The question is why? Why run a pirated version of OSX86 on your typical PC clone? Is it to save money or something? Can't afford the $500 Intel based Mac Mini? Want to show off to your friends how your Compaq, Dell, IBM, HP, etc runs OSX86 just like their more expensive Intel based Mac? Like runing the risk that the cracked version of OSX86 may have trojans in it, and an update will ruin the cracked copy protection? Perhaps Apple will catch you downloading it from some P2P file sharing network and subpeona you like they did those kids who pirated Tiger last Christmas?
I can see trying to run XP natively on an Intel Mac to run Game software written for Windows, maybe dual boot it or something. I think Apple would have tried to put something in the EFI BIOS or hardware to prevent Windows from installing. I doubt Microsoft or Apple would support XP on an Intel Mac anyway.
I don't really have an interest in running an Intel Mac with XP or a PC Clone with a cracked version of OSX86. I'll buy an Intel Mac if I ever decide to develop for that platform or something. I'd rather develop for Linux first, because it has a larger market share.
nor is VHS. Even BetaMax still is alive and kicking and in use in some places.
Remember that Laserdisc system and how VHS and video tapes were dead? Laserdisc is the superior product with a superior quality picture and sound than VHS had.
Guess which format people supported and used the most?
The DVD is not dead, do I need to invoke Monty Python here "I'm not dead yet!"
HDTV formats are way too expensive for the average person to use and own. Ever tried to price HDTV cable and satellite boxes lately as well as the monthly fees for them? Ever priced an HDTV TV set lately? Wonder why those TV sets under 35 inches do not support HDTV? Only the wealthy can afford them.
I know a lot of people who don't even own a DVD player and still use VHS players and recorders. Most of them have older TV sets that cannot take the DVD digital input and need an adapter just to use one. Now try to convince them to spend thousands of dollars on an HDTV system to play Blu-Ray and HD-DVD disks instead of their 20 Inch Analog TV set with the VHS video tape device? The most they can spend is like $50 to $100 for new equipment if they go without certain things for a while and cut their budgets.
DVD Players sell for as low as $35 each with $15 for the Analog to Digital adapter to use them on that 20 inch Analog TV set. A $50 minimum investment just to upgrade to a DVD playing system. $100 for a good one that won't shoot craps in the next few years or so.
The way I see it, as far as HDTV DVDs go, Blu Ray is BetaMax and HD-DVD is VHS as far as formats and pricing and marketing goes. My money is on HD-DVD, because it seems only handful of suppliers will support Blu Ray like Sony (who invented it). This is the BetaMax vs. VHS wars all over again.
In that case, it was more along the lines of a "copy and paste" plagiarism blog and the blogger tried to take credit for the story and not cite the original link.
Yes, because everyone knows that the hot gas and ash are really coming from The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Did you notice the increase in the level of pirate activity and global warming and how they relate? My pasta, man, what are they teaching in schools these days? That there is no Flying Spaghetti Monster? But look at the facts, look at the facts.
because everyone knows that linking to a post made on a Forum like Arstechnica is proof that the story is true.
Why leftist anti-war protestors can claim they are right by linking to their blogs, and so can the Hawkish neo-cons link to their blogs.
Before you know it, people will stop reading news websites and instead get all of their news from blogs and forums. Rumor, innuendo, yellow journalism, and whatever that 12 year-old wanker posts on their own blog is totally more believable than verified facts and evidence that support true journalism. Why modern science is not interested in facts and evidence anymore, it is all about who gets what research grants and whose religion is more important as to what theory to back up and support.
Yeah like there are Copyright Police just waiting for people to tape a TV show to a VCR, or rip an MP3 file off an audio CD? Because they stuck "Big Brother" cameras in everyone's home and can watch everything you do. "Right, he's ripping a MP3 file off of that audio CD he just bought. Let us break down his door and beat the living daylights out of him. Then we will put him in jail and he can explain his behaviors and actions to a judge." or "Right, he is taping an episode of 'Battlestar Galactica' to his BetaMax recorder. Call the S.W.A.T. team, we will need backup for this one. BetaMax recorders are considered WMDs by the MPAA, so he need to hit this guy with everything we got."
I did all of that, yet I have been out of work since 2002 and nobody wants to hire me. I am a very good developer, and have over 20 years of programming experience. I hold a bachelor's degree, and I helped companies save millions of dollars that they wasted that my programs helped make them more productive. I gave the former employers I worked for all that I had and more, and for my efforts I got shat on and then taken outside and shot. Replaced with someone who can work my job in another location of the world for a fraction of my salary, but nowhere near as good as I worked. Managers want quantity not quality anymore. Quality control is dead.
most companies that try to lock down their Internet programs often use Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook as the default web browser and email client. Yet these two programs have the most exploits of any Internet based programs out there. So even if you do lock down the ports of the firewall and stop users from installing programs, chances are the exploits will install the malware for you when they get the wrong email or click on the wrong link.
99% of the malware infections that happened in the past four places that I worked in, were caused by management clicking on the wrong email or wrong link in Outlook or IE. They did lock down their Internet, turned off port forwarding, took away admin access, prevented the install of new programs (which screwed up Visual BASIC and MS-Access development, because they needed Admin access or else things don't work via certain controls), and other things.
I think one of the funniest momments was getting the "Love Bug" email from the Network Administrator 12 times in a row that said "I LUV YOU!" over and over again. Guess who was using MS-Outlook and McAfee Anti-Virus and got infected due to some exploit? Needless to say I was smart enough not to open up those emails, unlike my co-workers who did, and sent me their own "I LUV YOU!" emails.:)
The answer to both of those questions are quite simple really:
"They are too stupid to know the reasoning behind MSDN or Firefox Google Homepage, and so stupid in fact that they should have not even been managers in charge of computer workers."
The RIAA and MPAA and BSA will still subpeona you, but at least you won't be infected, that you know of, anyway. You can have the courts confiscate your PC and they will notice that it lacks any Spyware/Adware that you could have used in your defense saying it must have done the downloading via a remote control trojan and not you.
Bahahaahahaahah! I had managers who had the MSN or MSNBC web page set to default on their browsers and they searched them all day. Then they complained about the time I spent on MSDN researching technical issues and coding help and error codes. I was using my surfing for work and they used their surfing for play. While I was trying to figure out why the latest and greatest software from Microsoft was buggy and ways to work around those bugs, they were checking stock prices, news items, etc.
Corporations know this for a fact, and the theory of evolution has grown boring in its never ending war with Intelligent Design and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Besides there is no real profit to be made backing either Evolution, Intelligent Design, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. This is because all of them, as well as most scientific theories are full of big gaging holes, and the scientists who did the research fudged the reports so they could receive more funding and make more money.
The big money is to be made in The Theory of Change which is a true scientifc theory, and is even falsifiable if it can be proven that change does not exist and nothing ever changes ever. Since new evidence found changes the theory of change, it follows the theory of change that says it can change itself, because change is one of the major forces in the universe. What controled change and brought about the big bang and the creation of life itself? The theory of change says that in order for it to be a true scientifc theory and avoid psuedoscience by saying God, random chance, or some other entity or thing controls change, the theory of change says that it does not really say what controls change, but that it is a part of change management. Yet if new evidence is found the theory of change can be changed later on to reflect that evidence, as the theory of change predicts.
Evidence exists that lifeforms, since they first existed on the Earth, have gone through a series of changes. In fact, most parts of the universe go through series of changes according to the theory of change.
Don't believe or like the theory of change the way it is now? Just wait and maybe later it will change and then you will like it and support it.
The theory of change covers the big bang, gravity and other forces of the universe and unifies them, and replaces many well known popular scientific theories. I mean even Stephen Hawking was wrong about black holes, and cannot figure out the grand unification theory or even prove it, yet all the answers were in the theory of change all along and he never even knew it.
due to classical management still running a majority of corportations and wanting to move everyone into cubicals to save on expenses, there is no such thing as privacy anymore. Not unless you are an executive or some other valuable employee or manager that can have a private office as a perk.
Privacy on a Windows machine open to anyone in the public office or on the Internet also does not exist.
Since Apple was a partner in helping to design the PowerPC chip with IBM and Motorola, why didn't Apple just make their own PowerPC chip factories when Motorola and IBM didn't live up to their deal to make faster and lower power consuming PowerPC chips?
Or perhaps Apple could have had Intel, AMD, VIA, or some other company license the PowerPC design and then make new chips based on that?
So what happens if Intel pulls an IBM or Motorola on Apple and sells Apple short on Intel chips, but supplies Dell, Compaq/HP, Gateway, and other with Intel chips and makes Apple a low priority? Can Apple then switch to AMD or VIA or some other X86 chip maker?
Be glad you avoided that Pentium 60Mhz math bug. I think they fixed that by the Pentium 120Mhz chip.;) I think that Math bug helped Enron balance their accounting books.;)
Well then I was using 8 bit machines then since before you were born.
You grew up using 16 bit machines, so you never knew the Commodore Vic-20 and Commodore 64, and Apple// series, as well as the TRS-80 COCO, Coleco ADAM, and IBM's PC with CGA 16 color graphics.
I guess you sort of grew up with the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, Apple//gs, and those 386 PC clones with VGA?
Yeah Apple spends billions of dollars to add in TPM copy protection to OSx86 and it takes about a year to perfect it.
Then some 12 year old kid from Estonia cracks it in about a day from his parent's basement and releases a cracked ISO image on all the P2P file sharing networks. Then all the Non-Apple based PC systems can run the cracked copy, until Apple can add some sort of OS update to reverse the crack, which takes a few months, and then the same 12 year old kid cracks that in a day and releases a new ISO.
Correct, and that is why the Microsoft XBox 360 uses a PowerPC chip, as does many other game consoles. A sinking ship for sure! Everyone knows that once the hard core gaming companies start using your chip, that your ship is about to sink. It happened to the 6502, the 68000, the Z80, and the 65816 chips, and now it will happen to the PowerPC chips. Oh the humanity!
I won't boycot, only if the F/OSS alternatives like Linux also use draconian copy protection and spyware in their OSes.
Somehow I doubt they will offer TPM abilities in their OSes.
Next I suppose you will think it is a neat idea if everyone gets a computer chip implanted in their forehead or one of their hands? Then make a computer called "Big Brother" than can monitor everyone's actions and behaviors via the chips.:)
Don't interupt that person, they are on a roll as a troll.
Everyone but them knows that 8 Bit Computers mostly had 16 color graphics, they seem to think 8 bit systems had 256 colors. Well maybe if they were made by Atari, or called the Sinclair Spectrum or something.:)
Nope this is not 1978, and it is no longer an 8 bit 16 color world.
Still most forms of copy protection have been cracked, despite the fact that it is no longer 1978, and cracking them was not as easy as "fiddle with this" but was more like Polish Math Experts trying to crack the World War II German Enigma codes and instead of 8 wheels, they used 128 wheels. Difficult, but not quite impossible.
The only way to stop this sort of thing is to arrest people who write the programs to crack the security. Like when that Russian programmer was arrested when he visited the USA for a computer conference. He found a way to remove DRM from PDF files so the programs written for blind people can read them. Nobody who made the DRM protection for PDF files help the Blind Readers read the DRM protected PDF files, and it was discrimination against the Blind.
I urge everyone to boycott Apple and OSx86 because of the draconian copy protection and spyware features that it has. Instead use Linux, and support your F/OSS developers so they can add OSx86 type features to Linux. Boycott Microsoft as well, because they are going to do the same thing with Windows Vista. Tell corporations to quit screwing the consumers, and adding these stupid features that we don't want and don't need in the OS.
Then again Apple is giving up the PowerPC platform for the Intel one, how stupid can that be? Apple is still run like a small business, how stupid can that be? Apple is being cheated by the MPAA and RIAA who keep wanting to raise prices for audio and video files, how stupid can that be?
Even if the software cannot be modified, odds are someone will invent a PCI card that replaces/bypasses the TPM chips with ones that say "Apple Mactel Model 100" or something instead of "Dell Optiplex P6" or whatever, so OSx86 can be installed.
Chances are the TPM check will be part of the Install program and not the OSx86 itself. If true, someone can Ghost an Apple Mactel image and then use the Ghost to install on a Non-Apple PC.
Why not just modify the ISO copy of OSx86 to change an assembly language instruction from JE to JNE or vice-versa, and then burn the new ISO and distribute that?
That way it only runs on Hardware that does not have a TPM of Apple? Like Dell, Gateway, Compaq/HP, etc.
Or better yet change the JE to JMP and JNE to NOP, that way it can run on all hardware.
Take it from me, I used to write assembly language back in the day, and had to get copy protected software running on network drives, and the stupid software tried to check for a damaged sector on the hard drive which the Netware INT 21H did not allow. Almost everything is written in C/C++ now, which gets compiled into assembly or ML, which can be easily tweaked like I said.
I give the hackers a week, if not more than a month, to find a way around it and release the unprotected ISO on the P2P networks.
Not that I advocate piracy or cracking or hacking, I just know how it can be done.
Financial statements do not show which products and services are profitable or not, that was why job cost accounting was developed. If you took accounting classes or business management classes like I did, you'd know that. Obviously you did not.
Employees can be retrained for products and services that are profitable, rather than taking them outside and shooting them.
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The question is why? Why run a pirated version of OSX86 on your typical PC clone? Is it to save money or something? Can't afford the $500 Intel based Mac Mini? Want to show off to your friends how your Compaq, Dell, IBM, HP, etc runs OSX86 just like their more expensive Intel based Mac? Like runing the risk that the cracked version of OSX86 may have trojans in it, and an update will ruin the cracked copy protection? Perhaps Apple will catch you downloading it from some P2P file sharing network and subpeona you like they did those kids who pirated Tiger last Christmas?
I can see trying to run XP natively on an Intel Mac to run Game software written for Windows, maybe dual boot it or something. I think Apple would have tried to put something in the EFI BIOS or hardware to prevent Windows from installing. I doubt Microsoft or Apple would support XP on an Intel Mac anyway.
I don't really have an interest in running an Intel Mac with XP or a PC Clone with a cracked version of OSX86. I'll buy an Intel Mac if I ever decide to develop for that platform or something. I'd rather develop for Linux first, because it has a larger market share.
nor is VHS. Even BetaMax still is alive and kicking and in use in some places.
Remember that Laserdisc system and how VHS and video tapes were dead? Laserdisc is the superior product with a superior quality picture and sound than VHS had.
Guess which format people supported and used the most?
The DVD is not dead, do I need to invoke Monty Python here "I'm not dead yet!"
HDTV formats are way too expensive for the average person to use and own. Ever tried to price HDTV cable and satellite boxes lately as well as the monthly fees for them? Ever priced an HDTV TV set lately? Wonder why those TV sets under 35 inches do not support HDTV? Only the wealthy can afford them.
I know a lot of people who don't even own a DVD player and still use VHS players and recorders. Most of them have older TV sets that cannot take the DVD digital input and need an adapter just to use one. Now try to convince them to spend thousands of dollars on an HDTV system to play Blu-Ray and HD-DVD disks instead of their 20 Inch Analog TV set with the VHS video tape device? The most they can spend is like $50 to $100 for new equipment if they go without certain things for a while and cut their budgets.
DVD Players sell for as low as $35 each with $15 for the Analog to Digital adapter to use them on that 20 inch Analog TV set. A $50 minimum investment just to upgrade to a DVD playing system. $100 for a good one that won't shoot craps in the next few years or so.
The way I see it, as far as HDTV DVDs go, Blu Ray is BetaMax and HD-DVD is VHS as far as formats and pricing and marketing goes. My money is on HD-DVD, because it seems only handful of suppliers will support Blu Ray like Sony (who invented it). This is the BetaMax vs. VHS wars all over again.
"20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood."
If she had been on a computer, she would see how awful Windows really is, and would have given Bill Gates something else instead of Knighthood.
"Mr. Gates, we have used Windows, and we are not amused! The screen turned blue, before we could save our document."
In that case, it was more along the lines of a "copy and paste" plagiarism blog and the blogger tried to take credit for the story and not cite the original link.
Yes, because everyone knows that the hot gas and ash are really coming from The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Did you notice the increase in the level of pirate activity and global warming and how they relate? My pasta, man, what are they teaching in schools these days? That there is no Flying Spaghetti Monster? But look at the facts, look at the facts.
because everyone knows that linking to a post made on a Forum like Arstechnica is proof that the story is true.
Why leftist anti-war protestors can claim they are right by linking to their blogs, and so can the Hawkish neo-cons link to their blogs.
Before you know it, people will stop reading news websites and instead get all of their news from blogs and forums. Rumor, innuendo, yellow journalism, and whatever that 12 year-old wanker posts on their own blog is totally more believable than verified facts and evidence that support true journalism. Why modern science is not interested in facts and evidence anymore, it is all about who gets what research grants and whose religion is more important as to what theory to back up and support.
Yeah like there are Copyright Police just waiting for people to tape a TV show to a VCR, or rip an MP3 file off an audio CD? Because they stuck "Big Brother" cameras in everyone's home and can watch everything you do. "Right, he's ripping a MP3 file off of that audio CD he just bought. Let us break down his door and beat the living daylights out of him. Then we will put him in jail and he can explain his behaviors and actions to a judge." or "Right, he is taping an episode of 'Battlestar Galactica' to his BetaMax recorder. Call the S.W.A.T. team, we will need backup for this one. BetaMax recorders are considered WMDs by the MPAA, so he need to hit this guy with everything we got."
I did all of that, yet I have been out of work since 2002 and nobody wants to hire me. I am a very good developer, and have over 20 years of programming experience. I hold a bachelor's degree, and I helped companies save millions of dollars that they wasted that my programs helped make them more productive. I gave the former employers I worked for all that I had and more, and for my efforts I got shat on and then taken outside and shot. Replaced with someone who can work my job in another location of the world for a fraction of my salary, but nowhere near as good as I worked. Managers want quantity not quality anymore. Quality control is dead.
most companies that try to lock down their Internet programs often use Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook as the default web browser and email client. Yet these two programs have the most exploits of any Internet based programs out there. So even if you do lock down the ports of the firewall and stop users from installing programs, chances are the exploits will install the malware for you when they get the wrong email or click on the wrong link.
:)
99% of the malware infections that happened in the past four places that I worked in, were caused by management clicking on the wrong email or wrong link in Outlook or IE. They did lock down their Internet, turned off port forwarding, took away admin access, prevented the install of new programs (which screwed up Visual BASIC and MS-Access development, because they needed Admin access or else things don't work via certain controls), and other things.
I think one of the funniest momments was getting the "Love Bug" email from the Network Administrator 12 times in a row that said "I LUV YOU!" over and over again. Guess who was using MS-Outlook and McAfee Anti-Virus and got infected due to some exploit? Needless to say I was smart enough not to open up those emails, unlike my co-workers who did, and sent me their own "I LUV YOU!" emails.
The answer to both of those questions are quite simple really:
"They are too stupid to know the reasoning behind MSDN or Firefox Google Homepage, and so stupid in fact that they should have not even been managers in charge of computer workers."
or at least no Adware/Spyware that we know of.
The RIAA and MPAA and BSA will still subpeona you, but at least you won't be infected, that you know of, anyway. You can have the courts confiscate your PC and they will notice that it lacks any Spyware/Adware that you could have used in your defense saying it must have done the downloading via a remote control trojan and not you.
Bahahaahahaahah! I had managers who had the MSN or MSNBC web page set to default on their browsers and they searched them all day. Then they complained about the time I spent on MSDN researching technical issues and coding help and error codes. I was using my surfing for work and they used their surfing for play. While I was trying to figure out why the latest and greatest software from Microsoft was buggy and ways to work around those bugs, they were checking stock prices, news items, etc.
Corporations know this for a fact, and the theory of evolution has grown boring in its never ending war with Intelligent Design and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Besides there is no real profit to be made backing either Evolution, Intelligent Design, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. This is because all of them, as well as most scientific theories are full of big gaging holes, and the scientists who did the research fudged the reports so they could receive more funding and make more money.
The big money is to be made in The Theory of Change which is a true scientifc theory, and is even falsifiable if it can be proven that change does not exist and nothing ever changes ever. Since new evidence found changes the theory of change, it follows the theory of change that says it can change itself, because change is one of the major forces in the universe. What controled change and brought about the big bang and the creation of life itself? The theory of change says that in order for it to be a true scientifc theory and avoid psuedoscience by saying God, random chance, or some other entity or thing controls change, the theory of change says that it does not really say what controls change, but that it is a part of change management. Yet if new evidence is found the theory of change can be changed later on to reflect that evidence, as the theory of change predicts.
Evidence exists that lifeforms, since they first existed on the Earth, have gone through a series of changes. In fact, most parts of the universe go through series of changes according to the theory of change.
Don't believe or like the theory of change the way it is now? Just wait and maybe later it will change and then you will like it and support it.
The theory of change covers the big bang, gravity and other forces of the universe and unifies them, and replaces many well known popular scientific theories. I mean even Stephen Hawking was wrong about black holes, and cannot figure out the grand unification theory or even prove it, yet all the answers were in the theory of change all along and he never even knew it.
due to classical management still running a majority of corportations and wanting to move everyone into cubicals to save on expenses, there is no such thing as privacy anymore. Not unless you are an executive or some other valuable employee or manager that can have a private office as a perk.
Privacy on a Windows machine open to anyone in the public office or on the Internet also does not exist.
Pardon me sir, one more question:
Since Apple was a partner in helping to design the PowerPC chip with IBM and Motorola, why didn't Apple just make their own PowerPC chip factories when Motorola and IBM didn't live up to their deal to make faster and lower power consuming PowerPC chips?
Or perhaps Apple could have had Intel, AMD, VIA, or some other company license the PowerPC design and then make new chips based on that?
So what happens if Intel pulls an IBM or Motorola on Apple and sells Apple short on Intel chips, but supplies Dell, Compaq/HP, Gateway, and other with Intel chips and makes Apple a low priority? Can Apple then switch to AMD or VIA or some other X86 chip maker?
Be glad you avoided that Pentium 60Mhz math bug. I think they fixed that by the Pentium 120Mhz chip. ;) I think that Math bug helped Enron balance their accounting books. ;)
Well then I was using 8 bit machines then since before you were born.
// series, as well as the TRS-80 COCO, Coleco ADAM, and IBM's PC with CGA 16 color graphics.
//gs, and those 386 PC clones with VGA?
You grew up using 16 bit machines, so you never knew the Commodore Vic-20 and Commodore 64, and Apple
I guess you sort of grew up with the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, Apple
Yeah Apple spends billions of dollars to add in TPM copy protection to OSx86 and it takes about a year to perfect it.
Then some 12 year old kid from Estonia cracks it in about a day from his parent's basement and releases a cracked ISO image on all the P2P file sharing networks. Then all the Non-Apple based PC systems can run the cracked copy, until Apple can add some sort of OS update to reverse the crack, which takes a few months, and then the same 12 year old kid cracks that in a day and releases a new ISO.
Correct, and that is why the Microsoft XBox 360 uses a PowerPC chip, as does many other game consoles. A sinking ship for sure! Everyone knows that once the hard core gaming companies start using your chip, that your ship is about to sink. It happened to the 6502, the 68000, the Z80, and the 65816 chips, and now it will happen to the PowerPC chips. Oh the humanity!
I won't boycot, only if the F/OSS alternatives like Linux also use draconian copy protection and spyware in their OSes.
:)
Somehow I doubt they will offer TPM abilities in their OSes.
Next I suppose you will think it is a neat idea if everyone gets a computer chip implanted in their forehead or one of their hands? Then make a computer called "Big Brother" than can monitor everyone's actions and behaviors via the chips.
Don't interupt that person, they are on a roll as a troll.
:)
Everyone but them knows that 8 Bit Computers mostly had 16 color graphics, they seem to think 8 bit systems had 256 colors. Well maybe if they were made by Atari, or called the Sinclair Spectrum or something.
Nope this is not 1978, and it is no longer an 8 bit 16 color world.
Still most forms of copy protection have been cracked, despite the fact that it is no longer 1978, and cracking them was not as easy as "fiddle with this" but was more like Polish Math Experts trying to crack the World War II German Enigma codes and instead of 8 wheels, they used 128 wheels. Difficult, but not quite impossible.
The only way to stop this sort of thing is to arrest people who write the programs to crack the security. Like when that Russian programmer was arrested when he visited the USA for a computer conference. He found a way to remove DRM from PDF files so the programs written for blind people can read them. Nobody who made the DRM protection for PDF files help the Blind Readers read the DRM protected PDF files, and it was discrimination against the Blind.
I urge everyone to boycott Apple and OSx86 because of the draconian copy protection and spyware features that it has. Instead use Linux, and support your F/OSS developers so they can add OSx86 type features to Linux. Boycott Microsoft as well, because they are going to do the same thing with Windows Vista. Tell corporations to quit screwing the consumers, and adding these stupid features that we don't want and don't need in the OS.
Then again Apple is giving up the PowerPC platform for the Intel one, how stupid can that be? Apple is still run like a small business, how stupid can that be? Apple is being cheated by the MPAA and RIAA who keep wanting to raise prices for audio and video files, how stupid can that be?
Even if the software cannot be modified, odds are someone will invent a PCI card that replaces/bypasses the TPM chips with ones that say "Apple Mactel Model 100" or something instead of "Dell Optiplex P6" or whatever, so OSx86 can be installed.
Why even go that far?
Chances are the TPM check will be part of the Install program and not the OSx86 itself. If true, someone can Ghost an Apple Mactel image and then use the Ghost to install on a Non-Apple PC.
Why not just modify the ISO copy of OSx86 to change an assembly language instruction from JE to JNE or vice-versa, and then burn the new ISO and distribute that?
That way it only runs on Hardware that does not have a TPM of Apple? Like Dell, Gateway, Compaq/HP, etc.
Or better yet change the JE to JMP and JNE to NOP, that way it can run on all hardware.
Take it from me, I used to write assembly language back in the day, and had to get copy protected software running on network drives, and the stupid software tried to check for a damaged sector on the hard drive which the Netware INT 21H did not allow. Almost everything is written in C/C++ now, which gets compiled into assembly or ML, which can be easily tweaked like I said.
I give the hackers a week, if not more than a month, to find a way around it and release the unprotected ISO on the P2P networks.
Not that I advocate piracy or cracking or hacking, I just know how it can be done.
I've been CEO of two businesses, and I am starting up a third. The first business I sold to my partner, and the second is still running.
I hold a bachelors of science in business management with a 3.91 GPA. I do business consulting for various businesses.
You are the CFO of nowhere, Mr./Ms. Anonymous Coward.
Financial statements do not show which products and services are profitable or not, that was why job cost accounting was developed. If you took accounting classes or business management classes like I did, you'd know that. Obviously you did not.
Employees can be retrained for products and services that are profitable, rather than taking them outside and shooting them.