I think Jackson owned a different set of rights. Like, he was able to license songs for use in commercials, but couldn't put them on CDs and sell them that way.
"As I discuss in the book, Steve Jobs has the charisma, vision and instincts of every great information emperor."
Every great information emperor?
Just how many have there been? Remember the great global Hollerith card empire of the 30s? Or the Napoleonic empire based on the data-storage capacity of jaquard looms.
This is vapid business book bullshit. What a twat.
I suspect their plan was to poop this out, and get by on corporate sales due to being Microsoft. At least for the first year.
So business sales will likely keep it from being an abject failure like the consumer-focused Kin, and Microsoft will at least be in the space while they work on a more-relevant product.
And you're going to show yourself as persistently ignorant, because the boot keys are in EFI, not the hard disk. They're available even if there is no bootable volume attached at all.
"Most of the stuff you mentioned (at least the first half of your post) are reliant on having a functional OS to begin with. If you have a working OS, you wouldnt be tinkering with the BIOS at all (as tools from the OS tend to be more useful anyways)."
Well, not really. The boot option keys are in EFI, so they work even if there's nothing to boot from. The verbose boot log starts really early in the boot process, RAM checks and whatnot. If the *OS* is broken, you'll see messages about it. If the system hangs during boot you'll see where it's hanging. If the system panics, you'll see that. This is useful information.
If the problem is in hardware, so it doesn't even get far enough to do a verbose boot, you'll get information in other ways. If there's a RAM problem, the startup chime won't sound (and the MacPro has a light for each RAM slot to indicate a problem with that slot). If a boot drive isn't found, then I believe EFI shows a disk with a question mark. Insert a bootable DVD or SD card or external USB drive of some sort and it'll boot from that. If the display isn't working, but it sounds like it's booting, ssh or VNC in.
"All the mac users here claiming that "youd never need that" probably either havent done much serious troubleshooting"
My first computers were a ZX81 kit, a Rockwell AIM-65, and a Tektronix 4051 graphics terminal with a storage tube display. Then an Apple IIc which I upgraded with a RAM card and a CPU upgrade. Then a Mac SE/30, a NeXT Cube, a NeXTstation, a few generations of AMD K6 and Athlon PCs which I overclocked and upgraded piecewise, before I grew out of that. Then OS X came out and I started buying Macs again.
You can get some information by booting verbose, by holding down the V key, which causes the computer to boot with a text console. That may give you some information about what's going on.
If the boot process is failing partway, you might be able to boot into single-user mode by holding down the S key, which gives you a root console. From there you can use unix tools to look around and/or fix things.
There are other keys you can use, like the option key to choose between boot devices, or 'n' to boot from a netboot server. Insert the computer's installation DVD, and hold down the 'd' key during boot, and the computer will boot from a diagnostic partition on the disk, which I assume would be useful.
You can also set an EFI password, and lock down these things.
"No, it is not removing DRM from the app that they should be doing. What they should be doing is not adding DRM to the app. I am sure that the app as submitted did not include DRM, so Apple should be distributing it 'as submitted' not changing it before distributing it."
Actually, it did include DRM, because the developer has Xcode sign the app during the submission process.
You seem to think you can submit an app to some magical, non-existent fairyland App Store of your imagination, rather than the actual Apple App Store that exists and is pretty well understood as involving DRM, and not involving the distribution of source code.
A developer who submits an app has no excuse for thinking they are submitting it to the former, when they have agreed to multiple statements making clear they know it's the latter.
I don't ever want to be stuck maintaining a system written by some dork who thought it was a great idea to write crucial components in Unicode Ogham runes.
". Apple has to comply with that license, in this case the GNU GPL."
No, they don't. Because they didn't agree to it. The app submitter agreed to it.
Apple needs to take the app down, but they aren't required to take any positive actions to fulfill the submitter's license obligations, such as make the source code available, or remove DRM from the app.
On the other hand, I don't particularly like the idea that an app I submit to the App Store could be subject to a unilateral veto by someone else spuriously claiming my app violates the GPL and they wrote some code in it.
People need to stop submitting GPL software to the app store, thinking they're going to force Apple to do something that isn't part of the deal you agree to when you submit an app.
"Apple is most certainly responsible for infringingly distributing VLC. "
No, they aren't. The app submitter is responsible. How the fuck is Apple supposed to know the copyright disposition of every bit of code in every submitted app? They rely on the app submitter to vouch that their app is not encumbered by any licensing terms that would be incompatible with App Store distribution.
Whoever submitted VLC did so fraudulently. Ergo, it's not Apple's responsibility.
Even if you have gigabit ethernet, firewire networking is useful for setting up a makeshift, very fast second network when the ethernet port is occupied.
Before it was repackaged as the Timex-Sinclair ZX81 and sold as a completed item, the Sinclair ZX81 was sold as either a kit, or fully assembled. If you wanted to save some money, you had to populate the motherboard and solder it together.
Bullshit. Either you bought it out of the back of someone's truck, or you're a liar.
You don't have to install anything "yourself" in a store-bought Mac. You plug it in, you turn it on, you watch the stupid musical animation for the millionth time, you type in some information and get it onto your network. Then once you're normally logged in, it might look and see if there are any updates that have come out since the installed OS was released. Apple pre-installs apps you order with the Mac, so you don't have to install iWork.
The only scenario of having to "install everything yourself" and then having to download 2.9 GB of updates is if you bought a second-hand Mac whose previous owner had wiped the hard drive, and which came with a seriously outdated version of the OS. For instance, if it came with a 10.5.0 DVD, it would then want to update to 10.5.8.
If that's the case, don't blame Apple, blame the tool you bought it from for not providing a fully-updated OS install. Steve Jobs can't telepathically update a wiped Mac that you're about to buy at a flea market.
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I think Jackson owned a different set of rights. Like, he was able to license songs for use in commercials, but couldn't put them on CDs and sell them that way.
It's complicated.
"Mozart does not move modern people like Hey Jude. "
Yeah, Mozart doesn't make me gag, whereas the musical cliche that is Hey Jude does.
"As I discuss in the book, Steve Jobs has the charisma, vision and instincts of every great information emperor."
Every great information emperor?
Just how many have there been? Remember the great global Hollerith card empire of the 30s? Or the Napoleonic empire based on the data-storage capacity of jaquard looms.
This is vapid business book bullshit. What a twat.
I suspect their plan was to poop this out, and get by on corporate sales due to being Microsoft. At least for the first year.
So business sales will likely keep it from being an abject failure like the consumer-focused Kin, and Microsoft will at least be in the space while they work on a more-relevant product.
Not on any PC I've ever used.
Yeah, but you may need to fiddle with BIOS to get the boot order set up right, so that the USB drive is tried, and tried before the failed hard disk.
On the Mac, you just hold down the option key at boot.
And you're going to show yourself as persistently ignorant, because the boot keys are in EFI, not the hard disk. They're available even if there is no bootable volume attached at all.
You're only supposed to run OS X Server in VMWare on a Mac hardware host.
I don't know if that's enforced at all by VMWare.
"Nice to know they can scan your living room for market research purposes "
Google would put the images of your living room in Street View.
"Most of the stuff you mentioned (at least the first half of your post) are reliant on having a functional OS to begin with. If you have a working OS, you wouldnt be tinkering with the BIOS at all (as tools from the OS tend to be more useful anyways)."
Well, not really. The boot option keys are in EFI, so they work even if there's nothing to boot from. The verbose boot log starts really early in the boot process, RAM checks and whatnot. If the *OS* is broken, you'll see messages about it. If the system hangs during boot you'll see where it's hanging. If the system panics, you'll see that. This is useful information.
If the problem is in hardware, so it doesn't even get far enough to do a verbose boot, you'll get information in other ways. If there's a RAM problem, the startup chime won't sound (and the MacPro has a light for each RAM slot to indicate a problem with that slot). If a boot drive isn't found, then I believe EFI shows a disk with a question mark. Insert a bootable DVD or SD card or external USB drive of some sort and it'll boot from that. If the display isn't working, but it sounds like it's booting, ssh or VNC in.
"All the mac users here claiming that "youd never need that" probably either havent done much serious troubleshooting"
My first computers were a ZX81 kit, a Rockwell AIM-65, and a Tektronix 4051 graphics terminal with a storage tube display. Then an Apple IIc which I upgraded with a RAM card and a CPU upgrade. Then a Mac SE/30, a NeXT Cube, a NeXTstation, a few generations of AMD K6 and Athlon PCs which I overclocked and upgraded piecewise, before I grew out of that. Then OS X came out and I started buying Macs again.
I've done plenty of troubleshooting.
I believe Mac Pros also have LEDs near the RAM slots that will indicate problems.
You can get some information by booting verbose, by holding down the V key, which causes the computer to boot with a text console. That may give you some information about what's going on.
If the boot process is failing partway, you might be able to boot into single-user mode by holding down the S key, which gives you a root console. From there you can use unix tools to look around and/or fix things.
There are other keys you can use, like the option key to choose between boot devices, or 'n' to boot from a netboot server. Insert the computer's installation DVD, and hold down the 'd' key during boot, and the computer will boot from a diagnostic partition on the disk, which I assume would be useful.
You can also set an EFI password, and lock down these things.
That's a lot of leverage hooked up to the iPad's dock connector.
They really ought to find a way to put a U-turn in there, and have most of the attached hardware sit close behind the iPad, perhaps built into a case.
"No, it is not removing DRM from the app that they should be doing. What they should be doing is not adding DRM to the app. I am sure that the app as submitted did not include DRM, so Apple should be distributing it 'as submitted' not changing it before distributing it."
Actually, it did include DRM, because the developer has Xcode sign the app during the submission process.
You seem to think you can submit an app to some magical, non-existent fairyland App Store of your imagination, rather than the actual Apple App Store that exists and is pretty well understood as involving DRM, and not involving the distribution of source code.
A developer who submits an app has no excuse for thinking they are submitting it to the former, when they have agreed to multiple statements making clear they know it's the latter.
I don't ever want to be stuck maintaining a system written by some dork who thought it was a great idea to write crucial components in Unicode Ogham runes.
"And Apple misrepresented that submission as being compliant with Apple's distribution scheme"
Uh, no. They took the submitter's word for it. Get a clue.
". Apple has to comply with that license, in this case the GNU GPL."
No, they don't. Because they didn't agree to it. The app submitter agreed to it.
Apple needs to take the app down, but they aren't required to take any positive actions to fulfill the submitter's license obligations, such as make the source code available, or remove DRM from the app.
On the other hand, I don't particularly like the idea that an app I submit to the App Store could be subject to a unilateral veto by someone else spuriously claiming my app violates the GPL and they wrote some code in it.
People need to stop submitting GPL software to the app store, thinking they're going to force Apple to do something that isn't part of the deal you agree to when you submit an app.
"Apple is most certainly responsible for infringingly distributing VLC. "
No, they aren't. The app submitter is responsible. How the fuck is Apple supposed to know the copyright disposition of every bit of code in every submitted app? They rely on the app submitter to vouch that their app is not encumbered by any licensing terms that would be incompatible with App Store distribution.
Whoever submitted VLC did so fraudulently. Ergo, it's not Apple's responsibility.
" Apple is acting as a reseller here, so they are the ones infringing."
No, they aren't.
Apple requires that submitted apps be compatible with App Store distribution, including DRM.
The submitter of the app misrepresented it as being compatible with Apple's distribution scheme, including DRM.
Thus, Apple can not be held responsible.
Freetards are being idiots, as usual.
Even if you have gigabit ethernet, firewire networking is useful for setting up a makeshift, very fast second network when the ethernet port is occupied.
Not only that, the article says Wowio has a whopping two PDFs available with ads.
They're getting thousands of titles from Ingram that they will distribute as ePub.... but without ads.
So the this is just a big bunch of fail.
Better submissions please.
Before it was repackaged as the Timex-Sinclair ZX81 and sold as a completed item, the Sinclair ZX81 was sold as either a kit, or fully assembled. If you wanted to save some money, you had to populate the motherboard and solder it together.
http://www.zx81kit.com/allcomponents.jpg
Bullshit. Either you bought it out of the back of someone's truck, or you're a liar.
You don't have to install anything "yourself" in a store-bought Mac. You plug it in, you turn it on, you watch the stupid musical animation for the millionth time, you type in some information and get it onto your network. Then once you're normally logged in, it might look and see if there are any updates that have come out since the installed OS was released. Apple pre-installs apps you order with the Mac, so you don't have to install iWork.
The only scenario of having to "install everything yourself" and then having to download 2.9 GB of updates is if you bought a second-hand Mac whose previous owner had wiped the hard drive, and which came with a seriously outdated version of the OS. For instance, if it came with a 10.5.0 DVD, it would then want to update to 10.5.8.
If that's the case, don't blame Apple, blame the tool you bought it from for not providing a fully-updated OS install. Steve Jobs can't telepathically update a wiped Mac that you're about to buy at a flea market.