Perhaps, if the SCO actually has the IP rights it thinks it has, this might almost be a worthy lawsuit:)
Then again, then I wouldn't want either side to win....
According to EveryMac, your computer was released 10/5/99 - that's five years give or take a few weeks. How is that relatively recent when Apple only started selling Macs 20 years ago?
The list price was $999 which means you have gotten core computer usage for ~$200 a year, or less than $0.55 a day. Perhaps it is time to upgrade to a system that DOES run OS X.
FWIW, if you put at least 256mb of memory in it, you can usably run OS X on a 350. I have it running quite surprisingly well with Panther on an iMac/333, which is even worse, with 512mb of RAM. It's obviously not good for having lots of apps open or for number crunching or whatever, but it's a very good machine for browsing the 'net or email and things of that nature - which was one of the major selling points for the iMacs initially anyways.
Interesting tidbit: the very first Powerbook was designed by Sony. Nonetheless, they're going to lose this round to the iPod badly.
At first glance, I thought you were referring to the Macintosh Portable... which would not be saying much for Sony design:)
It is unlikely that we will see Sony win this round until Sony Entertainment pulls their head out of their a$$ and ditches the ATRAC3 garbage. That, and maybe one of these days their marketing group would do the same with regards to real-world usage claims.
But it'll be much, much cooler when I can snag $10 or $15 or $75 out of the machine. Why do we get only 20s?
I've seen some around here start showing up at my bank, M&T Bank, that will let you input any amount for a withdrawal and it will give you exactly that. I remember first noticing the machines and tested it with $24.99... which, unfortunately, it gave me, down to the last penny:) - the technology is there, although these ATMs take up a decent amount of space, and I've only seen them at branches of the banks themselves. These are the same machines that have the aforementioned full-color video screens and all that.
Many purists bemoan the demise of small bookstores, where you can discover books and such. Such people tend to view Barnes and Noble, Borders, and the like as not being a real bookstore anyways. And yes, a good deal of the books on end caps and displays do tend to be so-called coffee-table books, big showy picture books.
Actually, the current state of tuition+financial aid makes saving for college useful to only the richest families. Since your savings count against financial aid dollar for dollar, only if you plan to receive no financial aid does it benefit you to save.
Well, there's a good reason for that - College savings are designed to be for just that - College - so when you go to college, that's exactly what it's to go towards:)
To get more on-topic, I hope to god my school isn't going to go for this crap. What Syracuse University does already is bad enough... if they nab you, they make you write a form letter to the RIAA/MPAA/whoever with your name and address, which is more than the "offended" corp. knew beforehand...
From the look of that article, it's not much cheaper at all than the highest end iPod. Sure, on half the hard drive it claims to hold more songs, but only in Sony's format, not standard ones. It's only, IIRC, $30-40US cheaper than the 40GB iPod, which has twice the hard drive.
A Nazi propaganda site is just one of millions (billions?) of web pages out there on the internet. You don't have to go there. Hence the argument about the porn (both gay -> straight porn and straight -> gay porn), it may exist, but you don't have to go there.
"Free speech is the right for you to be able to say what you want. However, other laws can punish you for using this right incorrect (screaming 'fire' in a crowded bar, inciting people to commit hate crimes, and so on.) There is nothing wrong in this, and anyone propogating hate materials is going to be on the receiving end of the punishment meted out by the law to keep our society a safe one (or 'safer', rather)."
This is exactly the attitude I tried to combat in the parent post - that taking away some freedoms of speech in favor of the safety of society is a dangerous gamble that sets precedent for the loss of more freedoms of speech, ones you wouldn't necessarily want to lose, but that would be lost from the precedent.
Ben Franklin wrote that "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Freedom of speech, I believe, is such an essential liberty.
"Of course I can't create my own nazi web site but who would do that anyway? If free speech means nazi propaganda, I don't need it."
What's that good 'ol Voltaire quote, something along the lines of "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"?
The problem, when you think about restricting free speech on any specific grounds, that in general it sets a precedent for removing other forms. Specifically, consider your statement above: "If free speech means nazi propaganda, I don't need it."
On the counter to that, just because there's nazi propaganda out there on the web, doesn't mean it has to bother you. If you're not gay, does it bother you that there is gay porn on the internet (or vice versa)? No, at least it should not. You can't make a case for censorship in any form based on one particular thing you don't like. There is no one size fits all solution, and any attempt will probably cause more annoyance and innocent censorship:)
Monopoly on what, exactly? Just the OS itself? I fail to see how that should limit what applications go into the OS. Microsoft is a monopoly, so they shouldn't be allowed to bundle notepad or solitaire, right? See, that doesn't make any sense.
And neither does this situation. What's the difference between Windows + Media Player (what we have now) and Windows + iTunes (which is what this bundle will create)? You're just substituting one media player for another. The net effect is the same: whichever one is bundled with Windows will end up dominating. If Microsoft isn't allowed to use its OS monopoly, then Apple shouldn't either.
The major difference, I believe, is that iTunes does not displace Windows Media Player, since that comes with the operating system already. It simply is pre-installed onto the machines in addition, with prominent icons on the desktop.
What you'll actually have, unless the Chinese manufacturer found a way around it, is Windows + Media Player + iTunes, which is not substitution but supplementation.
I would have thought that genetically modified crops would be unable to reproduce by some manipulation. I'm quite surprised to hear from the articles and research linked that this is not the case.
They may be modified somewhat, but in order to make it so that crops would not reproduce, you would probably have to create an entirely new method for them to bear fruit or whatever crop they use, since this process is naturally cared for by pollenization, part of the reproductive process of most plants....
Even if they managed to produce such a modification, since they were created/modified by humans, error is inevitable, like what happened in the movie Jurassic Park.
It's a pretty interesting application of anti-trust legislation: seems Minnesota tried to leverage that Microsoft was a monopoly which then put its competitors off, resulting in Minnesotans being overcharged for proprietary software, despite alternatives still existing.
Seems like a bit of a stretch for a lawsuit to me. However, it must have gotten someone at Microsoft scared, else they wouldn't have settled it.
I've been involved with Team 891 for its three year existance, two as a student and now one behind me as a college student mentor.
I like to think that we've given a good experience and taught a good many engineering skills through the program. Graduates of our program (run out of the four high schools making up the near-bankrupt Syracuse City Schools) are currently students at MIT, RIT, Queens University in Kingston, ONT, and Syracuse University (myself) among others. You cannot say that FIRST leaves the students involved with nothing. It just is not so.
Our annual budget is in the vicinity of $17k, $15k coming from our sponsor Syracuse Research Corp. We didn't have to go to them, a FIRST (Clarkson) alum who works there came to us.
After last year, we graduated all but one of the original members of the team. Having gone through the program personally and attending a local university, I understood the value of the program and fought for its continuation.
If that doesn't say that FIRST has an effect on people I don't know what will.
Btw, I'm a dual major Computer Science and History at SU.
My school (Syracuse Univ) made it on there at 40th - which kind of surprises me.
We have no wireless coverage of dorms, although ~50-60% of the academic buildings are wireless. Dorms are all wired, all of the student centers (we have 4 I think) are both wired and wireless.
I wonder if the Intel study was primarily the academic buildings? Because otherwise would show my school at only around 25-30% wireless, if that.
And, unfortunately, students and faculty are not allowed to operate APs or routers, subject to removal. So that can't add to the coverage on SU's campus.
Windows WMA: Just about every media player(WMP, real, Winamp, etc),
Macs(Yes they have WMP), Windows, atleast 10 different mp3 player manufacturers, and you can burn on CDs (depends on who you buy from and what rights you have
Macs, unfortunately or fortunately (take your pick) can not play DRM'ed WMA files. Yes, Macs can play WMA files, just not the DRM-loaded ones sold by most (all?) WMA-based music stores.
The one we used for one of our classes was MetaCard which is a cross-platform Hypercard with more features like color.
Not to nit-pick, but the latest versions of HyperCard (2.3 on I believe) did have color.
I haven't used HyperCard in ages but it is seriously what (how the progression happened I have no idea) got me into wanting to go into computer programming.....
If Gateway's local store is any indicator, they were having a little trouble getting people into the stores. They had a store on a very busy street, in a busy plaza, yet never had more than a few people in the store at any point in time except their opening a fe years ago.
Couldn't have helped their sales when they briefly partnered with OfficeMax stores, one of which is across the street from the Gateway Country store.
LostCluster is correct, though, eMachines has a much larger retail distribution chain set up that Gateway can take advantage of now that it has acquired it....
"Microsoft was kind of pushing Passport for a problem that didn't exist..."
I think that more or less hits the nail on the head. This is aside from the downtime issue, which is embarassing, and privacy issues, which are disturbing. On the privacy/downtime note, the Liberty Alliance may be vapor currently, but the idea of a "federated" system sounds much better to me. It's not a problem I have with Microsoft, rather it's a problem I have with giving all of my personal information to a single organization to put into a central respository.
That's one of the biggest problems that I've ever had with Microsoft's.NET passport system: the idea of putting all of that personal information into a central repository, especially a private central repository.
History has shown us time and time again that it is very possible for even the most secure systems to be compromised, over and over again. Microsoft does not necessarily in many views have a high security track record, and there then is no way that I personally am willing to allow my personal information (including some financial information, as eBay (at least at one point) is one of the companies that signed on to the.NET passport system) to be put in the hands of a private enterprise's systems, making it among other things an appealing target, paired with the fact that it's Microsoft, doubling the appeal if not more so for some.
I wonder how hard it will be to convert entire collections once this new version of the format comes out?
I have more than 6000 MP3s, could turn out to be more trouble than it's worth...
i think the mini-ipod will be a complete flop, too price for too little.
There could always be a market for pulling out the >$250 4 GB MicroDrive out of there for PDAs (and eBay). That drive has been seen as high as $500...
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Central New York _just_ got serviced by AT&T Wireless. Cingular, on the other hand, has been around here for years....well established in the same locations that AT&T Wireless just opened...
Could tie down our cellular market a bit up 'round where I am....
I found the DHCP controls in the Apple software and moved the airport's DHCP server to a different subnet. A bit more judicious configging, and I got my internet connection back again. I even got the printer to work, sorta, though we do still have a problem that when I close my powerbook, my wife's loses contact with the printer. (I've asked about this on some newsgroups, with no answer. I'm afraid to call Apple about it.)
FYI, what happens is that putting a Powerbook to sleep (closing it in this case) causes all network connections to be dropped until it's woken up again.
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I like a gentle mix of Daily Kos, AmericaBlog.org and some BuzzFlash (yes, I know BussFlash isn't a blog, quite).
Perhaps, if the SCO actually has the IP rights it thinks it has, this might almost be a worthy lawsuit :)
Then again, then I wouldn't want either side to win....
The list price was $999 which means you have gotten core computer usage for ~$200 a year, or less than $0.55 a day. Perhaps it is time to upgrade to a system that DOES run OS X.
FWIW, if you put at least 256mb of memory in it, you can usably run OS X on a 350. I have it running quite surprisingly well with Panther on an iMac/333, which is even worse, with 512mb of RAM. It's obviously not good for having lots of apps open or for number crunching or whatever, but it's a very good machine for browsing the 'net or email and things of that nature - which was one of the major selling points for the iMacs initially anyways.
It is unlikely that we will see Sony win this round until Sony Entertainment pulls their head out of their a$$ and ditches the ATRAC3 garbage. That, and maybe one of these days their marketing group would do the same with regards to real-world usage claims.
I've seen some around here start showing up at my bank, M&T Bank, that will let you input any amount for a withdrawal and it will give you exactly that. I remember first noticing the machines and tested it with $24.99... which, unfortunately, it gave me, down to the last penny :) - the technology is there, although these ATMs take up a decent amount of space, and I've only seen them at branches of the banks themselves. These are the same machines that have the aforementioned full-color video screens and all that.
Many purists bemoan the demise of small bookstores, where you can discover books and such. Such people tend to view Barnes and Noble, Borders, and the like as not being a real bookstore anyways. And yes, a good deal of the books on end caps and displays do tend to be so-called coffee-table books, big showy picture books.
To get more on-topic, I hope to god my school isn't going to go for this crap. What Syracuse University does already is bad enough... if they nab you, they make you write a form letter to the RIAA/MPAA/whoever with your name and address, which is more than the "offended" corp. knew beforehand...
From the look of that article, it's not much cheaper at all than the highest end iPod. Sure, on half the hard drive it claims to hold more songs, but only in Sony's format, not standard ones. It's only, IIRC, $30-40US cheaper than the 40GB iPod, which has twice the hard drive.
A Nazi propaganda site is just one of millions (billions?) of web pages out there on the internet. You don't have to go there. Hence the argument about the porn (both gay -> straight porn and straight -> gay porn), it may exist, but you don't have to go there.
This is exactly the attitude I tried to combat in the parent post - that taking away some freedoms of speech in favor of the safety of society is a dangerous gamble that sets precedent for the loss of more freedoms of speech, ones you wouldn't necessarily want to lose, but that would be lost from the precedent.
Ben Franklin wrote that "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Freedom of speech, I believe, is such an essential liberty.
What's that good 'ol Voltaire quote, something along the lines of "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"?
The problem, when you think about restricting free speech on any specific grounds, that in general it sets a precedent for removing other forms. Specifically, consider your statement above: "If free speech means nazi propaganda, I don't need it."
On the counter to that, just because there's nazi propaganda out there on the web, doesn't mean it has to bother you. If you're not gay, does it bother you that there is gay porn on the internet (or vice versa)? No, at least it should not. You can't make a case for censorship in any form based on one particular thing you don't like. There is no one size fits all solution, and any attempt will probably cause more annoyance and innocent censorship :)
What you'll actually have, unless the Chinese manufacturer found a way around it, is Windows + Media Player + iTunes, which is not substitution but supplementation.
Seems like a bit of a stretch for a lawsuit to me. However, it must have gotten someone at Microsoft scared, else they wouldn't have settled it.
I like to think that we've given a good experience and taught a good many engineering skills through the program. Graduates of our program (run out of the four high schools making up the near-bankrupt Syracuse City Schools) are currently students at MIT, RIT, Queens University in Kingston, ONT, and Syracuse University (myself) among others. You cannot say that FIRST leaves the students involved with nothing. It just is not so.
Our annual budget is in the vicinity of $17k, $15k coming from our sponsor Syracuse Research Corp. We didn't have to go to them, a FIRST (Clarkson) alum who works there came to us.
After last year, we graduated all but one of the original members of the team. Having gone through the program personally and attending a local university, I understood the value of the program and fought for its continuation.
If that doesn't say that FIRST has an effect on people I don't know what will.
Btw, I'm a dual major Computer Science and History at SU.
We have no wireless coverage of dorms, although ~50-60% of the academic buildings are wireless. Dorms are all wired, all of the student centers (we have 4 I think) are both wired and wireless.
I wonder if the Intel study was primarily the academic buildings? Because otherwise would show my school at only around 25-30% wireless, if that.
And, unfortunately, students and faculty are not allowed to operate APs or routers, subject to removal. So that can't add to the coverage on SU's campus.
I haven't used HyperCard in ages but it is seriously what (how the progression happened I have no idea) got me into wanting to go into computer programming.....
Couldn't have helped their sales when they briefly partnered with OfficeMax stores, one of which is across the street from the Gateway Country store.
LostCluster is correct, though, eMachines has a much larger retail distribution chain set up that Gateway can take advantage of now that it has acquired it....
History has shown us time and time again that it is very possible for even the most secure systems to be compromised, over and over again. Microsoft does not necessarily in many views have a high security track record, and there then is no way that I personally am willing to allow my personal information (including some financial information, as eBay (at least at one point) is one of the companies that signed on to the .NET passport system) to be put in the hands of a private enterprise's systems, making it among other things an appealing target, paired with the fact that it's Microsoft, doubling the appeal if not more so for some.
I have more than 6000 MP3s, could turn out to be more trouble than it's worth...
Nothing broken so far in this update...
Could tie down our cellular market a bit up 'round where I am....
One feature that I _really_ wish would change...