Wow, Apple does the first thing that could actually make them a threat to Microsoft in quite some time, and then they ruin it with this quote:
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said.
Now admittedly I've been a Windows user and always have for the tenure of my computing life. (15+ years of computing) Even though I've always used Windows, I've always enjoyed the style of MacOS, and that it "Wasn't Microsoft". However, I could never switch because the hardware was WAY too expensive, and the OS didn't do 80% of what I wanted it to. (Games)
Now comes the day when they finally can attack Microsoft on their own turf... the x86 architecture. Think of Dell, Gateway, HP/Compaq, etc. actually having an OPTION for an OS when customizing your machine. An option incidentally that is CHEAPER than MS's option which would motivate people from the pocketbook as most people are. But instead, they limit their ability to expand their OS YET AGAIN, and choose to build it only on their box.
Yes, I know, they're a hardware company... but you know what? If they build hardware competetive with the other makers in price/performance, they have nothing to worry about. Or maybe (perish the thought) they just get out of the hardware business if it doesn't work out. The boys over at MS seem to have found a way to make it in the computer world without their own hardware platform.
I think MANY people are tired of the insecurities related to MS and would jump at the chance to abandon ship as long as the OS they're switching to did everything they were always able to without jumping through hoops. It's all about installed base, and Apple still hasn't boarded the clue train when they inhibit that exodus by limiting people to their hardware only.
Who seriously would want to dump even a 2Ghz machine and have to back all their stuff up, buy a new machine at $1000+ and then get all of that onto the new one when they SHOULD just be able to buy the OS and plop it on the system. But the stupidity doesn't stop there:
Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."
So let me get this straight, you're NOT going to take the opportunity to take installed base from your competition on their own hardware, but you will let them do it to you?!? With thinking like this, it is truely a wonder Apple is still around. Apple yet again has missed the boat on what should have been a golden opportunity to win users to it's cause.
Which is why the test in this article is incredibly bogus. You can't roll over the message to see what the actual URL is. And even if that were the case in a real email, then I'd simply enter the "claimed" URL into my browser by hand. If it's real, I'll find it at the real site:-) That said, I still scored an 80%.
Library checked out of the book you need for that paper? Just make a copy! I can't think of how many times back in high school where we got assigned a paper on a given subject and I got to the library only to find that most if not all the relevant books were long gone. Of course, it'd only work so long as it was extremely cheap. Most students I know are poor:-)
You get 32 cents a year for owning stock that cost (as of end of day on 7/20/04) $28.32. A whopping 1.1% dividend! WOOHOO!!! Tell ma I'm buying her a house!
As a veteran of every stage of the console wars, about a year ago I learned the cold hard truth.
It's the games that matter.
I grew up a *HUGE* Nintendo fan back in the days when the NES was king, and Mario and Zelda were knocking the snot out of the competition. I still love Mario and Zelda, but sadly I do not own a GameCube. I sold my GC to buy games for my PS2 that wouldn't sit and collect dust. The fact of the matter was that it sat and collected dust on my shelf because there were no games other than the aforementioned two for the GC that compelled me to buy them. Whenever I could if the same game was offered on both systems, I'd buy for the GC thinking I was "keeping competition alive" somehow. But in reality my $500 for 10 games or so isn't going to make or break a multi million dollar company.
When I realized this fact, I came to the conclusion that in the next round of console wars I would buy the console(s) that played the games I wanted. It no longer made sense to vehemently support a console because I always have, only to be disappointed when the games I wanted to play didn't come out for that system.
Bottom line, go for the system that has the games that you will play, regardless of who makes it, and you will be happy.
Finally... censorship has to go... it is getting ridiculous now. If a channel goes beyond what people like, they won't watch that channel. Let free market deal with non-family friendly stations.
Of course, that's fine until there's no more family friendly stations and it's common to hear the f-bomb being dropped 5 times every 10 minutes. I myself wouldn't be watching any TV anymore, and neither would my kids if I ever have any. Although, maybe that isn't so bad anyhow:-)
Somehow I doubt you heard that from a news site. Ever since the Playstation came out, everybody's tried to be the first to pass off a prediction of Nintendo's death as a sign of intelligence
Don't get me wrong, I'm as much of a Nintendo fan as there is, but Nintendo will continue to die a slow, painful death unless they get better third party support very soon. I sold my Gamecube because I found the only reason I had it was for Legend of Zelda. As much as I hated to admit it, it became painfully apparent that PS2 and X-Box had more games I wanted, and the only exclusives that GC had were kid-based for the most part. I'll miss Zelda, but in the end, it was a better gaming decision for me.
Maybe I was a lucky person then... I've had mine for 3 years now, and I bought it used off of EBay. Never a problem. *Knocking on wood* I look forward to the new console. X-Box and GameCube knock its socks off when playing the same game on all consoles both graphically and in load times. I look forward to the new PS3, hopefully this time with built in support for 4 controllers, ethernet, and HD.
This is true... but by that time we should also have the little "Next > Next > Next > Finish" graphical install programs that make Windows/Mac so popular and easy for Joe Doorknob end-user too.
configure; make; make install does nothing with dependencies. If you, for example, don't have qt development headers on your machine, it just croaks.
I understand what you're saying. However, I think most people, when possible, will tell someone to compile from source before using an RPM. I know this for fact with both Apache and Qmail. Granted, these aren't your run-of-the-mill desktop applications, but just an example. With that in mind, most applications will have a list of what dependencies are needed to compile the application. Maybe I haven't used RPMs enough to know why/how they are able to fulfill dependencies (I was gently pushed towards always compiling source early in my *ix newbiehood) but I would think you'd still have to install appropriate RPMs to satisfy RPM dependencies too wouldn't you?
Hopefully widespread adoption of WiFi services fuels the market for wireless network security. I know somebody who can't use his WAP because his neighbors keep hacking his encryption.
Well, it's not that hard when your settings are:
SSID: linksys
Broadcast SSID?: Yes
Wireless security enabled?: No
I don't think it's so much the need for more security as it is the need to get people to actually use the security that's already there. I know of no wardrivers (personally) that even bother with an access point that doesn't broadcast it's SSID, is not the default SSID, and has WEP enabled. They'll find someone with the above configuration and wreak havoc.
It's only a natural extension of the hotspots popping up everywhere. Just a matter of time until anywhere with cell phone service will have net service... with the right provider.
Problem is, it's not always the cook's error, and many people don't know how to tell the difference. My fiance is a waitress, and horrified to watch my tipping habits. My belief is that a gratuity is just that. If I'm not thankful for how good the service is, there will be NO tip. Now, I've only not tipped someone twice, it has to be incredibly horrendous service for that to happen, but my giving a tip is directly proportional to the service I receive. If the waiter/waitress works his/her ass off for me, they'll get 25%. If my food comes to me cold (indicating that it's been sitting in the window while the server was screwing off) and I've had to get *other* servers to get me refills on my drink, they'll get 5% if they get anything at all.
This happened to me once at a local computer shop. I always went there because they were local, and usually a bit cheaper than major stores. I had bought a motherboard and several other components there to build a computer for my parents. My parents gave me a check to pay for the stuff and I came back. Unfortunately, the motherboard was DOA. So I go back to the store where, unfortunately, I had purchased the last one they had. I said, no problem, just refund me the cash for the MB. Now mind you I *personally* knew the sales person. Another reason I went there, so I could give my boy some easy commission. He told me that it was against store policy. I would have to wait for the new board to come in, or wait for a check from the company. I couldn't get store credit, I couldn't get another board at the same price, it was either wait, or wait. I obviously was not happy about this, but knowing my friend, and that he could do nothing about it, I asked for the next person up the food chain. The guy comes out in a cocky mood to begin with and after going around a couple times says "Our billing system can't handle that function." To which I reply, "The fact that your billing system is a piece of crap is none of my concern... you have my money, and I have no product. I deserve my money or a replacement product." At this point I've not sworn or gotten physical or anything, but I was getting quite loud about the fact that I was being hosed quite badly. At this point this tiny little front counter girl has the absolute nerve to tell me "Excuse me, but we're going to have to ask you to leave now." I told her "Excuse me, but you have $120 of my money which at this point does not belong to you." I glanced at the policeman standing in front of the counter to her right, who just chuckled and said "The man has a point, and he's not hurt or threatened anyone... the law is on his side." In the end, they hosed me. I had to wait a week for a new board to come in, and they have lost at LEAST $10,000 in sales between my own needs and building things for other people thanks to that incident, as I've never gone back. Best Buy losing $10,000 really could care less... another branch will make it up. But a local store losing that kind of business is another story. They have since had to close that location and move to a MUCH smaller location. I've heard many other people have similar experiences, so it's not surprising to me either.
Amen to that! I was one of the suckers that took an ESP there. I had bought a cell phone, which at the time was the latest and greatest, and it cost $180. The person selling it said that with the plan I could "Bring it back for any or no reason to trade up to a newer phone before the ESP was up." Well, about a year and a half later I had dropped the phone one too many times, the screen was scratched and reception was poor at best compared to when I bought it. So I go back and they tell me "The phone works, we're not replacing it." I said, the phone has poor reception, the screen is scratched, and most importantly your salesguy said I could return it for "any or no reason." It took about a half hour of bickering before they took my return and I scored a spiffy Samsung A500 for my troubles at 1/3 of the cost that it would have at full price. Moral of the story? You can never trust salespeople to tell the truth when commissions ride on it.
I, just as anyone else here, is worried over the potential abuse of this system, but there can be improvements as well.
Could someone please explain exactly how this system could be abused? There's two things here that almost everyone (save for one poster above) has missed. Most importantly, they ALREADY KNOW/SHOULD KNOW where the luggage is going. If they don't, they aren't doing their job. That's what those spiffy barcodes (as earlier poster mentioned) are for. Secondly, even if you had no luggage, they already know where you're going by virtue of you flying with them. RFID or not on your luggage, they know where you're headed, so how does it invade your privacy, and how could it be abused?
As a mail admin I assure you that this isn't the case. More likely is that whoever administers your mail at your ISP is in over his/her head and doesn't know what to do about it. Could be messed up virus software, could be messed up spam software, or worse, it could be WORKING spam software that was set to silently delete messages it thought were spammy. In any case, the E-Mail Apocolypse is a long way off. I'd suggest taking this up with your ISP and see what results you get. It's at least worth a shot.
If you're on a network that promises "No Roaming" such as Sprint's Fair and Flexible America or Alltel's Total Freedom, it shouldn't matter what company puts up the tower... you can use it.
VOIP packets are temporarily stored in ram at the different routers they visit as they travel the network. Does that mean that VOIP providers can listen in on phone conversations?
Given that VoIP is the subject of the last month of my life at work, no. That would fall under the wiretap act since even though it is packetized, it is still a live telephone conversation as, lets be honest, the packets will only be in RAM for the milli/microseconds required to move them on. Or, to put it another way, I wouldn't want my company touching that with a 10 ft. pole for the possible consequences later if it weren't covered by that act, but later legislated.
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Now comes the day when they finally can attack Microsoft on their own turf... the x86 architecture. Think of Dell, Gateway, HP/Compaq, etc. actually having an OPTION for an OS when customizing your machine. An option incidentally that is CHEAPER than MS's option which would motivate people from the pocketbook as most people are. But instead, they limit their ability to expand their OS YET AGAIN, and choose to build it only on their box.
Yes, I know, they're a hardware company... but you know what? If they build hardware competetive with the other makers in price/performance, they have nothing to worry about. Or maybe (perish the thought) they just get out of the hardware business if it doesn't work out. The boys over at MS seem to have found a way to make it in the computer world without their own hardware platform.
I think MANY people are tired of the insecurities related to MS and would jump at the chance to abandon ship as long as the OS they're switching to did everything they were always able to without jumping through hoops. It's all about installed base, and Apple still hasn't boarded the clue train when they inhibit that exodus by limiting people to their hardware only.
Who seriously would want to dump even a 2Ghz machine and have to back all their stuff up, buy a new machine at $1000+ and then get all of that onto the new one when they SHOULD just be able to buy the OS and plop it on the system. But the stupidity doesn't stop there: So let me get this straight, you're NOT going to take the opportunity to take installed base from your competition on their own hardware, but you will let them do it to you?!? With thinking like this, it is truely a wonder Apple is still around. Apple yet again has missed the boat on what should have been a golden opportunity to win users to it's cause.
Which is why the test in this article is incredibly bogus. You can't roll over the message to see what the actual URL is. And even if that were the case in a real email, then I'd simply enter the "claimed" URL into my browser by hand. If it's real, I'll find it at the real site :-) That said, I still scored an 80%.
Library checked out of the book you need for that paper? Just make a copy! I can't think of how many times back in high school where we got assigned a paper on a given subject and I got to the library only to find that most if not all the relevant books were long gone. Of course, it'd only work so long as it was extremely cheap. Most students I know are poor :-)
You get 32 cents a year for owning stock that cost (as of end of day on 7/20/04) $28.32. A whopping 1.1% dividend! WOOHOO!!! Tell ma I'm buying her a house!
As a veteran of every stage of the console wars, about a year ago I learned the cold hard truth.
It's the games that matter.
I grew up a *HUGE* Nintendo fan back in the days when the NES was king, and Mario and Zelda were knocking the snot out of the competition. I still love Mario and Zelda, but sadly I do not own a GameCube. I sold my GC to buy games for my PS2 that wouldn't sit and collect dust. The fact of the matter was that it sat and collected dust on my shelf because there were no games other than the aforementioned two for the GC that compelled me to buy them. Whenever I could if the same game was offered on both systems, I'd buy for the GC thinking I was "keeping competition alive" somehow. But in reality my $500 for 10 games or so isn't going to make or break a multi million dollar company.
When I realized this fact, I came to the conclusion that in the next round of console wars I would buy the console(s) that played the games I wanted. It no longer made sense to vehemently support a console because I always have, only to be disappointed when the games I wanted to play didn't come out for that system.
Bottom line, go for the system that has the games that you will play, regardless of who makes it, and you will be happy.
Maybe I was a lucky person then... I've had mine for 3 years now, and I bought it used off of EBay. Never a problem. *Knocking on wood* I look forward to the new console. X-Box and GameCube knock its socks off when playing the same game on all consoles both graphically and in load times. I look forward to the new PS3, hopefully this time with built in support for 4 controllers, ethernet, and HD.
Seriously, is:
./configure
make
make install
Really that hard that we need cross distro RPMS?
SSID: linksys
Broadcast SSID?: Yes
Wireless security enabled?: No
I don't think it's so much the need for more security as it is the need to get people to actually use the security that's already there. I know of no wardrivers (personally) that even bother with an access point that doesn't broadcast it's SSID, is not the default SSID, and has WEP enabled. They'll find someone with the above configuration and wreak havoc.
It's only a natural extension of the hotspots popping up everywhere. Just a matter of time until anywhere with cell phone service will have net service... with the right provider.
Problem is, it's not always the cook's error, and many people don't know how to tell the difference. My fiance is a waitress, and horrified to watch my tipping habits. My belief is that a gratuity is just that. If I'm not thankful for how good the service is, there will be NO tip. Now, I've only not tipped someone twice, it has to be incredibly horrendous service for that to happen, but my giving a tip is directly proportional to the service I receive. If the waiter/waitress works his/her ass off for me, they'll get 25%. If my food comes to me cold (indicating that it's been sitting in the window while the server was screwing off) and I've had to get *other* servers to get me refills on my drink, they'll get 5% if they get anything at all.
This happened to me once at a local computer shop. I always went there because they were local, and usually a bit cheaper than major stores. I had bought a motherboard and several other components there to build a computer for my parents. My parents gave me a check to pay for the stuff and I came back. Unfortunately, the motherboard was DOA. So I go back to the store where, unfortunately, I had purchased the last one they had. I said, no problem, just refund me the cash for the MB. Now mind you I *personally* knew the sales person. Another reason I went there, so I could give my boy some easy commission. He told me that it was against store policy. I would have to wait for the new board to come in, or wait for a check from the company. I couldn't get store credit, I couldn't get another board at the same price, it was either wait, or wait. I obviously was not happy about this, but knowing my friend, and that he could do nothing about it, I asked for the next person up the food chain. The guy comes out in a cocky mood to begin with and after going around a couple times says "Our billing system can't handle that function." To which I reply, "The fact that your billing system is a piece of crap is none of my concern... you have my money, and I have no product. I deserve my money or a replacement product." At this point I've not sworn or gotten physical or anything, but I was getting quite loud about the fact that I was being hosed quite badly. At this point this tiny little front counter girl has the absolute nerve to tell me "Excuse me, but we're going to have to ask you to leave now." I told her "Excuse me, but you have $120 of my money which at this point does not belong to you." I glanced at the policeman standing in front of the counter to her right, who just chuckled and said "The man has a point, and he's not hurt or threatened anyone... the law is on his side." In the end, they hosed me. I had to wait a week for a new board to come in, and they have lost at LEAST $10,000 in sales between my own needs and building things for other people thanks to that incident, as I've never gone back. Best Buy losing $10,000 really could care less... another branch will make it up. But a local store losing that kind of business is another story. They have since had to close that location and move to a MUCH smaller location. I've heard many other people have similar experiences, so it's not surprising to me either.
Amen to that! I was one of the suckers that took an ESP there. I had bought a cell phone, which at the time was the latest and greatest, and it cost $180. The person selling it said that with the plan I could "Bring it back for any or no reason to trade up to a newer phone before the ESP was up." Well, about a year and a half later I had dropped the phone one too many times, the screen was scratched and reception was poor at best compared to when I bought it. So I go back and they tell me "The phone works, we're not replacing it." I said, the phone has poor reception, the screen is scratched, and most importantly your salesguy said I could return it for "any or no reason." It took about a half hour of bickering before they took my return and I scored a spiffy Samsung A500 for my troubles at 1/3 of the cost that it would have at full price. Moral of the story? You can never trust salespeople to tell the truth when commissions ride on it.
So now when they lose my luggage, they'll actually be able to see that they sent it to Idaho when I was going to Vegas!
So, I can get an iPod for $499 and store 40GB of songs, or spend $100 less and get *half* the storage. *shaking head*
*font=sarcasm* Who are the marketing geniuses at Sony?!? */font*
As a mail admin I assure you that this isn't the case. More likely is that whoever administers your mail at your ISP is in over his/her head and doesn't know what to do about it. Could be messed up virus software, could be messed up spam software, or worse, it could be WORKING spam software that was set to silently delete messages it thought were spammy. In any case, the E-Mail Apocolypse is a long way off. I'd suggest taking this up with your ISP and see what results you get. It's at least worth a shot.
If you're on a network that promises "No Roaming" such as Sprint's Fair and Flexible America or Alltel's Total Freedom, it shouldn't matter what company puts up the tower... you can use it.
If you put a cell on a COW, can you tip it?
The microwave subsystem requires root privlages due to security concerns. Don't want the kids microwaving tinfoil ya know ;-)