Yes but your using a cheaper video card, cheaper plastic case, cheaper OS(windows, debian doesn't count), cheaper components, a more expensive but shorter running battery.
Apple computers average 5-6 years, PC's last 3-4.
I don't know about you but my 12" powerbook can surf the web wirelessly for about 4 hours on a single battery, can your dell come close to that with two batteries that weigh as much as my entire comptuer?
Yea three years till the patent expires but the Prius has been available for sale for the past 5. Where was this guy 5 years ago?
This is just submarine patenting. Toyota put out commercials describing the basics of the car. If that's not enough to get you to take a closer look for possible infringment, then you should lose any chance of getting money.
Um like all this apple it's really easy to make it go away.
goto the Menu -View
Third option(?) from the bottom Hide itunes Mini store.
When i updated last night I couldn't remember the keyboard combo. Apple has a fairly consistent layout. its not hard for an idiot to turn it off if it annoys them.
I have not seen any such attacks when using my normal IM software. I am constantly connected to AIM but I never recieve such problems. It might have to do with the fact that I use Fire/iChat, or Kopete/Gaim.
Maybe because my IM client doesn't download and run activeX ads I don't have such problems. The AIM client for Windows doesn't like running in restricted user modes or restricted IE settings on any machine i have installed it on.
So I would say it's not so much IM problems but more of the same IE/ActiveX security issues that continually plague the world that uses that crap.
i currently do that with my laptop. of course I have a little 12" laptop which is perfect for on the go, but for web surfing from home i plug in my 18" FP. I then use teh little 12" display for a terminal window, IM client, itunes, etc, and generally leave the large display with a near full sized browser window on it.
Of course then comes when i want to watch a movie(either file or DVD) and I unplug the 18" and plug in my old 19" tv. It's not great resolution but It allows me to move a more comfortable spot to watch from.
To each their own. it all depends on how you use the setup. My is all under OSX so it isn't bad about window management during down time, just when changing which physical display is connected.
Bullshit. Napster might switch but MSFT will not use any format that they themselves didn't create/enhance/ruin.
Just look at the ODF spectical. Independant researchers and archivists have been chiming in saying MSFT format is horrible. MSFT could easily support ODF. MSFT could easily support W3C standards. MSFT could of been smart and killed ActiveX years ago preventing the majoity of the viruses currently in existance.
It's MSFT's way or the highway. Now Napster and Real have all but begged for apple to open up Fairplay. And Apple should of done that by now. But in the end Apple is just as bad as MSFT when it comes to those ideas.
of course I still own a powerbook and have no working windows machines in my presence any more.
I hit a couple of dozen news websites daily. Every RSS feed is different, some give titles some give summaries. Why use it.
I have tried I usually find it more cumbersome to read RSS then click on the link to articles i want to read than going to each website doing a much more through san of everything shown and opening what i want to read in tabs. There is nothing RSS provides that can't be had faster with other methods.
Maybe i just haven't found a good RSS reader yet. They all seem to me to be lacking something.
But that is only my opinion. I don't do podcasts either though I can see where those could be useful. Of course I don't listen to portable music so they don't help either.
Internet Explorer runs active X which runs with system wide permissions. Security experts denouced ActiveX's security when MSTF first published it. 4 years later was 2003 and Active X security was and stil is being bypassed on a daily basis.
Using Firefox/Opera and a thrid party firewall can stop ~60% of Windows security issues.
Just by killing ActiveX.
That's the truth behind MSFT security. As for market share, Apache doesn't run well on windows and has more than 60% of the server marketshare. Yet IIS is the most attacked and most flawed server.
Windows and MSFT puts dedicated bypass procedures inside windows and windows memory management. MSFT doesn't patch a flaw, they create an exception to block that particular flaw leaving the flaw itself still there. They have to do this because MSFT has encouraged sloppy programing practices and sloppy programmers. The best one was a memory flaw that MSFT put into XP to allow the Sims to run on both Win98 and WinXP. This flaw is bypassed normal XP protection systems so the game would run. That's typical msft patching. That's why they have weekly security flaws in need of patching.
Well if you run a real OS, then the browser runs only with the permissions of a particular user. Windows which has some security is designed to bypass that secuirty to give users an edge. So your screwed.
Take the number of *Nix viruses (included, BSD's, Linux, Unix, etc) and compare that to the number of windows viruses that showed up in the past 2 years alone.
MSFT doesn't care about security. Vista is a step in the right direction but they are keep way to much of the old code base for it to be useful for this decade.
Actually the intelligent design people were told this was goig to happen by a higher power(CIA informants working for Bush) So they were trying to fill the headlines up to drown out this news.
>>The other place competition has helped the cell industry is moving towards mini-USB ports for charging and for connectivity. Again, this happened without regulations or mandates, but out of a free market.
Because people were complaining about it. Two-Tier internet wants to go from open standards to what the Cell phone plan market is/was. People Want things to work simply. You buy a toaster in the USA or canada and you can go plug it in. No adaptor's needed. You go to the store buy phone plug it into your wall and you can make phone calls. (providing you pay for service). I don't mind paying a phone bill to make calls. But I shouldn't have to pay a bill for the right to download something from someone other than my ISP.
Two-tier Internet is like AOL. Sure you can surf the WWW, but you pay a toll when ever you do. You can't use itunes, or other services because AOL charges you extra because you didn't use AOL Music service.
It's a step backward. People are moving away from AOL for a reason. There is more to the Internet than one companies Idea of what you should see. People would have a fit if the government banned every news channel but Fox News, and every store but Walmart. But two-tiered internet will do just that. Combine that with the monopolies already in place, and the Consumer loses choice.
I don't know about you but I can get either Road Runner or DSL from the phone company. Sure earthlink and verizion can bill me but both have to go back through one of those two companies anyway.
My Cell phone bill is 35.00 a month. I don't use the data services, and I have mroe than enough minutes for my usage.
As for ring tones how do you connect your phone? Did you spend an extra $20-30 for a special data cable? I use Bluetooth, but only because I bought a phone specifically for it.
Cable -- Extra charge at twice what the company paid for it.
Your idea of two-tier internet and the ISP's are completely different.
Your new two-tiered ISP charges you 1.99 per download from itunes, plus the cost of the music, but if you download from their sponsered service they only charge you for the music.
Think Cell phone bills. The data charges on Cell phones are stupid high. They charge you per byte, plus minutes while online. Try downloading a ringtone sold by sprint on a verizion phone. It doesn't work. Not because the song isn't compatible but because they will put up money road blocks into the way to force you to pay.
I am sorry But I want the internet my way. Not the way some company wants to force me to pay Dollars extra for things they get for literaly pennies.
I can do more with a command line, scripting and a text editor faster and easier than I can with a gui.
simple situation. I store my Browser bookmarks on my website so I always have a backup copy them.
GUI. "OS X" Windows or KDE aren't a lot different here right click on applications folder in dock, (it opens a contextual menu of all items inside, think start menu, kde menu) find ftp program and open it. click on on appropriate bookmark, type in password, drag file from local to remote directory.(this assuming it opens up to the right directories to begin with) let it work close everything
From command line Home direcory type in ~/Applications/ftpbookmarks (bash script) type in password when prompted let it work.
Now, which is easier? The command line. Of course you have to know what you are doing to begin with in order to use it. I might be able to do the above with apple scripting the gui but why when the bash one is literally 10 lines of script and can easily be changed.
what is needed is a new method for working with computers. Some way of working the gui with both a mouse and a quick command line that can deal with both text and other items. Apple's Open command is a start. as it will load the default program for images/movies to show them(open -e somemovie.mov wil launch the movie in quicktime). Maybe Microsoft's new shell will actually be cool. It's supposed to deal with objects instead of text.
I think apple called it deskbar, or something simlar for Mac OS 7.5. Whatever the case I was using similar toys with fvwm back in 1996. Konfabulator was hardly an orginal idea. Maybe a new implenetation, utilizing new tech but not orginial.
I don't have a choice when it comes to cable. I can get one of two different levels of service. Problem is I want HBO in order to get HBO I have to pay fo 14 other channels.
Currently my cable box goes up to 1300 different channels yet of those I watch maybe a dozen.
Um no. It is the worst thing because once the divisions are in place. oops I am sorry but you can't get slashdot unless you pay $99.99 a month for unregulated network connections, and we have to come to your home and hook up a new line as we don't want you contaimnating OUR network with unregulated network traffic.
Once you allow divisions you can never go back. They will make it unrealistic to do anything else. I have a 120 a month cable bill. That's cable and ISP. if they start dividing it will only go higher. I don't watch 90% of the cable. Why should I pay more for it?
Your throwing MSFT crap around, and your doing it unintentionally. We are on the same side. I can see it.
MA only choose Open Document and PDF when no other format was available. Also MSFT could implent Open Document right now, yet no one can implent MSFT XML with out approval, as the license stops redistribution.
Also what set mechanisms. There are none. All MA has chosen is a format for data retention like HTML. The IT dept is responsible to make sure that the entire state can have access to goverment information, yet if I lived in MA I wouldn't if they the chose MSFT format. Their is another reason not to choose any MSFT format. MSFT has known history of manipulating open standards to make a MSFT only closed version of that standard.
I personally haven't used MSFT Office on a regular basis, The only reason I keep windows around is for a game that I want to play if it ever gets released. Personally I have basically been MSFT free for 5 years. I have been slowly working my family and work off of any kind of MSFT for that time as well. I don't have state or government connections or I would be working on those as well.
Um MA did do all that. They wrote specifications, and told MSFT that there format doesn't fit the mold. PDF is also supported. Since Adobe allows third parties to build readers and writers for PDF they are considered open enough to be allowed. MSFT's license doesn't allow for GPL, or basically any other open source developer to write a compatible program and then distribute it. It specifically denies re-distribution of the source ode used to create such program. If MSFT's license was as open as Adobe's PDF's then this would be a non issue. As such MSFT is playing i want it my way only and your way is unacceptable to me. This alone should preclude them from ever doing business again. It's not up to the contractor to tell the people who hired them how to do it.
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Yes but your using a cheaper video card, cheaper plastic case, cheaper OS(windows, debian doesn't count), cheaper components, a more expensive but shorter running battery.
Apple computers average 5-6 years, PC's last 3-4.
I don't know about you but my 12" powerbook can surf the web wirelessly for about 4 hours on a single battery, can your dell come close to that with two batteries that weigh as much as my entire comptuer?
Yea three years till the patent expires but the Prius has been available for sale for the past 5. Where was this guy 5 years ago?
This is just submarine patenting. Toyota put out commercials describing the basics of the car. If that's not enough to get you to take a closer look for possible infringment, then you should lose any chance of getting money.
Um like all this apple it's really easy to make it go away.
goto the Menu -View
Third option(?) from the bottom Hide itunes Mini store.
When i updated last night I couldn't remember the keyboard combo. Apple has a fairly consistent layout. its not hard for an idiot to turn it off if it annoys them.
A good point. even though my AIM screenname is readily availbe on many webistes and forums, I have to accept messages first.
I have not seen any such attacks when using my normal IM software. I am constantly connected to AIM but I never recieve such problems. It might have to do with the fact that I use Fire/iChat, or Kopete/Gaim.
Maybe because my IM client doesn't download and run activeX ads I don't have such problems. The AIM client for Windows doesn't like running in restricted user modes or restricted IE settings on any machine i have installed it on.
So I would say it's not so much IM problems but more of the same IE/ActiveX security issues that continually plague the world that uses that crap.
i currently do that with my laptop. of course I have a little 12" laptop which is perfect for on the go, but for web surfing from home i plug in my 18" FP. I then use teh little 12" display for a terminal window, IM client, itunes, etc, and generally leave the large display with a near full sized browser window on it.
Of course then comes when i want to watch a movie(either file or DVD) and I unplug the 18" and plug in my old 19" tv. It's not great resolution but It allows me to move a more comfortable spot to watch from.
To each their own. it all depends on how you use the setup. My is all under OSX so it isn't bad about window management during down time, just when changing which physical display is connected.
no no no
the commercial version is expected in the fourth quarter, of the next year.
You can't state a year or people will hold you to it.
Bullshit. Napster might switch but MSFT will not use any format that they themselves didn't create/enhance/ruin.
Just look at the ODF spectical. Independant researchers and archivists have been chiming in saying MSFT format is horrible. MSFT could easily support ODF. MSFT could easily support W3C standards. MSFT could of been smart and killed ActiveX years ago preventing the majoity of the viruses currently in existance.
It's MSFT's way or the highway. Now Napster and Real have all but begged for apple to open up Fairplay. And Apple should of done that by now. But in the end Apple is just as bad as MSFT when it comes to those ideas.
of course I still own a powerbook and have no working windows machines in my presence any more.
Um Apple outsells Gateway IBM Sony, If memory serves Apples is Number 3 or 4 on the list.
Dell, HP are one and two.
Apple does outsell most of the others though.
I hit a couple of dozen news websites daily. Every RSS feed is different, some give titles some give summaries. Why use it.
I have tried I usually find it more cumbersome to read RSS then click on the link to articles i want to read than going to each website doing a much more through san of everything shown and opening what i want to read in tabs. There is nothing RSS provides that can't be had faster with other methods.
Maybe i just haven't found a good RSS reader yet. They all seem to me to be lacking something.
But that is only my opinion. I don't do podcasts either though I can see where those could be useful. Of course I don't listen to portable music so they don't help either.
Internet Explorer runs active X which runs with system wide permissions. Security experts denouced ActiveX's security when MSTF first published it. 4 years later was 2003 and Active X security was and stil is being bypassed on a daily basis.
Using Firefox/Opera and a thrid party firewall can stop ~60% of Windows security issues.
Just by killing ActiveX.
That's the truth behind MSFT security. As for market share, Apache doesn't run well on windows and has more than 60% of the server marketshare. Yet IIS is the most attacked and most flawed server.
Windows and MSFT puts dedicated bypass procedures inside windows and windows memory management. MSFT doesn't patch a flaw, they create an exception to block that particular flaw leaving the flaw itself still there. They have to do this because MSFT has encouraged sloppy programing practices and sloppy programmers. The best one was a memory flaw that MSFT put into XP to allow the Sims to run on both Win98 and WinXP. This flaw is bypassed normal XP protection systems so the game would run. That's typical msft patching. That's why they have weekly security flaws in need of patching.
Well if you run a real OS, then the browser runs only with the permissions of a particular user. Windows which has some security is designed to bypass that secuirty to give users an edge. So your screwed.
Take the number of *Nix viruses (included, BSD's, Linux, Unix, etc) and compare that to the number of windows viruses that showed up in the past 2 years alone.
MSFT doesn't care about security. Vista is a step in the right direction but they are keep way to much of the old code base for it to be useful for this decade.
Actually the intelligent design people were told this was goig to happen by a higher power(CIA informants working for Bush) So they were trying to fill the headlines up to drown out this news.
How many people can I piss off or on today.
Why should they.
MSFT can simply pay the fine daily. it's only $880 million a year. They lose that much in lawsuits annually anyway.
Go MSFT give the judge the finger and tell them instead of opening up your just gonna pay the fine. It will be fun.
>>The other place competition has helped the cell industry is moving towards mini-USB ports for charging and for connectivity. Again, this happened without regulations or mandates, but out of a free market.
Because people were complaining about it. Two-Tier internet wants to go from open standards to what the Cell phone plan market is/was. People Want things to work simply. You buy a toaster in the USA or canada and you can go plug it in. No adaptor's needed. You go to the store buy phone plug it into your wall and you can make phone calls. (providing you pay for service). I don't mind paying a phone bill to make calls. But I shouldn't have to pay a bill for the right to download something from someone other than my ISP.
Two-tier Internet is like AOL. Sure you can surf the WWW, but you pay a toll when ever you do. You can't use itunes, or other services because AOL charges you extra because you didn't use AOL Music service.
It's a step backward. People are moving away from AOL for a reason. There is more to the Internet than one companies Idea of what you should see. People would have a fit if the government banned every news channel but Fox News, and every store but Walmart. But two-tiered internet will do just that. Combine that with the monopolies already in place, and the Consumer loses choice.
I don't know about you but I can get either Road Runner or DSL from the phone company. Sure earthlink and verizion can bill me but both have to go back through one of those two companies anyway.
My Cell phone bill is 35.00 a month. I don't use the data services, and I have mroe than enough minutes for my usage.
As for ring tones how do you connect your phone? Did you spend an extra $20-30 for a special data cable? I use Bluetooth, but only because I bought a phone specifically for it.
Cable -- Extra charge at twice what the company paid for it.
Your idea of two-tier internet and the ISP's are completely different.
Your new two-tiered ISP charges you 1.99 per download from itunes, plus the cost of the music, but if you download from their sponsered service they only charge you for the music.
Think Cell phone bills. The data charges on Cell phones are stupid high. They charge you per byte, plus minutes while online. Try downloading a ringtone sold by sprint on a verizion phone. It doesn't work. Not because the song isn't compatible but because they will put up money road blocks into the way to force you to pay.
I am sorry But I want the internet my way. Not the way some company wants to force me to pay Dollars extra for things they get for literaly pennies.
I can do more with a command line, scripting and a text editor faster and easier than I can with a gui.
simple situation. I store my Browser bookmarks on my website so I always have a backup copy them.
GUI. "OS X" Windows or KDE aren't a lot different here
right click on applications folder in dock, (it opens a contextual menu of all items inside, think start menu, kde menu)
find ftp program and open it.
click on on appropriate bookmark,
type in password,
drag file from local to remote directory.(this assuming it opens up to the right directories to begin with)
let it work
close everything
From command line Home direcory
type in ~/Applications/ftpbookmarks (bash script)
type in password when prompted
let it work.
Now, which is easier? The command line. Of course you have to know what you are doing to begin with in order to use it. I might be able to do the above with apple scripting the gui but why when the bash one is literally 10 lines of script and can easily be changed.
what is needed is a new method for working with computers. Some way of working the gui with both a mouse and a quick command line that can deal with both text and other items. Apple's Open command is a start. as it will load the default program for images/movies to show them(open -e somemovie.mov wil launch the movie in quicktime). Maybe Microsoft's new shell will actually be cool. It's supposed to deal with objects instead of text.
Okay here you go It's from IRIX
Don't ask why I know but I do.
I think apple called it deskbar, or something simlar for Mac OS 7.5. Whatever the case I was using similar toys with fvwm back in 1996. Konfabulator was hardly an orginal idea. Maybe a new implenetation, utilizing new tech but not orginial.
American's are to stupid to use paper. We need idiot proof voting. heck we need idiot proof politicians. or at least non idiots running.
I don't have a choice when it comes to cable. I can get one of two different levels of service. Problem is I want HBO in order to get HBO I have to pay fo 14 other channels.
Currently my cable box goes up to 1300 different channels yet of those I watch maybe a dozen.
Um no. It is the worst thing because once the divisions are in place. oops I am sorry but you can't get slashdot unless you pay $99.99 a month for unregulated network connections, and we have to come to your home and hook up a new line as we don't want you contaimnating OUR network with unregulated network traffic.
Once you allow divisions you can never go back. They will make it unrealistic to do anything else. I have a 120 a month cable bill. That's cable and ISP. if they start dividing it will only go higher. I don't watch 90% of the cable. Why should I pay more for it?
Your throwing MSFT crap around, and your doing it unintentionally. We are on the same side. I can see it.
MA only choose Open Document and PDF when no other format was available. Also MSFT could implent Open Document right now, yet no one can implent MSFT XML with out approval, as the license stops redistribution.
Also what set mechanisms. There are none. All MA has chosen is a format for data retention like HTML. The IT dept is responsible to make sure that the entire state can have access to goverment information, yet if I lived in MA I wouldn't if they the chose MSFT format. Their is another reason not to choose any MSFT format. MSFT has known history of manipulating open standards to make a MSFT only closed version of that standard.
I personally haven't used MSFT Office on a regular basis, The only reason I keep windows around is for a game that I want to play if it ever gets released. Personally I have basically been MSFT free for 5 years. I have been slowly working my family and work off of any kind of MSFT for that time as well. I don't have state or government connections or I would be working on those as well.
Um MA did do all that. They wrote specifications, and told MSFT that there format doesn't fit the mold. PDF is also supported. Since Adobe allows third parties to build readers and writers for PDF they are considered open enough to be allowed. MSFT's license doesn't allow for GPL, or basically any other open source developer to write a compatible program and then distribute it. It specifically denies re-distribution of the source ode used to create such program. If MSFT's license was as open as Adobe's PDF's then this would be a non issue. As such MSFT is playing i want it my way only and your way is unacceptable to me. This alone should preclude them from ever doing business again. It's not up to the contractor to tell the people who hired them how to do it.