all PBs come with a "full sized" keyboard. have you even used one? almost all the keys are the same size as the standard keyboard. (the only exception is, afaik, is the return key on the 12" which is a bit shorter.) if you are talking about separate inverted-T arrow/home/end/pg up+down keys and/or numeric pad, then that's different.
i think apple would like its user to be oriented at the center in relative to the monitor. that's why those extra keys aren't offered. but even 12" do not have "minature" (sic) keyboard.
was the PB impressive to you at any time? you do realize both PB and iBooks get better specs over time, and this PB update is part of that cycle? if you think iBook offers better value, then PB will probably never be "impressive." even if PB came with a G5, it will be priced accordingly and you'll probably think it's not "impressive" for the price, compared to the iBook.
there are developers and coders at those big companies who are making a living. GPL may be your favorite and it may be very agreeable to you. that's great. but that doesn't mean you can denounce people (remember, companies are made up of real people...) who do not embrace GPL the way you do.
do people who work at non-profit have some claim to superior morality over those who do not because the company they work at are not pursuing profit? i don't think so.
> you might as well accept it as a price of doing buisness.
can the consumers also accept that DRM is the price of the convenience? frankly, i don't understand these "just because i can break it, i will break it" attitude. the mild DRM imposed by iTMS poses no problems for most users (otherise, you can't explain how iTMS has sold over 250 million songs in less than 2 years) yet was necessary for apple to convince the labels to let them sell music online.
if you have problems with the DRM, don't buy it. if you want to crack it, yeah, that's cool with me, i don't really care. but i don't see why we need to get up and arms about it - CDs don't play in a tape player, even though both mediums contain the same music. should we crack the CDs so it will play in a tape player too?
i see your point to a degree, but it's also a fact that no matter how good the product is, no matter how low the price is, no matter how compelling the offerings are, some, non-negligible amount of people will "pirate," and think nothing of gaining personal enjoyment (or worse, profit) at the expense of others, including creators, right holders, distributors and above all, respecting/paying consumers.
i don't know the proper way to deal with it. but i can see why DRM is being used. i don't think it's as black and white as, "it'll never work, so just quit it."
am i mistaken to think that "NSFW" is not a commonly used acronym here..? i've posted once before with NSFW content website and both times, someone mentions this even though i put NSFW right after the link...
>Continuing on the case, wouldn't this also make Google liable for linking to sites that host illegal MP3s?
i don't think so. google is a general search - even if sites with illegal mp3s come up, it's not deliberate, with "malicious" intent. by having a linked page for specifically for music, i don't think there's much debate on what the intent of the page was.
a bad analogy, perhaps, but if a guy publishes a list of contacts for pedophiles to identify families with children, i think thats' a crime. general purpose telephone book that could be mined by users to accomplish the same thing isn't liable the same way, no?
however, even if you are in a laptop market, it's never a bad time to switch, i think. next-gen PB will be a speed bump, most likely. rumored dual-core G4 or G5 are highly unlikely, and even without those, i wouldn't call current PBs "sluggish." i have a two year old PB - 867 MHz G4. it's been doing great because CPU speed is one thing but OS X is quite another. (the difference, however, will be perhaps less "shocking" for you since you use linux, not windows.)
if you were thinking of Mac mini/iMac, go for it now. otherwise, if you can afford to, might as well wait a few months at most for PM/PB update/price drop. i imagine something will happen with the iPod (since you mentioned, even though it's not a Mac, per se) by the two year anniversary of iTMS in late April.
they are not suing downloaders. these are people who were trading or swapping movies, or hosting them for others to download.
and as far as i know, RIAA has never sued downloaders. they sue uploaders/distributers.
these tactics, in their eye, are far more effective in stopping the spread of illegal copies than busing some small street vendors. (and of course, you can't sue downloaders - yet - because they aren't breaking copyright themselves.)
there are many companies that are "businesses" but don't act the way EA has. goldman sachs comes as one example of a very profittable company that has also been commended for its fair and dignified treatment of the workforce.
not all businesses are alike. pursuing profits isn't mutually exclusive with treating its employees with respect.
the way EA is doing business is one way, and it's their way of doing things. personally, i'd never work for or buy products from company that seems to show absolutely no compassion in its business practice or for its employees. that's my way of doing things in response to such companies. and i doubt that i'm alone.
WINE is a "contained" platform to let the virus roam free... just like the jurassic park was supposed to be for the re-created dinasaurs... but soon enough, the windows virus will mutate and infect the rest of the machine... taking over linux...;)
by branding it, speakeasy can "appeal" to the less savvy subscribers that it's not just some random new browser. even if people didn't know firefox (and/or knew only IE and distrusts everything else as unfamiliar), they might try and stick with a "speakeasy" browser.
sure. but nothing in your orig. post suggested that. you just said, this has been done before with netscape. and since back in 96, malware/worms based on browser exploits were much, much less of an issue than they are today, it suggests to me that southern bell probably offered netscape for branding reasons and not for internet safety issue. since speakeasy seems to be doing this for internet safety issue. don't you think this is more "new" than you originally thought?
it may not be "exactly" new but don't you think the fact this is the first time something like this was done with firefox is newsworthy, at least to many/. readers.
i don't understand this "this isn't exactly new" attitude. are you implying that since it's not "new," it's not newsworthy? if not, what exactly is accomplished by the proclaimation that "this isn't exactly new" and bringing up semi-relevant example from 8 years ago?
if someone overclocks a newer processor, it's not newsworthy because overclocking has been done with other processors?
i imagine a lot of/. crowd who'd consider purchasing the mini would already have a usb kb and a mouse, if not a good dvi monitor.
i think apple is not completely insane for offering mini the way it is, it distinguishes itself well from other Mac products.
if apple offered the mini with monitor/kb/mouse bundle, then/. crowd would blast apple for charging the same price for G4 mini with 20" monitor and G5 iMac 20".;)
cheapest display apple offers is $999 20". no matter the discount, i doubt there'll be much demand to pay almost twice as much for the display as for the computer.
if someone wanted a bundle including a mouse/kb/monitor, there's a perfectly good (and more powerful) alternative called iMac. (and it's not much more expensive that buying a mini with all the accessories from apple, as you suggested.)
GPS-enabled search would be excellent, as more and more people probably will adopt accessing the web on their cell phones. (already happening in japan, afaik.)
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i think apple would like its user to be oriented at the center in relative to the monitor. that's why those extra keys aren't offered. but even 12" do not have "minature" (sic) keyboard.
was the PB impressive to you at any time? you do realize both PB and iBooks get better specs over time, and this PB update is part of that cycle? if you think iBook offers better value, then PB will probably never be "impressive." even if PB came with a G5, it will be priced accordingly and you'll probably think it's not "impressive" for the price, compared to the iBook.
sure thing, just let me get hold of the new $1499 12" PB and when i let it drop from the second floor, i'll get back to you. :P
12" used to be $1599, now it's $1499.
please name the flaw in iPhoto 4. i know iPhoto 5 has added features over iPhoto 4, but not any kind of bug fixes.
/.-ing the forum will greatly help the cause... :P
do people who work at non-profit have some claim to superior morality over those who do not because the company they work at are not pursuing profit? i don't think so.
can the consumers also accept that DRM is the price of the convenience? frankly, i don't understand these "just because i can break it, i will break it" attitude. the mild DRM imposed by iTMS poses no problems for most users (otherise, you can't explain how iTMS has sold over 250 million songs in less than 2 years) yet was necessary for apple to convince the labels to let them sell music online.
if you have problems with the DRM, don't buy it. if you want to crack it, yeah, that's cool with me, i don't really care. but i don't see why we need to get up and arms about it - CDs don't play in a tape player, even though both mediums contain the same music. should we crack the CDs so it will play in a tape player too?
i don't know the proper way to deal with it. but i can see why DRM is being used. i don't think it's as black and white as, "it'll never work, so just quit it."
am i mistaken to think that "NSFW" is not a commonly used acronym here..? i've posted once before with NSFW content website and both times, someone mentions this even though i put NSFW right after the link...
the breast bowl!! (NSFW)
let's not single out the people with "crackheaded" ideas for scrutny and remember the VCs that believed those ideas were worth their money.
i don't think so. google is a general search - even if sites with illegal mp3s come up, it's not deliberate, with "malicious" intent. by having a linked page for specifically for music, i don't think there's much debate on what the intent of the page was.
a bad analogy, perhaps, but if a guy publishes a list of contacts for pedophiles to identify families with children, i think thats' a crime. general purpose telephone book that could be mined by users to accomplish the same thing isn't liable the same way, no?
however, even if you are in a laptop market, it's never a bad time to switch, i think. next-gen PB will be a speed bump, most likely. rumored dual-core G4 or G5 are highly unlikely, and even without those, i wouldn't call current PBs "sluggish." i have a two year old PB - 867 MHz G4. it's been doing great because CPU speed is one thing but OS X is quite another. (the difference, however, will be perhaps less "shocking" for you since you use linux, not windows.)
if you were thinking of Mac mini/iMac, go for it now. otherwise, if you can afford to, might as well wait a few months at most for PM/PB update/price drop. i imagine something will happen with the iPod (since you mentioned, even though it's not a Mac, per se) by the two year anniversary of iTMS in late April.
being young or old do not exempt make someone exempt. it may make news, but there are reasons why these people were "caught."
and as far as i know, RIAA has never sued downloaders. they sue uploaders/distributers.
these tactics, in their eye, are far more effective in stopping the spread of illegal copies than busing some small street vendors. (and of course, you can't sue downloaders - yet - because they aren't breaking copyright themselves.)
not all businesses are alike. pursuing profits isn't mutually exclusive with treating its employees with respect.
the way EA is doing business is one way, and it's their way of doing things. personally, i'd never work for or buy products from company that seems to show absolutely no compassion in its business practice or for its employees. that's my way of doing things in response to such companies. and i doubt that i'm alone.
WINE is a "contained" platform to let the virus roam free... just like the jurassic park was supposed to be for the re-created dinasaurs... but soon enough, the windows virus will mutate and infect the rest of the machine... taking over linux... ;)
by branding it, speakeasy can "appeal" to the less savvy subscribers that it's not just some random new browser. even if people didn't know firefox (and/or knew only IE and distrusts everything else as unfamiliar), they might try and stick with a "speakeasy" browser.
did you even read the post i was replying to?
sure. but nothing in your orig. post suggested that. you just said, this has been done before with netscape. and since back in 96, malware/worms based on browser exploits were much, much less of an issue than they are today, it suggests to me that southern bell probably offered netscape for branding reasons and not for internet safety issue. since speakeasy seems to be doing this for internet safety issue. don't you think this is more "new" than you originally thought?
i don't understand this "this isn't exactly new" attitude. are you implying that since it's not "new," it's not newsworthy? if not, what exactly is accomplished by the proclaimation that "this isn't exactly new" and bringing up semi-relevant example from 8 years ago?
if someone overclocks a newer processor, it's not newsworthy because overclocking has been done with other processors?
i think apple is not completely insane for offering mini the way it is, it distinguishes itself well from other Mac products.
if apple offered the mini with monitor/kb/mouse bundle, then /. crowd would blast apple for charging the same price for G4 mini with 20" monitor and G5 iMac 20". ;)
if someone wanted a bundle including a mouse/kb/monitor, there's a perfectly good (and more powerful) alternative called iMac. (and it's not much more expensive that buying a mini with all the accessories from apple, as you suggested.)
GPS-enabled search would be excellent, as more and more people probably will adopt accessing the web on their cell phones. (already happening in japan, afaik.)