Saying "the Mac was never open" is up for interpretation. Is the OS closed source? Parts of it are, and parts of it are straight-up BSD. Does it mean you can't run unapproved apps? No, you can modify a lot of the underlying OS and run whatever apps you want.
OS X has an open-sourced kernel. You can install whatever you want on it. I can type./configure;make;make install or use one of the many apt tools out there Apple's Mac App Store announcement is no different than when they decided to make shelves at the Retail Stores.
Carter left it in his suit and had it sent for Dry-cleaning. Clinton was at a public event and when he left, the colonel who was carrying the football was left behind at the field.
FaceTime is using open, unencrypted protocols and is looking to share it and make it interoperate with others. Skype is proprietary closed-source that blocks competitors (like Fring).
FaceTime uses H.264, AAC, SIP, STUN, TURN, ICE, RTP, and SRTP. All open standard protocols that someone could make work with iPhones/iPods. I'm surprised nobody put together a Windows app to connect to them. Imagine how popular Oovoo would be against Skype if they had this feature
Fair enough. Some of the person-on-the-street interviews in 2004 I can no longer find, but there was more during his re-election.
"Why is this man in the White House? The majority of America did not vote for him. He's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this." General Jerry Boykin
"He is one of those men God and fate somehow lead to the fore in times of challenge," Governor George Pataki
"I think President Bush is God's man at this hour, and I say this with a great sense of humility." White House official Tim Goeglein
But Steve was thinking about something entirely different. He felt that the computer was going to change the world and it it was going to become what he called “the bicycle for the mind.”
Ah but they don't. There's no laws about who a doctor MUST see. There's plenty of doctors who refuse patients on Medicare or Medicaid. Look at the scandal this summer at how a doctor hung up a sign that said if you voted for Obama I won't take you as a patient. Nothing illegal about it, although it's dickish.
You oughta see the converse: right-wingers saying how Bush was ordained by God to be in the White House; how he beat all the odds in the first and second elections and pulled it all off because of prayer
Not really. Unlike the UK, almost all doctors in America are private practice doctors and not on government salary. The same with hospitals, a mix of private and local/state public hospitals. The health care reform legislation passed is mainly for insurance; the government won't change its control of doctors or which private plans people choose. So the government really isn't in charge of health care, although they've taken a more regulatory role in insurance.
Making new product lines is what made Apple stagnant in the 1990s. When Steve Jobs came back, he cut it all down to a simple product matrix of 4 items (now 6 if you lump all iOS devices together). I don't think they want to repeat that mess.
Interesting, but OS 9 had a ton of new features, it was way way more than a point release. Carbon libraries? Mulitple user support? File Encryption? AppleShare over IP? Keychain? Voiceprint login? Software Update?
Not really. Windows NT was written from scratch with security in mind; the current incarnations of Windows are from that base OS OS X and Linux were derived from UNIX roots which had internal user security policies as some of the first parts of the OS
The actual announcement said "To protect your information, this feature is only available after confirming your password and answering appropriate security questions."
I'm not sure what that will involve, but if it's like the security challenge they've been doing when you sign in from abroad, you have to correctly tag 8 of your friends in unlabeled photos.
When you sell hammers, all your problems look like nails.
Sure, IT people see better IT as the best way to save money. Public Health officials see better public health as the best way to save money. Envrionmentalists see Green Tech as the best way to save money. I could keep going down the list.
Then the system is extremely broken. I'm a volunteer EMT, and despite being in the Red financially, our department is paid a small amount by the town to help the collective residents. Heck, you don't even have to be a resident, just get injured within the town limits.
Ben Franklin started one of the first Fire Brigades; you paid the fee, they put a plaque on your home, if the plaque was present then the firefighters would put the fire out. I don't like the idea that we didn't advance a lot further than then.
It's "common knowledge" that carriers fight all this stuff, because it both cuts into their call profits and relegates them to just "dumb pipes."
Why are they so against being dumb pipes? Have they ever really offered specialized or differentiating services? I think only Verizon ever offered something like VCast or carrier-specific apps, right?
Inductive transfer is both untested in terms of human use (I think), and you want something that can stay Firmly in place, not fall off if you happen to change your shirt.
"I'd freak out if my heart were powered by something strapped around my waist."
Better hope you don't get frisked by an overzealous cop, or a rough TSA agent. There was a/. story many years ago about a guy who sued claiming they tore his "prosthetics" off.
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Well the alternative is iTunes
I said kernel, which is more open than Windows.
Saying "the Mac was never open" is up for interpretation. Is the OS closed source? Parts of it are, and parts of it are straight-up BSD. Does it mean you can't run unapproved apps? No, you can modify a lot of the underlying OS and run whatever apps you want.
...When they released the kernel source under an open-source license?
Au contraire, Apple has over 20% of all PC sales now
Hard to believe everyone's buying the troll.
OS X has an open-sourced kernel. You can install whatever you want on it. I can type ./configure ;make ;make install or use one of the many apt tools out there
Apple's Mac App Store announcement is no different than when they decided to make shelves at the Retail Stores.
It's happened before. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
Carter left it in his suit and had it sent for Dry-cleaning. Clinton was at a public event and when he left, the colonel who was carrying the football was left behind at the field.
Apple showed the list of protocols in FaceTime during the keynote.
They said they want it to be an open standard. It's not an encrypted protocol.
FaceTime is using open, unencrypted protocols and is looking to share it and make it interoperate with others. Skype is proprietary closed-source that blocks competitors (like Fring).
FaceTime uses H.264, AAC, SIP, STUN, TURN, ICE, RTP, and SRTP. All open standard protocols that someone could make work with iPhones/iPods. I'm surprised nobody put together a Windows app to connect to them. Imagine how popular Oovoo would be against Skype if they had this feature
Fair enough. Some of the person-on-the-street interviews in 2004 I can no longer find, but there was more during his re-election.
"Why is this man in the White House? The majority of America did not vote for him. He's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this." General Jerry Boykin
"He is one of those men God and fate somehow lead to the fore in times of challenge," Governor George Pataki
"I think President Bush is God's man at this hour, and I say this with a great sense of humility." White House official Tim Goeglein
Palin is now going the same direction: Bush, Palin Both Think They're Chosen By God
But Steve was thinking about something entirely different. He felt that the computer was going to change the world and it it was going to become what he called “the bicycle for the mind.”
There's a backstory to that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VisNJDd51zA
Ah but they don't. There's no laws about who a doctor MUST see. There's plenty of doctors who refuse patients on Medicare or Medicaid. Look at the scandal this summer at how a doctor hung up a sign that said if you voted for Obama I won't take you as a patient. Nothing illegal about it, although it's dickish.
You oughta see the converse: right-wingers saying how Bush was ordained by God to be in the White House; how he beat all the odds in the first and second elections and pulled it all off because of prayer
It could be worse. Remember when Bush appeared on Deal or No Deal? It just was so unnecessary
Not really. Unlike the UK, almost all doctors in America are private practice doctors and not on government salary. The same with hospitals, a mix of private and local/state public hospitals. The health care reform legislation passed is mainly for insurance; the government won't change its control of doctors or which private plans people choose. So the government really isn't in charge of health care, although they've taken a more regulatory role in insurance.
Making new product lines is what made Apple stagnant in the 1990s. When Steve Jobs came back, he cut it all down to a simple product matrix of 4 items (now 6 if you lump all iOS devices together). I don't think they want to repeat that mess.
Interesting, but OS 9 had a ton of new features, it was way way more than a point release. Carbon libraries? Mulitple user support? File Encryption? AppleShare over IP? Keychain? Voiceprint login? Software Update?
Iran is being spied upon. And in other news, horoscopes are fake and pie is delicious.
Not really.
Windows NT was written from scratch with security in mind; the current incarnations of Windows are from that base OS
OS X and Linux were derived from UNIX roots which had internal user security policies as some of the first parts of the OS
Apple was building a $1Billion server farm on the property in North Carolina. Clearly they were the last holdout.
The actual announcement said "To protect your information, this feature is only available after confirming your password and answering appropriate security questions."
I'm not sure what that will involve, but if it's like the security challenge they've been doing when you sign in from abroad, you have to correctly tag 8 of your friends in unlabeled photos.
When you sell hammers, all your problems look like nails.
Sure, IT people see better IT as the best way to save money. Public Health officials see better public health as the best way to save money. Envrionmentalists see Green Tech as the best way to save money. I could keep going down the list.
Then the system is extremely broken. I'm a volunteer EMT, and despite being in the Red financially, our department is paid a small amount by the town to help the collective residents. Heck, you don't even have to be a resident, just get injured within the town limits.
Ben Franklin started one of the first Fire Brigades; you paid the fee, they put a plaque on your home, if the plaque was present then the firefighters would put the fire out.
I don't like the idea that we didn't advance a lot further than then.
It's "common knowledge" that carriers fight all this stuff, because it both cuts into their call profits and relegates them to just "dumb pipes."
Why are they so against being dumb pipes? Have they ever really offered specialized or differentiating services? I think only Verizon ever offered something like VCast or carrier-specific apps, right?
Inductive transfer is both untested in terms of human use (I think), and you want something that can stay Firmly in place, not fall off if you happen to change your shirt.
"I'd freak out if my heart were powered by something strapped around my waist."
Better hope you don't get frisked by an overzealous cop, or a rough TSA agent. There was a /. story many years ago about a guy who sued claiming they tore his "prosthetics" off.