The majority of CPUs sold aren't in desktop PCs. The majority of the IT industry isn't desktop PCs.
Where did you get this one from? What, do you think big iron sells by the millions?
3% of the PC market is literally MILLIONS of computers.
So what? That doesn't change the fact that Apple is a niche player.
Plus, they're more like 7%
Not according to Google. Care to cite your source?
They're in fifth place, ahead of Gateway, and have been for a while now.
First, care to cite a source? Second, who cares? We are talking more about Apple versus Dell, Gateway, HP/Compaq, Toshiba, and thousands of smaller vendors. Not to mention that gateway is a relatively small and crappy vendor.
What world are you living in? IBM doesn't sell desktop PPC computers at all, and Apple only has about 3% market share. And it is obvious that most Apple buyers don't choose Apple just because they have a PPC versus an x86 processor. Even for servers, x86 boxes own pretty much all of the low to mid-end (up until you get to mainframes).
A few years ago, Alpha was actually competing against x86. They lost. Miserably. People wanted cheap and compatible processors, and they did not really want maximum performance for a premium price.
That's why you look through the feedback and see if they ever sold anything. If you see that they bought hundreds of items but it's the first one they are selling, watch out. It's probably OK, but don't pay with money orders or cashier's checks, stick to paypal or credit cards.
How about the shoddy design of the cube that overheated and had power button problems? Or the iBooks with defective logic boards? Or the iPod battery problems? Also, I recall there being quite a few OS updates with disastrous bugs.
First, solder is quite adequate to hold a headphone jack in place. If it cracks, it means it's either a bad solder joint (possibly aggravated by an improperly designed PCB or case) or a badly designed jack. Apple might have used some kind of miniaturized jack that is too small to work adequately, or they might have screwed up the case design so the jack comes under undue stress.
Second, you can't just introduce extra assembly stages in a mass-produced design without incurring significant cost. So that's why jacks, switches, and so on are usually soldered to a circuit board.
Two words: backwards compatibility. Nobody wants a processor that is not backwards compatible with current software, and nobody except OS programmers really cares what's inside the chip. If there was an actual demand for a better architecture, people would have switched to Alpha or PPC a long time ago.
Great idea. Let's write core system libraries in a slow, memory-hungry, interpreted scripting language. After all, nobody cares if their desktop takes 10 minutes to process a mouse click, right?
Sure. You could also put a Pentium 4-class processor into the phone, as well as a large display and a powerful video card. Except then it would be a desktop PC, not a phone.
The supposed 'killer app' for 3D on cellphones is the idea of using the positioning detecting capability of the phone - along with network access - to provide an annotated 3D map of your present location.
That has got to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard. It's hard enough to get a map that shows STREETS accurately on a GPS, much less elevators inside of buildings in a 3D environment on a cellphone. Besides, how the hell do you navigate? It's hard enough with a mouse and a keyboard, much less with a cellphone with a numeric pad and a postage-stamp-size screen.
Why are you so particularly attached to having those words in the metadata? Search engines don't look at that shit anymore, they have gotten more sophisticated. Unless you feel like spending $$$ on lawyers to affirm your right to having that stuff in your metadata, just remove it. It's a lose-lose situation, so minimize your losses.
Wrong. Linking against a GPLd library with a proprietary program is, in fact, a license violation. It doesn't matter if it's dynamic linking. The only reason you can use Gnome on a non-GPLd X implementation is because the relevant pieces are licensed under the LGPL.
If you don't believe me, go look at how Trolltech licenses Qt. They specifically state that it is illegal to link a proprietary app against the GPLd library.
Once many corporations are united with Linux on the server side, their corporate power will allow linux to take over the deskop
It's not like server and desktop markets are completely separate. Microsoft can make Windows work well only with Windows servers and then all your UNIX servers will have to go.
Apple has shown that it doesn't require a Herculian effort to make a usable desktop on a UNIX variant.
Considering that Apple is building on top of an old and fairly sophisticated codebase (NeXT), I wouldn't exactly say that. Not to mention that Apple doesn't have to make its OS run on billions of different hardware configurations, unlike Linux or Windows.
I would have guessed that the modulation and demodulation processes would tend to cancel out the AGC-triggering spikes.
Why would they? A modulator doesn't do anything special to the signal.
If there are standard ICs that add the Macrovision pulses to an existing "clean" signal, it is just about conceivable that a simple cut-tracks-and-join-with-wire operation modification would permanently fix the problem
Nope. It's usually done at the video encoder IC (such as an ADV7175), which is usually programmed via i2c or something to put in macrovision. You generally have to hack the firmware of the device to disable that. Also, nobody requires you to put in Macrovision (although the DMCA does require your VCR to enforce it). Companies usually do it because the content providers impose that condition.
In short, the easy way to bypass Macrovision is to not use a VCR to copy stuff. Or you could build a stripper box.
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Keep in mind that switching windows versions is quite painful. Except that microsoft actually provides some support for upgrades, unlike most linux vendors.
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Why don't you read it? Or at least provide a link to what you think is the EULA? Dumbass.
I hope you do realize that 1 hour of a lawyer's time is enough to pay for a full copy of pretty much any the software they might need. Saving a few cents on an office suite is not a priority for them.
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How many people do graphics work? Graphics people used Macs for the longest time, and didn't make the slightest dent in Microsoft's marketshare. Photoshop is absent on the vast majority of business desktops. My university has it on maybe a couple of dozen out of the hundreds of lab machines. It's really not a very important application, as compared to, say, MS Office, MS Exchange, or custom company-specific applications.
I'm not saying your other points are invalid, it's just that people always bring up photoshop as an important application that's missing from the Linux desktop, when in fact it's about as important as, say, Cubase or 3D Studio Max. About the only place where those programs are popular is the warez scene.
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Have you ever worked in any IT-related position in your life? If not, please be polite and STFU. You don't know what you are talking about.
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The majority of CPUs sold aren't in desktop PCs. The majority of the IT industry isn't desktop PCs.
Where did you get this one from? What, do you think big iron sells by the millions?
3% of the PC market is literally MILLIONS of computers.
So what? That doesn't change the fact that Apple is a niche player.
Plus, they're more like 7%
Not according to Google. Care to cite your source?
They're in fifth place, ahead of Gateway, and have been for a while now.
First, care to cite a source? Second, who cares? We are talking more about Apple versus Dell, Gateway, HP/Compaq, Toshiba, and thousands of smaller vendors. Not to mention that gateway is a relatively small and crappy vendor.
What the hell do you use? QNX?
What world are you living in? IBM doesn't sell desktop PPC computers at all, and Apple only has about 3% market share. And it is obvious that most Apple buyers don't choose Apple just because they have a PPC versus an x86 processor. Even for servers, x86 boxes own pretty much all of the low to mid-end (up until you get to mainframes).
A few years ago, Alpha was actually competing against x86. They lost. Miserably. People wanted cheap and compatible processors, and they did not really want maximum performance for a premium price.
That's why you look through the feedback and see if they ever sold anything. If you see that they bought hundreds of items but it's the first one they are selling, watch out. It's probably OK, but don't pay with money orders or cashier's checks, stick to paypal or credit cards.
How about the shoddy design of the cube that overheated and had power button problems? Or the iBooks with defective logic boards? Or the iPod battery problems? Also, I recall there being quite a few OS updates with disastrous bugs.
First, solder is quite adequate to hold a headphone jack in place. If it cracks, it means it's either a bad solder joint (possibly aggravated by an improperly designed PCB or case) or a badly designed jack. Apple might have used some kind of miniaturized jack that is too small to work adequately, or they might have screwed up the case design so the jack comes under undue stress.
Second, you can't just introduce extra assembly stages in a mass-produced design without incurring significant cost. So that's why jacks, switches, and so on are usually soldered to a circuit board.
Two words: backwards compatibility. Nobody wants a processor that is not backwards compatible with current software, and nobody except OS programmers really cares what's inside the chip. If there was an actual demand for a better architecture, people would have switched to Alpha or PPC a long time ago.
Neither C# nor Java are interpreted languages. In fact, they are light-years ahead of Python as far as speed goes.
Great idea. Let's write core system libraries in a slow, memory-hungry, interpreted scripting language. After all, nobody cares if their desktop takes 10 minutes to process a mouse click, right?
Sure. You could also put a Pentium 4-class processor into the phone, as well as a large display and a powerful video card. Except then it would be a desktop PC, not a phone.
STFU, Apple-loving faggot. You probably like stuffing apple-shaped objects up your ass.
The supposed 'killer app' for 3D on cellphones is the idea of using the positioning detecting capability of the phone - along with network access - to provide an annotated 3D map of your present location.
That has got to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard. It's hard enough to get a map that shows STREETS accurately on a GPS, much less elevators inside of buildings in a 3D environment on a cellphone. Besides, how the hell do you navigate? It's hard enough with a mouse and a keyboard, much less with a cellphone with a numeric pad and a postage-stamp-size screen.
I wouldn't exactly say Apple has better marketing than Intel. Let's see, which one has 3% market share? Which one has the other 97%?
Why are you so particularly attached to having those words in the metadata? Search engines don't look at that shit anymore, they have gotten more sophisticated. Unless you feel like spending $$$ on lawyers to affirm your right to having that stuff in your metadata, just remove it. It's a lose-lose situation, so minimize your losses.
Yes, but the software HAS to be distributed somehow.
Wrong. Linking against a GPLd library with a proprietary program is, in fact, a license violation. It doesn't matter if it's dynamic linking. The only reason you can use Gnome on a non-GPLd X implementation is because the relevant pieces are licensed under the LGPL.
If you don't believe me, go look at how Trolltech licenses Qt. They specifically state that it is illegal to link a proprietary app against the GPLd library.
In that case, how come is there not a single open-source MS Exchange-compatible server (or even client)?
Once many corporations are united with Linux on the server side, their corporate power will allow linux to take over the deskop
It's not like server and desktop markets are completely separate. Microsoft can make Windows work well only with Windows servers and then all your UNIX servers will have to go.
Apple has shown that it doesn't require a Herculian effort to make a usable desktop on a UNIX variant.
Considering that Apple is building on top of an old and fairly sophisticated codebase (NeXT), I wouldn't exactly say that. Not to mention that Apple doesn't have to make its OS run on billions of different hardware configurations, unlike Linux or Windows.
Vandalism? Let the apple-lover whining begin!
Seriously, how does it matter whether Apple or Microsoft corners the online music market? Either one is about as bad as the other.
But does it affect the RF output?
Yes, it sure does.
I would have guessed that the modulation and demodulation processes would tend to cancel out the AGC-triggering spikes.
Why would they? A modulator doesn't do anything special to the signal.
If there are standard ICs that add the Macrovision pulses to an existing "clean" signal, it is just about conceivable that a simple cut-tracks-and-join-with-wire operation modification would permanently fix the problem
Nope. It's usually done at the video encoder IC (such as an ADV7175), which is usually programmed via i2c or something to put in macrovision. You generally have to hack the firmware of the device to disable that. Also, nobody requires you to put in Macrovision (although the DMCA does require your VCR to enforce it). Companies usually do it because the content providers impose that condition.
In short, the easy way to bypass Macrovision is to not use a VCR to copy stuff. Or you could build a stripper box.
Keep in mind that switching windows versions is quite painful. Except that microsoft actually provides some support for upgrades, unlike most linux vendors.
Why don't you read it? Or at least provide a link to what you think is the EULA? Dumbass.
I hope you do realize that 1 hour of a lawyer's time is enough to pay for a full copy of pretty much any the software they might need. Saving a few cents on an office suite is not a priority for them.
How many people do graphics work? Graphics people used Macs for the longest time, and didn't make the slightest dent in Microsoft's marketshare. Photoshop is absent on the vast majority of business desktops. My university has it on maybe a couple of dozen out of the hundreds of lab machines. It's really not a very important application, as compared to, say, MS Office, MS Exchange, or custom company-specific applications.
I'm not saying your other points are invalid, it's just that people always bring up photoshop as an important application that's missing from the Linux desktop, when in fact it's about as important as, say, Cubase or 3D Studio Max. About the only place where those programs are popular is the warez scene.
Have you ever worked in any IT-related position in your life? If not, please be polite and STFU. You don't know what you are talking about.