a sufficently good enough idea and business plan to get traction. The major issue as I see it is this:
Everyone in America CAN NOT become a "knowledge worker" or their own boss by means of starting their own business. The fact of the matter is that you have a bell curve distribution of intelligence anywhere in the world. The reason this is a problem is because depending on a persons intelligence determines what types of education and learning will end in positive results. Positive results meaning that person can function normally in society and contribtue to it positvely in some way. If we allow our education system to not properly account for this reality (which currently the Leave Every Child Behind is accelerating for us, thank you Bush and the DOE) then we as a country are going to be saddled with a greater societal burden for these people who we have left unprepared and unable to properly integrate into society and economy. Those of us who are able to contribute to the economy and society in a positive way will see our burden of support increase unless we do something to ensure a maximal number of people in our society are functional contributors to the economy and society at large.
Yet I rarely ever see anyone on Slashdot here recognize this fundamental truth. Instead people are quick to say "You don't have to take that job" or "Just go into business for yourself" or "Go back to school and learn the *new* hot thing". The problem is, as manufacturing jobs got replaced by technology jobs what is replacing the technology jobs are jobs that to me at least seem less and less tied to specific locality and only end up increasing the number of people I compete for positions, worldwide as well as forcing median salries to come to a median level for certain positions that are great money in other countires not as highly developed as the US or the UK for example.
I don't know, I just get a feeling that a true free market economy is only going to bring everyone down to the same level, the issue is that the new median level is an unsustainable living wage in many well developed countries. I could be wrong about some of this, but this is how it feels to me in my gut at least.
And yes, I know what a plumber makes in a year. It's my Plan C. Can't outsource clogged plumbing repairs, thats for sure.
Obviously HP has a hardon to grab anyone high up at Dell seeing as the bulk of their focus was beating Dell. That being said that article says nothing of what his compensation package is when he leaves Hewlett-Packard years down the road. Of course there is this then:
Mott will also receive "targeted long-term performance cash of $7 million for the 2005-2008 performance cycle, of which $5 million is guaranteed," the filing said.
So if this guy completely fucks up...he gets 5 million spread out over 3 years. Or he makes:
YR 2005
690000 Base
690000 Short-term 100% Bonus
1000000 Relocation Allowance
2200000 Signing Bonus
1666666 "Performance" Cash (Worst Case)
1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year)
YR 2005 Total = $7,668,246
YR 2006
690000 Base
690000 Short-term 100% Bonus (Ends Y06)
1666666 "Performance" Cash (Worst Case)
1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year)
YR 2006 Total = $4,468,246
YR 2007
690000 Base
1666666 "Performance" Cash (Worst Case)
1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year)
YR 2007 Total = $3,778,246
YR 2008
690000 Base
1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year)
YR 2008 Total = $2,111,580
YR 2009
690000 Base
1421580 Vested Value est. @ $24.94*57,000 Shares HPQ Vested (285,000 vest at 20% per year) FULLY VESTED
YR 2009 Total = $2,111,580
Total Monies gained by Mr. Mott after being at Hewlett-Packard for 5 years:
$20,137,898
And that good people is if he performs POORLY. Please also, do not forget its not outside the realm of possibility for the executives to "re-target" their performance goals so instead of missing them for their pay bonuses they actually hit them fully due to newer, lower targets.
So the question I ask is, what do the people immeadiately under Mott make that are just one level below him? And so on and so forth.
I'm sorry but I don't follow your argument. You are saying that if the company doesnt pay the CEO a fair amount of money that the CEO is more likely to defraud his own company to extract what they think is a proper pay?
.NET, CCIE, CISSP, GIAC, A+, and on and on! It most certainly is your pay follows according to yours SKILLS and your education as well as your marketable experience!
How do you explain the likes of Bernie Ebbers at Worldcom, or say the Rigas family in Adelphia? Or Enron?
With regards to not being paid by skills then please explain why the whole sum of the entire tech jobmarket is predicated upon SKILLS? Knowing the likes of C++, Java, J2EE, C#,
Target disk mode works OUTSIDE of the OS. That is, when you turn on the Mac you hold down the T key and the system skips booting into OS X and runs in a special mode supported by the OpenFirmware on the Firewire-capable Macs at which point your Mac can be plugged into another Mac or PC via FireWire and it looks like a standard external harddrive to the computer connecting to it. This is mighty useful for working on disks with messed up filesystems that won't boot into OS X or you have some need to quickly mirror the contents of a Macs disk to another, etc.
And no, I've yet to run into a single PC that could do that as of yet. Maybe when the EFI standard becomes more widely adopted it will finally happen.
Sure, CEOs should make more then the average workers at a corporation but exactly at what gross multiple of average salary wages is too much for a CEO to be making?
c net )
It has been shown that european CEOs salrays are often a much smaller multiple of median workers salaries I recall. BusinessWeek, which has tracked executive pay for half a century, figures that CEOs of the country's largest corporations last year (2003) were paid about 300 times the average factory worker. In Europe, in contrast, chief executive pay tops out at 30 times the average worker. Americans might defend this disparity by declaring that U.S. companies are better run, but are these companies more than 10 times better run?
Additionally according to Kevin J. Murphy, E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California: 'Since 1970, cash compensation for CEOs has gone from 25 times the pay of the average worker to about 90 times the pay of the average worker. Total compensation, including stock options measured at grant value, went from just over 25 times average worker pay in 1970 to a peak of almost 600 times average worker pay in 2000, and has now (2004) dropped down to about 360 times average worker pay.'
I dont know about you but I have to say I am sure that being a CEO is a hard job and requires a variety of skills and risks to be taken, but it is not such a specialized set of skills that warrants 600:1 pay disparity I think. Yes, capitalism exists to reward those who take the greatest risk but if you are a CEO making multi-millions a year regardless of company performance all one needs to do is survive for a few years and then then bail out on your disgustingly obscene Golden Parachute(tm) and be set for life while the company you leave lay in ruins and the common worker gets the shaft.
At least thats how I see it in the light of what that bitch Carly did to Hewlett-Packard (oh, and dont call it HP, then your parodying Carly's attempt to make everyone forget how Walter Hewlett spoke out against the merger between Companq and Hewlett-Packard http://news.com.com/2100-1001-858499.html?legacy=
Oh, I see now...future trophy wife down the road. Thanks Slashdot.
"Go make me a CMS framework woman!"
Why not just set your system time to UTC?
I guess you didn't get the memo.
However, I use iCal on OS X for all my calendar needs.
These are "hot" technologies?
I haven't heard jack-all about them. Then again I don't make my living doing web apps so who knows.
Seriously however this latest post is so full of word conclusions its a joke. Lets deconstruct this crapola:
...Apple loved to pull Phil Schiller onstage to do side-by-side speed tests showing how much faster in real life the G4s and G5s were than their Pentium equivalents. Was that so much BS? Did Apple not really mean it? And why was the question totally ignored in this week's presentation?"
"Question 1: What happened to the PowerPC's supposed performance advantage over Intel?
Steve said consumer end Macs would get the Intel treatment first. I.E. The iBook/iMac/eMac/Mac Mini. Looking at the CPUs we have...G4/G5/G4/G4. G4's get their ass handed to them by P4s/AMD 64. Moving these models to Pentium Ms would be a performance boost for these systems! AltiVec is not used as often as one would think. Everything is not a vector problem! PPC in the form of G5 does compete well still against Intels Netburst CPUs. Also, performance wasnt talked about because it was a developers confrence and this was the beginning of the process so things will only get FASTER moving forward as things are optimized, ported, etc.
Myth: Busted
"Question 2: What happened to Apple's 64-bit operating system?
OS X 10.4 -- Tiger -- is a 64-bit OS, remember, yet Intel's 64-bit chips -- Xeon and Itanium -- are high buck items aimed at servers, not iMacs."
Not ALL of Tiger is 64-bits, only certain libraries. To quote from Apple's Tiger webpage:
"Initially, only libSystem, the Accelerate framework, and a few other low-level support libraries are available in a 64-bit format. This means that only basic, command-line functionality is available to 64-bit applications. GUI applications that need more than 4 GB of memory will have to split their functionality into a 64-bit back end and a 32-bit GUI that communicate using interprocess communication."
Plus, the high end Macs are going to be the last to move to Intel CPUs because of...64-bitness! The idea that Apple would use Itanium is sheer comedy. Itanium is a dead chip. Cringley didn't read the bloody Universal Binary Guide Apple wrote because it talks about IA-32 architecture explicity!
"Question 3: Where the heck is AMD?
If Apple is willing to embrace the Intel architecture because of its performance and low power consumption, then why not go with AMD, which equals Intel's power specs, EXCEEDS Intel's performance specs AND does so at a lower price point across the board?"
Lets see, AMD is nowhere to be found because:
1. It's fabs are barely able to keep up with demand for the new whiz-bang CPUs. AMD will have some breathing room when its new Fab in Dresden open up in...uhm 2007 i think?
2. AMD makes no motherboard chipsets unless forced to.
3. It's CURRENT line of CPUs are better then Intels CURRENT line of CPUs but Apple is going to be using NEWER CPUs (Yonah for mobile I suspect, and perhaps Conroe for desktops). The Pentium M is very competitive with the AMD chips and many people have wondered out loud why in the sam hell Intel doesnt push Pentium-M to the desktop to regain the fast, cool, and neat crown.
"Question 4: Why announce this chip swap a year before it will even begin for customers?"
It is a DEVELOPERS CONFRENCE you IDIOT! These are the people who NEED TO KNOW FIRST. God, Cringley, you can be brillant sometimes but then you say shit like this and I have to wonder if your cat started typing for you while you were away. Take note that you have to go hunting on the Apple.com website to find the announcement of this transition.
"Question 5: Is this all really about Digital Rights Management?"
The only DRM this will be about is Apple using the LaGrande technology to insure that only Apple motherboards will run OS X along with Windows, Linux and any other OS you so choose. DRM exists only to insure you only run OS X on the hardware Apple certifies and sells.
Intel will not buy Apple, IBM couldn't have improved their roadmap to suit Apple and thats that. Cringley is dead wrong on all counts here. You read it here first.
100 million bucks?
It's called a Google search appliance.
Or maybe they should just switch to Mac's running Tiger and use Spotlight.
dspisak writes "It seems rumors of the plots to not assassinate Berman and Braga were greatly exaggerated! MercenaryToday reports that according to Ayatolla Sistani, a new hit on Berman and Braga's life might come sooner than you think: "If it gets done in two years or three years I think that timeframe for a new, fresh set of bounties with a whole different outlook, namely, one of dead and not alive would be fine." He's previously said that Berman and Braga will experience a whole new realm of pain and suffering; it's being bid by former Nazi party memebers that had escaped to Brazil along with other notorious ex-patriates."
Did someone break Hillary's DRM and we are now hearing her without the audio fingerprinting?
http://www.nonmundane.org/~dspisak/media/slashdot/ howtoprotect.png
Yeah this exploit is sorta lame, but its also trivial to plug in the meantime.
Will it take to compile the grahpical installer so I can then wait again for the world to compile?
... somewhere in the review process the writer has lost sight of the fundamental aspect of humor - the review was immensely shortsighted."