My guess is that, while Apple may not "personally" mind the existence of playfair, they would have a strong incentive to remove it except maybe to keep people from using other digital players, they surely don't want it to exist because the RIAA may decide to force more stringent DRM for the next round of contract negotiations if playfair were to be easily accesible.
We'll see from apple's response to the plea from Real how much apple cares about using their DRM to keep things proprietary, but then, maybe not. Licensing to Real would mean more music attached to the iPod only.
No, they extended 98 for a while, but it looks like to only paying customers. I didn't read the page completely.
I think the point, if you notice, is that they refuse to install the latest OS on a refurbished PC. I think they hope to coax people, who now would feel "legit" since they have a valid license, to buy the upgrade to ME or XP.
My experience is pretty similar. When compiling a very large app with javac and building lots of jars all using ant, a 1GHz powerbook was nearly exactly the same speed as a desktop Athlon 1800 with a fast drive. The main speed problem on the PB was the hard disk being slower.
Swing is very fast in panther. I'm very satisfied with that. I use IntelliJ Idea, and that performs almost as well as a native App.
Eclipse works well too, but doesn't seem as peppy as IDEA. My experience is the opposite on Linux and Windows.
As for compatibility, I haven't had any trouble with that at all.
A friend of mine has a business helping people who are about to have their houses foreclosed on and/or with debts they can't manage. His business was booming while his site was at the top of the list on google for certain key words.
The company he was using to keep his google ratings up went out of business. It took him a while to find someone else, but in the mean time he nealy went out of business. He has never quite recovered from that.
I'm afraid chsh doesn't work on OSX. It seems to act like it will as it looks up the info correctly and shows it in vi, but changing the data doesn't change it in netinfo, which in the official copy. Maybe they fixed that in Panther. Anyone tried it?
Some earlier posts explain how to change the shell in netinfo.
The reason IE is slow on the Mac is the same reason Mozilla is slow in the mac. Carbon. Both browsers use a compatibility library to make old Mac OS 9 api code work in OS X with few changes. That library slows applcations down by quite a lot and makes them only able to access 32 character file names. Chimera, which uses a mozilla renderer recoded to the native cocoa api, runs extremely fast. The plugins have to use carbon as well in order to run in the browsers, so they, likewise, are slow.
I don't know if anyone else has seen this, but IE runs faster than mozilla on a G3, but the opposite seems to be true on a G4.
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We'll see from apple's response to the plea from Real how much apple cares about using their DRM to keep things proprietary, but then, maybe not. Licensing to Real would mean more music attached to the iPod only.
I think the point, if you notice, is that they refuse to install the latest OS on a refurbished PC. I think they hope to coax people, who now would feel "legit" since they have a valid license, to buy the upgrade to ME or XP.
And you misspelled "misspelled," but whatever. :-)
My experience is pretty similar. When compiling a very large app with javac and building lots of jars all using ant, a 1GHz powerbook was nearly exactly the same speed as a desktop Athlon 1800 with a fast drive. The main speed problem on the PB was the hard disk being slower.
Swing is very fast in panther. I'm very satisfied with that. I use IntelliJ Idea, and that performs almost as well as a native App.
Eclipse works well too, but doesn't seem as peppy as IDEA. My experience is the opposite on Linux and Windows.
As for compatibility, I haven't had any trouble with that at all.
The company he was using to keep his google ratings up went out of business. It took him a while to find someone else, but in the mean time he nealy went out of business. He has never quite recovered from that.
I'm afraid chsh doesn't work on OSX. It seems to act like it will as it looks up the info correctly and shows it in vi, but changing the data doesn't change it in netinfo, which in the official copy. Maybe they fixed that in Panther. Anyone tried it? Some earlier posts explain how to change the shell in netinfo.
The reason IE is slow on the Mac is the same reason Mozilla is slow in the mac. Carbon. Both browsers use a compatibility library to make old Mac OS 9 api code work in OS X with few changes. That library slows applcations down by quite a lot and makes them only able to access 32 character file names. Chimera, which uses a mozilla renderer recoded to the native cocoa api, runs extremely fast. The plugins have to use carbon as well in order to run in the browsers, so they, likewise, are slow.
I don't know if anyone else has seen this, but IE runs faster than mozilla on a G3, but the opposite seems to be true on a G4.
It's too bad Chimera is still being developed.