"Detroit has already gotten its ass kicked by foreign competition. They are going to fight for every piece of market share."
Too bad they only fight when they're down and out. They've lobbied against requirements to produce electric vehicles in California, they've lobbied against any significant increase in CAFE standards, hell, they even lobbied against clean air standards. Remember when they cried and cried about how mandating catalytic converters would practically destroy the American automobile industry as we know it?
They don't WANT to fight. They'd rather legislate the problem out of existence, stick their heads in the sand, and continue making the SUVs that "all" good little Americans want. And all the while spending their ever smaller R&D budgets on consumer advertising promising that things will be better sometime in the distant future.
Unfortunately, and dispite all of the warnings, they're going to be left holding the bag yet again, probably by next summer when gas stands to hit $4/$5 a gallon. Toyota is going to eat their lunch, breakfast, dinner, AND steal the snacks out of the cookie jar while they're at it.
And the sad thing is that it didn't have to be this way. We're five years and $500 BILLION dollars down a dead-end road, when all of that time and money could have be spent actually SOLVING our problems.
You can't. So the end result will be that ALL encrypted traffic matching a certain set of patterns will be throttled and/or blocked. Basically, everyone is going to suffer because of a bunch a parasites that can't even be bothered to pay for the music or movies they enjoy.
But no, they just gotta have that new 50-cent song so they can listen to it thirty or forty times to see if they like it or not...
Sorry, but it's most definitely NOT "a good thing".
ZFS-based block-level backups would really only help in one specific type of situation: A large database where specific blocks (and only those blocks) change. Otherwise, if I have a very large Word document and do something as simple as add a word to the beginning of the file, then every block's contents have shifted and I still need to backup the whole thing anyway.
Then again, if you're putting huge databases on your drive then Time Machine probably isn't your solution anyway (nor is rsysnc).
Leopard feels faster than Tiger in nearly every aspect, so there's little "drag". Further, it avoids backing up "junk" files and the way it handles "small" file changes is unique. You really should read the Ars article before passing judgement on technology you don't understand.
And the "hourly" backup has already served me quite well on at least two occasions thus far.
Quoting, " However, a significant percentage (12 percent) were willing to pay between $8-$12, or approximately the cost to download a typical album via iTunes, and these consumers accounted for more than half (52 percent) of all sales in dollars."
Translated, 9 out of 10 were unwilling to pay the going rate for the music, and 6 out of 10 couldn't be bothered to pay anything at all.
Does having an audience that consists primarily of freeloaders constitute a "reasonable portion"?
Talking has come to a near stop. TEXTING, however, is on the rise. People don't yet realize that a sea of bright little screens waving around in a dark theater is equally distracting and obnoxious.
"... let me deal with the consequences of my choice of speed."
If you were the only one that might ever have to deal with those consequences, then I'd say have at it. Family, friends, other passengers, pedestrians, and the occupants of any other vehicles that may be impacted by those consequences might feel otherwise.
But of course, such a thing would NEVER happen to you.
And your attitude simply reinforces the main issue behind the case in point: The idea that YOUR rights, wants, and needs trump anyone else's.
Worse, that's the rationale used to justify access, when in reality all they do is sit in a movie theater and text about whether or not John is taking Jill out tomorrow night.
Movie theaters need to update the "no talking" message to "Turn OFF your phones. No Talking. No Texting. No Exceptions."
Most people have managed to figure out that ringing phones and talking is inconsiderate and attracts undue attention, but haven't yet managed to make the giant mental leap needed to figure out that an audience waving dozens of little flashlights around is equally distracting.
If you're in a theater and need to have a conversation--ANY CONVERSATION--then go outside. Or stay home.
"If you'd read it, they specifically point out that Japanese don't bring work home and thus don't have that reason to have a PC around."
Yeah, they have no need whatsoever to manage their music and movie libraries, or all of their digital photos or videos, or any of the other digital junk that we accumulate in the modern age . Of course, it will be "called" a Home Media Server, but a rose by any other name...
"Separately, the article states that the upgrade cycle for companies has lengthened..."
Which probably has more to do with the drop in sales than any culteral phenomenon. Be interesting to know the numbers for external hard drive sales.
Ah... no, because I just bought a new iMac. So Leopard cost me $9.95. Regardless, I would have paid the $130, because having ALL of the new features helps me do what I do. Spaces and Time Machine may be the "flagship" features, but there's a lot more to it than that.
And the "PowerToy" lives up to its name. The "toy" aspect at least. Comparing the level of integration between the two is like comparing a Pinto to a Ferrari. Add in the fact that the Pinto is likely to crash, burn, and go up in flames, and the comparison is even more apt.
Uh, huh. I have about twenty windows running in nine Spaces at the moment. On Windows that taskbar would would filled with marvelous and meaningful entries like:
Yeah, they're definitely having a problem with sales. Stock price reflects it too. Sad, really.
Actually, what's sad is a bunch of armchair quarterbacks second-guessing Apple's sales and marketing strategies. I'm pretty sure that they have some relatively smart people who spend, you know, like ALL of their time considering such things.
Because no matter how many disclaimers you offer, if someone buys a product then they're going to expect it to work, and then they're going to get pissed off when it doesn't. Which means said customer will probably never buy another Apple product again.
How many different sound cards and chips are there? Motherboards? ATA controllers? Bus controllers? BIOS vendors and versions? No-name video cards? Processors (AMD)? Integrated graphics controllers? SCSI and RAID and FC controllers? CD/CDR/CDRW/DVD/DVDR/etc. drives? Floppy drives? Serial/Parallel port controllers? Internal web cams? FW controllers? USB controllers? PCMCIA/CARDBUS controllers... and so on. Now let's talk combinations.
How many years and how many people has it taken to get half of that stuff halfway supported by Linux?
People forget that Apple is a SMALL company, with only 18,000 or so people worldwide--including retail staff.
Regardless, Microsoft dropping Office from the Mac would be a major blow for two reasons:
First, Apple is one again just starting to make headway into the business world. Losing Office, and especially Entourage (Outlook for Mac), would stop any movement in that direction dead in its tracks.
Second, one of the major reasons that Apple is had as much success in the home market has been, once again, Office. Hang around an Apple store, and inevitably the first or second question a new customer asks is "Does it run Office?"
A "no" answer to that question would probably kill a third of those sales.
Okay, how about a terabyte in a form factor small enough for a thunb drive, that costs one-tenth the price of traditional flash memory, and is a staggering 1000 times more energy efficient.
Since the NDA expired at 6PM, I can tell you that Leopard can and will have a major impact on how people use their systems. Hell, the usability enhancements to the Finder alone are worth the money.
Since the NDA expired at 6PM, I can tell you that Leopard can and will have a major impact on how people use their systems. Hell, the usability enhancements to the Finder alone are worth the money.
I don't consider Lisa to be a boner. A strong argument can be made that without the work done on Lisa we wouldn't have the Mac, OR Windows for matter. At least in their present forms and on the same timeline.
Yes, $10,000 per system was probably a bit strong... but consider that a good computer at the time would still set you back $5,000, that hard drives were so expensive they were considered only for workgroup solutions, and that Xerox expected people to pony up one HUNDRED thousand dollars for a Star system.
What the guy above me said, plus I have to ask just what comparable features did Windows XP SR1 and SR2 provide? Integrated backup solutions?New collaborative messaging environments? Major file manager and desktop redesigns? Redesigned mail, notes, and calendaring systems? New graphics and developer subsystems (Core Animation)? Improved performance on existing hardware?
How about major security upgrades and multicore enhancements? Oh, wait. SR2 did add a firewall, didn't it? In addition to rolling up a couple of hundred security patches.
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"Detroit has already gotten its ass kicked by foreign competition. They are going to fight for every piece of market share."
Too bad they only fight when they're down and out. They've lobbied against requirements to produce electric vehicles in California, they've lobbied against any significant increase in CAFE standards, hell, they even lobbied against clean air standards. Remember when they cried and cried about how mandating catalytic converters would practically destroy the American automobile industry as we know it?
They don't WANT to fight. They'd rather legislate the problem out of existence, stick their heads in the sand, and continue making the SUVs that "all" good little Americans want. And all the while spending their ever smaller R&D budgets on consumer advertising promising that things will be better sometime in the distant future.
Unfortunately, and dispite all of the warnings, they're going to be left holding the bag yet again, probably by next summer when gas stands to hit $4/$5 a gallon. Toyota is going to eat their lunch, breakfast, dinner, AND steal the snacks out of the cookie jar while they're at it.
And the sad thing is that it didn't have to be this way. We're five years and $500 BILLION dollars down a dead-end road, when all of that time and money could have be spent actually SOLVING our problems.
Idiots.
" The mail from an to my bank is not in clear packages."
Yeah, because I ALWAYS use encrypted torrents to do my banking.
Nice straw man. Too bad you had to go and knock him down.
You can't. So the end result will be that ALL encrypted traffic matching a certain set of patterns will be throttled and/or blocked. Basically, everyone is going to suffer because of a bunch a parasites that can't even be bothered to pay for the music or movies they enjoy.
But no, they just gotta have that new 50-cent song so they can listen to it thirty or forty times to see if they like it or not...
Sorry, but it's most definitely NOT "a good thing".
ZFS-based block-level backups would really only help in one specific type of situation: A large database where specific blocks (and only those blocks) change. Otherwise, if I have a very large Word document and do something as simple as add a word to the beginning of the file, then every block's contents have shifted and I still need to backup the whole thing anyway.
Then again, if you're putting huge databases on your drive then Time Machine probably isn't your solution anyway (nor is rsysnc).
Leopard feels faster than Tiger in nearly every aspect, so there's little "drag". Further, it avoids backing up "junk" files and the way it handles "small" file changes is unique. You really should read the Ars article before passing judgement on technology you don't understand.
And the "hourly" backup has already served me quite well on at least two occasions thus far.
Usually you get to a point when doing traditional incremental backups where you simply do a full backup and start all over again.
Quoting, " However, a significant percentage (12 percent) were willing to pay between $8-$12, or approximately the cost to download a typical album via iTunes, and these consumers accounted for more than half (52 percent) of all sales in dollars."
Translated, 9 out of 10 were unwilling to pay the going rate for the music, and 6 out of 10 couldn't be bothered to pay anything at all.
Does having an audience that consists primarily of freeloaders constitute a "reasonable portion"?
Talking has come to a near stop. TEXTING, however, is on the rise. People don't yet realize that a sea of bright little screens waving around in a dark theater is equally distracting and obnoxious.
"... let me deal with the consequences of my choice of speed."
If you were the only one that might ever have to deal with those consequences, then I'd say have at it. Family, friends, other passengers, pedestrians, and the occupants of any other vehicles that may be impacted by those consequences might feel otherwise.
But of course, such a thing would NEVER happen to you.
And your attitude simply reinforces the main issue behind the case in point: The idea that YOUR rights, wants, and needs trump anyone else's.
Worse, that's the rationale used to justify access, when in reality all they do is sit in a movie theater and text about whether or not John is taking Jill out tomorrow night.
Movie theaters need to update the "no talking" message to "Turn OFF your phones. No Talking. No Texting. No Exceptions."
Most people have managed to figure out that ringing phones and talking is inconsiderate and attracts undue attention, but haven't yet managed to make the giant mental leap needed to figure out that an audience waving dozens of little flashlights around is equally distracting.
If you're in a theater and need to have a conversation--ANY CONVERSATION--then go outside. Or stay home.
"If you'd read it, they specifically point out that Japanese don't bring work home and thus don't have that reason to have a PC around."
Yeah, they have no need whatsoever to manage their music and movie libraries, or all of their digital photos or videos, or any of the other digital junk that we accumulate in the modern age . Of course, it will be "called" a Home Media Server, but a rose by any other name...
"Separately, the article states that the upgrade cycle for companies has lengthened..."
Which probably has more to do with the drop in sales than any culteral phenomenon. Be interesting to know the numbers for external hard drive sales.
Ah... no, because I just bought a new iMac. So Leopard cost me $9.95. Regardless, I would have paid the $130, because having ALL of the new features helps me do what I do. Spaces and Time Machine may be the "flagship" features, but there's a lot more to it than that.
And the "PowerToy" lives up to its name. The "toy" aspect at least. Comparing the level of integration between the two is like comparing a Pinto to a Ferrari. Add in the fact that the Pinto is likely to crash, burn, and go up in flames, and the comparison is even more apt.
Uh, huh. I have about twenty windows running in nine Spaces at the moment. On Windows that taskbar would would filled with marvelous and meaningful entries like:
Mou... Mic... Mic... Sla... Exc... Mou... Mic... Mic... Sla... Exc... Mou... Mic... Mic... Sla... Exc... Mou... Mic... Mic... Sla... Exc...
So much for not getting lost. (And yes, I know I could have a two or three line taskbar, How much screen real-estate do you want to waste?)
Yeah, they're definitely having a problem with sales. Stock price reflects it too. Sad, really.
Actually, what's sad is a bunch of armchair quarterbacks second-guessing Apple's sales and marketing strategies. I'm pretty sure that they have some relatively smart people who spend, you know, like ALL of their time considering such things.
Because no matter how many disclaimers you offer, if someone buys a product then they're going to expect it to work, and then they're going to get pissed off when it doesn't. Which means said customer will probably never buy another Apple product again.
How many different sound cards and chips are there? Motherboards? ATA controllers? Bus controllers? BIOS vendors and versions? No-name video cards? Processors (AMD)? Integrated graphics controllers? SCSI and RAID and FC controllers? CD/CDR/CDRW/DVD/DVDR/etc. drives? Floppy drives? Serial/Parallel port controllers? Internal web cams? FW controllers? USB controllers? PCMCIA/CARDBUS controllers... and so on. Now let's talk combinations.
How many years and how many people has it taken to get half of that stuff halfway supported by Linux?
People forget that Apple is a SMALL company, with only 18,000 or so people worldwide--including retail staff.
"...and Mac has their own competitor, anyway."
Regardless, Microsoft dropping Office from the Mac would be a major blow for two reasons:
First, Apple is one again just starting to make headway into the business world. Losing Office, and especially Entourage (Outlook for Mac), would stop any movement in that direction dead in its tracks.
Second, one of the major reasons that Apple is had as much success in the home market has been, once again, Office. Hang around an Apple store, and inevitably the first or second question a new customer asks is "Does it run Office?"
A "no" answer to that question would probably kill a third of those sales.
"... turn themselves into a software company in direct competition with microsoft but such a move would be pretty risky."
Yeah, as in the the first counter-move by Microsoft would be to drop Office support for Mac.
Okay, how about a terabyte in a form factor small enough for a thunb drive, that costs one-tenth the price of traditional flash memory, and is a staggering 1000 times more energy efficient.
Researchers Develop Technology to Make Terabyte Thumb Drives Possible
Makes a mere 512GB flash chip look a bit sad, doesn't it?
You mean they're highly skilled developers... that are totally unable to dive in and learn something new?
That's sad.
Since the NDA expired at 6PM, I can tell you that Leopard can and will have a major impact on how people use their systems. Hell, the usability enhancements to the Finder alone are worth the money.
And in my book the additions to iChat have the potential to be a game-changer.
Don't tell Steve, but I might have even paid Vista Ultimate prices for OS X Leopard...
(Sorry for the dup, forgot to preview.)
Since the NDA expired at 6PM, I can tell you that Leopard can and will have a major impact on how people use their systems. Hell, the usability enhancements to the Finder alone are worth the money.
And in my book the additions to iChat have .
Don't tell Steve, but I might have even paid Vista Ultimate prices for OS X Leopard...
I don't consider Lisa to be a boner. A strong argument can be made that without the work done on Lisa we wouldn't have the Mac, OR Windows for matter. At least in their present forms and on the same timeline.
Yes, $10,000 per system was probably a bit strong... but consider that a good computer at the time would still set you back $5,000, that hard drives were so expensive they were considered only for workgroup solutions, and that Xerox expected people to pony up one HUNDRED thousand dollars for a Star system.
What the guy above me said, plus I have to ask just what comparable features did Windows XP SR1 and SR2 provide? Integrated backup solutions?New collaborative messaging environments? Major file manager and desktop redesigns? Redesigned mail, notes, and calendaring systems? New graphics and developer subsystems (Core Animation)? Improved performance on existing hardware?
How about major security upgrades and multicore enhancements? Oh, wait. SR2 did add a firewall, didn't it? In addition to rolling up a couple of hundred security patches.
My bad.