Value does exist; it's an inherent property of objects in situations, like potential energy. Barter economies run on this existing value. What humans created was an abstraction of value in a standardized, universally accepted form (in theory).
Sure, they don't own Macs *now*. But don't you think that a good experience with one Apple product would make them more willing/likely to try another? Apple is betting on this.
No, you don't have a right to watch them. You have a privilege that may or may not be affected by your geographic location.
Also, there are lots of TV shows that are only shown on premium channels, like stuff from HBO or Showtime, that gets pirated along with all the other "free" TV.
Ever notice that all the Cocoa classes, including brand-new ones added in later versions of X still start with NS, and that remnants of NeXT features like tear-off menus are still in the headers?
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It's not really *that* detailed- each pixel is at the very least a few hundred thousand kilometers across. And it's so sharp because the light is traveling through space, so there's nothing to blur the image or attenuate its intensity (besides the inverse-square law).
Where is the controversy or violation of rights here? This is simply news. The kid did something that is clearly, blatantly wrong; there is no gray area or justification or defense. He got caught and should face the consequences.
On the time scales involved in car accidents, the time spent hanging up or dropping your phone could easily make the difference between stopping a few inches short and a destroyed car/passengers. Someone who is being a menace to other drivers should be stopped before something bad happens, the same way that someone waving around a loaded gun in a populated area should be subdued and arrested even though he's "just" exercising his second amendment rights.
I don't know how serious you were being, but it's trivial to poke holes in that- what fraction of drivers are drunk? Far, far less than 35%, so they are massively overrepresented in accidents.
It wasn't kept secret, it was just not publicized. All the PR revolved around the "Microsoft loves Macs and wants to support Apple" / "Apple appreciates MS's support and love that they make Mac software" angle. The lawsuit was never allowed to become front-page news, and this was before Apple-related Internet muckraking reached the levels of today, so it never had a chance to become common knowledge.
Oh yeah, and then Apple built the music store into the same client that plays the music, organizes the music, and syncs your iPod. So far only iTMS and MusicMatch even try to do this as more than a token gesture, and it's hard to argue for MusicMatch over iTMS.
This is really the most brilliant thing Apple did, and it's obviously a strategy they had been working on for years as iTunes predated the iPod by quite a long time. The one-two combination of the leading playback hardware and the leading music store have raised a tremendous barrier to entry across the entire digital music market. No other music store stands a chance when their songs can't play on the most popular hardware, and other hardware is at a huge disadvantage when they can't play existing collections of ITMS music and can't be used to buy from the ITMS in the future (don't forget that you don't need to have an iPod to start buying from the music store). It's going to take simultaneous revolutions on the order of the original iPod and iTunes combined to break this kind of lock, and it's unlikely that will happen anytime soon.
Huh? System/MacOS was a decent platform for 11 years (1984-1995, when Microsoft caught up). And Apple hasn't done anything involving OS 9 other than maintenance on the Classic environment since 2002 at the latest. They don't even sell computers that can run it any more. The company is no more based on classic MacOS than Microsoft is based on DOS (even less so, since there are no harmful side effects to deleting OS 9 entirely on an X machine, unless you count not being able to run legacy programs).
The spammer's move to handle that will probably be to request that the human manually create an account at the target site in a new window, and provide it to the porn site for access. Unless Yahoo is willing to block every account accessed from more than 1 IP, they'll need to find a new countemove.
It's pretty much what the parent said- marketing. "AltiVec" is the technical name for the feature, "Velocity Engine" is what makes it sound cool and attractive to people who don't know or care what vector processing or SIMD is. Apple doesn't sell Power Macintosh 970FX towers either.
Sure, if you want to go back to the days where only "professionals" could use computers and the only computers in the world were incredibly expensive mainframes locked away in university labs and corporate data processing centers.
Don't forget that optimization and writing the code in the first place are tradeoffs. Sure, it was possible to perform miracles on very limited hardware if you focused entirely on one single piece of critical code over a long time- but that was time you could have spent adding new features, removing bugs elsewhere in the code, and so on.
Also, optimizing compilers have very nearly caught up with human assembly programmers, at least when using modern chips with complex architectures and very aggressive internal scheduling (depending on platform, of course).
Finally, there is a place where very high levels of optimization and hand-coding are still used: console games.
For that matter, FairPlay does not prevent file sharing at all. You're free to do whatever you want with the DRMed file, including posting it on Kazaa and mailing it to all your friends. What it limits is *playing back* the file, which is the right you are paying to obtain.
"Computers just have to be on a local network and they can listen to all your music whenever you want" is not quite accurate. A computer must be authorized under the owning account to stream a protected AAC, and it can only be authorized under one account at a time. So if all the computers belong to you, there are no problems. But it does not let you share purchased music with everyone on your LAN automatically (unless you give them your ITMS account, which is a bad idea since it's linked to your credit card).
1. If the gearshift was completely blank instead of having 1, 2, 3, 4, and R on it, I would at least partially blame the car.
2. Apparently you've never seen an Apple keyboard. The swirly thing and the apple are on the same key, and the option key does have "option" written on it.
1. The fact that you are using Maya already puts you well above the average user. Just ask everyone who has ever tried to do tech support over the phone how often they've had to say "Just click- no, the OTHER button..."
2. None of those operations are ambiguous in the way that two featureless buttons on the mouse are. There's no way anyone could confuse the actions of pressing shift and pressing option, or lose track of how many times in a row they had clicked the mouse.
Apple had to choose between confusing newbies or making power users spend a bit more money, and chose the latter. They're the group more able to deal with imperfections and problems with their computers on their own, right?
(For the record, I use intellimouse explorers on all my Macs.)
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Value does exist; it's an inherent property of objects in situations, like potential energy. Barter economies run on this existing value. What humans created was an abstraction of value in a standardized, universally accepted form (in theory).
Sure, they don't own Macs *now*. But don't you think that a good experience with one Apple product would make them more willing/likely to try another? Apple is betting on this.
No, you don't have a right to watch them. You have a privilege that may or may not be affected by your geographic location.
Also, there are lots of TV shows that are only shown on premium channels, like stuff from HBO or Showtime, that gets pirated along with all the other "free" TV.
Ever notice that all the Cocoa classes, including brand-new ones added in later versions of X still start with NS, and that remnants of NeXT features like tear-off menus are still in the headers?
It's not really *that* detailed- each pixel is at the very least a few hundred thousand kilometers across. And it's so sharp because the light is traveling through space, so there's nothing to blur the image or attenuate its intensity (besides the inverse-square law).
Metroid Prime is the most radically changed sequel I can think of, except possibly Mario 64.
The Cube was originally convection cooled (no fan). Most of the CPU and GPU upgrades add a fan, so it's not really the same thing.
Where is the controversy or violation of rights here? This is simply news. The kid did something that is clearly, blatantly wrong; there is no gray area or justification or defense. He got caught and should face the consequences.
On the time scales involved in car accidents, the time spent hanging up or dropping your phone could easily make the difference between stopping a few inches short and a destroyed car/passengers. Someone who is being a menace to other drivers should be stopped before something bad happens, the same way that someone waving around a loaded gun in a populated area should be subdued and arrested even though he's "just" exercising his second amendment rights.
I don't know how serious you were being, but it's trivial to poke holes in that- what fraction of drivers are drunk? Far, far less than 35%, so they are massively overrepresented in accidents.
Was anyone else expecting a first-person adventure game based on the venerable Amazon series?
It wasn't kept secret, it was just not publicized. All the PR revolved around the "Microsoft loves Macs and wants to support Apple" / "Apple appreciates MS's support and love that they make Mac software" angle. The lawsuit was never allowed to become front-page news, and this was before Apple-related Internet muckraking reached the levels of today, so it never had a chance to become common knowledge.
Oh yeah, and then Apple built the music store into the same client that plays the music, organizes the music, and syncs your iPod. So far only iTMS and MusicMatch even try to do this as more than a token gesture, and it's hard to argue for MusicMatch over iTMS.
This is really the most brilliant thing Apple did, and it's obviously a strategy they had been working on for years as iTunes predated the iPod by quite a long time. The one-two combination of the leading playback hardware and the leading music store have raised a tremendous barrier to entry across the entire digital music market. No other music store stands a chance when their songs can't play on the most popular hardware, and other hardware is at a huge disadvantage when they can't play existing collections of ITMS music and can't be used to buy from the ITMS in the future (don't forget that you don't need to have an iPod to start buying from the music store). It's going to take simultaneous revolutions on the order of the original iPod and iTunes combined to break this kind of lock, and it's unlikely that will happen anytime soon.
Huh? System/MacOS was a decent platform for 11 years (1984-1995, when Microsoft caught up). And Apple hasn't done anything involving OS 9 other than maintenance on the Classic environment since 2002 at the latest. They don't even sell computers that can run it any more. The company is no more based on classic MacOS than Microsoft is based on DOS (even less so, since there are no harmful side effects to deleting OS 9 entirely on an X machine, unless you count not being able to run legacy programs).
The spammer's move to handle that will probably be to request that the human manually create an account at the target site in a new window, and provide it to the porn site for access. Unless Yahoo is willing to block every account accessed from more than 1 IP, they'll need to find a new countemove.
It's pretty much what the parent said- marketing. "AltiVec" is the technical name for the feature, "Velocity Engine" is what makes it sound cool and attractive to people who don't know or care what vector processing or SIMD is. Apple doesn't sell Power Macintosh 970FX towers either.
The 17 inches are measured diagonally across the screen; the straight width of the case is smaller (15.4 inches).
Sure, if you want to go back to the days where only "professionals" could use computers and the only computers in the world were incredibly expensive mainframes locked away in university labs and corporate data processing centers.
The main reason not to use Cocoa is portability (or lack thereof). It's far easier to maintain Carbon and Win32 side-by-side than Cocoa and Win32.
Don't forget that optimization and writing the code in the first place are tradeoffs. Sure, it was possible to perform miracles on very limited hardware if you focused entirely on one single piece of critical code over a long time- but that was time you could have spent adding new features, removing bugs elsewhere in the code, and so on.
Also, optimizing compilers have very nearly caught up with human assembly programmers, at least when using modern chips with complex architectures and very aggressive internal scheduling (depending on platform, of course).
Finally, there is a place where very high levels of optimization and hand-coding are still used: console games.
For that matter, FairPlay does not prevent file sharing at all. You're free to do whatever you want with the DRMed file, including posting it on Kazaa and mailing it to all your friends. What it limits is *playing back* the file, which is the right you are paying to obtain.
"Computers just have to be on a local network and they can listen to all your music whenever you want" is not quite accurate. A computer must be authorized under the owning account to stream a protected AAC, and it can only be authorized under one account at a time. So if all the computers belong to you, there are no problems. But it does not let you share purchased music with everyone on your LAN automatically (unless you give them your ITMS account, which is a bad idea since it's linked to your credit card).
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1. If the gearshift was completely blank instead of having 1, 2, 3, 4, and R on it, I would at least partially blame the car.
2. Apparently you've never seen an Apple keyboard. The swirly thing and the apple are on the same key, and the option key does have "option" written on it.
1. The fact that you are using Maya already puts you well above the average user. Just ask everyone who has ever tried to do tech support over the phone how often they've had to say "Just click- no, the OTHER button..."
2. None of those operations are ambiguous in the way that two featureless buttons on the mouse are. There's no way anyone could confuse the actions of pressing shift and pressing option, or lose track of how many times in a row they had clicked the mouse.
Apple had to choose between confusing newbies or making power users spend a bit more money, and chose the latter. They're the group more able to deal with imperfections and problems with their computers on their own, right?
(For the record, I use intellimouse explorers on all my Macs.)