"it's not easy to find truly free (that is, no ads) content on the web."
isn't it? I'm sure someone who doesn't have his boss standing a few feet away will shortly provide a list of examples. I would if I thought he wouldn't notice....
..to control what I see on my screen. Advertising to fund content is not a sustainable business model as too many people are willing to provide genuinely free content.
I do not wish to be advertised at, so I generally refuse to use sites which require me to sign in to use non-commercial services.
I wouldn't be too sad to see the end of commercial websites funded by advertising.... the internet managed long enough before the days of spam and aggressive advertising.
I remember surfing the web with IE5 on Windows 98 and finding advretising totally unobtrusive, with just a banner ad on every page. Then in the space of about 6 months, I started seeing pop-ups, ads with sound, javascript tricks, etc
So now I block all advertising regardless of its nature. Had quite enough of that. And them.
yeah, perhaps. Of course, Cable ISPs tend to have separate modems and routers, which is why it occurred to me that it'd be done over DSL - in areas where the population density was high enough to make DSL preferable, anyway. It'd be too easy to use NAT to block uploads by dropping in an ethernet router otherwise.
I saw some article on OSNews a while ago about SBCYahoo preparing to offer TV over IP with special DSL Set-Top Box routers... thats what started the chain of thought.
I'm sure you wouldn't want to. You don't seriously think you'll be given a choice about it though?
They'll probably bundle P2P and viewer software into a DSL router/STB and distribute it with their own internet service for video-on-demand. Its not hard to tie a person's download speed to their ability to upload, especially when you control the hardware.
Gmail may not be "all that" to you but for many people - myself included - the combination of a 2.3Gb inbox and POP3 access is revolutionary. I used to use Yahoo! mail - I stopped when they started spamming me on a regular basis then stated I had to pay for POP access - a practice they continue, (as do Hotmail now as well despite using a non-standards compliant system) - to this day.
In a race between free and pay-for-spam, free's going to win every time. If only Gmail had IMAP, (I'd pay for that too)
Windows Media has been prepared for several years as a leading format for use in pay-to-view downloaded material. Microsoft even developed Windows media centre to run TV-connected PCs.
What's missing is the distribution technology. Even with modern 8mbit DSL / Cable connections, an HTTP or FTP download of a 900mb movie file is very expensive for the company hosting the software and files. However, if each set-top-box or WMC PC has a secure file-sharing system preinstalled, then most of the upload bandwidth can be shared among people who have already downladed the same file.
Consumers will hate it - especially as upload bandwidth is often slow and overall bandwidth capped - but the media distributors will love it to bits.
Especially if you have the initials C.D.E, use them to sign off emails, and have to work with CDE every day. The potential for confusion can be immense.
Pages is an Apple Pro App. Other Apple pro apps (Quicktime Pro) run on Windows.. as does iTunes because it sells iPods
Apple used to sell AppleWorks 6 for Windows - I have a copy. It's horrible. Apple's Office may also appear on Win32 eventually. Hopefully somewhat more nicely
A Sun executive announced about 3 years ago that Apple had hired engineers to work at Sun on StarOffice (OpenOffice + commercial addins) for OSX, and that this product would shortly be announced and be shipped with new Macs
The same guy was sent about a week later to deny that it was happening but accept that he did claim that it would
2 years later, Apple produces an internally-written, incomplete Office suite completely unrelated to StarOffice/OpenOffice
Assumption. As with the time ATi preannounced an Apple product by accident and was dumped for nVidia, Sun screwed up and Apple pulled the whole project in revenge. Pages/Mail/Keynote is the replacement. Numbers is the missing component.
Short range = faster switch-over to expensive DSM connection. If they used WiFi they'd have a lot more calls made over the VoIP than over GSM, and lower revenue
and the reason is that Apple isn't heavily into the online distribution trade. If I bought a Windows box with it I'd be a bit worried that things like Windows media player would become required and would override other apps, or I'd be required to consume microsoft-supplied services instead of others.
Apple's business model is about selling computers, not selling services. I don't care if iTunes locks to the TCM chip since I only use mp3 and don't use iTMS... (iTMS is marginally profitable at best. it exists to sell iPods and the tech isnt licenced.)
Darwin's OSS, but it's just the Unix level that you can get source for. Apple could as easily build the lock-in code into the closed-source Finder desktop environment, or the login prompt or something equally non-open-source.
I should imagine that emulation is the holy grail for Apple. They want people to run Windows apps - or even Windows - on a PC they bought from Apple. That's where Apple's money comes from, hardware.
If - and this is only uninformed speculation - they intend to lock their OS to a DRM chip fitted to one particular custom motherboard it won't be easy to hack!... and even if it is possible the pirates will have to custom-build their OSX systems.
Wouldn't surprise me if they use it to secure the iTMS as well.
I disagree. Purely on the grounds that many users have Windows experience from office work, and also because Gnome and KDE are both built on the same principles as Windows XP and use exactly the same concepts. There's no usability advantage to Linux when configured thus.
An obvious security advantage, yes, but at the cost of obscurity. I build PCs for home users and I find it very difficult to sell Linux and mac based systems because users insist on being able to run the educational/edu-tainment titles they can buy in PCWorld (here in the UK) or presumably CompUSA on your side of the pond
Ultimately, home users want Windows and are generally willing to pay out for NAT routers, antivirus and anti-spyware apps to protect them from the consequences. As an aside, the cheapest branded PCs you can buy in the UK are about £300, which considering the state of the Dollar on the foreign exchange markets is a bit of a rip-off...
You can get a Mac mini for the same price (no monitor though)!
erm, no, completely non-Knoppix, because that's another Linux disk that tries to be all things to all people, when what this sort of thing needs is a linux disk that really is all things.. but just to the customer with the machine it was made for.
It wouldn't be Apple-ish until the OS disk can do a clean install in less than an hour and by default preconfigures all components with the optimal settings for that model
It certainly would be possible to make a Linux disk that is designed just for a limited range of known PCs for which it gives 100% compatibility and a logical, no-silly-questions install process, I don't think anyone's done it yet though.
iTunes by default rips your Cds to non-protected m4u (AAC) or optionally, Mp3. Only tracks bought from the iTMS will be protected by default.
I think this plugin is more intended as a utility to allow people to use their iPods to carry mp3s between PCs without the rigmarole of zipping them into an archive.
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"it's not easy to find truly free (that is, no ads) content on the web." isn't it? I'm sure someone who doesn't have his boss standing a few feet away will shortly provide a list of examples. I would if I thought he wouldn't notice....
..to control what I see on my screen. Advertising to fund content is not a sustainable business model as too many people are willing to provide genuinely free content.
I do not wish to be advertised at, so I generally refuse to use sites which require me to sign in to use non-commercial services.
I wouldn't be too sad to see the end of commercial websites funded by advertising.... the internet managed long enough before the days of spam and aggressive advertising.
I remember surfing the web with IE5 on Windows 98 and finding advretising totally unobtrusive, with just a banner ad on every page. Then in the space of about 6 months, I started seeing pop-ups, ads with sound, javascript tricks, etc
So now I block all advertising regardless of its nature. Had quite enough of that. And them.
OpenOffice on OSX was almost cancelled several times due to the amount of x86-specific code in it, apparently.
look at the market for a new box of the other sort and you can drop that tissue, friend!
yeah, perhaps. Of course, Cable ISPs tend to have separate modems and routers, which is why it occurred to me that it'd be done over DSL - in areas where the population density was high enough to make DSL preferable, anyway. It'd be too easy to use NAT to block uploads by dropping in an ethernet router otherwise.
I saw some article on OSNews a while ago about SBCYahoo preparing to offer TV over IP with special DSL Set-Top Box routers... thats what started the chain of thought.
I'm sure you wouldn't want to. You don't seriously think you'll be given a choice about it though?
They'll probably bundle P2P and viewer software into a DSL router/STB and distribute it with their own internet service for video-on-demand. Its not hard to tie a person's download speed to their ability to upload, especially when you control the hardware.
Gmail may not be "all that" to you but for many people - myself included - the combination of a 2.3Gb inbox and POP3 access is revolutionary. I used to use Yahoo! mail - I stopped when they started spamming me on a regular basis then stated I had to pay for POP access - a practice they continue, (as do Hotmail now as well despite using a non-standards compliant system) - to this day.
In a race between free and pay-for-spam, free's going to win every time. If only Gmail had IMAP, (I'd pay for that too)
Windows Media has been prepared for several years as a leading format for use in pay-to-view downloaded material. Microsoft even developed Windows media centre to run TV-connected PCs.
What's missing is the distribution technology. Even with modern 8mbit DSL / Cable connections, an HTTP or FTP download of a 900mb movie file is very expensive for the company hosting the software and files. However, if each set-top-box or WMC PC has a secure file-sharing system preinstalled, then most of the upload bandwidth can be shared among people who have already downladed the same file.
Consumers will hate it - especially as upload bandwidth is often slow and overall bandwidth capped - but the media distributors will love it to bits.
Especially if you have the initials C.D.E, use them to sign off emails, and have to work with CDE every day. The potential for confusion can be immense.
Pages is an Apple Pro App. Other Apple pro apps (Quicktime Pro) run on Windows.. as does iTunes because it sells iPods
Apple used to sell AppleWorks 6 for Windows - I have a copy. It's horrible. Apple's Office may also appear on Win32 eventually. Hopefully somewhat more nicely
A Sun executive announced about 3 years ago that Apple had hired engineers to work at Sun on StarOffice (OpenOffice + commercial addins) for OSX, and that this product would shortly be announced and be shipped with new Macs
The same guy was sent about a week later to deny that it was happening but accept that he did claim that it would
2 years later, Apple produces an internally-written, incomplete Office suite completely unrelated to StarOffice/OpenOffice
Assumption. As with the time ATi preannounced an Apple product by accident and was dumped for nVidia, Sun screwed up and Apple pulled the whole project in revenge. Pages/Mail/Keynote is the replacement. Numbers is the missing component.
Short range = faster switch-over to expensive DSM connection. If they used WiFi they'd have a lot more calls made over the VoIP than over GSM, and lower revenue
Someone beat me to it and did it better too. I feel crushed.
The Graffiti on the Bridges of Madison County....
and the reason is that Apple isn't heavily into the online distribution trade. If I bought a Windows box with it I'd be a bit worried that things like Windows media player would become required and would override other apps, or I'd be required to consume microsoft-supplied services instead of others.
Apple's business model is about selling computers, not selling services. I don't care if iTunes locks to the TCM chip since I only use mp3 and don't use iTMS... (iTMS is marginally profitable at best. it exists to sell iPods and the tech isnt licenced.)
Darwin's OSS, but it's just the Unix level that you can get source for. Apple could as easily build the lock-in code into the closed-source Finder desktop environment, or the login prompt or something equally non-open-source.
I should imagine that emulation is the holy grail for Apple. They want people to run Windows apps - or even Windows - on a PC they bought from Apple. That's where Apple's money comes from, hardware.
If - and this is only uninformed speculation - they intend to lock their OS to a DRM chip fitted to one particular custom motherboard it won't be easy to hack!... and even if it is possible the pirates will have to custom-build their OSX systems.
Wouldn't surprise me if they use it to secure the iTMS as well.
KDE - upon which WebKit is based - is LGPL, meaning full source-code disclosure isn't required
I disagree. Purely on the grounds that many users have Windows experience from office work, and also because Gnome and KDE are both built on the same principles as Windows XP and use exactly the same concepts. There's no usability advantage to Linux when configured thus.
An obvious security advantage, yes, but at the cost of obscurity. I build PCs for home users and I find it very difficult to sell Linux and mac based systems because users insist on being able to run the educational/edu-tainment titles they can buy in PCWorld (here in the UK) or presumably CompUSA on your side of the pond
Ultimately, home users want Windows and are generally willing to pay out for NAT routers, antivirus and anti-spyware apps to protect them from the consequences. As an aside, the cheapest branded PCs you can buy in the UK are about £300, which considering the state of the Dollar on the foreign exchange markets is a bit of a rip-off...
You can get a Mac mini for the same price (no monitor though)!
There's an ISO on the eMule network called "Mac Osx 10.3 (Intel version).iso". The hash is 7D9587606F550C2767667B09C10C1C68
I have no intention of getting sued by Apple for downloading this file. I have not verified its identity. It may be a hoax
erm, no, completely non-Knoppix, because that's another Linux disk that tries to be all things to all people, when what this sort of thing needs is a linux disk that really is all things.. but just to the customer with the machine it was made for.
It wouldn't be Apple-ish until the OS disk can do a clean install in less than an hour and by default preconfigures all components with the optimal settings for that model
It certainly would be possible to make a Linux disk that is designed just for a limited range of known PCs for which it gives 100% compatibility and a logical, no-silly-questions install process, I don't think anyone's done it yet though.
I've always tried to buy hardware which is supported by default in Windows - since XP-SP2 added a bunch of new drivers this has got a lot easier.
My reasons were so that a reinstall is a simpler affair, but it appears I may have been reaping security benefits too...
We could just comment on some of the documented facts of what the US has done - who needs conspiracy theories these days?.
iTunes by default rips your Cds to non-protected m4u (AAC) or optionally, Mp3. Only tracks bought from the iTMS will be protected by default.
I think this plugin is more intended as a utility to allow people to use their iPods to carry mp3s between PCs without the rigmarole of zipping them into an archive.