There's two problems with that theory. First, there's no reason Apple couldn't bolt on DRM to PowerPC. Second, the majority of active Macs will be PPC until at least 2008, probably longer, so I don't see Apple restricting iTMS to x86 anytime remotely soon. Regardless of DRM issues, Apple is still in urgent need of competitive laptop CPUs (and the "low-power" 970FX is not it), so Occam's razor still holds.
Sorry, I did. After saying he doesn't blame porn for what he did, he proceeds to blame porn for what he did, with Dobson's encouragement. "It snatched me out of my home 20 or 30 years ago" - sure, Ted was perfectly normal and healthy until he saw boobies in Playboy. You may think it's a scourge on society, but hundreds of millions of people look at naked pictures on the Internet and do not subsequently commit rape and murder. There are much more serious threats than porn, such as government censorship and imposition of religous beliefs at gunpoint.
The problem with switching to a sales tax is it totally hammers the poor who spend most of their income to survive and so are heavily taxed
Every national sales tax proposal includes a universal rebate, where every taxpayer gets a check from the government every month which covers the tax on spending up to the poverty level or thereabouts. The poor would have a very low effective tax rate, often zero or negative. See the FairTax site for more details.
You can give sale tax exemptions for food, and other essentials, but then you are back to a situation where the government is picking winners and losers
Yes, government-granted exemptions would be a bad idea.
On the other hand, you are willfully deceiving yourself if you believe that President Gore would have reacted to 9/11 by having a useless penis size contest with Saddam Hussein
Serbia.
or by sanctioning what is currently happening at Gitmo
Waco.
There is a difference, albeit smaller than most of us would like and Bush counts on the fact that many people will discount that and either not vote or vote for hopeless third parties as some kind of "statement" that in the end means nothing.
False. Core image is disabled if the GPU can't support it. It just doesn't work.
Absolutely incorrect. CoreImage works just fine without GPU support. You don't get the Dashboard ripple because it specifically checks for GPU acceleration and disables the effect if it's not available.
It will also be interesting to see how many of the Mac users decide that dual booting is too much trouble, and just stick with Windows
Approximately zero existing Mac users. If they wanted to run Windows, they'd have PCs already. Now, some future customers may buy Mactels so they can check out OS X, and then decide to go back to Windows full time, but that's still a win for Apple since they'll get profits from the hardware.
Prediction: Apple stops supporting their own OS and becomes a high-end hardware vendor and iPod seller
No. Steve has no interest in being a Microsoft thrall.
Tell you what: in a normal world, if Adobe Premiere Pro isn't worth 800 to you, you don't buy it, and you certainly don't steal it. Period.
I'm disappointed at how many people here go along with the BSA/**AA line. Duplication is not theft. It may be illegal, and it may be wrong, but there is a clear difference.
The only reason Apple used it instead of a plain BSD kernel is Avie Tevanian and the NIH syndrome.
Well, that and even though Mach is clunky, it was already working in the Next/OpenStep code that Apple acquired. Replacing it with a traditional kernel would have been a lot of work for not a lot of benefit.
Maybe a good rule would be for every year worked, the company must pay a pension of 2.5% of that years salary, adjusted for inflation.
Immediate result: base salaries go down 2.5%. Nothing's stopping you from saving on your own. (Actually high taxes, particularly the regressive payroll tax can make it hard, but if you're willing to make tradeoffs it can still be done).
My boss swears Tiger is slower than 10.3 on his 15" powerbook.
Could be a RAM issue. Tiger probably uses more memory than Panther due to stuff like Dashboard and Spotlight, so if you start swapping there could be a performance hit, especially on laptops with their slow drives.
The reason for the conspiracy theories is that your assertion about G5s being slow is just false.
Yes and no. The G5 is competitive in desktop Macs. But for laptops, the Pentium-M slaughters the G4 today, and Intel's upcoming dual-core Yonah will do the same to the "low power" 1.6GHz 970FX. Because the market is moving towards portables that's a big problem for Apple, and moving to Intel solves it.
However, knowing the people in Congress, such a "Corporation Control Act" would not serve to control corporations. Instead it would give ultimate control of the country to corporations. It's all in how you read the title.
Actually, it doesn't matter what the original intent was, the end result would be as you describe. See regulatory capture.
The Libertarian Party opposes the Iraq war, and generally opposes the death penalty. (Specifically, they oppose "death-qualified" juries, where jurors who would never vote for execution are disqualified from capital cases).
I'll admit to not knowing a lot about the LP, but I hope they can at least be consistent.
See here for their positions. I'm a small-l libertarian and disagree with the LP on a number of issues, but in general they are very consistent.
I was going to post a similar message about Deus Ex, but you nailed it. Fantastic gameplay, and what I considered to be a libertarian viewpoint: strong central government led to tyranny and oppression, and the gun nuts turned out to be the good guys.
But maintaining Cocoa-Java means they need to create a Java facade for the Objective-C APIs, and they need to create Java equivalents for C constructs and Objective-C Categories which don't quite map cleanly onto Java.
Exactly. It's much easier for Objective-C to call Java than vice versa because all ObjC method calls are resolved at runtime. (Which allows an ObjC proxy object to take the invocation and transparently forward it to a Java object). Note that more dynamic languages can be better integrated with Cocoa, for example see PyObjC.
Apple's new x86 hardware will not permit other OSes to run on their platform
Apple has no reason to do this. If you buy a Mactel and then run Windows or Linux on it, Apple has still made their profit off of you. This is in contrast to OS X on commodity PCs, which they will definitely (try and fail to) block, because $130 OS X sales don't come close to making up for the loss of hardware revenue.
I'm kind of surprised that Apple hasn't yet latched onto the idea of using the Mac Mini as a media center PC, but maybe that's still coming.
I expect to see something like that in the future. One problem is that the mini (as well as the iBook and Powerbook) isn't fast enough to decode full screen HDTV or H.264 video, which I suspect is a major reason for the Intel switch.
I think IBM had the ability to produce chips that were what Apple wanted in terms of power (as the article points out - the newer batch of PowerPC chips are more like what they want).
Not really. A 1.6GHz 970FX won't match up well against a dual-core Yonah, especially for integer operations.
Better support for DRM type stuff in the processor.
The 3GHz promise is completely irrelevant to the Intel switch. In the last two years, IBM has gone from 2.0 to 2.7GHz, which a proportionally larger increase than Intel going from 3.0 to 3.8. Everybody ran into the same problems at 90nm; it's not a case of IBM dropping the ball. The real motivation is laptop chips, where the Pentium-M trounces the G4 today, and Yonah will easily beat a 970FX at 1.6GHz.
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There's two problems with that theory. First, there's no reason Apple couldn't bolt on DRM to PowerPC. Second, the majority of active Macs will be PPC until at least 2008, probably longer, so I don't see Apple restricting iTMS to x86 anytime remotely soon. Regardless of DRM issues, Apple is still in urgent need of competitive laptop CPUs (and the "low-power" 970FX is not it), so Occam's razor still holds.
Please read what you reply to.
Sorry, I did. After saying he doesn't blame porn for what he did, he proceeds to blame porn for what he did, with Dobson's encouragement. "It snatched me out of my home 20 or 30 years ago" - sure, Ted was perfectly normal and healthy until he saw boobies in Playboy. You may think it's a scourge on society, but hundreds of millions of people look at naked pictures on the Internet and do not subsequently commit rape and murder. There are much more serious threats than porn, such as government censorship and imposition of religous beliefs at gunpoint.
The problem with switching to a sales tax is it totally hammers the poor who spend most of their income to survive and so are heavily taxed
Every national sales tax proposal includes a universal rebate, where every taxpayer gets a check from the government every month which covers the tax on spending up to the poverty level or thereabouts. The poor would have a very low effective tax rate, often zero or negative. See the FairTax site for more details.
You can give sale tax exemptions for food, and other essentials, but then you are back to a situation where the government is picking winners and losers
Yes, government-granted exemptions would be a bad idea.
For an interesting testimony on what pornography can do, read this interview with Ted Bundy
1. I somehow doubt Ted Bundy is representative of the average human being, or the average consumer of porn.
2. Given a choice between saying "I'm an evil scumbag" or "the porn made me do it", which do you think he'll pick?
On the other hand, you are willfully deceiving yourself if you believe that President Gore would have reacted to 9/11 by having a useless penis size contest with Saddam Hussein
Serbia.
or by sanctioning what is currently happening at Gitmo
Waco.
There is a difference, albeit smaller than most of us would like and Bush counts on the fact that many people will discount that and either not vote or vote for hopeless third parties as some kind of "statement" that in the end means nothing.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
BTW does anyone out there have any experience deploying WO on a non-Apple platform? I'd love to hear about your experiences.
We deploy on RedHat. It works fine once you have the startup scripts in place to launch the WO services.
False. Core image is disabled if the GPU can't support it. It just doesn't work.
Absolutely incorrect. CoreImage works just fine without GPU support. You don't get the Dashboard ripple because it specifically checks for GPU acceleration and disables the effect if it's not available.
It will also be interesting to see how many of the Mac users decide that dual booting is too much trouble, and just stick with Windows
Approximately zero existing Mac users. If they wanted to run Windows, they'd have PCs already. Now, some future customers may buy Mactels so they can check out OS X, and then decide to go back to Windows full time, but that's still a win for Apple since they'll get profits from the hardware.
Prediction: Apple stops supporting their own OS and becomes a high-end hardware vendor and iPod seller
No. Steve has no interest in being a Microsoft thrall.
Tell you what: in a normal world, if Adobe Premiere Pro isn't worth 800 to you, you don't buy it, and you certainly don't steal it. Period.
I'm disappointed at how many people here go along with the BSA/**AA line. Duplication is not theft. It may be illegal, and it may be wrong, but there is a clear difference.
The only reason Apple used it instead of a plain BSD kernel is Avie Tevanian and the NIH syndrome.
Well, that and even though Mach is clunky, it was already working in the Next/OpenStep code that Apple acquired. Replacing it with a traditional kernel would have been a lot of work for not a lot of benefit.
Maybe a good rule would be for every year worked, the company must pay a pension of 2.5% of that years salary, adjusted for inflation.
Immediate result: base salaries go down 2.5%. Nothing's stopping you from saving on your own. (Actually high taxes, particularly the regressive payroll tax can make it hard, but if you're willing to make tradeoffs it can still be done).
My boss swears Tiger is slower than 10.3 on his 15" powerbook.
Could be a RAM issue. Tiger probably uses more memory than Panther due to stuff like Dashboard and Spotlight, so if you start swapping there could be a performance hit, especially on laptops with their slow drives.
The reason for the conspiracy theories is that your assertion about G5s being slow is just false.
Yes and no. The G5 is competitive in desktop Macs. But for laptops, the Pentium-M slaughters the G4 today, and Intel's upcoming dual-core Yonah will do the same to the "low power" 1.6GHz 970FX. Because the market is moving towards portables that's a big problem for Apple, and moving to Intel solves it.
However, it seems like the real threat to the rights of American citizens is coming from the big corporations and not the government.
Disney didn't pass the DMCA.
However, knowing the people in Congress, such a "Corporation Control Act" would not serve to control corporations. Instead it would give ultimate control of the country to corporations. It's all in how you read the title.
Actually, it doesn't matter what the original intent was, the end result would be as you describe. See regulatory capture.
talking about it all over the net is potentially injurious to profit margins, so you can't blame them for trying to keep you from talking
Writing a negative review after the book was "officially" released would also be potentially injurious to their profits. So what.
The Libertarian Party opposes the Iraq war, and generally opposes the death penalty. (Specifically, they oppose "death-qualified" juries, where jurors who would never vote for execution are disqualified from capital cases).
I'll admit to not knowing a lot about the LP, but I hope they can at least be consistent.
See here for their positions. I'm a small-l libertarian and disagree with the LP on a number of issues, but in general they are very consistent.
I was going to post a similar message about Deus Ex, but you nailed it. Fantastic gameplay, and what I considered to be a libertarian viewpoint: strong central government led to tyranny and oppression, and the gun nuts turned out to be the good guys.
But maintaining Cocoa-Java means they need to create a Java facade for the Objective-C APIs, and they need to create Java equivalents for C constructs and Objective-C Categories which don't quite map cleanly onto Java.
Exactly. It's much easier for Objective-C to call Java than vice versa because all ObjC method calls are resolved at runtime. (Which allows an ObjC proxy object to take the invocation and transparently forward it to a Java object). Note that more dynamic languages can be better integrated with Cocoa, for example see PyObjC.
Apple's new x86 hardware will not permit other OSes to run on their platform
Apple has no reason to do this. If you buy a Mactel and then run Windows or Linux on it, Apple has still made their profit off of you. This is in contrast to OS X on commodity PCs, which they will definitely (try and fail to) block, because $130 OS X sales don't come close to making up for the loss of hardware revenue.
I'm kind of surprised that Apple hasn't yet latched onto the idea of using the Mac Mini as a media center PC, but maybe that's still coming.
I expect to see something like that in the future. One problem is that the mini (as well as the iBook and Powerbook) isn't fast enough to decode full screen HDTV or H.264 video, which I suspect is a major reason for the Intel switch.
I think IBM had the ability to produce chips that were what Apple wanted in terms of power (as the article points out - the newer batch of PowerPC chips are more like what they want).
Not really. A 1.6GHz 970FX won't match up well against a dual-core Yonah, especially for integer operations.
Better support for DRM type stuff in the processor.
It's possible that's a side "benefit".
The 3GHz promise is completely irrelevant to the Intel switch. In the last two years, IBM has gone from 2.0 to 2.7GHz, which a proportionally larger increase than Intel going from 3.0 to 3.8. Everybody ran into the same problems at 90nm; it's not a case of IBM dropping the ball. The real motivation is laptop chips, where the Pentium-M trounces the G4 today, and Yonah will easily beat a 970FX at 1.6GHz.
She immediately told me she didn't want "any of that Linux crap" on her PC.
That's just wacky. Is your last name DiDio or O'Gara by any chance?
Is there any good reason for not accepting a cookie?
When it's used to track you across multiple unrelated sites, absolutely.