The iMacs sold in late 2007 shipped with a Pioneer DVR K06 DVD±RW as the "SuperDrive". Perhaps you should save your snark for the Embrace and Extenders.
I have on freeware app I use periodically. It is imaginatively called Maintenance and appears basically to be a front end for built in Mac OS X scripts the system already uses, but also allows you to do things like clean caches and such. It isn't really necessary, but I do like that it helped me determine that my HFS++ volume had some header corruption and advised me to reboot from my Mac OS X install DVD and run a disk scan. It did and it repaired the headers and now the disk access is just as fast as the day I bought the computer.
I left Gentoo for FreeBSD due to these reasons and also due to waiting for certain packages for too long, then receiving buggy packages and finally, having the base config change several times in 6 months, mainly for apache2, php, etc. After spending a week with FreeBSD I don't think I'll be back to Gentoo for any reason.
You know, when I was growing up in the 1980s just beceause we didn't have to have Vista and Office 2007 or whatever didn't make me totally helpless in the workplace. The first time I had a class that used the computer writing lab in 7th grade was the old blue-screen WordPerfect. The first time I did any computer programming at school was BASIC on a TRS-80. The first time I worked with a spreadsheet was in Lotus 1,2,3 on a Mac in 6th grade. Somehow I managed to be able to translate these non-Microsoft skills into being able to use what "90% of the workplace" uses, and somehow it didn't manage ending up being "wasteful".
On the contrary, I think the computing diversity we had in the 80s is sorely missed.
I still don't understand why the IBM Model M is considered the best ever. I've owned two and I would only say it is the toughest keyboard ever.
Pros: * It's near unbreakable * The keys are labeled and colored very well
Cons: * It's way too big and takes up too much room on the desk * The distracting clicking noise is even worse with a room full of them clicking away * The keys are too high and require too much effort to press (probably done to appease the typewriter diehards in the 1980s) * Print Screen / Scroll Lock / Pause are relics of the 1980s.
Add in the fact that modern keyboards half the size of the Model M are able to fit in useful keys such as volume control, mute buttons and such, the Model M may have been the best keyboard up to the 1990s but its glory days are past.
If it's "impossible to test every possible combination of hardware" then why does Microsoft bother with the "Designed for Windows" certification program?
It's not about DRM it's about the price
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The iTunes store already has DRM-free tracks available. It's called iTunes Plus and they're 256kb AAC tracks with no FairPlay restrictions. So far the only major taking advantage of this are EMI. Sony BMG could be using this right now if they so desired. Steve Jobs has said so.
What this is about is that Apple refuses to let the majors set the prices of the singles. One of the major selling points of the iTunes store since it began has been that the single tracks are 99. The majors want to charge more for popular tracks. Apple refused. A similar event already happened with NBC leaving iTunes over pricing control issues.
Sony BMC will come crawling back to the #3 distribution channel again once their own project fails. A quick Google reveals that Sony has an online store of their own called Sony Connect. Let's see... requires Windows and Internet Explorer. Well, looks like I'm out of luck...no thanks Sony.
I used to know some really rabid SUSE fans a few years ago. They would go on and on about how it was the best distro and great YaST was. I haven't heard anything from them in a while. I can only imagine what their opinion on the last year is.
Accelerating? Perhaps, perhaps not. When the Wright brothers first took the Wright Flyer up at Kitty Hawk in 1903, I don't know if either of them could have imagined 11 years later a world war that would include dogfights and ace fighter pilots such as the Red Baron and Captain Rickenbacker.
Q: When you're the largest ISP in the nation and you acquire both Netcsape and Winamp and all the developers from Mozilla and Nullsoft, how is it that you manage to monumentally fuck it all up?
"HP, Dell, and others might be able to do the same thing, provided they had panache in their product lines."
Dell has their own printer line (and Dell ink), TVs, speakers, PDAs and other gadgets. HP makes just about every product under the sun and then some. Hell, just a few years ago HP was selling rebranded iPods. Neither company really has a good excuse as far as product line panache goes.
For every geek who uses Pirate Bay, Usenet, etc, there's about 20 people at my work who see my video iPod and ask "where do you get TV shows and movies for that thing?" Those are the people who will be paying for this service.
It has everything to do with the fact that Apple won't budge on their $0.99 cent tracks and that makes the labels mad. Apple already sells DRM-free tracks for EMI through iTunes Plus. All the labels could if they wanted to, but they won't. In the years since they killed off the original Napster they've done nothing but sit on their hands. Then Apple came along and filled the void consumers were begging for: legitimate online music sales. They don't care who it is or what the method of distribution is, what they care about is that they control it. They can't control Apple, PlaysForSure is a bust that even Microsoft has abandoned, so they turn to the next biggest thing: Amazon. We'll see how that plays out.
I am constantly amazed with the people who flock to Apple when they do the same thing at the hardware level that Microsoft does at the software level and that is product line lock in.
Really? I run Mac OS X and Windows XP on my Mac, and if I wanted to I could have my pick of Linux or BSD variants that work on Intel on my Mac. And since my iMac is really nothing but a glorified Intel-based laptop on a stand, I'm not exactly sure what part of the hardware locks me in. Perhaps it's these proprietary USB and Firewire ports on the back that only allow me to attach Apple-only peripherals. Perhaps it's the built in Pioneer DVD-RW that Apple nicknames the "Superdrive" that allows me to only burn on Apple branded discs to Apple-only formats. (If only I could manage to read ISO files, perhaps even go as far as to mount them as a new drive when I double clicked on them). If only Steve Jobs wasn't such a channel-controlling, OEM bullying monopolistic control freak...
Not only has he baited those of us who read the FSJ blog, but he has also baited every Microsoft fanboy and Apple fanboy who read his blog, who don't read his blog, and now Slashdot.
If the Internet ever gave out trophies, this guy deserves at least 5. Maybe 6.
HThe Army's push to use Macs to help protect its computing corps got its start in August 2005, when General Steve Boutelle, the Army's chief information officer, gave a speech calling for more diversity in the Army's computer vendors. He argued the approach would both increase competition among military contractors and strengthen its IT defenses.
"Sir, I have the DOJ on line 2." "Tell them to get Bill Gates in here." "Yes sir." (door opens an hour later) "Bill Gates, you told us Windows Vista would be more secure!" "It IS more secure, over five million...(BLAM)"
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The iMacs sold in late 2007 shipped with a Pioneer DVR K06 DVD±RW as the "SuperDrive". Perhaps you should save your snark for the Embrace and Extenders.
Problem solved.
Do tell us more about this "security through obscurity" concept.
I have on freeware app I use periodically. It is imaginatively called Maintenance and appears basically to be a front end for built in Mac OS X scripts the system already uses, but also allows you to do things like clean caches and such. It isn't really necessary, but I do like that it helped me determine that my HFS++ volume had some header corruption and advised me to reboot from my Mac OS X install DVD and run a disk scan. It did and it repaired the headers and now the disk access is just as fast as the day I bought the computer.
Could you give us an example of something proprietary from Apple?
Pay dues? I look around me and all I see are contractors and contractors being let go. What company out there is letting people pay dues at?
I left Gentoo for FreeBSD due to these reasons and also due to waiting for certain packages for too long, then receiving buggy packages and finally, having the base config change several times in 6 months, mainly for apache2, php, etc. After spending a week with FreeBSD I don't think I'll be back to Gentoo for any reason.
You know, when I was growing up in the 1980s just beceause we didn't have to have Vista and Office 2007 or whatever didn't make me totally helpless in the workplace. The first time I had a class that used the computer writing lab in 7th grade was the old blue-screen WordPerfect. The first time I did any computer programming at school was BASIC on a TRS-80. The first time I worked with a spreadsheet was in Lotus 1,2,3 on a Mac in 6th grade. Somehow I managed to be able to translate these non-Microsoft skills into being able to use what "90% of the workplace" uses, and somehow it didn't manage ending up being "wasteful".
On the contrary, I think the computing diversity we had in the 80s is sorely missed.
I still don't understand why the IBM Model M is considered the best ever. I've owned two and I would only say it is the toughest keyboard ever.
Pros:
* It's near unbreakable
* The keys are labeled and colored very well
Cons:
* It's way too big and takes up too much room on the desk
* The distracting clicking noise is even worse with a room full of them clicking away
* The keys are too high and require too much effort to press (probably done to appease the typewriter diehards in the 1980s)
* Print Screen / Scroll Lock / Pause are relics of the 1980s.
Add in the fact that modern keyboards half the size of the Model M are able to fit in useful keys such as volume control, mute buttons and such, the Model M may have been the best keyboard up to the 1990s but its glory days are past.
If it's "impossible to test every possible combination of hardware" then why does Microsoft bother with the "Designed for Windows" certification program?
The iTunes store already has DRM-free tracks available. It's called iTunes Plus and they're 256kb AAC tracks with no FairPlay restrictions. So far the only major taking advantage of this are EMI. Sony BMG could be using this right now if they so desired. Steve Jobs has said so.
What this is about is that Apple refuses to let the majors set the prices of the singles. One of the major selling points of the iTunes store since it began has been that the single tracks are 99. The majors want to charge more for popular tracks. Apple refused. A similar event already happened with NBC leaving iTunes over pricing control issues.
Sony BMC will come crawling back to the #3 distribution channel again once their own project fails. A quick Google reveals that Sony has an online store of their own called Sony Connect. Let's see... requires Windows and Internet Explorer. Well, looks like I'm out of luck...no thanks Sony.
Insightful, given that right now Opera are attempting the same against Microsoft for not supporting W3C standards.
I used to know some really rabid SUSE fans a few years ago. They would go on and on about how it was the best distro and great YaST was. I haven't heard anything from them in a while. I can only imagine what their opinion on the last year is.
Accelerating? Perhaps, perhaps not. When the Wright brothers first took the Wright Flyer up at Kitty Hawk in 1903, I don't know if either of them could have imagined 11 years later a world war that would include dogfights and ace fighter pilots such as the Red Baron and Captain Rickenbacker.
Sex offenders banned from World of Warcraft, because they might OMGPWNRAPE noobs.
Pick you favorite version for your favorite OS here:
http://browser.netscape.com/downloads/archive/
Q: When you're the largest ISP in the nation and you acquire both Netcsape and Winamp and all the developers from Mozilla and Nullsoft, how is it that you manage to monumentally fuck it all up?
A: ?
"HP, Dell, and others might be able to do the same thing, provided they had panache in their product lines."
Dell has their own printer line (and Dell ink), TVs, speakers, PDAs and other gadgets. HP makes just about every product under the sun and then some. Hell, just a few years ago HP was selling rebranded iPods. Neither company really has a good excuse as far as product line panache goes.
For every geek who uses Pirate Bay, Usenet, etc, there's about 20 people at my work who see my video iPod and ask "where do you get TV shows and movies for that thing?" Those are the people who will be paying for this service.
It has everything to do with the fact that Apple won't budge on their $0.99 cent tracks and that makes the labels mad. Apple already sells DRM-free tracks for EMI through iTunes Plus. All the labels could if they wanted to, but they won't. In the years since they killed off the original Napster they've done nothing but sit on their hands. Then Apple came along and filled the void consumers were begging for: legitimate online music sales. They don't care who it is or what the method of distribution is, what they care about is that they control it. They can't control Apple, PlaysForSure is a bust that even Microsoft has abandoned, so they turn to the next biggest thing: Amazon. We'll see how that plays out.
That just made my Christmas.
:)
And sorry, I don't speak Quechua or Aymara but I do know a few Elvish phrases.
I am constantly amazed with the people who flock to Apple when they do the same thing at the hardware level that Microsoft does at the software level and that is product line lock in.
Really? I run Mac OS X and Windows XP on my Mac, and if I wanted to I could have my pick of Linux or BSD variants that work on Intel on my Mac.
And since my iMac is really nothing but a glorified Intel-based laptop on a stand, I'm not exactly sure what part of the hardware locks me in. Perhaps it's these proprietary USB and Firewire ports on the back that only allow me to attach Apple-only peripherals. Perhaps it's the built in Pioneer DVD-RW that Apple nicknames the "Superdrive" that allows me to only burn on Apple branded discs to Apple-only formats. (If only I could manage to read ISO files, perhaps even go as far as to mount them as a new drive when I double clicked on them). If only Steve Jobs wasn't such a channel-controlling, OEM bullying monopolistic control freak...
...and it's not even April.
Not only has he baited those of us who read the FSJ blog, but he has also baited every Microsoft fanboy and Apple fanboy who read his blog, who don't read his blog, and now Slashdot.
If the Internet ever gave out trophies, this guy deserves at least 5. Maybe 6.
I didn't think I'd see this "security through obscurity" myth repeated on Slashdot.
HThe Army's push to use Macs to help protect its computing corps got its start in August 2005, when General Steve Boutelle, the Army's chief information officer, gave a speech calling for more diversity in the Army's computer vendors. He argued the approach would both increase competition among military contractors and strengthen its IT defenses.
"Sir, I have the DOJ on line 2."
"Tell them to get Bill Gates in here."
"Yes sir."
(door opens an hour later)
"Bill Gates, you told us Windows Vista would be more secure!"
"It IS more secure, over five million...(BLAM)"