Hmm, if iTunes is somehow destroying your music collection.. then you probably shouldn't be allowed near a computer. I also don't recommend that you use kitchen knives, or generally anything pointy.
i think the raising mac share will do well for all non-windows OS types.
As companies begin to realise that there is no longer one-single-solution, the pandoras box will be open for the OS to be something that requires thought.
It's not a far stretch to advertise unix-like OSs when the mac is running a unix OS.
"Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords. The focus of Stamets' research is the Northwest's native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas.
There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet."
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html
There was a lot of chatter about it in the original/. comments thread. I haven't been able to find a link to something that is still accessible though. Although it's a big proposition to suggest that a mobile phone has out-of-band management.(A feature that is usually reserved for plugged-in hardware.)
it created a lot of discussion about the method that was used to bug the phone, as it implied they were unaltered phones - however further investigation revealed that the author of the article (and also the fox news televised story) were propagating incorrect information.
With regards to the story about the mafia being listened into with their cell phones and as also noted in the original affidavit related to the case: the cell phones were altered, i.e they were bugged: they were not dealing with off the shelf goods. The interesting part of the story was how they managed to obtain these mobile phones for alteration/switching. Bugging a device that already has the necessary parts to transmit audio is pretty unexciting.
While I agree that those particular agencies do also handle issues I discussed in the broader sense (some federally and some on the state level). From the ACCC's own website you can see: "Its primary responsibility is to ensure that individuals and businesses comply with the Commonwealth's competition, fair trading and consumer protection laws."
In the examples I listed there was some involvement by the ACCC, yes: some of which were run on effects from actions imposed by the ACCC.(I just didn't provide the weblinks for news articles describing these - so it's easy to misunderstand if I was talking broadly or about specific incidents.)
It seems that ebay is just doing it all wrong these days. Spending too much time enforcing silly little policies which nickel+dime their true customers, while seemingly ignoring the endless scams. I put a laptop for auction on ebay, the only replies I got were scammers. (They constantly abuse the buy-it-now function, meaning that you need to go through reposting the auction and contacting ebay to refund the auctioning-fee.) No, I won't send my laptop to your religious grandmother in Nigeria.
I don't think anyone noted that I said "on all competent Australian telecoms", this is where I get a bit controversial, as I don't consider three a competent telecom - it's overly reliant on other networks merely to maintain voice coverage outside of their comparatively small 3G zone. Additionally it's a widely reported issue(particularly on whirlpool) that three have not fully implemented "soft transitions" when switching from a 3G call on the three network to a GSM call on the telstra network. I.E. the call is dropped and a redial is necessary.
With that in mind, you can still use just about any 3G handset on three.
Also to clarify: the ACCC didn't pass judgement on the iPhone, it's mere existence was the necessary scare-crow for multiple vendors to happen. (The ACCC doesn't need to bear hard judgement to enact changes, for example the ACCC only posted a draft complaint to ebay over the palpay issue for example.)
Australia is a good test bed for consumer goods. Australia is relatively isolated with a limited population of first world consumers. The Australian consumer is typically a spoilt one (with no offense intended, it's just a marketing term for the consumer-climate) This means bad ideas sink very quickly and only the very best ideas will gather the momentum & critical mass for financial survival.
Australian law lays between the consumer-driven EU laws and the company driven-US laws.
The ACCC is an independent government body specifically designed to prevent US-style corporate bastardisation. It's significantly resistant to US-style lobbying and has the power to stop company mergers, monitor and investigate pricing, regulate telecommunications companies, make unfair company policies illegal to enforce and works via a complaint system. (Meaning that individuals have the power to enact a government body to look into unreasonable practices.)
The ACCC is the reason why the iPhone is available on all competent Australian telecoms, why banks had to pass on savings to consumers and why ebay couldn't impose their paypal policy.
The smaller nature of the Australian population allows for this kind of organisation to exist, so I'm not confident this would scale without corruption to larger countries.(There is also an organisation which deals specifically with corruption.)
As with any system, there is an appeals process, many companies don't take this route (such as ebay) as the ACCC are usually just enforcing the existing fair trading & trade practices laws.
lighter fluid works fine to clean anything where you don't want a residue. It's been used for years to remove marks from artwork and i've found that there isn't anything on the apple laptops which are affected by it. (e.g stupid paper stickers)
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Keeping 'legacy' support has always been a nice excuse for not significantly upgrading the OS (or spring cleaning). Having tried to run many older programs under the promised legacy support (including the options to emulate previous versions of windows.) I can say that I've had small successes in keeping old software running on Windows.
To me it's always been an excuse to keep windows bloated, and not actually any effort to keep old software functional.
To put it in terms of an exaggerated slashdot style analogy:
With how MS worded the first attack. (Which was only made usable by faults in MS software.) It would be equivalent to MS shipping a piece of software that changed all your passwords to "password" if you installed Firefox or Safari. Then releasing a statement that reads something like "Firefox and Safari put Windows at a security risk."
i might not be following you correctly, but xsan is a software product that allows a unified volume of storage over a network of available space, while the xserve raid was a physical piece of hardware comprised of an xserve and an array of hdds.(See image here) When discontinuing the xserve raid apple has advised existing clients of other similar products.
It's a gross over simplification to pretend that the vision of steve jobs is the reason why apple has been seemingly consistently good recently. (Note jobs was evicted from his own company due to his poor "vision" at a time. In this poor performing time many apple engineers moved to microsoft.)
Jobs himself often points out that it's the apple staff as a whole which produces great products. Their success has been due mostly to good research, listening to their customers and realising that their survival relies on innovation (apple have one of the largest r&d capabilities of tech companies, originally apple directed all advertising dollars into r&d.)
For every apple success there is a history of modern flops such as: apple hifi, apple tv mk 1, the cube, xserve raid, etc, many of which Jobs had a direct hand in designing. Apple's modern successes are Mac OS X, iMac, iPod, iPhone and iTunes. Which are maintained and proliferated by huge teams of staff which Jobs does not oversee directly.
I can see why they think it's a high point: Back then they had stroke of midnight launches and long queues of customers lining up to buy Windows 95.. now windows vista barely reported any queue forming(plenty of articles about the lack of queues though), while Microsoft competitors operating system launches are now receiving those long queues and opening day fanfare.
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other than that silly largest music retailer in the usa thing they've been toying with for a while.
Hmm, if iTunes is somehow destroying your music collection.. then you probably shouldn't be allowed near a computer. I also don't recommend that you use kitchen knives, or generally anything pointy.
They hate envelopes at HP.
As companies begin to realise that there is no longer one-single-solution, the pandoras box will be open for the OS to be something that requires thought.
It's not a far stretch to advertise unix-like OSs when the mac is running a unix OS.
"Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords. The focus of Stamets' research is the Northwest's native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas. There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet." http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html
it gets good at about pg 141.
There was a lot of chatter about it in the original /. comments thread. I haven't been able to find a link to something that is still accessible though. Although it's a big proposition to suggest that a mobile phone has out-of-band management.(A feature that is usually reserved for plugged-in hardware.)
it created a lot of discussion about the method that was used to bug the phone, as it implied they were unaltered phones - however further investigation revealed that the author of the article (and also the fox news televised story) were propagating incorrect information.
With regards to the story about the mafia being listened into with their cell phones and as also noted in the original affidavit related to the case: the cell phones were altered, i.e they were bugged: they were not dealing with off the shelf goods. The interesting part of the story was how they managed to obtain these mobile phones for alteration/switching. Bugging a device that already has the necessary parts to transmit audio is pretty unexciting.
news just in, whirlpool hit with a new torrent of traffic due to posting on slashdot... mmm irony.
"Its primary responsibility is to ensure that individuals and businesses comply with the Commonwealth's competition, fair trading and consumer protection laws."
In the examples I listed there was some involvement by the ACCC, yes: some of which were run on effects from actions imposed by the ACCC.(I just didn't provide the weblinks for news articles describing these - so it's easy to misunderstand if I was talking broadly or about specific incidents.)
It seems that ebay is just doing it all wrong these days. Spending too much time enforcing silly little policies which nickel+dime their true customers, while seemingly ignoring the endless scams. I put a laptop for auction on ebay, the only replies I got were scammers. (They constantly abuse the buy-it-now function, meaning that you need to go through reposting the auction and contacting ebay to refund the auctioning-fee.)
No, I won't send my laptop to your religious grandmother in Nigeria.
With that in mind, you can still use just about any 3G handset on three.
Also to clarify: the ACCC didn't pass judgement on the iPhone, it's mere existence was the necessary scare-crow for multiple vendors to happen. (The ACCC doesn't need to bear hard judgement to enact changes, for example the ACCC only posted a draft complaint to ebay over the palpay issue for example.)
Australian law lays between the consumer-driven EU laws and the company driven-US laws.
The ACCC is an independent government body specifically designed to prevent US-style corporate bastardisation. It's significantly resistant to US-style lobbying and has the power to stop company mergers, monitor and investigate pricing, regulate telecommunications companies, make unfair company policies illegal to enforce and works via a complaint system. (Meaning that individuals have the power to enact a government body to look into unreasonable practices.)
The ACCC is the reason why the iPhone is available on all competent Australian telecoms, why banks had to pass on savings to consumers and why ebay couldn't impose their paypal policy.
The smaller nature of the Australian population allows for this kind of organisation to exist, so I'm not confident this would scale without corruption to larger countries.(There is also an organisation which deals specifically with corruption.)
As with any system, there is an appeals process, many companies don't take this route (such as ebay) as the ACCC are usually just enforcing the existing fair trading & trade practices laws.
lighter fluid works fine to clean anything where you don't want a residue. It's been used for years to remove marks from artwork and i've found that there isn't anything on the apple laptops which are affected by it. (e.g stupid paper stickers)
To me it's always been an excuse to keep windows bloated, and not actually any effort to keep old software functional.
..or the windows user who invites scorpions into their home if they are holding up a "free titties" banner.
To put it in terms of an exaggerated slashdot style analogy:
With how MS worded the first attack. (Which was only made usable by faults in MS software.) It would be equivalent to MS shipping a piece of software that changed all your passwords to "password" if you installed Firefox or Safari. Then releasing a statement that reads something like "Firefox and Safari put Windows at a security risk."
I like my infantile obsession with water.. for which I approve Kelvin to use centigrade-gradation in his scale.
Alternatively, change ISPs.
bugger.. that url is: http://www.apple.com/server/storage/ ( a redirection from www.apple.com/xserveraid)
i might not be following you correctly, but xsan is a software product that allows a unified volume of storage over a network of available space, while the xserve raid was a physical piece of hardware comprised of an xserve and an array of hdds.(See image here) When discontinuing the xserve raid apple has advised existing clients of other similar products.
Jobs himself often points out that it's the apple staff as a whole which produces great products. Their success has been due mostly to good research, listening to their customers and realising that their survival relies on innovation (apple have one of the largest r&d capabilities of tech companies, originally apple directed all advertising dollars into r&d.)
For every apple success there is a history of modern flops such as: apple hifi, apple tv mk 1, the cube, xserve raid, etc, many of which Jobs had a direct hand in designing. Apple's modern successes are Mac OS X, iMac, iPod, iPhone and iTunes. Which are maintained and proliferated by huge teams of staff which Jobs does not oversee directly.
..or a paper aeroplane. ding ding tssh.
thank you, thank you, i'll be here all week.
I can see why they think it's a high point: Back then they had stroke of midnight launches and long queues of customers lining up to buy Windows 95.. now windows vista barely reported any queue forming(plenty of articles about the lack of queues though), while Microsoft competitors operating system launches are now receiving those long queues and opening day fanfare.