You can already watch BBC One, Two, Three, Four, News, Parliament, and CBBC (And that's only after a quick skim), for example BBC One (Beta, limited to UK IPs).
If you're doing beefy AV processing yes, you're going to have a MacBook Pro, or a suitable desktop (PC alternatives are available, but this is an Apple thread so I'll stick to Mac).
However, Apple touts iLife as one of the big selling points of Macs, and iMovie 08 is a part of that. MacBooks are more than powerful enough to rip your home movie and chop it about in iMovie to share with family, but without a FireWire port you're going to have an awful time importing video, often having to use an external adapter or some proprietary USB method. FireWire provided a DV standard for getting video off a camcorder, and was part of the 'plug in your camcorder and make a movie' thing which Apple markets to pretty much everybody who buys a Mac.
Have you tried using cPanel 11? It's much (much) nicer than the older versions, more consistent, better UI, faster and more intuitive stuff in/scripts and so on.
Or, to put it another way, I don't think that Ubuntu/Redhat/whatever having 85% of the desktop market would be any less evil than Microsoft having it. I think it would due to the open nature of the source - if they start being assholes with regards to the users it's fairly trivial to fork the code, market it as something new, and say "100% compatible with your old [distro] applications and files".
As for standards, nothing stops different distros implementing the same standard. The trouble is that almost everybody in the FOSS world is convinced that their standard is better than the next one, so there is often a total lack of harmonisation. It's getting better as the space matures, but still isn't perfect.
If you're still installing XP on an embedded machine in 2014 you have bigger problems than the authentication server shutting down. Like ignoring 10 years of embedded OS development.
Not true. The game comes with a substantial library of content built in to deal with non-connected gamers, and I'd guess 'downloaded' content is cached.
Internet access isn't a core part of the game itself, just EA wanting the game to phone home.
I think it's worse, but should be considered as an alternative to CDs.
How about EITHER the game checks every 10 days, OR demands a CD be inserted at least every 10 days? I can't see checks going away any time soon (Arguments about them being a waste of space aside), and in the absence of requiring neither I'd prefer to be able to do an online check so I don't need to drag CDs around, but still be able to do a CD-based authentication if I have no network.
"Beware of the dog" is a bad sign to have, it's an admission on your part that the dog is dangerous and may attack an intruder (Even if your dog is absolutely docile). This may cause problems if your dog so much as barks at an intruder ("It was barking and foaming at me, I thought it was going to kill me!") since you've already said it may be violent.
Just a picture of the dog and "I live here" isn't any suggestion your dog is violent, but should have the same effect.
The problem with not being reliant on one vendor is that interoperability seldom works quite as well.
The latest Office/Exchange/Outlook/SharePoint work together absolutely amazingly if your sysadmin has actually sat down and configured them correctly instead of relying on the installer or 3rd party hacks. I've not yet seen a similar ecosystem for businesses from any set of independent vendors due to the tendancy to 'do things their own way'.
Open Source should be able to do this with ease if there was a clearly agreed on method and format for exchanging information between applications, rather than (as I've seen in several places) a collection of hacked together scripts to do things like extract email attachments and put them into the document share, or move calendar appointments from the shared diary to a personal one.
I think Google have a wide enough base of things they either developed in-house or bought from elsewhere to stop adding new stuff, sit back, take a good hard look at what they've got, and start refining and integrating things.
I've got a Gmail account and a YouTube account. Start rolling those up. Ditch the Google Video interface entirely and forward it all to YouTube. Make GrandCentral tie in to Google Chat. Make the Google Homepage thing connect better with stuff like Bookmarks.
Google is becoming a huge, sprawling mass which may contain all the worlds' information, but doesn't put any of it at my fingertips. Why do I have loads of distinct search boxes for emails, calendar, contacts, RSS feeds, groups, chats etc when they could be one single search box for "My Stuff".
It just needs a group of people to look over everything and force every single development team to make it all work together, make the UIs consistent and so on. It's a lot of work, but it's something that has to be done every so often to stop things falling apart. Google's grown quickly and messily enough that it now needs a serious spring clean, and they sure could afford it instead of spending $500 million on a small company with a slightly cool technology which will languish at the bottom of the "other things we do" list.
Correlation != causation. You may be walking to class more, or less able to afford 'junk' foods and as a result eating more of the cheaper pulses, pasta, vegetables, fruit etc.
By saying 'nice meat' it sounds like you're willing to cook yourself decent food, and hence are able to knock up something worth eating for a sensible price on your own rather than resorting to cheap microwave meals all the time.
As with all things I reckon it's in the balance. Nothing but meat every meal, every day is going to wreak havoc with your health. Same as if all you ate was nothing but vegetables every meal.
It's not 'better', it just produces a different cup of coffee. It's like comparing espresso to drip filter. Some days I prefer one, some I prefer the other.
You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions: It's giving me specific conditions under which I can do something with the code (Section 5).
Now, the next argument would be something along the lines of "It's copyrighted code anyway, so they're giving you permission to do something you couldn't before". Surely the same applies to OS X. You are granted a licence to use Apple's copyrighted code *as they want you to*
BP gasoline is made specifically to work in a wide variety of cars, and is marketed as such. It also comes with implicit (and in some cases explicit) terms of use, such as "don't put diesel in your petrol engine". Failure to abide by these rules leave you in no position to complain if you're left without a working engine. OS X is made to work on Macs, and therefore people are in no position to complain if they install it on something that isn't a Mac and Apple subsequently break that installation.
As far as the post-sale attempt to change my purchase contract goes, what about if I buy a copy of Linux? The entire GPL is not printed on the box, so by your argument if I buy a boxed copy of linux I'm therefore legally entitled to ignore the terms of the GPL (It was never presented to me before I bought the software) and distribute the code (Which is in the box, and therefore mine) however I want.
You seem to be assuming that Apple are trying to sell an OS. They're not. They're trying to sell an entire system, from the chips on the motherboard up to the user interface.
It's simple - If you don't buy Apple branded hardware, you don't get OS X. It's like if you don't buy a BMW, you don't get iDrive.
Charge customers as a percentage of their total bandwidth that they are using at any given time. For simplicity, let's say a connection is $2.40 per 24 hour period. If you use 100% of the bandwidth you are paying for, you pay $2.40. If you are only using 50% of it, but for the full 24 hours, you pay $1.20. If you use 12 hours at 100% and the other 12 you use nothing, you still pay $1.20. Obviously a real implementation would have a sliding scale of charges depending on what volume you are actually using (cumulative Gaussian curve?) and would need to be calculated as an average over a certain time period (Bits shifted per hour, for example).
This has the advantage of providing a cap on prices. If you use 100% if your pipe 100% of the time, you will be able to calculate a definate amount you are being charged. Obviously implement a minimum monthly charge to cover essential admin costs etc, and raise the 100% usage price to something more significant because only people who are genuinely hammering their connection will pay for it.
It also deals elegantly with not having your full pipe available because everybody else is using it at the same time. If you can only use 50% of the pipe because somebody else is using it as well, then you get charged less.
I'm obviously channelling all the opposite effects. If I'm ever working in a coffee shop it's usually Nero or Costa, near the window in the sunlight, with a full-fat latte (Can't be bothered with mocha-frappe-flake-slim-peppermint nonsense), and with a screen full of code. Can't help about the logo though, although I've tried to find ways to turn off the little light without voiding my warranty (Ideas anyone?). On the plus side, by facing the window and having my glowing logo, I'm increasing the creativity of anybody walking past in the street.
Hey... maybe Steve only gets the ideas because he's exposed to a hall full of glowing laptop logos at every press event...
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You can already watch BBC One, Two, Three, Four, News, Parliament, and CBBC (And that's only after a quick skim), for example BBC One (Beta, limited to UK IPs).
The key difference:
Windows is an operating system, Lindows is an operating system.
Azure is an application platform. Azureus is a bittorrent client.
Spot it?
I'm not denying that modern systems are faster, but I'd love to see your phone do payroll. Get back to us on that.
I don't think you fully comprehend the sheer amount of number crunching and updating of records involved in doing payroll for 65000 people.
If you're doing beefy AV processing yes, you're going to have a MacBook Pro, or a suitable desktop (PC alternatives are available, but this is an Apple thread so I'll stick to Mac).
However, Apple touts iLife as one of the big selling points of Macs, and iMovie 08 is a part of that. MacBooks are more than powerful enough to rip your home movie and chop it about in iMovie to share with family, but without a FireWire port you're going to have an awful time importing video, often having to use an external adapter or some proprietary USB method. FireWire provided a DV standard for getting video off a camcorder, and was part of the 'plug in your camcorder and make a movie' thing which Apple markets to pretty much everybody who buys a Mac.
They expect them to shell out for a Pro.
Have you tried using cPanel 11? It's much (much) nicer than the older versions, more consistent, better UI, faster and more intuitive stuff in /scripts and so on.
Not perfect, but a lot better than 10 was.
As for standards, nothing stops different distros implementing the same standard. The trouble is that almost everybody in the FOSS world is convinced that their standard is better than the next one, so there is often a total lack of harmonisation. It's getting better as the space matures, but still isn't perfect.
And even more irritatingly, mysql_escape_string() has been deprecated as well. You should use mysql_real_escape_string().
If you're still installing XP on an embedded machine in 2014 you have bigger problems than the authentication server shutting down. Like ignoring 10 years of embedded OS development.
Not true. The game comes with a substantial library of content built in to deal with non-connected gamers, and I'd guess 'downloaded' content is cached.
Internet access isn't a core part of the game itself, just EA wanting the game to phone home.
For a few seconds. Once every 10 days.
I think it's worse, but should be considered as an alternative to CDs.
How about EITHER the game checks every 10 days, OR demands a CD be inserted at least every 10 days? I can't see checks going away any time soon (Arguments about them being a waste of space aside), and in the absence of requiring neither I'd prefer to be able to do an online check so I don't need to drag CDs around, but still be able to do a CD-based authentication if I have no network.
"Beware of the dog" is a bad sign to have, it's an admission on your part that the dog is dangerous and may attack an intruder (Even if your dog is absolutely docile). This may cause problems if your dog so much as barks at an intruder ("It was barking and foaming at me, I thought it was going to kill me!") since you've already said it may be violent.
Just a picture of the dog and "I live here" isn't any suggestion your dog is violent, but should have the same effect.
The problem with not being reliant on one vendor is that interoperability seldom works quite as well.
The latest Office/Exchange/Outlook/SharePoint work together absolutely amazingly if your sysadmin has actually sat down and configured them correctly instead of relying on the installer or 3rd party hacks. I've not yet seen a similar ecosystem for businesses from any set of independent vendors due to the tendancy to 'do things their own way'.
Open Source should be able to do this with ease if there was a clearly agreed on method and format for exchanging information between applications, rather than (as I've seen in several places) a collection of hacked together scripts to do things like extract email attachments and put them into the document share, or move calendar appointments from the shared diary to a personal one.
I think Google have a wide enough base of things they either developed in-house or bought from elsewhere to stop adding new stuff, sit back, take a good hard look at what they've got, and start refining and integrating things.
I've got a Gmail account and a YouTube account. Start rolling those up. Ditch the Google Video interface entirely and forward it all to YouTube. Make GrandCentral tie in to Google Chat. Make the Google Homepage thing connect better with stuff like Bookmarks.
Google is becoming a huge, sprawling mass which may contain all the worlds' information, but doesn't put any of it at my fingertips. Why do I have loads of distinct search boxes for emails, calendar, contacts, RSS feeds, groups, chats etc when they could be one single search box for "My Stuff".
It just needs a group of people to look over everything and force every single development team to make it all work together, make the UIs consistent and so on. It's a lot of work, but it's something that has to be done every so often to stop things falling apart. Google's grown quickly and messily enough that it now needs a serious spring clean, and they sure could afford it instead of spending $500 million on a small company with a slightly cool technology which will languish at the bottom of the "other things we do" list.
Correlation != causation. You may be walking to class more, or less able to afford 'junk' foods and as a result eating more of the cheaper pulses, pasta, vegetables, fruit etc.
By saying 'nice meat' it sounds like you're willing to cook yourself decent food, and hence are able to knock up something worth eating for a sensible price on your own rather than resorting to cheap microwave meals all the time.
As with all things I reckon it's in the balance. Nothing but meat every meal, every day is going to wreak havoc with your health. Same as if all you ate was nothing but vegetables every meal.
It's not 'better', it just produces a different cup of coffee. It's like comparing espresso to drip filter. Some days I prefer one, some I prefer the other.
Yep.
Now, the next argument would be something along the lines of "It's copyrighted code anyway, so they're giving you permission to do something you couldn't before". Surely the same applies to OS X. You are granted a licence to use Apple's copyrighted code *as they want you to*
BP gasoline is made specifically to work in a wide variety of cars, and is marketed as such. It also comes with implicit (and in some cases explicit) terms of use, such as "don't put diesel in your petrol engine". Failure to abide by these rules leave you in no position to complain if you're left without a working engine. OS X is made to work on Macs, and therefore people are in no position to complain if they install it on something that isn't a Mac and Apple subsequently break that installation.
As far as the post-sale attempt to change my purchase contract goes, what about if I buy a copy of Linux? The entire GPL is not printed on the box, so by your argument if I buy a boxed copy of linux I'm therefore legally entitled to ignore the terms of the GPL (It was never presented to me before I bought the software) and distribute the code (Which is in the box, and therefore mine) however I want.
You seem to be assuming that Apple are trying to sell an OS. They're not. They're trying to sell an entire system, from the chips on the motherboard up to the user interface.
It's simple - If you don't buy Apple branded hardware, you don't get OS X. It's like if you don't buy a BMW, you don't get iDrive.
Charge customers as a percentage of their total bandwidth that they are using at any given time. For simplicity, let's say a connection is $2.40 per 24 hour period. If you use 100% of the bandwidth you are paying for, you pay $2.40. If you are only using 50% of it, but for the full 24 hours, you pay $1.20. If you use 12 hours at 100% and the other 12 you use nothing, you still pay $1.20. Obviously a real implementation would have a sliding scale of charges depending on what volume you are actually using (cumulative Gaussian curve?) and would need to be calculated as an average over a certain time period (Bits shifted per hour, for example).
This has the advantage of providing a cap on prices. If you use 100% if your pipe 100% of the time, you will be able to calculate a definate amount you are being charged. Obviously implement a minimum monthly charge to cover essential admin costs etc, and raise the 100% usage price to something more significant because only people who are genuinely hammering their connection will pay for it.
It also deals elegantly with not having your full pipe available because everybody else is using it at the same time. If you can only use 50% of the pipe because somebody else is using it as well, then you get charged less.
I'm obviously channelling all the opposite effects. If I'm ever working in a coffee shop it's usually Nero or Costa, near the window in the sunlight, with a full-fat latte (Can't be bothered with mocha-frappe-flake-slim-peppermint nonsense), and with a screen full of code. Can't help about the logo though, although I've tried to find ways to turn off the little light without voiding my warranty (Ideas anyone?). On the plus side, by facing the window and having my glowing logo, I'm increasing the creativity of anybody walking past in the street.
Hey... maybe Steve only gets the ideas because he's exposed to a hall full of glowing laptop logos at every press event...
It does bug you with downloaded files, and lets you know they were downloaded and where from. It's better than nothing.