No, really. The way things operate today is so far gone from what the founders of this country intended. Everytime a controversial bill is passed by attaching it to a piece of "must-pass" legisilation, I die a little bit on the inside. Why can't politicians see that they're selling out their country by trying to protect it with more non-sense laws that are only in big corporations interests and NOT the peoples? When will it end?
At first, I was on the side of the guy that posted all the info. "It's their fault they gave their information out before knowing who they were giving it to.", I thought. Then I realized that despite how bizarre and fucked up I may find the S&M fetish, there are probably a thing or two I like that'd gross out other people and would I like that information broadcast? Probably not.
This also brings up a good point about meeting people with particular "interests" online. Say I like feet. I don't. But say I did and I want to find people with the same interest as mine. The Internet is probably where I'd turn. It's not like you can go to Starbucks and start randomly asking people. Now, this guy finds foot fetishes objectionable and outs me. I'm not doing anything illegal but I'm sure my employer would look differently at me for knowing despite having an obligation to not do that. It's all about impressions and what you know about someone. You can't forget something like that. That's why people keep those things to themselves.
So long story, short. I read what this guy posted. I read what the submissions were. I read how this guy is acting after the fact. He's his own moral sheriff apparently. Which is pretty lame considering there's alot of terrorists running about out there doing the same thing only instead of humiliation, they prefer death. So, it all goes back to: yes, you have a right to do something (and in this case, maybe not even then) but that doesn't mean you _should_ do it.
What I think about what these people like to say to their sexual partners is irrelevant and it should be irrelevant to you to. If you feel otherwise, then you're just trying to play an authority figure and "stick it" to these people.
Treat people like you'd want to be treated. This guy is just a douche bag.
I tend to be an early adopter and want, no.. need, to have the latest and greatest especially when it comes to TV/Movies. And now, I have absolutely no motivation to get what should be the new peak of HD entertainment. Why?
Well, you're forcing me to use Windows. You're forcing me to get all new hardware, not just the new drive mind you, but the whole shebang. New monitor, new video card, new OS in addition to the new drive. That is lunacy, pure and simple.
Let's not forget the obscene processor requirements for _watching a flat image_. This isn't polygons being generated on the fly. Why do I need a dual-core processor to decode some freaking movie frames? Ridiculous.
BOTH HD-DVD and BluRay have failed on the fronts of being user-friendly and not overly draconian. I'll watch movies on HBO-HD thanks. You can keep your locked down, power hungry format.
HD makes no visible difference for me. I don't keep my glasses clean enough of spots for HD to matter. And I like big tapestries on my walls more than big screens. Watching DVDs on my 19" PC monitor is enough screen for me for the rest of my life.
we actually use the bandwidth we're paying for. This is outright ridiculous.
We're not paying ISPs for a broadband connection to sit there and not use it. Being in the business for many years, I understand the concept of overselling but as a consumer I wouldn't and won't stand for an ISP's blatant denial of service to me which I paid for.
OK the answer is obvious, but what happens when all the torrent sites are shut down? Does the MPAA go after the search engines next?
No, of course not, after all the torrent sites are shut down nobody will pirate movies anymore and the MPAA member's revenue will jump 10 fold. I mean c'mon, they've been telling us that for years. You don't believe it?
Seems a wee bit ridiculous. You may disagree with the data in an article but don't get your panties in a wad and want to label everything fud that you do disagree with. That's just fud.
If you look at it from the standpoint that Apple _really_ needed to release OS X and more or less polished up NeXTStep a bit and pushed it out before OS 9 put Apple out of business, it makes sense that Apple would want to over the long-term rewrite at least the kernel to be more "on their terms".
I look at this from a security/performance view, not necessarily an interoperability view. While I'm sure Apple and most people would love full Windows compatibility, I'm fairly sure it won't happen unless the Windows API becomes a whole lot less buggy and undocumented which isn't in Microsoft's favor to do so it won't happen.
I know Cringely's argument about the patent-sharing thing but as with most things, his heart is in the right place, he just goes really overboard.
This development just reinforces the likelihood that the Mach(-ish) kernel is going away in 10.5. If I were Apple and planning on switching to a new in-house developed kernel, I'd most definitely want to clear myself of obligations of showing it to the world... at least at first until it's clear that the code is mostly clean, by which I mean fairly efficient and exploit/bug-free.
This is an awful lot of drama though if that were the case but trying to figure out Apple's true motivations is always a crap shoot.
I always thought Revolution was the coolest name you could give something. It encompasses with a single word everything that the console is trying to accomplish. It's pretty stupid to replace that meaningful, cool-sounding name with, well... three letters you aren't sure how to pronounce.
That's the same feeling I got from the "air cards". Why should I get a dedicated piece of hardware when I can just use my phone over bluetooth. I can tell you Cingular's LG U340 works nicely with a MacBook Pro on UMTS (in Phoenix).
And no simultaneous voice and data, which is one of the cooler things about UMTS if you ask me. I can still talk on my phone while keeping a live Internet connection to my laptop.
*shrug* I pay $19.99 for unlimited data transfer... seems like a bargain to me.
I did have to learn the hard way though that the US and Europe's UMTS frequencies are different. Which really kind of upset me since the Sony Ericsson V802SE is an overseas phone so of course it operates on 2100mhz. The band issue is because 2100mhz isn't available in all areas, so they had to go with 1900mhz. Go FCC!
Anyway, be careful when shopping for a UMTS phone as most of them will be for 2100mhz. To my knowledge, at the current moment there are only 2 1900mhz UMTS phones out which are the branded ones at Cingular. I just got the LG U340, works pretty well as a phone and fantastic as a modem. With my MacBook using bluetooth to connect to the Internet through UMTS, I get speeds of 35-40KBps and it bursts up to 45-48KBps. Not too bad for coming from GPRS which tops out for me at about 6KBps.
There are dual band UMTS phones planned... one of them is the Nokia N80. Looks like a sweet phone but me needing instant gratification, just went with what was available. So if you want a true "world phone", you'll have to wait for one of those.
A lot of keyboards were still using the old 'keyboard port' (was this called PS/1? I never heard it described as anything other than the 'keyboard port')
That'd be called an AT-style keyboard port. As in the AT hardware spec, the spec before ATX.
I would pay $200 to put OSX on my Dell, maybe even more if it comes with all the extra bits.
But would you be willing to pay the $600 Apple would be missing the opportunity to sell you their premium hardware? That's right, they'd make three times as much selling you hardware than software. Finding ways to cut Mac revenue by two-thirds just doesn't seem like it'd be on the menu.
Sure, sure, they'd sell alot of copies but let's be honest, piracy would be the order of the day. And take into account that before they could even think about releasing it to average joe shmoe, they need to dump uber money and resources into driver development to support just a portion of the available hardware out there.
Seems like a poor use of resources to me. But then again, I'm not salavating to get OS X onto my beige box PC... I already have OS X on my Macs. Honestly, for all the wheel spinning everyone does talking about how much they'd pay for OS X on their Dell or whatever, just save your pennies and buy Apple hardware if you want it that bad. The price reallly isn't that much more.
How is that any different from what they were doing before? They bought PowerPC chips off the shelf and placed them in their own logic board design. Precisely what they're doing now except for with Intel. If you insist on using the word clone (they really aren't and you'd know this from the user experience if you actually owned any Apple product), then you could call the PPC PowerBooks and PowerMacs PowerPC clones, because they were an open spec that Apple converted into a closed system, exactly the same thing as what they're doing now.
If you really want to know what makes the hardware better, just look at Apple's propaganda page: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
The short list of things from just having on my lap, I can tell you that:
It's thin and light. It's made of metal instead of cheap plastic. It has a built-in camera. It has a maglock power connector. It has a glowy keyboard with light sensors.
I'm not saying that those make it worth it for you to buy it, but those are definitely things that make it unique over a Dell or Sony.
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This political system is fucked.
No, really. The way things operate today is so far gone from what the founders of this country intended. Everytime a controversial bill is passed by attaching it to a piece of "must-pass" legisilation, I die a little bit on the inside. Why can't politicians see that they're selling out their country by trying to protect it with more non-sense laws that are only in big corporations interests and NOT the peoples? When will it end?
At first, I was on the side of the guy that posted all the info. "It's their fault they gave their information out before knowing who they were giving it to.", I thought. Then I realized that despite how bizarre and fucked up I may find the S&M fetish, there are probably a thing or two I like that'd gross out other people and would I like that information broadcast? Probably not.
This also brings up a good point about meeting people with particular "interests" online. Say I like feet. I don't. But say I did and I want to find people with the same interest as mine. The Internet is probably where I'd turn. It's not like you can go to Starbucks and start randomly asking people. Now, this guy finds foot fetishes objectionable and outs me. I'm not doing anything illegal but I'm sure my employer would look differently at me for knowing despite having an obligation to not do that. It's all about impressions and what you know about someone. You can't forget something like that. That's why people keep those things to themselves.
So long story, short. I read what this guy posted. I read what the submissions were. I read how this guy is acting after the fact. He's his own moral sheriff apparently. Which is pretty lame considering there's alot of terrorists running about out there doing the same thing only instead of humiliation, they prefer death. So, it all goes back to: yes, you have a right to do something (and in this case, maybe not even then) but that doesn't mean you _should_ do it.
What I think about what these people like to say to their sexual partners is irrelevant and it should be irrelevant to you to. If you feel otherwise, then you're just trying to play an authority figure and "stick it" to these people.
Treat people like you'd want to be treated. This guy is just a douche bag.
I tend to be an early adopter and want, no.. need, to have the latest and greatest especially when it comes to TV/Movies. And now, I have absolutely no motivation to get what should be the new peak of HD entertainment. Why?
Well, you're forcing me to use Windows. You're forcing me to get all new hardware, not just the new drive mind you, but the whole shebang. New monitor, new video card, new OS in addition to the new drive. That is lunacy, pure and simple.
Let's not forget the obscene processor requirements for _watching a flat image_. This isn't polygons being generated on the fly. Why do I need a dual-core processor to decode some freaking movie frames? Ridiculous.
BOTH HD-DVD and BluRay have failed on the fronts of being user-friendly and not overly draconian. I'll watch movies on HBO-HD thanks. You can keep your locked down, power hungry format.
HD makes no visible difference for me. I don't keep my glasses clean enough of spots for HD to matter. And I like big tapestries on my walls more than big screens. Watching DVDs on my 19" PC monitor is enough screen for me for the rest of my life.
And what are you doing here on Slashdot?
we actually use the bandwidth we're paying for. This is outright ridiculous.
We're not paying ISPs for a broadband connection to sit there and not use it. Being in the business for many years, I understand the concept of overselling but as a consumer I wouldn't and won't stand for an ISP's blatant denial of service to me which I paid for.
Once every 5 minutes I think I'll be hitting www.youcontributenothingtotheinternet.cm!
"... government should be about fostering a dynamic and risk-taking economy, not preserving the certainty of anyone's business models."
Oh, you mean like how the government hasn't been preserving the certainty of the movie and record industries' business models?
You tool.
We disseminate the truth, our opposition politicizes science.
"We" as in "fellow scientists".
Neither party is willing to let a few inconvenient facts stand in the way of their political agenda.
"Neither party" as in "politics from an outside view".
He was giving the speech as neither a Democrat nor Republican but instead as Mayor and fellow graduate with a scientific background.
Maybe we just need a mandatory carousel at age 100?
RENEW, RENEW, RENEW!
OK the answer is obvious, but what happens when all the torrent sites are shut down? Does the MPAA go after the search engines next?
No, of course not, after all the torrent sites are shut down nobody will pirate movies anymore and the MPAA member's revenue will jump 10 fold. I mean c'mon, they've been telling us that for years. You don't believe it?
Seems a wee bit ridiculous. You may disagree with the data in an article but don't get your panties in a wad and want to label everything fud that you do disagree with. That's just fud.
When your ISP offers VoIP, the VoIP traffic typically never goes on to the Internet because they have their own POTS gateway within their network.
Windows XP to run, and won't install on Windows 2K systems. Hrmmmm. How helpful.
;)
Well, run on out to the store and buy XP so you can run Upgrade Advisor.
I'd like to go that far, but I really can't.
If you look at it from the standpoint that Apple _really_ needed to release OS X and more or less polished up NeXTStep a bit and pushed it out before OS 9 put Apple out of business, it makes sense that Apple would want to over the long-term rewrite at least the kernel to be more "on their terms".
I look at this from a security/performance view, not necessarily an interoperability view. While I'm sure Apple and most people would love full Windows compatibility, I'm fairly sure it won't happen unless the Windows API becomes a whole lot less buggy and undocumented which isn't in Microsoft's favor to do so it won't happen.
I know Cringely's argument about the patent-sharing thing but as with most things, his heart is in the right place, he just goes really overboard.
So, basically, without the spin.
... we suck.
... didn't want to run OS X anyway :-\
Apple: We can't seem to figure out how to stop people from taking our code and running it on none apple hardware
So, they close it up.
Awesome
With that attitude, you probably weren't going to legally anyway.
This development just reinforces the likelihood that the Mach(-ish) kernel is going away in 10.5. If I were Apple and planning on switching to a new in-house developed kernel, I'd most definitely want to clear myself of obligations of showing it to the world... at least at first until it's clear that the code is mostly clean, by which I mean fairly efficient and exploit/bug-free.
This is an awful lot of drama though if that were the case but trying to figure out Apple's true motivations is always a crap shoot.
I placed the IDE files on our mirrors server here at Easynews...
http://mirrors.easynews.com/minix3
I always thought Revolution was the coolest name you could give something. It encompasses with a single word everything that the console is trying to accomplish. It's pretty stupid to replace that meaningful, cool-sounding name with, well... three letters you aren't sure how to pronounce.
That's the same feeling I got from the "air cards". Why should I get a dedicated piece of hardware when I can just use my phone over bluetooth. I can tell you Cingular's LG U340 works nicely with a MacBook Pro on UMTS (in Phoenix).
Thankfully Cingular in 'merica offers an unlimited plan! :P
And no simultaneous voice and data, which is one of the cooler things about UMTS if you ask me. I can still talk on my phone while keeping a live Internet connection to my laptop.
*shrug* I pay $19.99 for unlimited data transfer... seems like a bargain to me.
I did have to learn the hard way though that the US and Europe's UMTS frequencies are different. Which really kind of upset me since the Sony Ericsson V802SE is an overseas phone so of course it operates on 2100mhz. The band issue is because 2100mhz isn't available in all areas, so they had to go with 1900mhz. Go FCC!
Anyway, be careful when shopping for a UMTS phone as most of them will be for 2100mhz. To my knowledge, at the current moment there are only 2 1900mhz UMTS phones out which are the branded ones at Cingular. I just got the LG U340, works pretty well as a phone and fantastic as a modem. With my MacBook using bluetooth to connect to the Internet through UMTS, I get speeds of 35-40KBps and it bursts up to 45-48KBps. Not too bad for coming from GPRS which tops out for me at about 6KBps.
There are dual band UMTS phones planned... one of them is the Nokia N80. Looks like a sweet phone but me needing instant gratification, just went with what was available. So if you want a true "world phone", you'll have to wait for one of those.
A lot of keyboards were still using the old 'keyboard port' (was this called PS/1? I never heard it described as anything other than the 'keyboard port')
That'd be called an AT-style keyboard port. As in the AT hardware spec, the spec before ATX.
I would pay $200 to put OSX on my Dell, maybe even more if it comes with all the extra bits.
But would you be willing to pay the $600 Apple would be missing the opportunity to sell you their premium hardware? That's right, they'd make three times as much selling you hardware than software. Finding ways to cut Mac revenue by two-thirds just doesn't seem like it'd be on the menu.
Sure, sure, they'd sell alot of copies but let's be honest, piracy would be the order of the day. And take into account that before they could even think about releasing it to average joe shmoe, they need to dump uber money and resources into driver development to support just a portion of the available hardware out there.
Seems like a poor use of resources to me. But then again, I'm not salavating to get OS X onto my beige box PC... I already have OS X on my Macs. Honestly, for all the wheel spinning everyone does talking about how much they'd pay for OS X on their Dell or whatever, just save your pennies and buy Apple hardware if you want it that bad. The price reallly isn't that much more.
How is that any different from what they were doing before? They bought PowerPC chips off the shelf and placed them in their own logic board design. Precisely what they're doing now except for with Intel. If you insist on using the word clone (they really aren't and you'd know this from the user experience if you actually owned any Apple product), then you could call the PPC PowerBooks and PowerMacs PowerPC clones, because they were an open spec that Apple converted into a closed system, exactly the same thing as what they're doing now.
If you really want to know what makes the hardware better, just look at Apple's propaganda page: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
The short list of things from just having on my lap, I can tell you that:
It's thin and light.
It's made of metal instead of cheap plastic.
It has a built-in camera.
It has a maglock power connector.
It has a glowy keyboard with light sensors.
I'm not saying that those make it worth it for you to buy it, but those are definitely things that make it unique over a Dell or Sony.