cd/Applications open Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Word.app
I wouldn't fancy trying to explain that to most of our users, let alone explaining that they need to match the case, rather than just saying "It's in the Applications folder" or even more quickly "Click on the Spotlight icon and start typing Word...".
I use the command line fairly constantly (our servers are OpenIndiana and don't have a GUI installed), but command lines require using a particular grammar and vocabulary that need to be learned. Most users have no interest in learning those and it's very different from Google which will handle re-ordering of terms, different capitalisation and even typos.
I know someone who is involved in the Bloodhound project, working with a large education company over here (one of the sponsors of the car). There is a really big focus on the education side of things with this; they're touring schools and colleges doing presentations, along with a full size replica of the car. One of the big reasons for doing it is to get kids at school interested in science, maths and engineering and that seems like a pretty good idea because there has been a continuing decline in students going on to study those subjects at higher levels in the UK (and I believe most Western countries these days).
There's a bit about it on their website http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/education.cfm . I also doubt that the overall resource usage for the entire project is actually that high (I'd bet fewer resources used than most Hollywood films for instance), so if it increases interest in the areas they're targeting so that general science and engineering gets a bit more attention, I don't think that's too bad a result.
I've not seen many that come with full-sized displayport and even the Apple ones don't use mini displayport... And, of course, none of these adaptors are standard anymore, they're all $20 extra...
The Apple Cinema Displays *do* use Mini DisplayPort, and it's been officially brought into the standard now, so isn't just an Apple only port. There's also quite a few laptops out there using it, from Dell, Toshiba HP... The Wikipedia page for Mini DisplayPort has a list of a few.
...At least "Light Peak" gave me a vague idea of how the tech works by the name alone, whereas Thunderbolt just sounds completely unrelated to the technology.
It's worth bearing in mind that the version of Light Peak that we're likely to see tomorrow, is probably going to be copper-based rather than optical, so Light Peak would probably be just as unrelated as Thunderbolt
Since we already are required by law to carry our driving licence while driving most people just keep it in their wallet. This allows the police to stop and search you at any time and find out who you are. Stop and search in the UK does not require a warrant.
We're not required to have it with us while driving. If you don't have it on you the Police can demand that you take it into a Police station within 7 days though.
3 years is not that old for a PowerMac purchased in late 2006, and which now refuses to run Safari 4 and other recent software, since they require 10.6 or higher.
That's not actually true, Apple provide a download of Safari 4 for Snow Leopard (10.6), Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4). That G5 purchased in 2006 would have shipped with 10.4, so you don't even need to have purchased any additional software in order to use the very latest version of Safari. You can download a 10.4 compatible version of Safari from here.
I really don't know where you're getting this 10.6 requirement from, because there really isn't one.
Any viruses with a.hqx extension are likely to be Mac OS 9 and below viruses (ie Classic) that literally won't run at all on current Macs. There were viruses for Classic Mac OS but I'm unaware of any "real" viruses (ie not trojans or the few proof of concepts) for OS X. Certainly nothing that could be classed as a significant threat, not saying that there aren't issues with OS X (it always amazed me that InputManagers were never really targetted), just that there hasn't really been any seriously weaponised virus for OS X. Not yet at least.
Not as much as you'd think. Virgin Media is basically NTL:Telewest with a new name. Basically after NTL and Telewest merged, they bought out Virgin Mobile (a cell provider with, again, very little connection to the original Virgin business in records). Richard Branson ended up with a pile of cash and a 10.7% stake in the new company because of that. That just added the mobile operator to the mix though, the bulk of Virgin Media is basically still NTL:Telewest, just with the Virgin brand attached to try and lose some of the smell that NTL and Telewest picked up over the years. It's not really working too well.
They do include a DVI and VGA adapter in the box, if you have a look at http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html it states that those are included and the Composite and S-Video adapters are optional.
It is possible to boot a Mac from an external drive (USB or Firewire on Intel Macs, and Firewire drives on PPC Macs) but it is pretty easy to stop that from becoming a problem. Apple have a utility that stops people changing firmware settings including booting from a different drive http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482
1) Quartz Extreme is the only accelerated version, and currently isn't enabled due to compatibility issues.(Sadly this is why developers are still using QuickDraw on OSX because of the horrible performance of Quartz) That's really not true. Quartz Extreme (the compositor) is accelerated and has been enabled since OS X v10.2 on supported GPUs. Quartz 2D Extreme isn't enabled by default, but that's mainly because it had some compatibility issues ad Quartz 2D performance eclipsed QuickDraw performance in 10.4 by such a huge margin it became far less of an issue (Quartz 2D in Tiger could draw around 5x the number of lines that Quickdraw could manage). With 10.4 Quickdraw was officially deprecated. In Leopard Quickdraw has been pushed even further out into the cold and certain features have been removed (such as PICT support).
You may be pretty much up to date on the Windows side of things but seem to be stuck about 5 years ago with the state of Mac OS X.
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I don't know what Mac you have but any Mac with an Airport Extreme card can use WPA2. Also to mount SMB/NFS shares at login just make sure the password is in your keychain then drag the share (from the Dekstop/Finder) into the "Login Items" pane under System Preferences>Accounts.
we get an Apple and find out even point releases are sold seperately as upgrades
Apple charge for milestone releases (eg. 10.3 to 10.4) whereas the point releases are really 10.4.1 to 10.4.7. It's their naming strategy that makes it look like a smaller release, probably because they want to stick with Mac OS X for a bit longer before going to 11, but updating from 10.2 to 10.4 is a pretty massive upgrade even though it just looks like "2 point releases".
Why isn't 1GB of RAM on one chip an option? (It is with the MacBook Pros, using the same CPUs!!)
Apple only sell matched memory in the MacBooks because of the integrated graphics. It (apparently) makes a fairly big performance difference. They recommend it for future upgrades as well: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303 721
I have a similar problem at some customers where they have sensitive material kicking around and I'm quite interested in the new Sony Ericsson business phone, the M600. Looks like a model in between the K750 (which I currently have and like) and the full blown P910 which I just find a bit too bulky. Just waiting for them to be released!
We need a +5: Pratchett mod:-) I'm desperately trying to think of an amusing quote about Klatchian Coffee but just keep getting stuck and wanting to put in "I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts. That way, everyone's happy.".
The only anti-competitive practises Apple could be accused of in this situation under EU law is abuse of a dominant position which stems from Articles 82-89. The only other option would be Article 81 which is designed to prevent Cartels and that certainly doesn't apply here.
Which part of the Sale of Goods Act restricts a copyright holders rights in regards to license terms (other than those which are against specific statutory rights)? If you're saying that this is against specific statutory rights, which?
I also think that the EU wouldn't even consider this as far as anti-competitive practises go. Part of the test for abuse of a dominant position is the relevant market test and the United Brands [1978] ECR 207 test would require OS X to be considered so different from other operating systems that it is "only to a limited extent interchangeable with them" and that it does not compete with any other operating systems. The argument that you want to install this on a standard PC in replacement of Windows/Linux damages that argument significantly, so the court would have to conclude that the relevant market was the OS market and Apple certainly don't have a dominant position in that market. Ergo they can pretty much do what they like and forget about EC anti-competition law, same with UK law. There is just no way either jurisdictions would categorise Apple competing in a market solely filled by Apple, which would be necessary for Apple to be in breach. Can you hand on heart say that OS X doesn't compete with Windows?
I think some of the Culture novels would make fantastic films, and I think some would be absolutely awful. I can't see something like Excession working for example, too many big space scenes and just "too sci-fi" to work as a film. On the other hand I think you're right that The Player of Games would be good, great storyline and very human-focused. Personal favourite would probably be Use of Weapons and then Inversions as a sequel. Alternatively you could do Consider Phlebas followed by Look to Windward, as long as some studio execs don't see the Idirans and Orbitals and think "Hey, we could do this just like Halo" (shudder).
But that's not going to happen and to them Halo is the most amazing game experience ever.
I did wonder about that but I'm pretty much convinced that marketing really has had a huge effect on this coupled with the fact that there seems to be an incredible focus on graphics these days that's getting worse (the Xbox360 and PS3 are, to me, a case in point). Doom was my first FPS and I feel the same way about Halo as you. However I also played Goldeneye on the N64 with my nephews, and that is a FAR better game than Halo IMO, the multiplayer is absolutely fantastic. OK, no Live, but really great fun. What gets me is that at the time my nephews (currently 13 ish) played it with me and loved it. Yet now they think that Halo2 is the greatest thing since sliced bread and mention Goldeneye and they just complain about how awful it looks. It's just not shiny and cool enough for them, they don't really care about the gameplay.
That's 200 days if the keyboard is on 24 hours a day, chances are that you'd be looking at closer to 8 hours a day on average for even pretty heavy users. At that kind of rate you'd be looking at over 600 days and the chances are that 8 hours a day averaged over a year is still a bit high compared to most people.
They're already testing such a device in Oxford. An earlier poster mentioned the Nokia N92 but the UK trial is using the Nokia 7710. Story at the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4271474.stm. What isn't mentioned is the pricing structure, which I guess we'll have to wait for.
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I really hope you mean Harrier, otherwise I've really missed out on a neat trick the Vulcan could pull off :-)
It's not quite like that though is it, it's:
cd /Applications
open Mail.app
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cd /Applications
open Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Word.app
I wouldn't fancy trying to explain that to most of our users, let alone explaining that they need to match the case, rather than just saying "It's in the Applications folder" or even more quickly "Click on the Spotlight icon and start typing Word...".
I use the command line fairly constantly (our servers are OpenIndiana and don't have a GUI installed), but command lines require using a particular grammar and vocabulary that need to be learned. Most users have no interest in learning those and it's very different from Google which will handle re-ordering of terms, different capitalisation and even typos.
I know someone who is involved in the Bloodhound project, working with a large education company over here (one of the sponsors of the car). There is a really big focus on the education side of things with this; they're touring schools and colleges doing presentations, along with a full size replica of the car. One of the big reasons for doing it is to get kids at school interested in science, maths and engineering and that seems like a pretty good idea because there has been a continuing decline in students going on to study those subjects at higher levels in the UK (and I believe most Western countries these days).
There's a bit about it on their website http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/education.cfm . I also doubt that the overall resource usage for the entire project is actually that high (I'd bet fewer resources used than most Hollywood films for instance), so if it increases interest in the areas they're targeting so that general science and engineering gets a bit more attention, I don't think that's too bad a result.
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I've not seen many that come with full-sized displayport and even the Apple ones don't use mini displayport... And, of course, none of these adaptors are standard anymore, they're all $20 extra...
The Apple Cinema Displays *do* use Mini DisplayPort, and it's been officially brought into the standard now, so isn't just an Apple only port. There's also quite a few laptops out there using it, from Dell, Toshiba HP... The Wikipedia page for Mini DisplayPort has a list of a few.
...At least "Light Peak" gave me a vague idea of how the tech works by the name alone, whereas Thunderbolt just sounds completely unrelated to the technology.
It's worth bearing in mind that the version of Light Peak that we're likely to see tomorrow, is probably going to be copper-based rather than optical, so Light Peak would probably be just as unrelated as Thunderbolt
What's wrong with an ARD Task Server and scheduled tasks to push out softwareupdate commands to clients? Tends to work pretty well in my experience.
Since we already are required by law to carry our driving licence while driving most people just keep it in their wallet. This allows the police to stop and search you at any time and find out who you are. Stop and search in the UK does not require a warrant.
We're not required to have it with us while driving. If you don't have it on you the Police can demand that you take it into a Police station within 7 days though.
3 years is not that old for a PowerMac purchased in late 2006, and which now refuses to run Safari 4 and other recent software, since they require 10.6 or higher.
That's not actually true, Apple provide a download of Safari 4 for Snow Leopard (10.6), Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4). That G5 purchased in 2006 would have shipped with 10.4, so you don't even need to have purchased any additional software in order to use the very latest version of Safari. You can download a 10.4 compatible version of Safari from here.
I really don't know where you're getting this 10.6 requirement from, because there really isn't one.
Certainly Interesting Times...
Any viruses with a .hqx extension are likely to be Mac OS 9 and below viruses (ie Classic) that literally won't run at all on current Macs. There were viruses for Classic Mac OS but I'm unaware of any "real" viruses (ie not trojans or the few proof of concepts) for OS X. Certainly nothing that could be classed as a significant threat, not saying that there aren't issues with OS X (it always amazed me that InputManagers were never really targetted), just that there hasn't really been any seriously weaponised virus for OS X. Not yet at least.
Not as much as you'd think. Virgin Media is basically NTL:Telewest with a new name. Basically after NTL and Telewest merged, they bought out Virgin Mobile (a cell provider with, again, very little connection to the original Virgin business in records). Richard Branson ended up with a pile of cash and a 10.7% stake in the new company because of that. That just added the mobile operator to the mix though, the bulk of Virgin Media is basically still NTL:Telewest, just with the Virgin brand attached to try and lose some of the smell that NTL and Telewest picked up over the years. It's not really working too well.
They do include a DVI and VGA adapter in the box, if you have a look at http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html it states that those are included and the Composite and S-Video adapters are optional.
It is possible to boot a Mac from an external drive (USB or Firewire on Intel Macs, and Firewire drives on PPC Macs) but it is pretty easy to stop that from becoming a problem. Apple have a utility that stops people changing firmware settings including booting from a different drive http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482
That's really not true. Quartz Extreme (the compositor) is accelerated and has been enabled since OS X v10.2 on supported GPUs. Quartz 2D Extreme isn't enabled by default, but that's mainly because it had some compatibility issues ad Quartz 2D performance eclipsed QuickDraw performance in 10.4 by such a huge margin it became far less of an issue (Quartz 2D in Tiger could draw around 5x the number of lines that Quickdraw could manage). With 10.4 Quickdraw was officially deprecated. In Leopard Quickdraw has been pushed even further out into the cold and certain features have been removed (such as PICT support). You may be pretty much up to date on the Windows side of things but seem to be stuck about 5 years ago with the state of Mac OS X.
I don't know what Mac you have but any Mac with an Airport Extreme card can use WPA2. Also to mount SMB/NFS shares at login just make sure the password is in your keychain then drag the share (from the Dekstop/Finder) into the "Login Items" pane under System Preferences>Accounts.
Apple charge for milestone releases (eg. 10.3 to 10.4) whereas the point releases are really 10.4.1 to 10.4.7. It's their naming strategy that makes it look like a smaller release, probably because they want to stick with Mac OS X for a bit longer before going to 11, but updating from 10.2 to 10.4 is a pretty massive upgrade even though it just looks like "2 point releases".
Apple only sell matched memory in the MacBooks because of the integrated graphics. It (apparently) makes a fairly big performance difference. They recommend it for future upgrades as well: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303 721
. Obviously that doesn't affect the MacBook Pros.I have a similar problem at some customers where they have sensitive material kicking around and I'm quite interested in the new Sony Ericsson business phone, the M600. Looks like a model in between the K750 (which I currently have and like) and the full blown P910 which I just find a bit too bulky. Just waiting for them to be released!
We need a +5: Pratchett mod :-) I'm desperately trying to think of an amusing quote about Klatchian Coffee but just keep getting stuck and wanting to put in "I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts. That way, everyone's happy.".
The only anti-competitive practises Apple could be accused of in this situation under EU law is abuse of a dominant position which stems from Articles 82-89. The only other option would be Article 81 which is designed to prevent Cartels and that certainly doesn't apply here.
Which part of the Sale of Goods Act restricts a copyright holders rights in regards to license terms (other than those which are against specific statutory rights)? If you're saying that this is against specific statutory rights, which?
I also think that the EU wouldn't even consider this as far as anti-competitive practises go. Part of the test for abuse of a dominant position is the relevant market test and the United Brands [1978] ECR 207 test would require OS X to be considered so different from other operating systems that it is "only to a limited extent interchangeable with them" and that it does not compete with any other operating systems. The argument that you want to install this on a standard PC in replacement of Windows/Linux damages that argument significantly, so the court would have to conclude that the relevant market was the OS market and Apple certainly don't have a dominant position in that market. Ergo they can pretty much do what they like and forget about EC anti-competition law, same with UK law. There is just no way either jurisdictions would categorise Apple competing in a market solely filled by Apple, which would be necessary for Apple to be in breach. Can you hand on heart say that OS X doesn't compete with Windows?
I think some of the Culture novels would make fantastic films, and I think some would be absolutely awful. I can't see something like Excession working for example, too many big space scenes and just "too sci-fi" to work as a film. On the other hand I think you're right that The Player of Games would be good, great storyline and very human-focused. Personal favourite would probably be Use of Weapons and then Inversions as a sequel. Alternatively you could do Consider Phlebas followed by Look to Windward, as long as some studio execs don't see the Idirans and Orbitals and think "Hey, we could do this just like Halo" (shudder).
I did wonder about that but I'm pretty much convinced that marketing really has had a huge effect on this coupled with the fact that there seems to be an incredible focus on graphics these days that's getting worse (the Xbox360 and PS3 are, to me, a case in point). Doom was my first FPS and I feel the same way about Halo as you. However I also played Goldeneye on the N64 with my nephews, and that is a FAR better game than Halo IMO, the multiplayer is absolutely fantastic. OK, no Live, but really great fun. What gets me is that at the time my nephews (currently 13 ish) played it with me and loved it. Yet now they think that Halo2 is the greatest thing since sliced bread and mention Goldeneye and they just complain about how awful it looks. It's just not shiny and cool enough for them, they don't really care about the gameplay.
That's 200 days if the keyboard is on 24 hours a day, chances are that you'd be looking at closer to 8 hours a day on average for even pretty heavy users. At that kind of rate you'd be looking at over 600 days and the chances are that 8 hours a day averaged over a year is still a bit high compared to most people.
They're already testing such a device in Oxford. An earlier poster mentioned the Nokia N92 but the UK trial is using the Nokia 7710. Story at the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4271474.stm. What isn't mentioned is the pricing structure, which I guess we'll have to wait for.