I should be more through-al when I offer personal insights.
Take my original posting. Now, add the equation of this software patent. It becomes pretty clear that should they use this patent, with CPU ID-ed DRM, it pretty much makes sure you're not attempting to (legally, that is) to emulate/simulate the proper chip environment in a virtual machine. Coz that would require you to boot from a different OS.
Perhaps the difference lies with plausible links with the Intel DRM built into their next CPUs.
Thus, a vendor-ID-ed CPU family, locked to Apple, would be the only one capable of accessing crucial DRM-ed parts of the OS (the one wich loads AQUA and friends--not the open source Open Darwin layer).
Anyone will still be able to boot OpenDarwin on pretty much any Intel hardware.
But, running the sugar on the cake will be very hard without Apple ID-ed CPUs (and hence, motherboard) without actually using an Apple-issued motherboard.
Harvard University medic who also studied electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims to have built a prototype power source that generates up to 1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel
Aperture is a professional (not personal as I mis-wrote above) photographer tool. It's meant to bring whatever's useful in PhotoShop, take out anything else, use a better interface and provide additional tools wich are all geared at professional photography.
Even the neutral gray background and interface is there to help you better visualise your images without distorsion and hue-skewing caused by otherwise too flashy UI (aka, Aqua). Just like FCP.
In Quebec, the Simpsons are the same episodes at what you see in the states. There has been a number of translated signs but they've been mostly subtitled. However, the dialog content is extremely localized, to a point where the same episode in french canadian and US english are actually more like two different episodes. Let me give you an example;
There's an episode where Krusty ends up facing his daughter for the first time, wich he ignored the existence of. He explains how he meet her mother in the first Iraq war where they both served and that after a torrid night of sex, she had missed her rendez-vous point where she could have sniper-shot Sadam. They loose each-other, she gives birth and since has been very angry at Krusty. So far, same episode in Quebec and US. But when Krusty enters this little girl's apartment, he sees paintings of dead and murdered clowns painted by her mother. in Quebec, krusty exclaims "Wow... on dirait Murielle Millard sur l'acide!".
Just thinking of that makes me laugh, still.
It translates to "Wow, it looks like Murielle Millard on acids". That's is. nothing else. This stuff is purely localized top-culture material. you'd have to know that Murielle Millard is a top class theater actrice, a class act woman, always proper and that also had a signing and acting career earlier on. A few years ago, she held her own paintings varnishing expo in a classy arts gallery in Montréal. It made the news. Most (all?) her painting were of clowns.
Pure comedy for grown-ups. I'm laughing again.
That's how the Simpsons can be well localized. Even for arabs. Two arab friends where I work were laughing already at Homer's donuts becoming Omar's [insert-arab-round-cake-pastry-name-wich-I-forgot- here]. It may very well be a hit.
Most phones allow you to play small movies. Some carriers now even sport TV channels on 3G phones.
The much criticized ROKR phone is actually very nice (I own one). pigmy VGA camera but that's still 640x480 more pixels than an iPod can capture AND it records/play videos.
Steve has got to open his eyes and release what the public wants ratter than wait for the industry to provide what they wished the public wants.
Actually, iTunes "album art" is a sore excuse compared to what you get from the booklets that some "tangible" albums offer.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness from Smashing Pumpkins come to mind.
That particular album is worth every song, so getting it though iTunes ratter than in store actually makes it a loss.
For other albums, though, I wouldn't see it any other way. I hate cardboard-cover albums: they get messed up quite quickly (SOD's Memorize come to mind) while others are worth just for a few titles off entire albums (I'd never have purchased a ZZ-Top album, but they do have a few very good songs).
So, I'm taking this on a per-case basis.
I have about 140 iTunes-purchased songs while I hold more than 2400 "real" CDs (admittedly, most where bought before iTunes even existed).
"Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3.4 million CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally."
No. 1 spot in Americas. Number close-to-one worldwide.
Because you can't frickin dial an iPod's contact. Because you can't MAKE an appointment on your iPod. Because you can't TAKE photos on your iPod. Because the only thing you can PLAY with your iPod is an ugly card game. Ultimately, because your iPod doesn't VIBRATE in your pants.
Humour aside, it's all still true.
And, ROKR sucking or not, it's probably why I'm going to get one anyhow. My phone/carrier is due for a change and there's finally a phone that does it all for me: Mac syncing and music. And that's one up the chin for Apple: I've not bought an iPod because. Nano would have been it. But it doesn't dial. Less even vibrate in my pants.
As a matter of fact, I know of two blind person and neither use Lynx, even less heard about it.
They're using IE (they're on Winblows) and are using a screen reader, wich is far more useful to them because they can use the same software anyone does and it's therefore easier for them to get help, documentation and, above all, get the same content as everybody else (in terms of layout etc).
Lynx on it's own is not adequate to be used as a blind person's browser (it's in fact, neither ADA or section K compliant) as it requires add-ons to make it "usable".
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I predict it will flop in Americas too.
The movie's previews make it look totally uninteresting and targeted at pre-schoolers.
Frickin cars with large eye balls. Uh-hu. No thanks.
If this goes into mass production, we'll end up with florescent green sewage.
No, OSS is not free of bugs
But their bugs are free.
Exactly.
Fear is there to counterbalance stupidity. If you dope up a bunch of soldiers to make them fearless, they'll just keep ramming head-on into ambushes.
I should be more through-al when I offer personal insights.
Take my original posting. Now, add the equation of this software patent. It becomes pretty clear that should they use this patent, with CPU ID-ed DRM, it pretty much makes sure you're not attempting to (legally, that is) to emulate/simulate the proper chip environment in a virtual machine. Coz that would require you to boot from a different OS.
Perhaps the difference lies with plausible links with the Intel DRM built into their next CPUs.
Thus, a vendor-ID-ed CPU family, locked to Apple, would be the only one capable of accessing crucial DRM-ed parts of the OS (the one wich loads AQUA and friends--not the open source Open Darwin layer).
Anyone will still be able to boot OpenDarwin on pretty much any Intel hardware.
But, running the sugar on the cake will be very hard without Apple ID-ed CPUs (and hence, motherboard) without actually using an Apple-issued motherboard.
I burn an audio CD out of iTunes and voilà?
No worry there.
Poloar Lander landing code should be in that list.
Wich goes to say that in this world, there's a socket for everyone.
Harvard University medic who also studied electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims to have built a prototype power source that generates up to 1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel
So... was he a gynecologist?
No one mentioned PhotoShop killer.
Aperture is a professional (not personal as I mis-wrote above) photographer tool. It's meant to bring whatever's useful in PhotoShop, take out anything else, use a better interface and provide additional tools wich are all geared at professional photography.
Even the neutral gray background and interface is there to help you better visualise your images without distorsion and hue-skewing caused by otherwise too flashy UI (aka, Aqua). Just like FCP.
Dvforak is talking about personal photography. iPhoto, wich I use almost on a daily basis, does not fit the bill.
What Dvorak wants (but was scared to name it because it's only a Mac thing), is Aperture.
It's called localisation.
- here]. It may very well be a hit.
In Quebec, the Simpsons are the same episodes at what you see in the states. There has been a number of translated signs but they've been mostly subtitled. However, the dialog content is extremely localized, to a point where the same episode in french canadian and US english are actually more like two different episodes. Let me give you an example;
There's an episode where Krusty ends up facing his daughter for the first time, wich he ignored the existence of. He explains how he meet her mother in the first Iraq war where they both served and that after a torrid night of sex, she had missed her rendez-vous point where she could have sniper-shot Sadam. They loose each-other, she gives birth and since has been very angry at Krusty. So far, same episode in Quebec and US. But when Krusty enters this little girl's apartment, he sees paintings of dead and murdered clowns painted by her mother. in Quebec, krusty exclaims "Wow... on dirait Murielle Millard sur l'acide!".
Just thinking of that makes me laugh, still.
It translates to "Wow, it looks like Murielle Millard on acids". That's is. nothing else. This stuff is purely localized top-culture material. you'd have to know that Murielle Millard is a top class theater actrice, a class act woman, always proper and that also had a signing and acting career earlier on. A few years ago, she held her own paintings varnishing expo in a classy arts gallery in Montréal. It made the news. Most (all?) her painting were of clowns.
Pure comedy for grown-ups. I'm laughing again.
That's how the Simpsons can be well localized. Even for arabs. Two arab friends where I work were laughing already at Homer's donuts becoming Omar's [insert-arab-round-cake-pastry-name-wich-I-forgot
You mean like this where they even go so deep as to do computer forensic exercises in order to match the guy's butt wart with a usenet poster?
Most phones allow you to play small movies. Some carriers now even sport TV channels on 3G phones.
The much criticized ROKR phone is actually very nice (I own one). pigmy VGA camera but that's still 640x480 more pixels than an iPod can capture AND it records/play videos.
Steve has got to open his eyes and release what the public wants ratter than wait for the industry to provide what they wished the public wants.
Expensive, hard to setup, crumbles after a couple of years?
All this bitching is useless. Protect your investment.
But this is Slashdot. People are expected to bitch about non-Open Source product.
Had the nano been an open-source hardware project, nobody would whine about it's molded foam & plastic bottle wall face plate scratching easily.
Apple's shipping costs is their bandwidth costs and according to their SEC filings, they are plenty given what they get back from iTMS.
Their cost is also heighten with the hardware required to handle and maintain this data, wich very well does exist.
Actually, iTunes "album art" is a sore excuse compared to what you get from the booklets that some "tangible" albums offer.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness from Smashing Pumpkins come to mind.
That particular album is worth every song, so getting it though iTunes ratter than in store actually makes it a loss.
For other albums, though, I wouldn't see it any other way. I hate cardboard-cover albums: they get messed up quite quickly (SOD's Memorize come to mind) while others are worth just for a few titles off entire albums (I'd never have purchased a ZZ-Top album, but they do have a few very good songs).
So, I'm taking this on a per-case basis.
I have about 140 iTunes-purchased songs while I hold more than 2400 "real" CDs (admittedly, most where bought before iTunes even existed).
Yeah, right.
Give the thing fingers, hips and legs and then maybe call it humanoid.
From TFA:
"Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3.4 million CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally."
No. 1 spot in Americas. Number close-to-one worldwide.
Because you can't frickin dial an iPod's contact. Because you can't MAKE an appointment on your iPod. Because you can't TAKE photos on your iPod. Because the only thing you can PLAY with your iPod is an ugly card game. Ultimately, because your iPod doesn't VIBRATE in your pants.
Humour aside, it's all still true.
And, ROKR sucking or not, it's probably why I'm going to get one anyhow. My phone/carrier is due for a change and there's finally a phone that does it all for me: Mac syncing and music. And that's one up the chin for Apple: I've not bought an iPod because. Nano would have been it. But it doesn't dial. Less even vibrate in my pants.
Regardless of the memory in the device, it's software-limited to 100 songs.
Apple's protecting their iPod market for wich the profit margin hovers around 30$ per unit, while Apple';s getting about 7$ per ROKR phone license.
THAT sucks.
(Oh, and the ROKR looks sucks too, compared to V3 RAZR.)
Windows has built-in ADA and Section K facilities that IE inherit.
I'm not stating demographics BTW. Just opinions from people I know.
As a matter of fact, I know of two blind person and neither use Lynx, even less heard about it.
They're using IE (they're on Winblows) and are using a screen reader, wich is far more useful to them because they can use the same software anyone does and it's therefore easier for them to get help, documentation and, above all, get the same content as everybody else (in terms of layout etc).
Lynx on it's own is not adequate to be used as a blind person's browser (it's in fact, neither ADA or section K compliant) as it requires add-ons to make it "usable".