My guess is that they are using OSM as a cover until they are ready later this year to release whatever Poly9, C3 Technologies and others have come up with. Cook did say there was more coming throughout the year.
If the request for the 1 million search sample is left to Google, then I say they hand over search results from Bush, Cheney and all those other cracksheads in that administration. And Google should post it publicly seeing as how we're all disregarding privacy laws here.
Hmmm, seems to me the US has killed thousands of INNOCENT Iraqis in the last 4 years, destroyed their infrastructure (no water, no electricity, no roads, no housing) and they now live in constant terror of being shot, blown up, or poked in the ass with a broom stick by a US soldier or a bonafied terrorist that WASN'T there when Sadam was in power.
I agree with the poster, change takes time. Hell, the women in Iraq were able to walk around, talk, go to school while most of the rest of the Arab world would sh!t their pants at that development.
People that are oppressed cannot simply have the gates flung open because they have NOTHING to run to.
I am sick and tired on websites that use 30% of my CPU just to show a useless, animated logo, or using Flash menus that can't be searched in or for, and unable of being indexed by search engines, and that break back and forward navigation, or waiting 10 seconds or more when a new page loads just to be shown the intro animation for that page.
This is because you're only being exposed to "Skip-Intro" sites built by incompetent Flash users that don't know how to code in Actionscript and so are left making movieClips and timelines. Problem is that movieClips, especially invisible ones, CONTINUE to play little blinking animations etc in the background and will hog your CPU. It's important to note that this is NOT a problem with Flash or the plugin, you can put that problem squarely on the head of idiot users.
Macromedia's website is built on 80% Flash content, does your CPU run at 30% + to view it? No. Why? Because they have users that *know* how to build proper Flash animations.
Try viewing a page with 7+ animated gifs and see what happens to your cpu.
This silly hypothesis is entirely based on the fact that Cringely can find no logical reason for Apple to choose Intel over AMD.
"Intel is fed up with Microsoft. Microsoft has no innovation..."
AMD already has supply issues, adding Apple's paultry requirements would place Apple in no better position than when with IBM - crying for product. Also, Apple has been shipping DUAL CPU Macs for years now, they are extremely commonplace. That means AMD would have to produce twice as many chips (Apple does have plans for a dual core / dual cpu workstation). This doesn't preclude Apple from pulling the same stunts with Intel in the future which MS does currently by threatening to support AMD.
AMD, as poorly treated by MS as they are, continue to grovel and snivel at Bills feet for more treatment. Contrast that against Intel and Apple who both like to hate Bill - it's a marriage made in heaven.
My question is this, will Apple offer OSX for *any* intel box? If so, then what happens to all the hundreds of millions of dollars a year Microsoft collects on PC manufacturers that are forced to buy and install Windows in some form or another on those boxes?
Apple on Intel can spell the end of an era for MS, namely, MS will surely no-longer be able to argue that selling OS-less boxes as targets for stolen copies of WinXP.
This is gonna really hurt in even more ways when you consider OSX is a real UNIX OS. I'm thinking a Dell 4-cpu 4U running OSX would perform better than some XP OS hack that thinks it's a server...;)
I'm heading into year 5 (maybe 6??) with my Dual G4 500. If it wasn't for the fact that DOOM3 is out I wouldn't even think of upgrading. My dual is awesome.
BTW, if Apple's *installed* base were 1.6% or less then who in in the wintel world would even *know* how Apple is? My parents don't even know what Linux is - as far as they know, PC's are Apple and Windows (not Dell, Compaq, Sony etc, WINDOWS).
So 16% of the installed base sounds about right. How many wintel users have bought a new windows PC at work or at home in the last 5 years? I work from home coding rich internet apps in Flash MX Pro and been doing so on the same $2000 investment for 5+ years.
Far as I see it, not only do *I* win, but it really puts a dent in the rumors that PC's are cheaper than macs. My own FATHER has bought 3 PC's in that time!
If it's not Apple hardware then it's Microsoft software lock in. The entire argument in this paragraph is ridicules - "so in the future when Apple sucks again", so you're implying that PC hardware has NEVER sucked? Ever? Apple hardware dating back to the Mac SE are still in use today. It has a GUI and can connect to the web WITH NO MODIFICATIONS! Can *you* run Windows 95 on a 286 today? No, even if you could you'd be cheating because Win95 was not available when the 286 came out. If I am correct, the ONLY way to run a webserver on 286 hardware is to use the Minix web server, created by Andrew Tanenbaum - Linus Torvalds TEACHER!
( The SE is a 68000 Motorola running at 8mhz on 4MB of ram. So if you can *avoid* clicking the last link directly *today* I'm sure the owner would appricate it. )
As for short life cycles - oh please. I've was using a G4 single CPU then a G4 dual CPU for 3 yrs before the G5 came out. The G4 was a VERY long life cycle for a CPU.
As for getting parts, in my 20+ yrs with Apple hardware I have NEVER replaced anything other than hard drives which have ALWAYS been stock (and NOT made by Apple). OMG this is a pointless argument. Where do you misinformed twats come from anyway? It's a never ending story with you WinTel people is it?
Bandwidth is not free. Hell, I bought Photoshop online for $1400 and I CANNOT redownload it (cost $$ for a CD plus shipping). How is Apple, which is making 5 cents per song, going to profit if you feel you should have the right to make Apple into your personal backup storage location? Noway. Maybe if you are a.mac member, but as some joe blow off the street, never.
The judge will toss this person out of court within 15 minutes. The music bought on iTMS is *prepared* to operate wonderfully on the iPod. As history has shown, Apple provides it's clients with the greatest user experience it can on *its* hardware.
The music itself can easily be burned to CD and ripped on your PC for use with your NOMAD etc. This can even be done in iTunes itself! The case has no legs to stand on, Apple has freely provided everything *anyone* needs to play their iTMS music on ANY PORTABLE DEVICE on the market if you spend 10mins and take your head out of your ass long enough to understand the technolgy you're using.
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It's a good idea to burn any music you buy online to CD. Apple will NOT provide you with new copies of music you previously purchased on iTMS if your hard drive goes nuclear. Apple, and other online stores, are not about to waist terabytes of bandwidth($$$) supplying you with backups of music you bought for peanuts then lost because you're a careless ass.
I suspect other online stores act in a similar manner. So if the judge is up to date on technology, he'll recognize that everyone SHOULD be making CD backups *anyway* - and charge this twit with waisting everyone's time.
Think of that logic in this context, the next time you loose your NOFX *physical* CD, go back to the store you purchased it from and demand a new copy. Even with a reciept you'll get your ass kicked all the way to the street.
20 - 30 sales? Is it just me or doesn't anyone else think it's odd that SCO throws out a number with a 33% gap in possible sales? That's huge.
Even so, 30 sales worldwide? What a joke.
What's the joke here? In this article it claims that on average MS can be 0wned in 3 days, Linux in 6 days and OSX in 1hr.
I have not experienced this average, I find OSX fairly difficult to exploit barring the sillyness of Safari.
This report listed nothing else regarding any tests done on OSX, what vulnerabilities were found, nor was it compared to Windows or linux in the report. I find it questionable that this person list OSX as a "toy os" then fail to provide any reason for the comment.
What was the point?
If that comment had not been made then I would have likely bought into it. But now I question it completely, I think the article is nothing more than a poke against MS with zero credibility to back it up.
Well, actually MS *di* copy from Apple. True they both toured through PARC but Apple *BOUGHT* the team that built the GUI at PARC and all patents to taht work.
Everyone thinks they copied PARC when in fact Apple owned it at the time that they released Lisa. MS didn't release their GUI until 10 years later and then actually copied the NEXT OS GUI and NOT the Apple GUI.
Bill follows and does whatever Jobs does. And in 1995 when Win 95 came out Steve was still running NEXT.
Go find screenshots of OPENSTEP and NEXT and compare them to Win95 - a perfect lift if I ever saw one.
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Easy, just create your own TV series using online tools. http://howardandleslie.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jx_xYkziE4 http://www.deadpaninc.com/ Fuck the MPAA
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They already sell boxes that tansfer HD signals from 1 location to another. Yes, the context is different but the technology is already on sale.
If the request for the 1 million search sample is left to Google, then I say they hand over search results from Bush, Cheney and all those other cracksheads in that administration. And Google should post it publicly seeing as how we're all disregarding privacy laws here.
I'm sure they won't mind.
Hmmm, seems to me the US has killed thousands of INNOCENT Iraqis in the last 4 years, destroyed their infrastructure (no water, no electricity, no roads, no housing) and they now live in constant terror of being shot, blown up, or poked in the ass with a broom stick by a US soldier or a bonafied terrorist that WASN'T there when Sadam was in power.
I agree with the poster, change takes time. Hell, the women in Iraq were able to walk around, talk, go to school while most of the rest of the Arab world would sh!t their pants at that development.
People that are oppressed cannot simply have the gates flung open because they have NOTHING to run to.
This is because you're only being exposed to "Skip-Intro" sites built by incompetent Flash users that don't know how to code in Actionscript and so are left making movieClips and timelines. Problem is that movieClips, especially invisible ones, CONTINUE to play little blinking animations etc in the background and will hog your CPU. It's important to note that this is NOT a problem with Flash or the plugin, you can put that problem squarely on the head of idiot users.
Macromedia's website is built on 80% Flash content, does your CPU run at 30% + to view it? No. Why? Because they have users that *know* how to build proper Flash animations.
Try viewing a page with 7+ animated gifs and see what happens to your cpu.
Yes. They are doing the rounds and hitting some bigger name brands before going after anything that uses a small keyboard to send email wirelessly.
It comes in solid BLACK as well. Just browse through the iPodNano GALLERY.
I hear Apple has a patent on shipping MP3 players with a bug and is thinking about suing Creative for licensing fees...
...blame Canada.
There's a cool chat room (*no* registration required) to chat about the movie. http://www.karbonized.com/firefly/ship/
Flash has been on PDA's and PocketPC's for a few years now...
s /pda.html
http://www.macromedia.com/mobile/supported_device
"Intel is fed up with Microsoft. Microsoft has no innovation..."
AMD already has supply issues, adding Apple's paultry requirements would place Apple in no better position than when with IBM - crying for product. Also, Apple has been shipping DUAL CPU Macs for years now, they are extremely commonplace. That means AMD would have to produce twice as many chips (Apple does have plans for a dual core / dual cpu workstation). This doesn't preclude Apple from pulling the same stunts with Intel in the future which MS does currently by threatening to support AMD.
AMD, as poorly treated by MS as they are, continue to grovel and snivel at Bills feet for more treatment. Contrast that against Intel and Apple who both like to hate Bill - it's a marriage made in heaven.
My question is this, will Apple offer OSX for *any* intel box? If so, then what happens to all the hundreds of millions of dollars a year Microsoft collects on PC manufacturers that are forced to buy and install Windows in some form or another on those boxes?
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Apple on Intel can spell the end of an era for MS, namely, MS will surely no-longer be able to argue that selling OS-less boxes as targets for stolen copies of WinXP.
This is gonna really hurt in even more ways when you consider OSX is a real UNIX OS. I'm thinking a Dell 4-cpu 4U running OSX would perform better than some XP OS hack that thinks it's a server...
I'm heading into year 5 (maybe 6??) with my Dual G4 500. If it wasn't for the fact that DOOM3 is out I wouldn't even think of upgrading. My dual is awesome. BTW, if Apple's *installed* base were 1.6% or less then who in in the wintel world would even *know* how Apple is? My parents don't even know what Linux is - as far as they know, PC's are Apple and Windows (not Dell, Compaq, Sony etc, WINDOWS). So 16% of the installed base sounds about right. How many wintel users have bought a new windows PC at work or at home in the last 5 years? I work from home coding rich internet apps in Flash MX Pro and been doing so on the same $2000 investment for 5+ years. Far as I see it, not only do *I* win, but it really puts a dent in the rumors that PC's are cheaper than macs. My own FATHER has bought 3 PC's in that time!
Apple registered a patent for the Spotlight technology 2 years ago, so I'd say Apple wins. Patented first and released first.
The real story will be when Longhorn does finally ship and the media reports that "Wow, Apple REALLY did copy Longhorn's search".
It will happen, and scores of Windows fans will believe it to be the truth.
See:
Mac SE Server
Webserver Mac SE
Another Mac SE Server
( The SE is a 68000 Motorola running at 8mhz on 4MB of ram. So if you can *avoid* clicking the last link directly *today* I'm sure the owner would appricate it. )
As for short life cycles - oh please. I've was using a G4 single CPU then a G4 dual CPU for 3 yrs before the G5 came out. The G4 was a VERY long life cycle for a CPU.
As for getting parts, in my 20+ yrs with Apple hardware I have NEVER replaced anything other than hard drives which have ALWAYS been stock (and NOT made by Apple). OMG this is a pointless argument. Where do you misinformed twats come from anyway? It's a never ending story with you WinTel people is it?
Is it me or are the screenshots showing this puppy running on Mac OSX?
Bandwidth is not free. Hell, I bought Photoshop online for $1400 and I CANNOT redownload it (cost $$ for a CD plus shipping). How is Apple, which is making 5 cents per song, going to profit if you feel you should have the right to make Apple into your personal backup storage location? Noway. Maybe if you are a .mac member, but as some joe blow off the street, never.
The judge will toss this person out of court within 15 minutes. The music bought on iTMS is *prepared* to operate wonderfully on the iPod. As history has shown, Apple provides it's clients with the greatest user experience it can on *its* hardware.
The music itself can easily be burned to CD and ripped on your PC for use with your NOMAD etc. This can even be done in iTunes itself! The case has no legs to stand on, Apple has freely provided everything *anyone* needs to play their iTMS music on ANY PORTABLE DEVICE on the market if you spend 10mins and take your head out of your ass long enough to understand the technolgy you're using.
RANT FOLLOWS
It's a good idea to burn any music you buy online to CD. Apple will NOT provide you with new copies of music you previously purchased on iTMS if your hard drive goes nuclear. Apple, and other online stores, are not about to waist terabytes of bandwidth($$$) supplying you with backups of music you bought for peanuts then lost because you're a careless ass.
I suspect other online stores act in a similar manner. So if the judge is up to date on technology, he'll recognize that everyone SHOULD be making CD backups *anyway* - and charge this twit with waisting everyone's time.
Think of that logic in this context, the next time you loose your NOFX *physical* CD, go back to the store you purchased it from and demand a new copy. Even with a reciept you'll get your ass kicked all the way to the street.
20 - 30 sales? Is it just me or doesn't anyone else think it's odd that SCO throws out a number with a 33% gap in possible sales? That's huge. Even so, 30 sales worldwide? What a joke.
The war in Iraq *is* killing someone's baby everyday.
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What's the joke here? In this article it claims that on average MS can be 0wned in 3 days, Linux in 6 days and OSX in 1hr.
I have not experienced this average, I find OSX fairly difficult to exploit barring the sillyness of Safari.
This report listed nothing else regarding any tests done on OSX, what vulnerabilities were found, nor was it compared to Windows or linux in the report. I find it questionable that this person list OSX as a "toy os" then fail to provide any reason for the comment.
What was the point?
If that comment had not been made then I would have likely bought into it. But now I question it completely, I think the article is nothing more than a poke against MS with zero credibility to back it up.
Well, actually MS *di* copy from Apple. True they both toured through PARC but Apple *BOUGHT* the team that built the GUI at PARC and all patents to taht work. Everyone thinks they copied PARC when in fact Apple owned it at the time that they released Lisa. MS didn't release their GUI until 10 years later and then actually copied the NEXT OS GUI and NOT the Apple GUI. Bill follows and does whatever Jobs does. And in 1995 when Win 95 came out Steve was still running NEXT. Go find screenshots of OPENSTEP and NEXT and compare them to Win95 - a perfect lift if I ever saw one.