Exactly, these sound more like straw men made up to be rebuked than common myths. If people didn't see it live then they saw it two minutes later when the networks switched back (though I think I did see it live, Christa McCauliffe was a BIG DEAL in New England).
To paraphrase a mediocre movie, Show Me the Virus! There are no known viruses for OSX, there are theoretical exploits and we may not be safe forever, but today there are no known viruses for OSX. these articles are always theoretical. I can copy a PC vrius with my mac, I can open a MSOffice Macro virus left over from the 1990's (those don't do much damage anymore), but I can't run and propogate a virus on my OSX machine.
Most people, normal people who don't hang out at/. or mac sites, buy computers when they need then and have a little bit of time to see what might work, or when they have saved up enough money,
Since all mac users drink the iTunes Kool-Aid we have no need for music CD's except the ones we mix and burn for ourselves. I can't see this being a big problem for a lot of people. If it is maybe they can be told to trash that application, just drag the thing to the trash.
Rental may be $3.50 or pushing $4 in some places (for new releases). For many people in suburbs or rural areas, or even in cold weather it may be more convienent to download, so maybe $5, but I'm not going to pay $10 to download what is basically a video rental to me. On the other hand I own zero movies, and a lot of other people own many, so maybe they will pay $20 to own it on their computers. It still seems to me that people who would pay $20 and like to have a video library would prefer to have the disk, the case, and everything.
Maybe the downloads will not have all the "DVD Extras" that the DVSs have.
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When did they switch from domestic terrorism to a weather service?
No seriously, how old is the weather underground? I remember getting data from them in 1994, but the University of Michigan Gopher server had a better system then.
If you don't sell them the software they will just get it off of bittorrent. Seriously, custom software for governments under sanction is no fair, but beyond that what are the limits, legally and morally. Do bad people deserve good software?
This will be great. I love to rent movies, but the one problem I have with renting is that it does not create enough garbage. This will be just like renting, but with more trash. I love trash.
In the end you have to do business with at least one of the companes that own wires leading to your house. At least there is both cable and phone most places which has the potential to drive real competition. Unbundling should allow us to find out how much it really costs to dlliver residential-level high speed internet.
..and Apple doesn't need to get assfucked by the RIAA over iPod sales for a bunch of geeks,...
I don't know about that, but they certainly don't need to get screwed by the RIAA for a very small number of geeky cheapskates who will not likely buy the product anyway.
You mean like the one I bought from Sony 20 years ago, I think it was called a Diskman. Seriously, WTF? Anything based on a CD has to be at least as big as a CD (bigger than any iPod) and way more fragile when in use than a HD-based iPod. My diskman used to skip when walking, let alone jogging, why would Apple do that?
You must be new to macs. Prices will go up on old hardware as people who need to use old software get nervous. There is really no reason not to buy now, the intel switch will be at least six months from now, and will go one model at a time for at least a year. The mac fanatics will claim that old hardware is better, r the new one doesn't work with some obscure piece of software that is mission critical.
Go check the prices on some used G4 cubes o the last G4 Dual processor towers that could boot into OS9.
I bought an ibook 4 years ago, when this general form factor first came out. It is still an amazing machine, yeah the other computers I use are faster, so the old one gets relegated, but it does most things pretty well in panther.
Except that drug dealers and prostitutes actually supply something:-) I really don't understand how anyone buys anything from spammers. How many people have the unique lack of critical thinking skills and lack of erections to support all these spammers?
I don't know about that, there may have been a good number of USB floppy drives sold to go with iMacs, but I don't think it is anywhere near the number of iMacs sold. the few who needed them got externals, that's the whole point of a simplified computer.
I had basically switched to zip drives by that time anyway, and CD burners were not uncommon on higher end systems.
Floppies were unreliable, relatively expensive, and easy to lose.
Wow, I hadn't thought of that, that would be great for a number of situations where a business or school could standardize on a quality hardware company and let people use what they want.
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Exactly, these sound more like straw men made up to be rebuked than common myths.
If people didn't see it live then they saw it two minutes later when the networks switched back (though I think I did see it live, Christa McCauliffe was a BIG DEAL in New England).
To paraphrase a mediocre movie, Show Me the Virus!
There are no known viruses for OSX, there are theoretical exploits and we may not be safe forever, but today there are no known viruses for OSX. these articles are always theoretical. I can copy a PC vrius with my mac, I can open a MSOffice Macro virus left over from the 1990's (those don't do much damage anymore), but I can't run and propogate a virus on my OSX machine.
Most people, normal people who don't hang out at /. or mac sites, buy computers when they need then and have a little bit of time to see what might work, or when they have saved up enough money,
The Windows DRM software was utilitarian and dull, but the OSX DRM software is totally lickable.
Since all mac users drink the iTunes Kool-Aid we have no need for music CD's except the ones we mix and burn for ourselves. I can't see this being a big problem for a lot of people.
If it is maybe they can be told to trash that application, just drag the thing to the trash.
The problem is that there are so few worthwhile posts to mod up.
I have points today and had trouble finding a way to use them.
Rental may be $3.50 or pushing $4 in some places (for new releases). For many people in suburbs or rural areas, or even in cold weather it may be more convienent to download, so maybe $5, but I'm not going to pay $10 to download what is basically a video rental to me.
On the other hand I own zero movies, and a lot of other people own many, so maybe they will pay $20 to own it on their computers. It still seems to me that people who would pay $20 and like to have a video library would prefer to have the disk, the case, and everything.
Maybe the downloads will not have all the "DVD Extras" that the DVSs have.
When did they switch from domestic terrorism to a weather service?
No seriously, how old is the weather underground? I remember getting data from them in 1994, but the University of Michigan Gopher server had a better system then.
If you don't sell them the software they will just get it off of bittorrent. Seriously, custom software for governments under sanction is no fair, but beyond that what are the limits, legally and morally.
Do bad people deserve good software?
"...The internet, being the innovative medium that it is, has pioneered the annoying distracting ads amongst mediocre content. ..."
Parent has never seen television?
Parent says "As an average citizen, I don't even care. I'll be dead before it ever impacts me. .....)
Unless you are over 60 or in especially ill health you are most likely wrong about this.
This will be great.
I love to rent movies, but the one problem I have with renting is that it does not create enough garbage.
This will be just like renting, but with more trash.
I love trash.
Yeah, thay are downright beleagured.
In the end you have to do business with at least one of the companes that own wires leading to your house. At least there is both cable and phone most places which has the potential to drive real competition. Unbundling should allow us to find out how much it really costs to dlliver residential-level high speed internet.
iambassi said" I sometimes wondered if other manufactures ever even used their own mp3 players, the shuffle feature just seems so obvious."
Of course not, they can afford iPods.
I have Vodaphone in Germany and I get both Spam (usually just from vodaphone itself) and bad service (missed calls hat never appear on the phone).
Maybe because iPods don't get viruses. It seems obvious to point it out.
..and Apple doesn't need to get assfucked by the RIAA over iPod sales for a bunch of geeks,...
I don't know about that, but they certainly don't need to get screwed by the RIAA for a very small number of geeky cheapskates who will not likely buy the product anyway.
A CD iPod?
You mean like the one I bought from Sony 20 years ago, I think it was called a Diskman.
Seriously, WTF? Anything based on a CD has to be at least as big as a CD (bigger than any iPod) and way more fragile when in use than a HD-based iPod. My diskman used to skip when walking, let alone jogging, why would Apple do that?
You must be new to macs. Prices will go up on old hardware as people who need to use old software get nervous. There is really no reason not to buy now, the intel switch will be at least six months from now, and will go one model at a time for at least a year. The mac fanatics will claim that old hardware is better, r the new one doesn't work with some obscure piece of software that is mission critical.
Go check the prices on some used G4 cubes o the last G4 Dual processor towers that could boot into OS9.
I bought an ibook 4 years ago, when this general form factor first came out. It is still an amazing machine, yeah the other computers I use are faster, so the old one gets relegated, but it does most things pretty well in panther.
Except that drug dealers and prostitutes actually supply something:-)
I really don't understand how anyone buys anything from spammers. How many people have the unique lack of critical thinking skills and lack of erections to support all these spammers?
Apparently your grasp of history does not include the min 1980s.
I don't know about that, there may have been a good number of USB floppy drives sold to go with iMacs, but I don't think it is anywhere near the number of iMacs sold. the few who needed them got externals, that's the whole point of a simplified computer.
I had basically switched to zip drives by that time anyway, and CD burners were not uncommon on higher end systems.
Floppies were unreliable, relatively expensive, and easy to lose.
Wow, I hadn't thought of that, that would be great for a number of situations where a business or school could standardize on a quality hardware company and let people use what they want.