All valid points, but I'm wondering if the "high tier" is the wrong place to go. Apple sells only one "cheap" computer- the Mini, at $499. From what I've read its sales are good but not great. Suppose Apple were to license their OS to a certain low cost, high volume computer maker to sell a $299 desktop with OSX?
It would undercut sales of the Mini, but not Apple's high-end machines. I think the small percentage they would get of each desktop sold (doesn't Microsoft get something like $40 per computer?) would surely make up for lost sales of Apple-branded computers.
The OS would still be restricted to licensed hardware, which won't affect anyone because most people will only buy a Dell and geeks will find a way to run it on anything.
All Apple motherboards are manufactured by a company named Foxconn, probably in the same Shanghai factory as the boards you mention (If you look inside the case at the I/O ports on the back of the motherboards you own, chances are they say "Foxconn" in really little letters).
Agreed. I'm still using a program called Iphoto Plus 4 (no relation to iPhoto) that came with a cheap 300dpi scanner I bought god knows how long ago. It's n ot perfect, and I'm always on the lookout for a replacement, but until I find one it does most of the things I need.
The moral of the story: Dvorak needs to buy a new scanner.
Agreed. I've never rated a song lower than three, and I have very few threes. All of the songs that I like are either four or five, and the songs that I don't like are left unrated.
I do this because I use the "My Top Rated" smart playlist and I only rate songs I want to go in there. Although I keep the crap I don't listen to.
Heh. I bet the content providers would love a semi-legit reason to deactivate millions of Tivos... but, of course, if peoples' $5000 HDTVs stop working there will be a revolt.
Well, it's a moot point right now. I don't see how these devices can be used for piracy, if all they can do is make DRM'd stuff play on older monitors. There aren't, to my knowledge, any DVI-capture cards for the PC, though the bandwidth of PCI Express might make this possible.
This: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000230050640/ is a similar device. They work fine- for now. But when they are used for piracy, their keys will be revoked, and they will become $400 paperweights.
DisplayPort is expected to accelerate adoption of protected digital outputs on PCs to support viewing high definition and other types of protected content through an optional content protection capability
What happens when (I didn't say if) affiliates of _________ political party start "flagging as objectionable" blogs written by those they disagree with? What happens when religious wackos flag sex blogs as objectionable? TFA says Blogger tracks the number of times a blog is flagged objectionable and base their action on that, not that they review whether something is actually bad. This could be trouble.
No. Sorry. A semi has ten times the mass of a Hummer. At low speeds it might push your car, but at high speed it would vaporize it. And at highway speeds the Hummer driver can hit the brakes, which would be suicidal for the semi (it would jacknife the truck).
No, like licenses on software. I've bought copies of Windows and OSX, but I don't own either. I just get to use them forever (or in the case of Windows, until my computer dies, since it's OEM software that is tied to the hardware).
I propose a new law: for every anecdote there is a counter-anecdote.
My Olympus C-2100uz is going on five years old now. It has outlived twelve rechargeable batteries and the write-limit on at least one 128MB SM card. I've taken it to all sorts of places and scratched a couple of UV filters into uselessness, and the camera itself has never had a problem. Then again, it has a manual lens cover and the zoom mechanism is completely within the lens. It's not exactly airtight, but dust won't get in there to jam things up.
The low picture and video resolution (2.1 mega, 320x240) are the only reasons I would ever consider replacing it, because I don't expect it to die any time soon.
Events we don't personally experience are abstract concepts. That's just the way it is, and there's no point to wondering if it is right or not.
Different cultures- not to mention different individuals- have different senses of history. I know that there are at least as many Americans who feel the way you think they should feel as there are who worry about their own lives. In fact...
In the US, we don't have that sense.
That's quite a generalized assumption. I realize that bashing Americans is in vogue and sometimes justified, but who are you to say this?
I'm serious, and I may be mistaken about this. I spent four years of study getting a history degree, so the people I know are probably more...intellectual...than the general public, but I believe that a lot more Americans have a sense of history (though they probably would not think of it as such) than you think.
I think maybe the grandparent was wondering if the bomb would have triggered a Tsunami. I'm no physics major, but I know that even Tsar Bomba would have only a fraction of the energy required; the only casualties would be fish and maybe a few sailors.
I don't know. I would assume that applications which run fullscreen and/or are not dependent on the normal explorer shell would work normally. All I know is that it's possible to run Windows this way; I find cmd painful to use so I can't tell you what it's like. Ask Google.
Well...you can use cmd.exe instead of explorer.exe as the shell. It involves changing a couple of registry entries. If you want to see what it looks like, Run>cmd.exe and hit Alt-Enter.
That's all right, power users can plug in a two pedal brake/accelerator and it works just fine. The single pedal is so elderly drivers don't get confused.
Considering that there were fewer than 600 million people in the world in 1600, I'd assume fewer "developments per billion" today.
Sorry, I just don't see anything to be concerned about. The per capita rate of development may have gone down in the last 200 years, but the numbers have gone way up.
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All valid points, but I'm wondering if the "high tier" is the wrong place to go. Apple sells only one "cheap" computer- the Mini, at $499. From what I've read its sales are good but not great. Suppose Apple were to license their OS to a certain low cost, high volume computer maker to sell a $299 desktop with OSX?
It would undercut sales of the Mini, but not Apple's high-end machines. I think the small percentage they would get of each desktop sold (doesn't Microsoft get something like $40 per computer?) would surely make up for lost sales of Apple-branded computers.
The OS would still be restricted to licensed hardware, which won't affect anyone because most people will only buy a Dell and geeks will find a way to run it on anything.
All Apple motherboards are manufactured by a company named Foxconn, probably in the same Shanghai factory as the boards you mention (If you look inside the case at the I/O ports on the back of the motherboards you own, chances are they say "Foxconn" in really little letters).
Agreed. I'm still using a program called Iphoto Plus 4 (no relation to iPhoto) that came with a cheap 300dpi scanner I bought god knows how long ago. It's n ot perfect, and I'm always on the lookout for a replacement, but until I find one it does most of the things I need.
The moral of the story: Dvorak needs to buy a new scanner.
Paraphrasing, if you want accuracy look it up:
"How many atmospheres of pressure can the ship take?"
"Oh, it's a space ship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one."
Sounds like we need some transparent aluminum. I heard there's this company in San Francisco....
The Russians have been doing this for years (recall that about eight years ago, a Progress unsuccessfully docked with the Mir space station).
Without the Progress, the ISS would have been abandoned and lost long ago.
Agreed. I've never rated a song lower than three, and I have very few threes. All of the songs that I like are either four or five, and the songs that I don't like are left unrated.
I do this because I use the "My Top Rated" smart playlist and I only rate songs I want to go in there. Although I keep the crap I don't listen to.
Uh, no. That's the total power consumption of the test machine.
Heh. I bet the content providers would love a semi-legit reason to deactivate millions of Tivos... but, of course, if peoples' $5000 HDTVs stop working there will be a revolt.
Well, it's a moot point right now. I don't see how these devices can be used for piracy, if all they can do is make DRM'd stuff play on older monitors. There aren't, to my knowledge, any DVI-capture cards for the PC, though the bandwidth of PCI Express might make this possible.
This: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000230050640/ is a similar device. They work fine- for now. But when they are used for piracy, their keys will be revoked, and they will become $400 paperweights.
DisplayPort is expected to accelerate adoption of protected digital outputs on PCs to support viewing high definition and other types of protected content through an optional content protection capability
Just what I always wanted.
What happens when (I didn't say if) affiliates of _________ political party start "flagging as objectionable" blogs written by those they disagree with? What happens when religious wackos flag sex blogs as objectionable? TFA says Blogger tracks the number of times a blog is flagged objectionable and base their action on that, not that they review whether something is actually bad. This could be trouble.
1. Offer free wi-fi
2. Offer free search
3. Guarantee that every human being who uses them will see ads
4. Massive profit
Fixed it for ya
I would rather get hit by a semi then a hummer.
No. Sorry. A semi has ten times the mass of a Hummer. At low speeds it might push your car, but at high speed it would vaporize it. And at highway speeds the Hummer driver can hit the brakes, which would be suicidal for the semi (it would jacknife the truck).
I'd buy it, just to get a piece of the class-action suit.
No, like licenses on software. I've bought copies of Windows and OSX, but I don't own either. I just get to use them forever (or in the case of Windows, until my computer dies, since it's OEM software that is tied to the hardware).
I propose a new law: for every anecdote there is a counter-anecdote.
My Olympus C-2100uz is going on five years old now. It has outlived twelve rechargeable batteries and the write-limit on at least one 128MB SM card. I've taken it to all sorts of places and scratched a couple of UV filters into uselessness, and the camera itself has never had a problem. Then again, it has a manual lens cover and the zoom mechanism is completely within the lens. It's not exactly airtight, but dust won't get in there to jam things up.
The low picture and video resolution (2.1 mega, 320x240) are the only reasons I would ever consider replacing it, because I don't expect it to die any time soon.
Events we don't personally experience are abstract concepts. That's just the way it is, and there's no point to wondering if it is right or not.
Different cultures- not to mention different individuals- have different senses of history. I know that there are at least as many Americans who feel the way you think they should feel as there are who worry about their own lives. In fact...
In the US, we don't have that sense.
That's quite a generalized assumption. I realize that bashing Americans is in vogue and sometimes justified, but who are you to say this?
I'm serious, and I may be mistaken about this. I spent four years of study getting a history degree, so the people I know are probably more...intellectual...than the general public, but I believe that a lot more Americans have a sense of history (though they probably would not think of it as such) than you think.
I think maybe the grandparent was wondering if the bomb would have triggered a Tsunami. I'm no physics major, but I know that even Tsar Bomba would have only a fraction of the energy required; the only casualties would be fish and maybe a few sailors.
I don't know. I would assume that applications which run fullscreen and/or are not dependent on the normal explorer shell would work normally. All I know is that it's possible to run Windows this way; I find cmd painful to use so I can't tell you what it's like. Ask Google.
Well...you can use cmd.exe instead of explorer.exe as the shell. It involves changing a couple of registry entries. If you want to see what it looks like, Run>cmd.exe and hit Alt-Enter.
That's all right, power users can plug in a two pedal brake/accelerator and it works just fine. The single pedal is so elderly drivers don't get confused.
if they could put it in the form of a suppository!
Creative genius, I tell ya.
Considering that there were fewer than 600 million people in the world in 1600, I'd assume fewer "developments per billion" today.
Sorry, I just don't see anything to be concerned about. The per capita rate of development may have gone down in the last 200 years, but the numbers have gone way up.