Yes, and yet everytime he scratches out some gibberish it gets a story on Slashdot and we all line up comment on it.
Literally everyone posting in here agrees that Dvorak is far from the sharpest tool in the shed. In fact he's not even IN the shed. He's leaning against the outside of it rusting in the rain. You would think that we'd all have learned to ignore him by now.
I agree and you'll note I did not make that arguement. I stated that I bought a lot of DVD's and ripped a few BUT when they start doing shit like this I retaliate by spending less on their films and making copies of what I want.
Sure I'm wrong. I'm not debating that. I'm telling these guys (MPAA, RIAA, Phillips for doing this stupid shit) that we can play this game for as long as they want. To throw out a knock off of a phrase from a movie that I bought a couple of times at full price "The more they tighten their grip on my rights the more of my dollars slip through their fingers.
Eventually this ends with me not being able to watch a movie or television show at home and them not making any money at all off of me. I can live without their product just fine. Can they live without my money? Can they live without money from a large portion of their current customer base.
Exactly. I buy a lot of DVD's but I also rip a lot of rentals too. Every time I learn of some bullshit scheme like this the numbers rise on the ripping side. As things stand right now I rip a lot of the ones I buy anyway to make "disposable copies" while protecting the originals.
When I rent a movie and rip it to make a keeper is it stealing? I guess so but I don't really care at this point. They hack away at my rights and in return I hack away at their profits.
Sure I'm not right but neither are they. They might be "legal" but that doesn't make them right.
When Clint Eastwood tells the kid to hand him his revolver and the kid looks at him nervously. Eastwood says "Don't worry kid, I'm not gonna kill you. You're the only friend I have left."
It has come to our attention that in your post to Slashdot made on Monday, March 13, 2006 at 12:58PM you made reference to the terms "Heads" and "Tails" in the same sentence. In so doing you have violated my clients patent on coins with different representations on either side
You additionally described the use of my clients "lever" invention and in so doing you have revealed a closely held trade secret.
We would also like to inform you that the combining of two things that already existed into one is a patented process that my clients intend to defend with great zeal.
You can either face us in court or settle now for the sum of $9.2 billion dollars.
Yes, that's true. Those are the most common LAST words of Texan rednecks. Texan scientists however don't bother to add the "watch this" part. They survive more often than the rednecks too so these aren't (always) their last words.
I think the reason he can question this move is that he's really no longer that deeply involved in what Apple is doing and the article states as much. He says outright that it's hard to go back and change direction after being on the other side for so long. I'd take that into consideration when digesting Woz's comments.
If those same comments were coming from someone intimately involved in the Powerbook line I'd think along the same lines as you (WTF?). Coming from Woz they're just about loyalty to their previous partner and far less relevant to what's happening. In other words nothing to get excited about.
No we're not. In fact there are many of us who rarely come into contact with a "redneck". I recently had to go to a wedding in rural Illinois and I met more rednecks there in three days than I usually encounter here in Houston in a month. That doesn't mean everyone in Illinois is a redneck by the way.
The only reason they have you moderated Flamebait is that there's no "-1, Trolling piece of shit fucktard" available.
Absolutely cameras on public roads are different than cameras in private homes and I didn't mean to imply that the cameras being there amounted to the same thing. Sorry if I sounded like that. The cameras on Houstons freeway system have been there for a very long time and they server a good purpose.
Long before Mayor White was elected those cameras were put in place. He's the first one who decided that Houston needed a "Safe-Clear" towing policy to make sure that nobody got hurt on the freeway and that the traffic kept flowing. In the past they would clear your vehicle if it was obstructing traffic. Now they make bank on towing you if you're on the shoulder of the road. Since the plan was implemented more people have been killed and injured on Houston freeways than were before the wreckers began making mad dashes for stalls and flat tires.
It's not the cameras on the freeway. It's how this particular mayor (and police chief) think they should be used and where they want to go next (evidenced by this story). I feel like this is just the beginning and while I live outside of Houston I work in it. Outside of that M-F commute I never enter the city.
Is that really necessary? What do you know about Texas? I live in Houston, don't particularly like the clown police chief that said this (or the idiot mayor who hired him) but we're not all rednecks.
You should probably learn something about Texas before you pick a new title for it.
I live in Houston, or more accurately "near" Houston and there's a reason. The current mayor is big on things like this. Cameras at intersections have been implemented to catch anyone who runs the lights (but hey if you're not doing anything wrong then why would you mind right?) and mandatory towing if you stall out on the freeway are brilliant ideas of his.
You can't even refuse the tow and in the case of a flat tire where you're on the shoulder you better get it changed before a wrecker pulls up or they'll shove you out of the way and hook your car up. It's hard to beat the wreckers because they have cameras covering just about every inch of the freeway system here and they dispatch one to you the moment you pull out of the main lanes.
It's not surprising that they're angling for more cameras. They've been talking for a few months about putting cameras in the downtown district for our "protection".
I think that this new proposal needs a pilot program before we adopt it. The Police chief should have to live with a camera in his house for a year or so before he can put one in anyone elses house. I'd like to see how he likes it.
That's just stupid. Dell isn't going to go out and start installing unlicensed copies of OSX on computers and selling them to the general public. Apple has exactly zero fear of that happening. They're called lawyers and they come down on Dell like a ton of bricks the moment Dell tries something like this. Dell has them to and their lawyers would advise them not to try and pirate OSX to begin with.
Apple is making it reasonably hard for most people to not be able to install OSX on every PC they have sitting around their house. That's it. That's all there is. There's nothing more to it.
It's like Apple's DRM on iTunes. It's just enough to keep you from idly blowing past it but not enough to stop anyone intent on getting around it. It works on most people.
You can find a sense of humor over there on the left in the box marked "Sense of Humor". Take what you need but use what you take.
Since you clearly don't have one and don't appear to have been here before I thought I'd be helpful and tell you where to find it. Printed instructions for installation come in the package but if they confuse you just shove it up your ass. It's self installing.
Nope but close. More like: Tough-guy Bush is afraid to attack North Korea because China will fight back. That's really all there is too it. The only reason there even is a "North" Korea is that the United States didn't feel like fighting China back when they could have defeated them. Now there's no way they'll fight China with the outcome clearly in doubt and likely to be nuclear.
Besides North Korea is or should be China's problem for all practical purposes. I think sometimes that the only reason they don't reign in Kim & Co. is that it's fun to watch them make the US nervous.
Ok look man, you're completely misinterpreting what I'm saying. I had this done when I was 18. Through my 20's I heard the warnings about my teeth shifting. For the most part I wouldn't characterize them as "informing of the possibility". I'd say that they were more along the lines of "That's really serious and you need to get that taken care of as soon as possible! Talk to the receptionist and she'll get you scheduled for an appointment before it's too late".
In my 30's I still got this. Now I'm 40 and if I see a different dentist at the clinic I go to then I fully expect to hear about the terrible risk I'm running. I'm 40 years old for crying out loud. You would think that by now they might lay off the hard sell just a bit don't you?
I'm glad you've reviewed hundreds of radiographs. Good on you! I've "reviewed" exactly one set of teeth in the mirror and those were mine. They haven't moved.
Inform me of the possibility my teeth might move? I absolutely appreciate it. Try to sell me a procedure I do not need for twenty years? I don't think so. Not every dentist out there is just trying to make sure we all have the healthiest mouths possible. Some of them are trying to make enough money to pay the note on the Benz.
You know I think you are absolutely on to something there. I'm 40 years old and I'm missing a tooth. It's the second to the last molar on the left lower side and I lost it when I was 18 years old. My family was dirt poor at the time and I was no longer covered under my mom's dental plan since I'd just graduated high school. I had a huge filling come off one day and instantly begin hurting like hell. I went to my dentist who said "I can save that tooth. You need a root canal and that's going to cost $_____". Ok, so I don't remember what he said it was going to cost at the time but I remember that it might as well have been a billion dollars. I didn't have the money and so I asked him about pulling it. He refused. I went downstairs in the same building where a dental clinic was and I think they charged me $60 to pull the tooth. They also said they could save it and that I was making a mistake but I just couldn't afford to have the work done and I was a moron at 18 with a bad tooth ache who just wanted it to end.
Ever since that day I've been told that my teeth would shift to some terrible degree and that I need to get that taken care of as soon as possible by every dentist I've ever been to see. Bullshit. My teeth are just as straight today as they were then or so close to being straight that I can't tell the difference and nor can my wife or kids. It's total bullshit. I'm not saying it's not possible but if it was going to happen then it would have happened by now I think. If this is 20+ years worth of shifting then I'm not going to give somebody a bunch of cash to help me prevent what might happen in the next 20 years.
I'm kind of surprised that ebay doesn't pull those auctions and tell the seller to cut this crap out. I see this all the time with computers on ebay and I think the same thing. Some dipshit is selling his Powerbook with every piece of software that was ever written for OSX on it (licenses and media not included of course) and he thinks this is going to justify his starting bid of $1700?
The obligatory "You must delete all of this as soon as you get the laptop if you don't own every piece of software ever written for OSX" line is a hoot too.
This is wrong. There's no justification for it. If I were calling the shots on ebay this would get your auction shut down. A second offense would get your account shut down.
I've seen it too. No way on earth we could get money for a new Contex scanner but they'll spend somewhere in the range of $2000 to fix one that should have been sent to surplus years ago. I've watched people go out of their way to demonstrate that they're saving money by not buying new stuff while at the same time they budget ridiculous amounts of money to keep dinosaur equipment working.
It makes me sick to watch it happen. My supervisor has me working at a remote location because he doesn't like me. the feeling is mutual which is fine. I can work with people I don't like. It's no big deal. At the same time the servers that are my responsibility remain downtown at our administration building. His answer is do everything remotely and call us when you want something rebooted. I have to go down there once or twice per week for a variety of reasons and I asked him for a laptop. Knowing that ordering a new laptop was out of the question I made a point of asking him for an older, slower machine (That I knew for a fact we had and that nobody was using. I'm talking about something that was soon to be headed to surplus) because all I want to do is have something to plug in and use during the very few hours I was away from my desk. Denied. Couldn't spare it for something like that.
A short time later I find myself in his office to pick up a laptop for one of our users. New laptop this time. What do I see in the storage cabinet he takes it out of. 3 laptops including the one I asked for collecting dust. That was two months ago and it's still in there.
The point of all of this is that in my experience local government (I work in county level local government) is full of people pissing away money and wasting the resources they do have. Hoarders and petty little men and women who are concerned mostly with how much authority they have compared to the other department managers are the order of the day. They scheme their way into larger budgets whenever possible but couldn't use them in an effective manner to save their lives. I see good people who work there trying to get their jobs done consistently impeded by these assholes and I hesitantly count myself among them.
God I hate my fucking job. Sorry about the rant but something about that projector story set me off. Too close to home.
But do they really have a problem there? Sure there's an "interim" period where Apple is selling a lot of copies of OSX (which are being bought by PC makers in order to ship them with their own machines) and losing sales on hardware but does that effect the entire iPod portion of their business? It really doesn't. They've got a revenue stream coming in that will buy them some time. Then of course the retail price of OSX goes up. Say it doubles for instance.
Now suddenly Apple isn't selling as many copies of OSX but they don't pass this cost on to their own machines. If you buy a Mac you get the operating system with it (of course the original price is factored into what you pay for the Mac). Now you can still buy it with your Dell but adding it to the cost is going to push that Dell up in price quite a bit. Apple makes a killing on that copy of OSX. Money is coming in.
Say for instance Apple starts selling retail copies with a "limit of 5 copies per transaction" restriction. Then what's Dell going to do? Are they going to go back into the Apple store over and over again to get their copies. Dell is not going to behave like that. They're a huge company and if they can't get Apple to let them sell Dell computers running OSX then they're not going to sell computers running OSX. It's really as simple as that.
Besides, you can't just ignore the "You can only run this software on OUR hardware or our lawyers will emerge from the third level of Dis to disembowel you..." rhetoric because it's not just rhetoric. Apple will do that shit and Apple will win.
I'm confused here. What exactly are you trying to say? Are you saying that all Apple needs to do is make sure that companies like Dell don't figure out a way to bundle illegal copies of OSX with their hardware? That's what it sounds like you're saying. If so then the chances of that happening are so remote that I'd have to characterize them as impossible. Dell is never, in a million years, going to ship a PC with a pirated copy of OSX on it to someone. It won't happen. It could never happen. The lawsuit alone precludes it from happening even if there is nothing at all preventing anyone from installing OSX on generic hardware. Even if Apple provides drivers on their website for all kinds of hardware that doesn't normally ship on Macs. It's impossible.
Apple doesn't need to prevent Dell from selling their OS. The threat of insane legal action does that all by itself.
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Yes, and yet everytime he scratches out some gibberish it gets a story on Slashdot and we all line up comment on it.
Literally everyone posting in here agrees that Dvorak is far from the sharpest tool in the shed. In fact he's not even IN the shed. He's leaning against the outside of it rusting in the rain. You would think that we'd all have learned to ignore him by now.
I agree and you'll note I did not make that arguement. I stated that I bought a lot of DVD's and ripped a few BUT when they start doing shit like this I retaliate by spending less on their films and making copies of what I want.
Sure I'm wrong. I'm not debating that. I'm telling these guys (MPAA, RIAA, Phillips for doing this stupid shit) that we can play this game for as long as they want. To throw out a knock off of a phrase from a movie that I bought a couple of times at full price "The more they tighten their grip on my rights the more of my dollars slip through their fingers.
Eventually this ends with me not being able to watch a movie or television show at home and them not making any money at all off of me. I can live without their product just fine. Can they live without my money? Can they live without money from a large portion of their current customer base.
Exactly. I buy a lot of DVD's but I also rip a lot of rentals too. Every time I learn of some bullshit scheme like this the numbers rise on the ripping side. As things stand right now I rip a lot of the ones I buy anyway to make "disposable copies" while protecting the originals.
When I rent a movie and rip it to make a keeper is it stealing? I guess so but I don't really care at this point. They hack away at my rights and in return I hack away at their profits.
Sure I'm not right but neither are they. They might be "legal" but that doesn't make them right.
It's true. Registering for the Phantom Game Console automatically pre-orders you a copy of Duke Nukem Forever.
Randomly chosen pre-orders will get a free copy of Guns and Roses new album "Chinese Democracy". Don't hesitate to get your order in today!
When Clint Eastwood tells the kid to hand him his revolver and the kid looks at him nervously. Eastwood says "Don't worry kid, I'm not gonna kill you. You're the only friend I have left."
Sir
It has come to our attention that in your post to Slashdot made on Monday, March 13, 2006 at 12:58PM you made reference to the terms "Heads" and "Tails" in the same sentence. In so doing you have violated my clients patent on coins with different representations on either side
You additionally described the use of my clients "lever" invention and in so doing you have revealed a closely held trade secret.
We would also like to inform you that the combining of two things that already existed into one is a patented process that my clients intend to defend with great zeal.
You can either face us in court or settle now for the sum of $9.2 billion dollars.
Yes, that's true. Those are the most common LAST words of Texan rednecks. Texan scientists however don't bother to add the "watch this" part. They survive more often than the rednecks too so these aren't (always) their last words.
Which might very well be worse than crapping in your sink.
And to think that before I read your post I was pretty sure that wasn't going to be possible.
Here in Texas it usually starts with "Hey, hold my beer for a second"
I can explain it entirely with three words.
"Flying Spaghetti Monster"
I think the reason he can question this move is that he's really no longer that deeply involved in what Apple is doing and the article states as much. He says outright that it's hard to go back and change direction after being on the other side for so long. I'd take that into consideration when digesting Woz's comments.
If those same comments were coming from someone intimately involved in the Powerbook line I'd think along the same lines as you (WTF?). Coming from Woz they're just about loyalty to their previous partner and far less relevant to what's happening. In other words nothing to get excited about.
No we're not. In fact there are many of us who rarely come into contact with a "redneck". I recently had to go to a wedding in rural Illinois and I met more rednecks there in three days than I usually encounter here in Houston in a month. That doesn't mean everyone in Illinois is a redneck by the way.
The only reason they have you moderated Flamebait is that there's no "-1, Trolling piece of shit fucktard" available.
Absolutely cameras on public roads are different than cameras in private homes and I didn't mean to imply that the cameras being there amounted to the same thing. Sorry if I sounded like that. The cameras on Houstons freeway system have been there for a very long time and they server a good purpose.
Long before Mayor White was elected those cameras were put in place. He's the first one who decided that Houston needed a "Safe-Clear" towing policy to make sure that nobody got hurt on the freeway and that the traffic kept flowing. In the past they would clear your vehicle if it was obstructing traffic. Now they make bank on towing you if you're on the shoulder of the road. Since the plan was implemented more people have been killed and injured on Houston freeways than were before the wreckers began making mad dashes for stalls and flat tires.
It's not the cameras on the freeway. It's how this particular mayor (and police chief) think they should be used and where they want to go next (evidenced by this story). I feel like this is just the beginning and while I live outside of Houston I work in it. Outside of that M-F commute I never enter the city.
Is that really necessary? What do you know about Texas? I live in Houston, don't particularly like the clown police chief that said this (or the idiot mayor who hired him) but we're not all rednecks.
You should probably learn something about Texas before you pick a new title for it.
I live in Houston, or more accurately "near" Houston and there's a reason. The current mayor is big on things like this. Cameras at intersections have been implemented to catch anyone who runs the lights (but hey if you're not doing anything wrong then why would you mind right?) and mandatory towing if you stall out on the freeway are brilliant ideas of his.
You can't even refuse the tow and in the case of a flat tire where you're on the shoulder you better get it changed before a wrecker pulls up or they'll shove you out of the way and hook your car up. It's hard to beat the wreckers because they have cameras covering just about every inch of the freeway system here and they dispatch one to you the moment you pull out of the main lanes.
It's not surprising that they're angling for more cameras. They've been talking for a few months about putting cameras in the downtown district for our "protection".
I think that this new proposal needs a pilot program before we adopt it. The Police chief should have to live with a camera in his house for a year or so before he can put one in anyone elses house. I'd like to see how he likes it.
Seriously, those people are human trash.
Immediate 10d6 lightning bolts, no saving throw!
That's just stupid. Dell isn't going to go out and start installing unlicensed copies of OSX on computers and selling them to the general public. Apple has exactly zero fear of that happening. They're called lawyers and they come down on Dell like a ton of bricks the moment Dell tries something like this. Dell has them to and their lawyers would advise them not to try and pirate OSX to begin with.
Apple is making it reasonably hard for most people to not be able to install OSX on every PC they have sitting around their house. That's it. That's all there is. There's nothing more to it.
It's like Apple's DRM on iTunes. It's just enough to keep you from idly blowing past it but not enough to stop anyone intent on getting around it. It works on most people.
You can find a sense of humor over there on the left in the box marked "Sense of Humor". Take what you need but use what you take.
Since you clearly don't have one and don't appear to have been here before I thought I'd be helpful and tell you where to find it. Printed instructions for installation come in the package but if they confuse you just shove it up your ass. It's self installing.
Nope but close. More like: Tough-guy Bush is afraid to attack North Korea because China will fight back. That's really all there is too it. The only reason there even is a "North" Korea is that the United States didn't feel like fighting China back when they could have defeated them. Now there's no way they'll fight China with the outcome clearly in doubt and likely to be nuclear.
Besides North Korea is or should be China's problem for all practical purposes. I think sometimes that the only reason they don't reign in Kim & Co. is that it's fun to watch them make the US nervous.
Ok look man, you're completely misinterpreting what I'm saying. I had this done when I was 18. Through my 20's I heard the warnings about my teeth shifting. For the most part I wouldn't characterize them as "informing of the possibility". I'd say that they were more along the lines of "That's really serious and you need to get that taken care of as soon as possible! Talk to the receptionist and she'll get you scheduled for an appointment before it's too late".
In my 30's I still got this. Now I'm 40 and if I see a different dentist at the clinic I go to then I fully expect to hear about the terrible risk I'm running. I'm 40 years old for crying out loud. You would think that by now they might lay off the hard sell just a bit don't you?
I'm glad you've reviewed hundreds of radiographs. Good on you! I've "reviewed" exactly one set of teeth in the mirror and those were mine. They haven't moved.
Inform me of the possibility my teeth might move? I absolutely appreciate it. Try to sell me a procedure I do not need for twenty years? I don't think so. Not every dentist out there is just trying to make sure we all have the healthiest mouths possible. Some of them are trying to make enough money to pay the note on the Benz.
You know I think you are absolutely on to something there. I'm 40 years old and I'm missing a tooth. It's the second to the last molar on the left lower side and I lost it when I was 18 years old. My family was dirt poor at the time and I was no longer covered under my mom's dental plan since I'd just graduated high school. I had a huge filling come off one day and instantly begin hurting like hell. I went to my dentist who said "I can save that tooth. You need a root canal and that's going to cost $_____". Ok, so I don't remember what he said it was going to cost at the time but I remember that it might as well have been a billion dollars. I didn't have the money and so I asked him about pulling it. He refused. I went downstairs in the same building where a dental clinic was and I think they charged me $60 to pull the tooth. They also said they could save it and that I was making a mistake but I just couldn't afford to have the work done and I was a moron at 18 with a bad tooth ache who just wanted it to end.
Ever since that day I've been told that my teeth would shift to some terrible degree and that I need to get that taken care of as soon as possible by every dentist I've ever been to see. Bullshit. My teeth are just as straight today as they were then or so close to being straight that I can't tell the difference and nor can my wife or kids. It's total bullshit. I'm not saying it's not possible but if it was going to happen then it would have happened by now I think. If this is 20+ years worth of shifting then I'm not going to give somebody a bunch of cash to help me prevent what might happen in the next 20 years.
I'm kind of surprised that ebay doesn't pull those auctions and tell the seller to cut this crap out. I see this all the time with computers on ebay and I think the same thing. Some dipshit is selling his Powerbook with every piece of software that was ever written for OSX on it (licenses and media not included of course) and he thinks this is going to justify his starting bid of $1700?
The obligatory "You must delete all of this as soon as you get the laptop if you don't own every piece of software ever written for OSX" line is a hoot too.
This is wrong. There's no justification for it. If I were calling the shots on ebay this would get your auction shut down. A second offense would get your account shut down.
I've seen it too. No way on earth we could get money for a new Contex scanner but they'll spend somewhere in the range of $2000 to fix one that should have been sent to surplus years ago. I've watched people go out of their way to demonstrate that they're saving money by not buying new stuff while at the same time they budget ridiculous amounts of money to keep dinosaur equipment working.
It makes me sick to watch it happen. My supervisor has me working at a remote location because he doesn't like me. the feeling is mutual which is fine. I can work with people I don't like. It's no big deal. At the same time the servers that are my responsibility remain downtown at our administration building. His answer is do everything remotely and call us when you want something rebooted. I have to go down there once or twice per week for a variety of reasons and I asked him for a laptop. Knowing that ordering a new laptop was out of the question I made a point of asking him for an older, slower machine (That I knew for a fact we had and that nobody was using. I'm talking about something that was soon to be headed to surplus) because all I want to do is have something to plug in and use during the very few hours I was away from my desk. Denied. Couldn't spare it for something like that.
A short time later I find myself in his office to pick up a laptop for one of our users. New laptop this time. What do I see in the storage cabinet he takes it out of. 3 laptops including the one I asked for collecting dust. That was two months ago and it's still in there.
The point of all of this is that in my experience local government (I work in county level local government) is full of people pissing away money and wasting the resources they do have. Hoarders and petty little men and women who are concerned mostly with how much authority they have compared to the other department managers are the order of the day. They scheme their way into larger budgets whenever possible but couldn't use them in an effective manner to save their lives. I see good people who work there trying to get their jobs done consistently impeded by these assholes and I hesitantly count myself among them.
God I hate my fucking job. Sorry about the rant but something about that projector story set me off. Too close to home.
But do they really have a problem there? Sure there's an "interim" period where Apple is selling a lot of copies of OSX (which are being bought by PC makers in order to ship them with their own machines) and losing sales on hardware but does that effect the entire iPod portion of their business? It really doesn't. They've got a revenue stream coming in that will buy them some time. Then of course the retail price of OSX goes up. Say it doubles for instance.
Now suddenly Apple isn't selling as many copies of OSX but they don't pass this cost on to their own machines. If you buy a Mac you get the operating system with it (of course the original price is factored into what you pay for the Mac). Now you can still buy it with your Dell but adding it to the cost is going to push that Dell up in price quite a bit. Apple makes a killing on that copy of OSX. Money is coming in.
Say for instance Apple starts selling retail copies with a "limit of 5 copies per transaction" restriction. Then what's Dell going to do? Are they going to go back into the Apple store over and over again to get their copies. Dell is not going to behave like that. They're a huge company and if they can't get Apple to let them sell Dell computers running OSX then they're not going to sell computers running OSX. It's really as simple as that.
Besides, you can't just ignore the "You can only run this software on OUR hardware or our lawyers will emerge from the third level of Dis to disembowel you..." rhetoric because it's not just rhetoric. Apple will do that shit and Apple will win.
I'm confused here. What exactly are you trying to say? Are you saying that all Apple needs to do is make sure that companies like Dell don't figure out a way to bundle illegal copies of OSX with their hardware? That's what it sounds like you're saying. If so then the chances of that happening are so remote that I'd have to characterize them as impossible. Dell is never, in a million years, going to ship a PC with a pirated copy of OSX on it to someone. It won't happen. It could never happen. The lawsuit alone precludes it from happening even if there is nothing at all preventing anyone from installing OSX on generic hardware. Even if Apple provides drivers on their website for all kinds of hardware that doesn't normally ship on Macs. It's impossible.
Apple doesn't need to prevent Dell from selling their OS. The threat of insane legal action does that all by itself.