Everyone wants a way to make it run on generic Intel hardware. The thing is, even if you could do that, OS X drivers are not going to be available for 95% of your periphrials. What good is running the OS with no network, sound, or perhaps even video?
If you install 50 pieces of software, and 25 of them install monitoring crap, eventually your machine will be so completely unuseable that you'll have to trash it. But, you'll inevitably install the same software and be in the same problem.
Except The Warden runs only while you are playing WoW. As so many others have said, if you don't like it, don't play. And I'm guessing most of you who are so up in arms over this don't. The bottom line is that people invest a lot of time and energy in these games, and they don't want the content trivialized and the economies ruined by cheaters. Talk to me when they actually send some of this data back to the server for analysis. Until then, I guess I'll put up with this "invasion of privacy"./sigh
It's also better because you dont have a single point of failure. Hose and INI file and you've hosed 1 application. Hose the registy and your OS is fucked. Huge, huge difference.
So. ..your point is that since a well designed system doesn't prevent these types of compromises, it doesn't matter?? Do you seriously beleive that a lot of Windows technologies were designed with security in mind? No, security has been tacked on to a lot of them as an afterthought. And too late I might add to change deeply ingrained usage patterns. Yes, users are stupid. Therefore, having default settings that "stay out of the users way" is a Bad Idea.
I'll concede that the OS with largest market share is always the biggest target, especially when the numbers are so lopsided. But, surely you can't be oblivious to the fact that Windows is inherently insecure due to several factors, including specific technologies like ActiveX, poor default settings, and a questionable architecture. Is Windows targeted entirely because of large market share? No. Is Windows targeted entirely because it's a POS OS? No. Methinks reality is somewhere in between.
Or, you could just take your DVD over to your friend's house. I seriously fail to see the allure of a "Video iPod". It takes a lot more. ..well effort, if you will to watch videos than it does to listen to music. You can't excercise, you can't work, hell you can't even walk down the street while watching a movie on something like that. How would you use such a device? I hope that if Apple does add video capability, that it makes it simply an additional feature of the basic iPod, rather than making an all new model with a premium price. Because honestly, with very few exceptions (people with long commutes on public transportation or teeny boppers that just think it's cool), I just don't think people would buy it. Am I missing something here?
If you mean the newsreader functionality in Thunderbird then no, not really. TB is a great mail client but the newsreader functionality is still pretty much an exact copy from the suite. The devs don't seem to place a lot of emphasis on enhancing it =/
Comparing OS X to Linux with respect to MS developing software for them isn't really fair though. OS X is increasing in popularity yes, but in this case it helps MS because, Mac OS users are used to paying for software. Also, Office for Mac is still profitable for them. Despite it's growing popularity however, you don't see many businesses moving to the Mac because it requires investing in completely new, proprietary, and expensive hardware. Linux however is free, and will run happily on just about any computer a business is likely to have (and probably some older ones unfit for XP). In short, there are fewer obstacles (financially speaking) in moving to Linux than OS X. Despite the availability of OO, I think MS is paranoid (and rightly so IMO) that offering Office for Linux would acutally drive many businesses to finally make the switch.
Welcome to education at the baccelaureate level. A Bachelor's degree is supposed to give you a *well rounded* education, not simply teach you CE or whatever your major is. Your complaint about how soon you start taking courses that are relevant to your major is valid, but in the end you take just as many major courses as an English major, if not more.
I have to say I agree 100%. I've never seen a company that tries to inject it's craptacular toolbars, utilities, etc into a legit software installation as much as Yahoo does. I went to upgrade to Adobe Reader 7 last night, and could not remove the Yahoo Toolbar even when doing a custom install. Now I still run Adobe 6. People download the Google Toolbar of their own volition, because they *want* to. I guess Yahoo realizes they can't compete, or maybe they just think this approach is easier than trying to.
And a Linux rack is a small, redundant, recoverable server capable of running critical applications and handling a very large volume of data, at a tiny fraction of the cost of your mainframe.
You sir obviously either know nothing about mainframes, or have different definitions of "critical" and "very large" than the rest of us.
Well you can turn that logic around too. When you have 144 boxen, you much more likely to have a failure then when you have 4. But neither that nor your arguement makes any sense. Mainframes as a whole do not go down. Period. A CPU (or 3) can get completely fried and the machine won't miss a beat. Really. And you'll probably have an IBM tech there to fix it before you even know it's happened, since the machine phoned the problem in as soon as it happened. Big iron is expensive no doubt, but if there was really that small of an advantage to it, do you think banks would be paying for it???
(Of course, I'm assuming this is built on Windows DRM.. ah well.. Are they going to be so restrictive as to DRM limit the files to remove all usefullness to the user? No CD burning, coping to devices.. heck.. copying to my iPod? Oh wait, they said that was Apple's fault for not using an *open* format like MS's..)
I'm a happy iPod owner myself, but the issue here is that while Apple's format (AAC) is open, it's DRM isn't. Remember the whole deal with Real and Apple? The fact of the matter is that no one is going to sell DRM-less songs and Apple refuses to license their implementation. They have no one to blame but themselves.
What I can see happening is that the lower end Mac OS X systems would be sold by Dell, while the real neat toy computers would be sold by Apple.
But how would Apple enforce that? I don't think they could. If they allow Dell to sell OS X compatible hardware, it would be only a matter of time until Dell was putting out premium hardware at comparatively low prices, effectively forcing Apple into the software business. Personally, I'm not sure this would be a bad thing, but Apple has always been reluctant to change their business model away from hardware.
From what I have read about trust rank, the basic premise is that they pick 200 or so "trusted sites". The trust rank for any page is then basically the number of link hops to the page from a trusted site.
I was gonna mod you down, but I'll post instead. If you'd have RTFA, you'd have seen that the above statement is totally false. There are lots of criteria they are using to generate the number, of which internet traffic is only 1. To quote TFA: he database will be built by continually monitoring the number of stories from all news sources, along with average story length, number with bylines, and number of the bureaux cited, along with how long they have been in business. Google's database will also keep track of the number of staff a news source employs, the volume of internet traffic to its website and the number of countries accessing the site.
Google will take all these parameters, weight them according to formulae it is constructing, and distil them down to create a single value. This number will then be used to rank the results of any news search.
It's also how long I would expect the author of this program to have before either he or his webhosting company recieves a cease and desist order from Apple's legal dept.
you're talking about. Sure a CEO really just needs to know how to run a business, the lingo, the market, etc. But I've been in situations where my direct report (bottom level manager) was non-technical, and it sucks. The philosophy at that company was to move all the people who either couldn't code or had no desire to into Project Management, and it just doesn't work. In order to be a sucessful non-technical manager, you have to be high enough up the chain of command to just be able to take the steering wheel, and not have to worry about how the car works.
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This article obviously is not about the average consumer with their onboard video. It's about gamers who buy add-in 3d cards. The average user who only reads email and browses the internet won't be buying a $300 video card, let alone two $300 video cards to run in SLI mode.
Well then, allow me to rephrase the parent's comment. SLI is overkill for 80-90% of gamers who buy add-in 3D cards. Spending $2-300 on a 3D video card is one thing, buying *2* $3-400 cards AND and SLI capable system is quite another. We're talking the hardcore of the hardcore.
Agreed. I also agree 100% that the victims' families should file a civil suit -- against the kid. The only reason in the world that they're not doing that is because the game company has deeper pockets, which is sad.
Yeah, this will wind up getting done by one of those huge, money grubbing corporations. Then they'll rip us off and provide shitty service. It will be the complete opposite of the streamlined, well-oiled machine the government would produce. . . puhleeze. The government needs to stay out of the ISP business , and stick to providing basic necessities.
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Everyone wants a way to make it run on generic Intel hardware. The thing is, even if you could do that, OS X drivers are not going to be available for 95% of your periphrials. What good is running the OS with no network, sound, or perhaps even video?
If you install 50 pieces of software, and 25 of them install monitoring crap, eventually your machine will be so completely unuseable that you'll have to trash it. But, you'll inevitably install the same software and be in the same problem.
/sigh
Except The Warden runs only while you are playing WoW. As so many others have said, if you don't like it, don't play. And I'm guessing most of you who are so up in arms over this don't. The bottom line is that people invest a lot of time and energy in these games, and they don't want the content trivialized and the economies ruined by cheaters. Talk to me when they actually send some of this data back to the server for analysis. Until then, I guess I'll put up with this "invasion of privacy".
It's also better because you dont have a single point of failure. Hose and INI file and you've hosed 1 application. Hose the registy and your OS is fucked. Huge, huge difference.
So. . .your point is that since a well designed system doesn't prevent these types of compromises, it doesn't matter?? Do you seriously beleive that a lot of Windows technologies were designed with security in mind? No, security has been tacked on to a lot of them as an afterthought. And too late I might add to change deeply ingrained usage patterns. Yes, users are stupid. Therefore, having default settings that "stay out of the users way" is a Bad Idea.
I'll concede that the OS with largest market share is always the biggest target, especially when the numbers are so lopsided. But, surely you can't be oblivious to the fact that Windows is inherently insecure due to several factors, including specific technologies like ActiveX, poor default settings, and a questionable architecture. Is Windows targeted entirely because of large market share? No. Is Windows targeted entirely because it's a POS OS? No. Methinks reality is somewhere in between.
Stop speculating on anything else, guys.
Because your post was not speculation??
Or, you could just take your DVD over to your friend's house. I seriously fail to see the allure of a "Video iPod". It takes a lot more. . .well effort, if you will to watch videos than it does to listen to music. You can't excercise, you can't work, hell you can't even walk down the street while watching a movie on something like that. How would you use such a device? I hope that if Apple does add video capability, that it makes it simply an additional feature of the basic iPod, rather than making an all new model with a premium price. Because honestly, with very few exceptions (people with long commutes on public transportation or teeny boppers that just think it's cool), I just don't think people would buy it. Am I missing something here?
Uhh, Thunderbird is bloated but the suite isn't? Seriously man lay off the crack.
If you mean the newsreader functionality in Thunderbird then no, not really. TB is a great mail client but the newsreader functionality is still pretty much an exact copy from the suite. The devs don't seem to place a lot of emphasis on enhancing it =/
Comparing OS X to Linux with respect to MS developing software for them isn't really fair though. OS X is increasing in popularity yes, but in this case it helps MS because, Mac OS users are used to paying for software. Also, Office for Mac is still profitable for them. Despite it's growing popularity however, you don't see many businesses moving to the Mac because it requires investing in completely new, proprietary, and expensive hardware. Linux however is free, and will run happily on just about any computer a business is likely to have (and probably some older ones unfit for XP). In short, there are fewer obstacles (financially speaking) in moving to Linux than OS X. Despite the availability of OO, I think MS is paranoid (and rightly so IMO) that offering Office for Linux would acutally drive many businesses to finally make the switch.
Welcome to education at the baccelaureate level. A Bachelor's degree is supposed to give you a *well rounded* education, not simply teach you CE or whatever your major is. Your complaint about how soon you start taking courses that are relevant to your major is valid, but in the end you take just as many major courses as an English major, if not more.
Thanks for the info. I'm sure they're betting that most people won't figure out why they can't unbundle the toolbar.
I have to say I agree 100%. I've never seen a company that tries to inject it's craptacular toolbars, utilities, etc into a legit software installation as much as Yahoo does. I went to upgrade to Adobe Reader 7 last night, and could not remove the Yahoo Toolbar even when doing a custom install. Now I still run Adobe 6. People download the Google Toolbar of their own volition, because they *want* to. I guess Yahoo realizes they can't compete, or maybe they just think this approach is easier than trying to.
And a Linux rack is a small, redundant, recoverable server capable of running critical applications and handling a very large volume of data, at a tiny fraction of the cost of your mainframe.
You sir obviously either know nothing about mainframes, or have different definitions of "critical" and "very large" than the rest of us.
Well you can turn that logic around too. When you have 144 boxen, you much more likely to have a failure then when you have 4. But neither that nor your arguement makes any sense. Mainframes as a whole do not go down. Period. A CPU (or 3) can get completely fried and the machine won't miss a beat. Really. And you'll probably have an IBM tech there to fix it before you even know it's happened, since the machine phoned the problem in as soon as it happened. Big iron is expensive no doubt, but if there was really that small of an advantage to it, do you think banks would be paying for it???
(Of course, I'm assuming this is built on Windows DRM.. ah well.. Are they going to be so restrictive as to DRM limit the files to remove all usefullness to the user? No CD burning, coping to devices.. heck.. copying to my iPod? Oh wait, they said that was Apple's fault for not using an *open* format like MS's..)
I'm a happy iPod owner myself, but the issue here is that while Apple's format (AAC) is open, it's DRM isn't. Remember the whole deal with Real and Apple? The fact of the matter is that no one is going to sell DRM-less songs and Apple refuses to license their implementation. They have no one to blame but themselves.
What I can see happening is that the lower end Mac OS X systems would be sold by Dell, while the real neat toy computers would be sold by Apple.
But how would Apple enforce that? I don't think they could. If they allow Dell to sell OS X compatible hardware, it would be only a matter of time until Dell was putting out premium hardware at comparatively low prices, effectively forcing Apple into the software business. Personally, I'm not sure this would be a bad thing, but Apple has always been reluctant to change their business model away from hardware.
From what I have read about trust rank, the basic premise is that they pick 200 or so "trusted sites". The trust rank for any page is then basically the number of link hops to the page from a trusted site.
I was gonna mod you down, but I'll post instead. If you'd have RTFA, you'd have seen that the above statement is totally false. There are lots of criteria they are using to generate the number, of which internet traffic is only 1. To quote TFA:
he database will be built by continually monitoring the number of stories from all news sources, along with average story length, number with bylines, and number of the bureaux cited, along with how long they have been in business. Google's database will also keep track of the number of staff a news source employs, the volume of internet traffic to its website and the number of countries accessing the site.
Google will take all these parameters, weight them according to formulae it is constructing, and distil them down to create a single value. This number will then be used to rank the results of any news search.
So you'll prove them wrong, and punish those that are simply curious to boot, by deleting their personal files? You sir, are an asshole.
It's also how long I would expect the author of this program to have before either he or his webhosting company recieves a cease and desist order from Apple's legal dept.
Explain to me how Google is a monopoly? People use it because they prefer it, not because they have no choice, big difference.
you're talking about. Sure a CEO really just needs to know how to run a business, the lingo, the market, etc. But I've been in situations where my direct report (bottom level manager) was non-technical, and it sucks. The philosophy at that company was to move all the people who either couldn't code or had no desire to into Project Management, and it just doesn't work. In order to be a sucessful non-technical manager, you have to be high enough up the chain of command to just be able to take the steering wheel, and not have to worry about how the car works.
This article obviously is not about the average consumer with their onboard video. It's about gamers who buy add-in 3d cards. The average user who only reads email and browses the internet won't be buying a $300 video card, let alone two $300 video cards to run in SLI mode.
Well then, allow me to rephrase the parent's comment. SLI is overkill for 80-90% of gamers who buy add-in 3D cards. Spending $2-300 on a 3D video card is one thing, buying *2* $3-400 cards AND and SLI capable system is quite another. We're talking the hardcore of the hardcore.
Agreed. I also agree 100% that the victims' families should file a civil suit -- against the kid. The only reason in the world that they're not doing that is because the game company has deeper pockets, which is sad.
Yeah, this will wind up getting done by one of those huge, money grubbing corporations. Then they'll rip us off and provide shitty service. It will be the complete opposite of the streamlined, well-oiled machine the government would produce. . . puhleeze. The government needs to stay out of the ISP business , and stick to providing basic necessities.