I thought Microsoft won that one because of a clause in an agreement with Apple allowing Microsoft to use Apple's look and feel in "Windows and future products" or something, and there was a dispute over how far-reaching that was? At any rate, I know the battle was over the technicalities of a pre-arranged agreement rather than simply MS copying Apple.
Remember, too, that their reasons for selling these things in the first place were somewhat vague, given the pricing. Maybe someone finally woke up and said "Oh, wait, nobody's going to buy these things at this price". Their decision to not go through with this after all certainly makes more sense than the decision to do it in the first place.
I thnk they specify "for Jaguar" to make it clear that you can only use this update if you have Jaguar (as opposed to being able to install it over a copy of, say, 10.1.5).
Are we allowed to use technical solutions to alleviate some of the hassle of the social problem until somebody with power to actually do something ets off their butt and uses a real solution?
Half a billion tags is probably close to the total number of RFID tags in use today. "People couldn't stop talking about it over lunch," says one person present, who didn't want to be identified.
Do those two sentences right next to each other strike anyone as unbelievably funny?
Red Hat also has people who won't eat if they don't meet a schedule. Debian is maintained entirely by people who can only devote extra time to the project--extra time being defined as time that doesn't help support them.
So it would be better to allow draconian copy protection measures to be implemented by a different politician who is equally focused on the same thing? Hmm....
"In a statement, the Louisiana Republican said the lack of progress meant that government might have to step in.
'While we prefer marketplace solutions, clearly it's time for us to provide leadership in this area,' Tauzin said. "
HFS+ support for Linux is almost non-existant. There are tools to do it, but they're kludgy. HFS (no plus) is supported, IIRC. Your best bet may be to have a separate HFS partition and use it as a temporary storage disk--mount it in OS X, copy files to it, mount it in Linux, get the files off, copy any Linux files you need in OS X to it, etc.
The official client on Mac OS X sucks, too, and they have to know it, but Adium still won't work every once in a while, and it even uses the damned TOC servers.
That screenshot is Linux running Mac OS running VPC. The parent said:
"So now I can run MacOS X running Virtual PC running Linux running MOL"...meaning that Linux would be inside VPC. Meaning it would have to be an intel distro. Meaning that MOL wouldn't run. Sorry.
"if we add AI to the mix we can remove the driving control from vehicles and keep the braindead morons that populate and clog and smear themselves all over the highways from trying to use the feeble mind of theirs to control that vehicle in a safe manner"
Except that this system is supposed to imitate the behavior of the people whose efforts it's supposed to take over. Meaning that we'd have even MORE crashes, because the computers would "learn" that crashes are the right way to drive and then auger into a cement wall on EVERY TRIP.
Of course, careful marketing would downplay this type of problem.
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I thought Microsoft won that one because of a clause in an agreement with Apple allowing Microsoft to use Apple's look and feel in "Windows and future products" or something, and there was a dispute over how far-reaching that was? At any rate, I know the battle was over the technicalities of a pre-arranged agreement rather than simply MS copying Apple.
Nitpicky, but the PC version of Starcraft lets you select up to 12 units at once. Warcraft 2 was limited to nine, though.
This is assuming, of course, that real meatspace humans have the same lifespan that we experience in the world today...
Remember, too, that their reasons for selling these things in the first place were somewhat vague, given the pricing. Maybe someone finally woke up and said "Oh, wait, nobody's going to buy these things at this price". Their decision to not go through with this after all certainly makes more sense than the decision to do it in the first place.
It works, kind of, but not very well, not on Flash 5 files (or maybe it was 6), and sound doesn't work well. Other than that, it's just fine.
Which is why he _asked_ if that was the problem. Read.
I thnk they specify "for Jaguar" to make it clear that you can only use this update if you have Jaguar (as opposed to being able to install it over a copy of, say, 10.1.5).
Are we allowed to use technical solutions to alleviate some of the hassle of the social problem until somebody with power to actually do something ets off their butt and uses a real solution?
Half a billion tags is probably close to the total number of RFID tags in use today. "People couldn't stop talking about it over lunch," says one person present, who didn't want to be identified.
Do those two sentences right next to each other strike anyone as unbelievably funny?
Nope. MOL is a virtual machine, not an emulator. It only runs on PPC versions of Linux. (Bummer.)
Region X lets you change the region code, and here is a collection of region-free firmware, as well as another link to Region X.
Red Hat also has people who won't eat if they don't meet a schedule. Debian is maintained entirely by people who can only devote extra time to the project--extra time being defined as time that doesn't help support them.
Region-Free Firmware. They also have tools for changing regions on another page.
So it would be better to allow draconian copy protection measures to be implemented by a different politician who is equally focused on the same thing? Hmm....
Care to explain what that was, since a backdoor in a major OS would normally be huge news?
"In a statement, the Louisiana Republican said the lack of progress meant that government might have to step in. 'While we prefer marketplace solutions, clearly it's time for us to provide leadership in this area,' Tauzin said. "
I wonder if the ink on his check is dry yet?
HFS+ support for Linux is almost non-existant. There are tools to do it, but they're kludgy. HFS (no plus) is supported, IIRC. Your best bet may be to have a separate HFS partition and use it as a temporary storage disk--mount it in OS X, copy files to it, mount it in Linux, get the files off, copy any Linux files you need in OS X to it, etc.
The official client on Mac OS X sucks, too, and they have to know it, but Adium still won't work every once in a while, and it even uses the damned TOC servers.
Could this be a sign of huge hardware changes that OS 9 won't support, and that they don't want to spend the resources on making 9 support them?
:)
G5? At last?
That screenshot is Linux running Mac OS running VPC. The parent said:
...meaning that Linux would be inside VPC. Meaning it would have to be an intel distro. Meaning that MOL wouldn't run. Sorry.
"So now I can run MacOS X running Virtual PC running Linux running MOL"
"if we add AI to the mix we can remove the driving control from vehicles and keep the braindead morons that populate and clog and smear themselves all over the highways from trying to use the feeble mind of theirs to control that vehicle in a safe manner"
Except that this system is supposed to imitate the behavior of the people whose efforts it's supposed to take over. Meaning that we'd have even MORE crashes, because the computers would "learn" that crashes are the right way to drive and then auger into a cement wall on EVERY TRIP.
Of course, careful marketing would downplay this type of problem.
Because they flush every time you lean forward and splash water all over your bottom.
"One NAI exec envisions "the government using it to investigate employees and hackers." "
How is that use as a government tool?
No, he was talking about suse.
Or run OS X in MOL (Mac-on-Linux). I hear 0.9.64 has much better support for Unices.