Apple either supplies a default root password or it has to build in a backdoor. Otherwise there is no way to upgrade the OS. Which way do you think is more secure? The jail break issue isn't Apple's problem. It is a problem with people doing things they don't understand. Looks like the jail break is just another way to root kit a computer (phone).
They really are two different skill sets. People who are developers CAN learn to be SA's and vice versa. However, in my experience they don't want to. They are developers because that is what interests them. Same for the SA's.
Sectors used to be needed because the drives would lose sync. The sector header would help keep it in sync.
One thing that didn't get covered very well is "breakage". Breakage is the amount of space lost due to sector size. For each file you lose, on average, one half of a sector. This is because the last sector used by a file has somewhere between one and 512 bytes of data. For the new drives that is between one and 4096 bytes.
So if you have 1,000,000 files on a drive with 512 byte sectors you lose half of 512 bytes 1,000,000 times of 256,000,000 bytes. For a disk with a 4096 sector size you would lose half of 4096 bytes 1,000,000 times or 2,048,000,000 bytes.
This is not very important to the drive manufacturers because they are really interested in bragging rights for the biggest disk. And they know Joe Consumer does not understand any of this.
GM killed Saab some years ago. I enjoyed the Saabs I have owned. I bought them new and put 200k miles on both of them. Three years ago I needed a new car and found out they were not making real Saabs any more. The new Saabs were turned into just another GM piece of crap. I bought an Acura. It is not as good as Saab used to be but it is a lot better than Saab is now.
We have all seen a movie where they take out a card with multiple lines of 20 digit numbers and two people have to read theirs before a strike is authorized.
Turns out they were so paranoid that ALL the launch number were zeros. Everyone in power was so afraid of not being able to launch that they decided to short circuit the security. This came out a few years after the US and Russia stood down their nukes.
consumers won't be able to download the operating system
What kind of open source is this if you can't download it? Looks like Google is calling it open source but trying to control Chromium OS like it was closed.
Some years ago my cat urinated on my Apple powerbook. It never worked again. There were no Apple stores then so I had to take it to CompUSA, again and again and again. It was Toast!
So the only place for the profits to go is to bonuses or shareholder profits.
How about corporate charitable giving? Or using the money to extend the business?
The problem is that the choice before the executives is between doing something good for the business or possible for humanity and lining their own pockets.
Menus are only good for people who spent the time to memorize the layout......
Not really. On my Mac (unleash the haters now) I just click on help, type in what I want to do and it opens the right menu and points on the option I need. Not all apps do this but enough to make it really easy to use.
I see a number of significant advantages to a two-page style design:
Having a hinge with all the necessary wires going thru it is not an advantage. Laptops have similar designs but this looks like it will be flexed a lot more often than people move their laptop screens.
They want you to think you have no rights and cant do anything. Just like the signs in parking garages "Owner is not responsible for......" In fact they are responsible. They just want you to think you can't sue them.
$250,000 for the arrest and conviction of the author of the conflicker worm. But only if he is caught before releasing the Vista & W7 versions of the worm.
... 3GB seems to be the sweet spot for higher-end-home-pcs.
3GB is not so much a "sweet spot" as it is a limitation based on a 32 bit OS. You can address 4GB max using 32 bits. Now take out the address space needed for your video card and any other cards you may put on the bus and you are looking at a 3GB max for useable memory. So instead of "sweet spot" you really mean "maximum that can be used by Windows XP 32 Bit (the most commonly used OS today).
No what it means is that the price of OS upgrades for OS X will increase. If Apple is truly using hardware sales to subsidize the OS then they charge more for the OS.
Free competition is not a judge telling you that you have to sell your property when you don't want to. Free competition is people bidding for something resulting in a sale that satisfies most or all of the participants.
It took me two steps to make it happen. Step one was to move to an industry where part time is the norm. In my case I moved into health care. Then after getting settled and proving my worth I asked about part time. I am now working 32 hours per week, Monday to Thursday. Extra hours/overtime happen during my normal work days. If I have to work on my scheduled day off I take another day as comp time.
I work for a hospital. Our medical records software does not support vista yet. General Electric is the vendor and they have recently announced vista compatibility will happen some time next year.
If they had been ready two years ago we might have tried it. With today's economic situation I don't think we can afford to upgrade.
So no vista for a 5,000 employee organization. There are hundreds of other hospitals with the same medical records software.
The article is a bunch of bull. Click thru the link for the Macbook configuration and it goes to a MacBook PRO with a 250GB drive as standard. Ignoring that for a minute. And using the links from the article: (Prices in Pounds Serling)
Dell XPS 1427 Ram 30 Disk 120 Total 1497
MacBook 944 Ram 90 Disk 120 Total 1154
Yet another article where the author doesn't know what he is talking about.
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Apple either supplies a default root password or it has to build in a backdoor. Otherwise there is no way to upgrade the OS. Which way do you think is more secure?
The jail break issue isn't Apple's problem. It is a problem with people doing things they don't understand.
Looks like the jail break is just another way to root kit a computer (phone).
They really are two different skill sets.
People who are developers CAN learn to be SA's and vice versa. However, in my experience they don't want to. They are developers because that is what interests them. Same for the SA's.
Sectors used to be needed because the drives would lose sync. The sector header would help keep it in sync.
One thing that didn't get covered very well is "breakage". Breakage is the amount of space lost due to sector size. For each file you lose, on average, one half of a sector. This is because the last sector used by a file has somewhere between one and 512 bytes of data. For the new drives that is between one and 4096 bytes.
So if you have 1,000,000 files on a drive with 512 byte sectors you lose half of 512 bytes 1,000,000 times of 256,000,000 bytes. For a disk with a 4096 sector size you would lose half of 4096 bytes 1,000,000 times or 2,048,000,000 bytes.
This is not very important to the drive manufacturers because they are really interested in bragging rights for the biggest disk. And they know Joe Consumer does not understand any of this.
GM killed Saab some years ago.
I enjoyed the Saabs I have owned. I bought them new and put 200k miles on both of them. Three years ago I needed a new car and found out they were not making real Saabs any more. The new Saabs were turned into just another GM piece of crap.
I bought an Acura. It is not as good as Saab used to be but it is a lot better than Saab is now.
We have all seen a movie where they take out a card with multiple lines of 20 digit numbers and two people have to read theirs before a strike is authorized.
Turns out they were so paranoid that ALL the launch number were zeros. Everyone in power was so afraid of not being able to launch that they decided to short circuit the security. This came out a few years after the US and Russia stood down their nukes.
They were keeping the data on their sidekick!
consumers won't be able to download the operating system
What kind of open source is this if you can't download it? Looks like Google is calling it open source but trying to control Chromium OS like it was closed.
...and my aging cat urinated on the keyboard...
Some years ago my cat urinated on my Apple powerbook. It never worked again. There were no Apple stores then so I had to take it to CompUSA, again and again and again.
It was Toast!
Looks like Dell wins the pissing contest!
So the only place for the profits to go is to bonuses or shareholder profits.
How about corporate charitable giving?
Or using the money to extend the business?
The problem is that the choice before the executives is between doing something good for the business or possible for humanity and lining their own pockets.
Menus are only good for people who spent the time to memorize the layout. .....
Not really. On my Mac (unleash the haters now) I just click on help, type in what I want to do and it opens the right menu and points on the option I need.
Not all apps do this but enough to make it really easy to use.
I see a number of significant advantages to a two-page style design:
Having a hinge with all the necessary wires going thru it is not an advantage. Laptops have similar designs but this looks like it will be flexed a lot more often than people move their laptop screens.
They want you to think you have no rights and cant do anything.
Just like the signs in parking garages "Owner is not responsible for......"
In fact they are responsible. They just want you to think you can't sue them.
There was a book with a movie followup about putting a bomb in a blimp over the super bowl.
Looks like it just got easier to do that.
Who watches the watchers?
Better yet. Set up your screen saver with a short delay to show porn.
Then when the porn shows up during their presentation blame them.
They will NEVER ask to use your computer again.
$250,000 for the arrest and conviction of the author of the conflicker worm.
But only if he is caught before releasing the Vista & W7 versions of the worm.
... 3GB seems to be the sweet spot for higher-end-home-pcs.
3GB is not so much a "sweet spot" as it is a limitation based on a 32 bit OS.
You can address 4GB max using 32 bits. Now take out the address space needed for your video card and any other cards you may put on the bus and you are looking at a 3GB max for useable memory.
So instead of "sweet spot" you really mean "maximum that can be used by Windows XP 32 Bit (the most commonly used OS today).
2k3 just works.
Does anyone have a compelling reason to use 2k8?
No what it means is that the price of OS upgrades for OS X will increase. If Apple is truly using hardware sales to subsidize the OS then they charge more for the OS.
Free competition is not a judge telling you that you have to sell your property when you don't want to. Free competition is people bidding for something resulting in a sale that satisfies most or all of the participants.
It took me two steps to make it happen.
Step one was to move to an industry where part time is the norm. In my case I moved into health care.
Then after getting settled and proving my worth I asked about part time.
I am now working 32 hours per week, Monday to Thursday.
Extra hours/overtime happen during my normal work days. If I have to work on my scheduled day off I take another day as comp time.
Good luck. YMMV.
I work for a hospital. Our medical records software does not support vista yet. General Electric is the vendor and they have recently announced vista compatibility will happen some time next year.
If they had been ready two years ago we might have tried it. With today's economic situation I don't think we can afford to upgrade.
So no vista for a 5,000 employee organization.
There are hundreds of other hospitals with the same medical records software.
XP just works. Why would anyone upgrade?
they disable every laptop and pc sold in the US.
There goes our military capability.
OUCH!
Why does one have to be good and the other bad?
Perhaps the kill switches are there for the same reason.
How do you know they are not targeting the Zune?
Looks like another anti Microsoft move by the EU to me.
Where's my tinfoil hat when I need it.....
The article is a bunch of bull.
Click thru the link for the Macbook configuration and it goes to a MacBook PRO with a 250GB drive as standard.
Ignoring that for a minute. And using the links from the article: (Prices in Pounds Serling)
Dell XPS 1427 Ram 30 Disk 120
Total 1497
MacBook 944 Ram 90 Disk 120
Total 1154
Yet another article where the author doesn't know what he is talking about.
so this has NOTHING to do with a monopoly.
No. But it has EVERYTHING to do with a monopolistic mindset.