That is very interesting but not completely accurate. I bought my iPhone at an AT&T store. They told me I was agreeing to a two year contract and that is what I signed then and there.
Yes I still had to activate it but they had my signature and agreement on paper.
The base Shuffle player holds 512 MB of music in a proprietary format.
Hmm, in all fareness RTFM. The base Shuffle hold 512MB of MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Music Store, M4A, M4B, M4P), Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4) and WAV You can see for yourself at http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/specs.html
This can also happen in OS X. I'd be interested to hear your recovery procedure for that not involving a reboot (or killing the whole display system, which for 99% of people is functionally the same thing).
Since you asked.....This actually happened to me last Friday. I had finished a presentation and unpluged the projector from my powerbook and put it to sleep at the same time (more or less. I wasn't paying attention because people were asking questions.) After a few minutes I noticed the powerbook was not sleeping (the throbber was dark). So I opened it up and found the screen was dark. When I hit the "detect displays" key the powerbook figured out what was connected and displayed things properly. NO REBOOT NEEDED. You said you owned an iBook so you can try out what I just said for yourself. Or you can RTFM.
Boot in safe mode, reset resolution. Shouldn't take any more than a couple of minutes. Thanks! You just confirmed the point in my original post. That the time it takes to boot windows is much more important because windows users have to do it more often than OSX users do. What I got out of your post is that Windows users are so accustomed to rebooting that they don't even realize that it should not be necessary to do normal things like change the screen resolution.
XP provides speed improvements over 2k as well, especially in the area of booting.
The time needed to reboot is important to windows users because you have to do it so often. I use XP in work and OSX a home. OSX users rarely reboot so the time needed is insignificant. I am far more interested in speed improvements when I am doing useful work.
What are unable to turn off in OSX? I am sure someone here can tell you how.
And according to the Microsoft quote in the article SP1 is an out of date OS. After all the last one was sold at Xmas.
How in the world can Microsoft say something they were selling two months ago is "out of date"?
Of course the purchaser could turn the firewall on or get a hardware firewall. But they are helpless guppies who don't know any better. If they knew any better they wouldn't have been buying SP1 then.
Its not quite that simple. Look at what Dvorak says in his latest column--- Intel has been essentially paying OEMs not to use AMD chips. You can read the rest at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050224. html Its about half way down the page.
At some point one of the OSX pussycat releases is going to be a native 64 bit OS. When that happens the G5 will make a big difference. Today it doesn't really matter. My G4 powerbook is a dream today. Its tommorow we are worrying about.
Unless you americans really lost the right for free speech....
There are reasonable exceptions to "free speech" For example, it is not legal to yell FIRE in a theater. It is not legal to make incorrect harmful statements about someone. It is also not legal to harm a company by release their confidential information.
Having said all that, I believe Apple went too far this time. Unless they are only after the names of the people who did violate NDA's.
I can crash my OSX boxen at will. All I have to do is attach some USB device like a printer, put the system to sleep, pull the printer power plug out of the socket and wake up OSX. Toast.
I have my desktop on a UPS. The printer is not on the UPS. When the power went out the UPS woke the computer up so it could do a controlled shutdown --- kernel panic every time.
I moved the printer to an airport extreem - end of problem.
On the other hand my XP box never crashes because I never turn it on anymore.
I also offered some sheets and various home items to a woman who asked for quite a list of things, and had them refused becasue I am a "godless heathen".
Wow! What kind of sheets were they to get that kind of response?
The development curves are different for Open Source and comercial software.
Once a comercial product ships and the company has your money there is little incentive to do small improvements. (Other than bug fixes) They do large releases and charge for them.
Open Source is constantly being improved by people who just like seeing the programs get better. They make many small improvements and this results in a lot of "point releases".
So just wait a bit and see if this doesn't become useable on your system. I believe it will.
Hmm. I used to be bilingual in Fortran. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out someone elses code. Most of the time the problem is with the programmer not the compiler.
I have seen C and VB and even Pascal that is tough to understand. I have also seen Fortran that was well documented and easy to follow. YMMV
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I think if this happened to me I would immediately sue Apple.
There is no warning on iTunes that ripping a CD is illegal.
Then we could watch the RIAA and Apple duke it out.
That is very interesting but not completely accurate.
I bought my iPhone at an AT&T store. They told me I was agreeing to a two year contract and that is what I signed then and there.
Yes I still had to activate it but they had my signature and agreement on paper.
If you purchase your iPhone from AT&T you sign the contract in the store.
That is most likely what he is referring to.
Is it really true that no one has figured out how to remove the DRM from subscription based songs?
Where are all those teenage hackers when you need them?
The base Shuffle player holds 512 MB of music in a proprietary format.
Hmm, in all fareness RTFM.
The base Shuffle hold 512MB of
MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Music Store, M4A, M4B, M4P), Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4) and WAV
You can see for yourself at http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/specs.html
Also, I'd love to find a pointer to building an inexpensive (not cheap, there's a difference), reliable machine... much more interesting to me anyway.
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Take a gander at Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/system-guide-
You can not give away rights to something that you don't own.
His IP agreement gave the company rights to whatever he owned or developed. He did not own the right to the GPL'd code and could not give it away.
If the company ever tries to enforce their "rights" they will be in the same hole SCO is stuck in.
SCO is suing IBM for using stuff that SCO didn't own.
It takes a lot of money and lawyers to work it out but in the end they will lose.
This can also happen in OS X. I'd be interested to hear your recovery procedure for that not involving a reboot (or killing the whole display system, which for 99% of people is functionally the same thing).
Since you asked.....This actually happened to me last Friday. I had finished a presentation and unpluged the projector from my powerbook and put it to sleep at the same time (more or less. I wasn't paying attention because people were asking questions.)
After a few minutes I noticed the powerbook was not sleeping (the throbber was dark). So I opened it up and found the screen was dark. When I hit the "detect displays" key the powerbook figured out what was connected and displayed things properly.
NO REBOOT NEEDED.
You said you owned an iBook so you can try out what I just said for yourself. Or you can RTFM.
Boot in safe mode, reset resolution. Shouldn't take any more than a couple of minutes.
Thanks! You just confirmed the point in my original post. That the time it takes to boot windows is much more important because windows users have to do it more often than OSX users do.
What I got out of your post is that Windows users are so accustomed to rebooting that they don't even realize that it should not be necessary to do normal things like change the screen resolution.
XP provides speed improvements over 2k as well, especially in the area of booting.
The time needed to reboot is important to windows users because you have to do it so often. I use XP in work and OSX a home. OSX users rarely reboot so the time needed is insignificant.
I am far more interested in speed improvements when I am doing useful work.
What are unable to turn off in OSX? I am sure someone here can tell you how.
And according to the Microsoft quote in the article SP1 is an out of date OS.
After all the last one was sold at Xmas.
How in the world can Microsoft say something they were selling two months ago is "out of date"?
Of course the purchaser could turn the firewall on or get a hardware firewall. But they are helpless guppies who don't know any better. If they knew any better they wouldn't have been buying SP1 then.
Opps. Thanks
Its not quite that simple. Look at what Dvorak says in his latest column--- Intel has been essentially paying OEMs not to use AMD chips.. html
You can read the rest at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050224
Its about half way down the page.
At some point one of the OSX pussycat releases is going to be a native 64 bit OS. When that happens the G5 will make a big difference.
Today it doesn't really matter. My G4 powerbook is a dream today.
Its tommorow we are worrying about.
Unless you americans really lost the right for free speech....
There are reasonable exceptions to "free speech"
For example, it is not legal to yell FIRE in a theater. It is not legal to make incorrect harmful statements about someone. It is also not legal to harm a company by release their confidential information.
Having said all that, I believe Apple went too far this time. Unless they are only after the names of the people who did violate NDA's.
Have you filed a bug with Apple on these?
No. But I will. Good suggestion.
Thanks
I can crash my OSX boxen at will. All I have to do is attach some USB device like a printer, put the system to sleep, pull the printer power plug out of the socket and wake up OSX. Toast.
I have my desktop on a UPS. The printer is not on the UPS. When the power went out the UPS woke the computer up so it could do a controlled shutdown --- kernel panic every time.
I moved the printer to an airport extreem - end of problem.
On the other hand my XP box never crashes because I never turn it on anymore.
I also offered some sheets and various home items to a woman who asked for quite a list of things, and had them refused becasue I am a "godless heathen".
Wow! What kind of sheets were they to get that kind of response?
The development curves are different for Open Source and comercial software.
Once a comercial product ships and the company has your money there is little incentive to do small improvements. (Other than bug fixes) They do large releases and charge for them.
Open Source is constantly being improved by people who just like seeing the programs get better. They make many small improvements and this results in a lot of "point releases".
So just wait a bit and see if this doesn't become useable on your system. I believe it will.
Why would buying a new PC solve security problems?
Because they would buy a new Mac G5.
(there goes my karma)
Nice reply. If I had mod points I would give you some.
Fortran goes back to when saving bits was a good thing. I learned all my bad habits from Fortran.
But I don't really use it anymore. These days I write my unmaintainable code in Perl.
There are a lot of good principles for writing bad code here.
First, let me just say "yuck!"
Hmm. I used to be bilingual in Fortran. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out someone elses code. Most of the time the problem is with the programmer not the compiler.
I have seen C and VB and even Pascal that is tough to understand.
I have also seen Fortran that was well documented and easy to follow.
YMMV
Didn't we just read him ranting about how the world needs cheaper hardware for windows so no one will pirate software?
And now he wants to put windows on a $60,000 BMW.
Or maybe he only wants to put windows on Yugo's.
(for those who are upset at this----the post is a joke)
Does anyone else see a problem with a *nix vendor having a web site that only works properly for IE?
Oh wait. They aren't a software company after all. They deal in hopeless litigation. Now it makes sense.......a hopeless website for a hopeless case.
Once all the neat DRM is in place I wonder how long it will be before somone issues a music CD with a virus?
Won't that be fun!