But is that the result of apple purposely trying to prevent you or simply differences in makes? I never bothered with YD, I worked on getting MkLinux to run, but if the problems are the same, I would assume it has more to do with hardware changes from model to model as compared to an actual attempt on Apple's part to stop you.
Difference is, Apple isn't preventing people from doing this. Note one of the comments in the article was something to the effect of (and I'm paraphrasing here) "We've neither recieved greif nor help from Apple" Meaning, they aren't going to crush you, but they're not going to ensure that your app works next time arround.
Ummm, to remove an apple bundled product, drag it to the trash, empty the trash. Not that hard to me. Boot into another OS? Install second OS, install boot manager, restart.
I'd wait on buying the TiBook anyways, they're due for a revamp soon, no point in buying now and then bitching in a few months when the $3,000 laptop you bought just became $1,500
I'm currently using XP on a desktop, and it's been my experience that it responds slower than Win 98 did. I can't immagine how it performs on a laptop.
I"m pretty sure that the reason the mac doesn't default play multiple region DVDs is due to legal issues. Even if it's not nessesarily a written law, Apple's lawers have always been on the look out for potential problems. For example, the sound sosumi (sp?) in the mac OS is the sound of a xylophone. However, when they were adding the sound to the system, Apple's lawers wanted the name changed to avoid any possible cultural insults, hence the new name, sosumi (for the people that haven't figured it out yet, it's read so-sue-me)
The old iBook (clamshell) got roughly 3 1/2 hours of MP3 playing + wordprocessing + websurfing. 4+ hours of sitting as an MP3 jukebox (car trip from Albany NY to Longisland) and would generaly get 3 1/2 to 4 hours of just about any other program. From what I hear from current owners, the new laptops are just as good and sometimes better. And all of my numbers are after 2 years of use
Except since all the vendors would be selling at razor thin profit margins, no one would take the risk of developing something new. As a good example, look at PCI and USB in the PC world. PCI has been arround for a long long time, but up until a few years ago, almost every PC MB that you bought had an ISA slot or two, no one was willing to kill the old system in favor of a new system.
The same thing happened with USB. Intel developed it and sat on it. A few computers had one here and there, but no one included it default, and it certainly wasn't used (still isn't used) as a primary port for keyboards and mice.
Having the high profit margins that they do, and being the only manufacturer of macs, Apple has the power to push products like USB, Firewire and PCI (though they didn't push PCI) into the market. Sometimes they do things way ahead of their time (LCD displays on the 20th aniversary mac, the cube, Newton) but a lot of good products come out of their risk taking.
You can't undo a copy to another disk via a key command. However if you accidentaly move a file, you can undo it with command Z in OS X or in classic it was command-Y (put away). AFAIK command y also works under OS X
On a laptop, a single button using modifier keys is a god send compared to multibutton. It's quick and responsive, and you don't have to worry about misclicking (some laptops just have the 2 buttons too close and too similar to tell without checking first). Not only that, but since you're on a laptop, your hands are always right by the keyboard, hitting the modifiers becomes second nature.
I get how if you shop through the software and buy through their program how the reffering benefits go to the P2P company, and that's reasonable enough for me, but how does it change refferer status on other orders? If I go to a small vendor's site, fill out and online orderform and click buy, how does the P2P program change the refferer tag in the online form, unless that's a form defined by the user? Or am I misssing something here?
You mean parents actualy have to start parenting? Good god, you must be insane! Surely we can't ask all these hard working souls who are holding down jobs and trying to keep the house clean and ensure their kids have enough money to go to Harvard to actualy watch their kids too? That's just too much.
His point was that the angre and anxiety demonstrated in most of the kids who isolate themselves is due more to the peers that they do interact with than the video games.
Why do we assume that if Apple changed chip manufacturers, they would also change platforms and architecture? It seems to me a much more likely senario that if Apple were to change processor vendors, they would either
A) develop a new architecture or B) continue development on the PPC architecture, just with a new company.
After all, IBM makes x86 chips, but they're developing PPC chips for Appple too. It seems to me that if Apple could provide them with the correct tools to do the job, AMD or another manufacturer would be happy to take on the extra revenue that the PPC chips could bring in. Assuming they can justify the R&D costs.
On a side note, if Apple does switch, it seems highly unlikely that they would switch to Intel. Maybe IBM, maybe AMD, but they've spent too much time bashing Intel that to switch over to them would be a worse PR move than the M$-Apple alliance.
Not to mention that being a niche player with decent profit margins allows Apple to make mistakes like the 20th anniversary Mac (very cool, too much price for too little hardware), the Cube (same thing), the Newton (way ahead of it's time), the iMac (until the iMac, USB was something only tech heads new about) and other such ventures. Sometimes it's good to be small.
The whole kidnapped vs murder bit was because at the time (and to an extent even today) nintendo was increasingly cencored and PC (as in politicaly correct). If I remember right, that was one of the reasons nintendo lost the FF series.
I personaly thought the port of Super Mario Borthers to the C64 was impressive. Raid over Moscow wasn't a favorite of mine, but there was a cool game (had raid in the title somewhere) you flew a hellicopter arround a "bay" sinking boats and tanks with your machine gun all while searching for this massive battle ship you were supposed to bob to oblivion before it was finished being constructed. Damn I wish I could get a good C64 emulator for the computer
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But is that the result of apple purposely trying to prevent you or simply differences in makes? I never bothered with YD, I worked on getting MkLinux to run, but if the problems are the same, I would assume it has more to do with hardware changes from model to model as compared to an actual attempt on Apple's part to stop you.
Difference is, Apple isn't preventing people from doing this. Note one of the comments in the article was something to the effect of (and I'm paraphrasing here) "We've neither recieved greif nor help from Apple" Meaning, they aren't going to crush you, but they're not going to ensure that your app works next time arround.
Ummm, to remove an apple bundled product, drag it to the trash, empty the trash. Not that hard to me. Boot into another OS? Install second OS, install boot manager, restart.
but harley can sue if you copy their sound.
Who forced you to buy the mac in the first place?
I'd wait on buying the TiBook anyways, they're due for a revamp soon, no point in buying now and then bitching in a few months when the $3,000 laptop you bought just became $1,500
I'm currently using XP on a desktop, and it's been my experience that it responds slower than Win 98 did. I can't immagine how it performs on a laptop.
I"m pretty sure that the reason the mac doesn't default play multiple region DVDs is due to legal issues. Even if it's not nessesarily a written law, Apple's lawers have always been on the look out for potential problems. For example, the sound sosumi (sp?) in the mac OS is the sound of a xylophone. However, when they were adding the sound to the system, Apple's lawers wanted the name changed to avoid any possible cultural insults, hence the new name, sosumi (for the people that haven't figured it out yet, it's read so-sue-me)
The old iBook (clamshell) got roughly 3 1/2 hours of MP3 playing + wordprocessing + websurfing. 4+ hours of sitting as an MP3 jukebox (car trip from Albany NY to Longisland) and would generaly get 3 1/2 to 4 hours of just about any other program. From what I hear from current owners, the new laptops are just as good and sometimes better. And all of my numbers are after 2 years of use
Except since all the vendors would be selling at razor thin profit margins, no one would take the risk of developing something new. As a good example, look at PCI and USB in the PC world. PCI has been arround for a long long time, but up until a few years ago, almost every PC MB that you bought had an ISA slot or two, no one was willing to kill the old system in favor of a new system.
The same thing happened with USB. Intel developed it and sat on it. A few computers had one here and there, but no one included it default, and it certainly wasn't used (still isn't used) as a primary port for keyboards and mice.
Having the high profit margins that they do, and being the only manufacturer of macs, Apple has the power to push products like USB, Firewire and PCI (though they didn't push PCI) into the market. Sometimes they do things way ahead of their time (LCD displays on the 20th aniversary mac, the cube, Newton) but a lot of good products come out of their risk taking.
You can't undo a copy to another disk via a key command. However if you accidentaly move a file, you can undo it with command Z in OS X or in classic it was command-Y (put away). AFAIK command y also works under OS X
1) Unplug your current 3 button mouse from your PC, or take one of the extras you probably have lying arround.
2) Plug it into the mac.
3) Go on with your life.
Option-click == save target as
On a laptop, a single button using modifier keys is a god send compared to multibutton. It's quick and responsive, and you don't have to worry about misclicking (some laptops just have the 2 buttons too close and too similar to tell without checking first). Not only that, but since you're on a laptop, your hands are always right by the keyboard, hitting the modifiers becomes second nature.
I thought there was an option in the terminal preferences under OSX to have the wd displayed in the titlebar.
I get how if you shop through the software and buy through their program how the reffering benefits go to the P2P company, and that's reasonable enough for me, but how does it change refferer status on other orders? If I go to a small vendor's site, fill out and online orderform and click buy, how does the P2P program change the refferer tag in the online form, unless that's a form defined by the user? Or am I misssing something here?
You mean parents actualy have to start parenting? Good god, you must be insane! Surely we can't ask all these hard working souls who are holding down jobs and trying to keep the house clean and ensure their kids have enough money to go to Harvard to actualy watch their kids too? That's just too much.
His point was that the angre and anxiety demonstrated in most of the kids who isolate themselves is due more to the peers that they do interact with than the video games.
Didn't mean to call it a mistake, though the originals were highly underpowered. It was however a big risk for Apple.
Why do we assume that if Apple changed chip manufacturers, they would also change platforms and architecture? It seems to me a much more likely senario that if Apple were to change processor vendors, they would either
A) develop a new architecture
or
B) continue development on the PPC architecture, just with a new company.
After all, IBM makes x86 chips, but they're developing PPC chips for Appple too. It seems to me that if Apple could provide them with the correct tools to do the job, AMD or another manufacturer would be happy to take on the extra revenue that the PPC chips could bring in. Assuming they can justify the R&D costs.
On a side note, if Apple does switch, it seems highly unlikely that they would switch to Intel. Maybe IBM, maybe AMD, but they've spent too much time bashing Intel that to switch over to them would be a worse PR move than the M$-Apple alliance.
Not to mention that being a niche player with decent profit margins allows Apple to make mistakes like the 20th anniversary Mac (very cool, too much price for too little hardware), the Cube (same thing), the Newton (way ahead of it's time), the iMac (until the iMac, USB was something only tech heads new about) and other such ventures. Sometimes it's good to be small.
The whole kidnapped vs murder bit was because at the time (and to an extent even today) nintendo was increasingly cencored and PC (as in politicaly correct). If I remember right, that was one of the reasons nintendo lost the FF series.
That's why we must all hate microsoft for buying Bungie. Damn them.
I personaly thought the port of Super Mario Borthers to the C64 was impressive. Raid over Moscow wasn't a favorite of mine, but there was a cool game (had raid in the title somewhere) you flew a hellicopter arround a "bay" sinking boats and tanks with your machine gun all while searching for this massive battle ship you were supposed to bob to oblivion before it was finished being constructed. Damn I wish I could get a good C64 emulator for the computer
Yeah, but would you trust that computer with your gamming experience?