Whether it is a good idea or not, or if people will be fooled is irrelevant. Trademark law is such that you must defend your trademarks lest they become generic.
If in some later iPod trademark case that it much more blatant (say someone releases a music player called the iP0d, with a 0 instead of an o) and they take that to court, the defence can look back at past situations and argue that Apple has not been defending the mark, thus it has a case for being generic.
See: kleenex, Xerox, Hoover, Zamboni.
They know that no one is going to confuse this with an actual Apple product, but they have to protect the trademark.
No, you post AC because you know your "science" is not valid. The bulk of the "critical" response to climate science is built on shaky evidence and the attempts to discredit the models used by climate scientists to make their predictions. Big swooping claims about how the ice cores show that (apparently) CO2 lags behind temperature on the graphs must mean that the connection is reversed - it gets warm so more CO2 is trapped, when more than a casual glance at the science shows you how the CO2 readings have an offset, and an uncertainty in time accuracy that puts them right on top of the temperature line. The sceptics handily ignore this (which is pointed out in the real science), hoping that people will just look at the graph and not how it is plotted. There are dozens of instances like this.
The fact that you don;t really know the difference between weather and climate suggests a reason you posted AC: you don;t know what you're talking about.
Scientists are more than willing to listen to genuine claims against them, and will adjust and test their models and evidence as they needs to. Just because they easily discredit the bulk of the sceptics through non-science and faulty reasoning doesn't mean they refuse to listen to any criticism. The arguments need to have actual merit.
It's the sort of disconnect that network TV considers a "fair coverage" issue if they put a scientist on the "pro-warming" side, and a businessman/politician/lobbyist on the "con" side for a debate on the subject. Their arguments do not have equal merit.
I was born in the wrong decade to see them at their serious prime, but I believe the live version of Dark Side played at Earls Court in 1994 was outstanding, especially with the stage show to go with the music.
I believe this is what's been holding up the Mac Pro refresh, with the top or middle Mac Pro slated to get these as an upgrade from the 4 core ones.
I think core number is the new MHz. We're not going any faster, but we can just give you more of them, which makes quite a lot of sense. All those FCP render pipelines and encodes just got a lot shorter with th3 12 core Mac Pro.
Well, I think the tower is a little overkill - the specs of the 27" iMac are ideal as a game machine, just needs a removable GPU for upgrade purposes (even if it's less than trivial, but still changable). The screen is beautiful, hardware is excellent, price is reasonable.
It's a little chicken and egg - the iMac is clearly a home machine, and games are very much home-focussed entertainment, but traditionally Apple hasn't gone for that market, but doesn't need to do much to change that. I'd love the meat of a Mac Pro, but I don;t need its bulk, and I like that I can move my computer easily from place to place with little effort and quick setup/disassemble/packup. It could be a potent games machine. The options for it right now are a 4670 and a 4850, which are nice, if not cutting egde. We don't need bleeding edge liquid cooled stuff, just some higher power options in future iterations.
If this mid 2006 iMac had the ability to change out the GPU it would also make a pretty good games machine.
Well, my 2006 machine has an X1600, which is old but gives a reference point. Anything made since then has much better stuff inside. Not cutting edge, Crysis at 4600x2600@ 250fps, but good enough for a lot of recent games.
Current iMac ships with a 4670, option of a 4850 on the 27". The base one has a 9400M with shared memory.
It does need to be addressed, for certain, but it's not as bad as everyone makes out, especially since the initial release is going to feature a lot of older titles that will run just fine. It gives Apple time to put some more decent options in the GPU lineup in future machines (which they have been doing of late).
This is not true. "Most of the rest" have dedicated GPUs - that has at least been the major trend with Macs. They may not be cutting edge, but they are not integrated IntelGMA - except for the Mac Mini and the Macbook which have an NVidia 9400M, but with shared memory, not an intel GMA. I believe one earlier iteration of the Mini had an intel gpu.
The MPB and iMac all have dedicated GPUs. The MBPs even have two!
It is true there needs to be more choice and some higher spec cards available (the best you can get on the iMac line is a Radeon 4850 with 512Mb, which is not bad but not cutting edge either).
I am a huge Apple fan, but we are lacking in decent GPU options on the consumer hardware. I am looking at a new iMac, and if I want a 4850 (still not a new card in the general trend of GPUs) I need to go for the 27" iMac, and spec it up at an extra £100. The best you can do on the 21" is the 4750.
I can see a heat issue, but some future design consideration for better GPU options - perhaps removable card-based would be a good idea.
I used to own my PC-owning friends in Q3A, even with my one button mouse, which I used at their request to make it more fair to them:D
Been awhile since I played a great FPS on my Mac - the last three were Q3A, Halo and UT2k4 in that order. Played Half-Life way back in the day on a friend's machine - looking forward to picking it up natively.
Let's hope that they do actually properly go for native instead of the lameness that has been Cider wrappers around the windows version that we have seen in the past from some. EvE was interesting, and I can see the economy of scale issue (in writing a native client for a small platform) but the performance of the Cider wrapper really hurt.
The chicken and egg problem (no games, no dev support, thus no games...) has to be broken sooner or later - Blizzard certainly seems to be doing ok with a dual platform release format.
Security Advice The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box. However, since no system can be 100 percent immune from every threat, antivirus software may offer additional protection.
Which is on their security page for OS X. I see what you're saying, but I really don;t think the bulk of the security protection (or the major reason why the malware issues are low) on the Mac is due to obfuscation/lower market share. They also tweaked their marketing to focus more on the fact that there was no immunity from threats (I think originally it said 'immune to windows viruses' which is technically accurate but somewhat misleading).
Renault did this with the Laguna too, with a little keycard instead of a key, and a big "start" button on the dash to start and stop the engine (or you could just pull the card out).
When you walked away from the car it would automatically lock. I don;t think I'd ever trust it - I'd keep walking back to check, only for it to unlock again!
I doubt they'll patent it, or they'll patent the UI implementation - which is where it will differ from all the current solutions.
Not that I necessarily agree with software patents (one click, indexing, doing x thing 'on a computer!'" etc, but that will be what happens if it is the case.
They have a knack for taking a technology and making it intuitive and seamless (in general theory) to use.
Your CD isn't lossless either, at least compared to a very high quality analog deck.
The iTunes/iPod ecosystem allows exactly the system you want (it's flexible that way) to allow you to rip lossless from CDs as well as make lower bitrate copies. The point here wasn't that Apple is selling non-lossless music, but that they sell non-DRM music that is in AAC format - which was erroneously described as a "locked to Apple devices only" format, when it is clearly nothing of the sort.
The only real piece missing from the iPod is the ability to add your own codec of choice (assuming the hardware can support it), beyond the subset of codecs it already handles. You can add vorbis/flac support to iTunes, but not extend it to the iPod/Phone, which is a shame.
Right, so now you're changing the rules - before you were talking about stopping in a straight line with all 4 wheels locked up, now you're talking about lane changes and braking on a curve. And now you're making excuses for the driver being unfamiliar with the test vehicle.
The tests performed there actually featured all three tests - a full lockup, a best effort stop and an ABS assisted stop, at least for a large number of tests. The conclusions are clearly spelt out that except in the compromise case where the surface is loose (gravel, snow) ABS is beneficial for the driver.
"experienced" in his definition appears to be "I learned to drive with no ABS", which is disingenuous at the best of times. I learned to drive in the UK in a car with ABS, that was disabled by the instructor to show me what a car was like under braking with the system failed.
At any rate, if you are crashing because you really needed 10m less distance in the worst case scenario (say, you are on a loose surface and the ABS is diminished) then you are not driving safely in the first place.
The ability to steer while braking (and the general benefit of the ABS system as a whole, especially its ability to determine the traction conditions for each wheel individually) far outweigh the benefit of training each driver to be "experienced" in the sense of "here is how to brake effectively with no ABS" (although clearly this should be taught as part of the driving test).
"Panic brake applications used in conjunction with ABS resulted in the shortest straight line stopping distances on the dry concrete and the wet polished concrete surfaces for all nine test vehicles at both loading conditions"
This was tested with ABS, with no ABS and with "best effort" experienced driver with no ABS with manual brake pumping.
Don't just take my word for it, it has been tested. Read it for yourself.
It also confirms the increase in distance on gravel and loose snow, which is obvious, but if you are in such a situation, you should be driving more carefully (ie slowly) anyway so that the difference between ABS and not isn;t the difference between a crash or not (ie, the difference between having the system and not should not be your margin of error).
BTW - Even on dry asphalt, ABS won't stop you as fast as locking the 4 wheels will. ABS is for inexperienced drivers only.
That is a shockingly poor description of the benefit of ABS. It sounds like you'd switch off your ABS system because it makes you more macho to be able to drive without it.
On dry asphalt with good grip, ABS can actually decrease your braking distance, and with ABS active you can do something that you can not do with locked up wheels: steer the car while braking. The ABS system itself is tuned to prevent your wheels locking so that you don't have to, and modern systems also monitor the way the wheels react so it can tell if one of your wheels is on ice (or aquaplaning) while another is on dry road and thus control each one independently, and move the brake bias between the front and rear of the car.
It is a driver aid that is an enormous benefit to anyone who is using it - it's not a hinderance to you as an "experienced" driver. It is monitoring the wheels under braking many times per second, which is far more than you can do yourself, and allows you to plant your foot on the brake and concentrate on steering the car to avoid a collision if necessary.
You make it sound like you would be better off without it since you're "experienced".
Apple solved this (I'm sure not uniquely, but very simply for the user) with those who want to type using Dvorak, but who have major muscle memory for the command shortcuts, which are less about "command+q" or "command+s" and more about a particular way your hand moves without looking down, so you can set the keyboard layout to Dvorak Qwerty Command, which does as it suggests and resets the layout to qwerty when the command key is held down.
Then the answer to the question is the link to someone who can provide that.
I doubt the responses would have been quite so hostile if the topic had been car repair - poorly maintained vehicles are a menace on the roads!
The answer does not necessarily have to be "here is what you do" - it can be "find someone who knows what they are doing". Trolling him is not likely to create any positive effect, except among the already insular server admin clique. Save the "oh my god, so this noob totally connected a 54-50 to a 35-27 with no logging!" drinking stories for the bar.
Some drives work, some do not. The drive in my powerbook worked exactly like this, the one in my iMac which was from a different vendor (or was just a different generation) would choke on such an action since even though I have flashed it to be RPC1 and can change the region code at will, any player (like VLC) that attempts to read the disk without using the CSS system fails. This includes handbrake attempting to just copy files off the disc.
I have to use Fairmount to act as a broker to enable rips with the new version of Handbrake with this drive. This is in a late 2006 iMac with a Matshita UJ-846, flashed to firmware FB2U (region changes unlimited, but CSS issues obviously still intact). Some DVD drives don;t care about the CSS though and treat the data as just pure data, enabling you to copy the video_ts folder off.
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Whether it is a good idea or not, or if people will be fooled is irrelevant. Trademark law is such that you must defend your trademarks lest they become generic.
If in some later iPod trademark case that it much more blatant (say someone releases a music player called the iP0d, with a 0 instead of an o) and they take that to court, the defence can look back at past situations and argue that Apple has not been defending the mark, thus it has a case for being generic.
See: kleenex, Xerox, Hoover, Zamboni.
They know that no one is going to confuse this with an actual Apple product, but they have to protect the trademark.
No, you post AC because you know your "science" is not valid. The bulk of the "critical" response to climate science is built on shaky evidence and the attempts to discredit the models used by climate scientists to make their predictions. Big swooping claims about how the ice cores show that (apparently) CO2 lags behind temperature on the graphs must mean that the connection is reversed - it gets warm so more CO2 is trapped, when more than a casual glance at the science shows you how the CO2 readings have an offset, and an uncertainty in time accuracy that puts them right on top of the temperature line. The sceptics handily ignore this (which is pointed out in the real science), hoping that people will just look at the graph and not how it is plotted. There are dozens of instances like this.
The fact that you don;t really know the difference between weather and climate suggests a reason you posted AC: you don;t know what you're talking about.
Scientists are more than willing to listen to genuine claims against them, and will adjust and test their models and evidence as they needs to. Just because they easily discredit the bulk of the sceptics through non-science and faulty reasoning doesn't mean they refuse to listen to any criticism. The arguments need to have actual merit.
It's the sort of disconnect that network TV considers a "fair coverage" issue if they put a scientist on the "pro-warming" side, and a businessman/politician/lobbyist on the "con" side for a debate on the subject. Their arguments do not have equal merit.
I was born in the wrong decade to see them at their serious prime, but I believe the live version of Dark Side played at Earls Court in 1994 was outstanding, especially with the stage show to go with the music.
I believe this is what's been holding up the Mac Pro refresh, with the top or middle Mac Pro slated to get these as an upgrade from the 4 core ones.
I think core number is the new MHz. We're not going any faster, but we can just give you more of them, which makes quite a lot of sense. All those FCP render pipelines and encodes just got a lot shorter with th3 12 core Mac Pro.
Well, I think the tower is a little overkill - the specs of the 27" iMac are ideal as a game machine, just needs a removable GPU for upgrade purposes (even if it's less than trivial, but still changable). The screen is beautiful, hardware is excellent, price is reasonable.
It's a little chicken and egg - the iMac is clearly a home machine, and games are very much home-focussed entertainment, but traditionally Apple hasn't gone for that market, but doesn't need to do much to change that. I'd love the meat of a Mac Pro, but I don;t need its bulk, and I like that I can move my computer easily from place to place with little effort and quick setup/disassemble/packup. It could be a potent games machine. The options for it right now are a 4670 and a 4850, which are nice, if not cutting egde. We don't need bleeding edge liquid cooled stuff, just some higher power options in future iterations.
If this mid 2006 iMac had the ability to change out the GPU it would also make a pretty good games machine.
Well, my 2006 machine has an X1600, which is old but gives a reference point. Anything made since then has much better stuff inside. Not cutting edge, Crysis at 4600x2600@ 250fps, but good enough for a lot of recent games.
Current iMac ships with a 4670, option of a 4850 on the 27". The base one has a 9400M with shared memory.
It does need to be addressed, for certain, but it's not as bad as everyone makes out, especially since the initial release is going to feature a lot of older titles that will run just fine. It gives Apple time to put some more decent options in the GPU lineup in future machines (which they have been doing of late).
This is not true. "Most of the rest" have dedicated GPUs - that has at least been the major trend with Macs. They may not be cutting edge, but they are not integrated IntelGMA - except for the Mac Mini and the Macbook which have an NVidia 9400M, but with shared memory, not an intel GMA. I believe one earlier iteration of the Mini had an intel gpu.
The MPB and iMac all have dedicated GPUs. The MBPs even have two!
It is true there needs to be more choice and some higher spec cards available (the best you can get on the iMac line is a Radeon 4850 with 512Mb, which is not bad but not cutting edge either).
No, next step, better GPU options for Macs.
I am a huge Apple fan, but we are lacking in decent GPU options on the consumer hardware. I am looking at a new iMac, and if I want a 4850 (still not a new card in the general trend of GPUs) I need to go for the 27" iMac, and spec it up at an extra £100. The best you can do on the 21" is the 4750.
I can see a heat issue, but some future design consideration for better GPU options - perhaps removable card-based would be a good idea.
I used to own my PC-owning friends in Q3A, even with my one button mouse, which I used at their request to make it more fair to them :D
Been awhile since I played a great FPS on my Mac - the last three were Q3A, Halo and UT2k4 in that order. Played Half-Life way back in the day on a friend's machine - looking forward to picking it up natively.
My PC-owning buddies hated me nailing them in Q3A, on my Mac, especially if I said "ok guys, I'll use the one button mouse, just to be fair".
Interesting.
Let's hope that they do actually properly go for native instead of the lameness that has been Cider wrappers around the windows version that we have seen in the past from some. EvE was interesting, and I can see the economy of scale issue (in writing a native client for a small platform) but the performance of the Cider wrapper really hurt.
The chicken and egg problem (no games, no dev support, thus no games...) has to be broken sooner or later - Blizzard certainly seems to be doing ok with a dual platform release format.
Actually, Apple's stance on it is thus:
Security Advice
The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box. However, since no system can be 100 percent immune from every threat, antivirus software may offer additional protection.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/security/
Which is on their security page for OS X. I see what you're saying, but I really don;t think the bulk of the security protection (or the major reason why the malware issues are low) on the Mac is due to obfuscation/lower market share. They also tweaked their marketing to focus more on the fact that there was no immunity from threats (I think originally it said 'immune to windows viruses' which is technically accurate but somewhat misleading).
I think he'd prefer the key to your liver. Just in case.
Renault did this with the Laguna too, with a little keycard instead of a key, and a big "start" button on the dash to start and stop the engine (or you could just pull the card out).
When you walked away from the car it would automatically lock. I don;t think I'd ever trust it - I'd keep walking back to check, only for it to unlock again!
I doubt they'll patent it, or they'll patent the UI implementation - which is where it will differ from all the current solutions.
Not that I necessarily agree with software patents (one click, indexing, doing x thing 'on a computer!'" etc, but that will be what happens if it is the case.
They have a knack for taking a technology and making it intuitive and seamless (in general theory) to use.
So don't buy the songs then.
Your CD isn't lossless either, at least compared to a very high quality analog deck.
The iTunes/iPod ecosystem allows exactly the system you want (it's flexible that way) to allow you to rip lossless from CDs as well as make lower bitrate copies. The point here wasn't that Apple is selling non-lossless music, but that they sell non-DRM music that is in AAC format - which was erroneously described as a "locked to Apple devices only" format, when it is clearly nothing of the sort.
The only real piece missing from the iPod is the ability to add your own codec of choice (assuming the hardware can support it), beyond the subset of codecs it already handles. You can add vorbis/flac support to iTunes, but not extend it to the iPod/Phone, which is a shame.
Right, so now you're changing the rules - before you were talking about stopping in a straight line with all 4 wheels locked up, now you're talking about lane changes and braking on a curve. And now you're making excuses for the driver being unfamiliar with the test vehicle.
The tests performed there actually featured all three tests - a full lockup, a best effort stop and an ABS assisted stop, at least for a large number of tests. The conclusions are clearly spelt out that except in the compromise case where the surface is loose (gravel, snow) ABS is beneficial for the driver.
No, but surely, Emacs, the editor that was used on the config file for the big bang, could have something like that implemented.
"experienced" in his definition appears to be "I learned to drive with no ABS", which is disingenuous at the best of times. I learned to drive in the UK in a car with ABS, that was disabled by the instructor to show me what a car was like under braking with the system failed.
At any rate, if you are crashing because you really needed 10m less distance in the worst case scenario (say, you are on a loose surface and the ABS is diminished) then you are not driving safely in the first place.
The ability to steer while braking (and the general benefit of the ABS system as a whole, especially its ability to determine the traction conditions for each wheel individually) far outweigh the benefit of training each driver to be "experienced" in the sense of "here is how to brake effectively with no ABS" (although clearly this should be taught as part of the driving test).
This pdf:
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/DOT/NHTSA/NRD/Multimedia/PDFs/VRTC/ca/capubs/NHTSAabsT4FinalRpt.pdf (warning, pdf)
Check page 24.
"Panic brake applications used in conjunction with ABS resulted in the shortest straight line stopping distances on the dry concrete and the wet polished concrete surfaces for all nine test vehicles at both loading conditions"
This was tested with ABS, with no ABS and with "best effort" experienced driver with no ABS with manual brake pumping.
Don't just take my word for it, it has been tested. Read it for yourself.
It also confirms the increase in distance on gravel and loose snow, which is obvious, but if you are in such a situation, you should be driving more carefully (ie slowly) anyway so that the difference between ABS and not isn;t the difference between a crash or not (ie, the difference between having the system and not should not be your margin of error).
BTW - Even on dry asphalt, ABS won't stop you as fast as locking the 4 wheels will. ABS is for inexperienced drivers only.
That is a shockingly poor description of the benefit of ABS. It sounds like you'd switch off your ABS system because it makes you more macho to be able to drive without it.
On dry asphalt with good grip, ABS can actually decrease your braking distance, and with ABS active you can do something that you can not do with locked up wheels: steer the car while braking. The ABS system itself is tuned to prevent your wheels locking so that you don't have to, and modern systems also monitor the way the wheels react so it can tell if one of your wheels is on ice (or aquaplaning) while another is on dry road and thus control each one independently, and move the brake bias between the front and rear of the car.
It is a driver aid that is an enormous benefit to anyone who is using it - it's not a hinderance to you as an "experienced" driver. It is monitoring the wheels under braking many times per second, which is far more than you can do yourself, and allows you to plant your foot on the brake and concentrate on steering the car to avoid a collision if necessary.
You make it sound like you would be better off without it since you're "experienced".
Apple solved this (I'm sure not uniquely, but very simply for the user) with those who want to type using Dvorak, but who have major muscle memory for the command shortcuts, which are less about "command+q" or "command+s" and more about a particular way your hand moves without looking down, so you can set the keyboard layout to Dvorak Qwerty Command, which does as it suggests and resets the layout to qwerty when the command key is held down.
Then the answer to the question is the link to someone who can provide that.
I doubt the responses would have been quite so hostile if the topic had been car repair - poorly maintained vehicles are a menace on the roads!
The answer does not necessarily have to be "here is what you do" - it can be "find someone who knows what they are doing". Trolling him is not likely to create any positive effect, except among the already insular server admin clique. Save the "oh my god, so this noob totally connected a 54-50 to a 35-27 with no logging!" drinking stories for the bar.
He could get trolled on slashdot by the very people he's coming to ask for help to become *less* of a noob.
I'll bet you teach your kid gun safety by shooting him in the neck.
Some drives work, some do not. The drive in my powerbook worked exactly like this, the one in my iMac which was from a different vendor (or was just a different generation) would choke on such an action since even though I have flashed it to be RPC1 and can change the region code at will, any player (like VLC) that attempts to read the disk without using the CSS system fails. This includes handbrake attempting to just copy files off the disc.
I have to use Fairmount to act as a broker to enable rips with the new version of Handbrake with this drive. This is in a late 2006 iMac with a Matshita UJ-846, flashed to firmware FB2U (region changes unlimited, but CSS issues obviously still intact). Some DVD drives don;t care about the CSS though and treat the data as just pure data, enabling you to copy the video_ts folder off.