I do have Apple products, and I did read the license. Odd how these things are rather hard to find on the Net when you want to read them. But I do have the answer to the MOL scenario: it's not permitted unless you install Linux on a Mac, and run MOL from there.
The appropriate section of the license is here:
2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer (emphasis mine) at a time. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.
A security exploit has also been found in their (and other vendor's) Wireless Access Points.
Sending a certain string over a certain UDP port will cause the AP to return the WEP key, mac filter settings, and admin password over the WLAN and LAN side.
Sorry, I assumed the pages are one-sided, like the Post-Its they also advertise. If the pages are two-sided, the totals will need to be divided by 2, so 31 quadrillion retail and 15.5 quadrillion wholesale in that case.
And now much money do they plan to get for this?
And look! it's solvable!
Assuming the razor blades and ink-jet cartridge marketing plan:
They sell a 160 page book of letter-size paper for $9.99. That's 9.648m^2 per book. Assuming for a minute that the whole 60,000,000km^2 is made up of just these books, and the entire area of the book is usable, then one book is.000009648km^2.
So 60,000,000km^2/.000009648km^2 = 6,218,905,472,637 books, or at $10 apiece, $62,189,054,726,370.00 that 's 62 quadrillion dollars at retail. You could probably buy a whole planet for that price. Assume the wholesale cost is half that, you still get 31 quadrillion dollars.
Anyway, that's a buttload of potential profit for step #2 of the Underpants Gnomes' profitability lemma.
It is nether strong enough nor heavy enough to do so. It seems to have the vacuum ability of a dustbuster, and a small rotating brush.
Nowhere are there high-speed powerful motors and belts and other items that normally make these things dangerous to kids. The thing is only about 14 inches across. Think of it as a smart, autonomous RC vehicle with a dustbuster on the front that can rotate 180 degrees in place and looks like an oversized hockey puck. That's what it is. Far more impressive in print than in person.
One application it would totally kick butt on is for those of us with wood floors. I just wish it were more quiet.
I did work on the Aegis cruisers back in 1998-2001, and the Navy had whole ships outfitted with Toshiba PC's. Not the weapons control stuff, but the LAN on board the ships.
I consider this ironic, because if I were purchasing equipment for the Navy, I would never consider Toshiba after what they did back in the 80's: illegally selling advanced milling equipment to the Soviets allowing them to build more stealthy attack submarines.
Ah, yes. But just because a standard is on the PC, does not make it a standard for the Mac world. What is standard in the Mac world also is not necessarily a standard for PCs. Memory costs are pretty much a function of supply and demand, the lower supply of 5v RAM means higher costs. Macs even then were a fraction of the PC marketshare.
Apple introduced that ejecting floppy drive (3 1/2") back when PCs were still using 5 1/4" 360K floppy disks. Now that PC's have non-ejecting 3 1/2" drives, the Apple move looked strange. But back then it was innovative, and probably because of that you have these drives in PC's today. Apples response now is to get rid of floppies altogether. The PC world is still apparently scratching their collective heads trying to come up with a decent, universal floppy replacement: CDR, Zip, USB dongle or other flash media, LS120, CDs, etc.
VLB was proprietary, I never saw it on anything but PC's. EISA is apparently on life support, the 486sx and 386sx were crude hacks, lets not forget those other great chips by Cyrix and other failed Intel CPU clone manufacturers. Warts like these are commonplace, and proprietary hardware standards do fail, I only wish proprietary software protocols would fail as well.
Now if you want to complain about Apple OEM CDROM and hard drives that would work on a Mac, but the cheaper OEM drives without the Apple name would not without 3rd party software/hacks, then you have a good point. However, PC companies *cough* Compaq *cough* did odd things like this with their hardware as well.
I think most PC manufacturers (and Apple) are a bit older and wiser now.
Apple doesn't do any of this OEM crap now. Their system is more "open" than it ever has been before. Yes, the case isn't an ATX case, but who cares? It has SDRAM/DDRAM, AGP/PCI, USB, FireWire, 10/100/1G Ethernet. On the software side they have TCP/IP, and any other "UNIX" protocol. It plays Quicktime, Windows Media, Realvideo, MP3, MPEG1, Divx and others. Yes, they have that funky video connector, but that can be fixed with a cheap cable if you don't like Apple's monitor offerings. There are other computer platforms that have proprietary buses, interfaces, memory and protocols but you don't neccessarily see their users bitching every day about it.
Note that I am a recent addition to the Mac community, and not particularly a fan of Apple after the Apple II and before OS X. In fact, I was a critic - I can't stand the "classic" MacOS and wasn't fond of their early PowerPC hardware. I see your point, I just don't believe Apple isn't any more or less guilty than the PC world. Mac users and PC users each live in their own "fishbowls"- anything outside their comfortable little worlds are both strange and frightening to them.
5v serial ports, 5v DIMMs, NuBus, localtalk, motoroized eject disk drives, making people call FireWire 1001 different names, and other fun little stupidities?
Or VESA Local Bus, EISA, Microchannel, 486sx, SIPPs, Hercules, CGA, EGA, 8514a. And as a more modern example: iLink (as a stupid firewire name). Different architectures have different hardware needs and implementations. Just 'cause none (exception:FireWire) of your examples ever showed up on a PC, doesn't mean that the PC world isn't guilty of the same crimes.
Apple has what are called "user seriviceable parts".
These parts include: optical drives, RAM, hard drives, keyboards, mice and monitors.
Other parts such as motherboards are considered far beyond the realm of user serviceability, and require taking the machine in to a tech. While there are those of us who are capable of performing such a task, I am sure that there are many more users that cannot. If I were a manufacturer who was supplying warranties on these products, I would not want users with unknown capabilities messing with delicate ESD-sensitive components on which that I would be liable for future repairs.
Apple has been more than willing to help me with crapped-out parts, but these parts were items such as a dead Superdrive and iBook power adapter. Such parts that are allowed to be replaced can be done so easily, and save Apple a lot of cash and effort and by sending the replacements via overnight, save me a crapload of time.
For example, her excitement about being able to get Windows installed and configured "in under a day" is laughable. In 90% of cases Mac OS X can be installed and configured in under an hour.
I'm not slamming OS X here, but I have installed Jaguar on several different Macs, and I can say that while it may take less than an hour, it's only slightly less. Add the fact that its easier than spit to configure networking, and you just might squeak by. As for a 2001 Dual-USB iBook, it took nearly an hour and 45 minutes.
To be fair, the 98SE, and Win2k installations aren't exactly speedy either. OS/2 was long as well. But NeXT v3.3 install off of optical disk was the piece 'o cake: 3-4 hours.
I guess I didn't make "cheap" associate with product well enough. I made the Sharper image connection because Tiger Direct never mails me any catalogs.
They were neat, especially if you ever went into their store in Canoga Park. I am suprised to see them again. Unfortunately, my memories are a lot fonder than what I see when I am confronted with them now.
Funny how those things disappeared about the same time DAK Industries (remember them?) did. They sold tons of them with other wierd off-the-wall computer peripherals from their catalog. DAK was sort of like Sharper Image, but with cheaper prices and products.
DAK probably cleaned out Logitech and the other hand-held scanner makers of their inventory and then disappeared into a wormhole.
FYI: lots of answering machines have outgoing message bypass commands. My machine (Panasonic) will immediately go to the beep and record when hitting the "*" key. I'm pretty sure other major brands have a similar feature as well.
This is also the manual FAX receive method some fax/answering machine systems use, either with a PIN code or hitting a particular key.
There are ways of making ones' life easier as a caller.
Yeah, we found that bug that cost you $250,000 in downtime, and we have this service pack that you need to apply. Will that be cash or charge?
This is the very reason EULA's claim the program you are pur^H^H^Hlicensing has no fitness for any purpose whatsoever.
Some MS EULA's give purchase price or $5.00 limitations on damages (whichever is greater) as their limit on liability.
Finally, here's a great excerpt from the MS Messenger license:
Disclaimer of warranties: Microsoft and its suppliers provide the software "as is" and with all faults, and hereby disclaim all other warranties and conditions, either express, implied or statutory, including but not limited to any (if any) implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of lack of viruses,
and of lack of negligence or lack of workmanlike effort.
It speaks volumes about what MS thinks of their own work. MS Word has a disclaimer that states the product you licensed isn't a word processor: the product has no warranty for "fitness for a particular purpose".
Yes, that even includes "word processor." So does that mean it's unfit for any purpose?
The minute I saw it on slashdot, just like the last time, I knew people would go into the "this is just impossible" mode without at least giving it a shot.
Considering all the bullshit these "people" believe on a daily basis, I would not doubt that at all.
It is similar to my personal definition of intelligent life: a lifeform that shoots back at humans -- and wins. Whales would be considered ILF's if they fired frickin' lasers at the whalers.
They just might have, if they had opposable thumbs.
What I fear will happen is that the media player producers such as Real and Windows Media Player will also jump on the DRM/Palladium bandwagon and these players will simply die out on the Mac if DRM technology is not adopted.
Considering the vast amount of pr0n on the net, this would be a setback to any consumer with, erm, "solo" talents.
Life will get difficult with Palladium out and the media producers tell the middleware vendors to support Palladium or they will go with another who will (Microsoft). That will get everyone on the bandwagon, and leave Apple high and dry until Steve "gets religion" and goes DRM.
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Lots of ads for Kleenex, Jergen's and Vaseline probably.
The appropriate section of the license is here:
You can read the full license for Mac OS X here.Sending a certain string over a certain UDP port will cause the AP to return the WEP key, mac filter settings, and admin password over the WLAN and LAN side.
Exploit can be found here
Makes me glad to have bought an Apple Airport for a change.
Actually, thew game was called "Custer's Revenge", and it was for the Atari 2600
Sorry, I assumed the pages are one-sided, like the Post-Its they also advertise. If the pages are two-sided, the totals will need to be divided by 2, so 31 quadrillion retail and 15.5 quadrillion wholesale in that case.
Assuming the razor blades and ink-jet cartridge marketing plan:
They sell a 160 page book of letter-size paper for $9.99. That's 9.648m^2 per book. Assuming for a minute that the whole 60,000,000km^2 is made up of just these books, and the entire area of the book is usable, then one book is .000009648km^2.
So 60,000,000km^2/.000009648km^2 = 6,218,905,472,637 books, or at $10 apiece, $62,189,054,726,370.00 that 's 62 quadrillion dollars at retail. You could probably buy a whole planet for that price. Assume the wholesale cost is half that, you still get 31 quadrillion dollars.
Anyway, that's a buttload of potential profit for step #2 of the Underpants Gnomes' profitability lemma.
Nowhere are there high-speed powerful motors and belts and other items that normally make these things dangerous to kids. The thing is only about 14 inches across. Think of it as a smart, autonomous RC vehicle with a dustbuster on the front that can rotate 180 degrees in place and looks like an oversized hockey puck. That's what it is. Far more impressive in print than in person.
One application it would totally kick butt on is for those of us with wood floors. I just wish it were more quiet.
They had one of these on demo at Brookstone in the local mall, and it made a hell of a racket.
It sounded like a combo between a cheap motorized plastic toy and a hair dryer. I really hope for their sake the one I saw was busted somehow.
I consider this ironic, because if I were purchasing equipment for the Navy, I would never consider Toshiba after what they did back in the 80's: illegally selling advanced milling equipment to the Soviets allowing them to build more stealthy attack submarines.
Apple introduced that ejecting floppy drive (3 1/2") back when PCs were still using 5 1/4" 360K floppy disks. Now that PC's have non-ejecting 3 1/2" drives, the Apple move looked strange. But back then it was innovative, and probably because of that you have these drives in PC's today. Apples response now is to get rid of floppies altogether. The PC world is still apparently scratching their collective heads trying to come up with a decent, universal floppy replacement: CDR, Zip, USB dongle or other flash media, LS120, CDs, etc.
VLB was proprietary, I never saw it on anything but PC's. EISA is apparently on life support, the 486sx and 386sx were crude hacks, lets not forget those other great chips by Cyrix and other failed Intel CPU clone manufacturers. Warts like these are commonplace, and proprietary hardware standards do fail, I only wish proprietary software protocols would fail as well.
Now if you want to complain about Apple OEM CDROM and hard drives that would work on a Mac, but the cheaper OEM drives without the Apple name would not without 3rd party software/hacks, then you have a good point. However, PC companies *cough* Compaq *cough* did odd things like this with their hardware as well.
I think most PC manufacturers (and Apple) are a bit older and wiser now.
Apple doesn't do any of this OEM crap now. Their system is more "open" than it ever has been before. Yes, the case isn't an ATX case, but who cares? It has SDRAM/DDRAM, AGP/PCI, USB, FireWire, 10/100/1G Ethernet. On the software side they have TCP/IP, and any other "UNIX" protocol. It plays Quicktime, Windows Media, Realvideo, MP3, MPEG1, Divx and others. Yes, they have that funky video connector, but that can be fixed with a cheap cable if you don't like Apple's monitor offerings. There are other computer platforms that have proprietary buses, interfaces, memory and protocols but you don't neccessarily see their users bitching every day about it.
Note that I am a recent addition to the Mac community, and not particularly a fan of Apple after the Apple II and before OS X. In fact, I was a critic - I can't stand the "classic" MacOS and wasn't fond of their early PowerPC hardware. I see your point, I just don't believe Apple isn't any more or less guilty than the PC world. Mac users and PC users each live in their own "fishbowls"- anything outside their comfortable little worlds are both strange and frightening to them.
Or VESA Local Bus, EISA, Microchannel, 486sx, SIPPs, Hercules, CGA, EGA, 8514a. And as a more modern example: iLink (as a stupid firewire name). Different architectures have different hardware needs and implementations. Just 'cause none (exception:FireWire) of your examples ever showed up on a PC, doesn't mean that the PC world isn't guilty of the same crimes.
Pot... Kettle... Black
These parts include: optical drives, RAM, hard drives, keyboards, mice and monitors.
Other parts such as motherboards are considered far beyond the realm of user serviceability, and require taking the machine in to a tech. While there are those of us who are capable of performing such a task, I am sure that there are many more users that cannot. If I were a manufacturer who was supplying warranties on these products, I would not want users with unknown capabilities messing with delicate ESD-sensitive components on which that I would be liable for future repairs.
Apple has been more than willing to help me with crapped-out parts, but these parts were items such as a dead Superdrive and iBook power adapter. Such parts that are allowed to be replaced can be done so easily, and save Apple a lot of cash and effort and by sending the replacements via overnight, save me a crapload of time.
To be fair, the 98SE, and Win2k installations aren't exactly speedy either. OS/2 was long as well. But NeXT v3.3 install off of optical disk was the piece 'o cake: 3-4 hours.
Now using the interface efficiently was another matter. But she got the hang of it on the first try.
Or like that live action Ark 2000 they used to show on Saturday mornings.
Constitutional limits prohibiting "unlimited" copyright
Congress that gets to "shake down" Disney & friends, every 20 years or so for more cash
Copyright profits are locked up again for another 20 or so years.
Sounds like an episode plot of the Sopranos.
They were neat, especially if you ever went into their store in Canoga Park. I am suprised to see them again. Unfortunately, my memories are a lot fonder than what I see when I am confronted with them now.
DAK probably cleaned out Logitech and the other hand-held scanner makers of their inventory and then disappeared into a wormhole.
This is also the manual FAX receive method some fax/answering machine systems use, either with a PIN code or hitting a particular key.
There are ways of making ones' life easier as a caller.
Nobody said it did. However, GPL'd software isn't planning on charging for updates & fixes anytime soon, are they?
Some MS EULA's give purchase price or $5.00 limitations on damages (whichever is greater) as their limit on liability.
Finally, here's a great excerpt from the MS Messenger license:
It speaks volumes about what MS thinks of their own work. MS Word has a disclaimer that states the product you licensed isn't a word processor: the product has no warranty for "fitness for a particular purpose".Yes, that even includes "word processor." So does that mean it's unfit for any purpose?
Considering the vast amount of pr0n on the net, this would be a setback to any consumer with, erm, "solo" talents.
Life will get difficult with Palladium out and the media producers tell the middleware vendors to support Palladium or they will go with another who will (Microsoft). That will get everyone on the bandwagon, and leave Apple high and dry until Steve "gets religion" and goes DRM.