I sure hope not. I bought an Apple Powerbook because I was sick of the shitty notebooks I was getting from Dell coupled with the crap that is Windows. I had three different hard drives in my first Dell notebook (Inspiron 8100) and had to replace a screen or two on my Latitude D60. Apple should just keep doing what they're doing unless they want to have certified manufacturing partners.
Oh, I totally agree with you. I just wish to advocate holistic thought to manufacturing.
Have you read "Cradle to Cradle"? They discuss this sort of thing and suggest an "upcycling" ideology, wherein at the end of the life time of a product, it is "upcycled" into technical nutrients that can go into the next generation of product.
I suppose I should have been more specific in my original post, but ideally I'd like to see the life of a computer more closely contemplated. What happens when one is done with it? What happens to the components when they fail? What is the cost of disposal in terms of dollars, and ecology? I figure since we're permanent residents of this planet that we better start using these wonderful tools and brains of ours to make sure our progeny will have continued high quality of life too.
You may try a car before you buy it, but one does not steal a car before they buy it under the guise of "try before you buy". If you actually buy the software you "try", you are in the minority. To argue otherwise is pointless.
People can play with OS X on their Wintel box and make an informed decision when they make their next computer purchase. It is not hard to imagine that actually being able to use OS X for a significant period of time might result in more switchers than Apples ads ever dreamed of producing.
The author's head is so far up his ass he can't see that he's being overly idealistic. I highly doubt most software pirates ever "try" the product and then buy it. Perhaps the honest few, but beyond that, I would wager a bet that nary a user shells out the scrilla once they've pirated a product. People are cheap, they will not buy what they can get for free unless adequately motivated to (i.e. Law suits, a la RIAA).
We can now return to the question of why people will continue to buy Macs when they could just run OS X on a Wal-Mart PC. The answer s simple: convenience. Remember with Intel Inside Apple is no longer asking users to forsake the Windows platform completely, soon users wont have to choose either/or. Couple that with each OS update likely breaking plain box compatibility (remember that brief period of time when Real sold iPod compatible music?) and suddenly users see Macs as a viable option. The Mac will actually run the software they pirate from work and theyll be getting tired of hacking their PC, once again, just to keep using OS X. Sure there will always be people willing to break out the soldering iron or employ some other complicated method of EULA circumvention but Apple can put up with those diehard hackers to get a larger chunk of the market.
Say what? People will buy a Mac box instead of running it on a Wal-Mart box to avoid compatibility breaks with OS updates? Has this person never met a determined satellite pirate?
I question the wisdom behind making such cheap computers. It seems to me that such cheap goods will encourage a "disposable" mentality to the computers. When this happens we can expect to see people merely throwing their old computers out on a scale worse than today.
Computers seem to be the new styrofoam cup: we use them for a while, but they're with us forever. In my most humble opinion, I think the industry as a whole halt their progression towards ever cheaper computers for a while and instead focus on making fully recyclable computers.
Not stop it, delay it. Let's face it, someone, somewhere, is going to come up with a hack to let you run this on any x86 CPU out there.
Perhaps they'll have a BIOS-specific tie in?
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As a GMail and Tiger user, the idea of labels in GMail is akin to Smart Folders in Tiger. And yes, I rather prefer labels and Smart Folders as time has gone on.
As an aside, I find that I still navigate through folders a lot despite extensively using Smart Folders, Spotlight and Quick Silver as I still think in terms of folders. It's probably out of habit, and probably because I'm quite the clean freak.
I have iTunes, and iPhoto organize my files even though I know I'll never look at them by pointing and clicking through folders and will almost exclusively use Spotlight or the apps themselves. I even organize my movies, and TV shows I've downloaded. However, the latter case is because it's a hassle to add in metadata. The day I can have an app visit something like iMDB and add in some keywords is the day I stop organizing those too. Hmm... I think I just figured out what my next programming project will be:)
Oh. That's easy. As long as your Mac app runs with GNUstep your Mac app will work under some operating system with GNUstep. I'd assume with the introduction of fat binaries that it'll also run under x86 operating system with GNUstep
I was "miffed" at first too, but the more I think about the switch the more it makes sense. The largest fraction of hardware sales Apple has (excluding the iPod) is Powerbooks and iBookes. G4 chips haven't been getting better, but Intel's mobile chips have; IBM and Freescale do not have dedicated research going into laptop chips whereas Intel does. It only makes sense to switch with this line of thinking.
This has been my biggest challenge in University: showing that I do understand what's being taught, that I'm really good at integrating ideas, I'm just not an A+ level memorizer. By that I mean I will often be the one helping the A+ students understand something, but am not often the one that is getting the A+'s. It doesn't mean I don't understand the work, I just don't see the point in memorizing what seems like trivia or stuff that should be relegated to a reference book.
In the event that someone is actually reading this, aside from the above which needs to change (i.e. My attitude towards certain bits of information), does anyone have tips for improving ones grades?
If only the rest of us had your problem. In the entire radio spectrum in my area, only two stations are worthwhile: WDET, & CJAM. Even then only WDET is wealthy enough to be received throughout the entire region.
What would be really cool is if someone could develop a way to allow podcasters to broadcast globally through a service Sirius such that there was a "global public radio" service. THEN I'd personally like something like Sirius in my iPod.
It would be a good idea if ALL college graduates were required to have exposure to such non-trade knowledge domains as critical thinking, logic, history, and philosophy. Fancy that, a well-rounded education! You might even meet the ever-elusive "girl" in the other departments while you're out and about.
That's the point, Urusai: to round education. Incorporate a little law (i.e. The background on copyrights, and licenses. Knowing how to read legalese is important) and a little philosophy (i.e. ethics). Regarding the latter, although one would assume such a thing is commonsense, it's clearly not the case given how many corporations and other faculties incorporate such a class in their program.
This could be a really good idea. It's been my opinion for about a year now that a class should be tought to all CS students on licensing, and ethics. OSS development directly requires a knowledge of both. But in reading the article it almost sounds as if RH and IBM would merely use the time to pimp their products versus and real world skills. I.E. "This is how you setup a RH IBM sevver 101"
It's quite likely. The Register talked about how the last time these Intel and Apple in bed rumors popped up Apple came out with the Powermac G5. If Apple and IBM are at work on a Cell application I would expect it to be an "Ultra" Powermac (i.e. a new high end machine), or a server. Then again I can't claim to know much about Cell.
The rules require American software companies that wish to sell to the Chinese government to manufacture all of their products in China and to register their copyrights first in China.
When dealing with software does compiling count as "manufacturing", or as "assembly"? Wouldn't this mean that Chinese government bodies can not use Linux? After all, Linux is globally manufactured and assembled (Ditto other F/OSS softwares).
How will this change the world economy? Not at all! The whole "engagement" deal Bill Clinton came up with was a pipe dream. China's leaders have made themselves rich of US and European trade by making slaves of their own people. Leaders who screw their own people like that will surely screw everyone else if they can. There are no surprises here, except to those dumb and immoral enough to do business with and invest in communist China.
Well said. My thought: fire their ass out of the WTO unless they're willing to play by the same rules as every other country wanting to do global business that belongs to the WTO.
Coincidentally, Windsor is also my home town. You'd think I'd know that, but then again when one of the strip clubs advertisements is, "50 Beautiful Girls, and One Ugly One", I tend to steer clear.
Calgary? Isn't that the strip club capitol of Canada? How do they expect geeks to hack when there's readily available naked women geeks can see for the first time?;)
In all seriousness, good luck! May your coding be swift, and may your debugger bless you.
I think Bill is right: the iPod is on it's way out.
Apple isn't going to blow it this time though. I wouldn't be surprised to see an all-in-one device from the boys in Cupertino sometime in the next few years. The cell phone recently discussed on here by Nokia is an indicator of things to come.
That's not the point. The point is that the screen COULD be properly oriented no matter which way you rotate the Powerbook. THUS the technology is there to make sure the screen is always oriented for an Apple tablet.;-)
Hey... can you imagine binding that rotation option in with the motion sensors in the new Powerbooks. You could rotate the Powerbook and always have the screen correctly oriented.
Everybody's wrong about the video iPod thing. A video iPod would be a dumb idea for lots of reasons, some technical, some psychological. If you want to know where we're going with video playback, look not to the iPod but to its considerably less famous little brother, AirPort Express.
If anyone just read that and said, "Oh wow, never thought of that!", hang your head in shame. It's painfully obvious and only makes sense when you consider integrating the Apple experience into your multimedia experience.
In much the same way an iTunes-like store was obvious during the height of the MP3-Napster days, a store selling TV shows and movies is equally obvious and will be brought to the table and dominated not be he with the best content, but he with the easiest, most attractive product. This shit will be in peoples living rooms, they don't want ugly ass software or hardware. You needn't look further than the success of Home Depot to know people are willing to drop huge coin to make their places look pretty.
And in case you missed it in the above:
These are the things you guys need to be paying attention to. Not the product releases. The lawsuits. That's where you'll find the clues.
So, what's the next obvious round of lawsuits? Software. The bandwidth is there for most, now it's just a matter of packaging it.
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I sure hope not. I bought an Apple Powerbook because I was sick of the shitty notebooks I was getting from Dell coupled with the crap that is Windows. I had three different hard drives in my first Dell notebook (Inspiron 8100) and had to replace a screen or two on my Latitude D60. Apple should just keep doing what they're doing unless they want to have certified manufacturing partners.
Oh, I totally agree with you. I just wish to advocate holistic thought to manufacturing.
Have you read "Cradle to Cradle"? They discuss this sort of thing and suggest an "upcycling" ideology, wherein at the end of the life time of a product, it is "upcycled" into technical nutrients that can go into the next generation of product.
I suppose I should have been more specific in my original post, but ideally I'd like to see the life of a computer more closely contemplated. What happens when one is done with it? What happens to the components when they fail? What is the cost of disposal in terms of dollars, and ecology? I figure since we're permanent residents of this planet that we better start using these wonderful tools and brains of ours to make sure our progeny will have continued high quality of life too.
You may try a car before you buy it, but one does not steal a car before they buy it under the guise of "try before you buy". If you actually buy the software you "try", you are in the minority. To argue otherwise is pointless.
The author's head is so far up his ass he can't see that he's being overly idealistic. I highly doubt most software pirates ever "try" the product and then buy it. Perhaps the honest few, but beyond that, I would wager a bet that nary a user shells out the scrilla once they've pirated a product. People are cheap, they will not buy what they can get for free unless adequately motivated to (i.e. Law suits, a la RIAA).
Say what? People will buy a Mac box instead of running it on a Wal-Mart box to avoid compatibility breaks with OS updates? Has this person never met a determined satellite pirate?
I question the wisdom behind making such cheap computers. It seems to me that such cheap goods will encourage a "disposable" mentality to the computers. When this happens we can expect to see people merely throwing their old computers out on a scale worse than today.
Computers seem to be the new styrofoam cup: we use them for a while, but they're with us forever. In my most humble opinion, I think the industry as a whole halt their progression towards ever cheaper computers for a while and instead focus on making fully recyclable computers.
Not stop it, delay it. Let's face it, someone, somewhere, is going to come up with a hack to let you run this on any x86 CPU out there.
Perhaps they'll have a BIOS-specific tie in?
As a GMail and Tiger user, the idea of labels in GMail is akin to Smart Folders in Tiger. And yes, I rather prefer labels and Smart Folders as time has gone on.
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As an aside, I find that I still navigate through folders a lot despite extensively using Smart Folders, Spotlight and Quick Silver as I still think in terms of folders. It's probably out of habit, and probably because I'm quite the clean freak.
I have iTunes, and iPhoto organize my files even though I know I'll never look at them by pointing and clicking through folders and will almost exclusively use Spotlight or the apps themselves. I even organize my movies, and TV shows I've downloaded. However, the latter case is because it's a hassle to add in metadata. The day I can have an app visit something like iMDB and add in some keywords is the day I stop organizing those too. Hmm... I think I just figured out what my next programming project will be
Oh. That's easy. As long as your Mac app runs with GNUstep your Mac app will work under some operating system with GNUstep. I'd assume with the introduction of fat binaries that it'll also run under x86 operating system with GNUstep
Argh... you beat me to the punch.
I was "miffed" at first too, but the more I think about the switch the more it makes sense. The largest fraction of hardware sales Apple has (excluding the iPod) is Powerbooks and iBookes. G4 chips haven't been getting better, but Intel's mobile chips have; IBM and Freescale do not have dedicated research going into laptop chips whereas Intel does. It only makes sense to switch with this line of thinking.
Hopefully we'll see dual core Powerbooks soon.
I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean. Do you mean an "interpreter, or compiler" such that you can program Linux apps on a Mac?
I have a dead horse you can beat. Oh wait, you already are...
This has been my biggest challenge in University: showing that I do understand what's being taught, that I'm really good at integrating ideas, I'm just not an A+ level memorizer. By that I mean I will often be the one helping the A+ students understand something, but am not often the one that is getting the A+'s. It doesn't mean I don't understand the work, I just don't see the point in memorizing what seems like trivia or stuff that should be relegated to a reference book.
In the event that someone is actually reading this, aside from the above which needs to change (i.e. My attitude towards certain bits of information), does anyone have tips for improving ones grades?
If only the rest of us had your problem. In the entire radio spectrum in my area, only two stations are worthwhile: WDET, & CJAM. Even then only WDET is wealthy enough to be received throughout the entire region.
What would be really cool is if someone could develop a way to allow podcasters to broadcast globally through a service Sirius such that there was a "global public radio" service. THEN I'd personally like something like Sirius in my iPod.
This could be a really good idea. It's been my opinion for about a year now that a class should be tought to all CS students on licensing, and ethics. OSS development directly requires a knowledge of both. But in reading the article it almost sounds as if RH and IBM would merely use the time to pimp their products versus and real world skills. I.E. "This is how you setup a RH IBM sevver 101"
It's quite likely. The Register talked about how the last time these Intel and Apple in bed rumors popped up Apple came out with the Powermac G5. If Apple and IBM are at work on a Cell application I would expect it to be an "Ultra" Powermac (i.e. a new high end machine), or a server. Then again I can't claim to know much about Cell.
Interesting points. Some questions though:
When dealing with software does compiling count as "manufacturing", or as "assembly"? Wouldn't this mean that Chinese government bodies can not use Linux? After all, Linux is globally manufactured and assembled (Ditto other F/OSS softwares).
Well said. My thought: fire their ass out of the WTO unless they're willing to play by the same rules as every other country wanting to do global business that belongs to the WTO.
The poster failed to mention he's Angelina Jolie's brother.
Coincidentally, Windsor is also my home town. You'd think I'd know that, but then again when one of the strip clubs advertisements is, "50 Beautiful Girls, and One Ugly One", I tend to steer clear.
Milk forever!
Calgary? Isn't that the strip club capitol of Canada? How do they expect geeks to hack when there's readily available naked women geeks can see for the first time? ;)
In all seriousness, good luck! May your coding be swift, and may your debugger bless you.
Windows skills? Like what? Hitting ctrl-alt-delete, or the art of swearing at your box when it blue screens?
I think Bill is right: the iPod is on it's way out.
Apple isn't going to blow it this time though. I wouldn't be surprised to see an all-in-one device from the boys in Cupertino sometime in the next few years. The cell phone recently discussed on here by Nokia is an indicator of things to come.
That's not the point. The point is that the screen COULD be properly oriented no matter which way you rotate the Powerbook. THUS the technology is there to make sure the screen is always oriented for an Apple tablet. ;-)
Hey... can you imagine binding that rotation option in with the motion sensors in the new Powerbooks. You could rotate the Powerbook and always have the screen correctly oriented.
If anyone just read that and said, "Oh wow, never thought of that!", hang your head in shame. It's painfully obvious and only makes sense when you consider integrating the Apple experience into your multimedia experience.
In much the same way an iTunes-like store was obvious during the height of the MP3-Napster days, a store selling TV shows and movies is equally obvious and will be brought to the table and dominated not be he with the best content, but he with the easiest, most attractive product. This shit will be in peoples living rooms, they don't want ugly ass software or hardware. You needn't look further than the success of Home Depot to know people are willing to drop huge coin to make their places look pretty.
And in case you missed it in the above:
So, what's the next obvious round of lawsuits? Software. The bandwidth is there for most, now it's just a matter of packaging it.