That is a valid point, but neither you nor your brother-in-law represent the average user. "Normal" people see computers as appliances; they don't know what a video card is or what Quartz 2D Extreme is or anything like that. To them, paying for a new computer that comes in a box and is easy to set up is far preferable to buying and installing a video card. And you can upgrade the memory and hard disk in all Macs.
Also, as a large number of people have pointed out, the low-end Power Mac now costs exactly the same as a midrange iMac, so you really can make a pure tradeoff between expandability and a free monitor.
You're misreading that page. The disk issue is real, but only affects disk-intensive tasks (of course this depends on what you intend to do with the iMac). The high/auto stuff is a software issue that's very easy to correct.
Do you know where I could find a list of Xbox games that do 720p or 1080i? As far as I can tell, the vast majority of Xbox games support *480p*, but pretty much none support above that.
It looks like the "wireless finder" widget is just a handy way to look up known access points in a database. It's not a Dashboard clone of MacStumbler (which is theoretically doable since Dashboard widgets can load native code through Javascript extensions).
You can also play a CD from the Finder without agreeing to the iTunes license. Open the CD icon and the tracks are displayed as AIFF files, which can be copied to the HD or opened in any app capable of playing them.
Apple (specifically, Dave Hyatt) did all the work related to this specific subtopic of "browser development". KDE can have the glory for writing a world-class web rendering engine from scratch, but within the scope of this article it's all Hyatt.
It would have been interesting if they tried to "phish" a tech-savvy student who noticed the forged headers and reported the researchers to campus authorities as fraudsters. Would "we're only conducting a study" be accepted as a defense? (And if it was, would it be adopted by real phishers in the future?)
So the environmentalists can all join VHEMT, and the rest of us can all wait a generation or two. An organism attempting to maximize its survival is about the most "natural" process you can find; why do environmentalists object to humans doing this? All other animals are trying to do the same thing all the time; it's not our fault they can't eliminate predators or affect environmental factors to the extent that we can.
And just around the corner is the world's shortest giant...
And just around the next corner is the world's fattest thin man...
And around the corner after that is the world's thinnest fat man...
Yeah, why force yourself to move to a more reliable, faster, cheaper, and all-around better standard when you can pretend you're saving a few cents and put up with losing data every so often?
Of course, if you really want to get modern space and performance out of a floppy drive, you could always do this. Good luck getting it on a keychain, though.
You take a single quote from a story set in a fictional universe in the far future and apply that to every single member of several very broad, complex, and populous categories? I think Slashdot just set a new world record in generalization.
Your situation is equivalent to buying an apple in a grocery store, leaving it on the counter, and stealing a different apple. You'd still be arrested for shoplifting.
The crux of your argument appears to be "I don't think leaking confidential software is really so bad." Unfortunately, Apple does not share this opinion, and Vivek agreed, in the eyes of the law, to align his opinion with Apple's when he got his ADC account and agreed to the NDA accompanying it. Had they decided to throw the book at him, there's nothing in current contract or IP law that could have stopped them.
And it's simply insane to argue that he may not have understood the consequences of his actions. He's a 23-year-old college student and an ADC member; he's obviously quite intelligent. If I was in his situation, I'd be insulted if anyone attempted to defend me with that argument.
Because the vast, vast majority of P2P users are trying to get stuff for free, not create an alternative-media-distribution free-expression utopia. They're not going to do anything on anyone else's behalf because it does not directly benefit them or immediately help them get more free stuff faster.
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That is a valid point, but neither you nor your brother-in-law represent the average user. "Normal" people see computers as appliances; they don't know what a video card is or what Quartz 2D Extreme is or anything like that. To them, paying for a new computer that comes in a box and is easy to set up is far preferable to buying and installing a video card. And you can upgrade the memory and hard disk in all Macs.
Also, as a large number of people have pointed out, the low-end Power Mac now costs exactly the same as a midrange iMac, so you really can make a pure tradeoff between expandability and a free monitor.
1000 sockets? Weak. I got 65,536 sockets free with my computer.
You're misreading that page. The disk issue is real, but only affects disk-intensive tasks (of course this depends on what you intend to do with the iMac). The high/auto stuff is a software issue that's very easy to correct.
Do you know where I could find a list of Xbox games that do 720p or 1080i? As far as I can tell, the vast majority of Xbox games support *480p*, but pretty much none support above that.
It looks like the "wireless finder" widget is just a handy way to look up known access points in a database. It's not a Dashboard clone of MacStumbler (which is theoretically doable since Dashboard widgets can load native code through Javascript extensions).
You can also play a CD from the Finder without agreeing to the iTunes license. Open the CD icon and the tracks are displayed as AIFF files, which can be copied to the HD or opened in any app capable of playing them.
Apple (specifically, Dave Hyatt) did all the work related to this specific subtopic of "browser development". KDE can have the glory for writing a world-class web rendering engine from scratch, but within the scope of this article it's all Hyatt.
And besides, you know those passwords are just written on post-it notes and stuck to the kids' monitors anyway.
It would have been interesting if they tried to "phish" a tech-savvy student who noticed the forged headers and reported the researchers to campus authorities as fraudsters. Would "we're only conducting a study" be accepted as a defense? (And if it was, would it be adopted by real phishers in the future?)
Or just have all contributors consent to relicensing.
So the environmentalists can all join VHEMT, and the rest of us can all wait a generation or two. An organism attempting to maximize its survival is about the most "natural" process you can find; why do environmentalists object to humans doing this? All other animals are trying to do the same thing all the time; it's not our fault they can't eliminate predators or affect environmental factors to the extent that we can.
Tell me, if someone mentions Hitler in a forest, but no-one hears it, does it violate Godwin's Law?
No, but he still loses the argument (I don't know who *to*... maybe the trees?)
And just around the corner is the world's shortest giant...
And just around the next corner is the world's fattest thin man...
And around the corner after that is the world's thinnest fat man...
Yeah, why force yourself to move to a more reliable, faster, cheaper, and all-around better standard when you can pretend you're saving a few cents and put up with losing data every so often?
Of course, if you really want to get modern space and performance out of a floppy drive, you could always do this. Good luck getting it on a keychain, though.
They seem to have neglected this flash drive that comes with a free MP3 player.
"It's easy to fix a 747- we just need to look through it until we find the broken part, then weld it back together or replace it."
"It's easy to create peace in the middle east- we just need to bring the leaders of the factions together and get them to agree to stop fighting."
This is pure paranoia. The author obviously meant to write "optical drives compatible with both formats".
You take a single quote from a story set in a fictional universe in the far future and apply that to every single member of several very broad, complex, and populous categories? I think Slashdot just set a new world record in generalization.
Your situation is equivalent to buying an apple in a grocery store, leaving it on the counter, and stealing a different apple. You'd still be arrested for shoplifting.
The crux of your argument appears to be "I don't think leaking confidential software is really so bad." Unfortunately, Apple does not share this opinion, and Vivek agreed, in the eyes of the law, to align his opinion with Apple's when he got his ADC account and agreed to the NDA accompanying it. Had they decided to throw the book at him, there's nothing in current contract or IP law that could have stopped them.
And it's simply insane to argue that he may not have understood the consequences of his actions. He's a 23-year-old college student and an ADC member; he's obviously quite intelligent. If I was in his situation, I'd be insulted if anyone attempted to defend me with that argument.
Because the vast, vast majority of P2P users are trying to get stuff for free, not create an alternative-media-distribution free-expression utopia. They're not going to do anything on anyone else's behalf because it does not directly benefit them or immediately help them get more free stuff faster.
Just in case you didn't know, the screen of every OS X machine is an "animated PDF", and it's still mostly usable on everything down to 300Mhz G3s.
Quark signed their own death warrant by ignoring Mac OS X until it was way too late (that is, until InDesign displaced them).
Everything that performs work produces heat. This is what we mean by "nothing can be 100% efficient".