You guessed it, Apple. And given the number of PowerBook users I see taking advantage of WiFi in academic settings alone, possibly excluding Mac users is a good way to shoot yourself in the foot in the hotspot business.
On Windows we had Trojans of this level of complexity -- really little more complex or interesting than distributing an AOL password phisher as porn and/or a game -- ten years ago. This can effect anything from Palm OS up to a mainframe. It'd be something to be scared about if a worm came out for OS X that can infect without any user action.
Yeah, but some people would call that an invasion of privacy.
But yes, that'd be a good idea if it were optional...or if any data were only passed if you go to the Apple website and list your iPod as stolen.
Result: more thieves go to prison, which is good because thieves usually do other things as well (murder, drug offenses, vandalism....all of these cause suffering and financial losses)
It's already happening.
I think some Unix licenses cost about as much as a Mac...so you can think of buying a Mac as getting an OS X license and you get free hardware.
Because frankly, about the only thing keeping a lot of people from going to OS X is their Windows software, and if people quit making software for Windows most people would probably think something to the effect of "Oh well, I guess I'll try that Macintosh thingy my cousin Mort uses."
People switch to Mac, less crashes, only new problem I see apart from yet more Windows software lost to the sands of time save for those who hoard old computers is that people attached to external towers would have to buy a fullblown Powermac G5, but an Apple at >40% marketshare (which would seem a year or two or three after a sudden Microsoft collapse) would probably bring back the Cube to reach these people.
How about...let's see...the time it takes to encode a standard uncompressed audio sample to Ogg Vorbis using a standard open source encoder? Obviously this would't work alone, but if you add some other standard tests that actually mean something (compile times, for example) you could have a quite sensible battery of benchmarks.
The whole point is probably the Apple hardware, not OS X per se (For Pixar's purposes, Linux would more than suffice). As far as dual 64-bit hardware is concerned, I've run the numbers (as have the folks at Virginia Tech), and G5s are often cheaper than anywhere-near-comparable Athlon64s. Especially when you take into consideration that you see more old Macs in service...a local TV station in my town still does their video work on pre-G3 machines and they seem to make their deadlines none too shabby. TCO, man; it's all about total cost of ownership.
Get the kids on to college ASAP (If they aren't to high school yet, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln has an independent study program.) Junior high etc can make such problems worse; college can help.
But at any rate, Slashdot commentation can only be useful -- the karma system enforces only slightly deviant mores.
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And guess what company is making lots of moolah of wireless hardware, having a 20% marketshare in Wireless-G?
You guessed it, Apple. And given the number of PowerBook users I see taking advantage of WiFi in academic settings alone, possibly excluding Mac users is a good way to shoot yourself in the foot in the hotspot business.
No MythTV probably, but I imagine that TiVo will probably support these if there is any demand whatsoever.
Just buy an eMac or iMac. By the time you buy XP (particularly if you go with the professional edition) you are a good chunk of the way there, anyhow.
i believe he was reexpanding it as a humorous apronym for comic effect.
Apple DOES own FairPlay, though, so it's their DRM system that's been cracked. Surely they have a right to defend their patents and/or trade secrets.
And the "benevolent" oligarchichal dictatorship over at Xfree recently screwed up their license.
They forgot a school with near-pervasive WiFi -- the library and admin building 100% and other areas are approaching rapidly.
On Windows we had Trojans of this level of complexity -- really little more complex or interesting than distributing an AOL password phisher as porn and/or a game -- ten years ago. This can effect anything from Palm OS up to a mainframe. It'd be something to be scared about if a worm came out for OS X that can infect without any user action.
Microsoft were the first to call an OS (or actually an OS extension, at the time) Windows with a capital W, though.
It was indeed tradmarked as Windows Millenium Edition -- but marketed as Windows Me. Note, however, that is Windows(TM) Me, not Windows Me (TM)
Actually, it is. And that'll be $699, please.
Projector for Keynote? Hard drive? Wi-Fi? You're starting to get into iBook + Tungsten zone there.
Yeah, but some people would call that an invasion of privacy. But yes, that'd be a good idea if it were optional...or if any data were only passed if you go to the Apple website and list your iPod as stolen. Result: more thieves go to prison, which is good because thieves usually do other things as well (murder, drug offenses, vandalism....all of these cause suffering and financial losses)
It's already happening. I think some Unix licenses cost about as much as a Mac...so you can think of buying a Mac as getting an OS X license and you get free hardware.
Because frankly, about the only thing keeping a lot of people from going to OS X is their Windows software, and if people quit making software for Windows most people would probably think something to the effect of "Oh well, I guess I'll try that Macintosh thingy my cousin Mort uses." People switch to Mac, less crashes, only new problem I see apart from yet more Windows software lost to the sands of time save for those who hoard old computers is that people attached to external towers would have to buy a fullblown Powermac G5, but an Apple at >40% marketshare (which would seem a year or two or three after a sudden Microsoft collapse) would probably bring back the Cube to reach these people.
And that's pronounced "Ten." 'Course, you can always use the Classic mode to get your old mnemonics working.
No, rather the multimillenial tradition of our standard, systematic way of naming planetary bodies within our solar system.
I believe it's called "patronizing faux multiculturalism" -- if a Roman name for it becomes available, count on me to use it as much as possible.
How about...let's see...the time it takes to encode a standard uncompressed audio sample to Ogg Vorbis using a standard open source encoder? Obviously this would't work alone, but if you add some other standard tests that actually mean something (compile times, for example) you could have a quite sensible battery of benchmarks.
The whole point is probably the Apple hardware, not OS X per se (For Pixar's purposes, Linux would more than suffice). As far as dual 64-bit hardware is concerned, I've run the numbers (as have the folks at Virginia Tech), and G5s are often cheaper than anywhere-near-comparable Athlon64s. Especially when you take into consideration that you see more old Macs in service...a local TV station in my town still does their video work on pre-G3 machines and they seem to make their deadlines none too shabby. TCO, man; it's all about total cost of ownership.
Get the kids on to college ASAP (If they aren't to high school yet, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln has an independent study program.) Junior high etc can make such problems worse; college can help. But at any rate, Slashdot commentation can only be useful -- the karma system enforces only slightly deviant mores.
...is FireWire, get a FireWire cable. If your camera is USB only, you got skinned; sorry.
Great idea, but I think it's called "the Wikipedia."
Very much agreed. It is important to note that in this case, as in many, much ado stems from reductionistic thought.
Exactlly. Get a blue and white G3 off eBay or something, and put your copy of OS X on that; it's not OEM castrated.