Actually, seeing as the term engineer is also used by train engineers (who I'm sure you wouldn't consider worthy of such a title given the typical, apologies to those not as arrogant, elitest engineering attitude) who are responsible for keeping a train running and on time and all this would be a a truly fitting title in all truthfullness. Simply extend the metaphor, to a network setting and it works just as well. A derailed network is not a pretty sight.
Though I'm still not sure if you're joking or you think the topic is a joke to begin with...
I aplogize If i came accross as bashing Apple. However I don't want to label myself as a fanatic listing all the stuff of theirs I own and collect.
I just really think Apple could benefit from more marketshare. I'm obviously not alone in this thought. It's really kind of sad that Apple only has around 5% of the market. Last I heard that was a generous statistic. If Apple were able to even so mch as double their marketshare the possibilities for expansion are trememndous. Obviously, some of this is debateable.
If they had more marketshare they would have more users, more possible subscribers to.Mac and the possible new iApp packages etc. This would in the end allow them to develop even more than they have in the past.
Apple is obviously aggressively targetting new customers with thier switch ads. They've recognized that most everybody has a comptuer now. There are no virgins to convert. It's now a dangerous game of stealing marketshare fomr competitors. This also means that these peopel have an existing investment in compeitotr software and equipment. The upfront price or the simple Apple hardware is idsconcerting to those used to buying a sub thousand dollar computer.
Most Apple users recognize that we're paying for higher quality goods, or at leats an ease of a designer product and we're fine with that. But it's tough to convince peopel to swithc with such a daunting pricetag. Not ot mentino that faith i a horrible reaosn to stay with a ocmpany and in the end will only last for so long. Evntually, P companies will have a price/performance ratio that is impossible to ignore.
Just my thoughts. I'm really just describing what I've obsered amongst many o my friends who certainly admire the Macintosh they see me using, but could never make such a huge leap at the current prices.
seems to be working for Dell...
But seriosuly, Apple should dispense with the huge profit margin, hell maybe even take cue from consoles and sell at a slight loss to increase what they really need right now: market share. With market share thye get more weight to throw around, more users, and the possibiltiy of more sales in the future.
Yeah this doens't have the quicktime/AIM conflict so feel free to install and use it. Coincidentally that last release could still be used with aim if you removed the quicktime component and left the other one if put in the plugins folder IIRC.
Actually I just realized UI'm using the noAd version of AIM so maybe th ads use quicktime which may still cause conflict...so I guess i reall have no answer for you.
You'e not a big fan of privacy are you?
Does Microsoft or anybody for that matter really have the right to monitor you like this in your own home? Granted you're using their software and may violate the DMCA or whatever else, but I vcouldn't see them being held accountable for what you do with thier software. Just like cd burners and cd-burning programs and hell even copiers for that matter they wanr ou it may be possible to copy copywritten property, so don' do it. Microsoft doesn' need to take this step to comply with anything. And hell, if they go this far, what's to stop them ftom going any further?
Big brother is alive and well in redmond.
Glad i jumped the MS ship a while back.
Seems this still ships with kde 2.2.2 or what have you unless I'm missing something here. (in which case ignore the rest of this) Why not 3? This is the latest ppc-linux release it should have the latest packages. Speaking of which has anybody actually been able to setup kde 3 on ydl 2.2? Been having the damndest time getting kde to run on ppc.
Probably should have clarified, I was merely mentioning this as a step to make an optical drive more accessible. I suppose this would somewhat defeat the quiet atmosphere accomplished by sotwin the computer in the first place. Althogh it'd only be that loud while active, and probably not at bad as a the entire tower being nearby.
yeah a dollar is a little high, might as well pay for the damned cd that way. $. 20 a track seems ot make some great sense, not only would I be more than willing to pay that. But truthfully they'd prolly still make a profit. Hell, the increased amount of poeple actually buying music alone would more than make the difference of the lower cost. Plus they could save a substnatial amount on packaging an pressing those cds.
Nah truthfully this reads as though linux is copying windows in every aspect, from comments like "window's mindless installation" and the caption questioning" remind you of any other operating system?" Average peopel would eventually take this to mean that they already have Widnows and if this is jus tan alternative there's no reaosn to switch. just my thought
Well I've installed red hat and corel on a few pc's in my day, but for the life of me I'm unable ot ever get any distro to run on my ppc mac g4 dp 533. I'm really interested in running YDL 2.2 when the iso's are available however. However the yaboot crap continues ot give me trouble. I have 3 hard drives. One has OSX one is a storage drive for dv and audio scratch, and the final small one is half partitioned with mac os9 and the other half is left empty for linux to tool with. Any hints on how to get yaboot to essentially ive me all of these options? None of the readmes anywhere have been of much help. I'd really appreciate some point in the right direction. I'm also deathly afriad i'll screw sometinhg up and be unable ot boot mac osx anymore or something. Yeah slightly/totally off topic my bad.
Isn't iLink simply the 4 pin version of firewire? They're both IEE 1394 but marketed under differnt names. Same protocols and all obviously, excpet the standard 6 pin transmits power as you ponted out your iLink doesn't
I think there's a bit of a difference between hardocre drug users and people downloading mp3s off the internet casually. Plus drug users are prolly tooout of it to care. I'm certain a bulk of the p2pers are college kids or even younger. Threatening them with legislature would probably be more effective. Though truthfully I'd like to think this could be avoided in lieu of a reasonable and fair legal online distributor.
I'm sure the target audience of the iMac would find it much easier to simply purchase an iMac with the superdrive. Not only od most poeple find it attractive, but I'm sure there's some value to the ease of use of iMovie and iDVD that money alone cannot measure.
I'd just have to say that although I like the shape myself amny of my friends didn't until I brought them to the Cambridgeside Apple store and they got to use it themselves. The base unit of the machine virtually disappears if you were using it on a normal desk with the screen pulled down even slightly. It's such an excellent design, and so what if it does look liek a lamp/ perhaps that's just the shape that these things lend themselves best to.
The mp3s fiels are stored in a hidden directory you can access when the iPod is mounted as a hard drive. Granted they're not too keen on peopel using this to steal music. As of yet there's piracy protection built in aside from the "Don't steal music" honor system they have going.
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Actually, seeing as the term engineer is also used by train engineers (who I'm sure you wouldn't consider worthy of such a title given the typical, apologies to those not as arrogant, elitest engineering attitude) who are responsible for keeping a train running and on time and all this would be a a truly fitting title in all truthfullness. Simply extend the metaphor, to a network setting and it works just as well. A derailed network is not a pretty sight.
Though I'm still not sure if you're joking or you think the topic is a joke to begin with...
I aplogize If i came accross as bashing Apple. However I don't want to label myself as a fanatic listing all the stuff of theirs I own and collect. I just really think Apple could benefit from more marketshare. I'm obviously not alone in this thought. It's really kind of sad that Apple only has around 5% of the market. Last I heard that was a generous statistic. If Apple were able to even so mch as double their marketshare the possibilities for expansion are trememndous. Obviously, some of this is debateable. If they had more marketshare they would have more users, more possible subscribers to .Mac and the possible new iApp packages etc. This would in the end allow them to develop even more than they have in the past.
Apple is obviously aggressively targetting new customers with thier switch ads. They've recognized that most everybody has a comptuer now. There are no virgins to convert. It's now a dangerous game of stealing marketshare fomr competitors. This also means that these peopel have an existing investment in compeitotr software and equipment. The upfront price or the simple Apple hardware is idsconcerting to those used to buying a sub thousand dollar computer.
Most Apple users recognize that we're paying for higher quality goods, or at leats an ease of a designer product and we're fine with that. But it's tough to convince peopel to swithc with such a daunting pricetag. Not ot mentino that faith i a horrible reaosn to stay with a ocmpany and in the end will only last for so long. Evntually, P companies will have a price/performance ratio that is impossible to ignore.
Just my thoughts. I'm really just describing what I've obsered amongst many o my friends who certainly admire the Macintosh they see me using, but could never make such a huge leap at the current prices.
seems to be working for Dell... But seriosuly, Apple should dispense with the huge profit margin, hell maybe even take cue from consoles and sell at a slight loss to increase what they really need right now: market share. With market share thye get more weight to throw around, more users, and the possibiltiy of more sales in the future.
Yeah this doens't have the quicktime/AIM conflict so feel free to install and use it. Coincidentally that last release could still be used with aim if you removed the quicktime component and left the other one if put in the plugins folder IIRC.
Actually I just realized UI'm using the noAd version of AIM so maybe th ads use quicktime which may still cause conflict...so I guess i reall have no answer for you.
You'e not a big fan of privacy are you? Does Microsoft or anybody for that matter really have the right to monitor you like this in your own home? Granted you're using their software and may violate the DMCA or whatever else, but I vcouldn't see them being held accountable for what you do with thier software. Just like cd burners and cd-burning programs and hell even copiers for that matter they wanr ou it may be possible to copy copywritten property, so don' do it. Microsoft doesn' need to take this step to comply with anything. And hell, if they go this far, what's to stop them ftom going any further? Big brother is alive and well in redmond. Glad i jumped the MS ship a while back.
Seems this still ships with kde 2.2.2 or what have you unless I'm missing something here. (in which case ignore the rest of this) Why not 3? This is the latest ppc-linux release it should have the latest packages. Speaking of which has anybody actually been able to setup kde 3 on ydl 2.2? Been having the damndest time getting kde to run on ppc.
uh I think most of these complaints are justified..I mean the title of the article is unavoidable and says it all.
Probably should have clarified, I was merely mentioning this as a step to make an optical drive more accessible. I suppose this would somewhat defeat the quiet atmosphere accomplished by sotwin the computer in the first place. Althogh it'd only be that loud while active, and probably not at bad as a the entire tower being nearby.
or you just get a firewire optical drive that suits your needs and toss that on your desktop too.
yeah a dollar is a little high, might as well pay for the damned cd that way. $. 20 a track seems ot make some great sense, not only would I be more than willing to pay that. But truthfully they'd prolly still make a profit. Hell, the increased amount of poeple actually buying music alone would more than make the difference of the lower cost. Plus they could save a substnatial amount on packaging an pressing those cds.
Nah truthfully this reads as though linux is copying windows in every aspect, from comments like "window's mindless installation" and the caption questioning" remind you of any other operating system?" Average peopel would eventually take this to mean that they already have Widnows and if this is jus tan alternative there's no reaosn to switch. just my thought
Well I've installed red hat and corel on a few pc's in my day, but for the life of me I'm unable ot ever get any distro to run on my ppc mac g4 dp 533. I'm really interested in running YDL 2.2 when the iso's are available however. However the yaboot crap continues ot give me trouble. I have 3 hard drives. One has OSX one is a storage drive for dv and audio scratch, and the final small one is half partitioned with mac os9 and the other half is left empty for linux to tool with. Any hints on how to get yaboot to essentially ive me all of these options? None of the readmes anywhere have been of much help. I'd really appreciate some point in the right direction. I'm also deathly afriad i'll screw sometinhg up and be unable ot boot mac osx anymore or something. Yeah slightly/totally off topic my bad.
Isn't iLink simply the 4 pin version of firewire? They're both IEE 1394 but marketed under differnt names. Same protocols and all obviously, excpet the standard 6 pin transmits power as you ponted out your iLink doesn't
I think there's a bit of a difference between hardocre drug users and people downloading mp3s off the internet casually. Plus drug users are prolly tooout of it to care. I'm certain a bulk of the p2pers are college kids or even younger. Threatening them with legislature would probably be more effective. Though truthfully I'd like to think this could be avoided in lieu of a reasonable and fair legal online distributor.
You mean the the process of cobbling the machine together doesn't appeal to you?
I'm sure the target audience of the iMac would find it much easier to simply purchase an iMac with the superdrive. Not only od most poeple find it attractive, but I'm sure there's some value to the ease of use of iMovie and iDVD that money alone cannot measure.
I'd just have to say that although I like the shape myself amny of my friends didn't until I brought them to the Cambridgeside Apple store and they got to use it themselves. The base unit of the machine virtually disappears if you were using it on a normal desk with the screen pulled down even slightly. It's such an excellent design, and so what if it does look liek a lamp/ perhaps that's just the shape that these things lend themselves best to.
The mp3s fiels are stored in a hidden directory you can access when the iPod is mounted as a hard drive. Granted they're not too keen on peopel using this to steal music. As of yet there's piracy protection built in aside from the "Don't steal music" honor system they have going.