The big difference here is that the guy published a book COMMERCIALLY that directly uses Rowling's work. It's not a similar derivative, it's a book that chronicles all of her Harry Potter series. Card can go suck an egg, because his comparison and what is actually happening are NOT the same thing.
1. Yeah, kinda pricey. Buy RAM and HDs elsewhere if it's a problem.
2. Apple has dropped the price on XServe HDs to the point where they're only a minor mugging. $650 for an additional 15k RPM SAS drive (with the drive tray) isn't a horrid deal. The SATA drives are bit much, though.
3. Huh? Numbers is 1.x, and the others are not Apple's problem.
4. So save them into MS formats if you don't like it. The beauty of iLife is that it supports Office 2007 formats and earlier.
5. As others have pointed out, it really isn't.
Yep, casual, non-technical yuppie types. Hell, I'm only a sysadmin with a degree and a good job. What do I know?
Um, I use Safari, and if it gets a 3rd party cert it can't verify, then it will, by default, notify you and ask if you want to accept it or not.
Second, the iPhone is a phone platform with a small percentage of the market, not an OS with over 90% of the market. On top of that, MS got their asses burned by threatening to cut off OEM licenses for anyone who tried to bundle Netscape with their computers. On top of THAT, back then a PC was about the only way you could browse the internet. Now you can do it on your phone, so there are other options and Apple is not trying to keep competitors out because competitors can easily set up browsers on many, many other devices. Try thinking about your argument before you splatter it on the screen.
You obviously haven't used the iPhone keyboard or have fingers like bratwursts. It's surprisingly tolerant of fat fingers and typing on it isn't tough at all. I prefer it to tiny little QWERTY keyboards that really do require toothpicks to use.
I'm guessing it'll be 10.6 before it becomes official. Apple will let it hit the wild and see if there are any issues. I don't think they'll roll that out in a 10.5.x update. It'll be a big feature announcement when Steve demos 10.6 for the first time.
Or is it CrossOver with everything else whittled out? I tried Crossover on OS X and was very disappointed. Sure, Half-life 2 ran...at half the framerate and with DX8 support so everything looked like ass. It was pathetic. Also, if your program isn't on the supported list, don't expect it to run. I'll stick with VMWare and Boot Camp and leave CrossOver out of it.
Jesse Ventura is a 9/11 conspiracy nut who is repeating crap that has been debunked over and over again, even by conspiracy theorist standards. There's a reason he's not called Jesse "The Mind" Ventura.
Except that Psystar could never argue that they were ignorant of the EULA. They damn well know what it says and chose to ignore it. Apple wont bust the people who buy these. They'll just sue Psystar out of existence.
I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism a few years ago. Not even as far down as Asperger's, but autism nonetheless. From my mother's accounts of my childhood, I started out as a probable aspie, but worked my way up a little. But I'm kinda rambling here. The point I mean to make is that I don't blame vaccines. My father is likely in the same boat as me. He was born back in '45. I don't think they had vaccines back then. Autism has an undeniable genetic component, so check your and your wife's family tree for possible cases, even high-functioning ones. You might be surprised. In any case, your rant proves nothing other than the fact that you're unwilling to look at the facts. I don't need to point out more holes in your argument as many others have already done so, just throwing my two cents in.
And for certain things, that's fine, but open source isn't all good, and sometimes there are no suitable alternatives but closed source. I use some open source software, but most that I've tried is quirky, buggy, hard to use, and/or piss-poorly documented. Some things will catch on, others will remain for geeks by geeks.
Using open source != open source taking over. You might have a piece of software or two that happen to be open source and work well. The rest may well be closed source. That's not open source taking over, that's open source being used for various purposes.
Actually, in reality, it keeps a lot of people from buying them. The viewing angle is terrible, something that might even make grandma think twice. It goes yellow if you're not looking straight on. The 24" looks great, but the 20" is so sub-par that it isn't even funny.
I work at an Apple shop, I love Apple products, but I'd be happy to tell you how shitty the 20" Aluminum iMac screens are. They really, really suck, and here's hoping Apple finally gets their head out of their ass and puts a quality screen on what should be a quality product.
Thank you for that Live! tidbit! I just dropped a Live! 5.1 card in the wife's computer as her onboard audio was crapping out. She's had a few BSODs since then, all preceded by stuttering/glitching audio. I just turned off PCI delayed transactions and made sure we had the latest drivers. Thanks for the tip. I may have never found it otherwise. Hopefully that fixes the problem.
-Battery life is at least 2x what the Ipod's is, I usually get about 26 hours. Actually, the new iPod Classics get at least that much playback time, if not more. The 160GB is rated for 40 hours of audio playback, and surprisingly enough, Apple's numbers on that are actually accurate for a change. Some sites got over 50 hours out of the things.
No, he's right. Data Rescue II is awesome software. I'm a Mac tech and I've seen that pull data from drives that I was sure would be unrecoverable. As long as the platters spin and it can still read the thing, DRII can probably get the data out.
That's nothing. A tech I knew had a bad 15k RPM SCSI hard drive he decided to play with. He opened it up and bent the platters around, then plugged it in for kicks. Somehow, it only shook around like crazy and didn't break apart at high speeds. Dumbass is lucky to be alive.
Ultra640 SCSI? I've seen plenty of Ultra320 arrays, but never saw any Ultra640s. I didn't even know if it had been launched or not. My understanding was that it was too impractical due to the measures you had to take to make the damn stuff work.
At first I thought this story was a load of crap as it seemed Apple was just putting it in the Software Update list, but then I saw that it gets downloaded whether you wan tit or not unless you hit cancel. That really is bullshit and Apple should know better.
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The big difference here is that the guy published a book COMMERCIALLY that directly uses Rowling's work. It's not a similar derivative, it's a book that chronicles all of her Harry Potter series. Card can go suck an egg, because his comparison and what is actually happening are NOT the same thing.
1. Yeah, kinda pricey. Buy RAM and HDs elsewhere if it's a problem.
2. Apple has dropped the price on XServe HDs to the point where they're only a minor mugging. $650 for an additional 15k RPM SAS drive (with the drive tray) isn't a horrid deal. The SATA drives are bit much, though.
3. Huh? Numbers is 1.x, and the others are not Apple's problem.
4. So save them into MS formats if you don't like it. The beauty of iLife is that it supports Office 2007 formats and earlier.
5. As others have pointed out, it really isn't.
Yep, casual, non-technical yuppie types. Hell, I'm only a sysadmin with a degree and a good job. What do I know?
Um, I use Safari, and if it gets a 3rd party cert it can't verify, then it will, by default, notify you and ask if you want to accept it or not. Second, the iPhone is a phone platform with a small percentage of the market, not an OS with over 90% of the market. On top of that, MS got their asses burned by threatening to cut off OEM licenses for anyone who tried to bundle Netscape with their computers. On top of THAT, back then a PC was about the only way you could browse the internet. Now you can do it on your phone, so there are other options and Apple is not trying to keep competitors out because competitors can easily set up browsers on many, many other devices. Try thinking about your argument before you splatter it on the screen.
You obviously haven't used the iPhone keyboard or have fingers like bratwursts. It's surprisingly tolerant of fat fingers and typing on it isn't tough at all. I prefer it to tiny little QWERTY keyboards that really do require toothpicks to use.
I don't think Clarke is the one that came up with this. Wasn't Tesla's death ray concept very similar to this?
I'm guessing it'll be 10.6 before it becomes official. Apple will let it hit the wild and see if there are any issues. I don't think they'll roll that out in a 10.5.x update. It'll be a big feature announcement when Steve demos 10.6 for the first time.
Or is it CrossOver with everything else whittled out? I tried Crossover on OS X and was very disappointed. Sure, Half-life 2 ran...at half the framerate and with DX8 support so everything looked like ass. It was pathetic. Also, if your program isn't on the supported list, don't expect it to run. I'll stick with VMWare and Boot Camp and leave CrossOver out of it.
Jesse Ventura is a 9/11 conspiracy nut who is repeating crap that has been debunked over and over again, even by conspiracy theorist standards. There's a reason he's not called Jesse "The Mind" Ventura.
Actually, they do have a right, and a legal one at that. Psystar knew what the EULA said and committed mass violation. That's gonna hurt.
And Digg. Those two together could cripple the mightiest of webservers.
Except that Psystar could never argue that they were ignorant of the EULA. They damn well know what it says and chose to ignore it. Apple wont bust the people who buy these. They'll just sue Psystar out of existence.
I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism a few years ago. Not even as far down as Asperger's, but autism nonetheless. From my mother's accounts of my childhood, I started out as a probable aspie, but worked my way up a little. But I'm kinda rambling here. The point I mean to make is that I don't blame vaccines. My father is likely in the same boat as me. He was born back in '45. I don't think they had vaccines back then. Autism has an undeniable genetic component, so check your and your wife's family tree for possible cases, even high-functioning ones. You might be surprised. In any case, your rant proves nothing other than the fact that you're unwilling to look at the facts. I don't need to point out more holes in your argument as many others have already done so, just throwing my two cents in.
And for certain things, that's fine, but open source isn't all good, and sometimes there are no suitable alternatives but closed source. I use some open source software, but most that I've tried is quirky, buggy, hard to use, and/or piss-poorly documented. Some things will catch on, others will remain for geeks by geeks.
Using open source != open source taking over. You might have a piece of software or two that happen to be open source and work well. The rest may well be closed source. That's not open source taking over, that's open source being used for various purposes.
Actually, in reality, it keeps a lot of people from buying them. The viewing angle is terrible, something that might even make grandma think twice. It goes yellow if you're not looking straight on. The 24" looks great, but the 20" is so sub-par that it isn't even funny.
I work at an Apple shop, I love Apple products, but I'd be happy to tell you how shitty the 20" Aluminum iMac screens are. They really, really suck, and here's hoping Apple finally gets their head out of their ass and puts a quality screen on what should be a quality product.
Thank you for that Live! tidbit! I just dropped a Live! 5.1 card in the wife's computer as her onboard audio was crapping out. She's had a few BSODs since then, all preceded by stuttering/glitching audio. I just turned off PCI delayed transactions and made sure we had the latest drivers. Thanks for the tip. I may have never found it otherwise. Hopefully that fixes the problem.
No, he's right. Data Rescue II is awesome software. I'm a Mac tech and I've seen that pull data from drives that I was sure would be unrecoverable. As long as the platters spin and it can still read the thing, DRII can probably get the data out.
That's nothing. A tech I knew had a bad 15k RPM SCSI hard drive he decided to play with. He opened it up and bent the platters around, then plugged it in for kicks. Somehow, it only shook around like crazy and didn't break apart at high speeds. Dumbass is lucky to be alive.
You can turn the computer on via USB, too. Apple had power buttons on their early USB keyboards. I don't know why they removed them, though.
Ultra640 SCSI? I've seen plenty of Ultra320 arrays, but never saw any Ultra640s. I didn't even know if it had been launched or not. My understanding was that it was too impractical due to the measures you had to take to make the damn stuff work.
A sea of Mountain Dew? I think I hear the sound of Slashdotters calling for massive NASA funding boosts...
I think the Linux/FOSS fanboys are trying to wrestle that crown from the Apple fanboys.
At first I thought this story was a load of crap as it seemed Apple was just putting it in the Software Update list, but then I saw that it gets downloaded whether you wan tit or not unless you hit cancel. That really is bullshit and Apple should know better.