I agree, I think their advantage right now is they have an ample supply of people willing to work at low rates just like the U.S. did during the industrial revolution. Eventually they will start expecting more and the difference will decrease. Their government surely will try to stop it but I think history shows that eventually they will have to give in. But their investment in infrastructure is very wise as a country, though some of it may be for show more than practicality. When they do start to lose their low-end jobs to the next cheap labor country they will be well equipped to handle a more advanced industry. While nobody can just say "I love all things China", it's fascinating to see it evolve right before our eyes. The big question on the minds of all of us is what will they do with all this strength once they're done?
Very impressive. IIRC, one of the main reasonings behind not putting in high speed rails in the U.S. was that the U.S. is too rural and sprawling, making it difficult to do in areas other than the southwest and northeast coasts. The fact that China seems to be able to do it with such a high volume planned makes me wonder if this is even a real issue. Anyone? I'd think there's a lot of money to be had in high speed rails around here if some lucky state (Kansas, you've done it before with low speed and nobody cares to visit otherwise) in the middle of the country started a high speed hub, and convinced other large cities to start attaching.
Precisely why this is a non-issue and nothing for people to rag on Apple about. This article shouldn't have even made it to Slashdot. It's just another forum to people to complain their pirated and pre-hacked versions of OS X aren't working on unsupported hardware. If you want a Mac, buy a Mac. If you like getting software running on hardware it was never supposed to be on, congrats, you now have a challenge to fill your day. If you just want to have a Mac without paying for a Mac.. I have no sympathy for you.
Apple did not "Kill Support" as there was no support to begin with. You can't kill something that doesn't exist in the first place.
They broke the unsupported hacks that were allowing people to use Atom processors. There's a pretty large difference, even though some people want to keep blaming Apple for this. Intentional or unintentional, they're not killing any support. I'm sure it's only a matter of days until somebody bypasses this anyway.
I know it's up in the air wether this is appropriate, but it's the truth with most software: You purchased a license to use their product and media from which to install it on your computer. You did not wholly purchase the product. Their license states among many other things, that it is for use on approved hardware only. As the law stands currently, it's their right to do so.
Also, running OS X on these machines is often less than ideal. Apple spends lots of time and money on fine tuning hardware and software to work well together in the end product they sell to you. A company like Psystar is going out and selling a product that may have most the elements of a Mac, but will not have the same QA put into it and I don't believe Apple wants to be associated with any bad experience an end user may have.
If it weren't for these licenses, the products themselves would eventually cease to make money and, inevitably, cease to exist. If you can find a better way to keep a product from being pirated, being misused, duplicated by a competitor, yet still be profitable.. morally, the software industry needs you.
And I think it's also relevant to state that most, but I'm sure not all, hackintosh-style machines are using pre-built pirated copies of the operating system anyway. This isn't just breaking the EULA, it's also just stealing in general. If you spend many a late night hacking around trying to get Apple software to work on your unsupported hardware, you obviously think it's a good product else you wouldn't waste the time.
A company that has employees that make a great product deserve to have the money to reimburse their employees for creating that product.
It's really just for the chance for people to bicker about their choice in operating system. I am a pretty big mac fan I'd say. I have a small business that's a member of the Apple Consultants Network. I have 2 Vista machines (one for gaming, one for the girlfriend) and 2 Macs (One server for my business, and one laptop shared between personal use and my business) in use currently. I'm not going to count the numerous old machines I have in the house.
The Mac vs PC debate has been around long enough some people are so entrenched in it, they'll never try the alternative platform. These people are only limiting themselves. If you don't like the platform, fine, but that's no reason to bash the user. If the user dislikes their platform, be a responsible geek and help them either get to know it or help them find what works best for them. As part of my work I evaluate businesses that wish to use macs and, sometimes, as much as a mac fan I am, I have to tell them it may not be the best option for them. It's rare but sometimes it will just require too many changes at one time to make it viable.
My only complaint with any of the common operating systems is that Linux clones Windows too much and should try to move away from that, but that's just opinion.
This is really the issue.
The Apple logo has serious power for a trademark. Even the slashdot apple haters can spot an apple logo with their eyes closed. This trademark is incredibly important to Apple. If this was to not be applied to electronics or online media distribution at all, I doubt Apple would have any issue with it.
But I think wether or not you could confuse the two is more a matter of opinion, mostly driven by if you want to see it or not. I don't know what's in the kool-aid you all are drinking today, but it's obviously meant to be an apple. Wether you're going to cross your eyes and actually see the same thing in both logos isn't the question. Since it's an apple, Woolworth's should (and most likely will) just settle out of court saying they will not be applying that logo to electronics. Problem solved, everyone's happy.
If Apple let it go on and eventually got slapped on electronics the issue will be much harder to resolve and can result in weakening the power of the Apple trademark.
I typically don't find myself bothered by travel time anymore other than to a few locations that are very far from a town that I can port to from Dalaran in WoW. The area around blackrock mountain can be the worst. I assume if people actually needed to go there much these days they'd change that. All it really takes is informing the developers that enough people would like it changed to make it worth their labor. Other than some vanilla wow content, no flight path seems to take over 5 minutes. Most of that time I spend either chatting with other players or doing other things around the house. It's also nice outside sometimes, you know?
Before buying an iPod I hadn't bought or stolen music in years. I'm one of those apple fanatics many people ridicule around here. I bought a 1st generation iPod mainly because I was impressed with the technology and the lust factor. After doing so, I've bought more music than I have before in my life, both CDs and apple's DRM'ed.m4p files. I've only upgraded iPods because I want the storage space for files from my job, just recently going over 5GB of music, mainly from Apple Lossless imports from my favorite CD's.
If ITMS stopped carrying the artists I like, I'd probably have to start "borrowing" CD's from friends and importing them. DRM can't hurt mainly because if I can hear it, I can capture it.
Apple deserves all the money they can make from the iPod, very few people buy ipods so they can buy music from iTMS. It is usually the other way around.
Actually, all of those are supported as upgrades. Granted, Apple's specs are a little higher with things like RAM. But I'm really talking about the 1000s of different chipsets made for each part of the computer. Supporting so many of these things makes windows bloated and slow.
I really don't want people running OS X on any old PC. What makes the Mac so nice is how much control Apple has over the components of their machines. Contrary to what many people around here will think, this is a good thing. Apple knows the specs of the machine you are running its OS on, so they can program specifically for that and not work around problems that off the shelf PC parts may have.
If you run outside of those specifications you're going to run into problems Apple does not want to have to remedy. I don't blame them, it keeps support costs down and problems to a minimum. Which all allows Apple to throw more money into R&D. If OS X was to run on off-the-shelf PC hardware by design Apple wouldn't be able to throw as much money at emerging technologies or OS X would be far more expensive than it is now.
Personally, I don't see Apple adopting it that widely into the OS. I see them basically using it as a way to verify you really are on an Apple-branded box and leaving it at that.
Be warned, I liked the sveasoft firmware to begin with. Until, of course, both routers I used it on failed to function anymore after using their firmware for a couple months. I tried all of their reset procedures but only one came back to life, for a couple weeks. After that, I actually got one of them to smoke. I broke down and just got an Airport Extreme Base Station. It's fairly nice, and a little expensive. What was appealing to me is that it's covered under my laptops warranty if it dies. I'm tired of buying a new router every year because of the shoddy manufacturing of them.
It's already for the masses.
Mac OS X is a great GUI (an understatement of course) on BSD. This is really the way to go since people really need the security of Unix, but they also need a break from the frustrations of Windows.
492 cycles here. nearly a cycle a day since I've owned the thing. I am still getting a little over 1/2 the life it came with, but have a new one that's only been drained and charged for regular maintenance. Apple recommends fully draining the battery and recharging it at least once a month to keep it from going into some sort of deep discharges state. I'll keep this one till it is absolutely pointless to use anymore, since about 1/2 of my time I am using it on AC power, the battery only needs to last a couple hours at a time. No point in hurting the nice battery until this one's life is completely gone.
I don't know if this is what you meant by load or unload almost anything dynamically, but you can load or unload Kexts (kernel extensions) whenever you please. Just a short command in the terminal is all you need.
I knew this was a bad idea from the first time I saw it happen. Safari will warn you that your download MIGHT contain an application, the most annoying alert ever, and you can't turn it off. If somebody can't add simple instructions to copy the file to/Library/Widgets/ or the person can not follow those directions, it should not be installed.
Being a very long time mac user, I prefer to install things myself. Using either installers or dragging a file to its required location, I don't know why, but I just feel better about it. For one I KNOW it's installed where I want it. For example/Library/Widgets/ means any user can use it on the machine. and ~/Library/Widgets/ means it's just for you. It seems as though these widgets are installed in the user's library folder, so they wont automatically run on somebody else's account, so that is somewhat better.
Overall, Apple should just turn off auto installing of widgets. It's very against what apple customers are used to anyway, so it was very confusing when I downloaded a widget and it wasn't where I expected it to be. Causing me to download it again.
The best option would be that the user has to launch the widget, from wherever it is at the time, and if it isn't in the widgets folder. Then alert the user that this widget isn't in the Widgets folder, and ask if you would like it to be installed either for everyone or just you.
On my Mac, I can can browse bonjour sites on my local network in Safari. What is really cool is that my TiVo shows up. If you have the latest TiVo software (the version that added support for TiVoToGo) You can actually browse and download the.tivo files without using TiVo Desktop. If you are already doing this by http://ip/ you may like that bonjour makes it so you don't need to know the IP address, you just bookmark the *.local address. I assume that this also works with bonjour for windows. It's very useful.
Another, probably most important, drawback to a color screen is that it is very difficult to read in daylight. Since many people use iPods outside, it would probably be very frustrating.
It is similar appletalk in its ease of use, but not what most Network Admins think of as appletalk. The chatter is held to a minimum. pretty much not even there compared to old times. Also, the bandwidth of local networks now are hundreds, if not thousands, times greater now.
iTunes is nice, but being able to get music from artist willing to sell without DRM, this is exciting.
Hopefully I can find artists that i don't see on iTunes here.
This is definitely where I will look for song first before resorting to iTunes.
Too bad they don't accept pepsi bottle caps.
"By the way, Apple's computer sales are down because the models are stale and a refresh is due (or overdue, in the case of the G5). I've got several thousand dollars sitting in the bank, just waiting for the new G5s to be announced, and I am far from alone. And the iMac and eMac lines were very recently EOL'd and should get updated soon as well."
Also, some people should keep in mind how many people want a G5 but don't want a 1st revision of a computer family. I would expect to see higher sales of the second revision and that the drop in sales of G5s isn't because nobody wants them, they just made the logical choice of waiting for the new revision, and not buying first generation hardware.
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I agree, I think their advantage right now is they have an ample supply of people willing to work at low rates just like the U.S. did during the industrial revolution. Eventually they will start expecting more and the difference will decrease. Their government surely will try to stop it but I think history shows that eventually they will have to give in. But their investment in infrastructure is very wise as a country, though some of it may be for show more than practicality. When they do start to lose their low-end jobs to the next cheap labor country they will be well equipped to handle a more advanced industry. While nobody can just say "I love all things China", it's fascinating to see it evolve right before our eyes. The big question on the minds of all of us is what will they do with all this strength once they're done?
Very impressive. IIRC, one of the main reasonings behind not putting in high speed rails in the U.S. was that the U.S. is too rural and sprawling, making it difficult to do in areas other than the southwest and northeast coasts. The fact that China seems to be able to do it with such a high volume planned makes me wonder if this is even a real issue. Anyone?
I'd think there's a lot of money to be had in high speed rails around here if some lucky state (Kansas, you've done it before with low speed and nobody cares to visit otherwise) in the middle of the country started a high speed hub, and convinced other large cities to start attaching.
Precisely why this is a non-issue and nothing for people to rag on Apple about. This article shouldn't have even made it to Slashdot. It's just another forum to people to complain their pirated and pre-hacked versions of OS X aren't working on unsupported hardware.
If you want a Mac, buy a Mac.
If you like getting software running on hardware it was never supposed to be on, congrats, you now have a challenge to fill your day.
If you just want to have a Mac without paying for a Mac.. I have no sympathy for you.
Apple did not "Kill Support" as there was no support to begin with. You can't kill something that doesn't exist in the first place.
They broke the unsupported hacks that were allowing people to use Atom processors. There's a pretty large difference, even though some people want to keep blaming Apple for this. Intentional or unintentional, they're not killing any support.
I'm sure it's only a matter of days until somebody bypasses this anyway.
It has both a 32 bit and 64 bit kernel included IIRC.
I know it's up in the air wether this is appropriate, but it's the truth with most software: You purchased a license to use their product and media from which to install it on your computer. You did not wholly purchase the product. Their license states among many other things, that it is for use on approved hardware only. As the law stands currently, it's their right to do so. Also, running OS X on these machines is often less than ideal. Apple spends lots of time and money on fine tuning hardware and software to work well together in the end product they sell to you. A company like Psystar is going out and selling a product that may have most the elements of a Mac, but will not have the same QA put into it and I don't believe Apple wants to be associated with any bad experience an end user may have. If it weren't for these licenses, the products themselves would eventually cease to make money and, inevitably, cease to exist. If you can find a better way to keep a product from being pirated, being misused, duplicated by a competitor, yet still be profitable.. morally, the software industry needs you. And I think it's also relevant to state that most, but I'm sure not all, hackintosh-style machines are using pre-built pirated copies of the operating system anyway. This isn't just breaking the EULA, it's also just stealing in general. If you spend many a late night hacking around trying to get Apple software to work on your unsupported hardware, you obviously think it's a good product else you wouldn't waste the time. A company that has employees that make a great product deserve to have the money to reimburse their employees for creating that product.
It's really just for the chance for people to bicker about their choice in operating system. I am a pretty big mac fan I'd say. I have a small business that's a member of the Apple Consultants Network. I have 2 Vista machines (one for gaming, one for the girlfriend) and 2 Macs (One server for my business, and one laptop shared between personal use and my business) in use currently. I'm not going to count the numerous old machines I have in the house.
The Mac vs PC debate has been around long enough some people are so entrenched in it, they'll never try the alternative platform. These people are only limiting themselves. If you don't like the platform, fine, but that's no reason to bash the user. If the user dislikes their platform, be a responsible geek and help them either get to know it or help them find what works best for them. As part of my work I evaluate businesses that wish to use macs and, sometimes, as much as a mac fan I am, I have to tell them it may not be the best option for them. It's rare but sometimes it will just require too many changes at one time to make it viable.
My only complaint with any of the common operating systems is that Linux clones Windows too much and should try to move away from that, but that's just opinion.
This is really the issue. The Apple logo has serious power for a trademark. Even the slashdot apple haters can spot an apple logo with their eyes closed. This trademark is incredibly important to Apple. If this was to not be applied to electronics or online media distribution at all, I doubt Apple would have any issue with it. But I think wether or not you could confuse the two is more a matter of opinion, mostly driven by if you want to see it or not. I don't know what's in the kool-aid you all are drinking today, but it's obviously meant to be an apple. Wether you're going to cross your eyes and actually see the same thing in both logos isn't the question. Since it's an apple, Woolworth's should (and most likely will) just settle out of court saying they will not be applying that logo to electronics. Problem solved, everyone's happy. If Apple let it go on and eventually got slapped on electronics the issue will be much harder to resolve and can result in weakening the power of the Apple trademark.
I typically don't find myself bothered by travel time anymore other than to a few locations that are very far from a town that I can port to from Dalaran in WoW. The area around blackrock mountain can be the worst. I assume if people actually needed to go there much these days they'd change that. All it really takes is informing the developers that enough people would like it changed to make it worth their labor. Other than some vanilla wow content, no flight path seems to take over 5 minutes. Most of that time I spend either chatting with other players or doing other things around the house. It's also nice outside sometimes, you know?
Before buying an iPod I hadn't bought or stolen music in years. I'm one of those apple fanatics many people ridicule around here. I bought a 1st generation iPod mainly because I was impressed with the technology and the lust factor. After doing so, I've bought more music than I have before in my life, both CDs and apple's DRM'ed .m4p files. I've only upgraded iPods because I want the storage space for files from my job, just recently going over 5GB of music, mainly from Apple Lossless imports from my favorite CD's.
If ITMS stopped carrying the artists I like, I'd probably have to start "borrowing" CD's from friends and importing them. DRM can't hurt mainly because if I can hear it, I can capture it.
Apple deserves all the money they can make from the iPod, very few people buy ipods so they can buy music from iTMS. It is usually the other way around.
Actually, all of those are supported as upgrades. Granted, Apple's specs are a little higher with things like RAM. But I'm really talking about the 1000s of different chipsets made for each part of the computer. Supporting so many of these things makes windows bloated and slow.
I really don't want people running OS X on any old PC. What makes the Mac so nice is how much control Apple has over the components of their machines. Contrary to what many people around here will think, this is a good thing. Apple knows the specs of the machine you are running its OS on, so they can program specifically for that and not work around problems that off the shelf PC parts may have.
If you run outside of those specifications you're going to run into problems Apple does not want to have to remedy. I don't blame them, it keeps support costs down and problems to a minimum. Which all allows Apple to throw more money into R&D. If OS X was to run on off-the-shelf PC hardware by design Apple wouldn't be able to throw as much money at emerging technologies or OS X would be far more expensive than it is now.
Personally, I don't see Apple adopting it that widely into the OS. I see them basically using it as a way to verify you really are on an Apple-branded box and leaving it at that.
Be warned, I liked the sveasoft firmware to begin with. Until, of course, both routers I used it on failed to function anymore after using their firmware for a couple months. I tried all of their reset procedures but only one came back to life, for a couple weeks. After that, I actually got one of them to smoke.
I broke down and just got an Airport Extreme Base Station. It's fairly nice, and a little expensive. What was appealing to me is that it's covered under my laptops warranty if it dies. I'm tired of buying a new router every year because of the shoddy manufacturing of them.
It's already for the masses. Mac OS X is a great GUI (an understatement of course) on BSD. This is really the way to go since people really need the security of Unix, but they also need a break from the frustrations of Windows.
Unix is as dead as Apple.
492 cycles here. nearly a cycle a day since I've owned the thing. I am still getting a little over 1/2 the life it came with, but have a new one that's only been drained and charged for regular maintenance. Apple recommends fully draining the battery and recharging it at least once a month to keep it from going into some sort of deep discharges state.
I'll keep this one till it is absolutely pointless to use anymore, since about 1/2 of my time I am using it on AC power, the battery only needs to last a couple hours at a time. No point in hurting the nice battery until this one's life is completely gone.
I don't know if this is what you meant by load or unload almost anything dynamically, but you can load or unload Kexts (kernel extensions) whenever you please. Just a short command in the terminal is all you need.
I knew this was a bad idea from the first time I saw it happen. Safari will warn you that your download MIGHT contain an application, the most annoying alert ever, and you can't turn it off. If somebody can't add simple instructions to copy the file to /Library/Widgets/ or the person can not follow those directions, it should not be installed.
/Library/Widgets/ means any user can use it on the machine. and ~/Library/Widgets/ means it's just for you. It seems as though these widgets are installed in the user's library folder, so they wont automatically run on somebody else's account, so that is somewhat better.
Being a very long time mac user, I prefer to install things myself. Using either installers or dragging a file to its required location, I don't know why, but I just feel better about it. For one I KNOW it's installed where I want it. For example
Overall, Apple should just turn off auto installing of widgets. It's very against what apple customers are used to anyway, so it was very confusing when I downloaded a widget and it wasn't where I expected it to be. Causing me to download it again.
The best option would be that the user has to launch the widget, from wherever it is at the time, and if it isn't in the widgets folder. Then alert the user that this widget isn't in the Widgets folder, and ask if you would like it to be installed either for everyone or just you.
On my Mac, I can can browse bonjour sites on my local network in Safari. What is really cool is that my TiVo shows up. If you have the latest TiVo software (the version that added support for TiVoToGo) You can actually browse and download the .tivo files without using TiVo Desktop. If you are already doing this by http://ip/ you may like that bonjour makes it so you don't need to know the IP address, you just bookmark the *.local address. I assume that this also works with bonjour for windows. It's very useful.
Another, probably most important, drawback to a color screen is that it is very difficult to read in daylight. Since many people use iPods outside, it would probably be very frustrating.
It is similar appletalk in its ease of use, but not what most Network Admins think of as appletalk. The chatter is held to a minimum. pretty much not even there compared to old times. Also, the bandwidth of local networks now are hundreds, if not thousands, times greater now.
iTunes is nice, but being able to get music from artist willing to sell without DRM, this is exciting. Hopefully I can find artists that i don't see on iTunes here. This is definitely where I will look for song first before resorting to iTunes. Too bad they don't accept pepsi bottle caps.
"By the way, Apple's computer sales are down because the models are stale and a refresh is due (or overdue, in the case of the G5). I've got several thousand dollars sitting in the bank, just waiting for the new G5s to be announced, and I am far from alone. And the iMac and eMac lines were very recently EOL'd and should get updated soon as well." Also, some people should keep in mind how many people want a G5 but don't want a 1st revision of a computer family. I would expect to see higher sales of the second revision and that the drop in sales of G5s isn't because nobody wants them, they just made the logical choice of waiting for the new revision, and not buying first generation hardware.
I second that, it was because of Apple Corp, I don't know where this guy was getting his info.