Aaaaand your correction cleared that up. Thought you were trolling and claiming that Lodsys's patent was responsible for the success of the iPhone. My bad.
I'm not saying it's really feasible to replace these parts, just that it can be done. iMacs can be a pain to get into, but once you know how to do it then it isn't so bad. If the business is large enough to have their own tech guy or perhaps a local company on contract then it's definitely doable. Also, cost of repair is going to very much depend on what goes wrong. The screen and the logic board are about the only two things that would really be that expensive to replace with the video card possibly fitting that bill, depending on the model. Hard drive, optical drive, power supply, etc are only a small fraction of the computer's overall price to replace and are definitely worth it unless the computer is 5+ years old, and then it'll depend on prices and labor. In addition, if you're that worried, buy Applecare. It's about $170 from Apple for an iMac, but can be found cheaper if you look around.
There have been conflicting reports on the hard drive temp sensors (and I forsee someone filling this niche, either with software or hardware), and yes, you CAN upgrade the CPU. Not that it's the simplest thing, but the iMacs have a socketed 1155 CPU in them. It'll require a major disassembly and will void the warranty, but it can be done with an off-the-shelf CPU. Technically, the video card can be upgraded the same way, but it's on an MXM card and you'd need a Mac-compatible video card, which would be quite hard to find and expensive as hell when you do unless you want to pioneer flashing a standard MXM card with a modified Mac ROM. As for the monitor, well, there's always display mode via the Thunderbolt port...
Kinda makes you wonder why Sony was vulnerable to exploits that could be found in skiddie tools. If someone had to actually dig for an exploit or found a new one to use against them, then that would be something, but when skiddies can breach your network then you seriously need to fire the guys in charge of security because they suck at their jobs.
Um...no, especially with XP. There were an ungodly amount of exploits that could screw your machine simply by loading an ad banner back in the day. There still are, although they are much fewer. I've seen plenty of malware that required no user consent beyond visiting an infected site. Thankfully Macs haven't yet seen this sort of drive-by exploit, but it's only a matter of time.
Then again, most malware would go away if users would install Common Sense 2.0.
Actually, much broader laws regarding competition between private and public entities HAVE been written. Whether or not they are justified is irrelevant to the fact that it's been done. Furthermore, this law isn't just about public vs private competition.
Did you even read the summary? It does not prevent municipalities from creating community broadband. It requires them to get public input before getting involved and to set up the finances to reduce the chances of it becoming a money sink.
Another toolbag who didn't read the article, much less the summary beyond the first sentence. It does not prevent municipalities from creating community broadband. It requires them to get public input before getting involved and to set up the finances to reduce the chances of it becoming a money sink.
What? Did you even READ the summary? It does not prevent municipalities from setting up broadband. It ensures that municipalities don't just dive in face first without some public input first. Looks just fine to me. When it involves a community where no broadband provider wants to go and does NOT prevent municipalities from making a community broadband project, how exactly is it pandering to big telecommunications industries?
Do you kneejerk like this all the time or is this a special case?
Sure, no improvement over USB3...if you're a stupid tool who didn't bother thinking about how Thunderbolt is FAR more versatile than USB3. It's pretty much an external 4x PCIe slot with display support. In theory, anything you could plug into a PCIe bus could be made to work on Thunderbolt. Let that sink in for a while. Laptop docking stations with a small, single port. The ability for laptops to have something 4x faster than an Expresscard slot for expansion.
Um, yeah, like die-hards all over the damned audio and video industries. Firewire is used all over the pro audio industry. Firewire is still very common in pro A/V. The people who say that Firewire is dead are clueless. It never caught on very well in the desktop space, but it was pretty heavily adopted in several higher-end circles.
Right, because not including it on their superslim laptop or entry-level laptop means they've abandoned it. Except they include it on everything else, even the Mac Mini.
You do realize that Thunderbolt isn't Apple's "proprietary" tech, right? It's Intel's. Furthermore, while Thunderbolt may not see heavy adoption on desktops, you will be seeing it used far more on laptops. You don't get a bunch of PCIe slots on a laptop. No RAID cards for that disk array so you can use your laptop to edit some uncompressed HD video. Heck, you could even put an external video card on a Thunderbolt port. It'll be much faster than the ExpressCard (1x PCIe) adapters. Got a slim, small laptop? TB = one small port for a desktop docking station.
People calling Thunderbolt dead are idiots jumping the gun. Will it take off? Time will tell, but there are DEFINITELY good uses for it.
Wrong. As long as your eSATA connection can keep up with the drive, eSATA WILL be faster, period. There's virtually no additional overhead. It's straight SATA the whole way through. Use an external USB 3 drive and you have to use a SATA to USB3 interface. More overhead, lower speeds. USB3 is useless for external drives if you can use eSATA.
And Apple also recommends several antimalware products on their website as well. As OS X never had a petri-dish era like the earlier days of XP, they don't recommend using the antimalware before calling as it wasn't deemed necessary. We may see some changes to that procedure before long.
Most malware relies on stupid users clicking on, surfing to, and installing crap, something that generally doesn't happen on a modern server of any OS unless the admin is an idiot.
WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator. It will only run Windows applications on the same platform. WINE would need some serious alterations (and probably a fork) to run run x86 Windows apps on an ARM chip. You're not just translating OS functionality, which is what WINE does. You also have to translate CPU functionality, which is a much uglier process that kills performance.
I can't tell if this guy is a really dedicated troll (look at his history) or just a complete and utter lunatic who bases his shit off of some of the most ludicrous junk science out there. Either way, it's a really, really sad thing to see.
What interest does Amazon have in spending potentially MILLIONS on a case that nets them almost no benefit and could cost them dearly? Obscenity laws have come to the Supreme Court before and were upheld. Hell, the courts (can't remember if it went all the way to the SC) ruled that ANY community can hold the whole fucking internet hostage when it comes to obscenity. Is your content "obscene" to some tightass bunch of moral crusaders? You could do time. No fucking joke. It's godawful and NEEDS to change, but I don't think Amazon has a huge interest in seeing that happen. They have little to gain.
Oh no, Amazon decided not to sell what amounts to comic kiddie porn that could EASILY get them busted for distributing "obscenity" in the US. Yes, obscenity laws are fucking idiotic, but they're still out there on the books and those who distribute it can get in a load of shit. Just ask Max Hardcore.
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Aaaaand your correction cleared that up. Thought you were trolling and claiming that Lodsys's patent was responsible for the success of the iPhone. My bad.
I'm not saying it's really feasible to replace these parts, just that it can be done. iMacs can be a pain to get into, but once you know how to do it then it isn't so bad. If the business is large enough to have their own tech guy or perhaps a local company on contract then it's definitely doable. Also, cost of repair is going to very much depend on what goes wrong. The screen and the logic board are about the only two things that would really be that expensive to replace with the video card possibly fitting that bill, depending on the model. Hard drive, optical drive, power supply, etc are only a small fraction of the computer's overall price to replace and are definitely worth it unless the computer is 5+ years old, and then it'll depend on prices and labor. In addition, if you're that worried, buy Applecare. It's about $170 from Apple for an iMac, but can be found cheaper if you look around.
There have been conflicting reports on the hard drive temp sensors (and I forsee someone filling this niche, either with software or hardware), and yes, you CAN upgrade the CPU. Not that it's the simplest thing, but the iMacs have a socketed 1155 CPU in them. It'll require a major disassembly and will void the warranty, but it can be done with an off-the-shelf CPU. Technically, the video card can be upgraded the same way, but it's on an MXM card and you'd need a Mac-compatible video card, which would be quite hard to find and expensive as hell when you do unless you want to pioneer flashing a standard MXM card with a modified Mac ROM. As for the monitor, well, there's always display mode via the Thunderbolt port...
Kinda makes you wonder why Sony was vulnerable to exploits that could be found in skiddie tools. If someone had to actually dig for an exploit or found a new one to use against them, then that would be something, but when skiddies can breach your network then you seriously need to fire the guys in charge of security because they suck at their jobs.
Um...no, especially with XP. There were an ungodly amount of exploits that could screw your machine simply by loading an ad banner back in the day. There still are, although they are much fewer. I've seen plenty of malware that required no user consent beyond visiting an infected site. Thankfully Macs haven't yet seen this sort of drive-by exploit, but it's only a matter of time.
Then again, most malware would go away if users would install Common Sense 2.0.
Ethernet? On a modern MacBook Air? Think again.
FTFY. The Air is the only Mac without ethernet, and that's due to size limitations. I don't see it disappearing from other models anytime soon.
Right. Come back when ISPs are run entirely by public funds and you'll have a point.
Actually, much broader laws regarding competition between private and public entities HAVE been written. Whether or not they are justified is irrelevant to the fact that it's been done. Furthermore, this law isn't just about public vs private competition.
Did you even read the summary? It does not prevent municipalities from creating community broadband. It requires them to get public input before getting involved and to set up the finances to reduce the chances of it becoming a money sink.
Another toolbag who didn't read the article, much less the summary beyond the first sentence. It does not prevent municipalities from creating community broadband. It requires them to get public input before getting involved and to set up the finances to reduce the chances of it becoming a money sink.
What? Did you even READ the summary? It does not prevent municipalities from setting up broadband. It ensures that municipalities don't just dive in face first without some public input first. Looks just fine to me. When it involves a community where no broadband provider wants to go and does NOT prevent municipalities from making a community broadband project, how exactly is it pandering to big telecommunications industries?
Do you kneejerk like this all the time or is this a special case?
Really? You're going to compare shitty USB video adapters with a proper video output straight from the video card?
Sure, no improvement over USB3...if you're a stupid tool who didn't bother thinking about how Thunderbolt is FAR more versatile than USB3. It's pretty much an external 4x PCIe slot with display support. In theory, anything you could plug into a PCIe bus could be made to work on Thunderbolt. Let that sink in for a while. Laptop docking stations with a small, single port. The ability for laptops to have something 4x faster than an Expresscard slot for expansion.
Um, yeah, like die-hards all over the damned audio and video industries. Firewire is used all over the pro audio industry. Firewire is still very common in pro A/V. The people who say that Firewire is dead are clueless. It never caught on very well in the desktop space, but it was pretty heavily adopted in several higher-end circles.
Right, because not including it on their superslim laptop or entry-level laptop means they've abandoned it. Except they include it on everything else, even the Mac Mini.
You do realize that Thunderbolt isn't Apple's "proprietary" tech, right? It's Intel's. Furthermore, while Thunderbolt may not see heavy adoption on desktops, you will be seeing it used far more on laptops. You don't get a bunch of PCIe slots on a laptop. No RAID cards for that disk array so you can use your laptop to edit some uncompressed HD video. Heck, you could even put an external video card on a Thunderbolt port. It'll be much faster than the ExpressCard (1x PCIe) adapters. Got a slim, small laptop? TB = one small port for a desktop docking station.
People calling Thunderbolt dead are idiots jumping the gun. Will it take off? Time will tell, but there are DEFINITELY good uses for it.
Wrong. As long as your eSATA connection can keep up with the drive, eSATA WILL be faster, period. There's virtually no additional overhead. It's straight SATA the whole way through. Use an external USB 3 drive and you have to use a SATA to USB3 interface. More overhead, lower speeds. USB3 is useless for external drives if you can use eSATA.
And Apple also recommends several antimalware products on their website as well. As OS X never had a petri-dish era like the earlier days of XP, they don't recommend using the antimalware before calling as it wasn't deemed necessary. We may see some changes to that procedure before long.
And if you RTFA, you'll find that Apple and MS do the same damned thing: Tell the user to get some antimalware software to get it out.
Most malware relies on stupid users clicking on, surfing to, and installing crap, something that generally doesn't happen on a modern server of any OS unless the admin is an idiot.
Slashdot is becoming Yahoo! Answers? Holy Christ, now there's a scary thought.
WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator. It will only run Windows applications on the same platform. WINE would need some serious alterations (and probably a fork) to run run x86 Windows apps on an ARM chip. You're not just translating OS functionality, which is what WINE does. You also have to translate CPU functionality, which is a much uglier process that kills performance.
I can't tell if this guy is a really dedicated troll (look at his history) or just a complete and utter lunatic who bases his shit off of some of the most ludicrous junk science out there. Either way, it's a really, really sad thing to see.
What interest does Amazon have in spending potentially MILLIONS on a case that nets them almost no benefit and could cost them dearly? Obscenity laws have come to the Supreme Court before and were upheld. Hell, the courts (can't remember if it went all the way to the SC) ruled that ANY community can hold the whole fucking internet hostage when it comes to obscenity. Is your content "obscene" to some tightass bunch of moral crusaders? You could do time. No fucking joke. It's godawful and NEEDS to change, but I don't think Amazon has a huge interest in seeing that happen. They have little to gain.
Oh no, Amazon decided not to sell what amounts to comic kiddie porn that could EASILY get them busted for distributing "obscenity" in the US. Yes, obscenity laws are fucking idiotic, but they're still out there on the books and those who distribute it can get in a load of shit. Just ask Max Hardcore.