They probably WOULD be making X86 compatibles, but they'd have to build, buy, or license an appropriate design. Last time I checked, there weren't plans for a P3 or better X86 chip available at my local library.
You can mail me for more info. "finger torvalds at kruuna.helsinki.fi" might tell you something too.
computer:~ iroll$ finger torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi [kruuna.helsinki.fi]
[Your machine computer.ph.ph.cox.net does not run identd] [(retval = -1, errno = 145). Please ask your manager to set it up.] Login name: torvalds In real life: Linus Torvalds Directory:/h/9/tkol/torvalds Shell:/bin/tcsh Never logged in. Mail last read Sat Feb 1 15:12:10 2003 No Plan.
Login name: Xtorvald In real life: Linus Benedict Torvalds Directory:/h/3/tkol/torvalds Shell:/bin/tcsh Never logged in. No unread mail No Plan. computer:~ iroll$
All it tells me is that he hasn't checked his email in 4 and a half years:P
Want to know what the killer app on the iPhone will be?
myspace.com
I'm a teacher, and I can tell you that at least 10% of my students have Sidekicks (or knockoffs), and that is all they do with them.
All.
Day.
Long.
This will be the next status item for teenagers and "trying-to-be-hip" parents everywhere. These are the people who buy a $500 purse and take it to the grocery store, or who buy $150 shoes and walk around with the tags still on. This phone costs no more than 3 pairs of pants for them. I already hear them talking about how much they hate their Sidekicks and how much they think the iPhone will rock. It's on their birthday lists. I have no doubt that Apple will be laughing all the way to the bank on this one, big time.
I'm not saying it has to happen, I'm just saying that I saw it happen with iPods and Sidekicks, and this has got all of the same symptoms.
Yeah, because having designed the Apple he would have done exactly what with it?
Apple suceeded because more than one person was in the right place at the right time. The story about how Jobs schmoozed investors and suppliers is just as interesting as the elegant design of the early Apples. To say that one is more important is like saying "yeah, my heart is cool, but my brain is the really important part--can't do without my brain."
Nobody cares about the "point" you made about who is "pwning" whom; notice that you got "-1, Troll." What I can't believe is that you're still defending your "hokey anecdote." It's more than hokey, it's stupid.
My father is STILL pissed how he blew 3000 bucks on an Apple ][
An Apple II in 1984 was a 7 year old design, so it was foolish to expect that there would be no "next generation."
Regardless of that obvious fact, the Apple II still had a whopping 8 years of production ahead of it, and at least 10 more years of software development. How did Apple "blow" his investment? How long would a rational person expect this computer to last?
Jobs announces they have this thing called a Macintosh and how they were going to screw supporting anyone who had an Apple
What the fuck? Jobs announced that they were going to screw supporting anyone who had an Apple? Love to see that in writing. Oh, and how, by manufacturing Apple IIs with interative improvements for another decade? That's pretty sinister.
Then in your response, it turns out that it was your LOCAL DEALER who dropped Apple products. Excellent logic, Spock: Jobs totallly fucked you.
The hilarious part is that now you're giving me this "you don't know how it was before teh intarnets, u whippersnapper" bullshit. Where are you getting your bogus assumptions about my age? There were catalogs out the yin-yang for Apple software and hardware, published by reputable AUTHORIZED Apple retailers. There still are, for your information. I grew up in a backwater too (I'm assuming that's your next moan), and we always used catalogs for research before we wasted a day trip to the city, and to avoid one if possible. Yes, sonny, even before the internet people were able to access a variety of goods and services from their homes! I believe Mr. Sears and Mr. Roebucks made a tidy fortune, oh, a hundred and fifty years ago doing just that.
Conclusion:
I maintain that your Dad is irrational for being "pissed" at Apple for introducing the Macintosh after he purchased an Apple II in 1984.
You have given me no way in which Apple in any way "screwed" him. Quite to the contrary, they supported him for far longer than any other contemporary, proprietary computer companies supported their customers.
Even the local Apple dealer that sold it to your Dad and then subsequently dropped Apple products can hardly be said to have "screwed" him by selling him a versatile, robust machine that had ten years of life AND a huge catalog parts and software that ANY HALF-LITERATE MORON WITH A MAILBOX COULD HAVE EASILY ACCESSED FROM 1984-1994.
Don't get your panties in a knot; he's not lying. You are just reading it wrong.
Bust all the little plastic pieces off and see if they replace them. Short something out, or give it a good blast of static electricity and see if they honor that warranty. That's what GP was talking about.
Sounds to me like your dad should have vented on the independant retailer, not the manufacturer. That's like being mad at England when grocery stores in Oklahoma stop selling Marmite. It doesn't follow.
Besides, if he was willing to drive 300 miles for a brick and morter store, I'm sure that waiting a couple weeks for something ordered out of a printed catalog wouldn't have seemed too bad.
Your pops bought an Apple II in 1984? Man, what a sucker. Of course, you neglect to mention that there was still active commercial software development for your Dad's Apple II TEN YEARS LATER. Oh, and that new models of the Apple II were still sold for the NEXT 8 YEARS.
Yep, sounds like he really got screwed, by buying a seven year old computer design that had at least seven more years of life. I would be so pissed, too.
That arguement looks a little thin when you consider how many big offices threw up their hands years ago and have been all Dell (with HP printers).
In government it's even moreso, because some department's purchase policies are basically written so that only Dell can be requisitioned (not specifying Dell by name, but by detailed descriptions of the service).
Sure, technically they "can" switch to other hardware providers, and they're "not supposed" to sole source, but most of them won't. Switching from Dell to HP would be almost as big a coup as switching from Dell to a mixed or Apple-only environment. As long as they only have one supplier and one servicer, they feel safe.
Apple Mail. I use it at work, and I like it too--better than Outlook or Eudora, for sure.
However, I've gotta say that gmail's "conversation" organization is the killer feature for me as a home/personal user. I stick with the web interface strictly for that. If Mail used conversations, I'd never ever go back.
Just a "me too," as my university has also just moved to a Google solution. I haven't had much to do with it, however, since my university address has been forwarded to gmail for years.
It can't be any worse than that godawful "Blackboard" based system that they had before. I'm not really sure of its pedigree; it was either home-brew that interfaced with BB or it was some kind of abomination that BB managed to sell them. Either way, it blew.
If I wasn't using gmail, I'd probably still be using mail.app or (haha) pine. Update: I just checked and pine doesn't work anymore:( Oh the fun I used to have, telnetting into my email from Mom's house over winter break, getting lost in menu hell, trying to figure out what it did to my attachments... At least they closed the telnet server and require SSH now.
Um, iTunes tracks are in no way as crippled as Zune tracks.
It is Microsoft's own fault that they, one of the most powerful companies on earth, have bent over double-ass-backwards for the music corps. It's like they don't even TRY to negotiate--they do the most favorable thing the music corps can come up with, and hope that those good graces will somehow propel them forward.
Apple went to the table and hammered out a deal. Initiative wins the day over being a lickspittle. Fault: Microsoft.
Actually, from the tech specs page (sparse as it is, and this is in the footnotes):
Up to 16 hours of battery life refers to music playback. Up to 5 hours of battery life is based on H.264 1.5-Mbps video at 640-by-480 resolution combined with 128-Kbps audio.
This would have been the first big toy purchase for me in a couple years, but I'm gonna save my money and blow it on a Wii.
They could sold it unlocked and priced it even more outrageously, and still sold a grip of them. Instead they hitched their wagon to just-another-crooked-telco. To me, this smacks of the old mouthbreathing business practices that nearly sank them, not the indomitable 0wn4ge that they've been practicing.
Well, as this is a DMCA issue, I think that UK law is as irrelevant as Turkmen law.
Anyways, in the US the copyright on a public photo is held by the photographer. There are laws to protect people in their homes, and even to keep snoops from peeking over walls (in my town, if a wall is > 5' high, it's illegal to peer over, like trespassing). There are also laws to prevent hounding of people by photogs. However, it's generally felt that if you make too many limits on taking pictures in public, the same laws could be used to squelch media freedom in legitimate cases.
As for screenshots, I believe that's where Fair Use would come into play. So far the only way computer companies (ahem Apple) have been able to attack "sneak peaks" of their new OS's is from the angle of broken contracts (NDA's). One would expect that if there was a copyright issue, it would have come up already (e.g. the particulars of the desktop elements could be copyrighted by Apple).
Sorry, it's late, i've got the flu, and I'm rambling:P
Guess what? If you were attacked by flying penises in a public place in real life, I could publish pictures of it and there's not a damned thing you could do about it, no matter how embarrassing or mortifying this might be to you. I could even (gasp) make money off these pictures.
The fact that people are scared that the DMCA gives her this "cyber-power" is just another testiment to its utter malignancy.
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If you can spend an afternoon or two googling around to figure out wtf happened to sound AND video during a routine install of Debian and call that "progress*," you will think the hack for making Quicktime fullscreen for free is a snap.
*Granted, last time I did this was 2 years ago, I'm sure things have progressed.
Replace "social network" with "instant messaging client" and voila; 1999 is calling, and they want their interoperbility whine back.
Face it: IM is no more interroperable now than it was then; sure, there's a few niche clients like Trillian operating, but what percent of users use them?
People do one of two things: they suck it up and use more than one service at once, or they pick the one they like (or that serves more of their friends) and bail on the others. I have seen my friends (and myself, for that matter) do this with myspace, facebook, and friendster already. You start out with 3, and you end up with 1.
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They probably WOULD be making X86 compatibles, but they'd have to build, buy, or license an appropriate design. Last time I checked, there weren't plans for a P3 or better X86 chip available at my local library.
might tell you something too. All it tells me is that he hasn't checked his email in 4 and a half years
Ugh, why? That chiclet keyboard is my biggest turn-off on the Macbook, and a major reason why I'm sticking with my iBook until it absolutely dies.
I guess it's a very subjective thing.
Want to know what the killer app on the iPhone will be?
myspace.com
I'm a teacher, and I can tell you that at least 10% of my students have Sidekicks (or knockoffs), and that is all they do with them.
All.
Day.
Long.
This will be the next status item for teenagers and "trying-to-be-hip" parents everywhere. These are the people who buy a $500 purse and take it to the grocery store, or who buy $150 shoes and walk around with the tags still on. This phone costs no more than 3 pairs of pants for them. I already hear them talking about how much they hate their Sidekicks and how much they think the iPhone will rock. It's on their birthday lists. I have no doubt that Apple will be laughing all the way to the bank on this one, big time.
I'm not saying it has to happen, I'm just saying that I saw it happen with iPods and Sidekicks, and this has got all of the same symptoms.
Yeah, because having designed the Apple he would have done exactly what with it?
Apple suceeded because more than one person was in the right place at the right time. The story about how Jobs schmoozed investors and suppliers is just as interesting as the elegant design of the early Apples. To say that one is more important is like saying "yeah, my heart is cool, but my brain is the really important part--can't do without my brain."
Nobody cares about the "point" you made about who is "pwning" whom; notice that you got "-1, Troll." What I can't believe is that you're still defending your "hokey anecdote." It's more than hokey, it's stupid.
My father is STILL pissed how he blew 3000 bucks on an Apple ][
An Apple II in 1984 was a 7 year old design, so it was foolish to expect that there would be no "next generation."
Regardless of that obvious fact, the Apple II still had a whopping 8 years of production ahead of it, and at least 10 more years of software development. How did Apple "blow" his investment? How long would a rational person expect this computer to last?
Jobs announces they have this thing called a Macintosh and how they were going to screw supporting anyone who had an Apple
What the fuck? Jobs announced that they were going to screw supporting anyone who had an Apple? Love to see that in writing. Oh, and how, by manufacturing Apple IIs with interative improvements for another decade? That's pretty sinister.
Then in your response, it turns out that it was your LOCAL DEALER who dropped Apple products. Excellent logic, Spock: Jobs totallly fucked you.
The hilarious part is that now you're giving me this "you don't know how it was before teh intarnets, u whippersnapper" bullshit. Where are you getting your bogus assumptions about my age? There were catalogs out the yin-yang for Apple software and hardware, published by reputable AUTHORIZED Apple retailers. There still are, for your information. I grew up in a backwater too (I'm assuming that's your next moan), and we always used catalogs for research before we wasted a day trip to the city, and to avoid one if possible. Yes, sonny, even before the internet people were able to access a variety of goods and services from their homes! I believe Mr. Sears and Mr. Roebucks made a tidy fortune, oh, a hundred and fifty years ago doing just that.
Conclusion:
I maintain that your Dad is irrational for being "pissed" at Apple for introducing the Macintosh after he purchased an Apple II in 1984.
You have given me no way in which Apple in any way "screwed" him. Quite to the contrary, they supported him for far longer than any other contemporary, proprietary computer companies supported their customers.
Even the local Apple dealer that sold it to your Dad and then subsequently dropped Apple products can hardly be said to have "screwed" him by selling him a versatile, robust machine that had ten years of life AND a huge catalog parts and software that ANY HALF-LITERATE MORON WITH A MAILBOX COULD HAVE EASILY ACCESSED FROM 1984-1994.
Don't get your panties in a knot; he's not lying. You are just reading it wrong.
Bust all the little plastic pieces off and see if they replace them. Short something out, or give it a good blast of static electricity and see if they honor that warranty. That's what GP was talking about.
Sounds to me like your dad should have vented on the independant retailer, not the manufacturer. That's like being mad at England when grocery stores in Oklahoma stop selling Marmite. It doesn't follow.
Besides, if he was willing to drive 300 miles for a brick and morter store, I'm sure that waiting a couple weeks for something ordered out of a printed catalog wouldn't have seemed too bad.
Your pops bought an Apple II in 1984? Man, what a sucker. Of course, you neglect to mention that there was still active commercial software development for your Dad's Apple II TEN YEARS LATER. Oh, and that new models of the Apple II were still sold for the NEXT 8 YEARS.
Yep, sounds like he really got screwed, by buying a seven year old computer design that had at least seven more years of life. I would be so pissed, too.
That arguement looks a little thin when you consider how many big offices threw up their hands years ago and have been all Dell (with HP printers).
In government it's even moreso, because some department's purchase policies are basically written so that only Dell can be requisitioned (not specifying Dell by name, but by detailed descriptions of the service).
Sure, technically they "can" switch to other hardware providers, and they're "not supposed" to sole source, but most of them won't. Switching from Dell to HP would be almost as big a coup as switching from Dell to a mixed or Apple-only environment. As long as they only have one supplier and one servicer, they feel safe.
Apple Mail. I use it at work, and I like it too--better than Outlook or Eudora, for sure.
However, I've gotta say that gmail's "conversation" organization is the killer feature for me as a home/personal user. I stick with the web interface strictly for that. If Mail used conversations, I'd never ever go back.
Just a "me too," as my university has also just moved to a Google solution. I haven't had much to do with it, however, since my university address has been forwarded to gmail for years.
:( Oh the fun I used to have, telnetting into my email from Mom's house over winter break, getting lost in menu hell, trying to figure out what it did to my attachments... At least they closed the telnet server and require SSH now.
It can't be any worse than that godawful "Blackboard" based system that they had before. I'm not really sure of its pedigree; it was either home-brew that interfaced with BB or it was some kind of abomination that BB managed to sell them. Either way, it blew.
If I wasn't using gmail, I'd probably still be using mail.app or (haha) pine. Update: I just checked and pine doesn't work anymore
The slowest G4 iBook shipped was an 800 MHz. G3 maybe?
(I know because I own the slowest G4 iBook ever shipped... and I like it)
Quick test:
Go buy a box of "PC Formatted" floppies (yeah they exist, I'm looking at a box)
Put one in an Amiga.
Try and read/write on it without formatting. I'll wait.
Um, iTunes tracks are in no way as crippled as Zune tracks.
It is Microsoft's own fault that they, one of the most powerful companies on earth, have bent over double-ass-backwards for the music corps. It's like they don't even TRY to negotiate--they do the most favorable thing the music corps can come up with, and hope that those good graces will somehow propel them forward.
Apple went to the table and hammered out a deal. Initiative wins the day over being a lickspittle. Fault: Microsoft.
You forgot "Gala"
So, up next: a 10 year OS drought, a fractured, anemic, and schizophrenic product line, and despair among the faithful?
Chiming in with a "me too."
This would have been the first big toy purchase for me in a couple years, but I'm gonna save my money and blow it on a Wii.
They could sold it unlocked and priced it even more outrageously, and still sold a grip of them. Instead they hitched their wagon to just-another-crooked-telco. To me, this smacks of the old mouthbreathing business practices that nearly sank them, not the indomitable 0wn4ge that they've been practicing.
Well, as this is a DMCA issue, I think that UK law is as irrelevant as Turkmen law.
:P
Anyways, in the US the copyright on a public photo is held by the photographer. There are laws to protect people in their homes, and even to keep snoops from peeking over walls (in my town, if a wall is > 5' high, it's illegal to peer over, like trespassing). There are also laws to prevent hounding of people by photogs. However, it's generally felt that if you make too many limits on taking pictures in public, the same laws could be used to squelch media freedom in legitimate cases.
As for screenshots, I believe that's where Fair Use would come into play. So far the only way computer companies (ahem Apple) have been able to attack "sneak peaks" of their new OS's is from the angle of broken contracts (NDA's). One would expect that if there was a copyright issue, it would have come up already (e.g. the particulars of the desktop elements could be copyrighted by Apple).
Sorry, it's late, i've got the flu, and I'm rambling
There's a difference between being an ass and being an ass that should feel the wrath of the law.
Civil Liberties guarantee a certain degree of assdom, because if they didn't, we'd devolve into a fascist police state overnight.
And while I might not agree with it, I'll go to bat for their right to do so any day of the week.
Guess what? If you were attacked by flying penises in a public place in real life, I could publish pictures of it and there's not a damned thing you could do about it, no matter how embarrassing or mortifying this might be to you. I could even (gasp) make money off these pictures.
The fact that people are scared that the DMCA gives her this "cyber-power" is just another testiment to its utter malignancy.
If you can spend an afternoon or two googling around to figure out wtf happened to sound AND video during a routine install of Debian and call that "progress*," you will think the hack for making Quicktime fullscreen for free is a snap.
*Granted, last time I did this was 2 years ago, I'm sure things have progressed.
Replace "social network" with "instant messaging client" and voila; 1999 is calling, and they want their interoperbility whine back.
Face it: IM is no more interroperable now than it was then; sure, there's a few niche clients like Trillian operating, but what percent of users use them?
People do one of two things: they suck it up and use more than one service at once, or they pick the one they like (or that serves more of their friends) and bail on the others. I have seen my friends (and myself, for that matter) do this with myspace, facebook, and friendster already. You start out with 3, and you end up with 1.