A $500 item is nothing for an industy that'll spend millions for a few actors, or a few seconds of SFX, or constructing a huge set that's only used for one scene.
Heck, I'll bet the daily catering bill alone could buy hundreds of iPods.
When McDonough visits Apple, for example, many of the initial questions about a product are about the user experience -- how it looks and feels, why a certain color was chosen, or how a given button works. At Microsoft, conversations tend to start with the underlying technology, or what kinds of protocols were used.
Heck, that explains the design difference between Apple vs. the rest of the PC world (including Windows and Linux).
Er. The "pound" is the British unit of currency, although if the US$ gets further devalued against other currencies (particularly the Euro), you'll soon need a "pound" of US money to be worth anything.
I mean, if you think of software as only needing x amount of functionality in the first place, with little or no noticable productivity gains seen from upgradeing to the next major version, the question will pop up; Why upgrade at all?
It was a feature of quicktime 4, which had an "autoplay" feature enabled by default.
Eventually a prolific worm got spread around that way--autostart 9805 -- through many prepress and design houses.
After that, many people just turned off autoplay, since it was lame window-ism feature that no mac developer ever took advantage of anyways...
(Mac users expect to insert a disk and wait for it to mount up on the desktop, then proceed to open it and do whatever they intended to do --run the installer, or copy a file, etc).
The following versions of quicktime no longer had that "feature".
There's the same problems with commercial software too: Almost all software need to be tailored for a particular business-- I've never heard of a complex off the shelf business app that worked no problem (unless the owner structure his business around the app; which is a lame way to run a business).
Take for instance MS Access. It's WAY too complex for the general office worker to build an invoice/ordering system with it. A lot of people end up poking around with it, trying to understand and use it without the benefit of any basic database skills or knowledge... Eventually they end up hiring a DB developer to build an app, or they outsource it to someone else.
Now how is this any different then hiring someone to use open source tools (like PostgreSQL, tck/tk, PHP) for the same result?
My computer's gonna have hard time figuring idle hours when it's turned OFF.
Some of those (like I) have our PC in our bedroom. The last thing I want to hear while I'm half asleep is the drone of computer fans. God knows I hear enough of that during the day.
Doesn't the EULA specifically state that Windows is not certified for any mission critical (lives at stake) type of apps? -- You know, medical devices, air traffic control, nuclear power plants, etc..
So why is it still being used? Do the VARs that are making and selling such devices assume the full liability that MS is sheilded from?
This might lend some power to the palladium protocol (nothing's impregnable, but the guff is pretty air-tight) - "get rid of all viruses and trojans" - can now be replaced with "protect your children from being brutalized and their pictures sold to sickos all over the world while you rot in jail forever"?
Yeah, but Palladium can also be used to protect child porn rings. All they have to do is set it up a trustworthy network with their fellow ped's, and all transmissions and data will be encrypted.
Even if FBI busts them, the evidence would be hard to retrieve without a password. (And suspected ped's could plead the 5th instead of giving it to them).
Perhaps community wireless networks relays may...
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return us to the that age of localized community forum..
If enough people within a populated area run an open wireless hub, a community 'freenet' can be built across a small city or town.
Notebooks are different in that they tend to be all-in-one solutions, so they tend to include the OS whether you like it or not.
The only way to assemble one is if there's a commodity hardware standard for notebooks or subnotebooks... but there's little chance of that happening since much of the size advantages of subnotebooks is a result of the tight intergration that an all-in-one solution affords.
So you're pretty much stuck buying something OEM.
Personally I can't see why you shy from an iBook. With an iBook, you're paying for Mac OS X anyways.. Although nothing is stopping you from installing Linux on it- once you give OS X a shot you'll probrobly won't need to.
Well aside from ROM issues and hardware mobo emulation (you need the mobo specs, and Apple doesn't openly publish it), you'd need to emulate a PPC cpu.
Anyone familiar with PPC and x86-32 ISA's would see the problem with emulating a G4 with x86: the G4 has a lot more registers then x86: 32x 32-bit int, 32x 64-bit float, 8x 32-bit addr, 32x 128-bit vector.
How do you emulate a PPC CPU at a reasonable speed when you have to swap the registers into cache after every opcode? And how do you effectivly emulate very complex SIMD ops that execute in a G4 in one cycle (such as vector permute) while x86 SIMD has no equivalent opcode?
I'm not saying it's impossible, but if it takes a 3Ghz P4 to emulate the speed of an original iMac PPC (233Mhz), that wouldn't be very useful.
PPC? It was 64-bit since inception.
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The original specs for POWER/PowerPC CPU's were 64/32 bit anyways. This was set in stone over 10 years ago.
The great thing is that PPC-64 is that it's natively code compatible with PPC-32. No ISA 'extentions' (like x86-64), or instruction convertion (like Itanium), just a simple processor mode switch.
Apple would be a fool not to jump on this CPU for their high-end workstations or low cost servers.
This is about putting digital TUNERS in ordinary Wal-mart style TV sets.
Since ordinary TV sets are just display devices, recordability isn't an issue.
Find me a cheap mass-marketed consumer TV with video OUTPUT ports.
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A $500 item is nothing for an industy that'll spend millions for a few actors, or a few seconds of SFX, or constructing a huge set that's only used for one scene.
Heck, I'll bet the daily catering bill alone could buy hundreds of iPods.
When McDonough visits Apple, for example, many of the initial questions about a product are about the user experience -- how it looks and feels, why a certain color was chosen, or how a given button works. At Microsoft, conversations tend to start with the underlying technology, or what kinds of protocols were used.
Heck, that explains the design difference between Apple vs. the rest of the PC world (including Windows and Linux).
Out of the entire computer programming population, what percentage are producing shink-wrapped retail productivity software?
Er. The "pound" is the British unit of currency, although if the US$ gets further devalued against other currencies (particularly the Euro), you'll soon need a "pound" of US money to be worth anything.
and MS has locked up the market in such a way that many people think:
"word processor" = MS Word
"spreadsheet" = Excel
"presentation software" = Powerpoint
"personal computer" = Any PC running Microsoft OS
Um... Steve Jobs had nothing to do with Apple when the Quadra 840AV was released.
At that time, Jobs was busy with NeXT & Pixar.
Exactly, but when the licensing charge hits you that hard, you might as well look into spending that $ into switching to a FOSS solution instead.
Yah, but a good thing about using open source is that the training is a one time cost rather then an ongoing expense every 3 years or so.
In fact, you could replace componates independantly of each other.. Upgrading the kernel while keeping the same office suite.
FOSS change tend to be more evolutionary rather then a total featureset/UI overhaul.
My only quibble about FOSS is that many of it's UI design influences is clearly taken from Windows, which by itself is designed pretty horribly.
I mean, if you think of software as only needing x amount of functionality in the first place, with little or no noticable productivity gains seen from upgradeing to the next major version, the question will pop up; Why upgrade at all?
It was a feature of quicktime 4, which had an "autoplay" feature enabled by default.
Eventually a prolific worm got spread around that way--autostart 9805 -- through many prepress and design houses.
After that, many people just turned off autoplay, since it was lame window-ism feature that no mac developer ever took advantage of anyways... (Mac users expect to insert a disk and wait for it to mount up on the desktop, then proceed to open it and do whatever they intended to do --run the installer, or copy a file, etc).
The following versions of quicktime no longer had that "feature".
So protection from software IP has nothing to do with their business.
It makes as much sense as offering protection if Windows is found to have stolen IP..
There's the same problems with commercial software too: Almost all software need to be tailored for a particular business-- I've never heard of a complex off the shelf business app that worked no problem (unless the owner structure his business around the app; which is a lame way to run a business).
Take for instance MS Access. It's WAY too complex for the general office worker to build an invoice/ordering system with it. A lot of people end up poking around with it, trying to understand and use it without the benefit of any basic database skills or knowledge... Eventually they end up hiring a DB developer to build an app, or they outsource it to someone else.
Now how is this any different then hiring someone to use open source tools (like PostgreSQL, tck/tk, PHP) for the same result?
My computer's gonna have hard time figuring idle hours when it's turned OFF.
Some of those (like I) have our PC in our bedroom. The last thing I want to hear while I'm half asleep is the drone of computer fans. God knows I hear enough of that during the day.
Doesn't the EULA specifically state that Windows is not certified for any mission critical (lives at stake) type of apps? -- You know, medical devices, air traffic control, nuclear power plants, etc..
So why is it still being used? Do the VARs that are making and selling such devices assume the full liability that MS is sheilded from?
Palladium will become their best solution to keep from getting caught.
Imagine a trusted network for ped's! All their content encrypted, from internet transit all the way down to the hard drive platters.
This might lend some power to the palladium protocol (nothing's impregnable, but the guff is pretty air-tight) - "get rid of all viruses and trojans" - can now be replaced with "protect your children from being brutalized and their pictures sold to sickos all over the world while you rot in jail forever"? Yeah, but Palladium can also be used to protect child porn rings. All they have to do is set it up a trustworthy network with their fellow ped's, and all transmissions and data will be encrypted. Even if FBI busts them, the evidence would be hard to retrieve without a password. (And suspected ped's could plead the 5th instead of giving it to them).
return us to the that age of localized community forum..
If enough people within a populated area run an open wireless hub, a community 'freenet' can be built across a small city or town.
I think he ment $20K including the car. A good used miata can be had for $14K, the turbo kit is another $3-5K (depending on how fancy you want it).
Notebooks are different in that they tend to be all-in-one solutions, so they tend to include the OS whether you like it or not.
The only way to assemble one is if there's a commodity hardware standard for notebooks or subnotebooks... but there's little chance of that happening since much of the size advantages of subnotebooks is a result of the tight intergration that an all-in-one solution affords.
So you're pretty much stuck buying something OEM.
Personally I can't see why you shy from an iBook. With an iBook, you're paying for Mac OS X anyways.. Although nothing is stopping you from installing Linux on it- once you give OS X a shot you'll probrobly won't need to.
Well aside from ROM issues and hardware mobo emulation (you need the mobo specs, and Apple doesn't openly publish it), you'd need to emulate a PPC cpu. Anyone familiar with PPC and x86-32 ISA's would see the problem with emulating a G4 with x86: the G4 has a lot more registers then x86: 32x 32-bit int, 32x 64-bit float, 8x 32-bit addr, 32x 128-bit vector. How do you emulate a PPC CPU at a reasonable speed when you have to swap the registers into cache after every opcode? And how do you effectivly emulate very complex SIMD ops that execute in a G4 in one cycle (such as vector permute) while x86 SIMD has no equivalent opcode? I'm not saying it's impossible, but if it takes a 3Ghz P4 to emulate the speed of an original iMac PPC (233Mhz), that wouldn't be very useful.
The original specs for POWER/PowerPC CPU's were 64/32 bit anyways. This was set in stone over 10 years ago.
The great thing is that PPC-64 is that it's natively code compatible with PPC-32. No ISA 'extentions' (like x86-64), or instruction convertion (like Itanium), just a simple processor mode switch.
Apple would be a fool not to jump on this CPU for their high-end workstations or low cost servers.
This is about putting digital TUNERS in ordinary Wal-mart style TV sets. Since ordinary TV sets are just display devices, recordability isn't an issue. Find me a cheap mass-marketed consumer TV with video OUTPUT ports.