No, I think you're missing the main reason Apple dumped IBM. Apple saw the market moving towards laptops, and IBM couldn't bring the operating temperature of the G5 down. Apple never built a G5 laptop, and it was killing them. Meanwhile, Intel was building fast, low power CPUs and chipsets, and in the quantities Apple wanted. Apple could build more powerful portables, and smaller, lighter, more compact desktops like the iMac and Mac Mini, as a side effect.
The virtualization was just a nice bonus. It's actually easier to emulate an x86 on a RISC chip than the other way around. The Rosetta guys did some amazing things to get PowerPC code running on Intel, and even then it was just a stopgap measure.
But doesn't Mac OS X warn you the first time you're running a program? (or am I thinking of that case when you're opening a document that uses said program?)
It actually does both. And it does it by placing the name of the downloader program and the source URL as key/value pairs in the file's extended attributes. Pretty clever, really.
I've been researching Mac anti-virus software out of morbid curiosity lately, and I've discovered one thing: it's impossible to find the contents of the signature files they use. If you (or anyone else) can point me to a list of the known Mac viruses they scan for, I'd appreciate it. The closest I've found is one vendor who bundles their Mac and Windows sigs together in one big file, and then claims they protect the Mac from "30,000 viruses".
Until I can see some concrete evidence, I remain convinced that these applications are just digital snake oil, they consume memory and CPU cycles while doing nothing.
Exactly. I can't see anything in there that would stop porn, or the baby-shaking app, or anything else that could be controversial or offensive. The first time someone tries to submit an app like that, Microsoft is going to have to accept it, and deal with the PR firestorm, or reject it, and deal with the PR firestorm.:-P
Oh, shit. That looks really bad. Typical Microsoft; GUIDs everywhere, if you're not using Microsoft products across the entire platform we can't help you, fucked-up naming conventions (they have a field called 'when' ), and I suspect a massive amount of vendor lock-in by insanely complex XML documents that can only be parsed by proprietary Microsoft products. i.e. business as usual.
A Mac is not "the most unfree of unfree". The source to the Darwin kernel, the userland programs, Safari (Webkit), and a number of other programs are freely (gratis and libre) available here and here.
Now, it's not the source to all the apps, and it's not the source to the Quartz/Aqua window manager, but it's still a hell of a lot more than you'll ever get from Microsoft.
Wow, what an idiot. I bet his first column started with, "Last week I couldn't even spell 'pundit' and now I are one."
He says that Microsoft is only about a 6 on the monopoly scale, without defining the scale. Does he not realize that Microsoft has roughly 90% of the desktop OS market? And that Google, who he claims is worse, has only 60 - 70% of the web search market?
And these issues are beside the point. US law says there is nothing wrong with being a monopoly. The problem is abusing that monopoly. I don't think Google has ever been accused of trying to sign exclusive contracts with advertisers to screw over Yahoo. I don't think Apple has ever told Best Buy that if they want to sell iPods, they can't sell Zunes or Zens or Sanzas.
On the other hand, Microsoft has be found guilty of threatening OEMs with withholding Windows if they install DR DOS or Netscape Navigator.
The psyops 'bible' was written by a civilian: Dr. Paul "E.E. 'Doc' Smith" Linebarger. Um, no. Dr. Paul Linebarger wrote science fiction under the pseudonym of Cordwainer Smith
I'm a Mac user and I'm looking around for some virus detection software. Try some 'common sense'. Don't download stuff from dubious sources, don't blindly install stuff you're not certain about, don't type your password into the confirm box without thinking about it first, and pay attention to that warning OS X gives you about programs downloaded from the internet.
Seriously, the only idiots who got this malware ran the installer on dubious packages, and gave them free rein over their system when they elevated permissions. This trojan is almost trivial to remove, and doesn't hide itself at all.
All anti-virus software is snake oil. The best they can do is scan for the signatures of known viruses, and those signature lists make up 60-70% of the total population. A well-patched system is your best defense, and Software Update makes that easy for you.
Now all we have to do is get Apple to be more pro-active and faster about patching the vulnerabilities before they turn into exploits.
To accomplish this, a W3C member would be required to disclose and license to any practitioner all essential patents of a W3C standard. To exclude a patent from this royalty-free license, a W3C member could, on a case-by-case basis, notify a particular working group that it has patent rights that it believes are essential to that working group's recommendation, and that it is unwilling to license on a royalty-free basis.
Which is exactly what they're doing. You can accuse them of being patent-trolls, and using vaguely-worded, over-generalized patents, but you can't say they're being hypocritical. They're behaving exactly as they promised they would.
Interesting that it includes Parallels. When Microsoft bought Connectix they had a perfectly good virtualization program in the form of Virtual PC. But they promptly axed the Mac version of the program, and Parallels and VMWare filled the void. Microsoft really seems to have a thing for killing Mac versions of the products they buy. There doesn't seem to be anything left but Office, and yet the Mac is thriving.
The story is that Seattle Computing (basically one guy) wrote a 16-bit clone of 8-bit CP/M and called it QDOS (for 'Quick and Dirty Operating System').
Gates and Ballmer sold IBM a load of hot air for the IBM PC, and needed an operating system to go with it. They bought QDOS from Seattle Computing for $50,000 (I think), 'forgetting' to tell the owner that they had a multi-million dollar contract with IBM.
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Damn! I remember buying one of the very first flash drives, back in about 2000 or so. $50 for an IBM-branded 8 MB. 8 Megs, no typo.
He never ran the EFF (what a terrible thought!). He was Director of European Affairs for a while.
No, I think you're missing the main reason Apple dumped IBM. Apple saw the market moving towards laptops, and IBM couldn't bring the operating temperature of the G5 down. Apple never built a G5 laptop, and it was killing them. Meanwhile, Intel was building fast, low power CPUs and chipsets, and in the quantities Apple wanted. Apple could build more powerful portables, and smaller, lighter, more compact desktops like the iMac and Mac Mini, as a side effect.
The virtualization was just a nice bonus. It's actually easier to emulate an x86 on a RISC chip than the other way around. The Rosetta guys did some amazing things to get PowerPC code running on Intel, and even then it was just a stopgap measure.
But doesn't Mac OS X warn you the first time you're running a program? (or am I thinking of that case when you're opening a document that uses said program?)
It actually does both. And it does it by placing the name of the downloader program and the source URL as key/value pairs in the file's extended attributes. Pretty clever, really.
I've been researching Mac anti-virus software out of morbid curiosity lately, and I've discovered one thing: it's impossible to find the contents of the signature files they use. If you (or anyone else) can point me to a list of the known Mac viruses they scan for, I'd appreciate it. The closest I've found is one vendor who bundles their Mac and Windows sigs together in one big file, and then claims they protect the Mac from "30,000 viruses".
Until I can see some concrete evidence, I remain convinced that these applications are just digital snake oil, they consume memory and CPU cycles while doing nothing.
Exactly. I can't see anything in there that would stop porn, or the baby-shaking app, or anything else that could be controversial or offensive. The first time someone tries to submit an app like that, Microsoft is going to have to accept it, and deal with the PR firestorm, or reject it, and deal with the PR firestorm. :-P
Oh, shit. That looks really bad. Typical Microsoft; GUIDs everywhere, if you're not using Microsoft products across the entire platform we can't help you, fucked-up naming conventions (they have a field called 'when' ), and I suspect a massive amount of vendor lock-in by insanely complex XML documents that can only be parsed by proprietary Microsoft products. i.e. business as usual.
A Mac is not "the most unfree of unfree". The source to the Darwin kernel, the userland programs, Safari (Webkit), and a number of other programs are freely (gratis and libre) available here and here.
Now, it's not the source to all the apps, and it's not the source to the Quartz/Aqua window manager, but it's still a hell of a lot more than you'll ever get from Microsoft.
So irradiate the doorknobs!
Geez, it's a simple solution!
The real crime here is that they're still using line numbers.
Wow, what an idiot. I bet his first column started with, "Last week I couldn't even spell 'pundit' and now I are one."
He says that Microsoft is only about a 6 on the monopoly scale, without defining the scale. Does he not realize that Microsoft has roughly 90% of the desktop OS market? And that Google, who he claims is worse, has only 60 - 70% of the web search market?
And these issues are beside the point. US law says there is nothing wrong with being a monopoly. The problem is abusing that monopoly. I don't think Google has ever been accused of trying to sign exclusive contracts with advertisers to screw over Yahoo. I don't think Apple has ever told Best Buy that if they want to sell iPods, they can't sell Zunes or Zens or Sanzas.
On the other hand, Microsoft has be found guilty of threatening OEMs with withholding Windows if they install DR DOS or Netscape Navigator.
The psyops 'bible' was written by a civilian: Dr. Paul "E.E. 'Doc' Smith" Linebarger.
Um, no. Dr. Paul Linebarger wrote science fiction under the pseudonym of Cordwainer Smith
I'm a Mac user and I'm looking around for some virus detection software.
Try some 'common sense'. Don't download stuff from dubious sources, don't blindly install stuff you're not certain about, don't type your password into the confirm box without thinking about it first, and pay attention to that warning OS X gives you about programs downloaded from the internet.
Seriously, the only idiots who got this malware ran the installer on dubious packages, and gave them free rein over their system when they elevated permissions. This trojan is almost trivial to remove, and doesn't hide itself at all.
All anti-virus software is snake oil. The best they can do is scan for the signatures of known viruses, and those signature lists make up 60-70% of the total population. A well-patched system is your best defense, and Software Update makes that easy for you.
Now all we have to do is get Apple to be more pro-active and faster about patching the vulnerabilities before they turn into exploits.
You know what they say, a billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
It was never more true than for Microsoft.
Because Area 51 is the location for Project Backstep. I sometimes wonder what would happen if SG-1 ran into Frank B. Parker.
The Mac Archipelago finds it amusing, too. *Cheers!*
Holy Crap! You found one? I even searched for songs by William Hung, and even they were all 99c.
Geez, did you even read that page?
To accomplish this, a W3C member would be required to disclose and license to any practitioner all essential patents of a W3C standard. To exclude a patent from this royalty-free license, a W3C member could, on a case-by-case basis, notify a particular working group that it has patent rights that it believes are essential to that working group's recommendation, and that it is unwilling to license on a royalty-free basis.
Which is exactly what they're doing. You can accuse them of being patent-trolls, and using vaguely-worded, over-generalized patents, but you can't say they're being hypocritical. They're behaving exactly as they promised they would.
"too many pointers"
Who are you, the Emperor of Austria?
"I'm sorry, Herr Mozart, but your program is just too confusing. Too many pointers."
No, it's considerably worse than nothing.
If he won the contest it just proves that he has more fans than NASA.
No, it just proves he has more fans than Firefly. (Which isn't too hard.)
*me ducks*
Interesting that it includes Parallels. When Microsoft bought Connectix they had a perfectly good virtualization program in the form of Virtual PC. But they promptly axed the Mac version of the program, and Parallels and VMWare filled the void. Microsoft really seems to have a thing for killing Mac versions of the products they buy. There doesn't seem to be anything left but Office, and yet the Mac is thriving.
Yes, you're right. The source for CP/M was proprietary to Digital Research, so QDOS was reverse-engineered. I think the term 'clone' is appropriate.
The story is that Seattle Computing (basically one guy) wrote a 16-bit clone of 8-bit CP/M and called it QDOS (for 'Quick and Dirty Operating System').
Gates and Ballmer sold IBM a load of hot air for the IBM PC, and needed an operating system to go with it. They bought QDOS from Seattle Computing for $50,000 (I think), 'forgetting' to tell the owner that they had a multi-million dollar contract with IBM.
Hey, you're talking about Dvorak here. What could he possibly need to do in Photoshop that he couldn't do in MS Paint?