Some time back, I saw a speaker from US Cert at a data security conference put together by one of my coworkers. When the US Cert guy spoke, one of his first comments were that "US Cert" does not recommend that you use Firefox instead of IE. Our speaker did say that is what he used personally though. His explanation for this contrast was this: Homeland security is a part of the US Cert's goals and after the announcement to use an "alternative browser", Microsoft's stock went down a noticable amount. MS is a big part of our economy and this did not go unnoticed by his superiors.
This latest press release from Cert does diminish my respect for their words.
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What if the article is partially correct, It might be more interesting if OSX server was the only product making the move. If this provided more power to the enterprise server room than PPC would this not be a benefit? The client workstations don't care what processor the server runs on and running on x86 might allow more binary compatibility with the booming Linux/GNU server invasion. In this case only existing OSX PPC server applications, which are a niche market, would need to be ported over.
I cannot play MS DRM'd media on my Mac. MS is using their monopoly power to push me to use Windows to view anything encoded with their version of DRM. If they were the leader in digital content they would use it to enforce their OS domination. iTunes is available on PC and Mac. I think they should support Linux also with quicktime and iTunes, but that would be poking the MS bear and probably not the best strategic move.
You are correct, for the home user the mac mini will beat relentlessly upon the eMac's already dead corpse. eMac is still a nice fit in school labs since they are more theft resistant. Picking an eMac up (has no handles) is like hoisting up a greased water mellon.
"Could it just be that way to many games that are coming out are overpriced, overproduced, exactly the same as the gameplay we've gotten before"Just a case of too little bang for your buck, and then to be unreasonable about providing the end user a legitimate way to protect thier investment from harm? It may be off topic, but Apple is succeeding in the Music download business by using an opposite approach to a simular situation. The provide a high quality product (iPod, as if I needed to mention it) and then provide a great library of quality content for a reasonable price with reasonable restrictions. If game consoles were more expensive so that the manufacturers of the consoles could lessen the licensing burden on the developers, maybe the urge to "backup" the titles would be less seductive.
Novell Statement on UNIX Copyright Registrations
PROVO, Utah -- Dec. 22, 2003 -- Novell believes it owns the copyrights in UNIX, and has applied for and received copyright registrations pertaining to UNIX consistent with that position. Novell detailed the basis for its ownership position in correspondence with SCO. Copies of our correspondence, and SCO's reply, are available here. Contrary to SCO's public statements, as demonstrated by this correspondence, SCO has been well aware that Novell continues to assert ownership of the UNIX copyrights.
Press Contact:
Bruce Lowry
Phone: 415-591-6523
E-mail: blowry@novell.com
If swen can spread via network shares and copy itself to the startup items on another machine(which can run without user intervention), then you have an honest to goodness network worm.
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I am using Safari on the Mac and it is only a beta product. They cannot defend themselves against this browser in progress. I personally think that Apple created this browser product after IE on the Mac has lanquished at 5.0-5.2 statis (or should I say stagnation) for the last 3 1/2 years. It wouldn't take a genius to have seen the end of support for IE on the Mac.
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Some time back, I saw a speaker from US Cert at a data security conference put together by one of my coworkers. When the US Cert guy spoke, one of his first comments were that "US Cert" does not recommend that you use Firefox instead of IE. Our speaker did say that is what he used personally though. His explanation for this contrast was this: Homeland security is a part of the US Cert's goals and after the announcement to use an "alternative browser", Microsoft's stock went down a noticable amount. MS is a big part of our economy and this did not go unnoticed by his superiors. This latest press release from Cert does diminish my respect for their words. This line intentially left blank
What if the article is partially correct, It might be more interesting if OSX server was the only product making the move. If this provided more power to the enterprise server room than PPC would this not be a benefit? The client workstations don't care what processor the server runs on and running on x86 might allow more binary compatibility with the booming Linux/GNU server invasion. In this case only existing OSX PPC server applications, which are a niche market, would need to be ported over.
I cannot play MS DRM'd media on my Mac. MS is using their monopoly power to push me to use Windows to view anything encoded with their version of DRM. If they were the leader in digital content they would use it to enforce their OS domination. iTunes is available on PC and Mac. I think they should support Linux also with quicktime and iTunes, but that would be poking the MS bear and probably not the best strategic move.
You are correct, for the home user the mac mini will beat relentlessly upon the eMac's already dead corpse. eMac is still a nice fit in school labs since they are more theft resistant. Picking an eMac up (has no handles) is like hoisting up a greased water mellon.
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"Could it just be that way to many games that are coming out are overpriced, overproduced, exactly the same as the gameplay we've gotten before" Just a case of too little bang for your buck, and then to be unreasonable about providing the end user a legitimate way to protect thier investment from harm? It may be off topic, but Apple is succeeding in the Music download business by using an opposite approach to a simular situation. The provide a high quality product (iPod, as if I needed to mention it) and then provide a great library of quality content for a reasonable price with reasonable restrictions. If game consoles were more expensive so that the manufacturers of the consoles could lessen the licensing burden on the developers, maybe the urge to "backup" the titles would be less seductive.
Novell Statement on UNIX Copyright Registrations PROVO, Utah -- Dec. 22, 2003 -- Novell believes it owns the copyrights in UNIX, and has applied for and received copyright registrations pertaining to UNIX consistent with that position. Novell detailed the basis for its ownership position in correspondence with SCO. Copies of our correspondence, and SCO's reply, are available here. Contrary to SCO's public statements, as demonstrated by this correspondence, SCO has been well aware that Novell continues to assert ownership of the UNIX copyrights. Press Contact: Bruce Lowry Phone: 415-591-6523 E-mail: blowry@novell.com
If swen can spread via network shares and copy itself to the startup items on another machine(which can run without user intervention), then you have an honest to goodness network worm. want to beats can do when can do don't want to
I am using Safari on the Mac and it is only a beta product. They cannot defend themselves against this browser in progress. I personally think that Apple created this browser product after IE on the Mac has lanquished at 5.0-5.2 statis (or should I say stagnation) for the last 3 1/2 years. It wouldn't take a genius to have seen the end of support for IE on the Mac.