You have seemed to have forgotten that Darwin is the core of Mac OS X. Seeing as the source is going to be (fairly) freely available, I don't see why developer's cant simply look at the Darwin source and figure out how to get Linux working on SMP machines.
This is presuming that the SMP libraries are to be included in Darwin...
I'm afraid microsofts tactics have succeeded. They've beaten netscape in the windows market, and I don't think anything can make it different - except if netscape/mozilla suddenly becomes something *extremely* much better and featurefilled than IE. That, unfortunately, will not happen.
Even if it was better, even after the DOJ case - how many companies would actually pre-install it?
Yeah, they'll just drive the programmers into an illegal "Creditz" scene, where the upload their Creditz at a ratio of 3:1. If they upload enough they get a disabled Creditz ratio.:)
Looks like it will be shareware (or even commercial?) at $99. I doubt if he's selling it then it will be available as open source for anyone to compile for free.
Ever since Apple was at it's all time low (stock/market share/etc), and M$ gave it some mindshare injection with it's $150M investment plus Application support they've been waiting.
Why? Because of the DoJ anti-trust case.
The question I have, is what point - at what threshold will M$ decide "Right, we've given them enough now, we'll pull applications/support" or do something that will seriously put Apple at a disadvantage.
You can be sure that M$ wont sit by and let Apple gain momentum like it is now for too much longer.
Then again, maybe Apple is in too much of a niche position for M$ to ever worry about them again... no, I don't think so!
"neither facts absolve APLLE from lousy business practices and DEEP DEEP greed"
Aside from your inability to accurately spell (no offence!), what else do expect from a corporation like that. Of course they're going to be greedy - it's they're job to!! You can't expect them to put themselves at a disadvantage in the cut-throat computer business.
At least Apple has the grace to be a lot more innovative than most corps in the industry.
Red Hat may be one of the few exceptions - but we've yet to see what unfolds with them - come back in a few years time and we'll see.
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Use Spyware Blaster to disable flash on and off.
h tm l
;)
Then you can still view the odd flash files as needed:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.
*note this is Windows, not Linux
XP's got a firewall which does the trick, only problem is it's not enabled by default... which means only tech savvy people are safe.
Makes sense? Not really!
Flash RAM, unless you can online write once, which would be WORM :)
Pedant Police have left the room...
yup, thats the one!
except people do care if windows runs on it.
it's a selling point.
Why can't linux?
cool!
true, but Boch's strengths are that it can platform independantly, not on existing x86 hardware.
but i'm not denying dosbox is still very cool
Impressive use of obfuscation there, first and last paragraph look on-topic, but the rest is US patent-office bait!
No. Too far!
I'd love to see the next morning, when the Admin staff come in to see 1000 pages of $20 bills in their fax's tray with the note on top saying
"Just printing some money, hope you dont mind?"
I just did this - Kazaa said no results!
;)
Anyone got a URL?
Haven't had seeds in years, sinsemilla all the way. ;)
Who says the files have to be store?
When you watch an MPEG2 film from DirecTV or Sky do you record that to your CD/HD?
Nope it shows it onscreen and "forgets it".
If you want to watch the film again - you have to pay!
Maybe a troll??
ANyway point 2; Windows Update does have IIS patches. I installed one the other day.
If you look carefully the serial number is also AppleInsider.
I think you'll find the picture was doctored to hide the identity of the real username and serial number.
If the real serial number was there it would be much easier to track down who leaked the beta.
OpenDoc was not cross-platform, but an object-based API. Apple's idea was to have applications that were completely moduled and interoperable.
The reason it flopped was because the press and endusers never really understood it.
You have seemed to have forgotten that Darwin is the core of Mac OS X. Seeing as the source is going to be (fairly) freely available, I don't see why developer's cant simply look at the Darwin source and figure out how to get Linux working on SMP machines.
This is presuming that the SMP libraries are to be included in Darwin...
The URL doesnt exist.
Taxes.com isn't in use (except by a domain hoarding company).
The IRS also has nothing to do with it either.
Hmm...
Quicktime IS the basis for MPEG 4.
See this link for more.
I'm afraid microsofts tactics have succeeded. They've beaten netscape in the windows market, and I don't think anything can make it different - except if netscape/mozilla suddenly becomes something *extremely* much better and featurefilled than IE. That, unfortunately, will not happen.
Even if it was better, even after the DOJ case - how many companies would actually pre-install it?
Not many I'm guessing...
My A1200 w/ 68030 + 4MB "fast" ram was 60ns. Standard A500 (Kickstart -1.2) was 120ns. A600 and newer A500+'s had 80ns RAM.
To answer your question: some RAM has ultra fast latency (graphics card RAM is 6ns or so), SDRAM though probably has high latency times like you said.
Don't ask me what, try a RAM manufactures website for details.
Yeah, they'll just drive the programmers into an illegal "Creditz" scene, where the upload their Creditz at a ratio of 3:1. If they upload enough they get a disabled Creditz ratio. :)
Looks like it will be shareware (or even commercial?) at $99. I doubt if he's selling it then it will be available as open source for anyone to compile for free.
Ever since Apple was at it's all time low (stock/market share/etc), and M$ gave it some mindshare injection with it's $150M investment plus Application support they've been waiting.
Why? Because of the DoJ anti-trust case.
The question I have, is what point - at what threshold will M$ decide "Right, we've given them enough now, we'll pull applications/support" or do something that will seriously put Apple at a disadvantage.
You can be sure that M$ wont sit by and let Apple gain momentum like it is now for too much longer.
Then again, maybe Apple is in too much of a niche position for M$ to ever worry about them again... no, I don't think so!
"neither facts absolve APLLE from lousy business practices and DEEP DEEP greed"
Aside from your inability to accurately spell (no offence!), what else do expect from a corporation like that. Of course they're going to be greedy - it's they're job to!! You can't expect them to put themselves at a disadvantage in the cut-throat computer business.
At least Apple has the grace to be a lot more innovative than most corps in the industry.
Red Hat may be one of the few exceptions - but we've yet to see what unfolds with them - come back in a few years time and we'll see.