To keep things simple with parts replacement, swapping out workstations, creating images and easier tech support, most corp settle on one vendor. The fact that OS X only work on one vendor's hardware (Apple) is a poor excuse. My employer uses IBM fore workstations and servers almost exclusively and Toshiba for laptops.
I will not say who I work for but we have a presence in North America, England, Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore with hundreds of desktops spread throughout to company.
For most companies, a single vendor for hardware would be nothing new.
Bill Gates owns a majority stake of Apple shares. If that's not a partnership, I don't know what is! Do you have a source for that? If you are talking about the shares of Apple MSFT bought as part of the GUI patent settlement, they sold those shares long before the split.
How many times to do we have to say:"We know that". Besides OpenGL, OpenAL is an alternative for DirectSound but it also happens to be cross-platform compatible unlike DirectSound.
It's kinda funny how Apple makes a big deal out of the browser, when it's the exact same browser that has shipped on all new Nokia S60 phones over a year earlier. Check it out from this December 2005 article.It's KDE's Konqueror. The Safari branch of that, more specifically. Did you bother to read what you linked to? They did not use KDE's Konqueror or even KHTML renderer but rather Apple's branch of the KHTML engine called WebCore which is what Apple's Safari is built on. KHTML still has some catching up to do the last time I heard. You make it sound like they were using Konqueror when they are not.
Fine, it is not trademark infringement. It is copyright infringement. They are taking the icons and graphics and creating a derived work without permission of the original copyright owner.
My eMusic purchases work just fine on my iPod as they are in MP3 format. I do not use eMusic anymore because it was a pain to use. I find iTMS to be much more convenient. I can burn as many CD's as I want but I have not used CD's for music since I bought an iPod back in 2002. I would buy the occasional CD but I would quickly rip them to MP3 format with iTunes.
Bullshit. This is a *phone*, not a laptop. You're not going to be sitting at Starbucks 24 hours a day accessing data services on your phone. If you need data in a phone, then you need to use data wherever you happen to be, and that includes the office (where unsecured wifi networks are generally taboo), out on the street, in your car, or wherever. Bullshit. What do you want? Do you want a phone that excels at phone calls, a phone that does a million things but does a shitty job at it or a laptop and a phone? How much data can you realistically manipulate on a cell phone. Let's be realistic here and put away the ridiculous nerd scenarios. No business user is going to use a smart phone for much more than email and phone calls and the odd SMS. If they want to VPN into their corporate network, they will find a reliable network connection and run VPN over top of that with their laptop.
If you expect to have faster than EDGE access to corporate data on the street, then you are either out of your mind or clueless about the security implications and the feasibility of such access. You are probably thinking of a completely made up and artificial scenario that would never happen in real life. Are you going to be downloading porn in the back seat of a cab? What would need that much bandwidth on a "phone"? Phones are primarily used for making calls.
WiFi is a perfectly valid option for occasionally accessing large amounts of data on the road. You do not have to have constant high speed access everywhere and I would challenge you to come up with a realistic business case to justify the expense of that access. You are trying to use a phone for something any sane person would use a laptop for.
1. Apple is the copyright holder and are not bound by the license.
2. Apple is free to modify their own code to run on ARM and not release the source.
3. You/.ers don't seem to grasp that these licenses apply to third-parties contributing changes to the project and not the copyright holders.
And where do you get a WiFi access in the middle of nowhere, asshole ? I don't know. A better question would be why you needed fast data access in the middle of nowhere on your cellphone? I don't know about you but I use my current cellphone to make "calls".
I think people that pay money for data access through cellular services are suckers.
You might want to get some help with your net addiction if you need access in the middle of nowhere and you could get a life while your at it.
Are you damaged in the head? Don't you have pay an arm and a leg for data rates on 3G? Did you notice that it had WiFi? You are likely to be able to use WiFi at your local coffee shop for your data needs.
I don't know, why don't you explain it to us? Do you work for a company that sells hardware raid solutions or something? Give us a cost/benefit breakdown showing why one is better than the other.
Hold on a sec. Are you saying that you would have no work surface like a bench? Are you also saying that you would need to carry stuff with you from your work area to a server room? How is that different from having to carry a serial cable? Half a dozen? That, sir is called hyperbole. Serial ports are legacy. How often would you have to connect to a router with a serial port. Come on, lets try to be realistic here.
How is that a problem requiring all developers to approve moving to GPL3? What is GPL3 is considered problematic by a significant number of developers?
What is so great about GPL3? I have heard some ominous rumblings about it.
Please. Just because MSFT ups the version number on an existing gaming gfx API, it does not mean that it was a significant upgrade. The majority of applications were unaffected as the OS did not make use of a compositing engine like Quartz Extreme on OS X. Regardless, Apple also supplied updates to the OpenGL engine used by "all" applications including games with each point release. Note that I said point release, not point version because 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4 were the names of the releases, not the version of the kernel which did change by a full major version with each paid release and increase by a minor version with each 10.x.x release which is analogous to service packs.
Show me a new API or service that was delivered with a windows service pack that was directly exploitable by application developers.
OS X 10.2 delivered a 3D gfx card accelerated gfx compositor known as and Rendezvous services.
OS X 10.3 introduced Core Audio, Xcode (also available separately) and X11 support.
OS X 10.4 introduced Core Image, Core Video and Core Data. Some would argue that Automator and Dashboard are new categories of software development and the latter, it could be argued, is a sort of like a new API for OS X.
If you are really looking for upgrades that shipped outside of the point releases, look at the Quicktime releases. Each release of Quicktime provided developer with new API features to exploit in their own applications. Look over that list of APIs I listed. Doesn't that look an awful lot like the features of Vista or at least what MSFT promised it would be?
SP2 managed to break some applications but show me where SP2 added something like Core Image and Core Video. Service packs do not add new features/apis for third party programmers to exploit. One could argue that XP was a service pack for Windows 2000 Pro since it was a point upgrade and did not introduce any significant API additions for programmers but MSFT did charge for that "upgrade".
This meme is as old as the BSD is dying one and just as tiresome.
Of course, creative lawyers will bring civil lawsuits on behalf of shareholders saying that there was damages in some other method. So in otherwords, lawyers will find a way to steal money from shareholders?
Yes he was handed stock and he handed it back long before the initial story about the start of the internal investigation. You speak of the SEC but they have not been involved as of yet nor did they initiate this investigation. Nobody has been charged with anything and the SEC has not accused Apple of anything so far. All we have is a bunch of spin from the media. Had Apple not taken the initiative to investigate this matter, we would probably not be aware of this issue at this moment.
Wait, so are you a Google acountant or a security professional. Don't tell me you changed jobs yesterday.
Maybe he/she/it is a CIA plant who got confused about which cover story they were using this month. Either than or they have a multiple personality disorder where each personality holds down a different job at opposite ends of the country.
The second Google becomes a monopoly in the search engine market You will have nobody to blame but yourselves for putting them there by not using any of the alternatives. But I have to ask this, why should we use other services if they do not offer anything google does not? Should we use inferior services just to keep them alive?
The problem is that Google has a monopoly on web search, and as such, they cannot simply do what other companies would do. As it is, Google is using its web search monopoly as leverage to promote its non-search products (Picasa, Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Talk, Gmail, Blogger, etc), to the disadvantage of others that produce better products in those areas. They do? What about http://www.altavista.com/http://www.yahoo.com/ and http://www.live.com/ ? Do they not work? Are you confusing popularity with monopolies?
Nobody is stopping you from using those other search engines.
dumbass i guess you forgot their "do no evil" policy. How is promoting your own products over other products evil? Don't open source projects do the same thing? Do you see Open Office recommending MS Office or Firefox recommending IE?
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I will not say who I work for but we have a presence in North America, England, Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore with hundreds of desktops spread throughout to company.
For most companies, a single vendor for hardware would be nothing new.
http://www.openal.org/
OpenAL was used in the recently released port of Prey for OS X.
Fine, it is not trademark infringement. It is copyright infringement. They are taking the icons and graphics and creating a derived work without permission of the original copyright owner.
My eMusic purchases work just fine on my iPod as they are in MP3 format. I do not use eMusic anymore because it was a pain to use. I find iTMS to be much more convenient. I can burn as many CD's as I want but I have not used CD's for music since I bought an iPod back in 2002. I would buy the occasional CD but I would quickly rip them to MP3 format with iTunes.
If you expect to have faster than EDGE access to corporate data on the street, then you are either out of your mind or clueless about the security implications and the feasibility of such access. You are probably thinking of a completely made up and artificial scenario that would never happen in real life. Are you going to be downloading porn in the back seat of a cab? What would need that much bandwidth on a "phone"? Phones are primarily used for making calls.
WiFi is a perfectly valid option for occasionally accessing large amounts of data on the road. You do not have to have constant high speed access everywhere and I would challenge you to come up with a realistic business case to justify the expense of that access. You are trying to use a phone for something any sane person would use a laptop for.
2. Apple is free to modify their own code to run on ARM and not release the source.
3. You
I think people that pay money for data access through cellular services are suckers.
You might want to get some help with your net addiction if you need access in the middle of nowhere and you could get a life while your at it.
Are you damaged in the head? Don't you have pay an arm and a leg for data rates on 3G? Did you notice that it had WiFi? You are likely to be able to use WiFi at your local coffee shop for your data needs.
- Nice troll. Look up http://www.parallels.com/ and the beta from Vmware http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion/ . Both of those blow Virtual PC out of the water.
I don't know, why don't you explain it to us? Do you work for a company that sells hardware raid solutions or something? Give us a cost/benefit breakdown showing why one is better than the other.
Hold on a sec. Are you saying that you would have no work surface like a bench? Are you also saying that you would need to carry stuff with you from your work area to a server room? How is that different from having to carry a serial cable? Half a dozen? That, sir is called hyperbole. Serial ports are legacy. How often would you have to connect to a router with a serial port. Come on, lets try to be realistic here.
But you are still not explaining why developers should not be asked permission to change the license. The "or later" is dangerous.
What is so great about GPL3? I have heard some ominous rumblings about it.
Show me a new API or service that was delivered with a windows service pack that was directly exploitable by application developers.
OS X 10.2 delivered a 3D gfx card accelerated gfx compositor known as and Rendezvous services.
OS X 10.3 introduced Core Audio, Xcode (also available separately) and X11 support.
OS X 10.4 introduced Core Image, Core Video and Core Data. Some would argue that Automator and Dashboard are new categories of software development and the latter, it could be argued, is a sort of like a new API for OS X.
If you are really looking for upgrades that shipped outside of the point releases, look at the Quicktime releases. Each release of Quicktime provided developer with new API features to exploit in their own applications. Look over that list of APIs I listed. Doesn't that look an awful lot like the features of Vista or at least what MSFT promised it would be?
This meme is as old as the BSD is dying one and just as tiresome.
So which category do you fall into? Are you sure there is not a category you are missing? MSFT fanboys? Who would you be Mr. SeattleGameboy?
Yes he was handed stock and he handed it back long before the initial story about the start of the internal investigation. You speak of the SEC but they have not been involved as of yet nor did they initiate this investigation. Nobody has been charged with anything and the SEC has not accused Apple of anything so far. All we have is a bunch of spin from the media. Had Apple not taken the initiative to investigate this matter, we would probably not be aware of this issue at this moment.
It probably will. People seem to LOVE stupid generational labels. I'm still pissed about the whole
"Generation X" label.
Yeah, where the hell are my super powers damn it? If I'm going to be called an X-something, I want some kind of power.
Wait, so are you a Google acountant or a security professional. Don't tell me you changed jobs yesterday.
Maybe he/she/it is a CIA plant who got confused about which cover story they were using this month. Either than or they have a multiple personality disorder where each personality holds down a different job at opposite ends of the country.Nobody is stopping you from using those other search engines.