Not only do they not want anarchy internally. They'd specifically want either active acceptance or passive rejection of their views and actions. The last thing a tyrannical government wants is active, armed opposition.
Style issues aside, is your tool-less case built like a tank? Can a normal-sized adult sit on it without worrying about breaking it? Does your case weigh two or three times what a cheap PC case does?
Do the motherboard and card cage swing out of the case for easy access? Lots of tool-less cases still require you to take all the cards out one at a time from where they sit then pull the motherboard in order to get to the motherboard's fiddly bits easily. Not a Mac's (at least not my G4 or any other PowerMac I've seen -- I'm guessing the Mac Pros still do the same).
Does it have properly rounded edges in the interior? I get really sick of cutting myself on PC cases. Some are as nice as the Mac cases in this respect, but not all.
Are there carrying handles built into your case? Those LAN gamer straps just aren't as nice as having someplace to hold the case itself when moving my workstation.
Does your case have a good-sounding speaker built in? Yeah, it's normal to have an external speaker set, but in a pinch I can get good sound from an SGI or Apple machine with the internal speaker. Good luck with the speaker they use in the $1 27Mhz toy walkie-talkie at the toy store, which is what's in most PC cases if there's any sound in them at all these days. The resistance and cone rigidity in most PC speakers is so low that you can use them as microphones instead.
I'm typing this post from a Linux box built from spare parts (everything, in fact, except the drives for the RAID array is reclaimed from other systems). This system cuts me almost every time I open the case, but I still use it. So I can definitely see value in bargain hardware. I prefer my Mac's case by far, enough so that I consider a good portion of the premium on a Mac Pro to be for the case.
It's expensive to buy a Mac, but the case is well designed not only in terms of style but also in terms of substance.
The OS is mostly the same way. I have mixed feelings about the single menu strip for the OS and applications, but at least it's consistent. The drivers are good, but part of that is the limited hardware they have to support.
Part of the premium is actually not Apple charging a bunch for OS X but Microsoft offering huge discounts to get Windows preloaded on PCs. Microsoft's business model revolves around Office, Visual Studio, IIS, and their business software being able to run on a commodity OS, for which OEMs pay nearly nothing. Microsoft then has the OEMs provide the tech support on OEM versions of Windows. Apple can't do that and has to support the OS themselves, because they are the computer manufacturer.
Are those 22-note scales called the "chromatic scale"?
A scale can be of many types, but the "chromatic scale" is a particular one. The word "chromatic" here acts as an adjective. An adjective modifies a noun (here, "scale" is the noun) by providing more information about the noun.
Any statement I make specifically about the chromatic scale while specifying the chromatic scale by name which only applies to the chromatic scale is meant to describe only the chromatic scale.
So, yes, there are other musical scales. What I said about the chromatic scale being 12 notes is 100% true for every musical scale commonly referred to as the chromatic scale. There are seven tones and five half-tones, for a total of 12 notes in the chromatic scale. Look it up. You can find it through Google or another source. I'd suggest the keywords "chromatic scale".
Maybe they could settle with the guy out of court in a sealed settlement -- give him a little cash and shutter his business, all the while allowing people to think the "undisclosed sum" went the other direction.
Well, your reading of the EULA is interesting. Slapping an Apple logo on a non-Apple computer, though, would be a violation of Apple's trademark in their logo.
As long as you're looking for interesting ways to read the end user license agreement, isn't that a license between Apple and the end user? PsyStar is reselling the OS, not using it.
At least he can keep them from using (in theory, anyway) the newer updates made to the software since the license change. The old license only holds for the old versions released under it.
What they did have to do, though, is make clean-room versions of the IBM PC BIOS from the manuals or through testing every combination of registers and interrupts then implementing something that worked the same.
Courts have cleared companies that produce things like the Game Shark or even third-party titles for game consoles from copyright infringement if those companies only used enough code to their products compatible. I wouldn't be surprised if PsyStar is using this line of reasoning.
What might serve Apple best is to have a bargain branch under a different name. A clone maker makes them no money. It does raise their cachet somewhat when only one company is doing it and it's making news. It hurts their brand in the long run if lots of people do it. They don't want to distract from their brand among consumers or divert labor from their higher-margin products internally.
They could start a smaller-margin, higher-volume branch called, say, "Peach" or "Blueberry" (or some non-fruit name) that was operating independently but owned wholly or mostly by Apple. Then they could license the OS to that subsidiary and the profits would go to Apple's shareholders. Most of the same parts could be used internally with plainer-looking but still sleek cases, slower CPUs, and smaller hard drives. They could license only the oldest OS X that still gets security updates instead of keeping them up-to-date with the newest, even.
If there's a market for something like that, Apple could tap into it. I think the issue is that Apple doesn't want to be in that market, even through a semi-independent subsidiary. There was a huge uproar at Rolls-Royce when Volkswagen wanted to buy the company. People didn't want the Rolls-Royce name associated with the Beetle and the Golf. I think Apple's trying to hold on to that sort of "we're upper-end only" image.
I guess they'd have to verify who owns a Mac by asking for a serial number on the web or over the phone before allowing you to order your OS upgrades. That seems like a hassle for Apple and their customers.
It also seems like some of the headway Apple's made into the big box electronics retailers might be lost if they can't sell the OS updates. Those are a substantial portion of the shrink-wrapped software some of those places stock for the Mac.
Well, you really can't. Apple has kick-ass cases, a solid OS, integration between the hardware and software unlike anything a PC can offer, and offers many high-level niche applications that are only hosted on their OS.
A PC is frankly a bargain comparatively, but that's because most people don't need all of what a Mac offers. It's not because it's easy to get any random PC to do what a Mac does for the same money and do it as smoothly.
There are Mac people, Windows people, Unix people, some who prefer other more esoteric OSes, and some who don't care. For the Windows people and those who don't care, a Mac is a waste of money. For Mac people or for people looking for a well-supported Unix workstation with a slick interface that costs a lot less than some other options, a Mac is a good deal.
I think they intend to use the current style of screens (from reading TFA), but that they expect the manufacturing tech that makes the cheap portable DVD player screens to lower the cost of those.
There's plenty of equipment out there to work with 16:9 right now, and any special screen on a low-cost device is likely to be made on a tweaked version of existing equipment. It'd be silly to design a whole new manufacturing line from scratch if you don't have to do so.
To be fair, the Kindle is aimed at turning a profit. OLPC is aimed at recouping the costs of manufacture. Kindle is available now. This is planned for two years from now.
Still, I thought Kindle was crap when I first saw it. This does make it look worse, but they're not exactly on an even field.
The form factor is that of a dual-screened eBook, but they have a popup touch-screen keyboard as an application. It's a computer, kinda like a super-sized Nintendo DS. There are pictures of if accepting typed input, of it being held like a book, and of it laying flat like a board game between two kids.
I know the site listed in the summary is almost gone under the load, but there are lots of sites with news and pictures if you Google for "2nd generation OLPC". Two of them (spread the load!) are Laptop Magazine and GotteBeMobile, both of which are responding well as of right now.
It means "low" in several contexts, including the musical meaning like English "bass". It's also used in names.
"Lower Normandy" is "Basse-Normandie". Basse-Terre is the capital of Guadeloupe. Basse Pointe is a city in Martinique. "Basse chiffree" is "figured bass", a particular type of musical notation. There's a city named Basse in Gambia.
"Basse" is a surname, and I think it's been used that way in that spelling in many countries for a couple of centuries at least. The most famous Basse of which I can think is an English poet who is primarily known today for producing (or at least having attrivuted to him) the earliest known poem written in response to the death of Shakespeare.
About that poem "Elegy on Shakespeare": It consists of 16 lines of poem preceded by a dedication. The 16th word starting with just the poetry is "little", while the 16th starting with the dedication is "nye" (which is "nigh" these days). The 16th line is "Honor hereafter to be laid by Thee.", meaning that anyone would be proud to be buried near Shakespeare. The 15th line of the poem (in case you start from the dedication) is "That unto us and others it may bee". William Shakespeare died April 23, 1616.
Whether it's anything to do with the poet or the poem, I have no idea, but it's one possibility.
Well, the whole chromatic scale is 12 notes per octave including sharps/flats, so if you don't restrict the notes to being represented by the same symbols as in hex, you have more than enough. Octal could even fit the notes of a particular key with a space/rest included.
"Basse" is the feminine for "low" in French. It's also used in the names of certain buildings and groups of people. I've seen something about the building where Shoemaker works at the lab resembling a Gothic cathedral which has "Basse" in the name and having 16 floors. So that's one possible non-musical meaning for the "basse 16". Then again, The French I think use "basse" for our "bass" in music (according to this site found by a quick Google search, my memory is correct), so that might still say something about musical notation being involved.
Can't she live her liphe without some geek phools drooling over her old philms when some phorsaken loser starts publishing this crap about how to do what viruses were doing to PC motherboards phour to eight years ago?
Seriously, pholks, if you've never heard of malware bricking a PC motherboard by phlashing the BIOS with a corrupt image (or just random bits), then you've not been a PC enthusiast for very long.
The line to hand in your geek cards (and possibly get new ones issued without the "PC geek" endorsement if you still qualiphy in other areas of your liphe) phorms to the lepht.
(Yes, I know it's normally only initial "f" that switches to "ph", but I had to throw it in the middle phor this post. I couldn't resist.)
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Not only do they not want anarchy internally. They'd specifically want either active acceptance or passive rejection of their views and actions. The last thing a tyrannical government wants is active, armed opposition.
I fail to see how 'allowing people to think the "undisclosed sum" went the other direction' would "only encourage further cloning".
If people think Apple put enough legal pressure on the guy that he caved before trial, that's not going to embolden many commercial clone builders.
Style issues aside, is your tool-less case built like a tank? Can a normal-sized adult sit on it without worrying about breaking it? Does your case weigh two or three times what a cheap PC case does?
Do the motherboard and card cage swing out of the case for easy access? Lots of tool-less cases still require you to take all the cards out one at a time from where they sit then pull the motherboard in order to get to the motherboard's fiddly bits easily. Not a Mac's (at least not my G4 or any other PowerMac I've seen -- I'm guessing the Mac Pros still do the same).
Does it have properly rounded edges in the interior? I get really sick of cutting myself on PC cases. Some are as nice as the Mac cases in this respect, but not all.
Are there carrying handles built into your case? Those LAN gamer straps just aren't as nice as having someplace to hold the case itself when moving my workstation.
Does your case have a good-sounding speaker built in? Yeah, it's normal to have an external speaker set, but in a pinch I can get good sound from an SGI or Apple machine with the internal speaker. Good luck with the speaker they use in the $1 27Mhz toy walkie-talkie at the toy store, which is what's in most PC cases if there's any sound in them at all these days. The resistance and cone rigidity in most PC speakers is so low that you can use them as microphones instead.
I'm typing this post from a Linux box built from spare parts (everything, in fact, except the drives for the RAID array is reclaimed from other systems). This system cuts me almost every time I open the case, but I still use it. So I can definitely see value in bargain hardware. I prefer my Mac's case by far, enough so that I consider a good portion of the premium on a Mac Pro to be for the case.
It's expensive to buy a Mac, but the case is well designed not only in terms of style but also in terms of substance.
The OS is mostly the same way. I have mixed feelings about the single menu strip for the OS and applications, but at least it's consistent. The drivers are good, but part of that is the limited hardware they have to support.
Part of the premium is actually not Apple charging a bunch for OS X but Microsoft offering huge discounts to get Windows preloaded on PCs. Microsoft's business model revolves around Office, Visual Studio, IIS, and their business software being able to run on a commodity OS, for which OEMs pay nearly nothing. Microsoft then has the OEMs provide the tech support on OEM versions of Windows. Apple can't do that and has to support the OS themselves, because they are the computer manufacturer.
Are those 22-note scales called the "chromatic scale"?
A scale can be of many types, but the "chromatic scale" is a particular one. The word "chromatic" here acts as an adjective. An adjective modifies a noun (here, "scale" is the noun) by providing more information about the noun.
Any statement I make specifically about the chromatic scale while specifying the chromatic scale by name which only applies to the chromatic scale is meant to describe only the chromatic scale.
So, yes, there are other musical scales. What I said about the chromatic scale being 12 notes is 100% true for every musical scale commonly referred to as the chromatic scale. There are seven tones and five half-tones, for a total of 12 notes in the chromatic scale. Look it up. You can find it through Google or another source. I'd suggest the keywords "chromatic scale".
Maybe they could settle with the guy out of court in a sealed settlement -- give him a little cash and shutter his business, all the while allowing people to think the "undisclosed sum" went the other direction.
Well, your reading of the EULA is interesting. Slapping an Apple logo on a non-Apple computer, though, would be a violation of Apple's trademark in their logo.
As long as you're looking for interesting ways to read the end user license agreement, isn't that a license between Apple and the end user? PsyStar is reselling the OS, not using it.
At least he can keep them from using (in theory, anyway) the newer updates made to the software since the license change. The old license only holds for the old versions released under it.
Other than it being IBM PC-DOS, you're correct.
What they did have to do, though, is make clean-room versions of the IBM PC BIOS from the manuals or through testing every combination of registers and interrupts then implementing something that worked the same.
Courts have cleared companies that produce things like the Game Shark or even third-party titles for game consoles from copyright infringement if those companies only used enough code to their products compatible. I wouldn't be surprised if PsyStar is using this line of reasoning.
What might serve Apple best is to have a bargain branch under a different name. A clone maker makes them no money. It does raise their cachet somewhat when only one company is doing it and it's making news. It hurts their brand in the long run if lots of people do it. They don't want to distract from their brand among consumers or divert labor from their higher-margin products internally.
They could start a smaller-margin, higher-volume branch called, say, "Peach" or "Blueberry" (or some non-fruit name) that was operating independently but owned wholly or mostly by Apple. Then they could license the OS to that subsidiary and the profits would go to Apple's shareholders. Most of the same parts could be used internally with plainer-looking but still sleek cases, slower CPUs, and smaller hard drives. They could license only the oldest OS X that still gets security updates instead of keeping them up-to-date with the newest, even.
If there's a market for something like that, Apple could tap into it. I think the issue is that Apple doesn't want to be in that market, even through a semi-independent subsidiary. There was a huge uproar at Rolls-Royce when Volkswagen wanted to buy the company. People didn't want the Rolls-Royce name associated with the Beetle and the Golf. I think Apple's trying to hold on to that sort of "we're upper-end only" image.
I guess they'd have to verify who owns a Mac by asking for a serial number on the web or over the phone before allowing you to order your OS upgrades. That seems like a hassle for Apple and their customers.
It also seems like some of the headway Apple's made into the big box electronics retailers might be lost if they can't sell the OS updates. Those are a substantial portion of the shrink-wrapped software some of those places stock for the Mac.
Well, you really can't. Apple has kick-ass cases, a solid OS, integration between the hardware and software unlike anything a PC can offer, and offers many high-level niche applications that are only hosted on their OS.
A PC is frankly a bargain comparatively, but that's because most people don't need all of what a Mac offers. It's not because it's easy to get any random PC to do what a Mac does for the same money and do it as smoothly.
There are Mac people, Windows people, Unix people, some who prefer other more esoteric OSes, and some who don't care. For the Windows people and those who don't care, a Mac is a waste of money. For Mac people or for people looking for a well-supported Unix workstation with a slick interface that costs a lot less than some other options, a Mac is a good deal.
You didn't have to get the ROMs for the Franklin Ace systems, either, but then you ended up with something that wasn't fully compatible.
Which is exactly where they don't want to be. Right now they're huge in the $1000 and up market, which I'm sure is where they're happy to be.
Well, the Mac Pro has one or two quad-core processors. That's at least twice as many, but not always four times as many cores.
Even with a single processor, it's a $2299 machine.
That this thing fills a niche between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro that's more upgradeable than an iMac is pretty much the point.
It's spelled "eunuchs", but AC's "Unix" quip came to my mind, too. Dilbert FTW!
I think they intend to use the current style of screens (from reading TFA), but that they expect the manufacturing tech that makes the cheap portable DVD player screens to lower the cost of those.
There's plenty of equipment out there to work with 16:9 right now, and any special screen on a low-cost device is likely to be made on a tweaked version of existing equipment. It'd be silly to design a whole new manufacturing line from scratch if you don't have to do so.
To be fair, the Kindle is aimed at turning a profit. OLPC is aimed at recouping the costs of manufacture. Kindle is available now. This is planned for two years from now.
Still, I thought Kindle was crap when I first saw it. This does make it look worse, but they're not exactly on an even field.
The form factor is that of a dual-screened eBook, but they have a popup touch-screen keyboard as an application. It's a computer, kinda like a super-sized Nintendo DS. There are pictures of if accepting typed input, of it being held like a book, and of it laying flat like a board game between two kids.
I know the site listed in the summary is almost gone under the load, but there are lots of sites with news and pictures if you Google for "2nd generation OLPC". Two of them (spread the load!) are Laptop Magazine and GotteBeMobile, both of which are responding well as of right now.
It means "low" in several contexts, including the musical meaning like English "bass". It's also used in names.
"Lower Normandy" is "Basse-Normandie". Basse-Terre is the capital of Guadeloupe. Basse Pointe is a city in Martinique. "Basse chiffree" is "figured bass", a particular type of musical notation. There's a city named Basse in Gambia.
"Basse" is a surname, and I think it's been used that way in that spelling in many countries for a couple of centuries at least. The most famous Basse of which I can think is an English poet who is primarily known today for producing (or at least having attrivuted to him) the earliest known poem written in response to the death of Shakespeare.
About that poem "Elegy on Shakespeare": It consists of 16 lines of poem preceded by a dedication. The 16th word starting with just the poetry is "little", while the 16th starting with the dedication is "nye" (which is "nigh" these days). The 16th line is "Honor hereafter to be laid by Thee.", meaning that anyone would be proud to be buried near Shakespeare. The 15th line of the poem (in case you start from the dedication) is "That unto us and others it may bee". William Shakespeare died April 23, 1616.
Whether it's anything to do with the poet or the poem, I have no idea, but it's one possibility.
4 squares per inch by 11.5 inches gives 46 full squares.
A musical staff has five lines, too. That may be just a coincidence, but lots of musical ideas have been thrown about.
Well, the whole chromatic scale is 12 notes per octave including sharps/flats, so if you don't restrict the notes to being represented by the same symbols as in hex, you have more than enough. Octal could even fit the notes of a particular key with a space/rest included.
"Basse" is the feminine for "low" in French. It's also used in the names of certain buildings and groups of people. I've seen something about the building where Shoemaker works at the lab resembling a Gothic cathedral which has "Basse" in the name and having 16 floors. So that's one possible non-musical meaning for the "basse 16". Then again, The French I think use "basse" for our "bass" in music (according to this site found by a quick Google search, my memory is correct), so that might still say something about musical notation being involved.
What does this have to do with Jennipher Beals?
Can't she live her liphe without some geek phools drooling over her old philms when some phorsaken loser starts publishing this crap about how to do what viruses were doing to PC motherboards phour to eight years ago?
Seriously, pholks, if you've never heard of malware bricking a PC motherboard by phlashing the BIOS with a corrupt image (or just random bits), then you've not been a PC enthusiast for very long.
The line to hand in your geek cards (and possibly get new ones issued without the "PC geek" endorsement if you still qualiphy in other areas of your liphe) phorms to the lepht.
(Yes, I know it's normally only initial "f" that switches to "ph", but I had to throw it in the middle phor this post. I couldn't resist.)
Very nice reference, my fellow Ender fan.
Baudot is 5 bits.