The word "upgrade" isn't used. It's a retail copy. The OS is tied to Apple hardware, though, which may be illegal. If I'm wrong, quote me the relevant part of the EULA.
Regarding "modified copies," if Psystar only modifies parts which are open source, then there's no issue.
You're being disingenuous, and you know it. That USD7.5B isn't entirely due to Mac sales. It also counts sales of the iPhone, iPod, and iTunes store. Maybe you've heard of them.
Even if your assumption were true, however, not all Mac owners would switch to clone. Probably very few would, in actuality, because they've all drunk the kool-aid so revenue wouldn't drop by nearly as much as you claim even if you were right, which you're not.
Finally, to say that opening your successful and well-known company in new markets isn't likely to increase revenue is just silly. What happened when Coke and Levis went into Russia? How was Coke's bottom line affected when it started selling post-mix to restaurants?
I'm not arguing that Apple should start selling OS X to everyone, forced or not, but your argument is severely lacking.
For full disclosure, I support Psystar's right to resell retail copies of OS X. If Apple starts selling the retail boxes as upgrades, then Psystar won't have anything to sell.
Actually, it's just the single letter (the equivalent of "k"), but Koreans add a long e sound to the end of single consonants (kee, pee, see). I think the kee kee kee sound is supposed to be kind of a chuckle.
What I just told you is taught in English books published by OUP. Count/non-count is not a hard and fast rule.
Steak is a count noun in America, while it isn't in Britain (one piece of steak). Conversely, lettuce is a count noun in Britain while it's non-count in America (one head of lettuce).
I'm not talking out of my ass here. It's difficult to search for this stuff to find a reference, but there's a grammar exercise by Oxford University Press which tests what I'm talking about here. Solve questions three and five. It just depends on whether the unit of measure is understood or not (e.g. chocolate vs. chocolates or candy vs. candies).
I hope that you're not implying you can't say that. I'm not sure, so I'll just clarify. It happens in restaurants all the time. In your case, "a" milk is understood to be one glass and "a" beef is one order of the beef special for the day.
As a very simple example, consider a row that has all cells filled but one. The value of that unfilled cell is implied and can be filled in without having to try any other values.
The value is determined. Implied would mean that there are certain common configurations and you stand a good probability of one outcome. I don't play sudoku, but it seems to me that there's no pattern in the choice of which numbers go in which squares (outside of the normal rules, of course).
Cyrix was suing Intel over low-power patents until a cross-licensing agreement was made. Later, Cyrix was bought by National Semiconductor, which also had a cross-licensing deal with Intel.
Someone higher up commented that the Programmers' Guild has suggested auctioning off the visa, thereby generating revenue for the U.S. gov't.
I think a better system would be to offer those visas to companies which bid the highest salaries for the incoming H1-B worker. That would immediately raise the H1-B salary close to the national average, perhaps exceeding it if the labor shortage is real.
I'll get modded off-topic for this, but I don't really care.
Your "mythincal girl" comment reminded me of something that happened here maybe 6-8 years ago, I'm guessing.
The following is from my memory of the events. A user commented about breaking up with a boyfriend in a very offhanded way. I believe it was just one sentence in a much longer post. The thread instantly grew to tens of posts saying "I can't believe there's a girl here" or "Will you go out with me?"
After much discussion about what kind of girl it could be, the original poster finally chimed in.
Oddly enough, there's the exact corollary in Linux. Mounting NTFS filesystems often fails because they weren't unmounted properly in Windows. The solution is... to boot into Windows and mount the filesystem.
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The word "upgrade" isn't used. It's a retail copy. The OS is tied to Apple hardware, though, which may be illegal. If I'm wrong, quote me the relevant part of the EULA.
Regarding "modified copies," if Psystar only modifies parts which are open source, then there's no issue.
You act as if Apple wanted to contribute back to KHTML. You were on Slashdot for that year-long debate. You have a short memory.
But don't let facts stop you.
You're being disingenuous, and you know it. That USD7.5B isn't entirely due to Mac sales. It also counts sales of the iPhone, iPod, and iTunes store. Maybe you've heard of them.
Even if your assumption were true, however, not all Mac owners would switch to clone. Probably very few would, in actuality, because they've all drunk the kool-aid so revenue wouldn't drop by nearly as much as you claim even if you were right, which you're not.
Finally, to say that opening your successful and well-known company in new markets isn't likely to increase revenue is just silly. What happened when Coke and Levis went into Russia? How was Coke's bottom line affected when it started selling post-mix to restaurants?
I'm not arguing that Apple should start selling OS X to everyone, forced or not, but your argument is severely lacking.
For full disclosure, I support Psystar's right to resell retail copies of OS X. If Apple starts selling the retail boxes as upgrades, then Psystar won't have anything to sell.
Actually, it's just the single letter (the equivalent of "k"), but Koreans add a long e sound to the end of single consonants (kee, pee, see). I think the kee kee kee sound is supposed to be kind of a chuckle.
For the humor impaired, Ke ke ke is the romanization of the Korean text laugh. I'd type the real thing, but Slash won't accept it.
Believe me. They're all drooling at the thought of getting their hands on it over here. You needn't worry.
What I just told you is taught in English books published by OUP. Count/non-count is not a hard and fast rule.
Steak is a count noun in America, while it isn't in Britain (one piece of steak). Conversely, lettuce is a count noun in Britain while it's non-count in America (one head of lettuce).
I'm not talking out of my ass here. It's difficult to search for this stuff to find a reference, but there's a grammar exercise by Oxford University Press which tests what I'm talking about here. Solve questions three and five. It just depends on whether the unit of measure is understood or not (e.g. chocolate vs. chocolates or candy vs. candies).
I hope that you're not implying you can't say that. I'm not sure, so I'll just clarify. It happens in restaurants all the time. In your case, "a" milk is understood to be one glass and "a" beef is one order of the beef special for the day.
As a very simple example, consider a row that has all cells filled but one. The value of that unfilled cell is implied and can be filled in without having to try any other values.
The value is determined. Implied would mean that there are certain common configurations and you stand a good probability of one outcome. I don't play sudoku, but it seems to me that there's no pattern in the choice of which numbers go in which squares (outside of the normal rules, of course).
But you can count anything you want in English, as long as the context is clear. If you treat the noun as countable, it's countable.
Create a bidding system for quests. People or groups which want something done can offer money to have it done.
Make sure there is an hourly rate to bill inter-departmentally. The monetary pressure will work the situation out.
Umm, Cyrix sued Intel for patent infringements and ended up with a cross-licensing deal.
Cyrix was acquired by National Semiconductor and later was sold off to Via to become their C3 line.
Cyrix was suing Intel over low-power patents until a cross-licensing agreement was made. Later, Cyrix was bought by National Semiconductor, which also had a cross-licensing deal with Intel.
I just use SWFDec. It avoids the Flash problem by failing to play about 50% of the stuff out there.
The demo hijack page doesn't work, either. Surprise!
Just kidding. I like SWFDec much better than Flash + nspluginwrapper on my 64-bit Lenny.
I agree that every online service should be using Cortado the way Theorasea does.
Cortado is Java, admittedly, but at least Java's got several competing implementations.
Hopefully, the <video> tag will make all this obsolete in a few years.
Someone higher up commented that the Programmers' Guild has suggested auctioning off the visa, thereby generating revenue for the U.S. gov't.
I think a better system would be to offer those visas to companies which bid the highest salaries for the incoming H1-B worker. That would immediately raise the H1-B salary close to the national average, perhaps exceeding it if the labor shortage is real.
I'll get modded off-topic for this, but I don't really care.
Your "mythincal girl" comment reminded me of something that happened here maybe 6-8 years ago, I'm guessing.
The following is from my memory of the events. A user commented about breaking up with a boyfriend in a very offhanded way. I believe it was just one sentence in a much longer post. The thread instantly grew to tens of posts saying "I can't believe there's a girl here" or "Will you go out with me?"
After much discussion about what kind of girl it could be, the original poster finally chimed in.
"You idiots, I'm gay," was the reply.
security thought who-the-hell-would-have-thought-of-implementing- something-as-dumb-as-that
;)
Any DRM scheme falls under this heading. If I can play it on my computer (or another electronic device), I can copy it.
OK, well, I probably can't, but there are lots of smart guys on Slashdot who could.
This can cause data loss, can't it?
Except that I'm talking about NTFS and you're talking about FAT. The FAT tools in Linux are mature and complete.
Or am I missing a joke?
You can also use "aptitude keep-all" to keep the packages tagged as {a} (automatically installed).
Oddly enough, there's the exact corollary in Linux. Mounting NTFS filesystems often fails because they weren't unmounted properly in Windows. The solution is ... to boot into Windows and mount the filesystem.
I just saw it paging through the history in Google. I guess it could have been adjusted, but I didn't notice any statement to that affect.