Who wouldn't want to check their email everyday containing promises for bigger penises and hot nasty teen bitches???
Seriously, though, spam and porn seem to be the only two business aspects of the Internet that consistently turn profits, and it's been that way for the last 5 or 6 years, at least. And if these two areas are the ones turning a profit for so long, I am hard-pressed to see the circumstances that would cause people to immediately stop spending their money on such shit and just "turn it off".
While a nice thought for the idealist, for the realist, it doesn't make much sense at all.
They also vary the theme between aqua and brushed metal seemingly at random in their apps collection. This goes flat against their own HIG.
If you would read the actual Apple HIG, they say that apps which are meant to replace a real-world item/function (such as Calculator, iCal, iTunes) should be built with the brushed metal look. All other apps should use the default, untextured look. Just thinking over the apps included in OS X, it seems to me like they follow this guideline fairly closely.
I think you just made an important point - "...the few windows boxes I've had to manage..." Of course they've been a pain, you've only had to do a few, never learned the (sometimes hellishly complex and quixotic) details of how to effectively manage Windows. If you had managed a thousand Windows boxes and just a couple linux ones you'd probably feel the linux boxes were a bigger pain.
I doubt it. As someone else said, it has more to do with the fact that, by and large, updating/patching/fixing a Windows machine requires you to be there in front of it (or at least connected to via some remote display technology), attending to each machine. On the other hand, it is not only very easy but very common for large numbers of unix machines to be updated/patched/fixed at once by a single administrator. I would definitely say my apprehension about Windows administration has more to do with the above than the fact that I just haven't figured out how to 'effectively manage Windows'.
...it is simply the fact that Windows systems just generally take more time and effort to secure. Whether it is simply because there are more patches, or that those patches just take forever to install, or that those patches create further problems that have to be addressed, I can firmly say in my 6 or 7 years of administration, the few Windows boxes I've had to manage have been a far larger administration headache than any of the Linux, FreeBSD, or even Solaris machines.
While we technical folks might tend to obsess over benchmarks, the masses of gullible, non-technical people only care about getting their stuff done as easily and as quickly as possible, regardless of the technical merits of the chip powering their computer.
I'm afraid that it's not just the "masses of gullible, non-technical people" that only care about getting their stuff done as easily and quickly as possible. I would put that label on just about anyone that uses a computer in their line of work--especially in smaller companies where the productivity of each employee more directly affects the bottom line. I've been into computers for about 10 years now and programming professionally for about 7 of that, so I'm certainly neither non-technical nor gullible when it comes to this stuff, yet I would count myself among those that just wants the easiest and quickest way to get work done. I still keep my old PC around to play with when I just feel like playing and screwing shit up, but the majority of the time, when I just want to get my work done, I'm using my Mac and OS X.
Your 4th and 5th buttons don't work? I mainly use Mozilla under OS X with a 5-button and it works flawlessly. However, I also used this same mouse for a while under XP with Mozilla, and it worked just as well there. You may want to check the mouse drivers--until I installed the drivers from MS' website for the mouse, the 4th and 5th buttons didn't work, on XP or OS X.
...is that a good percentage, if not a majority, of the people that are the targets for these Lindows machines won't ever buy any software at all. Nearly all members of my extended family have bought a cheap machine like this in the past couple years, whether it is HP or Emachines or no-name, and not a single one has added on any software. They're using the web browser, email client, and word processing software that came with the computer. And when they want to play 'games', they're either playing solitaire on that PC, or they're out in the living room playing on the Xbox or PS2. And while I know my extended family isn't exactly a perfect cross-population on which to base any kind of decision, I still think they represent the majority of people that buy these cheap PCs.
...and surely one of them would have let the cat out the bag before now.
Uh, the cat was out of the bag long ago. This has been rumored since before 10.0 was even released. The only real 'news' here seems to be that Apple is still keeping up the Intel version of OS X, not that it ever existed.
Will they consider it enforceable if the licence says "use this code without my permission and you must give away all the source code to everything you bundled with it"? Also in doubt.
That is debateable, although, having studied contract law in the past, I personally believe the GPL would withstand that challenge--the GPL is a contract, and thusly, if one party breaks that contract, they are liable for whatever is stipulated in the contract or whatever the law stipulates, usually whichever is less. I also believe that the XViD folks would be OK with Sigma simply pulling their product until such time as they can write their own code, which would keep Sigma from having to release any code they didn't want to. IMHO, this seems to be the most plausible of any outcome.
My other Win2k gripe relating to Active Directory is that, by design, you HAVE to use their goofy-ass DNS server. Further, said DNS server must be on the domain controller.
At my last job, they used Active Directory fairly extensively, but used a Solaris machine running named as the DNS server rather than MS' built-in DNS. How exactly, I'm not sure, because I didn't handle the AD stuff, but I'm positive AD relied on the Solaris DNS server because any time it had to be rebooted, authentication over the whole network would take a shit.
But for serious work, it still lacks a lot of features.
Like what? Maybe I've never done serious work before, but in the year or so since I've been using OS X as my primary OS (for work), I haven't found a single thing that I couldn't do (except for watching Real media clips, which was recently rectified). Correcting your statement, I'd go with:
OS X has quite a few features that make it more ideal for serious work than OS 9; however, a few key applications have yet to support OS X, making it an unsuitable OS for some work situations.
I live in Vegas, and my dad is an executive at one of the larger casinos here in town. One of his main roles is helping to keep track of high-roller accounts for this casino, so I'm sure he's run into these people before at one time or another. And while I wouldn't call him the ultimate authority, I'll believe him over you when he tells me that the casino cannot take your winnings--they can only blacklist you from the casino.
If their own EULA didn't say that I was entitled to a refund for not using the software, then I wouldn't feel that it was owed to me. But since it does, I do. Rightfully so, if my new car came with a EULA that said I had the chance to turn in my car's heating system for a refund should I decide to never use it, then I would fully expect a check from Nissan when I turn in my heating system. What's the problem with that?
If it helps that much on his 500MHz iBook, then it should make a noticeable difference for your Lombard too. That model iBook does have 8MB vs your 4MB, but neither takes advantage of QE, so I would imagine the speed improvements are fairly similar.
For the Linux crowd, the Solaris OS has a level of stability, maturity, and unified feel that Linux simply lacks. It's a one-company vision of how a Unix OS should work and, while I don't always agree with them, the consistency is refreshing.
Change a few words in this..and..
For the Linux crowd, FreeBSD has a level of stability, maturity, and unified feel that Linux simply lacks. It's a single vision of how a Unix OS should work and, while I don't always agree with them, the consistency is refreshing.
Sounds exactly like why I stick to FreeBSD these days rather than Linux, unless I'm working on a desktop machine. I dealt with Solaris machines for a couple years (on both Solaris 7 & 8), and while they did their jobs just fine, admin'ing those boxes was definitely not as well thought-out and easy as admin'ing any of the FreeBSD boxes--and the Solaris machines provided no additional benefit in uptime or stability, while costing about $2k more a piece at the time. Rightfully so, of the couple hundred or so machines I've been tasked with setting up in the couple years since, not a single one has been a Sun box.
Perhaps it's like paying $200 for you--regardless if that $200 is worth US$150, its still $200 to you. However, to the folks at Apple in California, USA, that $200 of yours is only worth $150 to them. And they're the ones selling the product, so it should matter the most to them. In effect, that would be like commanding Apple to lower the price of their software, simply because the currency of the country they're exporting to is worth less than US currency. And like it or not, that's just not gonna happen.
But is that true if one CF card lasts the same amount of time/usage as 2 or more floppy disks? I know, for one, that I've had countless floppies be ruined by simple carelessness--yet I have yet to lose a single CF card to failure (they range from 2 1/2 yrs to about 6 months old), despite how I've treated them. Beyond that, $85 for 128mb is pretty damn high--the 128mb card that I bought over 6 months ago only cost me $55 at the time.
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...happened when I was trying to free some space on a small drive being used on a NT4 machine.
Upon selecting the desired files and hitting Delete, I received the following error:
Cannot delete XXXXXXX: Not enough free space.
...spam and porn MADE the internet!
Who wouldn't want to check their email everyday containing promises for bigger penises and hot nasty teen bitches???
Seriously, though, spam and porn seem to be the only two business aspects of the Internet that consistently turn profits, and it's been that way for the last 5 or 6 years, at least. And if these two areas are the ones turning a profit for so long, I am hard-pressed to see the circumstances that would cause people to immediately stop spending their money on such shit and just "turn it off".
While a nice thought for the idealist, for the realist, it doesn't make much sense at all.
They also vary the theme between aqua and brushed metal seemingly at random in their apps collection. This goes flat against their own HIG.
If you would read the actual Apple HIG, they say that apps which are meant to replace a real-world item/function (such as Calculator, iCal, iTunes) should be built with the brushed metal look. All other apps should use the default, untextured look. Just thinking over the apps included in OS X, it seems to me like they follow this guideline fairly closely.
I think you just made an important point - "...the few windows boxes I've had to manage..." Of course they've been a pain, you've only had to do a few, never learned the (sometimes hellishly complex and quixotic) details of how to effectively manage Windows. If you had managed a thousand Windows boxes and just a couple linux ones you'd probably feel the linux boxes were a bigger pain.
I doubt it. As someone else said, it has more to do with the fact that, by and large, updating/patching/fixing a Windows machine requires you to be there in front of it (or at least connected to via some remote display technology), attending to each machine. On the other hand, it is not only very easy but very common for large numbers of unix machines to be updated/patched/fixed at once by a single administrator. I would definitely say my apprehension about Windows administration has more to do with the above than the fact that I just haven't figured out how to 'effectively manage Windows'.
...it is simply the fact that Windows systems just generally take more time and effort to secure. Whether it is simply because there are more patches, or that those patches just take forever to install, or that those patches create further problems that have to be addressed, I can firmly say in my 6 or 7 years of administration, the few Windows boxes I've had to manage have been a far larger administration headache than any of the Linux, FreeBSD, or even Solaris machines.
While we technical folks might tend to obsess over benchmarks, the masses of gullible, non-technical people only care about getting their stuff done as easily and as quickly as possible, regardless of the technical merits of the chip powering their computer.
I'm afraid that it's not just the "masses of gullible, non-technical people" that only care about getting their stuff done as easily and quickly as possible. I would put that label on just about anyone that uses a computer in their line of work--especially in smaller companies where the productivity of each employee more directly affects the bottom line. I've been into computers for about 10 years now and programming professionally for about 7 of that, so I'm certainly neither non-technical nor gullible when it comes to this stuff, yet I would count myself among those that just wants the easiest and quickest way to get work done. I still keep my old PC around to play with when I just feel like playing and screwing shit up, but the majority of the time, when I just want to get my work done, I'm using my Mac and OS X.
Your 4th and 5th buttons don't work? I mainly use Mozilla under OS X with a 5-button and it works flawlessly. However, I also used this same mouse for a while under XP with Mozilla, and it worked just as well there. You may want to check the mouse drivers--until I installed the drivers from MS' website for the mouse, the 4th and 5th buttons didn't work, on XP or OS X.
...is that a good percentage, if not a majority, of the people that are the targets for these Lindows machines won't ever buy any software at all. Nearly all members of my extended family have bought a cheap machine like this in the past couple years, whether it is HP or Emachines or no-name, and not a single one has added on any software. They're using the web browser, email client, and word processing software that came with the computer. And when they want to play 'games', they're either playing solitaire on that PC, or they're out in the living room playing on the Xbox or PS2. And while I know my extended family isn't exactly a perfect cross-population on which to base any kind of decision, I still think they represent the majority of people that buy these cheap PCs.
Is this where we get to make the gag about baseball having a world series that is only for American teams?
Sssh, no one tell the Toronto Blue Jays or the Montreal Expos.
...and surely one of them would have let the cat out the bag before now.
Uh, the cat was out of the bag long ago. This has been rumored since before 10.0 was even released. The only real 'news' here seems to be that Apple is still keeping up the Intel version of OS X, not that it ever existed.
Will they consider it enforceable if the licence says "use this code without my permission and you must give away all the source code to everything you bundled with it"? Also in doubt.
That is debateable, although, having studied contract law in the past, I personally believe the GPL would withstand that challenge--the GPL is a contract, and thusly, if one party breaks that contract, they are liable for whatever is stipulated in the contract or whatever the law stipulates, usually whichever is less. I also believe that the XViD folks would be OK with Sigma simply pulling their product until such time as they can write their own code, which would keep Sigma from having to release any code they didn't want to. IMHO, this seems to be the most plausible of any outcome.
My other Win2k gripe relating to Active Directory is that, by design, you HAVE to use their goofy-ass DNS server. Further, said DNS server must be on the domain controller.
At my last job, they used Active Directory fairly extensively, but used a Solaris machine running named as the DNS server rather than MS' built-in DNS. How exactly, I'm not sure, because I didn't handle the AD stuff, but I'm positive AD relied on the Solaris DNS server because any time it had to be rebooted, authentication over the whole network would take a shit.
That doesn't even make sense, let alone be true in any way.
I would bet they meant to say:
One year ago, AMD introduced their first-ever multiprocessor solution designed for the commercial market.
But for serious work, it still lacks a lot of features.
Like what? Maybe I've never done serious work before, but in the year or so since I've been using OS X as my primary OS (for work), I haven't found a single thing that I couldn't do (except for watching Real media clips, which was recently rectified). Correcting your statement, I'd go with:
OS X has quite a few features that make it more ideal for serious work than OS 9; however, a few key applications have yet to support OS X, making it an unsuitable OS for some work situations.
I live in Vegas, and my dad is an executive at one of the larger casinos here in town. One of his main roles is helping to keep track of high-roller accounts for this casino, so I'm sure he's run into these people before at one time or another. And while I wouldn't call him the ultimate authority, I'll believe him over you when he tells me that the casino cannot take your winnings--they can only blacklist you from the casino.
If their own EULA didn't say that I was entitled to a refund for not using the software, then I wouldn't feel that it was owed to me. But since it does, I do. Rightfully so, if my new car came with a EULA that said I had the chance to turn in my car's heating system for a refund should I decide to never use it, then I would fully expect a check from Nissan when I turn in my heating system. What's the problem with that?
If it helps that much on his 500MHz iBook, then it should make a noticeable difference for your Lombard too. That model iBook does have 8MB vs your 4MB, but neither takes advantage of QE, so I would imagine the speed improvements are fairly similar.
The poster was wrong... SerialATA supports 150MB/s, not 150Mb/s.
For the Linux crowd, the Solaris OS has a level of stability, maturity, and unified feel that Linux simply lacks. It's a one-company vision of how a Unix OS should work and, while I don't always agree with them, the consistency is refreshing.
Change a few words in this..and..
For the Linux crowd, FreeBSD has a level of stability, maturity, and unified feel that Linux simply lacks. It's a single vision of how a Unix OS should work and, while I don't always agree with them, the consistency is refreshing.
Sounds exactly like why I stick to FreeBSD these days rather than Linux, unless I'm working on a desktop machine. I dealt with Solaris machines for a couple years (on both Solaris 7 & 8), and while they did their jobs just fine, admin'ing those boxes was definitely not as well thought-out and easy as admin'ing any of the FreeBSD boxes--and the Solaris machines provided no additional benefit in uptime or stability, while costing about $2k more a piece at the time. Rightfully so, of the couple hundred or so machines I've been tasked with setting up in the couple years since, not a single one has been a Sun box.
Supposeldy 'true' 3G offers 384 kbit/s downstream...
No, true 3G only requires 144kbit/s, according to the industry body that decides what is and what isn't 3G, 3GPP.
Anyway, Boston is a horrible city for this, and relocating to there would only cement a second-rate image for Apple....
Why, and how?
The, ahem, War of Northern Aggression hasn't been lost yet. The South shall rise again!
Only to get their sorry hick asses beat down again!
sources?
Perhaps it's like paying $200 for you--regardless if that $200 is worth US$150, its still $200 to you. However, to the folks at Apple in California, USA, that $200 of yours is only worth $150 to them. And they're the ones selling the product, so it should matter the most to them. In effect, that would be like commanding Apple to lower the price of their software, simply because the currency of the country they're exporting to is worth less than US currency. And like it or not, that's just not gonna happen.
Bang for buck is clearly with the floppy disk.
But is that true if one CF card lasts the same amount of time/usage as 2 or more floppy disks? I know, for one, that I've had countless floppies be ruined by simple carelessness--yet I have yet to lose a single CF card to failure (they range from 2 1/2 yrs to about 6 months old), despite how I've treated them. Beyond that, $85 for 128mb is pretty damn high--the 128mb card that I bought over 6 months ago only cost me $55 at the time.