Their goal is to make sure it does not effect profits. People will always hack and pirate and Apple can't stop them. Their goal is to make it hard enough that most people won't bother and so that 99.9% of users would rather use a Apple system than deal with hacking another system to sort of work.
That's interesting- I think that one of the reasons Microsoft has such a large market share is because their software is pirated a lot. In fact I think it's something that the industry doesn't want to publicly admit; piracy is part of marketing a product that helps its popularity, which in turn boosts legal sales. I can recall pirated copies of Word floating around as it became the de facto standard for word processing. And despite free alternatives, pirated copies of Windows became the standard in third world countries. Perhaps this is a marketing strategy for Apple- countries where people can't afford Apple hardware will pirate the OS, the same way they did with Windows because they couldn't afford Windows licensing. This will result in more developers and third-party hardware for the platform, increasing its market share. When Apple II's were at their height in popularity, clones were rampant in developing countries, while Apple hardware was the standard in countries where people could afford it.
I don't think OSS is the holy grail which fixes everything, nor do I think MS is any better than OSS or worse for that matter.
What do you think would be the best setup? I mean do you have any ideas on how things could be done, or have you seen any that just haven't reached the popularity of those two models?
Apple too. Yes, I love Apple (so gimme all your mod points), but they do seriously oversell their products when they know full well they won't be able to meet demand.
I didn't think this was a marketing gimmick, but a result of Apple practising just in time manufacturing. IIRC that has been their modus operandi for years. There was that period when they actually weren't producing or selling iMacs because they weren't getting the processors on time allegedly, and that wouldn't be a wise marketing gimmick.
Odd, every one of the examples you mentioned works in MY Windows.
I don't get why the previous poster used those examples because they're the same function-wise, but there is a difference in the GUI implementations. The thing about the Windows drag and drop I remember (it's been a while) is that many times it simply changes the cursor to indicate you're dragging something. For example, when you're dragging a picture off a web page onto the desktop, or when you are dragging highlighted text. In OS X, you actually have a transparent image of what you are dragging, like the picture or highlighted text. I actually think this has more to do with how Microsoft would integrate features from other software producers, but simply change the look and feel to make sure it doesn't infringe on copyright, rather than lack of functionality. Like I said, it's been a while so I'm not sure if they have changed this.
I should have mentioned this in my previous comment but a good example of the window proxy icon drag and drop function in conjunction with the Terminal is this; if you have a Finder window open and you would like to navigate to that directory in the terminal, you just type the "cd " command in the terminal, then drag the Finder window icon onto the Terminal window, and hit return. The Terminal then has the command line path set to that directory. It has a nice feel to it, combining Finder window navigation with the powerful Unix-level commands available through the Terminal.
OS X does have the interesting idea of the "proxy icon" in the window bar; drag it to a Finder window to create a copy of the file (or an alias to it), drag it to a message window of just about any e-mail program and create an attachment, heck, drag it to another program icon to open it in that program, too.
There's also a useful function wherein you can drag a folder to an open/save dialogue window and it automatically sets the path to that folder. I've found myself using it a bit. I presume that this is standard in other terminal applications though, but being able to drag a file or folder onto the Terminal and have it suddenly appear as a text path on the command line as if you typed it all in is really useful.
Has Jobs been doing his "reality distortion field visionary leader" bit with Pixar, or has he just been a major stockholder while the company has been going on it's own momentum? Would the sale of Pixar result in layoffs and lower morale, or would the company simply go on the same way it is, or possibly even improve with more investment?
I can't believe I'm participating in this pathetically juvenile toilet humour, but here goes... what about the digit-al hole. Aha. Get it? Digit-al? Oh nevermind. I don't need to fucking impress you!!!
Being a Slashdot editor is the best job ever! You can pick and choose what submissions you want to post and disregard all others without any justification whatsoever!
"Malaria Mondays" are also known as "movie night" because of the really bizarre dreams this shit induces.
Does it actually make your dreams more bizarre or does it just make them more vivid and help you recall them better? Dreams are pretty bizarre as they are anyway, but most people don't bother to record their dreams on a regular basis to notice. Do you recall your dreams when you aren't on Malarone and compare them? BTW, that "bizarre" dream you had actually seems to have meaningful metaphors. I'll take a crack at it; despite the humour in the symbolism, it almost seems like a dream about feeling pressure from an employer training you to be a subordinate.
Now in the case of these iPods we see a loophole. A way for the hospital to purchase really, really nice gifts for their doctors, under the pretense that it has some medical use. Quite interesting indeed.
I've fooled around with OsiriX and from what I've seen, the radiologist who programmed it, Dr. Rosset, used practically all the programming tools available in OS X. The iPod API is just part of it. He took advantage of other features of OS X like iChat AV and Xgrid, and the latest release takes advantage of Core Data which is a feature that was just introduced in Tiger. The fact that it uses the iPod is just hype in this story, but the reality is Rosset really takes advantage of heaps of the features of OS X, which iPod synchronisation is just a part of.
Remember, for most of the uses - excepting the iPod-viewable photos and videos - any portable drive would do.
One of the things about using OsiriX with an iPod is that it works as an extension of the program's database. You could use any portable drive, but I presume Apple has designed the iPod API in Xcode to work in such a way that it has advantages over a portable drive. It can synchronise with the software automatically, whereas a portable drive would require some manual steps in order for the application to use the DICOM database on the drive. I'm sure there are ways to do this automatically with a portable drive anyway, but the point is this program was written using heaps of the programming tools that are part of OS X, like Xgrid for example.
The article goes into details about repetitive work, cytokines, and work injuries. But it doesn't mention any remedies. Is the process reversible? Are there medications that can treat the production and effect of cytokines? If this is found to apply to humans, can a worker's routine be changed slightly, or would that person need to go so far as to completely change their job and lifestyle? Would they be able to fully recover?
"But there's nothing that keeps a carrier in the United States from introducing jitter, so the quality of the conversation isn't good," Thomas says. "So the user will either pay for the carrier's voice-over-Internet application, which brings revenue to the carrier, or pay the carrier for a premium service that allows Skype use to continue. You can deteriorate the service, introduce latency [audible delays in hearing the other end of the line], and also offer a premium to improve it."
Couldn't the FCC requirements that VoIP provide access to 911 emergency services be used as a legal precedent against carriers from degrading VoIP services in the US? If Vonage got in trouble for it, then any company that interferes with the call should be liable as well. Even if it isn't outright blocking the call, artificially deteriorating the quality could prevent proper communication in an emergency and endanger lives. Even jitter and latency in the call could possibly mean the difference between life and death in a critical situation.
this is just an organization and editing program, then how is this any different than iPhoto?
I thought it would be an Apple version of Photoshop, until I read the details. Adobe dropped Premiere for OS X because of Final Cut Pro, so I thought that it was all that all over again. But it does seem like a fancier "Pro" version of iPhoto.
I've noticed that theatrical releases are moving more towards simultaneous distribution in all countries.
What's nice it the iTMS model already fits the current film, television, or movie business model and can easily but can so easily adapt to a more worldwide distribution model, As the Film industry expands in that way, Apple can just reflect it. It would be really nice if the movie industry actually got it to the point where the DVD versions were region-free.
Slashdot Mirror
Their goal is to make sure it does not effect profits. People will always hack and pirate and Apple can't stop them. Their goal is to make it hard enough that most people won't bother and so that 99.9% of users would rather use a Apple system than deal with hacking another system to sort of work.
That's interesting- I think that one of the reasons Microsoft has such a large market share is because their software is pirated a lot. In fact I think it's something that the industry doesn't want to publicly admit; piracy is part of marketing a product that helps its popularity, which in turn boosts legal sales. I can recall pirated copies of Word floating around as it became the de facto standard for word processing. And despite free alternatives, pirated copies of Windows became the standard in third world countries. Perhaps this is a marketing strategy for Apple- countries where people can't afford Apple hardware will pirate the OS, the same way they did with Windows because they couldn't afford Windows licensing. This will result in more developers and third-party hardware for the platform, increasing its market share. When Apple II's were at their height in popularity, clones were rampant in developing countries, while Apple hardware was the standard in countries where people could afford it.
Nobody under 30 is going to get that one.
Isn't it used in Romulan Warbirds?
I don't think OSS is the holy grail which fixes everything, nor do I think MS is any better than OSS or worse for that matter.
What do you think would be the best setup? I mean do you have any ideas on how things could be done, or have you seen any that just haven't reached the popularity of those two models?
Apple too. Yes, I love Apple (so gimme all your mod points), but they do seriously oversell their products when they know full well they won't be able to meet demand.
I didn't think this was a marketing gimmick, but a result of Apple practising just in time manufacturing. IIRC that has been their modus operandi for years. There was that period when they actually weren't producing or selling iMacs because they weren't getting the processors on time allegedly, and that wouldn't be a wise marketing gimmick.
Odd, every one of the examples you mentioned works in MY Windows.
I don't get why the previous poster used those examples because they're the same function-wise, but there is a difference in the GUI implementations. The thing about the Windows drag and drop I remember (it's been a while) is that many times it simply changes the cursor to indicate you're dragging something. For example, when you're dragging a picture off a web page onto the desktop, or when you are dragging highlighted text. In OS X, you actually have a transparent image of what you are dragging, like the picture or highlighted text. I actually think this has more to do with how Microsoft would integrate features from other software producers, but simply change the look and feel to make sure it doesn't infringe on copyright, rather than lack of functionality. Like I said, it's been a while so I'm not sure if they have changed this.
I should have mentioned this in my previous comment but a good example of the window proxy icon drag and drop function in conjunction with the Terminal is this; if you have a Finder window open and you would like to navigate to that directory in the terminal, you just type the "cd " command in the terminal, then drag the Finder window icon onto the Terminal window, and hit return. The Terminal then has the command line path set to that directory. It has a nice feel to it, combining Finder window navigation with the powerful Unix-level commands available through the Terminal.
OS X does have the interesting idea of the "proxy icon" in the window bar; drag it to a Finder window to create a copy of the file (or an alias to it), drag it to a message window of just about any e-mail program and create an attachment, heck, drag it to another program icon to open it in that program, too.
There's also a useful function wherein you can drag a folder to an open/save dialogue window and it automatically sets the path to that folder. I've found myself using it a bit. I presume that this is standard in other terminal applications though, but being able to drag a file or folder onto the Terminal and have it suddenly appear as a text path on the command line as if you typed it all in is really useful.
Has Jobs been doing his "reality distortion field visionary leader" bit with Pixar, or has he just been a major stockholder while the company has been going on it's own momentum? Would the sale of Pixar result in layoffs and lower morale, or would the company simply go on the same way it is, or possibly even improve with more investment?
Oh, I know, I know: the anal-og hole!
I can't believe I'm participating in this pathetically juvenile toilet humour, but here goes... what about the digit-al hole. Aha. Get it? Digit-al? Oh nevermind. I don't need to fucking impress you!!!
I run Gentoo Linux, how does this affect me?
If you're using a browser to access this website right now, it affects you.
Being a Slashdot editor is the best job ever! You can pick and choose what submissions you want to post and disregard all others without any justification whatsoever!
"Malaria Mondays" are also known as "movie night" because of the really bizarre dreams this shit induces.
Does it actually make your dreams more bizarre or does it just make them more vivid and help you recall them better? Dreams are pretty bizarre as they are anyway, but most people don't bother to record their dreams on a regular basis to notice. Do you recall your dreams when you aren't on Malarone and compare them? BTW, that "bizarre" dream you had actually seems to have meaningful metaphors. I'll take a crack at it; despite the humour in the symbolism, it almost seems like a dream about feeling pressure from an employer training you to be a subordinate.
Until he got married, his charitable contributions were non-existent.
Probably has something to do with having kids and suddenly wondering what the future for your descendants will be like.
Unless of course, it is dead too.
Now in the case of these iPods we see a loophole. A way for the hospital to purchase really, really nice gifts for their doctors, under the pretense that it has some medical use. Quite interesting indeed.
I've fooled around with OsiriX and from what I've seen, the radiologist who programmed it, Dr. Rosset, used practically all the programming tools available in OS X. The iPod API is just part of it. He took advantage of other features of OS X like iChat AV and Xgrid, and the latest release takes advantage of Core Data which is a feature that was just introduced in Tiger. The fact that it uses the iPod is just hype in this story, but the reality is Rosset really takes advantage of heaps of the features of OS X, which iPod synchronisation is just a part of.
Remember, for most of the uses - excepting the iPod-viewable photos and videos - any portable drive would do.
One of the things about using OsiriX with an iPod is that it works as an extension of the program's database. You could use any portable drive, but I presume Apple has designed the iPod API in Xcode to work in such a way that it has advantages over a portable drive. It can synchronise with the software automatically, whereas a portable drive would require some manual steps in order for the application to use the DICOM database on the drive. I'm sure there are ways to do this automatically with a portable drive anyway, but the point is this program was written using heaps of the programming tools that are part of OS X, like Xgrid for example.
The article goes into details about repetitive work, cytokines, and work injuries. But it doesn't mention any remedies. Is the process reversible? Are there medications that can treat the production and effect of cytokines? If this is found to apply to humans, can a worker's routine be changed slightly, or would that person need to go so far as to completely change their job and lifestyle? Would they be able to fully recover?
4. Braiiins!
FTA...
Couldn't the FCC requirements that VoIP provide access to 911 emergency services be used as a legal precedent against carriers from degrading VoIP services in the US? If Vonage got in trouble for it, then any company that interferes with the call should be liable as well. Even if it isn't outright blocking the call, artificially deteriorating the quality could prevent proper communication in an emergency and endanger lives. Even jitter and latency in the call could possibly mean the difference between life and death in a critical situation.
this is just an organization and editing program, then how is this any different than iPhoto?
I thought it would be an Apple version of Photoshop, until I read the details. Adobe dropped Premiere for OS X because of Final Cut Pro, so I thought that it was all that all over again. But it does seem like a fancier "Pro" version of iPhoto.
I've noticed that theatrical releases are moving more towards simultaneous distribution in all countries.
What's nice it the iTMS model already fits the current film, television, or movie business model and can easily but can so easily adapt to a more worldwide distribution model, As the Film industry expands in that way, Apple can just reflect it. It would be really nice if the movie industry actually got it to the point where the DVD versions were region-free.
Normally I don't post stuff "About" Slashdot here since I find meta naval gazing very boring
Either Taco meant "navel" or he thinks staring at sailors is boring. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
Not those by Microsoft.
Are we going to suddenly see completely transparent vehicles driving around?
And what about transparent planes? The development of invisible stealth fighter technology results in UFO sightings of a flying hooker.