If there is anything they have it's patience. DOS was one of their very few products that dominated from the start (thanks to a free ride from Big Blue). Windows took many revisions to catch on. NT was hardly competitive with Netware or Unix for years. Word was no match for WordPerfect for half a decade. Lotus and Ashton-Tate were once kings. Borland had great developers mindshare. Netscape anyone? Eudora/Pegasus mail? Of course Real is afraid, they can hardly be afraid enough.
Like, say, Microsoft. Gates urged Jobs to license, but he didn't listen. And the rest is history.
If you're referring to this letter, that was addressed to Sculley, not Jobs. And remember, with the Mac they didn't want to license even when they were far from No. 1 in the market.
That won't happen. Apple sees Linux as a threat, maybe not an immediate threat, but in the long run, certainly. Jobs is not as dumb as some CEOs who only look two quarters ahead. If a bunch of volunteer (and corporate sponsored) programmers can write an OS that is becoming a major competitor to Windows, what says they won't rival MacOS (and hence also threaten their hardware sales)? Linux might not be competitive with Macintosh for general computing use yet (altough for some users it already is), who knows where they will be in 3 or 5 years time? Sure, MacOS will also have improved then, but will it always remain far ahead? In particular, will it remain so far ahead to allow them to charge a premium price? They certainly won't help Linux catch-up by releasing software for it. (Do they offer any software for Linux at all?)
Unlike MS, Apple has remained almost silent on Linux. But you don't need to be a genius to see that Apple is no friend to Linux.
With the exception that the terms of purchasing the songs from the iTMS as specificaly stated in the contract presented to you before you enter into the transactions was that you would not circumvent the DRM on the file.
I remember that software vendors decided a while ago to include all kind of crazy conditions in their purchasing license (not allowed to benchmark, not allowed to publish negative reviews, not allowed to compile GPL programs,...). And also Adobe or some other ebook vendors (not allowed to read aloud, not allowed to print on paper,...). I believe the legal status of such provisions is not completely clear yet.
Which, of course, would only be binding in those jurisdictions where such a condition would actually be legal and enforceable. In Sweden, for example, any DRM used specifically for the purpose of hindering fair-use provisions (such as copying, media transfer and so on) are explicitly allowed to be circumvented.
Maybe this is one of the reasons that iTMS is not offered in Europe (yet?).
"With the help of magnetic propulsion, it is feasible to attach a generator to the motor and produce more electric power than was put into the device. Minato says that average efficiency on his motors is about 330 percent."
> And which were they? I've taken apart both flavours of iMac and they both have a fan in.
There were a lot more than two flavours of the iMac, the CRT iMacs alone had a dozen of revisions. The earlier versions had a fan, but I believe all versions between 350mhz and the LCD iMacs didn't. In any case, the 350mhz and the 500mhz were fanless.
It really depends on what kind of work you do. If you have dozens of widows with pictures open, Expose will help you pick them faster than anything else. If you have a dozen of windows with text or code open, Exposed windows can be hard to distinguish. Fonts are heavily optimized for our current (typically low) resolutions like 1024x786. Scaling text smaller makes them hard to read. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't sell laptops with 1920x1200 screens like Dell. Expose would be marvelous on those.
As I have stated, your "resolutions" are basically: stop the development/distribution of Playfair.
The premise that you take is that iTMS AAC must be played by Apple approved solutions. The problem as you see it is that the Apple approved solutions may not be flexible enough for some. The solution that you offer is to ask Apple for more features.
The premise that the Playfair authors take is that an unencrypted AAC file on their hard disk is better than an encrypted AAC file on their hard disk. The problem is that laws in the US forbid developing/distributing software that removes the encryption. Their solution is to ship the code to a country with less restrictive laws.
Apple's DRM is not only there to stop the music from spreading to the P2P networks, but also to tie you to Apple hardware. Suppose you like iTMS so much that you buy $1000 worth of songs in, say the next 3 years. Suppose that your eMac breaks then and would costs a lot to repair. Maybe at that time PCs are very good value. Can you easily switch the the PC without losing your music collection?
> Rather than working with Apple to try to resolve their differences,
The purpose of Playfair is simple and clear: to strip the encryption from a Fairplay protected AAC file. What kind of resolution did you have in mind, other than stopping the development/distribution of Playfair?
I believe Total Uninstall does exactly what you want. A warning though, for most programs, you do not really want to monitor all changes manually, that's just a lot of work. And that's why there are such things as installers in the first place.
Two things: 1. He was NOT talking about "left-select, middle-paste" (which is more like drag and drop than copy and paste). He was talking about selecting copy and paste from the menu. (The shortcuts are Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V). This does work between gedit and kedit. 2. If you selected an URL with the left button, you do not need to drop it in the Mozilla address bar. Just middle-click inside the Moz window in an empty area, you don't even need to press Enter. Or open a new tab and middle-click there.
> I think Y would be the next logical choice of names for the new project.
That ridiculous. The project implements an X server that understands the X protocol, just like XFree86, FDO's XServer, XiG's X server, Apple's X server and others. Why would they name themselves Y (no pun intended)?
AND from altering/destroying the operating system, AND from messing with the files of other users on the system. Both of those things are very easily done with Windows as the default is to have the first user be an Administrator.
None of those are required for a worm to spread like the current crop of Windows mass-mailers. The only things necessary are a) the ability to send out lots of email and b) enough users who follow the directions in an email without question. On linux, b is still missing.
> A neat thing that has been overlooked - wait till someone replaces the drive with a wireless CF card!
That would only work if the iPod has a full PCMCIA/CF controller, which is rather unlikely. CompactFlash (which is just PCMCIA in a smaller form factor) is a superset of IDE. A CF card can use IDE mode, emulating a standard IDE hard disk. It has a flash-memory mode, which is used by many cameras. Most CF memory cards implement both IDE and flash memory (the microdrives in the mini iPods just do IDE, which is why they don't work in cameras). Finally there is IO mode, which is used for CF modems, (wifi) lan, and others. The iPod probably has just an IDE controller to interface with the disk, so a CF Wifi card will never work.
I always get slightly annoyed when people make this statement - viruses on Linux cannot work in the same way that they do on Windows.
I get even more annoyed when people make this statement. What you mainly address are remote exploits, (like MS DCOM), but the majority of these reported "virusses" are just mass mailers. They can work on Unix almost exactly like on Windows. We used to lay the blame on Outlook autoexecution (although this is now either off by default, or will be). Nobody has been crazy enough to write a Unix mail client that auto-saves attachments with chmod a+x and executes them. But as the latest round of password protected zip virusses has shown, often it really is a case of uneducated users. The only thing that priviledge separation under Linux does is prevent the user from listening on ports under 1024 to open backdoors. But unless you prevent the users from sending mail, it can spread in exactly the same way, namely by SMTP. The only thing separating us from Windows users at the moment are the small market share, and the fact that most Unix users are somewhat more clueful about computers. Both these may change in the coming years.
If MS open sourced all their apps, there would STILL be a large "we hate MS" movement on slashdot... mostly from people that haven't used windows since Windows98.
Haven't you heard that slashdot is not a homogeneous group? We all hate MS for different reasons:)
Most of the time you're assumed to have root access, especially with rpm and deb. This is supposed to be a multi-user system, right? What if I want to give users the ability to install end-user apps in their own/home to try out? Should I tell them to download the source and tweak the makefiles so make install will behave correctly? Is there no better way to do this?
Many people have posted that the Simpsons made Fox gazillions per year, so it's only fair that they get a share of the pie. That the Simpsons essentially saved Fox and that they were (at least partially) responsible for that. But also consider that Fox and the Simpsons are what made them stars in the first place. If the other posters are right, they would have made at least $10M in the last five years. If they didn't make too many stupid decisions, they can retire anytime they like. Where would they have been without Fox and the Simpsons?
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If there is anything they have it's patience. DOS was one of their very few products that dominated from the start (thanks to a free ride from Big Blue). Windows took many revisions to catch on. NT was hardly competitive with Netware or Unix for years. Word was no match for WordPerfect for half a decade. Lotus and Ashton-Tate were once kings. Borland had great developers mindshare. Netscape anyone? Eudora/Pegasus mail? Of course Real is afraid, they can hardly be afraid enough.
That won't happen. Apple sees Linux as a threat, maybe not an immediate threat, but in the long run, certainly. Jobs is not as dumb as some CEOs who only look two quarters ahead. If a bunch of volunteer (and corporate sponsored) programmers can write an OS that is becoming a major competitor to Windows, what says they won't rival MacOS (and hence also threaten their hardware sales)? Linux might not be competitive with Macintosh for general computing use yet (altough for some users it already is), who knows where they will be in 3 or 5 years time? Sure, MacOS will also have improved then, but will it always remain far ahead? In particular, will it remain so far ahead to allow them to charge a premium price? They certainly won't help Linux catch-up by releasing software for it. (Do they offer any software for Linux at all?)
Unlike MS, Apple has remained almost silent on Linux. But you don't need to be a genius to see that Apple is no friend to Linux.
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> WUSB on the other hand is FAST. It seems like a waste to use it for a keyboard or mouse.
If it's anything like wired USB, it can be slow or fast depending on the device. Wired USB mice and keyboard don't use the 480 Mbps mode either.
> And which were they? I've taken apart both flavours of iMac and they both have a fan in.
There were a lot more than two flavours of the iMac, the CRT iMacs alone had a dozen of revisions. The earlier versions had a fan, but I believe all versions between 350mhz and the LCD iMacs didn't. In any case, the 350mhz and the 500mhz were fanless.
It really depends on what kind of work you do. If you have dozens of widows with pictures open, Expose will help you pick them faster than anything else. If you have a dozen of windows with text or code open, Exposed windows can be hard to distinguish. Fonts are heavily optimized for our current (typically low) resolutions like 1024x786. Scaling text smaller makes them hard to read. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't sell laptops with 1920x1200 screens like Dell. Expose would be marvelous on those.
that the fan isn't as loud as in the previous model. It uses the newer G4, so there is some hope. But the quiet old fanless iMacs were really nice.
Huh? I though they already did this. I got an email from MS with an attachment that promised to patch all security issues :).
As I have stated, your "resolutions" are basically: stop the development/distribution of Playfair.
The premise that you take is that iTMS AAC must be played by Apple approved solutions. The problem as you see it is that the Apple approved solutions may not be flexible enough for some. The solution that you offer is to ask Apple for more features.
The premise that the Playfair authors take is that an unencrypted AAC file on their hard disk is better than an encrypted AAC file on their hard disk. The problem is that laws in the US forbid developing/distributing software that removes the encryption. Their solution is to ship the code to a country with less restrictive laws.
Apple's DRM is not only there to stop the music from spreading to the P2P networks, but also to tie you to Apple hardware. Suppose you like iTMS so much that you buy $1000 worth of songs in, say the next 3 years. Suppose that your eMac breaks then and would costs a lot to repair. Maybe at that time PCs are very good value. Can you easily switch the the PC without losing your music collection?
> Rather than working with Apple to try to resolve their differences,
The purpose of Playfair is simple and clear: to strip the encryption from a Fairplay protected AAC file. What kind of resolution did you have in mind, other than stopping the development/distribution of Playfair?
I believe Total Uninstall does exactly what you want. A warning though, for most programs, you do not really want to monitor all changes manually, that's just a lot of work. And that's why there are such things as installers in the first place.
I know, you ARE the "he" I was referring to. kidgenius thought you were talking about left-select, middle-paste.
Two things:
1. He was NOT talking about "left-select, middle-paste" (which is more like drag and drop than copy and paste). He was talking about selecting copy and paste from the menu. (The shortcuts are Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V). This does work between gedit and kedit.
2. If you selected an URL with the left button, you do not need to drop it in the Mozilla address bar. Just middle-click inside the Moz window in an empty area, you don't even need to press Enter. Or open a new tab and middle-click there.
> I think Y would be the next logical choice of names for the new project.
That ridiculous. The project implements an X server that understands the X protocol, just like XFree86, FDO's XServer, XiG's X server, Apple's X server and others. Why would they name themselves Y (no pun intended)?
> A neat thing that has been overlooked - wait till someone replaces the drive with a wireless CF card!
That would only work if the iPod has a full PCMCIA/CF controller, which is rather unlikely. CompactFlash (which is just PCMCIA in a smaller form factor) is a superset of IDE. A CF card can use IDE mode, emulating a standard IDE hard disk. It has a flash-memory mode, which is used by many cameras. Most CF memory cards implement both IDE and flash memory (the microdrives in the mini iPods just do IDE, which is why they don't work in cameras). Finally there is IO mode, which is used for CF modems, (wifi) lan, and others. The iPod probably has just an IDE controller to interface with the disk, so a CF Wifi card will never work.
Most of the time you're assumed to have root access, especially with rpm and deb. This is supposed to be a multi-user system, right? What if I want to give users the ability to install end-user apps in their own /home to try out? Should I tell them to download the source and tweak the makefiles so make install will behave correctly? Is there no better way to do this?
Many people have posted that the Simpsons made Fox gazillions per year, so it's only fair that they get a share of the pie. That the Simpsons essentially saved Fox and that they were (at least partially) responsible for that. But also consider that Fox and the Simpsons are what made them stars in the first place. If the other posters are right, they would have made at least $10M in the last five years. If they didn't make too many stupid decisions, they can retire anytime they like. Where would they have been without Fox and the Simpsons?