Huh? Just because I'm using one of their products (either because it's better, but most likely, it has the most brand recognition) doesn't mean that I only want to use their products. If I'm searching for 'maps' on google, I'm probably looking for map providers, not looking for google maps.
Anyway, that's not really what the blog was saying. It was that, rather than promote their own products in 'sponsored links', they promote their own products through a 'tips' section which can say whatever they want, like, 'better than yahoo mail!', as opposed to an ad, which can only say, 'try yahoo mail!'.
Really? You can write your extensions in perl, python, and ruby? I didn't know that. Pretty sweet, although, that seems pretty insane to have all those languages built into the editor.
Now who's the one applying meaningless generalizations? I do things that have never affected me personally, because, statistically, they actually do affect me. I would avoid smoking because, personally, it hasn't caused a problem for me, but, statistically, the outlook isn't good. And I may actively tell people that they shouldn't. Or, even in a really trivial example, all those yellow "Live Strong" bracelets. Or, did you mean, I'm not 'most people', statistically speaking?
It's a game of chance, and, if we can, we choose the one with a statistically lower chance of death. And, there are factors in both driving and flying that we can avoid. Driving is a mix - I'm on the road with hundreds or thousands of other drivers of mixed skill and care. Fair probability that, even if I'm a excellent driver, I can die. Flying - it's a mix too. But, private flights fly a different air pattern and so you're sharing the air with pilots who have a pretty rigourous standard, and a maintenance crew under (relatively) strict regulation. So, it's safer, which statistics have shown with body counts.
So, you can't change the EULA ((I'm assuming, with this broad stroke, you only mean the windows EULA, but either way), but you can choose not to agree to it. And lots of us have. And you can choose not to sign with a huge record label, and many of us have. They're both fringe groups, and both are growing. It's the ones that care that hold out, and they're the ones that make a difference, rather than caving into the RIAA, or to Microsoft.
In my naive and idealized view, the truly sustainable company would not do evil because it simply cannot last with that mindset. In reality, it is a balance between being competitive without killing your own sustainability.
You have the dates and the facts right, but the names wrong. Or something like that.
Anderson Consulting was spun off from Arthur Anderson in 1989. They renamed themselves to Accenture in early 2001 to avoid paying "royalties" for the Anderson name and nothing to do with Enron, which declared bankruptcy in late 2001. Very coincidental timing.
I don't think everyone at Enron deserved to lose their jobs, just like everyone one at Arthur Anderson didn't deserve to lose their jobs either. But, Enron was a huge customer of Anderson's, and I don't see how the higher ups at there could have not known about it.
Dashboard is usually the culprit. Spotlight slows things down when it indexes and is usually only noticeable on the first time. Dashboard, on the other hand, can have background processes killing the CPU and you don't even see them.
While no system is 'secure', I think it's certain defensible to say that one OS is more secure than another when there are no viruses for the Mac and every other week or so, there's a CERT Advisory about some virus that will "allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service". The last Advisory was for a Quicktime vulnerability, but these are advisories, not viruses. (i.e. advisories about a vulnerability for which a virus can be written.)
So, there are vulnerabilities. Apple fixes these and pushes out patches, just as RedHat, Sun, HP do for ssh, bind, So, it's wrong to say that the Mac is invulnerable, but I certain feel a sense of smugness to have an OS that hasn't had a virus written for it.... yet.
I'd disagree when it comes to their powerbook announcements. Nothing really groundbreaking since the 12" and 17" were announced. But, they *do* manage to spin marginal improvements very well, and their big announcements like there 'quad' G5 spectacular.
Netiquette or not, the fuddrucker's website is their brand, and they put it in the control of someone else and they got burned. He has the right to do whatever he wants with is content, and doesn't have to justify it by saying it was theft.
All our government regulations are in place because capitalism is harmful to everyone else that's not making the money? Microsoft is a great example of capitalism. So is Walmart. Decency fits with capitalism on a micro scale, but it's getting bowled over by a world economy.
Currently, it's possible to build a PPC computer from mostly commodity parts, but you need an Apple motherboard to run OS X. So, presumably, the same situation will be for x86 and Apple motherboards.
But!! It may be just a matter Apple burning the motherboards with some magic ID. So, with a more commodity system, someone out there may bypass Apple's 'protection'.
Because the bigger, richer guy won that means they're better? IBM didn't want to spend the money on the low end chips for Apple, so Apple had to go elsewhere.
Microsoft is switching from Intel to Power PC. Nintendo and Sony are switching to Power PC as well. What does that mean?
Considering that IBM spent $2.5 billion building their recent chip manufacturing plant, I don't know how easily Intel could "switch" to building their own power chips.
I don't see Intel building Power chips, as much as I'd like Apple to stick with them. Even if Intel could make them faster (I'm guessing IBM isn't going to give them the Power specs anytime soon), Intel couldn't make enough of them. The "other" complaint Apple had with IBM is that it wasn't producing their chips fast enough. So, Intel needs to build a couple plants to match IBM's manufacturing capability. I have no idea how many plants IBM has, but even if there are 2 or 3, it's going to be a massive ramp up time and cost for Intel.
You just described an exploit where the situation was *easy* to create and the poster was talking about a situation where the situation was hard to create.
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Huh? Just because I'm using one of their products (either because it's better, but most likely, it has the most brand recognition) doesn't mean that I only want to use their products. If I'm searching for 'maps' on google, I'm probably looking for map providers, not looking for google maps.
Anyway, that's not really what the blog was saying. It was that, rather than promote their own products in 'sponsored links', they promote their own products through a 'tips' section which can say whatever they want, like, 'better than yahoo mail!', as opposed to an ad, which can only say, 'try yahoo mail!'.
Really? You can write your extensions in perl, python, and ruby? I didn't know that. Pretty sweet, although, that seems pretty insane to have all those languages built into the editor.
The on board solution is optical digital I/O. What other option are you suggesting on top of that?
And your point? If was a wintel laptop, this would also be the case, as would a regular DVD player. It's a DVD conspiracy, not an Apple one.
Huh?
Now who's the one applying meaningless generalizations? I do things that have never affected me personally, because, statistically, they actually do affect me. I would avoid smoking because, personally, it hasn't caused a problem for me, but, statistically, the outlook isn't good. And I may actively tell people that they shouldn't. Or, even in a really trivial example, all those yellow "Live Strong" bracelets. Or, did you mean, I'm not 'most people', statistically speaking?
It's a game of chance, and, if we can, we choose the one with a statistically lower chance of death. And, there are factors in both driving and flying that we can avoid. Driving is a mix - I'm on the road with hundreds or thousands of other drivers of mixed skill and care. Fair probability that, even if I'm a excellent driver, I can die. Flying - it's a mix too. But, private flights fly a different air pattern and so you're sharing the air with pilots who have a pretty rigourous standard, and a maintenance crew under (relatively) strict regulation. So, it's safer, which statistics have shown with body counts.
"Massive props"?!
So, you can't change the EULA ((I'm assuming, with this broad stroke, you only mean the windows EULA, but either way), but you can choose not to agree to it. And lots of us have. And you can choose not to sign with a huge record label, and many of us have. They're both fringe groups, and both are growing. It's the ones that care that hold out, and they're the ones that make a difference, rather than caving into the RIAA, or to Microsoft.
In my naive and idealized view, the truly sustainable company would not do evil because it simply cannot last with that mindset. In reality, it is a balance between being competitive without killing your own sustainability.
You have the dates and the facts right, but the names wrong. Or something like that.
Anderson Consulting was spun off from Arthur Anderson in 1989. They renamed themselves to Accenture in early 2001 to avoid paying "royalties" for the Anderson name and nothing to do with Enron, which declared bankruptcy in late 2001. Very coincidental timing.
I don't think everyone at Enron deserved to lose their jobs, just like everyone one at Arthur Anderson didn't deserve to lose their jobs either. But, Enron was a huge customer of Anderson's, and I don't see how the higher ups at there could have not known about it.
Nope. you still look stupid.
Dashboard is usually the culprit. Spotlight slows things down when it indexes and is usually only noticeable on the first time. Dashboard, on the other hand, can have background processes killing the CPU and you don't even see them.
The must have already gotten to it! http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076
While no system is 'secure', I think it's certain defensible to say that one OS is more secure than another when there are no viruses for the Mac and every other week or so, there's a CERT Advisory about some virus that will "allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service". The last Advisory was for a Quicktime vulnerability, but these are advisories, not viruses. (i.e. advisories about a vulnerability for which a virus can be written.)
So, there are vulnerabilities. Apple fixes these and pushes out patches, just as RedHat, Sun, HP do for ssh, bind, So, it's wrong to say that the Mac is invulnerable, but I certain feel a sense of smugness to have an OS that hasn't had a virus written for it.... yet.
I'd disagree when it comes to their powerbook announcements. Nothing really groundbreaking since the 12" and 17" were announced. But, they *do* manage to spin marginal improvements very well, and their big announcements like there 'quad' G5 spectacular.
I see. So, by 'in general', that means software on a 80486.
Netiquette or not, the fuddrucker's website is their brand, and they put it in the control of someone else and they got burned. He has the right to do whatever he wants with is content, and doesn't have to justify it by saying it was theft.
That may be a bit extreme. Better than your average but quite a bit overrated hacker might be more accurate.
True, true. Yahoo may look like a cluttered mess now, but it was nice and clean way back when.
All our government regulations are in place because capitalism is harmful to everyone else that's not making the money? Microsoft is a great example of capitalism. So is Walmart. Decency fits with capitalism on a micro scale, but it's getting bowled over by a world economy.
Currently, it's possible to build a PPC computer from mostly commodity parts, but you need an Apple motherboard to run OS X. So, presumably, the same situation will be for x86 and Apple motherboards.
But!! It may be just a matter Apple burning the motherboards with some magic ID. So, with a more commodity system, someone out there may bypass Apple's 'protection'.
Because the bigger, richer guy won that means they're better? IBM didn't want to spend the money on the low end chips for Apple, so Apple had to go elsewhere.
Microsoft is switching from Intel to Power PC. Nintendo and Sony are switching to Power PC as well. What does that mean?
haha -- that's too funny.
Considering that IBM spent $2.5 billion building their recent chip manufacturing plant, I don't know how easily Intel could "switch" to building their own power chips.
I don't see Intel building Power chips, as much as I'd like Apple to stick with them. Even if Intel could make them faster (I'm guessing IBM isn't going to give them the Power specs anytime soon), Intel couldn't make enough of them. The "other" complaint Apple had with IBM is that it wasn't producing their chips fast enough. So, Intel needs to build a couple plants to match IBM's manufacturing capability. I have no idea how many plants IBM has, but even if there are 2 or 3, it's going to be a massive ramp up time and cost for Intel.
You just described an exploit where the situation was *easy* to create and the poster was talking about a situation where the situation was hard to create.
I often walk down the street just for a change of environment. And I find I snack a lot at home, so it's also a matter of controlling calories.
So, not necessarily logical reasons, but they work for me.