Apple can't sell licenses like that. They'd be harming their business sales. Companies like to have a surplus of licenses, or at least like not having to tie a license with a particular machine. That's what volume licensing is for.
So Dell are riding Microsoft's brands? And Ubuntu's? When does providing a product become riding a brand?
Their position is perfect for collecting stricken vessels looking for safe harbour. After the Armada tried its funny business, many of the ships ended up in Scotland and Ireland. Plus millions of Irish folks left Ireland, so their case is a strange one indeed. Also, and possibly more importantly, Ireland is a Celtic nation, sharing a common heritage with parts of northern France. Wales and Scotland are Celtic, too, but England isn't (except Cornwall), and England has most of the population of the UK. Or something. I don't know:)
They're for different things entirely. The chipsets cost different amounts and can do different things. eSATA is great at what it does, but it'd be pretty shitty as a method for connecting a webcam (compared to USB). Similarly USB is a shitty way to connect a hard disk (when compared to eSATA).
Then Psystar buys a mac, and buys as many copies as they want for it. Apple simply can't do that, though, because of their business sector. All kinds of Apple-certified companies all over the world sell Apple products to companies, and very often those OS X copies are not tied to a mac, as they're for the company's pool of OS X licenses, for use should they want to upgrade older Macs or if they get some new (to them) Macs from other sources. They simply can't turn that faucet off, as that's where Apple gets a huge chunk of cash. Psystar just wants people to have a choice. Nothing wrong with that. They just want people to buy a cheaper computer that does everything an Apple one does. Big whoop. Let me guess - you're a mac user?:)
Apple doesn't sell hardware or software. They sell the Apple experience. That requires the hardware AND the software be sold together. Apparently. I don't buy it personally (literally or figuratively), but that's the thinking. They can sell the experience because they control the hardware and the software. Unlike Windows that has to support every single piece of kit on the market, Apple can be a lot more discerning, only selling certain bits once the drivers have been thorougly tested. You get less choice, but what you do get is supposed to be of a much higher quality. I don't believe most of that, but that's the word on the street.
Why don't you see for yourself. It works by intelligently looking at photos and constructing a 3D model out of the photos, entirely automatically. You can't load your own photos yet, as it's still in beta. The demo is the output of their previous tests, as it has not yet been updated with the latest version. And no, it can't be easily faked with flash, as this is 100% automatic, and faking in flash would require a massive amount of work by hundreds of people.
She'd be in the jeffries tubes somewhere near engineering. Everyone knows you don't need to actually go into engineering to reconfigure the sensor array.
Microsoft have turned Photo Tourism into something incredibly more powerful. But don't let that get you off your high horse. Some of us don't play the "them" and "us" game.
Because you can, say, search Flickr for a landmark, get the images, run them through this, then you can navigate through the space in 3D, looking at high-res imagery of the subject, from all available angles, without having to previously know anything about the subject. Even the system doesn't need to know anything about the subject, it only needs the photos. It is ENTIRELY automatic, using only images. If you look at the old Notre Dame demo, you can see that it even correctly inserted a photo of a poster of Notre Dame into the 3D model, in the exactly-correct position. 100% automatic. That's the breakthrough.
You just give it the photos - it figures out the rest. It works by stitching them together in 3D, so if there is a photo of one part of the subject that is not overlapped by one other, the photo won't be part of the finished "model". If you download the old demo, you can see the Yosemite demo, which shows what happens with movement (hikers climbing a mountain). If it can match up most of a scene in an image, the image can still be used. I'm sure it'll only get better. Another great example is in the old demo, where they simply searched Flickr for "Notre Dame", and then constructed the entire cathedral. It picked up a photo of a poster in someone's house, and seamlessly integrated it into the model. It recognised what it was from, and where on the cathedral it was positioned, and reflected that by putting that image exactly where it should be in the finished "model". Of course this is just stuff I've gleaned from watching the demo videos, using the demo, and reading as much as I can about it, so I might be wrong on some of it, but that was the impression I got. If I'm far off, I'd appreciate being put right, as this technology is nothing short of stunning.
What you don't see is after he finishes telling you that, he runs to the bathroom in tears, screaming at the sky "WHY, STEVE? HAVE I NOT BEEN GOOD TO YOU??". He's hurting on the inside.
Or just pissed off with people spouting nonsense about how great Apple products are. You don't have to be a fanboy to be pissed off. All fanboys piss me off, regardless of their camp. As soon as you stop talking facts and start talking baseless opinions, you're a wanker. Simple as.
... and severely limiting the players that can play them, making people have to convert them to MP3, destroying the very quality he fought to preserve. The number of folks who prefer Ogg over MP3 are tiny compared to the number of folks who don't give a shit, so it would be an excercise in politics over preservation. Meh.
We probably had a modicum more intelligence than your average primate (what with our bipedal locomotion freeing up our hands for tool use), and maybe that tipped us over the edge, allowing us to cook, which in turn made us even more intelligent. Or it was Jesus or something. I don't know.:)
Artists who contract out their services. They will often work in-house, on their own equipment. Or if equipment is provided, they might want to use their own. It's a lot easier to bring in a notebook (albeit a heavy-ass one) than lugging a tower and screen around.
Well, to be fair, server-side web software being deprecated is a lot different to desktop software. But I guess you have to get your dig in somehow, what?
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Or redefine what M is in RPM. Or R. Or P, come to think about it. :)
Apple can't sell licenses like that. They'd be harming their business sales. Companies like to have a surplus of licenses, or at least like not having to tie a license with a particular machine. That's what volume licensing is for.
So Dell are riding Microsoft's brands? And Ubuntu's? When does providing a product become riding a brand?
Over to you, Mr. Sandgina.
... off the record. Tell him your stance on patents, and if he wants to go ahead with it, go along with it. Or quit. Those are your choices.
Their position is perfect for collecting stricken vessels looking for safe harbour. After the Armada tried its funny business, many of the ships ended up in Scotland and Ireland. Plus millions of Irish folks left Ireland, so their case is a strange one indeed. Also, and possibly more importantly, Ireland is a Celtic nation, sharing a common heritage with parts of northern France. Wales and Scotland are Celtic, too, but England isn't (except Cornwall), and England has most of the population of the UK. Or something. I don't know :)
Maybe they were having a laugh, like when you make a sleeping person pick their nose. Who knows?
They're for different things entirely. The chipsets cost different amounts and can do different things. eSATA is great at what it does, but it'd be pretty shitty as a method for connecting a webcam (compared to USB). Similarly USB is a shitty way to connect a hard disk (when compared to eSATA).
If latency and CPU usage are issues, you shouldn't be using USB.
Then Psystar buys a mac, and buys as many copies as they want for it. Apple simply can't do that, though, because of their business sector. All kinds of Apple-certified companies all over the world sell Apple products to companies, and very often those OS X copies are not tied to a mac, as they're for the company's pool of OS X licenses, for use should they want to upgrade older Macs or if they get some new (to them) Macs from other sources. They simply can't turn that faucet off, as that's where Apple gets a huge chunk of cash. Psystar just wants people to have a choice. Nothing wrong with that. They just want people to buy a cheaper computer that does everything an Apple one does. Big whoop. Let me guess - you're a mac user? :)
Apple doesn't sell hardware or software. They sell the Apple experience. That requires the hardware AND the software be sold together. Apparently. I don't buy it personally (literally or figuratively), but that's the thinking. They can sell the experience because they control the hardware and the software. Unlike Windows that has to support every single piece of kit on the market, Apple can be a lot more discerning, only selling certain bits once the drivers have been thorougly tested. You get less choice, but what you do get is supposed to be of a much higher quality. I don't believe most of that, but that's the word on the street.
It's still in beta. Eventually it will be running in Silverlight, which runs on the OS of your choice. And Linux once Moonlight is finished.
Why don't you see for yourself. It works by intelligently looking at photos and constructing a 3D model out of the photos, entirely automatically. You can't load your own photos yet, as it's still in beta. The demo is the output of their previous tests, as it has not yet been updated with the latest version. And no, it can't be easily faked with flash, as this is 100% automatic, and faking in flash would require a massive amount of work by hundreds of people.
She'd be in the jeffries tubes somewhere near engineering. Everyone knows you don't need to actually go into engineering to reconfigure the sensor array.
Microsoft have turned Photo Tourism into something incredibly more powerful. But don't let that get you off your high horse. Some of us don't play the "them" and "us" game.
Because you can, say, search Flickr for a landmark, get the images, run them through this, then you can navigate through the space in 3D, looking at high-res imagery of the subject, from all available angles, without having to previously know anything about the subject. Even the system doesn't need to know anything about the subject, it only needs the photos. It is ENTIRELY automatic, using only images. If you look at the old Notre Dame demo, you can see that it even correctly inserted a photo of a poster of Notre Dame into the 3D model, in the exactly-correct position. 100% automatic. That's the breakthrough.
You just give it the photos - it figures out the rest. It works by stitching them together in 3D, so if there is a photo of one part of the subject that is not overlapped by one other, the photo won't be part of the finished "model". If you download the old demo, you can see the Yosemite demo, which shows what happens with movement (hikers climbing a mountain). If it can match up most of a scene in an image, the image can still be used. I'm sure it'll only get better. Another great example is in the old demo, where they simply searched Flickr for "Notre Dame", and then constructed the entire cathedral. It picked up a photo of a poster in someone's house, and seamlessly integrated it into the model. It recognised what it was from, and where on the cathedral it was positioned, and reflected that by putting that image exactly where it should be in the finished "model". Of course this is just stuff I've gleaned from watching the demo videos, using the demo, and reading as much as I can about it, so I might be wrong on some of it, but that was the impression I got. If I'm far off, I'd appreciate being put right, as this technology is nothing short of stunning.
Yup, there's a lot of history down that road.
What you don't see is after he finishes telling you that, he runs to the bathroom in tears, screaming at the sky "WHY, STEVE? HAVE I NOT BEEN GOOD TO YOU??". He's hurting on the inside.
Or just pissed off with people spouting nonsense about how great Apple products are. You don't have to be a fanboy to be pissed off. All fanboys piss me off, regardless of their camp. As soon as you stop talking facts and start talking baseless opinions, you're a wanker. Simple as.
... and severely limiting the players that can play them, making people have to convert them to MP3, destroying the very quality he fought to preserve. The number of folks who prefer Ogg over MP3 are tiny compared to the number of folks who don't give a shit, so it would be an excercise in politics over preservation. Meh.
We probably had a modicum more intelligence than your average primate (what with our bipedal locomotion freeing up our hands for tool use), and maybe that tipped us over the edge, allowing us to cook, which in turn made us even more intelligent. Or it was Jesus or something. I don't know. :)
You made your own computer? Wow!
Artists who contract out their services. They will often work in-house, on their own equipment. Or if equipment is provided, they might want to use their own. It's a lot easier to bring in a notebook (albeit a heavy-ass one) than lugging a tower and screen around.
Or a key file. Whatever's easiest :)
You can download the current development versions. It's quite stable.
Well, to be fair, server-side web software being deprecated is a lot different to desktop software. But I guess you have to get your dig in somehow, what?