I thought caps were only supposed to affect the top 1% of users who abuse the system and destroy its usefulness for the remaining 99% of the good citizens. 1 million people breaking through the cap in a year sounds like 1% for very large values of 1.
That's because we're way too conservative to implement any Progressive[tm] ideas like resetting a perfectly good clock or VCR twice a year. Besides, AZ has all the sunlight it needs already.
Does space even have a temperature? Vacuum insulates rather well and the biggest problem of many space-born devices (think ISS) is getting rid of excess heat. The famous Star Trek line of "It's very cold in space" doesn't really match the reality.
So what we have here is just another person's opinion that the extra features are worth the extra price. And that person is probably a fanboy to start with, or why bother to do this at all. (Maybe Apple will give him a free MBP for his valuable PR.)
This is just another case of Move Along - Nothing to See Here.
The domain name isn't the domain itself. What keeps gamblers from simply typing in the IP address, which shouldn't be hard to find if it works while the domain name doesn't.
Btw, I think the state is way over the top here and should be smacked down doubly hard. Stupid examples show how stupid this whole idea is.
Stupid Example #1: Another state also seizes the same domain names based on the same reasons. Who gets them?
Yes, I realize the difficulties this would pose of documenting everything everyone is carrying. But this seems inevitable anyway given where we seem to be headed.
Actually documenting your luggage isn't hard at all. A few snaps with your digital camera that stays with you in your carry-on luggage should do the job quite nicely in just a few seconds. If it's in the picture then you can make a pretty strong claim that you had it at that time. Did exactly that with a bottle of fine wine once that I couldn't carry-on any longer.
You buy a Mac because you are trying to simplify your life.
Not true at all. Different people buy Macs for different reasons, simplicity and lack of choice only being one of them. The problem is that this is the only sales model that Apple supports, meaning they they lose out on other potential OS-X users that don't like Apple h/w for anything from the one-button mouse mania to the layout of the keyboard. Apple can do what they want with their company but they aren't taking the best steps to expand their marketshare. I'm lead to believe they actually don't care about beating out Microsoft at all and are motivated by other goals instead.
just curious, who came up with 33 cents per file as the "actual" damages and why? If she shared a file with just one other person who would have otherwise bought it on itunes, the damage would be $1. How do you come up with a fraction of $1.
Out of a 99 cent iTunes download the profit to the record company (their share) after expenses is approximately 33 cents. This has been established by documents provided by the record companies. As it is the record companies doing the suing, they can only reasonably recover their own damages.
However, we are not talking about the investigators' word here. It seems easy to prove that they did in fact download them, log files etc.
The "investigators" are employed by the RIAA, and hence the record labels. It's a legal given that you cannot infringe your own copyright therefore their downloads, if any, don't count as proof of actual distribution. They might well be the only people who ever downloaded the tracks in question given the large availability of them otherwise. This Defendant can't be held libel for the acts of all infringers - only her own, if any. And there is no proof of that.
Forget GIMP. Just order Adobe CS4, and the latest 64-bit h/w and OS to run it, and send the bill to this gatekeeper's department.
Then the next time your company asks how to cut back in these difficult economic times tell them you could have saved ~$4000 in h/w, s/w, and OS costs if not for [insert name here].
This could result in a profit for Psystar's business
How exactly? Reading the article links doesn't make that apparent.
This, btw, is exactly the reason Apple won't displace Microsoft and remain the niche player they are now. A lot more people might run OS-X if they could run it on the hardware of their choice. It hardly requires Apple hardware to run OS-X any more than it requires a given brand of PC to run Linux. If Apple is happy with their second tier status and falling behind as developers put more advanced products out for Windows (e.g. Adobe Photoshop CS4 64-bit) more power to them. It's their choice on how they want to run their company.
BUT...
Apple doesn't have all the answers. They never did. Nothing could improve their product line more in the eyes of consumers who are tired of being told from Apple we have wonderful stuff but you take it or leave it when it comes to your choice of configurations (e.g. no Firewire on the new MacBook) than some thinking outside the Apple box. Outside ideas always improve a product as Psystar has proven. (If Psystar didn't have a compelling product in some regard the wouldn't have any sales for it.) As long as NIH reins supreme at Apple they won't be all that they could be. Competition strengthens the strong and weeds out the weak.
ALSO...
If buyers could get OS-X on other platforms (e.g. Pystar, Dell, HP, Acer...) it might be the nail in the coffin of the Windows Tax. The Windows Tax right now survives in most part due to no other alternative that enough buyers demand. Thanks for that too, Apple.
After having my TSA-approved lock ripped off of my new suitcase on its very first trip and basically told to F-O about complaints over it (Oh, it might have gotten caught in the machinery, and btw, why are you locking it at all) this is vindication - but no better protection than yesterday - of what a lot of us have been saying for a very long time. Yes I want my flight to land as safely as it took off since I'm in it, but providing a secret open hunting ground for minimum wage employees doesn't cut it for me.
When you aren't making money from an endeavor, especially if you can't point out how it may lead to making money in the future, it's not a job to the I.R.S., but a hobby. And you can't write off expenses of a hobby. The earlier poster who says his stellar C.P.A. who found lots of write-offs has likely yet to survive an I.R.S. audit over them. You may not be so lucky.
You will receive lots of suggestions here. Mine is, and I've worked as a consultant and had write-offs, that you need to show how all these efforts are leading towards profits in the future. It's not a crime to lose money in your business, however, after a certain point (IIRC 3 years, but talk to a professional about this) the I.R.S. will no longer consider your efforts a business.
One suggestion: Chalk all this up to generating resume cred for future jobs that do pay.
1: 600X actual damages is constitutionally excessive.
2: Attempted Distribution != Distribution. Or in other terms: Making Available != Distribution.
On a side note, while the judge seems like a nice guy here, he's a moron for buying the RIAA's line that while we can't prove she ever provided a file to anyone except our own hired, paid, and completely unlicensed investigators, she's guilty anyway.
If Apple hadn't invested in so many non-mainstream technologies to start with then they wouldn't have had to kill so many - leaving those machines poor orphans in the process.
The new MacBook comes across as a half-step in the transition to a new machine (which you will then pay for as well.)
Graphics are improved but Firewire is gone with no suitable replacement yet. And the processor is 64-bit but the memory is still limited to 4GB. DVI is gone (I too question the need for a mini connector when full size Display Port is so reasonable) stepping you up to Display Port while obsoleting your old external monitor(s). Also the illuminated keyboard model cost substantially extra.
In addition I haven't heard any reports about video color depth on the monitor? Is 6-bit color which is useless for photo editing and some other apps gone forever or still lurking here in the LCD?
I would expect the next refresh of this model to step-up to USB3 (certainly Intel will ensure that Apple has USB3 chips first because the publicity there is the highest) to end the whining about the missing FW, at least 8GB ram capacity, and illuminated keyboards across the line, along with CPU, GPU, and harddrive bumps.
Until then this seems a glass either half full, or half empty, and if you don't need the GPU performance makes the white plastic model an appealing choice. Buy this half-step between the white plastic MacBook and the MacBook Pro now and you may feel a bit screwed not all that far down the way.
One is left to wonder if some clever person can build an FW400 adapter that bridges into both USB2 ports? I'd expect that FW support must remain in the OS for now.
Somehow I don't see the Court agreeing that this is so profound and urgent that it can't wait for the trial to be decided on its merits and a final judgment rendered.
Especially since, gee haven't you noticed, most courts don't like to stick their necks out. That lovely word "moot" comes into play here that if the Appeals Court justices let this fully play out down at the district court level the whole thing may be "moot" (there's that word again) by the time it could ever reach them. And wouldn't that be lovely - for them?
Well this NVIDIA issue has been out for a while and its a major disappointment especially since I bought a 9600gt like 2 months ago which will suffer the same fate. However, this issue is agravated by temperature changes in the graphics card. So this is agravated in laptops which are cycled on and off frequently. Seeing as I leave my desktop on most of the time and that I use the graphics card for long sessions but also do not have heavy, frequent loads I expect this to be a non-issue with my setup. I got the card to do CUDA while waiting for the next generation of NVIDIA cards to come out.
CUDA stresses your card as much as throwing it into full 3D rendering, so you chip is still going to run hot and cold as you switch between idle and CUDA processing. You may not be as safe as you think you are.
i wonder if they'll have it fixed by Christmas when i plan on getting a new card
Your problem will be that while fixed chips will be out there, so will the remainder of the unfixed ones. Telling the difference will intentionally not be easy.
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When I misplace a file I simply search on its extension for all files modified today. I never realized that this was such a big deal.
Or a car with 1000 miles range between refuelings.
I thought caps were only supposed to affect the top 1% of users who abuse the system and destroy its usefulness for the remaining 99% of the good citizens. 1 million people breaking through the cap in a year sounds like 1% for very large values of 1.
That's because we're way too conservative to implement any Progressive[tm] ideas like resetting a perfectly good clock or VCR twice a year. Besides, AZ has all the sunlight it needs already.
DST causes screams of frustration twice a year as VCR clocks need to be reset.
Does space even have a temperature? Vacuum insulates rather well and the biggest problem of many space-born devices (think ISS) is getting rid of excess heat. The famous Star Trek line of "It's very cold in space" doesn't really match the reality.
Sounds like Kentucky seizing international casino domain names. Is IP seizure going to be the new tactic in this 21st century?
This is just another case of Move Along - Nothing to See Here.
Btw, I think the state is way over the top here and should be smacked down doubly hard. Stupid examples show how stupid this whole idea is.
Stupid Example #1: Another state also seizes the same domain names based on the same reasons. Who gets them?
Actually documenting your luggage isn't hard at all. A few snaps with your digital camera that stays with you in your carry-on luggage should do the job quite nicely in just a few seconds. If it's in the picture then you can make a pretty strong claim that you had it at that time. Did exactly that with a bottle of fine wine once that I couldn't carry-on any longer.
Not true at all. Different people buy Macs for different reasons, simplicity and lack of choice only being one of them. The problem is that this is the only sales model that Apple supports, meaning they they lose out on other potential OS-X users that don't like Apple h/w for anything from the one-button mouse mania to the layout of the keyboard. Apple can do what they want with their company but they aren't taking the best steps to expand their marketshare. I'm lead to believe they actually don't care about beating out Microsoft at all and are motivated by other goals instead.
Out of a 99 cent iTunes download the profit to the record company (their share) after expenses is approximately 33 cents. This has been established by documents provided by the record companies. As it is the record companies doing the suing, they can only reasonably recover their own damages.
The "investigators" are employed by the RIAA, and hence the record labels. It's a legal given that you cannot infringe your own copyright therefore their downloads, if any, don't count as proof of actual distribution. They might well be the only people who ever downloaded the tracks in question given the large availability of them otherwise. This Defendant can't be held libel for the acts of all infringers - only her own, if any. And there is no proof of that.
Then the next time your company asks how to cut back in these difficult economic times tell them you could have saved ~$4000 in h/w, s/w, and OS costs if not for [insert name here].
Maybe you'll end up with their job.
How exactly? Reading the article links doesn't make that apparent.
This, btw, is exactly the reason Apple won't displace Microsoft and remain the niche player they are now. A lot more people might run OS-X if they could run it on the hardware of their choice. It hardly requires Apple hardware to run OS-X any more than it requires a given brand of PC to run Linux. If Apple is happy with their second tier status and falling behind as developers put more advanced products out for Windows (e.g. Adobe Photoshop CS4 64-bit) more power to them. It's their choice on how they want to run their company.
BUT...
Apple doesn't have all the answers. They never did. Nothing could improve their product line more in the eyes of consumers who are tired of being told from Apple we have wonderful stuff but you take it or leave it when it comes to your choice of configurations (e.g. no Firewire on the new MacBook) than some thinking outside the Apple box. Outside ideas always improve a product as Psystar has proven. (If Psystar didn't have a compelling product in some regard the wouldn't have any sales for it.) As long as NIH reins supreme at Apple they won't be all that they could be. Competition strengthens the strong and weeds out the weak.
ALSO...
If buyers could get OS-X on other platforms (e.g. Pystar, Dell, HP, Acer...) it might be the nail in the coffin of the Windows Tax. The Windows Tax right now survives in most part due to no other alternative that enough buyers demand. Thanks for that too, Apple.
After having my TSA-approved lock ripped off of my new suitcase on its very first trip and basically told to F-O about complaints over it (Oh, it might have gotten caught in the machinery, and btw, why are you locking it at all) this is vindication - but no better protection than yesterday - of what a lot of us have been saying for a very long time. Yes I want my flight to land as safely as it took off since I'm in it, but providing a secret open hunting ground for minimum wage employees doesn't cut it for me.
When you aren't making money from an endeavor, especially if you can't point out how it may lead to making money in the future, it's not a job to the I.R.S., but a hobby. And you can't write off expenses of a hobby. The earlier poster who says his stellar C.P.A. who found lots of write-offs has likely yet to survive an I.R.S. audit over them. You may not be so lucky.
You will receive lots of suggestions here. Mine is, and I've worked as a consultant and had write-offs, that you need to show how all these efforts are leading towards profits in the future. It's not a crime to lose money in your business, however, after a certain point (IIRC 3 years, but talk to a professional about this) the I.R.S. will no longer consider your efforts a business.
One suggestion: Chalk all this up to generating resume cred for future jobs that do pay.
I think in this case you mean boobs.
This should be appealed on at least two grounds:
1: 600X actual damages is constitutionally excessive.
2: Attempted Distribution != Distribution. Or in other terms: Making Available != Distribution.
On a side note, while the judge seems like a nice guy here, he's a moron for buying the RIAA's line that while we can't prove she ever provided a file to anyone except our own hired, paid, and completely unlicensed investigators, she's guilty anyway.
If Apple hadn't invested in so many non-mainstream technologies to start with then they wouldn't have had to kill so many - leaving those machines poor orphans in the process.
This will be the MOAIT (Mother Of All Identity Thefts) when it's hacked.
The new MacBook comes across as a half-step in the transition to a new machine (which you will then pay for as well.)
Graphics are improved but Firewire is gone with no suitable replacement yet. And the processor is 64-bit but the memory is still limited to 4GB. DVI is gone (I too question the need for a mini connector when full size Display Port is so reasonable) stepping you up to Display Port while obsoleting your old external monitor(s). Also the illuminated keyboard model cost substantially extra.
In addition I haven't heard any reports about video color depth on the monitor? Is 6-bit color which is useless for photo editing and some other apps gone forever or still lurking here in the LCD?
I would expect the next refresh of this model to step-up to USB3 (certainly Intel will ensure that Apple has USB3 chips first because the publicity there is the highest) to end the whining about the missing FW, at least 8GB ram capacity, and illuminated keyboards across the line, along with CPU, GPU, and harddrive bumps.
Until then this seems a glass either half full, or half empty, and if you don't need the GPU performance makes the white plastic model an appealing choice. Buy this half-step between the white plastic MacBook and the MacBook Pro now and you may feel a bit screwed not all that far down the way.
One is left to wonder if some clever person can build an FW400 adapter that bridges into both USB2 ports? I'd expect that FW support must remain in the OS for now.
Especially since, gee haven't you noticed, most courts don't like to stick their necks out. That lovely word "moot" comes into play here that if the Appeals Court justices let this fully play out down at the district court level the whole thing may be "moot" (there's that word again) by the time it could ever reach them. And wouldn't that be lovely - for them?
I see that all the Glider questions just didn't seem to be asked or answered. Someone wimped out somewhere.
CUDA stresses your card as much as throwing it into full 3D rendering, so you chip is still going to run hot and cold as you switch between idle and CUDA processing. You may not be as safe as you think you are.
Your problem will be that while fixed chips will be out there, so will the remainder of the unfixed ones. Telling the difference will intentionally not be easy.