Macs do have AGP slots, but PC video cards and Mac video cards usually use different ROMs. There has been some luck flashing some cards with Mac ROMs, but the only recent video card that I have seen that is flashable is the ATI Radeon 8500(not the All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500, unfortunately).
Ever hear of cable or satellite? I'm paying plenty to watch television. These companies have survived without this kind of intrusive ad for this long, and they can easily do so in the future.
When ads start to become so distracting that I miss parts of the show, I will not watch. I will save that $55/month.
I didn't buy my television to watch ads. I bought it for entertainment. Once your ads start to infringe on my entertainment, you've crossed the line, and you've lost my business.
Although Macs do have several 3.5" drive bays, they currently only have one 5.25" drive bay. That means that you can only have one CD/DVD drive.
As a Mac user, I don't think Apple's current cases have enough bays, and this "Mac case clone" doesn't look so great. I've always liked the Lian-Li PC-60, which I will be transplanting my G3 tower into soon.
"I wanted to set the facts straight with respect to the "Restrictions" section in the end user license agreement (EULA) that is displayed at installation of Toast 5.1.4 and Jam 5.0.1 (both the latest versions of our software).
1) Toast and Jam do not include any digital rights management (DRM) software.
2) Toast and Jam do not dynamically download, upload or update any software on your system, either automatically behind the scenes, or upon your request.
3) Toast and Jam do not store, collect or transmit any personally identifiable information about you or what you record, for any of its partners, or any content provider.
Toast and Jam use the same EULA that Roxio's PC burning product, Easy CD Creator, uses. Easy CD Creator leverages aspects of Windows Media Technology, which does include DRM components. Hence, the language in the EULA. Many software companies frequently share EULAs across products since it saves time and money with respect to legal, documentation and translation into multiple languages."
That's the thing; it's not Apple's show. It's IDG's show, and Apple shouldn't be strong-arming them into doing something that's not right. They denied MacFixIt, too, and MacFixIt is not a rumor site by any definition. MacFixIt has solved a lot of problems for people in the past when Apple refused.
Why not implement some sort of system where you can report a user who hosted more than one fake song? That way, if you downloaded a single fake song, you would be able to delete it, and you wouldn't be affected.
The users who are reported frequently by several users over a few days should be checked and then banned, with their IPs logged. If they are found to be populating the network with fake songs, ban their IPs. I would start by banning any IP addresses which are known to belong to the RIAA.
I don't know why that post was modded down. Apple is not a monopoly and never has been. They never got a chance to be. Apple was Microsoft's first victim. It's more than fair that Apple(which now has a little over 4% of the market) tries to get back market share from Microsoft(which now has over 90% of the market).
I just had to point that out.
It's interesting that every time I am thinking of a song, and I turn on the radio, that song is playing. Today, for instance, I was sitting at home and got this sudden urge to start singing "Hooked On A Feeling" by Blue Swede. I went to get groceries about 3 hours later. When I came out to the car and turned on the radio, for some reason, someone had set it to a classic rock station, and Hooked On A Feeling started playing immediately.
I'm not saying it's undeniable evidence, but strange things do happen.
The solution is for a group of MAJOR artists who have already had hits to join together-screw the record companies! No one gets a cut who hasn't made music. Your cut decreases each year that you don't make music or that your new music doesn't sell. Everyone who wants to be hosted gets hosted, as long as they provide the hosting fee. Create a service that requires you to be a member to trade, and have different charges. The artists who join agree to release their songs for download.
Customers could choose how they want to be charged:
per day
per week
per month
per year
per compilation
the right to dub a show
Each artist will get paid depending on what people download from them.
-And here is the big one: Don't release this stuff on CD! That's right, mp3 only, and not this low-quality crap, either. Everything should be 192kbps. This way, people won't be able to just buy, encode, and upload. Anyone who wants this stuff comes directly to you.*
Also, the way radio stations license music needs to change. Currently, stations pay to play music. This is ludicrous. You should give your mp3s(all of them) to radio stations, and the stations can play the music all they want. They just can't give away the actual files. That's free publicity! And instead of having just one song out(a single), people will get exposure to much more of your music(If you release what used to be a cd's worth of music[10 songs or so], songs that would have never been heard will be heard. People will hear songs that never would have been considered as singles. The better the music, the more frequently it will get played, and the more exposure for you).
*I know people will say "Why go to you when I can go somewhere else?" The truth is that you could go somewhere else, but the first people to get the music would have to be buying it directly from you, and you would be getting a bigger piece of the pie right off the bat. Plus, since you are the artist, you can offer extras- autographs, passes to your shows that give people the right to bring recorders into your shows, deals on merchandise, etc.
This is a great idea, as not being able to get NBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, UPN, and WB was what made go back to cable. My local station keeps interrupting programming to tell us news about fires that are hundreds of miles away. That's great, except for the fact that 24/7 news about fires which doesn't affect me really isn't my idea of entertainment. Since they announced this, I am going back to DirecTV some time this week.
Mac OS X natively supports scroll wheels, the same two-button usb trackballs and the same usb mouses(that's the correct word) that PCs use, and with USB Overdrive, you can configure the multiple buttons to do whatever you want.
As for the key combos you mention, these require no reach-over at all-
apple+shift+0, 1, or 3: apple+shift+number pad are all available on the right side of the keyboard.
apple+e: Use "eject" key on right side of Apple Pro keyboard to eject selected disks. Use "F12" to eject all removeable media.
apple+z, c, v, x, and a: available by right(control)-clicking in most applications.
apple+y: not used in OS X
These next few could be difficult to do with the right hand instead of the mouse-
apple+option+escape: in apple menu.
apple+w: click the red close button in a window. Close all by holding option while doing this.
Apple killed licensing because the clones were not increasing the Mac market, but instead were taking customers from Apple. Apple could not have survived with its current business model, and it could not have survived as a software-only company.
Depending on how you look at it, this is a good or a bad thing. I had invested in Apple, and after Apple killed licensing and did a few other things, the stock went up like crazy. You, however, lost any possibility of running the next-generation OS. That sucked.
One thing that is worth noting is that while Apple runs their hardware a little slower than they could, Power Computing ran their hardware fast(overclocking the same processors which Apple was running slow), and used lower-quality parts. As a result I have heard numerous stories about clones failing within recent years, but my Mac which came from the "time of the clones" still works very well, and I have never had any major problems with it. It is still sitting in the next room chugging happily away.
Clones are a bad thing for Apple. It would not help Apple to slightly increase market share and lose money while doing so. It would not help Apple's customers to buy overclocked systems with lower-quality components.
When you buy a Mac, it should last for damn-near forever- instead of breaking after just a few years.
At least that means that he has seriously looked at computers(being a Mac user, he would have had to, from all of the inevitable badgering from Windows users who want him to switch). I would think(and hope) that this makes him more likely to seriously look at the bill, decide that this legislation is dangerous, and veto it.
This is one of the few times I am _glad_ that he is in the White House.
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Macs do have AGP slots, but PC video cards and Mac video cards usually use different ROMs. There has been some luck flashing some cards with Mac ROMs, but the only recent video card that I have seen that is flashable is the ATI Radeon 8500(not the All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500, unfortunately).
When ads start to become so distracting that I miss parts of the show, I will not watch. I will save that $55/month.
I didn't buy my television to watch ads. I bought it for entertainment. Once your ads start to infringe on my entertainment, you've crossed the line, and you've lost my business.
As a Mac user, I don't think Apple's current cases have enough bays, and this "Mac case clone" doesn't look so great. I've always liked the Lian-Li PC-60, which I will be transplanting my G3 tower into soon.
Knowing that there will be no more OS 9 updates, why would someone be running OS 9 Software Update anyway?
"I wanted to set the facts straight with respect to the "Restrictions" section in the end user license agreement (EULA) that is displayed at installation of Toast 5.1.4 and Jam 5.0.1 (both the latest versions of our software).
1) Toast and Jam do not include any digital rights management (DRM) software.
2) Toast and Jam do not dynamically download, upload or update any software on your system, either automatically behind the scenes, or upon your request.
3) Toast and Jam do not store, collect or transmit any personally identifiable information about you or what you record, for any of its partners, or any content provider.
Toast and Jam use the same EULA that Roxio's PC burning product, Easy CD Creator, uses. Easy CD Creator leverages aspects of Windows Media Technology, which does include DRM components. Hence, the language in the EULA. Many software companies frequently share EULAs across products since it saves time and money with respect to legal, documentation and translation into multiple languages."
That's the thing; it's not Apple's show. It's IDG's show, and Apple shouldn't be strong-arming them into doing something that's not right. They denied MacFixIt, too, and MacFixIt is not a rumor site by any definition. MacFixIt has solved a lot of problems for people in the past when Apple refused.
Damned html! I put the less than carrot in there. If you didn't already know, Classic is any Mac OS which is 9.2.2 or below.
Apple has basically abandoned everything pre-OS X, and Steve Jobs has already declared Classic(OSX) dead.
95 here yesterday and it hasn't rained in months!
The users who are reported frequently by several users over a few days should be checked and then banned, with their IPs logged. If they are found to be populating the network with fake songs, ban their IPs. I would start by banning any IP addresses which are known to belong to the RIAA.
When they're just *talking*, at least they've got one hand free!
TP?
I don't know why that post was modded down. Apple is not a monopoly and never has been. They never got a chance to be. Apple was Microsoft's first victim. It's more than fair that Apple(which now has a little over 4% of the market) tries to get back market share from Microsoft(which now has over 90% of the market).
to help people who have health problems and not freak out the religious. This is a very good thing.
I just had to point that out. It's interesting that every time I am thinking of a song, and I turn on the radio, that song is playing. Today, for instance, I was sitting at home and got this sudden urge to start singing "Hooked On A Feeling" by Blue Swede. I went to get groceries about 3 hours later. When I came out to the car and turned on the radio, for some reason, someone had set it to a classic rock station, and Hooked On A Feeling started playing immediately. I'm not saying it's undeniable evidence, but strange things do happen.
I mean Bill Gates runs Microsoft!
Joseph Stalin only killed a few million people.
How can you compare him to that sociopath?!
*Note: I know Stalin was really evil, but someone had to say it.
When Mozilla is outlawed, only outlaws will have Mozilla.
The solution is for a group of MAJOR artists who have already had hits to join together-screw the record companies! No one gets a cut who hasn't made music. Your cut decreases each year that you don't make music or that your new music doesn't sell. Everyone who wants to be hosted gets hosted, as long as they provide the hosting fee. Create a service that requires you to be a member to trade, and have different charges. The artists who join agree to release their songs for download.
Customers could choose how they want to be charged:
per day
per week
per month
per year
per compilation
the right to dub a show
Each artist will get paid depending on what people download from them.
-And here is the big one: Don't release this stuff on CD! That's right, mp3 only, and not this low-quality crap, either. Everything should be 192kbps. This way, people won't be able to just buy, encode, and upload. Anyone who wants this stuff comes directly to you.*
Also, the way radio stations license music needs to change. Currently, stations pay to play music. This is ludicrous. You should give your mp3s(all of them) to radio stations, and the stations can play the music all they want. They just can't give away the actual files. That's free publicity! And instead of having just one song out(a single), people will get exposure to much more of your music(If you release what used to be a cd's worth of music[10 songs or so], songs that would have never been heard will be heard. People will hear songs that never would have been considered as singles. The better the music, the more frequently it will get played, and the more exposure for you). *I know people will say "Why go to you when I can go somewhere else?" The truth is that you could go somewhere else, but the first people to get the music would have to be buying it directly from you, and you would be getting a bigger piece of the pie right off the bat. Plus, since you are the artist, you can offer extras- autographs, passes to your shows that give people the right to bring recorders into your shows, deals on merchandise, etc.
This is a great idea, as not being able to get NBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, UPN, and WB was what made go back to cable. My local station keeps interrupting programming to tell us news about fires that are hundreds of miles away. That's great, except for the fact that 24/7 news about fires which doesn't affect me really isn't my idea of entertainment. Since they announced this, I am going back to DirecTV some time this week.
apple+shift+0, 1, or 3: apple+shift+number pad are all available on the right side of the keyboard.
apple+e: Use "eject" key on right side of Apple Pro keyboard to eject selected disks. Use "F12" to eject all removeable media.
apple+z, c, v, x, and a: available by right(control)-clicking in most applications.
apple+y: not used in OS X
These next few could be difficult to do with the right hand instead of the mouse-
apple+option+escape: in apple menu.
apple+w: click the red close button in a window. Close all by holding option while doing this.
I know I shouldn't reply to trolls, but you [i]do[/i] know that Apple hasn't used a 68000 chip for several years, don't you?
Apple killed licensing because the clones were not increasing the Mac market, but instead were taking customers from Apple. Apple could not have survived with its current business model, and it could not have survived as a software-only company.
Depending on how you look at it, this is a good or a bad thing. I had invested in Apple, and after Apple killed licensing and did a few other things, the stock went up like crazy. You, however, lost any possibility of running the next-generation OS. That sucked.
One thing that is worth noting is that while Apple runs their hardware a little slower than they could, Power Computing ran their hardware fast(overclocking the same processors which Apple was running slow), and used lower-quality parts. As a result I have heard numerous stories about clones failing within recent years, but my Mac which came from the "time of the clones" still works very well, and I have never had any major problems with it. It is still sitting in the next room chugging happily away.
Clones are a bad thing for Apple. It would not help Apple to slightly increase market share and lose money while doing so. It would not help Apple's customers to buy overclocked systems with lower-quality components.
When you buy a Mac, it should last for damn-near forever- instead of breaking after just a few years.
At least that means that he has seriously looked at computers(being a Mac user, he would have had to, from all of the inevitable badgering from Windows users who want him to switch). I would think(and hope) that this makes him more likely to seriously look at the bill, decide that this legislation is dangerous, and veto it. This is one of the few times I am _glad_ that he is in the White House.
Just be careful about the hole in the center.
Seriously, how long would that transfer take? Not long, I bet.
Here's how anyone with a brain would do it:
- Bring up the folder containing the Microsoft Office folder.
- Wait until the CompUSA employees are off "helping" other customers.
- Plug in iPod.
- Hide iPod behind computer.
- Drag Microsoft Office folder over.
- Begin a game of Otto-Matic to hide what's happening on the desktop. You can die pretty quickly, here. The transfer shouldn't take that long.
- After the game is done, quit, unplug iPod and reboot the computer.
Is it that hard?