My whole plan was to switch away from Microsoft to Apple due to the (relatively) benign copy protection in OS X and other products
So, to get this right, you planed to moved to Mac OS X simply because you could easily steal a copy?
Perhaps that's why Apple waited to long to move onto Intel. Now, they have a chance of a wider audience with, perhaps, not too much of a risk to being bled to death.
When you have ~3% world market share, you can't afford to loose 30% of it to software pirates.
As far as using the DRM stuff to restrict use of material you own, I wouldn't worry too much. Case to the point is iTunes. It's still the most flexible DRM schème thus far.
Apple could spare to ignore any illegal copies of Mac OS X before because, at least, they'd be guaranteed they were being used on their own machines, so they made some money on the hardware level at some point. Take away the hardware and it's a complete loss of profit (yes, Apple is in for the profit).
If you value your time like I do (parents tend to do so very dearly), then calculate all the administrative hassles you spend yearly on your system(*) and multiply by what you value your time at. Even at minimum wage, it's still worth a copy of Mac OS X at retail price.
(*) make that any viral/trojan/spyware workouts, driver installations, brother-in-law servicing or what have you
Anyone who purchases a song via a phone, given carrier restrictions & fees, ought to be aligned against a wall ans slapped (or microwaved).
But the point of this phone is to merge your phone and music device in one. As a die-hard Mac fan as I can be, I still dont own an iPod because I feel the product lacks features. I mean, it's a portable drive that plays music. Oh wait, you can *view* contacts and limited calendar entries, buut that's it. My phone does all that, better, minus the music playback and disk mode.
Given this "iPhone" can sync with a Mac (and a peesea) and work in disk mode, I have an iPod Shuffle -class player PLUS color screen and the full gadgetry of a typical cell phone.
presumably (given the latest release), synching will be handled through iTunes ratter than iSync, wich makes some sense given iTines is available on both Macs and peeseas.
Show me this iPhone thing and I'm an instant buyer (and will have a phone to sell), regardless of who makes it.
That machine was the last of the Apple//s and did very well. It introduced a number of additions that eventually made their way into the Mac world, such as ADB input bus. It had 16-bit graphics when Macs were still black and white, 16-chanel sound chip (the Mac had a 4-way back then I believe).
That machine would have made Apple big, had they had not spent all their marketing efforts onto the Mac (whose hardware was inferior in many areas to the GS, but whose OS was superior).
I should add, now that the first one is downloaded, that "Video - Game of death" is just a cartoon anime funny thing. Music less. Still funny. But a Bugs Bunny clip would have been as much à-propos than this cartoon.
I've not seen one video available as a separate purchase yet, though they might come to that at some point. I think that would be silly, given videos are, to begin with, a promotional tool for albums.
Wich is just what the current videos seem to do. They are free, but come with the entire album only.
Good idea, still, for the music majors.
However, they take forever to download through our company's proxy. I'll compare with direct broadband at home tonight. Stay iTuned (har!).
I've been waiting for a "real" Star-Wars for years....let's hope this one works.
Episode 1 and 2 were pretty much a "real" Star Wars. If you're sorry about their nature, to thankful you outgrew your young kid's movie taste. Because after all, SW 4 and 6 were as childish as 1 and 2 were. And they were all still good movies.
Episode 5 was darker because it needed to portray the demise of Luke's illusion about being so good and the demise of the alliance.
So please all stop bitching about the fact that you've grown (at least a little bit).
Bonus poiints if there is a scene where Anakin kills Jar-Jar.
And I precisely dont want that. He wouldn't be so evil if he killed him. instead, he's going to destroy Gen. Greious, taking his place, by locking him in the same room as Binks.
Mac OS 10.3 and Tiger (10.4) both have 64-bit components. Tiger obviously has more.
The idea here is that the bulk of the OS is still 32-bits. Applications run in 32-bit space, but unix tools (Apple lingo for CLI apps) can reside in 64-bit space, as does the bulk of the underlying OS that requires it (memory, kernel, some drivers, one-button mouse etc) and that only if the hardware is 64-bits (so the OS is a FAT build for some components).
If you user-space (UI) application requires 64-bits (PhotoShop to name the proverbial example), then it's image processing threads can be 64-bits and loaded from the 32-bit UI application.
As time move on and Tiger gets more update and eventually reach MegaPussy (not the actual name but whatever 10.5 will be), more components will be 64-bits.
There is some criticism for this adoption strategy but it has a goal. This way, Tiger apps can run on either 32 or 64-bits machines. if you app requires (or uses) 64-bits components, then it will be a more concious design decision and there are less chance some dweeb ends up trying to launch a 64-bit application on it's Rev B iMac.
Such transitions to new hardware is not new to Apple (wich I consider the kings in that field, considering what the hardware platform went through). It only means less broken apps for now.
(And I was kidding about the 64-bit one-button mouse drivers.)
Hawking actually disproved himself regarding the event horizon "information disappearance" thing recently. He has lost a bet made some years before, 'fessed up and paid up in front of a large audience.
However, his black-hole theories hold up for the most part, still. regardless as how you look at it, no one's actually looked more at black-holes as hawking has for the moment.
It would take more than 4 pages to convince anyone that Hawking's 30 years+ research in that area to be totally wrong.
Four fucking pages?!? The guy claims to comprehensively contradict some of the best known and most studied concepts in astro-physics, and his proof covers FOUR PAGES? And contains almost no equations?
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My whole plan was to switch away from Microsoft to Apple due to the (relatively) benign copy protection in OS X and other products
So, to get this right, you planed to moved to Mac OS X simply because you could easily steal a copy?
Perhaps that's why Apple waited to long to move onto Intel. Now, they have a chance of a wider audience with, perhaps, not too much of a risk to being bled to death.
When you have ~3% world market share, you can't afford to loose 30% of it to software pirates.
As far as using the DRM stuff to restrict use of material you own, I wouldn't worry too much. Case to the point is iTunes. It's still the most flexible DRM schème thus far.
Apple could spare to ignore any illegal copies of Mac OS X before because, at least, they'd be guaranteed they were being used on their own machines, so they made some money on the hardware level at some point. Take away the hardware and it's a complete loss of profit (yes, Apple is in for the profit).
If you value your time like I do (parents tend to do so very dearly), then calculate all the administrative hassles you spend yearly on your system(*) and multiply by what you value your time at. Even at minimum wage, it's still worth a copy of Mac OS X at retail price.
(*) make that any viral/trojan/spyware workouts, driver installations, brother-in-law servicing or what have you
I wonder how easy it would be to associate any particular activity with 'terrorism.'"
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>> This is quite likely the finest result Nasa has had for a long time.
> Ignoring a couple of rovers on Mars...
Apparently NASA reused, in this impactor, software they had for the Polar Lander.
har har.
(And, as a repentant soul, congratulations NASA on this great bull's eye).
Anyone who purchases a song via a phone, given carrier restrictions & fees, ought to be aligned against a wall ans slapped (or microwaved).
But the point of this phone is to merge your phone and music device in one. As a die-hard Mac fan as I can be, I still dont own an iPod because I feel the product lacks features. I mean, it's a portable drive that plays music. Oh wait, you can *view* contacts and limited calendar entries, buut that's it. My phone does all that, better, minus the music playback and disk mode.
Given this "iPhone" can sync with a Mac (and a peesea) and work in disk mode, I have an iPod Shuffle -class player PLUS color screen and the full gadgetry of a typical cell phone.
presumably (given the latest release), synching will be handled through iTunes ratter than iSync, wich makes some sense given iTines is available on both Macs and peeseas.
Show me this iPhone thing and I'm an instant buyer (and will have a phone to sell), regardless of who makes it.
...while everybody gets a chance to tour the cockpit.
What's the point? Just port Wine on it and bingo.
Whew!
Hey, #3467, pfltfltflt!
I think more about the Apple Intel switch.
I was at the keynote and dangit! I would have loved for a quake to hit right there.
The T-Zero electric car was already demonstrated as being faster than any Porsches or ferraris than you can throw at it:
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Well they managed to blow up their ship in every movie so what else is new?
Did they actually blew up the crew too in the last movie? I lost track.
The Mac 128 was 4mghz!
Er... Apple's Mail has been using "names as objects" since early Panther developer releases something like, nearly two years ago.. ?
I seem to recall Netscape doing something similar to their mail system.
I know for a fact that Oberon-F (the OS w/ the Oberon language) has had object-like self-contained thingies that could be used to send emails to.
What the heck is a vCard if not a contact object?
Any more examples?
Oh no that wasn't.
//s and did very well. It introduced a number of additions that eventually made their way into the Mac world, such as ADB input bus. It had 16-bit graphics when Macs were still black and white, 16-chanel sound chip (the Mac had a 4-way back then I believe).
That machine was the last of the Apple
That machine would have made Apple big, had they had not spent all their marketing efforts onto the Mac (whose hardware was inferior in many areas to the GS, but whose OS was superior).
I should add, now that the first one is downloaded, that "Video - Game of death" is just a cartoon anime funny thing. Music less. Still funny. But a Bugs Bunny clip would have been as much à-propos than this cartoon.
I've not seen one video available as a separate purchase yet, though they might come to that at some point. I think that would be silly, given videos are, to begin with, a promotional tool for albums.
Wich is just what the current videos seem to do. They are free, but come with the entire album only.
Good idea, still, for the music majors.
However, they take forever to download through our company's proxy. I'll compare with direct broadband at home tonight. Stay iTuned (har!).
I've been waiting for a "real" Star-Wars for years....let's hope this one works.
Episode 1 and 2 were pretty much a "real" Star Wars. If you're sorry about their nature, to thankful you outgrew your young kid's movie taste. Because after all, SW 4 and 6 were as childish as 1 and 2 were. And they were all still good movies.
Episode 5 was darker because it needed to portray the demise of Luke's illusion about being so good and the demise of the alliance.
So please all stop bitching about the fact that you've grown (at least a little bit).
Bonus poiints if there is a scene where Anakin kills Jar-Jar.
And I precisely dont want that. He wouldn't be so evil if he killed him. instead, he's going to destroy Gen. Greious, taking his place, by locking him in the same room as Binks.
Yeah... who needs desktop security anyhow?
This is like the Stockholm syndrome. Keep your attackers inside your home but do BLAME THE NET!
Mac OS 10.3 and Tiger (10.4) both have 64-bit components. Tiger obviously has more.
The idea here is that the bulk of the OS is still 32-bits. Applications run in 32-bit space, but unix tools (Apple lingo for CLI apps) can reside in 64-bit space, as does the bulk of the underlying OS that requires it (memory, kernel, some drivers, one-button mouse etc) and that only if the hardware is 64-bits (so the OS is a FAT build for some components).
If you user-space (UI) application requires 64-bits (PhotoShop to name the proverbial example), then it's image processing threads can be 64-bits and loaded from the 32-bit UI application.
As time move on and Tiger gets more update and eventually reach MegaPussy (not the actual name but whatever 10.5 will be), more components will be 64-bits.
There is some criticism for this adoption strategy but it has a goal. This way, Tiger apps can run on either 32 or 64-bits machines. if you app requires (or uses) 64-bits components, then it will be a more concious design decision and there are less chance some dweeb ends up trying to launch a 64-bit application on it's Rev B iMac.
Such transitions to new hardware is not new to Apple (wich I consider the kings in that field, considering what the hardware platform went through). It only means less broken apps for now.
(And I was kidding about the 64-bit one-button mouse drivers.)
Can someone mirror that mirror?
(Sheesh!)
...is a killer app.
Hey mods, this is not interesting or insightfull!
It's sarcastic!
Geez.
Although it's widely speculated that they had estimated the martian atmospheric pressure in PSIs for Beagle II.
Hawking actually disproved himself regarding the event horizon "information disappearance" thing recently. He has lost a bet made some years before, 'fessed up and paid up in front of a large audience.
However, his black-hole theories hold up for the most part, still. regardless as how you look at it, no one's actually looked more at black-holes as hawking has for the moment.
It would take more than 4 pages to convince anyone that Hawking's 30 years+ research in that area to be totally wrong.
Four fucking pages?!? The guy claims to comprehensively contradict some of the best known and most studied concepts in astro-physics, and his proof covers FOUR PAGES? And contains almost no equations?
The guy's not even crippled!
Apple once said it did "not quite a dime" per song, and that's before network infrastructure costs.
Considering the network costs, Apple makes less money when an entire album is purchased given that albums cost less than their total songs portfolio.