> Yeah when he opened up the architecture to clones and you > started seeing Macs everywhere.
He did no such thing, And those clones were crap. They relied on better performance figures on paper with woeful hardware support & reliability.
I had the misfortune of supporting Macs during the 1990s. Apples were marginally better than most suppliers, but most clones were cheaper & more prone to failure than the worst PC brands.
The reason there is closed mindedness is because the FACT that your religion is a manifestation of a mental illness that you carry. You can't help it. You need treatment, but unfortunately your type shouts down those who would provide you the correct treatment.
You can take comfort in your illness if you want, like schizophrenics might wish to too, but don't expect society to want to do anything else but eradicate the illness you carry. Working against that is illogical and simply perpetuates the illness.
And that CANNOT be tolerated, just as tuberculosis, AIDS, schizephrenia, ebola, child molestation, typhoid and other physical and mental diseases cannot be tolerated in a civilised society. They must be cured.
Before blasting slashdot, I think slashdot has handled this better simply by nature than most other news sites.
I've seen links to this image at least half a dozen times already. Only on slashdot have I seen the uproar in comments that it's a fake. Only on slashdot have people bothered researching the info behind the photograph to see what happened. Hell, only on slashdot was a link given to the original thread so we could find this out for ourselves. Everywhere else just had a bunch of drooling fools looking over the image and laughing at how desperate MS looks, while here we find the true story because of the strength of comments and the comment moderation system.
Slashdot is doing better than regular news sources that regularly print misinformation, one sided stories and complete fabrications with no recourse for comments by readers who do know better.
> But Apple do not really sell software at all. They sell hardware, > and they sell fashion
Awesome. Since Microsoft do not really sell hardware at all - they sell software... It must be OK for me to just go take a Microsoft Intellimouse, and a Microsoft keyboard.
Now that SCO's gone, the vacuum filled by darl mcbride looks to have been filled by another slimy despicable thieving weasel by the name of David R. Foley, CEO (Chief Extinguishable Organism) of Ultracade.
> that can be used to decide what info you'll be presented with, > what options you'll be given, what price you'll pay for goods, > and even who you'll be permitted to buy from.
All the better reason to not let anyone online know who you are, where you've been, and where you come from.
This isn't really "holographic" in the sense of a 3D image in space, or a perception of a 3D image.
All it is is a screen that hangs in space (or supported by glass as in the site) and only shows images directed on it from a certain angle - from a projector sitting conspicuously on the floor behind it.
Regardless of definitions of theft, it's going against the wishes of the copyright holder.
And that is, quite bluntly, wrong. No matter the arguments put forward that fansubbing an anime and releasing it online is letting it reach a wider audience, is doing better translation work by the fans who know the series/creator's work well, or is making up for a copyright holder not allowing distribution in the country you live in, it's wrong.
If you don't consider it wrong, then it's not wrong for Microsoft, Apple or Sun to decide that they can copy the entire Linux kernel, modify it for their own purposes and make it into a proprietary Winux or iLinux for example... because they believe it can then reach a wider audience, or be written by paid coders, or make up for the copyright holder (those who wrote GPL code) not allowing distribution in a proprietary form.
But I expect it's more a case of double standards, that fansubbing will still go on and violating the copyrights of those who created it, and being done in part by people who insist their own copyright is respected with the code they release.
yeah, your momma has ears, and she's white -- that must mean she's identical to my momma... obviously, you're the type of mental drivel that perpetuates this type of lackluster industrial design.
Lackluster only in the eyes of a mac addict. A dell is a gem of engineering and design to a dell addict, and a thinkpad is the be-all and end-all of industrial design to an IBM addict. It's all nothing but opinion and each will try to lord it over the other like theirs is the only true way. It's all nothing but opinion.
In the end most people are not like that. What matters is how it performs, and too much time spent on what a computer looks like needs to be paid for. It just adds cost and takes manufacturer focus away from what matters, speed.
Now if only others would do the same. Apple, dump AAC now. MS, dump WMV now. Adopt OGG and the world will be better for it. I don't see that happening unfortunately, Steve's ego is too big and MS is in with the DRM crowd too tightly.
This was not ripped open. This mac mini was just one motherboard provided to the press for the purpose of looking at its motherboard. MacNews.de aren't the only site with images of that particular motherboard.
All you need to know is that this fallacious "Sub $500 mac" is not going to happen. Period.
see billpalmer.net for more information. It makes no sense for Apple to make, it has no market to fit in, and even if it did they couldn't make it for the cost some rumormonger has conjured up out of nowhere.
One thing missing, is this isn't a real machine. Apple aren't actually going to produce a sub $500 mac any time soon, or any time at all. What Apple are suing over is the damage that hyping up expectations of an impossible machine is going to do for Apple.
After the keynote and there's no sub-$500 headless iMac or eMac, Apple is going to be a very unpopular company among the geek crowd. Of course that won't stop people from expecting it'll come out at the next event, or the next one, or the one after that...
see billpalmer.net for the sanest commentary on this ludicrousness.
You don't seem to get it, maybe you didn't read the second page. The point was not that Microsoft used Sound Forge. The point is that Microsoft used a warezed version of Sound For
Purely presumption. There is nothing in the article that says this was a pirated soundforge, only that the soundforge ID string is present at the end of MS supplied.wav files
My legally acquired copy of soundforge makes the exact same string. DEEPZONE IS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL SOUNDFORGE AUTHORS. Did nobody suspect to even consider this and check it?
This is really casting a cloud over the closed source world. It seems the closed-source hackers just can't keep their hands out of the illegal pie, and won't ever respect other people's property. The more you dabble in closed-source products, the worse it gets.
Best to start open source from the beginning. F/OSS is clearly a culture of more balanced individuals.
If you sunk $150 into the old hardware and upgraded it to new, you'd have a quicker machine and wouldn't have to sacrifice functionality and features just to get that old dinosaur PIII to crawl from its own ashes again.
> I've actually recieved one of these emails. It looked legit.
> Really legit.
But it can't look legit. It's impossible to look legit. eBay state they will never ask for your details like this.
How then can a phishing email look 'legit'?
It's like getting an email from your dead grandmother. you *KNOW* beforehand that she's not going to be sending you email, so how could an email purporting to be from her look 'legit'?
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> Yeah when he opened up the architecture to clones and you
> started seeing Macs everywhere.
He did no such thing, And those clones were crap. They relied on better performance figures on paper with woeful hardware support & reliability.
I had the misfortune of supporting Macs during the 1990s. Apples were marginally better than most suppliers, but most clones were cheaper & more prone to failure than the worst PC brands.
The reason there is closed mindedness is because the FACT that your religion is a manifestation of a mental illness that you carry. You can't help it. You need treatment, but unfortunately your type shouts down those who would provide you the correct treatment.
You can take comfort in your illness if you want, like schizophrenics might wish to too, but don't expect society to want to do anything else but eradicate the illness you carry. Working against that is illogical and simply perpetuates the illness.
And that CANNOT be tolerated, just as tuberculosis, AIDS, schizephrenia, ebola, child molestation, typhoid and other physical and mental diseases cannot be tolerated in a civilised society. They must be cured.
Facts combat religious illness.
Before blasting slashdot, I think slashdot has handled this better simply by nature than most other news sites.
I've seen links to this image at least half a dozen times already. Only on slashdot have I seen the uproar in comments that it's a fake. Only on slashdot have people bothered researching the info behind the photograph to see what happened. Hell, only on slashdot was a link given to the original thread so we could find this out for ourselves. Everywhere else just had a bunch of drooling fools looking over the image and laughing at how desperate MS looks, while here we find the true story because of the strength of comments and the comment moderation system.
Slashdot is doing better than regular news sources that regularly print misinformation, one sided stories and complete fabrications with no recourse for comments by readers who do know better.
> But Apple do not really sell software at all. They sell hardware,
> and they sell fashion
Awesome. Since Microsoft do not really sell hardware at all - they sell software... It must be OK for me to just go take a Microsoft Intellimouse, and a Microsoft keyboard.
Cool.
Now that SCO's gone, the vacuum filled by darl mcbride looks to have been filled by another slimy despicable thieving weasel by the name of David R. Foley, CEO (Chief Extinguishable Organism) of Ultracade.
Congratulations!
> that can be used to decide what info you'll be presented with,
> what options you'll be given, what price you'll pay for goods,
> and even who you'll be permitted to buy from.
All the better reason to not let anyone online know who you are, where you've been, and where you come from.
This isn't really "holographic" in the sense of a 3D image in space, or a perception of a 3D image.
All it is is a screen that hangs in space (or supported by glass as in the site) and only shows images directed on it from a certain angle - from a projector sitting conspicuously on the floor behind it.
It's pretty, but hardly world shattering.
Apple's market share has hit 55% lately, they've become one of the biggest growing businesses in home computing
Where'd you get the crack you're on?
> Apple, who now ships Altivec in every system they make
The Mac Mini has no altivec unit.
Regardless of definitions of theft, it's going against the wishes of the copyright holder.
And that is, quite bluntly, wrong. No matter the arguments put forward that fansubbing an anime and releasing it online is letting it reach a wider audience, is doing better translation work by the fans who know the series/creator's work well, or is making up for a copyright holder not allowing distribution in the country you live in, it's wrong.
If you don't consider it wrong, then it's not wrong for Microsoft, Apple or Sun to decide that they can copy the entire Linux kernel, modify it for their own purposes and make it into a proprietary Winux or iLinux for example... because they believe it can then reach a wider audience, or be written by paid coders, or make up for the copyright holder (those who wrote GPL code) not allowing distribution in a proprietary form.
But I expect it's more a case of double standards, that fansubbing will still go on and violating the copyrights of those who created it, and being done in part by people who insist their own copyright is respected with the code they release.
yeah, your momma has ears, and she's white -- that must mean she's identical to my momma... obviously, you're the type of mental drivel that perpetuates this type of lackluster industrial design.
Lackluster only in the eyes of a mac addict. A dell is a gem of engineering and design to a dell addict, and a thinkpad is the be-all and end-all of industrial design to an IBM addict. It's all nothing but opinion and each will try to lord it over the other like theirs is the only true way. It's all nothing but opinion.
In the end most people are not like that. What matters is how it performs, and too much time spent on what a computer looks like needs to be paid for. It just adds cost and takes manufacturer focus away from what matters, speed.
Now if only others would do the same. Apple, dump AAC now. MS, dump WMV now. Adopt OGG and the world will be better for it. I don't see that happening unfortunately, Steve's ego is too big and MS is in with the DRM crowd too tightly.
This was not ripped open. This mac mini was just one motherboard provided to the press for the purpose of looking at its motherboard. MacNews.de aren't the only site with images of that particular motherboard.
All you need to know is that this fallacious "Sub $500 mac" is not going to happen. Period.
see billpalmer.net for more information. It makes no sense for Apple to make, it has no market to fit in, and even if it did they couldn't make it for the cost some rumormonger has conjured up out of nowhere.
One thing missing, is this isn't a real machine. Apple aren't actually going to produce a sub $500 mac any time soon, or any time at all. What Apple are suing over is the damage that hyping up expectations of an impossible machine is going to do for Apple.
After the keynote and there's no sub-$500 headless iMac or eMac, Apple is going to be a very unpopular company among the geek crowd. Of course that won't stop people from expecting it'll come out at the next event, or the next one, or the one after that...
see billpalmer.net for the sanest commentary on this ludicrousness.
The price of freedom used to be eternal vigilance... Now it appears can be sold for a mere $2.6million
> He had been carrying a gun, panicked and started shooting.
Then we'd be in a parallel universe where that happened. It didn't.
What if Linux caused cancer? What if bathing in magma cured acne? What if Steve Jobs wins the next world series?
We don't have to think about these things as they're not happening in the real world.
Scenario... innocent dumb user has their computer hijacked and made part of a spam botnet.
Did they just spam? Are they now off to jail?
Hopefully they too will be charged. Jail if it takes. There is no excuse for running a compromised machine when so many good secure solutions exist.
Ignorance is no excuse.
Terrorists live in the real world where there's no magical power that some terrorist-ring can wield over people to make them blow up crap.
LOTR is a story with magic in it that DOES do this kind of thing.
Real World. Fiction. Learn the difference.
until 9/11 there had never been a terrorist flying a plane into a new york skyscraper
There is still no evidence it WAS a terrorist act.
You don't seem to get it, maybe you didn't read the second page. The point was not that Microsoft used Sound Forge. The point is that Microsoft used a warezed version of Sound For
.wav files
Purely presumption. There is nothing in the article that says this was a pirated soundforge, only that the soundforge ID string is present at the end of MS supplied
My legally acquired copy of soundforge makes the exact same string. DEEPZONE IS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL SOUNDFORGE AUTHORS. Did nobody suspect to even consider this and check it?
This is really casting a cloud over the closed source world. It seems the closed-source hackers just can't keep their hands out of the illegal pie, and won't ever respect other people's property. The more you dabble in closed-source products, the worse it gets.
Best to start open source from the beginning. F/OSS is clearly a culture of more balanced individuals.
If you sunk $150 into the old hardware and upgraded it to new, you'd have a quicker machine and wouldn't have to sacrifice functionality and features just to get that old dinosaur PIII to crawl from its own ashes again.
Don't be cheapskates.
> I've actually recieved one of these emails. It looked legit.
> Really legit.
But it can't look legit. It's impossible to look legit. eBay state they will never ask for your details like this.
How then can a phishing email look 'legit'?
It's like getting an email from your dead grandmother. you *KNOW* beforehand that she's not going to be sending you email, so how could an email purporting to be from her look 'legit'?
> I mean, they look _really_ official
It sounds like you want to be scammed.
You choose to use a mac then that's what you get. Might pay to buy more sensibly next time.