System 9 and earlier had cooperative multitasking. A single app had to manually give control back to the OS. If an application hung, System 9 would hang too, since it never got control back from the application. Even windows 95 had preemptive multitasking.
Plus MacOS's memory manager was shit. I don't know a single MacOS user who didn't have to manually set how much RAM a specific app can access.
Another fact to ponder is the failure of anyone to read the "18 minute gap" Rosemary Woods created on the tape of Nixon discussing the Watergate breakin. In spite of the fact that the data density on an analog recorder of in the 1960s was approximately one million times less than current drive technology, and that audio recovery would not require a high degree of accuracy, not one phoneme has been recovered.
I do not know why this continues to be such a big deal.
Because we all remember what happened to Atari when Nolan left. .. and what happened to Queen when Freddie Mercury died. .. and what happened to the Pink Panther franchise when Peter Sellers died.
Just because it's not a hallucination, doesn't mean that it's actually happening.
I greyed out once on a roller coaster. I wasn't hallucinating by anyone's definition of the word, but the world didn't actually turn black & white either.
So far the media's use of flash and java has been a major reason for the development and wide-spread use of browser plug-ins to disable those technologies.
Yo dawg, we heard you like blocking plugins so we made a plugin-blocker plugin so you can block plugins while you plugin.
Frankly, no one, including yourself, ever mentions a reason WHY I should switch.
I can give you the reason why I switched.. which may or may not help.
With SVN, I found that branching was so involved that I wouldn't do it. Instead, I would check out code, work on it, and wouldn't check it back in until I had completed whatever I was doing... which may be days or weeks away.
Checking code back in with SVN almost became a "release".
With Hg, I pull down a copy of the code, make changes, commit those changes to my local repo, even if things are so broken they don't even compile. Then, when I'm done, I'll push all my commits back to the server.
In the real world, prices are set by supply and demand, and supply of digital content is set arbitrarily by the copyright holder. Your entire argument is based on a false premise.
So because supply is infinite, then demand doesn't matter at all?
Seems to me that it matters just as much as it ever did. If I make a song that doesn't appeal to the majority of people, I'd like to set the price to be less than 99 cents to entice more purchases.
What does that even mean? If battery life drops to 5 minutes, doesn't that still count as a recharge cycle as long as you can plug it in and get another 5 minute charge?
My old ibook had battery life drop to 5 minutes for months before it stopped charging altogether.
Speaking of reliability, it doesn't happen often, but I've had both my PC and my Mac crash hard enough to have to remove the battery to get it to reboot.
I'm guessing you'll just have to wait 8 hours for the battery to drain if this thing ever locks up.
I don't think the average Joe actually will run into the DRM restrictions in iTunes
Depends. The 5-stream limit per day in iTunes is something we run into all the time at the office.. you wouldn't run into it at home, but I imagine college students run into it in their dorms, and it surely affects other office workers.
That's Apple putting DRM restrictions on plain ol mp3s.
Tribune, the company from the article, isn't a newspaper, it's a news company. They own a radio station, they own a dozen TV stations, they own a comic strip syndication company, they are part-owner of services like CareerBuilder and MetroMix.
This isn't a newspaper going out of business, this is a giant media company that has its thumbs in a lot of pies going out of business.
The play and charge cables have break-away connections. Second, it's not moving the system that scratches the disc, it's re-orienting it. Going from vertical to horizontal... or vice-versa.
It does.. for every generation it makes 20 mutations.. so you're seeing each of those 20 mutations run. Takes a while just for one generation to complete.
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System 9 and earlier had cooperative multitasking. A single app had to manually give control back to the OS. If an application hung, System 9 would hang too, since it never got control back from the application. Even windows 95 had preemptive multitasking.
Plus MacOS's memory manager was shit. I don't know a single MacOS user who didn't have to manually set how much RAM a specific app can access.
Only a handful of users were furious. Most didn't care.
And "we do what we like" should describe every opensource developer. Certainly no open source developer should be forced to do what they don't like.
Actually, the best quote from that paper is this:
I think that really does say it all.
Because we all remember what happened to Atari when Nolan left.
.. and what happened to Queen when Freddie Mercury died.
.. and what happened to the Pink Panther franchise when Peter Sellers died.
ok.. maybe I'm stretching it a bit...
Just because it's not a hallucination, doesn't mean that it's actually happening.
I greyed out once on a roller coaster. I wasn't hallucinating by anyone's definition of the word, but the world didn't actually turn black & white either.
Have you ever tried sugar? .... or PCP?
Yo dawg, we heard you like blocking plugins so we made a plugin-blocker plugin so you can block plugins while you plugin.
I can give you the reason why I switched.. which may or may not help.
With SVN, I found that branching was so involved that I wouldn't do it. Instead, I would check out code, work on it, and wouldn't check it back in until I had completed whatever I was doing... which may be days or weeks away.
Checking code back in with SVN almost became a "release".
With Hg, I pull down a copy of the code, make changes, commit those changes to my local repo, even if things are so broken they don't even compile. Then, when I'm done, I'll push all my commits back to the server.
So because supply is infinite, then demand doesn't matter at all?
Seems to me that it matters just as much as it ever did. If I make a song that doesn't appeal to the majority of people, I'd like to set the price to be less than 99 cents to entice more purchases.
As a consumer, I'll pay more for better songs.
Hey, that's Apple's market!
What does that even mean? If battery life drops to 5 minutes, doesn't that still count as a recharge cycle as long as you can plug it in and get another 5 minute charge?
My old ibook had battery life drop to 5 minutes for months before it stopped charging altogether.
Speaking of reliability, it doesn't happen often, but I've had both my PC and my Mac crash hard enough to have to remove the battery to get it to reboot.
I'm guessing you'll just have to wait 8 hours for the battery to drain if this thing ever locks up.
I haven't used IE7 in a while.. but doesn't it not have a menubar?
Google Chrome doesn't have one either.
Not only pixar, but Apple's own software. Shake, Logic, FCS, and Aperture all have activation.
Even the free trial version of Shake requires activation.
Yeah, that's why all the Pixar movies on the iTunes store are DRM free... oh wait.
You might as well say there isn't DRM on DVDs since I can just point a video camera at the monitor.
Depends. The 5-stream limit per day in iTunes is something we run into all the time at the office.. you wouldn't run into it at home, but I imagine college students run into it in their dorms, and it surely affects other office workers.
That's Apple putting DRM restrictions on plain ol mp3s.
Tribune, the company from the article, isn't a newspaper, it's a news company. They own a radio station, they own a dozen TV stations, they own a comic strip syndication company, they are part-owner of services like CareerBuilder and MetroMix.
This isn't a newspaper going out of business, this is a giant media company that has its thumbs in a lot of pies going out of business.
Apple outsold Windows Mobile for one quarter. There were still more Windows Mobile phones sold this year than iPhones.
The play and charge cables have break-away connections. Second, it's not moving the system that scratches the disc, it's re-orienting it. Going from vertical to horizontal... or vice-versa.
Well, one reason is because Apple consistently breaks backwards compatibility.
We had to hold off on upgrading to Leopard because QPS didn't work on it.
The $200 arcade version you can go buy right now has HDMI. It's the first gen 360s that didn't have it.
* Grown the most awesome marijuana in the world and given it all to you.
Knock Knock.
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It does.. for every generation it makes 20 mutations.. so you're seeing each of those 20 mutations run. Takes a while just for one generation to complete.