They can still manage to monetize Mac's OS. They do still sell office and other products for Mac. M$'s problem with Linux is that they can't sell software for it, so they have no potential way to generate revenue from it. Can you really see them doing their own di$tro?
When is some idiot going to realize that downloading anything as a "package" is the same action. A jpg, an mp3, or an html document, it's all JUST BITS encapsulated in a file. Streaming is downloading bits in real time without the package. Encoding is converting something into bits that can be downloaded. Can we get past the idiocy of granting a different patent for downloading a jpg than downloading an mp3? Really, networks have been doing this for nigh on 4 decades. Sure the encoding changes, the size of the object downloaded changes, and how much you can charge for said object does, but nothing "technological" has changed.
Now, coming up with an insanely cool new encoding technology? Designing a new network transport system that passes information in a new and highly efficient way? Those should be patentable. But pushing a file in that encoding over the new network, please, somebody get a clue. If not, I'm planning on patenting a system to transport iPods across country using Hybrid vehicles....
Think video iPod with the full front of the device as the screen, and the touch wheel just that. The wheel would only be visible when you were using it, alpha'd over the video being displayed.
What if that's the file that the TPM system uses to "sign" the OS? Essentially you have to have "/System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext" present on your system to boot OS X with exactly those contents. If you have it, it means you've got the warning in place and can't claim ignorance if sued for improper use of the OS.
Stop supporting? Lock out? The old versions of iTunes still play music no problem, they only wont' allow you to buy new music at the iTMS. The updates to iTunes are free. The visible interface wouldn't change, and it's a desktop app not the OS. Need I go on?
If Apple is smart, they'll stop paying attention to Jon. Instead they'll quietly insert a verification into the stream that can only come from the authorized version of the Apple iTunes application. Something that changes randomly and can't be easily replicated except by using the legit client to make purchases. Failure to handshake won't be visible, just recorded. Instead of trying to block it at the source, they'll quietly monitor all the connections, watching for PyMusic connections, which won't won't know about the secret handshake. They'll mark any of those accounts as being in violation of TOS.
Once every thirty days or so, they'll shut down all the associated iTunes accounts that violate the TOS, because they know without the secret handshake that the user wasn't using the authorized application. Killing the account prevents the user from transferring any iTMS music that had DRM to new computers, and it prevents the user from redownloading songs if their disk crashes.
Sure, for 30 days you might get DRM stripped songs, but after that you'll have to set up a new account, with a new credit card. That sounds like a lot of work to skip the burn and re-rip.
Could it be perhaps that they can't fit gigabit ethernet and firewire 800 on a motherboard that's smaller? The 12" model has 93 sq inches of board space. The 15" model has 130 sq inches. (Based on outer dimensions of the case.) That almost 40" sq inches more space to lay out components and dissapate heat over.
Oh, so the 3 days downtime my entire corporation spent on Slammer. And the day and a half we went without email because of another virus and it's interaction with the Exchange server were just bad luck then. This despite virus checkers which autoupdate, patches installed automatically, and additional levels of virus checking on and before the Exchange server?
Yeah, that wasn't the world falling apart due to Microsoft being used. Have we forgotten code red.
Excuse me, but to execute a mount I have to at least have a shell on the affected machine, right? I may not need console access, but I do need shell access.
And, by default, the firewall is ON, and sshd is disabled, so 'by defualt' I do need local access. And to execute a 'shell capable' program I can't just mail an attachment to the user, the user has to actively open it.
Admittedly, this is a serious problem that needs fixing, but this won't be narachi, codered, etc. I'll bet you we have a fix in less than 2 weeks available for download via the system update command. (probably less)
1) Diebold produces ATMs with security holes to skim money 2) Diebold uses skimmed money to lobby for their electronic voting machines 3) Diebold uses code in voting machines to fix elections 4) Government by Diebold, Taxation by Diebold 5) PROFIT!
Who's selling SCO computers? Who holds their repair contracts? Who is providing them their ISP? What company is selling them office space? Heck, who's selling them power? water? Let's put them out of business by cutting them off at the roots.
I actually feel more sorry for the non-Apple competitors in this arena. They're largely tied into the WMA and Redmond OS and have alread surrendered their souls to the new comptetitor. Talk about squeezed from both sides. At least it's unlikely that competition from Micro$haft will completely destroy the Apple solution.
It is odd that such a 'technology leader' is always second (or later) to market. I guess they have to rely on the true innovators to show them the path to money. "Your potential, Our passion?" finally makes sense now, as long as our potential is the one to create new markets for them to dominate.
Just remember, if you are in the software industry, every dime you spend on Office/Windows/... is a dime our passionate friends will use to take your market away once it becomes lucrative enough to pursue.
1. Spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt by announcing intent to compete 2. Launch inferior product tied to monoply powered desktop OS. 3. Work to bring service nearly to par while undercutting all competition with illegaly earned war chest. 4. Destroy competitors and cease innovation. 5. PROFIT!
It's too bad the individuals who legally registered these domains (hotmail.co.uk and passport.com) didnt' see fit to turn them over to the EFF or FSF. Even if only $35 was paid by Microsoft to retrieve them, the irony of making Microsoft pay those organizations would have been rich and wonderous.
The article makes a big todo about "security enhancements" available in Panther not being released for Jaguar. Well whoop-te-do. Please note, we're not talking about apple fixing an SSH bug here, we're talking about SYSTEMIC changes to the security model. No rational end user expects the security enhancements Microsoft made to XP to be back ported to 2K or Win98. Same applies here.
Except they aren't using the data to "solve their problem," they're using the data to increase their profit. If they were using the data to increase their security, that would be defensible.
Cars, in this case, are a poor analogy because they represent a physical item, not intellectual property. A car can have only one 'legal' owner at a time.
Bill Gate's picture were made of barcodes from products Micro$oft 'destroyed' through illegal competition. I'm sure there are plenty of them;)
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Perhaps astronomers are afraid to refer to them in 'Micro$oft bug' units because the impact of a Micro$oft bug does a lot more damage? Besides, the impact of a metor is over realtively quickly for anything less than an extinction level event. Micro$oft bugs last on and on and on....
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They can still manage to monetize Mac's OS. They do still sell office and other products for Mac. M$'s problem with Linux is that they can't sell software for it, so they have no potential way to generate revenue from it. Can you really see them doing their own di$tro?
When is some idiot going to realize that downloading anything as a "package" is the same action. A jpg, an mp3, or an html document, it's all JUST BITS encapsulated in a file. Streaming is downloading bits in real time without the package. Encoding is converting something into bits that can be downloaded. Can we get past the idiocy of granting a different patent for downloading a jpg than downloading an mp3? Really, networks have been doing this for nigh on 4 decades. Sure the encoding changes, the size of the object downloaded changes, and how much you can charge for said object does, but nothing "technological" has changed.
Now, coming up with an insanely cool new encoding technology? Designing a new network transport system that passes information in a new and highly efficient way? Those should be patentable. But pushing a file in that encoding over the new network, please, somebody get a clue. If not, I'm planning on patenting a system to transport iPods across country using Hybrid vehicles....
And you're saying you can work a keypad on a smartphone in winter wearing mittens or heavy gloves?
1) Say something braindead and contrarian about Apple
2) Get it posted on slashdot to flame contreversy
3) Get eyeballs on published work
4) Profit
But won't Microsoft have to change the catch phrase for North Korea? Welcome to the Socialist?
The cable is NOT a scan converter. The Apple "DVI output" has both the DVI and S signals, you just need a cable to convert the connecter.
Obviously Microsoft would complain about collusion. They've determined long ago that being a monoply is much more efficient for trampling the victim.
Think video iPod with the full front of the device as the screen, and the touch wheel just that. The wheel would only be visible when you were using it, alpha'd over the video being displayed.
What if that's the file that the TPM system uses to "sign" the OS? Essentially you have to have "/System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext" present on your system to boot OS X with exactly those contents. If you have it, it means you've got the warning in place and can't claim ignorance if sued for improper use of the OS.
Stop supporting? Lock out? The old versions of iTunes still play music no problem, they only wont' allow you to buy new music at the iTMS. The updates to iTunes are free. The visible interface wouldn't change, and it's a desktop app not the OS. Need I go on?
If Apple is smart, they'll stop paying attention to Jon. Instead they'll quietly insert a verification into the stream that can only come from the authorized version of the Apple iTunes application. Something that changes randomly and can't be easily replicated except by using the legit client to make purchases. Failure to handshake won't be visible, just recorded. Instead of trying to block it at the source, they'll quietly monitor all the connections, watching for PyMusic connections, which won't won't know about the secret handshake. They'll mark any of those accounts as being in violation of TOS.
Once every thirty days or so, they'll shut down all the associated iTunes accounts that violate the TOS, because they know without the secret handshake that the user wasn't using the authorized application. Killing the account prevents the user from transferring any iTMS music that had DRM to new computers, and it prevents the user from redownloading songs if their disk crashes.
Sure, for 30 days you might get DRM stripped songs, but after that you'll have to set up a new account, with a new credit card. That sounds like a lot of work to skip the burn and re-rip.
Could it be perhaps that they can't fit gigabit ethernet and firewire 800 on a motherboard that's smaller? The 12" model has 93 sq inches of board space. The 15" model has 130 sq inches. (Based on outer dimensions of the case.) That almost 40" sq inches more space to lay out components and dissapate heat over.
Oh, so the 3 days downtime my entire corporation spent on Slammer. And the day and a half we went without email because of another virus and it's interaction with the Exchange server were just bad luck then. This despite virus checkers which autoupdate, patches installed automatically, and additional levels of virus checking on and before the Exchange server?
Yeah, that wasn't the world falling apart due to Microsoft being used. Have we forgotten code red.
If I had a dollar for every "iPod killer" that's been announced, I could buy a nice new iPod mini!
Excuse me, but to execute a mount I have to at least have a shell on the affected machine, right? I may not need console access, but I do need shell access.
And, by default, the firewall is ON, and sshd is disabled, so 'by defualt' I do need local access. And to execute a 'shell capable' program I can't just mail an attachment to the user, the user has to actively open it.
Admittedly, this is a serious problem that needs fixing, but this won't be narachi, codered, etc. I'll bet you we have a fix in less than 2 weeks available for download via the system update command. (probably less)
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1) Diebold produces ATMs with security holes to skim money
2) Diebold uses skimmed money to lobby for their electronic voting machines
3) Diebold uses code in voting machines to fix elections
4) Government by Diebold, Taxation by Diebold
5) PROFIT!
Who's selling SCO computers? Who holds their repair contracts? Who is providing them their ISP? What company is selling them office space? Heck, who's selling them power? water? Let's put them out of business by cutting them off at the roots.
Windows 3.1 or Win98 vs Mac OS of the same period
Internet Explorer before v5 vs Netscape
Excel V1 vs Lotus 1.2.3
Outlook vs. any safe email reader
need I go on?
I actually feel more sorry for the non-Apple competitors in this arena. They're largely tied into the WMA and Redmond OS and have alread surrendered their souls to the new comptetitor. Talk about squeezed from both sides. At least it's unlikely that competition from Micro$haft will completely destroy the Apple solution.
It is odd that such a 'technology leader' is always second (or later) to market. I guess they have to rely on the true innovators to show them the path to money. "Your potential, Our passion?" finally makes sense now, as long as our potential is the one to create new markets for them to dominate.
Just remember, if you are in the software industry, every dime you spend on Office/Windows/... is a dime our passionate friends will use to take your market away once it becomes lucrative enough to pursue.
1. Spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt by announcing intent to compete
2. Launch inferior product tied to monoply powered desktop OS.
3. Work to bring service nearly to par while undercutting all competition with illegaly earned war chest.
4. Destroy competitors and cease innovation.
5. PROFIT!
It's too bad the individuals who legally registered these domains (hotmail.co.uk and passport.com) didnt' see fit to turn them over to the EFF or FSF. Even if only $35 was paid by Microsoft to retrieve them, the irony of making Microsoft pay those organizations would have been rich and wonderous.
The article makes a big todo about "security enhancements" available in Panther not being released for Jaguar. Well whoop-te-do. Please note, we're not talking about apple fixing an SSH bug here, we're talking about SYSTEMIC changes to the security model. No rational end user expects the security enhancements Microsoft made to XP to be back ported to 2K or Win98. Same applies here.
Except they aren't using the data to "solve their problem," they're using the data to increase their profit. If they were using the data to increase their security, that would be defensible.
Cars, in this case, are a poor analogy because they represent a physical item, not intellectual property. A car can have only one 'legal' owner at a time.
Bill Gate's picture were made of barcodes from products Micro$oft 'destroyed' through illegal competition. I'm sure there are plenty of them ;)
Perhaps astronomers are afraid to refer to them in 'Micro$oft bug' units because the impact of a Micro$oft bug does a lot more damage? Besides, the impact of a metor is over realtively quickly for anything less than an extinction level event. Micro$oft bugs last on and on and on....