How about NBC, ABC and CBS. That's the place where I've more commonly heard of "the big three" up until a couple years ago when Fox started climbing in the ratings (largely thanks to American Idol) and NBC plummetted to fourth place.
Nothing like a classic struggle between the haves and have-mores in society to show the real grit! People having to sustain themselves on mere hundred dollar gear! Ones that only have thousands to pay on greens fees! Show some humanity people! These are people that are struggling for their very livelihood! Struggling!
Using ARD to do tasks like install packages over the network is much easier then in Active Directory or any Linux counterpart. That is to say its more intuitive.
And there's things like Multi-Observe that you don't see in other tools.
Plus combine this with a OS X Server and then you can use things like Remote Set Startup Disk to reimage and entire lab at once. Its a very handy tool, although its a very niche market. Its mostly used by school administrators and admins in graphics design houses and other similar places with large mac networks, and it does make Apple a decent bit of money.
You can observe multiple computers, send UNIX commands to Mac OS X clients. (3.0 is 10.3.9 and Tiger only if I remember right), install packages on multiple computers, copy files to multiple computers, shut down, wake up, sleep, restart, search for files, install packages.
And new in 3.0 (Deuce) is remote spotlight searching, user history reports, and some automator and applescripting for (albeit limited) automation. There's also some nice UI improvements, things like being able to save task templates and remote drag-and-drop (drag a file from the computer you're controlling onto your desktop and vice versa) and remote clipboard (copy-and-paste)
if some doofus Apple employee took the new ÜberBook iPro to the Donut Wheel
This is how you know they're from Cupertino!
Besides, why would you want to sit down in Donut Wheel anyways, its mostly De Anza and Monta Vista students using it as a late night refuge for studying, and not terribly clean.
I'd think Panera or that Bagel place accross from Apple would be a better place to try and snag pictures of Apple Employees using pre-release gear. Although most employees are very good about not showing such things in public.
And yes, its annoying to hear people bitch about how this product or that product is not out yet that the only reason they heard about it is because some bozo leaked it.
There's a good reason why the cheapest MacOS machine Apple sells right now is $600. MacOS, particularly MacOS X, is a huge resource hog. MacOS Classic hasn't been supported in years, and Apple is in the process of dropping it completely from the OS as they move to Intel based machines. Mac OS would choke the $100 laptops to death.
Not to mention it isn't entirely open sourced.
Using Linux allows them to come up with a slim enough OS that the machines won't be gasping for air from the second they turn on.
If you take a look at the survey it not only checks to see if you can spot a fraud, but if you can spot a legitimate email too, and marking a legitimate email as a fraud, which in real world terms is harmless, is given the same penalty has marking a fraudulent email as legitimate... Even in the explanation they say that the message had red flag yet was legitimate, so what's supposed to be the lesson learned here? That users also have a hard time spotting legitimate emails?
I think most of us will agree that video games are no more likely to inspire kids to go on a killing spree any more then violent TV Shows and Movies or an episode of "Barney & Friends."
However unlike the aforementioned Video Games have been noted in studies for reducing the subject's likelihood of displaying violent behavior, because the game serves as a release mechanism.
All this is is scapegoatism led by asshats like Jack Thompson.
For starters the G5 was already 64 bit. And dual core G5s just came out too... and if you look at the performance on those P4 and Xeon dual cores, you don't really want to use them.
The Pentium Ms aren't dual core and have no 64-bit and haven't seen much in the way of speedbumps either.
And if you want to split hairs, iTanium came out in 2001, and there were a number of 64-bit processors out before then, the only company right now producing 64-bit chips though specifically for notebook use is AMD and you're not going to see a 64 bit mobile chip coming from Intel till at least second half;06.
The point I was trying to make was that *nothing* in *any* space has had a major clock speed upgrade, or realistically any speed bump.
I started an internship at apple. The first day I wore dress shoes, slacks and a button up shirt and felt very overdressed. Now it tends to be jeans, sneakers and maybe a collared shirt.
Not to mention that theire entire corporate roadmap for the past decade has been illegal too. There are other PPC vendors out there but none of them will run Mac OS X out of the box, no one has tried to without having a clone license from Apple which got revoked a while back. And I'm sure if anyone had tried to there would of been similar reprecussions.
The money is not going to be made by the console, it'll be made by the games, so rather than go for maximum console sales, put the limitation in place to generate hype and now the console is part of the advertising scheme and ends up being a better value for MS.
Believe it or not, Nintendo is actually making money. Why? Because they don't sell the GameCube at a loss, funny enough.
Microsoft isn't in this for the short-term or even the medium-term to make money. They have other products that make so much money that they would have to sell a really large number of xboxes for that loss to make the company not profitable. If they were in this to make money they would of bailed a long time ago. To date they've never made money off of the XBox and have racked up billions of dollars in losses from it. But that doesn't even phase Microsoft. Why? They want to become entrenched in the market to the point where they can create their own monopoly, not unlike Windows.
The Networks pay the Affiliates to carry their programming.
In the SF Bay Area there was a spat between NBC and then NBC-Afilliate KRON. KRON had recently been put up for auction and NBC was outbid by another company. To punish them NBC told them to keep their affiliateship they would have to pay NBC $7 million a year, instead of the $10 million a year they were getting from NBC before. KRON didn't budge and NBC in the SF Bay Area market changed from channel 4 to channel 11.
As it stands right now most affiliates are still being paid by the networks to carry network programming, however in most major markets, at least the top 5, the Big 3 networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) own the stations in those markets. (ABC and CBS owned their stations in the SF Bay Area prior to this, NBC ended up buying KNTV-11 from Granite Broadcasting)
However that really is minor. What it comes down to is that the affiliates only have the broadcast rights to that content in those markets, internet downloading is a completely different beast and there's a fair chance that the network doesn't have the internet resale rights for most of their shows. Notice that the two big ABC shows put up are both produced by Touchstone, which is another arm of the Disney corporation. More likely it is Touchstone's choice to offer that programming on iTMS, not ABC's, it just happens that ABC and Touchstone are both owned by Disney, which made the licensing for iTMS much easier to handle too.
Similarly, The West Wing, Friends and Joey were/are all produced by Warner, even though they air on NBC. The David Letterman Show is produced by 'World Wide Pants.' The same production company also made a show called 'Ed' for NBC.
So unbenkownst to many viewers the decision, at least currently, to place content on iTMS is going to rest on the Production Companies rather then the Networks.
There are things that can be done that will improve it though.
If banks were to start handing out rotating crypto key tokens to their online banking customers like the ones that most companies use to secure their VPNs that would greatly reduce the amount of harm that could be done to that customer. Combine it with some anti-bot techniques like image verification (the little distorted images where you have to type in what it says on the image) and it could reduce the effects of phishing to near zero.
However as this requires them to spend money to make it so, or charge customers for it, there would have to be conditions in place that would make the investment into more secure online banking cost less then theft. Legislation could do exactly that,
This makes you wonder what the world would be like if Microsoft played fairly.
I think it might be for the better, but Apple seems to have a little bit of a monopolistic practice in their sleeves also (not letting any other mp3 devices play with iTunes, and iPods only working on iTunes).
You obviously have a short memory. Apple had the opportunity to be in the position where Microsoft is but didn't take it. They were the first ones IBM turned to to make a OS for the PC. But Apple figured they could control both the PC hardware and software market. Thus it fell to Microsoft.
So to answer your questions on what the world would be like if Microsoft played fairly...
Most people would be running OS/2 on their machines right now.
I *work* at Apple and I can tell you that many of the internal company login systems (and yes, there are many, depending on department) hook into keychain.
As it stands I have a different pw for 6 different systems.
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How about NBC, ABC and CBS. That's the place where I've more commonly heard of "the big three" up until a couple years ago when Fox started climbing in the ratings (largely thanks to American Idol) and NBC plummetted to fourth place.
Nothing like a classic struggle between the haves and have-mores in society to show the real grit! People having to sustain themselves on mere hundred dollar gear! Ones that only have thousands to pay on greens fees! Show some humanity people! These are people that are struggling for their very livelihood! Struggling!
Apple doesn't do upgrade pricing.
Using ARD to do tasks like install packages over the network is much easier then in Active Directory or any Linux counterpart. That is to say its more intuitive.
And there's things like Multi-Observe that you don't see in other tools.
Plus combine this with a OS X Server and then you can use things like Remote Set Startup Disk to reimage and entire lab at once. Its a very handy tool, although its a very niche market. Its mostly used by school administrators and admins in graphics design houses and other similar places with large mac networks, and it does make Apple a decent bit of money.
This is a full-fledged adminstrative tool.
You can observe multiple computers, send UNIX commands to Mac OS X clients. (3.0 is 10.3.9 and Tiger only if I remember right), install packages on multiple computers, copy files to multiple computers, shut down, wake up, sleep, restart, search for files, install packages.
And new in 3.0 (Deuce) is remote spotlight searching, user history reports, and some automator and applescripting for (albeit limited) automation. There's also some nice UI improvements, things like being able to save task templates and remote drag-and-drop (drag a file from the computer you're controlling onto your desktop and vice versa) and remote clipboard (copy-and-paste)
if some doofus Apple employee took the new ÜberBook iPro to the Donut Wheel
This is how you know they're from Cupertino!
Besides, why would you want to sit down in Donut Wheel anyways, its mostly De Anza and Monta Vista students using it as a late night refuge for studying, and not terribly clean.
I'd think Panera or that Bagel place accross from Apple would be a better place to try and snag pictures of Apple Employees using pre-release gear. Although most employees are very good about not showing such things in public.
And yes, its annoying to hear people bitch about how this product or that product is not out yet that the only reason they heard about it is because some bozo leaked it.
There's a good reason why the cheapest MacOS machine Apple sells right now is $600. MacOS, particularly MacOS X, is a huge resource hog. MacOS Classic hasn't been supported in years, and Apple is in the process of dropping it completely from the OS as they move to Intel based machines. Mac OS would choke the $100 laptops to death.
Not to mention it isn't entirely open sourced.
Using Linux allows them to come up with a slim enough OS that the machines won't be gasping for air from the second they turn on.
Well most talk radio is on AM radio, so FM typically doesn't help.
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Anyways. I have two MP3 players, a iRiver thingy and a Nano.
I barely use the iRiver, even though it has FM radio and all those other shinies. Why? Because I never used them anyways.
On the other hand its possible to get a seperate FM/AM radio for pretty cheap:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-u
That 4% number seems rather suspect to me.
If you take a look at the survey it not only checks to see if you can spot a fraud, but if you can spot a legitimate email too, and marking a legitimate email as a fraud, which in real world terms is harmless, is given the same penalty has marking a fraudulent email as legitimate... Even in the explanation they say that the message had red flag yet was legitimate, so what's supposed to be the lesson learned here? That users also have a hard time spotting legitimate emails?
Do I have to?
I think most of us will agree that video games are no more likely to inspire kids to go on a killing spree any more then violent TV Shows and Movies or an episode of "Barney & Friends."
However unlike the aforementioned Video Games have been noted in studies for reducing the subject's likelihood of displaying violent behavior, because the game serves as a release mechanism.
All this is is scapegoatism led by asshats like Jack Thompson.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
;06.
For starters the G5 was already 64 bit. And dual core G5s just came out too... and if you look at the performance on those P4 and Xeon dual cores, you don't really want to use them.
The Pentium Ms aren't dual core and have no 64-bit and haven't seen much in the way of speedbumps either.
And if you want to split hairs, iTanium came out in 2001, and there were a number of 64-bit processors out before then, the only company right now producing 64-bit chips though specifically for notebook use is AMD and you're not going to see a 64 bit mobile chip coming from Intel till at least second half
The point I was trying to make was that *nothing* in *any* space has had a major clock speed upgrade, or realistically any speed bump.
I started an internship at apple. The first day I wore dress shoes, slacks and a button up shirt and felt very overdressed. Now it tends to be jeans, sneakers and maybe a collared shirt.
I think the real name is neither "EM64T" or "EMT64" rather "AMD64" ;)
Cheers.
And Intel has been stuck at 3.8 GHz on their top end for over a year now... Your point?
And what happens if porn producers choose neither format and instead stick with plain old DVDs?
After three Warcrafts, two Diablos and a Starcraft how could you possibly say that WoW "came out of nowhere"?
Nonono... What you want to do is auto-moderate the post based on the spelling in the post. Now that would be worth patenting!
Not to mention that theire entire corporate roadmap for the past decade has been illegal too. There are other PPC vendors out there but none of them will run Mac OS X out of the box, no one has tried to without having a clone license from Apple which got revoked a while back. And I'm sure if anyone had tried to there would of been similar reprecussions.
Believe it or not, Nintendo is actually making money. Why? Because they don't sell the GameCube at a loss, funny enough.
Microsoft isn't in this for the short-term or even the medium-term to make money. They have other products that make so much money that they would have to sell a really large number of xboxes for that loss to make the company not profitable. If they were in this to make money they would of bailed a long time ago. To date they've never made money off of the XBox and have racked up billions of dollars in losses from it. But that doesn't even phase Microsoft. Why? They want to become entrenched in the market to the point where they can create their own monopoly, not unlike Windows.
Actually... No.
The Networks pay the Affiliates to carry their programming.
In the SF Bay Area there was a spat between NBC and then NBC-Afilliate KRON. KRON had recently been put up for auction and NBC was outbid by another company. To punish them NBC told them to keep their affiliateship they would have to pay NBC $7 million a year, instead of the $10 million a year they were getting from NBC before. KRON didn't budge and NBC in the SF Bay Area market changed from channel 4 to channel 11.
As it stands right now most affiliates are still being paid by the networks to carry network programming, however in most major markets, at least the top 5, the Big 3 networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) own the stations in those markets. (ABC and CBS owned their stations in the SF Bay Area prior to this, NBC ended up buying KNTV-11 from Granite Broadcasting)
However that really is minor. What it comes down to is that the affiliates only have the broadcast rights to that content in those markets, internet downloading is a completely different beast and there's a fair chance that the network doesn't have the internet resale rights for most of their shows. Notice that the two big ABC shows put up are both produced by Touchstone, which is another arm of the Disney corporation. More likely it is Touchstone's choice to offer that programming on iTMS, not ABC's, it just happens that ABC and Touchstone are both owned by Disney, which made the licensing for iTMS much easier to handle too.
Similarly, The West Wing, Friends and Joey were/are all produced by Warner, even though they air on NBC. The David Letterman Show is produced by 'World Wide Pants.' The same production company also made a show called 'Ed' for NBC.
So unbenkownst to many viewers the decision, at least currently, to place content on iTMS is going to rest on the Production Companies rather then the Networks.
There are things that can be done that will improve it though.
If banks were to start handing out rotating crypto key tokens to their online banking customers like the ones that most companies use to secure their VPNs that would greatly reduce the amount of harm that could be done to that customer. Combine it with some anti-bot techniques like image verification (the little distorted images where you have to type in what it says on the image) and it could reduce the effects of phishing to near zero.
However as this requires them to spend money to make it so, or charge customers for it, there would have to be conditions in place that would make the investment into more secure online banking cost less then theft. Legislation could do exactly that,
I think it might be for the better, but Apple seems to have a little bit of a monopolistic practice in their sleeves also (not letting any other mp3 devices play with iTunes, and iPods only working on iTunes).
You obviously have a short memory. Apple had the opportunity to be in the position where Microsoft is but didn't take it. They were the first ones IBM turned to to make a OS for the PC. But Apple figured they could control both the PC hardware and software market. Thus it fell to Microsoft.
So to answer your questions on what the world would be like if Microsoft played fairly...
Most people would be running OS/2 on their machines right now.
MacOS wouldn't even figure into it.
I *work* at Apple and I can tell you that many of the internal company login systems (and yes, there are many, depending on department) hook into keychain.
As it stands I have a different pw for 6 different systems.
Of which I can put 3 into keychain.
Um... Apple's already said that they aren't going to do anything to "preclude" anyone from running Windows on a x86 Mac.
Its just that as Apple sees it you're not going to be running Mac OS on a non-Apple x86 machine.
For now.