I've been waiting for the mythical OS X for PC since the Intel move was announced, but the way in which the iPhone has been released has made it less likely again. Hardware is one of Apple's revenue streams, and they can pretty much define what components go in that hardware, and can therefore build OS X to support those components. A white box OS X would have to support a wider range of hardware than the current lines (although I wouldn't be surprised if OS X supports what is generally currently available in dual core laptops, for example), and as OS X should Just Work, there is no space for any hacking for that £15 Chinese USB wireless dongle, just as there is no space for user apps in OS X on the iPhone. So it isn't going to happen soon.
One of Democracy's strengths has been their communication and seemingly ability to develop the app on nothing, so this donation should be a massive boost. On the downside I've tried to use it to replace VLC on the Mac Mini under my TV and while it handles downloaded video pretty well it struggles with my existing library (about 150Gb). Then again I haven't found anything that manages really well so maybe I'm just being picky. It's a new technology and I hope that Democracy will do well enough to compete.
Irrespective of the arguments around property and payment for music, 90% of music videos are promotional items for the songs that they are selling and such the record labels should be promoting exposure wherever they can. Now that MTV has almost stopped showing videos altogether they should be looking for other routes of exposure. I'm certainly not going to pay £2 to see an advert on my phone.
What, someone at the Sun? The newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch? The Rupert Murdoch that owns Sky TV? And would like the BBC's TV licence abolished? Surely not.
In this case it's about the illegal use of resources - botnets work by hacking PCs and using them to send mail via their Internet connections, which in most countries would be punishable under their equivalent of the UK Wireless Telegraphy Act (actually I think the 2006 revision changed that, but the principle is still there) irrespective of the content in the spam. Also, the vast percentage of spam promotes illegal or semi-illegal products or is a front for scams. Yes, anyone who responds to spam is a fool, but in the end, if they're conned out of anything than a crime has been committed somewhere.
Isn't it? I have a USB key plugged into my machine that has XAMPP on it, and installed copies of Joomla, Mediawiki and other PHP apps as I need. Something to synchronise MySQL databases between machines would be handy but I'm sure there's something around if the need arose.
I wonder how many common words Microsoft have registered or bought as domains recently? They've got live.com, popcorn.whateveritis and now surface.com. It just encourages people.
As for the idea itself it looks great. I hope Microsoft haven't cornered all the rights for it as it should be an open platform (what am I saying, it's Microsoft *slaps head*) and I for one can't wait to play Galaxian on it, even in an ironic way.
I've got just over a terabyte of live storage around the house and I probably use about half of it - I have a couple of hundred gigs of video and about 60 gigs of music. I know of someone who is currently buying seven of Hitachi's new terabyte HDs for an in-home video streaming system, There's always someone who has a use for it.
Oooo look shiny. Sorry, that's an automatic reaction to iPhone stories.
I think it means second production run, but probably for Europe. It will have to pass CE certification for Europe and I would guess that the European partners have probably pointed out that 3G would be a good idea as we have more of that than wifi at the moment.
It just means that ac.nz won't be buying Office Mac 2008 (or whatever the next version for Mac is) and rolling out NeoOffice on new machines. I have to admit that I'm not a big office app user but I use NeoOffice on my Macs at home and the speed and stability improvements on version 2 and the regular patching regime have made it very usable, and it will be difficult for a native port of OpenOffice to OS X to catch up. I only hope that the NZ government will see their way to giving a tenth of their licensing costs for MS Office to Neooffice.org. It might stop them worrying about money so much.
Ah yes, way back in 1983. Although they had a phone call after Microsoft put some cash into Apple in 1997. I bet they go to the pub when they're both in the same town too.
the Ferguson CR150D. It's meant to be a bedroom alarm but has a bright blue display light that cannot be dimmed and is bright to enough read by in the dark. In fact it's probably bright enough to be seen from space. The alarm is also spectacularily unfriendly: the volume can be set to quiet at night but in the morning it comes on and then automatically gets louder and LOUDER to a point just above comfortable. This too cannot be turned off. It got replaced by a £30 DAB/FM alarm that does what it's told. I just couldn't believe that a piece of electronics that is designed to do a specific job was so badly designed.
The ability to make home pages look as shitty as Myspace. I hope they've implemented a taste filter that prevents fluorescent green paisley backgrounds is all.
Here in Europe we pay VAT on our ISP charges, but I'm sure our forthcoming Great Leader will have his glass eye on trying to find another way to extract coins from the tubes.
The registrar is selling you the right to have your domain in the global DNS, and as such can revoke it at any time. This is why the domain market is so strange (and I've been involved with it in different ways for 12 years now). People have spent huge amounts of money on more intangible things but not many, and ultimately domain disputes can all be solved simply by pointing out my first sentence. It's like Dutch Tulip Mania. Hmm, I registered dutchtulipmania.com years ago, now it's parked with GoDaddy, which goes to show.
No, what Google mean is that they're giving the founders $100m in five dollar bills, then locking them in a cupboard. Someone's been reading too much H.P. Lovecraft recently.
I know I'm repeating a lot of what has been said here all ready (and I'm happy to repeat myself until I'm blue in the mouth), but computers have become a commodity, and as such the average user doesn't want to have to do anything but point and click. Many users will barely understand Windows, let alone Windows against Linux. As far as they're concerned as long as they can surf (it's the blue 'e' isn't it?), check their email (I got a Hotmail account because it offered me one when I clicked on the blue 'e') and perhaps write letters (that's the blue W) they don't want to know. Linux, on the other hand, still has to be an active decision, from choosing what hardware works to the options for desktop and applications. Ubuntu is making good inroads in resolving some of the magic, but for Linux to be truly attractive, it is going to have to take a leaf from OS X's book and provide an experience that is totally accessible from the desktop, yet powerful enough to provide command line and filesystem access for power users. The problem is that we as power users can't see anything wrong with the hoops we have to jump through, and therefore find it difficult to empathise with the guy who has just bought his first $600 laptop from Walmart and wants to know where the pr0n is.
which is a concept that the RIAA seems not to understand. Radio and TV airplay are what drives sales and in turn what attracts listeners to listen to the radio. If radio and TV thought for a while and bypassed the RIAA, music radio would probably survive, but for how long would the RIAA survive without this free promotion? Let them cut off their nose and see how many copies the new Madonna LP sells without the radio.
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I've been waiting for the mythical OS X for PC since the Intel move was announced, but the way in which the iPhone has been released has made it less likely again. Hardware is one of Apple's revenue streams, and they can pretty much define what components go in that hardware, and can therefore build OS X to support those components. A white box OS X would have to support a wider range of hardware than the current lines (although I wouldn't be surprised if OS X supports what is generally currently available in dual core laptops, for example), and as OS X should Just Work, there is no space for any hacking for that £15 Chinese USB wireless dongle, just as there is no space for user apps in OS X on the iPhone. So it isn't going to happen soon.
You do have a DSP and an FM Radio in there for your 4Gb. It would be interesting to see if a homebrew one is possible *scratches chin*
One of Democracy's strengths has been their communication and seemingly ability to develop the app on nothing, so this donation should be a massive boost. On the downside I've tried to use it to replace VLC on the Mac Mini under my TV and while it handles downloaded video pretty well it struggles with my existing library (about 150Gb). Then again I haven't found anything that manages really well so maybe I'm just being picky. It's a new technology and I hope that Democracy will do well enough to compete.
Irrespective of the arguments around property and payment for music, 90% of music videos are promotional items for the songs that they are selling and such the record labels should be promoting exposure wherever they can. Now that MTV has almost stopped showing videos altogether they should be looking for other routes of exposure. I'm certainly not going to pay £2 to see an advert on my phone.
What, someone at the Sun? The newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch? The Rupert Murdoch that owns Sky TV? And would like the BBC's TV licence abolished? Surely not.
In this case it's about the illegal use of resources - botnets work by hacking PCs and using them to send mail via their Internet connections, which in most countries would be punishable under their equivalent of the UK Wireless Telegraphy Act (actually I think the 2006 revision changed that, but the principle is still there) irrespective of the content in the spam. Also, the vast percentage of spam promotes illegal or semi-illegal products or is a front for scams. Yes, anyone who responds to spam is a fool, but in the end, if they're conned out of anything than a crime has been committed somewhere.
Isn't it? I have a USB key plugged into my machine that has XAMPP on it, and installed copies of Joomla, Mediawiki and other PHP apps as I need. Something to synchronise MySQL databases between machines would be handy but I'm sure there's something around if the need arose.
They should get a science fiction writer to create a religion to create an alternative to Islam. Oh.
I wonder how many common words Microsoft have registered or bought as domains recently? They've got live.com, popcorn.whateveritis and now surface.com. It just encourages people.
As for the idea itself it looks great. I hope Microsoft haven't cornered all the rights for it as it should be an open platform (what am I saying, it's Microsoft *slaps head*) and I for one can't wait to play Galaxian on it, even in an ironic way.
You're not trying hard enough ;)
I've got just over a terabyte of live storage around the house and I probably use about half of it - I have a couple of hundred gigs of video and about 60 gigs of music. I know of someone who is currently buying seven of Hitachi's new terabyte HDs for an in-home video streaming system, There's always someone who has a use for it.
Two small problems here:
1) You don't know what you're talking about.
2) Norton is appalling proprietary desktop rubbish. See 1.
Oooo look shiny. Sorry, that's an automatic reaction to iPhone stories.
I think it means second production run, but probably for Europe. It will have to pass CE certification for Europe and I would guess that the European partners have probably pointed out that 3G would be a good idea as we have more of that than wifi at the moment.
It just means that ac.nz won't be buying Office Mac 2008 (or whatever the next version for Mac is) and rolling out NeoOffice on new machines. I have to admit that I'm not a big office app user but I use NeoOffice on my Macs at home and the speed and stability improvements on version 2 and the regular patching regime have made it very usable, and it will be difficult for a native port of OpenOffice to OS X to catch up. I only hope that the NZ government will see their way to giving a tenth of their licensing costs for MS Office to Neooffice.org. It might stop them worrying about money so much.
There's always Opera. That fits on a floppy. Doesn't it? God, I'm old.
Ah yes, way back in 1983. Although they had a phone call after Microsoft put some cash into Apple in 1997. I bet they go to the pub when they're both in the same town too.
the Ferguson CR150D. It's meant to be a bedroom alarm but has a bright blue display light that cannot be dimmed and is bright to enough read by in the dark. In fact it's probably bright enough to be seen from space. The alarm is also spectacularily unfriendly: the volume can be set to quiet at night but in the morning it comes on and then automatically gets louder and LOUDER to a point just above comfortable. This too cannot be turned off. It got replaced by a £30 DAB/FM alarm that does what it's told. I just couldn't believe that a piece of electronics that is designed to do a specific job was so badly designed.
If the codebase can be kept clean. I have a couple of ideas for plugins all ready.
The ability to make home pages look as shitty as Myspace. I hope they've implemented a taste filter that prevents fluorescent green paisley backgrounds is all.
Here in Europe we pay VAT on our ISP charges, but I'm sure our forthcoming Great Leader will have his glass eye on trying to find another way to extract coins from the tubes.
The registrar is selling you the right to have your domain in the global DNS, and as such can revoke it at any time. This is why the domain market is so strange (and I've been involved with it in different ways for 12 years now). People have spent huge amounts of money on more intangible things but not many, and ultimately domain disputes can all be solved simply by pointing out my first sentence. It's like Dutch Tulip Mania. Hmm, I registered dutchtulipmania.com years ago, now it's parked with GoDaddy, which goes to show.
No, what Google mean is that they're giving the founders $100m in five dollar bills, then locking them in a cupboard. Someone's been reading too much H.P. Lovecraft recently.
I know I'm repeating a lot of what has been said here all ready (and I'm happy to repeat myself until I'm blue in the mouth), but computers have become a commodity, and as such the average user doesn't want to have to do anything but point and click. Many users will barely understand Windows, let alone Windows against Linux. As far as they're concerned as long as they can surf (it's the blue 'e' isn't it?), check their email (I got a Hotmail account because it offered me one when I clicked on the blue 'e') and perhaps write letters (that's the blue W) they don't want to know. Linux, on the other hand, still has to be an active decision, from choosing what hardware works to the options for desktop and applications. Ubuntu is making good inroads in resolving some of the magic, but for Linux to be truly attractive, it is going to have to take a leaf from OS X's book and provide an experience that is totally accessible from the desktop, yet powerful enough to provide command line and filesystem access for power users. The problem is that we as power users can't see anything wrong with the hoops we have to jump through, and therefore find it difficult to empathise with the guy who has just bought his first $600 laptop from Walmart and wants to know where the pr0n is.
which is a concept that the RIAA seems not to understand. Radio and TV airplay are what drives sales and in turn what attracts listeners to listen to the radio. If radio and TV thought for a while and bypassed the RIAA, music radio would probably survive, but for how long would the RIAA survive without this free promotion? Let them cut off their nose and see how many copies the new Madonna LP sells without the radio.
Nah, there are robots for that. Big robots.
What about the backups?