I get around this on my OS X box by enabling sticky keys in System Preferences -> Universal Access pane. Two taps on the shift key = a true caps lock key. Can be a pain if you accidentally hit shift (cause then you have to hit shift twice more to cancel it) but I find it to be a real help...
Oh really? Look how much talk this little article kicked up. Don't you think some 1337 h4x0r would get a thrill out of being the first to release an OS X worm into the wild?
I've tried this feature out only to promptly switch it back to shuffle by track. Very few albums are cohesive works from beginning to end (note the popularity of downloading ONE track from an album on the iTMS). And for those rare gems that do fit this bill, I simply drag the album into the playlist bar and enjoy (repeatedly)!
You've never seen a PowerPC proc for sale because you've never looked.
Granted, this isn't quite what you mean when you speak of buying from another manufacturer. (I wonder how difficult it would be to get this box to run OS X? Darwin? It wouldn't even be worth it to try though, as notoriously expensive Apple hardware would be cheaper in this instance.)
However, this still doesn't mean we can go out and buy that motherboard with that sweet bus, but does give an indication of the blurred lines that currently exist when people call Apple hardware proprietary. The most important thing to remember about why proprietary has such negative connotations is that it generally translates into more expensive hardware. [pipe_dream]And with the spate of new customers lined up for POWER-derived processors, Apple may finally be able to offer a powerful and cheap low-end computer[/pipe_dream]
Is the POWER/PowerPC platform not open? There are other companies that make (slow!) Apple processors as well.
So just what the hell does it mean when/.ers say something is propietary? Maybe this age old jibe is just geek for- "I can't build it from scratch." Just how bad of a thing is that?
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I get around this on my OS X box by enabling sticky keys in System Preferences -> Universal Access pane. Two taps on the shift key = a true caps lock key. Can be a pain if you accidentally hit shift (cause then you have to hit shift twice more to cancel it) but I find it to be a real help...
Oh really? Look how much talk this little article kicked up. Don't you think some 1337 h4x0r would get a thrill out of being the first to release an OS X worm into the wild?
I've tried this feature out only to promptly switch it back to shuffle by track. Very few albums are cohesive works from beginning to end (note the popularity of downloading ONE track from an album on the iTMS). And for those rare gems that do fit this bill, I simply drag the album into the playlist bar and enjoy (repeatedly)!
However, this still doesn't mean we can go out and buy that motherboard with that sweet bus, but does give an indication of the blurred lines that currently exist when people call Apple hardware proprietary. The most important thing to remember about why proprietary has such negative connotations is that it generally translates into more expensive hardware. [pipe_dream]And with the spate of new customers lined up for POWER-derived processors, Apple may finally be able to offer a powerful and cheap low-end computer[/pipe_dream]
Is the POWER/PowerPC platform not open? There are other companies that make (slow!) Apple processors as well. So just what the hell does it mean when /.ers say something is propietary? Maybe this age old jibe is just geek for- "I can't build it from scratch." Just how bad of a thing is that?